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CPS Teachers Voice Concerns About Returning To Blended Learning
Updated, Thursday, 3:52 p.m.
Cincinnati Public Schools on Saturday announced a return to blended learning Feb. 1. The decision was made just days after Hamilton County reached "purple" on Ohio's Public Health Advisory System, which indicates the highest level of spread. During Wednesday's board meeting, teachers voiced concerns about the return and the risk of contracting COVID-19.
The Cincinnati Public Schools Board of Education in December laid out plans to return to blended learning if the city remained below 40 new daily COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people. When the board voted last week to return Feb. 1, the city was averaging 66 new daily cases. Some teachers are frustrated with the new plan, saying staff weren't given the opportunity to provide input, and they're worried about contracting the virus. Kia Alexander teaches science at the School For Creative and Performing Arts.
"The county has, as we all know, recently moved into purple," Alexander said. "It worries me that we likely won't be fully vaccinated, almost any of us, before we're teaching in-person again."
CPS says it will begin vaccinating staff members Feb. 1. Meanwhile, Hamilton County is having issues getting the vaccine. Commissioner Denise Driehaus last week said there weren't enough doses to get through the first phase of vaccinations.
Ben Jarvis is a teacher at Taft Information Technology High School. He said the board hasn't given a valid reason for not delaying the return until March 1 so teachers can receive the vaccine.
"There is absolutely no reason to be so callous in your disregard for your employees' safety that you would send them back well before it is necessary when the relief that they so direly need is so close in sight," Jarvis said.
How Students, Included Those At Walnut Hills, Will Return
On Wednesday, the board said the district will follow the same blended learning schedule as it did in the fall. That means students in A/B groups attend school two days a week with the rest of the week remote.
Board President Carolyn Jones calls the return plan a "sound decision," and expanded on why in a Thursday statement, saying "it is no easy task balancing health and safety in a pandemic with what we are charged to do as board members."
She says staffing challenges were the primary reason for the move to distance learning in November. "A combination of increased staffing, a shorter quarantine period, and the vaccine will help address these issues," she wrote. "Our stance that school is one of the safest places for our students to be has not wavered. We are equally committed to continuing to follow the protocols that keep our buildings among the safest places for our staff, and providing leave options for those who are deemed high risk."
On Wednesday, Jones' main issue lay with the current state of Walnut Hills. The school didn't offer blended learning last semester because its classrooms don't allow for six feet of social distancing between students. Despite Jones' concerns, the Board determined that Walnut Hills will take part in blended learning. The plan will allow for three feet of social distancing in the classrooms. Here's Superintendent Laura Mitchell's explanation.
"Six feet of social distance with the space at Walnut would only allow them to be in class one day a week in-person," Mitchell said. "If we do three feet of social distancing, that would get them to two days in-person and they would be on schedule with the rest of the district."
The CDC calls for desks to be at least six-feet apart. Some students are also upset about the return plan. Yousuf Munir is a senior at Walnut Hills and is president of the Young Activists Coalition.
"Are you guys just living in a completely different world than the rest of us and the people that are actually in the schools, because Hamilton County just went purple and your first thought is, 'Oh, this is a great time to send kids back to school.' "
More than 500 staff and over 300 CPS students have tested positive for COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. Staffing issues led CPS to switch to remote learning in November. At that time, fewer than 150 staff members had tested positive for the virus. Cincinnati Federation of Teachers President Julie Sellers calls the decision to return "unbelievable" and said the union plans to seek an injunction.
"You all have a duty as a public employer to provide a safe place of employment," Sellers said. "Ohio Revised Law states that. It is a law in Ohio."
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Charles Darwin will forever be one of the greatest biologists in history. He is known for the development of his theory of evolution through natural selection, that gave us an image of how we evolved and came to be where we are today. He published his famous book On the Origin of Species that explains his theory how certain organisms are able to adapt to the changing environments around them and continue to survive and reproduce with their advantages. His other book The Descent of Man talks about how we evolved from apes and goes into detail on our early ancestors and their features. Learning more into Darwin’s theories makes you wonder how he was able to find them and what he went through in his time. Darwin lived an amazing life, and every part of it played a role in his discoveries to his theories and helped us learn how he came to his findings.
Born into a wealthy family in Shrewsbury 1809, Darwin was the youngest of five children. His father was a well-known physician, but he did not remember much of his mother, she died when he was eight years old. Darwin attended a boarding school at nine years old but often found the lessons boring. At his home, his older brother Erasmus built a laboratory in the garden shed, and Darwin played as his assistant as they did fun experiments related to science. After leaving school, his father sent him to Edinburgh University in Scotland to study medicine, in hopes to become a doctor, however, he did not enjoy the surgical operations one bit. During his time at the university, Darwin joined the Plinian Society that studied natural history. He enjoyed debating in the society and even wrote some papers for them. It made a welcome change for the lectures he attended at the university, which he found tedious and uninteresting, causing him to neglect his studies.
Darwin’s father found out that Darwin did not want to become a physician, so he sent him to Cambridge University to study a degree to become a priest. He often enjoyed hunting, playing cards, and drinking with his friends at Cambridge, who also were very wealthy because of their families and did not need a job at the time. While attending Cambridge, he continued to be captivated by the natural history and took a course in Geology. He was fond of observing plants and beetles and would go on walks with his Professor who he was acquainted with. After a class trip to study rocks in North Wales, Professor Henslow informed Darwin of a voyage on a ship, which offered a space to anybody who volunteered to go without pay. He would be the ship’s naturalist, and go around collecting plants and animals. Darwin accepted the offer, and took part in “The Voyage of the Beagle.” After a two month delay due to heavy winds, they set sail on December 27th, 1831, on the trip around the world in which Darwin’s love for science prevailed over other interests.
The journey allowed Darwin to experience first- hand the vegetation of the tropics, the forest-covered mountains, and great deserts. The near five-year journey provided Darwin what he believed to be the first real education of his mind. He studied several branches of natural history and wrote everything in his journal on his observations and different animals he encountered. During a visit to the Galapagos islands, Darwin had some incredible observations that would later help him to develop his famous theory. Two things really stood out in his observations, the first being the finches and their beaks. On each island, each of these birds had a different beak, perfect for eating the food of each different island where it lived. Once, they were all the same bird with the same beak and Darwin wondered why it changed. The other observation he made was at the Cape Verde Islands, where he discovered shells at the top of a mountain standing forty-five feet above sea level. Darwin concluded that over time the earth was slowly changing, and the ground at the bottom of the sea had grown very slowly to become the top of the mountain.
Upon returning to England, Darwin spent the next two years finishing his journal of travels. He also worked with the geological society and acted as an honorary secretary. He attended the meeting of several other scientific societies in London until he moved to the countryside due to his poor health. Darwin got married to his first cousin Emma Darwin on January 29th, 1839. They had ten children, and seven survived to adulthood. For the remainder of his life, Darwin was played by illness, often suffering from stomach problems, vomiting, and shivering. He rarely left his home, and could not attend dinner parties or host many of his scientific friends.
The remainder of his life was dedicated to his scientific work and the publishing of several books that gave him enjoyment and helped him temporarily forget about his discomforts. Darwin was able to take the time he needed to go back to his old explorations during his voyage find the answers to why his observations happened. Looking back at the finches, he figured out that they all came from the same family and evolved over hundreds and thousands of years. Depending on where the finches lived, they adjusted and adapted to their surroundings so they could have an advantage in survival. Over generations, they developed different beaks allowing them to utilize them for their specific environment which in turn allowed them to live a full life. It’s hard to believe that Finches can alter their appearance on beaks even though they come from the same family, but they were able to excel and continue to pass down their adaptation. His findings on why and how the finches evolved helped him in the success of his theory of natural selection.
Darwin kept his theories to himself for a while, until 1858 when a naturalist named Alfred Wallace asked him to look at a paper he had written of his own theory of evolution. Darwin realized that Wallace’s theory had a lot of similarities to his, and they later published their theories together. Shortly after, he published one of his most famous books The Origin of Species in 1859. This book introduced the scientific theory that animals evolve over generations through natural selection. It included evidence he gathered from his voyage along with subsequent findings. In 1871, he published ‘The Descent of Man’ which applied the evolution of theory to humans along with many related issues, including differences between races and sex as well as evolutionary psychology. Some people agreed with Darwin’s ideas, but many others were upset and shocked. Eventually, more and more people came to accept his theory of evolution.
Charles Darwin died on April 19th, 1882, at the age of 73. He believed his success as a man in science was due to several mental qualities and conditions. He highlights the four most important aspects, number one being the love of science and passion for it. Second, Patience: the unbounded patience in long reflecting on any subject. Third, hard work: the industry on observing and collecting facts. Four, creativity: the fair share of invention, as well as common sense.
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Develop your jewellery design and making
Time: 10:30 - 16:30
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What is the course about?
This course is a hands-on opportunity for you to develop your jewellery design practice and learn to work more independently on your own projects in a safe environment. If you are already fairly experienced in jewellery making and are confident piercing, filing, drilling, annealing, soldering, bending and forming metal with minimal supervision, this course is ideal for you to perfect your ongoing skills, discover different techniques, and consider new ways of approaching design and making. You will work independently on your own projects or follow a series of short, structured projects, all with the guidance of an expert jewellery maker and the use of a fully equipped jewellery crafting studio.
What will we cover?
There are no set topics or class wide projects on this course: you should bring to class some ideas of what you would like to make, and with guidance from the tutor you will realise these plans at your own pace, picking up new skills, techniques and approaches along the way.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- understand the working properties of metal and other materials
- master a range of techniques used in the making of pieces
- use a range of hand tools and types of machinery with confidence
- recognise and implement good health and safety practice in the workshop.
- contribute to a culture of mutual support within the group, and enjoy the profitable exchange of ideas, information
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
This course is not suitable for complete beginners - you really need to be confident in basic jewellery making skills such as piercing, filing, drilling, annealing, soldering, bending and forming. You should be familiar with properties of commonly used metals in jewellery, and be aware of basic health and safety issues in the studio.
You should be able to follow simple written and verbal instructions, demonstrations and hand outs, and health and safety information. It will be beneficial if you can take part in informal group discussions. You should be happy using numbers, able to do simple measurements and calculations, and recognise and draw simple geometric shapes.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
The course is held in a well equipped workshop setting, and is taught through demonstrations and photographic examples, with individual support and advice given to guide and extend your abilities. There are no class wide projects, rather the tutor will guide you in developing your own work.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
City Lit provides most of the tools and equipment you will need for jewellery-making, and basic materials in reasonable quantities such as base metals, paper, enamel, chemicals, and sundries (etching resist, polishing compound etc.) However you will need to buy some specific items such as saw blades, precious metals, and stones. You will also need a sketchbook for your design work and to write notes. As you gain experience you might want to invest in your own tools.
You are advised that sensible footwear must be worn in the studio. For health and safety reasons no sandals, open shoes or small pumps can be worn, even in hot weather.
Please bring your own apron and safety glasses.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
City Lit offer a wide range of short and year-long courses in Jewellery design and making, from beginners to advanced, and for professional development.
Browse our current offer for complementary courses.
Elizabeth Bone is a professional Jewellery artist, maker, educator & author. She has been designing & making jewellery for over 25 years, exhibiting & selling in the UK, Europe, America & Japan. Elizabeth’s work has been featured in numerous jewellery publications & purchased by private collectors from all over the world. Elizabeth is a skilled maker who employs hand-fabricating techniques in her own work. She has a BA in Crafts - wood, metal, ceramics and textiles. After graduation Elizabeth was apprenticed to the jewellery artist Wendy Ramshaw where she became her principal workshop assistant for 10 years. In 2011 Elizabeth was commissioned to write a book, Silversmithing for Jewellery Makers – techniques, treatments & applications for inspirational design published in the UK, USA and China. Elizabeth is passionate about sharing her knowledge, her teaching experience at degree level and in adult education covers a broad spectrum of levels and subject areas and spans her career.
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Speaking to Rick Gibbons on CFRA’s Homepage program on Thursday, MLI Senior Fellow Philip Cross said he hopes his recently-released study on the size of government provokes a debate about the role of regulation in the economy.
Cross was discussing his paper, titled “Estimating the True Size of Government: Adjusting for regulation”, which shows that government controls about two-thirds of the economy. The report is a companion piece to another MLI study, released earlier this year, that measures how accounting for tax expenditures increases government’s size.
“These studies are meant to answer that question: what is the true extent of government’s control of the economy?”, Cross said. “Once we know that, then you can ask the question: ‘Is that too much? Is it about right? Is it not enough?’”
Cross’ study finds that government controls over 64 per cent of the economy when regulation and tax expenditures are added to direct spending as a portion of GDP in measures of government’s size.
To hear the full interview, click here and listen to the May 29, 2014 show. Cross’ portion starts at 18:27.
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Wilderness Wanderings. After centuries of living in foreign lands, the time comes for the Israelites to return to the land God promised to Abraham. But soon after they set out for Canaan, Israel perpetually complains, sins, and even incites rebellion.
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The name Korah is also used for at least one other individual in the Hebrew Bible: Korah (son of Esau). Commentary on Numbers (Korah’s Rebellion) Ap Bill Pratt Leave a comment. The Israelites are now wandering in the wilderness for 38 years because of their refusal to take possession of the Promised Land.
The events of chapters 16 and 17 take place some time during this time period, but the author does not tell us exactly when. Wilderness High Lights- Korah, the Infection of Rebellion. Revelation 12; 10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.
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Paul, writing to the Corinthians, documents the experiences of Israel in the wilderness: “Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same.
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This book is an oft-cited favorite of Outlander fans, especially for those who thought the series really picked up when Jamie and Claire moved to America. In the Wilderness The Book of Numbers in the Bible is also known by its first words, “And the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness ” Numbers recounts the journey from the time the Israelites received the law at Mount Sinai until they reach the promised land.
The journey was not supposed to take as long as it did. It took the Israelites File Size: 3MB. Korah and His Associates. Korah, one of the rich leaders of the Levites, and a cousin of Moses and Aaron, felt that he had been slighted and overlooked in the distribution of the highest priestly honors and envied Moses and Aaron, and also his cousin Elzaphan, who had been put in charge of the Levites, after Aaron's family had become elevated to the rank of Kohanim Author: Jacob Isaacs.
Rebellion in the Wilderness 1 CHILDREN’S BIBLE LESSON Illustrations by The Restored Church of God. furnishings and camp around it. God said, “When the tabernacle is moved, the Levites shall take it down, move it, and then set it up. They are in File Size: 1MB. The first 25 chapters of the book chronicle the experiences of the first generation of Israel in the wilderness, while the rest of the book describes the experiences of the second generation.
The theme of obedience and rebellion followed by repentance and blessing runs through the entire book, as well as the entire Old Testament.Still, Wilderness Revolt is an interesting report on the evolution of Pike's thought, and a stimulating document in the struggle to drag the Christian churches into the 20th century.
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A course tailored to analysts working with children's services data
Children's Services Data Science Apprenticeships
Our second cohort started learning in September 2021, and we are now a community of 65 analysts in 42 LAs.
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Texas to Hong Kong – 8 ways to travel via plane, bus, and ferry
American Airlines, Korean Air, Japan Airlines, and others operate flights between Dallas/Ft.Worth and Hong Kong, which take around 20h 35m including an average layover time of around 2h 36m. The fastest flight takes around 16h 30m.
Dallas/Ft.Worth (DFW) to Hong Kong (HKG) flight schedules
We have received no reports of travel restrictions in Hong Kong, which is served four times daily by American Airlines, Korean Air, and two other airlines. The former British colony is rich in history, has spectacular harbor views, and is a foodie’s paradise.
Things to do in Hong Kong
Central (also Central District;) is Hong Kong’s central business district, located across Victoria Harbour from Tsim Sha Tsui, the southernmost point of the Kowloon Peninsula. The Hong Kong Park, located next to Cotton Tree Drive in Central, is a public park.
Places to stay in Hong Kong
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How long is a flight from Texas to Hong Kong?
The average non-stop flight time from Dallas (DFW) to Hong Kong (HKG) is 21 hours 25 minutes, based on historical flights for this route. During this time, travelers can expect to travel approximately 8,300 miles, or 13,358 kilometers.
How far is Indonesia from Texas in hours?
The shortest distance between Indonesia and Texas is 15,067 km (9,362 miles), and it takes 16.72 hours to fly from Indonesia to Texas (at an average speed of 560 miles).
What is the world’s longest flight?
Lufthansa flew German citizens back to Germany from New Zealand, Austrian Airlines flew nonstop from Sydney to Vienna, and Air Tahiti Nui flew the world’s longest nonstop commercial flight from Papeete, Tahiti, to Paris in March.
How fast do planes fly?
According to Flight Deck Friend, most commercial aircraft fly at around 460-575 mph (740-930 km/h), but private jet speed varies depending on a variety of factors, including the weight onboard and weather conditions.
How many hours is it from California to Hong Kong?
The fastest direct flight from Hong Kong to California takes 13 hours 51 minutes, and the average direct flight time is 13 hours 51 minutes.
How long is shipping from Hong Kong to us?
Frequently Asked Questions about Shipping from Hong Kong to the United States Air freight shipping takes 6-12 days, while sea freight shipping takes 24-28 days but is the most cost-effective if you can wait.
How far is Switzerland from Texas by plane?
According to the route planner, the shortest distance (air line) between Switzerland and Texas is 5,383.91 mi (8,664.57 km).
How many hours is from Houston to Switzerland?
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Usb Y Cable Usb Hub Wiring Diagram – There are a number of kinds of electronic gadgets available on the market. Most of them utilize USB cable. The cable can be utilized to transfer information from one apparatus to another. In addition, it can link device to a power source for charging purpose. Understanding usb y cable usb hub wiring diagram will likely to be great for you.
The diagram to get USB cable will help when there is an issue with it. Knowledge on recommending parts of USB is going to assist consumer in finding out which component that needs to be fixed. For crafty users that wish to build their particular USBs, this diagram will act as a principle.
Construction USB Cable According to USB Wiring Diagram
USB cable is also regarded as serial bus. The cable is composed of four threaded wires. Two cables, GND and +5v, are especially for electricity. Meanwhile, the remaining two cables are for data signals. They’re called D- and D+. Before learning Usb Y Cable Usb Hub Wiring Diagram, there is something to learn about this cable.
There are four kinds of data rates in USB cable. The initial one is Low Speed with transfer rate approximately 1.5 Mbit per second. Total speed has transfer rate of about 12 Mbit per second There’s also Hi-Speed data transfer rate about 480 Mbit per second. The Super rate goes past that with transport speed of 4800 Mbit per second.
So as to build a USB cable, you need to gather these substances.
- Cat-5 cable of desirable length
- USB connectors
- Shrink tubing
- Sharp knife
- Soldering iron
- Electric meter
- Stripper for wires
According to Usb Y Cable Usb Hub Wiring Diagram, there are just four wires used inside the cable. Typically it uses black, black, white and red cable colors. Black cable serves as floor, exactly like in any other apparatus. The red one is for positive wire with DC ability of 5 volts. Green and white serve as data wire with green indicates white and negative as positive.
If you are utilizing Cat-5 cable then take only four of the cables with colors defined as in the former part. Use the solid wires, instead of the stripped ones. Strip about a centimeter in the endings. After that, pay the entire cables with big shrink tubing. Each cable must also be covered by smaller shrink tube.
The next part is also vital in the process of earning USB cable. It’s soldering the wires into the connector at an end. Being neat as possible in this procedure is quite significant. The cables should not cross each other since the USB cable cannot be used in any respect. Depending upon the Usb Y Cable Usb Hub Wiring Diagram, each wire is completely protected from one another.
After the initial end was finished, it’s time to proceed to another one. First, the electrical meter ought to be put into Ohm functioning. Match both ends until the meter creates a noise that indicates circuit. Once that happens, it’s the right time to solder each wire in their respective parts. Layer the wires with shrink tube also.
Once the USB cable has been fully created, it’s time to test the tool. User can check whether the cable will help charging electronic apparatus that supports USB connection. Attempting the cable out to look at its information transfer capability can be highly recommended.
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Usb Y Cable Wiring Diagram – There are several sorts of electronics available. The majority of them utilize USB cable. The cable may be utilized to transfer data from 1 device to another. In addition, it can link device to a power supply for charging function. Understanding usb y cable wiring diagram is be helpful for you.
The diagram for USB cable can help if there’s an issue with it. Knowledge on recommending elements of USB will assist consumer in finding out which part that needs to be adjusted. For crafty users that want to build their particular USBs, this diagram will function as a principle.
Building USB Cable According to USB Wiring Diagram
USB cable is also regarded as serial bus. The cable is composed of four threaded wires. Two cables, GND and +5v, are specifically for power. Meanwhile, the remaining two cables are for data signals. They’re named as D- and D+. Before studying Usb Y Cable Wiring Diagram, there is another thing to learn about this particular cable.
There are four types of data levels in USB cable. The initial one is Low Rate with transfer speed approximately 1.5 Mbit per second. Complete rate has transfer rate of approximately 12 Mbit per second There’s also Hi-Speed data transfer speed about 480 Mbit per second. The Super Speed rate goes past that with transfer speed of 4800 Mbit per second.
So as to construct a USB cable, then you need to gather these substances.
- Cat-5 cable of desired length
- USB connectors
- Shrink tubing
- Sharp knife
- Soldering iron
- Electric meter
- Stripper for cables
According to Usb Y Cable Wiring Diagram, there are just four wires used inside the cable. Typically it utilizes black, green, red and white wire colors. Black wire serves as ground, exactly like in any other apparatus. The red one is to get sure cable with DC power of 5 volts. Green and white serve as information wire with green indicates negative and white as positive.
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Following the first end was finished, it is time to move to the other one. To begin with, the electrical meter ought to be put into Ohm functioning. Match both ends until the meter creates a noise that indicates circuit. After that occurs, it’s time to solder each wire into their various pieces. Layer the cables with shrink tube also.
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This article will be about Migraine Headaches. Migraines can be a terrible and crippling condition. They can cause severe pain, which can make you feel disabled, dizzy, or even vomiting. How can we combat migraine headaches? Preventing migraine headaches is the first step. I have had many migraines over the years and have learned a lot about them. This is why I have compiled a list of my top 5 methods to prevent migraine headaches.
These tips may help you to prevent migraines, as they did for me. Let’s get to the point!
- Keep A Diary! Although it may sound absurd, keeping a journal of the migraines you experience is a great way to prevent them. Certain foods and drinks can trigger migraines. How can you determine which foods or drinks trigger migraines? Keep a journal! Keep a log of the headaches and the food you ate. You should be able identify patterns and determine which foods or drinks are causing your problems.
- Take a look at your allergies! Many people don’t think about this, but it is important to find out what your allergies are. An allergy to a food you have eaten can cause migraines. It is important to know what foods you might be allergic to. This may seem obvious, but it is possible to prevent migraines by avoiding bright lights. You might be experiencing frequent migraines at work if you are not happy with the lighting.
- Are you seeing the light in a brighter area? Is it right in front of you? If any of these are true, you should adjust the light. If the ceiling light is on, you might ask if you could move your desk.
- You might also want to keep track of the weather. Sometimes, the weather can cause headaches. This is especially true in dry environments.
- This is a tricky one. It is possible to become addicted to caffeine by drinking a lot of it. But, once you become addicted, withdrawals can cause severe headaches. What should you do? Don’t get too addicted to caffeine if you don’t have a problem with it. Instead, try to avoid caffeine altogether. You can slowly reduce your intake of caffeine if you are addicted to it. You may be able avoid migraines by slowly removing caffeine from your diet.
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On the road in Silicon Valley - the success codes of rule breakers!
An inspiring business travelogue: Gerriet Danz explored the success strategies of international innovation leaders in Silicon Valley and China. What can medium-sized companies learn from Apple, Google & Co. How do corporations profit from the wild
Ideas of lightning-fast start-ups? Find out why gaining a credit in California is easy as a failed entrepreneur. And why so many world successes start with a "No!"
Utopia makes sales!
Thinking the impossible to create the possible.
If you have visions, you have to see a doctor - used to say former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Those who have no visions today must go straight to the undertaker: "Innovate or die" is the motto. Gerriet Danz shows in his lecture why business models must be regularly questioned, why radical spinning around is a must - and presents international examples of how utopias become turnover.
Silicon China. Create, don't copy!
China used to copy us mercilessly. But now the Middle Kingdom is turning us into mediocrity - with grandiose innovations in artificial intelligence, electromobility and the like. What to do? Copying back? Nobody wants that politically. What can local SMEs and corporations learn from Chinese companies? Gerriet Danz takes you on a journey through the new People's Republic of Ideas and explains how we too remain the “land of smiles” when it comes to innovation.
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Scientists Discover a Giant Sphere‑Shaped Void in the Milky Way
Scientists found a giant, spherical cavity lurking in space while mapping a molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy.
“As we were zooming out, we finally saw this huge cavity… like a big ball surrounded by a shell,” Shmuel Bialy, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who led the research, told Inverse.
Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on Wednesday, the study found that the bubble-shaped void is 500 light-years wide and located between star-forming regions in the Perseus and Taurus constellations. Hence, they have named it the “Per-Tau Shell.”
The fact that there’s just an empty void in space baffled the scientists since, despite the vastness of space, “it mostly teems with gas, dust, rocky objects, or stars,” while this region was completely bare. “What we see is the cavity, which means that there was some powerful mechanism to excavate this region,” Bialy notes.
But what was this “powerful mechanism”? There isn’t a conclusive answer regarding the origin of the void yet, but researchers have tried to offer two potential explanations. “We have two theories — either one supernova went off at the core of this bubble and pushed gas outward, forming what we now call the ‘Perseus-Taurus Supershell’, or a series of supernovae occurring over millions of years created it over time,” Bialy said in a statement.
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The researchers believe that the explosion(s) likely compressed and triggered star formation in the two molecular clouds of Perseus and Taurus. It would, however, be an indirect trigger since the explosion(s) formed clouds that, in turn, went on to create stars.
“Hundreds of stars are forming or exist already at the surface of this giant bubble, demonstrating that when a star dies, its supernova generates a chain of events that may ultimately lead to the birth of new stars,” Bialy explained.
But if Bialy and his team’s theories are indeed true, this discovery might change the way we look at supernovae as destructive forces — almost like a “cosmic apocalypse.”
“Supernovae are usually thought of as a negative process… Here we have a supernova that is helping the formation of clouds,” Bialy says.
Moreover, while scientists knew how clouds formed stars, they had been trying to understand how the clouds themselves come into being. “The question was, how do these cloud regions of high density that are responsible for star formation are formed… This observation kind of sheds light on the formation process,” Bialy added. | <urn:uuid:2cdfed7e-5000-44fe-be24-2d512c47f6c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theswaddle.com/scientists-discover-a-giant-sphere-shaped-void-in-the-milky-way/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95078 | 612 | 3.4375 | 3 |
San Juan, .- Collectives and organizers of Puerto Rican women will participate next Friday, International Women’s Day, a strike, in which they will denounce several claims, among them, the cutting of essential services by the local government for the payment of public debt.
With the slogan “8 Against Debt”, the agencies, which form the Coalition March 8 (8M Coalition), will be manifested in the municipalities of Mayagüez (west) and Peñuelas (south), to concentrate on the Golden Mile, an area Bank of San Juan, as indicated by the organizers of the meeting.
The groups will also denounce the reduction of essential services by the Government for the payment of the public debt that have resulted in greater precariousness and institutional violence against them.
For this year, the 8M Coalition has distributed the claims into eight thematic axes: employment and security of pensions, health, public education, housing, immigrants, autonomy of bodies, sexist violence and public safety.
“Each of the thematic axes reveals immense challenges that women and non-binary people face every day in the face of this fiscal crisis,” said Eva Prados, spokesperson for the Broad Movement of Women and the Citizen Front for Debt Audit, member group of the 8M Coalition.
For her part, Shariana Ferrer, from the Feminist Construction Collective, denounced the magnitude of the women’s crisis in Puerto Rico, mentioning the 23 females who were killed in 2018 due to sexist violence and over 2,000 “rape kits” or exams of a sexual assault that have been unprocessed for 15 years.
In this way, Puerto Rico will join 150 other countries to celebrate International Women’s Day.
“In Puerto Rico, we call to stop work, teaching and domestic work, so that it is recognized that our country needs us to get going,” added Stephanie Nieves, of Jornada the Promises are Over.
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NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday said the drop in coal imports in FY'22 was mainly on account of the power sector's inbound shipments declining.
Coal imports that had touched 248 million tonnes (MT) in FY'20 dropped continuously during the next two financial years to 215 MT in 2020-21 and 209 MT in 2021-22.
"The decline in coal import during 2021-22 is largely due to decrease in import by Power Sector which came down from 45 MT in 2020-21 to 27 MT in 2021-22, decline of almost 40 per cent," the coal ministry said in a statement.
"The decline is more steep if we compare coal imports by power sector in 2021-22 to pre-Covid year of 2019-20 when such import was 69 MT," the ministry said.
This is despite the fact that total thermal power generation in the country increased to 1,115 billion units (BU) in 2021-22 from 1,032 BU in 2020-21, an increase of almost 8 per cent.
Despite steep rise in actual demand of coal from 956 MT in 2019-20 to 1,027 MT in 2021-22, imports of the dry fuel have not increased.
Coal imports grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.
86 per cent during the period 2009-10 to 2013-14.
At this CAGR, coal imports would have reached 705 MT in 2020-21 and further to 866 MT in 2021-22.
The import of coal could be checked only by sustaining increased domestic supply over the years, it added.
The country's coal output increased to 777 MT in 2021-22 over 716 MT in 2020-21.
Therefore, despite a steep rise in actual demand for coal from 906 MT in 2020-21 to 1,027 MT in 2021-22, imports could be contained due to increased domestic dispatch from 691 MT in FY21 to 818 MT in FY22.
Coal imported by non-regulated sectors, including cement and sponge iron, increased to 125 MT in FY22 from 119 MT in FY21. | <urn:uuid:3c577899-68dd-4dd1-a4ff-980e27d43a82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2022/jun/02/decline-in-coal-imports-in-fy22-on-account-of-less-buying-by-power-sector-centre-2461019.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949588 | 441 | 2 | 2 |
The term generalized logistic distribution is used as the name for several different families of probability distributions. For example, Johnson et al. list four forms, which are listed below. One family described here has also been called the skew-logistic distribution. For other families of distributions that have also been called generalized logistic distributions, see the shifted log-logistic distribution, which is a generalization of the log-logistic distribution.
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—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other mens thinking.”
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They didn’t use a space telescope, or a huge ground-based scope like the Keck or the Gemini, or even the sort of backyard telescope some planet hunters rely on to gather evidence of alien worlds. Instead, a team of European and American astronomers started with a clever new analytical technique, applied it to a set of existing observations archived by the European Southern Observatory and made what could be the biggest planet discovery since — well, since the announcement of a world in the nearby Alpha Centauri star system three weeks ago.
The fact that big planetary discoveries are occurring so close together is a measure of how fast the exoplanet field has exploded in recent years. And the announcement a few weeks back was an exciting one indeed. That new planet orbits a star close to Earth, and it’s Earthlike in size as well. Its surface is probably molten lava — which pretty much rules it out as a candidate for life — and that’s where the even more recently discovered planet wins out. Known as HD 40307g, it circles its home star once every 320 days or so, at a distance that puts it right in the star’s Goldilocks zone, where temperatures are not too cold or too hot but just right for water-based life like ours — if it happens to be there.
This isn’t the first or even the second world discovered orbiting this particular parent star. European astronomers had already found three, called HD 40307b, c and d, based on the wobbles their gravity imposed on the star itself. Disentangling those three overlapping signals was hard enough, but Mikko Tuomi of England’s University of Hertfordshire, along with his team, found a way to erase the flickering of the star itself (caused by sunspots, flares and such) from the stored observations. As a result, the fainter signals of three more planets became detectable — e, f and g — for a total of six. HD 40307g is the farthest out from the star and the only habitable world known in the system.
(Photos: Window on Infinity: Pictures from Space)
The newly identified planet is not exactly a mirror Earth. It’s at least seven times as massive as our home planet, which qualifies it as a “Super Earth,” with much stronger gravity than what we’re used to. That doesn’t rule out the possible presence of life, say the experts, and HD 40307g has another point in its favor. “It might rotate,” says Hugh Jones of University of Hertfordshire, a co-author of a paper describing the new world slated for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Rotation seems like a natural feature of all planets, but those that lie too close to their stars become tidally locked, showing the same face to the star at all times (as the Moon does with Earth). Even if it were in the habitable zone, a locked planet could be hot on one side and frigid on the other — but HD 40307g is probably evenly toasty all around.
Yet another plus is the fact that the new world lies only 44 light years away from Earthly telescopes. That’s pretty far compared with the Alpha Centauri planet, just 4 light-years away, but practically next door compared with the distant Super Earths the Kepler space telescope has found. Along with another planet found by members of this same team early in 2012, HD 40307g could be the beginning of a growing collection of habitable planets that could be seen directly by a coming generation of telescopes.
The only question that remains is a pretty fundamental one: whether the new world is really there at all. Jones acknowledges that the signals from the other five planets are more robust. “We’ve tested this new technique on planets we already knew existed,” he says, “but this is the first time we’ve used it to make a detection.”
Nevertheless, he’s reasonably confident that HD 40307g does exist and, he says, “we’re using the new technique on lots of other stars even as we speak. We’re seeing lots of exciting possibilities.” | <urn:uuid:4e786503-9c9b-4636-9691-51a4212b0de6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://science.time.com/2012/11/08/found-the-earthiest-new-planet-yet/print/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94521 | 876 | 3.09375 | 3 |
I get this question all the time from lab’s inquiring about Whip Mix’s zirconia products, and the answer simply is “no- all zirconia discs are NOT the same at all.” There are the obvious differences in discs, such as strength and translucency that many labs focus solely on, but there are also several differences that arise from the manufacturing process of discs. Bernie Jaroslow explains in his blog on WhipMix.com, the several factors that make discs very different:
- Purity/contamination – If a disc is made in an unclean environment you won’t be able to see it until the restoration is made.
- Flexural Strength – If the density of the zirconia disc isn’t uniform, it’s going to affect the final physical properties
- Density/shrinkage uniformity – If the disc doesn’t have a uniform density then when it is fired the restorations may warp.
- Thickness uniformity – Though this is not very common, if for some reason the disc does not have a uniform thickness then you risk breaking your cutting tools during the milling process.
- Milling properties – If zirconia discs are underfired they may be too soft. If the discs are overfired they may be too brittle. This can affect cutting speed and may cause chipping.
- Color and translucency – If the discs are not pre-sintered correctly & consistently then some of the coloring you do in the green state may be lost. A disc that is too dense won’t keep the color and may not offer enough chroma (saturation).
What sets our zirconia above many of our competitors is the fact that we start with the highest quality formulated powder, to then press that powder vertically and take the additional step of pressing in all 360 degrees for extra quality and consistency in our discs. I often hear complaints from lab technicians that discuss the frustration of a “bad batch” of discs being sent to them from other zirconia companies. This can not only be costly, but very frustrating as well to not only your lab, but also to the dentists waiting on their cases to come back. Here at Whip Mix we take great pride in making the highest of quality discs that are also very consistent for our customer’s peace of mind and satisfaction, made right here in Louisville, Kentucky. Offering a strength of 1,140 MPa and translucency of 45% makes our zirconia one of the most versatile on the market. Being able to use a single disc for a posterior multi-unit bridge and a beautiful monolithic anterior crown eliminates a lab’s need for a high amount of inventory sitting around the lab collecting dust until the perfect case comes along for a specific disc. I am so proud to be an advocate for this product, and I know your lab will not be disappointed by transitioning to Whip Mix’s VeriCore ZR Pro Zirconia. | <urn:uuid:dd869cef-8bee-4ea9-8f22-34b6f42a2965> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.whipmix.com/arent-all-zirconia-discs-the-same-looking-past-translucency-and-strength/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.936765 | 634 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Maximize the ROI of Anti-Fraud TechnologyThe financial services industry will invest an estimated $9.3 billion dollars in fraud detection and prevention technology by 2022 – a 22% increase over 2021. Yet banks, brokerages, insurance companies, and their customers lose more to fraud year after year.
“Combating Fraud in Financial Services with Intelligent Data Management” explains why “fit for use” data is key to maximizing the ROI of anti-fraud technologies. You will learn about:
- Causes and business impacts of top data challenges
- Six key steps to take to counter fraud
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NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 2020
Fostering openness and trust during the pandemic
2020 has been a year of disruption and many of us are already looking forward to starting fresh in 2021. Every workplace on the planet has been affected by the pandemic and New Zealand continues to fare better than most. We’re curious about how teams are coping. Lockdowns are shunting our workplaces and many are finding out how good (or bad) their remote working facilities are and it’s typically the people that feel the brunt of adapting their work patterns.
People tend to internalise stress during sustained crises like COVID19 and very often lack the language needed to help them deal with the immediate challenges and longer-term effects. It turns out, teams that are open about their internal state tend to foster more trust than teams who don’t and more trust equals better performance.
If you’re worried about openness in your teams, try using a ‘Check-in’ protocol (first introduced by McArthy http://box5121.temp.domains/~mccarti0/online/)
Here’s how it works:
At the beginning of a key team session, ask each team member to ‘check-in’ to the meeting by declaring how they’re feeling at that moment. Each person takes a turn to share things on their minds that they are:
- Glad, Sad or Mad about...
- Grateful for…or
- Afraid of...
Encourage the team to listen carefully without engaging or responding to what's being shared. When that person is done they usually say: “I’m in” signalling that they are fully checked-in to the conversation, engaged and ready to participate.
It usually takes about 5 to 8 minutes for a team to fully check-in and the mode shift is usually palpable.
In our experience the benefits are:
- Individuals tend to feel acknowledged and are more likely to engage in the meeting.
- This type of transparency fosters tolerance and understanding
- Sets a productive tone to meetings improving the quality of the time invested
Give it a try at your next session and let us know how it went
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Surge Welcomes a new partner...
“In the desert, if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.“African Proverb
A specialist in accelerated delivery practices such as Agile, Scrum and Lean. Colart is also heavily involved in the local startup ecosystem. Alongside pursuing his passion for helping kiwi organisations to speed up innovation and build a more sophisticated ecosystem, he also grows an amazing moustache.
Colart has an executive MBA from Massey University and is a qualified ScrumMaster and product owner.
Surge Welcomes a new Transformation Coach
“Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about the destination. “Drake
Tim has a long history in project management and SAFe transformations. A registered scaled agile practitioner to engage leaders on agility transformations and certified coaching.
A certified SPC, Prince2, ScrumMaster and SAFe trainer
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Hamilton School District teachers were included in the eighth edition of “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers” because former students nominated them.
Hamilton High School teachers who were recognized were mathematics teacher Steven Akin, communication arts teacher Jill Cook, world languages teacher Ann Ferguson, special education teacher Robin Oehlert Gabel, social studies teacher Daniel Heckman, business education teacher Toni Hillmann, social studies teacher Lori Hinytz, physical education teacher Tom Konkol, mathematics teacher Lara Lopez, graphic arts teacher Byron Olson, social studies teacher Bob Pechanach, family & consumer education teacher Monica Schulteis, art teacher Al Skell, world languages teacher Robin Tessereau and mathematics teacher Jerry Wetherall. Marcy Elementary
School teacher Juliana Seboth also was nominated.
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You may think that the only worrying things about polycystic ovarian syndrome are a few missed periods, some acne and trouble getting pregnant. Not that these aren’t pretty bothersome by themselves. But did you know that a PCOS diagnosis raises your risk to diabetes? Wait, what?! Yup, you heard us right. Even if you do manage to get successfully pregnant despite the PCOS, you need to be careful. Australian researchers have now found that women with PCOS are almost 5 times more at a risk of gestational diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes. Experts now believe that the link between PCOS and Diabetes Type 2 relates to two factors: insulin resistance and obesity. Because these factors are common for both these conditions.
Scientists have long suspected a link between PCOS and Diabetes. Because both these conditions have a lot to do with insulin resistance.
PCOS or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome happens due to an imbalance in female sex hormones. This imbalance is often caused by ovarian cysts. A woman’s ovaries contain tiny, fluid-filled sacs known as ‘follicles’ which hold the eggs. Every month, a mature egg is released by the follicles. This egg makes its way into the uterus for successful fertilization. For women with PCOS, immature follicles bunch together to form cysts. And these cysts make the release of mature eggs rather impossible.
Strangely, the real cause behind PCOS is still unclear. But scientists are now sure that there is a direct link between PCOS and Diabetes. Insulin resistance, high levels of circulating insulin (hyperinsulinemia), low-grade inflammation and obesity interlink these two conditions.
Scientists have observed a high frequency of excess male-sex hormones and PCOS in women with Diabetes Type 1. They have concluded that intensive insulin treatment may be to blame for this condition. A possible reason may be that Type 1 Diabetics are insulin-dependent. Hence, the ovaries of these women are subjected to large swings in insulin levels via insulin injections. Hyperinsulinemia signals the ovaries to produce more androgens, like testosterone. These excess androgens (or male hormones) then cause hormonal imbalance, which is what leads to PCOS. Likewise, in women with Diabetes Type 2, the early stages of the disease is marked by increased levels of insulin. Because the body puts up a fight against insulin resistance, and this may trigger PCOS.
Scientific evidence suggests that women with PCOS have a unique disorder of insulin action. Also, these women are at increased risk to develop Diabetes Type 2. Further, diabetes mellitus in women with polycystic ovary syndrome has a substantially earlier age of onset (third to fourth decades) when compared to general population (sixth to seventh decades).
Research has found that PCOS is prevalent in up to 27% women with Diabetes Type 2. For some, both the conditions are genetic. But scientists are now increasingly of the opinion that lifestyle choices and body-weight may be an intrinsic part of the equation that connects PCOS to Diabetes.
While obesity does increase your risk to Diabetes Type 2, don’t assume that you’re off the hook only because you aren’t overweight. Scientists from UCSF Center for Reproductive Health, San Francisco found this in a study. They observed that normal-weight women with PCOS have a threefold higher odds of incident diabetes compared to those without PCOS.
Pathogens are bacteria or virus that cause a disease. Considering the connection of PCOS and Diabetes Type 2, it’s important to discuss the overlap between pathogens.
Insulin resistance continues to be the key common element between PCOS and Diabetes Type 2, while the key difference is β-cell function. When hyperinsulinemia is left unchecked, it does lead to β-cell decline and failure. This can lead to insulin deficiency and hence Diabetes.
There is scope for future research on how β-cell function fares overtime in women with PCOS to better understand the connection between PCOS and Diabetes.
Yes, PCOS is a strong independent factor in the development of diabetes. Younger women with a PCOS diagnosis are even more at risk for both Diabetes Type 2 and heart disease later in life. This is primarily the reason behind doctors prescribing Metformin and other blood-glucose-lowering drugs for the treatment of PCOS as well. However, it’s important to know that you can prevent and reverse Type 2 Diabetes through diet and exercise.
If you have PCOS, it’s important to know if insulin resistance is the cause behind your imbalanced hormones. Insulin resistance increases your risk for type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy) and pre-diabetes.
You may be surprised to hear this, but not all women diagnosed with PCOS suffer from insulin resistance. Sometimes other factors come into play to trigger an overproduction of male-sex hormones.
However, for a majority of women, insulin resistance and chronic inflammation lie at the heart of PCOS. This is why it’s crucial to get regular blood tests to measure fasting glucose levels as well as insulin levels.
Is there a way to reverse PCOS as well as Diabetes Type 2? There sure is, and we aren’t talking about medication here! The right diet to reduce carbohydrate intake and the intake of good fats is recommended. These changes, coupled with the right exercise program, supplements and other lifestyle changes will go a long way towards normalizing your hormones and increasing insulin sensitivity. These changes must become a lifestyle choice to permanently reverse PCOS and its accompanying complications, like Diabetes. | <urn:uuid:fa4f8162-d443-4a08-b8ca-86505ff32819> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sepalika.com/pcos-health-problems/pcos-and-diabetes-type-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.938373 | 1,166 | 2.90625 | 3 |
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This report presents the 2010 Revision of the population estimates and projections prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. The 2010 Revision constitutes the twenty second round of the global population estimates and projections produced by the Population Division since 1951 and it breaks new ground in the production of population projections. For the first time, projections are carried out up to 2100, instead of 2050 as previously. In order to extend the projection period to 2100, a new method for the projection of fertility was developed. The method used in the 2010 Revision is based on the advances made in projecting fertility since the 2000 Revision, advances that have been combined with a probabilistic approach to yield the future paths of fertility used in producing the medium variant of the 2010 Revision. The full results of the 2010 Revision are presented in two volumes. The first volume provides comprehensive tables displaying key demographic indicators for each development group, major area, region and country for selected periods or dates within 1950-2100. The second volume contains demographic profiles presenting time series and plots covering the period from 1950 to 2100 for selected indicators for each country with at least 100,000 inhabitants in 2010 as well as for development groups, major areas and regions. | <urn:uuid:6ecbabcd-7dda-4d19-a8c2-1256ae2dac86> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shop.un.org/books/world-popul-prospects-2010-v1-29687 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.923172 | 250 | 2.3125 | 2 |
US military suicide rate hits one per day
Suicides have outnumbered combat deaths in US troops in 2008 and 2009
As of 3 June, 2012 active-duty suicides reached 154, compared with 130 in the same period last year, the Pentagon confirmed to the BBC.
The number far exceeds US combat deaths for the same period.
“We are deeply concerned about suicide in the military,” a Pentagon spokeswoman said, adding it was “one of the most urgent problems” they faced.
While the reasons for the increase are not entirely understood, the Defence department’s own data suggest soldiers with multiple combat tours are at greater risk. But a portion of those taking their own life have never deployed, the figures show.
Suicide in the forces had levelled off during 2010 and 2011, but 2012 has seen the fastest pace since the US war in Afghanistan began in 2001.
Strength or weakness?
News of the suicide rate increase comes despite years of effort by the US military to encourage troops to seek help for mental health problems.
Those efforts include setting up confidential telephone hotlines and placing more mental health specialists near the battlefield.
But reports suggest that some in the military continue to believe that going for help is seen as a sign of weakness.
Last month, Major General Dana Pittard, a commander in the 1st Armored Division, retracted an Army blog post made in January in which he told soldiers considering suicide to “act like an adult”.
Gen Pittard also counselled soldiers to seek help, but his remarks drew public rebuke from top military officials, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey.
Gen Dempsey said he disagreed with Gen Pittard “in the strongest possible terms”, the Associated Press reported.
Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith told the BBC that “suicide prevention is first and foremost a leadership responsibility”.
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Geared for change: The Director of the Transformation Services Office, Glenda Wildschut.(View the video here)
Transformation Month, held campus-wide during March, has created the impetus for similar events and activities that will help the Transformation Services Office (TSO) intensify and advance UCT's transformation agenda, says TSO director Glenda Wildschut.
While it is difficult to assess the impact of Transformation Month, the programme was generally well-received, particularly the fun student activities. "One of the student events, the open forum dialogue on White Fears, Black Rights attracted more than 200 participants. This was, in my opinion, a really authentic discussion on race and diversity," says Wildschut.
"Those who experienced Transformation Month found the diversity of the programmes interesting, especially the mixture of artistic forms, and the way dialogue was facilitated by different methodologies - such as the round table discussion on tobacco control and human rights, and expert inputs by the UN rapporteur on disabilities."
Wildschut's interest in transformation stems from her involvement in structures and forums in the early 1990s, which paved the way for national transformation via the Transitional Executive Council, the Sub-Council on Defence and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. "I feel that it is my duty as a citizen, and an honour, to be involved in transformation." Transformation, she adds, will take time and patience and a lot of hard work - both at a personal and a collective level."
Wildschut and the TSO have been hard at work on the roll-out of the ADAPT programme that will facilitate transformation across campus. "ADAPT is aligned with the vision and mission of the TSO to foster an institutional climate that values diversity and fosters inclusivity. The content was refined and embellished upon to meet the demands of a post-Khulma era at UCT," she explains.
The first "train-the-trainer' phase of the ADAPT programme was recently completed. Twenty-three advisors are now skilled in several aspects of transformation facilitation. "Participants will become part of a process that supports UCT's mission in a structured and methodical way and will be in a position to champion the creation of a campus culture in which diversity is understood and valued, and in which emotional intelligence is promoted."
ADAPT is based on the same peer-education/peer-counselling premise as DISCHO's Anti-Discrimination Advisors (ADAs) programme, which trains group of peers who in turn can educate their colleagues in a structured, contained way and also refer people to the appropriate services when necessary.
"The immediate benefit of this type of programme is that ADAPT advisors/counsellors will become mentors who will have a positive influence on the attitude and behaviour of their colleagues. They will also impart knowledge and skills which will cascade further into the community as participants share information and ideas with others," explains Wildschut.
"At the core of the ADAPT programme is the notion of better understanding of our differences and similarities, as well as that of furthering the corresponding understanding of our own responses when we are confronted by attitudes and behaviours different from our own."
The trainers include departmental heads, residence staff, scientific and technical officers, clinical psychologists, a social worker, lecturers, a nurse, administrators and others representing many facets of university life. They have all expressed their full commitment to the transformation of UCT and are eager to contribute to positive change on campus.
The second "reflective practice" phase of the programme will see the ADAPT trainees work in teams to hold workshops with the University Transformation Committees during June until August. The third phase will start with a pivotal planning workshop for all HoDs and Line Managers in order to strategise and plan the final roll-out of the programme to the rest of the university - this is expected to begin in October.
"We believe that ADAPT will prove to be an invaluable catalyst for change that will improve participants' intercultural competencies and leadership skills, which will in turn contribute to the longer-term leadership and strategic goals."
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Temperature can affect the rising of bread dough both directly and indirectly. Indirectly, the temperature and atmospheric pressure surrounding the dough will affect how all the ingredients behave, especially the flour. Dry ingredients will absorb wet ingredients more slowly in cold temperatures (the molecules have less energy and so move more slowly themselves), and compounds of ingredients will behave in slightly different ways depending on the variation. This is why some recipes call for different temperatures based on elevation--the pressure affects the ingredients, which is why temperatures must change to compensate.
Dough rises because of the yeast present in the ingredients. Yeast, a vital part of making bread, is a mixture of friendly bacterial organisms that feed on the flour. Flour by itself is made from large, simple particles such as starch and sucrose, compounds unable to mix easily with other ingredients. Yeast serves as a catalyst, breaking down flour into different parts and allowing the ingredients to mix together more easily.
When introduced to the flour, the yeast particles begin feeding on it, creating and using enzymes that break apart the flour particles into different types of sugars. In the process known as fermentation, yeast feeds on the types of sugars it prefers, leaving other sugars untouched and producing small byproducts as a result. These waste materials include alcohol and carbon dioxide. This fermentation and the carbon dioxide it produces is what causes the bread to rise. How much the bread has risen is used as an indication of how much flour the yeast has eaten via the enzymes, and how many simple sugars have been created by the process.
Rising dough can then be seen as an action performed by living organisms, which gives a good indicator of how temperature will affect the process. If the yeast is given moisture and a small amount of sugar to help it get started, it will react much more favorably to the environment and, bolstered by the energy received from the sugar, it will use the moisture to travel more quickly and ferment more of the flour. In a warm environment, the process is even more enhanced, as the metabolism of the yeast is increased and the organisms feel even more comfortable moving and eating.
Cold temperatures have the reverse affect. Sensing a more hostile environment, the yeast particles slow their metabolism and consume less of the flour, storing what energy they have and making the fermentation process take much longer. When moved to a warm place again, the yeast in the dough responds accordingly and increases feeding activities.
Some types of bread require multiple rising or delayed rising recipes that involve putting the dough in the refrigerator to slow down yeast activity in this way. Dough may be cooled for an hour and then allowed to rise for an hour, or switched back and forth from the refrigerator to the oven at intervals to create particular types of pastry. | <urn:uuid:952cd58c-4c11-4e83-8f34-047795e0e9c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.leaf.tv/articles/what-does-temperature-have-to-do-with-making-bread-dough-rise/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.946704 | 552 | 4.125 | 4 |
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is calling for the Legislature to cut funding for school districts that are not offering in-class instruction. He made the recommendation in his budget proposal this week, even as the Mississippi State Department of Health reported the worst week for school outbreaks yet.
“School districts willing to provide in-person learning, while working to ensure the safety of students and teachers, are at a financial disadvantage because they are operating under the same or greater budget conditions as those districts only providing online distance learning,” Reeves said in his 88-page budget proposal, released Monday. “For this reason, I propose limiting funding for school districts unwilling to provide the option of essential classroom instruction.”
The day after Reeves released his proposal, the Mississippi State Department of Health reported that 1,023 students and 523 tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week, far exceeding any other.
Schools reported quarantining 16,705 students and educators due to exposures last week, too. MSDH reported 70 outbreaks, also a record number, up from just 24 the week before. Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said that 65 more schools have gone virtual amid widespread outbreaks.
This week, a Hernando Elementary School first-grade teacher died after spending weeks in the hospital suffering from COVID-19. In her final Facebook post, she urged others to wear masks, which the governor is not mandating statewide even as the state returns to summer-levels of infections and hospitalizations.
Reeves: Schools ‘Poisoning a Generation’
Reeves’ proposed budget does not include a plan to raise pay for teachers, even though he promised a substantial pay increase during his 2019 run for governor. Instead, the governor is asking for $3 million to pay for a “Patriotic Education Fund,” while also suggesting that the Legislature should end the 3% state income tax.
He said the goal is to “combat” a “dramatic shift in education” and “fund teaching that educates the next generation in the incredible accomplishments of the American Way.”
“Across the country, young children have suffered from indoctrination in far-left socialist teachings that emphasize America’s shortcomings over the exceptional achievements of this country,” the proposal reads, citing no evidence to back up its claims. “Revisionist history has aimed to tear down American institutions, and it is poisoning a generation. Capitalism, democracy, and other uniquely American values have been the victims of a targeted campaign from foreign and domestic influence—aiming to destroy the pillars of our society.”
The Parents’ Campaign, a top education advocacy group that lobbies for legislation to bolster public education, chastised the governor’s proposals in a statement today.
“Public school teachers will remember the emails from then-candidate Tate Reeves that landed in their school inboxes shortly before last November’s election, promising that teacher pay raises would follow if they would help elect him governor. Not a penny more for our teachers,” Parents’ Campaign President Nancy Loome said in today’s statement.
“Instead, Reeves used his budget recommendation narrative to accuse teachers of ‘poisoning a generation,’ saying that in our public schools ‘young children have suffered from indoctrination in far-left socialist teachings.’”
The Parents’ Campaign estimated that Reeves’ overall budget proposal would cut spending on pre-K through 12th grade education by about $190,000.
In her statement today, Loome noted that Reeves’ budget proposal has little chance of becoming law, though, because the Legislature, not the governor, sets the budget. Reeves, a Republican, has had a contentious relationship with the Republican-dominated Legislature, which earlier this year overrode a governor’s veto for the first time in almost 20 years.
“Last month, Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, Senate Education Chair Dennis DeBar, and House Education Chair Richard Bennett spoke to members of The Parents’ Campaign and expressed a sincere hope that Mississippi’s revenue will allow passage of a teacher pay raise in the coming legislative session,” Loome said.
Private School Org Resists Reporting ‘Customer’ Cases
During his time as lieutenant governor, Reeves repeatedly fought against large teacher pay increases and championed the creation of an “education scholarships” program that shifts millions in funds from public schools to private school vouchers.
During a Nov. 12 press conference, Dr. Dobbs said MSDH has struggled to get private schools to report COVID-19 data.
“We are seeing a lot of private and independent schools not reporting their numbers. They need to do it, and it is a public-health order, and they are going against the legal mandate to report. … It’s lamentable that there has been unnecessary pushback on this. I’ve been a bit baffled by it, to be honest, but we’ll continue to try,” he said.
In a statement that day, the Midsouth Association of Independent Schools, which represents many of Mississippi’s private academies, defended its member schools’ lack of transparency.
“Unlike state schools, independent schools are not agents of the state. They are small businesses that happen to be in the business of teaching children. As such, they relate to the government in the way any other small business does,” MAIS said in the statement. “No other Mississippi small businesses are required to report hearsay evidence of ‘positive cases’ to MSDH on a weekly basis.”
MAIS defended resistance to the legally binding public-health orders, saying the organization “questions the legitimacy and efficacy of the state’s reporting requirements.”
“Small businesses, including independent schools, have no first-hand knowledge of positive cases that pass through their doors; the best they can do is report what customers report to them,” MAIS said, referring to reports from students and parents.
MAIS, founded as the Mississippi Private School Association in 1968, has a long history of resistance to government orders. It began as an accrediting agency for newly formed segregation academies as white parents moved their children from public schools to private schools in response to federal court-ordered racial integration.
‘Our Hierarchy of Prioritization is Extremely Stupid’
Even as Reeves pushes for limiting funds to schools that are not currently offering in-person classroom instruction, the state’s top health officials are urging public schools to consider going virtual.
“I think it’s a great time for schools if they’re having outbreaks to look at virtual for a while. … A virtual break is a great idea,” State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs said during a Nov. 12 press conference today. “I also think it’s a good idea to think about backing off athletics for a while. I would recommend that nobody go and be a spectator at a sporting event for a while.”
Dobbs said that elementary-school outbreaks have increased in recent weeks “because older kids got it and went home and spread it to their families and then the younger kids spread it in schools.”
Dr. Paul Byers, the state epidemiologist, concurred with the health officer’s recommendation for schools experiencing outbreaks to go virtual, saying that those schools also need to pause extracurricular activities.
“If you go virtual as a school, that needs to include extracurricular activities,” Byers said.
Throughout the summer and fall, Gov. Reeves has repeatedly emphasized his support for efforts to keep school sports going amid the raging pandemic. But during the Nov. 12 press conference, Dobbs said he worried that many schools and communities are putting sports ahead of health and safety.
“Our hierarchy of prioritization is extremely stupid,” Dobbs said. “And we’re prioritizing youth sports not only over academics, we’re actually prioritizing it over community health. And I’m not saying there’s not intrinsic value to sports, I love sports. … And you know, people lost their minds when you couldn’t have full stadiums full of football folks. Please, everybody do a little soul searching and understand we are all connected.”
Cases, Hospitalizations Double Since Mask Mandate’s End
When Gov. Tate Reeves first implemented a statewide mask mandate on Aug. 4 amid the height of summer hospitalizations, he said he was motivated, in part, by sports.
“I want to see college football,” he said as he announced the mask mandate.
The governor allowed the mask mandate to expire on Sept. 30 after weeks of sustained drops in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. He said he believed most Mississippians would continue wearing masks to keep cases and hospitalizations low.
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#11 Traffic, Parking and Recreational Vehicles
TRAFFIC, PARKING AND RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
SECTION 11.01 DEFINITIONS.
SECTION 11.02 TRAFFIC AND ROADWAY REGULATIONS.
Orders of an Officer.
Cross Traffic Turns.
SECTION 11.03 PARKING REGULATIONS.
General Parking Prohibitions.
Streets without Curbs.
Direction to Proceed.
Impounding and Removing Vehicles.
Vehicle Repair on Streets.
Parking on Private Property without Consent.
SECTION 11.04 RESIDENTIAL OFF-STREET PARKING.
Off-Street Parking Regulations.
SECTION 11.05 PARKING PRIVILEGE FOR PHYSICALLY DISABLED
Scope of Privilege.
SECTION 11.06 AUTOMATIC PARKING BAN AFTER SNOWFALL
SECTION 11.07 RECREATIONAL CAMPING VEHICLE PARKING.
Recreational Camping Vehicles Off-Street Parking.
Recreational Camping Vehicles On-Street Parking.
SECTION 11.08 ATV and UTV (ALL-TERRAIN and UTILITY)REGULATIONS.
ATV and UTV Restrictions.
SECTION 11.09 MOTORIZED GOLF CARTS.
Special Vehicle Use by Handicapped Persons.
SECTION 11.10 SNOWMOBILE OPERATING REGULATIONS.
Use of Public Right of Way.
Crossing Public Streets.
Age of Operator.
Subject to Other Traffic Laws.
Prohibited on Public Property.
SECTIONS 11.11 – 11.98 RESERVED.
SECTION 11.99. VIOLATIONS A MISDEMEANOR OR PETTY MISDEMEANOR.
TRAFFIC, PARKING, SIDEWALKS, RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
SECTION 11.01 DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this chapter, the terms defined in this section shall have the meanings
ascribed to them.
1. Vehicle. Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
2. Motor Vehicle. Any self-propelled vehicle designed and originally manufactured to operate primarily on highways, and not operated exclusively upon railroad tracks. It includes any vehicle propelled or drawn by a self-propelled vehicle and includes vehicles known as trackless trolleys that are propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires but not operated upon rails. It does not include snowmobiles, manufactured homes, or park trailers. Motor vehicles also do not include an electric personal assistive mobility device or a vehicle moved solely by human power.
3. Motorcycle. Every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, including motor scooters and bicycles with motor attached.
4. Motorized Bicycle. A bicycle that is propelled by an electric or a liquid fuel motor of a piston displacement capacity of 50 cubic centimeters or less, and a maximum of two brake horsepower, which is capable of a maximum speed of not more than 30 miles per hour on a flat surface.
5. Electric-assisted bicycle. A motor vehicle with two or three wheels that:
a) Has a saddle and fully operable pedals for human propulsion;
b) Meets the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standards in Code of Federal Regulations, title 49, sections 571.01 et seq.; and
c) Has an electric motor that has a power output of not more than 1,000 watts, is incapable of propelling the vehicle at a speed of more than 20 miles per hour, is incapable of further increasing the speed of the device when human power alone is used to propel the vehicle at a speed of more than 20 miles per hour, and disengages or ceases to function when the vehicle’s brakes are applied.
6. Recreation vehicle. A travel trailer including those that telescope or fold down, chassis-mounted campers, motor homes, tent trailers, and converted buses that provide temporary human living quarters.
“Recreational Vehicle” is a vehicle that:
a) Is not used as the residence of the owner or occupant;
b) Is used while engaged in recreational or vacation activities; and
c) Is either self-propelled or towed on the highways incidental to the recreational or vacation activities.
7. Trailer. Any vehicle designed for carrying property or passengers on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle but does not include a trailer drawn by a truck-tractor semi trailer combination or an auxiliary axle on a motor vehicle which carries a portion of the weight of the motor vehicle to which it is attached.
SECTION 11.02. TRAFFIC AND ROADWAY REGULATIONS
Subdivision 1. Scope
The provisions of this Section relate to the streets and alleys in the City, and the operation and parking of vehicles refer to the operation and parking of vehicles upon such streets and alleys.
Subdivision 2. Orders of an Officer.
It is unlawful for any person to willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police or peace officer invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic.
Subdivision 3. Traffic Control
1. Council Action. No device, sign or signal shall be erected or maintained for traffic or parking control unless the Council shall first have approved and directed the same, except as otherwise provided in this Subdivision; provided, that when traffic and parking control is marked or sign-posted, such marking or sign-posting shall attest to Council action thereon.
2. Temporary Restrictions. The City, acting through the Chief of Police, may temporarily restrict traffic or parking for any private, public or experimental purpose. It is the duty of the Chief of Police to so restrict traffic or parking when a hazardous condition arises or is observed.
3. Traffic Restrictions and Prohibitions. It is unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle contrary to lane restrictions or prohibitions painted on any street, or contrary to sign-posted, fenced, or barricaded restrictions or prohibitions.
Subdivision 4. Load Limits.
The City may from time to time impose upon vehicular traffic on any part or all of the streets such load limits as may be necessary or desirable. Such limits, and the specific extent or weight to which loads are limited, shall be clearly and legibly sign-posted thereon. It is unlawful for any person to operate a vehicle on any street in violation of the limitation so posted.
Subdivision 5. Truck Route.
It is unlawful for any person to drive a tractor, agricultural implement, truck over 9,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, truck-trailer, tractor-trailer or truck tractor in through traffic, upon any street except those which have been designated and sign-posted as truck routes. For the purpose of this Chapter, “through traffic” means originating without the City and with a destination without the City, as distinguished from “local traffic” which means traffic either originating or having a destination within the City.
Subdivision 6. U-Turns.
It is unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle by turning so as to proceed in the opposite direction upon any street except at a street intersection, and then only if the street intersection is not sign-posted prohibiting a U-turn or otherwise controlled by a traffic signal; provided, that any person making a permitted U-turn shall yield the right-of-way to all other vehicles.
Subdivision 7. Exhibition Driving.
1. Prima Facie Evidence. It is prima facie evidence of exhibition driving when a motor vehicle stops, starts, accelerates, decelerates, or turns at an unnecessary rate of speed so as to cause tires to squeal, gears to grind, soil to be thrown, engine backfire, fishtailing or skidding, or, as to two-wheeled or three-wheeled motor vehicles, the front wheel to lose contact with the ground or roadway surface.
2. Unlawful Act. It is unlawful for any person to do any exhibition driving on any street, parking lot, or other public or private property, except when an emergency creates necessity for such operation to prevent injury to persons or damage to property; provided, that this Section shall not apply to driving on a racetrack. For purposes of this Section, a “racetrack” means any track or premises whereon motorized vehicles, horses, dogs, or other animals or fowl legally compete in a race or timed contest for an audience, the members of which have directly or indirectly paid a consideration for admission.
Subdivision 8. One-Way Streets.
1. The Council may, by resolution, designate streets as one-way streets.
2. It is unlawful for any person to travel upon any one-way street in a direction opposite that designated when the same has been duly sign-posted.
Subdivision 9. Cross Traffic Turns.
It is unlawful to travel in one direction and turn to park on the opposing lane, therefore crossing the opposing traffic lane. These areas in the City of Westbrook shall be between 4th Street and 7th Street.
SECTION 11.03. PARKING REGULATIONS
Subdivision 1. Presumption.
As to any vehicle parking in violation of this Chapter when the driver thereof is not present, it shall be presumed that the owner parked the same, or that the driver was acting as the agent of the owner.
Subdivision 2. General Parking Prohibitions.
It is unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the specific directions of a police officer or traffic control device in any of the following places:
1. On a sidewalk;
2. In front of a public or private driveway;
3. Within an intersection;
4. Within ten feet of a fire hydrant;
5. On a crosswalk;
6. Within twenty feet of a crosswalk at any intersection;
8. In a sign-posted fire lane;
9. Within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop sign or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;
10. Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
11. Within twenty feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within seventy-five feet of said entrance when properly sign-posted;
12. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when such stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
13. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
14. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a street;
15. At any place where official signs, lane restrictions or prohibitions, fences, or barricades prohibit or restrict stopping, parking or both;
16. In any alley, except for loading or unloading and then only so long as reasonably necessary for such loading and unloading to or from adjacent premises; or,
17. On any boulevard which has been curbed.
Subdivision 3. Parallel Parking.
Except where angle parking is specifically allowed and indicated by curb marking or sign-posting, or both, each vehicle stopped or parked upon a two-way road where there is an adjacent curb shall be stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle parallel with, and within twelve inches of, the right-hand curb, and, where painted markings appear on the curb or the street, such vehicle shall be within such markings, front and rear; provided that upon a one-way roadway all vehicles shall be so parked, except that the left-hand wheels of the vehicle may be parallel with and within twelve inches from the left-hand curb, but the front of the vehicle in any event and with respect to the remainder of the vehicle, shall be in the direction of the flow of traffic upon such one-way street;.
Subdivision 4. Angle Parking.
Where angle parking has been established by Council resolution, and is allowed, as shown by curb marking or sign-posting, or both, each vehicle stopped or parked shall be at an angle of approximately 45 to 60 degrees with the front wheel touching the curb and within any parking lines painted on the curb or street, provided that the front wheel not touching the curb shall be the portion of the vehicle furthest in the direction of one-way traffic.
Subdivision 5. Streets without Curb.
Upon streets not having a curb each vehicle shall be stopped or parked parallel and to the right of the paving, improved or main traveled part of the street.
Subdivision 6. Unauthorized Removal.
It is unlawful for any person to move a vehicle not owned by such person into any prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.
Subdivision 7. Direction to Proceed.
It is unlawful for any person to stop or park a vehicle on a street when directed or ordered to proceed by any police officer invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic.
Subdivision 8. Parking Hours.
Parking on streets shall be limited as follows:
1. It is unlawful for any person to stop, park or leave standing any vehicle upon any street for a continuous period in excess of twenty-four (24) hours.
2. The City may, when authorized by resolution of the Council, designate certain streets, blocks or portions of streets or blocks as prohibited parking zones, or five-minute, ten-minute, fifteen-minute, thirty-minute, one-hour, two-hour, four-hour, six-hour, eight-hour, morning or afternoon rush hour limited parking zones and shall mark by appropriate signs any zones so established. Such zones shall be established whenever necessary for the convenience of the public or to minimize traffic hazards and preserve a free flow of traffic. It is unlawful for any person to stop, park or leave standing any vehicle in a prohibited parking zone, for a period of time in excess of the sign-posted limitation, or during sign-posted hours of prohibited parking.
3. It is unlawful for any person to remove, erase or otherwise obliterate any mark or sign placed upon a tire or other part of a vehicle by a police officer for the purpose of measuring the length of time such vehicle has been parked.
4. For the purpose of enforcement of this Section, any vehicle moved less than one block in a limited time parking zone shall be deemed to have remained stationary.
Subdivision 9. Truck Parking. It is unlawful to:
1. Park semi-trailer upon any street, City-owned parking lot, or other public property except such as are specifically designated by the Council by resolution and sign-posted.
2. Park a commercial vehicle of more than 12,000 pounds gross vehicle weight upon any street in the business district except streets as specifically designated by the Council by resolution and sign-posted, but parking of such vehicle for a period of not more than twenty (20) minutes shall be permitted in such space for the purpose of necessary access to abutting property while actively loading or unloading when such access cannot reasonably be secured from an alley or from an adjacent street where truck parking is not so restricted.
Subdivision 10. Impounding and Removing Vehicles.
When any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a street or City-owned parking lot in violation of any parking regulation, such officer is hereby authorized to require the driver or other person in charge of such vehicle to remove the same to a position in compliance with this Chapter. When any police officer finds a vehicle unattended upon any street or City-owned parking lot in violation of any parking regulation, such officer is hereby authorized to impound such unlawfully parked vehicle and to provide for the removal thereof and to remove the same to a convenient garage or other facility or place of safety; provided, that if any charge shall be placed against such vehicle for cost of removal or storage, or both, by anyone called upon to assist therewith the same shall be paid prior to removal from such place of storage or safekeeping.
Subdivision 11. Vehicle Repair on Street.
It is unlawful for any person to service, repair, assemble or dismantle any vehicle parked upon a street, or attempt to do so, except to service such vehicle with gasoline or oil or to provide emergency repairs thereon, but in no event for more than four (4) hours. It is also unlawful to drain oil from a vehicle on any street.
Subdivision 12. Parking on Private Property Without Consent.
It is unlawful to park or abandon a motor vehicle on the property of another, or upon an area developed as an off-street parking facility, without the consent of the owner, lessee or person in charge of any such property or facility.
SECTION 11.04 RESIDENTIAL OFF-STREET PARKING.
Subdivision 1. Definitions.
1. Vehicle- any device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, except devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
2. Parking Space- A suitably surfaced and permanently maintained area on private property, either within a building or outside that consists of crushed rock, rock, gravel, cement or blacktop.
3. Setback Line- The minimum horizontal distance between a structure and a lot line.
4. Front Yard- The yard extending the width of the lot from the front lot line to the building setback line.
5. Rear Yard Line- the yard extending the width of the lot extending from the rear lot line to the rear setback line.
6. Lot Line- a line bounding a lot, except that where any portion of a lot extends into a street, the line of such street shall be the lot line.
7. Front Lot Line- The boundary of a lot which abuts a street. For any lot other than a corner lot, which abuts more than one street, all boundaries abutting and parallel to the streets shall be front line lots.
8. Rear Lot Line- the boundary of a lot, which is opposite or most distant from the front lot line.
9. Side Yard- the yard extending along the side lot between the front and rear yards, extending perpendicularly from the side lot line to the side yard setback.
Subdivision 2. Off-Street Parking Regulations
1. Any vehicle parked at a residence, the off-street parking space must be within a building or outside on a space, which is maintained with crushed rock, rock, gravel, cement or blacktop and kept neatly. Seasonal winter parking shall be allowed in an acceptable manner.
2. Required off-street parking automobile parking space shall not be utilized for open storage or for the storage of vehicles, which are inoperable, for sale or for rent.
3. The parking area shall have vehicular access to a street, alley, or roadway with such use and shall not be encroached upon in any manner.
4. Required off-street vehicle parking space shall not be utilized for open storage or for the storage of vehicles, which are inoperable, wrecked, partially dismantled or junked condition.
5. Off-street parking in a residential zone shall not be located in the front yard setback or in a street side yard setback.
6. The vehicle must have affixed to it valid, current motor vehicle registration/license, unless housed in a lawfully erected building defined by Minnesota State Building Standards/Code.
7. Off-street parking in a residential zone shall have five (5) feet setback between the parking space and the property line.
SECTION 11.05. PARKING PRIVILEGE FOR PHYSICALLY DISABLED
Subdivision 1. Scope of Privilege.
A motor vehicle that prominently displays the certificate or bears disability plates may be parked by or solely for the benefit of a physically disabled person:
1. In a designated parking space for disabled persons,
2. In a metered parking space without obligation to pay the meter fee and without time restrictions unless time restrictions are separately posted on official signs;
3. Without time restrictions in a non-metered space where parking is otherwise allowed for passenger vehicles but restricted to a maximum period of time and that does not specifically prohibit the exercise of disabled parking privileges in that space.
4. A person may park a motor vehicle for physically disabled person in a parking space described in clause (1) or (2) only when actually transporting the physically disabled person for the sole benefit of that person and when the parking space is within a reasonable distance from the drop-off point.
5. A certificate is prominently displayed if it is displayed so that it may be viewed from the front and rear of the motor vehicle by hanging it from the rearview mirror attached to the front windshield of the motor vehicle.
a) If no rear view mirror the certificate must be displayed on the dashboard on the driver’s side of the vehicle.
b) No part of the certificate may be obscured.
Subdivision 2. Enforcement.
Statutory parking privileges for physically handicapped shall be strictly observed and enforced. Police officers are authorized to tag vehicles on either private or public property in violation of such statutory privileges.
Subdivision 3. Fire Lanes.
It is unlawful for any person, whether or not physically handicapped, to stop, park, or leave standing, a motor vehicle:
(1) In a sign-posted fire lane at any time, or
(2) In lanes where, and during such hours as, parking is prohibited to accommodate heavy traffic during morning and afternoon rush hours.
SECTION 11.06 AUTOMATIC PARKING BAN AFTER SNOWFALL.
No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle upon any street in the City of Westbrook after a snowfall of two (2) inches or more, no upon any street which is covered or has deposited on it two (2) inches of snow or more, until snow removal comprising the full width of the public right-of-way (curb to curb) has been completed.
Any motor vehicle parked in violation of this section is deemed to be a nuisance that interferes with snow removal from public rights-of-way. Any Police Officer may remove any such vehicle by means of towing or other means in order to facilitate proper snow removal. (See Chapter 11, Section 3, Subdivision 10, Impounding and Removing Vehicles).
The owner of any vehicle for the purposes of this ordinance shall be the registered owner according to the records of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. The owner shall be presumed to have given consent to the parking of any vehicle, and shall be the individual responsible for the removal.
SECTION 11.07 RECREATIONAL CAMPING VEHICLE PARKING
Subdivision 1. Definitions. The term “recreational camping vehicle means any of the following:
1. “Travel Trailer” a vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis, designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational, and vacation uses, permanently identified “Travel Trailer” by the manufacturer of the trailer.
2. “Pick-up Coach” A structure designed to be mounted on a truck chassis for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation.
3. “Motor Home” a portable, temporary building to be used for travel, recreation and vacation, constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle.
4. “Camping Trailer” a folding structure, mounted on wheels and designed for travel, recreation and vacation uses.
Subdivision 2. Recreational Camping Vehicles Off-Street Parking.
1. Required off-street recreational camping vehicles parking space shall not be utilized for open storage, or for the storage of vehicles which are inoperable, for sale, or for rent.
2. Recreational Camping Vehicles off street parking shall be on crushed rock, rock, gravel, cement or blacktop;
3. The parking spot for the camping vehicle of crushed rock or gravel shall be neatly kept.
4. The vehicle must not be in a rusted, wrecked, partially dismantled or junked condition.
5. The recreational camping vehicle must have affixed to it a valid current motor vehicle license.
Subdivision 3. Recreational Camping Vehicles On-Street Parking.
1. Recreational vehicles may be parked on the roadway for not more than twenty- four (24) hours for the purposes of loading and unloading.
2. Recreational Camping Vehicles, which are tow able vehicles and parked on the street, must stay connected to the tow vehicle;
3. The Camping Vehicles must have affixed to it a valid current motor vehicle license;
4. The vehicle must not lack essential parts that would render it inoperable;
5. The vehicle must not be in a rusted, wrecked, partially dismantled or junked condition.
SECTION 11.08. ATV and UTV -“ALL-TERRAIN AND UTILITY VEHICLES”
Subdivision 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this Section, the terms defined shall have the meanings given them.
1. ATV “All-Terrain Vehicle”. Class 1 ATV (under 1,000 lbs) Class 2 ATV (1,000 lbs-1,800 lbs). This term also refers to trail bikes, mini bikes and amphibious vehicles.
2. UTV “Utility Vehicle” – Vehicle must be licensed for road use.
3. “Owner” – A person, other than a lien holder, having a property interest in, or title to, an ATV, who is entitled to the use or possession thereof.
4. “Operate” – To ride in or on and have control of an ATV.
5. “Operator” – The person who operates or is in actual physical control of an ATV.
Subdivision 2. ATV and UTV – “All-Terrain and Utility Vehicle Restrictions.
ATV (3 or 4 wheelers) that are not licensed for road use are only permitted for yard maintenance only and not to be used on city streets as a mode of transportation.
It is unlawful for any person to operate an ATV or UTV as follows:
1. Operate a motorized ATV or UV on streets, alleys, sidewalks or other public property without obtaining a permit as provided herein
2. The number of occupants shall not exceed the designed occupant load.
3. On a public sidewalk or walkway provided or used for pedestrian travel.
4. On private property of another without lawful authority or permission of the owner or occupant.
5. On any lands owned or occupied by a public body including school grounds, cemeteries, park property, playgrounds, recreational areas, private roads, platted but unimproved roads or utility easements.
6. While the operator is under the influence of liquor or narcotics, or habit-forming drugs.
7. At a rate of speed greater than reasonable or proper under all of the surrounding circumstances.
8. In a careless, reckless or negligent manner so as to endanger the person or property of another or cause injury or damage thereto.
9. Towing any person or thing on a public street or highway except through the use of a rigid tow bar attached to the rear of an automobile or recreational vehicle.
10. In a manner so as to create a loud, unnecessary or unusual noise, which disturbs, annoys or interferes with the peace and quiet of other persons.
11. Chasing, running over, or killing any animal, wild or domestic.
12. ATV and UTV operation may only be operated on City Street and alleys from sunrise to sunset unless the vehicle is equipped with operational headlights, taillights, brake lights and turn signals. They shall not be operated in inclement weather or when visibility is impaired by weather, smoke, fog or other condition, or at any time when there is insufficient light to clearly see persons and vehicles on the roadway at a distance of 500 feet.
13. We recommend driving on the extreme right side of roadway.
Subdivision. 3. Owner Responsibility.
1. It is unlawful for the owner of any ATV or UTV to permit its operation on private property without permission of the owner or occupant, on City property without the permission of the Council, or on other public property without permission of the body in charge thereof. For purposes of this Section, the owner shall be conclusively presumed to have given such permission unless the ATV or UTV operated shall have been reported stolen to a law enforcement agency.
2. Every person leaving an ATV or UTV in a public place shall lock the ignition, remove the key and take the same with him.
Subdivision 4 Permitting Requirements.
- Each driver will need to apply and pay a permit fee.
- All applicants must have a valid driver’s license
- The applicant must provide evidence of insurance in compliance with the provisions of MN Statutes concerning insurance coverage for all vehicles.
- Proof of current vehicle registration for licensed road use.
- Application for permits must be approved by City Council and the Chief of Police.
- Permits shall be issued for a period of one calendar year commencing on April 1st – March 31st of each year and may be annually renewed.
- Permit fee shall be charged and will need to be paid when an application for a permit is submitted to the City Clerk in the amount of $25.00.
- The Chief of Police may suspend or revoke a permit granted hereunder upon a finding the holder thereof has violated any of the provisions of this section or MN Statues Ch 169 or if there is evidence that the permit holder cannot safely operate the permitted vehicle on designated roadways.
Subdivision 5 – Right to Appeal.
If an application for a permit is denied by the City Clerk and/or Police Chief, the party applying for the permit shall have the right to appeal the denial to the City Council by filing a written request for a hearing before the City Council.
The hearing before City Council will be held in the Council Chambers at the closest council meeting that takes place after the denial. The decision the City Council makes by majority vote after the hearing has been held will be final and will be made immediately following
Subdivision 6 – Violation a misdemeanor or petty misdemeanor.
See Section 11.99
SECTION 11.09 MOTORIZED GOLF CARTS.
Subdivision 1. Definition
Motorized Golf Cart A small battery or gas powered three or four-wheeled vehicle primarily used for transporting one or two golfers and their equipment.
Subdivision 2. Requirements.
It is unlawful for any person to operate a motorized golf cart on the roadway of a street unless:
1. The operator has in possession a valid, current and unrevoked permit from the city;
2. The operation is on a roadway which has not been designated as prohibited for this type of operation, except crossing at an intersection;
3. The operation is from one-half hour after sunrise to on-half hour before sunset;
4. The operation is not during inclement weather, nor when visibility is impaired by weather, smoke, fog, or other conditions, nor when there is insufficient light to clearly see persons or vehicles thereon at a distance of 500 feet;
5. The motorized golf cart displays a slow moving vehicle emblem on the rear thereof;
6. The motorized golf cart is equipped with rear view mirrors;
7. The operator has insurance coverage as provided by statute
8. The operator observes all traffic laws, except those, which cannot reasonably be applied to motorized golf carts.
9. Only person at least 16 years of age are eligible for permits.
Subdivision 3. Special Vehicle Use by Handicapped Persons.
1. Operation Authorized. Operation of motorized golf carts or four-wheel all-terrain vehicles are hereby authorized on the roadways of all streets, except such as are prohibited by resolution of the Council, and only in strict compliance with this Section.
2. Permits. Permits shall be issued only to handicapped persons as defined by statute. Application for a permit to operate a motorized golf cart or a four-wheel all-terrain vehicle on the roadways of streets shall include the name and address of the applicant and such other information as may from time-to-time be required by the Council. Applications for initial or renewal permits shall be accompanied by a certificate signed by a physician stating that the applicant is capable of safely operating a motorized golf cart or a four-wheel all-terrain vehicle on the roadway of streets. All permits shall expire on December 31, unless renewed. The fee for a permit shall be fixed by resolution of the Council.
Subdivision 4. Revocation.
City Council may at any time suspend or revoke a permit granted upon a finding that the holder thereof has violated any provisions of this section or M.S. Chapter 169, as it may be amended from time to time, or if there is evidence that the permittee cannot safely operate the motorized golf cart on designated roadways.
SECTION 11.10 SNOWMOBILE OPERATING REGULATIONS.
Subdivision 1. Definitions.
1. Snowmobile. A self-propelled vehicle designed for travel on snow or ice steered by skis or runners.
2. “Owner” – A person, other than a lien holder, having a property interest in, or title to, a snowmobile, who is entitled to the use or possession thereof.
3. “Operate” – To ride in or on and have control of a snowmobile.
4. “Operator” – The person who operates or is in actual physical control of a snowmobile.
Subdivision 2. Use of Public Right of Way.
It is unlawful for any person to operate a snowmobile within the right of way of any street or highway, except as follows:
1. Operation in the ditch or on the outside bank within the right-of-way of any street or highway except interstate highways or freeways is permitted in conformance with State law and the City Code, unless the roadway directly abuts a public sidewalk or walkway or property used for private purposes;
2. Operation within the City shall be allowed along the shortest direct route to a gas station, to the city limits, or to the operator or owner’s residence, except that absolutely no snowmobiles shall be allowed on or along 3rd Avenue and 10th Street, except for direct crossings.
Subdivision 3. Crossing Public Streets.
A snowmobile may make a direct crossing of a street or highway except an interstate highway or freeway, provided:
1. The crossing is made at an angle of approximately 90 degrees to the direction of the street or highway and at a place where no obstruction prevents a quick and safe crossing.
2. The snowmobile is brought to a complete stop before crossing the shoulder or main traveled way of the highway.
3. The driver yields the right-of-way to all oncoming traffic, which constitutes an immediate hazard.
4. In crossing a divided street or highway, the crossing is made only at an intersection of such street or highway with another public street or highway.
5. If the crossing is made between the hours of one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise or in conditions of reduced visibility, only if both front and rear lights are on.
Subdivision 4. Uncontrol Intersections.
No snowmobile shall enter any uncontrolled intersection without making a complete stop. The operator shall then yield the right-of-way to any vehicles or pedestrians which constitute an immediate hazard.
Subdivision 5. Emergencies.
Notwithstanding any prohibition in this Section, a snowmobile may be operated on a public thoroughfare in an emergency during the period of time when, and at locations where, snow upon the roadway renders travel by automobile impractical. The Chief of Police shall have the authority to determine when the restrictions are suspended and when the restrictions are reactivated.
Subdivision 6. Age of Operator.
No person under fourteen (14) years of age shall operate on streets or highways or make a direct crossing of a street or highway as the operator of a snowmobile. A person fourteen (14) years of age or older, but less than eighteen (18) years of age, may operate a snowmobile on streets or highways as permitted under this Section and make a direct crossing thereof only if the operator has in immediate possession a valid snowmobile safety certificate issued by the Commissioner of Conservation as provided by Minnesota Statutes 1969, Section 84.86. It is unlawful for the owner of a snowmobile to permit the snowmobile to be operated contrary to the provisions of this Subparagraph.
Subdivision 7. Subject to Other Traffic Laws.
A snowmobile shall obey all other traffic laws and regulations, including but not limited to, speed laws, right-of-way, traffic control signs and signals and all other lawful traffic regulations. In addition, any operation of snowmobiles between the hours of one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise must be on the right-hand side of such street or highway and in the same direction as the highway traffic on the nearest lane of the roadway adjacent thereto.
Subdivision 8. Prohibited on Public Property.
It shall be unlawful for any snowmobile to be on any lands owned or occupied by a public body or on frozen waters, including, but not limited to, lakes, school grounds, cemeteries, park property, playgrounds, recreational areas, private roads, platted but unimproved roads, utility easements, public trails and golf courses. Provided, however, that the Council may, by resolution, specifically permit use on City property, in which event the shortest route to and from areas so permitted shall be used.
Subdivision. 9. Snowmobile Equipment.
It is unlawful for any person to operate a snowmobile unless it is equipped with the following:
1. Standard mufflers which are properly attached and in constant operation, and which reduce the noise of operation of the motor to the minimum necessary for operation. Mufflers shall comply with Regulation CONS. 55 which is hereby adopted by reference as it existed on September 1, 1970. No person shall use a muffler cutout, by-pass, straight pipe or similar device on a snowmobile motor, and the exhaust system shall not emit or produce a sharp popping or crackling sound.
2. Brakes adequate to control the movement of and to stop and hold the snowmobile under any conditions of the operation.
3. A safety or so-called “dead man” throttle in operating condition, so that when pressure is removed from the accelerator or throttle, the motor is disengaged from the driving track.
4. At least one clear lamp attached to the front, with sufficient intensity to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least 100 feet ahead during the hours of darkness under normal atmospheric conditions. Such head lamp shall be so aimed that glaring rays are not projected into the eyes of an oncoming vehicle operator. It shall also be equipped with at least one red tail lamp having a minimum candle power of sufficient intensity to exhibit a red light plainly visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear during the hours of darkness under normal atmospheric conditions. The equipment to be in operating condition when the vehicle is operated between the hours of one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise or at times of reduced visibility.
5. Reflective material at least sixteen inches on each side, forward of the handlebars, so as to reflect or beam light at a 90 degree angle.
SECTIONS 11.11 – 11.98 RESERVED.
SECTION 11.99. VIOLATION A MISDEMEANOR OR PETTY MISDEMEANOR.
Every person violates a section, subdivision, paragraph or provision of this Chapter when performing an act thereby prohibited or declared unlawful, or fails to act when such failure is thereby prohibited or declared unlawful, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as follows:
Where the specific section, subdivision, paragraph or provision specifically makes violation a misdemeanor, the violator shall be punished as for a misdemeanor; where a violation is committed in a manner or under circumstances so as to endanger or be likely to endanger any person or property, the violator shall be punished as for a misdemeanor; where the violator stands convicted of violation of any provision of this Chapter, exclusive of violations relating to the standing or parking of an unattended vehicle, within the immediate preceding 12-month period for the third or subsequent time, the violator shall be punished as for a misdemeanor.
As to any violations not constituting a misdemeanor under the provisions of Subdivision 1 hereof, the violator shall be punished as for a petty misdemeanor.
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International Bread Tasting
Every fall semester, the International Programs puts on an event named the “International Bread Tasting” where breads from around 15 countries are made and tasted by students and faculty from UW Platteville, as well as community members of Platteville. This semester was no different, with breads being tasted from 15 different countries, from Fiji to India to Brazil, and international students helping serve the bread and talk about their culture and home. Over 230 students, faculty, and community members came to this event.
This event is part of International Education Week, a week where the International Programs Office and Confucius Institute partner to provide a week of diverse events for the UW-Platteville community. This is what community member Lisa Loyd said about the event, "My first words in telling others about the International Bread Tasting event are: It was amazing and beyond my expectations. The diversity and deliciousness of the breads were attested to by the crowd turn-out; I would urge all my friends to get in line early next year! The atmosphere of going from table to table to sample and learn about breads from different countries was relaxing and enjoyable--just make sure you're hungry!" This large event is one of the largest events that the International Program puts on, with the second being International Night, which will be in the spring semester. If you have any questions about the bread tasting event or international week, please contact Jane Auge at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:ccea891f-e508-4798-93bc-27fddc248678> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uwplatt.edu/department/international-programs/international-bread-tasting | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966662 | 312 | 1.632813 | 2 |
I have been fascinated for some years with the idea of foraging and being able to eat free food from the countryside. Some of the obvious items such as blackberries we have eaten for years and almost don’t think of these as wild. In the last couple of years I have made Elderflower Cordial from the flowers and last Autumn Elderflower Jelly from the berries.
With more time at home at the moment during lockdown I have been trying out other recipes. The first was wild garlic pesto. I found a recipe on line and substituted wild garlic for basil, walnuts for pine nuts and strong cheddar for parmesan. It was delicious and I used some to flavour pasta and also spread on chunky homemade bread. The flowers of wild garlic can be eaten and these look good as a garnish to decorate salads etc.I posted my efforts on Facebook and was challenged to make a tart which included wild garlic, dandelion leaves and stinging nettles. The recipe suggested seem to use large quantities of all three so I decided to make a cheese and egg quiche and add as many leaves as I could gather. The original recipe was for Wild Garlic, Nettle and Dandelion Tart, which does have useful information on how to prepare the wild leaves. I then made my usual shortcrust pastry, lined a flan dish, added the prepared leaves, filled with grated cheese, 4 beaten eggs mixed with half a pint of milk, cooked at 180 C until well risen and golden about half an hour. It was delicious.I have always loved dandelions as a flower, they are such a lovely bright yellow colour, the leaves have a most interesting shape and seed heads are amazing. They are also very important in the Spring for bees and other pollinators but this year I have been even more aware of them in the fields and grass verges. I decided to have a go at making dandelion flower jelly. Altogether it took about 5 hours. One to gather the flowers, 2 to remove the petals, 2 to simmer the petals in water, so not an efficient use of time. I eventually ended up with one jar of jelly. I have since found several recipes for dandelion honey and this does seem quite popular so I may have another try. I am also going to try dying fabric with some dandelion petals.I have noticed that the elderflowers are in bud but not quite out yet so I made some cordial from hawthorn flowers. The recipe is here Hawthorn Blossom Cordial I really love this recipe and the flavour of the flowers, I would even go so far as to say I prefer it to the elderflower cordial.There are so many wild plants that can be eaten but also many that are very poisonous so I am very careful to stick to the plants I can be very sure of. | <urn:uuid:9da4558b-dfa6-4065-ba2e-9b91afdd2617> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.anneclarkhandmade.co.uk/tag/wild-foraging/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.982198 | 588 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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Tuesday 26th January 2021
Happy Tuesday year 1!
Complete the reading task below by letting children read the text independently and discuss the answers to the right of the story. Children should be encouraged to read the text again if they do not know the answers.
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This cross-sectional, non-interventional study of patients with schizophrenia at Manipal Teaching Hospital in Nepal had many findings of importance. Notably, 52.7% of participants had a poor or negative drug attitude as assessed by the DAI–10, predicting poor adherence (non-adherence) to medication. This is in keeping with the existing literature that states that approximately 50% of patients with schizophrenia show non-adherence in the course of treatment [16, 17]. Existing literature from similar Nepalese study populations have similar findings, one study from Poudel et al. found 37.3% of patients missed to take their medication and nearly two thirds of them sometimes missed their medication . A study from Chaudhari et al. in an Indian study population found 52% of patients to be non-adherers .
Adherence to medication is affected by many factors, in Nepalese study populations it is recognised that availability and affordability of healthcare, alongside culture and beliefs of the patients can greatly affect compliance to medication [9, 10]. This study found no significant variance in adherence between demographic groups, irrelevant of employment status, education or living arrangements. This contradicts existing literature that illiteracy and poor education are associated with poor medication adherence in schizophrenia [19, 20]. Furthermore, in a study from Ghimire et al.,, unaffordability was cited as contributing factor for 68% of non-compliant patients with schizophrenia .
This study found that 52.6% of participants had only a basic education, reflecting findings published in 2013, that only 60.3% of Nepalese people ages 15 and above can, with understanding, both read and write a short, simple sentences . It was found that 57.9% of participants were unemployed; previous studies on similar cohorts have found unemployment rates as high as 86.7% . A study from Liu et al. explores the hypothesis that illiterate people frequently experience social exclusion and this social adversity may increase risk of schizophrenia, it was found that illiterate participants were 2.08 times more likely to develop schizophrenia than the literate participants with no school education . This is in keeping with the social defeat hypothesis which suggests long-term exposure to social defeat leads to sensitisation of mesolimbic dopamine system, thus increasing the risk of schizophrenia . It is well recognised that rates of schizophrenia are higher amoungst the unemployed and uneducated [25, 26]. Alongside the social defeat hypothesis, it is important to consider how negative symptoms and stigma may affect the equal opportunity of employment and education for this patient population. The majority of Nepalese people continue to believe schizophrenia is caused by bad fortune, some believing it is the result of previous sins, evil spirits, witchcraft and black magic; this negative stigma attached to schizophrenia within Nepalese culture is recognised to leave this patient group feeling rejected from society and increase difficulty in gaining education and employment [27, 28, 29]. Furthermore, it is understood that cognitive dysfunction and negative symptoms associated with schizophrenia are significantly associated with unemployment .
Approximately 30–50% of patients with schizophrenia have lack of insight into their condition, however the nature of insight is poorly defined across psychiatric literature [31, 32]. Insight is multidimensional and is related to awareness of illness, awareness of symptoms and understanding of need for treatment . 36.8% of participants in this study population had poor insight, awareness of symptoms receiving the lowest score out of the three subscales closely followed by awareness of illness, with 84.2% of participants demonstrating poor awareness of symptoms and 78.9% demonstrating poor awareness of illness. It is understood that awareness of symptoms and illness is often greatly affected in schizophrenia as patients have a reduced capacity for self-reflectivity and self-awareness [33, 34].
Adherence is a significant problem in all patient populations in Nepal; a study from Bhandari et al. found adherence to antihypertensives at 56.5% . Unaffordability and difficulty travelling to the nearest hospital are commonly associated with non-adherence, this is equally true from the treatment of schizophrenia to tuberculosis . However, in comparison to other chronic illnesses, schizophrenia can reduce one’s ability to understand the importance of taking medication and the relationship between taking medication and reduced symptom burden. Insight is recognised to strongly correlate with adherence, with delusional patients often being the poorest adherers . This study substantiates this hypothesis, analysis found that insight positively correlated with adherence, also finding that awareness of need for treatment correlated with adherence. Although there is a clear association between insight and adherence, it would be an assumption to say that lack of insight is causative of non-adherence in these patients, as there are many other factors that could be contributing to the outcome of non-adherence [9, 10, 31].
Although this hypothesis has been demonstrated previously, there is a significant lack of research in the Nepalese patient population; a PubMed search of “schizophrenia Nepal” brings only 31 results. This study evidences that insight and adherence are correlated, despite significant familial, socio-cultural and environmental factors impacting on adherence in this study population. The study design was robust as the Birchwood Insight Scale (BIS) and Drug Attitude Inventory (DAI–10) are well recognised and validated scales for measuring insight and adherence, respectively [11, 12, 12, 14]. The questionnaire was translated excellently; the simplicity of the questionnaire ensured easy completion for the patients with 100% data collection.
Limitations to this study included small sample size (n = 19), which reduces the external validity of the study. The patient population examined in this study may not be representative of all patients with schizophrenia across the Nepal, as Manipal Teaching Hospital is a private hospital based in a major city, Pokhara. Lack of accessibility for the rural Nepalese people may have limited their presentation to this outpatient department, and it is these rural Nepalese people that have the highest illiteracy rates and poorest living conditions, factors known to be associated with adherence [19, 20, 38]. Upon reflection with a better understanding of the Nepalese population, the demographics section of the questionnaire should have measured illiteracy rates. Some literature suggests that up to 68% of patients with schizophrenia in Nepal consult a faith healer, further enquiries into the use of a faith healer would have enabled a deeper understanding of how this variable affected adherence . Questions could have been added to the questionnaire on complexity of drug regime, side effects, duration of illness and drug and alcohol misuse, as these factors are all recognised to affect adherence [40, 41, 42]. | <urn:uuid:6552f242-9f39-49ef-a703-8a81c50352c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5206/v1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956416 | 1,371 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Small, black, sugar ants can appear anywhere in your home! The clusters of these tiny black creatures not only look gross, but it’s hard to get them all killed. Now, as the name suggests, these ants are sugar scavengers. They roam around your house in search of sugar.
If it is the US black sugar-hunter ant species, then they will produce a unique and coconut-like smell when they are killed. Piss ants are the dirtiest. The urine-like smell they produce is super gross.
I know how difficult it is for homeowners to find the group of these black ants and kill them. So, here I have discussed a few effective tricks that work wonders.
Some of them are natural remedies that include ingredients we all have in our kitchen, while others may require pest control and other advanced tools. Before I get to that, let’s understand the piss ants and how they find their way into your home.
Tiny Black Ants – What Are They and How They Enter Your Home?
You were cleaning the kitchen and missed some sweet syrup on the kitchen countertop. The next thing you know – a cluster of small ants have gathered around the syrup, waiting for their turns to take a dip in the sweet pool. You can say these ants have a sweet spot for sugar and sweet products. It could happen to anyone.
No matter how carefully you clean your rooms, kitchen, and gardens, it does not take time for these sugar-scavengers to smell sugar. The worst part is they never come alone.
One ant smells the food, finds the crevices and other entry points to your house, and leave the scent trail for their nest mates. Now, following these scent trails, the others enter your home and gather around the food.
Now, there are many ant species that are attracted to sweets. In fact, there are over 12,000 species of ants and the only thing they have in common is their attraction to sweets. Even the traces of the food on your plates or countertops are enough to lure the group of ants.
The piss ants may not bite or harm you in any way. However, they have shown to contaminate the food and the places they roam. So, how do you kill them and what can be done to ensure they never get in your house?
For starters, grab a vacuum and clean every nook and cranny of your house thoroughly. Mop the floors and remove any traces of sweets. Cleaning is required especially when you have had a dessert or any sweet snack. If they have already infested your home, here’s what you can do.
Herbs and Essential Oils for Sugar Ants
It is believed that bay leaves deter ants and other pests. Place it inside your cupboards and at the entrance of your home to keep the ants, moths, flies, and other unwanted pests away. Pests cannot stand the strong and bitter odor of herbs.
You could use other bitter-smelling plants as well. The best part is the leaves do not necessarily need to be fresh. Even the dried leaves will work wonders in keeping ants out of your home.
Most of us don’t have bay leaves, and when the ants have already infested our homes, the last thing on our mind is to go shopping for herbs and ant-killers. You can use the whole clove as an alternative to bay leaves.
Even if you don’t have any herbs handy, there are quite a few easy options. I use pepper, lavender oils, coffee grounds, cucumber peels, lemons, oranges, and other home ingredients for repelling ants. And they work surprisingly well.
The ingredients I have mentioned have an incredibly strong odor that no ant could stand. So, there is no way the ants will be lured into a house where the entrances and other areas are protected with coffee beans and pepper. The moist cucumber peels are also a great natural ant-repelling ingredient.
Soap and Detergent
You could also use a mild detergent or insect-killing soap, mixed with the water, to deter ants. It will help keep your place clean and ant-free. However, soap isn’t an effective option when it comes to killing the piss ants colonies.
They must be small, but they are not weak, and their gross smell is not something you can tolerate. If you want a quick solution that works on nearly all types of sugar ants, then vinegar is your best bet.
Try Vinegar Solution
Vinegar is your ultimate cleaning detergent and ant-deterrent. Take a spray bottle and fill it with one part water and one part apple cider vinegar. Not only does this solution kill the trail of ants, but it helps you get rid of the ants without having to bear the awful odor.
As I mentioned earlier, ants need a trail to find an entry to your home. Despite being so small, they are very good at finding the entrance and moving along the trails to reach their food. So, the best way to block all their entry points is by spraying the vinegar and water solutions.
Spray it near the crevices, along baseboards, at entrances, and other possible entry points.
If they have found their way to your kitchen or bedroom, spray this vinegar solution over them. It is only a matter of seconds before they get killed. Gather the dead ants in the paper towel and throw them in the trash.
Ants are super active and strong in the morning and evening. So, try to use this home remedy during these times for the best results. Once the ants are killed, wipe the surface thoroughly with the same spray to clean the area and eliminate the odor.
Chemical Solutions for Sugar Ants
The basic home remedies work well. So, there is a good chance you will not have to use any chemical formula to kill sugar ants. However, if nothing works, your last resort is chemical cleaning detergents and ant-repelling sprays.
Now, if you are working with chemical solutions, make sure you keep them away from kids and pets.
Use the Ant Bait
Baits contain Borax or Boric acid that can kill different species of ants and other pests slowly. It takes 24-48 hours for the poison to show results.
I highly recommend this option as it happens to be the most effective way to get the ants killed once and for all. And, you don’t have to worry about the ants suspecting anything.
They must be clever, but when it comes to sugar, they simply can’t resist it. You can find the sweet ant baits at your local grocery shop. Make sure your kids and pets do not touch the bait, as boric acid is harmful to humans.
As I mentioned before, sugar ants build a trail that gives other ants a way to enter your home and get to the food. Alternatively, the ants can bring food to the ant colonies. You must have seen these little creatures carrying food. Well, they take it to their shelters.
Once the ant colonies eat the poisonous sweet bait, they will fall sick and eventually die. You must note that this trick works slowly. It may take the chemical a day or two to kill them.
Break Down Their Pheromones
The scents that ants leave for the other ants to follow are called pheromones. To break the pheromones, you need to sanitize your kitchen countertops and dining areas with a chemical formula.
So, even if you spill the maple syrup on the floor, there is no way ants will be lured to your house. However, you need to wipe the dining table and kitchen with an all-purpose cleaner every night for this trick to work.
It’s hard to kill the ant nests once they have infested your house. It isn’t only about killing them, but you have to find the crevices or areas they entered from and seal those spots. Ants feed on nothing but sweet products.
So, the best precaution, and the one I prefer, would be cleanliness. Of course, you vacuum and mop your floors daily, but that isn’t enough.
Every time you have a beverage, soft drinks, and sweet products, wipe the area with an all-purpose cleaner instantly. Even tiny particles of food that are not visible to your naked eye will lure the ant colonies to your home.
There is little to no chance that the above-mentioned techniques won’t work. In most cases, vinegar alone does wonder. A few drops of vinegar mixed with equal part water will deter and kill ants. Still, you can call a pest control team and get your home inspected for sugar ant infestation.
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Wales, part of the British Isles famed for its rugged coastline, mountains, National Parks, and a fair amount of built heritage as well. There are over 600 castles dotted across Wales, and although some may be in varying states of disrepair or ruin, they all attract the interest of visitors.
The Welsh Government has its own dedicated ‘Historic Environment Service’ called Cadw, named after the Welsh word for ‘to keep, or protect’. This arm of the government exists as an active body working towards the conservation and preservation of Welsh built heritage. They also aim to educate local people and visitors about Welsh history and architecture, and of course help maintain the character of Wales through its built heritage. Among Cadw’s functions is the responsibility for providing conservation grants for historic buildings and historic monuments, and they also fund community heritage projects and provide advice to planning authorities to help maintain good conservation practice. Cadw also manages over a hundred properties throughout Wales, which includes a large number of castles. There are the remains of Old Beaupre Castle in the South, which dates from the medieval period, Llawhaden Castle, East of Haverford West, which was the home of the Bishops of St Davids, and Newport Castle on the banks of the River Usk, built in the early 14th century.
Wherever you go in Wales you’ll see castles representing different building periods and styles of architecture. The castles could be fortified, and built in key strategic positions in times of battle, or they could be the remains of once elegant manor houses. You may find properties dating from the Medieval, Tudor, or Norman periods, some of which may have been built on the sites of former Iron-Age or Roman Forts. If castles are on your list of must-see attractions while you’re in Wales, but you’re having trouble choosing which to visit, then Visit Wales have a few suggestions: Cardiff Castle, built in 1106 is top of the list, with Caerphilly Castle not far behind. Caerphilly medieval fortress and grounds is great for families, and as an exciting annual events programme. You can also find out about the ghostly goings-on at the haunted Bodelwyddan Castle in Denbighshire, and explore the indulgent Castell Coch near Cardiff, once owned by the extremely rich 3rd Marquess of Bute. Walkers haven’t been forgotten either, and can choose from a hike up to Carreg Cennen Castle in Carmarthenshire, or a more sedate walk around the mature gardens at Powis Castle. Each castle has its own story to tell of mystery, intrigue, hauntings, building styles, and the lives of some very interesting characters that lived in or visited each place.
The castles will be a mix of free admission or priced entry, and you can find out more about them, the events on offer, and accommodation available nearby, from local tourist information offices or the Visit Wales website. The website named visiting castles as one of their top suggestions for things to do in Wales, and when you consider the sheer number and variety of them, it’s easy to see why. | <urn:uuid:db80bf9c-12c2-4941-bd42-1bc08447c340> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.touristwales.co.uk/attractions/welsh-castles/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955427 | 659 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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- Now all we have to do a sort out all the junk mail and usual bumph that litters the hall on these occasions.
- Total sales, according to his publicity bumph, top 43 million across 150 countries.
- I groaned even more when I read the publicity bumf before the screening.
- Strangely although there were others in the band apart from singer/songwriter Bill Nelson they go unacknowledged in the sleevenotes and promotional bumph!
- However, it seems likely MDPP will do more than simply supply procedural bumf to the tobacco industry.
- BT has got a telling off from the Plain English Campaign for using ‘absolutely incomprehensible’ language in its bumf offering 36 ways to pay one bill.
- There's a lot of administrative bumph to get through in terms of university admission and visa stuff.
- This should have secured price cuts averaging 11 per cent for the UK public sector, according to last year's bumf, but we have no idea if this panned out in practice.
- In the press bumf it says these guys have a two record deal; let us hope that the label gets some outside talent in to help or dumps this lot.
- The press bumf says this lot are going to tour this record; I, for one, can't wait.
- Goodness knows what Gamblers Anonymous make of it all, because one thing is certain: despite the glossy bumph and tales of riches, there are always going to be a lot more losers, than winners.
- Try as they might, there is one word that Labour MPs can't bring themselves to mention on election bumph now thudding on to doormats.
- So there you go - three new sets of visualisations and a stunning revelation that they should put on the marketing bumph.
- Anyway I got a pile of bumph basically suggesting that I lock the cats in at night and put Olbas Oil on the cat flap.
- To cut down on costs they ship the disc in a custom case with no artwork or the usual bumph.
- I think if I had a catchy e-mail address and glitzy website, I would be flooded with ‘spam’, surveys, bumf about conferences, and students wanting me to do their essays for them.
- Reading on through the promotional bumf you find that the iPod is versatile: you can listen ‘in the car.’
- According to some bumf I have from the Canadian High Commission, it is standard practice, at all Canadian state banquets, to sprinkle every course with saskatoons.
- Apparently (and I paraphrase the bumf from Will's mate Matt) they were for a long time ‘the traditional broad bean-type thingy’ of the area round Bath (Martock being a place near Bath).
- This and much other fascinating and useful information comes out of this volume often and well, and with little fanfare or bumf, which is nice when reading.
- Having adopted the drape-against-wall style for my bumf-hanging activities, I find that it allows one to tear the paper off one-handedly and very neatly.
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Opening of the exhibition “Fixed In Place Of The Sun” by ASEF Junior Fellow Ren Gregorčič
On Friday, July 15, the exhibition “Put in the place of the sun” by ASEF Junior Fellow from Australia Ren Gregorčič was opened. It is located at the exhibition space Vetrinjski in Maribor and it is Ren’s first exhibition in Slovenia. Before the opening and guided tour of the artworks, Ren sat down for a conversation with Maja Pan, a philosopher and cultural critic.
For an introduction, we learned more about Ren, his academic and artistic path, and his plans for the future. During the further conversation, Ren and Maja discussed Ren’s interest in concrete, general curiosity about what things are made of, and the conceptual background of the exhibition and Ren’s other works. The artist is mainly interested in the effect that concrete causes and not the design of concrete structures themselves. Ren commented that there is no system that is completely irresistible to change and that there is nothing that couldn’t be altered. They also addressed the environmental and political issues of water, concrete, capitalism, and climate change.
Ren presented photogrammetry, a technique he uses for his artwork. It provides a multisensory experience of objects to individuals. They also talked about the meaning behind the title of the and what the sun represents to the artist. Ren emphasized that the sun is an important concept for him, which, together with the moon, represents the ultimate concept of change. Maja also brought up his relationship with his Slovenian heritage, which Ren connected to the concrete dragons on the Dragon Bridge in Ljubljana. The dragons are a strong symbol of Slovenia, especially for those abroad.
After the comprehensive conversation, the event moved to the exhibition space for the official opening and a guided tour of the works. Ren is presenting three pieces at the exhibition. Two were created in Slovenia, and the third one was created in Canberra, Australia. The artworks are placed in the exhibition space in a way that highlights the architectural elements and involves them in the story.
The work, which was made in Australia, is the author’s response to Haig Park in Canberra. The park is a man-made line of trees that are not native to Australia and serve as a shelterbelt. The focus point of the exhibition are the structures of concrete dragon statues from the Dragon Bridge in Ljubljana. The author placed them in the exhibition space with the help of photogrammetry, reconstruction, video, and sound. The dragons were intentionally placed in the arches of the space so the architecture plays a part in the exhibition.
The opening of the exhibition ended with Ren thanking everyone who helped make it happen saying that art never happens solo.
The exhibition is available for viewing until August 19th every weekday between 1 pm and 6 pm at the exhibition space Vetrinjski in Maribor.
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While mental illness can affect people of any race, ethnicity, or background, racial minorities often face unique struggles. To understand those struggles better, Minority Mental Health Awareness Month began in 2008 and has taken place every July since.
This year’s theme “Beyond the Numbers” calls attention to the history of minorities and how their resilience was born from oppression, persecution, and abuse.
According to the 2022 County Health Rankings, Cambria County has 460 people to one mental health provider while Somerset County has 900 people to one mental health provider.
Due to a lack of access to mental health services and the stigma that often surrounds seeking mental health help, “roughly two-thirds of people with a diagnosable mental illness do not seek treatment,” according to the Office of Minority Health within the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. For minorities, they are even less likely to get help for mental illness.
According to National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI), the annual prevalence of mental illness among adult minorities in the United States in 2020 was:
- 17.3% of Black adults
- 18.4% of Hispanic or Latino adults
- 35.8% of Mixed/Multiracial adults
- 13.9% of Asian adults
Of those adults in the U.S who had a mental illness, NAMI shows that less than 50% of minorities received treatment annually:
- 37.1% of Black adults
- 35.1% of Hispanic or Latino adults
- 43.0% of Mixed/Multiracial adults
- 20.8% of Asian adults
In comparison, NAMI showed that White Americans saw an annual prevalence of mental illness in 2020 of 22.6 %, though a higher number than minority groups, more than 51.8% received treatment.
One of the biggest barriers to mental health treatment for Black Americans is access to care and treatment. Mental Health America reports that while the Affordable Care Act helped close the insurance gap, 11.5 percent of Black Americans still went uninsured in 2018 versus 7.5 percent of White Americans.
In order to treat mental illness more successfully in minorities, there needs to be a better understanding of the barriers faced. Other than access, barriers also include stigma, education on mental illness, apprehensiveness in obtaining help, and many more.
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The concept of duality is inherent in everything about the Eurostar, the train that connects France and the UK via a magic undersea tunnel. Eurostar is equally French and British. For everything French, there is a British counterpart. This goes for the languages used on board, the magazines in the train vestibules and even the food served. This duality is ingrained and obvious to the user from the outset. So, when it came to finding a power outlet, this philosophy allowed me to solve my mini dilemma with ease, saving a few euro/pounds for Eurostar along the way.
On my side of the table there was a three-pin UK power socket. I pondered, where do I insert my two-pin European plug? Applying the philosophy of duality and imagining the table as the sea dividing Britain and France, I surmised that the two-pin socket must surely be in the other side of the table. Et voilà! Correct. Admittedly a simple example, but it shows how a clear design philosophy can make it easier for users to apply and solve their little conundrums. This allowed the Eurostar to save money by not having to provide additional facilities. Although convenience would have dictated otherwise that more sockets be provided. Does your organization have a clear design philosophy?
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Art students in Germany converted an electrical tower outside of Hattigen into an impromptu art installation with vibrant panels of stained glass. Lechtturm (which means Lighthouse in German) glitters from afar, casting an array of colors on the lush green landscape. The project, created by students Ail Hwang, Hae-Ryan Jeong and Ching-Ki Park, turned an otherwise ugly structure into something both beautiful and utilitarian.
Traditional electrical towers are a familiar site around the world, dotting our landscapes in never-ending rows and connected by lines that bring power to our cities and towns. The metal structures are overlooked or ignored, blending in with the background as seen from a passing car. This tower is located on a particularly idyllic plot of land, perched in a meadow clearing outside of a forest and on the edge of a small body of water. A bike path snakes by the tower, hugging the water, and making for a picturesque scene.
Related: Tom Fruin’s Multi-Colored Plexiglass Watertower Glitters on a DUMBO Rooftop
Outfitted with triangles of vibrant color, the ordinary tower now commands new attention from passerby. Like Tom Fruin’s gorgeous stained glass water tower, its colored panes made from carefully cut Acryglas shine in the sunlight, mimicking the stained glass of a cathedral. Visible from a distance, the installation beckons cyclists to head to the clearing where it stands, where they can relax by the water’s edge and take it in.
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Weiler H, Brooks SPJ, Sarafin K, Fisher M, Massarelli I, Luong TM, Johnson M, Morisset AS, Dodds L, Taback S, Helewa M, Von Dadelszen P, Smith G, Lanphear BP, Fraser WD, Arbuckle TE. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2021 Jun 3:nqab172. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqab172
Reports on the adequacy of vitamin D status of pregnant women are not available in Canada.
The objectives of this study were to examine vitamin D status across pregnancy and identify the correlates of vitamin D status of pregnant women in Canada.
Pregnant women (≥18 years) from 6 provinces (2008–2011) participating in a longitudinal cohort were studied. Sociodemographic data, obstetrical histories, and dietary and supplemental vitamin D intakes were surveyed. Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) was measured using an immunoassay standardized to LC-MS/MS from samples collected during the first (n = 1905) and third trimesters (n = 1649) and at delivery (n = 1543). The proportion of women with ≥40 nmol/L of plasma 25OHD (adequate status) was estimated at each time point, and factors related to achieving this cut point were identified using repeated-measures logistic regression. Differences in 25OHD concentrations across trimesters and at delivery were tested a using repeated-measures ANOVA with a post hoc Tukey’s test.
In the first trimester, 93.4% (95% CI: 92.3%–94.5%) of participants had 25OHD ≥40 nmol/L. The mean plasma 25OHD concentration increased from the first to the third trimester and then declined by delivery (69.8 ± 0.5 nmol/L, 78.6 ± 0.7 nmol/L, and 75.7 ± 0.7 nmol/L, respectively; P < 0.0001). A lack of multivitamin use early in pregnancy reduced the odds of achieving 25OHD ≥40 nmol/L (ORadj = 0.33; 95% CI: 0.25–0.42) across all time points. Factors associated with not using a prenatal multivitamin included multiparity (ORadj = 2.08; 95% CI: 1.42–3.02) and a below-median income (ORadj = 1.39; 95% CI: 1.02–1.89).
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Installing software and configuring a joystick or gamepad
- Connect the joystick or controller to a USB port on the computer that is currently available. The CD that came with the controller or gamepad should be inserted into the computer’s CD or DVD drive. Follow the wizard’s instructions to set up your joystick or gamepad, as well as any connected software.
What is the greatest gaming controller for a personal computer (PC)?
- For the vast majority of users, the Sony DualShock 4 Wireless Controller (the newer CUH-ZCT2 model) is the greatest PC gaming controller available. For extended periods of time, it’s comfortable to use in one hand, it’s responsive, it works with both Bluetooth and Micro-USB, and it’s compatible with Steam, which is where the majority of PC players obtain their games.
- 1 Can I play all PC games with joystick?
- 2 Can you play with a controller on a computer?
- 3 Why my joystick is not working on PC?
- 4 Is PC gaming better with a controller?
- 5 Is PUBG a PC?
- 6 Is it better to play PC games with controller?
- 7 Which joystick is better for PC?
- 8 How do I get my computer to recognize my joystick?
- 9 How do I get my joystick to work on Windows 10?
- 10 How do I activate a joystick in Windows 10?
Can I play all PC games with joystick?
Yes, you may play PC games with a controller if the games are compatible with the controller.
Can you play with a controller on a computer?
Using an Xbox Wireless Controller instead of a keyboard and mouse is an option in many PC games. Bluetooth, a USB cable, or the Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows are all acceptable methods of connecting your controller to a Windows PC.
Why my joystick is not working on PC?
From the manufacturer’s website, you may get the most up-to-date driver for your joystick. Right-click the setup file and select Properties from the context menu. Select Run this application in compatibility mode for from the Compatibility drop-down menu now by selecting the Compatibility tab. After you have installed the necessary drivers, restart your computer to see whether the problem has been resolved.
Is PC gaming better with a controller?
Visit the manufacturer’s website to obtain the most recent driver for your joystick. Select Properties from the context menu of the configuration file. Now, choose Run this software in compatibility mode for from the Compatibility drop-down menu. As soon as you have completed the installation of the necessary drivers, restart your computer to see whether the problem has been resolved.
Is PUBG a PC?
PUBG’s free-to-play version is available on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC through Steam, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The game is also available on the Nintendo Switch. PUBG was released in early access in 2017 (though it was known as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds until this summer), and it swiftly acquired popularity, rocketing to the top of the Steam top games chart in a matter of months.
Is it better to play PC games with controller?
Racing, sports, combat, and action games, to name a few genres, are particularly well suited to controllers. A steering wheel or at the very least a gamepad is highly recommended for racing games, since even a simple analog stick may provide incremental control over speed or turn angle in a racing game setting.
Which joystick is better for PC?
Games that are designed for controllers are often classified as racing, sports, combat, and action games. A steering wheel or at the very least a gamepad is highly recommended for racing games, since even a simple analog stick may provide incremental control over speed or turn angle in a racing game environment.
How do I get my computer to recognize my joystick?
What should I do if my gamepad isn’t being detected by my computer?
- Download and install the most recent gamepad driver. The Hardware and Devices troubleshooter should be run first. Unplug any other gadgets you may be using. Prevent the computer from shutting off any connected devices automatically.
- Disable the gamepad on your computer. Change the power plan settings on your computer. Install generic USB hub drivers on your computer.
How do I get my joystick to work on Windows 10?
The generic USB joystick does not function properly in Windows 10.
- Troubleshooting may be found by typing it into the search field. Then, select Troubleshooting. Then, on the upper left corner, select View all. Then, select Hardware and Devices. The troubleshooter should be launched by following the directions on the screen. Check to see if the problem continues.
How do I activate a joystick in Windows 10?
To bring up the Run command, hit the Windows key and R at the same time, then type joy.cpl and press Enter. The Game Controllers window will be launched instantly as a result of this. Click on the Cortana Search box in the taskbar, type “game controller,” and then select the “Set up USB game controller” option from the search result that appears in the search results. | <urn:uuid:296a31be-4b9e-488a-9cbc-25d1bf647ddf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shareitforpcis.com/faq/how-to-play-with-joystick-on-pc-solved.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.90781 | 1,104 | 2.03125 | 2 |
THATCamp at #aarsbl15: Conference, Technology, and Teaching
The day before the American Academy of Religion’s annual meeting, I went to THATCamp. THAT stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp,” and it’s an unconference, which is nothing like an unhappy birthday except that there was tea. Participants create the content and facilitate the conversations at THATCamp. The event itself was ably organized by Eric Smith, John Crow, and Michael Hemenway. (I hear they’re taking volunteers for 2016 co-coordinators.)
When you navigate to the THATCamp website, you’ll see a tab for proposals. Before we met, participants posted suggested sessions, and early Friday morning, there was one last call for ideas. Then each of us voted for the sessions we wanted to see happen with stickers. Yes, there was tea and stickers. Better yet, the room was full of smart tech-savvy people doing innovative work in the classroom and in their own research.
The sessions ran all day, and I attended a few: Classroom Management Systems beyond Blackboard, Creative Use of Technology in the Classroom, Evaluating Digital Scholarship for Professional Review, and Digital Textbooks for Intro Courses. Rather than summarize the entire experience, I’ll focus on one workshop that relates to the teaching I’ve been writing about here. (You can read about more of the sessions by checking out THATCampAAR/SBL on Twitter.)
First, there’s a lot to managing new technology in the classroom. Not quite a revelation, I realize. Listening to David McConeghy talk about using Slack this semester and Trello in the spring, I realized (again) that instructors can spend an enormous amount of time finding the right app for the job. In his session, McConeghy talked about adapting tools made for workplace communication (Slack) and task management (Trello) as classroom management systems (CMS). Most colleges and universities promote an institution-subscribed CMS, like Blackboard, CANVAS, or Sakai. My impression was that people in the room valued institution-subscribed CMS because they make it easy to communicate safely with students about protected information, like grades. (So can uni email accounts.) Many people preferred other platforms for specific tasks.
On its homepage, Slack urges users to “be less busy!” Sounds good, but is it true? Based on what McConeghy said, Slack sounds like a great way to track small and large group conversations. Students can post in a shared classroom environment, they can create small group chats, and they can join topic-specific conversations. The instructor can see it all. McConeghy asked his students to “call out” group members when they missed class, a sly way to take roll. He could also see students’ progress on research and their collegial self-corrections. One student posted a broken link, and others let her know: “Oops! Here’s the right link,” she replied. (One drawback McConeghy noted is that there’s no way to see a single student’s contributions extracted from the conversations in which she participates.)
Thinking back about my course, I could imagine Slack’s utility. It would have helped me see how the podcast groups were working together (or not), and it might have motivated students who have been less active to be more active. If, for instance, they knew I could see not just which roles they had accepted (researcher, writer, techie, etc.) but also how (well) they had executed them, perhaps some students would have worked more or worked differently. When a group came up against a deadline without enough sources, maybe I could have stepped in and suggested some alternatives.
On the other hand, how much is too much? How much do I want to know? How much do I want to evaluate? Lots of questions come to mind, but in this case, I think the important one is whether Slack, for example, would have made my course better? Would it have helped my students reach a learning objective that was out of reach otherwise? I don’t think so, but I’m glad I know it is out there. Maybe it will be just what I need in my next course. | <urn:uuid:75c338f7-ecb2-4d37-a8c3-73b37c9d7d89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/2015/12/thatcamp-at-aarsbl15-conference-technology-and-teaching/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.967215 | 914 | 1.65625 | 2 |
In order to form a good habit of work and rest, you can set the time of networking and disconnection for the router at home, and then the network will be disconnected naturally. So how to set it up? Next, take TP-Link router as an example to introduce the following specific setup steps, hoping to help you all.Many friends have very poor self-control ability. They often surf the Internet all night, which affects their work the next day. In fact, the router at home can set the time for them to surf the Internet and disconnect the internet, so as to limit the Internet access and form a good habit of working and sleeping. Let's take the TP-Link router as an example.
- We first connect the router's network with a computer, and then search the login interface of the TP router on the web page.
- We need the login administrator password, which was set when the original password, if you forget to follow the instructions below, the router can be restored to factory.
- After entering the router page, the left side is the network status, drop down the progress bar on the right, see the following is an orange device management, click Open
- Select the network you want to set, click Management, and then add the allowable time period at the bottom of the time setting.
- Then we enter the settings of the time period, we can name the name of the time period, and then select the start and end time. Another is to choose the day of the week.
- After you have selected all of them, press OK, then you will see that there will be a limited network time period under the network you set up. The router automatically opens and closes at this time. | <urn:uuid:af92ae01-f263-4bc8-955c-27e1a4f83818> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://192-168-1-1.co/how-to-set-up-router-connection-and-disconnection-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.927237 | 358 | 2.421875 | 2 |
List Vs. Tuple: Understand the Difference Between List and Tuple in Python
Both of these are basically the classes of a data structure, but there is a significant difference between list and tuple in Python. Here, the list is very dynamic, but a tuple consists of static characteristics. Let us know a bit more about both of these.
What is a List?
It is like an array that we declare in another language. A list doesn’t need to be always homogeneous- making it one of the most powerful tools used in Python. It exists as a type of container in the data structures in Python. We use it for storing multiple data and information at the very same time. The lists are very useful tools that help in preserving a data and information sequence and iterating further over it.
What is a Tuple?
It is also a sequence data type capable of containing elements of multiple data types, and they are immutable. In simpler words, a tuple refers to a collection of various Python objects that stay separated by commas. A tuple is comparatively much faster than a list because it is static in nature.
Difference Between List and Tuple in Python
Here is a list of the differences between List and Tuple in Python.
|Type||A list is mutable in nature.||A tuple is immutable in nature.|
|Consumption of Memory||It is capable of consuming more memory.||It is capable of consuming less memory.|
|Time Consumption||The list iteration is more time-consuming. It is comparatively much slower than a tuple.||The tuple iteration is less time-consuming. It is comparatively much faster than a list.|
|Methods||It comes with multiple in-built methods.||These have comparatively lesser built-in methods in them.|
|Appropriate Usage||It is very helpful in the case of deletion and insertion operations.||It is comparatively helpful in the case of read-only operations, such as accessing elements.|
|Prone to Error||The list operations are comparatively much more error-prone. Some unexpected changes and alterations may take place.||Any such thing is hard to take place in a tuple. The tuple operations are very safe and not very error-prone.| | <urn:uuid:e260fc1e-6de8-48ad-85eb-3bf1f09de9d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://byjus.com/gate/difference-between-list-and-tuple-in-python/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.92229 | 478 | 3.3125 | 3 |
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The Power of Caring: Helping the flood victims in Germany
This blog is a part of ‘The Power of Caring’, a series dedicated to sharing some of our team’s most inspiring stories of how they leveraged SUSE’s Employee giving program, ‘SUSEcares’, to make a positive impact around the world.
Our first blog features Monika Bach, Executive Assistant in the Engineering Operations team and Women in Tech Ambassador. Based in Nuremberg, Monika shares her experience in leading a company-wide event to support Aktion Deutschland Hilft (ADH).
How did you learn about this organization?
Women in Tech Germany wanted to raise money to support the victims of the floods in Germany, which took place earlier in the year. While there were many organizations who were already helping individuals in the impacted regions, we decided to ask our employees to help us narrow it down to one organization we could contribute to.
Who is the organization and what do they stand for/who do they aim to help?
ADH is an alliance that consists of 23 aid organizations (like ASB, WorldVision, Paritätische, etc) and is supported by the government. They were founded in 2001, with a mission to provide fast and effective help in severe catastrophes. In this case they helped the victims of the flood in Germany.
Why did you support this cause?
The floods this year in Germany caused unprecedented levels of damage to the people and property in this area, taking 135 lives and leaving several thousand without a home . Many people lost their livelihoods and everything they ever owned. We wanted to help them with their immediate needs.
What were some of the activities you organized to help raise funds for this organization?
My dear colleague, Meike Chabowski, inspired me with her SUSE Volunteering day activity: a Garage sale where she sold SUSE Branded items to raise money for this same charity. Together with the Woman in Tech Germany team, we organized a company-wide virtual Bingo Game session. Despite it taking place during the summer holidays, we received 35 donations and sold over 80 tickets.
We were absolutely delighted when SUSEcares stepped in to support our cause as a company event aligned to its Climate Action focus, thus tripling the amount we could raise for the people in need.
How will this benefit the recipients?
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We’re not at war, I promise! Bookkeepers and accountants are not competing for the same work, their roles a very complementary to each other and both have an important role in your business.
An accountant prepares your tax return at the end of the financial year. They view your business on a more holistic level, using their expertise to find the ways to manage your tax and save you money.
A bookkeeper handles the financial side of your business year round, from the day to day, to getting figures prepared and ready for the accountant at the end of financial year.
There are a few areas where accountants and bookkeepers can overlap. A bookkeeper who is a Registered BAS Agent is qualified to lodge your BAS’s and IAS’s (see previous blog ‘Is your bookkeeper qualified?’). Your accountant is a Registered Tax Agent and they are qualified to lodge your BAS’s and IAS’s as well as your tax return. In terms of Payroll, preparation of your employee PAYG Summaries can be prepared by your accountant or bookkeeper.
A bookkeeper and accountant work together to fulfill the financial obligations of your business. You cannot replace an accountant with a bookkeeper and if your accountant is doing your bookkeeping I’m sure they are doing a great job, but that you are paying a hefty sum for it!
I speak to a lot of business owners and a lot of accountants. The primary complaint many business owners’ have about their accountant is often fees. They do a great job, but why does it cost so much? Accountants charge by the hour and because they are specially trained, their hourly rate is often high. If your accounting invoice is higher than expected it is often because your accountant has had to spend a lot of time ‘bookkeeping’ that is, checking and changing your figures. The accountants I have spoken to actually don’t like giving you a giant invoice, but if they had to do the work, they have to charge for their time. So what’s the solution? Bookkeepers. We’re qualified and cheaper than your accountant. Plus bookkeepers who are Registered BAS Agents can lodge your BAS’s and IAS’s too saving you even more money! And the less time your accountant has to spend bookkeeping the more time they can spend doing what they do best, saving you tax!
Don’t worry, your accountant wont be offended if you get a bookkeeper, on the contrary. Having a fastidious bookkeeper means that your accountant can rely on the accuracy of the figures we present to them. We can do things like account for assets and reconcile balance sheet accounts, things that the average business owner may not really understand or have the time to do. This means your accountant doesn’t have to do it! An accountant only sees your figures once or a few times a year and usually at the busiest times. If things have been coded incorrectly and the accountant misses them in the small amount of time they have to review the figures you may have missed out on a tax deduction. And if he or she does take the time to review the figures in detail? There’s that giant accounting bill again.
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Cliff Mass has blogged on the unusually wet winter it has been across much of the Western U.S. Of interest is the large portion of Western Wyoming that had a near record wet winter.
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The late winter (Feb-March) maps shows how wet conditions were particularly unusual in the northern Rockies. Eastern Washington, Idaho, and western Montana had unprecedented large amounts of precipitation.
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Picasso’s artist father, Don José Ruiz y Blasco, introduced Picasso to drawing and painting when he was but a child of seven. The youngster quickly impressed his father with his talent. Despite having very little professional training, Picasso became one of the most renowned artists of the 20th century. Over the decades, Picasso produced a vast array of works. However, he remains most recognized for his abstract cubist creations.
Early in his career, the works of the young artist used prominent colors, which are theorized to represent periods during his life. Following the suicide of a close friend, the “Old Guitarist” and other works were created predominantly in blue, which became known as his Blue Period. The tone reflected the artist’s sadness along with his first-hand knowledge of the ills endured by living an impoverished existence. During perceived better times, Picasso also created works during what became known as his Rose Period. “Garçon à la pipe” was painted during this time.
Before the end of 1910, Picasso abandoned the traditional perspective and ventured into the realm of the abstract. He no longer depicted people, animals, and objects in recognizable forms. The artist instead chose to deconstruct the norm and reconstruct images using complicated angular and geometric lines. “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” and the “Head of a Woman, Fernande” illustrate the new path Picasso took. He also began combining cubism with collage, as is evidenced by “Girl with a Mandolin” and “Ma Jolie.”
By the end of WWI, Picasso lived in France and returned to more classical methods of painting, as is reflected in “Peasants Sleeping.” At this time, artists in the country began the French Surrealist Movement. As a sign of the times, Picasso created the Primitive/Surreal “Three Dancers.”
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Collaborative working: Midwifery and Medicine
Our staff from the School of Healthcare Sciences and the School of Medicine developed an innovative project involving the joint teaching of second year medical students and third year student midwives at Cardiff University.
A newly appointed midwifery lecturer within the School of Healthcare Sciences in 2014, Libby Baraz utilised the opportunity afforded by a curriculum review within the School of Medicine to promote normal birth within the education setting.
Aware of a module introducing the pregnant woman within the new medical curriculum, Libby teamed up with a lecturer in Women’s Health Dr Victoria Logan who is also a clinical colleague on the labour ward, to formulate joint learning objectives for our respective students.
Developing a partnership
The ‘C21 curriculum’ in Cardiff University School of Medicine prepares future doctors in Wales for practice. Libby was committed to ensuring a fundamental understanding of the role of the midwife in normal childbirth, for the benefit of woman and the future of the midwifery profession in Wales and the UK.
The Bachelor of Midwifery (Honours) programme, prepares future midwives for practice and she was looking to enhance the teaching and learning experience for current undergraduate student midwives and to explore innovative projects. Being part of the College of Biomedical and Life Sciences enabled opportunities to collaborate across professional groups.
Teaching the simulation
The student midwives led on the teaching of normal birth practice, giving them the opportunity to consolidate their own knowledge and skills around antenatal abdominal palpation and mechanism of normal vaginal delivery. Small groups of 3-4 student midwives facilitated skills sessions for approximately 10-12 medical students. The total complement consisted of 32 student midwives and 175 medical students.
At each simulation station, student midwives provided a demonstration, explanation, interaction and opportunity for the medical students to participate in their first ever abdominal palpation and delivery of the fetus using models, dolls and pelves.
Student midwives celebrated the development of confidence, communication and presentation skills. They appreciated the huge area of learning and short time available within the medical curriculum to grasp normal concepts before moving on to explore pathology around childbirth. This strengthened student midwives’ belief in the value of midwives for woman and families.
Medical students acknowledged the sound knowledge base of the third year student midwives around normal birth, felt supported in their learning and valued the opportunity to interact with simulation in small peer group situations. Keen interaction between the groups was observed and there was mutual appreciation of respective roles.
There are clear benefits of promoting the role of the midwife as the expert in normal childbirth at this early and influential point in the future doctors’ careers.
Formal evaluation of the responses led to a poster presentation for innovation at the 2015 Association for Medical Education Conference in Edinburgh (Attitudes of medical students to interprofessional peer-teaching by students from allied health professions: An evaluation. Authors: Victoria Logan, Elizabeth Baraz, Hannah Shaw, Ellen Parker, Steve Riley).
Looking to the future
The future of midwifery at Cardiff University is strengthened by this educational achievement and the model is easily transferable to all areas of the UK where universities have student midwives and medical students studying. The project is celebrated because after just one timetabled day, every third year student midwife had met every second year medical student in Cardiff. Respective roles were appreciated, respected and encouraged, making for a great future for multidisciplinary working and ultimately of benefit to our women and babies.
If you would like more information on this Interprofessional Education case study, get in touch.
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Even in this tight housing market, stay alert for risks you do not know anything about when buying a house in The Hague. Protect yourself by including resolutive conditions in your offer. If you don’t this it could easily cost you a whooping €35.000. This not a small amount to lose and can jeopardize your future to becoming a homeowner in the near future. And you just can’t blame anyone else this time – it’s self-inflicted. This could be the consequence when you decide to work without a buyer’s agent. Remember that the seller’s agent is not there to have your best interest in mind, they are representing the seller after all. Fair enough.
An increasing number of home buyers ignore the resolutive conditions when making an offer on a home. With this they hope to increase their buying opportunities in this tight housing market. When the buyers are queuing up, sellers prefer to choose a candidate with the fewest conditions. However, resolutive conditions are there for a reason and that is to protect you. When drawing up the preliminary purchase contract, consider what risks you can and want to run. Are you running the risks or are the risks running you? – You decide.
After signing the preliminary purchase contract, you have a three-day cooling-off period to cancel the purchase without any reason. After that you run the risk of a fine of ten percent of the purchase price. With an average home price of €350.000, this is a hefty fine of €35.000. You do not have to pay this fee if you cancel the purchase on the basis of resolutive conditions in the preliminary purchase contract.
Most common resolutive conditions
Let’s shine a light on the most common resolutive conditions when buying a house in The Hague. First of all you can see resolutive conditions as a disaster protection. Although you must clearly demonstrate that you really cannot meet the conditions. Otherwise you still owe the seller a fee. These are the most common conditions:
· Reservation of financing. In case you can’t get a mortgage anyway.
· Architectural or structural reservation. When it appears that there are unforeseen defects in the home and the repair costs are relatively high.
· Reservation of National Mortgage Guarantee (NHG). If you want to take advantage of a mortgage with NHG but cannot be provided.
· Reservation of sale of owner-occupied home (No-Risk clause). If you want to avoid double housing costs.
Then, we strongly recommend that you are providing clear and defined conditions. This prevents them from being misinterpreted or misinterpreted afterwards. For example, in the case of a construction reservation, indicate the amount up to which you find repair costs acceptable.
Lesser Known Terms
The above are conditions that are relatively common. But in some situations these conditions can also be useful:
· When you want to change the zoning plan of the house
· When you want to radically renovate the house
· When you need a housing permit
Resolutive conditions for sellers
As a seller, you can also include resolutive conditions in the preliminary contract. For example, you can include in the contract that the sale will not go ahead if the bank does not co-finance a residual debt with the purchase of the next home. Sellers can also use the No-Risk clause. In this way they reduce the risk that they will find themselves without a home after a sale.
Certainly, in this market you have little or just no chance if you cover every risk with resolutive conditions. The fewer ifs and buts, the greater the chance that a seller will do business with you. Even now it is wise not to be rushed and to throw all reservations overboard without further ado. With a fine of €35,000 or sky-high repair costs, you are further away from your goal of owning your own home than you ever could image.
Make an offer they can’t refuse but don’t get yourself in trouble by skipping the important and vital resolutive conditions! Ask yourself: Are you running the risks or are the risks running you? Don’t let the pressure of a heated market get the best of you. It’s highly recommendable to hire a buyer’s agent in any market to protect you from you. Buying a house in The Hague should be a pleasant experience for everyone involved. A real estate deal is a good deal when everyone is happy.
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A cheetah, ostriches and wild boars are among the "dangerous" pets owned by residents in Cheshire, according to a recent study.
Research carried out by animal welfare charity Born Free has confirmed that nearly 4,000 dangerous wild animals are being kept privately in Britain - including 70 in Cheshire.
Local authorities in the county revealed to the charity that Dangerous Wildlife Animal (DWA) licences had been granted for: four cats including a cheetah and servals, 16 venomous snakes, 36 wild boar, three lechwe, two ostrich, two ring tailed lemur, two spectacled caiman, two scorpions and three venomous lizards.
Dr Mark Jones, veterinarian and Born Free’s head of policy, states: “Born Free has been collating and analysing DWA data for over 20 years.
"Since the millennium the wild animal welfare and conservation charity has seen a dramatic increase in the number of exotic pets in private ownership, including a 94% increase in the number of venomous snakes, 57% increase in wild cats, 198% increase in crocodilians and over a 2000% increase in scorpions.
"However, these figures are likely to represent only the tip of the iceberg. They only record those animals being kept and registered with a DWA licence. Born Free believes that many additional dangerous wild animals are being kept without a licence.”
Across Britain, there were a total of 210 DWA licences granted for the keeping of 3,951 individual wild animals, which included 320 wild cats and 274 primates.
Dr Jones said: “It is unbelievable that, in this day and age, so many dangerous animals, including big cats, large primates, crocodiles and venomous snakes, are in private ownership in the UK. Increasing demand for all kinds of wild animals as exotic pets puts owners and the wider public at risk of injury or disease.
"It also results in serious animal suffering, and the demand increases the pressure on many wild populations which are often already under threat.”
“The UK likes to claim to be at the forefront of efforts to protect nature and improve the welfare of animals, yet our legislation governing the keeping of and trade in exotic pets is woefully outdated.
"While the Government’s recent proposal to ban the keeping of and trade in primates as pets is a welcome first step, there are many other species that need to be protected from this form of exploitation.
"The Dangerous Wild Animals Act should be overhauled as a matter of urgency, in order to phase-out the private keeping of and trade in those species that clearly don’t belong in people’s homes.”
List of exotic pets in Cheshire
● Four cats including a cheetah and servals
● Sixteen venomous snakes including a Saw-scaled viper, an Indochinese spitting cobra, and a Western diamondback rattlesnake
● Thirty-six wild boar
● Three lechwe
● Two ostrich
● Three Ring-tailed lemur
● Two spectacled caiman
● Two scorpion - a fat-tailed scorpion and a death stalker
● Three venomous lizards including a gila monster and beaded lizards
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Handbook on Experiential Learning and seeking transversality of international business across disciplines
Invitation to contribute a chapter to a Palgrave edited Handbook on: Experiential Learning and seeking transversality of international business across disciplines
In 2014 “The Handbook of Experiential Learning In International Business”, was published -aiming to be a one-stop source for international managers, business educators and trainers who seek to either select and use an existing experiential learning project, or develop new projects and exercises of this kind.
Based on the success of the book, it was proposed by the publisher to have a follow up edition. This call is look for contributions for this new Handbook.
We have observed how international business as a discipline and a profession is becoming more transversal and it has been incorporated in business and non-business programs around the world. This edition aims to review theoretical and empirical approaches of experiential learning, and its role increasing the effectiveness in teaching and learning of international business, and also, in the incorporation of international business related concepts and competences in business and non-business programs.
Same as in the first edition, we are aiming to have two parts.
The first part will provide an updated overview of the theories on enhancing teaching and learning in International Business through the use of experiential learning projects.
Second, specific applications of experiential learning in International Business and related fields. The idea is that each chapter of the book will talk about one experiential learning project (e.g., large-scale international collaboration projects, joint projects with international businesses, designing experiential learning activities), simulations, experiential activities or other experiential projects you use in your IB-related courses, or to incorporate IB concepts and competencies in business and non-business related courses.
Each co-author will describe in detail the hands-on project(s) he/she uses to improve learning in his/her IB-related courses or training programs, project background and history, challenges, best practices, and suggestions for future IB educators who may want to incorporate experiential learning in their courses. A chapter can describe a big project that covers entire semester, a small one that spans only a few days, or an exercise or series of exercises that take only a few minutes to a few hours to run. The project can also be part of a formal course or training program, or be unrelated to formal courses and offered as an extra-curricular option for the students (competitions, internships, etc.), as long as the activity is experiential and contributes to learning IB-related concepts.
The handbook is aimed to be a one-stop source for educators and trainers who seek to either select and use an existing experiential learning project, or develop new projects and exercises of this kind.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Peer Reviewer Commitments:
Accepted chapters will be compiled in a book, which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Book Editors and contact details:
Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez (PhD)
|Full Professor of Management
Department of Management
Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia
Email: [log in to unmask]
(Please notice: I’m on sabbatical year until July 2019)
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Countless national studies have shown that proper hand hygiene and bacteria removal are attributed to two main factors, friction during the scrubbing process and the length of time allowed for removal. Soap acts as an agent that lifts dirt, bacteria, and other harmful materials from your skin. The more vigorously and thoroughly a user scrubs, the more bacteria is able to be absorbed by the soap. The soap takes a short time to work, but once the soap has clung to all the dirt and bacteria, the water washes it away off the hands.
Many studies have also shown that statistically the majority of bacteria removal on the hands happens after the 11th to 12th second mark as it takes ample time for the soap to adhere to the bacteria. The process is exponentially back-loaded to where the below statistic has been calculated. You can see by the numbersbelow how important it is to finish the process out completely to make it effective.
- Total bacteria removed from 5 seconds of hand washing until 11 seconds: About 38%
- Total bacteria removed during hand washing between 11 and 16 seconds: About 88%
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Accessing ERASMUS+ funds appears to most project promoters to be a very demanding task.
Indeed, many organisations miss out on sources of funding they need for their development.
Thanks to this Mini-Guide, you will have a first concrete approach to the functioning of ERASMUS+ grants.
In addition, it aims to provide step by step explanations of the various procedures, rules and priorities that you will need to follow in order to access European grants and optimise your chances of success.
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For many people the year 2021 has been a time of reflection and learning. As challenging as it has been, it is not over yet. Fortunately, accurately documented history by those who came before acts as a guide now and for times still to come. Those learning journeys apply to a great many subjects, none greater than life itself, but that documented history also encompasses the evolution of network interconnection.
The data collected between 2003-2004 at the main physical locations of network interconnection throughout 21 North American markets has provided historical reference points with which to compare to present times. This was known as the “Meet Me Series.” A sufficient amount of time has passed since the dawn of the carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection facility. Now, it is possible to look at the origins of the industry in nascent form and the locations, in order to quantify and be able to see how each site and market has performed.
Does the once dominant site of that year still reign? Were any new neutral interconnection sites in the same market created to compete? How successful in terms of network density have they been? The answers to these questions and additional in-depth perspectives can be found in my online “Meet Me Series” (link at the bottom of the article).
As background, the physical sites themselves, known most often in the industry by their street address, have typically been referred to as Carrier Hotels. This basically translates to a building where multiple networks have a physical presence with the intention of connecting to other networks. These buildings also sometimes are referred to as Interconnection Data Centers, a term applied to a data center, or space within one, that has the specific purpose of being where the networks in the building interconnect. In a Carrier Hotel this is known as the Meet Me Room.
As a general rule of thumb, Carrier Hotels were originally built for a different purpose, such as an office building or department store. These structures evolved to become dominated by networks, with each building its own interesting and unique transformation story. Data centers, on the other hand, mostly were purposefully built with specific design and engineering requirements for networks. This makes them more efficient and cost effective. However, data centers lack the years, now decades, of the head start that older Carrier Hotels have in terms of reaching physical layer multi-network critical mass.
Comprehending this terminology and its associated definitions are essential for researching physical layer interconnection sites, in order to determine the best option for a specific requirement. The general answer for that was usually the option with the greatest number of networks present. This has changed a bit though over the years.
Enter the Internet Exchange (IX)
The advent of IX appearing in a meaningful way in North America has changed the lens through which network interconnection sites are viewed, sought andand—in many cases—the location of the actual physical sites themselves. This shift in interconnection gravity occurred as a result of the proliferation of Internet Protocol (IP) applications, such as Voice over IP, the underlying transport protocol and Ethernet. The shift began once these technologies took hold within the corporate Local and Wide Area Networks (LAN/WAN) and internal telephone company networks themselves, with their legacy voice to VoIP transition. It was not that long ago when these technologies were considered to be unproven, garage experiments to the incumbent telephone companies. That was a very protectionist and self-serving perspective. The incumbent mindset must be understood and their messaging always questioned. It is not in your best interest that they seek to serve, so they rarely speak objective truths. | <urn:uuid:b613560e-8043-4bc7-ae77-e6649c15574a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.interglobixmagazine.com/the-evolution-of-interconnection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.969772 | 725 | 1.875 | 2 |
February 2020 Reflection
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Glory to Jesus Christ!
This past Sunday we read one of the five Gospel readings meant to prepare us for the Great Fast. It was the story of Zacchaeus, a profound meditation on the meaning of repentance. Zacchaeus shows us the depth of repentance that goes far beyond a one-time confession or ritual. Repentance as a way of life.
When I was a seminary in Oklahoma I mentioned the idea of perpetual repentance to a study group full of evangelical Christians. The suggestion was foreign to most, interesting to others, and crazy to one. He retorted, "What do you mean? I need time to sin!" Actually, if repentance is not a continual process, if we are not focused on our Lord moment by moment, letting go of selfishness in all our encounters with him and others, then we will hardly need any time at all to sin.
I think that the reference in the Gospel reading to Zacchaeus giving back four-fold to those he had cheated refers to the act of repentance as more than just a moment's awakening, but to a deep and continual attitude of giving and loving, much like the Lord's command to forgive seventy times seven. We must not see repentance as something that we do now and then, but rather something that we become. Not dreary and dismal or abusive to ourselves, but joyful in our letting go of all that burdens and hinders us. Through repentance we become Ourselves.
Repentance helps to reveal the truth of who we are and frees us to be true to that. We are his image. Nothing less.
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Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s meeting with King Abdullah on 27 July could see negotiations being announced shortly between Israel and Jordan to create a single territorial entity encompassing Jordan, Gaza and parts of the West Bank.
This newly created entity -designated The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine –together with Israel – will constitute the elusive and previously unattainable two-state solution – pursued by:
- the Mandate for Palestine (1922)
- The Peel Commission (1937)
- UN Resolution 181 (III) (1947)
- Venice Declaration (1980)
- Oslo Accords (1993)
- Saudi Peace Plan (1982)
- Revised Saudi Peace Plan (2002)
- Bush Roadmap (2002)
- Trump Peace Plan (2020)
- finally ending the conflict over the division of former Palestine between Arabs and Jews begun with the defeat of Turkey in World War 1.
The plan to create The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine was first announced in Al-Arabiya news –owned by the Saudi Royal family –on 8 June in an article written by Ali Shihabi – a close confidante of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman – Saudi Arabia’s heir apparent to the Saudi throne and the driving force behind Neom – a $500 billion megacity of the future to be built from the ground up in an area of northern Saudi Arabia equal to the size of Israel. It was hardly noticed by the media.
A tweet issued by King Abdullah’s Palace (see below) confirms that the King and Lapid discussed the subject of a two-state solution and it seems inconceivable that they would have discussed any plan other than this Saudi solution since the old version has been dead in the water for years..
It would appear that back channel negotiations have been going on since the release of the Saudi plan on 8 June to refine it to reflect - with more precision - the starting positions of Jordan, Israel and the PLO in any negotiations.
Those agreed starting positions include:
The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine will be ruled by Jordan’s current Hashemite ruler King Abdullah – which Hashemite dynasty has ruled Jordan for the last 100 years.
The right of return to Israel by Palestinian Arab refugees will not be pursued. Instead The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine will integrate those refugees within its borders
The borders of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will include
-Jordan with its current borders
-The Gaza Strip
A-reas of the 'West Bank' inhabited by Palestinian Arabs and bordering Jordan that are contiguous and not divided into islands
-The retention by Israel of the Jordan Valley and other areas of the 'West Bank' such as Oslo-designated Area C, where all the Jews in the region live, will be resolved in the negotiations
Neither the Arabs nor the Muslims will seek to expel Israel from Jerusalem. However it remains as a bargaining chip in the hands of the Palestinian Arabs in securing any agreement and giving the Holy Places in Jerusalem a special status.
Any agreement will need to be ratified by a free popular referendum by Arab voter constituencies consisting of all Jordanians and residents of the 'West Bank' and Gaza Strip and those who are stateless such as the residents of the refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria. Palestinian Arabs who are settled in other countries and who enjoy full citizenship will have no vote.
The rationale for creating The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine is based on the fact that Jordanians and Palestinians are Sunni Arabs from the same region and integrating them will not cause any ethnic or sectarian fault lines in the long run.
Jordan has received a flurry of visits from Mohammed Bin Salman, PLO Leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israel’s President Herzog, since the Saudi Plan was published.
Lapid’s visit now when he is only caretaker Prime Minister is highly significant. It could indicate the commencement of negotiations is supported by the majority of Israel’s political parties even though nothing can go forward until after the next government is formed post November elections.
And then - let the negotiations begin.
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She additionally served as Coordinator for AIDS Research for NICHD from September 1987. In this position, she developed a specific curiosity in pediatric AIDS. She was the first woman and the first Hispanic to hold the position of Surgeon General. They also grew to become individuals within the political area of the United States. Olga A. Méndez was the primary Puerto Rican lady elected to a state legislature in the United States mainland, when, in 1978, she became a member of the New York State Senate. In 1993, Nydia Velázquez became the first Puerto Rican Congresswoman and Chair of House Small Business Committee within the United States and in 1994, Carmen E. Arroyo grew to become the first Hispanic lady elected to the New York State Assembly.
She has written a number of books and newspaper articles that had been mainly centered on the research of Hispanic American Arts. Because of her research, she was awarded quite a few prizes and recognitions from several faculties and organizations, and most notably of all was the title of Humanist Lecturer of the Year in 1979. Lola Rodriguez de Tió is remembered for writing the primary version of “La Borinqueña” back in 1868 after being impressed by the “Grito de Lares”. Apart from writing the national anthem, she was the primary lady within the island to ascertain herself as a poet, with some of her most famous works being My Offering , Literary Works , Claros y nieblas , and several other others.
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- She has written numerous articles on Puerto Rican women and work and is author of Eighteenth-Century Reforms in the Caribbean.
- Many of them are concerned in the fields that were once limited to the male population and have thus, become influential leaders in their fields.
- However, even this consultant does not have full voting rights in Congress, and cannot vote for the president with whom she serves.
- Hundreds of ladies from Corsica, France, Ireland, Germany and other areas moved and settled in Puerto Rico with their households.
- With no senators, residents of Puerto Rico can’t vote in Senate elections, both.
The Great Depression, which unfold all through the world, was additionally felt in Puerto Rico. Since the island’s financial system has been dependent on the economy of the United States, when American banks and industries started to fail the effect was also felt within the island. Unemployment was on the rise as a consequence and plenty of families fled to the mainland U.S. seeking jobs. The navy dating in puerto rico intervened and the revolts came to an finish after three days on September 2. Two of essentially the most notable ladies, who bore arms in opposition to the United States, had been Blanca Canales and Lolita Lebrón. The arrest of Carmen María Pérez Gonzalez, Olga Viscal Garriga, and Ruth Mary Reynolds; three women involved with the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party who have been arrested due to violations to the Ley de la Mordaza .
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It was Lt. Denton who forwarded the information to President Harry S. Truman that the warfare had ended. Even though ladies up to now had actively participated in the revolt towards Spain, it wouldn’t be till the United States entered World War II that the army would open its doorways to Puerto Rican ladies.
Their battle didn’t end when Puerto Rican women have been extended the franchise for native elections; on a federal stage, Puerto Ricans of all genders remain as disenfranchised as they were one hundred years in the past. Island residents have the uncommon displeasure of being citizens who can not vote for president, and the delegates they elect to Congress also cannot vote on U.S. legal guidelines.
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Rockwell Kent papers
The Rockwell Kent papers measure 88.0 linear feet and date from circa 1840 to 1993 with the bulk of the collection dating from 1935 to 1961. The collection provides comprehensive coverage of Kent's career as a painter, illustrator, designer, writer, lecturer, traveler, political activist, and dairy farmer.
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records
The records of the Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art measure 265.8 linear feet and date from 1883-1962, with the bulk of the material dating from 1885-1940. The collection includes extensive correspondence between the museum's founding director, John Beatty, and his successor, Homer Saint-Gaudens, with artists, dealers, galleries, collectors, museum directors, representatives abroad, shipping and insurance agents, and museum trustees. The collection also includes Department of Fine Arts interoffice memoranda and reports; loan exhibition files; Carnegie International planning, jury, shipping, and sale records; Department of Fine Arts letterpress copy books, and a copy of the original card catalog index to these records.
George Deem papers
The papers of painter, writer, and dancer George Deem measure 18.2 linear feet and 10.71 GB and date from 1904-2015, with the bulk of the material dating from 1960-2008. The collection documents Deem's path from Midwestern farm child to New York City artist and teacher who specialized in recreating works of great masters, especially Johannes Vermeer. Correspondence, exhibition files, subject files, project files, writings by and about Deem, printed and digital material and photographic materials all show the trajectory of Deem's development as an artist.
Fairchild Industries, Inc. collection
This collection consists of historical files on FI, its predecessors, and subsidiaries. The material consists primarily of historical/public relations material, including photographs and brochures, but also includes significant amounts of business records for FEAC, Kreider-Reisner, Hiller, Republic, Ranger, Stratos, and Swearingen. The collection also documents Fairchild's joint ventures with Fokker, Pilatus, and other aircraft manufacturers. The material also includes an extensive negative collection as well as film and videotape libraries.
Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 4: Songwriters Volumes I and II
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 4: Songwriters: A "songwriter" for this series is defined as a composer, a lyricist, or both. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
American Federation of Arts records
The records of the American Federation of Arts (AFA) provide researchers with a complete set of documentation focusing on the founding and history of the organization from its inception through the 1960s. The collection measures 79.8 linear feet, and dates from 1895 through 1993, although the bulk of the material falls between 1909 and 1969. Valuable for its coverage of twentieth-century American art history, the collection also provides researchers with fairly comprehensive documentation of the many exhibitions and programs supported and implemented by the AFA to promote and study contemporary American art, both nationally and abroad.
Max Weber papers
The papers of New York painter and sculptor Max Weber measure 11.8 linear feet and date from 1902-2008. The collection documents Weber's career as an artist through scattered biographical material; correspondence with artists, curators, universities, arts organizations, and others; exhibition and gallery files; personal business records; writings by Weber and others; exhibition catalogs, news clippings, and other printed material; photographs of Weber, exhibitions, and works of art; audio recordings and motion picture films. Also included are records maintained by Joy Weber on the exhibition and sale of Weber's work after his death.
Stendahl Art Galleries records
The records of the Los Angeles Stendahl Art Galleries measure 7.5 linear feet and date from 1907 to 1971. The collection is comprised of administrative and financial files, correspondence, exhibition files, and subject files on numerous artists, organizations, and other art-related topics. There is one scrapbook of clippings on the artist Edgar Payne.
These records are the administrative files of the Office of the Director, National Museum of Natural History. Most of the records date from the late-to-mid 1950s. Those records created prior to 1959 are the records of the Director of the United States National Museum, although they are records relating primarily to that …
Downtown Gallery records
The records of the Downtown Gallery date from 1824 to 1974 (bulk 1926-1969) and measure 109.56 linear feet. The records present a comprehensive portrait of a significant commercial gallery that operated as a successful business for more than forty years, representing major contemporary American artists and engendering appreciation for early American folk art. There is an unprocessed addition to this collection dating circa 1970 of a single financial/legal document. | <urn:uuid:973214cc-e09e-4bec-930d-ebcfa608ceb6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sova.si.edu/search?s=70&n=10&t=C&q=Paris%2C+Harold%2C+1925- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.92171 | 1,070 | 1.71875 | 2 |
A new ranking system scores the college on a broad number of topics inclduing teaching, learning, research and international orientation.
The system is known as the U-Multirank scheme and is a European Commission initiative which helps students to identify the strengths and weakness of a college. Students of six Irish technology and science colleges will be delighted that their college came out on top.
University College Dublin (UCD) was the only Irish university to be included in the science and technology ranking, but it placed highest of all our colleges in 25th place of the 231 institutions compared.
Dublin Insitute of Technology (DIT) got As in three out of four of the schemes international categories and received As in a number of subheadings, coming in at 38 overall.
Other Irish institutions included in the list:
- Galway-Mayo Institute Of Technology
- University College Of Cork
- Institute of Technology Tallaght
- Letterkenny Institute of Technology
Galway-Mayo and Cork institutes of technology got four As each and the Institute of Technology Tallaght received three As and one went to Letterkenny Institute of Technology. Only institutions that award PhDs were ranked, in order to compare colleges accurately.
According to The Irish Examiner, Higher Education Minister of State Mary Mitchell O’Connor will be pushing for a law to be passed by the year-end to permit the creation of technological universities (TUs). The Technological University will combine ITs to make a technological university. The bill was waiting to be considered by the Oireachtas education committee but will now be amended to facilitate the need for the TU to have at least three ITs combine. | <urn:uuid:8841edbf-7383-41a4-bec0-358a3ba8114f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.collegetimes.com/news/best-colleges-in-ireland-146576 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950619 | 347 | 1.835938 | 2 |
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PHILIPSBURG – St. Maarten has recorded its first successful Sea Turtle nest of the 2016 Sea Turtle Nesting Season, with a successful nest being recorded at Gibbs Bay Beach recently.
The Foundation has also been collaborating with the University of Groningen (NL) and IMARES Wageningen UR (NL) on a Dutch Caribbean sea turtle project funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research in measuring and tagging green and hawksbill turtles foraging in the waters around St. Maarten.
“This project is a part of our work to conserve and protect these endangered species from extinction, and we hope that with the results we can conduct better management actions to ensure that these very important animals make a successful recovery,” commented Nature Foundation Manager Tadzio Bervoets.
Sea turtle population numbers have plummeted to dangerously low numbers throughout the past century due to human impacts, bringing many species close to extinction and causing them to be listed as critically endangered. In order to reverse this trend, all sea turtle species are now protected by international laws and treaties as well as local laws.
Based on Article 16 and 17 of the Nature Conservation Ordinance St. Maarten, it is illegal to kill, wound, capture or pick up sea turtles. It is also illegal to directly or indirectly disturb their environment resulting in a physical threat or damage or to commit other acts, which result in disturbance of the animal. It is also forbidden to disturb, damage or destroy sea turtle nests, lairs, or breeding places. Also, it is forbidden to pick-up or to destroy the eggs of any species of sea turtle.
The St. Maarten Nature Foundation actively manages the sea turtle population on St. Maarten, particularly during the nesting season. The Foundation conducts various activities with regard to nesting females including beach surveys, nest excavations, tagging activities, and nest success research. The Foundation also relies heavily on volunteers to assist it in its Sea Turtle activities and welcomes any volunteers who would be interested in working with sea turtles.
Beach communities in particular are in the best position to help ensure that females nest safely, that nests are left undisturbed and that hatchlings make it safely to the sea. This year the Nature Foundation also urges restaurants and beach bars along the major nesting beaches to refrain or limit the use of beach bonfires and artificial lighting, which can seriously reduce the survival rate of sea turtles.
The Nature Foundation asks that people also do not drive on the nesting beaches and that they walk their dog on a leash. To report nesting activity or illegal activity, call the Sea Turtle Hotline 9229, or call the Nature Foundation office at 544-4267 or email the Foundation at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Year of Honda Integra
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The Honda Integra, a car sold as an Acura in North America and as a Honda elsewhere, is a sporty front-wheel drive vehicle sold both as a sedan and hatchback. In the Acura lineup it was the smallest, least expensive model, designed to offer a competitor to vehicles like the Volkswagen Golf GTI, which was the most well known and popular "hot hatch" of the late 1980s when the Integra was introduced. Although a sedan was available for the first three generations of the Integra, it was dropped when the vehicle transitioned to its fourth generation "DC5" platform, sold as the RSX in North America. The Acura TSX now takes the Integra sedan's spot in the lineup.
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Under the Honda lineup, the Integra was near the middle, slotting above smaller cars such as the Honda City, the Honda Civic, and the Honda Logo. The Honda Integra was considered to be mid-sized car by Japanese standards.
As of 2007, the fourth-generation Integra has been discontinued in North America and Australia, but is still sold in its home market of Japan. It was assembled in Sayama, Japan.
This vehicle debuted in Japan in 1985 as the Honda Quint Integra before going on sale a year later in North America as part of the then-new Acura lineup. Three and five-door hatchback bodies were available, with a 1.6L DOHC 16-valve four-cylinder engine powering both. The engine was the vehicle's most publicized feature, as DOHC, multi-valve engines were anything but commonplace in entry-level models at the time. The 5-door hatchback model was also sold in Australia but was rebadged as the Rover 416i.
The Integra was based on the less-sporty Civic, although it featured a small list of key upgrades over its lesser stablemate to help merit a price increase over the CRX Si, which was otherwise the sportiest compact vehicle being offered by Honda/ Acura; enlarged 4-wheel disc brakes replaced the small front-disc/ rear-drum setup used by the Civic and CRX, suspension calibration was re-worked, better tires were used and a 113hp DOHC fuel injected 16-valve engine was used in place of the SOHC unit from the CRX Si. Combined with sleeker styling and a nicer interior, buyers were effectively convinced that the Integra was worth the extra money, and nearly 228,000 units were sold during the four year run of the first generation model.
The first generation Integras actually came with two different engines. Although they shared the same engine code (D16A1), there were a few differences. The engine differed in the years 1986 to 1987 and 1988 to 1989. The two engines are commonly called the "Browntop" and "Blacktop" due to the color of their valve covers. The "browntop" came in 1986 and 1987 Integras while the "blacktop" came in 1988 and 1989 models. The improvements in the "blacktop" engine included lighter rods, domed pistons for slightly higher compression, and an electric advance distributor (the "browntop" came with a vacuum advance distributor). The overall gain in performance was about 5hp (3.7kW) for 118hp (88.0kW).
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The Ayodhya Verdict Dissected
The Supreme Court on 12 December 2019 dismissed the 18 review petitions which had been filed in response to its Ayodhya verdict. Although the Ayodhya title dispute lasted for over a century, the apex court acted in the swiftest possible manner while disposing of the review pleas. It did not “find any ground whatsoever” to entertain the review petitions after having “carefully gone through” the attached papers that had been submitted. Despite the Court’s benevolent view of its judgement, the truth is that the verdict pronounced by the five-judge bench on November 9 was full of contradictions. To put it plainly: the Supreme Court chose to bow down before the forces of majoritarian thuggery and extremism. Logic and law were conveniently set aside by the top court to appease a certain radical section of the society.
Attempt to pacify the Muslim litigants
To do complete justice in the Ayodhya dispute, the Supreme Court invoked Article 142 of the Indian Constitution. Technically speaking, Article 142 can be employed in cases of second appeal. The Ayodhya title dispute wasn’t heard at the level of a district court. It came directly for hearing before the Allahabad High Court. Therefore, the pleas which were pending before the Supreme Court happened to be the first appeal. The Court was realistically acting as the court of first appeal while adjudicating upon the Ayodhya dispute. Given the sensitivity of the Ayodhya matter, the litigants should not have been unfairly deprived of the right to a second appeal. Notwithstanding this inherent flaw in the progression of the case, the Court did not consider the need to seriously hear the review pleas for justice’s sake. It was in a hurry to bring closure. It failed to realise the ramifications of its decision on India’s secular polity.
More importantly, the Ayodhya verdict exemplified how Article 142 has become an arbitrary tool in the hands of the Supreme Court. The apex court has repeatedly fallen back on Article 142 to pass orders that are beyond the scope of its jurisdiction. Weeks before taking over as the Attorney General of India in June 2017, KK Venugopal stressed the need for judicial restraint as he reflected on the plus and minus points of Article 142. After all, Article 142 is not meant to be whimsically utilised by the Court. Unfortunately, that’s precisely what seems to have occurred in the Ayodhya case as the Court refrained from solely deciding on the title rights of the disputed property under scrutiny. The powers which the apex court derives out of Article 142 are not absolute. By invoking Article 142, the Court cannot pass a judgement that violates a statutory provision. As the Supreme Court pronounced the Ayodhya verdict, it conceded that the Babri Masjid was built in the 16th century by Mir Baqi on the orders of Mughal Emperor Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur.
Since the Babri Masjid had been originally established as a place of public worship for the Muslims, it enjoyed the status of a waqf property.
The Supreme Court also agreed that mere cessation of prayers cannot lead to the inference that the mosque had been abandoned. Nonetheless, at the time of moulding relief, the Court relied on Article 142 and delivered a decree that was in contravention of the Waqf Act. Much like the Allahabad High Court, the Supreme Court tried to extend a ceremonial olive branch towards the Muslim community. For all practical purposes, the suit of the Sunni Waqf Board was summarily dismissed. They were not given possession of the disputed site. But the judgment, which was authored by an unnamed judge, doesn’t say so. On the contrary, the suit of the Sunni Waqf Board was decreed. To make matters more complicated, the Court conceded that the Muslim parties had been aggrieved due to the desecration and destruction of the Babri Masjid.
The apex court directed that the Sunni Waqf Board should be provided with a five-acre plot at an alternate site as restitution. In doing so, the Court greatly undermined the nature of waqf lands in the country as also the Waqf Act that governs them. A waqf property is a religious endowment. It is dedicated to God. This form of a dedication is an irrevocable one. The ownership of a waqf property rests with God and not with the maintainer or administrator of the relevant property. On the question of law, it was/is a settled legal principle that waqf properties cannot be bartered, gifted, sold or transferred. Since the Babri Masjid had been originally established as a place of public worship for the Muslims, it enjoyed the status of a waqf property. Consequently, the Court could not have allocated an alternate plot in lieu of the demolished mosque.
In September 2010, a three-judge bench of the Allahabad High Court had ruled that the 2.77 acres of disputed property in Ayodhya should be divided between Ram Lalla, Nirmohi Akhara, and Sunni Waqf Board. The tripartite division was hailed by many commentators and analysts. It was supposedly a reflection of the court’s conciliatory approach. But it was far from being a just division. Two-thirds of the disputed property went to the Hindu parties. If the intent of the court was reconciliation through partitioning of the property in question, it ought to have divided it equally between the two communities. Secondly, the Allahabad High Court had allocated the area underneath the central dome of the Babri Masjid to Ram Lalla, a juridical entity that represented Lord Ram, a Hindu deity, in infant form. Accordingly, it became evident that the partitioning of the disputed site had been done with the aim of gratifying the Hindu litigants at the cost of the Muslims. The Supreme Court, too, followed the same trajectory. The learned judges of the Court sought to pacify the Muslims by allocating five acres of land to the Sunni Waqf Board.
Had it been about physical space or monetary compensation, the Muslim parties would have agreed to the relocation of the Babri Masjid in the 1980s itself.
By doing that, the apex court overlooked the larger battle which was being waged. The resistance that was put up by the Muslim parties was essential for preserving the constitutional principles of religious freedom and equality. There are about 5 lakh registered waqf properties in India. Some of the country’s most majestic mosques can be found in the congested bylanes of Old Delhi. It was never about the land for Muslims. Had it been about physical space or monetary compensation, the Muslim parties would have agreed to the relocation of the Babri Masjid in the 1980s itself. But they didn’t. Giving up on the Babri Masjid without putting up a legal fight would have been the same as voluntarily surrendering the fundamental rights of Muslims. The Court, therefore, erred in thinking that it would be able to assuage Muslim sentiments through a token gesture. Five acres of land means little when it comes at the cost of a community’s constitutionally protected liberties. Though the Court’s intention might have been to compensate the Sunni Waqf Board adequately, it failed to see the bigger picture. In the process, the rights and interests of Indian Muslims were sacrificed in the Court to satisfy the aspirations of the majority community.
Benign attitude towards Hindu claims
Without much ado, the Supreme Court agreed with the contention that Lord Ram was born underneath the central dome of the Babri Masjid. What brought the Court to this conclusion was basically the faith and belief of Hindus. Interestingly, the apex court did not bother to thoroughly test the said claim against the doctrine of essentiality. Through this doctrine, the Court has on various occasions opined whether a belief or religious practice is an essential part of a particular faith or not. If the claims of the Hindu parties had been exhaustively scrutinised as dictated by the doctrine of essentiality, they would have surely fallen flat. The supposed belief that Lord Ram was born exactly underneath the central dome of the Babri Masjid was largely non-existent in the 19th century. Turning down the reliefs sought in a litigation filed by a Hindu priest in Ayodhya, District Judge Colonel FEA Chamier wrote in 1886 that Ram Chabutra “is said to indicate the birthplace” of Lord Ram. The Ram Chabutra, as we know, was situated in the outer courtyard of the disputed property which was at some distance from the three domes of the Babri Masjid. It was a raised platform that was constructed in the 1850s by local Hindus through an act of trespass. The belief in the divinity of the Ram Chabutra, too, was more or less restricted to in and around Ayodhya.
Although the late 19th and early 20th century produced many Hindu stalwarts, namely, Dayanand Saraswati, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Madan Mohan Malaviya, etc., none of them ever bothered to forcefully rake up or champion the cause of Ram Janmabhoomi. It was only in the 1980s that the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) managed to convert this local Hindu belief into a pan India one through a nationwide religious and political movement. At that time as well, the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who spearheaded the movement, could not give a definite answer in relation to the exact place of Lord Ram’s birth. Hinduism or Sanatan Dharma is said to be among the oldest religions in the world. How can a supposed belief that is akin to an article of faith for Hindus gain popularity only in the 1980s?
What is bewildering is that the Court found nothing wrong in citing European writings to establish a Hindu belief of paramount importance.
There is no disputing that Hindus have for long considered Ayodhya to be the birthplace of Lord Ram. But it would be a gross exaggeration to suggest that the vast majority of Hindus have believed for a fair amount of time that Lord Ram was born precisely underneath the central dome of the Babri Masjid. Such a belief is a modern one and does not constitute an essential part of the Hindu faith. Hence, the Court was unreasonable in accepting the given proposition of the Hindu parties. As a religious tradition, Hindu scholars have always stated with pride that their religion is not based on a single book. They maintain that Hindus have an entire library of religious texts. Indeed, it is ironic that the Supreme Court could not cite one verse from an indigenous Hindu scripture to effectively establish the exact birthplace of Lord Ram. No Hindu religious text in Sanskrit or any other indigenous language makes such a claim. Curiously, the hugely personal memoir of Babur is also silent on this issue. In the Baburnama, Babur relates that he ordered his troops to raze the tomb of a dervish named Shahbaz Qalandar. On Babur’s instructions, some idols which depicted naked figurines were also smashed in the valley of Urwahi near Gwalior. Yet there is nothing in the Baburnama that strengthens the narrative of temple desecration in Ayodhya. Contrarily, Babur’s autobiography describes the temples which he toured in Gwalior and narrates the tale of his visit to Gurh Kattri, a Hindu shrine. He also goes on to accuse Rana Sanga of having undertaken “the destruction of mosques and places of worship” to his disdain. Not surprisingly, therefore, the Supreme Court chose to disregard much of the memoir since it does not offer a complete account of Babur’s life owing to certain missing portions of the manuscript. To prove the significance of the site for the Hindus, the Court had to mostly depend upon the accounts of foreign travellers. What is bewildering is that the Court found nothing wrong in citing European writings to establish a Hindu belief of paramount importance.
[T]he entire Ram Janmabhoomi movement was premised on the notion that the Babri Masjid was built after destroying a Ram Temple. In its judgement, the apex court noted that the Archaeological Survey of India ... did not record such a finding.
The Supreme Court, in the first place, should not have waded into this debate at all. It was a wholly unwarranted and meaningless exercise. Lord Ram is a mythological conception. He is a religious figure. Millions and millions of people worship him. Still, that doesn’t make Lord Ram a historical character. At best, it can be assumed that Lord Ram lived during the era of prerecorded history. Just because it is believed that Lord Ram was born at a certain location, it doesn’t mean that his worshippers will automatically garner the title rights over that particular place in the 21st century. Hence, it was irrational on the part of the Supreme Court to have delved into this subject. Most importantly, the entire Ram Janmabhoomi movement was premised on the notion that the Babri Masjid was built after destroying a Ram Temple. In its judgement, the apex court noted that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) did not record such a finding. The non-Islamic structure of Hindu religious origin which the ASI spoke of belonged to the 12th century whereas the Babri Masjid was constructed in the 16th century. What happened to that 12th century temple or what led to its destruction? Nobody knows. With this, the bedrock of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement collapsed. But it didn’t matter much to the court. After accepting the unlawfulness of the demolition of the Babri Masjid, the Supreme Court went ahead and gave Ram Lalla the complete possession of the disputed site. If Ram Lalla is a juristic person, as concurred by the Court, Ram Lalla can sue but it can also get sued. In the Ayodhya matter, the idol of Ram Lalla was illegally and surreptitiously smuggled inside the Babri Masjid. The Supreme Court acknowledged the same. How could it then handover the disputed site to Ram Lalla? Another problematic aspect of the Court judgement concerns the law of limitation. Nirmohi Akhara, one of the oldest litigants in the case, was barred by limitation. How be it then that Ram Lalla, who first became a litigant in the case in 1989, was unaffected. Such are the inconsistencies in the Court judgement that even a professor of law would be unable to make sense of it in her classroom.
Undue reliance on the unreliable ASI report
It is worth pointing out that the ASI report, which was partially relied upon by the Supreme Court while deducing that Babri Masjid wasn’t built on vacant land, was prepared in a brazenly partisan fashion. According to the directives of the Allahabad High Court, the ASI was supposed to refer to the Officer on Special Duty at the excavation site in Ayodhya as OSD – Ram Janmabhoomi and Babri Masjid. But the ASI always referred to the same as OSD – Ram Janmabhoomi. The Allahabad High Court had stipulated that the excavation should be carried out under the watch of five eminent archaeologists out of which two were necessarily required to be from the Muslim community. However, no such representation was given to them. As a matter of fact, the fourteen-member ASI team which supervised the excavation had only one Muslim archaeologist. Initially, not a single Muslim labourer was involved in digging up the trenches and carrying out the excavation. When an objection was raised, the ASI brought in a few Muslim labourers. Still, only nine of the 89 labourers employed by the ASI for the said purpose were Muslims. It is apparent from these details that the team which was constituted by the ASI to excavate the site in question was wholly under-represented from the Muslim perspective.
Besides the problematic composition of ASI’s team, what was far more alarming was the biased manner in which the ASI undertook excavation at the given site. The entire exercise seems to have been done with the objective of arriving at a premeditated theory involving pillar bases. And this did happen. Relying on the discovery of what it termed as pillar bases, the ASI postulated the existence of a Hindu temple at the disputed site which pre-dated the Babri Masjid. These observations of the ASI were contested by the observers of the Sunni Waqf Board, namely, Prof. Supriya Varma and Prof. Jaya Menon. The two of them are reputed archaeologists who are currently associated with Jawaharlal Nehru University and Shiv Nadar University, respectively. It was their assessment that what the ASI described as pillar bases were actually broken pieces of bricks with mud inside them. In any case, those alleged pillar bases could not have supported a “massive structure” because they were all of different shapes and sizes apart from being located at different levels and belonging to distinct periods. In her brilliant exposition before the Court, Meenakshi Arora correctly called out these glaring irregularities in the ASI’s report. The senior counsel did not fail to mention that the ASI’s report had unfairly described the Babri Masjid as a “disputed structure” whereas the Ram Chabutra was labelled as a “shrine”.
Like the Court’s judgement in the Ayodhya dispute, the name of the person who authored the conclusion of the ASI report wasn’t disclosed.
In its eagerness to demonstrate the pre-existence of a Hindu temple at the disputed site, the ASI also refrained from mentioning the animal bones which were found during the excavation. Obviously, it did so because they could not have rationally explained the presence of animal bones at the place of a Vaishnavite temple. Thus, the ASI got its labourers to throw away those bones. There were a host of other issues in the ASI report which included the inappropriate periodisation of the excavated material as well as its erroneous documentation. For instance, the ASI claimed in its progress report dated 22 May-5 June 2003 that it had carved out a certain pillar base from Trench Number 3. In total, 90 such trenches had been dug up by the ASI. However, the process of digging into Trench Number 3 started only in July 2003. In spite of that, the learned archaeologists of the ASI managed to put on record an account of the recoveries which they made from Trench Number 3 a month before actual digging was initiated therein.
One of the lesser-known aspects of the ASI report is the discovery of a western wall at the excavation site. A western wall is a prominent feature of a mosque. Indian Muslims face towards the west while praying as the Kabah in the Arabian Peninsula is situated towards the west of India. Both Prof. Varma and Prof. Menon relied on this to infer that “underneath the Babri Masjid, there are actually older mosques” but the ASI did not pay much attention to their viewpoint. This very argument was vehemently advanced by Arora during her submissions before the apex court. Sadly, the Court too followed in the footsteps of the ASI by overlooking the relevant inference.
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s judgement, it goes without saying that the ASI did a dishonest job. That is why no archaeologist from the ASI dared to take ownership of the conclusions which were drawn in the excavation report. Every chapter in the report had an author except for the concluding one. Like the Court’s judgement in the Ayodhya dispute, the name of the person who authored the conclusion of the ASI report wasn’t disclosed. It was reportedly in the last paragraph of the conclusion that the ASI recorded that there was a “temple underneath the Babri Masjid”, an assertion which it did not make anywhere else in the concerned report. Irrespective of the weaknesses in the ASI report, there is no denying that its intention to build a case for the Hindu parties was successfully realised. The incumbent Union Government has decided to repay this debt of the ASI by vowing to bring out its report in the form of a book.
Throughout its Ayodhya judgement, the Supreme Court buttressed the importance of secularism. It said that a title dispute cannot be decided on the basis of faith. Albeit the Court tried very hard to sound legally objective and non-partisan, it eventually sided with the sentiments of the majority community. If the case was simply a title dispute, there was no need for the then Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi to constitute a five-judge bench to hear the matter. On top of that, the initial Ayodhya bench, which was constituted by Justice Gogoi, did not have a single judge from the minority community. Following the recusal of Justices NV Ramana and UU Lalit, Justice Gogoi brought in Justices Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer. But no female judge was taken onboard. Justice Indu Malhotra, who had dissented in the Sabarimala case, was also overlooked. From all of this, it appears that Justice Gogoi forgot that “not only must justice be done, it must also be seen to be done” by one and all.
The secular credentials of the Supreme Court would have been better served if Justices Rohinton Fali Nariman and KM Joseph were made a part of the bench that presided over the Ayodhya dispute. The two judges had the natural advantage of being viewed as equidistant, neutral, and unaffected by the claims of both the Hindu and Muslim parties owing to their personal background. Nonetheless, the Court opted for a bench that was not as plural or representative as it could have been. This does not mean that the judges who finally heard the case were not in a position to do justice due to some inherent impartiality in their character. In fact, they are all known to be quite learned. However, the unanimous verdict which they delivered will forever remain a blot on the Indian judiciary. Instead of solely deciding on the title dispute, the apex court went into issues that it wasn’t supposed to deal with.
Not only did the Supreme Court give the possession of the disputed site to Ram Lalla but it also laid down the blueprint for the construction and management of a Hindu temple through a trust. The Court’s judgement, meanwhile, went against the central government’s stated commitment of rebuilding the Babri Masjid which came against the backdrop of its demolition. The apex court mentioned in passing that the Sunni Waqf was free to construct a mosque on the alternate site that it will be allotted simultaneously. The keenness that the Court exhibited in laying the groundwork for the construction of a Ram temple was completely missing when it came to the reconstruction of the Babri Masjid. The three litigations which were adjudicated upon in the 19th century were also not given due importance by the five-judge Court bench.
[T]he Court in its wisdom put an unequal burden of proof on the Muslim side whereby it asked them to demonstrate exclusive possession of the site from 1528-1857.
To sum up, the final result of those petitions was that the local Hindus were not permitted to build a canopy over the Ram Chabutra. Their proprietorship and possession of the Ram Chabutra in the outer courtyard could also not be established. Yet the Muslims did not prevent them from accessing the outer courtyard of the Babri Masjid. Local Hindus had acquired the same in the 1850s by encroaching upon the property in question. Back then, the Muslims repeatedly objected to their presence on the aforesaid premises. Nevertheless, the district administration chose to maintain status quo. They erected a fence outside the Babri Masjid to keep the two communities at bay. Thereby, the property was divided into two parts: the Ram Chabutra fell in the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard housed the Babri Masjid. The Muslims came to terms with the existing scheme of arrangement subsequent to the judiciary’s dismissal of the pleas filed by the Hindus in the 1880s. This uninterrupted access which the Hindus enjoyed to the outer courtyard of the Babri Masjid eventually went against the Muslims.
Before the Supreme Court, both the Muslim and Hindu side tried to prove their possession of the inner and outer courtyard, respectively, post-1857. But the Court in its wisdom put an unequal burden of proof on the Muslim side whereby it asked them to demonstrate exclusive possession of the site from 1528-1857. The fact that the Muslims controlled the inner courtyard post-1857 was sufficient to infer that they were always in continuous possession of the main structure but the apex court felt otherwise. It reasoned that “there was evidence on a preponderance of probabilities to establish worship by Hindus” in the inner courtyard before the annexation of Oudh by the British in 1857. The Court further said that the possession of the inner courtyard post-1857 was contested and not exclusively with the Muslims. Thus, the Supreme Court adopted a lopsided approach while determining the possession of the inner and outer courtyard.
The access which the Hindus enjoyed to the outer courtyard from the mid-19th century onwards was deemed as possession by the Supreme Court. Its conclusion was at variance with the orders of British India’s courts wherein the Hindus failed to prove their ownership of the Ram Chabutra in the outer courtyard. In the 19th century litigations, the Hindu litigant did not lay a claim over the main structure in the inner courtyard. The inner courtyard wasn’t the bone of contention in those litigations. How be it then that attempts to desecrate and unlawfully usurp the main structure by local Hindus came to be viewed in the apex court as a challenge to Muslim possession of the inner courtyard from 1857-1949. Based on these irrational, unfathomable, and historically dubious propositions as well as by treating both the outer and inner courtyard as a single entity, the Supreme Court ruled entirely in favour of Ram Lalla. On the whole, the Court disregarded the existence of the Babri Masjid for over four centuries, that Muslims offered prayers over there up until 1949, and the mosque’s illegal destruction by rioters in 1992. For the Supreme Court, what was more significant was the continued assertion by the Hindus “to pray below the central dome” and their belief that “Lord Ram was born at the disputed site”.
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Seeds of wheat (Triticum aestivum L. var. Yunmai 53) and faba bean (Vicia faba L. var. 87-147) were tested as plant materials and were obtained from the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Kunming, China). Analytical grade salicylic acid (SA) was purchased from the China Pharmaceutical Group Shanghai Medical Instrument Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China), and the standard phenolic acids used for HPLC analysis were p-hydroxybenzoate, vanillic acid, syringic acid, ferulic acid, benzoic acid, salicylic acid and cinnamic acid, which were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA). The pectin and cellulose used in this study were purchased from Tokyo Chemical Industry (Tokyo, Japan) and Sigma-Aldrich, respectively. The pathogenic fungus was FOF that was isolated from infected faba bean soil and stored at 4ºC in the Plant-Microbe Laboratory at Yunnan Agricultural University, China. Spore suspensions of FOF were obtained from 14-day-old cultures on potato dextrose agar medium (PDA). The pathogenic mycelia were scraped into sterile water with a sterile L-shaped glass rod and incubated at 28 ℃ for 7 d. The spore suspension was filtered using two layers of gauze and served as the inoculum to infect faba bean.
The hydroponic experiment was conducted in a glass greenhouse at Yunnan Agricultural University, China, from September to December 2017. The experiment was designed as a two-factor experiment, in which one factor was different concentrations of salicylic acid, including C0 (0 mg·L-1, CK), C1 (50 mg·L-1), C2 (100 mg·L-1) and C3 (200 mg·L-1). The other factor was two planting patterns (monocropping of faba bean [M]; intercropping of faba bean with wheat [I]). Each treatment was conducted four times, resulting in 32 pots (4 replicates × 2 planting patterns × 4 concentrations). The detailed planting pattern is shown in Fig. 1. The experiments were conducted under 24 h pump ventilation.
Faba bean and wheat seeds were soaked at room temperature for 24 h, germinated at 25 ℃ and then sown in sterile quartz sand that had been moistened with Hoagland nutrient solution. After the true leaves emerged, six faba bean plants were transplanted into 2 L containers that contained different concentrations of SA. The faba bean plants of the M and I system were inoculated with an FOF spore suspension of 1×106 cfu·mL-1 near the roots after two days of transplantation. The seedlings were maintained under natural light and temperature conditions (26/19 ℃ day/night) in a greenhouse, and the relative humidity ranged from 70% to 85%. The nutrient solution was replaced every 2 d.
Laboratory experimental design
A laboratory experiment was conducted to verify the effect of exogenous SA on the pathogenicity of FOF. The concentration of SA was consistent with the design of greenhouse experiment. Various concentrations of SA were treated by high temperature steam sterilization and added to steam-sterilized PDA media to determine their effects on FOF. Four replicates per treatment were conducted.
Collection and analysis of root exudates
Cleaned roots were placed in containers that contained 300 mL of 0.005 mmol·L-1 CaCl2, which was covered by a black membrane to avoid contamination and light. The root exudates were collected under light ventilation for 4 h (09:00 -- 12:00) and then placed back in the container. A volume of 50 mL of the collected liquid was added to a centrifuge tube, microbial activity was inhibited by adding a drop of concentrated phosphoric acid. The root exudates were lyophilized, and storedat -20 ℃. Each treatment was conducted in quadruplicate.
The lyophilized powder of root exudates was dissolved in deionized water, diluted to 1 mL and filtered using a 0.45 μm Millipore membrane (Burlington, MA, USA). The contents of phenolic acid in root exudates were analyzed using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (Agilent 1260 Infinity, Agilent Technologies, Carpinteria, CA, USA). The analytical conditions were as follows: Kinetex column, 2.6 μm, 4.6×100 mm; temperature of column: 30 ℃; injection volume: 10 μL; DAD detector wavelength: 280nm; velocity of flow: 0.5 mL·min-1; mobile phase: methanol (A) and 0.1% (v/v) phosphoric acid solution (B), which were used as mobile phases with a gradient elution (B: 80% (0min) →5% (15.0min) →5% (18.0 min) →80% (18.5 min) →0% (20.0 min) → stop (25.0 min)). All solvents were spectral grade HPLC. The types of phenolic acids were determined by the retention time, and the contents of phenolic acids were calculated using external standards.
Determination of faba bean growth indices
The samples were collected 45 days after transplantation. Three faba bean plants were randomly selected from each replicate for study. The leaf number per plant, maximum leaf length, maximum leaf width, height, main root length, shoot dry weight and root dry weight were measured.
Assessment of the incidence of Fusarium wilt
Three faba bean plants were randomly selected from each replicate. The severity of disease on individual plants was rated on a level from 0 to 5: 0 indicates no infection; 1 indicates initial symptoms of Fusarium wilt; 2 indicates that the base of the stem or the root had lesions, although they were not contiguous; 3 indicates that 1/3–1/2 of the stem base or root exhibited lesions, discoloration or wilt, and the lateral roots were significantly reduced; 4 indicates that the base of the stem was surrounded by lesions, or most of the roots were discolored and wilted, and 5 indicates that the plants had died or totally wilted. The incidence of Fusarium wilt on faba bean and the disease index were calculated using the following formulae:
Incidence (%) = (Number of diseased plants / total number of plants studied) ×100
Relative control efficacy (%) = [(AM - AI)/AM] × 100 (Where A represents the disease index; M represents the monocropping system, and I represents the intercropping system)
Determination of antioxidant enzymes and membrane lipid peroxidation
Fresh root samples from each treatment and replication were used to determine the activities of peroxidase (POD) and catalase (CAT) and content of malondialdehyde (MDA) as described by Li et al. (2000) .
A 1.0 g sample was ground with 2.9 mL of cold extraction buffer (0.05 mol·L-1 phosphate buffer, pH 7.8), and the crude extract was transferred to centrifuge tubes, which were centrifuged at 3000 rpm for 10 min. The supernatant was transferred to a 25 mL volumetric flask; the precipitate was extracted twice with 5 mL phosphate buffer, and the supernatant was transferred to the same volumetric flask. The POD activity was measured using guaiacol as a substrate. A reaction mixture was prepared by combining 2.9 ml of 0.05 mol· L-1 phosphate buffer, 1.0 ml of 2% H2O2, 1.0 ml of 0.05 mol·L-1 guaiacol and 0.1 mL of enzyme solution. The reaction mixture was immediately immersed in a 37 ℃ water bath for 15 min and was then rapidly transferred to cooling water. The absorbance at 470 nm was recorded at 1 min intervals for 5 min. The results are shown as A470 per minute per gram of fresh roots (U·g-1·min-1).
A total of 1.0 g of root material was ground to a homogenate with phosphate buffer (pH 7.8). The homogenate was centrifuged at 4000 rpm for 15 min, and the supernatant was transferred to a volumetric flask and assayed for enzyme activities. The activity of CAT was determined using a titration of potassium permanganate. The reaction mixture contained 2.5 mL phosphate buffer and 2.5 mL 0.1 mol·L-1 H2O2. The solution was incubated at 30 ℃ for 10 min, and 2.5 mL 10% H2SO4 was immediately added. The solution was titrated with a standard solution of 0.1 mol·L-1 KMnO4 until the solution turned pink for at least 30 min. The CAT activity was expressed in milligrams of H2O2 degraded per gram of fresh roots in 1 min (mg·g-1·min-1).
A 1.0 g root sample was homogenized in 5 mL of 5% trichloroacetic acid (TCA), and the homogenate was centrifuged at 3000 rpm for 10 min after grinding. The supernatant was used to determine the content of MDA using thiobarbituric acid (TBA). A volume of 2 mL of the supernatant was added to 2 mL 0.6% TBA. The mixture was boiled for 15 min and then centrifuged after cooling. The absorbance values at 450, 532 and 600 nm were measured. The content of MDA is shown as the amount of substance per gram of fresh roots (μmol·g-1).
Determination of the activities of pathogenesis-related proteins
The activities of chitinase and β-1,3-glucanase were measured using kits purchased from Sino Best Biological Technology Co, Ltd. (Shanghai, China). One unit of chitinase activity was defined as the amount of chitin that produced 1 mg of N-acetyl-D-(+)-glucosamine per gram of tissue per hour. One unit of β-1,3-glucan enzyme activity was defined as the amount of enzyme required to produce 1 g of reducing sugar per gram of tissue per hour.
In vitro test of FOF
Determination of FOF growth
A 9-mm agar hole punch taken from a 7-d-old PDA culture was placed in the center of the plate and incubated at 28 ℃ for 7 d with 1 mL of SA at concentrations of C0, C1, C2 and C3. The colony diameter was measured in three different directions on each plate after incubation for 3 and 7 d.
FOF was grown in 30 mL conical flasks consisting of 30 ml potato dextrose broth and inoculated with a 9-mm agar plug from a 7-d-old PDA culture. The cultures were incubated at 28 ℃ in a rotatory shaker (170 rpm) for 7 d. The fungal biomass (dry weight) was determined after filtration and drying at 80 ℃ for 12 h when a constant weight was achieved.
Extraction and quantification of mycotoxin
FOF was inoculated in Richard’s medium, which consists of 10 g of KNO3, 0.02 g of FeSO4, 5 g of KH2PO4, 2.5 g of MgSO4, 34 g of glucose, brought to 1 L with distilled water amended with SA. One ml spore suspension of 1×106 cfu·mL-1 was added to Richard’s medium and cultured at 28 ℃ for 7 days. Eight strains were removed with a 9-mm diameter punch, transferred to a 250 mL conical flask containing 125 mL of culture medium and incubated at 28 ℃ on a rotary shaker (180 rev/min) for approximately 15 days. The culture medium was centrifuged at 5000 rpm for 10 min and filtered with a 0.45 μm Millipore membrane (Burlington, MA, USA) to remove mycelia and spores. The supernatant was collected and autoclaved to obtain the crude FOF toxin solution.
The crude toxin solution was mixed with an equal volume of ethyl acetate, shaken for 2 min and incubated at room temperature for 30 min. The organic phase was collected and centrifuged at 4000 rpm for 10 min. The supernatant was dried and condensed at < 40 ℃. The entire dried residue was re-dissolved in 5 mL of ethyl acetate, and the absorbance was measured at 269 nm. The content of FA was expressed as mg·L-1.
Measurement of pathogenesis-related hydrolytic enzyme activities
The enzyme-producing culture medium utilized a synthetic medium formula that contained 1% of pectin and cellulose, 0.2 g of MgSO4 · 7H2O, 0.4 g of KH2PO4, 0.2 g of KCl, 1 g of NH4NO3, 0.01 g of FeSO4, 0.01 g of ZnSO4, and 0.01 g of MnSO4 in a total volume of 1 L of distilled water. A volume of 25 mL of this medium was transferred to 100 mL conical flasks and inoculated with FOF fragments that were 9 mm in diameter. The culture medium was incubated at 28 ℃ and 200 rpm for 7 days. It was then collected and centrifuged at 4000 rpm for 10 min. The supernatant was filtered through a 0.45 μm filter. The filtrate served as the crude enzyme solution, which was stored at 4 ℃ until use.
The activities of pectinase and cellulase were determined using 3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS). A total of 3.15 g of DNS was added to 500 mL of water while stirring for 5 s. The solution was heated to 45 ℃. A volume of 100 mL of 0.2 g·mL-1 sodium hydroxide solution was then gradually added while stirring until the solution became transparent. It is imperative that the solution not exceed 48 ℃ during the addition of the sodium hydroxide. A total of 91.0 g of sodium nitrate potassium tartrate, 2.5 g of phenol and 2.5 g of anhydrous sodium sulfite were added and heated to 45 ℃ in a water bath, while 300 mL of water was added with constant stirring until the material had completely dissolved. Finally, the solution was cooled to room temperature, and distilled water was added to a final volume of 1 L. The solution was stored in the dark at room temperature for 7 days before use. A unit of pectinase was defined as the amount of enzyme required to produce 1 μmol of galacturonic acid, and a unit of cellulase was the amount of enzyme required to produce 1 μmol of glucose per min.
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This year, our partners the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), jointly awarded their Junior Moulton Medal to two sets of recipients for their respective works, both published in MSDE. The Junior Moulton Medal is awarded to the early-career author, or authors, of the most meritorious papers published by IChemE in the last year.
One set of this year’s recipients are David Danaci, Mai Bui and Niall MacDowell from Imperial College London for their paper “Exploring the limits of absorption-based CO2 capture using MOFs with PVSA – from molecular design to process economics”.
David Danaci is a research associate at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London. His research is a combination of experimental work (materials synthesis to pilot-scale), process modelling, and techno-economic analysis. He currently works on adsorption-based separations for CO2 capture, and has previously investigated other applications including O2 production, and natural gas sweetening. He also has experience with other gas separation technologies including physical and chemical absorption, and cryogenic distillation. He has also worked on heterogenous reaction processes including methanol and dimethyl ether production for CO2 utilisation, and H2 production via methane reforming. David is also a member of the Education Committee of the International Adsorption Society.
Mai Bui is a senior research associate in the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London and co-leads the Clean Fossil and Bioenergy Research Group with Professor Niall Mac Dowell. She has experience designing demonstration tests in pilot plants, operating and modelling CO2 capture plants in Australia, the UK and Norway. Her research focuses on evaluating the potential of different CO2 capture technologies in the context of power, industry and negative emission applications (e.g. bioenergy with CCS and direct air capture).
Niall MacDowell is a Professor in Energy Systems Engineering at Imperial College London. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of both the IChemE and the Royal Society of Chemistry. His research is focused on understanding the transition to a low carbon economy. Since receiving his PhD 2010, he has published more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers at the molecular, unit operation, integrated process, and system scales in this context. A full list of publications can be found here and he currently serves on the Advisory Board of Joule. Niall has more than a decade’s experience as a consultant to the public and private sectors. He has worked with a range of private sector energy companies, and has provided evidence to members of the Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change and has given advice to DECC/BEIS, the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission, the IEA, the IEAGHG the ETI and the JRC. Niall is a member of Total’s Scientific Advisory Board, was also a member of the US National Petroleum Council (NPC) CCUS Roadmap Team. Niall has been a member of the technical working group of the Zero Emissions Platform (ZEP), the Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA) and from 2015 – 2019 served as the Secretary of the IChemE’s Energy Centre. Finally, Niall was awarded the Qatar Petroleum Prize for his PhD research in 2010 and the IChemE’s Nicklin and Junior Moulton medals for his work on low carbon energy in 2015 and 2021, respectively.
Read their Junior Moulton Medal winning paper “Exploring the limits of absorption-based CO2 capture using MOFs with PVSA – from molecular design to process economics”. This article is part of our collection MSDE for the 2021 MSDE Symposium and all articles are FREE to read until 15 July.
Research Associate David Danaci has kindly answered some questions for us.
Your Moulton Medal winning paper focuses on MOF design for CO2 capture. In your opinion, what are the most important questions to be asked/answered in this field of research?
Tens of thousands of MOFs have been synthesised, but only a handful are being pursued for selected applications. The practical information required to evaluate the performance of nearly all of these materials (for any application) does not exist.
In this regard, comprehensive computational studies have been carried out over the past few years by other research groups. An opportunity now exists to experimentally validate those results for the top performing materials, and ascertain other factors such as stability towards moisture and impurities, and long-term cyclic stability. Conversely, studies like ours, and others that have also been published, have identified key properties that should be displayed by materials for good CO2 capture performance, i.e., post-combustion conditions. The question that arises is whether materials can now actually be rationally designed to meet those criteria. Progress in either avenue would be valuable to the adsorption, and CO2 capture fields.
Aside from the focus on adsorbents, there are still many questions around the best adsorption process design for a given CO2 capture application. Any adsorption-based separation is a combination of adsorbent and process selection, so it cannot be overlooked. Further research in this area is required in order to investigate avenues for cost reduction.
What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment?
There is a portfolio of different CO2 capture technologies (e.g. absorption, adsorption, membranes) and a range of different applications. There are still many questions to be answered around the optimum process designs and techno-economic analysis. Related to that, although amine absorption is a viable CO2 capture technology in the vast majority of cases, there are some instances where it may not be the cost optimal solution. Identifying where adsorption processes will be the most effective is an area of interest, particularly with respect to the other capture technologies.
Aside from CO2 capture for climate change mitigation, there are also many other separations which are of industrial importance that have not received as much attention to date. Specifically, rare gas separation, alkane-olefin separation, and low-energy alternatives to distillation processes. So, there are still many other applications to investigate in the future.
What do you find most challenging about your research?
In the context of evaluating new adsorbents for CO2 capture, the biggest limitation is availability of the necessary experimental data which are inputs to process modelling. Previously, there has not been a sensible approach in selecting candidate materials from the thousands of alternatives to perform these measurements on; however, the computational work mentioned earlier has narrowed down that search space. Process design and modelling can be carried out on conventional adsorbents for which sufficient data is available, however, the outcomes are adsorbent-specific so the findings cannot be translated to other adsorbents.
Specifically in the context of MOFs, a MOF may have been synthesised once off with crystals obtained to perform x-ray diffraction, and submitted as a new material to the database. However, reproducibility is rarely investigated. Therefore, although computational studies may indicate good performance based on that crystallographic data, it may be difficult or impossible to reproduce the material in sufficient quantity to carry out the required measurements.
In which upcoming conferences or events (online or in person) may our readers meet you?
We will be attending the 2021 MSDE Symposium between the 17th and 18th of June, FEZA2021 Virtual between the 5th and 9th of July, and the AIChE Virtual Annual Meeting between the 15th and 19th of November.
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XRHealth Opens First Virtual Reality Telehealth Clinic
XRHealth, formerly known as VRHealth, the leader in extended reality and therapeutic applications, today announced the first virtual reality telehealth clinic that will provide VR therapy to patients. VR telehealth clinicians providing care are currently certified in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Florida, Michigan, Washington D.C., Delaware, California, New York, and North Carolina and will be expanding their presence in additional states in the coming months. The XRHealth telehealth services are covered by Medicare and most major insurance providers.
XRHealth utilizes the power of virtual reality to rehabilitate patients via an immersive and engaging experience in the comfort of their own home. XRHealth combines therapeutic software with VR technology solutions that can treat a variety of health conditions. VR therapy transports patients to an environment where they can view and experience treatment as a fun activity, increasing patient participation in prescribed therapeutic treatments.
The XRHealth VR telehealth clinicians will provide an initial patient assessment, ship a VR headset to patients who do not currently have access to one, train them on how to use the technology, provide ongoing telehealth care and remote monitoring, using video call and VR technology, and manage the insurance billing for patients. As the patient is using the XRHealth VR technology for therapeutic treatment, the clinical staff can control the unit remotely and see exactly what the patient is viewing and adjust the settings and treatment in real-time, remotely. After the initial training session, the patient can then use the headset independently while data from the therapy is stored and analyzed in real-time so that clinicians can monitor patient status regularly while in compliance with the HIPAA privacy rules. Once a week, a report will be generated to the payer/provider that referred the patient.
Patients that want virtual reality therapeutic care from the XRHealth telehealth clinic can seek treatment for the following conditions:
- Traumatic brain injury and stroke rehabilitation
- Stress, anxiety, memory decline
- Chronic pain, acute pain, pain distraction, pain syndromes
- Hot flashes and night sweats
- Neck, shoulder, spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders
“XRHealth is modernizing and revolutionizing the way healthcare is operating today,” says Eran Orr, CEO of XRHealth. “We are utilizing the most advanced forms of technology like virtual reality to provide patients with optimal care in the comfort of their own homes while providing top-notch clinicians with ongoing status of their progress. Patients can now ‘go’ to a virtual clinic without the need to leave their homes at all.”
The XRHealth VR telehealth clinics will open on March 1st and patients can join by submitting a request to enroll for the XRHealth services on the company website.
XRHealth, formerly known as VRHealth, is the leader in extended reality and therapeutic applications providing both VR and AR solutions for the medical industry. XRHealth is the first certified Extended Reality medical company in the world; their Medical Applications are FDA & CE Registered. They provide first-of-its-kind healthcare technology that helps clinicians better manage their patients’ care via specialized extended reality technology solutions and data analysis. XRHealth created the first virtual reality telehealth clinic in the world that is currently certified in nine states. The VR solution known as the VRHealth Platform collects and examines user data through artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-computing algorithms to deliver advanced data analytics in real-time, consistently enabling healthcare providers to enhance their users’ and payers’ healthcare experiences. The company offers a variety of patent-pending solutions from rehabilitation services to cognitive assessment and training, to pain management. XRHealth works with several world-renowned U.S. healthcare providers, hospitals and rehabilitation centers. Founded in 2016, XRHealth is headquartered in Israel and Boston, Massachusetts. Learn more at https://www.xr.health/.
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Supporting multi-criteria decision-making across websites: the Logikós approach
Online customers frequently conduct activities that involve multi- criteria decision-making. They analyze and compare alternatives considering a set of shared characteristics. Websites present the information of products without special support for these activities. Moreover, the products of interest for the customer are frequently scattered across various shops, with no support to collect and compare them in a consistent and customized manner. We argue that multi-criteria decision-making methods (such as Analytic Hierarchy Pro- cess) can be e ectively o ered to online customers. In this article, we present an approach and supporting tools to enable multi-criteria decision-making on any website and across websites. They are based on web-augmentation to extract information items from websites, and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to model multi-criteria decisions. The approach and tools were experimentally evaluated with end-users in two di erent countries. An illustrative scenario provides insight into the application of the approach and the role of the sup- porting tools. Evaluation showed that users appreciate creating AHP models speci c to their needs, and trust the decisions they make using these models. Participants were reluctant to trust reusable decision pro les (i.e., AHP mod- els created by other users). The numerous pairwise comparisons required by AHP in the presence of multiple criteria and alternatives, was reported as a drawback. However, participants indicated that the proposed smart-ranking functionality represented a good mechanism to cope with it. | <urn:uuid:b0c622bb-5d3e-4ead-a811-10fe1f32ed5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digital.cic.gba.gob.ar/items/53a1cd5e-e806-4556-a6ea-96e214df9fbf | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.937748 | 326 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Fragoza takes public writing seriously as the co-founder of the South El Monte Arts Posse, an arts collective east of East Los Angeles.
Watching the riots on TV is like watching everybody on the playground unfreeze. […] The police say freeze and the people on the streets raise their arms to set buildings on fire. Where did they get the fire from? I wonder. It must have been something they kept balled up secretly in their fists. Growing hotter as the fists grew tighter, for many, many years.
This week is the 25th anniversary of the LA Riots and like it, Carribean Fragoza’s poetry collection K-12 is an unavoidable rebellion, a taut desire to burn, something balled up secretly in fists. Fragoza is a writer, visual artist, and arts activist originally from South El Monte, California. Her first poetry collection is structured as thirteen vignettes told over the speaker’s public school education, set in the 1980s and 90s Los Angeles. One minute the speaker’s stories are aflame with Cheetos and monkey bars, and, as she grows up, we see her tangled love for Kurt Cobain and Comandante Marcos. Published by eohippus labs, K-12 is a field guide to the so-called fringes of urban centers, which are actually its lungs; the kind of cities that provide the bodies every city needs to breathe. Told through the keen observations of a young girl, with playfully mature syntax, and a constant concern with wonder, the collection is an essential contribution to coming-of-age American prose as poetry, blending genres and crafting a new kind of lyric. Following in the tradition of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha and Juan Felipe Herrera’s CrashBoomLove, the narrator is Brown, working class, and though watching the world burn, she is its witness and an actor, recording history with searing wit and beauty.
In sixth grade, for instance, the speaker visits a big art museum and sees Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Monkeys. When an adult tries to explain the painter’s grief because she couldn’t have children, the narrator is not convinced. She needs evidence for any argument to be not only true, but visible in everyday life. The eleven-year old answers:
I could not sympathize, for having a monkey must surely be better than having a baby. My own siblings were babies until just recently and no one seemed to enjoy that, especially not them.
The narrator’s self-assurance should not be confused with naivete. In the same scene, the speaker spots Diego Rivera’s Lily Vendor, where a Brown girl in long braids holds calla lillies:
I had seen girls like this enough times before to know that she held these not for her own recreation. These are the girls I see in Mexico that come down from the hills before dawn to sell their flowers or baskets in the city. […] What I do know is that though I am brown like them, and we may be of a similar age, I must cut my braids off the first chance I get.
The speaker rejects a connection to other girls who appear to have less power and would rather take action against what ties them together. The narrator is a survivor, and inside the white walls of a museum or school, she finds the strategies that will keep her closer to the monkeys where all the fun is, and far away from babies who don’t like being babies. The gesture of rejection is not static as she returns to her roots in later grades to locate a rebellion to which she can connect, one she forges out of grunge rock and Zapatistas.
The speaker’s syntax shows her natural inclination toward analysis, an inner world of ideas and theories. Each observation is measured and adult, a slow burn with explosive, but subdued ends. In sixth grade, the girl is trying to figure out who her role models are:
In my mind, I flipped through my social studies books [and] I could not find one that appealed to me.[…]. I felt lonely standing at the edge of the world before someone figured out it was round. Looking over Niagra Falls in every direction. All of the world’s waters and its beasts crashing down below me.
But she is not defeated. In constant wonder, the speaker’s questions spark desire and assertion. She looks beyond her history books to become a beast that sees beyond the end of the world:
I pictured my face looking out into the universe as the face of a feathered dragon, my long fangs smiling greatly, also ready to rip into meat, both my hunger and something new and angry, satisfied and grateful.
This book’s fangs dug into me. Its makes bridges as it goes, as Anzaldua said about walking and finding answers. This book is for who any kind of girl who is electric, who wants to plot and ride with Subcomandante Marcos in the Lancandon, who listens to the radio to comfort their inner genius.
The book is a bag of flaming hot Cheetos and my fingers are still red from holding it. Read this book if you aspire to be a feathered dragon, new and angry, ready to rip into the meat of those who might think your life is not important. Fragoza shows the readers how to hold fire in our hands. | <urn:uuid:68c74a5e-c23d-4e5a-9f8d-e0dda84f54c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://entropymag.org/setting-the-sky-in-flames-carribean-fragozas-poetry-redefines-an-american-childhood/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960879 | 1,138 | 1.945313 | 2 |
July 25, 2016
At its July meeting the Kansas State Board of Education considered several options related to school funding and there was positive news for those of us in special education. The board recommended a large increase in overall funding and a significant increase to special education. You can find the special education funding options considered on page 91 of the .pdf document located here:
The board’s recommendation is a giant step forward on the path towards full funding for special education. Too often special education programs and the funding for those programs are overlooked. This was a positive message and is one we want to support and follow as the legislature considers a new funding formula. It takes character and courage to make a recommendation like this in my humble opinion and it is even more heartening to see that there hasn’t been any widely reported opinions that are critical.
April 14, 2016
HB 2741 continues to generate interest and discussion in the education community. Much of the dialogue is well thought out and well communicated.
It is safe to say that HB 2742 represents a radically new approach for financing education and will challenge conventional thinking.
I found this article to be very well written, interesting and insightful. Hope you’ll take time to read it.
You can find it here:
April 4, 2016
The new school finance bill HB 2741 holds some good news and some bad news.
I like to finish things on a positive note so let’s start with the bad news in this bill. Funding for schools is cut by some 373 million dollars. Funding for extra curricular and food service programs must be generated locally as it will be prohibited for schools to use state aid for these programs. Local school districts would face more obstacles if they found it necessary to challenge school finance laws. Cash balances held by local districts would be reduced and districts would have to levy a statewide property tax mill rate of 35 mills compared to the current 20 mills. Capital outlay state aid would be impacted as well.
There is good news in the bill that is worth noting too. Special education funding as established in statute 72-978 remains essentially the same. Funding is to be at 92% of the measured cost of providing special education and related services. This is good news for special education. It is important to note though that the bill gives no indication as to when this level of funding might actually materialize. Also positive is the Efficiency Incentive Program that will reward any school employee who identifies an efficiency that is put into place and saves dollars. The employee would see up to 10% of the money saved and that is a good thing. Another positive would be to put all school employees into the state insurance pool. I agree that this might be bad news for some but speaking for Keystone it looks like good news.
You can read the full text of the bill here:
March 23, 2016
It has been more and more difficult to find any positive news related to the 2016 legislative session and the Kansas economy. A quick Google search using the terms Kansas Legislature or Kansas economy will produce thousands of hits from across Kansas and across the United States. Unfortunately, those hits lead to media content that is predominately negative.
Here’s an example of one such article: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article66848447.html
The Kansas Legislature and the Governor of Kansas have become frequent fodder for the late night comedy hosts. A quick review of some of the bills being considered hasn’t helped me to find anything to be positive about. For a person who builds into their professional practice the simple habit of finding the best in all of the circumstances that surround us that has become more and more challenging. One hit from the search terms above took me to an entertaining video of Seth Myers critiquing Kansas. I won’t provide a link, as some of his content is inappropriate for a younger audience, although you can easily find it should you choose.
That challenge was finally overcome when my youngest son came home to share his experience as a page in the Kansas Senate one day earlier this week. He was as motivated and as energized as I have ever seen him. He shared the specifics related to the bills that had been debated that day and I could tell he had learned a great deal. I couldn’t help but wonder, “How did he come away from that experience with such positive outlook?” The answer was simple. Our system of governing is a good one. It’s a system that encourages diverse opinions and through that process great things can come. Children go into the process without a predetermined agenda. They want only to learn more about each issue in order to make an informed decision. Indeed they revel in the opportunity. Seeing the legislative process through younger eyes gave me a new perspective. Bringing students into the process may be one of the best things our legislators do. We can only hope that they will embrace the opportunity to engage and learn from those precious students. | <urn:uuid:f7110aa4-bfb9-4c45-81b2-341dfe6a9cf2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.keystonelearning.org/2016-legislative-session/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970296 | 1,075 | 1.9375 | 2 |
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Every few years some rare collision of meteorological factors will result in a red rain of Saharan dust clogging the exhaust pipes of cars in Wrexham and powdering suburban rooftops in Surrey. In this way particles of African sand, picked up and lifted and caught on the current, can find themselves spread across the world like a global cloak, alighting on the shoulders of those who have never and will never set foot in the desert.
It is these webs of connection, this process of dissemination – by wind, by wire, by digital signal, by the touch of hand or a soft word whispered into an ear – that Curious Directive, the company behind last year’s acclaimed Your Last Breath, are attempting to illustrate here in their striated and intricate production.
A young Egyptian woman in a cherry red head-scarf makes a pilgrimage from Cairo to London, visiting the major European museums en route as a way of staying connected to the brother she lost in Tahir Square. In one of several parallel narrative strands, a British government official in Egypt in the 1950s is on a covert fact-finding mission when his plane goes down in the desert. Hopping through time once more, this time to the 1980s, a young art student makes a piece of sculpture as a way of commemorating a Cumbrian mining accident in which she too lost a brother. Leaping forwards to 2022 an academic outlines the thesis of his new book, relating the viral spread of ideas around the world with the way that ants communicate.
In terms of stagecraft alone, After the Rainfall is a beautiful thing to behold. It is immaculate in its use of movement, shifting between its various distinct worlds and time periods with remarkable ease. No gesture is without purpose, no action superfluous. The performers are whipped and buffeted by desert winds, they are penned in on London tube trains; they balance precariously on chairs as they create their own internal flashback structure, a series of echoes of echoes.
The company fling question after question at the audience: about the aftermath of Empire, about the cultural and emotional significance of ancient artefacts, about the many disparate ways in which people communicate and connect with one another. The piece as a whole is as densely lettered as the Rosetta Stone, which plays a pivotal part in the narrative, while images captured on Facebook and camera phone are another recurring motif. The production seems genuinely excited about the evolution of communication technology, the rapidity with which ideas can be spread, the way a single image can leap across the planet like a spark through arid grass.
There’s an awful lot to unpick here and some of the strands are given more space to breathe – to exhale and expand – than others, meaning that some of the characters remain sketches – elegant and artfully drawn, but sketches all the same. There are times it feels as if there are several separate plays here, layered on top of one another, stacked like so much Edinburgh city silt, one world piled upon the one beneath. But throughout it all, the time-shifts and the occasional thematic overload, Rashida – the Egyptian girl played with great grace by Colette Tchantcho – remains a calm, cool centre amidst the sandstorm. | <urn:uuid:8a5e4982-cc9e-4072-a808-471b6293b695> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/after-the-rainfall/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954801 | 665 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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Hypospadias – symptoms and treatment
When baby boys grow inside the womb, their urethra, which carries urine out of the body, begins as an open channel and folds into a tube before birth. For some boys, however, the urethra does not develop properly, and its opening forms in an abnormal location.
For boys with this condition, known as hypospadias, the urethra is too short, and the urethra opening is not at the tip of the penis. It is on the shaft or base of the penis, or even between the testicles. They also often suffer from chordee, where the penis most commonly bends downwards.
Although the cause of hypospadias is unknown, research suggests that there is a genetic component, with people more likely to have it if they have a family member who has it.
Boys with hypospadias could have a deviated urine stream, spraying of urine, and sometimes have to sit on the toilet bowl to void to avoid wetting their underwear. As they grow older, they could also have difficulties during sexual intercourse.
Hypospadias must be treated with surgery. The objective of the surgery is to make a normal, straight penis with a urinary channel which ends at, or near, the tip.
The first step to treating hypospadias is straightening a bent penis. This is done by making an incision around the abnormally positioned urethra opening. Separating the skin and underlying tissue from the penis releases tethering bands of tissue and straightens the penis.
Secondly, the surgeon will need to reconstruct the urethra to position the meatus (opening of the urethra) at the head of the penis. Hypospadias repair involves flaps or graft, commonly from preputial skin. Inner lip mucosa grafts or skin grafts from behind the ears have also been used.
This process can be completed in a single surgery for those with distal hypospadias, where the urethra opening is located at the corona or on its shaft. Those with proximal hypospadias, where the urethra opening is at or below the scrotum, undergo a single or two-staged repair depending on the length of the urethra that needs to be constructed and the surgeon’s preference. The longer the length of reconstructed urethra, the higher the risk of complications such as fistulas, which are leakages in the new urethra.
It is preferred to perform hypospadias surgery in boys between the ages of six and 18 months, to decrease the psychological impact before they become self-aware of their genitalia. Hypospadias can also be repaired in children of older age and even in adults, with similar success rates in function and cosmesis.
There are numerous techniques reported in the literature for fixing hypospadias. Your son’s paediatric urologist will be able to advise on a repair method that is best suited for him.
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In August 2016, the Games of the 31st Olympiad will officially open in the Estadio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For the host nation, Rio 2016 is the culmination of a range of political, economic, social, and cultural ambitions.
The foremost advocate of Rio 2016 – former populist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – said of the games during the bid process: “For others it is just another games. For us it will be an unparalleled opportunity.” But whether da Silva’s populist legacy is enough to see the games through to success is open to question.
Da Silva – popularly referred to as Lula – is a man of humble beginnings. Working class by birth, upbringing, and profession, the former machine operator is widely recognised as a man of the people. Considered the most prominent member of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) when coming into power, Lula derived his political support from a widespread dissatisfaction with the inequalities of Brazilian society, and a disillusionment with the political leaders who failed to address them. Lula was swept into power on the wave of progressive populism in 2003, and served two terms.
Once in office, Lula moderated his anti-capitalist tone. He strategically engaged with global capitalist forces, as well as embarking on his more widely anticipated social welfare agenda. Continuing the policies of his predecessor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Lula observed an economic orthodoxy, while distinguishing his administration through large-scale social initiatives, most notably the Bolsa Família.
On the left, he was criticised for maintaining market-oriented economic policies. Meanwhile, the right was wary of him enacting a more overt socialist agenda. The centre-left Lula government balanced its moderate agenda against its interest in maintaining a parliamentary majority. Upholding a broad and unstable set of alliances imposed puzzling contradictions on Lula, his government, and the PT. Even so, the party remains in power today under Dilma Rousseff – Brazil’s first woman president.
The promise of Rio 2016
Unlike other candidate cities such as Chicago, Madrid, and Tokyo – whose funding relied heavily on private capital – the Rio 2016 bid pledged unrivalled use of public funding at city, state, and federal levels.
In addition to the US$2.82bn budget for the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, US$11.1bn was pledged toward capital investments to Rio’s urban condition. Planned improvements include enhancements to public transport, a high-speed rail system and approximately 300km of new traffic lanes. There are also plans to upgrade Rio Galeão International airport, put in place better environmental management systems, power and security equipment, and enable city-wide Wi-Fi access.
These ambitious plans are a sure sign that the games are being used by Rio and Brazil as a springboard to rebrand. Rio’s bid to the International Olympic Committee was led by four short films, created by Academy Award-nominated director Fernando Meirelles. The films represented a “New Rio” as emblematic, and symptomatic, of a “New Brazil”, while also positioning Rio as a destination which would further globalise the Olympic community and “unite the world like never before”.
One of Meirelles' depictions of the “New Rio”
Brazil continues to draw in tourists through stereotypical images of samba, sun, sea, and futbol. But when it comes to “brand Brazil”, there’s a thin line between sticking to the stereotypes, and getting stuck in them. The Olympics was heralded as Brazil’s moment to gain reputation and influence beyond Carnival and the football pitch.
But preparations for the games are overshadowed by some of the same dark clouds that plagued the 2014 FIFA World Cup – namely, a lack of transparency and vagueness around costs. The estimated cost of the World Cup stadiums ranges from slightly over US$3.6 billion more than planned to three or four times the initial amount. Worse, the stadiums built across the country have been referred to as white elephants. While they looked the part for the World Cup, these developments are seen to do little for the people, communities, and cities in which they were constructed at considerable cost to the government.
Currently, construction for the Olympic Games is behind schedule. Political corruption appears widespread, in line with the stereotypes of Brazilian politics and business practices. The latest incident involves Petrobas, the state-owned oil company, and several other companies contributing to the preparations for the games.
The games have also come under scrutiny for environmental reasons. Testing has shown that the competitive waters of Guanabara Bay are so contaminated with animal carcasses, rubbish, and human fecal matter that boating athletes training in the waters are liable to fall ill. The Brazilian government later admitted that although efforts were underway to address the issue, it may not reach its goal of reducing water pollution by 80% ahead of the games.
And so it would seem that political populism has its limits. Now one year away, Rio 2016 appears less a catalyst for a “New” Brazil or a “New” Rio, and more a short-term theatre production. The preparations so far have not adequately addressed the long-standing issues of poverty and inequality, crime and violence, environmental degradation, and political corruption – all of which have been raised by the movements (such as copa para quem? and Movimento Anti-Copa de Decoração de Ruas) opposing the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games. In the end, Lula’s legacy may prove to be one from which President Rousseff wishes she could escape.
Bryan C. Clift does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond the academic appointment above.
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The first step towards understanding civil liability for car crashes in the Golden State is knowing what to call them, because in our society, words have power.
In 1997, the Massachusetts Highway Safety Commission became one of the first of some thirty agencies to shift terminology from accident to crash; in 2016, Nevada became the first state to make such a move. Later in 2016, the Associated Press followed suit, declaring that its reporters would no longer use the term if negligence is either claimed or established.
After all, according to advocates, airplanes crash, trains wreck, and ships sink, so vehicles should crash as well. To label these incidents as “accidental” implies that they were completely unavoidable by anyone involved, and typically, that is not the case. Other people counter that “accident” is proper, because the term correctly implies that the negligent driver did not intentionally set out to hurt other drivers.
“Accident” was first used in this context in the early 1900s, when some business owners referred to workplace injuries as “industrial accidents” to shift blame away from dangerous factory conditions and onto the injured workers.
What Causes Car Crashes?
Alcohol impairment is a factor in about a third of the fatal car crashes in the United States. This depressant slows down the nervous system, so impaired drivers cannot react to changing conditions as quickly as sober drivers. Furthermore, alcohol impairs judgement skills in such basic tasks like when to apply the brakes in time to stop. Finally, alcohol disrupts concentration, making it all but impossible for drivers to focus on more than one task at a time.
Many prescription drugs, street drugs, and over-the-counter drugs cause similar effects in drivers. The evidence is unclear as to whether or not marijuana impairs driving skills, but driving under the influence of cannabis is still illegal in most states, including California. In fact, the “drugged driving” law in the Golden State is very broad. In 2016, prosecutors charged a Fairfield man with DUI-Drugs because he was under the influence of caffeine; a few months later, Solano County prosecutors reluctantly dismissed the charges.
Excessive speed is a factor in another third of fatal car crashes. Velocity increases the force in any collision between two objects. So, in car crashes, a non-injury collision at low speeds becomes a serious injury crash at higher speeds. Velocity also reduces reaction time because it increases stopping distance. At 30mph, most passenger vehicles take about six car lengths to stop, but at 60mph, stopping distance triples to eighteen car lengths.
California lawmakers recently passed a tougher cellphone law to combat the rising tide of distracted driving, because this behavior causes over 431,000 injury crashes per year. At 55mph, most cars travel the length of a football field while the driver sends or reads just one text message.
Drowsy driving causes at least 100,000 car crashes a year, and that figure is probably vastly underreported. Fatigue and alcohol or drugs have about the same effect on the brain and on motor skills. In fact, driving after eighteen consecutive awake hours is like driving with a .08 BAC, which is above the legal limit in California.
All four of these behaviors could constitute a breach of the duty of reasonable care, and Gagne v. Bertran is one of the earliest California cases to explain this duty. The court held that people have “a duty to exercise the ordinary skill and competence of members of their profession, and a failure to discharge that duty will subject them to liability for negligence.”
Minimally competent drivers obey the speed limit, focus on the road, are sober, are well-rested, and otherwise obey “the rules of the road” in the Vehicle Code and elsewhere.
If the breach of duty caused the car crash (e.g. Driver A hit Driver B because Driver A was speeding), the victim is entitled to damages. These damages usually include compensation for noneconomic losses, such as pain and suffering, and economic losses, such as medical bills.
Many of these behaviors also involve a violation of the Vehicle Code or some other law; for example, speeding may violate Vehicle Code 22350 or another provision. In these cases, victims only need to prove cause, thanks to the negligence per se rule. Drivers are liable for damages as a matter of law if:
- They violated a law, and
- That violation substantially caused the victim’s damages.
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A well-known Quaker historian explores the qualities of Quaker faith and practice that contribute to living sustainably in the world today. He explores such paradoxes as equality and community, unity and differentiation, integrity and personal discernment, and other aspects of life that Quakers have worked to bring into balance throughout their 350-year history. How have Quakers learned to create the kind of individual and community life that can prepare us to live fully and responsibly into a time of social and planetary change?
About the Author(s)
Doug Gwyn grew up in the pastoral stream of Friends in Indiana. After experiencing a call to ministry in 1968, he attended Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he began to know unprogrammed Friends better. Over the years, he has followed his calling to ministry into work as a Friends pastor, as a writer for the American Friends Service Committee, and as a teacher at the Quaker study centers Pendle Hill and Woodbrooke. His training in biblical studies has informed his research and writing on early Friends and on current issues among Friends today. Doug has coined the term “bispiritual” to describe Friends like himself who are engaged and nurtured by both pastoral and unprogrammed Friends, in different ways. His wife, Caroline Jones, is a Friend and dharma teacher in the Insight Buddhist tradition.
Doug’s books include Apocalypse of the Word: The Life and Message of George Fox (1986), The Covenant Crucified: Quakers and the Rise of Capitalism (1995), Seekers Found: Atonement in Early Quaker Experience (2000), and Conversation with Christ: Quaker Meditations on the Gospel of John (2011). He also wrote the 2014 Pendle Hill pamphlet, But Who Do You Say That I Am? Quakers and Christ Today (PHP #426). | <urn:uuid:771b3191-b48d-4177-8ecf-0a747dce27ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pendlehill.org/product/sustainable-life-quaker-faith-practice-renewal-creation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.952796 | 380 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Note: For the fifth year in a row, I am serving as Chief Tournament Physician of the Family Circle Cup. Each day of the tournament, I am writing an article for The Post and Courier and Family Circle Cup.
This year the Family Circle Cup moved up a week in the Sony Ericsson WTA tournament schedule. In recent years, it followed a tournament in Ponte Vedra, Florida and preceded the tour moving to Europe for the clay court season that culminates in Paris at the French Open. Now the Charleston tournament falls directly after two WTA “Premier Mandatory” events. Fans here have been hoping that by moving up a week in the schedule, Charleston might be able to attract more of the top players leaving Miami before returning to Europe.
The players at the Family Circle Cup this week transition from the hard courts at Indian Wells and Miami to clay courts. What effect the playing surface could have on injuries makes for an interesting debate.
In general, clay courts are widely believed to be associated with fewer injuries than other surfaces, namely grass and hard courts. There is little evidence in the scientific literature to support or refute this claim other than older, retrospective studies, but many tennis pros, coaches, and players share the belief.
One dramatic change players face transitioning from hard courts to clay is the change in the type of tennis played. On clay, ball speeds are generally slower, so players often have more time to get to shots and hit their preferred shots. Consequently, rallies tend to be much longer on clay. With longer rallies during points but no increased rest time between points and between games, cardiovascular endurance and stamina become more important. In theory, fatigue and cramping could be factors playing on clay so soon after several tournaments on hard courts. However, the hopefully cooler weather and one less week on the swing trough the U.S. might counteract those factors.
Another major change is the players’ ability to slide on the court. Many coaches feel that sliding to get to shots or slow down after them is a skill that requires practice. Could the balance required to slide effectively be decreased because players have been on hard courts for weeks? If we see players falling frequently, that point might be made.
Fortunately, not only the ability to slide on clay but the fact that clay is a softer, more forgiving surface might be beneficial. Both factors might decrease stress from the repetitive impact of running and lunging on the lower extremities. Less repetitive impact hopefully means less knee, ankle, and foot pain.
Unfortunately injuries are part of the sport of tennis, and I’m sure there will be some that occur here this week. The surface may or may not be a factor, but it is something for fans to keep in mind as they watch these top athletes sliding across the green clay of the Family Circle Tennis Center stadium.
Read my daily posts from the 2011 Family Circle Cup!
Day 1: Tennis players among world’s elite athletes
Day 3: What’s on the menu for pro tennis players?
Day 4: Best Tennis Town in America
Day 5: Wind hurts more than players’ games
Day 6: Is kinesio taping hype or helpful?
Day 7: The sun can be dangerous for tennis players
Athletes must take meds, supplements with caution
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According to scientists, we just went through one of the hottest decades on record. Does this mean if you often have that sudden feeling of warmth leaving you drenched in sweat, that it’s due to global warming or your own personal climate instability?
If you’re in midlife, there’s a good chance that you’re experiencing hot flashes, the classic symptom associated with menopause. And you’re in good company. Up to 80% of women experience vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes and night sweats) during the transition to menopause.
“This new study diminishes the myth that hot flashes last for only a few years. We now know that in some women, the symptoms persist well past menopause.”
Researchers used to think that these symptoms lasted between 3 to 5 years. But a new study published in the journal Menopause indicates that the timing and duration of hot flashes can vary widely from woman-to-woman.
For the lucky few, the symptoms are transient. But, for a quarter of women, symptoms can persist for up to 10 years or more following menopause. That’s a sobering statistic.
The findings use data from the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation, an epidemiological study that tracks the health of women during their middle years. The study examines the physical, biological, psychological and social changes in midlife women from a variety of ethnic and racial backgrounds.
After following nearly 1,500 participants for an average of 15 years, researchers found that weight, race, education and lifestyle all affect the timing and duration of menopause symptoms.
Based on their investigation, researchers found that women fit into one of four hot flash categories as they transition through menopause:
Early Onset (18.4%). Symptoms appear up to 10 years before the final menstrual period, with a decline around the final menstrual cycle.
Late Onset (29%). Symptoms appear near the final menstrual period with later decline after menopause.
High Frequency (25.6%). A consistently high chance of having symptoms that can last 10 or 15 years following the last menstrual cycle.
Low Frequency (27%). A consistently low chance of having symptoms as women transitioned through menopause.
Which category a woman fell into was determined in part by uncontrollable factors such as race and levels of estrogen. For example, Black women were more likely to have high frequency of symptoms whereas Chinese women were more likely to have a low frequency. Women with low estradiol levels, were more likely to experience an early onset of menopausal symptoms.
However, a number of controllable factors such as overall health, obesity level and mental health also determined the extent and timing of menopausal symptoms. Women with a lower BMI and better overall health were more likely to experience fewer menopausal symptoms, for a shorter duration.
Manage Hot Flashes with Lifestyle Changes
As you transition through menopause, you can make some lifestyle changes that will not only minimize your symptoms but improve your overall health. But, what works for one woman may not work for another. Keep track of when your symptoms occur to determine the best steps to take that keep you comfortable and in control.
Invest in a Personal Fan. Sitting in a room without any air movement can spark hot flashes faster than gasoline on a fire. Keep the air circulated with a personal fan. Check out Cool It® Personal Fan, Retracto Personal Fan and Personal Bladeless Fan.
Sleep on a Cooling Pillow. No surprise that drinking a glass of ice-cold water will cool you down during night sweats. In a similar manner, sleeping on a cooling pillow like Sharper Image’s Temperature Regulating Pillow can keep this symptom at bay.
Wear Loose Fitting Clothing & Layer. Hot flashes and profuse sweating can come on suddenly and are often followed by the chills. To keep cool and wick away sweat, wear natural fibers like cotton and linen. Wear a light t-shirt, loose blouse and unstructured jacket so that you can quickly peel off a layer when feeling hot and add back a layer when you’re starting to get chilled.
Engage in Vigorous Exercise. Seems counter intuitive but good evidence suggests that vigorous exercise can reduce hot flashes. How? By exercising vigorously, your body is better able to regulate temperature. The operative word is vigorous which means sustained and strenuous exercise (e.g., running for 45 minutes, 5 times a week). A casual stroll around the neighborhood doesn’t cause the physiological changes needed to reduce hot flashes.
Lose Excess Weight. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you’re carrying excess weight, you’ll be more likely to experience hot flashes. In this study, women with a lower Body Mass Index (BMI) were more likely to experience late onset of symptoms after their final period that gradually declined in the following decade. Embark on a weight loss plan that gets you focused on eating healthier and exercising.
Stop Smoking. Here’s yet another reason to kick the habit – smoking has been reported to increase hot flashes.
Watch Your Alcohol Intake. You know the flushed feeling you get when you drink a glass of wine or enjoy a cocktail. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that alcohol can bring on a hot flash. Women in the high frequency hot flash group were more likely to be alcohol drinkers. Alcohol may not prove to be a trigger for YOU but it’s a good reason to pay attention to your intake. While moderate drinking (1 drink a day) has health benefits, any amount of alcohol increases your risk of developing breast cancer and many other cancers.
Manage Stress & Anxiety. In the study, it was more common in women who reported symptoms of depression or anxiety to report an early onset of symptoms and to report a consistently high chance of having symptoms. Try to better manage the stress in your life from taking a yoga class and practicing meditation or going out with friends and working with a therapist.
Making these positive lifestyle changes will not only improve your menopausal symptoms but improve your health and lower your risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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Finishing school can be daunting. With the pressure of exams and the knowledge that everything you’ve ever known is coming to an end, it’s not surprising that you’ll be feeling a little anxious or lost.
The key to relieving your fears is being prepared and excited for the future. Some of you will know, or will have known for sometime, exactly what your next step is and that’s amazing! However, for a lot of people, you’re probably wading waist deep in a pool of potential post school options, trying to hang onto one, any one, just to stop you from drowning.
For those of you who are still unsure about where your future lies, never fear. There are people almost twice your age who still don’t know what they want to be when they grow up.
To help give your thoughts a bit of direction, ask yourself the following questions:
What am I interested in?
University is all about independent study. There’s not going to be a teacher reminding you about what to read and when assessments are due. Therefore, it’s important that you find something you would get up out of your nice warm bed at 6am to study.
While you might think you need to do something related directly to your HSC subjects, truth is there are actually a number of degrees that don’t have high school counterparts – like architecture and public relations. Your best bet is to think about your interests outside of the school gates and then do some research to find a relevant degree.
What are my strengths?
Playing to our strengths is what helps us succeed, not only during high school but throughout our lives. Find out what kind of learner you are, whether you’re a left brain or a right brain and ask yourself questions like ‘Do I prefer being indoors or outdoors?’ or ‘Do I prefer working on my own or in a team?’. These questions will be really important in determining the type of work you’d be happy to do in the future and help you decide what you should study at university.
What job would I like to have?
This can be a difficult question in a number of ways. You might want to work in Media, say, but don’t know enough about the industry to really know whether you want to do journalism, advertising or public relations. It’s also good to note that an industry like the media is ever changing, so your dream job or role may not even exist yet!
The best thing to do is to narrow down a few industries that you would be interested in and talk directly to people who are working in that industry. They will be able to tell you all about the job, how they got there, what they studied and any advice on what they’d do differently. Don’t be shy, most people enjoy talking about their career journeys.
Who can I talk to?
While your school’s career advisor would be the most obvious choice, other people to talk to would be:
- The teacher of your favourite subject – chances are they have the same interests as you
- University ambassadors – they have all the important information like degree options, pathways and the admissions process
- Current students – will be able to tell you everything about their current studies, including campus life, accommodation options and balancing work and study
- Industry professionals – as before, they’ll know all the ins and outs of the profession
- People you admire – there’s a reason you admire them. Find out their story.
What if I make the wrong decision?
No one’s career paths are straight forward. You’ll question yourself, doubt your passions, change your interests and probably end up somewhere you didn’t think you’d be.
But that’s all okay. Things change and there are a multitude of pathways, transfers and alternate options that will get you where you want to go.
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Ihlkham Battayev's optimism after four years in captivity at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, surprises his Portland attorney.
Battayev, a 33-year-old Kazakh, has maintained that outlook despite not having seen his youngest child since the now 6-year-old boy was a toddler. Still, Portland lawyer Tom Johnson worries that Battayev's optimism will one day collapse.
It may have happened already. But Johnson won't know until later this month, when he visits Cuba and tells his client the latest development: that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision doesn't immediately help Battayev, who is being held indefinitely by U.S. authorities.
The court decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld was monumental for other reasons. Issued June 29, the court's 5-3 opinion struck down the Bush administration's plan for trying detainees accused of war crimes, opening the door for new procedural protections in those detainees' trials.
But only about 10 out of the 450 detainees currently held at Guantánamo have been accused of war crimes. The rest, like Battayev, have been charged with no crime at all. They've been classified as "enemy combatants" by review tribunals simply for their alleged association with terrorists.
From his office with the Perkins Coie law firm in the Pearl District, Johnson drew a diagram of the distinction between the detainees.
"You only hear about this," he said, circling his pen around the figure representing the 10 accused of war crimes. "This," he said, pointing at the other half of the diagram, the one representing the 440-or-so men who are being held on no charges, "is the real problem."
Battayev's problems began in January 2001, months before Americans would wake up to the War on Terror.
The owner of a small trading business, Battayev says he had gone to Tajikistan from his native Kazakhstan in central Asia to sell apples and, while there, was kidnapped by thugs, possibly members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Battayev testified to military officers conducting his combatant status review tribunal in 2004 that he was then taken to Afghanistan, where, one month later, he was forced to work for the Taliban as a cook's helper.
When U.S. forces invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, Battayev says he and several other men tried to escape from the Taliban amid the chaos. Battayev's plan was to go hundreds of miles west to Iran, then return north to Kazakhstan.
At the time, U.S. forces were dropping leaflets on Afghanistan telling people to turn over anyone suspected of having ties to the Taliban. The leaflets also offered cash rewards.
So in his attempt to leave the country, Battayev was stopped, this time by followers of an Uzbek warlord friendly with the Taliban-fighting Northern Alliance. Battayev was turned over to U.S. authorities in December 2001, and taken to Guantánamo in early 2002. He has been held there ever since on the grounds that he is an enemy combatant.
It wasn't until June 2004 that the U.S. Supreme Court issued its first decision concerning Guantánamo detainees. But as a result of that case, Rasul v. Bush, enemy combatants were told they could, for the first time, challenge the constitutionality of their detention.
That's where lawyers like Johnson, his colleague Cody Weston and several others in Portland and around the country stepped in. With the support of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, the lawyers filed habeas corpus petitions on behalf of the detainees, arguing that their clients' detention was, in simple terms, wrong.
The Supreme Court's June 2006 decision in Hamdan actually reaffirmed detainees' ability to pursue their petitions in federal court.
But the possibility of Battayev's returning to Kazakhstan soon is remote. His case is on hold in Washington, D.C.'s federal district court until a similar case is decided in a higher court, the D.C. Court of Appeals. It is uncertain when that decision will be made.
And while some detainees have been released (for a variety of reasons), Battayev remains in Guantánamo's Camp Four, which he shares with nine people.
"I always knew America as a democratic country and always heard positive things about America," Battayev testified at his review tribunal. "I believe that after 9/11 America became very aggressive, and that's possibly the only reason I'm here."
Failure to Communicate
At his status review tribunal in 2004, Ihlkham Battayev was classified as an enemy combatant. His attorney, Tom Johnson, calls the proceeding "a joke." Here's an excerpt from the seven-page transcript of the exchange between Battayev and his questioners from the U.S. military:
Q: Most of the detainees in the camp wear orange. We notice you are wearing white. Why is that?
A: That is a question I intended to ask you.
Q: If I knew the answer, I wouldn't have asked you myself.
A: I don't know.
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Smaller plates can trick your brain into thinking you are eating more than you normally are. So it’s smart to eat unhealthy foods from smaller plates, causing you to eat less. You can use this way by serving healthy food on a bigger plate and unhealthy food on smaller plates.
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Bigger portion sizes have been associated with obesity and may support both children and adults to intake more food. Serving yourself just a little portion may help you eat significantly fewer calories.
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The practice of Yoga is physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a discipline which originated in ancient India over 5,000 years ago. Introduced to the Western world in the late 19th century, it wasn’t until the 1980’s that yoga gained widespread popularity.
Yoga comes in many forms:
- Hatha – this is a slower class requiring each pose to be held for a few breaths.
- Vinyasa – this is a flow class that links movement and breath together.
- Hot Yoga – typically Bikram style of Yoga preformed in hot and humid conditions. The benefit is detoxification. Heavy sweating is said to flush toxins from the skin.
- Iyengar – named after one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world, B.K.S. Iyenger, this is a form of Hatha yoga emphasizing detail, precision, alignment, and breath control.
Yoga promotes health and wellbeing through a variety of different techniques such as postures, movement, breathing, relaxation, concentration, self-inquiry, and meditation. The main goal of the yoga lifestyle is life balance – training your mind, body, and breath.
According to a Yoga Journal Study, there is a rise in popularity. 20 million Americans practice yoga today which is up from 15.8 million in 2004. Home practices are great and you can make it your own. Others enjoy group practices where you can leave all the distractions at the door and concentrate only on your practice.
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Contemporary Mexican artists combine passion and craft at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
What, the exhibition “Libros de Artista” explores through 40 colorful, three-dimensional displays, is a book? The joy and impact of the show, opening at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art on January 20, is that there is no single answer.
The Mexican Artists community has been making Artist books for hundreds of years. Books crated by contemporary Mexican artists have staged a renaissance, says show curator Simon Blattner. “They are very exciting, rich with color, robust, filled with energy and brilliantly conceived.”
Handmade artists books, when well constructed, bound, covered and messaged, are art of the highest order, Blattner believes. “They are craft at its best, and the ensemble performance of many parts.”
An art book is often a collaboration between artists working in several disciplines. There is the maker of the paper itself, and the printer. The graphic artist or painter, perhaps, and a writer of text. And someone to expertly bind it all together. “It’s like a ballet.”
“An artist book can either be the product of a single individual or a coordinated effort of a team of makers,’’ Blattner says. “It can look like a book or maybe not. It may beautiful or maybe even scary but one thing for sure, it will invite us to go further.”
If there’s one constant, it’s a true love of process. “They make art because they can’t stop themselves,” Blattner says. “It’s excitement and passion. You do it because you have to.”
The book as physical object has always fascinated Blattner. “Every book I ever picked up had some sort of beauty or feature that made me look at it as art. It could have been the paper, the type face, the ink, the binding, or even the heft and feel of the volume.”
Blattner once took a course in papermaking from Ron Farnsworth, who he considered the best papermaker in America. Blattner was successful at business, but felt a calling “to make stuff.” After the course ended, he cajoled Farnsworth into taking him on as an intern, and spent 10 years, three days a week, honing his craft. When he left in 1997 to open a studio in Sonoma, Farnsworth gave him a printing press as a going away gift.
The exhibition of 40 books two years to assemble. About one-third of the works are on loan from domestic collections, including Stanford’s Latin American collection, a resource Blattner called the finest in the U.S. The bulk of the pieces come from artists in Mexico, many discovered by Blattner himself. “We were running around Mexico City like lunatics, exploring leads and making contacts.”
The forays (“many, many taxi and Uber rides”) paid off. In one small studio he met Antonio Guerra Gonzalez, whose piece “Librario” will be the striking center of the Sonoma exhibition. Blattner describes it as a brilliant and complicated construction project. Conceived as a tower that should be observed from all angles, it’s an impactful work of color, design, and size.
With it, the artist has stretched the form to its limits, questioning, or perhaps redefining, the possibilities of what a book really is.
“The choices that were made for this exhibition were extremely difficult. I was able to view many wonderful and exciting pieces of work. This exhibition is merely the tip of the iceberg.”
The works differ in size, construction, and subject, says Barbara Wells, the show’s associate curator. “I love how the book format has been totally deconstructed and how this completely expands a book’s ability to communicate.”
The books tell personal stories, some of them are political statements, and some are about Mexican culture and history, Wells says. “They each give us a look into the lives of contemporary Mexican artists and what is important to them.”
Blattner speaks reverently of the art and the craft of such books, the quality of paper, the inks and colors, the print process itself. What is a book? It’s foremost a passion. The artists really must love this craft, he says, because there’s not much money in it. Gonzalez, for example, gave up a career in law to concentrate on his art.
“It’s a tiny niche,” Blattner says, “but we have to honor it.”
Libros de Artista
Forty contemporary limited edition books created by Latin American artists, sourced from both the original artists in Mexico and from the Latin American & Iberian Collections at Stanford University Libraries. On view from Saturday, January 20, to Sunday, April 15, 2018. Somoma Valley Museum of Art, 551 Broadway, in Sonoma.
Regular museum hours are 11a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Admission is $10 for adults. Children k–12 are admitted free, as are SVMA members. Svma.org. 707. 939.7862.
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EWG is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment. Since 1993, EWG’s mission has been to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment.
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The Mediterranean and its many delicacies
Grilled prawns, spaghetti aglio e olio, bruschetta, olives and feta are just a few of the array of exquisite foods that originate in the Mediterranean region. Think of countries like Spain, Greece or Italy, and it’s not just languid summer days that come to mind. Your mind will soon wander to the sights, smells and tastes of dishes that are so redolent of Mediterranean cuisine. This article sets out which foods these are and why Mediterranean cooking is so very healthy. And it goes without saying that we’ll be serving up a couple of mouthwatering Mediterranean recipes.
What is Mediterranean cooking?
Essentially, all the countries that border the Mediterranean contribute their very own cooking traditions to what we collectively term as ‘Mediterranean cooking’. Europeans will tend to think immediately of Italy, Portugal, Greece and Croatia, but we shouldn't forget that North African countries like Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt are part of the region, too.
Every country has its own signature specialities: just think of Spanish tapas, Italian pizza, Greek olives or Portuguese bacalhau :-). That said, there are certain foods that appear in kitchens across the entire region.
- all sorts of fruit and vegetables, e.g. aubergines, tomatoes, peppers, artichokes and courgettes
- olives and olive oil
- plenty of pulses, e.g. beans, lentils, chickpeas
- fish and seafood
- all manner of herbs, e.g. rosemary, thyme, oregano, basil, sage
- pasta, rice and white bread
- garlic and onions
- good wine ;-)
In recognition of what makes the cuisine of this region so special, it was named an ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’ by UNESCO in 2010. This came about following a proposal by Greece, Spain, Italy and Morocco. In 2013, the designation was extended to Cyprus, Croatia and Portugal. Other countries around the Mediterranean are bound to join them in the near future.
What makes the Mediterranean diet so healthy?
Vegetables, fruit, vegetables, fruit, vegetables, olive oil ... Vast quantities of such produce feature in Mediterranean cuisine; indeed, they make an appearance in almost every dish. That’s one reason why this diet is so healthy. Among their many qualities, tomatoes, courgettes, aubergines and peaches are low in calories but fill you up. Best of all, they supply your body with vitamins, secondary plant compounds and minerals.
Another reason this cuisine is considered so healthy is that it uses lots of plant-based fats like olive oil. Butter and other animal fats don’t make much of an appearance. Your cardiovascular system and cholesterol levels benefit from the high-quality fatty acids found in olive oil.
Meat is eaten less often than elsewhere, too: meat consumption in the Mediterranean region is far lower than in parts of northern Europe like the UK or Germany. Fresh fish and seafood are far more popular. Pulses like beans or lentils are eaten instead of animal proteins.
Of course, there are also high-calorie foods like pasta, pizza, white bread and dairy products like feta and mozzarella, and these are no less iconic when it comes to Mediterranean cuisine. It’s just that people don’t consider spaghetti Bolognese everyday fare. The healthiness of this cuisine often comes down to the way that different foods are combined.
Lots of fruit & veg, fish and seafood
Some dairy produce and a little rice, pasta and bread.
Lots of pulses, herbs and nuts. Very little meat, but lots of olive oil.
The main components of the Mediterranean diet are positively bursting with good stuff:
- Fresh fruit & veg provide vitamins (A, B, C), zinc, magnesium and micronutrients. The more colourful the variety of fruit and veg on your plate, the more vitamins, minerals and secondary phytochemicals you’ll be ingesting.
- Pulses supply your body with valuable plant proteins and complex carbohydrates like fibre. They stimulate digestion, reduce the risk of intestinal diseases and prevent obesity.
- Herbs not only smell amazing, but also stimulate the metabolism, promote digestion and reduce inflammation. Garlic has an antibacterial effect and prevents your body from storing cholesterol. Dishes with lots of herbs also tend to need less salt.
- Fish gives you top-quality protein, omega-3 fatty acids, iodine and zinc. These protect against inflammation, strengthen the immune system and improve brain function.
- Olive oil provides mono- and polyunsaturated fatty acids such as omega-3 fatty acids. It improves the flow properties of blood, lowers blood pressure and has an anti-inflammatory effect.
Of course, we don’t eat food for its health properties alone. Taking time to savour and enjoy a meal together is an indispensable part of the Mediterranean approach to food. The odd glass of wine doesn’t hurt, either. Feeling content, unhurried, relaxed and without a shred of guilt does your body good in its own way.
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What we have to say Opinion and analysis Patients Association’s comment on Care Quality Commission's State of Care 2021 report Beyond the headline finding in the Care Quality Commission’s latest State of Care report that England’s healthcare and social care systems didn’t collapse, are grim findings of increasing health inequalities, services that aren’t providing safe care, and a depleted, demoralised workforce. While we recognise the impact of the pandemic on healthcare and social care services, as the CQC points out throughout its report, many of the issues it highlights predate the current health emergency. They stem, instead, from a decade of austerity and has been made worse, faster, because of the pandemic. The difficulties this report highlights are not just a collection of individual tragedies but evidence of a failure to manage our national resources to secure the health of the population. We have said before: proper resourcing of the health and care system should be understood both as a public good and an investment in the health of the nation. Strategic approach We support the CQC’s call for longer-term funding, as well as funding now, for social care to enable care providers to better plan services and recruit. We also agree that new monies, including the recently announced £5.4 billion investment, should be used to enable new ways of working; this means a sustained, strategic approach across all areas that are relevant to health and social care. The NHS and the social care system are only part of the services that are essential to people’s health and wellbeing. Housing, welfare benefits, and other services all impact people’s health. Yet, it is often health and social care services that are expected to provide solutions for a patient’s problems. The provision of social care is of huge concern to us and the CQC’s analysis of the sector is alarming. From services providing care so poor to adults with a learning disability that action is needed to keep people safe, through to care homes having to close because of lack of staff, the State of Care report paints a picture of services teeter on the verge of collapse. Leadership We are also extremely concerned with the findings of poor care for adults in social care settings and that nearly two fifths of maternity care services need to improve safety. We agree with the CQC say when it says there’s a need for wider improvements in culture, leadership and patient partnership. Strong leadership is especially needed at this critical moment for health and social care. It’s been obvious to us for several months that the workforce in health and social is exhausted. The clapping stopped a long time ago and staff working in under-resourced settings need more than a warm glow to provide high quality and safe care to patients. As the Patients Association, we expect patients to be kept safe under all circumstances, and we include people in a social care setting in this. A key element of safety is to be cared for in first class facilities by qualified staff that are not exhausted, doing double shifts, or living with anxiety, depression, and burnout. Even with the highest levels of personal commitment, it’s impossible not to be concerned that someone working under these conditions might make errors. Patient partnership We welcome the CQC’s call for improved and widespread patient engagement and agree that new models of care are needed. We call on those who are developing these new models to partner with patients and work with the people that will benefit from new services. | <urn:uuid:64b3d506-6a34-4c48-a71f-fdf554ad5809> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.patients-association.org.uk/Blog/patients-associations-comment-on-care-quality-commission-state-of-care-2021-report | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.965429 | 716 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Capturing a unique image of an iconic view can be a challenge. Firehole Falls, along the Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park is a thundering rush of water that pushes through a narrow gap between rocky cliffs. Many see the falls in the summer but in the winter, there are far fewer visitors so not many can appreciate the view with snowy shores and icicles dripping over the water. Still rarer yet are the views of the wildly rushing waters, slowed to appear as silk by a camera. There are a few ways to do this in camera. Among them, a slow shutter speed can create a silky texture; a 6- or 10-Stop Neutral Density filter can result in a much longer shutter duration causing an even silkier look; or a simple method using the camera’s multi-exposure mode, e.g., 10 separate photographs merged into one. Using a Nikon camera set to a 10 image multiple exposure and setting the camera’s timer to a couple of second delay, all ten photographs will be taken in sequence without having to touch the shutter release. They are merged in camera, into a single RAW image. Beware, however, the Nikon mirrorless Z model cameras can do this but the resulting image is a JPEG, not a RAW image. I learned that the hard way. This image was taken from the edge of the cliff overlooking the falls with a Nikon D5 and a Nikkor 80-400mm lens at 390mm. | <urn:uuid:9fe53a3d-ff09-4e7a-b86f-f3332c7bdd86> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://infocusdaily.com/2020/02/03/2020-firehole-falls/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.93093 | 299 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Guadalajara is the capital of this prosperous region that Mariachi music and Tequila originate from. Jalisco’s terrain types include; forests, beaches, plains and lakes. The state includes all of Mexicos diverse natural ecosystems; arid and semi-arid, scrublands, tropical evergreen forests, tropical deciduous and thorn forests, grasslands, mesquite grasslands and temperate forests. This culturally significant state has many tourist destinations within such as; Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, Chapala, and Tequila, the birthplace of Mexicos favorite liquor. For the side street traveler, these are all great destinations for adventure!
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We want to provide real life opportunities for young people to tune into their creative abilities and achieve the satisfaction that comes with being involved in real life projects.
We are planning to write and recording an album together. The sales will raise money for charity and will see the young people enjoying a variety of fulfilling experiences throughout the journey. These will include sampling creative industry environments, like recording studios, and being involved in the production of music videos and album artwork.
By providing opportunities to be creative, we hope to bless young people with a knowledge and a confidence that they can carry these positive experiences through the rest of their life and know that writing songs, recording albums, shooting videos is actually achievable and not just a dream.
A creative environment is also an excellent breeding ground for deep conversation about life. For example, song writing together can easily grow into discussions about the meaning of life or moral standpoints. With this in mind, participants will be offered the chance to attend a Youth Alpha course where they can discuss these very subjects as well as learn about the Christian faith.
Encouraging Creativity in Young People
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Of course, we all knew this before he became prime minister; we have known it for years. So if you believe, as quaint as it sometimes seems, that character matters in politics, then what has materialised during the PM’s time in office was inevitable, even if you failed to register the background noise of collapsing scenery.
I cannot help but wonder what it is about human beings that makes us so willing to vote for and put up with people who do not have our best interests at heart. Clearly, our psychology plays a starring role here: certain politicians on the left and right, as well as in other areas of life, attempt to sell us a twisted form of therapy, validating our fears and frustrations and resentments.
They offer, in the place of real, if imperfect life, a view of a society gone horribly wrong. In lieu of an ambiguous future over which we have little control, they describe sunlit uplands to which we will all inexorably march, hand in hand, united, if only we trust them completely.
In times of flux and uncertainty and hardship, such a proposition, as simplistic and superficial as it is, can seem attractive – so attractive we may inclined to suspend our critical faculties. These leaders project an authority – the kind of authority that privilege and bombast and a smattering of Latin apparently succeed (rather depressingly) in communicating. This apparent authority, and the unshakeable self-confidence that seems to prove its validity, soothes us, makes us feel safe – so safe, in fact, that we may be willing to overlook obvious shortcomings in political ability.
The notion that a leader’s confidence frequently matters more to people than their competence is the sort of thing you sometimes find espoused unironically on LinkedIn, as advice for business leaders. Well, the stakes are a little higher in politics. If the Dunning-Kruger effect is to be believed, then it is typically the least competent who tend to overestimate their skills.
In certain politicians with self-serving tendencies, we also find a peculiar tendency to play the part of both aggressor and victim. So while we feel pacified by their bullishness and optimism with respect to our collective future, we are also inclined to identify with them, and the torrid time they have had at the hands of the establishment or bureaucrats or the media or Remoaners or... whatever.
How can it be, wondered a friend of mine, that an alumnus of Eton and Balliol is considered more of a “man of the people” than the child of a nurse and a toolmaker? It is astonishing what tousled hair and a tendency to play the victim can achieve.
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Ultimately, the problem with leaders of this kind is that, though they may have certain positive qualities, they are incompetent at governing. Sooner or later, things will go wrong. And when the promised future fails to materialise, or even long before that, we lose out. Such a leader will be inclined to blame others around them for their failings, and others around us for our misfortune.
We humans, you see, are always looking from side to side. In fact, there are studies showing we would rather receive no money at all rather than some money if another person were to get more than us. And the happiest societies are, of course, those with the fewest inequalities. In other words, so long as there is someone else to look down on, to blame, to be “better” than, a politician of a certain self-serving disposition can be fairly confident of attenuating our fears of being less.
Politics might function like a kind of corrupt therapy; but it is not therapy. It is not balm for a restless soul; it is not an opportunity for us to project our resentments onto the stage of communal life, which is what these sorts of people urge us to do.
When we put our faith in certain self-serving types and things go wrong, as they surely will, we suffer the consequences and are left to pick up the pieces of our battered society. So, to steal a mordant phrase from Carl Sagan, better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. | <urn:uuid:c69a2752-59f8-4bd3-b140-4c449b7db172> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uk.news.yahoo.com/voices-politics-isn-t-therapy-084604072.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966776 | 898 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Company called Moje Rukavice, organizes courses to make your own unique gloves right in the glove shop.
How's the course going to be structured?
- Participants select hand-designed, embroidered and tailored leather glove style of their choice.
- Depending on the selection available on my site www.mojerukavice.cz , you choose the leather colour, the type of lining and measure your hand depending on whether you are right-handed or left-handed.
- You choose the type of gloves, or perforation, cross-sections, embroidery, elongation, buttons or decorations – all according to imagination, style and personal taste.
- During the course you will also learn about the history of glove making, materials used and working with them. Recommendations on the maintenance and treatment of gloves are an integral part.
- We can also include the production of a simple pendant, talisman, bracelet or backpack or handbag ornament. We can use a professional Big Shot cutting plotter for everything.
The course is designed for all those who like original handmade products and are willing to "to pull ones weight". Arrange with your friends, colleagues from work or school. Sewing your own gloves is addictive, and you may be surprised to see who in your neighborhood falls completely for this hobby.
Click on the link and select your course and see the fees:
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During lockdown the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre has worked to bring our collections to you in as many different ways as possible. This difficult period has emphasised the importance of having a strong digital presence and we are continuing our endeavours to help everyone gain better access to our county’s wonderful heritage resources.
One method of doing this is increasing our capacity on the Know Your Place website. This project, which began in Bristol and later expanded across the south west of England, layers historic maps of the region and provides interactive layers of historic data, archival collections and community input. This enables the public to compare and contrast contemporary OS maps with historic maps, such as tithe and estate maps, which is great when studying the development of areas and communities. But not only this, it pinpoints (geotags) heritage collections of all shapes and sizes to their relevant locations on the maps – these are known as information layers. Watch this short video to get an idea of why you might use Know Your Place and the ethos behind this progressive project, which is always looking to add documents and detail for public consumption.
Here at the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre we have been working hard during lockdown to improve our part of the site, KYP Wiltshire, by creating more layers to assist with local history research across the county. A huge amount of work has been done during the last 6 months, by multiple members of staff, to recreate the tithe awards layer. Some of you may have noticed this layer before, or even used it in the past, but not every tithe award was uploaded, and some were found to be faulty. The layer is now up and running, with every tithe award (over 350 T symbols as below) accessible on the site.
For detailed information on tithes, we recommend browsing The National Archives’ handy research guide, but here’s some brief information on how are they can benefit local history research. In 1836 the Tithe Commutation Act was passed, which put an end to tithes being paid in kind to the church (as was often the case previously). Tithes (one tenth of agricultural produce) were now a monetary tax to be paid to the church, but in order to ascertain who would have to pay what, a nationwide survey was taken, with the whole country being mapped (tithe maps). Alongside the maps, the tithe awards (part of a larger document called the tithe apportionments) were produced, which detailed landowners and occupiers of the land.
Plot numbers, listed alongside names, link the award to the map, and show how much each plot of land is due to pay in tithes. Any historic document that lists names in relation to a place is going to be useful for family historians. The tithe award will place a family in a specific location, give an idea of how wealthy (or not) they were, e.g. if they are listed as a landowner that would infer wealth, and they sometimes throw unexpected names into the mix. For example, their relatives may be living nearby and would thus be recorded in the same document. In terms of local and social history, tithes give us a great sense of how the land was being used at a certain point in time, and by whom.
We thought it might be of interest to describe exactly what’s gone into making this data available. Our fantastic volunteers from the Wiltshire Family History Society had previously transcribed the documents in our search room and created a mammoth Microsoft Word document, so this needed to be split up into single documents for each parish. We then needed to convert every document into a PDF (the preferred file format for Know Your Place). Finally, we had to get easting and northing grid references for every individual parish, which proved very time consuming and required some serious local knowledge from various members of staff. This enabled the team in Bristol to upload the tithe awards very accurately over each parish church, or otherwise in the centre of the town, village or hamlet.
To activate the tithe award layer and find the data, follow these simple steps:
Thanks to the interactive nature of the website, you can view the award data in conjunction with any of the historic maps available, or indeed the present-day OS. To change the map, simply click on ‘basemaps’ on the legend to the right of the screen and choose whichever map you’re interested in, though in this instance you may wish to view the tithe award data in conjunction with the tithe map, which can be found at the very bottom of the ‘basemaps’ section. You can also bring a second map into the equation, by clicking ‘comparison map’ at the top of the legend, choosing your map and then using the drag and slide function across the main screen.
There is also a spy glass function, on which you can change the transparency to examine change in a precise spot on the map – this can be used by clicking the small square towards the top right of the page and then the slider beneath it manipulates the levels of transparency. This may all seem a bit fiddly to begin with, but you soon get used to it.
The drag & slide, together with the spy glass function, is a valuable tool to local and house historians. Area development is easy to examine, as is property history. For large or very old properties, it is often possible to see boundary changes over time, as well as structural changes or additions, such as extensions to properties.
It is well worth exploring the webpage further, such as the Historic Environment Record section of the information layer which includes monuments and listed buildings – each item in the list can be accessed in the same way as the Tithe Award data.
It has come to our attention that certain tithe maps have enlarged scale drawings of town or village centres on the physical document, but due to the nature of the digitally stitched together maps, these could not be included on the tithe map on Know Your Place. However, we are now in the process of creating image files of these sections of maps, that will be included as data points in due course, which will be accessed in the same way as the tithe award data.
As I mentioned earlier, this project welcomes community input. This is done through the ‘community layer’ which is automatically active each time you open the webpage (the green dots all over the screen). So, if you have a local monument, church, school or an old photograph of your ancestor’s home, you can take the picture, add some information, and add it to the layer. This can be done by clicking the pencil like symbol on the far right of the screen, then clicking directly on the relevant location and then following the instructions from there.
We’ve been helping get the community layer started by adding some examples from our History Centre collections. You will find images of schools and churches. There’s also the results of the Public Art Project, a fine array of images of public art in the county. If you spot any gaps, why not take a photo and add it to the community layer yourself?
Other organisations have been adding to this layer, Chippenham and Salisbury Museums, the Swindon Heritage Action Zone project to name just a few, plus members of the public and local history groups.
So why not take a look and digitally explore Wiltshire, both past and present. Check to see if you can spot your house on the 1st edition OS map or see if you can find any family members’ names in the tithe award data, but be warned – you may spend more time than you intend when you get ‘lost in the map’!
Finally, keep an eye out on our social media announcements of more historic documents being added to the information layers and feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns. You can find our KYP centred Facebook page @KYPWilts.
Last year I completed a dissertation that looked at how archives and archival activity could help tackle the widespread issue of elderly loneliness. As an archive professional I wanted to see what was being done within the profession that could aid the mental and physical well-being of those experiencing loneliness, but also to ask what else could be done. My research showed archival institutions are well placed to contribute to tackling loneliness, indeed they are already actively doing so. This blog hopes to highlight the positive effect of using archives during lockdown (and beyond!), and update readers on our work behind the scenes.
Anyone who frequents an archive may note its popularity with those of retirement age; retirees may have more time to undertake research and so may visit an archive more often. However, it should be emphasised that archives are friendly, welcoming places for anyone with an interest in history or any form of local history research to conduct: be it students researching for their degrees, house historians searching historic building applications, or family history enthusiasts. Anyone and everyone is welcome: provision of access to historic documents is at the forefront of our work, and we would encourage anyone to visit Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, regardless of age and, furthermore, that feelings of isolation and loneliness are universal and not confined to any one demographic!
So, in these unprecedented times, where isolation and loneliness for all age groups is more prevalent than ever before, Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre is looking at new ways of serving all of our community. While we’re unable to carry out any physical outreach work during lockdown, promoting and ensuring continued access for as broad an audience as possible is still a fundamental and highly enjoyable part of the work of the archive team at WSHC, except now we must find new ways to reach out to anyone unaware of what we can offer!
In terms of our ability to interact with the community, our intrinsic knowledge of the local area ensures that we are well placed to do this. Archivists can relate to tales of old and offer suggestions on how to find out more on such subjects, but we can also bring to light fascinating new stories, that were hitherto forgotten or hiding in the strongrooms. In Wiltshire, our County Local Studies Librarian, Julie Davis, does exactly this with her ‘Memory Box’ reading groups – follow this link to see some of her recent isolation sessions from her living room. Julie’s work shows how heritage professionals are adapting to fulfil their duties during this period. Not yet available on the website, but done in preparation for the VE Day celebrations is her extract readings on the event. This is available here.
The entire nation would normally be planning events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE day. However, new and innovative ways are being sought to celebrate and mark the occasion during lockdown. The talk we had planned at WSHC has been made available online, again by Julie Davis, and is available here (you may need to sign in to Google for this).
Of course it is a great shame not being able to celebrate with our family, friends and neighbours, but Wiltshire Council has put together a VE Day Toolkit, that will hopefully provide inspiration on how best to celebrate this momentous occasion at home or in the garden.
Even if we cannot be in the immediate vicinity of our friends, family or community, we can continue to be connected, and being connected can contribute to people’s well-being. Did you know that there is evidence to show that tracing your family tree can have a positive effect on your mental health? Indeed, any form of research that engages the mind will be positive during these times, so why not take a look at some of the fantastic online resources that are available and start a new research project or learn about the local area? You can find out more about these resources here in our recent blogs.
Connectedness does not need to be confined to the present. Relating to the past, be it family members researched as part of a genealogy project, or even past occupiers of your house, can help ease feelings of isolation. Documents usually consulted in the searchroom, are increasingly available as online resources, for example: Wiltshire parish registers and wills are now temporarily available for free on Ancestry. Follow this link to see what’s available and for guidance on how to proceed. So, if you’re at home struggling for things to do, why not start your family history? We have starter packs available here too!
There are multiple agencies working locally and nationally to assist us in these difficult times. If you, or anyone you know, is struggling in isolation in Wiltshire, check out the Wiltshire Wellbeing Hub. Charities are naturally at the forefront of the effort to keep loneliness and isolation at bay. At a local level, Celebrating Age is a fantastic project aimed at tackling the issue of loneliness by delivering arts and heritage events in community settings for frail, vulnerable older people unable to access concert halls or theatres. Their current programme of events has understandably been called off, however they are looking at ways of delivering digital programme. Follow this link for 90 minutes of live music and storytelling from the comfort of your living room! Also, keep an eye on their website when lockdown is over because they are doing great things across the county.
At a national level, the Campaign to End Loneliness website has a really useful section specifically for Corona virus related issues and anxieties, as does the Age UK site.
I’d just like to sign off by wishing all of our readers well. Do share, re-tweet or pass on this message with family, neighbours, colleagues or anyone you know who may be struggling with loneliness during lockdown and whose well-being may benefit from some of the suggestions here.
Follow us on Twitter, friend us on Facebook and keep a close eye on our website for more information, as well as updates on re-opening. Happy researching!
In 2017 I graduated from the Conservation MA at Camberwell College of Arts and having volunteered for several years in the Archives Conservation department I began work as Assistant Archive Conservator at the WSHC. My role involves being part of the Conservation Museums Advisory Service (CMAS) who support heritage organisations in Wiltshire and beyond. Primarily I work with the archive material held at the WSHC to help maintain and preserve it for current and future generations.
Since beginning at the WSHC in August 2017 it has certainly not been quiet. So far amongst other things: I have begun to master map repair, mounted and tensioned parchment, attended several conservation surgeries, found some exciting things whilst surveying archive boxes, spent seven hours hoovering the strongrooms and made several gluten free cakes for the staffroom! Here are some of the highlights:
One of the parchment maps from our collection was extremely distorted so I used a conservation tensioning method to gradually reduce the cockling. Because parchment is animal skin it behaves very differently to paper and requires specific methods of treatment. It was left tensioning for two weeks before being put in a polyester enclosure and returned to the archive.
Overseers of the Poor Account Book
A project I am currently working on is the Overseers of the Poor Account Book
This is a large project this time involving a very fragile set of pages from 1732. These would once have been bound but now just remnants of thread remain in some pages. The paper is so damaged in areas that it is crumbling away.
One leaf had a pile of severely degraded papers attached with a pin. I carefully removed the loose pieces and pieced them back together where possible.
To make it accessible to the public again each page is being lined with a Japanese tissue. This is translucent enough that the writing on the side of the lining tissue is still visible whilst making the page strong enough to be handled.
Above: applying the lining tissue to a leaf from the volume
The above photograph shows the main leaf and one of the attachments that I was able to piece back together, after both have been lined. The remaining pieces were grouped together by ink and writing type and enclosed in bespoke polyester pockets in the hope that they may be of use to future researchers.
We are trying to get as many societies and history groups as possible to take photos of traditional farm buildings. The pressure on buildings that have lost their original use is enormous. Many redundant farm buildings are either converted into homes and offices or face demolition to make way for new development. Some are left to decay. In an effort to record this rapidly-changing farming landscape we are urging local history group to take a snap-shot or two from the public footpath, road or hill-top and send them in to us. We want to record buildings that have been converted as well as those in their original state, even if still in use. This will give us an indication of the rate of change in Wiltshire, and a record of buildings that may disappear in the future.
We are not a pressure group that wants to stop change, we merely want to chronicle the changes that occur, and keep the information for future study. We also want to learn from the information submitted, so that people living and working in Wiltshire can understand their built heritage better. Many traditional farmsteads have already been lost to the pressures of development, and maybe nobody will remember what they were like, which is a lost opportunity and a great shame. Once they are gone, they are gone, along with a way of life that has persisted for hundreds of years! If you are interested please contact the office and we can supply you with further details, or just get out there with your camera and snap away, making sure you can identify the farm, and date the photographs.
Principal Buildings Historian, Wiltshire Buildings Record
At the end of August 2016 Michael Marshman retired from his post as County Local Studies Librarian, marking an amazing 50 years working for Wiltshire Council.
Mike originally wanted to be an archaeologist but changed direction after visiting the county library whilst still at school in Trowbridge, his home town. He joined Wiltshire County Council on 1st August 1966 as an eighteen year old library assistant, at Trowbridge Library HQ, which at that time was in Prospect Place. In 1967 Mike was appointed a trainee librarian and undertook training at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He returned to Wiltshire to work and became Marlborough Mobile Librarian from 1970-1 followed by Melksham Town Librarian from 1971-1975. Mike has always prioritised working with the local community and while in Melksham he ran two Puffin Clubs for children, hosted or mounted monthly exhibitions and began giving talks on local history – something he has continued to this day! From 1975-1979 Mike became Town Librarian of Trowbridge, where he was one of the founders of Trowbridge Civic Society. Mike, a keen amateur photographer, carried out much important photography of Trowbridge. In 1979 the first of his eight books, Wiltshire Landscape, was published by Countryside Books. From 1979-1981 Mike became Trowbridge Area Librarian which expanded to include Warminster Area in 1981. From 1981-1988 Mike was Town Librarian of Warminster, setting up its new library, working with the local community and setting up, with Nicola Harris, Senior Assistant, a very successful programme of children’s activities. In Warminster Mike also began working with a certain Helen Taylor who will be well known to History Centre visitors! In 1988 Mike became Wiltshire County Local Studies Librarian, and immediately set to work promoting local history county-wide. He organised local history weeks including over 70 events in one year! He inaugurated ‘Wiltshire History Road Shows’ taking archivists and the Wiltshire Buildings Record staff out to communities. He established fiendish cryptic Wiltshire local history quizzes with sponsored prizes. Building on the work of his predecessor, John Chandler, he extended the Wiltshire Collection into the largest collection of published Wiltshire material in the world. Mike also established the Ephemera and Creative Wiltshire collections as sub-sets of the Wiltshire Collection. In 1998 Mike was one of only a hundred librarians nationwide to be awarded the Library Association Centenary Medal for ‘outstanding contribution to and achievement in library work’, presented by Princess Anne, no less, and in 2001 he won the national Dorothy McCulla Memorial Prize awarded by CILIP for his outstanding contribution to local studies work.
Our Heritage Lottery Funded project to uncover and share stories of the First World War Home Front in Wiltshire http://wiltshireatwar.org.uk/ is now moving into its second phase. Over the summer we have been out and about meeting people, making contacts and starting to identify some of the stories that we will be sharing and preserving. This month, we will be showing volunteers from across the county how to do this work so that they can find out and record more stories from their communities.
Places are filling up fast, but if you are interested in coming along to one of these workshops they are taking place at:
Malmesbury Town Hall, 15 Oct 2pm The Rifles Museum, Salisbury 21 Oct 2pm Trowbridge Town Hall, 27 Oct 2pm
Meanwhile, behind the scenes museum education officers are planning the schools element of the project, which will be starting next year and we are looking at the best options for how we present all the stories. This will be done through exhibitions in libraries, museums, village halls, churches etc as well as on a dedicated website. | <urn:uuid:6d82e482-7404-4b13-98bf-11881cacf708> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wshc.org.uk/blog/tag/volunteer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960769 | 4,852 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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Avoid Robot Readers with Three Key Strategies
January 23, 2013
It’s common for kindergartners to point to words while reading. This strategy helps them sound out words and build their eye sweep across a line of text. However, once students have mastered one-to-one correspondence, they should learn to point only with their eyes. This would begin around reading levels D/E. (For the average reader that would occur about November of first grade.)
Whether the finger-pointing habit is something older students do on their own or a teacher strategy for ensuring that students are following along, the habit needs to be broken. By pointing, the reader is forced to slow down and then sounds robotic. It prevents students from growing into fluent readers who read at an appropriate rate with phrasing and expression.
You can train students to move to the next steps in fluency using these three strategies:
#1 Reading in phrases–Explain that when your mouth says one word, your eyes are looking 2-3 words past that. Model how it sounds to read 2-4 words as a phrase grouping, rather than reading them as separate words like a robot. Seeing down a line of text will also help them see upcoming punctuation marks.
#2 Chunking big words–Teach students to use their fingers only when they are problem-solving a word. They can hide syllables, looking at one word-part at a time. Prompt students to then take the finger back out once the word has been solved and reread the sentence fluently and for meaning.
#3 Keeping your place–As the reading levels increase, the font gets smaller and the text gets longer. Consequently, it’s common for students to lose their place or to accidentally skip lines while reading. If this happens, teach students to place a bookmark above the line they are reading and slide it down. This will allow them to track while keeping the next line visible to build eye sweep from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. But be cautious! This bookmark tool should only be used as part of their reading training. Eventually, students should not need it at all. | <urn:uuid:518227c8-989a-4de2-a224-fb277f96a3e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smekenseducation.com/finger-pointing-produces-robot/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.933511 | 572 | 3.046875 | 3 |
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