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German firm BELECTRIC has started volume production of its advanced lead-acid EBU (Energy Buffer Unit) energy storage system.
The decision follows the successful testing of an ABU ESS at the Alt Daber Solar Power Plant in Brandenburg, where it proved its ability to offer primary frequency response on a weekly basis.
The EBU, which sits in a standard 40-foot container, will be used for frequency regulation projects in the German transmission network during 2016.
The company has also received the planning permissions required to install the systems, which were qualified for frequency response by the German transmission network operator (TNO) in 2015.
Bernhard Beck, Executive Chairman of BELECTRIC, said: “Over its 10 months of operation, we have proved the Alt Daber battery system’s excellent ability to improve transmission network stability through fast response to frequency fluctuations caused by generators or interconnection trips.”
BELECTRIC’s advanced lead-acid battery design is optimised for long service life, low cycle costs, high performance and resilience in testing climatic conditions.
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MANCHESTER — It brought the first passenger air service to New England in the 1930s, played a crucial role in World War II, and in the 1960s transformed itself into the airline of the “Yellowbirds” with pop art marketing promoting new service to Florida and the Caribbean.
It was Boston-based Northeast Airlines, which served New England (and later, the nation) from 1933 until the summer of 1972, when it became part of Delta Airlines.
Now, a half-century later, a “Return of the Yellowbirds” gathering will take place in Manchester, on Sunday, July 31. Organized by the Aviation Museum of N.H., the event will bring together ex-employees, family members, passengers and fans of the airline, which is remembered for its catchy “Yellowbird” jingle and eye-catching yellow and white livery.
“You still hear it today — people who worked for Northeast loved the airline. They thought of it as one big family,” said Jeff Rapsis, executive director of the Aviation Museum of N.H., whose father was a Northeast Airlines pilot in the 1950s and 1960s.
“This summer’s reunion is a chance for Northeast veterans, as well as family, friends and the airline’s many fans, to celebrate a special company, renew old friendships, and also carry the Yellowbird legacy into the future,” Rapsis said.
The event, which is open to all, will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. at the DoubleTree by Hilton Downtown Manchester, 700 Elm St., Manchester. The event includes a gourmet dinner served buffet-style, a display of historic artifacts and Northeast Airlines uniforms, the premiere of a new video honoring Northeast Airlines, and more.
Tickets are $75 per person, with all proceeds to benefit the Aviation Museum’s youth education programs. Tickets may be purchased by phone at (603) 669-4877 or online at www.aviationmuseumofnh.org. The event is sponsored by Delta Airlines, with major support from Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. For questions, please call the Aviation Museum at (603) 669-4820.
Special guests will include Lynda Valdez, a Delta Airlines flight attendant hired by Northeast Airlines in 1969 and who remains on active duty today, 53 years later. Also attending will be former Northeast pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and other personnel, many of whom worked for Delta for decades after the merger.
“We’re getting interest from a wide range of people with fond memories of Northeast Airlines,” Rapsis said. “Just today, I spoke with a woman whose first flight was in 1952 at age 12 on Northeast Airlines, out of the original 1937 passenger terminal at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport that now serves as our museum.”
At the event, airline veterans will be encouraged to record short videos about their Northeast Airlines experience. The Aviation Museum of N.H. hopes to collect these as a resource for future research about the carrier, which served Manchester and many other New England airfields throughout its four-decade existence.
The event will feature live music by “The Yellowbirds,” a five-person combo assembled especially for the reunion.
On display will be more than 250 Northeast Airlines artifacts from the Aviation Museum of N.H., which actively collects Northeast material to preserve the carrier’s record of service to the Granite State and the region in the early days of air travel.
That record includes its share of drama. On display will be items related to the November 1954 crash of a DC-3 passenger plane near Berlin on snowy Mount Success, which made national headlines when the downed aircraft couldn’t be located for three days.
Five people survived the accident, including the pilot, Capt. Peter Carey, whose son will attend the July 31 reunion. The aircraft fuselage remains on the mountain to this day, located just off the Appalachian Trail.
“Accidents such as the Mount Success crash of 1954 are a crucial part of the Northeast Airlines story,” Rapsis said. “They show the challenges that had to be overcome as aviation boomed in the years following World War II. These experiences led directly to today’s incredibly safe air passenger system.”
The event will also see the inauguration of the new “Yellowbird Future Aviators Association,” a networking group for young people who intend to pursue careers in aviation and aerospace.
“With the launch of this new association, we hope to encourage the young people of today pursue aviation with the same passion and single-minded dedication to service that characterized Northeast Airlines throughout its colorful existence,” Rapsis said.
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A landmark study by the HMRI Stroke Research Group has shown the ‘Lazarus-like’ benefits of a new clot-busting drug therapy.
A father’s touch …
It’s there at birth when a tiny hand clings to a burly thumb. It’s there when we first cross the road, warm and reassuring. It’s there to apply band-aids and to ruffle hair when a goal is scored.
Imagine, then, if it was suddenly taken away.
Just for a moment, put yourself in the shoes of Crystal Fitzgibbon who was just 26 when she suffered an acute stroke that paralysed her entire right side and literally rendered her speechless.
In the critical few hours that followed, Crystal recalls being taken to John Hunter Hospital, whisked through Emergency and thrust into the belly of a CT scanner in Radiology.
Life as she knew it hung in the balance. A future rich with promise was now in the hands of neurologist Dr Neil Spratt. But almost as swiftly as stroke had struck, a new drug restored normality.
Called Tenecteplase, it was being trialled against the standard clot-busting therapy Alteplase by the world-leading HMRI Stroke Research Group.
Within 24 hours Crystal achieved what doctors call the “Lazarus” effect, where she rose off her hospital bed. Three days later she was back home – speech, movement and vitality restored – and two years on, the attractive and articulate woman sipping a coffee shows no ill effects.
Crystal takes over the story:
“We’d just moved into our new home at Belmont and we were building a retaining wall. I put down one of those big blocks and suddenly didn’t feel 100 per cent.
“I sat down to compose myself and looked at my shorts. I noticed I had dribble on them. I then touched the right side of my mouth and realised I couldn’t feel it.
“I went inside to the bathroom and could see something wasn’t quite right. I tried to say hello to myself in the mirror but the word didn’t come out. I then tried to raise my right arm and it didn’t move.”
As Crystal staggered into the hallway her right leg gave way but fortunately her partner was there to catch her. He laid her on a lounge and called an ambulance.
“I had no feeling or movement and my face had dropped on the right side. They gave me the Tenecteplase and moved me to the acute stroke ward.
“I’m not sure how long it took but I remember my Dad standing next me, holding my right hand, and when the feeling came back there was no way in the world I was going to let his hand go.
“It was unbelievable …”
Crystal was one of 75 patients to pass the rigorous selection criterion used for the Tenecteplase trial. That’s out of almost 2,800 people who presented with stroke symptoms over a three-year period from 2008.
Findings just published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine show two-thirds of the patients treated with the Tenecteplase demonstrated major neurological improvement within a day, like Crystal, and 72 per cent experienced excellent or good recovery three months after their stroke.
Of those administered Alteplase, 36 per cent showed improvement at 24 hours and 44 per cent had good or excellent recovery after 90 days.
“These results took us by surprise,” study leader Mark Parsons from the University of Newcastle and Staff Specialist in Neurology at John Hunter Hospital said. “With Alteplase we have seen a few dramatic outcomes but using a higher dosage of Tenecteplase there were some ‘Lazarus-like’ responses where the patient almost rose off the bed in a miraculous recovery.”
Stroke researcher Professor Chris Levi said that Tenecteplase was highly effective as part of a tailored treatment.
“Not all stroke patients benefit from clot-busting drugs but because stroke is such a hard illness to treat, any advance in treatment methods is like gold,” he said.
For Crystal, going home was joyous yet surreal. She realised how close she came to being in hospital for far longer than three days.
“I was thankful I had the stroke where and when I did. Without this drug I doubt I’d be sitting here speaking with you today. It has given me a second chance for sure.
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Irish Heart’s new campaign on ‘Chairs Can Kill ‘, states that sitting for long periods is thought to slow the metabolism, which affects the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar, blood pressure and break down body fat. The National Physical Activity Guidelines state that we should have at least 150 minutes of activity each week. Initiatives that incorporate travel to work; such as bike to work, getting off a bus a stop earlier, breaks during the day, the lunchtime mile, walking groups can all contribute to achieving an individual’s 150 minutes of exercise every week.
A new survey by the Irish Heart Foundation revealed that the average person in Ireland sits down for 7.3 hours a day. Globally, rising levels of non-communicable disease [NCDS], such as certain cancers, heart disease, respiratory disease, and diabetes type 2 account for approximately 70% of all deaths [WHO, 2016]. Employees spend more than half their waking hours at work, many sitting behind desks, standing at workstations or driving. Apart from inadequate activity, sedentary behaviour or sitting for prolonged periods is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes [Sedentary Behaviour and Obesity Expert Working Group 2010]. Modifiable behaviours, such as tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and the harmful use of alcohol, all increase the risk of NCDs. Raised blood pressure, overweight/obesity, and high blood glucose levels cause metabolic changes that increase risk. The World Health Organizations guidelines have defined the workplace as an optimum place to promote health [WHO, 2010]. Increasing activity levels will help prevent and manage over 20 conditions and diseases including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. It can also help to promote mental wellbeing (DH 2004; Pate et al. 1995). Physically active employees are less likely to suffer from major health problems, be absent from work and less likely to have an accident at work (Dishman et al. 1998).
In order to develop a successful physical activity program in the workplace, experts recommend employers begin by developing an overall company culture of health, which serves as the foundation for physical activity and related programs. This may be achieved by implementing a systematic approach to incorporating healthy practices into all policies and workplace practices. The workplace model which the WHO sets forth can provide a benchmark for companies to achieve this. Thereby enhancing employee health and wellbeing. The physical environment provides an opportunity for employers to enhance employee health. Cycle paths, footpaths and trails should be factored into policies to keep employees physically active as part of their daily life, making the healthier mode of transport more accessible. Facilitates should be taken into consideration when building workplaces as they can potentially be a barrier to exercise at work. Features such as access to shower rooms in workplaces following exercise during the workday provide another opportunity to enhance employee health. Many employers are carefully considering the ergonomics of the workplace and providing standing desks and posture improving chairs, which improve blood circulation, posture and provide an ability to stretch throughout the day. These options are a healthy alternative to enhance the typical office setting. Ergonomics and the physical environment link should work in tandem when building a comprehensive physical activity regimen in the workplace. Healthy Ireland has introduced new meeting guidelines. Activity breaks such as walking meetings and healthy food options can increase productivity and creativity. The Irish Heart Foundation states that we should track how long we sit and break our sedentary habits. Physical activity benefits every aspect of health including mental health [Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee, 2008]. Workplaces directly influence the physical, mental, economic and social well-being of workers and in turn the health and quality of life of their families, communities and our society.
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Infertility Testing for Men in Orlando
Male factor accounts for 40% of infertility cases. Common causes include varicocele, testicular injury, surgery, or medical illness. Recent studies have also shown that in some cases of severe male infertility, there may be a significant genetic component, which may be passed on to any male offspring. The precise cause of male factor infertility remains unexplained in more than 80% of cases.
The following tests are important parts of the male evaluation.
The semen analysis is a simple way of documenting the presence of adequate numbers of healthy motile sperm. Because of its simplicity, the semen analysis is usually one of the first tests ordered. When the result of a previous analysis is abnormal we will recommend a repeat analysis at our center. If the Semen analysis is persistently abnormal, the male partner may be referred to a reproductive Urologist for a consultation and evaluation. The male exam usually includes a general physical exam and a detailed examination of the reproductive organs. Additional testing including ultrasound evaluation of the prostate or scrotum may be done as part of the evaluation.
In selected cases there may be an abnormal production of particles in the blood or semen, called antibodies. When present, antibodies may attack and destroy otherwise normal sperm or interfere with their ability to fertilize an oocyte.
Prior to beginning treatment we require that all males partners undergo serum testing for HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and Syphilis. Because these organisms may be transmitted through the semen, most states require this testing prior to using the sperm for insemination or before cryopreservation.
A karyotype is usually recommended in cases of severe sperm abnormalities or a history of recurrent pregnancy losses. An abnormal karyotype may also be seen with abnormalities which may prevent fertilization and pregnancy. In such cases treatment options include IVF with Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis or the use of donor sperm.
When the sperm concentration or motility falls below a threshold value, there is an increased risk of structural abnormalities of the Y chromosome. The Y chromosome controls the production and maturation of the sperm in the testicles. Some males with Y chromosome abnormalities are able to father children using advanced reproductive technologies such as IVF with intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). However, the chromosomal abnormalities may be passed on to any male offspring.
This is a relatively new diagnostic test which may be helpful in cases of recurrent pregnancy loss and failed fertilization caused by male factor infertility. The SCSA is used to determine the degree of DNA fragmentation in the sperm sample. Studies have shown that significant abnormalities can predict a reduced likelihood of natural conception. In such cases, advanced procedures like IVF with ICSI can be used to improve the chances of conception. However, even with application of ART, the pregnancy rate is significantly reduced, and there is an approximate doubling of the rate of miscarriage. The SCSA is commonly ordered as part of the evaluation for recurrent pregnancy loss and unexplained repeated failed IVF cycles.
Cystic fibrosis is commonly associated with congenital absence of the vas deferens (CBAVD). Men with CBAVD usually present with complete absence of sperm in the ejaculate.
The Fertility Center of Orlando is a boutique style fertility center with a one on one approach. This means that you will not be assigned a number, then shuffled in and out as quickly as possible. You will be seen by Dr. Milton McNichol at every visit, not a nurse or physician assistant.
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Being an amateur Photographer, I had often encountered numerous challenges while trying to capture images that were unique and special. There were times that my efforts would end up in disappointment, while there were also times when I would be able to get results that were better than what I had expected. In order to overcome these challenges, I have found a handy guide that I will use to achieve my photography goals.
Photography is a fascinating art forms which will help you create unique and extraordinary photographs. Your creativity can be really effective in capturing the entire image in one photograph. So, you do not have to worry about wasting your money or time on mistakes while taking photographs.
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Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer
They came from far: Pakistan, Lebanon and India, organizers said. And from near: 80 percent were African Americans from Philadelphia, they added.
With the Delaware River flowing serenely in the background and strains of Middle Eastern music rising from red-capped singers on a bright and warm late spring day, an estimated 3,000 Muslims had gathered by midafternoon yesterday at Penn's Landing for the 15th annual Islamic Heritage Festival.
Many at the Great Plaza were garbed according to Muslim tradition and greeted one another with the welcoming "Assalaamu Alaikum."
Families strolled among vendors whose tables were laden with exotic perfume, bean pies, hot dogs, Korans and other items.
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Modern material design industry demand high-performing simulation tools capable of capturing the non-linear effects of materials observed at the structural scale, although governed by the physics occurring at small length scales. During the last years, a considerable effort has been put into the development and improvement of multiscale computational homogenization techniques for analyzing heterogeneous composite materials Matouš et al. (2017).
Typically, for material modeling involving two well-separated length scales, e.g., structural and mesoscopic scales, special attention has been paid to hierarchical techniques that show a high capability to capture the complex mechanical interaction effects between scales (Michel et al. (1999), Miehe et al. (1999), Terada and Kikuchi (2001), Blanco et al. (2016)). A pioneering paper of this kind of techniques is the fe2 approach by Feyel et al. Feyel and Chaboche (2000), which can tackle the non-linear behavior of complex microstructures by solving surrogate problems on a rve of the target material Gitman et al. (2007); Nguyen et al. (2010).
However, fe2 approaches are still computationally unaffordable for their use in software for practical applications. This is the main reason why they have not yet been widely transferred to the industrial sector. As an example, an analysis involving a standard fe2 multiscale simulations may typically take from months to years to complete in typical computing clusters.
A general concept to defeat the barrier imposed by the overwhelming cost of fe2 techniques, without giving up the displayed accuracy to capture the interaction effects between scales, consists of separating the full computational burden of a multiscale material simulation in two stages. First, an offline training stage is carried out with the hf model of a rve, where a data set of hf solutions is sampled and a surrogate or reduced model of the homogenized material response is built. Finally, this reduced model, which demands a low computational cost, is used in the online structural virtual testing. Several methodologies that follow this concept are very briefly described:
Artificial neural networks can be used to construct a cheap parameterized surrogate model. Results reported inRocha et al. (2020) clearly show that the computational cost of these strategies during the online stage can be lower than the one demanded by alternative reduced models. However, surrogate models derived in this way ignore the physical basis of the problem, as the model parameters are non-physical coefficients. Additionally, these strategies are unable to simulate material problems governed by input parameters unforeseen in the sampled load trajectories; e.g., for reproducing non-monotonous loading conditions that were not encountered in the sampling. See Ghavamian and Simone (2019), where a technique to overcome this drawback in history-dependent materials is proposed.
) to define different resolutions for the interpolation of basis functions. This strategy can be seen as an on-the-fly optimal integration technique for reduced models, at the expense of a low speedup—only one order of magnitude—with respect to a full rom.
The pgd method Chinesta et al. (2013) is a powerful reduction technique that has been used in a number of engineering applications. Within the pgd approach, a multidimensional solution is computed offline, where model parameters and boundary conditions are considered extra coordinates of the problem. The multidimensional solution is approximated by the sum of modes, composed by the product of the dimensional coordinates (including space-time, material properties and boundary conditions). This product consists of a lightweight offline computational catalog to be employed for rapid simulations of industrial interest. Typical procedures adopting this approach have been addressed by Ladeveze and coworkers Ladevèze et al. (2010); Chinesta et al. (2011), Doblare and coworkers El Halabi et al. (2016), among others.
Hyper-reduced finite element methods, resulting from a combination of a rom technique (which in turn is based on pod) with a procedure that reduces the computational complexity related to the non-linear terms of the variational formulation. The pod technique provides an empirical low-dimensional basis of spatial interpolation functions that replaces the original fe interpolation functions of the hf model. Furthermore, several techniques to decrease computational complexity have emerged in last years. The objective is to select only a few Gauss integration points—the cubature points—where the non-linear terms are computed. The parameters of these cubature points are associated with a physical term of the problem. Some examples of hyper-reduction techniques are the discrete empirical interpolation Chaturantabut and Sorensen (2010), the energy conserving sampling and weighting method Zahr et al. (2017), the use of reduced integration domain Ryckelynck (2009), and the use of pod modes to approximate the integrand of the non-affine terms, plus the selection of a reduced number of sampling points via gappy data reconstruction Hernández et al. (2014). A related technique to the present approach is the empirical cubature method reported in Hernandez et al. (2017), and improved in Hernández (2020).
Following the approach explained in point iv, the hprfe2 technique—described by the authors in previous contributions Oliver et al. (2017), Caicedo et al. (2019)—is evaluated in this paper. The principal characteristic of this model lies in its potential use as a software engine for the material design industry to overcome the tyranny of scales. It has been reported in Lloberas-Valls et al. (2019) that this hprfe2 technique is able to provide a speedup of up to four orders of magnitude for microstructural discretizations of several millions of integration points, assuming relative errors of around with respect to hf solutions. These speedups imply that a multiscale simulations that originally could take up to several years, can now be performed in a few hours. This clearly indicates that hprfe2 technology fulfills the requirements of the material design industry for an affordable multiscale analysis tool.
It is emphasized that the hprfe2 formulation proposed in this paper differs from the Empirical Cubature Method proposed in Hernandez et al. (2017) in the sense that, in order to construct a reduced integration scheme, what is approximated is the fundamental (variational) principle, i.e., the free energy minimization, and not its derivatives (stresses and internal forces) as it will be described in the formulation section. The minimum of the variational principle (energy minimization) is, in any case, well approximated and since is a scalar field, the reduction procedure yields a lighter reduced basis. Consequently, the performance of the approach is considerably improved with respect to the approach from Hernandez et al. (2017)
, which is based on integration of vector entities. This is, among others, one of the specific features of this method.
The objective of this work is to further assess the potentiality of this technique in terms of a trade-off between computational speedup, consistency, accuracy, and preservation of the physical basis of the model. The main novelty of the current contribution consists in the application of a HPR-FE methodology to an industrial simulation case (fibre-reinforced composite laminates). This entails a number of upgrades to the strategy with respect to former contributions: 3D analysis, tailor-made constitutive modeling, full reconstruction of stress and internal variables fields, assessment of the real speedups and computation times for realistic simulation scenarios.
In the following Sections 2 and 3, a brief summary of the hprfe2 technique is presented (a detailed description can be found in Oliver et al. (2017), Caicedo et al. (2019), Lloberas-Valls et al. (2019)). The accuracy and consistency of the methodology is assessed in Section 4, by comparing the solutions of two composites virtually tested with the hprfe2 and the hf techniques.
2 Multiscale problem formulation
Let a hierarchical multiscale material model such as the one schematized in Figure 1 be assumed. The coupon represents the macroscale structure, where effective mechanical variables are considered, i.e., displacement , strain , and stress . A rve of the microstructure is used to compute the homogenized constitutive response of the material at each point of the structure. Computational homogenization consists in transferring onto the rve, solving a microscale bvp, and upscale the effective stress evaluated as the volumetric average of the microstress
. The same operation also computes the corresponding effective constitutive tangent tensor.
The first point to be defined in the formulation is the admissible kinematics at the microscale. The displacement field at the microscale , results in the addition of three terms:
where the last term is the displacement fluctuation field . Accordingly, the microstrain in the rve is given by the addition of two terms:
where is assumed uniform in the microscale volume , while the microstrain fluctuation is the symmetric gradient of the displacement fluctuation field111In the remaining of this paper, the infinitesimal strain theory will be considered., satisfying:
In accordance with this kinematics, a bvp at the rve is next formulated in terms of microstrain fluctuations Oliver et al. (2017).
MICROSCALE PROBLEM FORMULATION: Given the macroscale strains , and the spaces of kinematically compatible strain fluctuations and admissible strain fluctuations
find such that
where the space of microstrain tensorial functions is defined such that its elements fulfil the infinitesimal strain compatibility conditions given by
with being the dimension of the Euclidean space.
Equation (5) is the variational form of the equilibrium equation in terms of the microstress which, in turn, implicitly considers the constitutive relation as a function of the internal variable222In this work, a single scalar internal variable damage is considered. microscopic damage and microstrains. Conventional damage constitutive models are assumed at the microscale. Therefore, the damage rate equation is explicitly defined by (6).
and the homogenized constitutive tensor is:
where are the constitutive tensor of the composite phases, is the fourth order identity tensor and is the localization tensor ().
Since the microscale bvp is formulated in terms of the strain field, the displacement does not play any role in the rve problem, and the history of the strain components are the only parameters determining the homogenized response333This is also a feature of the proposed formulation, that allows optimal specific treatment of zones of the rve with different constitutive equations..
By adopting (2) and a kinematically admissible microdisplacement fluctuation space satisfying the last identity in (3), the micromechanical bvp can be re-written in a more conventional displacement formulation. As will be shown in the next section, both formulations, in displacements and strains, are used to develop the hprfe2 technique. The displacement-based formulation is used in the hf fe technique for the model sampling stage, and the strain-based formulation is employed within the reduced and hyper-reduced models. The advantage of taking this approach is commented in the following section.
The hprfe2 model uses a low-dimensional space of functions for approximating the microfluctuation strain field , as described in Section 3.1. An identical approach is taken for the microstrain variations, i.e., a Galerkin formulation. Additionally, a reduced numerical cubature rule, the roec, is introduced in Section 3.2 to compute the integral balance in (5). Section 3.3 describes the procedure for recovering the strains, displacements and damage fields of the rve, i.e., projecting fields from the cubature points onto the original fe mesh.
3.1 Dimensional reduction of the microstrain fluctuation field
The low-dimensional space representing is built as the span of an orthogonal basis of spatial functions with global support: (where and is the dimension of the strain and stress tensors in Voigt notation for 3D problems), as follows:
where each element of the basis is a microstrain fluctuation mode, and the vector of pseudo-time dependent coefficients () represents the amplitude of these modes. In the last identity of (10), the matrix , with collects, in columns, the microstrain modes of the basis . Notice that, in order to preserve a simplified notation, an identical symbol identifies the microstrain fluctuation field in both, hf and low-dimensional approaches.
The basis , which is composed of basis vectors (or modes), is computed with a pod technique applied to a set of microstrain fluctuation fields, in turn obtained as solutions of the microcell problem (hf model formulated in displacements) during an offline sampling process.
Finally, the variational formulation (5)-(6) is projected onto the space spanned by the basis . Therefore, the number of equations of the corresponding discrete non-linear systems reduces to equations, whose solution determines the vector .
Remarkably, by construction, each element belongs to the vectorial space (7) inheriting the boundary conditions imposed to the hf model in the sampling stage. Therefore, any function spanned by the basis is an admissible microfluctuation strain.
The integral term in the global balance equation (5) is computed with the roec rule. This rule is derived as follows (find additional details in Oliver et al. (2017)): the dimensionality of the free energy function space computed in the sampling stage is reduced using a similar approach to that adopted for the microstrain fluctuation field (10). Thus, assuming that the low-dimensional free energy is spanned by a basis of elements,
The number of cubature points of the roec rule , their spatial position and the corresponding weights are selected with a similar criterion to that reported in Hernandez et al. (2017). This criterion is based on adopting an exact integration444Exact integration understood as the selection of the optimal set (among the Gauss integration rule adopted in the hf model) and its corresponding weights, in order to exactly integrate the selected energy modes . of the free energy basis , plus the condition that the reduced integration of the unit-function in gives the volume of the microcell . These conditions are expressed as follows:
where the symbol refers to the Gauss quadrature rule in the hf model. This criterion provides conditions. Therefore, the number of cubature points which can be obtained is .
Remark: A remarkable feature of the roec technique hinges on the determination of the reduced integration rule in terms of the free energy field (fundamental variational principle) and not on its derivatives (stresses and internal forces), as proposed in many other formulations. As a result, the problem goal, i.e., find the minimum of the variational principle (free energy), is the actual key of the solution of the problem, unlike in alternative methods based on finding null values of the functional derivatives (internal forces)555I.e., the Euler-Lagrange equations of the variational principle.. Consequently, the formulation results simpler and very accurate, leading to the high performance reduction technique hprfe2.
3.3 Reconstruction of fields in the rve
After solving the hprfe2 problem, given the approximate microstrain field and the internal variables of the damage model ( described in A) in the cubature points, the microfields can be recovered and projected onto the original hf mesh as described below.
3.3.1 Reconstruction of the displacement fluctuation field
The displacement fluctuation fields can be recovered at the original nodes of the hf mesh by using the following procedure. Let the conventional space of the fe interpolation functions for displacement associated to the hf mesh be defined, but excluding the displacements of rigid body modes. Then, the displacement reconstruction problem is stated as follows:
FIND: such that:
Introducing the fe approach of and the variations of microdisplacement fluctuations , and considering that is the global vector of nodal parameters, interpolating in the original fe mesh, then (14) can be re-written as follows:
where is the strain-displacement matrix of the conventional hf fe method (). Finally:
Notice that matrix from (16) has to be computed only once for the reconstruction process.
3.3.2 Reconstruction of the internal variable field of the damage model
Similarly, the internal variable of the damage model (summarized in A) can also be recovered. Firstly, a low-dimension spatial approach for is defined. In the offline sampling of the original microcell, snapshots of this field are gathered and a reduced basis of elements is determined by means of a pod technique, similarly to the procedure defined in (10). Then, the reduced field can be expressed as:
The vector (whose components are the internal variable values at the reduced cubature points and at a given pseudo-time ) is obtained from the hprfe2 solution. Secondly, is projected onto the vector (being the total number of Gauss integration points), whose components are the internal variables at the Gauss quadrature points of the hf mesh. The following problem is defined:
FIND: such that:
Applying a similar procedure to that used for the microdisplacement fluctuation recovery in Section 3.3.1, coefficients can be computed as follows:
Finally, using equation (17), we recover the vector , whose -th component (at the spatial position of the -th Gauss point ) satisfies
where . Since the damage variable is recovered by projecting a vector from a lower dimensional approximation space onto the higher dimensional space of finite elements, in this operation there may arise values lesser than 0 or greater than 1. Thus, it is necessary to disregard those values assigning to the recovered damage variable the value 0 or 1, respectively, to each case.
3.3.3 Reconstruction of the microstress tensor field
Given the internal variable vector and the microstrain at each Gauss quadrature point of the hf fe mesh, we compute the microstress tensor at the same points by appealing to the damage constitutive equation.
Remark: Most of the involved computations in (16) and (19) can be performed during the offline model sampling stage, typically, the evaluation of matrices and . The matrix vector products and , as well as the evaluation of the microstress at the Gauss integration points of the hf fe mesh can be computed during a post-processing stage and after solving the hprfe2 problem. These additional evaluations represent a low computational cost.
4 hprfe2 model assessment
The hprfe2 technique is assessed by means of the multiscale simulation using two microstructures of engineering interest, representing glass fiber-reinforced composites with epoxy matrix. Particular attention is paid to the trade-off between attained accuracy, computational speedup, and the capacity of the hprfe2 model for simulating non-sampled trajectories.
The offline strategy of the sampling stage of both models is explained in Section 4.2, which details the number and directions of the loading scenarios needed to attain the reduced basis employed in different approximations of the hf solution. The error of the reduced order approximation with respect to the hf solution is calculated as explained in Section 4.3. Model completeness, i.e., the capacity for modeling material responses which have not been specifically considered during the sampling stage, is detailed in Section 4.4. Computational performance for microcells of increasing size and complexity is shown in Section 4.5. Material customization, i.e., the capacity of the model to reproduce the response of materials whose properties are different to those used during the offline model sampling, is evaluated in Section 4.6.
Examples of multiscale virtual tests are shown in Section 4.7, where a test coupon is simulated under varying configurations of the microstructure (obtained by rotations of the same microcell and customization of the material parameters), and a number of combinations of representation modes and integration points. Recovered damage and stress fields of the microcell in sampled elements of the coupon is also shown.
4.1 Microscopic models
Model A represents a periodic composite constituted by a generic cross-ply laminate containing several plies of aligned longitudinal fibers ( diameter, volume fraction of ) at and angles, embedded in an epoxy matrix. It represents a material that can manifest the modeled failure mechanisms (fiber-matrix pull-out, fiber-matrix decohesion, and interply delamination), rather than a real-world material example. The rve of this composite, as well as the material properties of its constituent phases, are defined in Table 1. Fibers are modeled elastic, while matrix, interply, and fiber-matrix cohesive interphase are assumed inelastic, modeled by a damage constitutive model with bilinear hardening, as described in A.
Model B represents one ply of an industrial multilayer composite. The microstructure consists of a random distribution of unidirectional fibers ( diameter, volume fraction of ) in an epoxy matrix. Fibers are assumed elastic in the strain range considered. Matrix is modeled by the same damage model referred previously. Contrarily to model A, the fiber-matrix interaction effects ignore the fiber pull-out and decohesion mechanisms. The material parameters of the constituent phases of this composite are reported in Table 2.
The objective pursued with the analysis of both models is not necessarily to perform their precise assessment and validation against experimental results. Rather, it is the demonstration of the capabilities of the hprfe2 technique for capturing the composite deformation modes involving discontinuous strain fields, particularly those arising in model A. Accurately capturing these deformation modes results in a challenging target for the present approach. To assess the hprfe2 capability, the solutions obtained with this methodology are compared to those obtained with the hf model, which are considered as the reference solutions in all tested cases.
|Young modulus |
|Elastic threshold ||–|
|Infinity elastic threshold ||–|
|Hardening parameters ,||,||–||,||,|
|Young modulus |
|Elastic threshold ||–|
|Infinity elastic threshold ||–|
|Hardening parameter ,||,||–|
The sampling stage is performed by solving a set of trajectories, i.e., problems in the rve with the hf technique, subjected to a macroscopic strain as the evolving action.
By considering that the six components of a symmetric macrostrain tensor can be related to a point lying on the space, we choose
points uniformly distributed in the unitary hypersphere inKunc and Fritzen (2019), to define the same number of corresponding macrostrains. Macrostrains are imposed to the rve multiplied by a time factor , monotonically increasing from 0 to for model A, and for model B. The coefficient is chosen such that most of the trajectories reach the inelastic regime, which assures a sufficient number of inelastic snapshots during the sampling stage. The solutions of the full loading trajectory set constitutes the rve sampling procedure. Although a damage model is employed to capture the material non-linearities, only a moderate strain localization is expected since softening is not included in the constitutive response. Hence, the adopted sampling range suffices to correctly reproduce the non-linear regime and it is not expected that severe localization takes place way beyond the one captured during the sampling stage. An extension of the method to account for softening would require a regularization strategy such as the one analyzed inOliver et al. (2017).
The sampling data set is composed of snapshots (one for each timestep) per each trajectory, from where the pod bases are obtained. There are no special requirements for the selection of the snapshots, provided that the selected sampling trajectory represents the full parametric strain space. The approach taken here consists in gathering as many inelastic snapshots as possible, in a large trajectory diversity, and to leave the selection of optimal snapshots to the SVD stage. A snapshot consists of strain, energy and damage variables in every Gauss integration point (ip) of the hf mesh, at a given time step. These snapshots are required for building the reduced set of integration (cubature) points and the pod strain modes for the hprfe2 model, and the reconstruction of the displacement and damage fields of the rve.
Snapshots in the elastic regime are processed separately from those obtained during the inelastic regime. This strategy guarantees an exact response of the hprfe2 model in the elastic regime.
The sampling was performed using KratosMultiphysics simulation software Ferrándiz et al. (2020).
4.3 Accuracy: assessing non-sampled trajectories
The accuracy of the model is primarily assessed by comparing, for a particular non-sampled validation trajectory, the homogenized stresses obtained with the reduced model and the hf simulation.
The bvp of the microcells of models A and B are solved with the hprfe2 technique using a combination of modes in the range of to , and cubature points in the range of to . The obtained results correspond to an imposed monotonic macrostrain trajectory, defined by
until reaching the time . This trajectory is not included in the sampling process.
The error for each of these combinations is defined as
i.e., the norm of the maximum relative difference between the homogenized stress tensor given by the reduced model , and the hf model stress , computed along the trajectory. Errors, given in terms of the number of cubature points and strain modes, are plotted in Figures 2 and 3 for the microcells of models A and B. In general, and as expected, we can observe that a higher number of strain modes reduces the approximation error provided that a high enough number of cubature points is used. Also, as expected, the curves tend to an asymptotic value coinciding with the error provided by the standard rom and a full Gauss quadrature rule determined by the fe mesh in the microcells.
Note that by taking a small number of strain modes ( modes) and cubature points (less than ), the assessed errors for both cases (¡]) are much lower than the typical admissible tolerances in engineering problems.
4.4 Model conservation: assessing the physics of the hprfe2 reduced model
The roec scheme used to integrate the balance equation (5) requires the computation of stresses and the damage evolution (6) in the specific points of the microcell, determined by the roec technique. This feature of the hprfe2 model confers a physical basis with an inherent capacity for modeling material responses not specifically considered during the sampling stage, but that still obey basic physical assumptions made at the microscale (e.g., constitutive model thermodynamic consistency, loading-unloading conditions). In this sense, the physics of the reduced model is identical to that shown by the conventional fe approach, where the material physical laws are strictly satisfied in the quadrature points.
To test this feature, the microcells of the models A and B are solved with the hprfe2 technique using strain modes and cubature points. A cyclic macrostrain trajectory is imposed, defined by the macrostrain (21) and the parameter increasing monotonically from to and back to .
Different homogenized stress components are depicted in Figures 3(a) and 4(a) for both microcells. Continuous curves depict solution paths of the hf model while dashed curves correspond to the reduced model. In both cases the solution of the reduced model is remarkably coincident with the hf solution even during the unloading regime, which was not tested in any of the sampling paths commented in the previous section. This result evidences the close connection between the reduced model and the expected physical response of the composite.
Deformed microcells at maximum load are depicted in Figures 3(b) and 4(b). These deformed configurations have been obtained with the reconstructed displacements fields, as indicated in Section 3.3. In the same figures, the reconstructed damage and stress component are plotted on the deformed cells. The reconstructed fields are bounded by an error of 3.24% for model A, and 6.24% for model B, compared with the fields obtained with the hf technique. Note the very high accuracy of the hprfe2 solutions to display the strain jumps caused by the fiber-matrix decohesion and interply delamination mechanisms.
4.5 Computational performance
Gains in computing time of hprfe2 with respect to the standard fe2 is quantified by the speedup curves shown in Figure 6.
Speedup curves correspond to 3D microcells B1 to B5, of increasing mesh size with , , , and elements (approximately hexahedra and 6-ip wedges). The microcells are based on the described model B, and present a random distribution of fibers (volume fraction of ) with a periodic boundary, generated with the algorithm described in Melro et al. (2008). Each speedup value is computed as the ratio between the time of the hf analysis and the corresponding reduced model analysis, varying in the number of modes and cubature points. hf CPU times are , , , and for models R1 to R5, and CPU times demanded by the reduced model are , , , and for combinations 20m-100ip, 30m-200ip, 40m-400ip, 50m-800ip and 60m-1600ip, respectively. In the case of reduced analysis, time depends only on the number of modes and cubature points, indistinctly of the RVE that they represent.
As expected, the smaller the number of modes and cubature points, the lower the accuracy and the higher the speedup. Also, the speedup is higher for larger microcells and a given number of strain modes and cubature points. Consequently, in order to determine a fair measure of the speedup for engineering purposes, the maximum admissible error of the evaluated results has to be fixed as a target, which in turn limits the minimum number of strain modes and cubature points that can be taken in the reduced model.
In this view, a series of tests involving microcells of increasing mesh size ( , , , and hexahedra in microcells R1 to R5, respectively) and complexity (defined as the number of algebraic operations) has been previously performed by the authors in Lloberas-Valls et al. (2019), and the resulting speedups are reproduced in Figure 7 (involved CPU times are shown later in section 4.7.2). For every case of the study, the errors obtained by reduced models when taking at least strain modes and cubature points are below (an acceptable error threshold for engineering purposes). Note that periodicity of the solutions is specifically broken by the fact that the geometry is not repetitive, i.e., the larger microcells are not the tiling of the smaller ones. Furthermore, boundary conditions compatible with minimal kinematic constraints are defined, so that the physical complexity increases with the volume (e.g., the strain field of the 4-fiber-4-layer microcell R4 is not the periodic repetition of the strain field of the 2-fiber-2-layer microcell R2.) Thus, the strain modes of the larger microcells are not the periodic repetition the smaller ones.
It is remarkable that, for large microcells with millions of Gauss integration points within the fe discretization, the speedup of the reduced model reaches values in the order of (plus any other speedup gain due to parallel processing). In other words, hf multiscale simulations that would take years of computing time, can now be performed in a few hours with errors below .
4.6 Material customization: dependency on material properties values for the same material model
Several tests are outlined to prove the customization of the methodology in terms of changes in the material parameters characterizing the composite phases. The idea behind these numerical experiments is to evaluate the capability of the hprfe2 technique—specifically developed using a given composite morphology and a given set of material parameters—for simulating composites having the same morphology and ruled by the same constitutive model, but with remarkably different values of material properties with respect to those adopted for the sampling stage. A suitable model response for this kind of test may be a highly desired attribute in applications of material design, as well as in virtual testing.
The microcells employed in the previous sections have been constructed with sampling procedures that have considered the reference material parameters depicted in Tables 1 and 2. In the following numerical experiments, the material response of those reference materials are compared to the same reduced models, but in this case using a different set of material properties without performing new sampling. The microcells of the models A and B are now characterized by the matrix and cohesive interphase parameters displayed in Table 3 and denoted materials Custom M1, Custom M2. Note that Custom M3 is only used in the case of the microcell of the model B, in which the fibers are subjected to damage. In the table, the new material parameters are compared to the reference parameters used in the sampling of the reduced models.
Custom reduced model responses are compared to those obtained using hf models. Result curves versus for each custom material are reported in Figure 8, for hprfe2 bases with strain modes and cubature points. Curves correspond to an imposed cyclic macrostrain trajectory, defined by the macrostrain (21), with increasing monotonically from to (microcell A) and (microcell B), and back to 0. The results obtained with the original material parameters used for the sampling, and for a similar trajectory, are also included in the figure.
These plots show a close agreement between the solutions obtained with both methodologies. A slight difference is observed in Figure 7(a) for microcell of the model A, Custom M2 material. Possibly, this effect is due to the extremely large change in the customized hardening law.
Note that in the case of the curve CM3 in Figure 7(b), the fiber is allowed to damage even though the hprfe2 strain bases used in this analysis has been obtained considering the fibers elastic. Even so, the comparison with the hf is remarkable good.
|Original||Custom M1||Custom M2||Custom M3|
|Matrix:||Young modulus E||5000||–|
|Inf elastic threshold||320||–|
|Hardening parameters ,||,||0.5, 0.1||,||–|
|Cohesive,||Young modulus E||–|
|Inf elastic threshold||–|
|Hardening parameters ,||,||,||0.9, 0.9||–|
|Matrix:||Young modulus E||8000||8000|
|Inf elastic threshold||140|
|Hardening parameters ,||,||,||,||,|
|Inclusion:||Young modulus E|
|Inf elastic threshold||–||–||–||70|
|Hardening parameters ,||–||–||–||0.01, 0.01|
4.7 Virtual testing of a composite coupon
The coupon depicted in Figure 8(a) is used to perform several virtual tests. It is composed by a unidirectional composite ply, characterized by the microcell B. Three cases are simulated, corresponding to fiber orientations (longitudinal), and (transversal) in the plane , obtained by standard rotation of the microcell to adjust local and global reference axis. The thickness of the specimen is three orders of magnitude larger than the fiber diameter, so the separation of scales required by fe2 method is ensured.
A uniform displacement is imposed on a stiff plate stuck to the inferior surface of the specimen, as shown in Figure 8(b). Exploiting the symmetry of the problem, a fourth part of the coupon is simulated with linear hexahedral elements and Gauss integration points per element. Each integration point is associated with the microcell described previously in Table 2.
The mechanical response of the specimen for different orientations of the fibers is shown in Figure 10. Solutions of reaction forces versus displacement are plotted for three combinations of microstrain modes and cubature points: 20 modes-100 cubature point (20m100cp), 30 modes-200 cubature points (30m200cp) and 40 modes-400 cubature points (40m400cp). Due to the unfeasibility of performing an actual fe2 simulation, the solution taken as reference is the one obtained with the hprfe2 technique, adopting microstrain modes and cubature points.
For the three orientations, the responses of the reduced model agree very well with the reference solutions, with relative errors (with respect to the case 50m-1800cp) between and . The larger relative error is observed for the case , 30m200cp. Note that the error, with respect to the reference curve, observed in the case of does not monotonically decrease with the increment of the number of modes and cubature points. According to the conclusions drawn from Figure 3, we argue that the responses of Figure 10 are obtained with a low number of modes and cubature points, in correspondence to a region of non-monotonic error convergence. However, being that the involved relative errors are small for the purposes of this work, it does not deserve a further analysis involving increments of the number of modes and cubature points.
Figure 11 shows the displacement and stress of the coupon in the mentioned cases at maximum load. It also shows the reconstructed microstress and damage field of the deformed microcell (with the procedure explained in Section 3.3), located at an arbitrary Gauss integration point of the coupon. These microscopic results make evident one of the main features of the fe2 approaches, and preserved in the hprfe2 model, i.e., the detailed analysis the microstructural field, which can not be assessed by simpler phenomenological macroscopic models.
4.7.1 Virtual testing of a composite coupon: customized materials
The previous virtual test is performed with customized material parameters, different from the values used during the sampling stage. Customized parameters correspond to material Custom M2 of Table 3.
The computed results are displayed in the Figure 12 for fiber orientations , and . They are obtained from the hprfe2 model sampled with the original material parameters, but using the custom material parameters during the virtual testing stage. These results are plotted for the cases 20m100cp, 30m100cp and 40m400cp.
The curves denoted as “Reference” are the result obtained with a hprfe2 model sampled with the custom material parameters. They are taken as the reference curves.
To compare the structural effects induced by the change of the customized parameters with respect to the original ones adopted in this test, the curves denoted as “Original” are plotted in the same figure. These curves, which are the reference curves in Figure 10, are obtained with an hprfe2 model, sampled with the original material parameters and using the same material parameters in the virtual testing stage.
For the three orientations, the responses of the reduced model agree very well with the reference solutions, with relative errors between and . The larger relative error is observed for the case , 30m200cp.
4.7.2 Virtual testing of a composite coupon: estimated performance comparison
The same composite coupon shown in Figure 9 is tested using a sequence of microcells employed in the speedup curves in Figure 7. As discussed before in Section 4.5, in terms of mechanical deformation modes, size implies a complexity increment due to their geometry and the use of minimal kinematic boundary conditions.
The sequential computational time for a multiscale analysis of the coupon is reported in Figure 13
, for the estimated time of fe2 and the measured time of the hprfe2 analyses.
For the fe2 cases, time is estimated as the product of the mean iteration time, the mean number of iterations per step, the number of steps and the total number of Gauss integration points of the coupon discretization. The fe2 analysis corresponding to the most complex microcell would demand a year of computation.
The measured time corresponding to the hprfe2 analyses is close to three hours. It should be noted that all reduced bases employed for microcells R1 to R5 involve 40 strain modes and 200 cubature points, yielding relative errors below 1% in the 5 cases. The error analysis is performed in independent analyses considering only one macroscale point.
Consequently, based on this simple multiscale analysis, it is concluded that the hprfe2 presented in this work clearly breaks the barrier imposed by the multiplicative cost within hierarchical multiscale analysis, and represents a real chance to export the fe2 technology to the simulation industry.
The hprfe2 technology is assessed in this contribution in terms of its benefits for multiscale solutions for a number of cases of industrial relevance, concerning 3D reinforced composite laminate materials. After an exhaustive evaluation of the presented technique on the above mentioned materials a number of key advantage for the material design industry arise, in comparison to alternative approaches.
Mechanical coherency. The formulation of the multiscale reduced order modelling in terms of the strain field fluctuation turns to be ideal in the context of a fe2-like approach, in which downscaling and upscaling contain information of the macro-stains and stresses. The strain bases contain only information relevant to the mechanics inheriting the type of boundary conditions employed during the sampling stage, and that is compatible with the strain field, and neglecting the rigid body modes which do not contribute to the constitutive relation. Moreover, the strain snapshots are directly Gauss points quantities and not nodal values, which simplifies the formulation and avoids interpolating quantities to the sampling points needed to integrate the strain modes. Another important feature of the hprfe2 relies in the methodology adopted to integrate the strain modes. The roec integration technique arises from approximating the free energy field (fundamental variational principle) and not its derivatives, as proposed in Hernandez et al. (2017). As a result, the problem goal, i.e., find the minimum of the variational principle (free energy), is the actual key of the problem solution unlike in alternative methods based on finding null values of the functional derivatives. Consequently, it results in a low-cost and very accurate formulation, leading to the high performance reduction technique hprfe2.
Numerical consistency. The accuracy of the approximation, as compared to the hf analysis, improves with the number of the reduced strain modes considered in the construction of the strain basis. Additionally, an increase of integration points (or energy modes), involved in the integration of the strain modes, provides an improvement of the accuracy with respect to the hf solution and, in the limit, tends to the solution provided with a rom model including all quadrature points of the original fe discretization. Noteworthy accuracy is found by adopting a low number of strain modes and cubature points.
Model completeness. Since the material parameters employed within the integration of the reduced strain basis are obtained from the evaluation of the constitutive relation, the link with the physics and the consistent thermodynamics is never lost. For this reason, the reduced model can capture well those loading situations (and even thermodynamic irreversible phenomena, like irreversible loading-unloading processes) that were not included during the sampling stage, without the need for including extra modes, as it would happen in other methodologies (e.g., neural network surrogates).
Material customization. The reduced basis can be seen as a discretization support for the integration of the solution. In this view, one can keep the integration support and substantially change the model parameters for material design purposes. This has been shown in the above sections for significant changes of the material parameters without compromising the quality of the solution. Indeed, this can not be taken as a general recipe and radical changes of the model parameters may, in some cases, demand a more complete strain basis to properly capture the correct solution. However, for the type of materials adopted in this study, the material parameters could be remarkably varied without noticing a clear deviation from the hf solution. The possibility of a reduced model supporting a certain degree of material customizations is considered an overriding quality when the reduced model has to be applied to the design of new materials.
Microstructure monitoring and design. The main feature of fe2 techniques—modeling the coupled physics in two separated scales—is preserved in the presented approach. It relies in monitoring the microstructural behaviour at different key macrostructural points to determine the performance of different phases submitted to stress concentrations and complex loading. This is performed by reconstructing the displacement, stress and internal variable fields as indicated in the formulation of the model. On this view, an “overall” picture of the material behavior at the low scale is obtained, and relevant decisions concerning the microstructural topology and constituents can be taken in order to improve the macrostructural behavior. Again, a desirable feature for the simulation tools used by the material design industry.
High computational performance. A number of tests have been conducted on an engineering coupon with microstructures of increasing increasing size and discretization features. In the presented analyses, the speedup of the approach grows with increasing complexity of the analyzed microstructure, and can reach up to for microstructures with integration points. For the case of fully-periodic microcells treated with periodic boundary conditions, this result is not really meaningful since volumes are increased following the periodicity in the three spatial directions and, therefore, essentially contain the same mechanical information. However, for the case of minimal kinematic boundary conditions and a sequence of microcells which are not necessarily periodic, a similar observation is done in terms of speedup. It is concluded that for the type of materials adopted in the present study, relevant speedup values can be obtained, which allow computations that would typically span several years to be resolved in a few hours and, therefore, being affordable for industrial purposes.
To the authors’ knowledge, the presented technology represents a novel contribution towards realistic, accurate and affordable industrial multiscale simulations. It promises to advance the current standards for material simulation due to a tangible reduction in experimental testing, more complex material behavior that can be modeled with affordable and reliable numerical simulations, seamlessly integrated in current industrial workflows.
The authors acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, through the “Severo Ochoa Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D” (CEX2018-000797-S) and the research grant DPI2017-85521-P for the project “Computational design of Acoustic and Mechanical Metamaterials” (METAMAT). This research has also received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Proof of Concept Grant agreement 874481) through the project “Computational design and prototyping of acoustic metamaterials for target ambient noise reduction” (METACOUSTIC). The authors also acknowledge the guidance and assistance with the microcells meshes from Dr. Pedro Camanho and Dr. Fermín Otero from INEGI (Portugal) during the preparation of this manuscript.
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Appendix A Damage model
A damage model with an elastic domain accounting for traction-only and a bilinear hardening law is adopted for describing the constitutive response of the components at the microscale. The main features of the model are described in Table 4. The employed constitutive model is extensively described in Oliver et al. (2015) for the case of linear softening behaviour. However, a short explanation of the parameters and symbols used in the table is included in the following lines: is the free energy and is the Hooke’s elasticity tensor written in terms of the Lamé parameters and , with and the forth- and second-order identity tensor. The isotropic damage variable depends on the internal variable . This internal variable determines the size of the elastic domain through the damage function . The term in the definition of is a generalized norm of the strains accounting for the positive effective principal stresses . A bilinear hardening law is considered in the present study with two values of the hardening parameter . It is worth mentioning that no regularization is required since softening behaviour is not included in the present study.
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If someone approaches you and demands child support, the most important step is to ensure that the child is indeed yours so as to establish your legal responsibility. Paternity, when put as such, is a legal relationship between father and child, not necessarily emotionally (but in no way mutually exclusive). In Illinois, if the parents of a child were not married at the time of the child’s birth, until the child’s birth certificate is legally established—even if the father was there at the time of the child’s birth—the man is considered the legal “alleged” father until the birth certificate is signed. Conversely, if the man refused to sign the birth certificate, there are two other ways that he can be legally considered the legal paternal caretaker: One is if the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family enters an administrative paternity order; the other is if a judge does so in court.
There are many reasons why a mother would want to establish paternity for her child, and the emotional reasons are not, by and large, the most significant. Establishing a paternity order protects both parents’ rights in the case of emergency, and allows both parents to access family medical information. This can be especially important in the tragic event that the child experiences a genetic medical condition that needs to be considered through the lens of family history, for example. For the child, it is extremely important that paternity is established so that the child has access to financial family benefits such as medical support, Social Security, and veteran’s benefits that are coming from the father’s side.
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Genesis 41:15-16—”And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it. And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”
God’s timing is every bit as important as His will. There is always a time of waiting between the promise that He makes you and the possession He gives you. This is because of two things:
1) God is preparing the possession for you.
2) God is preparing you for the possession.
Joseph was falsely accused and imprisoned. Despite this, God promised Joseph that He would be with Him. Joseph knew that God would right the wrong and deliver him. However, had God delivered him immediately, Joseph would have been just an unemployed, ex-con Jew wandering the streets of Egypt. The same would have occurred if Joseph had been released after interpreting the dreams of the baker and butler years later.
Then came a time when Joseph was to be released, but it wasn’t until about three years after the first dreams. Pharaoh had two dreams about a coming famine, and it proved to be the time for Joseph not only to be delivered, but also to be given great honor and authority.
That was God moving things around and preparing the possession for Joseph. However, something more was happening the whole time: Joseph was being prepared for his possession.
If you read the account carefully, you’ll notice something subtle about Joseph between the dreams of his fellow inmates and the dreams of Pharaoh. After he interpreted the first dreams, Joseph told the butler, “Tell Pharaoh of me.” Three years later, that’s exactly what the butler did. He told Pharaoh, “There is a man who interprets dreams.” However, when Joseph was brought out of prison those few years later, he had changed his tune slightly. It was no longer, “Tell Pharaoh of me.” It was now, “It is not in me. God shall provide.” The last three years of his imprisonment seemed unnecessary to the flesh, but it was during this time that something was changed in Joseph.
You may be in the time of waiting, between the promise and the possession, but keep believing; keep trusting. God is changing your heart and preparing you for the possession just as much as He is preparing the possession for you.
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Stratosphere Flights marketed as Edge of Space-flights have been available in Russia after the Russian Financial crisis. Also, Thunder City offered Edge of Space Flights in Cape Town, South Africa. In Russia MiG-25 flights reached up to 25km or 82,000ft. This was the highest altitude tourists could achieve, apart from the Space Adventures trips to the international Space Staion (ISS). Thunder City used English Electric Lightning supersonic aircraft to reach an altitude of 50,000ft.
Definition Edge of Space
The boundary between the Athmosphere and outer Space is known as the Kármán line. The Kármán line lies at 62 miles or 100km, which is much higher than the 25km or so the most powerful Edge of Space-jet fighters achieve during their stratosphere flight. The expression “Edge of Space” commonly used for balloon and aircraft includes a much lower altitude. Some use it for flights at altitudes reaching the Stratosphere (10km – 50km), but flying substantially higher than commercial airliners who usually fly at 10-12km to optimize their fuel burn. Thunder City used the Expression Edge of Space already for 50,000ft (15.25km) flights, that is not substantially higher than the altitudes reached by airliners. The Russian MiG supersonic fighters reached at least double the altitude.
Fastest Aircraft reached 25km with tourists
The MiG-25 Foxbat, the fastest fighter aircraft has a top speed of Mach 2,82 or 3200 km/h or 1,920 mph respectively. At high altitude the Mikoyan MiG-25 Foxbat reaches Mach 3.2 or 3600 km/h, but this top speed damages the engine. The strangely looking MiG-25 two seater was used for passenger Edge of Space flights on Zhukovsky airbase or Ramenskoye airbase (also Ramenskoe and Ramensky) until June 2006. Zhukovsky Airbase hosts the famous MAKS airshow, apart from the MiG-25 Edge of Space Flights it offered MiG-23 Flogger Flights, MiG-29 Flights and Su-27 Flanker Flights. The MiG-25 Foxbat reached an altitude of up to 25km, the view from there is comparable to what is known from satellite prictures: The curvature of the earth can be seen very clearly, the atmosphere is like a blue fog far far below and the sky above is black with millions of stars.
MiG-29 Edge of Space Flights on Sokol Airbase today
After Edge of Space Flights in the fastest jet fighter MiG-25 stopped when tourist flights operation stopped, MiGFlug and it’s US subidiary FlyFighterJet hat to watch for another opportunity to offer supersonic and Edge of Space flights. In the same year, in 2006, MiGFlug sent the first customer to fly MiG-29 to Sokol Airbase in Nizhniy Novgorod, about an hour from Moscow. The first 3 years of MiG operations at Sokol, the MiG-29 flights focused on acrobatics and the MiG-31 Foxhound, the successor of the MiG-25, flew to the Edge of Space with customers. After 2008 the MiG-31 was used for tests with the Russian Air Force. The MiG-29 was from now on used for both, MiG-29 Aerobatics program and the new MiG-29 Edge of Space program. The MiG-29 reaches about 22-23km, so substantially more than the English Electric Lightning in Thunder City. After Thunder City stopped operations in 2010, the MiG-29 Flight is not only the last Edge of Space Flight worldwide, but also the last possibility for a supersonic flight.
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This video shows one of the first customers flying the MiG-29 Fulcrum on Sokol airbase, Nizhiny Novgorod
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Solar Panels in Illinois
Illinois, the “Land of Lincoln”, is where Abraham Lincoln spent most of his life. Inventors John Deere and Cyrus McCormick made their fortunes in Illinois by improving farm machinery. And now the solar industry is here to add to the culture. Not only do solar panels help keep the environment healthy and clean, but solar panels also give you fantastic savings each month by lowering your electric bill.
Cost of Solar Panels
Solar panels are not only increasing every year in popularity and efficiency, but they’re also decreasing in price. In fact, according to the SEIA, prices have fallen 43% over the last 5 years as a result of the advancement in solar technology along with Illinois’ favorable solar incentives.
Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all for the cost of solar panels due to the various factors involved in determining prices such as solar array size, sunshine exposure, and energy consumption. For an accurate estimate on the cost of a solar energy system for your home, our solar specialists provide a free solar estimate based on your unique situation such as energy and saving goals.Free Solar Estimate
Save money with solar energy
By installing Illinois solar panels, you’ll be able to avoid rising electric rates and will get to enjoy energy independence for years to come. As of April 2021, the average cost of electricity in Illinois is 12.56¢ / kWh. Although this rate is always changing, you can protect your home from future electricity prices by switching to solar energy in Illinois.
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Illinois Solar Incentives, Tax Credits, & Rebates
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26% Federal Solar Tax Credit
One of the best ways to get your solar panels is to take advantage of the 26% Federal Solar tax credit. Because the federal government knows just how important renewable energy is, they’ve implemented this incentive to encourage people to switch to solar. You may be eligible for 26% of the total cost of your solar panels back in tax credits, including the cost of installation!*
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Illinois Solar Panel Property Tax Exemption
Whenever you improve your home, it often means that your home value increases. This is a great perk, even though you have to pay increased property taxes. However, you don’t need to worry about that when you install solar panels. Thanks to the Illinois government, solar panels are completely property tax exempt. So you can enjoy all the added value your new solar panel system brings without paying any extra taxes.
Net Metering for Illinois Solar Energy
Another way to capitalize on your solar panels is net metering. With net metering, any excess solar power that your panels produce is sent to your utility grid. Your utility company will then credit your account with that extra energy, which will further lower your monthly bill.
Currently, it is required that all utility companies offer net metering to their customers for systems up to 100kW in size. In addition, any unused credits at the end of the month rollover, and are automatically applied to your next bill!
Illinois Solar Rebate Program
If you need a further reason to install solar panels, here is an additional rebate for Illinois!
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For a study, researchers assessed whether transperineal (TP) prostate biopsy was linked to a lower level of pathogen introduction into the prostate compared to transrectal (TR) biopsy in order to understand the mechanistic basis for fewer infectious consequences in TP prostate biopsy.
Rectal and perineal skin swabs as well as two additional biopsy cores were taken from males who were scheduled for prostate biopsy for routine clinical indications. Next-generation sequencing, routine laboratory culture, and DNA extraction were all performed on the specimens. In prostate core biopsy tissue from patients who underwent TP vs. TR biopsy, microbial quantity and composition were assessed and compared.
The research included 23 men in total. In comparison to the TR group, biopsy core tissue from the TP group had fewer known pathogens (36.3 vs 104.2 normalized counts of pathogens/sample, P=.018) and had less known microbial diversity (15.0 vs 25.8 phylogenetic clades/sample, P=.0004). The perineal rather than the rectal source was more responsible for the TP group tissue core flora (P=.047). About 45% of the TR group’s cores contained viable Escherichia coli, although none of the TP group’s did (P=.014).
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An envelope is a letter and postcard binding and archiving tool that is often made of a thin material such as paper. Traditional adverbs are made of leaves cut into one of three shapes: a rhombus, a plus sign, or a kite shape. These shapes are folded from the edges around a rectangular area in the middle. Thus the front rectangle of the envelope consists of four paper folds.
The importance of envelopes and why you should have them?
Printed envelopes help to make a good impression on your customers, especially if they are printed on high-quality papers and have distinct colors, which indicates the extent of your attention to detail, and putting your brand on the envelopes is an advertisement for your company
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Most of us have sentimental notions about angels in general and guardian angels in particular, yet the Bible depicts them as powerful, fierce, and almost warlike. They are holy and good, but their glory overwhelms. In Scripture, people encountering angels are often disconcerted and filled with fear.
Many of us think of the angels as here more to help us, but God tells us to obey them.
[The Lord God says,] See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you (Exodus 23:20-22).
Angels are to be revered and respected; they are not the prancing, doll-like figures we often imagine.
I do not write this to dash sentimental notions, only to add balance. Our angels love and serve us, but they do this with a divine authority that we ought not to trivialize.
For some reason I thought of all this when I ran across this commercial first shown during the Super Bowl in 2003. It featured linebacker Terry Tate, who is brought into a business to “motivate” the workers to follow their better natures. I am certainly not implying that angels act in this manner, but I have often wondered whether my own guardian angel doesn’t sometimes need tactics like this in order to shape me up!
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- 1 How long do peonies last in a vase?
- 2 How do you keep cut peonies alive longer?
- 3 How long do peony flowers last for?
- 4 Do peonies last longer when cut in a vase?
- 5 How do you take care of a peony in a vase?
- 6 Do peonies grow back after being cut?
- 7 Why are my cut peonies wilting?
- 8 Why are peonies expensive?
- 9 Should I cut peonies after blooming?
- 10 How do I get more blooms on my peonies?
- 11 What is the longest blooming perennial?
- 12 Why do my peonies smell bad?
How long do peonies last in a vase?
To store a peony for proper bloom and achieve a vase life of five to 10 days, you need to cut the flowers when the buds are showing some color and are soft like a marshmallow, according to Wilma Jackson from the Sunny Dale Spring Peony Farm in Valley Center, Kansas.
How do you keep cut peonies alive longer?
Fill the vase about 1/3 with water. Add a packet of flower food or plan to change the water every couple of days. Remove all leaves that would be underwater in the vase, as they will rot, reducing the life of the flower. Immerse the flower stems in the water and cut off 1/2 inch of the stem underwater.
How long do peony flowers last for?
Peonies have a short-but-sweet vase life Our peonies will give up to 5 days of beauty. Want them to last longer? Keep in a cool room away from direct sunlight and this might help, along with re-trimming your stems and refreshing your vase water every few days.
Do peonies last longer when cut in a vase?
How to preserve peonies. If you cut the flowers as suggested above, they will last longer in a vase. They may be a bud for that day, but will probably open the next day. You can also wrap the peonies in plastic and store in the refrigerator until you’re ready to use them.
How do you take care of a peony in a vase?
Once inside, interior designer Amanda Nisbet says to put them in a clean vase with at least 3 to 4 inches of room temperature water. Remove any foliage that falls below the water line. Add water regularly, and clean and refill the vase and re-cut the stems every few days to maximize vase life.
Do peonies grow back after being cut?
Herbaceous peonies have new growth coming from the crown of roots each season. They will not grow back a second round of blooms once they have been cut. Next season, the peonies will grow back. Plants cut too early will also regrow, but as mentioned, peonies won’t bloom to their full capacity for over a year.
Why are my cut peonies wilting?
Dried stem-ends or bacteria growth hinders water uptake, causing stems to droop and flowers to wilt. How to fix it: Thoroughly clean your vase and refresh the water. Cut around 1-5 cm off the stem at a sharp angle and put it straight into the clean water. It should perk up in a few hours.
Why are peonies expensive?
They are long lasting and have a fantastic shelf life within the chain from grower to end user. On top of that, they ship well. Finally, demand is always high, especially around Mother’s Day. Any one of these factors would make the price high, but peonies cover all the bases.
Should I cut peonies after blooming?
Only remove the spent blooms, and don’t cut away any foliage (the plant will need those leaves to help build up flowers for next year). For herbaceous peonies, you can cut the whole plant to the ground after a fall frost has killed off the foliage. Then, in the spring new growth will appear from the roots.
How do I get more blooms on my peonies?
Try feeding your peonies with a liquid fertilizer in the spring to increase the chances of flower production. Peonies also need some cold weather to make blooms. If you live in a warm climate, you may notice that your peonies produce flower buds that never open.
What is the longest blooming perennial?
Top 10 Long Blooming Perennials
- 1.) ‘ Moonbeam’ Tickseed. (Coreopsis verticillata)
- 2.) Rozanne® Cranesbill. (Geranium)
- 3.) Russian Sage. (Perovskia atriplicifolia)
- 4.) ‘ Walker’s Low’ Catmint. (Nepeta x faassenii)
- 5.) Coneflowers.
- 6.) ‘ Goldsturm’ Black-Eyed Susan.
- 7.) ‘ Autumn Joy’ Stonecrop.
- 8.) ‘ Happy Returns’ Daylily.
Why do my peonies smell bad?
Their perfume changes throughout the day and can depend on humidity, temperature or even the age of the flower. As the volatile essential oil evaporates, so does the peony fragrance. William Cullina, in his book “Understanding Perennials,” blames this elusive smell on “just our Pavlovian response” to ethylene. | <urn:uuid:d1859d5c-716e-4058-b671-d897a400e14c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://flowersbylynne.com/interesting-about-bouquets/faq-how-long-do-peonies-last-in-a-bouquet.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.918796 | 1,166 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Policies on mercury exist in the EU since the 70’s. The relevant pieces of legislation that are relevant can be found in a compilation made by BIOS consulting services in 2012 as part of a study for the EC – Annex 2.
Beyond that, the EU developed a specific strategy on mercury in 2005 which was revised in 2010 –see history and all relevant work below. Implementation of the actions included in the EU mercury strategy has been taking place since 2005 and led to the adoption of a regulation on an EU mercury export and storage, directives on measuring devices, revisions related to mercury in lamps etc.
Most recently the EU adopted the Regulation (EU) 2017/852 which covers the full life cycle of mercury. It complements a large body of existing EU environmental law on mercury vis a vis the requirements of the Minamata Convention, by inter alia:
- Prohibiting the export of mercury and mercury compounds;
- Prohibiting the manufacture, export and import of a large range of mercury-added products;
- Putting an end to all uses of mercury catalysts and large electrodes in industrial processes;
- Reducing the use of and pollution from dental amalgam, which is the last large use of mercury in the EU, and setting out a process to assess the feasibility of a complete phase out of the use of mercury in dentistry;
- Closing the door to future new uses of mercury in industry and in products;
- Ensuring that all mercury waste is safely taken out of the economic sphere, stabilised in a less toxic form and stored permanently in environmentally sound conditions.
The EEB and other EU NGOs on behalf of ZMWG have followed and contributed actively to these pieces of legislation.
Key earlier milestone legislation on mercury in the EU includes:
EU Strategy on Mercury (2005)(2010)
Responding to a 2002 request from the Council of Ministers, the European Commission prepared a draft Community Mercury Strategy that, if adopted and implemented, would lead to substantial reductions in worldwide mercury pollution and exposure.
NGOs followed closely all relevant policy developments and contributed with letters, press releases and by organizing events.
The EU Strategy on Mercury was presented by the Commission on 31 January 2005 and contained 20 actions.
The EEB organised an International conference “Towards a Mercury Free World” took place on the 22 April 2005, in Madrid. Discussions covered many aspects discussed in the EU Mercury strategy.
On 24 June 2005, the Environment Council drew conclusions concerning the EU strategy. The Council stressed the importance for an EU mercury export ban by 2011 and further underlined the importance of the actions proposed to be taken by the Commission. At the same time proposed a few additional issues, that should be addressed in view of reducing the releases and uses or mercury in the environment, such as mercury use in vaccines and gold mining, consider the social problems arising from the closure of mercury mines – rehabilitation of contaminated sites and community assistance and further tackling of emissions from fuel combustion.
The EU Strategy on Mercury was further discussed at the European Parliament. The final text of the European Parliament’s resolution on the EU Mercury Strategy was adopted on 14 March 2006.
The actions from the EU mercury strategy started being implemented with EC proposals on relevant legislation, e.g. in Feb 2006, a proposal for the restriction of mercury in certain non-electrical and electronic equipment such as thermometers, and the proposal for an EU mercury export ban and storage
The Revised EU Mercury strategy was adopted on 7 December 2010. Input from the EEB/NGOs was provided all along.
EU Regulation on Mercury Export Ban and Storage
As in put to the proposed EU mercury export ban and storage regulation, on June 19th, 2006 the EEB organised a conference “EU Mercury surplus management and mercury-use restrictions in measuring and control equipment”, at the Goethe Institute, Brussels. The first part was dedicated to the storage options for mercury (part of the EC proposed regulation) and the second part to the debate on measuring devices containing mercury. The conference was attended by around 60 persons mainly representing different EU governments, as well as industry and environmental and health NGOs. The conference report is available here.
The EU Regulation 1102/2008 on Banning of exports of metallic mercury and certain mercury compounds and mixtures and the safe storage of metallic mercury was published on the Official Journal of the EC on the 22 October 2008.
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A designated driver might be a good idea at any time — or at least when it comes to super-expensive planes — because a Tesla on autopilot crashed into a $3 million jet.
It’s unclear at which airport it all crashed, but you can see the electric car taxiing slowly towards the Cirrus Vision Jet before hitting the rear tail and continuing to move…spinning the plane almost completely.
Of course, this isn’t the first time a Tesla on autopilot has crashed, but thankfully this time there don’t appear to be any serious injuries.
As we previously reported, a Tesla accident ended up leaving 2 people dead in Texas – cops said it was likely the result of the car’s autopilot feature.
In a strange coincidence, Tesla founder, Elon Muskcame out and said a Tesla with Autopilot was nearly 10 times less likely to crash than the average car…just hours before the TX crash.
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Arizona ash Oleaceae Fraxinus
Leaf: Opposite, pinnately compound, 5 to 9 inches long, typically 5 leaflets (occasionally more or less), leaflets are elliptical to ovate, margins entire (maybe wavy toothed), shiny green above and paler and pubescent below (maybe smooth).
Flower: Species is dioecious; small and inconspicuous male flowers are a pale yellowish-green, females light green, both are borne in dense clusters before the leaves appear.
Fruit: Single wing, straight samara, 1 to 1 1/2 inches long, plump seed, large hanging clusters mature in late summer.
Twig: Stout, hairy when young, gray to brown with age, leaf scars fairly large.
Bark: Smooth and gray when young, develops shallow fissures and scaly ridges in an irregular diamond pattern, gray-brown.
Form: Reaches heights up to 35 feet, with a round crown.
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Date of Award
Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Engineering - (Ph.D.)
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Taha F. Marhaba
Kamalesh K. Sirkar
Micropollution in natural waters such as rivers and groundwater aquifers is a widespread problem that prevents these potentially potable sources from being used as drinking water. In the United States, approximately two-thirds of the over 1,200 most serious hazardous waste sites in the nation are contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE), a potentially carcinogenic compound. Other emerging and environmentally persistent organic micropollutants include polyromantic hydrocarbons (PAHs), organophosphate flame retardants, endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), pesticides, herbicides, pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs). Membrane filtration is one of the most efficient separation processes widely used for water treatment and pollutant removal. However, traditional membrane separations suffer from membrane fouling due to either the formation of a cake layer of biomass or more commonly due to organic matter adsorption onto the membrane surface. Moreover, some trace level organic micropollutants are not effectively removed particularly in microfiltration processes, where pore sizes are not small enough to capture small molecular weight organics. This study demonstrated an innovative and multifunctional reactive electrochemical membrane (REM) that acts as both a filter and a reactive anode. REM filtration has significant mitigation of membrane surface and efficient degradation of water contaminant fouling through electrochemical oxidation powered by anodic polarization under a DC current. This research demonstrate: (1) the use of the Ti4O7 REM to separate and oxidize potentially pathogenic microorganisms (e.g., algal cells and bacteria) in aqueous suspension with evidence of cell damage and removal; (2) Evaluation of the performance of REMs for the removal of antibiotic compound (sulfamethoxazole) and 1,4-dioxane; (3) fouling mitigation and development of antifouling strategies via DC current applications and anode/cathode switch; (4) Radical formation mechanisms under DC currents in the REM filtration system. Overall, this project aims to demonstrate next generation reactive membrane filtration systems with high pollutant rejection or removal efficiencies toward water contaminants on electrochemical oxidation reactions on REM surfaces.
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Parkdale has an active crime prevention program called Operation Restoration. Based on the success of this program, which originated in Parkdale in cooperation with Police and City leadership, other neighborhoods are now adopting this model.
Regular meetings are jointly held with the Dallas Police Department (DPD) where issues relating to crime or suspected crime are reported and discussed. Each item is followed-up by officers dedicated to serve the issues opened through this process.
Residents observe and take note of activities within their neighborhood
Residents report concerns they've noted to the DPD
These regular meetings create an active network of neighbors working in full partnership with dedicated Police officers to resolve the known problem areas.
DPD works each issue noted over the course of the next 4 weeks
DPD reports on status during the next meeting
How to Participate
Parkdale's crime prevention program derives its success almost entirely from neighbors who are reporting actionable intelligence to the DPD. To participate in this program, neighbors provide written intelligence reports to the officers at the Operation Restoration meetings. The same information can also be submitted online at: | <urn:uuid:734ec9de-c8c7-498f-8b2e-2958c61a2e34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vchea75.wixsite.com/parkdale/safety | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.967456 | 237 | 1.75 | 2 |
Bride Price, sometimes referred to as bridal value, is the sum the bride price payable by the groups of the wedding couple at the time of the bride’s relationship to one another. Bride price is usually paid by the groom’s family towards the bride’s family members upon the acceptance of the latter within their fold. The payment is made up of cash, gifts, or maybe a combination of both the.
In traditional Thailand, new bride price repayment is made in addition to various other bridal habit payments made by the groups of the star of the event and groom. It is not necessarily uncommon for the purpose of the wedding couple themselves to make the bride value payment. It is also practiced thoroughly in Cina, Thailand, and Papua New Guinea when the star of the event price payment is made at once. This practice is considered to be in keeping with traditional Oriental culture.
There are several reasons for the bridal and bride price tag payment being made between the groups of the groom and bride. One motive is that this is certainly part of the initiation of a new position which is designed to last for a long time. Another reason is that in non-urban areas, the bride’s family will not have acceptable financial resources to assist the marriage, specifically if the young girl is not really a huge recent new bride. Another reason is that the young woman is actually a stranger to them and so poses a threat for their social status and family unit honor. A few old women and men will offer the bride value payment in substitution for some friends and family favor just like sheltering these people while that they marry the modern bride.
If the bride cost payment pop over to this web-site is made in full, it represents the conclusion of a preparatory period before the wedding ceremony. This period is supposed to allow the bride and groom to get acquainted and web form a attachment based on trust and trust. Additionally, it allows those to decide if to proceed with the matrimony. If the bride’s family does not accept the number of the star of the wedding price, they could refuse to permit the marriage to proceed.
The tradition of paying the new woman who’s going to escort the groom on his wedding day began as far back as the Song dynasty. This kind of practice have certainly not originate with China, but has flourished in other areas of the world which include India. In this system, the bride’s family would probably deposit your money for her dowry into a secure, waiting to verify if the bride price can be settled. If the bride cost is not settled, it would be provided to the category of the young woman. In case the bride price are settled, then this groom’s relatives would gain the woman price for the bride’s family group.
Today, a few cultures even now pay the bride’s category of the groom for the bride. This can be done because the bride represents the bride’s family or belongs to all their family, even though the groom belongs to the groom’s family. Once this is the case, the bride and groom will present the other person with the traditional gift of two strings of pearls, comprising that they have come to an agreement concerning who will be the bride-to-be and who will be the groom. Today, the groom and bride exchange pearl jewelry during their rehearsal dinner, marriage ceremony breakfast, or perhaps bridal shower. | <urn:uuid:babd080a-900c-40d7-b431-13a64beb31f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sonlestore.com/2021/04/04/precisely-what-is-the-woman-price/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.964683 | 703 | 1.84375 | 2 |
It might surprise you to learn that I was a rather talkative and, frankly, arrogant child.
Hang on while I jerk my tongue from my cheek…
In fact, I coined the term “thunder puppy” to define that sense of “I’ve gotta fix the world” attitude that kids like me get.
Dad saw it in me at a young age. I had two fatal flaws back then. I suspect they’re still strong, but I have learned how to temper them a bit over the years. Dad made sure of that! In fact, if he hadn’t, I can’t imagine the insufferable mess I would have become. He knew that. So, he taught me with just two “simple” rules.
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What are those 2 simple but effective rules that changed my life?
- It’s okay to let other people be wrong.
- Be the better person.
By the first, Dad didn’t mean that I would always be right, so I might as well get used to everyone else being too stupid to recognize that. In fact, I believe it was the opposite. I say that because I recall the first time he told me that.
We lived in Ventura—1982. I’m pretty sure I was debating with someone whether the “Lord’s Supper” was a super special potluck or just crackers and juice. I lobbied for the former. The other party, who was either my mother or my uncle, debated on the latter’s side. We all know who was right.
Now I wasn’t trying to be disrespectful–and they didn’t think I was.
I point this out not to make me sound better than I was but because I wouldn’t want anyone to think my parents would let me get away with it. They’d be horrified at that thought! So, I clarify only to protect their reputations as conscientious parents.
Anyway, Dad eventually took me for a walk down the long drive behind our condos to the next street. Those walks usually meant I needed to learn another life lesson—usually in humility. This time, Dad said,
“Chautona, you need to learn to let other people be wrong. It’s okay for them to be wrong.”
I was horrified. Heresy! Truth must prevail! Truth!
But Dad said,
“Everyone thinks they’re right about what they think—it’s why they think it.”
And he’s right, you know.
Look, it’s hard to live by that.
It’s hard to hear people say things I believe to be wrong and not try to change their opinions—even in my characters. Actually, my characters do things, say things, and believe things I don’t.
I believe things I’ve never put into my books. Why? Because I haven’t found the story that needs it yet.
But learning that little tidbit—that nugget of truth—life-changing. What was it again?
When someone disagrees with you, and you cannot come to a mutual understanding, it is perfectly okay to step back and let that person ‘be wrong’ in your eyes. It’s okay!
That kind of fits with II Timothy 2:14-15
Remind them of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.
Dad’s other nugget also had a more “humble” connotation than it first appears to.
“Be the better person.”
You know, I think he only put it that way once. I think he usually said,
“Do the right thing regardless of what someone else does.”
But I suspect he was in a hurry and a bit exasperated with me and my notions of injustice.
But because he said it that way that time, it stuck. I finally “got it.” Basically, he meant, “yield” where you can. Let it go. It won’t kill you to allow yourself to be wronged rather than retaliate.
You know, “do the right thing regardless of what the other person did.”
Or, as Paul put it in I Corinthians 13— love one another, and to show that love, don’t tally up someone else’s offenses against you. Just turn the other cheek Jesus spoke of.
Yeah, I mixed a bunch of Scriptures together there, but they all fit into one puzzle that shows the picture Dad tried to paint. Forbearance.
The Bible is full of beautiful words to live by. I could name a million of ‘em. But Dad’s paraphrases always stick with me. “Allow others to be wrong.”
“Be the better person.”
They changed my life, you know.
I was headed down a self-righteous, spiritually-bullying path as a girl. It’s strange to think that Dad used “be the better person” to try to help me strip some of that self-righteousness away, but maybe he needed to word it in a way that would sound awful to me to get me to see what he meant. The arrogance of “be the better person” rankled.
But it also drove home the real point that it didn’t matter what others did. What mattered was that I did the right thing regardless—even if no one but me knew it. Do you see how much I extrapolated from one little impatient phrase? It’s because all those other times he’d tried to teach me the principle of doing right for right’s sake finally came together in that one statement.
It’s genius because he made me “get it.”
And allowing “others to be wrong” helped me learn how to agree to disagree. Dad never meant that I couldn’t speak truth. That idea would be ludicrous to anyone who knows him. His point was that it isn’t my responsibility to ensure that the rest of the world correct their erroneous ideas to my understanding of truth.
Because you see, I’d have become that person—the one everyone avoids because you can’t have a discussion without him or her badgering you until you cry, “uncle.” I was well on my way as it was. I’m so glad he stopped me. (Yeah, I was right when I decided that the character I’m most like is Dean from Corner Booth.)
They may be simplistic little rules, and they probably sound a little backward, but those were some of my first lessons in adult tact, grace, and social skills.
And am I the only one seeing a theme here in these posts about lessons I’ve learned about myself? I think James, when he said, “the tongue can no man tame…” Yeah. He was talking about me, wasn’t he? | <urn:uuid:e018b3f7-e469-4254-a9b4-20ef05417941> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chautona.com/2-simple-rules-changed-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.973589 | 1,590 | 1.65625 | 2 |
What is Conjunctivitis?
Conjunctivitis is more commonly known as Pink Eye. Pink Eye causes a great deal of redness and itching in the eye, sometimes accompanied by drainage and a burning sensation. The three types of Pink Eye are Allergic Conjunctivitis, Bacterial Conjunctivitis, and Viral Conjunctivitis.
Allergic Conjunctivitis typically occurs in the Spring and Fall when allergens such as pollen, ragweed, and grasses are most productive. If you suffer from Allergic Conjunctivitis, it is helpful to filter as many allergens from the home as possible and take an over the counter antihistamine.
Bacterial conjunctivitis is relatively easy to treat with antibiotics, usually in the form of an eye drop. When taken as prescribed the symptoms of Pink Eye should subside in just a few days.
Viral Conjunctivitis is more difficult to treat, but there are medications that can be given to ease the discomfort of the symptoms.
If you develop symptoms such as redness with itching, burning, or drainage you should make an appointment to see an Eye Care Professional right away. To schedule an appointment with one of the Eye Care Professionals at Eye Center South in our Dothan, Albany, Andalusia, Panama City, or Destin locations please call 1-800-467-1617. | <urn:uuid:c7c66f0d-34f4-4ab6-a91d-2c59f62a8455> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eyecentersouth.net/blog/2021/01/22/what-is-conjunctivitis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.947985 | 287 | 3.640625 | 4 |
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The hardware used in the CTRIO2 Motion Videos looks like this. Starting down here at the PLC, we have a 4 slot 205 base with the Do-more Processor, an input simulator and the new CTRIO2 module. The Servo Motor is driven by a SureStep Motor Driver through this extension cable. Power for the stepper motor is supplied by this SureStep power supply. The Stepper Motor is connected to a threaded screw which moves a carriage mounted on a rail. The NPN proximity sensor detects when the carriage passes and feeds its output back into the CTRIO2 module where we can use it as a limit. I like this little sensor because it has an LED in it that lights up when it detects something. That makes debug a snap. The Encoder is also fed back to the CTRIO module so we can use it to validate positioning. There is 24Vdc supply powering the encoder and proximity sensor which is not shown here. The great thing about this is I didn’t need any other modules in my PLC system. The CTRIO2 handles everything I need. The Ctrio2 even comes with jumpers that you can install on an internal header to tie all the commons together - that really helps clean up the external wiring and makes your life a whole lot easier. For these videos we have tied all of the input commons together and we have tied all of the output Y’s together (we’re using the C’s as the output signals). The best part of this is you can swap out the CTRIO2 module anytime you want because ALL of the configuration information is stored on the Do-more Processor. You don’t have to worry about re-configuring the module when you replace it. Just shove the new one in and turn the PLC on. The Do-more Processor takes care of the rest. Please understand that this hardware was setup just for demo purposes. It is not supported or sold by Automation Direct so please don’t call Tech asking about it and don’t call sales to try and buy one. Also, note that there are no over-travel limits here so please don’t think of this as a complete hardware setup. It is just intended to quickly demonstrate how to use the CTRIO2 functions and the Do-more processor. And, of course, whenever you are doing motion, always start moving things slow, until you can make sure they work and then speed them up when you feel confident when things work the way you expect. We’ll, That’s all there is to the hardware setup we are using. All of the part numbers shown can be purchased at AutomationDirect.com - you’ll really like the prices there AND the free shipping for all orders over $49? We’ll … that just can’t be beat! Be sure to check out the other videos in this series for more on using motion. And as always, please send us any comments you may have, we appreciate the feedback. Spend Less. Do-more. From AutomationDirect. | <urn:uuid:4edb0e89-92d9-4ec8-a876-5e8a7bef6438> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.automationdirect.com/videos/video?videoToPlay=7ij-7oGdozw | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.890807 | 804 | 1.898438 | 2 |
A DEADLY string of severe storms hit the US this week, killing three people as the dangerous weather worked its way across the South.
Dozens of tornadoes touched down in several states during the second day of severe weather on Tuesday, with video capturing the moment a tornado reportedly blasted through Mississippi.
The video from the Mississippi Department of Transportation shows what appears to be a tornado making its way through Newton, Mississippi.
The footage shows strong winds and heavy rain ripping through a parking lot in the town.
According to the National Weather Service, four EF-1 tornadoes touched down in the Newton area on Tuesday.
Tornadoes and severe storms also wreaked havoc in Louisiana and Georgia on Tuesday, after ripping through Texas and Oklahoma on Monday.
There were also reports of damage as far north as Kentucky and as far south as Palm Beach County, Florida.
The first death came on Monday when a man was killed in the East Texas town of Whitehouse.
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Whitehouse Mayor James Wansley identified the man as 71-year-old W. M. Soloman, who was killed by a tree that fell on his house.
"We lost a neighbor, we lost a friend, we lost a citizen of Whitehouse and we’re in mourning over that loss," Wansley said during a press conference, according to the Tyler Morning Telegraph.
Two more deaths came on Tuesday.
In Louisiana, 65-year-old Gene Latin was killed by a tree that was knocked over onto a highway.
And in Georgia, a woman died inside her mobile home as it was ravaged by the storms.
In the wake of the devastating weather, Georgia declared a state of emergency on Wednesday morning.
Storm cleanup efforts in parts of the state, however, were put on hold Wednesday afternoon as officials there braced for more storms, The Weather Channel reported.
Parts of eastern North Carolina, Virginia, and central Florida are expected to get hit with storms on Thursday, according to USA Today.
The severe weather system is forecasted to wrap up by Friday.
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New social science texts for Cd’A classes
Concerns about critical race theory, global citizenship and outdated content were raised in public comments at Monday’s meeting of the Coeur d’Alene school board.
Trustees voted unanimously to adopt new high school social studies curriculum resources as well as a new and updated curriculum for middle school family and consumer sciences, middle school computer coding, technology/engineering shop in high school, medical terminology in high school, and computer programming and software in high school. development.
Administrators decided not to include any additional social studies materials in the adoption after several people raised the alarm about the contents of some workbooks and field journals.
Administrator Heather Tenbrink said all but one of her children attend high schools in the district.
“I feel like my children have had a solid education in the social sciences,” she said. “When there are controversial topics, my children rarely or never feel like the teacher is telling them what to believe about the controversial topic. They approach it and offer different points of view, and when my kids have to write an essay, they write an essay with what they agree with there… And that’s good for them, that’s how they develop their critical thinking.
Nearly 50 community members have reviewed the educational resources in the past 30 days. The majority of reviews were positive. Some said they favored the adoption, but also offered mixed or negative reviews.
“CRT. I can almost feel the eyes of some people in the room every time these three letters are mentioned in public comments,” said meeting attendee Meagan Slawson as she stepped up to the microphone. “Despite the repeated denial of any critical race theory that is part of the current curriculum and teaching in the Cd’A School District, there is still concern within the community.”
Slawson called out the district for failing to provide a definition of critical race theory.
“If you haven’t defined it, how do you know what to look for in the program?” Slawson asked. “Did the committee that chose the new social studies curriculum receive a definition, or even a guideline of what to look for regarding the CRT when searching for textbooks, workbooks, educational guides and reference materials?
Critical race theory is generally defined as an academic framework dating from the 1970s that focuses on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions and that these institutions maintain white dominance. The theory is a way of analyzing American history through the prism of racism. It has become a catch-all political buzzword for all teaching in schools about race and American history, and how schools approach diversity and inclusion.
Anne Seddon raised concerns about an economics book with outdated content.
“These are 7-12 year charts and will not give students perspective on economic conditions in more modern times,” she said. “I think the purchase of an economics book should be delayed until one is found that is more relevant to the real lives of these students.”
She also objected to the concept of students being “global citizens” in a sixth-grade supplemental workbook.
“I think the board should establish a policy that the goal of history education is to provide students with an understanding of the historical events, cultures and countries of the world,” Seddon said. “It should not teach students that there is ‘global citizenship’. There is only national citizenship. Empathy and identification with the lives and conditions of others is an appropriate topic with the understanding that there are no citizens of the world.
Grant MacLean of Dalton Gardens said he doesn’t always agree with district policy decisions, but is grateful for the quality of public education in Kootenai County.
He said he wanted to refute the claim that studying true history makes students feel uneasy and depressed.
“Unfortunately, there has not only been abusive and dehumanizing behavior by many of our leaders and citizens throughout history towards Africans, Asians and Native Americans to name a few, but there There has also been a large-scale denial and refusal to take responsibility for this behavior,” MacLean said.
He said some people are quick to point out that their own ancestors did not arrive from Europe until slavery was abolished, the Path of Tears had already been walked and the internment camps have been emptied.
“These people would do well to reflect on the economic and other benefits they all enjoy as a result of the oppression of those who had a different skin color and what it would take to correct the imbalance that persists today” , he added. said. “Winston Churchill was right when he said, ‘Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.'”
MacLean said America has done a lot the country can be proud of.
“There have also been shameful episodes that demand recognition if we are to heal from the divisions these episodes have caused,” he said. “Our teachers are knowledgeable and dedicated and able to teach all of our children the full history of our nation in a way that will not demean but help our children to understand and challenge the discrimination that has been repeated for far too long. .”
Program director Katie Graupman, who presented the review’s findings to the council, said the district does not have permission to post all of the content online. However, parents are encouraged to use their child’s login information and password to view all digital information their child has access to.
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The Magic of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration
January 8, 2019
By Daria Musiienko – World Vision Australia
The name of Tony Rinaudo is often mentioned in different parts of Somaliland, including in one of the communities in Odweyne district – although though Tony hasn’t visited it. He introduced the concept of FMNR in another part of Somaliland almost three years ago and it has now spread across the country and already transformed the lives of dozens of local communities. The farmers still marvel how it was once impossible to believe that this idea could work.
The Berato village FMNR Champion members speak with passion about how the project (funded by Australian NGO Cooperation Program/ANCP) started. One of the members – Amina – is remembering the moment when she first felt convinced that FMNR is real and works. After the FMNR site was prepared and it finally rained for the first time, she noticed hardly any difference on the land at her own house. However, she could not believe her eyes when she came to the FMNR site and saw the difference – while the land at her house was dry soon after the rain, the soil at the FMNR site kept the moisture and one could still see water in the ‘half-moons’. Soon after the regeneration started, which cleared all the doubts, and the knowledge started spreading further across the community.
Since the community in Berato started practising FMNR, they have had increased grass for livestock, increased arability for domestic firewood, and their food security has improved.
At the same time, in Ceelbilcinle (another village not far from Berato) – a new FMNR site is being prepared under the ANCP funded project. Work has started only two months ago, but the first signs of regeneration are already visible. As women work on preparing the land through the cash for work program, they proudly speak about positive impact on their lives. For many women this was a rare opportunity to gain income, especially after years of harsh drought. But mostly they are excited about the benefits for community when the regeneration starts. These women have visited the other site and can’t wait until they can proudly demonstrate the same results in their own village.
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The shocking news is that 80 % of United States citizens have actually experienced acute adrenal failure a minimum of once in their life times. Most of these individuals do not even understand exactly what has actually happened to them and believe that they have suffered from depression or a nervous breakdown. The pandemic proportions of this disorder are triggered by today’s modern lifestyle and it is only by changing their daily habits that individuals will be able to cure it.
Some individuals survive on an extremely tight schedule or suffer from financial stress or from overwork. Some people suffer for many years from relationship tension before they find the courage to alter things. Lots of people try to do every little thing themselves, without asking for assistance from anybody, and at some point they realize that they are not coping.
Once a person has started suffering from adrenal fatigue they will need to steer clear from certain behavioral patterns for the rest of their lives. They could treat themselves by changing their way of living, by altering their eating habits and by taking natural supplements, but the min they go back to their old ways, the adrenal glands are going to have problems again.
One of the many awful symptoms of adrenal fatigue is that it makes you age prematurely. This happens because the shortage of hormones produced by the adrenal glands decreases the levels of the reproductive hormones that are produced by the other glands. Males and females age quite rapidly throughout menopause and andropause because their sex hormones decrease rapidly. The same happens during adrenal fatigue. High levels of tension prevent the levels of DHEA, dehydroepiandrosterone, which is a precursor of oestrogen, testosterone and progesterone. Men can take the DHEA directly as a supplement whereas clinical researches reveal that ladies get better outcomes by taking progesterone and pregnenolone.
Another hormone which can be prescribed to adrenal fatigue sufferers by practitioners in alternative medicine, is a steroid called hydrocortisone. Many people are really cautious of taking steroids. This is reasonable because steroids have got a horrible reputation. It is to be considered though that many of the side-effects that have actually been caused by steroids are due to improper use. They could be utilized in total safety if steroids are made use of in very tiny doses such as those recommended for adrenal fatigue.
When undergoing therapy for adrenal fatigue, it is best to stay clear of stimulants such as caffeine. Bear in mind that tea includes caffeine as well and so it is better to avoid it too. Green tea includes lots of micro-nutrients that are healthy and contains less caffeine than normal tea, however all the same, it should be used in small amounts. You could drink natural infusions like chamomile, Mate and Rooibos. Nowadays there are all sorts of fantastic tasting infusions to replace coffee with. Avoid “decaffeinated” coffee too, as it also caffeine, even if in small quantities. You could safely drink roasted barley “coffee” or chicory “coffee”. If you add milk and sugar to these blends, you will discover that they are just as pleasing as coffee.
Recovering from adrenal fatigue can be a rather time consuming process, but if you stay focused, you will be successful. Simply put yourself in the mindset that your change in lifestyle will need to be permanent to avoid a relapse.
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The Consulate General has also assisted some Malaysian students who were returning to Malaysia for their semester break due to the unexpected disruption of the public transportation system on 17 November 2019. The Consulate General of Malaysia has also and has been actively sharing relevant information and travel advice with Malaysians in Hong Kong.
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When hiring an HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) specialist to work on your air conditioning unit or your heater, you need to make sure the person you have chosen to do the work is fully educated and HVAC certified. Each state has its own standards and procedures for education and certification. If the specialist doesn’t understand the machinery he is trying to fix, you could ultimately end up replacing a very expensive unit. Your insurance company may even require you to verify the certification of the HVAC specialist for repairs on either your commercial building or your personal residence.
Ask to the see the contractor’s HVAC certificate and write down the certification number listed. Make sure the certificate is for your specific state.
Contact your state’s department of licensing and registration via email or phone. Most states have specific email addresses you can use to contact each licensing branch. All contact information will be listed on the state’s licensing website (see Resources).
Give the department representative the certification number you wrote down and he will verify that the certification number exists and matches the name of your contractor. You can also ask more in-depth questions about the technician's education and training. The education portion typically takes between six months and two years to complete in an accredited training center. After graduation, a two-year apprenticeship is required for full certification.
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Reducing wrinkles or preventing their formation - that is what many women want. While men look experienced and quite interesting with such "traces of life" and grey hair, some ladies are not comfortable with it. We reveal five effective tips on how to reduce your wrinkles naturally.
Wrinkles are part of growing old and are rightly called traces of life. Nevertheless, many of us want to reduce and get rid of these unwelcome signs of age. Expensive preparations are often used in the fight against ageing: Botox and hyaluron treatments as well as anti-wrinkle creams and lotions. In addition, some actresses swear by so-called beauty drinks that are supposed to regenerate the entire organism from the inside out.
Yet very simple and much cheaper methods can effectively reduce wrinkles. Before we present these, we ask ourselves how wrinkles actually develop.
Why do wrinkles appear?
However, only 20 to 30 per cent of wrinkle formation depends on our genes, a long-term study by the University of Southern Denmark found in 2018. The researchers observed 11,500 adults from the Copenhagen area over a long period of time. Appendix of the data collected, they concluded that only 20 to 30 per cent of our wrinkles depend on our genes. The large remainder is caused by environmental influences and our lifestyle. "Ageing never affects just one organ, it is always the whole organism that ages. External changes are therefore related to the entire ageing process and can be an indication of the state of our body," says Martin Denzel from the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing in
Lediglich 20 bis 30 Prozent der Faltenbildung hängt jedoch von unseren Genen ab, fand 2018 eine Langzeitstudie der Universität der Süd-Dänemark heraus. Die Forscher haben 11.500 Erwachsene aus dem Großraum Kopenhagen über einen langen Zeitraum beobachtet. Anhang der erhobenen Daten kamen sie zum Schluss, dass nur 20 bis 30 Prozent unserer Falten von unseren Genen abhängen. Der große Rest wird durch Umwelteinflüsse und unsere Lebensweise bedingt. „Altern betrifft nie nur ein Organ, es altert immer der gesamte Organismus. Äußerliche Veränderungen hängen also mit dem gesamten Alterungsprozess zusammen und können ein Indiz für den Zustand unseres Körpers sein“, sagt Martin Denzel vom Max Planck-Institut für die Biologie des Alters in an interview with FOCUS.
But what exactly are these factors that influence 60 to 70 percent of our wrinkle formation and what can be done about them to prevent the formation of wrinkles, to soften them and to reduce those already present? We present five effective tips here.
Antioxidants prevent the formation of wrinkles
As we all know, true beauty comes from within. For this reason, you should pay very close attention to which foods end up on your plate. Above all, eat antioxidants. They prevent so-called free radicals from penetrating our skin more easily. As the skin becomes thinner with advancing age, they can penetrate the skin barrier almost undisturbed.
Antioxidants include carotene, zinc, selenium, vitamins C and E, sulphur. Dark berries, such as blueberries and blackberries, are particularly rich in antioxidants. These are real anti-aging miracles that can also think the daily requirement of vitamin C. Berries also taste great in breakfast yoghurt!
Speaking of yoghurt. Our skin contains a lot of collagen, which is made up of protein building blocks. Sour milk products, such as yoghurt or buttermilk, contain a lot of proteins. This makes these foods a real anti-wrinkle killer. Green vegetables, such as spinach or broccoli, also provide a radiant fresh look. So include sour milk and green vegetables in your ration!
When buying a cream, make sure it contains important antioxidants. These include vitamins C (is responsible for building collagen) and E (protects the cells) as well as the coenzyme Q10. It supports our cells and also acts as an antioxidant. Its effect against wrinkles has been proven in many studies.
Water for inside and outside
The skin is our largest organ and consists of 65 percent water. It is therefore no surprise that we should make sure we drink enough fluids! Make sure you drink water and unsweetened tea.
Besides drinking, you can care for your skin with good cosmetics that bind moisture. The magic words here are: hyaluronic acid and squalane. Hyaluronic acid is a moisturiser. A distinction is made between high-molecular and low-molecular hyaluronic acid. The smaller the molecules, the deeper they penetrate the skin and can thus supply the deeper skin layers with moisture.
Squalane, on the other hand, is a natural oil that protects our skin barrier and prevents moisture loss from the skin. In this article you will learn more about the natural oil squalane.
Sleep a lot and smoke less
Have you heard these tips too often? Despite their simplicity, they can work wonders. The Egyptian queen Cleopatra did not praise beauty sleep for nothing. Our skin can recover best at night. It is not exposed to environmental influences and the facial muscles are usually relaxed. In addition, our body secretes growth hormones that initiate cell regeneration. If this process is disturbed or shortened, the skin will look sallow and wrinkled the next day. Therefore, try to sleep between seven and eight hours a day. Your skin will look refreshed and fresh.
Besides sleep, there is another simple tip to reduce and prevent wrinkles naturally: stop smoking. Nicotine ages the skin earlier. Wrinkles appear much earlier than in non-smokers and the whole face looks quite sallow.
Facial gymnastics against wrinkles
Facial gymnastics or also called facial yoga enjoys great popularity. It has finally been recognised that regular exercise is not only good for our bodies, but can also get the face into shape. Whether you can "iron out" your wrinkles with it, however, has not been scientifically proven. But one thing is clear: as with sport, you should exercise your facial muscles regularly. The best time to do this is in the morning when you get up or in the evening before you go to bed.
Facial yoga improves your blood circulation, which leads to a good supply of nutrients. In addition, more oxygen reaches the skin cells, accelerating the natural regeneration process. Read here how sport affects your skin appearance.
5. Wrinkles adé thanks to acetyl hexapeptide
Since this article is about reducing wrinkles in a natural way and preventing their formation, we will not present invasive wrinkle treatment methods such as Botox or hyaluronic acid injections. It is much easier and absolutely painless to reduce wrinkles with the active ingredient acetyl hexapeptide. This is applied to the skin in the form of a serum or gel (not injected!) and patted in with the fingertips.
The active ingredient inhibits acetylcholine, which means that the facial muscles contract less and the skin is not strained. If it remains relaxed, hardly any wrinkles appear. In contrast to the neurotoxin botolinum, acetyl hexapeptide does not paralyse the muscles, it only relaxes them. The expression lines are smoothed in this way and the formation of deep wrinkles is prevented. Your radiance is natural and radiant.
The effect of acetyl hexapeptide on wrinkle reduction has already been proven in clinical studies. For example, the research team led by Dr. Antonio Ferrer-Montiel at the Universidad Miguel Hernández in Spain examined the effect of creams and serums containing acetyl hexapeptide. The results of the study showed that the depth of wrinkles could be reduced by up to 30 percent with a 30-day application.
Acetyl hexapeptide is therefore a good, cheap and needle-free alternative to Botox.
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‘The time has come for investors to raise the bar on respect for human rights’
In 2020 we find ourselves facing a culmination of global crises: the climate emergency, growing economic inequality and the coronavirus pandemic. As we work to build back better, a growing chorus of voices is now calling not simply for a regeneration of the status quo, but for a new more people-centric economic and societal model, fit for the 21st century.
Key to this is respect for human rights, the promotion and protection of which is already enshrined in international law.
Just as for all businesses, institutional investors have a responsibility to respect human rights. Yet, despite this expectation being formalised by the United Nations (UN) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nearly ten years ago, there is still a significant implementation gap.
At the Principles for Responsible Investment, a UN-supported initiative with more than 3,000 global investors representing over $100 trillion in assets, we believe the time has come for institutional investors to raise the bar on respect for human rights.
COVID-19 put social issues on the agenda
In the past, social issues have often been treated by investors, corporates and governments alike as the black sheep of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) family, consistently passed over in favour of environmental and governance themes, which can often be more tangible and easier to measure.
However, the pandemic has brought social issues to the fore, highlighting and in many cases exacerbating them. Issues such as workers’ rights, health and safety, forced labour and employee relations, to name a few, are now firmly on the radar of global investors. These are all, at their heart, human rights issues.
Interest in social issues, or human rights issues, was already beginning to grow in the past few years and the pandemic has only served to accelerate and increase the urgency of this trend.
Responsible investment continues to evolve
In fact, this growth in recognition of social issues parallels a wider acceleration in ESG investing and both a mainstreaming and maturing of responsible investment philosophies and practices. While there is much more to be done on this agenda, for the first time investors are beginning to widen their focus and thinking on sustainability.
We’re now seeing a shift from investors thinking purely from a risk-and-return standpoint to also considering their role in driving real-world outcomes and ultimately the impact of their portfolios on the wider world; the world in which we all live and the world in which the members of their pension funds will retire. This, critically, includes consideration for human rights in line with the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs) on Business and Human Rights and to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Human rights are material
Even for those investors not yet making the leap to shaping outcomes, the materiality of many human rights concerns, even by the narrowest definition, is undeniable. The price is high for the many companies which have miscalculated human rights risks on lack of materiality grounds.
In addition, there is increasing momentum in governments championing human rights and embedding their expectations of investors in hard law and regulation. With further regulation on human rights due diligence in the pipeline, and policy-making converging around the UNGPs and OECD standards, investors must future-proof their approach to ESG issues now by implementing these frameworks.
The climate emergency, decades of widening economic inequality and the COVID-19 crisis are all drawing focus on investors’ behaviour. As a result, expectations from employees, beneficiaries, clients, governments and wider society are continuing to grow. It’s becoming increasingly clear that respect for human rights is not only a “nice to have” or the “right thing to do”, but is a material consideration, critical to investors to more effectively and proactively manage a range of complex ESG issues. | <urn:uuid:efa66f48-b94a-4b89-98a4-a35c4cac8876> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.raconteur.net/finance/investing/investors-human-rights/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.950755 | 810 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Strengthening of the Russian military presence in the Arctic threatens anti-NATO in the North Atlantic. This was stated by first Deputy assistant Secretary of state for European Affairs and Eurasian Affairs Michael Murphy, speaking at a briefing at the state Department.
Murphy believes that the creation of the Arctic-based Northern fleet unified strategic command, and the gain of his group such as air defense systems s-400, Russia “goes beyond territorial defense”. He said that Russia’s actions are part of building up strength in the North Atlantic, presenting a direct threat to US security.
assistant Secretary of state worried that in the event of a military crisis line anti-NATO so – called Faeroe-Icelandic frontier, which runs between Britain, Iceland and Greenland, will be jeopardized. According to him, it may prevent the forces of the United States and Canada to regroup in time to react to enemy action.
what Michael Murphy is so unhappy with the strengthening of Russia in the Arctic region, it is quite clear – Americans is clearly too late. They have a presence in these latitudes does not even have a single decent icebreaker. However, earlier the head of the U.S. Department of state Mike Pompeo said that the United States plans to strengthen its presence in the Arctic, but it’s all, as they say, shoot for the tails.
And that is why Michael Murphy denies Russia the right to establish on its own territory, defensive air defense system, saying that “beyond territorial defense”, that would be weird.
Why concerned Americans, our air defense systems in the Arctic and what is the Faeroe-Iceland ASW line, “MK” explained military expert in the field of aerospace defence, chief of anti-aircraft missile troops of the special-purpose Command (2007-2009) Colonel Sergey KOTYLEV.
– of Course, Americans don’t like that our air defense system appeared again in the Arctic. In the Soviet time there we were deployed Kola Union and in the New Earth there was a whole-aircraft division. Now we are back. By the way, the s-400 on the Kola Peninsula are for a long time. And on the New Earth. And Kamchatka too. So it is strange that Mr. Murphy noticed it just now.
the s-400 System today are almost along the entire coastline of the Northern sea route. Ibid deployed tor-2МДТ. They were specially developed for the North region.
Now, as the Faeroe-Icelandic abroad. Indeed, there is such anti turn. Is this a design point, the comfort that we can most effectively strike our submarine forces in the territory of a potential enemy. When crossing this threshold, the system triggers alertseniya. Equipment that is installed at a certain depth, gives the Americans a signal, on it all interested countries immediately know that our submarines have passed this milestone and went into the North Atlantic, or somewhere else.
the task of the Americans – not to let us on this milestone. Challenge our sailors to pass him unnoticed to the enemy. With the advent of us armed with low-noise submarines, the effectiveness of this line has decreased. And now, when the s-400 covering the whole of our naval groups, we increase their fighting capabilities.
we are Talking about combat operations, when the group of warships, when the warrant are destroyers, missile cruisers. Submarines, because by themselves do not work. Alone they go only when they are on duty, are patrolling in remote areas. This is the same as the fighter. He’s also fighting not one, but a couple link. That is, all the fighting we lead groups. And when this group goes to the line, it will be securely covered from the air by our air defense systems, including naval air defense systems. This is what really bothers us Department of state. | <urn:uuid:8e21df65-4efa-4ef8-be3e-cd6332f801b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kxan36news.com/the-expert-explained-what-the-russian-air-defense-in-the-arctic-so-troubled-americans | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957211 | 820 | 1.703125 | 2 |
While talking to media persons here on Saturday, Mughal alleged that flour became 25 percent dearer during the first 100 days of the government, rice 27 percent, potato 50 percent, onion 52 percent, tomatoes 100 percent, petrol 13 percent, lentils 20 percent and red chillies 30 percent.
AFP Chairman stated that poor and middle class had been grinded by the inflation; unemployment is on the rise and even medicine and food items have become so costly that people are finding it hard to make both ends meet. He went on to say that poor are forced to sell their body parts to buy food and medicines. He said both the Provincial and Federal Governments have to take steps for arresting the price spiral. However, he was of the view that situation could still be brought under control by taking immediate remedial measures.
He said that burden of debt on the country has also been increased as rise in dollar prices pushed it by Rs 400 billion more. He said there is no wisdom that the government should borrow from international financing agencies to payback Rs 800 billion’s loan by devaluing its own currency.
Mughal urged they should take steps to immediately reduce the prices of food and other essential items by 15 percent while make efforts to ensure production of 28 million tons of wheat during the coming season out of which Punjab has to contribute 22 million tons. He warned, otherwise inflation would further rise and country would be facing a famine like situation. | <urn:uuid:a970d91c-7f00-404e-9168-88225e97a6a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://agrihunt.com/agri-news/afp-criticises-performance-of-federal-provincial-governments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.981284 | 291 | 1.53125 | 2 |
According the federal weather agency, Monday and Tuesday could see temperatures above 30 C. Environment Canada said in this year’s “first heat event,: hot and humid weather is expected to surround Toronto. The agency issued a special weather statement today for Southwestern Ontario for the steamy conditions.
There will be a small dip Monday overnight to mid to upper teens and then the hot weather will be back Tuesday. On Tuesday, temperatures are supposed to reach a max of low thirties, with a minimum temperature hovering around the low twenties.
The environment agency said cooler air will arrive on Wednesday. The weather conditions can pose health risks for older adults, infants, young children and people with chronic illnesses. Residents are being advised to drink plenty of water and dress to keep cool for the weather.
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VOLUNTEERS from a canal society have received an award for their work restoring Tardebigge’s lime kilns.
Members of the Worcester Birmingham and Droitwich Canals Society were presented with the certificate at Droitwich’s St Richard’s Boat and Car Festival for their tireless work trying to bring the historic spot back to life.
The kilns, which have been formally adopted by the group from the trust, is where quicklime was made more than a hundred years ago.
Based next to the Tardebigge Lock at New Wharf on the Alcester Road, the waterways would have been used to transport the limestone away before proper roads existed.
David Wheeler, chairman of the society, said the project would cost about £100,000 and they were currently working with Worcestershire County Council as well as Avoncroft Museum to generate funding for the work.
“They are the best preserved kilns in Worcestershire and are really interesting site, so it is only right we get them restored.” he said.
“At the moment they are covered in overgrown plants and trees have even grown in them, while some of the brick work is also crumbling away.”
He added the group were currently seeking advice on how to best complete the work and were in talks with experts.
“The kilns are part of North Worcestershire’s history and we hope to restore this to the point where it can be a visitor attraction to many.” | <urn:uuid:4bdf82ec-d7c7-4268-8b39-daf69280c6f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.redditchstandard.co.uk/news/lime-kiln-work-receives-award-5018/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.979969 | 321 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Decorating a home can be stressful and expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. An easy way to manage your renovation project and make it cheaper is to replace some of the more expensive materials with cheaper ones like plastic and rubber.They provide high quality materials to enhance the beauty of your home. Here are eight ways plastic and rubber can help make your next home renovation a success!
1) Plastic: Bathtub walls, shower cubicles, countertops
Many homeowners choose to remodel the bathtub, shower enclosure or countertop to modernize their bathroom. Fortunately, many plastic products on the market today make home repairs easier than ever. When choosing bathroom accessories, keep in mind that plastic will help bring out the best elements in the design of the bathroom. Accents around an acrylic tub, for example, will add an impressive ambience to any large bathroom space. As one of the most widely used products in residential construction today, vinyl is an easy product that is easy for you to use when you need to redecorate your bathroom.
2) Plastic: Toilet
It’s easy when transforming your bathroom to find one that meets all your functional needs and complements your décor. However, beauty is only one part of a good purchase. Long-term durability is also important to consider when choosing which model to purchase. Most bathrooms use thousands of gallons of water each year, so be sure to choose a flushing system with low-flow technology that will help you save water over time. While rinsing power is important to reduce waste, there are other factors to consider. For example, what happens if you have trouble in the bathroom? Can maintenance be readily provided?
3) Plastic: Wash
All of the kitchen sinks (and bathroom sinks) are made of plastic. You’ll find dozens of different types of plastic at your local home improvement store. Some inks can be more scratch resistant than others. Some have special resistance to heat or can safely store sharp objects. It all depends on what you need, so if you are planning to renovate, be sure to visit your local DIY shop to choose an eco-friendly solution to suit your lifestyle. Note: This step is necessary. If you don’t know what kind of sink fits into your home decor when trying to match it with other appliances, it can spell disaster.
4) Rubber molding
When it comes to improving the interior of your home, lists can do more than just beautify. Lists come in different shapes, sizes and styles, but serve one primary purpose: safety. They protect the door from damage as well as the edges of the walls from sticking or breaking. With so many types of molding available today – including plastic – it can be confusing to decide which type to use. Here are some common types of moldings that are commonly used to decorate your home and then you may want to consider renovating.
Wood-Plastic Composite (WPC) – The ideal choice for anyone looking to reduce costs, WPC is made from recycled wood fibers and recycled plastic. It contains no PVC or formaldehyde and is environmentally friendly.
Vinyl – Vinyl is ideal for bathrooms as it is waterproof, strong, flexible, durable and resistant to many household chemicals.
MDF – If durability is important to you, medium density fiber board (MDF) should be at the top of the list.
5) The destination
For flooring, plastic foil is the most practical. When you’re painting, tiling or doing major construction, dirt and debris can fill up everywhere in your home. Instead of using something like cardboard to cover it all up, buy some plastic. There are several advantages to using plastic instead of traditional materials like plywood or drywall. This protects the floor from paint or water spills.
In many instances, it’s cheaper to replace pieces of furniture than to repair them. Even if you think they can be salvaged, like your favorite armchair or sofa, it might be more cost-effective to start from scratch. As long as you plan well in advance, choosing furniture with your needs in mind is an easy way to beautify any home renovation project. If money is an issue, opt for plastic or rubber replacement parts instead of wood; these materials are less expensive and easily adaptable for most types of home renovations.
If you’re renovating an older home, it’s likely that you’ll have to replace your ceiling at some point. If your house is really old, it might even be covered in asbestos, which could present serious healing. The dangers of depression. Fortunately, all new roofs are made of modern materials such as polystyrene or polyurethane, both of which are effective conductors (keeping your home warm in the winter and cool in the summer) but waterproof. Once dry, you can easily paint the polystyrene making it easier to make repairs if necessary.
8) Pruning and dyeing
When redesigning a home, interior or exterior, there are certain materials that blend well; decoration and color. Most trimmers are made of wood, which makes it easier to use latex paint to complete the trimming job. By adding these two essential building materials to your home improvement plans, you can achieve smooth results for an overall attractive look. In addition, latex paint is not difficult to work with – you can easily apply more than one coat without too much effort. Since most of the walls in your home need at least two (and sometimes three) coats of paint, you will be less productive if you take your time. It doesn’t change how your house looks!
Whether you’re planning to rebuild a new home or a brand new structure, plastic and rubber will be an integral part of your project. Using these items properly will help you spend your money wisely and ensure that your home is as safe and comfortable as possible. So the next time you talk about remodeling, don’t forget to buy plastic or rubber! It really does make all the difference. | <urn:uuid:e91332e3-5b20-4756-aacf-6dcc685d1370> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://usagnews.com/8-ways-of-make-your-home-renovation-a-success-with-plastic-and-rubber/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.94343 | 1,258 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Green America’s chocolate scorecard included a few new, fair trade chocolate brands that are leaders in their field and earning A-ratings. The scorecard is still heavily based on efforts to combat child labor, but we’ve added a new category on deforestation, one of the many issues facing the cocoa industry.
Direct and fair trade chocolate companies have been placing farmers front and center of their business models for years. In this article, we highlight some A-rated chocolate companies.
Direct and Fair Trade Chocolate Companies
All of Alter Eco’s products are made with ingredients sourced directly from small-scale farms it partners with. In addition to having Fair Trade Certified cocoa and paying farmer co-ops a premium for their cocoa, Alter Eco also provides targeted assistance to its cocoa farmers. This assistance addresses issues that farmers and their co-ops may face, such as food assistance, gender equality, and biodiversity.
Beyond Good's cocoa beans come from Madagascar (and soon Uganda), and their chocolate is organic. Beyond Good has a radically different supply chain when compared to big name chocolate companies - they cut out the middlemen so Beyond Good has a direct relationship with cocoa farmers. This has resulted in farmers making 6X more than the industry standard. In addition to prioritizing cocoa farmers, Beyond Good is prioritizing the environment; their agroforestry practices have led to 5 species of endangered lemurs living where their cocoa is grown!
Like many other companies on this list, Divine Chocolate has a direct relationship with the cocoa co-op it sources from, Kuapa Kokoo. But Divine and Kuapa Kokoo don’t just have a direct relationship – Kuapa Kokoo owns 20% of Divine Chocolate. Kuapa Kokoo farmers also have seats on Divine’s Board of Directors. Farmer representation is key to improving farmer livelihood, and Divine’s business model allows Kuapa Kokoo, which has over 80,000 farmer members, to have a voice in key business decisions. Divine Chocolate is certified Green Business Member.
Dr. Bronner’s cocoa beans are sourced from Ghana, from farmers that are treated fairly and practice regenerative organic agriculture. Dr. Bronner’s Magic All-One Chocolate bars are 70% cocoa, vegan, and sweetened with coconut-sugar. The chocolate bars are USDA Organic and Fair for Life certified. You can learn more about Dr. Bronner’s path to regenerative cocoa here.
Endangered Species is the first American-made chocolate to use fully traceable cocoa sourced from West Africa. This means that, in addition to paying higher prices for cocoa and paying a premium that can be invested in community projects, Endangered Species can track their beans to the very farms they source from. This increased transparency is welcome, as the cocoa supply chain in West Africa can be long and opaque. Endangered Species is certified Green Business Member.
Equal Exchange is one of the pioneers of the fair trade chocolate movement, and to this day is so dedicated to worker co-ops that the company itself is worker owned too. Equal Exchange continues to adhere to the fair trade movement in the strictest sense, and has direct relationships with over 40 small farming co-ops. Equal Exchange is certified Green Business Member.
Where to buy: Select Whole Foods, Walmarts, and Targets. But we would encourage you to look for Equal Exchange products in your locally owner grocers and organic markets. Equal Exchange also has a robust, easy-to-use online store.
Support small-farmer coops with their Solidarity Box here!
Theo has direct relationships with cocoa cooperatives in Peru and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It negotiates prices with farmer co-ops directly, provides training on good agricultural practices, and is transparent with farmers about pricing and payments. Theo also works with the different cocoa communities it sources from to develop meaningful projects tailored to their needs. Theo is certified Green Business Member.
Tony’s Chocolonely is a Dutch brand, aiming to show the big chocolate brands that sustainable chocolate is possible. Tony’s chocolate is 100% fair trade certified and they pay an even higher price to cocoa farmers then required by fair trade’s standards. Tony’s entire cocoa supply is from West Africa; this is because they are trying to create change where it is needed the most.
This is, of course, not a complete list of alternative chocolate companies that are helping farmers on the ground – we are at a time where ethical chocolate alternatives are gaining larger footholds in the marketplace. For further reading, check out our Chocolate Company Scorecard. | <urn:uuid:678130fa-08e7-42b9-9a8e-e2d665b819ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greenamerica.org/blog/put-down-big-name-chocolate-bar-grab-one-these-instead | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.952498 | 986 | 1.828125 | 2 |
When the Europeans arrived to Mexico in the 16th century, textiles was a highly developed and mastered craft amongst the indigenous people. Spinning and weaving were integral parts of daily life for girls and women and in the indigenous cosmovision textiles were protected by goddesses; the Aztecs revered Xochiquetzal, who was said to be the first to spin and weave thread on a backstrap loom and the Mayas believed that the Moon Goddess Ixchel was the patron of spinning and her daughter, Ichebelyax was the patroness of embroidery. Continue reading “B” for Bordados: An Exhibition of Embroidered Textiles from Mexico. Rebecca Devaney, MFA Textile Art and Artefact, National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Student in Haute-Couture Embroidery, Ecole Lesage, Paris. | <urn:uuid:92ef8464-3967-4039-b77a-e338a9e7d8c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dressworld.hypotheses.org/date/2017/09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.965406 | 185 | 2.921875 | 3 |
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Yancey County Schools Launches “Say Something” Anonymous Reporting System
On March 5, 2020, Yancey County Schools is officially launching the “Say Something” Anonymous Reporting System (SS-ARS) for students, which most North Carolina public school districts will be adopting this year to meet the reporting guidelines and standards developed by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction and the Center for Safer Schools.
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Every woman’s dream to have beautiful, radiant skin, but unfortunately, not everyone is blessed with that “drop dead” smooth, flawless skin tone. There are many people who suffer from uneven skin tone, which is caused by too much exposure to sunlight or other types of light. Uneven skin tone is basically where some areas of the skin are much darker than other areas. So now you must be asking yourself if there are treatments for uneven skin tone. Well, there is, and it’s called exfoliating. Let us take a look at what exfoliating entails, so we understand the treatment better. There are different causes of skin discoloration; however, no matter what the cause is, you can make skin complexion even and make it look flawless and radiant with the right skin cream such as serum CBD. So, this article is going to tell you two natural ingredients that are proven to clear uneven skin tone.
Causes of uneven skin tone
- Hormones – Hormone imbalance, especially in pregnant women and menopausal women, lead to skin pigmentations.
- Skin conditions – Skin conditions like psoriasis and eczema cause itching and inflammation, which lead to blotchy skin. Acne also leaves scars or spots on the skin.
- Sun – The UV rays of the sun cause sunburns and freckles; too much exposure to the sun rays also lead to overproduction of skin pigment called melanin. The concentration and accumulation of melanin over a period of time cause age spots, also known as brown spots.
- Harsh skincare products – The majority of the skincare products on the market contain harsh chemicals that cause irritation, inflammation, and redness (blotchy skin). Most people also make the mistake of using whitening creams that contain harsh skin lightening agents like mercury and hydroquinone; these chemicals do more harm than good because they destroy the epidermis, thereby causing blotchy skin.
Natural Ways To Treat Uneven Skin Tone
In order to get rid of skin discolorations without any harmful side effects, you use whitening creams that contain natural ingredients; natural ingredients are proven to be gentler and safer than their synthetic counterparts.
- Extrapone Nutgrass
This natural whitening agent is proven to inhibit the production of melanin by 41% when used in 0.5 concentrations. Unlike other lightening agents, Nutgrass does not irritate the skin; rather, it prevents and even relieves irritation because it is an anti-irritant. Nutgrass is proven to gently remove age spots, freckles, and other skin pigmentations without causing any harm to the skin. It also contains anti-aging properties; hence, it does not only clear uneven skin tone, but it also removes wrinkles to make the skin look younger and flawless. The CBD oil for wrinkles can help you to get rid of fine lines and uneven skin tone.
The whitening cream of your choice should also contain this special functional keratin. It boosts collagen production and cell renewal. It is also proven to increase the production of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione; this helps to reverse brown spots caused by the UV rays of the sun. It is thereby helping to clear uneven skin tone. This functional keratin also increases the skin’s ability to hold moisture; thus, it helps to keep the skin hydrated, thereby relieving dryness and itching. It also blocks the production of PGE2, the chemical that causes inflammation; hence, it prevents and treats inflammation, especially in those that have eczema or psoriasis. The CBD soothing serum can help in treating the skin problems and help you to get flawless skin.
- Exfoliate Your Skin
Uneven skin tone is unsightly, but you can get rid of it; all you need is a whitening cream that contains the right ingredients. You can visit my website for information on a natural skincare brand you can trust. To put it simply, when you exfoliate your skin, it removes the top layer of skin moving the new skin underneath to the top. This second layer of skin is natural and healthy as it has not had direct exposure to sunlight and other sources that causes the skin to get damaged and discolored. There are two choices for exfoliating your skin, you can either use a facial sponge to rub away the top layer of skin, or you can go the other way and use creams and lotions that serve the same purpose as the facial sponge. Whichever type you decide to use, be sure, and choose a product that is gentle on the skin as harsh abrasive products can do more harm than good to the skin.
Asides from exfoliating, you must also incorporate a daily beauty regimen such as natural serum CBD into your skincare treatment. These should include cleansing, moisturizing, and toning. Again be sure and use beauty products that do not contain harsh chemicals that can damage your skin. Remember, your skin is a living breathing organism that needs to be treated with tender loving care. Another important point to note is once you start your beauty treatment, you should be persistent, stick to it, and make it a part of your daily routine. This is important if you really want to see some positive results. | <urn:uuid:46641f9c-1863-42ba-9c81-2e3ef6c74745> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lifestylenmore.com/how-to-treat-uneven-skin-tone-and-get-clear-skin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.9311 | 1,110 | 1.992188 | 2 |
The timer in your GE dryer model GRDN510EMWS controls the various functions of your appliance. The motor on the back of the timer moves the dial, which manages how much time is left in the cycle and regulates the temperature and moisture control functions. If the dial is not advancing, your dryer won’t progress through the cycle. A malfunctioning timer can also cause your dryer to not start or stop, and it may interfere with the heating element turning on and off. Replacing the defective timer is a fairly simple repair and shouldn’t take much time at all.
How to Replace the Timer in Your GE Dryer
To avoid electrocution, unplug your dryer or turn it off at the circuit breaker. Always wear protective gloves and eyewear during a repair appliance repair job.
Start your repair by removing the timer knob from the front of the dryer console. If you’re having a hard time taking it off, use a string or wire to get behind the knob and pull it off the control panel.
Move to the back of the dryer and unthread the screws securing the console to the appliance. Move the console to the side to detach from the top panel. Once it’s loose, lay it down on the top of your dryer so it is out of your way.
Before detaching the old dryer timer, take a picture of it to record the placement of the wires. Lift the tab on the side of the timer and rotate the part counter-clockwise to remove it from the control panel. Disconnect the wires from the faulty timer and completely remove the part from your dryer.
Now you can install your new dryer timer. Consult the picture you took earlier to properly connect the wires to the timer. After all the connections are secure, insert the timer into the console and turn it clockwise to attach it.
Rotate the control panel up and slide it over to engage the locking tabs. Once the panel is in the proper position, reattach the screws to the back of the appliance to secure the console to your dryer. Reconnect the timer knob to finish your repair.
Plug-in your appliance and throw in a load of wet garments to test your new timer.
If replacing the timer did not fix your dryer’s malfunction, or you’re concerned about another appliance in your home, please contact us today and we’ll be happy to answer your questions.
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Nowadays, the game industry is developing restlessly as a result of its attractiveness, and benefits to many people. As a being in demand industry, it’s easy to understand why more and more game producers invest their budget, time, and effort in developing new products, as well as upgrading their games. Consequently, the competitiveness in this area is also very severe, so game development companies always improve their products’ quality by putting new concepts for their games, adding more attractive features with new technology, etc. Fortunately, technologies are varying in positive development, and many of them can be suitable for adapting in games. Here, in this article, we ‘ll show you some of them, especially prominent ones.
3D scanning and facial recognition technology allows systems to actually create your likeness in the gaming world, and transfer your own expressions to other digital creations. For example, you can create a custom avatar that looks just like you. On top of that, this technology could allow developers to create games that adapt to the emotions of the gamer by scanning 78 different points on a person’s face. With face recognition gamers would definitely have a great experience, and joyfulness when playing games.
Too lazy to pick up that controller? No problem! computers are now able to easily recognize voice commands from the user. Not only can you turn the console on and off using this tech, but you can also use voice commands to control gameplay, interact on social media, play selections from your media library, or search the web, all by simply talking to your gaming system. This technology has the potential to be adapted into games in order to bring comfort and convenience to gamers.
Get rid of your controller altogether, this technology allows you to play first person shooter games, or simply interact with your device with just a few waves of your hand. Using a 3D camera that tracks 22 separate points in your hand, gesture control allows users to connect with their gaming experience by using the natural movements of their body. With this technology games and gamers will be like one, the players will have the best playing game experience.
Actually some developed countries have adapted this into their games already, and it brings good results to their sales. wearable technology includes any device that can be worn and has different functions. Some of the examples of wearable technology are smartwatches, jewelry, rings, wristbands, fitness trackers, etc. Through these wearables, players get to do many things and freely enjoy the game world.
Instead of creating video game systems that require more powerful hardware, developers are looking to lighten the load with the cloud. Games no longer need be limited by the amount of memory that discs or consoles have to offer. Using the cloud opens games up to massive server-size limits where images are streamed to your screen through the Internet. This seems to be the trending solution for nowadays games, with people's tastes changing all the time as well as their demand on speed and convenience. | <urn:uuid:7541dbcd-8ad4-42c6-868a-5665cba875e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ebizworldsolutions.com/blog/post/adapting-other-technologies-in-game-developing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962726 | 631 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Head of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) Amiran Gamkrelidze stated this week that the epidemiological situation has improved in Georgia, however, “it does not allow us to relax.”
Health officials, including Gamkrelidze, remain concerned due to the low vaccination rate and skeptical approach among the population towards the vaccines.
The NCDC Head noted that the country has 600,000 doses of the Pfizer jab left, but demand for it is low.
The statistics show that the average vaccination rate in September topped 20,000 per day when healthcare managers expected it to be over 30,000. In the last few days, the average daily vaccination rate has been in the range of 12-14,000 per day.
Due to the improved epidemiological situation, the in-person education process will resume at schools and universities from October 4, the Interagency Coordination Council decided on Tuesday. It will be up to the parents of school students whether they wish their children to go back to school or continue learning online, as teachers must be prepared to satisfy both demands.
The education process has been ongoing remotely from September 15.
Kindergartens and children’s entertainment centers will also be allowed to reopen on October 4.
Georgia recorded 2185 coronavirus cases, 2010 recoveries, and 40 deaths on Tuesday, as a result of 31,216 tests performed. Tbilisi recorded the highest number of 584 Covid-19 cases, followed by the Kakheti region with 413 cases, and the Imereti region with 392 cases.
The numbers dropped to 1929 new cases, 1914 recoveries, and 33 deaths on Wednesday, with 32,522 tests conducted. Tbilisi recorded the highest number of 659 Covid-19 cases, followed by the Imereti region with 363 cases and the Kakheti region with 286 cases.
Georgia reported 1743 coronavirus cases, 2266 recoveries, and 29 deaths on Thursday, with 36,047 tests conducted. Tbilisi recorded 571 Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, followed by Imereti with 315 cases, and the Kakheti with 262 cases. A total of 36,047 tests were conducted in the 24 hours prior throughout the country.
The daily test-positivity rate stands at 4.84%, down from 6.04% over the past 14 days.
Georgia’s total case tally since February 2020 reached 613,012, among which 585,071 people recovered and 8946 lost their lives.
52 people are currently in quarantine, 4223 Covid-19 patients are hospitalized, and 734 asymptomatic and mild symptom patients are in government-assigned facilities.
The Global Situation
The total number of people infected with coronavirus worldwide since the start of the pandemic has exceeded 234 million, according to Worldometers.
Based on the same statistics, Covid-19 has killed more than 4.78 million people worldwide to date. The number of people recovered from the virus exceeds 210.8 million. There are currently 18.3 million active cases of the infection worldwide.
The largest number of coronavirus infections, 44.1 million cases, has been confirmed by the United States, followed by India with more than 33.7 million cases, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Russia.
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Have you ever smelled something so familiar that it felt like you were transported back through time into one of your earlier memories? Have freshly baked cookies, your grandmother’s chili sauce, or a specific brand of sunscreen after a long winter actually affected the way you feel?
It turns out that science can explain this link between important memories and the smells associated with them. By studying the activity in our brains, scientists may even have an explanation why your uncle tries to tell you the same five stories about his childhood during the holidays each year.
Researchers have long known that episodic memories – the memories you have of particular events – are made up of the combined information from all of your senses (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touch). But trying to understand how this sensory information becomes a memory, or how it affects the way you are able to remember an event, is more complicated.
By looking at the structure of the brain, researchers have found that olfactory (smell) information takes a different path through the brain than input from the other senses. Most sensory information has to first go through a region called the thalamus before being interpreted by the other specialized parts of the brain. The thalamus receives input from many sources and then directs it to the right part of the brain. Scientists often consider this the step when a person becomes consciously aware of something.
When it comes to smells, the olfactory information actually passes through the olfactory memory and processing parts of the brain first. That means that we are actually processing the content and memory of a smell before we are consciously figuring out what that smell is.
This smell center of the brain, the olfactory cortex, is also strongly connected with two other areas of the brain: the limbic system and the amygdala. Both of these areas play strong roles in the emotional components of how memories are created and retrieved.
To understand the possible effect of this connection, one group of researchers exposed people to specific smells at the same time as emotionally intense videos. A week later the volunteers were given cues of either sounds, images, or smells from the earlier experience and asked to recall as many details as they could. The people who were reminded of the smell from the week before actually recalled more details about the emotional experience than the people who were given visual or auditory triggers.
Another group of researchers asked volunteers to create a story in their minds to form a link either between two images or an image and a particular smell. The scientists scanned the brains of the volunteers during the process of forming these connections and later when the people were asked to recall the story that they had created for themselves. They found that the part of the olfactory cortex that was activated when the volunteers were exposed to the smell the first time was activated again during the memory – even if the smell was not actually there.
But what does this mean for the smells we are exposed to and the things we remember every day?
A group of researchers in Sweden asked 72 people between the ages of 65 and 80 to describe the memories that came to mind after being exposed to a certain trigger. These triggers were 20 smells, 20 smells with names, or just the names of those 20 smells.
The researchers kept track of how many memories were brought up with each type of trigger, how old the people were at the time of these memories, how pleasant they felt, and how much they felt like they had been transported back in time.
Though the triggers with the names of smells led to the recall of more memories, the people who had been exposed just to smells not only felt more pleasant and felt more like they had been transported back in time, but also recalled memories from younger ages than the people in the other groups. In fact, more than twice as many of the memories were from under the age of ten when smells were one of the triggers.
Think about this in the context of all of the smells that are unique to the holiday season. Depending on where you are from or what holidays you celebrate, these might be burning candles, evergreen trees, cinnamon, crispy latkes, mulled wine, fresh tamales, or even meat on the grill if you live in the southern hemisphere. Whatever the holiday, when we are flooded with the smells of the season the olfactory cortex and our episodic memories may be transporting us back to memories from our childhoods.
So think about that the next time your grandmother wants to tell you about the first time she had gingerbread as a child. You could explain to her how that smell has made a journey through the olfactory parts of the brain, linked up with the thalamus, and probably even brought in the emotion centers of the brain just to bring on that strong sense of nostalgia. Or you could just listen to the story.
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This is the never-failing well at which each cup of benefaction must be filled. It is the vital breath which wakens the warm and generous sentiment within, and gives to it substance and fashion. It is the power which creates and sustains in existence each varying species of philanthropy, - each form of good to our suffering fellow-beings. It is the celestial panoply which makes us fearless of evil, magnanimous to an enemy, and compassionate to the weak and erring. And this shall be the final restorer of a groaning, travailing creation to its first freshness and purity, filling and crowning the universe with the glory of God. “Now abideth Faith, Hope, and Charity, these three; but the greatest of these is Charity.” “Love is the seraph, and Faith and Hope are but the wings by which it flies." "Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW.”
Our Saviour presented the life of the cup-bearer in a vivid sketch, or picture. The scene exhibits a disciple, weary, faint, and thirsty, in a desert, where, like Hagar, he can find no spring. This commissioned benefactor knows where the fountain is; and straight he runs to the sparkling waters, plunges in the golden cup, and bears it, brimming, and flashing back the light of heaven,- pure, cool, and sweet to the parched lips.
In drawing this exquisite sketch, he did not intend to confine our beneficence to this one specific form of kindness. But he selected a case having two extreme features ; the insignificance of the beneficiary, and that of the favor bestowed. So that he virtually says, “I judge actions by the spirit they express. There is not a disciple of mine. so insignificant that I do not observe with interest all that affects him; there is not an expression of regard to me, however simple its form, that I do not notice with approbation.”
Love! In these great wrecks of our independence, I believe that I have seized the word which will save us. Love! I can not; often I will not. Yet, O God! if I hate, I am the most submissive of slaves. As soon as I love, every thing becomes possible to me. In vain does the loved one wound me, I do not feel it; he exacts much, I give more; he will not comprehend me, I understand him ; he doubts me, I believe in him ; he hopes nothing, I hope every thing.
This is charity: I know it well; as distant from my
depressed and resisting heart as the starry firmament from the abyss! But I do this, - on my knees, with hands uplifted, I cry to God, “Thou who lovest me, teach me to love !”
Countess de Gasparin.
THE LITTLE RILLS.
The venerable Dr. Lyman Beecher once said he was going over the Alleghany Mountains, and as he passed the top, going westward, he saw some little rills of water trickling and jumping and skipping along, and he asked them where they were going.
Oh,” they said, “just down the mountain.” “And what are you going to do as you go down the mountain ?”
Oh, we shall make friends with some other little rills, and grow bigger.”
“And what will you do when you grow bigger?”
“Oh, we shall turn saw-mills and grist-mills; and when we get down through all the rocks and narrow passes on the plains, then we shall set some great iron-factories and cotton-mills in motion."
“And what will you do then?” “Then? Why, we shall make the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers ; and when we are strong enough we shall make the great Ohio."
“And what will you do when you get to be the
great Ohio ?”
Oh, then we shall take on our backs great rafts and steamboats and beautiful ships, and help build up, all
, along, beautiful towns and cities."
“ And what then?”
“What then? Why, we shall unite our forces (for we are not selfish but generous little fellows) with the great Missouri and Mississippi, and help them to carry a thousand ships down to the great ocean.”
"What! you going to do all this, you little rills ? "
"Yes, sir, we; and if you don't believe us, we can't stop to convince you of it, for we are in a hurry; but come and see for yourself;" and on they went.
The doctor said he could not but ask, if the little rills were going to do so much, what the little boys and girls would do.
And surely no one can tell. Some will promise that they will do great things. We have known many do this, but they failed of fulfilling their promise
- all, because they did not begin right, or did not go in the right road, or did not do the right things. They sunk all their character and influence in wicked ways, and in a little time, as little rills that have no good fountains dry up and perish, so they died away and were forgotten. No good came of them; and when we inquired where they were, they were not to be found : no one could tell any good of them; they were shiftless, poor, and profligate, and the world was glad to get rid of them. But others, pure as the little rills from the mountains, move on in paths of soberness and integrity, and pour a rich tide of blessedness on all around them, - comforts to their parents, the joy of their teachers, noble reformers, ornaments of society, and the stay of their country. | <urn:uuid:3ab95c2d-c90a-417a-827f-57921745fc2e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=SS43AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA34&focus=viewport&vq=%22Not+to+myself+alone,+The+heavy-laden+bee+doth+murmuring+hum,+%E2%80%94+Not+to+myself+alone,+from+flower+to+flower,+I%22&dq=editions:OCLC615342558&lr=&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.964379 | 1,298 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Ormond Beach and its humble guardian
‘I found my spot,’ says Walter Fuller
Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2014
It began with an albino parakeet named Whitey.
As a child, Walter Fuller would play Johnny Cash on the record player in his bedroom and let Whitey out of his cage. Whitey would fly around and alight on the back of a chair or the corner of a nightstand and bob his head to the rhythm.
After Whitey came a cockatoo, an Amazon parrot and a myna bird. Then a boa constrictor and a python.
In the Ojai home where Fuller was raised by his mother and grandparents, there were always animals. Lots of them. But none captured Fuller’s imagination like the birds.
When a high school teacher asked him to write an earth sciences report, he chose the golden eagle as his subject. He got out his field guide and his binoculars and headed to Gridley Trail in the mountains above Ojai.
He never found an eagle. Still, the assignment set him on a course he would follow the rest of his life.
“That was what started my bird-watching days,” said Fuller, now 60. “From that point on, I was hooked.”
One day in 1995, he decided to drive down a south Oxnard street on his lunch break. At the end, he discovered Ormond Beach.
The beach, one of the premier bird-watching spots on the Pacific Flyway, hosts more than 200 migrating species and serves as a nesting ground for the rare Western snowy plover and the California least tern. Birders from all over the world visit the two-mile swath of coastline.
“I found my spot,” he said. “I knew this is where I could study birds the rest of my life.”
Nearly 10 years later, Fuller spends every day of the year at the beach — holidays included. He spends nights there, too, in a small trailer provided by the city. And he does it without pay.
Fuller has become the guardian of Ormond Beach.
Ormond Beach is one element in an ambitious restoration project underway by the California Coastal Conservancy that experts say could one day become the largest coastal wetlands in Southern California, spanning nine miles of largely undeveloped waterfront from Port Hueneme to Point Mugu.
Heavy industry drained and degraded the wetlands and lagoons over the last 50 years.
A tall slag heap — a remnant of the closed Halaco steel recycling plant — is on the north side of the beach, part of a Superfund hazardous waste cleanup site overseen by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. A power station topped with two red-rimmed smokestacks is nearby. The naval base at Point Mugu is steps away from Fuller’s trailer on the south side of the beach, at the end of a two-lane farm road.
Many say Fuller is carrying on the legacy of the late Jean Harris and Roma Armbrust, activists who for decades fought off efforts to build marinas, apartments, resorts and theme parks on the beach north of Malibu.
“Their spirit lives on in Walter,” said Nancy Pederson, who runs a nearby marine education program for youths. “Walter has been the third leg of keeping that area the way it is.”
Pit reporters will be Dave Burns, Jamie Little, Dr. Soon after Fuller discovered Ormond Beach, he lost his job doing maintenance at Point Mugu because of cutbacks. But he continued to work as a janitor for a private company and visit the beach daily. Although he loved the birds,he disliked much of the human activity he saw — car break-ins, drug deals, sex in the bushes and trash in the canal. Once, he found a stripped car in the parking lot.
So Fuller, a widower, took it upon himself to patrol the beach after work each day. On some nights, he would sleep in his Ford Explorer in the parking lot. A former private security guard, his reflexes kicked in.
“Once a security guard, always a security guard,” said Fuller, a stout man who customarily wears a short-sleeved khaki shirt, green cargo pants and worn leather boots. Binoculars dangle from his neck. “That’s just what I do.”
If someone behaved inappropriately, he asked them to leave, but often his presence was deterrent enough. He called the police when necessary. Eventually, the incidents died down.
In 2008, the city provided a shipping container for Fuller. He slept in that until June, when the city delivered the trailer and made him the official caretaker, an unpaid position, with a three-year contract.
Fuller gets by on donations from friends and supporters, who leave him food, magazines, sometimes a little cash, and other tokens of their appreciation. His needs are simple — an occasional lunch at Del Taco is one of his few indulgences.
“Walter is a little too humble for his own good,” said Pederson, who has been visiting Ormond Beach since the 1960s. “He has done more work out there than anybody. He doesn’t realize how special he is and how special what he’s done is.”
Fuller opens the gate to the parking lot each morning at 5 for those who want to get a head start on fishing and locks it at dusk. He’s the official greeter, janitor, tour guide and question answerer. He keeps a daily log of visitors and whether they are swimming, surfing, bird-watching, picnicking or just relaxing.
If he talks to them, he jots down their hometowns, noting if they are from another country. If they have a dog, he makes sure that it is leashed. And of course, he keeps a detailed account of the birds he sees.
His findings are contained in a weekly “Walter Report” delivered to the Oxnard City Council by one of his friends, and his documentation is used by Point Mugu officials to keep updated information on the number and types of birds that use the military base and surrounding property.
Earlier this year, the city presented him with a community service award, one of numerous accolades bestowed on him.
“He deserves so much more,” Oxnard City Councilwoman Carmen Ramirez said. “He’s taken on the duties of protecting the coast and the beach. We are lucky to have this one gentleman to help us.”
Ramirez is trying to arrange for volunteers to fill in for Fuller once in a while so he can take some time off. The beach had nearly 12,000 visitors this summer, a record, Fuller said.
Perhaps his most satisfying task is helping children appreciate and respect nature, much like his mother and grandparents did for him.
“So many kids today, all they do is play the Game Boy,” he said. “They don’t know how to swim or build a bonfire, common outdoor things. Here, they get to see nature firsthand. It’s beautiful.”
Fuller’s mother and grandparents have passed away. His wife of seven years, Mary, died of leukemia after they had two children. His daughter and son are grown now, and he has two grandsons.
Fuller lives alone on the isolated, wind-swept beach, but he is seldom lonely.
“Look at this,” Fuller said, standing on the sandy path leading to the beach, with the Santa Monica Mountains to the right, the Topatopa Mountains to the left and the Pacific Ocean at his back.
“I get to see this every day,” he said. “It’s tranquillity out here. And you don’t have to pay for it.”
One recent day as he made his rounds, he looked up at the power line and couldn’t believe what he saw — a bald eagle. It was tagged No. 67 and had flown from the rookery at Anacapa Island, about 11 miles away.
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It's been a long-standing tradition at Nebraska home football games for balloons to be released after the team's first score. One guy is trying to put a stop to that.
According to the Omaha World-Herald, a local man by the name of Randall S. Krause is suing the school to stop the balloons from being released because they are a threat to wildlife. His claim shows a balloon's effect on animals, but it doesn't directly tie those specific deaths to the Husker balloons.
"The mass release of Huskers balloons puts virtually all species of birds, turtles marine mammals and small animals ... in harm's way," the lawsuit states.
The suit also says children are in danger due to the balloons that land and become deflated, although it provides no example of this happening.
"Children under 8 can choke or suffocate on deflated Husker balloons if they put them in their mouths."
Krause wants the court to declare the releasing of balloons illegal, although the school has been doing it since the 1950s. | <urn:uuid:c01e44d2-c0bb-4e46-834e-87d6774af7d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://athlonsports.com/college-football/omaha-man-sue-nebraska-huskers-stop-release-balloons-home-football-games-memorial-stadium | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969627 | 217 | 1.914063 | 2 |
High Performance Multi-channel Electrical Power Converters
The number of the consumer electric devices, requiring low-voltage dc supply has recently been continuously increasing in the households and offices (notebooks, cell phones, printers, electric shavers, digital cameras, etc.). The lack of rigorous standardization implies that the necessary supply voltage levels of these consumers considerably vary in the range of approx. 2-20VDC. The existing distribution systems use multiple conversions of electrical energy from the mains grid to the final load (through often low quality ac/dc adapters) resulting in severe losses, poor efficiency and unreliable operation. The current project focuses on multi-channel dc-dc converters. The one input/multiple output converters are supplied from a dc line, while the output voltages of the converter channels are automatically determined by the intelligence in the load.
Study the literature of advanced, low power (1 W - 250W) dc.dc converters.
Study the multichannel dc-dc conversion systems.
Design new circuits and propose control strategies.
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Developed for Michigan STEM Forward participating companies, this guide for writing detailed job descriptions to attract the right candidate is a great resource for all organizations and industries.
Items to Include
Information about your Company/Organization
- Include a brief description of your company and what might distinguish it for an aspiring intern. What field does your company work in? What direction are you headed? What makes it a great place to work?
Internship Title and Description of Duties
- Be thoughtful and intentional about the job title; ensure that it accurately describes the job duties that the intern will complete.
- Include a detailed description of what tasks the intern will be expected to complete. This can include both short-term, daily assignments as well as longer-term projects. The more specific your job description can be when it comes to this area, the better. Be sure to include specific skills required to successfully meet or exceed expectations.
- List if the intern will be using specific software or hardware, operating specialized equipment, or generating content.
- Include details on the specific academic major, skillset, experience, interest, availability, familiarity with software, coding languages, etc. required.
- Is this position/could it be remote?
- Are there more general attributes that you are looking for in an intern? Examples might include “self-starter”, “excellent communication skills”, “ability to multi-task”, etc.
The Michigan Stem Forward program facilitates meaningful and productive internships in STEM fields with the end goal of increasing talent retention in the state. As you structure the internship and write its description, consider:
- To what extent would your organization be considered a “tech” company?
- Would there be a potential for this internship to develop into a full-time role?
- To what extent and in what ways is the internship job description STEM-oriented?
- Does your organization have experience managing interns?
- Internships are meant to be a mutually beneficial on-the-job learning experience. As you consider what value the intern will add to your organization, it is also important to think about what skills, competencies, and experience the intern will develop. Explicitly referencing what an intern can expect to take from their time with your organization can be an excellent addition to a job description. | <urn:uuid:dff3c264-efb4-4ad6-bfd3-3fc95cac96d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://annarborusa.org/news/tips-for-writing-an-internship-job-description/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.923875 | 487 | 2.15625 | 2 |
As I Know: The Lord of the Mountains – Shiv Purana: 53
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Arrival of Virbhadra at Yajna, Brihaspati’s advice, Vishnu’s arrival, words of wisdom, which speak of the eternal truth and ask the chief of ganas to do the assigned duty and thereafter, a fierce war begins and everyone witnesses the consequent destruction
No reasonable issue, in fact nothing sensible existed for negotiation. Ferocious ganas were eager to fight out and were very angry since the great lord met humiliation at the hands of injudicious, irrational and reckless Daksa. A fierce war began between the gods and the terrifying ganas. In the dreadful war, it was difficult for gods to confront the rage and strength of mighty counselors of Shiva. They were badly defeated and therefore, left the idea to help one another and after sometime, deserted the battlefield and went back to respective celestial abodes. It was the only way out to save lives. At that time, mighty Indra and a few gallant guardians of heavens exhibited perseverance and fortitude, and continued to face the challenge of ganas. However, they appeared quite miserable.
When they failed to subdue the forces of Shiva, the lord of gods, Indra along with prominent lords of heavens, went to sage Bhrispati and requested, “O holy guru, O father, the treasure of wisdom, an ocean of mercy, please advise immediately. How we can win war and attain victory? It is important for survival.”
Guru Bhrispati, the teacher of gods, thought of Shiva and said to Indra, who looked devoid of any wisdom at the hour of crisis.
Guru said, “Indra, whatever Vishnu said earlier, it is happening now. I just make it clear. Be cautious. The great god, who lavishes fruit of karmas, also takes shelter of the doers of karmas. He gives fruit of karma to him, who performs karma honestly for the good of everybody. He, who does no karma and is stationary, gets no reward or fruit from god you must know. You know that he, who takes protection at the feet of the great god, and is engaged in virtuous karmas, gets the fruit of labour and karma. You do nothing. God does. Do not take credit for things you do not do. He, who disbelieves god, gets punished.” Guru was clear and curt.
Sage Bhrispati, the guru said again, “Try to understand O Indra. Mantras, medicines, herbs, various karmas, worldly men, earthly efforts, noble deeds, the Vedas, neither past nor analysis of intellect or wisdom nor scriptures equipped with a range of gems of knowledge are competent enough to know the great god. Know the gist of wisdom of learned men of ancient times. One may try hard and adopt different methods or one may study Holy Scriptures and complete study of the Vedas ten thousand times but one will never know lord Shiva appropriately. Lord Maheshwara is impenetrable and unfathomable, the Shrutis tell, O lord Indra. Blessings of Shiva enable devotees to know about the ever calm, tranquil and formless god.”
He continued to say with emphasis but was soft, “With a pious and superb intellect, one knows the great tattva (essence of existence, the soul or the self). What is a true duty? What is not a duty? One ought to know. How one does karma perfectly you know. Keeping in view what you wish, I tell and so listen. O Indra, you came to the yajna with the guardians of heavens innocently. What great feat you want to realise? Just tell. The ganas are the soldiers of Shiva and they came here to disturb yajna. They will complete the work, for Shiva is present at the back. You know I speak the truth. Even gods cannot change the course of destiny. The lord designed and so, it will happen. I find no solution of sufferings you face and so, you cannot avoid annihilation.”
Guru Bhrispati said clearly and after they listened to the sage, the gods and the guardians of heavens were worried. The ganas of Rudra surrounded Virbhadra, and the mighty chief thought of lord Shiva. He was harsh to Indra and the lokapals (the guardians). Without wasting time, he released sharp and murderous arrows at the gods and others and injured grievously the gods of heavens and others who were present. Indra and many gods lost sense and equilibrium of mind after many pointed arrows of Virbhadra hurt and wounded and therefore, without thinking further, they escaped from the battleground, and filled different directions with agonising cries and thunderous noise.
When they ran away, Virbhadra and Rudraganas arrived at the place of yajna. All sages present were dreadfully afraid of the ganas and particularly the leader, who appeared mighty and dreadful. Nervousness and uncertainty haunted men as Virbhadra, an embodiment of destruction stood in anger. They were full of fears and began to pray with bowed heads and then said, “O lord of gods, O Supreme Lord, kindly protect yajna of Daksa. You are the yajna. None doubts. You are the karma, form, body and organ of yajna, and you are the guardian. Therefore, please protect holy karma. One finds nobody, who can protect it.” Thus, the sages and the learned men present pleaded before Vishnu for protection.
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Most of the time when we hear about the use of human and cultural geography in intelligence analysis and military operations it is because it wasn’t factored in, thus leading to an intelligence or military failure. That said, there are times when human and cultural geographic analyses and information have been used to the success of missions and analyses, one such example comes from American and British success in Nawa, Afghanistan.
A Success Story
Understanding human and cultural geography, as well as anthropological understanding, are often imperative to success when interacting and interfacing with other cultures and geographic regions. One major success story of intertwining sociocultural understanding with military operations was the stabilizing operational success of the Marines in Nawa, Afghanistan in 20019 (Medina, 2016; Meyerle et al., 2012). After defeating the Taliban, who controlled the area and forced the community to close their schools and businesses, the Marines who were stationed in Nawa worked to rebuild the infrastructure and build trust with the locals. Their sociocultural understanding and continued efforts to build that understanding is what helped those operations become successful. By not dropping bombs and protecting the civilians and communicating with those living in Nawa and with their leadership, the Marines were able to build trust. Patrols included frequent meetings with locals and leaders, leading to discussions of the concerns of the district. In many ways, the Marines deployed to Nawa used their sociocultural understanding and continued to build on that understanding in order to help this district stabilize and transition power peacefully to the local government. The military used what they understood about culture, space, and place to be successful and stabilize this region.
Before completing the Lesson 2 Discussion assignment, read the vignette about the Marines’ time in Nawa from On the Ground in Afghanistan: Counterinsurgency in Practice (Meyerle et al., 2012).
More often than not, it is the failures that are publicized over the successes. As such, there are many examples of failures to use human and cultural geographic understanding causing failures in military and intelligence operations. One such example was presented earlier discussing failures in Vietnam. More recent examples can be brought forward from the many commission reports that have been published. One such example is The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (2005) report, where the recognition that geographical context is important to understanding intelligence challenges. The importance of understanding the world, its cultures, economies, people, and how they interact was a key takeaway from this report. While the words “human geography” or “cultural geography” were not used, it is indeed clear that the discipline that can help shed the most light in these areas.
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Men and women across the country walk or run a minimum of 20 kilometers in the first of a series of eight Step Together challenges
Thousands of people took up the Saudi Sports for All Federation’s latest Step Together challenge this Ramadan, running or walking a minimum of 20 kilometers in the first 20 days of the Holy Month.
More than 2,600 people registered for the challenge, including 37 Community Sports Groups, who ran and walked wherever they are located in KSA between April 13 and May 2 – the Gregorian calendar equivalent of Ramadan 1-20.
Women made up 34.6% of the participants, while 11.7% of total participants were younger than 19 years old, and 13.9% were older than 50 years old. Some 57.6% of people were Saudis within the Kingdom and 36.8% were expats within the Kingdom, while 5.4% were foreigners outside Saudi Arabia, and 0.2% Saudis outside the country.
An online event platform allowed participants to upload and review all their activities, view results, and interact with organizers and other participants.
This was the fifth Step Together challenge, with the previous four attracting more than 8,750 participants, covering hundreds of thousands of kilometers. The Ramadan iteration was also the first of a series of eight that will take place throughout this year. Participants who complete a challenge will be awarded a medal, with the eight medals combining to form a circle with the map of Saudi Arabia at its heart.
The event ran concurrently with the nationwide Start Now health awareness campaign, which aims to inspire and encourage people across the Kingdom to engage in physical activity.
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A cryptocurrency wallet is a device, physical medium, program or a service which stores the public and/or private keys for cryptocurrency transactions. In addition customer with BlackRock Professional Consult Firm, they recently helped me recover my investment from Bitconnect and Davor coin lending programs. Oficiální peněženka pro počítače (Bitcoin-Qt) ovšem stahuje celou databázi BTC/CZK peněženka arbolet.net nebo zahraniční peněženka blockchain.info). 7 Feb 2019 nfc coinmarketcap currencies bitcoin bitcoin cash wallet bitconnect bitcoin to get started bitcoin gambling legal us bitcoin qt blockchain location rate menambang bitcoin gratis kaskus bitcoin peněženka android 33.0534802235888 qt 33.0534802235888 pracovnik 33.0534802235888 northern postimage 31.3454814185313 plechovky 31.3454814185313 penazenka 27.65870603007 bitcomet 27.65870603007 bielkovinu 27.65870603007 22. okt. 2017 Walton a Bitconnect su pre mňa zaujímavé meny o ktorých zatiaľ nemám info.
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One might wonder what BitConnect is planning next, and how the value of the coin will evolve over time. Some of the prominent developments completed and some waited in the Bitconnect ecosystem. This roadmap is the highlight of BitConnect Team’s vision and development priorities. Jan 23, 2018 · Have you been wondering about BitConnect?
Jan 09, 2018 · BitConnect works in a method that is fully in line with almost all traditional Ponzi schemes. Typically, a Ponzi scheme works first by promising massive, unrealistic returns. For example, they might say one percent per day or 10 percent per month or double your money in three months and so on.
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Jan 10, 2018 · Bitconnect promises financial freedom to those individuals who find the centralized banking systems and the promises of third-party financiers to be unreliable. Note that Bitconnect and Bitconnect Coin (BCC) operates along different lines. The former operates as a lending platform while the latter is a token used on the network.
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Tomie dePaola’s books are so popular with classroom teachers. The rich vocabulary, amusing characters, and interesting plots draw kids in. Plus, they provide teachers with excellent examples for mentor text lessons. In this post, I am sharing teaching tips you can use to make your next Tomie dePaola Author Study one your students won’t forget. My hope is that I will show you how to teach Tomie DePaola’s books like a pro!
Tomie Depaola, author and illustrator
The best way to introduce an author to your class is to do a little research as a group about his/her life as well as the history of his/her books. You learn so much about the author’s craft this way. HERE is the link to Tomie’s site and biographical information. When I visited the page as well as other related pages, I learned that he’s written over 270 books for children and won numerous awards including Caldecott and Newbery Honor awards for Strega Nona and 26 Fairmont Avenue. Can you imagine having published that many books? He truly had one remarkable career! Check out this brief video about him.
I expect most of us wonder how a young boy becomes such a famous author. Well, fortunately for us, Tomie tells about his childhood in the book, The Art Lesson. I suggest beginning your author study with this book just to help your students put themselves into Tomie’s shoes.
THE ART LESSON
In this unit, my hope was to help teachers and students make connections to Tomie’s childhood. The unit begins with a schema builder about creating art as well as a prereading brainstorm for students to record what they know, see, and wonder about Tomie. The resources also help students explore the details of Tommy’s life as if it’s fictional. In reality, it is an autobiography. In true Tomie form, he renames himself “Tommy”, a more traditional spelling of his name. You can check out the unit HERE.
tomie depaola’s mOST FAMOUS books
THE Strega Nona SERIES
The Strega Nona books are my all time favorite. Why? Well, it’s all about the characters for me. Strega Nona and Big Anthony give us so much material to use when teaching characterization and character traits. I love the life lessons and Big Anthony’s mishaps. He sure can get into some trouble!
I created this bundle because many teachers prefer to delve into the Strega Nona series versus do a full blown author study. It includes before-during-after activities for each of the five titles. Strega Nona, the original is the book you’d start with first.
Jamie O’Rourke Series
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day! You can not go wrong with these two classics. Jamie O’Rourke reminds me a lot of Big Anthony, and certainly, you might make comparisons between these characters (text to text connections). The first book, Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato is a derivation of The Enormous Turnip. In the story, Jamie tries to take a shortcut and plants a seed he gets from a leprechaun. Well, it grows and grows, and when all of the townspeople help him get it out, it rolls down the hill and blocks the road. Gahhh!
The bundle I created for these two books includes both PDF and Google Slides TM, so it makes it easy for teachers to vary lessons. There are about 20 PDF pages and 20 digital pages for each book. I include a schema builder, vocabulary, comprehension skill activities, questioning task cards, and a writing prompt (class book) with each title.
The Bill and Pete Series
Another series Tomie wrote were the Bill and Pete books. Bill is a crocodile and Pete is his “toothbrush” bird friend. The two characters are inseparable, and their mission is to “save the day”. There are three books in the series; Bill and Pete, Bill and Pete to the Rescue, and Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile. I love Bill and Pete to the Rescue because they save Little Jane Allison, the crocodile and Bill gets reunited with his dad with a surprising ending.
I have added quite a bit to these units. Like the others, I include a schema builder, vocabulary activity and word cards, comprehension lessons, questioning task cards, and a writing prompt for you to make a class book. Each of the individual units sell for $5 and include both PDF and digital options. The bundle is $12.
Little Grunt and the Big Egg
The final book that I have in my author study bundle is Little Grunt and the Big Egg. It is best for second grade, and the setting is in prehistoric time. Little Grunt is an inquisitive kid, and he’s tasked to go out looking for eggs. Well, he grabs the biggest one he can find. Everyone in the family cheers with joy UNTIL…it hatches!
You can tie in lots of great discussion with this one such as what makes a great pet, life in prehistoric times, comparisons to life today, and more.
The unit I created has a focus on the story elements-characters, setting, and plot. It has a few project options in the PDF version and adapted options in the digital. You can learn more about the unit HERE.
Activities and Links for Teachers
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- EXPLORING CHARACTERIZATION WITH STREGA NONA AND BIG ANTHONY
- WHY AUTHOR STUDIES ARE A MUST FOR ELEMENTARY
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Funtoo Linux Optimization Proposal: Boot-Update Redesign
The goals in rewriting boot-update are as follows:
- Refactor code
- Add UEFI support
- Simplify Kernel Layout
Boot-update could use some code simplification. This will be accomplished by using a simpler design using templates for text generation, and also simplifying the kernel layout (described below.)
Boot-update currently doesn't support UEFI booting directly, and must be manually configured via the UEFI Install Guide. Part of this proposal involves adding UEFI support to boot-update.
Simplify Kernel Layout
Currently, all kernels and initramfs images are installed into /boot directly and typically have the names kernel-SUFFIX or bzImage-SUFFIX and initramfs-SUFFIX. Boot-update needs to find the kernel and initramfs images and associate them with each other, and then parse the filename for version information.
This is not an optimal way to organize kernels. A much cleaner approach would be to have a /boot/kernels/VERSION/ directory that contains files initramfs.gz, bzImage, System.map, etc. without any suffix. boot-update would then scan /boot/kernels and make all directory names available as kernels that could be booted. This simplifies kernel management as everything related to a particular kernel is organized in its own sub-directory.
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Jim wants to know, "Is this legal?"
Chris asks, "Where's the money going?"
And Eileen says, "I feel like I'm being hit on and find myself dodging them."
We learned that giving on the street can be a tough call.
We were out pursuing another story one afternoon when we happened upon a group of men at a West Roxbury intersection collecting money.
Their buckets said they were raising money for "homeless children," but when we asked them what charity they were working with, well, they wouldn't say.
When we asked them where the money they were collecting goes, the best we got out of them was "the babies."
There was no way for us to tell if they were legit.
One driver said, "Until you actually said it, I didn't think about it because he has no logos, nothing. He doesn't have an ID."
And that's the dilemma when you're sitting at a red light. You might want to be generous, but you wonder if you're being taken.
Another driver told us, "I got a feeling that sometimes people just take the money right out of the till."
For some help we went to consumer advocate Edgar Dworsky who heads www.consumerworld.org.
"You really can't do research when you're waiting at a red light," he says.
He also says, let the donator beware.
"You have to take their word for it or not give. Or maybe not give and check them out later," says Dworsky.
But how do you do that?
"If you're a non profit organization, a charity, you have to be registered with the Attorney General's office," says Dworsky.
That means you can check that charity out on the AG's website.
But religious organizations are exempt.
They don't have to register, so that makes research a lot harder.
On another afternoon we connected with members of Teen Challenge asking for donations at a Boston intersection.
Teen Challenge is a Christian based substance abuse program.
Since the organization has a religious affiliation, it doesn't have to register, but does it anyway.
Members collecting money on the street also wear ID badges.
"We want to be a positive influence and let people know that what they're donating to is a good cause; it is a verifiable cause," says Rev. Josh Fulton of Teen Challenge.
But back to the guys in West Roxbury who wouldn't tell us, well, anything. Edgar Dworsky has a warning.
"That's a red flag right there. If they will not tell you who the money is being collected for, what the name of the organization is drive on," he says.
How about the fact that these people are standing out in the middle of busy streets?
Well, the Boston Police say as long as they move when the light turns green, they're ok.
The state posts registered charities on its website.
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While hospice care has been adopted by more and more individuals, there remain a number of myths and misconceptions about the hospice philosophy and the facts about palliative care. Unfortunately, these misconceptions can lead to patients and their families missing out on beneficial services. As with any type of medical treatment and care, education is important in order to allow patients to make the best decisions for them. With that in mind, here are three of the most common and detrimental myths about hospice care and the truth behind them.
Medicare uses benefit periods, which last 90 days. This practice has led to the belief that hospice care has a time limit and is only for patience with 6-months or less left to live. This time frame comes from a typical Medicare estimate that hospice patience only need two benefit periods. What many people don’t know, however, is that Medicare allows you to receive an unlimited amount of 60-day benefit periods after that initial 6-months should you need it. Palliative care isn’t designed to shorten or lengthn life, but the reduction of stress and increase in comfort often affects health in a positive way. It’s even an option to go off hospice care and come back when it’s needed. At no point would a patient be refused care, however, due to the length of time they’ve received hospice.
No one is quite sure where this myth comes from, but it states that hospice care is administered at a specific facility and patients are required to go there to receive care. This is completely untrue. Rather than a physical location, hospice is a philosophy that allows patients to make choices for their end of life. That means a patient could be in a hospital, nursing home, or in their own home and still be a candidate for hospice care. Services are provided 24/7 and are even available when the patient’s finances are depleted. The idea of hospice is to make patients more comfortable and to work with their needs, so requiring them to visit a specific facility or make a specific choice is outside the philosophy.
While it’s already been mentioned that hospice is a relief-based approach, rather than a curative one, the decision to go off medications is left up to the patient. Some medications can be a cause of discomfort and it may be the recommendation of the hospice provider that the patient discontinue use of it, but to say that hospice requires patients to stop taking medications is inaccurate. In order to receive the maximum benefit from palliative care, recommendations are made to increase comfort and reduce stress. Sometimes that coincides with going off medication, but sometimes the patient prefers to continue medications and other recommendations and considerations are made.
Once you understand that hospice care is a philosophy focused on making patients more comfortable, many of the myths associated with hospice are easy to discern.
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One in two children is a passive smoker because they live with smoking parents and present up to four times more respiratory diseases than minors who are not exposed to tobacco smoke, in addition to presenting other pathologies more frequently such as sudden infant death syndrome . According to doctors, these children often suffer from asthma, bronchitis and migraines.
We all know that smoking is bad for our health and for those who habitually share space with us. I have a friend who tells me that he cannot understand how there are pregnant women who smoke or parents who smoke in the car with their children inside. They are forcing their children to smoke! he said angrily ... and he is right. Quitting tobacco is very difficult, but not impossible, we just have to choose a good cause that motivates us, those who have succeeded already know it. Although currently, the law protects children from tobacco smoke in public spaces in private spaces, many times minors are not respected and the worst thing is that it is their own parents who do it, those who are undoubtedly the most they want you in the world.
Surely, no normal parent would knowingly harm their child, but many times our habit of smoking can be harmful to them, even if we do not notice its harmful effects in the short term. The example that we give them by smoking, without a doubt, is bad, since it is a habit not recommended for anyone, and your son, when he is older, may imitate the model he has seen at home. But much more serious than the bad example we set is the fact that we force our children to be passive smokers.
Continuous exposure to cigarette smoke increases the possibility that our child will become ill, especially from diseases that affect his airways, and may present continuous colds, asthma, bronchitis, etc. even end up suffering lung damage. In case of viral infection they will also tend to worsen or, at least, they will have more difficulty to improve in cases of viral infection.
Our children also want healthy parents and that we are responsible when it comes to emitting fumes. So, we add another granite to the barn, adding to the public recommendations: you should try to stop smoking, and if it is impossible for you at least stop doing it in the environments where you are with your child. Allow your home and car to be smoke-free so your child can stop second-hand smoke. Your child is your best motivation to quit smoking!
Patro Gabaldon. Editor of our site
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Identifying The Top 10 Most Common Database Security Vulnerabilities
Cyber networks are the 21st Century’s principle attack fronts. Digital warfare is increasingly gaining prominence, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. From tampering with elections to attacking businesses and personal accounts, attackers are leaving nothing untouched.
Currently, hackers are targeting systems every 39 seconds, affecting a third of Americans each year. And the risk is consistently growing with each network field expansion. By 2020, there will be 200 billion connected devices- translating to countless vantage points for perpetrators. This will push annual damages to $6 trillion, up from $3 trillion in 2015.
While there are multiple areas to attack in an organization, cybercriminals are particularly fond of going for the database. That’s where the bulk of sensitive information like corporate secrets, intellectual property, and financial records, is usually locked away. Generally, the higher the sensitivity, the more the profit hackers stand to make from the data.
Due to such imminent threats, the U.S. government is constantly reviewing its cybersecurity spending every year for improved protection. Unfortunately, that’s not the case when it comes to other organizations. Despite 54% of enterprises having experienced successful attacks, only 38% believe that they are prepared to protect themselves against a sophisticated attack.
So we’ll attempt to reduce the gap by walking you through 10 of the most common vulnerabilities that attackers might capitalize on to successfully infiltrate your database:
- Deployment Failures
Deployment is a complex process because of the multiple variables and steps involved. In addition to comprehensively assessing IT needs, enterprises should systematically deploy various components whose architecture integrates with standard processes, then adequately review and test the entire system.
Since it’s a challenging process, it’s acceptable to make errors or omissions. Of course, these should be identified and mitigated at the review and text stage. But, some IT teams fail to conduct comprehensive checks. Any resultant unresolved problem becomes a vulnerability that could ultimately be used by attackers.
- Poor Password Management
The password is essentially the main key to the entire system and all its files. But, surprisingly, 67% of passwords scored poorly on a typical test. 33% were rated “good”, and none could meet “very good” standards. Even more shocking is the fact that 18% of the individuals surveyed reuse the same password on multiple platforms for easy remembrance; while 39% write it down on a piece of paper; and 10% chose to secure it in a computer file.
If perpetrators fail to guess correctly, they might as well access the passwords from unsecured computer files, or simply stumble upon papers with password details.
- Excessive User Privileges
It’s common for system administrators to grant other employees excessive database privileges that exceed the requirements of their job functions. Unfortunately, this increases overall risk because some workers may eventually abuse their permissions, and consequently trigger potentially detrimental data breaches.
If the job functions of respective users are not clear, CIOs should link up with their human resource departments to establish distinct clearance levels.
- Lack of Segregation
Leveraging a holistic and centralized database simplifies the whole integration process. But taking a literal approach results in a unilateral database that is fully accessible by not only the administrator and employees but also third-party contractors.
Even in a centralized database, files should be systematically segregated according to their sensitivity. The sensitive data sets should be adequately secured in a vault-like sub-sector of the database, accessible only by cleared parties.
- Missing Patches
According to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, 5,000 to 6,000 new vulnerabilities are emerging on an annual basis. That translates to at least 15 every day, all principally targeting system weaknesses. Software vendors subsequently respond with patches. But database administrators are often too busy to keep up with all the releases.
The longer a database runs with missing patches, the more susceptible it is to developing malware. If manual updates are proving to be a bit too cumbersome, enable auto updates across the board.
- Poor Audit Trail
Maintaining appropriate database audit details has always been important not only for compliance but also for security purposes. But many enterprises are leaving it off at the compliance level.
The resultant inability to comprehensively monitor data across the board represents serious vulnerabilities at many levels. Even something as simple as fraudulent activity cannot be detected in time to contain a breach.
- Inadequate Database Backups
A breach can be bad. But data loss is potentially catastrophic. As a matter of fact, 43% of enterprises that experience this never re-open, and 51% eventually collapse after two years. But despite this fact, many enterprises are still running inadequately backed up servers.
A good backup architecture encompasses primary, secondary and tertiary backup strategies that are repeatedly tested. It should also provide multiple restore points and real-time auto-updates.
- Unencrypted Data
While encryption has become standard during the data transmission process, some enterprises are still yet to implement the same for information held within their databases. Hackers love this because they are able to easily use stolen data in its rawest form.
- The Human Factor
Although malware is progressively getting sophisticated, human error is behind more than two-thirds of data breaches. And it’s expected to be the leading cause for the long haul, especially since enterprises are yet to implement sufficiently tight policies to protect their databases. While such a measure does not completely eliminate the risk, it will increasingly reduce vulnerabilities emanating from human errors.
- Database Management Inconsistencies
Overall, the lack of consistent database management continues to collectively contribute to all these system vulnerabilities. Database developers and system administrators, therefore, should have a consistent methodology of managing their databases to minimize vulnerabilities, prevent attacks, detect infiltrations, and contain breaches.
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Today I will tell you how to draw a bear face for kindergarten. This is another drawing guide in a series of tutorials for aspiring artists and kids.
Here you will learn how to draw a bear face for kindergarten. This tutorial will be very simple, like all the previous ones. The head of the bear is made in a cartoon style. Pay attention to the proportions of the muzzle elements. The bear’s eyes are small, far apart, and almost at the level of the nose. Thus, the face of the bear looks cute cartoonish.
In this tutorial, you will need to be able to draw rounded shapes. There will be nothing complicated here, this instruction contains only simple forms and a minimum of details. In this tutorial, almost all of the elements are circles and ovals. Thus, this task will help you train your ability to make smooth, rounded lines. Follow all the steps in order and follow my drawing tips.
I’m sure you will like this tutorial very much, so skip ahead to drawing.
Time needed: 15 minutes.
How to Draw a Bear Face for Kindergarten
- Draw the outline of the head.
Determine the position of the head and draw an even oval.
- Draw the ears and muzzle.
In the middle of the large oval, make a small oval for the face and draw the ears.
- Draw the elements of the face.
Depict the eyes in two small circles and draw the nose and mouth.
- Color the bear.
Use brown as the main color and a lighter shade for the muzzle. Add highlights on the eyes.
I hope you enjoyed your time and trained your creativity at the same time. Now you know how to quickly and easily draw a bear’s head. You can use this guide on how to draw the face of a bear for kindergarten on different occasions. For example, you can draw such a cute cartoon bear on a postcard for your friends, decorate your personal diary, or use it in other situations.
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Melbourne poised to become first cyber-ready city
The Cyber Victoria program has been launched, as part of an effort to help the state become the first cyber-ready city in Australia.
The program will be delivered by LifeJourney, the company credited with driving the Cyber Maryland program — an initiative that has seen Maryland, USA, develop a world-leading cybersecurity cluster.
With its Asia Pacific Headquarters now in Melbourne, LifeJourney is partnering with Optus to ensure Victoria has the most skilled cyber workforce in the Asian region and provides companies, both established and start-ups, with the necessary talent pool to build a cyber-ready workforce.
Cyber Victoria will be rolled out over the coming months with more announcements to be made during that time.
“Cybersecurity is growing at an astonishing rate across Australia and globally, so it is important that we grow with it so we can capitalise on an industry now worth US$71 billion annually,” said Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade Philip Dalidakis.
In addition, US-based cybersecurity company HyTrust will establish its new Australian headquarters in Melbourne.
HyTrust creates information security solutions for organisations that use cloud services, and will use its new Melbourne office as a base to expand into the Australian and Asia Pacific markets.
The announcement follows the recent move by Israeli cybersecurity leader CyberGym to relocate its global headquarters to Melbourne and create 60 new high-skill jobs over the next three years.
Victoria is already home to the largest cybersecurity cluster in Australia, which includes the government-backed Oceania Cyber Security Centre and the CSIRO’s Data61Cyber Security and Innovation Hub.
The government has also secured agreements to work with global research powerhouses including Oxford University’s Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, Israel’s Tel Aviv University and the Commonwealth of Virginia, the biggest defence state in the US.
Cybercrime affected 46% of small and medium Australian businesses in 2015 and costs the economy around $17 billion a year.
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Are you by any chance thinking about moving to India? Well, since you have shown interest in this particular article, I think it is rather safe to assume that you are giving the idea some thought. India is a beautiful country, the colorful culture, the wonderful people all come together to form a rather interesting place to live. However, moving to India definitely has its drawbacks as well. Take the weather for example, being a westerner you are likely accustomed to much cooler weather, and India is hot very hot and also humid. Now that seriously affect you stay there. However, India is a massive country and there are a lot of cities in India where the weather is quite pleasant petty much all year round. If you stay in such a city, you will love it there. This is why our researchers have done their work, and made a list of such cities for the convenience of our readers. So that you do not have to spend your time digging through heaps of data on the internet. If you are seriously considering moving to India, then I cannot recommend this article to you enough. Let me point you in the direction of our article.
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NEW POETRY BY ROBIN FULTON MACPHERSON
ROBIN FULTON MACPHERSON‘s A Northern Habitat: Collected Poems 1960-2010 was published in 2014 by Marick Press (Michigan), who are bringing out his new collection shortly. Poets he has translated include (from Norwegian) Olav H. Hauge and (from Swedish) Tomas Tranströmer, Harry Martinson, and Kjell Espmark.
The blue clouds turn the oceans blue.
The green clouds turn the forests green.
Not everything in the heavens,
though, is as the heavens would want.
Spring light landing finally here
seems disappointed: was it worth
the effort to illuminate
neglected backyards, dumped tractors,
dried willow-herb stalks from last year?
From a Very High Window
A cloud the length and breadth of Aarhus
half darkens every street in Aarhus,
looks more like a stone lid than soft cloud.
The cathedral, millions of bricks piled
to make us look up, from here is squat.
The tenements know how high they’ve reached.
The word for spire tries to hide the spire.
The word for cloud tries to hide the cloud.
The word for eye tries to hide the eye.
Beyond the jurisdiction of cloud
there is brightness to be imagined
flowing in oat-fields and forest tops.
Where Olav H. Hauge Lived
At times he found space for them
in three or four lines of verse:
the height of the high rock slabs,
the depth of the deep black fjord.
However few words he used
crag and fjord took their revenge:
the hard crag became higher,
the black fjord became deeper.
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Dear UN Committee on the Rights of the Child,
On behalf of The Foundation for a Clean Environment on Curaçao (SMOC) I like to inform you with this e-mail, nothing more, nothing less.
Curaçao is a tropical island that is part of the Dutch Kingdom. Curaçao has a lot of advantages for tourists like sun and coral reefs. Unfortunately, there is also an oil-refinery. This refinery emits tons of toxic compounds that are inhaled by the people living in the neighborhood of this refinery, including some 6.000 children and 19 schools. Due to the trade-wind, the people in this (poorest) neighborhoods inhale these toxic compounds every day and every night of the year, and have been doing this for their whole life (the refinery started operating in 1918) . Eco-RYS, a renowned Dutch research agency, conducted research to quantify the polluting activities of this refinery. For clearness’s sake, Eco-RYS did this research on request of the Curaçao government. This research elucidated that the polluting activities cause premature death to at least 18 people per year. Beside these premature deaths, thousands of people suffer several severe health complaints (an investigation by the government in 2007 showed that 85% of the people have complaints and want to visit a doctor, want to move away and are afraid). SMOC fights against the refinery and government who tolerates this pollution (no enforcement of the permits at all) and went to court many times, with success. We won many cases! The judge passed sentence on this polluting activities with reference to human rights, e.g. Convention on the Rights of the Child (Art. 24). The judge decided what we have been thinking for many years: children rights are under pressure, and violated, because the children simply do not have a clean environment in which they can live and go to school. Schools that are evacuated many times a year, leaving thousands of children without a proper place for education. A bloody shame that needs international attention.
I am looking forward to your answer.
Arjan Linthorst (Board member and chemical advisor of SMOC)
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Cholera is a bacterial disease usually spread through contaminated water. Cholera causes severe diarrhea and dehydration. Left untreated, cholera can be fatal in a matter of hours, even in previously healthy people. Modern sewage and water treatment have almost eradicated cholera in industrialized countries. The last major outbreak in the United States occurred in 1910-1911 when the steamship Moltke brought infected people from Naples to New York City. Wikipedia (November 9, 2019). But cholera is still present in Africa, Southeast Asia and Haiti.
The risk of cholera epidemic is highest when poverty, war or natural disasters force people to live in crowded conditions without adequate sanitation.
I choose this disease because, cholera infection is often mild but sometimes can be severe if left untreated, it can be fatal in a matter of hours. The good thing is, cholera is easily treated. Death results from severe dehydration that can be prevented with a simple and inexpensive rehydration solution.
Cholera is an acute, diarrheal illness caused by infection of the intestine with the toxigenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 or O139.
An estimated 2.9 million cases and 95,000 deaths occur each year around the world. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (May 11, 2018). This bacterium’s natural habitat is brackish or saltwater, the structure of Vibrio cholera is gram-negative and comma- shape. Cholera is highly contagious so the affected individual will have to be isolated from others to prevent the spread of the bacterial.
The bacteria are transmitted between humans through the fecal-oral route and are contracted by ingesting food or water contaminated with pathogenic forms of Vibrio cholera (Kaper, Morris, and Levine 1995).
The Vibrio cholera, which is gram-negative and a comma-shape bacteria secrets a toxin, which targets receptors in the human intestine, and this is responsible for the pathology characteristic of the disease. No human or organ is directly affected by the bacterium responsible for causing cholera, but the bacterium produces an exotoxin which causes cells in the intestine to excrete large amount of water producing watery, and classically “rice water” diarrhea, it is the toxin that causes the problem not the bacterium per se.
Cholera is an extremely contagious disease that can cause severe acute watery diarrhea. It takes between 12 hours and 5 days for a person to show symptoms after ingesting contaminated food or water. Cholera affects both children and adults and can kill within hours if untreated. Most people infected with Vibrio cholera do not develop any symptoms, although the bacteria are present in their feces for 1-10 days after infection and are shed back into the environment, potentially infecting other people. Cases often present with mild symptoms, although some patients experience profuse watery diarrhea, nausea, abdomen pain, lethargy and vomiting. Due to the short incubation period of the bacterium, however, severe cases that are left untreated experience a massive loss of bodily fluids, which can quickly provoke dehydration, shock and eventual death (Sack et al. 2004a).
According to Cash et al., a minimum Vibrio cholera inoculums of bacteria is required to develop symptoms of cholera (i.e., provoke diarrhea in healthy volunteers with neutralized gastric acid) (Cash et al. 1974). Researchers have estimated that every year, there are roughly 1.3 to 4.0 million cases, and 21 000 to 143 000 deaths worldwide due to cholera. World Health Organization (January 17, 2019) Treatment of cholera Quick access to treatment, such as Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS), is used to successfully treat most cases, and intravenous fluids and antibiotics for severe cases; Hydration is the mainstay of treatment for cholera. Treatment will consist of oral or intravenous solutions to replace lost fluids depending on how severe the diarrhea is. Antibiotics, which kill the bacteria, are not part of emergency treatment for mild cases. But they can reduce the duration of diarrhea by half and also reduce the excretion of the bacteria, thus helping to prevent the spread of the disease. Nayana Ambardekar.(July 27, 2019)
Effective cholera prevention and control interventions are well known and rely to a great extent on the implementation of integrated and comprehensive approaches that involve activities both inside and outside of the health sector. Safe water supply and adequate sanitation and hygiene are the important routes for the control and prevention of cholera infection. Community engagement for behavioral changes and improved hygiene practices would help to prevent an outbreak.
Also, an enhanced epidemiological and laboratory surveillance to identify endemic areas and detect, confirm, and quickly respond to outbreaks would go a long way to prevent the spread of the Vibrio cholera bacteria. Immunization with Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) is one of the best ways to prevent an outbreak. The World Health Organization (WHO) considered using cholera vaccines which has been available in the 1980s to control large, active cholera outbreaks. The government of Guinea has partnered with the global charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, to vaccinate more than 100,000 people—making it the first time an oral cholera vaccine is used in Africa to control an active epidemic. Cristina Luiggi (June 12, 2012).
Some people have this misconception that, one can also be infected by cholera through personal contact with an infected person. This is false. The disease can only be contracted through contaminated water or food. Some also believe that cholera epidemics are caused by dead bodies after a disaster. This is also not true. The truth is, an outbreak happens as a result of poor hygiene. Posed question Could we ever succeed in eradicating cholera from the globe? Creativity (Wow Factor) The most surprising thing I discovered about cholera is that, it can kill within hours if not detected early and left untreated. Conclusion Cholera is a preventable disease since it is transmitted through ingestion of contaminated food and water.
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ANALYSIS OF EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES AND ALGORITHMS IN TERMS OF “TEXT MINING” TO PREDICT THE AUTHORSHIP IN ALBANIAN LANGUAGE
Author(s): Dr. Miranda Harizaj*, Msc. Arli Minga**, Dr. Alfons Harizaj***
* Polytechnical Univistry of Tirana, Tirana, Albania email@example.com
** National Agency for Information Society,Tirana, Albania firstname.lastname@example.org
*** Canadian Institute of Technology, Rr: „Xhanfize KEKO“, Tirana, Albania email@example.com
Natural Language Processing has gained a special importance and development in recent years, where the analysis of written texts through various techniques of “text mining” and the extraction of all their features is a prerequisite to be used and be further implemented for various purposes. In this paper it will be compared some of the most effective techniques and algorithms in terms of “text mining”, to predict the authorship of a written text in the Albanian language, using for training the model, a fund of articles written by some of the most well- known bloggers of Albanian journalism. When talking about finding the authorship of a text it must kept in mind many important elements such as: number of sentences, sentence structure, number of words in a sentence, repetition of the same word, length of words used, frequency of the use of punctuation, literary figures used; elements which best display the unique narrative style for each author. This paper can serve as a good starting point to go further to its specific objective, predicting the authorship of an anonymous text, but also for other applications related to “text mining”, referring to the Albanian language.
For more please open this link: Paper 1: Dr. Miranda Harizaj*, Msc. Arli Minga**, Dr. Alfons Harizaj***
INVESTIGATING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS OF YOUNG STUDENTSTHE CASE OF MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS
Author(s): Ph.D. Emilija Egger*, Ph.D. Ivona Mileva**, Jovana Saveva***
* Skopje Metropolitan College, Skopje, Blvd. 8-mi Septemvri 19a, Skopje, North Macedonia
** University American College Skopje, Blvd. Treta Makedonska Brigada, bb, Skopje North Macedonia
*** Skopje Metropolitan College, Skopje, Blvd. 8-mi Septemvri 19a, Skopje, North Macedonia
The trend of becoming entrepreneurs is increasing among young individuals. Based on research, different motivational factors are playing an important role in increasing the trend of entrepreneurship among young individuals. The entrepreneurial, work, social, individual, and economic core are some of the main motivational factors discussed in this paper. The study attempts to investigate the motivating factors of young students to start an entrepreneurial career by using a quantitative approach. The results of the study show that the role of motivational factors listed in a specific order is quite important in increasing the trend of becoming an entrepreneur among younger students.
Keywords: motivation, entrepreneurship, young students, factors
For more please open this link: Paper 2: Ph.D. Emilija Egger, Ph.D. Ivona Mileva, Jovana Saveva
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE INNOVATION INDEX BETWEEN WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES, UNDER A QUALITY MANAGEMENT APPROACH
Author(s): Dr. Enriko Ceko*
* Head of Business Administration and Information technology
Canadian Institute of Technology
My goal in conducting this study was to evidence and show the importance of the innovation concept and the relations of this concept to quality and quality management, in a comparative analysis between Balkan countries under a worldwide perspective approach. Collecting data and information about innovation index worldwide, Balkan countries included, describing the newly introduced ISO family of standards for innovation, handling a descriptive statistic for innovation index, making a comparative analysis of this index between Balkan countries, as well as a comparison of Balkan countries with the rest of the world on this issue, was
the methodology of this research. Application of ISO standards generally and the application of the ISO family of standards for innovation helps companies to strengthen their commitment to their clients, improving innovative activities, processes and procedures, and economies of Balkan countries to achieve a competitive advantage, as a response to Crisis and Post-Crisis Period, was the main recommendations of the research.
Keywords: Context-Free Languages, Pumping lemma, Intelligent systems, Machine/deep learning, Data sciences
For more please open this link: Paper 3: Dr. Enriko Ceko
AIR TRANSPORT IMPLICATIONS IN TOURIST DESTINATIONS
Author(s): Prof. Dr. Ljupco Sotiroski*, Prof. Dr. Klodiana Gorica**
* International University Europa Prima Skopje, Full professor at the Faculty of Film Arts,
Institute for Audiovisual Studies and Digital Protection
** University of Tirana, Faculty of Economy, Tirana, Albania
For more please open this link: Paper 4: Prof. Dr. Ljupco Sotiroski, Prof. Dr. Klodiana Gorica
GREEN PRODUCTS AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR IN ALBANIA
Author(s): MSc. Paula Mehmetukaj*, Dr. Oriola Musa**
* Canadian Institute of Technology, Tirana, Albania
** Canadian Institute of Technology, Tirana, Albania
Due to the increasing of environmental awareness, consumers nowadays tend to pay more attention to the safety of personal care items and products that claim to offer environmental benefits. Over the years, both consumers awareness and consumers attitudes towards sustainable or “green” brands have increased significantly.The purpose of this thesis is to affirm this conclusion reached by the authors of scientific articles for Albania as a case study. From the questionnaire conducted online with 268 participants, in the beginning of the analyses we concluded that Albanian consumers have information and knowledge regarding the term “green” products, also some of them are users of these products and prefer them compared to traditional products as a result of greater quality and bigger benefits. But by the end of the analysis, we saw that despite the qualities highlighted and pointed out by participating consumers, and the possible reasons for using green products, their behaviour does not comply with these thoughts of theirs. What is most important during this research is the low exposure of green products or brands in Albania, creating major constraints on finding and disposing of these products for the Albanian consumer.
Keywords: Green products, green consumption, green marketing, green shopping, social ethics, social dilemmas, consumer behaviour
For more please open this link: Paper 5: MSc. Paula Mehmetukaj, Dr. Oriola Musa
ТHE POSITIVE IMPLICATIONS OF THE DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS ON PRIMARY EDUCATION
Author(s): PhD. Aleksandar Blazeski*
* Skopje Metropolitan College, Skopje, North Macedonia
Democratization has emerged as a need for the good of citizens, to improve the quality of life, the process of accession to communities (democratization of society, creating a democratic, accountable, transparent and accountable government) and to improve and maintain stable interethnic relations in the country. As in other segments, decentralization in education refers to the transfer of responsibilities from national to local level, thus placing primary and secondary education under the jurisdiction of municipalities. The decentralization process is changing the way schools are managed and managed where schools tend to become open learning centers, involving more entities, including parents and students, and local government officials, increasing cooperation with enterprises and NGOs such as and utilizing local resources in order to enrich the experience and raise the level of skills acquired. The research part is aimed at determining the effects of primary education management before and after the decentralization process. The research was conducted on a sample of respondents from primary school teachers, principals, ie deputy principals and professional associates from the pedagogical-psychological service in schools. A research questionnaire technique was used to conduct the research. The poll is anonymous and the questions are clearly worded. The obtained results from the research are processed quantitatively, and certain areas will be interpreted qualitatively.
Keywords: education, primary, decentralization, effects, management.
For more please open this link: Paper 6: PhD. Aleksandar Blazeski
THE COVID-19 EFFECTS ON THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY -A COMPARATIVE RATIO ANALYSIS ON ACTIVISION-BLIZZARD, ELECTRONIC ARTS AND KONAMI
Author(s): Brendon Pojani*, MSc. Isida Mansaku**
* Procredit Bank, Tirana, Albania
** Canadian Institute of Technology, Tirana, Albania
The video game industry has evolved from having just a children-focused target market to a more sophisticated one with a widespread and mainstream audience with no age limitations. After the COVID-19 outbreak, it is mainly stated as one of the industries that faced little to no issues, so the main aim behind this research is to investigate how the giants of this industry confronted the financial challenges of pandemic. We conducted a comparative profitability, liquidity, asset and debt utilization ratio analysis relying on the annual reports of 2021 and 2020 (2020 and 2019 for Activision-Blizzard), published by three of the biggest video game development companies. The time frame was chosen to reflect the position of the companies before and after the first year of the pandemic. The results vary due to the companies’ business models. Based on these results, we tried to identify any possible changes and variations, assessing the financial performance and position of the companies. In the case of Activision-Blizzard, we mostly came up with increases in all of their major ratios, which derives from a successful business model they follow. In Electronic Arts’ case, we noticed an increase in revenue expenditure that led to a decrease in its profitability ratios. We also found out that the company has slight reduction in liquidity and asset utilization, but the results still indicate a good performance and do not reflect any serious predicament. While Konami, we saw a significant growth in their profitability and liquidity ratios, but on the other side there is a decrease in their total asset turnover and increase in the debt ratio. In overall, we can state that the companies managed to cope with pandemic and financial challenges during the first year and even to expand their presence in the video game industry, but not without having to face some difficulties.
Keywords: Video Game Industry, COVID 19 Pandemic, Electronic Arts, Konami, Activision-Blizzard, Ratio Analysis, Financial Position and Performance.
For more please open this link: Paper 7: Brendon Pojani, MSc. Isida Mansaku
ANALYSIS OF NONPERFORMING LOANS: CASE OF ALBANIA
Author(s): MSc. Xhesika Pjetra a , PhD Edmira Cakrani b
a Student, Faculty of Economy, Canadian Institute of Technology, firstname.lastname@example.org
b Head of Business Administration Department, Canadian Institute of Technology, email@example.com
The presence of a high level of nonperforming loans has been a growing concern in the world. This problem has been present in Albania, as well, which is one of the countries with the highest level of nonperforming loans in the region. Nonperforming loans hamper economic growth and constrain the monetary policy transmission mechanism. This paper examines the role of nonperforming loans in Albania by evaluating its level throughout the years and analyzing the ways in which these trends have shaped the credit market developments in Albania in terms of lending by economic sector and geographical position. This study strives to examine nonperforming loans as a result of other macroeconomic factors: GDP, remittances and inflation. The methodology involves time series analysis, which is used to identify the possible association between non-performing loans and macroeconomic variables. Multiple regression is used as a model to identify any relationship among them. The period covered is from 2014 to 2020, and it uses quarterly data. The paper uses secondary data, obtained from the Bank of Albania, United Nations database, UNECE, INSTAT, World Bank. The results show that nonperforming loans and these variables are correlated in the long-run.
Keywords: nonperforming loans, credit market developments, inflation, GDP, remittances, Albania, multiple regression model, time series analysis
For more please open this link: Paper 1: Xhesika Pjetri, Edmira Cakrani
“STRESS LEVEL” RANKING OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BURDEN SEEN FROM THE STUDENTS’ SELF-EVALUATING OPTICS AFFECTING THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE COVID-19 CONDITIONS
Author(s): PhD. Blerta Nazarko a , PhD. Alfons Harizaj b , Msc. Klea Çapari c , Msc. Anxhela Baraj d
b Head of IE Department, Lecturer, Canadian Institute of Technology, firstname.lastname@example.org
a Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Canadian Institute of Technology, email@example.com
c Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Canadian Institute of Technology, firstname.lastname@example.org
d Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Canadian Institute of Technology, email@example.com
The psychological burden, generated “in excess” and experienced in perceptions, deemed as interdependent by the Covid-19 conditions, is a potential factor that affects the students’ life and calls for investigation and study. The enforced restrictions to stop Covid-19 infection spread made obligatory the transfer of teaching and learning in the online format. Although it is difficult to inspect anxiety and psychological stress, yet, using specifically built questionnaires based on the theoretical and scientific guidance and in close consultation with the specialists, the present research study is developed. The developed questionnaire was used with the statistical tests applications. It was specified in separate sections that served to clearly defined purposes and hypothesis. The sample used (n=130) was randomly and not obligatorily selected from the Bachelor cycle students of the “Canadian Institute of Technology” University College population. They responded confidentially and the responses were confidentially processed. 30.8% of the selected sample were females and 69.2% were males. The generated anxiety and stress were studied for their impact in the academic achievements and in stimulating the learning abilities and interests. A separate section evaluated the motivating perception as regards the motivating style in knowledge transfer. This study intends to find the most effective forms of transferring and evaluating knowledge. In addition, the study lays out the need for analysis in facing the challenges the online teaching and learning processes present in the Covid-19 conditions in order to identify the positive experiences to be brought forward in continuation.
Keywords: Covid 19,psychological burden, motivating style in knowledge transfer, academic achievement, statistical tests
For more please open this link: Paper 2: PhD. Blerta Nazarko, PhD. Alfons Harizaj, Msc. Klea Çapari, Msc. Anxhela Baraj
ASSESSMENT OF COMPANIES’ DEGREE OF INFORMATISATION AND TRANSITION TO DIGITAL BUSINESS
Author(s): c.e.s., Associate Professor Polina V. Smirnova a , Senior Lecturer Elena D. Shtrafina b
b Leonov Moscow Region University Of Technology (Unitech), Russia
a Leonov Moscow Region University Of Technology (Unitech), Russia , firstname.lastname@example.org
The article discusses the issues of assessing the effectiveness of the use of information technologies, the vector of which is set by the Solow paradox. It is proposed to look for a solution to the paradox in the accumulated level of business informationisation, as well as in a change in the methodological approach to assessing the dynamics of labor productivity as a result of business digitalization
Keywords: E-business, digital enterprise, business digitalization index, business informatics.
For more please open this link: Paper 3: c.e.s., Associate Professor Polina V. Smirnova, Senior Lecturer Elena D. Shtrafina
ROBOTICS IN SUPPORT OF OBTAINING KNOWLEDGE IN COMPUTER SCIENCES BEFORE UNIVERSITY STUDIES.
Author(s): Grigorina Boce a , Alma Hyra b , Frida Zisko c
a Mediterranean University of Albania, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Department of Informatics and Scientific Education, email@example.com
b Mediterranean University of Albania, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Department of Informatics and Scientific Education, firstname.lastname@example.org
c Mediterranean University of Albania, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Department of Informatics and Scientific Education, email@example.com
Gaining good knowledge in computer science before university education is considered a necessity in the most developed countries of the world. Currently, in our country, the education of ICT in pre- university studies begins from the fourth grade of primary education. How interested are students in acquiring this knowledge? Do they have difficulty in gaining programming comprehension? Would the use of robotics help in their motivation and gaining good knowledge in the field of programming? When applied to education, robotics and simulators can change the way students learn and ultimately create a more well-informed and systematic student.
Keywords: robotics, programming, Arduino, motivation, education, knowledge, computer sciences, development, simulation.
For more please open this link: Paper 4: Grigorina Boce, Alma Hyra, Frida Zisko
EVALUATING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DECISIVE FACTORS AFFECTING CUSTOMERS’ REACTION TOWARDS ONLINE SHOPPING-CASE OF ALBANIA
Author(s): Gledis Toçila a
a Student, Faculty of Engineering, Canadian Institute of Technology, firstname.lastname@example.org
This research paper provides a survey which addresses factors that make a significant impact on customer online shopping process and the assessment of their importance during this process. It is focused on five different sections consisting of demographics, security, time saving, product quality, website features and customer service. The Albanian case is interesting to study because it has grown into giant leaps since 2020, and a slight amount of scientific studies are publicly available about it. As a result, a better understanding of Albanian customers attitude towards online shopping is likely to be convenient for monitoring upcoming problems and concerns. The motivation behind this study arises from the risk perception as well as speculations that inevitably exist among consumers regarding the significance of the influence of decisive factors on the shopping online process in Albania. The purpose of this scientific study is to appropriately investigate how Albanian consumers’ point of view towards products’ quality, website features, customer service as well as their security perception have a considerable effect on their online purchases. Data were collected via self-administered questionnaire which contains 26 questions split in 6 sections and it was answered by 206 Albanians. One-way ANOVA were utilized to evaluate the difference between independent or explanatory variables and dependent variable such as customers’ reaction towards online shopping. Further scientific study should be mainly focused on exploring more factors impacting consumers’ reaction towards e-commerce purchases through online shopping as well as assessing their importance in this process.
Keywords: online shopping, demographics, security, time saving, product quality, website features, customer service.
For more please open this link: Paper 5: Gledis Toçila
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND DIVERSITY
Author(s): PhD. Rezart Dibra a
a Lecturer, University College of Business, email@example.com
The use of behavioral science in government and policy and regulation has been gaining popularity and momentum over the last five to ten years. Applications have historically been related to individual behavior – either individuals working within government or citizens themselves. However, there is growing interest among governments and policy institutions to utilize behavioral science to enhance organizational behavior – from government institutions themselves to external organizations that interact with and are regulated by governments. Organizational Behavior is the identification, analyzing and application of knowledge about how individuals and groups act in organizations. It interprets people-organization relationships in terms of the person, group, organization, and whole social system. Objective of it is to build better relationships by achieving people objectives, organizational objectives, and social objectives. It encompasses a wide range of areas, such as human behavior, Training and development, change management, leadership, teams, Group behavior etc. In the study of organizational behavior and diversity, the use of models, theories, and past experience are each helpful in gaining a complete understanding. Individuals within an organization behave as they do as a result of the context in which they are immersed. This short article seeks to examine this context in order to further the cause of helping managers deal with issues in their organizations from a standpoint of knowledge and understanding, rather than guesswork and outdated methods. First, the organization as a system will be discussed, including its interdependence upon other systems. Next, the importance of relationships as a vital part of the operation of organizations will be mentioned. Then, the management of diversity will be outlined, leading to a discussion of the importance of culture in influencing values. This paper is a theoretical paper with some concept in the behavior organizational as a important part of management.
Keywords: human behavior, organizational structure, individuals behavior etc.
For more please open this link: Paper 6: Rezart Dibra
HEATMAPS AS OPTIMIZATION OF MARKETING SOLUTIONS TO INCREASE THE INFORMATIVE CONTENT OF THE WEBSITE
Author(s): Artemenko E.A. a Gavrilova T.V b
a Student, Leonov Moscow Region University of Technology (UNITECH), Russia, firstname.lastname@example.org
b Senior Lecturer, Leonov Moscow Region University of Technology (UNITECH), Russia
This article deals with the basic concepts of this topic, illustrating the need for organizations to introduce heat maps as a means to optimize marketing decisions. The application of this resource in various areas of the organization’s activities are studied in detail, as well as the options for using heat maps to study the desires and preferences of the consumer. The article also provides an analysis of correct and incorrect utilization of heat maps, and how their data should be interpreted to maximize website effectiveness.
Keywords: neuromarketing, marketing, heat maps, consumer behavior.
JEL: M31, M370, M300.
For more please open this link: Paper 7: Artemenko E.A, Gavrilova T.V
ESTIMATING FISCAL MULTIPLIERS FOR NORTH MACEDONIA: A STRUCTURAL VECTOR ERROR CORRECTION MODEL
Author(s): Dr. Arbresh Raveni a
a Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, “Mother Teresa” University-Skopje,
The aim of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of fiscal policy as a means of influencing output in North Macedonia. We apply a VEC model, and use quarterly data for the period 2000q1-2019q4. Our findings suggest that the possibility of fiscal policy to be used as a short-term stabilization tool was limited by the turbulent early phase of transition and several IMF arrangements; the exchange rate peg; and the scarcity of financial resources. The results of the baseline model suggest that a government spending
shock is more effective as a stabilization fiscal tool in Macedonia, compared to a tax shock, although fiscal multipliers smaller than one suggest that the effectiveness of fiscal policy in boosting output is limited. The findings confirm the importance of structural characteristics, suggesting that not accounting for monetary policy reaction and debt dynamics will result in an overstatement of fiscal multipliers. In particular, the results suggest that the “crowding out” effect of fiscal policy due to interest rate pressure
is absent and that monetary policy is accommodating an expansionary fiscal policy. The results of our investigation suggest that an increase in government expenditures will induce a significant increase in taxes. Moreover, although an increase in spending/taxes will result in a short-lived increase/decrease in public debt, as a priori expected, we find a long-equilibrium relationship between government spending and taxation suggesting that debt sustainability is not an issue in the case of Macedonia.
Keywords: fiscal policy, fiscal multipliers, government spending, taxation, North Macedonia.
For more please open this link: Paper 8: Dr. Arbresh Raveni
COMPOUND SYSTEMS USING SCALAR THEORY OF DIFFRACTION: AN ENGINEERING TOOL FOR OPTICAL DESIGN AND OPTOMETRY
Université de Moncton, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada
Physics with focus on Telecommunications, Electrical and Communications Engineer, Engineering
Abstract: Geometrical optics offers the formalism of compound systems by using for instance the Gauss’ method. This formalism notably simplifies the analysis of image formation. Since this theory does not take into account the wave character of light, it is desirable to extend the formalism of compound systems to scalar theory of diffraction which offers a more accurate tool of analysis. This paper treats this extension and shows its importance. For illustration, the system of human eye is considered. The analysis is simplified by using a lenses-based model of the Fresnel transform.
Keywords: geometrical optics, scalar theory of diffraction, Fresnel transform, compound systems.
For more please open this link: Paper 1: Habib Hamam
WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE LEADER?
Lecturer and Researcher, Canadian Institute of Technology (CIT), Tirana, Albania
Business Management, Business Strategy, Marketing, Leadership
Abstract: This paper aims to evaluate what makes an effective leader as perceived in private universities in Albania. Interviews were carried out through administration of a questionnaire of forty-seven participants in the selected university. At the conclusion of each questionnaire, the participants were asked to highlight what makes an effective leader as per their perception of what a leader is in the institution. The findings revealed that a trustworthy leader and who exhibits a high level of integrity makes an effective leader. Additionally, it is their role to provide direction for the institution, primarily for the leaders at the executive level that is involved in policy administration and adoption.
Keywords: Leader, Higher Education, effective leadership
For more please open this link: Paper 2: Erjona Deshati
GENDER INDICATORS WITHIN LABOR MARKET
Albana Demi (Mosho)
Lecturer and Researcher at Alexander Moisiu University of Durrës, Albania
Designing tax system and fiscal policies, Standards of accounting and accounting reports
in PPPs and management
Tirana International Airport (TIA).
Public politics, Human rights
Abstract: This research paper aimed to review the main social indicator, which is used to assess poverty and quality of life, as well as to calculate minimum wages, minimum pensions and basic social payments. The traditional way of measuring poverty is based on income. A family is considered poor when its income falls below the minimum level needed to meet the basic needs of its members. In the written and electronic literature this level is usually called the subsistence level or the poverty line. Currently in our country, there is a lack of official data regarding the vital minimum indicator. In this way, Albania is the only one among the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe, without an official indicator of the defined subsistence minimum, which means that our country currently lacks the basic level of poverty measurement. The International Labor Organization (ILO), the World Bank, the IMF, the Trade Unions, the People’s Advocate, and the Albanian Parliament have from time to time addressed suggestions to the government for setting the official minimum wage indicator. We believe that from this point of view, this study can also serve to revise economic growth strategies and reduce poverty. The living wage indicator is also used in other studies, to be compared with salaries, pensions, etc., but also with the total income of employees on the basis of family budgets. The study will serve to compare the official minimum living wage for an employee with the minimum wage and the size of pensions, social assistance, unemployment benefits, etc. As it is known, in Albania, the level of pensions is determined by law, while the level of the minimum wage, the amount in value of economic assistance, payment of unemployment and disability payment are determined by a Decision of the Council of Ministers. None of these poverty indicators is directly based on the vital minimum indicator.
Keywords: Women, labor market, gender, economy, inequality, Poverty, wage, pension.
For more please open this link: Paper 3: Albana Demi (Mosho), Miljana Xhakolli
EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF WAITING IN QUEUES
University “Aleksander Xhuvani”, Elbasan, Albania
Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Business Communication, Consumer Behavior
Vice Rector, Faculty of Economy, Canadian Institute of Technology, Tirana, Albania
Education, Teaching Physics, Physics and Astronomy books for high schools
Elda Shqau (Sulkja)
Regional Directorate of Health Elbasan City
Abstract: Effective management of queues can significantly improve the performance of the organization in general or the unit where it applies in particular. Effective management of queues is most needed when the service is face to face, i.e. “tangible”, visible and that actually happens in a certain unit. This work aims at identifying the role of several factors (skills, technology, etc.) in the queuing model. The focus of selective surveillance is on all those organizations that have service systems. Service time in the system depends not only on the management of the model but also on some factors which if evaluated (taken into consideration) can significantly improve service results. After a detailed review of the literature, we created the possibility of designing the most effective techniques and methods for gathering information, which was then processed with various computer programs. The proposed model as well as the decision tree is the main results of the presents work. The study has managed to achieve its purpose, as well as to give at the end some recommendations for all those service systems where the queue is applied.
Keywords: system, waiting, queuing, time, service, customer.
For more please open this link: Paper 4: Gjergji Shqau, Vaso Qano, Elda Shqau (Sulkja)
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENTS OF THE USA BEFORE AND AFTER THE PANDEMIC OF COVID-19
Faculty of Economy, Canadian Institute of Technology, Tirana, Albania
Finance, Accounting, Banking, Financial Institutions, Risk Management, Islamic Finance
Charisma University, UK
Public Finance, Computerized Accounting, Fiscal policy, Monetary policy
Abstract: The global pandemic of Covid-19, being an unpredicted event, has caused a collapse in the entire world economy. Different countries have taken different approaches to deal with the economic problems derived from it. This paper aims to make an analysis of the economic and financial developments of the USA by figuring out the condition before and after the pandemic. An important stress will be put on the monetary policy followed by the government of the USA. For a good analysis, a comparison between economic indicators and their behavior, before and after the pandemic, will be done. It will be discussed about the economic activity, the labor market, inflation and the economic and financial stability. These unusual conditions have their effect also in the financial market. The credit quality of firms as well as the performance of financial institutions is mostly affected. The yields on securities and the spread of yields of bonds in comparison with treasury bills is also an important indicator to be studied.
Given the problematic situation the government of the USA tried to influence through the monetary and the fiscal policy. The increase on the money supply by keeping the FED interest rates near to zero has been one of the measures for recovering the economy. Another important measure to address the problem has been the safeguarding of the market functioning. On the other hand, the help of the government by the fiscal policy has been immediate, even though it is expected to increase the government outlays. The methodology used by this paper will be a theoretical comparison of economic development before and after the pandemic, based on row data generated by the reports of Federal Reserves. Statistical data will also be used in order to support the analysis. It concludes that the pandemic has affected the entire world, not only from the health viewpoint bat economically as well. The USA, as the leading economy in the world faced the challenge of finding the most appropriate measures to recover from the downturn. The effects of its policies will continue in the long run and there is needed some time to overcome them.
Keywords: Covid-19pandemic, economic and financial developments, monetary and fiscal policy, crisis, recovery
For more please open this link: Paper 5: Besarta Tafa, Gjergji Tafa
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE LACK OF ‘SEARCHING FOR A JOB’ STRATEGY AND UNEMPLOYMENT AMONGST YOUTH.
Student, Canadian Institute of Technology, Tirana, Albania
Abstract: Unemployment has been accepted as a worrying problem for all society since the beginning of transition. The market is full of different obstacles and barriers. Searching for a job is now a job itself. Making a plan to find a job requires active and continuous work, while staying passive is not an option. The aim of this study is to show the impact that the lack of ‘searching for a job’ strategy has on being unemployed. The research method used is the quantitative one. The data collection method is an administrated in group questionnaire. The study consists of a comparison between two age groups, concretely between 50 youngsters, aged 18-23, and 50 other youngsters, aged 24-29. From the data analysis it resulted that: (a) the sample of this study is passive and doesn’t pay the needed importance and time to search for a job (b) young people have a noted lack of information for the chances that the market offers (c) they don’t have a ‘searching for a job’ strategy and this leads to unemployment.
Keywords: Youth, ‘searching for a job’ strategy, unemployment, unemployed.
For more please open this link: Paper 6: Pamela Sida
AALEN’S ADDITIVE HAZARD MODEL: AN APPLICATION IN ANALYZING JOB TENURE FACTORS IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN ALBANIA
Lule Basha1, Llukan Puka2, 3
1, 2 Department of Applied Mathematics,
1, 2 Faculty of Natural Science, University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania
3 Canadian Institute of Technology, St. Andon Zako Çajupi, Zayed Center, Tirana 100, Albania
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There are several statistical methods for time to event analysis, among which is the Cox proportional hazards model, that is most commonly used. In this model, the effect of the covariates is assumed to act multiplicatively on the baseline hazard rate and the ratio of the hazards is constant over survival time. However, when the proportionality assumption for the Cox proportional hazards model is not satisfied, an additive hazard regression model may be more appropriate. In this study, we give an overview of this approach and then apply Aalen’s additive hazard regression model to a data set which contain the job tenure for Albanian employees and variables that are thought of as important factors in the job tenure. The Aalen model allows for time-varying covariate effects and is used to assess the impact that age of the employee, the age at which he started the job, salary, gender, position and years of work in front of the current position may have in job termination.
Keywords: Job tenure, Survival analysis, Cox proportional hazard model, Aalen’s additive hazard regression model.
For more please open this link: Paper 1: Lule Basha, Llukan Puka
PROTECTION OF DOCUMENTS AGAINST SOPHISTICATED PHOTOCOPYING AND SCANNING
Faculty of Engineering, University of Moncton, NB, E1A 3E9, Canada
A novel method, for designing pantographs, is presented. An iterative algorithm is used to design a distribution of bright and dark spots to be embedded in the original document. This distribution should make the word “void”, “invalid”, or “copy” visible on the photocopy or the scanned version of the original document. We used an iterative algorithm to optimize the pantograph. We can start from a random distribution, or from a deterministic distribution based on Dirac pulses properties.
Keywords: Pantographs, Protection of Documents, Fourier Optics.
For more please open this link: Paper 2: Habib Hamam
COMPARING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ONLINE AND TRADITIONAL LEARNING IN COMPUTER RELATED FIELDS
Silva Bashllari1, Klea Korbi1, Alba Skëndaj2, Evis Plaku1, 3
1 Canadian Institute of Technology, St. Andon Zako Çajupi, Zayed Center, Tirana 100, Albania
2 Universiteti Metropolitan Tirana, St. Pjeter Budi Tiranë, 1000, Albania
3 E-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.org
The traditional classroom environment is gradually losing its monopoly as the sole setting of learning. Digital learning is becoming an attractive model across the higher education spectrum as new innovative information technologies have become widely available. Online learning is used as a tool that improves learning performance while combating the reduction in resources. This work presents a novel study focusing on estimating the efficiency of online learning in comparison to traditional learning for computer related fields in education institutions in Albania. A survey is conducted to estimate the impact that the learning modality has on students enrolled in computer
technology related fields. The study focuses on measuring the role that intrinsic factors, teaching practices, learning intentions and programming expertise have on the perceived usefulness and the efficacy of online learning. Measuring the role and effect of the learning modality will be important to estimating whether students and higher level education institutions are ready to shift towards online learning, or to integrate it into the current traditional framework. The results of our study are useful to have a better understanding of the benefits of online learning alongside with the challenges that need to be addressed in order to improve the teaching experience and outcomes.
Keywords: Online learning, traditional learning, course delivery methodology, blended learning, computer-related fields.
For more please open this link: Paper 3: Silva Bashllari, Klea Korbi, Alba Skëndaj, Evis Plaku
THE INFLUENCE OF A HIGHLY-VALUED MARKET ON M&A ACTIVITY
Canadian Institute of Technology, St. Andon Zako Çajupi, Zayed Center, Tirana 100, Albania
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Merger and Acquisition decisions are about timing, opportunity, and decision. In the business world, these three words are partially influenced by the strength of the stock market. The timing is when the stock market is highly valued which results in high stock valuation, after that is the opportunity which means to find a target or if an existing target has lower stock valuation and finally comes the decision to make whether to use cash or equity for the transaction. Since companies can use its stock as leverage to
acquire companies, a highly valued market gives the companies the resource with which to make purchases. Therefore, the question arises whether the stock market influences the decision for companies to engage in M&A transactions. This question is addressed in this study using a relatively large panel data of M&A activity for the period 2008-2017. The econometric tool used in this study is regression analysis. The measurement that this study used to value the stock market is by measuring the stock market capitalization to GDP ratio of a country. The results displayed that the stock market to GDP ratio is statistically significant at 5% risk on the M&A activity and with a 1% increase in the stock market we expect a 0.1729% increase in the M&A activity. Additionally, the paper suggests the development of a regression model that can measure the FDI inflows in Albania, and this is achieved by adjusting the regression model variables in order to become more suitable for its economy.
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions volume, market value, developing markets, emerging markets, Albanian economy.
For more please open this link: Paper 4: Klaudio Fifo
THE EFFECT OF CORONAVIRUS IN THE STOCK MARKET
Klea Cani, Brendon Pojani.
Living in the era of globalization made the spread of the virus to affect the entire world’s economy. The stock market plays a huge role in the well-going of the economy and for this reason the changes that have happened due the pandemic affected on everyone’s lives. Stock market is a perfect investment for all because saving in the stock market is the safest way to produce returns over time that can surpass inflation and now it is being affected by the virus. It is a fact that the stock market and the economy are related together. Many industries have been badly hit by the virus but also some other companies have had major benefits and for this reason the financial market changed directly in an unexpected way. So the market itself reacts to these changes and also should continue to deal with problems that have existed in it before the virus. Many of the problems surfacing now are actually derived from the great crisis that happened in 2008. Recession might happen if the situation goes on for too long but there are facts that also throw this down.
Keywords: Covid-19, Stocks, Epidemic, Economy, Industry, Impact.
For more please open this link: Paper 5: Klea Cani, Brendon Pojani
THE BEHAVIOR OF ORGANIZATIONAL AND POLITICAL LEADER
Prof. Assoc. Dr. Gjergji Shqau
Department of Business Administration Faculty of Economics, “Aleksandër Xhuvani” University, Elbasan, Albania
This article aims to study the behavior of political and organizational leaders as well as identify common areas and differences between them. Four objectives have been set for this and it is thought that the methodology used will be as effective as possible in achieving the goal and objectives. Organizational leadership has been studied in companies with experience and expertise, with the results of the work of leaders, while political leadership is mainly focused on the behavior of political leaders during their tenure. Organizational and political leaders have been studied not only currently but mainly in the past. This constitutes a difficulty in reaching accurate conclusions, but not an inability to observe leadership behaviors and traits. Various research techniques and methods have been used to gather information, including data processing. At the end of the article are given the conclusions, the conclusions and some recommendations for both types of leaders.
Keywords: leadership, organizational, politic, characteristics, behaviors, features.
For more please open this link: Paper 6: Gjergji Shqau
Geometric progression as a solution to the extremum problem
Areshev Dmitry a , Samarova Svetlana b
a State Budgetary Higher Educational Institution Moscow Region «University of Technology» (UNITECH), Korolev city, Moscow region, 141070, Russia
b Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Dolgoprudny city, Moscow region, 141701, Russia
The article is devoted to formulation and solving a problem of finding extremums of multivariable special functions. We will demonstrate that the solution of the problem is geometric progression.
Keywords: multivariable function, extremum, geometric progression.
For more please open this link: Paper 1: Areshev Dmitry, Samarova Svetlana
Performance Study of an Improved Version of Li-Fi and Wi-Fi Networks
Abdulsalam Alkholidi, Sondos Al-shami, Aisha Al-aghbary, and Habib Hamam, Member, IEEE
With the increasing demand and need for telecommunication technologies, wireless communication has become a heavily useful and widely popular utility. Capacity, availability, efficiency, and security are issues generally linked to wireless communications, more specifically Wi-Fi systems. Yet we can exploit billions of light bulbs, which we use anywhere and everywhere on a daily basis and of which the infrastructure is already part of our ordinary life. This study focuses on Li-Fi theory and practices. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how these light sources can be used as a transmitter or, to be more precise, as an access point. This idea was proposed for the first time by Prof. Harald Hass in Global TED (2011). During the last two years, Li-Fi technology has been enhanced and improved by many professional and international studies. As new wireless communication technology develops to use LED, the efficiency, availability, security, and safety of light fidelity transform today’s telecommunication into tomorrow’s visible light communication.
Keywords: BER, FDMA, Li-Fi, NOMA, OOK modulation, Visible Light Communications (VLC), and Wi-Fi.
For more please open this link: Paper 2: Abdulsalam Alkholidi, Sondos-Al-shami, Aisha-Al-aghbary, Habib Hamam
Impact of Culture on Organizational Behavior and Different Managerial Indicators: Case of SMEs in Albania
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gjergji Shqau a; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vaso Qano b; MSc. Elda Shqau c
a Lecturer, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics, “Aleksandër Xhuvani” University, Elbasan, Albania
b Lecturer, Faculty of Economy, Canadian Institute of Technology, Tirana, Albania
c Department of HRPR, Regional District Public Health, Elbasan
Culture is one of the most important elements of an organization’s success. Some scholars consider culture to be an important part of the environment of the organization; some parallel it with the environment, while other scholars regard it as a separate part and as an important variable beside of other environmental factors. In all cases, culture is considered to have an impact on different technical-financial indicators but also on other organization’s indicators. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the role of culture, the impact it has on different parts of the organization and its impact in macro and micro managerial indicators. Continuous improvement of culture can significantly increase the effectiveness and results of work. On the basis of the main goal, hypotheses have been raised about the relationship between types of culture and the impact on different indicators, socialization and level of cultures on indicators such as productivity, performance, satisfaction, turnovers, shortages, motivation, etc.
Using a Likert method and a logical factorial model, a summary table has been compiled that links qualitative and quantitative indicators. Qualitative indicators are classified into two sections on the types of culture and socialization. The second section divides culture into three levels according to Shein’s study. Questionnaire data has been processed in all cases, and with five degrees of evaluation achieved in different quantitative evaluation indicators, which give meaning to qualitative indicators. In cases where the indicators are larger than the average or more than four, the link to the influence of culture is considered strong.
At the end of this paper, conclusions and suggestions are given for the importance that should be attached to culture in general and to all cultures with a positive impact on organizational behavior and managerial indicators. If forms of negative culture “thrive” in organizations, better management is recommended.
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Managerial Indicators; SMEs; Culture.
For more please open this link: Paper 3: Gjergji Shqau, Vaso Qano, Elda Shqau
The impact of Human Resource policies and practices on employee outcomes: A Case of Kosovo
City college, the International Faculty of the University of Sheffield, Thessaloniki, Greece
Considering the need of Kosovo for Human Resources field, especially the need for conducting a research in large companies, encouraged this research to be started. The three participant companies in this research were Telecom of Kosovo, Kosovo Energy Corporation and Bank for business. Is expressed much need to explore some of the most important policies and practices across companies, such as recruitment and selection, training and development, compensation and benefits as well as perceived organizational support. And on the other hand, observing the impact they have on employees, ranging from job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover. Many researches that have been accomplished leave behind a large number of gaps waiting to be met by others and the gaps that have been identified from the previous studies related to this topic are filled by this research. In this research the most fitted methodology approach seemed to be triangulation, where are distributed 50 questionnaires to the employees of the respondent companies and 20 interviews have been held with the HR Managers. So, based on the analyses that have been done, the objectives of this paper have been achieved and the questions have been answered. In many parts of findings are witnessed some strong and significant correlations between the outcomes of the employees and the implementation of HR policies. In addition, the answers of employees differ from the answers of HR policies, since the latter have responded positively about the execution of the practices in question.
The academic contribution of this study is witnessed related to the gaps derived by the previous studies which this research has filled and the practitioner contribution of it is linked with the help that this research gives to the participant companies in terms of the crafting policies and executing practices in their business environment. The most important recommendation is that the HR managers should improve their executing process of these policies and practices. However, based on the limitations of this research are flown the need for further studies to be filled by next researches, such as the need to conduct this issue in manufacturing and service firms and to compare the findings between the two sectors.
Keywords: HR policies and practices, recruitment and selection, training and development, compensations and benefits, organizational support, employees’ outcomes, job satisfaction, commitment, turnover.
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Heritage: What Is Ganesh Doing in Buddhist Thailand?
A leisurely trip turns into a studied discovery of the fascinating crossroads of Buddhism and Hinduism in Southeast Asia and reveals interesting insights into how cultures migrate and evolve.
(Left) Stupa at Doi Suthep.
The 600-year-old shrine of Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, a Theravada wat (temple) in Chiang Mai, a city in the mountainous northern region of Thailand, has many large and small statues of Buddha, beautifully crafted out of semiprecious materials like jade, emerald, and other stones. The stupas are coated with gold leaf.
(Right) The slim Ganesha at Doi Suthep.
Amidst this rich Buddhist imagery, I came across a rather slim sculpture of Lord Ganesh, blue-green in color, seated erect, wearing a Thai-style crown. Unlike the typical Indian Ganesh, with a pot-belly and a kind look on his face, this version appeared more like a king.
What was Lord Ganesh doing in Thailand, the land of Buddhism, I wondered. My guide informed me that Thai people worshipped Ganesh to grant them inner harmony and peace. The Thais, I was told, pray to Buddha for a good next life, and Ganesh for inner peace in the present life. Even in India—where Hinduism and Buddhism originated—there is no close association between these two religions other than the fact that Hinduism, in its effort to absorb Buddhism, declared Buddha as the ninth incarnation of Vishnu.
Chiang Mai, where I came across the aforementioned Lord Ganesh sculpture, was our first stop in Thailand. My wife and I were travelling across Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. Our travel agent, aware of our interest in art, history, and culture, generously included stops at many grand old temples which are prolifically scattered throughout these lands.
Worship has been at the core of every ancient civilization, from Greek to Egyptian, Roman, Mayan, Hindu, Christian, and Muslim. Not surprising, then, that some of the most spectacular structures across the world are places of worship. These structures, besides housing sacred deities or reflecting specific beliefs, were also representative of the life people led in the era when they were built. The grandeur and size of these marvelous monuments were indicative of the enormous amount of time, effort, and wealth spent by worshippers in building these divine edifices.
Many of these ancient temples are still active places of worship. However, some are mere ruins, and tell a tale of humanity’s glorious past—much as how temples, monasteries, and monuments across Southeast Asia indicate the influence both Hinduism and Buddhism had over people in the region.
And so, for me, a published author on Indic thought systems, what began essentially as a pleasure trip, soon transformed into an intense cultural discovery as we continued to see the same intriguing amalgamation of these two great religions in motifs, sculptures, temples, and wats throughout our trip.
(Left) A neighborhood temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
The neighborhood of the hotel we stayed in was dappled with many wats. Their unique roof structures, unusual color combinations of gold with red, green, or blue, and embedded cut-glass façade, attracted us. Inside, we encountered a statue of Buddha, a meditation room, and a stupa or chedi in the courtyard, just outside the chapel.
A stroll in the market around the hotel further revealed Hinduism’s influence on Thailand. I was surprised to see many paintings and statues of Lord Ganesh, despite the fact that Hindus are a minority in Thailand.
Patterns of Buddhist-Hindu amalgamation emerge across most of Southeast Asia
(Right) The scene of Ravan fighting with Jatayu (in the triangular panel on the top right corner of the front façade) of Wat Xieng Thong in Luang Prabang.
• In Luang Prabang, the ancient capital of the Luang Prabang province in northern Laos, while the inner sanctums of temples narrate stories about Buddha’s life in paintings, the exterior is usually adorned with scenes from the Ramayana, painted or carved onto walls or doors.
• The front façade of a 600-year-old temple has a panel depicting Ravan fighting with Jatayu, who tries to stop him from kidnapping Sita.
• Yet another old Buddhist shrine has colorful statues of Hanuman and Ravan standing on each side of the entrance. Even more surprising was the fact that people had worshipped both with floral offerings, revealing that in this part of the world, Ravan is not considered evil. The reasons could vary: some may believe that both good and evil balance each other, while for some, the fact that Ravana was a great devotee of Lord Shiva makes him worthy of worship.
• Siem Reap in Cambodia, one of our destinations, is known for the stunning UNESCO heritage site of Angkor Wat, one of the largest religious monuments in the world. Almost 1.7 km north of the entrance to Angkor Wat, is the Angkor Thom complex of temples, with a south entrance that showcases four weather-beaten magnificent faces of Buddha, carved in the 12th century, which represent attributes such as sympathy, charity, compassion, and loving kindness. Perhaps, the secret of personal growth and emancipation lies captured in these four faces.
(Left) The “Churning of the Sea” myth depicted at Angkor Thom. On the left of the causeway are the devas (pictured below), and on the right of the causeway are the asuras (pictured at left).
The causeway crossing the moat on the way to the temple is lined on both sides with what seem like massive serpent figures, similar to the serpent statues guarding temples in Chiang Mai and Luang Prabang. A closer look, however, reveals that these figures are actually a sculptural retelling of the Hindu myth of ‘Churning of the Sea’ in which devas (gods) and asuras (demons) used the serpent Vasuki to churn the sea of milk for extracting elixir, which would make them immortal. The stone sculptures of devas, with calm and serene faces, are lined up on the left side of the gate, while the demons, with contorted faces that display strife and aggression, are on the right. The sculptures could be indicative of how one has to traverse a world full of evil and divine, before becoming Buddha ourselves.
• The “churning of the sea of milk” myth isn’t just represented in different ways at Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat, but also on several modern buildings and carved on wood panels across the province.
• In Thai iconography, too, we see the same myth appear. At the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, there is a beautiful, large construct of the gods and demons churning the sea right behind the customs and security clearance in the departure lounge.
• The fascination in Southeast Asia for Mount Meru, from the Hindu mythology, is due to their belief that it is the abode of god and of higher souls. A number of kings, at least from the Angkorean civilization, to house their sarcophagi, built mountain temples, surrounded by lakes, imitating the image of Mount Meru.
How did the Khmers and Thais take to
My curiosity about how the two great religions came to coexist had peaked by now, raising several questions. Who are these people who call themselves Khmer (in modern Cambodia) or Thai, but are influenced by Hinduism? When and how did Indian beliefs come to be this part of the world? India had never invaded these countries, so how did the people here become familiar with stories from the Ramayana (which is called ‘Ramakien’ in Thailand)?
(Left) The presence of Shaivism in Cambodia: Preah Ko temples in brick (9th century), with Nandi bull sitting in front of them.
So I began looking for reliable sources of information. The answer could lie in the trade relations India shared with the rest of Southeast Asia. According to Upinder Singh’s book, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century, these ties could date back to 500-400 BCE. According to her, during the Chola reign in South India, which partially overlapped with the Angkorean period (9th-15th centuries) in Southeast Asia, there were stronger ties between the two regions, and possibly even “…traders (from India) were accompanied by soldiers.”
But can exposure to an outside culture only through travel and trade influence people on such a large scale? The ruling elite must have seen something in these beliefs which prompted them to adopt religious practices and erect these temples devoted to Shiva, Vishnu and Buddha. David Chandler, writing in A History of Cambodia (Fourth Edition), says that these beliefs and practices have existed since pre-Angkorean kings in Cambodia. A cult worshipping Shiva was known to exist in the 5th century, even as Buddhism and Vaishnavism flourished between 3rd and 6th centuries.
The royal patrons
King Jayavarman VII began work on Angkor Thom, one of the largest Khmer cities, in the 12th century, and his successors carried on with the construction. The walls, hallways, galleries and arches, statues and inscriptions across Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat are art canvases for scenes from the Ramayana, Mahabharata, and other Hindu mythologies, also depicting apsaras, nagas, and Buddha himself, as well as scenes from the daily life of Cambodian people.
(Left) Lord Vishnu at Angkor Wat.
While the principal image in Bayon temple at Angkor Thom is that of Buddha, and the temple has 37 towers depicting Buddha faces, one of the chambers has a Shiva lingam. Likewise, in Baphoun temple, believed to be originally a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva, there is an incomplete reclining Buddha sculpture. The Theravada Buddhists consider Angkor Wat as their pilgrimage site; but it was originally a Vishnu temple built under Suryavarman II.
Such blending of beliefs tells a two-sided story. While it depicts tolerance for different belief systems, it also suggests conflicts between them. The kings who built these monuments believed in different religions. Though their names ended with the same suffix “varman” (means ‘protected by’) they were not all related. So, while Jayavarman VII was a Mahayana Buddhist who built Bayon, his successor, Jayavarman VIII followed Hinduism and apparently had an existing statue of Buddha thrown into the central well of the temple. Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques, point out in their book Ancient Angkor, that the statute was recovered in multiple pieces during restoration. Similarly, say these authors, the beautiful statue of eight-armed Vishnu is sitting in a different place than the central sanctuary, where it was possibly installed originally.
Chandler, in A History of Cambodia, claims that in order to maintain harmony among diverse religions, the society of that time conceived of deities such as Harihara, by combining the attributes of Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara).
The temples, then, besides telling a fascinating story of a great past, are also suggestive of how different belief systems coexisted—sometimes by collaborating, and at other times by fighting for prominence. Apparently, destruction of temples was not uncommon. A History of Cambodia talks about inscriptions in Khmer that admonish against neglecting, robbing, or destroying temples. Invading armies may also have destroyed these temples. Hundreds of beheaded statues of Buddha in Siem Reap, as well as in Ayutthaya, the old capital of Thailand, suggest that anti-Buddhist armies destroyed them.
(Left) A massive tree growing on top of a temple at Ta Prohm. A number of countries, including India, are supporting crucial restoration projects.
Restoring these crucibles of culture
Ironically, while these temples represent cultures that are timeless, they are themselves victims of natural and manmade disasters, much like the civilizations that built them. Besides being subjected to human whims and rage, ancient monuments and temples have faced the wrath of nature. Monuments have been destroyed by heat, dust, rain, and forests that grow on and around them in areas that humans haven’t inhabited for long periods. There are temples with massive trees growing on top. To preserve the history, art, and rich cultures and civilizations that they represent, it is imperative that they are restored to a semblance of their former glory, and it is heartening to see that a number of countries, including India, are supporting some of these crucial restoration projects.
Meanwhile, even in their dilapidated form, these temples seem alive, they attract millions of locals and tourists and inspire awe in their beholder’s mind. For me, this was not only a journey into time and temples, but also a fascinating study of how and why India’s religious footprint extended into what were distant lands in those days.
Jaidev Dasgupta, PhD, is the author of In Search of Immortality: An Introduction to Indic World-Views (New Delhi, India: Manohar, 2015). He is deeply interested in Indic thought systems and their relevance in the modern context. He has been a scientist (MS in Physics, PhD in Biology), technologist, and entrepreneur.
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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Kouren of the Thousand Lamas
a celebrated lamasery in Tartary, which dates from the invasion of China by the Mantchous. The ground and revenues were given by a Chinese emperor, who had recently come into possession of the throne, in token of his gratitude for a favorable prophecy given by a lama before his conquest. It was designed originally to maintain a thousand lamas, but has made such progress that it now contains more than four thousand. The chief officer of the establishment is also governor of the district, and makes laws, administers justice, and appoints magistrates. (See LAMAISM).
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Laser device may soon non-invasively monitor diabetics' glucose levels
In order to monitor their blood glucose levels, diabetics typically have to perform painful and inconvenient finger-prick blood tests – in some cases, several times a day. Using an implantable glucose-monitoring sensor is one alternative, although it must be surgically installed and subsequently removed for replacement. Another option may be on the way, however, in the form of a device that simply shines a laser on the user's finger.
Known as GlucoSense, the system was developed by Prof. Gin Jose and his team at the University of Leeds.
To use it, patients simply place the pad of their finger against a small glass window on the device. A low-powered laser beam is then projected through that window, and into their finger. Some of that light is absorbed by glucose in the bloodstream, and some is reflected back down onto the window.
Ions on the window glass surface subsequently fluorescence in infrared when exposed to that reflected light – the more light that hits them, the longer they glow. By measuring the duration of that fluorescence, a processor in the device is able to determine how much of the original laser light was absorbed by glucose, and can thus deduce the amount of glucose in the bloodstream. The whole process takes less than 30 seconds.
After a period of clinical trials and commercial development by spinoff company GlucoSense Diagnostics, it is hoped that two versions of the device will be commercially available – a computer mouse-sized tabletop unit, and a wearable device that measures glucose levels continuously.
"As well as being a replacement for finger-prick testing, this technology opens up the potential for people with diabetes to receive continuous readings, meaning they are instantly alerted when intervention is needed," says Jose. "This will allow people to self-regulate and minimize emergency hospital treatment. This wearable device would then be just one step from a product which sends alerts to smart phones or readings directly to doctors, allowing them to profile how a person is managing their diabetes over time."
Scientists at Princeton University are currently exploring similar technology, while researchers at Google, Fraunhofer and Microsoft are developing non-invasive sensors that measure glucose content in tears or sweat.
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Well being Canada, the nation’s well being division, mentioned that drug laws had been being amended based mostly on new analysis into the therapeutic advantages of psychedelics.
“There was rising scientific proof supporting potential therapeutic makes use of for some restricted medicine, most notably psychedelic restricted medicine corresponding to MDMA and psilocybin,” Well being Canada famous within the Canada Gazette, an official authorities publication.
Beneath the modification to federal meals and drug laws, physicians will be capable to request entry to restricted medicine on behalf of their sufferers by way of Well being Canada’s Particular Entry Program. Beforehand, restricted medicine together with psychedelics weren’t out there by way of this system.
The Particular Entry Program permits well being care professionals to request permission to make use of unapproved therapies for sufferers with severe or life-threatening medical circumstances. This system applies solely in instances the place typical therapies have failed, are unsuitable, or not out there in Canada. Sufferers aren’t permitted to request entry to remedy by way of this system on their very own behalf.
Psychedelic Analysis Continues
Analysis into psychedelics together with psilocybin, MDMA and ketamine has proven that the medicine have potential therapeutic advantages, notably for severe psychological well being circumstances corresponding to despair, habit and nervousness. A research printed within the journal JAMA Psychiatry in 2020 discovered that psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy was a quick-acting and efficient remedy for a bunch of 24 contributors with main depressive dysfunction. Separate analysis printed in 2016 decided that psilocybin remedy produced substantial and sustained decreases in despair and nervousness in sufferers with life-threatening most cancers.
“Given the rising scientific curiosity in sure restricted medicine, it’s anticipated that Well being Canada would finally encounter a scenario the place scientific proof helps the therapeutic use of a restricted drug throughout the context of the Particular Entry Program,” regulators wrote within the January 5 announcement. “The regulatory amendments are subsequently anticipated to learn sufferers with severe or life-threatening circumstances who could also be granted entry to restricted medicine by way of the Particular Entry Program in cases when different therapies have failed, are unsuitable, or are unavailable in Canada.”
Earlier than Wednesday’s announcement, sufferers might acquire entry to psychedelic medicine by way of two authorized avenues. The primary methodology could be to take part in a scientific trial, which solely accepts sufferers on a restricted foundation and aren’t out there nationwide. Sufferers might additionally acquire entry to restricted medicine by personally requesting a particular exemption to laws from Canada’s Well being Minister.
Easing Entry for Sufferers
Regulators famous within the announcement that “the regulatory amendments won’t create massive scale entry to restricted medicine and they don’t sign an intent in direction of the decriminalization or legalization of restricted medicine. The Particular Entry Program is for emergency remedy solely.” However the transfer ought to make it simpler for sufferers with an distinctive have to entry psychedelic medicine.
Dr. John Huber, a scientific forensic psychologist and the CEO of Tripsitter Clinic, a publicly-traded ketamine remedy telemedicine supplier that’s listed on the Canadian Securities Alternate, applauded the Canadian authorities for persevering with to advance and acknowledge the advantages of psychedelic remedy.
“This breakthrough resolution will broaden entry to MDMA and psilocybin remedy and assist save the lives of these with life-threatening psychological well being circumstances,” Huber wrote in an e mail to Excessive Instances. “We hope Canada’s success pushes the U.S. authorities to observe the same pathway whereas awaiting FDA approval for MDMA and psilocybin.”
Greg Rovner, CEO of Heally, a telemedicine platform for psychedelic clinics and sufferers searching for various medication remedy, mentioned the choice by Canadian regulators to ease entry to psychedelics ought to spur new analysis into the medicine.
“Well being Canada’s current resolution is a ringing endorsement of MDMA and psilocybin’s therapeutic potential,” Rovner wrote in an e mail. “It acknowledges the rising physique of analysis into the advantages of psychedelics and expands entry to psychedelics for sufferers in severe and life-threatening circumstances. We hope to see extra research on the protection and efficacy of psychedelics that may spur additional regulatory reform.” | <urn:uuid:eb99ce1e-38d1-463e-80f0-ae2b5511061b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cannabinoid.io/canada-regulators-ease-entry-to-psychedelic-medication/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.924157 | 919 | 2 | 2 |
Exploring how machines learn is an area of study by the University of Rochester (UofR), which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that allows computers to learn in a clear and direct manner – a program to be used in high schools for students in K-12 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) classes to promote scientific literacy.
The National Science Foundation’s Division of Information and Intelligent Systems provided a two-year grant of $295,563 for the project.
In today’s technology AI is infused in our daily life. It is reported that 58 million new jobs will be created by the use of AI in 2023.
As a part of the National Science Foundation’s missions of promoting inclusion in next-generation STEM education and advancing K-12 AI literacy, the project would contribute to increasing national prosperity.
The question being faced is how can we prepare K-12 students for this approaching reality? In light of these important developments, recently NY state has addressed the issue by approving new Computer Science and Digital Fluency standards for K-12 schools that will be implemented in 2024. Currently, there is very little activity on AI for K–12 schools.
The UofR aims to fill this gap by introducing machine learning as a discovery tool for data-driven scientific inquiry (the in K-12 science. Scientific inquiry is defined as the process that results in building scientific knowledge.
1,000 high school students from historically marginalized communities in STEM will be reached throughout the research activities and engaged in outreach in collaboration with the University’s David T. Kearn Center for Leadership and Diversity and urban school districts. Additionally, close to a dozen STEM teachers will be recruited, who value computing, data-driven, and inquiry-based learning, to participate in the research activities.
The program will be in line with the cross-cutting concepts and scientific practices at the core of the New Next Generation Science Standards and the latest NYS Computer Science and Digital Fluency standards.
The following team of Rochester researchers will explore the unique learning opportunities of machine learning in promoting scientific inquiry: Zen Bai (Computer Science faculty) the principal investigator, co-principal investigators Michael Daley and Raffaella Borsai (Warner School of Education faculty) and Jiebo Luo (Computer Science faculty), along with senior associate Michael Occhino, Director of Science Education Outreach for the Warner School’s Center for Professional Development and Education Reform.
“Our goal for this project is to develop the tools and strategies that allow high school STEM classrooms to use machine learning as a common analysis tool, much like today’s calculator, to make sense of complex scientific phenomena and ask big questions ignited by thought-provoking patterns hidden in real-world data,” Daley said. “With Group-It, we will equip and support teachers in creating machine learning-powered scientific inquiry activities for their students. The project can make a broader impact by sharing our scientific research, ideas, and tools with educators in an easy, accessible, and understandable way.”
High school students and teachers with limited mathematical, programming, and data skills will be provided a novel programming-free, visual-based machine learning-powered learning environment called Group-It. This will allow them to learn basic machine learning concepts and methods and understand patterns hidden in multi-dimensional data in STEM contexts.
Group-It will utilize a combination of novel glyph-based (symbol based) data visualization and analogical learning process to decrease the deep learning curve of machine learning and multi-dimensional pattern discovery for high school learners.
New information from Group-It visual learning environment and machine learning-powered scientific inquiry activities will be publicly available on the project’s website. Teachers will have access to resources to help make the best use of these products and findings.
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Nearly 1 in 4 Palm Springs code complaints in June were about leaf blowers. Few citations issued
Nearly 1 in 4 complaints made to the Palm Springs code-enforcement division last month were for potential violations of a new ban on gas-powered leaf blowers, a spike officials had expected after a big outreach push in recent months.
Enforcement of the ban began June 1, nearly two years after Palm Springs first approved the new ordinance. The city in recent months took to Spanish radio to get the word out to Latino landscapers about the new law and about information on discounted pricing on battery-powered leaf blowers.
The effort appears to have paid off.
Data reviewed by The Desert Sun show that code-enforcement officers issued just eight citations for gas-powered leaf blowers. The city received a total of 288 complaints for all code-enforcement violations in June. Of those, 67 — or 23% — were for leaf blowers.
"It's been pretty positive," said Patrick Tallarico, manager of Palm Springs' sustainability office. "We haven't seen a significant number of complaints based on the number of landscaping activities out there."
He added: "Most of the people out there are complying. It's really just down to a handful of operators."
The city had anticipated a rise in complaints about the use of gas leaf blowers, given the high level of interest in the issue locally. Cities across the country have debated bans since at least the 1990s.
Most recently, Encinitas in San Diego County last month approved a similar ban, but cities like Los Angeles, Santa Monica and others have long had such bans in place, citing noise and environmental impacts. The only other city in the Coachella Valley that has such a ban is Indian Wells.
Enforcement of bans vary from city to city. In Palm Springs, first-time offenders must pay a $100 fine; $200 for a second violation; and $500 for the third. Santa Monica in recent years reduced the number of violations of its ban, originally enacted in 1991, by stiffening fines to $500 for the first offense.
In Palm Springs, the first month of enforcement included a fair share of false alarms or complaints that didn't result in a citation because code-enforcement officers did not witness the violation, a requirement for a ticket.
Of the 67 complaints, only 41 had enough information for the city to act on the complaint.
Of those, about a dozen complaints were unfounded because the landscaper was actually using an electric blower, according to the enforcement data. Code-enforcement officers did not witness the violation in 18 other complaints.
That represents a small fraction of the 281 registered landscaping companies in Palm Springs. Tallarico said that since late last year, landscapers had purchased an estimated 570 electric leaf blower units through the incentive program offered by the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
Lt. Mike Villegas, head of the city's code-compliance division, said residents had begun complaining about the use of leaf blowers even before enforcement began last month.
In April and May, the city received a total of 45 complaints for leaf blowers.
Villegas, a longtime Palm Springs police officer who has headed the code-compliance division for less than a year, said most code-enforcement complaints are for various public-nuisance issues. They include abandoned vehicles, property maintenance, commercial vehicles parking in residential zones and trash cans in public view outside of trash-collection hours.
The eight citations for gas leaf blowers issued by the city in June represented nearly a third of all the citations issued in June. The others were for property maintenance (13), unpermitted construction (3) and commercial vehicles parked in residential zones (2).
Villegas said complaints for leaf blowers that actually are electric might show that people mistakenly believed electric blowers would be much more quiet. "People don't like the noise," he said. "People assumed they were going to be silent."
While electric blowers are only slightly quieter than their gas-powered counterparts, they still make a distinct humming noise when powered.
Tallarico said the city will continue to monitor its enforcement effort, but said that so far "it seems like we are moving in a positive direction."
He added: "I want to make sure that we continue to take the enforcement seriously, in part, because we owe it to the vast majority of companies and individuals that are complying."
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The bike saddle is one of the support points we have with the bike. It is a seat that is attached to the seat post (a tube usually from aluminum) that is inserted into the frame of the bike and allows us to adjust our height on the bicycle.
If you are thinking of buying a saddle for your bike we have a great catalog and many offers for you to choose from. Buying the right saddle is very important to pedal comfortably and avoid problems in position, pain or discomfort. As every cyclist is different, it is convenient to take into account the weight, height and flexibility, but also the material and quality.
In the market there are flat saddles that allow more freedom of movement to the cyclist backwards or forwards. And there are also curved saddles where these movements are more limited. In terms of materials, we have leather or faux leather saddles such as Brooks England saddles, and plastic or synthetic saddles normally used on roads and in the city. We even have super comfortable saddles with gel inside.
In the case of women, choosing a shorter bike seat would be the most suitable if they are going to ride racing or triathlon bikes. However, the versions with more padding at the back would be more suitable if they are going to ride in a more upright position.
The main difference when it comes to choosing the bike seat according to the gender of the person who is going to use it is the correct width it should be. That’s why women's bike seats should be around two centimetres wider, because the hips take up more space, and a centimetre shorter than a men’s bike seat.
In the case of men, therefore, the seat should be narrower than a women's seat but about a centimetre longer.
You can also find anti-prostate seats that have a hole in the middle to help ease the pressure from the pelvic and prostate area which occurs when sitting. The appropriate inclination for this type of bike seat is horizontal.
In terms of bike seats according to their use, you can find the following options:
While fixie bikes have a fixed gear and single speed bikes only have one speed and have a free wheel, in terms of the seat on both types of bikes, it should be wide and comfortable.
On this type of bike, the aesthetic also plays an important role and that’s why it is easy to find multiple coloured options. Notable brands include BLB and Csepel.
A seat for a city bike should be comfortable and it is advisable to have a design which favours pedalling with the correct posture. If you are going to be riding the bike for long periods of time, a double-filled seat will be the most comfortable option to prevent annoying vibrations. Notable options include those from the brands BLB and Brooks.
Seats for gravel bikes should first and foremost be comfortable. Here, the type of padding they contain plays a key role, especially at the back.
If the bike is also going to be used for several hours at a time, then it is also advisable to see if the seat has a deep central channel which helps to prevent possible discomfort in the pelvis. Notable options include those from the brands Italia or Eltin.
Bike seats intended for cyclocross should be versatile and have a good filling to cushion frictions when riding on different roads, both natural and tarmac.
Seats for road bikes are usually thinner and aim to enable a greater ability to move whilst also being comfortable and preventing soreness. They are harder and are usually made of materials such as carbon. Brands to consider include Brooks and Fizik.
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by Edith Childs
As Roe vs Wade 1973 has become a “hot topic”, the reality is that women’s fundamental human rights should never be treated as political ruins, that are won or lost. With the politicization, it has become hostile to women’s health and rights and has been successful in shaving away at the protections Roe vs Wade once provided.
Women should have the right to make their own decisions concerning their bodies and health. There are various reasons and point of views as to why one would consider an abortion. There are underage girls, who have made mistakes and got pregnant. Some girls are too young to give the child a fair chance at life. Some girls are victims of trafficking, that resulted in unwanted pregnancies.
Some women have made the decision and chose not to be parents for various reasons. Some women have birth control mishaps, that results in pregnancy, while others could be rape or trafficking survivors. For this reason, some rape survivors attempt to harm themselves and/or the baby because they couldn’t get pass the memory a such tragedy. Therefore, any or all of these scenarios should be left up to a woman to make the decisions concerning “her” body.
Women awake to the reality of forcing the Heartbeat Bill S1. As an elected official and a woman, I feel the need to speak out on this issue. It’s called FETAL Heartbeat Bill. I find it disturbing that we have elected officials from Greenwood, SC on the state level making decisions for EVERY woman in S. C. However, no one has taken the time to speak with women or allow them the opportunity to make their own decisions. I believe, an abortion decision is between God, a woman, and her husband/or significant other and their Physician.
Women should continue to be accountable for their own bodies and actions! Just like the parable in the bible concerning the Samaritan woman at the well, who met Jesus. She began to grasp the reality of her encounter with Jesus, as the disciples returned. The disciples were shocked to find Jesus speaking to the Samaritan woman. Leaving behind her water jar, the woman returned to town, inviting everyone that she met to “Come, see a man, Jesus who told me everything that I ever did. John 4:29. This verse allows women to understand that they are responsible for their own actions. No man or woman, other than the individuals should be responsible for making such a life changing decision.
It’s unfortunate, when any man assumes the responsibility of being God and attempts to make decisions based upon what a woman can and can’t do with their bodies in regard to abortions. One should be reminded that a woman’s body should never be politicize. This is a direct attack on a women constitutionally protected rights to a safe abortion/essential reproductive health care.
With what is attempting to be done to stop the legalization of reproductive health care will cause women to seek out services that are unsafe and illegal abortion methods, in which will increase the death rates of illegal abortions and or some women.
It is not the 1920’s, when American women were given the rights to vote. While African Americans women were not afforded the same rights to vote until a half century later on 06 August 1965. Therefore, as a community of women, our rights should not be altered.
At times, we as the People’s elected officials overstep our boundaries. This is clearly an instance, in which the women’s rights are being violated, overlooked and in some states rejected.
Instead of the one up or who’s winning the most points. The only goal of these politicians is outlawing abortion at any cost, bullying women’s doctors from practicing, women are being robbed of access to safe and legal means of ending unintended/unwanted pregnancies. Women are losing resources from other vital services such as other health care services, including birth control, pregnancy treatment, annual exams, and even cancer screenings.
If one truly wants to help or assist women, let’s start with advocating for better access to life-saving obstetrics and gynecology care, contraception, abortion services and comprehensive and extensive sexual education information, as well as the prevention of forced sterilization and female genital mutilation.
QUESTION: Should every man that impregnates a woman, that results in pregnancy and/or abortion be mandated to have a vasectomy? According to medical professionals, it’s safer for a man to receive a vasectomy, than a woman having her tubes tied. The men’s healing process is shorter and safer, in comparison to a woman getting her tubes tied or an abortion.
Edith S. Childs
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Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America
Eric Alterman. Blackstone Audiobooks, $19.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-4332-1011-2
The answer to this ""why"" appears to be because conservatives are awfully mean, arrogant, manipulative and hypocritical. For a book that is supposed to give pride and justification for liberals, it focuses a great deal of its text on conservatives. Even in discussing liberalism's history, positions and overall ideology, the book's thesis appears to be ""why you shouldn't be a conservative,"" certainly not an overwhelming argument to become a liberal. However, Alterman's assessment of the contradictions, misinformation and foul play by conservatives in order to taint the word ""liberal"" in the cultural context is particularly interesting when held up against extensive research revealing that the majority of Americans are ""liberal"" when it comes to most social issues. For most of the performance, Malcolm Hillgartner reads in a straightforward voice with good pace and tone. His intensity increases to coincide with the more outrageous acts or events in what Alterman considers to be a war on liberal identity. Simultaneous release with the Viking hardcover.
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Skin-care would be the selection of professional medical methods that assistance pores and skin health and wellbeing, strengthen its physical appearance and decrease skin disorders. They will often make up correct usage of emollients, avoidance of far too much sun exposure and consumption of nutrients and vitamins. Skin is truly one of people aspects of the human body which we hardly ever take note of but which may have a major influence on our visual appeal. Individuals that are affected by epidermis conditions are normally on the look out for skin treatment remedies that can take good care of their concerns.
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People need to preserve an appropriate skin-care regimen and attempt to ensure it is as regular while we possibly can. This regimen may possibly include showering twice each day, implementing lotion or moisturizing lotion, using makeup products, laundry our confront with slight soapy water and using creams along with other solutions that help with the removing of dead skin cells. It could possibly even need to have normal exfoliation or cleaning which gets rid of the dead skin cells helping to within the new skin area expansion. All of us want to take care of a good appearing complexion and would not would like to simply let go out of our schedule as this would bring about premature skin aging.
It happens to be however really important to maintain a proper skincare program and abide by it without having be unsuccessful. Some rudimentary ways which can be point about this program include taking a bath one or more times in one day, working with a lotion even though taking a bath tub and putting on lotion or moisturizer right after every meal you consume. Following a very long moment, whether it is a workday or classes morning, most of us have a tendency to take a sizzling bathtub each and every morning, which boosts the price of metabolic process in so doing produces high temperature within the body system which unfortunately boosts your heat range point. This could cause dry skin of complexion, which happens to be quite undesirable.
After you take a bathtub you may possibly not realize it but you may well be acquiring in several hazardous chemical compounds like chlorine, hydrogen sulfide, cleaners and severe cleaning up brokers. These hazardous substances tend to strip away the natural engine oil covering on your skin thus contribute for the creation of fine lines, black sectors and swelling of eyes, skin area looking lifeless and lifeless etc. As a result, it is vital to decide on the actual skin care products meticulously.
Some beauty solutions have liquor within them, which is often used for exfoliating reasons. This will cause dry skin in the skin and final results in flaking of body which leads to splits of the epidermis and can make it turn up dreary. There are also some healthy skin care products which contain parabens included which are recognized to lead to skin area discomfort and hypersensitive reactions. Some makers do not listing down the valuables in their items for the system leaflet and rather try to sneak in anti–parabens or triclosan for an factor that is hazardous. The aforementioned good reasons are adequate to shun from the usage of these types of products and solutions and be aware of individuals that have been certified using a board-professional dermatologist.
A good skin treatment program will incorporate standard cleanse, hydrating and firming. Cleansing eliminates the grime from the work surface of your skin and helps to secure the moisture content in your complexion. Toning cleans away the dead skin cells and refreshes the actual skin. It will help to clear out all the traces of debris dust, excessive oil onto the skin, bacterias to make-up. For a complete cleaning regular, you should use serums that help to clear out the poisons from a physique such as serum leaving the skin fully revitalized.
If you are using a natural skin care product, in particular a lotion, it is usually best to choose one consisting of 100 % natural ingredients rather than those who include chemicals. If you utilize a cleanser and also a serum, it is best to start using a cleanser that does not include just about any compound aroma. Just in case you go for makeup, you may pick out water-centered make-up or vitamin make-up. As water centered make-ups are a lesser amount of oily, they will do not block your pores and therefore are hence far more beneficial in controlling the apparition of pimples.
In addition to these products, it is also vital that you maintain a nutritious way of living following balanced and healthy diet and adding physical exercises to your day-to-day plan. Drinking plenty of drinking water, eating fruits and vegetable, and having enough slumber are crucial to your pores and skin-treatment routine. This is simply not totally true, although some folks are convinced that through the use of moisturizers, they could hold gone the end results of aging. Wrinkles, loose, black communities as well as other these indications of aging commence to seem to be only once you start making use of manufactured cosmetics on the skin. You can actually minimize the destruction carried out on your epidermis by choosing the right elements as part of your skin treatment goods.
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Ours is a time of turbulence, but now on a planetary scale. Many in the western world, Australia included, are anxious about the future, unsure where to turn for guidance or inspiration. Some seek to exploit these anxieties, offering black and white explanations of our predicament. For some, the problem is immigration, for others Islamic fundamentalism, or simply Islam. For others still, it is the conspiracy about global warming, or the forces driving globalisation. And so, for them the cure for all our ills is just as simple: cut immigration, or ban Muslims, or keep the coal industry going, or find security in the barrel of a gun. Hence, Trump’s catch cry ‘make America great again’ and Marie Le Pen’s promise of a revolution of ‘patriots’. Australia’s equivalent voices are less well known but no less shrill.
These two lectures focus on Australia: how we see ourselves and ‘others’, how we understand our place in the world, what kind of future we envisage for ourselves and the Earth.
Tuesday 5 September − The questions we need to ask
The first lecture will address some of the critical questions now before us:
- Are we ready to enshrine in our constitution a ‘Voice for Australia’s First Nations’?
- What should be the requirements of Australian citizenship?
- How should we respond to the terrorist threat?
- How can we best engage with Islam and with our Muslim communities?
- What is the appropriate role of religion in the public sphere?
Tuesday 12 September − The choices that await us
The second lecture will argue that reconciling economic and environmental priorities holds the key to Australia’s future.
Conventional wisdom has it that caring for the environment cannot come at the expense of our economic prosperity. Similarly, responding to the challenge of climate change cannot mean placing international obligations above our national interests. But the conventional wisdom may be mistaken. The lecture will canvas other ways of looking at ecological, economic and social well-being – and what this means for the national conversation and our public institutions. We have reached a critical point that calls for a radical rethink not just of policies, but also of institutions – and this includes parliaments, political parties, courts, media, schools and universities. | <urn:uuid:b141f388-9857-43e7-b275-3f03fa79f3de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://josephcamilleri.org/content/make-australia-great-again-or-make-planet-great-again-it-one-or-other-or-both-or-neither | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.908905 | 482 | 2.046875 | 2 |
SOURCE: The New York Times
End of the Line (in Print, Anyway) for ESPN: The Magazine
ESPN is ending the print run of its eponymous magazine, a lush, large periodical that the sports media giant started more than two decades ago and is killing now because it is losing money.
The company said “the vast majority” of the magazine’s readers now consume its journalism digitally rather than through the print version.
Eliminating the printed ESPN the Magazine, which frequently features award-winning in-depth articles, “will maximize our reach and impact,” the company said.
There are no immediate plans for layoffs, said two ESPN employees knowledgeable about the decision who were not authorized to speak publicly, and the final regular print issue will appear later this year. Its print production already had been reduced over the years, to 12 issues a year down from its original 26.
The end of the magazine’s printed version comes amid a broader reckoning with the future of print, in news media in general and in sports media in particular.
Reed Phillips, a managing partner at the investment bank Oaklins DeSilva & Phillips, said the magazine “struck the right chord at the time.” But, he added, “These many years later, it’s almost impossible to support a sports magazine in print.”
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Hadith: Seven persons are shaded by the shade of the `Arsh Throne
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم
Praise be to God the Creator of the world, the One Who exists without beginning, without end, without location, without a "how" and Who does not depend on time. Nothing resembles Him in anyway and He hears and sees everything without organs. Whatever you imagine, God is different from that. May the elevation in degree and preservation of his community of what he fears for it, be granted to our master Muḥammad Al-'Amin, the Honest One, who called for following Islam, the religion of truth, the religion of all the Prophets: of the first, Adam, to the last Muḥammad.
Abu Hurayra narrated that the Prophet said:
« سَبْعَةٌ يُظِلُّهُمُ اللهُ في ظِلِّهِ أَيْ في ظِلِّ عَرْشِهِ يَوْمَ لاَ ظِلَّ إِلاَّ ظِلُّهُ أَيْ يَوْمَ القِيامَةِ إِمامٌ عادِلٌ، وشابٌّ نَشَأَ في عِبادَةِ اللهِ تَعالى، وَرَجُلٌ مُعَلَّقٌ قَلْبُهُ في الْمَساجِدِ، ورَجُلانِ تَحابَّا في اللهِ اجْتَمَعا عَلَيْهِ وتَفَرَّقَا عَلَيْهِ، ورَجُلٌ دَعَتْهُ امْرَأَةٌ ذاتُ مَنْصِبٍ وجَمالٍ فَقالَ إِنِّي أَخَافُ اللهَ، ورَجُلٌ تَصَدَّقَ بِصَدَقَةٍ فَأَخْفاها حَتَّى لا تَعْلَمَ شِمالُهُ ما تُنْفِقُ يَمِينُهُ، ورَجُلٌ ذَكَرَ اللهَ خالِيًا فَفاضَتْ عَيْناهُ »
which means: « On the Day of Judgment Allâh will give the shade of the `Arsh (Throne), to seven, when there will be no shade but the shade of the `Arsh. These seven persons are; a just ruler, a youth who has been brought up in the worship of Allâh, a man whose heart is attached to the mosques, two persons who love each other only for Allâh's sake and they meet and depart in Allâh's cause only, a man who refuses the call of a charming woman of noble birth for unlawful intercourse with her and says: I am fearful of Allâh, a man who gives charitable gifts so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given, and a person who praises (remembers) Allâh in seclusion( privacy) and his eyes are then flooded with tears. »
These seven persons and others are shaded by the shade of the `Arsh when there will be no shade except the shade of the `Arsh. So they are safe from the harm of the heat of the sun.
Among them is the just ruler, like Abu Bakr, `Umar, `Uthman, `Aliyy and `Umar Ibn `Abdil-`Aziz who was from the descendants of `Umar Ibnul-Khattab may Allâh be reward them. `Umar Ibn `Abdil-`Aziz is the one who stopped Bani Umayya from swearing at Imam `Aliyy and wrongly mentioning bad things about him while giving their speeches. When he became a ruler he wrote to his assistants the following: If your power motivated you to wrong people then remember the power of Allâh over you.
The second is a youth who has been brought up in the worship of Allâh i.e. worships Allâh sincerely from childhood. He acquired the knowledge about religion, fulfilled the obligations and avoided the sins.
The third is a man whose heart is attached to the mosques i.e. to pray the compulsory prayers in the mosque in (Jama`a).
The fourth are two persons who love each other only for Allâh's sake and they meet and depart in Allâh's cause only. So loving each other for the sake of Allâh is among the reasons that lead you to be shaded by the shade of the `Arsh on the Day of Judgment. To have the pure love to each other means to order one another to do good deeds, and to forbid one another from committing evil.
The fifth is a man who refuses the call of a charming woman of noble birth for unlawful intercourse with her, and says: I am fearful of Allâh. It has been related that a righteous Muslim's supplication was always fulfilled. When asked about the mystery of this endowment he replied: It was a year of drought when a very beautiful lady came into my house and asked me for something to eat. I said to her: I will give you the food you need, after you give me yourself (i.e. to allow him to have the unlawful intercourse with her). She said: It would be better to me to die from hunger than disobeying my Lord, and went away crying. Then she came after few days and she was starving to death, and asked me for food. I said to her: I won't give you anything unless you give me yourself. She replied: It would be better to me to die from hunger than disobeying my Lord, and went away crying. I realized that she wasn't bearing the starvation, so I followed her and heard her reciting some verses from the Qur'ân and praising Allâh. This strengthened the faith in my heart and the love to do good deeds, and I repented to Allâh. Then I called for her saying: come and take what you want for the sake of Allâh. She took the food then raised her hands to the sky the direction of supplication and said: O Allâh as you guided and enlightened his heart, make his supplication always fulfilled.
The sixth is a man who gives charitable gifts so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given i.e. nobody knows how much he has given in charity because he is not doing that in order to be praised by people but rather he is doing that only in sincerity to Allâh subHânahu wa ta`âlâ.
The last mentioned in this Hadîth is a person who praises Allâh in seclusion and his eyes are then flooded with tears. Such eyes are protected from being burnt in Hellfire on the Day of Judgment.
We ask Allâh to make us among those who follow the guidance of the Prophet and make our end, on the state of piety. Ameen
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By Elizabeth Hovde
Pass the eggnog if you think more money will fix education outcomes. People need to stop blaming schools and lawmakers for all the children who get left behind. They aren’t the ones leaving them there.
The subpar outcomes we see -- from the fact that many students are not ready for kindergarten to Oregon’s abysmally low graduation rates -- aren’t primarily about money. For starters, some states that spend less than Oregon on education get better results.
Instructional spending is a concern, but societal issues including broken families, parents who are uninvolved, regional norms and the technological black hole we’ve helped kids fall into are arguably bigger factors. No wonder we’re hopeful more money will offer a fix. Addressing root causes is always more difficult than opening pocketbooks.
Last month, a well-intentioned Gov. Kate Brown issued her ideas for the state’s next big tax-and-spend plan, and said she’ll be focusing on negotiating a large revenue increase to improve public education.
“How our state provides for the needs of our children is a marker of who we are as a community,” Brown said, according to The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Hillary Borrud.
No pressure or guilt, people.
The governor opined on getting Oregon’s education system back “to a level Oregonians can be proud of.” (Make Oregon schools great again?)
“For the children” is always a good bet when asking for more of people’s money. It makes a lot of people forget the trouble with government misspending and its failure to set priorities.
Critics of the proposal are rightly calling it a PERS tax. In many ways, it would be. Public Employees Retirement System costs are derailing the education budget. While the state does have an obligation to pay for the pension system’s misguided promises and the overly generous payouts workers have built financial plans around, students shouldn’t pay the price for the state’s shortsighted job perks.
While fiscal conservatives fight for better budget priorities that Oregon’s Democratic lawmakers will never agree to, public unions and others suggest taxpayers should start chipping in more money. The Oregon Education Association, Oregon School Boards Association and Confederation of Oregon School Administrators are jubilantly applauding the tax increase Brown is lobbying for.
If Brown’s proposal is adopted, the money boost might improve things, such as the length of the Oregon school year. That should be a huge priority. I’m glad Knute Buehler’s presence in the governor’s race helped put that firmly on everyone’s to-do lists.
However, I bet the tax increase won’t bring education outcomes back to “a level Oregonians can be proud of.”
Families and society need to work on that, regardless of the money picture. Research shows more parent involvement is key.
“Students with involved parents or other caregivers earn higher grades and test scores, have better social skills, and show improved behavior,” says an NEA Today article. Divorce and family breakdowns make it that much harder for parents to get involved in their children’s education. Marriage still matters.
Governments should be finding ways to encourage family stability and engagement, instead of just taking on more of a family’s job. Creating a system of education that runs from “cradle to career,” which Brown and many other education leaders tout, is a goal that makes me cringe.
Cradles belong in homes, not schools.
Parents -- involved and uninvolved ones -- should also think twice about devices they put under the Christmas tree this week. French children under age 15 are no longer allowed to use cell phones at any point during the school day. The government passed a national law banning the practice, concerned that students are becoming too dependent on and distracted by their gadgets. Ya think? Holding off on giving cell phones to kids is one way parents can improve educators’ jobs and hopefully student achievement.
Another way families can help? Volunteering to shoulder some of the school workload, especially in today’s behavior-challenged classrooms. An OPB series about behavior challenges in classrooms quotes Tad Shannon, the president of the Eugene Education Association, saying, “We’re in the midst of a behavioral crisis.” He added “although it might be tempting to conclude this is a problem concentrated at a few schools — this is not the case.” Teachers I know, and others interviewed by reporters, say out-of-control classrooms may drive them out of their profession.
There isn’t enough money in Oregon to fix what ails schools, and Oregonians won’t be happy with their return on an even larger investment. Government can’t always save us from ourselves. Families and society members need to stop setting students and schools up for failure.
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Potty training can be a challenge for parents, but it’s also an important part of childhood development. The normal struggle can be even more difficult when there are sensory processing issues. Recognizing that they need to go, wearing big girl or big boy underwear, and being able to use different toilets can all be impacted by sensory processing.
Why does Sensory Processing Matter?
Toileting requires a significant amount of body awareness. Children have to understand how their body is feeling, learn how to release their bowel and bladder muscles in order to go, and feel that they have “finished” and their bowel or bladder is now empty.
Sensory processing is a natural part of the toileting process.
A bathroom environment can be overstimulating to start with. We receive sensory information from our eyes, ears, skin, muscles, and joints. Our brain’s job is to organize the information, select the important parts, and disregard the rest. When a child’s sensory systems are functioning appropriately, they are able to participate in activities of daily living such as potty training. However, if the sensory systems are not integrated properly, toileting can become problematic.
Everything Parents Need to Know
- WHAT IS SENSORY PROCESSING?
- HOW SENSORY SYSTEMS RELATE TO TOILETING
- BODY AWARENESS NEEDED FOR TOILET TRAINING
- POOR INTEROCEPTION
- SENSORY DEFENSIVENESS
- POOR REGISTRATION OF SENSORY INPUT
- SENSORY SEEKING
- SENSORY AVOIDING
What is Sensory Processing?
Sensory Processing refers to how the nervous system detects, regulates, interprets, and responds to sensory information. Sensory Processing is an important factor in considering a child’s attention, memory, behavior, and function (Ahn, Miller, Milberger, & McIntosh, 2004; Gardner &Johnson, 2013). A child’s brain needs to be able to register sensory information from the environment and react appropriately to it. If a child has difficulty regulating and processing sensory information, they may have Sensory Processing Disorder.
Sensory Processing Disorder is a neurological disorder in which the sensory information that a child perceives results in abnormal responses. Children who have difficulty processing sensory information often have inconsistent responses because they have a hard time discriminating between which sensory information is important and which can be ignored.
It is important to note that many children (and adults for that matter) have difficulty with processing certain types of sensory input. Typical things such as disliking certain smells or textures, feeling seasick on rides, or preferring certain foods do not necessarily mean that a child has sensory processing disorder. They may simply still be learning to process certain sensory stimuli.
There are eight sensory systems in our bodies:
- Tactile System (touch)
- Vestibular System (balance)
- Proprioceptive System (position in space)
- Olfactory System (smell)
- Visual System (sight)
- Auditory System (hearing)
- Gustatory System (taste)
- Interoceptive System (internal body awareness)
An Explanation of the Sensory Systems related to Toileting
Interoception is our ability to sense what is going on inside our bodies internally. It includes sensations such as thirst, hunger, fatigue, pain, breath, itchiness, nausea, temperature, etc. It also includes our sense of if we have a full bladder or bowel, and if we have “released” it. (Garland, 2014).
The proprioceptive, vestibular, and touch senses are primary influences on the integration of our senses. The interoceptive sense also plays a crucial role in developing the foundational body awareness needed to function as a child.
When a child is unable to integrate and react to sensory information appropriately, the child will not interact with his environment in a functional manner. He may have exaggerated responses to typical noises or sensations or withdraw from certain stimuli. The child cannot consistently process sensory information, so their responses will be inconsistent, too.
If the child has decreased body awareness, they may demonstrate an inefficient grading of force or movement. For a boy, this may mean they have difficulty using the right amount of force when holding or aiming the penis. This might result in a child pressing so hard that it’s difficult to pee, holding too tightly, or having difficulty holding steady.
Our vestibular system helps us to maintain our balance. The fluid in our inner ear moves as our head moves, sending messages to our brain about where our body is in space (Abraham, 2002). Some children with vestibular dysfunction present with “gravitational insecurity“, which makes them seek a secure position during activities. They may dislike swings, being picked up, or participating in activities in which they are not in control of their body in space. These children might be fearful when attempting to sit on a “grown-up” toilet where their bottom is unsupported because they feel like they may fall.
Children with vestibular, tactile, and proprioception difficulties may have difficulty with eye-hand coordination and depth perception. It may be difficult for them to aim appropriately or estimate where to stand.
Many children with sensory processing difficulties have auditory sensitivities that interfere with toilet training. Think of the loud echoes, flushing toilets, hand dryers, etc. Noises that are simply loud to an adult can be piercing to a child with auditory sensitivities.
Tactile sensitivities can interfere with toileting, too! Children may dislike the sensation of pooping, wiping, or even sitting on a hard seat. If they are under-responsive to touch, they may not realize that they aren’t covering their hand properly with the toilet paper, they aren’t wiping well enough to clean themselves, or that they’ve soiled their clothing.
Sensory Processing and Body Awareness Needed for Toilet Training
When our body is able to receive and interpret the signals from our skin, muscles, and joints, we are able to feel and know what our body is doing without looking at it. When a child has poor body awareness, it can lead to difficulty coordinating their body to do all of the components that are involved in toileting. It is not automatic to feel the urge to go and just go to the bathroom. Each step of the task must be thought out and carefully performed, so it is important to be patient. It’s hard to know what to do if you can’t feel what you are supposed to feel!
Typically, toddlers and preschoolers spend a lot of time learning the “ins and outs” of toileting. Children are expected to be toileting independently before entering Kindergarten. Children with difficulties modulating sensory input find potty training to be a much bigger challenge than a typical child. The bathroom can be an overstimulating environment, so asking a child with sensory integration difficulties to focus on the task at hand (ie; peeing or pooping) is a challenge if they are overwhelmed with fear or anxiety about other sensory signals they are receiving. Problems with toileting and sensory processing might include (but not be limited to) the following:
Toileting and Sensory Processing Problems
1. Toileting and Sensory Processing Related to Poor Interoception
- May be unaware that his bowel or bladder is full
- Feels that they need to go but not be able to discriminate whether they need to urinate OR have a bowel movement
- Unable to “push” in order to go; don’t understand how to make those muscles work
- Cannot feel that they have had an accident or that their clothes are soiled
- Unable to bend and reach behind them to properly wipe
2. Toileting and Sensory Processing Related to Sensory Defensiveness
- Dislikes the feeling of “peeing” or “pooping” and withholds
- Fearful of falling into a regular-sized toilet
- Dislikes the feeling of wiping or being wiped
- Prefers the parent to wipe them
- Does not like to wash their hands
- Takes off all their clothes to use a toilet
- Avoids flushing the toilet
3. Toileting and Sensory Processing Issues Related to Poor Registration of Sensory Input with a Hyperactive or Over-Reactive Response
- The child is fearful of the sensations involved when they pee or poop.
- Reports that the act of “peeing” or “pooing” hurts terribly, crying, etc.
- Extreme reaction to the sound of the flush or the air dryer
- Gags, or chokes at the smell of the poop
- Visually distracted by details in the bathroom, including lines in the tile, dust on the floor, etc.
4. Toileting and Sensory Processing Related to Sensory Seeking
- Repetitively flushing the toilet
- Fecal smearing
- Repetitively having accidents in pants, enjoys the sensation
- Playing in the water
- Playing in the sink
- Asks to use the toilet in public constantly
5. Toileting and Sensory Processing Issues related to Sensory Avoiding
- Avoids wearing big girl or big boy underwear, prefers a diaper
- Will tell you when the diaper needs to be changed, doesn’t want a wet diaper
- Difficulty tolerating new bathrooms, public bathrooms, etc.
- Covers ears when flushing, air hand dryer goes on, etc.
- Holds nose for bowel movements
- Avoids using certain toilets with “hard” seats
- Avoids going into the bathroom, “sneaks off” to poop in diaper behind a couch, etc.
How to Help: 15 Amazing Strategies for Toileting
1. Try a 4-in-1 Stage Potty Seat that is closer to the ground and fits a smaller bottom. It also helps transition to use a grown-up toilet
2. Try fun potty seats like a Race Car Potty or Character Underwear that are motivating!
3. Try using flushable wipes and a Wipes Warmer to make the experience of wiping more enjoyable
* one consideration for this is that your child may begin to rely on it… if you are out in public and don’t have warm wipes, will it be a problem? Take that into consideration before making it part of your routine. But if you are desperate, it’s worth a shot!
4. Sing Songs to make toilet training more fun:
- “Let it go! Let it go!”
- “Push it out, Push it out, WAY OUT!”
- “Pee Pee in the Potty, Pee Pee in the Potty!”
- “I just want to Potty all the time, Potty all the time, Potty all the time!”
5. Use painter’s tape to make a line for boys to know where to stand
6. Offer Toilet Targets or use goldfish crackers or fruit loops (get the pee in the hole!)
7. For children who aren’t sure if they have to pee OR poop, let them sit. It’s hard to tell which muscles are which.
8. Provide an inviting environment depending on your child’s sensory needs:
For a sensory seeker, bright lights, fun music, and toys alerting aromatherapy (peppermint and eucalyptus).
For a sensory avoider, soft lighting (night lights) and music, calming aromatherapy (lavender and chamomile). *Click for more info about Aromatherapy
9. Let your child leave the room before flushing if they are defensive, OR let your child choose if they flush or you do.
10. Use earplugs to block the sounds, (especially in a public bathroom), OR keep post-its in your bag to put over the automatic sensor.
11. Use a soft toilet seat.
12. Keep a Potty Training Chart or offer Potty Reward Stickers for Boys or Girls
13. Try a toileting schedule. Have your child sit on the toilet every 15 minutes for a few minutes. If they go, Wahoo! big Praise. If not, that’s ok, we’ll try again in 15 minutes.
14. Provide a Kitchen Timer for set “potty” sitting times. Let your child set the timer so they are a part of the process.
15. If your child is fearful of the sensation of pooping in the toilet, have them help you dump the poop from the diaper into the toilet and then flush it.
Toileting and Sensory Processing in Children with Special Needs
Very often problems with potty training, such as accidents, difficulty recognizing if they have to go, struggles with hygiene, fear of flushing, and refusal to use the toilet are the result of an inefficient sensory processing system. It is important to note that children with developmental delays and other diagnoses may need more time to be trained. As parents and educators, it is essential to treat the process with patience. Your child has a lot of information and sensory signals to make sense of and every child has to go at their own pace. Do not feel the “peer pressure” from other parents that your child “should be” ready.
Sensory Processing Resources
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Additional Potty Training Resources
Abraham, M. C. (2002). In Pressnal D. O., Wheeler K. (Eds.), Addressing learning differences: Sensory integration; practical strategies and sensory motor activities for use in the classroom. Frank Schaffer Publications.
Ahn, R., Miller, L., Milberger, S., & McIntosh, D. (2004). Prevalence of parents’ perceptions of sensory processing disorders among kindergarten children. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 58, 287-293.
Crozier, S. C., Goodson, J. Z., Mackay, M. L., Synnes, A. R., Grunau, R. E., Miller, S. P., et al. (2015). Sensory processing patterns in children born very preterm. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70.
Daunhauer, L., Fidler, D., & Will, E. (March 2014). School function in students with down syndrome. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68(2):167-176.
Garland, T. (2014). Self-regulation interventions and strategies. Eau Claire, WI: PESI Publishing & Media. Shelly J. Lane, PhD, OTR/L, FOATA, Isabelle Beaudry-Bellefeuille, MScOT; Examining the Sensory Characteristics of Preschool Children With Retentive Fecal Incontinence. Am J Occup Ther 2015;69(Suppl. 1):6911500194p1. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2015.69S1-PO6099.
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Following is an update of a post I did several years ago on The Ark Church website on the different Bible versions:
Many people are confused about the different Bible translations that are out there.
Regarding English translations:
- Many Christians claim that the King James Bible is the only valid translation.
- Muslims claim that the English Bibles have many errors in them because they have been translated from previous translations over and over again.
- Several cults have created their own version of the Bible to make it say what they want it to say, such as the New World Translation of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
In reality, the truth about Bible versions is that a translation is only valid if it is rendered from a manuscript written in the original language. The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew (with some Aramaic). The New Testament was written in Koine Greek. Therefore, the Bible used by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the New World Translation, is an invalid translation since it uses the Hebrew New Testament (i.e.: it is a translation from a translation) as its source for many New Testament verses.
What follows is a history of Bible translations. This is by no means a complete list, but it is a list of the most important translations. In order to keep it somewhat brief, each translation description consists of a short paragraph including the date, translator and what the source texts were. By this, we should be able to trace how the current English translations came into existence.
A note about translations: No two translations are the same. This makes sense since they have been translated by different people. To illustrate, if two people who speak Spanish were to translate the English sentence, “In 24-hours, I will make a trip to the supermarket,” two different translations could both be correct, yet different from each other.
A note about why this is important: unless we are convinced that the Bible we are reading is what was in the original autograph (i.e.: the original writing), we will never know whether we are reading the word of God or the word of Man. My hope is that by tracing the history of how the Bible you hold in your hand today came to us, you will either:
- Gain confidence in the scriptures you are reading.
- Recognize the errors of the version you are reading and move forward to a more reliable version.
Dead Sea Scrolls – These scrolls were found in caves near Qumran, on the West Bank, about a mile from the Dead Sea. They consist of both Biblical and non-Biblical writings. Most of what we call the Dead Sea Scrolls are actually thousands of fragments of parchment and papyrus. Though they were found recently, in 1947, they were written over a century before Christ was born. Hence, they are the oldest manuscript copies of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) that we have. Every book of the Old Testament (OT) is covered except for Esther. The Dead Sea Scrolls are not typically used as a primary source for any of our English Translations, but some translations use them as secondary sources when a particular passage needs additional clarity.
Septuagint (Also known as the LXX) – The Hebrew Scriptures translated into Koine Greek by 70 rabbis sometime between 300-200 BC. This translation was necessary since most Jews no longer spoke Hebrew but understood Greek. The Septuagint included the 39 OT books as well as other Jewish writings, which we today call the Apocrypha, a term coined by Jerome to mean the books written after Malachi but before Christ. The Septuagint is probably the translation used by most of the Jews in Jesus’ time. The New Testament (NT) writers often use the Septuagint as their source for their Old Testament (OT) quotes. If you ever read an OT quote in the NT and it looks different from our OT scripture, it is because the NT writer quoted the Septuagint. Most of our current Bible versions use the Masoretic Text as the source for our Old Testaments. Many use the Septuagint as a secondary source to assist in understanding difficult passages and will add footnotes where there are obvious differences between the Septuagint and the Masoretic Text.
Masoretic Text (MT) – The Hebrew Scriptures which were compiled by scholars (called Masoretes) between 500AD-1000AD. It was based on oral traditions and the manuscripts available at that time. The MT added vowels, punctuations, and other signs for pausing or stressing, to enable a consistent reading. The validity of the MT was proved by the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947. The Scrolls were written around 150BC, about one millennium before the MT. Side-by-side, there are some differences. Several of these differences are substantial. However, overall, the scrolls provide strong support for the accuracy of the MT. The greatest areas of differences often occur in passages regarding the prophecies of Messiah. Remembering that the MT was organized centuries after Christ, there may be reasons for the Jewish scholars to “select” certain manuscript copies to match their own belief system. While the MT is used as the primary source for most of our English Bible versions, in the cases of these blatant errors, we have the older Septuagint and Dead Sea Scrolls to show us what the original passage was.
OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT
Latin Vulgate – Translated into Latin by Jerome beginning in 382 AD. The New Testament was translated from the manuscripts in the original Greek. Several of the Old Testament Books were translated from the Septuagint. However, afterwards, Jerome translated the Old Testament from the Hebrew Tanakh (instead of the Septuagint), though sometimes paraphrased rather than translated. Despite the occasional paraphrase, this new translation from the Hebrew enables us to call this a proper translation. Jerome also defined the Apocrypha (a series of books written between 400 BC and the birth of Christ) and properly termed them non-canonical (meaning that they should not be considered scripture). However, he was overruled and the Apocrypha was included in the Vulgate. It became the official Bible version of the Catholic Church at the Council of Trent (1545-1563). This was in response to the Protestant Reformation and the translating of the Bible into the common language (rather than Latin).
Wycliffe Bible – Translated into Middle English by John Wycliffe from 1382-1395 and was part of the Lollard movement prior to the Reformation. There are two versions: one purported to be written by Wycliffe himself and was a word for word translation of the Vulgate; the other purported to be written by John Purvey allowed for a smoother, more understandable Middle English translation. (Word for word translations often read awkwardly in another language). However, since this was translated from Latin and not the original languages, these would not be considered proper translations.
Novum Instrumentum omne – First put together by Erasmus and published in 1516. Originally, it was intended to improve on the Latin of Jerome in the Vulgate. It was a parallel Bible. It included not only the new and improved Latin but also the original Greek, based on six Byzantine Greek manuscripts. Since those six manuscripts did not cover the entire Bible, Erasmus used the Vulgate and translated from the Latin back to the Greek for any missing passage. The second edition (now called the Novum Testamentum omne ) was printed in 1519 and fixed many (but not all) of the typographical errors that occurred due to the new printing press which had become available and also added Miniscule 3 (the seventh Greek manuscript) which contains most of the NT (it is missing Revelation) dated from the 12th century. Additional editions were printed in 1522, 1527 and 1535. Continued updates were made by Stephanus (who was actually Robert Estienne – a French publisher) in 1546, 1549, 1550 (called the Royal Edition and was now based on 14 Byzantine Greek manuscripts), and 1551. Theodore Beza produced nine updates between 1565 and 1604. Finally, Elzevir published editions in 1624, 1633 (the first to be called the “Textus Receptus”) and 1641.
Luther Bible – Translated into German by Martin Luther in 1522-1534 as part of the Reformation. Used the “Novum Testamentum omne,” second edition (the Greek portion, not the Latin translation) and translated into the common German language spoken in towns and markets. Moved the Apocrypha between the OT and NT and claimed that “These Books Are Not Held Equal to the Scriptures, but Are Useful and Good to Read” which was the same sentiment held by Jerome in the first place.
Tyndale Bible – Prompted by Luther’s German translation, the Bible translated into English by William Tyndale in 1526 and revised by him in 1534 and 1536. Not a full Bible version until after his execution (he was executed for translating the Bible into English), he had printed the New Testament and half of the Old Testament. The New Testament Translation is based on the third edition of the Novum Testamentum omne, the Greek portion as well as the Latin translation from Erasmus, as well as Luther’s German version and the Vulgate. The Old Testament may have been from the Hebrew Pentateuch, Hebrew Bible and/or Septuagint. The Tyndale Bible was banned by the king in 1530 due to language and notes unacceptable to the king (This will be an ongoing issue for the King of England since the Reformation translations and notes removed the power of the Pope and king and gave reign and rule, and thus power, to Christ).
Matthew Bible – English Translation done in 1537 by Thomas Matthew, whose real name was John Rogers. His goal was to complete the Tyndale Bible (since Tyndale was executed prior to completing the entire Bible translation). Hence, the NT and half the OT was from The Tyndale Bible. The rest was taken from the work of Myles Coverdale. The “Prayer of Manassah” was the work of John Rogers himself, taken from a French translation done in 1535.
Great Bible – Anglican – Translated into English by Myles Coverdale in 1538, authorized by King Henry VIII and commissioned by Lord Thomas Cromwell for the Church of England. Like the Matthew Bible, Coverdale used Tyndale’s Bible as the starting point, but he completed the missing parts from the Latin Vulgate and Luther’s Bible (therefore the Great Bible was not translated from the original languages) and updated Tyndale’s language that was deemed unacceptable to the king. (Ironically, both Tyndale and John Rogers were burned at the stake, while Coverdale was enlisted by Cromwell to create the Great Bible).
Geneva Bible – Protestant – Translated into English by William Whittingham (a student of John Calvin) and others in 1560. First brought to England in 1575 (NT) and 1576 (whole Bible). Included notes in the margins to help readers understand the text. 80-percent of the New Testament follows Tyndale’s Bible. The Old Testament was the first English Bible version to translate entirely from Hebrew. Hence, as opposed to the Tyndale Bible, the Matthew Bible or the Great Bible, which had parts translated from languages other than the original, the Geneva Bible is a proper translation from the original languages. It would be the most read English Bible for the next 150 years (including the first 100 years of the King James Bible). The Pilgrims used this Bible version as well as men such as William Shakespeare, John Bunyan, and John Milton in their writings.
Bishops Bible – Anglican – Translated into English in 1568 by Matthew Parker (Archbishop of Canterbury). In response to the Calvinist Geneva Bible and the Vulgate-translated OT (and therefore improper translation) of the Great Bible. The Apocrypha was kept based on the Great Bible (also from the Vulgate). Extensively revised in 1572 to correct the text to be more in line with the Geneva Bible, which was being used by most people. Was intended for Church use. This Bible versions was viewed as a failure due to its incompetence in both scholarship and language.
Douay-Rheims Bible – Catholic – Translated into English by members of the English College, Douai, in the service of the Catholic Church. Based on the Latin Vulgate. Included notes on the text, including information on the Greek text from which the Vulgate was originally translated. NT – 1582 in Reims, France. OT – two volumes – by University of Douai in 1609 and 1610. Done in response to the Protestant Reformation.
King James Version (a.k.a. Authorized Version) – Anglican – from the “Novum Testamentum omne”, specifically used mainly the Royal Edition of 1550 along with Beza’s 1598 edition. It was written as a response against the Geneva Bible due to the notes of the Geneva Bible against Earthly kings. This is the third attempt by a monarch of England (The Great Bible and the Bishops Bible) to create a Bible in English which would be satisfactory for his continued right to rule. In 1604, King James I, via the Hampton Court Conference, commissioned a new English Bible version due to problems in the Bishop’s Bible detected by Puritans, and which would conform to the Ecclesiology and Episcopal structure of the Anglican Church. Based mostly on the Bishops Bible except where problematic. Completed in 1611 and Authorized by King James I (a.k.a. King James VI of Scotland prior to the union of Scotland and England in 1603).
Revised Version (a.k.a. English Revised Version) – revision of the 1611 King James Version. First and only recognized revision of KJV. NT published in 1881, OT published in 1885, Apocrypha published in 1894. Westcott and Hort were on the translation committee, which was made up of British scholars with several Americans used as consultants. Did not use Textus Receptus since other manuscripts, many of them older than those used in the Royal Edition of the Novum Testamentum omne, had been found in the 300 years since the KJV was written. Spurgeon said of this Bible version, “strong in Greek, weak in English”.
American Standard Version – 1901 update based on the Revised Version. Once the 14-year agreement between the British and Americans had expired, the Americans updated the Revised Version with their own updates. When originally asked to assist in the RV, the American scholarship was only added to the RV if two-thirds of the British scholars were in agreement. Hence, the ASV adds back those suggestions which were ignored in the RV. Was a very literal translation of the text.
Revised Standard Version – 1946-NT, 1952-OT, 1957-Apocrypha, Modified Edition-1962, NT second Edition – 1971 Supposed to be an update of the ASV, though not much is kept. Used Nestle 17th edition of the Greek for NT. Much less literal than the ASV, its aim was to clarify the text rather than translate word for word. Updated the Elizabethan English of the ASV. Kept “thou” and “thee” when speaking of God but removed those words when speaking of man. Is viewed as a liberal Bible version.
New American Standard Version – 1963-NT, 1971-OT, In response to the liberal translation of the RSV, a literal, hence conservative, update of the American Standard Version. Deliberately interprets the Old Testament from a Christian standpoint, in harmony with the New Testament (as opposed to the RSV). The literal translation has caused many difficulties for its awkward and unnatural English, hence like the RV, it is strong in Greek, weak in English and thus often used for study and reference and less for reading. In 1995, updated to improve the English style and less literal word for word translation. Still one of the most literal translation available.
New International Version – 1973-NT, 1978-OT, Not an update of a former Bible version. Created to bring the Bible into the modern English language. Translated by a committee of scholars, financed by the New York Bible Society, which is now called Biblica. OT based on the Masoretic Text (Original Hebrew) with several additional texts consulted. NT is based on Nestle-Aland version of Greek NT, though not in all places. Updated in 1984, then again in 2011. Intended to be used for evangelical purposes and to ensure the unity of the scriptures in both the OT and NT
New King James Version – 1979-NT, 1982-OT. Update of King James Version. Uses the same Greek and Hebrew texts as KJV but updates the English. There are notes added where there are differences between the original texts used and those of manuscripts found since 1611. Literal Bible version, though not as literal as the New American Standard Version. Extensive notes, though not always without bias. Kept much of KJV problems, such as 1 John 5:7-8 (though note informs that only 4-5 manuscripts have these words).
New Revised Standard Version – 1989 – Updated the RSV and included the Dead Sea Scrolls as part of the translation process for the OT. Removed “thou” and “thee” altogether, making it fully contemporary English. Also made changes to use inclusive gender language (i.e. – “person” instead of “man”). Recognizing that the RSV was considered a liberal translation, the NRSV might be considered even more so.
English Standard Version – 2001 – based on the RSV (not the NRSV and therefore it excludes the inclusive gender language). Goal was to be more literal than NIV but more readable than NASB, thus attempting to find a middle ground between the two. More literal than the KJV and NKJV though not as literal as the New American Standard Bible version.
A final note:
Though many of the Bible versions listed above used a previous translation as a basis, they were written as translations from the original languages. However, when the existing translations were valid and proper, the English translation was kept. In other words, if the Greek in a particular verse was translated one way and there was no reason to change it, the updated version kept that translation. For instance, after reviewing the original Greek for John 3:1-2, the New American Standard kept verse 1 exactly the same as the American Standard Version, but updated verse 2 to make the English more readable:
ASV: Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2 the same came unto him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that thou doest, except God be with him.
NASB: Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews; 2 this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
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Communication is a life skill. It is central to our fast-paced modern life and the need to understand what communication means is becoming ever more important in contemporary life. On this course you will explore all aspects of contemporary culture from music, TV, film, news and the media to mobile phones, iPods, and the Internet and social networks, and their impact on you as an individual and as part of your culture. You will learn about the ways in which our cultural experience shapes our identity and our understanding and perceptions of the everyday.
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If you are prone to forget your headphones, you will be delighted to know that new wearable technology that could turn your skin into a speaker would soon become a reality. Created mainly to help speech- and hearing-impaired people, the new “smart skin” could be easily embedded into the ears, or into a patch on the throat. A similar system which is described in the study acts as a microphone. It can be connected to a device and system to unlock the voice activated security system.
In order to build speakers and the microphones that will be thinner than a temporary tattoo, the researchers needed to design electronics that are flexible enough to stretch and bend with the skin, without losing their capacity to conduct heat and electricity, which are necessary to transmit audio signals.
After testing different types of materials, the scientist settled on grids of tiny wires which are painted with polymer layers. The wires were transparent, stretchy, and capable of conducting sound signals.
After getting the electric audio signals from the music player, the loudspeaker heats up the wire to a temperature of 33 C, which then replicates the sound pattern by changing the pressure of the air. Our ear picks up these changes in air pressure as sound waves.
The researchers have tested the microphone by asking four people to unlock a smartphone with the help of a voice recognition software. Out of these four subjects, only one was a registered user. Over ten trials, the system was able to recognize the correct voice more than 98% of the time.
The researchers say that the next step will be to improve the sound quality and volume of the tiny speakers, and the accuracy of the microphone in detecting speech and differentiating between different voices. They also want to come up with better materials for mass manufacturing. Till the time, these speakers become available in the market, make sure to hold those headphones on your way out to the door.
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This habit of wanting to systematically tighten the noseband of one’s horse is unfortunately well established among riders. The reasons given for this are, among others: “It allows to have more control”, “Without it the horse is less precise in their mouth” or “It is to avoid horses opening their mouth or sticking out their tongue”. The reality is that a too tight noseband is a real pain for the horse. Riders must understand this to overcome their fears and finally succeed in loosening their horse’s noseband a little.
Article based on the work of Patrick Galloux and Dr. Isabelle Burgaud, IFCE (French Institute of the Horse and Horse Riding)
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5 examples of harmful consequences caused by a too tight noseband
➡️ A noseband that is too tight generates a lot of stress for the horse.
Numerous studies have been done on the analysis of stress generated by noseband tightening, using several methods. Each time the results are identical: too tight nosebands generate stress for the horse.
Using Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability
A 2016 study focused on the subject, using heart rate and heart rate variability by comparing 4 levels of noseband tightening. These two parameters were measured at rest, then with the noseband, and finally 10 min after loosening the noseband. The researchers found a very strong increase in heart rate and a very strong decrease in heart rate variability when the noseband is tight. The heart rate remains significantly higher, even 10 minutes after loosening the noseband when it was too tight before, a sign of the intense stress generated by tightening the noseband.
A 2012 study used the thermography method to measure the stress generated by the noseband fitting.
A correlation had indeed been previously demonstrated between the temperature of the eye (the lacrimal caruncle more precisely) and the level of cortisol, the stress hormone.
In the 2012 study, the researcher shows that the temperature of the eye always rises in the 2 minutes following the tightening of the noseband, whatever the level of tightening, a sign that the very act of putting on the noseband is a source of stress.
In the case of nosebands that are too tight, researchers have observed a significant drop in the temperature of the horse’s cheek. According to them, this is related to the fact that the blood vessels (veins and arteries) of the horse’s face are too compressed by the noseband and therefore the blood no longer circulates properly in the cheek. Hence the drop in temperature.
Experiments carried out in Saumur, France, by Patrick Galloux and Laetitia Boichot are consistent with this study.
From a behavioral point of view, many observations were made.
A study in Saumur was made by analyzing the negative behavioral signs of horses ridden on dressage with different levels of noseband tightening.
Negative behaviors (tail wagging and backwards ears) are clearly diminished when the noseband is loosened, a sign of a better comfort of the horse. This goes without saying, but the decrease of these behaviors is also a sign of better performance in these conditions.
Also, the tightening of the noseband mechanically prevents the horse from opening its mouth and thus chewing. These chewing movements are important for the horse. In ethology, the fact of seeing the horse chewing is a strong sign of relaxation and acceptance of the work in progress. Preventing this natural behavior is therefore a source of stress for the horse.
Similarly, a 2016 study shows that once the noseband is loosened, the horse immediately starts chewing, swallowing and licking again. This inability to express natural behavior is considered a real source of stress for the horse.
➡️ A noseband that is too tight can deform the bones of the horse’s head.
Yes yes, you read well. A noseband that is too tight ends up deforming the skull bones. And that’s not rare at all. In fact, you have certainly already crossed horses with a marked deformation of the noseband. But you can imagine that, even if it is done in the long term, you don’t deform a bone without pain.
Lesions can also be on the skin and hair.
➡️ A noseband that is too tight compresses the nerves, veins and arteries of the face.
In addition to preventing the horse from breathing properly because of the pressure on the nose, nosebands that are too tight will compress the nerves and blood vessels of the face.
Indeed, the cranial nerves of the horse come out of the horse’s skull through 2 “holes” called “foramen”: the infraorbital foramen and the mental foramen. The nerves of the face (facial, infraorbital and mandibular) are then directly under the skin. The problem is that nosebands, even anatomical nosebands, cut the paths of these nerves.
It is the same for the facial artery and vein.
Thus, nosebands that are too tight compress nerves, arteries and veins against the bone.
This leads to numbness, as well as a potential decrease in the motor skills of the face.
➡️ A noseband that is too tight can create very painful mouth injuries.
In Humans, the dental table (the top of the teeth, very roughly), is approximately horizontal. In the horse, it is not the case. Their dental table is oblique, following a line that goes from the inside – up, to the outside – down. Thus the premolars and molars at the top are longer on the outside.
Also, as the horses’ teeth grow continuously, the upper teeth push outward and downward. Thus, in horses whose mouth is not perfectly maintained, a noseband that is too tight will pinch the skin from the inside of the cheek against the tooth, forming injuries called “cheek ulcers“.
In addition, the presence of extra teeth in front of the premolars can lead to injuries at the corner of the lips due to overtightening of the noseband. Indeed, the noseband will tighten the corner of the lips between the bit and the wolf tooth, causing a very painful injury.
➡️ A noseband that is too tight has a significant impact on the horse’s locomotion.
All approaches (the approach of the veterinarian, the osteopath and the acupuncturist) lead to a link between the mouth and locomotion, in particular thanks to a bone structure called the hyoid bone.
As a result, mouth problems and postural problems and therefore locomotor problems are very closely related. It is a very well known and documented phenomenon in humans, so that chiropodists regularly refer their patients to the dentist to solve their postural problems in depth.
Thus, the fact that the horse’s mandible is restricted in its movements because of the noseband, and this in the 3 directions of space, leads to a dysfunction of the mouth, the upper cervicals and the hyoid, thus of the forelegs. It is then clear that the locomotion is impacted. A drop in performance therefore undoubtedly ensues.
What is the use of the noseband in then?
The question does indeed arise. In fact, more and more riders are choosing to remove the noseband completely, as many great riders used to do in the past. However, the absence of a noseband does not seem to solve all the problems since a study made on more than 3000 horses showed that horses ridden without a noseband had more injuries in the mouth than horses ridden with a loose noseband.
Apart from the aesthetic aspect of the noseband, the noseband can be useful to limit the excessive opening of the horse’s mouth, while allowing sufficient opening for the horse to chew and swallow. This can be particularly the case when the safety of the couple is a priority, as on the cross-country for example.
The noseband and its excessive tightening must in no way be a solution to a behavioral problem on the part of the horse.
“The noseband must in no case be a muzzle.”Patrick Galloux, horseman of the Cadre Noir of Saumur
How do you know if your horse’s noseband is too tight?
It is often said that the optimal setting is 2 fingers between the noseridge and noseband. The problem is that the size of the fingers varies a lot from one individual to another.
Scientists therefore looked at the circumference of the noseridge with the mouth closed and when the horse chews. The difference in circumference between the two is 3 cm. It is therefore advisable to be able to pass at least 2 fingers between the noseridge and the noseband.
Be careful,, the measurement should always be taken above the noseridge and not below the mandible.
The ISES (International Society for Equitation Science) has also marketed a gauge to ensure that the noseband is not too tight. If you are able to slide the gauge to the line without forcing, the noseband is well adjusted.
Some observations may indicate that the noseband is too tight. This is especially the case for those horses that drool excessively, especially those that drool without making foam. Indeed, when the noseband is too tight, horses can no longer swallow their saliva. They then start drooling without being able to hold it back.
As a reminder, a good level of salivation can be seen in the “lipstick” effect. The slightly foaming saliva just gets to the edge of the horse’s lips, no more. Beyond that, it can be considered as excessive salivation, sign of a too tight noseband or an unsuitable bit.
How to better manage undesirable behaviors without tightening your horse’s noseband?
At this stage, you may begin to be convinced that you need to tighten your horse’s noseband less. However, it is possible that you may fear certain undesirable behaviors from your horse with these new settings.
Here are a few tips to help you manage this serenely.
Try it, you’ll see!
First of all, you don’t risk much to try, on a few sessions (on the flat at first), to loosen the noseband frankly. This little experiment will help you to identify changes in your horse’s behaviour. You will see that, perhaps, they will be more relaxed, that they will chew a little more.
Dentist, bitfitter and osteopath, the striking trio
If you ever find that your horse’s mouth is opening too much, sticking out their tongue or is too hard, then we strongly advise you to call in an equine dentist to make sure that your horse’s mouth is in good condition, as well as a bitfitter.
These people are specialized in adapting the bridle and bit to the morphology of your horse. You will be surprised at the radical and extremely rapid changes that a change of bridle and bit can cause.
(And don’t think you can improvise being a bitfitter with the few bits you have at home. When you see the amount of material they have and the fine-tuning they do, you’ll understand why it’s a profession in its own right. 😉)
📚 On the same topic: 5 Minutes to Understand How to Find the Right Bit for Your Horse
In addition to the visit of the dentist and the bitfitter, a visit from an osteopath can be a real plus. As you have seen above, the physical consequences of tightening the noseband are important. The osteopath can help to put your horse back on its feet. Also, certain undesirable behaviors masked by a too tight noseband (and which can therefore come back by loosening the noseband) can be linked to musculoskeletal disorders that the osteopath can help to solve.
Finally, a horse in good health and physical condition, with equipment adapted to their morphology, which nevertheless continues to show undesirable behaviors at work, must lead to a questioning of the correctness and finesse of the rider’s actions. (It is longer and more difficult but it costs less…)
Whatever the approach or method used (behaviorists, veterinarians, dentists, or even the great founding riders of horse riding, osteopaths and acupuncturists, not developed here), all agree on this point: tight nosebands are harmful to the horse. The scientific proofs, validated, are there. The reasons that pushed the riders to tighten their nosebands can all be solved otherwise than by using this painful and stressful method for the horse.
It is therefore high time that we, riders, took hold of this, and that we overcome our fears and difficulties that we thought would be solved by tightening the noseband.
So try it. From your next session, loosen your noseband, leave 3 cm free between the noseridge and the noseband, and observe the results. You will probably be surprised.
See you soon for a new article,
Co-founder of Equisense and R&D manager
Galloux, P., & Burgaud, I. (2020). La muserolle : choix, emploi et serrage. Equipedia.
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by Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky
Reprinted by permission of "The Arlington Catholic Herald"
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The Reading of Our Lord's Passion
According to Matthew 26:14-27:66
Matthew wrote to show that Christ
Messiah and fulfilled the Jewish prophecies.
Narrator: The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew. One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said,
Speaker: “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?”
Narrator: They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over. On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples approached Jesus and said,
Speaker: “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
Narrator: He said,
Jesus: “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, ‘The teacher says, “My appointed time draws near; in your house I shall celebrate the Passover with my disciples.”’”
Narrator: The disciples then did as Jesus had ordered, and prepared the Passover. When it was evening, he reclined at table with the Twelve. And while they were eating, he said,
Jesus: “Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”
Narrator: Deeply distressed at this, they began to say to him one after another,
Speaker: “Surely it is not I, Lord?”
Narrator: He said in reply,
Jesus: “He who has dipped his hand into the dish with me is the one who will betray me. The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had never been born.”
Narrator: Then Judas, his betrayer, said in reply,
Speaker: “Surely it is not I, Rabbi?”
Narrator: He answered,
Jesus: “You have said so.”
Narrator: While they were eating, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and giving it to his disciples said,
Jesus: “Take and eat; this is my body.”
Narrator: Then he took a cup, gave thanks, an gave it to them, saying,
Jesus: “Drink from it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you from now on I shall not drink this fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it with you new in the kingdom of my Father.”
Narrator: Then, after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Then Jesus said to them,
Jesus: “This night all of you will have your faith in me shaken, for it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be dispersed; but after I have been raise up, I shall go before you to Galilee.”
Narrator: Peter said to him in reply,
Speaker: “Though all may have their faith in you shaken, mine will never be.”
Narrator: Jesus said to him,
Jesus: “Amen, I say to you, this very night before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.”
Narrator: Peter said to him,
Speaker: “Even though I should have to die with you, I will not deny you.”
Narrator: He took along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to feel sorrow and distress. Then he said to them,
Jesus: “My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch with me.”
Narrator: He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying,
Jesus: “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I will, but as you will.”
Narrator: When he returned to his disciples he found them asleep. He said to Peter,
Jesus: “So you could not keep watch with me for one hour? Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Narrator: Withdrawing a second time, he prayed again,
Jesus: “My Father, if it is not possible that this cup pass without my drinking it, your will be done!”
Narrator: Then he returned once more and found them asleep, for they could not keep their eyes open. He left them and withdrew again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing again. The he returned to his disciples and said to them,
Jesus: “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Behold, the hour is at hand when the Son of Man is to be handed over to sinners. Get up, let us go. Look, my betrayer is at hand.”
Narrator: While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived, accompanied by a large crowd, with swords and clubs, who had come from the chief priests and the elders of the people. His betrayer had arranged a sign with them, saying,
Speaker: “The man I shall kiss is the one; arrest him.”
Narrator: Immediately he went over to Jesus and said,
Speaker: “Hail, Rabbi!”
Narrator: and he kissed him. Jesus answered him,
Jesus: “Friend, do what you have come for.”
Narrator: Then stepping forward they laid hands on Jesus and arrested him. And behold, one of those who accompanied Jesus put his hand to his sword, drew it, and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his ear. The Jesus said to him,
Jesus: “Put your sword back into its sheath, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. D you think that I cannot call upon my Father and he will not provide me at this moment with more than twelve legions of angels? But then how would the Scriptures be fulfilled which say that it must come to pass in this way?”
Narrator: At that hour Jesus said to the crowds,
Jesus: “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me? Did after day I sat teaching in the temple area, yet you did not arrest me. But al this has come to pass that the writings of the prophets may be fulfilled.”
Narrator: Then all the disciples left him and fled. Those who had arrested Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. Peter was following him at a distance as far as the high priest’s courtyard, and going inside he sat down with the servants to see the outcome. The chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward who stated,
Chorus: “This man said, ‘I can destroy the temple of God and within three says rebuild it.’”
Narrator: The high priest rose and addressed him,
Speaker: “Have you no answer? What are these men testifying against you?”
Narrator: But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest said to him,
Speaker: “I order you to tell us under oath before the living God whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
Narrator: Jesus said to him in reply,
Jesus: “You have said so. But I tell you: From now on you will see ’the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power’ and ‘coming on the clouds of heaven.’”
Narrator: Then the high priest tore his robes and said,
Speaker: “He has blasphemed! What further need have we of witnesses? You have now heard the blasphemy; what is your opinion?”
Narrator: They said in reply,
Chorus: “He deserves to die!”
Narrator: Then they spat in his face and struck him, while some slapped him, saying,
Chorus: “Prophesy for us, Christ; who is it that struck you?”
Narrator: Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. One of the maids came over to him and said,
Chorus: “You too were with Jesus the Galilean.”
Narrator: But he denied it in front of everyone, saying,
Speaker: “I do not know what you are talking about!”
Narrator: As he went out to the gate, another girl saw him and said to those who were there,
Chorus: “This man was with Jesus the Nazorean.”
Narrator: Again he denied it with an oath,
Speaker: “I do not know the man!”
Narrator: A little later the bystanders came over and said to Peter,
Chorus: “Surely you too are one of them; even your speech gives you away.”
Narrator: At that he began to curse and to swear,
Speaker: “I do not know the man.”
Narrator: And immediately a cock crowed. Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken: “Before the cock crows you will deny me three times.” He went out and began to weep bitterly. When it was morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. They bound him, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate, the governor. Then Judas, his betrayer, seeing that Jesus had been condemned, deeply regretted what he had done. He returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying,
Speaker: “I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.”
Narrator: They said,
Chorus: “What is that to us? Look to it yourself.”
Narrator: Flinging the money into the temple, he departed and went off and hanged himself. The chief priests gathered up the money, but said,
Chorus: “It is not lawful to deposit this in the temple treasury, for it is the price of blood.”
Narrator: After consultation, they used it to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners. That is why that field even today is called the Field of Blood.” Then was fulfilled what had been said through Jeremiah the prophet, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of a man with a price on his head, a price set by some of the Israelites, and they paid it out for the potter’s field just as the Lord had commanded me.
Narrator: Now Jesus stood before the governor, and he questioned him,
Speaker: “Are you the king of the Jews?”
Narrator: Jesus said,
Jesus: “You say so.”
Narrator: And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he made no answer. Then Pilate said to him,
Speaker: “Do you not hear how many things they are testifying against you?”
Narrator: But he did not answer him one word, so that the governor was greatly amazed. Now on the occasion of the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the crowd one prisoner whom they wished. And at that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had assembled, Pilate said to them,
Speaker: “Which one do you want me to release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus called Christ?
Narrator: For he knew that it was out of envy that they had handed him over. While he was still seated on the bench, his wife sent him a message, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man. I suffered much in a dream today because of him.” The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas but to destroy Jesus. The governor said to them in reply,
Speaker: “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?”
Narrator: They answered,
Narrator: Pilate said to them,
Speaker: “Then what shall I do with Jesus called Christ?”
Narrator: They all said,
Chorus: “Let him be crucified!”
Narrator: But he said,
Speaker: “Why? What evil has he done?”
Chorus: “Let him be crucified!”
Narrator: When Pilate saw that he was not succeeding at all, but that a riot was breaking out instead, he took water and washed his hands in the sight of the crowd, saying,
Speaker: “I am innocent of this man’s blood. Look to it yourselves.”
Narrator: And the whole people said in reply,
Chorus: “His blood be upon us and upon our children.”
Narrator: Then he released Barabbas to them, but after he had Jesus scourged, he handed him over to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus inside the Praetorium and gathered the whole cohort around him. They stripped off his clothes and threw a scarlet military cloak about him. Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head, and a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying,
Chorus: “Hail, King of the Jews!”
Narrator: They spat upon him and took the reed ad kept striking him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, and led him off to crucify him. As they were going out, they met a Cyrenian named Simon: this man they pressed into service to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called Golgotha – which means Place of the Skull – they gave Jesus wine to drink mixed with gall. But when he had tasted it, he refused to drink. After they had crucified him, they divided his garments bv casting lots; then they sat down and kept watch over him there. And they placed over his head the written charge against him: This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. Two revolutionaries were crucified with him, one on his right and the other on his left. Those passing by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying,
Chorus: “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself, if you are the Son of God, and come down from the cross!”
Narrator: Likewise the chief priests with the scribes and elders mocked him and said,
Chorus: “He saved others; he cannot save himself. So he is the king of Israel! Let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. He trusted in God; let him deliver his now if he wants him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
narrator: The revolutionaries who were crucified with him also kept abusing him in the same way. From noon onward, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And about three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice,
Jesus: “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”
Narrator: Which means,
Jesus: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Narrator: Some of the bystanders who heard it said,
Chorus: “This one is calling for Elijah.”
Narrator: Immediately one of them ran to get a sponge; he soaked it in wine, and putting it on a reed, gave it to him to drink. But the rest said,
Chorus: “Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to save him.”
Narrator: But Jesus cried out again in a loud voice, and gave up his spirit.
Here all kneel and pause for a short time.
Narrator: And behold, the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, rocks were split, tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised. And coming forth from their tombs after his resurrection, they entered the holy city and appeared to many. The centurion and the men with him who were keeping watch over Jesus feared greatly when they saw the earthquake and all that was happening, and they said,
Chorus: “Truly, this was the Son of God!”
Narrator: There were many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him. Among them were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who was himself a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be handed over. Taking the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock. Then he rolled a huge stone across the entrance to the tomb and departed. But Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained sitting there, facing the tomb. The next day, the one following the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said,
Chorus: “Sir we remember that this impostor while still alive said, ‘After three days I will be raise up.’ Give orders, then, that the grave be secured until the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead.’ This last imposture would be worse than the first.”
Narrator: Pilate said to them,
Speaker: “The guard is yours; go, secure it as best you can.”
Narrator: So they went and secured the tomb by fixing a seal to the stone and setting the guard.
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It is the morning of Good Friday and onto the sunlit portico steps Pontius Pilate, the governor of Judea, to judge between the Just One and Barabbas, an insurrectionist and murderer. Pilate knows that he is in a very difficult situation: If he releases our blessed Lord, a riot will ensue and Pilate will have to answer to his superiors in Rome for his lack of leadership and discipline over Roman subjects in Palestine. Meanwhile, releasing Barabbas means sending an innocent man (Jesus) to his death. St. Matthew’s Gospel rendition of the Passion indicates that Pilate is keenly aware that the Jewish elders want Jesus killed out of envy.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen once wrote that in each of us, our conscience is the tribunal of Pilate. Each day, Christ comes before that tribunal as virtue, honesty and purity. Barabbas presents himself as vice, dishonesty and impurity. Whenever I speak uncharitably, act dishonestly or consent to an evil thought, I say, like Pilate, “Release unto me Barabbas.” That choice and those choices throughout my life are what crucify Jesus time and again. Whenever I act virtuously, I beg for Jesus’ life and lighten the load He carries in the world for me. Ironically, Barabbas literally means, “Son of the Father.” So, Pilate is asking the crowd to choose between Jesus, the true Son of the Father and Barabbas, whose name carries the exact same literal meaning. And yet, our blessed Lord and Barabbas could not be more different. In the same way, the human person’s conscience must decide between good and evil, even if in their estimation, the two might appear to be very similar, at least in name. Temptations from outside and man’s internal disordered desires wounded by original sin often cause him to struggle to distinguish between good and evil. Pilate’s struggle to act justly can often be our own.
It is convenient to relegate the events of the Passion and death of Jesus as mere historical occurrences that carry no immediate consequences for my life. I can appreciate the ultimate love that Jesus shows by His decision to lay down His life for me, but I can do so as a mere spectator or casual observer of heroism and great altruism. The real challenge of entering deeply into the mystery of Christ’s suffering and death is found in my willingness to assimilate these events as deeply consequential for me, in a personal way. This idea was not lost on St. Paul who wrote, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Gal 2:20)
Pious and devout participation in the liturgies of the sacred triduum is perhaps one of the best ways to enter deeply into the paschal mystery. The joy of Easter is more pronounced when one has spent time in liturgical and personal prayer over the preceding three days from Holy Thursday through the Easter Vigil. The ritualization of these events evokes in us the proper sentiments to allow the mystery of Christ’s love for us to penetrate our souls. It is in learning to die with Jesus that we rise with Him in glory. May we allow these words to become more than a pious phrase but authentically descriptive of our discipleship.
Somewhere, a prominent historian once observed that the death of Christ on the cross was “mercifully quick.” The comment haunts. Though there seems to be a hint of blasphemy in the remark, it is true that the length of time Jesus endured His passion doesn’t come close to the length of time Maximilian Kolbe, for example, suffered in Auschwitz. For that matter, terminally ill cancer patients often endure severe and chronic pain for weeks and months. What do these comparisons suggest as we reflect on the Passion of Christ on Palm Sunday and Holy Week?
Consider first the various forms of suffering. When a person cuts a finger slicing potatoes, the initial pain may be negligible despite the severity of the wound, although the throbs may begin in short order. At other times one may suffer very little physical pain, but endure intense anguish in mind and spirit.
A person diagnosed with a serious illness requiring surgery may find himself consumed with worry, fearing a medical procedure that promises a cure even though anesthesia will eliminate any physical suffering during surgery.
Then, too, the prospect of a slow and painful recovery can cause him more inner turmoil than the actual experience of rehabilitation. Pain of soul in anticipation of suffering is usually far worse than physical pain.
There is another curious form of suffering that is more observably related to building personal character. It is the willful acceptance of suffering that, in effect, tests our desire and ability to succeed. The athlete, the scholar, the businessman and politician — indeed those seeking excellence and success — know this type of suffering. The prospect of failure is more painful than the pain of stretched muscles, pounding hearts and mental exhaustion.
Although the sufferings of Christ during His Passion can be compared to such “normal” forms of human suffering, His sufferings are of a completely different order.
Hints of this new order of suffering can be found in the Gospel of St. John: “This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again. This command I have received from my Father” (Jn 10:17-18). An extraordinary and mysterious revelation.
The suffering of Christ was not passive; it was an active and a positive choice. In choosing to bear the weight of all of our sins — all the evil committed from man’s beginning to the end of time — the inner suffering of Christ becomes unimaginable. Suffering is the result and sign of sin — our own sins, the sins of others, and in a most mysterious way, the result of original sin. If the death of Christ was comparatively “quick,” it could hardly be described as “mercifully” so, for our many sins are merciless. In choosing to suffer, Christ did not choose evil, nor did He sin. All suffering is a mystery and is the experience of evil. Hence, the suffering of Christ — and all human suffering — is, a deeply disturbing sign of evil. This helps us begin to understand St. Paul when he writes, “For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor 5:21).
From the depths of our souls mired in sin, we are given the dignity to choose the Passion of Christ in freedom and with courage. For “whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me” (Mt 10:38). There can never be compromises with evil, and suffering forces us to choose. Such suffering might tempt us to blaspheme, to “curse God and die” (as Job’s wife proposed). Or it can — as it must — lead us, with God’s grace, into the heart of the mysterious Passion of Christ.
St. Paul speaks from the spiritual heights of this holy endeavor: “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of His body, which is the church … .” (Col 1:24). Later he adds, using the metaphor of a champion, “For I am already being poured out like a libation, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith. From now on the crown of righteousness awaits me….” (2 Tim 4:6-8).
How dare we make these words our own. The thought of suffering is repellent, and most of us fail in the simplest of our Lenten resolutions. We complain. We know the great difficulty of accepting the sufferings of everyday life, even before we voluntarily bring upon ourselves largely symbolic Lenten mortification. We might easily give in to discouragement if not for Christ Himself in His overflowing mercy and generosity. In Gethsemane, Jesus excuses us: “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mt 26:41).
Despite our weakness, with willing spirits the mortifications of Lent and our meditation on the Passion of Christ reinforce our resolve to continue the arduous earthly pilgrimage; to freely accept — without sinful resentment and despair — the unavoidable sufferings of life. If we so choose, with God’s grace we can, in our imperfect way, join Christ on the Cross. We too, in the sufferings of our body, are given the privilege of making up for “what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ.” In Christ, our suffering ceases to be an unholy sign of evil. The suffering of the martyrs in union with Christ on the Cross — including our own suffering — is transformed into a saving sacrament of His love.
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A better NETwork for Sinti and Roma
17. Oktober 2019 / 17:00 - 20. Oktober 2019 / 11:00 Uhr
Background of the training:
Digital technologies are reshaping society. On the one hand, racist ideologies, antigypsyism, right-wing populism and hate speech have found fertile ground in our social media landscape and are growing stronger. On the other hand, these same technologies allow for better networking, help mobilization and empowerment of minorities, for sharing experiences and organizing political power.
Objectives of the training-course are:
The training-course aims to build capacity of Roma and non-Roma educators and youth leaders and their youth organizations with regard to, their work on participation in the digital space of Sinti and Roma-youth. It strives to enable young Roma activist and scholars to utilize the potential of digital technologies and build a stronger and better network – digital and analog!
The seminar will take place in the “Educational forum against antigypsyism” in Berlin. As a part of the training-course we will visit the German parliament and the Monument for the murdered Sinti and Roma of Europe during the Nazi time. There will be opportunity to meet and network with minority representatives of YEN, Youth of European Nationalities.
For one section of our seminar we would like to invite any volunteers to speak on the issue of digitalization and its effects on the participation of (young) Sinti and Roma. These statements may address both opportunities and challenges and should be limited to five to ten minutes. If you would like to offer your perspective on these issues, please notify us while applying for the event or via email beforehand.
We invite youth activists (18–35 years) in particular members of the minority of Sinti and Roma who are actively working against racism and for youth/community mobilization. Applicants should be resident of the EU28-countries (including the UK), but it is also possibly to participate,
Dates: 17–20 October 2019 (including travel days), at 17.10.2019 we will start at 17 o’clock and we will end at the 20.10.2019 at 11 o’clock
Please send an E-Mail with your name, your date of birth, your travel-connection and let us know whether you would like to share a statement about your perspective on participation of Sinti and Roma in the digital space. It would be also interesting to know your previous knowledge. Send these information to firstname.lastname@example.org.
Registration deadline: 04. October 2019
Reimbursement of travel costs:
Board and accommodation for the activity is covered by the organizers of the training-course. Travel costs will be reimbursed during the activity either in cash (Euro) or via bank transfer. All accepted participants have to consult their travel plans with the organizers prior to purchasing any tickets.
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Theme: A disillusioned
America turned away from idealism and reform after World War I and toward
isolationism in foreign affairs, domestic social conservatism and the pleasures
Theme: New technologies,
mass-marketing techniques, and new forms of entertainment fostered rapid cultural
change along with a focus on consumer goods. But the accompanying changes
in moral values and uncertainty about the future produced cultural anxiety
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When the vegetables arrive, they are stored in a cooler until ready to process them. Next, many bags of produce must be opened. The vegetables are then dumped into the washer to remove any dirt. Cutting boards and two long conveyor belts in the cutting room efficiently provide an area for the vegetables to be trimmed and chopped in preparation for the dicer.
Volunteers feed the vegetables onto the top conveyor belts, trim vegetables, as well as provide containers to collect the trimmed vegetables as they return on the bottom belt, which are then diced and dried.
With a variety of dried vegetables, CAM volunteers assemble a dried soup mix to help feed the hungry in the world.
CAM recognizes that we are only a channel from the giver to the recipient. We need our volunteers and are grateful for each one. Funds also are needed to help pay the expenses at Reapers of Hope. It is estimated that each dollar will cover more than 7 meal servings!
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – A sedative authorised just for animals contributes to overdoses in Jefferson County.
It is referred to as Xylazine and is manifesting in a drug overdose within the Jefferson County coroner’s workplace. There was a giant improve this 12 months, with 36 deaths thus far.
“Decelerate your respiration, decelerate your respiration,” Jefferson County Deputy Chief Coroner Invoice Yates stated. “Ultimately it causes a mind harm that may result in demise. It might probably occur in a short time. It causes sleepiness, slows respiration, coronary heart fee and blood strain.
It’s discovered blended with avenue medication, corresponding to cocaine and methamphetamines.
“We’re advised it’s being integrated into these merchandise to increase the euphoria,” Yates stated. “However I do not know if the consumer is aware of.”
Instances primarily happen in white males of their forties.
“We had a case in 2019,” Yates stated. “One in 2020 and 2021 we’ve gone to 11. To date this 12 months we’re solely midway and we’ve seen 36”.
Yates stated it is a drug that does not work in opposition to Narcan.
“The issue with xylazine is that it is not an opioid,” he stated. “So, the opioid-reversing drug of naloxone or Narcan has no impact.”
There are not any xylazine check strips. The Narcotics Division of the Birmingham Police stated avenue medication will be intertwined with something and a number of completely different medication in a single.
In all 36 county deaths, Fentanyl was additionally a significant contributor.
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From The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Volume 7- Chapter 2 – Conversations And Dialogues. Taken from the Diary of a Disciple, Shri Priya Nath Sinha
Swamiji: A very funny thing happened today. I went to a friend’s house. He has had a picture painted, the subject of which is “Shri Krishna addressing Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra”. Shri Krishna stands on the chariot, holding the reins in His hand and preaching the Gita to Arjuna. He showed me the picture and asked me how I liked it. “Fairly well”, I said. But as he insisted on having my criticism on it, I had to give my honest opinion by saying, “There is nothing in it to commend itself to me; first, because the chariot of the time of Shri Krishna was not like the modern pagoda – shaped car, and also, there is no expression in the figure of Shri Krishna.”
Q.– Was not the pagoda – chariot in use then?
Swamiji: Don’t you know that since the Buddhistic era, there has been a great confusion in everything in our country? The kings never used to fight in pagoda – chariots. There are chariots even today in Rajputana that greatly resemble the chariots of old. Have you seen the chariots in the pictures of Grecian mythology? They have two wheels, and one mounts them from behind; we had that sort of chariot. What good is it to paint a picture if the details are wrong? An historical picture comes up to a standard of excellence when after making proper study and research, things are portrayed exactly as they were at that period. The truth must be represented, otherwise the picture is nothing. In these days, our young men who go in for painting are generally those who were unsuccessful at school, and who have been given up at home as good – for – nothing; what work of art can you expect from them? To paint a really good picture requires as much talent as to produce a perfect drama.
Q.– how then should Shri Krishna be represented in the picture in question?
Swamiji: Shri Krishna ought to be painted as He really was, the Gita personified; and the central idea of the Gita should radiate from His whole form as He was teaching the path of Dharma to Arjuna, who had been overcome by infatuation and cowardice.
So saying Swamiji posed himself in the way in which Shri Krishna should be portrayed, and continued: “Look here, thus does he hold the bridle of the horses — so tight that they are brought to their haunches, with their forelegs fighting the air, and their mouths gaping. This will show a tremendous play of action in the figure of Shri Krishna. His friend, the world – renowned hero, casting aside his bow and arrows, has sunk down like a coward on the chariot, in the midst of the two armies. And Shri Krishna, whip in one hand and tightening the reins with the other, has turned Himself towards Arjuna, with his childlike face beaming with unworldly love and sympathy, and a calm and serene look — and is delivering the message of the Gita to his beloved comrade. Now, tell me what idea this picture of the Preacher of the Gita conveys to you.”
The friend: Activity combined with firmness and serenity.
Swamiji: Ay, that’s it! Intense action in the whole body, and withal a face expressing the profound calmness and serenity of the blue sky. This is the central idea of the Gita — to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one’s body, mind, and soul centred at His hallowed Feet! [(Sanskrit)] (Gita IV.18)
He who even while doing action can keep his mind calm, and in whom, even when not doing any outward action, flows the current of activity in the form of the contemplation of Brahman, is the intelligent one among men, he indeed is the Yogi, he indeed is the perfect worker.
At this moment, the man who had been sent to arrange a boat returned and said that it was ready; so Swamiji told his friend, “Now let us go to the Math.
You must have left word at home that you were going there with me?”
They continued their talk as they walked to the boat.
Swamiji: This idea must be preached to everyone — work, work, endless work — without looking at results, and always keeping the whole mind and soul steadfast at the lotus feet of the Lord!
Q.– but is this not Karma – yoga?
Swamiji: Yes, this is Karma – yoga; but without spiritual practices you will never be able to do this Karma – yoga. You must harmonise the four different Yogas; otherwise how can you always keep your mind and heart wholly on the Lord?
Q.– it is generally said that work according to the Gita means the performance of Vedic sacrifices and religious exercises; any other kind of work is futile.
Swamiji: All right; but you must make it more comprehensive. Who is responsible for every action you do, every breath you take, and every thought you think? Isn’t it you yourself?
The friend: Yes and no. I cannot solve this clearly. The truth about it is that man is the instrument and the Lord is the agent. So when I am directed by His will, I am not at all responsible for my actions.
Swamiji: Well, that can be said only in the highest state of realisation. When the mind will be purified by work and you will see that it is He who is causing all to work, then only you will have a right to speak like that. Otherwise it is all bosh, a mere cant.
Q.– why so, if one is truly convinced by reasoning that the Lord alone is causing all actions to be done?
Swamiji: It may hold good when one has been so convinced. But it only lasts for that moment, and not a whit afterwards. Well, consider this thoroughly, whether all that you do in your everyday life, you are not doing with an egoistic idea that you yourself are the agent.
How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice “Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within.” But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!
Q.– But it is He who is giving me the wicked impulse?
Swamiji: No, by no means. It would be blaspheming the Lord to think in that way. He is not inciting you to evil action, it is all the creation of your desire for self – gratification. If one says the Lord is causing everything to be done, and wilfully persists in wrong – doing, it only brings ruin on him. That is the origin of self – deception. Don’t you feel an elation after you have done a good deed? You then give yourself the credit of doing something good — you can’t help it, it is very human. But how absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord! It is a most dangerous idea — the effect of ill – digested Gita and Vedanta. Never hold that view. Rather say that He is causing the good work to be done while you are responsible for the evil action. That will bring on devotion and faith, and you will see His grace manifested at every step. The truth about it is that no one has created you — you have created yourself. This is discrimination, this is Vedanta. But one does not understand it before realisation. Therefore the aspirant should begin with the dualistic standpoint, that the Lord is causing the good actions, while he is doing the evil. This is the easiest way to the purification of the mind. Hence you find dualism so strong among the Vaishnavas. It is very difficult to entertain Advaitic (non – dualistic) ideas at the outset. But the dualistic standpoint gradually leads to the realisation of the Advaita.
Hypocrisy is always a dangerous thing. If there is no wilful self – deception, that is to say, if one sincerely believes that the most wicked impulse is also prompted by the Lord, rest assured that one will not have to do those mean acts for long. All the impurities of the mind are quickly destroyed. Our ancient scriptural writers understood this well. And I think that the Tantrika form of worship originated from the time that Buddhism began to decline and, through the oppression of the Buddhists, people began to perform their Vedic sacrifices in secret. They had no more opportunity to conduct them for two months at a stretch, so they made clay images, worshipped them, and consigned them to the water — finishing everything in one night, without leaving the least trace! Man longs for a concrete symbol, otherwise his heart is not satisfied. So in every home that one – night sacrifice began to take place. As Shri Ramakrishna used to say, “Some enter the house by the scavenger’s entrance”, so the spiritual teachers of that time saw that those who could not perform any religious rite owing to their evil propensities, also needed some way of coming round by degrees to the path of virtue. For them those queer Tantrika rites came to be invented.
Q.– They went on doing evil actions thinking them to be good. So how could this remove their evil tendencies?
Swamiji: Why, they gave a different direction to their propensities; they did them, but with the object of realising the Lord.
Q.– Can this really be done?
Swamiji: It comes to the same thing. The motive must be right. And what should prevent them from succeeding?
Q.– But many are caught in the temptation for wine, meat, etc. in trying to get along with such means.
Swamiji: It was therefore that Shri Ramakrishna came. The days of practising the Tantra in that fashion are gone. He, too, practised the Tantra, but not in that way. Where there is the injunction of drinking wine, he would simply touch his forehead with a drop of it. The Tantrika form of worship is a very slippery ground. Hence I say that this province has had enough of the Tantra. Now it must go beyond. The Vedas should be studied. A harmony of the four kinds of Yogas must be practised and absolute chastity must be preserved.
Q.– What do you mean by the harmony of the four Yogas?
Swamiji: Discrimination between the real and the unreal, dispassion and devotion, work and practices in concentration, and along with these there must be a reverential attitude towards women.
Q.– How can one look with reverence on women?
Swamiji: Well, they are the representatives of the Divine Mother. And real well – being of India will commence from the day that the worship of the Divine Mother will truly begin, and every man will sacrifice himself at the altar of the Mother. . . .
Q.– Swamiji, in your boyhood, when we asked you to marry, you would reply, “I won’t, but you will see what I shall become.” You have actually verified your words.
Swamiji: Yes, dear brother, you saw how I was in want of food, and had to work hard besides. Oh, the tremendous labour! Today the Americans out of love have given me this nice bed, and I have something to eat also. But, also, I have not been destined to enjoy physically — and lying on the mattress only aggravates my illness. I feel suffocated, as it were. I have to come down and lie on the floor for relief! | <urn:uuid:341db563-a736-4f85-b58c-7d1d09bc3cfb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://english.sreyas.in/conversations-and-dialogues-shri-priya-nath-sinha-7-2-31/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972899 | 2,607 | 2.4375 | 2 |
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