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President Milan Kucan’s second five-year presidential term of office ends on 23 December 2002. He was elected President of the Republic of Slovenia for his second term in November 1997 as an independent candidate on the civil list and was elected in the first round against seven opponents, winning 55.57% of the votes.
As leader of the League of Communists of Slovenia he declared his commitment to open political dialogue immediately upon assuming that position in 1986. He assured the citizens of Slovenia that he would do everything to expand the sphere of political freedoms and respect for human dignity. He supported the separation of the party from the state as well as political pluralism. Two years into his presidency, the Slovene political springtime came into full bloom in the shape of plurality and legitimacy of different political orientations, and foreign reporters wrote about Slovenia as an island of political freedom in the former political East.
Milan Kucan voiced his objection to national inequality and lack of democracy in the former Yugoslavia, as well as to those currents that were leading to states of emergency and bloody war. He did the same when the rights of the Albanian ethnic minority and the autonomy of Kosovo were being defended. When the former Yugoslavia started turning into a danger zone threatening peace and security in Europe, he was seeking ways towards an agreement on the peaceful dismantling of Yugoslavia through the assertion of the right of nations to self-determination. He was convinced that the greatest risk for the constituent nations laid in preserving the integrity of the former Yugoslavia at all costs. He is a committed advocate of non-violent solutions. He proved this during the time when Slovenia itself fell prey to the aggression of the Yugoslav army, and managed to obtain political consensus for the Brioni Declaration, which was decisive for peace in Slovenia. Milan Kucan was leading Slovenia when the country made true its dream of independence and became a member of the United Nations.
Ever since 1989 when political pluralism blossomed with the founding of new political associations and parties in Slovenia, Milan Kucan has remained the most popular personality in Slovenia, which is evident from the results of public opinion polls conducted by Slovene research institutes, as well as from the regular monthly opinion polls in Slovene dailies, which declared him to be Slovenia’s political figure of the decade in 2001. Also interesting are political opinion polls conducted in Slovenia in December 2001, showing that if Milan Kucan were to found or lead a political party it would win 40%, according to some media even as many 54% of the votes at parliamentary elections. As in past years Milan Kucan himself remains the most credible political figure according to these polls.
In 1990 he was elected President of the Presidency of Slovenia - then still a former Yugoslav republic - and opted for suprapartite political action. He strove for the greatest possible consensus among political forces, as well as for national reconciliation. In 1992, in the first direct elections in the independent Republic of Slovenia, when he also stood as an independent candidate on the civil list, he was elected in the first round against seven opponents, winning 64 per cent of the votes. | <urn:uuid:460d48d4-e5b5-4fc8-ba8d-953460bc55c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www2.gov.si/up-rs/1992-2002/mk-ang.nsf/enpredmkcv.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.983981 | 681 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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For all of these recipes, prepare the fresh violet flowers by removing the green and white base part of each flower. It’s the blue-purple part that gives the syrup its distinctive color and flavor.
Traditional “Syrup of Violets”
This traditional recipe is based on a preparation given in Grieve’s “A Modern Herbal” that dates back farther than the book.
Equal parts by volume:
- Violet petals loosely packed
- Distilled water*
- White sugar**
* Distilled water is recommended for its neutral pH. The pigment in violets is pH reactive, variation in your tap water may affect the color.
** You can use alternative sweeteners such as honey, agave, or raw sugar but they may affect the color and flavor of the syrup.
- Boil the water
- Place the flower petals in a jar or similar container that can be covered
- Pour the boiling water into the jar covering the petals.
- Let the petals sit for 24 hours and cool to room temperature.
- The water will become a striking purple color
- Combine the petals, water, and sugar in a double boiler or pot on low heat.
- Cook the mixture for two hours, not letting it get above a light simmer.
- Strain the mixture to remove the petals.
This will keep in a sealed container in the fridge for six months.
Alternative Violet Syrups
There are a bunch of ways you can make sweet violet preparations without processed sugar. Some of them may mask the subtle flavor or intense color but it’s worth experimenting with. You can use the traditional recipe above with a different sweetener, or you can try one of these variations.
Violet Infused Honey
Put violet petals and honey into a jar. As a make-shift double boiler, place the jar in a saucepan with an inch of water in the bottom. Heat for about 30 minutes then cover the jar and allow it to infuse for 24 hours or longer, up to a month. You can leave the petals in or reheat the honey and strain.
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It is always better to maintain good health than trying to restore health after an illness. Preventive healthcare is also more economical in comparison to expensive treatments. A few cornerstones to good health include proper nutrition and exercise, control of internal and external parasites, maintaining good dental health and prevention of infectious diseases. Just like us going to see our own doctor. It is equally important for your pets to visit their veterinarian once or twice a year. Regular wellness exams allow us the opportunity to detect potential health problems before they become more serious.
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Despite the steps we take to prevent illness, our pets might still become sick. If you notice symptoms such as loss of energy or appetite, changes in water consumption or urination, abnormal bowel movements, vomiting, coughing, sneezing, or itchiness, your pet may require medical attention.
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If your pets’ teeth aren’t brushed regularly, it could lead to tartar accumulation. If the tartar buildup continues, they could develop gum disease, dental pain and ultimately, tooth loss. As the disease progresses, the dental infection may potentially spread through the body and cause your pet to become very ill.
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A new app called FitArt has just been launched and it’s exactly what we needed. Always too busy with art world activities that keep you from hitting the gym? Well, now you have no excuse! The new app presented by Roehrs & Boetsch provides art shows on your phone in the form of a fitness plan. Available for both iOS and Android, the app features workouts and exercises created by artists, helping you get your sweat while also staying creative!
The app has launched with a 7-minute workout and in-app show called Connected in Isolation, curated by Nina Roehrs and Damjanski, featuring work by artists including Molly Soda, Petra Cortright and Olia Lialina. “In the beginning of the pandemic I nerded out on fitness apps because I couldn’t go running anymore”, says Damjanski, “In conversations with Nina Roehrs from Roehrs & Boetsch we’ve come up with the idea to create artistic workouts, that are video performances and could also be used as exercises at the same time.” Thus, FitArt grants a wide audience to experience works of art even in times of social distancing and isolation, providing a new exhibition format for art in the digital age while also a consolation for those suffering from gym envy while physical playgrounds are closed.
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Re-Placement or In-Placement Theology
By Dr. Howard Morgan
All over the world the Holy Spirit is stirring the hearts of Christians to discover the Jewish roots of their faith, and to understand the proper biblical relationship that the Church is to have with the Jewish people. As this work of the Holy Spirit continues, we come face to face with various kinds of "theologies" and attitudes that seek to minimize the profound importance of this restoration.
There are those who, because of their ignorance, off-handedly dismiss it as irrelevant to the everyday life of the believer. There are also those who seek to prevent this restoration completely by proclaiming a doctrine that historically has been used to keep the Church in an adversarial and persecutorial role in relationship to the Jewish people. This doctrine has historically been known as "Replacement Theology."
Replacement Theology teaches that the Church has replaced the Jewish people in the purposes of God. It boldly declares that the Church is now the "new Israel," that God has rejected and is punishing the Jewish people because of their rejection of Jesus Christ, and that there is no future for the Jewish people or the land of Israel.
Through this doctrine, Christians are taught that God has finished his dealings with natural Israel (both the land and the people), and that He is now only concerned with the Church. At best, Christians have been taught that the Jewish people and the nation of Israel are to be viewed like any other nation on the earth, with no Biblical or prophetic significance. At worst, Christians have been taught that it was their responsibility to persecute the Jews, as a testimony to the wrath of God that will fall on all who reject Christ.
This theology teaches that the Church is now to be thought of as the "New" or "spiritual" Israel. Christians are taught to believe that they have inherited all of the promises of blessings made to the Jewish people and to the land of Israel. The Church, as the "New Israel," has replaced natural Israel and is now the beneficiary of all that God promised the Jewish people. When the Bible speaks of God’s blessing the Jewish people, He really means the gentile Church. When God speaks of blessing the land or the city of Jerusalem, He is actually speaking spiritually to the Church, because the Church is now the land or the city, or anyone or anything else for which there are promises of blessing.
This perverse "doctrine of demons" (as the Apostle Paul so aptly named such malignancies) infected the Church with pride and arrogance, ripped her from her Biblical relationship and responsibilities to the Jewish people, and then turned her into a murderous, vicious, hateful persecutor of those to whom she was originally sent to be a testimony of God’s love, grace and power. How different history would have been had the Church discerned the spirit which propagated this great lie and rejected it, before it could have its disastrous effects.
Torn from her "anointed roots" of faith (Rom. 11:17), the Church descended into the spiritual darkness of hierarchical sacramentalism, imperialistic motivations, and carnal power politics. Instead of taking the gospel of salvation in the name of Jesus to all the nations of the earth, the Church began to sweep pagans into her organizational web of sacramental rituals, taking the power of the sword of steel rather than the sword of the spirit as the legitimizer of her actions.
No longer capable of imparting Biblical faith, the only authentic, legitimate legacy of the Church (i.e. preaching the word of god which creates faith in the heart of the hearer - Rom. 10:17), she illicitly substituted humanly devised forms and rituals for the supernatural reality of the "new birth" (John 3:3,7 & 1 Peter 1:23). Pagans were baptized not because they had a true spiritual re-birth, but because it became the way into the politically and socially accepted religion.
The Lord Jesus ceased to be the head of the Church, and the usurper, the devil himself, became the illegitimate head of the now perverted "Christian Church." This counterfeit Church had as its goal what satan has always wanted, the worship of those who were created to worship the one true god. Since satan was a murderer from the beginning, this "Church" did not give a second thought to shedding the blood of all those who dared stand in her way of world domination. Not only did this grotesque perversion persecute the Jews, but all who dared oppose it were murdered, as Foxes book of martyrs so vividly attests.
The once pure Church of Jesus Christ was completely transfigured into an unrecognizable murderer who would stop at nothing to accomplish the goals of her satanic master. The devil, knowing God's plan to use the Church to provoke Israel to jealousy, had thus far succeeded in so distorting the "faith once delivered to the saints," that the Jewish people were only too glad to reject such an idol worshipping, blood shedding abomination. "How could anything that evil and malignant come from the God of Israel?", they reasoned. "how could the "Jesus" they claim to believe in be our Messiah? Whatever he is, whoever he was, he is not the promised Messiah, for certainly our Messiah could not, or would not, inflame his followers with such hatred and evil."
The plan of the devil had succeeded: A perverted Church persecuting the Jews in the name of Jesus - Jesus, the name the Jewish nation must believe in before He can return to destroy the devil. A master stroke of evil genius! The Jewish people would never come to faith in the one whose supposed followers persecuted and killed them.
But...God said in Psalm 102:13-16, that there would come an appointed time when He would arise and have mercy upon Zion, when His servants would feel pity for Zion's stones and compassion for her dust. This is the hour that God is arising! He is working in the hearts of believers all over the world. He is restoring the Church to the proper New Testament understanding of her "grafted in" position. He is restoring the Church to a recognition of her Jewish Roots. He is stirring believers around the world to bring outpourings of love, support and testimony to Israel. For the first time in history, the Jewish people will experience the "true Church," demonstrating the kind of love and power that will provoke them to faith.
The truth, which always brings freedom, is that the Church has been in-grafted into relationship with Israel and has NOT replaced Israel. Because satan saw the power that God would release by the creation of a new supernatural relationship between Jews and Gentiles, he has vigorously and thus far successfully, opposed the fulfillment of this Biblical plan. In these days, God is restoring to the Church an understanding of this divine relationship. Gentile believers are understanding that they have been grafted into Israel's Olive Tree and are partaking of the rich root of the faith of the patriarchs.
In the realization that the Church is sharing this "root," new relationships, new dynamics of communication and understanding are able to take place. God has always intended that there be a flow of communication, testimony, and love between the "cultivated" and "wild" branches as a demonstration of his Kingdom. He will yet bring to pass such interactions and relationships.
There is coming a day in which the Church around the world will see and understand her proper relationship with the Jewish people and will act to establish lines of communication and interplay in which the true testimony of Messiah will be demonstrated and understood. Jesus, who has been so maligned and distorted by the wiles of the devil, will be seen and understood for who He really is.
The reconciliation of the Church to her Jewish Roots will eventuate in the establishment of world wide interaction between Christians and Jews. These international dialogues will continually break down barriers of distortion and establish bridges of relationship. What God intended for the Church in the beginning, will come to pass at the end. Gentile believers, the grafted in wild branches, will be in a relationship with the Jewish people that is free of religious and racial prejudice, where true dialogue and sharing can take place.
The ultimate fruit of an "in-placement theology" will be the creation of a spiritual environment where the true testimony of Jesus and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit can take place. Instead of hatred and conflict, there can be love and dialogue. Instead of murder and mayhem, there can be mutually beneficial and fruitful harmony. Instead of a satanically inspired history of persecution and death, there will arise a divinely inspired and empowered future filled with the demonstration of the power and fruit of the Holy Spirit.
The ultimate fruit of Replacement Theology was manifest in the Holocaust. The spiritual roots of the Holocaust can be seen in the ways in which this demonic theology allowed the Church to take one of two basic positions in relation to the Jewish people: ignore them or persecute them. The vast majority of the Church just ignored the plight of the Jewish people, as the Nazi death machine sought to fulfill satan’s plan to kill them all. These attitudes continue today. Where is the outcry of the Church on behalf of national Israel? Do you believe that the bible promises the land to the Jews? Do you believe that their regathering is part of the fulfillment of prophecy? If you believe it, are you doing anything about it?
While many Christians do not like the idea of gentile believers calling themselves "spiritual Jews," I believe that this is an accurate appellation. For Jewish believers, the difficulty with this terminology is that the history of those who called themselves "spiritual Jews" has been one of "replace and persecute," not "in-place and relate." For gentile believers, it is a lack of true understanding often times coupled with traces of anti-semitism. In the past those who called themselves "spiritual Jews" did it with the erroneous under-standing that they were the "new" or "spiritual" Israel, having rejected and replaced the natural Jewish people.
This was the seed that produced the fruit of 1800 years of persecution, hatred and death. If only they had rightly understood that they were in fact "spiritual Jews," but in the true biblical sense. They were grafted-in along side the natural branches, and together should have worshipped the god of Israel, partaking of the covenants, and enjoying citizenship in the common-wealth of Israel. Then they would have also understood that their position had been given to them by the Lord, so they could partake of Israel's rich spiritual heritage and provoke the Jewish people to spiritual jealousy through their love and the supernatural demonstration of the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit.
God uses the concept of being "grafted in" to illustrate the close relationship that gentile believers were to continually maintain with the Jewish people. This ongoing relationship was to be cultivated so that the Jewish people could receive a loving testimony to the truthfulness of the messianic claims of Jesus, as the Church demonstrated the love and the power of the holy spirit.
Because the church grew arrogant against the branches and was severed from the roots of faith, she was unable to maintain a testimony of the power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit’s power began to wane in the Church and the Church turned to false doctrines and traditions to justify its powerlessness. It is sad that today many denominations have the same "theological rationalizations" for their own lack of power.
As God restores believers to their Biblical relationship with the Jewish people, I believe that there will be a concurrent increase in the demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit. God intends to provoke the Jewish people to spiritual jealousy and faith in Jesus by the demonstration of the love and power of the Holy Spirit in the Church. This is going to happen because it is God’s plan and intention. To quote the ancient rabbis, let us pray earnestly for this to "happen speedily in our days."
Dr. Howard Morgan is an internationally renowned prophetic teacher whose insightful, humorous and anointed ministry is inspiring, empowering and equipping believers around the world. A Jewish believer in the Messiah Jesus since 1971, he planted and pastored churches in New York City from 1976 to 1987. Since 1987 he has been traveling in a full time prophetic and teaching ministry, establishing and overseeing churches and ministries, and pastoring pastors. He is a gifted communicator who is able to present Scriptural truths clearly and precisely, so that the principles of the Kingdom of God are plainly understood and easily applied. His ministry is often accompanied by clear demonstrations of the revelatory gifts of the Holy Spirit.
He is the founder and president of Howard Morgan Ministries (www.howardmorganministries.org), his own teaching and equipping ministry, Kingdom Ministries International, which gives apostolic and prophetic oversight to a network of Churches and Ministries, and CEASE an international ministry inspiring and training Christians to Eradicate Anti-Semitism in the Earth.
He has an intense passion to see the entire Body of Christ come to spiritual maturity and unity, as well as a vision to see the Church restored to her Hebraic roots, and to her Biblical relationship and responsibility to the Jewish people. Dr. Morgan has a B.A. in Psychology from Hunter College, an M.A. in Counseling from New York University, and a Doctorate in Ministry from Logos Graduate School. | <urn:uuid:b1c4f15a-45eb-4e35-8c05-fe7ab69b7b6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://srmv.convio.net/site/News2?abbr=art_&page=NewsArticle&id=5613 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969926 | 2,790 | 1.695313 | 2 |
What are UVA and UVB?
They are simply different wavelength bands of ultraviolet light with different ranges of wavelengths. UVB has shorter wavelengths and higher energy and does not penetrate the surface of the skin. It causes sunburn. UVA has longer wavelengths and penetrates below the surface of the skin where over time it causes permanent sun damage consisting of wrinkling, “aging,” and pigment changes. A sunblock that protects against both UVA and UVB is called “broad spectrum.”
What is the significance of SPF?
SPF stands for “sun protection factor.” It is defined as the time it takes to develop sunburn using a product compared to the time it takes without any protection. SPF 15 is considered to be the minimum effective protection and SPF 30 is more optimal.
What are the merits of physical and chemical sunblocks?
Chemical sunblocks are organic compounds whose molecular structures absorb ultraviolet light. Many of them are not broad spectrum, and certain ones cause allergies or acne. Physical sunblocks consist of either titanium oxide or zinc oxide. They are broad spectrum and tend to remain on the surface of the skin where they primarily reflect and scatter ultraviolet light, although some is absorbed as well.
Did you know?
A white Tshirt has an SPF of 7 – 8 and thus by itself is insufficient sun protection. Darker, thicker material such as denim has an SPF of 28 – 30 – much better!
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Game-based learning in the classroom is not new as students compete for points by way of grades on a daily basis. Where it becomes interesting is when the concepts of game design are applied in a more meaningful, real-world way to engage students as creators and problem-solvers for any number of issues they may encounter locally or globally. Upon viewing the above video from 2008 with Professor James Gee from Arizona State University, and reflecting upon the advances in gaming which have occurred in the almost nine years since, I immediately began to see connections to the Genius Hour projects my students work on each Friday.
Whilst all students have a choice in the projects they wish to pursue, I wonder if gameplay could be added to the types of projects they choose. Teaching oneself to play the guitar is no small feat and would certainly earn XP points as a student advances with his/her skill; however, teaching an English class once a week for a group of newly arrived elementary-aged refugee students and conducting empathy interviews with them to see what these new friends might need demonstrates an outward focus, and a deep commitment to make a positive impact on the world: triple the XP! Even if transportation were an issue, students could still engage in projects that benefited others rather than self.
Further, various awards could be earned for completing a tutorial to improve the content and design of the required weekly blogs and peer reviews. Rather than merely earning the motivating XP points for meeting expectations, manual awards and even badges could be earned for exceeding expectations with style through the use of well-thought examples and images. The same would be true for the embedded Vlogs they’ll record: meet the expectations and receive XP points. Exceed them through thoughtful attention to content, setting and camera angle, along with careful editing before uploading, and additional awards are earned. I’m still researching the best way to organize XP as well as translating those points to grades. Adam Powley, an award-winning History teacher in South Carolina, recently wrote this blog post about the process he uses for doing just that.
I love the possibilities that GBL offers, and am eager to begin experimenting with one unit at a time starting with The Great Gatsby using Rezzly, a game-based content management system co-created by Boise State’s Dr. Chris Haskell. I know most students will respond favorably, especially with a leaderboard they can consistently reference to chart their progress. The goal here is engagement, Mastery-Based Learning, skill acquisition and growth throughout the year by pursuing meaningful projects which will benefit others, and may even help shape students’ life paths after high school.
I’d love to hear from you!
How have you experimented with game-based learning and what were the results? Alternatively, how might you experiment with GBL and what steps are you taking to implement it in your classroom in the fall?
Let’s experiment together!
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Below you will find helpful tips that will keep you feeling good between massage treatments:
- Keep hydrated! YES! We say it over and over again! Your body is roughly 72% water. Your muscles are almost 80% water. When muscles work or contract, a chemical by-product, lactic acid is formed. Water will help your body flush out what it doesn't need. Massage can also help this process. When your body is hydrated, there is enough fluid to act as a shock absorber which in turn means better muscular health. Habitual dehydration can make your muscular system more prone to cramps and spasms.
- Do you constantly have knots in your shoulders? To alleviate pain from knots and spasms between appointments, you can use a tennis ball and lean it between you and wall on the area that is bothering you! Just do not lean directly on the spine to avoid injury.
- Stretch! Stretching is just as important as exercise. Regular stretching conditions your muscles and helps with strength training. It increases flexibility and range of motion. The most important rule to remember is, "if you feel pain, STOP." Light stretching before exercise to warm up your muscles and deeper stretching afterwards can help your muscles stay in good shape while avoiding injury and chronic spasms.
- Do not put heat on inflamed areas! Try ice instead. You can make your own ice pack by mixing 1 part rubbing alcohol to 2 parts water and putting it in a freezer ziploc bag. Throw it in the freezer, it won't freeze so you can conform it to your body! Note: Never put an ice pack directly on your spine. Rosemary and garlic are great anti-inflammatory herbs. Also, you want to rest the area as much as possible. I always recommend Tiger Balm, Dit Da Jow and Biofreeze to my patients. I have used them religiously myself and found them very beneficial in treating muscle sprains, spasms and general muscular soreness.
- Exercise! If nothing more, I recommend a light routine in the morning that involves calisthenic movement just to get the body going for the day!
- Watch Your Posture! When I was learning Tai Chi, which is an excellent discipline for people of all ages, I learned about Wu Chi Posture. Another brilliant tool I have picked up along the way that I would like to share with you! Standing in Wu Chi: feet shoulder width apart, toes straight ahead, knees slightly bent, back straight, shoulders back and relaxed ( I imagine a string running from the base of my spine through the top of my head that guides and lifts me into posture), palms facing body and imagine under your armpits are two tennis balls. To make sure your back is straight, put your hand behind you on the small of your back, this area should be flat to your hand. Eyes straight ahead and relaxed. Fixate on one point on the wall ahead and continue to relax your eyes but keep them opened. In the beginning, it may feel awkward but this is proper posture. You might feel like you are going to fall forward. A little rocking might start happening. In Martial Arts discipline, students are required to stand in Wu Chi for various lengths of time. In the beginning try to do it for one minute and gradually increase it as you feel comfortable. Do it every day for one minute and then maybe in two weeks, increase to two minutes. Then in two weeks, increase to five minutes. Whatever works for you as long as you do it regularly, the length of time doesn't matter. Do it to your comfort level and stop if you feel dizzy or in pain. Breathe into any areas of tension as you stand. To do this direct your focus to the area of tension and breathe in while you think/focus on the area and then breathe out. If you come out of posture, correct yourself and believe me, once you start doing this regularly, you will really notice more and more when you're posture goes on the slack. Once you are familiar with Wu Chi posture, you might want to try using it when you are out and about or at work. You think you are standing funny but the adjustments are slight enough where no one will notice a difference.
- Proper breathing involves using your diaphragm. When you breathe in your belly should expand and consequently deflate when you breathe out. Your shoulders should not move up when you breathe. Proper oxygen ratios are very important to your body's homeostasis. When you breathe from your diaphragm you are filling up your lung capacity and breathing optimally.
- Deep breathing is a great tool for stress relief. One that I use all the time. Breathe in for a count of five, hold your breath to the count of five and then exhale to a count of five. You want to control your breathing to some extent. If five is too much, try to a count of three. Do this 3 - 5 times. Stop if you feel dizzy. It takes some getting used to. This is also a great practice to start if you are interested in taking up meditation. Meditation is simple awareness of breath. Nothing more, nothing less. It is becoming an observer. Observing your thoughts, being aware that they are there and just watch them pass like cars on a freeway without attachment. Any one who tells you the goal of meditation is to empty your mind is giving you an unreachable goal. Like those cars on a freeway, your thoughts will always been there 24/7. The key is to not give them so much importance just continue focusing on your breath. Life itself can be a walking meditation and that's how I try to live my life. I invite you to do the same. If you would like to add a guided meditation to your massage, I would be happy to help you. | <urn:uuid:38aeffcf-8139-4468-9e2e-572eb48aa62e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.jjklmt.com/blog/archives/07-2013 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.957035 | 1,196 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Another common issue that arises when questions about Genesis 1 come up is this: “If you can’t believe the Bible about our very beginnings, how can you believe it about anything else?”
A Straw Man, according to the google machine, is defined as “an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent’s real argument.”
This question is not quite a straw man’s argument, but it’s very close. This question makes the argument that Genesis 1 and 2 were written to tell us the literal beginnings of everything, and therefore, the only way to “believe” the Genesis Creation story is as historically, scientifically accurate fact. Believing anything otherwise “is infidelity in its most insidious and hence most dangerous form.” However, this concept is a completely unverifiable assumption. We only know that Genesis 1 and 2 were written, eventually at that, but we do not completely know why they were written. We do not know that the intention was accuracy; we simply understand that the intention was to relay Divine Truths. Is historicity the only way to do that?
Our (the Seventh-Day Adventist) fundamental beliefs state that the Bible trying to express Divine Truths in human language is like “trying to teach quantum physics to a baby.” If we can appreciate that kind of complexity, why do we think the ancient Hebrew, with their limited understanding of the world they were in, let alone the vastness of the universe, were any more prepared for actual quantum physics? Was Moses ready for fission, fusion, infinite expansion, background microwave radiation, black holes, supernovae, or space-time? We didn’t even figure out that gravity existed until Isaac Newton fell asleep under an apple tree, and we still don’t really know what it is.
This is not an insult to Moses by the way. It’s a question of authorial intent. Maybe Genesis 1 is about Big G – God, not scientific history. If I went back in time and gave Moses my iPhone he’d likely have me stoned to death for being in league with demonic forces. He would not understand what I was showing him. However, when I handed one to my kids, they were able to use it intuitively. They nor I can tell you how or why phones work, but we are able to properly use them. We know things about the phone and it’s usefulness and purposes without having the intricate knowledge of its parts. Maybe The author of Genesis didn’t necessarily need to know how creation worked any more than I need to know how my phone does. Instead, maybe the author knew how to make what he understood about Yahweh intuitive to the children of Israel. Is it possible that we are expecting… not too much from Genesis, but something different than it was tasked to provide?
Is it unthinkable that the omnipotent Divine Source thought “If I’m going to express the unknowable, I’m going to have to predominantly use metaphors and stories? I’ll have to elicit questions to activate contemplation.” (For evidence of this, see basically all the red print parables Jesus left in your King James Bible.)
Question: Why do we shy away from terms like metaphor when we speak of the Bible?
Answer: because we view the term “metaphor” as a category for things that are “untrue.” But metaphor is not synonymous with fiction. Metaphor brings the material to the abstract. Metaphor places the mysterious in the palm of your hand.
If the Bible deals with anything, it deals with mystery, and as Richard Rohr put it “Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.”
With metaphor, the point of the story is the point of the story, not the story itself.
So, what does the Bible tell us “about our beginnings?” Take Genesis 1. There is no true consensus on what Genesis 1 means or teaches. It’s unclear on how large a scale creation is being addressed in the text. Is it just Earth? Is it Earth and its local solar system? Is it the entirety of the universe including heaven? If it includes heaven, where was God before Genesis 1?
Outside of the scale, it is also unclear as to exactly whether or not it even purports to speak of literal days. An Adventist will quickly point out that measuring time in the expression “the evening and the morning” clearly signifies individual days, and the word “Yohm” or “Yom” always means a day. Whereas, the Encyclopedia of Biblical Difficulties (a book that seeks to remedy all perceived biblical inconsistencies but fails to do so despite being as thick as the Bible itself) will concede that Yohm can mean “a day,” but it only necessarily means a 24-hour day when conjoined with the definite article “the” like “the first day.” The original Hebrew text doesn’t say “the first day” which would be hayyom hari’son but instead says “day one” – yom ehad. Said encyclopedia actually speaks of the Yohms as representing eras of creation that could have taken any amount of time as seen fit. What Genesis purports to say literally depends on which scholar you ask. I didn’t bring up this diversity of ideas to suggest one over the other, but to simply show there’s more than one way to faithfully “believe” in Genesis 1 as “literal” without believing it only took a week.
Assuming we do settle on the scale and that a day means a day (thus we are looking purely literally) what does the story say?
Genesis 1 paints a scene where there is nothing but water, called “the deep”- infinite darkness and water. Then God speaks light into existence (kind of interesting that ‘darkness’ was already there but ‘light’ wasn’t, but there’s probably no symbolism there.) God institutes Day and Night while the Earth is still without form and void. This indicates that Earth’s time is disconnected from how the Earth moves on its axis or in its orbit around the sun (which at this point doesn’t exist.)
It is not until the second day that the Earth is formed. To do that, God creates a “firmament” inside of the deep waters to create air and space for dry land to eventually appear. All that exists by the end of day-2 is water absolutely everywhere in the cosmos except for the space created by the firmament. This cosmic water remains above the firmament, as well as all around and below the space it created. Additionally, other texts indicate that this firmament is equipped with “windows” that open to allow the water from above in: rain – particularly the flood event, as well as blessings after you’ve given your tithe and offering: “I will open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing.”
On day 3, God allows for dry land to appear and the seas to gather themselves together in one place. Once there is dry land, God brings forth grass, herbs, and fruit, all bearing seeds necessary to reproduce themselves.
On day 4 God places lights in the firmament to “divide the day from the night, and to be for signs, for seasons, for days and years.” So now, 3 days have passed in Earth time before there was a sun or moon to regulate the Earth’s orbit and axis rotation or to create a 24-hour day and seasons. God creates the Sun, moon, and stars and places them in the firmament. What does this mean?
The firmament has commonly come to mean the Earth’s atmosphere over time, as it is a particularly miraculous thing that allows us to breathe and for life to exist on the planet. Looking at it that way even seems to make sense in terms of having created the firmament for dry land to appear in day 2 as well as how the birds were made to fly “in the open firmament of heaven” as Genesis 1:20 states.
However, that’s not what the word in the original Hebrew (raqia) means. It did not mean an atmospheric expanse, but seems to define a solid vaulted dome. Remember, keep in mind that the firmament is said to be holding back the cosmic waters above Earth since day 2 and it is embedded with the stars and planets. Does that sound solid or atmospheric to you?
The solid dome has been expressly disproven by the fact that we’ve launched countless objects into space without hitting the dome, but it is what the text literally says. Viewing the raqia as atmospheric is an interpreted belief that exists because the prior understanding was flawed.
Even if the term did mean something atmospheric and not a solid dome, the text would then indicate that the sun, moon, and stars are inside Earth’s atmosphere; not far out in space. If the stars and planets are in the vaulted expanse holding back the cosmic waters, wouldn’t this indicate that they are all equidistant from Earth’s surface or is the firmament infinitely thick?
On day 5 God makes birds and sea creatures. On day 6 God makes land animals and humanity. On day 7 He rested.
That’s what the Bible says about our beginnings – God created a dry island reprieve in an otherwise dark and deep cosmic ocean that completely surrounds us on all sides, top, and bottom. Earth’s sky or firmament contains all the stars that exist, and they exist only to serve humanity’s apparently divine need to keep time, which would also make it seem as though the universe is expressly geocentric. Should we develop the ability to travel past our firmament, we would only find more cosmic ocean, which should be no different than the oceans we have on our planet as it was all once one big infinite deep.
Similarly, if we develop the ability to travel downward further, we would not reach a core or the other side of the planet, but Sheol, the land of the dead (Genesis 37:36, 1 Samuel 28:8-19 etc.), and eventually more water of the infinite Great Deep.
This biblical Earth doesn’t seem too much like the one we learned about in school or the one observed from the International Space Station.
There is a statement in the Seventh-Day Adventist fundamental beliefs that says “when we cannot harmonize science with Scripture, it is because we have an ‘imperfect comprehension of either science or revelation.’” Whether Creation took 6 sequential 24-hour days or not, the literal texts of Genesis 1 and other biblical texts paint the picture of Creation inserted below:
This is the world described in Genesis 1 and much of the Old Testament. Is that the world we believe we live in? If not, is it possible that a purely literal reading of these texts is an “imperfect comprehension of revelation?”
Regardless of how someone massages Genesis 1 to seem like reality, they then must turn the page. The task of the Young Earth Creationist or the Adventist is not just jiving Genesis 1 with scientific exploration but jiving Genesis 1 with Genesis 2. Starting at verse 4 we are given another account of the creation story. This time, not only is it far less detailed, less rhythmic, less repetitive, though no less beautiful, the details that are included occur in a different order than in Genesis 1.
For instance, by the time mankind is created in Genesis 1, everything else has already been created. Everything was ready by the time humanity was introduced. Trees, plants bearing their own seed and fruit, animals in the air, sea, and land, everything. That’s different than Genesis 1. Genesis 1 actually reflects this dope cycle of the Divine first creating perfect spaces by separating things (light from dark, air from water, and water from land) and then creating something to fill those spaces (sun and moon to inhabit light and dark; birds and sea creatures to fill the air and water; and animals and humanity to fill the land).
However, in Genesis 2, that “habitat first, inhabitant later” system is nowhere to be found. In Genesis 2 God creates man first, then He plants a garden which causes trees and plants to grow. The text states that before Adam, there was no plant life because God had not sent rain yet nor made man to till the ground (vs. 5-9). Rain was not a prerequisite for plant life in Genesis 1 where the text says plant life was abundant and already seed-bearing by day 3 (vs. 12-13) which is 3 days before humanity’s creation on day 6 (vs. 24-31).
Also, Genesis 2 doesn’t mention God creating animals until after planting the garden, creating Adam, and instructing him about the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God creates Adam (whose name literally means Human) and places the Human in a garden that God planted “in Eden, in the east” (notice it does not say God planted the Garden of Eden, it says he planted a garden in ‘eden’ – a word that literally means delight.) God gives the Human the job of caring for the garden and then has the Human name every living creature God had created (earlier that day if the Genesis 1 storyline is to hold, though this requires not reading Genesis 2 for its plain meaning as it seems to switch the order.) Having been given the divine task of caring for the garden and then seeing the animals and their companions, and cataloging them, Adam realizes how alone he is. In response, God slips Adam a heavenly Ambien, performs a ribdectomy (not a word and honestly not an honest interpretation either. It’s apparently better translated as God taking Adam’s side, not a rib from his side), and makes Eve (whose name literally means Life.) Then after definitely officiating their hetero-normative wedding 🤨 and sending them off to procreate, God moves on about His otherwise Godly business.
In reading Genesis 2, you end up with a story that goes like this: God, a being defined as Love, created a perfect space in His “delight.” Then He made “humanity,” infused it with desire for communion and companionship, then gave humanity “life.” That’s literally what the words used in the Eden story mean. These seem like beautiful Divine Truths, but the details contradict the previous page.
Now to be fair, many people see no discrepancy here. Literalist interpretation being that Genesis 1 is the general creation of everything on a macro level including what are the then-unnamed Adam and Eve humans, and Genesis 2 is the telescoping in on day 6 of the Genesis 1 event and expanding the details. In so doing, you must then insert a belief that God created all land and vegetation, etc. in the order of Genesis 1, but then planted a separate Garden of Eden on Day 6 that operated under different rules than the land outside of the Garden (as mankind was needed to tend to the garden, but the lands created in Genesis 1 were self-sufficient.) You must also accept that Genesis 2 was written in a confusingly random order that is not intended to be chronological, which is a dramatic change from the intentions of Genesis 1.
These ideas have some merit. I do not rule them out, per se, but I’d be lying if I said they weren’t still problematic.
If this was Day 6 of creation week, it’s notable that there is no mention of rest and completion this time. There is no nice little button placed on Genesis 2 like there is in Genesis 1. Genesis 1 (scholarly speaking chapter one doesn’t really end until Chapter 2:4) appears to tell an entire story. Genesis 2 appears to be just the beginning of another one and the more personal one. It is also notable that whenever God created all the animals, before or after mankind, Adam somehow had to catalog them all and then he had to become unbearably lonely even though he was in Paradise with God, and he hadn’t been alive for even one whole afternoon.
Speaking of that loneliness, in Genesis 1, at the end of each creative day, we are told the things created are “good” leading to “very good.” In Genesis 2 the creations aren’t described that way. We aren’t told any of it is “good,” we are just given details without words of value or judgment. In fact, the only real judgment we run into in Genesis 2 is that it was “not good for man to be alone.” Everything about this second story is different, even God’s name (He/they were Elohim in Genesis 1 but singularly ‘Yahweh’ in Genesis 2.)
We have already discussed the fact that seed-bearing fruit being abundant by day 3, but as of day 6, “no plant of the field was yet in the earth” is confusing. However, in addition to the sequencing issues, a literalist interpretation does not, for me, satisfactorily deal with the “pillars of the Earth issue” that comes up elsewhere in scripture, where that original light from Day 1 went if the Sun, Moon and Stars don’t come about until Day 4, why and how there was evening and morning before there were the sun and moon to facilitate the earth’s rotation or orbit (a gap in explanation that the Ancient Hebrew had no knowledge of, or interest in as the Earth as a rotating globe wasn’t known for thousands of more years, so give Moses a break), the whole Rakia – Firmament issue, not simply in that there’s clearly no dome over the earth or stars in our atmosphere, I would hope we’re on the same page there, but where are the waters supposedly being held back above that Rakia?
Not only do the stories told in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 seemingly convey different events, they also contain completely different characteristics of God. God takes entirely different postures toward creation in the two chapters. In Genesis 1, the Elohim use Their voice from “out there” to create all that is within the cosmos. Nothing appears from the text to have been made by hand. In Genesis 2 however, Yahweh (not a name mentioned in Genesis 1 and a very specific ‘Elohim’ which is otherwise just a random term for divine beings), stoops down and inhabits Earth, fully getting His hands dirty. He forms mankind from the ground, he physically plants a garden. He “puts” the man in the garden. He performs surgery to form Eve. In one chapter God is all-powerful and above it all, creating instantaneously with just words. In the next, He’s right there, hands in the muck of things, taking His time.
The Literalist, the Adventist is tasked with taking these two stories in Genesis 1 and 2, though seemingly incongruous at first and second glances, and forcing them into positions where they are no longer contradictory and are both historically accurate… Why? Because that is what would make our Bible perfect? That’s what makes it inspired? Are you sure?
Almost all Biblical scholars, whether literalists, fundamentalists, progressive, new age, Jewish, Christian, Atheist, or what have you, almost all of them agree that the point the author of the creation story in Genesis 1 is making is roughly this:
All that is, exists on purpose, and all of it was created out of a sense of love, order, and a desire for relationship.
The point of Genesis 2 is that relationship:
God parading the animal pairs in front of Adam allowed Adam to feel desire for companionship himself and to understand the desire for companionship God had when He decided to create humanity. This God loves and wants to relate to us through a similar level of communion in which we are drawn to have with each other.
Translation: 1.) Life has Divine purpose and meaning.
2.) Humans are designed for connection, harmony, and partnership.
However, you get there, those two thoughts were revolutionary to the world. We know this to some extent in interpreting the words of scripture themselves and seeing how authors of later books in the Bible refer back to these texts etc., but we know this largely by comparing this story to other origin stories prevalent at the time Genesis was originally composed. Yes, Genesis was written by a human living in the world at a given point in time, a Yohm, if you will, and his enemy wasn’t scientific discovery.
Genesis was not written at a time when there was extensive scientific knowledge or exploration of the cosmos. It was not written during the age of reason and experiment. It was not peer-reviewed by astrophysicists. It was written in an age of myth, stories of pantheons of gods, transactional favor and tall tales. A time when all that existed was all that could be seen with the naked eye. Now, this is not to suggest that the Genesis story is itself a “myth” in the current connotation, but it came from a time, culture and society where these types of origin stories; this style of explanation of everything thrived.
It is very easy to forget that the first origin story you and I read in our westernized, Judeo-Christian religious paradigm, isn’t the first story everyone else read. Genesis 1, as written, made perfect sense to me as an origin story because it was my only one. I did not have a concept of anything else. For the initial readers, or likely hearers, of what we now know as Genesis 1, it would not have been the first origin story, but a new origin story. They would have woken up that morning under an entirely different paradigm than the one Genesis 1 sought to introduce, but one that would have freely accepted that everything was made by the gods. Today, the god part is perceived as the weird part, but it wasn’t then. Everyone believed in and had gods. So, what did they get from this story?
If Genesis 1, however you interpret it, is telling us who God is and why He is worthy of worship (arguably the ultimate point of any part of scripture), but it is doing so during a time of pantheons of gods with a wide assortment of powers and domains, then God’s creative act is only one part of the story and is not even the novel, surprising part. How it differed from the predominant views at the time is what would have made it unique. Genesis 1 may hold the keys to the ultimate origination of all that exists, but the question it was likely set up to answer isn’t “how, exactly, did all of this get here?” Most people and cultures at the time would have said “god did it,” or at least “the gods did it.” The question these stories may be set up to answer is “What kind of god did it?”
There’s a chance we’ve gone to the beginning of the book looking for a stenographer’s notes of the beginning of the universe, but the Bible isn’t a book about the history and future of the Universe, it’s about this particular God. This particular Elohim and His kingdom.
Where the origin stories of the ancient near east and Mesopotamian world tended to express great conflict amongst the gods and interfamilial wars that resulted in the accidental creation of Earth and mankind, as byproducts of chaos (i.e. the Enuma Elish), the Biblical text, the words themselves, suggest that a collective of God, (“Let us make man in our image”) made a community decision to create purpose out of chaos.
Like I said earlier, Elohim, is a plural word, like gods. To hear “in the beginning the gods created the earth” would not have been a new or an interesting idea. The first readers wouldn’t have even necessarily thought to ask which gods this was referring to. The weird part wasn’t plural gods, it was that they were “creating” singularly. You see, the noun Elohim is plural, but the verb used that we interpret as “create” is not. (In Hebrew, nouns and verbs both have singular and plural forms.) The Bible presents a plural form of God, singularly creating. Creation in unison. Creation in harmony. No war. No battle. No slaves. No accidents.
Where some nations worshipped the Sun, Moon, constellations, and planets as deities, in and of themselves, Genesis 1 speaks of a God who placed those objects in their places and directed their purposes. Our One True God created your gods and orders their functions.
That would have been new and interesting.
The Biblical creation story in Genesis is unique, but maybe that is not because it “explains existence.” Many other stories have been found that attempt to do that. The Biblical account might be special because it is 100% accurate, but it is definitely special because of the main character and star of the story. It is unique because this God, of all things, somehow tapped into Its creation to communicate a story. A story wherein The Divine Source is characterized by the outpouring of love and pride in His creation, rather than anger, jealousy or vengeance, and sought to express that eternal love to the entirety of that creation and, perhaps, humanity especially.
Genesis 2 then, at the very least says “as God created mankind out of the want for companionship, that divine desire was likewise embedded in us, the creation – the image, not only to love God back but to find and develop companionship with one another in the same way.” This can be further summarized by “Love God with all you have and love each other as you love yourself.” These being the Great Commands after all, right?
These are lessons that present themselves repeatedly throughout the text in many forms; some direct, and some not. That is what I believe about our beginnings.
Is it the story or the purposes of the story that should be deemed “infallible?” Is it the words or the lessons they teach that are “divinely inspired?” Maybe as Rob Bell put it in his book, “What is the Bible?” – “it’s not ultimately about the words – it’s about the powerful mysterious thing that happens when the words are acted out in the real world by real people.” The words are just words until they “become flesh.”
So now, as an Adventist of many years, I am no longer sold on the certainty that the words of Genesis Creation Stories are an accurate history because I’m no longer sold on the idea that they even purport to be. Oddly, it hasn’t weakened my faith in the least. If anything, it has strengthened it, but that’s me. I wouldn’t dare speak for you.
What I will say is this: I’m not sure it matters how you interpret Genesis 1 and 2. I suppose there is a “correct” answer, be that metaphor or historic, narrative or poetic, true or truer than true, but I think the words have no effect until you find yourself resting in the comforting arms of their intent:
“All that exists, exists because of Love. Accept it and give it away.”
Or whoever penned Genesis 1
Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self, Richard Rohr
This use of italics = Sarcasm font.
Actually, for all intents and purposes the Genesis Creation stories along with God’s reference to “fastening foundations,” “setting a cornerstone”, and “laying the measures” and “stretching the line upon it” in Job 38 and other biblical references, ultimately describe a flat earth. Though I’ve never heard an Adventist publicly challenge the fact that the Earth is a globe.
Ellen G. White, The story of Patriarchs and Prophets (Mountain View, CA. Pacific Press, 1958), P. 114.
Image taken from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpaukner/4077736695
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What are the rock pillar edicts?
Rock edicts, narrative histories and announcements carved into cliff rock, onto pillars, and in caves throughout India by King Ashoka (reigned c. 265–238 bce), the most powerful emperor of the Mauryan dynasty and a highly influential promulgator of Indian Buddhism.
Which rock edict throws light on the Kalinga war?
Inscriptions of Ashoka on different edicts are a significant aspect of the history of Ancient India. In total there are 14 major rock edicts. The Rock edict XIII throws light on the Kalinga War conquered by Ashoka. Major Rock edict 13 mentions the powerful victory over Kalinga.
Where is the Kalinga rock edict of Ashoka found?
What are the principles of Dhamma?
The following are the main principles of Ashoka’s dhamma: People should live in peace and harmony. Everyone should practise the principle of ahimsa, i.e. non-violence and non-injury to all living beings. People should love one another and display respect and tolerance towards other religious faiths.
What are the major themes expressed in the edicts?
Let’s look at some of the themes covered in the Major Edicts, including non-violence and respect for life, religious tolerance, and spreading the Dhamma to others.
What signaled the end of the Mauryan empire?
The year 185 B.C.E signaled the end of the Mauryan Empire. Brihadratha the last Mauryan emperor was assassinated in an insurrection led by a brahman general Pushyamitra Shunga. This ushered in a new royal line of rajas who would remain in control until 72 B.C.E.
Who was Maurya peak leader?
The Maurya Empire was centralized by the conquest of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, and its capital city was located at Pataliputra (modern Patna)….
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What impact did Gupta mathematicians have?
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Talking about the diagnosis of dementia can be difficult and tricky. Yet it is important to be open about the disease. You want to avoid misunderstandings.
A visit to the family doctor (link opens in a new browser tab or window) can be a high threshold for someone who may be told that they have dementia. Ultimately, it is better for everyone to know what is going on, even if it turns out to be something different than dementia.
Therefore, a family meeting or family council can help.
A family meeting is also very suitable to get support and understanding for you as the most important informal caregiver. You can ask who wants and can support you. It often appears that family members are happy to help you. One can do more than the other, but together you come a long way.
During the conversation everyone realizes what is going on and you see each other’s reactions. Within it everyone can have their own experience and emotions.
Do not forget the grandchildren when preparing the conversation. They accurately capture the signals. They understand more than you think, however small they may be. If they understand what is going on, they can find their own way to deal with it. | <urn:uuid:8637a854-7996-46d5-8b51-1447f16ba386> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kkladviceandsolutions.com/about-dementia/diagnose-and-treatment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.978487 | 243 | 2.875 | 3 |
Michigan among nation's worst for vaccination rates
Michigan is getting low marks for its vaccination rates.
In a report from 24/7 Wall St., Michigan ranks fourth worst in the country, despite widespread recommendations to vaccinate.
Among several factors, the report examined the percentage of 15- to 35-month-old children in each state who received the 4+DTap vaccination in 2013-2014 from the National Immunization Survey. The DTaP is a series of vaccinations against diphtheria, tetanus, toxoids and acellular pertussis.
In an interview with 24/7 Wall St., Shannon Stokley, associate director for science at the Immunization Services Division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the fourth dose of the DTaP vaccine is a good indicator of immunization status in a state.
Michigan's DTap vaccination rate is 77.7%. Only Idaho, West Virginia and Wyoming had lower rates.
By comparison, Maine leads the U.S. with 93.1%.
The study also considered the percentage of adults in each state who received the influenza vaccine in 2013. Michigan had the seventh-lowest rate at 34.5%.
So why is Michigan near the bottom of the list?
Several issues factor into a state's vaccination ranking, including state laws, prevention programs, access to medical care and health insurance. But there are several programs in place that can help, Stokely says.
“There are resources available for children so that cost should not be a barrier to getting a vaccine,” Stokely told 24/7 Wall St.
In Michigan, parents with school-age children have the option to sign a vaccination waiver for philosophical or religious reasons.
As of 2015, parents who want a waiver for their child must attend an information session at their local health department, a move that sparked a fiery debate among parents.
The rule applies to children entering a licensed day care, preschool, Head Start program, kindergarten, seventh grade or enrolling in a new school district.
As of January 2016, the number of vaccination waivers in the state of Michigan had dropped nearly 40% in the year since the new rule took effect.
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A woman whose design skills helped turn around a south London school has been named Designer of the Year.
Hilary Cottam has won the £25,000 prize
London-born Hilary Cottam is not a designer by trade but brings architects and strategists together to transform buildings like schools and prisons.
The 39-year-old, who took the £25,000 prize, changed the look of Kingsdale School in Dulwich in a bid to cut truancy and raise standards.
The school has now been named as one of the 20 most improved in the country.
'Imaginative and innovative'
Ms Cottam said: "Aesthetics are important. They matter. But the real issues are how they work for the professionals there and for the users."
The winner was chosen via the public online poll which made up a fifth of the vote and the remaining four fifths was by a jury's decision.
Alice Rawsthorn, director of the Design Museum, said: "Hilary Cottam is not a designer in the traditional sense, but she is a wonderfully worthy winner of Designer of the Year for the imaginative and innovative way she uses design as a strategic tool to modernise schools, prisons and other critically important areas of our lives."
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Extend-A-Care YMCA (EAC) supports families, schools, employers, and communities by providing enriching, affordable, licensed child care for children.
Vision: We are here for the community to provide a safe, enriching program for children and peace of mind for parents at work or in training. We give hope for the future of our nation and leave a legacy for tomorrow.
History: Extend-A-Care for Kids was founded in 1969 by Margaret Gregg and Marian Robertson, two volunteers elected by their church to provide support to disadvantaged citizens. Startup funding for EAC was provided by the Urban Council. Volunteers joined forces as board members, fundraisers, and unpaid staff to assist in Extend-A-Care’s development. Demand for geographic expansion became so great during the late 80s to early 90s that EAC spread to more sites in two years than it had in the previous ten.
Extend-A-Care’s primary objectives are to enhance the cognitive, social, and physical development of our children, to assist working families in becoming self-supporting, and to reduce the number of Central Texas children who fall victim to or commit crimes due to inadequate adult supervision. This year, over 3,500 children will participate in our school-year program and 900 in our summer program, forging positive and meaningful relationships with peers and adult role models as they engage in activities that boost self-esteem, promote physical fitness, and support academic development. | <urn:uuid:03b60e75-b598-43b5-b096-8e425e19948f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://buffalo.joinhandshake.com/employers/extend-a-care-ymca-227038 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.96674 | 302 | 1.640625 | 2 |
November 25, 2010
The latest migration statistics confirm that immigration has continued at the high levels of the past five years. The figures also confirm that three million foreign migrants came here under the last government (while 880,000 British people left). Only a quarter of net immigration was from the EU while the net inflow from Eastern Europe was only 16,000 in 2009.
Meanwhile settlement is the highest since records began and has risen across all categories. This entirely justifies the government’s decision to break the link between migration and settlement. The number of students from India coming to the UK doubled from 2008 to 2009 indicating the need for action in this field to ensure that it is only genuine students who are admitted.
Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of MigrationWatch UK, said “These new figures confirm the massive impact that immigration is having on our population. This fully justifies the government’s efforts to get our immigration system under control - a policy that the public overwhelmingly support.” | <urn:uuid:bc2205aa-f2e3-44b3-9a1d-c596f95dacb9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/press-release/258/the-latest-immigration-statistics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.963188 | 203 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Water Watcher Program
Poway's Water Watcher program encourages residents to always have a responsible adult assigned to watch kids around the water – and do so without distractions. (View video below.) Free “Water Watcher” lanyards are available at the Poway Community Swim Center, City Hall, and Poway Fire Stations.
The lanyards were inspired by a drowning in Poway in which two-year-old Mia fell into her grandparents’ pool. Thanks to the quick actions of her father and incredible teamwork of first responders and medical team at Rady Children's Hospital, her story has a happy ending – but that’s not always the case.
“As one of our fire captains stated, these are one of the most difficult calls we respond to as a first responder,” said Poway Fire Battalion Chief Rodney Ortiz. “We want to take this opportunity to remind our community that most fatal drownings happen when there is poor or absent supervision.”
That’s where the Water Watcher lanyard comes in. The adult wearing the lanyard knows that for the period of time they have it, their top priority is to focus solely on the safety of others. It’s their reminder to remain alert, avoid distractions and to not leave the area without handing off Water Watcher duty to another responsible adult.
“Designating a Water Watcher is not the only thing you can do to ensure that your home and family are safe,” said Poway Community Services Director Audrey Denham.
It’s important to make sure everyone in your family learns to swim, and lessons are offered at the Poway Community Swim Center for ages six months through adults . Also, Denham reminded residents to fence in pools and spas, use US Coast Guard approved life jackets for inexperienced swimmers, and learn CPR. | <urn:uuid:bddd7aa3-8bf4-404b-a02f-0531af84de56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://poway.org/1102/Water-Watcher-Program | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955491 | 388 | 1.679688 | 2 |
But the PC’s still costs too high for the mass market ( thecheapest version would still cost around 20,000 ) and their learning curve is high. There are couple of alternatives which could become the dominantdesign for Computing for the masses. Here are few and their problems.
– A handheld computer (PDA), One example is the Simputer.
Despite given the problems with Gaming Device I would still vote that option because of the usability factor and cost.
Today a PS2 costs about 150 $ and a eyeToy for 30$, if we can puttogether an application suite for 20$ ( utilizing open sourcesoftware) then for a total of 200$ ( Rs 10,000 ) we can provide acomputing solution which is cheaper than least priced PC of today (19,000 ) , simputer( 12,000 ). This solution may only be costly than a mobile phone ( Rs 5000 ) but with better pricing strategy and using economy of scale I am sure that we can come up with a very low cost solution.
Here is another thing that I was thinking about using the gaming device PS2 and eyetoy and that is why I want to know what does it take to build a gaming device. It is generally noted that it is the younger generation ( 16 – 28) which loves Computer Games, even in nations like Korea , Japan the teens are the ones hooked on to games.
What I am thinking is that given adequate incentives/exposure any general person would play computer games. One simple reason as to why I think Computer games are so successful/popular is because it offers a surrealistic world thatplayers love to traverse in and further later associate/attach themselves to. So by offering right kind of surrealism to right segment of people can interest them to play games.
The younger generation tends to love games like FPS( Quake,Unreal ) ,strategic games ( like of AoE , AoK) etc. For the older generation adapt a story from say ‘Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu thi’ , ‘Jassi Jaisi Koi nahin’ and create a game for a game box with an interface like eyeToy or even remove the eye and put a brain-machineinterface (Registration required) like this.
This notion sounds a little crazy (everybody I told this have had a hearty laugh:) ) though but if it is executed I am sure that this would definitely be called as disruptive innovation,”creating a market out of non consumption” and Ekta Kapoor( of the hindi soap serials, Balaji Telefilms) will look sooooo normal in front of this achievement.
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Women Owned Small Businesses In the D.C. Metro Region:
Challenges & Resilience During
the COVID-19 Pandemic
— Key Takeaways
- Disparities in the accessibility of capital and federal aid may have impacted minority women-owned small businesses far greater than other businesses due to their historical exclusion from banking and lack of banking relationships.
- More public and private sector spending should be directed toward supporting minority women-owned businesses in order to produce greater family and community wealth.
— Key Findings
- 77% of 274 surveyed businesses reported that they had unmet funding needs of $5,000 or more.
- 41% percent of survey respondents received federal relief from the SBA, yet 42% had not sought any financial assistance from any source.
- Only 16% of the businesses had adequate capital available and did not need further aid or investment.
- The respondents who were affected by COVID-19 stated they needed to grow their revenue and sought to do so by accessing affordable capital, diversifying their revenue streams, enhancing their online presence and conducting more digital outreach.
Heidi Sheppard, Project Director, DCWBC
Monti Taylor, Resource Coordinator, DCWBC
Bruce Mitchell, Ph.D., Senior Research Analysis, NCRC
Jason Richardson, Director, Research & Evaluation, NCRC
Women-owned small businesses in the D.C. region have been hampered by the same barriers that women-owned businesses face nationally: a lack of access to traditional business capital, networks and opportunities. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the needs of women business owners have drastically changed, and service providers adapted to meet these needs. To fully understand the unique pressures that these owners are facing, NCRC’s DCWBC surveyed 161 of its unique clients and 113 clients from business support providers, offering a window into the experience of small business owners and entrepreneurs in the D.C. metro area. Twenty-six clients of the Latino Economic Development Center were surveyed (five were in Spanish), 29 clients of the D.C. Small Business Development Center, four clients of the DC Fashion Foundation, three clients from the Adams Morgan Business Improvement District, and 50 respondents were business support providers listed in Appendix B. Owners in the survey experienced a variety of impacts from the pandemic. While the pandemic caused some business closures, for others it was an opportunity or just another challenge in their small business journey. Federal relief from the SBA was the most requested financial assistance, but 42% of survey respondents had not sought any financial assistance from federal, state and local grants, or from banks, friends and family during the pandemic. This points out that women-owned businesses are in need of more local financial support and resources to help them grow or relaunch their businesses.
The SBA defines small businesses broadly as those with fewer than 500 employees, and startups as those in business for a year or less. Small businesses nationwide faced unprecedented challenges in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic caused business lockdowns and disrupted core business operations. This challenge required shifts in the marketing and delivery of products and services, with customer-facing businesses being the most impacted. Half of all women-owned businesses are concentrated in customer-facing industries: personal care services, healthcare and social assistance, and professional business services. Women own 90% of all beauty salons, childcare centers (96%) and home healthcare businesses (86%). These businesses make-up 41% of all nonemployer small businesses and 20% of employer firms, still the pandemic has challenged women business owners disproportionately–as women are more likely to be caregivers and have dropped out of the workforce due to loss of work or to care for children and their families.
Historical exclusion from lending and wealth inequalities before the coronavirus outbreak, left minority owned small businesses with no safety net in a more vulnerable position. Female and minority entrepreneurs have had less access to traditional business capital and greater difficulty obtaining the necessary funds to keep their businesses afloat. According to the SBA in 2020, only 16% of small businesses utilized loans from banking institutions to open their small businesses, leaving many small businesses without a credit relationship with their bank, a factor which became crucial when the CARES Act made federally-backed loans that were convertible to grants available under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). During the rollout of the PPP, banks favored their existing customers when processing the loans, excluding unbanked small businesses from access to the funding. While most small businesses faced severe challenges during the pandemic, there were disparities in the availability of capital and federal aid which may have impacted minority and women-owned small businesses especially hard. The DCWBC survey respondents reported that information on online marketing, introduction to digital business solutions, emergency preparedness and bookkeeping as some of their business needs.
How did the pandemic affect women-owned small business operations in the D.C. area?
This report surveyed DCWBC clients and clients of regional partner organizations on topics such as industry, owner demographics, access to credit and business operations. This information was supplemented with existing literature on the state of women-owned small businesses and existing data sources, such as the U.S. Census’s Small Business Pulse Survey and the Annual Business Survey, 2019.
This study addresses three research questions that shed light on the precarious position of women-owned small businesses in the D.C. area during the current pandemic. The three primary questions examined in this report were;
- What kinds of information, assistance and access, do women entrepreneurs need right now?
- What has been the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the revenue, access to credit, and operations on our clients and other women-owned businesses in the D.C. area and who has been most affected?
- How do women in the survey feel about their business’ outlook before and during the pandemic?
This report surveyed 161 DCWBC clients and 113 clients of 22 regional partner organizations, including the Latino Economic Development Center which translated it into Spanish and distributed it to their clients. Questions about the demography of business-owners, start date of the business, the type of business, its revenue and income, financing, and how it had responded to the COVID-19 pandemic were included. The survey of owners and entrepreneurs garnered data about their experiences running a small business before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following cleaning, deduplication and recoding, there were 274 unique responses.
Once all responses were collated and assessed, descriptive statistics were generated and analyzed. This primary data is compared and contrasted with other studies on women-owned businesses and also with data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Results and Discussion
In all, 268 business-owners participated in the study, three of whom identified as male, three as non-binary, and the rest (267) as female. The participants in the survey were a diverse group of women entrepreneurs. The majority of participants were African-American at 53%, with Non-Hispanic White the next largest group at 22%, followed by White Hispanic at 10%, Asian at 7%, Multiracial at 6%, Afro-Hispanic 2%, and Native American 1% (Table 1). The client base of the DCWBC mirrored this demographic, with smaller proportions of Non-Hispanic White and Asian participants (18% and 6%), and higher of Black (55%), White Hispanic (11%), and Multiracial (8%) participants.
Table 1. Demographic composition of all participants in the survey, and of the DCWBC.
The small businesses included in the survey represented the full range of industries in the U.S., with women business-owners from 20 different types of industries and services participating. Table 2 reflects the primary category of industry in which 5% or more small businesses were engaged. The largest category, representing nearly a third of the businesses, is professional, scientific and technical services, followed by retail trade and healthcare and social assistance – which together constitute over half of the small businesses. Professional, scientific and technical services is a broad category including businesses engaged in legal services, accounting, architecture and design, computer programming, research, and advertising, and the participants reflected this wide variety of endeavors. Next, administrative support, arts and entertainment, educational services, personal care services, and accommodation and food services represent another quarter of the businesses. All in all, services-related businesses constituted almost 64%, while retail trade businesses were almost 21%, with the remainder engaged in manufacturing, construction, finance, information technology, or agriculture. The remainder of the participants (28 clients and 24 non-clients) were distributed across twelve additional industries, none of which had more than four businesses classified under a single code.
Table 2. Type of industries in which survey respondents are engaged. Codes derived from the North American Industrial Classification System. Industry codes for participants totalling at least 5% are included.
In terms of industry sector by race, the majority of White non-Hispanic and Black survey participants were engaged in professional, scientific and technical services (Table 3). The second most prominent category for Black entrepreneurs was retail trade, then health care and social assistance. For non-Hispanic White entrepreneurs, the second most numerous category is health care and social assistance. Hispanic business-owners were concentrated in retail trade, social assistance, professional services, and accommodation and food services. Asian entrepreneurs were mostly involved in retail trade and educational services.
Table 3. Industry composition as a percent of race/ethnicity of survey participants.
Disparities across racial and ethnic categories were evident in the revenue reported for 2019. Median revenue for Black-owned businesses was lowest—below $20,000 (Table 4), and a large percentage of Black women-owned businesses were also in this revenue category—49%, compared to 30%-33% of Asian, Hispanic and non-Hispanic White women-owned small businesses. The highest median revenue was reported by non-Hispanic White entrepreneurs—between $40,000 and $60,000. Both Hispanic and Asian business-owners reported median revenue levels between $20,000 and $40,000. The disparities between Black and non-Hispanic White businesses are partly explained by differences in the industries that these groups engage in. A higher percentage of non-Hispanic White women (28%) operated businesses in the professional, scientific and technical services than Black woman-owned businesses (25%). The professional, scientific and technical services industry category represents a broad spectrum of business types that vary considerably in revenue. Another explanation is tenure of business operations. Twenty-one percent of the Black woman-owned businesses in the survey had been open less than one year, compared to 15% of those that were non-Hispanic White woman-owned. Additionally, Black women-owned businesses open 10 or more years were 15% of survey respondents, while non-Hispanic White business owners with the same tenure were 21% of the total.
Table 4. Median revenue for 2019 by race/ethnicity of the business-owner.
The participants were asked to specify their current need for capital (Figure 1). Only 16% of the businesses had adequate capital available and did not need further aid or investment. Businesses needing $25,000 or more were the largest group at 38% of respondents. The next were businesses needing $15,000 to $25,000, which was 21% of the survey. Businesses needing $5,000 to $15,000 were 18%, while the businesses needing less than $5,000 were only 7%. Businesses with higher revenue either had high capital needs, or did not need additional capital at all. Sixty-one percent of businesses with revenues over $100,000 needed an infusion of $25,000 or more, while 21% had no need for additional capital.
Figure 1. Capital needs of the survey respondents.
A high percentage, 42% of businesses, received no assistance from federal, state, local grants, from bank loans, or from friends and family during the pandemic (Figure 2). Of the businesses that received support, the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDl) were the most frequent programs cited, and 41% received this aid. This was followed by a smaller percentage of entrepreneurs receiving assistance from federal or state grants, friends and family and other sources which includes crowdfunding and online lenders.
Figure 2. Assistance received by women-owned businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic as of February 2021. The federal PPP and EIDL programs were still open as of the writing of this report.
In terms of these small businesses needing assistance, over 60% of respondents wanted help finding and retaining customers – and associated with this, 60% wanted assistance expanding their digital outreach via social media or email (Figure 3). A further 45% wanted help establishing an online presence. This indicates that there is a strong need among the businesses for assistance with their digital marketing efforts. After that, diversifying revenue streams and help with accounting and financial assistance were cited as areas of need. This question in the survey was focused on areas in which the DCWBC might directly provide technical assistance to businesses, consequently funding was covered under different topic areas and was not a selection for the participants, which explains why capital acquisition was not a topic in this line of inquiry.
Figure 3. Challenges and assistance needed by businesses.
Finally, despite the difficulty operating a small business during the past year, business-owners remained, for the most part, optimistic about the future of their businesses and about the near-term resolution of the pandemic (Figure 4). Seventy-four percent believed that the pandemic will resolve this year, and 20% had already returned to pre-pandemic levels of operation. Thirteen percent were not impacted by the pandemic, of which 40% were in management companies and enterprises, and 29% in retail trade. It is probable that these had an online presence to make up for the difficulty of physical delivery of services. During the past year, social movements to “buy Black,” and others related to the Black Lives Matter movement, have been important drivers of change, and have asserted the importance of supporting the Black business community. All in all, only 2% of the participants in our survey had to close their businesses, though that may not be in line with overall experiences of women entrepreneurs, since the survey may have higher representation of active DCWBC clients who are currently receiving assistance from the center.
Table 5. Survey responses were collected from February 18, 2021, through March 16, 2021. This chart shows the pandemic impact on businesses with expected return to normal business operations expressed by survey participants.
Qualitative Results - DCWBC Survey Of Business Owners
The COVID-19 pandemic for some participants in the survey was just one of the many challenges they faced in their business journey: “Just another task on this road” and “COVID is just another problem to add to our plates” were common themes in the responses. Business owners discussed pandemic related challenges, adjustments, pre-pandemic state of their business operations and future outlooks.
“I am in the process of establishing my business but the pandemic caused my efforts to be substantially slowed.”
Some women in the survey were optimistic and hopeful for the future: “Hope to get back to it fall 2021,””Hopeful to overcome those challenges in the near future,””This is tough, but it has brought up so many other ways of producing income. I’m excited for the future,” and “Hopefully the end is coming starting in September and going forward.”
While a small percent of owners in the survey had businesses that closed, pivoting or adjusting to the pandemic for most businesses meant temporary closures, creating new programs or services, changing their mission or creating a new business. Some participants’ businesses remained stable or increased due to the demand brought on by the pandemic. These businesses made up a range of industries from food services, healthcare/social assistance and professional business services. One participant, an owner of a certified public accountant firm, wrote,
“There has been an increased need for my services (technical assistance) given the additional government stimulus funding. I have been able to assist fellow minority owned small business owners become more financially savvy by providing one on one financial literacy/ business education to help them use PPP funds effectively.”
Other businesses fared differently. One owner of an engineering consulting firm had to decrease her employees by more than half. Prior to the pandemic she employed 9 people and after the pandemic her employee count dropped to 3. Her tone echoes hope for a return to normal:
“Staying positive; trying to stay healthy and trusting that things will get better and we will be ready when things get better. (A lot of our work involves international travel and our client has suspended all work).”
Two participants not involved in professional business services: a personal chef and a retailer specializing in plant-growing kits both had increased demand. The personal chef pivoted her business to meal delivery services as she mentioned in a follow-up interview,
“COVID forced us to pivot our offering in such a way that we are now more profitable and have an improved customer experience.”
Taking advantage of commercial kitchen space, she was able to navigate the pandemic and grow her business.
The other plant-growing business, despite the increased demand for her product, had to temporarily close her online store due to not being able to expand her home-based business from selling “a few thousand to tens of thousands” of plant-growing kits into affordable real estate space in D.C.
“There is a really strong eco-system for business support in the District but it seems to focus on starting up or established brick and mortar businesses. I fall in the middle…there simply isn’t space or funding for someone like me.”
The greatest challenges to adapt were posed for businesses engaged in personal care services and other “non-essential” industries such as international travel, touring, and some business owners dependent on or engaged in childcare. Business owners dependent on local markets and pop-ups expressed the challenges with decreased patronage. One participant stated the local markets, “were a huge source of income” for her. Some business owners that were considered “non-essential” discussed the difficulties of marketing the needs for services in a state of crisis. These businesses ranged in services from real estate development, professional staging and coaching: “challenging to articulate to the need,” “mental wellness and life coaching during this pandemic has been a challenge.”
Customer acquisition and retention was a challenge for all business owners after heavy social distancing restrictions were lifted due to job losses, as one participant stated, ”people are not working and they do not have money to come to the salons.” Survey respondents with brick and mortar businesses in personal care services (hair salons and spas) owned by Hispanic, White and Asian women were more likely to have their brick and mortar locations opened with restrictions after the pandemic than Black-owned businesses in the same industry (hair salons). Despite these challenges the tone of one participant is unwavering.
“In order to continue working and keep the bills paid, I turned my apartment into a salon by day and living space at night. It’s working now, but it’s time to separate the two and expand business.”
Still some business owners have lost their brick and mortar locations and need assistance in reestablishing their salons.
“It has been insanely challenging. I shifted by focusing on different revenue streams… But, my salon still needs capital to get back on our feet.”
Mothers with the added stressors of school closures and losing child care, expressed the challenges of working full-time in their businesses and simultaneously providing child care and support:
“Much of my business depends on (having) childcare. With children still out of school, this makes it difficult to plan and take on new clients and do my work.”
“…struggled to have the time to push the business to its fullest potential without schools/daycares open.”
Time constraints were also challenges for non-mother business owners, citing struggling to find the time to implement new marketing strategies, while also engaging in core business operations and lengthy applications for pandemic relief. Business owners in childcare and educational services experienced different impacts. Overwhelmly, childcare providers had positive outlooks in supporting their local communities child care needs – serving essential workers and adapting to protocols to remain safe and healthy. One participant stated:
“Just a little disappointed on the entire process on how much small businesses give to the DC area and the support level is not the same.”
One participant, a substitute teacher, discussed her struggles with job loss and health that greatly decreased her household’s income, being able to navigate only through her husband’s ability to work.
Financial Capital and Lending
Capital needs for the business owners were primarily centered on general operating expenses: equipment, marketing and payroll. Equipment needs included a broad range of material supplies and machinery for business operations: inventory, sewing machines, laptops, prototype creation for start-ups, mobile trucks (for food, transport and other personal care services), and Point of Sale technology. Technology needs also included website infrastructure, application and software development. Payroll needs “to hire new employees,” “to cover salaries,” “pay the owner…me” and “paying contractors” were common among the responses. Other funding needs included access to capital to cover rent, obtain rental space, renovations, licensing and to fund current and/or new programs/production.
Forty-two percent of respondents had not sought support of any kind. Challenges with accessing capital was a key theme. Business owners who had not applied for a PPP loan cited a lack of accounting support, financial statements, legal knowledge and lengthy applications as key reasons for not pursuing this relief.
Brick and mortars in D.C. struggled to pay rent, despite policies requiring commercial rental payment plans. With decreased revenue, owners are still struggling with overhead expenses:
“Our landlord has not decreased our rent despite our decrease in sales – nor have other service providers. I understand that they all have bills to pay but it seems unethical to profit off of small businesses right now. I wish there was a policy to address this issue.”
For other owners as mentioned in the previous section, this meant closing their physical location. Home-based businesses also struggled with household rent, juggling work responsibilities within their business, negotiating contracts and creating an online presence while also trying to navigate relief, and for one business owner, “poverty and interdependence.” Two participants noted utilizing pandemic unemployment assistance (PUA) to navigate loss of revenue.
“Thank God for PUA. This has literally kept my EDWOSB (Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business) alive.”
The lack of access to capital was the key reason for many owners’ inability to expand their business by hiring new employees, or purchasing technology needs and/or maintaining their website.
“Black women business owners are at a sharp disadvantage when it comes to accessing capital to continue or improve business operations. We need more viable opportunities to succeed in our entrepreneurial endeavors.”
“I am having a very difficult time rounding my business. I really want to find a good location where I can have customers but I don’t have money.”
“I am in need of support to get my business off the ground. I have done a significant amount of work on my own with my own money but now I need assistance to take me to the next level so that I can begin to identify clients/organizations and bring in revenue.”
Due to the inability to find affordable warehousing space in D.C, a woman-owned e-commerce business will have to move her business out of D.C. She feels that home-based businesses have less opportunities to grow. During the last year, her business grew from producing a few thousand to hundreds of thousand orders, but not having access to affordable warehousing space in D.C, she had to outsource space and labor to scale her business. As she noted:
“My business has grown rapidly since the pandemic, which I am really thankful for. But trying to physically scale a business in D.C. is really challenging. I have been looking for nearly a year for a warehouse space I can afford and I haven’t found anything.
In addition to the difficulties of low cash reserves, discouragement from seeking financial products was also an issue:
“The SBA lender match tool showed that I matched with 11 lenders but none actually reached out to me. Going to the lenders directly, I was told over and over (by White male bankers) that I shouldn’t apply for the loan. That I should stay small longer – share a space, work at night in someone else’s space, etc. That I wasn’t ready.”
Respondents that were able to adapt to online ordering or services experienced increased demands and had the ability to remain in business with assistance from the PPP, grants and other COVID-19 related relief. A small number of businesses received state grants, and there were no discussions of Washington, D.C., grant programs being utilized by any of the participants in the long answer responses. Despite applying for and receiving assistance administered by the SBA, a women-owned transportation company had 35 paid employees prior to March 2020 and in February 2021, her employee count dropped to 10. Her business still needs additional capital to cover the cost of equipment payments.
Location and Business Support Providers
Discussions directly mentioning the District, Virginia and Maryland had varying responses. Business owners mentioning D.C. were on two ends of the spectrum. Some owners cited a lack of affordability and resources to support small businesses. One business in the tourism industry expressed their disappointment in the inaccessibility to outdoor spaces as their primary frustration. The majority of comments about D.C. were not pandemic related, but concerned needing capital support, resources and information to clarify business registrations, licensing and insurance requirements for different business types. These issues expanded to challenges with the DC Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs processes, associated registration and licensing fees. The exceptions were four participants, two who are seeking to move their established business to D.C. One said, “I feel very supported by my city,” and another, the owner of a public health firm, said: “my city needs me.” One business owner in real estate discussed gentrification as being the impending factor to her decrease in business, providing affordable homes to minority families:
“(I) witnessed well over 100 businesses…..go out of business over the last 10 years due to gentrification and escalating lease costs and housing prices up to over $1 million dollars which most minorities cannot afford…I have previous clients who come back to me or send their friends and children – Thank God.”
Many owners discussed being “grateful” for support and being able to “stay afloat.” Business support providers and community support was a common theme from respondents, citing that they remained open and saw their businesses as providing supportive services within their community:
“Without the help of the DCWBC, I would still be contemplating my idea.”
“I have been very grateful for the free (training and networking) webinars offered through the DCSBDC and the GWHCC. I also benefited from a consult through the DCSBDC.”
“The community has been quite supportive and expressing gratitude for us remaining open.”
Maryland respondents mentioned the Maryland’s Women’s Business Center and their gratitude for receiving business counseling services, two respondents directly mentioned state of Maryland grant programs.
“Not knowing about funding opportunities like the Maryland Small Business COVID-19 Emergency Relief Loan Grant Fund until the application deadlines passed was frustrating. That said, I am very grateful to have received the two PPP loans and the Prince George’s County COVID-19 Business Relief Fund.”
“Sales and revenues have plummeted to below 1/2 of typical revenues. I have been able to operate and stay open thanks to the PPP, SBA loans and many grants by Maryland Department of Commerce and Montgomery County’s Economic Development departments.”
One respondent directly mentioned a Virginia county grant program.
“We are new business owners after more than 30 years of federal government service. My husband is a veteran and I am a female. We are grateful for the support we’ve received from the Vienna Business Association, SCORE, and the Fairfax County RISE Grant program.”
COVID-19 and the resulting stay-at-home orders caused an immediate decrease in entertainment, travel and other non-emergency services, at the same time an increase in demand for delivery and digitally mediated services changed the circumstances of how businesses operated and in some instances created a path for new business creation and pivots for existing businesses. Understanding the economic and social structure that different women-owned small businesses operate in is critical when determining how businesses were able to adapt and the full implications of how COVID changed their business operations. Minority business owners and especially Black women have less access to capital to maintain their businesses in times of economic downfall and are responding to pre-pandemic challenges that created an unequal playing field when competing for financial relief.
Women-owned small businesses demonstrate resilience despite the barriers that would seem to restrict their success. Access to a network of community, business support providers and other joint initiatives helped, but more funding support is needed. Supporting business growth for women entrepreneurs increases economic growth within their households and for the local economy.
Some businesses that received federal relief were able to maintain their operations, but the economic downturn has left other business owners with more losses. Initiatives to support female beauty salon owners would benefit women now. Most importantly a rate for women business owners should be introduced when exploring pricing for rental or commercial spaces. In addition local co-working space for small businesses in manufacturing and affordable warehousing would help women businesses that may still be unsupported.
Women business owners need specialized funding for start-ups and for non-employer firms that are not eligible for COVID-19 small business relief programs. In addition, resources to navigate business registration, licensing and insurance requirements for small or home-based businesses in D.C. would help entrepreneurs with the start-up process, an opportunity for the DCWBC Washington, D.C., has the highest business registration cost in the metropolitan region. The Micro-Business Startup Fee Relief Amendment Act of 2017, if passed, would greatly reduce basic licensing fees in D.C. for women owned small businesses with revenues under $100,000. The higher cost of living and renting space in the DMV area may play a role in the ability for women-owned small businesses to grow and scale without capital investment. There are still gaps in support services and investments that women entrepreneurs need. Women business owners benefit from the same policies as women in the workforce, access to affordable child care and paid family leave. Business owners and especially sole proprietors without full-time jobs in the workforce are faced with added stressors in navigating health care and not having paid family or medical leave despite playing a vital role in the local economy, their families and community.
About the businesses surveyed
List of partner organizations:
- Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District
- Coalition for Non Profit Housing and Economic Development (CNHED)
- D.C. Chamber of Commerce
- D.C. Bar Pro Bono
- DC Department of Small and Local Business Development (DSLBD)
- District Bridges
- Georgetown Main Street
- Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GWHCC)
- DC Small Business Development Center, Howard University (SBDC)
- Washington Area Community Investment Fund
- Washington DC Economic Partnership
- Women’s Business Center of Northern Virginia
- Latino Economic Development Center (English)
- Latino Economic Development Center (Spanish)
- Maryland Women’s Business Center
- DC Fashion Foundation
- Ethiopian Community Center
- DC Mayor’s Office on Women’s Policy and Initiatives (MOWPI)
- DC Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA)
In January 2021, NCRC’s DCWBC and Research team conducted a literature search on the state of women entrepreneurship.
National Trends; Women-Owned Businesses
Current comprehensive research on women-owned businesses and publicly available data on small business lending to women-owned businesses is sorely lacking. The National Women’s Business Council entered an agreement with the U.S Census Bureau to fund and develop custom tabulations on women-owned non-employer firms from the New Annual Nonemployer Demographics Statistics (NES-D). This, in combination with the Survey of Business Owners, would provide a more comprehensive picture of women-owned businesses in the United States. However, this annual statistical series was last released in December 2020, analyzing data from 2017. Thus, it does not reflect the current status of women-owned businesses. Transparent small business lending data on women-owned small businesses is also unavailable, making it critical for the implementation of Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that requires financial institutions to make publicly available loans and lending data on small business owners, including women and minorities. The SBA makes its data on small business lending available, however, research shows that lending from SBA accounts for only 7% of the financial products available for small businesses. Many online financial technology firms, banks and non-profit organizations are publishing reports on their small business lending data but few are comprehensive or frequently updated on lending to women entrepreneurs in the U.S., and thus the unique funding challenges they face are not adequately publicized.
Small businesses owned by women grew significantly between 2014 and 2019, and yet revenues and employment did not proportionally keep up. According to the American Express 2019 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report during that time period the number of women-owned businesses in the U.S. increased by 21%, while the number of all businesses increased by only 9%. As of 2019, women owned more than 42% of all businesses yet generated only 4.3% of total business revenue. More than 1,800 women-owned businesses were being launched daily between 2018-2019. Research from the 2017 American Express State of Women-Owned Business Report showed that since 1997 the share of revenue generated by women-owned businesses has hovered around 4.4% of total business revenue while the share of employment by women-owned businesses has remained close to its 7% share. More than two decades later despite women business ownership growing by more than 2.5 times the national average, in 2019 the share of revenue generated by all women-owned businesses was 4.3% of total business revenue and the share of employment was 8%. Women on average generate only half of the annual business revenue than their male counterparts and minority women business owners face an even greater inequality. The average gross revenue for Black women-owned businesses between 2014 to 2019 was $24,000, compared to $65,800 for all minority women-owned businesses and $218,800 for non-Hispanic White women business owners. If women-owned businesses’ share of total firms (42%) were equal to their share of employment and business revenue, they would make an even greater impact on their local communities and the local economy. According to estimates from the 2019 State of Women-Owned Business Report, if firms owned by minority women were at parity with non-minority women-owned firms, over 4 million new jobs and nearly $100 million in additional revenue would be produced.
For minority women making less yearly income, entrepreneurship is more than just a side hustle, but a pathway to combat racial discrimination and wealth inequity.
Sidepreneurship (part time entrepreneurial endeavors) is a growing means for women to flexibly balance home and job responsibilities, stay in the workforce and maintain financial solvency during a time of extreme challenges. Between 2014 and 2019, growth in the number of women sidepreneurs was nearly double overall growth in women entrepreneurs: 39% compared to 21% respectively. Black and other minority women are more likely to start their business on a part-time basis. Part-time entrepreneurship for minority women increased by 65% between 2014 and 2019, for Black women it increased by 99%. Growth in part-time entrepreneurship for all women business owners increased by only 39%. For minority women making less yearly income, entrepreneurship is more than just a side hustle, but a pathway to combat racial discrimination and wealth inequity. Historical exclusion in banking, lending and lower wealth averages and income contributes to the racial wealth gap found in business revenue for Black women when compared to other racial groups. Research from the Survey of Consumer Finances showed that for households with lower wealth distributions their average business equity was only $20,000, but represented 60% of those households total net worth.
“Nonemployer” businesses, meaning small businesses with no employees other than the owner, describe 90% of women-owned businesses. According to the Consumer Federal Protection Bureau, 9% of both minority and women-owned businesses employ between 1 to 49 employees and less than 0.25% of both have more than 50 employees. According to analysis from the National Women’s Business Council, in 2017 nearly 50% of non-employer firms generated less than $10,000 in annual receipts, but research suggests that even small amounts of business revenue can contribute largely to total household income for part-time business owners. Non-employer women-owned businesses play a significant role in their households and local economies by providing jobs for their owners, according to the 2019 Small Business Credit Survey. Sixty-three percent of non-employer firms stated that their business income was their primary source of income.
The enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES) in response to the economic downfall of the COVID-19 pandemic, provided critical support for Women’s Business Centers and debt relief and direct funding for small business owners. This included the Paycheck Protection Program and targeted small business grants. Lending from SBA’s traditional programs, such as the 7A and 504, to women business owners decreased by more than half in 2020, likely as a result of more women business owners seeking debt free small business relief, with more than $3 billion going to women-owned small businesses in SBA’s fiscal year for 2020 (October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020, some of these months are during the pandemic), compared to more than $8 billion in guaranteed loans from SBA’s loan portfolio to women in 2019 and 2018. The Paycheck Protection Program was initially designed as a forgivable loan if used primarily to keep employees on payroll, putting women-owned non-employer and smaller businesses at a disadvantage to receive large amounts of this forgivable loan to maintain or pivot their business. As our analysis finds, some small businesses with employees decreased their staff temporarily or permanently to mitigate potential financial risks due to loss of work or to ensure their own health and safety. During the initial rollout of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), banks privately prioritized PPP lending to their existing and larger customers, excluding the most vulnerable entrepreneurs who did not already have an existing relationship with a bank. In addition, mystery shop tests from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition showed that women and minorities were discouraged at a higher rate when seeking information about applying to loans than their non-Hispanic White counterparts. Compounding these challenges, women entrepreneurs who initially sought PPP from community development financial institutions or online lenders were hit with roadblocks as community development institutions and financial technology firms were initially blocked from PPP lending. Community development financial institutions are solely dedicated to providing affordable lending to low-income communities who are traditionally left out of mainstream lending programs.
Income and pay inequality has an impact on business formation and on the ability for entrepreneurs to launch or expand their businesses without investment. Research from the ProjectDiane Founders Survey analyzing data from more than 600 Black and Hispanic women business owners across 36 states and the District of Columbia, found that more than 86% of respondents used capital from their personal savings or income to start their businesses. Women without expendable capital, those who spend the majority of their income on basic needs, are less able to start or expand their businesses. According to MetLife’s 17th Annual U.S Employee Benefit Trend Survey, women were found to be less likely than men to have a savings cushion (49% women vs. 63% men) and are more likely than men to live paycheck to paycheck, 55% of women in the survey stated that they lived paycheck to paycheck compared to 44% of men. Only 24% of participants in the ProjectDiane survey had received outside funding, while 60% noted that acquiring outside investment is a current goal for their business growth.
The report, Gender, Age and Small Business Financial Outcomes, used a subsample from more than 100,000 businesses owned by either one woman or one man with a deposit account in JPMorgan Chase Bank. Their analysis showed that women-owned firms showed a remarkable ability to survive, as on average they started firms with 34% less revenue and had lower revenue growth than men in their first years in business, yet they survived at the same rate as the male owned firms. Other differences between male and female firms are illustrated by the fact that 82% of male business owners had financed their business growth through outside sources while only 18% of women had done so and in this sample, 29% of women-owned small businesses had organic growth. These women did not grow through external debt, as their male counterparts had done, but through profit from earned revenue. It also showed that there is a gender-pay gap in business revenue across most industries in the sample, most pronounced in the services industry which is typically dominated by women. In the health care and personal services industries, men had 58% and 35% higher median revenues in their first year of business compared to women business owners. Despite the unique challenges that women face when starting and growing their business, they are just as likely to survive as a male owned business.
Trends for Woman-Owned Small Businesses in the DC Metro Region
According to the report, Building Inclusive Ecosystems with Intentionally, Deloris Wilson of Georgetown University, analyzed women-owned businesses in D.C. and found that business ownership for women experienced a growth rate of more than 50%. The greatest growth for women-owned businesses was for African American women. African American women in D.C. own slightly more businesses than their non-Hispanic White counterparts but as Wilson points out, the differences in total receipts is daunting. “With about 11,000 firms, White-women-owned businesses earn nearly $3 billion in receipts, while the approximately 12,000 Black-women-owned businesses earn $600 million in receipts.” Businesses owned by Black women generate $54,545 in revenue per business, while non-Hispanic White women generate $250,000 in revenue per business. Hispanic, Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women have a smaller percentage of business ownership, (approximately 1,600, 2,000 and 30 businesses respectively) corresponding to their smaller percentage of the total population in D.C. A key challenge in understanding the state of women entrepreneurs is also illustrated in the report, Building Inclusive Ecosystems with Intentionally, by the inability to accurately count the number of women-owned businesses. It is clear that women business owners are underfunded compared to their male counterparts.
The DMV region’s large network of business support providers include accelerators, technical assistance providers, incubators and other co-working spaces. Together, they provide resources, training and investments to small businesses. Deloris Wilson of Georgetown University suggests that continued intentional coordination among the local government and business support providers engaged in investment, mentorship and technical assistance is needed to address the needs of underserved women-owned businesses. Many such initiatives have continued to take place in light of COVID-19, like the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development (CNHED) in partnership with DC Fashion Foundation and Clyopatra Foundation provided jobs for fashion entrepreneurs to fill the gap in cloth masks being distributed to vulnerable communities. This coordinated effort is one example of many that aim to meet the needs of unique women business owners in addition to entrepreneur-led programming and collaborations with business support providers to dispatch resources and relevant business development training.
New businesses in D.C. continue to face many challenges related to the high cost of commercial office and leasing space in addition to high regulatory fees for business licenses and permits and the increase in commercial property taxes. State and federal government contracting assistance programs like the Women-Owned Federal Contracting Assistance program, 8(a) development program and Certified Business Enterprise (CBE) play an important role in providing access to women and minority owned small businesses to sell their products and services. Coworking spaces like HeraHub and commercial kitchens are also vital for small businesses; they provide access to affordable real estate, kitchen equipment and storage.
The Certified Business Enterprise (CBE) in D.C. supports women further by offering preference in procurement opportunities offered by the District of Columbia and helps position small businesses to better compete in DC government contracting opportunities.
Nationwide and Local Impacts of COVID-19 on Women-Owned Businesses
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women-owned businesses has been significant. Thirty-six percent of small business owners who responded to the Business Owners of Color and COVID-19 Survey reported to be operating with modifications, and 9% were permanently or temporarily closed. Two out of five small businesses experienced revenue decreases between 25% and 75%. Forty-four percent of participants with employees had to permanently decrease their workforce to mitigate lost revenues, and all business owners in the survey are prioritizing grant support for critical COVID-19 relief. Federal relief administered by SBA was the largest relief package to date for small businesses and was requested and received by 41% of business owners in the DC WBC survey. Of those who did not apply for federal relief, 52% did not think they were eligible.
The American Opportunity Enterprise’s COVID-19 Small Business Impact Survey included 1,199 business owners, 430 of which were women-owned small businesses. Slightly more than 88% of these women stated that their business was their primary source of income. Eighty percent reported that despite having high business revenues (14% had an annual business revenue of over 1 million before COVID and 55% made between $50,001 to 1 million), their biggest challenge was cash flow. To mitigate loss revenue due to this decreased cash flow, women owners cut non-essential expenses (50%) and reduced available working hours (33%). 25% of women business owners had no savings to cover expenses and 22% had just enough cash flow to last 1 to 2 months. SBA relief was the most requested financial assistance (60%), and despite the negative effects on their business from COVID, 30% of women-owned businesses had not yet sought financial assistance.
Despite the challenges of the pandemic, access to capital and business closures for the nations’ most vulnerable, creativity and entrepreneurship is up in the United States and District of Columbia. Many entrepreneurs, particularly women who are looking to earn a necessary household income, are taking advantage and starting new businesses. From January 2019 through March 2019, there were 2,991 new business applications in the District of Columbia, by quarter 3 of 2020 (approximately 3 months after the nationwide lockdowns) business applications rose by over 55% (5,287 new business applications in 2020 Q3). During this same quarter, business applications in Maryland rose by 48% and in Virginia by 37%. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, women of color represented the highest growth (89%) for new businesses formed by women daily. These younger and smaller businesses may need more support since the majority of COVID-19 small business relief funding was for businesses that started prior to March 2020.
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- Key Dimensions of the Small Business Landscape. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (May 2017) https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/201705_cfpb_Key-Dimensions-Small-Business-Lending-Landscape.pdf
- Building Inclusive Ecosystems with Intentionality. Beacon: The D.C Women’s Founder Initiative. Deloris Wilson. https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/2q4cizm9bvgc8j13d2ioqp4h9rb1iy82
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- Association for Enterprise Opportunity COVID-19 Small Business Impact Survey. https://aeoworks.org/covid-19-survey/
- Financial Wellness Programs Foster a Thriving Workforce. https://www.metlife.com/content/dam/metlifecom/us/ebts/pdf/MetLife_Financial_Wellness_Programs_Foster_a_Thriving_Workforce.pdf
- United States Census Bureau. Business Formation Statistics. https://www.census.gov/econ/bfs/data.html
National Women’s Business Council. Annual Report. 2020. https://cdn.www.nwbc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/21113833/2020-NWBC-Annual-Report.html
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Key Dimensions of the Small Business Lending Landscape at 19 (May 2017) https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/201705_cfpb_Key-Dimensions-Small-Business-Lending-Landscape.pdf
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Underserved and Unprotected. How the Trump Administration Neglected the Neediest Small Businesses in the PPP. https://coronavirus.house.gov/sites/democrats.coronavirus.house.gov/files/PPP%20Report%20Final%20%283%29.pdf
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Crawling is one of the major developmental milestones for babies, but it’s also an important in their learning experience too. Here we explore how babies learn through crawling.
The exact stage at which a baby masters the art of crawling varies, as every baby is different. Before they’re able to crawl, babies first have to learn how to sit up on their own unaided; as their muscles strengthen and they become more able to explore their own ability to move, then crawling will start happening. This is generally between the ages of about six and 12 months. Some babies will start crawling without too much difficulty at all, but others might find it easier to shuffle along on their bottoms instead, or even to slither along on their stomach. In some cases babies even skip crawling altogether and move straight on to walking.
Learning to crawl is quite a learning experience in itself for babies. Discovering that they have the ability to move their body in new ways is exciting, although it can take considerable practice over and over again before it is fully mastered. At first your baby will realise that they can be down on the floor on their hands and knees and will probably test the waters by simply rocking their body on the spot. It can take days or weeks of practice before they realise that rocking can in fact give them the necessary ability to push their body forward and move.
Crawling and Learning
When babies have mastered the art of crawling, they’ll be no stopping them! As a parent, you’ll have to keep a close eye on your child, as crawling opens up a whole new world of opportunities and adventure and your child will typically be crawling wherever and whenever they can.
The transition to crawling is a major step in their development and can aid their learning process in many ways. For example, crawling helps to develop a child’s sense of balance, helps the development of key muscles and it helps their hand and eye co-ordination. A good hand-eye co-ordination is really important for learning, as it will later help them when they come to learning to read and write.
The ability to crawl opens up a child’s environment, which in turn aids their learning in many ways. They learn about their own ability to move, how crawling along on their hands and knees propels them forward to new areas and how this gives them more opportunities to discover new things, gain new experiences and learn about their own ability and the world around them.
Exploration of their immediate environment is really important – not only for helping them learn about the rooms of a home and the objects within them, but also how things work. Given half a chance, babies will be keen to touch and feel things, press buttons, feel different surfaces and get up to any mischief they can. If a baby is a bit of a reluctant crawler – and some are – then placing an interesting looking object or toy a bit away from them on the floor is one good way in which you can encourage them to crawl, as they’ll hopefully be tempted to get in reach of the toy or object.
Whilst it’s of course great for them to learn new things and touch and feel different objects and surfaces, safety is vital. As soon as babies are crawling, you’ll have to be even more aware of safety and ensure that the floors are clear of small objects that could accidentally be swallowed, sharp objects that could cause injury or plugs that could easily be pulled out and fingers stuck into the electrical sockets.
As long as your home is safe though, there’s no major reason to worry when your child begins to crawl. It represents a key stage in their early learning development, gives them the vital change to explore their environment more and the chance to plenty more about their own abilities and skills. | <urn:uuid:ef56af93-9cd3-4c2b-b427-ee4502643d1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://earlychildhoodeducation.co.uk/how-babies-learn-through-crawling/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972647 | 782 | 3.9375 | 4 |
While there is nothing in this brilliant picture book that wouldn’t be enjoyed by younger children, to get the most out of it, a little more maturity will be necessary. The theme is of a small girl, literally small in every way, her house, her bed, her feet, her blanket, all are small – even her shoes – but she has big dreams. Here lies the crux of the problem. She loves all things big, the sea, mountains, tall buildings, big parks, space, but she is constantly being told that she dreams too much, and that daydreaming about the big things she wants to do with her life are impossible to such a small, insignificant person, not to mention the fact that they may be dangerous: ‘Head down, feet on the ground, Small’. So she would ‘sit on them, stamp on them and swallow them back down’. But one night, her dreams take her up to the moon where she sees lots of other small people like her doing exciting things, and her dreams take on a new reality. The very last picture shows us an adult Small in the uniform of an astronaut, and we know her big dreams have come true. Wonderfully evocative illustrations add greatly to the whole.
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Weeds wait for no one and continue growing to create a mess of your garden beds whether you've had time to get in the garden and deal with them or not. The Roundup Pump 'N Go sprayer is a breeze to use with its ready-to-use formula, and when the original container is empty, you can easily fill it again with a refill. When it comes to refilling the sprayer, the steps for adding more herbicide to the original container are simple, and you'll soon be ready to continue killing the unwanted growth.
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How to Use a Roundup Refill
The Roundup Pump 'N Go sprayer uses the nonselective herbicide glyphosate to kill any unwanted weeds or grass down to the root. It can also kill or damage desirable plants if the product gets on them. The container treats a 400-square-foot area. The herbicide is rainproof in 10 minutes, and you can start seeing the results on the targeted plants in around three hours, although it might take one to two weeks for complete death.
The product is safe to use in your flower beds and vegetable gardens and around fence lines, trees, and hardscape areas. Once the Roundup pump sprayer is empty, you can reuse it by refilling it with the ready-to-use Roundup refill.
- Wait to use the herbicide if outdoor conditions are cold or windy or if rain is forecast. The product doesn't work as well when temperatures are cold, and windy conditions can cause the herbicide to drift onto desirable plants.
- Refill the Roundup Pump 'N Go sprayer by first pushing the handle down as far as it will go and turning it in a counterclockwise direction until locked.
- Continue turning the container's handle in a counterclockwise direction until the container's lid starts turning and unscrewing.
- Remove the container's lid once it's completely unscrewed and then remove the pump from the container.
- Pour the refill into the original container, taking care not to overfill it. Leave enough room in the container so that the pump can be reinserted without the herbicide overflowing and so there is enough space for the pump to build pressure.
- Reinsert the pump and screw the lid back on the container. The Roundup Pump 'N Go sprayer is now ready to tackle the unwanted growth.
- Wear safety gear when using Roundup, including a long-sleeved shirt, long pants, closed-toe shoes, and protective glasses. Don't use it around bodies of water. Children and pets can reenter the area once the herbicide completely dries. Wash your hands after refilling and using the product. | <urn:uuid:d49a5c3d-162b-4b1f-b586-53d05861ff14> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hunker.com/12571731/how-to-refill-roundup-pump-n-go-sprayer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.907238 | 553 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Justify, the colt who in 2018 became one of only 13 horses to win the Triple Crown, reportedly failed a drug test that should have disqualified him from racing's most revered event, according to a New York Times report Wednesday.
Documents obtained by the Times allegedly show that Justify tested positive for a banned substance called scopolamine just weeks before the 2018 Kentucky Derby, the first of three races needed to earn the Triple Crown title. Rather than disqualifying the colt or its trainer, Bob Baffert, the California Horse Racing Board took more than a month to confirm the test, according to the Times.
"Then, instead of filing a public complaint as it usually does, the board made a series of decisions behind closed doors as it moved to drop the case and lighten the penalty for any horse found to have the banned substance that Justify tested positive for in its system," the Times report said.
Rick Baedeker, the executive director of the California Horse Racing Board, told the Times there was "no way that we could have come up with an investigative report prior to the Kentucky Derby."
According to Baedeker's statement, the scopolamine is often found in jimson weed, which is grown wildly and could end up in a horse's feed.
"We take seriously the integrity of horse racing in California and are committed to implementing the highest standards of safety and accountability for all horses, jockeys and participants," Baedeker said in a statement to NBC News.
The board's former chairman, Chuck Winner, whose second term ended in July, said in a statement to NBC News Thursday that the board made the right decision in "what was clearly a case of environmental contamination that has been badly mischaracterized."
Winner said that investigations revealed "overwhelming evidence" that Justify and six other horses accidentally ingested the scopolamine from jimson weed present in hay at four different barns in Santa Anita.
"It would have been a complete miscarriage of justice for the CHRB to have taken action against Justify or Baffert, knowing full well that the horse was poisoned by an environmental contaminate and not injected with a substance," Winner said.
The Triple Crown is a title awarded to horses who win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in a single season. Before Justify's crown win last year, American Pharoah was the first horse to earn the coveted title in 37 years.
Baffert worked with both Justify and American Pharoah, making him the second trainer in history to produce two Triple Crown horses.
Kathy Guillermo, senior vice president of PETA, said in a statement that the California Horse Racing Board's failure to investigate Justify's drug test is a "nasty cover-up" and called for Justify to be disqualified from the Triple Crown victory. Guillermo also accused Baffert of drugging Justify in order to win.
"Even at the highest levels, horseracing is crooked to the core and must be overhauled," Guillermo said.
Baffert vehemently denied the accusation that he intentionally administered scopolamine to Justify, or any of his horses, in a statement Thursday.
"Following the Santa Anita Derby, Justify raced in three different jurisdictions during his Triple Crown run — Kentucky, Maryland and New York," Baffert said. "He passed all drug tests in those jurisdictions."
Baffert's attorney, W. Craig Robertson III, issued a letter to the Times, seen by NBC News, that called the report on Justify's drug test "short on facts" and sensationalist. Robertson said in his letter that the amount of scopolamine in Justify's system was "minuscule."
"You report an alleged finding of 300 nanograms," Robertson said in his letter to the Times. "What you fail to inform the reader is that one nanogram is a billionth of a gram."
Robertson also denied that there is any scientific evidence to show that the banned substance improves the performance of a race horse, as it has a depressant effect. The attorney called the idea that a trainer would intentionally administer the substance "defies logic and common sense."
Justify's journey to the Triple Crown drew particular interest for racing fans as the colt approached the racing trifecta with an undefeated season. The only other Triple Crown horse to win the title undefeated was Seattle Slew in 1977.
Following a Triple Crown win, horse owners typically sell the breeding rights to the horse for outrageous sums of money. Justify's breeding rights were reportedly sold for an estimated $75 million, according to ESPN in 2018.
Justify was purchased for only $500,000, according to the Associated Press.
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Fonoa API is built using standards and appropriate naming conventions to help out the developers in understanding the entity and attribute in a better way. To help a developer know what type and kind of result they can expect from different attributes, we use the following naming schema.
The first letter of every word capitalised.
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Dates are subject to change without the Chamber's knowledge. We encourage you to consult this calendar when picking an event date as well as contact us at 507-825-3316 or at email@example.com to have your event listed on the calendar in the hopes of avoiding conflicts with other events.
The Pipestone County Museum is hosting a series of youth programs over Christmas Break. These programs are for elementary students in grades K-5. Bring your kids or grandkids and sign up for one or more of the following educational opportunities that will include hands on learning. Wednesday, December 29; 10:30 a.m. ? Plants as Medicine: Then and Now will explore how Native Americans and early settlers used plants for medicinal purposes. Participants will make an air-dry cast of a plant to take home. Wednesday, December 29; 1:00 p.m. ? Candle Dipping Workshop. Participants will learn how settlers lit their homes before electricity and will make their own dipped candle to take home. This workshop is not recommended for children under 6 years of age. Thursday, December 30; 10:30 a.m. ? 13 Moons on Turtle?s Back workshop will explore the Native American use of a turtle shell to record the passage of time. The Ojibwe names for the full moons of the year will be shared. Participants will create calendars with these phases to take home. Thursday, December 30; 1:00 p.m. ? Butter Making Workshop. Participants will hear a history of butter making then help churn butter using a hand cranked butter churn. Cost for each workshop is $5.00 per participant. Advance registration is requested to ensure enough supplies are available for all participants. To register for these workshops, contact the Museum at 825-2563 or by email: firstname.lastname@example.org. The Museum is located at 113 S. Hiawatha Ave. in Pipestone. For further information contact the Museum or visit our website: pipestonecountymuseum.com.
Our newest escape room is open to adventurous travelers this holiday season. Call the library to book your group's expedition. Each weekday during library open hours from Christmas and New Years, you can gather family and friends for a bit of winter fun. This adventure should take about an hour. Meinders Elves will keep track of how long it takes for you to find Santa's errant reindeer in Snowed In: An Escape Room. Celebratory Chamber Checks will be awarded to the fastest team!
A new community ice rink will be available to our entire community for use just south of Christ the King Church (804 8th Ave NE). Join our kickoff event on December 30th, 4-7pm. Come and enjoy time on the ice, hot cocoa, treats, and a fire to stay warm. Some skates in a limited number sizes have been donated to be used by those who do not have any. Donations are welcome to be dropped off at the church. For details or possible schedule changes due to weather, visit www.ctkpipestone.com or www.pipestoneminnesota.com | <urn:uuid:e83df8b2-3987-4b48-8ab5-87fd510003bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://business.pipestoneminnesota.com/events/index/2021-12-30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.922665 | 643 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Here's the truth:
The math involved in a good financial plan isn't that complicated and it's all readily available.
The problem is that money is about a lot more than math.
Money is about our emotions. It's about our fears and our dreams. Those are really hard things to identify and face alone.
That's why we created Basecamp.
Inside of the Basecamp Resource Center, you'll find both courses on the emotional side of money like crafting your family vision, defining your non-negotiables and dealing with tough situations.
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Board of Health
- 3rd Monday of every month
- Public Health Office
- 403 Railroad Ave. Glenwood, IA 51534
This is subject to change so contact the Public Health office at 712-527-9699 for exact upcoming dates.
Agendas & Minutes
Agendas are available prior to the meetings. Minutes are available following approval.
- Janet Wade, O.D., Chairman
- Ron Silvius, D.O., Vice-Chair and Board of Health Physician
- Darcy Butts
- Cheryl Stewart, DPT
- Matt Woods, Attorney at Law
In 1967 Chapter 137 of the Code of Iowa marked the beginning of a new era of public health in Iowa. Each county was required to establish a five-member local board of health with one member being a physician licensed by the state of Iowa. The county board of supervisors would appoint additional members to the local board.
Local boards of health have responsibility for public health in their jurisdiction. They support local public health vision, mission, and advocacy and encourage community involvement in setting public health priorities. Their overall responsibilities relate directly to the three core public health functions and the ten essential services of public health.
Assessment - Knowing What Needs to Be Done
Regular collection, analysis, interpretation, and communication of information about health conditions, risks, and assets in a community. Mills County, under the leadership of the local board of health, recently identified health problems, resources, and needs by completing the Mills County Community Health Assessment.
Policy Development - Being Part of the Solution
Local boards of health are working to increase collaboration, promoting shared responsibility for problem-solving. Policy development can support public health and help meet community needs.
Assurance - Doing What Needs to Be Done, or Making Sure It Happens
A primary responsibility of local boards of health is to assure that private and public services to protect and promote public health are available and accessible to all.
Serving on the Board
Serving on a local board of health is an honorable and noteworthy task. The success of public health in meeting the challenges of the new millennium will depend on capable and dedicated leadership by the local board of health. | <urn:uuid:cdb25267-3945-491a-a6a5-ffee9aba75a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.millscountyiowa.gov/211/Board-of-Health | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.935781 | 462 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Thirteen year old Hendrik and his family have hidden their true identity as Jews and are living as Catholics in Budapest during WWII. One day, in a burst of loyalty, Hendrik reveals that his name is in fact Jakob and he is Jewish. It is a choice with drastic consequences. It not only puts his whole family in danger but it also severs the ties with his best friend Ivan.
Throughout the horrific months that follow, it is Jakob’s passion for revenge against Ivan that fuels his will to survive. However, unknown to Jakob, Ivan had made a choice of his own on that fateful day – a choice that changes everything.
The Choice is a story of consequences, friendship and a young man’s search for identity. Inspired by a true story
Awards and Recognition
City of Ottawa Arts Funding Grant, 2013
Shortlisted for the Canadian Library Association's Best Children's Book of the Year Award for 2016.
The Manitoba Young Reader's Choice award nominee
"Clark makes wise narrative choices in presenting life at Auschwitz... The Choice is an excellent historical novel." - CM: Canadian Review of Materials
"Deftly written for young readers… very highly recommended for both school and community library collections." - Midwest Book Review
"The Choice is recommended reading for young readers and it is good reading for adults too... [Kathy Clark] opens the door for all types of important conversations about history, consequence of actions, seeking revenge, the significance of religion, culture and values, thinking for yourself and taking responsibility for your own choices." - Edmonton Jewish News
"Set in Budapest, The Choice provides a unique perspective to the Holocaust… Educators and librarians hoping to engage readers with historical fiction will want to add this novel to their shelves." - VOYA Magazine
"The ending of the story brings both validation and realization of how the human spirit can triumph even under unfathomable atrocities, and how the choices we make in life can change everything." - Historical Novels Review
"The Choice clearly demonstrates the choices that a boy on the verge of manhood had to make during the Holocaust.... But the strength of the book lies in the emotional content, the relationship between Jakob and Ivan, and Jakob and Levi." - Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews
"This was an outstanding book for anyone interested in the Holocaust and a gripping narrative." - Ottawa Jewish Bulletin
"... this well-written story should captivate many young minds. There are historical explanations offered, a map and photographs of key places are included, and the story is both exciting and believable." - Canadian Teacher Magazine | <urn:uuid:b8cdd374-2567-4311-b75e-eaa79ddb6c2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kathyclark.ca/the-choice | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944125 | 544 | 2.5 | 2 |
LINK SPANS & PONTOONS
Linkspans are a type of drawbridge used to transport vehicles on or off a vessel or ferry. As these surfaces are often open to weather elements, used regularly, moved about and are subject to a great deal of weight, anti-slip, reliable surfacing is a must. Thorgrip™ is an expert choice of material that ensures a long life-span. We have completed surfacing works for link spans and ports throughout the UK and Europe boasting a growing clientele.
A pontoon bridge is a deck supported by floating pontoons and is often a temporary means of transporting pedestrians or loads to and from ships. We can refurbish and replace anti-skid surfacing systems for heavy-duty pontoons that require safe and reliable resistance to weight and weather. Our clients vary from the Port of Tyne to the Port of Rotterdam.
Thortech can provide you with a complete refurbishment, or provide localised repairs to existing surfacing.
Thortech has vast experience working in environments where quick turnarounds are required. With strategies in place to cope with the unpredictable shipping and docking schedules of long-haul vessels. In addition, we can, therefore, adapt to sudden changes, and ensure disruptions to shipping are avoided. | <urn:uuid:4b5b138b-b1d3-44b9-baba-183e5f5ec056> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thortechnology.co.uk/services/bridges-and-marine/linkspans-pontoons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.940019 | 267 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Just a few years ago, very elderly or multimorbid patients had no chance of receiving a new heart valve. The only treatment method – open heart surgery – would have been too risky. Only since the first successful minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in 2002 could these patients be treated. However, even TAVI is not without risk: because of the catheter, vessel wall deposits can rupture and lead to a stroke or heart attack. Moreover, the long-term durability of the TAVI valves, which unfold like an umbrella in the calcified aortic valve, is still under intense discussion.
The advantage of TAVI for younger individuals is not documented enough
Therefore, for years, TAVI was reserved for patients with a high surgical risk. For some time now, however, there has been a paradigm change: more and more physicians are also treating younger and healthier patients with TAVI, even though there are no long-term clinical observations in these patients. The situation unsettles physicians, patients and health insurance companies; and this thus gives rise to conflicting treatment and reimbursement procedures.
The DEDICATE study (DZHK6) is now comparing the surgical therapy procedure to the catheter-supported TAVI method in patients with medium to low surgical risk (STS score of 3 to 6) in order to achieve a higher procedural safety. Only patients who are eligible for both methods may participate in the study. They will be assigned randomly to two groups and their survival rate will be determined over five years. Previous studies have only evaluated considerably shorter periods.
Two treatment methods are being compared
In comparison to other studies, DEDICATE is distinctive in another way: for the first time, not only TAVI valves of one manufacturer will be compared to the surgical procedure, but the physician can choose the valve according to accuracy of fit and size from various models and manufacturers. The same applies to the surgical valves.
“Therefore, we are not comparing one valve model to the surgical method, but one treatment method to another”, says the study’s principal investigator, Prof. Stefan Blankenberg, cardiologist at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. “Heart surgeons and cardiologists have therefore planned the study together. Together we want to determine the best treatment for our patients”, adds Prof. Jochen Cremer of UKSH, Campus Kiel, who represents the surgical branch. All partner hospitals of the DZHK and other leading hospitals in Germany are participating in the study.
Currently, health insurance companies usually only reimburse TAVI, which is almost twice as expensive, for patients with a high surgical risk or if someone is inoperable. Prof. Blankenberg also hopes that the study’s outcomes will provide the chance for more objectivity and procedural safety for patients, physicians and health insurance companies.
DEDICATE-DZHK6 Steering Committee:
S. Blankenberg, University Heart Center Hamburg; J. Cremer, UKSH (Kiel Campus); H. Reichenspurner, University Heart Center Hamburg; N. Frey, UKSH (Campus Kiel); C. Hamm, Kerckhoff Clinic Bad Nauheim; T. Walther, Kerckhoff Clinic Bad Nauheim; U. Landmesser, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin (CBF); V. Falk, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin; S. Massberg, University Hospital of LMU Munich; C. Hagl, University Hospital of LMU Munich; M. Seiffert, University Heart Center Hamburg
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Silverlens presents this special exhibition by artist Martha Atienza that mines the artist’s relationship with island life, water, and social rot. A procession of men in bastardized costumes from the religious to the iconic, from Roman centurion: skirts to Manny Pacquiao’s boxing gloves. They are fully submerged, in a trance, pushing themselves slowly against the water and its uncontrollable current. At the head is a man dressed as the Santo Nino, and carrying doppelgänger statue. The Santo Nino is the child Jesus and Patron of the islands. The man raises the miraculous statue repeatedly, slowly, leading the march. This is an underwater Ati-atihan, an ancient animistic festival and procession, Christianized by colonial influence.
Every year, Atienza films the Ati-atihan and adds footage to combine the colorful fiesta as entertainment in contrast to images of more pressing social issues. Natural and political violence has become part of the procession. The Ati-atihan has been transformed into an annual record of victories and disasters, dreams and protests.
Martha Atienza has been known to produce works that not only represent the community but also serve the community. She has initiated screening programs that involve active participation and workshops that allow the exchange of ideas between the members of the community. Video has become her chosen medium in establishing close ties with the people of Bantayan Island, her hometown. For Atienza, her works are projects where the youth can take over and continue to share knowledge, and where art can become an open source for ideas and can give voice for those rarely heard.
One of the pressing issues in Bantayan Island is the damage that the fishing industry puts on marine life. The life between reefs have slowly dwindled away due to illegal practices in fishing and diving. Atienza, who has continually immersed herself within the practices of the community has come to understand far better the underlying conditions it stems from, which are impoverishment and unawareness. This has propelled her to approach the matter differently, with hopes to engage the people involved through small increments, rather than alienating them with bulks of righteous know-how.
“The problem we face, not only on Bantayan Island, not only in the Philippines but around the world, is climate change. To address this is of utmost importance. So we have as our main problems: people destroying (nature) through illegal activities and nature itself. * – Martha Atienza
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Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period/Tsereng
TSERENG 策棱, d. Mar. 12, 1750, the first Prince Ch'ao-yung (超勇親王), was a member of the Borjigit clan and a descendant of Genghis Khan (1162–1227) in the twenty-first generation. After the Mongols were driven out of China most of the Khans were weaklings. But Dayan Tsetsen Khan (1466–1543?), a descendant of Genghis Khan in the fifteenth generation, was a man of great ability, and united the Mongols under his rule. After Dayan's death, the authority was divided mainly among his sons. These sons, with one exception, brought their herds to pasture south of the Gobi Desert and became known, together with other tribes led by princes not descended from Genghis Khan, as the Inner Mongolians, or the Forty-nine Banners.
The ninth son, Gheresentse, took his men, numbering about ten thousand, to a region farther north, and this group came to be known as the Khalkas or Outer Mongolians. The Khalkas were later divided into three main groups designated Jasaktu Khanate, Tsetsen Khanate, and Tushetu Khanate, all the tribal heads being descendants of Gheresentse. The latter's third son, Numkh, and his descendants of the eldest branch, led the Tushetu Khanate. Tsereng was born a member of this branch. His great-grandfather, Tumenkin (fourth son of Numkh), was awarded the title of Sain Noin by the Dalai Lama for his advocacy of the Yellow Sect of Lamaism. The inheritance of this title fell to the second branch of the family—Tsereng himself belonging to the eighth. When, in the late 1680's, the Sungars under Galdan [q. v.] invaded the Khalkas, Tsereng was still a youth and, together with the head of his family, Shamba 善巴 (d. 1707), surrendered to Emperor Shêng-tsu for protection. In 1691 Shamba was created a prince of the second class and became the recognized leader of his clans. Later (1696) his rank was raised to the first class.
Tsereng, a second cousin of Shamba, was given the rank of a Ch'ing-ch'ê tu-yü, together with the privilege of living in Peking and studying in the Palace (1692). It seems that the Emperor selected him to be educated, in the belief that he was a Mongol prince who would remain loyal. In 1706 Tsereng married the Emperor's tenth daughter, the Princess Ch'un-k'o （純愨公主 1685–1710). It was probably after the princesss' death that Tsereng was raised in rank and ordered to lead his men to their pasture-land in the Tamir River valley northwest of Erdeni Tsu. In 1715, when the Eleuths again threatened the Khalkas (see under Tsewang Araptan), Tsereng was ordered to assist the northern route army, and for his bravery in a battle in 1721 was made a Jasak to rule over the men under him-his men having been, up to this time, under the jurisdiction of another Jasak prince. In 1723 Emperor Shih-tsung made him a prince of the second class and in the following year ordered him to patrol the Altai Mountain passes, with the rank of an assistant commander (副將軍). The Emperor was pleased with his services and in 1725 ordered him to organize his near relatives (the descendants of Tumenkin) into a new Khanate known am Sain Noin, consisting of nineteen banners a Jasaks, increased later to twenty-four. Thus Tsereng and his kin no longer belonged to the Tushetu Khanate and the Khalkas were now divided into four groups. In the meantime, Tsereng served as one of the ambassadors who signed a treaty with Russia at Kiakhta (1727) but, for firing cannon to celebrate the conclusion of the treaty (see under Tulišen), he was fined three months' stipend.
When Emperor Shih-tsung decided to main war against the Eleuths he sent Furdan [q. v.] to Khobdo as commander-in-chief. Tsereng was one of the generals stationed at Chakan Sor, the military base under Hsi-pao (see under Furdan). In 1731, after being defeated near Khobda Furdan was ordered to withdraw to Chakan Sar. The victorious Eleuths, however, had already crossed the Altai Mountains, pillaged the Khalka nomads, and destroyed several military postr But on October 22 they met the army unde Tsereng west of Chakan Sor, were defeated, and had to retreat to the west of the Altai Mountains. This victory not only opened a way for Furdan to withdraw his troops but also enhanced the morale of the soldiers. Because of this victory Tsereng was raised to prince of the first class and given a reward of ten thousand taels silver. The other commander of the Mongolian forces, Prince Danjin Dorgi 丹津多爾濟 (d. 1738), was similarly rewarded. Soon afterwards Tsereng was made a High Jasak of the Khalkas. In the summer of 1732 a large number of the Eleuths (thirty thousand?) again invaded the Khalkas. Perhaps as an act of vengeance, they plundered the Tamir Valley, made captive two of Tsereng's sons, and carried away men and cattle. Tsereng, with twenty thousand soldiers, pursued the Eleuths and met them at Erdeni Tsu on September 23. The battle lasted the whole day and the Eleuths suffered a crushing defeat, losing a large number of men. The remnant fled westward and crossed the A]tai Mountains to their own country. They would have been annihilated had the armies under Marsai (see under Furdan) and Hsi-pao co-operated to prevent this flight. For their failure to do so, Marsai was beheaded, Hsi-pao was degraded, and Danjin Dorgi, who in his report exaggerated his own part in the victory, was first rewarded but later degraded. Tsereng alone was given credit for this victory and was rewarded with the designation, Ch'ao-yung 超勇, to be added to his princedom. Later he was abundantly compensated for his losses from raids by the Eleuths, and the city of Tamir, including a palace, was built for him. He was made military governor of Uliasutai, a post created in that year, and concurrently captain-general of the League of the Sain Noin Khanate. Moreover, he was distinguished by the privilege of wearing the yellow girdle as though he were a member of the royal family.
In 1734 peace negotiations with the Eleuths began (see under A-k'o-tun). An agreement over the boundary between the Eleuths and the Khalkas was reached in 1738 and, in the fourth year of Emperor Kao-tsung's accession to the throne (1739), the treaty was concluded, with the boundary set at the Altai Mountains where the pasture-land of the Khalkas extended. Thus ended, for the time being, the second war against the Eleuths, a war which began in 1717 (see under Furdan and Tsewang Araptan) and cost China thousands of men and more than seventy million taels silver. Tsereng took an active part in the entire war. Its final peaceful settlement rested not only upon his victories over the Eleuths, but also on his advice to both Emperors Shih-tsung and Kao-tsung. When the Eleuths tried to intimidate Tsereng by reminding him of the peril to his sons, then in captivity, he disregarded them. For this act of daring and selfdenial, the Emperor gave to Tsereng's eldest son, Cenggun Jabu 成袞札布 (d. 1771), the rank of Shih-tzŭ 世子, or "inheritor" of his father's princedom.
After 1735 Tsereng made his headquarters at Uliasutai. In 1741, owing to his advanced age, he was ordered to transact affairs from his home in Tamir when he could enjoy more comfort. When he died, nine years later, his body was removed to Peking and buried with that of his first wife, the princess, in the suburbs of the capital. One tablet commemorating him was placed in the Imperial Ancestral Temple and another in the Temple of Eminent Statesmen. He was canonized as Hsiang 襄. Throughout the Ch'ing Dynasty he and Sêng-ko-lin-ch'in [q. v.] were the only Mongols whose memory was celebrated in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
Cenggūn Jabu succeeded to the princedom and also served as military governor of Uliasutai (1750–54, 1756–71), with military and judiciary power over the four Khanates of the Khalkas as well as the Khobdo and Tanu Urianghai regions. In 1756 he helped to stabilize a minor revolt and for a time, in the following year, served as commander-in-chief of the armies sent to Ili to stabilize the Eleuths (see under Amursana and Chao-hui). His kinsmen and his descendants were highly favored by the Ch'ing emperors. In response to his petition, the title, Sain Noin Khan was given in 1766 to the descendants of Shamba, with rights of perpetual inheritance. The son and successor of Cenggūn Jabu, named Lavan Dorji 拉旺多爾濟 (d. 1816), married Princess Ho-ching 和靜公主 (1756–1775), seventh daughter of Emperor Kao-tsung.
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If you’re a dog owner, you know that having your dog follow simple commands like fetching or sitting isn’t quite as easy as it appears in movies. Making your dog be with you when walking, without them chasing every squirrel can be a challenge in itself.
If you don’t hire a Cesar Milan to come over and coach your dog for you, many pet owners are out of luck getting their dog to change long-held behaviors.
But owners do have one chance to save themselves: Adrienne Farricelli’s Brain Training for Dogs. Not only does it teach you how to better educate your dog but also teaches you how to better know your dog’s behaviors and what they are.
Before you continue, you may want to check out this video by Smart Dog Lover on YouTube that gives a quick overview. After, you will want to read the rest of our article for a more comprehensive review of Brain Training For Dogs.
What Exactly is Brain Training for Dogs? Dog Training Course Berlin Germany
Dogs who train their brains are a great “force-free” training guide that’s meant to foster a better connection between you and your dog , while helping them behave better.
This training is a sharp contrast to dominance or punishment-based training that enforces new behavior through punishmentsometimes physical.
The problem with dominance-training is that it can affect your dog’s learning much more differently as compared to positive reinforcement. Punishments can and will damage the relationship between your dog and you as well as undermine its overall confidence. It can cause behavioral issues as well as other problems with your dog’s general psyche.
With a positive reinforcement method can help you develop a more positive relationship with your dog as their guardian and teacher by enforcing behaviours that you, as an dog’s owner, have to teach to help develop the manner in which your dog behaves and reacts in various settings.
Brain Training for Dogs focuses on this exact teaching method by providing informative videos, texts, Q&A sessions, and even testimonials to offer a perspective on how best to introduce this positive-based training method to your household. Adrianne Farricelli packages this in an affordable and simple solution that is available online and carry anywhere you travel.
Who Started Brain Training for Dogs?
To understand the context, let’s take a the time to look at who Adrianne Faricelli, the creator of Brain Training for Dogs, is and why she’s such a proponent of this method of training dogs.
Credentials-wise, Adrianne has the credentials of most dog experts can be. She has shown her experience working with dogs throughout her 14-year career of coaching and training service as well as therapy dogs. These breeds require specific handling and training in order to ensure they are able to perform their jobs correctly.
She currently holds two certifications that include the Italian Association for Dog Trainers and Canine Consultations as well as the standard CPDT-KA certification for expertise in training dogs in the US.
Through this extensive experience, she developed such an essential understanding of how dogs react to certain stimuli and how to temper some behavioral issues that arise from mistreatment, poor training, and other kinds of trauma. She makes sure that her techniques are scientifically proven and up-to-date with the current standards of training.
What’s Inside Brain Training For Dogs?
As for the content within the instructional guide, customers who sign up for the program can expect an organized set of instructions, directions, and informative videos that takes your dog from an inactive observer to one who follows commands. Each step in Brain Training for Dogs was created to facilitate the learning journey, adapting to a similar school-like level of progression that lets the dog and trainer can learn to communicate, teach, and eventually grow with one another.
Each grade has its own grading methods, and also to see how well off you’re performing in your teaching. You can determine whether you or your dog are struggling in a specific lesson.
These lessons serve as starting points for the amateur dog trainer. Although some owners with a long history of dogs may have some of the skills and knowledge to get started immediately however, new dog owners may find themselves confused by the many aspects of dog training and may require an overview of what exactly they need to prepare for.
Therefore, Brain Training for Dogs includes a start-up guide that helps guide its users to all the foundational equipment needed to begin the training courses that are contained in every module. For instance, Adrianne recommends not having an “clicker” for training but instead focusing on delivering verbal commands to your dog.
Obedience 101 and Preschool
After completing the introduction and acquiring all the tools you’ll need for the course, you can begin Brain Training for Dogs through their Obedience 101 module. This essential foundational course aims to introduce your dog’s basic commands and instill a base level of understanding for how the other modules will be conducted. Some of these obedience-level pieces of training include activities like “Take it or leave it” which aids in the case that involve your dog playing with unidentified substances. This can also help you find the most effective way to communicate with your dog under various circumstances.
The next thing on their agenda would be the preschool level of training. These aim to reinforce the lessons taught in the obedience modules but adds extra learning activities that will help prepare your dog and you for more advanced routines.
Elementary and Highschool
The elementary-level classes begin after you have completed the Preschool modules and are focused on more complex activities like “muffin Tin” or “ball pit” game situations. Since there are more difficult play-teaching routines, Brain Training for Dogs suggests using “high reward” reward scenarios for your dog. The rewards could range from using favorite treats to having additional toys or spending time outdoors. You should have all the required equipment available since some of these games require unconventional items like 12 tennis balls.
After playing around and learning through the Elementary classes You and your dog graduate to the Highschool module. As the name suggests, this module will be much more sophisticated and will help your pet learn more complex ways of learning. The training programs include “calm down” training that helps get your dog into an easier state of mind when confronted with a variety of different stimuli and adverse reactions from external sources. The most interesting aspect of this Highschool module is the inclusion of scent-based games that help improve how you and your dog understand and react to the possible smells of the natural environment.
College and University
After you’ve gotten used to the different ways of teaching your dog, you can proceed to college classes at the College level. The training methods here become more nuanced and subtle in this course, which is focused on scent games and further teaches you to be patient with some of the dog’s peculiarities–no dog is the same, after all. Like College The courses you study might not have any specific purpose, but serve as a foundational part towards better habits and understanding. Dog Training Course Berlin Germany
The University module really kicks things up a notch. These provide you an entry into more specific functions and instructions that are usually reserved for dog trainers who are professionals. Although some of these ideas could be considered advanced, novice pet owners should not pass this opportunity up to better train their dogs in understanding simple and effective actions.
Graduation and Einstein
Graduation and Einstein level courses reinforce all the previous courses by adding additional games that concentrate on the senses, reactions and brand new games such as agility training as well as intricate tricks. This is crucial for dog owners looking to have their dogs enter specialties like retrieval, search and rescue, service dogs, as well as other more advanced roles. This is a “Name Game” exercise that assigns verbal commands to specific objects with specific actions.
How Much is Brain Training for Dogs?
It is a good idea to consider Brain Training For Dogs an intriguing case of an adaptive guide suited for both pet owners who are experienced and novice. If you were to get all the information in the book, including instructional videos, as well as live support during webinars and on the Brain Training blog, that it would be an ongoing subscription that will require either a monthly or annual payment to participate in. Dog Training Course Berlin Germany
Like the many misconceptions regarding canines, Brain Training for Dogs will aim to dispel this model of payment. It won’t require burning an opening in your bank account for this since it’s only one fee of $47. Additionally, you will be able to enjoy their customer service through this payment. You can even have your purchase to be refunded in the event that you aren’t satisfied with the service Adrianne offers through Brain Training for Dogs. Dog Training Course Berlin Germany
How Easy is it To Use?
It is a brain Training for Dogs has been designed aptly to serve as a self-learning aid for trainers on their own which makes it simple to learn and learn by yourself. In the event that you are still having trouble understanding the concepts or executing the exercises. If that is the case, Brain Training for Dogs goes beyond just providing ebooks and videos, but it also connects you with the wider Brain Training community. The site has a blog area where people can share their thoughts about case studies, as well as additional resources on training programs specific to puppies or other dogs with behavior issues.
Many users will be worried about committing to this program. Much like us, they live busy lives and would instead leave such training to professionals. Without disparaging the usefulness of professional assistance in situations like this, people shouldn’t worry since the price is quite low, but the time commitment isn’t heavy too. It is possible to put in roughly 10-15 minutes per day of training and remain open to different aspects of your daily life while developing the relationship with your pet.
Moreover, you wouldn’t need to be concerned about the quality of the lessons because of a variety of factors. Not only does Adrianne have an experienced background in which she incorporates the most important lessons into this course, but many of her teachings are supported by other professional trainers of dogs and handlers, as they have a solid scientific basis.
Brain Training for Dogs will be a typical online training course, with a lot of advertising, but with little in the way of information. This review shows that it’s anything but principally due to its cost and accessibility regarding information.
We are awestruck by Brain Training for Dogs more than just because of its ease of use but also for its overall design and overall organization. The “school” organization helps identify the place the dog and you stand in the development process and lets you revisit topics you feel you’ve needed to spend more time on.
The online forum and additional sources can help since every dog is different and responds to training in highly variable ways. Even something as promising as Brain Training must be accompanied by additional resources that can help deal with the many issues you may encounter.
For $47, you get the complete range of features, along with a guarantee of a full refund if you’re not happy you can give Brain Training for Dogs a try. Minimal time commitment with the help of experienced dog trainers, Brain Training for Dogs is an invaluable resource for people looking to improve their dog’s behavior as well as their understanding of their dog’s personality.
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Does Brain Training for Dogs Really Work?
Brain Training for Dogs is used by a variety of professional dog trainers as well as individual pet owners who have seen differences in their dog’s behavior. The changes in behavior differ between individuals and are determined by how well they have adapted the lessons and what the fundamental relationships are between the owner and the dog.
Many dog owners have reported less aggressive behavior as well as becoming more responsive towards commands. Also, even though the degree of change will vary, many people have employed the systems and techniques found in the book to work with their dogs.
Is Brain Training for Dogs for Me?
Brain Training for Dogs is a largely self-taught program which is why it’s ideal for people who are self-motivated and can work independently using the resources that are provided. If you’re a self-motivated user, Brain Training for Dogs is the ideal material for you.
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Tuition fees discourage many clever students in state schools from applying to go to university, a survey suggests.
It was carried out by Target 10,000, a new campaign to improve disadvantaged youngsters' access to higher education.
The survey of more than 7,000 sixth- formers also suggested that the vast majority were ignorant about the financial support arrangements.
The government says it has been tackling this, as it brings in higher tuition fees in English universities.
Although fees in most institutions will almost treble - to £3,000 a year - there are grants and bursaries for the poorest.
And nobody will have to pay the fees until they have graduated and started earning.
But, of the 7,277 teenagers throughout the UK surveyed for the campaign, just over a quarter (27%) said tuition fees made it less likely they would go to university.
Target 10,000's main practical effort is a series of free events in the summer - piloted last year - which put youngsters in touch with employers and universities who can offer advice.
They then form an information exchange network.
The survey was conducted among those signing up between April and June for this summer's events, in London, Newcastle, Leicester, Exeter, Leeds, Sussex and Manchester.
All are predicted to get the equivalent of BBB or higher grades at A-level.
Some 42% were in receipt of means-tested education maintenance allowances or income support.
More than half do not have a parent or guardian who went to university.
Almost all (95%) said they knew little or nothing about the financial support available.
Closing the gap
Co-founder Marc Zao-Sanders, said: "There are still too many bright students who are missing out on the university experience because they don't realise their claim to a place is as strong as it is.
"Students often lack confidence because they do not have access to the right information about basic issues such as financial support or even the opportunity to find out what university is all about."
He said one of the main reasons state school students were under-represented in universities was that they did not apply.
"Target 10,000 aims to change this mindset, close the gap between talent and aspiration and help them fulfil their potential."
The government - aware of confusion over its changes to student financing - has run a publicity campaign on the issue.
Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell said an independent evaluation of this, involving interviews with more than 600 students and parents, showed most knew "upfront" fees were being abolished.
"The actual application figures for the new system show that there has been no reduction in the proportion of applicants coming from lower socio economic groups," he said.
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Children's Product Recalls October 2015
Safe Kids is committed to keeping you informed about recalls of products which can put kids at risk. The Safe Kids’ recall center is a unique place that keeps parents and caregivers up to date on recalls of all kid related products in one comprehensive location.
October 6, 2015 CSPC; Polaris is voluntarily recalling its RZR Recreational Off-Highway Vehicles (ROV) because the vehicles' fuel tank vent line can be misrouted, causing it to become pinched. This can cause the fuel tank to pressurize and leak fuel, posing a fire hazard. Unit: 53,000
October 1, 2015 CSPC; Bexco is expanding its voluntary recall of DaVinci Cribs because the metal bracket connecting the mattress support to the crib can break and possibly create a gap. Babies can become entrapped in the crib thus posing a fall and laceration hazard from the metal brackets. Units: 6,000, total amount involved in recall: 17,613 in the U.S. and Canada
October 29, 2015 CSPC; Sure Signal Products is voluntarily recalling its Heat Activated Fire Alarms because of a defective fuse which can cause the alarm to fail to alert consumers of a fire. Units: 375,000
October 22, 2015 CSPC; Build-A-Bear is voluntarily recalling its Starbrights Dragon stuffed animals because the satin seam of the dragon can open and expose the stuffing. The stuffing may pose a choking hazard to young children. Units: 33,700 in the U.S. and Canada
October 20, 2015 CSPC; Turtle Beach is voluntarily recalling its Ear Force XO FOUR Stealth gaming headset because mold spores were found on the headsets. The mold spores pose a risk of respiratory or other infections in individuals with existing chronic health problems. Units: 59,500.
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October 29, 2015 CSPC; Maeli Rose is voluntarily recalling its girls’ hoodies because the drawstrings can become entangled or caught on playgrounds, hand rails, doors or other objects posing a strangulation hazard. Units: 1,200.
October 29, 2015 CSPC; QBP is voluntarily recalling its WeThePeople BMX Bicycles and Eclat Aeon cranksets because the left end of the bicycle crankset can spindle and break posing a fall hazard. Units: 110 bicycles and 210 cranksets in the US and Canada.
October 29, 2015 CSPC; Lighthouse is voluntarily recalling its ceramic mugs because hot liquids can seep through cracks in the cups posing a burn hazard. Units: 4,400
October 28, 2015 CSPC; Pottery Barn Kids is voluntarily recalling Avengers and Darth Vader Water Bottles because they contain lead paint. Units: 15,630 in the U.S. and Canada.
October 28, 2015 CSPC; Burley Design is voluntarily recalling child bicycle trailers because the trailer can separate from the tow bar posing a crash hazard to the child. Units: 34,820 in the U.S. and Canada.
October 27, 2015 CSPC; LaRose Industries is voluntarily recalling its Peanuts Flying Ace Ride-On Toys, sold exclusively at Target, because the toy’s blue hubcap can detach and pose a choking hazard to young children. Units: 11,000
October 22, 2015 CSPC; L.L. Bean is voluntarily recalling its GTO Hunting Knives with sheath because the knife can cut through the sheath protector and pose a laceration hazard to the user. Units: 300
October 22, 2015 CSPC; United States Stove Company is voluntarily recalling its Pellet Heater/Stove because the stove can overheat thus posing a fire hazard to its users. Units: 4,400
October 21, 2015 CSPC; Krud Kutter is voluntarily recalling its adhesive removers because the packaging is not child resistant according to the Poison Prevention Packaging Act. The labeling violates the Federal Hazardous Substances Act because it does not warn of the product’s hazards. The adhesive removers contain petroleum distillates which pose a poisoning and aspiration hazard if swallowed. Units: 85,000
October 21, 2015 CSPC; Innopower is voluntarily recalling its Hawk Climbing Sticks because the folding steps can bend or break during use thus posing a fall hazard to the user. Units: 730
October 21, 2015 CSPC; Liquid Force is voluntarily recalling its Response Kiteboard control systems because release system may fail to open posing a risk of injury when the kite is out of control.. Units: 2,090 in the U.S. and Canada
October 20, 2015 CSPC; Big Game is voluntarily recalling its climbing tree stands because the cable assembly on the tree stand can release, posing a fall hazard to the user. Units: 12,200
October 20, 2015 CSPC; Global Manufacturing Company is voluntarily recalling its API Outdoors Tree Stands because the cable assembly on the climbing tree stand can release which poses a fall hazard to the user. Units: 5,300
October 20, 2015 CSPC; Golden Horse is voluntarily recalling its children’s denim pants because the zipper can detach and pose a choking hazard to young children. Units: 8,300.
October 15, 2015 CPSC; Horizon Hobby is voluntarily recalling its E-flite AC/DC Battery Chargers because the chargers can overheat, which could result in a fire, property damage and injury. Units: 1,300.
October 14, 2015 CSPC; TCC Cooking Company is voluntarily recalling its CHEFS vertical roasters because the roaster can break or shatter posing a laceration or burn hazard to the user. Units: 4,000
October 8, 2015 CSPC; Safety 1st is voluntarily recalling its Décor Wood Highchair because the child can remove the high chair tray thus posing a fall hazard. Units: 35,000
October 7, 2015 CSPC; BRP is voluntarily recalling its Youth Model Can-Am all-terrain vehicles because the fuel filter can break and leak thus posing a fire hazard. Units: 240
October 6, 2015 CSPC; Sportsmans Guide is voluntarily recalling its Pop-up Hunting Blinds because it is not made of flame-resistant materials and poses a fire hazard. Units: 17,000
October 1, 2015 CSPC; Pier 1 Imports is voluntarily recalling its outdoor patio Katrina Swivel Armchairs because the chair can tip backwards when rocked and pose a fall hazard. Units: 2,530 in the U.S. and Canada
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Nutrition and Health
Swiss Alp Nutrition is the scientific website of the company Swiss Alp Health, which produces high end, complete food supplements, made in Switzerland. Swiss Alp Nutrition is dedicated to relaying recent scientific studies and knowledge on nutrients and health. We welcome good quality research and share this knowledge with you. Go to the science blog.
The building blocks of cartilage, tendons, ligaments and bones: the structural proteins elastin and collagen, the different types of collagen, proteoglycans (glucosamine, chondroitin, hyaluronic acid).
Nutrients that can naturally support the joints: Collagen types I, II and III, certain essential amino acids (lysine, threonine), proteoglycans with moisturising effects (glucosamine, chondroitin, hyaluronic acid), MSM, rosehip (containing natural vitamin C, zinc and galactolipids), minerals (zinc, manganese, copper, selenium, calcium), vitamins (C, E, B3, K2, D3), fruits (melon extract, rosehip) and alpine plants (edelweiss and gentian)… .
For muscles and energy: our muscles enable us to perform precise movements, keep our balance and maintain our posture, and produce heat. To care for our muscles, regular, moderate physical training and proper nutrition are essential. Our muscle mass decreases with age and our strength decreases in parallel (1 to 2% per year from the age of 30). The consequences of reduced muscle mass include a marked increase in the risk of falls and fractures, as well as poor balance and reduced ability to move. An intake of protein, leucine (a specific amino acid) and HMB can help maintain and increase muscle mass. Other ingredients contribute to the body’s normal energy metabolism. Is sport a source of rejuvenation? Read the article on the importance of sport, written following the Sports Medicine Congress 2019.
How do you recover from sports injuries? Whether you have injured ligaments, tendons, cartilage or muscles, find out what happens in your body, the usual recommendations of health professionals (which in no way replaces consulting your doctor and following the prescribed treatment) in order to avoid a next injury. Nutrition can support recovery from sports injuries.
I have osteoarthritis, what can I do? How can I adapt my lifestyle? Osteoarthritis is the disorder affecting the joints. The joints most affected are the knees, hips, hands and back. Osteoarthritis is a progressive and excessive deterioration of cartilage, which can lead to direct bone rubbing. This complex disease also affects the subchondral bones (and can cause osteophytes and sclerosis), synovial fluid (synovitis), ligaments and muscles. Multiple factors can lead to this degeneration, including shocks and injuries, lack of physical activity (undernourishment of immobile joints), misalignment, overweight, repetitive movements, certain intensive sports, muscle wasting, genetic factors, metabolic factors (especially for hand joints), inflammatory factors, or vitamin deficiency…
The impact of the menopause and some advice on how to approach this phase with serenity, a short article on the normal ageing of the skin and a long article about body changes while aging and nutrients to support our health. Oxidative stress plays here an important role and certain nutrients help protect cells against oxidative stress.
A short overview of brain and eye function and the support of certain nutrients in maintaining normal brain and eye function.
Nutrients can be considered as support for the body. However, they do not treat disease and do not replace medication. Food supplements do not substitute for a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. Do not exceed daily recommended intake.
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KENAI - A wildlife monitoring group is seeking citizen scientists to help track beluga whales in Cook Inlet, officials said.
The Alaska Beluga Monitoring Partnership is offering volunteers an opportunity to help scientists understand more about Inlet belugas, the Peninsula Clarion reported.
The partnership is a collaboration of several organizations including Beluga Whale Alliance, Defenders of Wildlife and the Alaska Wildlife Alliance.
Monitoring events are expected to take place between Aug. 14 and Nov. 15.
Planned monitoring locations include Twentymile River and Bird Point near Girdwood, Ship Creek in Anchorage, and the Kenai and Kasilof Rivers.
"You don't have to have had experience observing belugas in the past, or really any other animal," said Kimberly Ovitz, a citizen science monitoring coordinator with the partnership.
The Cook Inlet beluga population has declined by nearly 75% since 1979, from about 1,300 whales to an estimated 328 whales in 2016, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The population is declining by 0.4% each year, the agency said.
Volunteers will learn about the conservation needs of Cook Inlet beluga whales and receive training on identifying and recording data about beluga distribution and behavior, officials said.
Data will be incorporated into NOAA's Beluga Sightings Database and Ecosystem Portal and shared with researchers to inform beluga research and management.
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We’ve already covered accidentally putting fil in your coffee and the important distinction between finpizza and fulpizza, but it turns out our readers have made even more Swedish food mistakes in their time here.
Pancakes and pea soup
Yellow split-pea soup and pancakes is a traditional Swedish dish eaten on Thursdays, often seen on lunch menus.
Reader Kerstin Larson got in touch to tell us about a mistake she made one day at work when her office decided to treat their employees to this dish.
“After you picked up your food there was a cute condiments station with cream, lingonberries, and yellow stuff,” she said. “So I put all three on the pancakes.”
She soon discovered, thanks to her coworkers’ laughs, that the yellow stuff was mustard meant for the pea soup. “My coworkers basically all peed their pants laughing at me,” she continued. “Well now that makes sense… but well… I was new to the pea soup game.”
How did pancakes and mustard taste though? “Not too bad!” says Kerstin.
Yellow split-pea soup, traditionally served on Thursdays in Sweden. Photo: Susanne Walström/imagebank.sweden.se
Sweden’s take on tacos
Tacos are, perhaps surprisingly, an integral part of Swedish cuisine, with some Swedes eating them as often as once a week. They are the epitome of fredagsmys or “Friday cosiness” – an easy, quick and tasty meal eaten together as a family, which doesn’t require any hard work on the part of parents at the end of a long work day.
Those expecting authentic Mexican-style tacos, however, may be disappointed when meeting Swedish tacos for the first time. Swedish tacos usually consist of minced meat fried with a packet of taco spice, served in soft tortillas or hard taco shells with tomato, sweetcorn and cucumber, topped with sour cream, salsa, guacamole and grated cheese.
Readers Johan and Renee Envall were disappointed by Swedish tacos. “Real tacos are made with pulled pork, brisket or grilled chicken and complimented with pico de gallo or a simple salad onion cilantro mix,” they said. Their message for popular Swedish Tex-Mex brands was as follows: “I hope they find a Latin culinary consultant to guide them to the light.”
Tacos in Sweden are definitely more Swex-Mex than Mexican. Photo: Gorm Kallestad/NTB/TT
Swedish coffee culture
The Nordic countries love coffee. The world’s top four coffee consumers per capita are Finland (3.5 cups per person per day), Sweden (3.2), Norway and Denmark (tied at 3.1 each), according to the International Coffee Organization. But despite this love of coffee, it’s not always easy to know what to order as a foreigner.
Most Swedes drink bryggkaffe or filter coffee – strong, and preferably brewed in a Moccamaster. This is reflected in restaurants and coffee shops, where filter coffee is expected to include gratis påtår, free refills. Don’t even think of ordering decaf – you’re unlikely to find anywhere selling it and most Swedes will raise their eyebrows if you ask for it. What do you expect in a country where a strong cup of coffee is considered a perfect after-dinner drink with a piece of cake?
Reader Jeannette Longo told us about a mistake her sister made in a Swedish coffee shop, which may resonate with our American and Canadian readers.
“My sister asked for half and half in her coffee” she told us. Half-and-half, a dairy product made of half milk and half cream, commonly used in baking or added to coffee in North America, does not exist in Sweden.
Instead, the barista gave her half a cup of coffee and half a cup of milk.
No Swedish kitchen is complete without a Moccamaster. Photo: coffee-rank.com
Reader Arshdeep Singh got caught out by this Swedish false friend – looking for apple juice in the supermarket, he ended up coming home with orange juice.
It’s an easy mistake to make – the Swedish word for orange – apelsin, looks a lot like the English word apple. What he should have been looking for was äpple or äppel juice.
But why does the Swedish word for orange look so much like apple?
Well, as the story goes, the Swedish word apelsin comes from middle age Dutch and German: appelsina/appelsine, which in turn means “apple from China”. Even more confusingly, a “Chinese apple” was originally an English term for a pomegranate.
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It’s a small world
There are monumental times in our lives when we can recall a moral dilemma, we’ve all experienced it. I’m not talking the first world problem kind of dilemma, I’m talking the hard stuff. The stuff that we wish we didn’t have to face, but do. The times when it would be easier to turn a blind eye than to face a problem head on. Moments when we wish we could snap our fingers or blink in continuation until the solution was found.
Lately as I scan through the radio stations or watch the news I’m faced with more and more of these situations. Abortion rates on the rise, sex slavery at our back door, reoccurring race issues, and those risking their own lives in hopes of freedom and a better life for their families. There’s no denying that we live in a world full of hate and clothed in selfishness. It’s becoming increasingly harder to ignore the big issues popping up around every corner and knocking on our back door.
Even harder than the problems we face as a society is the lie that as an individual we can do nothing or, at the most, very little. However, Disney was onto something when it created “it’s a small world”. The tune not only acts like a resounding gong in our head but it holds so much truth. Despite the growing population, language barriers and distance, we do live in a small world. If we each played our tiny part we could, in fact, make a difference. Little changes create a tidal wave of movement and you can begin today.
Part of this blog is to inspire beautiful change, big dreams and a life lived large. Here are some suggestions of things that you can do today to create an impact that will reach further than you could even imagine…
Sponsor a child. This goes far beyond scribing a check every month. Compassion allows you to build relationships, love on and encourage a child in an impoverished and vulnerable country.
Recycle your unwanted material and receive a discount. This week H&M is encouraging “World Recycle Week” by offering a 30% discount in return for any unwanted textiles – stained, ripped and all. They will take our unwanted materials and redistribute them, spin it into yarn for clothes, use them for cleaning cloths or even for insulating purposes such as the filling for car seats etc.
Time is money. We often think of giving in monetary forms when actually giving your time is often even more valuable. Find something you’re passionate about and give your time.
Take action on your passions. Often our own dreams are the very means to break through different gates of society. It’s time to take action on those things that are so heavily weighing on your heart. There’s something great within you awaiting to be unearthed. Wow.
Our heart is for inspiring each of you to live bigger and yeah, we’re preaching to ourselves here. Life is too precious, too powerful, and too quick to not take hold of every opportunity and make a difference in even the smallest of ways. You were created for greatness and you already possess everything you need to make a difference.
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Fetal Antiepileptic Drug Exposure: Motor, Adaptive and Emotional/Behavioral Functioning at Age 3
Year of Publication
Cohen, MJ; Meador, K; Browning, N; Baker, GA; Clayton-Smith, J; Kalayjian, LA; Kanner, A; Liporace, J; Pennell, P; Privitera, M; Loring, D
Adaptation/Psychological/physiology; Anticonvulsants/adverse effects; Behavioral Symptoms/etiology; Child; Developmental Disabilities/chemically induced; Developmental Disabilities/complications; Movement Disorders/etiology; Pregnancy; Preschool
The Neurodevelopmental Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs (NEAD) Study is an ongoing prospective observational multicenter study in the United States and United Kingdom that enrolled pregnant women with epilepsy on antiepileptic drug (AED) monotherapy from 1999 to 2004. The study seeks to determine if differential long-term neurodevelopmental effects exist across four commonly used AEDs (carbamazepine, lamotrigine, phenytoin, valproate). In this article, we examine fetal AED exposure effects on motor, adaptive, and emotional/behavioral functioning in 229 children who completed at least one of these tests at 3 years of age. Adjusted mean scores for the four AED groups were in the low average to average range for motor functioning, parental ratings of adaptive functioning, and parental ratings of emotional/behavioral functioning. A significant dose-related performance decline in motor functioning was seen for both valproate and carbamazepine. A significant dose-related performance decline in parental ratings of adaptive functioning was also seen for valproate, with a marginal performance decline evident for carbamazepine. Further, parents endorsed a significant decline in social skills for valproate that was dose related. Finally, on the basis of parent ratings of attention span and hyperactivity, children of mothers who took valproate during their pregnancy appear to be at a significantly greater risk for a future diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Additional research is needed to confirm these findings, examine risks of other AEDs, define the risks in the neonate associated with AEDs for treatment of seizures, and determine the underlying mechanisms of adverse AED effects on the immature brain. | <urn:uuid:906f048f-9d9d-4273-aa93-7edcefd78ea6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://emmes.com/publications/503 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.881674 | 543 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Sermon for Wed 3 June
Mark 12: 24 Jesus replied, “Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
In this interaction Jesus is rebuking the Sadducees because the live by the letter of the [Jewish] law, whereas the Law, in its entirety, is meant to be lived according to the spirit of the law – in other words, to keep the law completely, you need to love as God expects us to love. When we love God with everything we are and have, and when we love our neighbour (and the world) as we love ourselves, what will it matter how many times a widow re-marries – as long as she is cared for, and as long as the orphans and homeless and sick are cared for and NOT marginalised – as the letter of the law requires.
Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”
In this interaction Jesus tries to correct the thinking of the Sadducees – they did not (do not) believe in the resurrection of the dead, not in the life here-after. So their initial question about to whom the widow is married after she has been married to 7 brothers was in order to bait Jesus into arguing about the resurrection. Notice Jesus’ answer, an answer that gives me much comfort and peace. He says that he (and the Father) is not the God of the dead, but that he is the God of the living. He cites God speaking to Moses at the burning bush, where God says I am the God of Abraham etc. God does not say I was the God, he speaks in the present tense – so, my understanding is that when we leave this earthly realm (when we die) we really start life with Christ in the spiritual realm.
How does this apply to us today? Paul writes to Timothy : 2 tim 1 : 3 I am reminded of your sincere faith. This faith that carries Timothy and leads Paul to continue, saying
6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord
This “gift of God” is the Holy Spirit. As Timothy was encouraged to fan into flame the gift, so are we. What does this mean? We have received the Spirit, we should frequently request to be re-filled with, and revived by the Spirit. When this happens, then we should eagerly seek God’s will, and seek to love as God expects, and to share the hope that we have in him. This seeking is not the same as looking for something or searching for something that might be lost or out of reach. The seeking is a pursuing of, a wanting more of, the Spirit whom we have already received. SO, if we fan into flame the gift, we are asking God to fill us to overflowing so that those we interact with will know God working through us. In John 7 Jesus puts it this way – streams of living water (the Holy Spirit – the gift of God) will flow from within us. If the world, if people, do not recognise Christ in us, or experience him working through us, then we need to EAGERLY FAN INTO FLAME the gift – ask God for more of the Spirit, and then ask for even more. God can, and will, do abundantly more than we can ask or imagine. God will fill us to the fullness of His measure, don’t quench the Spirit, don’t limit the Spirit –simply ask God for the gift of His Spirit – often. Let us pray! | <urn:uuid:0e4d69f2-0b64-455e-9f63-696f27299dc4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stthomasberea.org.za/?page_id=18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.96192 | 869 | 2 | 2 |
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The President described the Islamic Consultative Assembly a symbol of Islamic and religious democracy in the country and emphasised, "The term of office of the government and the Majlis is four years and short, but with cooperation we can leave a lasting memory for decades and even centuries for the people”.
Speaking on Wednesday at the inauguration ceremony of the 11th term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Dr Hassan Rouhani said, "All thoughts must be directed towards national interests, national security, national interests and national identity, and the public interests must be preferred over partisan, factional and constituency interests”.
Emphasising that the Islamic Consultative Assembly is the home of the nation, the President said, "Our basis for cooperation is the framework that the constitution has drawn and we believe that the parliament and each of its member are responsible towards the entire Iranian people".
Dr Rouhani added, "Preferring national interests over partisan and factional interests will be the basis for the cooperation of the government and parliament".
Parts of President Hassan Rouhani’s speech is as follows:
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
I would like to offer my congratulations to all the esteemed representatives and the great Iranian nation on the beginning of the 11th Majlis.
Parliament and Majlis around the world are important symbols of democracy, and in Islamic Iran, the Islamic Consultative Assembly is a symbol of Islamic and religious democracy.
In the Islamic Consultative Assembly, from the beginning, great people have sit on these seats and performed their duties. From martyr Ayatollah Modarres to the Supreme Leader, the late Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani and great martyrs like Raja'i, Bahonar and Chamran sat in the same seats in the first parliament and performed important legislative duties.
The term of office of the government and the Majlis is four years and short, but with cooperation we can leave a lasting memory for decades and even centuries for the people.
Different parliaments have come and gone, governments have come and gone, but you can see that the country's civil law is the strongest law for decades and more than a century, which is still an honour for Iran and the Iranian legislature.
The government and the parliament can cooperate in many areas, but the best cooperation is a good bill from the government and review and approval by the Islamic Consultative Assembly. God willing, I hope we can work together in the remaining year of this government and the beginning of this parliament.
Our basis for cooperation is the framework that the constitution has drawn and we believe that the parliament and each of its member are responsible towards the entire Iranian people.
All thoughts must be directed towards national interests, national security, national interests and national identity, and the public interests must be preferred over partisan, factional and constituency interests.
Undoubtedly, the parliament is neither the parliament of constituencies, nor the parliament of ethnic groups, nor the parliament of factions, nor the parliament of difference. The Islamic Consultative Assembly is the home of the nation and belongs to the Iranian nation.
Preferring national interests over partisan and factional interests will be the basis for the cooperation of the government and parliament.
Here, in a very brief and concise manner, I would like to talk to the esteemed members of the 11th Majlis that the 11th and 12th Governments are divided into two periods, 5 years and 3 years. In the first five years, the basis of government’s work was progress, and thank God, in all areas in the early years, we saw both openings in important political, social, economic and cultural affairs, and progress.
The fact that Iran is on the list of successful countries in the fight against the dangerous coronavirus is because of the strengthened healthcare foundations in the 11th government.
The country's medical capability, from hospital beds to equipment, has doubled compared to that of Iran's history before 2013, and it is a great honour for the Iranian nation and authorities.
In addition, the knowledge-based companies in the 11th and 12th governments witnessed a great and fundamental change. Today, the number of knowledge-based companies has grown from 52 to 5,000 knowledge-based companies. The income of knowledge-based companies in 2019 was 12 trillion tomans.
In the field of science, knowledge and technology, we rose from the 21st to the 16th, and in the field of innovation, we rose from the 131st to the 61st.
Because of the country's opening and development strategy, we have reached 110 million litres per day in the field of petrol production from 52 million litres per day, and now the daily production of gas is about 1 billion cubic meters.
In the military field, our rank rose to the 14th form the 22nd in the world. We have seen great transformation in various areas of military power over these years; we have witnessed a huge transformation in all areas of infrastructure.
In the field of motorways, we have increased to 28,000 km from the previous 14,000 km; which means twice as much as the country had before the 11th Government’s term of office.
At the end of this first term, we saw figures that we had hoped for from day one of the government. The country's economic growth in 2016 was the highest in the world. Iran's economic growth in 2016 was 12.5 and the largest growth in the world, and we were able to reach single-digit inflation, 9 percent and even 7 percent in inflation.
In the field of non-oil exports, despite conditions that are becoming harder every day, our non-oil exports have found a positive balance with non-oil imports for several consecutive years, and we witnessed the creation of 970,000 new jobs in 2017.
During this period, that is, during the period of opening and progress in the first 5 years, we reached this acceptable point with the help of the parliament and other forces with the guidance of the Supreme Leader.
As the National Task Force for Fighting Coronavirus tasked the government with preparing for the new wave of disease in autumn, we have prepared all the necessary facilities for the time when we are likely to encounter a new wave, and we have prepared the necessary reserves in this regard.
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Only four authors are named in Elbert Benjamine’s Brotherhood of Light lessons as previous sources of Brotherhood teachings: Emma Hardinge Britten, Thomas Henry Burgoyne, Sarah Stanley Grimke, and Genevieve Stebbins. Thomas Moore Johnson’s journal The Platonist was largely a collaboration with Alexander Wilder and their correspondence sheds light on the work of Britten, Burgoyne and Grimke.
Ghost Land (1876) by Emma Hardinge Britten is the alleged memoir of Britten’s European occultist colleague the Chevalier Louis, and combines fiction and fact in ways that baffle modern researchers. It describes the Orphic Circle as a group of experimenters into clairvoyance, mesmerism, spiritualism, etc. In addition to the free online edition available through the SSOC (Standard Spiritualist and Occult Corpus) the most recent reprint is from the Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Art Magic (1876) by Emma Hardinge Britten is a companion doctrinal work attributed to the same narrator, and with Ghost Land was studied by the HBofL and its successors into the 20th century. In 2011 a scholarly edition with introduction and annotations by Marc Demarest was published by The Typhon Press.
The Light of Egypt (1889) by T.H. Burgoyne is the major doctrinal book by a founder of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor. An astrological emphasis that began with the Chevalier Louis increases with Burgoyne. (Link is to a later edition of Volume One.)
Dynamic Breathing and Harmonic Gymnastics (1892) by Genevieve Stebbins is the first of several works influenced by her collaboration with Burgoyne.
The Language of the Stars (1892) is Burgoyne’s first astrological study, showing as much influence from Grimke as its predecessor, and foreshadowing influence from Stebbins as his next collaborator into the twentieth century.
Celestial Dynamics (1896) is Burgoyne’s second and final astrological study, other than the second volume of The Light of Egypt published in 1900.
The Quest of the Spirit (1913) by Genevieve Stebbins is the accumulated life wisdom of a man known as “A Pilgrim of the Way,” almost certainly her husband Norman Astley. It represents a radical shift of emphasis from Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor teachings, and reveals Stebbins and Astley to be devotees of Henri Bergson and William James rather than occult tradition.
Zanoni (1842) is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that portrays its adept heroes as Rosicrucians. Burgoyne took Zanoni as his pen name, and his colleague Peter Davidson took that of Mejnour, the master of Zanoni. Britten named Bulwer-Lytton first among her Orphic Brotherhood mentors, and Blavatsky named him as an adept in a letter to a friend. (link to second volume here.)
Sarah Stanley Grimké Collected Works (2019) includes all of her publications as well as substantial new introductions to each text by the editor, extensive annotations, and appendices that detail her relationship to the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor. The prologue, From Ghost Land to the Light of Egypt, is available on academia here.
A Commentary on the Text of the Bhagavad-Gita by Hurrychund Chintamon was first published in London in 1874 and first reprinted in 2021 in paperback, with an appendix added about his influence on the Society for Psychical Research investigation of the Theosophical Society.
Documents and Letters
The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor: Initiatic and Historical Documents of an Order of Practical Occultism (1995), edited by Joscelyn Godwin, Christian Chanel, John Patrick Deveney, is the starting point for exploring the roots of The Church of Light. This collection includes the documents and private lessons of this initiatory order, as well as correspondence among members in Europe and America.
Letters to the Sage: The Selected Correspondence of Thomas Moore Johnson, Volume One: The Esotericists (2016), edited by Patrick D. Bowen and K. Paul Johnson, contains letters to the publisher and editor of The Platonist from 48 individuals, roughly half members of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor and half affiliated with the Theosophical Society– with many being members of both.
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Now that Donald Trump has now been officially inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States, everyone is eager to find out what his presidency will ultimately mean for the health care industry, particularly when it comes to insurance. And possibly no one is more anxious to see how his policies will affect them than small business owners.
At this point, there’s only speculation, and the only thing that’s certain is that change is imminent. Here are a few ways employers can expect to be affected by Trump’s policies.
The ACA may not be repealed, but it may see significant changes.
With the Republicans having control of both the House and Senate, it’s possible that there could be a total “repeal and replace” of Obama’s health care reform. However, a total repeal of the ACA would require 60 Senate votes, which the Republicans do not maintain.
What’s more likely is that the President and Congress will use the budget reconciliation process to repeal specific portions of the law. For example, the individual mandate, Medicaid expansion, premium tax credit, and other taxes imposed by the ACA could be addressed.
Popular reforms such as the ban on excluding pre-existing conditions, prohibition on annual and lifetime limits for essential health benefits, and coverage for dependent children up to age 26 are all likely remain in effect.
Trump could reverse or rescind previous Executive Orders.
Issuing new legislation can be a long and drawn out process, so it’s unlikely that the President will immediately focus his time on proposing new laws. Instead, one quick way to reverse Obama’s policies is to impose a moratorium on any regulations that have yet to go into effect. Leaders in the new administration may simply choose not to enforce current ACA provisions.
Trump could also issue Executive Orders early in his presidency, many of which may rescind those issued by the former President. These could include the overtime rule, the fiduciary rule that affects retirement plans, and many other ACA rules. Regulations such as these could be completely repealed or subject to new rule-making by the various agencies affected.
There are other health insurance issues worth keeping an eye on.
While these are not likely to be immediately affected, there are a few other issues Trump addressed during his campaign that are worth monitoring. Here are a few.
- Making individual health insurance premiums fully deductible
- Allowing insurance to be sold across state lines
- Medicaid grants to enable states to cover more of their local population
- Enacting safety standards so that the FDA may allow prescription drug importation
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5 December 1907, Munich
Health is something for which every man naturally longs. We may say this longing for health derives indeed not only from egotistic feelings and wishes, but also from the justified longing for work. We owe thanks for our capacity to work, for the possibility of becoming effective in the world, to our health. Hence, it is that we treasure health as a quite special beneficence. Indeed, there lies in this way of thinking about health something of the highest significance for its pursuit. In a certain way there is contained therein the secret of the particular circumstances under which health becomes at all worth pursuing. That the pursuit of health should only under certain circumstances be worthwhile might appear unusual. Our considerations today, however, should disclose that health belongs to those virtues that most readily become a reality in us if we pursue them not for their own sake, but for another's. That this does not always happen today can be taught us if we but look out into our present surrounding world.
However remarkable it may be when speaking of the feverish pursuit of health, the feverish insistence upon health, yet it is possible today for many people to make their own observations about it. With what means, in what countless ways, do most people today press towards health! Everywhere we find a hurried pursuit of health. We may travel through regions in which old castles and ruins tell us of monks and knights who once could call strength of spirit and of body their own. Today they have fallen into decay and replacing them in these same regions we find sanitaria. Was there ever in any time of world evolution such a variety of special efforts to achieve health, to struggle through to health by natural ways of living, by water- or aero-healing methods? People are sent for air and sun baths.
Once an acquaintance of mine who was on his way to a sanitarium came to me during the first half of summer. It had been with much difficulty that he managed to get four weeks' vacation, which he planned to spend there. Of course, it seemed to be the best that could happen to a person, to stay for a time, more or less satisfying, in a sanitarium. Hence I had no wish to explain the futility of his plan and thus deprive him of all hope. On his return journey he came again to me. He brought a little book along in which was written all he was supposed to have accomplished during those four weeks contemplating his organism. Again one could not deprive him of his joy, but, on the tip of one's tongue lay the question, “Do tell me, when have you been more driven? During the whole year at work or during those four weeks during which you were shoved from warmth to cold, from dryness to dampness, and were scrubbed with all those brushes?”
The worst part of it was that after some weeks he said to me, “This cure has helped me as little as all the others in the last thirty years.” He had tried something different each summer. Whoever cared for this person could well look upon his feverish search for health in a somewhat sympathetic way.
How many people today run to mesmerizers and spiritual healers? How many writings there are on “Harmony With the Infinite” and the like! In short, the feverish pursuit of health is something that lives in our time. Now, one might raise another question. “Are these people actually sick?” Well, of course, something is probably wrong with them, but is there a chance that they will attain health through all these things?
Especially among ancient people an age-old saying remains even today. One says so frequently that what the simple person gets from such sayings often may contain something good, but just as often it is something false. So it is with the saying, “There are many illnesses, but only one state of health.” This is foolish. There are as many states of health as there are human beings. For each human being his individual health. What this says is that all general standard prescriptions holding that this or that is healthy for the human being are nonsense. The very part of humanity that is overcome by the feverish pursuit of health suffers most from the general prescriptions for health. Among them are those who believe that there could be something generally tagged as health, that if one does thus and so, that it would be healthy. It is most incredible that there is no realization that a sun bath can be healthy for a person, but that this may not be applied in general. It could be quite harmful for another. Generally, this is admitted but there is no following through in particular instances. We must make it clear to ourselves that health is a quite relative concept, something that is liable to a continuing process of change, especially for the human being, who is the most complicated being on the earth. We need but look into spiritual science. Then shall we penetrate deeply into human nature and recognize how changeable what we call health is. In reality, one forgets almost entirely today that upon which so much value is laid in material aspects. One forgets that the human being is in the throes of development.
What is meant by, “The human being is undergoing development?” Again it is necessary to refer to the being of man. The physical body is only a part of the human entity. This he has in common with all lifeless nature. But he has as second member the etheric or life body, which he has in common only with what is life-imbued. This member wages a continuing battle against everything that would destroy the physical body. Were the etheric body to withdraw from the physical body, in that moment the physical body would become a corpse. The third member is the astral body, which he has in common with animals, the bearer of desires and sorrow, of every feeling and representation, of joy and pain, the so-called consciousness body. The fourth part is his ego, the central point of his being, that makes of him the crown of creation. The ego transforms the three bodies through development out of the central point of the human being.
Let us consider an uneducated savage, an average man, or a highly educated idealist. The savage is still slave to his passions. The average man refines his urges. He denies himself the satisfaction of certain urges and sets in their place legal concepts or high religious ideals, that is, he remodels his astral body from out his ego. As a result the astral body now has two members. The one still has the form that exists in the savage, but the other part has been transformed into spirit self or manas. Through impressions from art or great impressions from founders of religion man works on his ether body and creates buddhi or life spirit. The physical body also can be transformed into Atma, Spirit Self, [In other lectures, Rudolf Steiner refers to "Atma" as "Spirit-man." – e.Ed.] if a person devotes himself to the practice of certain spiritual-scientific exercises. Thus, the human being works unconsciously or consciously on his three bodies.
Were we able to look far, far back into the early development of man, we would find everywhere primitive cultural conditions, simple modes of life. Everything that those early people had in the way of appliances to satisfy their spiritual and bodily needs, their way of life, was simple. Everything, everything evolves, and within evolution the human being develops himself. This is most important. Imagine as vividly as you can a primitive man who grinds his grain to flour between stones, and picture to yourself the other things surrounding this individual. Compare him with a man of more recent cultural times. What surrounds this modern person, what does he see from morning until evening? He takes in the frightful impressions of the noisy big city, of street cars, buses and the like. We must then understand how evolution proceeds. We must carry over the insight we gain concerning simple things into the cultural process.
Goethe made the following statement, “The eye was fashioned by the light, for the light.” If we had no eyes, we could not see colors or light. Whence have we eyes? Goethe also said that out of undifferentiated organs the light drew forth eyes. So also is the ear formed by tone, the sense of warmth by warmth. The human being is formed by that which in the whole world spreads itself around him. Just as the eyes owe their existence to the light, so do other delicate structures owe their existence to what surrounds man. The simple primitive world is the dark chamber that still holds back many organs. What light is for the undifferentiated organs out of which the eye developed itself, the environment is for primitive humanity. Things work quite differently upon man in his present mode of living; he cannot turn back to the primitive conditions of culture. Rather is it so that an ever more intense, stronger spiritual light has been effective around him that has called forth the new.
We are able to realize the meaning of this transforming cultural process if we picture to ourselves how the being fares who is also subject to this influence but cannot go along with the transformation. Here we have the condition of the animals. They are differently structured from men. When we look at the animal as it appears in the physical world, we find that it has its physical body, its etheric body and its astral body in the physical world, but it has no ego in the physical world. Hence, the animals are powerless on the physical plane to undergo transformation of the three bodies, and cannot adapt themselves to a new environment. Two days ago we considered wild animals in captivity, how, out in the wilderness certain animals never have tuberculosis, tooth decay, -etc., but do in captivity. A whole series of decadent appearances show up in captivity or under other circumstances.
During the cultural process, men are continually subject to other conditions. This is the nature of culture. Otherwise, there would be no development, no history of human beings. What we observed as experiments with animals as to the effect on the physical body appears as the opposite in men. Man, because he has an ego, has the capacity of inwardly digesting the impressions that storm in upon him from our culture. He is inwardly active, first adapts his astral body to the changed conditions and then reorganizes it. Thus, as he keeps evolving, he comes to higher cultures and always receives new impressions. At first these express themselves in feelings and perceptions. Were he now to remain passive, inactive, were there no activity stirred up in him, no creativity, then he would become stunted and sick as does the animal. This it is that distinguishes the human being, that he can adapt himself and, from out the astral body, gradually change the etheric and physical bodies. He must be inwardly up to this transformation, however, otherwise there is no adjustment of the balance between what comes to him from the outside and what counters it from within. A man would be crushed by the impressions from outside as the animal in a cage is crushed by them because it has no inner creativity. But man has his inner activity. Against the spiritual lights around him, he must be able to set something, in a sense, to counter with eyes, with seeing.
Whatever turns out as a disharmony between impressions from the outside and the inner life is unhealthy. It is in the big cities that we can see what happens when impressions from the outside grow ever more powerful. When we tear along faster and faster, when we must let rumbling sounds and hurrying people go by us without taking a stance, without countering them — this is unhealthy. As regards this position towards the outside, the intellect is the least important, but what is important depends upon whether our feelings, our soul, indeed, our living bodies, can take a position towards it. This we will understand rightly through the consideration of a definite illness that appears especially in our time, and that did not occur earlier. A person not accustomed to absorb much, one poor in soul, is brought up against all kinds of impressions so that he finds himself standing before a quite incomprehensible outer world. This is the case with many feminine natures. Their inner being is too weak, too little organized to digest it all. But we find this condition also in many masculine persons. The consequences result in the illnesses of hysteria. Everything connected with hysteria is derived from this imbalance.
Another form of illness takes hold when our lives bring us to the position of wanting to understand too much of what is set before us in the outer world. It is mostly the case with men who suffer with causality illness. One accustoms oneself always to ask, “Why? why? why? why?” It is even said that the human being must be the never-resting causality animal. Today, because we are too polite, we may no longer give the idle questioner the answer that a founder of religion gave. When he was asked, “What did God do before the creation of the world” he answered, “He cut rods for those who ask useless questions.” This is exactly the opposite condition of the hysterical one. Here the restless longing for the solving of enigmas is too great. This is only a symptom of an inner attitude. The one who never wearies of always asking, “Why?” has a different constitution from other people. He gives signs of a different inner working of spiritual and bodily functions from the person who asks “Why” only on outer provocation. This leads to all hypochondriacal conditions, from the lightest case to the deepest illusory illness. So it is that the cultural process affects human beings. Man must above all have an open mind in order always to be able to digest what comes towards him. Now we can also make it clear to ourselves why so many people have the urge to shed this culture, to have done with this life. They are no longer up to what presses in upon them. They strive to get out. These are always weak natures who do not know how to counter the outer impressions with a mighty inner response.
Thus it is that we cannot speak today in clichés as regards health just because life itself is so manifold. The one person stands here, the other there. Because what has developed in the human being has developed in a certain sense through the outer world, each has his own health. This is why we must make the human being capable of understanding his environment, even to the very functions of the body. For the man who is born into circumstances in which light muscles and nerves are necessary, it would indeed be foolish to develop heavy muscles. Where does the gauge for the successful developing of the human being lie? It lies within the human being. As with money, so it is with health. When we go after money in order to have it for benevolent purposes, then it is something wholesome, something good. Going after money may not be condemned, for it is something that enables us to forward the cultural process. If we go after money for money's sake, then it is absurd, laughable. It is the same with health. If we go after health for health's sake, then the striving has no significance. If we put ourselves out for health for what we can achieve through our health, then the effort for the sake of health is justified. Whoever would acquire money should first make it clear to himself how much of it he needs. Then he should press forward for it. Whoever yearns for health must look into the easily misunderstood words like comfort, love of life, enjoyment of life, and what could be meant with them. Joy of life, satisfaction in life, love of life are present in savages. In the human being in whom outer and inner life are in harmony, in the harmoniously developed man, conditions must be such that if there is discomfort, if there is this or that hurt of body or of soul, this feeling of discomfort must be seen as some sort of illness, as a disharmony. Hence it is important in all education, in all public work, not to carry on routinely, but rather out of the expanse of a cultural view, so that joy and satisfaction in life are possible.
It is curious that what has just been said has been said by a representative of spiritual science. Yes, so says spiritual science whom people reproach for striving for asceticism. Someone comes along who takes great pleasure in nightly visits to the girlie shows or in downing his eight glasses of beer. Then he encounters people who take joy in something on a higher level. So he remarks that they punish themselves. No, they would punish themselves were they to sit with him in the music hall. Whoever enjoys the girlie shows and such belongs there, and it would be absurd to deprive him of the enjoyment. It is healthy only to take away his taste for it.
One should work to ennoble one's pleasures, one's gratifications in life. It is not so that anthroposophists come together because they suffer when talking about higher worlds, but rather because it is their heart's deepest enjoyment. It would be the most terrible deprivation for them to sit down and play poker. They are completely full of the joy of life in every fiber of their beings.
There is no point in saying, even concerning health, that one should do thus and so. The point is to provide joy and satisfaction in life. Indeed, the spiritual scientist in this case is quite the epicure of life. How is this to be conferred upon health? We must be clear about this, that when we give someone a rule about health, we must aim at what gives joy, bliss and pleasure to his astral body. For by the astral body the other members are affected. This is more easily said than done.
There are, for example, even those among the theosophists who mortify their flesh by no longer eating any meat. Should these be people who still hanker for meat, then must this mortification be seen at best as a preparation for a later condition. There comes, however, a point at which a person may have such a relation with his environment that it becomes impossible for him to eat meat. A physician who was also of those who ate no meat, not because he was a theosophist, but because he considered this way of life healthy, was asked by a friend why he partook of no meat. He countered with the question, “Why don't you eat horse or cat meat?” Of course, the friend had to say that they disgusted him, although he ate meat of pig or cow, etc. To the physician all meat was disgusting.
Only then, when the inner subjective conditions correspond to the objective fact, has the moment come when the outer fact has a healthy effect. We must be inwardly up to the outer facts. This is expressed by the words, “comfortable feeling,” which we may not use lightly, but rather in its dignified meaning of harmonious concordance of our inner forces. Happiness and joy and delight and satisfaction, which are the foundation for a healthy life, always spring from the same foundation, from the feelings of an inner life that attend creativity, inner activity. Happy is the human being when he can be active. Of course, this activity is not to be understood as coarse activity.
Why does love make the human being happy? It is an activity we often do not see as such because it moves from within out, embracing the other one. With it we let our inner being flow out. Hence love's healing and blessing of life. Creativity may be of the most intimate nature; it does not have to become tumultuously visible. When someone is hunched over a book and the impressions from it depress him, overwhelm him, he will gradually become depressed. When, however, the reading of a book brings pictures to mind, then there is a creative activity that makes for happiness. It is something quite similar to becoming pale when one is anxious about coming events. Then the blood flows inwards in order to strengthen us so that what comes at us from the outside can find a counter-balance within. With the feeling of anxiety inner activity is alerted to outer activity. Becoming aware of an inner activity is healing. Had the human being been able to feel the activity of the inner formation in the arising of the eyes out of the undifferentiated basic organ, then he would have perceived a feeling of well-being. He was not conscious, however, of that happening.
Instead of bringing a worn-out human being to a sanitarium, it were far better to bring him into an environment where he would be happy, at first soul-happy, but also physically happy. When you put a human being into an environment of joy, in which with each step he takes an inner feeling of joy awakes, that it is which will make him healthy, when, for example, he sees sunbeams streaming through the trees and perceives the colors and scents of flowers. This, however, a person must himself be able to feel, so that he himself can take the problem of his health in hand. Every step should stir him to inner activity. Paracelsus gave us the beautiful saying, “It is best that everyone should be himself, by himself, and no one else.” It is already a limitation of what makes us healthy if we must first go to another person. Here we are confronted with outer impressions that for a short while appear to help, but finally lead to hysteria.
When one considers the problem so, one comes upon other healthy thoughts. There are people and doctors today, especially “lay doctors,” who battle against doctors. Medicine does, indeed, need to be reformed, but this cannot come about through these battles. Rather must facts of spiritual science themselves reach into science. Spiritual science exists, but not to further dilettantism. There are people today who have the itch to cure others. It is, of course, easy to find this or that illness in a person. So somebody finds this or that organ in a person different from the way it appears in another. Or a person does not breathe as the one possessed with the curing fever thinks all people should breathe. So for this a cure gets invented. Shocking, most shocking! For it is not at all a matter of directing one's efforts at a routine concept of health. It is easy to say that this and that do not make for health. Consider someone who has lost one of his legs. He is sick, certainly sicker than one who breathes irregularly, whose lungs are affected. It is not a question of healing this person. It would be foolish to say, “One must see to it that this person gets a leg again!” Just try to get him to grow another leg! What really matters is that life for his person be made as bearable as possible.
This is so in gross, but also in more subtle conditions. It is a fact that one can find a small flaw in each human being. Also, what often matters here is not to clear up the flaw, but rather, despite the human being's flaw, to make his life as bearable as possible. Think of a plant, the stem of which is wounded. The tissues and the bark grow around the wound. So is it also with human beings. The forces of nature maintain life as they grow around the flaw. Especially lay doctors fall victim to the error of wanting to cure everything. They would like to cultivate one kind of health for all human beings. There is as little of the one kind of health as there is one kind of normal human being. Not only are illnesses individual, but also healths. The best we can give to the human being, be we physician or counselor, is, to give him the firm frame of mind that he feels himself comfortable when he is healthy, uncomfortable when he is sick. Today this is not at all so easy in our circumstances. He who understands the matter of health will mostly fear such sicknesses as do not come to expression through fatigue and pain. It is, therefore, detrimental to sedate oneself with morphium. It is healthy when health brings zest. Illness brings apathy. This healthy way of living we can acquire only when we make ourselves inwardly strong. This we do when we oppose our complicated conditions with strong, inner activity. The feverish search for health will cease only then when human beings no longer strive for health as such. The human being must learn to feel and perceive whether he is healthy and to know that he can easily put up with a flaw in health. This is only possible through a strong world conception that is effective right down into the physical body. This world outlook makes for harmony. This, however, is only possible through a world concept that is not dependent upon outer impressions. The spiritual scientific world concept leads man into regions that he can only reach if he is inwardly active. One cannot read a spiritual scientific book as one reads other books. It must be so written that it evokes one's own activity. The more one must struggle, the more there is between the lines, the healthier it is. This is so only in the theoretical matters, but spiritual science can be effective in all areas.
What we call spiritual science exists in order to become effective as a strong spiritual movement. It calls forth concepts that are provided with the most powerful energies so that human beings can take a stance against what faces one. Spiritual science would like to give an inner life that extends right into the limbs, into the blood circulation. Then will every individual perceive his health in his feeling of joy, in his feeling of zest and satisfaction. Almost every dietary regime is worthless. That the other fellow tells me that this and that are good for me is of no consequence. What matters is that I find satisfaction when taking my food. The human being must have understanding for his relation to this or that food. We should know what the spiritual process is that goes on between nature and us. To spiritualize everything — that's what becoming healthy means.
Perhaps it is currently thought that for the spiritual scientist eating is something to which he is indifferent, that he gorges himself, devoid of understanding for it. To become aware of what it means to partake of a part of the cosmos, a part that has been drenched with sunlight; to know of the complete spiritual relationship in which our environment stands, to savor it not only physically, but also spiritually, frees us from all sickening disgust, from all sickening encumbrances. Thus we see that to direct this striving for health onto the right tracks sets humanity a great challenge. But spiritual science will be strong. It will transform every human being who dedicates himself to it, bringing him to the attainment of what, for himself, is the normal pattern. This is at the same time a noble striving toward freedom that comes out of spiritual science and makes man his own master. Every man is an individual being from the standpoint of his characteristics as well as of his states of health and illness. We are placed in lawful relation to the world and must learn to know our situation therein. No outer power can help us. When we find this strong inner stance, then only are we complete human beings from whom nothing can be taken. But it also holds that nobody can give us anything. Nevertheless, we shall find our way in health and in illness because we have a strong, inner stance within ourselves. This secret, too, of all healthy striving has been expressed by a spirit, an eminently healthy thinking and healthy feeling spirit. He tells us how the harmonized human being unerringly goes his way. It was Goethe who, in his poem, Orphic Primal Words, says:
As on the day that to the world bestowed thee
The sun stood high to greet the planet's sphere,
Thou didst thenceforth thrive ever on and on,
According to the law that brought thee here.
So must thou be, canst not from thee escape
The Sibyls and the Prophets spoke thy fate;
Not time nor power can destroy the mould
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People often neglect the items they regularly use until a significant problem arises. You may tie your boats up to the dock or spend hours relaxing on it but forget its upkeep. Docks are unique features, and they save you a lot of money in monthly rental fees. Owning your dock also saves you time, especially if you are a boater or water enthusiast. Furthermore, the dock needs to be safe for you, other users, and your boats. Therefore, the dock's maintenance is vital, and you can prevent expensive repairs by correcting minor damage. This article analyzes several signs that show you need dock repairs.
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What is the format of the NBA play-in tournament? The play-in tournament will include six games featuring eight clubs, divided evenly between the two conferences.
Similarly, How does the play-in tournament work in NBA?
The Play-In Tournament will be held after the regular season and before to the first round of the playoffs, and it will include the teams with the seventh through tenth greatest winning percentages in each conference. Your NBA partner could not be verified.
Also, it is asked, How many games is the play-in tournament works?
three different games
Secondly, How many games do NBA play-in teams play?
Each club plays 82 games during the NBA regular season, which spans from October through April.
Also, What’s a Play-In Tournament?
The play-in round, which starts Tuesday and features the 7th through 10th seeds in each conference, is a series of winner-take-all games. It’s down to the wire for the last playoff berths.
People also ask, How many games do NBA teams play-in playoffs?
Both leagues use the standard bracket structure for their playoffs. All rounds are played in a best-of-seven format. The 2–2–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–
Related Questions and Answers
How do the NBA playoffs work this year?
The Finals follow the same structure as the Playoffs: a best-of-seven series in which the first team to win four games wins the NBA Championship. The club with the greatest W-L record in the Regular Season is given home field advantage and will host Game-1, Game-2, Game-5, and Game-7, if required.
How many games do NBA teams play a week?
Each squad now plays around 3.5 games every week over the course of 165 days. The NBA utilizes an algorithm to determine when games will be played.
What is the NBA Play-In Tournament 2021?
This is the current format. The NBA Board of Governors authorized a postseason Play-In Tournament structure for the 2020–21 season, featuring the teams who finished 7th through 10th in each conference, on November. The structure is comparable to the Page-McIntyre System’s first two rounds for a four-team playoff.
When did the NBA start Play-In Tournament?
When is the NBA Play-In Tournament scheduled to begin? The regular season of the NBA in 2021-22 will finish on Sunday, April 10. On Tuesday, April 12, the NBA Play-In Tournament for 2022 will begin. On Saturday, April 16, the first round of the 2022 NBA Playoffs will begin four days later.
What is a play-in basketball?
A play-in game is a game that is generally played before or at the start of a tournament, depending on how the event is defined.
How many games in NBA Finals?
there are seven games
Are all NBA playoff games best of 7?
Since the 1946-47 season, when the Basketball Association of America was the governing body, the NBA has used the best-of-seven series format, at least in the NBA Finals. That year, 11 teams competed in the BAA Playoffs for the first time, with each club playing 60 regular season games.
How many games in NBA Finals 2021?
NBA Finals coverage in its entirety The Warriors won the final three games of the NBA Finals after trailing 1-0 and 2-1 in the series, delivering the Boston Celtics their first three-game losing streak since December. On Thursday, they finished the 2021-22 season with a 103-90 win in Game 6.
How many rounds are in NBA Playoffs?
A best-of-seven elimination style is used in the playoffs. This implies that two teams compete seven times, with the team that wins four games moving on to the next round.
How will the 2021 NBA Playoffs work?
For the 2020–21 season, the NBA Board of Governors authorized a system that included a play-in tournament for the teams who finished seventh through tenth in each conference. The 7th and 8th place teams compete in a double-chance game, with the winner earning the 7th seed in the playoffs.
How many games do you have to win in the first round of the NBA Playoffs?
The NBA playoffs, on the other hand, are played in a best-of-seven format, meaning that the team that wins four games wins the series.
Why do NBA teams play 82 games?
The 82-game schedule is based on revenue rather than players or fans. They understand that healthy athletes will provide a higher level of entertainment for viewers, allow for better team matches, and offer their consumers less to digest.
How long is a NBA season?
The regular season in all Standard leagues is 19 weeks long. The playoffs begin after that! On your main team page, click the “Schedule” link to see your team’s schedule.
Why do the NBA play so many games?
With an 82-game schedule, the NBA permits each club to play each other at least twice. This enables fans to witness two greats fight every year without having to wait until the playoffs or finals, like it did in the days of LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. This is perfect in a star-driven league.
Is NBA play-in tournament permanent?
According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the league and the Players Association have agreed to prolong the play-in tournament structure until the 2021-2022 season. With a formal vote, the NBA Board of Governors will make this decision official in the near future.
Are the Lakers in the Play-In Tournament?
After losing to the Phoenix Suns, the Lakers were unable to qualify for the NBA playoffs and were forced to compete in a play-in tournament.
Is the Play-In Tournament in NBA 2K22?
NBA 2K22 inclusion The Play-In Tournament mode is available in NBA 2K22 via the “MyCareer” and “MyNBA” game modes. Players may compete for a berth in the Eastern/Western Conference tournaments, which are similar to the on-court action.
How many plays are in a NBA Playbook?
There are 57 man-to-man set plays in the playbook, as well as one Baseline Out-of-Bounds Play (BLOB) and six Sideline Out-of-Bounds Plays (SLOB). All of the plays, including the first two rounds of the playoffs, were taken from the 2014-2015 season. The majority of the activities are short, however there are various score alternatives.
How many sets are there in basketball?
Basketball game duration The basketball game is divided into four 10-minute quarters. For two quarters, teams play one way, then the other for the following two. Between the first and second periods, as well as between the third and fourth periods, there is a two-minute break, with halftime lasting 15 minutes.
Who lost the most NBA Finals?
With 15 series defeats in the NBA Finals, the Los Angeles Lakers hold the record for most series losses by a club.
Who won the most NBA Finals?
Warriors of Golden State NBA Finals / Most recent champion The Golden State Warriors are a San Francisco-based professional basketball club. The Warriors are a member of the Western Conference Pacific Division of the National Basketball Association. Wikipedia
Who has the most NBA rings Top 10?
Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics holds the record for most NBA championships won with 11 throughout his 13-year career.
Is the NBA first round playoffs 5 or 7 games?
Nearly a decade ago, the NBA changed the first round of the playoffs from a five-game to a seven-game schedule, but it may be time to change it back.
How many game 7s has LeBron been?
a total of eight games
Why do they play 7 games in the NBA Finals?
It is played at the venue of the team with home-court advantage for the series, according to the playoffs format arrangement. If a series goes that far, the requirement of a game seven is unknown until the conclusion of game six is established.
Where is Game 7 played?
Game 7 will take place in Miami on Sunday at 8:30 p.m. The winner will face the Golden State Warriors in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday in San Francisco. Continue reading to learn more.
Who has the most 3-pointers in NBA Finals history?
With 121 3-pointers made in 28 games on the championship stage, Curry entered the 2022 NBA Finals as the all-time leader in 3-pointers made in the Finals. He gained another 31 games to his tally with these six more games, bringing his total to 152.
Where was NBA Finals 2022?
TD Garden at Chase Center
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What can I do as a parent to support my child with… Their below average processing speeds and comprehension?
- Give your child one instruction / one question / one task at a time. If there is too much information to hold in their head it can be frustrating and overwhelming.
- Encourage them / help them to pack their school bag the night before to help with forgetting equipment. It might help to have a visual tick list of what they need each day.
- Provide a clear structure to the morning routine and use a visual timetable and a timer if it’s helpful. It will help your child to know what they have to do and what time it must be completed by to leave for school on time.
- Monitor how much time your child is spending on homework and limit this to a reasonable amount of time, even if the task has not been completed.
- Encourage your child to attend homework club to receive help with the tasks and any organisation
- Support your child in keeping healthy with a balance of good eating habits, exercise and bedtime routine.
What can I do to help myself with my below average processing speeds and comprehension?
- Complete homework in a timely manner, use of homework club may help. Limit distractions such as TV/Phone when completing work at home
- Little and often will be beneficial. Lots of repetition of key concepts and recall of information
- Get someone at home to help test you on what you have learnt that day- talk it through with someone or show them what you have learned.
- Sticking to a routine, using visuals to help me if needed.
What are we doing as a school to help students with:Their below average processing speeds and comprehension?
- If we are aware of a significant slow speed of working and processing we can add this to the SEND register so teaching staff are aware of the child’s needs. We may complete a Pen Portrait with the child and you as parents to help inform teachers of how best to support your child.
- We may be able to support with specific interventions in Maths or English. Your child may benefit from some further processing practice through games such as Uno/Bananagrams/Chess
- Encourage students to come to lunchtime and afterschool clubs
- Support in the class with a whole school focus on recall and metacognition
- Support with relevant access arrangement
During the school day
- If a word processor would help with keeping up with the pace of lessons, students can use a Chromebook.
- We need to have evidence of need in a normal learning environment in order to apply for access arrangements.
- School will apply to JCQ for access arrangements for exams. This must be no earlier than May of Year 9 (within 26 months of sitting the exam).
Key websites for more information:
Games can support working memory and processing:
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Paris Agreement targets
On 9 December 2020, Brazil submitted its updated NDC, confirming its existing target for the year 2025 (a 37% reduction in emissions below 2005 levels), and committing to its previously indicative target for 2030 (a 43% reduction in emissions from 2005 levels). The submission also emphasises the NDC’s compatibility with an “indicative objective of reaching climate neutrality in 2060”, but with the caveat that Brazil’s long-term strategy is conditional on the receipt of financial transfers.
Brazil’s updated NDC appears to be simply a reconfirmation of existing targets, albeit with a shift in its 2030 target from “indicative” to “committed”. However, an update in the base year emissions in Brazil’s greenhouse gas inventory has led to a substantial weakening of both targets. While the former NDC had translated both emissions reduction targets into absolute emissions in 2025 and 2030, the updated NDC does not provide such a translation. Instead, it specifies that the base year emissions level can be found in Brazil’s Third National Communication. Our calculations show that the change in base year emissions data raises target emissions in 2025 and 2030 by over 400 MtCO2eq, pushing them well above our current policy projections. Rather than enhancing Brazil’s NDC to take changes in the base year into account, the current administration has used its inventory update weaken its targets.
The CAT assesses emissions excluding LULUCF, and shows emissions from LULUCF separately. We rate governments only based on emissions excluding the LULUCF sector. Taking into account the strong decrease observed in LULUCF emissions from the NDC base year, 2005, to 2012, and the government’s own projections for future LULUCF emissions (Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia Inovações e Comunicações Brasil, 2017), the CAT estimates that the updated NDC target gives the government ample room to raise its emissions over the next five years: the target level in 2030, excluding LULUCF, is about 130% higher than 1990 levels, and 27% higher than they were when Brazil ratified the Paris Agreement in 2016.
Against a backdrop of rising emissions from deforestation, a record-breaking year for forest fires in the Amazon, and increasing international scrutiny over Brazil’s climate action, the Brazilian government has also dropped all reference to stopping illegal deforestation, restoring forests and enhancing native forest management.
Brazil’s NDC calls for receiving US$10 billion a year from 2021 to address its climate change-related challenges, including the conservation of its native vegetation, in particular the rainforest. However, it is not clear whether - and to what extent - Brazil’s NDC targets are conditional on receiving such finance. With market trends already driving increased uptake of renewable energy, a sizeable portion of Brazil’s mitigation needs should be affordable domestically, with international climate finance used to support mitigation in harder-to-abate sectors.
The CAT rates Brazil’s 2030 target as "Highly insufficient" when rated against modelled domestic pathways ("internationally supported target"), and "Critically insufficient" when rated against the fair share contribution ("fair share target"). Brazil does not specify a conditional target, so we rate the unconditional target against the two rating frameworks.
Last updated: September 2021
Brazil has submitted an updated Paris Agreement NDC that effectively weakens its already insufficient climate action targets for 2025 and 2030. Brazil’s targets to reduce emissions by 37% and 43% from 2005 levels by 2025 and 2030 respectively are unchanged on paper, but an increase in the base year emissions used as a reference means that Brazil can continue to increase its emissions and still meet its targets. We rate Brazil’s 2030 target as “Highly insufficient” when compared to global least-cost pathways.
The “Highly insufficient” rating indicates that Brazil’s target in 2030 leads to rising, rather than falling, emissions and is not at all consistent with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C temperature limit. If all countries were to follow Brazil’s approach, warming could reach over 3°C and up to 4°C.
This rating takes into account that Brazil would need international support for a fraction of the actions required to be consistent with the Paris agreement 1.5 °C limit. As Brazil has not submitted a conditional target, we rate the unconditional target here.
We rate Brazil’s unconditional 2030 climate target from December 2020 as “Critically insufficient” when compared with its fair-share contribution to climate action. We refer to this as Brazil’s “fair share target” rating. The “Critically insufficient” rating indicates that Brazil’s target in 2030 reflects minimal to no action and is not at all consistent with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C temperature limit. Brazil’s target is not in line with any interpretation of a fair approach to meeting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit, and if all countries were to follow Brazil’s approach, warming would exceed 4°C
In our previous assessment, we rated Brazil’s previous NDC target as “Insufficient” with respect to its fair share. The downgrading of Brazil’s fair share rating is because Brazil’s updated NDC leads to higher emissions in 2030 than its previous target.
It is worth noting that our previous rating for Brazil was strongly influenced by data based on studies that included emissions from land use and forests. In our methods update we excluded such studies for countries where land use and forest emissions are high because the results aren’t comparable to those excluding LULUCF. Due to this update, the lower end of the fair share range shifted significantly from negative to positive levels, and the fair share range narrowed. The old NDC target for 2030 would have been rated “Almost sufficient” against the updated fair share contribution, an improvement compared to the old rating of “Insufficient”. Conversely, the updated NDC target for 2030 was rated as “Highly insufficient” under our previous fair share calculations, but in is now rated as “Critically insufficient” under the updated system.
Further information on how the CAT rates countries (against modelled domestic pathways and fair share) can be found here.
2020 NDC update
Brazil has submitted an updated NDC, but did not strengthen its previous targets.
Brazil’s targets to reduce emissions by 37% and 43% from 2005 levels by 2025 and 2030 respectively are unchanged on paper, but an increase in the base year emissions used as a reference means that Brazil can continue to increase its emissions and still meet its targets. The government has also dropped all reference to stopping illegal deforestation, restoring forests and enhancing native forest management in the NDC.
Net zero and other long-term target(s)
As part of their updated NDC submission in December 2020, Brazil set an indicative goal of reaching net zero by 2060 (Government of Brazil, 2020). This target is conditional on the receipt of financial transfers. The NDC states that reaching net zero by 2050 may be possible if the Paris Agreement’s market mechanisms function properly, without specifying what is meant by a “properly functioning market”. The Brazilian government has been widely reported to be pushing for market mechanism rules under the Paris Agreement that many other countries deem unacceptable. In April 2021, President Bolsonaro announced Brazil’s aim to achieve net zero by 2050 as part of the 2021 Leaders' Climate Summit (Spring & Paraguassu, 2021).
Brazil neither provided specific information in its NDC nor after the announcement at the Summit. An assessment of the net zero target remains impossible given the preliminary status of net zero announcement, so we evaluate Brail’s net zero target as: Target information incomplete.
For the full analysis click here.
Brazil was one of the first major developing countries to put forward an emissions reduction target with its Copenhagen pledge in January 2010. It committed to reducing its emissions incl. LULUCF by between 36.1% and 38.9% in 2020, compared to BAU emissions. This target is equivalent to a 172–188% increase on 1990 levels excl. LULUCF. The target was turned into national law in December 2010, which contained no conditionality on international funding, making it more stringent than Brazil’s international target (Presidência da República, 2010).
However, there was also a difference in the proposed BAU: it increased. Whereas Brazil’s Copenhagen Pledge suggested a BAU level of 2.7 GtCO2e/a by 2020, its national law includes a BAU level of 3.2 GtCO2e/a with the same percentage reduction. That translated into a 20% increase of 2020 emissions levels compared to the Copenhagen Pledge.
The Brazilian government has claimed the achievement of the 2020 LULUCF pledge three years ahead of time (Observatório do Clima, 2018). While the statement is factually true, there are a number of caveats that should be considered:
- Brazil had already achieved most of the deforestation reductions of the 2020 pledge in 2012 (see also our previous assessments). Since then, LULUCF emissions have started increasing again.
- The BAU emissions pathway used as reference for the 2020 pledge assumes very high emissions. The BAU pathway itself is based on an inflated projection, making an assumption of 5% annual GDP growth after 2010 (Presidência da República, 2010), which is far above actual developments (The World Bank, 2017).
- To achieve its pledge, Brazil has proposed a series of measures and policies targeting the LULUCF sector and, notably, the government has committed to reducing annual deforestation rates by 80% below average levels 1996–2005 by 2020. These reductions are far from being achieved according to recent government figures. For instance, the 80% deforestation reduction in the Amazon specified in the Decree would mean 3,907 km² deforested per year, but in 2019 over 10,000 km² were lost (INPE, 2020).
- The reversal in LULUCF policies by the government, is projected to have negative consequences for deforestation, potentially causing Brazil to miss its 2020 and NDC deforestation targets by a large margin (Rochedo et al., 2018; Soterroni et al., 2018). To illustrate this effect on future emissions, we have included in our main graph an alternative projection for LULUCF emissions, produced by national experts, which assumes a continued weakening of environmental governance (Rochedo et al., 2018). We have harmonised this projection to Brazil’s latest historical data. The projection clearly shows that Brazil’s LULUCF emissions could rise above the 2020 target emissions level a few years after 2020, reversing the benefits of the target. | <urn:uuid:e993eb1b-e974-4e8d-b134-667fd64a13e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/brazil/targets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944386 | 2,302 | 2.796875 | 3 |
The urban forest is vital to our community. It includes street trees, park trees, private trees and those in natural areas. We aim to protect and enhance the urban forest, while providing a safe environment for the public and our staff.
- Read our Urban Forestry Strategy [PDF - 1.2 MB] for full details.
On average, we respond to more than 1,500 requests for tree maintenance every year. We encourage the public to report hazardous trees. We prioritize tree maintenance based on the public safety.
Learn more about our role and what we will or will not perform in our Boulevard Tree Policy [PDF - 17 KB].
For trees in parks or boulevards, ask us for a request for service:
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
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Kerouac: ‘Life is too sweet to waste on self propaganda’
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Among the items sold at the literary auction at Bonhams and Butterfields on Monday was a 1961 letter from Jack Kerouac to two friends, Jacques Beckwith and Lois Sorrells. Kerouac had been typing on the page, got a letter from Sorrells then switched gears, abandoning his thought (mostly) to write a letter to them. This is what he typed at the top of the page, before the letter:
I can just see the shabby literary man carrying a ‘bulging briefcase’ rushing from one campus to another, one lecture club to another, nodding confirmation with his hosts that he is right, hurrying to the next town ... a whole gray career of proving himself to others, to as many as can hear him, that he was right ... till finally people say: ‘Here comes the self-prover again, O dear ... bring out the papers and the canapes.’ This my friend is what I will become if I accept all lecture offers, TV appearances, radio interviews and start arranging with reviewers and critics who want information and my books through me, a great long lifetime in a briefcase proving my work and my work itself stopped dead at the level where I took to proving myself. So, I say, life is too sweet to waste on self propaganda, I quit self promotion, I enter my page.
This was four years after the publication of Kerouac’s greatest work, ‘On the Road.’ None of his other books would have the reach or impact of that book -- few do -- but he’d been publishing regularly in the years after. There was a 1958 follow-up, ‘The Dharma Bums,’ and ‘Lonesome Traveler’ in 1960.
If you know Kerouac’s biography, you know that in 1969 he died of internal bleeding associated with cirrhosis, brought on by years of excessive drinking. It is easy to look back at this refusenik Kerouac, the one crying against self-promotion, as the one who would hear the call of self-destruction, who was resigned, miserable, dissipated.
As Kerouac wrote the letter, he was working on another book. He was undertaking the trip to Europe that would become the basis of ‘Satori in Paris’ -- another disappointingly received novel, but a book nonetheless. In 1961, he couldn’t see his trajectory: He was just trying to write. In the letter, he continues, ‘I really wanta dig into my art like a maniac and pay no attention to promotion (which everybody wants me to do ... what a waste of sweet life!)’
Although it’s clear that Kerouac is no role model when it comes to a writer’s lifestyle -- big hit at 35, death from alcoholism 12 years later -- his thoughts have got to resonate with today’s authors.
Nowadays, it’s not just lecture offers, TV appearances and radio interviews that keep authors from authoring. There are also blogs, Twitter and Facebook, author videos, GoodReads and the rest of the great wide Internet.
Publishers encourage their authors to do any of these things, all of these things, as many as they can manage. Writer Luis Alberto Urrea (‘The Hummingbird’s Daughter’) is on Facebook and Twitter because his publisher suggested it. (In a tweet he explained, ‘Found out I liked this after early reluctance.’)
Where there might once have been a staff on hand to promote a book, now the more an author does, the better publishers like it. Simon & Schuster has an online marketing guide to help its authors get started.
What with the Facebook friending, the tweeting, the commenting, the blogging, the GoodReads reviewing -- and, with any luck, the lecture invitations, the radio interviews, the television appearances -- when is an author supposed to write? Can anyone dare, these days, to quit self-promotion and enter the page?
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An international proficiency testing programme devoted to U-Pb dating
Proficiency testing (PT) is a cornerstone of good laboratory practice, providing a valuable route to demonstrating laboratory competence and data excellence. In support of improved data quality in the field of geochronology, the International Association of Geoanalysts (IAG) has developed a new PT scheme that allows laboratories active in the field of U-Pb age determinations to directly evaluate their data quality and to document their competence in this field of metrology.
How the G-Chron programme works
All analytical facilities wishing to participate in the G-Chron programme will be able to register their interest online. Each participating laboratory will be sent a single unit of circa 100 mg of zircon. Participants will have three months in which to determine the age of the material and to report their results. The age of this material has been determined using ID-TIMS determinations by multiple, well established geochemical facilities, and these results will be used to define the target age for the corresponding PT round. Each laboratory submitting data by the deadline will receive a report on the material’s characterisation plus a performance assessment of the submitted data based on z-scores. The target uncertainties will be based on the uncertainties reported by each class of instrument (quadrupole, sector ICP-MS, SIMS, TIMS). The origin of each data set will remain confidential through the use of randomly assigned laboratory code numbers, which will change in each round.
Reasons for participating in the G-Chron programme
There are two major advantages for participating in the G-Chron programme. Firstly, G-Chron provides a unique means for geochronology laboratories to test their data quality, potentially revealing unsuspected bias in their results. Secondly, participants will gain early access to a new generation of the highest quality zircon reference material that can serve as quality control material well into the future. Excess material from a given round will subsequently be made available for global distribution. In view of the large effort invested in characterising the materials used in the G-Chron programme, this new suite of reference materials will be an important resource for the coming decades.
Details about the 2021 round of the G-Chron Programme:
- Material for round 2 of G-Chron: late Archean zircon (Kara-18)
- Subscription fee: £300 per year (£200 for IAG members)
- Apply for registration at www.gchron.info
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What Is Digital Marketing and How to Use It
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There are various motivations to place cash into influencer promoting. It is an approach to move beyond the need to utilize advertisements to contact your crowd. In spite of the fact that email advancement is exceptionally compelling, not everything new businesses can tackle the genuine intensity of email promoting.
Advanced advertising isn’t advanced science. It has no limits. Since you may see, advanced advancement is a major and confounded theme. Computerized Marketing is a tremendous subject and you can’t transform into a legend in 30 hours! It is a sort of showcasing method where the promoting movement is done with the assistance of channels and stages accessible on the web. It utilizes the web as a primary special medium, notwithstanding customary TV and radio.
It is one of the quickest developing ventures so there is a lot of space for development and improvement. It is one of the main 5 developing divisions since the year 2009. In straightforward terms, it is the advancement of items, administrations or brands through computerized showcasing channels. It is significantly more progressed than the conventional style of advertising since, One must be cautious in choosing the correct system to produce reach.
Getting your own one of a kind advanced publicizing and promoting blog can assist you with separating yourself from others in the business and stand apart when you ought to address an influencer or possible manager. The ideal promoting influencers are people who talk and uncover themselves before people.
Your email advertising procedure will differ a ton dependent on the quintessence of your private venture. Obviously, there are various reasons your information driven promoting and showcasing system could fizzle notwithstanding a lack of far reaching apparatuses. It’s easy to isolate your advanced promoting system into different channels like compensation per click advertisements, informal communication, site improvement, etc. An advanced showcasing and publicizing procedure doesn’t important interest a nitty gritty investigation, it only takes a lot of destinations and objectives which you are trying to figure it out. You ought to build up a substance advertising technique put together not simply with respect to the data you have to give your customers, yet additionally dependent on your comprehension of what data individuals are attempting to discover.
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You have to develop a showcasing framework which centers around a gathering or gatherings of people. The key issue is to build up your advancement framework with the most reasonable desires. Luckily, promoting programming has come far in the previous barely any decades, and there are a great deal of devices which may help. Ask yourself these inquiries before you pick any new showcasing and promoting instrument. You will figure out how to utilize the computerized instruments and strategies successfully for a prosperous mission. As it were, this is on the grounds that computerized instruments and aptitudes have a set up ability to make income, and organizations wish to bridle that force and keep serious. | <urn:uuid:51fd848b-27d8-4113-8e54-1a8e58731d1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smiths-sevenoaks.co.uk/what-is-digital-marketing-and-how-to-use-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.93803 | 802 | 1.710938 | 2 |
- A single of my mistakes is one that quite a few younger individuals share: parking also substantially income in personal savings accounts.
- According to financial advisors, your funds will reduce price around time because of to inflation by executing this.
- Environment fiscal aims, conserving for retirement, and discovering extra about standard investing can support.
- Go through far more from Particular Finance Insider.
1 of the greatest errors I manufactured in my 20s is a slip-up that I am nonetheless making now at age 33: Far too significantly of my dollars is just sitting in a personal savings account, and I have no plan or method for what to do with that cash.
As it turns out, I’m not not on your own — many youthful traders are creating the same miscalculation. In accordance to a examine by Private Money, the common particular person in their 20s is holding 28% of their wealth in cash.
Whilst numerous authorities have different viewpoints on what percent of a person’s portfolio ought to be income (common feeling is 10-20%), right here are four factors why maintaining far too a great deal of your prosperity in funds is a squander of funds, according to financial advisors.
1. Your cash is getting rid of value
Whenever I uncover myself written content that my have money portfolio is quite dollars major, I mirror on the point that trying to keep my money in a savings account signifies that it is dropping value and which is a thing I’ll mature to regret.
Lauren Anastasio, Director of Money Assistance and monetary planner at Stash, claims there is certainly an possibility cost to preserving hard cash.
“Even when inflation just isn’t building headlines, the value of your dollar continues to diminish with each individual passing calendar year,” explained Anastasio. “$100 right now simply will not go as considerably as it would have 10 decades in the past, and is unquestionably a lot more useful now than it will be 10 decades from now.”
She added that by investing it as an alternative, you could reasonably anticipate an ordinary annual rate of return of about 8%, and that keeping way too considerably dollars implies you might be lacking out on progress that would make it possible for you to hold up with — or even outpace — inflation.
2. It can be a signal you really don’t have monetary goals
Even however it helps make me sense monetarily profitable when I refresh my cost savings account and see a fulfilling quantity inside of it, it truly is also telling that I never have clarity around my future money targets.
Evon Mendrin, a monetary planner, claims that as well substantially hard cash can be a indicator that a man or woman will not have money targets or priorities.
“You never know what to do with the hard cash, so it sits idle,” explained Mendrin. “If you get very clear on what your money priorities are, you can get a far better perception of what to do next with excess cash.”
So what should a person do alternatively? Mendrin endorses bucketing your funds as a good up coming action.
“With your shortest-phrase bucket, consist of charges you may well will need to fork out for in the incredibly close to term like an unexpected emergency fund,” mentioned Mendrin. “Once that bucket is loaded, then imagine about your mid-time period and for a longer time-phrase economical targets. Commit the funds in alignment with individuals targets.”
He explained that for extensive-phrase targets like retirement, you can devote money much more aggressively, like stocks and serious estate, that are expected to reliably outpace inflation in excess of time. For mid-time period objectives, the resources can nonetheless be invested in items like bonds.
3. You happen to be lacking out on opportunities
Even though it can make you come to feel protected to have a lot of hard cash sitting down in your savings account, Nate Hansen, a CPA, said that you’re missing out on opportunities by permitting it sit there.
“Holding money endlessly calendar year immediately after calendar year as a substitute of investing it is like hardly ever getting up the braveness to check with your crush on a day in significant school,” explained Hansen. “Though the inventory industry has returned right all around 10% above the extensive-operate, you can find also the
element of invested money more than a very long time period of time.”
Hansen suggests that if you want to even now maintain a portion of your portfolio in pretty small-possibility securities, then take into account treasury inflation-shielded securities, or Guidelines.
“These are U.S. treasury bonds that are modified for inflation dependent on the shopper selling price index or CPI,” explained Hansen. “Tips protect from inflation by the actual experience benefit of the bond becoming adjusted for inflation, in its place of altering the desire price.”
4. It can be utilised to aid offset taxes
Tony Matheson, a money planner, suggests utilizing excessive funds to max out retirement accounts and to help offset your taxes.
“If you are not previously getting gain of the complete limits of your 401(k) or Roth IRA, you are spending extra in taxes than needed,” reported Matheson. “Subsequent, you can prepay taxes that will be owing in future yrs as a result of a Roth conversion. If you have money in a
, take into consideration changing all those dollars into a Roth IRA.”
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This might be the right time for Nina Simone—15 years after her death. That’s what Laiona Michelle thinks, and, in a way, Michelle will be testing that idea by bringing the singer-activist to life in a world-premiere musical show at George Street Playhouse.
Michelle wrote the show—“Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical”—and she will appear in the title role at the New Brunswick theater from January 29 through February 24.
Simone was born Eunice Waymon in North Carolina in 1933. She was a child musical prodigy who made an international career as a singer, songwriter, arranger, and pianist. Her repertoire included jazz, blues, folk, R&B, and pop, and she often insinuated classical music into her performances, especially that of Johann Sebastian Bach.
She released 40 albums, the first one being “Little Girl Blue.”
In 1964, prompted by the murder of Medgar Evers and the bombing of a Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, she wrote and recorded “Mississippi Goddam,” a call to action for black Americans.
That record was boycotted and even physically destroyed by radio stations in the South, and Simone’s growing participation in the civil-rights movement eroded her audience. It wasn’t the last civil-rights song she would sing.
“I believe,” Michelle said in an interview, “that Nina was doing what she did way before her time. I feel that if Nina was here right now, it would be just right.
“Forty years ago, people weren’t ready to hear that. There was a civil rights movement—Martin Luther King and James Baldwin and others were on the ground, and Nina was with them—but on the stage as a performer, a lot weren’t able to do that.”
Michelle believes that Simone’s message would resonate with a wider audience today when black and white Americans are more likely to be protesting injustice side by side.
“Today people would lead her loud and clear,” Michelle said. “I feel that women of all races are screaming, and yelling and waving and standing strong as one, despite their color. I think that’s remarkable. We’re not only fighting for rights, but we’re demanding them.”
“Little Girl Blue” will allude to a pivotal episode in Simone’s life, the rejection of her application to study piano at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was already an accomplished musician, and she believed that she was snubbed, and her life ambition was derailed, because of her race.
“I’ve always been attracted to ballet and classical art and opera,” Michelle said, “and whenever my mother would take me to those events, I never saw a reflection of myself on the stage. I knew that had to be a bed on which I built this show—not just a bullet point. Anybody of any ethnicity who is denied their talent or their sexual identity—it’s really a stripping of a soul. I think anybody can identify with that.”
Michelle, who has a substantial track record on the stage, including the Broadway production of “Amazing Grace” and the first national tour of “The Book of Mormon,” was applauded by critics for her performance in Christopher Demos-Brown’s “American Hero” at George Street last season.
She is a theater-arts graduate of Alabama State University where she was mentored by actress-academician Tommie Stewart
“It was Dr. Stewart,” Michelle said, “who really built up my confidence to just trust that I could be me and bring it to the stage, and that would be enough. I could bring myself to any character.”
Michelle said Brandeis University was looking for a black male to complete a fine-arts graduate class: “Dr. Stewart said, ‘I have a black male for you,’ and she slipped them a tape of me performing. I didn’t know anything about it. I got a full scholarship to go to graduate school.”
Michelle said that at the universities, which practiced “color-blind” casting, she was accustomed to playing leading ladies. When she moved to New York after earning her master’s degree, she wasn’t offered those roles.
“I had a great agent,” she recalled, “who said, ‘You keep complaining about roles. What do you want? Why don’t you write that—maybe that doesn’t exist yet.”
Michelle said she shied away from doing that for many years, but more recently, reflecting on the body of her work, she decided she had to start writing the stories she wanted to tell.
Simone was a natural subject to whom Simone had always been attracted: “We’re very different. She was outspoken, brazen, brave, sensitive. She had cracks and flaws, too. Those are things that make a character satisfying to play.”
“Little Girl Blue” is performed in two acts—inspired by Simone appearances at the Westbury Music Fair in 1968 and at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1976.
The radicalism, idealism, courage, and turmoil of Simone’s life is revealed in her songs, in her banter with her musicians and her remarks to the audience, and in flashbacks in which Michelle portrays both Simone and personalities from her past.
“This is like a dream experience for me,” Michelle said. “I was able to write a piece that really used all my skills, all my talent. I’ll be playing the piano, speaking different dialects, singing. It’s thrilling, it’s fun, it’s exhausting, but the in the end it’s satisfying.”
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National Salad Month
Grab a head of lettuce and a fork – it’s time to celebrate greens! Why is it crucial to munch on green vegetables? Vegetables are important when living a healthy lifestyle. They improve your health in general, and keep your body nice and strong. Green vegetables are full of antioxidants; these are vitamins that help fight illnesses and diseases.
Green vegetables have vitamins like Vitamin A, which helps your eyesight, and Vitamin C, which helps you fight colds. There is calcium in green leafy vegetables like kale to give your bones a boost! There is iron too, which gives you great strength.
These great, vitamin-filled foods have fiber and water, too. This keeps your digestive system in tip-top shape! Do you eat kale, or spinach, or maybe romaine lettuce? Give them a try. Each has its own taste and flavor. Some greens are bitter, and others are sweet.
Broccoli, asparagus, and other green vegetables like collard greens can decorate your plate with healthy goodness. You can steam them with your parent or guardian and get the full flavor. Some people add a little bit of butter, some olive oil, or a pinch of salt to enhance the flavors and make a party in your mouth!
Green vegetables like yummy green beans can grow easily in the garden. Save a seed one day, and pop it into a small pot with dirt. Give it some water, some sun, and a little love. In turn, it will grow into a yummy, healthy treat for you!
Dr. Jeanette Moore is a certified educator in New York, Vermont, Connecticut and South Carolina. She is an established author and frequently contributes to magazines and lesson compilations, including The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, Spider Magazine, Highlights for Children, and the lesson guide for the National Fragile X Association. Jeanette has published math games for Nasco, including the P.E.M.D.A.S. Color Code. She also writes math and science books for Nomad Press, as well as workbooks for Carson Dellosa Publishing. Jeanette is a member of the International Dyslexia Association and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. She is the mother of little Maya Jillian. | <urn:uuid:6793fdb5-4e47-4d12-9ae2-b2e656bb6c2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theoldschoolhouse.com/national-salad-month/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.937765 | 466 | 3.109375 | 3 |
By Ray O’Hanlon
Nothing like a bit of high dudgeon in the dog days. As the summer frolics in the wee North rumble on, journalists have been kept busy feeding stories back to an increasingly jaundiced readership in these former colonies of Mad King George. Some of the reportage is outstanding, most of it fine, some of it lousy. As it turns out, the Associated Press falls into the last category in the eyes of some. Indeed, a delegation of Irish-American lawyers and activists trundled up to the Manhattan AP offices last week to give out stink about some recent AP reports from the wee sod.
Leading the charge were James Gallagher of the Irish American Unity Conference and attorney Frank Durkan. "IF," as you might expect, is reluctant to wield the sword against fellow hacks whose only sin in life was to fall into bad company and take up journalism as opposed to market gardening and the like. Still, if you’re writing for a media market you have to at least be sensitive to its concerns. AP, you can be sure, got to know its market a little better after meeting Jim and Frank.
And speaking of reporting on the North, enough already from the New York Times and its tired habit of filling half of every second story from the place with lines about sieges of Londonderry, Catholic King James, Protestant King William, etc. If the Times readership is half as astute as the paper presumably considers it to be, then it certainly remembers the history lesson after it is delivered — once. As it stands, most of the reports read as if readers are being introduced again and again to a hitherto undiscovered planet. If, however, the reporting of present-day events in the North is to be laced with some history, it would be equally no harm at all to rid Times reports of the impression that these feuding monarchs were somehow Irish.
Where’s the North?
Dear oh dear, but "IF" can only assume that there are one or two red faces at Microsoft over the absence of Northern Ireland from the computer company’s new encyclopedic dictionary. Somebody must have called Bill Gates to complain because there was mention of the wee North’s slide into information age oblivion on the front page of the New York Times last week. Gates’s angelic mug is included in the tome, but not, it seems, that of President John F. Kennedy. What are they on over there in Seattle? That said, "IF" has the fullest sympathy for the Microsoft zillionaire whiz kiddies when it comes to deciding the exact geographic stance of the wee North.
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There is, to be sure, a certain degree of consensus in the rarefied world of dictionaries and encyclopedias with regard to the Six Counties. The portion of the province of Ulster in question does warrant a mention all on its wee own in other big books such as "Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language" and "The Tormont Webster’s Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary."
But is it any wonder at all that confusion reigns in cyberland? Sure, not even the Northern Ireland Office is able to decide just how Northern Ireland fits in to the great geographic scheme of things. Last "IF" checked, the British government considered the wee North to be a rather remote but definitely British corner of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland."
One can only assume that the boys and girls in London and the lads and lassies at the NIO are working off the same page. And yet, according to the NIO magazine Omnibus, the wee North is far more than just a corner of the kingdom. Omnibus is published by the NIO’s Northern Ireland Information Service out of Castle Buildings in Stormont. The mailing address it gives for itself is a box number in "Newtownabbey, BT36 4BR, Great Britain." No mention of the wee North at all, never mind the UK So, Mr. Gates, you’re off the hook this time, even if your name is Billy.
An Irish world
John Hume is floating the idea that people anywhere in the world who consider themselves Irish in origin should be offered certificates of Irish ancestry by the Irish government at $10 a pop. This certificate would be distinct from an Irish passport and citizenship. Hume reckons that if everyone on the planet who considers themselves Irish, or wants to be considered Irish, each forked over $10, the economy of the Republic could rake in as much as $20 billion.
This, of course, is a wonderful idea. Irish diplomats across the planet could spend their working days flogging certificates of Irish ancestry to Mongolian goat herders, Yemeni camel traders, Inuit seal hunters. "IF" reckons this idea has limitless potential.
It’s a wonder Hume thought about this before Fianna Fáil. Still, the Soldiers of Destiny, reportedly desperately short of cash, could work their own version of the deal. For example, they could send disguised agents north of the border to flog certificates of ancestry to unionists who are not quite so sure anymore about their Britishness in this time of peace, progress and daily caving in to the Shinners. Twenty dollars a certificate should do. After all, the buyer of the F.F. ancestry certificate would be getting two for one anyway: Ulster and Scots.
Ah, it’s that time of the year again. Leaves turn, birds fly south and the ambitious seek out new challenging fields in which to exercise their talents. Take diplomat Anthony Cary, for example. Anto, well known in Washington as a political and public affairs officer at the British Embassy, is heading back across the pond for a new job.
Anto’s profile within the Beltway rose noticeably earlier this year when he led his embassy’s charge again Rep. Ben Gilman’s attempt to lay bare the shortcomings of the RUC at a congressional committee hearing. As it turned out, Cary had to bide his wee as the boys in bottle green were given quite a bollicking on Capitol Hill. That trend, some suspect, might be continued with the Patten Report, due out any day.
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- 1 Is Carmex lip balm meant to tingle?
- 2 Is Carmex supposed to make your lips burn?
- 3 Why do my lips burn when I put on lip balm?
- 4 What are the side effects of Carmex lip balm?
- 5 Is Vaseline better than Carmex?
- 6 Is Carmex made out of whale sperm?
- 7 Is Vaseline bad for your lips?
- 8 Which lip balm is best?
- 9 Is Carmex poisonous?
- 10 What causes lips to feel like they are burning?
- 11 What is the best lip balm for chapped lips?
- 12 Does Burt’s Bees lip balm dry out lips?
- 13 Is Carmex good for pimples?
- 14 Can too much lip balm be bad?
- 15 Does Carmex make lips pink?
Is Carmex lip balm meant to tingle?
It’s common to feel that tingling sensation when you apply Carmex, particularly if your lips are dry or chapped! Reason being, Carmex contains camphor and menthol, which give Carmex its ‘cooling’ effect and helps relieve the irritation of rough, chapped lips.
Is Carmex supposed to make your lips burn?
Besides the camphor and menthol, Carmex also includes several other ingredients that can cause sensitivity. The irritation creates a never-ending cycle of Carmex addiction. Dr. Bowe says, “ Carmex has many irritating ingredients that can cause inflammation in the lip area in people with sensitive lips.
Why do my lips burn when I put on lip balm?
Menthol and camphor — they produce the tingling sensation in many balms — can cause an inflammatory reaction. Phenol can worsen symptoms for many people. It’s used in chemical peels, which is not a good sign when it’s in a product designed for lips.
What are the side effects of Carmex lip balm?
Signs of an allergic reaction, like rash; hives; itching; red, swollen, blistered, or peeling skin with or without fever; wheezing; tightness in the chest or throat; trouble breathing, swallowing, or talking; unusual hoarseness; or swelling of the mouth, face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Is Vaseline better than Carmex?
BS”D Vaseline is more useful than Carmex. If you or any member of your family has a few screws missing, put Vaseline on the screws before installing them to make it easier for them to penetrate even the thickest heads.
Is Carmex made out of whale sperm?
Your basic Carmex or Blistex contains petroleum and byproducts of gasoline. My lip balm, at least, contains no products from whales. The main ingredient of the lip balm that I use is beeswax. To my knowledge, nothing (other than other whales) has ever been made from whale sperm.
Is Vaseline bad for your lips?
If you’re not allergic, Vaseline isn’t likely to cause harm or make your lips drier — it just may not be the best option for hydrating lips and preventing the delicate skin from becoming chapped. Other things to try for dry lips include: Try lip balms that contain: argan oil.
Which lip balm is best?
The Best Lip Balms on Amazon, According to Hyperenthusiastic Reviewers
- Burt’s Bees.
- ChapStick Classic (3 Sticks) Original Lip Balm.
- Aquaphor Lip Repair Ointment.
- Blistex Medicated Lip Balm SPF 15.
- Burt’s Bees 100% Natural Moisturizing Lip Balm.
- Maybelline Baby Lips Moisturizing Lip Balm.
Is Carmex poisonous?
The safety of refined mineral oil or petrolatum has been confirmed by long-term use in various cosmetics and pharmaceuticals and proven through multiple competent studies, which show no toxic or carcinogenic response.
What causes lips to feel like they are burning?
Lip burning sensation can be the result of sensory nerve or skin damage in the lips and surrounding tissues. Burns are a common cause of lip burning sensation. Chemicals, food, and sun exposure may cause such burns. Disorders of the nerves, such as neuropathy, trauma and stroke may also cause lip burning sensation.
What is the best lip balm for chapped lips?
How to get rid of chapped lips: The 9 best chapsticks and lip
- Aquaphor Lip Repair.
- Burt’s Bees Conditioning Lip Scrub.
- First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Therapy.
- Dr. Dan’s CortiBalm.
- Tizo’s Lip Protector.
- Kiehl’s Lip Balm.
- Dr. Pawpaw Original Multipurpose Soothing Balm.
- Burt’s Bees Overnight Intensive Lip Treatment.
Does Burt’s Bees lip balm dry out lips?
According to this Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences study, it seems to be one of the most frequent contact sensitizers, with possible reactions including chelitis and peeling lips. I guess this is why I didn’t got the hype over the original Burt’s Bees lip balms!
Is Carmex good for pimples?
Topical (for the skin) emollients are used to treat or prevent dry skin. Carmex are sometimes contained in products that also treat acne, chapped lips, diaper rash, cold sores, or other minor skin irritation.
Can too much lip balm be bad?
“These formulas create an artificial barrier to lock in moisture, but when overused, can cause lips to become lazy because the skin doesn’t have to work to maintain its own hydration level,” Zeichner explains, adding you have to wean yourself off your lip balm addiction and tolerate a little dryness before your lips
Does Carmex make lips pink?
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Operation: Job Ready Veterans Partners with
Indiana University to Enhance Veteran Student Support
Indianapolis, IN (November 23, 2021) – Operation: Job Ready Veterans (OJRV) announces its partnership with Indiana University (IU) to bring further awareness to veteran students and their unique needs, with a focus on female veterans. Through this collaboration, OJRV and IU supportive services will positively impact veteran military transition to educational experience and will create the bridge to join the civilian workforce upon graduation.
OJRV will facilitate multiple events and programs to provide ongoing veteran transition services. The first of these events was held on Saturday, November 13th and included the Veteran’s 5K run in Switchyard Park to promote wellness and support of IU and OJRV’s partnership. In addition, OJRV sponsored catering for the Center for Veteran and Military Students lunch prior to the football game between IU and Rutgers.
In 2022, OJRV will provide snacks and coffee on behalf of the Center for Veteran and Military Students. OJRV is also partnering with Beth Barnett and OJRV Board Member Kimberly Bloodgood to provide student veterans with supportive services and resources required to transition successfully from service to academia and eventually to a meaningful career.
“We are thrilled to be partnering with IU in support of their veteran students. At OJRV, we aim to bridge the transition gap for veterans, and partnerships such as this help us fulfill our mission as an organization,” said OJRV Employment Transition Manager Deborah Ryan.
Shifting from military service to university education presents unique issues and obstacles for veteran students, particularly for female veterans. Through partnerships like the one between IU and OJRV, veteran students will receive the support they need to transition from the military in a positive, healthy way—right when and where they need it.
About Operation: Job Ready Veterans (OJRV)
Operation: Job Ready Veterans is a Midwest-based nonprofit organization dedicated to preparing veterans, service members, and military family members for entry into the workforce. OJRV focuses on transition, job readiness, and career placement, providing employment readiness training and specialized job placement to personnel from all military branches, service eras, and ability levels. The nonprofit’s mission is to bridge life’s transitional gaps for veterans, service members, and their families by empowering them to meet their individual education, employment, and career goals.
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Dengue Fever in Sri Lanka (Update)
09 Apr 2014
Dengue fever is ongoing in Sri Lanka. As of 1 April 2014, 6627 cases have been recorded. An awareness campaign and elimination of mosquito breeding sites has been carried out island-wide between 2-8 April 2014.
Advice for Travellers
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A angle it is formed by two rays that share the same vertex as origin. There are numerous types of angles that differ from each other according to their characteristics: one of the most common ways to distinguish them is by taking into account their amplitude.
A flat angle, in this framework, is the one that measures 180 °. It is one greater than the null angle (measuring 0 °), the acute angle (greater than 0 ° but less than 90 °), the right angle (90 °) and obtuse angle (It measures more than 90 ° and less than 180 °). Instead, the plane angle is less than the perigonal angle -also called full angle-, which has an amplitude of 360 °.
Taking into account these data, we can affirm that a straight angle is equivalent to two right angles (90 ° + 90 ° = 180 °) and at half a perigonal angle (360 ° / 2 = 180 °).
If we focus on the construction of a straight angle with vectors, we will notice that it is the rotation that the vector makes to totally change its address. That is to say: when a vector that points to one direction, rotates and starts to point to the opposite direction, in its trajectory it completes a straight angle (it makes a 180 ° turn).
Drawing a straight angle is easy if we use a conveyor and a compass. We only have to make one ray With the protractor, open the compass from the origin to the end of the ray and then make a 180 ° turn until you reach the opposite side. The width of the angle of 180 ° places us before a flat angle.
One of the complementary concepts to that of angle is the bisector, a ray that passes through the vertex of an angle and results in two halves, that is, two identical parts. It is about the locus (the set of points at which certain properties or conditions are noticed) from the plane that is at the same distance from each of the two rays that form the angle; in other words, each point on the bisector is at the same distance from both rays.
In the case of flat angles, the bisector is easier to draw than in most others: since, to the naked eye, a 180 ° angle is just a line, simply determine its center point, the vertex of the two rays, and start from there to draw a line perpendicular to both. As a result of the bisector we obtain two right angles, that is, 90 °.
Angles are a fundamental part of mathematics, but also of any discipline that uses graphic elements to recreate situations typical of the physicalregardless of the degree of realism. Whether in cartoon series, computer-animated films or video games, although the public is not always aware of it, it would not be possible to animate a character walking or the trajectory of a rock that flies through the air without calculating many angles simultaneously .
As mentioned in a previous paragraph, the straight angle can be used to graph the total change of direction of a vector, and this concept is another of the fundamentals of the aforementioned fields: a video game character has a vector indicating its orientation in space, moves across the stage following another vector, and the same is true for all moving objects.
Although mathematics is not to the liking of most people, in everyday speech there are many expressions that have their origin in this science. Focusing specifically on the concept of a flat angle, it is often said that a situation or life itself takes a 180 ° turn to refer to a drastic or complete change, from peace to chaos or vice versa. | <urn:uuid:5b51ded7-de9f-4122-8c74-9ff90c8d6224> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://soetrust.org/misc/definition-of-plain-angle-what-is-meaning-and-concept/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949367 | 739 | 4.71875 | 5 |
READING the Psalm(s)
Psalm 74 (LISTEN HERE)
A maskil[a] of Asaph.
1 O God, why have you rejected us forever?
Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember the nation you purchased long ago,
the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed—
Mount Zion, where you dwelt.
3 Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins,
all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.
4 Your foes roared in the place where you met with us;
they set up their standards as signs.
5 They behaved like men wielding axes
to cut through a thicket of trees.
6 They smashed all the carved paneling
with their axes and hatchets.
7 They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.
8 They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely!”
They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.
9 We are given no signs from God;
no prophets are left,
and none of us knows how long this will be.
10 How long will the enemy mock you, God?
Will the foe revile your name forever?
11 Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand?
Take it from the folds of your garment and destroy them!
12 But God is my King from long ago;
he brings salvation on the earth.
13 It was you who split open the sea by your power;
you broke the heads of the monster in the waters.
14 It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan
and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.
15 It was you who opened up springs and streams;
you dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
16 The day is yours, and yours also the night;
you established the sun and moon.
17 It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth;
you made both summer and winter.
18 Remember how the enemy has mocked you, Lord,
how foolish people have reviled your name.
19 Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts;
do not forget the lives of your afflicted people forever.
20 Have regard for your covenant,
because haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
21 Do not let the oppressed retreat in disgrace;
may the poor and needy praise your name.
22 Rise up, O God, and defend your cause;
remember how fools mock you all day long.
23 Do not ignore the clamor of your adversaries,
the uproar of your enemies, which rises continually.
- Psalm 74:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
Psalm 75 (LISTEN HERE)
For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A psalm of Asaph. A song.
1 We praise you, God,
we praise you, for your Name is near;
people tell of your wonderful deeds.
2 You say, “I choose the appointed time;
it is I who judge with equity.
3 When the earth and all its people quake,
it is I who hold its pillars firm.[b]
4 To the arrogant I say, ‘Boast no more,’
and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horns.[c]
5 Do not lift your horns against heaven;
do not speak so defiantly.’”
6 No one from the east or the west
or from the desert can exalt themselves.
7 It is God who judges:
He brings one down, he exalts another.
8 In the hand of the Lord is a cup
full of foaming wine mixed with spices;
he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth
drink it down to its very dregs.
9 As for me, I will declare this forever;
I will sing praise to the God of Jacob,
10 who says, “I will cut off the horns of all the wicked,
but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”
SINGING the Psalm(s)
PRAYING the Psalm(s)
Consider going through all or part of one Psalm, letting the Spirit prompt you to pray based on the content of that particular verse, paragraph, or Psalm.
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Personal data is processed for the following purposes:
- Production, development and monitoring of theater services and realization of customer service.
- Management and development of the customer relationship as well as individual adaptation of services.
- Communication in connection with customer relationships and marketing as well as the managing of contact history.
- Processing and response to customer feedback.
- Processing, answers and payments for compensation and refund matters.
- Analysis and classification of the customer base with the goal of targeting communication.
- Follow-up and statistics on electronic service channels (such as net- and mobile services) for service development, marketing purposes and facilitation of case management.
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- telephone number(s)
- email address
- service and event information
- customer feedback and related information for response communication
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Information related to the customer is primarily collected from the customer her/himself in connection to placing an order and registration, in connection to the purchase and use of services, in the internet service’s personal information section, in connection with customer service events and in other cases directly from the customer. Customer-related information is also generated in the theatre’s information system in connection with the use of services.
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We do not disclose the information to any other party.
Principles for how the register is protected
The register does not contain manual material.
Personal information is correctly protected. The personal data controller collects data in databases that are protected by firewalls, passwords and other technical means. The databases and their backups are located in locked and protected rooms and the information can only be accessed by certain pre-appointed persons.
User rights to access the register, for the theater and other retailers, require a user-id issued by the personal data controller for the customer database. The person responsible for personal data has, on contractual grounds, ensured that the collaboration partners who process personal data are obliged to protect the personal data also in relation to their own employees.
The register information in the theater can be found in the systems managed by the theater. Users of the register have a personal username and password that allows each login to be authenticated and identified.
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Everyone in the register has the right to check the information stored in the register. Requests for inspections are formulated in free form and addressed to the registry administrator via e-mail email@example.com or by telephone 044 242 9324.
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Everyone in the register has the right to demand that incorrect information regarding them will be corrected. Requests for correction are formulated in free form and addressed to the registry administrator via e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org.
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We use Mailchimp e-mail service for our news releases. In this case, Grus Grus Teatteri is the personal data controller and Mailchimp personal data processor. Mailchimp is an American company to which personal information is transferred to outside the EU. However, personal data is protected in accordance with current requirements via the Personal Data Act. Read more in Mailchimp’s privacy statement.
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Pfizer and BioNTech said Monday that preliminary results from clinical trials in children under the age of five have shown that their coronavirus vaccines have developed strong enough immunity to meet the three-dose regulatory approval criteria.
In a press release, the companies announced the results of a subset of tests on 1,678 children aged 6 months to 4 years, saying the three-dose method was 80 percent effective in preventing significant infections. No supporting information was released, and companies did not say how many children were on the subset. A Pfizer spokesman said the trial results would be released next month.
Both Pfizer and Moderna are hoping to get approval to vaccinate the country’s youngest children soon. About 18 million children under the age of 5 are the only Americans who are not yet eligible to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, and parents’ expectations about when to be shot have been repeatedly dashed.
Pfizer and its partner Bioentech said the number of children on the test who fell ill with covid was too small to make a definitive statement about their effectiveness. Only 10 children participating in the trial fell ill in Kovid after being given the third dose of the vaccination group. Clinical trial protocols specify that at least 21 covid cases are required for vaccine efficacy analysis. The companies said that the final data of efficacy, a secondary end point for clinical trials, would be shared “once available”.
The Biden administration had hoped to give a dose of the vaccine to those under 5 years of age in early February. The Food and Drug Administration initially pressured Pfizer to submit data on how well the two doses worked for young children, but Pfizer says the two doses have been delayed because they are not effective enough in preventing significant infections from highly contagious Omicron variants.
But Pfizer said new results show that three doses, the third given at least two months after the second, stimulated the immune system to defend itself strongly against the virus without any security concerns. The researchers said that the immune response of the subsets of the trial participants, measured one month after the third dose, was more favorable than that of the 16- to 25-year-olds who received the two doses.
Pfizer CEO Dr Albert Borla said: “We are pleased that our formulation for the youngest child, which we carefully selected as one tenth of the dose energy for adults, was well tolerated and developed a strong immune system.” Pfizer chief executive said in a statement. Ugur Sahin said companies would complete their FDA application for urgent approval of the baby vaccine this week.
New discoveries heat up a competition between Moderna and Pfizer as to which company will create the best vaccine for the youngest Americans. Moderna is proposing a two-dose regimen for children under 6, using a quarter of its adult dose. The agency said it estimates a third dose would be needed as a booster shot, but has not yet submitted any information to the government.
The question of which vaccine works best will be put to a committee of advisers outside the FDA scheduled for June 15. Both Pfizer and Moderna have proposed different dosage approaches for younger children and presented the results of different clinical trials. Whether a vaccine should be approved or both are exempt may affect regulators.
In late April, Moderna sought urgent approval of her pediatric vaccine when interim results showed that participants in clinical trials had similar immunity to young adults when given one-fourth stronger doses.
Like Pfizer, the firm says its results meet the criteria for clinical trials for success. Moderna said its vaccine was found to be 51 percent effective against significant infections in children under 2 years of age and 37 percent effective between 2 and 5 years of age.
If the results of Pfizer are revealed by the following data, then its effectiveness will be better than that of Moderna. Both companies say their vaccines produce similar side effects to other pediatric vaccines used for decades.
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When did we start deciding a particular toy, or book was for boys, and another for girls? Why did it ever become acceptable to color code toys — even if they are the same exact product — pink or blue to denote which sex was supposed to enjoy the item. Kid Industries’ pop-up conference aims to explore the pinkification of toys, books, and other child specific items.
The free conference, which kicks off on October 30th is full, but a waitlist is open.
Get the full story at Kidscreen.
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Some of the most productive areas in terms of copper are the Gimbi, Jawando and Mavo in Wase LGA. This region is accredited to be the richest region in terms of natural minerals and holds commercially viable mineral levels like the copper deposits, Gypsum, Hard Rock, limestone, calcite strantonite, and Galena (Sterlington Resources, 2014). These rich deposits have been another central cause of conflict and violence especially directed towards the Taroh of Wase LGAwith the guise of sharing out the proceeds of the resources. It also has seen the hostilities that have been directed towards the creation and stability of the Kadarko Chiefdom since the Hausa and Fulani feel that the mineral deposits need to be shared equally among all the tribes surrounding the region and the creation of the Chiefdom would alienate them from the proceeds. However, more worrying is the intention and action of the clandestine groups among the Hausa and Fulani in relation to the proceeds of the minerals mined from the region. The real intention is to use the money exchanged at the mines to finance extremist groups from these two tribes like the Boko Haram who in turn come back to terrorize the Christian community that is predominantly Taroh tribe. The Hausa/Fulani, under the banner of 'Wase Banda Yergam' have been seen to organize to uproot the Taroh of Wase and Langtang. The other factor is the numerical majority of the Taroh tribe in Wase LGA that gives them an upper hand in the elective positions within the region. The Taroh tribe is seen to compose of the majority in this region making up for 66% of the entire population in this region. It is observed that each time the election periods come close and the election time table is released, there are acrimonious events that are witnessed in the region with the intention of excluding the Taroh people from vying for the elective positions by making as many of them displaced and in effect cannot participate in elections nor vie for positions, leading to a situation of taxation without representation.
The role of the traditional units
The traditional units within Wase play a significant role in the handling of the conflicts, and that runs from the Emir or the paramount chief, all the way down to village and ward heads. The high role of upholding peace within the region s fundamentally the jurisdiction of these traditional units both in the Islamic and Christian communities that live in Wase LGA. The Emir is considered the center of power in an Emirate and wielded excessive power. He is assisted by the Emir's advisory Council whom he appointed from among the upper echelons of the society. He is also the only person from the traditional units that is allowed to contribute in policy making at the higher levels and meets regularly with residents apart from attending the Annual Conference of Chiefs in Northern Nigeria. The Emirs in this respect have...
They are known to have mediated serious religious conflicts as well as ethnic conflicts.
The Emirs can also act as catalysts to violence due to the respect and honor they derived from the virtue of their positions and the rigorous selection process that is deemed religious. They are trusted by their followers and highly respected within the region and beyond. Indeed, in times of strife or crisis, they are the first people that the central government consults for restoration of calm in the given region. The government policies are seen to be interpreted through the Emirs' communication channels and even national and foreign dignitaries often consult the Emir of the region in order to have their programs run successfully and get the support of the people (Roger B., et.al., 2006). This massive followership and immense powers that they hold is however abused at times and used to give directions to violence against another tribe.
Taking into account the spate of violence and attacks that are seen to be directed at the Christians of Taroh origin in the account outlined in the list presented by WordPress, (2014), which is a collection of facts around the violence that has been experienced by the Christian Taroh tribe in the year 2013, it is apparent that there is a calculated move to have the Taroh finished within the Wase region and leave the entire region to the Muslim population to occupy and expand their interests within that region. This has been a case of property conflict turned into religious contestation that led to the Hausa/Fulani wiping out villages that were dominated by Christians. The Muslims go round burning down houses and churches so that the displaced Taroh Christians do not come back to the region that they insist must be occupied by Muslims (Religious Freedom Coalition, 2013). These are extremists and Islamic groups who are coordinated by the Emirs and the Ciroman to conduct the attacks and still enjoy protection from them in case of intended legal actions. They also use these clandestine groupings to protect their community against possible retaliatory attacks.
BBC News Africa, (2013). Nigeria cattle feud: Villagers killed in Plateau state. Received May 14, 2014 from http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-23099421
Miner C.S., (2002). Nigeria: The Wase Crisis and Taroh People: the Truth of the Matter. Received May 14, 2014 from http://allafrica.com/stories/200208120403.html
NigerianISM, (2012). Gov. Al- Makura Dissolves 10 Chiefdoms in the State. Received May 14, 2014 from http://www.nigerianism.com/?p=983
Religious Freedom Coalition, (2013). Muslim ethnic Fulani mount attacks in Plateau state; Boko Haram strikes in Borno. Received May 14, 2014 from http://www.religiousfreedomcoalition.org/2013/06/23/two-more-christians-slain-by-islamists-in-nigeria/
Roger B., et.al., (2006). The Role of Traditional Rulers in Conflict Prevention and Mediation in Nigeria.
Sterlington Resources, (2014). Gimbi, Plateu State-Cobre. Received May 14, 2014 from http://www.sterlingtonresources.com/web/8888/nsf/sbs.py?&_id=17090&did=1286&title=gimbi,%20plateau%20state%20%96%20cobre
News Tower Magazine, (2010). Tarok People of Langtang in Plateau State. Received May 14, 2014 from http://newstoweronline.blogspot.com/2010/10/tarok-people-of-langtang-in-plateau.html
Owolade F., (2014). Boko Haram: How a Militant Islamist Group Emerged in Nigeria. Received May 14, 2014 from http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4232/boko-haram-nigeria
Universal Reporters, 2013). Re: Open Letter to the Executive Governor of Plateau State Da Jonah David Jang, on the Criminal War of Terror of the Langtang Tarok on Wase. Received May 14, 2014 from http://universalreporters247.blogspot.com/2013/09/re-open-letter-to-executive-governor-of_1929.html
WordPress, (2014). The Facts on Nigerian Violence. Received May 14, 2014 from http://factsnigeriaviolence.org/spreadsheet/2013-2/
Conflict Resolution Valerie is caught in an approach -- avoidance conflict (Miller, 1944). She seeks to confront Thomas regarding the rumor that she has heard that Thomas is spending time with a female colleague, yet at the same time she is apprehensive regarding approaching him about the issue because if she does so and the rumors not true Thomas will be upset by her mistrust. Thus, she has motivation to approach
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Conflict Resolution in North Ireland and Cyprus Describe what Lederach means by the concept of moral imagination in the field of conflict resolution Moral imagination is dealing with real world challenges. During this process innovative ideas will establish new philosophies and movements. To achieve these objectives a number of criteria must be me: a web of relationships exist between different parties, the ability to sustain the interests of stakeholders, the desire to
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Conflict Resolution: Scenario Analysis The purpose of this research paper is to find theories and ways on how people deal with conflict on a smaller scale. Conflict arises from differences. It occurs whenever people disagree over their values, motivations, perceptions, ideas, or desires. A deep personal need is at the core of the problem, such as a need to feel safe and secure, a need to feel respected and valued, or a | <urn:uuid:dc562c41-5abe-46f0-a142-a16552da9ef9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.paperdue.com/essay/conflict-resolution-189204 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.948157 | 2,037 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The Louvre is the world’s largest art museum and a focal point of any trip to Paris. If you’re going to base your stay in the City of Lights in the charming Montmartre district, an excursion to the Louvre only takes a hassle-free 20 minutes.
The metro line 12 runs straight through Montmartre, stopping at Jules Joffrin, Lamarck – Caulincourt, Abbessess and Pigalle. Whevever you are in Montmartre you are only a 5 minute walk away from a line 12 metro station.
The line 2 runs across the southern part of Montmartre, stopping at Place de Clichy, Blanche, Pigalle and Anvers. Pigalle connects the line 2 with the line 12 and can be reached within less then two minutes from any of these Montmartre stations.
To use the line 12 to get to the Louvre, you will need to take the train south. Heading in the direction of Mairie D’Issy, take the line 12 to the station Concorde. The cost of the trip is one single metro ticket, 1.90€. The journey from Abbesses to Concorde is only 15 minutes and leaves you outside the beautiful Tuileries Garden.
The gardens, which sit between the Louvre and Place Concorde, are a few hundred metres from the entrance of the museum.
If you’d prefer to not walk through the park, you can change at Concorde for the line 1. Take the train two more stops and alight at Palais Royal Musée du Louvre. From here you can enter the museum directly.
If you’d rather avoid public transport, you could take always take a taxi or Uber. The distance between Montmartre and the Louvre is around 5km (3.1 miles) in a car. Depending on traffic, the typical journey time is around 20 minutes. The cost will fluctuate depending on traffic and demand (for Uber).
Walking from Montmartre to the Louvre is a very simple southern route. At just over 3km (1.8 miles), it’s around a 40 minute walk through one of the world’s most walkable cities. Alternatively, renting a bicycle for the day will cut that time in half!
If you’re staying with us in Montmartre, Abbesses station is less than 5 minutes from our hostel.
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I’ve been struggling over the past few weeks with a complete redesign of my PLN presentation. I am keeping the title (A Gardener’s Approach to Learning), since that’s what I called it for my ISTE proposal, some distant months ago — and for other more obvious reasons. I’ve delivered versions of the upgrade at other conferences recently, and, well, it’s not ready yet.
One element I would like to add is pruning your PLN or learning garden. The best I have done so far is to suggest some philosophical guide lines, but little of practical value. So I spent much of yesterday searching for tools that enable us to more scientifically analyze our learning networks, specifically our Twitter communities (or megalopolises). I was starting to get rather depressed at failing to find what I was looking for — and inspired. You see, when I’m looking for a technical solution to a problem, and I can’t find it, then I start wanting to build one. This is not good, because I am desperately trying to simplify my life here/now at the tail end of my career.
But building a new tool? Wow! What fun that would be.
Anyway, I found the right search expressions this morning (4:00AM). It’s amazing how much a good four and a half hours of sleep can do for the old noggin. Of course, this serge of cognitive magnificence will last for only about an hour and a half.
So here are a few of the interesting tools I found. To start with, let’s say that you’ve run across a blog entry that’s caught your interest and you are considering a click of his Follow Me link. You have to wonder if this educator actually limits his work thoughts to his blog, and reads and tweets for his favorite Twitterlebrities. To see, just paste his screen name into foller. You are rewarded with the blogger’s basic specs (number of friends, followers, status updates, etc.), a word cloud of most tweeted words, recent hashtags and mentions. You can also view a map indicating his geographic reach (see right).
Another tool for measuring the potential of a new deep thinker is Klout. Probably more of a vanity oriented tool, Klout does do a nice job of breaking down a person’s influence by topic.
Another tool with a potential to help us cultuvate our learning gardens is Twolo, which allows you to enter keywords of interest and receive a list of Tweople you might want to follow. There is a fee after four days, which is not surprising considering how important social media has become to the marketing industry. No worries. Twitter has recently incorporated the same service with Who To Follow.
Of course adding new members to your network is not pruning, is it? One of the most interesting tools that I happened upon was refollow. When you link in with your Twitter account, you get a wallpaper of the deep thinkers whom you follow. To cut back your network, you can sort the layout of avatars by their last tweet, tweet count, follow count, and friend count. It’s reasonable to assume (though not always appropriate) that the people who are most paid attention to, or are paying attention to other deep thinkers , are the most useful for your own learning. This is certainly not always true, but it is a measurable aspect of one’s networking. I found that I was following eight people who hadn’t chirped a single tweet and several who’d not tweeted for 8, 10, and 15 months. There’s more that you can do, but to actually act on your community (follow or unfollow) there is a fee — reasonable if I were engaged in marketing an important brand.
If gaining and keeping a following is important, then TweetEffect might be useful. Essentially, you enter your Twitter screen name and it scans your most recent tweets and aligns them with your follower activity. In other words, which tweets seem to have attracted people, and which made them turn tail and run. I learned that in my last 195 status updates, I lost followers seven times and found new one eleven times. It seems that my announcement that I was finally adding Oklahoma (48) to the state’s I’ve worked in, compelled eleven people to leave my friend list. Still trying to figure that one out. | <urn:uuid:969cb03d-e256-4644-b34f-b7044f98e80e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://2cents.onlearning.us/?p=3059 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.964824 | 927 | 1.710938 | 2 |
- Step 1: Fold two pieces of paper Fold two pieces of paper in half and set one aside for later use. With a pencil, make a light dot in the center of the folded edge.
- Step 2: Draw a line and cut Use the ruler to measure a 2-inch line from the dot toward the unfolded edge. Draw another dot to mark the end of the 2-inch line. Use the scissors to cut from dot to dot, starting at the folded edge.
- Step 3: Fold the two new flaps Fold the flaps on either side of the cut so that each one forms a triangle. Press firmly to create a deep crease. Unfold the flaps, and then unfold the entire piece of paper.
- Step 4: Turn the paper over Turn the construction paper over so the paper stands up like a tent. Put your finger on top of the tent and push the triangles down. Turn the paper over again. When you open and close it, the pop-up hole will look like a mouth.
- Step 5: Draw the character Draw the main character for your card around the hole, using it as a mouth. Use colored pencils and markers to bring the picture to life. Write a note to the person who'll be receiving the card.
- Step 6: Make a cover Open the second sheet of paper and set it down horizontally. Place a line of glue down the inside crease. Glue the pop-up page's outer crease to the plain page's inner crease. Wait for the glue to dry.
- Step 7: Design the cover Design the front of the card and share it with someone special!
- FACT: Pop-up books were used in the 13th century by a Catalan mystic and poet to prove his theories.
You Will Need
- Colored construction paper
- A pencil
- A ruler
- Safety scissors
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“Ask a Priest: Should We Forgive But Not Forget?”
Q: Can you be friends again with a friend or lover who really hurt you in the past? If that person called or sent me a message, wanting to apologize or to be friends again, should I forgive and forget and be friends again? Or should I just forgive and not be friends like we used to in the past? -N.N.
Answered by Fr. Edward McIlmail, LC
A: Forgiveness is a virtue Jesus asks us to practice. In the Our Father he bids us to pray, “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
Forgiveness is how we pass on that gift of mercy that God gives us so many times. If someone has sent you an apology, then that would indicate he knows he did something wrong and has repented. We do the same thing when we go to confession — and God is willing to forgive us.
You will find that forgiveness takes a load off your shoulders. To not forgive is to keep a weight on your heart.
It’s another question as to whether friendships can resume as before. If someone did you a grave harm, then it might be prudent to be discreet in your dealings with them. For instance, if someone squandered money, you might think twice about lending to them again, especially if you have a financial obligation to other people. Or if someone divulged a secret, you might decide to not share sensitive information with that person for a while, until he has regained your trust.
Still, as a Christian, you should find it in your heart to forgive. If it’s difficult, ask Our Lord for the grace of a forgiving heart. And don’t worry if the bad feelings linger. The heart sometimes lags behind the will. You can make an act of forgiveness, but the pain of the wound might take longer to heal. That is understandable.
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First, you don’t need to waste space by adding ‘CV’ or ‘Curriculum Vitae’ at the top – it really isn’t necessary. Although there is some flexibility in the design and structure of your CV, there is essential information that a potential employer will expect to see:
- Name, title (if any) and contact details: these details need to appear at the top of the CV and include your full name, your professional title (if you have one), your telephone and/or mobile number and your email address. At one time, CVs contained your address but today, only your location is needed.
- A personal profile: also known as a personal statement or professional profile, this short overview paragraph about you is one of the most important elements of a CV. It should summarise who you are, what you believe you can offer the company and your career goals. This paragraph should be tailored to each and every job you apply for and not ramble on. Some people like to add their LinkedIn profile, which is great, but only if it’s up-to-date.
- Employment and experience history: this section shows off your work experience, any internship or voluntary work and your previous jobs. It must be listed in reverse chronological order (so the most recent role is at the top of the list), and include the job title, the employer, when you started and finished work (if applicable) and a line or two summarising your role. Underneath this, list your skills, key responsibilities and any achievements using bullet points. This is another area where you can tailor your talents to the role you are applying for.
- Education/qualifications: as with your work experience, this section needs to be in reverse chronological order. List the name of the educational institution along with the dates you attended, the qualifications you achieved and the grades. You can also list the relevant modules of a degree, if desired.
Once this essential information is set out, you can add extra details such as key skills, interests and/or hobbies and references at the end of the CV.
What a CV shouldn’t include
Some details do not need to be, and should not be, added to a CV, including:
- Age and date of birth: these details are not required. Only the dates of your education and employment experience need to be on your CV. It’s also illegal for employers to ask about your age under the Equality Act 2010.
- Marital status: as with your age and date of birth, your marital status does not affect your ability to carry out the job and this information is also protected under the Equality Act 2010.
- A headshot: although it is included as standard in some countries, this isn’t the case in the UK. Some employers do ask for a head shot with an application, but you don’t have to supply it and you shouldn’t be discriminated against if you choose not to include it.
Structuring your CV
There is a generally accepted format to structuring your CV that will help gain a potential employer’s notice:
- Today, the length of CV is generally accepted as two pages, although for older professionals extending to three pages isn’t unusual.
- Headings should be bold and stand out and in a font that is clear and easy to read; avoid using script fonts.
- The body of the text should be either 10 or 12 point, and your headings no more than 16 point. Avoid using narrow margins – instead, stick to the standard 2.5cm.
- Make sure there are no errors! There’s nothing more off-putting for a potential employer than seeing spelling mistakes, grammatical inaccuracies and unstructured sentences. Proofread it thoroughly or, better still, ask someone to proofread it for you. Alternatively, use an online spellchecker, such as Grammarly.
A professional, clearly structured and easy-to-read CV with all the right information listed for the potential employer to find and consider will go a long way to securing that dream job.
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Success in life, particularly academically and socially occurs best when we feel safe and connected. Therefore a student’s safety and wellbeing are vitally important for us.
Go here to view our Child Safeguarding Policies.
Where can I go for help?
We encourage any student who feels unsafe to confide in a trusted adult or contact the College’s Child Protection Officers:
- Doug Doherty – Deputy Principal: Student Wellbeing & Operations
- Brett Van Berkel – Deputy Principal: Learning & Teaching
- Claire Fabris – Assistant Principal: Staff Wellbeing & Development
- Robyn Rebbechi – Assistant Principal: Catholic Identity & Mission
- Belinda Gathercole – Counsellor Kildare Campus
- Kristen Webber – Counsellor Kildare Campus
- Megan Marks – Counsellor St Paul’s Campus
- Rebbeca McMahon – Counsellor St Paul’s Campus
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Bullying is a known threat to wellbeing. The College has a number of anti-bullying initiatives which are consistent with current approaches to promote positive mental health and resilience in young people.
Any student who is being bullied or who has seen bullying should speak to a teacher. This could be the Homeroom Teacher or Learner Adviser, Year Level Learning Leader and Campus Welfare and Wellbeing Leaders. If, for whatever reason they feel uncomfortable about this, they can email any of the child protection officers to alert us to any behaviours at school or online that they believe has a negative effect on themselves or another student.
The Catholic Education Commission of Victoria Ltd (CECV) is committed to ensuring the ongoing safety of children and young people and supporting Catholic school principals, staff and parents in providing a safe and nurturing school environment. As part of this commitment, the CECV is pleased to advise of the launch of the updated anti-bullying website Bullying No Way! , managed by the Australian Government in partnership with the state, Catholic and Independent education sectors.
Being safe online
At Lavalla Catholic College we promote the ideals of responsible digital citizenship. This incorporates exploring how to present a positive digital footprint as well as how to protect yourself online.
The internet has a wealth of resources for students and parents to access information to support these ideals.
Information for parents, guardians and others in the Lavalla Catholic College community
Our staff has a thorough knowledge of our Child Protection Policies which are integral to ensuring that the young people in our care always feel safe.
We always encourage children who are struggling emotionally to discuss their concerns with parents or guardians or other primary carers. In addition, we encourage parents and carers to help their children become familiar with available resources if they need someone different to speak to.
As the people who know their children best, we rely on parents’ and guardians’ knowledge to help support our work with them and welcome contact from them at significant times of concern, but also when things simply don’t feel right. The first point of call will usually be pastoral care teachers, but if the matter is particularly serious or sensitive, contact should be made with the Campus Welfare and Wellbeing Leaders who will access other resources for support as necessary. | <urn:uuid:3f48296d-1791-4cfa-b443-3e009440021d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lavalla.vic.edu.au/a-child-safe-school/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.938653 | 667 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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When transporting bulk commodities by rail, you need a safe, efficient way to load and unload rail cars. Hopper cars and tank cars both present serious rail safety challenges.
With the wide variation in rail car types and hatch configurations, your loading and unloading equipment must be designed to accommodate your facility and processes.
A comprehensive rail safety solution that’s tailored to your needs is the best way to meet these safety and efficiency challenges.
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Since each rail loading facility has different needs and potential hazards, it’s essential to work closely with a trusted vendor. At Carbis Solutions, we create comprehensive rail safety solutions, drawing upon more than 40 years of experience in fall prevention designs applicable to rolling stock.
Hopper cars are used to transport dry bulk commodities, such as flour, sand, plastic pellets, sugar and grains. The hatches on top come in a variety of configurations, making it difficult to protect operators and creating spotting challenges. In addition, chutes and other loading equipment may create obstacles for safe access.
A tank car is designed to haul products in a liquid state. The variation in crashbox/operator platform railing configurations creates access and safety problems, as do offset crashboxes/operator platforms.
Additional Rail Safety Factors
In designing your rail safety solution, we also assess:
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- The properties of your product and any safety hazards it may present
- Your specific access needs during loading and unloading
- How curved tracks may affect centerlines for the rail car
- Your internal safety standards as well as applicable industry standards and best practices
- How your site layout impacts the safety equipment you use
- Power limitations for electric, pneumatic and hydraulic equipment
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Taking cognisance of the rising pollution levels in the national capital and its surrounding regions, emergency measures to check pollution came into force from Thursday in Delhi-NCR. Under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), state pollution control bodies have been directed to initiate criminal prosecution against violators, while the Delhi government said it was fully prepared to implement the odd-even scheme to regulate private vehicles when needed even as it urges the people to use the public transport for the next 10 days when the air quality is likely to deteriorate further.
According to the Air Quality Index (AQI) data, major pollutant PM 10 was detected at 283 (poor category) and PM 2.5 was detected at 214 (poor category) in the Lodhi Road area on Thursday morning. A day after the air quality slipped into 'severe' category, there was a marginal dip in pollution level due to increased wind speed but the air quality still remained 'very poor' on Wednesday.
Delhi: Early morning visuals from the area near Rajpath. pic.twitter.com/uqQmjmEKvc— ANI (@ANI) November 1, 2018
Air Quality Index (AQI) categories:
AQI of 0-50 is considered good
AQI of 51-100 is satisfactory
AQI of 101-200 is considered moderate
AQI of 201-300 is graded poor
AQI of 301-400 is very poor
AQI of 401 and 500 is severe
The Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), which has restricted several activities like construction from November 1.
Noting that private vehicles contribute to 40 per cent pollution in Delhi-NCR, the EPCA urged people to reduce use of private vehicles and completely stop plying diesel vehicles during this period. There are a total of 35 lakh private vehicles in the Delhi NCR region. The Supreme Court had also banned the plying of petrol vehicles as old as 10 years and diesel as old as 15 years to contain vehicular pollution. Last week, the apex court had also ruled that people in Delhi-NCr can burst "green" firecrackers only from 8 pm to 10 pm only on Diwali.
An EPCA member had on Tuesday said in case of further deterioration of air quality, they are even contemplating regulating the use of private vehicles from November 1. On its part, the Delhi government on Wednesday said it is "fully prepared" to implement the emergency plan.
GRAP, which was notified last year, will be implemented between October 15 and March 15. The measures are suggested to reduce — PM 2.5 and PM 10 — the major pollutants in Delhi NCR, which can have an adverse effect on public health. Currently, the AQI in Delhi-NCR is in the “unhealthy” to “poor category”, however, according to authorities, pollution levels may increase in the coming days.
What is GRAP?
Graded Response Action Plan or GRAP are actions that are taken once the pollution level reaches a certain specified limit. Under GRAP, a pollution emergency is declared when PM10 breaches 500 ug/m3.
Who determines the pollution level?
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had deployed 41 teams across Delhi-NCR to monitor the proper implementation of norms enforced to curb pollution at the source. Till October 11, 96 inspections were conducted by the teams across Delhi-NCR and the inspections would intensify in the coming days. The inspections were started by the two-member team on September 15, a CPCB official said.
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Nature does a great job in maintaining the correct conditions in order to hatch an egg. But in the artificial environment of a commercial egg hatchery it becomes the job of the hatchery manager to ensure all conditions are as perfect as they can be in order to ensure maximum yield of quality chicks from each batch of eggs.
Not only are temperature and air flow critical but humidity also plays a crucial part in whole process.
Chick hatchery humidity levels
Pre-incubation storage: up to seven days 70-80%RH to reduce the risk of dehydration
Pre-incubation storage: over seven days 80-88%RH to reduce the risk of dehydration
Early Incubation: 50-60%RH to prevent excessive moisture loss resulting in dehydrated albumen and damaged embryo
Growth: 50-60%RH to allow the air space to develop to the correct size allowing chick’s lungs to develop correctly after internal pipping
Development: 50-60%RH to prevent wet navel and red hocks
Hatching: 50-60%RH to prevent shell sticking to down
Chick Pen and Broiler House first three days after hatching: 70%RH to prevent chicks dehydrating in the first few days after hatching
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Pool and server backup is an ongoing process, based on the backup and restoration requirements established for your organization. This process requires understanding and fulfilling backup prerequisites, setting up locations for the storage of backed up data and settings, installing the required tools, and then actually backing up the data and settings. This can include setting up complete separate sites where servers are standing by to be brought online, in the event of the failure of a complete site.
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Report On Project Management. Probably the broadest project management report, the project status report is designed to give stakeholders a quick summary of how your project is going. Weekly meeting will be called between the project manager and project team so that difficulties which might be affect the project will be removed.
Regular project management reports help to ensure your project stays on track. Assign to the pmcig the task of creating standard templates for use in systemwide projects. If adjustments have to be made if the project is behind its schedule.
As Soon As A New Report Is Added, Participants With “ View ” Rights Can View It In Real Time.
Probably the broadest project management report, the project status report is designed to give stakeholders a quick summary of how your project is going. Now that you know why project managers create regular reports, here are some of the most common ones. The difference between a risk register and a risk report is the register is an ongoing document used throughout the project to make informed risk management decisions whereas the risk.
It'll Help You Skip The Labor Of Creating A Status Report Every Time From Scratch.
Scalable to the size, sensitivity, scope, and complexity of the project, while also using common means to execute, track, and report project status. Quality improvement approach to improve the quality of the project’s processes many steps will be used like: They also help project team members track and address issues, including what is causing them and how to resolve them.
At A High Level, It Is A Quick Reference Of Key Milestones And Transitions Between Phases In The Timeline.
Nearly 1 in 5 project managers have considered leaving the profession. Using this report, you can assign and delegate tasks to the right team member. If adjustments have to be made if the project is behind its schedule.
Here Are A Few Project Reports You Might Find Useful:
Conducting its work by clarifying project management practices for those projects where no specific mandates apply. Simple templates could be created, such as: These shouldn’t be reactive reports on things going poorly—rather, effective reports keep your team updated on the project’s progress, whether the project is on track, at risk, or off track.
Project Reporting Involves More Than Simply Communicating The Latest Project Updates To Your Team And Stakeholders.
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In this course, we review cardiac anatomy relevant to the ECG diagnosis of cardiac chamber enlargement. We teach you how to apply ECG criteria which allow identification of the presence of right and left ventricular hypertrophy or dilatation. We teach you the ECG criteria employed to detect right and left atrial hypertrophy or dilatation. We explain the term ‘atrial abnormality’ in the context of these criteria. We discuss the limitations of ECG criteria in detecting cardiac chamber enlargement. We explain the origin of ST segment and T wave abnormalities in the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy. We illustrate important ECG findings observed in left ventricular hypertrophy which can mimic STEMI.
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Well, Arik has entered a contest with Lego Mindstorm, where he had to make a robot of the future. We had a lot of fun doing it! He has mounted his picture and essay, and they are inside a cool-looking folder from Wal-mart. They’re going into the mailbox! This really made a good school project. I know he learned a lot.
Here are pictures so you can see. The text of his essay is below, in case it’s hard to read:
Robo Rescue is a robot prototype that enters buildings, locates people, and evacuates them. It enters and moves around buildings with claw fire extinguishers, four magnetic treads, each with independent steering, state-of-the-art programming, and a size of only 1.5 feet high, 3 feet long, and 1.5 feet wide, making it very maneuverable. It locates people with ten types of scanners. It evacuates people with a radar beacon and can carry them out because it can lift twenty tons. Considering the technology, I think it could be made by the year 2040.
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Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is the Azure solution for identity and access management. Azure AD is a multitenant, cloud-based directory and identity management service from Microsoft. It combines core directory services, application access management, and identity protection into a single solution Identity management is a foundational security component to help ensure users have the access they need, and that systems, data, and applications are inaccessible to unauthorized users. Identity and access management organizational policies define: How users are identified and the roles they are then assigne Identity and access management (IAM) in enterprise IT is about defining and managing the roles and access privileges of individual network users and the circumstances in which users are granted. . IAM ensures that users are who they say they are (authentication) and that they can access the applications and resources they have permission to use (authorization)
. User roles and access privileges are defined and managed through an IAM system. ISE Overview (2:02 The difference between identity management and access management is thus: Identity Management is about managing the attributes related to the user Access Management is about evaluating the attributes based on policies and making Yes/No decision
An acronym for Identity and Access Management, IAM in enterprise IT defines and manages the roles and access privileges of individual network users and the circumstances in which users are granted or denied those privileges. IAM is used to control user access to critical information within an organization Identity and access management, or IAM, is the security discipline that makes it possible for the right entities (people or things) to use the right resources (applications or data) when they need to, without interference, using the devices they want to use
Identity management is the process of authenticating and authorizing security principals. It also involves controlling information about those principals (identities). Security principals (identities) may include services, applications, users, groups, etc. Microsoft identity and access management. Domain 12: Guidance for Identity & Access Management V2.1 identity management in the cloud should understand the various challenges and possible solutions to address those challenges with respect to identity lifecycle management, available authentication methods to protect confidentiality, and integrity, while supporting non-repudiation The Best Identity Management Solutions. Managing identity across an ever-widening array of software services and other network boundaries has become one of the most challenging aspects of the IT. 2 Identity and Access Management (IAM) Portal User Manual Disclaimer This document aims to assist users in complying with their obligations under the REACH Regulation. However, users are reminded that the text of the REACH Regulation is the only authentic legal reference and that the information in this document does not constitute legal advice Access management verifies the user, provides access rights, monitors the identity status, removes or restricts access, and logs and tracks access. The success of this sub-process depends maintaining an accurate user profile and access repository. Access management and other ITIL processes. Access management interfaces with many other stages.
IDENTITY MANAGEMENT: MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS • If users are trustworthy, you don't need IAM - Not true. Security breaches are meant to stole confidential data from the system, not directly users. Identity and access management solutions provide 360-degree monitoring of disparate end-points and ensure privacy of the organization. 10 Abstract. Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), a subgenre of IAM, enables organizations to scale and ensure secure, seamless digital experiences for their customers, while collecting and managing customer identity data purposefully Strong CIAM (aka customer identity) solutions usually provide a combination of features including customer registration, self-service account management, consent and preference management, single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), access management, directory services and data access governance.The best CIAM solutions ensure a secure, seamless customer experience at extreme.
An identity and access management solution. In today's IT-driven business climate, users need quick and easy access to data and other IT resources to get their work done. Access to these resources needs to be protected and tracked to ensure security and compliance with IT regulations Another important one of the identity and access management trends is the role of cloud user access management software. Digital identity is very important when using cloud-based services. For example, the largest cloud services provider in the world is Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The identity and access management solutions reviewed here guard the proverbial gates of critical organization resources, checking the IDs of everyone that attempts to enter, ensuring identities. Chapter 4. Identity and Access Management. Identity and access management (IAM) is perhaps the most important set of security controls. In breaches involving web applications, lost or stolen credentials have been attackers' most-used tool for several years running. 1 If an attacker has valid credentials to log into your system, all of the patches and firewalls in the world won't keep them out Customer (or consumer) identity and access management (CIAM) is a subset of the larger concept of identity access management (IAM) and is focused specifically on managing the identities of customers who need access to corporate websites, web portals and webshops. Instead of managing user accounts in every instance of a software application of a company, the identity is managed in a CIAM. Access control systems must be able to integrate with a wide variety of existing and future information systems, allowing users access to the information they need, wherever it is stored. Adding to the complexity of the modern identity and access management challenge, business data now exists far beyond the traditional network perimeter . Required notices for open source or other separately licensed software products or components distributed in Oracle Identity and Access Management are identified in the following table, along with the applicable licensing information
Auditing Identity & Access Management: Addressing the Root Causes HCCA - Compliance Institute April 18, 2018 Johan Lidros CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, HITRUST CCSFP, ITIL-F President Eminere Group Table of Contents Streamlined management of user identities and access right , including users and roles, which you create in order to provide AWS identities (authentication) for people and processes in your AWS account
Without a seamless way to access these applications, users struggle with password management while IT is faced with rising support costs from frustrated users. Solution A holistic IAM solution can help administrators consolidate, control, and simplify access privileges, whether the critical applications are hosted in traditional data centers, private clouds, public clouds, or a hybrid. AWS account root user - When you first create an AWS account, you begin with a single sign-in identity that has complete access to all AWS services and resources in the account. This identity is called the AWS account root user and is accessed by signing in with the email address and password that you used to create the account Identity and access management creates and manages user accounts, roles and access rights for individual users, systems and devices. The best IAM solutions manage both employee identities within an organization and across an extended business ecosystem of customers and partners
. AWS account root user is a single sign-in identity that has complete access to all AWS services and resources in the account. Feature Identity and Access Management (IAM) involves tracking the behavior and actions of each individual and asset in the IT environment, specifically your system administrators and mission-critical assets. This is specifically challenging due to the always-on nature and broad connectivity characteristics of our interconnected systems
Identity and Access Management Policy Page 4 responsibilities, as well as modification, removal or inactivation of accounts when access is no longer required. It is the manager's responsibility to ensure that all users with access to sensitive data attend proper training as well as read and acknowledge the University Confidentiality Agreement In this video, we'll discuss Identity and Access Management (IAM), modern claims-based authentication and some common vocabulary and concepts that come with. Identity & Access Management Organisations are adopting more and more varied ways of interacting with employees, customers, and partners via the Web, social media, and mobile device technologies. As a result, many have experienced a significant spike in access points and digital user identities Deliver Effective Identity & Access Management in the New Normal. Invest in Your Professional Development & Training Identity and access management (IAM) refers to the policies and tools used by IT departments to ensure that people and entities have the appropriate level of access to the organization's technical resources. IAM systems are technology solutions to securely manage digital identities and their access to various applications and systems
Identity management functions such as user provisioning can ensure that the appropriate permissions are assigned to the appropriate IT consumers, based on information security policies Our adaptive identity-centric expertise gives organizations an integrated platform for Identity, Access, and Privilege Management that drives the Modern IT ecosystem. Our solutions fuel your business innovation that will provide the competitive advantage your organization needs to thrive Identity, and identity and access management platforms, are poised to not only dominate cybersecurity but to completely subsume it. Identity concerns have become top-of-mind for IT security professionals and CISOs the world over. Not only do they need to ensure that the users logging in are who they say they are, they must also ensure that employees' entitlements are limited by their duties. Common identity management standards handle user requests for access to data or applications and deliver responses based on the information a user provides. If the format of the information, such as a password or biometric identifier, is correct, the protocol allows the level of access assigned to the user within the system If we hire the new employee, then Identity Management System gives the username, password and assigns the role; for example - Sign-in to new Google account; where our role is a user and not an administrator, so we access all the user type apps. This concept is known as Provisioning
Enterprise identity made easy. Leverage Cloud Identity, Google Cloud's built-in managed identity to easily create or sync user accounts across applications and projects.It's easy to provision and manage users and groups, set up single sign-on, and configure two-factor authentication (2FA) directly from the Google Admin Console Identity and Access Management is an essential part of overall IT security that manages digital identities and user access to data, systems, and resources within an organization. IAM security includes the policies, programs, and technologies that reduce identity-related access risks within a business. Image. As a critical security function, IAM. One of the most important benefits of an Identity Access Management technology is the ability to track your user's behavior throughout the system. Seeing where your users are in the system gives you more insight into what applications and data they are accessing, but more importantly, it can alert you to any sudden changes in the behavior
Users must: Create passwords that conform to The process of requesting a centrally managed account is defined by Information Services & Technology's Identity and Access Management Service and adhere to the following guidelines: Limit the use of generic or shared accounts Identity Management allows you to define policies that govern access from a central location and provides a single-pane view into all those accounts and managed identities. With Identity Management, granting access enables a delightful user experience, and revoking access when it is no longer needed helps you uphold a high level of security Do Better Business with ForgeRock CIAM. ForgeRock helps organizations do business better by significantly improving and scaling customer identity and access management (CIAM) with the industry's only full-suite, AI-driven platform purpose-built for all use cases and identities, including things.With ForgeRock's acclaimed CIAM solution, you can utilize the latest digital identity technologies. In the beginning, there was Identity and Access Management. Developers have always recognized the need for user access management since the initial development of digital networks. Prior to the public internet, networks of computers were connected solely on a proprietary basis and largely between universities Identity management (IdM), also known as identity and access management (IAM or IdAM), is a framework of policies and technologies for ensuring that the proper people in an enterprise have the appropriate access to technology resources. IdM systems fall under the overarching umbrellas of IT security and data management
Purpose. This document provides example requirements for Identity and Access Management (IAM) integration that should be considered when planning the purchase of an application or developing materials involved in a competitive solicitation such as a Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Statement of Work (SOW), etc User account and access management is a foundational concept that is critical to an organization's overall information security health. This course teaches you the different concepts and technologies associated with identity and access management Effective identity and access management (IAM) is becoming a key element in mitigating business risks and safeguarding the continuity of companies. PwC provides best-in-class solutions for all the IAM-related challenges of your online business, such as: secure transactions, personalised engagement, seamless customer experiences, trusted access, smart authentication and cost efficient access.
Users of IAM include customers (customer identity management) and employees (employee identity management). With IAM technologies, IT managers can ensure that users are who they say they are (authentication) and that users access the applications and resources they have permission to use (authorization) The services provided by HUIT's Identity & Access Management practice are designed to meet the needs of the entire Harvard Community. The team strives to deliver service offerings that align with best practices (technologies and methods) that improve convenience and ease of access for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and affiliates while protecting University resources as required Identity and Access Management (IAM) can be considered a discipline which ensures all the right users get the authorized access to the critical systems and assets of the organization. It offers properly authenticated, authorized, and audited access privileges Cloud identity and access management (IAM) controls who can take actions on specific resources. When enterprises have thousands of resources spread across hundreds of accounts, lack of visibility into users' entitlements poses a massive risk
Auth0 is the first identity management platform for developers and application teams. It gives you a platform to authenticate and authorize, providing secure access to applications, devices, and users. Auth0 provides the simplicity, extensibility, and expertise to scale and protect any application, for any audience Federated identity management lets users access the systems and applications of multiple organizations using one credential, as the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Developing Trust Frameworks to Support Identity Federations document notes Currently administer identity and security access globally for all users across entire enterprise. Prior roles included Service Desk supervision, relationship management and user training. Self - Motivated ‚ Detail oriented ‚ Quick learner ‚ Analytical ‚ Change Management
Identity Manager 4.8. Identity Manager is a comprehensive identity management suite. It provides an intelligent identity framework that leverages your existing IT assets and new computing models like Software as a Service (SaaS) by reducing cost and ensuring compliance across physical, virtual, and cloud environments Configure Identity and Access Management(IAM) in Citrix Cloud with Microsoft Azure AD. In this article, we will review what is Citrix Cloud Identity And Access Management and how to configure it with Microsoft Azure AD in order for your users and administrators to logon to Citrix Cloud with your corporate credentials managed via Azure AD Identity and Access Management defines the identity providers and accounts used for Citrix Cloud administrators and workspace subscribers. Identity providers. By default, Citrix Cloud uses the Citrix identity provider to manage the identity information for all users in your Citrix Cloud account Using SecureAuth's access management solution, we were able to provide a unified multi-factor authentication across all our applications and use cases while delivering a secure and seamless user experience for our 25,000 global users IdentityVigil: A ready to use, integrated, secure, end-to-end Identity and Access Governance (IAG) solution that includes Identity Management, Access Management, Entitlement Management, Federation and SSO.It is built on leading Access Governance and IAM products using industry standard & best practices with configurable modules. Identity Assure is available as a virtual appliance that can be.
In part one of this post, we talked about why identity access management (IAM) is important. In that discussion, we identified three types of IAM: Single Sign On; Multi-Factor Authentication; Privileged Access Management; We discussed the different types of single sign on and some examples of what can be used to help streamline the user experience Unique user identification for highest security and excellent user comfort. With cidaas, you can amaze your customers, partners and employees with excellent authentication and authorization convenience. cidaas stands for Cloud Identity and Access Management.With comprehensive functions, you offer your users an exceptional user experience, personalized interactions and secure access to your. As a result, Identity & Access Management (IAM) has become a major priority for the modern enterprise. Once viewed as an operational back-office issue, IAM is now gaining board-level visibility following numerous high-level breaches that have occurred due to the failure of organisations to effectively manage and control user access As users, products and permissions grow, traditional systems no longer deliver real-time query performance, resulting in extremely long wait times for your users. Dynamic structure. With the rapid growth in the size of assets and their associated metadata, your application needs to accommodate both current and future identity management. | <urn:uuid:8be5f61c-b8af-4b09-b4a4-838f8a96df0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://koud-schoonheid.com/library/view/practical-cloud-security/9781492037507/ch04hwkbv49366lw.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.908649 | 3,727 | 2.34375 | 2 |
First Global Assessment of Air Pollution Legislation
There are few upsides to a global pandemic, but maintaining some of the benefits of improved air quality on respiratory health during lockdown might be one of them.
2 September 2021
Prof Eloise Scotford (UCL) and Prof Delphine Misonne (USL-Bruxelles) have co-authored the 2021 UNEP report on ‘Regulating Air Quality: The First Global Assessment of Air Pollution Legislation’. The report outlines findings of the first study of air quality legislation in 194 countries and the European Union. Using the 2005 Air Quality Guidelines developed by the Word Health Organization as a starting point, the report examines the legal measures for determining whether air quality standards are being met and what legal obligations and processes exist for failure to meet them.
The report emphasizes that robust air quality governance is critical to attaining air quality standards and public health goals. This includes legislation for air quality control which integrates accountability, enforceability, transparency, and public participation. The report provides recommendations to assist countries in strengthening air quality governance and serves as a resource for countries wishing to effectively address air pollution and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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What An Economic Recession Means to the ER&D Industry
The Fed Signals the US Economy Is In Danger
The US Federal Reserve yesterday lowered “the target range for the federal funds” by 50 bps to 1%-1.25%. Although the “fundamentals of the US economy remain strong,” “the coronavirus poses evolving risks to economic activity,” communicated the Fed.
Stock Markets reacted negatively: both NASDAQ Composite and Dow Jones Industrial Average were down 3% on the fear Covid-19 is here to stay and will damage the US economy.
The Covid-19 pandemic comes at a fragile time. Despite the recent crash, the US Stock Markets still are high: the NASDAQ is up by 280% in the past ten years, while the Dow Jones is up by 150%.
The Rest of the Western World Will Follow
Whatever happens in the US, e.g., a continued slide in Stock Markets, an economic recession, will spread to Europe and Japan. Japan has been suffering from low GDP growth. The future of the UK looks uncertain in the mid-term with Brexit. The EU is a mixed bag, with Germany being cyclical and France resilient but low-growth.
Price Pressure. More Offshoring. M&As on Pause Initially
We anticipate the following impact:
- Clients will reduce their number of suppliers, and award larger contracts to reduce prices
- They will also consider offshoring their engineering activities. The first offshoring contracts will require one to two years to materialize
- ER&D vendors will adjust by restructuring their workforce and accelerate the shift to digital and offshore. Their EBIT margins will be impacted by restructuring
- Several ER&D vendors will be financially affected by the supplier reduction and will need to sell their assets
- M&A activity will, in the short-term, be on pause, as buyers will require more visibility before making an acquisition
- Sellers will take time before adjusting the valuation multiples to the new market conditions. This adjustment will take one to two years
- With interest rates closer and closer to zero, ER&D vendors will renegotiate their financial debt and lower their interest expenses
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When you click a "like" button on Facebook, you could be telling the world whether you're gay or straight, liberal or conservative, intelligent or not so much — even if you don't intend to. That's what researchers found when they ran tens of thousands of Facebook profiles and questionnaires through a computer algorithm to find the obvious as well as not-so-obvious connections.
"The main message of the paper is that whether they like it or not, people do communicate their individual traits in their online behavior," said lead author Michal Kosinski, operations director at the University of Cambridge's Psychometrics Center.
Some of the correlations are obvious: For example, If you're a fan of the "I'm Proud to Be a Christian" Facebook page, it's a pretty safe bet that you're a Christian. But others are hard to explain: Why is it that liking the "Curly Fries" page is associated with having a high IQ? Why does the computer model put "Sometimes I Just Lay in Bed and Think About Life" in the category for homosexual females, while "Thinking of Something and Laughing Alone" is linked to heterosexual females?
"These little patterns are really not perceptible to humans," Kosinski said. Sometimes, it takes a computer.
Kosinski and his colleagues conducted their experiment over the course of several years, through their MyPersonality website and Facebook app. More than 8 million people took the MyPersonality survey, which asked participants about their personal details and also had them answer questions about personality traits. About half of the test-takers gave their OK for the researchers to match up their survey results with Facebook likes, on an anonymous basis. More than 58,000 of the volunteered profiles from U.S. respondents were selected for matching.
The results were analyzed to produce correlations in more than a dozen categories, including five widely accepted personality attributes (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and emotional stability). Those are the attributes analyzed on the "You Are What You Like" website. The other categories included IQ, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, gender, race, relationship status, alcohol and drug use, tobacco use, life satisfaction, number of friends — and even whether a Facebook user's parents had separated by the time the user was 21.
This PDF file shows you which Facebook pages are the best fit for each of the categories.
The researchers' computer model did the best at predicting black-vs.-white and male-vs.-female (95 and 93 percent accuracy, respectively). It could distinguish correctly between Republicans and Democrats 85 percent of the time, and between Christians and Muslims 82 percent of the time.
The accuracy rates for predicting sexual orientation were 88 percent for males and 75 percent for females. But don't think reaching that result was as easy as seeing who clicked the "like" button for "Gay Marriage." Less than 5 percent of the gay users were fans of such obvious pages, Kosinski and his colleagues said. The predictions were based instead on inferences from likes for less obvious pages. For example, the computer model associated the fan pages for Kathy Griffin and "Wicked, The Musical" with homosexual males, while heterosexual males were associated with the pages for Bruce Lee and WWE wrestling.
OK, maybe the pages weren't all that much less obvious.
The model wasn't as accurate (60 percent) when it came to predicting whether a user's parents stayed together or separated before the user turned 21. But even that level of predictive power could be "worthwhile for advertisers," the researchers said. "For instance, digital systems and devices (such as online stores or cars) could be designed to adjust their behavior to best fit each user's preferred profile," they wrote.
"I know the paper might sound like we're criticizing Facebook, but not at all," Kosinski told NBC News. "I'm a fan of Facebook."
Kosinski pointed out that an analysis of your credit card purchases, online music preferences, video rentals and Web browsing habits could come up with personal profiles at least as detailed as the ones that he and his colleagues produced. It just so happens that the Facebook likes were accessible enough to yield a vivid illustration of how such analyses work.
"It's possible this will lead some people to say, 'Maybe I shouldn't be using Facebook, or I shouldn't be using Google.' And that could be bad," he said. That kind of technophobia could hamper technological and economic progress, he said. Instead, the research should lead people to think twice about what they share online.
"We hope this information will help users start a discussion with organizations like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or even policymakers about the rules of the game online," Kosinski said.
Update for 3:55 p.m. ET March 11: Kosinski's two co-authors, David Stillwell of Cambridge and Thore Graepel of Microsoft Research, passed along their comments in a news release from Cambridge.
"Consumers rightly expect strong privacy protection to be built into the products and services they use, and this research may well serve as a reminder for consumers to take a careful approach to sharing information online, utilizing privacy controls and never sharing content with unfamiliar parties," Graepel said.
"I have used Facebook since 2005, and I will continue to do so," Stillwell said. "But I might be more careful to use the privacy settings that Facebook provides."
More about Facebook research:
- Facebook posts are more memorable than faces
- Facebook's roots go way, way back
- Scientists map 'Facebook for birds'
The PNAS paper, titled "Private Traits and Attributes Are Predictable From Digital Records of Human Behavior," includes a conflict-of-interest statement: Stillwell received revenue as owner of the MyPersonality Facebook app. Kosinski received funding from the Boeing Co. and Microsoft Research.
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Unassisted conception – that is, via intercourse – relies on specific timing and processes within a woman’s body. Women release an egg roughly once during their menstrual cycle – usually 14 days before their period. Because sperm can survive up to five days inside a woman, you should time your sex accordingly.
Most women who are actively trying to conceive will fall pregnant within one year of trying. However, a range of factors can complicate this and some women may need to take more time or explore options for assisted conception. Some of these include in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), ovulation induction, surrogacy, surgery and sperm donation from a non-partner donor.
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Conception is associated with fertility, which is understood as the likelihood of conceiving. Age is a contributing factor to fertility, with fertility declining in women from 32 years of age and dropping to half by 40.
You may be able to increase your chances of conception if you and you partner engage in good lifestyle and behavioural choices, such as healthy eating, maintaining a healthy body weight, and undertaking exercise.
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Many new system administrators have been thrown into managing a Unix or Linux system without getting the opportunity to learn the fundamentals that all administrators need. Whether a seasoned Windows administrator or a novice Unix admin, youâll learn many essential concepts that will enable you to become a better, more knowledgeable and experienced system admin. Veteran VTC author Bobby Rogers will show you the basics, from getting around within the command shell, to more advanced sys admin essentials such as creating user accounts, securing your system and network, managing hardware and software, and much more. This course is a MUST for an up-and-coming Unix administrator. To being learning today, simply click on the movie links.
Welcome to the Virtual Training course Unix System Administration Essentials. Hello I'm Bobby Rogers and I'm going to be your guide throughout this course. What we're going to give you is a fundamental understanding of Unix System Administration. Now, our focus during this course is going to be primarily hands-on demonstrations. We're probably going to try to avoid the fluff you see in other courses. In other words, we're not going to talk much about the history of Unix, how to install it, the background of different Unix commands and so forth. We're not really going to cover that much. What we want to focus on again is hand-on with particular tools, utilities, tasks, functions and so forth. How to do things in Unix. Essentials means basically for our purposes no highly-complex material. We're not going to cover scripting and we're not going to get into advanced security configurations, for example. This is the you got to know this stuff to be a Unix admin type of essentials course. Our target audience for this course is a new administrator or an administrator who may have some experience in other operating systems such as Windows or Linux or so forth. These administrators may need a solid background in the fundamentals of Unix administration in particular and so with that we're going to cover a wide variety of Unix commands, utilities, functions and so forth related to Unix-specific system administration. Now, most of what we're going to cover are Command Line utilities. We will be spending a lot of time at the Command Line although, where appropriate, we will cover some GUI utilities where necessary, where it makes sense to do so. Now, there's a big family of Unix-like operating systems such as Unix, Linux, Solaris, iRex and so forth but what we want to cover is the core of all of those things; Unix system administration. Because if you understand Unix system administration, then you probably can understand Linux, Solaris, iRex and so forth since they're all very similar and all, when you get down to it, really based upon Unix. So we're probably going to cover more Unix system administration than anything, although where appropriate we will cover some Linux and Solaris as well so that you can see when there are some significant differences how to do things. Since we're trying to stick primarily to Unix system administration, we're going to use the closest operating system today that's out there that's closest to pure System 5 Unix and that's the Berkeley Software Distribution or, as it's sometimes called BSD. Specifically we'll be using the free BSD distribution, although there are others you can use. You can use OpenBSD and NetBSD for example. But we're going to be using Free BSD. It's freely downloadable from the Internet. It's easy to install and it gives you a really good, solid background on pure Unix system administration. One good thing about Unix and Linux and Solaris and the other Nix family of operating systems means that there is more than one way to perform tasks to likely we're going to cover ways of doing things that you've done before if you've administered another Linux or Solaris system. However, we may cover things that you may not have seen before and that's OK. That's one of the beautiful things about Unix and Linux in general is that there are more one way to do things. So you'll learn some new ways about how to do things you may have been doing in the past and you'll serve to reinforce knowledge that you already have as well. So having said that, sit back and enjoy the course. Next we're going to cover a brief overview of the different topics we're going to talk about during this course.
- Course: Unix System Administration Essentials
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The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone,
When Durin woke and walked alone.
The Song of Durin, JRR Tolkien
In Innovation, the final installment of Peter Ackroyd’s entertaining and informative History of England, he writes:
“The post-war years had brought fables of splrltual or material collapse, from That Hideous Strength to Brave New World to Ninteen Eighty-Four. During the Fifties, the novel seemed to be settling back to its journalistic roots – quotidian in subject, unpretentious in style – but the zeitgeist is a wayward wind. Among writers of fiction, another response was offered to the bewilderments of the post-war world, which was to fly above it. In 1955, Return of the King, the last installment of R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, was published. It was the resurrection of heroic romance, tempered by its author’s memories of war. It tells of a small, unregarded race of Middle-earth, the ‘hobbits’,who ‘arise to shake the counsels of great’. The freedom of the world hinges upon the destruction of something tiny, beautiful and evil, evil, a ring forged by a fallen angel. While elves, men and dwarves fight, two hobbits are tasked with the destruction of the great destroyer. A whole world, formed of its author’s experiments in language came into being to the extent that if anyone were to point out that Middle-earth’ is only a translation of the Norse ‘Mittlegard’, the hearer would respond with a shrug. It was there, whatever its origins. For the English journalist Bernard Levin, it offered a beautiful and salutary reminder that the ‘meek will inherit the earth’; for the American critic Edward Wilson, it was “juvenile trash”, a story of good boys being rewarded. In spite of the naysayers, the popularity and influence of The Lord of the Rings grew to unprecedented heights. Tolkien himself, a scholar and devout Catholic, was later to find his work taken up as a banner by most unlikely allies, a group that came to be known as ‘hippies’”.
Whenever a survey or poll crowns JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings as the public’s favourite novel – and there have been many during the past seventy years – and lauds the author as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, the reaction has always been the same from critics who have been sneering at his books since their publication. The Lord of the Rings has been dismissed as trivial, juvenile even, and not worth arguing about. It has been called archaic, backward looking, nostalgist and sentimentalist, and has been gaslit for misogyny and homo-eroticism, violence and and even racism (with its ethnocentric and androgynous elves and it’s Graeco-Roman Gondorians besieged by darker races from the south and east). Yet, most critics have probably never read it.
On the side of the angels (or is it the elves?) are the millions who came of age with and fell in love with the books, and adopted a Tolkienesque taxonomy for viewing the world as a perpetual dialectic between the forces of light and of darkness. Some have even studied the lineages and languages. The actress Liv Tyler, who plays a luminous Arden Evenstar in Peter Jackson’s award winning film trilogy is said to have learned elven, and I sometimes see people on the street with elven rune tattoos. Liv probably has one too. I recall that as we queued at the cinema to see The Fellowship of the Ring, young folk rhapsodized among themselves on the delights about to unfold before their very eyes. The Hobbiton film set on New Zealand’s North Island is one of that country’s premier tourist destinations – indeed, during the three years of the films’ successive release, a big sign at Auckland International Airport declared “Welcome to Orc Land!” The films’ casting prompted criticism in some quarters insofar as the elves, men and dwarves were played by predominantly white Anglo Celtic actors whilst New Zealand’s indigenous Māori portrayed the evil orcs and Uruk Hai. Nevertheless, hundreds of kiwis, Pakeha and Māori alike, were employed as extras, the scenery dazzled the world and the economy of Aotearoa, The Land of the Long White Cloud, enjoyed a Middle Earth boom.
In an opinion piece in the Unheard e-zine, republished below, British historian and author Dominic Sandbrook asks whether Tolkien’s works are indeed trivial. “Surely not”, he retorts. “Even if you can’t stand them, only a fool would deny that The Lord of the Rings occupies an extraordinary place in the modern imagination … he wasn’t just a man of his time; he remains a guide for our own … And his themes might have deliberately been chosen to appeal to modern readers, anxious about the consequences of science, the environmental costs of industry, the dangers of war and the fate of the individual in the face of the vast forces reshaping Western societies in the early 21st century. To put it simply, then, Tolkien matters. How many writers can you say that about, these days?”
Tolkien and me
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
Walking Song, JRR Tolkien
My own life has intersected with JRR Tolkien on many serendipitous levels.
I first encountered The Lord of the Rings in my late teens when curiosity, imagination, and various substances bought me admission to his fantasy world, along with that of his fellow Inkling CS Lewis, creator of The Chronicles of Narnia. I read all three books in the trilogy over a weekend in the autumn of 1968, and when I’d finished, I felt bereft and out of sorts. I reread it soon after, and again, and again – but didn’t we all in the days when Tolkien was king, and elves and ents walked among us. I set many of the songs to music – now long forgotten – and an apposite quotation was always on hand. I recall reciting the opening lines of The Song of Durin, which prefaces this piece, as I was walking home from a concert under a full moon on the eve of the landing of Apollo 11 upon the moon in July 1969. And many times as I headed eastwards on what we now call the hippie trail, I would recall Bilbo Baggin’s Walking Song.
In subsequent years as I evolved from naïf to cynical, and thence to other passions, the rereads slowed and then stopped, although I read and enjoyed The Silmarillion, and still treasure the opening chapter describing in a manner reminiscent of the St. James Bible of how the world was created by music. I began to pick holes in The Lord of the Rings’ story line, with its derivative ‘hero’s quest’, a monomyth popularised by Joseph Campbell in his celebrated book The Hero with a Thousand Faces; what I now viewed as stereotypical characters; the outdated and anachronistic perspectives of earlier generations; and what I perceived as old-school English prejudices. But, as Sandbrook points out, Tolkien was of his times, and those times were not kind to diversity and dissent.
And yet, The Lord of the Rings is ever present in my cultural and literary consciousness, and is often referred to and quoted. Here us one of my favourites:
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.” The Return of the King
I have never lost my love for the poetry and the songs that complement the narrative – the archaic syntax, rhyme, rhythm and balladry that I’ve incorporated into my own writing. There was a wonderful lyricism and, indeed, musicality to them that I still love. It’s as if they are just waiting for a tune to accompany them. Compare Tolkien’s Song of Ëarendil with own No Bull – the style, that is, not the subject matter:
In panoply of ancient kings,
in chainéd rings he armoured him;
his shining shield was scored with runes
to ward all wounds and harm from him;
his bow was made of dragon-horn,
his arrows shorn of ebony;
of silver was his habergeon,
his scabbard of chalcedony;
his sword of steel was valiant,
of adamant his helmet tall,
an eagle-plume upon his crest,
upon his breast an emerald.
With massive head,
And shoulders broad,
As lean and mean as Rambeau
(That’s Sly, and not that fey French bard
This bruiser was no bimbeau!).
His hide as dark as ebony,
As tough as old mahogany,
His horns shone like chalcedony,
This massif of solidity
Was built like a Pajero.
Years passed without a revisitation, but working for a publishing company that ‘owned’ the rights to his work, I collected the latest editions and often gave them away to young people who had yet to enter the magical world of Middle Earth. For all my later cynicism, I still regarded it as a book all young people ought to read. I read the whole thing once more prior to the release of Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy. The films were excellent, although I found the hobbits increasingly irritating, wishing that they’d all jump into the fires of Mount Doom, and the ents were a disappointment, a mob of corny and badly conceived muppets (they were indeed conceived by Jim Henson, the ‘father’ of Kermit and Miss Piggy). I am looking forward to the upcoming, uber-expensive television series – but I don’t reckon I’ll reread in preparation this time around. As for Jackson’s three part Hobbit extravaganza, in my opinion, it was a travesty.
Learning more about the author, I was to discover that he’d grown up in Birmingham, my home town, first in leafy Edgbaston (the home of Cadbury and the Warwickshire County Cricket Club), where he’d attended the prestigious King Edward’s Grammar School – my own school, Moseley Grammar, was not in its league. He lived near Sarehole Mill, in present day Hall Green, around the turn of century, between the ages four and eight, and would have seen it from his house. The locale at that time was rural Worcestershire farmland and countryside and not in the Birmingham ‘burbs. He has said that he used the mill as a location in The Lord of the Rings for the Mill at Hobbiton: “It was a kind of lost paradise … There was an old mill that really did grind corn with two millers, a great big pond with swans on it, a sandpit, a wonderful dell with flowers, a few old-fashioned village houses and, further away, a stream with another mill … “
Sarehole Mill was just down the road from my school, and our sports field and cross country tracks were adjacent to it. On many a wintry, cold, wet and windy Wednesday afternoon, I’d stagger past it on a muddy track. How I hated wet Wednesdays; dry ones were for rugby, and I hated them too!
Tolkien died aged 81 on September 2nd 1973 in Bournemouth, Dorset, a town that I’ve visited infrequently. But I was actually in Bournemouth on that day to meet an old friend. Perchance his spirit swept passed me. On 2nd September 2017, the Oxford Oratory, Tolkien’s Roman Catholic parish church during his time in Oxford, offered its first Mass to advocate for his beatification, the first station on the road to canonisation, as an evangelist for nature, beauty and love. A prayer was written for his cause:
“O Blessed Trinity, we thank You for having graced the Church with John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and for allowing the poetry of Your Creation, the mystery of the Passion of Your Son, and the symphony of the Holy Spirit, to shine through him and his sub-creative imagination. Trusting fully in Your infinite mercy and in the maternal intercession of Mary, he has given us a living image of Jesus the Wisdom of God Incarnate, and has shown us that holiness is the necessary measure of ordinary Christian life and is the way of achieving eternal communion with You. Grant us, by his intercession, and according to Your will, the graces we implore [….], hoping that he will soon be numbered among Your saints. Amen.”
Just imagine, Saint John Ronald Reuel of Middle Earth!
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Read also in In That Howling Infinite, Tolkien’s Tarkeeth – in the darkest depths of Mordor
This is Tolkien’s World
The Lord of the Rings is more than nostalgic medievalism
It’s exactly 20 years since I stood in line to see a film I had dreamed about since I was a little boy. Ever since I had first turned the pages of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, I had wondered what it would be like to see it on the big screen: the hobbits, the battles, the sweeping landscapes, the blood and thunder. When I read that the director Peter Jackson was filming a trilogy of Tolkien’s masterpiece in New Zealand, I felt almost sick with anxiety. Would it be terrible? Would they sound like the All Blacks? What were they going to do about Tom Bombadil?
I need not have worried, of course. From the moment the lights dimmed in the Odeon, Leicester Square on 10 December 2001, the Lord of the Rings films were a phenomenal success. And although poor Tom B. never made it onto the screen, Jackson’s trilogy carried all before it, grossing a staggering $3 billion and winning a record-equalling 11 Oscars for the final instalment alone.
Two decades on, the films stand up remarkably well. As for the wider Tolkien industry, the bestselling books just keep on coming: The Fall of Arthur in 2013, Beren and Luthien in 2017, The Fall of Gondolin in 2018. And next autumn sees the release of Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel series – at a cool $1 billion over five seasons, the most expensive television project in history. Not bad for a writer who’s been dead since 1973.
To some people, all this could hardly be more infuriating. For as we all know, Tolkien is still associated in the public mind with a sweaty, furtive gang of misfits and weirdos — by which I mean those critics who, for more than half a century, have been sneering at his books and their readers.
As far back as the mid-Fifties, the American modernist Edmund Wilson published a comically wrong-headed review dismissing Tolkien’s work as “juvenile trash”, marked by — of all things! — an “impotence of imagination”. Decades later, Philip Pullman, never happier than when sneering at his Oxford forebears, called Tolkien’s efforts “trivial”, and “not worth arguing with”. And whenever some new survey crowns The Lord of the Rings as the public’s favourite novel, the reaction is always the same.
So are Tolkien’s works “trivial”, as Pullman claims? Surely not. Even if you can’t stand them, only a fool would deny that The Lord of the Rings occupies an extraordinary place in the modern imagination. Indeed, in his trenchant defence of Tolkien’s reputation, the literary scholar Tom Shippey suggests that much of the criticism is rooted in pure social and intellectual condescension, not unlike the rank snobbery that Virginia Woolf directed at Tolkien’s fellow Midlander Arnold Bennett. Shippey even argues that in the future, literary historians will rank The Lord of the Rings alongside post-war classics such as Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Flies and Slaughterhouse-Five. Who’s to say he’s wrong?
One reason highbrow people dislike The Lord of the Rings is that it is so backward-looking. But it could never have been otherwise. For good personal reasons, Tolkien was a fundamentally backward-looking person. He was born to English parents in the Orange Free State in 1892, but was taken back to the village of Sarehole, north Worcestershire, by his mother when he was three. His father was meant to join them later, but was killed by rheumatic fever before he boarded ship.
For a time, the fatherless Tolkien enjoyed a happy childhood, devouring children’s classics and exploring the local countryside. But in 1904 his mother died of diabetes, leaving the 12-year-old an orphan. Now he and his brother went to live with an aunt in Edgbaston, near what is now Birmingham’s Five Ways roundabout. In effect, he had moved from the city’s rural fringes to its industrial heart: when he looked out of the window, he saw not trees and hills, but “almost unbroken rooftops with the factory chimneys beyond”. No wonder that from the moment he put pen to paper, his fiction was dominated by a heartfelt nostalgia.
Nostalgia was in the air anyway in the 1890s and 1900s, part of a wider reaction against industrial, urban, capitalist modernity. As a boy, Tolkien was addicted to the imperial adventure stories of H. Rider Haggard, and it’s easy to see The Lord of the Rings as a belated Boy’s Own adventure. An even bigger influence, though, was that Victorian one-man industry, William Morris, inspiration for generations of wallpaper salesmen. Tolkien first read him at King Edward’s, the Birmingham boys’ school that had previously educated Morris’s friend Edward Burne-Jones. And what Tolkien and his friends adored in Morris was the same thing you see in Burne-Jones’s paintings: a fantasy of a lost medieval paradise, a world of chivalry and romance that threw the harsh realities of industrial Britain into stark relief.
It was through Morris that Tolkien first encountered the Icelandic sagas, which the Victorian textile-fancier had adapted into an epic poem in 1876. And while other boys grew out of their obsession with the legends of the North, Tolkien’s fascination only deepened. After going up to Oxford in 1911, he began writing his own version of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala. When his college, Exeter, awarded him a prize, he spent the money on a pile of Morris books, such as the proto-fantasy novel The House of the Wolfings and his translation of the Icelandic Volsunga Saga. And for the rest of his life, Tolkien wrote in a style heavily influenced by Morris, deliberately imitating the vocabulary and rhythms of the medieval epic.
Tolkien arrived on the Western Front in June 1916 as a signals officer in the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers, and experienced the agony of the Somme at first hand. In just three and a half months, his battalion lost 600 men. Yet it was now, amid the horror of the trenches, that he began work on his great cycle of Middle-earth stories. As he later told his son Christopher, his first stories were written “in grimy canteens, at lectures in cold fogs, in huts full of blasphemy and smut, or by candlelight in bell-tents, even some down in dugouts under shell fire”.
But he never saw his work as pure escapism. Quite the opposite. He had begun writing, he explained, “to express [my] feeling about good, evil, fair, foul in some way: to rationalise it, and prevent it just festering”. More than ever, he believed that myth and fantasy offered the only salvation from the corruption of industrial society. And far from shaking his faith, the slaughter on the Somme only strengthened his belief that to make sense of this broken, bleeding world, he must look back to the great legends of the North.
Yet The Lord of the Rings is not just a war book. There’s yet another layer, because it’s also very clearly an anti-modern, anti-industrial book, shaped by Tolkien’s memories of Edwardian Birmingham, with its forges, factories and chimneys. As a disciple of the Victorian medievalists, he was always bound to loathe modern industry, since opposition to the machine age came as part of the package. But his antipathy to all things mechanical was all the more intense because he identified them — understandably enough — with killing.
And although Tolkien objected when reviewers drew parallels between the events of The Lord of the Rings and the course of the Second World War, he often did the same himself. Again and again he told his son Christopher that by embracing industrialised warfare, the Allies had chosen the path of evil. “We are attempting to conquer Sauron with the Ring,” he wrote in May 1944. “But the penalty is, as you will know, to breed new Saurons, and slowly turn Men and Elves into Orcs.” Even as the end of the war approached, Tolkien’s mood remained bleak. This, he wrote sadly, had been, “the first War of the Machines … leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant: the Machines”.
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TofV Conclusion-Transition: Rise of Hitler Due Ths 4/17
This paper serves as both a concluding and transition portion of the German Reply/Inflation in Wiemar Germany papers because it discusses the political impacts of the severe economic and social crisis that Germany faces after WWI that ultimately helps lead to the rise of Hitler and WWII. When inserted into your paper, it will follow Inflation in Wiemar Germany paper.
Causes of WWII - Includes specifics and connects logically
19. T of V’s impact on Germany and her people. Germany was completely devastated after World War I. The people of Germany had to deal with the long-term effects of the Treaty of Versailles. The people of Germany were exhausted after the war and had felt like they had been humiliated and destroyed. In many ways Germany was worse off after the war than during the war. Inflation was out of control and people were literally starving to death in Germany years after the war ended
19a. Economic The effects of the Treaty of Versailles crushed Germany’s economy after World War I. Germany lost land they needed to grow food, boats they needed to bring in raw supplies from abroad and the government could not afford to pay back reparations promised to the Allied nations.
Although Germany had once been an agricultural powerhouse in Europe their economy became more industrial and they were unable to feed their own population without importing goods. Forty million Germans needed the potato and wheat crops that were grown in the East part of Germany that was now under Allied control. Germany could not import food because they had lost their merchant marine vessels. Germany also needed from materials including coal that they could no longer import. Many citizens could not find work and the German currency was devalued to the point that it became worthless. Inflation was so bad at one point in 1923 that prices were being marked up by 20% every day.
Foreign travelers came in and snatched up German antiquities and treasures for almost nothing. Barter became the new system of currency. People traded butter for services and shoe factory workers were paid in shoes. The United States tried to stabilize the German economy with the Dawes plan from 1924 to 1929. The Dawes plan was a series of loans from foreign investors including the United States meant to soften the burden of war reparation payments. The Great Depression in the United States affected Germany as well because now their economy is dependent upon the US economy flourishing. The Dawes plan worked until the United States economy and the stock market collapsed. After the stock market collapsed Germany's industrial output fell by 40% and unemployment was at 40%.
19b. Political The United States tried to stabilize the German economy with the Dawes plan from 1924 to 1929. The Dawes plan was a series of loans from foreign investors including the United States meant to soften the burden of war reparation payments. The Great Depression in the United States affected Germany as well because now their economy is dependent upon the US economy flourishing. The Dawes plan worked until the United States economy and the stock market collapsed. After the stock market collapsed Germany's industrial output fell by 40% and unemployment was at 40%. The government expanded powers set up price controls rationed foods took over transportation and the free market system was put aside. During the Paris peace conference France, Britain and the United States each had different motivations and desires. Georges Clemenceau was the premiere of France and they wanted revenge and security against Germany. France wanted Germany stripped of weapons and wanted them to pay reparations to cover the cost of the war. France also wanted a new country called Rhineland as a buffer state between them and Germany. David Lloyd George the Prime Minister of Great Britain wanted to make the Germans pay for the war. Woodrow Wilson had a more idealistic desire. He thought World War I was a war against militarism and he wanted a United Nations with political independence so big and small nations could have international cooperation.
19c. Social The economic crisis in Germany led to significant changes in the daily life of Germans. Many people in Germany were forced into prostitution or illegal activities because they had no choices. Many families were tossed onto the streets and had to bake to survive. Because German money was worthless foreigners found that they could live like kings in Germany during this time period. Germany said that it has transformed from an agricultural to an industrial state and now could not feed 40 million inhabitants if it has to give up its merchant marine vessels. Germany says if it loses its territory in the East that they will lose 21% of their wheat and potato production. They need raw materials and coal as well they fear they will lose a third of the production of the coalfields and that what little coal they do get they have to give to the allies. With the loss of the colonies and merchant fleet there will no longer be a position to import raw materials from abroad. Germany believes that it industries would be extinct. They will not be able to feed their people. Germany feels that many of their citizens will move away. 1,750,000 people were killed in 1 million were killed as a result of of the blockade that made their people starve. Germany feels that this will happen again and millions more will die.
20. Includes a logical transition/introduction to the information presented in the following: He believed that Germany economic collapse would cause political repercussions all throughout Europe and all over the world. Germany simply could not afford war reparations at that level. He was an outspoken critic of the Treaty of Versailles. He would be eventually proven correct. Germany did not pay back their war reparations and their country did fall into an economic depression. It would be easy to believe that the cause of World War II was caused by the harsh punishment put against Germany after World War I. There are no simple answers.
21. How does Hitler come to power? Germans had suffered a humiliating loss in World War I then they were again hit with disaster in a Great Depression. Germans found extremist parties more and more attractive. Adolf Hitler's Nazi party promise to build a new Germany. Hughes propaganda that appeal to the German sense of national honor. The German people were searching for a leader to escape their economic woes. Hitler also establish organizations for young people called the Hitler youth Hitler was a racist, and an extreme nationalist. He served four years during World War I and remained in Germany and entered politics. He took control of the German workers party. Hitler try to take over the government in 1923 but was crushed and he was sentenced to prison. He realizes not seize would have to attain power with legal means not with another violent overthrow when he got agility expanded not seen party and it had become the largest party in the German Parliament. Germany's economic difficulties were a factor in the night not to rise to power unemployment grew and the Great Depression made extremist parties more attractive. Hitler became chancellor in 1933 and created a new government he took complete control over Germany and pass the enabling act which gave the government the power to nor the Constitution for four years.
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Adelante and a coalition of community partners are leading the charge to end Birmingham’s participation in federal immigration enforcement!
On January 31, 2017, the Birmingham City Council passed a resolution declaring its commitment to making Birmingham a sanctuary city. We called on the Council and all of our local elected leaders to make good on that promise by implementing strong, concrete, and lawful protections for the city’s immigrant communities. Birmingham, a bastion of civil rights and progress, must equally respect the civil rights of all residents and resoundingly reject being used as an arm of the Trump Administration’s detention and deportation machinery.
On June 13, 2017 we packed the council chambers and officially presented the proposed Sanctuary City Ordinance to the City Council. On July 1, hundreds of residents marched through the streets for the March For Sanctuary (view the press release here and news coverage of the march here).
After waiting almost a year for action from the City Council, a group of immigrant residents met with Mayor Randall Woodfin in April 2018 to ask him to take immediate action to protect Birmingham’s Latino and Muslim communities threatened by President Trump’s harsh policies. We shared a draft mayoral order, “Fostering Trust and Promoting Public Safety and Civil Rights For All City Residents,” that would ensure that city resources are not spent on doing ICE’s job for them, and asked the mayor to sign it immediately (a summary of the proposed Trust Order is available below).
On July 19, 2018, a coalition of civil rights organizations sent a letter, accompanied by a legal analysis from a University of Alabama constitutional law professor, to the Mayor demanding immediate action on the proposed Trust Order. On July 31, 2018, we mobilized to City Hall to call on the mayor to sign the Trust Order. We are still waiting for the city to take action to protect our communities.
View a summary of the proposed Trust Order here.
Vea un resumen de la propuesta Orden de Confianza aquí.
Birmingham Trust Campaign Members include:
Adelante Alabama Worker Center
Alabama Coalition for Immigration Justice
ACLU of Alabama
Black Lives Matter-Birmingham Chapter
Council on American-Islamic Relations of Alabama
Dynamite Hill-Smithfield Community Land Trust
Faith in Action Alabama
Greater Birmingham Ministries
Guadalupan Multicultural Services “La Casita”
Moral Movement Alabama
NAACP of Alabama
National Association of Hispanic Nurses – Greater Birmingham Chapter
National Lawyers Guild-Alabama Chapter
Showing Up for Racial Justice-Birmingham Chapter
Southerners on New Ground
Southern Poverty Law Center
Letter to Mayor Woodfin from the Trust Coalition:
The most recent letter delivered to Mayor Woodfin and City Attorney Nicole King can be viewed here.
Legal & Policy Analysis:
To read about the legality of the proposed Birmingham Trust Policy that we have asked Mayor Woodfin to sign, check out this detailed legal analysis from constitutional law professor Bryan Fair of the University of Alabama School of Law.
To learn more about what a “sanctuary city” is, and why smart sanctuary policies increase public safety and uphold, not violate, the law, check out Adelante’s Legal & Policy Briefing: Making Birmingham a Sanctuary City (March 6, 2017) (also available en español: Informe Jurídico y Político: Convertir a Birmingham en Ciudad Santuario)
Additional resources on the legal and public policy reasons for ending police-ICE collusion:
ACLU Fact Sheet, “Major Developments Relating to ‘Sanctuary’ Cities under the Trump Administration,” Last updated August 27, 2018
Immigrant Legal Resource Center, “Immigration Detainers Legal Update,” July 2018
National Immigrant Justice Center et al., Assumption of Risk: Legal Liabilities for Local Governments That Choose to Enforce Federal Immigration Law, March 2018
Center for Popular Democracy, Protecting Immigrant Communities: Municipal Policy to Confront Mass Deportation and Criminalization, March 2017
Tom K. Wong, The Effects of Sanctuary Policies on Crime and the Economy, Center for American Progress, January 26, 2017
Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Searching for Sanctuary: An Analysis of America’s Counties & Their Voluntary Assistance with Deportations, December 2016
American Immigration Council, “Understanding Trust Acts, Community Policing, and ‘Sanctuary Cities,'” October 10, 2015
Nik Theodore, Insecure Communities: Latino Perceptions of Police Involvement in Immigration Enforcement, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Urban Planning and Policy, May 2013
Letters to Congress from the U.S. Conference of Mayors, National League of Cities, Major County Sheriff’s Association, Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force and others opposing federal legislation to deny funding to “sanctuary” jurisdictions
Map of jurisdictions that limit or bar local law enforcement entanglement in immigration enforcement
Adelante joined the amicus briefs filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center in Santa Clara v. Trump and San Francisco v. Trump, the lawsuits challenging a provision of President Trump’s immigration executive order threatening to revoke federal funds from “sanctuary” jurisdictions. Multiple federal district and appellate courts have enjoined the enforcement of Trump’s executive order and related DOJ grant conditions threatening so-called sanctuary cities.
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