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What’s the big deal with having a “healthy” gut?
Did you know that your body is home to trillions of microorganisms, including the thousands of bacteria that live in your gut? These gut bugs are important for digestion and acquiring nutrients from the foods you eat. But did you also know they play a major role in your immune system, keeping you healthy? So you may be wondering how to get a leg up on this gut health thing. Well, prebiotics and probiotics are two components that promote healthy gut bugs. Read on to learn more about probiotics and prebiotics, as well as Registered Dietician tips for affordable gut health improvement tips.
Probiotics are bacteria in foods and supplements that are actually living beings. These bacteria are present in fermented foods like yogurt, sauerkraut, miso soup, and kimchi. And they are also touted in the increasingly popular beverage, Kombucha (more coming on this soon!). Even though you already have living bacteria in your gut, consuming a probiotic may increase the number of good bacteria. Research has shown that probiotics may help repopulate the colon with healthy gut bugs following antibiotic use, improve symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome and other gastrointestinal disorders, and may even be beneficial to the treatment of obesity, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Does this mean you need to buy an expensive supplement or stock up on yogurt? Not necessarily. Here are a few things to know before you do that. Probiotics are only effective if they are alive. In fact, probiotics are fragile and can be killed by heat, stomach acid, and sitting too long on the shelf at the grocery store. Additionally, there are hundreds of probiotic species, however, the best species for the average person is still unknown. Once ingested, probiotics must compete with hundreds of thousands of other bacteria in the gut to survive and flourish.
Prebiotics are non-digestible fibers that feed the bacteria in your gut. The bacteria ferment these fibers and use them for energy. It’s easy to eat prebiotics! These fibers are found in common foods like bananas, onions, garlic, the skin of apples, sweet potatoes, and beans. Unlike probiotics, prebiotics are not affected by heat, stomach acid, or time and studies have shown that prebiotics may help improve immunity, digestive health, bone density, weight management, and brain health.
While there are many prebiotic pills and supplements, there is one simple thing to know about prebiotics; they are easily acquired. Just eat your fruits and veggies!
At this point you can see why having a diet rich in both prebiotics and probiotics is beneficial for your health. But let’s be real. Not all of us can afford to take expensive supplements and drink a $3.50 bottle of kombucha every day.
Here are some affordable tips for maintaining good gut health:
- Spend your money on food sources of probiotics before turning to supplements. Yogurt is one of the cheapest. Look for “live, active cultures” on the label and avoid too much added sugar.
- Making your own yogurt can save you money and ensure that your bacteria is alive. Did you know that you can make yogurt in an Instant Pot?
- You can also make your own sauerkraut, kimchi, or kombucha.
- Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables with prebiotics. Apples, bananas, garlic, onions, sweet potatoes, and beans are among the grocery store’s most inexpensive items.
- Grow some of your own vegetables or join a CSA to get some of the freshest produce.
- Avoid spending your money on processed foods that don’t contain any vitamins, minerals, or fiber. They actually can have a negative effect on your gut health. | <urn:uuid:d6de45d5-4153-434d-8d33-aeebabbfd42e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://packhealth.com/affordable-gut-health-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.934199 | 821 | 2.796875 | 3 |
E104 News Overload! Media Mash and Mental Health
There’s an old saying in media circles that “if it bleeds, it leads.” The translation: bad news sells. Unfortunately, bad news increases stress, so the more we reduce its impact on our mental health, the better. Although most people prefer good news, bad news demands attention because knowing what to fear or avoid is more important to survival. We are “hard wired” to pay attention to it.
We have little control over the amount and timing of bad news — and its cousin, “fear,” news. Fear news (news that we should worry about—economics, social concerns, climate change, foreign relations) is stressful too, and can influence behavior, possibly causing you to act in ways that you might not originally considered . . .
When To Use
News can drive you nuts; why news is mostly bad; how to respond to it and avoid it; how to manage your mood in response to news; how to make a difference in the quality of news.
How to Use
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A new study reveals that asteroid impact sites in the ocean may possess a crucial link in explaining the formation of the essential molecules for life.
The study discovered the emergence of amino acids that serve as the building blocks for proteins – demonstrating the role of meteorites in bringing life’s molecules to earth, and potentially Mars.
There are two explanations for the origins of life’s building molecules: extraterrestrial delivery, such as via meteorites; and endogenous formation. The presence of amino acids and other biomolecules in meteorites points to the former.
Researchers from Tohoku University, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), and Osaka University simulated the reactions involved when a meteorite crashes into the ocean. To do this, they investigated the reactions between carbon dioxide, nitrogen, water, and iron in a laboratory impact facility using a single stage propellant gun. Their simulation revealed the formation of amino acids such as glycine and alanine. These amino acids are direct constituents of proteins, which catalyze many biological reactions.
The team used carbon dioxide and nitrogen as the carbon and nitrogen sources because these gases are regarded as the two major components in the atmosphere on the Hadean Earth, which existed more than 4 billion years ago.
Corresponding author from Tohoku University, Yoshihiro Furukawa, explains, “Making organic molecules form reduced compounds like methane and ammonia are not difficult, but they are regarded as minor components in the atmosphere at that time.” He adds, “The finding of amino acid formation from carbon dioxide and molecular nitrogen demonstrates the importance in making life’s building blocks from these ubiquitous compounds.”
The hypothesis that an ocean once existed on Mars also raises interesting avenues for exploration. Carbon dioxide and nitrogen are likely to have been the major constituent gases of the Martian atmosphere when the ocean existed. Therefore, impact-induced amino acid formation also provides a possible source of life’s ingredients on ancient Mars.
Furukawa says, “further investigations will reveal more about the role meteorites played in bringing more complex biomolecules to Earth and Mars.”
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Rugova, who was hospitalized at a U.S. base near Heidelberg, Germany, from 27 August to 3 September, said in Prishtina that "with the help of God, I will overcome this battle and continue to work...for the recognition [of the independence of] our country Kosova." He did not indicate that he has considered stepping down. If he resigns or is unable to carry out his duties, parliamentary speaker Nexhat Daci of his Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) would carry out the presidential duties.
Symbol Of Resistance
Rugova's announcement confirms what many have long suspected, namely that the president has a serious medical problem that might make it difficult for him to lead Kosovo through the negotiations with the international community, which are expected to start before the end of 2005. Since the late 1980s, he has been the symbol of passive resistance to Serbian rule through the shadow-state he helped build up in response to former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's destruction of the province's autonomy. The Serbian leader's violent crackdown and ethnic-cleansing campaign in 1998-99 discredited pacifism among many Kosovars in favor of the militant resistance led by the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK). But the Sorbonne-educated writer nonetheless remains a father figure to most of his countrymen. In fact, Rugova has been their virtually unchallenged leader for the past two decades, and it is difficult to imagine anyone easily stepping forward to fill his shoes.
Adem Demaci, who is known as "Kosovo's Mandela" for the long years he spent in communist prisons without compromising his principles, is one of the few other people who probably enjoys almost universal respect among Kosovars. Demaci, however, is elderly, has generally shunned active politics, and might not seek or accept the post. He seems to enjoy speaking critically from outside the political establishment and would probably regard public office as a constraint on his political independence. In any event, it would not be easy for the LDK to find a replacement for the president, and Rugova has not groomed a successor. Other prominent government leaders besides Daci include Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi of the smaller Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), who took up that post to replace AAK founder Ramush Haradinaj. Haradinaj cannot hold office because the Hague tribunal has indicted him for war crimes. The main opposition leaders are Hashim Thaci of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and publisher Veton Surroi of the relatively new ORA party. Thaci and Haradinaj have their respective political bases in different branches of the former Kosova Liberation Army (UCK). Surroi is well known both at home and abroad but lacks the sort of large power base that Rugova, Thaci, and Haradinaj have.
In fact, part of Kosovo's potential leadership problem at this difficult time on the presumed eve of status talks is that the province has passed from oppressive rule from Belgrade to a semi-colonial government by the UN's civilian administration (UNMIK) without having had time to develop the kind of institutions from which new leaders might emerge, RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reported. Consequently, most politicians like Thaci or Haradinaj have their power bases rooted not in institutions but in their home regions, their clans, or their old UCK networks -- or a combination of the three. If Rugova departs the scene, it might be possible for the parties to agree on a neutral figure like a senior university professor to succeed him, but would that person have the necessary political authority to conduct negotiations on Kosovo's final status? Or might it not be time to take a different approach and select a young leader not linked to the power struggles of the 1980s and 1990s? Kosovo has one of the highest birthrates in Europe and consequently a very young population. Some of those people might favor one of their own for Kosovo's leadership, someone like former student leader Albin Kurti, who spent several years in Serbian prisons.
Regardless of who leads Kosovo in the coming months and years, it appears headed for a prolonged troubled period even if the status question is resolved to the satisfaction of a majority of its citizens -- which, in their view, can only mean independence. First, its elected institutions remain shaky and untested, which is a problem that has confronted many newly independent countries over the past 60 years. The only real solution to the problem, however, seems to be learning by doing. Second, there is virtually no issue on which the 90 percent ethnic Albanian majority and the Serbian minority agree. This is bound to lead to prolonged quarrels or even violence, which Belgrade might be quick to exploit for its own political purposes. Third, UNMIK is widely seen as discredited and having outstayed its welcome, even though KFOR and NATO continue to command the majority's respect. Because UNMIK enjoys so little credibility, any attempt to delay resolving the status issue can only make political tensions worse (see "RFE/RL Balkan Report," 19 December 2003, 17 December 2004, and 20 May 2005). Some observers have gone so far as to suggest that if violence breaks out among the ethnic Albanian population again, it might be directed not at the Serbs this time but at UNMIK and perhaps some Kosovar politicians regarded as corrupt. | <urn:uuid:1f3da54a-a4ee-4242-ad66-723d3f116daa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rferl.org/a/1061195.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.976094 | 1,123 | 2 | 2 |
The Suzuki GN125 motorcycle was produced by the Suzuki Motor Corp. from the early 1980s to 2001, as part of Suzuki's GN series of beginner-level two-wheelers that were built in the 1980s. It's been called "a tough little bike," "modest but useful" and "incredibly easy to ride" by Motorcycle News. Although it is no longer in production, you can buy a Suzuki GN125 if the technical specifications meet your needs.
The GN125 has a 124cc, 2-V single cylinder engine, which means it has one intake and one exhaust valve in the head per cylinder. The engine is air-cooled and has five gears. Its torque is 7 feet per pound. The engine power is 12 horsepower.
- The GN125 has a 124cc, 2-V single cylinder engine, which means it has one intake and one exhaust valve in the head per cylinder.
- The engine is air-cooled and has five gears.
The GN125 typically weighs about 104kg. and has a seat height of just under 29 inches. The motorcycle has a steel cradle frame.
The standard GN125 dashboard features a speed gauge, rpm dial and two wide rear view mirrors--one on the left side and the other on the right side of the dashboard. The dashboard does not feature a fuel gauge.
The GN125's fuel tank capacity is 2.6 gallons, but its average fuel consumption is about 80 miles per gallon (mpg), so one tank typically lasts at least 175 miles. The motorcycle's top speed is about 70mph, depending on the year of production.
Brakes and Suspension
Each model of the GN125 has single disc front brakes and drum rear brakes. Motorcycle News called the GN125's brakes "lousy." The motorcycle has no front suspension adjustment and a preload rear suspension adjustment.
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What do you do?
I make maps, and create prints, posters and finished, framed works from those maps. I display these works at my showroom in Las Vegas, and sell them on my website artmapmaker.com.
How do you make the maps?
I use traditional techniques of pen-and-ink, mechanical lettering, and coloring with colored charcoal to create original maps by hand.
Why do you make your maps by hand?
People are surprised to learn that I make the maps by hand. I learned my craft from a renowned cartographer who taught this method, and I have continued it ever since. As with any other hand-made work, each piece is unique, and carries the mark of the maker. The nuances incorporated into each map are unattainable with a computer, and endow each map with personality and character. This gives an artistic spirit to my maps. Besides the detailed information that each map provides, the artistic nature of the map makes it attractive to people and yields a piece that is fit for display in one’s home or place of business.
I enjoy this methodical and detailed process for making maps. I am an ophthalmologist and I liken my mapmaking to ophthalmic surgery. Both are dependent on fine motor skills, require patience, and are unforgiving of mistakes. Also, I find the creative process to be satisfying; it is gratifying when people enjoy my maps.
Who taught you how to make maps?
Van English, former Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College, taught me. He was a world-renowned cartographer who was the personal cartographer for General George Marshall, US Army Chief of Staff, in World War II. Professor English offered a course in cartography, which I took. The course included a didactic section in which he taught the history of mapping, principles of projection, and general knowledge of maps. In the studio section, he taught us mapmaking techniques and gave us the opportunity to make maps ourselves. My final course project was a map of my European and Middle Eastern travels undertaken during my junior year.
How long have you been making maps?
I have been making maps for over 40 years.
What are the subjects of your maps?
My current project is the “Great American Cities” series. I have made maps of continents, countries, states, regions, and cities. I create custom maps for specific purposes, such as records of people’s travels. Because each map takes many hours to design and complete, the most efficient and affordable way for people to acquire my maps is to purchase prints rather than originals. All my prints are signed, and all framed, finished pieces are signed and numbered.
Do you go out into the field to make your own measurements, or do you make your maps from existing maps?
This is a very good question. Unless you are Captain Cook triangulating a new-found coastline, or working for the USGS and placing benchmarks for triangulation, all maps are derived from existing maps.
What is the actual process you use to make your maps?
Once I decide what I would like to map, I find a map or maps in the public domain to use as a base map. I adjust the scale as needed and trace the outline and linear elements (such as rivers, streets or boundaries) onto tracing paper. The tracing paper outline is placed on a light table, and art paper is placed over it, revealing the image of the map elements. These elements are again traced in pencil, this time onto the art paper. Next, the tracing on the art paper is inked using pen and ink. Lettering is added using a technique called mechanical lettering. This technique uses a hard plastic template of the shapes of letters incised into something that looks like a ruler. A pantograph-like instrument with a fine point traces the desired letters one-by-one, and a pen tip with ink transcribes those letters onto the map. When the inking is complete, color is added using colored charcoal. The colors are softened with a stomp, a tool made of rolled paper that looks like a pencil. The completed map is sprayed with a fixative that bonds to the paper and protects the ink and color.
How do you make the prints?
I take the completed map to a shop that uses a high-resolution copy camera to photograph the map and covert the image into a digital file. This file is given to a printer who prints these images onto art paper using a state-of-the-art digital printer. The prints are faithful to the originals and really have superior coloration.
How do you sell the prints?
People can order them from my website: artmapmaker.com. I mail the signed prints in a sturdy mailing tube.
Can I see the maps in person?
I have a showroom and studio in Las Vegas that is open by appointment. Please contact us to schedule a visit.
How do you handle your custom mapping service?
This is the best part of what I do. People commission me to make a custom, bespoke map of an area special to them. The most popular of these are travel maps. If a couple has gone on an anniversary trip, or a honeymoon or special family trip, I work closely with them to learn exactly what they want in terms of theme, size, inscription content and title, color, complexity and other details. I design a draft and submit a proposal. The price is determined by size and complexity.
Do you create anything other than maps?
Yes I do. I make globes. My non-cartographical works include pieces created using the same techniques as the mapmaking process, but applied to various subjects and scenes, including a view from on airplane window, an Egyptian obelisk, a football, a baseball bat, and a soccer ball. Also, I photograph graffiti and have the images transferred to canvas.
Is there anything else I should know about you or your maps?
I love maps, and I love making maps. I feel privileged to have the opportunity to pursue mapmaking as a second career. I want to use my showroom in Las Vegas as a way for interested people to see my work, especially given that 46 million people visit Las Vegas each year. People love maps. Maps give each person a chance to connect with that part of the world, and rekindles memories of prior experiences and people, and fuels dreams of future travel. | <urn:uuid:541547da-7392-423e-b0ac-b2d992a718a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artmapmaker.com/pages/faqs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949393 | 1,335 | 1.820313 | 2 |
By Stephanie Elsen
If you are in business, you know that it is important to understand how your business is performing. In order to do that, you need some way to keep track of and interpret the numbers that go along with your business. This is where accounting and financial management come into play. Accounting tools can be used to measure and interpret the financial progress of your business. They can also help you communicate the status of your business to important third parties, such as banks and the government. Here are some of the benefits of accounting and financial management.
No more guessing. By maintaining an accounting system, you can improve your odds of making the right decision for your business. While the information alone is not the only factor to consider, it does provide one very important piece of the puzzle in your decision making process. Good accounting records show you where you stand financially, so you won’t have to guess at what your financial position is.
Make better decisions. Accounting plays an important role by giving us a means of communicating the financial part of a business to others. The most crucial function of any accounting system is to provide real data, by which managers and owners can base their decisions. Having numerical facts greatly helps in making profitable decisions for your business. And while the accounting information gathered does not guarantee a good decision, it does greatly improve your chances of making the best decision possible.
Solve problems. Accounting systems provide reports that help you analyze the profitability and performance of your business. Not only can an accounting system help you make decisions, but it can also help you find areas of your business that need to be improved. Once you are able to identify trouble areas, you can focus on improving them.
Track complex information. If your business requires any loans, the lending institution will likely require financial reports to understand the net income and net worth of your business. They may also want to evaluate your financial statements periodically to monitor your ability to repay the loan. Providing this kind of information is next to impossible without business accounting software that can provide financial statements.
Good accounting records show where your business stands financially. Use every advantage available to your business to improve and enhance its performance. Implement and maintain your accounting and financial management system, and your business will be on its way to financial success!
By Stephanie Elsen
Are you looking for a better way to handle the accounting for your nonprofit organization? There are so many accounting software products available and it can be hard to decide which one is right for you. In case you are wondering if CenterPoint Accounting for Nonprofits will be a good fit, here are some statistics about the nonprofits who look to Red Wing Software for their nonprofit accounting.
- About 48% need fund accounting and nonprofit specific features. When you are trying to manage different funds, it can be hard to do that in a basic accounting system that was made for small businesses. Most nonprofits who make a move to CenterPoint Accounting for Nonprofits have tried to make that kind of system work for their needs, but find that it would be far easier to use a system made for that purpose.
- 22% are outgrowing their basic software. Nonprofits that have grown over the years often move to Red Wing Software to accommodate a growing organization, more users, more data, and more! When a system gets bogged down, can’t be networked or accommodate additional users, it’s time to move to something new.
- 17% are doing the accounting by hand. Saving money can be appealing, and starting out by doing the accounting for your organization by hand is common. As time goes by, you will know when you are at the point of needing a better way to handle the accounting. This is when many organizations turn to CenterPoint Accounting for Nonprofits.
- About 13% are new organizations. If a nonprofit organization knows at the start what they need to get the reports, budgeting, and financial management tools in a meaningful format, they start by using an accounting system that can handle those things. By starting out with CenterPoint Accounting for Nonprofits, you can use the system for many years, instead of looking for something better after only a brief period of time.
Red Wing Software and CenterPoint Accounting for Nonprofits have helped thousands of nonprofits manage their financial information. Contact us today to see how we can help you by calling 800-732-9464 or e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.org.
By Stephanie Elsen
Businesses in the U.S. know that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as Obamacare, is making some big changes that affect businesses. Top of mind for many is the requirement that businesses with more than 50 full time employees must offer their full time employees health coverage. (Full time is considered 30 hours or more.) It is important then, that starting in 2014, employers can accurately determine which of their employees qualify as full time employees. And that’s why starting to track the right information in 2013 is a good idea.
So, who qualifies as a full time employee? In order to determine that, each employer chooses a time frame in which to determine full time eligibility, ranging from three months up to twelve months. Whatever length of time is used to determine full time eligibility is also the length of time which they must offer health care coverage. For example, if they are looking at a three month time frame to determine eligibility, then those who qualify must be offered the coverage for three months.
Some types of employers have a difficult job ahead of them in determining which employees are full time. In businesses where there are many part time employees, some of those employees may work enough hours to qualify as full time. Perhaps an employee works many extra hours one month, filling in often when others are sick or simply taking someone else’s hours for them. Will you know which employees are approaching full time eligibility? Are you ready for the 2014 reporting requirement?
Red Wing Software’s CenterPoint Payroll Software is now ready with a report to help users determine which employees are eligible, for whatever time frame is chosen. The report shows the employee name, the dates of the employee’s first and last pay period, number of weeks worked, number of months worked, the total hours worked, and then the average hours worked per week. This report is included standard within CenterPoint Payroll, so users will be able to view the report all throughout 2013 to monitor which employees are eligible. Once health care coverage becomes required in 2014, users will be prepared with a report to verify who is eligible. The report will be available in 2013.
Preview of the “Employee Average Hours Worked Per Week” Report
This post is by Bruce Senti of Aatrix State and Fed Payroll Reports
Compliance will be the BIG topic for 2013.
As the recent political environment has shown, the idea that tax policy will change little in 2013 is laughable. The federal government will continue to struggle with necessary change and no one knows exactly what direction tax code and legislation will go.
What we do know is that with the implementation of universal health care and ever-growing deficits, every taxing authority is likely to be impacted.
The most obvious outcome of such volatility is that change in rates, formats, forms, and filing requirements are a certainty. Keeping up with those changes and remaining in compliance will be an even more difficult task for payroll administrators than it has been in the past.
As states attempt to comply with new federal standards and respond to their own fiscal needs, it is more likely that there will be multiple changes during the next twelve months.
Forms will change to accommodate new taxes, changing rates, and increased limits as well as new calculations required for compliance. More and more businesses will be required to eFile as agencies seek to save money by eliminating paper forms.
What administrators can do to insure compliance.
In the past it would really boil down to two options: Businesses could hire additional staff to monitor the changes that affect their business or they could rely on compliance professionals that work for filing services or payroll services and outsource their process. These two options tend to be very expensive and eliminate the ability to control their own payroll start to finish.
In the last seven or more years, a new option has emerged as payroll software companies have partnered with payroll reporting software and eFiling services to take advantage of the compliance expertise inherent in those companies to assist their customers in meeting the changing environment.
A solution that is fully integrated into the payroll software is the best choice. It eliminates the need to transfer manual reports or transcribe info to a third party. It provides a familiar interface and improved accuracy as the actual paycheck data is used to produce the filing information.
Taking advantage of a company that deals with compliance every day is the safest way to insure your company is compliant. If your software has not partnered with an eFile and compliance service you may need to re-evaluate whether different software may be appropriate.
By Stephanie Elsen
Are you looking for something better to handle the financial information for your farm? You might be wondering if you came to the right place. During the search process, you probably noticed that there are many accounting software programs available. It can be hard to decide between them all. Here are some statistics about the people who choose Red Wing Software’s CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture to handle their farm’s financial information.
- About 55% need agriculture-specific features or accounting features that work well for farms. By far, the number one reason people move to CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture is that they want to enter and track information specific to how a farm operates. Functions such as production analysis, multiple quantity inventory tracking, and ag-specific ratio analysis (and much more) provide meaningful information, so it is easier to make profitable decisions for your farm.
- 27% are outgrowing their basic accounting software. Those who began by using a basic or “shelf” software program can find that as they grow, it can no longer handle their needs. Perhaps they need to manage more than one entity, or the number of transactions has become too large for their current system. In these situations and many more, CenterPoint is a great program to look at. It can handle the multiple entities, and there is no hard limit to the data that can be entered and stored.
- 18% are new farms. Farms and agricultural operations just starting up can definitely benefit from the accounting and financial tools offered in CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture. Why not start with a program you know can grow as your operation grows, and can give you the information you need, in the way you need to see it. Staying on top of financial trends and knowing your profitability from the start can really help you grow!
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Tommy Atkins mango is grown in the US, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. It is indeed a testament to its popularity that it is not only grown at a number of places, it is also available all year round. It is said to have been developed in Florida in the 1920’s.
It is mildly sweet with Golden to greenish skin with crimson blush and has a firm, fairly fibrous texture. It is also a large mango, with oval or oblong shape.
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Find the new draft of our Clean Energy Fund White Paper. It is a work-in-progress and comments are always welcome. Thanks to Lindsay McCormick, our author!
Why We Should Continue to Fund the Clean Energy Fund
- Big Bang for the Buck– The Clean Energy Fund requires awardees to secure funding for at least half of the total cost of a project, both helping to make ambitious projects a reality and prolonging state funds to get the most bang for your buck.
- Big Return on Investment- In the first two cycles of funding alone, Washington invested $76.4 million and attracted $166 million in matching funds, a $2.47 return on every $1 the state invested.
- Sparks Innovation– From finding new ways to recycle aerospace materials to generating electricity from supercritical carbon dioxide to developing bio-derived plastics for the food industry, the Research, Development, and Deployment Program is sparking world-changing innovation right here in Washington.
- Ensures Fairness in Awarding Contracts– Written into the legislation is language that requires fairness in evaluating proposals, awarding contracts, and monitoring projects so that due diligence is performed and there are no conflicts of interest.
- Creates Jobs– CEF1 created an estimated 391 jobs and CEF2 generated an estimated 430 jobs with hundreds more created in most recent two cycles of funding and even more jobs retained.
- Builds Communities– Through the Energy Revolving Loan Fund, nonprofit lenders have leveraged millions of dollars in funding to help both businesses and homeowners alike complete projects that make their homes and buildings more energy efficient; saving them money on energy costs and building greener communities.
- Improves Our Electric Grid– Grid Modernization has led to ground-breaking innovations such as the development of ride-through technology, which allows for microgrids within the electricity grid to sync and un-sync seamlessly to improve efficiency.
- Sets an Example– Washington is leading the way and setting an example for other states and countries. The Clean Energy Fund has provided a framework for others to follow and shows that funding clean energy isn’t just good for the environment, it’s good for the economy too.
Cool CEF Projects
Beta Hatch Waste-Heat Recovery
Beta Hatch insects are grown indoors, in controlled environments that are kept warm and humid. The CEF project will support development of a novel waste-heat recovery approach, using low-grade waste heat from a neighboring data center to heat the Beta Hatch insect farming operation.
In the United States, waste heat represents 5-13 quadrillion British thermal units per year of potential energy to be harvested (Department of Energy). With the cheapest electricity in the country, Washington hosts millions of square feet of data centers, many concentrated in Chelan and Douglas counties. These facilities often have extremely high energy capacity and consumption rates (with an average of 9 MW/facility) but provide very few jobs. For this and other reasons, in 2018 Chelan County passed a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining and other high-density load applications. Co-locating Beta Hatch insect production with data centers would remove some of these energy-economy tradeoffs by creating jobs in conjunction with server facilities.
Impact Bioenergy Food Waste Biocycling
Impact Bioenergy will implement systematic, community-scale food waste biocycling on Vashon Island, WA. The decentralized system will eliminate the need to ship out food waste materials and bring in amendments like compost and fertilizer. Food waste will be converted to energy for heat, power and alternative fuel vehicles, liquid organic fertilizer and sequestered CO2 used in agriculture and horticulture.
The goal is to demonstrate a highly-repeatable model for hyperlocal food “waste” conversion to renewable resources at a community scale (up to 5,000 lbs./day), that stimulates climate action and a circular economy, while promoting food and energy independence. Impact Bioenergy (IB) will design, build, co-own, co-operate and maintain their AD 185-2 RNG series NAUTILUS microdigester, as a “quintgeneration” system that cogenerates: (1) renewable natural gas (RNG), (2) heat, (3) power, (4) renewable, food-grade carbon dioxide, and (5) organic plant food (which enables conservation agriculture and remediation).
Orcas Power and Light Co-Op Decatur Island Microgrid
The grant will help fund integration of a .5 MW (or 2 mWh) vanadium flow battery into OPALCO’s grid, to condition and time-shift community solar array output, improve load shape, absorb sudden spikes in energy demand, and backup critical substation and fiber optic systems. This will help the co-op save money and improve grid reliability.
The energy storage and community solar systems on Decatur Island generate seven discreet benefits to OPALCO: demand charge reduction, load shaping charge reduction, transmission charge reduction, transmission deferral, energy cost reduction, Volt-VAR/CVR, and outage mitigation.
Energy Northwest Horn Rapids Project
The Horn Rapids Solar, Storage & Training Project in Richland provides Washington state its first opportunity to integrate a large-scale solar and storage facility into its clean mix of hydro, nuclear and wind resources. This first-of-its-kind kind facility combines solar generation with battery storage and technician training.
The site is just north of Richland, on land owned by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The project will be a 4-megawatt electric, 20-acre solar generating array of photovoltaic panels that will provide enough energy to power 600 Richland homes. The project will also include a 1-MW battery storage system; and serve as a training ground for solar and battery technicians throughout the nation. The combination of photovoltaic solar with battery storage will provide a predictable, renewable generating resource.
Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) Transactive Campus Energy Systems Project
The fundamental purpose of transactive energy management is to seamlessly coordinate the operation of large numbers of new intelligent assets—such as distributed solar, energy storage and responsive building loads—to provide the flexibility needed to operate the power grid reliably and at minimum cost, particularly one filled with intermittent renewable generation such as the Pacific Northwest. It addresses the key challenge of providing smooth, stable, and predictable “control” of these assets, despite the fact that most are neither owned nor directly controlled by the power grid.
Avista Energy Storage Project in Pullman
Avista’s Energy Storage project is testing new batteries that can store power when it’s abundant and distribute energy when it’s needed, providing reliable energy regardless of weather patterns. The goal of the project is to explore how energy storage can help our electrical grid become more flexible, more reliable, and more resilient. When the project went online in 2015, it was the largest-capacity, vanadium-flow battery system in North America and Europe. The one-megawatt, 3.2 MWh large-scale battery storage system has the capacity to power 750 homes for 3.2 hours. | <urn:uuid:407ad0d2-9b4a-4e74-9fd7-fc86ab4d625c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cleantechalliance.org/2019/09/27/new-white-paper-draft-the-washington-clean-energy-fund/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.902201 | 1,466 | 2.09375 | 2 |
You might have noticed a lot more people feeling depressed in winter, or suffering from ‘the winter blues,’ even in sunny South Africa. Days are shorter, darker and colder and we’re generally cooped up indoors, now even more with National Lockdown. This can start to have an impact on one’s mood. Here we look at how Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) occurs and what we can do to combat it.
While some cities like Johannesburg and Durban can still enjoy gorgeous sunny afternoons, cities like Cape Town and other parts of South Africa are grey with regular rainfall. In winter, the sun rises in The Mother City around 8 am, while it pops above the horizon before 7 am in Durban and Johannesburg. These changes can make it increasingly harder to get out of bed and to get a morning workout in, adding the winter blues.
Let The Light In
A theory on how SAD works is based on shorter daylight hours. It suggests that light entering the eye changes hormone levels in the body. In our bodies, light functions to stop the production of the sleep hormone melatonin, causing us to wake up. In winter, we produce higher melatonin, which may result in lethargy and symptoms of depression. Below are behavioural tips that form part of what psychologists call ‘Light Therapy” and are beneficial for getting more light into your life.
- Go for a midday walk
- Sit, work or read near a window
- On weekends, spend more time outdoors
- Replace your alarm clock with a dawn light. Set the light to a traditional sunrise time and slowly the light will brighten at your dedicated time in the morning, waking you up.
- If your home generally gets a lot of shade and is thus quite dark in winter, it might be worth investing in a daylight therapy lamp that mimics sunlight to boost your exposure to light.
Move That Body
Another saviour from the seasonal slump of SAD is to get active. Even if the weather is miserable and you don’t feel like heading outdoors, there are several ways to stay active in winter. Thirty minutes of vigorous exercise three times a week is effective against depression and is beneficial for healthy muscles and joints.
- Take a walk whenever you can during the day. Don’t forget your face mask.
- Have a standing meeting.
- Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
- Check out free online classes that you can do from the comfort of home. Visit the Medshield Movement portal for free exercise classes or consider our ClickFit programmes.
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This is the fifth in the series of guest posts written by one of SUNCAT’s Contributing Libraries. This month, Jennifer Evans, Assistant Librarian at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, writes about the library and its collections.
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales was founded by Royal Charter in 1907, the foundation stone was laid in 1912 and the building was officially opened to the public in 1927. The Library, with in-built panelling and shelving was custom made, as were the two original iron roller racking stacks.
Our main purpose here in the Library is to serve the museum curatorial staff, together with other colleagues but we are also available to external researchers and students. All visits by external visitors, that is members of the public, students etc., are by strict appointment only.
Our journal holdings are extensive and complement the curatorial departments; Art, Archaeology & Numismatics, Zoology, Botany, Geology and Industry. However, our collections of conservation and museology journals are also strong. We house the libraries of the Cardiff Naturalists Society and the Cambrian Archaeological Association, which means we receive, record and house their books and journals. There is also a large library at our sister museum; St Fagans: Museum of National History, which holds a large collection of journals concerning the social history of Wales and also many early Welsh language journals.
With regards to books, as with the journals, our various departmental libraries hold material complimenting curatorial disciplines. However, the Main Library holds books pertaining to houses and architecture, conservation, museology (everything to do with museums: history & theory, collection management, exhibitions, education etc.), general reference works and extensive Welsh historical society transactions.
The Museum Library has been the recipient of several generous loans and donations over the years. Some collections are finite and remain the same as when they were passed to the Museum, whereas others are added to as part of the Library’s collecting policy.
The Willoughby Gardner Collection comprises of early natural history books bequeathed to the museum in 1953; included in this collection are two incunables (pre-1501 books), as well as a number of writings by Conrad Gesner and other 16th and 17th century writers. Our Tours of Wales Collection comprises of late 18th & early 19th century topographical books. The Vaynor Collection consists of a number of 16th and 17th century astronomical works, including several of the writings of Galileo. The Tomlin Collection is a fine collection of books and journals on mollusca published from the late 17th century onwards, given over several years during the 1940s and 1950s. It is generally recognised as being the finest collection of its subject outside of London.
One of our largest collections is on long term loan from The Davies Trust. The Davies Sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret, were great benefactors to the Museum by donating their collection of Impressionist Art. However, they also established and ran their own private printing press, called The Gregynog Press, during the 1930s and 1940s. Gwendoline especially was a leading light in the foundation of the Press, and her personal collection of the Press’s books, that is all the special bindings, is currently on long term loan to us.
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A meeting of the defence ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held in Beijing on April 24, 2018. This is the first meeting attended by India and Pakistan after they have become full-fledged members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at the Astana Summit on June 8-9, 2017.The participants in the meeting reaffirmed their commitment “to enhancing trust among SCO member states on military matters, and working together to counter new challenges and threats, as well as ensuring that peace, stability and security in the region remain priorities for SCO member states.”The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has made outstanding achievements in combating the three evil forces of terrorism, separatism and extremism. Addressing this meeting on April 24, 2018, Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman highlighted that “international terrorism is today the most serious threat to our peaceful societies. Terrorism threatens to derail our developmental aspirations and create sustained instability both within our countries and across national borders.”India has always stressed for enhanced cooperation between India and the SCO in countering these evils in the region.
In order to provide the legal support for its counterterrorist activities and to implement the Shanghai Convention, the SCO established the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure(RATS) in 2002.The Executive Committee of the RATS is the permanent body of the SCO based in Tashkent. It is noteworthy that the SCO countries established the practice of conducting joint anti-terrorist exercises. Regular participation in the meetings of Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) and joint military exercises may provide the new level of intelligence sharing and it also enhance counter-terrorism strategies to fight terror. This is further clarified by MEA joint secretary (Eurasia) G V Srinivas in a press conference. He said that, “There’s little possibility of India staying out of such an exercise. We hope to benefit from RATS joint exercises against terrorism and also its data bank on terrorists.”
India considers RATS as an important and effective organisation in fight against terrorism. The Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (RATS SCO) possesses data on 2,500 suicide bombers and 69 terrorist organizations.In accordance with the decisions and approval of the RATS SCO Council, a List comprising more than 100 organizations, including “Islamic State”, “Islamic Movement of Eastern Turkestan”, “Hizbut-Tahrir al Islami”, “Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan”, etc. which includes more than 3,000 individuals, whose activities are banned on the territories of the SCO member states.Moreover, the SCO has already banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (Pakistan) during its meeting in Bishkek in 2007. India should also insist SCO member states to include Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) in the List of banned organizations in SCO Territory as well as which would be more useful for India in fighting terrorism in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, where it has been battling insurgency for more than two decades.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s member-countries will hold the next joint military exercise “Peace Mission” in Russia in 2018. India and Pakistan, along with the other member states, will participate in joint exercises against terrorism under the banner of RATS (Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure) of SCO. Probably this would be the first exercise, but not the first engagement, as both have worked together before under the supervision of the UN. In this context, India and Pakistan will have to act in strict accordance with the SCO Charter which states that “The main SCO goals and tasks shall be: strengthening mutual trust, friendship and good-neighbourliness between the member States; development of multifaceted cooperation in the maintenance and strengthening of peace, security and stability in the region and promotion of a new democratic, fair and rational political and economic international order; joint combating terrorism, separatism and extremism in all their manifestations, fighting against illicit narcotics and arms trafficking and other types of transnational criminal activity, and also illegal migration”.
However, there are certain apprehensions about the cooperation between India and Pakistan in the field of counter-terrorism because both states have a long tradition of suspicion and rivalry on various issues including Kashmir. For instance, they have different views on cross-border attacks in Kashmir. As one of the Russian scholar suggested that “any direct interference in the Kashmir issue should be avoided from the start.” He further warned that failing to help to manage the relationship between India and Pakistan carries a serious risk for the entire SCO project. Similarly, other argued that “hardly anyone within the SCO would like to see the Kashmir issue being brought to the table. But it is no secret that Pakistan has long been insisting on its internationalization.”India has clarified from very beginning that there is no role for third-party mediation in India-Pakistan conflict. This is further explained by SCO Secretary General Rashid Alimov during an interview with TASS correspondence where he stated that “I would like to note that the SCO does not deal with resolving bilateral disputes, be it border disputes, water disputes or any other matters in relations between certain member states. This is also true of the Indian-Pakistani problem.”
It would be very difficult for Indian Government to get convinced the other SCO member states regarding Pakistan’s involvement in the separatist movements in Kashmir. Therefore, India has little to gain in this context because the member states will avoid in mediating on the bilateral disputes (Kashmir) as long as both side request to do so. Consequently, only the sharing of information within the framework of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) is possible in the SCO but not a joint struggle against terror. It is still undefined that to what extent India will be able to utilise the SCO platform to advance its own security and economic interests, in a situation where Chinese influence within the organisation remains at its uttermost.
- “Press release on the 15th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Defence Ministers meeting”, April 24, 2018, http://eng.sectsco.org/news/ 20180424/413811.html
- Nirmala Sitharaman (2018), “RakshaMantri’s Address at The 15th SCO Defence Ministers meeting in China”, April 24, 2018, http://pib.nic.in /newsite/pmreleases.aspx?mincode=33
- RaffaelloPantucci (2015), “India and SCO: the real benefit”, July 9, 2015, available at http://www.gatewayhouse.in/india-and-sco-the-real-benefit/
- “India to use Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in its war on terror”, June 8, 2017, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-to-use-sco-in-its-war-on-terror/articleshow/59044465.cms
- Sergei Smirnov (2016), “Shanghai Pact Anti-Terror Database Lists 2,500 Suicide Bombers, 69 Groups”, September13, 2016, https://sputniknews.com/asia/201609131045248480-sco-rats-terrorism/
- About Information Accounts of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, August 18, 2017, http://www.european-times.com/about-information-accounts-regional-anti-terrorist-structure-of-the-shanghai-cooperation-organization/
- SCO makes list of banned terrorist organisations, July 30, 2007, http://news.uzreport.uz/news_1_e_34705.html
- Dmitri Trenin (2016), “Russia, China Can Help Kashmir Tensions”, October 10, 2016, available at http://carnegie.ru/2016/10/10/russia-china-can-help-kashmir-tensions-pub-64824
- Boris Volkhonsky (2017), “How the entry of India and Pakistan transforms the SCO’s agenda”, May 30, 2017, https://www.rbth.com/international/2017/05/30/how-the-entry-of-india-and-pakistan-transforms-the-scos-agenda_773172
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Made from whiskey barrels once used by the Woodford Reserve Distillery.
Read about how we make our rings
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, they knew they had "awoken a sleeping giant," but they had no idea just how prepared this giant was for war. The USS North Carolina (BB-55) was built in 1940 and commissioned for service in April of 1941. She was the newest and fastest battleship which the US had ever created and would go on to lead every major naval offensive in WWII, earning 15 battle stars. Her wartime complement included 144 officers and 2,195 enlisted men of the finest generation America has ever known.
After her decommissioning in June of 1947 and subsequent restoration project years later, the Teak wood of her original decks were made available to the public in limited supply. We are very excited to offer a limited collection of rings from this story filled wood.
A Sailor and His Whiskey
For fun, and because it looks amazing, we have paired this heritage teak wood with another favorite of any sailor: whiskey! The whiskey barrel liner provides both an aesthetic contrast and adds to the story. Most of the whiskey barrel wood we use contains traces of the charred oak, part of the whiskey barrel making process, and adds distinct flecks of color to the oak. The optional copper band brings an extra dimension of detail to the ring and reminds us of the old brass works.
Each Ring is Handcrafted in North Carolina
As a former sailor, I am proud to craft each ring by hand here in the state to which the BB-55 owes its name. It is my honor to play a small role in the new "Made in USA" movement that is taking place across the nation and to do so by sharing part in our American heritage.
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If you are a homeowner that is concerned about the quality of the air your family breathes every day inside the home, this article today is for you. Perhaps you invest in appliances with high-quality filters or have a series of dehumidifiers throughout your house. Maybe you have taken up a green thumb and decorated your living areas with plants that are keen on filtering out pollutants in order to increase the efficiency of cleaning your air. However you go about it, our company professionally installs the EZ Breathe Whole Home Ventilation System for homes all across Middle Tennessee. Here are some of the reasons why:
- The EPA has identified that the indoor air quality of American homes can be up to 5x more polluted than outdoor air!
- Homes are being built to be much more efficient than they used to. This means less communication with outdoor air and more trapping of pollutants inside.
- In some homes, the pollutants can accumulate to such high levels (from anything from cleaning products to smoking) that families experience respiratory symptoms as a result.
- Other ventilation systems available to homeowners are marketed as solutions that also work to introduce pleasant smells into the home while it works. These units have been shown to only increase the toxicity of your air quality.
By creating an air exchange in your home, the pollutants are pulled out of the air in your home and expelled to the outdoors while simultaneously drawing fresh air in. The EZ Breathe whole home ventilation system unit works passively, therefore requires very little energy to perform the filtering and ventilation your family needs to be able to breathe a little easier. Our team of dedicated professionals will install the unit in the location best-determined to deliver the level of ventilation and dehumidification you need, including the basement or crawl space.
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With new major spending packages investing billions of dollars in electric vehicles in the U.S., some analysts have raised concerns over how green the electric vehicle industry actually is, focusing particularly on indirect emissions caused within the supply chains of the vehicle components and the fuels used to power electricity that charges the vehicles.
But a recent study from the Yale School of the Environment published in Nature Communications found that the total indirect emissions from electric vehicles pale in comparison to the indirect emissions from fossil fuel-powered vehicles. This is in addition to the direct emissions from combusting fossil fuels — either at the tailpipe for conventional vehicles or at the power plant smokestack for electricity generation — showing electric vehicles have a clear advantage emissions-wise over conventional vehicles. For further information see the IDTechEx report on Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea and Air 2021-2041.
"The surprising element was how much lower the emissions of electric vehicles were," says postdoctoral associate Stephanie Weber. "The supply chain for combustion vehicles is just so dirty that electric vehicles can't surpass them, even when you factor in indirect emissions."
Weber was part of the study led by Paul Wolfram '21 PhD — now a postdoc with the Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland — and that included YSE economics professor Ken Gillingham and Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a former YSE faculty member. The research team combined concepts from energy economics and industrial ecology — carbon pricing, life cycle assessment, and modeling energy systems — to find if carbon emissions were still reduced when indirect emissions from the electric vehicle supply chain were factored in.
"A major concern about electric vehicles is that the supply chain, including the mining and processing of raw materials and the manufacturing of batteries, is far from clean," says Gillingham. "So, if we priced the carbon embodied in these processes, the expectation is electric vehicles would be exorbitantly expensive. It turns out that's not the case; if you level the playing field by also pricing the carbon in the fossil fuel vehicle supply chain, electric vehicle sales would actually increase."
The study also considered future technological change, such as decarbonization of the electricity supply, and found this strengthened the result that electric vehicles dominate when indirect supply chain emissions are accounted for.
The research team gathered data using a National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) created by the Energy Information Administration, which models the entire U.S. energy system using detailed information from the current domestic energy system and a forecast of the future of the electric system. Wolfram completed a life cycle assessment that provided outputs of indirect emissions, which were then plugged into the NEMS model to see how a carbon tax on these indirect emissions would change the behavior of consumers and manufacturers. Weber assisted in modifying the NEMS code.
According to Wolfram, the study shows that "the elephant in the room is the supply chain of fossil fuel-powered vehicles, not that of electric vehicles." He notes that the faster we switch to electric vehicles, the better — at least in countries with a sufficiently decarbonized electricity supply, like the U.S.
Gillingham, whose research has focused extensively on alternative energy adoption in transportation, says this research provides a better understanding of how comprehensive carbon pricing — which includes the full supply chain — can shift consumers toward electric vehicles.
Source: Yale University
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Around 4,500 more people have joined the NHS children’s mental health services in England – 40% more than before the pandemic.
Between March 2019 and March 2022 the NHS mental health workforce has grown by 18,583 full time staff, with the children and young people workforce increasing by almost 4,500.
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‘There has never been a more important time to work in children’s mental health – demand for NHS services has skyrocketed over the last two years with the pandemic taking a significant toll on the nation’s wellbeing,’ said Claire Murdoch, NHS Mental Health Director.
‘Thousands of new staff have already joined the ranks, as the NHS launches even more brand new roles to meet record demand across the country to provide specialist support for children and young people to help with the pressures they face.’
The new recruits include dozens of psychological practitioners to specifically help young people aged 13 to 17 years-old with severe mental health problems such as severe depression, self-harm and more complex conditions, by offering them assessments, coping strategies and support in the community.
In the year up to April 2022 over 677,000 children and young people were supported by NHS services – an increase of around 163,000 since the launch of the NHS Long Term Plan.
‘It’s great news and extremely important that the mental health workforce in England is growing. Collaborative effort with the NHS, charities and those who use our services has been vital to achieve this. Demand for services has risen and to provide safe, effective quality services we need the right support available at the right time and in the right place,’ said Mark Radford, Chief Nurse at HEE.
‘This growth involved creating new roles which offer tailored support alongside building the skills, knowledge and abilities of our existing mental health workforce, with a focus on using those who use mental health services to create learning programmes for the people who work with them – so their needs inform everything that we do. It is essential that we continue to invest in education and training to grow the workforce further.’ | <urn:uuid:394f778a-8c5c-4e26-aec8-7bbe2e728b2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.independentnurse.co.uk/news/major-boost-to-youth-mental-health-workforce/247194/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.97083 | 440 | 2.234375 | 2 |
People have found good use for yuccas since pre-historic times.
“Along with lechuguilla, prickly pear, and sotol, yucca was one of the most useful plants to early humans in our state. Literally every part of the plant yields something of value, whether a foodstuff, fiber, soap, tanning agent, medicine, building material, or fuel. Amid hundreds of representations of animals and humans, yucca is one of the few wild plants depicted in prehistoric petroglyphs.”
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The works of George Orwell, C.S. Lewis and Tolkien have arguably more influence today than when they were first published. 1984, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings have also been turned into movies as has that other icon of British fiction: Harry Potter.
This is Leadenhall Market, an old-fashioned Victorian market that's still popular today, and I've been told that if I walk over here, something rather magical will happen... because this is also the location of Diagon Alley from the Harry Potter films where wizards come shopping.
The Harry Potter films were adapted from the children’s novels of J.K. Rowling. She is a world-class leader in modern literature and one of the most successful authors of her generation. Over 450 million copies of the Harry Potter books have sold throughout the world. They’ve been translated into 72 different languages.
Amanda Craig is a novelist and The Times critic for children’s literature.
Richard: Amanda, what impact has J.K. Rowling had on literature?
Amanda: I think above all she's reminded the world that the British are great storytellers. She's made people in every country laugh, cry and sit on the edge of their seats.
Richard: What about other British authors, then?
Amanda: Well, there are fantastic children's authors, like Philip Pullman, whose Dark Materials trilogy I'm sure will be familiar, and Anthony Horowitz, who reinvented the James Bond spy novel for teenagers, and for younger children, there's Cressida Cowell's How to Train your Dragon. All of these are fantastic stories.
Richard: Why is Britain such a breeding ground for writing talent?
Amanda: Well, we've had over 200 years of practice at the novel and 600 years at the play. We've got people like Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare to draw upon, we've got the wonderful English language and I think we are full of curiosity about other people. We want to entertain them, we want to make them laugh, we want to make them feel shivers up their spine. We just love literature.
Well, I’m excited about the classics and the future of modern British literature. They say there’s a book in everyone and I feel so inspired, I'm going to start writing straight away. I just need a pen...
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Home Harvest Seed Library
Hurstbridge Hub is home to one of the stunning new Home Harvest seed libraries, created by local artist Ravi Sommerhalder. The seed library is stocked with free seeds that are easy to grow and ready to plant in the current season and time of year.
The idea is that you plant the seeds from the library, wait till your plants have flowered and are spent, then harvest the seed to donate back to the library for others to use. And if you buy commercial seed each year and have leftovers you don’t use, we’d love you to donate those as well.
A basket is always available on a shelf of the library for people to leave donated seeds. Just label your packet with the name and variety of plant, the date it was harvested, and any growing information you think might be important, and the Edible Hub garden volunteers will take it from there.
Information on saving seed
The Edendale Farm website has a wealth of information on all aspects of seed saving, including what seeds to save and when, how to collect and store seeds, and tips for saving seeds of different plant varieties. Visit their seed saving page to find out more.
How to fold seed envelopes for the library
All seed envelopes for the Home Harvest seed library are folded by hand, by community members and the Edible Hub garden volunteers. We have regular folding and packing sessions where people get together for a cuppa and chat, while folding and filling packets for the library. Check out our events page for the next fold and fill session at the Hurstbridge Hub.
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Kirsten Bonnén Rask – Tutor and partner – FILMS FOR KIDS.Pro
FRED’s Matt Micucci meets Kirsten Bonnen Rask, general manager of the Norwegian Somorsk Filmsenter, writer and educator.
We interview her as the main international partner of the Film For Kids.Pro in its inaugural edition in Poland, that culminates with the pitching session which takes place during the course of the New Horizons International Film Festival. We also interview her in her role as a tutor.
She tells us about the challenges of getting financial backing for making the ambitious project a reality, and provides us with an overview of how the project worked.
On top of this, Kirsten examines the current state of cinema for a young audience, and mentions the opposite states of filmmaking for such an audience in the two countries of the projects – Poland and Norway.
FILMS FOR KIDS.Pro: The first program in Europe dedicated solely to the development of films for young audiences.
Our goal is to support the production of ambitious movies for children aged 5-12 years, based on the highest artistic and production standards of European, and in particular Norwegian, cinema.
We will work on ideas brought by participants and develop them from a short synopsis through first draft to a second draft of the screenplay (approximately 90-pages long). In parallel we will work with their respective producers on a strategy for financing, promoting and distributing those movies. All elements of the program are focused specifically on cinema for children.
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When a classroom coding assignment proved a bit rudimentary for Josh Stock and his fellow computer science majors, Dr. Stephany Coffman-Wolph upped the ante. The text-based adventure game she asked her class to create (think Zork) wasn’t enough of a challenge, so she had them create an ASCII character adventure akin to the classic video game Net Hack.
It was a welcome change to the curriculum for Stock, who started writing computer programs when he was seven years old. Part of what he likes most about ONU is the attention students receive from the faculty here. It’s common to hear about professors taking extra time to work with a student who might be struggling, but the inverse also happens. Professors push as much as they pull.
“All the professors here are really helpful and want us to succeed, especially Dr. Stephany. She wants us to know what we are doing, and if she sees that we do, she tries to push us to go beyond what we know,” says Stock.
Sometimes it means getting out of his comfort zone, but Stock wouldn’t want it any other way. He actually credits an engineering course with helping him grow the most as a student. It was the first time he accomplished a project related to something that he knew very little about beforehand. In fact, he says he had “no clue” how to do it, but the experience gave him the confidence to try new things, knowing he has the ability to learn what is required to succeed.
The Presidential Scholarship recipient and Choose Ohio First Scholar also credits Northern with providing him and his fellow students with opportunities for hands-on work that makes a difference. That spirit also fueled his desire to join Student Senate.
“We do a lot of projects within majors, and I’ve even worked on a few real-world type problems. For example, we worked with pharmacy students to create an app that quizzes them about their mental health in order to see if they might require counseling.”
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3 ways good friends can help us feel healthier
We’ve all felt it — talking with or spending time with a good friend gives us an emotional boost. But did you know having a good friend can improve our physical health, too?
With the often-over-use of social media, real friendships can fade. But if we want to do all we can for our physical health, it’s in our best interests to have a bestie.
Dr. Vanessa Chang at Aurora Behavior Health Center in Kenosha, Wis., shares 3 reasons why.
#1: Friends can help us live longer
People who have strong relationships can be healthier in old age and live longer than people who don’t, a longtime Harvard study suggests.
How? Friends help us deal with stress. Turning to best friends when life throws you a curveball can make it easier to cope.
“Knowing people we can count on during difficult times can lessen the burden and even make some events seem not stressful at all,” says Dr. Chang.
A good friend can also help remind us to take care of ourselves, like getting our recommended screenings and check-ups.
“Staying in charge of your health is key to extending lifespan, and friends can give us the gentle reminders we all sometimes need,” says Dr. Chang.
#2: Friends may keep our minds sharp
Feeling a sense of belonging and having direct interactions with others may help us keep our brain in shape. A study found older people who feel lonely may have increased risk for dementia by as much as 40%.
#3: Friends can be a good influence
We often take cues from our friends. One study found that people tended to imitate how hard their friends work out.
Hanging out together with those who, for example, bike, do yoga or eat salads for lunch, can help us maintain or acquire healthier habits. (But be aware, it can also work the other way.)
Having a friend to diet with or go on walks or to the gym can give support and help keep you on a healthy track.
“And, just getting out to exercise is a great way to socialize and make new friendships with similar health-minded people,” says Dr. Chang.
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WASHINGTON, Mar 5 2013 (IPS) - Civil society opposition here has strengthened against a U.S.-proposed free trade zone that would include some dozen countries around the Pacific Rim.
As negotiators head into a 16th round of talks this week in Singapore, around 400 organisations are urging the U.S. Congress to demand greater transparency in the proceedings.
On Monday, the first day of the negotiations, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a humanitarian group, called on President Barack Obama’s administration to “end its stall tactics and revise its proposals for what otherwise promises to be the most harmful trade deal ever for access to medicines in developing countries.”
The Singapore talks will extend through Mar. 13. Critics say civil society and other critical stakeholders have been systematically shut out of the negotiations, supplanted by corporate interests.
The proposal, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), currently comprises 11 countries (a 12th, Japan, is also contemplating joining). But the Obama administration has been clear that if passed, the zone would be open-ended in terms of future expansion.
That broad geographical sweep, together with the simultaneous negotiation of a lengthy but highly secretive list of contentious issues not necessarily related to trade, is leading critics to warn that the scope of any pending agreement could negatively impact on nearly half the globe.
And with the Obama administration now saying it wants to wrap up the negotiations by October, some TPP negotiators are reportedly worried that some of the most controversial issues up for discussion are being pushed to the very end in an attempt to “run out the clock”.
According to a new brief released by MSF, U.S. TPP negotiators are pushing for rules that would “enhance patent and data protections for pharmaceutical companies, dismantle public health safeguards enshrined in international law and obstruct price-lowering generic competition for medicines”.
The result could be restrictions on access to affordable generic medicines for “millions” of people.
Judit Rius Sanjuan, U.S. manager for MSF’s Access Campaign, says her office heard that the last time the TPP negotiations included substantive talks on access to medicines was a year ago. At that time, nearly all negotiating partners reportedly rejected a draft chapter on intellectual property rights, which includes the patent provisions.
And while the White House has stated that it would be resubmitting a revised chapter on this issue, Sanjuan says it appears that access to medicines is once again not on the agenda this week in Singapore.
“We are hearing from other negotiating teams that the pressure to finalise this agreement by October is rising, and they fear that if there is not more time for substantive discussion, this chapter could stand,” she told IPS.
“We share the concern that this delay in presenting an alternative text is a U.S. strategy to focus instead on the less controversial chapters and leave behind debate over access to medicines. But doing so would have huge consequences for developing countries.”
In fact, imposing these types of new restrictions would run counter to previous international agreements and national legislation under which Washington has pledged to expand access to generic medicines.
Any restriction in access to such medicines would also affect the United States’ own global health goals. According to Sanjuan, generics make up some 98 percent of the medicines used by PEPFAR, the United States’ flagship anti-HIV/AIDS programme and the world’s largest.
Half the world
Global health wouldn’t be the only sector impacted by the TPP’s passage. Also on Monday, coinciding with the first day of negotiations in Singapore, around 400 groups from a broad range of backgrounds sent an open letter to the U.S. Congress opposing the abnormally secretive way in which negotiations for the trade area have been run.
“This agreement will impact on how trade and investment are conducted in the Pacific Rim for decades, yet the ramifications aren’t fully understood even by people who know about the TPP,” Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of the Washington-based Citizens Trade Campaign, an advocacy group, and an organiser of the letter, told IPS.
“This is an agreement that wouldn’t just affect the economy and sustainability in these 11 countries, but has the potential to impact the economy and environment for literally half the world.”
In lieu of official consultation, the groups are offering recommendations for draft language on issues from environmental standards and human and labour rights to financial regulation and national sovereignty. Yet the central complaint has to do with lack of oversight and transparency.
“We find it troubling that … U.S. negotiators still refuse to inform the American public what they have been proposing,” the letter states. “Shielding not only proposals but agreed-upon texts from public view until after negotiations have concluded and the pact is finalized is not consistent with democratic principles.”
The groups are calling for an opening-up of the talks to both the U.S. Congress and the public at large. They’re also urging lawmakers not to authorise new “fast track” powers that would allow the president to send Congress trade pacts for straight votes without the possibility of amendments.
Free trade advocates tend to suggest that such powers are necessary to get other countries to agree to large-scale trade agreements in the first place, but President Obama had allowed the “fast track” legislation to lapse. On Friday, however, the administration’s new trade policy agenda noted that the president would work with Congress to re-authorise that authority.
The administration has used similar concerns to rationalise the high level of secrecy surrounding the negotiations, saying that greater transparency would upset delicate discussions.
Yet critics point out that draft trade texts at this point in negotiations are often made public, including by the World Trade Organisation. Similar precedent exists from the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the trade zone agreed to in 2001 covering 34 countries, including the United States.
“There’s a real reason why the draft has been kept secret from the U.S. public – Americans wouldn’t support a huge amount of the agenda that the [Obama administration] has been pushing,” Citizens Trade’s Stamoulis says.
“If they were to negotiate an agreement that put human rights ahead of corporate profit, creating more just and sustainable social policy, the TPP could be a tool for incredible good. But if you look at who has a seat at the table, with the public shut out and more than 600 corporate lobbyists included, there is nothing to indicate that’s the deal we’re going to get.”
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Backwards To the Future
Lane Motor Museum Announces Completion of Classic Dymaxion Replica and Appearance at Amelia Island
After eight years, Lane Motor Museum is pleased to finally announce that its replica of Dymaxion Car #1 is complete and will go on display starting Feb. 26, 2015.
Three Dymaxion Cars were produced between 1933 and 1934 by famed futuristic visionary Buckminster Fuller. The Dymaxions were legendary for being far ahead of their time in both design and technology. The three-wheeled Dymaxions, powered by a Ford V-8 engine, could achieve 30 mpg and carried up to 11 passengers. The Dymaxions were teardrop-shaped for aerodynamic efficiency and could reach speeds of 90 mph. The cars also featured front wheel drive, a rear-mounted engine, and rear wheel steering.
As advanced as the Dymaxions were, the project failed to attract sufficient funding to continue, and the project stalled. Two of the cars were sold; one was destroyed in a crash, the other in a fire.
The sole remaining, non-running, original Dymaxion rests at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, NV. Now, thanks to a dedicated team of restorers and mechanics, Lane Motor Museum has one of their own. After undertaking the project in 2007 and after taking many twists and turns, the retrofuturistic Dymaxion is back and here to stay.
“The Dymaxion just makes sense for us to have at the museum,” said Director Jeff Lane. “The design is well ahead of its time and it looks definitely fit the uniquely different philosophy we build our collection around. After doing lots of research, we decided that Dymaxion #1 was the best fit for the museum and now it’s here.”
In 1934, an original Dymaxion was driven on a road trip to Connecticut by famous designer Isamu Noguchi, who helped design the wonder car. This year, Lane Motor Museum Director Jeff Lane will be driving Lane Motor Museum’s example on a road trip of its own from Nashville to make its debut at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance in Florida on March 15, 2015. | <urn:uuid:0844f7a1-a36a-4c30-9461-6a39f41b7a59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/103-audio-video/639-1933-dymaxion-replica-on-display-feb-26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961618 | 529 | 1.789063 | 2 |
The bicentenary of Herman Melville’s birth, which falls this year, provides an opportunity for thinking about how artists have responded to his most famous novel. Moby-Dick (1851), in which Ishmael, the narrator, joins the monomaniacal Captain Ahab aboard the Pequod in a doomed quest to vanquish the titular whale, has given rise to numerous visual interpretations, with illustrators and painters drawn to the novel’s mix of nautical derring-do and philosophical profundity. The novel’s principal characters, and even objects – Ahab, Ishmael, Ishmael’s shipmate Queequeg, from the ‘South Seas’, the whale himself, the coffin on which Ishmael drifts to safety at the end of the novel – have all floated free of their original context and become cultural touchstones.
Rockwell Kent’s line drawings, for instance, originally available as illustrations in the exclusive and expensive Lakeside edition (1930), were quickly republished in a trade edition and then transferred to the more demotic medium of commemorative dinnerware by Vernon Kilns. Also in the 1930s, the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company used an illustration of ‘Moby Dick’s Last Stand’ to advertise its services, while some time later Mohawk Paper Mills produced a set of lithographs, ‘A Classic Creation: The Moby Dick Collection by Barron Storey on Mohawk Vellum’, to promote a new line of products – presumably with the added implication that Melville’s long novel was the ultimate test of a paper manufacturer’s skills. Today, there are dozens of illustrated editions, comic-book and film adaptations, and even a children’s board book (Moby-Dick: An Ocean Primer) designed to introduce young readers to essential maritime terminology such as ‘seagull’ and ‘harpoon’. And of course Starbuck, the Pequod’s first mate and Ahab’s chief antagonist, is now, inadvertently, one of the most frequently mentioned figures from literature.
But while Moby-Dick has often been taken up by artists, it begins with scepticism about images. In the entryway to the Spouter-Inn in New Bedford, Massachusetts, as Ishmael waits to board the Pequod, his eyes settle on a large painting. He is drawn to the work – possibly inspired by J.M.W. Turner’s Whalers (c. 1845; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) – though he struggles to say what it depicts: ‘a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.’ However, its ‘indefinite’ qualities and its ‘half-attained, unimaginable sublimity’ also fascinate him. It is ‘the Black Sea in a midnight gale’, ‘the unnatural combat of the four primal elements’, ‘a Hyperborean winter scene’, ‘the breaking-up of the icebound stream of Time’. ‘Does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish?’, he asks. The lure of indefiniteness is, for Ishmael, undeniable even if he can’t entirely give up a contrasting hope: that he might ‘find out what that marvellous painting meant’.
The questions Ishmael asks himself at the Spouter – what the painting means and what it represents, but also more basically which things can be painted and which cannot – are central to Moby-Dick. ‘I shall ere long,’ Ishmael promises midway through the novel, ‘paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman.’ But declaring this objective also allows Ishmael (and Melville) to dwell on the rarity of accurate depictions of whales. Natural historians are, he argues, as incapable of capturing the whale’s appearance as fine artists – to him, the efforts of Frederick Cuvier in his Natural History of Whales (1836) are as lacking in plausibility and precision as those of William Hogarth in Perseus Descending (1729–30). Meanwhile, Ahab’s obsession with the whale relates in part to its status as ‘that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last’. (This phrase provides the title for Elizabeth A. Schultz’s magisterial study of Moby-Dick and modern American art.) Moby-Dick fantasises about the visual image as a potential site of meaning or knowledge, but is at the same time unsure of the explanatory force of pictures; the best artworks that respond to Melville’s text share its interest in these opposed ways of thinking about images.
The first illustrations to Moby-Dick appeared in 1896, five years after Melville’s death and four years after the publication of illustrated editions of his other novels. Both A. Burnham Shute and I.W. Taber, in 1896 and 1899 respectively, produced four illustrations to accompany the text. Each devotes attention to the climactic final hunt, in which the Pequod chases Moby Dick through equatorial waters for three days before it is sunk. But as Schultz has pointed out, the scenes depicted by Shute and Taber could serve as reference points for a number of moments in the text, or indeed any number of 19th-century maritime novels. In this, Shute and Taber set the tone for 20th-century illustrators, including Mead Schaeffer (in 1922), John D. Whiting (in 1928), and the anonymous artist of the 1951 Classics Illustrated edition. The last is typical in depicting Ahab as more or less comparable to the other members of the crew – a little intense, perhaps, but heroically muscular and fundamentally reasonable in his aims. The appeal of Moby-Dick for these illustrators lay in the possibility of recasting it as boys’ adventure fiction, and they emphasised the heroic conventionalism of its characters and events.
Melville, who had little patience for ‘the gasping admirers of Captain Marryatt [sic] & the sea’, might have protested on these grounds alone. But in emphasising Ahab’s heroism, Shute, Taber and the other artists in this tradition also devote little care to the depiction of the whale itself. Shute’s image of Moby Dick throwing a sailor into the air, for instance, gives the whale a strange and indeterminate form. While Moby Dick’s surprisingly slender neck is visible above the waves, his head is invisible, leaving Shute’s knowledge of cetacean anatomy in doubt – an inattention to detail that, with unintentional irony, replicates the errors of perception that the narrator of Moby-Dick makes it his business to address.
The insufficiency of all kinds of knowledge about whales is one of the text’s key themes, and Melville’s best illustrators have also made it theirs. This has sometimes meant a focus on measurement and classification. Barry Moser’s 100 wood engravings for the imposing Arion Press edition of 1979 (which was priced at $1,000, in an edition of 265) take up the classificatory urge of Moby-Dick’s chapters on cetology, for example, providing an illustrated glossary of whaleboats, ship’s gear, marine species and whale anatomy – from prawns to the whale’s penis. Disconnected from the events and characters of the text, these beautiful pictures achieve a kind of abstraction of their own. Running athwart Ishmael’s assertion that ‘there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like’, they nevertheless demonstrate the limits of precision as a way of developing knowledge of this text’s mysteries: Moser’s illustrations deliberately clarify little about Ishmael’s quirks as a narrator, say, or Ahab’s private, unintelligible obsession with the whale – under the instructions of the press, he was to depict no major scenes or characters, in order to leave the reader to imagine them.
Moser’s illustrations draw on the most famous, and still the most influential, illustrations to Moby-Dick, those by Kent mentioned above. (The Folio Society has an edition in print that uses Kent’s illustrations.) Unlike prior illustrators, Kent devoted considerable attention to the accurate depiction of whales and whaling; his images draw on considerable research, as well as his own experiences roughing it in Newfoundland, in Alaska, in Tierra del Fuego, and – shipwrecked – in Greenland. Kent was drawn to the moments in the novel in which tools of scientific accuracy are tested and found wanting: Emblems, for instance, shows a flower growing out of a heap of globes, books, skeletons and quadrants like the one smashed by Ahab. Kent’s style is also precise: his meticulous drawings in black ink replicate the parallel lines of woodcuts. This technique allows for an array of effects and textures, but images such as the cover of the first volume of the Lakeside Press edition pare back Kent’s style to its iconographic, rectilinear essence.
Kent maintained that his aim was ‘to transmute pigment into light; and to reduce the bewildering infinitude of nature to an ordered finitude’. But where Moser would later emphasise the ‘bare […] facts’ of whaling, Kent’s images are suspicious of mere surfaces. For him, illustration might accomplish something more mystical and connect what is seemingly unconnected, as suggested by twin images of Moby Dick breaching and Ishmael bobbing free of the wreck of the Pequod on the coffin. Here, the possibilities of Kent’s monochromatic images are most boldly explored – not only for depicting contrast, but for probing its limits as a means of differentiating between physical forms, and of keeping tangible things distinct from their psychological or metaphysical implications. Moby Dick is the ‘White Whale’, after all, and whiteness terrifies Ishmael in part because he begins to see it everywhere, with ‘the white depths of the milky way’ summoning thoughts of ‘the heartless voids and immensities of the universe’. At their best, Kent’s images capture such proliferating connections – between the whiteness of the whale, the whiteness of the stars reflected on the sea in which he floats, and the whiteness of Ishmael’s arm stretching upward. Moby-Dick is a philosophical novel as well as a novel about whaling, and Kent is as invested in the novel’s ideas as he is in the more prosaic aspects of sea life.
Kent is not alone in stressing Melville’s mystical side. Take, for instance, Gilbert Wilson’s Insanity Series (c. 1950), in which Ahab’s head explodes by increments, finally revealing a universe of stars. Or consider Robert Del Tredici’s numerous visual responses to Moby-Dick since the 1960s, which play with the hieratic qualities of Melville’s text, as in the mixed-media print on metallic paper Ubiquitous (2014), recently acquired by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts. Here, Del Tredici captions an image of the phases of the moon, with Moby Dick breaching in between them, with a quotation from the novel about ghostly sightings of the whale ‘in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time’.
Is there a risk, for those artists who are drawn to the novel’s mystical associations, in taking Ahab at his word that ‘all visible objects […] are but as pasteboard masks’ that must be violently penetrated in order to achieve a truer vision? The obstacles to understanding that beset Ishmael are often tangible – and practical. The whale cannot be painted properly, he suggests, simply because it can’t be seen. This is in part because ‘it is a thing eternally impossible for mortal man to hoist him bodily into the air, so as to preserve all his mighty swells and undulations’. But Ishmael also believes that to depict the whale ‘as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman’ involves more than just the eye: seeing a whale depends on touching it, getting inside it, knowing it inside and out – not abstractly but because, like one member of the Pequod’s crew, you have physically been inside its head harvesting spermaceti. Hence Mark Milloff, in Stripping the Whale (1985), represents the moment when Queequeg pulls this crew member (the Native American Tashtego) from the whale’s head as an explosion of marine creatures, harpoons and blood.
Abstraction and riddles have offered artists another way of taking up this challenge. The visual arts since the start of the 20th century, when Melville was rediscovered, have followed Ishmael in exploring uncertainty alongside the alternate need to explain. Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (1986), for instance, emphasises the cryptic character of Moby-Dick by incorporating words from the novel into the work’s own sprawling cipher. Taking another approach, a number of artists, especially after Jackson Pollock’s Blue (Moby Dick) (1943), have used the novel to test the relationship between the representational and the figural. Sam Francis’s abstractions such as Moby Dick (1957–58) and Ahab (1962) invite the viewer to consider a resistance to form as appropriate to the chaotic natures of the novel’s central figures. At the same time, the novel’s fascination with dismemberment makes a more literal, gory reading of these pictures possible.
More recently, Frank Stella’s collection of paintings, lithographs and sculptures inspired by Moby-Dick push abstraction even further, rediscovering Melville’s capacity, in the artist’s words, ‘to bend and curve and deform’. But still, Stella’s luminous, often primary colours, the fluency of his cut-outs and collages, and the promise of straightforward representation made by titling works after chapters of the novel – The Pequod Meets the Rachel (1988), The Shark Massacre (1988), The Candles (1992) – encourage the viewer to hope that these enigmatic artworks might also function as explanations, if only for a moment. In the pursuit of a visual idiom that befits Melville’s novel, perhaps – as Ishmael puts it – ‘a careful disorderliness is the true method’.
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Asheville Sports Medicine
Expertise you can trust to get you back in the game.
Sports medicine is typically thought to include only care of young school-age athletes. In fact, active patients of all ages find physical impediments to their chosen activities. Whether a high school football player with an ACL tear or a retired tennis player with a rotator cuff tear, these patients can benefit from the latest arthroscopic and minimally invasive techniques available at Carolina Hand and Sports Medicine. We offer treatment of both upper and lower extremity injuries. While the majority of these take place in the shoulder, elbow, and knee, we also treat other athletic-related injuries in the leg.
Our board-certified physicians and PAs understand the athlete’s mindset.
We know how important it is to you to maintain a level of fitness and get back to the sports you enjoy. Our goal is to return both athletes and non-athletes to their previous level of activity in a safe and efficient manner.
Dr. West assisted in the development of Mission Sports Medicine, a collaboration of Asheville sports medicine physicians who are solidifying the substantial resources of Mission Hospital to deliver the best possible care to organized sports throughout Western North Carolina.
Common Sports Injury Conditions:
- Swelling – is often one of the first things noticed after acute sports injuries.
- Sprains and Strains – probably the most common orthopedic injuries. Sprains are injuries to ligaments. Ligaments are the primary connective tissue that attaches bones to other bones. Strains are injuries to muscles and tendons. Muscles are contractile tissues that help to produce movement in the body. Tendons are connective tissues that attach muscles to bones.
- Tendonitis – is an inflammation or irritation of the tendon or the connection of the tendon to the bone. It is usually caused by overuse or repetitive activities.
- Bursitis – is an inflammation of the bursa, usually associated with overuse and specific regions of the body
- Bone Fractures – also known as “broken bone”, are different types of fractures include stress, salter- harris, comminuted and spiral.
Common Sports Injuries by Body Sites:
- Ankle/Foot Injuries – constitute the most common types of injuries in sports participation to include Achilles tendon, strains, and sprains.
- Knee Injuries – includes patellar tendonitis/tendonitis, meniscus and ligament tears.
- Hip Injuries – includes tendon strains, bursitis, and tendonitis.
- Shoulder Injuries – are very common in sports involving throwing or other overhead motions involving rotator cuff injuries, labral tears, and shoulder dislocation.
- Elbow Injuries – includes tennis elbow and ligament injuries.
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October 1, 2006
by Rich Mounce, DDS
Recently I was asked this question by a reader. The answer is primarily dependent on the brand of rotary nickel titanium (RNT) file used, taper, tip size, how many times it has been used previously and under what conditions. Obviously, clinicians want to obtain the greatest benefit from the given RNT while not having to purchase more RNT than necessary. Strategies for determining the optimal number of uses will be discussed and specific recommendations made.
Every rotation of a RNT is one rotation closer to the fracture of the file. In other terms, there is a finite number of insertions and rotations for any RNT file. At best, clinicians can make empirical estimates of how many insertions and rotations a given file can endure before it should be discarded. The endodontic literature for the most part advocates RNT files as disposable instruments, a position with which I do not agree. While at a theoretical level this may make sense, as it is the safest recommendation, it is not practical due to the cost of the files and their ability to be sterilized.
Complicating matters, how much clinical life a given RNT has left is empirical. A given insertion into one canal might not be equal to another insertion with regard to the time the file is used, the torque applied to it, the type of dentin being cut, the number of rotations, the effect of curvature, etc. In other words, file wear is very subjective, especially before the file shows some obvious defect or deformation.
This said, irrespective of the given file tip size or taper, if the file shows any wear or deformation, it should be discarded immediately. Having a magnifying glass with an enhanced light source built in where the assistant or doctor can carefully evaluate the file for deformation can very quickly pay for itself as the clinician can eliminate the files which need to be thrown away early and save those that have more useful life. One additional useful side benefit to using the surgical operating microscope is that the file can be visualized clinically as it is inserted into the canal and as it exits. If it is kinked or deformed pre- or post-use, the deformation can be observed and the file discarded.
Strategies to maximize the amount of life of a RNT include:
1) utilizing a glide path, i.e. getting the canal to at least a size 15 hand file before a RNT is placed into the canal;
2) minimizing engagement of the RNT to 1-2 mm per insertion into the canal as opposed to engaging significant amounts of the canal wall, i.e. 8-10 mm at a time;
3) use of a light, gentle and touch in insertion of the files, done from the fingers and not from the forearm;
4) copious irrigation during all stages of treatment with recapitulation to make sure that the canal path is open and patent;
5) crown down endodontics where the coronal third is instrumented first, the middle third second and the apical third is prepared last as doing so reduces the amount of torque placed on the files as instrumentation progresses.
A file should be considered for disposable when (aside from the obvious defects mentioned above):
1) the RNT file has been used in a significant curvature and comes out of the canal with any form of curve (even without deformation) imprinted upon it;
2) the particular dentin does not cut easily and insertion, despite the existence of an excellent glide path, is labored. This lack of ideal cutting can be due to dulling of the file or it could be due to the nature of the dentin, in either clinical case, the file should be discarded.
3) If orifice openers are placed into an orifice or curvature that makes an acute bend, it is relatively easy to fracture the tip, especially if the file is inserted with greater than necessary force. Such files are often best used once.
In my empirical opinion, the optimal RNT file on the market now is the K3 RNT from SybronEndo, Orange, CA, USA. The file cuts very well, has an excellent tactile feel, is difficult to fracture if used properly and is more than sufficiently flexible to negotiate even the most challenging curvatures.
Excellent endodontic treatment can be performed with many different files and file designs, this said, the user friendliness of the K3 with regard to the above considerations has an additional advantage, extended useful life. I use K3 on average in approximately 5 molar teeth, this could be 20 or more canals.
Some files might be used more and some less, but overall, this is my experience with K3. While I have extensive clinical experience with a number of other RNT files, this is not a recommendation I can make for all other brands. One reason this is possible is the fact that K3 has uneven flute widths and flute depths and as such has more metal at its tip than files of a U shape cross sectional design. This metal gives the K3 greater resistance to torque failure at its tip, an attribute not shared by all brands.
In addition, in the most general terms, smaller files resist torque less well than their larger counterparts, but they resists flexural failure better. This must be borne in mind when making blanket recommendations about how many times a RNT can be used. .02 tapered files will have less useful life than the larger tapers. .04 and .06 tapered files in the smaller tip sizes 15 and 20 will have less uses than their larger counterparts.
Finally, it could be asked, why not just sort the files by numbers of uses and arbitrarily discard them after a certain predetermined number of canals. With another brand, this precaution might be advisable; with K3, it is simply not necessary. Such limits are wholly arbitrary and for K3 use, simply unnecessary.
I welcome your questions and feedback.
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This $25 DDR5 SO-DIMM Adapter Lets You Plug Laptop RAM Into A Desktop Motherboard
There are a lot more DDR5 memory kits to choose from now than when Alder Lake first launch, but you'll still pay handsomely for most of the more intriguing options. A quick check on Newegg, for example, shows 32GB DDR5 kits starting at around $310 to over $600—yikes! Should laptop DDR5 memory prove more affordable, though, there's an adapter that might interest you.
We already something similar when an ASUS engineer showed off a wild DDR4 memory adapter for DDR5 motherboards in December, complete with ROG accents. It was rather larger, though, especially after plugging in a DDR5 memory module. Beyond dealing with the sheer size of the thing, it's not actually available to purchase anywhere. And that's a different use-case anyway.
This adapter don't do anything for your DDR4 RAM. Instead, as spotted by Akiba PC Hotline, the "JET-5669AA" DIMM adapter that lets you install install DDR5 SO-DIMM memory into a full-size DIMM slot o your DDR5 motherboard (which right is limited to Alder Lake, at least until AMD launches Zen 4 later this year)
It's available at a retailer called M-FACTORS Storage for $25, plus shipping. So for a kit of two DDR5 laptop modules, you're looking at a $50+ solution. That's not cheap, but could be an option if laptop memory ends up being significantly cheaper than desktop RAM.
We can't say how well it works, though. The adapter is actually designed for testing DDR5 SO-DIMM modules and is not really intended for consumers to use as their daily driver. But for anyone who wants to give it a go, it's an option.
According to the product description, it sports a 6-layer PCB design and is compatible with JEDEC's MO-337A SO-DIMM specification. The listing also indicates it supports frequencies above 4800MHz. Interestingly, the lifespan is rated at "over 600 cycles at under normal operations," and it's not real clear what exactly that means.
"To test DDR5 SO-DIMM Memory Module, user first plugs in the JET-5669AA onto the tested system (such as motherboard or DDR5 SO-DIMM Memory module testing equipment), then inserts the DDR5 SO-DIMM Memory Module onto the socket of JET-5669AA before proceeding to run the memory module testing," the description states.
There's really just a narrow use case to even consider something like this in a consumer setting, and is dependent on how the market for laptop DDR5 memory shakes out. We took at peek at Newegg and only found a single option—a Samsung 8GB DDR5-4800 SO-DIMM module from a marketplace seller, priced at $89.99.
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Does your labor include excuses as to why you can’t do something?
Let’s be honest, everyone makes excuses for not accomplishing one thing or another. But the question is, why? Why make excuses? Just be honest and say, “I did not do it.” “I did not feel like it.” “I was just lazy.” “I forgot.”
People create thousands of excuses to avoid doing something they are supposed to do. Why are people addicted to giving excuses and how can we change that?
Here are the steps to overcome excuse addiction:
- First, determine if you suffer from excuse addiction.
- Second, determine if the excuse is related to laziness or a lack of knowledge.
- Third, realize that it’s okay to be uncomfortable. People sometimes don’t do something because they are uncomfortable and don’t know how to do the work. Ask for help and step out of your comfort zone. Stretch your abilities and challenge yourself.
- Fourth, know that excuses hold you back from advancing your career and earning more money.
Make a commitment to bury all excuses and ignite motivation and drive within yourself. Become an achiever, not a person who makes excuses.
Kill excuses and procrastination, and begin celebrating your success!
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First think of a person who lives in disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next tell me what’s the last to mend, the middle of middle and the end of end.
Finally give me the sound often heard during the search for a hard to find word.
Now string them together and answer me this, which creature are you unwilling to kiss?
A spider. The person in disguise is a spy, the letter d is the last letter in mend, in the middle of middle and the last letter of end. When someone can’t think of a word they often say, “Err”. And lastly, I don’t know about you, but I’m not keen to kiss a spider.
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Many plants, in Poland and abroad, offer services of modifying shapes, dimensions or chemical and physical properties of metals. One of the most common methods used in the metal processing industry is a forming process, by hot or cold rolling of metal components until the required effect is achieved. In the cold-rolling process, ribbed steel is obtained from smooth wire rod. The technological process depends on a type of steel used. In the cold rolling process, precision of machines used is very important. These machines are usually a part of a larger production line, for example, to obtain wire of a required diameter, used for production of construction meshes. Cold rolling lines manufacture a semi-product, which later undergoes further production processes. These machines are highly efficient and controlled by an operating panel. | <urn:uuid:d0f93fd6-043f-4a4c-b801-4be47e99ad39> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stal-system.pl/en/cold-rolling-lines/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.921321 | 156 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Whether you’re an international student or otherwise if you are considering to borrow money to buy a car, it is a good idea to understand exactly how car loans work. More to the point, you must know how exactly does interest on car finance work. You will need to ask these questions that are important
- What’s the interest you will be charged?
- Just How can it be determined?
- What’s the payment term?
- Simply how much do you want to really back be paying in the finish?
They are all key elements you should account for. Additionally, it is important to take into account these facets in light of the month-to-month spending plan, particularly if you aren’t a U. S resident or resident that is permanent. Below we explain exactly just how auto loans work.
Just How Do Auto Loans Work?
Car finance is a swelling amount of cash you get from a lender that permits you to definitely purchase an automobile.
The long while the in short supply of what sort of motor auto loan works are the following:
- You’ll want to work-out the amount of money it is important to purchase a car or truck (especially if you’d like to purchase a certain automobile).
- Approach a loan provider to borrow that specific quantity.
- The financial institution will review your write-ups and information and determine if they’re ready to lend you all, some or none associated with the cash.
- If you should be authorized, the lending company will offer you you that loan quantity and mortgage loan.
- Should this be appropriate for your requirements, you consent speedyloan.net/reviews/check-city/ to the stipulations and payment routine for the loan.
- Once you’ve consented to the conditions and terms, you shall get your loan quantity.
- You’ll have to make repayments each month. These repayments lower your amount that is outstanding.e. The quantity you nevertheless owe from the loan). Your repayment amounts comprise of great interest repayments in addition to payment regarding the initial loan quantity.
The procedure explained above will connect with everyone else whom applies for an auto loan, regardless of whether you are a visa owner, resident or permanent resident.
A good way to think about a loan is much like this: Your loan provider purchases your vehicle you to pay it back over a period of time for you and allows. The attention you might be charged is re re payment into the loan provider when it comes to solution of utilizing their funds.
Principal, Interest, and Repayment Terms
What exactly is Principal?
Principal may be the lump that is total of income which you borrow from the loan provider. It’s usually the amount that is same the price tag on the automobile you may be purchasing.
What exactly is Interest?
Interest could be the “fee” a loan provider asks in return for you lending its cash. The attention price is put on your outstanding stability or amount that is principal.
The attention quantity may be the real level of interest you pay per payment. So basically the part of your payment that is interest rather than payment associated with real loan quantity.
What exactly are Repayment Terms?
Your payment terms will be the plans surrounding your payment for the loan. This basically consists out of the payment repayment and schedule amount. The payment quantity may be the quantity that you will be expected to repay each month. The payment routine may be the duration over that you repay your loan.
Just Exactly How Interest works for Auto Loans
So just how does interest on car finance work?
Understanding fixed price on your own vehicle
Many car and truck loans provide an interest rate that is fixed. This means the attention price charged in the loan will not differ within the loan term. Car and truck loans may also be frequently known as “simple” loans. This means the proven fact that the attention relevant to auto loans is easy interest and maybe perhaps not compounded interest. Which means the attention is determined regarding the principal amount (i.e. The outstanding loan quantity) and never in the accumulated interest aswell. This definitely saves you cash into the long term!
With many car and truck loans, the attention is determined and placed on the outstanding stability on a regular basis.
Two big factors that decide how interest that is much spend
You will need to keep in mind that it’s not merely your interest that may regulate how much interest you spend in your loan. Your loan term will also influence this. The longer your loan term, the greater interest you shall spend. High rates of interest and long payment schedules could keep you against getting away from car financial obligation for a time that is long!
Lowering your interest
Lots of people additionally wonder how exactly to reduce their interest fees. Your interest fees on a monthly basis is predicated on exactly how much of one’s loan continues to be outstanding, so one good way to lower your interest is always to make unscheduled re re payments to create your loan balance down. Even though it might be a smart financial decision make sure to bring your whole finances under consideration before you make unscheduled re re payments. There can be better places to pay the cash that is extra spending it to your car finance (like rather paying down your charge card that has a greater rate of interest).
An alternative choice to lessen your interest costs may be to refinance your car or truck. In a nutshell refinancing, your car or truck means you are taking down a brand new loan which has reduced rates of interest to settle your current car finance. You may continue to have the exact same quantity of outstanding financial obligation, but as the brand new loan has a diminished rate of interest, you’ll be spending reduced interest costs. You can easily find out more about refinancing your vehicle right right here.
If you should be wondering simply how much interest you can expect to spend over your loan term, there are numerous loan calculators available that may help you calculate accurately this information. A loan can be found by you payment calculator with this web web page over here. You can even decide to try this auto refinance calculator out.
What exactly is APR?
Interest isn’t the only price to loans. Other costs might connect with the motor car finance you are taking away. These costs may include origination charges, transaction costs etc. It may be very difficult to know and compare the particular price of various loans, therefore these additional charges relevant to loans are translated into an APR (apr).
APR can be expressed as a portion but this portion takes into consideration the attention price and fees that are additional on the mortgage. APR is fundamentally the yearly price of finance fee you spend on the loan and could be your rate of interest if there have been no extra expenses or costs included.
Whenever comparing loans, you need to compare APR’s and not only interest levels. Some loan providers can get you with a minimal rate of interest|interest that is low since there tend to be more months mounted on the schedule as well as extremely high expenses and extra costs. These expenses will likely be mirrored in a greater APR and showing all interest levels an APR provides borrowers a real means of comparing their choices.
Financing a motor car: Which Are The Choices
You can consider to finance your car if you are not able to get a traditional auto loan there are other options. The 2 most frequent people are to invest in your car or truck with a charge card or an individual loan.
Funding with a charge card
Lots of people start thinking about financing a credit card to their car. Which means you obtain a credit card with a huge borrowing limit (or raise your current bank card limitation) and buy your automobile together with your card. Even as we explain below, this isn’t an excellent concept and not really a smart monetary choice. You ought to instead think about your other loan choices before opting to utilize your bank card to finance your car or truck.
Financing with your own Loan
Employing a personal bank loan to purchase a motor vehicle will surely be a significantly better concept than making use of your charge card. This will probably be one of your cheaper options if you have a good credit score.
You are able to either simply simply take down a guaranteed personal loan (and that means you offer a valuable asset as security) or a loan that is unsecured. If you should be confident regarding your capacity to repay your loan, you can look at using down a guaranteed personal loan since this can get you a much better rate of interest. Bear in mind the danger that, in the event that you default on your own loan repayment, you may lose your asset.
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Your Career in Simulation
Two thousand companies and three hundred billion dollars of market cap. These are the staggering outputs of startup incubator Y Combinator since it launched in 2005.
For five years Sam Alman was president of Y Combinator, but he left in 2019 to become the CEO of OpenAI. From the former Pioneer Trunk Factory building in the Mission District, OpenAI has been on a tear releasing one record-breaking AI system after the next, including the famous GPT-3 language model last June.
With one foot in startups and the other in AI, Altman has an interesting vantage point from which to make predictions. In his essay, Moore’s Law for Everything, Altman speculates that AIs will drastically accelerate the worsening wealth inequality in this country and beyond.
To stave this off he proposes something called the American Equity Fund which will channel the machine-driven corporate bounty into a Universal Basic Income for every American adult.
He would populate this fund two ways. First, by having companies contribute 2.5% of their market value every year in shares, not in cash. Second, with a new steep federal tax on land. Altman interestingly argues that land is one of the few things that AIs cannot devalue since there is a fixed supply.
Altman says that increasingly AIs will do all the work, but with his system, we will all get some of the gains. What he doesn’t address, which is what interests me here, is what will people do with all their free time if the machines are doing all the work?
Enter the Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network (VATSIM). This is an organization with over 100,000 active members who perform as air traffic controllers for pilots who are flying simulated airplanes. The pilots can join virtual airlines, such as United Virtual, and their flights take place in real-time. So a five-hour flight takes the pilot five hours to complete.
VATSIM: Air Traffic Control Simulator
The air traffic controller at a busy virtual airport might be juggling dozens of planes, using special controller software while talking to each virtual pilot by voice. It can get really intense. You could call it a game, but if so it’s a game where the objective is simply to behave exactly as if it’s not a game, as if it were real.
The interesting thing though is what happens in Altman’s future when AIs take over the jobs of flying the real planes and talking to those planes from the ground? I strongly suspect VATSIM will continue on as it is today.
So then it will no longer be just a simulation of the airline industry, it will be a historical simulation of how the airline industry used to be before AIs took over. It will be a simulation frozen in time, forever.
So what will people do when the AIs are doing all the real work? For many people work provides more than an income, it provides meaning and purpose. It provides a reason to get out of bed in the morning. It provides a medium for connecting to other people, for talking about the world and your life.
I strongly suspect not everyone will be satisfied with watching streaming television all day or playing on social networks like TikTok. I suspect many people will be drawn to VATSIM-type networks where they will work in simulations, even if there is no money in it. And VATSIM is just scratching the surface.
Imagine if you could be a detective in the 1950s, or advertising executive in the 1960s, or a real-estate mogul in the 1980s. But these are not games, they are not designed just to entertain you. They are jobs, they will require many hours of actual work. And you have to conduct yourself by the rules of the simulation or you will be kicked out, relegated to some less-reputable and less-fun simulation.
Instead, you need to work your way up. Do your job, play the role, be a good participant. Think of a festival like Burning Man. You are not supposed to show up and gawk. Yes, you are watching the show, but you are also putting on the show, at the same time.
Stranger Things (Netflix)
One reason The Queen’s Gambit and Stranger Things are set in other decades is that it’s much easier to tell those stories without the inconvenience of modern technology. If the Stranger Things kids had cell phones to text each other with, or if Beth Harmon logged into an internet chess server to practice, it would ruin those stories.
When AIs and robots meet everyone’s desires in the real world, people are going to crave living in the past, when you had to do things and talk to people.
Every decade of America’s history and every century of the world has its own quirks and features based on the technology at that time. We know from movies and TV that set designers can create amazing recreations of any point in the past, the AIs will do this even better, and we’ll enjoy simply inhabiting these places, beyond even our actual tasks.
And this is not a video game, you are not the star, aliens are not going to attack. This will be real. You are one among many, playing your part. Making connections with real people who are playing their part. Kind of like in regular life.
So the future might be very much like The Matrix. Except that you’ll know you are in a simulation. And you can change the channel anytime you want.
- The Simulation Hypothesis
- The Simulation Argument - Bostrom
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[Catalyst] Controllers vs Models
perrin at elem.com
Thu Jun 2 18:57:58 CEST 2005
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 11:47 -0400, David Storrs wrote:
> What do the rest of you see as the dividing line between a
> Catalyst::Model and a Catalyst::Controller object? When you are
> creating a new object, how do you decide which hierarchy it belongs in?
This division in web-based MVC development is frequently a subject of
debate. Most tools break it down in the simplest way, where the model
is essentially just the database access objects. MVC purists complain
that this causes a lot of logic to end up in the controller, which was
supposed to be nothing more than translating HTTP to method calls (i.e.
the controller should not need to know about your problem domain). The
usual fix suggested is to make what are sometimes called "action
classes" which contain the logic you would otherwise put in a controller
but are part of the model instead. The action classes are coded to be
independent of the web environment so they can be used elsewhere.
As an example, for a restaurant reservation system you might have
classes representing tables and people, and action classes for things
like finding a free table, booking a reservation, etc. These make sense
for situations where they need to act on multiple database objects in a
The problem with this approach is that it becomes very annoying when
working on simple actions, especially the kind of CRUD stuff that
Catalyst and Maypole have done a good of automating. But maybe you can
just call the CRUD automation "action classes" and go to bed early...
I plan to touch on this in my talk at YAPC in Toronto about MVC
frameworks, but probably won't have enough time to go into it deeply.
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By Angela Nahikian
Nov. 3, 2011
Have you ever had that feeling of regret, like when you put off that $5K roof repair only to incur five times the cost in water damage repairs later? Well the good news is, it’s not your fault. It’s a product of brain evolution. Brain science tells us that the human brain has evolved to be expert at reacting to eminent danger. Although our brains also have the unique capability to anticipate future risks, our emotional brain always has the last word, and that word is usually ‘wait-¦wait until the danger is clear and eminent.’ This has worked pretty well for perpetuating the human species. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work so well for perpetuating business - or social and economic prosperity.
The long-term success of companies depends on their ability to anticipate the future — to create and prepare for opportunities ahead. Business must constantly generate new insights and imagine new ways of working, and ultimately, deliver innovations that set them apart. This work is done by people, people with human brains averse to acting on future scenarios. They need tools.
Sustainability is one of the newest tools companies use to drive innovation, yet it may prove to be one of the most powerful. Why? Because sustainability-driven innovation is inherently a systems problem, and innovating in this dimension requires understanding the system.
In trying to innovate something as simple as packaging - or more accurately, product protection – one is forced to think about a host of things:
the design of the product itself;
the origins and social and environmental impacts of any materials that might be used to protect it;
fabrication and transport impacts;
the manufacturing system and logistics methods within which the solution will be deployed;
the entire user experience, and;
end of use and end of life impacts.
One can’t compartmentalize the problem or the solution. It requires integrated, systems-level design thinking.
This has many near and long term benefits for business. Thinking through lifecycle impact can deliver efficiency gains to business. Lean is green, right? Even more, thinking holistically about the ripple effects of design decisions can force new forms of collaboration within and outside our businesses, industries and geographies. Nobody can solve these problems alone. Sustainability also tends to form unlikely partnerships that can help build “complex systems” thinking skills within the organization. It can provide a creative lens for inspiring novel approaches and delivering innovation against all types of problems.
What is innovation, really? Delivering innovation can mean many things to many people. What does it look like? I once heard a person from the Institute for the Future define it best. They said true innovation fundamentally changes societal norms, behaviors and expectations. It seems a good definition, because if you haven’t changed behaviors or expectations, you really haven’t changed anything. If innovation is about social change, it follows that the innovator is a social change agent, and along with that comes tremendous responsibility. Innovators are obligated, then, to consider the intended and unintended consequence of their work on the social system. It’s simply not good enough to innovate in a bubble or serve limited interests.
In failing to embrace the role of a positive social change agent, business has often left a great deal of social, environmental and economic opportunity on the table. The market focus on sustainability may be just the catalyst we need to expand the expectations around innovation and the role of business in society.
Sustainability’s role as an innovation lens may have come at just the right time, because the economic and social issues we face are real and visceral. It signals a profound breakdown in systems thinking. As business people and as individuals we feel the negative effects. In every problem, however, there is a silver lining of opportunity. Who will embrace it and lead society forward?
It must be business. Business is beginning to develop deep literacy in sustainability and is currently best positioned to unleash its economic and intellectual power to address these complex issues. We can avoid the regret of ‘waiting until the danger is more clear and evident’ by leveraging sustainability as an innovation lens for good. In driving positive social change through our businesses we can build stronger companies and secure a more prosperous future for us all. The time is now.
Angela Nahikian, director, Global Environmental Sustainability for Steelcase Inc., -¨-¨heads a cross-company effort to ensure that Steelcase achieves its global sustainability goals. She is responsible for sustainability strategy and program development as well as integration of the key environmental platforms of life cycle management, materials assessment, and designing for recycling-reuse in new products. Reach her at [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:65a9a562-4692-4297-b816-35d69d6d9cb9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.corpmagazine.com/interest/sustainability/leverage-sustainability-as-innovation-lens-for-positive-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.947195 | 990 | 2.640625 | 3 |
A good first impression is everything.
This is especially true for websites, because you only have a few seconds to convince a user to browse your website.
Most users will only read 20% of the content on your page. If your website is too busy and without a specific message or call to action, people will bounce back.
Lack of traffic or high bounce rate on your website can be the result of poor website design. There are some things that can help you improve your website and web presence, but if done wrong, they could hurt your Google rankings and your conversation rate.
This is why it is common to delegate this responsibility to a web design agency. They use the best web design practices to bring the purpose and vision of your website to life. Here are some website design tips to improve your website:
speed up the loading of your site
Most Internet users have a very short attention span. Hence, users get discouraged and easily move forward when you have a website with slow loading time. This is something that you probably recklessly have on other people’s websites. In order for this not to happen, your website should ideally load within three seconds. Here are some ways to declutter your website and lower your bounce rate:
- Optimize images
- Minimize plugins
- Clear frame and themes
- Use a CDN (content delivery network)
- Use SSI (Server side Include)
- Optimize the home page
- Choose a good hosting platform
Make sure your website is responsive
Responsiveness of a site is the degree of flexibility of that website regardless of the device on which it has been accessed. This is especially important as an increasing number of users are now accessing the web through cellphones and tabs rather than laptops and computers.
So make sure your website is responsive. This means that your site should contain content and information but a different display; which changes automatically based on the user’s screen size.
Additionally, Google has made mobile-friendly sites a priority when searched on mobile devices. All the more reason to know what your site looks like on any device. Additionally, you can test if your site is responsive with Google’s mobile-friendly test.
Use easy navigation
With excellent navigation, your website appears more organized and has a less complicated interface. It is said that “patience is a virtue” but this virtue is lost in the digital world. When prospects visit your site, they want all the information they can get as quickly as possible.
A difficult interface results in an unsatisfactory user experience and this increases the bounce rate of your site. Here are some standard practices worth emulating:
- Your site’s menu bar should be located horizontally at the top of each page
- The search bar at the top of each page
- Your company logo should be visible in the upper left corner of every page. It should be clickable and link to the home page.
- A footer under your page, which contains your contact details and buttons that link to your various social media pages.
Use images wisely
Images, when overused, can be overwhelming to people. But, higher quality images used strategically could tell a story about who you are and what you stand for. That’s why it’s best to use real images of yourself, your team, and your space.
The alternative to using stock images is also good in terms of quality, but you risk appearing non-unique, generic, and less trustworthy. Most users may subconsciously attach negative emotions from their previous encounters with such images to your site. The last thing you want is to be guilty of such fickle associations.
Embrace white space
White space is also known as negative space (it doesn’t have to be white) refers to empty spaces around elements on a page that lack content or visuals.
White space could be used as an important design element to segment a page and increase readability. Research shows that using white space in the left and right margins, and between paragraphs, improves reader’s comprehension by 20%.
A lot of people are wary of white space because it takes up a lot of space which should take up useful content. The challenge is to prioritize what is important to share and the general readability of your site. White space can also be used to highlight specific details like a call to action or a value proposition.
Using the call to action correctly
The call to action is very important when it comes to the conversion rate. It’s the use of actionable words and suggestive colors to guide your users through the next conversion step. Examples of actionable words to use are download, start, register now, etc.
When considering the color of your CTA button, a good understanding of the psychology of color will be very helpful. For example, a predominantly blue or light blue site will work well with a contrasting yellow or orange CTA button.
Try not to use too many CTAs on the same page as this confuses users and discourages them from visiting your website next time. You should have one big, eye-catching CTA per page.
Beware of 404s and redirects
An increasing number of links on your site resulting in 404 errors can be frustrating for a user.
While redirects can benefit you for any reason (like ads), avoid using them whenever possible. Users find them boring and consider them a waste of time. And if there’s one consistent theme you’ve learned so far, it’s that web surfers don’t have time to waste.
404s and redirects subconsciously create the impression in the user’s mind that things are not working properly on your site. And the credibility of your site decreases as they bounce directly off a competitor’s site. Check if your links are working very regularly.
The importance of a great web design
No matter what activity you do online, your website will be very important to its success. This is exactly why you need to make sure that your website design is top notch. Great web design can revolutionize your website, reduce bounce rate, and increase your conversion rate. Following some of these tips can improve the user experience of your website. | <urn:uuid:3adc67fe-e5ef-4352-8bb9-9795a60e5589> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.5htpukmain.com/7-web-design-tips-to-improve-your-site/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.931136 | 1,304 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Staton Rabin (www.StatonRabin.com) is a screenplay marketing consultant, script analyst, and “pitch coach” for writers at all levels of experience. Her clients include, among others, winners of screenwriting contests and writers of films that got made. She's taught screenwriting, and has been a reader for several film studios and a top film agency. Ms. Rabin, who has a BFA in Film from NYU, wrote BETSY AND THE EMPEROR (Simon & Schuster) which, along with her screenplay, was optioned for a major motion picture with an A-list star attached. She is available for script reading/analysis and consultations; contact: firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow Staton on Twitter @StatonRabin.
In any given year, I read so many screenplays as a professional “reader” that you could pave the Yellow Brick Road with them and still have enough left over to start a recycling program in the Emerald City. Okay, so most of the scripts I read are in digital form and aren’t on paper. But you get the idea.
One of the screenplay errors that I see again and again shows me that many writers don’t understand the differences between and among dreams, visions and fantasies. These scripts get readers really mixed up about what’s “real” in the story ... and what isn’t. But clarity is a writer’s most important mission. There’s a big difference between keeping your audience guessing about what’s coming next and confusing the heck of them.
To quote song lyricist Oscar Hammerstein (“Do-Re-Mi” in The Sound of Music), “Let’s start at the very beginning ...”
The History of the “Dream Sequence”
“Dream sequences” in movies and plays are nothing new. According to NPR film critic Bob Mondello, the first dream sequence was probably in a Greek play called The Persians by Aeschylus, way back in 472 B.C. Unless I miss my guess, that was a long time before Inception writer-director Christopher Nolan was born. And Mondello says that the first famous movie with a dream sequence was Buster Keaton’s technically and conceptually brilliant Sherlock Jr. (1924), which featured Keaton as a movie projectionist who falls asleep and dreams that he is walking “into” the motion picture screen in his theater and becomes a character in the movie-within-a-movie. Woody Allen used the same idea for The Purple Rose of Cairo decades later, only in reverse (a movie character steps off the screen and joins the real world).
Dreams, fantasies and visions have all been ingredients in many a classic movie. One of my favorites is Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945), which introduced the average American to the notion of dream interpretation and psychotherapy.
But just because dream or fantasy sequences can be a great tool for screenwriters doesn’t mean that these tools don’t have to be handled properly. And the biggest mistake screenwriters make in using these techniques is that they use them haphazardly and interchangeably. If you don’t learn to distinguish visions from fantasies, and fantasies from dreams—and master their correct functions in stories—your screenplay just may turn into some professional script reader’s worst nightmare.
So, let’s try to sort it all out.
This almost goes without saying, but dreams only happen when you are asleep. If your character is having a dream, the film audience is going to have no idea if what they are witnessing (“the dream”) is something that actually happened to the dreamer in his waking life, or not, unless the dream is put in context. Note well: A dream is not necessarily the same as a MEMORY. It is also not the same as a FLASHBACK, which is one character’s memory of real, true, past events. If you want your audience to know for sure that what your hero is dreaming about is something that really happened to him, a dream may be the wrong way to convey this information.
Remember, too, that if you have a dream in your script, it must serve a purpose. It can’t just be a lazy way to do exposition. What purpose might dreams serve in your script? For starters, let’s go to no less an authority on dreams than Sigmund Freud. Dr. Freud believed that dreams fall into three categories: fears, wish-fulfillment, and “day residue” (which, in essence, means all the real-life boring junk left over in your head on any given day after you’ve commuted to work, walked the dog, or done the laundry). Yes, according to some, dreams may also be “premonitions,” but that usually falls under the category of “fears.” People may remember actual events from their pasts while dreaming but the dream overall probably relates to a wish or a fear.
Dreams are an expression of the unconscious. They have “manifest” content, and “latent” content, and often communicate through symbols.
If you remember only one thing from this article, remember this: A dream is not usually a good way to show us a memory or a flashback, and it’s not reliably “real.” So it’s not the best way to reveal backstory. A dream is about a character’s fear or desire, and we can’t tell if it has any basis in reality without having context. In a dream, one thing may “stand for” or represent something else. In one of my novels, which is the basis of a movie in development, the young heroine, Betsy Balcombe, interprets her own dream. The real-life villain in the story, a British general, is represented in Betsy’s dream by a giant rat wearing a military uniform. Symbolism is the language of dreams.
If you want to show us something that actually happened to the character in the past, then show us the actual event at the time it occurs, use dialogue, or (less optimally) use a flashback. But keep your character awake—even if you have to fill him full of espresso to do it.
But, what about writing the kind of movie in which we find out at the end that “it was all a dream,” as in that notorious old episode of TV’s Dallas? My advice to you is: “Put your hands up and step away from that cliché or I’ll shoot!”
How often have I read scripts that show characters bolting up in bed in a cold sweat after a bad dream? More times than Donald Trump has said, “You’re fired!” It’s true that if a character is having a terrifying nightmare, we will probably understand that this is something he fears, which either actually happened to him in the past, or might happen to him in the future.
If, for example, we know that your main character is an Iraq War vet, and he wakes up screaming from a nightmare about a firefight in Baghdad and the dream included him, then we can probably conclude that this event really happened to him.
How can you let us know that a character’s nightmare or dream depicts his actual memories? By setting up the context in his waking life. We have to know something about the dreamer’s life in the present, his past, or his fears and desires in order to understand why he’s having this nightmare and whether it’s based on anything real.
Fantasies occur while your character is awake. Daydreams are one form of fantasy. Fantasies are usually about things that are improbable or “impossible”—unlike dreams, which sometimes depict just slightly exaggerated versions of reality. Fantasies usually reflect wishes or fears, but on a grandiose scale. One old movie that was about a character’s fantasies was The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, starring Danny Kaye and based on the James Thurber short story. It was about a milquetoast (today we’d call him a “nerd”), a writer, who keeps imagining himself doing daring and glamorous things.
Have you ever seen old romantic comedies in which a woman meets a handsome stranger, and we instantly flash forward to their wedding day in her imagination, and then we’re zapped right back to present-day reality? That’s her ideal vision of the future—a fantasy (even if it later comes true) rather than a vision or a dream.
Unlike dreams, visions usually occur when your character is wide awake. Visions often have a supernatural element to them. I read a lot of screenplays about people in exotic locales who are “followed around” by mysterious, ghost-like shamans—who are trying to send them some kind of “message” or warning, or influence their destiny. Visions are usually a projection of something from somebody’s own mind. In scripts like this, it often doesn’t ever become entirely clear what’s real and what isn’t. And that’s not always a bad thing. But in scripts containing dreams or fantasies, I think it should eventually become clear to the audience where the line between fantasy and reality is. Of course, in fantasies, the writer often teases you at the end, making you wonder whether what you and the main character experienced was real or not (which is much better than cheating the audience by implying it was definitely “all a dream”). And a great example of effectively handling the dream sequence in film is ... ?
The Wizard of Oz, of course.
In Conclusion ...
There are exceptions to every rule—and I’m sure you can cite many examples of good movies that break the rules I’ve described here. But even if you decide to break the rules, you must first know what the rules are. So, learn the difference between a dream and a fantasy, a vision and a dream—and your fantasies of winning an Oscar® just might come true. | <urn:uuid:9f3c1526-c176-4fd8-a834-5bf045cfda69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scriptmag.com/features/dream-vision-or-fantasy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956052 | 2,184 | 1.921875 | 2 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) California voters decided Tuesday to continue taxing the rich at a higher rate to raise billions of dollars for public schools and health care.
The easy approval of Proposition 55 extends until 2030 taxes that voters first approved in 2012 in response to deep education cuts during the Great Recession.
Those increases were set to expire two years from now. Instead, voters decided 62 percent to 38 percent to keep them.
Supporters included teacher and hospital unions that spent millions of dollars during the campaign. Organized opposition amounted to one die-hard skeptic on a shoestring budget.
The proposition extends what were supposed to be short-term tax increases on residents who annually earn more than $263,000 for single filers and $526,000 for families. At that level, taxes bump up 1 percent millionaires pay an extra 3 percent.
The windfall will generate between $4 billion and $9 billion annually, according to the independent state Legislative Analyst’s Office.
Backers argued that public schools are only now recovering from devastating cuts that political leaders made as tax revenues shrank with the U.S. economy starting in 2008. Even so, to make Proposition 55 more palatable to voters, the proposition’s authors opted not to renew sales tax increases that voters passed four years ago.
“55 is not the fix, it is a stopgap. It brings stability to schools that, if we didn’t have it, we’d return to the freefall,” said Eric Heins, president of California Teachers Association union and an elementary school music teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Though schools are the main beneficiaries, the authors of Proposition 55 also carved out a new funding stream in flush tax years for Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance for low-income residents.
Opponents of Proposition 55 countered that the state must stop targeting its richest residents, suggesting that millionaires will move away if they have to pay more.
Only about 1.5 percent of taxpayers pay the higher rates. Those highest earners account for about half of the state’s revenue from income taxes. Because so few Californians will pay more but millions will benefit from increased education funding the proposition’s passage was not a surprise to its main opponent.
“How much higher can these rates go and still have a livable economy for people?” said David Kersten, who led a symbolic fight against the initiative that lacked any financial backing.
Even supporters acknowledged that patchwork tax policy in this case targeting the wealthy is no way to stabilize state finances, which are robust during good times but crash during downturns due to a reliance on income and capital gains taxes.
Still, because there has been little political stomach in Sacramento for revamping the tax code, voters were again asked to make state fiscal policy.
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Regular physical activity is a good way to help prevent or manage mild anxiety and depression. Keeping active can help you stay physically fit and mentally healthy.
Research shows that keeping active can:
- help lift mood through improved fitness and the release of natural chemicals in the brain
- help improve sleeping patterns
- increase energy levels
- help block negative thoughts and/or distract people from daily worries
- help people feel less alone if they exercise with others.
Physical activity increases your wellbeing. The current recommendation is at least 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity on most, and preferably all, days of the week.1 However, people with anxiety or depression may find it difficult to get started or get motivated, or continue to exercise on a long-term basis.
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Chimpanzees often share and share alike when cooperating in pairs, suggesting that these apes come close to a human sense of fairness, a controversial new study finds.
Like people, chimps tend to fork over half of a valuable windfall to a comrade in situations where the recipient can choose to accept the deal or turn it down and leave both players with nothing, say psychologist Darby Proctor of Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Lawrenceville, Ga., and her colleagues. And just as people do, chimps turn stingy when supplied with goodies that they can share however they like, the researchers report online January 14 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“Humans and chimpanzees show similar preferences in dividing rewards, suggesting a long evolutionary history to the human sense of fairness,” Proctor says.
But psychologist Josep Call of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, considers the new results “far from convincing.” In Proctor’s experiments, pairs of chimps interacted little with each other and showed no signs of understanding that some offers were unfair and could be rejected, Call says.
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Day 1. Arrive Paro:
On your journey to Paro, the panoramic views of the Himalayas are sensational, including the Everest and other famous Himalayan Peaks. The approach through the Bhutanese foothills and the landing, including a few steep turns to land at the tiny airstrip of Paro becomes more exciting as you enter Bhutan.
On arrival you will be received by our guide and driver and escorted to Hotel. After lunch, visit the Ta Dzong, an ancient watchtower, which now houses the National Museum of Bhutan. Then visit the Paro Rimpung Dzong (literally meaning “Heap of Jewels”, built in 1646. Over night in Hotel.
Day 2. Paro:
After breakfast, excursion to Taktshang Monastery. The primary Lhakhang was built surrounding Guru Rimpoche’s meditation cave in the 1684 by Gyaltse Tenzin Rabgay. This incredible monastery clings to the edge of a sheer rock cliff that plunges 900 meters into the valley below. Legend has it that Guru Padmasambhava flew here on the back of a tigress.
After lunch, visit the ruins of the Drukgyal Dzong. It was here that the Bhutanese finally defeated the invading Tibetans and drove them back. From here, the peak of Jumolhari ‘Mountain of the Goddess’ can be seen on a clear day (Alt. 7,329 m /24,029 ft.). Then visit the Kichu Lhakhang, one of the oldest and the most sacred shrine of Bhutan built in 8th century by the Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo. Over night in Hotel.
Day 3. Paro – Thimphu: (1 Hour)
After breakfast, drive to Thimphu (Capital). Visit the Sangaygang view point, from where the bird’s eye view of the Thimphu Valley can be seen. Visit the Takin Preserve Centre. Takin is the National Animal of Bhutan. Then visit the Drupthob Lhakhang, one of the few surviving nunneries in Bhutan followed by the National Memorial Chorten (1974) built in honour of our late King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck.
After lunch, visit the National Library, stocked with ancient Buddhist manuscripts, and the Zorig Chusum (The School of Thirteen Arts). Then visit the Traditional Medicine Institute where medicines are prepared according to ancient practices and the Folk Heritage Museum. In the evening, visit the Tashichho Dzong, seat of the National Government and the Central Monastic Body, including the summer residence of the Je Khenpo (Chief Abbot of Bhutan).Over night in Hotel.
Day 4. Thimphu – Punakha: (2 – 3 Hours)
After breakfast, drive to Punakha. Stop at Dochula pass to view the higher Himalayas, if the weather is clear. Visit the Chhimi Lhakhang on the way to Punakha. The Temple, also known as “The Temple of Fertility” was built by Lama Drukpa Kuenley, “The Devine Mad Man”.
After lunch, visit the Punakha Dzong, built in 1637 by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal. For many years until the time of the second king, it served as the seat of the Government. The Dzong was named Druk Pungthang Dechen Phodrang (Palace of Great Happiness). Punakha is still the winter residence of Je-Khenpo and King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck convened the first National Assembly here in 1952. Then explore the Punakha valley and town. Over night in Hotel.
Day 5. Wangduephodrang – Gangtey 2 Hours)
After breakfast, visit the Wangduephodrang Dzong. Drive to Gangtey.
After lunch, visit the Gangtey Gompa. Gyaltse Pema Thinley, the grandson and mind reincarnation of Pema Lingpa founded the Temple in 1613, and Tenzin Legpai Dhendup, the second re-incarnation, built the temple. The present Abbot, Kunzang Pema Namgyal is the ninth re-incarnation. Explore the Phobjikha Valley, one of the most beautiful glacial valleys in the Himalayas and the winter place for the endangered Black Necked Cranes. Over night in Hotel.
Day 6. Gangtey – Trongsa – Bumthang:
After breakfast, drive to Trongsa. Visit Trongsa Dzong, the most impressive Dzong in Bhutan. The Dzong was built by Chogyal Minjur Tempa, the official who was sent by Zhabdrung to unify Eastern Bhutan and enlarged at the end of the 17th century by Desi Tenzin Rabgay. Trongsa Dzong is the ancestral home of the present Royal Family. The first two hereditary kings ruled Bhutan from this Dzong. Visit Ta Dzong, an ancient watch tower. The chapel inside the Ta Dzong is said to be dedicated to the Trongsa Penlop Jigme Namgyal. After Lunch, drive to Bumthang. Over night in Hotel.
Day 7. Bumthang:
After breakfast, visit Jakar Dzong (The Castle of White Bird). The current structure was built in 1667. Then visit Lamey Goemba, a large palace and monastery built in 18th century by Dasho Phuntsho Wangdi. Visit Jambay Lhakhang, built by King Srongsen Gampo of Tibet. In October one of the most spectacular festival, “Jambay Lhakhang Drup” is staged here. Visit Chakhar (Iron Castle) Lhakhang. The Original palace was made of Iron and hence the name “Chakhar”. Then visit Kurjey Lhakhang, named after body print of Guru Rimpoche.
After lunch, visit Tamshing Lhakhang (Temple of the good message), established in 1501 by Pema Lingpa and the Kenchosum Lhakhang. Then visit the Membarstho which literally means, “The burning Lake”. The evening ends with a walk around the Bumthang town and valley. Over night in Hotel.
Day 8. Bumthang – Wangduephodrang:
After breakfast, drive to Wangduephodrang. In the evening, visit a village and meet local people. Over night in Hotel.
Day 9. Wangduephodrang – Thimphu:
After breakfast, drive to Thimphu. After lunch, visit the Royal silver smiths and Bhutanese paper factory followed by shopping for souvenirs in the shops of Thimphu. Over night in Hotel.
Day 10. Thimphu – Paro:
After breakfast, excursion to Tango and Cheri Monastery. In the evening, drive to Paro. Over night in Hotel.
Day 11. Departure:
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Inflammation and renal tubular injury are major features of acute kidney injury (AKI). Many cytokines and chemokines are released from injured tubular cells and acts as proinflammatory mediators. However, the role of IL-19 in the pathogenesis of AKI is not defined yet. In bilateral renal ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI)-induced and HgCl2-induced AKI animal models, real-time quantitative (RTQ)-PCR showed that the kidneys, livers, and lungs of AKI mice expressed significantly higher IL-19 and its receptors than did sham control mice. Immunohistochemical staining showed that IL-19 and its receptors were strongly stained in the kidney, liver, and lung tissue of AKI mice. In vitro, IL-19 upregulated MCP-1, TGF-β1, and IL-19, and induced mitochondria-dependent apoptosis in murine renal tubular epithelial M-1 cells. IL-19 upregulated TNF-α and IL-10 in cultured HepG2 cells, and it increased IL-1β and TNF-α expression in cultured A549 cells. In vivo, after renal IRI or a nephrotoxic dose of HgCl2 treatment, IL-20R1-deficient mice (the deficiency blocks IL-19 signaling) showed lower levels of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) in serum and less tubular damage than did wild-type mice. Therefore, we conclude that IL-19 mediates kidney, liver, and lung tissue damage in murine AKI and that blocking IL-19 signaling may provide a potent therapeutic strategy for treating AKI.
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Bom•bay (bm-b) N.
City of west-central India on coastal Mumbai Island & adjacent Salsette Island. India's main port & commercial center.
Quiz (kwz) V.
1.Question closely or repeatedly.
2.Test the knowledge of by posing questions.
3.Poke fun at; mock.
Club (klb) N.
1.Stout stick, thicker at one end, for use as a weapon.
2.Black figure shaped like a trefoil on certain playing cards.
3.Group of people organized for a common purpose, especially a group that meets regularly.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Samrat Sengupta returns to the BQC this Sunday after a five year hiatus. He's done some wonderful quizzes for us in the past and he's promised us a similar treat this weekend with his pet topics -Sport,Geography and History getting a fair bit of coverage. Hope to see a good turnout!
Quizmaster:Samrat Sengupta When: 3 PM, Sunday, 14th October, 2012 (Please be there by 2:45 PM for team assignments)
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By: Savvy Pre-Med Staff
Undoubtedly, the MCAT has been the most controversial COVID-related topic in the medical school admissions world.
Rather than moving the test online - like the GRE, ACT, SAT, etc - or making the test optional, the AAMC maintained its normal in-person procedures, with a few tweaks.
The AAMC’s justifications for this decision essentially boiled down to concerns over security and equity, which seems a bit ironic.
And guess what? In-person MCAT testing will continue into 2021, despite projections of not getting a COVID-19 vaccine until mid-2021.
Recently, the MCAT dates and times for the 2021-2022 cycle were released.
Here’s everything you need to know:
Here is a quick breakdown of the changes for the 2021 testing year:
There are 31 MCAT testing dates between January and September, including a similar number of testing appointments as previous years.
The AAMC has added ONE extra date (so generous!) in January for examinees in the U.S. who want to test and are applying for the current 2021 application cycle.
Registration for 2021 will be staggered to “give examinees a better scheduling experience” and “allow the AAMC to adapt to shifting pandemic conditions.”
The AAMC will announce specific dates and times, as well as any policy changes, in advance of each registration opening.
Pre-registration starts on Monday, November 2 at noon (ET). This allows you to save time on the actual registration day by filling out your information in the MCAT Registration System in advance.
We highly recommend taking advantage of pre-registration, since the spots are likely to run out quickly on registration day, and we believe it’s in your best interest to secure a January-March date.
Each test day will offer two full-length exams at 7:30am and 3pm, a 7.5-hour duration rather than the original 8 hours in 2019 and the truncated 6 hours in 2020.
This new schedule will help limit the number of people in the test center and allow for necessary social distancing.
There are 50 minutes of breaks, a 10-minute tutorial, and a customer satisfaction survey at the end, which are all optional.
Make sure to have an MCAT back-up plan!
In our minds, it’s ideal to secure an MCAT date in March and then secure another one in June if necessary to improve your score.
Taking the MCAT in early June is an informal deadline for anyone who doesn’t want their 2021-2022 application delayed.
Sort of. Beyond the ONE extra date being added in January, the AAMC is making prep materials and school-specific information more freely available.
The AAMC will extend access to MCAT Official Prep products through September 30, 2021 for all examinees who had exams canceled due to COVID-19 and did not reschedule a test for 2020.
MSAR is updating medical school admissions policies with COVID-19 information readily available to students without a subscription.
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Celery-Leaved Crowfoot. Ranunculaceæ.
Proved by Y., Archiv für Hom., and Schreter, Neues Archiv für Homöopathie.
- Inflammation of mouth and tongue, diphtheria, Rittenhouse, A. O., vol. 7, p. 528 ; B. J. H., vol. 29, p. 428 ; Use in aneurism of aorta, Searle, A. O., vol. 7, p. 409 ; Neuralgia, Price, Org., vol. 2, p. 118 ; Pemphigus, Elwert, Hom. Cl., vol. 4, p. 147, from A. H. Z., vol. 30, p. 345 ; Corns, Berridge, Hah. Mo., 1874, p. 111.
MIND. [Ran. s.]
Dullness of head.
Indolence and aversion to mental occupation in morning ; low-spirited, depressed in evening.
SENSORIUM. [Ran. s.]
Vertigo with loss of consciousness.
INNER HEAD. [Ran. s.]
Gnawing pain in a small spot on vertex or either temple.
OUTER HEAD. [Ran. s.]
Sensation as if head were too large and full.
Biting itching on scalp.
Scalp feels tense.
SIGHT AND EYES. [Ran. s.]
Eyes very weak and watery.
Pain in eyeballs, when moving them quickly.
Pressing in eyeballs, periodically.
Painful pressure in eyeballs.
Smarting in eyes and canthi.
HEARING AND EARS. [Ran. s.]
Otalgia with pressing or gnawing pain in head, and drawing pain in teeth.
SMELL AND NOSE. [Ran. s.]
Lachrymation, with watery nasal discharge.
Ordinary catarrh, with sneezing, fluent coryza, pains in joints, and burning on urination.
UPPER FACE. [Ran. s.]
Sensation as if face were covered with spider web.
Slight drawing with feeling of coldness above right eyebrow, down cheek, as far as corner of mouth.
Face cold, livid.
LOWER FACE. [Ran. s.]
Tremulous sensation around corners of mouth and lower lip, preceding vomiting without inclination to vomit.
TEETH AND GUMS. [Ran. s.]
Drawing, stinging, jerking in teeth.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [Ran. s.]
Tongue exfoliated in spots, which are raw ; mouth inflamed.
Both sides of tongue denuded, like islands, the remaining parts thickly coated. ? Diphtheria.
Tongue coated white, inflamed, red and burning.
Tongue cracks and peels off.
Shooting in tip of tongue.
PALATE AND THROAT. [Ran. s.]
Scraping and burning in throat.
Swelling of tonsils, with shooting stitches in them.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [Ran. s.]
Eructations : empty ; after meals, with taste of what has been eaten.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [Ran. s.]
Pain in stomach, with fainting fits.
Pressure and sensation of fulness in pit of stomach, < from external pressure, most violent in morning.
Sensation of soreness and burning in pit of stomach.
Inflammation of stomach.
HYPOCHONDRIA. [Ran. s.]
Dull pressure about liver, < from a long breath.
Stitches in liver, spleen or kidneys.
Long stitches in region of spleen ; < during deep inspiration.
Spleen swollen after intermittent fever and abuse of quinine.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [Ran. s.]
Screwing pressure behind umbilicus ; sensation as if a plug were lodged there, in morning.
Twitching in abdominal integuments.
STOOLS AND RECTUM. [Ran. s.]
Frequent sensation as if diarrha would set in.
Frequent soft, or watery, fetid stools.
Hard stool, preceded by colic.
URINARY ORGANS. [Ran. s.]
Urine burns ; strangury.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [Ran. s.]
Stitches in glans penis.
RESPIRATION. [Ran. s.]
Dyspna from gnawing behind sternum.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [Ran. s.]
Burning soreness behind xiphoid cartilage.
Long, frequent stitches behind xiphoid cartilage, in a space as large as palm of hand.
Stitches in chest and intercostal muscles.
Gnawing in chest ; behind sternum (with dyspna).
Continual pressure, as from dull instrument, below right false ribs, < from deep inspiration.
Painful sticking in right chest, not < by inspiration.
Violent contracting-pinching pain in chest, behind right nipple.
Whole chest feels weak and bruised.
Aneurism of descending aorta and varicosities ; cold and livid face and ears, with sensation of a cobweb upon face ; lachrymation and discharge of watery mucus from nose (much relieved).
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [Ran. s.]
Stitches in region of heart.
Pulse quick, full, but soft, with heat at night.
OUTER CHEST. [Ran. s.]
Chest feels bruised, with sensation of weakness therein.
Stitches in chest and intercostal muscles.
External chest and sternum painfully sensitive to touch.
NECK AND BACK. [Ran. s.]
Pain in small of back.
Stitch in right lumbar region when walking.
Stitches in region of kidneys.
Sudden violent jerks in lumbar region during a walk in open air, arresting breathing.
UPPER LIMBS. [Ran. s.]
Long-continuing boring sticking along whole left forearm to tip of index finger, where it is most violent.
Continual gnawing in palm of left hand.
Itching between fingers, evenings.
Swelling of fingers, mornings.
LOWER LIMBS. [Ran. s.]
Stinging, boring and gnawing in legs, especially violent in big toe.
Boring and gnawing in right big toe.
Sudden stitches in forepart of right big toe, as if a needle were thrust in deep, made him cry out.
Sudden stitches in right big toe, passing into a burning.
For four months two corns on ball of first and second left toes, sensitive to touch or pressure, smart and burn, and occasionally shock very painful, when letting leg hang down, when they also throb, and especially painful by flexing toes ; > by extending them ; > by wearing a thick-soled boot ; at times numbness in corns ; knocking toe against anything so as to cause boot to grate against corns causes great pain and burning.
LIMBS IN GENERAL. [Ran. s.]
Gout in fingers and toes.
REST. POSITION. MOTION. [Ran. s.]
Letting leg hang down : corns painful.
Flexing toes : corns painful.
Extending toes : corns >.
Motion : of eyeballs causes pain.
Walking : stitch in right lumbar region ; jerks in lumbar region.
NERVES. [Ran. s.]
Neuralgia of head, back and cardiac region, with extreme tenderness of whole spinal column ; patchy appearance of tongue.
Convulsive twitches of limbs.
Fainting with the pains in stomach.
SLEEP. [Ran. s.]
Wakes after midnight, is wide awake and remains so for a long time.
Half slumber after midnight, frightful, anxious dreams about corpses, dead bodies, serpents, battles, etc. ; constant tossing about in bed.
TIME. [Ran. s.]
Morning : aversion to mental labor ; fullness and pressure in pit of stomach ; sensation of plug behind umbilicus.
Evening : low-spirited and depressed ; heat ; itching, biting, tingling <.
Night : heat.
After midnight : wakeful ; heat and thirst <.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [Ran. s.]
Open air : violent jerks in lumbar region while walking ; after walking, heat.
FEVER. [Ran. s.]
Chill or chilliness during meals.
Heat, in-doors evening, after walking in open air.
Dry heat at night, with violent thirst, mostly after midnight.
Fever ; wakes after midnight, many nights in succession, with heat over whole body and violent thirst ; pulse full, soft, accelerated, 80 ; afterward sweat over whole body, especially on forehead.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [Ran. s.]
Periodical : pressing in eyeballs.
During meals : chilly.
Many nights in succession : wakes after midnight.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [Ran. s.]
Right : coldness and drawing above eyebrows ; pressure below false ribs ; painful sticking in chest ; pinching behind nipple ; stitch in lumbar region ; gnawing in big toe ; stitches in big toe.
Left : continual gnawing in palm of hand.
SENSATIONS. [Ran. s.]
As if head were too full and too large ; as if face were covered with spider webs ; as if a plug were lodged in umbilicus ; as if diarrha would set in ; pressure as from a dull instrument ; as if a needle were thrust deep into big toe.
Pain : in eyeballs ; in joints ; in stomach ; in small of back ; in corns.
Violent contractive pinching pain behind right nipple.
Shooting : in tip of tongue.
Shooting stitches : in tonsils.
Stitches : in liver, spleen and kidneys ; in glans penis ; behind xiphoid cartilage ; in chest ; in region of heart ; in right lumbar region ; in region of kidneys ; in big toe.
Gnawing pain : in a small spot on vertex or either temple ; behind sternum ; in palm of left hand ; in legs ; in big toe.
Long-continued boring, sticking : along whole left forearm to tip of index finger.
Boring : in legs ; in big toe.
Neuralgia : in head, back and cardiac region.
Drawing pain : in teeth.
Violent jerks : in lumbar region.
Jerking : in teeth.
Stinging : in teeth ; in legs.
Smarting : in eyes and canthi ; of corns.
Burning : of tongue ; in throat ; in pit of stomach ; of corns.
Burning soreness : behind xiphoid cartilage.
Soreness : in pit of stomach.
Scraping : in throat.
Bruised feeling : in chest.
Biting, itching : on scalp.
Drawing : above right eyebrow down cheek to corner of mouth ; in teeth.
Pressure : in pit of stomach ; about liver ; behind umbilicus ; below false ribs.
Pressing : in eyeballs ; in head.
Fullness : in pit of stomach.
Tense feeling : on scalp.
Tremulous sensation : around corners of mouth and lower lip.
Weakness : in chest.
Numbness : of corns.
Itching : between fingers.
Coldness : above right eyebrow.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [Ran. s.]
Touch : external chest and sternum sensitive ; first and second toe sensitive.
Pressure : fullness in pit of stomach <.
Knock against boot : corns very painful.
SKIN. [Ran. s.]
Itching, boring, biting, tingling, gnawing in various parts of body, now here, now there, especially toward evening.
Vesicular eruptions, with acrid, thin, yellowish discharges.
Blisters which leave a raw surface with acrid discharges.
The body of an infant about three months old was covered all over with pemphigus ; continual thirst ; very frequent, weak and intermitting pulse ; trembling with anxious features ; Arsen. caused improvement for six days, blisters decreased ; here and there ulcers formed on parts covered with blisters, discharging a yellowish fluid ; Ran. scel. healed them up.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [Ran. s.]
Infant, æt. 3 months ; pemphigus.
RELATIONS. [Ran. s.]
Compatible : After Arsen. in pemphigus ; Laches. follows in diphtheria with denuded tongue.
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Both dental crowns and dental bridges are increasingly becoming more and more common types of restorations performed by dental professionals. Crowns and bridges are both fixed dental prosthetics, which means that they are placed permanently in the mouth and are only removable by your dentist. They are both important, but do serve different purposes in the restoration process of your teeth. Let’s take a look at what dental crowns and dental bridges are, and what the difference is between the both of them.
Dental crowns are most often compared to tooth caps, as they literally act as a cover for a damaged tooth that exists in your line of teeth. Dentists most often call or recommend for dental crowns in order to restore molars that have very large fillings. As time goes on, fillings can eventually wear down and begin to make small fractures in your teeth. During dental fillings, most of the tooth structure has already been drilled away, meaning there is not enough space left to replace a filling. By putting a dental crown on the remaining tooth, your dentist ensures its strength and its function.
Dental bridges, on the other hand, are for the patients that are missing one or more teeth. The importance of filling in the space left over by missing teeth is extremely important as the remaining teeth can begin to shift into the empty spaces. This type of shifting can cause a plethora of problems in your mouth, mostly including an imbalance with your bite. Bridges are a common restoration used to fill in space and are cemented into dental crowns on either side of the Gap left over from a missing tooth. This replacement tooth on the bridge is made to match your existing teeth exactly in order to restore cosmetic and functionality purposes.
In Rexdale, ON, the dental professionals at West Humber Dentistry want to see you leave our office with a smile on your face. Apart from ensuring all of our patients are always staying up to date on dental news, we want to offer ourselves as a great resource for the citizens of Rexdale who are in need of dental help. If you still find yourselves with questions about dental crowns and dental bridges, please give our office a call as soon as possible so we can schedule an initial consultation! | <urn:uuid:406bf2ed-6437-48b5-aba3-c86be5208588> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://westhumberdentistry.com/wondering-about-the-difference-between-a-crown-and-a-bridge-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.966157 | 452 | 2.421875 | 2 |
America in the World is an impressive collection of documents related to United States foreign policy from the country’s earliest expansionist dreams to its present-day difficulty grappling with terrorism. The book contains chapters on different eras of United States foreign policy, including Vietnam, Korea, and World War II. There are also significant portions of the text that explore less familiar areas of United States diplomatic history, including early expansion, imperialism, and the time after the Cold War began to deescalate.
Books like this are important because it can be difficult to gather primary source material in any single era of a country’s foreign policy, let alone a period of well over 100 years. Furthermore, texts like this allow readers to understand the continuities between foreign policies that may seem so distant as to be unrelated. Students would be tasked with reading countless articles, spending hours in archives, or windows and tabs deep in Wikipedia trying to find this material on their own. Teachers and students should be thankful to the book’s editors for providing a shortcut to this material.
This book is not without significant problems, however. Three seem particularly important: unclear bibliographic data, poor contextualization, and unclear selection criteria. The first is important because it leaves an important part of the research process out of the reach of many students. If the idea behind including primary sources in the classroom is introducing students to the actors that make history, and emphasizing the importance of the people and documents that make history, then this text leaves a lot to be desired. For example, Document 13.8: “Early CIA Assessment of Gorbachev’s Economic Agenda” is introduced as being prepared by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) but we are not told who wrote it, what day it was written (although we do know the month and year), and if the document is provided in total, or abridged or edited. I can imagine a student not knowing what to do with this document or even how to track down the original. This information is provided in the “Sources” section of the book, but as anyone who has taught undergraduate students knows, it is quite difficult to get students to do the work of looking up source information. A better version of this text would include the citation in text with the document using any of the popular citation methods.
The second problem, that of poor contextualization, makes it difficult for students increasingly less knowledgeable of, or experienced with, any of these events to place them in context. Many current undergraduate students, and certainly high school students in the United States were born contemporaneously with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on Washington, DC, New York, and Pennsylvania. Most of these students do not have a memory of the time immediately after those events, nor do they remember more mundane legacies like the color-coded terrorist threat indicator featured at airports across the country. Now, many undergraduates might have a parent who fought in the Gulf War, but only a much older relative would have been around during Vietnam. Short introductions of a few hundred words do begin every chapter, but expanding them would help students a great deal. Each introduction also lacks citations, so students wishing to pursue another source would be left to their own devices.
The third problem is that the book does not provide much in the way of an explanation for why certain documents are included and others are not. Educators hope students are able to craft significance statements in their research that explain why they are working with texts or on certain problems, yet this book does not make a compelling case for each documents’ inclusion in most cases. While this reviewer has taken classes in diplomacy and military history as well as written on United States terrorism policy, even he would have difficulty describing why certain documents appear and others do not. In order to produce discerning young scholars, we need to provide them with ways to frame their work so that they can explain why it is significant to others. This book misses an opportunity to explain its process and help the next generation of students, practitioners, and scholars begin to think about these ideas.
Readers will find the index and bibliographic data at the end of the book useful, although they surely would hope for the bibliographic data appearing earlier. The index actually does the best job connecting the documents since there is so little contextualization in the book. I would encourage readers to read through the index first in order to get a sense of the themes during the long century, before going through the documents.
Students and teachers working in military, political, or diplomatic history will find this book a good fit for classroom use. Teachers of advanced high school AP and IB curriculum, as well as those of undergraduate courses, will find the text useful. Its unclear bibliographic references and difficulty contextualizing the broader movements of which the documents are a part notwithstanding, the book will augment secondary sources used to teach these important times in United States history. | <urn:uuid:bc01ddbf-a5a3-48a9-99b9-1757ce4e12e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.insightturkey.com/book-reviews/america-in-the-world-a-history-in-documents-from-the-war-with-spain-to-the-war-on-terror | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.964265 | 1,003 | 3.265625 | 3 |
For those considering beginning a career in the medical field, LVN programs in Terramare TX will let you accomplish your goals a lot sooner than you’d probably assume.
In as fast as one to two years, it is possible to complete your choice of an online or campus class, and challenge the NCLEX license examination for the chance to be recognized as a Licensed Vocational Nurse.
Tips on How to Get Ready for LVN Programs in Terramare TX
Courses to become a LVN include a variety of requirements. You need to be the legal age in Texas, hold a H.S. diploma or GED, test negative for any illegal drugs, and you then must pass a criminal background investigation.
Leading Vocational Nursing Programs in Texas
Typical Licensed Vocational Nursing Schools
There are plenty of exceptional training programs that you can choose from, however you need to make sure the LVN programs you wish to enroll in meet specific requirements. It can seem like there are dozens of Licensed Vocational Nurse training in Terramare TX, but you still need to choose the course that will best lead you towards your long-term aspirations. To make certain that you won’t be wasting your time and your money, it is crucial to make certain the school or program you have picked is actually authorized by a national overseeing organization such as the American Nurses Association or has been certified by the Texas State Board. Although not as necessary as the accreditation status, you should probably seriously look into some of the following areas as well:
- If there is a location department
- What’s the success rate taking the license examination as compared with other good schools?
- Meet with former attendees or current LVN to learn their opinions on the class
What is Important About Vocational Nursing Licensure?
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing oversees the license and regulation for Licensed Vocational Nurses. The Nurse Aide Registry manages the nursing registry that determines who is able to work as a Licensed Vocational Nurse. Once you are credentialed and included, you’re qualified for employment.
Finding a Job as a Licensed Vocational in Texas
According to the O*Net Online, nurse are very much in demand in the State of Texas. With the predicted substantial growth over the upcoming decade, there ought to be plenty of job opportunities for you to pick from. The statistics signify a once-in-a-lifetime chance for anybody who has an interest in getting into the nursing profession.
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The emigration of well-educated and skilled individuals from Turkey to Western countries has been attracting greater media attention, particularly after recent economic and political crises. Academics, journalists, other professionals and students have been increasingly leaving the country for the short or long term in recent years.
After a coup attempt on July 15, 2016 followed by a systematic attack on academic freedom through the dismissal of professors from the country’s most prestigious universities and the cancellation of their passports as well as the shutting down of civil society and nongovernmental organizations, Turkish citizens began to feel the seriousness of the political pressure.
The latest studies on Turkey’s ongoing brain drain find that the rise of authoritarianism, religious nationalism, financial difficulties and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government’s strict control over universities are the main inducements for emigration.
“President [Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan has a serious problem communicating with young people. He continues to terrorize all segments of Turkish society who are not on his side politically. Women and young people in particular are his targets,” Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP Hüda Kaya told Turkish Minute in a phone interview.
The AKP government’s appointment of an outside rector to Istanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University has led to weeks of demonstrations, hundreds of arrests and one of the most sustained protests in recent years against Erdoğan’s autocracy.
The protests began in early January, immediately after Erdoğan appointed Melih Bulu, a former parliamentary candidate for Erdoğan’s AKP, as rector. The biggest protests since the Gezi demonstrations, which swept across Turkey in the summer of 2013, have reawakened the awareness of one of Turkey’s most important problems — Erdoğan’s commanding sway over state institutions.
Kaya thinks the communication gap between the government and young people makes things difficult for Erdoğan, who continues to publicly humiliate Boğaziçi students and their supporters with gross insults, regardless of local and international reaction.
“They call the young people ‘perverts, vandals, snakes whose heads will be crushed’! This is unacceptable. The government cannot move forward without the support of the younger generation. Approximately 7 million young people will vote for the first time in the coming elections in 2023. Most young people have opposing views, and they don’t accept AKP policies. The government is aware of this. The AKP has no future, they are finished,” said Kaya.
The Turkish authorities’ response to the protests is harsh and familiar. Police raid students’ homes, and peaceful protests meet with excessive force. Government officials continue to label the demonstrators as terrorists and LGBT students as perverts who violate “Turkish national values.”
According to the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) Turkey witnessed a 2 percent increase in its number of emigrants in 2019 compared to the previous year. A total of 330,289 people left the country last year, about 40.8 percent of whom were between the ages of 20 and 34.
Recent studies show that young people who do not want to live in “Erdoğan’s Turkey” are looking for a free and democratic country where they can find better working conditions and a higher standard of living.
In November 2019 Erdoğan had declared his political mission as “raising devout Muslim generations.” However, Konda, a Turkish pollster, found that young people were less likely than the broader population to identify themselves as “religious conservatives” in 2019. They were less likely to fast, pray regularly or wear a headscarf. Konda’s research showed that Turkish youth had “challenged” Erdoğan’s most coveted national project.
Turkish Minute spoke with Kerim Has, a Turkish academic based in Moscow since 2006. Has thinks young people who want to have a quality education and stay away from the polarized and repressive political atmosphere in Turkey try to leave the country.
“There is a risk that one day you can suddenly be accused of being a ‘terrorist’ and that immediately afterward you can face an unlawful arrest. People also go abroad to avoid this lack of personal security. Under Erdoğan’s one-man rule, young people are getting more exhausted by the day. People also want to leave for their ideals, which no longer seem realizable in Turkey,” Has said.
Young citizens are becoming increasingly disappointed with the widespread nepotism in the country and losing their hopes of finding a job based on their merits if they don’t know any high-ranking people. Many people feel that even their basic freedoms are being taken away from them.
Nesi Altaras, a Jew from Istanbul and master’s student at McGill University in Montreal who has been living in Canada for six years, thinks the lack of free speech and academic freedom lowers the quality of education at universities in Turkey and makes it harder to live like a young person.
“It becomes suffocating to constantly self-censor. This is compounded by the terrible economic situation. Young people can’t find jobs, and even when they do, they aren’t able to enjoy the standard of living they seek, [barely able to] pay their rent, go out to eat or travel. For people who belong to the non-Muslim minorities of Turkey, like me, the rise in nationalism and anti-Semitism further adds to these push factors.” Altaras told Turkish Minute.
Erdoğan’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, branded demonstrators “LGBT perverts” in a tweet that violated Twitter rules about “hateful conduct” and was hidden from public view. The US State Department condemned anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and voiced concern at the detention of protesters. The UN Human Rights Office called for the immediate release of the detained students in a tweet, condemning the “homophobic and transphobic comments by officials, inciting hatred and discrimination against LGBT people.”
Erdoğan has also made homophobic comments. “As for LGBT, there is no such thing,” he said at a party meeting earlier this month. “This country is … moral, and it will walk to the future with these values.”
In the light of these facts, the protest against the pro-government rector’s appointment has turned into a struggle for democracy, freedom of expression and equality in Turkey. After the Gezi Park protests of 2013, many of Turkey’s educated, politically progressive young people started to leave the country. Facing the oppressive and authoritarian government response — purging the public sector of any of its opponents — after the attempted coup in 2016, more young people decided to leave.
Students at Boğaziçi University have written an open letter to Erdoğan listing their demands and promising that their protests would continue as long as newly appointed rector Bulu remains in the position.
Altaras thinks the Boğaziçi protests will not cause a new wave of emigration. “An overwhelming majority of young people already want to leave. There’s nothing new. Although some people who leave for education or political reasons have the desire to move back, each year away ties you to your new place and further alienates you from Turkey as you wait for things to improve,” she said.
However, Has underlined that the brain drain that has been ongoing for a long time will accelerate even more after the Boğaziçi University protests. Has thinks people will only think about a return to Turkey when democracy and the rule of law have been established in the country and, of course, when economic conditions improve accordingly.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021
A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #206, Review of #186 - Salvation of the world depends on me.
Review of Lesson #186 - Salvation of the world depends on me.
I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
“Salvation” in A Course In Miracles means healing of the separation from the Oneness. This healing depends on my decision. Do I want the world of the ego or the world of the Spirit, Love?
In Alcoholic Anonymous, it is suggested, in step eleven, that we seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Transcendent Source. Good idea, yes?
In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote a love for the interdependent web of existence of which we are a part. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, right?
And so today, it is suggested that we begin and end the day and many times in between remind ourselves that salvation of the world depends on me. The holiness (wholeness) of the world awaits my decision. What will I choose? If I choose for holiness, the world will tempt me to choose otherwise often with its advertisements and enticements and so I must choose over and over and over again. | <urn:uuid:4aee9300-3f0a-43ce-8e22-1a2a521d8ae2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uuawayoflife.org/2021/03/a-course-in-miracles-workbook-lesson_31.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.924925 | 286 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Monroe NAACP holds annual gala
STROUDSBURG — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Monroe County branch recently held its annual gala at Stroudsmoor Country Inn.
Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization.
Naisiah Hoskins, president of the NAACP Monroe chapter's Youth Council, introduced the gala's keynote speaker, Brendien Mitchell. A student at George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management, Mitchell is chair of the Youth Works Committee under the NAACP's national office and a Communications Fellow for the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Quoting abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Mitchell reminded everyone that there can be no progress without struggle, urging today's younger generation to continue that struggle against injustice.
Honored at the gala were:
* Former NAACP Monroe chapter president Barbara Purcell-Clark.
* Vietnam veteran and former East Stroudsburg School Board member Ronald Bradley.
* East Stroudsburg University graduate and aspiring attorney Chantal Fulgencio.
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Fake meats are finally becoming mainstream. From nuggets to kheema, India’s food market is now exploding with plant-based foods for those looking for alternatives to meat. Do these products really taste like the real deal? How are they made? Are they in good health? And is this the future of food? Mock Meat: Tried & Tasted dives into this brave new world of plant-based foods, one product at a time.
What we tried: Potent Herbal Fish Curry
Done by: Power foods
One line step: “100% vegetable protein food, tasty and clean, ready in 10”
Ingredients: Soy Protein Flour, Treated Water, Sugar, Salt, Yeast, Natural Identical Flavorings, Coconut, Garlic Cloves, Seaweed, Teppal Berries, Red Chilli, Coriander Seeds, Coconut Oil, Onion, turmeric powder, tamarind, kodampulo, curry leaves, green chili, ginger, sunflower oil, fenugreek seeds, black pepper, mustard seeds, coriander powder.
Nutrition information (per 100g): Energy: 330 kcal; Total fat: 14.4 g; Saturated fatty acids: 2.3g; Unsaturated fat: 0.08g; Trans fat: ND
Mumbai-based Dibyendu Bindal, Founder and CEO of Mighty Foods, has noticed the shift to plant-based foods in 2020. With three decades of experience in the F&B industry, Bindal has seen the tide turn in favor of a new product that combined the flavor of meat, with an overall healthier product. After trying plant-based foods himself, he saw a gap in the market. “I saw the emergence of plant-based foods, but there weren’t too many options ready for the end consumer – the person who really wants to make that switch,” he says. “As a consumer and foodie, I realized that [switching to plant-based food] required a lot of effort and was a very long process. This is where I thought it would help provide an option that is both ready, convenient, and quick to cook.
But Bindal is not an evangelist or trying to convince you to give up meat. “I don’t think I can convince anyone to leave meat for this. It’s a personal change,” he says. “We want to sell a product that tastes great, has better nutritional value, and is convenient and easy to cook.”
He views the products as foods that anyone can try, whether vegetarian, non-vegetarian or vegan, where taste is the hero. “I believe India is a taste driven market. So if you can taste with health, it will always work. | <urn:uuid:be4a2b78-60f5-4dee-a13e-92d8ae5ffb20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://apodion.net/simulated-meat-tried-and-taste-plant-based-fish-curry-from-mighty-foods/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.947776 | 604 | 1.5625 | 2 |
President Kabila was due to step down in December 2016, but Congo failed to organize elections, leading to deadly protests.
Two United Nations experts, including an American, were killed in Congo in March, but a local inquiry has been criticised.
Moise Katumbi, the chairman of Congo's premier football team and a presidential candidate, has not set foot in the country for a year.
Buying a passport in Congo costs $185, almost half a citizen's annual income.
President Joseph Kabila is due to step down when the next elections are held.
Etienne Tshisekedi, the longtime opposition leader, died in February.
Etienne Tshisekedi was the man with the experience to lead Congo to elections in 2017. After his death, they are in doubt.
At least 34 people in Congo have been killed in protests since Monday, a human-rights researcher has claimed.
Scores of anti-Kabila protesters were killed in recent clashes with security forces.
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Omega Plus: an excellent source of marine-based fats
For our pets to lead healthy lifestyles, they need a balance of the two most common essential fatty acids: omega-3 and omega-6. The ideal ratio is less than 4:1 (6:3), which is what the Omega Plus range provides. However, because many pet foods contain cheap, filler ingredients, like grains, cereals and vegetable oils, our pet’s diets are often awash with omega-6s and are therefore imbalanced. This can result in auto-immune diseases, like diabetes, arthritis, and psoriasis and eczema. But with King salmon as the number one ingredient, Omega Plus is an excellent source of long chain marine-based omega-3s. These help counter inflammation in your pet’s body, so they’re not pre-disposed to such diseases. And because the fatty acids are of the long chain variety and from a marine-based source, your pet gets more nutritional bang for their buck.
Want to know more? Let’s break it down.
Fatty acids are essential to our pet’s health
Our pets need good fats to remain as energetic and healthy as possible. Fatty acids are the building blocks of fat, and the two types of essential fatty acids dogs and cats need are omega-6 and omega-3.
These fatty acids support your pet’s immunity, brain health, growth, skin health, behaviour and joint mobility. And, like the name suggests, they are ‘essential’ to maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
However, the body can’t produce these fatty acids, so we need to make sure they’re in the food we buy our pets.
Omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids
Omega-6s launch an inflammatory response in the body and tend to be found in plant-based foods like seeds, nuts and vegetable oils. While omega-3s launch an anti-inflammatory response and tend to be found in marine-based foods, like mackerel and salmon.
Our pets need both omegas to maintain optimum health. But factors such as the source and type of the omegas, plus the ratio of consumption, all play a key role in how effective they are in keeping our pets healthy and happy.
The ideal ratio of omega 6 and 3
Like anything, you can have too much of a good thing. And fatty acids are no exception.
Because omega-6s and omega-3s compete for the same enzymes in the body when digested, an imbalance will interfere with the goodness they both offer. So, to reap the health benefits of both types, it’s important that we give them to our pets in the proper ratios.
Too much omega-6 but not enough omega-3 causes increased inflammation in the body, which can lead to those auto-immune diseases mentioned above. But if we level the omega-6s with omega-3s, it can lead to a reduction in the severity of the symptoms experienced.
A prominent biochemist, Professor Bill Lands, has blamed high levels of omega-6 in our diets for the inflammatory state of most Western nations. (Lands, W., (2005)).
In light of that, the optimal ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is thought to be a ratio of less than 4:1, in both human and animal – that’s the same ratio the Omega Plus range gives your pet. But a ratio below 2:1 is considered very balanced and anti-inflammatory (Simopoulos, 2016).
Long chain fatty acids vs short chain fatty acids
The molecular structure of fatty acids is also an important factor in pet health.
For starters, there are two basic groups of fatty acids – short chain and long chain. Short chain fatty acids are usually found in plant-based foods, like seeds, grains and vegetable oils, while long chain fatty acids are usually found in marine-based foods, like salmon.
Because long chain fatty acids are made up of more molecules, human and animal bodies can use them for a variety of things. For example, the brain is approximately 12% grey matter, which is primarily made up of long chain fatty acids. When grey matter needs to be replaced, the body requires long chain fatty acids. If the body was only consuming short chain fatty acids, the grey matter within the brain will not be able to replenish itself, which would affect cognitive health.
Why Omega Plus is the best choice for your pet
Because Omega Plus uses King salmon as the number one ingredient, our products are naturally rich in long-chain fatty acids from a marine-based source – so they’re great for improving and maintaining your pet’s joint mobility, growth, behaviour, and brain and skin/coat health.
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WACO, Texas (FOX 44) — Texas farmers are no strangers to the heat but between consistently high temperatures and drought, it’s making their jobs in the field extremely difficult.
“The best decision is to reduce your number, reduce your need for inputs like supplemental feed and hay, and hopefully get one day closer or one week closer to the day that the drought breaks,” Tracy Tomascik of the Texas Farm Bureau said.
Tomascik said farmers and ranchers are having to make difficult decisions on what to do with their livestock, as many are having difficulties keeping them fed and healthy due to the lack of rain and the rising price of hay.
“We need to reduce the number of livestock on those pastures and their grasslands for the reasons that were mentioned earlier,” he said. “There’s just hasn’t been enough water, enough rainfall to allow grass to grow to any substantial degree over the last eight months, actually.”
Tomascik also said this weather is affecting grain and produce farmers as well. Although most grain farmers were able to make a crop this year, it was not at the level that it normally is.
He also explained that between inflation and the weather, many farmers are getting concerned about the bottom line.
“Farms and ranches across the state and country, we’re family-owned. And so it’s a family business and very few are able to cash flow out of the bank account. So lending is a big issue,” Tomascik said.
With all the issues farmers are facing, will this affect your weekly shopping trip to the grocery store?
“I don’t think we’re going to see a huge spike in costs at the grocery store or the retail level in the near future,” he explained. “Let’s think about long-term, though. If we have farmers and ranchers liquidating the cow herd, that means that those cows are not going to be out there producing a calf next year, which would lead to a steak at the retail counter or a half pound of hamburger into two years from now.” | <urn:uuid:818b59a7-a7fb-4525-83de-67e6998e3075> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kxan.com/news/farmers-battling-hot-weather-to-keep-product-alive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.97786 | 460 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our health and I would argue and one of the most neglected. If we were to simplify the categories that are important to pay attention to regarding our health and wellness, I would say the three most important categories are nutrition, sleep and activity. If you neglect one of these three pillars you will guarantee your-self failure. If you sleep well and eat well but don't have enough activity, there will be problems. If you exercise and eat well but don't sleep well, there will be problems. And if you sleep well and exercise well but don't eat properly there will also be problems.
Why is sleep so important?
There are many reasons why sleep is one of the most important aspects of our health and wellness. One of these is that this is when our body is in the most anabolic state, meaning that the body rebuilds tissue during this time. This is important for everything including rebuilding the cells in our organs, regenerating energy throughout our body, as well as rebuilding muscle and connective tissue.
How much sleep do we need?
This seems to vary mostly depending upon age, with secondary factors including, lifestyle and individual variations. The consistent trend is for younger people to have more sleep and less as you age with adult and elderly recommendations between 7 to 9 hours. This is according to the National Sleep Foundation. It also matters when you sleep, mainly lining this up with your circadian rhythm which involves your body temperature and melatonin production, a natural sleep hormone.
What can affect my quality of sleep?
This can be many factors including, room temperature, noise and light exposure. The temperature is most often recommended to have slightly cooler temperature than you would have throughout the rest of your house. I myself find 67 degrees to be the right number for my bedroom at night. You want to limit loud noises and sounds, which seems obvious because these can become a immediate disruptor. This is especially true when coming intermittently throughout your sleep and can startle you awake increasing cortisol levels, a stress hormone. Light exposure can also be an important factor where studies have shown blue light exposure in the evening can limit melatonin production. This makes it increasingly hard to sleep at night and may have other health implications since melatonin is an important antioxidant and helps with immune function.
Are there any quick and easy solutions?
I have found that a room air conditioner can help solve the temperature problem and give you control to the exact degree of how you want your room temperature to be set. Limiting noise can be something as simple as adjusting your overall environment and or using ear plugs or possibly a white noise device to block other potential noises that may disrupt your sleep. Avoiding light exposure can be done with blackout shades are great but can sometimes be a little pricey. A sleep mask can be an inexpensive fix, but sometimes these can be slightly uncomfortable. You can also use Lights Out Travel Light Blockers for those little annoying lights, such as on stereos, room air conditioners or alarm clocks.
So, make sure that you prioritize your sleep because it is an important pillar of good health and wellness. Also, make sure to manage the factors that you can control to optimize your sleep including the temperature, noise and light exposure and have a restful night sleep!
Author : Jordan Proudfoot
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In physically unclonable functions (PUFs), generating random cryptographs is required to secure private information. Various memory-based PUFs (MemPUFs), where cryptographs are generated independently from each PUF cell to increase the unpredictability of the cryptographs, have been proposed. Among them, the spin-transfer torque magnetic random-access memory MemPUF generates constant responses under temperature and voltage variations by exploiting a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) as the variation source. However, its response stability is diminished by the different characteristics of the two access transistors used in a PUF cell. To solve this problem, a novel PUF array that employs a diode-connected transistor and a shared access transistor, is proposed. In addition, a two-step postprocessing is adopted: 1) a write-back technique that amplifies the initial mismatch of MTJ resistances, and 2) a cell-classification technique that detects unstable PUF cells and discards their responses. The Monte Carlo HSPICE simulation results using industry-compatible 65-nm technology show that the proposed PUF system achieves the highest independence (autocorrelation factor of 0.0306) and the lowest maximum bit error rate (BER) under temperature and supply-voltage variations (<0.01% and 0.04% in the ranges of -25 to 75 °C and 0.8-1.2 V, respectively) compared with conventional PUF systems that exploit independent variation sources.
|Number of pages||10|
|Journal||IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security|
|Publication status||Published - 2020|
Bibliographical notePublisher Copyright:
© 2005-2012 IEEE.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
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Objective: To determine whether an intensified follow-up of patients with colorectal cancer can lead to improved reresectability and a better long-term survival.
Design: A prospective randomized trial of 106 patients.
Setting: Oulu University Hospital, a referral center in northern Finland.
Patients: A total of 106 consecutive patients who underwent radical resection for colorectal cancer, 54 of whom were randomized into a conventional follow-up group and 52 into an intensified follow-up group.
Main outcome measures: After a 5-year follow-up, the time of detection of recurrence, the recurrence rates, the first method showing recurrence, the mode of recurrence, reresectability, and survival were compared between the groups.
Results: The recurrences were identified earlier in the intensified follow-up group than in the conventional follow-up group (mean +/- SD, 10 +/- 5 months vs 15 +/- 10 months). The overall recurrence rate was 41%, with 39% in the conventional group and 42% in the intensified group. Carcinoembryonic antigen determination was the most common method showing recurrence in both groups. Endoscopy and ultrasound were beneficial in the intensified follow-up group, but computed tomography failed to improve the diagnostics. The mode of recurrence did not differ between the groups. Radical resections were performed on 19% (8/43) of the patients, 14% (3/21) in the conventional group and 22% (5/22) in the intensified group. The cumulative 5-year survival was 54% in the conventional group and 59% in the intensified group.
Conclusion: Earlier detection of recurrent colorectal cancer by intensified follow-up does not lead to either significantly increased reresectability or improved 5-year survival. | <urn:uuid:978a98dc-e1d6-408d-8d71-ea1d1a7a1f5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7575117/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.953144 | 376 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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The Second World War is rightfully regarded as the most devastating battle in modern history and it involved almost all nations of the world. The United States joined the battle at a relatively later stage and engaged in a number of significant battles against the Axis Alliance in both Europe and Asia. One of the most intense battles carried out by US troops was against Japanese forces in the island of Iwo Jima.
This battle which spanned for over a month had some significant repercussions for the US and Japanese Empire. This paper will set out to discuss the impact of the battle of Iwo Jima with an overview of the reasons why the battle took place and the major parties involved provided.
Origins of the War
The invasion of Iwo Jima by US forces was precipitated by the success of the offensive against Japanese forces in the Mariana Islands. The Mariana Islands were to serve as a major launching pad for an intense attack against mainland Japan (Brown 14).
However, for this campaign to work, Iwo Jima needed to be under US control since Iwo Jima lie halfway between Tokyo and Mariana. The Island of Iwo Jima had been developed by the Japanese as a base for intercepting US bombers on their way to Japan. Under Japanese control, the Iwo Jima Island played a crucial role in the defense of mainland Japan by serving as an early warning station.
The US forces regarded this island as of great strategic importance in carrying out attacks against mainland Japan. The operation to capture Iwo Jima was code named “Detachment” and it was based on the “island hopping” theory where American troops set out to occupy islands that were of strategic importance in the war against Japan (Brown 18). The invasion of Iwo Jima began on 19 February 1945 with the landing of American forces on the island while bombers attacked key Japanese positions and their warships.
A number of top American Commanders were involved in the Iwo Jima operation. The order to occupy the island of Iwo Jima was issued by the then Joint Chiefs of Staff to Chester Nimitz who was the Commander in Chief Pacific.
Nimitz’s right hand man, Admiral Raymond Spruance was the operations commander. Admiral Richmond Turner was placed as the “Joint Expeditionary Force Commander” and his great organization skills assisted in the mounting of operations (Wright 13). Lieutenant-General Holland Smith was the Fleet Commander of the marine force in the pacific.
The Japanese side also had a number of high-ranking military personnel. Lieutenant-General Tadamichi Kuribayashi who was a samurai with a record 30year of distinguished military service commanded the garrison on Iwo Jima (Wright 13). The other high-ranking officer on the island was Colonel Baron Takeichi Nishi who commanded a tank unit that acted as reinforcement for the island.
The Island Defenses
As of early 1944, the island had an archaic defense system that could not withstand a major assault. When General Kuribayashi was given command of the garrison at Iwo Jima, he set out to upgrade the defense system of the island in readiness for the impending war.
The first action was to remove the civilian population from the island to the mainland in order to conserve food and water suppliers that would be used by the troops. The general also asked for more troops to be stationed at the island and a massive program of underground defense be established.
Due to these efforts, an elaborate underground defense system what was made up of extensive tunnels, caves, and gun placements was set up within 9 months. Lieutenant General Holland Smith who commanded the Fleet Marine Force asserted that this was easily the most heavily fortified island in the world (Brown 18). Iwo Jima therefore presented unmatched tactical challenges for the invading American forces.
Impacts of the War
The war led to the greatest percentage loss of American troops in combat. Lieutenant-General Howlin Smith declared this battle “the most savage and most costly battle in the history of the Marine Corps” by (Wright 10).
Over the course of the invasion, 73,000 American troops were landed on the Island. During the 36days of heavy fighting, 6,800 marines lost their lives making it the battle with the largest percentage of casualties for the US during the Second World War. Brown observes that the terrain on the island failed to allow for clear lines of battle making it hard to launch an effective offensive (19).
The battle led to defeat of the Japanese and the subsequent occupation of the island of Iwo Jima by US forces. From the onset, the Japanese troops on the island who were approximately 21,000 were greatly outnumbered by the invading American force (Brown 19).
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Japanese troops had orders to fight to the last man and during the conflict, Japanese troops were neither withdrawn nor reinforced. By the 28th day of battle, the US troops had neutralized most of the Japanese troops and the island was declared secure. Active combat ended on the 36th day and the island was officially under American occupation.
The American victory in Iwo Jima hastened the ending of the war since this volcanic island was of strategic importance to American war efforts. Hama notes that in spite of several years of war in the Pacific, the US had not been able to deter the Japanese since Japan industries in the mainland remained untouched and in full production (4).
Capturing the island made it possible for the US to reach Japan easily. Iwo Jima was ideally located halfway across the distance between Tokyo and the US bases in the Marianas (Russ 12). The Island provided a much-needed base of operation for carrying out raids on Japanese industrial locations.
In addition to this, the seizure of Iwo Jima gave the US added military advantage since the island was used for both air and sea blockade (Hama 4). By using this island as a base, US forces were able to carry out aggressive bombardments on Japanese naval vessels hence greatly reducing Japan’s naval capabilities. Arial bombardments on the air factor diminished Japan’s air capability thereby hastening the ending of the war.
Following the victory of the American forces, the US flag was hoisted on Mount Suribachi. This was a crucial moment in the war since it was the first time that a foreign flag had been raised on Japanese soil for generations (Russ 15). This takeover of the island signified the end of Japanese expansionism and the Pacific war. American victory in Iwo Jima served as a signal that the invasion of Japan was imminent
This paper set out to assess the impact of one of the fiercest battle of World War II, the battle of Iwo Jima. It began by highlighting the circumstances that made the battle necessary and the main actors in the war.
This paper has documented that this bloody battle, which raged for 36days, led to the death of 6,800 US marines and 21,000 Japanese soldiers who chose to die rather than surrender. However, the war was able to gain the US forces huge strategic advances and therefore accelerate the eventual victory of the Allies in the Second World War.
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Hama, Larry. The Battle of Iwo Jima: Guerilla Warfare in the Pacific. NY: Rosen Classroom, 2007. Print.
Russ, John. “VII Fighter Command Operations from Iwo Jima, April-August 1945.” Air Power History 48.3 (2001): 12-17. Web.
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It takes courage to ask simply and directly, ‘are you okay?’, if concerned about someone's mental health.
What if they’re actually fine? Will they be offended? And what do you do if they aren’t okay?
These are common concerns people have when it comes to asking a friend, colleague or loved one ‘are you okay?’. So it’s tempting to frame the question in a way that encourages a positive response, ‘you’re okay, aren’t you?’
We often do this because we’re not sure how to respond if the answer is ‘no’. But that’s certainly not helping your friend, and it reinforces the reluctance or stigma we feel when talking about mental health issues.
Sometimes it can help to mention any changes you’ve seen that have caused concern. For example, if someone seems more withdrawn than normal (which can be a symptom of depression) you could say ‘I’ve noticed that you’ve not wanted to come out much lately. Is there something worrying you?’
Sometimes people find it easier to talk when doing something like going for a walk, driving, or doing another shared activity, rather than sitting across a table from someone.
Five tips for responding to someone who is doing it tough
- A simple, ‘I’m sorry to hear that’ is a good response. You might follow this up with, ‘Would you like to talk about it?’ to open up the conversation if the time and situation is appropriate. If not, agree on a more suitable time to talk, and reassure them that you're there to listen. Sometimes people might talk with a little more prompting, if they feel they can trust you.
- Try listening to the emotions behind their words. You can try reflecting back what they say or validating them. Validating is showing that you recognise and accept their experience as valid. You could do this by saying something like, 'I would be stressed too if that was happening to me' or 'I can understand why that makes you angry.'
- There is great comfort to be given by simply listening and caring. Often showing that you're really listening can be helped by your body language (nodding and making eye contact where you can) and by summarising back parts of what you hear. There are often too few opportunities in our busy lives for connections based on these simple kindnesses.
- Focus on asking questions and discussing what they're going through, rather than trying to provide answers or solve problems. Giving people a chance to share their experiences and voice their concerns without judgement is of great benefit. It helps people to feel less alone and more hopeful. Remember that responsibility for finding solutions does not lie with you. The best solutions are generally reached by the person themselves.
- Are they linked in with a mental health professional or even a support group? If the aren't sure how to access these services, you may be able to help them get started. Often contacting a trusted GP is a good place to start.
- If someone is thinking about suicide it’s especially important that they know that help is available. Lifeline has telephone and online support 24 hours a day, or in an emergency call 000. Find out more about how to help when someone is suicidal.
When someone says they're ok, but you suspect they aren't
Rather than an answer of 'no', it is possible for the person you care about to respond with a 'yeah I'm okay' or 'I'm fine'. If you’re not convinced, try asking the question a different way, or mentioning why you're asking in the first place - for example, if you've noticed any changes.
If they still say they're fine, or they don't want to talk, let them know that you are always available should they want to talk. It's worth sending them a message a few hours later reiterating your support. By keeping the door open you will make it easier for them to connect and open up in the future.
Remember a conversation could change a life and the simple gesture of compassion can have a profound effect on someone who is going through tough times.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Back home in Puerto Rico, Jeamy Ramirez grew up feeling a strong social pressure to register to vote on the day she turned 18. But once she moved to the mainland, among the hundreds of Puerto Ricans to make the jump to central Florida each month, Ramirez noticed a stark cultural shift -- few bothered to register, let alone cast a vote.
In the midst of a massive migration wave from the Caribbean, Puerto Ricans are on pace to outnumber Florida’s Cuban population, which for generations dominated all Hispanic groups in the Sunshine State.
Their involvement in the political process stands to dramatically reshape electoral outcomes -- Cubans consistently vote Republican, while Puerto Ricans tend to lean Democratic. But this burgeoning power from within the Latino voting bloc hinges on one key detail -- whether Puerto Ricans would actually register and turn out.
“Imagine if we all together go out and vote,” Ramirez, 37, said. “We can make a lot of changes.”
More than 1 million people have resettled to the heart of Florida in recent years to escape Puerto Rico’s dire opportunities and financial turmoil. And as US citizens by birth, Puerto Ricans become easy targets for both parties to pad their voting rolls once the newcomers move to the mainland.
There are signs that the massive migration wave is set to have lasting benefits for the Democratic Party. Hispanics account for 88 percent of growth in Democratic voters in Florida over the last decade, according to the Pew Research Center. Democrats now hold a voter registration advantage over Republicans with Florida Latinos. And the diverse demographics are only expected to grow.
These communities are popping up in crucial voting districts, dotting neighborhoods along the I-4 corridor, which consistently determines which way the state will swing in any given election.
“The number of Puerto Ricans living in Florida is not only rivaling the Cuban population, it’s almost equal,” said Mark Hugo Lopez, director of Hispanic research at Pew. “It’s potentially a swing vote area because of this growing population of Puerto Ricans.”
Holding them back, however, are low levels of engagement once they reach Florida. They leave behind a dramatically different party system and voting process -- Puerto Ricans vote every four years but are unable to participate in US general elections. Among newcomers who have only recently moved to central Florida, few are familiar with the parties or candidates.
“Many have no idea. They say, ‘Hillary who?’ Or ‘Democrat what?’” said Neil Rios, 18, a volunteer canvasser with the national nonprofit group Mi Familia Vota.
The disparity between voter participation back home and on the mainland has advocates like Maribel Hastings, a Puerto Rican native and senior adviser with America’s Voice, scratching their heads to explain why so few choose to approach voting in the states with same sense of duty.
“In Puerto Rico, we have one of the highest voter participations in the country,” Hastings explained. “Once they move to the mainland, they don’t vote. It’s really hard to get them registered and get them out and vote.”
Organizations like Mi Familia Vota, which focuses on helping immigrant communities obtain citizenship and register to vote, caught a break this year with a presidential election cycle that has consistently captured the attention of people worldwide.
Donald Trump’s candidacy -- and his consistently inflammatory rhetoric designed to scapegoat minority communities -- has led to the unintended consequence of boosting voter rolls and citizenship tests with immigrants dead set against seeing the reality TV star become president.
“We’ve heard everything from 'I want to become a citizen because I don’t want Trump to win,'” said Maria Ponce, a spokesperson for the pro-immigrant group iAmerica. “That has been the constant item that we have been hearing from many, many Latinos.”
Ramirez, who canvases supermarkets, neighborhoods and schools in the Orlando area, noticed the same: People are more willing to register to vote if there is a candidate they fear. But increasingly, Puerto Ricans are choosing to register as unaffiliated with any party.
It’s a growing trend for Hispanics to reject party alignment -- according to Pew, more Hispanics are unaffiliated than those registered as Republicans. While it means that voters can keep their options open for the general election, it also means that unaffiliated Latinos won’t be able to participate in Florida’s March 15 primary.
Standing outside a supermarket in Orlando, where she’s lived since 2012, Ramirez was making a last ditch-effort to reach new potential voters so they could participate in the contest on Tuesday.
“Today is a good day,” she said as she counted the stack of filled-out forms. More than 20 new registrations in a little over an hour.
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Turn your old Game Boy into a drone controller
What do you do when you find your old Game Boy? Most of us try to boot it up and reminisce the days of playing Tetris, Super Mario and Pokémon. Others like Gautier Hattenberger decide to turn it into a drone controller.
In order to do this, Hattenberger modified the Game Boy’s Game Link port with an Arduino Nano and an FTDI chip, which converts the Game Link signals to USB. Using a small piece of software on his laptop, he is able to control his Parrot ARDrone 2.0 via the classic device— A and B buttons for up or down, and the directional arrows for maneuvering. | <urn:uuid:76343871-dcc6-43b1-b1f4-7d81a8df7475> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.arduino.cc/2016/08/21/turn-your-old-game-boy-into-a-drone-controller/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.888769 | 147 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Kids 10-14 years old are welcome to sign up for this creative dramatics theater program!
February 19, 2019
4:00pm - 5:00pm
READiculous, JR is a reader’s theater/creative dramatics program for kids 10-14 years old led by READiculous’ Ms. Susan and Ms. Alissa. READiculous, JR promotes self-expression, critical thinking, creativity and team work. The program will include theatre games, improvisation exercises, characterization techniques, literary interpretation and more!
To sign up, stop by the Children’s Desk or call the Children’s Desk at 217-424-2900, ext. 5.
Program supported with help from the Friends of Decatur Public Library. | <urn:uuid:19aeba9e-dcf6-466e-ae9a-965cb0a2981e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://decaturlibrary.org/events/2100/readiculous-jr | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.860401 | 183 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Postdoc position in advanced data mining and analysis of marine plastic pollution
The amount of plastic in our ocean is growing rapidly, with estimates of more than 5 million metric tonnes of plastic reaching the ocean each year. This plastic infiltrates the ocean food web and thus poses a major threat to marine life. However, the understanding of the distribution, pathways and fate of plastic once in the ocean is very limited.
In the project ‘Tracking Of Plastics In Our Seas’ (TOPIOS), funded by the European Research Council, we will create a novel comprehensive modelling framework that simulates plastic movement through the ocean, and use that framework to significantly improve the understanding of the plastic pollution in our oceans.
You will work within the TOPIOS project, focusing specifically on data analysis of the distribution of plastic in the ocean. You will combine published data from the literature and public datasets with output from ocean circulation models, to help create a map of the three-dimensional distribution of plastic in our oceans. During the project, you will be involved in:
- automated processing of the literature to collate a database of observations of plastic in the ocean;
- analysis of the database using advanced statistics;
- together with others in the team, combining the observational data with numerical simulations;
- writing and presenting the results to scientific peers, the general public and the media.
At the end of the Postdoc project, you will have:
- a deep understanding of the scale of the problem of global plastic pollution;
- embedded yourself in the global community of scientists investigating marine plastic pollution;
- further developed your skills to communicate your scientific results to a wide audience.
Qualifications Our ideal candidate has a driven and collaborative spirit and:
- a PhD in Physics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or a similar field;
- experience with data mining and/or natural language processing;
- the ability to cooperate within a wider and interdisciplinary research team;
- an excellent level of written and spoken English.
Preferably you also have a proven affinity with physical oceanography and strong skills in python programming.
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Discuss the aspects of your chosen vulnerable population.
Discuss the reason why is this group considered vulnerable.
Discuss what are the most common communicable diseases in this population and why.
Discuss barriers to healthcare and access to care for your vulnerable population.
Discuss how the issues this group is facing relates to the community/public health nursing.
Examine evidence based practices that improve health outcomes of the vulnerable population.
Use information technology to identify resources that will improve health outcomes of the vulnerable population.
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|Author||Topic: VPN protocols in China.|
|posted: 3/20/2020 at 9:22:48 AM ET|
The family of network protocols for implementing VPN is quite extensive, but only three of them are widely used. These are IPSec, PPTP, and L2TP.
IPSec-Internet Protocol Security-has already been discussed in detail on this site in an article by Stanislav Korotygin.
PPTP-Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol-created by Microsoft, US Robotics and a number of other developers. The Protocol is described by the creators in this and this works.
L2TP-Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol-the pride of the" network monster " — Cisco. More information about it can be found here and here.
The features, disadvantages and advantages of each of the protocols are a separate and very broad topic that is beyond the scope of this article. It should be noted that for a number of reasons, the most common VPN Protocol is currently IPSec. More than 65 percent of private virtual networks are based on it. Therefore, this time we will only talk about hardware and software solutions in which IPSec is the main one.
|posted: 3/21/2020 at 8:31:36 AM ET|
Using a VPN without understanding the reason why such a service can offer a service without payment, you risk losing more than you gain. Instead of protecting your connections and personal data, the VPN provider can collect information about you for the purpose of selling it to interested parties, the most harmless of which are advertisers.
|posted: 3/22/2020 at 12:44:25 PM ET|
Currently, the most common VPN protocol is
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol - PPTP. Designed by him
3Com and Microsoft to provide secure remote access to
corporate networks over the Internet.
PPTP leverages existing open TCP / IP standards
and relies heavily on the legacy PPP point-to-point protocol.
|posted: 3/22/2020 at 1:16:34 PM ET|
The catch is that every time you visit a site, even from your phone, you leave your IP address on it. Now this site knows that you were on it, and can, for example, sell this information to an advertiser. This type of information is also called logs.
Here, a VPN provider can help you out, allowing you to hide your IP address and block the recording of any logs about your behavior on websites and on the Internet in General. As a result, no site will be able to determine that you were on it. Moreover, the provider will encrypt all your traffic, so that no one can intercept it. Whoer VPN provides just such a service – VPN - security of the highest level.
|posted: 3/23/2020 at 5:23:32 PM ET|
Secrecy is very good because governments can not put pressure on VPN administrators and require them to give out user data if they do not know who they are and where they are. And many users in the US really prefer foreign VPN providers over American.
|posted: 3/23/2020 at 9:52:17 PM ET|
The following VPNs can definitely be recommended for China:
ExpressVPN - the leader in China, the fastest, easiest and most reliable service;
NordVPN - VPN with the most powerful anonymity and encryption algorithms;
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Establishing a Guardianship can be difficult which is why you should work with a Guardianship lawyer. Nebraska A Guardianship is a court-ordered legal relationship that is intended to benefit minors, or adults who have developmental disabilities. In a guardianship arrangement, the "ward" is the person whom the Guardian is to care for.
Guardianship Rules in Elkhorn Nebraska
Guardianships can be formed for many reasons. The first and most common reason is the well-being of a child. When a child's parents are no longer able to care for the child, sometimes a Guardianship is ordered. A Guardianship attorney in Elkhorn can help you set up this legal arrangement. Other times, these legal arrangements are established to look over the ward's assets. This often involves managing the ward's bank accounts and/or property.
Locating the Guardianship Attorney for your Needs in Nebraska
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The heart of Florida's thesis is even mushier: He argues that the size of a city's gay population directly relates to its prosperity. The larger it is, the fatter the wallet.
Which, of course, doesn't sound like a theory befitting Cleveland. Here in the Land of Voluminous Chest Hairs, any idea that involves coddling homos is, by definition, not a very good idea at all. But since our traditional method of economic development -- give free land and money to rich guys -- hasn't exactly worked (see the thousands of jobs that never showed up at Gateway), it's worth hearing Florida out.
His theory goes like this: A large gay population speaks to the vibrancy and tolerance of a city. More than anything else, this is what attracts the "creative class" -- the young, talented, and educated, the people who will fuel the scientific, technical, and artistic industries of the future. It's not that gay people are innately more inventive than your garden-variety breeder, says Florida. It's just that their presence is akin to a large billboard that reads, "Send us your eccentrics, your pierced, your huddled masses with the bad dye jobs who keep odd hours and don't wear ties." It's about personal freedom. And freedom, to the creative class, is better than gold.
Florida has the ammo to back it up. It comes in the form of Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle, and D.C. Some of these cities are old and beaten. Others are colder than Martha Stewart's smile. One is even in Texas. They have but three things in common: large gay populations, a huge influx of skilled workers, and America's freshest economies.
All of which doesn't fare well for Cleveland. To say we've cultivated our gay community is like saying you really want George Bush to be your Scrabble partner. "I don't think Cleveland is viewed as a tolerant city yet," says John Farina, head of the Log Cabin Republicans.
This isn't to say things blow. There are blossoming gay neighborhoods in Detroit-Shoreway, Ohio City, Tremont, and even Old Brooklyn. It's no coincidence that the two suburbs most attractive to young people -- Lakewood and Cleveland Heights -- also have the region's largest gay populations.
There is also no major, organized opposition. At least not the way there is in Cincinnati, where city law bars the protection of gays and lesbians from discrimination, and a vociferous band of psychos, called Citizens for Community Values, will soon begin suing public schools for the damage done to kids exposed to "homosexuality education."
"I haven't had a negative time in Cleveland because of my sexuality," says Tim Marshall, who moved to town a year ago.
Yet a marketing campaign centered on the message "We Will Not Sue You or Kick Your Ass -- At Least Not That Often," does not a welcome mat make. Fact is, Cleveland -- particularly Official Cleveland -- has always treated the gay community like something that should be carried in a brown paper bag.
Take former Mayor Mike White, who was "very involved" with gay issues, says Farina, "but it was always behind the scenes. He would never take credit for it." He feared a backlash.
The same goes for corporate Cleveland. Martha Pontoni, publisher of Gay People's Chronicle, says she still encounters businesses that will throw her paper out or refuse to advertise because they "don't want people to think [they're] gay."
No one can remember a business group actually reaching out to gay folk. "Not that I know of," says Laura Boustani of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association. "But we have a new effort for the attraction of talent and business: the Northeast Ohio Regional Marketing Initiative." Expect a very nice slogan.
Such are the ways of the Old World city, says Michael Orange, principal planner for Minneapolis. Places like Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Detroit were built around Fortune 500 companies -- or more accurately, the tastes of their CEOs. They commuted to the city for work, maybe a night in the luxury box, an evening with the orchestra. The idea was to build stuff "they could show off to their other CEO friends," says Florida.
It mattered not if there were bike trails or nightclubs or downtown sidewalks that rolled up at dusk. "They do what's best for the CEO first," says Orange.
Contrast this with Minneapolis, which learned to welcome everyone from the Hmong to lesbians years ago. It not only invested heavily in recreation, small arts groups, and nightlife, but it routinely elects gays to the city council and state legislature. The message: You can be free here. And that begot a 20-year influx of skilled labor.
Today, its Warehouse District has 120 restaurants, and the city can't build downtown housing fast enough to meet demand. "I'm amazed at Minneapolis," says Florida, who recently visited the city. "The downtown was just humming, just rocking at night."
Cleveland, with lower taxes, better weather, and wonderful old architecture, could do the same, asserts Orange, a Cleveland native. But instead of chasing convention centers, it must support recreation, music, and festivals, according to Florida. It must focus on Case Western and the Cleveland Clinic. It must encourage immigration. And, perhaps most important of all, it must pass a strong gay rights ordinance.
"Those things are very important," says Florida. "They hang a sign that says 'Creative people come here,' instead of 'Creative people leave.'"
He points to Austin, which has no downtown, a second-rate university, ranch-style housing, and few parks, yet it's managed to become the commercial and cultural power of the Southwest. "How could Austin beat the bejesus out of Cleveland and Pittsburgh?" asks Florida. "The only explanation can be the attitudes." | <urn:uuid:f5152189-6854-481a-a43c-acebb24483d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.clevescene.com/news/calling-all-queers-1479977 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.965762 | 1,236 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Jens Larsen's small 10.5" bandsawJens Larsen writes:
I've finally gotten around to making a bandsaw.
I have a medium size saw, a decent English one, which I use a lot for rough work. It's mostly fitted with a wide, and often well-worn blade (cutting through bark doesn't do it any good). So having a smaller one with a narrow blade is something I had wanted for some time.
As my saw had to be small enough to stand on a workbench and to be moved easily, one of your plans was not an option. But being much impressed by your bandsaws, I did take the liberty to base my design on yours.
I chose a wheel diameter of 270mm (10½") and a blade speed of about 700 m/min. Using a 1400 rpm motor I had laying around, it ought to be possible to fit the motor inside the frame.
This would, I thought, make the machine more portable. Construction could be made simpler by forming the bottom part of the frame with 3 pieces of plywood, one at each end of the frame, and one between these to give stiffness crosswise.
It worked well on paper. Replacing the front-most board in the lower frame member with a thinner piece of 12 mm plywood, gave room for a slightly thicker hub/pulley on the lower wheel. Letting the trunnions for the table tilt sit directly on the lower frame member didn't leave much room for the bottom blade support, but just enough.
The rest is much like your saws. The frame is of course scaled down. More than adequate for the small saw, even with slightly simpler design.
The finished saw with fence in place. I didn't have enough decent plywood at hand for the table, so it's made from an old veneered MDF tabletop. Works quite well, and the piece of hardwood inserted at the front to keep the parts aligned isn't really necessary.
The upper blade guide is made much like yours, except that it's cut from one block of ply, and that I fastened the guide-blocks with barrel-nuts rather than making slots in the guide-blocks. To ease alignment it has a small ledge for these to rest on (same is done on the lower ones)
I won't win any safety-points for the guard, I'm afraid, but it's safe enough. It's only partly open with the guide in a low position, and I can't see how a jumped-off or broken blade should escape anyway. I made it this small, to avoid having it go through the top of the enclosure.
After glue-up. the frame was cut to size on the table saw, and the plywood end plates forming the bottom frame test fitted. An extra piece was glued on to give a better support to the upper blade-guide column.
The frame is made from five 18x90 mm construction quality pine, with one board in the upper member being 120mm. A further board is added to the upright, and the outer board on the lower member is replaced by 12mm ply + 6 mm infill.
I'm not into CAD design, so mine was done the old fashioned way with pencil and T-square. Quite fast and accurate, and all on one piece of packing paper as seen on the left.
I have a good size lathe and a chuck that can grip inside a 35 mm hole, so I made the wheels by first turning the hub/pulley from 24 mm ply, Then I glued everything up and finished the wheels on the lathe, including the recesses for the 40mm bearings.
Bicycle tubes don't come this small, so I had to use some other tubes and glue them on (with Superglue) to make them stay in place.
I liked your second design for supporting the upper wheel, but had to turn it "upside-down" to fit neatly with my smaller wheels. That is I made one of the boards in the frame 30 mm higher than the rest and cut a slot in the bottom of the block to fit over this. This also brought the "pivot point" much closer to the axle, which should, in principle, be an advantage. And for the same reason, space restraints, I made the block of two parts, the rear-most of which I let pass down behind the frame, allowing the tilt alignment to act directly on the frame. Tilt adjustment is by a hanger-bolt screwed into the frame.
The motor is bolted directly to the side panel, but I got the belt length a bit wrong, so had to lay it a bit into the panel to get enough room for adjustment.
For added stiffness a bracket is added between the trunnion and the table at the rear.
The trunnions were cut on the bandsaw from good quality 12 mm ply, sanded to fit, and test fitted to ensure proper position and function. They are held in position by a 10 mm coach bolt through the frame. The bolt is held in position (if not, it tends to act as a brake ) by the small aluminum plate seen behind the blade guide in the next picture.
There isn't much room for the pulley, belt and cover-plate, but just enough. But getting everything in place with a belt that's too short to go around the main wheel, the limited space, and a tight fitting cover plate is a bit tricky.
Its held to the side by 2 bolts threaded into the holder and running in a slot in the side panel. The arrangement is tight, but does allow for the adjustment needed.
Jens Larsen's strip sander
Jens Larsen's tenon jig
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Report on Personnel at German Academic Institutions
The German Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt) has released a report on the numbers surrounding employment at German institutions of higher education. The report shows an overall increase of 1.3% for academic employees in the year 2018.
Especially interesting are the statistics regarding the employment of women. The percentage of female academic staff at German institutions of higher education was 39%, which is roughly the same as it was the previous year. The percentage of women holding professorships was 25%. When it comes to non-academic positions at universities (in areas like administration, libraries, and technical services), women held 70% of positions. There is clearly still a lot of work to be done!
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Do you want to be a Twenty-First Century Renaissance person? Build your knowledge and creativity by not only studying literature and art, but creating it. By immersing yourself in contemporary short stories, writing in a variety of genres including fiction, nonfiction and poetry, you will also learn about the lives of great artists and create your own artworks based on their unique styles. Students will leave with a portfolio of work.
Come explore the myths, legends, and fairy tales of Armenian culture. Students will learn about the history, art, and cultural symbols of this ancient civilization. Students will work on different projects to demonstrate their learning. These projects will encompass writing, visual, and performing arts.
Are you ready for an amazing trip around the world? During this class students will read stories from different cultures, travel to enchanted lands, learn about magical creatures, and befriend
many imaginary characters. Artistic and dramatic elements will be incorporated to embody the stories read.
Use your detective skills to hunt for context clues and discover new vocabulary. English language learners will be immersed in a supportive environment with an emphasis on reading and writing. Engaging games and daily discussions will prepare students for proficiency in English. By principal recommendation only.
Reinforces the reading, math, and language skills learned during the kindergarten year of PUSD’s French Immersion Program. Class is open to any student who has already completed one year of a French Immersion Program. Students must be six years old by Sept. 1, 2022.
Are you constantly on the hunt for a new fantasy world to explore? If so, this class is perfect for you! We will discuss plot points (and holes), character traits, author’s purpose, the rules that guide the world, and any other topic on your mind. Whether your are a seasoned reader of fantasy or just venturing into your first “Other World” experience, you’ll be eager to up your next book!
Reinforces the reading, math, and language skills learned during the kindergarten year of PUSD’s Mandarin Immersion Program. Class is open to any student who has already completed one year of a Mandarin Immersion Program. Students must be six years old by Sept. 1, 2022. | <urn:uuid:bf10b18a-97a5-40e9-a959-c3565d7db543> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://pefsummer.org/category/summer-2021/subject/language-arts-subject/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.929659 | 459 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Carlos Andres Perez
Carlos Andres Perez Rodriguez , best known as CAP was President of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993. His first presidency was well-known as the Saudi Venezuela due to the economic and social prosperity, thanks to the enormous income for the petroleum exportation. However, his second period was disastrous - it saw a series of social crises, a popular revolt (denominated Caracazo) and two attempts of coup d'etat . Also, he was the first Venezuelan president in office that was separated from his public role on May 20, 1993 by the Supreme Court, for the ...
Continue reading the complete Carlos Andres Perez's wikipedia entry
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Brief Summary: The pharmacological concept of the drug in our medicine has long been Paracelsus . In his era (16th century), the Paracelsus concept represented a fundamental innovation in pharmacy. In the 20th century, the concept of adaptogen was developed, which represents the theoretical framework for those drugs for which Paracelsus does not fit. However, today's drug assessment and all pharmaceutical legislation is paratalyst - it prefers those drugs that are the opposite of adaptogen, ie they have unilateral effects and are poisonous in higher doses.
Paracelsus and its pharmaceutical innovations
In the 16th century, Paracelsus was a great pioneer in the use of minerals and inorganic substances in European pharmacotherapy, which was based mainly on herbs. He has achieved success with the treatment of syphilis with mercury salts administered in small doses; he has been banned from publishing after he rightly described the guajak wood used to date to be inappropriate against syphilis. The true stories that Paracelsus has dealt with witchcraft, alchemy, hermetism, exploration of so-called minerals signatures , amulets, and refusal to treat astral bodies as defamation. On the other hand, I see their attempt to generalize medical science, which has gotten better shape in the 20th century in a unified theory of medicine to which the concept of adaptogen follows. I believe that Paracelsus and 20th Century scientists studying adaptogens have tried the same thing. Chronic poisoning with arsenic and mercury compounds eventually left Paracelsus himself alone . After his death, however, the glory of Paracelsus drugs continued to grow, mainly in the treatment of syphilis and generally in antibacterial substances, culminating in the discovery of salvarsan, antibiotic bismuth compounds, sulphonamides, and later penicillin, tetracycline and modern antibiotics ( Aminov2010bha ).
In the hilt of his sword, Paracelsus wore his secret cure - laudanum - which he had saved only for the most difficult and fatally ill. It was an opioid analgesic in the form of small pills . Opioids also included a famous Venetian dry-waiter, and palliative care for those who are still ill.
According to the Paracelsus maxima " sola dosis facit venenum ", each active substance (literally) poison or drug is dose-dependent only. This maxim of physiology lecturing is illustrated by the saying that we can poison both water and glucose when we overdose, and the lecturer of chemistry again consumes precisely measured cyanide doses in front of the students. In fact, however, this peak is probably best illustrated by alcohol . The Paracelsus drug therapy, which is predominant in today's medicine, is therefore typical of the use of poisonous substances, the therapeutic potential of which is expressed by the therapeutic index - an overdose of an effective dose (ED 50 ) to a toxic dose (LD 50 ) (see wikipedia ). The effective dose of ED 50 is such that 50% of the patients are cured or (alternatively) a 50% change in the health condition. Toxic LD 50 is the dose at which 50% of the laboratory animals will come. (Of course, the benefits are converted into kilograms of live weight.)
The main effect
Paracelsov's view of medicines is further characterized by the fact that each drug is linked to a particular indication, which is called the main effect . Explanation: According to Paracels' maxima, each chemical is a poison that has the potential to be a drug. However, the potential to become a drug is only realized when it is used to treat a particular deviation from the physiological balance, ie a particular disease. Here the Paracelsus paradigm makes two simplifying assumptions:
Default simplifying assumptions
- The active substance acts on the physiological parameter (s) unidirectionally and non-adaptively. Either plus or minus. Activates or inhibits. Increases or decreases.
- The effect of the active substance is proportional to the dose: The higher the dose, the greater the physiological deviation.
If the dose and thus the deviation are too high, the active substance will necessarily appear as a poison, according to these assumptions. In the hands of a doctor, however, the same substance may act as a cure. When? At that time, when the physiological state of the patient is already deviated from the normal (i.e., from the health) in the exact opposite direction to that particular substance. That is, when the substance is the exact antidote to the disease state. Do you suffer from muscarinic poisoning? We'll give you atropine. Do you suffer from atropine poisoning? We'll give you muskarin. This is the essence of Paracelsus' theory of the main effect. It's a simplification useful, probably like Ohm's law in physics. And as schoolchildren do not have the right to explain to the physics teacher that the Ohm's law does not apply, the citizens of the Czech Republic have no right to explain to the legislature that many Paracelsovian views are not appropriate.
The situation where the Paracelsus drug is the exact antidote for the condition being treated (as for a pair of muscarin-atropine) is rare in clinical practice. If we had absolutely perfect Paracelsus drugs, they would just bring health at the right dose. In fact, Paracelsus's simplification in confronting clinical reality fails just as Ohm's law does not apply to your computer's microprocessor. Real illnesses do not bother to be the mirror images of the effect of drugs available to us. Very often, we use a paracelsal substance with many effects to correct a single key quantity - blood pressure, stomach acidity, insulin levels, hormonal stress (talking about corticosteroids), bleeding, inflammation, total drowsiness ... The key quantity is adjusted , a lot of other parameters decide. Hic are side effects , de facto euphemism for the toxicity of common drugs.
The Paracelsus concept is formulated explicitly
Paracelsian drug theorists sitting in legislative bodies do not always harass their hidden assumptions verbally. Let's do it for them. The sum given so far is:
Paracelsus paradigm of the drug
- Each drug has a specific indication (main effect) and has an effective dose (ED 50 ).
- The drug and the poison is the same, so the drug's quality determines the lethal dose ratio LD 50 / ED 50 , also called the therapeutic index.
- Effects beyond the main effect are referred to as side effects.
It is clear from the spirit and letter of the Pharmaceutical Act that this paradigm is governed by this paradigm. Between poisons and medicines, our (and not only our) legislation makes no distinction at all. It only distinguishes between strong and weakly active substances. For example, Decree of Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic No. 343/2003 Coll. divides medicinal plants into "very powerful", "highly effective" and "other used", with the fatally poisonous category being "very strong". Adaptogens rank among the "others used", ie they are implicitly denied by their effectiveness.
Paracelsus' view of adaptogens
One word: He does not. Adaptogens are not poisonous. They do not have and must not have the main effect. They do not affect and the definition of the physiological parameter must not affect the hardness plus or minus the direction. They do not have LD 50 and hence no classical therapeutic index. Their effective dose (ED 50 ) can be measured in specific cases, but they do not express and should not express their overall quality. Adaptogens should be a little more than a simple allosteric effect on one or the other receptor. I do not see Paracelsa or today's legislators ignorant of the fact that drugs are harmless as well. Paracelsus broke into infectious diseases that were not herbal remedies. He was and still is the founder of general pharmacology. It is not so that he has led the legislator to a shame. His paradigm is popular because it suits. Adaptogens are degraded to ineffective adjuvants (diet supplements), placebo and other homeopathic medicines, or panacea and other Swedish drops that cure everything and nothing. See also comparisons of adaptogens and Paracelsus drugs . | <urn:uuid:9c240a6d-8904-4cf3-9b27-307ea55eedc8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adaptogens.com/c-1291.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.946607 | 1,738 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Since the thirteenth century, the Regina Cæli has been used as the seasonal antiphon in honour of the Blessed Virgin after Night Prayer, and since 1743 it has replaced the Angelus in the Easter Season.
Queen of heaven, rejoice. Alleluia:
For he whom you did merit to bear. Alleluia.
Has risen, as he said. Alleluia.
Pray for us to God. Alleluia.
Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary. Alleluia.
For the Lord has truly risen. Alleluia.
Let us pray:
O God, who gave joy to the world through the resurrection of your Son our Lord Jesus Christ, grant, we beseech you, that through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, his Mother, we may obtain the joys of everlasting life, though the same Christ our Lord. R. Amen.
Regína cæli, lætáre. Allelúia.
Quia quem meruísti portáre. Allelúia.
Resurréxit, sicut dixit. Allelúia.
Ora pro nobis, Deum. Allelúia.
Gaude et lætáre, Virgo María, Allelúia.
Quia surréxit Dominus vere. Allelúia.
Deus, qui per resurrectiónem Fílii tui, Dómini nostri Iesu Christi, mundum lætificáre dignátus es: præsta, quáesumus; ut, per eius Genitrícem Vírginem Maríam, pérpetuæ capiámus gáudia vitæ. Per eúndem Christum Dóminum nostrum. R. Amen.
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Washington — The staggering figure of more than three billion fake accounts blocked by Facebook over a six-month period highlights the challenges faced by social networks in curbing automated accounts, or bots, and other nefarious efforts to manipulate the platforms.
Here are four key questions on fake accounts:
How did so many fake accounts crop up?
Facebook said this week it “disabled” 1.2 billion fake accounts in the last three months of 2018 and 2.19 billion in the first quarter of 2019.
Most fake social media accounts are “bots,” created by automated programs to post certain kinds of information—a violation of Facebook’s terms of service and part of an effort to manipulate social conversations. Sophisticated actors can create millions of accounts using the same program.
Facebook said its artificial intelligence detects most of these efforts and disables the accounts before they can post on the platform. Still, it acknowledges that around five percent of the more than two billion active Facebook accounts are probably fake.
What’s the harm from fake accounts?
Fake accounts may be used to amplify the popularity or dislike of a person or movement, thus distorting users’ views of true public sentiment.
Bots played a disproportionate role in spreading misinformation on social media ahead of the 2016 US election, according to researchers. Malicious actors have been using these kinds of fake accounts to sow distrust and social division in many parts of the world, in some cases fomenting violence against groups or individuals.
Bots “don’t just manipulate the conversation, they build groups and bridge groups,” said Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Kathleen Carley, who has researched social media bots.
“They can make people in one group believe they think the same thing as people in another group, and in doing so they build echo chambers.”
Facebook says its artificial intelligence tools can identify and block fake accounts as they are being created — and thus before they can post misinformation.
“These systems use a combination of signals such as patterns of using suspicious email addresses, suspicious actions, or other signals previously associated with other fake accounts we’ve removed,” said Facebook analytics vice president Alex Schultz in a blog post.
Does Facebook have the control of the situation?
The figures from Facebook’s transparency report suggests Facebook is acting aggressively on fake accounts, said Onur Varol, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University.
“Three billion is a big number—it shows they don’t want to miss any fake accounts. But they are willing to take a risk” of disabling some legitimate accounts, Varol said.
Legitimate users may be inconvenienced, but can generally get their accounts reinstated, the researcher noted.
“My feeling is that Facebook is making serious efforts” to combat fake accounts, he added.
But new bots are becoming more sophisticated and harder to detect, because they can use language nearly as well as humans, according to Carley.
“Facebook may have solved yesterday’s battle but the nature of these things is changing so rapidly they may not be getting the new ones,” she said.
Varol agreed, noting that “there are bots that understand natural language and can respond to people, and that’s why it’s important to keep research going.”
Should I worry about bots and fake accounts?
Many users can’t tell the difference between a real and fake account, researchers say. Facebook and Twitter have been stepping up efforts to identify and weed out bogus accounts, and some public tools like Botometer developed by Varol and other researchers can help determine the likelihood of fake Twitter accounts and followers.
“If you use Facebook to communicate with family and friends you should not worry much,” said Filippo Menczer, a computer scientist who researches social media at Indiana University.
“If you use it to access news and share that with friends, you should be careful.”
Menczer said many Facebook users pay little attention to the source of material and may end up sharing false or misleading information.
“Everyone thinks they cannot be manipulated but we are all vulnerable,” he said.
Along with bots, humans represent a key element in the misinformation chain, researchers say.
“Most false information is not coming from bots,” Carley said. “Most of it comes from blogs and the bots rebroadcast it” to amplify the misinformation.
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook is seeking to eliminate the financial incentives of fake accounts.
“A lot of the harmful content we see, including misinformation, are in fact commercially motivated,” Zuckerberg told reporters. “So one of the best tactics is removing incentives to create fake accounts upstream, which limits content made downstream.” (AFP) | <urn:uuid:844991a6-92e8-47a8-919b-5926900b66b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailyguardian.com.ph/fake-facebook-accounts-the-never-ending-battle-against-bots/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.924335 | 1,013 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Online service for checking whether a site can be opened through the Tor network
This service determines if a site is blocking access from the Tor network.
A request to the site is made through the Tor network, and if the webmaster, the owner of the site, has forbidden opening it through Tor, then on this page you can check it. Also, if you have configured your site to be blocked from browsing through Tor, you can check if these settings work here.
The requested site will display a screenshot, page title, page HTML code, cookies, HTTP response headers, HTTP response status code, and redirects (if any).
In addition to blocking access to IP addresses of the Tor network, websites may be inaccessible to this service for other reasons. For example, some sites behind Cloudflare have a built-in check for bots, which this service cannot bypass.
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- How to get a custom domain name for Tor hidden service
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Our 2nd Amendment Rights Are In Jeopardy Like Never Before!
Wednesday, June 8th, the US House of Representatives passed a massive gun control package “Protecting Our Kids Act“.
The bill now goes to the US Senate that is equally divided 50/50. Should there be any Republican defectors in the Senate that vote in favor of the “Protecting Our Kids Act”, the rights we currently enjoy will become a memory.
- If you value your right to keep and bear arms,
- If you value your right to purchase and own the firearm of your choice for the defense of your life and the defense of your home,
- If you do not want ALL firearms capable of accommodating a greater than 10 round magazine banned, (That GLOCK in your nightstand drawer and that .380 you carry in your pocketbook will be illegal.),
- If you do not want that 9mm semi-automatic banned and you becoming a felon,
- If you want to continue to be able to purchase ammunition online, cheaper and more readily available than can be found locally at a gun shop,
- If you want to continue having the right to privately buy, sell, trade and gift a firearm without having to go through a licensed dealer, paying a government imposed transfer fee and completing ATF paperwork,
- If you do not want the confiscation of legally owned firearms by the government, based on an anonymous allegation, to become the law of the land,
- If you do not want the State of Florida’s uniform firearm laws (pre-emption) from being dissolved and divided into hodgepodge, local jurisdictional laws and regulations,
. . . it is time to get involved, if not politically active.
Anti-gun organizations have joined forces on both the national and state fronts. Yes, on the state front (Florida) as well as in Washington. A nationwide attack on our 2nd Amendment rights by anti-gun groups is underway.
Nikki Fried, Commissioner, Florida Dept. of Agriculture (responsible for processing and issuing Florida concealed carry licenses) joined anti-gun forces to overturn Florida’s gun pre-emption laws.
- Florida’s gun preemption law makes state ‘less safe,’ Nikki Fried says during Coral Springs visit
- Florida’s gun preemption law heads before state Supreme Court
- Commissioner Nikki Fried, Local Leaders Submit Joint Brief
More Than Your NRA Membership Is Needed
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There are other pro-gun, 2nd Amendment organiztions that claim to fight to defend the 2nd Amendment. However, only the NRA has the size, experience and talent to be effective.
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As law abiding gun owners, we are looking at a future that up until now has only been a fear. Today, that fear has become reality.
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When your horse moves in a balanced, collected frame, he’s propelling himself forward from his hindquarters rather than dragging himself along with his front end. Not only will this lengthen his stride, but it’ll increase his maneuverability and present a more natural, pleasing picture, in keeping with recent AQHA western pleasure judging recommendations.
My rule of thumb is that you know your horse is loping correctly when it feels as though he could change leads at any time. I’ll discuss three different levels of the lope, from a downhill, man-made looking lope to a true, balanced lope.
1. If your horse’s head is behind the vertical and her weight is shifted to the forehand, she looks as though she’s loping downhill. As a result, she’ll appear as though she’s laboring and uncomfortable. She may have an intimidated expression or pinned ears. Rather than having her feet land softly, with the same stride length between her front legs and hind ones, she’ll move unevenly and her feet will hit the ground hard. She’ll feel rough and choppy from the saddle. And, this short, choppy stride is counter to the long-strided, slow-legged movement that comes with true collection.
2. Try easing your restraint on your horse’s front-end and add a bit of impulsion. You’ll help her balance and she’ll move more naturally — and she’ll be happier. Her weight will shift back onto her hindquarters a bit more, and she’ll be better able to use her shoulders. With a bit more collection, you’ll improve her balance and athleticism.
3. Now, maintain the impulsion you’ve developed by bringing your horse’s face perpendicular to the ground. You’ll balance her body and improve her stride. Her hip will look bigger and longer (evidence she’s using it to balance her weight and power her stride.) This rearward shift will round her back, and she’ll be able to elevate her shoulders. This freedom in her shoulders will create a longer stride.
End result? A happy, relaxed horse that presents a natural, pleasing picture!
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When was the last time you looked up something in the phone book? What did you do the last time you got a free phone book dropped off on your doorstep—did you recycle it? If you’re like most people these days, your answers to those questions are probably “I don’t remember” and “No.”
Well, in my case the answer is “last year” and “yes” — the latter because we all have recycling bins in my neighborhood, so pretty much everything gets recycled with no effort on my part.
But I certainly don’t use phone books much. In fact, even that time last year wasn’t for my own benefit. It was for my Korean neighbor, who knocked on our door late one night and told us he’d locked himself out of his house and could he please use our phonebook to find a locksmith? So I called a few locksmiths for him. (And, along the way, learned that most “24-hour locksmiths” are anything but.)
The really mysterious part of all this, though, is that despite the fact that phone books seem like they ought to be a dying breed, there are more of them than ever. I just looked, and we have not one, not two, not three, but four different yellow pages directories. One from Verizon, one from Yellowbook, and two from AT&T (they come in two different sizes for some reason). They’re all crammed with ads, which must mean people are using them, but I do sort of wonder who that is sometimes. I use the web almost exclusively for this kind of thing these days, and I imagine that most people in my upscale neighborhood do too. So why all the phone books? | <urn:uuid:e9ca8d72-5df1-4f9a-a097-9db35490b7ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adops.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/08/phone-books/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.978848 | 375 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Protocol - Decision Making (Iowa Gambling Task) - Adult
The Iowa Gambling Test™ is a computer-administered task in which the participant selects cards one at a time from four decks. Participants are instructed that each card selected will result in winning money, with some cards also taking money away. The goal of the task is to accumulate as much money as possible. Two of the decks are advantageous (i.e., over the long run, the participant can expect to win money because these decks include cards that offer small rewards with cards that offer modest losses).The other two decks are disadvantageous (i.e., over the long run, the participant can expect to lose money because these decks include cards with large rewards but also cards with disproportionately large losses). Several summary scores can be calculated, including total money won and the difference between advantageous and disadvantageous selections.
For more information about the Iowa Gambling Test™, please refer to the Cognitive Atlas Interpretation.
The Iowa Gambling Test™ is a proprietary protocol and its administration requires a licensing agreement from PAR, Inc.
Participants can play for hypothetical or real rewards; the two conditions give highly similar results.
Because there are likely to be practice effects, repeat administration of the test is not recommended.
Summary of the Iowa Gambling Test™
Participants are given a loan and then instructed to get as much money as possible by drawing cards one at a time from four separate decks. All cards reward the participant with money, while some also penalize the participant by taking money away. Two of the decks are "disadvantageous" resulting in an equivalent net loss in the long run, while the other two decks are "advantageous" resulting in an equivalent net gain over time.
Normative scores are automatically generated by a software program. Two normative standards - demographically corrected (N = 932) and U.S. Census-matched (N = 264) - are available. Several normative scores are generated by the software, including Total Net Score, net scores for each block of 20 cards/trials, total number of cards selected from each deck, and total money won. In addition, raw scores and T-score profiles, which may reveal relevant information (e.g., learning curve, random selection), are generated. Lastly, a trial-by-trial table that displays deck choice, amount won, amount lost, total money, and time for each trial is generated for each administration. In addition, the pattern of deck choice can be analyzed further to determine whether sensitivity to reward versus aversion to punishment was the primary determinant of decision making, with subscores for each (see references of Yechiam et al., 2005 and Busemeyer & Stout, 2002).
The Iowa Gambling Test™ is a trademark of PAR, Inc.
Personnel and Training Required
The Iowa Gambling Test™ can be administered by research assistants trained in the ethical and competent use of psychological tests. Examiners should study the administration and scoring procedures found in the Professional Manual and follow all procedures precisely.
The computerized version of the Iowa Gambling Test™ requires Windows XP, Vista, or 7 and NTFS file system, Internet connection for activation, and a CD-ROM drive for installation.
|Specialized requirements for biospecimen collection||No|
|Average time of greater than 15 minutes in an unaffected individual||Yes|
Mode of Administration
Adults and adolescents aged 13 years or older
The Iowa Gambling Test™ is a well known test of decision making and users of alcohol, cocaine, opiates, and marijuana have been shown to perform more poorly than controls. Furthermore, the Iowa Gambling Test™ was originally developed for patients with lesions in the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain known to be involved in addiction disorders. The Iowa Gambling Test™ outcomes are stable across different modes of administration (e.g., using a computer-based test versus using a deck of cards) and across different rewards (e.g., real versus fake money) (Buelow & Suhr, 2009; Bowman & Turnbull, 2003).
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Process and Review
The Expert Review Panel #3 (ERP 3) reviewed the measures in Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Substances, and Substance Abuse and Addiction domains.
Guidance from ERP 3 includes:
• No significant changes to measure
Back-compatible: NA no changes to Data Dictionary
Protocol Name from Source
Iowa Gambling Test?
Bechara, A., Damasio, A. R., Damasio, H., & Anderson, S. W. (1994). Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex. Cognition, 50(1-3), 7-15.
The Iowa Gambling Test™ is a proprietary protocol and administration requires a licensing agreement from PAR, Inc.: PAR, Inc. 16204 N. Florida Ave. Lutz, FL 33549 Tel: 800 331 8378 E-mail: email@example.com Web: http://www.parinc.com
Ahn, W. Y., Busemeyer, J. R., Wagenmakers, E. J., & Stout, J. C. (2009). Comparison of decision learning models using the generalization criterion method. Cognitive Science, 32, 1376-1402.
Bechara, A., Tranel, D., & Damasio, H. (2000). Characterization of the decision-making deficit of patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions. Brain, 123, 2189-2202.
Bowman, C. H., & Turnbull, O. H. (2003). Real versus facsimile reinforcers on the Iowa gambling task. Brain and Cognition, 53,207-210.
Buelow, M. T., & Suhr, J. A. (2009). Construct validity of the Iowa Gambling Task. Neuropsychology Review, 19(1), 102-114.
Busemeyer, J. R., & Stout, J. C. (2002). A contribution of cognitive decision models to clinical assessment: Decomposing performance on the Bechara Gambling Task. Psychological Assessment, 14, 253-262.
Olson, E. A., Hooper, C. J., Collins, P., & Luciana, M. (2007). Adolescents’ performance on delay and probability discounting tasks: contributions of age, intelligence, executive functioning, and self-reported externalizing behavior. Personality and Individual Differences, 43(7), 1886-1897.
Stout, J. C., Busemeyer, J. R., Lin, A., Grant, S. R., & Bonson, K. R. (2004). Cognitive modeling analysis of the decision-making processes used by cocaine abusers. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 11(4), 742-747.
Yechiam, E., Busemeyer, J. R., Stout, J. C., & Bechara, A. (2005). Using cognitive models to map relations between neuropsychological disorders and human decision making deficits. Psychological Science, 16(12), 841-861.
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Decision Making (Iowa Gambling Task)
February 24, 2012
This measure assesses the degree to which subjects can learn and adapt behavior to avoid punished responses in order to maximize benefits from a series of decisions.
Substance users and substance-dependent individuals are known to have poor decision-making skills (Buelow & Suhr, 2009). Because decision-making skills develop during childhood and adolescence and continue into adulthood, this measure can be used to predict the emergence of potential new risk behaviors such as substance use.
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|530202||Decision Making (Iowa Gambling Task) - Adult|
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Recreational Therapy has turn into a popular part of therapy for a lot of well being fields, including psychological health. Many Recreational Therapists additionally use recreation participation as a remedy modality. In truth, in loads of states, searching is considered an elite sport or a minimum of, a sport for many who belong to the upper social class. As Shaw points out, there are three primary methods during which gender has influenced leisure – when it comes to activity participation, the gendered nature of leisure constraints, and through gendered outcomes of leisure.
Parks and recreational facilities enhance training. Since the late 1980s, it will seem that three main concepts concerning the constraints affecting involvement in leisure actions have emerged, as described in a model proposed by Crawford and Godbey in 1987.
The intrapersonal constraint could come into play when some individuals determine not to come because they really feel uncomfortable in massive groups or meeting new individuals, similar to to the Video Potlucks, since these not only contain socializing earlier than the film over dinner however then sharing during introductions and in a dialogue of the movie after the displaying.
In other words recreation is the process of converting the ‘leisure time’, right into a extra ‘productive’ method. As she or he grows, play time could also be lowered by different activities and college, however play time (recreation) remains highly important. And so a lifetime of recreational pursuit begins.
Looking For Recreation
Business Concepts In Recreation
Thus, individuals who had labored from dawn to nightfall on farms in rural England, moved to the large metropolis, got jobs in factories, and had leisure time away from their jobs.
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The Vital Importance Of Recreation For Senior Residents
In “Gender and Leisure” by Susan Shaw and “Ethnicity, Race, and Leisure” by James H. Gramann and Maria T. Allison, the authors describe main ways in which race, ethnicity, and gender affect access and participation in recreation and leisure. Participation in recreational activities improves mental health, as properly. Most of the greatest business ideas have really been taken from recreational activities of entrepreneurs. So that could be the true answer to what is sports and bodily recreation, one thing that takes some type of bodily exercise.
Thus, individuals who had labored from daybreak to dusk on farms in rural England, moved to the large metropolis, obtained jobs in factories, and had leisure time away from their jobs. In recent times, this distinction between the leisure time for women and men appears to be changing, in keeping with the favored media, in that males are extra increasingly concerned in splitting up the housekeeping and parenting.
The Position Of Recreational Therapy In Mental Health Remedy
The social advantages of recreation may be traced again to the crib and remain till the last years of life. It started with considerations of “boundaries to recreation participation and leisure enjoyment” based mostly on the idea that the primary issue to handle was service delivery, so that people would participate extra if there have been extra companies provided.
Searching will not be the game for the smooth-hearted, or the spatially and bodily challenged. Recreational actions for kids are an necessary a part of the tutorial expertise for a lot of youngsters. In the case of race and ethnicity, it’s more sophisticated to measure both participation or constraints, due to the issues in classifying people by race or ethnicity.
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Hunting is an umbrella term which refers back to the act of killing, pursuing and even chasing animals for recreation, commerce or meals. If the Industrial Revolution helped create the history of leisure and recreation, the 20th century helped cement it. Employees demanded shorter working hours, paid holidays and holidays, and weekends off, leading to even more leisure time for the world’s workforce. | <urn:uuid:118bc870-8c94-4556-9dfd-2fc207d3dc49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rtrlive.com/social-benefits-of-recreation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.95772 | 850 | 2.484375 | 2 |
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The subconscious mind is the part of your brain where your actions and ideas happen unintentionally and instantly. Its where principles that are as natural to you as breathing stemmed from, and these ideas can exist in your head without you even comprehending theyre there. Naturally, this makes it pretty damaging to have an unfavorable subconscious, as that can impact whatever you do without your knowledge!
But how can you fix something that youre not even purposely experienced about? How can you take benefit of parts of your brain that arent simple to reach? And, when you get here, how can you start to enhance it? Here are 3 effective ways to train your subconscious mind to believe positively.
1. Talk with Your Subconscious Mind
By suggesting, the subconscious is something you arent innately knowledgeable about. To understand what it holds within it, you require to talk to it and look for to understand it actively. In the background, it downs along ignored and unheeded up till you turn your attention to it straight.
Some people believe its finest to overlook the subconscious due to the reality that it can hold unfavorable concepts and other harmful ideas. But resolving your subconscious does not show you believe entirely in every word that it specifies. Finding to connect favorably with your subconscious will enable you to understand your deep-rooted concerns far better.
Generally, if you wish to learn to believe favorable, you have to understand the important things that preserve unfavorable ideas. Those things depend on your subconscious, and without trying to connect with it, youll never ever have the capability to begin to train it properly. And, naturally, any type of subconscious “training” needs that you communicate with that part of your mind. Here is how to start:
· Ask Your Subconscious Questions To understand the negativity that your subconscious holds, it can be useful to ask it questions and prompt it for responses relating to the problems you deal with. They advise the number of your negative ideas that obstruct favorable thinking are embedded deep in your subconscious. Ask what your subconscious is safeguarding you from, what it fears, and even what it dislikes.
· Consider If Your Subconscious Has A Point
Your subconscious intends to keep you safe, and while this isnt continuously rational, theres normally a reason its doing what it does. Many of the times, the method it is tackling this security – – – – for example, by developing undesirable thoughts, so you dont do specific things – – – – isnt perfect or the healthiest option. However that does not suggest there isnt a show what its doing. In all possibility, there are things you need to deal with and concern to that you have not focused sufficiently on, and this is triggering your subconscious to stay unfavorable. There is knowledge in your inner concepts – – – – listen to them! · Reassure Your Subconscious
Your subconscious is scared and scared, and you need to assist assure it and teach it that favorable thinking is more beneficial to it. Acknowledge that things will turn out all right, and your subconscious will loosen up.
2. Deal Your Subconscious Mind With Motivation
An uninspired subconscious will have no interest in being trained towards positivity. Your brain needs something to press it forward. Having this healthy desire can work marvels for your favorable thinking while enabling your inner brain to focus on something it desires over the normal negativity. Here are some ways to inspire your subconscious:
· Look To That Which Inspires You
The things that affect you can help you can stir a fire in your stubborn tummy that makes you yearnings for forward momentum, sending you running forward. Discover individuals and things that make you wish to work harder, nevertheless do not attempt to imitate them exactly!
· Keep Creating New Goals
That way, each time you hit a small objective, you get to praise yourself and feel your achievement. Find a balance in between giving yourself something to work hard on and making things impossible!
· Surround Yourself With Positive People
Individuals that support you can help you feel inspired to make great on your promises, make them proud, and be called to account. A beneficial assistance circle will boost you as you enhance them, and this is an excellent approach to keep each other on job and discover assistance when essential. If you dont have a big social circle, you can join clubs and groups related to your goals or discover assistance groups that aim to assist individuals from all walks of life development.
· Be Realistic
Nobodys forward momentum is best. Advancement is not linear. There will be times when you take actions back and times when you take actions forward, and the sizes of those actions might alter quite considerably, too. Remember that its regular to have dips, to have moments of failure, and to have rough or tough areas. Look after yourself, choose yourself up when again, and keep attempting!
3. Rewire How You Move and think Towards Positive Thoughts Training the subconscious mind includes rewiring your brain towards much better and more efficient good manners of viewing the world, processing input, and considering things. It appears like a high order, but its completely workable. As a matter of reality, lots of techniques can successfully assist you alter the method your brain procedures signals. Here are some pointers for moving your undesirable subconscious thoughts to favorable ones!
· Give Yourself Examples Of Reality
You can combat this by patiently grounding it back in truth if your subconscious tends to catastrophize and fear the worst in every circumstance. Think of all the times where you have in fact been through comparable results. Envision how your capabilities have actually gotten you through all the worst times of your life. Recommend yourself of the many, lot of times youve believed the worst, however whatever turned out all. This firm grasp of truth will assist your positive thinking.
· Start Using Positive Self-Talk
Positive self-talk is an idea that includes making use of beneficial statements towards yourself. Its similar in various methods to favorable affirmations, and research studies have actually discovered that it is a reliable method to enhance health. Regularly, if your subconscious mind leans towards the unfavorable, you need to actively consult with yourself in favorable ways and buzz yourself approximately fight that. But with time, what you state will manifest effectively, and you will begin to believe in the great things you state about yourself truly.
· Toss Out Unnecessary Negativity
If youre facing a negative idea, observe it, then make a judgment call. Is this idea accurate? Is it grounded in fact? Last but not least, is it effective, or is it only harming you? If the idea not does anything for you besides reduce the mood, then photo yourself throwing the thought out the window or striking a “delete” button on it. While you require to never ever quelch your sensations, you must also discover to identify which concepts serve you in no opportunity whatsoever and arent worth your extra effort and idea.
· Be Grateful
Thankfulness is a known technique of enhancing the method you look at the world. Essentially, the more grateful you remain in every day life, the more your brain naturally searches for more things to be grateful for. Expressing appreciation to others, patting yourself on the back for your little wins, and finding the excellent in every bad circumstance are all wonderful methods to believe more favorably.
· Use Visualization
You set your brain to work by establishing a landscape that you position yourself into, and you concentrate on this image until you think it or understand you can manifest it. Its a perfect training system for your subconscious since the human brain has trouble identifying in between creativity and truth, so the things you think of can help to encourage it!
· Combat Negativity With Positivity
Whenever a negative idea crops up in your head, right away reduce the effects of that with a beneficial thought in kind. As an example, if you believe, “I faltered when I spoke, so now everybody thinks Im a moron,” battle it by believing, “No, I impressed them all with my amazing points, so they do not care that I faltered!”.
Last Thoughts On Some Ways To Train Your Subconscious Mind To Think Positive Harnessing your subconscious for positivity is an effective method to boost your mental wellbeing. Being in tune with your inner self and dealing with it for your development can be a terrific action in your life. It may be hard initially, however keep at it, and youll quickly discover that your subconscious is truly focusing on beneficial things!
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Online training encourages therapists on everything. Betterhelp Types Of Therapy… from using emojis to preventing misconceptions. They also need to secure clients’ personal information– a problem that has actually caused debate in the United States, where big online therapy platforms have come under the spotlight.
Buckley stated patients should examine services’ personal privacy policies prior to registering. “Not all online counselling sites use expertly trained therapists or stick to an ethics policy, so ask your GP for a recommendation in the first instance. Similar to all sort of services and support, what works for one person might not work for somebody else,” he said.
Marc Bush, primary policy adviser at Young Minds, said that while online counselling services are valuable, “they should not change face-to-face therapy with a skilled professional. If a young adult is struggling, we would encourage them to talk to their GP in the very first circumstances, or to contact an established service like The Mix, Childline or the Samaritans.”.
For Rackham, who has generalised stress and anxiety disorder, online counselling wasn’t the ideal fit. “I felt it was near impossible for the therapist to actually get a sense of the issues I was dealing with, as all they had to go from was my typed-out words. I think I realised after that online session how essential interpersonal interaction was.
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Ancient Romanian Folk Culture Traditions by Phoenix of Elder Mountain – This article is about the Romanian traditions of the folklore rituals and shamanic connections with the Wolf Clans. I have divided it into a simple basic history and history of the ancient wolf people called the Dacian Tribes, my own shamanic ceremony similar to the folklore, wolves who turn into werewolves and why, and a recent dream of wolf.
Romania has two specific animals that are still celebrated in Winter Rituals, one is the Wolf and the other, the Bear. The more ancient Dacian tribes, the Kingdom of Dacia was a territory encompassing today’s Romania and the lands adjacent to it. The Dacians are one of Eastern Europe’s few indigenous peoples who have never left their inherited lands. They show a religious syncretism between the wolf, the dragon as well as the serpent. The history of the Dacians is little known and the historical records are sometimes contradictory. Fortunately, though, part of this history is written in stone.
The wolf is the symbolic animal of the Dacians, who also called themselves “Wolves”. The legend says they could turn into wolves (animism) and some legends say that a big white wolf fought next to the Dacians when their capital Sarmizegetusa fell to the Romans. Even if the history of the Dacians is quite evasive and we mostly rely on legends and myths to decipher as much as we can of this intriguing civilization, the truth is they were fierce warriors, but also a diligent people, who thrived in the lands in and around the Carpathian Mountains.
“Our peasants will end in life after life, but men of Empires will end in death after death. Angels wear Joy, while Demons wear Empire Clothing and will wear Mourning.” ~Romanian Petre Tuțea.
Modern Romania is a merging of two principalities named Wallachia and Moldova and they had become one in 1859. In 1877, Romania gained independence and four years later, Romania became a kingdom (constitutional monarchy) and enjoyed decades of stability and progress. The nation itself was only officially established in 1918 – the year that all three principalities, Wallachia, Moldova and Transylvania came together. In 1947, King Mihai I was ousted from power and what followed was half a century of communist rule. After the 1989 Revolution, Romania parted with the communist past and in 2007 became a member of the European Union. Although Romania has always consisted of a large majority of ethnic Romanians, the ethnic minorities that settled over the centuries have all influenced the social, economic and ethnographic landscape. (http://www.folkwearsociety.com)
“Eternity was born in the village” says one of the most famous quotes by Romanian philosopher, poet, playwright and novelist, Lucian Blaga. In his poem “The Soul of the Village” talks about the scenery of the Romanian village and its connection to the Romanian peasant, where “every thought is slower, and the heart throbs more slowly, as if it beats not in your breast but deep down somewhere in the earth”.
The female mythical representations related to Dochia of Romania who honor the Neolithic Mother Goddess who dies and is reborn on Spring Equinox. In our Slavic traditions we called her Marzanna, Morena or the Celts Morgana. Beginning with Dochia’s Day, March 9th, the equinox of the old almanac and the female representations of divinity are grouped into three generations (Triple Goddess): The Old Goddess (Grandmother) Dochia; Mother Goddesses: Mary the Virgin, the Woods Mother and the Caloian’s Mother; and Maiden Goddesses: Floriile, Sanzienele, Dragaicele, Lazaritele, Ielele.
The traditions for the night of Saint Andrews are a legacy passed down from the Romanian ancestors, the Dacians – or the wolf warriors as they were known given their battle symbol in the figure of the wolf headed dragon, a custom shrouded in mysticism. Old legends say that the wolves accompanied the warriors when Sarmisegetusa fell, and that the one who was their leader watched over apostle Andrew through the wilderness of Dobrogea to the cave that was offered to him as shelter.
The Wolves of Midwinter is another legend of the winter traditions but much later than the Dracians. This one was compiled by Romanian writer Ion Ghinoiu. The Serbians also have a strong prehistory connected to the wolf clan as well that still remains in smaller villages of the elder women who do rituals for and in a positive way of their relationship to wolves.
My focus is to help others understand that relearning our relationship to our shamanic soul and to the natural order of nature can sometimes be returned if the person’s fate for this lifetime is specified y our soul at birth. Otherwise we can make great headway in our healing journey that deals with our human soul, rather than the more advanced animism souls. Human karma must be lived and then healed first, otherwise the shadow aspects of shamanism leave the soul vulnerable to the karmic astral demonic aspects, which then the animism soul can be taken over in shadow sides. Shamanism is a vast , deep and complex reality and each step is a lifelong process and shouldn’t be thought of as simple or easy or even attainable past human and human karma.
The “Wolves of Midwinter”
The Wolves of Midwinter is a prehistory Shamanic, then ancient Pagan, and then Christianized celebration called Sânpetru which falls around the third moon of winter (January 16-20), its also called the Wolves of Saint Peter. The Folk Tradition tells us that the Wolves gather in packs at howling places where they start singing to call their great divinity (mother earth, then god, then saint) to distribute their share of prey to which they are entitled for a whole year.
This divine one arrives at midnight on a white horse and allots each wolf its prey: a lamb, a sheep, a deer or a human. The wolves would spare no morsel of the shares promised. The story is told of a shepherd being curious to see how wolves meet their divinity. To find out he climbed up to a howling place in broad daylight, and hides himself among the branches of a high fir-tree.
After the wolves had gathered and howled their calling, Saint Peter arrived on a white horse and quietly distributed the prey to each, but before the end of the meeting, a lame wolf came limping. Seeing him, Saint Peter barked at him: Since you didn’t come on time, you should eat that human over there, hiding in the fir-tree. Within a year’s time, the curious shepherd was eaten by the lame wolf. (19 Ghinoiu, 1997, p. 45).
Because Romanian culture like most older pagan and shamanic cultures didn’t live by calendars in pagan times, but lived by seasons, they divided winter into a several rituals and ceremonies and the “Wolves of Midwinter” was one of them. The Peasants say if they give back to the middle of winter, then winter will give back in the form of returning spring on time. Sânpetru believers say that the wolves were and still are an intricate part of the cycle of winter and a protection against evil.
In the Folk Almanac, the winter was a time of casting and binding magic spells and charms; foreseeing the weather and how rich the new year will be. At this time, it is believed that the Heavens open and animals speak and that treasures burn. In reaction to this, purifying magical practices, hallowed waters (consecration by the priests) and rituals are predominant. In North-Eastern Transylvania, they light fires (Ardeasaâ in Bucovina); spreading of bad-smelling substances; fumigating people, cattle and household. In their fight against evil spirits people got help from the “Midwinter Wolves” which they say are able to see the demons and chase them and tear them with their teeth. Frightened by the wolves, the devils jumped into waters and those men who were brave enough jumped after them.
Priests would throw their hallow waters with consecrated water and would throw in the cross driving away evil spirits is also horse running or horse chasing. Once every year in Midwinter the two rivals: the Wolf and the Horse, the former being master over winter and the latter being master of summer, fight for a common cause, namely driving away the demons and devils.
January 29 is the Winter “Phillipiesâ” (phillipies) are divinities who protect wolves and are celebrated by shepherds until the beginning of February. In the Folk Almanac the Winter Phillipies mark the end of a long mating period for wolves, having started about eighty days before in Autumn.
Ancient Romanian “Nedeia Wolves” (Night wolves get offerings)
Similar to the Winter Ceremony Sânpetru, the Romanian Legends say that in the middle of the night, called the “Nedeia Wolves” Night Wolves get their share of food for the whole year. The deity or saint rides the white horse, bringing offerings to wolves. That when the wolf clans gather, they howl and gather usually at the crossroads: “We are going to eat the sheep of this village” but tonight, at the midwinter, one important night of the year, guided by the divine Peasants leave good out for the wolves to honor them. Then the Priest (and what used to be the Grandmothers but were forbidden after Religion came), is that they put their sheep in the stables with belief that their animals will now be guarded by wolves all year long.
My Ritual Shamanic Work…
I completed a six month ceremony a few weeks ago on a local werewolf and aware of who its human is. In animism, the soul of the animal, bird etc. can be possessed by the human karmic shadow astral body (demon) which would then turn a wolf into werewolf. Because our shadow human body is in the underworld or free and roaming the dream planes, the mystical connections between our light or dark soul and our animal soul has an evolution that started long ago from the past and its past lives. That is the simple explanation.
I was surprised when I found this folk almanac today, that was a Romanian shamanic custom which I was doing without knowing a few weeks ago. That made my day and brought a smile to my face. The story of the werewolf of my shamanic work started six months ago, as I began to hunt a werewolf shadow soul after it attacked me on the full moon on the land. I did most of my shamanic work in that Gemini moon cycle six months ago and when the Sagittarian Moon arrived (its opposition) in late November, early December, I waited for the signs in order to complete this job. Of all the work I have done that is not collective, but individual, the werewolf soul is by far the most dangerous.
Having finished most of the work, the werewolf shadow soul of this human was reduced into a smaller size (the raccoon) through the slaying, which carried what was left of the demonic human soul drastically reduced. After that work, again the chickens were killed in the Sagittarian Moon cycle but not eaten.
I then did the final ceremony with my apprentice to call both the Bobcat clan in and the Coyote clan who live close to us, to assist me in catching this raccoon, and I also said some intentional prayers asking the Ancestral bobcat and coyote clan ancestors to help as well. We left the ancestors and the bobcats and coyotes, all five of the chickens which had been killed at “Midwinter” as an offering. And for them to guard the remaining goats and chickens and honoring them for helping us. It took three days – but finally the bobcats and coyotes came and took all the dead chickens.
Yesterday the dead raccoon was on the road and the werewolf roaming the dreaming or energetic fields (in-between the veils) is slain completely now and its human counterpart, remains unharmed and untouched. I have done this job with two Skinwalkers and they were easy compared with the werewolf, but Skinwalkers are Coyotes, not Wolves. Wolf is a whole different complex system of clan, family and the more root of animism because of its complex social system. Up until now, as long as this human person’s demon owned his werewolf – he receive no karma, only other people have. That time is over now in his lifetime and he continues his path as a human without the power of the werewolf.
In my shamanic work I live by the ancient Slavic traditions and do my work according to that practice over the years along with the cycles of the moon as timing and synchronicity of my work. I live by the 1/2 Year of Fire (spring and summer) and the 1/2 Year of Night (autumn and winter). Wolves have just returned here the Pacific Northwest, where I live, so eventually with their return, this shamanic origin ceremony will be preformed by me in the future if they come near the area, but I will still do it with coyotes and bobcats as well to honor them in Midwinter from here forth. To have a relationship with nature and its wildness is mandatory in the ways of respecting and honoring wolves, bears, coyotes etc.
Two High Schoolers had a Dream…
A high school Maiden gave me permission to share her dream, I will call her Cloud… Her Dream: Cloud went to help her friend Dex confront a giant black and red eyed demon. She saw Dex shifting into a wolf partially, mostly just facial features, eyes, cheeks ears etc. Cloud remembers being in a house that she knew her mother was at in the dream with Dex. A great room with a huge kitchen counter island.
Dex was holding Cloud in a protective way as they hid under the counter facing a huge wooden door. There were lots of younger children and Cloud was telling them everything was ok and sending them out to different areas of the house. But when they were all gone she told Dex “we may die you know” and he said “yeah I know”. Then Cloud saw the bolts and screws holding the wooden door closed securely start to twist their way out on their own and she told Dex, that the demon was trying to get in.
So Dex moved next to the door and hunkered down like a wolf and that’s when she saw his face start to shift… he took off his shirt and she saw that he had a tattoo on his upper middle back that was healing, like it was done recently, like an iron cross type of design and two smaller tattoos on each shoulder blade. Then the door blew off the hinges and slammed into Cloud pushing her against the wall and she saw the demon walk in. It was about 9 or 10 feet tall, red skin like a frogs skin and black marks on its face with an elongated pointed chin and large slanted red eyes and huge protruding muscles like the hulk.
She heard Dex scream her name in shock when she got slammed into the wall by the door and hearing him she popped out of the dream. She got out of bed crying and went to the bathroom and saw she had a red mark on her forehead where the door hit her in the dream.
My work as a Shaman: Dex is in High School and does a lot of drugs, because of that, he has freed his past life shadow demon human soul fragment from the underworld and its now roaming free in its dream space. Cloud was his best friend and that is why she showed up in his dream. Dex of course has a “undeveloped” shamanic wolf soul, but now with the demon free, its going to want to possess that part of Dex soul and once that happens, there is no longer a wolf, but the transformation of demonic karmic astral human demon body, merged with the wolf soul = werewolf. If that happens, then he gains power, but dark power and being so young, he won’t know the difference between good and pure evil, because the werewolf will entrap and control in the dream realms that effects him and his relationships in this world.
The ego in this world then gains power until they meet someone like me… a dream shaman who has the power to slay it and free the human. Most people do not let it get that far, or they start having accidents to push the demon away further and hopefully during recovery the person makes changes in their behavior. Sometimes they don’t and eventually the shadow human fragmet wins and the werewolf is born. If the person was on the verge o losing it in a previous life, then this lifetime is make it or break it.
Dex has no power to fight it off. One would need their second level animal soul (mine is a black jaguar) to fight any “real” demon off. Regardless of what you hear out in the world, no one can fight a “real” demon until they have and own their second level soul animal or bird and can shape shift into it. A bird like an eagle or hawk would never be able to take down a demon the size of a werewolf, but my black jaguar can because its more equal in size and power. Dex is about to loose his birth rite wolf, if he doesn’t stop doing drugs.
Animism and Human Souls
In order to protect this part of our soul (whats left from our karma and our past life destruction) is the real healing work, sobriety, working with personal fear, being open with asking for help or accepting it. Those must be done to work with our conscious and unconscious shadows and then into our astral body shadows of our more demonic self that caused the karma in the first place. If you think advanced dreaming beyond lucid or flying is safe… think again. Shamanism is a very powerful realm and those who ingest plants, subdue their emotional body, which would give warning but she is in bondage when you do shamanic drugs and you haven’t a clue. This realm is hidden from you and it cannot be entered without sobriety, because its your soul’s realm or jurisdiction which sees requires that.
“Wolf” and the Wolf Clan people in relationship to the shadows are inseparable today. One you lose an animism soul in past lives or this lifetime its ripped out of that part of your soul and you do not get it back. Most already have lost their soul aspects of this nature, but a few have not. Always remember that men’s Patriarch has been soul crushing for this level alone, regardless of pollution or over population or global warming. Mother earth takes care of herself, we should do the same. For example, there are an estimated 3200 tigers left in the wild in 2017, which means out of 8 billion humans, there are only 3200 humans alive who have a tiger soul. And only about 2 even know it.
The werewolf is one of the darkest and most powerful karmic animism souls to deal with and this destruction from wolf into werewolf began with the rising powers of the Kingdoms and Chiefs of earth. It first began in the spread of the war cults such as Rome, Greece, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Jerusalem, North Africa (Egypt), Iraq or any country that built a religious-war machine over the last 7,000 years. America was the last to join the ranks.
“In ancient Arcadia, it certainly seems to be have been an important center of wolf worship. The story of king Lykaon leads us to Zeus Lykaios (another Arcadian “wolf god” who was Apollo Lykaios). Zeus Lykaios is the “Wolf Zeus”. In his honor, a religious festival called the Lykaia was celebrated on Mount Lykaion, the “wolf mountain.”(David Romano and Mary Voyatzis, suggesting ritual activities on Mount Lykaison since circa 3,000 bce – via http://ralphhaussler.weebly.com/wolf-mythology-italy-greek-celtic-norse.html).”
A historical example of where the wolf soul of a human being is destroyed and lost, and the werewolf returns much stronger and ten times more powerful…
“Regarding these sacrifices during the Lykaia, we are also having the incredible story of an Olympic boxing champion that Pausanias (6.8.2) tells us: “Damarchus, an Arcadian of Parrhasia, (…) who changed his shape into that of a wolf at the sacrifice to Zeus Lykaios, and how nine years after he became a man again”. He allegedly was turned into a wolf after he ate the flesh of a boy that was sacrificed to Zeus Lykaios by the Arcadians; Pausanias, writing in the Roman period, tell us that he “cannot believe what the romancers say about him [i.e. Damarchus]”. Pliny’s Natural History (NH 8.34): “Agriopas (…) informs us that Demænetus, the Parrhasian, during a sacrifice of human victims, which the Arcadians were offering up to the Lycæan Jupiter, tasted the entrails of a boy who had been slaughtered; upon which he was turned into a wolf, but, ten years afterwards, was restored to his original shape and his calling of an athlete, and returned victorious in the pugilistic contests at the Olympic games.”(http://ralphhaussler.weebly.com/wolf-mythology-italy-greek-celtic-norse.html).
There were no werewolves in goddess and (early) pagan cultures, so there were no historical references to werewolves in the early Rome or Greek writings, only poetic historical accounts of the shifts of culture from shamanism and animism into paganism and religious kingdoms approximately around 2,500 bce until the 2nd century bce. History is based on written accounts and the soul history is based on ancient art and oral tradition and folklore. But shaman history is not recorded when it comes to the soul, the animism souls because it falls under the mysteries and rites of the shaman. Even I, outside the context of my apprentices do not share that much.
Myth narrates a sacred history; it relates an event that took place in primordial time. In short, myths describe the various and sometimes dramatic breakthroughs of the sacred (or the “supernatural”) into the world. It is this sudden breakthrough of the sacred that really establishes the world and makes it what it is today. ~Romanian Mircea Eliade
Romanian Folk Almanac
Romania, as I have discovered, never lost its connection with nature and especially to its forests, its “forest woman spirits,” to its wolf, bear and other inhabitants that populate the pantheon governing early animistic beliefs. Villagers, past and present-still, remain faithful to such symbols knowing that “She” protects and preserves the fertility and creation of all those who inhabit this cosmic space. The magic of life generated by these great forests resonates in the passages shared with us in the “Folk Almanac.”As we read them, they become instantly recognizable, and fascinating, as an unending umbilical cord stretching back into Neolithic or even Paleolithic times.
“The Romanian Book of the Dead, another landmark of spiritual culture of the Carpato-Danubian people, contains sacred texts initiating the soul of the dead into a mythical journey on the path separating this earthly world from the world beyond. These texts are sung by a women’s choir at particular places and at significant moments of the funeral ceremony. The messages are addressed to the dead, to the goddesses of destiny (Zorile) and to the surviving husband. The Goddess of Death appears in the shape of a bird of prey (the kite, the raven, the vulture) or as a goddess that looks human (the Old Fairy, the Virgin Mary, Mother Irodia).
The texts to the songs contain, one by one, providential guides (the wolf, fox, or otter), well intentioned customs, as personified means of orientation (the willow tree in bud, the apple tree in blossom), psychopomp characters (the horse, the stag) and finally, in the world beyond, the dead person’s relatives.”
“Arcadia: The story of wolf transformation spread more widely and seems to have become quite popular during the Roman period. We learn about the entertaining story of Niceros who, during Trimalchios’ fantastic dinner party, told this story about his friend, a soldier, who transformed into a wolf in a graveyard: “He stripped himself and put all his clothes by the roadside. My heart was in my mouth, but I stood like a dead man. He made a ring of water round his clothes and suddenly turned into a wolf.
Please do not think I am joking; I would not lie about this for any fortune in the world. But as I was saying, after he had turned into a wolf, he began to howl, and ran off into the woods. At first I hardly knew where I was, then I went up to take his clothes; but they had all turned into stone…”; and later he became a human again, returning to Nicoros’ house (Petronius, Satyricon, 61f, c.AD60). ( Pliny’s Natural History 8.34 via http://ralphhaussler.weebly.com/wolf-mythology-italy-greek-celtic-norse.html)”
Sources: http://www.beyonddracula.com/the-wolf-warriors; Photo of wolf via danais.ro; Romanian basic history from http://www.folkwearsociety.com – Folkwear Society is a not-for-profit initiative, founded by social anthropologist Ana Bogdan; The Romanian Folk Almanac compiled by Ion Ghinoiu Translated by Doina Carlsson from the Comoara Satelor: Calendar Popular, All Rights Reserve, Published by BTFF, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Copyright 2010, Ion Ghinoiu; http://ralphhaussler.weebly.com/wolf-mythology-italy-greek-celtic-norse.html; SIM. FL. Marian – the holidays the romanians, 1898 | <urn:uuid:2a745867-813b-4ee6-b6ed-6c0c90b8a23b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pathsiwalk.com/2017/01/29/the-wolves-of-midwinter-elder-mountain-dreaming-reader-wordpress-com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.967986 | 5,665 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Orange Coast Gakuen’s academic and excellence recognitions.
America's Languages For All Learners
We have been recognized as one of the top community school or program by America’s Language For All Learners.
“Orange Coast Gakuen (OCG) has adopted a curriculum that is content-based and emphasizes project-based learning. This curriculum engages our students’ interests more effectively than more traditional language-based approaches to teaching Japanese. The curriculum is highly interactive and emphasizes active learning that weighs and values students’ hands-on experience with understanding content and language. As all of our students have an interest in Japanese culture, the school organizes many cultural events that are incorporated into the curriculum and become a good vehicle to teach language as well as intercultural competence.
Because the educational needs of heritage language learners differ so much from those with a more limited language background, we have divided our classes along two separate tracks: JHL, or Japanese as a Heritage Language, and JFL, or Japanese as a Foreign Language. All of our classes are multi-level, with students learning with the same teacher for two years. Teachers are trained on how to differentiate their instruction in order to teach their multi-level classes successfully.
We have been fortunate that the experts who designed our curriculum have remained with the school and continue to help train our teachers and improve the curriculum. The advisors observe classes weekly and provide periodic training sessions on current best practices. They have helped all of the teachers and administrators remain committed to this approach to teaching. Their guidance has also helped us to successfully migrate to an online environment for the current school year.
The school’s governance structure emphasizes parent involvement. Our Parents Association organizes many elaborate cultural activities, which the teachers have incorporated into the curriculum. Our Board includes formal representatives of the teachers and the parents. We have found that when all groups have some input on major decisions it is easier to form consensus and then to implement policy more effectively.” | <urn:uuid:9601727d-1c7f-4077-8ca1-b06e092796ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.orangecoastgakuen.org/home-default/recognition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962783 | 410 | 1.8125 | 2 |
29 January 1901–23 August 1959 (Age 58)
Park City, Summit, Utah, United States
When Horace Emery Hedges was born on 29 January 1901, in Park City, Summit, Utah, United States, his father, George Emery Hedges, was 48 and his mother, Jesse Lillian Colby, was 39. He married Lillian Rose Maus on 12 April 1924, in Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1910 and Jerome, Jerome, Idaho, United States in 1920. He died on 23 August 1959, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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June 21, 2022
CMSS Research Fellowship awarded to Dr. Saulesh Yessenova
The Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies is excited to announce our first ever Research Fellowship, awarded to Dr. Saulesh Yessenova, Department of Anthropology & Archaeology. CMSS Fellowships are six month positions granted yearly on a competitive basis and are geared towards advancing the Centre’s research goals. Dr. Yessenova’s project, “Nuclear Deterrence and Warfare: Producing Death and Security at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Weapon Test Site in the USSR”, is facilitates greater interdisciplinary success at the University of Calgary.
Dr. Yessenova recently completed field research in Kazakhstan during 2017-2019 to source ethno-historiographic data regarding human and environmental catastrophes produced by nuclear weapon testing. The purpose of this project is to anthropologise the theory of nuclear deterrence, which evolved into the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) during the Cold War, by grounding its teachings in local experiences at and around the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan. The starting point is that nuclear deterrence and MAD were never external to the technopolitical regime of the Cold War – i.e., neither approximated what was already happening. Rather, nuclear deterrence and MAD were technologies of power that shaped superpower strategies and Cold War political culture by working (in a Foucauldian sense) through people and institutions.
During her tenure at CMSS, Dr. Yessenova plans to write an article focused on the simultaneous production of deaths by nuclear weapons and nuclear security at the Semipalatinsk test site that grew into a major national defence institution in the USSR. She will also present a public lecture and engage with CMSS Fellows and Graduate students during her tenure as inaugural Research Fellow.
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|Activities:||Hiking, Mountaineering, Scrambling, Skiing|
|Season:||Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter|
|Elevation:||8000 ft / 2438 m|
Named for the animals that roam its wilderness, Goat Rocks is an area of approximately 100,000 acres in size located in southeast Washington State (in the Cascades). A variety of terrain exists, ranging from desert-like conditions of the Tieton River Canyon to its alpine meadows,
glaciers and mountain peaks.
The massif contains four peaks of approximately 8,000 feet in elevation. Its highest peak, first ascended by Fred G. Plummer in 1899, is Mount Curtis Gilbert (el. 8,184 ft.). The other major peaks are Old Snowy Mountain (7,930), Ives Peak (7,840) and Tieton Peak (7,768).
The peaks are thought to be the remnants of a defunct volcano that may have once risen to 12,000 feet in elevation. Several glaciers are found on the north sides of these peaks (among them are Conrad, Meade, Tieton and McCall). Glacial activity has exposed lava spires and other rock formations. Goat Rocks can be seen when looking when looking south from the peak of Mt. Rainier, located to the Left of Mount Adams.
The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, which connects Canada and Mexico, passes through the Goat Rocks. Many of the approaches into the Goat Rocks Wilderness are somewhat long, so consider overnight trips (planned or unplanned). Timberline occurs at about 6,000-6,500 ft (1,800-2,000 m) and there are significant opportunities for alpine skiing.
November 8, 2006
A great deal of flooding has occurred in and near the Goat Rocks area due to heavy rainfall over the past week. The Cowlitz River overran its banks and is reported to have "changed course" near Packwood. Certain locations may be inaccessible. Be careful.
From Interstate 5, take Exit 68 (WA). Go EAST on U.S. Route 12 for about 60 miles. Before reaching Packwood, turn RIGHT onto Forest Road 21. After about 12 miles turn LEFT on Forest Road 2150. Keep RIGHT at the 2150/040 split, then turn RIGHT on 2150/405 to reach the Snowgrass Flat Trailhead.
From Hood River, take 141 NORTH through White Salmon to Trout Lake. Follow 23 North and follow the signs toward Randle. Take Forest Road 55 and then 22, following signs to Packwood and Chambers Lake. A few miles after the sign for Walupt Lake and just before Hugo Lake take a hard Right, and follow signs to Chambers Lake on 2150. Follow the signs to Snowgrass (Trail 96), or Berry Patch (Trail 95) just a 1/4 mile away (if you are riding horses).
Some trailhead parking areas require a Northwest Forest Pass ($5/day or $30/year). The Goat Rocks Wilderness is administered by the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and the Wenatchee National Forest. Because it is part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, motorized equipment and equipment used for mechanical transport is generally prohibited. This includes the use of motor vehicles, motorboats, motorized equipment, bicycles, hang gliders, wagons, carts, portage wheels, and the landing of aircraft including helicopters, unless provided for in specific legislation.
The Yakima Indian Reservation, bordering the Goat Rocks Wilderness on the southeast side, is closed to the general public, except for the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail.
Wenatchee National Forest (eastern Goat Rocks): http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/wenatchee/
Gilford Pinchot National Forest (western Goat Rocks): http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/
The Forest Service publishes a map of the area, entitled Goat Rocks Wilderness.
The Cowlitz Valley Ranger District (360-497-1100) is located at 10024 Highway 12, P.O. Box 670, Randle, WA 98377-9105
The Packwood Ranger District (360-494-5515) is located on Highway 12, Packwood, WA 98361
Hiking Washington’s Goat Rocks’ Country by Fred Barnstad
100 Hikes in Washington's South Cascades and Olympics by Ira Spring and Harvey Manning
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Aarti Kapadia, CPA/MBA, provided these simple tips for individual tax filers. This is not tax advice specific to you, just general information to discuss with your own tax team.
Last Minute Tips for Individual Tax Filers
1. The SALT (state and local income tax deduction) is limited in 2018. We recommend you consider prepaying your 2017 state and local income taxes.
2. We also recommend you consider prepaying the 2nd half of the assessed property taxes for 2017 that are due in 2018 for principal residence or second home.
ARIZONA SPECIFIC: Maricopa county residents can prepay these assessed property taxes at the link below (search for your property at the link below, select the parcel number to view details, and select View/Pay Tax Bill). Please be sure you notify your mortgage company of the prepayment. https://mcassessor.maricopa.gov/
3. With tax brackets and corporate rates going down in 2018, push business income to 2018, and recognize any business losses in 2017. There is an additional 20% deduction available for certain pass through businesses. Certain specified service trades or businesses may not fully qualify for this deduction unless the taxpayer’s taxable income is below a certain threshold.
4. Prepay investment expenses and tax preparation fees for 2017 since these deductions are not deductible in 2018.
5. Pay job related moving expenses in 2017. This deduction is eliminated in 2018.
6. Rates for unearned income for children go up in 2018. We recommend accelerating this income to 2017 if possible.
7. Arizona residents have a great opportunity to lower the state income taxes by making charitable contributions that are eligible for a dollar for dollar tax credit. Here are some of the most popular contributions that are eligible for a dollar for dollar tax credit
a. Qualifying Charitable Organizations tax credit (up to $400 for single/ head of household or married filing separately and $800 for married filing jointly)
b. Qualifying Foster Care Charitable Organizations tax credit (up to $500 for single/ head of household or married filing separately and $1000 for married filing jointly)
c. Public School tax credit (up to $200 for single/ head of household or married filing separately and $400 for married filing jointly). You may claim a credit for making contributions or paying fees to a public school for support of extracurricular activities or character education programs. The public school tax credit is claimed by the individual taxpayer
d. Private School tuition organization credit (up to $1089 for single/ head of household or married filing separately and $2177 for married filing jointly)
Things to note for 2018 for Individuals
1. Individual tax rates have changed, with rates going down from 1-4%.
2. AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax) is still in effect but the exemption limits went up from $86,200 to $109,400(married) and $55,400 to $70,300 (single).
3. Standard Deduction went from $13,000 to $24,000 (married) and $6,500 to $12,000 (single). The standard deduction is IN LIEU OF the Itemized Deductions.
4. Itemized Deductions: Deduction for SALT (State and local taxes) limited in 2018 to a total of $10,000 for property and state taxes. Miscellaneous Itemized deductions that were subject to 2% of AGI no longer allowed.
5. Personal exemption of $4,150 per person repealed completely.
6. Mortgage Interest deduction changed from $1M to $750k for principal residence and second residence combined. Rental properties not affected. HELOC interest deduction no longer deductible.
7. New 20% deduction for qualified business income from a partnership, S Corporation or sole proprietorship – limits apply.
8. Gift/Estate tax exemption is doubled from %5.6M to $11.2M
9. Child tax credit increased from $1000/child to $2000/child. Phase-out of credit changed from $110,000 (married) to $400,000.
10. Individual health insurance coverage requirement/penalty repealed.
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Homologous recombination between bacterial strains is theoretically capable of preventing the separation of daughter clusters, and producing cohesive clouds of genotypes in sequence space. However, numerous barriers to recombination are known. Barriers may be essential such as adaptive incompatibility, or ecological, which is associated with the opportunities for recombination in the natural habitat. Campylobacter jejuni is a gut colonizer of numerous animal species and a major human enteric pathogen. We demonstrate that the two major generalist lineages of C. jejuni do not show evidence of recombination with each other in nature, despite having a high degree of host niche overlap and recombining extensively with specialist lineages. However, transformation experiments show that the generalist lineages readily recombine with one another in vitro. This suggests ecological rather than essential barriers to recombination, caused by a cryptic niche structure within the hosts.
Assembled 128 Campylobacter whole genome sequences: 128 Campylobacter whole genomes sequenced using a Illumina HiSeq 2000 and assembled using Velvet. Filenames refer to IDs in Table S1 in the associated publication.
Complete set of available STs for C. jejuni (sequences): Sequences of every alleles for MLST profiles of 3,834 STs present in the pubMLST Campylobacter database as of the 26th of May 2011 and used in the associated publication.
Complete host associations with C. jejuni ST clonal complexes: Complete host associations with C. jejuni ST clonal complexes, using data extracted from pubMLST as of 26th May 2011, used in the associated publication to produce Fig. 1B.
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Welcome to the next installment in the Tread & Butter Foot Health Journal: how to reduce pain and heal shin splints through stretches, exercises, and general foot health! For this article, we’re continuing the deep-dive journey into foot health to bring you the latest information on how to heal shin splints and reduce shin splint pain—all through good foot health, the right arch support, and targeted stretches and exercises for shin splints.
Much like we did in our previous article on plantar fasciitis, we’ve spoken with yet another experienced physical therapist in Bend, Oregon, and asked him how foot health can help reduce shin splint injuries. We then took what we learned from our conversation about the close relationship between shin splints and foot health, and combined it with our own background and research in arch support and insoles. The result? This little shin splints guide for your reading pleasure.
So, happy shin-splint healing, y’all. And be sure to check out all the other useful feet-first articles from our ongoing Foot Health Journal.
Shin splints. What are they and what causes them? As people who exercise and roam and move our bodies, we’ve all heard of and/or experienced shin splints at some point or another. If pressed, though, could you clearly explain what causes shin splints and what occurs when you experience them?
Don’t worry, before we started designing arch support and insoles for shin splints, we wouldn't have been able to explain it either. But now, now we know the basics of shin splints like the bottom of our feet. And we’re happy to share what we’ve learned with you.
To keep it simple, let’s start with the fact that shin splints are very common and very related to exercise. As a term and a sensation, shin splints are defined by an experience of pain along the tibia (the inner edge of the shinbone). They also usually develop post-exercise or following some kind of physical activity—most often running, walking, or jogging.
Yes, it’s true that shin splints are typically associated with running (track, road, or trail). But it’s also true that any kind of vigorous exercise—from hiking and skiing, to tennis, soccer, dancing, and beyond—can bring on shin splints. Especially if you’re starting from scratch, relatively speaking, or going from zero to one hundred in terms of intensity, volume, or duration.
Scientifically speaking, and according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, shin splints are caused by an “inflammation of the muscles, tendons, and bone tissue around your tibia.” Technically known as medial tibial stress syndrome, shin splints “typically occur along the inner border of the tibia, where muscles attach to the bone.”
While shin splints can be attributed to a number of factors, they most commonly occur when you overwork the muscle and bone tissue in your leg through repetitive activity. Basically, whenever you make a sudden change to your activity levels and either increase the intensity or volume or duration of your exercise routine, you increase the chances of developing shin splints.
Other structural and environmental factors that can contribute to causing shin splints include:
To help give you an idea of what shin splints feel like, and determine whether or not you’re experiencing pain as a result of them, we’ve compiled a handy list of common shin splint symptoms and indications. Remember, the area we are zoning in on for shin-splint detection is located along your tibia, where the muscle and tissue meet the shin bone.
While you should always consult a professional about what’s actually going on, some things you’ll most likely experience if you’ve found yourself face to face with some good old fashioned shin splints are:
We’ll hear from Grant Carson, the local physical therapist we spoke with regarding the correlation between foot health and shin splints shortly, but for now: let’s get proactive. And by proactive we mean let’s take a look at a few key exercises and stretches for shin splints so you can start weaving them into your routine. Along with other essential shin splint stretches and exercises, these ones are a big part of the proactive picture that’s going to help you heal, treat, and prevent shin splints.
*Some Quick Notes: Rest is an important part of any healing process—always include rest! Also, always warm up before starting any of the following shin splint stretches; for video tutorials on some of these, we like what we see over at Healthline, The Prehab Guys and The Stretch Coach (No, we don’t know Mr. Stretch or those Prehab dudes. But we like their styles and their credentials.). If you’re unsure of what to do or where your pain is really coming from, please consult a trusted professional.
(adapted from: Healthline)
(source: Stretch Coach)
(adapted from: Prehab Guys)
This seated ankle dorsiflexion stretch for shin splints is a great way to train the dorsiflexors of the foot/ankle complex (which is often a culprit of shin splints). Remember to focus on slowly lowering the weight back towards the floor to gain the biggest benefit from this movement.
(adapted from: Healthline)
As we’ll hear from Grant in the next section, shin splint treatment and prevention isn’t just about stretching the shin and calf area. Our shins are only part of the larger system that is our bodies, and so shin splints can’t be addressed without looking at things like core imbalances and hip muscles. Core imbalances can lead to lower-extremity injuries, and hip muscles are what help stabilize the pelvis during running and walking. Neither should go overlooked when treating shin splints.
Don't let shin splints harsh your mellow. Photo: Adobe
OK, now let’s talk about how to prevent shin splints through good foot health, and let’s at last talk about it with physical therapist Grant Carson! Grant, what are your thoughts on shin splints and foot health?
“Hey! Thanks for having me. OK, so when I treat people, whether for shin splints or some other issue, I emphasize the deconstruction of symptoms that are driving a pattern. Like, if you go to a therapist and they only look at your feet when your foot is hurting, they are missing the bus. It’s the whole picture that needs to be looked at, the whole chain reaction from head to toe.
What I’m getting at here is that shin splints are never just about our shins, calves, and lower legs. They’re about our hips and pelvis, our core and our feet—and about our overall foot health.”
We touched on that a little earlier, but, how so?
“Your feet and your hips are partners—they control rotational movement. If your feet and hips (hinge and sagittal plane joints) aren’t functioning like they could or should, then it’s your knees and back (and potentially your shins) that pay for that.
For some time I worked for the Louisville Ballet and, yes, dancers are very prone to shin splints—much of what I saw had to do with both footwear (ballet shoes are brutal), overuse, and the correlation between hip muscles and rotational movement.”
OK, well, I know ballet dancers put their feet through the ringer. But how important is proper-fitting footwear for us mere mortals?
“Basically, it’s important to keep in mind that what feels good walking around at the store is not necessarily appropriate. There are a lot of slipper-like tennis shoes and running shoes out there, but most people don’t have the ligament strength to walk around in them all day, let alone run in them.
While I'm a big believer in doing body-weight exercises barefoot (for balance, proprioception, and strength-building), I do not recommend heavier weights or advancing rapidly with plyometrics without proper foot support. All of which leads me to this: When we’re talking about the long game (of life and overall body health and function), orthotics and footwear are pretty important. You don’t have to feel like you need to stick to one type of shoe or brand or insole shape, though. Like most things in this world, it’s good to mix it up, to see what works according to where your body’s at in its stage of life.”
Adapt and thrive (or at least feel better)—that makes sense. Thanks so much for talking with us, Grant. Your wisdom regarding foot health and shin splints is very much appreciated.
Need help reducing or preventing shin-splint pain?
With shin splints, we know there’s no singular solution to prevention or treatment. Rather, the best shin splint prevention and treatment is about a confluence of actions, including rest and the right exercises and stretches.
And the best arch support for your (unique) feet.
To see how Tread & Butter can change your world from the ground up, check out our high arch and low arch cork insolesor send us a note about your specific insole needs. We’re always here to inform, support (literally), and help you say goodbye to shin splints.
Grant Carson is the owner and physical therapist guru behind Tumalo Wellness in Bend, Oregon. As someone with more than 20 years of experience delivering physical therapy to elite athletes, major sports teams, and mere mortals alike, Grant is well-versed in helping people (and feet) re-pattern themselves away from pain and towards healing. Got questions? Give him a shout or book a PT session, and be sure to tell him we sent you. | <urn:uuid:2f1d3645-a870-4cb2-95d8-6df2e7d5fb0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://treadandbutter.com/blogs/foot-health-journal/how-to-heal-shin-splints-reduce-pain-stretches-exercises-foot-health | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.940002 | 2,143 | 2 | 2 |
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The Law Commission has now concluded its review of adult social care law and has published proposals for new legislation. The Government has pledged to introduce legislation to implement those proposals which it accepts. The Law Commission’s final report, which can be accessed here, therefore provides an indication of the framework that will in future underpin the provision of services in this area.
Key proposals include:
- a single statute to govern adult social care law, replacing the many pieces of legislation currently in place;
- creating a statutory overarching principle for adult social care, which would set the basis for all actions carried out in connection with adult social care;
- creating one assessment duty and empowering local authorities to delegate their assessment duty to others eg, healthcare professionals – so joint health and social care assessment could be carried out by the same assessor;
- creating a new, simpler, test for triggering the duty to assess needs of carers;
- placing a statutory duty on local authorities to lead the co-ordination of adult safeguarding mechanisms; local authorities would also be under a duty to investigate (or ensure that another agency investigates) adult protection cases;
- putting adult safeguarding boards on a statutory basis, with various agencies, including NHS trusts, having a duty to appoint members to sit on the boards; and
- creating a statutory duty on health and social care bodies to cooperate in relation to provision of adult social care.
Although the proposals do not include significant changes to the eligibility threshold for services, the Law Commission has made recommendations in relation to the health and social care divide, in particular on the issue of eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare. The report recommends retaining the prohibition on local authorities providing nursing care and setting out in the new statute the “quality and quantity” test which is used to determine whether services are beyond a local authority’s power to provide. The proposals also include making provision for the continuing healthcare eligibility criteria to be set in law, as opposed to in guidance as they are today.
Section 117 Mental Health Act 1983 would also be amended under these proposals. The extent of the duty on health and social care bodies would be clarified (health bodies being under a duty to provide healthcare services, social care bodies being under a duty to provide social care services) and the duties on each could be brought to an end unilaterally, without both the health and social care bodies agreeing to terminate the entire after care package. These particular proposals should implemented by the Health and Social Care Bill.
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