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As a development scientist at CST, people sometimes ask me what exactly it is that I do. “I make antibodies,” is my typical reply, but that is not exactly true.
The most challenging part of my job is to determine whether the antibodies we release for sale detect what they are supposed to detect (sensitivity), and nothing else (specificity). For most targets, I start with western blot using the following techniques.
We start with multiple antibodies for each project. The main purpose of testing these antibodies on overexpressed protein is to rule out antibodies that do not detect the intended target at all. This rarely happens when protein is expressed at unnaturally high levels, but the degree of signal can also provide some information about the relative strength of the antibodies.
While overexpression systems are often used in research, validation using this type of system isn’t enough. Researchers need clean, strong, specific antibodies to study proteins in a natural environment, amongst a largely undefined mixture of proteins in a cell lysate, on the surfaces of living cells, or in fixed cells and tissues.
We call it endogenous expression if we can detect a protein in cells/cell lines either without treating them at all, or by treating them in a biologically relevant way.
Why not just run a few common cell line extracts on a western blot and look for a band of the expected size? It’s surprising how often an antibody cross-reacts with a protein close to the same apparent molecular weight as the intended target, so we have to take steps to avoid choosing the wrong antibody.
An easy one: Some proteins are known to be expressed in certain cell lines, and not in others. p53 is a great example of this. We can test cell lines shown to constitutively express p53, to be null for p53, or to require induction of p53 expression.
Most proteins are not so easy, meaning there are no cell lines clearly shown to be positive or negative. In these cases, we search literature for studies comparing protein expression in cell lines or tissue types, or showing induction of expression with chemicals that stimulate processes such as DNA damage or apoptosis. We also rely on public databases that show us relative gene expression. These databases quantify relative abundance of mRNA, which may or may not correlate with relative abundance of the translated protein. We use all of these techniques together to provide the most convincing evidence that an antibody recognizes/does not recognize its intended target.
We compare the results from the transfected protein study with those of the endogenous protein study. The strongest antibodies on transfected protein should be the strongest in the endogenous system.
When we know which cell lines express our target, we can then use a knockout. Unfortunately, we can’t always use a knockout system. For example, many proteins are required for cell viability or proliferation, so the knockouts don’t survive the process. Further, some cell lines cannot be transfected efficiently with knockout reagents, so if our target is expressed exclusively in “hard to transfect” cell lines, we may not be able to use a knockout tool for antibody validation.
This is why you will likely only see a small percentage of antibodies that are validated by knockout, but a knockout is a powerful tool when it’s available.
Many Antibodies Fail
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Google is a widely used web browser in the world. It offers its users great features such as using keywords and getting related search results for images as well as information. But, what if you want to search on Google using an image or video? Well, you can easily reverse search images or videos on Google instead of using keywords. In this case, we are listing the ways that you can use for effortlessly searching on Google using images and videos.
- 4 Ways to Search on Google using Image or Video
- Method 1: Use a Third-party App to Search on Google using Image
- Method 2: Use Google Desktop Version on the Phone to Search on Google using Image
- Method 3: Search Google using Image on Desktop/Laptop
- Method 4: Search Google using Video on Desktop/Laptop
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
4 Ways to Search on Google using Image or Video
The primary reason users search on Google using an image or video is to know the origin of that specific image or video. You may have an image or video on your desktop or phone, and you may want to see the source of these images. In this case, Google allows users to use images to search on Google. Google does not allow you to search using a video, but there is a workaround that you can use.
We are listing the ways that you can use to easily reverse search in Google using image or video:
Method 1: Use a Third-party App to Search on Google using Image
If you have an image on your Android Phone that you want to search on Google, then you can use a third-party app called ‘Reverse Image Search.’
1. Head to Google Play Store and install ‘Reverse Image Search‘ on your device.
2. Launch the application on your device and tap on the ‘Plus‘ icon at the bottom right of the screen to add the Image that you wish to search on Google.
3. After adding the Image, you have to tap on the Search icon at the bottom to start searching the Image on Google.
4. The app will automatically search your Image on Google, and you will see related web results.
You can easily find the origin or the source of your Image by using the Reverse Image search.
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Method 2: Use Google Desktop Version on the Phone to Search on Google using Image
Google has a reverse image search feature on the web version, where you can upload images on Google for searching it. Google does not show the camera icon on the phone version. However, you can enable the desktop version on your phone by following the below-listed steps:
1. Open Google Chrome on your Android Phone.
2. Tap on the three vertical dots at the top right corner of the screen.
3. Now, enable the ‘Desktop site‘ option from the menu.
4. After enabling the desktop version, type images.google.com.
5. Tap on the Camera icon next to the search bar.
6. Upload the Image or Paste the URL of the Image for which you want to do the reverse image search.
7. Finally, tap on ‘Search by image,’ and google will find your image’s origin.
Also Read: How to Reverse Search a Video
Method 3: Search Google using Image on Desktop/Laptop
If you have an image on your desktop or laptop and you want to know the origin of that image, then you can follow the below-listed steps:
1. Open Google Chrome browser.
2. Type images.google.com in the search bar and hit enter.
3. After the site loads, click on the Camera icon inside the search bar.
4. Paste the image URL, or you can directly upload the image that you wish to search on Google.
5. Finally, tap on ‘Search by image‘ to start the search.
Google will automatically search the Image through millions of websites and give you related search results. So this was the method by which you can effortlessly search on Google using Image.
Method 4: Search Google using Video on Desktop/Laptop
Google does not have any feature for reverse search using videos yet. However, there is a workaround that you can follow for easily finding the source or origin of any video. Follow these steps to search on Google using a video:
1. Play the Video on your desktop.
2. Now start capturing screenshots of different frames in the video. You can use the Snip and sketch or the Snipping tool on Windows operating system. On MAC, you can use the shift key+command+4+space bar for taking a snapshot of your Video.
3. After taking screenshots, open the Chrome browser and go to images.google.com.
4. Click on the Camera icon and upload the screenshots one by one.
Google will search the web and will provide you with relates search results. This is a trick that you can use to search on Google using a video.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q1. How do I take a picture and search it on Google?
You can easily reverse search an image on Google by following these steps.
1. Go to images.google.com and click on the camera icon inside the search bar.
2. Upload the image that you wish to search on Google.
3. Hit the search option and wait for Google to search across the web.
4. Once done, you can check the search results to know the origin of the Image.
Q2. How do you search videos on Google?
Since Google does not have any feature for searching videos on Google, you can follow these steps in this case.
1. Play your Video on your desktop.
2. Start taking screenshots of the Video in different frames.
3. Now go to images.google.com and click on the camera icon to upload the screenshots.
4. Click on ‘search by image’ to get related search results for your Video.
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Odds are, your INFINITI vehicle came with two factory-installed air filters in place. One is for the engine, while the other is for your cabin's HVAC system. They both have the same purpose, which is to keep contaminants from getting into your vehicle's systems.
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I read this in The Barbarian Way: Unleash the Untamed Faith Withinover a year ago. It’s still incredibly inspiring!
With insects most of us know that bees are called swarms, and ants are called colonies. Among ocean life, I was aware that whales are pods, and fish are schools. Cattle are herds, birds are flocks, and if you watch Lion King, you know a tribe of lions is a pride. If you grew up in the country, you might know that crows are murders. Maybe the most unnerving one is an ambush of tigers.
I was surprised to learn that a group of buzzards waiting around together to feast on leftover carnage is called a committee. Just this one insight is worth the price of the whole book. This explains so much of what’s going on in churches – a lot of committees waiting around to live off human carnage.
Groups of flamingos are called flamboyant, which for some reason reminds me of TV evangelists. And groups of the less glamorous owls are known as parliaments. They do seem sort of British.
But my favorite of all is the group designation of rhinos. You see, rhinos can run at thirty miles an hour, which is pretty fast when you consider how much weight they’re pulling. They’re actually faster than squirrels, which can run at up to twenty-six miles an hour. And even then, who’s going to live in dread of a charging squirrel? (Sorry – that was a bit off the point.)
Running at thirty miles an hour is faster than a used Pinto will go. Just one problem with this phenomenon. Rhinos can see only thirty feet in front of them. Can you imagine something that large moving in concert as a group, plowing ahead at thirty miles an hour with no idea what’s at thirty-one feet? You would think that they would be far too timid to pick up full steam, that their inability to see far enough ahead would paralyze them to immobility. But with that horn pointing the way, rhinos run forward full steam ahead without apprehension, which leads us to their name.
Rhinos moving together at full speed are known as a crash. Even when they’re just hanging around enjoying the watershed, they’re called a crash because of their potential. You’ve got to love that. I think that’s what we’re supposed to be. That’s what happens when we become barbarians and shake free of domestication and civility. The church becomes a crash. We become an unstoppable force. We don’t have to pretend we know the future. Who cares that we can see only thirty feet ahead? Whatever’s at thirty-one feet needs to care that we’re coming and better get out of the way.
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In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic accident, a demand for justice, and a profound act of atonement with ancient roots in Native American culture.
North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidencebut when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes hes hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbors five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich.
The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreauxs five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families have always been close, sharing food, clothing, and rides into town; their children played together despite going to different schools; and Landreauxs wife, Emmaline, is half sister to Dustys mother, Nola. Horrified at what hes done, the recovered alcoholic turns to an Ojibwe tribe traditionthe sweat lodgefor guidance, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of retribution, he and Emmaline will give LaRose to the grieving Peter and Nola. Our son will be your son now, they tell them.
LaRose is quickly absorbed into his new family. Plagued by thoughts of suicide, Nola dotes on him, keeping her darkness at bay. His fierce, rebellious new sister, Maggie, welcomes him as a coconspirator who can ease her volatile mothers terrifying moods. Gradually hes allowed shared visits with his birth family, whose sorrow mirrors the Raviches own. As the years pass, LaRose becomes the linchpin linking the Irons and the Raviches, and eventually their mutual pain begins to heal.
But when a vengeful man with a long-standing grudge against Landreaux begins raising trouble, hurling accusations of a cover-up the day Dusty died, he threatens the tenuous peace that has kept these two fragile families whole.
Inspiring and affecting, LaRose is a powerful exploration of loss, justice, and the reparation of the human heart, and an unforgettable, dazzling tour de force from one of Americas most distinguished literary masters.
The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in an authentic tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love.
One Sunday in 1988, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts learns that his mother has been the victim of a brutal attack by a man on their North Dakota reservation. Joe's mother is traumatized and afraid. This title tells the story of a young boy pitched prematurely into an unjust adult world.
"Louise Erdrich is one of our era''s most powerful literary voices...In The Night Watchman Erdrich''s blend of spirituality, gallows humor, and political resistance is at play...It may be set in the 1950s, but the history it unearths and its themes of taking a stand against injustice are every bit as timely today."
«ANTELOPE WIFE» «LAROSE» LOVE MEDICINE» PLEAGUE OF DOVES» THE ROUND HOUSE» F :A.M/LP Paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.
The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant.
Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby's origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity.
From the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012 comes this elegantly crafted novel that explores the strange power that lost children exert on the memories of those they leave behind
Presents an account of the author's trip through the lakes and islands of southern Ontario with her eighteen-month old baby and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual leader and guide.
Stranded together by snow just outside of Fargo, North Dakota, five women--all former wives of Jack Mauser--relate the stories of their lives, their dreams, their vulnerabilities, their passions, and their feelings for Jack and for one another.
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"You wouldn't think there is much to golf ball technology, but really, the golf ball probably has the greatest affect on your game,” says CEO Steve Lebischak.
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Polara Golf, inventors of the world’s first and only famed anti-slice golf ball, is back with an incredible breakthrough revolution in golf ball design- the 'Polara Pro Tour FS Mark I' and is live on Kickstarter raising funds to bring the project to life.
The 'Polara Pro Tour FS Mark I' golf ball has created a patented, one-of-a-kind dimple pattern which has been designed for maximum distance and maximum accuracy in flight, designed for USGA competitive play.
"You wouldn't think there is much to golf ball technology, but really, the golf ball probably has the greatest affect on your game,” says CEO Steve Lebischak, “And while there are a few key factors which affect the performance and behavior of a golf ball, the biggest one is the dimples that surround a golf ball as they directly affect the drag and lift on a ball as it flies through the air.”
The Polara Pro Tour FS Mark I golf ball dimple pattern is a cube-octahedron, with 8 triangular regions and 6 square regions formed by 4 great circles. A visually stunning ball, the design makes this easily one of the one of the most eye-catching golf balls ever created. Coined ‘Visual Design Dimple Technology’ by Head of Design Dr. Doug Winfield, the company spent years experimenting with radically different dimple designs while studying their behavior.
“The design that we chose to launch with had 4 prototypes which had differences of 1/1000 of an inch in depth between the dimples, and after testing, we picked the ball which exhibited the most distance and accuracy,” says Dr. Winfield, “the true breakthrough innovation here is that we’ve created a 2-piece ball that allows for average swing speed golfers to achieve the distance and accuracy of advanced 3-piece balls which typically require top swing speeds.”
In the past, companies have used only 1 type of dimple. The Polara Ultimate Straight XD was the first ball to use both flat and rounded dimples (the company’s first non USGA conforming ball). The 'Polara Pro Tour FS MARK I' is the first ball to use that innovation of combining dimple types for a USGA conforming golf ball. Every aspect of the ball contributes to its overall performance. Supporting this dimple innovation is a core that is made of premium rubber and is special chemically treated to provide a high energy core making this ball able to achieve maximum distance allowed by the USGA.
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Polara Golf is the leader in game improvement equipment for the recreational golfer. Polara Golf’s mission is “To make the game of golf more fun”. All of the Polara golf balls and clubs are designed for use by recreational golfers who want to take advantage of technology improvements designed to help them score lower and enjoy the game more. Polara Pro Tour is the USGA competition line of radically different and innovative design technology for golf balls and drivers.
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Portrait of AA Bronson. Photo: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
by JOE LLOYD
When General Idea burst out at the tail end of the 1960s, few knew what to make of them. A collective of three pseudonymous individuals – AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal – who met in Toronto’s countercultural communes, they practised an art that seemed to defy all boundaries.
There were poster campaigns for mock ads, performance works that spanned days, a parodic beauty pageant, sculptures purporting to be ruins of a destroyed pavilion and vast mail art projects, including one piece that had correspondents tracking the date and time of their orgasms. They published a journal, FILE Megazine and found the alternative venue Art Metropole, still operating today. After a move to New York in the mid-80s, the collective turned its focus to the HIV pandemic, with a series of artworks that sought to make the disease visible.
General Idea, FILE Megazine, vol. 1, no. 1 (Mr. Peanut), 15 April 1972. Offset periodical, 35.5 × 28 cm. Art Metropole fonds, Art Metropole Collection, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa . Gift of Jay A. Smith, Toronto, 1999. © General Idea. Photo: General Idea Archives, Berlin, courtesy the artist.
General Idea came to an end in 1994, after Partz and Zontal lost their lives to Aids-related illness. Bronson became a healer, training in therapeutic massage and practising professionally, to care for his friends. He returned to artist practice after a break, with powerful work that explored loss and recovery. He curated numerous exhibitions and worked collaboratively with many younger artists. He spent a decade as the director of the seminal art book publisher Printed Matter, Inc, and founded art book fairs in New York and Los Angeles.
Bronson had a productive pandemic. He has spent much of the last few years working on the largest retrospective to date of General Idea, at the National Gallery of Canada, and on a 750-page catalogue to accompany it. “Being 76 is kind of like being in lockdown,” he says. “You don’t leave your home as much. You’re not out partying at night, although I was a little bit. And your sex drive is a lot lower. So, to be in lockdown is so much easier if you’re older.”
Studio International caught up with Bronson after he had returned from the exhibition’s opening to his home in Berlin.
JOE LLOYD: General Idea has a retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada. How were you involved in the process?
AA BRONSON: Well, I’m the only artist who survives, so I’ve been intimately connected to the whole process for the last four years. In fact, it’s pretty much all I’ve done. The catalogue is finished. It’s 750 pages, it’s very big. I’m very, very happy with it. It’s beautiful.
There have been two other travelling retrospectives in the last 10 years or so. So, to tell the truth, I wasn’t so focused on the exhibition. But I was very focused on the catalogue because they had a good budget and I have a long history with artists’ books. General Idea started Art Metropole; in Toronto, we published a lot of books. And I ran Printed Matter for many years and started the New York Art Book Fair and the LA Art Book Fair. The book was obviously my territory, and they let me run with it. With the designer, we came up with a proposal for something that not only covered the exhibition, but the complete range of General Idea’s work, which includes performance, poster projects, things on the street, mail art projects right back when – really to cover the entire range of General Idea’s work and not just what can be represented in an exhibition. And that’s what we did, and they approved the project, and it moved ahead. I’m really, absolutely thrilled with it. It’s a book of a lifetime, to me. And at 76, it’s about time!
General Idea, Self-portrait with Objects, 1981–82. Montage, gelatin silver print, 35.6 × 27.7 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 1985 (EX-85-142). © General Idea Photo: NGC.
JL: There are some aspects of General Idea’s work that strike me as difficult to exhibit or depict in a book, such as the mail art.
AAB: Yes, the mail art is not exhibited. Because, I mean, you can show some bits of paper in a vitrine, but it’s an activity that engages a whole group of people in exchange. And you can’t represent it by the debris that collects. But I hope that the catalogue itself has managed to capture some of that. Mail art is really difficult to exhibit. I started seeing mail art appearing in auction houses recently – and always for very, very low prices. I think it will always be low. Let’s see.
JL: How about performance?
AAB: For the section about performance, we ended up trying to capture, in a sense, memory of the performances more than the performances. In the book, that section is printed entirely on translucent paper in black and white, and so each image shows through the previous image. It’s a rather poetic section of the book, it’s not directly descriptive. In a way, that’s the most successful part. It’s the part that everybody oohs and ahhs over. But it’s not documentation in the normal way.
General Idea, The 1970 Miss General Idea Pageant, 29 August 1970. Performance as part of What Happened, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto. © General Idea Photo: NGC.
JL: What first got you interested in printed materials as an artistic medium?
AAB: I don’t really know. My father was in the Canadian military, and we would move every three years. I was an extremely shy child. I ended up pilfering the libraries wherever we were and reading anything I could find that might remotely interest me. In a three-year period in one town, I could clean out the local library. And my bed would always have stacks of books around it – and I had no friends! That’s how it began in a way.
Then I studied architecture in the mid-60s, and it was the era of underground newspapers. With a group of friends, we dropped out of university, began a commune, and started an underground newspaper. And the thing about the underground newspapers that I think most people don’t realise is that they were very much a network. There was a kind of unspoken agreement that every underground newspaper would send a copy of every issue of its paper to every other underground paper that they could possibly track down. So, there were always masses of underground papers coming in the door and masses of them going out.
That’s how I came to be in touch with, for example, Situationist International because they were very involved with underground publishing in the 60s. And, especially in Europe, there were quite a few underground papers that were coming from art or arts communities, and not just from hippie communes.
I ended up moving to Toronto, where I worked as a designer at Coach House Press, which is a wonderful small independent press, at the time publishing mostly poetry, Allen Ginsberg and people like that. And it was associated with Rochdale College, at the time the world’s largest commune. The building was built to be a commune. It was 13 floors, and each floor was a different community. There was a coven on one floor, a black magic group on another floor, and people involved in architecture and ecology on another floor. It was an astonishing thing.
A theatre started out of it, Theatre Passe Muraille, where I ended up designing posters. And General Idea came out of that place. A group of us met there and became General Idea, and somehow between underground newspapers and designing books and posters for theatres, General Idea started to spill out ephemera for imaginary events. And it turned into artists’ books quite quickly.
We could find Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit (1964) in the local pharmacy, believe it or not, about 1969. So, there was a model there already. I think Fluxus was the first readily available model for artists’ books, other than you know the Russian constructivists.
General Idea, The Unveiling of the Cornucopia (Mural Fragment from the Room of the Unknown Function in the Villa dei Misteri of The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion), 1982. Enamel on plasterboard and plywood, 244 × 610 cm. University of Lethbridge Art Collection, Purchased 1986 with funds provided by the Canada Council Special Purchase Assistance Program (1986.113). © General Idea. Photo: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
JL: Incredible! How did the network of communes and publications communicate across countries?
AAB: Because there was no internet, and the mail services worked fine but didn’t really give a feeling of connection, I feel that each group in each city felt in a way abandoned and disconnected and outside of the world. The only way to feel connected was to connect to people in other cities. It’s also a time in North America in which there was an enormous amount of hitchhiking, people just going to the highway and sticking out their thumb and travelling to the next city along in the network, the next city that had communes or underground papers or music festivals or whatever. So, it all comes out of the counterculture, I could put it that way. It doesn’t come out of the art scene so much as the counterculture. And I think you can see that, for example with Yoko Ono and John Lennon.
JL: Was there a point when you began to see the actions you were undertaking as art?
AAB: It was more like the people around us identified us as artists. We did a few theatrical events, something like a happening, in 1968 or 69. And we did a couple of what we thought were just inventive displays in the theatre lobby. Then an artist-run gallery invited us to be in a group exhibition, and we realised: “Oh, we’re artists.” Only one of us had gone to art school. But suddenly, we were artists. By early 1970, we already were thinking of ourselves as artists, and as what we did as art.
JL: I am sure you have been asked this a thousand times, but where did the name come from?
AAB: For the first exhibition, the one I just mentioned, we put in a proposal for a project, which we called General Idea. We didn’t have a group name. The gallery misunderstood and thought that General Idea was the name of the group. So, we thought, OK, good name.
General Idea, Homeless Sign for Trump Tower, 1989. Marble, bronze, 68.6 × 75.6 × 6.4 cm. Collection of Mario J. Palumbo. © General Idea. Photo: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
JL: When you began, your activities must have seemed very outre?
AAB: Yeah, I don’t really know what the art world thought! First of all, we were in Canada. The Canadian art world was mostly centred in Vancouver, which was many thousands of miles away, and to a lesser extent in Montreal. And the Toronto art world was pretty sad, frankly, pretty minimal. It was mainly painters, a generation older than us. There was Michael Snow – but at that point he was living in New York – and Joyce Wieland, both film-makers, but that was it. Toronto was just a terrible place for art. We didn’t really identify as being part of that art world, the more mainstream art world, and it just didn’t interest us at all. So, we didn’t participate in it.
When we began to work internationally, it came out of the mail art. For example, Robert Filliou invited us to be in an exhibition at the DAAD-Galerie here in Berlin, in 70 or 71. It’s extremely early. That was our first institutional show, and it was in Berlin, and we were in Toronto, and we had only just begun! We didn’t have any money and they didn’t have any money to bring us. That’s also when the Berlin Wall was very, very up, a difficult time in Berlin. When I look back on it, it’s amazing – our first institutional group show was at DAAD-Galerie Gallery a year after we started, and our first solo museum show was at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 79, 10 years after we started. It was another five before we had a show in a Canadian institution.
JL: When compiling the catalogue and exhibition, were there any works you had forgotten about?
AAB: To tell the truth, I don’t think so. I mean, there were works that other people had forgotten about, that I made sure got dredged to the surface because I didn’t want them to be completely forgotten. And the body of General Idea’s work is so wide ranging, it doesn’t lend itself to a concentrated form. We were lucky in this case with the exhibition, as the National Gallery of Canada has an immense, 16,000 sq ft [1,486 sq metre] temporary gallery. And they gave me a very free hand in proposing how we will use it. And the results are really amazing. I can pat myself on the back. I think it’s the best General Idea show ever. And I’m very, very happy with it. There’s a first room, which is a kind of an introduction to General Idea, with a few highlights. And then it goes into a chronological sequence, starting through the 70s, the 80s, and into the 90s. And going from, mail art, which is a very small kind of infrastructure through to very large installations at the end. It’s a very theatrical show.
JL: After General Idea came to an end, how did you approach transitioning to working as a solo artist?
AAB: I didn’t want it to be a continuation. I wanted to stop until I had something of my own to put out. So, I didn’t do anything for five years. Then I began to work again. I’ve worked collaboratively with a lot of younger artists, mostly. The exhibitions I’ve put on have mostly been highly collaborative, where I’m involved with a lot of people in the exhibitions, not just showing myself.
But at a certain point I realised that as the living memory of General Idea, there were so many decisions I was having to make about how a General Idea work gets installed, or how it gets represented in a catalogue, or how it gets talked about. In a way, I was functioning as if I was still General Idea. So, I began to produce some of the works that had been in the works, before Jorge and Felix died, which we had never completed. And I’ve now done quite a lot of that. I thought maybe I would feel guilty about it because it’s kind of like, making new General Idea works. But then I realised they were alive in our heads. And 100 years from now, nobody’s going to care who died first. It’s the work that will speak. I figure history can decide whether that was a good decision of mine or not, but I’ve put considerable time into producing some of the works that never manifested at the end of our time together.
General Idea, AIDS, 1987. Acrylic on canvas, 182.9 × 182.9 cm. Private collection, courtesy Blondeau & Cie. © General Idea. Photo: Blondeau & Cie.
JL: The idea of working as a collective runs against the commercial art world’s idea of the individual genius.
AAB: Yes, that’s what the commercial art world wants. And I can’t help but wonder, would anybody buy General Idea if Jorge and Felix were still alive? Probably not.
It’s a peculiar thing. I feel there’s a big interest in collaboration among young artists and especially queer artists. There’s a huge interest in it and a big desire to participate in it. But also, as I get older, I find that I’ve become rather too much of a symbol of something. It’s hard for people to collaborate with me if they think they’re looking up to me. Once I turned 70, the collaborations started to die down. But during my 50s and 60s, I was able to do a lot.
The marketplace does not like collaboration. But I feel the museum world, the curatorial world and the critical world are all very interested in it. And I think especially young queer artists are very interested in how you can create a process by which to create art.
JL: Do you think an equivalent to the communes of the 60s and 70s could exist today?
AAB: It’s hard to know. There are still artists trying to do things with this structure, there are still people. But it was also at a time when most cities had a lot of unused space. Empty warehouses, old houses that had been standing abandoned. Now we’re at a time when in just about every city, space is at a premium, rents are high … I left New York nine years ago, but already young people were sharing apartments in a very crowded kind of way, but I’m not going to call it a commune. It was more like enforced sharing, just from economics. And I don’t feel the time is really here any more.
There is an artist from Los Angeles, Fritz Haeg, who purchased an abandoned rural commune with about 15 to 20 houses that had been designed and built by the people who lived there, and it was intended to be an agricultural commune. I think it lasted for about 20 years, but it eventually closed, and he purchased it. He’s made it into a kind of art project. It’s really fantastic. He’s made a very open structure, so anybody can go there and live there. I suspect they can stay as long as they want. But most people are probably liable to go for two weeks or four weeks or something like that. And they’re expected to kind of pitch in and help with the general bringing back together of the project as a whole. I think it’s rent free. It’s a fascinating project, because it’s kind of midway between architecture and art and something else.
JL: Now you have finished the catalogue, what do you plan to do next?
AAB: I’m a bit lost actually – postpartum depression? I’m not really sure what to do next. My dealers would like it if I would work and produce a catalogue raisonné of General Idea, which, if it happens, I think should be online. But I really don’t have the slightest idea. And sometimes that’s interesting: to start from a point of not knowing and see what comes.
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Some of the biggest industrial companies in Japan are working on a project that could trigger a wave of investment into one of the most controversial forms of carbon capture: methanation.
Shipping giant Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd. (MOL) is leading a working group of nine Japanese companies including steelmakers Nippon Steel Corp. and JFE Steel Corp. to assess the viability of producing and using methane to power “zero-emission ships” instead of liquefied natural gas or other fossil fuels, including a fleet of new vessels that would transport carbon dioxide for processing.
Methanation is “the most realistic solution” for MOL to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, Takeshi Hashimoto, chief executive officer said in an interview. “The challenge for the next one to two decades is whether the company could turn the technology into a sustainable and practical solution” by reducing the cost, he said.
Discovered over a century ago by French chemists, methanation is a two-part process to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into methane. The hydrogen can be produced by splitting water using renewable energy such as wind or solar power. The hydrogen is combined with CO2 and the resulting methane can be used as a fuel in ships or power plants.
Yet the costs of producing and transporting the gases and the technical hurdles have so far kept the process largely at an experimental level. That may change as demand for carbon-neutral energy increases.
One of methane’s advantages over alternative fuels such as ammonia and hydrogen is that it can more easily use existing natural gas infrastructure, said Hashimoto. Another is that it can effectively store excess energy created by solar and wind power as methane. When the gas is burned to produce power, the CO2 captured earlier is released back into the atmosphere, making it carbon neutral.
For shipping, the task of finding an emission-neutral fuel is critical because onboard solar and wind systems don’t generate enough energy to propel large vessels. In 2018, the International Maritime Organization set a target to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in shipping 50% by 2050 and eliminate them completely as soon as possible this century. Japan’s land ministry wants zero-emission ships to be operating by 2028.
“The working group aims to get the project in shape in seven to eight years to meet the land ministry’s goal,” said Hirohiko Oyabu, an assistant to the director of the technical division at MOL.
The MOL-led group is conducting a life-cycle assessment of methanation and “is working to remove difficulties step by step to make the technology feasible,” Oyabu said. It expects to produce a report on initial progress this summer.
Because renewable energy is expensive in Japan, the methane may need to be made overseas. That would mean developing special vessels to transport the CO2. Key to commercialization would be the viability of shipping CO2 long distances as well as the price of the hydrogen.
Balanced against those expenses is the rising cost of failing to curb emissions as regulations tighten. That may propel the technology “to the next stage, including commercialization,” Oyabu said. “Fuels with less CO2 emission will be valued more in the future.”
A competitor to methane is LNG, which emits 20-30% less CO2 than vessels using oil allowing shipowners to cut emissions with proven technology. Of the 804 vessels MOL operated as of December, 96 were fueled by LNG.
The number of LNG-fueled ships, including those on order, is expected to double worldwide by 2027 from 2019, the company said. That could make LNG an interim choice until a true emission-neutral solution emerges.
“A zero-emission fleet is only commercially viable if zero-emission energy sources are competitive with traditional fuels,” said Johannah Christensen, managing director of the Global Maritime Forum.
There were around 38 active methanation projects around the world as of 2019, mostly in Europe and the U.S., according to research at the Technical University of Applied Science in Regensburg, Germany. Three pilot plants were set up in Germany, Italy and Switzerland after four-years of research into the technology under the EU’s Horizon 2020 research effort.
Automaker Audi AG has been experimenting with methane-powered vehicles for almost a decade and sells versions of its A4 Avant and A5 Sportback that run on the fuel, made using wind power at a plant in Werlte in North Germany.
In Japan, interest in methanation increased after the government established a $19.2 billion green innovation fund last year, looking at technologies spanning everything from carbon recycling to ship propulsion as part of its 2050 zero-emissions goal.
Oil and gas company Inpex Corp. and industrial conglomerate Hitachi Zosen Corp. have built a pilot facility at Inpex’s Koshijihara gas production plant in Niigata Prefecture. Commissioned by state-run New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, the four-year-old project makes about 47 tons of methane a year, and Inpex plans to ramp it up to commercial operation of about 350,000 tons after 2030.
“Compared to ammonia or liquid hydrogen, methanation could be implemented with considerably lower capital investment,” as we can use many existing facilities, said Tatsuki Wakayama, a principal project engineer at Inpex’s renewable energy and new business division.
Utility Osaka Gas Co. is working on a way to produce methane by electrolyzing water vapor and CO2 simultaneously using a Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell. The company claims the system is more efficient and announced a successful prototype in January.
Critics argue that even with advances in technology, methanation will struggle to compete with LNG. Imported LNG costs around $8 per MMBtu in Japan, a price methane would struggle to beat even if solar costs were free, said Syed Naqvi, executive director at IHS Markit. “Methanation could be economical if hydrogen is obtained as a byproduct from somewhere,” he said.
Inpex says renewable energy would ideally be around 2-¥3/kWh (2-3 cents) or less for commercialization, compared with a current price of about ¥13.6/kWh in Japan. In Saudi Arabia and Chile, solar power costs as little as 2-¥2.5/kWh.
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Children's Beginning Machine Sewing (AGES 9-16)
with Carolyn Kospender
10am – 12pm (?)
Come join us for a fun and easy workshop will introduce you child to the sewing machine! Students will learn all of the basics from threading to working the machine while designing their own drawstring bags. Basic stitch practice and pinning will also be covered! All materials included.
Carolyn holds a BFA in Painting/Art Education from the Tyler School or Art and has over 15 years of experience teaching art in a variety of schools, museums and arts organizations. She is down-right geeky when it comes to her excitement about sharing creative ideas and lessons with anyone. When she’s not teaching, she’s creating pet portraits and personalized goodies through her handmade biz, hither rabbit. Otherwise, you can find her at chilling at home and tickling her dog’s feet. | <urn:uuid:593a2196-56db-49de-a856-3398467f5199> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://moreanartscenter.org/classes/beginning-machine-sewing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.928037 | 195 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Architecture, Phantasmagoria, and the Culture of Contemporary Capitalism - Introduction
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This symposium addresses the concept of phantasmagoria in architecture, unearthing its various manifestations in the contemporary culture of spectacle. Participants from a variety of fields at the intersection of architecture, technology, and political philosophy will examine the history of phantasmagoria from the late eighteenth century to the present and the place it occupies in the writings of Marx, Benjamin, Adorno, and others. More specifically, participants will discuss its role in analyses of capitalist commodity fetishism where, along with the notions of the spectral and the fantastic, it is used to question, and occasionally to subvert, the relationship between ‘reality’ and ‘illusion’. Special attention will be paid to the present-day significance of phantasmagoria in an age of tele-technological and communicative capitalism. Just as new technologies, according to Benjamin, reorganized the human sensorium in the 19th century, turning Paris into the interior space of the flaneur, so technical innovations are reconfiguring the most basic conditions of urban experience in our time, generating new forms of ‘hyper-mediated’ subjectivity that transform the city through the force of psychic shock. By bringing a variety of perspectives to bear on this one concept, the symposium will attempt to frame a general critique of the culture of contemporary capitalism. | <urn:uuid:ec3ed66b-e4b1-4530-b932-9c6b0fc1bc5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/56692 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.872996 | 321 | 1.84375 | 2 |
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According to the latest Crop Progress report from USDA, 95% of corn has been planted as of the week ended May 30. This surpasses the 90% reported planted in the previous week and the 92% reported planted in the same week last year. The 5-year average planting rate for this week was 87%.
Some 81% of corn was reported emerged in the same report, above both the 76% emerged last year and the 64% emerged in the week prior. The 5-year average emergence rate for this week was 70%.
Some 62% of corn crops were reported in "good" condition, with another 14% in "excellent" condition and 20% in "fair condition."
USDA also reported 84% of soybeans have been planted, an increase from the 74% planted by this point last year. This also surpasses the 67% 5-year average.
According to the report, 62% of soybeans have emerged, above the 50% reported emerged in the same week last year. The 5-year average for soybean emergence in this week was 42%.
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- Architects: Patrick Bradley Architects (2014)
- Photographs: Aidan Monaghan Photography
- Construction Area: 1236 sqft.
- Location: Ireland
- Number of Containers: 4
Photo Gallery and Build Plans
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Unlike any other house that has ever been designed and constructed within Northern Ireland, this house takes a completely new approach to rural architecture in the Irish countryside. With the concept an appreciation of agricultural buildings dotted throughout the rural landscape, the house is a refreshing approach to contemporary 21st Century Irish Architecture.
The house is the first modern shipping container construction designed and built in Northern Ireland, with the primary structure made up of four 45ft shipping containers, merged together to form two large daring cantilever forms. The containers are cloaked with a dark grey colored expanded metal to the top form with a natural COR-TEN steel to the lower form, which could only be considered a piece of art or sculptural nestled into its surrounding landscape. The dwellings layout has been cleverly design to take full advantage of the site outstanding views to the surrounding picturesque landscape, mountains beyond, historic Drumlamph woodland and nearby Grillagh River (salmon river).
On approach to the house you travel on a gravel laneway with dry stone walling to both sides which separates the site boundary and surrounding agricultural fields. At the end of access sits the house, and with the smallest elevation you find only the primary entrance door in bold orange with a minimal cantilevered porch above.
The primary entrance to the house is located at the upper floor on the north side of site, which leads you through a small entrance gallery in to the open planning living area, with a kitchen, dining area and living space. This area has been designed to have a free flowing circulation, which also leads you onto two external balcony areas to the South and West. One of the three bedrooms is behind a hidden door of the entrance gallery. The location and position of the upper floor has been designed to take full advantage of the view and natural sun light, also within this area of the house it provides such emotion of a calm relaxing atmosphere. In between the galley kitchen and dining area rests the steel sculpture stair case which leads down to the lower ground floor level.
While descending down the staircase there is a large window framing the view towards the natural rock and once you reach the lower floor level, you are exposed to the a whole bathroom through a large internal screen, which includes an incredible suspended hammock designed sculpture bath and towards the east a sliding pocket glass door which provides access to a bedroom provides view to the surrounding agricultural fields and a water trough for livestock which provides a barrier between the farm animals and the house. Located beside the bathroom is the utility boot room, which also provides access to the outside gardens with the large cantilevered south balcony above. At the end of the small circulation hallway there is a hidden door which leads you into the master quarters. The layout of master quarter’s internal design is very hotel style with open shower area with a large internal screen, providing a beautiful view over the bed to the historic Drumlamph Wood. Hidden Behind a frosted glazed wall is the WC and basin. The bedroom itself is in the most secret area of the house with a large glazed window with incredible views and with the only sound provided is that of wild life from the woodland and flowing water of the Grillagh River. The feeling and emotions of tranquillity and privacy in the lower level provides a completely different emotion to that of the upper level.
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BY TIANA CLINE
Spot, a quadruped robot dog built by Boston Dynamics, has made its way to South Africa. Highly agile, robust and durable, applications for this pioneering machine seem almost boundless.
If you can play a video game, you can control Spot. It’s that easy. This robotic quadruped, that resembles a canine, works with a bespoke tablet controller that looks and feels like a large Nintendo Switch device.
Spot Enterprise, the newly launched industrial version of the robot dog, is available with a robotic arm attachment that helps it to grasp, lift, carry and drag a wide variety of objects. What really sets Spot Enterprise apart is that while the original Spot (known as Spot Explorer) has around 90 minutes of battery life, Spot Enterprise can exist for long periods of time on a remote site using its own self-charging docking station. Without the controller, both versions of Spot can be operated remotely using Boston Dynamics’ web-browser-based platform known as Scout.
Quadruped or biped?
The sight of a mechanical canine walking towards you can be a little unnerving, especially if you’ve seen the ‘Metalhead’ episode of Black Mirror, where robot dogs hunt human survivors. Thankfully, that’s not why Spot was created. Interestingly, Spot isn’t the only robot made by Boston Dynamics.
Founded back in 1992, the company was a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the world-renowned research university. Spot is the first quadruped robot that Boston Dynamics has made available for retail. You may also have heard of Stretch, the warehouse robot, or the bipedal humanoid robot called Atlas, that can dance, do parkour, and even perform a gymnastics routine. Atlas features a state-of-the-art control system as well as one of the world’s most compact mobile hydraulic systems. It’s incredibly agile, and weighs just less than 90 kg, thanks to its lightweight printed parts. Atlas isn’t for sale just yet, but for a cool R1.9 million or so, you’ll be able to take Spot home with you. But that wouldn’t just be for companionship…
Who is using Spot?
Law enforcement and rescue: Fondly known as Digidog, the NYPD has tested out Spot in a number of high-risk situations, from hostage hold-ups to search-and-rescue operations. When it was too dangerous to send in a human first responder, Spot was used to carry food to hostages and enter potentially hazardous locations.
With the ability to carry up to 14 kg of equipment, the mechanical canine is being used by the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services bomb squad in its high-risk work, and by the Honolulu Police Department to conduct contactless temperature checks and to deliver food and medicine to homeless people.
Military: Could battlefields of the future become robotised? By putting Spot through simulated scenarios, that’s a question French military academy École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr is looking to answer. Interestingly, Spot was first developed to carry ammunition, so it’s fitting that the robot dog recently appeared alongside soldiers during training exercises. It’s reported that the military has been using Spot to analyse the difference it could make to troop and battlefield operations, especially when it comes to reconnaissance manoeuvres.
Academia: The University of Johannesburg’s Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS) was the first academic institution in South Africa to acquire Spot. According to the director of IIS, Spot forms part of the university’s forward-thinking 4IR (Fourth Industrial Revolution) strategy, where it will help researchers to make robotics a part of the academic agenda.
NASA: NeBula-SPOT was built for NASA to autonomously explore complex environments such as caves, tunnels, pits and other sub-surface terrain types to map out areas of scientific interest. These Spot models have been specifically designed to work together to navigate treacherous terrain, and are currently being tested in locations that mimic the Martian landscape.
Public health: During the pandemic, smaller versions of Spot were seen kitted with iPads, turning them into mobile telemedicine platforms at hospitals.
Industry: Oil producers are despatching Spot on their rigs for inspection work, to help compile status reports, and to search for hydrocarbon leaks. Using 3D laser scanning technology to capture and monitor progress, Spot brings much-needed automation to the field for efficient data collection at construction sites.
INTERVIEW: SPOT GOES MINING
Meet Jamie van Schoor, the CEO and founder of Dwyka Mining Services. He is also the man behind the company with the rights for the Enterprise version of Spot in South Africa. We spoke to him to find out how this robot will change the mining landscape.
Popular Mechanics: Why would you say that Spot is the future of mining?
Jamie van Schoor: A lot of our work involves environmental management. We have systems that monitor underground conditions – carbon monoxide, temperature, heat, airflow – so we have a very good under-standing of the challenges associated with those variables. Ideally, we shouldn’t be sending people into underground areas where conditions are hazardous, especially if we don’t need to. That’s where Spot Enterprise comes in.
PM: So you feel the solution to many of these issues is Spot?
JVS: Absolutely – by using this highly agile robot, you’ll get the data you need without having to put a human’s life at risk. An example of this is when you’re blasting or charging an area – people need to leave the mine and go up to the surface. This is essentially a wasted period of time, when people have to wait for blast fumes to clear… It can take up to an hour and a half, especially if mines don’t have proper ventilation. During that time, Spot could already be collecting valuable data. In mining, this is called short interval control – you want quicker data to be able to make quicker decisions.
PM: Where do you see Spot being used the most?
JVS: Spot is so versatile and competent in a variety of environments. Our vast experience with aerial drones – and point clouds on drones – has shown us that there are limitations to where we can take drones. But because Spot can walk on the ground, we can get access areas where drones cannot fly.
PM: Why is this important in South African mines?
JVS: Our mining techniques are very different to everywhere else in the world. Our context is often low, narrow-reef mining, where you drive flatbed vehicles. Spot can now access these types of areas, because it fits. It’s filling a gap, so to speak, enabling us to obtain data from key areas.
PM: Are people afraid that Spot will take their jobs?
JVS: Spot is about augmenting human efforts. If I can save half an hour of my day by getting Spot to do one task, what other things can I achieve in that time to make me more productive? Mining is complex. It’s dynamic, but it’s also unpredictable. Spot is obtaining reliable, repeatable data that can be benchmarked for the future. In mining, time is crucial, and Spot can really help in that regard.
PM: Spot can mine, but we’ve also heard that it can dance…
JVS: There’s this misconception that Spot is a dancing showman. Yes, there’s a whole suite of software to get Spot to dance, but when you see this robot in action it feels different. It’s 34 kg of highly complex machine that took years and years to develop. Where robots with tracks on an underground surface get stuck, robots with legs such as Spot can navigate and manoeuvre past obstacles, and that’s what’s impressive. This is ultimately a heavy-duty robot constructed for industry.
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Accelerated Piano Lab™
A New Approach to Piano Lessons
Accelerated Piano Lab is an innovative approach to music education that teaches independent practice skills and accelerates achievement. Lab students move faster through their music, are better at practicing, and are more self-sufficient learners. For most beginning to intermediate students, it’s the best way to learn. Watch Kay explain it in our 90 second video!
How it Works
Three to five students work separately at their pianos with headphones, alternating between interacting with the teacher and independent learning. The lab is compatible with any curriculum, preferred method or repertoire. Each student’s progress is completely separate and independent from everyone else. In addition to their regular curriculum books, Lab students work from Musicologie’s proprietary Lab curriculum which fills learning gaps and makes drilling scales and technique fun!
Why Students AND Parents Love Accelerated Piano Lab
Lab has been shown to dramatically improve a student’s sight reading skills. This is the biggest skill that students need in order to learn music quickly.
Students move through their books faster.
Students learn more music each week.
Includes proven practice techniques so home practice is all about review and increasing speed.
Less tedium = more fun at home.
Minimizes the parent’s need to supervise practice at home. Fewer battles about practicing and just more fun!
"My kids love the experience of the Accelerated Piano Lab. The longer stretch of time allows them to receive detailed guidance from their teacher as they explore new concepts. This foundation sends them into a week of practicing with an elevated level of confidence in working on new skills. They also love the benefit of learning alongside other students. The communal setting is fun and motivating as they face new musical challenges!"
- Kara, Musicologie Mom since 2016
"I knew my kids were ready for hour-long weekly lessons, but I didn't know how we'd ever make that work from a scheduling standpoint. Now, all three of my boys can take lessons at the same time, and we're in and out in an hour. Total game changer!"
- Marisa, Musicologie Mom since 2015
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School buses are designed and built for safety. They are surrounded by red flashing lights, their bright yellow color, large mirrors, they are slow, and they also come with the famous stop-sign arm. In fact, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, it is believed that students are about 70 times more likely to get to school safely when taking a school bus instead of traveling by car.
School bus camera systems can take that safety net even further.
They are capable of capturing live video and audio of the inside of the bus, allowing the driver to keep his eyes on the road. These school bus surveillance cameras help identify bullying, vandalism, any student misbehavior, or even risky driving habits, and let remote supervisors record and view footage to resolve problems quickly.
In this solution brief, we will review the challenges faced by school districts and parents when attempting to provide safe bus rides to students. Then, we will discuss Lanner’s solution to address these challenges. How the in-vehicle Network Video Recorder (NVR) V6S, rugged and compact design can provide video surveillance under moving and harsh conditions. The V6S can take the video feeds of multiple video cameras, and send them to an in-vehicle monitor or to a remote fleet management center via LTE.
What could go wrong, when you cram up 50-70 school students on an everyday 1-2 hour bus ride, every day, and leave them with only one adult supervisor who has to keep his or her eyes on the opposite direction and focus on the road?
About 25 million students in the US, begin and end their day with a school bus ride. While these buses are designed and built for safety, there are other factors outside the road that compromises their security.
There are three main challenges when it comes to enforcing security in school buses.
- Supporting drivers with student supervision and avoiding vandalism and bullying.
- Dealing with unsafe driving behaviors and drivers taking unknown routes.
- Identifying dangerous and illegal stop-arm pass-byes.
First, keeping an eye on the student’s behavior is challenging, as most of the time, the only adult supervisor is the driver, which needs to focus on doing his or her job: to drive the students safely and on time. As kids get older, their onboard behavior can start to be a distraction for the driver. Without extra help, drivers are sometimes overwhelmed by these circumstances.
Second, school bus drivers are also on their own and have tremendous responsibility for driving dozens of school students back and forth. But who is keeping an eye on the drivers? Are they driving carefully?
And third, school drivers might be professional drivers with advanced training, but other drivers around might not. By law, other drivers around a bus are expected to stop at their stop-sign arms; additionally, school buses always stop at railroad crossings and travel at slower speeds, so other vehicles also endanger the safety of school buses.
Additionally, outside the domain of student’s safety, video can also be a privacy issue. Although some parents agree that video cameras can provide security to students, many others are against it, since it can generate many privacy issues. Who has access to these videos? Are videos being stored? Does the department of transit and police have access to these videos?
This solution improves the safety of students by providing vehicle surveillance inside, outside, and around the school bus. All video feeds are either viewed by the driver via a monitor, and/or sent remotely to a fleet management center.
Lanner’s V6S is a crucial component within the school bus camera solution.
The Components of the School Bus Camera Solution
The school bus camera system depends on multiple components for its functionality. In essence, these include the hi-definition exterior/interior cameras, a rugged surveillance NVR with radio communication, the software, and the fleet management center.
Interior/Exterior Bus Cameras
The interior cameras capture a wide live view of all the students riding the bus. A few internal wide-view cameras can give a good picture of what’s happening inside the bus. The interior bus cameras can also provide live footage of the driver, to help remote supervisors quickly detect any signs of abnormal behavior that may put the students at risk.
The exterior cameras can help solve challenges related to the bus, the driving, and its surrounding vehicles. These cameras can be used to automatically collect footage of stop-sign arm violations, help the driver maneuver with a bird’s eye view, and even be helpful as evidence for accidents. The on-board cameras can also be complemented with a monitor to help drivers see all video inputs on a single screen.
Network Video Recorder (NVR)
Lanner’s V6S is a next-generation rugged vehicle surveillance Network Video Recorder (NVR). This vehicle computer is designed for on-board operations, to consolidate all video feeds, and to save them into a removable SSD/HDD storage. The V6S comes with 2x removable 2.5″ drive bays (HDD/SSD is not included).
The V6S NVR also supports PGN-600 and PGN-300 4G/LTE radio modems for mission-critical communications. With these radio modules, the V6S NVR can transmit video data in real-time via the mobile network and communicate with the fleet management center.
The V6S NVR supports up to 10 cameras. These cameras can be connected via PoE ports or through WiFi (with support from a module). The NVR receives the digital signals from all cameras; then, it can either transmit it to an on-vehicle monitor or a remote fleet management center.
- 10 RJ-45 PoE ports for IP camera connection and 1 GbE port.
- Two removable 2.5″ HDD/SSD drive bays.
- Enhanced vehicle computing. V6S is power efficient and graphics-accelerated. It comes with 7th Generation 14 nm Intel® Core™ i7-7600U SoC.
- V6S can operate under a wide range of temperatures and is resistant to shock and vibration.
- Support for 4G/LTE modules (and dual SIM card readers) for mobile broadband connectivity.
The Video Management Software
V6S is a Milestone XProtect verified platform.
Milestone Systems is a leader provider in open platform Video Management Software (VMS), and Milestone XProtect is the software tailored for video surveillance. Milestone added Lanner’s V6S into its Marketplace, as a rugged vehicle PC with certified LTE connectivity, power-efficient performance and accelerated graphics performance for vehicle computing.
The Fleet Management Center
Before forwarding large data sets of raw video data from the school bus to a remote fleet management center, the V6S in-vehicle computer is capable of analyzing and aggregating data using edge intelligence. This functionality can significantly reduce the size of data and network latency.
The remote fleet management center receives all video feeds (already pre-processed by the V6S) from all buses in real-time. The supervisors sitting at the center can help the driver, track the bus, monitor students, etc. But to take it further, the processed data with additional intelligence can also be used within the vehicle to avoid obstacles, as a location tracking system, and more.
The solution also allows integration with other data, for example, school bus cameras, telematics data, and school building cameras, all into one platform with the open VMS.
The robust school bus surveillance NVR V6S is the perfect solution for public schools and private charter student bus services. The appliance makes onboard video camera systems available and solves many of the security challenges faced by school buses.
So, what are the main benefits of the entire system?
- Monitor onboard student and driver behavior: High-resolution video/audio recording helps school districts and parents identify and stop bullying, vandalism, or any other bad discipline from onboard students. Video cameras help keep a close eye on the behavior of the students and even of the driver. Video surveillance can help identify and stop risky driving habits. Having available footage can help resolve disputes between students, drivers, and parents.
- Help plan better routes and avoid buses going off route. Identify and help drivers navigate through better routes. Video telematics data along with GPS tracking data can help track buses, know which ways they are taking, the stops, traffic, and delays. With this data, bus supervisors can help plan better routes and keep track of the buses. Additionally, V6S analytics capabilities, along with the PGN-300 or PGN-600 LTE mobile broadband module, can be used for improved security through geofencing. Set a virtual geographical fence for each bus and get instantaneous alarms when a bus is going outside those fences.
- Improve the safety of the bus surroundings. Buses by itself are designed and built for safety. They are long metal tubes, with big mirrors, compartmentalized seats, red flashing lights, the stop-sign shaped arm, and more. Exterior cameras installed on the school bus can help automatically capture evidence of illegal stop-arm violations, and keep children safe.
- Track Ridership. School bus video surveillance systems can also help track the attendance of the students on the bus. Parents and schools can know in real-time if a particular student is riding the bus or is missing. They can also see the entry and exit locations of each student riding the bus. Video evidence can help determine when and where each student boards and exits the bus.
- Fulfill school bus safety standards and regulations. School buses are the most regulated vehicles on the road. They are designed and built for safety, so in most cases, a video surveillance solution for public and private school buses may be required to fulfill certain safety compliance, such as the NHTSA.
- Protect the student’s privacy: If privacy policies are in place by the school and parents/students agree with it, video surveillance content should aim to provide safety to school bus children while at the same time protect their privacy. The schools need to have a clear security policy about the use of onboard bus video camera systems. This policy should state retention times, record keeping, and deletion.
- Endure harsh environments: V6S is a vehicle NVR, specially built to endure harsh conditions such as transportation. The V6S appliance is built in an anti-vibration kit to withstand constant shocking, and its fanless design with corrugated aluminum is capable of keeping the system cool. It can operate from -20°C to 60°C temperatures. The appliance is also capable of operating under 5% to 95% (non-condensing) humidity.
Additionally, an advantage of the school bus NVR solution is that, since it can endure harsh environments, it is capable of saving video content to an expandable HDD/SDD storage, which makes it a perfect solution for video evidence. In case of unfortunate events, such as road accidents, vandalism, or even missing passengers, the video taken and stored by the school bus camera system can be useful as evidence. If the school policy allows, the video feeds can be used by state police to improve security.
The main purpose of school bus cameras is to provide safety for all students. These surveillance systems can help keep order inside the school bus and can also help the driver extend the view for better maneuvering, and even collect snapshots of stop-sign arm violations.
A comprehensive school bus camera system is composed of a series of external/internal cameras that feed video content to either an in-vehicle monitor or a remote fleet management center. To make this happen the V6S rugged NVR, is an essential component within this solution.
The V6S is used for in-vehicle surveillance, recording, and even analytics.
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What is equipment management – 6 principles of life cycle management
Equipment management is a continuous process in optimizing the life cycle of company’s fixed assets. This article will describe in more detail the core elements of equipment management and how to apply those in any organization.
Equipment management is not a tool only for specific industries or company sizes. A ground rule can be set so that if you struggle to list all fixed assets of your company, completed maintenances or the time of acquiring the equipment, it’s worth considering digital equipment management. As an outcome for the investment, you can expect cost savings and a more responsible asset management culture.
Read more about the best practices of equipment management.
Table of contents
- Why is it important to manage the life cycle of equipment?
- Different alternative equipment management methods
- What is the difference between equipment management and fixed asset accounting?
- Implementing and using equipment management system
- Asset tracking and labeling
- Inventory of fixed assets
Imagine the following situation: it’s spring and you have purchased a new bicycle. You enjoy riding the bike throughout the summer. You leave the bike outside for a Nordic winter and when it’s time to ride again, the condition of the bike is not the best anymore and maintaining it back to it’s prime comes with a price.
If on the other hand you had paid attention to the life cycle of the bike from the very beginning, you would have taken the bike indoors for winter and ensured that way the condition for the next summers to come. By prioritizing equipment life cycle, you ensure that the productivity of the asset investment is optimized.
Same principle applies also to the equipment of any company or organization. When equipment use is enriched with life cycle management, the benefits are:
- The return on investment (ROI) is optimized
- There is a reduced need for replacing equipment
- The equipment waste is reduced
- The life cycle of equipment is longer
- The maintenance costs of the equipment are managed
- Defining and managing the insurance value of equipment becomes easier
- Ability to operate according to sustainable values in all equipment purchases
On top of productivity improvement, the life cycle management of equipment also contains managing the equipment after it’s lifetime. When equipment is no longer needed in my organization, could it be sold to aftermarket? How the equipment should be recycled? These topics are right in the core of sustainability and resource-wise operations and are key in improving the sustainability of any organization.
Companies naturally carry also other equipment besides bikes. Therefore requirements for equipment management are also higher. The first step is to identify and list all owned equipment.
Fixed asset management is important. It creates confidence in knowing what equipment is owned by an organization, how the productivity can be optimized, and in general supports taking bigger responsibility for the operations.
Equipment management can be managed in several different manners. And as in life in general, not all methods suit all. Here are the most common ways to manage fixed assets:
- The memory of employees
- Pen & paper
- Excel or similar spreadsheet
- Maintenance management system
- Equipment management system
Yes, you guessed it right, the first two are the most common ones. And those are perfectly good options for a newly started company when there isn’t yet much to manage. The few laptops and the one van can be easily remembered.
In a growing company it’s noticeable that a system based on memory or pieces of paper is not reliable or secure. There is a risk of people leaving taking the knowledge of equipment with them.
Spreadsheets are already a more advanced solution compared to pen & paper. The most skilled users can work with spreadsheets in managing maintenances and reservations. In small companies this can well be a reasonable solution.
The problem with spreadsheets is that they are fixed and there is a risk for conflicting duplicates. The user interface in spreadsheets is not the most intuitive and also due to that there is a risk of missing updates.
Maintenance systems are often used by companies where the useability and usage condition are of importance. Maintenance systems are built to manage maintenance requests and maintenance plans efficiently. Maintenance systems however lack other core features of equipment management such as inventories, investment planning or equipment reservations.
Equipment management system is a digital tool for equipment life cycle management. On top of maintenance features, equipment management system includes all required functionalities to maximize the productivity of equipment. These features are asset register, asset labelling, management of asset reservations and lendings, inventory management and asset investment planning.
A proper equipment management systems ensures that the asset information is transparent and available to all who need it. We’ll return to the subject of equipment management system later in this article.
Enterprise resource planning system (ERP) is in use in many of the more mature companies. ERP many times includes some asset management features, such as asset maintenance, asset reservations, inventories etc. The downside of ERP in asset management is that the functionalities can often be used by only a small number of people and can be very complex to use. License fees for ERP are also substantial and all changes to the service are expensive.
In many cases, equipment management system is used on top of ERP due to better useability. Equipment operations and life cycle management can be operated more fluently through an equipment management system. In these setups, it’s best to ensure open API interfaces on both ends to enable fluent integration.
The finance department usually has the best view to the fixed assets of an organization. And here we need to take a very wide perspective to “best view”. If other departments in the organization have only good guesses (or even those), finance at least has fixed asset accounting and reports to turn to. Now however, it’s time to disappoint all fans of fixed asset accounting. Fixed asset accounting is not enough and for obvious reasons.
Why isn’t fixed asset accounting enough? The most important reason is that it’s not timely enough to give proper and reliable view of the status of fixed assets in an organization. Another important reason is that the information is not transparent – it’s usually available only to the finance personnel.
Fixed asset accounting usually gives answer to the question of what has been purchased and which equipment still has value in the balance sheet. This has actually very little to do with the equipment that is being actively used in an organization.
Fixed asset accounting doesn’t tell for example which equipment has been lost or broken. The information can be obtained only by completing an inventory which is normally rather time consuming unless smart asset tags are used. Traditional inventory reveals only what assets are found, not what is lost and why.
In addition, many devices (for example in the area of AV equipment) the technical lifetime is multiple compared to the depreciation period for accounting. By relying on only fixed asset accounting, this information is not recognized. And it would only be smart to plan future purchases based on the end of actual lifetime rather than the one in the books.
Fixed asset accounting is of course needed, even determined by law. However alone it’s providing a narrow view of assets. Efficient equipment management processes help companies to maximize the lifetime and productivity of the equipment.
Withoud diving any deeper into the additional differences, we'll conclude with a list of the most significant differences between fixed asset accounting and equipment management:
- Fixed asset accounting tells what assets have been purchased and what assets are being depreciated. Equipment management gives a comprehensive and timely view of all owned and operated equipment.
- Fixed asset accounting information is available to only a limited number of people in the organization. Equipment management information is available to all who need it and operate with the assets.
- Fixed asset accounting doesn’t help in managing maintenances, reservations, investments or transfers between physical locations.
- Fixed asset accounting usually includes financial limits for the assets that are being tracked (for example €2000 or €10000) in which case the less expensive assets are not necessarily tracked at all. Equipment management reaches all equipment relevant for the company either via operations or via value.
- Fixed assets accounting doesn’t include information about lost equipment, the reason or timing for getting lost. Equipment management system can log all this information.
Equipment management without a digital system is painful. But how to start with a digital equipment management tool? Simplified steps of implementation are:
- Choosing equipment management system
- Naming a responsible person and first key users
- Choosing the labelling technology (RFID, NFC, QR-code or a combination)
- Gathering information through inventory of assets
- Labeling equipment
- Continuous use of equipment management system
First step is of course choosing the correct equipment management system. A good practice is to list all the challenges, needs, wishes to find just the best system for you.
The software should be tested before making decisions. With testing it’s good to evaluate the internal processes and culture around asset management.
Already when purchasing the system it’s good to name one or two superusers. Their responsibility is managing the equipment as well as acting as key users for the system.
When implementing the chosen system, it’s recommended to name a few key users on top of the superusers. The responsibility of key users is then to implement the processes in their departments.
The best labelling technology and material is chosen before implementing the software. The most common technologies are QR-code, barcode, RFID and NFC, or a combination of these. The practical difference between technologies is in the way they are scanned when using.
It’s always possible to expand the use of different labels later if and when the use of the system expands. In the first phase the fist labelling method is chosen carefully during implementation. We’ll go through the different labeling possibilities later.
The initial inventory is the most time consuming but at the same time the most important step of implementing equipment management system. In practice the work is to list the equipment with all details to be imported into the digital system.
The data quality of the first initial inventory during the implementation cannot be stressed enough. This is something where it’s worth to ask from professionals and take the time to understand the importance of different data elements in the system. If the inventory of all assets seems too big of a hurdle, it’s fine to start with on department, building or location to get going.
When initial inventory is completed carefully, it’s much easier to maintain the data later on.
When initial inventory of assets is completed, and asset data is in the equipment management system, it's time to label equipment with chosen tags. The more advanced equipment management systems offer possibility for own printing infrastructure to bring fluency into the printing process. Labeling is something that requires working hours to be completed.
When equipment management system is in place and assets are labeled, it’s time to move on to the normal continuous use of the system. Now the personnel can manage equipment life cycle efficiently, sustainably and easily. At the same time there is data gathered for decision makers about assets and required investments for planning all asset operations.
Tracking assets is a continuous process to keep up record about asset life cycle and location. Many of us have at work or at home searched for a missing piece of equipment and gotten frustrated when not finding it. How fantastic would it be to get the timely information from one reliable source!
Equipment tracking can be broken down to two categories:
- Passive tracking (RFID, NFC, QR-code and barcode)
- Active tracking (GPS)
The passive tracking of equipment is a cost effective method to label and manage equipment. Passive identification lables (RFID, NFC, QR and barcode) link the physical asset with the digital counterpart in the asset management system.
The passive labels do not require a power source to work and therefore have a long life time and are a cost efficient solution in tracking.
Passive tracking doesn’t automatically update the location of the tracked asset. Equipment management system however contains information about the original location of a device which can be verified with inventory. In addition, the reservations feature helps to track the movements of any asset used in projects or given out to personnel (or students or similar groups) for use. With operating through reservations, there is constant knowledge of the location of the assets available.
Read more about identifier lables for assets.
UHF (Ultra High Frequency) RFID labels require a separate reader device to operate. With a special reader, the UHF RFID labels can be identified from a distance up to 10 meters. That is the reason UHF RFID labels are excellent for inventories. It’s recommended however to ensure that the RFID labels contain also printed mobile readable QR- or barcode to ensure readability via mobile device as well.
NFC, barcode and QR code labels are readable with a mobile device without separate reader devices. These labels support the users to access the asset information and operate assets also on the field, when laptops are not close by.
Active GPS tracking is at the moment still a fairly expesive method for asset tracking. That’s why it’s recommended to leave the more expensive technology for tracking the more valuable assets, such as vehicles on the move. The reason the technology is expensive to use is the price of the tracking devices (from tens to hundreds of euros) and data connection needed for each tracking device. The price of data is normally a few euros a month per each GPS tracking device.
GPS tracking devices require power source to operate. This means that the devices require charging which alone creates an additional operation to add to regular routines.
Inventory – we can’t live with it nor without it. It’s usually a timely job but highly important from the financial and sustainable aspect of company operations.
Inventories must be recorded for the annual reporting but the inventory of existing fixed assets (machinery, devices, vehicles etc) must not be forgotten. The up-to-date view on fixed assets help to plan investments better and avoid unnecessary acquisitions. In addition the timely data makes it possible to determine accurate insurance values for the assets.
Inventory of fixed assets is often neglected because it takes so much time. The few days around Christmas are often not enough to complete an inventory. In addition a big portion of the fixed asset might be hanging in the ceiling of an auditorium which makes it very difficult to complete the inventory in practice.
What if we say that it is possible to speed up the inventories of fixed assets by 70%? We already touched the subject of UHF RFID labels. The labels are readable from a distance without the visual contact to the actual label. This enables scanning labels of several devices very fluently without the need to find the actual label from each device separately.
Distant readability enables inventories to be managed just by walking through spaces with a reader device. Mobile device attached to the reader with equipment management system in it, make sure that the log is updated during the inventory.
RFID inventories are already here to stay and have opened the possibility for fluent, fast and reliable inventories.
What is equipment management? It means improved ability to manage and optimize the life cycle of assets all the way from the investment planning to recycling after usage. By managing equipment and brining life cycle management as part of the upkeep of assets, it’s possible to improve the productivity of assets and act more sustainably. Today a responsible company doesn’t purchase disposable product to be used once but ensures that the equipment lasts for long and is recycled after it’s usage with the current owner.
Equipment management doesn’t mean simply that labels are attached in equipment but it means that equipment is maintained through the labels, reservations are managed through the labels and investments are planned based on the gathered data and inventories completed in time. In addition it means a positive change often in the asset management culture as there needs to be responsibility taken for the assets in a different manner.
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The Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance Model
The Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model is a good model – but a proprietary one. It belongs to Grove Tools inc. So, I shall only describe their model to the extent that I believe is fair use for educational purposes.
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Program 4: Managing & Leading Groups
Course 3: Teams
Section 1: Team Development & Team Building
Other videos in this section include:
– What is a Team https://youtu.be/nq2Arav7t4Q
– The Tuckman Team Development Model https://youtu.be/-nlMJcTAz_g
– Accelerate Team Development with Swift Trust https://youtu.be/aiVYyDCz-3s
– Establishing Team Behavior Norms https://youtu.be/4-TM6kINcUs
– Team Building Events: Why, What, and How? https://youtu.be/nhwBZ4lssM8
– John Whitmore’s Team Development Model https://youtu.be/VxPzQMseW7E
– Cog’s Ladder of Group Experiences https://youtu.be/aVqp7Zr5DW4
– Kurt Lewin’s Freeze Phases for Team Development https://youtu.be/i9wNwxy9Zmo
The Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance Model was developed by Allan Drexler and David Sibbet. It illustrates team development as seven stages:
– four to create the team and
– three to achieve increasing levels of sustained performance.
The Model is clearly a development from the Tuckman model. The stages are:
Asking the question why we are here, together. This is about the team’s purpose.
Asking the question who we are. This is about who our colleagues are and what capabilities they bring to the team. Also relationship and trust building.
Asking the question what we are here to do. This is about understanding the background and objectives to the team’s role.
Asking the question how we are going to do our tasks. Budget, resources, timeline, roles.
Dealing with the questions of who, what, where, and when. Now we’re into the detail of planning.
Harvesting the investment of the team development. Working well together.
Re-asserting the question why. Reviewing our process and then asking what’s next and how do we need to adapt?
1. Compare the Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance Model with other models of team development, like Tuckman. What are the similarities and differences? (2 MC CPD Points)
2. What aspects of the Drexler/Sibbet model are familiar from your own experiences of team development? And what differences are there? (2 MC CPD Points)
– The Five Dysfunctions of a Team https://geni.us/wbIE
– The Wisdom of Teams https://geni.us/7i1AL
– The Belbin Guide to Succeeding at Work https://geni.us/Kzc4GV4
– Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart https://geni.us/oAgEOdA
– Pulling Together: 10 Rules for High-Performance Teamwork https://geni.us/zUVV3G
– HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Teams https://geni.us/0DLsNe4
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Unleashing potentials: Transition to a sustainable Marine Economy (Blue Economy) What we could do- In New Zealand context.
26 September 2021
Earlier this year our Wellington Branch ran an event about a transition to a sustainable Marine Economy read about the key details of the event and watch a video of the event here.
Thursday, 10th of June 2021 5.30 -7.00 p.m.
Wellington: Lecture theatre 2, Rutherford House, Victoria University of Wellington
Auckland: Peace Experimental School, 18, Pilkington Road, Panmure
Purpose of the event
“To highlight and recognise the designation of 2021-2030 decade as;
The United Nations Decade for Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, and The United Nations Decade for Ecosystems Regeneration and Restoration”
Educate and develop an awareness on;
"Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development- SDG 14, Sustainable Economic Development- SDG 8 and Responsible Consumption and Production- SDG 12”
In connection with
Objectives of the event
- Develop an interest of stakeholders at all levels to learn, share ideas, seek opportunities, build partnerships and provide a momentum to work together and think towards turning to sustainable marine economy (Blue Economy)
- Develop a discussion on how the targets mentioned in SDG 14 are addressed in the principles of Blue Economy model and how underline the linkages to the targets mentioned in other SDGs.
- Develop a discussion on understanding of opportunities in transitioning towards Blue Economy and to how to conquer the challenges.
- Provide an overview of Ecosystem services related to marine ecology and how it is vital in the economy as natural capital and advance the awareness on decoupling of ecological degradation from economic development.
- Provide understanding on how indigenous knowledge could couple towards successful in sustainable marine economic development.
- To have better understanding of how Blue economy principles support sustainable economic development and how they become a part of the human’s cultural and spiritual dimensions.
- Improve relationships for UNA NZ in all levels of the community and gather them to work towards achieving SDGs and Sustainable Development
Discussion forum with:
- Securing the life and livelihoods-mitigation of impacts on Ecological systems and Biodiversity – Dr.Carolyn Lundquist, Principal Scientist, NIWA, Auckland University
- Blue Economy: Moving beyond business as usual ensuring incorporation of marine health and wellbeing into economic development models – Dr. Nick Lewis, Economic Geographer, Associte Professor, University of Auckland
- Foster Innovations (scientific, social and cultural) to overcome challenges and harmonise sustainable marine economic development and coupling of Indigenous knowledge for better outcome
Fraser Stobie, Blue Economy, Environment and Marine Specialist representing Dr. Nigel Bradly, CEO, Envirostrat
- A success story- Bule Economy principles in Industrial sector
Tane Bradley, General Manager, Agrisea NZ Seaweed Ltd
Moderator: Dr.Nicole Miller, UNA NZ Member and the Chair of Friends of Taputeranga Marine Reserve Charitable Trust, Senior Strategist of Ministry of Social Development.
Event concept and design: Wajirani Adhihetty, President, Wellington Branch and Special Officer Sustainable Economy and Innovations, UNA NZ
Event team: Yatin Preveen-Communication and Engagement, Sophie Crawford-Event promotion
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Advice To Use For Marketing Via Social Media
In today’s world, you will find a huge demand for marketing through social media. While classic online marketing strategies still bring people success, social networking is usually necessary to help keep your traffic statistics from dwindling. If you are a novice to social media advertising, then your following information will be highly beneficial and allow you to learn about this industry.
When launching your marketing plan on social networking, invite your friends, relatives and contacts to the site. Regardless of whether they don’t subscribe or follow your page, they’re no less than being made mindful of your company’s presence.
YouTube can be quite a valuable social media marketing tool. YouTube helps attract the brand new visitors, since they understand what you’re seeking to market because of your videos. More traffic can enhance your sales when they find out about your products or services.
To help you set your web site up to maximize its potential with social media, you ought to place a social networking widget on the website. Put in a widget for your site that followers may use to easily share your site content. Also, a widget allows customers to vote on your site’s quality and re-tweet information themselves.
Try social media marketing, quite simply, just pretend until you happen to be success. Find out how your competitors uses social networking for his or her marketing purposes, and obtain ideas from their store till you have an idea of what will work most effectively for the customers plus your business. Study their profiles on social media sites, in addition to their content and promotions.
Social media is a straightforward strategy to create your storefront more user-friendly, allowing you to attract consumers. Building a Facebook store and so that it is accessible through your other sites, makes a great accessory for your online presence. Many Facebook users would rather remain on the webpage while browsing, and this option allows them to see and in many cases purchase your products without leaving Facebook. Within this, you can find sales from customers that could rather stay on Facebook than let it rest for the dedicated ecommerce website.
When you post on the social media marketing site, be humble. Your followers will never appreciate reading what you must brag about, even if you are successful. Your potential customers and followers are what fuel your power, remember this. So, be sure to do your very best to ensure they’re satisfied with you and also can appreciate your site content.
Combine email marketing with social networking. If you distribute a marketing and advertising email, make sure to include links to your Twitter and facebook pages following the e-mail. Moreover, post a hyperlink about the registration page to have people to sign up for your newsletter.
You can’t use Twitter effectively without hashtags. Tags are whatever you see once the # symbol. These allow you to make sure that your updates arrive inside your group subscriber feeds. Use specific keywords with your tags to improve your visibility and carry in new followers.
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The best way to make sure your job remains secure is to keep up with the latest technology, be aware of your surroundings, know your rights, and be proactive about keeping yourself safe.Many jobs today require employees to use computers and other electronic devices, which can leave them vulnerable to cyberattacks. By being aware of these risks and taking simple steps to protect yourself, you can ensure that your job stays in good standing.
In order to make sure that your job remains secure, there are a few things you can do. First, make sure that you are up-to-date on security updates. Second, keep your computer and devices clean and free of viruses. Third, be careful what emails and files you share with other people. Finally, always use strong passwords and don’t leave them exposed on the internet.
Employers need to take steps to ensure their business is safe, both physically and digitally. Here are some tips for protecting your job:
- Protect your computer and data: Use a firewall, keep updated software, and use up-to-date passwords.
- Protect your physical office: Install security cameras and locks, and use biometric scanners to access the office.
The most innovative way to join a company
In today’s world, there are many different ways to joinpd a company. Some people may want to join a company through their career path, while others may want to join a company based on their friends or social circles. However, there is one way to join a company which is truly innovative – through the internet.
The traditional way to joinpd a company is through a job application and an interview. However, this process can be time consuming and difficult to get through. There are now many innovative ways to join a company, such as online applications and online interviews. These methods are easier to use and faster than the traditional method, making them more popular among applicants.
In today’s world, there are many ways to joinpd a company. However, the most innovative way to join a company is through an employment contract with a startup. By signing this contract, you become an employee of the startup and are given all the rights and benefits that come with this type of job. This includes the opportunity to work on exciting new projects and be part of a dynamic and growing company.
How to find the perfect job for you
There are a lot of different ways to find the perfect job for you. You can use online resources, go through job listings, or speak with friends and family about their career paths. It’s important to find a job that you’re passionate about and that aligns with your skills and interests. If you can, try to find a job that allows you to use your creativity and energy in a positive way.
Finding a job can be a daunting task, but there are ways to make the process easier. This article will teach you how to find the perfect job for you based on your skills and interests. By following these tips, you’ll be on your way to finding a new career that is perfect for you.
Finding a job can be a daunting task, but fortunately there are plenty of resources available to help. With the right tools and advice, you can find the perfect job for you and start your new career journey with confidence. Here are some tips to get started:
- Start by creating a job search checklist. This will help you identify key steps you need to take in order to find a job.
- Use online resources to research various positions and companies.
Stanford AI Creates algorithm to predict when you’ll quit your job
Stanford AI has created an algorithm that can predict when you’ll quit your job. The algorithm looks at a variety of factors including how long you’ve been with the company, your salary, and the company’s profitability. If you’re unhappy with your job and think it’s not worth staying put, this algorithm could be a valuable tool in convincing you to make a change.
The Stanford AI Creates algorithm to predict when you’ll quit your job. The algorithm analyzes data such as your age, gender, number of years at your current job, and other factors to come up with a prediction. According to the researchers, the algorithm can help you make a decision about when it’s time to leave your job.
Stanford AI has created an algorithm that can predict when a person will quit their job. The algorithm uses data such as job satisfaction and company culture to make predictions.
Ex-Hacker Turns Monserrate CEO: ‘Work Is Torture Now’
Christopher Chaney, a notorious hacker who once wreaked havoc on the internet as part of the underground group Anonymous, has turned his attention to running one of the world’s largest companies. Chaney, now 34, announced last week that he had been named CEO of Monserrate Energy, a profitable oil and gas company with operations in eight countries. “Work is torture now,” Chaney said in a statement.
Monserrate is a company that prides itself on its customer service. Former hacker, John, decided to turn his back on the life of a hacker and become CEO of Monserrate. John has made it his goal to change the way that the company does business and make it more customer-centric. He says that work is now torture for him because he is constantly under pressure from shareholders to produce results.
When 24-year-old Ryan Cleary hacked into the computer systems of a small business in his home town, he never imagined that one day he would become its CEO. But that’s exactly what happened after Cleary was caught and arrested in 2012. Cleary served time in prison and now works as the CEO of Monserrate, a company that specializes in cyber security. | <urn:uuid:bef8de23-c8a7-4410-bccb-9c09c4fe6065> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smallblog.org/joinpd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.969951 | 1,210 | 1.953125 | 2 |
The Synodal Structure of the Orthodox Church
The Synodal Structure of the Orthodox Church
Lewis J. Patsavos
Basic to the ecclesiology of the Orthodox Church is the concept of conciliarity. The Church is, in fact, at her core always synod, the literal meaning of the word "Ekklesia." The concept of conciliarity, i.e., the conciliar or synodal approach to managing the Church's affairs, is not confined solely to convening various types of synods, but also includes every expression of ecclesiastical life. Through conciliarity, the nature of the Church as theanthropic communion in Christ is expressed. This is why any ecclesiastical practice which is not a result of conciliarity is a deviation from Orthodox ecclesiology.
Besides the convening of synods, the synodal expression of ecclesiastical life is to be found in every act of communion among all members of the Church's body. It is expressed first and foremost by the heads of the autocephalous churches, who thereby witness to the communion among them. It is also manifested in every act of communion between a metropolitan and the other bishops in his province, between a bishop and his presbytery, between a presbyter and the laity who comprise his parish, and finally among the members of the laity themselves. At all levels the Church functions as synod, i.e., as a community of persons freely gathered in Christ and by him, so that each may offer his gift for the building up of the Body in love.
Conciliarity, as a way of life of the Church, seeks to fashion ecclesiastical life in such a way as to express faithfully her essence and ethos. The Church's synodal way of life, which reaches its highest expression in the episcopal synods, gives witness to the synergy of God and human beings for the realization of salvation and the endurance of truth. Synods experience the mystery of synergy intensely and establish their work upon this mystery. The experience of those who participate in synods is that they cooperate with God in the formulation and safekeeping of the Church's truth. If the Spirit does not blow, human effort and industry alone cannot advance the mystery of divine truth, as reflected in canon 66 of Carthage: "When all things had been considered and treated of which seem to conduce to the advantage of the church, the Spirit of God suggesting and admonishing us, we determined to act leniently and pacifically with the before-mentioned men. . . ."
* A paper, with some variations, originally delivered in October 1986, at the 33rd meeting of the Orthodox-Roman Catholic Bilateral Consultation in Brighton, Massachusetts.
The Church throughout history has made use of a variety of synodal structures, depending upon the historical circumstances experienced at the time. These synodal structures took the form of regional, general, provincial and ecumenical synods, as well as synods comprising the hierarchy of a patriarchate or autocephalous Church. Furthermore, there have also been synods with a limited number of members from several patriarchates and autocephalous Churches. This latter type of synod was known as an "endemousa," or permanent, synod. It is true that at times the synodal structure of the Church has been expressed with exactness, as with the provincial synods, and at times with leniency, as with the permanent ("endemousa") synods. Yet, the conviction, particularly in the East, that the Church's synodal structure is a constitutive principle, which is of divine origin, essential and irreplaceable, has been unwavering.
From the early centuries of the Church's existence, the need for the synod was evident in the election and consecration of bishops. The sacrament of holy orders, then, is basically its ecclesiological and dogmatic foundation. Consequently, the synod is essentially the institution which gives expression to the fullness of each local Church. The consecration of a bishop is the event that gives testimony to the fact that the person elected and consecrated is appointed by God. Furthermore, it is through this election and consecration that his Church is one with all Churches which constitute the body of Christ.
In the early Church, the synod was by its very nature a gathering of bishops which met more or less regularly. It was not a permanent institution. As an institution which met regularly or extraordinarily as conditions might warrant, the essential condition of its function was the orthodoxy of each bishop and his Church. It was the bishop's status as spiritual head of his Church which entitled him to take part in the synod. The synod thus became the expression of unity and unanimity in the Church.
Beginning with the fourth century, although not everywhere at the same time, there appears the permanent or "endemousa" synod. Its characteristic feature consisted in the fact that it could easily be convened by the Patriarch of Constantinople, who summoned the bishops staying in the capital at the time ("endemountes") whenever the seriousness of the issue demanded. The "endemousa" synod presided over by the patriarch was permanent in the sense that the Church considered herself in a state of permanent synodal consultation whenever acting in unanimity for the common good.
The "endemousa" synod grew steadily in importance and eventually became a permanent institution in the Orthodox Church. Its preoccupation with doctrinal issues, legislative affairs and disciplinary matters far exceeded the traditional but limited role of the provincial synod. Furthermore, it did not require the elaborate preparations of an ecumenical synod. It has thus remained the most representative and enduring synodal structure within Eastern Orthodoxy. Its status and competence in each of the local Churches are clearly determined by statutes as well as by traditional practice.
It should be noted that the statutes of the various local Churches here under investigation are only of very recent date. They are, for the most part, the result of the attempt by these Churches to cast the living practice of the Church into clearly defined procedures. This was necessary in view of the relations existing between church and state at the time of their adoption. It is evident that diversity of practice exists wherever local variations prevailed, or where the will of the state has been imposed. Nevertheless, this has not hampered communication among the local Churches. This is evidenced by their representation at synods convened from time to time to deal with the problems besetting the Church as a whole.
Additionally, during times of crisis and uncertainty, it was the Church of Constantinople which provided a coordinating role and even resolved conflicts upon appeal. This is not to overlook the fact that occasionally, as in the election of the primates of other sees, instances of arbitrary intervention are not lacking. However, they are outweighed by the many examples of genuine solicitude for the stability and progress of all the local Churches. This role of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to hear appeals and to intervene in times of crisis can be cited again and again since the time of the Second, and especially the Fourth, Ecumenical Councils.
Following, then, is a description of the governing synods within several of the autocephalous Churches and patriarchates today, with special reference to the role of the presiding hierarch (primate).
As a patriarchate, the Church of Constantinople dates back to the Second Ecumenical Council. It was the 3rd canon of this council which accorded her first place among all other patriarchates of the East. This honorary precedence of the see of Constantinople among the Orthodox Churches continues to the present day, despite the vicissitudes of time. This explains why she is listed first among the local Churches to be investigated in the present study.
The Church of Constantinople situated in Turkey has been administered since 1923 without a formal written regulation. Her statutory charter previously consisted of the so-called general or national regulations of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, ratified in 1862 by the Turkish government and thereby given the force of law. With the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), which guaranteed protection of the rights of Christian minorities in Turkey, came also the restriction of privileges recognized earlier to the patriarchate. This new situation had as a result the abolition of the general regulations. The basis upon which the patriarchate is administered today includes the holy canons, ecclesiastical decrees, ecclesiastical custom, and several privileges retained to this day from the general regulations, applied in such a way as to address effectively the situation at hand.
According to current practice, the patriarch is elected by the "endemousa" synod, which is made up of the active metropolitans residing in Constantinople. Also taken into account in the election process is the corresponding opinion ("sympsefon") of the hierarchy attached to the see of Constantinople and living abroad. As Archbishop of Constantinople, the patriarch has direct pastoral jurisdiction over the Archdiocese of Constantinople, which includes the communities of Istanbul, Galata and Katastenon. He is assisted by several auxiliary bishops, and also by metropolitans, who may or may not be members of Holy Synod. Both the former and the latter may serve in the capacity of archieratical pastor or overseer of a parish or district.
The permanent Holy Synod consists of twelve members and is presided over by the patriarch. Members include active metropolitans whose sees belong to the patriarchate and are situated in Turkey. The term of service on the Holy Synod is one year, half the membership being replaced every six months. With the exception of several metropolitanates so designated, their official listing does not constitute the basis for the composition of the Holy Synod. Rather, it is for the most part the seniority of episcopal ordination which determines this. With the abolition of the mixed council in 1923, direct lay participation in the administration of the patriarchate is lacking.
Patriarchate of Alexandria
The Patriarchate of Alexandria occupies the second place among the venerable Orthodox patriarchates in accordance with the same canon 3 of the Second Ecumenical Council. Since the end of the last century, this patriarchate has been administered by a series of regulations, periodically revised in response to the need at the time. The outstanding feature of the original regulation, which is inherent in all subsequent regulations, is the establishment of a synodal system of administration. This replaced the supreme administrative authority formerly exercised by the patriarch in monarchical fashion. This was at a time when the number of faithful was so small as to deprive most of the metropolitans of their flocks. An equally outstanding feature of the original regulation, similarly prominent hitherto, is the election of the patriarch by both clergy and laity.
The patriarchal synod consists of all the metropolitans of the see of Alexandria and is presided over by the patriarch. This composition constitutes a complete synod, which is in contrast to the gathering of metropolitans when the patriarchal see is vacant. The latter body is limited exclusively to conducting the election of a new patriarch, as well as to expediting matters of extreme urgency.
The Holy Synod is made up of at least seven metropolitans. In the event that number cannot be reached for the election of a new patriarch, the missing number is filled by hierarchs from the Churches of Constantinople, Antioch, Jerusalem, Cyprus and Greece. There should be no more than one hierarch from any one of these Churches.
The relations of patriarch and metropolitans within the synod are governed by the spirit of canon 34 of the Holy Apostles. Accordingly, the bishops of an autocephalous Church should acknowledge the first among them and consider him the head. Neither ought they without the patriarch, nor he without the opinion of all, do anything pertaining to the common affairs of the Church. The jurisdiction of a complete (i.e., patriarchal) synod, in conformity with the canons, covers matters of an administrative, canonical and judiciary nature.
The synod is usually convened twice yearly, in the spring and fall. It is necessarily convened at least once yearly. It may also meet in extraordinary session whenever the patriarch deems necessary.
The patriarch has the right to suspend publication of any synodical decree whose formulation in his judgment is incomplete. He must, however, justify his action at the next meeting of the synod. If the synod insists upon its publication, it then becomes obligatory for the patriarch to conform to the decision of the synod.
Patriarchate of Antioch
The Patriarchate of Antioch, third in rank among the venerable Orthodox patriarchates, has upheld for centuries the traditional synodal system of administration by convening regular and extraordinary synods of her hierarchs. Nevertheless, in the first half of the 17th century the synod of bishops nearly became perfunctory. At that time the patriarch administered the Church almost monarchically, selecting bishops and even predetermining his successor. The basic regulation which eventually evolved foresaw the election of the patriarch by an assembly of clergy and laity, as well as the composition of a Holy Synod and a mixed council made up of members of the synod and laypersons.
The Holy Synod consists of the patriarch as president and of the active metropolitans of the patriarchal throne as members. It meets yearly or extraordinarily whenever the patriarch deems necessary or whenever requested by at least five metropolitans. The Holy Synod does not constitute a quorum unless there is an absolute majority of its members. Only members present have the right to vote and decisions are reached by a majority of those present. Bishops may be present at sessions of the Holy Synod only to make informational reports. They do not have the right to vote. In the event of a tie, the vote of the patriarch prevails.
The patriarch is obliged to publish any law, regulation, or decision ratified by the Holy Synod within a month of its last meeting. In the event he does not, this obligation is undertaken by the metropolitan first in rank according to seniority. The patriarch has the right to request the revision of any decision of the Holy Synod. However, the revision is defeated if an absolute majority vote favors retaining the original decision.
In the absence of a convocation during the appointed time, the Holy Synod convenes on its own authority. In the event the patriarch does not preside, this responsibility is undertaken by the member of the Synod who is first in rank according to seniority. The competencies of the Holy Synod include election of the patriarch, metropolitans and bishops, vigilance regarding preservation of the purity of the faith, and appropriate measures against violations of ecclesiastical order.
In addition to the Holy Synod there is the general community council. It is composed of the entire Holy Synod and of lay representatives from each of the metropolitanates. It is a permanent body presided over by the patriarch, which meets regularly twice a year. It is competent for legislation dealing with financial, administrative, social, judiciary, intellectual and educational matters of the patriarchate. In the election of the patriarch, it is responsible for selecting three candidates, of which the Holy Synod elects one as patriarch.
Patriarchate of Jerusalem
The Church of Jerusalem was elevated to a patriarchate by the Fourth Ecumenical Council (451), and ranks fourth among the ancient patriarchates. This venerable institution follows a monastic system of organization; the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem functions as abbot of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher. It is, therefore, understandable that the preservation and protection of the holy shrines have traditionally constituted one of this patriarchate's chief concerns.
As a result of its concentrated efforts on behalf of the holy shrines, the patriarchate did not concern itself with the drafting of a regulation until quite late. It was not until the second half of the 17th century that the first attempt to provide a regulation was realized. In the meantime, the patriarchate functioned as a monastic brotherhood under the patriarch-abbot and the semblance of a synod. The bases of its organization were the holy canons and a variety of traditional decrees related to its monastic character and to the needs of the holy shrines.
Under its current statutory charter, the patriarchate has both a synod and mixed council. The Holy Synod is composed of the patriarch who presides, metropolitans, provincial bishops, as well as titular bishops and archimandrites appointed by the patriarch. The membership of the Holy Synod, including the patriarch, must not exceed eighteen. The patriarch in synod may replace any member of the Holy Synod, if in his judgment this would benefit the patriarchate. Furthermore, the patriarch, or in his absence any member of the Holy Synod appointed by him, presides over all meetings of the Synod. All actions of the patriarch in synod and all matters brought before him are decided by a majority vote of the Synod. A tie vote is broken by the vote of the patriarch.
The mixed council, also presided over by the patriarch, allows for lay input in the decision-making process of the patriarchate. It is made up of both lay and clergy representatives. A layperson serves as vice-president. In the absence of the patriarch, a clergy member of the council appointed by him serves as president. Local community councils appointed by the mixed council participate in the election of the patriarch through duly elected married priests, not to exceed twelve. Together with the Holy Synod and the remaining bishops of the patriarchate, they constitute the council convened to nominate candidates for the patriarchal throne of Jerusalem. Following the approval of the list of candidates by the prime minister, a general council is made up of the Holy Synod, the archimandrites and "protosyngelloi" who live in the monasteries of Jerusalem, as well as the married priests who represent the local community councils. Of the three candidates elected by the general council, the members of the Holy Synod elect the patriarch. In the event of a vacant see, the patriarch in synod appoints a metropolitan or provincial bishop to fill the vacancy.
Patriarchate of Russia
Fifth in rank among the autocephalous Churches is the Church of Russia, having herself been elevated to the status of patriarchate in 1589. With the ascension to the throne of Peter the Great as czar came the abolition of the patriarchate and its replacement by the so called "governing synod" (1721), exercising highest administrative authority. In reality, this arrangement proved detrimental to the Church, which became subservient to the state. This state of affairs lasted until October of 1917, when the patriarchate was restored, although at a time when the state was hostile to the Church. Attempts were made in the meantime to secure the Church's right to exist within the framework of an acceptable statutory charter. The present administrative structure is the result. Although aspects of the current statutes are less favorable to the Church's welfare than earlier stages of their development, they nevertheless serve as the basis upon which the Patriarchate of Russia is administered today.
The highest authority in legislative, administrative and judiciary matters affecting the patriarchate is exercised by a local synod, convened periodically, and made up of bishops, other clergy and the laity. Based upon canon 34 of the Holy Apostles, the patriarch as primate administers the Church together with the Holy Synod. When the need exists to resolve important ecclesiastical matters, he may with the approval of the government convene a synod of the hierarchy over which he presides. In the event it is considered necessary to know the mind of the other clergy and the laity, he may, if possible, convene a local synod over which he also presides.
The Holy Synod is made up of the patriarch, who presides, and six member hierarchs who administer dioceses. Of the members of the Holy Synod, three are permanent and three are temporary. When the patriarchal throne becomes vacant, the Holy Synod under the presidency of a "locum tenens" calls for a synod to elect a new patriarch. The synod which elects the new patriarch is presided over by the "locum tenens." Each diocese is headed by a hierarch appointed upon the decision of the patriarch and bearing the title of the city, which is the see of his province.
Patriarchate of Serbia
As with the other Slavic Churches, the Orthodox Church of Serbia was Christianized by the Patriarchate of Constantinople. It first emerged as a unified and uniformly administered Church in the early 13th century. From the time of the Ottoman conquest up until the 20th century, however, it experienced periods of administrative disjunction due, among other things, to its territorial losses. With the eventual reunification of the metropolitanates comprising the Serbian Church came the desire for the restoration of a unified ecclesiastical administrative center. In 1920, the holy synod of the hierarchy moved to reestablish the patriarchate, a move subsequently recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The state, nevertheless, in the person of the king reserved to itself the right to ratify the election of both bishops and patriarch. Relations with the state changed drastically following the Communist takeover of the government in 1945. The present statutory charter by which the Patriarchate of Serbia is administered today reflects these changes.
Within the Patriarchate of Serbia ecclesiastical authority is exercised, among others, by the patriarch, Holy Synod of the hierarchy, permanent Holy Synod, high ecclesiastical court, patriarchal assembly and patriarchal administrative council. The patriarch is elected from among those provincial bishops of the Serbian Church who have administered their dioceses for at least 5 years. The election takes place by an electoral body from among 3 candidates. The latter are proposed in synodal session at which a minimum of two-thirds of the provincial bishops must be present. The meeting is presided over by the senior member of the synod. Besides the entire body of the hierarchy, the electoral body is expanded to include the dean of the Orthodox School of Theology in Belgrade, directors of ecclesiastical seminaries, a number of clerics holding ecclesiastical administrative posts, several abbots of specifically named monasteries, and the entire membership of the patriarchal administrative council. Included in the electoral body for the election of the patriarch are also laypersons.
The Holy Synod of the hierarchy is made up of all the provincial bishops and is presided over by the patriarch. It constitutes the higher ecclesiastical legislative authority in matters of faith, worship, discipline and internal organization, as well as the highest judiciary authority within the sphere of its competencies. The permanent Holy Synod is made up of the patriarch, who presides, and four provincial bishops. Its members are elected by the holy synod of the hierarchy for two years, two each year. Its meetings are conducted with limited representation (only two members in attendance, besides the patriarch, who presides) and with broader representation (all members in attendance). The permanent Holy Synod is the highest executive (administrative and supervisory) authority, as well as the highest judiciary authority within the sphere of its competencies. Upon its decision, the holy synod of the hierarchy meets both in regular and extraordinary session.
Except for the election of a bishop, the holy synod of the hierarchy makes valid decisions providing more than half its members are present. Both the Holy Synod of the hierarchy and the permanent Holy Synod reach their decisions unanimously or by majority vote. A tie is broken by the vote of the patriarch. Whenever temporarily hindered from fulfilling his responsibilities as chairman of either synod, the patriarch authorizes the senior member of the synod to replace him. In the event of a lengthy incapacity or of a vacant patriarchal see, the duties of the patriarch are assumed by the permanent Holy Synod, the patriarch's role in both the permanent synod and the synod of the hierarchy being fulfilled by the senior member of the former. In such instances, it is usually not permitted for ecclesiastical laws, regulations or decisions to be issued. If, on the contrary, such legislation is deemed necessary, it must subsequently be brought to the attention of the new patriarch for information and approval. Lacking approval by the patriarch, the matter comes before the holy synod of the hierarchy for discussion and ultimate decision. Both synods may during their meetings invite other clerics or laypersons for their specialized opinions.
Patriarchate of Rumania
The Orthodox Church of Rumania developed from the onetime metropolitanates of Hungrovlachia and Moldavia established in the 14th century. It, too, was originally under the authority of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, from which it eventually was granted its autocephalous status in 1885. During the centuries from its origins to its full maturity as an autocephalous Church, it experienced both privileges and the arbitrary intervention into its affairs by the state. Both trends are reflected in the legislation which evolved prior to 1925, when the Church of Rumania was elevated to patriarchate. Nevertheless, the frequent changes and improvements in this legislation are indications of the concern for the Church's general well-being. The same concern prompted further legislative activity on the part of both state and Church following the First World War.
Following the Second World War, and in view of the new established order in Rumania, it was necessary for the Church under the leadership of Patriarch Justinian to make broad revisions in its statutory charter. It is this revised charter which constitutes the basis for the administration of the Patriarchate of Rumania today.
The central organization of the Church of Rumania is provided by the Holy Synod, the national ecclesiastical assembly, the national ecclesiastical council and the patriarchal administration. The Holy Synod exercises highest authority in all spiritual and canonical matters, as well as in those ecclesiastical matters within its competence. It is composed of the patriarch, who presides, and of all active metropolitans, bishops and vicar (auxiliary) bishops of the patriarchate. Allowance is made for the presidency to be assumed by one of the metropolitans, according to protocol, in the absence of the patriarch. Meetings are held regularly once each year and exceptionally whenever the need arises. Both the convocation and agenda are announced by the presiding hierarch fourteen days in advance with the notification also of the ministry of religious affairs. Both the beginning and termination of its sessions are decided by the ministry of religious affairs. A quorum is reached when at least 12 of its members are present. A majority vote of those present assures the validity of its decisions. The minister of religious affairs may be present and take part in the discussions. Finally, the Holy Synod may invite representatives of the clergy, the monasteries and the theological institutions to its meetings.
The permanent synod convenes in the interim between meetings of the Holy Synod. The statutory charter foresees instances for which the permanent synod is incompetent, as well as those for which decisions reached are subject to the subsequent approval of the Holy Synod. It is composed of the patriarch, who presides, and all active metropolitans. In the absence of the patriarch, one of the metropolitans presides according to protocol. It meets upon the invitation of its presiding hierarch as often as the need arises. A majority vote of its members assures the validity of its decisions. It, too, may invite to its meetings representatives of the clergy, the monasteries and the theological institutions.
The national ecclesiastical assembly, made up of one clergy and two lay representatives from each province, as well as the members of the Holy Synod, is the central representative body of the Orthodox Church of Rumania for financial and administrative matters. It is also responsible for all other matters for which the Holy Synod is not competent. The national ecclesiastical council is the highest administrative body for matters of the entire Church, while at the same time it is the executive body of the Holy Synod and of the national ecclesiastical assembly. It is made up of nine members, three clerics and six laypersons, elected by the national ecclesiastical assembly.
The Patriarch is at the same time Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Hungrovlachia and Primate of the hierarchy of the Church of Rumania. He is assisted in the exercise of the duties of his office by two vicar bishops, six administrative advisors, the chief secretariat of the patriarchate and the board of review and supervision.
Bishops and metropolitans are elected from among the hierarchy in general or from among those priests who meet the qualifications established by the charter. The patriarch is elected from among the active bishops, archbishops and metropolitans. All are elected in secret ballot by an electoral assembly made up of the members of the national ecclesiastical assembly and of the provincial assembly of the vacant province. Other members participating in the electoral assembly are as follows: the president of the ministerial council and the minister of religious affairs or their representatives, a plenipotentiary representative of the national ecclesiastical assembly and the rectors of the theological institutions of university status. The electoral assembly is summoned within three months at the latest to fill any vacant see. A quorum of the electoral assembly exists when a majority of its members is present and its decisions are valid when reached by an absolute majority. It is presided over by the metropolitan in the election of bishops and archbishops of those provinces with the right to vote, by the patriarch in the election of metropolitans, and by the patriarchal "locum tenens" in the election of the patriarch. Electors write the name of the person of their choice for the office to be filled on ballots. An absolute majority determines the outcome of the election. In the absence of an absolute vote, a run-off election between the two persons with the most votes determines the outcome. In the event of a tie vote, the outcome is determined by lots. The canonical investigation of those elected is undertaken by the Holy Synod. Ratification of the election is by decree of the presidency of the national ecclesiastical assembly issued at the request of the government per recommendation of the ministry of religious affairs. The letters of installation of bishops are issued by the metropolitan, of metropolitans by the patriarch, and of the patriarch by the Holy Synod. In the event an election is not ratified either by the Holy Synod or by the presidency of the national ecclesiastical assembly, a new election is mandated within a time limit determined by the Holy Synod.
Patriarchate of Bulgaria
The Orthodox Church of Bulgaria has from the beginning of its existence up until the latter half of the 19th century been under the supervision and direction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Since the establishment of a Bulgarian Exarchate by the Ottoman Government in 1870, however, she has undertaken the task of organizing her own internal affairs independently. This activity brought about a rupture in her relations with the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the other Orthodox Churches. The rupture was eventually healed and the Church of Bulgaria was recognized as an autocephalous Church. She ultimately proclaimed herself a patriarchate in 1953, an act not seen favorably at the time by the other Orthodox Churches. In the early stages of her organizational development, an active role was recognized to the laity, which eventually became less pronounced. The statutory charter by which she has been administered since her elevation to patriarchate reflects the Church-state relations which have evolved as a result of the Communist regime which governed until recently.
The Holy Synod, which exercises the highest spiritual authority in the Orthodox Church of Bulgaria, is made up of the patriarch and all bishops with metropolitanates. It functions in both full and limited capacity, as a synod of the hierarchy in the former case and as a permanent synod in the latter. All bishops with metropolitanates are under the direct jurisdiction and supervision of the Holy Synod, from which they receive their hierarchical office and to which they are accountable directly. Legislative authority is exercised by the clergy-laity assembly, which is composed of the bishops, other clergy and laypersons. The highest judiciary and administrative authority is exercised by the Holy Synod.
The patriarch is elected by the patriarchal clergy-laity assembly composed of all the bishops, as well as clergy and lay representatives from each province and a variety of ecclesiastical and other bodies. All electors must be members of the Orthodox Church of Bulgaria. At least seven days before the designated day for the election of the patriarch, the holy synod of the hierarchy elects three metropolitans by secret ballot and absolute majority as candidates for the patriarchal throne. Following the election of the three candidates, the director of religious affairs is notified in writing in order for him to respond regarding the government's confidence in the candidates. The Holy Synod through its acting president convenes the patriarchal clergy-laity assembly on the assigned Sunday for the election of the patriarch. After it has been determined that at least three-fourths of the assembly's membership is present, the election process begins following prayer. In the event three-fourths of the membership are not present, the election process is interrupted for one hour, following which it resumes again regardless of the number of members present. The candidate who receives two-thirds of the votes cast by secret ballot is declared patriarch.
The president of both the Holy Synod of the hierarchy and the permanent Synod is the patriarch, or in his absence, one of the synodal members appointed by him. The permanent Synod is made up of the patriarch and four metropolitans who have administered their provinces for at least two years. Its members are elected by the hierarchy for four years. No bishop may refuse to participate in the meetings of the Holy Synod, except for reasons of health or inability confirmed by the hierarchy. The penalty for doing so is suspension. Only members of the Holy Synod of the hierarchy and permanent Synod may participate in their meetings.
Among the other competencies, the Holy Synod of the hierarchy draws up a list of candidates for the office of metropolitan when the see of a province is vacant. The "locum tenens" together with the metropolitan council forwards a copy of the list to all the electors of the province (clergy and laity) whom he invites to the capital of the province in order to take part in the election of the metropolitan. A supervising committee oversees the election. Following prayer, the electors proceed with the election by secret ballot. Each ballot cast contains two names from the official list of candidates. Those candidates receiving an absolute majority are declared the officially elected candidates of both the clergy and the laity of the province to fill the vacant see. On the first Sunday following the approval of the provincial election, the Holy Synod proceeds with the final election of one of the two candidates in the church and in the presence of the people. The newly elected metropolitan assumes his ministry, which is for life, from the day on which the Holy Synod officially announces his election. According to the canons, a vacant see may not remain without a canonical bishop for more than three months. A bishop is not ordained without a province and transfer from one province to another is prohibited. Nevertheless, the Holy Synod may by exception ordain a bishop as auxiliary to the patriarch or as auxiliary to an elderly or ailing metropolitan or for exceptional needs of the Church.
Executive authority belongs to the patriarch or his representative. Nevertheless, the patriarch does not have the right to reach decisions affecting the whole Church without consulting with the Holy Synod, nor does the Holy Synod have that right without consulting with the patriarch or his representative. In the event the patriarch or any other hierarch should violate the duties and responsibilities of his office, he is accountable to the holy synod of the hierarchy. The meetings of both the Holy Synod of the hierarchy and the permanent Synod are legitimate only if presided over by the patriarch or his representative and with the presence of at least half of their membership. The Holy Synod of the hierarchy meets regularly each year in June and November, and exceptionally whenever deemed necessary by the patriarch or permanent Synod or when requested by half the metropolitans. The permanent Synod meets continually and determines its own recesses. Decisions are reached by an absolute majority of members present. A tie vote is broken by the vote of the president. Abstention is not permitted. A dissenting opinion is permitted providing it is declared and justified orally during the meeting and submitted in writing within three days subsequently. Each member has the right of initiative during meetings.
A member guilty of violating synodal procedure is admonished as follows: admonition in private by the president; if ignored, admonition is repeated in synod; as a final resort, the president proposes an appropriate penalty to the Holy Synod. In the event the patriarch as president of the Holy Synod is guilty of violating the statutory charter generally, the Holy Synod in the person of its senior member respectfully issues a reminder. If the reminder goes unheeded, it is repeated in synod. If even then there is no correction, the Holy Synod takes the appropriate measures as defined by the canons regarding degradation.
Church of Greece
Owing to the privileged status still accorded to the Orthodox Church of Greece by the Greek Constitution, in contrast to the status of the other autocephalous Orthodox Churches in the lands in which they exist, an investigation of her administrative structure closes this part of the present study. In a sense, it provides a logical balance to the investigation of the administrative structure of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with which this study began. This is so because of the mother-daughter relationship existing between the Churches of Constantinople and Greece, a relationship which dates back to the first half of the 8th century. It is in deference to this relationship and to the respect thereby fostered by the Church of Greece towards her mother Church, that the former retains only the title of an autocephalous Church whose primate is an archbishop. Territorially a part of the Church of Constantinople until 1821 essentially, thereafter only formally until 1850, the Church of Greece understandably modeled her administrative structure after that of her mother Church. There have, of course, been many adjustments and revisions since the original statutory charter by which the Church of Greece administered her ecclesiastical affairs in the spirit of the canons. The charter of 1977 is a recent phase in this development.
The highest ecclesiastical authority of the Church of Greece is the Holy Synod of the hierarchy, composed of the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece as president, and all the bishops who administer metropolitanates. Her permanent administrative body is the permanent Holy Synod. Both bodies are located in Athens. The vice-president of the Holy Synod of the hierarchy is its senior ranking member. In the absence of the president, the vice-president presides; in the absence of the latter, the member hierarch next in rank of seniority. The Holy Synod meets by right in regular session on the 1st of October each year. It may meet exceptionally whenever convened by the president either upon his own initiative, or following a previous decision of the permanent synod, or per request of at least one-third of the active metropolitans.
Further regulations determine procedure regarding convocation of the Holy Synod according to the latter two instances. In any event, the president is canonically accountable if he fails to convene the Holy Synod in conformity with the above. Additional regulations determine the agenda, i.e., who sets it and how it is covered. Bishops present during the meetings may not depart without serious cause before the necessary decisions have been reached. Such departure, as well as an unjustified absence, constitute a canonical offense. A quorum exists if more than half the member metropolitans are present. Decisions are reached by a majority vote of those present. A tie vote in an open ballot is broken by the vote of the president. Decisions on matters considered to be of profound importance by the Holy Synod (inflicting major excommunication, exercising condescension and leniency) require at least a two-thirds majority vote of the entire membership of the hierarchy.
The permanent synod of the Church of Greece is composed of the Archbishop of Athens as president, and 12 member hierarchs, of whom 6 are active metropolitans of the autocephalous Church of Greece chosen alternately by seniority, and 6 are active metropolitans from the "new provinces" chosen in the same way. A quorum exists if half its members plus one are present. Decisions are reached by majority vote. A tie vote is broken by the vote of the president. In the absence of the president, the highest ranking member hierarch present, according to seniority, presides, as mandated by the canons. The synodal period is annual, beginning on the 1st of September of one year and ending on the 31st of August of the next. As the permanent administrative body of the Church, its competencies include overseeing the careful execution of all decisions of the Holy Synod of the hierarchy. In the interim between meetings of the Holy Synod, the permanent synod exercises all ecclesiastical-administrative authority according to the canons, traditions and legal norms.
Upon the vacancy of the archiépiscopal throne of Athens, the responsibilities of "locum tenens" are fulfilled by the highest ranking active metropolitan according to seniority. In the event this is not possible, the next in line of seniority assumes these responsibilities. Within five days of the vacancy, the permanent synod under the presidency of the "locum tenens" meets to announce the vacancy officially to the active metropolitans and to set the date for the Holy Synod to meet for the election of an archbishop. This extraordinary meeting of the Holy Synod takes place in the cathedral church of Athens within twenty days of the vacancy. Eligible for election are all active metropolitans who are Greek by birth, as well as those clergy of the Church of Greece who are registered in the list of eligible candidates for the episcopacy. The election takes place in only one session without recess in the presence of the minister of education and religious affairs. The session is presided over by the highest ranking hierarch present, according to seniority. A quorum exists if at least two-thirds of the active metropolitans are present.
Following are detailed regulations describing the procedure to be kept in the election of the archbishop. Elected is the candidate who receives an absolute majority of the votes cast. If an absolute majority is not reached, the same procedure is repeated without interruption. If an absolute majority is still not reached, the candidate receiving a relative majority of the votes cast is considered elected. In the event of a tie vote during the third ballot, the archbishop is selected by lots. Objections as to voting procedure, qualifications of candidates, validity of ballots, etc., are to be submitted immediately in writing. An irrevocable reply to these objections is provided at once by the minister of education and religious affairs, or, in his absence, by the elections committee.
The candidate elected officially accepts his election, whereas the permanent synod notifies the ministry of education and religious affairs on the same day in writing. Within five days a presidential decree of recognition and appointment is issued. Shortly thereafter, and in the presence of the president of the republic, the minister of education and religious affairs, and the permanent synod, the newly elected archbishop affirms fulfillment of his archiépiscopal responsibilities and obedience to the constitution and laws of the state. Following this affirmation the newly elected archbishop is enthroned.
The election of bishops is carried out only by the Holy Synod of the hierarchy and always from the current list of eligible candidates for the episcopacy. The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate also has the right to propose the names of candidates who would be eligible for election to one of the metropolitanates of the "new provinces." There follows a detailed list of both general and specific qualifications required of all candidates. The statutory charter devotes several articles to the list of eligible candidates for the episcopacy, allowance also being made for members of the synod to contest the eligibility of candidates registered. Consequently, one of the standard agenda items of the permanent synod is the ongoing evaluation of the list of eligible candidates.
When a metropolitanate becomes vacant, the president of the permanent synod appoints the senior hierarch from among the neighboring metropolitanates as "locum tenens." The "locum tenens" is responsible for administering the daily affairs of the metropolitanate and may not initiate substantive changes in its institutions. In the event of an urgent matter, the "locum tenens" must first receive the approval of the permanent synod before taking any action. The election of a metropolitan by the Holy Synod of the hierarchy must take place within six months of the vacancy at the latest. If during this period the Holy Synod does not convene for its regularly scheduled annual meeting, it meets in extraordinary session to fill the vacancy.
A vacancy is filled canonically by an election. It may, however, with a two-thirds majority vote of members of the Holy Synod who are present, be filled by transfer. Only those metropolitans with at least five years of active ministry can be considered eligible for transfer. Once transferred, they may not be transferred again. Their election is by secret ballot. A two-thirds majority vote assures the election of the candidate considered eligible for transfer. Following official announcement of the synodal decision regarding transfer, the metropolitan to be transferred declares his acceptance. In the event he does not accept, the election process is repeated.
In order to fill a vacancy by election, members of the Holy Synod of the hierarchy elect by secret ballot three candidates from the list of eligible candidates for the episcopacy. Each elector is obliged to list three candidates on his ballot. The Holy Synod then elects one of the three candidates by secret ballot and by a relative majority. Also eligible for election besides those named in the official list are auxiliary bishops and titular metropolitans and bishops. In the event of a tie vote between metropolitans and bishops, the senior hierarch according to ordination is preferred; between presbyters and deacons, the presbyter is preferred; and between presbyters, the senior presbyter according to ordination is preferred. Following the government's notification of the election, acceptance and ordination of the candidate, a presidential decree of recognition and installation is issued. The newly elected metropolitan then officially makes an affirmation to fulfill his hierarchical responsibilities and is enthroned according to ecclesiastical order.
Eastern Churches United with Rome
For purposes of further inquiry and comparison, this investigative study will close with a brief survey of the Eastern Churches united with Rome. The object of this survey is to determine whether these Churches have preserved their synodal character and, if so, under what conditions.
Among the Churches of the Byzantine rite, practice varied depending upon local needs and the degree of intervention on the part of the Church of Rome into the affairs of each Church. The Ruthenians, who entered into union with Rome at the Council of Brest-Litovsk in 1595, were initially instructed by Pope Clement VIII as to the rights of their metropolitans. Several decades later, however, it was decreed that provincial synods be held every four years. In reality, these synods were closely supervised during their stages of preparation by the ecclesiastical authorities in Rome.
The Rumanians who united with Rome held relatively frequent diocesan synods from the very beginning. It was not until 1872 at Blaj, however, that their first truly provincial council was held. Before that time, legislation on matters of importance came from Rome. It was Rome as well which directed the preparations for the Council of Blaj.
Legislation for the Italian Greeks came directly from the See of Rome, as evidenced by the encyclicals of Clement VIII and Benedict XIV issued in their behalf. On the other hand, the Melkites have always claimed autonomy with regard to their patriarchal synods. Nevertheless, Rome has always reserved to itself the right to accept or reject these synods, as evidenced once again by the available papal documents which either contest or direct or flatly reject them.
A similar fate befell the other Eastern Churches as well. Their synods have either been planned and directed in Rome or presided over by a papal representative with extensive authority. Such was the case with several Maronite synods of the 16th century and again with the Synod of Mt Lebanon held in 1736.
During the papacy of Pius IX, the decision was reached to provide the non-Byzantine Eastern Churches with a legislative system similar to that of the Council of Trent. A synod of the Chaldean Christians in 1852 and one of the Syrians held the following year reflect these designs. In the case of the former, they did not openly refuse to accept a legislation imposed on them but rather chose to ignore it frequently in practice. The latter, on the other hand, sought to recover their traditional liturgical customs at a synod convened for this purpose several years later.
An attempt was made at Vatican Council I to unify the discipline of the Eastern Churches by entirely suppressing it in favor of Latin uniformity. Through the efforts of both the Chaldean and Melkite Patriarchs invited to attend, it was brought to the attention of the council that only a patriarchal or national synod could effectively initiate reform. Time, how-over, did not allow the council to deal with the issues raised.
Under the papacy of Leo XIII, collaboration and understanding with regard to the traditions of the Eastern Churches united with Rome increased decidedly. As far as synods were concerned, however, Rome continued to insist that they be presided over by a papal representative and that their decisions needed Roman approval before they could be promulgated.
With the announcement of an Oriental Code of Canon Law in 1929, an end came to the traditional legislative authority exercised by the local synods. Although these synods continued to provide the necessary details of the legislative system thus unified, it became apparent that they no longer functioned as they did originally. The annual provincial synod now functions much the same as the episcopal conferences in the Roman Church: as consultative bodies without proper legislative authority. The institution of the permanent synod, too, although prevalent, has very limited administrative and judiciary competence.
Vatican Council II, through its Decrees on Ecumenism and on the Eastern Churches, has given cause for optimism regarding the recovery of some of the traditional norms and institutions of the Eastern Churches united with Rome. Although some reservations are still expressed, it remains to be seen whether the synod will ultimately be recognized as the essential institution it is in the life of the Eastern Church. Such recognition could in fact bring East and West one step closer in their quest for unity.
See G. Kapsanis, E poimantike diakania kata tous ierous kanonas
(Piraeus, 1976), 112-29.
H. Percival, ed., The Seven Ecumenical Councils, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 14 (Grand Rapids, n.d.), 475. Although the Church at her core is always synod, her members sometimes fail to live in accordance with her synodal character. This is due to their spiritual immaturity and sinfulness. G. Kapsanis, E poimantike diakonia, 126-29. Kapsanis cites several specific examples when this happens. One thus becomes painfully aware of the need to harmonize ecclesiastical practice at all times with the Church's theological prototypes.
For a discussion of all these, see Bishop Pierre (L'Huillier), "Synodos," Threskeftike kai Ethike Engyklopaideia, 1st ed., vol 11 (Athens, 1962), 574.
Kapsanis5 116.
A. Schmemann, 'The Idea of Primacy in Orthodox Ecclesiology," The Primacy of Peter in the Orthodox Church (Gr. Britain: Faith Press, 1973), 41-45.
Schmemann, 52
J. Hajjar, "The Synod in the Eastern Church,'* Concilium 8, Pastoral Reform in Church Government (New York: Paulist Press, 1965), 58
Hajjar, 59. In his monograph, Endemousa Synodos (Athens, 1971), V. Pheidas shows the synod specifically convened to elect a bishop for the capital see of Constantinople to be the precedent for the "endemousa" synod. Such synods date back to the period just prior to the Second Ecumenical Council.
See canon 3 of the Second Ecumenical Council and canons 9, 17 and 28 of the Fourth Ecumenical Council. For an historical account of the honorary preeminence of the Church of Constantinople in the East, see Metropolitan Máximos of Sardis, The Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Orthodox Church, trans. G. McLellan (Thessaloniki, 1976), 80-252.
The main source of information regarding the administrative structure of the Orthodox Patriarchates today comes from B. Tzortzatos, Oi vasikoi thesmoi dioikeseos ton Orthodoxon Patriarcheion (Athens, 1972).
See Maximos, 80-252.
Tzortzatos, 28-29.
Tzortzatos, 31-32.
In more recent times, variations in practice have occurred with regard to length of term of service on the Holy Synod, to procedure for assuring full membership, and to number of members.
Tzortzatos, 32
Tzortzatos, 42-43.
Tzortzatos, 68.
Tzortzatos, 65.
The bishops of every nation must acknowledge him who is first among them and account him as their head, and do nothing of consequence without his consent; but each may do those things only which concern his own parish, and the country places which belong to it. But neither let him (who is the first) do anything without the consent of all; for so there will be unanimity, and God will be glorified through the Lord in the Holy Spirit," The Seven Ecumenical Councils, 596.
Canons 37 of the Holy Apostles and 20 of Antioch.
Tzortzatos, 68.
Tzortzatos, 71.
C. Papadopoulos, Istoria tes Ekklesias Antiocheias (Alexandria, 1951), 1033.
Tzortzatos, 108.
Tzortzatos, 126-27.
Tzortzatos, 127-28.
Tzortzatos, 128.
The general community council, like similar bodies in the other patriarchates and autocephalous Churches, is more the result of political motivation than it is the spontaneous expression of ecclesiological consideration.
Tzortzatos, 129-30.
See the Acts of this council in Mansi, VII, 179.
Cannon 36 of the Sixth Ecumenical Council.
Tzortzatos, 141-2.
Tzortzatos, 153-4.
Tzortzatos, 156.
In contemporary Greek practice, the protosyngellos is the chief administrative official of a diocese appointed by the bishop.
Tzortzatos, 158-60.
At the time of the original writing of this study, the political situation in the Soviet Union was very different from what it is today in Russia. One can only hope that current liberalizing trends in that country continue to bring with them harmonious church-state relations.
Tzortzatos, 176-77.
What was asserted with regard to current church-state relations in Russia (see footnote 35), can also be said of Serbia and other formerly Communist states.
Tzortzatos, 206.
Tzortzatos, 210.
Tzortzatos, 211-12.
Tzortzatos, 271-76.
Tzortzatos, 279-80.
Tzortzatos, 281.
Tzortzatos, 281-83.
Tzortzatos, 306-7.
Tzortzatos, 323-28.
Tzortzatos, 330-31.
Tzortzatos, 332-34.
Canon 19 of the Fourth Ecumenical Council.
Tzortzatos, 335.
Canon 25 of the Fourth Ecumenical Council.
Canons 15 and 16 of the First Ecumenical Council, 21 of Antioch, 1 and 2 of Sardica, and 48 of Carthage (419).
Tzortzatos, 339-40.
Canon 34 of the Holy Apostles.
Tzortzatos, 355-56.
M. Anastos, '"The Transfer of Dlyricum to the Jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople," Sylloge By iantina (Rome, 1957).
B. Tzortzatos, Oi vasikoi thesmoi dioikeseos tes orthodoksou Ekklesias tes Ellados (Athens, 1977), 62-65.
The "new provinces" refer to the metropolitanates of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in northern Greece annexed to the Church of Greece in 1928 following the liberation of that territory from Turkey.
Tzortzatos, Ekklesias tes Ellados, 65-67.
Tzortzatos, Oi vasikoi thesmoi, 70-73.
Tzortzatos, Oi vasikoi thesmoi, 73-78.
TZortzatos, Oi vasikoi thesmoi, 79.
See Hajjar, 'The Synod in the Eastern Church," 55-64, to which I am heavily indebted for the material in this paragraph. In this article, the reader will also find listed all the necessary sources from which the information given comes.
The role of episcopal conferences in the Roman Church was much debated at Vatican Π, and ultimately a compromise was reached. Accordingly, just as the provincial and plenary (national, regional) synods or councils had proper legislative authority but were obliged to have their decrees reviewed by the Roman See, so too the episcopal conferences were acknowledged as having true legislative authority (described as vis juridice obligandi). There were, however, two limitations not imposed on synods or councils: (a) a two-thirds vote is necessary; and (b) only matters or affairs acknowledged as belonging to their competence can be discussed. These areas were directly acknowledged by Vatican II and expanded in postconciliar documents of implementation by Pope Paul VI. Many of them, in fact, are mentioned in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, although in the course of its preparation several areas of competence originally enumerated were eliminated. The synod of bishops is of a very different nature. Although "representative of the Catholic episcopate" (Pope Paul VI) 5 it is consultative and becomes legislative only by papal mandate. For a thorough account of all the above, see the collection of studies in Thomas J. Reeves, Ed., Episcopal Conferences: Historical, Canonical and Theological Studies (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1989).
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Treatment with subcutaneous insulin is essential for many people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and is both a time-critical and high-risk drug.
Insulin errors are commonly reported and are frequently associated with significant patient harm[1–3]. Results from the latest National Diabetes Inpatient Audit, published in November 2020, show that two-fifths of people taking insulin experienced one or more insulin error during a stay in hospital — an unacceptably high figure that has not significantly reduced since 2017[4,5].
Often, reported insulin prescribing errors in hospital involve miscommunications or mistakes concerning the name of the insulin itself (e.g. Humalog instead of Humalog mix 50), the number of units prescribed, the insulin’s concentration and/or frequency, or device, such as pens or pumps. Other errors include inappropriately timed doses (e.g. mixed insulins prescribed for night-time administration), insulin not being prescribed when it should be, unsigned prescriptions delaying administration, or the confusing use of abbreviations (e.g. ‘u’ for units).
Another problem is the variety of insulin products and types available, including concentrated and biosimilar insulins, often with obscure or similar sounding names. The complexity of the insulin prescribing process for individual patients — considering that each patient requires individualised dosing and regimen — further accentuates the potential for error and harm. There is also often a lack of knowledge regarding diabetes and insulin use among non-specialist prescribers and a culture of reluctance to contest unclear insulin prescribing[6–8].
In the same way as most medication errors, many insulin prescribing errors are avoidable, although there is little evidence to support suggested interventions, such as insulin passports, prescribing charts, improved guidelines and training, and electronic prescribing[9–11].
To help plug this gap in evidence, we carried out research from 2018–2020 to investigate how current inpatient prescribing systems for insulin work in NHS hospitals and what — if any — interventions to reduce insulin errors are being used.
Following a systematic review of the literature, we designed a survey to capture quantitative information from hospital trusts regarding the use and functionality of electronic and paper prescribing systems, as well as the effectiveness and availability of interventions designed to reduce insulin prescribing errors[12–14].
We then carried out an in-depth qualitative investigation of salient issues using in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 19 healthcare professionals from a range of acute trusts, involving specialist diabetes pharmacists, medicines safety officers and clinical pharmacists.
Overall, the main findings suggested that national efforts to improve insulin errors may be hindered by the wide variation across NHS trusts in both prescribing system functionality and interventions to support insulin prescribing. This was combined with wider organisational factors, such as high staff turnover.
Several trusts reported using concomitant electronic and paper systems to prescribe insulin (e.g. cross-referencing a paper chart), which participants described as conferring increased risk. Where electronic systems are used for subcutaneous insulin, certain safety features are often absent (e.g. alerts for high doses, insulin order sets), meaning that potentially dangerous insulin errors can, and still do, occur.
Although insulin safety training may be effective for improving insulin prescribing practice, this was thought to only really be effective if mandatory, and more than half of trusts surveyed did not offer mandatory insulin training to clinical staff. The insulin passport, previously recommended by the (now defunct) National Patient Safety Agency, was seldom used, and was regarded as one of the least effective interventions available for reducing insulin errors.
Issues with accessing complete and contemporaneous prescription information for individual patients at the point of admission to hospital was described as a particular risk to safe insulin prescribing for inpatients.
Our study supports recent recommendations for pharmacist involvement in specialist diabetes teams[15,16]. For example, the use of interventions to reduce insulin errors was positively associated with the availability of specialist diabetes pharmacists. Also, participants described how pharmacists worked across teams to design and implement improvements to insulin prescribing practice in their organisations.
These results led us to conclude that although insulin prescribing safety is a complex issue, there are six recommendations that could help further improve insulin prescribing safety in the inpatient setting.
1. All trusts should have a dedicated insulin safety team that comprises a broad membership to facilitate sustainability and spread of interventions to improve insulin prescribing practice. Inclusion of primary care representation would further promote insulin safety efforts and continuity of safe care across care interfaces.
2. Prescribing systems (paper or electronic) should reduce the cognitive work required, for example by using electronic insulin order sets linked to trust formularies or pre-printed paper insulin prescribing charts. They should also be easily identifiable, for example using coloured paper charts and the inclusion of the word ‘insulin’ next to the product name on the electronic system. Insulin prescriptions should be proximal to readily accessible blood glucose results. Electronic systems need to be flexibly designed to enable insulin to be prescribed appropriately for individual patients, particularly as certain safety features (restrictive functions/limits) are not easily applicable to insulin.
3. Local guidance regarding insulin prescribing, particularly in special situations (e.g. peri-operative/dose titrations/hyperglycaemia etc.) should be up to date, brief, easy to follow and readily available for prescribers.
4. Current systems/technology that span care interfaces (e.g. the summary care record) should be used to include current insulin prescribing information (including doses). Inclusion of a well-staffed pharmacy team at the front door of the hospital would facilitate the timeliness and accuracy of insulin prescribing and administration at the point of admission.
5. The implementation of insulin prescribing safety interventions requires dedicated time and a ‘whole systems’ approach involving non-diabetes specialist teams to be effective. These should be designed so that all staff – especially those without specialist diabetes knowledge — are empowered to make safe decisions with respect to insulin prescribing. This may help relieve the burden of responsibility for insulin safety falling on to specialist diabetes teams, particularly where capacity is an issue.
6. Although mandatory insulin safety training for clinical staff is recommended, brief sessions or training packages completed at induction into a new role are unlikely to be effective. Active learning strategies using simulated and experiential training, and individual/group reflection on practise, are likely to be successful. Well-designed, mandatory, repeated e-learning packages that incorporate individual reflection and discussion are useful alternatives.
Amie Bain is a senior pharmacist for emergency and acute medicine at Wye Valley NHS Trust
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The city experienced its greatest period under the leadership of Almohad dynasties. They built the Koutoubia and el Mansour mosques which became the symbols of the city.
In the 20th-century Marrakesh was a French colony. This influence can be seen in the art deco commercial centre of Gueliz. However, the most significant legacy of the colonial rule is the French language spoken by educated Moroccans.
A vast array of pleasure-seekers, ranging from the political leaders to glamorous party animals made their mark on the city after WWII. Winston Churchill, Yves Saint Laurent and the Rolling Stones as well as many other curious visitors were anxious to discover the cultural and touristic possibilities of Marrakesh.
Marrakesh is divided into two parts: the pink-walled Medina, the historical city, and the modern district called Gueliz. In Medina you can enjoy narrow winding streets and local shops. In contrast, Gueliz is famous for modern restaurants and brand stores.
There is a lot to do and to see in Marrakech. The main highlight of the city is the Jemaa-el-Fna, a vibrant square in the center of the Medina. It comes to life after dark as people go toward the exotic aromas and entertaining shows from musicians, dancers, acrobats, story tellers, fire-eaters, and snake charmers. Keep in mind that you will need to pay several Dirhams for their shows.
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James Boston Grigsby, African-American insurance executive and civil rights activist in Houston, was born in Macon, Noxubee County, Mississippi, to Henry and Mariah (Dismuke) Grigsby on February 18, 1878. James had at least three brothers and two sisters; he was called Jimmy as a child. Very early in the twentieth century, Grigsby was living in Houston. By 1910 he was married to Bessie Arzelia Rose Grigsby, and they were living in Houston’s Third Ward.
On July 7, 1908, the American Mutual Benefit Association was incorporated. It was organized in Houston and under the directorship of James Grigsby. By the late 1920s he was president and treasurer of that company. In 1929 Grigsby and others in Houston founded the Gibraltar Life Insurance Company. He also was president of the American Mutual Insurance Company and, at one point, an executive at the Atlanta Life Insurance Company in Houston. His wife Bessie worked there also. For many years, the couple lived on Hadley Avenue in Houston.
In 1920 Grigsby was chosen as a delegate to the National Republican Convention. The same year, he was a candidate on the “Black and Tan” ticket for the position of Harris County tax collector. In July 1928 Grigsby and O. P. DeWalt filed a lawsuit in federal district court in an effort to prevent the exclusion of Blacks from “lily-white” Texas Democratic primary elections (see WHITE PRIMARY). Both Grigsby and DeWalt told the judge that they had become Democrats a few years earlier. The national NAACP did not join the suit because of a possible conflict of interest. The suit was struck down by Judge J. C. Hutchison, Jr. Both DeWalt and Grigsby were persuaded to stop pursuing the matter in the courts. Grigsby founded the Business Men’s Luncheon Club in Houston in 1929, but the club was short-lived.
In March 1939 Grigsby filed as a candidate for trustee of the Houston Independent School District’s (HISD) board. The following night, a huge cross was burned in his front yard, an act that was thought to have been taken by the Ku Klux Klan. In 1939–40 Grigsby and Benjamin J. Covington complained that their names had been used without permission on printed material being distributed by the National Colored Democratic Association (NCDA) that incorrectly associated them with Texas politician John Nance Garner’s campaign for the U.S. presidency. In 1944 Grigsby helped organize, in Dallas, the Texas League of Democratic Voters to help stimulate statewide African American voting. Grigsby was named secretary of the organization.
James Grigsby died in Houston on May 13, 1953, at the age of seventy-five. He had been a resident of Houston for half a century. He had no children. He was buried in Cemetery Beautiful in Houston.
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With a sociocultural milieu that is as diverse as it gets, Kuala Lumpur is an eclectic fusion hub of ethnicities, languages and religions, where different and divergent traditions are celebrated with equal zest and intensity.
The Malay peninsula runs north-south at the southernmost tip of the Asian continental mainland. This is where, through the trials and tribulations of history, multi-ethnic groups of Indian and Chinese people arrived and thrived with Malay residents and indigenous inhabitants. Over the years, the ethnic convergence evolved to form a wonderfully pluralistic society built around Kuala Lumpur, the city that has embraced its multicultural population, integrating the diverse customs, languages and religious beliefs into its layered folds.
Founded in 1857 at the confluence of two rivers, Kuala Lumpur (which literally means ‘muddy confluence’ in Malay language) is a study in contrasts. Ritzy malls, futuristic lounge bars, towering skyscrapers and a pulsating nightlife synchronise effortlessly with old-fashioned neighbourhoods, colonial-era buildings and leafy parks to ooze a cosmopolitan flair that is unique in its nuances and textures.
The silver, scalloped, sky-scratching towers of the iconic Petronas Twin Towers glow golden in late afternoon setting sunlight. This is the best time to catch the magic light on this famed architecture from the green KLCC Park adjacent to it or from the splashy Sky Bar tucked on Level 33 of the swanky Traders Hotel, perfectly positioned across Petronas Towers. Lean back on the velvety violet couches with a craft cocktail to marvel at the light-and-symphony show that illuminates the buildings every night with a magical aura dabbled in colourful lights and music.
Just 10 minutes away stands Menara KL, one of the tallest freestanding structures in the world. Originally constructed as a communications infrastructure atop the Bukit Nanas (Pineapple Hill), the imposing architectural design uses ‘Muqarnas’, an archetypal form of ornamented vaulting in traditional Islamic architecture. The exquisite glass-clad domes and the globular pinnacle, inspired by a Malaysian spinning top, are the other remarkable design elements of Menara KL, which is also the fifth tallest telecommunications tower in the world.
For a completely different taste of architectural style, head over to the late 19th-century Sultan Abdul Samad Building located on the tree-lined Jalon Raja. A majestic synthesis of Moorish and Mughal architecture, the sprawling two-storied building operated as the seat of power during the British colonial rule, and the expansive, leafy plaza that houses it has been fittingly renamed as Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square).
Jalan Alor is the ultimate culinary destination of Malaysia with street hawker stalls flanking both sides of the street. The atmosphere is chaotic and cheerful with raucous seafood sellers shouting their windpipes off to promote their fare, a never-ending file of crowds thronging the streets filled with vibrant wall art where flavours burst from every corner. Dubbed as one of the busiest food streets on the planet, this 500-metre stretch is quite unmissable if you want to sample a slice of the rich culinary heritage of KL.
One of Malaysia’s premier tourist attractions, Batu Caves is a complex of limestone grottoes. A pilgrimage for the Tamil Hindu community, the site attracts thousands of devotees especially during the annual Thaipusam festival held at the end of January. The 400-million year old limestone formations cocoon numerous shrines and statues of deities beneath the 100-metre high arched ceilings.
Home to over 5000 freshwater and marine creatures that includes tiger sharks, deadliest sea snakes, menacing piranhas, electric eels and scary-looking deep sea mammals, Aquaria KLCC is the ultimate destination to experience mystic waterscapes from across the world: from the peninsular waters of Malaysia to the Amazon basin. Explore the weird and uncanny world spaced across two giant-sized floors, and the highlight can be a close encounter with a tiger shark or a sting ray, if you partake in the aquarium’s Diving with Sharks program.
Spread across a whopping, fun-filled 88 acres, Sunway Lagoon provides an enthralling themepark experience. Built 150 feet below ground level on a tin mining wasteland, this funtainment destination features six parks designed to amuse, scare, educate and excite (not necessarily in that order) the child in you, your biological age notwithstanding. Exhilaration guaranteed!
And for a crash course in KL’s cultural conflation, head over to Brickfields, the oldest Indian settlement, better known as Little India. The stretch from Jalan Travers to Jalan Tun Sambathan pulsates with Bollywood tunes, the white street lamps and creamy-yellow arches with purple embellishments seamlessly blend with the purple buildings along the street, and the characteristically colourful stores sell traditional Indian goods and delicious South Indian food.
Another great place to embark on a culinary journey is Chinatown – the sprightly neighbourhood on Petaling Street brims with a zesty food and fashion scene. It is primarily known for speakeasies, authentic Chinese seafood and the covered street market offering mostly Chinese merchandise at bargain prices, but do explore Kwai Chai Hong - a beautifully restored backlane with rows of heritage buildings. Local artists have added an arty flair to this atmospheric stretch with stunning street art depicting life in Chinatown in the 1960s.
Kuala Lumpur can be downright intoxicating if you are a shopaholic, and high-end shopping destinations jostle for recognition in the glitzy mallscape here. The 1.37 million-square foot white marble megacomplex of Pavilion KL that looks like a Grecian temple with uniquely-carved pillars stands out in the hipster Bukit Bintang district. With its extravagant combination of indoor and outdoor shopping venues that includes iconic international labels and homegrown specialty signature brands, this is an immensely popular hangout zone for KL-ites. This upmarket shopping destination features the beautiful Pavilion Crystal Fountain at the main entrance. When you are there, do not forget to toss a coin in the fountain to make a wish, à la Rome’s Trevi fountain.
Just next door, the retail paradise of Starhill Gallery awaits the refined traveller with its classy touches – mood music, ambient lighting and carpeted interiors set the tone for an unmatched haute couture shopping experience in the elite luxury haven that houses more than 100 renowned luxury timepiece and jewellery brands and exclusive fine dining venues, besides showcasing the best fashion boutiques and ultraluxe brands.
A sophisticated milieu of couture, culture and entertainment that includes an orchestral concert hall and the Petronis Art Gallery, Suria KLCC is nestled inside the first six floors of the Petronas Twin Towers. Over 300 top-of-the-line designers and labels are based out of this upmarket retail centre that is hemmed with hotels, a scenic park and dancing fountains in the heart of the Malaysian capital.
Think the sophistication of French cuisine with the elegance of Japanese fare, and the answer is Cilantro – the award-winning fine dining venue that has been delighting discerning diners, including celebrities and royalty since it reopened in 2009. 3-course and 4-course menus are curated and crafted with seasonal produce and freshest of ingredients, and the chic and contemporary décor matches the delectable culinary experience here. The signature specialities include gastronomic creations like Braised Unagi with Foie Gras and Miyazaki Ichibo Steak with Condiments.
Helmed by Modesto Marini, and perched on the 57th floor of Petronas Tower 3, Marini’s on 57 commands exhilarating 360 degree vista of the KL skyline. A multi-award winning establishment, Marini’s never fails to impress its patrons with sumptuous Italian food created with oodles of flavours and zesty textures, and always immaculately paired with a classy selection of wines, champagne and cocktails.
For a completely new sensory experience, head over to Dining in the Dark. Located in the heart of Bukit Bintang, this classy outpost offers an unusual gastronomic adventure: discover your food in absolute darkness! Since your optics are temporarily suspended in the pitch dark, the other sensory organs are accentuated. Experience the smell, taste and feel of your food in a unique way, with sharper olfactory, palatal and tactile senses.
Delicious and unmistakably Malay cuisine defines Bijan Bar and Restaurant, tucked in a leafy neighbourhood of Bukit Bintang district. Set amid lush green tropical vegetation, this restaurant with a warm and homey viberustles up authentic, rustic Malay recipes that have been passed down the generations and serves them with true Malaysian hospitality. Chef Zulkifli learnt his culinary art from his grandmother and has been fine tuning and experimenting with the techniques ever since.
Thrill and exclusivity are the buzzwords when it comes to nightlife; KL-ites take it seriously. You will find some of Asia’s best bars here in Kuala Lumpur. Coley, resplendent in a black-and-gold and woody interiorscape, stands out as a creative cocktail bar in the bustling Bangsar district. Quirky, playful mixes are the signatures of owner and bartender CK Kho who finds inspiration in local flavours and infuse them with gin and vermouth to whip up refreshingly innovative cocktails.
Dazzling sky-high views highlight the experience in Blue, perched on the 51st floor of iconic luxury Hotel EQ at Jalan Sultan Ismail. The sparkling ceiling lights splayed across flanking mirrors blend with the shimmering city skyline and create a surreal effect, heightened by couple of rounds of Blue’s signature Blue Moon cocktail – an exotic concoction of gin, lavender bitters, hibiscus purée, elderflower liqueur and egg white.
Museums & the Arts
Located on Jalan Damansara, the National Museum delves deep into the colourful Malay history spanned across four halls - the Prehistoric Gallery, the Malay Kingdoms, the Colonial era and Malaysia Today – each a repository of Malaysia’s cultural and historical heritage through the ages. Inspired by Malay royal palaces and vernacular Malay architecture, the sprawling three-storied museum houses a diverse range of informational exhibits starting with the Stone Age through the colonial period, and right up to the modern age. Do not miss the original-size old Terengganu timber palace known as Istana Satu.
The ornate, turquoise-colored tiled domes of Islamic Arts Museum have established this space as an iconic structure in Malaysia. As the name suggests, the white interiors of this two-storied building that has twelve gallery spaces are solely dedicated to Islamic arts showcasing an astounding collection of ancient calligraphic scrolls, historic manuscripts, jewel-studded arms of the medieval ages, Islamic glassware, and exquisite handcrafts of wood, metal and ceramic.
The museum also boasts of educational, research, and extensive conservation facilities. Housed in a beautiful Mughal-style heritage building on Merdeka Square, the National Textile Museum traces the origins from pre-historic times, development through trade, and also the tools, materials and techniques of textile-making practiced over the centuries. Elaborate displays of indigenous motifs and textile prints from the different ethnic groups of Malaysia, traditional apparel and accessories and heritage costumes – the four galleries superbly underscore the role textile has played out in shaping the rich and diverse cultural heritage of Malaysia.
Enjoy bird’s eye views of Kuala Lumpur with a helicopter ride. The private charter service features a curated joyride from 6 to 45 minutes in a 4-seater or 5-seater chopper. Soak in breathtaking aerial views of the city’s sky-scratching towers, the quaint, traditional towns that surround the city and the gently undulating emerald countryside. Have your camera ready to splash your social media handles with jaw-dropping images.
Just 45 minutes away from Kuala Lumpur, nestled within a 100-million year old rainforest, lies Genting Highlands – Malaysia’s lofty paradise at an altitude of 5700 feet. Cool mountain breeze and majestic vistas work in connivance with indoor and outdoor theme parks, a casino and a pristine 18-hole golf course to make Genting a gorgeous destination. For those seeking a bit of adventure, there are options aplenty – from the scenic skyway cable car ride to the hair-raising haunted adventure tour and indoor rock climbing. Satiate the adrenaline junkie in you!
Head over to Petaling Jaya if you feel a little drained with the mainstream bustle, and indulge yourself with full-on Balinese vibes at Khareyana Spa – a leafy, tropical sanctuary imbued with all-natural philosophy. With a serene water garden, cobbled pathways and wooden furnishings, it’s the perfect place to relax and rejuvenate, and have your muscle knots smoothed out by topnotch spa therapists with impeccable expertise in Balinese spa treatments.
A robustly developed infrastructure that includes state-of-the-art stadiums, swimming centres, equestrian parks and go-kart centres has helped KL to host several international sporting events including the Commonwealth Games, the SEA Games and the football World Club qualifiers.
A multi-purpose stadium that is used mostly for football matches, the Kuala Lumpur Football Stadium holds 18,000 spectators and boasts of FIFA-standard facilities. Catch a game while you are there to feel the pulse of the most popular sport in Malaysia, played since the late 1800s.
Golf in Malaysia bears a rich colonial legacy with the first club opened in 1883. Royal Selangor Golf Club still operates as the green lung of the city, resplendent in emerald splendour, and welcomes those in quest of a tee-off amid its idyllic setting.
The 28,000 square-meter National Aquatic Centre not only meets the exacting standards and regulations of the International Swimming Federation to regularly host international swimming events, but its aesthetic architecture draped in light blue has made this centre a prestigious venue for organising mini concerts and fashion shows.
Must Buy Souvenir
Threads of silk and gold are interwoven to craft Songket, the traditional Malaysian handwoven fabric. The extravagantly luxuriant pieces exude exoticism with immaculate geometric designs and motifs and can be a perfect partywear. You can also spruce up your home décor with a vibrantly-coloured Songket wall hanging, or artisanal tableware crafted from this supreme quality material. Beware of counterfeit products, though. It is best to get it from branded shops and from the reputed shopping malls.
Top-of-the-line hotels in KL hold their candles vis-à-vis the best in the world with sterling, personalised services, fully-equipped amenities and lavish, ultraluxe suites that cater to the aesthetics of connoisseurs of finest things in life. Most of the upscale establishments are conveniently located within easy walking distance of the city’s prime attractions.
The most efficient way to reach the city centre from the KL airport is to take a Kuala Lumpur airport taxi with a set fare and a travelling time of about 50 minutes. Transportation around the city is relatively hassle-free with fully air-conditioned buses and an extensive rail network of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), Light Rail Transit (LRT), monorail and KTM Komuter.
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Global Trade Regulations and Agreements Chapter 4
International Regulation of Trade How the World Regulates Trade between Its Countries
International Trade • Buying and selling of goods and services across national borders • Involves exporting and importing • Export: Selling goods/services to other countries • Import: Buying goods/services from a foreign country • Marketing of such goods and services across between two or more nations is International marketing
Why Engage in International Business 1. Growth: Introducing new products internationally can expand a company's customer base, sales and revenue. For example, after Coca-Cola dominated the U. S. market, it expanded their business globally starting in 1926 to increase sales and profits 2. To find alternative sources of labor: Some companies look to international countries for lower-cost manufacturing, technology assistance and other services in order to maintain a competitive advantage 3. To locate resources that are difficult to obtain in their home markets, or that can be obtained at a better price internationally 4. To broaden their work force and obtain new ideas. A work force comprised of different backgrounds and cultural differences can bring fresh ideas and concepts to help a company grow. 5. To diversify. Selling products and services in multiple countries
6. Market: A company may respond to demand it discovers in another location. It could make this discovery by accident, or by having an affiliated company giving them a tip 7. Competitive Environment: Seeing competitors going to a particular place/country may entice some business to make the same move. 8. Political Environment changes (Trade Barriers): If an exporting company finds that the government in the recipient country starts to build tariff or non-tariff barriers to block the export, then it might be a reason for the exporter to set up a manufacturing operation overseas in order to avoid the tariffs
Advantages of International Trade A country may import things which it cannot produce International trade enables a country to consume things which either cannot be produced within its borders or production may cost very high. Therefore it becomes cost cheaper to import from other countries through foreign trade. Maximum utilization of resources International trade helps a country to utilize its resources to the maximum limit. If a country does not takes up imports and exports then its resources remain unexplorted. Thus it helps to eliminate the wastage of resources. Benefit to consumer Imports and exports of different countries provide opportunities to the consumer to buy and consume those goods which cannot be produced in their own country. They therefore get a diversity in
Reduces trade fluctuations By making the size of the market large with large supplies and extensive demand international trade reduces trade fluctuations. The prices of goods tend to remain more stable. Utilization of Surplus produce International trade enables different countries to sell their surplus products to other countries and earn foreign exchange. Fosters International trade fosters peace, goodwill and mutual understanding among nations. Economic interdependence of countries often leads to close cultural relationship and thus avoid war between them.
Other advantages include • Causes the flow of ideas, services and capital across the world • Permits diversified sources and markets for goods/services • Insulates seasonal domestic sales by finding new foreign markets • Reduces dependence on home markets/production • Facilitates mobility of labor, capital and technology • Provides more business opportunities • Minimize competitive risk • Led to globalization
Disadvantages of International Trade Import of harmful goods Foreign trade may lead to import of harmful goods like cigarettes, drugs etc. Which may run the health of the residents of the country. E. g. the people of China suffered greatly through opium imports. It may exhaust resources International trade leads to intensive cultivation of land. Thus it has the operations of law of diminishing returns in agricultural countries. It also makes a nation poor by giving too much burden over the resources. Over Specialization may be disasterous for a country. A substitute may appear and ruin the economic lives of millions. Danger of Starvation A country might depend for her food mainly on foreign countries.
One country may gain at the expensive of Another One of the serious drawbacks of foreign trade is that one country may gain at the expense of other due to certain accidental advantages. The Industrial revolution is Great Britain ruined Indian handicrafts during the nineteenth century. It may lead to war Foreign trade may lead to war different countries compete with each other in finding out new markets and sources of raw material for their industries and frequently come into clash. This was one of the causes of first and second world war.
Factors that control International trade: 1. Political factors 2. Legal factors 3. Social factors 4. Environment factors
1. Political Factors Stability of Government Policies: The most important idea is that the government is stable and the set of rules or codes of behavior that affect business are predictable and adaptable.
Political Risks: Below is a brief list of the kinds of political risks a company faces when doing business internationally. • Confiscation (to seize private property by the government) and Expropriation (Taking over possession of private property) • Economic risks associated with the political environment (exchange controls, local-content laws, import restrictions, tax controls, price controls, labor problems) • In order to understand how the political environment impacts your business, you must analyze how politically vulnerable your company is. To decrease how vulnerable your business is to political conditions, it is especially important for the marketer to forecast risk and engage in business ventures that may benefit them.
2. Social factors include e. g. Child labor, under payment, over working, In the context of international trade, social factors essentially refers to a legal provision in a trade agreement aimed at removing the most extreme forms of labor exploitation in exporting countries by allowing importing countries to take trade measures against exporting countries which fail to observe a set of internationally agreed minimum labor standards.
3. Environmental factors Involves clauses that emphasizes on environmental protection. Example, • Using production processes that do not harm the environment • Producing products that are environmental friendly. (Eco labeling) • …
a. Global textile and apparel trade �During 17 th and 18 th century: mercantilism (government play a protection role in the economy); Encouraging of Export and discouraging of imports. Capitalism and more liberal political and economical thinking replaced mercantilism; � 19 th and 20 th century: Napoleonic war and WWI (1814 -1914) development of international economy; market forces rather than governments regulated trade. Economic nationalism; protect domestic market (i. e. US impose tariffs). Therefore, international trade become more volatile than it had been before.
Cont… �After World War II: Measures taken to provide greater stability on international trade; IMF and GATT contribution in Expansion of international trade is much in 20 th century and bridged the gaps of countries and continents. �Recession or economic decline in early 1980 s affect the trade of the textile and apparel sector severely where as in 1996, apparel was 10 th largest trade category as a share of all world merchandise trade (exports)
Global Patterns of Trade Early 20 th century: � 70% of world textile trade was dominated by Britain � During 1900 -1937 world Textile production increased by about 90% � Significant Changes in production location starts in this era � Absolute global production increased even though share of individual countries in developed nation decreased. � Contribution of textiles as a proportion of total manufacturing production in developed nations began to decrease by 1900. (But new producer nations like Japan increased their proficiency). � Till it is weakened by WWII, Japan used Textiles for Economic developments from 1920 s -1950 s.
Mid-20 th century: �US and British industries expanded �Other countries rebuilt their production facilities �After the War Japanese used Textile to rebuild their Economy �In 1950 s Japan become a treat for American domestic manufacturers �Following Japan, a number of less developed nations began to export growing amounts to developed countries.
Late 20 th century: �Since 1950 s, the number of nations producing for the international textile and apparel markets has multiplied many times.
b. Factors which affect global textile and apparel trade �Economic concerns: which nations Economy should grow at the expense of another? �Political concerns: how the political relations of one nation towards the other will be affected by restricting the global textile and apparel markets �Social concerns: which nation’s employment should be increased at the expense of the other? E. g. should workers from France or US lose jobs to give employment for Philippines or Nepal?
Cont… �The short term arrangement (1961) a Short Term Agreement Regarding International Trade in Cotton Textiles �The long term arrangement (1962) a Long Term Agreement Regarding International Trade in Cotton Textiles (LTA) was signed under the sponsorship of the GATT (replacing a 1 -year short-term agreement).
GSP (Generalized system of preferences) � A system of tariff preferences designed to encourage the expansion of manufactured and semi manufactured exports from developing countries. � In 1968, GATT accepted a GSP for developing countries as an exception to the nondiscrimination principles. � It allows products to enter developed-country markets duty free and at reduced rates of duty to give less developed countries advantage over other suppliers which are not granted tariff advantages. � GATT was established in January 1948 on a provisional basis after the Second World War. The original GATT member countries were 23.
Objectives of General agreements on trade and tariff (GATT) �liberalize world trade (all goods) �contribute to economic growth and development �trade without discrimination �protection through tariffs versus quotas �stable basis for trade consultation, conciliation, and settlement of differences �Prohibited quantitative restrictions on imports �Allows for regional trading arrangements
Bilateral Trade Agreements �NAFTA (North American free trade agreements) is basically a free trade agreement between 3 countries namely USA, Canada and Mexico linking them in a free trade sphere. It is the world’s largest free trade area in terms of GDP. it was implemented on January 1, 1994. �The North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) and the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation (NAALC) are other bilateral agreements between the above countries.
Objectives �To remove tariff barriers between Canada, the United States and Mexico. � The Agreement includes two supplemental agreements on environmental and labor issues that address cooperative efforts to reconcile policies and procedures for dispute resolution between the member countries.
CAFTA (Central American free trade agreements) The Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) was signed on August 5, 2004. Member countries include: �United States �El Salvador �Guatemala �Costa Rica �Honduras �Nicaragua �Dominican Republic
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Finance Minister, Tengku Zafrul Aziz has highlighted that 40 percent of millennials spend beyond their means and has urged Malaysians to be more financial literate.
According to Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) Assistant Governor, Nazrul Hisyam Mohd Noh, 47 percent of Malaysian youths have high credit card debts while 38 percent have been identified as having personal loans.
“So, think thoroughly about what is necessary and prioritise your purchases, whether it is a new outfit or new phone, or like one of my nephews who wants a PS5, and you will find that every ringgit will go a long way.
“Warren Buffett famously said, ‘Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving’. In other words, pay yourself first and use the power of compounding to your advantage,” he said in his speech at the Kembara Bijak Wang 2020 (KBW 2020) prize-giving ceremony on March 9.
However, Tengku Zafrul did not highlight the government’s efforts to raise the minimum wage in the country to produce more income towards Malaysian employees.
Putrajaya raised the minimum wage by RM100 last year.
The RM1,200 minimum wage has been gazetted by the Human Resources Ministry on January 10, 2020 and officially encompassed 56 city and municipal council areas from February 1, 2020 which was under the Minimum Wages Order 2020.
The statement by Tengku Zafrul has also produced mixed responses among Malaysians.
“We are dependent on market forces without proper regulation, which is subject to high manipulation in Malaysia. Employers, especially SMEs will always want to keep costs low, thus hiring based on market average is highly flawed as it never moved anywhere except downwards when talents are abundant.
Sadly, we are also seeing labour manipulation done by large local employers as well likewise TopGlove and Kossan simply because they can get away with the law. The only thing forcing them to behave is international trade laws. They are exporting their products too,” Data scientist and Retail Trader, Khairunnisa Abdul Rahman said.
Corporate executive, Aaron shared that an open market where the wages are more transparent is essential to have a standard baseline for a certain industry.
“Once you have an average, you can compare the viability with the current living economics and from there, determine the most minimum you can get. When it is private, no one knows what they deserve and that gives way to exploitations,” he added.
One anonymous twitter user felt that there should be a benchmark and an independent body to hold companies accountable in the salary department as more transparency is needed to ensure public trust.
“Everyone is trying to get a job and there’s this mindset that job hopping will secure a higher wage. So, people do not care much starting with a low salary but not all job hopping secures a better salary. With this mentality, that is why the government needs to step in and increase the basic minimum wage,” Site Engineer, Hazwan Saharullah said.
Co-Founder of TwentyFive Brunei, Firdaus Omar said that Malaysia has a weak workers union, leading to a passive push for higher minimum wage.
“Collective bargaining not only helps towards better salary but overall better perks for the workers. The abysmal push by the government to recalibrate the minimum wage to today’s cost of living levels would be another,” he added.
“The only way is to increase minimum wage, so companies are forced to adhere to it. Companies are capitalists who will take advantage as and when they can. The lower they can go the better. Financial literacy is close to impossible when there is no money to handle at the end of the day. Living in KL and Selangor while earning RM1,800-2,000 is impossible,” Full-time Real Estate Negotiator, Natasha pointed out.
A study by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) in 2018, showed that approximately 75 percent of Malaysia’s working population are earning no more than RM 3,100. This means approximately 25 percent of Malaysians are paying income tax.
BNM also stated that nearly half of Malaysian households and working population are barely meeting their basic needs.
“Although it is linked to the slow rate of increasing minimum wages, it should be examined independently as they are two different problem statements. The indicators for financial literacy are factors such as insolvency rate, unemployment rate possibly through theory of planned behaviour.
The indicators for minimum wage are policy-making and data driven policies. It is important to view both matters separately, because otherwise the argument is going to be filled with fallacies,” Administrative Director, Fayadh Wahab explained.
Additionally, findings by BNM showed that Malaysian workers are still being paid less than workers in benchmark economies, even after accounting for the different productivity levels across the countries. The benchmark economies were the US, the UK, Australia, Germany, and Singapore.
“This suggests that Malaysia’s current wage productivity levels are misaligned,” the report stated.
The Bank Negara study concluded that Malaysia’s labour share of income lags behind that of advanced economies. In other words, a larger portion of national income goes to the capital owners rather than the workers.
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A man has said how he heard a "loud boom" that he thought was something smashing into the roof of his house before he discovered that his shower door had "exploded". It left shards of glass across his bathroom.
Peter Sullivan, from Donaghadeed in County Down, Northern Ireland, told BelfastLive : "I'd never experienced anything like it. I heard a loud boom, like a large object had smashed onto the roof at the rear of the house.
"But when I ran upstairs to see if anything had come through the ceiling, I could hear was a cracking sound. I opened the bathroom door, one of the shower doors had exploded and the glass that was still in the frame was continuing to make the cracking noise for about an hour.
"It was a mess - there were tiny shards of glass all over the place. Because the screen door was still cracking, I was afraid the rest of it would go, so I got out of there and let it settle.
"That shower door is about 12 years old and has had plenty of use over the years, so maybe it was getting worn or damaged, I don't know, but my wife put the photo on Facebook and lots of people responded saying they had experienced something similar.
"People mentioned they'd seen pint glasses explode with no one near them, oven doors when the oven was not even warm, garden tables, a huge fish tank, one lady said her fridge shelf exploded, another said her bathroom shelf blow up and other people experienced similar with double glazed windows in their homes.
"It's a bit scary to think it could have happened when someone was actually in the shower. Given the distance the shards travelled and the noise of the bang, there must have been some force behind the moving glass. It could have caused serious injuries, but thankfully we were downstairs and out of harm's way."
How can tempered glass explode?
To make it durable, manufacturers of tempered glass subject this material to high amounts of pressure. If a practically invisible chip or crack on a sheet of tempered glass occurs, a sudden temperature change could cause it to shatter.
However there appears to be no single convincing theory to explain why shower doors spontaneously explode, although glass expert Mark Meshulam, says toughened glass has a huge amount of energy stored within it and all of that energy is trying to get out.
During the manufacturing of toughened glass microscopic pebbles, called nickel sulfide inclusions, can sometimes be trapped inside the glass and as the glass and pebbles expand and contract with the heat, the pebbles may weaken the glass causing it to explode.
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The use of drugs including marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine, as well as the misuse of prescription drugs and illicit opioids among adults is on the rise. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased drug use, which can lead to dependence and addiction, injury and accidents, health problems, sleep issues, and more. Mental illness such as anxiety and depression in adults 18-49 is also on the rise, signaling a need for professional diagnosis and treatment. SAMHSA offers resources to help viewers overcome their struggles with drug use and mental illness.
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Welcome to the May/June 2022 edition of Smart Money.
In this edition, we look at what age many people are entering early retirement and the key steps, costs and benefits of doing so (page 10). We also discuss the concerning issue for many women’s retirement saving in the continued gender pension gap (page 7), and how to build a retirement nest egg through a working life involving many jobs and career changes (page 12).
We also consider intergeneration wealth through two articles in this issue. On (page 3) we outline the importance of keeping an up-to-date Will and estate planning for the next generation, and how best to financially help your children from birth (page 8).
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Perhaps, this isn’t the sexiest book to add to my book reviews, but I love Voltaire. I love his work, his courage, his cleverness, his life’s story, his rise to being more powerful than Kings, his passion for justice, his devotion to the betterment of everyone’s lives, and his unparalleled generosity. He accomplished everything through writing! He changed the whole world with words; he embodies the power of how a written thought can turn the wheels of history. His words were sharper than any sword. He is my hero, and my inspiration! Enjoy this book, which gave me my first real look at him.
Ian Davidson did something amazing: he made me fall in love with a dead Frenchman. I confess before reading this biography, I knew Voltaire only by reputation. A couple years ago, I read and loved Candide, but that experience, at-the-time, was all Voltaire and I ever shared between us. Occasionally, in conversation and academics I came across him. He impressed me then, but I had no idea the diamond dangling in front of me. His place is in the pantheon of history. My only regret is I can not give this work a sixth star.
Voltaire wrote everything: he wrote plays, he wrote advocacy for social justice, he wrote for criminal justice reform, he wrote philosophy, he wrote fiction, he wrote science, etcetera., and his writing changed his world which changed our world too. Was there ever another person that gave so much to humanity? I think not. I will end with this: after reading this biography, if Voltaire does not immediately elevate to your favorite titan of history, I accuse you of not having read it.
Well done Mr. Davidson. Bien joué!
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The sign that accompanies the first prayer that Catholics learn, namely, In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, is no meaningless gesturing. It’s an intentional expression of what lies at the root of our existence: that we live and move and have our being under the abiding presence of the Trinity. The proper way to make this sign is: With our left hand resting below our chest, we lock together our right thumb, index and middle fingers (leaving the ring and little finger to rest on our palm). By joining these three fingers, we already form a corpus that mimic the Trinity. With these, we touch our forehead to show that in it is the imprint of our personhood, where God put His distinct mark of ownership. It is through our head/face that we become present and our identity is externalized. We as well give an assent of faith to the Father, the First Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Artist, Creator, and Ruler of all things, visible and invisible—as we say in the Creed. Next, with those fingertips we touch the base of our heart, the center and citadel of God’s love, while saying, “And of the Son.” The Son of God, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, begotten, not made, is the true face of God to the world and the Lover par-excellence. He is the One whom, as John 3:16 says, God sent out of the abundance of His love to be our savior. And finally, the fingertips move from the heart to the left shoulder crisscrossing the heart to rest on the right shoulder, while we say, “And of the Holy Spirit.” The movement to the shoulders kicks on our propellers which fan to flame our wings of prayer, lifting our faith and love to flight of active service, supported by the unction (oil) of the Spirit of God, the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. At a final interlocking of the hands, we say, “Amen”—So be it. In union with the Trinity, we’re stabilized; reach altitude.
In the prayer illustrated, we invoke the Trinity whose feast we celebrate today. The Trinity is also invoked at other times when we pray and are blessed with the gifts of heaven. In the Name of the Trinity we are baptized and have our sins forgiven in the Sacrament of Reconciliation; and before we close our eyes in death, the Trinity is implored on us to bring us to share in the bond of love that unites the Three Persons in God—existentially distinct, yet indivisible in substance. I admit that this description is abstract, yet it’s not unknowable. The Trinity is abstract to the degree that algebra is beyond the grasp of kindergarteners or calculus beyond the grasp of an elementary school child. Heavenly mysteries are similarly beyond our ability to grasp “fully.” It is only an unredeemed heart and mind which finds the Trinity unintelligible—like the fool who says in his heart: there is no God above (Psalm 14:1).
The Trinity is the central mystery of our faith in God. Hence, “we believe in one God...Father, Son, and Holy Spirit...[whom] we worship and confess: not one God in such a way as to be solitary, nor the same in such wise that he himself is Father to himself and he himself is Son to himself; but the Father is he who begot, and the Son is he who is begotten; the Holy Spirit in truth is neither begotten nor unbegotten, neither created nor made, but proceeds from the Father and the Son, coeternal and coequal and cooperator with the Father and the Son” (Denzinger). This mystery explains that God the Father is the Creator God, God the Son is the same God who became our Redeemer, and God the Holy Spirit is the Sanctifier. In the Trinity is a mutual interpenetration of hypostasis (persons); a perfect unity of persons which God desires for all His children.
A unified family consists of father, mother and child(ren). A statue of the Holy Family with the image of the child ripped off is no longer a Holy Family statue. Divisions, discord and acrimony hurt the inner life of the Trinity. Rooted in God, we’re invited to mindfully seek harmony, love with all our heart, and serve each other with hands unsullied by unholy desire, envy and greed.
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Using the description of different sorts of Vedic Literature, Madhava commences after these two issues that are important. He says the Vedas have been arranged in chronological order, by topic matter. There are Vedas, which can be plotted in order of the appearance at the material realm.
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From the book, Madhava extends into the analysis of the math while within the realms. He describes the concept of the’light’ as a particular notion, that relates to phenomena inside the various planes of presence. These include the greatest among, and it is known as”world Brahman”.
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You can find just four non-physical aspects that unite to generate a world that is physical. Madhava highlights the significance of describing the forces of the aspects. His work contains a conversation of the forecast of arrival dates, vedic literature beliefs, and also astrology.
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The writer wrote a book known as”The Paths of the Master” for readers that are wanting to reach the innermost degree of religious development. Inside this work, Madhava explains the different kinds of spiritual understanding, for example like: higher knowledge understanding, and understanding that is devotional. This work can be an endeavor to develop a novel which has been fashioned for followers of the Vaishnava faith.
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The books of madhava offer a highly detailed and progressive exposition of their principles of Hinduism. It features different varieties of Hindu faith, and the common beliefs of Hinduism. Additionally, he also supplies a numbers of quotes from your Hindu scriptures.
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"Being Active every day, helps you work, rest and play"
Ms. Ruddy's 2nd class working on their gymnastics skills, March 2020
6th class created mini games for Senior Infants
(a combined PE class!)
Sports Day 2019 - lots of running, jumping, throwing and novelty races and events
Gymnastics, April 2019
Mark from Sport in Schools is working with some classes. Teachers and SNAs support those who need help with the various activities. Lots of fun for the pupils and staff!
Our priority strand this year is Athletics. Each of the 21 classes are timetabled for athletics, starting in February, 2019. The Fit4Class programme was used by classes, as well as PSSI lessons and the 'Move Well Move Often' programme.
Ms. Ruddy's class doing the Fit4Class programme
4th and 5th class doing the Fit4Class programme
Gymnastics - 4th Class
Mr Masterson's 5th class - Obstacle Course
GAA - Ms. Dempsey's Senior Infants
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Graduates are referred to as Engineering Technologists and work as members of the engineering team focusing primarily on the implementation of new technologies. Students will select two fields of study providing depth in subjects of interest to them. Technical electives will provide breadth of study that supports their general knowledge base. Within the core are courses that prepare students to manage people and projects as they grow in their career. Graduates of this program are employed in the areas of quality assurance, product/software support, applied design and development, manufacturing support. plant management, computerized process control, systems planning, process planning, supervision and technical sales.
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Iceland is popular when it comes to travel destinations, this much is certain. However, just like any other travel destination, there will always be unpredictable circumstances. That's why it is essential to know about the place before exploring it. No one wants a vacation that would bring the tourist a worry instead of just having fun and relaxing. Listed below are the things tourists must avoid when visiting Iceland.
10 Always Check The Weather
If tourists plan to visit Black Beach, it is indispensable to check the weather forecast first. It is hazardous to go near the sea if the weather is bad because the waves can be very destructive. During winter, it is not advisable to go hiking, especially if there are no tour guides. This is also one of the reasons why dressing according to the weather is essential when visiting Iceland. The tourist must not ignore the weather.
Tourists should know that not every beach in Iceland is safe to swim in, many beaches here have already put people's lives in danger, and some even didn't survive. Always remember to keep a distance from the water and never turn a back on the sea. The same goes for geothermal pools. Not all of the "lagoons" here are safe because some are active. Be careful not to fall into these pools and always read signages.
8 It Is Safer To Rely On Tour Guides
Local tour guides have been living there and have mastered every bit of Iceland, which is why it is safer with them. Do not walk on the glaciers without a professional tour guide because ice can break easily. Moreover, tour guides are primarily multi-lingual. Make sure to be with a tour guide that knows their client's language to avoid misunderstandings. Also, this way, tourists will be able to understand what the written signages are all about.
7 Day Or Night Can Be Long
Having extended daylight or a long night in Iceland is natural. It is situated in the Arctic Circle, which is why such a phenomenon happens. Broad daylight tends to occur in June and July, while the sun never goes up in December and January. On the other hand, sunset and sunrise during winter last for about 2 hours. If tourists happen to visit Iceland during extended daylight, it is recommendable to bring eye masks to sleep.
6 Bring A Flask
Iceland is rich in fresh and tap water, and there is no need to buy bottled water from the supermarket. It is better to bring a personalized and reusable flask to avoid the chlorinated water from the supermarket. It is also a better way to prevent the use of plastic containers and save money. Nothing beats the fresh and natural water from Iceland. Tourists can go directly to the streams and safely get water there.
5 Be Mindful When Shopping
Avoid shopping at 10-11 because the products are highly expensive than other stores. Stores that offer the lower and right price for goods are Netto, Bonus, and Kronan. Tourists can locate these stores in the capital of Iceland. Purchasing alcohol is also not easy. There's a strict implementation of drinks in Iceland. Moreover, stores that sell alcohol are not always open and have limited hours of operation. Also, if tourists were caught driving under the influence of alcohol, the fine would be $750.
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3 Don’ts When Hiking
Iceland's nature is indeed beautiful, and it can be deceiving as well. Each year, some tourists would decide to go on a hike alone. In return, some would get in an accident or, worse, get lost. Lucky for those rescued, but it is unfortunate to know that hikers would die just because they decided to go alone. Suppose tourists would like to hike in secluded areas, better to ask for a tour guide and let the hotel know.
2 Etiquette On Baths And Pools
If tourists want to bathe in a blue lagoon or other natural outdoor pools, they must shower before going to the water. There are shower rooms for guests before going to the collection. Never think of not following this rule because the attendants will still go straight to their guests and bring them to the shower area. Laugardalslaug, Reykjavik's, has the largest lagoon facility and excellent amenities. It is also not allowed to eat in the pool.
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There aren’t any worldwide events that don’t have an impact on the way investors think. Every “black swan” event—defined as something we can’t predict in advance, but something that alters the economic landscape—will change us.
The COVID-19 pandemic is one such event. It’s going to change the psychology of investors, for good or ill. But while the pandemic is still affecting us, it’s difficult to predict how the psychology of investors will change in 2020, 2021, and beyond. What exactly are we going to do differently?
There are a few things we can glean from investor psychology and the emerging trends. While no one can say for sure how investors will change their behaviors in the future, we can point in certain directions based on what’s already happened. Here’s what we know about investor psychology—and what that might say about where investors are headed.
A Look Back: The Psychological Impact of the Great Depression
Many of us have grandparents who developed quirky habits during the Depression. Many of these habits lasted a lifetime.
“The Depression left emotional scars on the American psyche,” said one source. These fears last into today. “Whenever the economy sputters, as with the late 1990s dot-com fallout and subsequent recession, many people are gripped by fears of another Great Depression.”
We can see that in Google Trends. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread, searches for “Economic depression” increased:
Although a recession is far more likely than a depression, we see that both of the search terms spiked at about the same time:
“Primacy and Recency”: Two Key Factors in Altering Investor Psychology
Daniel Crosby, a psychologist who serves as a behavioral finance expert, pointed out that there are generally two factors that influence our memory: primary and recency.
Says Crosby on the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the stock market: “But it will be especially impactful for those just starting out on their investment journey, who will have no other context for how the markets work. For them, all they will know is volatility and uncertainty and those lessons are likely to last a lifetime.”
For people who grew up during the Depression—an unprecedented event—“primacy” unfortunately worked against them. Who knows how much money some investors lost by keeping their savings in savings accounts, putting extra cash into coffee tins, or hiding it under the mattress? Unfortunately, with investment psychology, our experiences can color our perceptions even in real-time.
How Uncertainty Affects Our Worry and Fear
A study by UCL (University College London) once found that subjects who had only a 50% chance of electric shock suffered more worry than those who were certain they would receive an electric shock.
It’s easy to see how this might play out in the markets. For anyone who values certainty, they might view the stock market as “50% chance of having an electric shock.” You can see this in the headlines:
When Worry Hits the Streets, People Tend Toward Alarmist Thinking
There is an “alarmist bias,” according to economist Kip Viscusi, that results in people devoting “extra attention to the worst-case scenarios.” Viscusi studied this phenomenon in the late 1990s. The findings? People were more likely to dismiss more positive evidence about alarmist scenarios when conflicting evidence was presented.
Viscusi points out that media and advocacy groups tend to highlight the worst-case scenarios. That means that during alarming periods—like the COVID-19 pandemic—there’s a “selection bias” at work. Many investors are likely to see the worst-case scenarios and ignore any conflicting evidence. This is especially dangerous when there is an abundance of conflicting evidence that suggests investors should not take their money out of the market.
In the above, we see the Google Trend for “economic disaster.” Once again, we see a spike in searches as soon as COVID-19 made national headlines. Even as some worries went away, the underlying searches for “economic disaster” remain high above where they were in early 2020 and late 2019.
Loss-Aversion and New Biases in Investors
“I hate losing. I hate losing even more than I want to win.”-Billy Beane, as quoted in “Moneyball”
“Loss aversion” is another major factor, according to author Jason Voss. Loss aversion is the psychological factor that means people feel losses more sharply than they feel the benefits of a similar increase.
For example, a 20% drop in the market will “hurt” more than a 20% gain will feel good. The aversion to loss might help explain some of the other psychological factors at play; selection bias tends to work against us. When investors are fearful that something bad will happen to the market, any evidence to the contrary is more easily dismissed. Meanwhile, stories about economic disaster will tend to prevail.
The above—“sell stocks” as a trend on Google—shows that even after the stock market started recovering, more people are thinking about selling stocks than they were before the pandemic. That’s even with the market showing the ability to roar back to previous levels.
Emotion Over Logic: How Many Investors Approach Money
One primary challenge that money advisors have, according to author Frank Murtha, is that investing can be a numbers game played on an emotional field. Wealth managers might prefer to take emotions out of it—to soothe investors’ anxiety by pointing to the very rational arguments to be made for continuing to invest. But this often fails to meet the emotional needs of investors. They may logically agree with what a wealth manager is telling them. But as long as their emotions are telling them something else, they can be hesitant.
How can investment managers better persuade clients about the best course of action? It means understanding that some investment decisions are driven by emotion. Rather than say that “we expect the market to do X and Y,” investors should speak directly to the long-term needs and goals of these investors.
Getting Rid of “Absolute” Thinking
As Michael Batnick of The Irrelevant Investor wrote, investors shouldn’t think in absolute terms—either being in the market or out of the market. He argues that investors tend to make major leaps during crises, which results in either-or decisions that investors never had to make.
“If you sold yesterday with the market down 10%, what do you today if it closes up 4%?” asks Batnick.
In times of uncertainty, one can’t blame investors who tend to move towards certainty—wherever they can find it. But the problem is that investors tend to move towards certainty by making drastic decisions that might not be the best decisions for their long-term goals.
How Investors Perceive Risk—and How That Thinking Might Be Flawed
A prominent 1981 study found that investors tend to perceive risk in one of three ways:
COVID-19 inspired dread, was an unfamiliar threat, and had the potential to expose a lot of people to risk. Thanks to this “trifecta,” it weighed particularly large on the global psyche.
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Finland: The Pearls of the Gulf of Bothnia – Southwest Islands and the Town of Uusikaupunki
These small and scarcily inhabited islands belong under the national parks of Archipelago, Selkämeri, Kurjenrahka and Teijo. A number of non-profit organizations take care of nature protection, development of tourist industry. The most important of these is Metsähallitus which operates across Finland.
These islands have great conditions to observe birds. Ocassionaly you can spot sea lions here. People who love tourism, geocaching, and other free time activities will like it here. Weather here is usualy nice (sunny, warm weather in spring and summer is not unusual). However, wind is strong.
Great point to start exploring the island is Uusikaupunki, quiet port town. Its name is really hard, even impossible to pronounce. This town is about 70 kilometers northwest from Turku. Around 20 thousand people live in the area. Visit a church near the port. It is worth your time for it shows how people here are linked to the sea. Its interior is simple. We found interesting wooden arches and columns. Detailed ship models add to its atmosphere. Metsähallitus organization organizes cruises to nearby islands.
Regular sea lines can get you to one of the most interesting islands in the area - Isokari. The red and white lighthouse is its prominent feature. It is 49 meters high and it still works. Isokari lighthouse is the second highest lighthous in Finland. At the present, there is a small museum. Visitors can learn about the history of the island and also about daily operations of the lighthouse. A beautiful vista waits for you and to see it you need to climb stairs. Then you will enjoy the view of cliffs and glittering water surface. There used to be a military garrison for over 200 years on Isokari. Its orders were to guard surrounding islands and control ships entering Finish waters. Cozy wooden buildings which were used by the soldiers stationed here are still used as accommodation facilities.
Wooden cabins are typical in the area. These can be also found on Vekara isle which is about one hour of boat ride away from Uusikaupunki. Only one family has been living on the island for generations. They are descendants of seamen. Together with volunteers and people who protect nature they work on keeping the island in its original shape.
I recommend to plan your trip into the area for spring or the beginning of autumn. Local weather resembles the one in central Europe yet you need to be ready for strong wind. In the period from June to August, we can enjoy bit longer day than in central Europe there. Early in August, sun sets as late as eleven p.m. So sit down at your computer and plan your spring or summer vacation.
The southeast coast of Finland is easy to access for tourists who have no other means of transport but public tranport. For instance, you can quite fast and comfortable get from Helsinki to the town of Uusikaupunki having a transfer at Tampere. Generally one can say that trains are more expensive than buses in Finland. Moreover, it is recommended to buy tickets in advance on the internet. Finish railways often offer limited tickets for a very affordabel price. The website for train search (as many other internet websites relevant for travelers) is also available in English.
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Jazz Dance has evolved over the past few years and now includes a vast range of styles. Today’s jazz may include elements of Street-Jazz, Broadway, Jazz Funk and even Contemporary movements. Jazz dance students complete warm-up and stretching exercises before working on skills such as leaps, turns, kicks, and jumps. Jazz is a fun, upbeat class combining technical elements and creativity, all while increasing flexibility, strength and musicality.
This class focuses on flexibility, strength, balancing, limbering and tumbling. Our studio is Acrobatic Arts certified, Dancers who train through Acrobatic Arts have balanced development, are stronger, more flexible and fearless.
The foundation for all dance forms. Improve strength, poise, balance and control. Technical skill gained through the study of Ballet is necessary for all other dance forms. Dancers will study the discipline of Ballet through The Cecchetti Society of Dance Program. All our company students must be enrolled in our ballet program. Cecchetti Ballet exams are offered yearly to successful candidates demonstrating the proper required techniques of the discipline.
This class style is of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical and classical ballet. Contemporary dancers strive to connect the mind and the body through fluid dance movements. All dancers must be company students to be accepted for enrolment in this genre.
This Class will focus on each of the three main concentrations of musical theater; music, dance, and theater studies. Great emphasis will be placed on recognizing the relevance of each discipline as it relates to musical theater and preparing students for auditions and musical theater performances. 1/3 of each class period will be devoted to – 1) vocal development, 2) improving acting skills, 3) learning choreography; all to help students develop musical theatre skills.
The tap dance program is offered to students of all levels and concentrates on teaching our dancers the ability to communicate dance through sound. It also increases their awareness of rhythm and syncopation. The program works on enhancing each student’s ability to combine musicality with performance quality. Steps of varying difficulty are taught progressively through the year, allowing each dancer to master techniques at his/her own pace. One of the first dance forms to be created, tap is a fun class anyone can enjoy! From flaps to triple time-steps, tap dancing is a great way to build your child’s multi-tasking skills and confidence.
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Lyrical is a fusion of ballet and jazz dance techniques. This style of dance challenges choreographers and dancers to use motion to interpret music and express emotion. A lyrical dancer’s movements attempt to show the meaning of the music. Lyrical jazz is a very passionate and emotional dance style. It portrays certain emotions such as love, and tells a story through every movement made.
This class is the study of Broadway dance and dance styles. Our focus is on Broadway musicals old and new! Our instructors introduce choreography and acting into this dance technique and style.
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Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man and chairman of the huge and profitable Reliance Industries, has built a new home estimated to be the world’s second most expensive house after Buckingham Palace. Antilia, the residence, is the epitome of luxury and extravagance. We’ve made a list of such amazing details for you. Three helipads, airport regulation, a 168-vehicle carport, a dance hall, 9 fast lifts, a 50-seat theatre, porch gardens, pool, spa, well-being emphasis, and a sanctuary are among the amenities of the building, which is 27 storeys tall, 173 meters (568 feet) tall, and more than 37,000 square meters (400,000 sq ft) in size.
1. The Origin Of The Name Antilia
It is named ‘Antilia’ after a mythical island in the Atlantic Ocean.
2. It Took 4 Years To Build This Grand Mansion
The construction of ‘Antilia’ started in 2006, and it ended in 2010. It is designed in collaboration with Hirsch Bedner Associates & Perkins and Will and Australian construction firm Leighton Contractors. B. E. Billimoria & Company Ltd. finished the building.
3. Antilia Is Situated In The Costliest Location In The World
Antilia is located on Altamount Road in South Mumbai, which is widely regarded as the world’s most expensive location. The going rate for real estate in this area is around 80,000 per square foot. The $2.2 billion building, which spans 4,00,000 square feet, is said to be the world’s second most valuable residential property, after Buckingham Palace, which belongs to the British monarchy.
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Mary K. DeShazer, Mammographies: The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2013) 239 pp. $33.95 Pb, $60 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-472-03635-6
In the early part of the twentieth century, breast cancer was a taboo subject, one which often induced hushed tones, superstition, or, most often, silence. In the 1970s, second wave feminism (combined with other medical and socio-cultural shifts) spurred changes in the way the Western world considers women's healthcare. Women advocated for transparency and agency in healthcare decision-making, and sought to change cultural perceptions of breast cancer bodies. By the 1980s, the Susan G Komen Foundation was established, and Audre Lorde had published her groundbreaking work, The Cancer Journals. In the late twentieth century, hundreds of essays, books, and creative works about breast cancer broke the silence and brought the discussion of breast cancer to the public. In the UK and the US, millions went toward breast cancer research, and pale pink became synonymous with hope for the fight against breast cancer.
In the twenty-first century, however, breast cancer writing seeks to complicate or interrogate established discourse around breast cancer, and bring to light fresh, complex, and previously unheard or unacknowledged perspectives, argues Mary DeShazer, in her 2013 book, Mammographies: The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives. DeShazer, who authored Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature in 2005, incisively observes that breast cancer literature of the twenty-first century often challenges established biomedical practice, the corporatization of breast cancer through the pink campaigns, and survivor discourse, while highlighting oft-overlooked topics related to breast cancer, such as possible environmental causes, the 'ethics and efficacy of prophylactic mastectomy, and the shifting politics of reconstruction,' (1). De Shazer also notes that twenty-first-century breast cancer texts must also include queer discourse, and her text is one of a few which does so substantively and critically. DeShazer utilizes an informed interdisciplinary approach that relies on contemporary feminist theory of the material-discursive construction of the female body, and deftly integrates philosophical, literary and visual media theory to create 'a critical analysis of postmillenial autobiographical and photographic representations of this life-threatening illness' (1). The result is a text which does justice to the powerful and complicated legacy left by the experiences of women like Audre Lorde (and hundreds of others), but also offers the first and most comprehensive (to date) analysis of the features of contemporary breast cancer discourse.
The structure of this text is vital to its strength and effectiveness, and eminently useful to interested readers approaching the topic from either a scholarly or lay perspective. In each chapter, DeShazer puts forth a claim, and then offers a number of contemporary texts to substantiate her assessment, exploring them through interdisciplinary analysis and demonstrating the ways in which the texts are definitive of postmillenial breast cancer narratives. In the first chapter, 'Postmillenial Breast Cancer Photo-Narratives: Technologized Terrain', DeShazer combines theory on illness, embodiment, and autobiography from noted scholars like Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson, Einat Avrahami, and Thomas Couser to render her specific stance on photo-narratives. She claims they are a significant postmillenial method by which breast cancer storytellers can explore questions of narrative subjectivity, resistance, witness, and embodiment: 'The identity that the narrator of a breast cancer photo-narrative constructs engages a speaking or visually rendered "self" at once discursive and provisional [...]The lived experience that an autobiographer seeks to describe initiates a process of identity formation [...] giv[ing] rise to various forms of narrative and somatic subjectivity' (18). In the remainder of the chapter, DeShazer analyzes Catherine Lord's The Summer of Her Baldness (a 2004 photographic memoir) and Lynn Kohlman's Lynn Front to Back (a 2005 photo-narrative), demonstrating ways in which Lord's is transgressive and transgendered, and the ways in which Kohlman's presents contingent embodiment. Each chapter follows a similar robust and reliable structure; while presenting its point comprehensively and completely on its own, it also offers readers a springboard into their own reading of the many texts which DeShazer encourages them to explore.
The second chapter, 'Audre Lorde's Successors: Breast Cancer Narratives as Feminist Theory,' is likely to be of particular interest to readers, because it explores the ways in which contemporary breast cancer narratives resist hegemonic constructions of the female breast cancer body, a task which Lorde began over thirty years ago. Here, DeShazer opens from Diane Herndl's criticism that many late-twentieth-century breast cancer narratives failed to challenge social and medical norms, essentially remaining apolitical. DeShazer challenges this notion by analyzing three contemporary texts which, she claims, qualify the authors as Audre Lorde's political successors: Manmade Breast Cancers, by Zillah Eisenstein (2001); The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journey's Through Cancer (2001), by Evelyne Accad; and a trilogy of essays by S Lochlann Jain (2007-2010). These writers, according to DeShazer, 'affirm yet extend Lorde's vision' in a number of ways: they seek to break silences, identify and discuss alternative causes of breast cancer, challenge the medical establishment, question hegemonic constructions of femininity, queer breast cancer, and represent 'antiracist and transnational perspectives' (42). The chapter is significant because it gives readers a trajectory which connects the past, present, and future of breast cancer discourse, offering opportunities for further exploration, discussion, and silence-breaking.
In subsequent chapters, DeShazer explores the ethics and utility of the latest preventative treatment for breast cancer, prophylactic mastectomy. She observes the importance of transgressive, rebellious (often irreverent) dark humour, in the context of breast cancer narratives, and approaches ethical questions around public witness and commemoration in autothanatographies, like the one by Susan Sontag, and the accompanying death photography by her partner, Annie Leibowitz. In the final chapter, DeShazer discusses the ways in which readers and viewers can engage with breast cancer autothanatographies in ways that are 'mutually respectful, perhaps even mutually constitutive,' (176). Here, she briefly cites theories on from Arthur Kleinman, Arthur Frank, and Susanna Egan about the relationship between suffering and witness, but readers may find themselves craving a bit more depth in DeShazer's discussions of the nature of witness and its specific importance in reflecting the writer's subjective position, affirming narrative identity, and altering intersubjective relationships and spaces. Nevertheless, DeShazer's text is a definitive work in studies and analysis of breast cancer narratives, and should not be overlooked by any reader wishing to involve themselves in important ongoing discourse about women's health.
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An informative essay is a piece of writing that is designed to inform and educate its reader about a particular issue. A well-written essay is not an argumentative or persuasive essay. You don’t have to convince the reader to accept your point of view. Instead, an informative essay attempts to present information in a digestible format. If you’re assigned this task, follow some simple steps to ensure that your essay is as effective as possible.
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Scams advice from Neighbourhood Watch
Warwickshire Trading Standards has been made aware of instances whereby individual’s email accounts appear to have been hacked and bogus messages sent out.
The messages usually ask for the recipient’s help to buy a gift card (for a relative of the sender’s birthday). The sender normally states that they are travelling and can’t do it themselves. They may direct the email recipient to visit their local supermarket or shop and may even name the store to make the email look more authentic. The sender always promises to refund the money as soon as they can.
Victims of this crime have lost money after buying a gift card and sending the card number to the criminals by email. The fraudsters don’t require the physical card, only the card number.
The fraudsters either send out an email directly from the hacked email account to everyone in the person’s address book or copy the address book and create a new account with a similar email address (the new email might have an extra letter in it for example or use a different provider). This way, even if the victim regains control over their account, the fraudsters can continue to send out bogus emails that could be mistaken for genuine ones.
If you believe your email account has been hacked, try to change your password as soon as possible and visit your email account provider’s website for further advice.
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Android phone malware warning
Criminal gangs are employing a malware called BRATA to infect Android phones and steal money, texts, and photographs. The malware is hidden in dangerous apps.
Victims reported receiving a bogus text purporting to be from their bank, requesting them to click on a link to download an anti-spam app. The malware is hidden in the app and allows the criminals to take over the phone, overcome two factor authentication, steal usernames and passwords, and make fraudulent transactions.
Victims may also receive a phone call during the download process from a bogus bank employee, offering them help to install the app whilst in reality granting themselves access to key areas of the phone.
Be wary of any unsolicited texts, emails, or phone calls you receive from your bank.
Always interact with your bank by using the official app or website.
Give safely this Christmas
Over the past year £1.6m has been lost to charity fraud. Warwickshire residents are warned to beware of giving to non-existent charities and criminals posing as genuine charities.
Action Fraud have suggested some simple checks the public can take:
- Check the charity name and its registration number on the Charity Commission website to find out whether the charity is legitimate: https://www.gov.uk/find-charity-information
- Use the Fundraising Regulator’s online Directory to find out whether a charity has registered with it and committed to excellent fundraising: https://www.fundraisingregulator.org.uk/directory
- Look out for the Fundraising Badge on charity marketing materials – when people see it, they can have confidence in charity’s fundraising: https://www.fundraisingregulator.org.uk/more-from-us/about-us/fundraising-badge?utm_source=FR-email&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=FR-Badge-email-signature
- Ask questions about the cause – if people are still unsure about giving, they should always ask for more information. Legitimate causes will be happy to respond.
Omicron variant PCR test phishing emails
Criminals have already begun to use the Omicron variant to attempt to scam residents. Which? have issued a warning that scammers are already sending fake emails about the new Omicron variant of Covid, to steal personal data and bank details. For more information, advice and to see what the scam phishing emails look like, visit: https://conversation.which.co.uk/scams/omicron-variant-pcr-test-fake-email/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=scamalert021221&utm_content=Scam+alert+021221.+B&mc_cid=bcfb980f1b&mc_eid=118d081792
Christmas jingle helps residents to remember anti-fraud measures
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in partnership with behavioural scientists, Influence at Work, and music production company, Soviet Science, has released a Christmas jingle.
The jingle focuses specifically on loan-fee fraud in which consumers are tricked into paying an upfront fee for a loan or credit they never receive. You can watch the jingle here: https://youtu.be/9JO3o5AWikA
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El Salvador leader Nayib Bukele Photograph:( Reuters )
The country's President Nayib Bukele closed its border even before it reported a single case of coronavirus
Latin American country El Salvador is being appreciated for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
The country's President Nayib Bukele closed its border even before it reported a single case of coronavirus, arguing that the small Central American nation had to get ahead of the outbreak. After closing borders, Bukele put in place stringent quarantine measures.
He ordered the military to arrest people violating the new measures, sending thousands to government "quarantine centers."
Salvadorans praised him for taking decisive action that have saved his small Central American nation from the worst impacts of the COVID-19.
His heavy-handed approach has generally been well received by most Salvadorans, over 90 percent of whom approve of his handling of the crisis in public opinion polls. The tough measures also appear to have produced a very low infection rate.
According to Johns Hopkins Covid-19 tracker, there have been 1,571 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in El Salvador to date, with 31 deaths attributed to the virus.
However, the remaining 10 per cent have criticised him for earmarking food and money for impoverished Salvadorans.
Bukele has largely brushed off concerns from critics, often trying to tar them as corrupt or as supporters of gangs.
He has proposed the emergency declaration in force for the next 30 days, extending measures such as school suspensions and a ban on movement in certain areas with high numbers of infections.
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Baptized children can receive the sacraments at age 7 (“the age of reason”), usually in their second grade year.
To prepare for the sacraments, a child must:
- Be Baptized Catholic or other recognized denomination (a list of recognized denominations is available in the Parish Office)
- Be a member of the parish at which he or she will be receiving the sacraments
- Be at least seven years old at the time of reception of the sacraments
- Participate in Faith Formation programming for two years leading up to First Eucharist. For example, a child receiving First Eucharist at the end of Second Grade must participate in Faith Formation in First and Second Grades.
Confirmation: After two years of study by the Bishop and an advisory committee, Confirmation in the Saginaw Diocese has been moved to Middle School age. Details on the new program are still being worked out. We will let you know when those details are finalized.
First Reconciliation: First Reconciliation preparation begins in October with a Parent-Child Session that includes family prayer, activities for kids, information for parents, and registration for the program. Families may choose to attend either of two dates for this event. During October and November, families work together at home on their First Reconciliation books. In early December, the children gather at church for their Reconciliation Jesus Experience Day when they participate in retreat-style activities and celebrate the sacrament.
First Eucharist: First Eucharist preparation is similar to Reconciliation, with Parent-Child Sessions offered in February and early March, family book work at home during March, and a Eucharist Jesus Experience Day during April.
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Sara (Sally) Laura Reed Brown was born June 16, 1936, to Josephine (nee Stewart) and Peter Reed. The youngest of three children, she lived almost her entire life in Shaker Heights, having attended the Malvern Elementary and Hathaway Brown Schools. Her only foray of living outside of Cleveland was to attend Vassar College, from which she graduated in 1958 with a dual degree in biology and zoology followed by a year in Boston. Then she returned to Cleveland in 1959 to work as a social worker for adoptions. Eventually, she found her calling in teaching, and received a master’s of education from Case Western Reserve University in 1975.
Hers was a life of deep curiosity, and she found a lifelong companion to share her interests in Edward R. Brown, whom she wed in 1961. In the first year of their marriage, they chose to travel to the Soviet Union (including what is now Russia and Uzbekistan) and this was the first not only of countless adventures but a quest to understand the vast complexity of the world. After their daughters were born (Rosalind Whiting Brown now Stewart in 1963 and Jocelyn Gayden Brown Hall in 1966), they continued their search for new ideas and interests by attending the Shakespeare and Shaw Theater Festivals in Canada, traveling to Europe with their daughters and supporting the Cleveland arts scenes. Fearless and curious, they traveled as a family to visit Jocelyn in Peshawar, Pakistan when she was a Peace Corps volunteer in 1988, despite the raging Afghanistan war against the Soviet invasion.
Education was critical to Sally, and she brooked no impediment for her daughters, ensuring they had every possible opportunity. Each of her daughters, for example, attended Phillips Exeter Academy, which had gone coed only 5 years before Rosalind commenced in 1978. She was as fierce an advocate for her students to receive the best education she could offer. In 1972, she started teaching at what is now the Betty and Lillian Ratner Day School, and she created a special class for gifted children with learning disabilities. She would state that there was no child who could not learn; it was only a question of the teacher finding the right strategy. Her individualized, hands-on approach turned children who had failed out of schools to academic achievers who went on to be medical doctors, researchers, renowned artists and lawyers. She believed in her students, no matter what level or shape they presented themselves. She retired in 1991, having grown her classroom size from a mere nine students to over 25.
After her retirement, Sally immersed herself in her newly-found art media, photography. She and Ted toured the United States so she could attend lectures by some of the world’s most famous photographers of the time. They learned quickly that Las Vegas was an inexpensive place to tour if one did not gamble! Sally entered a number of her photographs into local competitions, such as the Garden Club, where she won top prizes. Determined in her quest for the best shot, she would join other Clevelanders in special “shooting” sessions at the Botanical Gardens and Cleveland’s famous industrial bridges.
Of all things worldly, however, music was Sally’s favorite. She and Ted were huge sponsors of the classical musical community. For over a decade, the couple organized the Charioteers for the Cleveland International Piano Competition, shuttling aspiring pianists to and from their host families and University Circle to practice and perform. They were also heavily engaged with Cleveland’s Artsong Festival. Sally served on the board of what was then the nascent Apollo’s Fire to ensure its success, and of course was a subscriber to the Cleveland Orchestra, Lyric Opera and Oberlin and many other musical events. Her final gift to Cleveland’s musical community before her death was of her Erik Hertz double-manual harpsichord to Case Western Reserve University’s School of Music.
Sally is survived by her daughters, Jocelyn Brown Hall (Richard Hall), who works for the United Nations in Ghana, and Rosalind Stewart (Ian) of London, England; and six grandchildren, in order of age: Alistair Stewart, a lieutenant in the British Army; Amelia Stewart, who is double majoring in French and Portugese at Oxford University; Miranda Hall, who finished her sophomore year at Tulane University and is studying Sociology with a focus on Urban Studies; Lydia Stewart, who is in her second year at Nottingham University and is reading Art History; Christian Hall, who is a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy in June 2021 and will matriculate at the College of William and Mary in the fall of 2021; and his twin brother Nathaniel Hall, who will also graduate from Phillips Exeter Academy in June 2021 and attend Case Western Reserve University in the fall of 2021.
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Right here’s What No One Tells You Around Real Estate.
Posted On May 11, 2022
In this article, we’ll look at the types of realty. These consist of untaught, working ranches and also cattle ranches, early development, class, and also website setting up. Along with these kinds of building, real estate consists of the production, purchase, as well as sale of homes. Building and construction of new structures is one more popular kind of real estate, making up 6 percent of the U.S. market. Along with these types of realty, building of new structures includes commercial, commercial, and residential properties.
Residential realty makes up single-family houses, condominiums, condominiums, and quadplexes. It might likewise consist of high-value residences or vacation homes. Industrial property, on the other hand, is land utilized for business purposes. This kind of building includes office buildings, clinical centers, shopping malls, and resorts. Furthermore, industrial buildings include factory room, land, and stockrooms. Industrial residential properties are usually not occupied by individuals.
Homebuilders’ supplies can be a good way to passively purchase the property market. These stocks fluctuate with the housing market as well as general economic situation. Nonetheless, a strong financial investment in this sector can offer stable returns for decades. For financiers who don’t want to handle any of those threats, REITs are an exceptional way to diversify their profiles. By paying the right price for a property, investors can take pleasure in consistent as well as lasting returns.
Whether you are a newbie buyer or a seasoned professional, property is a solid option for a financial investment. It can be utilized for a range of objectives, from a straightforward home to a complex commercial complex. The worth of property is commonly thought about a sign of a country’s general health and wellness. With this in mind, it is necessary to recognize what is associated with realty. It is very important to comprehend what real estate is before purchasing it.
Social network is crucial for an effective realty organization. Seventy-four percent of realty representatives make use of social media, and it’s a should in today’s world. For an extra straight means to connect with possible clients, take into consideration producing a specialized Facebook page for your company. Furthermore, think about starting a specialized Instagram represent high-grade realty pictures. These devices can help you connect with potential clients and also make one of the most out of your marketing initiatives.
A freehold estate consists of civil liberties of property, satisfaction, control, as well as disposition. A freehold estate can be obtained by acquisition or lease through an installment contract. The cost of realty is commonly lower than the price of a residence, so it is very important to make sure the building’s value does not fall as well reduced. An instance of a boost in worth is a property’s raised resale value. These adjustments may cause a higher cost than you originally expected.
The transfer of ownership of realty is done through a selection of legal processes. A real estate representative acts on behalf of the principal, uniting customers and sellers. If a home does not have an alienation stipulation, this can be transferred to a third party. On top of that, a power of attorney is a lawful paper that designates somebody to perform a lawful act on behalf of an additional. There are numerous regulations and also policies regulating the transfer of possession of real estate, so it is necessary to have an understanding of these terms and also their usage.
In addition to ownership of property, land is affixed to various other home. A governmental power possesses land, however state and local governments might manage making use of it. If the owner of the residential or commercial property utilizes the land differently, this might constitute a trespass. This can include any type of invasion into the land by a building or other item. When land is bordered by various other building, it is shielded by a non-disparagement provision.
What comprises real estate? Real estate describes a physical object, land, structures, and enhancements. Nonetheless, real estate also consists of the civil liberties to use and take pleasure in that home. Land and structures might additionally be subject to leases and leas. While a tenant or occupant may have a right to occupy land and buildings, they are not real home. For the objectives of realty, possession of real estate is the most crucial factor in establishing the worth of the home.
You can make a profit with a realty company by accomplishing gratitude in the value of your property possession over time. Realty properties can be houses, commercial buildings, or untaught land. Increasing demand and reducing supply lead to the rise in value of property assets. Profits from realty companies can be understood by marketing the asset or leasing it to a tenant. Read on to get more information regarding the many benefits of property investment.
Assessment of residential property value entails using today worth method to approximate a building’s worth. The marketplace worth of a residential or commercial property is identified by thinking about today and also future advantages of owning it. The here and now value of realty is computed using a formula based on elements such as age, square video, location, cost to repair or replace the home, and also more. A broker can not make up an unlicensed individual for a deal, as it would develop a syndicate.
A successful business plan constantly entails a thorough research of the sector, identifying the area, specific niche, and also prospective rivals. From there, you can concentrate on different exit techniques – some geared for brand-new capitalists and others targeted at veterans. For example, wholesaling is a popular option for novice investors as it allows them to discover the ropes of the industry while making money. Buy-and-hold approaches and rehabbing can likewise work. switzerland real estate app
New home structure is one more vital sign of the real estate market. Boosting residence begins and closings can predict the strength of the real estate market, while decreasing numbers will signify a weaker one. If you’re considering buying a brand-new residence, the stats of brand-new house construction can provide you a preview of the real estate market’s instructions. However bear in mind: a weak housing market suggests reduced prices and also fewer purchasers. With a little persistence, you’ll be awarded for your initiatives! | <urn:uuid:edd5b728-f02e-4020-8cee-dbd9f810208f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://associazionestart.org/2022/05/11/right-heres-what-no-one-tells-you-around-real-estate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951825 | 1,332 | 1.742188 | 2 |
A thyroid deficiency can often be exacerbated by a sensitivity to gluten. Most thyroid patients will have better outcomes if they can get tested for a gluten sensitivity. Moreover, some people with thyroid problems will test positive for a relatively rarer disorder called celiac disease.
Symptoms of a Thyroid Disorder
The early symptoms associated with hypothyroidism (meaning the thyroid is under functioning) include a person feeling tired and sluggish. If a person's thyroid slows down even further, your body's metabolism can slow down along with it. You can have weight gain associated with hypothyroidism and fatigue symptoms as well. Some people with thyroid dysfunction can exhibit intolerance to cold, or else feeling very cold at times when others are not.
There's a wide panorama symptoms associated with thyroid malfunction. Some symptoms of thyroid impairment include:
• Dry skin
• Hoarseness of voice
• Hair loss
• Joint pain / muscle aches
These side-effects can get more severe and start affecting the brain. The ultimate consequence can be that people suffer from memory loss and mental health issues like depression. Gluten sensitivities can cause a lot of problems for hyperthyroid patients. What often ends up happening is that a gluten sensitivity ends up magnifying these symptoms.
Autoimmune Impairment and Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
When a hypothyroidism diagnosis has an autoimmune component, it means that the antibodies of one's own immune system begin attacking the person's organs. This results in a condition called Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
In the United States, hypothyroidism is caused by Hashimoto's thyroiditis up to 90% of the time. It also turns out that virtually everybody with Hashimoto's is gluten sensitive. So if you have hypothyroidism, chances are you also have Hashimoto's thyroiditis. And if you have Hashimoto's thyroiditis, there's almost a 100% chance that you're gluten sensitive.
Getting tested for thyroid deficiency.
Diagnosing hyperthyroidism is fairly easy and is done by a blood test. Your doctor should look for the TSH level in your blood. TSH stands for thyroid stimulating hormone. Your doctor should check at the same time for Hashimotos, where they measure for an antibody in the blood that will show whether someone has the disorder.
In the total U.S. population, it's estimated that about 9% of people have hypothyroidism and about 1% have hyperthyroidism. That means a total of about 10% of the U.S. population is affected by some form of thyroid disorder, with the vast majority suffering from a hypo (underactive) thyroid. In a study of celiac patients, researchers found that 19% of the patients tested with celiac disease also had hypothyroidism. Above that 19%, an additional 20% had what was called subclinical hypothyroidism. Subclinical, in practical terms, means that the person was not suffering any known symptoms but tested positive for it upon drawing their blood.
What is a Gluten Sensitivity?
Having a gluten sensitivity means that when you're exposed to gluten or when you eat gluten, your body makes antibodies attacking the gluten. The problem with gluten sensitivity that occurs along with hypothyroidism is that the thyroid gland molecularly resembles gluten. What ends up happening that when your body starts attacking the gluten, it can also begin attacking your thyroid gland as well. It basically can't tell the difference between the two at a molecular level. What's worse than that is that a single exposure to gluten can cause an attack against your thyroid gland for up to six months.
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye and barley. Any seed that is capable of sprouting grass has gluten in it. Gluten is also present in high carbohydrate foods like pasta, bread, pizza and cake. It's also used as a filler throughout our food supply, which makes gluten ubiquitous and hard to avoid. It is, therefore, important that you research what is safe to eat to make sure it doesn't have gluten in it.
Let's also address celiac disease in relation to gluten sensitivity. Celiac disease is when your small intestine is damaged due to exposure to gluten. Celiac disease is caused by gluten, but celiac disease doesn't entail having gluten sensitivity as a symptom. For everyone worried about whether they have celiac disease, it's important to note that it is a very rare disorder. Gluten sensitivity occurs in approximately one-third of the population. While exact estimates vary, celiac disease occurs in only about 1% of the population in the U.S. Also note that if you get tested for celiac disease and your small intestine is intact, that doesn't mean that you don't have gluten sensitivities. You may very well have gluten sensitivities without any celiac disease.
Gluten Sensitivity and Gypothyroidism
If you add the percentage of celiac sufferers to the those who test positive for hypothyroidism, you have almost forty percent of people who have a thyroid disorder comorbid with a gluten sensitive or celiac disease. This is comparatively four times larger than the 10% of the population of thyroid patients who aren't in any way gluten sensitive.
Let's now look at patients with autoimmune hypothyroidism and their incidence of celiac or gluten sensitivity. It has been shown in several studies that the incidence of celiac disease in thyroid patients is about 5%. This is compared to the normal population's incidence of celiac disease of about 1%. So there's a fivefold increase in the thyroid group of also having celiac disease. That's evidence for a very strong correlation between these two diseases.
If you have any thyroid problems, you should investigate whether you have celiac disease. You should also check if gluten sensitivity is a problem for you. If celiac is in your family, you definitely want to have your thyroid checked. And if there's any autoimmune thyroid disease in your family at large (or any autoimmune disease, which includes rheumatoid arthritis, in your family tree), then you should be evaluated for celiac disease and gluten sensitivity because there's a strong correlation there.
One of the best ways to determine if you have a gluten sensitivity is to go through a trial period where you don't eat any gluten. If you have hypothyroidism, it's definitely worth a trial period of removing gluten to see how you feel. You can check if your symptoms improve and gauge whether you get your energy back without products like wheat in your diet. | <urn:uuid:bbe54056-1c18-4bd7-addf-ca65fac5138a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thyromate.com/blog/how-does-gluten-sensitivity-affect-the-thyroid | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961453 | 1,348 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Although it can seem like an endless void from Earth, the truth is that our near-space area is getting quite crowded, with more than half a million objects now orbiting the planet at speeds high enough to destroy satellites and do serious damage to the International Space Station.
This space junk is made of many old satellites and both natural and man-made debris, and every time a new satellite is launched it adds to the risk of a collision. Looking to find a solution to this growing problem posed by space agencies, a group of economists have recently come with an interesting proposal.
In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers noted that the most effective way to solve the space debris problem wouldn’t be to capture it but instead to introduce a new “orbit tax” for every satellite put into orbit — an economic instrument similar approaches already in place to tax carbon emissions and for fisheries management.
The objects crowding low-Earth orbit are an example of what economists call the Tragedy of the Commons – when many individuals acting in their own self-interest ultimately ruin a shared resource and aren’t held accountable for the cost their satellites impose on other operations.
There have been many solutions to the issue of space junk, including technology which can capture debris using nets or harpoons, or destroy it with lasers. But the researchers say these solutions won’t work because they don’t change the incentives for satellite operators.
An orbit tax, on the other hand, would extend the responsibility of satellite operators by imposing a tax calculated to reflect the cost to the industry of putting another satellite into orbit. Such an economic incentive would force operators to think twice before they add another satellite in orbit unless it really adds value.
With thousands of new satellites expected to be launched in the next few years — all of which bear the risk of collision and eventually becoming space junk themselves — an orbit tax doesn’t seem like such a bad idea after all. | <urn:uuid:f31aee0b-6fdb-4ab2-8154-8ef4d4f080cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.optimistdaily.com/2020/05/economists-propose-an-orbit-tax-to-solve-the-growing-problem-of-space-junk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94708 | 405 | 3.484375 | 3 |
- Profession: Religious leader & former surgeon
- Lived: September 9, 1924- Present (Modern Era)
- Nationality: American
- Known for: Nelson is the current leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)
- Fun Fact: Nelson began his first year of medical school prior to finishing his bachelor's degree.
- Fun Fact: He was a member of the research team that developed the first heart-lung machine.
- Fun Fact:
Russell M. Nelson is a religious leader and the current president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Nelson completed undergraduate and medical school at the University of Utah. He later went on to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. During his time at the University of Minnesota, Nelson was a member of the research team that developed the first heart-lung machine. Their invention would support the first human open-heart surgery in 1951. Nelson signed on for a two year term of duty with the military and served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during the Korean War. During his stint in the war, Nelson was on another research team that focused on ways to improve the treatment of wounds. He was then sent to large hospitals, field stations, prisoner of war camps, and all MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) units to implement treatment. After returning, he spent nearly 29 years working in cardio thoracic surgery. He also was a research professor of surgery and director of the thoracic surgery residency at the University of Utah. Throughout his surgical career, Nelson took on a variety of leadership positions LDS church such as being the LDS Church’s Sunday School General President and being selected to be an LDS apostle.
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We often talk about the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle, an idea backed by plenty of research. Remaining in a seated position for most of the day slows your metabolism, leads to increased fat storage in the body, and can complicate your medical weight loss plan. And so, many people consider standing desks as a solution to a sedentary lifestyle. But will making this switch help you lose weight?
Well, no. Using a standing desk won’t lead to metabolism boost that is dramatic enough to boost weight loss. If you’re following a medical weight loss plan, you still need to engage in an actual, dedicated exercise plan. Regular exercise will help you expend more calories than you consume through food, which is the goal. And adding weight training to build more muscle tissue will help to boost your metabolism over time. But just the act of standing during work will not increase your calorie burn enough to create that important deficit.
However, that doesn’t mean that switching to a standing desk won’t benefit your health. Standing for periods of time throughout the day can increase blood flow and help you to improve your posture. And it will probably prevent aches and pains that often occur from sitting at a desk. You might even feel slightly energized from periods of standing, which is definitely a positive improvement, and could help you to stay motivated.
So yes, switch to a standing desk if the idea appeals to you. But don’t expect a significant difference in your overall calorie burn. For that, we should schedule an appointment to discuss your medical weight loss plan. We can help you determine how many calories you should consume in a day, plan for a healthier, balanced diet, and determine which type of exercise will best help you to achieve your goals. | <urn:uuid:47c84148-b92e-4b42-b092-76f7107b8fe3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mddiettemecula.com/should-you-switch-to-a-standing-desk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955235 | 362 | 1.828125 | 2 |
WHY WE ARE DIFFERENT
“TIME IS IN SHORT SUPPLY THESE DAYS: FOR US, IT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT INGREDIENT”
— JULIAN CARTER, CO-OWNER & HEAD BAKER
More than 90% of the bread sold in the UK is made by an industrial process developed in the early 1960s (The Chorley Wood method and its variants) which uses flour from which the germ and bran have been removed; a very rapid process taking around an hour and a half. Numerous additives are employed as preservatives or for “dough development” or improved handling in the machines. And modern fast active strains of yeast are used in quantities which help to speed the fermentation of the dough.
Most processed Wholemeal breads contain approximately 30% wholemeal flour. (see Which report 1st April 2018) Our Wholemeal breads are made from 100% wholemeal flour. | <urn:uuid:e411a900-0586-4982-aa54-9f7c2f092cfd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hambletonbakery.co.uk/pages/why-we-are-different | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.945213 | 207 | 2.453125 | 2 |
The government of Chile has sent the army to its northern border in an effort to stop the influx of drugs feeding the country's growing domestic market -- a strategy that has shown significant drawbacks elsewhere in Latin America.
In early July, Chilean president Sebastián Piñera ordered troops be deployed to the country’s border region with Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Piñera said that the armed forces will aid border police in surveillance and logistics, in addition to providing technological support, according to an official news release.
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Piñera defended his decision to use the armed forces, explaining that troops are needed “to prevent the immense damage that drugs and drug trafficking inflict on [the country’s] children, youth, families and society.”
Other reasons for the move included a rise in drug production in neighboring countries, an uptick in drug seizures in Chile, and porous land and sea borders allowing drugs to be trafficked into the country, according to a separate official news release.
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The decision by Chile’s president to deploy the army to combat drug trafficking is concerning, especially given the historical failure of this tactic throughout the region.
Drug consumption is on the rise in Chile. A 2019 report from the Organization of American States (OAS) indicates that one in four secondary school-aged children have consumed drugs. The country is also listed as the region’s fourth highest consumer of cocaine per capita, only superseded by the United States, Uruguay, and Argentina, according to the report.
That said, Chile has traditionally been one of Latin America’s safest countries, which makes the move to militarize anti-drug efforts seem even more drastic. This is particularly true when considering that the country’s army has no specialized training in fighting drug traffickers, as El Mostrador pointed out.
Chilean Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick suggested that he did not support using the military in this role, telling CNN Chile that "the police have the ability, preparation and professional experience to fight drug trafficking."
From Brazil to Mexico and Colombia, military deployments to combat drug trafficking have not always had the desired results. At times, they've even led to increased body counts. Mexico’s militarization of the drug war heightened conflict and led to a vicious cycle of violence. In 2018, Brazil again deployed troops to “pacify” major cities, but drug trafficking and violent crime either spiked or returned once such forces left.
These deployments can also take a toll on security forces. In Mexico, the army saw an increased rate of desertion after being deployed to fight drug trafficking. Soldiers, who are trained for war, have also been implicated in human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings.
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Collect and View Line Execution Counts for Your MATLAB Code
When you perform the Check for Run-Time Issues step in the MATLAB® Coder™ app, you must provide a test that calls your entry-point functions with representative data. The Check for Run-Time Issues step generates a MEX function from your MATLAB functions and runs the test, replacing calls to the MATLAB functions with calls to the MEX function. When running the MEX function, the app counts executions of the MEX code that corresponds to a line of MATLAB code. These line execution counts help you to see how well your test exercises your MATLAB code. You can identify dead code and sections of code that require further testing.
To see the line execution counts, after the Check for Run-Time Issues step finishes the test, click View MATLAB line execution counts.
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“We were just hoping to go somewhere warm…. But everywhere that is warm has been affected by the dollar,” said Dennis, founder of WeeWelcome.ca.
“It’s an expensive time to go away,” added the Toronto-based parenting expert, whose four children range in age from four to 12.
“It is a time that a lot of parents try to make the most of, but it is extra painful when you put the exchange rate on the dollar.”
Canadian families and snowbirds who typically flock south during the winter are finding their wings clipped due to the falling loonie.
The Canadian dollar is currently hovering in the 72 cents US range, but has traded at nearly 13-year lows in recent weeks due to several factors, including the diminishing value of major commodities and slow economic growth.
Paul Phipps, chief marketing officer with Visit Florida, said the state saw a slight slowdown in Canadian travel last year, down about 1.5 per cent. But with estimates showing more than 700,000 Canadians own homes in Florida, he expects many will still make the trip while being more mindful of their spending habits.
“They may come here and not stay as long, or they’ll come here and eat in more and not eat out. It may affect their shopping decisions,” said Phipps, who said Canadians are the top international travellers in every region of the state.
Viji Bahadur and her family will be spending March Break in Miami with relatives. But their travel plans almost took a U-turn when flights from Toronto proved to be too steep. Instead of driving, they plan to save by flying out of Buffalo, N.Y.
“It’s already high enough during March Break. But then when you factor in the exchange it’s even worse,” said the mother of two, who also maintains a bank account with U.S. funds.
Melissa Vroon, founding partner of FamilyFunCanada.com, said a friend going to Hawaii plans to purchase discounted attraction passes at her local Costco ahead of time.
“Other people are looking at other destinations where the Canadian dollar still has a bit of pull, looking at Mexico or Costa Rica rather than U.S. holidays,” said the mother of two.
Vroon plans to take advantage of a hotel sale in Mexico and travel on accumulated airline points with her family.
Dennis said she and her family hope to ski during March Break, and may look into resorts in Ontario or Quebec’s Mont-Tremblant. But if those options are off the table due to lack of snow, they’ll consider activities within the city.
Canadian tourist destinations could indeed see a surge among homegrown visitors.
There has already been a noticeable uptick at Whistler Blackcomb Resort, which is on track to have a record number of visits, according to its parent company’s latest financial report.
David Wilcox of Whistler Blackcomb Holdings Inc. (TSX:WB) said they’re seeing growth among foreign and domestic travellers from outside the area, including Canadians who are more likely stay home due to the currency.
Myrtle Beach, S.C., has launched a campaign where select hotels, live entertainment venues, attractions and restaurants are offering significant discounts to Canadians through the month of April.
“We asked the businesses if they could do something that would approach or approximate taking the Canadian dollar on par that would be ideal…. But interestingly enough, some businesses went above and beyond that discount,” said Brad Dean, president and CEO of the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.
Dean said the coastal city expects to welcome more than a million Canadians this year, and wanted to take measures to encourage them to visit and “be able to stretch that money just a little bit further.”
“It wasn’t that long ago that we were in the midst of the recession. And while it wasn’t our exchange rate that was causing the economic pain, we’ve certainly felt that in our tourism economy.
“It certainly will stretch the businesses a bit to do this,” he added, in reference to the discounts.
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President Trump tweeted out on Sunday what sounds like good news: based upon “substantial progress“ in trade negotiations with China, he was postponing a March 2 increase from ten to twenty-five percent tariffs on some $200 billion in U.S. imports from China. The President even declared expectations of further progress and a “signing summit” at Mar-a-Lago, perhaps as early as March. Major markets around the globe flashed green, signaling optimism that the results might yet be worth the economic disruption and uncertainty caused by the US-China trade war.
It is true that both sides face pressure – economic and political – to reach a deal. But all we really know for now is that President Trump sees enough momentum in the talks that hiking tariffs at this time would slow not spur progress. And if more progress towards a credible, enforceable and verifiable agreement is not made, he can always deploy the tariff hike.
Let’s be clear, this is the end game; the stakes are high for both Presidents Trump and Xi. Signs and sentiment are mounting that the US economy could fall into a recession before the 2020 election. To make good on his big promises, and to bolster the U.S. and global economy before the election, the President needs a deal that is a fitting conclusion to a year-long trade war with China. A year of economic disruption, and Trump’s own words, have raised expectations for a robust, comprehensive agreement. That means not just promises from China to buy up to $1.2 trillion more energy, agricultural products and other products from the U.S. to reduce our persistent trade deficit with China, but verifiable improvements on intellectual property protections, cyber-theft, forced technology transfers, non-tariff barriers, market access for U.S. services companies, and other key “structural issues.”
Xi too faces real challenges: last year China’s economic growth slowed to a three-decade low, as public and private debt mounts and traditional drivers like real estate and infrastructure weaken. China’s economy has gone through a fundamental change in recent years – from an investment and export-led to a consumption-based economy. These changes are hard to manage and control. In January, Xi warned hundreds of abruptly-assembled party officials that: “Globally, sources of turmoil and points of risk are multiplying,” and, “the party is at risk from indolence, incompetence and of becoming divorced from the public.”
Economic risks are a huge concern for Xi, who sees the potential in 2019 for restlessness at home, including if the trade talks blow up and slow growth even further. If that happens, China’s debt levels, its tightly State-led economy, and global conditions will constrain his ability to respond. A deal that deescalates the trade war with the United States would boost flagging business and consumer confidence in China, and enable Xi’s government to train its focus on reining in debt and financial risks. Moreover, some in the Party do see a need to accelerate and deepen economic liberalization. Xi is interested in control, not liberalization, but he could use the trade talks to ease criticism both of his handling of the economy and of China’s relationship with the United States.
Locking down verifiable specifics on the structural issues, and agreeing on enforcement mechanisms, however, remain far from done. China still denies it ever forces technology transfers or steals trade secrets via cyber-theft. And China most certainly does not want to U.S. to be able to decide unilaterally when and if China has failed its commitments, and to snap back into place high tariffs. On the other hand, the U.S. is unlikely to agree to any independent arbitration mechanism.
China fears that the U.S. is using the trade talks and other measures to slow its technological progress, not just to prevent it from stealing know-how and using massive subsidies and non-tariff barriers to unfair advantage. Meanwhile, the U.S. has for years seen China bend or circumvent rules, commitments and agreements, and has accumulated hard evidence of China’s unfair practices and the economic harm they have caused the U.S. Yet, achieving dominance in ten high-tech sectors (e.g. aerospace, robotics, artificial intelligence, semi-conductors and autonomous, clean-energy vehicles) is the centerpiece of Xi’s 2015 “Made in China 2025” strategy. The policies and practices that the United States and other trading partners have criticized as mercantilist are core elements of China’s efforts expand into these high-tech sectors, sectors that are also strategic to future prosperity in the United States.
This highlights the sensitivity of the current negotiations. The future economic strength of both countries is at stake, as is the degree to which the U.S. and China view their relationship as a zero-sum game, or one where mutual benefit and cooperation are possible, and necessary. The reputation and credibility of both leaders is also on the line. While the stakes are very high, trust is low. For China to take the risk of liberalizing during such a major economic transition, the U.S. should give China some certainty on tariff relief if China is implementing the agreement in good faith.
It remains to be seen whether President Trump can reach a deal with President Xi that is “better than any deal that anybody ever dreamed possible.” Failure to reach a deal seems unlikely, given what is at stake for both leaders. They could well agree on stabilizing China’s currency and increasing its purchases from the United States to reduce our trade deficit, as well as on market openings and intellectual property protections that are in China’s own interest, along with some intermediate steps on the thorny structural issues.
There are several directions the Trump administration could go on tariffs in the context of an agreement. One is to keep the existing 10% tariffs on Chinese imports until China fulfills its commitments. Another is to lift right away some or all of the current tariffs, with the threat that the tariffs would “snap back” into place if China does not meet its commitments. In either case, the administration could retain the threat of new tariffs, like those just postponed, if the agreement is breached. Regardless, enforcement and verification mechanisms will be key. Reports from private U.S. companies and industry would no doubt be needed to verify progress on complex structural issues to ensure change is actually happening on the ground. A joint U.S.-China committee to regularly review implementation could be helpful as well.
An effective agreement with China to ensure respect for fair trade and investment, and international rules and agreements, might better and sooner have been reached with the cooperation of like-minded allies, like the EU, Japan and Canada. This was foreclosed by the administration’s unilateral tariffs on national security grounds against their products. But it is good news that a US-China agreement may soon be reached; a credible agreement that both see as a “win” would reduce both economic and geopolitical risk and uncertainty, and give the global economy some breathing room.
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“Let’s burn the Jew!”
No, the words were not taken from the yellowed pages of a Nazi manual on the mass genocide of innocent people. They were shouted in a Canadian school by a 15-year-old student as he shoved a burning lighter into a Jewish girl’s head and set her hair on fire.
As one would expect, the attacker was apprehended, charged with assault with a weapon, pleaded guilty, and was later ordered to appear in Manitoba Provincial Court. Jaws dropped in January, however, when the Winnipeg judge ruled the action was one of teen impulsiveness and not anti-Semitism. The incident was refused the status of a hate crime and was handled as an insignificant case of student impropriety. The bully was sentenced to 18 months supervised probation and ordered to perform 75 hours of community service.
Besides the obvious question (How is saying, “Let’s burn the Jew” not anti-Semitic?), there is a larger question: What type of environment influenced this young man to use such language? The words certainly did not merely pop into his head on their own, which raises the issue of why anti-Semitism is gaining ground on so many fronts.
Wrote journalist Christine Williams,
Today, we ignore a creeping anti-Semitism that singles out Jews unfairly, and targets the state of Israel. In addressing the New Anti-Semitism, Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses how Israel is being singled out by the international community, with over 75% of recent UN resolutions targeting Israel for human rights violations, far more than for more deserving countries such as Sudan, Congo, or Rwanda in which millions have been killed in genocides. In answer to the question, “why is the international community so anti-Israel?” Hanson points to a “new sort of fashionable and socially acceptable anti-Semitism” that looms large.1
Mein Kampf, a Bestseller
To those who remember the manic rampage of Adolf Hitler, which resulted in the massacre of 6 million Jewish people and took the lives of more than 50 million, popularizing the Führer’s rants more than six decades later would seem inconceivable. Yet that is what is happening.
Mein Kampf, Hitler’s anti-Semitic manifesto on the “Jewish peril,” spells out the formulation of Nazi ideology. It was written from a Munich prison and published in 1925. Later it became enshrined as the “Bible of the Third Reich,” and jackbooted Nazi legions goose-stepped into history as the greatest killing machine the world had ever seen.
Reason would conclude that, with Hitler’s ignominious demise by his own hand in a fetid underground bunker in 1945, Mein Kampf would have been put to rest with its demented author. But in the convoluted world we live in, where right and reason no longer reign, Hitler’s literary legacy is again making waves.
For years it has been a bestseller among Muslims and Palestinians. Now, however, it is enjoying a resurgence in and outside the Muslim world. A new wave of Hitler glorification is washing over Muslims and Arabs in the Netherlands, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Thailand, Japan, India, and South Korea. Mein Kampf has become an international e-book bestseller. Journalist Chris Faraone at Vocativ.com wrote,
On Amazon there are more than 100 versions of Mein Kampf for sale in every conceivable print and audio format, from antique hardbacks to brand-new paperbacks. Of those 100 iterations, just six are e-books—yet all six of them rank among the 10 best-selling versions over-all. And those are just the ones people are paying for.2
Understandably, scholars are attracted to Mein Kampf as a historically relevant document. But the recent surge of interest transcends scholarship. Some believe people are now thinking that perhaps Hitler may have been right, which translates into fuel for the fire of anti-Semitism.
‘Jew, France Is Not for You!’
January 27 marked the official international observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Representatives from the United States and Europe, along with the entire Israeli Knesset (Parliament), gathered at Auschwitz in Poland where solemn commemorations were held in remembrance of the Holocaust.
In France, however, radical elements gathered for what has been called a “Day of Anger.” What began as a protest against the policies of French President François Hollande quickly turned into a hate fest aimed principally at the Jewish people. An estimated 17,000 protesters began raising their arms in Nazi salutes while chanting, “Jew, France is not for you!”
The demonstration turned viciously anti-Semitic, shocking the French Jewish community and others who remembered when such rhetoric routinely filled the streets as Jews were marched to the deportation trains on their way to extermination camps. In the aftermath of the genocidal bloodbath of the 1930s and ’40s, few would have believed that such hatred would ever surface again. Yet it has.
Some Evangelicals Shift Left
Unfortunately, anti-Jewish sentiment is coming today from a previously unexpected quarter. According to recent reports, a discernible shift is developing among some evangelicals who are becoming anti-Israel and pro-Arab-Palestinian.
Christian writer Robert W. Nicholson wrote in Mosaic magazine, “The sheer strength of this new anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian movement came as something of a shock to me.”3
Peter Wehner, also a Christian who supports Israel, commented,
Mr. Nicholson does an excellent job explaining the rise of pro-Palestinian sentiment among some segments of American evangelicalism. The basis for this movement rests in part on the belief that Israel is a nation whose very founding in 1947 was illegitimate and immoral; since then, it is said, Israel has become an enemy of justice and peace. Authentic Christianity therefore requires one to embrace the pro-Palestinian narrative, or so this line of argument goes. “The bottom line is simply this,” writes Nicholson. “More and more evangelicals are being educated to accept the pro-Palestinian narrative—on the basis of their Christian faith.”4
Though one may question Nicholson’s conclusions, which likely were drawn from mainline denominations loosely called evangelical, there is no question that forces are moving away from both biblical Zionism and support for Israel.
Fabricated, revisionist history and stories about “social injustice” are parroted by Israel-haters in the UN and religious, theological anti-Semites. These lies have made many inroads. Add to them the liberal media, whose overwhelmingly biased news coverage unrelentingly maligns Israel at every turn in an attempt to turn public opinion toward the Arabs.
However, to a greater degree, evangelical opinion is being altered by Replacement Theology (Supersessionism), now taught by militant anti-Zionists who are revered in some evangelical circles. In short, Replacement Theology claims that God has abrogated the biblical mandates that declare His intentions for His Chosen People and has elevated the church to the position of the “true Israel of God.”
The issue actually can be reduced to acknowledgement or denial. Biblical Zionism acknowledges the veracity and continuity of all of God’s affirmations of Israel’s past, present, and future prospects. When, therefore, Scripture asks the rhetorical question, “Has God cast away His people [Israel]?” (Rom. 11:1) and then answers it emphatically with “Certainly not!” (v. 1), the Lord authenticates the entire scope of Old and New Testament promises yet to be resolved.
Supersessionists deny the undeniable. In reality, they call into question the stability of any proclamation of irrevocability or promise of security made in Scripture. If we can disregard or replace the huge volume of promises, plans, and fulfillments ascribed to Israel as “unchanging” and “everlasting,” then no promise of security in God’s Word—including to the church—would be truly secure.
Aiding and Abetting the Haters
Commenting on what he called Nicholson’s “admirable essay,” Lutheran editor-at-large and self-described nonevangelical James Nuechterlein cited the incomprehensibility of siding with the enemies of the Jewish state:
In the present instance, one need not depend on biblical prophecy or covenantal theology to find reasons to support the state of Israel. Israel has the only truly democratic political culture in the Middle East. It is a friend of the West in politics and political economy, and, more important, a consistent and unswerving ally of the United States. It is a regional bulwark against the radical Islamists who are its and America’s sworn enemies. The more I see of the populist Arab spring, the stronger is my commitment to Israel. I support Israel not because I am a Christian—though nothing in my Christian beliefs would preclude that support—but because that support coincides with the requirements of justice and the defense of the American national interest.5
Why are anti-Semitic hatred and unjustified alliance with Palestinian and Islamic rejectionists flourishing in some evangelical, democratic circles? It cannot be, as some claim, because Israel supposedly stole Jerusalem from its legitimate Muslim heirs. The Jewish people and the Old City, with its Temple Mount, have been inseparable since the days of the Jewish patriarchs. Jerusalem is Judaism’s holiest city. On the other hand, the holiest city of Islam is Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
For peace, Israel has sacrificed land: Three quarters of the original Jewish homeland of the British Mandate was given to create Jordan. Although some argue to the contrary, there is already a Palestinian state: Jordan, in which Palestinians constitute a majority of the population.
For years, wars, intifadas, and suicide missions have threatened tiny Israel’s survival. To this day, Palestinian leaders and Arab hardliners promise never to recognize a Jewish state. America’s and Israel’s archenemy, Iran, promises to incinerate Israel as soon as it achieves nuclear capability. Thousands of missiles have rained down on Israeli towns from Gaza, which Israel gave in good faith to the Palestinians in 2005, even though it meant the eviction of 8,000 Jewish residents by their own leaders.
And while Palestinian leaders promise that no Jew will ever set foot in a Palestinian state, the world has no problem forcing a diminished Israel to assimilate millions of hostile “refugees.”
No, it doesn’t make sense. That is, unless you agree that an evil entity is moving throughout the world in a war of conquest, bent on destroying all we have held sacred.
The prophet Isaiah said, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isa.5:20). Too many people today cannot tell the difference between good and evil, darkness and light. Israel is to be admired and supported as a jewel of freedom and democracy in the sea of chaotic unrest and violence that is now the Middle East. To join those who hate her is an unspeakable betrayal.
- Christine Williams, “‘Let’s Burn the Jew’ is not Anti-Semitic?” Gatestone Institute, January 15, 2014 <gatestoneinstitute.org/ 4131/burn-the-jew-antisemitism>.
- Chris Faraone, “Kindle Führer: ‘Mein Kampf’ Tops Amazon Charts,” January 7, 2014 <tinyurl.com/vocative-com-hitler>.
- Robert W. Nicholson, “Evangelicals and Israel: What American Jews Don’t Want to Know (but Need to),” Mosaic, October 2013 <tinyurl.com/evIsrael>.
- Peter Wehner, “Israel and Evangelical Christians,” Commentary, October 28, 2013 <tinyurl.com/WehnerIsr>.
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Tens of thousands of New Zealanders suffering from hepatitis C are set to benefit from a life-saving cure for the disease which is available from today.
Health Minister David Clark says PHARMAC’s decision to fund new drug Maviret is a big step forward for the treatment of hepatitis C in New Zealand.
“There are around 21,000 people diagnosed with hepatitis C in New Zealand and a further 30,000 are thought to have the disease but are undiagnosed. All of these people will potentially benefit from Maviret,” David Clark said.
“Previous treatments were only available to around 3000 people due to the type of hepatitis C they had.
“Maviret will cure more than 99% of New Zealanders with hepatitis C, regardless of the type or severity of liver disease and previous treatment.
“This provides a unique opportunity to eliminate hepatitis C from New Zealand. This should save 2500 lives and removes the need for more than 500 liver transplants.
“What’s more, Maviret is a simpler treatment – just one daily dose for a minimum of 8 weeks. It also has fewer side effects and fewer interactions with other medicines, which should be reassuring for patients.
“There’s no requirement for pre-treatment testing, and because of this, prescribing by general practitioners and other community based prescribers will become generally more straightforward.
“This is a great time for anyone who may have been exposed to hepatitis C to get tested if they haven’t done so already and benefit from this drug if they need it.
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PIONEERING ANATOMY OF THE HORSE
Hippostologie, c’est a dire, discours des os du chevalParis, Mamert Patisson, 1599
FIRST EDITION. 4to. ff. (iv), 23, (i). a A-F . Roman letter, preface in Italic, some Greek. Foliated woodcut initials and headpieces, engraved architectural title page, with royal arms of Henry IV at head, with his Monogram H at sides, horses at base of columns, six large engravings in text, plus one full page of the complete horse skeleton, early manuscript shelf mark on fly. Light age yellowing, very light marginal spotting, the odd mark or spot. A very good copy, crisp clean on thick paper and with good margins, excellent impressions of the plates, in contemporary vellum over thin paste boards, remains of ties.
Extremely rare and important first, and only, edition of this treatise on the anatomy of the horse, beautifully illustrated with seven exceptional engraved plates by J de Weert, some of the finest and most accurate engravings of horse anatomy of the C16th. This work describes the anatomy of the horse in great detail and with great rigor. The engravings are of such detail that it is even possible to make out the joints of the skull, which are abundantly described.
Remarkably it was the first work dealing specifically with horse anatomy published in France; the only other to touch on the subject was the translation into French of Vegetius’ work on horses of 1563, which, whilst dealing with the horse in general, barely touched on its anatomy, not even distinguishing between bovine and equine. Heroard wrote the work in 1579 and the manuscript was preserved in the library of Château de Chantilly, but it was not published until 1599, a year after the publication in Italy of Carlo Runi’s celebrated ‘L’Anatomia del Cavallo’. Heroard was not aware of Runi’s work.
Heroard, a doctor, was given the title of ‘Médecin en l’Art vétérinaire’ in 1574, the first in France, before becoming physician to Charles IX. He most probably owed this role to the passion that Charles IX had for hunting and horses, and the king’s determination to raise the standard of veterinary medicine, particularly in respect to horses. In his dedication to Henry IV, Heroard justifies his project by arguing for the benefits of presenting farriers with a horse anatomy written in French that they would be able to understand. He also implies Charles IX’s instigation who took “un singulier plaisir à ce qui est de l’art Vétérinaire, duquel le subject principal est le corps du Cheval”. It is probable that the work was intended as the forerunner to a much larger treatise on the anatomy of the horse or a full ‘Traite de tout l’art Veterinaire’ that never appeared.
Heroard’s training was in medicine, and wherever applicable he used the language of human anatomy to describe that of the horse. Forced to invent new terms that were specific to the horse, he initiated the vocabulary of equine anatomy in France. The work was overshadowed by Runi’s anatomy and later ignored. However its importance in the history of veterinary science has now been recognized. “L’étude approfondie de l’Hippostologie d’Héroard montre que celui-ci mérite une place de choix dans l’histoire de l’anatomie vétérinaire. Il est le premier à avoir décrit un squelette entier de cheval en se fondant sur l’étude directe sur squelette. Il fut le premier à donner aux os du cheval des noms français raisonnés.” Aurélien Jeandel “Jean Herouard premiere ‘Veterinaire Francais’. A very good copy of this beautifully illustrated and important work.BM STC Fr. C16th p. 223. Renouard 192:1. Mortimer French 273. Mennessier de la Lance I p. 617. “Ouvrage assez rare”. Brian J Ford. “Images of Science. A History of Scientific Illustration.” p. 78. | <urn:uuid:9fe7709f-2b23-4f9f-a9d4-c6e1804c2e32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sokol.co.uk/stock/heroard-jean/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.879438 | 976 | 2.71875 | 3 |
SYRACUSE, NY (WRVO) – Four years after officials from central and northern New York submitted a nomination to make Lake Ontario a national marine sanctuary, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has drafted a plan to make this dream a reality.
“We’re so excited about really the developments that have happened over the last year or more now to get us to this point,” said Bill Crist, a resident of Onondaga County and one of 15 members of the advisory council who are guiding the development of the project. “I don’t want to say we’re heading to the finish line, but we’re clearly advancing in that direction.”
The plan proposes two potential boundaries for the sanctuary. One option calls for just the eastern part of Lake Ontario along Wayne, Cayuga, Oswego, and Jefferson counties. Option two would expand that area into the St. Lawrence River to include part of the Thousand Islands. Both proposals would encompass more than 1,700 square miles and cover dozens of known shipwrecks. Crist said either plan would fundamentally transform the area as there are currently only 15 national marine sanctuaries in the country and only two in the Great Lakes region.
“I think it brings awareness to the eastern Lake Ontario region and looking at how historic shipwrecks really have contributed to the creation existence and future of our country,” He said.
According to Crist, some community members have expressed concern about how the proposed marine sanctuary could limit existing fishing, boating, shipping, and scuba diving activities. But the plan said any effects would be minimal, like requiring boats to tie to moorings rather than drop their anchor in certain parts of the water.
“The area that the sanctuary protects is really the water and the area that exists exactly where the wreck is lying, so you talk about over 1,700 square miles but in reality it’s a very small area.”
On the flip side, NOAA estimates significant beneficial impacts from the designation, including protection of these underwater resources and increased investment in the area from research activities and tourism.
Although Crist said the marine sanctuary could be designated as soon as next year, the project is far from complete. Officials plan to incorporate the feedback they get over the next month into the next phase. | <urn:uuid:18bafb20-884d-41a1-9fd1-eeae5d22d63c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wskg.org/noaa-begins-public-input-meetings-for-lake-ontario-marine-sanctuary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957692 | 485 | 1.929688 | 2 |
There are times when stress and other factors at work can negatively impact our productivity and performance. The good news is that we can often overcome this and train our brains to focus better by practicing mindfulness exercises at work.
Mindfulness is all about developing moment-by-moment awareness of the surrounding environment, which helps us to cope better with any negative or difficult thoughts and feelings that can cause anxiety and stress in everyday life.
Simple mindfulness exercises can help us to combat stress and retain our focus throughout the working day. Put simply, focus and awareness are the two key elements of a mindful mindset. Mindful working means applying focus and awareness to everything we do from the moment we step foot into the office.
By focusing on the task in hand and letting go of external and internal distractions as they arise, we are able to increase effectiveness, reduce mistakes and enhance our creativity.
Below we have outlined 5 simple mindfulness exercises that you can practice daily at the office, to help you become more present, productive and less stressed:
1. Minute meditation
Start your day with the decision to be present as much as possible and pause for a moment to set the intention.
When you get to the office, spend a minute simply noticing your breathing. As thoughts about the day ahead come into your mind, set them aside and return your breathing.
Taking a minute to be more mindful could be as simple as just taking a mindful moment to give your brain a break from reading emails, a lengthy task, or rushing straight into the next task on the to do list.
Set a reminder to continue to practice a minute of meditation at regular intervals throughout the day. Alternatively you can do this in-between tasks, to clear your mind before moving onto the next so that you can focus better on the task in hand.
2. Mindful stretching
Mindful stretching can be as simple as getting up from your chair and taking time to focus on your breathing. Aim to take a few deep breaths to reduce the carbon dioxide built up from shallow breathing, and allow your shoulders to drop from the tense hours in front of your screen.
You can even practice mindful stretching whilst waiting for the kettle to boil – just take a moment to stretch and notice where there is tension. Pay attention to the physical sensation rather than letting your mind wander to other things such as the email we need to respond to or task we need to complete.
It’s important we remember to get up out of our seats and stretch, as not only does it help to reduce the negative effects of sedentary behaviour, it also helps to reduce and release stress.
3. Active listening
We all know that communication is important, but do we really listen?
Being an active listener is about filtering distractions when taking part in a conversation. You need to really listen to what colleagues are saying and understand the sentiment behind it. This requires taking note of their body language and how they communicate as well as the content.
Make sure to face the person you’re speaking with, maintain eye contact and pay attention – withholding any judgement, as active listening requires an open mind. Listen for repeated themes or ideas to spot the central idea and make sure to ask regular questions to show that you have understood what is being said.
Wait until the speaker has finished to share a similar experience or idea that was triggered by a comment made previously in the conversation. By taking this approach to communication we can have more meaningful discussions, leading to increased productivity and the ability to work more effectively as a team.
4. Mindful immersion
Rather than letting your mind wander and think about everything you need to accomplish on the day or over the course of the week, make a conscious effort to fully immerse yourself in the task at hand.
Set aside all thoughts other than those related to what you’re working on at present. Instead of labouring through, become aware of every step without anxiously thinking about what’s next on the list.
You could also focus on one moment, such as looking out of the window without any distracting thoughts, rather than looking at your computer screen. This also has the added benefit of taking a break from our screen which helps to prevent eye strain, headaches and eye fatigue.
Mindful immersion helps us to be more present and eliminates any feelings of stress or anxiety associated with workloads, in return helping us to be more productive.
5. Take time away from your desk
How often do you find yourself eating at your desk?
Eating at your desk reduces productivity because effectively we are multitasking and not putting our efforts and focus on the task in hand. Taking no time to shut off can also add to stress, which can lead to fatigue and burnout.
There are also health benefits of eating away from our desks – if while we eat we focus on something else – we can eat too fast and too much. Mindful eating is simply focussing on the process of eating slowly, chewing more thoroughly and savouring our food. We tend digest our food better and eat less as we pay attention to the ‘internal receptors’ in our stomachs that tell us when we are full, and we actually enjoy the flavours more too.
Taking time away from your desk also forces you to slow down and take a break, allowing you to rejuvenate and return feeling more motivated and focused. Whilst walking, bring your attention to the ground beneath you and take note of what’s going on in your surroundings, rather than thinking about the tasks you’ve just left at your desk.
If you don’t feel comfortable in carrying out any of the other exercises outlined above, simply taking your lunch break away from your desk might be the ideal first step in developing a more mindful mindset.
When it comes to mindfulness, the reality is that most people feel like they don’t have the time or simply aren’t willing to carry out formal meditation exercises on a regular basis.
The informal mindfulness exercises above are a quick alternative that you can fit into your working today. You can also take any longer more complex exercises and tailor them so that they fit into your working day, such as a quick body scan or breathing count.
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Leukemia-related pain and fatigue was effectively reduced by light massage or music therapy, according to results of a study published in JCO Oncology Practice.
Cancer-related pain and fatigue are common negative contributors to quality of life among patients with leukemia. Pharmacologic interventions have not been found to adequately control these symptoms. This study aimed to assess whether complementary approaches may ease some of these symptoms.
Patients with leukemia-related pain and fatigue were recruited at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in Iran between 2018 and 2019. Patients were randomly assigned to receive light massage (34 patients), music therapy (33 patients), or standard care (37 patients) for 4 weeks and were assessed for pain and fatigue using an 11-point numerical rating scale (NRS).
The massage, music, and control cohorts, respectively, were mean ages 38.32±10.98, 36.61±11.62, and 39.24±10.87; 52.9%, 45.5%, and 59.5% were women; and had baseline median pain intensity of 6 (range, 4 to 9), 6 (range, 4 to 9), and 6 (range, 3 to 9). Fatigue intensity was 8 (range, 5 to 10) among all groups. The majority of patients had acute myeloid leukemia (AML; 70.2%).
For both intervention cohorts, reduction was progressive from baseline to week 4 in pain (median, massage: 2.73; music: 3.57) and fatigue (median, massage: 4.91; music: 5.45).
Differences were significant between all groups from baseline to week 6 for pain and fatigue (both P =.001).
Massage therapy was significantly more effective at reducing pain intensity than music therapy (P =.001). The effect on fatigue was not significantly different between interventions (P =.148).
Compared with standard care, both interventions were more effective for both symptoms (both P =.001).
This study was limited by its reliance on participants’ self-report of pain and fatigue.
Both complementary therapies were found effective at reducing pain and fatigue, but light massage associated with more favorable outcomes.
Miladinia M, Voss JG, Molavynejad S, et al. Slow-stroke back massage compared with music therapy for leukemia-related pain and fatigue: a randomized controlled trial. JCO Oncol Pract. 2021;17(11):e1614-e1621. doi:10.1200/OP.21.00156 | <urn:uuid:ebb43054-e777-4101-910d-d1c1509c5fc4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oncologynurseadvisor.com/home/cancer-types/leukemia/leukemia-light-massage-music-therapy-effective-pain-fatigue-risk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949199 | 534 | 2.25 | 2 |
Wherever, whatever application store some data about sensitive information and interact with server using API methods, then it’s possible for someone to possibly hack the data from API if you have not tested before serving API to your customer thus the importance of API Testing.
API can be defined in 2 steps:
1. Authentication – Who are you
2. Authorization – What you can do
For developers its way of communication language within the application development.
My intention is bring a focus on the possible attacks on API and possible way of prevention.
Possible API Hacks:
SQL Injection : On database
Code Injection : On App
Log Injections : On user data
XPath Injection : On XML
Boundary Scan : On defined ranges
Invalid Types : On invalid input data
Malformed XML : On XML
XML Bomb : ON XML
Malicious Attachment : On Files
Cross Site Scripting : on CSS website
Custom Script : On custom parameter
Requirements – The requirements document must clearly define what is main purpose and focus of the using API with end user and who access what kind of data.
Educate your development team – Its key and important to educate development team to learn and understand how they can secure API in different levels in application.
Education to testers – Normally testers also not considered to test API so deep to investigate more possible threads with API in different layers, better have R&D on API so tester can utilize resource to test them in more efficient way.
Monitoring – If something change in API design so keep updating the development all team members and testers to avoid the risks. | <urn:uuid:c7229f28-5315-423f-a345-b56d8ea4ba5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/api-attacks-testing-api/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.849386 | 342 | 2.5 | 2 |
Small Leaks Big Problems
You can trust MN Plumbing and Home Services to expertly detect any leaks in your plumbing. While some may not think it necessary to hire an expert just to detect dripping water, leaks can be so significantly small plumbers have to use ultrasonic equipment to find exactly where the water is escaping. Home owners can trust MN Plumbing and Home Services to find any home water leak.
Plumbing Leaks Happen Anywhere
Leaks from piping inside walls, piping under concrete, or from toilets and sinks can be detrimental to your home. Detecting leaks and dealing with them when they are small will keep you from the headache and financial burden of a possible remodel due to water damage. Even small amounts of water damage can create mold and devastate Minnesota homes. Call MN Plumbing and Home Services today and let us find the source of the leak before more damage occurs.
Typical Water Leaks
There are a few common areas for water leaks to occur around your home. Even the smallest of leaks costs you money for utilities, and if the leak isn’t caught it can potentially lead to major damage in the home.
Leaky or running toilets are not only a major source of wasted water for typical Minnesotans, they also are one of the leading causes of home floor water damage. Don’t waste time when it comes to a toilet leak, it can quickly escalate into a nightmare for your home.
Showers and Tubs
Showers and tubs that leak are often the cause of wall water damage. Undetected leaks from shower heads are also a major cause of mold build up. Don’t let the water drip, even if it is dripping into the tub, you’re not only wasting water your allowing mold and water to create possible damage in your bathroom.
Undetected leaks in hose bibs, both outdoor and indoor, cause the average Minnesotan to waste 15-20 gallons of water per day (2013 Water Quality Report, City of Minneapolis)!
Mn Plumbing and Home Services has been in business for over 30 years and we are very experienced in dealing with these kinds of severe water plumbing issues. The best part about working with us is that our pricing is affordable and our customer service is second to none! | <urn:uuid:6b8b875c-3174-41d3-9b56-4439deee224b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mnplumbingandhomeservices.com/water-leak-detection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.945792 | 480 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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Kick-Start Your Data Science Career | Technical Skills Requirements
The strategies to become a data scientist merely depends on one’s interest and skills. A student can take up classes online for machine learning to get started on learning the concepts. A college pursuing student can also start their career as data scientist by achieving a degree in field of computer science. Enrolling a data science online class via Hi-counslleor will set you up by studying the concepts of data science in a wide array.
According to the latest headlines- Data scientist is one of the best jobs in the 21st century. As our economy is driven by the data, emerging business is hunting towards talented scientist that can turn the overwhelming amount of data into an actionable sight. Well, not surprisingly many graduates and even college students are gearing up their education towards creating their career as a data scientist. If you are looking at how to become a data scientist this article will help you to know the steps by setting up in data scientist while you are in university or you are into a job.
Here’s a quick outline of the necessary steps to become a data scientist
Pick a major which will translate into a Data Science Career Whether you are pursuing a college degree or you are considering choosing a career in data science, make sure that you choose a major that gives you the right skills in becoming a data scientist. Choosing a major in computer science, machine learning and statistics are a good choice.
Take relevant courses To become a data scientist you need a strong skill set of programming and statistics. You can create a solid foundation by learning from the online classes and also by getting the data scientist training courses online or offline. Well, to become a data scientist a student can pursue two main subjects in their undergrad or online on computer science and statistics.
Prepare for a graduate course This is a catch to become a data scientist in the early stage of your studies. One can also aim to earn good grades to turn into a positive relationship by growing recommendations with professors. But, one must also make sure that education does not end with just holding a bachelor’s degree.
Above we have shown you ‘how to become a data scientist’ during your under graduation while choosing a career option or even while you are doing a job.
What Technical Abilities Does a Data Scientist Need?
Wondering what does a data scientist do is merely an ability to be the business of pursuing. One way is to understand that technical aspects like to understand the theory of machine learning and its concepts with an in-depth knowledge of designing algorithms in data science while the other one is to work o coding and programming. Coding and programming mean working on the implementation of work and expertise in that.
A good depth of understanding is essential in machine learning and algorithms and to build frameworks as well. Taking all these abilities as important aspects one can be a data scientist manager where one can even excel in other skills such as product management and project management. However, keep in mind that data science should be your high priority so that you can squeeze the work in a particular area with thorough knowledge.
Well, answer to this question specifically would be exactly what an individual wants to do. The data scientist is a broad term that can be cut short depending on one’s skills if you have your inclination towards technical field than it could the way for you. Abilities do not only count as one or two.
They are numerous depending on person to person. You need to figure out your interest area and move towards it. Various platforms can give a good understanding of the skills required and can train you well. Coding and programming involve a lot of brainstorming and has technical aspects too. If one knows these two languages well then can excel in data science.
These languages bear a lot of skills which can be learned through different sources in this sector. So, the technical abilities required by a data scientist depends on person to person and willingness to learn new things with a passion for technical knowledge.
Would you say projects are the way to get the foot in the door for a career in Data Science?
Writing a project in data science helps out to set in a career in data science as it helps out in the most critical parts of communicating and working out in a wide audience. A well-made project/ assignments give a thorough analysis and clear concepts in the subject. It also helps in completing the project in a very compelling narrative.
So, doing projects is a perfect medium to learn data science as well it helps to make people understand the hard work. Here are the major three benefits you will get by making projects to set a foot for a career in data science:
Creates job opportunities A well written and well-explained data science projects help in exposing your work to the companies! With projects, you will be able to form connections from the companies that can lead to latest job offers, new projects and collaborations.
Communication practice A good code or project in data science is not always enough. Though, data science projects help out in communication and help to make people care about you.
Helps in learning Making projects help out to share, work, and listen and to improve work constantly by knowledge. Data science projects are also a great way to learn quicker than just writing things and reading things in books.
While making projects on data science projects you can start working on trying new data sets from by going through online classes or apps. Though, you can always opt for kaggle to choose new sets of data sets, projects, to compete in competitions and also to win amazing prizes while learning and making assignments into it. Well, making data science projects give some ideas that are easy to grasp at once. | <urn:uuid:b2ab53b9-0571-4353-bf68-5045bad70bc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hicounselor.com/video/break-into-data-science-career-technical-skills-requirements?data=MjIw | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959393 | 1,184 | 2.75 | 3 |
Islamabad, March 18: The Shia Imami Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board (ITREB) organized a Seerat Conference in the federal capital. Theme of the Seerat Conference was “Status and Role of Women in the Society in the light of the teachings of Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAWW).
Egypt’s envoy in Pakistan was the Chief Guest, while KP Provincial Minister for Population Welfare, Saleem Khan and Speaker Gilgit – Baltistan Legislative Assembly, Wazir Baig, were also present at the conference.
Speaking at the occasion scholars said that women can get their rights by following teachings of the Holy Prophet and the Holy Quran.
Mr. Sidique Ali Chishti, Faculty Comparative Religions Dept. Islamic International University, Islamabad will discussed “The Status of women in Islam”.
Dr. Shahida Muhiuddin, Senior Scholar ITREB for Pakistan spoke about Hazrat Khadija as an Exemplary Women in Islam.
Dr. Rukhsana Hassan, Chairperson Gender Studies, Fatima Jinah Women University, addressed the theme related to “the Role of women in the reformation of Society”.
Mr. Perwaiz Hayat, Senior Scholar ITREB for Pakistan spoke on Balance in the rights of men and women in Islam.
Naat Sharif were also recited during the conference.
The efforts of ITREB for launching of the Seerat Conference have been hailed by public circles. It is pertinent to note that similar Seerat Conferences have also been held in Gilgit and Chitral in the past. | <urn:uuid:a0d1373a-81fe-4158-853d-02fb8a560163> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pamirtimes.net/2012/03/19/ismaili-tariqah-board-organizes-seerat-conference-in-islamabad/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948067 | 343 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Then constipation, then diarrhea: causes, treatment, implications
In some cases, people have seen a diarrhea, which is very quickly replaced by constipation. This alternation tells about a failure in the body and require a doctor's advice. If a person then constipation, then diarrhea – the causes of this phenomenon can be different, sometimes to pinpoint the diagnosis without a full examination it is difficult even for an expert. Person is generally confusing, he can't understand what's going on with him. In fact, the cause must be sought in processes that occur constantly in the digestive tract during different diseases and are responsible for intestinal motility.
The reasons for this state
Constipation and diarrhea occur due to certain reasons, they themselves are not considered a disease, but can be only symptoms of some diseases. Diarrhea may occur one to four times per day during this period, stool be very rare. Constipation, by contrast, greatly reduced the cleansing of the intestines, and defecation may occur once for several days. Normally delay stomach emptying to a day if the bowel movement happens less frequently, it indicates digestive disorders.
Bowel movements from three times a day to three times a week, with almost equal time interval, talking about the good work of the digestive tract.
Experts say that the constipation and diarrhea at the same time, can signal the development of serious abnormalities in the body. The main diseases that manifest similar symptoms, as follows:
- Cancer of the intestines and stomach.
- The irritable bowel syndrome.
- Chronic inflammatory processes that occur in thin or large intestine.
- Chronic constipation with the simultaneous intake of laxatives.
- Worm infestation.
It should be remembered that conditions such as constipation and diarrhea is just a special reaction to certain factors. Such predisposing factors may well be food poisoning. The body tries to get rid of caught in it germs which is manifested by diarrhea. But if you have dehydration due to insufficient liquid, constipation is observed.
The main physiological factors that play a major role in the alternation of constipation and diarrhea can be denoted as:
- Violation of patency of the intestine due to mechanical overlap of the lumen of the foreign body or neoplasm.
- Violation of patency resulting from a failure in the peristaltic movements of the colon.
All these conditions require the assistance of a doctor, so do not delay, you need to go to the hospital.
It should be remembered that diarrhea a person can threaten dehydration, and constipation toxic substances poison the whole body. Such a condition is extremely dangerous.
Irritable bowel syndrome
A very common reason why constipation and diarrhea occur at the same time, adult or child, is disease irritable bowel. A similar disease may occur in people of all ages. In this disease, impaired bowel motility and pathological modifications being mainly in the colon.
The primary source of this condition is considered degenerative changes in the walls of the body and most of all to the disease predisposed adults. The reasons for the development of the disease a few, sometimes it begins because of a combination of factors.
- frequent stress at work and at home;
- unbalanced diet, when food is not enough of certain micronutrients;
- frequent meals semi-finished products and other harmful products;
- excessive consumption of alcohol and carbonated drinks;
- the abuse of food, when there is chronic overeating.
Women have a definite connection between bowel and the condition of hormones in the body. Symptoms of hormonal failure the fair sex may appear unpleasant States:
- Often there is diarrhea, then constipation.
- Pain in the abdomen and some muscles.
- Frequent flatulence;
- A feeling of incomplete emptying of the bowel.
- Increased desires on the bottom.
- General weakness.
- Prolonged migraine.
Irritable bowel is often the cause of depression in women of different ages. They have an unreasonable sense of anxiety, nausea and loss of appetite. Usually after bowel of these symptoms completely goes away.
Especially often alternating chair occur in women during menopause, when there is a full hormonal changes in the body.
When a person is first constipation, and then diarrhea – this indicates chronic enterocolitis. This disease is characterized by impaired secretory function of the intestine, when disturbed motility and diminished assimilation of nutrients. Dangerous consequences of enterocolitis can be a degeneration or complete atrophy of the membranes of the body. The disease can last for many years. The root cause of the disease is poorly treated acute enterocolitis. But keep in mind that the longer the disease continues, the more deeply affected mucosa of the intestinal tract.
Clinical signsenterocolitis manifested by irregular bowel movements, as well as alternating constipation and diarrhea. Diarrhoea is a consequence of increased peristatic of the intestine, such as the absorption of fluids and minerals is not possible. Diarrhea can develop due to the strong dilution of feces. In this state, the more affected the intestinal wall result in more frequent defecation.
When the inflammation affects only the small intestine, the stool occurs up to 4 times per day. Pain syndrome in this disease there, and desires on the bottom appear immediately after eating.
If the inflammatory process has affected all sections of the intestine, the urge to bottom can occur up to 10 times per day. In Calais there was mucus, the number of bowel movements gradually decreased. After painful diarrhea persistent constipation occurs when a person cannot go to the toilet for a few days.
Irritable bowel syndrome often diagnosed in the elderly. It is no secret that old people like a lot to eat, but they have a sedentary lifestyle.
The tumor of the rectum
The rectum is the final section of the digestive system, where stool output. The main factors for cancers of the rectum are:
- Heredity in the family of someone ill with the same disease.
- Chronic colitis in history.
- Polyphonie growths on the walls.
Some doctors claim that the main factor that contributes to the development of cancer is the wrong food. If the daily menu is fried foods, but with little vegetables and fruit, it leads to persistent constipation. Predisposing factor is considered overweight and a sedentary lifestyle.
Clinical manifestations of cancer of the rectum is quite specific and allows you to quickly suspect that something is wrong in the body. Symptoms include:
- alternating constipation and diarrhea;
- constant urge to bottom;
- severe pain during defecation;
- the feel of a foreign body in the anal passage;
- abnormal inclusions in the stool – blotches of blood, mucus, greenish and even pus particles of the tumor.
If the tumor is localized in the upper part of the intestine, diarrhoea is the color of the stool black, which tells of the bloody impurities. Quite often, cancer of the rectum are taken by patients for hemorrhoids, which has long and unsuccessfully treated at home. There is a tangible difference, hemorrhoids blood is observed on the surface of the stool and often goes before or after the act of defecation, when the cancer diseases the blood is mixed with feces. And constipation become commonplace.
The tumor of the rectum is the most dangerous because of the constant alternation between diarrhea and constipation!
Features of treatment
To normalize the release of stool in adults and children, it is necessary to find out the cause of violations. To do this, hold in-depth examination of the patient, which uses such methods:
- Are taken blood and urine tests.
- Carried out radiography of the intestine.
- Perform a digital examination of the rectum.
- Determine occult blood in the stool.
- Carry out bacteriological examination of faeces.
- Perform biochemical studies.
The primary goal of treatment is considered to eliminate the root causes of this condition. In addition to medication, therapy involves the revision of the diet and minimizing any factors that cause stress. Medicines can be prescribed enzyme preparations, antibiotics, Antidiarrhoeal or laxative medications, analgesics and sorbents. When persistent constipation shown a cleansing enema. If diagnosed with colon cancer, needed surgery and radiation therapy.
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Are poor economic conditions causing dollar weakness and strong precious metals markets?
''Dollar slides as US growth disappoints
The dollar has slid to its lowest level in three years against major currencies as a mixture of weaker-than-expected economic growth in the US, higher inflation and cheap money for longer from the Fed take their toll.
The sugar rush provided by the promise of zero interest rates for the foreseeable future is also starting to wear off. Equities are losing their bullish stance and gold and the Australian dollar have hit new highs.
The FTSE All-World Index is still up 0.5 per cent, just off its post-crisis high. But Wall Street has opened lower and European markets are giving up their early gains as US GDP growth fell from 3.1 per cent in the fourth quarter to 1.8 per cent in the first quarter.
A broad measure of inflation, the personal consumption expenditures price index, rose to 3.8 per cent, its highest in almost three years. The Fed's preferred core inflation measure was a more modest 1.5 per cent, but still the highest since the end of 2009.''
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Carpinus caroliniana Walt.
Betulaceae -- Birch family
F. T. Metzger
American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana), also called blue-beech, ironwood, water-beech, or lechillo (Spanish), is a small slow-growing short-lived tree in the understory of eastern mixed hardwood forests. The short, often crooked trunk covered with a smooth slate gray bark is characteristically ridged, resembling the muscles of a flexed arm. The wood is close-grained, very hard, and heavy but little used because such a small tree is rarely converted into sawed products.
American hornbeam is native to most of the eastern United States and extends into Canada in southwest Quebec and southeast Ontario. Its western limit is just beyond the Mississippi River from north-central Minnesota to the Missouri River, where it ranges southwestward into much of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains and eastern Texas. It grows throughout much of the South but is absent from the Mississippi River bottom land south of Missouri, the lowermost Gulf Coastal Plain, and the southern two-thirds of Florida. Northward along the east coast, it is not found in the New Jersey pine barrens, much of Long Island, Cape Cod, northern and eastern Maine, and the White and Adirondack Mountains. It is found in central and southern Mexico, Guatemala, and western Honduras.
-The native range of American hornbeam.
The climate varies greatly from north to south in this species habitat. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 710 mm. (28 in) in Minnesota to 1570 mm (62 in) along the Gulf Coast. Most precipitation occurs during the growing season, April through September. Mean January temperatures range from -13° C (8° F) to 16° C (60° F) and the mean July temperatures range from 16° C (60° F) to 29° C (84° F). Frost-free periods are from 80 to 320 days.
Best growth and development of American hornbeam occurs on rich, wet-mesic sites, but it is not restricted to such sites and can tolerate a wide variety of conditions. Habitat requirements and tolerances of the species are similar across its range.
Soils primarily associated with the species are in the orders Alfisols, Ultisols, and Inceptisols but American hornbeam also occurs on Entisols, Spodosols, Histosols, and Mollisols.
The best sites may be characterized as having abundant soil moisture but sufficient drainage to prevent saturation and poor aeration of the soil during the growing season (4,51). Typically, the best sites are alluvial or colluvial soils in the transition zone between mesic and wet areas (46), as near lakes and swamps (35), on well-drained terraces of rivers (32,45), terraces or steep slopes of minor streams with some gradient (39), coves, ravine bottoms (33), and rises in lowlands (40). Surface soil layers are somewhat poorly to well drained but the subsoil may not be as well drained, may have a high fluctuating water table, or may be of heavier texture. Soil water-holding capacity usually is high (15,49). Upper soil horizons are primarily loams or of loam-influenced textures. Nutrients and organic matter tend to accumulate on these sites (36), and calcium and magnesium in particular are normally more abundant than in surrounding soils (13). Soil pH tends to be acidic-normally from 4.0 to 5.6-but can be as high as 7.4 (35).
The species also grows well on wetter sites, such as hardwood swamps on mineral soils or mucks (3,37). The key appears to be improving soil moisture conditions through the growing season because the species is only moderately tolerant of flooding (14). It is eliminated from sites inundated more than 25 percent of the time (24). Accordingly, it is absent or rare on the wettest sites, such as lower floodplain terraces, permanently inundated areas, and swamps with peat soils.
American hornbeam also grows, to a lesser extent, on mesic to xeric sites (5,19). In Florida and Ontario the species occurs more often on dry-mesic than on mesic or xeric sites. The dry-mesic sites in Ontario have a higher soil moisture retaining capacity than the others (35). In hilly terrain it is found most frequently on north aspects but also grows on ridge tops and on south aspects where subirrigation of the site improves soil moisture (51).
The upper altitudinal limit of American hornbeam is 910 m (3,000 ft) in the Great Smoky Mountains ' but it is much more common at about 490 in (1,600 ft) (59).
Concentrations of potassium, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus in the foliage of the species are low in comparison to those of other species (2). American hornbeam leaf litter, on the other hand, has high concentrations of these nutrients in relation to other species (57).
American hornbeam is typically an understory species and only rarely occurs in the overstory or dominates a stand. It is present in the following forest cover types (Society of American Foresters) (22): Northern Forest Region, Black Cherry-Maple (Type 28), Beech-Sugar Maple (Type 60); Central Forest Region, White Oak-Black Oak-Northern Red Oak (Type 52), White Oak (Type 53), Northern Red Oak (Type 55), River Birch-Sycamore (Type 61), Pin Oak-Sweetgum (Type 65); Southern Forest Region, Swamp Chestnut Oak-Cherrybark Oak (Type 91), Sweetgum-Yellow-Poplar (Type 87).
American hombeam is found in a wide variety of forest communities and with many tree species because its habitat frequently is an ecotone in which species from wet and mesic sites intergrade. In the North, it is a minor component of many different types, infrequently becoming the first or second most abundant tree species in the subcanopy layer (32). It is associated with northern hardwoods and their wet site variants. Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and/or American beech (Fagus grandifolia) are dominant in many situations but may be replaced by eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis), red maple (Acer rubrum), American elm (Ulmus americana), silver maple (Acer saccharinum), and black ash (Fraxinus nigra) on wetter sites.
In the central portion of its range, American hornbeam also is a minor component of stands. Species dominant in northern stands also dominate here along with white (Quercus alba), black (Q. Velutina), northern red (Q. rubra), scarlet (Q. coccinea), pin (Q. palustris), and chinkapin (Q. muehlenbergii) oak; bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis); black tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica); sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua); yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera); river birch (Betula nigra); and basswood (Tilia americana).
The species attains its greatest prominence in southern stands, yet remains a member of the understory. In a number of areas it is the most numerous of all tree species in the stand (36,40). It is found in southern mixed hardwood and loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) forests. Overstory species that frequently dominate these stands are sweetgum, water Quercus nigra), white, laurel (Q. laurifolia), willow (Q. phellos), cherrybark (Q. falcata var. pagodifolia), and swamp chestnut (Q. prinus) oak, American beech, black tupelo, red maple, loblolly pine, southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), and yellow-poplar.
The species is also an important member of some nonforest vegetative types in the Northeast. It is an early migrant and forms pure stands in moist old fields (61) and grows in persistent shrub communities in old pastures on hilltops and more exposed hilltops (20).
Understory tree species associated with American hornbeam throughout much of its range include eastern hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana), flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana), the serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.), and speckled alder (Alnus rugosa). Northern associates are striped (Acer pensylvanicum) and mountain maple (A. spicatum). Red mulberry (Morus rubra), pawpaw (Asimina triloba), and eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis) are common associates from the Central States southward. In the South, associated species include sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum), possumhaw (Ilex decidua), American holly (Ilex opaca), winged elm (Ulmus alata), sweetbay (Magnolia virginiana), water-elm (Planera aquatica), parsley hawthorn (Crataegus marshallii), riverflat hawthorn (C. opaca), common persimmon (Diospyros virginiana), and Carolina laurelcherry (Prunus caroliniana).
Shrub species associated with American hornbeam throughout its range include spicebush (Lindera benzoin) and southern arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum). In the northern half of its range, American hombeam is associated with mapleleaf viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium), redberry elder (Sambucus pubens), common winterberry (Ilex verticillata), and alternateleaf dogwood (Cornus alternifolia). In the southern half of its range it is associated with devils-walkingstick (Aralia spinosa), beautyberry (Callicarpa americana), Virginia-willow (Itea virginica), southern bayberry (Myrica cerifera), sweetleaf (Symplocos tinctoria), and tree sparkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum).
Flowering and Fruiting- The species is monoecious, with male and female catkins borne separately on the same tree and first appearing in the spring concurrently with leaf-out. Catkins are green to brown with red on the scales. Staminate catkins are pendant from lateral, short branches and 3 to 4 cm (1.25 to 1.5 in) long. Pollen matures and is wind disseminated in the spring (63). Pistillate catkins are 13 to 19 mm. (0.5 to 0.75 1) long and occur in spikelike groups at the terminus of leafy shoots. Flowering occurs between March 20 and May 6 in the Southeast and during April through May in the North.
Seed Production and Dissemination- The fruit is an ovoid, ribbed, 5 to 8 mm (0.2 to 0.3 in) long nutlet. It matures in one season, changing from green to light-greenish-brown or brown on maturity. The nutlet is borne at the base of a distinctive three-lobed involucre, about 2.5 cm (I in) long; these occur in clusters 5 to 10 cm. (2 to 4 in) long. The averages reported for nutlets per kilogram range from 66,000 to 88,000 (30,000 to 40,000/lb), while the range is between 33,000 and 143,000 (15,000 and 65,000/lb) (48,62). Large seed crops occur at 3- to 5-year intervals. Seeds are primarily dispersed by birds but are also dispersed short distances by wind. Germination is epigeal. Germination capacity of stratified seed is low-usually less than 60 percent and occasionally as low as 1 to 5 percent-but 100 percent germination was obtained using immature green seed (54). Dormancy occurs in both the embryo and endosperm (48). Stratification at 4° C (40° F) for 18 weeks, stratification plus gibberellic acid treatment, and scarification of the seed coat plus gibberellic acid treatment all improve germination (9).
Seedling Development- The types of seedbeds and environments favorable to establishment under natural conditions has to be surmised from nursery experience and the habitat preference of established plants. The optimum nursery seedbed has soils that are rich, loamy, and continuously moist and the site is free of extreme environmental change (48). This approximates natural conditions where the species is most frequently found. Abundant natural reproduction in undisturbed forests indicates the species ability to become established on leaf litter seedbeds under deep shade and with competition from other species (12,50). The species also becomes established on sites that are wetter and drier than optimum, as well as on open sites.
American hornbeam responds well to various degrees of overstory removal in regeneration harvests. In two hardwood seed-tree harvest areas in southeastern Arkansas, the proportion of American hornbeam in the reproduction increased during the 18 years after cutting (30). Regeneration of the species consisted of advance reproduction, new seedlings, stump sprouts, and root suckers. Sprouts grew from 1.2 to 1.5 m (4 to 5 ft) in the first year. By the 18th year, American hornbeam was becoming subordinate in diameter to sweetgum and the red oaks. The species also responded well to release after clearcutting hemlock-hardwoods in southern New England (34). However, density and basal area stocking of American hornbeam in relation to other species were unaffected after a partial harvest of a pine-hardwood stand in Louisiana (6).
Vegetative Reproduction- No information available.
Growth and Yield- American hornbeam is unsuited for commercial timber production because it is usually small, twisted, and multi-stemmed. In undisturbed stands, from 70 to 93 percent of the American hornbeam. were saplings less than 13 cm (5 in) d.b.h., and less than 1 percent were 25 cm (10 in) d.b.h. or larger (21,40), which is a common minimum diameter for saw logs. Heights of mature individuals generally range from 5 to 6 m (15 to 20 ft) in Canada and from 8 to 11 m (25 to 35 ft) in the South. The largest individual was found in New York. It has a diameter of 70 cm (27 in), a height of 20 m (65 ft), and a crown spread of 20 m (66 ft) (29).
Rooting Habit- No information available.
Reaction to Competition- American horn beam is a very shade-tolerant species, capable of persisting in the understories of late seral and climax communities. Tolerance is greatest among seedlings and declines as the trees age, requiring an opening in the canopy for the species to reach maturity. It is one of a few species in both northern and southern forests whose abundant reproduction assures its replacement in stands across a wide spectrum of sites (27,35). This is evidenced by an inverse-J-shaped diameter distribution for the species in many stands. On certain southern sites the species is so aggressive that it will replace overstory species lost through logging or catastrophe and prevent larger species from reproducing (17,30).
Ecologists consider American hombeam a member of near-climax to climax communities. In Wisconsin where climax species are assigned a climax adaptation number of 10, American hombeam is rated 7 and 8 on uplands and 8 and 9 on lowlands for the northern and southern parts of the State, respectively (16). Similarly the species is rated 7 in New Jersey (11). It is ranked fifth highest among 79 Central States species on the basis of a multivariate analysis of various species characteristics that favor establishment and growth under climax forest conditions (58).
American hornbeam first appeared in seral communities developing on old fields about 12 to 18 years after the sites were abandoned in North Carolina (41) and about 25 to 40 years after the sites were sapling-sizeabandoned in New Jersey (26). It enters these communities as a minor component when a sapling-size tree-shrub community is dominant. In much older stands in North Carolina it is more abundant. In maturing second-growth hardwood stands in Connecticut, hornbeam had initially been an important species, the most abundant one, in fact, on moist sites. But, over a 50-year period it declined in density, basal area, and ingrowth, eventually becoming a minor component of all stands (53).
In forests managed for commercial timber production, American hornbeam is considered a weed and is discriminated against in stand improvement. Although hornbeam is considered difficult to kill, herbicides have been effective. Mistblowing a mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T and injecting 2,4-D, Tordon 101, and Tordon 144 have killed 90 percent or more of the tops (43,44). Prescribed burning is used to control the understory hardwoods, including American hornbeam, that become established under southern pines.
Damaging Agents- Insect and disease damage is not a serious problem with American hornbeam. The species is resistant to frost damage; its succulent foliage can withstand temperatures as low as -8.5° C (17° F) (1). The tree is very windfirm. Recreational use in forested campgrounds disposes it to increased disease infection, insect infestation and decline; it is the tree least capable of withstanding such use of the 22 hardwood species evaluated (47).
American hornbeam is susceptible to fire. Wildfires severe enough to kill the hardwood component of white oak stands in Rhode Island eliminated American hornbeam (10). Normally, the species made up 6 percent of the understory stems. However, neither a crown fire nor a ground fire affected the status of American hornbeam in the ninth year after burning a loblolly pine stand in North Carolina (42).
American hornbeam is an important food of gray squirrels in southern bottom-land hardwoods; otherwise it is of secondary importance to wildlife (25). Seeds, buds, or catkins are eaten by a number of songbirds, ruffed grouse, ring-necked pheasants, bobwhite, turkey, and fox and gray squirrels. Leaves, twigs, and larger stems are consumed by cottontails, beaver, and white-tailed deer (18,25).
Reproduction is browsed by white-tailed deer throughout the species range but it is not a preferred food (7,28). The species is heavily used by beaver because it is readily available in typical beaver habitat (38).
The orange and scarlet coloration in the fall make this an attractive ornamental tree. It is not widely used, however, because it is difficult to transplant and does not do well on exposed sites (60).
The wood of American hornbeam is not important in commerce because the tree is too small, but its tough, dense, and close-grained wood is used for tool handles, levers, wedges, and mallets.
An American hornbeam, variety virginiana, is recognized by some authorities but its validity is questionable. It replaces the typical form in the northern half of the species range with some overlapping in the Central States. The two forms are separated by features of the bract of the fruiting
ament and the leaves, but in Ohio the two characteristics do not necessarily vary at the same time, resulting in confusion (8).
American hornbeam exhibits clines (from north to south) in several physiological and morphological properties. Fruit weights increase northward (62); the length of cold preconditioning required for bud bursting varies latitudinally (56), and the specific gravity of the wood is higher for trees growing north of latitude 36°N. than for trees growing at latitudes 31° to 36° N. (55).
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Patiala is a city situated in the state of Punjab, it is the fourth largest city in the state as well. As per the census of the year 2021, 46% of the population is made up of females and 54% of the population is made up of males in the city of Patiala.
There are a number of places that you can visit in Patiala. Let us tell you about Sarai Mughal, this place is one of the most ambitious projects that were built in the ages of Kings. It was built by Sher Shah Suri on the grand trunk road which has great significance from the point of view of trading and politics.
Another architect of the Mughal empire is Bahadurgarh Fort. It is situated on the outskirts of the city of Patiala and was built by the famous Nawab Saif Khan when the empire of Aurangzeb was in power.
Another place you must visit while you are in the city of Patiala is Bir Bhunerheri Wildlife Sanctuary. Earlier this place was used as a hunting ground by the rulers who used to rule the city of Patiala, but in the year 1972, the place was declared a wildlife sanctuary. The sanctuary has various types of flora and fauna like Jamun, Shisham, Kikar trees in flora, and sambar, black buck, blue bull, etc. in fauna.
Another popular place is Nanda Devi Temple. The temple is devoted to the patron goddess who is believed to be the destroyer of bad and evil. Another amazing fact about the temple is that it was built 1000 years ago.
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French women are less likely to spend any time on physical activities including sport, exercise or even household chores, compared to women in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the UK, according to a new survey. The multi-national survey on sport and exercise habits also reveals that more than 50 per cent of French women did not play competitive sport or spend any time on intensive workouts such as running or cycling in a given week. As the French women’s football team prepare for this summer’s UEFA Women’s EURO in Sweden, the countdown to the championships offers an opportunity for women to kick start heart-healthy physical activities and set themselves the goal of being more active.
“Playing sport can be an important part of an active, healthy lifestyle. In combination with everyday physical activities, such as gardening or even doing household chores, sport can help reduce the risk of heart disease, the number one killer of women, responsible for the deaths of 1 in 3 women worldwide. According to the World Health Organization’s Global Recommendations on Physical activity for Health, adults aged between 18-64 years should do 150 minutes of moderate physical activity (gardening, dancing or brisk walking) or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity (playing sport, running or aerobics) per week. Ahead of International Women’s Day, we encourage women to take care of their heart health to avoid paying the penalty of an inactive lifestyle”, said Johanna Ralston, CEO of the World Heart Federation.
The survey reveals that French women are not only indifferent to sport and exercise, but 42 per cent of women do not do enough physical activity per week, putting themselves at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), which includes heart disease and stroke. More than 2 million women in France are just below the threshold for a healthy level of physical activity. They could reduce their risk of CVD if they set themselves the goal of doing just one hour more per week of playing sport or doing everyday physical activities such as gardening or household chores.
The multi-national survey conducted by YouGov in France, Sweden, UK, Denmark and Sweden, and commissioned by the World Heart Federation reveals that in the France:
-42 per cent of women in France did not do the recommended amount of physical activity in the week of the survey, compared to 34 per cent in the UK, 33 per cent in Sweden, 19 per cent in Denmark and 19 per cent in Germany
-22 per cent of women admitted to being physically inactive and did not exert themselves at all
-French men were more likely to do the recommended amount of physical activity in the week of the survey, with 75 per cent of French men doing at least 150 minutes of physical activity, compared to just 58 per cent of French women
The World Heart Federation’s “Make a Healthy Heart your Goal” campaign in partnership with UEFA Women’s EURO 2013 will be officially launched tomorrow on International Women’s Day. The campaign encourages women and girls to set themselves the ‘goal’ of becoming more physically active, by practicing sports such as football and incorporating physical activities into their everyday lives, to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.
“Ahead of the UEFA Women’s EURO 2013 in July, we are calling on women and girls across Europe to achieve their physical activity ‘goal’ by playing football. Football is an empowering and unifying experience for women and girls. UEFA believes that every girl should have the opportunity to play football locally regardless of skill or talent and it is our goal to support this aim through our partnership with the World Heart Federation,” said Karen Espelund, Member of the UEFA Executive Committee and Chairwoman of the UEFA Women’s Football Committee.
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Toothaches can be painful and bothersome enough to interfere with your everyday life.
When you have one, all you can think about is relief. Fortunately, there are a number of options for relieving toothache pain.
You Can Try A Home Remedy
There are some products you may have at home that can relieve toothaches. If none are handy, they are inexpensive and can be found in any grocery store.
One option is ground cloves. You can place a small amount of this all-natural spice on the affected tooth, or between the tooth and gums.
The spice should cause the toothache to disappear within a short period of time.
If you do not have ground cloves in your spice rack, clove oil can also be effective in treating tooth pain.
A second option is tea. You can use loose tea, but a tea bag is easier. Moisten the tea with warm water, and place it on your tooth.
A third option is peppermint oil. Dab a small amount of the oil on and around the tooth. Use a cotton swab for this process. The oil should cause the pain to stop.
Cucumber is another natural remedy. Slice a small piece, and apply it to the tooth area.
Do not use a cucumber that is taken directly from the refrigerator. It should be room temperature before you use it.
Some people find baking soda relieves toothaches. You can add water and apply it directly to your tooth, or use it as a mouth rinse.
A cotton ball soaked in apple cider vinegar can end toothache pain. Traditional vinegar can work as well.
You may have heard salt water is an excellent source when you want to learn how to cure a toothache. What salt water will actually accomplish is to draw bacteria out of your tooth. If the tooth is infected, or if an abscess is present, rinsing with salt water can be helpful. However, it may cause the pain to worsen.
You Can Try A Product Designed For Toothaches
There are many products available for toothache relief. They can be found in any pharmacy, online, and many grocery stores.
Before you buy a toothache product, read the label. While some are natural, others contain chemicals. You should know the ingredients before using it.
In addition to products you can apply to a tooth, there are over-the-counter medications that can work for relieving tooth pain. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, may be useful.
You can take basic aspirin or acetaminophen as you would for any other type of pain. Use the drug as directed on the package. Do not take a higher dose, and do not take it more often than the package recommends.
What You Should Not Do For A Toothache
When fast pain relief is your priority, do not make the mistake of misusing pain relief products. A common mistake is to apply aspirin directly onto an affected tooth.
While this may lead to fast, temporary relief, it can permanently damage your tooth. The tooth enamel will disintegrate, and the entire tooth can disintegrate.
Get Rid Of A Toothache In An Emergency
A toothache may be severe enough to require immediate medical attention. Your physician may prescribe codeine, or a similar pain medication. A dentist may also prescribe codeine if you need dental work that cannot be performed due to the pain and infection.
Toothache Relief Is Only Temporary
Many of these options for relieving pain can work for days, weeks, or even longer. Immediate pain relief does not address the cause. If your toothaches are not caused by sensitivity to hot or cold foods, you may have an oral health issue that must be evaluated by a dentist.
Toothaches are often the result of infections or abscesses. While allowing these issues to continue can cause permanent harm to the teeth and gums, they are also dangerous to your overall health.
Not only can you experience tooth loss, but it can increase your risk of serious medical problems. Heart conditions and rheumatoid arthritis can be caused by poor oral health. The infections in your teeth and gums can cause bacteria to spread throughout your entire body.
An occasional toothache can be treated by home remedies or other products, but toothaches that occur frequently are signs to consult with a dentist.
The best approach to consistent toothache pain is a complete examination.
Your dentist will be able to determine the cause, and recommend appropriate treatment. After a professional evaluation, you may never have another toothache.
It can be extremely difficult to cope with toothaches. When there are so many options for relief, at least one will work for you.
If the pain is not severe enough to require immediate medical attention, at least one of these methods can help you feel better until you see your personal dentist.
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22nd Century Group, Inc. (OTCBB: XXII), a company focused on smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction, announced today that 22nd Century Limited, LLC submitted an Investigational New Drug Application (IND) to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for X-22, a prescription smoking cessation aid in development.
X-22 consists of a kit of very low nicotine (VLN) cigarettes made from 22nd Century's proprietary tobacco. X-22 cigarettes for 22nd Century's Phase II-B clinical trial contain 97% less nicotine than Marlboro® Gold, the U.S. cigarette market leader, formally known as Marlboro Lights®. The X-22 therapy protocol allows patients to smoke X-22 cigarettes without restriction over the 6-week treatment period to facilitate the goal of quitting by the end of 6 weeks.
Immediately upon FDA clearance of the IND, 216 smokers will be enrolled in a multicenter Phase II-B clinical trial. Primary endpoint results of the study, four weeks of continuous abstinence from smoking, are expected to be available this November. Quit rates of patients using X-22 cigarettes will be compared to those using an active control, cigarettes with conventional nicotine content.
22nd Century has requested that the FDA grant "Fast Track" designation to X-22. The FDA's Fast Track Development Program provides for expedited regulatory review of drugs undergoing clinical trials that treat serious or life threatening diseases and that demonstrate the potential to address unmet medical needs.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the United States, causing approximately 440,000 premature deaths annually. Out of 46 million American smokers, approximately 20 million make a serious attempt to quit smoking every year. It takes smokers an average of 8 to 11 quit attempts before achieving long-term success. Less than 5% of smokers in the U.S. permanently quit smoking each year.
Joseph Pandolfino, 22nd Century's Chief Executive Officer, stated, "There is clearly a large unmet medical need on a global scale for an effective, non-addictive, user-friendly smoking cessation product—without serious side effects. 22nd Century passionately believes X-22 is that product. The company is confident that the vast majority of smokers desiring to quit smoking would be willing to try X-22." X-22 is patented in the U.S. and internationally—where at least 75% of the world's 1.3 billion smokers reside.
Independent studies, including successful Phase II clinical trials, have demonstrated that VLN cigarettes made from 22nd Century's proprietary tobacco facilitate quitting by satisfying smokers' cravings for cigarettes while (i) greatly reducing nicotine exposure and nicotine dependence and (ii) separating the act of smoking from the rapid delivery of nicotine.
An independent Phase II trial of considerable interest to 22nd Century was conducted by Dr. Dorothy Hatsukami, Director of the National Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center at the University of Minnesota Masonic Comprehensive Cancer Center and one of the nine voting members of the 12-person Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) at FDA's Center for Tobacco Products. Dr. Hatsukami's study compared the quitting efficacy of a VLN cigarette (containing 22nd Century's proprietary VLN tobacco), an FDA-approved 4-mg nicotine lozenge, and a low nicotine cigarette (containing 30% of the nicotine of a typical cigarette) in a total of 167 patients treated for 6 weeks (Hatsukami et al. 2010).
Point-prevalence abstinence at 6 weeks after the end of treatment was 47% for the group using the VLN cigarette, 37% for the nicotine lozenge group and 23% for the low nicotine cigarette groups upcoming Phase II-B clinical trial is similar to that of the University of Minnesota trial.
Unlike the low nicotine cigarette, the VLN cigarette was not associated with compensatory smoking behaviors. By the end of the 6-week treatment period, patients in the VLN group (whether they quit or not) on average were smoking 12 VLN cigarettes per day, compared to a baseline of 19 cigarettes per day of their usual brand.
Mr. Pandolfino stated, "Smokers have limited pharmacological choices for quitting: (i) nicotine in different forms, otherwise known as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), (ii) Chantix® and (iii) Zyban®. Approximately 50% of U.S. smokers have already failed to quit with NRT and some users become addicted to NRT products. Both Chantix® and Zyban® were required by the FDA on July 1, 2009 to add boxed warnings to their package inserts." These warnings highlight that serious neuropsychiatric events, including but not limited to depression, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt and completed suicide, have been reported in patients taking Chantix® and Zyban®. (Chantix® is known as Champix® outside the U.S.)
Since potential quitters are already smokers, X-22 cigarettes do not expose patients to new compounds or new drugs and do not introduce new side effects. As a prescription product, unlike cigarettes sold over-the-counter, X-22 cigarettes would be used for a relatively short period of time (6 weeks) and strictly for smoking cessation.
Mr. Pandolfino added, "X-22 has the potential to significantly increase smoking cessation by encouraging more smokers to attempt quitting with an acceptable and familiar product. X-22 cigarettes smoke, taste and smell like typical cigarettes. X-22 is not an electronic cigarette (e-cigarette). Indeed, e-cigarettes are not cigarettes at all, or even tobacco products, but electronic nicotine delivery devices." | <urn:uuid:bafadbe7-efb2-4961-a43a-c39eabf46529> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.news-medical.net/news/20110622/22nd-Century-submits-IND-to-FDA-for-VLN-cigarettes.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.918225 | 1,188 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Using cPanel? Great it helps with a lot of things for a non linux admin to be up and running. But SSLs it is cPanel’s way or the highway! But if you have a wildcard SSL cert you can use in it a couple of ways! One is easy if you are starting out fresh (lot more of a pain if you are not). The second requires use of SSH and the command line (CLI)
1: The best way in cPanel would be to create each subdomain as a stand alone account with a dedicated IP. Doing it this way would allow the wildcard cert to install with almost no issues just as a normal SSL install would be done via WHM (Web Host Manager). Just change the domain name field in the install section from *.domain.com to sub.domain.com. And make sure you put in the right username for the sub domain account you are currently installing for. This will be the case for the IP also usually it put just 0 for the IP field, just put the dedicated IP in.
2: Now for the tricky way. A single account with the subdomains under it sharing a dediated IP. First install the wildcard SSL cert for the main domain. Follow the method above to install it, but use just domain.com instead of *.domain.com or sub.domain.com. Make sure the IP is correct and the username is the user for the domain account (see below if the account is using the main shared IP). It should install fine. Now for the fun part. SSH into the server and navigate to:
You will be editing the apache conf file httpd.conf (yes I use nano got a problem with it mister pretty VIM?)
In here you will find the SSL based vhost you just made via WHM. Browse down to domain.com in the IP:443 (SSL port) section and copy it. It would look something like this (PROTIP: do not copy my example use the actual one from your server):
Now we will copy this to the pre_virtualhost_global.conf file.
Once copied we will need to edit this file to match the subdoain you are adding the wildcard SSL support for. Only the SSL section will not change as this is using the same cert file as it is a wildcard. Main things to get will be ServerName, ServerAlias, and DocumentRoot. You will also want to make sure the names and paths to the log files have been modified unless you hate logs.
You will also want to ensure in the main httpd.conf file under the NameVirtualHost sections there is one listed for your IP:443 . If this doesnt exist you will want to add it to the include file as well above the vhosts you created.
Restart apache and you should be all set.
The reason for adding this to the includes/pre_main_global.conf is to keep cpanel from modifying or removing the vhost. As we all know if you hand edit the apache httpd.conf file cPanel will not be happy and just undue your changes the next update and or rebuild. That is why they give us the include files options for vhosts and the config as a whole.
If The domain is on the main shared IP the process is mainly the same. The initial install will be install the cert under the “nobody” user as WHM will not allow a SSL to be installed on the main shared IP unless it is the apache user “nobody”. When you then make the vhosts make sure to change all of the “nobody” references to the user of the account. This will include SUEXEC and SuPHP primarily but it can be others depending on your setup. Also you will need to edit the main httpd.conf and modify the initial install for the mina domain’s 443 vhost entry and change the “nobody” references to the user in question. After that distill the apache conf:
You can then test to make sure it remembered the setting by rebuilding the conf and restarting apache:
Now check the httpd.conf to make sure the 443 vhost did not revert to having the nobody user listed.
Now this wouldn’t be an issue on a non cPanel box using a wildcard SSL as in the rest of the linux world shared IPs do not matter. It is done this way in cPanel to to it being able to easily help you manage. But on the bright side once you do this you have a nice template and can inside of WHM-Apache Configuration-Included Editor-Pre VirtualHost Include
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DETROIT – Donald Trump receive 0 percent support in the city of Detroit during a recent WDIV/Detroit News poll.
The poll, run from Sept. 27-29, found 39 percent of voters across Michigan supported Trump, placing him roughly 7 points behind Hillary Clinton.
Poll data shows Clinton holds a significant advantage over Trump among African-American voters, and among Detroit voters. Trump leads Clinton in Macomb County and in northern Michigan, including the UP.
Trump's 0 percent support in Detroit isn't unprecedented. The Republican candidate polled 0 percent among African-American voters in Pennsylvania and Ohio over the summer, according to an NBC poll.
In the Detroit poll, there are important caveats to the data. While the poll surveyed 600 likely voters across Michigan -- a large enough sample size to get meaningful data -- just 39 people were surveyed in the city of Detroit. The smaller sample size in the city increases the margin of error, and there's almost certainly people living in Detroit who will vote for Trump in November. The survey found 7.7 percent of voters were "undecided"
The current data, however, suggests Clinton has an overwhelming advantage in the city. She polled at 89.7 percent support in Detroit.
Along with undecideds, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson's 2.6 percent support made up the rest of the support in the city. Like Trump, Green Party candidate Jill Stein received 0 percent support in Detroit.
Here's a breakdown of support by candidate by region across Michigan. Sample sizes are small at the local levels, so the margin of error per region is high.
About the poll
The Glengariff Group, Inc. conducted a 600-sample, live operator telephone survey of likely November 2016 Michigan general election voters. The survey was conducted from September 27-28, 2016 and has margin of error of +/-4.0 percent with a 95 percent level of confidence. 65% of respondents were interviewed by landline telephone. 35 percent of respondents were interviewed by cell phone telephone. This survey was commissioned by the Detroit News and WDIV Local 4.
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Ben Holladay 6yr Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon
Bourbon is by definition American-made. The spirit can only be made in the United States and it can be made in any state, but the finest bourbon results from an ideal combination of climate and geology that is rare outside of Kentucky but is found in the rolling hills of Weston, Missouri.
The Holladay Distillery was founded in 1856, making it both the oldest distillery in the state of Missouri and the oldest distillery west of the Mississippi still operating on its original site. The property sits on active limestone springs that were first charted by Lewis and Clark in 1804, more than fifty years before Ben Holladay purchased the land that would later become his legacy.
Ben Holladay Bourbon is classified as a Real Missouri Bourbon under a 2019 law requiring that any whiskey labeled as Missouri bourbon must not only meet the federal standards for bourbon, but also be mashed, fermented, distilled, aged, and bottled in the state; aged in oak barrels manufactured in the state; and—beginning January 1, 2020—made with corn exclusively grown in the state. It is also Bottled-in-Bond, a rare and prestigious designation in the distilled spirits industry, signaling that the product is distilled, aged, and bottled in the same location and assuring a mark of authenticity.
This six-year-old, Bottled-in-Bond, Real Missouri Bourbon is crafted with the same mash bill that was developed by Ben Holladay in 1856. This whiskey represents the perfect union of distilling tradition and modern-day production.
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Ottawa does little to counter campaign by Chinese envoys
Chinese leaders gathered in early March at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to deliver two key messages to their 1.2 billion citizens.
First, the fight against government corruption that is weakening the Communist party’s grip on the reins of power will be redoubled.
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Second, Beijing’s rulers will continue rooting out Falun Gong, a spiritual movement founded in 1992 that is today to China’s masters what the Jews were to pre-war Nazi Germany: a convenient scapegoat used to explain away the failings and insecurities of the state and its leadership.
Since Falun Gong was outlawed in 1999 by Jiang Zemin, the former Chinese president, China has waged against its practitioners a determined campaign that the U.S. Congress says is “carried out by government officials and police at all levels, and has permeated every segment of [Chinese] society.” Falun Gong is targeted not only in China, it is also the subject of a propaganda campaign in Canada, one that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service warned Ottawa about years ago. It is waged by China’s diplomatic and consular officials, who rely on help from some quarters of the Canadian Chinese media, which serve roughly one million ethnically Chinese Canadians.
A week had hardly passed after Sept. 11, 2001, when Canada’s Chinese-language Sing Tao Daily, owned in part by TorStar, which publishes the Toronto Star, printed an inflammatory article entitled “Radical Religions Advocate Destroying the World,” which parroted Beijing’s equating of Falun Gong with the Branch Davidians, the American group that David Koresh indoctrinated in Waco, Tex., until his clash with police in February, 1993, led to the death of 86 people, 17 of whom were children. Les Presses Chinoises in Quebec published a series of articles between November, 2001, and February, 2002, saying Falun Gong was “an evil” cult and an “enemy to the state” and continued to print such articles after a Quebec court ordered the paper to stop.
In August, 2002, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council found that a Vancouver-based, Chinese-language television station, Talentvision, had violated four articles of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Code of Ethics as well as journalistic ethics by rebroadcasting anti-Falun Gong propaganda produced by Beijing’s state-controlled media.
In a more recent example of this campaign, Pan Xinchun, China’s consul in Toronto, was found by an Ontario court to have libelled Joel Chipkar, a Canadian Falun Gong practitioner, in a letter to the Toronto Star. Pan’s letter said Chipkar was the member of a “sinister cult” seeking to “instigate hate.”
Keith Landy, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, believes if “Jew” were substituted for Falun Gong in the letter Pan wrote to the Star “you would have an uproar in the community.”
That the hypersensitive, politically correct to a fault Toronto Star published Pan’s letter indicates how little is understood about the Chinese government’s aggressive campaign against Canadians who practise Falun Gong and our government’s indifference to China’s hate-mongering in Canada.
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In 1992, an obscure, 40-year-old former trumpet player from north-east China, Li Hongzhi, jumped on Beijing’s nationalist gravy train and founded Falun Gong. At the time, it seemed to be another in a long series of Chi Gong personal cultivation programs that China’s communist rulers began to encourage in the 1970s. The point was to promote Chinese culture and nationalism. Chi Gong teachers, or masters as they refer to themselves, developed exercise programs around the ancient Chinese belief that all forms of life in the universe are animated by an essential life-force or vital energy called “Chi.” By cultivating the body and generating positive Chi through meditation and exercise, Chi Gong is said to improve health and prevent illness.
Falun Gong emerged from the Chi Gong movement but broke new ground by stressing that spiritual and physical perfection could not be achieved only by exercise and meditation. Li argued it must be combined with a philosophy grounded in truth, benevolence and forbearance. Rather like Christian Science in the West, Li’s teaching emphasizes spiritual healing. Putting all this to paper, he deemed it essential reading for people seeking self-improvement.
Falun Gong spread across China. Millions took up the practice at a time when many despaired at the toll dishonesty and corruption was taking on the country. When criticism of Li’s teachings appeared in Chinese media, he encouraged his followers to defend Falun Gong using peaceful protests.
David Ownby, a professor of Chinese history at the University of Montreal and the author of a forthcoming book on Falun Gong, believes these protests by practitioners raised the ire of Beijing’s mandarins. Making matters worse, according to Ownby, was Li’s unwillingness to toe the Communist party line, which singled him out from other Chi Gong masters, supported by Beijing. In early 1999, rumours were spreading that Falun Gong would be banned. Li and his followers responded by organizing an April rally in Beijing, which drew thousands and struck fear in the corridors of power.
Jiang Zemin, China’s Communist boss at the time, was already facing a crisis in governing China, as it changed in the 1990s from an isolated Communist state to one focused on economic growth rates. Jiang outlawed Falun Gong and put Li on the government’s wanted list, despite protests from within the military and the Communist party, where many believed Falun Gong presented no danger to public order or the government’s hold on power.
Li fled and now lives in self-imposed exile in New York state, refusing to do interviews and communicating with what has become his worldwide following of millions who use the Internet and translations of his edicts on the path to self-improvement. Ownby (who is not a member of Falun Gong) believes that while some of their beliefs are eccentric, the group does not exhibit any of the classic tendencies of what, for a lack of a better word, are often described as “cults.” Li urges his followers to remain in the world, not to isolate themselves. He and his followers do not believe in any utopia. Adherents of Falun Gong are not asked to give money to Li, and he does not intervene in their personal lives. In fact, Ownby thinks the moral grounding of Li’s teachings is likely to make Falun Gong practitioners “more responsible citizens.”
That is not what the Chinese government wants Canadians to think about their fellow citizens who practise Falun Gong or about the thousands now in labour camps in China and others who have died in the custody of Chinese police after being arrested for practising Falun Gong.
Mei Ping, China’s ambassador to Canada, made that plain a few years ago when we met. Mei came to the National Post to extol the virtues of Communist China and the evils of Falun Gong, leaving behind a book that purported to show how Falun Gong had driven people to suicide, murder and madness, a claim without foundation and one that no other government has ever made about its own citizens who have taken up Li’s teachings.
China’s diplomats also spend much of their time trying to persuade Canadian politicians to discriminate against Falun Gong under the threat that failing to do so could jeopardize Canada-China trade relations.
Writing in March, 2003, to Jim Peterson, a Liberal MP and now a member of Paul Martin’s Cabinet, Chu Guangyou, China’s charge d’affaires in Canada, warned that China has “advised the Canadian government of the sensitivity of the issue [of Falun Gong] in the overall bilateral relations. I hope you and your government will understand our position and be vigilant against any attempt of Falun Gong to jeopardize our bilateral relations.” With the letter came the now standard package of anti-Falun Gong propaganda.
Such pressure reaches beyond federal government officials. Countless similar letters have been sent to provincial politicians as well as city councillors and mayors across Canada.
Toronto city council has experienced this first-hand. Councillor Michael Walker recently introduced a motion to have a Falun Gong day and a resolution calling on China to stop persecuting Falun Gong, but other councillors have not been so strong-willed in the face of Chinese threats that if the motion is passed it “will have a very negative effect on our future beneficial exchanges and cooperation.” Citing foreign trade, councillor Giorgio Mammoliti held up the motion and appears to want it buried in the process.
But in August, 2001, Andy Wells, Mayor of St. John’s, Nfld., responded to a letter from Ambassador Mei attacking Falun Gong saying: “Your persecution of this innocent group exemplifies your government’s moral and ethical bankruptcy.”
Within Canada’s Chinese community, the Falun Gong is often shunned and those who do business with the Chinese government are warned off employing Canadians who practise Falun Gong.
An Ontario Human Rights Commission case has arisen from this conflict. Andie Shih was a member of the board of the Chamber of Chinese Herbal Medicine of Canada, starting in 1988. According to Shih’s statements filed with the commission, a colleague on the board asked him two years ago not to attend a dinner that was welcoming a Chinese delegation because of his association with Falun Gong. When Shih refused, he was pressured to withdraw from the board. He alleges that he was eventually removed because of his Falun Gong practice.
In another complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Cathy Liu says she has suffered similarly at the hands of her former employer, Bond International College. Liu alleges that her peaceful protests in front of the Chinese Consulate in Toronto, which she did on her own time, were not acceptable to the school because the consulate was an important client. Liu’s case went to mediation; the school offered her money and an apology on the condition that it be kept confidential. She refused.
Ottawa has shown little resolve to stop the attempt by China to spread hate in Canada. Pan, who slandered a Canadian in the Toronto Star, is now pressuring the Canadian government to overturn the libel judgment. But why is Pan still in Canada, and why are China’s other diplomats and consular officials still allowed to spread propaganda against Canadians? In February, 2003, Irwin Cotler was chairman of Canada’s Human Rights Commission and described the persecution of Falun Gong in China as “the criminalization of innocence that finds expression in the intimidation, harassment, arrest, detention, coercive interrogation, torture, beatings and imprisonment for doing nothing more than espousing ancient Chinese values.”
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29 Nov Steps to Take Before You Turn On Your Furnace
The warm days of summer are being replaced by cool morning and windy afternoons, and that means it’s time to cover your central air conditioner and switch on your furnace. However, there is more to turning your furnace on than simply flipping a switch.
Preparing your furnace for the long winter ahead is critical to ensure it works properly when you really need it. Here are a few steps you need to take before you turn on your furnace.
Change the Air Filter
One of the most inexpensive and simple ways to ensure your furnace runs at peak performance during the winter is to change the air filter before you turn on the unit. The placement of your filter is dependent on the type of furnace you have.
For example, if you have an upflow furnace, the filter will typically be found near the cold-air return.
There are several different types of furnace filters available, and the model you choose is dependent upon your needs and budget. For example, a fiberglass filter is inexpensive, but you will need to replace it often. If a family member suffers from allergies, then a HEPA, or high-efficiency particulate arrestance, furnace is a great option. There are also reusable air filters that you can simply wash, dry and reinsert.
Clean the Registers
The next step is to clean the area around all the registers, and if possible, inside the registers. There should be nothing obstructing your registers, as this will lower your home’s energy efficiency. When there are objects in front of the registers, your furnace must work harder to keep your home comfortable. This will cost you money and cause your furnace to break down prematurely.
Next, remove all the register covers and clean out any dirt, dust and other debris with your vacuum’s hose attachment. You may need a screwdriver to remove some of the covers.
Examine the Exterior Intake
Much like with your interior registers, it is important to ensure that your HVAC system’s exterior intake is free from obstructions. The exterior intake draws air into the furnace, and this air is then heated so it can keep your home toasty throughout the winter. If there is something in the way, your furnace cannot work properly, and this will lower its efficiency or cause the unit to stop working altogether.
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Some leaders find themselves caught in a pattern of pleasing others versus leading others. Pleasing does not equal leading. To lead, you must challenge others to a higher level of performance. Today, Chris and Perry discuss ways you can move past the tendency to be a pleaser, and challenge each person on your team to take your business to the next level.
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Perry Holley: Welcome to the John Maxwell Executive Leadership podcast, where our goal is to help you increase your reputation as a leader, increase your ability to influence others and increase your ability to fully engage your team to deliver remarkable results. Hi, I’m Perry Holly, at John Maxwell, facilitator and coach.
Chris Goede: And I’m Chris Goede, Vice President of the John Maxwell company. Welcome, and thank you for joining. As a quick reminder, before we get started. If you want to download the learner’s guide that Perry’s created for us, you want to learn a little bit more about some of the virtual content that we’re delivering for teams, or we even, there’s a link for a weekly blog that ties to some of the podcast topics complimented, that Perry writes. If that interests you at all, please visit johnmaxwellcompany.com/podcast. There’s also an opportunity for you to leave a question or a comment-
Perry Holley: Please do.
Chris Goede: And we would love … Yeah, we absolutely love to do that. A matter of fact, just this week, we received a couple of comments from some previous podcasts. We’re able to get them some additional information. We would love to serve you in that way. Well, we’re in the middle of a series where we took a book that John wrote called Leadershifts, and we focus on the culture of your organization, the culture of your team, and of which the environment you work in and what that feels like, what that looks like. What’s the communication. And so Perry wrote four lessons to where we took for the shifts. And we’re really talking about how do we do these well, what does this look like in order to improve the leadership culture? I always give Perry a hard time about these topics and these titles, and there’s no doubt about it that he and I are wired similarly, and he observes my leadership and he’s part of team meetings and is getting more and more involved in what we’re doing. And I’m like, Oh, this might be at me directly.
And today’s topic is making the relational shift from pleasing to challenging. And the reason I said it might be about me and Perry and I have a similar bent. So I can say this is that we both tend to be on the people pleaser side, right? We both want that level to connect and relate and that can’t always be, and we need to make sure that we have a great balance. Was it about me Perry or where were we going? What was the topic around this that you said, man, we got to talk about this [crosstalk 00:02:22]?
Perry Holley: We’re moving from podcast to intervention right now so please sit down. This may take a minute. No, this one hits a little close to home for me. And as I mentioned in the last podcast, the subjects I picked for this series are the ones I hear the most on our coaching calls that we do. We do a lot of that and these come up quite a bit. And then I had to cringe because this was a big one for me. And then now you’ve confessed for you to. I am a natural born people pleaser. My right path is networker. I’m looking to engage with people and I’m finding ways to make people happy with being around me and that sort of thing.
When I first became a first-line manager in the early years of my progression after being a sales guy and becoming a first-line sales manager, I had these 11, I’ll never forget these 11 people that I took it as my mission to make them happy. But pleasing does not equal leading. Do I want them to be happy? Of course I do, but that’s not why I’m here. Do I want to please you? Of course I do, but that’s not why I’m here. It’s not my job. I know you, and I share that as you, as you said, the level two of the five levels, that relationship bent, but have you ever struggled with the pleasing gene?
Chris Goede: Yeah. There’s no doubt about it. And there’s a couple of things that come to mind. Number one, as I’ve learned, the longer that I’ve led, it’s exhausting at times.
Perry Holley: It is.
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Chris Goede: Right. Like let’s just be honest, although that’s a natural bent for me, that’s not a natural reception of everybody else, if that’s the right way to say that. And so I find myself at times and having the past of spinning my wheels and it just draining a lot of my good energy that the rest of my team members needed from me, but yet I spent too much energy on the other side of that. The other thing is I’ve learned that we talk a lot about with organizations around their turnover and retention and everybody deals with it a little bit differently. And I’m always so fascinated because people that are in the people pleasing business … Let me relate it back to the five levels of leadership.
We talk about the fact that in retention of people, you’ve got to go through this process of influence where we see a high turnover is people go from level one to level three and it’s like, hey, I’m the leader, I’m in charge. Now we’re going to start producing like crazy. And I’m going to run you over. And that department, that leader tends to have a pretty high turnover in-
Perry Holley: By skipping level two.
Chris Goede: By skipping level two. The area that we need to be aware of as if we’re pleasing people and we get stuck at level two is we just sit around and we like to say, just sing kumbaya together. And we never get to the production level.
Perry Holley: We hang out at level two.
Chris Goede: We hang out at level two, because we want to please everybody. We want to have all collaboration and not only do we want to have alignment, we want to have agreement with everybody in the room. And so, yes, it’s something that I’ve struggled with, but it’s a danger zone for those. And it’s been a danger zone for me. And I know you can tell war stories and not only in your personal leadership energy, but also for the team and your credibility as a leader.
Perry Holley: Yeah. I figured you’ll come in one day and said, what happened to Perry? We all liked him so much. Yeah, you got fired. He wasn’t producing results, but everybody loved him.
Chris Goede: That’s right. Yeah.
Perry Holley: When I think of the question, whether am I pleasing or leading it often comes down to ask the question, am I really trying to just make myself feel good in the position of a leader? And I had to learn to kind of separate, what’s good for me from what’s good for the people and what’s good for the organization. And really it is a shift in your mind that I’m not here to make myself feel good as a leader. And like everybody patting me on the back, I’m here to make a difference and lead us to the place and get everybody working at their strengths to take us where we need to go. It sounds easy enough, doesn’t it?
Chris Goede: Yeah. I was having dinner with a leader that I respect recently and we were talking about culture and someone that’s in their people management side of their business, we were talking about one of the areas of growth this individual needs in their leadership is they do an incredible job of listening, but they don’t do an incredible job of then coaching and empowering and challenging some of the things that they’re hearing to align with the culture of the organization. And we got down to this topic of saying they listen because they want to please the other individual, they don’t want to rock the boat. They don’t want to cause any … And yet what’s happening is although that’s easiest for them.
They’re not necessarily getting the best out of the organization. They’re not getting the best out of the people, they’re just listening and maybe being empathetic, which is great, but then not taking it to the next step. They’re just doing it because they want to be liked, they want to please by saying, oh, I totally understand. I totally understand. And you need to do that. And have empathy, but you got to make sure that you’re also then helping instruct, empower and coach at times that may not be comfortable to share may not be pleasing to them or to your leadership.
Perry Holley: When John says, moving from pleasing to challenging, how do you view challenging?
Chris Goede: Yeah. I think the challenging is that, they understand that you heard them, but then if there’s anything that you feel like contradicts what they’re saying versus your perception of it, the situation, or maybe even the organization or the people or you, or your leader, that you have a conversation about that. Because oftentimes I’ve found myself in the past wanting to please you in a conversation. And I just agree.
Perry Holley: Yeah. And not challenging-
Chris Goede: And not challenging because I’m agreeing, they leave my office and they’re like, oh, well I am … that’s right. That’s the way [crosstalk 00:08:27].
Perry Holley: We must begin at an agreement.
Chris Goede: We’re in agreement. Yeah. So John also says, “To get the best out of people, leaders must ask for the best from the people.”
Perry Holley: Right.
Chris Goede: Versus just listening in to them. And so I think as we talk about this challenging part, and I just mentioned it briefly, but I want to make sure that you as people inside of organizations, we’re talking about cultures and shaping leadership cultures, your motivations ought to be the people and then you. And that means you being third. You’re going to be uncomfortable and not pleasing everybody in every situation.
Perry Holley: As you’re talking, I’m thinking of the word consensus pops into my head, is that I think for years, I thought consensus, if I could get the consensus of the team I was leading and that’s, I think true for a lot of people pleasers like me and I guess you. That sounds like a good thing. Can’t we just all agree and that’s not why I’m here. What I found, if I could channel my inner level three, which is difficult. I mean, I’m really good at level two, relationships, level three, results and driving the team that I think we’re leadership credibility is born is at level three. I struggled with it a little bit. What I’ve found is instead of going for consensus, I need to share a vision, make sure everybody knows where we’re going. What are we trying to accomplish?
Maybe set some expectations, not maybe. Set some expectations for how we are going to get there. What is it I expect? Challenge others on getting there, find out how they use in their strengths. What do they need? Raising the bar, that change agent attitude of, we can do it a little bit better. Can we do it a little bit better? Show the way you mentioned this quite a bit about, am I demonstrating? Am I modeling the way? Am I out in front? And then ask for commitment? John says a lot about that, if you don’t ask for the commitment, you’ll end up with some uncommitted people and you really want to have this commitment. When I think of these things about vision and expectations, and challenge, and raising the bar, and showing the way, and asking for a commitment. That’s not a pleasing person’s easy walk right there. That is actually leadership.
Chris Goede: No, but if you do it with a proper intent behind it, ultimately it can come across as pleasing. I think if there’s a balance that you’ve got to get to as a leader to be able to understand this. I liked the last one you were talking about, about ask for the commitment. Because I think that’s probably of the lists that you’re like, oh, how do I ask that of them or for them? But I think that’s important when we’re talking about employee engagement and we are having conversations with people to go ahead and ask for their commitment, whatever the situation may be. It may not be that, that’s something they want them to do. It may be something that you need them to do again, that is contradictory to the pleasing side of things, but we need to lead them.
Perry Holley: Yeah. Give me an example. I know you’ve got a team that you lead and you got a lot of things going a lot of different burners. You’re juggling things. How do you, do you just say, can I have your commitment or do you use those words? How do you sense whether you have commitment or not?
Chris Goede: Yeah, I don’t use necessarily the word commitment, but I will say things like, “Hey, can I count on you for this?” Or, “Hey, will you take this journey with us?” Or, “Hey, are you willing to step up and lead the team?” I’ll use words like that versus saying, “Hey, can I have your commitment in that?” But I use the words in saying that I want to empower them. I want to let them know that, I need them to lead in this area. I need them to step up. And I think when you do that, because I know when I received that, it fuels me, empowers me. It gets me excited to be a part of that versus me just saying, “Hey, I need your commitment.” There’s ways in your own language and how you communicate. I want you to think about that of saying, how would you ask for commitment in your own language, your own leadership style, because you don’t want it to be awkward and you don’t want it to come across as-
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Chris Goede: Yeah, please sign here. Like you’re doing a new or used car transaction.
Perry Holley: Are there things you hear that … are there triggers or signs that you don’t have commitment that you look for, are you… I mean, are you with me or can I count on you? But what do you see back that makes you concerned?
Chris Goede: Yeah. Body language is big. Questions about what we just talked about, the way they ask the questions, the questions that they’re asking lets me believe or see into that. And here’s what I think is important. Not everybody is going to accept that commitment.
Perry Holley: What?
Chris Goede: Yeah. I don’t understand it either. But I mean, I’m this incredible leader everybody should. But it’s okay if they’re not, maybe that’s not the right journey for them. But as a leader, you need to understand that. And I would almost challenge you as leaders to say, if you get into a situation with a team member or somebody you have influence with, and you’re needing to ask for their commitment and they don’t necessarily buy in, I’m going to challenge you that you didn’t know them well enough in the first place.
Because you shouldn’t be surprised by that. You should, as a leader, see further than they see and you should know as much about them as you possibly can. And so you shouldn’t be surprised if you ask somebody to take a commitment that they say no to you, because you probably should have known ahead of time that maybe it wasn’t the best fit for them. Maybe you shouldn’t even have asked the question, but I think it’s okay. I want to make sure I’m very clear on this. It’s okay, because you don’t want them just pleasing you by saying yes and not doing it.
It’s okay to allow that pushback. And for them not to have a commitment in that journey and maybe that’s a different journey. Maybe it’s a different opportunity inside the team. Maybe as you begin to have conversations, it’s not the right team fit for them. And you got to be comfortable with all those uncomfortable conversations. And half of you that are listening to this, you’re like, oh, I love those conversations. And then the other half are like, well, I’m more on the level two, the people pleasing side. And it’s a little bit harder for you.
Perry Holley: Right. But I like having, if you team pretty well, you’ll know that there’s generally I’m thinking right now, specifically of a team I led where I knew there was one person that was always going to back push back, but I learned that they had a different perspective and that I should listen to that and then make my decision and move forward and ask them not, here’s where we’re going, are you in or out? And that’s okay. There’s things, I don’t know everything. [inaudible 00:15:03]. What am I not seeing? I like knowing … There’s some people that always agree and go along, but I like the little bit, having the permission to dissent if you dissent and helped me be better. But at the end, I need to make that decision. I’m not trying to here to please you again, I’m here to challenge us to go to the next level.
Let me share a couple of tactics that we’ve used to help. And I know that we do some coaching a lot, to move beyond pleasing to leading, maybe if you’re listening today, you can find a couple of action items. A number one for me is just valuing my people as much as I value myself. That moves me away from pleasing and toward serving, empowering and motivating, but really putting the value on them. Just like I’m saying, I know some people are going to push back. I value them and value their input and they may show me something that I don’t know. I’m not just here to make myself feel good. I want to value you and your relevance and my need of you on the team.
Chris Goede: Well, I really love the fact that you just changed the focus, even from the leader, about pleasing the leader. And it’s really about the team. And I think ultimately if you can get to that collective language, the more often that you share that, I think the more successful you’ll be at that. There’s also this thing, John talks about the disappointment gap and he talks about its difference between the expectations that were set and communicated in reality. And the number one, I almost, probably two times to number two, the competence that we’re asked to come in and help with is really around communication. And I think as a pleaser, you got to make sure that you’re setting the proper expectations up front, like what you’re expecting from them in the conversation and the communication and not telling them, what they’re going to get into return. Obviously I was like, hey, here’s the expectation I want to communicate, this is what I expect from you. And-
Perry Holley: I just had a question, I think it’s … Okay. I just had a conversation yesterday and I asked the team, do you set expectations for your team? And I get this really awkward silence about what does that even mean. What kind of expectations do you ask for? How do you do that?
Chris Goede: Yeah, here’s a couple of areas that I think I want to challenge them with these expectations. The personal performance, hey, here’s my expectation, communicate this. Perry, this is my expectation of you personally. I want you to perform this. This is my expectations of your personal growth. That’s an expectation that we have on the John Maxwell Company, you are going to have a personal growth plan. Another one is, I’m going to empower you. I’m going to communicate say, “Hey, listen, this is something that we’re going after as a team, I want you to take this. I need you to lead this.” And I’m going to empower you to be able to do that. And by doing that, I want you to take ownership of it. And I’ll deflect at times, do teammates come and say, hey, where are we at with this? I don’t know, talk to Perry about it, because he’s leading that.
Perry Holley: Oh, you did that this morning. I saw you do that with, somebody asked a question, you said, go ask that person-
Chris Goede: Oh, I did.
Perry Holley: And then come back and report to the whole team. That was really good. Wow, thank you. This is real time, live stuff. Keep talking about the good stuff. Don’t talk about the bad stuff.
Chris Goede: And then finally, I just communicate that, hey, I’m going to hold you accountable to it. I’m being held accountable by Mark Cole for running this business. And I’m going to hold you accountable for running this. And I think if you have those conversations, they don’t have to be those exact five items that we just shared with you. But there’s got to be a system that you have. When you’re in the people pleasing side of things, develop a system or process that allows you to build some learned behaviors to be able to have some of these conversations.
Perry Holley: The first tactic was value the people more than you value yourself, value their contribution more than you value your own comfort. The second one you just gave really good, communicating expectations. A third one that I’ve used that I had to really step up too, was stepping up to the difficult conversation, the crucial conversation, the difficult conversation is not a natural place that a pleaser likes to go. We don’t really … I don’t really mind being in conflict, but I don’t really want to initiate conflict. It’s not a natural bent for me. And a tough conversation seems like a way for conflict to occur. Maybe I’ll just avoid that. But it goes back to, what I said earlier. Am I really trying to protect my own comfort? Or do I care enough about someone else to tell them the truth?
John gave a great, this was one of those throwaway lines I almost missed, but I go back to it time and time again, especially when I, as a pleaser, have to deal with a tough situation. And John said, “You’ve got to balance care with candor.” And if you’re moving from level two to level three, in the five levels from relationship to really getting driving results, that’s going to naturally call out the challenger in you. And it’s going to really squash my inner pleaser as painful as that sounds. But if I can balance care and candor, it’s going to allow me to challenge the team to meet the expectations, but I’m going to do it in a way that shows that I care about you, but I need to have this tough talk with you.
Chris Goede: Those that have listened to our episodes in the past, they’ll remember this phrase, this intent versus perception gap that we talk about. And when you go from pleasing to challenging, I think this is incredible language for you to be able to use, to feel comfortable having that conversation. And that is, hey, I know your intent was not to this, but the perception that I have right now as your leader or the perception the team has, can we talk about this? Make that statement as an opening to the conversation that will allow you to then naturally challenge them. And to your point, sometimes it’ll allow you to have good candid conversations while doing it in a way that shows care to them because of the language and the words that you have chosen. Because so many times we get hung up on words that were said, or the tone behind what it was said as leaders. And so just know that you can challenge in a way that still shows care and appreciation for those that-
Perry Holley: We assign intent. I mean, I don’t know [crosstalk 00:21:24] sign it based on something. And then now we’ve got a problem.
Chris Goede: Yeah. You know, John taught this principle about this, he he’s always gotten numbers tied to all kinds of things. We all talk about the 10-8-10. There’s one that he taught that is the 25-50-25 principle. And this is fascinating because as a leader and as a people pleaser, I go about this a little bit differently, or I did before I understood this principle. And obviously John is right. And so I default back to that, but when you’re leading change, you’re leading teams, you’re leading through disruption, maybe pandemics, whatever it might be like-
Perry Holley: There’s an example for you.
Chris Goede: All of that, that is real as leaders, we’re going to feel resistance. And as people pleasers, we don’t like that, we get uncomfortable with that. And so here’s what John says. John says that 25% of the people will be with you. I’m like, yes, there’s 25%. Then we have 50% of the people that they’re kind of undecided. They’re just along for the ride. They can go either way, they’re there. But then the 25% of the people that will be against you. Now, that’s where I get angst and a little bit of heartburn. I’m like, I have got to go figure out-
Perry Holley: I need a 100%.
Chris Goede: How to get to 25%, at least to the undecided right in the middle. And here’s what he says, “Instead of trying to gain consensus and, or please everyone I’ve learned to accept this and focus on enlisting the 25% who are with me to influence the 50% who are undecided and to completely ignore” … I was like, I was like free from this, ignore the 25% who are resisting. And I naturally, as a leader, want to go, I got to figure out how to get those 25% on board. And what he’s saying is that’s wasted energy.
You better go after the 50 meaning, have your top 25% that believe helped bring the 50 up because what will naturally happen if you don’t do that is the 25% that are against you. They’re going to try to persuade the 50% to be with them. And you don’t want to grow that bottom number. But at the end of the day, you’re never going to have a 100% consensus. And that’s relieving for me as a people pleaser.
Perry Holley: And you and me both. It’s funny. And we do, the energy was what I was thinking when you said that it was, oh, how much energy do I expend trying to get the resistors to come be either moderates or believers when I should just be working on the influencers and the influence, the influence … my influencers, they influence the others. And we can get along a lot of progress that way. Well, that’s great stuff, Chris, why don’t you wrap it up for us?
Chris Goede: Yeah. As I wrap up this lesson that we’re talking about, and you can tell Perry and I are, this is real for us. We’re passionate about it. This one’s a little bit longer than some of the others. Because we live this out. And so there’s lots of stories. As John says, you’ll just be grateful things we didn’t share, but we did share lots of them. But I think you got to ask yourself, here’s a couple of things. You got to ask yourself, this question, do you want or desire to lead more than you want to please or like? This comes directly from our core CEO who John challenges and has mentored for years. John would ask Mark this question, because Mark is a natural bent towards level two as well. And so then in turn, Mark would begin to figure that out and wrestle it.
And he began to ask us. And so that was the first thing that came to my mind. The other thing was I was listening to a podcast from Craig Rochelle, the other day. And he made this statement. And so I went back, found it, and I want to give it to you as well. He said, “Become a leader who people like to follow, not a leader that everyone likes.” And I was like, ooh, yeah, I get it. There’s a big difference between one that is popular and one that is respected as a leader. And I think if you can begin to understand as maybe to go from a pleaser to a challenger, it’s really about respect and that not everybody is going to like you. And I think the other thing too is, as you think about this culture that you’re building in your organization, your team and your leadership, if you are on the side of a people pleaser, what I want you to understand is you have change in your pocket to challenge them.
They’re going to know your heart. They’re going to know your intent. They’re going to trust you. And you need to trust in the fact that you have led them well and connected with them at level two and create enough change in your pocket to have to challenge them when you do that. Because remember, as a leader, you’re getting a paycheck every week, every other week, once a month, whatever it is. And going back to what we talked about, you got to have your organization’s best interest in everything that you’re doing. And I think you have permission to challenge your people because if you’ve led them so well and you had to change in their pocket, they’re going to know where it’s coming from.
Perry Holley: Relational capital.
Chris Goede: Relational capital as you say.
Perry Holley: I love that. Okay, Chris, thank you. Great stuff. If you would want to know more about these five levels or the 360° Leader, get that limiter guide. You can do that at johnmaxwellcompany.com/podcasts. We also love it if you leave us a message, a note or ask for more information, we’re glad to provide that for you. We’re always grateful that you would spend this time with us. That’s all today from the John Maxwell Executive Leadership podcast.
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One of the most important aspects of any home or building is the roof. When the roof begins to break down, there is nothing to be done but fix it and fix it well. Nobody wants to shell out money for the repair of their house or business, but a roof left unchecked is the type of damage that only gets worse.
If you find yourself in times of trouble, it is a good thing that it should not at all be a problem finding a commercial roofing company somewhere near you. In fact, currently, there are over 50,000 different businesses around the country working in roofing, siding, and sheet metal work.
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Total quality management
a barrier to innovation
The declining competitiveness of U.S. industry at home and abroad over the past two decades is a well documented concern. Yet, at a time when market-driven innovation and entrepreneurship are critical to recapturing our competitive position, many organizations are wholeheartedly embracing Total Quality Management—a process that is a barrier to both.
The TQM process reinforces incremental innovation to the detriment of breakthrough innovation. As companies take what they have and look for ways to continuously improve it, many may be trying to improve processes that are fundamentally faulty, and there is no point in improving a process that may not be right in the first place.
“Quality” means a variety of things within organizations. For most, it translates into finding ways to do more with less—with fewer people, faster, at lower cost. Too often, organizations assume that the processes they have in place are right, just imperfect. So they adopt TQM to improve existing processes. They encourage their people to seek out small, incremental improvements that can be implemented without disruption. The assumption is that if a process is improved little by little, step by step, it will become a “quality” process producing “better” product.
As a result, businesses are spending millions of dollars and deriving few tangible results. Nine out of ten firms surveyed by the American Management Association in 1993 have quality improvement programs under way, yet only a quarter of them are likely to achieve significant results.
TQM has people focused on the minutia of the quality process when they should be challenging the processes with innovative, breakthrough thinking—the kind of ideas that represent a substantial change from the current functional and structural ways of working (e.g., reducing new products to market time by 50 percent). Innovation is doing things differently. Quality is doing things better. Both are needed.
When a company is an industry leader, quality processes can produce incremental improvements that will help it maintain its leadership position—for a time. To maintain the lead over the long term, however, companies need to be constantly pushing ahead, constantly innovating. Similarly, competitors that benchmark their processes against the leader and initiate quality processes intended to wring the improvements needed to catch up, never will. To achieve—and, ultimately, to retain—market leadership requires breakthrough thinking and step-out innovation that goes beyond simply improving processes. It allows organizations to anticipate and move toward the future. If benchmarking competition is a strategic initiative, use the findings as a target to beat, not just match the competition. Simply improving what you are doing today is not enough.
Barriers to Innovation
When we asked people about barriers to innovation, we often heard: “We're too short-term focused.” “There are budget constraints right now.” “The approval process is too long and frustrating.” “We're too busy with day-to-day work to think about doing anything new.” Now we are also hearing that the quality process prevents people from “thinking too far outside the box.”
Most people see the barriers to innovation as organizational, resulting from such internal pressures as a short-term bottom-line orientation, a risk-averse environment, and a lack of innovation focus and reward, and such external pressures as pricing, competition or dwindling markets. Yet, there is another set of barriers companies must address: the people barriers. These have to do with the quality of dialogue and interaction that is critical to getting new ideas and to building the commitment required to implement them.
The barriers to innovation in organization are difficult enough to overcome without the added dimension of TQM. When people get punished for taking risks or making mistakes frequently enough, they become afraid to express their opinion, point out ways to improve a situation, or offer their suggestions to management. The narrow focus on measurement often leads teams to work on unambitious goals and derive unambitious solutions.
In recognition of this problem, the prestigious Baldrige Award for quality improvement recently expanded their definition of “continuous improvement” to include “breakthrough” improvement as an objective along with the ever-present incremental improvements. Even with this encouragement, however, indications are that most companies with TQM programs focus too closely on existing work methods, processes and operations, to allow for much breakthrough thinking to occur.
Interestingly, a recent study cited in Business Week concluded that most individual “Americans aren't interested in making small step-by-step improvements to increase quality. They want to achieve the breakthrough, the impossible dream.” For them, continuous improvement often means work harder and faster, do more with less, don't try things that might not work—in other words, don't innovate.
Many companies also place an intense focus on analysis and control that acts to discourage creativity. The first test of a new idea is often financial analysis, but there is a tendency to carry quantitative examinations of embryonic concepts too far, too fast. The techniques used in the quality process tend to encourage premature evaluation and early rejection of ideas.
American business's reluctance to innovate is reflected in its short-term orientation. Business would rather introduce a line extension next quarter than come up with something totally revolutionary and new. Business would rather look for ways to improve existing processes than to start from scratch.
A Potential Remedy
Business needs an infusion of new ideas and, more important, an organizational climate that welcomes new ideas. Organizations that embrace innovation as part of their quality effort are harnessing the vast creative capacity of their people, and, as a result, they are blowing the competition out of the water.
What are they doing differently than your organization? Each has incorporated into its management process most, if not all, of these tenets:
- Encourage a learning orientation. Bring curiosity back into focus. Encourage people to talk with others, both inside and outside the organization—customers, vendors, and so forth.
- Create long-term goals. If American business's vision goes much further than the next quarter, we consider ourselves lucky. People thrive on the challenge of stretch goals.
- Manage innovation proactively. This is not a management skill that can be picked up by osmosis. The best companies have formal training for their managers to learn how to drive and manage the creative process.
- Make both breakthrough and incremental innovation a visible core of the organization's strategy. Consider separate funds for innovation activities.
- Create a reward and recognition system that's consistent with the goals of your program. Reward both team and individual efforts, not just successes. To truly encourage innovation, reward the experiments people try and the risks they take, whether successful or unsuccessful.
- Create opportunities for cross-functional collaboration. The quality problems and opportunities that companies should be concerned with cross boundaries—they don't just live in one area or department.
- Teach teamwork. Most organizations have people working alone. Teach them how to operate in a team environment—how to listen, how to generate and respond to creative ideas, how to resolve conflict, reach decisions, and build commitment to courses of action that are different from the standard.
- Encourage people to use problem-solving skills. People who are successful problem solvers—and everyone has the capacity to be so—are in much better position to make unconventional, creative connections, and break out of existing paradigms.
- Teach people to access their creative potential. The act of creation is a discipline. Knowing where to look and how to identify opportunities for innovation is an important aspect of the creative process.
- Stop treating TQM as the pill everyone in the organization should take. The formula approach to quality stifles the more chaotic nature of the creative process.
- Recognize and identify barriers to innovation and take concrete steps to overcome them. Adopt comprehensive business systems which combine organizational resources, available technology, thorough market research and competitive analysis to launch truly innovative ideas that meet strategic growth objectives. ■
Houda E. Samaha, CMC, is an independent consultant based in Framingham, Mass., and an adjunct faculty member of Lesley College School of Management's OD curriculum. She is the author of several articles on innovation and change.
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COVID may have kicked teledentistry into high gear, but demand for it was already growing and it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Below, we’ll explore some of the most common concerns dentists have when getting started with teledentistry, including technology, cost, and patient privacy, plus outline the steps involved in a successful launch. It’s an ideal starting point if you’re exploring whether telehealth is right for your dental practice or if you’re ready to get started and looking for an implementation roadmap.
You can read this guide in its entirety or jump to the steps you want to learn about.
- Step 1: Familiarize Yourself with the Basics of Teledentistry
- Step 2: Check Your State Guidelines
- Step 3: Check Your Malpractice Insurance
- Step 4: Choose Your Teledentistry Software Wiseley
- Step 5: Establish Billing Procedures
- Step 6: Map Out Your Workflow
- Step 7: Educate Your Team
- Step 8: Create a Video-Friendly Space
- Step 9: Promote It
- Step 10: Don’t Limit Yourself
Step 1: Familiarize Yourself with the Basics of Teledentistry
Before beginning the instructions, it’s important to get on the same page about teledentistry; what it is and how it works.
There Are Several “Types” of Teledentistry
Teledentistry isn’t a standalone service. It’s a delivery method of patient care, or, in the words of the American Dental Association (ADA) it “provides the means for a patient to receive services.” There are a few different types. Knowing the difference is essential for billing and selecting the right model for your practice.
Synchronous teledentistry can also be described as “real-time” or “live” teledentistry. These days, video conferences are what comes to mind for most people, but phone calls are another low-tech form. For the most part, we’ll be focusing on synchronous teledentistry on this page.
Asynchronous teledentistry is also known as “store-and-forward” teledentistry. In these cases, you’re not communicating in real-time. You might be engaging with a patient via email or if you’re collaborating with another dentist through a referral system like Medcohere and evaluating x-rays you’ve been sent.
Remote Patient Monitoring
With remote patient monitoring (RPM) data is sent electronically from an individual to a provider in another location for use in care or in support of care. For example, you might receive regular reports on a patient’s saliva pH levels or receive information on how a patient is responding to their sleep apnea device.
There’s some debate around mobile health (mHealth) and what it entails. The ADA lumps it in with teledentistry and defines it as “Health care and public health practice and education supported by mobile communication devices such as cell phones, tablet computers, and personal digital assistants (PDA).” The World Health Organization (WHO) largely agrees. However, some sources limit this area to self-help or self-care tools. A phone app that sends a patient reminders to floss would be a form of mHealth under either definition. However, if a patient is taking samples of their saliva and uploading them to an app, as was the case with the remote patient monitoring example, the same might also be considered mHealth by its broader definition.
Teledentistry is Clinically Sound
Research shows both dentists and hygienists can diagnose with an incredibly high degree of accuracy using something as basic as a smartphone.
Oral Cancer Diagnosis: In one study, dentists viewed smartphone images alone and caught more than 70% of malignant lesions with no false positives. The study was released in 2016 and included cameras that started at just five megapixels. (We can’t be too hard on them. It was the era of the iPhone 5 and 6!)
Traumatized Teeth: A 2017 study looked into the diagnosis of traumatized teeth. When the dentists were given a photo and clinical data, they nailed the diagnosis 93% of the time.
Diagnosis of Cavities: Another 2017 study evaluated the ability to diagnose caries. There was no difference at all in the accuracy of diagnosis from in-person visits versus viewing photos for dentists or hygienists.
Patient Demand Remains High
Research from McKinsey shows just 11% of Americans were using telehealth services before COVID. By May 2020, about half the population was leveraging it. The shift was even more remarkable among certain demographics. For example, Medicaid reported a 2,500% increase in telehealth services for children.
It might be easy to think this is a passing phase that will depart as the virus does, but this trend began before COVID arrived. A 2019 Dentavox survey showed 78% of patients thought they’d be using teledentistry services within the next couple of years. A look at Google Trends also shows that, while consumer interest in the term “teledentist” spiked at the onset of COVID, it hasn’t been dropping during periods of lower infection rates like other terms have. Furthermore, a recent consumer survey shows 97% of patients are satisfied with their telehealth visits.
In other words, COVID may have accelerated the growth in teledentistry, but demand was already booming and patients, now comfortable with it, will expect it going forward.
Step 2: Check Your State Guidelines
Each state has different teledentistry laws. It’s not really a case of whether your state allows teledentistry or not, but under what circumstances it’s allowed and what procedures you’re allowed to perform. For example, Pennsylvania presently has no teledentistry guidelines and 42% of dentists there are using teledentistry according to DentaQuest research. Meanwhile, states like Texas also have no teledentistry guidelines, but general laws require a “tactile and visual examination” be performed and documented. This limits teledentistry options considerably and may be why the state has respectively low adoption of teledentistry.
Research from the American Academy of General Dentistry (AAG) concludes that 23 states outline teledentistry regulation and reimbursement guidelines, but the landscape is rapidly changing. With that in mind, it’s important to confirm which laws may impact you before you begin providing services.
Step 3: Check Your Malpractice Insurance
Generally speaking, insurance companies used the inclusion of teledentistry in their malpractice policies as a major selling point when the pandemic began, so chances are you will be covered for teledentistry under your current policy. However, some insurance companies sell it as an add-on or separate service, so be sure to contact your insurance company to make sure you’ve got the level of coverage you need.
Step 4: Choose Your Teledentistry Software Wiseley
Choosing the right teledentistry software ensures your launch goes well and will impact both usability and profitability going forward. We’ll explore a few considerations below.
Look for HIPAA-Compliant Teledentistry Software
Under ordinary circumstances, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) precludes the use of most off-the-shelf video conferencing software for privacy reasons. However, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) temporarily gave a green light to non-compliance for the duration of the “COVID-19 national emergency.”
More than 40% of dentists providing telehealth services took advantage of the relaxed guidelines during the pandemic, according to Dentalquest data. However, it’s unclear how much longer the national emergency will be extended, so it’s a good idea to migrate to a HIPAA-complaint option if you’re already providing teledental services. You’ll want to begin with one if you’re planning to launch now too.
Choose Software That Integrates with Your Practice Management Software
Opt for an integrated solution if one is available for your software. For example, pwTeledentist creates a seamless experience and streamlined workflows for Practice-Web users.
Naturally, you’ll need a digital method for collecting health histories and other essential patient forms. However, it’s worth noting that some states have requirements that you obtain a consent form that specifically relates to teledentistry. This is the case for California dentists.
Practice-Web makes this easy! If you have an active Support agreement, you’ll have access to paperless/ online forms, which you can use as-is, customize, or create from scratch. These can be sent to patients via email or text message, alone or in packets, and can be effortlessly imported into your software once completed by the patient.
While you can piecemeal reminders for virtual appointments together by mixing platforms, it’s not always easy to ensure everyone gets their reminders and verify confirmation status when you’re using multiple third-party applications.
This is another area where Practice-Web shines. With pwTeledentist, you can schedule your teledentistry patients alongside your patients visiting in person within the Appointments module. That way. They’ll fall into your practice’s natural workflow, whatever that may be. For example, if you’re using pwConnect, our mass text message and automated text reminder service, your teledentistry patients are reminded of their appointments at intervals of your choosing, and their confirmation acknowledgments are automatically recorded.
An integrated program makes keeping accurate records a breeze, as you’ll already be using a program that handles your charting for you.
With Practice-Web, you’ll already have records of each procedure included in the appointment because you’ll be using the integrated schedule. You can also take advantage of time-saving features like Auto Notes that allow you to create detailed chart entries in just a few clicks—no need to hand key all your notes!
By using a fully integrated Teledentistry system, billing falls within your natural workflows too. The codes are already there, and claims can be instantly sent.
Practice-Web allows you to choose just about any clearinghouse you like. You can use our eClaims and Eligibility service to send digital claims and get paid digitally too, dramatically speeding up the payment process and improving practice cash flow.
We also have tools like Pay-by-Text that let patients pay their portion digitally, send you instant payment, and automatically records the payment in the Account module, so you get paid faster and are freed from unnecessary manual processes.
Make Sure Your Teledentistry Software Archives the Video
Especially as you move into video conferencing designed for the consumer market, you may not be able to record and archive the video for later viewing. The ability to archive videos is a huge component of accurate recordkeeping and can assist you if you delay adding your chart notes until sometime after the visit concludes.
With pwTeledentist, your video archive will automatically appear in the patient’s chart after a brief processing time when your session concludes, so you can easily access it for whatever reason at any point down the road.
Find Out If You’ll Need Additional Tech to Operate
Sometimes programs require additional hardware, such as cameras or computers, which can dramatically increase your startup costs and create unnecessary headaches.
pwTeledentist is designed to work with what you already have—on any device and with just about any camera—so there’s no need to purchase anything extra.
Choose a Program That’s Mobile-Friendly
It’s important that your teledentistry software works well on all devices, including desktop computers and mobile phones. In many cases, cell phones are the only way your patients will have access to a video camera, and they may be their preferred method regardless. However, be wary of selecting a program that only uses a mobile app. That can make it harder for you if you’re seeing patients remotely from your office and may make it harder (or impossible) for some of your patients to attend teledentistry sessions.
pwTeledentist leverages Practice-Web’s Dentist and Patient Portals, plus offers the option to launch video directly from the patient’s chart within Practice-Web. This ensures you’re using a HIPAA-compliant communication method, both you and the patient can log in using any device, and you won’t need to purchase any special software or do additional downloads to have a session.
Keep an Eye on Pricing
Teledentistry software can be expensive and may come with hidden costs. As you evaluate each one, make sure you’re calculating the base price and unusual fees, such as charges for extra users, video storage, additional patients, or a fee each time you host a video session. Some will also slip in unnecessary services, forcing you to pay more for products you don’t need.
Suffice it to say, pwTeledentist costs about half as much as other teledentistry software and there are NO hidden fees. You can also purchase it alone or stack it with other services for an end-to-end digital solution.
Step 5: Establish Billing Procedures
While much of your billing process can stay the same, especially if you’re using an integrated teledentistry software, there are a few things to pay special attention to.
CDT Teledentistry Billing Codes
First and foremost, it’s important to note that you aren’t required to charge any kind of additional fee for a teledentistry visit, but you have the option to do so and may feel it’s warranted if you’re paying additional costs to provide treatment. However, you’ll need to use the correct billing codes to demonstrate that the patient was not with you for the visit. Teledentistry billing codes were added in 2018. As the ADA states, these include:
D9995 teledentistry – synchronous; real-time encounter Reported in addition to other procedures (e.g., diagnostic) delivered to the patient on the date of service.
D9996 teledentistry – asynchronous; information stored and forwarded to dentist for subsequent review Reported in addition to other procedures (e.g., diagnostic) delivered to the patient on the date of service.
Common Procedures Billed Alongside Teledentistry
As a reminder, teledentistry is not a procedure by itself. It’s a mode of delivery. With that in mind, you’ll want to bill for any applicable treatment performed during your teledentistry appointment. Per the ADA, common examples include:
D0140 Limited oral evaluation – problem focused; An evaluation limited to a specific oral health problem or complaint. This may require interpretation of information acquired through additional diagnostic procedures. Report additional diagnostic procedures separately. Definitive procedures may be required on the same date as the evaluation.
D0170 re-evaluation – limited, problem focused (established patient; not post-operative visit) Assessing the status of a previously existing condition. For example:
- a traumatic injury where no treatment was rendered but patient needs follow-up monitoring;
- evaluation for undiagnosed continuing pain;
- soft tissue lesion requiring follow-up evaluation.
D0171 re-evaluation – post-operative office visit
D9992 dental case management – care coordination; Assisting in a patient’s decisions regarding the coordination of oral health care services across multiple providers, provider types, specialty areas of treatment, health care settings, health care organizations and payment systems. This is the additional time and resources expended to provide experience or expertise beyond that possessed by the patient.
It may go without saying, but just because you can bill an insurance company for a specific code doesn’t mean they’ll pay it. Plus, your patients may be responsible for some or all their other procedure fees. Decide in advance how you’ll handle any non-payment issues from insurance companies and traditional patient co-pays, or cash-pay patients. You can also use a service like eClaims and Eligibility mentioned earlier. It takes the guesswork out of estimates by providing you with real-time insurance benefit info. Consider pairing it with Pay-by-Text for instant virtual payments of patient portions too.
Step 6: Map Out Your Workflow
It’s helpful to map out the patient journey in advance, so you can look for any loopholes or other ways to digitize.
In a low-tech office, patients may only be able to connect with you via phone. In a connected automated practice, patients may have lots of ways to get in touch.
- Text message
- Social media
- Patient portal
Offices just starting their digital transformations are usually reliant on manual booking through a staff member. However, there is a multitude of options at your disposal. You can even have patients self-appoint!
- Staff member
- Online booking
- Digital referrals
Confirmations and reminders have historically been handled via postcards and phone calls. However, you may have lots of ways for patients to confirm today.
- Staff member
- Automated text message
- Automated email
If you’re trying to hodgepodge things together to make teledentistry work, you may be scanning forms, sending copies to patients to fill out by hand, and then hand keying the information on receipt. Thankfully, it’s easy to go digital and automate.
- Online forms
If you’re not using an integrated system, you may be wrestling with phone calls, email, and messaging apps to do teledentistry. There is, of course, a better option.
- Teledentistry software
If you’re low-tech, you’re probably handwriting notes or using word processors. You might also be transcribing notes for an assistant to complete later. This is another reason why it pays to use integrated teledentistry software.
- Your charting tools
- Archive of video
Most of the time, patients require some form of follow-up after their virtual appointment. While the list doesn’t vary dramatically in this respect whether you’re using an integrated solution or not, the integrated solution will fall within your natural workflows and let you save some trees.
- In-office care
- Digital referral
- ASAP list
We touched on billing a bit earlier, but it’s important to consider it as you map out what will happen during and after an ideal teledentistry session too. If you don’t address it ahead of time, you could be stuck waiting on payment.
- Statements mailed/ emailed
- Staff member via phone
Step 7: Educate Your Team
Before you officially launch your teledentistry services, it’s important to bring the team together to learn about your new processes. Because they’ll be the ones on the frontlines answering patient questions, it’s a good idea to arm them with information that can help ensure patients are comfortable with the process and what to expect too.
Depending on your leadership style, you can also invite the team into preliminary discussions, such as mapping out workflows and looking for potential kinks in the system. Because each person fulfills a different role in your practice, they’re likely to view the transition from a different angle.
It’s also worth noting that “teledentistry” is usually focused on dentists, but if you’re using a good program (especially one that isn’t charging you by the call), your team may find other uses for the technology. For example, your hygienists can use it to help with hygiene education and treatment coordinators can use it to present treatment plans remotely. This method is helpful in a multitude of situations, but it’s incredibly popular with practices that see children, as one parent can attend with the child and another can be brought in via video or watch the session at a later time.
Step 8: Create a Video-Friendly Space
If you’re hosting teledentistry sessions on the go from your mobile phone, you may have little control over your environment. However, most sessions are typically held in the office or at the dentist’s home. That means you have ample opportunity to create a professional image and control perceptions.
Clear the Clutter
Take time to stage a nice setting that feels relaxing. You can opt for a clinical setting or one with a homey feel, but take care to remove items that aren’t needed, especially paperwork and things that have sensitive data. And, as classy as bookshelves seem in the movies, they’re not great for video conference backgrounds… unless you don’t mind your patient looking over your shoulder and scanning the titles or your trinkets the whole time!
Make a Distraction-Free Zone
Patients will feel you’re tuned in to them and providing better care if there’s no background activity or noise. Creating a distraction-free zone for your teledentistry sessions also helps preemptively eliminate any concerns about patient privacy.
Establish Good Lighting
Natural lighting is a great option, provided the window is in front of you. Sitting with a window to your back might make a nice backdrop, but it can easily cause distractions. Plus, placing any light source behind you will turn you into a silhouette.
If you can’t use natural lighting, keep your light source to the front of your face. It’s even better if you can use LED lights as they tend to produce more video-friendly color temperature and they run cool—a major benefit if you’re worried about getting hot and sweating during your sessions.
Take a Step Back
It’s often said that people present better when they’re standing up. You may feel more energized, have better posture, and appear more confident if you go this route. In any case, experiment with how you look on camera. Be sure that you’re positioned far enough away from the camera that you’re not creating a distorted image or cutting part of your head off.
Step 9: Promote It
Earlier in this guide, we mentioned that, before COVID, 78% of patients wanted teledentistry. The number is likely much higher now. The catch—less than one-third of dentists are providing teledentistry services. That means it’s a huge opportunity to attract new patients and improve patient retention. In order to tap into these benefits, you’ll want to promote it.
Share on Your Website
Mention your teledentistry services throughout your website. Start by adding something about it to your homepage or even add a banner to the top of your website. You can also mention it on your “contact us” page anywhere you share info for new patients.
If possible, create a separate page on your site dedicated to teledentistry and blog about it too. Naturally, the information will be helpful to patients, but it can also help you appear in search engines when people are looking for a teledentist.
Add it to Your Phone Message
While you’ll want to keep the message people hear when they phone your practice brief, try to slip in a line about your new offerings if you can.
Mention it in Your Online Booking Portal
If you provide the option for patients to book online, mention that you offer both types of appointments. With Practice-Web’s online booking service, you can structure and name various appointment types to make it clear that you have multiple options.
Spread the Word via Social Media
Word to the wise: people don’t like being sold to often online. However, they may welcome a post or two about your new offerings. Beyond that, you can keep it educational and/ or light. For example, you can take a short video of yourself using your new teledentistry software and mention that you’re excited or provide general facts and info. Include appropriate hashtags to increase your reach.
Beyond that, you may want to experiment with changing out your cover photos to promote your teledentistry services. It’s also important to pay special attention to sites like Google My Business and Yelp. Both allow you to mention measures you’re taking to ensure health and safety during COVID, so mentioning virtual appointments will help you attract new patients. This technique is even better if you pair it with your online booking link—prospective patients will learn about you and schedule right away!
Inform Your Patients with a Text and Email Campaign
Because it’s far easier to retain a patient than it is to attract a new one, make sure you’re educating your current patients about your new offerings too. Again, this is a great opportunity to include your online booking link, so patients can self-appoint as needed. If you use Practice-Web, you can send out a mass text campaign in just a few clicks with pwConnect or run a professional-looking email campaign on the fly with pwNewsletter.
Consider a Press Release
Chances are, a large news agency isn’t going to see your press release and jump at the chance to share your story unless there are extenuating circumstances, like you live in a small town and you’re the first one to offer it or you operate in an area where it’s notoriously difficult to attain dental care. However, most press release publishers share your release across the net, which can increase the chances that you’ll be found by prospective patients.
Step 10: Don’t Limit Yourself
You may have come into the idea of teledentistry because you wanted to bridge the gap during COVID, but there are many ways to leverage teledentistry software. Research from DentaQuest shows:
- 72% of dentists use teledentistry to prescribe antibiotics or meds for pain. It’s an end-to-end solution that ensures compliance with DEA mandates that require the use of audio-visual means when providing a controlled substance and can work in tandem with your electronic prescribing program.
- 63% of dentists use it to triage patients to prioritize care.
- 52% use teledentistry to facilitate a referral.
- 48% use it to perform visual exams.
- 38% use it to perform COVID screenings prior to visits.
- 38% use teledentistry to evaluate risk for disease.
- 37% use it to provide oral hygiene instructions.
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What comes into your mind when you hear about earbuds? Well, if you love music, you must have bought or seen the gadgets and probably used them. Many phones come with earbuds as accompaniments. You can listen to music or answer phone calls. The best wireless earbuds for phone calls have a highly sensitive microphone with noise-canceling technology for clear and quality sounds.
Earbuds may be wireless or wired. Wireless earbuds connect via Bluetooth. They contain radio receivers that get the radio signals from the connected device, mostly a phone. When you subject an earbud and a phone to pair, you create a unique code and frequency that only links the two electronics. Wired earbuds connect to devices using the 3mm jack wired to your ears.
When purchasing an earbud, you want samples that can stay with you for long. Durable earbuds are dust and waterproof. The best waterproof wireless earbuds can remain for 30 minutes in water of 1 M deep without spoiling. You need to wipe them dry and continue using them. However, not all brands labeled water, and dust resistant are genuine. Some may be counterfeits.
Read our related article on the Best Cordless Phones With Headset Jacks! Here are our top picks.
Why Do I Need Earbuds?
Earbuds are useful when traveling. Instead of putting your phone on loudspeaker and destructing others, you need to plug your earbuds into your ears and start enjoying your beats.
Again, earbuds are useful for answering calls. When your phone’s microphone is not working, then you can rely on the earphone’s microphone. Both wireless and wired work well. However, wireless is the best.
If you are ever busy doing some manual work that keeps your hands busy and dirty, you can use the wireless microphone for calls and music. The best wireless earbuds under $50 have a sensitive microphone, bass, and quality sound system.
Read More: AirPods Sound Muffled On Phone? If your AirPods sound is muffled on your devices, here’s what to do about it.
How Do Wireless Earbuds Work?
As I said earlier, you can find two types of earbuds. We have the wireless and the wired earbuds. Unlike wired earbuds that receive electrical signals via the connecting wires from the phone and then convert them into sound signals for you to hear the sounds, wireless earbuds receive either radio waves or infrared signals from the phone, and converts them into sound signals and using the receiver.
What are the Main Parts of Wireless Earbud?
Wireless earbuds operate under coordination of several parts. The central element is the receiver that converts radio waves or infrared signals into sound signals. The microphone records voice from the surrounding and converts it into electrical signals. The battery powers the device to ensure smooth functionality.
How Do I Maintain Wireless Earbuds?
To prolong the life of your device, you should always keep them out of children. Children can subject them to pressure and destroy them. Again, recharge them regularly.
Do not subject your earbuds to water and dust. In case it happens, please wipe out the water to ensure that water does not damage the circuitry. Again, always blow away the dust that settles within the earbuds.
Read More: How Far Can AirPods Be from Phone and STILL Work? Learn how to get the most out of your AirPods.
What are the 7 Best Wireless Earbuds for Phone Calls?
I have done a detailed research of the best wireless earbuds and came up with seven of them. They include the following.
1. AUKEY True Wireless Earbuds
The device comes with Bluetooth 5, which is the most recent development of wireless communication technology. You can connect first to smartphones, tablets, and computers and enjoy nonstop music beats. Again, Bluetooth 5 ensures that no accidental disconnections come in to interrupt your music listening.
The device comes with a charging case that helps you to recharge your buds anytime they go off. The charging case is like a power bank that gives you instant power even in the bushes. Moreover, the device has a Qi Wireless Charging.
If you want heavy bass, then go for these earbuds. They produce quality heavy bass that will drive you into a different world. Do not forget to manage your volume to avoid damaging your ears. Pairing is one-step.
- Heavy bass
- Fits the ears comfortably
- Easy pairing
- Wireless charging
- Latest Bluetooth
- A bit costly
2. 1MORE Stylish True Wireless Earbuds
MORE Stylish True Wireless Earbuds come with Bluetooth 5. The technology is useful in that it helps in faster connections as well as maintaining a stable link. You can connect with phones, tablets, and computers and listen to music.
It has a Hifi sound that is of high quality. You will never get tired of listening to music at all. Just ensure that you insert the devices into the ear canal correctly and receive the best connection.
The device has a charging case. You will always have a reliable power back up even when away from your home. When fully charged, it can go for 24 hours non-stop. As you wear them, you appear classy always.
- Has the latest Bluetooth
- It has a charging case
- The battery is durable
- It fits comfortably into the ears
- Has Hifi sound
- Not attractive
3. Etymotic Research MP9-15 Music PRO
The device is familiar with music producers and movie directors. It produces high fidelity sounds that always leave you carried away. If you want the sharpest tone and the most substantial bass ever, then consider Etymotic Research earphones.
Moreover, the earphones are durable. Customer feedback has always been positive about durability. Again, the battery can last for long before going off. The device has adaptive attenuation that helps it to adapt to environmental sound conditions, thus giving you the best sound quality ever.
Upon buying a pair MP9-15 earplugs, you expect other additional accompaniments such as assortment ear tips, flexible neck cord, filter tool, and replacement filters, batteries, cleaning tool, user manual, and protective case.
- Has high-quality sound
- Adaptive attenuation
- Fits comfortably to the ears
- Has a classy design
- It is durable
- It is a bit costly
4. Creative Outlier Air TWS True Wireless Sweatproof Earphones
Just as the name indicates, the earbuds are sweat proof. They are handy for the sportsmen and women. The sweat does not penetrate the interiors due to tight sealing.
The battery can run for long. When fully charged, it can run for 30 hours non-stop working. It is instrumental when you are going to places with no charging power. Most rural areas experience power shortages. You can carry the devices and spend a day with them away from home.
It supports dual voice calls. Moreover, it can work with Google Assistant. You can use voice to control how it operates. It helps to avoid monotony due to manual adjustments.
- It is compatible with Google Assistant
- It supports dual calls
- The buds are sweatproof
- It has a durable battery
- It has Graphene drivers
- It is complicated for the elderly
5. Apple Air Pods Pro
Apple Air Pods Pro is a quality earbud due to the elegant design and quality sound it produces. It supports iPhone 8 and later whereby you can control using Siri. Just say what you want it to do over the Siri app and have a smooth experience. Siri operates using a network where data charges may apply.
The devices are both sweat and waterproof. The aspect makes them durable as most electronics stop working due to moisture exposure. Athletes can do their exercises and still have them functioning even under high sweat. Apple has tested the device and ensured that it is functioning correctly. When buying, do it with confidence.
- It can work with Siri
- It has a durable battery
- It is apple tested
- Water and sweat proof
- It has an elegant design
- Only works with iPhone 8 and above
5. ISOtunes PRO Bluetooth Earplug Headphones
The device reduces noise largely. It can reduce noise by a rating of 27 dB. It means that you can listen to music or participate in a call conversation even within a noisy environment. They are very efficient in a garage or any other noisy working area to listen to music as you work. Besides, the device reduces background noise.
The battery can last for around 10 hours. It means that you can stay connected for the whole day and return to recharge in the evening. It is convenient for students who study away from home.
Bluetooth connectivity is what makes the device very advanced. You can pair it with your phone easily. Moreover, the gadget is OSHA Compliant.
- Easy to pair
- Battery is durable
- Has the latest Bluetooth technology
- It is OSHA Compliant
- Has noise-canceling capability
- A bit expensive
6. Etymotic ER3XR Extended Response Balanced Armature In-Ear Earp
The device has extended bass response. It produces heavy and secure bass that leaves you overwhelmed. The machine produces balanced sounds on both ears. As you listen to music, you enjoy every aspect.
The earbuds come with detachable cables with 3.5mm plug and MMCX connectors. You can decide to either connect the device to your phone, tablet, or computer via Bluetooth or through the wired extension. Both connection methods produce high-quality sounds.
The device has high capability to isolate noise. Every time, you are within a noisy environment, the earbud adapts to the noise environment and can discard unwanted noise. It has 22 ohms speaker impedance.
- It has the noise-canceling capability
- It is easy to use
- It adapts to environment
- It has Detachable cables
- It has Heavy bass
- It may be difficult to use for the seniors
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Just yesterday, American pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson opened the door for the generic production of an important HIV/AIDS drug .North of the border, efforts to encourage generic drug manufacturing hit a snag when Canadian lawmakers voted against a bill that would have made it easier for pharmaceutical companies to produce and sell generic drugs to developing countries.
The bill – which was originally introduced in 2011 but died when a federal election was called – would have cut through some of the red tape that has been constraining the ability of Canadian generic drug makers to sell medicine at low prices in the developing world.
Many leading health organizations – including the World Health Organization – argue that making life-saving drugs to treat deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS or TB affordable is one of the ways in which health outcomes in the developing world can be improved. Indeed, affordability of drugs is a significant issue, one which Canada tackled back in 2004, when it passed “Canada’s Access to Medicine Regime” (CAMR), a law that opened the door to the production and sale of generic medicines globally. However, CAMR has been marred by restrictive rules and red tape – in its eight years of existence, it’s enabled only one shipment of generic drugs to a developing country. The defeated bill, which would have eased such restrictions, did not find much support among the ranks of the majority Conservative Party, whose members argue the bill would not have achieved its intended aims. Another argument raised by Conservative members of Parliament is that the proposed bill would have violated Canada’s WTO obligations, including, presumably, the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement, which which grants extensive patent rights to pharmaceutical companies.
On its face, it’s a shame that Canada couldn’t follow through on its commitment to making generic drugs more readily available in the developing world, given the proven efficacy in reducing mortality that access to cheap medicine has. Canada has a significant generic pharmaceutical drug industry, which certainly would have been benefited from this bill – an argument which should have sold MPs on both sides of the aisle.
While there is certainly some merit to Martin’s line of thinking, solutions to improving health care in the developing world should not be thought of as a zero-sum game. Multi-pronged approaches, which include various policy tools – including bills like the one just recently defeated – are needed. Tackling poverty in the developing world should not be at the expense of passing laws that increase access to cheap drugs for people who need it. And neither should Canadian lawmakers shield themselves from their humanitarian responsibility by deploying arguments about trade agreements, when even Canadian brand-name pharma companies didn’t oppose the bill. | <urn:uuid:aae92bef-26cf-4877-b78c-ad6a13b0c565> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.undispatch.com/canadian-lawmakers-defeat-bill-to-provide-generic-drugs-to-developing-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973152 | 554 | 2.59375 | 3 |
- Also called canine distemper . an infectious disease chiefly of young dogs, caused by an unidentified virus and characterized by lethargy, fever, catarrh, photophobia, and vomiting.
- Also called colt distemper, equine distemper, strangles . an infectious disease of horses, caused by the bacillus Streptococcus equi and characterized by catarrh of the upper air passages and the formation of pus in the submaxillary and other lymphatic glands.
- Also called cat distemper, feline agranulocytosis, feline distemper, feline infectious enteritis, feline panleukopenia . a usually fatal viral disease of cats, characterized by fever, vomiting, and diarrhea, leading to severe dehydration.
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