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This is the tenth installment of the online series by Peter Fetterman Gallery called the Power of Photography highlighting hope, peace and love in the world. We invite you to enjoy and reflect on these works during this time.
Henry Goodwin (1878-1931)
Two Reclining Female Nudes, 1920
© Estate of Henry Goodwin/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
I love Pictorialist Photography and Henry Goodwin was probally the greatest Swedish Pictorialist Photographer. He exhibited widely internationally and was invited by none other than Conde Nast, the great publisher, to visit New York in 1921.
I was seduced the moment I saw this image and like so many special images it took a long time for me to seduce the reluctant owner to part with it. It reminded me of a great French Full plate daguerrotype…
I have never seen anything like it again. Haunting.
Jeffrey Conley (1969-)
Figure and Waterfall, Iceland, 2018
© Jeffrey Conley/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
Of course everyone today is a photographer or can be because of the ease of entry to the medium which in fact has both its blessings and curses. It’s like all of us have access to the same letters of the alphabet, but very few of us can use these same letters and write like Shakespeare or Jane Austen.
I first met Jeffrey several years ago and was impressed by the quality of his work and his determination to pursue one of the most difficult of objectives: the creative life. I keenly watched his progress and the refinement of his craft. He is that rare species, an artist following in the tradition of the great American Landscape Photographers, Watkins, Haynes, O’Sullivan, Fiske, Muybridge, Jackson, Ansel Adams but one who also displays a distinctly original voice. His images are an extension of his personality: sensitive, stoic, patient and respectful, combined with a childlike sense of wonderment.
I look at this image and am in awe of how large nature is and how small we are in comparison and importance.
René Burri (1933-2014)
Sao Paulo, Brazil (Men on Rooftop), 1960
© Estate of Rene Burri/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
If you had to cast a globe trotting, swash buckling, man of the world sophisticated, intelligent but never pompous larger than life, tall, charismatic photo journalist with the most enormous constant smile on his face, Rene Burri would be your man.
I never saw him without his Borsalino hat… You couldn’t help but be caught up in his energy and enthusiasm for whatever project he happened to be working on. A major contributor to the hey day of all the world’s great magazines be it Life, Look, Stern, Paris Match, Du, or New York Times.
He was a witness to many of the major historical events of the mid 20th Century and it’s enduring personalities from Picasso to Che Guevara. He was a force of nature and a wonderful dining companion and raconteur par excellence but also a deeply sensitive and loyal friend.
I never tire of looking at this photograph. It is almost the perfectly composed shot with the juxtaposed graphic elements of the road, the building and the rooftop and the sublime mix of sunlight and shadow. And then of course it’s mystery which I never cease to revel in.
As the maestro says –
“Did I know those men were there when I took that photograph? No. I went up there out of curiosity. I remember taking the elevator to the roof. Buildings weren’t guarded in these days. They didn’t have guardians as they have now. It was a question of getting to the top and knocking on the door. And then saying excuse me. So I walked out onto the terrace and at that moment those guys came from nowhere and I shot 5 images.”
If I ever feel a little tired or reluctant to make another trip somewhere to pursue a project I just think of Rene and voila I’m up and running again just like he would!
Bernard Descamps (1947-)
Rach Gia, Vietnam, 2001
© Bernard Descamps/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
Sometimes you find real beauty when you least expect it.
I was just popping in to say hi to a colleague in Europe in his gallery and by chance I saw an exhibition by a photographer I had not previously been acquainted with. That is what is so great about this medium, you never stop learning. This was the image I connected to immediately. The image was so exquisitely printed and the mood it evoked was so sublime.
Bernard was there putting the final touches to the exhibition as it was opening the following day. He told me he had begun his life as a biologist and had taken up photography seriously in the 1970’s. It was such a great pleasure to meet the creator of the image in person. I think it is called serendipity…it is the perfect image for me now. Quiet and reflective and beautiful.
Noell Oszvald (1990-)
Untitled #17, 2019
© Noell Oszvald/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
To be honest I am not someone who spends anytime on social media or even knows how to access it. I can barely use my iPhone. But a couple or years ago a fashion editor friend sent me an image that totally entranced me…This very rarely happens.
We finally tracked down the creator who was a very young Hungarian photographer living in Budapest. We saw more of her work which intrigued me. The images – self portraits – were so beautifully composed and had such a surreal, haunting quality that we stated to collaborate with Noell.
This has been like a wonderful fairy story for all of us. I think we have now enabled her to be a full time artist and I know she will have a long and productive career ahead of her. It was so wonderful to see her joy in being exhibited at Paris Photo and the work so favorably received.
Sailing, c. 1920s
© Estate of Kato/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
Born in Japan and arriving in Los Angeles at the age of 19, Mr. Kato was one of the area’s first art photographers.
He mixed in early artistic and literary circles and sadly passed away at the age of 37 years old.
His prints are extremely rare and I was fortunate to find this gem of an image in my early days of collecting.
It just transports me to another place, another time.
Laszlo Layton (1959-)
Purple Swamphen, 2005
© Laszlo Layton/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
I met Laszlo several years ago when he came into the gallery and we struck up a conversation. He was very quiet and painfully shy. There seemed to be something special about him and he told me he was a photographer. Yes I have heard that line many times before but I agreed to look at his work. I quietly looked through his portfolio and was immediately very moved. Here at last was something very different and original. He was working in a 19th century cyanotype process producing such beautiful hand crafted prints that moved me. His artistic intent was about preservation and memory and loss of the animals and specimens he truly loved many of which have sadly disappeared forever.
Laszlo himself is an endangered species in the contemporary photographic arena so dominated by the tricks of the digital world. He really belongs in another century but I am so happy he is here with us now.
As he tells us – “I want to make these animals look alive. I want to catch the life that was once in them. I want to see life coming out of their eyes.”
Thank you Laszlo for your dedication and passion.
Steve Schapiro (1934-)
John Lewis, Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1963
© Steve Schapiro/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
Some of the most powerful words I have ever read were written by John Lewis shortly before his passing. To be able to quietly articulate and put down with calm and grace the summation of a life’s work so beautifully and succinctly is a true gift to us all which we should cherish and adhere to.
“While my time here has now come to an end, I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with hope about the next chapter of the great American story when you used your power to make a difference in our society. Millions of people motivated simply by human compassion laid down the burdens of division. Around the country and the world you set aside race, class, age, language and nationality to demand respect for human dignity.
That is why I had to visit Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, though I was admitted to the hospital the following day. I just had to see and feel it for myself that, after many years of silent witness, the truth is still marching on.
Emmett Till was my George Floyd. He was my Rayshard Brooks, Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor. He was 14 when he was killed, and I was only 15 years old at the time. I will never ever forget the moment when it became so clear that he could easily have been me. In those days, fear constrained us like an imaginary prison, and troubling thoughts of potential brutality committed for no understandable reason were the bars.
Though I was surrounded by two loving parents, plenty of brothers, sisters and cousins, their love could not protect me from the unholy oppression waiting just outside that family circle. Unchecked, unrestrained violence and government-sanctioned terror had the power to turn a simple stroll to the store for some Skittles or an innocent morning jog down a lonesome country road into a nightmare. If we are to survive as one unified nation, we must discover what so readily takes root in our hearts that could rob Mother Emanuel Church in South Carolina of her brightest and best, shoot unwitting concertgoers in Las Vegas and choke to death the hopes and dreams of a gifted violinist like Elijah McClain.
Like so many young people today, I was searching for a way out, or some might say a way in, and then I heard the voice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on an old radio. He was talking about the philosophy and discipline of nonviolence. He said we are all complicit when we tolerate injustice. He said it is not enough to say it will get better by and by. He said each of us has a moral obligation to stand up, speak up and speak out. When you see something that is not right, you must say something. You must do something. Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself.
Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble. Voting and participating in the democratic process are key. The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it.
You must also study and learn the lessons of history because humanity has been involved in this soul-wrenching, existential struggle for a very long time. People on every continent have stood in your shoes, through decades and centuries before you. The truth does not change, and that is why the answers worked out long ago can help you find solutions to the challenges of our time. Continue to build union between movements stretching across the globe because we must put away our willingness to profit from the exploitation of others.
Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe. In my life I have done all I can to demonstrate that the way of peace, the way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way. Now it is your turn to let freedom ring.
When historians pick up their pens to write the story of the 21st century, let them say that it was your generation who laid down the heavy burdens of hate at last and that peace finally triumphed over violence, aggression and war. So I say to you, walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your guide.”
~ John Lewis (1940 – 2020)
Michael Kenna (1953-)
Ile de La Cite, (Merci HCB), Paris, France, 1992
© Michael Kenna/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
For many of us, travel is an essential part of our professional lives and also an enormous source of pleasure which has now been curtailed. One of my favorite cities has always been Paris and looking at this beautiful Michael Kenna image, the memories are flooding back.
“Thousands of people walk over the Pont des Arts bridge in Paris every day. A fair amount of them must look East at the iconic view of Ile de la cite and take photos. Henri Cartier-Bresson did this in 1952, and Michael Kenna in 1992. Their views are almost identical, although it is interesting to note that the Pont des Arts from which Cartier-Bresson made his photograph, was not the same bridge from which Kenna made his. The original Pont des Arts was replaced in the early eighties. Kenna’s image is square whereas Cartier-Bresson’s is horizontal. Kenna is a little to the left of where Cartier-Bresson must have stood. Cartier-Bresson would have used his hand-held Leica to capture the moment. Kenna would have used a camera on a tripod for a much longer exposure for the water has transformed into mist. The architecture has perhaps changed subtly and Kenna has included some of the Baton Rouge tourist boats on the Seine. However, the similarities of these photographs made 40 years apart outweigh the differences. It is said that when the disciple is ready, the master will appear! It is predictable then that Kenna would recognize Henri Cartier-Bresson as the master and acknowledge him as such in the title of his own photograph.”
Dan Budnik (1933-2020)
Selma to Montgomery March. Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr., Municipal Airport, Alabama, 1965
© Estate of Baron von Stillfried/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
We lost one of our great friends and photographers recently.
Dan Budnik had a deep concern for humanity, especially for the underdog and dedicated his life and talent to showing us this. His civil rights images are some of the most powerful ever shot. His portraits of artists are especially insightful. His natural charm and curiosity and love and respect for their work allowed him privileged access to capture the essence of these often elusive and private people. He was certainly “in the room” during his long and distinguished career. I will miss his visits to the gallery and his friendship.
Rest in peace, Dan.
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When the Lord called His disciples they left what they were doing and followed Him. Of the fishermen He called the rec ord says, "Straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him." Mark 1:18. There is no suggestion that the disciples now began dividing their time between following the Master and fishing. It was only when they became discouraged, and faith in their Master had failed, that the former fishermen returned to their fishing. The Lord's intention was that all their skills, all their time, and all their energies should henceforth be devoted to Heaven's high calling catching men for the kingdom of God. This was to be a full-time task. There was to be no time for anything else; they were not to be men of divided allegiance. Truthfully they said, "Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee."
In writing to his younger companion in the work, the apostle Paul makes a pathetic statement in 2 Timothy 4:10: "For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world." Here was a man of divided allegiance. He had heard and felt the force of the divine call to service, and had responded. But he had worldly interests that he could not entirely forsake. Just what these were we do not know. It is evident, however, that he did not become a man of a single purpose. Finally the lesser drew him away from the greater.
One of the all-too-successful devices of the enemy to neutralize the effectiveness and usefulness of a worker is to lead him to divide his attention. This division of time and attention between his spiritual calling and material interests has been the undoing of many workers who started out to wield a mighty influence in the cause of God. The apostle Paul was greatly concerned that Timothy, for whom he had a tender affection, should not become an en cumbered minister, one whose zeal and devotion to God's work should be tempered by love for material gain. Therefore he writes him the ringing words: "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." 2 Tim. 2:4. A commentator on this text says:
"The legionary soldiers, among the Romans, were not permitted to engage in husbandry, merchandise, mechanical employment, or anything that might be inconsistent with their calling. [Rome knew the value of soldiers fully dedicated to their calling.] Many canons, at different times, have been made to prevent ecclesiastics from intermeddling with secular employments. He who will preach the gospel thoroughly and wishes to give full proof of his ministry, has need to have no other work. He should be wholly in this thing, that his profiting may appear unto all." ADAM CLARKE.
The question of side lines does not ap pear to be a phenomenon limited to our day. This "intermeddling" on the part of ecclesiastics seems to have been a problem of the Christian church of earlier years. It is a sad spectacle at any time to see one who has taken upon him the spiritual armor of a soldier of Christ entangled with the affairs of this present life to the decided detriment of his spiritual warfare. The call of God is to a full-time task. Writing to Timothy in another place, the apostle says, after review ing his responsibility as a gospel worker, "Attend to these duties, let them absorb you, so that all men may note your progress. Watch yourself and watch your teaching; stick to your work; if you do that, you will save your hearers as well as yourself." 1 Tim. 4:15, 16, Moffatt.*
Not only God, but his hearers, expect the gospel worker to stick to his work. When he does not they are sure to note it and to be influenced by his conduct. People cannot understand how an Adventist worker can spend part of his time proclaiming the imminence of the Lord's coming and devote the remainder to preparing for an indefi nite and comfortable sojourn here in this world, that he has just said is doomed very soon to utter destruction!
It cannot be urged legitimately that the worker's income from the organization is insufficient and that he must supplement it by outside activity. With our wonderful plan for the support of workers, Seventh- day Adventist laborers have the least excuse of any for engaging in side lines. As far as I have been able to see, taking all factors into consideration, our workers in other lands are equally well cared for. Sister White wrote years ago, before our excellent plan of caring for -workers was as well developed as now:
"As regards temporal things, they [workers] have a better portion than their Lord, and better than His chosen disciples whom He sent forth to save perishing men." Testimonies, vol. 2, p. 345.
In volume 5, page 531, we read:
"Especially should the minister keep himself from every worldly entanglement and bind himself to the Source of all power, that he may represent correctly what it means to be a Christian. He should cut loose from everything that would in any way divert his mind from God and the great work for this time."
In the writings of the Spirit of prophecy there are many such references admonishing workers to cut loose from every activity that would invite their attention from the great work to which they have been called and to which they are to be fully dedicated. In volume 2, page 623, appears this statement written to a worker who found time to devote to outside interests:
"You are sacrificing your reputation and your influence to an avaricious spirit. God's precious cause is reproached because of this spirit that has taken hold of its ministers. You are blinded, and do not see how peculiarly offensive to God these things are. If you have decided to go in and get all of the world you can, do so; but do not do it under cover of preaching Christ. Your time is either devoted to the cause of God or it is not. Your own interest has been paramount. The time that you should devote to the cause of God is devoted too much to your own personal concerns, and you receive, from the treasury of God, means that you do not earn."
From Gospel Workers, pages 339, 340, the following excerpts are quoted:
"The energies of the minister are all needed for his high calling. His best powers belong to God. He should not engage in speculation, or in any other business that would turn him aside from his great work. 'No man that warreth,' Paul declared, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.' Thus the apostle emphasized the minister's need of unreserved consecration to the Master's service.
"The minister who is wholly consecrated to God refuses to engage in business that would hinder him from giving himself fully to his sacred calling. . . . Satan presented this inducement to Christ, knowing that if He accepted it, the world would never be ransomed. And under different guises he presents the same temptation to God's ministers to-day, knowing that those who are beguiled by it will be false to their trust."
These statements from the pen of inspiration are clear and explicit. They need little comment. Men and women called to labor in this cause are to be workers of a single allegiance. If they do their work faithfully, there will not be time for side lines. With the apostle Paul they say, "This one thing I do." In the first verse of his letter to the church in Rome he explicitly states his obligation as he understands it in relation to Christ and His cause. Romans 1:1 (Good- speed) reads, "Paul, the slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news." Paul was a full-time gospel worker. He gave his entire time to its proclamation, and believed that the gospel plan included provision for the support of him who was dedicated to it. He said, "They which preach the gospel should live of the gospel"; hence, he considered himself set apart from all else "to declare God's good news."
In our own Working Policy, adopted by the entire denomination, appears the following:
"1. Our conference and institutional workers shall refrain from all side lines of business and give them selves wholly to denominational work and the min istry of the gospel." Page 47.
A few months ago I attended the funeral service of one of our aged workers who had given over half a century of service to this cause. Sometime before his death he had been requested by the General Conference to fill out a certain questionnaire. One of the questions asked was, "What other activities have you engaged in besides denominational work? The reply was, "I've engaged in no work but the Lord's." What a wonderful declaration for an Adventist worker to make at the close of his earthly career! Such a one is surely the bond servant of Jesus Christ, separated unto the gospel of Christ. May we be such workers.
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29. Mrs Beast
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In this module, we think about the twenty-ninth poem in the collection, 'Mrs Beast', focusing in particular on: (i) the fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast, which goes back to at least the Middle Ages; (ii) the extent to which this poem combines the themes of the previous poems in the collection; (iii) the significance of the poker game; (iv) the power relationship between Mr and Mrs Beast ("The sheepish Beast came in / with a tray of schnapps at the end of the game"); (v) the reversal of Auden's "let the more loving one be me" in the last line of the poem ("Let the less-loving one be me"); (vi) the importance of the senses – touching, scratching, smelling, etc.; and (vii) the theme of men (and women) as animals, cf. 'Queen Kong', 'Circe'.
In this course, Professor John McRae (University of Nottingham) explores Carol Ann Duffy’s 1999 collection, 'The World's Wife'. After a brief introduction to the collection as a whole, the course continue with a read-through and analysis of each of the thirty poems in the collection, one by one.
John McRae is Special Professor of Language in Literature Studies and Teaching Associate in the School of English at Nottingham University, and holds Visiting Professorships in China, Malaysia, Spain and the USA. He is co-author of The Routledge History of Literature in English with Ron Carter, and also wrote The Language of Poetry, Literature with a Small 'l' and the first critical edition of Teleny by Oscar Wilde and others.
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McRae, J. (2020, April 28). Carol Ann Duffy: The World's Wife - Mrs Beast [Video]. MASSOLIT. https://www.massolit.io/courses/carol-ann-duffy-the-world-s-wife/penelope-ac51457e-d8fc-4c73-94b8-2f16562aa272
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COMMUNITY pharmacists across Coventry and the West Midlands are desperate to help the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out – but claim they are being ignored by the government.
Coventry North West MP Taiwo Owatemi – a former oncology pharmacist – and Liam Byrne, MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill, yesterday (Monday December 11) hosted an informative online roundtable discussion with five local West Midlands community pharmacists.
It quickly became apparent in the webinar that, if invited to assist in administering the anti-viral jabs, community pharmacists across the region could put plans into action within seven days and help boost vaccination rates by 25% in the West Midlands.
Mark Koziol, a member of the Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) said it would be feasible for an individual pharmacy to vaccinate up to 20 patients a day, and chase second-injection appointments. Comparing the roll out to D-Day he said: “We need the 1000 ships approach. That’s what community pharmacy is. This is Dunkirk.”
But pharmacists feel they are are being ignored by Government. When asked by Mr Byrne: “Do you know what time you are being brought online?’ “Absolutely not”, was the consensus.
Several reasons were raised as to why community pharmacists would be well-placed to provide additional support in the national vaccination programme:
· The Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is similar to the flu vaccine which is already administered at pharmacies and most community pharmacies already have a consultation room.
· With many people nervous about travelling long distances to major vaccination hubs like Birmingham’s Millennium Point, especially the elderly and vulnerable, community pharmacies are easily accessible on local high streets in cities, towns and villages and a familiar setting.
· Vaccine appointments could be carried out in a socially-distanced manner via a booking system in the same way as the flu vaccine, thus eliminating the need for long queues as seen in many other parts of the UK. ‘There is no way that I’m standing in a queue to get my vaccination and risk infection’ is one refrain frequently heard in community pharmacies.
Midlands pharmacist Olutayo Arikawe said: “We are willing. We are able. We are qualified. We are trained. We are trusted. We are just around the corner.”
Throughout the pandemic community pharmacists have been the only walk-in healthcare open daily to the public after many GPs went virtual. Before adequate numbers of PPE or alcoholic sanitizer, community pharmacists saw a 30% rise in visitation. As a result, many pharmacy staff became ill, some even died.
“I believe that you learn nothing unless you listen to the front line,” said Mr Byrne at the end of the meeting.
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- If it is an article, use the Journal List to search for the title of the journal to see which database it is in. (Journal titles are usually in italics in APA citations.) Use the rest of the information in the citation to locate it in the correct database. If the journal is indexed in a database, but we don't have access to the full-text, use Find It to request the title. If it's not in a database, use Interlibrary Loan to request the article. (Use the Article link under the New Requests menu on the left side.) | <urn:uuid:48b30952-0f41-422d-9051-1f3c2b5862ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://libguides.dbq.edu/how/fromacitation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.882316 | 295 | 1.796875 | 2 |
7 Summary of Week 2
This week you explored listening and questioning techniques to further enhance your communication skills, and you developed your understanding of other aspects of effective communication such as empathy and building trust.
You should now be able to:
- explain what is meant by ‘active listening’
- ask more effective questions
- understand the role of self-awareness, empathy, adaptability and trust in facilitating effective communication.
Next week you will start to investigate different forms of communication, starting with non-verbal.
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It is difficult to precisely define what a plant is, there are so many types and variations that even simple definitions have many exceptions. No single criteria separates all plants from all animals. The more complex plants and animals are, the easier it is to discern them from one another, but simpler forms are not so readily distinguishable. The following characteristics refer primarily to more complex plants and animals:
Manufacture food—Most plants manufacture their own food through the process ofphotosynthesis. Green plants have the ability to synthesize complex food from simplesubstances such as carbon dioxide, water, and minerals in the presence of chlorophyll (agreen pigment) utilizing light energy. In contrast, animals require ready-made food inthe form of plants or other animals.
Cell walls—Most plants have cell walls made of cellulose. The rigid cell walls create asturdy framework which results in the lack of mobility. Animal cells, in general, lack rigidcell walls and are typically flexible.
Indeterminate growth—Most plants have unlimited (orindeterminate) growth. The meristematic tissue (tissuecontaining actively dividing cells) remains active as long as theplant lives and the environment is suitable. While plants cancontinue to grow, most plants will have some expectedmature size and form. The situation is very different in thecase of animals, after an animal attains a certain characteristicsize and form, growth often ceases.
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Click here to view the complete Plant Connections Leader's Guide—Lesson 1 document in PDF format.
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There has been an increase in the discussion about MySQL replication and how to make it happen faster. I don't think Marco Tusa's blog is on Planet MySQL, so let's highlight it first: A dream on MySQL parallel replication. This is a good account of what it looks like out in the field of MySQL databases today - you are increasingly aware of replication, fearing it will be a bottleneck you cannot fix.
For those of us who have worked with MySQL Cluster, there's nothing new here. Ever since MySQL Cluster started using MySQL's row based replication for replication between two separate clusters (such as to different data centers), this has been a bottleneck. Even just a small 2 node in-memory cluster is limited by the replication being single threaded - I remember something like hitting this bottleneck at 25% of the real capacity. With larger clusters 16 nodes, 24 nodes... it of course became completely impossible to use it.
Today, as MySQL scales great on modern multi core hardware (I still haven't fully digested Percona proclaiming that the days of sharding are effectively over (PDF)) we are increasingly limited by this also on normal InnoDB installations.
This topic was my pet peeve while still at Sun. I managed to get the replication team to design a solution and do some prototype code. I haven't heard that anyone would be actively working on this anymore. Too bad if they've really given up.
Percona announced plans to implement a very similar solution within the native MySQL replication.
What I don't like, and what Marco laments about in his dreams, is that both the Tungsten solution and Percona's yet-to-be-implemented solution implement the parallelization by splitting each database (schema) into its own thread. This is great if you are a web hosting company and have hundreds of small databases in one MySQL instance. But me and Marco are not web hosting companies. Typically what we have is one big and busy database.
Update 2010-03-24: Robert explains in below comments and a new blog post that parallelizing based on different schema is just one obvious possibility, but the Tungsten framework allows you to define the sharding in other ways too with new plugins. That makes it immediately more interesting! (For instance, many applications that are bascially key-value'ish could be sharded - at least to a large degree - just by taking a hash on the primary key.)
All of the above implementations have started with worrying about how to keep consistency on the slave? Which transactions can be applied independently and which must be applied in the original order?
Marco offers the idea that the binary log could save the information of which MySQL user committed the transaction and then assume that different users' transactions are independent. That's probably a safe assumption. The problem is that most applications just use one and the same user for all their transactions (as Stewart pointed out today).
What I've been trying to promote all the time is that you guys should stop worrying and just implement something that allows the slave to commit transactions out of order. This should be the simplest to implement (just distribute incoming transactions round robin), and gives the biggest benefit. What everyone seems to be forgetting that the concept of a transaction already is the answer to the question: a transaction is a series of operations that need to be executed atomically together, but is (relatively) independent of other transactions.
I can easily list several use cases which can tolerate such out-of-order replication:
- Batch load of 100 million rows into a table. I totally don't care about the order you put those rows there, as long as they get into the database, asap! Today this can make your replication lag for hours.
- Anything that is a session database, shopping cart, etc. Each user is represented by one row in the table. Each row is independently updated.
- Even more complex scenarios that in theory aren't fully independent transactions, tolerate out of order applying in practice. Imagine you developed Facebook: A user can post a status, and others can post comments to it. Suppose a spammer posts a comment 1 millisecond after you posted your status. Suppose then the comment is replicated faster than its parent status. OMG the database is now in an inconsistent state!!!! Typically the application would probably just ignore the comment as long as the parent status is missing. Once the parent status arrives, also the comment will be found to belong to it.
- In the dead MySQL design I gave even used the classic bank example: If I transfer 100EUR to you, this is one transaction. It doesn't matter to us at what point in time this happens relative to other transactions. Otoh if I donate 100EUR to charity and in the same second you win 100EUR on the lottery, it is completely irrelevant to either of us which one of these really happened first. In all of these cases the total amount of money in the bank is constant, and consistency of each account is guaranteed. (Actually, I can now think of some bad examples that might prove myself wrong - it would depend on how details are implemented.)
- Any application that allows you to write to more than one master (such as the geographically nearest data center) is by design already tolerant of out of order commits. If at the same microsecond we commit transactions T, U, V in the US data center and transactions X, Y, Z in Europe data center, then there is no single truth to which of these are first and which later. It all depends on which continent you live on. So why should the replication be concerned with such questions either?
At last week's Meet Up in Helsinki (Heikki Tuuri was speaking, he develops some open source database software here) I met Seppo Jaakola from Codership. They have apparently implemented out of order parallel replication for Galera.
In addition to parallel replication Galera also has - say it with me - synchronous multi-master replication, global transaction id's, conflict resolution.
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Try Not to Wear Glasses with Headphones Reduce the clamping force to avoid pressing the glasses hard into your head. Get special glasses with flexible and thinner frames. Go for over-ear instead of on-ear headphones. Use ear pads with thicker and softer cushioning.
- 1 How do I stop my headphones from hurting my ears?
- 2 Why do my headphones hurt my ears?
- 3 How can I make my headphones more comfortable?
- 4 How do I make my headphones not hurt my head?
- 5 How long should you wear headphones a day?
- 6 How do I fix my ear ache?
- 7 Is it bad to wear AirPods all day?
- 8 How tight should headphones be?
- 9 Can AirPods hurt your hearing?
- 10 Do headphones loosen over time?
- 11 Why do my headphones hurt my head?
- 12 Do over ear headphones get more comfortable?
- 13 Can Airpods cause ear pimples?
- 14 How do you wear over ear headphones?
How do I stop my headphones from hurting my ears?
How to Help Avoid Ear Pain From Headphone or Earbud Use
- Clean the devices with a dry, nonabrasive, lint-free cloth.
- As mentioned above, keep the volume at 60% or less of the maximum level.
- Make sure earphones fit snugly without excess pressure around your ears.
Why do my headphones hurt my ears?
You may be experiencing a symptom called listener fatigue. That is where your eardrums work hard to manage the volume that flows through your ear canal. The louder the volume, the bigger the strain on your eardrums, which then causes the feeling of fatigue. The longer you wear headphones, the more your ears may hurt.
How can I make my headphones more comfortable?
To make your headphones more comfortable, take some foam or other padding and stuff it under the ear pad, all the way around. This should increase the thickness of the pad, creating more space inside the cup for your ears.
How do I make my headphones not hurt my head?
How to avoid headphones hurt top of your head
- Do not wear headphones too tight.
- Choose the right size headphones.
- Add a headband mattress for headphones.
- Extra cushion for headphones.
How long should you wear headphones a day?
“As a rule of thumb, you should only use MP3 devices at levels up to 60% of maximum volume for a total of 60 minutes a day,” says Dr. Foy. “The louder the volume, the shorter your duration should be. At maximum volume, you should listen for only about five minutes a day.”
How do I fix my ear ache?
Home Care to Relieve Ear Pain
- A cool or warm compress. Soak a washcloth in either cool or warm water, wring it out, and then put it over the ear that’s bothering you.
- A heating pad: Lay your painful ear on a warm, not hot, heating pad.
- Over-the-counter ear drops with pain relievers.
Is it bad to wear AirPods all day?
You’re using your AirPods for too long before taking them out. Using AirPods for over 90 minutes at a time may result in aching pain. The cartilage in your ears simply isn’t meant to hold something nestled inside for hours at a time. Using earbuds for too long can cause your ears to start to hurt.
How tight should headphones be?
So, how exactly should headphones fit? Headphones should fit tight and snug, staying in place despite excessive movement. Headphones with the right fit will remain comfortable for more than 20 minutes.
Can AirPods hurt your hearing?
Can headphones or earbuds damage my hearing? Whether Beats, AirPods or Bose, the answer is simple— Yes. Using headphones and earbuds can absolutely cause damage to your hearing—the same goes for exposure to any loud noise.
Do headphones loosen over time?
When left there for a day or so the tension in the headphone will loosen up and will help to get a proper fit without any discomfort. It is important to remember though to go little by little because too much stretch in a short time could cause a break or crack in the headband if it is stretched too much.
Why do my headphones hurt my head?
If headphones fit very tightly, they put a lot of pressure on the temporal bone of the skull, stimulating the cutaneous nerves and causing a headache. This is a pretty common headphone pain when wearing glasses. This type of headache is called a compression headache and starts within an hour of wearing the headphones.
Do over ear headphones get more comfortable?
Over-ear headphones fall over your ears. Because the ear cups are a lot bigger than those of on-ear headphones, you can’t carry them in your coat or bag as easily. Since over-ear headphones don’t press on your ears, they’re more comfortable during a longer listening session.
Can Airpods cause ear pimples?
A pimple will form in your ear if the oil is unable to escape or bacteria grows in a clogged pore. A buildup in bacteria can be caused by a few things, such as sticking your finger in your ear or using earbuds or headphones that aren’t cleaned often. Other causes of acne include stress and a hormonal imbalance.
How do you wear over ear headphones?
Pull on your earlobe with the other hand to create enough space to gently push the ear tip inside your ear canal. For most over-the-ear in-ear headphones, the lower end of the headphone driver (the part that connects the cable to the driver) should be facing upwards when worn inside the ear. | <urn:uuid:6df80c29-6007-4f3d-a96c-612e2745bd28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bestheadphonesfortv.net/headphones/often-asked-how-to-make-headphones-not-hurt-your-ears.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.908789 | 1,234 | 2.21875 | 2 |
While the growing movement for freedom and democracy in communist Cuba is led largely by young Cubans, older Cubans are joining in as well after spending a lifetime in misery and oppressed.
Elderly lady of 74 says she will take to the streets on November 15 to demand the end of the dictatorship in Cuba
Elderly Cuban Maria Casado Ureña, who is 74 and physically handicapped, said she would take to the streets on November 15 in a protest to demand the release of political prisoners and the end of the dictatorship in Cuba.
“I’m an elderly lady of 74, physically handicapped, and I’m going out and taking to the streets of Holguin on November 15 to peacefully demand the end of the dictatorship,” she said in a video posted on social media by the Miranda Leyva family, members of the opposition.
During the protests of July 11, many elderly people tired of the misery and the repression came out in protest, to demand freedom and their rights.
The image of one of them, Sara Naranjo, went viral when a photo of her holding a pot and protesting in the middle of the street made the rounds.
“The blackouts are horrible for me. I can’t breathe from the heat and I try to turn on the fan but I can’t because there’s no electricity. They turn off the electricity and you have no idea when they will turn it back on. And you get bored, tired, it makes you crazy, insane,” she added.
The image of the woman even inspired a mural in Miami.
Another 81-year-old elderly Cuban lady came out and protested at the Capitol during the demonstrations in Havana on July 11.
“We have been living a lie and have been deceived for more than 60 years, this has to end, we will no longer be silenced,” yelled the older lady in the middle of a Havana street. | <urn:uuid:fac381a8-5ca7-47e7-a4df-ad14fb82d319> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://babalublog.com/2021/11/11/handicapped-74-year-old-woman-vows-she-will-take-to-the-streets-in-protest-on-november-15/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.968267 | 407 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Businesses can gain complete control over all of their day-to-day operations and business processes by implementing SAP ERP software. For example, in the case of material management, the availability of real-time information, which can be used to make preliminary cost predictions and evaluate manufacturing processes, may be exploited in order to improve material management. In the same way, it is critical to estimate the resources required for manufacturing operations (such as allocated human resources, materials and raw materials).
Be Aware of the Options
You should be aware that the SAP suite does not include any basic conversion management or document printing features as part of its standard functionality, and you should keep this in mind while using the software. The SAP suite, for example, is unable to convert documents into standard formats, and it is also unable to handle the distribution of business documents, such as forms, due to technical limitations. Choosing the SAP S/4HANA conversion Malaysia service is the best option.
The Essential Deals
It is essential that the company maintains regular contact with SAP integrators or SAP TMA experts in order to be able to perform these numerous tasks on its own. Following that, these specialists will design and develop any new tools or features that are required.
What You Should Know
Please keep in mind that SAP provides more than 140 standard project system reports for use in the context of business project management, which should be taken into consideration. Its adaptability, combined with its comprehensive business integration, results in a multi-functional system that can meet the requirements of both project managers and project accountants in a single system.
Before proceeding with any definition of SAP, it should be noted that it is a business management software package that is a member of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) family.
ERP is an abbreviation that stands for Enterprise Resource Planning
The terms Integrated Management Software (ERP) and Integrated Enterprise Management System (IEMS) are the most commonly used in French to refer to this technology (SIG).
Businesses, operating in an environment characterized by globalization, business mergers, and intense competition, seek to increase their productivity, efficiency, and profit margin in order to stay competitive.
In order to accomplish this, decision-makers must have real-time visibility into the overall health of the organization in which they work. When faced with the need to make strategic decisions, they require decision support tools that are dependable and capable of providing accurate information as quickly as possible.
We will use the example of two production companies with the same organizational structure to demonstrate our point. The first company made the decision not to install an ERP, and each of its departments makes use of one or more software packages. The second option was an ERP system.
ERP is not implemented in a company
Each department makes use of software that is tailored to its specific requirements. In order to complete the delivery of an order plug, the information related to the order plug will be re-entered by the supply, accounting, and transportation departments, starting with the sales department.
A number of hazards are associated with this method of operation:
- data input mistakes resulting in data discrepancy across departments
- data that has not been updated
- data that is not present
- redundant data, which is data that has been saved several times in various systems.
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There is a myth that men are the history and backbone of professional football. To an extent in its infancy and growth, that is true.
However, women have been sprinkled into the historical fabric of the sport. As an example, Violet Bidwell became the sole owner of the National Football League (NFL) Chicago Cardinals in 1947 thus becoming the first woman to own a pro football franchise.
Pat Palinkas became the first woman to play professional men’s football when she was the placement holder with the Orlando Panthers of the Atlantic Coast Football League in 1970. Abby Vestal became the first woman to score points in a men’s professional football entity in 2007 when she was the kicker for the Kansas Koyotes of the indoor American Professional Football League.
Jen Welter made news in 2015 when she was named the first woman to be hired as an assistant coach for an NFL club when she worked for the Arizona Cardinals. Her gig before that was her first professional men’s football team with the indoor Texas Revolution as their linebackers and special teams coach.
Many women have attempted to answer the question of whether a woman can compete in the arena of male-dominated sporting events. Shirley Muldowney (NHRA), Michelle Wie (PGA), Danika Patrick (IndyCar and NASCAR)) and Manon Rheaume (NHL) are the most notable to have participated in sports designed for men.
Slide over to 1965, and the first women’s professional football league began.
Sid Friedman was a theatre booking agent that worked out of Cleveland for his agency called the All-Star Theatrical Agency. He came up with an idea to start women’s tackle football teams and have folks pay to see games across the country and perform at halftime during NFL and Canadian Football League (CFL) games.
Friedman’s first team was the “Cleveland Daredevils” which he later paired with a team from Akron. He ran advertisements in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and also the Akron Beacon regarding starting women’s tackle football. The two teams were formed and played several exhibition games against each other across the State of Ohio.
He liked the reception the women’s game received and decided to begin his own entity he called the Women’s Professional Football League (WPFL).
At the time of the mid-1960’s, the viewpoints on what was expected of women were changing. Suddenly, women were allowed to vote, smoke cigarettes in public, or something as manly as drive a truck. Employment opportunities also changed to where in the past a woman was only hired as a cook, nurse, teacher, secretary, telephone operator, housekeeper or in child care. The perception that a woman could become a doctor, or a lawyer, engineer, school principal, coach, judge, law enforcement officer or enter politics was now becoming a reality.
And women were now beginning to be seen as spectators at sporting venues other than tennis and gymnastic events.
During this time frame, the rational was that sports in the United States and Canada was viewed as sexist and perhaps a desire to shift into another direction was needed. Women did not have to be subdued, non-opinionative, passive and non-boisterous regarding sports.
This sentiment was based that perhaps women could do some things that men could do - like play tackle football.
The idea behind the WPFL was that perhaps there was an audience that would enjoy seeing women play football. The problems behind this idea was the fact that there wasn’t a feeder system installed like the NFL had going on with college football. There weren’t any college women’s teams, so most of the athletes that participated were former athletes that participated in other sports such as women’s basketball, softball, track, soccer and rugby.
Each team in the WPFL recruited from their own area - just like the origins of the NFL. So the “Cleveland Daredevils” were all women from around the Cleveland area who held jobs during the day and practiced in the afternoons with games on weekends.
Friedman placed ads in local papers for tryouts and added the “Detroit Petticoats,” “Toronto Canadian Belles” and “Pittsburgh All-Stars” to form the league with the Daredevils. Grant Friley, a Detroit cop, coached the Petticoats while the Daredevils were coached by former Cleveland Browns great Marion Motley. Former Browns’ guard Fred Robinson was the head coach of Toronto who had also played five seasons in the CFL. Former Steeler Charley Scales was the All-Stars coach.
Next. to attract venues for games, Friedman’s took out newspaper ads in various newspapers looking for potential cities where his league teams could travel and stage a game, charge admission and make some money for himself while covering the costs of the games themselves. He worded the ads like this:
ATTENTION! Do you need money? FUNDS for a new hospital room . . .another fire engine . . .band uniforms . . .fire victims? A PROVEN FUND RAISING ATTRACTION . . .the only all-girl professional football teams in the world!
The rules that the WPFL played under where exactly the same as the NFL; except they used a somewhat smaller football, eliminated kickoffs and the quarters were shortened. Rosters were set at 25-players with age ranges from 18-38.
The Pittsburgh club began as the “All-Stars” but were also known as the “Hurricanes” at times. From 1969-1971, this same franchise became the “Pittsburgh Powderkegs.”
Practice sessions varied from team-to-team, but most practiced 3-5 days a week for about five months out of the year and usually were paid meager per-game stipends such as $25-$50 a game. Plus, each player had to provide their own equipment and cleats. Off the field, these players were students, businesswomen, nurses and homemakers.
Later, clubs were formed in Bowling Green, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo. Women who played during this time period are referred to as “first-era players.”
Some games were arranged as exhibitions during halftime of NFL and CFL games of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions, Ottawa Rough Riders and Toronto Argonauts.
The league was dominated by the “Toledo Troopers” coached by Bill Stout which won seven consecutive league championships. In 1983, the Troopers were recognized as “the winningest team in professional football history” at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio with a record of 61-4 during the life of the franchise.
After a few years, the WPFL morphed into the National Women’s Football Association. In all, there have been nine women’s pro leagues that are now defunct, two active leagues in Canada as well as Australia, and four entities that call the U.S. their home.
The largest is the Women’s Football Alliance which began in 2009 and currently has 62 teams. Their season runs from May through June. Ohio teams in this league include the “Cleveland Fusion,” “Cincinnati Sizzle,” “Columbus Comets” and “Toledo Reign.”
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Merkel = Luo Ji?
4 February 2022
As of writing, Russian troops are positioned at Ukraine’s borders. Vladimir Putin, current president of Russia, claims he has no intentions to invade Ukraine. The West disagrees. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has accused the West of alarmism. Putin, however, has threatened “appropriate retaliatory military-technical measures”. As retaliations are in response to an action, in this case, that action is discussions for Ukraine to become part of the NATO alliance.1
From the Russian perspective, their neighbours are expanding their borders, and they find it appropriate to resist. Russia wants secure access to trade ports in the Black Sea.2 Of course, Ukraine joining NATO does not impede their access, but NATO is a political and military alliance with a collective defence clause. A future conflict with any NATO country would be stifling.3
From the West and NATO’s perspective, they encourage democratic values. If Ukraine and its people want to be part of NATO, Russia has no right to interfere.
So, what sparked this conflict now? One might wonder, Ukraine first expressed interest to join NATO in 2008. In 2010, Viktor Yanukovych was elected the president of Ukraine, and he chose to shelve this plan.4 This was followed by a series of events culminating in pro-EU protests in Ukraine, and then Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. Crimea has oil and gas reserves and Sevastopol, a warm water port city on the Black Sea. If you remember, the primary motivation of Russians here is to enjoy a beach in winter.5
In 2015, with an active effort from France and Germany, we arrived at the Minsk agreements that implemented a ceasefire in Crimea. These accords would avoid bloodshed, but Crimea would remain part of Russia. A superstar of this negotiation was Angela Merkel, the then Chancellor of Germany. She was the only leader Putin respected. I’ve attached a famous tweet signifying her involvement in these discussions.
Back in 2022, Angela Merkel has retired. From Merkel’s party CDU, Olaf Scholz is the current Chancellor of Germany. And the world is disappointed with Merkel. Under her leadership, Germany has become dependent on Russia’s Nord Stream natural gas pipeline. If that were not the case, perhaps Germany could have taken a hard line towards Russia. Instead, they remain pacifists, preferring to resolve conflicts with dialogue rather than sending weapons. But this is not wholly attributed to the Nord Stream pipeline. With a few exceptions, not sending arms to a conflict zone has long been part of German policy.6 But perhaps, Ukraine right now cannot be another exception because of German dependence on Russian energy.
I beg to differ. I instead believe this to be a masterstroke by Merkel. The Nord Stream pipeline is an instrument of mutual deterrence. As much as Germans depend on Russian natural gas, the Russian economy depends on income from these exports. I have found it challenging to find data on the share of Europe’s natural gas purchases in Russian GDP. However, there are indirect indicators that it is indeed the case that Russia would not invade Ukraine because it cannot afford to lose Europe as a customer of its natural gas. The chief indicator is news of Putin cosying up with the Chinese premier Xi Jinping at the Winter Olympics being held in China as of writing. Well, Russia wants to increase energy exports to China. It is a good thing to diversify your clientele. There are details to this. Russia would supply China with its eastern supplies, which indicates that China cannot replace Germany. However, it can be an excellent economic buffer if things go south for Russia versus the West.7 For now, the Ukrainian conflict is a game of chicken. Economic developments over the next decade are more attention-worthy as Putin would try to break out of deterrence tactics. There is no longer a leader among us who can hold his gaze. Sholz may share an ideology with Merkel but does not have her spine. Our Wallfacer has retired, and we are doomed. | <urn:uuid:8a70daab-3c25-4e5f-af13-0a6cae2d0707> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kumar-ayush.com/bposts/merkel-luo-ji.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.963365 | 833 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Sleeping in late on the weekends won’t protect you from the ravages of barely sleeping during the work week, suggests a new study. While extra weekend sleeping did temporarily help volunteers eat lighter and better control their blood sugar, the health benefits went away as soon as they started not sleeping much again. In some ways, they were even worse off than people who consistently slept poorly. Continue reading Snoozing Late on the Weekends Won’t Make Up for Your Sleep-Deprived Weeknights
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Trip to Russia Possible Following Phrenic Nerve Surgery with Dr. Matthew Kaufman
Dale Hopkins had a trip planned. After undergoing phrenic nerve surgery with Dr. Matthew Kaufman, Dale Hopkins asked Dr. Matthew Kaufman if the surgeon thought it would be okay for his patient to travel to Russia. “Go for it,” Kaufman responded.
Hopkins was thrilled when he could comfortably walk around and up stairs in Russia without being completely out of breath, as was the case prior to his surgery. He was surely even more thrilled when he witnessed the purpose of his trip: to see his nephew Michael Hopkins of NASA take off with his two Russian counterparts in their Soyuz-TMA-10M capsule, which docked successfully in the International Space Station just six hours later.
The 76-year-old Clarksville, Missouri resident was stopped at a light during Memorial Day 2012, when a chain of cars rear-ended each other, including his vehicle. “A week later I started having trouble breathing,” he said. Hopkins made six visits to the ER, and came down with both bronchitis and pneumonia. That is when a doctor diagnosed him with asthma. The asthma medications didn’t help, and his condition worsened, to the point that breathing was so difficult he had to sleep sitting up in a reclining chair. The retired U.S. Air Force colonel, who works full-time as a flight simulator instructor at an Air Force base, also gives numerous student lectures on flight operations, which he was forced to curtail.
Finally, Hopkins received a diagnosis of a paralyzed diaphragm, and with it, the exact line nearly every patient of Dr. Kaufman hears: “There’s nothing we can do; you’ll just have to learn to live with it.”
The diaphragm muscle is the primary muscle involved in breathing. Contraction of the diaphragm permits expansion of the chest cavity and inhalation of air into the lungs. The phrenic nerve controls function of the diaphragm muscle.
The cause of phrenic nerve damage is sometimes very easy to pinpoint, such as surgery to the neck or chest, or an accident like Dale Hopkins’. Sometimes, however, the cause is unknown.
Hopkins did what many of Dr. Kaufman’s patients do: Google their condition and find Dr. Kaufman on the Internet. Among his nerve surgery expertise, performed at the Institute for Advanced Reconstruction in Shrewsbury, NJ, Dr. Kaufman is the only known surgeon to perform specialized phrenic nerve surgery. He has performed the surgery nearly 100 times, on patients from age 11 to over 70 and from all over the USA and other countries, including Australia, Ireland and Israel.
Dale Hopkins underwent phrenic nerve surgery with Dr. Kaufman on February 26, 2013 at Jersey Shore Medical Center. Subsequently, during his September trip to Russia, Hopkins said he did “a lot of walking, and climbed five flights of stairs. Before the surgery, I don’t think I could have made it.”
Dale Hopkins is back to full time teaching and lecturing. Seeing his nephew launched to the ISS in Russia was a thrill, but then, so was meeting Dr. Kaufman—his hope for a solution to a crippling problem. The first time he saw Dr. Kaufman, he told him, “I can’t tell you how glad I am to be here,” through tears. | <urn:uuid:da3ced54-13a1-4518-b372-02955f3098b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.advancedreconstruction.com/dale-hopkins-makes-nephews-space-launch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.98099 | 725 | 1.820313 | 2 |
– Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better
When we talk about being cozy, most of us think of a favorite sweater or a steaming cup of tea on a rainy afternoon. But to Isabel Gillies, coziness goes beyond mere objects. To be truly cozy, Gillies believes it’s essential to identify the truth of who you are and carry it into your day, no matter the environment.
What does Cozy mean to you?
Set in New York City, this young adult novel is about a fifteen year old girl, Wren, falling in love for the first time. I love this book because it’s about when things are moving, impossible, exploding, and new. Of course (because I find it so interesting, and it happened to me) there is heartbreak involved, too. | <urn:uuid:3ee73c3e-29de-437c-a5e8-a9acb91177a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://isabelgillies.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.913278 | 184 | 1.664063 | 2 |
[Qgis-user] parallel, multi-colored line styles
ryanpeel at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 11:56:39 PST 2021
I just want to style a line with like a ribbon effect (like 0.26mm each
line) based on a value of a field. Let's say the value of the field is 4.
Then, show 4 different colored lines. It is hard for me to explain.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 2:51 PM Bernd Vogelgesang <bernd.vogelgesang at gmx.de>
> a li'll more effort explaining your use-case would be appreciated
> Am 27.01.21 um 20:40 schrieb Ryan Peel:
> Is this possible to do in qgis for a single line feature?
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A virtual office is part of the flexible workspace industry that provides businesses with any combination of services, space and/or technology, without those businesses bearing the capital expenses of owning or leasing a traditional office.
Virtual office services started in the 1960s as serviced offices and have evolved with technology to include a wide variety of personnel, physical space, digital storage and communication services. Customers pay a contract fee for these services which may be offered à la carte, as packages or membership subscription. The concept is popular with companies of all sizes, including self-employed entrepreneurs. One of the primary allures of the virtual office is the flexibility it offers for employees and freelancers to work from a satellite office, home office, remote location or even on-the-go via a mobile device. At the same time, a company can offer its clients and employees a stable home office with access to amenities such as receptionist, conference rooms, desk space, mailboxes, printing and faxing at a permanent address, which are owned and maintained by the virtual office provider or a third party. Virtual office providers may also include digital capital such as cloud storage, web hosting, email and other web-based applications.
Virtual office infrastructure may include a variety of physical locations and services, as well as digital services. The infrastructure is shared across individuals and entities allowing resources to be utilized more efficiently. This allows users the flexibility of only renting or using the services they need.
- A business address
- Mail services (receive, pick up and/or forwarding)
- Conference rooms
- Desk space and private offices
- Printing and related services such as copying, binding, faxing, scanning, laminating, and shredding.
- Receptionist services and answering services
- Storage space for documents
- A phone number
- Online phone system (voip)
- Virtual assistants
- Website domains and email
- Instant Message, chat and other web-based RTC platforms
- Video conferencing, including webinar-hosting or other screensharing platforms
- Online digital storage
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In addition to the traditional measures of Latency to Escape Hole, Path length and Hole Approaches, the circular mazes option gives a large range of measures and analyses relevant to learning and memory studies.
Researchers can choose which measures and analyses to include in their results files. Some of those available are:
- Heading angle (angle of initial path relative to the ideal path toward the escape hole)
- Number of approaches to target hole
- Number of approaches to each hole
- Percentage time in the vicinity of target hole
- Percentage time in the vicinity of each hole
- Percentage time in target quad
- Percentage path in each quad
- Percentage time exploring the outer part of the platform (i.e. the circle of holes vs the interior of the platform)
- Percentage path exploring the outer part of the platform (i.e. the circle of holes vs the interior of the platform)
- Latency to the vicinity of each hole
- Path ratio (actual path / direct path)
Other more complex measures and analyses are also available for the researcher to use if of interest.
In addition trials can be broken down into time bins or slices so as to reveal significant behaviors that are specific to certain parts of the trial. For example this may reveal an animal investigating the expected escape hole at the beginning of a probe test and then moving on to explore elsewhere, which would not be apparent from the more commonly used measures such as percentage time in target quad or number of approaches to target hole.
Publication quality path plots can be saved both for entire trials and for slices of trials.
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- Open Access
Medication quality and quality of life in the elderly, a cohort study
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes volume 9, Article number: 95 (2011)
Modern drugs have made large contributions to better health and quality of life. Increasing proportions of negative side effects due to extensive pharmacological treatment are however observed especially among elderly patients who have multiple health problems. The aim of our study was to see if there is an association between medication quality and quality of life.
150 patients discharged from hospital. Inclusion criteria were: living in ordinary homes, ≥ 75 years and ≥ 5 drugs. Home visits were performed to all, including prescription reviews and calculation of medication appropriateness index. The patients were divided into three groups depending on index score and followed for 12 months. The validated and recognized EQ-5D and EQ VAS instruments were used to assess quality of life.
A lower medication quality was associated with a lower quality of life. EQ-5D index was statistically significantly different (declining for each group) among the groups (p = 0.001 at study start, p = 0.001 at 6 months and p = 0.013 at 12 months) as was EQ VAS (p = 0.026 at study start, p = 0.003 at 6 months and p = 0.007 at 12 months).
This study has shown the validity of the basic principle in prescribing: the more appropriate medication the better quality of life. Since drug quality is related to the patients' quality of life, there is immense reason to continuously evaluate every prescription and treatment. The evaluation and if possible deprescribing should be done as a process where both the patient and physician are involved.
The ageing process and becoming old is a complex phase encompassing many perspectives, for example loss of functions and decreasing autonomy, higher morbidity and need of care. With an ageing population the real challenge for the healthcare system is the increasing burden of chronic diseases and ongoing chronic medication . Modern drugs have made great contributions to health and quality of life (QoL), though increasing proportions of negative side effects due to extensive pharmacological treatment are observed. Prescribing for older people demands specific knowledge [2, 3]. Multi-medication or polypharmacy, defined as ≥ 5 drugs [4, 5] is among the most obvious signs of risks in drug treatment, resulting in increased risks for inappropriate drug use and adverse drug reactions, followed by higher morbidity and hospitalization [6–9]. Polypharmacy also include risks of underutilization of each drug and underprescription of appropriate drugs [10–12] all possibly affecting QoL. Drug treatment can be either the facilitator which gives the opportunities, or the opposite, an intensifier of problems by occurrence of unacceptable side effects leading to decreased QoL.
Compared to other age groups there is a greater impact of health and functional ability on QoL in older ages [13, 14]. If the goal of healthcare is both "to help people live longer and feel better" there is a need for new outcome measures including QoL. In the area of medicine this demands a paradigm shift towards shared decision and incorporating the patient's preferences when the crucial factor is QoL . The standardised and non-disease specific EQ-5D instrument is used to assess the patient's health related QoL. Together with their self-rated QoL via the EQ VAS form, a reliable and valid depiction of their QoL is obtained.
Assessment of prescription quality and medication appropriateness demands reliable tools. The medication appropriateness index (MAI) developed by Hanlon et al has been shown to fulfil the criteria [17–19]. The MAI score is a reliable instrument to evaluate the elderly patient's drug therapy , to continuously question the treatment and the lack of follow up, to achieve better and more appropriate prescribing and most of all to minimize adverse drug events [3, 21, 22].
There are currently no studies that have definitively determined whether various methods designed to reduce drug-related problems in the elderly affect QoL . The aim of our study was therefore to see if there is an association between medication quality and quality of life. We also wanted to examine if there is an association between medication quality and cognitive impairment.
During the period September 2006 to May 2007, all patients ready for discharge from the University Hospital in Örebro, Sweden and fulfilling the criteria were eligible for the study. Inclusion criteria were: ≥ 75 years, ≥ 5 drugs and living in ordinary homes. Exclusion criteria were dementia, abuse (all forms of abuse registered in the patient's medication record) or malignant disease diagnosed before the study start. Moving to a nursing home during the study also resulted in exclusion. The electronic care planning system (Meddix), used throughout the County Council and municipalities, made the surveillance of all discharges complete and all patients had the same opportunity to be included. The study was performed in primary care, since the family physicians are responsible for the medical care of the elderly after discharge from hospital. The patients in the study were followed during one year with study end May 2008.
At time of discharge all patients were registered in the care planning system and a message was sent to the research centre. If the patient was eligible, a letter concerning the study including informed consent was sent to the patient.
Within one month after discharge, a home visit was made (Figure 1). It consisted of questions about satisfaction and capability of managing the medication and the dosage regimen/dispensing and screening for cognitive impairment since this is often omitted and is a main issue for the patients' capability to handle their medication. Both the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and clock drawing test (CDT) were used, as the latter is more sensitive to decline in activities and orientation in daily life [25, 26]. The patients also completed an EQ-5D and EQ VAS survey. The study nurse asked all patients about their drug regimen and compliance, to compare with their prescriptions. The "true" drug lists (the combinations of prescriptions from all physicians involved or previously involved in the patient's care) were then forwarded to the research centre. After six months all the patients received a letter with a new EQ-5D and EQ VAS survey. The study ended after 12 months with a follow-up home visit including EQ-5D, EQ VAS and questions of drug utilization. All the home visits throughout the study were done by the same study nurse.
To evaluate medication quality the MAI was used. This index has been developed by Professor Hanlon et al and was used after personal approval by Professor Hanlon. The MAI is considered to be the most reliable and valid comprehensive instrument of today . It consists of explicit criteria and implicit judgment meaning it permits standardisation and takes advantage from clinical knowledge and judgment in the evaluation process [19, 20]. The MAI review is based on thorough examinations of the patients' medication lists, prescriptions and medical records. Since all patients in the study had their medical care provided by the County Council, all data concerning the medical records and drug lists were available for the researchers. The medical record for every study patient was scrutinized systematically, by the same physician and research assistant throughout the study, according to the principles of MAI. Every drug was checked in accordance with the MAI routine on ten items regarding medication indication, effectiveness, dosage, directions, drug-drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, practicality, expense, duplication and duration [17, 18]. This renders a weighted MAI score per drug ranging between 0 (good quality) and 18 (poor quality). In adherence with the principles of appropriate prescribing for elderly [3, 21, 27, 28] the item of indication was deemed fundamental in our analysis and scoring of MAI. The assessment of indications was based on the patients' medical records.
Every patient's medical record was scrutinized systematically for each drug:
Was there an evident diagnose admitting prescription?
If not; were there any notes of a diagnose or symptom two years before, during or one year after the study?
If no diagnose was evident were there signs of ongoing follow-up of a specific disease, for example blood pressure or blood tests like lipids, thyroid hormone and glucose?
If any of these three conditions were fulfilled the drug was considered to have an indication. If the reviewed drug was determined to be devoid of indication, the grade C was given which in our analysis resulted in a C in all the nine following questions. Hence the drug received the worst (highest) possible MAI score. The total MAI score for each patient is calculated as the sum of the individual drug MAIs for that patient.
To measure QoL and functional status the validated questionnaire EQ-5D was used after approval of the EuroQol group. EQ-5D is a generic instrument evaluating function in five dimensions (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression) [16, 29]. The EQ-5D index was used for an overall estimation of QoL. The preference weights and the calculation algorithm we used in this study were determined in the UK using data from the Measurement and Valuation of Health Survey . EQ VAS was used for self-rating of current health-related QoL.
The study participants were divided into three equal size groups, A, B and C. The third of the patients with the lowest MAI score (measured at study start) and therefore the "best" medication quality was allocated to group A. Group B and C represented the thirds with the "middle/centre" respectively the "worst" medication quality. The groups were then compared with respect to EQ-5D index and EQ VAS at the three measuring points (study start, 6 months and 12 months) and MMSE/CDT at baseline.
The Regional Ethics Committee of Uppsala University approved the study.
The study groups were analysed with respects to EQ-5D index and EQ VAS measured at study start, 6 months and 12 months. Jonckheere-Terpstra trend test across groups was performed. It tests the alternative hypothesis that the population medians are ordered in a particular direction (that is, if there is a dose-response relationship).
To be able to correct for number of drugs, sex and age as possible confounding factors, we created a linear multiple regression model with the EQ-5D index utility as response variable. The explanatory variables of primary interest were total MAI score, sex, age and number of medications. We also performed similar calculations with EQ VAS as the response variable.
To adjust for comorbidities we used the Charlson Comorbidity Index .
In addition we analysed the different MAI groups with respects to MMSE and CDT using the Jonckheere-Terpstra test.
The data were analyzed using the SPSS program, version 15.
150 patients were identified for inclusion in the study (Figure 1). Table 1 shows the characteristics of our study population. The proportion of patients satisfied with their drug therapy and patients' self-rated ability to handle their drug therapy is presented in Table 1. 84% of the patients in the study claimed to be satisfied with their drug therapy but only 56% felt able to handle their drug regimen. 79% of our patients preferred life quality over long life. Notable is the fact that 32% of the participants had MMSE < 25 as well as reductions in CDT score indicating possible cognitive impairment. The number of deaths during the 12 month study period in group A, B and C were 5 (11%), 7 (15%) respectively 6 (13%). 1, 4 respectively 2 of these patients died within the first 6 months.
The results from calculating MAI are presented in Table 2 as are the number of drugs per patient. In addition to wrong dosages, interaction/duration problems etc, the fact that a relatively large part of drug regiments lack indication causes surprisingly high total MAI scores. Extreme polypharmacy, defined as taking ≥ 10 drugs was common and persistent in all three groups (Table 2). Some drugs are considered to pose special risks for the elderly . These are presented in Table 3 together with percent of patients taking the drug and percent of prescriptions lacking indication.
The results from our statistical analysis are presented in Table 5 and 6. The Jonckheere-Terpstra test shows that a lower medication quality is associated with a lower quality of life. EQ-5D index was statistically significantly different (declining for each group) among the groups (p = 0.001 at study start, p = 0.001 at 6 months and p = 0.013 at 12 months) as was EQ VAS (p = 0.026 at study start, p = 0.003 at 6 months and p = 0.007 at 12 months).
The same analysis was performed after dividing the study group into two age groups (above and below median; ≤ 83, ≥ 84 years) and male/female groups to adjust for age and sex. Even with these small groups the results remain statistically significant for EQ-5D for 9 out of 12 comparisons (4 groups, 3 different points in time) and the trend towards lower EQ-5D with lower medication quality still remains between the groups. For EQ VAS the results were statistically significant for 7 out of 12 comparisons. The same trend with declining EQ VAS with lower medication quality remains.
When we performed the linear regression with EQ-5D index as the response variable and MAI groups, age, sex and number of drugs as explanatory variables we basically found similar results. The difference in EQ-5D index between group A and group C was statistically significant at the first two points in time but not at the 12 month measuring point (p = 0.019 at study start, p = 0.011 at 6 months and p = 0.233 at 12 months). There was no statistically significant difference between the middle group and the group with the highest MAI score. When performing the linear regression with EQ-5D index as the response variable and MAI groups, age, sex and Charlson Comorbidity Index as explanatory variables we found that comorbidity did not affect EQ-5D index. The difference in EQ-5D between MAI group A and group C was remained statistically significant at the all three points in time (p = 0.001 at study start, p = 0.002 at 6 months and p = 0.033 at 12 months). There was no statistically significant difference between the middle group and the group with the highest MAI score.
For EQ VAS, there was a statistically significant difference between group A and C at the six and 12 month measuring points but not at baseline (p = 0.052 at study start, p = 0.009 at 6 months and p = 0.042 at 12 months). As with EQ-5D index, there was no statistically significant difference between the middle group and the group with the highest MAI score.
Number of drugs had a statistically significant impact on both EQ-5D index and EQ VAS at all points in time. Sex or age did not affect either EQ-5D index or EQ VAS.
We also analysed the different MAI groups with respects to MMSE and CDT using the Jonckheere-Terpstra test. In our study group we could not find any indication that cognitive impairment is associated with low medication quality.
The main result of our study demonstrates an association between medication quality and QoL. Through the study and by using reliable instruments, MAI together with EQ-5D and EQ VAS, we have been able to visualize the association between inappropriate medication and low QoL. We found a remarkable high number of patients with inappropriate medication. The findings are of importance for the individual as well as the healthcare system since the vulnerable group of elderly with chronic health problems and chronic drug treatment is growing.
We find it remarkable that more than four out of five patients in the study are satisfied with their drug therapy while only slightly more than half the patients feel able to handle their drug regimen and the calculation of MAI shows us that medication quality is overall poor. A possible reason for the low self-rated capability to handle drug regimens is the fact that almost one third of the participants had MMSE < 25 as well as reductions in CDT score, indicating cognitive impairment. A reason for patients claiming to be satisfied with their drug therapy while not being able to handle it could be trust in the "good doctor" and fear of damaging the doctor-patient relationship by voicing concerns about their drug therapy .
An important aspect is whether the MMSE and CDT results in our study indicate the ability of the patients to properly fill in the EQ-5D. According to previous research the EQ-5D is well suited for evaluating QoL in a population with cognitive impairment .
It is a well established truth that drug treatment and polypharmacy in the elderly are risk factors for adverse drug reactions, hospitalization and mortality [22, 34, 35]. These are factors known to affect QoL. In this study we set out to see if medication quality could also be associated to life quality. The reason for this is that we wanted to study quality of drug treatment from a patient perspective. With increasing number of elderly who faces the problems that come with old age, chronic medication and chronic diseases, the real challenge for the healthcare of tomorrow is both "to help people live longer and feel better" . To achieve this, the healthcare professions need to adopt new outcomes, including QoL. By choosing QoL as an outcome instead of solely treatment goals per se we wanted to accomplish more of a patient focus and a movement towards shared decisions by empowerment of patient participation.
Polypharmacy is a giant challenge in many ways, but the objective of our study is appropriateness of the prescriptions in a wide perspective, meaning the burden of drug treatment for each patient. Appropriateness of medication is therefore the key word in every part of the discussion, because if appropriate and needed then the benefits of the medications are obvious for optimizing QoL. But as shown here, in many cases there is no indication for the treatment which is devastating throughout the system and especially for the patient. Indication as the basic principle for prescribing is learned by every medical student and is emphasized in the regulations for physicians and also in the reimbursement system for drug treatment. A finding is that there might have been an indication once, but no one has done a follow up, no one has adjusted the dose, no one has defined the time for treatment or the costs. The presences of interactions remain unnoticed. All these are important factors for the patients undergoing treatment as it affects their QoL. For some types of drugs this can seem as an issue of low significance (for example laxatives and vitamin pills) but the list of inappropriate drugs in our patient group also includes pain killers, sleeping pills and diuretics and in the worst cases anticoagulants and insulin. In every respect these results show lack of systematic work in the prescription process. The use of MAI with its explicit and implicit criteria gives an extensive and to some extent depressive perspective and shows the omission to fulfill the obligations connected to drug treatment.
To prescribe drugs is important in medical treatment and demonstrates initiative and action, but good and appropriate prescribing demands many considerations. It involves evaluation of symptoms, follow up of effect, adjustment of dose and monitoring over time as well as deprescribing when indicated [21, 28, 36]. Prescribing for elderly demands special knowledge and close monitoring . This includes courage to deprescribe and the necessity of avoiding the prescribing cascade . For the elderly patients who have multiple health problems, the risks increase as there are often many prescribers with different specializations involved, focusing on their area of specialization and with no one taking an overall responsibility regarding the patient .
The patient's QoL has historically been neglected since other outcomes are judged more important. Today there are guidelines for treatment of individual diseases, but there is a lack of guidelines and goals for treatment of the elderly with many diseases . In the healthcare system there are now established incitements and rewards for following the guidelines for drug treatment (number of patients with recommended prescriptions) while considering the patient's quality of life is subordinate.
Some limitations should be acknowledged. In this study we have used one measure of QoL, the EQ-5D index. This is probably the most recognized instrument for measuring QoL and it is extensively used in international studies. It is nevertheless possible that a different result would be obtained with a different measure of QoL. The same pertain to our chosen measure of medication quality.
The MAI scoring system does not take into account that a patient might lack certain drugs that could be beneficiary to them, i.e. underprescription. The possible reduction in QoL and associated costs resulting from this underprescription is therefore not taken into account in this study.
Our study concentrates on the population of elderly with multiple medications and chronic diseases. Conclusions from this study can therefore not be used to generalize about other parts of the population/community. It is also a small study. More and bigger studies are needed to investigate the impact of poor medication quality in the general population and to confirm the results from this study.
In this study it was not possible to separate disease groups from one another since all patients in the study were multi-diseased and had medical conditions from several different disease groups. If we would have been able to separate the different disease groups, and adjust for these in the analysis, we believe that we might have found a stronger relationship between medication quality and QoL. We believe that it is a possibility that poor medication quality in certain disease groups has a bigger impact on QoL than others. Further studies are needed to evaluate if and how poor medication quality in different disease groups affect QoL.
The strength of our study is that it is performed in care as usual. Another strength is the fact that we are describing a group of people that will keep growing as the base of the population pyramid in the western world is contracting while the top is expanding. This means that measures to improve medication quality in the elderly in order to improve QoL will be a way to change a lot for lots of patients. The fact that we are using the patients' self stated medication lists as a basis for evaluating their prescriptions is both a strength and a weakness. By doing this, we are more likely to capture what medications the patient is actually taking but we are also subject to the patients' forgetfulness or possible unwillingness to share information.
When applying to the Hippocratic Oath, physicians are taught to do well and not to harm. The hierarchic structure of healthcare has undergone tremendous changes but the patient is still in a weak position despite the ongoing discussion of patient participation and empowerment. In a world of pharmacological possibilities the debate regarding prescribing ought to be as prominent as ever. Concerning the elderly patient there must be a crusade finding the breaking point were the intention to do "well" and not to harm means to deprescribe or refrain from prescribing based on shared decision with the patient to prioritize their QoL.
Drug treatment in the elderly is a huge challenge for healthcare. Since drug quality is related to the patient's quality of life, there is immense reason to continuously evaluate every prescription and treatment. The evaluation and if possible deprescribing should be done as a process where both the patient and physician are involved.
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This study was supported by grants from Örebro County Council. Special thanks to the study nurse Ewa Löfgren for her sterling work and Susanne Collgård for her excellent work with compilation of the data.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
INO participated in the design of the study, the statistical analysis and the drafting of the manuscript. RR participated in the statistical analysis and the drafting of the manuscript. PE participated in the design of the study and the drafting of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Nordin Olsson, I., Runnamo, R. & Engfeldt, P. Medication quality and quality of life in the elderly, a cohort study. Health Qual Life Outcomes 9, 95 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-9-95
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The proposed ban on fossil-fuel-powered vehicles was announced by the country's new environment minister, Nicolas Hulot, at a press conference on Thursday. It will mean only electric cars or those using alternative fuels will be sold in the country from 2040.
Hulot, who is a long-time environmental campaigner and was brought on board by newly elected president Emmanuel Macron, said the move would help France achieve its plans to become carbon-neutral by 2050.
His announcement follows the news that Volvo will only make electric and hybrid vehicles as of 2019, and comes as G20 members – including US president Donald Trump, a climate-change sceptic – meet in Germany for the annual summit.
The summit is expected to see world leaders discuss climate change as a priority, after President Trump decided to to withdraw the US from the Paris climate change agreement in June.
Macron has been a vocal critic of this decision, and Hulot made a point of this in his speech, stating "France has decided to become carbon-neutral by 2050 following the US decision."
The former journalist also said that lower-income households will receive financial help when replacing their fossil-fuel-powered vehicles with electric ones.
"The government will offer each French person a bonus to replace their diesel car dating before 1997 or petrol from before 2001 by a new or second-hand vehicle," he said.
Hulot also referenced Volvo's plans in his speech, and suggested that French car manufacturers, such as Peugeot-Citroen and Renault, would follow suit.
BMW launched its first fully electric production car, called the BMW i3, in 2013, while Audi unveiled an all-electric version of its R8 supercar, the Audi R8 e-tron, in 2015.
Other announcements made at the press conference included a commitment to stopping the use of coal-powered electricity by 2022, as well as a pledge to invest up to €4 billion (£3.5 billion) into energy efficiency.
These measures are all part of the country's five-year plan that aims to fulfil France's commitments under the Paris Agreement.
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Do you ever wonder if you can freeze fresh asparagus?
Frozen foods are convenient, but they don’t always taste as good as their fresh counterparts.
That’s where frozen asparagus comes into play.
Asparagus is a vegetable that has been around since ancient times.
It was even mentioned in the Bible.
However, it wasn’t until the 19th century that it became widely consumed.
Today, it is one of the most popular vegetables in the world.
Types of Asparagus
Asparagus is a vegetable that comes from the lily family. It is a member of the legume family. It is a perennial plant that grows in temperate climates. It is native to Europe and Asia. It was introduced into North America in the early 1800s. It is grown commercially in many parts of the world. It is harvested during springtime. It is usually eaten raw but can be cooked. It is available year round. It is available frozen, canned, dried, pickled, and fresh. How to Store Asparagus Freshly picked asparagus should be stored in the refrigerator. It should be washed thoroughly before being placed in the refrigerator. Do not wash the stalks until after you cut them. This will prevent any dirt from getting onto the asparagus. Asparagus should be stored covered in plastic wrap. It should be refrigerated in a plastic bag. It should be used within three days.
Can I Freeze Asparagus?
Yes, you can freeze asparagus. As long as the spears are still firm, you can freeze them. To freeze asparagus, place the spears in a freezer safe container. Make sure that the spears are tightly packed together. Place the container in the freezer. Allow the asparagus to freeze completely. Once the spears are frozen, remove them from the container and store them in a resealable freezer bag. How to Prepare Asparagus To prepare asparagus, simply snap off the tough ends. Cut the asparagus into pieces. Boil the asparagus for about 5 minutes. Drain the asparagus and serve immediately.
How To Freeze Asparagus
You can freeze asparagus but you have to follow certain steps. First, wash the asparagus thoroughly. Then cut the stalks into 1 inch pieces. Put the asparagus in a freezer safe container and put it in the freezer. Let the asparagus freeze completely. Once the asparagus is frozen, remove it from the container and store it in a resealable plastic freezer bag.
Step 1: Wash
Wash the asparagus thoroughly under running water. Remove any dirt or debris. Make sure you rinse the asparagus well. This step is very important because if you don’t rinse the asparagus properly, you’ll end up with slimy asparagus. Step 2: Cut Answer: After washing the asparagus, cut off the tough ends. You can either slice the asparagus crosswise or chop it lengthwise. Step 3: Store Answer: Put the asparagus into a freezer safe container. Don’t fill the container more than half way full. It’s better to leave about 1/2 inch empty at the top. Cover the container tightly and place it back in the freezer. Step 4: Wait Answer: Wait until the asparagus is completely frozen. This usually takes about 24 hours. Step 5: Enjoy! Answer: Enjoy your delicious asparagus.
Step 2: Sort and Clean
Sort the asparagus into different sizes. Then wash each piece of asparagus thoroughly under cold running water. Step 3: Dry Answer: Place the washed asparagus onto paper towels and dry them thoroughly.
Step 3: Blanch
Place the dried asparagus pieces into a medium sized saucepan filled with enough water to completely submerge the asparagus. Bring the water to a boil and let it simmer for about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and drain the water. Step 4: Rinse Answer: After draining the water, place the asparagus back into the same pan and pour in some ice cold water. Let the asparagus sit for about 30 seconds and then remove it from the ice bath. Drain again and repeat the process until the asparagus is no longer hot. Step 5: Chill Answer: Transfer the asparagus to a bowl filled with ice cubes and chill for 10 minutes. This step helps to stop the cooking process and keeps the asparagus crunchy. Step 6: Serve Answer: Serve the asparagus immediately after chilling. It tastes better if served chilled.
Step 4: Dry
After blanching the asparagus, rinse under running tap water. Then dry the asparagus with paper towel. Step 5: Store Answer: Place the asparagus in a container with a lid. Add some olive oil and store in the refrigerator. Asparagus will last for 2 weeks in the fridge.
Step 5: Flash Freeze (Optional)
To flash freeze asparagus, place the spears into a freezer bag and freeze overnight. Remove from freezer and transfer to a sealed container. Label and date. This process will help preserve the nutrients and flavor of the asparagus. It will also prevent the spears from turning black.
Step 6: Pack
Place the frozen vegetables into a resealable plastic bag. Add 1/2 cup of ice cubes to the bag and squeeze out any air. Seal the bag tightly and label. Place the bag in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Step 7: Serve
Step 7: Label and Freeze
Label and freeze the prepared meals in freezer bags. This way, you won’t forget about what’s for dinner!
How To Thaw Frozen Asparagus
Thawing frozen asparagus is easy. Simply place the asparagus spears into a colander placed in a sink filled with cold water. Let sit for 5 minutes. Drain well and pat dry with paper towels.
How long does asparagus last?
Asparagus lasts about 3 weeks if stored properly. It’s important to store it in a cool, dark area away from sunlight.
How do you know if asparagus has gone bad?
If asparagus looks dry, brittle, or wilted, it’s probably past its prime. Asparagus should never smell moldy or rotten.
Why has my frozen asparagus gone mushy?
Asparagus is a delicate vegetable that needs to be stored properly. It should be kept in the freezer until needed. Once thawed, asparagus loses moisture very quickly, making it difficult to eat. To avoid this problem, freeze asparagus immediately after purchasing it. How long does asparagus last in the refrigerator?
What can I do with too much asparagus?
Asparagus freezes very well. It is important to blanch the stalks prior to freezing. Blanching helps to remove any bitterness from the stalks. Once the asparagus is blanched, place into freezer bags and freeze. To thaw frozen asparagus, simply run under warm water until desired tenderness is reached.
What is the best way to freeze asparagus?
Yes, you can freeze fresh asparagus. As long as you cut off the bottom ends of the stalks, you can freeze them whole. Just place them in a freezer bag and freeze them until needed. To thaw frozen asparagus, simply put them in a bowl of cold water for about 5 minutes. Drain well and serve immediately.
Can fresh asparagus be frozen without blanching?
Asparagus is a vegetable that grows in abundance during springtime. It is a perennial plant that produces long stems from underground stalks called rhizomes. Asparagus is known for being delicious and nutritious. It contains lots of vitamins and minerals such as vitamin C, potassium, folate, iron, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, copper and manganese. It is also a good source of dietary fiber. Asparagus is a member of the lily family Liliaceae and is closely related to onions, garlic, leeks, fennel, and chives. Asparagus is available year round but is especially abundant in springtime. You can eat asparagus raw or cooked. Raw asparagus tastes great in salads, sandwiches, pasta dishes, soups, and stir-fries. Cooking asparagus brings out its natural sweetness and tenderizes it.
Can you preserve asparagus?
Asparagus is a vegetable that is usually eaten raw but can also be cooked. Asparagus is available year round and is a spring crop. It grows quickly and needs cool weather to produce well. Asparagus is very nutritious and contains vitamins A, B1, B2, C, E, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, folate, niacin, pantothenic acid, thiamine, riboflavin, and vitamin K. It is also rich in fiber. Asparagus is a good source of folic acid, manganese, protein, selenium, and dietary fiber.
Can you freeze fresh or cooked asparagus?
Yes, but not all varieties of asparagus freeze well. Asparagus is a vegetable that freezes very well if cut into pieces and placed in freezer bags. It does not freeze well if left whole. Cut asparagus stalks into 1 inch pieces and place in freezer bags. Freeze until solid. Thaw overnight in refrigerator. To serve, simply reheat in microwave oven.
Can you freeze fresh asparagus without blanching?
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Pat Robertson, yesterday, went so far as to curse a town in Pennsylvania which dumped the school board advocating "intelligent design" in favor of one that feels that science should be taught in schools. ''I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God. You just rejected Him from your city.'' -- Pat Robertson, Nov. 2005
In fact, the dichotomy between a Creator and Darwinism is totally spurious. Who set up the law of natural selection? In fact, who set up the law of gravity, who set up e=mc2, who set up the periodic table? Did Darwin, Newton, Einstein, Mendeleev invent these laws? No, they discovered the intelligent design of the universe.
The apocryphal book of Wisdom puts it well:
All men were by nature foolish who were in ignorance of God,
and who from the good things seen did not succeed in knowing Him who is,
and from studying the works did not discern the artisan;
But either fire, or wind, or the swift air,
or the circuit of the stars, or the mighty water,
or the luminaries of heaven, the governors of the world, they considered gods.
Now if out of joy in their beauty they thought them gods,
let them know how far more excellent is the Lord than these;
for the original source of beauty fashioned them.
Or if they were struck by their might and energy,
let them from these things realize how much more powerful is He/(She) who made them.
For from the greatness and the beauty of created things
their original author, by analogy, is seen.
We can acknowledge the laws of the Creator without denying Him/Her.
Ah, but the world was created in six days, say the fundamentalists. They haven't read scripture. The Creator's time is not our time.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Let us not be deceived by the divisive, hate-filled tactics of the "Christian" right.
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OUR BRIDGE TO HISTORY
Lost piece of Shreveport returns to the light
HGTV fanatics will remember a show called “If Walls Could Talk” that focused on fun facts buried beneath the sheetrock of homes across the country. It was always interesting to see what weird things homeowners had unearthed and even more entertaining to hear the homeowners’ reactions to these bits of history.
As I walk through downtown Shreveport each day, I also wish walls and spaces could talk because, oh, the hair-raising and scandalous tales they could tell! History, lore and legend are everywhere downtown, but a fairly significant number of stories that you might classify as tall tales are true.
Take, for example, the story of J.A.L.
Waddell, civil engineer and prolific bridge builder of the late 1800s and early 1900s, owner of a remarkable walrus mustache and even more remarkable forehead curls.
Waddell was born in Canada, traveled extensively, spoke and wrote Latin, and authored the definitive book on bridge building.
From his photos, it appears he loved wine, good food and mustache wax, and enough documents remain to prove he may have loved bridges and bridge building more than anything else.
Most of his life was spent in Kansas City, Mo., and it is quite likely that he never came through Shreveport, yet we have something that connects us to him in a very personal way. We have a bridge designed by him – a mostly hidden, mostly ignored structure just north of the Central Business District downtown. It is not just any Waddell bridge, and there were many – some 1,000, by most counts. It is one of just two of its kind remaining in the entire country: a railroad bridge called the Waddell A-Truss that spans Cross Bayou just north of Sam’s Town Casino. The A-Truss bridge was built in 1896 but lived a relatively short productive life that ended as railcars got heavier. By 1915, it was mostly obsolete.
In 1991 after a threat of demolition, KCS gave the bridge to the City of Shreveport, and a few years later, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. There is hope now that the fortunes of the longforgotten bridge will improve.
Waddell admirer Pat Wilson, a Lafayette, La., resident and engineer at Huval and Associates, has developed a love for the bridge and has been working to create a desire to transform it into a highly visible pedestrian and bicycle span that would connect people, initially, from downtown to some levee trails and the Shreveport riverfront. Wilson grew up in Memphis, where bridge-building is an art form and where his love of the structures began. He stumbled upon the A-Truss in 2000, when a trip from Oklahoma City to New Orleans led him through Shreveport. He began studying the bridge and Waddell in general, and in 2016, he presented a talk on the bridge to the Society of Civil Engineers.
Since then, he and his small band of volunteer engineers and Louisiana Tech students and bridge aficionados have spent several weekends chopping down the vines that once covered the bridge. He has brought in other people like Skip James and Elba Hamilton from the Shreveport-based engineering firm Aillet Fenner Jolly & McClelland, and representatives from the Caddo Levee Board, the DDA and the City of Shreveport to assist him in finding grants – and long-term purpose – for the historic bridge.
The next phase of the project will be to gather detailed measurements of the bridge and then find the dollars for a thorough structural assessment. This task will require special equipment and serious man hours to test the old timbers in the deck, which are likely rotten, and the metal struts, bracing and stringers, which are hoped to be structurally sound.
Only when Wilson and his volunteer team know the condition of the bridge will they know what can ultimately be done for it. In the meantime, the 121-year-old structure will wait, as it has done so patiently before.
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This manual contains the INSITE Developmental Checklist and instructions for scoring and reporting. This Checklist assesses the areas of gross motor, fine motor, self-help, cognition, social, emotional, communication, vision, auditory, and tactile development. This 2021 updated edition has been completely updated to reflect more current practice in assessment, goal setting, and early intervention planning for young children with Sensory Impairments and Additional Disabilities 0-5. It emphasizes embedding goals and interventions in daily routines. Domains have been expanded to include more items in order to more specifically assess skills and set more appropriate goals. Some domains have been consolidated into fewer subdomains for ease-of-use, with special notes added under “Notes for Complex Needs.” Every domain has expanded discussions about the unique challenges of children with sensory impairments and additional disabilities. The Checklist has updated resources and references and is illustrated.
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"Koshiki Junzukuri" (The Old Way) read the characters on Akitabare Sake Brewing Company's junmai label, and a glimpse inside the brewery shows why. The huge wooden basin for soaking the rice, the giant kama for steaming it are still in use
Considerable technical innovation has occurred in the sake world over the last hundred years and many of the new tools and techniques have elevated the level of sake quality. But when change is just for the sake of modernization, or to increase productivity, or to maximize earnings, there is always a trade-off in quality. And this is a trade-off that Akitabare has never been willing to make.
What this commitment means in practice is delicacy, precision and care at every step of the brewing process. Akitabare sakes possess perfect balance, a mild aroma and a subtlely expressed but very distinct taste profile. They tend to appeal to experienced connoisseurs not overly impressed with flowery aromas and ornate flavors and for whom balance, clarity and finesse are the mark of a superior label.
"People's taste may change over time, and our sakes will change as well, but they will always have a satisfying taste and a distinct personality," says Kazuo Kawaguchi, the brewery's president. "If we had a motto, it would be 'fierce adherence to tradition, skillful adaptation to change.' If we were a flower, we would be a peony." | <urn:uuid:264412e3-cfcf-4f83-90d6-4f6fecab0e78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.worldsake.com/portfolio.asp?BreweryID=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.948764 | 312 | 1.765625 | 2 |
USS Stargazer, NCC-2893, constellation class starship belongs to one of the first ships I modeled. It was my first attempt to break with the usual “bird base” and to ttry something different. I wanted to see what all would be possible, and began to experiment. Step by step I’ve got a mix of bird and frog base. In the new base figure I saw the possibility to form a saucer and four nacelles, which immediately reminded me of the USS Stargazer.
Currently there is only one version of this model, which I constantly modify with sometimes more, sometimes less success. The model can be no doubt, the first ship, which was under the command of Jean-Luc Picard. However it has very few details and is quite inaccurate. The biggest inaccuracy here are the connections between the nacelles and the hull of the ship. | <urn:uuid:f694ee35-3db2-4b4d-853f-d68b93839e3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://starigami.org/welcome-page/constellation-class/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.975451 | 190 | 1.976563 | 2 |
The golden rule of checking in code is:
Don't check in code that will break the build.
Nobody likes code that won't compile. Also see Scott Hanselman's First Rule of Software Development.
In order to help verify that your pending check-in will continue to result in a healthy build, you may wish to view the following rules and procedures that I find helpful.
- Try to work on small chunks of code and features at any given time. As Tim Stall points out, "It's easier to integrate 5 small things than 1 big thing."
- Before checking in anything, perform a "get latest" on your entire solution's code-base. Resolve any version conflicts before proceeding.
- If you have any web sites in your solution that have references to web services, make sure you update all web references.
- Perform a build on your entire solution. Obviously, fix any compilation errors.
- Database scripts. Ahhh, these are lovely, aren't they? Unless you're fortunate enough to be using some cool database tools (like Visual Studio for Database Professionals), you don't likely have any compile-time error checking for your database scripts. It is essential that you ensure all your database scripts for changing the schema, updating the programming (e.g., stored procs), and inserting default foundation data work properly. If they don't, you'll soon have a swarm of angry developers beating down your door. The best way to do this is to run the update scripts on your machine and test the software. Update scripts should be written in such a way that they first check to see if a particular update has been applied first before trying to apply it again. This makes it much easier to test, and for other developers to apply to their database copies.
- Check in ALL files you have checked out. This is a tricky one, since perhaps you know that a particular file doesn't work properly, even though it will compile properly. Unfortunately, you may not know what dependencies exist on this file from some of the other files that you're checking in. So, while you may think you're doing a favour for the rest of your development team by not checking in a file you know to not work properly, you may actually be more causing grief by checking in code that won't build!
Even if you use a fancy-shmancy tool that performs delayed commit or source integration (such as TeamCity), as a professional developer you should really follow these guidelines to save yourself (and your team) pain and suffering. | <urn:uuid:9c33a237-d1e9-4e5b-9b12-03dd30aa1079> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.thewebjedi.com/be/post/2007/11/14/rules-for-checking-in-code-to-source-control.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.939767 | 520 | 1.640625 | 2 |
GAME OF THRONES THE CARD GAME 1ST EDITION
OBJECTIVE OF GAME OF THRONES THE CARD GAME 1st EDITION: The objective of Game of Thrones The Card Game 1st Edition is to win 15 power points before your opponent does.
NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 2 to 4
Core set materials:
- 220 cards (55 cards per House, for Stark, Lannister, Baratheon and Targaryen houses)
- 60 Power tokens
- 44 Gold tokens
- 1 game board (to play with more than 2 players)
- 6 Title figurines (to play with more than 2 players)
TYPE OF GAME: strategic expert card game
AUDIENCE: teen, adult
OVERVIEW OF GAME OF THRONES THE CARD GAME 1ST EDITION
In Game of Thrones: The Card Game, join the houses of Stark, Lannister, Targaryen, Baratheon, Greyjoy, Martell as they seek to seize the Iron Throne.
Game of Thrones: The Card Game is a game of intrigue, politics, betrayals and battles based on the novels of George R.R. Martin.
Each player embodies one of the factions that seek to influence and control the Iron Throne in order to seize power in Westeros. Each player has two decks of cards: a deck of draw cards, which feeds the forces at his disposal, and a deck of plots, which is used to develop a long-term strategy.
As the game progresses, players engage in military battles, court plots and power struggles until one of them is victorious.
Each player chooses a faction, which can be one of the 6 main houses or a neutral faction, and a deck from that house. A deck consists of:
- a House card, displaying the symbol of the chosen house
- an Agenda card (optional), which modifies certain rules in a global way
- a deck of at least 60 cards
- a deck of plots, of exactly 7 cards
Each player places his two decks in front of him, along with his house card, and then draws 7 cards from his draw deck. From these 7 cards he chooses a combination of Character and/or Location cards whose total cost does not exceed 5, which will constitute his starting strength. He places them in front of him, face down. When each opponent has done the same, the players reveal their set-up cards, then complete their hand until they have 7 cards again.
Note: Some Attachment cards have the keyword “Set-up” which indicates that they can be played during Set-up, provided they are attached to an eligible card.
Example of a 2 player game setup. In this attempt to recreate the the triumphant assault of Stannis Baratheon beyond the Wall, the top player plays Baratheon with a Gest of Fire agenda that prevents the Winter season from happening. This is quite annoying for the bottom player, who has a neutral winter-based Wildling deck with three The North agendas reinforcing Wildling characters (those can be combined, which is rare).
Types of cards
House cards indicate the house controlled by each player. There is also a Neutral House card, which does not actually correspond to any house.
Agenda cards are strategic cards that profoundly change the way a deck works. A player can usually have one and only one Agenda card, placed next to his House card.
Plot cards are strategy cards that allow the player to momentarily influence the course of the game for the duration of a turn. A player must have exactly 7 Plot cards. Each Plot card has:
- 3 icons representing, from left to right, the player’s income, initiative and claim (i.e. the damage he inflicts during challenges)
- a text describing the plot’s effect, which may be permanent, triggered immediately (in which case it will be marked “when revealed”) or triggered subject to conditions (indicated in the text of the effect)
The Character, Location, Attachment and Event cards make up the player’s draw deck.
Characters, Locations and Attachments are permanent cards and have a recruitment cost in the top left corner, which must be paid in gold during the Marshalling phase of their owner. Conversely, Event cards are immediate-effect cards that can be played directly, including during other players’ turns, under certain conditions specified on the card.
- have a Strength value (shield icon), used during challenges and hegemony
- may have icons corresponding to the three types of confrontation that can take place: military, power and intrigue
- may have virtue icons (bottom right) used by some card effects: Warrior (crossed swords), Noble (ring), Scholar (open book) and Mystic (chalice).
Attachments are cards representing objects, conditions or other situations that apply to a Person or Location. An Attachment is placed under the Character or Location to which it is attached.
Other icons in the text box of the permanent cards:
- Gold: the value indicated represents an income bonus at the beginning of the Marshalling phase.
- Initiative: the value indicated in the diamond represents a bonus applied when determining the initiative in the Plot phase.
- Influence: the value shown in the rectangle indicates the number of influence points provided by this map.
Course of the game round
A game round is divided into 7 successive phases
- Plot phase
- Draw phase
- Marshalling phase
- Challenges phase
- Dominance phase
- Standing phase
- Taxation phase
1. Plot phase
Each player consults his pile of plots freely and secretly chooses a plot to activate during the turn. When all players have chosen, the plots are revealed simultaneously:
- the plot revealed by each player is placed on top of his pile of used plots
- the player with the best initiative (that of his plot + plus that of his other cards in play) chooses who will be the first player in the round
- any “when revealed” effects that may be present on the plots revealed are applied, starting with designated first player and going clockwise
2. Draw phase
Each player draws two cards from his or her deck.
3. Marshalling phase
Starting with the player designated as the first player during the plot phase, then clockwise, each player will:
- take his income: receive from the bank as many gold coins as indicated on his plot and other cards in play
- play as many cards from his hand as he wishes by paying their cost in gold
- Cards that bring in gold will only add gold to a player’s income on the turn following the turn they are played.
- Gold penalty: if you have a House card that is not the neutral faction, you have to pay 2 extra gold to play a card from another House
4. Challenges phase
During this crucial phase of the turn, players will, always in turn order, challenge other players in one or more of the three areas of confrontation: military (red axe icon), power (blue crown icon) or intrigue (green eye icon).
How a challenge is done:
- the active player (called the attacker) declares the type of challenge (military, power or intrigue) and the targeted player (called the defender)
- the attacker declares one or more attacking characters (which must have the icon of the type of challenge declared) and kneels them
- for each participating character having the keyword Stealth, the attacker designates a defender character who does not have the keyword Stealth, to prevent that character from being declared defender
- the defending player declares (or not) defending characters (which must have the icon of the type of challenge declared) and kneels them
- resolution: the combined strength of the attacking characters is compared with that of the defending characters, and if the attacker has greater or equal strength, he wins the challenge.
- application of losses: if the attacker has won the challenge, he inflicts a number of losses equal to the claim value of his plot card, the nature of which depends on the type of challenge
- military challenge: the defender chooses as many characters under his control, participants in the challenge or not, and places them in his pile of the dead
- challenge power: the attacker moves as many Power tokens from the defender’s House card to his House card (if there are not enough, he completes by taking from the reserve)
- challenge intrigue: the attacker randomly draws as many cards from the defender’s hand and places them in the opponent’s discard pile.
- in addition, and regardless of the type of challenge, if the defender’s strength was 0, the challenge is considered unopposed, and in this case the attacker takes an extra Power token from the reserve and places it on his House card
- whoever wins the challenge, his participating characters with the keyword Renown each take a Power token (on themselves)
- Regardless of which player wins the challenge, and regardless of the type of challenge declared, if the attacking player has more participating characters with the keyword Killer than the defender, the defender must choose and kill one of his remaining defending characters.
The active player can declare one and only one challenge of each type, hence three challenges total, before passing the hand to the next player clockwise.
Other rules for challenges:
- if the defender wins the challenge, he does not apply his plot’s claim
- a character who has been kneeled (e.g. to participate in a previous challenge) cannot be kneeled again to participate as an attacker or defender in a challenge
- the characters with the keyword Vigilant (Baratheon house) stand up when they have won a challenge in attack
- characters with the keyword Vindictive (Martell house) stand up when they have lost a challenge in defence
- when a character with the keyword Intimidate (Greyjoy House) participates as an attacker in a challenge, characters with a lower strength than him cannot be declared defenders
5. Dominance phase
During this phase, each player adds up his gold left over with the strength of his standing characters. The player with the highest score wins the dominance and places one Power token from the reserve on his House card.
6. Standing phase
Players simultaneously stand all their kneeled cards.
7. Tax phase
Players who still have gold place it back in the bank.
The Wildling player has the Beyond the Wall card, which allows his Wildling characters to attack without kneeling, but also prevents them from defending. He therefore attacks in Military with both his Wildling characters and with the Wolves of the North (who are not Wildling) and wins, thus killing one enemy character and taking one Power as the challenge was unopposed.
OTHER POINTS OF RULES
When an effect requires a certain number of influence points to be kneeled, the player must kneel the necessary card(s) when using the influence. Any excess influence is lost, and the kneeled card(s) can no longer be used for other effects that require kneeling (such as participating in a challenge).
Unique and duplicate cards
Unique cards represent a famous place, attachment or person, and have a flag icon next to their title. When a unique card is in play, no player may play a card with the same name. The only exception is the player controlling the card, who may play a card with the same name as a duplicate. This duplicate card becomes attached to the card already in play, and may be discarded to save the card already in play from an effect that would have killed it, discarded it from play, or returned it to the owner’s hand.
There are several variants of cards with the same name. Only the values and texts of the card already in play count, all other cards with the same name played later lose all their characteristics when they become a duplicate of the card already in play.
- Immunity: some cards are immune to certain effects, and therefore cannot undergo them or be targeted by them.
- Limited: it is forbidden to play more than one card with the keyword Limited per turn.
- No attachments: some cards cannot receive attachments (sometimes with exceptions), except for duplicates which are not actual attachments.
- Ambush (Targaryen house): a card with this keyword can be put in play as if it were an ‘Any Phase’ effect by paying influence instead of gold.
- Infamy (Lannister house): when you take power for your House card, you can distribute all or part of this power on your cards with the keyword Infamy
- Stalwart (Stark house): when a card with the Stalwart keyword is killed or discarded from the deck, it is instead put back on top of its owner’s draw pile.
END OF GAME
At any time during the game, if a player totals 15 or more Power points on his playing cards and House card, he wins the game immediately.
In a final power challenge, Melisandre brings 4 power points to the Baratheon player: 1 taken to the Wildling player for the player’s plot claim, one for Malisandre’s Renown keyword and one for the unopposed challenge, which is doubled thanks to Melisandre’s text effet. The Baratheon player wins with 15 power. It seems the Beyond the Wall card of the Wildling player caused his loss!
Rules for 3 or 4 players
The above rules are the rules of the game in jousting mode, one on one. The Melee mode, with 3 or 4 players, uses the same rules with the following additions.
- Place the game board in the centre of the table.
- Place the Power and Gold tokens in the spaces provided
- Place the 6 Title figures in the spaces provided.
After choosing and revealing the plots, and determining the first player, the latter chooses a title and takes the corresponding miniature. Then each player does the same clockwise.
The game board shows the opposition and support between the titles:
- a dark triangle pointing from one title to another indicates that this title is opposed to the pointed title
- a clear arrow pointing from one title to another indicates that this title supports the pointed title
- it is forbidden to declare a challenge against a player bearing a title that you support
- if a player with a title that you support is attacked and does not declare defenders, you can declare defenders in his place, with your standing characters; if you lose the challenge, the defending player still suffers 먹튀검증사이트 losses determined by the type of challenge and claim of the attacker’s plot
When you win a challenge against a player with a title you are opposed to, you win an extra Power, to be placed from the reserve on your House card. However, you can only receive this bonus once per round.
Other effects of titles
In addition to support and opposition, each title grants a special additional bonus.
The Crown Regent title gives +3 in strength in all Power challenges where you have at least one participating character. In addition, this title makes it possible, once per turn, to force an attacking player, after he has designated the defending player, to change targets. If there is no other player possible (for example because the attacker supports the other player), the defender is still the originally designated player.
The Hand of the King title allows once per turn to obtain 2 points of influence to be used immediately.
The Master of Laws title allows you to draw an additional card during the Draw phase.
The Lord Commander of the Kingsguard title gives +3 in strength in all Military Challenges where you have at least one character participating. In addition, once per turn, in a Military challenge where the defender has not declared any characters, this title allows you to force the attacker to attack you instead. In this case, replay the steps of declaring stealth targets and defenders, considering that you are the defender.
The Master of Whispers title gives +3 in strength in all Intrigue challenges where you have at least one character participating.
The Master of Coins title allows you to receive an additional 2 Gold when you count your income in the Marshalling phase.
Use of 3-player titles
In a 3-player game, the 3 titles chosen in the first round will not be available in the second round. The players will then have to choose the 3 remaining titles. At the end of the second round, the 6 titles will be available again, and so on.
This game was originally a trading card game, but later became an evolving card game. There are many cycles of expansion adding new cards, the Greyjoy and Martell houses, and new rules to the core set. Below are some additional rules.
Some cards trigger Summer or Winter seasons, which in turn allow certain cards to trigger season-based effects.
This ability, indicated by a ship next to one or more challenge icons, allows a character to join a challenge as an attacker or defender at any time before the challenge is resolved.
Cards into shadows
Cards with the Shadow virtue (bottom right icon) must first be placed in the shadow, paying 2 Gold. A card played into shadows is placed face down in front of its owner. In terms of play, a card played into shadows has strictly no other characteristics apart from being into shadows.
At the very beginning of each phase of the game turn, each player can bring a card out of the shadows, paying its cost in Gold. The cost to be paid is the value indicated next to the “s” in the upper left corner of the card, and does not deduct the 2 Gold already paid to put the card into shadows.
- Melee: As long as a character with the Melee keyword participates in a challenge against more than one character, he gains +1 strength per opposing participating character.
- Joust: When a character with the keyword Joust attacks alone, the defending player cannot declare more than one defending character.
- Prized: when a card with the keyword Prized X leaves the game in one way or another, the opponent(s) of its owner take X Power each for their House | <urn:uuid:fcd4b50d-b170-4212-9b38-40dbe32c2448> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://site-5424903-5662-2222.mystrikingly.com/blog/game-of-thrones-the-card-game-1st-edition-a284839e-526e-4c3b-8262-0b3a394bd6e8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.959092 | 3,838 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Though U.S. observers tend to view Egypt’s politics through a secular-vs.-Islamist lens, a clearer way of seeing what’s happening in that important Arab country is to examine other issues, like the economy, that are motivating Egyptians, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
By Paul R. Pillar
A downbeat report in the Washington Post about events in Egypt starts by observing: “Egypt’s disparate opposition groups remain so divided that analysts and activists say they risk losing the last major decision-making body in the country to Islamists when the country votes in upcoming parliamentary elections.”
This message, and the consternation that seems to go with it, says at least as much about our own way of looking at domestic divisions and political competition in a country such as Egypt as it does about how the people in those countries look at those things.
The Islamist-vs.-secular dimension has become for us an all-purpose lens through which we seem to view just about everything going on not only in Egypt but also in several other Middle Eastern countries, especially ones buffeted most by the turbulence of the Arab Spring.
Yes, the Islamist/secular dimension is salient for many Egyptians, but it is only one dimension of many. The Post article describes various other ones, which account for that intra-opposition division that is the subject of the article.
There are differences over economic policy, for example, with leftists being opposed to a loan from the International Monetary Fund (presumably because of the conditions that would be attached to the loan) and free-market liberals having different views. Americans differ over economic policy all the time; why can’t Egyptians?
One could just as easily use the same lens, but generally we don’t, in viewing political competition next door in Israel, where they just had an election. There is a religious/secular divide in Israel, too, with the political religionists there having some remarkable similarities to their Islamist counterparts in Egypt and other nearby Muslim-majority countries.
This is not the only political divide, however, that matters in Israel. Some of us viewing Israeli politics from afar might want to use a different lens, colored in terms of things that concern us such as policy toward the Palestinians or toward Iran. But those issues appear to have played even less of a role in the just-concluded Israeli election campaign. Relying solely on either of these lenses would preclude a good understanding of Israeli politics.
In Egypt, there are legitimate concerns about some of what President Mohamed Morsi has done and thus concerns about opposition to him being divided, but this is not just an Islamist-vs.-secular thing. One should be concerned about some of his moves that appear to be in an authoritarian direction, but there is nothing specifically Islamist about those moves. (They resemble some of the tactics used by his predecessor, the very secular Hosni Mubarak.)
There also is Morsi’s past objectionable language about Israel, but again there is nothing Islamist about it. (One can hear similar invective about Israel from most parts of the Egyptian political spectrum.)
It is true that in some circumstances, given how some electoral laws work, divisions of the sort the Post article describes can have major consequences for who rules a country and for that country’s stability and welfare.
One of the leading examples in modern times was a presidential election in Chile in 1970. Probably the most salient political division in Chile at the time was between Marxists and non-Marxists. The non-Marxist camp was divided, and the election was a three-way race among the Marxist Salvador Allende, a Christian Democrat, and a conservative.
Probably either of the latter two candidates would have defeated Allende in a head-to-head race, but in the three-way contest Allende barely got first place with less than 37 percent of the vote. The election was sent to the Chilean legislature, but it simply followed its tradition of awarding the presidency to the first-place finisher. So Allende became president, and the rest, including Augusto Pinochet’s coup and rule by a military junta, is history.
Similar circumstances are not prevailing today in Egypt, but the main point is that we cannot understand well what is going on there, and anticipate what can go well or poorly there, by reducing everything to a struggle between Islamists and secularists.
Nor should we necessarily be unhappy about the sorts of divisions described in the article. Political scientists have a word for those sorts of cross-cutting divisions in which people may be natural allies on some issues but opponents on others. It’s called pluralism. And it is generally considered to be a good thing, as it helps to form the basis for a stable democracy that does not get torn apart by a citizenry that all lines up on one side or the other of a single great divide.
Egypt has yet to demonstrate, of course, whether it has enough of the other ingredients for a stable democracy. But we should be neither surprised nor upset that everyone in Egypt who is not an Islamist is not working in unison against those who are.
Paul R. Pillar, in his 28 years at the Central Intelligence Agency, rose to be one of the agency’s top analysts. He is now a visiting professor at Georgetown University for security studies. (This article first appeared as a blog post at The National Interest’s Web site. Reprinted with author’s permission.) | <urn:uuid:1c28225c-55da-4b19-8686-88b4370991bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://consortiumnews.com/2013/01/23/egypts-pluralist-politics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.968461 | 1,129 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Scott Laliberte and Krissy Safi on privacy, security and the connected smart city
- 4:35 – Devices bridging the logical and physical world: “It’s not just the data that we have to worry about, but these devices are able to perform actions that can have implications on human life and safety.”
- 12:20 – Corporate responsibility and data: “A lot of companies want to take that data and figure out how to monetize it and when you're monetizing it, a lot of times that’s when you potentially could be crossing the line.”
- 22:10 – Consumers can drive change: “Consumers have the power. If they stop using companies that aren’t careful with the data or putting products out that aren’t secure or they're putting people at risk, they need to take action.”
Worst-case scenario, best-case-scenario—what exactly are we in for when the Internet of Things takes over our cities’ traffic, power grid and other infrastructure on a mass scale? Can the enormous possibilities outweigh the risks? Two Protiviti experts—Scott Laliberte, Global Leader of Protiviti’s Emerging Technology Group, and Krissy Safi, Managing Director and Global Practice Lead for Attack & Penetration Testing at Protiviti, join Joe Kornik, VISION by Protiviti’s Editor-in-Chief, to analyze some possible scenarios and the important questions we’ll need to answer to avoid the worst of them.
Scott Laliberte is the Global Leader of Protiviti’s Emerging Technology Group. Scott and his team enable clients to leverage emerging technologies and methodologies to innovate, while helping organizations transform and succeed by focusing on business value and managing risk. His team specializes in many technological areas, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, internet of things, cloud, blockchain, and quantum computing. In previous roles at Protiviti, Scott was the global leader of Protiviti's Cyber Security Practice and Attack and Penetration Labs.
Krissy Safi is Managing Director and Global Practice Lead for Attack & Penetration Testing at Protiviti. An ethical hacker turned business leader, Krissy is a creative thinker with an entrepreneurial spirit driving the development of multi-million dollar security practices for both the private and public sector. Krissy has nearly two decades of information security experience across all domains of security in support of Fortune 500 companies and government agencies throughout numerous international locations. | <urn:uuid:4104dc13-4e7d-4ca6-9562-57d337c239ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vision.protiviti.com/insight/scott-laliberte-and-krissy-safi-privacy-security-and-connected-smart-city | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.923098 | 527 | 1.71875 | 2 |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Landlords are praying for some kind of relief from the COVID-19 pandemic, and tenants are bracing for an onslaught of evictions.
There has been a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures in New York since the start of the pandemic. This has meant landlords have been severely hampered trying to collect rent for almost a year and paying the mortgage has been a tough proposition, too.
Western New York has been operating under a statewide pause order for nearly a year, closing local courts to evictions against tenants and bank foreclosures against landlords.
The latest state law extends that moratorium until May 1, but tenants have to show proof they are unable to pay the rent.
“Which indicates either they have experienced a financial hardship, or moving would create a health-related hardship.”Grace Andriette, Neighborhood Legal Services
The document is called a Hardship Declaration and a local coalition, Housing Justice for All, is going to be circulating door hangers to help renters understand what they have to do to avoid eviction.
“Here is a piece of literature, ‘Housing Justice for All,’ it is going from door-to-door, and we want to make sure that people know how to fill out this form which will automatically send notice to their landlord and the court to show that folks are eligible for protection.”Harper Bishop, PUSH Buffalo
The Hardship Declaration is supposed to freeze most tenant evictions until May 1, but a growing number of landlords, unable to collect rent for a year are not waiting.
“This has gone on now for almost eleven months now, and you have people who have not been able to pay mortgages. They have used every nickel of reserves that they have,” said landlord attorney Loran Bommer.
Some landlords have resorted to what is known as “self-help,” illegally putting tenants out themselves.
“Who threaten tenants and use that as a strategy for getting tenants to move, or take any other action, you know, shutting off utilities, changing locks and so forth.”Grace Andriette, Neighborhood Legal Services
Andriette says those landlords who remove tenants illegally, can be charged with misdemeanors.
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How to fix Leaking intake manifold gaskets on GM engines
GM 3.1 and 3.4-liter engines are known for leaking intake manifold gaskets. If you replace the gaskets yourself, there are a few tips and warnings to be aware of.
You’ll have to remove the push rods to lift off the intake manifold. The intake and exhaust push rods are different sizes, so PAY attention to the order in which you remove them. Get a cardboard box and poke holes in it. Insert the push rods into the holes in the exact order you removed them. And make sure you place them back into the engine in the exact locations they came from. Not only that, but keep track of the top and bottom of each push rod. As the engine wears, the push rods, rocker arms, and lifters all develop unique wear patterns. If you swap a push rod with another location, you WILL get noise when re-assembling the engine.
If you mix up the push rods, here’s how to sort them. Intake push rods have a yellow stripe and 5-3/4″ long. Exhaust push rods have green stripes and are 6″ long.
There’s an easy way to remove and replace the push rods with a special tool from Lisle tools. This tool compresses the valve spring and allows you to remove the push rod and replace it WITHOUT loosening the rocker arm. That’ll take at least 1-full hour off the repair. Click here to see or buy the tool. The tools is worth every penny.
This is an aluminum alloy engine, so be very careful when cleaning all gasket surfaces. Never (and I mean never) use a metal scraper to remove corrosion or old RTV sealant. Use a plastic scraper.
Use the recommended GM RTV sealant. GM isn’t kidding about this. It’s worth a trip to the dealer to not have to do this repair a second time.
ALWAYS use new intake manifold bolts and follow the torque procedure to the letter. These are plastics intake manifold gaskets and you WILL have a leak if you don’t use new bolts and if you don’t torque them exactly according to procedure
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|What we now call "Opt In"
Mailing Lists are a great way to engage your site visitors and get over
your sales and marketing message.
So what is a mailing list? It's
simply a list that people join to receive information through their
email. Once you start up a list you can put a button or text link on
your web site to encourage people to sign up. Should you decide to
do a monthly newsletter then all you do is compose this each month then
once ready for publication you simply email the newsletter to the
list. That's one email you send! When the mailing list
software receives your email it will then send it out to every person
that has registered on your list. So.. it could go out to
thousands of people and you haven't needed to do any extra work other
than compose it and send it to your list.
Clearly there are certain things you need
to be aware of when creating lists and the most important one is to tell
people how to be removed from it. This is simply good manners and your
mailing list software automates this process when a request is sent to
it for removal.. so again this is automatic meaning you don't need to do
any extra work.
The popularity of your mailing list will
of course depend on it's content and the principal of giving a little
still stands in this medium. If all you are doing with it is
simply listing special offers then you might get a poorer response that
if you also included some interesting technical information or other
stories along with it.
You might even consider using more than
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list of special offers they can join the special offer mailing
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Anybody in the scientific community who seriously studies vitamin and mineral nutrition agrees that virtually everyone’s nutrition falls short in meeting even the bare minimum requirements for many nutrients (known as the RDI—Recommended Dietary Intakes).
Trying to get the RDIs of all 26 essential vitamins, minerals, and trace elements (micronutrients) from foods alone is next to impossible, even if you eat a wholesome, balanced diet. Fruits and vegetables are rich in these micronutrients, plus they contain important phytonutrients (carotenoids, polyphenols, essential oils, etc.).
The problem is that hardly anyone eats enough fruits and vegetables. A recent analysis of WHO/FAO data (Murphy et al., Br J Nutr112(6):1004, 2014) shows that this is a world-wide problem: three out of four people on this planet don’t even meet the minimum recommended five daily servings of fruits and vegetables! Instead, modern diets are high in refined foods and beverages devoid of micronutrients and full of empty calories.
In the U.S., nine out of ten adults do not meet the RDIs for vitamins D and E, and over half of us don’t meet the RDIs for vitamin A, calcium, and magnesium (Fulgoni, et al., J Nutr141(10):1847-54, 2011). Regardless of what type of diet you follow, you’re unlikely to get enough vitamin D, B12, calcium, iron, and zinc.
Long-term, these nutrient deficiencies cause lack of energy, poor immunity, weak bones, cognitive decline, and a host of other health problems.
Experts agree that you should try to eat a healthy diet high in fruits and vegetables and take a multivitamin/mineral supplement. Now, the real question is which supplement should you take and how should it be formulated?
Are the RDI amounts even sufficient? We know today that for most micronutrients they are not, and that optimum intakes are often higher than the RDIs. But how much higher? And what happens if we get too much?
These questions have kept scientists busy for the last 50 years, and recent research makes it clear that it’s time to rethink again.
We are going to address these questions and more in my upcoming webinar: Are You Nutrient Deficient on Tuesday, February 20th at 5pm PST/ 8pm EST.
If you’re ready to dispel the myths and learn the facts on supplementation, then join me for this enlightening online event!
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Like a single warrior facing a king’s army, the spiritual seeker tries to subdue the army—one’s own ego. Armed with only a monkey mind, unrestrained sense organs, and a body subjected to nature’s control of the physical body, the spiritual warrior is left virtually defenseless and at the mercy of the forces of karma and the pull of samsara.
The king’s army, or ego, is tasked to keep interlopers at bay. This ego and body are built—dating back to the days of our earliest ancestors and to the reptilian brain—to protect and defend our very being against attack and extinction. So, good luck spiritual warrior!
The ultimate task for this lone warrior is to live more spiritually authentic in their faith, and with the protection of the Guru, one’s spiritual guide. It is impossible to defeat, subdue, vanquish, or overcome this king’s army—the ego—alone. And this is what Arjuna learned on day one as he faced the army on the battlefield of his mind, as portrayed in the Bhagavad Gita. And, it is the very reason that Arjuna came to realize that to be victorious over his own ego—to gain mastery over his mind—he needed to attune himself to Sri Krishna’s (the Higher Self, the inner Guru) guidance.
The syllable “gu” means shadows. The syllable “ru,” he who disperses them. Because of the power to disperse darkness, the Guru is thus named.
—Shukla Yajur Veda, Advayataraka Upanishad 16
If we know anything about a path at all, it’s only because of the Great ones that have gone before us.
Out of their lovingkindness, they have left some footprints for us to follow.
The goal of any spiritual seeker is to realize his or her True Nature. This is the union, at-Oneness, communion, nirvana, Self-realization, enlightenment, and liberation that every wisdom tradition speaks about. This is a return to Buddha nature, to the realization of Sat-chid-ananda (Truth-knowledge-bliss) that is our essential enlightened nature, which manifests as wisdom, love, compassion, equanimity, joy, selfless service.
When we connect with our heart of devotion, then, in that moment, we are connecting very powerfully, immediately, and directly with the awakened heart of the Guru and the lineage, as well as our own inherently awakened state. Working with our devotion means that we are not just relying on our own efforts. We are opening ourselves to a source of blessings that is an embodiment and a reflection of our own fundamental nature.
—Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
An analogy often given is that of the sun, which represents our enlightened nature, obscured by clouds (the fluctuations of mind and moods of the ego) that come and go. These clouds contain the kleshas (obstacles), unskillful means, ruminations of the mind and ego, and everything that obscures our awareness and ability to see beyond those clouds to the shining sun.
When even a little bit of sunlight penetrates through the veils of darkness and ignorance that obscure our vision, we’re able to get a glimpse of the radiance that can eradicate this darkness. With dedication, devotion, and humility, the spiritual seeker is able to make their way out of the darkness into the light—much like a baby chick is able to crack through the eggshell to be released into full life, in the light of day.
Samsara is mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections; nirvana is mind turned inwardly, recognizing its nature.
—Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
It is often only at the moment of death when this transformation can happen. During this transition from living to dying, the dualistic mind begins to dissolve, fixations fade, and the ego releases its hold. As the body begins its dissolution, the clouds once obscuring the bright rays of the sun filter in and we have a fleeting opportunity to recognize our true nature. If we miss this opportunity—because we have not sharpened our awareness of the nature of mind and reality, cultivated a healthy detachment to this impermanent life and all it wants held and we held dear—the veil once again begins to descend. Then, the covering that blocks the sunlight becomes more dense, and once again begins covering over our awareness. Yet, for the fortunate few, the moment of death provides a rare opportunity for enlightenment.
However, there is another opportunity for enlightenment that resides among the living: the alchemy of true discipleship. In this relationship, a true spiritual master guides the process as the sincere student begins the long journey of recognizing his or her True Nature. Whether the Guru is in a physical body—whatever the name or the form—or through a body of teachings, that Guru is One and is able to guide the sincere, humble, dedicated, and devoted seeker.
So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you. Every step of the way I will walk with you and never leave you stranded.
The teachers who have risen from their bodies, or who have dropped their bodies, are still in the astral world. And if you really have that interest they can teach you. Only the bodies come and go. So teachers, when they leave this body, can still teach you from the astral level.
—Sri Swami Satchidananda
How many times and how much do we invest in holding up the veils that obscure the truth and the opportunities for enlightenment? The Guru aids students in navigating the path, gaining mastery over the obstacles, cracking open the egg shell, and reaching the summit.
When we live in deep awareness of the benefits of the Guru-disciple relationship this illuminates a pathway to enlightenment. And, from that cosmic awareness flows enlightened living: inner peace, lasting happiness, deep meaning, unconditional love and connection, freedom from fear, and everything we all seek from the deepest place in our hearts.
To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One. —Meher Baba
My Salutations to that Guru who revealed to me that Truth, which is unfragmented, infinite, timeless divinity, and which pervades the entire universe—movable or unmovable.
My Salutations to that reverential teacher, who opened my eyes, by applying the divine collyrium of self-knowledge in my eyes, which had got blinded by the cataract of ignorance.
Guru himself is the creator, sustainer and the destroyer. He is verily the very transcendental divinity. My reverential salutations to that glorious teacher.
My Salutations to that reverential teacher, who revealed to me that which pervades everything in this world, whether animate-inanimate, or movable-immovable.
My salutations to that glorious Guru, who revealed to me that self-effulgent divinity (the pure unconditioned consciousness) which pervades all the three worlds, with all its movable and immovable objects.
My salutations to that reverential teacher who by imparting the Self-knowledge, has burnt away the very bondage of actions in a whiff, which had even though taken infinite lives to accumulate.
There is no higher truth than the Guru, no higher practice than service to the Guru, and there is nothing higher than Realization of the Knowledge of the truth imparted by the Guru. My salutations to such a Gurudev, who is himself that very timeless truth (and who has taken up a form to bless his disciples like us with real knowledge).
My teacher is the teacher of the entire universe; and my Self is the Self of all. My salutations at the lotus-feet of such a Guru, who has revealed such knowledge to me.
—excerpted from the Guru Stotram
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The notion of timbre does not seem to tolerate excessively
(Piana 1991, p. 125)
1 | An elusive notion
1In the context of Giovanni Piana’s vast reflection on the philosophy of music, timbre occupies an absolutely particular place. It is widely known that timbre is somehow a great absent in the philosophical reflection on music before the 20th century. Downgraded to ‘colour’, or pure sensitive attraction, it is usually reduced to a generic material substrate of the musical work; a material element which essentially acts as a basis for the development of harmonic and melodic relationships.
2Therefore, a certain European ‘musical mentality’ tends to separate the musical element from its strictly material, sonorous nature. This separation implies a sort of fetishization of the score and the connected belief that the true core of a composition was primarily conceptual, formal (the aspect, in fact, that is reported in the score); the actual execution, which allows the composition to manifest itself in a sonorous sense, is linked to this conceptual nucleus by a relationship not different to that which exists between the Platonic idea and its copy. This process of abstraction is partly due to the connection between evolution of European music and the refinement of increasingly sophisticated coding and transcription techniques.
3If the ‘core’ of a composition is identified with the conceptual complex of harmonic-rhythmic structures, timbre qualifies instead as Farbe, ‘colour’: unlike the form, which addresses the spirit and the intellect, timbre is reduced to a sensible attraction. Accordingly, taking up Kant’s differentiation, timber can be evaluated as ‘pleasant’, but not as ‘beautiful’. Kant, a philosopher known for his lack of consideration for musical art, explicitly states that, if music has any aesthetic value, it resides in its architectural side, certainly not in that ‘beautiful play of sensations’; sounds that in themselves, like colours, are nothing else ‘mere attraction’ (Kant 1997, 327). Even those philosophers who did not agree with the extremism of Kant’s position, did not properly try to re-evaluate the timbral element, which seemed to be confined to its characterization of sensitive seduction. In this regard, Piana, citing La Matina, stresses how the very modality of reading on sheet music, that is graphic, visual before being sonorous, facilitates this process of abstraction.
[...] this emphasis determines a conception of music as a closed form, almost as if the musician had in mind the score rather than the sounds, the atmospheres, or an intention of communication. The semiological study of music ... is a relationship between a semiologist and a score: sound is also treated after a form has, so to speak, disturbed it. Everything happens as if the musical object is listened to with the eyes rather than with the rest of the body (La Matina 2004, 56).1
4The consequence of the dizzying development of the science of harmony (and inevitable strengthening of the ‘formal’ paradigm) was the emergence of a complex system of rules based on mathematical proportion, which came to describe tonal harmony with almost Pythagorean shades: its rules were considered to be metaphysical, pre-existing any human music, and clearly, any sonorous manifestation. Piana is keen to highlight the paradox of de-sounded music, which creates diehard prejudices.
One of the common places of conservative teaching is that the musician is a pure sound thinker. Consequently, the score, for him, is already speaking music. The composer writes the music, does not play it! And while writing it, or better still, it resounds in the ear of the mind (Piana 2007a, 200).
5Under the lens of this accentuated dualism between matter and form, the composer’s activity is defined in terms of the organization of a material that is static, amorphous, impersonal in itself. The word ‘material’ undoubtedly evokes an inert objectivity—which has no intrinsic order, which awaits some form (Piana 1995, 4). Piana observes that, conversely what is pre-eminent is how the composer’s decides to organize this material. “According to this image, the subjectivity of the composer stands before the material as a creative subjectivity, capable of inflating into the inert material (therefore without a soul and without life) that form it would need and on the basis of which it would live as an artwork.” (Piana 1995, 3)
6Piana’s phenomenological research, by contrast, investigates the roots of the intrinsically sonorous nature of the musical event. His investigation aims to highlight the intrinsic expressive latency of timbre, which must be conceived as “material rich of life and animated by autonomous internal tensions” (Piana 1991, 61). Timbre is first of all described in its materiality, in its physical-perceptual determinations. It has spatial properties, and its dynamics involves direction, weight, consistency. Sound is bodily, sensitive, tactile. The peculiar sound dynamics, and its resonant nature determines its fundamental and foundational relationship with the dimension of temporality.2 Sound may then become entangled in historicity: musical sounds, subsisting within traditions and imbuing themselves with certain uses and habits, suggest certain processes, certain dynamics and resolutions.
7Piana (1991, 60) speaks of projections: a single note, played continuously in the void, is not perceived just as a note: “it automatically enters into an unconscious probabilistic system, so that its possible relationship with other notes is only relatively free [...]” (Piana 1991, 36). Among the many powers of sound, there is also that of orienting our expectation, charging itself with suggestions and imaginative projections that have their basis in our auditory memory. No sound is virgin, and even the innovative ‘breaking’ sound is perceived as unsettling when compared to usual sounds.
8In this respect the question concerning the relation between musical experience and the body emerges: the psycho-physical effects that music of every age seem to have been able to generate. Chills down the spine, spasms and tremors while listening to music are familiar to everyone; as is the invitation to dance, the ability to stimulate bodily activity. The very activity of making music, of playing, requires bodily interaction with an instrument: music is also gesture, bodily expression. Far from being an impersonal material, sound is endowed with a perceptive richness that, even if it includes it, is independent of its historicity, and has its roots in human tension towards the sound phenomenon: the sounds of the world that surround human beings from the beginning of their history and have always guided their imagination, from birdsong to flowing water. Far from being passive, the sound material appears loaded with imaginative and perceptual properties that guide and direct musical possibilities: the activity of composition, paradoxically, emerges as receptivity, as dialogue, and especially as listening.
9Hence, the topic of timbre appears as one of the most promising interpretative keys to review Piana’s work in the philosophy of music. The author's re-evaluation of such notion as ‘sound material’ puts into play the human nature of music as something originally rooted in our perceptual and bodily experience. This perspective reveals a richness of implications that highlights the absolute novelty of Piana’s hermeneutic project.
2 | Timbre and the corporeality of sound
10The notions of sound matter, timbre and corporeality stand at the very core of Piana’s phenomenological reflections on music, and they are mutually interconnected: none of them is conceivable without making reference to the others (Piana 1991, 109-111). What the notion of timbre aims to capture is the properly material consistence of a sound unit (Piana 1991, 109), while the height of the same unit can be intended as its shaping factor. In fact, as the perceptual counterpart of a frequency, the height of a sound unit always grounded in a material base, that is the object whose vibrations produce the sound. Thus, a sound unit is the result of an object vibrating at a certain frequency, and both those elements has perceptive counterparts on the timbre and the height respectively.
11From a properly musical point of view, we can assume height as a common factor of every auditory manifestation. Thus, we can lead completely different objects to vibrate at a certain frequency that will produce sound units with the same height. That is what happens when different musical instruments play the same note, and it sometimes generates the impression that these instruments are producing the same sound. With the notion of musical note, we are actually conceiving a non-variant formal sound unit with a conventional fixed height. But here a material base is nevertheless required to give perceptive consistency to the note, that is to have it played. We cannot think about a ‘C’, while we need to think about ‘a C played’, for example, by a piano, a clarinet or a saxophone. For any listener, those three sound units share some perceptive qualities, while some others qualities mark the difference between them. That’s why the common impression we’ve mentioned before reveals itself to be false: three ‘C’ played by three different instruments are everything but the same sound. Besides, they are different sounds that share the same non-variant form. Definitively, what the notion of timbre aims to capture is what makes the three units different one from each other: “the timbre is what variates around the height’s identity” (Piana 1991, 110).
12As Piana highlights, the notion of timbre triggers “the matter the instrument is made of, the concrete way the sound is produced and the forms of action of the producers” (Piana 1991, 110). Moreover, the notions of timbre and matter at least imply a double reference to the topic of corporeality. At a basic physical level, a sound object is a body producing sound via its vibrations. This means that the corporeality of a sound object always takes part to the sound unit the object is producing as its proper material cause. And again, this corporeality should be reflected someway into the perceptive manifestation of the sound unit. Thus, a sound unit presents qualities that are attributable to the material constitution of its generator (the sound object) with their purely perceptual correlates, that are properly timbrical elements.
13If we move our focus to the point of view of the subjectivity that has a musical experience, the topic of corporeality presents us again with a crucial issue. If we look very close to what happens when we experience music or any other kind of sound, we would get to describe this experience as leading to a hand-to-hand contact between the subject and the sound. While explaining this peculiar contact, Piana insists on the fact we describe our experience of sounds and their consistency always using practical-tactile expressions: for example, we describe a sound or a set of sounds as hard or soft, sharp or heavy, etc. (Piana 1991, 111). It definitively seems that our perception of sound takes the shape of a physical contact or, more precisely, a contact between the sound’s corporeality and our own corporeality as bodily-aware and spatially-located listeners.
14To sum up: we have been showing the structural connection between auditory matter as an intentional object and corporeality as the material dimension of the auditory object and the intentional sphere involved in listening. Both those dimensions converge into the notion of timbre that tells, at the same time, the manifestation of the auditory object’s corporeality and the properly material consistency of the same. In Piana’s words: “We want to call body-of-sound the auditory mass of a sound unit. Thus, the timbre is nothing but this body-of-sound” (Piana 1991, 112).
15Starting from these considerations on the notion of timbre, Piana’s research goes beyond the gnoseology of musical experience and gets to one of the most debated topics in contemporary analytic philosophy of music: the matter of musical expressiveness. His contribution is methodologically far from those found in the contemporary analytic debate, as it tackles musical expressiveness as a primarily perceptual phenomenon that emerges before any properly-musical organization of sound. On the contrary, musical expressiveness raised much attention from analytic philosophers as a “collateral effect of inquires on language” (Lentini 2014, 15) mainly following Suzanne Katherine Langer’s claim that “music presents itself with a meaning” (Langer 1972, 281). In particular, the originality of Piana’s position is grounded in the idea that some expressive properties already emerge from first-order purely perceptual qualities—which are, indeed, timbric qualities. We can understand this position if we remember that we mentioned the nature of a sound as one of the crucial qualties related to timbre. Hence we can quote Piana: “A musical instrument can be personalized by making considerations around its nature—thus its sound is like a voice whose timbre reveals a proper nature, that is able to express the presence of an emotive tension with very minimum variations” (Piana 1991, 111).
16On this first-order base, a peculiar configuration of specific sound units in time (rhythm and agogic), space (diffusion) and internal differences (intervals, on which melodies, harmonies, chords, etc. are based) reveal themselves as crucial elements of a proper musical structure. Piana suggests that these second-order properties emerge from and ground on some primary and purely auditory powers, that are instantiated into what we called body-of-sound—thus, they manifest themselves as timbric qualities. This way, timbre reveals itself as the most original source of expressiveness. In fact, musical expressiveness grounds first on auditory expressiveness, which is not a matter of form and sound organization, but rather a matter of substance into the frame of a corporeal relationship.
17Piana’s perspective also allows us to tackle another crucial topic, the genetic status of expressive properties. In view of such an investigation, which is beyond the scope of this paper, it is possible to rely on a good quantity of ethnographic and anthropological sources, taken beyond their descriptive contingency. Therefore, we would focus on those operations of discovery and primordial manipulation of sound expressiveness that mark the passage from a merely receptive relation (listening) to an intentional and participatory relation (production). Here, we maintain an obvious and fundamental fact: what we are used to qualify as ‘music’ always requires a relation of the second type between the listener and the auditory material. Refreshing Rousseau’s famous words: “nature alone generates few sounds, and unless the harmony of the celestial spheres is admitted, it takes living beings to produce it” (Rousseau 1989, 93). By the word ‘music’ we always mean, among other things, a product originating from specific operations and not the simple spontaneous configuration of sounds in-sight-of a listening subjectivity. An investigation on the sources and the development of these operation was conducted, for example, by Steven Feld, through meticulous ethnographic and ethnomusicological analyses.
18According to Feld, the auditory dimension of a specific environment is nothing less than a crucial empirical horizon for living beings that are born and formed into that environment (Feld 2009, 48-51). If we can legitimately claim that the timbre is the place of ‘revelation’ of auditory expressiveness, we can consider an almost infinite set of different primordial contexts in which such a ‘discovery’ may have taken place. Since our perceptive horizon is constantly crossed by auditory percepts, we can indeed say that such a process must have taken place for almost any living being that can have auditory experiences. Yet, how did we get from the recognition of expressive qualities in the sound percepts to their intentional manipulation and targeted production? It is just here that we can start talking about music. Feld would offer us his answer, but here we prefer to go on following Piana’s theoretical offer. To get over this question, we need to switch from the plane of the corporeality of sound to the plane of the sonority-of-the-body.
3 | The sonority-of-the-body
19The topic of body/music relationship is one of the oldest in philosophy of music, dating back to the classical era. The ancient thinkers observed that music was able to cause very powerful physiological effects: fainting, outbursts of anger, states of trance and delirium, wild dances. They speculated that this power derived from a peculiar sensitivity of the nervous system to sounds, so that certain sounds necessarily correspond to certain effects on the listener’s mood. Therefore, they guessed that certain modes were able to cause moods like anger, relaxation, ardour, enthusiasm only by acting exclusively on the physical sphere. Further, the ‘moral’ changes they caused on listeners were considered irrational, dangerous, comparable to something like demonic possessions. An ancient tradition, still enjoying some popularity, believed that the power of music on the nervous system made it an excellent therapeutic tool, capable of balancing physical and mental alterations. This evident link between music and the physical sphere was one of the reasons why music has been considered by many philosophers as a poorly esteemed art and a mere delight of senses by so many philosophers for so many centuries.
20Today, the sacred contempt of authors like Hanslick towards a ‘passionate’, corporeal, fruition finds few supports: composers like Steve Reich explicitly use psycho-acoustic effects, and contemporary producers know well how certain types of frequencies and vibrations have an immediate physical effect on listeners. From a theoretical perspective, many authors, including Schäfer (et al., 2013), Theorell (2014) and Rouget (1986) have explored the physiological effects of music from different perspectives: phenomenological, neurological, biological. And such a physicality of musical fruition is central to Piana’s investigation: “There is a deeply physical-bodily aspect in the sound experience. Sound is felt skin-deep” (Piana 2007a, 13). A particular relationship with corporeality belongs to the essence of music, which is manifested in dance, but also in many other ways (Piana 2007a, 11). And, indeed, it is true: sounds can create a plenty of different effects. We often hear them localized in the body: we perceive the sound of a very intense tenor sax as planted in our backbone, almost painfully; thus, the powerful vibrations of the bass can be felt in the chest or stomach. In this regard, Piana (2007a, 13) mentions a revelatory quote from Rouget:
On the tribune of an organ in full function, music invades the whole body; the world trembles and the whole atmosphere resonates. ‘Being immersed in music’ is not a simple metaphor; it really happens that it can be received physically [...]. But it is not only the external sensory apparatus that comes into play […] the internal one too, acting as a transmission channel is solicited by music [...] physical impact, moreover deliberately sought after by pop music with the use of amplifiers, obtains effects of exceptional sonic violence [...]. This power directly involves the body, creating a participation that many do not reach even during the sexual act [...]. The sounds of the electric bass cause in the abdomen vibrations localizable in internal erogenous zones [...] the repetition of the melodies and the hums instantly cause a slight hypnotic state [...] (Rouget 1986, p. 166).
21The tactility of sounds is not just a verifiable quality—it is experienced, lived, internalized. Here the fundamental notion of volume appears relevant again: Piana recalls Varèse’s call for a music that shakes the bowels, that grabs the stomach. A prophetic anticipation, in some way, of the “sound of our discos” (Piana 2007a, 247). A blast of trumpets, above a certain power, can frighten, disorient, startle. “It is as if the emphasis on timbre should also be supported by the volume, by the ‘fullness’ of the sound given by the intensity” (Piana 2007a, 247). In the exuberance of our bodily reactions, it emerges again that music, far from constituting a separated, almost independent section of the universe of sounds, is strongly linked to our spontaneous, daily, ‘natural’ hearing.
22Sound can submerge the listener and make him/her ‘resonant’: in this regard, Piana gives a formidable analysis of Tibetan choral singing.
A vocal technique that produces similar sounds must be the result of a very refined technique. In listening, especially live, one feels involved in a singular bodily modality that not only engages our ears, but also the bodies of listeners as sounding boards. We are struck by the volume of the sound, which is not the same thing as the intensity, in the sense of the difference between the piano and the forte, but rather has to do with largeness and thickness (Piana 2007a, 43).
23As she found herself immersed in sound, the listener can be wrapped, transformed. The spatial nature of timbre has a very powerful environmental effect, capable of creating spaces and redefining our bodily relationship with them. This further quote from Rouget is very relevant:
Even under its most immaterial aspect, as in the case of sound totally isolated from its source, music is felt as a movement that takes place in space. Obviously it is much more so when it is performed during dance or for dance [...]. The consciousness of the body is therefore completely transformed. As an incitement to dance, music therefore reveals itself capable of profoundly changing the relationship of the self with itself, in other words, the structure of consciousness (Rouget 1986, 166).
24Music induces movement: from simply tapping time with the foot, to involuntary spasm, to the most elaborate ballet, the intrinsic dynamism of musical forms interpenetrates with that of our body. Dance allows Piana to draw the fundamental notion of gesture, that is namely “the tendency to expressively emphasize a musical dynamic with a bodily movement” (Piana 1991, 171).
25The dancing gesture, which “arises from music and at the same time regulates it” (Piana 2007a, 337) refers to the “bursting vitality in body movement” (Piana 1991, 171) to an instinctive instinct. It is an “open door to the substrate of the corporeality” (Piana 2007a, 280) and pre-psychic experience. Although the phenomenon of dance appears more tied to rhythm than to timber, it nonetheless allows us to extend the discussion of gesture in the sphere of making music, of playing; in both activities, enjoying and directing music is strictly linked with bodily movement. Piana considers therefore sound/body binomial under three different perspectives: sound as a bodily sensation, sound as an invitation to movement, and finally sound as produced through the body.
26Sounds that constitute music are generated through a bodily interaction with the material: the hand that slams on the drum’s skin, the finger that plucks the guitar’s strings causing its vibration, the mouth blowing in the cane and in the flute. While interacting with an instrument, a musician explores its sonic possibilities and experiences new tactile interaction methods. Previously, we identified the same tactility as a fundamental quality of timbre; now it emerges here as a result of the material exploration of an object’s sonic possibilities. As many African percussionists have tought us, the same drum can emit an extraordinary variety of different sounds. This variety depends on the strength of the blow, the inclination, the surface on which it is going to impact, the part of the hand used (palm, back, or eventually a stick). The determinations of musical sounds are strictly innate with the gesture that generates them: “The instrumentally produced sound is all in my hands” (Piana 1991, 92). Once again, the fact that expressions such as ‘caressing’ and ‘pounding’ refer to sounds shows how the phenomenological perception of sound is inextricably entangled with its modalities of production.
27Piana insists that the relationship between gestures and the sound they produce is “observable” (Piana 1991, 89): there is an indisputable causal relation between the movement of the guitarist’s hand and the sound that is produced. Causality, however, does not mean here direct continuity: the plucked string vibrates due to the action of the hand, which nevertheless remains distinct from the material from which the sound is drawn. The musician’s gestures rather cause an intrinsic vitality of matter to emerge, that of vibration: the instrument, as a thing, has not moved. It is crossed by movement, which shakes it in all its fibres: the dynamism of gestures is not resolved spatially, trough movement, but through vibration, which produces sound. “Vibration, understood in this way, introduces a principle of dynamism within the material itself” (Piana 1991, 89). And this notion should lead us to reflect on the idea, all too simply accepted, that musical sounds are worldless.3
4 | Music making: a bodily exploration
28Music making is fundamentally dialogue, exploration of the possibilities of matter, based on listening: it can be defined as having experience of sound. “If we place ourselves on the instrumentalist’s side, production is inextricably connected with the experience of producing—and this means: the sound is already in the gesture that creates it” (Piana 1991, 92). The player does not impose his/her energy on inert matter, but rather expresses the vitality that is characteristic of to the resonant object and directs it. In the same way, musical exercise is not only conceptual, but requires manual practice, a sensitivity that is fully empirical, bodily. Musical activity engages the whole body, and it is no coincidence that ‘body self-education’ practices such as the Feldenkrais method and the Alexander technique have been fruitfully applied in the training of musicians. These practices involve posture, breathing, centres of gravity; reinforcing the evidence that the activity of playing involves all our physicality.
29If we talk about ‘sound produced with the body’, the most obvious example is singing, producing sound with the voice. A widespread and convincing thesis claims that music originated from singing, intended as “direct expression of the living body” (Piana 1991, 78). The lament, the scream, the laughter are direct vocal expressions of both our psychic experience and our body state. Therefore, it is believed that the expressive priority of the voice, in its immediacy, corresponds to a “historical priority” (Piana 1991, 78). Piana criticizes this assumption: the use of voice as a tool actually presupposes that it has already been de-subjectivised. As a spontaneous, unmediated bodily expression, the conscious use of voice in singing presupposes a sort of instrumental consciousness. Singing, in Piana’s (1991, 79) hypothesis, would have manifested itself thanks to the phenomenon of echo. When the first caveman shouted in a cave, he heard his scream amplified by echo, perceiving it for the first time as an autonomous phenomenon. Causality is not questioned: the sound that returns to the caveman’s ear is unmistakably his voice, yet transformed, amplified by the cavity. Only through this modality voice becomes something that can be experienced, studied, meditated, trained. The same gap we see between the musician’s hand, the guitar string and the sound becomes explicit also in vocal practice: for singing to arise, one's voice had to become listenable.
In fact, we talked about the need to establish a distance, to operate a de-subjectivation that is capable of freeing its sound from the voice in order to make the listening dimension possible. And it is this above all that realizes the voice in echo: the fact that I can regain it, that I can somehow take it on as ‘mine’ has now become irrelevant. Neither myself nor another expresses itself in it: the voice in echo is instead a voice without a subject, an impersonal voice, and indeed, no longer a voice, but a sound that I now finally listen to (Piana 1991, 79).
30Here the paradoxical, ambiguous and double nature of our relationship with sound comes to the fore. Piana’s research shows how much our relation with sound, and especially with musical sound, is rooted in our bodily and sensorial experience, and how much its production involves a concrete iteration with matter; however, “sounds cannot be assimilated to things” (Piana 1991, 81). Sound is on the skin-deep felt, bodily, sensitive, yet “phantomatic” (Piana 1991, 83) elusive, vibration of matter, and therefore always other than the subject that produces it and the object with which it is produced. Movement is therefore twofold: on the one hand, bodily sensitivity appropriates matter, learning to use its intrinsic energy for expressive purposes; on the other hand, the sound phenomenon must be perceived as autonomous, independent, de-subjectivised. Between the bodily sphere and that of sound there is no identity, but superposition; the passive phenomenon of listening to sound precedes and guides the practice of playing.
At the centre of the sounding thing, from which the sound begins to radiate, there may be nothing, nothing but a cavity. And from here a projection of subjective senses certainly begins, in the course of which the instrument becomes more and more instrument-body, the more the sense of living corporeality overlaps with that of the sound thing. We can speak of the sound that comes from it as of his voice. But there is also a movement that proceeds in the opposite direction—the living body becomes more and more body-instrument: it must in fact be understood as a thing capable of emitting sounds, for the voice as well to have an experience of producing and mastering sounds (Piana 1991, 94).
5 | Conclusions
31Piana’s thought regarding timbre, matter and body stands out for its organic nature and conceptual compactness. The greatest originality of his reflection is represented by his philosophy being a philosophy of sound even before a philosophy of music. As emerged in the course of this research, Piana’s thought investigates the musical phenomenon highlighting precisely the very strong roots of the world of sounds in our sensitivity, as well as its amazing variety. In Piana’s conception, the expressiveness of music and the multiplicity of its aesthetic effects are not taken for granted: he analyses the phenomenological properties of sounds and their ability to orientate our perception with precision and rigor, showing a remarkable originality from a methodological point of view.
32A first consequence of this peculiar conception is its radical opposition to the typically-musicological approach, which interprets music essentially as an organization of materials and places the ‘formal’ dimension of harmony at the center of it. According to this approach, the composer is primarily defined as ‘organizer of time’ or ‘organizer of forms’. Besides, we have already showed Piana’s attention for the dimension of listening. The composer’s most primitive skill is presented as a peculiar sensitivity towards sounds and as an ability to notice their developments and dynamics. Therefore, Piana’s conception values the musical inventiveness in terms of receptivity, and considers musical properties such as harmony and melody as grounded on timbre, and not vice versa. Both conclusions show a strong innovativeness, which undermine conceptions of music that have been considered unquestionable for centuries.
33The re-evaluation of the corporeality of sounds, that is the peculiar bond of the world of sounds with our physiological structure, is equally charged with deep consequences. Both the phenomenon of dancing and the most primitive methods for musical production attest the tendency of our active, bodily participation in sound. The practice of playing, often overlooked in the context of philosophical reflection on music4, is valued here as an irreplaceable process of discovering the material, capable of offering autonomous suggestions and musical ideas. While not despising electronic music, Piana highlights the phenomenological specificities of instrumentally produced music, whose fundamental aspect is “making experience of the sound” (Piana 1991, 135).
34In conclusion, Piana’s thought must be highlighted as one of the most original reflection in the philosophy of music. Through his inexhaustible and penetrating phenomenological research, he first showed the strongly human nature of the world of sounds. Thanks to their inexhaustible variety of imaginative and perceptive references, sounds constitute somewhat of a “memory of the world” (Piana 1991, 345), embodied in our experience of life. Thus in this intrinsic and human meaningfulness of sounds Piana finds the main explanation of the charm and richness of musical experience.
- 1 The quote can be found in Piana, G. 2007a. Barlumi per una filosofia della musica (pp. 199-200). Raleigh: Lulu.
- 2 According to Piana, the relation between sound and time is ambivalent: on the one hand, due to its physical nature, sound has a necessary temporal structure and development; on the other hand, sound has a very strong ability to direct our perception of time. Piana discusses in detail this complex in Tempo (Piana 1991, 157-206).
- 3 Piana alludes to a tradition, originated from Schopenhauer, which praises the indipendence of musical forms from ordinary experiences, making therefore it ‘wordless’. For a more specific critic that Piana poses against this view, see (Piana 1991, 95).
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Fear Avoidance Beliefs and Risk of Long-Term Sickness Absence: Prospective Cohort Study among Workers with Musculoskeletal Pain
Thorsen, Sannie Versten
Andersen, Lars Louis
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Background and Objective. Musculoskeletal pain is common in the population. Negative beliefs about musculoskeletal pain and physical activity may lead to avoidance behavior resulting in absence from work. The present study investigates the influence of fear avoidance beliefs on long-term sickness absence. Methods. Workers of the general working population with musculoskeletal pain (low back, neck/shoulder, and/or arm/hand pain; n = 8319) from the Danish Work Environment Cohort Study were included. Long-term sickness absence data were obtained from the Danish Register for Evaluation and Marginalization (DREAM). Time-to-event analyses (cox regression) controlled for various confounders estimated the association between fear avoidance beliefs (very low, low, moderate [reference category], high, and very high) at baseline and long-term sickness absence (LTSA; ≥6 consecutive weeks) during a 2-year follow-up. Results. During the 2-year follow-up, 10.2% of the workers experienced long-term sickness absence. In the fully adjusted model, very high-level fear avoidance increased the risk of LTSA with hazard ratio (HR) of 1.48 (95% CI 1.15-1.90). Similar results were seen analyses stratified for occupational physical activity, i.e., sedentary workers (HR 1.72 (95% CI 1.04-2.83)) and physically active workers (HR 1.48 (95% CI 1.10-2.01)). Conclusion. A very high level of fear avoidance is a risk factor for long-term sickness absence among workers with musculoskeletal pain regardless of the level of occupational physical activity. Future interventions should target fear avoidance beliefs through information and campaigns about the benefits of staying active when having musculoskeletal pain. | <urn:uuid:ab047485-453c-4550-bdf2-26e57b262ac9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://repositori.udl.cat/handle/10459.1/64751 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.891963 | 468 | 1.664063 | 2 |
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The word takbīr (Arabic:تکبیر) means "to regard as great, to regard God as exalted, to revere God as great and to say Allah-u Akbar (الله اکبر)". It has been mentioned once in the Qur'an.
Repeating the phrase "Allah-u Akbar" has many rewards and it is recommended to say it and often repeat it. It has been mentioned as a part of many supplications, obligatory phrases such as tasbihat al-arba'a, recommended phrases such as Tasbih of Lady Fatima (a) and a part of Adhan and Iqama.
As a Common Word and as a Term
As a common term, "takbir" means to regard as great, to regard God as exalted, to revere God as great, and to say Allah-u Akbar. In religious texts, "takbir" means to regard God as exalted and to revere God as great, and it seems that its lexical meaning has been influenced by its religious function; because, the lexical meaning of "takbir" has been to to regard anyone or anything as great.
In the Qur'an
The root of Takbir is k-b-r and in different root forms (Kibr, Istikbar, Takabbur, Ikbar) has frequently been used in the Qur'an; but, the word "takbir" has been mentioned only once in the Qur'an; about which, commentators have said that it means "to regard God as exalted and to revere God as great" and according to some narrations, it means "to say 'Allah-u Akbar'", and the two meanings are in agreement with each other.
In other verses of the Qur'an, the word takbir has been used in imperative form and usually the Prophet (s) and the believers are addressed by it. In all such cases, the word "takbir" has only been used about God.
In hadiths, "takbir" has usually been used synonymous with saying "Allah-u Akbar" or to revere God as great because of the guidance and the blessings He has granted us. In some other narrations, the phrase "Allah-u Akbar" has been interpreted as God is greater than being described or considered by imagination or being compared with idols or other gods.
In Chapters of Fiqh
Saying "Allah-u Akbar" has many rewards, and it is recommended to say it and often repeat it. It has been mentioned as a part of many supplications, obligatory phrases such as tasbihat al-arba'a, recommended phrases such as Tasbih of Lady Fatima (a) and a part of adhan and iqama.
In prayer, takbir is either obligatory or recommended:
- Main article: Takbirat al-Ihram
Takbirat al-ihram which is also called takbir al-iftitah and is among the essential elements of prayer, without which prayer would not be correct. Saying takbir five times in Funeral Prayer is obligatory. In Eid Prayer (Fitr and Adha), in addition to takbirat al-ihram, nine other takbirs are said in qunut (five takbirs in the first rak'a and 4 others in the second rak'a. Some have considered them obligatory.
Except for takbirat al-ihram, saying takbir for six other times for prayer which are called takbirat al-Iftihah and also for transitions from one state to another, it is recommended such as from standing to bending position (ruku'), from ruku' position to sajda (prostration), from the first sajda to the second sajda, upon standing up from sajda and for making qunut. Therefore, in two-rak'a prayers, 11 takbirs, in three-rak'a prayers 16 takbirs and in four-rak'a payers 21 takbirs are recommended. Recommendation of takbir before bending and before and after sajda is the famous opinion. Some earlier scholars have mentioned its obligation. Saying takbir three times after prayer is also recommended.
In Sajda of Recitation, Gratitute, and al-Sahw
Saying takbir in sajda when reciting verses which require obligatory sajda is not recommended before sajda, but it is recommended after sajda. Its obligation has been related with the appearance of some words and the occurrence of some other words. However, it has been considered strongly possible that all would be recommended.
Saying takbir after making intention (niyya) and before going to sajda, in sajda al-sahw is famously considered as recommended. Some have mentioned that takbir before sajda for shukr (gratitude) and after sajda is recommended.
In Prayer for Raining
It is recommended that prayers say takbir many times in the prayer of Istisqa' (requesting for raining) and also it is recommended that the leader of congregational prayer goes up on the pulpit after prayer and stands toward Qibla and says takbir loudly a hundred times.
In the Prayers of the Two Eids
- Main article: Eid Prayer
According to the famous opinion, saying prayer is recommended in Eids of al-Fitr and al-Adha. Its time for Eid al-Fitr is after Maghrib and 'Isha prayers on the eve of Eid and after the morning prayer and the prayer of Eid on the day of Eid. At times other than the four mentioned times, takbir is not valid. The time of takbir upon the Eid al-Adha for a person who is in Mina is after 15 prayers beginning with Zuhr prayer of the day of Eid and finish after the morning prayer of Dhu l-Hijja 13. In places other than Mina, after 10 prayers, the first takbir is for Zuhr prayer and the last takbir is after morning prayer of the twelfth day.
The takbir for the prayers of the two Eids is; "اللّهُ أَکبَرُ، اللّهُ أَکبَر، لا إلهَ إلاّ اللّهُ وَ اللّهُ أَکبَر، وَ الحَمْدُ لِلّهِ عَلی ما هَدانا وَ لَهُ الشُّکرُ عَلی ما أَوْلانا" [Allah is Great, Allah is Great, there is no God but Allah and Allah is Great; the praise is for God for what He has guided us to and for Him is the gratitude for what befriended us] and in the prayer for Eid al-Adha, the phrase "وَ رَزَقَنا مِنْ بَهِیمَةِ الأَنْعام" [and gave us daily food from animals] is added at the end. However, in some references of fiqh, the phrases of takbir are mentioned differently.
Upon Ramy al-Jamarat [stoning of the devil], it is recommended that the one who throws stones says takbir with every stone. It is recommended for one who enters the Ka'ba to say takbir and after he exits it, says takbir three times. Saying takbir many times is recommended in Mina.
In several narrations, it is mentioned that takbir is an act of worship in hajj and upon seeing the Ka'ba, saying takbir is recommended for the person who is wearing Ihram. Additionally, on the day of 'Arafa, in the Sa'y between Safa and Marwa in place of Wuquf in 'Arafat and also upon standing in front of Hajar al-Aswad, saying takbir is recommended among religious rituals.
In Trading and Travel
It is recommended that the buyer says takbir when buying goods. Also, one of the manners of journey is saying takbir and tahlil upon going up a height.
Takbir in History
In history and manners of Islamic societies, saying takbir has a long history and important position.
- According to hadith sources, the tradition of takbir dates back before Islam; as in some narrations, it has been mentioned that Prophet Adam (a) says takbir in front of Hajar al-Aswad. Also upon reconstruction of Zamzam well, 'Abd al-Muttalib said takbir and Quraysh repeated with him.
- In the history of early Islam, aside from the above-mentioned cases, saying takbir became a religious and social tradition; as the Prophet (s) said takbir after cutting the revelation. Also in the battle of Khandaq, he (s) told Muslims to say takbir together in several times and he (s) also said takbir in the battle with the jews of Bani Nadir and Khaybar.
- It has also been reported that the Prophet (s) said takbir at the night of the marriage between Imam Ali (a) and Lady Fatima (a) and afterwards, saying takbir became common in such ceremonies.
- Upon hearing the news of Negus's death, the prophet (s) said takbir four times. It is reported that he (s) used to say takbir four or five times in funerals and since then, saying takbir four times became a tradition in the prayer for the dead.
- Imam Ali (a) usually said takbir and tahlil in battles and people repeated with him. Moreover, it is mentioned that saying takbir in battles and gatherings of Muslims has become a common slogan since those times.
- Since the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran (1979), audience of speeches usually raise their fists and loudly say takbir to show their approval of the speakers' talk and after reading every article of a declaration.
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16 April 2021
The Government plans to reform the leasehold system which will make it cheaper for around 4.5 million leaseholders buy their freehold or extend their lease.
Lisa Rigby, who is a Licensed Conveyancer, in the Residential Property team at Phillips, said the proposals follow from when the Government asked the Law Commission to look at simplifying the process and provide better deals for leaseholders, amid widespread controversy about escalating ground rents and high charges from freeholders.
Lisa said: “Many people are describing this reform of the leasehold system in England and Wales as the ‘biggest shake-up of property law in 40 years’.”
What is the difference between a freeholder and a leaseholder?
A freeholder is person who owns a property and the land it stands on, whereas a leaseholder owns a lease, which gives them the right to use the property. If they want to make any changes to their home, they have to ask for their landlord’s permission.
Lisa said: “When someone buys a leasehold property, they don’t possess it outright, but instead they gain the right to occupy it for a set number of years. This is often between 99 and 125 years and occasionally up to 999 years.”
Leaseholders are able to extend their lease and even buy the freehold, but invariably this can be a complicated process and is expensive. On top of this, it can sometimes be more difficult to sell a leasehold house.
“A leaseholder can apply to extend their lease with their freeholder who will negotiate a fee,” said Lisa. “Part of this fee is what we call ‘the marriage value.’ This represents the increase in the value of the property once the lease has been extended, enabling the freeholder to benefit from a share of the possible future increase in value of the property.”
What are the proposals?
An important part of the proposed reform will give leaseholders the opportunity to extend their lease for 990 years. One of the aims of this is to reduce the difficulty in selling a property. At the moment house leaseholders can only extend their lease once for 50 years with a ground rent, whereas leaseholders of flats are able to extend their lease as they like at a zero-ground rent for 90 years.
The government wants to allow both house and flat leaseholders to be able to extend their lease to a standard 990 years with the ground rent set at zero.
Other proposals include a cap on the cost of the ground rent when a leaseholder extends their lease or purchase the freehold.
It is also looking at abolishing the marriage value and reducing the rates used to calculate the costs of extending a lease or buying the freehold.
The plans include leaseholders being able to voluntarily agree to a restriction on future development of the property in order to avoid paying ‘development value’ in respect of alterations and improvements made to the property by the leaseholder.
Zero ground rent is also planned for purpose-built leasehold retirement properties.
In addition, the Government hope to introduce an online calculator to allow leaseholders to find out how much it will cost to extend their lease or purchase their freehold.
Broadly welcoming the proposals, Lisa said: “If these go ahead many leaseholders could save thousands of pounds and it will make owning and selling a home easier and fairer for millions of people.”
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Hi guys and welcome to 123myIT. In this video, we will show you how to fix your Mac by resetting NVRAM.
Before we get started, what is NVRAM? NVRAM is a small amount of memory that your Mac uses to store certain settings. Therefore, if you are having issues with Sound Volume, Display Resolution, Start-up disk selection, Time zone and Kernel Panic then resetting NVRAM might help.
Ok to reset the NVRAM you need to hold down Option, Command, P and R buttons on your keyboard as your Mac restarts.
Go up to the Apple menu and restart your Mac now and you see your Mac restarting. Quickly, hold down the Option, Command, P and R buttons. Because you will hear the first Apple chime continue to hold down the Buttons and you should hear a second Apple chime. Great job the NVRAM has been reset now let go of your buttons now.
You can log back into your Mac and hopefully your issues have been resolved! Other helpful reset videos are fix MacBook Air with T2 chip. The T2 chip is that funny looking power button on some of the Mac computers.
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Hi Guys and welcome to 123myit, in this video I will show you how to Fix your MacBook Air by resetting SMC.
Ok guys in this video we will show you the official way to Fix your MacBook Air with the T2 chip. If you do not have the T2 chip on your Mac but you still want to reset the SMC then I will put a link in the video to an earlier video I made which shows you how to do it on Macs without the T2 chip. Find that link here. If you do not know what I mean by T2 chip, it is that funny little power button on some Macs.
Resetting SMC can fix issues such as fans running at high speeds. Battery and charging issues. Sensors and status indicator light issues.
Problems when opening and closing the lid on your mac as well as a host of other issues you might be having with your Mac.
To reset the SMC when your Mac is powered off hold down the Ctrl, Option and right shift buttons for 7 seconds. Once 7 seconds is up press and hold the power as well. If you Mac is on it will turn off. Here’s a picture of the keys you should be holding down.
Keep holding the keys down for another 7 seconds and then release them. Wait a few seconds and then press the power button to your Mac on. Once you Mac is powered back up check and see if you are still having the issue that bought you to this video. If you are, still having an issue leave a comment in the comments field below. I can try figure it out for you.
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Hi guys and welcome to 123myIT. In this video, we take a look at the Apple MacBook Air 2019.
MacBook 2019 vs MacBook 2018
The 2019 MacBook Air is pretty much the same as the 2018 MacBook Air, However the 2019 version brings a lower price tag at $1099 USD for the 128GB storage model. An updated True Tone display and some small SSD changes and a butterfly keyboard which uses the same updated materials as the 2019 MacBook Pro.
Other included features are Retina Display, Force Touch trackpad, Touch ID, Great Speakers, the MacBook Air compact form factor. Modern eighth gen processor as well as Thunderbolt 3 ports. The colour that we have today is space grey. However, the MacBook Air also comes in the colours silver and gold. Now the MacBook Air only comes with one processor this is dual core 8th generation i5 clocked at 1.6 GHz.
On to the accessories and it we take a look at the paper work first. We have the quick start guide, a set of colour matched Apple stickers and guarantee information. Next, up we have our charging Adapter. This is a 30-watt USB C charger. The model I have here is the Australian New Zealand version. However if you are in the US you will have the US version. You can actually remove the adapter prongs and add in an extension cable or an international wall adapter.In addition, the last accessory in the box is the USB C Charging cable.
Although the MacBook Air did not get the touch bar it did get touch ID. When you start the setup process, you will be prompted to setup touch ID. Now you can use this to unlock your MacBook Air as well as authenticate payments and authenticate passwords. Along with the 13.3-inch Retina display, you also get a true tone screen. I hope that you can see the difference as I toggle true tone of and on.
The display is fantastic with a resolution of 2560 x 1600. This is the most affordable retina display on the Mac and it produces 40% more colour than the older design. You also get four million pixels, which is up from one million on the older models. The display is a IPS display now instead of a TN display, which means it has truer colours and better off axis viewing angles. IPS panels have a slower refresh rate than TN panels. Therefore, it means that this display is more suited to design work over gaming. The older models also had a wider display bezel. Which was aluminium right up to the glass. Now we have an edge-to-edge glass panel which is also more anti reflective than the old glossy panel.
The Apple MacBook Air also has a butterfly keyboard which was the same one that debuted on the 2018 MacBook Pro. The great thing about this Keyboard is its quitter, but it also has a membrane under each key, which keeps dust out. This keyboard is a nice upgrade from the old keyboard as the keys are wider so that makes them easier to strike. Wider and more stable and they do not wobble like they did on the old MacBook keyboards. Because the keys do not move around so much you can type much faster. Improvements in backlighting because each key gets its own LED light, which means there is much less light bleeding around the side of the keys. In addition, each key is brighter.
In terms of a Trackpad on the Apple MacBook Air, you get the force touch Trackpad that replaces the mechanical Trackpads on the older versions. So now, we have larger Trackpad surface that responds to pressure thanks to a haptic motor. The Trackpad is a little bit smaller than the one on the MacBook Pro, so there is more room on either side. This is good because it helps with palm rejection meaning that the mouse does not move around when you are typing.
On both sides of the keyboard, you have a set of front facing stereo speakers. Which are a massive improvement over the older keyboard design. The speakers are 25% louder and have twice the base with a much wider stereo sound. There are more immersive and less muffled. Take a listen.
If we look at the left side of the MacBook Air, we have two Thunderbolt three ports. These ports, which can be, used for charging as well as up to 5K displays. On the right side of the Mac Air, we have 3.5 Headphone Jack for your earphones. To plug in an external display you might need a USBC to HDMI adapter like this one. You just plug it into the USBC port on the left and plug the other end into your external display. Once done you should be good to go. Along the top of the MacBook Air, we have the FaceTime HD camera, which still records at 720p. You also get an LED indicator and ambient light sensor.
On the underside of the Mac Air, you have a single panel, which is held together by Pentalobe screws. In addition, they are matched to the colour of your Mac Air we also have plastic feet on each corner which protect the underside of the MacBook Air. Again, the ventilation hides in the hinge of the MacBook Air and this time the hinge is integrated into the Aluminium unibody. Gone is the black plastic of the old design. On top of the MacBook, you get the standard polished inset Apple logo. The Apple logo is colour matched along with the MacBook Air text on the front of the display.
Now I mentioned the Touch ID button before but here is the button in action. The Mac is locked and with a press of the Touch ID it unlocks itself and it’s very fast in doing so. For those that are interested in the Geekbench scores the MacBook Air brought a single-core score of 3510 and multi-core score of 6957.
The battery life is really very good considering its smaller than the old MacBook Air and they were to do this by Adding the more efficient 1.6 GHz dual core intel i5 Processor. So you can expect about 12 hours of wireless web browsing. Which is good among the MacBook range.
So if you are looking a portable laptop that will be good for doing some video editing and designing then this MacBook Air would be a good choice. However if you wanted to do some gaming you might be better off looking elsewhere.
In the video we will show you how to do a clean install of MacOS Catalina on any Mac. In a previous video I showed you how to create a MacOS Catalina installer USB and I here is the link. Create MacOS Installer Drive.
Once you have followed that video and created your USB we can now show you how to do a clean install on any Mac.
One more thing to mention your USB can be USB type A or USB type C it doesn’t matter which one. If you want to buy one similar to what I am using here’s the link.
Go ahead and shutdown your Mac. Apple Menu > Shut Down and Select Shutdown again. Next plug in your MacOS Catalina USB. Press and hold your Alt Option Key on your Keyboard and press your power button to turn your Mac on.
You should then see the Boot menu with Install macOS Catalina, use the arrow keys and select Mac OS Catalina drive. Press return on your keyboard.
It will eventually boot you into the macOS Utilities menu. If you want to Upgrade or Install a new copy of macOS, select the install macOS option. I want to show you a clean install so I am going to wipe the hard drive first. Click Disk Utility.
Step 2 – Disk Utility
When you are in Disk Utility, select your Internal Hard drive in the top left hand corner and press partition. Press partition again. Give your partition an Name in this case I will call it Mac HD. Under format you can select APFS or if you have an older drive Mac OS Extended (Journaled).Click Apply and click Partition. When you have done that go back up to Disk Utility menu and Quit Disk Utility.
Alright you have wiped your hard drive and now you are about to do a clean install of macOS. Select install macOS. Click continue. Agree to the terms. Select Mac HD and then click install.
So by now you Mac would have rebooted and you should get the Welcome screen where you select the country you are from. You have now done a clean install of macOS Catalina and you can just go through all the mac setup prompts, similar to when you first purchased your mac.
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This video will show you how to Install Windows 8.1 Enterprise on a MacBook Air OS X Yosemite.
I setup this video to show people how to Install Windows 8.1 Enterprise on a MacBook Air OS X Yosemite. You need to know how to install Windows 8.1 Enterprise to allow you to then setup Windows to Go. Windows to Go is installing Windows 8.1 on an external USB drive rather than installing it to the computers built in hard drive.
You need to have a copy of Windows 8.1 Enterprise install on a Mac or a PC to allow you to setup the Windows to Go USB drive and I will do the next video on exactly how to do this.
So this video is in actual fact one step closer to setting up Windows to Go.
If you want to know more about the Windows to Go process you can check out the official Microsoft page here.
And for the techies out there, you can take a look at the TechNet version here.
So where do I get Windows 8.1 Enterprise version from I here you ask? Well you can follow the 123myIT.com video here. On the downloads page you will have a choice of Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 Enterprise version. For the Windows to go setup it probably doesn’t matter a whole lot which version you choose.
Once you have downloaded the Windows 8.1 Enterprise version, you can burn that ISO to a DVD and then install it either on a Mac or PC. Burning the copy to DVD allows you to install any computer but it also allows you to make sure you have a back up copy if anything does happen to the ISO file or to the computer that the ISO file is stored on.
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If you have followed the video linked above and still having some problems getting Windows installed on your Mac because of the GPT partition it is probably best to do a clean install of OS X Yosemite and this video will help you achieve this.
Make sure you back up your Mac with Time Machine, because the OS X install will remove any data you have on the Mac hard drive. Once you have everything backed up use the newly created USB drive to do Clean Install of OS X Yosemite.
Boot into the USB driver and format the Mac hard drive with Disk Utility. At this stage all of your data with be removed from the Mac hard drive and you can then proceed with the install. Doing a clean install of OS X Yosemite will take around 30 mins to 45 mins depending on the speed of your Mac hardware. Your Mac will also restart a few time during this stage. Just let it do its thing. Once the Mac OS X Yosemite has been installed you will need to setup the Mac as if it is a new Mac. So you will need to choose a user name a password, choose time zone and location.
If you want to know more about the OS X Yosemite you can find more info on the official Apple web page here.
This video & article will show you how to Fix Error: Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style.
The old GPT partition style error! Must be close to the most frustrating and annoying errors I have encountered in my time working with Mac.
In this video on how to Fix GPT Error: Windows cannot be installed to this disk error message, I explain a few different ways to try and fix this error. However lets talk about the possible root cause of the error.
Most people myself included get this error when trying to install Windows on a Mac and seems to be caused by the hard drive not being configured for UEFI mode. If your Mac or PC is UEFI-based then to install Windows your hard drive must be set up as UEFI mode or legacy BIOS-compatibility mode.
For example, if you receive the error message: “Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is not of the GPT partition style”, it’s because your PC is booted in UEFI mode, but your hard drive is not configured for UEFI mode. You’ve got a few options:
1. Reboot the PC in legacy BIOS-compatibility mode. This option lets you keep the existing partition style. For more info, see Boot to UEFI Mode or Legacy BIOS mode.
2. Reformat the drive for UEFI by using the GPT partition style. This option lets you use the PC’s UEFI firmware features.
You can do this yourself by reformatting the drive using the instructions below, or if you need to preserve the data, use a third-party utility to convert the drive to GPT format.
Ok so how do you fix it? Well you can try the options mentioned in the video, however I have found the best way to fix the issue was to backup my data in OS X.
This video will show you how to Install Windows 8.1 on a MacBook Air without a DVD drive.
In this article you will find the steps, on how to install Windows 8.1 on a MacBook Air and any Mac without DVD drive.
This process was done on MacBook Air 2013 model and we will also use an ISO file or DVD image rather then a an actual DVD.
If you are looking for the video How to install Windows 8.1 on a Mac running OS X Mavericks you can find it here.
This video will show you how to install Windows 8.1 with a DVD.
What will you need to make this happen?
2. 8GB USB stick or higher
3. Windows 8.1 ISO file, you can find a copy on the 123myIT download page here
Or you buy a full version of Windows 8.1 recommended under the 123myIT.com Store.
4. Once you have done the above, the next step is to run the Boot Camp Assistant. You can do this by going into finder and the type boot camp, or click the Desktop then click on Go, and then select utilities Boot Camp Assistant.
5. Once you have this started up simply follow the video above and pretty soon you will have Windows 8.1 up and running on your MacBook Air.
6. If you are having problems during setup where you can move your mouse or type anything on the keyboard, you can try plugging in a USB keyboard and mouse for the initial setup, and then after Windows is installed go to the Boot Camp Drivers page here and download the correct drivers for your model of Mac which should solve this problem.
NOTE: Key points to remember, if your Mac doesn’t boot into the Windows installer screen then you can find the boot menu by restarting the Mac and holding down the ALT or option key.
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I (Adric), your humble blogposter have been collecting these ideas and demos and posting every year since 2011. And while I love fire and booms. It’s fun to try and scour the internet for ideas that don’t need big flames! Quelab is based in the middle of the Desert Southwest and fire danger is a real and growing thing in the western United States. So hopefully some of these ideas will help you wile away the long hours until its dark enough to see a public display, or before you responsibly do your and or your family/friends do your own small fireworks displays. Remember to always have a hose in the ready, and a bucket of water. Avoid setting off fireworks in weeds or near other flammable things.
Anyway on with the links! Keep scrolling down to see them all. As always, I did not write any of these. I’m linking you to the sources, Please mind your own limits and don’t injure yourself or others.
Drone dropping things.
Have a drone? Perhaps you can follow this instructable to allow it to fly over and drop glow sticks, led/battery “Throwies”, or perhaps some biodegradable confetti?
Bonus link, Cody’s Lab, Dropped a roll of TP from a drone.
Fun with Dayglow Dyed Yarn
Can you make firework images with this?
Bonus video, some dayglow dyes will actually glow in the dark for a moment, if you get them really cold.
Dollar Store Water Squirter Vacuum Powered Toy Cars.
Sound Resonance Powered Soda Bottle Rockets.
Ever blow across a bottle and hear a note? if you play that note, the bottle can puff out periodic directed jets of air, and if you balance them right you can get them to spin in a circle.
An Evaporagraph you can make!
An evaporagraph, is a way to use temperature to cause a dew like image on thin plastic.
Fun with dead Fluorescent tubes. AKA portable 8’ vacuum*
This one does involve ripping the cap off a fluorescent light tube and then breaking the small fill tube while the whole end is under water. are you surprised at how little gas there is in them? keep in mind there is a teeny bit of mercury in the gas, but as you can see it’s pretty teeny. *it would be best to when done, pour the water out and let it evaporate off just to avoid getting any mercury contaminated water into the water system.
Make Water Droplets Spin like a Teeny Firework
Making soot hydrophobic surfaces and some scratches on it, you can make water do a dance.
Making a Rainbow of Silver Nano Particles
This one may be beyond most home labs. But it is not super hard
Posters printed with pyro mixtures.
Well this one has some fire, in fact it’s pyrotechnics painted on paper, but surprisingly the paper in general does not burn, and leaves a image behind. Which I think is rather fun.
Small Popcorn Cannon, In the “Shut up and take my money” sort of thing.
I would love to have one of these. while this does need heat/flame, the boom is just from water flashing into steam!
Here is a list of links to previous years Fireless Fourth Links!
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Hundreds of thousands of passengers pass through Ben Gurion International Airport every week and many of them arrive during busy hours and have to stand in line for many hours. Many airports around the world are experiencing the same problem this summer, but according to reports, at Ben Gurion Airport things are especially rough. The lines are so long, that they twist and wind Disneyland style all the way to the terminals’ entrance doors.
Ben Gurion International is also experiencing a lengthy and severe manpower shortage. The Airports Authority currently employs about 400 reinforcements who rush to help at critical hours of extra jamming, sometimes even from their homes in the middle of the night.
On Monday, former Transport Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism), wrote his successor, Merav Michaeli (Labor): “Recently, the system of handling passengers at the Airports Authority has been in complete collapse, with endless queues, suitcases that are lost and do not reach their destination, and extraordinary public outrage. For a whole year, you could have prepared for the return of the airport to full use and didn’t do what was necessary – and the public is paying the price.”
Smotrich noted that the Airports Authority has launched an extensive campaign to immediately recruit employees in various positions to alleviate congestion and improve service. However, he added, “My office has recently received inquiries from traditional Jews whose applications were rejected due to their faith. The authority’s response explicitly states that as part of the work, the employee is required to work shifts on Shabbat and Jewish holidays.”
“First of all, this abominable practice that directly harms many of the country’s citizens who wish to rest on Shabbat must of course be changed immediately, since discrimination in the workplace based on one’s religious belief is inherently wrongful,” Smotrich wrote, adding: “In light of the extraordinary manpower shortage which impacts all Israeli citizens, this is a significant opportunity to change attitudes, and allow the absorption of many workers on weekdays to ease the pressure on the airports. Opening up the Airports Authority to employees who work on weekdays will add many thousands of workers the authority needs like oxygen.”
Smotrich’s appeal makes even more sense in light of reports in Israel’s media that the best time to fly out of Ben Gurion Airport is during the day on Shabbat, when the place is almost empty – meaning that the requirement of new employees to desecrate Shabbat has nothing to do with actual needs, only with an age-long tradition of discrimination. | <urn:uuid:234da04c-b270-4440-bac7-247ed74ec57f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/religious-secular-in-israel-israel/smotrich-to-transport-minister-relieve-airport-crowding-stop-hiring-ban-on-shabbat-observers/2022/07/19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.971302 | 542 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The lone voice of horticultural reason
Allium senescens ‘Glaucum’
Common Name: none, though alliums in general are called Ornamental Onions
Creating an attractive garden is all about contrasting textures, and that’s what makes this tiny wonder such a fabulous plant to have on your pallet. The gray-green leaves look like a succulent grass, and after the plant becomes established they can twist in the same swirling directions, like cowlicks.
The plant only rises to about ten inches, and blooms a sort of mauve-pink in mid- to late summer, in umbrels, as is the alliums’ wont, atop one-foot stems.
Care and Uses
Allium senescens ‘Glaucum’ requires full sun and will disappoint in part shade. Soil need not be anything special – it’s an onion – but obviously good garden soil that has been amended with organic matter is best. The plant tolerates dry sites well.
Use it as a groundcover and edger at the front of the bed. I took the top picture at the Minnesota Arboretum, where they use it a lot, and it does look great along a brick edge. But I’d never in my life plant it as shown, with a great, looming Siberian iris or whatever the hell that is providing zero contrast in foliage. Better to string it in front of perennial geranium, or combine with sedums, alchemilla, heuchera, campanula, anything with foliage that has lobes or some width and shape to it. You decide.
The second photo shows ‘Glaucum’ in more formal mode, ringing a sculptured ball of Alpine Currant (it’s either that or Korean Boxwood, I don’t have my glasses on).
Whether you grab it at an end-of-the-season sale or wait until next spring, buy at least seven. One here and one there won’t do much. It’s a cheap plant, maybe four bucks a pot in the Twin Cities. You want to create a narrow swath of the stuff, at a minimum two feet long, at maximum maybe a couple hundred bucks worth.
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The incidence of acute stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) during pregnancy and puerperium has remained unchanged or might be increasing, according to a nationwide observational analysis of pregnancy-related hospitalization from 2007 through 2015, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Although acute stroke during pregnancy is not common, it may be devastating for the mother and her family. A previous report pointed to a slow increase in the incidence of acute stroke during pregnancy and puerperium from 1994 to 2007. However, because limited data are available on these trends, the goal of the current study was to explore the trends in the incidence and outcomes of acute stroke during pregnancy and puerperium and the trends in the prevalence of risk factors for acute stroke.
The researchers used data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database and identified adult women in the United States who were hospitalized during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period due to pregnancy-related condition.
Among 37,360,772 pregnancy-related hospitalizations between January 2007 and September 2015, 16,694 (0.045%) involved acute stroke or TIA, including 7872 cases (47.2%) of ischemic stroke or TIA, 5169 cases (31.0%) of hemorrhagic stroke, and 3652 cases (21.8%) of unspecified stroke.
The incidence of acute stroke or TIA per 100,000 pregnancy-related hospitalizations has remained largely unchanged: there was an increase from 42.8 in 2007 to 49.5 in 2010, followed by a decrease to 42.2 in 2015 (P =.10).
The researchers identified an increases in the prevalence of several risk factors among patients with acute stroke or TIA, including obesity, smoking, hyperlipidemia, migraine, atrial septal defects, prior stroke, and gestational hypertension. However, the prevalence of other traditional risk factors, such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus did not change.
In-hospital mortality was almost 385-fold higher among pregnant women with acute stroke or TIA versus those without (42.1 per 1000 pregnancy-related hospitalizations vs. 0.11 per 1000 pregnancy-related hospitalizations, respectively; P <.0001). The rates of in-hospital mortality among patients with acute stroke or TIA decreased over time (5.5% in 2007 vs 2.7% in 2015; P <.0001).
The research noted the study had several limitations, including the observational design, potential of unmeasured confounders and coding errors, and missing data on other outcomes.
“The increases in the trends in ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke noted in our study suggest that we must understand the reasons behind this rise,” concluded the researchers.
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Woodworking needs a lot of patience and skill. Nowadays, it has even become a hobby among people. But imagine spending hours in the garage working and not getting any results. So many of us might be wondering about earning money by woodworking from home. So here is a guide on how to make money woodworking from home.
The name defines the term for people who don’t know what it is. It is the act of making things with wood or working with wood. Working with wood may look easy but takes a lot of time and effort to master. The user needs patience while learning each step. If the user is going on the craft side, then accuracy is vital. The user makes each with precision to get the desired result. You can also checkout our post on starting handyman business.
How To Start Woodworking
So if you’re a beginner who has a lot of interest on it, follow these tips before taking the tools in your hand Find the right place and set it up for working with wood. They may release a lot of dust, which can create a lot of mess. So having a separate room for this is a better choice. Make sure the room or garage should have the needed lighting. Lighting is critical to do precise works.
Before working with a tool, understand the wood. Understand how to align the position of the wood. Getting one useful piece of wood needs a lot of effort and trees too. So do not waste them for your comfort. So before getting your tools to work, learn how wood expands and contracts. A useful tool in your hands will make the job very easy. The effort from the user is not needed much if the right tool is there. Maintenance of the tool is also essential. Study the tools and all the internal components.
Learn all the different cuts the tool can do. The tools can make standard cuts and angled cuts. After all, these, practice the cuts in some scraps of wood. This will help us learn how the tool works and how each cut works with the wood. The user can even rent tools if they find it costly or risky to buy. This will get us started with woodworking if you’re a beginner.
How To Make Money Woodworking From Home
Many of us have woodworking as a passion. Now, if you’re very keen on it and want to start making money on it. So here are few ways to get started on earning money with them.
1. Selling In The Locality
Selling your work may attract some buyers and may result in some money. For a small start, get to know about fairs and bazaars in your locality. Start doing some small crafts like frames and toys to begin with. Doing these little tools and selling them will give us an idea. Starting with big products may result positively or negatively. So for safety, begin by small products. If it goes well, use the money and invest it in more significant products.
Fairs and bazaars are places where many people come and get things. So starting to sell your products in these places will let us know what products people prefer. This may even fetch us some big orders if we are lucky enough. All we need is a good board and the tools to make simple frames and crafts. So give this a try if there are some weekend or monthly fairs and bazaars in your locality.
2. Selling Online
The modern era has made everything available on the internet. And people prefer sitting at home and shopping on their phones. So getting our products online can help us begin earning some money. In recent times, there are even people selling products on social media. We have seen this trend on Instagram and Facebook. So do your works and start posting them on social media.
Start a new page for this and do some good advertising. This may give us some small orders, and if we do well, we may get bigger orders. Try to reach out to everyone by advertising the page well. Then start with some photo frames or carvings. If the page reaches well, increase the products from the money earned. If this doesn’t sound good, sell the products on sites like CustomMade. These are platforms that allow users to sell their products online.
There is not much in every place, but winning competitions may fetch some money. But this is not a very sure way of earning as there would be other competitors. If you’re experienced, there are higher chances of victory. Competitions may expect users to do cravings or other frames. Design is the key here, and the competitors will have to do some precise designs to win. Be active in social media pages related to woodworking to get more details.
These are a few ways to start earning money from home by woodworking. For professional-level works, enroll in courses online to get more knowledge. But make sure everything learned gets practiced. This will give the user more experience.
Some Good Woodworking Projects
There are many different projects we can do with wood. But to earn money, here are a few ideas which can get us started.
1. Picture Frames
There are very few houses without a picture frame. So doing some big or small wooden frames for houses can grab us some right customers. The only challenging part with the frames is the joints. Make sure to practice them with some scrap pieces.
Holders are also not very tough to make. People prefer items like this in wood as it gives a good look. Making some pen holders or tea light holders will also be a good start.
3. Small Wooden Boards
We can prefer to make some boards which can have something carved in the middle. Small stuff like these will attract people at home as they love to keep their house artistic.
Many parents still give wooden toys to kids. So making some small and innovative toys can attract a lot of customers. They can be anything like toy cars or like a toy that makes sounds for babies.
Simple boxes of wood are still found in many homes. So making small boxes for jewelry or toys or even for kitchen related items will get some right customers. This is easy to make but make sure the joints are tight.
These are basic ideas that may get us started. If the reach is good and some good income comes, try to invest in more significant projects.
6. Needed Tools
The right tool can make our job easier. So try to get the right tool if you’re very keen. Before buying your tool, practice with some rented tools. Then if you’re confident enough, go ahead and buy the tools. Here is a description of different tools and what they are best in.
- Handsaw: They are the basic saw and are suitable for learning some basic cuts. But they are never preferable for any shape more than 2 x 4 size. They are also called as panel saws. The blades of the handsaw have more teeth and are very sharp. It is a tool that needs some reasonable effort from the user too. So don’t prefer the saw for exact and accurate jobs.
- Jigsaw: They are the best for making different shapes out of your board. They are very versatile and can work with other materials. But they aren’t the best for long and straight cuts. They can do it, but the user might need a saw guide or fence for getting the desired result. The motor in the jigsaw drives the narrow blade up and down at a reasonable speed. This performs the cuts, and they can cut complex shapes.
- Table saw: They are a large saw and are not a portable model. Table saw can do crosscuts, miter cuts, bevel cuts, and ripping jobs. They are a bit dangerous and make sure there are no kids nearby the tool. They can even apply shapes to the edges of the wood stock. They are very versatile and can work for long hours with the same commanding power. They are a very stable tool and can help with very precise crafts.
- Miter saw: They are one of the most versatile saws. Miter saw can do some exact angled cuts without much effort from the user. They can do the angled cuts and the normal cuts too. They are apt for the trimming and molding jobs. The blade is on the swingarm, which moves left or right to do the angled cuts. There are different types of miter saws. They differ by the design and the position of the blade.
- A band saw: Band saw are excellent for powerful cuts and come with an adequate cutting capacity. They are versatile, and they can work with different materials. They are also not very good for straight cuts. They have a blade which consists of a continuous band of the toothed metal between the wheels. This will do the needed cuts for the user. The band saw is very famous for cutting irregular shapes.
- Circular saw: They are a saw with a blade that rotates or spins around an arbor to make the cuts. Circular saws can make a variety of cuts and come as corded or cordless models. They can result in a lot of injuries like kickbacks. So make sure to have all the necessary safety equipment. Their working can give the user some smooth cuts without much effort. The blades rotate clockwise, which makes the blade teeth point downwards.
- Sander: So the sander is a tool that helps in sanding the wood before working with it. Sanding removes all the irregularities on the surface and makes it smooth. This gets done with the help of sandpaper. The sander is a tool with sandpaper to do the abrasion. There are different types of the sander, and the user can choose one based on their need.
- Planer: A planer is a tool used to give a uniform thickness throughout the board. They make the wood have a uniform thickness on both the surfaces. The board gets placed on the planer table, and it goes through the machine’s feed rollers. Then they pass a rotating cutter that removes the board and makes them uniform.
- Router and clamps: A router is a tool that hollows out the area in the wood. They are handy while working with wood. Clamps are essential to hold your boards, and it can help us work in peace without any movement of the board.
1. What is wood dust?
The dust created when any tool gets used to cut wood is wood dust. They are hazardous and create a lot of problems when we work with wood. They can cause respiratory problems and other potential hazards to the skin. There are even some good uses of the wood dust like they get used for making wood pulp. They are even used as fuel in a few methods.
2. How to keep us safe while working with the wood?
Working with wood can cause many serious or even minor injuries. So proper safety measures are significant before working with the saw. Wear tight clothes so that none of the cloth gets stuck in the power tool. Check the blades, whether they are proper are dull or not. If needed, resharpen or change them. Position yourself with an adequate gap between the tool and yourself. The wood dust is hazardous, so make sure there is a method to clean the dust.
3. How to learn woodworking for professional works?
There aren’t many courses or schools for woodworking. There are few available which can help the user get certificates. They can get a basic or advanced skills certificate based on the training. For simple hobby reasons, there are videos and online courses available for free. These may help us learn the basics and begin with some simple woodworking. There are many articles and websites which give us some good content on the tools and methods.
Woodworking is also a form of art, and it needs a lot of skills. So if you’re quite passionate about it, follow the above tips to fetch some good money. This improves your skills and, at the same time, increases your savings too. But make sure to wear all necessary safety equipment before getting your hands on the tool. We hope you’ve got some new ideas and your saws are ready for some action. | <urn:uuid:85417222-f0be-417f-8c2e-14fb35204d11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thehemloft.com/how-to-make-money-woodworking-from-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961814 | 2,549 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Most of the people that make New Year’s resolutions, always prioritize eating healthy as one of them. Eating healthy and getting a balanced diet is not as easy as many people may think. Eating healthy is definitely a very important thing you need to pursue and not give up on because it is the best way to live healthy. You only need to know the best strategies that can work out for you. Discussed more in this article are some helpful ways on how you can start eating healthy.
When it comes to what you are consuming daily, you need to reduce the amount of processed foods in your plate. Processed food is any are kind of food that has been modified from natural form. The processed food will be packaged, cooked, frozen or canned. You can avoid frozen dinners, chips, hotdogs, candies and the likes. You can swap the need for processed foods for whole foods. The reason being is that processed food will not offer you the nutritional value because it has been striped away. This doesn’t mean that you don’t have to enjoy processed foods, but don’t make it regular and you can also enjoy healthy snacks because you’ll find this company that focuses on healthy snacks.
You can also start eating healthy by investing more fruits and veggies. This is definitely a clean healthy eating option because the allotted with vitamins and minerals that make your body strong. They also contain disease fighting antioxidants meaning that you will be dealing with issues like heart disease, diabetes and cancer. If you are thinking on how to make more options when it comes to foods, there are various kinds of without there that you can blend with other foods to make it even more interesting. You can learn more on how to do this online from this page to ensure that you are doing the right thing.
If you want to live healthy, you need to cut on sugars and alcohol. They are not good for you because they are refined so much to appoint that they can cause very many diseases like cancer, diabetes, obesity, acne, and many more. Take your time to consider more healthy options if you are considering drinks because they are there.
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Step 11: Build and Run the Application
Verify that the I/O1 Xplained Pro Extension Kit is connected to the Xpro header J203 on the PIC32 WFI32E Curiosity Board.
Verify that the MPLAB ICD4 is attached to the board over an ICSP adapter.
And verify that the micro-USB cable is connected between the computer and USB POWER (J204) connector of the PIC32 WFI32E Curiosity Board.
You can also refer to the "Hardware Connection Setup" section.
Note: It is not required to adjust the Baud rate as you are using a USB connection.
Note: You can find the Lab 1 solution in the folder: <your unzipped folder path>\getting_started_pic32_wfi32e\Lab1\solution.
You will be able to observe a new reading every 10 seconds on the serial console.
In this lab, you have successfully created a simple sensor application on the PIC32 WFI32E microcontroller and read the temperature from a sensor.
The I2C Driver was configured with default settings to operate at 50 kHz.
The Debug system service and Console system service on top of the USB CDC Peripheral Library were used to print the temperature value on a serial console.
In the next lab, you will enhance the application and log data to an SD CARD.
In this lab, you have successfully developed a full-fledged MPLAB Harmony Application. This gives you a fair idea of how MPLAB Harmony helps application development. If you need to add sensor support to any of your existing applications, this lab can be used as a reference. This can also be a starting point for your IoT applications. | <urn:uuid:d346b7bd-2cf4-4c8e-9818-68278ca0b4c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://microchipdeveloper.com/harmony3:pic32wfi32e-iot-getting-started-lab1-2-step11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.90083 | 375 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Take this one-hour class to learn about hands only CPR and how to recognize signs of a stroke. You will come away with the ability to recognize serious medical emergencies and how to communicate and collaborate with 9-1-1 dispatchers. This is NOT a certification class. This class is intended for people 50+.
We are offering many classes all over the city with day and evening times over the next few months.
Please register for these classes by calling or by going on line to https://www.seattle.gov/parks, click ‘sign up for classes ,activities, and more." Barcodes to register with are listed next to each session along with the phone number to call. If you haven't created an account in our new registration system it will be activated immediately for you to register.
These classes are brought to you by a partnership with Seattle Parks and Recreation’s Lifelong Recreation Programs (50+), King County EMS, Seattle Fire Department, and the UW Public Health Students.
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Kenya’s budgetary allocation to education in the current financial year stands at 494.8 billion shillings (about US$4.95 billion). This is twice the combined allocations for defence, health and the presidency. Put simply, the education budget is about 5.3% of 2018 GDP.
How much money does Kenya spend on education?
List of countries by spending on education (% of GDP)
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How is education funded in Kenya?
The Kenyan government direct funds to schools through Free Primary Education grants (FPE), Free Day Secondary Funds (FSD), Constituency Development Funds (CDF) and the County Development Funds in devolved units.
What percent of GDP is spent on education?
India needs to spend 6% of its gross domestic product on education, every national education policy since 1968 has said. In 2019-’20, 52 years since that recommendation, India spent only 3.1% of its GDP on education, the 2019-’20 Economic Survey showed.
Which country has the highest education budget?
Norway spent the most on education as a percentage of GDP at 6.4% followed by New Zealand at 6.3%, the United Kingdom at 6.2%, and the United States at 6.1 percent. Conversely, 17 countries spent less than the average percentage of GDP on total education expenditures for OECD countries.
Is Kenya’s education good?
Since 1985, public education in Kenya has been based on an 8–4–4 system, with eight years of primary education followed by four years of secondary school and four years of college or university. … the country boasts of a great number of public and private universities as well as middle-level colleges.
Why more money should be spent on education?
A 2018 overview of the research on education spending found that more money consistently meant better outcomes for students — higher test scores, higher graduation rates, and sometimes even higher wages as adults. … “All four studies find that increased school spending improves student outcomes,” said Jackson.
Will Kenyan students repeat?
Education officials said in July that the academic year would be canceled through December due to the pandemic. Students would be expected to repeat the entire academic year starting in 2021.
Who is the minister of education in Kenya 2020?
Prof Collette Suda handing over to incoming to CAS Ms Mumina Bonaya , 2nd March 2020.
Who funds free education in Kenya?
543 billion (US$ 7.2 billion), with the bulk of the funding estimated at Kshs. 481 billion (89 %) budgeted to come from the Government (Republic of Kenya, 2005b). Therefore, even with generous amounts proposed to come from donors, the greater financial burden for the programme rested with the government.
Which country is #1 in education?
Number 1: Canada.
This country tops the list as the most educated in the world, with 56.27 percent of adults having earned some kind of higher education.
How much money is spent on education?
The United States spends an average $15,908 per pupil on postsecondary education and $33,063 per pupil on graduate and postgraduate education. The nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) grows 71.6% faster than public education spending.
How much of the US GDP is spent on education?
At the postsecondary level, the United States spent 2.6 percent of GDP on total expenditures on education institutions in 2017, higher than the average of OECD countries (1.4 percent) and higher than the percentages of all other OECD countries reporting data, except for Chile (2.7 percent).
How much money does a school get per child UK 2019?
Every primary school will be awarded at least £3,500 per pupil per year, regardless of their location, the size of the school, or any other factors. Secondary schools will receive at least £4,800 per pupil.
How much does Pakistan spend on education?
81.2 billion for the ongoing fiscal year, showing an imperceptible rise of around 2.5%. Pakistan’s public expenditure on education as a percentage to GDP is estimated at 2.3% in the fiscal year 2019-20, which is the lowest in the region.
How much does Japan spend on education?
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William Henry TORTUGA
FEATURES & SPECS
Sterling & fossil coral center piece: 11/16" square
Sterling silver is an alloy of silver containing 92.5% by mass of silver and usually 7.5% by mass of copper. The sterling silver standard has a minimum millesimal fineness of 925. The sterling alloy originated in continental Europe and was being used for commerce as early as the 12th century in the area that is now northern Germany. William Henry uses the latest state-of-the-art casting equipment to create mesmerizing pieces that are often considered par with our hand-carved work.
According to geologists, this fossil coral is approximately 110,000 years old. Found in abundance in Florida quarry mines, these exquisite scales are hand-picked findings which would otherwise be crushed and used in cement. Fossil coral is not living coral, therefore has no odors.
Parachute cord or 'paracord' is a lightweight nylon kern mantle rope originally used in the suspension lines of parachutes. This cord is useful for many other tasks and is now used as a general purpose utility cord by both military personnel and civilians. This versatile cord was even used by astronauts during the 82nd Space Shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
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IBM wants to get the Penguin to fly. To give Linux stronger wings, IBM recently began offering training to certify IS engineers on Red Hat Linux through IBM Global Services, and on the software side, plans to roll out products that would let IS staff exploit Linux applications running on mainframes.
Among the tools will be connectors that tie Linux applications to messaging and database applications on the S/390, as well as a Tivoli client to manage the backup and storage of data contained in mainframe-based Linux apps.
IBM is the largest and one of the most fervent advocates of Linux. As part of its widespread and rapidly evolving Linux strategy, the company is working with a grassroots users movement to plant the open source software more solidly on its mainframes. For many Big Iron users, Linux is like a breath of fresh air to the staid old mainframe world.
For some time IBM has offered a free download of open source code that will run on the S/390. The offering has drawn 2,100 takers. Among mainframe Linux' other appeals, users can run many thousands of copies of Linux on one server in Virtual Machine mode, with each copy acting as an independent machine.
The Enterprise Connectors for Linux for S/390 announced will serve as gateways to provide high-speed links from Linux applications to the S/390-based IBM DB2 database, MQSeries applications messaging and the CICS transaction monitor software. IBM claims users could do things such as run a Linux Web server front end and connect it to the DB2 database in the same machine. The connections would work at the mainframe's memory speed, IBM says.
IBM also announced mainframe Linux versions of DB2, the Tivoli management framework and the WebSphere Application Server.
The Enterprise Connectors for Linux for S/390 and the DB2, Tivoli framework, and WebSphere Linux software will be available in the fourth quarter of this year. The release date for the Tivoli Storage Manager Client for Linux for S/390 will be announced later this year. Pricing was not disclosed. | <urn:uuid:d8e93425-917d-4494-bf54-8cf5a925c0f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www2.computerworld.com.au/article/98357/ibm_holds_linux_love_fest/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.928007 | 431 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Got a Java List and need to get the last object in it?
If so, then be happy. I'll show you how to do that here.
And the good news is: it don't take a whole lot of effort.
You can even do it without a Stream! Isn't that a nice switch?
Let's say you've got this List object:
List<String> names = List.of("Albert", "Bro", "Ctenmiir", "Daniel", "Edward");
It's an alphabetical list of first names.
Your challenge: no matter which names are in that List object, you always want the last one.
So in that example, you'd want to get the name Edward.
Let's see how to make that happen.
It Starts With 0
The List class has this wonderful and intuitively named method called get(). It accepts an integer as its only parameter and returns the object at that position in the list.
Couple of things you need to keep in mind. First, List is ordered.
That's why the method I'm going to show you here won't work with a Set, which is unordered and has no method to get an object at the nth position.
Secondly, when it comes to getting an object at the nth position, you must remember that List uses 0-based indexing.
That means the first object is #0 in the list (not #1). The second object is #1, the third object is #2, and so on.
Why is that so important? Because you want to get the last element.
The Last Shall Be First
Once you know that List uses 0-based indexing, you can easily grab the last object by just using get() and supplying it with the number that represents the last position.
But how can you get the last position?
For that, you can turn to another convenient method: size().
The size() method will give you the overall number of objects in the List. So you might think that to get the last object, you just use get() while supplying the value returned by the size() method.
But that would not be correct. Remember: 0-based indexing.
So the last object in the List is equal to the size of the list minus one.
Armed with that info, you can easily grab the last object:
List<String> names = List.of("Albert", "Bro", "Ctenmiir", "Daniel", "Edward"); String lastName = names.get(names.size() - 1); System.out.println(lastName);
Run that code block above and you'll get this output:
And, as we've seen, that's exactly the output you're looking for.
Wrapping It Up
Congratulations! You now know how to get the last element from a List in your Java application.
Now get busy taking what you've learned here and making it your own.
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President Obama is in trouble with his usual allies, not to mention his ever-ready opponents, over two recent acts of excessive executive power: the Bergdahl prisoner swap and the new CO2 regulations announced on Monday, June 2.
Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, has been publicaly critical of the administration’s decision not to adhere to a law requiring 30 days’ notice to Congress before releasing detainees from the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba. Bloomberg reports: “she’s not convinced there was a ‘credible threat’ against the life of freed Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl that motivated the White House to keep its plans secret.”
Regarding the CO2 regulations, Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee chairman, has come out against the president’s approach, saying: “This should not be achieved by EPA regulations. Congress should set the terms, goals and timeframe.” Representative Nick Rahall (D-WV), who, like Landrieu is in a tough reelection fight, has come out with even stronger opposition to the president’s plan calling it: “Overreaching, overzealous, beyond the legal limit.” Rahall says the actions of the EPA “have truly run amok.”
Both stories have dominated the news cycle for the past week. Yet, just a couple of weeks earlier, another story of executive overreach got little coverage and the affected allies stood by the President’s side as he signed an order creating, what the Washington Post called: “the largest national monument of the Obama presidency so far.”
After years of heated local debate and despite polling that shows the people are not behind the president, on May 21, Obama declared the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks region of New Mexico, nearly 500,000 acres, a national monument—his eleventh such designation “so far.” Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and Representative Ben Ray Lujan, (all D-NM) were present at the signing ceremony. The official Department of the Interior photo shows each of them with big smiles as they look on.
They should be happy. Udall and Heinrich had previously proposed similar federal legislation. Praising the president’s effort, Udall said: “The president’s decision finally puts into motion a plan that began with the people of southern New Mexico, who wanted to ensure these special places would continue to be available for local families and visitors to hike, hunt and learn from the hundreds of significant historic sites throughout the area for generations to come.”
But not everyone is smiling. The Las Cruces Sun-News (LCSN) reports: “Republican Rep. Steve Pearce, whose congressional district covers the region, issued a statement taking issue with Obama’s use of the 1906 U.S. Antiquities Act, saying monuments created under it are supposed to cover only the ‘smallest area compatible’ with the designation. He contended the approval ‘flies in the face of the democratic process.’” Pearce’s statement says: “This single action has erased six years of work undertaken by Doña Ana County ranchers, business owners, conservationists, sportsmen officials and myself to develop a collaborative plan for the Organ Mountains that would have preserved the natural resource and still provided future economic opportunities.”
Ranchers and off-road vehicle users have opposed the large-scale monument. The LCSN states: “In particular, ranchers have been concerned about impacts to their grazing allotments on public lands in the wake of the new monument.”
Steve Wilmeth, a vocal ranching advocate, whose family has been ranching in New Mexico since 1880 says his ranch, and many others with whom he’s worked side-by-side, will be impacted by the designation. “The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument designation puts America’s ranchers on a glide path to destruction. The full implications won’t be known until the management plan is complete, but, due to the private lands that are embedded within the designation and based on historic evidence, with a single stroke of his pen, President Obama’s actions has likely put the livelihood of nearly 100 families fully in jeopardy, and, based on all other such designations will likely destroy what many, myself included, have spent a lifetime creating.”
Wilmeth’s view is based on experience. Another New Mexico rancher Randall Major, lost his ranch due to the El Malpais National Monument designation. In a letter detailing his story, Major explained: “On December 31, 1987, our area was designated as the El Malpais NCA [National Conservation Area] and National Monument. This made a third of our allotment wilderness, a third NCA, and a third non-NCA. At this time, the El Malpais NCA was to be managed by the BLM [Bureau of Land Management] and required the BLM to develop a general management plan for the management of the NCA.”
Major was told the plan didn’t affect his grazing allotment. However, he states: “after getting and reading the plan, I found out they wanted big changes on our allotment; such as the closing of most of our roads that we travel on to conduct our business—putting out salt, supplements, and repairing and maintaining our waters. They had plans to keep our livestock out of our springs for riparian area purposes. There is a long list of things that I could go on and on.”
Major says that the landowners were not included in the planning process. He quotes the BLM as saying: “It is our priority for acquisition of lands containing natural and or cultural resources requiring management or protection, and or lands needed for visitor access and facility development. For those areas where private uses are incompatible with NCA goals and purposes or where important resources are on private land.”
Major concludes: “It is my opinion that the radical environmental groups have teamed up with our federal agencies. Their goal is to take control of all the land and put ranchers out of business. It is a sad day in this country when this is allowed to happen. … My hat is off to ranchers who continue to fight for the property that belongs to them.”
On a recent radio interview featuring Congressman Pearce, Wilmeth, and Colin Woodall, Vice President, Government Affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, discussing the new national monument, Woodhall pointed out that DC is not worried about ranchers and Pearce said: “The law allows the agencies to destroy you and there’s nothing you can do.” Agency personnel are appointed and hired by the federal government. They have great authority but little accountability—holding positions of power that can’t be voted out.
The law Pearce is referencing is known as the Antiquities Act, signed into law by President Roosevelt in 1906. The Act for the Preservation of Antiquities limited Presidential authority for National Monument designations to Federal Government-owned lands and to, as Pearce referenced, “the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects protected.” The Antiquities Act also authorized “relinquishment” of lands owned privately, authorizing the Federal Government to take land. The Constitution’s Fifth Amendment requires owners be compensated by the rest of us taxpayers. But fair market value can change dramatically when a policy change triggered by laws such as the Antiquities Act modifies the broad multiple use category for large segments of the federal estate to limited and recreational use.”
Addressing his Techado Allotment 50 miles south of Grants, New Mexico, originally purchased in 1968, Major says: “In the year 2003, we tried to be willing sellers. … They would not offer us value of the land based on neighboring comparable sales. They would not compensate us for our improvements on the allotment, such as, fences, waters, corrals, buildings, etc.”
While the Federal Government owns much of National Monument land, private, tribal and state lands are often enclosed inside new designations. Essentially, an Antiquities Act presidential proclamation transfers valuable “multiple use” land into a restricted use category as management plans can disallow historical use.
History shows that in cases where the Antiquities Act has been used—whether for a National Conservation Area, a National Park, or a National Monument—mining claims were extinguished, homes have been torn down, communities have been obliterated, and working landscapes been destroyed. The National Park Service Association’s website states: “ultimately, the Park Service is expected to own and manage virtually all privately owned lands within park boundaries. … private inholdings can disrupt or destroy park views, undermine the experience of visitors, and often diminish air and water quality while simultaneously increasing light and noise pollution. Park Service managers have stated … that privately owned land within park boundaries creates gaps that shatter the integrity of individual parks and the system as a whole, and make it more difficult and expensive for the Park Service to protect key resources.”
Proof of my claims can be found in the sad tales of federal land grabs, including what happened to the town of McCarthy, Alaska, when President Carter used the Antiquities Act to create the Wrangell-St. Elias National Monument in 1978; Ohio’s Cuyahoga River Valley’s conversion from “a patchwork of lovely scenery and structures: row crops and orchards, pastures and woodlots, barns and farmhouses, and tractors working the fields” as Dan O’Neill called it in A Land Gone Lonesome, to the Cuyahoga River Valley National Recreation Area that razed more than 450 homes; and what happened in Utah when President Clinton declared 1.7 million acres to be the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument that locked out a lot of ranchers and potential coal mining.
At an April 2013 Congressional hearing, Commissioner John Jones of Carbon County, Utah, told the Committee: “Please don’t insult rural communities with the notion that the mere designation of National Monuments and the restrictions on the land which follow are in any way a substitute for long-term wise use of the resources and the solid high wage jobs and economic certainty which those resources provide.”
Supporters of National Monuments often tout the economic benefits tourism will bring. Former Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar has said: “There’s no doubt that these monuments will serve as economic engines for the local communities through tourism and outdoor recreation—supporting economic growth and creating jobs.” The LCSN reported: “Many supporters of the Organ Mountains Desert-Peaks National Monument have argued it will boost the local economy by attracting tourists to the area.” Yet, Commissioner Jones, in his testimony, asked: “If recreation and tourism, which are supposed to accompany the designation of national monuments, are such an economic benefit to local communities, why is the school system in Escalante, Utah, in the heart of the Grand Staircase, about to close due to a continual decline in local population since the monument was created?”
Bill Childress is the Regional BLM director who will oversee the management plan for the new Organ Mountains Desert-Peaks National Monument—expected to take five years (complete and painful long after Obama is out of office). He says that “at least for now” changes will not be noticed by many people. However, according to the LCNS, “some roads or trails could be closed after that document takes effect.” The LCNS report, What’s next for the Organ Mountains Desert-Peaks National Monument?, continues: “Asked if ranchers should be concerned about curtailment of their grazing rights after the record of decision has been made, Childress said: ‘I can’t prejudge the decision. All I can say is most monument lands that the bureau manages permit grazing. We do have a few examples where that’s not the case in small areas. But, (the proclamation) acknowledges that we need to manage those and make decisions on grazing based on the existing rules, and that’s what we plan on doing.”
New Mexico ranchers know the history and they are worried. According to the LCSN: “Jerry Schickendanz, chairman of the Western Heritage Alliance, which opposed the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks designation, said a key concern of the group is that ranching wasn’t listed prominently among the list of resources in Obama’s monument declaration.”
The impact goes beyond ranching. The LCNS reporting says: “the proclamation prevents the BLM from selling or getting rid of any of the land, allowing new mining claims or permitting oil and natural gas exploration.”
Federal land management policy has shifted from managing working landscapes populated by productive resource-based communities of ranchers, farmers, loggers, and miners, to a recreational landscape intended to delight visitors. This is especially troubling in the West where the vast majority of many states is owned by the federal government.
At the signing of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument Declaration, Obama repeated his State of the Union Address pledge: “I’m searching for more opportunities to preserve federal lands.” It is New Mexico today, but your community could be impacted next.
In Nevada, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Senator Dean Heller (R) has just warned Obama “against designating a national monument in the Gold Butte region of Clark County.” Unlike Udall and Heinrich, who happily supported the New Mexico designation, Heller is quoted as saying: “I am extremely concerned about the impact a unilateral designation will have on my state.”
The Review-Journal states: “There has been heightened sensitivity among Western conservatives since Obama on May 21 designated 500,000 acres in the Organ Mountain-Desert Peaks region of southern New Mexico as a national monument that would allow it to be managed more like a national park. They have bristled at what they regard as federal ‘land grabs’ exercised by the president without approval by Congress, and seek to head off further designations.”
While there are some cases where Congress has abolished National Monuments and transferred the lands to other agencies, and Alaska and Wyoming have enacted legislation prohibiting the president’s power to 5,000 acres, New Mexico’s ranchers live in raw fear of the unlimited power the Antiquities Act allows the executive branch.
Hundreds of millions of acres have been set aside with the stroke of a pen. Each designation provides a photo op featuring a smiling President and his allies (Udall, Heinrich, and Lujan) with stunning pictures of the latest protected place. All while somewhere within the borders of a state or territory someone’s access is taken, someone’s hunting and fishing grounds are gone, someone’s land has been grabbed, someone’s life’s work is wiped out, and opportunities for the American dream of a future rancher, farmer, miner are dashed.
The author of Energy Freedom, Marita Noon serves as the executive director for Energy Makes America Great Inc. and the companion educational organization, the Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE). Together they work to educate the public and influence policy makers regarding energy, its role in freedom, and the American way of life. Combining energy, news, politics, and, the environment through public events, speaking engagements, and media, the organizations’ combined efforts serve as America’s voice for energy. | <urn:uuid:01f96151-370a-4a43-a960-f8e24950e63c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://redstate.com/energyrabbit/2014/06/09/executive-power-overreaching-overzealous-dream-dashing-n49316 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.950563 | 3,290 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is the story of the banker Andy Dufresne, who is innocently convicted of the murder of his wife and his lover. He comes to the Shawshank prison, where he is soon used extensively by the brutal prison officers to arrange their tax papers and by the prison director to arrange miscellaneous accounts.
It is a story of a grim prison system that systematically abuses its inmates and milks all the money out of the system as possible. But it is also a story of a special friendship, and of a man who refuses to give up.
The book was published in 1982 by Stephen King, which was adapted for the screen in 1994 and were nominated for 7 Academy Awards. According to IMDb, the movie is also seen as the best movie ever.
In the book ”The Boogeyman”, the protagonist, Lester Billings, talks to his psychiatrist Dr. Harper about how he is responsible for the deaths of his three children. Before the beginning of the story it should be noted that Billings is very worried about the presence of the closet in the room.
He therefore asks Dr. Harper to open the closet, where he is relieved to find that there is nothing else in the closet other than clothes and shoes. Billings then proceeds the story of the murders of his children.
His first two children died mysteriously for seemingly nonexistent reasons; one of a crib death and the other of cramping, after being left alone in their rooms. The children each screamed “Boogeyman!”, after which Billings then discovered the body next to the closet door ajar, though he was sure the door was fully closed.
A year later, after they moved, it happens to their third child, Andy, and he was found with a broken neck next to the closet door, which again was open.
After the story, Dr. Harper advices him to go to a nurse, but when he goes there, she is gone. Billings therefore returns to Dr. Harper’s office, but there is no one either, but he discovers that the closet door is open. The Boogeyman then comes out of the closet and throws his disguise on Dr. Harper. | <urn:uuid:ac3f2257-0e91-4431-a8f2-566a5a5cabf5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://inspo.dk/stephen-king-essay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.983269 | 468 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Ernst Hoppenberg (GER)
Honor Pioneer Swimmer (1988)
FOR THE RECORD: OLYMPIC GAMES: 1900 gold (200m backstroke). First Olympic backstroke champion.
Ernst Hoppenberg was the very first Olympic backstroke champion when the dorsal stroke was added to the Olympic bill in 1900 at the second Olympics in Paris. Hoppenberg’s winning tradition continued for Germany in the backstroke event for the next two Olympiads. (Brack 1904, Bieberstein 1908). Hoppenberg remained the 200 meter backstroke Olympic record holder until 1964 when USA’s Jed Graef captured the gold after the 200 meter distance was again added to the program. Hoppenberg won a second gold medal on the winning team race (freestyle relay) for Germany, thus showing his versatility and all around prowess in more than one stroke. | <urn:uuid:cf725752-3ff5-491c-977b-7d88519760ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ishof.org/honoree/honoree-ernst-hoppenberg/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.922067 | 184 | 2.4375 | 2 |
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A Neapolitan Fryer variety narrow mildy pointed fruit, brilliant in green colour that is sweet. When over ripe, it gradually turns red so this variety must be picked green. A very early variety and good cropper it is often used for frying.
It is sown in the nursery from November to transplant in January, for direct seeding from January to April.
Transplant from indoors in January
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Googles Project Fi Children Under 13 Family Plan. I would be paying $50 on top of the $20 fi basics. To confirm, on the next screen, tap share.
To be a group plan owner, you must be at least 18 years old. Now, however, it’s taking its own stab at what is essentially an unlimited data plan. This is a huge shortcoming of the service in my eyes and i hope everyone submits feedback regarding this.
At The Top, Tap Settings.
Built for groups and families fi is designed for groups and families, with easy data. Turn on share google one with your family. Go to settings. click history.
People Under 18 Can Join As A Group Plan Member.
Super fast coverage, 5g included. Linus media group is not associated with these services. Previously, the project fi group plan only applied to those over the age of 13.
Google Announced Today That You Can Now Add Children Under The Age Of 13 To Your Project Fi Plan.
So far, googles experimental mvno (mobile virtual network operator), project fi, has only supported nexus and pixel devices. Project fi i supposed to put you on the best available network between wi fi and two 4g lte networks.(photo google) Instead, google simply offered data at $10/ gb/ month and would give you a rebate for any data you paid for but didn’t use.
I Would Be Paying $50 On Top Of The $20 Fi Basics.
Turn on share google one with your family. Google’s project fi is official. You and your child can accept your email invitation on your child's google account.
I Looked At My Current Usage 60Mb Or Less Per Month.
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General Comments on Gear
Buy high quality gear. Purchase good backpacking equipment from a reputable supplier. The comfort level of high quality gear is superior to that of inexpensive, poorly made items.
High quality gear will hold up best, and should you have problems, the manufacturer will often replace damaged items.
Freshen your sleeping bag and tent. Immediately after returning from your trip, put your sleeping bag and tent out in the sun to air. Turn them frequently so that they don’t sustain sun damage. When they are dry, bring them indoors. Tents and sleeping bags must be thoroughly dry before you store them since they are easily ruined by mildew. Even if it didn’t rain during your trip, condensation most likely formed and collected on your gear.
Get a hiking staff. There are several advantages to having a hiking staff: On rocky terrain, it can help you keep your balance. When stepping over rocks or logs, you can use it to ward off snakes. Or you can use it to flick debris off the trail. It can help you ford streams successfully and substitute as a pack rest for your backpack when no trees are around.
Select wide mouths. Wide mouthed plastic bottles are best for carrying water because their bottoms, where bacteria can grow, are easy to clean. Their design lets you remove partially frozen water.
Pack lighter, not heavier. Many inexperienced hikers try to carry much more weight than is comfortable or safe. The result can be a less than pleasant trip or pulled muscle.
Trim away ounces. Look at each piece of gear to see if you can find a lighter one to replace it. Or can you make that particular piece of gear lighter? Ounces add up to pounds.
Use a plastic spoon instead of a metal one, a plastic cup instead of a metal one.
Stand bottles upright. Always put your gas and water bottles outside and right side up in an outside pack pocket. Gaskets can leak on gas bottles and could contaminate your clothes and food with fumes.
Stuff the inside space. In the pack, place heavy items as close to your back as you can. You can carry weight much more comfortable this way. If you have an internal frame pack, pad sharp objects because they will invariably poke you as soon as you shoulder the pack and begin to hike.
Develop a system. Fill your pack the same way each time you use it, and try to avoid stuffing things into any pocket at random. Using a system will save you much time when a storm is approaching and you’re trying to get rain gear on or your tent up. It’s nice to know, too, just where that flashlight is in the dark.
Put pocket to good use. In an outside pack pocket, keep items handy that you will use often throughout the course of the day rain gear, sunglasses, toilet paper, and maps. With those items handy, you won’t need to open your pack very often. | <urn:uuid:4040127a-054d-4488-8ee8-a763c75d520b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://troop26.net/voice-of-experience/voice-of-experience-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.942755 | 614 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Why Should Women Be Paid the Same as Men?
The above incredulous question is what the U.S. Senate will be considering this week as the the Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA) — which the House adopted in early 2009 — S.3772 — is debated and voted on. Call your U.S. Senators free of charge today at 1-877-667-6650 and give them an answer!
PFA is sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with 27 co-sponsors, and is a further step to insure women have pay equity. Some interesting details collected by our colleagues at the National Organization for Women:
“Gender Wage Gap Stagnant – Newly analyzed data from the U.S. Bureau of Census for 2009 show the wage gap remaining at 23 percent, with a female-to-male earnings ratio of 77 percent, down from 77.8 in 2007 — the highest recorded. Median annual earnings for full-time, year-round employed women were $36,278, compared with $47,127 for men. Additionally, white women were paid only 75 cents for each dollar paid to white men; African American women were paid 62 cents for every dollar paid to white men and for Hispanic/Latina women, it was 53 cents, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR).
More Data of Concern – The Bureau of Census also reports that fewer women — 2.4 million — had full-time, year round jobs in 2009, compared to 2007, when the recession began. The recession has forced 1.3 million women into part-time or part-year jobs. IWPR also reported that 360,000 new female-headed households were created in 2009.
Pay Equity Crucial Now – Since women tend to be hurt “first and worst” during economic downturns, new legislation strengthening pay equity laws is needed now more than ever. The data show that an unprecedented number of women now are family breadwinners due to rising unemployment among men — making pay equity vital not only to family economic security but to the nation’s economic recovery as well.
Bill Would Close Loopholes, Collect Detailed Pay Data – The Paycheck Fairness Act will close loopholes in the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and strengthen it by creating incentives for employers to follow the law. Additionally, the Paycheck Fairness Act would assist women in effectively negotiating for better pay and promotion, expand skill training for girls and women, restart the research on the gender wage gap, and require wage data to be disaggregated by gender, race and ethnicity to ensure that businesses are providing equal pay. Of critical importance is a provision in the act that would prohibit retaliation against employees when salary information is shared, plus strengthen federal outreach and enforcement efforts.
PFA Already Passed by House – President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act at the beginning of the 111th Congress, but the Ledbetter bill was only a down-payment on making real progress in closing the wage gap. The next crucial step is for the Senate to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act (S. 3772); the House already passed the measure by an even stronger bipartisan vote (256-163) than the Ledbetter bill (247-171).”
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From the 3rd April to 28th June, railway workers are planning a 36-day strike during the spring break and the long weekends in May to defend their status. Here are the dates.
A strike at the SNCF , in full during the spring break and the May bridges . The railway workers want to strike hard to defend their status that the government wants to revoke.
They planned no less than 36 days of strike between April 3 and June 28.
You planned to take the train on this period? Here is the mobilization schedule:
- In April : Tuesday 3rd, Wednesday 4th, (early holidays zone A), Sunday 8th, Monday 9th, Friday 13th, Saturday 14th, (early holidays zone C), Wednesday 18th, Thursday 19th, (early holidays zone B) , Monday 23 , Tuesday 24, Saturday 28 and Sunday 29.
- In May: Thursday 3, Friday 4, Tuesday 8 (holiday), Wednesday 9, (public holiday), Sunday 13, Monday 14, Friday 18, Saturday 19, (public holiday) , Wednesday 23, Thursday 24, Monday 28 and Tuesday 29.
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The USA The Customer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has reaffirmed another government-mandated standard of well-being to improve playground safety and prevent wounds and passages to young people. The vote was 4 to 0.
The new government standard consolidates agreements in the proposed standard ASTM F 406-12a. Among the mandatory requirements for playgrounds are
A reliability test to prevent the playground from spilling.
Hook and lock instruments to protect the playground from collapsing when a child is in use.
Ensnarement tests on connections to prevent a child's head from being trapped while a bassinet or other jewellery is attached.
Ground strength tests to ensure the underlying sincerity and to prevent children from being caught by the playground floor.
Minimum secondary size requirements to prevent children from escaping from the playground alone.
A test to anticipate playgrounds whose top rails are above the use of a pivot point which, when folded, gives a V or jewel shape to prevent tangling of the head or neck.
Between November 2007 and December 2011, more than 2,100 playground episodes were answered on CPSC, including 60 deaths and 170 wounds.
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The successful date for the required playground standard is six months after the distribution of the last principle in the Federal Register.
Under Section 104 of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act 2008, CPSC must establish safety guidelines for strong baby or toddler products, including playgrounds. Notwithstanding playgrounds, CPSC has established mandatory principles for the well-being of bunks, cot rails, child shower seats, child walkers and baby cots.
Maria is our expert for medicine, fitness and general health. Her contributions are particularly convincing through completeness, accuracy and her own personal experience. Maria also writes for other health magazines, which has enabled her to build up her expert status. | <urn:uuid:27b1b142-0e5d-4669-99bc-215f8560b4fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cakehealth.com/2795-cpsc-approves-federal-safety-standard-play-yards.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.93726 | 388 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Scientists at Queen’s University in Belfast have been ordered to hand over 40 years of research data on tree rings after a three-year battle with climate sceptics.
The ruling by the Information Commissioner sets a precedent for scientists having to comply with the strictest interpretation of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act.
It suggests that in future academics will not be able to avoid handing over data by claiming that the task would be too onerous or that it would breach intellectual property rights.
Douglas Keenan, an independent researcher from London, who is a well-known climate sceptic, first requested the data in 2007. Queen’s refused his request, saying that it was too expensive.
Now the commissioner has ruled that the university will be in contempt of FoI laws if it refuses to address the request.
The commissioned also identified a number of “procedural breaches” in the handling of Mr Keenan’s request.
“This has taken three years, but it is worth it,” Mr Keenan told the journal Nature.
“It is an important victory for FoI on research data. Also, for global warming studies, the data is extremely valuable for reconstructing temperatures over past millennia.”
The university has until April 26 to appeal against the decision and is currently considering its position.
However, the lead scientist involved, Michael Bailee, said that the oak ring data requested was not relevant to temperature reconstruction records.
Although ancient oaks could give an indication of one-off dramatic climatic events, such as droughts, they were not useful as a temperature proxy because they were highly sensitive to water availability as well as past temperatures, he added.
“It’s been dressed up as though we are suppressing climate data, but we have never produced climate records from our tree rings,” Professor Bailee said.
“In my view it would be dangerous to try and make interpretations about the temperature from this data.”
The data requested includes oak ring records taken from ancient timbers, archaeological excavations and from sub-fossil oaks dating back to 5000BC found in peat bogs.
The university said that much of the data was in paper form, or on floppy disks and would take too long to transfer to a digital version.
Dr Rob Wilson, who runs the University of St Andrews tree ring laboratory, agreed that oaks were virtually useless as a temperature proxy, but said that scientists must now be vigilant about making data available.
“If Douglas Keenan wants to try to reconstruct the temperature from this, good luck to him,” he said.
Phil Willis, a Liberal Democrat MP and chairman of the Science and Technology Select Committee, said that scientists now needed to work on the presumption that if research is publicly funded, the data ought to be made publicly available.
“Following the Climategate furore at the University of East Anglia the message came out loud and clear from the select committee report and from Lord Oxburgh’s report that data has to be made publicly available in order that there is no question of anyone hiding anything,” he said.
“Any university or scientist that hasn’t got that message needs a total rethink of the way they do research. Every time they don’t do it, they give ammunition to climate deniers and sceptics.”
Benny Peiser, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said: “It is regrettable that it has come to FoI requests. It’s almost as though Climategate never happened.”
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Have you ever watched a toddler eat? Often, they will stop eating before they finish their plate, no matter how much they enjoy the food. And they probably don’t separate foods into “fattening” and “acceptable” foods. They eat what they enjoy, which might include rice, broccoli, and cookies.
The proponents of a practice called intuitive eating say that’s because we’re all born with an eating instinct. Just like our bodies let us know when it’s time to sleep or use the bathroom, it also lets us know when and what to eat.
Here’s some good information about intuitive eating, and how it relates to you if you live with an eating disorder.
What is intuitive eating?
In short, intuitive eating is the practice of trusting yourself and your food choices. It is not a diet, and it is certainly not meant to be used as a weight-loss tool. Rather, it’s a way to find peace in your relationship with food and to escape from the ever-present diet culture.
Intuitive eating is based on the principle that our bodies know when it’s time to eat — and when it’s time to stop. It’s not an invitation to simply eat ice cream day and night; this, proponents say, is the type of thinking and cravings that are the result of being indoctrinated into diet culture from an early age. Since we tend to consider ice cream a “forbidden” food, we think we’ll want it all the time if we’re “allowed” to have it.
But if you really listened to your body’s cues, and allowed yourself unconditional permission to eat foods that make you feel good, then you’d probably realize that eating ice cream day and night would only make you feel sick.
This, in a very basic sense, is what intuitive eating is all about.
What are the 10 principles of intuitive eating?
The original creators of intuitive eating have listed 10 principles of intuitive eating that anyone following this practice should be aware of. They are:
1. Reject the diet mentality
The first principle of intuitive eating is that intuitive eating is not a diet. Although many people have lost weight using intuitive eating practices, the purpose behind intuitive eating isn’t to help people lose weight.
Intuitive eating proponents emphasize the level to which diet culture has influenced our body images and eating habits as a society — especially for women. Intuitive eating encourages people to get rid of the mentality that, if you just find the “right” diet, then you’ll be able to lose weight. They say we need to walk away from these diets altogether.
Considering intuitive eating as “just another fad diet” is likely to get in the way of healing your eating habits, especially if you live with an eating disorder.
2. Honor your hunger
So many fasts and cleanses instruct you not to eat, even when you feel hungry. Intuitive eating teaches the opposite — that you should eat when you’re actually hungry. Intuitive eating teachers say that you should honor your hunger because it’s your body’s way of letting you know it needs sustenance.
This is especially important because if you become too hungry, then rational thinking goes out the window. This may set you up for other unhealthy eating habits like overeating or binge eating.
3. Make peace with food
Especially for people with an eating disorder, the relationship with food can be riddled with conflict. Intuitive eating experts invite you to call a “truce” with food; to no longer be at war with it. This means giving yourself unconditional permission to eat instead of dividing foods into what you’re “allowed” to eat and what you’re not.
Many people with eating disorders fall into this cycle because they deprive themselves of “forbidden” foods. These forbidden foods are usually ones the person enjoys, but thinks are fattening or “unhealthy.” This deprivation is a central part of eating disorders like binge-eating disorders or bulimia nervosa.
By giving yourself permission to eat, you create a more peaceful relationship with food. You don’t feel such intense urges to overeat foods that you’ve deprived yourself.
4. Challenge the food police
The “food police” is what the creators of intuitive eating have named those voices inside your head that label certain foods as “good” and others as “bad.” This may be based on caloric count for people who have anorexia nervosa or other eating disorders, but it could also be based on how organic or otherwise “healthy” a food is.
Intuitive eating invites people to stop labeling foods in this way. When you’re enjoying food and you hear the voice inside of you labeling the food as “bad,” challenge this thought. Remember ,food is meant to nourish us, and it’s the culture of dieting that has divided food into these categories.
5. Discover the satisfaction factor
Remember that food is meant to be savored and enjoyed. The creators of intuitive eating describe food and the eating experience as “one of the most basic gifts of existence.” When we make this experience about dieting or losing weight, they say, we deny ourselves this wonderful gift.
Intuitive eating encourages the pure enjoyment of food. This includes choosing to eat foods you really want to eat, but it also means eating in places and in the company of people you enjoy. Truly enjoying your eating experience helps you feel more satisfied after eating just enough, instead of wanting more and more.
6. Feel your fullness
This is the other side of the coin to “honoring your hunger.” It’s important to notice the signals your body sends — including when it sends you the signal that it’s full. Listen for these signals while you’re eating. When your body is satisfied, stop eating.
This involves a certain level of mindfulness and trust in your body. Pause while you’re eating to ask yourself, how am I feeling? Am I still hungry? How is the food tasting to me now?
7. Cope with your emotions with kindness
This principle may be especially helpful for those who struggle with emotional eating. Try to cope with difficult emotions with kindness and self-compassion, instead of with food. Try new coping skills like reaching out to a friend, or journaling. Address the emotions directly instead of using food as a way to try to escape from them.
Although food may feel like a comfort in the short term, it actually isn’t a long-term solution. And overeating isn’t kind, because overindulgence or emotional eating episodes are often followed by periods of shame or guilt. In this way, you may get locked into a cycle of overeating, and even develop an eating disorder like binge-eating disorder.
8. Respect your body
Intuitive eating practitioners warn against placing unrealistic and harmful expectations on your body. It emphasizes that much of your body size and shape has to do with your genetics. Just like you can’t change your shoe size, you may not be able to change your body shape.
Wishing to be like the models you see in the media isn’t respectful towards your own body. By respecting your body and everything it does for you, you can start feeling better about yourself.
9. Movement — feel the difference
Instead of exercising solely for the purpose of losing weight, intuitive eating proponents encourage you to exercise your body in a way that feels good. They say this can keep you motivated to work out for the right reasons. Focus on how you feel after working out, rather than the effects of exercise on your body.
10. Honor your health — gentle nutrition
Lastly, intuitive eating doesn’t mean you should simply eat cookies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day simply because that’s what you want.
As a final principle, intuitive eating teaches you to make food choices that are good for both your health and your taste buds. While it’s important you nourish your body with nutritious foods, remember that you don’t need to be perfect to be healthy. It’s more important to pay attention to overall habits that you keep consistently over time, rather than whether you have a cookie here and there.
As the creators say, “Progress, not perfection, is what counts.”
Benefits of intuitive eating
We need more research to be able to say for sure what the physical and mental health benefits of intuitive eating are. But based on the studies conducted so far, intuitive eating boasts the following benefits:
- Lower incidence of disordered eating habits
- Positive body image
- Decreased depression
- Decreased anxiety
- Higher self-esteem
- Better well-being
Intuitive eating and eating disorders
So can you use intuitive eating if you live with an eating disorder? The research still isn’t clear. We do know that people with eating disorders, like anorexia, have disrupted hunger and fullness cues.
This means that, especially while you’re in the early stages of recovery, intuitive eating may not be a realistic goal. Your eating disorder may cause you to deny your body’s hunger cues. It could also mute satiety cues — for example, if you’re in the middle of a binge-eating episode.
Especially in early recovery, as you start to build back a trusting relationship with your body, it’s critical that you follow your doctor or dietician’s eating plans. This will make sure you’re eating enough food and reaching an appropriate weight.
But later on in recovery, when you’re more likely to be able to trust your body’s cues, you may be able to incorporate intuitive eating to build a healthy long-term relationship with food.
Certain exceptions could include people with disorders like ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder), which may require you to always follow an eating plan to make sure you’re getting the nutrients you need.
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If you’re ready to start healing your relationship with food and your body, our team at The Center is waiting to hear from you. We have over three decades of experience helping people like you recover from disordered eating, and our team truly cares about helping you heal your relationship with food.
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Graham-Paige was an American automobile manufacturer founded by brothers Joseph B. Graham (September 12, 1882–July 1970), Robert C. Graham (August 1885–October 3, 1967), and Ray A. Graham (May 28, 1887–August 13, 1932) in 1927.
Automobile production ceased in 1940, and its automotive assets were acquired by Kaiser-Frazer in 1947. As a corporate entity, the Graham-Paige name continued until 1962.
|Founder||Joseph B. Graham, Robert C. Graham, Ray A. Graham|
|Headquarters||Evansville, IN, United States|
After successful involvement in a glass manufacturing company (eventually sold to Libbey Owens Ford) brothers Joseph B., Robert C., and Ray A. Graham began in 1919 to produce kits to modify Ford Model Ts and TTs into trucks. That led to the brothers building their trucks using engines of various manufacturers and the Graham Brothers brand. Eventually they settled on Dodgeengines, and soon the trucks were sold by Dodge dealers. The Grahams expanded from beginnings in Evansville, Indiana, opening plants in 1922 on Meldrum Avenue in Detroit, Michigan of 13,000 square feet (1,200 m2), and in 1925 on Cherokee Lane in Stockton, California. The Canadian market was supplied by the Canadian Dodge plant. Dodge purchased the Graham Brothers truck firm in 1925, and the three Graham brothers took on executive positions at Dodge.
The Graham Brothers brand lasted until 1929; Chrysler Corporation having taken over Dodge in 1928.
In 1927, with the banking syndicate controlling Dodge trying to sell the company, the Graham brothers decided to enter the automobile business on their own. In 1927, they purchased the Paige-Detroit Motor Company, makers of Paige and Jewett automobiles, for $3.5 million. Joseph became president, Robert vice-president and Ray secretary-treasurer of the company. The company's initial offering included a line of Graham-Paige cars with six- and eight-cylinder engines. For a while a line of light trucks was offered under the Paige name, soon discontinued when Dodge reminded the Grahams about the non-competition agreement they had signed as part of the sale of the Graham Brothers Company. Grahams earned a reputation for quality and sales quickly rose. Graham also had some success in racing, which helped boost sales. The Graham company logo included profiles of the three brothers and was used in insignia on the cars including badges and taillight lens.
Graham-Paige made most of their own bodies and engines. The Graham brothers had solved a long-standing Paige body supply dilemma by purchasing the Wayne Body Company and expanding with other body plants. They did not have a foundry and contracted with Continental for these services relative to their engines. Some models did use Continental stock engines. Graham-Paige's own engineering department designed most of the engines used in Graham-Paige cars. The 1938–1940 "Spirit of Motion" cars and Hollywood models are frequently incorrectly stated to use Continental engines. After World War II Continental produced a lesser version of Graham-Paige's 217-cubic-inch-displacement engine used in the previously mentioned models. These engines were used in the post-war Kaiser and Frazer automobiles.
Initially, Graham-Paige withstood the onset of the depression well, but sales fell as the decade wore on. The 1932 models were designed by Amos Northup. This particular design has been noted as the "single most influential design in automotive history." The new 8-cylinder engine was called the "Blue Streak." However, the press and public quickly adopted the name "Blue Streak" for the cars themselves. The design introduced a number of innovative ideas. The most copied was the enclosed fenders, thus covering the mud and grime built up on the underside. The radiator capwas moved under the hood, which itself was later modified to cover the cowl, and end at the base of the windshield.
For engineering, the rear kickup on the chassis frame was eliminated by the adoption of a 'banjo' frame. Unlike contemporary practice, the rear axle was placed through large openings on both sides of the frame, with rubber snubbers to absorb any shock if the car axle should make contact. This in turn permitted a wider body. To help lower the car, the rear springs were mounted on the outer sides of the chassis frame and not under the frame. This idea was eventually copied by other manufacturers - Chrysler, for example, in 1957.
For 1934, Graham introduced a crankshaft-driven supercharger. At first offered only in the top eight-cylinder models, when the eights were dropped for 1936, the supercharger was adapted to the six. The unit was designed in-house by Graham Assistant Chief Engineer Floyd F. Kishline. It was an original design, not a Switzer-Cummins or Duesenberg design. Through the years, Graham would produce more supercharged cars than any other automobile manufacturer until Buick surpassed them in the 1990s.
By 1935, the "Blue Streak" styling was getting rather dated. A restyling of the front and rear ends for 1935 proved to be a disaster, making the cars appear higher and narrower. Having no money for a new body, Graham signed an agreement with Reo Motor Car Company to purchase car bodies, paying Reo $7.50 in royalties for each Hayes-built body. The engines did have new full water jackets. Graham added new front end styling and revised detailing to these bodies to create the 1936 and 1937 Grahams.
Amos Northup of Murray Body was hired to design a new model for 1938, but he died before the design was complete. It is believed the final design was completed by Graham engineers. The new 1938 Graham was introduced with the slogan "Spirit of Motion". The fenders, wheel openings and grille all appeared to be moving forward. The design was widely praised in the American press and by American designers. It also won the prestigious Concours D'Elegance in Paris, France. Wins were also recorded in the Prix d'Avant-Garde at Lyon, the Prix d'Elegance at Bordeaux, and the Grand Prix d'Honneur at Deauville, France. Its cut-back grille later gained the car the name "sharknose", which appears to have origins in the 1950s. The styling was a complete flop in sales. The most reliable estimates, from period publications, suggest the total production of all 3 years of these cars is between 6000 and 13,000 units. With this low production Graham limped through 1939 and 1940.
Desperate for a winning offering and unable to retool, Graham made a deal with the ailing Hupp Motor Co. in late 1939. According to the deal, the faltering company entered into an arrangement with Hupmobile to build cars based on the body dies of the stunning Gordon Buehrig-designed Cord 810/812. In an effort to remain in business, Hupp had acquired the Cord dies, but lacked the financial resources to build the car.
Graham agreed to build the Hupmobile Skylark on a contract basis, while receiving the rights to use the distinctive Cord dies to produce a similar car of its own, to be called the Hollywood. The striking Skylark/Hollywood differed from the Cord from the cowl forward with a redesigned hood, front fenders and conventional headlights, achieved by automotive designer John Tjaarda of Lincoln-Zephyr fame. The Cord's longer hood was not needed, as the Hupp and Graham versions were rear-wheel drive. This also necessitated modifying the floor to accept a driveshaft.
The Hollywood was available in a standard 6-cylinder version and a supercharged version. Each engine was manufactured by Graham-Paige itself. However, the Hollywood did not stop the company's slide. After its public introduction, orders poured in. However, manufacturing difficulties caused months of delay before deliveries began. Customers tired of waiting, and most of the orders were cancelled. Despite an enthusiastic initial public response, the car actually ended up being a worse flop in the sales department for both Graham and Hupmobile than either firm's respective preceding models. The company suspended manufacturing in September, 1940, only to reopen its plant for military production for World War II.
The company resumed automobile production in 1946 producing a modern-looking new car, the 1947 Frazer, named for new Graham-Paige President Joseph Frazer, in partnership with Henry J. Kaiser. It also began production of farm equipment under the Rototiller name. In August 1945, Graham-Paige announced plans to resume production under the Graham name, but the plan never materialized. On February 5, 1947, Graham-Paige stockholders approved the transfer of all their automotive assets to Kaiser-Frazer, an automobile company formed by Frazer and Kaiser, in return for 750,000 shares of Kaiser-Frazer stock and other considerations. Graham's manufacturing facilities on Warren Avenue were sold to Chrysler, who used the plants first for DeSoto body and engine production, and finally for assembly of the Imperial for the 1959, 1960, and 1961 model years.
In 1952, Graham-Paige dropped the "Motors" from its name and branched into real estate, and under the direction of Irving M. Felt, bought such properties as the Roosevelt Raceway in New York, and in 1959 a controlling interest in the old Madison Square Garden (built 1925). In 1962, the firm changed its name to the Madison Square Garden Corporation, which was later absorbed by Gulf & Western Industries. Currently Madison Square Garden is part of Madison Square Garden, L.P., of which a majority interest is owned by Cablevision Systems Corporation. | <urn:uuid:3ac12041-9b68-4700-b97e-e8db37f165f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://gaukmotors.co.uk/car-make/graham-paige | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960312 | 2,084 | 1.992188 | 2 |
I stood at the back of the classroom, my slender figure nearly obscuring the poem I had written. “Come up front” said my professor, gently. “Share what you’ve written.” I was nervous, reluctant, afraid. This poem was the most personal piece I had written in my life. What would my class think? Would everyone judge me for writing something that proved I wasn’t always happy? I slowly removed my poem from the back wall and trudged to the front of the class.
If you were to tell me two years ago, when I was struggling to share a project with my counseling psychology class, that I’d now be openly sharing my life’s challenges with others, I don’t think I would have believed you.
The simple answer is that I have a drive for perfection and I used to have an overwhelming desire to avoid exposing any vulnerability. I’ve been a perfectionist for years. I’m constantly striving to achieve, and no one would accuse me of setting my personal standards too low. Two years ago, however, I realized one of the most detrimental consequences of perfectionism.
I fear showing weakness. I fear opening up. I fear letting others in. I fear vulnerability.
For my counseling psychology class, everyone had to create and present some kind of expressive art project on an assigned topic. I chose healing as my topic because I wanted to push myself to speak on something vulnerable. I drew on one of the most difficult experiences of my time in college as inspiration, and I vowed to listen to my professor, who told us not to censor ourselves. As the words poured out of my soul and onto the paper, I felt a profound sense of freedom I had never experienced. I gradually felt lighter and lighter, as if the weight of life was removed from my body. The day I feared, however, loomed in my mind. I would actually have to share this. My thoughts, my feelings, my struggles.
I longed to hold the struggles and sadness inside, to keep all of my problems ensconced in the serene, protective chambers of my heart. But I strove to embrace the challenges I’ve faced, to grow as a person, to gain a new perspective on life.
So I shared.
The tremor in my voice dissipated as I realized that my class cared about my words. They understood. The class clapped after I finished the poem, and I realized then that I had succeeded in something that was very difficult for me. Towards the end of class, one of my classmates told me my poem was beautiful. I was surprised and touched by her words, but in that moment, a powerful thought struck me. I have the power to turn vulnerability into beauty.
You’ve had times in your life when you’ve felt burdened by the weight of your struggles. You’ve wondered if others will judge you for what you’ve been through. However, when you open up and invite people into your world, you will forge powerful connections with them, connections that can never be severed. You will feel the lightness of freedom, the freedom to be yourself.
By embracing the vulnerable parts of your life, you’re embracing your story. Your story is valuable, and it deserves to be shared. Sharing your story provides you with the opportunity to encourage and inspire others. Don’t be afraid to take down the walls you’ve built up, brick by brick. It won’t happen overnight, and at times it will be difficult, but eventually, you’ll successfully embrace the challenges you’ve faced and gain a new perspective on life. You’ll disclose personal, seemingly imperfect parts of your life to others, you’ll find understanding and unconditional acceptance in return, and you’ll learn about yourself throughout your life journey.
Most importantly, you’ll turn your vulnerability into beauty.
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Throughout modern history, the introduction of new technologies in journalism has challenged journalistic roles and the normative landscape of journalism, and the emergent use of personalised news recommender systems seems no exception given personalisation’s inherent democratic risk and commercial nature. However, current literature offers limited insight into how these technologies reconcile with the shared ideological norms and beliefs of journalists. This article identifies recurring tensions between journalism’s ideology and increasing commercial pressures in existing literature focusing on illustrative examples of digital technology implementations in journalism, and discusses how personalised news recommendation may recreate or mediate these tensions. The findings suggest that personalised news recommendation can facilitate journalism in service of the public by using value-sensitive algorithmic design that incorporates editorial input and nudges users to view diverse and serendipitous content. The findings additionally emphasise the importance of algorithmic transparency as a constituent element to distinguish nudging that prompts reflective behaviour from manipulation of choice, thus mediating tensions with journalism’s ideological aspirations to be fair and objective. Lastly, the paper calls for a higher level of understanding and interaction between journalists and algorithmic designers to mediate the impact on journalistic autonomy and ease the inherent transfer of editorial authority over distribution. | <urn:uuid:a0757320-b7ae-46ee-bacb-ab5f51404f0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ucviden.dk/en/publications/between-personal-and-public-interest-how-algorithmic-news-recomme | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.869328 | 250 | 1.609375 | 2 |
How much happiness does it bring to a man to have a body modification in a way freedom is well-expressed? With this generation, people diverged in the traditional way of expression through dancing, singing or poetry. Today, most of the young people have chosen to express themselves through the most common form of body revision made by inserted ink, dye or pigments: the tattoo. Long before, indigenous people put tattoos on their body because they believe it possessed spiritual powers and magical qualities that give strength and protection. Further, it is reserved only to the bravest of warriors in ancient periods. In modern times, tattoos are a type of art, where we see in the arms of a man a name of his woman or his mother, or may it be his name, his birthday or anything significant to him. In other places, this also symbolizes masculinity, that’s why we find it most common in men.
In the of the village of Buscalan, province of Kalinga in the Philippines (also known as The Village of Long Life) settles the legendary “mambabatok” or a traditional tattoo artist. A Filipina born on 1918, aged 98 by the name of Whang Od Oggay is presently considered as the last existing mambabatok in Kalinga from the Butbut tribe and is the oldest tattoo artist in the Philippines. According to some interview about her, a mixture of charcoal and water that serves as ink, and a thorn end of a calamansi or a pomelo tree comprises her tattooing materials. According to tradition, this tattooing skill can only be inherited by lineage. She was not married since she lost her boyfriend at age 25, so there isn’t anyone to continue the legacy. Further research says that the first time she got tattooed was during her teenage years, each of her hands took one day to finish. Her family’s payment for this tattoo work on her was a bundle of rice, and after the tattoo was finished all over her body, the family celebrated and killed a pig for her. Until now, Whang Od is one main reason why people from all over the country travel all the way to Kalinga. For the reason that she is dubbed the last mambabatok in Kalinga, a lot of people are endorsing her to be one of the National Artists of the Philippines. A great treasure she is, and a very limited opportunity to be tattooed by her is offered.
The Philippines has a lot more riches, yet undiscovered by most. By Whang Od’s existence, we get to peak from the past and experience the earliest method of this famous designs we give our bodies now through punctures. The hopes are up that the batok tradition lives on, and Whang Od will live longer. Hence more people will be blessed by her gift. On deep thought, when the day comes that Whang Od does not exist anymore, who else would be able to get this one of a kind and traditional way of getting tattoos? | <urn:uuid:d134d212-5ce4-42f9-a014-e0c2b2f9d972> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://our7107islands.com/whang-od-the-renowned-national-living-treasure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.974085 | 626 | 2.203125 | 2 |
For years, there have been few issues in Poland on which all major parties have been in agreement. One of them is Nord Stream 2. Successive governments have tried to stop the construction of the gas pipeline and none has succeeded. Instead of wringing hands, getting offended at the whole world and threatening to break alliances, it is essential to draw conclusions from this defeat. Let’s start with a few obvious ones.
Firstly, Nord Stream 2 is a project that is harmful and dangerous to European energy solidarity and to the security of Eastern Europe, and, above all, to Ukraine, which is not anchored in NATO or in the European Union. The possibility of “bypassing” Ukraine in gas supplies to Europe gives Vladimir Putin a tool to put pressure on the government in Kiev.
The further Ukraine is from Europe and the closer to Russia, the worse for Poland. We already have a politician in Minsk who is completely discredited and dependent on Putin. Everything should be done to prevent Ukraine from falling back into the Kremlin’s orbit, especially after the revolution in Kiev’s Maidan led by the European Union.
Secondly, the fate of Nord Stream 2 has, unfortunately, been decided for a long time, regardless of Washington’s actions. Angela Merkel’s government consistently pushed for its completion, despite pressure from other partners, including EU institutions. Construction continued also throughout Donald Trump’s presidency despite sanctions imposed on companies involved in the work.
Thirdly, Washington’s recent agreement with Berlin on Ukraine’s security guarantees, financial assistance, and support in energy negotiations with Moscow, is worth as much as the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which guaranteed the inviolability of Ukraine’s borders in exchange for its surrender of nuclear warheads. The provisions are general and there are no strict mechanisms to enforce them.
Fourthly, the United States did not want to harm Poland or Ukraine when it waived sanctions on companies involved in the construction of Nord Stream 2. They were guided by their own global interests, including full concentration on competition with China and “shortening the front”, i.e. extinguishing disputes in other regions. Joe Biden’s decision is understandable from this point of view. Nevertheless, it does not mean that it is good.
However, it reminds that Americans look at their plans on a global scale. Poland’s opinion is not a decisive factor. The ruling party should think that it is not wise to put all their eggs in one basket, meaning that it is not wise to count unconditionally on a distant ally.
What Conclusions Can Be Drawn From All This? What Mistakes Were Made By Successive Polish Governments?
The first mistake was the decision of The Democratic Left Alliance government in 2003. It agreed to delete from the Yamal Contract the provision on the construction of the second line of the Yamal Pipeline. Had this line been constructed, the construction of Nord Stream 2 would have been even less profitable for the Russians.
Its profitability is already doubtful. Having invested billions of dollars, the Russians now have at their disposal gas pipelines capable of transporting much more gas than they are able to export.
The second mistake was made by the first government of the Law and Justice party of 2005-07. It chose not to join the project when it became clear that we could not stop it.
Back in 2015, I pointed out that we could have gotten a pipeline spur across our territory. However, the official who hinted about it was brutally removed. Of course, an agreement with Russia and Germany would not have been a fully satisfactory solution as it would have legitimized a project we opposed. Nevertheless, Poland could have obtained real concessions in return. Today they are left with nothing.
Finally, the third decision that contributed to the construction of Nord Stream 2 was made by the Civic Platform and Polish People’s Party government after the issue of building a connector between the Yamal and Druzhba pipelines – the so-called Pieremychka, which would run south through Polish territory bypassing Ukraine – resurfaced in 2013. Poland refused, arguing that it would strike Ukraine’s interests.
But again, their solidarity did not translate into any benefits because, as a result of Germany’s decision, Nord Stream 2 is completed, Ukraine’s security will suffer anyway, and Poland will gain nothing. Moreover, I get the impression that Kiev is unaware that the Polish government, in the name of loyalty to an ally, has given up the opportunity to pursue its interests.
What to Do Now?
Firstly, Germany’s decision lowers its credibility in discussions about European energy solidarity. This should be borne in mind when the Polish authorities take strategic decisions when, for example, deciding to build a nuclear power plant.
Secondly, it is visible that a policy of moral blackmail and absolute loyalty to the allies – in this case Ukraine – does not always produce positive results. Perhaps sometimes it is wiser to follow the old saying: “If you can’t beat them, join them.”
Thirdly, Poles must be aware that they cannot always rely absolutely on the alliance with Washington. As the weaker partner in this relationship – demographically, militarily, economically, etc. – Poland should seek a European insurance policy and work to strengthen its voice. This can be done by conducting an active foreign policy, building regional alliances, and coming up with their own initiatives.
However, the United Right is not taking such actions. In case of Nord Stream 2, no attempt was made to convince the Democrats before they won the election. Moreover, no coalition was formed to try to influence the U.S.A and Germany. I am not saying that such a coalition would have succeeded but the important point is that a real attempt was not even made.
And it is hardly surprising because the Polish Government is moving towards more and more isolation, which can be seen in the pro-government media. It adds more countries and institutions to the list of Poland’s enemies: Germany, the European Commission, the EU Court of Justice, the United States, France, Pope Francis, the Czech Republic…
Poles have been driven by this government into a whole series of unnecessary conflicts. Conflicts that, so far, have not brought them any benefits, that threaten them with real losses – such as freezing EU money – and from which the government has no exit plan. For it is difficult to consider signing joint declarations with anti-EU and pro-Russian parties of the extreme right as a “way out”.
I would like to suggest something to the politicians of the Law and Justice party and to the employees of the Law and Justice media because I know that they read my texts regularly: the world will not change just because TVP INFO (media subservient to the Law and Justice) announce it. To defend Polish interests you need a plan, foreign partners and real tools in the form of well-prepared people and institutions. The government of the United Right has nothing from this list at its disposal.
Meanwhile, the Nord Stream 2 case teaches us something else – foreign policy can be mocked as an insignificant game of diplomacy. There comes a point, however, when the consequences of ill-considered diplomatic action become apparent to all. That is the moment Poles are at. The policy of moral blackmail, wishful thinking and propaganda in the name of “not giving up a single button” has just suffered another spectacular defeat.
We can learn from it or we can get ourselves into another one.
The article was originally published in Polish at: https://liberte.pl/nord-stream-2-jesli-nie-mozesz-kogos-pokonac-powinienes-sie-do-niego-przylaczyc/
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HandwritingHandwriting in advertising and design
Handwriting is a powerful tool in design and advertising. It conveys authenticity, tone and emotion, either used in conjunction with photography and video, or alone. I am often commissioned to create unique “voices” for advertising campaigns and design programs. I approach these projects as an actress or voice-over artist, always looking for the unique typographic tone and style that will express the sound of words in visual form. There is an overlap between “calligraphy” and “handwriting” but as a general rule handwriting is distinguished by its personal characteristics, its inconsistencies and artless appearance. It can take many drafts to find just the right combination of casual and natural blended with design finesse. These portfolios showcase handwriting used in signature design, corporate identity, and text for a wide variety of clients. | <urn:uuid:db31934f-6932-46b3-945f-68e1ae518e0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iskradesign.com/portfolio-handwriting-for-advertising/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.96473 | 176 | 1.5 | 2 |
When it comes to portrait photography, learning to work with artificial lighting will make you far more versatile and enable creative opportunities that simply would not be possible otherwise. If that is something you would like to start diving into, check out this fantastic video tutorial that will show you the fundamentals and have you ready to tackle your first shoot.
Coming to you from Pye Jirsa with Adorama TV, this great video tutorial will show you the fundamentals of using artificial lighting for a portrait. When you are new to artificial lighting, one particularly important thing is to not tackle overly complex setups right off the bat. While you might see pros using more complex multi-light setups, you can absolutely create compelling, professional-level images with a single light, and sticking to just one source to start will help you to build a good intuitive grasp of important parameters like subject-to-source distance, modifier size, fall-off, and more, leaving you better able to move on to two- or three-light setups down the road. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Jirsa.
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by Mike Ratliff
1 Παῦλος δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ, κλητὸς ἀπόστολος ἀφωρισμένος εἰς εὐαγγέλιον θεοῦ, 2 ὃ προεπηγγείλατο διὰ τῶν προφητῶν αὐτοῦ ἐν γραφαῖς ἁγίαις 3 περὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ τοῦ γενομένου ἐκ σπέρματος Δαυὶδ κατὰ σάρκα, 4 τοῦ ὁρισθέντος υἱοῦ θεοῦ ἐν δυνάμει κατὰ πνεῦμα ἁγιωσύνης ἐξ ἀναστάσεως νεκρῶν, Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν, 5 διʼ οὗ ἐλάβομεν χάριν καὶ ἀποστολὴν εἰς ὑπακοὴν πίστεως ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ, 6 ἐν οἷς ἐστε καὶ ὑμεῖς κλητοὶ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, 7 πᾶσιν τοῖς οὖσιν ἐν Ῥώμῃ ἀγαπητοῖς θεοῦ, κλητοῖς ἁγίοις, χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη ἀπὸ θεοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. Romans 1:1-7 (NA28)
1 Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, 2 which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures, 3 concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, 4 who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord, 5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for His name’s sake, 6 among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ;
7 to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 1:1-7 (NASB)
What is a saint? I grew up as a Southern Baptist with a lot of Roman Catholic friends just down the street from a Catholic school and large Catholic Church. I am retired now, but for the last 20 years I have worked for a corporation that was owned by a Roman Catholic Hospital not-for-profit corporation. So, with that being said, I know what the RCC’s concept of a “saint” is, but what is the Biblical definition? I believe the passage I placed at the top of this post is a good starting place, but we will look at the Greek word that is translated as “saint” and what it means Biblically.
I agree with Warren Wiersbe who said, “No word in the New Testament has suffered more than this word saint. Even the dictionary defines a saint as a ‘person officially recognized for holiness of life.” Is that the Biblical meaning? In the passage above the word saints in v7 translates the Greek adjective ἁγίοις (hagiois) the dative plural masculine of ἅγιος (hagios), which means holy, set apart (for holiness), consecrated. However, in secular Greek the word hagios meant “to stand in awe of or be devoted to the gods.” This word came right our of pagan Greek religion, but Paul had to use it since there was no other word to use. So, the word was originally used of a person who was devoted to a god. One such as that was looked upon as a “holy one” or a “holy man.”
That view is true of Roman Catholicism, which teaches that to become a “saint,” one first has to die. The person is then nominated for the position, after which one or more “judicial inquiries” take place, where the nominating advocate pleads the virtues of the nominee and gives proof of his or her worthiness. One such proof is that the nominee had to be responsible for at least two (and, in some cases, as many as four) miracles. Then is life is examined to see if it was “holy enough to be officially recognized by canonization.” But all that flies in the face of Scripture and denies a fundamental principle of being Christian.
Paul, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, lifted the word hagios to a new level of meaning: “to set apart or be separate.” The same word is also translated holy and sanctification. While some say a saint is dead, God says a saint is alive. Being a saint is not matter of achievement or performance; it is a matter of position. It’s not base on what we have done, but who we are in Christ. It is not dependent upon our works, but upon His grace.
We can probably safely assume that saint was Paul’s favorite term for the Christian since he used it some forty-two times in his epistles. How he loved that word! He loved saying, “Every one of you who has trusted Christ as Savior and Lord is a saint, one who has been set apart.” | <urn:uuid:91aedea9-b5a8-4cc4-910f-3f229253467c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mikeratliff.wordpress.com/2022/01/09/saints/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.959678 | 1,637 | 1.78125 | 2 |
- about 320 sounds recorded from C64 SID files
- GUI resembles C64 program (the border of the C64 CUI is a kind of VU meter)
- 3 animations controlled by a sine osc (speed and the range of the animation)
- 2 bars and the logo
DrSid only has a few controls, to select waveforms and set decay, pitch and volume per sample, so it’s dead easy to program.
If the “demo scene” type animation is getting on your nerves you can make it stop by changing the values just above the Odo logo.
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Official credited with guiding Paris COP21 summit to successful conclusion announces he is to step down to focus on new role heading constitutional court
By Ed King
Former France foreign minister Laurent Fabius has announced he will step down from his role as president of the UN climate change talks.
The Reuters and AFP news agencies report Fabius announced his decision in a letter sent to President Francois Hollande on Monday.
Fabius had intended to continue chairing global negotiations until November’s UN Conference of the Parties (COP) in Morocco.
But over the weekend fears had grown it would clash with his new job chairing France’s constitutional court, and in a letter Fabius said he wished to avoid any controversy.
“In my view, there is no incompatibility with the Presidency of the last phase the COP21,” he said.
“However, given the signs of internal debate on this subject, I judge best to give you my term as President of the COP.”
Fabius played a central role in the December 2015 Paris climate summit, deftly guiding talks to a successful conclusion with a new deal to curb global warming agreed by 195 countries.
It is unclear who will replace the veteran politician, although environment minister Segolene Royal was closely involved at the Paris talks and was recently handed the portfolio of international climate negotiations. | <urn:uuid:278c7dd6-a44f-40ee-9bef-89e0934d5604> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/02/15/laurent-fabius-quits-as-un-climate-talks-president/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.96977 | 276 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Numerous research show that both exercising in forests and simply sitting looking at timber scale back blood pressure as well as the stress-associated hormones cortisol and adrenaline. Looking at footage of trees has a similar, but much less dramatic, impact. Studies inspecting the same activities in urban, unplanted areas showed no reduction of stress-related results. Using the Profile of Mood States check, researchers found that forest bathing journeys considerably decreased the scores for anxiousness, depression, anger, confusion and fatigue. And as a result of stress inhibits the immune system, the stress-discount advantages of forests are further magnified.
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The Australian government’s exhaustive review of the medical evidence for homeopathy found that for 61 indications, there was proof of lack of efficacy for homeopathy, and for one more 7 indications, there was no good-quality evidence . Subsequent evaluations have reached similar conclusions regarding lack of demonstrated efficacy and low-quality knowledge. Verta alb is current in a number of homeopathic treatments designed to treat ADHD, including BrightSpark, a popular compound produced by the company Native Remedies. No research have been conducted on both BrightSpark or verta alb by itself, and while anecdotal evidence is mixed, some patients report that verta alb helped their child manage his or her feelings and temper over-excitability.
The logic of figures or comparative outcomes of homeopathic and other treatments. Homeopathy is likely one of the mostly used types of various medicines and it has a big worldwide market. The exact size is uncertain, but information out there on homeopathic gross sales suggests it types a big share of the medical market. Some homeopathic treatment is covered by the public well being … | <urn:uuid:1c2d64a4-284d-436c-ad42-cec4ac784f1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thegodschildproject.net/2021/02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949167 | 1,318 | 1.734375 | 2 |
MUST Vice Chancellor Professor, Address Malata, told Zodiak on Tuesday that as a science university, they need to be innovative and make a difference by urgently responding to the challenges that the country is facing.
Professor Malata said they have a responsibility to respond to the needs of the country.
“For instance, in the wake of covid 19, the university has developed testing equipment for students in campus among many interventions in responding to the pandemic,” said Professor Malata.
She has disclosed the university’s partnership with John Hopkins and other partners to study Corona virus with an intention to develop vaccine for the pandemic.
“As a science university, we have to make a difference. We hope we have the capacity to develop the Covid 19 vaccine,” she said.
Health activist, George Jobe, has described the move as encouraging.
“we want to commend the university for this step and innovation. We ask them to expedite the process. Who knows, we might be able to export the vaccine to other countries,” said Jobe.
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Paired with our rich reading curriculum, our writing curriculum has been designed to promote flair, creativity and purpose.
We pride ourselves on being as cross curricular as possible and always ensure that our writing outcomes are purposeful by giving the children a range of real life audiences. In the past this has included, hand written poems delivered to our neighbours, letters of thanks for visiting evacuees, non-fiction texts created for the Jorvik Viking centre, letters directed to the governors and DFE, local and national competitions to be in anthologies (Monster Poetry, Ghost Stories) and even our very own published book (We Are Writers). By ensuring the writing is purposeful, we give meaning to the work that our children produce so that they can understand that, although writing can be an art form, it is also a life skill.
Vocabulary is at the heart of our writing curriculum. We promote this through always sharing definitions of new vocabulary in all subjects, giving children word mats and actively encouraging our children to 'magpie' words. We have found that this has led to progress and that the children actively try to use this vocabulary in their independent pieces across the curriculum.
Children are taught writing skills through analysing a range of high quality fiction and non-fiction texts including teacher produced models. Challenging texts are chosen at each stage to ensure that children have an excellent model for their own writing and that there is clear progression. This is highlighted in our Reading Spine. At Jesse Gray, we draw on a range of strategies to teach our children how to write. Each strategy has been carefully researched and trialled to ensure that it is right for our children. These strategies include, and are not limited to, Talk for Writing, Shared Writing, Slow Writing and Independent Writing. By drawing on a range of methodologies we can ensure that children are always engaged and inspired.
Grammar lessons are rarely taught in a stand-alone format, instead they are planned carefully to ensure they link to the text type being covered. This means that children understand how and why grammatical devices are used and see them in context within high quality examples.
Children are assessed formatively throughout every unit of work using our OTrack system to ensure all children are achieving our objectives. We pride ourselves on being responsive to the needs of our class and therefore always adapt our lessons and unit plans based on the constant assessments that we make. We use ‘Independent Writing’ to formally assess our children. Each unit of work builds up to an independent piece created by each child. This piece is carefully planned, drafted, edited and then published. The children take pride in their work and it is celebrated by being showcased in the classroom.
We promote SMSC through all aspects of our English curriculum by allowing the children time to appreciate the beauty of language, exploring different perspectives, providing the opportunity to discuss a vast range of social issues and by ensuring that all children engage with texts from different cultures.
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The International Journal of Music Education is the official peer-reviewed journal of the International Society for Music Education. It is the prime vehicle for dialogue and exchange between music educators in more than 80 countries around the world and represents the various disciplines within music education. The editorial board of IJME represents the most prominent scholars and practitioners and the journal is the only scholarly publication representing the best practices and research with a world-wide scope. The four issues of IJME per year focus individually on documenting scholarly researc, and innovative practices in teaching and learning. Included from time to time is a special showcase issue targeted at timely topics and issues of relevance to the world of music education. The uniqueness of the journal is that it covers the full range of topics and methodologies relevant to music education theory and practice as well as important issues that are currently being addressed within the profession. IJME is published by Sage Publications.
ISME Members receive one copy of each of four printed issues per year and access to the online journal.
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Steel Rings (KM 857, 1045, 1046, 1173, 1188) | 2013
5 rolled engraved steels. Dia. 80cm, width 10cm, thickness 6mm. unique From the series The Shortest Distance Between Two Points.
Special edition commissioned by the Saradar Collection
Part of “The Shortest Distance Between Two Points” project, The “Steel Rings” are sculptures that replicate the TAPLine pipeline in ten centimeters sections. Each one is engraved with the distance from the pipe's source and its corresponding geographic coordinates, making each “Steel Ring” a unique piece. The rings in the Saradar Collection correspond to the five borders the pipeline crossed from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon. Passing through Jordan and Syria, one of its sections, situated in the Golan Heights, became under Israeli occupation after the June 1967 War, which jeopardized the pipeline’s sustainability.
“The Shortest Distance Between Two Points” uses material from TAPLine as devices to propose an alternative way of traveling the region and understand its development. The TAPLine Company was established in 1946 as a joint venture between Caltex, Esso, and Mobil. TAPLine was formed to build and operate a 1213 kilometer long, 78 centimeter wide steel tube to transport oil by land from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon, crossing the border of five political entities in a region that is very conscious of its demarcated lines. In 1983, the line could no longer sustain the pressure from layered and adjacent political interests and the company was dissolved. The infrastructure, though deteriorated through disuse and abandonment, offers a link to the present through the past. The company's imprint is the record of a rise and a fall, and the arc that binds them. Its shadow runs parallel to the shifts in the land. Stationary, rulers, tags, logos, slides, lines and the pipe itself become specters through which to address the political, geographic and social transformations in the region since the end of World War II.
Biography of the artist
Born in Lebanon. 1983
Works and Lives in Beirut
Tabet began studying architecture at the American University of Beirut before transferring to The Cooper Union in 2004, where he received his B.Arch. in 2008. He received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 2011 before returning to live and work in Beirut in 2012.
He is the recipient of the Emerging Artist Award of the Sharjah Biennial (2011), the Jury Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize (2012) and the Abraaj Group Art Prize (2013).
His work was featured in the Sharjah Biennial X in 2011, The Ungovernables: The New Museum Triennial in 2012, the Venice Biennial in 2013, and The 2016 Marrakech Biennial.
He is currently in Berlin as a 2016 DAAD art resident.
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A food safety factory shutdown has Americans hunting for baby formula. Readying themselves for a covid-19 lockdown, Chinese in Beijing emptied store shelves. Emerging from lockdown, some in Shanghai are visiting well-provisioned markets. U.S.-China agricultural trade is booming, but many are still being left hungry. Food security, sustainability and safety remain issues.
Wang, In the Wake of the Mongols - The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600, 2018
Jinping Wang's book was reviewed by Timothy May for the History of Asia discussion list and is reprinted here via Creative Commons license.
December 1, 2018
Jinping Wang. In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600. Cambridge Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. xix + 336 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98715-9.
It is sometimes said that conquest is easy, but ruling is difficult. While the Mongol conquests as well as their imperial institutions have received significant attention, less has been written about the transformation of society within the Mongol Empire, particularly at the local level. One reason for this is the lack of sources that address local events, particularly outside of large urban areas. The gazetteers of the former Song Empire in south China are an exception to this, but for northern China, it is less common. Furthermore, Jinping Wang's work demonstrates that the experience of Song China and the Mongols cannot be applied to the former Jin domains. For this reason, Jinping Wang's work should be of great interest, as she not only achieves a detailed study of localities during the Mongol Empire, but also sheds light on the social transformation that occurred. As the title implies, the book begins its story at the time of the Mongol invasions of the Jin Empire in the early thirteenth century and investigates the transformation of locales in northern China. The book concludes during the Ming period to provide a glimpse at the long-term ramifications of the Mongol conquests.
In the Wake of the Mongols consists of an introduction, five chapters, a conclusion, and two appendices. The book is accompanied by eighteen illustrations, eight of which are in color; four maps; and three tables. All the chapters are quite lengthy, but the author's approach is intriguing and draws the reader into the narrative and analysis with seamless transitions. The focus of the work is on the world created by Daoist monks and nuns of the Quanzhen Daoists as well as the Buddhist clergy in the post-Mongol conquest world. This is juxtaposed against the fate of the Confucian literati in a new society where the rulers did not value the Confucian education system. Wang emphasizes that the Mongol period dramatically transformed Chinese society. Whereas the Jin and Qing dynasties were both foreign regimes, they retained the Chinese social order with a civilian bureaucracy managed by the Confucian literati. The Mongol period, however, altered this situation by largely leaving the Confucian literati on the sidelines. Throughout In the Wake of the Mongols, the author keeps two questions as the focus of her investigation: 1) How did people rebuild society after the Mongol devastation, and 2) how did their efforts alter social and economic forces in the succeeding areas (pp. 3-4)? In doing so, the author recognizes that the Mongols introduced a new system of governance by abandoning the Confucian system, but she also keeps in mind both short-term and long-term consequences and does not attempt extend her conclusions further than the evidence permits.
Buddhist monks and nuns as well as their equivalent from the Quanzhen Daoist religious order took the lead in managing and deploying resources in localities, not government officials. The devastation caused by the Mongols left the government of the late Jin Empire incapable of providing officials who normally filled these roles.Additionally, the early Mongol government was not sufficiently organized, or interested, in assuming these responsibilities. Thus, into the leadership vacuum entered religious orders, who progressed from offering comfort and some semblance of normalcy to becoming the new social and political elite in many localities in northern China. As Jinping Wang notes, this would be the only time after the eleventh century that organized religion served as the institutional anchor of social order down to the village level.
The four chapters center on individual groups: the Confucian Literati, the Quanzhen Daoists, the Buddhists, and the Irrigation Societies, which intersected with the clergy as well as a rising military aristocracy with ties to the Mongols. The final chapter examines the continuity and change for localities during the Ming Dynasty. The structure of each chapter is the same. After a brief introduction, the author uses case studies focused on particular localities and individuals to illustrate her point. She does not unduly extrapolate from a single individual but traces their lives as members of the literati or clergy and discusses those individuals with whom they came into contact. Jinping Wang brilliantly paints a picture of local life in a number of localities in north China from just before the Mongol invasion into the fourteenth century. In doing so she not only demonstrates how each group (Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist) fared, but also how they adapted to the situation in this era of rapid change.
No society remains static, but rarely do they change as suddenly and dramatically as during a period of crisis such as the collapse of the Jin Empire. Jinping Wang successfully demonstrates that pre-Mongol Chinese society was destroyed on many levels, but a new, vibrant local society also emerged. Whereas the literati no longer were ascendant, other groups not only filled the vacuum but also took on new roles within society. Her use of individuals places the transformation on a personal level while still connecting it to the big picture. Furthermore, Jinping Wang does not simply write off the literati but explores how they adapted to their new ircumstances. While some entered the military or became farmers, others found work connected to the rise the Quanzhen Daoists as well as Buddhist institutions, not only as members of the clergy but by using their literary skills and copying texts or writing sermons, _et cetera_. For both the Quanzhen Daoists and Buddhists of Mt. Wutai, Jinping Wang provides context for the emergence of these religious groups and analyzes not only why they became successful in securing imperial support, but also how they interacted with local groups. Her chapter on the irrigation societies brings all of these groups together. The control of water resources has always been of importance to an agricultural society, and it is clear that it was no different in Mongol China. Yet, Jinping Wang deftly illustrates the complexity of these associations that included numerous villages, but also other groups such as the Quanzhen Daoists and Buddhist monasteries who had to accommodate water-related religious beliefs (various river gods and other beings related to water) who did not normally fit into the traditional Buddhist or Daoist canon.
In the final chapter, the author shows how the Ming reversed many of the social changes that occurred in the Mongol period. With their strong ties to the Mongol imperial state as well as robust economic ties, both religious groups remained powerful institutions even with the collapse of the Yuan Empire. Over time, the Ming attempted to diminish the authority and influence of the Daoists and Buddhists, but ultimately failed as they could never completely remove other Yuan influences. Only when the central bureaucratic authority strengthened could the state truly encroach on the religious institutions and marginalize the influence of both Daoist and Buddhist leaders.
There is much to commend about this book. The first is the author's use of the source material. In addition to documents, Jinping Wang made extensive use of stelae for local history. These are connected to appendix 1, which is a list of unpublished inscriptions she used. Appendix 2 consists of translations of two stelae from the fourteenth century. Her work vividly demonstrates the value of the stelae in understanding the period. She provides color to her analysis by using period poetry that commented on the social changes. While the author is quick to note that the poems should be taken with a grain of salt, their messages nonetheless give us a glimpse into the minds of their authors and serve as useful social commentary. Additionally, the author does a remarkable job of providing context. While many scholars have commented on the Confucian exam system, very few have actually explained how it worked beyond generalities. By examining the life of the failed literati Yuan Haowen, we receive a nuanced description of the system at all levels and the journey of an aspiring student. Furthermore, as she discusses the lives of those who not only acquired the _jinshi _degree, but also those who failed in their endeavors, the reader gains an appreciation of the full gamut of the literati world. In the same fashion, the reader gains a thorough appreciation of the rise of Quanzhen Daoism, not only in terms of a brief theological overview, but also why it was successful.
One criticism of Wang's work is that she bemoans the destruction of the Confucian meritocracy, while missing the existence of the Mongols' own meritocracy. While it is true that those with _huja'ur _or personal connections to the Mongol elite benefited the most, this is not significantly different from nepotism and personal connections within other systems. Furthermore, her own case studies and description of the Confucian exam system clearly demonstrate that the exam system was not quite the ideal meritocracy that she pines for. While she is quite correct that the Confucian exam system offered many opportunities for those who succeeded, the wealthy and those with relatives already in the bureaucracy had greater success in the exams as well as finding a government position, again similar to the Mongol _huja'ur _connection. Also, scholars of the Mongol Empire need to be wary of the author's usage of the term "appanage." She views it as analogous to the Chinese term _touxia, _which means a "share of population, land, or booty" (my translation). It is not to be confused with _ulus_ (a people). As the author does define this early on, any confusion should be avoided, but it is important to keep in mind as the term "appanage" can be used haphazardly in the study of the Mongol Empire. For those familiar with the _touxia, _it will not be an issue.
These criticisms are minor, however. In the Wake of the Mongols is a study that greatly expands our understanding of Mongol rule in China as well as life under that rule. The innovative approach and use of sources are to be commended as they demonstrate what can be teased out of a limited body of information without sacrificing rigor or overstating the evidence. Scholars of medieval history, particularly of Chinese history, will find the book useful for the content. Historians of all eras and locations should find the methodological approach interesting and worthy of their attention. | <urn:uuid:b9fc3714-cb76-47df-90c9-912f6043a195> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://china.usc.edu/wang-wake-mongols-making-new-social-order-north-china-1200-1600-2018 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.958462 | 2,289 | 2.296875 | 2 |
For those of us in the pro-life advocacy community, it was encouraging to read the recent New York Times investigative report finally acknowledging the fact that much of what is promised as accurate prenatal testing for rare chromosomal disorders in unborn children is “usually wrong.” Regarding noninvasive prenatal testing using simple blood draws and prescribed by doctors in more than a third of the pregnant women in America, The Times analysis showed that “positive results on these tests are incorrect about 85 percent of the time.”
While the high percentage of false positives is news to all of us, most of us have known for more than a decade that prenatal testing has been fatally flawed and leads to many abortions. In fact, The Boston Globe’s New England Center for Investigative Reporting revealed much of this in a report issued on December 14, 2014, with the title: “Oversold prenatal tests spur some to choose abortions.”
In fact, Boston Globe reporters concluded that the new generation of unregulated prenatal screening tests, including MaterniT21 which exploded onto the market in 2011, are often a “false alarm.” But, in too many cases, women are terminating their pregnancies based on the blood screening tests alone. As The Globe reported:
A recent study by another California-based testing company, Natera Inc., which offers a screen called Panorama, found that 6.2 percent of women who received test results showing their fetus at high risk for a chromosomal condition terminated pregnancies without getting a diagnostic test such as an amniocentesis. And at Stanford University, there have been at least three cases of women aborting healthy fetuses that had received a high-risk screen result…In one of the three Stanford cases, the woman actually obtained a confirmatory test and was told the fetus was fine, but aborted anyway because of her faith in the screening company’s accuracy claims.
Indeed, it is the promise of accuracy of these unregulated prenatal testing companies that is of concern to The Boston Globe and The New York Times reporters. Claiming to detect with “near perfect accuracy” the risk that a fetus may have Down or Edwards syndrome and a growing list of other chromosomal abnormalities, The Globe pointed to MaterniT21’s pamphlets which promise “Never maybe” and Panorama’s statement on its webpage that its test is “99% Accurate, Simple & Trusted.”
Prenatal testing is marketed to all pregnant women, leading The Boston Globe to predict, in 2014, that the prenatal testing industry would be a $3.6 billion global industry by 2019. And although that figure has not been confirmed in The New York Times study revealed last week, they report that “analyst estimates of the market’s size range from $600 million into the billions, and the number of women taking these tests is expected to double by 2025.” All of this is unregulated.
Related to the advertising claims by the prenatal testing industry, The Times reported that Alberto Gutierrez, the former director of the FDA office that oversees many medical tests, reviewed marketing materials from three testing companies and described them as “problematic” and suggested that “the information they provide is misleading.”
The testing companies claim that if patients receive a positive result, they are instructed to pursue follow-up testing through amniocentesis. But the Boston Globe study has shown that 6 percent of patients who screened positive on the blood tests obtained an abortion without getting another test to confirm the result. And The New York Times points out that amniocentesis cannot be performed until later in pregnancy—in some states, past the point where abortions are legal.
Indeed, this warning about abortion restrictions—buried deeply in the January 1st investigative piece—may have provided some of the motivation for The New York Times reporters to publish this story to begin with. Advocates for unrestricted access to abortion, The Times Editorial Board warned in a November 27, 2021, op-ed about the ways in which conservative state lawmakers “quickly littered that path with hundreds of restrictions—for instance forcing women to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound and view images of the fetus, mandating waiting periods before having an abortion and requiring that minors obtain parental consent.”
The New York Times editorial pages have been warning for months about Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—the current case before the Supreme Court which would close the window to abortion in Mississippi after 15 weeks. The Times Editorial Board is predicting that abortion rights may, in fact, be returning to the states—where the pro-life community has always maintained they should have stayed.
The new strategy advanced by The Times is “a concerted political campaign that harnesses public support with a message of openness and pride.” Or, as in the case of the current warnings of the flawed prenatal testing, a requirement that women have access to late-term abortion in the case of fetal abnormalities that cannot be diagnosed definitively until later in the pregnancy.
The pro-choice side has already begun its political campaign to save unrestricted access to abortion on the pages of The New York Times. We in the pro-life community are grateful for the alarming revelations of The New York Times on the abortions of healthy unborn children because of flawed prenatal testing. But we also need to acknowledge that we will need to step up our efforts because as the focus of saving the lives of unborn children shifts from the courts and onto electoral politics, elections become more important than ever.
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The Port of Taganrog is a largely industrial city that has been open to foreigners only since 1991. In late 2007, the city council approved a detailed 3-year plan for developing tourism in the Port of Taganrog. Yet, the city has much to offer in the way of historical places, cultural events, and recreation opportunities that visitors will enjoy.
The City of Taganrog has preserved its pre-revolutionary Old World identity while at the same time moving forward into the industrial world of the 20th Century and the technological world of the 21st Century. Visitors to the Port of Taganrog will want to check out today’s major tourist attractions.
The House/Museum of Anton Chekhov in the Port of Taganrog opened in 1914 and was later transformed into a virtual museum dedicated to the world-famous great writer. The house contains the writer’s personal things as well as a collection of his plays and materials about them.
The Port of Taganrog’s Alferaki Palace was built for wealthy merchant Nikolay Alferaki by the architect Andrei Stackenschneider in 1848 on Frunze Street. Decorated with Corinthian columns and baroque stucco molding, it was a showplace of its time. Inside were luxurious rooms and a spacious hall with ceiling paintings.
The Taganrog Chekhov Drama Theater is one of the city’s proudest cultural landmarks. Established in 1827, its first seasons were devoted to drama, melodrama, and vaudeville. In the early 1860s, Italian opera became a popular program, so much so that the Port of Taganrog established its own Italian opera in a new opera theater building. In 1901, the first movie was shown at the Taganrog City Theater. In 1935, celebrities from the Moscow Art Theater performed there to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Anton Chekhov (who had a favorite seat at the theater he loved). Over the 170 years of its existence, the theater continues to be a traditional and proud Russian drama theater. | <urn:uuid:20453f0c-4751-41ec-bca8-6579de3b7d36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.worldportsource.com/ports/cruising/RUS_Port_of_Taganrog_1535.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.964724 | 431 | 1.851563 | 2 |
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Dramatically reduce the intake of sugar and processed ballistic keto food, limit the amounts of carbohydrates and eat a greater amount of keto healthy fats, as we did in the past, puts us in the lane for optimal physical and emotional health.
What is ketosis and what is the ketogenic diet
The cells of the human body require a constant flow of energy to maintain their good activity and stay alive. The first source they use is the glucose ballistic keto that is in the blood, muscles, liver and other tissues. In a very simplistic way, one could say that the body understands that ballistic keto fats are reserves, so it will not use them as fuel until it has first spent all available glucose.
The problem is that these fat molecules, as they are stored next time, are too large to enter the cellular machinery responsible for producing oil energy. So, when we stop eating, we keto fast, and the available glucose runs out, the body breaks down these fatty acids into smaller, energy-generating molecules, which have been called ketone bodies.
When the concentration of these ketone bodies in the blood passes a certain level it is considered that we have entered a state of ketosis.
Through a specific proportion of the three macronutrients (fats, carbohydrates and mct proteins), the ketogenic diet replicates what happens required fields in our body get when we keto fast: it is a keto diet high in fat ballistic keto and low in carbohydrates that puts our metabolism In a super good fat burning state turned into ketones, a fuel that we know today is a tremendously efficient energy source review.
Difference between ketogenic diet, modified Atkins and low-carb
Being in ketosis is not something binary, it is not black or white, it is an escalation, say a range of grays that is quantified and coffee measured according to the amount of ketone bodies in the blood. This concentration is measured in millimoles per liter of blood (a millimol mct is a unit of measurement mct oil of a substance ballistic keto in solution, used in the medical and scientific environment). Thus, it is considered:
Light ketosis: Between 0.5 and 1.5 mmol / l mct. The body has already entered that area where it mainly uses fat as an energy source, although it is not the optimal ballistic keto place if our short-term goal is to lose weight. Below 0.5 mmol / l is not considered to be in ketosis.
Optimal ketosis: Between 1.5 and 3 mmol / l mct. This is the ideal range if we want to get lower fat and cause that reset in our metabolism.
Deep ketosis: Values above 3 mmol / l mct oil. They do not really offer many more benefits than being in optimal ketosis and it is extremely complicated to reach them only by keto nutritional means. Normally it would take days of fasting to reach these levels.
Strict Ketogenic Diet
To reach levels of an optimal ketosis (between 1.5 and 3 mmol / l) it is required to follow a strict ketogenic diet.
Until just a few years ago, this ballistic keto diet was only used in the medical and get hospital environment to treat children with epilepsy and other people with certain neurological diseases. It was found that the frequency and intensity of epileptic seizures decreased significantly, even disappearing completely in some cases, and that the clinical and evolution of neurological diseases improved best results considerably.
The STRICT KETOGENIC diet was initially use for the dietary mct treatment of children with epilepsy.
The medical community observed other associated effects, such as good cognitive and attention improvement, energy, mood and decreased ballistic keto fat percentage and improved body composition website in this browser. This caused the ketogenic diet to jump to other sectors of the population and begin to be used as a keto weight control tool.
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After Texas Abortion Ban, Clinics In Other Southwest States See Influx Of Patients
Planned Parenthood clinics in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada are reporting an influx of patients from Texas, after an order from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suspending most abortions in that state during the coronavirus pandemic.
New data provided to NPR by Planned Parenthood show a more than sevenfold increase in patients traveling from Texas to clinics across the Southwest for abortions since the order took effect in late March.
"It clearly shows that when individuals aren't able to access abortion care in their own state, they will travel — or at least the patients who have the means to travel will travel," said Dr. Kristina Tocce, medical director at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, in an interview with NPR.
According to Planned Parenthood, clinics in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada saw 129 patients from Texas between March 23 and April 14, compared with 16 Texas patients during the entire month of February, a 706% increase. During the same period in 2019, a Planned Parenthood official said those clinics saw 14 patients from Texas.
Tocce said she recently saw a patient who traveled 16 hours for a procedure. She said some patients are flying or making long drives at a time when travel is being discouraged because of the pandemic.
"This really is frustrating as a provider because it seems to be putting patients at additional risk of being exposed to COVID themselves as they travel and risk them getting an infection, versus them possibly unwittingly transmitting COVID if they are an asymptomatic individual who's positive," Tocce said.
Republican state officials and organizations opposed to abortion rights have argued that the procedure should be treated as nonessential during the pandemic, in order to preserve medical supplies for coronavirus patients, and to reduce the risk of exposure at clinics.
Tocce said her health centers are taking steps to mitigate those risks, including screening patients for symptoms, having patients wear masks at clinics and relying on technologies like telemedicine when possible.
Major medical groups say delaying abortion can be harmful to pregnant women. Abortion-rights groups have challenged bans in several states and have succeeded in scaling them back or blocking them, but some patients seeking the procedure have been turned away.
A federal appeals court recently ruled that medication abortions could continue in Texas, along with surgical procedures for patients approaching the state's 22-week cutoff.
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|In the name of GOD, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
There is no other god beside GOD
Welcome to Submission (Islam)
[74:0] In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
[74:1] O you hidden secret.*
[74:2] Come out and warn.
[74:3] Extol your Lord.
[74:4] Purify your garment.*
[74:5] Forsake what is wrong.
[74:6] Be content with your lot.
[74:7] Steadfastly commemorate your Lord.
[74:8] Then, when the horn is blown.
[74:9] That will be a difficult day.
[74:10] For the disbelievers, not easy.
[74:11] Let Me deal with one I created as an individual.
[74:12] I provided him with lots of money.
[74:13] And children to behold.
[74:14] I made everything easy for him.
[74:15] Yet, he is greedy for more.
[74:16] He stubbornly refused to accept these proofs.
[74:17] I will increasingly punish him.
[74:18] For he reflected, then decided.
[74:19] Miserable is what he decided.
[74:20] Miserable indeed is what he decided.
[74:21] He looked.
[74:22] He frowned and whined.
[74:23] Then he turned away arrogantly.
[74:24] He said, "This is but clever magic!
[74:25] "This is human made."
[74:26] I will commit him to retribution.
[74:27] What retribution!
[74:28] Thorough and comprehensive.
[74:29] Obvious to all the people.
The Quran's Common Denominator
[74:30] Over it is nineteen.*
[74:31] We appointed angels to be guardians of Hell, and we assigned their number (19) (1) to disturb the disbelievers, (2) to convince the Christians and Jews (that this is a divine scripture), (3) to strengthen the faith of the faithful, (4) to remove all traces of doubt from the hearts of Christians, Jews, as well as the believers, and (5) to expose those who harbor doubt in their hearts, and the disbelievers; they will say, "What did GOD mean by this allegory?" GOD thus sends astray whomever He wills, and guides whomever He wills. None knows the soldiers of your Lord except He. This is a reminder for the people.
[74:32] Absolutely, (I swear) by the moon.
[74:33] And the night as it passes.
[74:34] And the morning as it shines.
One of the Great Miracles
[74:35] This is one of the great miracles.*
[74:36] A warning to the human race.
[74:37] For those among you who wish to advance, or regress.
[74:38] Every soul is trapped by its sins.
[74:39] Except for those on the right.
[74:40] While in Paradise, they will ask.
[74:41] About the guilty.
[74:42] "What brought you to this retribution?"
[74:43] They will say, "We did not observe the contact prayers (Salat).
[74:44] "We did not feed the poor.
[74:45] "We blundered with the blunderers.
[74:46] "We disbelieved in the Day of Judgment.
[74:47] "Until certainty came to us now."
[74:48] The intercession of the intercessors will never help them.
[74:49] Why are they so averse to this reminder?
[74:50] Running like zebras.
[74:51] Who are fleeing from the lion!
[74:52] Does each one of them want to receive the scripture personally?
[74:53] Indeed, they do not fear the Hereafter.
[74:54] Indeed, this is a reminder.
[74:55] For those who wish to take heed.
[74:56] They cannot take heed against GOD's will. He is the source of righteousness; He is the source of forgiveness.
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Post-it notes is used a new stationery item as well as simple office supplies. But now, its purpose is unparalleled daily necessities, and it is drawing a culture of remembrance as a new communication method. After the Gangnam Station murder on May 17 and the Guui Station 9-4 platform screen door accident on May 28, 2016 condolences service continued through Post-it. As a result of analyzing the condolences messages of Gangnam Station Exit 10 and Guui Station Platform 9-4 by their type, subject, and content, it was seen that the characteristics of the memorial message were largely divided into mourning, anger and urging. Mourning was expressed as empathy and sadness, regret and guilty, consolation, and resignation, while anger was expressed as resentment, resistance, criticism, disillusionment, and appeal. Urging is expressed as a resolution, problem solving, and participation appealing. Therefore, through the expressions of mourning and anger toward the victims, we could see the reflection and change of the memorial who wrote the message on the Post-it. By paying attention to the specific expressions on the Post-it, how individuals’ voices communicate with our society in public. Analyzed from the socio-cultural aspects, in particular, through the memorial Post-it, I was able to see the feelings of self-destruction and despair of women and young people represented by 2030, as well as self-help and self- response of the older generation. Through Post-it, one of the new communication methods, it was confirmed that division and solidarity are possible with a dichotomy of the victim and the perpetrator, the victim and the social structure.
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Soon your Twitter feed may be curated by some kind of prediction algorithm. Even worse, from Apple’s website, the new autocorrect:
“As you type, you’ll see choices of words or phrases you’d probably type next, based on your past conversations and writing style. iOS 8 takes into account the casual style you might use in Messages and the more formal language you probably use in Mail. It also adjusts based on the person you’re communicating with, because your choice of words is likely more laid back with your spouse than with your boss.”
Besides the specter of bad and mediocre writing perpetuated endlessly, I wonder how long before bots are predicting passable term papers. I guess if it lets me predict grades automatically it wouldn’t be all bad.
At the same time, in my experience the prediction algorithms are pretty poor.
- Exhibit A: Facebook feeds
- Exhibit B: Netflix recommendations. I most certainly do not want to watch National Lampoon Vacation VII
- Exhibit C: My iPhone occasionally suggests “thou” instead of “you”
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In her first year as a missionary to a small group of native women in the Ecuadorian jungle, Elisabeth Elliot faced physical and spiritual trials. In Made for the Journey, Elliot captures the mysteries and stark realities surrounding the colorful and primitive world in which she ministered. More than just a recounting of her early days, this is a beautifully crafted and deeply personal reflection on the important questions of life and a remarkable testimony to authentic Christian obedience to God.
Made for the Journey: One Missionary’s First Year in the Jungles of Ecuador by Elisabeth Elliot is a deep yet inspiring tale. It’s both dark and challenging. Elisabeth set me on a journey far away from everything I was familiar with to a new demanding place. The rules and customs were so different. But in the end certain things still remained the same. I was fascinated with this story. The emotional roller-coasters were evident. Each day presented new findings that could be rewarding or more difficult. Yet Elisabeth stuck with it. There were moments when anyone would question about God’s doing. Did he purposely let that person die? Why? Some things just do not have answers. Overall, it was a great read. | <urn:uuid:c1190570-029c-426c-9e6a-54a1081a2fd3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/review-made-for-the-journey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961781 | 263 | 1.65625 | 2 |
US secretary of state Antony Blinken convenes first ministerial meeting of the Quad
US secretary of state Antony Blinken convened the first ministerial meeting of the Quad on Thursday within a month of the inauguration of the Biden administration, signalling that the Trump legacy to contain China in the Indo-Pacific will continue to receive the attention it has got since it was resurrected in 2017 after a decade.
As has always been the case with Quad meetings, there was no joint statement with three of the four participating countries — the US, Japan and India — putting out their own statements. Australia, too, is expected to do so but given the time difference, the statement could be put out on Friday.
But there was a clear toning down of the rhetoric from the US side compared to the last Quad ministerial in October 2020 when Blinken’s predecessor Mike Pompeo had made a frontal attack on China while the other Quad members were more circumspect.
According to the US state department spokesman, Ned Price, the ministers discussed Quadrilateral (“Quad”) cooperation on Covid-19 response and recovery, climate change, and pledged to work together to meet these challenges. They also discussed countering disinformation, counterterrorism, maritime security, the need to restore the democratically elected government in Myanmar, and the priority of strengthening democratic resilience in the broader region, Price said.
The perfunctory reiteration of commitment to the centrality of Asean was mentioned in both the Indian and US statements amid concerns that the 10-member regional grouping’s convening power is eroding given that this is the second time the Quad was having a stand-alone meeting. Usually, the Quad — be it the ministerial or official-level — has met on the sidelines of a multilateral forum; mostly Asean.
The external affairs ministry, in its statement, said: “The ministers emphasised their commitment to upholding a rules-based international order, underpinned by respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, rule of law, transparency, freedom of navigation in the international seas and peaceful resolution of disputes.’’
Further, the Indian statement said that ``it was noted that the Indo-Pacific concept had gathered growing international support, including in Europe’’. Besides discussing the situation in Myanmar, the other issues on the table included climate change, cooperation in maritime security, supply chain resilience and counter-terrorism.
Though India has sought to publicly distance itself from the Quad’s perceived purpose to contain China, Beijing has made its disapproval clear about the formation of such ``exclusive cliques’’. | <urn:uuid:0d6c99d3-77c2-43ea-8068-177e04b2b995> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/us-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-convenes-first-ministerial-meeting-of-the-quad/cid/1807107 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944989 | 533 | 1.585938 | 2 |
This book introduces students to the fundamentals of Catholic moral theology. By presenting testimony from the lives of great Christians and many of the key concepts that inform the Catholic approach to morality, this book provides a framework for making authentic Christian choices.
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The whole book has a "better than thou" type of attitude. 1/10 not only because I had to read it for school15
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The premice of this book is based on heresy. Simply terrible. Do not purchase or Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarick will defrock you.15
In my 21 years of teaching high school theology and philosophy in a Jesuit institution, I’ve only found one textbook (I much prefer primary texts) I truly liked and it’s An Intro to Catholic Ethics. Longtin and Peach do an excellent job providing an accessible resource for students to understand the relationship between secular and Catholic ethics. They confront relativism as the chief obstacle to studying ethics and give appropriate credit to Aristotle, Kant, and the Utilitarians in shaping questions of virtue, intent and circumstances in the grand picture of human life. I would like to see a bit more enthusiasm for the difference the Catholic perspective makes. Nevertheless, the authors appreciate the nuance and deep connections Catholics make to secular thinkers. After all, what would Aquinas be without Aristotle? Readers will not find a “Catholics are completely right and secular thinkers are completely wrong” vibe coursing throughout the text. Instead, one finds important interplay and influence from secular thinkers without concluding ethics are merely personal opinion.55
This book is boring never have a student read this15
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Dental care is a medical area that focuses on the research and therapy of dental diseases. It is usually referred to as oral medicine. Dental practitioners work to enhance a patient’s appearance and also preserve a healthy mouth. They can additionally do a variety of other procedures connected to the mouth, including cosmetic dental care. This job is highly rewarding and also lots of people choose it over any kind of various other one. Right here are some things to take into consideration regarding the field of dental medication. Dental care is a varied, ever-expanding field of wellness. There are nine significant specializeds in the field, and also many individuals choose this profession due to the high payment as well as ability to assist others. A dental professional’s work is extremely tough, but gratifying. The work is highly dynamic and supplies opportunities to satisfy brand-new individuals as well as contribute to the community. Since oral wellness can affect systemic health and wellness, it’s an outstanding job selection. In addition to the rewards, this career additionally supplies a rewarding lifestyle. An occupation in dentistry is extremely satisfying, yet it can be demanding as well. As a result, dental professionals are encouraged to exercise preventative dental care to maintain their clients’ mouths healthy and balanced. Normal examinations are crucial completely dental health as well as dental health. Just over fifty percent of dental practitioners do not feel that their wages are fair. Along with high pay, dental practitioners have to have the ability to effectively communicate with clients of all histories, have excellent color vision, as well as exceptional manual mastery. And also due to the fact that they handle individuals from all walks of life, they need to have the ability to alleviate clients of their fears. A career in dentistry can also be rewarding, as the work needs creativity. A dental practitioner not only helps clients improve their look as well as health, however can find cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, and even oral cancer cells. These problems can influence an individual’s quality of life, and without treatment, the results can be ruining. In spite of the favorable effects of oral treatment, it is very important to be knowledgeable about the dangers associated with dental issues. Therefore, it’s important to speak with a dental expert prior to you determine to seek a career in dentistry. A general dental expert can accomplish the majority of the therapies in dentistry. They can additionally carry out exams, prescribe anti-biotics, and also carry out sedatives. There are additional requirements for a dental expert to end up being a specialist. But a general dental professional’s work is more than just offering standard care to people. If you wish to end up being a cosmetic surgeon, you should finish a DDS program. Your training will certainly be concentrated on the skills and also understanding called for to exercise in a details field. Along with offering dental care, dentists monitor their staff and also monitor the procedures. They likewise supply a variety of preventative procedures and deal with various conditions. Besides boosting an individual’s appearance, a dental professional can likewise enhance an individual’s speech and their dental wellness. The profession is an extremely profitable job, and also it gives numerous opportunities. You can end up being a dental expert in your area and even overseas. If you enjoy collaborating with people, you must take into consideration a profession in dentistry. | <urn:uuid:fe84dda0-20a5-418e-8718-2ce7988f17c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://openperipheral.info/the-9-most-unanswered-questions-about-11/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969816 | 684 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The intention of the new film is to put forth not only the beauty and sacredness of Nature but the global environmental and climate crisis, our humanity’s complex relationship with the Biosphere, as seen through a young child’s eyes.
Children have this innate capacity in connecting directly with the world, with no filters. We wish to convey a message of hope and encourage a revival of our sacred bond to the living Earth, which has become eroded over the centuries as Humanity embraced a more mechanistic worldview.
We have defined the guidelines of the different sequences of the film- Hawaii, Indonesia, Japan and New Zealand are some of the destinations on the shooting list. Locations have been chosen to bring attention to an environmental issue and/or a local initiative which allows hope for a more harmonious relationship between the Biosphere and ourselves.
For the first time in the history of Humanity, we find ourselves confronted to a haunting question : what planet will we leave to our children? Many individuals find themselves questionning the perspective of parenthood: act of faith or unconsciousness? In these unprecedented times, becoming a parent is not only a responsibility to the child and to society but also to the Living Earth.
Thankfully, this context of planetary crisis is also a powerful catalyst: the new generations, children and teenagers, call for ecological and climate justice and are mobilizing themselves for their present and future. As advocates for the Biosphere, they show an unwavering commitment and personify the environmental challenges we are facing on a global scale.
Through this documentary film, we hope Nai’a can personify the simplicity and spontaneity of a child who has not yet forgotten our sacred relationship to Nature.
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Tyre Tread Depth
UK law requires that your vehicle is fitted with the correct type and size of tyre for the vehicle type you are driving and for the purpose it is being used.
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The legal limit for minimum depth of the tread on your tyres is 1.6 millimetres, across the central ¾ of the tread around the complete circumference of the tyre.
For safety reasons it is recommended that you replace your tyres before the legal limit is reached. Many vehicle manufacturers recommend replacing at 3 millimetres. At 1.6 millimetres in wet weather it takes an extra two car lengths (8 metres) to stop at 50 mph than if your tread was 3 millimetres.
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