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- James Howells, 35, said he mistakenly put a hard drive with 7,500 bitcoins in the trash while clearing out his home in 2013.
- At today’s prices, that haul would be worth more than $280 million.
- He needs permission from his local council to search a garbage dump he believes contains the lost hardware.
- The Newport City Council has rejected his requests to look through the landfill, citing environmental and funding concerns.
LONDON — A British man who accidentally threw out a hard drive with a trove of bitcoin on it is once again urging local city officials to let him search for it in a landfill site.
James Howells, a 35-year-old IT engineer from Newport, Wales, said he discarded the device while clearing out his home in 2013. He claims he had two identical laptop hard drives, and that he mistakenly put the one containing the cryptographic “private key” needed to access and spend his bitcoins in the trash.
After all these years, Howells is still confident he’d be able to recover the bitcoin. Though the external part of the hard drive may be damaged and rusted, he believes the glass platter inside may still be intact.
“There is a good chance the platter inside the drive is still intact,” he told CNBC. “Data recovery experts could then rebuild the drive or read the data directly from the platter.”
Howells says he had 7,500 bitcoins which, at today’s prices, would be worth more than $280 million. He says the only way to regain access to it would be through the hard drive he threw in the trash eight years ago.
But he needs permission from his local council to search a garbage dump he believes contains the lost hardware. The landfill is not open to the public and trespassing would be considered a criminal offense.
Howells has offered to donate 25% of the haul — worth around $70.8 million — to a “Covid Relief Fund” for his home city if he manages to dig up the hard drive. He has also promised to fund the excavation project with the backing of an unnamed hedge fund.
But the Newport City Council has so far rejected his requests to look through the landfill, citing environmental and funding concerns. And it doesn’t seem like local officials are about to budge anytime soon.
“As far as I am aware they have already rejected the offer,” Howells said. “Without even having heard our plan of action or without being given a chance to present our mitigations to their concerns regarding the environment, it’s just a straight up ‘no’ every time.”
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When Darcy Bandeen arrived at UBC last year, the arts undergraduate student was filled with the usual first-year anxieties: “Will I meet anyone? Will I spend the next year alone in my dorm room crying myself to sleep, or am I going to have a phenomenal year? You don’t know how it’s going to go.”
Despite their anxieties, 19-year-old Bandeen—who identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they, their and them—quickly found a community, thanks in part to a Jump Start event for LGBT2SQIA+ students organized by UBC Equity & Inclusion (EIO).
“I went with a friend who was starting first year at the same time,” said Bandeen. “It was a great opportunity to ground myself in a social circle and find some familiar faces when I went to my first Pride Collective meetings.”
This year marks the third time that EIO is organizing Get Connected events specifically for students from marginalized communities, and the second year events will take place as part of Jump Start, a week of orientation events for all first-year students that takes place Aug. 24-30. In addition to offerings for LGBT2SQIA+ students, EIO is also organizing a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of colour) social, while the First Nations House of Learning is hosting a Jump Start lunch for Indigenous students.
“When we looked at results from the Undergraduate Experience Survey, we could see that queer and trans students, as well as students who are black, Indigenous or people of colour, were feeling a lack of community and connection at UBC. Our first Get Connected events were organized as a direct response,” said Sara-Jane Finlay, associate vice-president of equity and inclusion. “We went from two small groups of about 10 or 15 students in our first year to groups of about 65 students last year, and we’re excited to see how many students we’ll connect with this year.”
Tasha Nijjar, EIO equity educator, said the get-togethers help first-year students feel welcomed and supported from day one.
“These events are about creating intentional space for students who self-identify as belonging to those groups to come down and gather with other students who have had similar experiences,” said Nijjar. “We have returning students there to share their experience of being at UBC—places that they found useful, supports and ways that they’ve been able to connect. It’s also about recognizing the opportunities and challenges they might face.”
The events are also an opportunity to ask questions and learn about resources, added Nijjar. “If you are at orientation and no one mentions where the gender-neutral bathrooms are, and you don’t get that information, the message that gets conveyed is that maybe there isn’t a space for you here, or that you’re going to need to make a special accommodation to get that information,” she said.
Ultimately, these events reflect UBC’s deep commitment to embracing diversity and supporting student wellness, said Nijjar.
“When you’re in a minority, it can be intimidating to fully express yourself,” she said. “There’s something to be said for feeling seen and that it’s okay to be who you are.”
For Bandeen, who helped lead their high school’s gay-straight alliance, these events can be valuable for students who are struggling with their identity and with acceptance at home.
“Everyone comes to university from a different place,” they said. “I was very lucky to be in a supportive family and school environment, but some people don’t have that luxury or privilege. There were definitely people who weren’t necessarily as comfortable in their own skin, or who were more introverted or shy.
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Why you’d want a Ford Consul, Zephyr or Zodiac
Ford of Britain had established a strong following pre-WW2 for its small cars, which combined simple engineering and spacious bodies to put the middle classes on the road in considerably more comfort than the Austin Seven.
The pre-war range was given a token post-war makeover to continue offering the cheapest ‘proper’ cars around, but in the growing market for a more luxurious model competition was hotting up and Ford was in danger of missing out with its aged V8-Pilot.
All this changed at the 1950 Motor Show, as the Blue Oval unveiled the new Consul and Zephyr.
Gone was the old sidevalve V8, replaced by a state-of-the-art oversquare 1508cc ‘four’ and a six-cylinder version with the same bore and stroke (for commonality of internal parts), giving 2262cc.
The Consul was 5mph faster than the V8-Pilot and the Zephyr was an 80mph car.
The styling was modern yet conservative, with European dimensions but making excellent use of the space available.
The result was a comfortable monocoque saloon (or unitary construction, more accurately, because it had a hefty welded-on underframe) with six-seater potential thanks to bench seats front and rear.
The cars were identical behind the bulkhead, but the front end of the six-cylinder was 7in longer than the ‘four’, with the wheelbase 4in longer.
The cars were a revelation on the road, with the first production MacPherson strut front suspension – mounting a tall spring/damper just inboard of the wheel line would never have been possible with a separate chassis.
The rubber-mounted top swivel joint was complex, but made kingpins, trunnions and top wishbones obsolete, with just a lower link required. Braking forces were taken by the anti-roll bar. The new system provided good shock insulation and handling.
Another big step in isolating the occupants from mechanical harshness came with the first hydraulic clutch operation – though the three-speed ’box was a throwback: the higher-revving oversquare layout really needed more gears. The ‘six’ would get an overdrive option late in production, and many have been retrofitted.
Maurice Gatsonides won the 1953 Monte in a Zephyr, beating Jaguar – having posted his kids part-way down the descent on the final test, equipped with buckets of water and instructions to throw them over the front wheels when he passed, to reduce the inevitable brake fade!
Images: James Mann
Ford Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac: what to look for
See above for trouble spots
Engine and front suspension
The first of a long line, these were very modern engines for their time and many components are shared with later models; though visually almost identical, this is a Mk2 ‘six’.
As well as verifying originality, check for rattles and excess oil breathing indicating wear, and for signs of overheating from a silted-up radiator.
The revolutionary front suspension was well-engineered and strong, but wear in the steering box can cause excess play, and cracked mountings.
Drive and gearchange
Period road testers complimented the Fords on their light controls and great combination of a smooth ride and good cornering, though heavily front-biased weight distribution on both the ‘four’ and the ‘six’ caused wheelspin on slippery surfaces and made the tail step out if cornered hard in the wet; radial tyres help.
The three-speed column gearchange should feel reasonably precise, with unbeatable synchro on second and top. This one has a period overdrive.
Zephyr Zodiacs boasted two-tone leather trim, Zephyrs single-tone and Consuls leathercloth.
All can be (expensively) revived by specialists.
All items are mostly difficult to find today, especially chromed Mazak parts and rare details such
as these early 1954 rear lights.
Ford Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac: on the road
Ford was slow to respond to demand for more gears and power.
The Zodiac had a little extra urge, and overdrive eventually arrived, but both these and far more had been available as aftermarket conversions for years from many specialists, especially for the ‘six’.
A period tuning kit adds value, but non-period ‘custom’ work, unless it’s very well done, does not and can be costly to put back to original.
Running-gear parts are widely available new and used, and the conventional design means mechanical work is rarely expensive: concentrate on finding a car with good bodywork and adjust the price if mechanical work is needed.
The convertible hood was an engineering triumph, electro-hydraulically operated from the coupé de ville position to fully down – and could return to that raised position without stopping the car. Make sure it all works and the top material is good – rebuilding can be costly.
Ford controls were all notably light for the time, so expect them to be still. The brakes (large drums combined with small 13in wheels) should feel effective, only suffering fade when really pressing on.
Fortunately, Ford adopted 12V electrics for these cars, but the wipers were still vacuum-operated, albeit boosted a bit by a vacuum pump beneath the fuel pump.
In spite of the small wheels, the steering lock is poor and the steering box was one of the more old-fashioned features, with multiple links and an idler to wear as well: budget to rebuild the system if there’s excessive play.
Ford Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac price guide
- Show/rebuilt: £10k (£22k)/£15k/£20k (£30k)
- Average: £4500 (£14k)/£6k/£8k (£18k)
- Restoration: £1k (£5k)/£2k/£2500 (£7500)
Ford Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac history
1950 Oct Ford Consul (47bhp) and Zephyr (68bhp) saloons launched at Earls Court
1951 Jan Consul on sale in UK; Zephyr Feb
1951 Oct Zephyr Six convertible shown on Carbodies’ stand
1952 Sep ‘Flat dash’ replaced by curved cowled panel with shelf below; Zephyr convertible enters production, with three-position hood
1953 Oct Zephyr Zodiac joins the range: 71bhp high-compression engine, two-tone paint and trim, whitewalls, features include screenwash and reversing light; also Consul convertible and Abbott of Farnham Estate
1954 Nov Modified block casting for new flywheel and clutch
1955 Aug Borg-Warner overdrive optional
1956 Feb Mk1 replaced by Mk2
The owner’s view
“I learnt to drive in a Consul,” recalls John Ball, “and I’ve always wanted a Zodiac. I couldn’t afford them back in the day, so when I retired I bought one – and now I’ve got four!
“A red Zephyr came first, then this Zodiac, then a Consul to restore and finally a black Zodiac, which is my next project.
“My Consul had been with one owner since 1960 – it was in really bad condition, I had to jig it behind the spring hangers at the back. The club does a lot of parts, including properly pressed floorpans.
“I finished it in time for the previous owner’s 100th birthday and took him for a run in it: he was like a kid at Christmas!
“This Zodiac wasn’t too bad, only needing a small amount of welding, plus rechroming and I’ve fitted a new radiator and brakes. The rare original rear lights were in a box.”
MORRIS OXFORD/SIX MO/MS
Expensive, especially in six-cylinder form, the Morris struggled for sales – not aided by looking like the smaller Minor, and the Oxford’s gutless sidevalve.
Sold 1948-’54• No. built 172,360 • Price now £3-8000
VAUXHALL WYVERN/VELOX/CRESTA E
Vauxhall showed Ford the way to go with a larger, more Transatlantic-looking saloon that flew out of the showrooms. Its tendency to rust means few survive.
Sold 1951-’57 • No. built 545,388 • Price now £6-12,000
Ford Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac: the Classic & Sports Car verdict
With strong club, enthusiast and specialist support, more Mk1s are returning to the road and rising values mean that proper restoration is becoming worthwhile, though some still get heavily customised.
Many have been bodged over the years, and rot can be extensive and tricky to eradicate, so inspect any potential purchase carefully and buy the best. Missing original trim is more of a problem than a later engine.
- Sturdy body, modern engine and suspension and quality fittings mean the Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac remain usable
- Delightful convertibles
- Rampant rot has claimed many, and it can be hard to spot bodged restoration work
- Detail trim items, especially chrome, are scarce
Ford Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac specifications
- Sold/number built 1950-’56/231,481
- Construction steel monocoque
- Engine all-iron, overhead-valve 1508cc ‘four’ or 2262cc ‘six’, with single Zenith carburettor
- Max power 47bhp @ 4400rpm to 71bhp @ 4200rpm
- Max torque 72lb ft @ 2400rpm to 108lb ft @ 2000rpm
- Transmission three-speed, two-synchro manual, RWD; optional overdrive on six-cylinder cars from 1955
- Suspension: front independent, by MacPherson struts, anti-roll bar rear live axle, semi-elliptic springs, lever-arm dampers
- Steering Burman worm and peg
- Brakes Girling 9in (229mm) drums
- Length 14ft 3¾in (4366mm)
- Width 5ft 4in (1626mm)
- Height 4ft 11½in (1511mm)
- Wheelbase 8ft 8in (2642mm)
- Weight 2436-2660lb (1107-1209kg)
- 0-60mph 27.2-20.2 secs
- Top speed 73-80mph
- Mpg 20-30
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Temecula’s City Council condemned racism in a resolution passed 4-0 Tuesday night, Aug. 11, becoming the latest Inland elected body to officially denounce bigotry after a groundswell of support for social justice stemming from the death of George Floyd.
Since the May 25 death of Floyd, an unarmed Black man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, police custody, Temecula, like much of the nation, has been the scene of protests against systemic racism and police brutality. A number of Inland cities, including Riverside, Moreno Valley, Redlands, and Fontana, have declared racism to be a public health crisis, as have the boards of supervisors in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
Hundreds turned out for a June 5 protest against racial inequality and police brutality that ended at Temecula City Hall.
Protesters called out the names of people of color killed by police, including 18-year-old Matthew Tucker of Temecula. Riverside County sheriff’s deputies said Tucker was fatally shot after he came at them with a knife; his mother said he was shot in the back while on the ground.
Tuesday’s resolution stems from a framework the council approved July 14 to advance racial equity in Temecula. The city also is looking into creating a commission dealing with diversity and related matters.
The two-page resolution starts by mentioning Floyd and notes how the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Stephon Clark, Tamir Rice and other people of color — Tucker’s name is not among them — have sparked protests and a “renewed commitment” in society to equality and justice.
Councilman Mike Naggar said that, at first, he took issue with listing those names.
“Quite honestly, I don’t know the details of every one of these cases,” he said at Tuesday’s meeting. “But what I do know is that these cases have spurred on the discussion, and that is all that that portion of the resolution is identifying.”
Councilman Zak Schwank said: “Racism and all of its impacts were born long before any of us were born. But we can acknowledge that we’re not immune and we can work together to end racism, whether it’s institutional or otherwise.”
The resolution states the council’s support for “the fair and equitable treatment of all human beings in a just society, irrespective of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, religion, or cultural background, and strongly denounces racism in all its forms, systemic or otherwise.”
The final resolution defined the terms diversity, inclusion, and equality and added language supporting the council’s commitment to equal treatment regardless of religion.
In Temecula, a city of roughly 114,000, 69% of residents are white, compared to 60% for Riverside County as a whole. The city also is known to be politically conservative. While Democrats are a plurality of county voters, just 30% of Temecula voters are registered Democrats while 41% are registered Republicans.
Some thought the resolution didn’t go far enough or was just a first step.
“We hope that we will see new, diverse faces on our city’s boards and commissions when some seats turn over in the next year,” Courtney Sheehan, interim president of the Temecula Valley Democrats, said in an emailed statement Wednesday. The city also needs to address a lack of affordable housing and reevaluate its contact with the Sheriff’s Department “so that our residents of color face potentially less over-policing,” she said.
Others took issue with what they thought was an apologetic tone.
“We are a vibrant, diverse, healthy and inclusive community and these supporting rationalizations (in the resolution) suggest that Temecula residents have something to be ashamed of,” Rick Reiss wrote in emailed comments to the council. “Nothing could be further from the truth.”
The council — three men, one woman and no Blacks or Latinos — is one member short since the June resignation of Mayor James “Stew” Stewart.
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NBA Referees and The Transparency Initiative
The Last 2 Minutes
NBA referees and anyone else involved in sports knows that the last 2 minutes of any close game is an intense and chaotic moment. The NBA is even much more intense and chaotic than the games you and I might play in. It is a pressure packed situation for everyone involved. The players are focused on winning at all costs. The coaches are desperately looking for any advantages to exploit. The fans are on their feet, screaming and cheering for the home team to come out on top. There is chaos everywhere. Excitement echoes off the rafters. The air is alive with ripples of noise. The referees are in position and alert. They are watching everything. Through the roar, a whistle blows and suddenly the ball is in play.
Players start running in every direction in a feverish attempt to get into the best position. Blocks are made, screens are run, everybody is picking and poking. The excitement level in the building explodes through the roof. The MVP of the home team nails a 3 point buzzer beater from center court. The game is over. It is beautiful. The losing team is disappointed, but they know they were involved in something special, and they are proud.
This is what sports are all about. All of the fans are ecstatic and can’t wait to buy another ticket. The fans at home, watching the game on TV are just as excited. ‘What an awesome game!’ is the catchphrase everywhere. Well, almost everywhere.
The fans from the losing team are not quite so thrilled as the rest of us. In fact, they are pretty cranky about the whole thing. With their high definition televisions, they saw that little push and even that tug on the shirt. They think these are penalties that should have been called, even during an intense buzzer beating moment. I think that is up for debate. ‘If the referees had called a penalty, we would have won’ they all say. The TV sports news keep running the highlight reel over and over. Now, everybody can see the push and the tug. Everyone is talking about it instead of the game. Sportscasters bring in experts to talk about it. They all agree that something should have been called. Technically, they might be correct, the fans, the sportscasters and the experts are all correct. I am not impressed though. For me, the human element of sports is what makes them great and exciting. Unpredictable.
As a sports fan who just loves the game, don’t you wish those ‘technicality people’ could just love the game, too? Love the excitement of it all. Celebrate the home team superstar draining the 3 pointer. Celebrate the fans. The lifelong fans who just watched one of the most amazing games ever. The new fans are now hooked for life. The kids that will pass on the legend of their first game when they take their own grandchildren to watch their first game at some point long into the future. Generations of sports fans loved that game. Sigh. What a nice dream, eh? But, no. The unfortunate reality is that the media, especially in the town of the losing team, are not going to let it go.
Some fans would rather gripe about a non-call in the last 2 minutes of the game. Break it down, follow every possible ‘other reality’ scenario that might have happened if the non-call had actually been a call. They might be right, they might be wrong. At the end of the day, who really cares? It means nothing. Being right or wrong about something that can’t be changed, changes nothing. The game is over and everybody went home. Get a life and get over it buddy. Better luck next time. Time to put on your big boy panties and get ready for the next game. But, wait. Hang on a minute. The media is loving this. ‘Look at all these whiners’ they say in the boardrooms. Let’s give them a platform, help them whine some more and maybe we can sell some extra advertising.
Now, one would think that the league would want us all to focus on the full awesome package of such a big game. What a spectacular game! Look at all the superstars! Did you see that buzzer beater?! Cater to all those new fans. Sell some tickets. Create more excitement. Make more money. That would all seem like a logical course of action. But, no. Wait a minute. That is not what is going to happen. The NBA has other plans.
There is something called The Transparency Initiative. It is a catchphrase that surrounded the coming of Adam Silver. He is the big boss at the NBA. The Transparency Initiative sounds impressive and it is intended to give better access to the fans and media regarding the referees and the decisions they make during the games. At this time, I haven’t been able to track down an actual written copy of this initiative but it is referred to often by the NBA and it actually sounds like a great idea. For the most part.
Under the umbrella of this initiative is the new NBA Replay Center. I am very impressed with the replay center. It is a thing of beauty. Technology and sports is an exciting field to watch and the NBA is one of the leaders in the world when it comes to innovation and progressive thinking. This replay center is pretty incredible. This part of the Transparency Initiative is most definitely working.
So what is wrong? It is something called an L2M Report. L2M is short for the ‘Last 2 Minutes’. What is the Last 2 Minutes Report, you ask? Well, it is exactly what it sounds like. It is a detailed report of everything that happens in the last 2 minutes of close NBA games. These are only for the games where the point spread is within 5 points at exactly 2 minutes remaining. Not 2:06 or 2:02, but 2:00 left in the game. If the games go to overtime they will use the L2M for the final overtime period.
At the end of these games, there will be a couple of people in Secaucus, New Jersey, who are going to use all of those fancy resources available at that beautiful replay center, including the 94 monitors they have. They are going to rewind and slow-mo every second of that last 2 minutes window of the game. They will zero in on every single player, every movement, every pattern. Nothing will get missed with cameras from every angle covering every high resolution bead of sweat that hits the floor. The push and the tug are pretty obvious with the benefit of all of this technology. The L2M Report is written and distributed around the league so it can be discussed amongst teams and officials and they can work together to improve things for the future. Great idea, eh? Yep. But wait, what?
The NBA is releasing these L2M reports to the media. Within 24 hours. No interviews with the referees. No way for them to explain their logic or their reasons for allowing the play to continue. Basically these reports are useless to me personally as a sports fan, and also for the purposes of running the Officials101 website. Apparently, this is some kind of homage to The Transparency Initiative. Somebody has determined that taking a small 2 minute window of the most chaotic part of the most intense basketball games is a great place to publicly critique exactly 3 of their employees in the name of The Transparency Initiative. Huh? Not just any employees either. Not the star players. The ones that make more money in one game than most of us make in a year. No, there won’t be any breakdown of their missed assignments or bad passes. There will be no criticism of the foolish players that committed the push and tug fouls. The managers, coaches and executives are all safe. Even the beer slingers and the floor sweepers are safe. None of them are going to get thrown under the bus tomorrow morning. The only people that will get publicly chastised in this report, are, wait for it… the referees.
I am not sure who decided there is some kind of value in publicly ripping any employees after a pressure situation, but I think they may be a little off base on this one. In any other high stress job in the world, this negative handling of employees would immediately be recognized as just a preposterous plan. It wouldn’t have even gotten started because nobody would ever dream of such a ridiculous notion. It seems that just because these are professional referees, that this is all somehow okay. I don’t think so.
Can you imagine if your boss was to hire somebody to go over the most chaotic part of your day. Analyze it, break it down and find every tiny detail of what you should have done differently and then post it on the bulletin board in the lunchroom. Or, even worse, post it on the internet. Nobody else at work gets analyzed or chastised. Just you and the other 2 in your department. That is it. The report doesn’t take into account how awesome you were all day, it just focusses in on that little period of chaos. Some people may find this kind of feedback to be helpful, and maybe it is, but any real value was certainly lost as soon as it was posted on the lunchroom wall. Co-workers and customers can now see it. They can comment on it, write jokes about your mistakes and even keep copies of everything in case there are future opportunities to rub your nose in it again. Suddenly, your helpful little critique isn’t so helpful is it? It became negative and it is now an obstacle to your growth and progress. Imagine having it posted on the internet.
Personally, I don’t have a problem with workplace critiques that are meant to help people make progress and improve. I just don’t think they should be hung on the bulletin board in the lunchroom or posted on internet. A work critique should just be a work critique. That is it. This L2M thing has, or at least had, some good intentions in the beginning. It was meant to be used as a tool to connect with fans and to explain what happened in all those final moments of chaos in the most exciting NBA games. I don’t really believe that it was intended to publicly throw the NBA referees under the bus, but that is what is happening. The NBRA (NBA Referees Association) is not happy about the L2M and I don’t blame them for a minute. (Read the NBRA Official Statement here). If my boss ever posted such a redundant report as the L2M about me on the bulletin board for no real good reason, other than he thought it was a good idea, I would have a few harsh words to say to him, too. I might write him a Jackass Critique and post it on the end of his nose. That is just me though. The NBA Referees don’t have those kinds of options, and hopefully not that attitude either.
What kind of options do the NBA Executive have for resolving this issue? How can they deal with this and not lose face in the boardroom? You have to remember that the NBA boardrooms are filled with very rich, very powerful, alpha personalities. They don’t change their minds easily. This will probably have to be ‘handled’. I am not as smart as all those billionaires so this is just pure speculation on my part, but I think they probably just need to stop publishing the L2M Reports to the media. Don’t stop making them completely because it is possible the reports themselves are actually beneficial to the teams and the referees. Overall, I don’t think taking the time to make the reports is a horrible idea, but they completely lose all positive value as soon as the media gets a hold of them and crushes the referees just so they can sell some advertising. Referees who also happen to be employees of the NBA and, unbeknownst to many, human beings as well. If it is so important to the NBA to release these L2M results to the public, they should at least release their accumulated data for a set time period rather than releasing them each day for each individual game.
If the NBA really wants to help it’s referees, then maybe they should consider giving referees free access to that fancy new room in New Jersey for the last 2 minutes of the really close games. Maybe just for games that are within a 5 point spread, for example. Or how about in overtime? That way the referees can see the same obvious push and tugs that the fans can see at home. Maybe, they can do something useful about it before the game is over. Maybe, everybody in New Jersey can work together and actually make things better. To me, that is a Transparency Initiative that will help get the calls correct in The Last 2 Minutes.
While researching for this article, I had to do a lot of digging around about the coming of Adam Silver because he is the catalyst for The Transparency Initiative. From all reports that I read, and I did read a lot of them, Mr. Silver is a master negotiator who just wants everyone to get along and make money. His handling of the $24 billion TV package and the Donald Sterling debacle were pretty incredible displays of his skill sets. I believe he meant well with this whole Transparency Initiative thing and I believe that he will fix it. Time will tell.
Thanks for reading.
Have an awesome day!
The NBA Referees
NBA Referees Website
NBA Referees Twitter
NBA Referees Facebook
NBRA Public Statement
NBA Memo #10 Feb 24 2016
NBA Respect for The Game Memo Oct 29, 2014
1st L2M’s on March 2, 2015
Joe Borgia explains L2M on Making The Call
NBA Officials Media Guide 2015 – 2016
NBA Press Release announcing L2M Feb 27 2015
Josh Robbins article Orlando Sentinel May 1 2015
Jeff Zillgitt article USA Today June 7 2016
Luke Duffy article at Hoops Habit June 9 2016
Jolene Nacapuy of Campus Times mentions a Portland trial on Jan 19 2015
ESPN discusses Adam Silver Jan 29 2015
Ben Golliver at Sports Illustrated talks transparency and Adam Silver Apr 1 2014
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Neck pain is a common presentation in the Spine and Sports Injury Clinic (SSi covering Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate areas) with people often asking “why does my neck keep hurting?”
Most people’s daily lives now involve many hours in a single position, with todays modern world often encouraging us to spend a significant amount of time looking at some form of screen, whether it be a computer, tablet or phone. People generally appreciate the importance of a good ergonomic desk set up when using a computer (for more information see our desk set up lifestyle advice sheet) but can overlook this when using phones or tablets. It appears to have become more common place for people to sit in slumped postures or with their head held in a forward bent position for significant periods of time over the course of the day.
The solution is simple, review the amount of time you spend in these positions and try to limit them:
- Set your tablet up in a stand on a table instead of on your lap on a sofa.
- When using your phone try lifting it to head / eye height to avoid looking down at it.
- Make sure you have a good desk set up for your computer to help reduce repetitive stain.
- Make sure you add brief but frequent periods of movement for the neck.
The final point on movement can make a real difference to how someone’s neck pain behaves. To help with this we have added 3 new exercise sheets to the exercise library; Neck Mobility, Neck Stretching, Tension Headaches. These sheets can help people develop the mobility and flexibility in their neck and reduce the repetitive positions that may cause strain leading to pain. The key is to make sure you perform brief moments of movement repeatedly throughout the day to brake up the repetitive position. For more information on how to manage a neck complaint contact us at SSi | <urn:uuid:61c0b3db-0e2b-4cac-9af1-5850a388b90b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://spinesportsinjury.com/blog/60-why-does-my-neck-hurt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94 | 385 | 2.234375 | 2 |
The dynamic response of a hybrid computed torque controlled toggle mechanism, which is driven by a permanent magnet (PM) synchronous servo motor, is studied in this paper. First, based on the principle for computed torque control, a position controller is developed for the motor-toggle servomechanism. Moreover, to relax the requirement of the lumped uncertainty in the design of a computed torque controller, a fuzzy neural network (FNN) uncertainty observer is utilized to adapt the lumped uncertainty on line. Furthermore, based on the Lyapunov stability a hybrid control system, which combines the computed torque controller, the FNN uncertainty observer and a compensated controller, is proposed to control the position of a slider of the motor-toggle servomechanism. The computed torque controller with FNN uncertainty observer is the main tracking controller, and the compensated controller is designed to compensate the minimum approximation error of the uncertainty observer instead of increasing the rules of the FNN. Finally, simulated and experimental results due to a periodic sinusoidal command show that the dynamic behaviors of the proposed hybrid control system are robust with regard to parametric variations and external disturbances.
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|State||Published - 2000|
|Event||26th Annual Conference of the IEEE Electronics Society IECON 2000 - Nagoya, Japan|
Duration: 22 Oct 2000 → 28 Oct 2000
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Reshod® Walking Shoes is a performance walking brand. During our development process, we took every opportunity to shed as much weight as possible without compromising functionality. If you are a competitive walker that chooses footwear primarily for its weight, consider what you are getting for each ounce and don’t sell yourself short. Athletic shoes have many parts and they all contribute to the overall weight, but lighter isn’t always better.
The finished weight of a Men’s size 9 Reshod Pushover® is 10.2 oz (288 grams). A Men’s size 9 Coach Carmen® weighs 8.6 oz. (244 grams). Both styles have close to thirty components. Most are functional in nature, such as thread, glue, laces, foam and synthetic leather parts, while others, such as the screen printed logos, are aesthetic in nature. If the weight of a shoe is the sum of it parts, which features would you give up to get a super-light product?
Let’s start with the upper. Shoes with a knitted or stretchy fabric might hug your foot to give a “slipper-like” feel, but how do they perform when you pick up the pace? Have you ever noticed that you work harder to lift the shoe with a stretchy upper versus a textile upper? The reason is because the material won’t resist against your big toe until it has reached it’s maximum stretch. That takes extra time and effort. Since the walking gait involves a higher toe lift than running, don’t expect to see this consideration in your running race flats. Instead, try a shoe with a non-stretchy fabric, so that the shoe will respond upon command.
Uppers should also protect the foot from environmental interference. Mesh fabrics are lightweight and breathable, but they also let in precipitation! Reshod® Walking Shoes have a double layer of mesh, along with a liner fabric, to allow breathability and good resistance to rain. If you are caught in a downpour during the beginning of a long race, you might like the fact that your feet are drier than they would be with a single layer mesh upper. Of course this adds a little weight, but the upper is also more durable. You won’t see your big toe poking through the fabric anytime soon.
What about the ankle collar? We could drop that down and save a bunch of fabric, but how often do you scuff your foot and kick debris into your shoe? Do you want to stop in a race to remove your shoe and knock out the pebbles, or do you prefer to shake it around inside your shoe while you try to maintain your pace? Then there’s the pull tab at the back of the heel. This feature might be considered ornamental to some, but it’s critical to others who use it to pull on the shoe.
Next, we have the midsole, which is sandwiched between the upper and the outsole (tread). Many athletic brands have transitioned to offering shoes with a single density foam midsole. They are less expensive to produce and do not provide a functional technology for walking. Soft heel foam is conducive to vertical motion. Since walkers (and especially racewalkers and power walkers) are trying to avoid lifting, Reshod® Walking Shoes created a shoe with multiple densities, starting with a firm heel section that resists lateral motion upon contact, while directing the walker’s energy in a forward motion. Lastly, the cushioning foam in the toe section is resilient, allowing walkers to pop off their toes at the end of their stride. All of the components in the midsole are angled, offering a smooth rollover. These materials provide the opportunity for the walker to perform more efficiently. What if you can extend your stride by an inch without exerting any extra effort? This would get you to the finish line a little sooner that your lighter running flats. How much is that worth?
Finally, we need to consider the outsole. This is wear the rubber meets the road: literally! Reshod® Walking Shoes have a 100% Rubber outsole, which is slightly heavier but longer wearing than blown rubber outsoles. Lastly, the shoe are resole-able. The die-cut-and-buff construction allows you to have them resoled at a local shoe repair (heel or full outsole). You can also purchase a fresh pair of insoles to give you that “new-shoe” feeling.
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Froglets 1-3 months out of water
Great for beginners
Decent sized dart frog
Loud call during the day
Do great in groups
2 frogs / 10 gallon
Phyllobates Terribilis is one of the, if not the single most boldest frogs in the dart frog community. Originally from Brazil, these frogs are amongst the most toxic animals in the world in the wild. Luckily, as in all dart frogs, toxins are derived from their native diet and are non toxic in captivity. Phylobates Terribilis are a great group frog, and even seem to thrive in groups. These frogs rarely hide, and will keep you on your toes as they will quickly learn their feeding schedule as they stare at you from across the room. With a listed status of endangered, it is vitally important to protect this species, and to fight to ensure the survival of its habitats for generations to come.
Habitat:10g bioactive terrarium/pair
Lighting: Whatever light is necessary for plant health. Dart frogs do not require UVB lighting. Remember to keep enclosure temps below 80 at all times. Over heating can lead to a quick death. Food: Fruit flies, springtails, and small Isopods should all be a constant staple in your frogs diet. | <urn:uuid:d3c85813-52ec-4cfb-919c-1b3793b7baa9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dcexo.com/product-page/phyllobates-terribilis-bicolor-green-leg | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.937041 | 285 | 2.640625 | 3 |
I’m sometimes asked for tips on places to see and to visit in London. Among other things, visitors want to know where to eat and my usual tip – especially in the summer – is the Tattershall Castle. Although it may sound like the name of a pub, it’s actually a paddle steamer, built in 1934 and originally serving as a ferry across the river Humber in the north of England.
Now permanently moored on the Victoria Embankment of the River Thames, it provides a great location to sit and enjoy a pint and a sizeable portion of vinegar-soaked fish and chips, amongst views of the Hungerford Bridge, Shell Building, London Eye, County Hall, the Embankment and the Houses of Parliament. The prices aren’t cheap, but then this is London: food and drink prices on the Tattershall Castle are, however, surprisingly excellent, considering the uniqueness of the location.
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How important are spring foliar fungicide applications to wheat yields?
A new study by Kansas State University quantified the yield gain from these applications by combining 12 years of K-State-led experiments with survey data from Kansas wheat producers.
Doing so not only demonstrated the power of fungicide to protecting a wheat crop from diseases like stripe rust but also paves the way for future guidance on when these applications will provide the most benefit.
“This is a different way of looking at an old problem,” said Romulo Lollato, a wheat production specialist with K-State Research and Extension.
“We had a lot of these data scattered around, but we did this collection and it lined up very well with what we would expect in terms of yield response to fungicides.
“It was nice to see that what growers are experiencing in their fields is actually ground-truthing a lot of what we’re measuring in our field experiments.”
To answer how foliar fungicide applications benefit yield, researchers gathered replicated field experiments from 12 years.
They then combined that information with producer-reported fungicide applications and yield data from their commercial fields.
The Kansas Wheat Commission provided funding to cover the cost of the doctorate student who served as the boots on the ground collecting this survey over four years.
Kansas Wheat also put the grower survey on its website and promoted it to help garner additional responses.
“The Kansas Wheat Commission was instrumental,” Lollato said.
“We needed two things — funds for us to get the work done and disseminating the fact that we were doing that survey.”
The first step was to aggregate the relevant field experiment data from K-State-led research.
The database of field experiments only included field experiments with a direct comparison between foliar fungicide applications and a side-by-side untreated control, resulting in 393 mean yield comparisons.
The researchers combined this field experiment data with information from a producer survey that covered a wide range of management decisions.
The producer survey included variety and fungicide management data from 654 commercial Kansas wheat fields across three growing seasons — 2016, 2017, and 2018.
Around 55% of the fields in this survey applied one or more fungicide applications, compared to the other 45% that had no applications.
Fungicide applications also varied depending on the weather that growing season, with more producers applying fungicide in wet years compared to dry years.
The survey data also showed the majority of growers are choosing varieties that are either resistant or intermediate for leaf and stripe rust.
Roughly 80% of fields in the survey were planted with some stripe rust resistance and 65% to 70% with some resistance to leaf rust.
“We see the growers are using both tools that they have,” Lollato said.
“Good genetic resistance that can actually reduce the need for the fungicide, but also based on weather conditions, they are taking data to the decision of the application.”
Overall, researchers determined an average of 7.8% yield gain for wheat fields with a foliar fungicide application.
Genetics plays a key role in the range of this yield gain.
Wheat varieties with less built-in resistance to stripe or leaf rust benefited more from fungicides than resistant or intermediate-resistant varieties.
The average yield gain for resistant varieties was 5.6%, compared to 6.9% for intermediate resistance and 16.9% for susceptible varieties.
“On average, we saw around 7% yield gain on resistant-to-intermediate resistant varieties and up to 16% on susceptible varieties,” Lollato said.
“If that’s the average, then some years we were able to gain a lot more than that.
"Depending on weather conditions and the types of varieties growers are selecting, there’s an opportunity to have quite a bit of yield benefit from those fungicides.
"In some years, those gains are up to 30% to 40% in resistant varieties and up to 90% in susceptible ones.”
This overall average, however, was just the beginning of their findings.
The researchers dug into the data even further and determined the underlying factor driving this response was a gain in kernel weight.
Following a fungicide application, the wheat plant was able to maintain a heavier kernel — a measurement called thousand kernel weight.
Lollato explained the fungicide application increased this specific measurement, which resulted in higher yields.
Because the experimental data set went back to the 2008 growing season, researchers were also able to compare the magnitude of yield gain during both dry and wet years.
“From a weather perspective, we wanted to know what is driving that response,” Lollato said.
“Essentially we found that the best indicator of whether we’re going to have a good response to fungicide or not was cumulative precipitation during that April and May timeframe.
“If we look at the cumulative rainfall during those two months, it was highly related to the response to fungicide.
"So the more precipitation we had in those months, the more response to fungicide the crop would have.”
In the grower survey data, researchers also found greater fungicide yield benefits in wetter growing seasons than dry seasons.
The yield was about 15 bushels per acre greater on fields receiving a fungicide application in wet years as compared to about six bushels per acre in drier years.
Additionally, researchers saw an interaction with the planted wheat variety’s genetic resistance to disease, especially stripe rust.
Fields that did not receive fungicide, but were planted to a resistant variety, still realized a yield gain of roughly five bushels per acre.
In dry years, however, researchers did quantify a yield gain from fungicide application, albeit to a lesser extent.
Fields without a fungicide application — during dry years — averaged around 40 bushels per acre, compared to 46 bushels per acre for fields with a fungicide application during that same time.
Beyond yield gain, researchers also determined fungicide applications improved yield stability of varieties, or how well a variety will match predicted yields in a commercial field.
The study compared about 15 varieties’ responses to fungicide and showed the fungicide applications helped improve the stability of varieties by addressing that disease pressure.
But, even further, the fungicide application itself made the wheat variety more receptive to other management or weather conditions that would increase yields.
The study helps K-State provide better guidance to Kansas wheat producers about variety selection for disease resistance, the timing of fungicide applications dependent on weather, and how to better guide growers on what to expect in terms of yield gain after a fungicide application.
Additionally, K-State researchers are now using this model — combining field experiment data with producer survey work — to answer questions on other management decisions.
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Y’all… I think that we, as a society, are in trouble.
When we look at human history, for the most part, we see technology advancing very slowly. Suddenly, we hit the back half of the 19th century and it seems like our technological advances begin to grow exponentially.
Don’t worry, I’m not trying to downplay the importance of technology in our world. I don’t think the advances we’ve made are inherently evil. I mean, sure, there are a lot of evil things that have been done with the technology that’s been introduced. But that’s not what this is about.
No, as great as all of our incredible technology is and can be, it’s made us more and more lazy as we’ve gone on. For that matter, it’s made us more impatient, too.
Think about the internet. Not 25 years ago, the most common internet access came in the form of dial-up with services like America Online. It was amazing. Today, if the average internet user were asked to make the switch to dial-up from the high-speed WiFi that he or she is used to, they would lose their minds over how slow their access is.
Consider the microwave oven. Try to deny how impatient you get waiting for a frozen burrito to heat up in two minutes.
How do I know technology is making us lazy, though?
I don’t think I ever remember a time when we didn’t have a television with a remote control. Even growing up in the 80s, the remote was an important object to have in the palm of one’s hand. Because that meant you got to control what channel you watched.
Dad used to compare watching TV when I was a kid with watching TV when he was a kid. His family didn’t have a remote control when he was a kid. Actually, he used to say that he was the remote control when he was a kid. Grandpa would say, “Change the channel,” and Dad would get up, walk across the living room, and turn the dial.
TVs used to have dials. It was easy to change the channel back in the day, I suppose. They only had a couple different channels to choose from.
So we invented a remote control so that one could change the channel and adjust the volume from the comfort of the sofa. Walking across the room is such an inconvenience.
You know what else is inconvenient? Using your thumb to push buttons. Apparently.
That’s right. Because now we have remote controls that are voice activated. It’s not enough that we can change the channel without pulling our lazy butts out of our La-Z-Boys. We can change the channel without even lifting a finger.
I’ve never tried anything with a voice remote. I know in the commercials they show a user holding the remote up to their mouth, as if they’re holding a microphone. But I feel confident that your remote could hear you if it’s close enough. You may not have to pick it up at all.
I mean, I can ask Siri to do something if my phone is sitting somewhere within earshot. Alexa can hear you from pretty much anywhere in the house, right? How sensitive is the microphone on the remote control?
What’s our next move? How do we make watching TV more convenient than speaking Netflix into existence? You always think that we’ve reached the peak of what’s possible, but there are always ways to improve.
I remember thinking that video game graphics couldn’t possibly get any better than what was seen on the Playstation 2. Two console generations later and it’s even more amazing how realistic these computer generated images can be. Remember when high definition television was the clearest quality picture around? Now there’s 4K… 8K… Am I missing anything?
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Dogs are a part of the family, and they go everywhere with us. Whether it just a short trip for an errand, to the park, to a training class, or to a competitive event, you have to plan ahead to travel safely with your dog.
So you have made the decision to get a dog. Perhaps you had a bad experience once before with a dog who you thought was cute or friendly, but then when you got him home he turned out to be a holy terror, and the whole thing turned into a nightmare. Even if you have never had such a bad experience, the fact remains that choosing a pet is a life-changing decision, and it is one that takes a lot of thought and research.
Is there such a thing as the perfect puppy? In all likelihood there is not. There is always something one might change in any dog (or person really), but the goal should be to always strive towards raising a puppy to be its most perfect self. This is hard work, to be sure, but it is not only possible, it is necessary. | <urn:uuid:6c7012f7-249f-425d-9582-7ab9399e4ed1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pedigreedatabase.com/papillon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.984397 | 220 | 1.695313 | 2 |
2017 marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, a war which idealists and radicals from around Europe volunteered to fight in the defence of the Republic.
Six such men left North Louth never to return with three dying at Jarama during the Defence of Madrid and the Republic in February 1937 against Franco's army.
To remember these six local men and to explore their backgrounds, their motivations and ultimately their sacrifice, The Friends of the International Brigade (FIBI) are hosting a day long event in the Spirit Store in Dundalk on March 25th starting at 2pm.
The afternoon session will include contributions from such noted historians as Harry Owens, Manus O Riordan and Brian Hanley.
There will be a concert on Saturday night at 7.30pm, featuring the poetry and stories of Charlie Donnelly, as well as the music of Scottish Singer Calum Baird, a singer who is deeply influenced by the struggle against facism today and in the past.
At 9 pm a half hour Spanish film/Drama on the Battle of Jarama will be screened.
Broadcaster Eileen Corcoran and singer Mark Corcoran, both relatives through marriage of Charlie Donnelly will recite his work and give a family perspective on his life.
Find out more about the North Louth volunteers, Archie Dolan, a son for a former Chairman of Louth County Council, poet Charlie Donnelly, Francis O Brien Duffy, Bert Mc Elroy Alex Madero all Dundalk, and Andrew Delaney from Carlingford.
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Committee on Immunization
Let's Champion Immunization!
Vaccination has long been recognized as a proven preventive measure in the control and at best in the eradication of life -threatening infections . One perfect example is smallpox .
Immunization coverage rates for vaccines against preventable diseases such as diphtheria, polio, pertussis, Hib, rotavirus, tetanus, pneumococcal and measles have plateaued and has never reached the 95% target since its introduction in the 1980`s in national immunization programs, giving rise to outbreaks in certain regions globally. (1)
In the Philippines, coverage rates have suffered drastically in the last couple of years due to fears of vaccine safety, vaccine misinformation and disinformation which has impacted on our public health programs.
The pandemic has further driven down these rates at alarming levels leaving our children and the vulnerable susceptible to disease and requiring targeted strategies.
It is in this direction that we urge our fellow pediatricians to once again encourage their patients to have their catchup immunization and support the Department of Health`s Campaign against Measles and Polio .
Your Top 3 Safety Issues Answered
Yes. The whole scientific process from development to manufacture and licensure is lengthy, thorough , respects ethical considerations and is always under the administration of regulatory authorities such as the FDA
Clinical Trials involve human volunteers and are conducted in 4 phases to ensure vaccine safety and effectiveness. (2)
Phase 1: Test of safety, efficacy, occurrence of serious side effects, size of dose related to side effects
Phase 2 : Test of most common short term side effects, response of immune system of volunteers to the vaccine
Phase 3: Test between people who get the vaccine as opposed to those who do not ,and how they compare , vaccine safety , effectiveness , and the more common side effects.
Phase 4: Involves continuous monitoring of safety and effectiveness after licensure for public use
Vaccines are actually very safe, despite implications to the contrary in many anti-vaccine publications. Most vaccine adverse events are minor and temporary, such as a sore arm or mild fever. These can often be controlled by taking paracetamol after vaccination. More serious adverse events occur rarely (on the order of one per thousands to one per millions of doses), and some are so rare that risk cannot be accurately assessed. As for vaccines causing death, again so few deaths can plausibly be attributed to vaccines that it is hard to assess the risk statistically.(3)
1. WUENIC-Immunization Coverage- are we losing ground . 2020
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Most of as are familiar with two types of optimists: let’s call them the Hopeful and the Realists. The Hopeful believe, against all experience, that the best possible thing will happen. They tend to be characterized by childishness, naïveté and an inordinate tendency to be disappointed. Realists, on the other hand, tend to focus on the positive aspects of an outcome regardless of what happens. They tend to be characterized by maturity, calm and cheerfulness.
The Hopeful says “I will win America’s Got Talent!”. The Realist says “No matter what happens, there will be positive aspects.”
Similarly, there are two types of competitiveness: the kind that gnaws at you if you don’t finish first or win the gold medal (Michael Jordan) and the kind that aims to out-perform all the others while maintaining psychological equanimity in the face of catastrophe (Lou Gehrig).
But there is a third category of competitiveness which I’ll call the anti-competitive. You know the type: for example, the comedian who goes over the time allotted to him despite the despite that fact that he’s not getting any laughs.
Ask the funniest comedian on the bill how much material she has and the answer will be “About an hour”. Ask the least-funny comedian on the bill how much material she has and the answer will be closer to two hours.
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These anti-competitive types aren’t interested in being the best performer on the bill. Indeed, it’s the furthest thing from their mind. They are “grateful to be there” and more interested in maximizing their potential (whatever that means), rather than maximizing the audience’s enjoyment.
Having been performing a period spanning nearly forty years, there are still very few things which I can proclaim with certainty but one of them is this: my sense of competitiveness is the number one driver of my success.
We live in a profoundly “soft” era: feelings and effort mean more than accomplishment. Winning a marathon means less finishing a marathon which, in turn, matters less than having the courage to start.
“I feel good about what I’m performing”, however, is very different than “I am the greatest ballet dancer in the world”.
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This is a Matte painting training programme aimed at disabled people working in post-related activity who want to turbo charge their careers and step up into the role of Matte painter for film and HETV.
These programmes are supported by ScreenSkills using National Lottery funds awarded by the BFI as part of the Future Film Skills programme.
Who it’s for
We especially want to encourage applications from those with non-visible disabilities – mental health issues like stress, depression or anxiety, autism, dyslexia and the hard of hearing as it’s a role which can suit home working.
What it covers
Participants will get a comprehensive overview of the role of the Matte Painter, guided by an experienced industry Matte Painter and also hearing from an editor, VFX supervisor and others. We expect participants to create important industry links to move their careers forward.
Previous courses have included sessions with the editors Justine Wright (The Iron Lady) and Chris Wyatt (Gods Own Country), Netflix, Lexhag and Digital Orchard.
This is not a programme for new entrants and applicants will be expected to have some industry experience and must identify as disabled under the Equality Act 2010.
This is a free course, but competition will be fierce as only 10 places are available. There are also opportunties for some trainees to have placements on top films and TV shows for up to 10 weeks!
How to apply
Click HERE for the application form. Please let us know if you have access requirements and need to make your application in an alternative format.
DEADLINE: 15th September
Here are participants talking about our previous course Step Up to Post-production supervisor…
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Forrest Gump’s Mama said it best; “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” Uncertainty is reality in every aspect of life, from selecting chocolates to money matters.
The best time to reframe and rewire your financial decision-making process is before you fully retire. Planning for retirement is more than just getting your financial life in order; it’s dealing with the psychological and physical aspects as well.
Steven Spurrier, (the wine guy, not the football coach), described what he termed his “Rule of Life”; You need someone to love; something to do; and something to look forward to. That seems like a good start toward leading a long, purposeful life after you retire.
What Does Uncertainty Look Like?
Many folks believe that retirement magically will eliminate uncertainty and lessen the need for ongoing course corrections. This couldn’t be further from the truth. In our experience, the gap between expectations and reality in retirement is wider than in any other stage of life.
Of course, the most obvious uncertainty is how long retirement will last, or more directly, how long you will live. Some people will live for 30 years or more past retirement. This was unheard of even a generation ago. Preparing for that possibility requires substantial reframing and rewiring.
One of the best ways to accomplish this is to have a realistic philosophy toward uncertainty both inside and outside of your financial life. From a practical level, this means recognizing the presence of uncertainty by establishing margins of error for your goals. Life won’t happen precisely as you have planned–count on that.
Retirement Expectations vs. Reality
The overarching priority in retirement is to maintain your pre-retirement lifestyle; this requires that you offset living cost increases with your financial resources. In other words, you have to grow your investments or your overall financial condition will decline after inflation is taken into account.
The need to achieve above inflation investment returns highlights one of the major disconnects between retirement expectations and reality. Some retirees believe that the need to invest in risky assets ends once they cross the retirement threshold. This is false. Most retirees will have to accept some measure of investment risk for the balance of their lives to stay current with the cost of living increases.
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Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley) is the largest and most important site in the world for whale fossils.
The fossils belong to a now extinct subspecies of whales, which shows their transition from land animals to marine mammals: they still have hind legs. The fossils have been found on the surface in a now completely dry desert landscape, which was part of the enormous Tethys Ocean 40 million years ago.
The fossil whales were first discovered during the winter of 1902-03.
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Visit October 2018
Wadi Al-Hitan (the Whale Valley) is “the most significant site in the world to demonstrate the evolution of whales”. The valley lies 190km south of Cairo in Egypt’s Al Fayoum area, to which the Dutch foreign travel advice still applies the label “necessary travel only”. Well – it was necessary for me! There is no reason to avoid this region nowadays. Large tour groups are assigned escorts according to the Lonely Planet – and indeed we met a tourist convoy of 4x4’s accompanied by armed police. I was with a local driver (who seemed to know everybody) and we were just waved on at the only checkpoint near Lake Qarun.
In the early morning I was picked up at my Cairo hotel with a 4WD jeep. Due to the busy traffic, getting out of (and into) Cairo is quite time-consuming. Once outside the city limits we hardly saw anyone anymore. The road has been completely paved up to the last 32km, but occasionally some sand hills have blown over the road and a 4WD (or just high clearance) is helpful. The final stretch is on a reinforced sand road. My driver found it more fun to drive off-road though. Some 3 hours after our departure we arrived at the Wadi.
This is one of the most modern and best organized attractions in Egypt. There is a demarcated parking space, a café, clean toilets and a brand new museum. All these outbuildings are made in an adobe style so that they fit exactly within the landscape. Entrance costs 40 Egyptian pounds (2 EUR). Only since 1983 has research been done on a large scale and has the importance of these fossils been discovered. In 2005 it became a WHS and since then it has been made accessible to visitors. This has been done with Italian technical and financial support, via a twinning agreement between Wadi Al-Rayan (the national park in which the whale fossils lie) and Italy’s Gran Sasso National Park.
We started our tour at the Fossil and Climate Change museum, only open since 2016. It is small but does its job of explaining the importance of the site well. The largest whale species found on site is the now extinct Basilosaurus isis, which still had small hind legs but they were not strong enough to stand on anymore. In the museum they do have a full skeleton of this species. You can also see fossilized plants and shells. There is even a fossil of a watermelon!
You can only enter the fossil area on foot, via a hiking trail of about 2km length. Fortunately, it was a bit windy the day that I visited - walking through the sand in the burning sun otherwise would be quite a test. I noticed a guide from a Spanish group pointing the start of the trail out to them and immediately returning to the shelter of the café himself. My guide went along, but had little added value on this trip.
From the main trail there are numbered signs pointing to side paths where you can see a fossil or something else of interest. Although there is also a complete skeleton, mainly spines from the whale fossils can be seen. The fossils lie in the open air - we wondered what happens to them when there is a sandstorm or when it rains (if it ever rains here). Probably they are somehow fastened to the soil at the bottom.
When this area was under water and the whales lived here, this valley was a coastal area with mangroves. You can see these plants as well fossilized in the landscape.
Further down the valley, the number of whale fossils decreases but the landscape becomes more and more beautiful. There are strangely eroded hills, like giant mushrooms. We walked almost the entire path, except for the last hill with a mysterious sign 'Exit' - you really have to return the same way though as you came.
From Cairo this is a full day trip: I left at 7:30 and was back at the hotel at 6 o'clock. The visit to the valley itself took about 2 hours. The landscape is beautiful and the story behind the whale fossil findings I found intriguing. This side trip is also a nice change from busy Cairo and the many monuments from Egyptian antiquity. On both ways we passed Lake Qarun, part of the TWHS that is up for a separate nomination in 2020. Especially from the western side this huge lake suddenly appears as an oasis in the desert.
Egypt at it's core is two landscapes. The lush green strip of land land around the Nile. And the desert. At least nowadays. Going to Wadi Al Hitan, will take you outside the green strip inside the desert. But then, there they are: the whales. The explanation is that millions of years ago (40?), this was a mangrove forest.
It's a bit surreal and a very unique visit, as it combines a hike in the Sahara desert with stunning fossils. It feels almost like an art installation.
I had stayed the night in Tunis and joined a group of Egyptians (women) on a desert tour. We had plenty of time at Wadi Al-Hitan. The site has an onsite museum which I skipped and instead spent more time with the site proper. Most Egyptian visitors seem to stop fairly early on, but I kept going. Eventually, doubts settled in how far to go as I was all alone in the desert. But I think I made it to the end of the trail before returning. As pointed out by Els, you have to walk back the same way you came.
And one more comment: My mind seems to be off, but I didn't see mushrooms in the stones. ;)
The starting point for most excursions to Wadi Al-Hitan is Tunis. Easiest option is to take a minibus from Giza to Tunis. They go right up to the park entry in Tunis with the option of getting off before.
If you are coming up the Nile from Amarna/Luxor, you can get off at Bani Suwaif. If possible, have your hotel prearrange a taxi for you. Otherwise, be prepared to spend an hour or more while Egyptian police arrange a taxi to Tunis for you. Sit down...
Tours can be arranged online. Other visitors listed very high prices for a visit. I think prices can be brought down significantly, if you stay a night in Tunis and don't try to rush this as a day trip from Cairo. My hotel had the cheapest quote.
If you want to drive yourself, I think the road to the core zone is okayish enough. A jeep is not needed. But to get to see more parts of the site, you should get a 4wd.
Last but not least, on security. When we passed security, the guards were initially fooled by my darker looks. As soon as they checked my EU passport, they were about to give us an escort, but eventually let us go on our own.
While You Are There
The desert around Wadi Al-Hitan is beautiful and really popular with Egyptian tourists. Tunis and the Qaran Lake also offer more sites to explore.
I visited this WHS in April 2017 on the day before leaving Egypt. I'm an amateur paleontologist and fossil collector, so visiting Wadi Al-Hitan was already in my plan besides seeing the ancient civilization. Since collecting Natural WHS is harder than the cultural one, I was determined to put this on my list as it's not too far from Cairo.
But it wasn't easy at all. Because I was traveling alone, all the travel agencies at the Tahrir Square could only put me in the waiting list for a bigger group. I was lucky when a group of 7 foreign students studying in Cairo University decided to join the tour. So we took off quite early in the morning as the journey to the first stop took a solid 3 hours. The first stop was a place with a lot of round rocks formation where they called it "watermelons". At this desert site you can clearly see the mark of ancient water flow. Then we went to the on site museum where you could see the evolution of the whale (Basilosaurus isis) where the small hind limbs still attached to the big body. The in situ fossils are just next to the museum with numbers along the path. Besides the whale fossils you can also notice a lot of sand dollar fossils around. In my opinion this is a very educational fossil site even for an ordinary person as one can imagine how the environment and life was long ago.
All in all I think this is a very interesting site and WHS one shall not missed.
I'm from the province of Fayoum, which is located by the Valley Rayyan protected and which contain Whale Valley area. It's a great area with many old fossils, which reaches into the forty million years old. We welcome all those who want to visit this attractive place
We drove to wadi al-hitan during our Egypt travel in February 2015. It was quite a drive from Cairo but great scenery on the way. It’s nice to drive through rural Egypt. The site is amazing with the skeletons and the views. I would recommend everyone to go here if you have the option. We did not camp ourselves (not so fond of camping) but I can imagine that’s a great experience too. Nearby there are some waterfalls too to explore. For in-depth photos have a look at my page.
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In 2008 was an undergraduate working on a dig at Karanis, an early Greco-Roman site about 50 miles outside of Cairo and Wadi Al-Hitan was one of the places where we made field trips out to study. It is, beyond measure, one of the most powerfully beautiful places that I have ever been to. The vast, echoing quiet and uniquely shaped landscapes were breathtaking. Trying to come to terms with the fact that 40 million years ago we would have been on the bottom of the ocean while in the middle of the Egyptian desert was both humbling and awe-inspiring. It is not a well-traveled site but is well looked after, and worth the side trip if at all possible.
I went there with my son in July 2011, and if I read the elder reviews a lot has changed. I came with my own car and the road was, although not paved, reasonably good. It was a very hot day, we left very early in the morning from Tunis, but of course you are never early enough when the summer-sun is burning in Egypt. You do not need any police-permission anymore (anyway there is hardly police in Egypt after the revolution), you just buy a ticket before wadi el Rayyan. The first part of the road is passing sand-dunes and the lakes, beautiful!! The second part white sand, mostly flat, the white is burning in your eyes. There was only one person at Wadi Hitan, showing us where to start the 3 km long walk. We were very happy to walk on what was 40 million years ago the bottom of the ocean. Everywhere you see little or bigger sand-hills (over 6000), covering the fossile rests of all kinds of ocean-habitants. Fantastic. We were there all alone, if we were bad people we could have taken fossile vertebra's or ribs... (of course we are not). We loved the landscape so much! We were wondering who is taking the sand away after a sand-storm... We finished our walk at 10.00 h and that was just in time! I am advising you to go as early as possible in summer.
We went in April 2010 and it is an incredible place. We went with an Egyptian Guide and Driver and arrived about 4pm, perfect timing as most visitors had gone so we had the whole place to ourselves and watched the sun setting and creating amazing colours on the surrounding rocks. Seeing the 40 million year old fossils and bones was incredible - the place is covered with mangrove fossils too. We then camped overnight there - waking up at 3am to see the moon up and looking out at such stunning scenery was something I will never forget. The highlight of our tour to Egypt.
We went in October (2008) which was a perfect time of year with the afternoon sun showing off the rich colours of this pristine desert landscape. Once well inside the Wadi Al Rayan national park, there is a 35km dirt track at the end of which is a simple but orderly visitor centre for Wadi Al Hitan, nestled at the bottom of a cliff. From there a couple of short circular walks are laid out, along which fossils have been strategically laid. It’s very tastefully done however. The only trips available on the internet seem to be as part of expensive package tours but we hired a local to take us from the city of Al Fayoum. Make sure you leave before it gets dark and avoid in mid summer or if there has been heavy rain. Technically, all foreign tourists in Al Fayoum region should be accompanied by police for protection, but if you’re discreet it shouldn’t be necessary. Preferably travel with Egyptians.
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Elon Musk wakes up to bitcoin’s fossil fuel issues
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The entrepreneur possesses a startling ability to tug the strings of the crypto world. In February, bitcoin prices leapt when Musk revealed that the company had bought $1.5bn worth of the cryptocurrency. So did the price of dogecoin following similar Delphic tweets.
But last weekend dogecoin tumbled when Musk admitted on an American comedy show that the asset might be a “hustle”. And now bitcoin has tumbled too after yet another tweet, this time one revealing that Tesla will no longer accept bitcoin for purchases of electric cars. “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal,” Musk said.
Activists and journalists have, of course, been highlighting this issue for months. Two striking statistics encapsulate the problem.
First, it seems that two-thirds of bitcoin to date has been mined — created through computing algorithms — in China, using data centres reliant on electricity generated by coal. Indeed, bitcoin’s link with the black stuff is so tight that Alex Lipton, a crypto expert, notes that bitcoin prices move whenever accidents occur in Chinese coal mines.
Second, the $2tn crypto market has expanded so fast that it is gobbling up vast quantities of energy. Mining bitcoin, which accounts for half of all crypto, currently uses the same amount of energy annually as the Netherlands did in 2019. Scientists warn this threatens the Paris climate goals.
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Bitcoin enthusiasts such as the entrepreneur Anthony Scaramucci point out that statistics need context and that traditional finance is energy-intensive too.
So are other types of technology. As a paper co-authored by a former researcher from Google’s artificial intelligence ethics unit notes, some of the AI processes behind Google search are “estimated to require as much energy as a trans-American flight”.
Even with such caveats, the fact is bitcoin’s carbon footprint is embarrassing, not just for Tesla but for millennial crypto investors who care about green issues. And that in turn highlights three big lessons for all investors.
First, nobody can afford to ignore environmental, social and governance concerns today, even in stocks labelled as ESG. Tesla is featured in many ESG funds because investors have focused on the electric car point and ignored other issues.
However, digital transparency is now enabling activists to monitor companies’ activities more effectively than ever before. This means that investors need lateral vision when they value companies, since ESG risks are rarely static or binary and often involve trade-offs that constantly shift.
Second — and leading from this — investors need to watch the debate around tech’s carbon footprint as an example of this shifting landscape. A scramble is under way to tackle bitcoin’s carbon issues. The Rocky Mountain Institute, a clean energy non-profit, recently joined forces with UN officials and fintech leaders to explore solutions. One might entail changes to the computing processes around crypto to cut energy consumption; last week a “green” cryptocurrency which uses less processing power called Chia was launched.
Another option is to use green electricity sources, for instance by switching Chinese coal for Icelandic hydroelectric power. Enthusiasts such as Scaramucci think this could solve the issue if there is a registry that enables investors to track the provenance of bitcoins.
Which idea might work is unclear. But the debate probably explains why Musk dispatched his tweet. And why the veteran investor Stanley Druckenmiller said this week that it is unclear which cryptocurrency will eventually dominate (assuming you think, as Druckenmiller does and I do, that crypto is here to stay). Few people predicted 15 years ago that Facebook, not MySpace, would come to dominate social media.
The third point is about regulation. The reason Musk can act like the Wizard of Oz of crypto, with impunity, is that the sector is opaque and largely unregulated. Financial policymakers are now threatening a crackdown.
But as a report from the Bank for International Settlements notes, “the vast majority of jurisdictions in the world” have not implemented controls to stop money laundering, let alone market manipulation. Plus there is “significant variability in the definition of the regulatory perimeter across jurisdictions”. In plain English, oversight is a mess.
Libertarians like it this way. So might Musk. But if crypto is going to become more mainstream — with whatever token — it badly needs more accountability and transparency. Maybe that will be impossible to achieve given crypto’s anti-establishment origins.
But the fight over green standards might, just possibly, start this process by providing a cause for young crypto-enthusiasts to rally around. If so, that could turn out to be the most consequential impact of Musk’s tweet and a reason for investors and regulators to conduct some belated scrutiny of the Chinese mines, both of the coal and computing variety.
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When it comes to proving how beautiful America truly is, there's no better example to point to than our spectacular national parks. And this year, the National Park Service is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
Thanks to National Geographic, we're now getting a chance to experience the parks like never before: The January issue includes a special photo series to kick off the magazine's year-long exploration of the power of parks.
The series includes panoramic photos of various parks, each one representing a 24-hour time period in order to allow readers to experience an entire day in the life of a national park. While the photos are presented in single frames, each one is actually digitally compressed from 50 single shots. In order to make this happen, photographer Stephen Wilkes spent a day in each location continuously taking photos from a fixed vista.
No matter how many national parks you've had the chance to visit, the results will take your breath away. See four of the photos below, but prepare yourself: You'll want to add these destinations to your travel bucket immediately.
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In March 1868 a 29-year-old John Muir stopped a passerby in San Francisco to ask for directions out of town. "Where do you wish to go?" the startled man inquired. "Anywhere that is wild," said Muir. His journey took him to the Yosemite Valley in California's Sierra Nevada, which became the spiritual home of Muir's conservation movement and, under his guidance, the country's third national park. "John the Baptist," he wrote, "was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains." Today around four million people a year follow their own thirst for the wild to Yosemite.
"Today I am in the Yellowstone Park, and I wish I were dead." So Rudyard Kipling began his 1889 account of a tour in America's oldest national park. His disdain was aroused most by the "howling crowd" of tourists with whom he shared the visit. Attractions such as Old Faithful still draw more than three million (mostly well behaved) visitors yearly to Yellowstone; the vast majority of them never go beyond a hundred yards from a paved road. If Kipling himself had ventured deeper into the 3,472-square-mile park to witness the splendor of its river valleys and mountain meadows, his rant might well have given way to rapture.
On an April day cherry blossoms festoon West Potomac Park, part of the National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington, D.C. While the grand parks of the West may elicit more gasps of awe, urban parks draw far more visitors. The National Mall hosts 24 million a year, almost twice the number of Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon combined.
The Grand Canyon is the touchstone American park; whatever happens here could have repercussions throughout the park system. It has withstood threats from ranching, mining, and logging interests and a federal dam project. Today's challenges include a proposed town development on the South Rim and a tramway that would bring 10,000 visitors a day to the canyon floor. | <urn:uuid:d1230c0f-d092-4237-9e65-cf6991f2fc28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.countryliving.com/life/travel/g2940/national-geographic-park-photos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963316 | 656 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The ground or scenery located behind something. The part of a pictorial representation that appears to be in the distance and that provides relief for the principal objects in the foreground. The general scene or surface against which designs, patterns, or figures are represented or viewed. A position, area, or situation that is not immediately in one's attention or notice: You can hear traffic moving in the background during the interview. Computers The environment in which programs operate that the user does not engage with directly: processes that run in the background. The circumstances and events surrounding or leading up to an event or occurrence. A person's experience, training, and education: Her background in the arts is impressive. The cultural or social environment in which a person was brought up or has lived: a class with students from many different backgrounds. Subdued music played especially as an accompaniment to dialogue in a dramatic performance. Sound that intrudes on or interferes with an audio recording. Low-level radiation, as from radioactive decay, that exists as part of the natural environment. | <urn:uuid:3cc7320c-5774-4eff-bb3d-8b9637981dbf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tradukka.com/dictionary/en/background?hl=da | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.974069 | 213 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write
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A sumptuous, sensuous writing guide from the author of the award-winning The Book of Dead Birds
Praise For Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write…
“Fruitflesh calls for some very juicy feasting!” — Sark, author of Succulent Wild Woman
“Anyone immersing herself in Fruitflesh is sure to find her writing liberated, and enriched by the many stimulating exercises.” — Susan Perry, Ph.D., author of Writing in Flow
"Gayle Brandeis shows us how to write sense-soaked prose and poetry that celebrates the embodiment of the life!" — Oriah Mountain Dreamer, author of The Invitation and The Dance
“Beautifully written, with gorgeous usage of language and metaphor.” — Publishers Weekly
“Lyrical, imaginative, beautifully crafted, and deeply intelligent. Before anything else, its characters take you by the heart.” — --Barbara Kingsolver on The Book of Dead Birds
“[It] has an edgy beauty that enhances perfectly the seriousness of its contents.” — --Toni Morrison on The Book of Dead Birds
“THE BOOK OF DEAD BIRDS is a story of healing--a skillful, textured weaving of dark and light.” — --Donna M. Gershten, author of Kissing the Virgin's Mouth, on The Book of Dead Birds
“A moving and perceptive first novel.” — -- O magazine on The Book of Dead Birds
HarperOne, 9780060587185, 224pp.
Publication Date: May 4, 2004
About the Author
Gayle Brandeis is the author of The Book of Dead Birds, the winner of Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize, an award in support of a literature of social change. Reviewers have highly praised this, her first novel, and Toni Morrison said: "It has an edgy beauty that enhances perfectly the seriousness of its contents." She is also the author. Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write. | <urn:uuid:e37191b9-c9e4-4a02-99fa-815d2214f8dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060587185?aff=LiteraryMamaCom | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.894091 | 471 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Health hacks and fear-mongering videos quickly make their way through social media like a hurricane, rapidly gaining momentum. A few months ago, several videos went viral about tips to keep your avocados longer. However, this “hot tip” was not so helpful. Thankfully experts chimed in, warning people not to do this as they would be at greater risk for salmonella poisoning.
The latest viral health message is that carbonated drinks are bad for you. According to multiple social media accounts, even sugar-free fizzy drinks like sparkling water will eat away your tooth enamel, causing permanent damage.
We’ve looked into what research and experts say on the topic to help you determine if you should really stop drinking carbonated drinks!
When talking about carbonated drinks, it’s important to understand that not all drinks are the same. Some are loaded with caffeine, artificial flavoring, dyes, and sugar. Soda, energy drinks, and sparkling juices aren’t exactly good for you.
The biggest issue with these drinks is the sugar content. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stated that the majority of Americans consume too much sugar and the leading source of this excess sugar is sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Excess sugar intake puts you at greater risk for heart disease, kidney disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, weight gain, tooth decay and cavities, gout, and non-alcoholic liver disease.
Research has also found that an increase in SSB consumption is linked to an unhealthy lifestyle. For example, if you don’t get enough sleep on your buckwheat pillow at night, you are more likely to consume more sugary drinks during the day and vice versa. Further, SSB consumption is linked to smoking, a sedentary lifestyle, and increased fast food consumption. Finally, adolescents that drink more sugary drinks are also more likely to spend more time on their phones, computers, and playing video games (check out our blog on the dark side of video games here).
Soda is the most commonly consumed carbonated beverage. Your typical can of soda contains between 7 to 10 teaspoons of sugar!
Research from Harvard Health found that drinking soda led to weight gain. In addition to an increase in calories and sugar, it impacts your appetite and diet. For example, despite drinking 150 calories, you won’t feel full or satisfied the same way 150 calories worth of food would. So, you may also reach for a snack to have with your soda, further increasing your caloric intake.
Additional studies have found that when you drink a sweet-tasting drink (diet sodas included), it increases your appetite for other sweet, high-calorie foods, which further increases your daily caloric intake. This increase in sugar also wreaks havoc on your smile. Soda is one of the leading causes of tooth decay and cavities. This is caused by the bacteria in your mouth that breaks down sugar. When it does, it produces an acid, which eats away at your tooth's surface.
Cola has also been found to have an adverse effect on bone health. A 2006 study looked at the relationship between carbonated drinks and bone density. The researchers found that women who drank cola three times a week had a lower average bone mineral density in their hip bones. This was not found in other beverages, and therefore the researchers believed it was due to the caffeine also found in cola and the result of phosphoric acid.
You're mistaken if you think you're in the clear with your diet cola. In fact, in some cases, diet sodas are even worse for your health. Aspartame and saccharin are the commonly used artificial sweeteners found in diet soda, and they are not good for us. In 2018 a study on the effects of diet soda and diabetes found that it did not make a difference in diabetes risk. This means that even by switching to diet soda instead of regular, your risk for developing type 2 diabetes remains high.
Your teeth aren’t safe either. In 2019 a study looked at the effect of diet soda on tooth enamel and found that just like regular soda, artificial sweeteners damaged tooth enamel and contributed to tooth decay.
A great deal of research continues to look at the risks associated with aspartame. Although more research is needed, there are claims that it can lead to headaches, allergies, heart disease, poor glucose control, cancer, seizures, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and more.
Like soda, energy drinks are not healthy. Large amounts of caffeine can cause serious health concerns, including increases in blood pressure, heart rate, heart rhythm disturbances, and heart and blood vessel issues. This high intake of caffeine can cause future sleep troubles, anxiety, and dehydration. Research has found that consuming energy drinks can disrupt teens' sleep patterns and increase risk-taking behavior. It increases their risk for sleep disorders as well as mental health issues like depression, cognitive under-development, and cardiovascular nervous system anomalies.
In 2011 there were over 20,000 emergency room visits in the United States associated with energy drink use. And in 2014, a review found that 5 out of 11 patients with heart problems heavily consumed energy drinks.
The risks associated with energy drink consumption increase significantly when combined with alcohol – which they often are. According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), roughly 25% of college students consume alcohol with energy drinks. When combined, the two make a person feel less intoxicated while still experiencing signs of alcohol impairment. Essentially, it lowers their awareness increasing their risk of drinking too much and binge drinking. Binge drinking is associated with cancer, memory problems, alcohol abuse disorders, and chronic diseases.
In many cases, you can enjoy things that are “unhealthy” when they are consumed in moderation and under the right circumstances; however, many health experts advise avoiding energy drinks altogether. Lauren Popeck, a registered dietician with Orlando Health, told Insider there are better ways to get a boost in energy. Instead, try eating a snack containing carbohydrates and protein like string cheese and an apple. She also recommends getting enough sleep each night! When you live a healthy lifestyle, like sleeping 8 hours a night on your buckwheat pillow, taking a multivitamin, and exercising regularly, you won’t find your energy dips as much during the day.
Most of us know sodas and energy drinks aren’t good for us. But we are hooked on the caffeine and sugar (or sweetener), and it becomes a habit. To break the habit, many people start substituting with flavored carbonated waters – but are these any better?
The CDC endorses the swap stating that carbonated water is an excellent alternative to sugar-filled drinks. Yet, some rumors suggest that drinking carbonated water will harm your stomach. The good news is this isn’t necessarily true. Although the carbonation can cause some short-term bloating or indigestion, there isn’t anything harmful about it. In fact, in some cases, it can help tummy troubles.
In a small double-blind, randomized trial, patients with constipation of frequent dyspepsia were assigned still or sparkling water for 15 days. The study found that both conditions improved in the people who drank sparkling water, but no improvement was found in those who drank still water.
There remains little research on the effects of carbonated water and teeth. The studies that exist have all been using sugary sodas and cola-based drinks. According to Barry Owns of the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry, the acidity of the drink, other foods, and saliva all matter. Cola is the most acidic, followed by sparkling fruit juice. So, although some carbonated drinks can disrupt the enamel, we don’t have enough evidence to say that all do. Science has shown that the length of time the drink is in your mouth also matters. A study out of Sweden found that the longer the drink stayed in the mouth before swallowing, the more acidic the mouth became, which contributed to decay.
A study out of the University of Birmingham put human teeth into jars of sparkling mineral water for 30 minutes as well as other flavored sparkling waters. Part of the tooth was varnished, and part was left unvarnished. When the teeth were removed, the enamel had softened. It was found to have the same effect as orange juice. When the flavor is added to sparkling water, it often has the same acidity as the flavor or juice.
So far, unflavored carbonated water seems relatively harmless. Although it is mildly acidic, there is a lack of evidence that suggests it is harmful to your teeth, bones, or stomach. But, it all depends on your mouth and body and, according to Swedish research, how long you keep the drink in your mouth.
If you are looking to cut back on soda, try flavor-enhanced water. You can add lemon, cucumbers, strawberries, or melon to your water to flavor it naturally. Although it won’t taste as sweet as a cola-based soda or energy drink, it is much better for your sleep quality and physical and mental health. | <urn:uuid:3b4f782a-6cd1-4528-b577-7a08287ad6eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pinetales.com/blogs/pillows-bedroom-sleep-health-lifestyle/are-carbonated-drinks-bad-for-you | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960665 | 1,908 | 3.03125 | 3 |
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|Summary||0003901: JSR 223 javax.script ServletContext issue|
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We're trying to use quercus as a JSR-223 compliant scripting language with Shibboleth (a java based web SSO package). In addition to being an SSO, Shibboleth provides "attribute" information about users for the purposes of making authorization decisions. Attribute values can be generated by JSR-223 compliant languages...
My php script can see the information passed into it..
But attribute data modified by the script doesn't make it back out of the script.
$phpAttr = new BasicAttribute("phpAttr");
Other than invoking $attr->getValues()->add(), one shouldn't have to do anything to make the information available to the application. The equivalent script in ECMAscript would be..
jsAttr = new BasicAttribute("jsAttr");
I'm not that Java savvy, but the Shib developers suggested that it could be a "context" issue.
The JSR-223 APIs have you pass in a processing context in to the script execution engine. This context contains a map where the keys are the attribute IDs and the values are the created objects. The keys then get changed in to variables within the script.
Shibboleth can see the updated value in the other JSR-223 compliant languages I've tried (jython, jruby, ECMAscript, groovy). My example script is essentially the same across all languages.
I'd really like to be able to use PHP/Quercus for this purpose (PHP being my language of choice). I'm not sure if the behavior I'm seeing with Quercus is a bug or a configuration option.
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Upwards of nine-gallons, every day (that’s a lot of milk), though it depends on the cow:
It depends on the breed. Holsteins will produce around 75 pounds or 9 gallons of milk a day. Jerseys will produce around 21 pounds or 2.5 gallons a day. Angus cows will produce only around 10 pounds a day (1.2 gallons a day), and Herefords a little less. The two former breeds (Holstein and Jersey) are dairy cattle, and the latter two breeds (Angus and Hereford) are beef cattle.
However, it also looks like the growth hormones have doubled the yield:
It totally depends on the breeds of cows used for milking. Dairy cow milk yield has increased from an average of 3,750 litres per cow per year (12 litres/21 pints per day) in the 1970s to 7,445 litres (24.5 litres/42 pints per day). One of the highest yielding cow breed is Dutch Holstein Friesian cows.
Apparently this is significantly more than a calf actually requires:
The figures above reflect only the average per cow, some individual cows may produce significantly more but either way it equates to seven to ten times more than a cow would naturally produce to feed her calf.
The featured image is a rotolactor, which is a large, circular, rotating wheel that holds many cows. The original design went into production in 1930 and was designed for fifty cows:
The Rotolactor (roto + lactor ium) was a large rotating “merry-go-round” style platform for holding 50 cows. The machine brought the cows into position for milking with automatic milking machines. The rotating platform machine was sixty feet in diameter and made one complete revolution about every twelve and a half minutes. The twelve and a half minutes was the time required to prepare and milk each cow.
The first step for each new cow was receiving a bath. The cows were bathed with warm water and automatic showers, supplemented by two men using pressure hoses, who “devote their attention to the cleansing of udders and flanks.”
The next operator prepared the udder for milking. Then the teat-cups of the automatic milking machine are attached to the cow’s udder. The cow is then milked for the twelve and a half minutes during the Rotolactor’s one-time complete rotation. The teat-cups would then be detached at the end of the twelve and a half minute rotation. The cow would then step off the platform and return to the barn to her stall.
The milk was drawn by a vacuum to sealed glass containers above the cow’s head. It is then transported in pipes to weighing and recording apparatuses. Then it is piped to another room where the milk is cooled and bottled. This was faster and more efficient than the old methods previously used. Human hands never touched the milk and the milk never came into contact with air. It was important for the milk not to contact air to prevent premature spoiling. The Rotolactor could milk the Walker-Gordon dairy’s 1,680 cows three times daily. This produced 26,000 quarts of milk.
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There continues to be a lot of confusion about marijuana laws on the local, state and federal levels.
For example, Wisconsin has a patchwork of marijuana laws, with some cities having decriminalized possession of small amounts, but possession of any amount remains illegal on the state level.
Moreover, the current United States Attorney General has announced a policy of cracking down on crime, including drug offenses.
The AG’s stance regarding marijuana possession is essentially the opposite of the one taken by the previous administration. In fact, it was recently reported that the AG personally asked Congress to let him prosecute providers of medical marijuana.
When faced with this kind of zealous law enforcement, individuals accused of drug crimes will need to mount an aggressive defense against the charges. It is common for prosecutors to seek the harshest possible penalties, even for relatively minor offenses such as possession of a small amount of marijuana.
If larger amounts of drugs are involved, the possible penalties are even more serious.
Being convicted of the sale or delivery of marijuana in Wisconsin can lead to years in prison and tens of thousands of dollars in fines.
Under Wisconsin law, the sale or delivery of marijuana weighing 200 grams or less can result in a felony conviction and 3.5 years in prison, plus a fine of up to $10,000. If the weight of the marijuana is 200 to 1,000 grams, a defendant faces a possible 6 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The penalties increase significantly as the amount of marijuana increases.
Federal charges are another matter altogether.
Being charged with a federal drug crime requires immediate legal intervention from a criminal defense attorney if you want to minimize the negative consequences. For more on these matters, please see Kim & LaVoy’s overview of federal criminal charges. | <urn:uuid:1a3dd16b-8e79-4c3c-8f86-2e4c217d1faf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kimandlavoy.com/blog/2017/06/u-s-attorney-general-aims-to-crack-down-on-marijuana/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943231 | 363 | 1.5625 | 2 |
RESPIRATORY MUSCLE TRAINING WITH TRACHEOSTOMY & MECHANICAL VENTILATION
Can RMT be utilized with patients with a trach? What if they are also receiving mechanical ventilation? Does RMT help with Vent and Trach Weaning? It can! In this webinar, we will provide the information you need when deciding to utilize RMT with those patients you are working with who present with trach and/or vent, who are weaning or have recently been weaned.
WHO THIS IS FOR AND WHY
Clinicians wanting to learn more about implementing RMT in conjunction with trachs and vents.
- Identify when it may be appropriate to implement RMT with someone with a Tracheostomy or post Tracheostomy removal
- Describe the benefits of utilizing RMT with weaning from mechanical ventilation
- Understand how an interprofessional approach can improve functional outcomes and the role each plays in RMT with those impacted by Tracheostomy and Vent use
- Discuss 3 contraindications for use of RMT with patients with mechanical ventilation and tracheostomy
MEET THE EXPERTS
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MA, CCC/SLP, Master Clinician
Betsy has been a Medical Speech Language Pathologist for 14 years since graduating from University of Central Florida. She enjoys practicing with a strong interdisciplinary team to support the rehab process for persons predominantly in the geriatric population. One of her professional passions is clinical education and treatment of patients with cardio pulmonary diagnoses. She finds great joy in helping her patients achieve greater function and quality of life.
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Dr. Bausek is a geneticist and the Chief Scientist for PN Medical. She has worked in the areas of fertility, immunology, and oncology as a researcher. She’s also developed her scientific and leadership skills doing research and teaching at the University of Oxford and the University of Sheffield in the UK. She’s based in Vienna, Austria.
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Presently serves practicing respiratory therapists and his community as the Director of Pulmonary & Respiratory Care for AdventHealth Orlando. A Navy veteran with over 35 years of clinical and leadership experience, he is dedicated to advancing the profession through education and development of the individual practitioner, commitment to community service, research, and professional promotion and participation. Tom earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Central Florida, where he served on the adjunct faculty for 19 years, and the Doctor of Health Science degree from Nova Southeastern University. He has served on several community non-profit boards, including a term as President of the American Lung Association of Central Florida. He presently serves as President of the Florida Society for Respiratory Care, Chairman of the Central Florida Advisory Council for Respiratory Care Education, Co-Chairman of the Florida Respiratory Leadership Network, and as a peer reviewer for the Respiratory Care journal. Tom has been a member of the American Association for Respiratory Care since 1983.
Owner of NDoscopy Dysphagia Specialists
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Health care professionals now can easily find reliable guidance to help diagnose and treat patients who have been exposed to radiation.
The first major redesign of the Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM) website since it launched in 2007 is available at http://www.remm.nlm.gov/. REMM gives health care personnel key information about the diagnosis and treatment of radiation injuries and access to interactive clinical tools and data. The site was developed by two agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health....more
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|You can help protect landless families as they occupy land to grow food to feed themselves and their communities.
|TAKE ACTION TODAY!
Earlier this summer we forwarded to you a letter from our partner, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil, asking for your solidarity. The 70 families seeking title to land needed your help to defend their rights against the wealthy landowners and hired thugs who were threatening, harassing and harming them. These families are exercising their Constitutional right to occupy and farm underutilized land so they can feed themselves and their communities, and they remain under threat.
As result of the actions our supporters took, government officials visited the encampment and, in turn, pressured local authorities to investigate what was happening to the families. Although this was a great victory, the harassment continues.
This is why we need you to take action today to protect these brave families. We’ve already seen that our advocacy actions are working and you to add your name to this important campaign today.
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“This is a devastating situation from a market and supply perspective,” said Kathleen Liang, director of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems in North Carolina.
“Remember, the chicken and the egg come…the costs of both have definitely risen due to avian flu, exacerbated by inflation and import/export challenges,” she added. “Bird flu is one of a combination of factors that causes food insecurity.”
In the UK, which was also hit by an “unprecedented” bird flu season, some restrictions protecting poultry and captive birds were lifted in May, but an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone remains in effect – meaning bird keepers must follow strict biosecurity measures.
Professor Munir Iqbal, head of the Avian Influenza Virus group at the Pirbright Institute in Surrey, told the Telegraph that the risk to agriculture remains high due to its continued spread in wild populations.
‘Constant threat’ to farmers
For example, according to the National Trust, at least 3,000 birds have died on the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumbria, in the worst disaster to hit the colonies in nearly 100 years. Meanwhile, the Scottish government agency NatureScot has advised 23 islands to hold off visitors to limit the spread of bird flu.
“Farmers are constantly threatened by a disease outbreak at any time,” says Prof. Iqbal. “Even during the summer months, outbreaks with H5N1 [bird flu] be reported… [which means] that the virus is prevalent in wild birds and is spread among poultry.”
“Production costs are rising due to both disease outbreaks and feed prices, [which affects] farmers’ livelihoods and affordability for customers,” he added. “The price of both poultry meat and eggs has risen significantly in the UK and other countries.”
Prof Iqbal said the problem is unlikely to go away any time soon, and there are mounting fears about what the next flu season could look like.
“[This has been an] an unprecedented season for the level of bird flu infection,” said Dr. Christine Middlemiss, the British veterinary officer, told TBEN Radio Four on Tuesday. “We’re really concerned about what the next fall-winter season will bring when the migratory birds return.”
A spokesperson for Defra added: “To date, 2.75 million birds have been culled in the UK, a small proportion of the 20 million birds produced each week by the poultry industry. The UK is experiencing the largest avian flu outbreak ever, and our teams are working around the clock to support poultry farmers affected by this terrible disease.”
‘These problems won’t go away’
Grady Ferguson, a senior research analyst at the data consultancy Gro Intelligence, said that while the number of new cases has declined, the losses “will continue to affect the industry, possibly for years, as did the losses of 50 million birds in the US in 2014-15” . .
“That was the worst animal health disaster in US history,” he said. “The US has lost 40 million so far this year. More losses could start in the fall as migratory birds – a big conjecture [bird flu] spreader – go south for the winter.”
It’s not clear what caused the current rise, but experts say the magnitude of the rise means it’s unlikely to reflect better surveillance, especially in poultry, where diseases have always been closely monitored.
Instead, factors such as a more transmissible strain, changing migration patterns, increasing contact between free-range poultry and wild birds, climate change or an unexpected “influenza epizootic” have been discussed.
Internationally, other diseases also threaten food security. African swine fever, a highly contagious viral disease that has devastated the pork trade in China, continues to spread worldwide. According to the WOAH, nearly 80,000 cases have been identified in farmed and wild pigs since January.
Meanwhile, Indonesia has been hit by a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, with more than 55,000 head of cattle in 23 of the archipelago’s 37 provinces infected with the disease on Tuesday, according to government data. Livestock countries, including Australia and New Zealand, have raised their vigilance after cases were found in the tourist hotspot of Bali.
“These problems will not go away,” Professor Liang said. “We need to improve our understanding of viruses and better protect our livestock and wildlife…to improve food security.”
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Collaborative Care: Technology’s Evolving Role in Cardiometabolic Health is a 3-part feature series examining the evolution of technology in the management of patients with cardiometabolic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Since the dawn of medicine, the care of patients has only gone as far as the technology of the time has allowed it. From therapies, to monitoring, and even analysis of data, major advances in technology throughout history have opened the doors to a greater understanding and contributed to improvements in quality of life and clinical outcomes for patients.
Like a river creating a canyon, the process is often one that is grueling but the results can be far greater than most could have imagined. Not all endocrinologists could have predicted the incredible rise in continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps, nor could many cardiologists have predicted hundreds of thousands of people wearing devices capable of conducting and submitting data from electrocardiograms on their wrists—yet, these advances have become integrated into our day-to-day lives.
With a greater emphasis, especially in the wake of COVID-19, implementation of and reimbursement for services delivered via telehealth have taken center stage, but many still lack answers to basic questions related to the topic. Co-hosted by Endocrinology Network and Practical Cardiology, “Collaborative Care: Technology’s Evolving Role in Cardiometabolic Health” is a feature series including a trio of submitted columns tackling these issues, each with a unique perspective.
In the first segment, hosted by Practical Cardiology, Brett Nowlan, MD, details the rise of wearables from his frame of reference as a practicing cardiologist. The second segment, which appears on Endocrinology Network, Melissa Young, MD, writes about how she has seen the evolution of diabetes technology transform the lives of patients. Lastly, Daniel Tashnek, JD, provides clinicians with information related to cost, coverage, and reimbursement for telehealth services and remote patient monitoring.
Trained in South Africa and experienced practicing in both Europe and the United States, Brett Nowlan, MD, has a perspective on cardiology that spans both continents and decades. With his unique point-of-view, Nowlan dives deeper into the journey of wearable technology from a cardiologist’s perspective.
An endocrinologist practicing in New Jersey, Melissa L. Young, MD, of Mid Atlantic Diabetes and Endocrinology, reflects on her personal experiences with treating diabetic patients over time as technology, such as glucose monitors and insulin pumps, have altered standards of practice.
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Service Learning Project: Build a Deck
Learn the basics of power tool use and framing and help North House build a deck and platform for our new yurt! Students will be guided on all the steps of the process, including drawing and deciphering plans, measuring and cutting lumber, site layout and leveling, and finally framing, bracing and decking. Gain confidence in tool usage and apply skills learned in this class to your own house projects. Lunch will be provided. | <urn:uuid:8e40e8af-d33f-4497-be78-5fab14938163> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.northhouse.org/courses/service-learning-project-build-a-deck | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.903079 | 97 | 2.5625 | 3 |
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), nearly 2 million employees are victims of workplace violence each year. An even more startling statistic is that between January 2009 and July 2015, there were 133 mass shootings in the workplace. No wonder violence in the workplace has become a top security concern for all employers.
While there isn’t a federal law preventing workplace violence, OSHA requires a company to provide employees a workplace “free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm.” This is a lot easier said than done now that technology has expanded our work environments to places outside of our physical office buildings. I don’t believe it is a coincidence that we are seeing an increase in workplace violence as well as insider threats-after all, when we fail to detect and control internal threats we are not only jeopardizing our brand but also the lives of those who work with us and for us.
As an employer, you could be held liable for negligent hiring or for failing to conduct a basic background check. You could also find yourself in hot water for not establishing or implementing a zero tolerance policy for those who use the workplace-and work issued tools such as computers and cellphones-for harming others. This would include threatening, stalking or harassing anyone at or outside of the workplace.
Preventing insider threats is one of the best ways to protect your employees and yourself from workplace violence. Here are just a few things you should be doing:
Don’t Skimp on Background Checks
Be sure to have a standard screening policy that includes what checks should be performed for each position as well as what information you need to gather such as previous employment and criminal background checks. Always look for inconsistencies between information and documents and address the issue immediately. I also recommend expanding your background check policies to include a repeat screening-just because an employee has a clean record on the first day of their employment does mean the record will stay clean.
Monitor Online Actions of Employees
If you do not currently have a system in place for monitoring the online actions of employees, you need to create one. This type of system will allow you to discover suspicious actions before they become more serious. Monitor your employees online and always consult with your legal team.
Have an Employee Exit Plan
As soon as an employee has left the company, be sure to not only collect any technology he or she may have been using but immediately prohibit access to servers, networks, and content, even if that means immediately disabling accounts.
Companies must prepare for workplace violence the same way they prepare for insider threats-by taking the steps needed to prevent these situations from occurring. A little planning can go a long way towards keeping your business safe. | <urn:uuid:0b40c7e2-361f-49ff-af20-7827e61b0aaa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://surprizebusiness.com/security/why-protecting-against-insider-threats-also-protects-against-workplace-violence.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966727 | 557 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Erfurt (dpa/th) - According to a forecast by the Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba), the Free State can expect economic growth of 1.5 percent this year. "That's actually not so bad, also in view of the demographic development," said Helaba chief economist Gertrud Traud on Tuesday in Erfurt. Nationwide, Helaba expects growth of 1.7 percent.
According to Traud, the population decline, especially of Thuringians of working age, is increasingly becoming a brake on growth. Immigration and the integration of migrants into the labor market are all the more important.
According to data from the State Statistical Office, the number of Thuringians of working age will fall by a quarter in the period up to 2040. According to this, Jena is the only city that can maintain its current level.
The good industrial base is having a positive effect on Thuringia's economic development, said the Helaba economist. Through digitization and automation, she also has the opportunity to further improve her efficiency in the coming years. Thuringia is already one of the three federal states in Germany with the lowest emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2.
However, the growth forecast for this year would be invalid if the supply of oil and gas from Russia came to a sudden halt. In this case, the Landesbank expects "two years of recession in a row".
Traud was critical of the federal government's decision to subsidize fuel prices for three months and to introduce the 9-euro ticket for local transport. She expects deadweight effects, she said. From their point of view, it would have been better to use the money to expand the transport infrastructure and only to help people who needed it in view of the high energy prices. "Apparently they wanted to have short-term success," said Traud. | <urn:uuid:e42fd9a9-aba3-4b75-80b4-29552ed5f438> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailynewsen.com/breaking/thuringia-landesbank-expects-15-percent-economic-growth-h40248.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961635 | 386 | 1.828125 | 2 |
*Closes 31st August*
The NI Open Government Network was established in 2014 as an alliance of individual citizens, activists and representatives of community and voluntary organisations. The Network’s aim is to contribute to delivering more open, transparent and accountable government that empowers citizens to shape decisions that impact on their lives. Our work is primarily focused on using the platform and mechanism of the Open Government Partnership to achieve this aim.
The Open Government Partnership is an international, multi-stakeholder initiative that brings together reformers committed to making their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. This partnership now includes 77 participating countries, 76 local governments and thousands of civil society organisations. Both the UK (since 2011) and Ireland (since 2013) are members of OGP. In 2020, Northern Ireland joined OGP as a member in its own right through the OGP’s sub-national scheme OGP Local. The key mechanism within OGP is that every two years members must co-create a new set of reforms with civil society and submit these to OGP. The commitments are also monitored by civil society during implementation and achievements are reviewed by OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism.
The NI OGN is the recognised civil society body under the OGP, engaging with the NI Executive and civil service to develop and secure open government commitments. We are affiliated with the wider UK Open Government Network which liaises with the UK Government in relation to the UK National Action Plan under the OGP.
About the role
The Board of Directors of NI Open Government Network (NIOGN) is currently inviting expressions of interest from suitable individuals to join the Board as Treasurer, an office bearer role alongside the Chair and the Secretary.
The Board provides strategic leadership to the organisation, ensuring it is well run and delivering the outcomes for which it has been set up. The Treasurer will proactively work to provide financial oversight to NIOGN and fulfil a crucial governance function and legal obligation.
The Treasurer is one of three office bearers on the NIOGN Board of Directors and they are responsible for financial oversight of the operations of NIOGN, working closely with other members of the Board to safeguard the organisation’s finances. In summary, the Treasurer is responsible for:
- General financial oversight
- Funding, fundraising
- Financial planning and budgeting
- Financial reporting
- Banking, book keeping and record keeping
- Control of fixed assets and stock
Given these responsibilities, the Treasurer typically acts as an information and reference point for the Chair and other Board members: clarifying financial implications of proposals; confirming legal requirements; outlining the current financial status; and retrieving relevant documentation.
Who are we looking for?
Someone who is interested in and passionate about the principles, values and operational work of NIOGN and with a desire to support better outcomes for society. They understand that their role is vital to the sustainability and growth of the network.
Skills & Experience:
We are particularly interested to hear from anyone who has experience in the following areas:
- Leadership & strategic planning
- Governance & legal requirements
- Financial control and budgeting.
In addition to the specific experience above, interested people should possess any of the following:
- Political awareness and interest in accountability and transparency of government
- Interest in democratic processes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Team worker and strong collaborator
- Passionate about positive societal change and social justice
- Ability to ensure decisions are taken and followed-up.
NIOGN is committed to diversity and inclusion. We particularly welcome expressions of interest from those currently underrepresented on the Board; especially ethnic minorities, women, persons with a disability and those aged 18-30. NIOGN seeks to create an accessible and inclusive environment, and to make reasonable adjustments to the needs of our team.
As a Treasurer with the NIOGN you will be part of a team committed to working with government and politicians on securing, implementing, and monitoring commitments to Open Government through the Local and National Action Plans.
Whilst the time commitment for the Treasurer is low, there are opportunities to support the broader work of the network to engage with civic society to increase understanding of democratic processes, the work of central and local government and of the NI Civil Service.
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For the second time this year, severe weather has severed cargo flows between Canada’s largest port and the interior.
Torrential rain has halted rail traffic to and from the port of Vancouver and paralysed major road arteries linking the area to the rest of the country.
Storms battered southern parts of British Columbia, a mountainous and heavily forested area, dumping as much as 252 millimetres of rain on parts of the province in just 48 hours, washing away sections of major highways and causing landslides to block roads, with two towns evacuated and other communities cut off.
Tracks of both Canadian Class I railways have been affected by the conditions.
“All intermodal and carload traffic, northbound and eastbound, from Vancouver, as well as inbound from east/north of Kamloops, is affected,” Canadian National (CN) told customers.
One CN train was partially derailed on a washed-out line north of the town of Yale. According to the carrier, there were no injuries, fire or cargo spill as a result of the incident.
And Canadian Pacific confirmed that its operations had been interrupted by track outages near the town of Hope.
It is unclear how severe the damage to tracks is, or how long it will take to restore rail services through the region. CN reported that it had not been able to assess the damage so far, and said: “Crews are ready to safely tend to the affected sites, but await stabilisation of conditions to begin work.”
The full extent of the weather damage may be considerably worse than estimated. The transport ministry of British Columbia showed images on Twitter of other sections of rail line that appear to have been damaged too.
And roads offer virtually no alternative: all the major highways linking the lower mainland around Vancouver with the interior have suffered closures due to washed-out sections or blockage from landslides. The Trans-Canada highway is closed in both directions for almost 80 km, which only leaves minor highways to connect the region with the rest of the country.
Theoretically, trucks could move from Vancouver through the US to central and eastern Canada, but some highways in Washington state have also been blocked by the weather. Moreover, drivers would require Covid-19 tests to cross the border.
This is the second time this year traffic between Vancouver and the Canadian interior has been blocked by severe weather. In July, it was extreme heat and fires that snarled-up traffic and forced both Canadian rail carriers to temporarily shut down their networks in British Columbia.
Predictably, the disruption will aggravate the congestion at the port of Vancouver. The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority told customers via its website: “Vessel delays and heightened anchorage demand are expected due to the disruptions to terminal operations.
“We are working closely with our terminal operators, railways and all levels of government to understand the impacts of these delays on terminal operations and to develop a recovery plan.” | <urn:uuid:4558c9f5-0089-46cd-9038-841e2cca1803> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.actllc.co/torrential-rain-washes-out-roads-and-railways-cutting-links-from-vancouver-port/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96939 | 608 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Throughout this stimulating volume, Thell. . . is impressively attuned to her chosen texts’ original historical and philosophical contexts, whilst also demonstrating sophisticated knowledge of recent scholarship across a range of debates and issues. [This book,] accordingly, open[s] up interesting new perspectives on travel writing across the long eighteenth century, and greatly advance[s] our understanding of key debates associated with travel and travelers in this period. | <urn:uuid:0ae8231d-11b7-426b-aaf2-5ba835009df3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781611488296/Minds-in-Motion-Imagining-Empiricism-in-Eighteenth-Century-British-Travel-Literature | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.900076 | 87 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Medina was Muhammad's destination after his Hijrah from Mecca, and became the capital of a rapidly increasing Muslim Empire, first under Muhammad's leadership, and then under the first four Rashidun caliphs, Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali. It served as the power base of Islam in its first century where the early Muslim community developed. Medina is home to the three oldest mosques, namely the Quba Mosque, al-Masjid an-Nabawi, and Masjid al-Qiblatayn ("the mosque of the two qiblas"). Muslims believe that the chronologically final surahs of the Quran were revealed to Muhammad in Medina, and are called Medinan surahs in contrast to the earlier Meccan surahs.
... sufi scholar from the Naqshbandi order, Hayat al-Sindhi from Adilpur, Sindh. This is a critical relationship in the evolution of Sufi thought in the subcontinent as Hayat Sindhi himself was trained, initially in Thatta, but later in Medina under the tutelage of Ibrahim al-Kurani.
Mohammed Eisa Danial Hayat was the sole survivor of the devastating crash during a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on 8th February... No matter how much anyone tries, you can't replace the parents," said Mr Hayat ... All five Hayats were buried at Jannat-ul-Baqi, a cemetery in Medina where the prophet Muhammed is said to be buried.
A Pakistani, Hayat Sayyed Alsayyed, was executed in the western city of Medina after he was convicted of smuggling drugs inside his stomach, the ministry said in a separate statement issued in Arabic... .
- Lawmakers and activists are adding their voices to the growing calls for the closure of nightclubs on Mecca and Medina streets in Amman. Hayat FM, an Islamic radio station, launched a campaign last week to shut down all nightclubs located on the two streets, named after Islams two holiest cities in Saudi Arabia.
... Bay Dhabo, Kismayo, Dusamareb, Adado & Elbur. They are the backbone of all the major hospitals such as SOS village, Benadir Hospital, Kaysane Hospital, Daynile Hospital, Medina Hospital, Hayat Hospital & Aden Adde Hospital and other INGOs & LNGOs. .
... damages included new projects that were recently completed such as AbdullahBridge and Tunnel that was completely submerged by the rain, according to Abdul Aziz Suwaigh's article on Medina newspaper. Abdul Aziz Al-Suweid's article in Hayat newspaper talked about a conspiracy.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Gunmen threw grenades and a land mine exploded near the convoy of Somali Prime MinisterAli Mohamed Gedi, killing at least five bodyguards and wounding several others, an official said ...Doctors at the Medina and Al Hayat hospitals confirmed that five bodies were taken to the medical facilities following the attack ... .
MOGADISHU, Somalia Gunmen threw grenades and a land mine exploded near a convoy carrying Somalia's prime minister today, but the leader escaped unharmed, officials said ... ADVERTISEMENT ... Doctors at the Medina and Al Hayat hospitals confirmed that five dead bodies were taken to the medical facilities following the attack ... . .
Gunmen throw hand grenades at convoy; 5 bodyguards killed ... At least five bodyguards were killed and 14 other people wounded in the attack ... One bodyguard died at the scene ... "I heard a grenade explosion ... Doctors at the Medina and Al Hayat hospitals confirmed that five dead bodies were taken to the medical facilities following the attack ... .
MOGADISHU. At least 15 people were killed and nearly 40 wounded yesterday in a bomb blast at a Mogadishu stadium where Somalias transitional prime minister was addressing a large crowd, police and hospital officials said ...Nurses in Mogadishus Medina and Al hayat hospitals said seven more died, bring the toll to 15 ... . | <urn:uuid:555332cb-08c3-4ba4-9202-4a6115522561> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wn.com/Hayat_Medina | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968825 | 842 | 2.515625 | 3 |
weather, climate and best time to visit
Best time to visit Zar Tālā
The best time to visit Zar Tālā in Afghanistan is from June through September. In this period you have a pleasant temperature and almost no precipitation. The highest average temperature in Zar Tālā is 72°F in July and the lowest is 24°F in January.
In the table below you can quickly see the average monthly weather in Zar Tālā, the monthly temperatures or when the precipitation is the highest. Average monthly climate data is based on data from the past 30 years.
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Zar Tālā weather
The weather for Zar Tālā over the next 14 days will be 54°F till 73° with a couple of days chance of light rain showers or even quite a bit of rain.
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Climate Zar Tālā
Zar Tālā has a continental climate. In the summer it is warm and dry, and in the winter it is cold and wet. The average annual temperature for Zar Tālā is 19° degrees and there is about 93 inch of rain in a year. It is dry for 242 days a year with an average humidity of 50% and an UV-index of 3.
Zar Tālā weather by month
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Zar Tālā?
Zar Tālā is located in Afghanistan. It lies in a straight line 6,692 miles from New York.
The coordinates of Zar Tālā are:
- Latitude: 34.470689
- Longitude: 67.441448
The GPS coordinates are 34° 28' N, 67° 26' E
How long is the flight to Zar Tālā?
The flight time from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Zar Tālā is approximately 15 h. 30 min.
What are the nearest airports to Zar Tālā?
These are the airports closests to Zar Tālā:
- Hamid Karzai International Airport (102 mi) in Kabul
How big is Zar Tālā?
The surface area of Zar Tālā is 24 mi².
What is the currency of Zar Tālā?
In Zar Tālā, the Afghan afghani (AFN) is used for payment.
Exchange rates on 15 August 2022
- 1 US dollar = 76.72 Afghan afghani
- 1 Afghan afghani = 0.013 US dollar
- 100 US dollar = 7,672.20 Afghan afghani
- 100 Afghan afghani = 1.30 US dollar
What is the area code of Zar Tālā?
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More attention should be given to the assessment of nutrition practices when assessing the impact of WASH on the health of school children. We also don’t know enough about the long term impact of WASH interventions on child health. These are some of the conclusions that researchers from the Center for Global Health and Development at the the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) drew from a review of the literature .
Dr. Ashish Joshi and research assistant Chioma Amadi reviewed the impact of water treatment, hygiene, and sanitary interventions on improving child health outcomes such as absenteeism, infections, knowledge, attitudes, and practices and adoption of point-of-use water treatment. For their final analysis they selected 15 peer-reviewed English-language studies published between 2009 and 2012 that focused on the effects of access to safe water, hand washing facilities, and hygiene education among school-age children.
Eleven of the reviewed were conducted in developing countries and eight were rural based. The child’s age, gender, grade level, socioeconomic index, access to hygiene and sanitary facilities, and prior knowledge of hygiene practices were significantly associated with the outcomes. Nutrition practices which are key factors associated with the outcomes were rarely assessed.
Read the full open access study.
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(Joint with Nathan Lauster and cross-posted at HomeFreeSociology) We’re increasingly gathering lots of different measures of residential mobility in Canada. Which is great! Especially insofar as we want up-to-date information about demographic response through the pandemic. Here we want to add the CMHC Rental Market Survey (RMS) to the mix, comparing to Census and CHS (Housing Survey) results. Adding it in reveals a general decline in tenant mobility only recently (and partially) reversed.
This excellent NYTimes article on mobility in the US coming out today nudged me into doing a quick post on residential mobility in Canada. While there are lots of similarities between Canada and the US, there are some important differences when it comes to residential mobility. A while back Nathan Lauster compared residential mobility between the two countries and noticed that the declining trend in US residential mobility is much more muted in Canada, and may have reversed by the 2016 census, the last year for which we currently have data in Canada.
With a new redevelopment proposal around Vancouver’s Nanaimo Skytrain station hitting the news, and a local journalist feigning ignorance about zoning around skytrain stations, maybe it’s time for a quick post on zoning and population growth around the Nanaimo Station. To start out, let’s take a look at the zoning around Nanaimo Station. We marked the Nanaimo Station at the centre and the 29th Avenue station to the south-east just outside of the 800m radius circle.
There are many useful metrics to understand neighbourhood change, change in the income distribution, change in the share of population in low income and change in dwelling units, change in households who rent, or just overall population change and how that relates to zoning. All these tell us something about how neighbourhoods change, the metric we want to focus on in this post is the number of children under 15.
(Joint with Nathan Lauster and cross-posted at HomeFreeSociology) TL;DR We develop and elaborate a Montréal Method for estimating housing shortfalls related to constraints upon current residents who might wish to form independent households but are forced to share by local housing markets. Applying simple versions of the Montréal Method to Metro Areas across Canada suggests that Toronto has the biggest shortfall, which we estimate at 250,000 to 400,000 dwellings, depending upon assumptions. | <urn:uuid:6a914d4f-f1c7-40ca-94c9-2cb98b3285eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://doodles.mountainmath.ca/categories/cancensus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.946325 | 499 | 1.742188 | 2 |
I noted with interest that a special 20th anniversary edition of John Ralston Saul’s jeremiad, ‘Voltaire’s Bastards’ had been released, a book that provoked in me a great deal of thought when I first read it, (ironically) almost twenty years ago.
The tome is a sustained, agitated and sometimes aggressive tirade; a rant, an anatomy and a dissection of the evolution of humanism and modern rational society.
Saul asserts in this rousing polemic that whilst Voltaire, (1694 – 1778) had argued for reason as our last bastion against the arbitrary and corrupted power of monarchs and religion, it has evolved into a kind of mask from behind which the new, ruling elites are committing all manner of sins, abuses and crimes against the masses. In Saul’s view, we -the common people- are being duped.
Twenty years ago, the true nature of modern society was –as Saul’s saw it- ruled by a corrupt and disconnected corporatism which was mired in specialization, pretending to solve the world’s problems, only for these specialists to be the root cause and creators of much that ails the world.
A society where those at the top had little more than disdain for the rest of humankind and who justified their exploitation of the world’s resources to their own ends by using a brutal, clinical rationalism -hiding behind faux reason and flawed logic.
The book was written during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, a time when corporate greed was considered to be at its all-time peak. A time when the world seemed to be ruled by stockbrokers and corporate moguls, masters of the universe traded on Wall Street and we started to see the true effects of globalization, where the leading brands were richer than most countries and where growth, profit and a healthy return to shareholders seemed to take precedence over empathy, compassion, equality, human rights almost everything else.
Saul foretold of a world where a ruling elite acted to serve only themselves and with increasing impunity, arguing that their decisions were based on logic and sound reasoning which made all of their decisions tough but fair, somewhat inevitable and for the long-term, greater good of all humankind. All this taking place whilst an increasingly disadvantaged, disenfranchised and disdainful population become progressively more disturbed, hostile and inevitably, revolutionary. Today, from Seattle to Syria and from Anonymous to extremists, we see revolutionary activity and outright revolution all over the globe and we can also see revolution in subtler ways, in our everyday lives, in the choices we make and in the voices we begin to listen to.
The industrial age brought many advantages and advances to the lives of our species; it has also had an increasingly dramatic impact on our atmosphere and our climate. At first, it slowly crept up on us, barely noticeable until, seemingly all of a sudden, there it was pollution, filthy pollution in all its forms, rubbish almost everywhere. The technological age enables us to see for ourselves, the damage we were doing.
Then, once again, it was all of a sudden almost overwhelming us and we began to understand that our own industriousness, our over-consumption, our over-production and our own greed, indeed the very things that some had argued made us great, also possessed the power to destroy us. Whether you subscribe to Adam Smith’s, (1723 – 1790) economic principles of productivity and benevolence or Karl Marx’s, (1818 – 1883) notions of corruption and exploitation; few then could have imagined our capacity to destroy an entire planet, like a cancer attacking its host.
The immensely successful 1982 film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford was based on an obscure 1962 book of science fiction by the author Phillip K. Dick, (1928 – 1982) entitled ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’.
In this bleak, compelling piece of futuristic ‘automaton noir’ Dick describes a decaying, dystopian society being buried under the weight of its own industriousness and poisoned by its own ingenuity, we are being buried alive under the useless and discarded items of our own over manufacture, buried under ‘kibble’ as he termed it: everyday household goods that we had cast aside, were now swallowing up our homes, our cities, our planet, our lives.
Voltaire had believed that through sound thought and good reason man separated himself from all other living creatures and he held in great disdain matters of faith and the corruption of power from the ruling classes.
He used his pen as an epee and he wielded it with all the precision of a master swordsman in a fencing match or, as a surgeon with a lancet, performing open heart surgery.
His reasoning was his artillery; his wit, his bon mots and his put downs were legendary, often humorous, he dissected his opposition, taunted them, toyed with them. Voltaire’s particular cruelty was not to merely turn the tide of popular opinion against his opponents but, to have the people laugh at them with disdain, to humiliate them and in doing so, annihilate them. He once wrote that to hold a pen was to be at war.
Voltaire was not a man of mercy, yet some would say that Voltaire had good reason to terrorize the ruling classes of France in the early 1700’s. Born into a middle class family of little importance and a young writer struggling to make his name as a man of letters, Francois Marie Arouet as he was then known was beginning to gain a reputation as a bit of an upstart; a petty shit-stirrer amongst a court society used to considering it their privilege to do and get away with whatever they damn well pleased.
The young Arouet was an idealist who believed that rulers should be enlightened souls who protected the people’s rights and when he saw injustice he lashed out; his pen was indeed very sharp, soon he began to deeply offend and to gather serious enemies.
Voltaire was actually jailed for many a short spell in the Bastille for offending the nobility, the final straw came after he had traded insults with the aristocratic Guy Auguste de Rohan-Chabot known as the chevalier de Rohan and the comte de Chabot.
The Chevalier organized for Voltaire to be beaten in the street like a peasant whilst he watched from the comfort of his carriage, leaving the young writer busted up and bleeding in the gutter.
Voltaire was said to be incandescent with rage and began to prepare for a duel to the death, the Rohan family meanwhile, obtained a ‘lettre de cachet’ from King Louis XV and used this warrant to force Voltaire back into the Bastille and then into exile in Great Britain.
Francois Marie Arouet would relish his time in England and appreciate the philosophical and scientific breakthroughs taking place during this pre-industrial revolution period, a time of philosophical and scientific enlightenment in England. He returned to France, changed his name to Voltaire, still angry, still an agitator but now very much an enlightened one, few would ever again attempt to humiliate him.
Voltaire would spend three years in exile before returning to Paris, he then made a series of very sound business partnerships that would ultimately see him gain serious wealth. In 1733 he met and fell deeply in love with Emilie du Chatelet, (1706 – 1749) a woman twelve-years his junior but, with her own formidable intellect and determined, individual disposition. They would spend the next sixteen years together and form one of the great romantic and profound love affairs in all history.
Emilie du Chatelet was indeed a remarkable woman and one who made several great contributions to science, she had a profound influence on Voltaire, his thinking and his writing.
She was regarded as the first and only women of science and mathematics during her time in France, she published a novel criticizing Locke, which emphasized the need for knowledge to be empirical and verified through experience.
She published a paper on heat and light, predicting what is today known as infrared radiation
She wrote a paper titled ‘Lessons in Physics’ in which she attempted to reconcile complex ideas from some of the leading thinkers of the time.
She translated Sir Isaac Newton’s ‘Principia Mathematica’ into French and then conducted experiments that were based on Gottfried Leibnitz’s theories on kinetic energy and velocity, counter to Newton’s theory. She published a critical analysis of the bible and she also translated the extraordinary poem by Bernard Manderville, (1679 – 1733) ‘The Fable of the Bees’ into French:
The poem was published in 1705, the book in 1714. The poem suggests such key principles of economic thought, as the division of labour and the “invisible hand”, seventy years before these concepts were elucidated by Adam Smith. Two centuries later, the noted economist John Maynard Keynes, (1883 – 1946) cited Mandeville to show that it was “no new thing to ascribe the evils of unemployment to the insufficiency of the propensity to consume”, a condition also known as the paradox of thrift, which was central to Keynes theory of effective demand.
However, at the time of publication the fable was considered scandalous. Keynes noted:
Mandeville gave great offense by this book, in which a cynical system of morality was made attractive by ingenious paradoxes.
In her preface to the translation, Emilie du Chatelet mounted a withering argument for women’s education. Chatelet also wrote a book on the nature of happiness, both in general and especially pertaining to women.
She is attributed with the following saying:
“Judge me for my own merits, or lack of them, but do not look upon me as a mere appendage to this great general or that great scholar, this star that shines at the court of France or that famed author. I am in my own right a whole person, responsible to myself alone for all that I am, all that I say, all that I do.
It may be that there are metaphysicians and philosophers whose learning is greater than mine, although I have not met them. Yet, they are but frail humans, too, and have their faults; so, when I add the sum total of my graces, I confess I am inferior to no one.”
‑‑‑Mme du Châtelet to Frederick the Great of Prussia, (1712 – 1786)
Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet were indeed a formidable couple -one the voice of reason and the other the voice of science- questioning the old-world order in a new age of empiricism and enlightenment.
The central tenets of Voltaire’s philosophy where for enlightenment, for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to assembly and freedom of religion:
All of which were largely denied to the common people in France at the time. He also argued for the right to oppose and question the capricious, cruelty of absolute rule and militarism and to oppose slavery -all of which normal practice during Voltaire’s lifetime were.
Voltaire believed that with good reason, with scientific analysis and with logic and common sense, we should be able to make better decisions about life, governance and beliefs and that rulers and monarchs should be surrounded by learned, incorruptible men, capable of free thought, to advise them, he believed strongly that this would make for a better, happier, more prosperous society as a whole. Although, later in life he seemed to abandon the idea of the enlightened monarch when he wrote at the end of his most enduring work, Candide, ‘It is up to us to cultivate our garden’.
Much of what Voltaire was arguing for at the time is taken for granted as true and correct today but, it was by no means acceptable to all of French society at the time and the outcomes of Voltaire’s debates, arguments and writings were not assured. He was railing against the Ancien Regime which involved an unfair balance of power and distribution of taxes between the three estates of the monarchy and its nobles, the clergy and then the commoners and middle class, who were burdened with most of the taxes and few of the benefits.
Along with being and advocate of the sciences and philosophies of the enlightenment movement of England that he encountered when in exile, he was also a great admirer of the philosophies of Confucius, (551 BC – 479 BC).
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
Voltaire would have one legendary opponent in his lifetime and that opponent would have the name of one Jean Jacques Rousseau, (1712 – 1778) a formidable foe with romantic and somewhat wild theories for the way man should live.
Rousseau’s theories were attractive to many who felt the warring world of rulers, generals, priests and influencers of the 1700’s had lost the plot. Rousseau was advocating an entirely different solution to Voltaire and one that the French writer would find completely unpalatable.
Where Voltaire believed that through education and reason we could separate ourselves from beasts, Rousseau argued that the way we went about these things was unnatural and corrupted us, he preached that we should get back to our natural state and live a more natural life, unconfused and at peace in the world.
Rousseau was, at least initially, influenced by the philosophies of Denis Diderot, (1713 – 1784) with whom he had spent much time reading. Diderot was a materialist, who believed in hereditary knowledge and rejected the benefit of empirical knowledge preached by Voltaire and others, Diderot felt that progress through greater physical knowledge lead man on a downward spiral of corruption.
Rousseau’s philosophy did not call for humankind to return to a state of stupid beasts but, he felt that we were entering a stage of corrupted civilization and the perfect state for human beings lay somewhere back from this evil evolution. He termed this state as the ‘Noble Savage’.
Against the philosophies of Hobbes, Rousseau argued that man in his basest, most natural state is essentially and instinctively good and that we must get back to this instinctive goodness which has been corrupted by reason and logic.
The heart was pure, the head wanted to lead it astray. Rousseau predicted that the more man deviated from his natural state in nature, the worse off he and his home would be.
Rousseau taught that we would be free, wise, and good in the state of nature and that instinct and emotion, when not distorted by civilization, are nature’s instructions to inner peace and the good life.
Rousseau was also considered a hero, having a great influence on the French Revolution which would take place barely a decade after his death. His most revered work is, ‘The Social Contract’ (1762) which outlines a government in a classical republicanism framework, which itself evolved from the political writings of philosophers such as Aristotle, (384 BC – 322 BC) Cicero, (107 BC – 44 BC) Machiavelli, (1469 – 1527) and Montesquieu, (1689 – 1755). He was an advocate of democracy and believed in a ‘general will’ that should be enforced by an elected government for the good of all, over and above any personal or private interest.
Rousseau saw a world full of decadence and corruption and held a deeply pessimistic view for the future unless we returned to nature and a more natural way of living.
It is easy to deride and criticize Rousseau, (as Voltaire did mercilessly) yet it is interesting to reconsider his views today in light of man’s negative impact on his environment and the frightening and increasingly likely implications of that impact on our future.
‘The Murder of God’, is what Friedrich Nietzsche accused man of in his book The Gay Science, (1882) the passage reads:
‘God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?
What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?’
— Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Section 125, tr. Walter Kaufmann
What Nietzsche was referring to was not the actual death of god of course, he was referring to what he saw as the Christian God as no longer being a credible source of absolute moral principles.
We abandoned God as our moral guide and now Nietzsche understood that God would have to be replaced, for if he were not then we might find ourselves living in a world of total anarchy and chaos. Just who or what we might choose to replace God as out moral compass would be just as telling towards our future as a species and continues to be a source of great interest and influence today.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, (1831 – 1891) is a woman with a very shadowy background and an upbringing riddled with conflicting stories, events and dates. Said to be born to Russian-German aristocracy and widely travelled, she was an occultist, a spirit medium an author and a co-founder of the Theosophical Society in 1875.
According to her own narrative she embarked on a profound journey in 1849 which included an encounter with a group of spiritual adepts she calls the ‘Masters of Ancient Wisdom’.
The journey took her to Africa, the Orient, throughout India and to the South Americas continuing her spiritual education from different gurus, most notably the mysterious Master Morya and Mahatma Koot Hoomi.
She claimed that these masters had a number of astounding abilities which included clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, the ability to control another’s consciousness to de and re materialize and to project astral bodies. Ultimately, she was instructed to travel to Shigatse in Tibet where she was trained to develop her own psychic powers and where she claims to have learned the unknown language of Senzar, translating several ancient texts that had been preserved in a nearby monastery by Tibetan monks.
Blavatsky was the leading theoretician of the Theosophical Society which she founded in New York in 1875 with her colleagues, Henry Steel Olcott and William Quan Judge. Theosophy combines two Greek words, Theos and Sophia which mean divinity and wisdom. The name of the society describes a broad system of esotericism, referring to a lost and hidden knowledge of a spiritual nature that explains a connection between the universe, human beings and divinity, and reveals their origins.
The Theosophical Society’s doctrines made references to Buddhism, Hinduism, Theism, Spiritualism, Cosmology, Hermeticism and Occultism.
H. P. Blavatsky was nothing if not a polarizing figure, some idolized her as a divine guru with psychic powers and others detested her, derided her and treated her with complete and disdain seeing has as a contemptible charlatan and trickster.
Many people attempted to discredit Blavatsky, both during and beyond her lifetime, several have managed this with success yet, it is interesting to note that the Society still operates today in over fifty countries around the world and many have suggested that Blavatsky opened the pathway to the modern New Age movement of today.
In essence the main aims of her society where honed down to be as follows:
To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste, or colour.
To encourage the study of Comparative Religion, Philosophy, and Science.
To investigate the unexplained laws of Nature and the powers latent in man.
At the time that Madam Blavatsky was making a name for herself as a medium and spiritualist, Europe and much of the western world was a place dominated by industrialism, the sciences and a practical rationalism that was clinical, cold and brutal to some and lacked a sense of ethereal warmth and compassion to many. This understanding of the universe did not rely on faith, it required education and had a capacity to be exclusionist and exploitative.
Here was also an elite society, one who largely believed that much of the world’s great mysteries had been solved thanks to people like noted mathematician and alchemist Sir Isaac Newton, (1642 – 1727) and Gottfried Leibniz, (1646 – 1716) and men of their ilk. Isaac Newton published his magnum opus: Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica and simultaneously with Leibniz discovered calculus.
Newton, in discovering universal gravity, the laws of motion and classical mechanics had demonstrated that a universe created by god was like an infinitely large precision instrument like a watch for example, the once he had wound up would tic along nicely under its own steam.
Leibniz is considered one of the world’s greatest ever mathematicians, he is credited with independently discovering calculus simultaneously at the same time as Newton, although many argue his version superior. He is also credited with refining the binary system which is today the foundation of virtually all digital computers.
These men had discovered a framework by which soon the final pieces of the jigsaw puzzle would be uncovered and all the secrets of the universe would be revealed, all understanding of god’s plan rendered simple and all knowledge discovered.
However, this was the world of the ruling classes, the elite and the exceptionally well educated, it was not the world of the working class and the commoners, it was not the world of the masses who were yet to grasp this new found practical science and who still relied on superstition, faith and beliefs and who needed perhaps above all else, to be given hope.
By the time of the formation of the Theosophical Society, still these answers to the final great questions of science had not come.
Common people were beginning to wonder if we’d not gone down the wrong path entirely and forgotten some lost and ancient wisdom that would reconnect us to the universe and comfort us instead of reducing it to impenetrable mathematical code and cold hard mechanics.
After nearly two hundred and fifty years, a young patent clerk by the name of Albert Einstein, (1879 – 1955) would prove to the world that Newton -whilst having made some wonderful and extremely important discoveries and who was someone that was indeed, rightfully regarded as one of the greatest scientist whom ever lived- was also quite wrong.
With his ‘General’ and then later ‘Special Theory’ of relativity, Einstein was able to show us that the universe -far from being set up something like a Swiss Clock with an energy that never ran down- was a universe where things like matter, energy and light, where relative and changeable in relation to the viewer. What Einstein showed us was that the very world as we knew it was relative to the viewer and that gravity had the power to bend space, light and time.
E=MC2, this simple equation would turn man’s understanding of the universe and Newtonian Mechanics on its head, yet this equation was so complicated that few understood, let alone accepted it at the time. Max Planck, (1858 –1947) was a theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918, he was amongst the first to realize the importance of Einstein’s theory and bring it to the full attention of the scientific world.
For the record, the equation is a way to state that energy is the equivalent measure to a particular body of mass plus all of the latent or potential energy within it. So difficult was this for people to understand at the time that Einstein was constantly stopped by strangers in the street and asked to explain it, he ended up refining his response to a simple, “Pardon me, sorry, always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein.”
The theosophy of H. P. Blavatsky provided some modicum of spiritual comfort to many but, it lacked a grounding in the physical world, a tangible and practical connection to the common and the commoner. Enter an extraordinary individual by the name of Rudolf Steiner, (1861 – 1925) an Austrian who was part mystic, part philosopher, part esotericist and also an artist, an architect and a literary critic.
Anthroposophy, according to the latest edition of the encyclopaedia Britannica: is a philosophy based on the premise that the human intellect has the ability to contact spiritual worlds. It was formulated by Rudolf Steiner, who postulated the existence of a spiritual world comprehensible to pure thought but fully accessible only to the faculties of knowledge latent in all humans.
He regarded human beings as having originally participated in the spiritual processes of the world through a dreamlike consciousness.
Because Steiner claimed that an enhanced consciousness can again perceive spiritual worlds, he attempted to develop a faculty for spiritual perception independent of the senses. Toward this end, he founded the Anthroposophical Society in 1912. The society is now headquartered in Dornach, Switzerland and has many branches around the world.
Immanuel Kant, (1724 – 1804) is a giant of philosophy who founded a Kantian movement known as ‘German Idealism’, based on his philosophical investigations and critiques, this movement spawned a list of eminent disciples such as Fichte, Hegel and Schelling and still today, Kant is considered a central figure in modern philosophy.
Kant’s major work was his ‘Critique of Pure Reason’ in which he attempted to explain the relationship between reason and the human experience, moving beyond what he saw as the inability and ineptitude of exiting philosophy and metaphysics. Kant created a duality where there is both the real world, which we cannot know of in itself and there is the world as we arrest it with our senses and process a representation of in our minds.
What he was saying is, we create an imagined world in our mind based on what we see, smell, hear, touch and taste. So, when we see a tree in a field, it is not the actual tree we are seeing but our mind’s mental representation of what our eyes have captured and this is not the thing in and of itself, it is an image of that thing inside our head and created by our own brain.
We do not really know if this is how the tree actually is outside of our brain; we may discuss it with others and form a view that we all see something similar but, if one of us is colour-blind and the other only has sight in one eye, then our views on how the tree really is in the world will be very different from each other.
Kant believed in certain types of knowledge, a posteriori knowledge and a priori knowledge, the former being knowledge gained empirically and the second being gained without any experience. Kant argued that for synthetic judgments to be made they required a foundation of certain a priori conditions to apply, namely time and space. However, he said that fundamentally we could not know of the world beyond that observed with our senses and embellished with our reason, to go beyond this and into the realm that we cannot empirically observe requires us to embark on what Kant termed an ‘adventure of reason’.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 –1832) was a German statesman, writer and poet of immense standing and influence in his society, his most enduring work is his epic Faust, yet Goethe was also something of a scientist and like just about everything else he turned his attention to, his contributions would be not only well respected, they would be very important indeed.
Sturm und Drang, (Storm and Stress) was a proto-romantic artistic and literary movement in Germany during the late 1700’s, it promoted freedom of expression and especially extremes of emotion in art, it was seen as a direct reaction to the constraints of the rationalism imposed by The Enlightenment movement. Goethe was an early advocate and member of the movement.
Goethe determined to embark on his own ‘adventure of reason’ and turned his attention to botany and what he saw as a problem with the Cartesian-Newtonian Science practiced at the time. Goethe believed that a science where only the physical, material characteristics and only selected external traits were considered, led to a widening gulf between man and nature and we were increasingly worse off for it.
Goethe felt that observation and experimentation had to be more about immersing oneself in nature and less about extracting physical objects from nature and observing them in isolation. Goethe was truly a remarkable individual his science wanted to show us that in immersing ourselves in nature and in considering the change over time we would learn not only about our subject but also about ourselves.
Where Cartesian-Newtonian science accepts only a single, practical syllogism regarding the experimenter and the topic, Goethe demonstrated and believed in a science that was also an artistic practice, as much about refining the experimenter’s perceptions over time towards inspiration, imagination and creativity.
Goethe seems to have sought to bring reason back into the fold of nature and connect or reconnect the two. It is easy to be flippant about Goethe’s vision for epistemology but, it seems to me that he was sensing that in looking at things outside of nature we were isolating ourselves from nature, from the world we lived in and we were increasingly diminished for it. He could see that the accepted norms of knowledge as the accumulation of facts were creating divisions between the science and culture of his day. Goethe saw knowledge as an observation of organic progression in nature and over time also being the inner transformation of the experimenters themselves.
He was interested in not only what we had learned but also in how it had changed us. For Goethe our gaining of and responses to knowledge needed to be undertaken with empathy and compassion and needed to be shared in such a way as to be understandable.
One of the topics Goethe was getting at, particularly in his ‘Story of My Botanical Studies’ was a notion that not all things were created exactly as they were but, that they adapted over time, they ‘evolved’. His work only suggests these observations over time however; the book was published almost thirty years before Charles Darwin’s epic, ‘On the Origins of Species’.
So to reprise: What Goethe was proposing, was a way to look at things inside nature and to include ourselves inside the circle of nature, include time and experience and our own ability to learn and change from this very way of learning. He saw this as a thing of beauty and of man in nature and connected to his universe.
Goethe was an inspiring character, a giant of his age, his artistic writings inspired works by the likes of Mozart, Mahler and Beethoven.
His scientific work influenced many, the artist J. M. W. Turner was inspired by Goethe’s work on the colour spectrum as was the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who wrote his ‘Remarks on Colour’ in response to Goethe’s ‘Theory of Colours’, (1810) whilst he was dying of cancer in 1950 and 1951.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (1770 – 1831) was greatly inspired by Goethe’s theories on learning and applied them to his philosophy and Arthur Schopenhauer, (1788 –1860) sought to expand on Goethe’s theories during his philosophical career. Friedrich Nietzsche, (1844 – 1900) wrote glowingly of Goethe in his work, ‘Twilight of the Idols’ (1895).
Nikolai Tesla was an ardent fan of Faust and the Disney Film ‘Fantasia’, (1940) features a popular section with Mickey Mouse, known as ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ which closely follows Goethe’s poem of the same name.
Psychiatrist, Carl Jung (1875 – 1961) acknowledged the profound effect Goethe had on his thinking, stating that Goethe was his pre-eminent spiritual ancestor.
Perhaps the person whom Goethe had the greatest influence on of all was Rudolf Steiner, who was so informed, inspired, moved and indebted to Goethe that he designed and built not one, (in 1913) but two buildings, (after the first was burned to the ground in 1922) dedicated to the man, naming them ‘The Goetheanum’. Both buildings were and are still considered masterpieces of architecture and the second structure is still in use and opens to the public every day, in Dornach, Switzerland.
Steiner is considered the father of Biodynamic agriculture, a regimen widely practiced today and lauded by some of the most highly regarded and sought-after wines in the world.
The issues raised by Ralston Saul, Rousseau, Goethe and others are valid today, we can reason away anything if it does not suit our ends and we can find reasons to justify serving any of our most base human desires. It is as if, for some of us, reason has become a flaw in our machinery designed to trick out utility, empathy and compassion in order to feed the unquenchable fires of our will to personal strength and power and take us further from interconnectedness and our place in nature, the universe, our chi and the transcendental entanglement of being. | <urn:uuid:e9aaa8c7-cb3b-4453-b721-040b3756ca3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vindochine.com/2018/07/11/natural-history-part-4-voltaires-bastards-reason-nature/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973658 | 7,125 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Syria's Bashar Assad still persona non grata in Arab world
All 15 resolutions passed by the Arab summit which took place in Jordan Wednesday, March 29, were devoted to an indictment of Iran, its Revolutionary Guards Corps and Lebanese surrogate, Hizballah. They were a testament to the depth of Arab-Iranian animosity and exposed the extent of the rift between the Sunni and Shiite Muslim worlds.
Iran was accused of meddling in the internal affairs of Arab nations, inciting Shiites against Sunnis, and arming and training Shiite terrorist groups for operations against legitimate Arab governments. The Arab rulers combined to put Tehran in the dock for its interference in the Syrian civil war and assault on its sovereignty.
None of the formal resolutions addressed the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In a separate statement issued later, the Arab rulers reaffirmed their commitment to a two-state solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. They called for a new round of peace talks based on a two-state formula and renewed the 2002 “reconciliation” offer (drawn up by Saudi Arabia) if “Israel quit occupied Arab land and agreed to a deal on Palestinian refugees.”
debkafile: This was the first Arab summit to refrain from defining Israel’s future borders under a peace deal. This leaves the door open for leeway in the negotiations to take place as part of the new US-Saudi-Egyptian peace initiative we reported earlier now the subject of active exchanges between the US, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. King Abdullah of Jordan, who hosted the summit and Egyptian President Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi will travel to Washington to report to President Donald Trump on the private discussions on this issue at the session and launch the next stage of the Arab-Israeli peace initiative.
debkafile lists the 15 resolutions submitted to the Arab summit.
1: Good neighborly relations should prevail between Iran and Arab countries and Iran’s meddling in the affairs of Arab countries is condemned as a threat to the security and stability of the region.
2: The Islamic Republic of Iran should assume responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Mashhad and abide by the laws of diplomacy.
3: The Iranian government must tell its officials to desist from hostile, inflammatory remarks against Arab countries.
4: Iran must stop fomenting sectarian rivalries and withdraw support from groups who destabilize the Gulf countries and armed groups inside Arab countries.
5: Iran’s invasion of three Emirate islands (Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs) is condemned. They must be restored to lawful ownership by peaceful means.
6: Iran must stop supporting and training terrorists and sending arms and ammunition to rebel groups fighting the Bahrain government.
7: Bahraini security agencies win praise for foiling a terrorist plot in December 2016 supported by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and terrorist Hizballah.
8: Iran’s nefarious meddling in the Syrian crisis has threatened its sovereignty, future stability, security and unity.
9: Iranian meddling in Yemen’s affairs by backing forces fighting the legitimate government negatively affects the security of the country, its neighbors and the wider region.
10: The importance of the initiative taken by the Assistance Council of the Arab Gulf Countries is underlined and calls for a positive response from Iran
11: Iran must be bound to compliance with Security Council Resolution 2231 of 2015 and penalized swiftly with effective sanctions for any violations. Iran must be held to its commitments under the nuclear and regional environment treaties.
12: The Secretary General is entrusted with managing the commission of four Arab foreign ministers set up to thwart Iranian interference in Arab affairs.
13: Arabic assistance forums with countries, regional, and international groups will highlight the ill effects of Iranian meddling in their affairs.
14: This issue will be placed on the UN agenda under Section 2 of Article 7
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Is it safe to use baby sleep positioners?
NEVER use infant sleep positioners. Using this type of product to hold an infant on his or her side or back is dangerous. NEVER put pillows, blankets, loose sheets, comforters, or quilts under a baby or in a crib. These products also can be dangerous.
Should I use a sleep wedge for my baby?
Using a sleep positioner to hold an infant on his or her back for sleep is dangerous and unnecessary. Never put pillows, wedges, comforters, or quilts under an infant in a crib or bassinet. Always put an infant to sleep on his or her back at night and at nap time to reduce the risk of SIDS.
Why are wedges Not Safe for Babies?
1. Crib wedges, which are propped under the top of the mattress, are no longer recommended to help babies with reflux. According to the AAP, studies have not shown that elevating a baby’s head is beneficial. What’s more, a wedge may cause a baby to slide to the foot of a crib into an unsafe breathing position.
What is an infant sleep positioner?
What is a sleep positioner? An infant sleep positioner is a mat with “bolsters” (raised supports or pillows) attached to each side. They are designed to keep babies under six months old in a specific position while sleeping. Sometimes they also feature a wedge to raise the baby’s head.
What are baby loungers used for?
A baby lounger is a cushion or nest that hugs and supports your baby. These devices can soothe and relax your baby while allowing you to multitask or just take a break. You also can position a play gym over the lounger to stimulate your infant’s visual exploration.
Why are sleep positioners bad?
Sleep Positioners Are Not Safe But they really cause suffocation and death. Most of the infants who died were placed on their sides to sleep and were later found lying on their stomach, dead. Many had their faces close to the foam positioner.
Should a baby sleep flat or inclined?
The AAP does not recommend letting infants sleep in inclined products like the Rock ‘n Play that require restraining a baby. AAP policy calls for infants to sleep on their back, on a separate, flat and firm sleep surface without any bumpers, bedding or stuffed toys.
Why can’t babies sleep in loungers?
“Loungers and pillow-like products are not safe for infant sleep, due to the risk of suffocation. Since we know that infants sleep so much of the time — even in products not intended for sleep — and since suffocation can happen so quickly, these Boppy lounger products are simply too risky to remain on the market.”
Can I put Snuggle Me organic in bassinet?
The Snuggle Me should never be used inside, or in the place of, a crib or bassinet. The Snuggle Me should never be used as a co-sleeping device. The Snuggle Me is designed for supervised use only. Always lay your Snuggle Me on a flat, firm surface (avoid laying on uneven blankets or cushioning). | <urn:uuid:f6ce933c-6482-40d0-b848-3041d9e66bfb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.denguedenguedengue.com/is-it-safe-to-use-baby-sleep-positioners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.930208 | 683 | 1.601563 | 2 |
HOUSTON — Put your super-paw-ers to the test! The Children’s Museum of Houston invites you to em-“bark” on a “Super Powered Summer.” Experience some doggone fun as Super K-9’s raise the “woof” with interactive tricks and “tails.”
Houston Trick Dogs and Disc Dogs: Bite into a canine Frisbee frenzy with Frisbee catching dogs.
Event Time: 11 a.m. in Kids’ Hall Alcove.
Banfield® Woof-Shops: Learn what it en-“tails” to become a responsible pet owner with a therapy dog.
Event Times: At 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. in Brown Auditorium.
Houston World Series of Dog Shows: Catch a sneak peek of capering canines busting doggie moves.
Event Times: At 3 and 4 p.m. in Kids’ Hall Alcove.
Citizens for Animal Protection: Join an agency looking out to place doggies in doggy-friendly homes.
Event Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. around Museum.
Dog Days of Summer, July 14, 2018
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Members’ Early open at 9 a.m.
***Activities, events and times subject to change.
Children’s Museum of Houston, 1500 Binz St., Houston, TX 77004
- MUSEUM SUMMER HOURS: Mon. – Sat.: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Sun: Noon – 6 p.m.
- General Museum admission: $12 per person and $11 for seniors 65+ and for active duty military personnel. Children under one and Museum Members receive free admission.
- For more information, visit www.cmhouston.org or call (713) 522-1138. | <urn:uuid:469fd569-aebd-4bdc-9913-5e451f9212fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newswithattitude.com/blog/childrens-museum-raises-the-woof-with-banfield-woof-shops-frisbee-catching-dogs-pet-rescue-organizations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.835392 | 430 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Iraqis say Oil well still being held; Iran denies claims
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — Both Iraq and Iran stood their ground Saturday over the reported seizure of a southern Iraqi oil well by Iranian forces.
Two days after Iraq said an Iranian “armed group” crossed the border into Iraq and seized the well, Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Labid Abawi said the occupation of well No. 4 in Maysan province’s Fakka oil field continues.
But in a statement issued by its embassy in Iraq, Iran denied what it characterized as rumors of its forces crossing the border, and hinted that the claim was political because it comes ahead of next year’s Iraqi parliamentary elections.
Both sides said they are in negotiations and have a joint committee dedicated to handling border disputes diplomatically.
On Friday, the Iraqi government issued a strong statement deploring the alleged seizure, after Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki headed an emergency meeting of Iraq’s National Security Council to discuss the situation.
Iraq and Iran share a long border, and high-ranking committees from both countries handle all border matters, an Iranian Embassy official said. Iraq and Iran fought a bloody eight-year war that ended in 1988 in a cease-fire with no clear victor and parts of the border under dispute.
Ties between Iran and Iraq — both predominantly Shiite Muslim nations — greatly improved after the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003. At the same time, there has been widespread concern among Iraqi and U.S. officials that Iran has been providing Iraqi insurgents with material for roadside bombs during the Iraq war.
Drilled in 1979, the well is in Iraq‘s Maysan province, east of Amara, near the Iranian border. It is within the province’s Fakka oil field, the Iraqi government said.
The report of the oil well incident comes several days after the Oil Ministry’s two-day auction of oil fields. Aimed at increasing Iraqi oil production, deals were struck for seven of the 15 fields offered. There also had been oil bidding in June. | <urn:uuid:224dc0a3-3a73-486a-9c94-9cc4ab9a1ae8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://iamnotarapperispit.com/2009/12/20/iraqis-say-oil-well-still-being-held-iran-denies-claims/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966983 | 435 | 1.5 | 2 |
Continuing our occasional feature of recipes from around the globe, we take a sweet detour, as Grace shares this recipe for honeycomb.
“I asked Head Boy Orlando Read, as an expert baker, for his recommendation of a baking project that involves an interesting reaction and that would be fun for students to try out,” Grace said.
Orlando suggested honeycomb. The reaction that students will observe when making honeycomb is called thermal decomposition. When the hot golden syrup is combined with the bicarbonate soda, the sodium bicarbonate is broken down into carbon dioxide, water and sodium carbonate.
“The carbon dioxide produced gas bubbles and the gas tried to escape. When the mixture of golden syrup and decomposed bicarbonate soda is cooled down, it sets and the bubbles are trapped. And that’s what gives honeycomb its unique texture.” | <urn:uuid:d62ecbfc-426a-409c-ad3d-6bef5ba8f4aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.igssyd.nsw.edu.au/blog/sweet-science-recipe-to-try/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943462 | 185 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Max Axiom, Super Scientist!
A comic series about a Black scientist with superpowers, Max Axiom’s main objective is to help children learn science in a fun and interactive way.
Max Axiom STEM adventures mirror science themes, concepts, vocabulary, and curriculum.
The engaging, super informative, graphic novels also use a 4D app to scan pages and reveal concepts in an engaging video format. Also included in the back matter are discussion questions, writing prompts, a glossary, additional books, and internet sites. Capstone, the publisher, provides a website with projects and games.
Age Range: 7 to 14 years
Omar Mohamed shares his life story, in the graphic novel When Stars Are Scattered, about how he and his brother Hassan, alone without their parents, escaped Somalia during Civil War to trek 3 months to a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya to live.
The graphic novel details Mohamed, as a 12-year-old, with the help of an older woman, Fatuma, figure out how to live in a place that is not your home but becomes your home. Struggling with a lack of food and taking care of his intellectually disabled brother, and trying to get an education in the camp, Muhamed conveys the harsh realities of life in a refugee camp with a human touch.
This book, co-written and illustrated by Victoria Jamieson, written at middle-grade level, gives young people an understanding of the difficulties of life being a refugee and seeking immigration to a place one can feel safe and have a sense of peace away from their homeland in strife.
We also provided are other books from K-12, fiction and non-fiction for students to understand the humanity of these experiences.
Dr. Guy Sims, Philly native, co-creator of the critically acclaimed Brotherman comics books takes time to share his story with us! He is a frequent collaborator with his brother, illustrator Dawud Anyabwile. He adapted Walter Dean Myers' book Monster into a graphic novel which Mr. Anyabwile illustrated.
Dr. Sims discusses, the role literacy played in his life, writing, the story behind Brotherman comics, retelling Monster for a new generation, and much more.
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A chiropractic specialist is a medical professional that is trained to make certain that your body is working as optimally as it can by using manual spine adjustments to reduce pain in the muscular tissues and also joints. These back manipulations will enhance nerve conductivity and blood flow to the muscle mass as well as joints which are experiencing pain. Many chiropractic doctors will certainly suggest a program of stretches and also workouts as part of their treatment program. These actions will certainly assist in the prevention of discomfort related to muscular tissue and joint problems.
Among the most common disorders dealt with by a chiropractic physician is back pain. Many times, the chiropractic specialist will certainly recommend that you go back for routine chiropractic care back modifications to help in relieving the pain that you are experiencing. Nevertheless, some individuals deal with much more severe disorders such as whiplash, which calls for back change. Whiplash can result from a variety of cases, consisting of vehicle accidents and also falls. Kelowna Chiropractor
Prior to your chiropractic doctor makes a recommendation concerning your treatment strategy, he or she will certainly do an assessment of your back to make sure that whatever is healthy. There are a number of things that they will certainly search for when examining your spine. They will certainly measure your pose, look for joint disorder, as well as order muscle mass examinations. The primary goal of a chiropractor is to restore your spine to its proper placement. This will certainly relieve pain and also recover mobility to your body.
Chiropractic practitioners also deal with a selection of problems which might include such issues as headaches, migraine headache headaches, neck pain, jaw discomfort, eye pain, ear pain, hand pain, and several various other ailments. Some chiropractic practitioners focus on a specific area of health care such as pediatric medicines, orthopedics, family medicine, or sports medicine. You will certainly wish to make sure that your chiropractor has sufficient education and learning as well as experience to treat the kind of pain or condition that you are experiencing. Chiropractic doctors can treat most types of pain in the back, neck discomfort, and also migraines. They can likewise do specialized treatments that need sophisticated skill and also training.
If you are experiencing pain in a number of areas of your body, including your neck, shoulder, and also back, and also if you are seeing numbness or tingling experiences, then you may be dealing with a spinal imbalance. A chiropractic doctor will certainly examine your spinal column to determine whether this holds true. After which, your chiropractor will create an effective treatment prepare for you. Your chiropractic doctor may recommend that you check out a sporting activities medication physician, an osteopathic physician, or a rheumatologist, relying on your certain condition.
A health care doctor will frequently refer their people to a chiropractic practitioner, however they too will certainly analyze your back and also recommend changes. The therapies that chiropractics physician offer are very comparable to those offered by primary care medical professionals, just that the adjustments that a chiropractic practitioner provides will be a lot more intense as well as focused. Chiropractors are superb at doing quick and ideal changes, and are therefore very valuable in the therapy of severe issues that do not respond well to normal prescription medications. For instance, if you have actually seen puffy joint pain, yet you are not sure what is causing it, your chiropractor can perform a series of quick adjustments to help relieve your pain. Chiropractor Kelowna
Chiropractic specialists are specialists who can deal with common back and neck problems by providing low-level control of the spine. They think that back control enhances the feature of the musculoskeletal system by lining up the skeletal system to promote wellness. Adjustment can additionally aid the patient enhance his overall health by lowering discomfort and enhancing wheelchair.
Chiropractic care is an age old medical discipline that is acquiring appeal in the USA. Chiropractors are trained experts who can perform the hands-on diagnosis as well as therapy of spine problems. Chiropractic care incorporates various other complementary therapies such as workout and also nutrition right into their method. Chiropractics physician really feel the key advantages of spine control and also straightening joints by adjusting spine muscle through the entire body enhances the general efficiency of all systems via the entire body.
Chiropractic specialists use back adjustments to soothe discomfort and also control swelling in the body. Spine adjustments help bring back correct positioning of the back, making the person feel much better and also decreasing discomfort. If the pain lingers, a chiropractic practitioner might execute spine control to separate the issue location and also give suitable therapeutic care. Occasionally, a chiropractic practitioner could integrate hand-operated treatment with back modifications to improve healing.
Chiropractics physician are normally utilized by a medical professional to treat his people for neck and back pain or various other troubles, but they can additionally practice independently with the exact same objective in mind. Chiropractics physician are educated professionals that have a history in physical medication, biomechanics as well as neurological medication. They might additionally obtain added schooling to acquire official education in topics like pediatrics, geriatrics and neurology. A chiropractic specialist is anticipated to be board certified in chiropractic care, in excellent standing, to do laboratory tests as well as obtain extensive education and learning in physiology and also anatomy, along with in clinical, orthopedic and rehab scientific researches.
To treat usual musculoskeletal complaints, many chiropractic practitioners concentrate on a particular disease or problem. For instance, a chiropractic specialist might specialize in treating professional athletes’ foot, whiplash, migraine headache frustrations, tennis joint, neck pain as well as head injuries. A chiropractor may treat patients of all ages; however, before a chiropractic physician can treat a kid, he must be totally accredited in youngster healthcare. Better, a chiropractic practitioner could deal with blog post operative persistent pain, such as repetitive strain injury as well as menopause. He might also deal with a patient after a car accident. chiropractic
Chiropractors must fulfill rigid needs in order to exercise. In the United States, a chiropractor may not perform lab examinations unless especially asked for by the patient. As well as the examinations need to be performed by qualified specialists. Chiropractic doctors are required to get an anti-sickness insurance policy in order to treat their people. Finally, a chiropractic doctor is called for to meet a national board of chiropractic care examiners on a set up basis. To read more regarding why you require a chiropractic doctor, why you ought to pick a chiropractic practitioner in Boston as well as various other essential information pertaining to chiropractic specialists, please see web links on our internet site. | <urn:uuid:77d25102-506a-4305-b542-4bffa6138818> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://flightdiscountcodes.com/2021/11/05/why-you-have-to-experience-chiropractic-physician-at-the-very-least-once-in-your-life-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966642 | 1,418 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Are babies super active at 39 weeks?
So this activity is probably normal and healthy movement — not an indicator of the person the baby will grow up to be. Chances are they’ll also tell you that there’s no such thing as too active a baby in utero, and that as your pregnancy progresses, your baby will tend to grow and become even more active.
Do babies move alot at 39 weeks?
At some point in this last trimester, you may start to notice some patterns in your baby’s movements. Perhaps your baby’s more active at certain times of day or night. The movements may seem larger and more vigorous, and you may occasionally let out an “oof” after a particularly enthusiastic kick or punch.
Is baby more active near labor?
The mucous plug that sealed the cervix for the last 9 months may be visible. This is a good sign, but active labor may still be days away. Your baby moves less: Women often notice that their baby is less active the day before labor begins.
How active should I be at 39 weeks?
Stay active Walking is a safe activity to continue throughout all nine months of pregnancy. Shoot for 20 to 30 minutes a day.
How long can a baby’s head be engaged before birth?
When engagement typically happens In first pregnancies, however, it usually happens several weeks before birth — anywhere between 34 weeks and 38 weeks gestation. In subsequent pregnancies, your baby’s head may not engage until your labor starts.
Is the baby still developing at 39 weeks?
You’ve made it this far, and now that you’re 39 weeks pregnant, your baby is considered full term. The end of the third trimester, and your pregnancy, is now in sight. Your baby’s lungs and brain are still developing and will continue to develop after she’s born.
What are the symptoms of pregnancy at 39 weeks?
Pregnancy symptoms during week 39. Kick, kick, kicking. Keep paying attention to your baby’s movements. Let your doctor or midwife know right away if they seem to decrease. Your baby should remain active right up to delivery, and a noticeable slowdown in activity could be a sign of a problem. Ripening cervix?
How is Bean doing at 39 weeks and 5 weeks?
;/ hello im 39 and 5 weeks. Since last night bean has been super active just non stop kicking and moving around. she stops after a while then continue to do it again. And now yet again she is being super active.
What to do if your baby is not moving at 39 weeks?
This way you will know if there truly is a different pattern and something going on. If you notice your baby not moving as much 39 weeks into your pregnancy, sit down and do two hours of “kick counts.” If you get less than 10 kicks in two hours, call your doctor and let them know. | <urn:uuid:b75fbec9-7ce1-407d-ae46-7b68c6448bfa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.assemblymade.com/2019/12/are-babies-super-active-at-39-weeks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.9512 | 615 | 2.375 | 2 |
Compilation on Ascendant,
Rising Sign, or First House
From Esoteric Astrology, by Alice A. Bailey
See Michael Robbins' Tapestry of the Gods, Volume III
1. Rising sign conceals hastening of evolution of inner life:
2 The second stage wherein there is increasing response to the energies, concealed by the rising sign. They evoke the unexpected and produce the hastening of the evolutionary process and the unfoldment of the inner life. The rising sign is termed in the language of esotericism "the Sun of Possibility." (EA 51)
2. Relate Sun Sign to Rising Sign:
It is necessary for him, therefore, to relate his Sun sign to his rising sign and his soul to his personality, viewing both as aspects and integral parts of the human family. This will be increasingly the case. (EA 518)
3. Rising Sign as one of 5 Energies
Not only has he to isolate his five ray energies, but he has to allow for the energy of his sun sign as it conditions his personality, and of his rising sign as it seeks to stimulate that personality into soul responsiveness, thus working out soul purpose through personality cooperation. There are, therefore, seven factors which condition the quality of the forces which seek expression through the etheric body:
- The ray of the soul.
- The ray of the personality.
- The ray of the mind.
- The ray of the emotional nature.
- The ray of the physical vehicle.
- The energy of the sun sign.
7. The influence of the rising sign. (GWP 249)
4. Soul and Ascendant:
Forget not that the soul of the people is represented by those who react to the influence of the soul ray and of the sign which is affecting it (its ascendant, one might say), whilst the masses are conditioned by the personality ray and therefore by the sun sign of the specified nation. (DN 68)
5. Soul Purpose, the rising sign and Sattvic aspect:
The ascendant or rising sign indicates the intended life or immediate soul purpose for this incarnation. It holds the secret of the future and presents the force which, rightly used, will lead the man to success. It represents the sattvic or harmony aspect of life and can produce right relationship between soul and personality in any one incarnation. It thus points the way to the recognition of the force of the soul. (EA 18-19)
6. Indicative of Energy for Purpose of Incarnation:
The ascendant or rising sign indicates the line along which his energy as a whole can flow if he is to fulfill the purpose of any incarnation. This, of course, if rightly handled. It holds the secret of his future, and in its symbolism and understanding he can find the clue to his life problem and an indication of what he can be and achieve. It presents to him the type of force which will enable him to succeed. This, when duly consummated, might be regarded as producing the sattvic, or harmony aspect of his life, for when it plays its part and is utilised, it produces harmony with the will of the soul during any particular incarnation. (TWM 435)
7. Importance to emphasise the Rising Sign:
Modern interpretations fail to emphasise the importance of the rising sign (the ascendant) and this has been due to the fact that few have been as yet ready to function as souls; small allowance has been made for the energies which play upon our planet all the time from other constellations or from the many "hidden" planets. (EA 6)
8. First House:
Physical body or form.—The causal body of the soul.
Appearance or manifestation.—The emergence of the soul.
The head. Brain.—The head centre.
Personal activity.—Soul expression.
Mannerisms, etc.—Ray types and qualities. (EA 511)
9. First house and 6th Ray Force:
I might again point out that Mars is the transmitter of sixth ray force and it is this which makes the first house of action in the physical body that of the devotee who fights for that which he desires or for that to which he aspires. The warrior, devoted to a cause, comes into being upon the field of action, the Earth, which is itself an expression of the third Ray of Intelligent Activity. Aries, the first house, and Mars and the Earth initiate conflict, focussed in a form. (EA 508) | <urn:uuid:fd5c4171-fcac-4016-b523-1f7956fe8080> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://makara.us/05ref/02comps/astro/Ascendant%20or%20First%20House%20compilation.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944029 | 935 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Solpadeine Plus Soluble 32 Tablets
Solpadeine Plus Soluble 32 Tablets
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Solpadeine Plus Soluble Tablets provide relief of rheumatic pain, headache, migraine, neuralgia, toothache, sore throat, period pain, feverishness and the symptoms of colds and influenza.
Solpadeine Plus contains three active ingredients:
- Codeine: this belongs to a group of medicines called opioid analgesics which act to relieve pain.
- Paracetamol: a painkiller that also helps lower a high temperature and acts as a mild anti-inflammatory to reduce swelling.
- Caffeine: a mild stimulant that causes wakefulness and increased mental activity. It can also help the effectiveness of paracetamol.
Solpadeine Plus Tablets contain codeine and should only be used for pain that is not relieved by other painkillers such as paracetamol or ibuprofen alone. They should be taken for a maximum of 3 days.
Paracetamol 500mg, Codeine Phosphate Hemihydrate 8mg and Caffeine 30mg
Sodium bicarbonate, sorbitol powder, saccharin sodium, sodium lauryl sulphate, citric acid, sodium carbonate, polyvinylpyrrolidone, purified water, silicone fluid 200/350.
Usage and Instructions
Adults and Adults aged 65+:
Take 2 tablets dissolved in at least half a tumbler of water every 4-6 hours. These doses may be given up to 3 or 4 times a day if necessary. The dose should not be repeated more frequently than every 4 hours.
Children aged 16-18 years:
1-2 tablets dissolved in at least half a tumbler of water every 6 hours when necessary up to a maximum of 8 tablets in 24 hours.
Children aged 12 – 15 years:
1 tablet dissolved in at least half a tumbler of water every 6 hours when necessary up to a maximum of 4 tablets in 24 hours.
Children aged less than 12 years:
Codeine should not be used in children below the age of 12 years because of the risk of opioid toxicity due to the variable and unpredictable metabolism of codeine to morphine (see sections 4.3 and 4.4).
The duration of treatment should be limited to 3 days and if no effective pain relief is achieved the patients/carers should be advised to seek the views of a physician.
Do not give to children under 12 years of age.
Do not take with any other paracetamol - containing products.
Do not take more than the stated dose and do not take every day for more than 3 days unless told to do so by your doctor.
Contains codeine: regular use for long periods of time may result in symptoms such as restlessness and irritability when you stop taking this medicine.
If you need to use this product all the time, see your doctor straight away.
Do not take if you are sensitive to paracetamol, codeine, caffeine or to any of the other ingredients.
Please see your doctor before you take Solpadeine Plus Tablets if:
You are taking metoclopramide or domperidone- used to treat nausea and vomiting.
You are taking colestyramine- used to treat high cholesterol.
You are taking medicines prescribed for depression (MAOIs).
You have severe liver or kidney disease.
You are taking anti-coagulants (drugs to thin the blood e.g. warfarin) and you need to take a painkiller on a daily basis over a long period. However, you can take occasional doses of Solpadeine Plus Tablets.
If your headaches become persistent, see your doctor.
Please see your doctor before you take this medicine if you are pregnant or breast-feeding.
Some of the side effects associated with Solpadeine Plus are:
- allergic reactions, such as skin rash.
- Dizziness or drowsiness. If affected by dizziness or drowsiness you must not drive or operate machinery.
If you are concerned about these effects, or if Solpadeine Max affects you in any other way, stop taking them and talk to your doctor or pharmacist. | <urn:uuid:134a6669-3d11-4340-a641-a7b348290586> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.medino.com/product/solpadeine-plus-soluble-32-tablets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.857693 | 931 | 1.546875 | 2 |
We are all in the same situation right now so let’s make the best of it. Children will be bouncing off the walls and people, particularly seniors are more prone to depression without social interaction.
Gather the family for Facetime chats with grandma and grandpa. Get them to tell you and the kid’s facts about their childhood. What did they do and make back in the good ol’ days? Keep history and family ties alive.
If there is a birthday or holiday, send a gift through Amazon, etc. Call and tell them something special is coming but no opening until a designated date and time, it gives them anticipation and something to look forward to. Have the kiddos make birthday cards to read or show. Facetime or call at that time while they open it, have a birthday cake, light the candles and sing Happy Birthday! They feel included and you have cake for dessert!
Great time to organize! If you have kids, find some shoe or packing boxes, give them glue, stickers, wrapping paper, crayons, whatever you have on hand. Tell them to make their own special storage boxes for toys, video games, arts and crafts, anything they or you suggest. When they are done have them fill their special boxes, you see a cleaner room and they feel a sense of accomplishment. While they are busy, you get started organizing that closet or pantry you have been putting off. It’s a win-win.
Turn on some exercise videos from your collection or on cable. Your kids will have fun family exercising, burn off some energy and you will also get in your workout.
Teenage daughter? Ask her to show you some of her favorite fashion and make-up influencers. Both of you compile some make-up from your collections and follow the tips. Let her practice on you. You both may learn some new tricks while spending quality time together.
Plan a game night, I bet it’s usually hard to get your whole family together. Gather some favorites to play, do classic charades with ideas written down by all of you or download some on your phone or iPad such as “Guess What Charades” Have fun!
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June 23, 2023
COVID-19 Vaccine is Now Available Locally for Children Ages 6 months to 4 years
Babies and children ages six months to four years of age can now receive a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. Both the Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have recently authorized and recommended that this new age range of individuals can receive the vaccine to protect them from contracting and spreading the COVID-19 virus.
Throughout the progression of the pandemic, evidence suggests children are vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus like all other age groups. COVID-19 cases in children can result in hospitalization, death, as well as other long-term health complications possibly lasting for several months. By vaccinating yourself and your children you are contributing to the safety of our community-especially as we head into summer activities and increased social interaction.
Parents will have the options to choose between available vaccines for their children, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna COVID vaccines have been recommended by the CDC to be received by people ages 6 months old or older.
Children six months to 4 years old receiving Pfizer will require three doses of the vaccine in the primary series. Both the first and second doses should be separated by three to eight weeks, and the second and third doses should be separated by at least eight weeks. For those who are immunocompromised, the first and second doses need to be separated by three weeks, and the second and third doses separated by at least eight weeks.
Children receiving Pfizer who are over the age of five, will require two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine given eight weeks apart. Those who are immunocompromised should receive a third dose at least 4 weeks after their 2nd dose in the primary series. Boosters will be necessary, however, only some children will require multiple boosters.
As for Moderna, children ages six months to five years can receive two doses of Moderna in the primary series, given within four to eight weeks apart. Those who are immunocompromised, the first and second doses should be separated by four weeks, and the second and third doses separated by at least four weeks.
As with other routine vaccinations for children, both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines have undergone a thorough testing and review process by the FDA and an independent scientific committee to ensure they are safe and effective for children. Parents and guardians with any questions regarding these COVID-19 vaccines should talk with their child's provider.
COVID-19 vaccines are always free, regardless of insurance and immigration status.
Please contact the following agencies to schedule an appointment for a pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine or check with your provider office:
Rowan County Health Department
Monday & Thursday afternoons by appointment
Thursdays by appointment
February 17, 2022
Today, Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kody H. Kinsley provided an update on the state’s COVID-19 metrics and trends. As North Carolina’s COVID-19 metrics continue to move in the right direction and with vaccines widely available, Governor Cooper encouraged schools and local governments to end their mask mandates.
“We are taking a positive step on mask requirements to help us move safely toward a more normal day to day life,” said Governor Cooper. “It’s time to focus on getting our children a good education and improving our schools, no matter how you feel about masks.”
As entities decide how to move forward, people and businesses should continue to make the best decisions for themselves, their employees and their customers. There are still some places, such as health care, long-term care and transportation like airplanes, where a mask will be required because of the setting or federal regulations.
As it has throughout the pandemic, North Carolina is adapting its response based on the data and for the current stage of the pandemic. Vaccines and boosters are widely available and have protected millions of people against severe illness, hospitalization, and death. Treatment is available for those at higher risk of severe disease. And the state’s COVID-19 trends are decreasing, lowering the risk of infection, and improving hospital capacity.
“NCDHHS has always been committed to using the right tools at the right time to combat COVID-19 and chart a course for us all to get back to the people, experiences, and places we love,” said Secretary Kinsley. “At this time, the most effective tools are vaccines and boosters. Everyone five and older should get a COVID-19 vaccine and everyone 12 and older should get a booster as soon as they are eligible. It’s not too late to vaccinate.”
To date, North Carolina has administered over 15.7 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, with 71 percent of the adult population fully vaccinated. About 75 percent of adults have received at least one dose of the vaccine, including 96 percent of North Carolinians 65 and over. About 51 percent of eligible adults have received their booster shot.
North Carolinians can learn more about the state’s vaccine distribution at myspot.nc.gov (English) or Vacunate.nc.gov (Spanish). Find a nearby vaccine provider using NCDHHS’ online tool, Find a Vaccine Location. The state’s COVID-19 vaccine hotline number is 888-675-4567.
View a summary of the changes to the StrongSchoolsNC Public Health Toolkit and the ChildCareStrongNC Public Health Toolkit.
The Federal Government has made free tests available to all US households. These can be quickly requested through https://www.covidtests.gov/
This is limited to one ‘order’ per residential address and each order contains 4 individual rapid COVID-19 tests. The tests are completely free and orders will usually ship in 7-12 days. Please feel free to utilize this government benefit for any testing needs you may have.
January 7, 2022
January 4, 2022
Governor Cooper and NCDHHS Secretary Kinsley Stress Importance of Vaccines and Boosters to Combat Omicron Variant
With cases rising, state officials encourage people to get tested, vaccinated and boosted
With cases of COVID-19 reaching record highs and hospitalizations increasing, Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kody H. Kinsley called on all North Carolinians to get vaccinated and get a booster as soon as they are eligible to protect themselves from severe illness from the highly contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19.
“For people who have been vaccinated and especially for those who have gotten boosters, the new Omicron variant has been less severe than previous surges,” said Governor Roy Cooper. “With these vaccines and boosters we have an amazing tool to save people’s lives and beat this pandemic – and we’ll keep our foot on the gas when it comes to getting more shots and more boosters administered.”
Early studies show that boosters greatly increase someone’s immune response and provide greater protection against the Omicron variant than no vaccine. The booster is especially important for those over 65 or in other populations at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19.
The Governor and Secretary also urged the use of well-fitting, multi-layer masks as another layer of protection against spread of the virus. If possible, wear a surgical or procedure mask, a KN95, or an N95. NCDHHS is making some higher-grade masks available for adults at no cost in more places that need them, such as long-term care facilities and federally qualified health centers, and for schools staff and populations like migrant farm workers which at higher risk of exposure or severe illness. These organizations and those that provide essential services can request these masks online at https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/RequestMasks, and requests will be prioritized.
“Testing and wearing a mask are essential tools in slowing the spread of COVID-19,” Secretary Kinsley said. “But the bottom line is that vaccines and boosters are the number one thing you can do to protect your health.”
Governor Cooper also announced plans to extend Executive Order 224, which aims to curb COVID-19 by requiring vaccines or testing of state employees in cabinet agencies. That Order defined fully vaccinated as having two shots of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine or one shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and directed the Office of State Human Resources to issue the policy to enforce this requirement. Under the new Order, OSHR will be given the authority to include boosters in the definition of fully vaccinated when appropriate.
To date, North Carolina has administered over 14.8 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, with 69 percent of the adult population fully vaccinated. About 74 percent of adults have received at least one dose of the vaccine, including 95 percent of North Carolinians 65 and over. About 44 percent of eligible adults have received their booster shot.
Vaccines are available for those ages 5 and older, and boosters are available for those 16 and older. Monday the Food and Drug Administration authorized boosters for children 12 through 15 years old, but the CDC must take action before they are available. Today the CDC accepted the FDA recommendation to shorten the time for a Pfizer booster to five months after the second shot. The CDC also recommended a third dose after 28 days for immunocompromised children ages 5-11.
Information on testing locations, free tests and home tests is available at ncdhhs.gov/gettested. North Carolinians can learn more about the COVID-19 vaccines at myspot.nc.gov (English) or Vacunate.nc.gov (Spanish). Use NCDHHS’ online tool Find a Vaccine Location to find a nearby vaccination site. The North Carolina Vaccine Help Center at 888-675-4567 can also help you make an appointment. It is open 7 a.m.–7 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m.–4 p.m. on weekends.
October 26, 2021
Moderna and Johnon & Johnson COVID-19 Booster Shots Now Available
COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are now available. The Food and Drug Administration has authorized, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 booster shots to help strengthen and extend protections against COVID-19 infections.
The Moderna COVID-19 booster shot is recommended for individuals who received their second dose at least six months ago and who are at high risk for severe illness or exposure based on their age, profession, living setting or health conditions. This includes people:
65 years or older, and
18 years or older who:
live or work in a nursing home or long-term care facility;
have underlying medical conditions;
work in high-risk settings like healthcare workers, teachers and childcare providers or food workers; or,
live or work in a place where many people live together (for example, homeless shelters, correctional facilities, migrant farm housing, dormitories or other group living settings in colleges or universities).
The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 booster shot is recommended for individuals ages 18 and older who were vaccinated with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at least two months ago.
The Pfizer booster shots have been available since September 24th for individuals who are at high risk for serious illness or exposure and who received their second dose at least six months ago.
Additionally, individuals are now able to receive any brand of the COVID-19 vaccine for their booster shot. Some people may choose to stay with the vaccine type they originally received, while others may prefer to get a different type of booster shot altogether. Limited preliminary evidence does suggest that either the Moderna or Pfizer booster dose may be more effective in raising one’s antibody levels than a booster dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. With that being known, we do highly encourage you to speak with your primary care provider or your pharmacist if you have questions about which booster may be right for you and/or your family members.
This past Friday’s announcement expands the eligibility for more individuals to receive additional protection against COVID-19. Please note that a doctor's note is not needed in order to get a booster shot. Individuals who want to receive a booster shot will simply need to know the dates of any past COVID-19 vaccinations, as well as the vaccine brand they originally received, if they should choose to stay with their original vaccine type. Paper vaccination cards are helpful and should be brought with you, if at all possible.
For more information about COVID-19 vaccines or to find a vaccine location, visit MySpot.nc.gov or call the state’s COVID-19 Vaccine Help Center for free at 888-675-4567.
Here locally, the COVID-19 booster shots are now available at the following locations:
- Novant Health Clinic at the J.F. Hurley YMCA; 8 am to 5 pm Wed. and Friday; Appointments are strongly encouraged and please bring your vaccine card
- Novant Health’s Primary Care Clinics; call your primary physician for more information
- Rowan County Public Health—Only Pfizer vaccines are available at this time; however other COVID-19 vaccine brands have been ordered; please call 704-216-8777; Option 3 to make an appointment
- Local Pharmacies: Walmart; Walgreens; CVS; Moose Pharmacy; Medicine Shoppe, Cannon Pharmacy
- Local Grocery Stores: Food Lion
When scheduling your booster shot, please realize that you do not have to go back to the same place you received your initial dose(s). Any of the agencies or businesses listed above can assist you. For more information on how to schedule an appointment and what types of vaccines are currently available, please visit any of the listed agencies/businesses’ websites or call them directly.
October 20, 2021
N.C. HOPE Program marks first year with more than a half-billion in rent and utility awards
More than $461 million already paid to landlords and utilities statewide
The N.C. Housing Opportunities and Prevention of Evictions (HOPE) Program marked its Oct. 15 one-year anniversary with more than a half-billion dollars in pandemic relief funds awarded to North Carolina landlords and utility companies on behalf of vulnerable families. In total, HOPE has awarded $520.2 million to 135,213 families with more than $461 million of that amount already paid to landlords and utility providers across the state. The HOPE Program continues to rank #2 in the nation for number of households served, while North Carolina overall ranks #6 for spending of federal Emergency Rental Assistance money. The HOPE Program supports housing stability during the pandemic by preventing evictions and utility service disconnections.
“In its first year, the HOPE Program has helped more than 135,000 North Carolina families stay safe and warm in their homes during the pandemic,” said Governor Roy Cooper. “HOPE will continue to pay landlords and utility companies to keep low-income renters in their homes with the lights on as we recover in the months ahead.”
In addition to supporting safe housing during the pandemic, the HOPE Program has provided an economic boost to landlords who experienced financial setbacks due to COVID-19. During the second phase of HOPE that began May 17, the program has mailed checks to 30,727 landlords and more than 5,500 landlords have contacted HOPE to refer tenants. The program continues to accept landlord referrals of tenants struggling to pay rent due to the pandemic. Landlords may submit tenant names and contact information through the HOPE Program website or by contacting the HOPE Call Center at 888-9ASK-HOPE (888-927-5467). A program specialist will then follow up with the tenant to help start the application process.
HOPE is still accepting applications for rent and utility bill assistance from low-income renters in 88 counties. Applicants can apply online at HOPE.NC.gov or call 888-9ASK-HOPE (888-927-5467) Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Both English- and Spanish-speaking representatives are available to assist callers.
The HOPE Program is managed by the N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency, a division of the Department of Public Safety. To learn more, visit HOPE.NC.gov.
September 21, 2021
Cabarrus County directs $5 million in recovery funds to small businesses
Application deadline is October 15
Cabarrus County is dedicating up to $5 million in American Rescue Plan Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to help small businesses recover from economic hardship caused by COVID-19.
Local small business owners have until October 15 to apply for one-time funding through the Cabarrus Recovery Grant – Small Business Support Program.
Qualifying expenses include:
- Payroll and benefit costs
- Operating costs
- COVID-19 prevention/mitigation (e.g., physical barriers, cleaning, testing, etc.)
Eligible businesses must:
- Have a location within Cabarrus County that opened before January 1, 2020
- Operate as a for-profit agency
- Have an independent owner/operator
- Employ 50 or fewer workers
- Demonstrate loss of revenue due to COVID-19
- Be in good standing with all federal, state and local governments (taxes, etc.)
- Provide 2019 and 2020 Federal Tax Returns with their application
- Meet County vendor onboarding requirements
The County will review applications and allocate funding after the October 15 deadline.
How to apply
To learn more and apply, visit cabarruscounty.us/BizGrant21.
From there, applicants can:
- Review information
- Submit their application online in a few easy steps
- Download and print the application to mail-in or hand-deliver
Applicants are required to answer a few qualifying questions, including how the business impacts Cabarrus County’s economy.
To complete the process, applicants will need to submit the business’ 2019 and 2020 Federal Tax Returns with the application. Online applicants will need to upload an electronic copy.
Paper applications are available at Cabarrus County’s libraries, Human Services Center, Veteran Services Office, Board of Elections Office, Senior Center in Concord and the Government Center (County Manager’s Office).
Previous COVID-19 assistance
Businesses that received COVID-19-related financial assistance (i.e., PPP) are eligible to apply for the grant; however, priority may be given to businesses that have not received such assistance.
Ineligible business categories
The federal government has outlined which businesses are ineligible for funding. These include, but are not limited to, non-profit businesses, financial businesses primarily engaged in lending, pyramid sale distribution plans and political organizations.
Steps toward recovery
The $5 million small business support initiative falls in line with other County efforts to support recovery.
Since March of 2020, the County has allocated federal and state recovery funds in the following ways:
- $6.5 million toward emergency rental and utility assistance
- More than $1 million in Nonprofit Resiliency Grants to 32 local agencies that helped stabilize the community during the pandemic
- $40 million toward local nonprofit efforts to support the community’s highest needs
August 26, 2021
Cabarrus Health Alliance Issues Public Health Advisory: Face Coverings and Masks
The Cabarrus Health Alliance (CHA) is issuing a Public Health Advisory to all residents and visitors, regardless of vaccination status, to wear masks indoors (and not in your own home) or in crowded outdoor areas where social distancing is not possible.
The Delta variant is more than two times as transmissible as the original strains of COVID-19 and is causing large, rapid increases in infections. Cabarrus County has experienced a 200% increase of new COVID-19 cases in the last 2 weeks, and is averaging 800 news cases per week. The percent of positivity has spiked drastically from 2.4% to 14.2% in two months.
“Our community and our health care system cannot sustain the rapid rise in cases,” said Dr. Bonnie Coyle, CHA Public Health Director. “Vaccines are still the best protection against COVID-19, but masks also play a part in controlling the spread, along with washing our hands, social distancing and proper cleaning of public spaces. But to truly see case counts and hospitalizations decrease, we need the support of our community and partners to individually or institutionally implement these masking recommendations.”
According to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS), while the original virus spread from one person to an average of two or three people, the Delta variant is spreading from one person to an average of six people. Since June 2021, the Atrium Health region has experienced an 800% increase in hospitalizations placing Atrium Health Cabarrus in a similar situation to many hospitals in the region, where available bed space is extremely limited. As of this week, 30% of current Atrium Health admissions are for COVID related illness.
Cabarrus Health Alliance and Atrium Health leadership anticipate an even more drastic spike in two weeks due to relaxed efforts to prevent the spread (masking, social distancing) of a more infectious variant, combined with children returning to school and gatherings associated with upcoming Labor Day holiday and major sporting events.
To ensure masks are as protective as possible, NCDHHS recommends that you:
- Make sure your mask fits snugly against your face and covers your nose and mouth. To help with a snug fit, you can use a mask with a metal strip along the top of the mask.
- Use two or more layers for your face covering. You can do this by wearing a cloth face covering with two or more layers or by wearing one disposable mask (sometimes referred to as a surgical mask or a medical procedure mask) underneath a cloth mask.
- Do not wear two disposable masks.
- Make sure you can see and breathe easily.
To prevent getting or spreading COVID-19
Get the vaccine. This is the most effective protection against COVID-19.
Wear a face covering, when indoors or in places where social distancing is not possible.
Wash your hands.
Cover your cough or sneeze.
Avoid close contact with individuals who are or maybe sick.
Stay home when you are sick.
Get tested if you are a close contact and are experiencing symptoms.
Avoid touching your nose, eyes and mouth.
Clear and disinfect commonly touched spaces.
July 29, 2021
Rowan County Public Health is Offering COVID Vaccination Clinics Targeting Students and Teachers Once Again Next Week
Next Tuesday and Thursday, Rowan County Public Health will begin offering COVID vaccination clinics at West Rowan Elementary School from 12 to 3 pm and the Wallace Center from 10 am to 2 pm, respectively. These clinics are for anyone, but we hope our local students and teachers will take advantage of this service as the beginning of school is less than one month away. Please note that the Pfizer vaccine will be given at both of these clincs, which is safe for anyone twelve years old and older. It is also important to note that the Pfizer vaccine does require two vaccines to be considered fully vaccinated, so we ask that you plan accordingly.
West Rowan Elementary School
Tuesday, August 3rd; 12 to 3 pm
Return Date for 2nd Vaccination: Tuesday, August 24th; 2 to 5 pm
Wallace Center (Clinic will be targeting teachers)
Thursday, August 5th; 10 am to 2 pm
Return Date for 2nd Vaccination: Friday, August 27th; 2 to 5 pm
If you and/or your child still needs to get a COVID vaccine and next week’s school-targeted clinics do not work for your schedule, please feel free to to visit the CDC’s vaccine finder. Here, you will find a number of local agencies/businesses that are offering COVID vaccines in Rowan County, such as:
Novant Health at the J. F. Hurley YMCA; Walk-ins are accepted Wednesdays and Fridays; 8 am – 5 pm
- Larger chain pharmacies: CVS and Walgreens
- Grocery Stores: Walmart, Food Lion (Salisbury and China Grove), Sam’s Club
- Local pharmacies: Moose Pharmacy, The Medicine Shoppe, and Cannon Pharmacy
- Provider offices: Rowan County Public Health, Rowan Diagnostic Clinic, Pro Med, and Salisbury Pediatric (only for established patients)
To find out more information about which vaccines are being offered and when they are being offered, please contact the agency/business directly. It is important to know that when seeking out a COVID vaccine for your child, any child younger than 12 is not yet currently eligible to receive a vaccine. However, if your child is 12 years old and older, they can receive the following vaccines based on their age:
- Pfizer Vaccine (age 12+)
- Moderna Vaccine (age 18+)
- Johnson and Johnson (age 18+)
In closing, please note that Rowan County Public Health is also offering COVID vaccinations in-house on Monday afternoons and Thursday mornings. We are also offering appointments for other required immunizations and well-child check-ups on Tuesday afternoons and Friday mornings, as well. If you and/or your child need of any of these services, please call 704-216-8837 to make an appointment.
June 2, 2021
N.C. HOPE Program Application Period Is Open, Offering Rent and Utility Assistance for North Carolinians Struggling to Recover from Pandemic
Governor Roy Cooper and Chief Operating Officer of the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR) Laura Hogshead shared an update on the application process for the N.C. Housing Opportunities and Prevention of Evictions (HOPE) Program. The program is open for a second application period to assist very low-income renters that are experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19. The HOPE Program provides rent and utility bill assistance to prevent evictions and utility disconnections.
“I strongly encourage landlords and utilities across our state to lend a hand to their communities and to participate in these programs so that we can keep people in their homes with their lights on,” said Governor Cooper. “I am proud that North Carolina is taking steps to support families who need it as we emerge from this pandemic.”
The current HOPE Program is serving very low-income renters in 88 North Carolina counties. Very low-income is defined as earning less than or equal to 50 percent of the area median income for the county where the renter lives. Twelve additional counties and five tribal governments received money directly from the federal government to operate their own programs.
In the last two weeks, more than 8,000 people have applied for financial assistance and as of today, $9.5 million has been awarded. Payments began on June 1 and 924 checks for a total of $1.1 million have been mailed to help North Carolinians in need. Payments are expected to continue to go out on a rolling basis every business day. Previous applicants who received help can re-apply if they still need assistance.
North Carolina initially launched the HOPE Program last fall, using flexible federal CARES Act funds to keep low-income people struggling during the pandemic in their homes and their utilities turned on. In total, the program awarded $133 million to more than 36,000 applicants. Congress subsequently recognized the outstanding need for rent and utility assistance and passed additional funds in the two stimulus bills, including the American Rescue Plan.
“In advance of this second application period, HOPE Program processes have been streamlined to ensure people get help as quickly as possible,” said NCORR Chief Operating Officer Laura Hogshead. “Our goal is to continue to provide housing stability while our state recovers from impacts of the pandemic.”
Complete details about the HOPE Program, including eligibility requirements, program benefits and an online application, are available at www.hope.nc.gov. Applicants who cannot access the website may also call (888) 9ASK-HOPE or (888) 927-5467.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D. also joined the Governor today and provided an update on the state’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts. As part of its ongoing effort to get more North Carolinians vaccinated and safely bring summer back, the NC DHHS is offering $25 Summer Cash Cards at select vaccine sites to offset the time and transportation costs of getting vaccinated.
To date, over 8.3 million doses have been administered in North Carolina, with 54.3 percent of adults partially vaccinated and 49.2 percent of adults fully vaccinated. 79.9 percent of the 65 and older population have been partially vaccinated.
May 14, 2021
Governor Cooper Lifts Most COVID Restrictions
Please see this link for the latest information regarding COVID restrictions in N.C. - https://files.nc.gov/governor/documents/files/EO215-Lifting-COVID-19-Restrictions.pdf
Frequently Asked Questions - https://files.nc.gov/governor/documents/files/FAQ-For-Executive-Order-No.-215.pdf
April 21, 2021
Governor Cooper Outlines Timeline for Lifting State’s COVID-19 Restrictions
Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D. laid out a timeline for lifting current pandemic restrictions today. With stable trends and continued vaccination success, the state expects to lift mandatory social distancing, capacity, and mass gathering restrictions by June 1. The Governor plans to issue an executive order next week outlining safety restrictions for the month of May.
“Each shot in an arm is a step closer to putting this pandemic in the rearview mirror,” said Governor Cooper. “North Carolinians have shown up for each other throughout this entire pandemic and we need to keep up that commitment by getting our vaccines.”
North Carolina continues to focus on distributing vaccines quickly and equitably. This fast and fair approach to getting shots in arms is the best way to beat this pandemic, protect one another, boost the economy and make it possible for restrictions to be lifted.
To date, the state has administered over 6.5 million vaccines. 46.9 percent of adults are at least partially vaccinated, and 35.1 percent are fully vaccinated. More than 76 percent of people 65 and older have had at least one shot.
With vaccine now widely available across the state – often with no wait for an appointment, all North Carolinians 16 and older can plan to take their shot. The state anticipates lifting the mask mandate and easing other public health recommendations, once two thirds of adult North Carolinians have received at least one vaccine dose and if trends remain stable.
“We are at an exciting moment. We now have enough vaccine for everyone,” said Secretary Cohen. “If you are 16 and older, it is your turn to join the more than 3.6 million North Carolinians who have already taken their first shot. It’s up to you to get us to the two thirds goal as quickly as possible so we can live with this virus and begin to put this pandemic behind us.”
Gov. Cooper and Sec. Cohen urged North Carolinians continue to get vaccinated and exercise good judgment even when restrictions are lifted. Businesses should continue to follow voluntary health recommendations and North Carolinians should continue to take safety measures in order to boost the economy, keep children in schools and protect each other.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released statistics indicating that North Carolina is among the states with the fewest deaths and fewest job losses per capita.
State health officials are continuing to monitor the presence of COVID-19 and its more contagious variants in North Carolina, which is why it is important to continue to follow the state’s mask mandate and continue to practice safety precautions, including the Three Ws—wear a mask, wait 6 feet apart, and wash hands often.
April 7, 2021
North Carolina’s COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility Opens for All Adults on April 7
Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D. gave an update on the state’s current data, trends and vaccination progress as tomorrow also marks the opening of vaccine eligibility for Group 5. This means anyone 16 years and older who wants a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccination is eligible to get one.
“We remain focused on getting people vaccinated as quickly and as equitably as possible and continuing to slow the spread of the virus,” said Governor Cooper. “The more people we vaccinate, the more we can safely do.”
North Carolina continues to focus on distributing vaccines quickly and equitably. To date, the state has administered over 5.2 million doses. 39 percent of those 18 and up is at least partially vaccinated, and 26 percent of those 18 and up have been fully vaccinated.
“These tested, safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines will help us get back in control of our lives and back to the people and places we love – like safely hugging a grandmother, traveling to see vaccinated family or friends, or having a potluck dinner with your vaccinated neighbors,” said Secretary Cohen.
State health officials are continuing to monitor the presence of COVID-19 and its more contagious variants in North Carolina, which is why it is important to continue to follow the state’s mask mandate and practice safety precautions, including the Three Ws—wear a mask, wait 6 feet apart, and wash hands often.
Dr. Cohen also provided an update on North Carolina’s data and trends.
- Trajectory in COVID-Like Illness (CLI) Surveillance Over 14 Days
- North Carolina’s syndromic surveillance trend for COVID-like illness is decreasing.
- Trajectory of Confirmed Cases Over 14 Days
- North Carolina’s trajectory of cases is level.
- Trajectory in Percent of Tests Returning Positive Over 14 Days
- North Carolina’s trajectory in percent of tests returning positive is level.
- Trajectory in Hospitalizations Over 14 Days
- North Carolina’s trajectory of hospitalizations is level.
In addition to these metrics, the state continues building capacity to adequately respond to an increase in virus spread in testing, tracing and prevention.
March 23, 2021
As North Carolina’s trends continue to show improvement and vaccine distribution increases with 31.7% of North Carolinians over 18 having received at least one dose of vaccine, Governor Roy Cooper announced today that the state will continue to ease some COVID-19 restrictions. Executive Order No. 204 will take effect March 26 at 5 pm and will expire April 30 at 5 pm. The state’s general mask mandate remains in effect.
“Our fast and fair vaccine distribution and our sustained progress with the COVID-19 metrics tell us we can move forward with easing restrictions if we do it safely,” said Governor Cooper.
“We are in a promising place. With North Carolina’s COVID-19 key metrics improving and vaccinations increasing, we can responsibly use our dimmer switch approach to easing restrictions guided by science and data,” said NCDHHS Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D.
Executive Order No. 204 has three general categories of occupancy restrictions: up to 100 percent capacity, 75 percent capacity, and 50 percent capacity. All businesses must continue to maintain the 6 feet of distance requirement between patrons and implement other safety protocols as they expand their capacity.
Executive Order No. 204 will also increase mass gathering limits. The number of people who may gather indoors will increase from 25 to 50 and the number of people who may gather outdoors will increase from 50 to 100. This Order also fully lifts the restriction on the late-night sale and service of alcoholic beverages on bars, restaurants, and other establishments.
Indoors and Outdoors up to 100% Capacity, Subject to Masks and 6 ft. Social Distancing
- Museums and Aquariums
- Retail Businesses
- Salons, personal care and grooming businesses, tattoo parlors
Indoors up to 75% and Outdoors up to 100% Capacity, Subject to Masks and 6 ft. Social Distancing
- Breweries, Wineries, and Distilleries
- Recreation (e.g., bowling, skating, rock climbing)
- Fitness and Physical Activity Facilities (e.g., gyms, yoga studios, fitness centers)
- Amusement Parks
Indoors and Outdoors up to 50% Capacity, Subject to Masks and 6 ft. Social Distancing
- Movie Theaters*
- Gaming Facilities*
- Meeting, Reception, and Conference Spaces
- Lounges (including tobacco) and Night Clubs
- Auditoriums, Arenas, and other venues for live performances
- Sports Arenas and Fields (includes professional, collegiate, and amateur
*Movie theaters and gaming facilities may operate at up to 75% capacity outdoors.
Activities and settings are lower risk when they involve interacting with fewer people, being outside, keeping masks on the entire time, keeping interactions with people short (under 15 minutes), staying physically distant, and avoiding singing, yelling, and cheering, according to public health officials.
North Carolina is continuing to see fast and fair vaccine distribution. To date, the state has administered over 4.1 million doses. Over 31.7 percent of people 18 and up have received at least one dose, and 18.8 percent are fully vaccinated. Vaccine equity efforts remain a priority, with 18 percent of first doses administered to Black North Carolinians and 8 percent to members of the LatinX community last week.
DHHS also released updates to the K-12 guidance. Schools should return to in-person instruction to the fullest extent possible while following all public health protocols in the StrongSchoolsNC Toolkit. This update aligns with Session Law 2021-4, which Governor Cooper and bipartisan legislative leadership worked on together. Plan A has already been widely adopted across the state as districts, educators and support staff have worked hard to get students back in the classroom. The updated Toolkit no longer requires schools to do daily temperature checks and symptom screenings. Safety protocols such as masks and cleaning of high traffic areas are still required. Schools are also highly encouraged to conduct free screening testing as recommended by the CDC. (Read the updated Toolkit)
State health officials are continuing to monitor the presence of COVID-19 and its more contagious variants in North Carolina, which is why it is important to continue to have a mask mandate and continue to practice safety precautions, including the Three Ws—wear a mask, wait 6 feet apart, and wash hands often.
Read Executive Order No. 204.
Read Frequently Asked Questions
March 2, 2021
Today, Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D. announced that additional frontline essential workers in Group 3 will be eligible for vaccinations beginning tomorrow, March 3. The expedited timeline follows the approval of the Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine and an expected increase in vaccine supply to North Carolina.
“The state and our providers continue to work extremely hard to get people vaccinated in a way that’s fast and fair,” said Gov. Cooper. “The third vaccine and improving vaccine supply will help us get more people vaccinated more quickly. Our essential frontline workers have remained on the job throughout this pandemic and I am grateful for their work.”
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine comes as the federal government has also increased vaccine in North Carolina beyond the state’s allocation. A new federally-supported site will open in Greensboro next week, and Walgreens is providing vaccine through the federal pharmacy program. While there is still not enough vaccine for everyone, the improved supply has contributed to providers reporting readiness to expand access to additional Group 3 essential workers. Under the timeline outlined today, providers may move to vaccinating these individuals on March 3. Sec. Cohen also unveiled a Public Service Announcement encouraging vaccine use among Group 3 essential workers. (See Deeper Dive for additional detail)
State officials continue to encourage providers to exhaust each week’s vaccine shipment before the following week’s shipment arrives. Some vaccine providers may not be ready to open to frontline essential workers on March 3 if they are still experiencing high demand for vaccines in Groups 1, 2, and 3.
Gov. Cooper also outlined an expected timeline for beginning Group 4 vaccinations. Beginning on March 24, people at higher risk from COVID-19 due to underlying medical conditions will become eligible to receive a vaccine, as well as people in certain congregate-living settings. (See Deeper Dive for additional detail)
“This is a really exciting moment,” said Secretary Cohen. "A third COVID-19 vaccine means North Carolina can get more people vaccinated sooner and keep people out of the hospital and prevent deaths from this pandemic.”
NCDHHS also shared clarifications for Groups 1 and 4. The definition of long-term care in Group 1 has been updated for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Higher-risk medical conditions for Group 4 include intellectual and developmental disabilities including Down Syndrome, and neurologic conditions, such as dementia.
Gov. Cooper will continue to advocate to increase vaccine supply in North Carolina. Since January 20, the amount of vaccine received by the state has increased by 135%.
This week, the federal government authorized the distribution of Johnson & Johnson’s (Janssen) one-shot vaccine and more than 80,000 doses are expected to arrive in the state beginning on Wednesday.
On March 10, a federally-supported community vaccination center will open in Greensboro. This site – one of just 18 sites nationally - will help the state continue its effort to reach more marginalized and underserved communities. The federal government will provide the center’s vaccine supply, which will be in addition to North Carolina’s weekly allotment from the Centers for Disease Control. It will operate seven days a week with the capacity to provide up to 3,000 vaccinations per day, with options for drive-thru service in the parking lot and walk-in service.
State officials continue to prioritize speed and equity in vaccine distribution as eligibility prioritization expands. On February 26, the Kaiser Family Foundation ranked North Carolina as first in the nation for vaccinating the largest share of its 65 and older population.
Detailed information about each vaccine group is online at YourSpotYourShot.nc.gov (English) or vacunate.nc.gov (Spanish).
Watch the DHHS Group 3 Vaccine PSA Here.
February 25, 2021
North Carolina State officials have lifted the Modified Stay At Home Order. The new Executive Order No. 195 eases certain restrictions on businesses and gatherings. A face covering is still required in all public indoor settings if there are non-household members present, regardless of the individual’s ability to social distance. Face coverings are also required outdoors if you are unable to maintain at least six feet of social distance from non-household members.
This executive order is in effect until March 26, 2021.
Read the Executive Order here – https://files.nc.gov/governor/documents/files/EO195-Easing-Restrictions.pdf
Frequently Asked Questions about the new Executive Order may be found here - https://www.nc.gov/covid-19/current-restrictions/faqs-eased-restrictions-under-executive-order-195
January 27, 2021
North Carolina will remain under a modified stay at home order until 5 p.m. on February 28, 2021.
How Do I Become Vaccinated?
The state has a website to help people understand when they will be eligible to receive a vaccination. The state issued new criteria for when people are eligible to receive the vaccination and this is being done by using a grouping system. (The current grouping system replaces the initial system which was announced in December 2020).
1. Find Your Group - To find out what group you are in visit - https://findmygroup.nc.gov/
Once you know your group you can submit your contact information and the state will contact you when your group is eligible to receive vaccinations or you can watch for announcements in the media.
2. Make An Appointment to Receive a Vaccine - You will need to make an appointment to receive the vaccine. Visit Cabarrus Health Alliance at www.cabarrushealth.org or the Rowan County Health Department at www.rowancountync.gov/covid-19 to schedule an appointment.
3. After Receiving the First Vaccine Dose Make Sure You Schedule An Appointment to Schedule the 2nd Vaccine Dose
January 6, 2021
North Carolina will remain under a modified stay at home order until 5 p.m. on January 29, 2021.
Read the full executive order here- https://files.nc.gov/governor/documents/files/EO181-Modified-Stay-at-Home-Early-Closure-Order.pdf
January 5, 2021
Cabarrus Health Alliance announces additional COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics
Rowan County Public Health Begins Phase 1b - Group 1 on January 11th, 2021
December 30, 2020- NCDHHS Shares Updated Rollout Plan for COVID-19 Vaccinations
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced it had updated its vaccination plan to align with new federal recommendations issued last week. The changes simplify the vaccine process and continue the state’s commitment to first protect health care workers caring for patients with COVID-19, people who are at the highest risk of being hospitalized or dying, and those at high risk of exposure to COVID-19.
“While there is still much to do, we head into 2021 with a powerful tool to stop this pandemic– vaccines,” said NCDHHS Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D. “However, because supplies are very limited, it’s going to be several months before vaccines are widely available to everyone. Until most people are vaccinated, everyone needs to continue to wear a mask, wait six feet apart, and wash their hands.”
Because vaccine supplies are currently limited, states must make vaccine available in phases. On December 22, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices released updated interim vaccine prioritization recommendations for the next phases of vaccinations. North Carolina’s updated plan is outlined below.
Current Phase– Phase 1a: Health care workers fighting COVID-19 and long-term care staff and residents.
- Hospitals and local health departments are vaccinating health care workers caring for and working directly with patients with COVID-19 and those giving vaccines. In addition, the federal government is vaccinating long-term care residents and staff.
Phase 1b: Adults 75 years or older and frontline essential workers.
The next phase of vaccinations will open in groups.
- Group 1: Anyone 75 years or older regardless of medical condition or living situation. People do not have to have a chronic health condition.
- Group 2: Health care and frontline essential workers who are 50 years of age or older.
- Group 3: Frontline workers of any age and health care workers of any age, regardless of whether they work directly with COVID-19 patients. This phase is anticipated to begin in early January.
The CDC defines frontline essential workers as first responders (firefighters, police), education (child care, teachers, support staff), manufacturing, corrections officers, public transit, grocery store, food and agriculture, and US postal workers.
Phase 2: Adults at high risk for exposure and at increased risk of severe illness.
In this phase, vaccinations will also open in groups.
- Group 1: Anyone ages 65-74 years regardless of medical condition or living situation.
- Group 2: Anyone 16-64 years with a medical condition that increases risk of severe disease from COVID-19.
- Group 3: Anyone who is incarcerated or living in other close group living settings who has not already vaccinated due to age, medical condition or job function.
- Group 4: Essential workers as defined by the CDC who have not yet been vaccinated.
Phase 3: Students.
- College, university and high school students 16 or older.
- Younger children will only be vaccinated when the vaccine is approved for them.
Phase 4: Finally, anyone who wants a COVID-19 vaccine will be able to get one.
All vaccine providers are expected to ensure that vaccine is administered equitably within each group.
NCDHHS has a specific focus on building trust with historically marginalized populations. Longstanding and continuing racial and ethnic injustices in our health care system contribute to lack of trust in vaccines. The department is partnering with trusted leaders and organizations to provide accurate information about COVID-19 vaccines to all North Carolinians and ensure equitable access to vaccines.
More information is available at yourspotyourshot.nc.gov, including:
• Infographic of Vaccine Phases
• Deeper Dive: Phase 1a
• Deeper Dive: Phase1b
December 1, 2020
NCDHHS to Provide Automatic Payment to Thousands of Seniors and People with Disabilities to Help with Winter Heating Bills
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will issue an automated payment to thousands of eligible households to help with winter heating expenses via the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program. The automated payment will be issued beginning Dec. 1 and is designed to help eligible seniors and people with disabilities access winter heating assistance in a safe and socially distanced manner during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"More of our neighbors may be facing financial hardships because of COVID-19, and this funding can help eligible households with their heating expenses this winter," said NCDHHS Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D. "We want to ensure seniors and people with disabilities are healthy and safe during a difficult time of the year."
Eligible households may qualify to receive an automated payment for the 2020-2021 LIEAP season if a member of the household 1) is age 60 or older or a person with a disability receiving services through the Division of Aging and Adult Services, 2) currently receives Food and Nutrition Services and 3) received LIEAP during the 2019-2020 season. These households will be notified of eligibility in November and do not need to apply for this benefit.
Any household with a person age 60 or older or with a disability receiving DAAS services who does not receive notice of an automated payment is encouraged to practice social distancing and submit a paper application for LIEAP assistance through U.S. Mail or fax to their local department of social services. Applications may also be dropped off at the local DSS, and applicants may contact their local DSS for information on how to obtain a paper application.
Beginning Jan. 2, 2021, all other households may apply online through the ePASS portal at epass.nc.gov or submit a paper application through mail, fax or dropping it off at their local DSS, but they do not have to go into the agency to apply. Individuals may also contact their local DSS to apply. All household applications will be accepted from Jan. 2, 2020 to March 31, 2021 or until funds are exhausted.
To be eligible for the LIEAP program, a household must:
- Have at least one U.S. citizen or non-citizen who meets the eligibility criteria
- Have income equal to or less than 130% of the federal poverty limit
- Have resources, such as saving and checking accounts and cash on hand, at or below $2,250
- Be responsible for their heating cost
For more information on the program and eligibility, visit www.ncdhhs.gov/assistance/low-income-services/low-income-energy-assistance.
November 15, 2020
The State of North Caolina will remain in Phase 3 until 5 p.m. on December 11, 2020. Governor Roy Cooper has announced new guidelines for when to wear a face covering.
Read the full executive order here- https://files.nc.gov/governor/documents/files/EO180-Face-Coverings-Requirements.pdf
November 10, 2020
The State of North Carolina will remain in Phase 3 until 5 p.m. on December 4, 2020.
Read the full executive order here- https://files.nc.gov/governor/documents/files/EO176-Phase-3-ext.pdf
November 6, 2020
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has issued the following guidance for the Thanksgiving holiday:
Lower Risk Activities
- Having a dinner with only people who live in your household
- Preparing traditional family recipes for family and neighbors, especially those at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19, and delivering them in a way that doesn’t involve contact with others
- Having a virtual dinner and sharing recipes with friends and family
- Watching sports events, parades, and movies from home
Moderate Risk Activities
- Having a small outdoor dinner with family and friends who live in your community
- Follow NCDHHS’s Guidance for Private Gatherings
- Attending a small outdoor sports event with safety precautions in place
- Attending a reverse parade, where spectators remain in their car and drive by floats or performers
- Visiting pumpkin patches or orchards where people use hand sanitizer before touching pumpkins or picking apples, wearing masks is encouraged or enforced, and people are able to maintain social distancing
- Follow NCDHHS’s Guidance for Fall Events
High Risk Activities
Avoid these higher risk activities to help prevent the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19:
- Attending large indoor gatherings with people from outside of your household or with people who do not practice the 3 W’s (wear, wait, and wash)
- Attending parades- under the current Executive Order traditional parades are prohibited mass gatherings and limited in size
- Participating or being a spectator at a crowded race. Reminder that mass gatherings of groups
- Remember that any gathering of more than 25 people indoors or 50 people outdoors are prohibited statewide
Read the full interim guidance here- https://files.nc.gov/covid/documents/guidance/NCDHHS-Interim-Guidance-for-Thanksgiving.pdf
October 21, 2020
The State of North Carolina will remain in Phase 3 until 5 p.m. on November 13, 2020.
Read the full the executive order here- https://files.nc.gov/governor/documents/files/EO170-Phase-3-Extension.pdf
The State of North Carolina has also released new interim guidance on private social gatherings. This information can be found here.
October 15, 2020
Governor Roy Cooper has announced the N.C. Housing Opportunities and Prevention of Evictions (HOPE) Program which will assist eligible low- and- moderate-income renters experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19. The new program seeks to promote housing stability during the ongoing pandemic by providing rent and utility assistance to prevent evictions and utility disconnections.
The HOPE Program will provide $117 million for rent and utility assistance for renters who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, have a current household income that is 80 percent of the area median income or lower, and are behind on their rent or utilities when they apply.
Renters who need rent or utility assistance can apply online at nc211.org/hope. Applicants who cannot access the online application can also call 2-1-1 and speak with a program representative, who will assist the caller through the application on the phone. Callers can reach 2-1-1 Monday-Friday between 7 am and 6 pm.
The HOPE Program is funded by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant−Coronavirus funds and U.S. Department of Treasury Coronavirus Relief funds, which have been provided to North Carolina. The funds are administered by the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency, a division of the Department of Public Safety, and will be distributed through community partner agencies across the state.
Renters can apply for utility assistance, rent assistance or both programs. Rent assistance is paid to the landlord on behalf of the applicant. This includes overdue and future rent payments, for up to six months. At least one month’s rent must be overdue at the time of application.
Utility payments will be made directly to the utility provider for up to six months of past due essential utilities, such as electricity, water, sewer/wastewater, natural gas and propane. For more information about the HOPE Program, visit nc211.org/hope.
September 30, 2020
The State of North Carolina will transition to Phase 3 beginning at 5 p.m. on October 2, 2020.
Link to the Executive Order -https://files.nc.gov/governor/documents/files/EO169-Phase-3.pdf
Phase 3 FAQs - https://files.nc.gov/governor/documents/files/EO-169-FAQ_0.pdf
Link to Best Practices for Celebrating Halloween - https://files.nc.gov/covid/documents/guidance/NCDHHS-Interim-Guidance-for-Halloween.pdf
September 1, 2020
The State of North Carolina will transition to Phase 2.5 beginning at 5 p.m. on September 4, 2020.
Read the executive order here.
August 5, 2020
The State of North Carolina will remain in Phase 2 until September 11.
Read the executive order here.
July 28, 2020
With actions to slow the spread of COVID-19 beginning to have impact, Governor Cooper issued Executive Order 153, stopping the sale of alcoholic drinks in restaurants, breweries, wineries and distilleries at 11 pm. North Carolina bars that are currently closed will remain closed. This order will take effect Friday, July 31. The order will not apply to grocery stores, convenience stores or other entities permitted to sell alcohol for off-premises consumption. Local governments that have implemented orders that end alcohol sales before 11 p.m. or that apply to other entities remain in effect.
Read the Executive Order here.
Read the FAQs here.
July 14, 2020
North Carolina will continue to stay paused in Safer at Home Phase 2 when the governor’s current executive order expires on Friday, July 17. The order will be extended for three weeks until Aug. 7. To read the Executive Order, click here.
July 13, 2020
Anyone experiencing fever, cough, and shortness of breath should consider getting tested for COVID-19. Visit your primary care physician, or contact Cabarrus Health Alliance at 704-920-1213 about their drive-thru testing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, or visit their website at cabarrushealth.org. For Rowan County testing information, click here.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has created a web page dedicated to COVID-19 testing in North Carolina. Find a location near you here.
June 26, 2020
North Carolina remains under the Safer at Home Phase 2 Order. Phase 2 has been extended to July 17.
For more information on the state’s response to COVID-19, visit covid.ncdhhs.gov.
Thank you for Practicing the 3W’s:
• Wear a cloth covering over your nose and mouth.
(required in public places starting today)
• Wait 6 feet apart. Avoid close contact.
• Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds or use hand sanitizer.
Click here to view the Kannapolis Phase 2 Chart.
June 24, 2020, 5 p.m.
Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen today announced that North Carolina will remain in Safer at Home Phase 2 for three more weeks. Cooper also announced that face coverings must be worn when people are in public places as officials seek to stabilize concerning trends of increasing viral spread.
Click here for the News Release.
Click here for the Executive Order.
Click here for FAQs.
Click here for Guidance on Face Coverings.
June 19, 2020
There are several non-profit organizations who are stretched to the limit as they work to help people deal with the effects of COVID-19. If you would like to get involved, you can find a list of non-profits and volunteer opportunities here.
June 17, 2020
Anyone experiencing fever, cough, and shortness of breath should consider getting tested. Visit your primary care physician, or contact Cabarrus Health Alliance at 704-920-1213 about their drive-thru testing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, or visit their website at cabarrushealth.org. For Rowan County testing information, click here.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has created a web page dedicated to COVID-19 testing in North Carolina. Find a location near you here.
June 15, 2020
Cabarrus County has seen a triple-digit COVID-19 increase in one week. Cabarrus Health Alliance urges the community to continue practicing the 3 W’s – wear a mask or cloth face covering, wait six feet apart, and wash hands often. More here.
June 8, 2020
Cabarrus County Testing
Rowan County Testing
June 1, 2020
Cabarrus County Testing
Rowan County Testing
May 30, 2020
The Governor has issued Executive Order No.142 extending the prohibition on utility shut-offs and evictions through July 29.
Executive Order 142
FAQs for EO 142
May 28, 2020
Cabarrus Health Alliance offers drive thru COVID-19 Testing
Rowan County COVID-19 Testing information.
May 22, 2020 4:30 p.m.
North Carolina will move into Safer-at-Home Phase 2 of lifting COVID-19 restrictions on Friday, May 22, at 5 p.m.
Click here for Kannapolis FAQs.
May 20, 2020, 5 p.m.
Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen today announced that North Carolina will move into Safer At Home Phase 2 of lifting COVID-19 restrictions on Friday, May 22, at 5 p.m.
Click here for the news release.
Click here for the State FAQs.
Click here for the Phase 2 graphs and slides.
May 11, 2020, 2 p.m.
Atrium Health and Cabarrus Health Alliance will have multiple community testing locations this week. Tuesday May 12, at Kannapolis YMCA, Wednesday, May 13, at Central Cabarrus High School, Thursday May 16, at A. L. Brown High School, and Friday, May 15, at Living Water Church of God.
For more information on community testing please visit their website at: atriumhealth.org/getscreened or click here.
Click here for Rowan County Testing information.
May 5, 2020, 6 p.m.
Governor Cooper signed an Executive Order today to move North Carolina into Phase One of state reopening, beginning 5 p.m., Friday, May 8.
Click here for the FAQs.
Click here for the FAQ Summary Chart.
Click here for the Executive Order.
Business Guidance for State Reopening - Phase 1
Click here for the Kannapolis FAQ Summary Chart.
April 29, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
Cabarrus, municipalities to align with State Stay-at-Home Order
Kannapolis tennis courts have reopened.
April 23, 2020, 4 p.m.
Governor Roy Cooper today issued Executive Order No. 135 extending North Carolina’s Stay At Home order through May 8. The orders extending closure of restaurants for dine-in service and bars and closure of other close-contact businesses are also extended through May 8. Click here for more.
April 17, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
A wedding. An Easter family gathering. Birthday parties. Cabarrus residents held these gatherings over the past two weeks. And now, the Cabarrus Health Alliance (CHA) is investigating COVID-19 outbreaks at each event, with more than 18 people infected. Click here for more.
April 15, 2020, 5 p.m.
Governor Roy Cooper today charted a path forward for eventually easing certain COVID-19 restrictions while still protecting North Carolinians from a dangerous second wave of the virus. Click here for more.
April 9, 2020, 5 p.m.
Governor Roy Cooper took action to the address the spread of COVID-19 by issuing stronger social distancing requirements and speeding up the process to get benefits to people out of work through Executive Order No. 131.
Click here for the FAQs.
April 8, 2020, 8 a.m.
Cabarrus officials warn residents of playground risks, encourage safe play Neighborhood associations are required to close playgrounds. Tennis courts are also closed based on recommendations from the U.S. Tennis Association.
CDC recommending wearing masks when you must leave home for essential work or errands. Mask Guidelines
March 31, 2020, 5 p.m.
Today, elected officials with Cabarrus County, the cities of Concord and Kannapolis, and the towns of Harrisburg, Midland and Mt. Pleasant announced revisions to their Stay-at-Home Proclamation. The Proclamation now aligns with the State of North Carolina’s Order and further clarifies information in the Cabarrus County Stay-at-Home Proclamation, which took effect March 26.
Click here for the news release.
Click here for the updated proclamation.
Click here for the updated FAQs.
March 27, 2020, 5 p.m.
N.C. Governor Roy Cooper issues a statewide Stay at Home Order beginning Monday, March 30 at 5 p.m. until April 29, 2020. Click here.
Click here to read the North Carolina Stay at Home FAQ.
Click here to read Cabarrus County Stay at Home FAQ.
March 25, 2020, 5 p.m.
Today, Kannapolis, along with Cabarrus County, the City of Concord, and the Towns of Harrisburg, Midland, and Mt. Pleasant, announced a Stay at Home Proclamation Order for residents that will take effect March 26 at 5 p.m.
The Proclamation Order requires residents to remain in their homes and limits mass gatherings to groups of 10 or fewer. This order includes all citizens and businesses in Kannapolis (both in Cabarrus and Rowan Counties). There is no curfew associated with this proclamation.
“We do not make these decisions lightly. We know that every person and business in our City is impacted by this proclamation. However, we value the health of our citizens and it is important that we take this virus seriously. We must take every precaution and try to minimize the number of people who have the virus. Please take precautions and do whatever you can to protect yourself and your family,” commented Kannapolis Mayor Darrell Hinnant. “We extend our deepest sympathies to the families of the two individuals who passed away from the virus.”
The Proclamation Order coincides with Wednesday’s North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announcement that a person from Cabarrus County died on March 24 from complications associated with the virus. The patient was in their late 70s and had several underlying medical conditions. A second person in their 60s, who was traveling through North Carolina, also died from COVID-19 complications in Cabarrus County.
The Stay at Home Proclamation Order also supports local State of Emergency declarations signed by the same jurisdictions last week and ongoing decisions to limit mass gatherings.
What the Stay at Home Proclamation Order means for you
The Stay at Home Proclamation Order is designed to continue preventing the spread of COVID-19 in our community. The Proclamation directs residents to shelter at home and limit travel outside the home beyond handling specific essential needs until April 16, 2020. County leaders will continually review the Proclamation, and it may be revised or extended based on recommendations from the Cabarrus Health Alliance and Cabarrus County Emergency Management.
According to the Proclamation Order, Cabarrus residents should stay at their homes, but can leave to “provide or receive certain essential services or engage in certain essential activities and work for essential businesses and governmental services.”
Essential businesses or operations include healthcare and public health operations, human services operations, essential government functions and essential infrastructure. All these functions are fully outlined in the Proclamation Order.
Read the full Proclamation here.
Here’s a breakdown:
• Visiting a healthcare professional for medical services that cannot be provided virtually
• Caring for a friend or family member
• Walking pets; visiting veterinarian
• Assisting with getting supplies for another person
• Going to a restaurant for take-out or delivery
• Going to a pharmacy for medications and other healthcare needs
• Receiving deliveries from any delivery business
• Going to grocery, convenience or warehouse stores
• Exercising outdoors, while maintaining the recommended social distancing of a minimum of six feet.
• Going to work, unless you fall under the essential services outlined in the Proclamation
• Visiting family and friends without having an urgent need to do so
• Traveling, except when for permissible activities
• Gathering in groups
Practicing responsible actions; maintaining Proclamation
“The Stay at Home Proclamation Order does not keep you away from the goods and services that you rely on,” said Cabarrus County Emergency Manager Bobby Smith. “It calls attention to the seriousness of our COVID-19 recommendations. This is a time for our community to take responsibility to limit contact, practice social distancing and follow hand-washing and sanitation guidelines.”
Concord and Kannapolis police departments and Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Office are tasked with enforcing the Stay at Home Proclamation Order. Their officers will manage this through voluntary compliance, education, dialogue and cooperation from the community. The departments encourage continued voluntary cooperation from the community. They will not actively identify violations, but will investigate all reported violations and exercise their authority to issue citations and/or make misdemeanor arrests if all efforts for voluntary cooperation are exhausted.
For more information on the Stay at Home Proclamation Order, including frequently asked questions and a complete list of essential services, visit cabarrushealth.org and websites for the County and municipalities.
Find local resources
Cabarrus County residents can turn to the CHA for ongoing information related to COVID-19 and other public health concerns. CHA will provide updates through its website, www.cabarrushealth.org. You can also call the Health Information Line at 704-920-1213 or email firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow Cabarrus Health Alliance on Facebook and Twitter, @CabarrusHealth.
If you have a question about whether or not your business is essential email email@example.com
For a breakdown of local demographics and information, visit https://www.cabarrushealth.org/579/Cabarrus-County-COVID-19-Data.
State of North Carolina COVID-19 guidance
The NCDHHS recommends people at high risk of severe illness from COVID-19 stay at home to the extent possible to decrease the chance of infection.
On March 22, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated who is at high risk for severe illness. That includes:
• People aged 65 years and older
• People who live in a nursing home or long-term care facility
• People who are pregnant should be monitored since they are known to be at risk with severe viral illness, however, to date data on COVID-19 has not shown increased risk
• Other high-risk conditions could include:
• People with chronic lung disease or moderate to severe asthma
• People who have serious heart conditions
• People who are immunocompromised including cancer treatment
• People of any age with severe obesity (body mass index [BMI] >40) or certain underlying medical conditions, particularly if not well controlled, such as those with diabetes, renal failure, or liver disease might also be at risk
Many conditions can cause a person to be immunocompromised, including cancer treatment, bone marrow or organ transplantation, immune deficiencies, poorly controlled HIV or AIDS, and prolonged use of corticosteroids and other immune-weakening medications.
In addition, pregnant women should be monitored closely since they are known to be at risk for severe viral illness. However, data so far on COVID-19 has not shown increased risk for severe COVID-19 illness in pregnant women. While children are generally at lower risk for severe infection, some studies indicate a higher risk among infants.
Governor Cooper has taken several actions to protect the health of North Carolinians, including:
• Ordering all K-12 public schools in North Carolina to close through May 15
• Limiting bars and restaurants to only take-out or delivery service
• Restricting visitors to long-term care facilities
• Promoting social distancing by closing businesses like movie theaters, gyms, nail salons, and several others.
For more information and additional guidance, please visit the NCDHHS’ website at www.ncdhhs.gov/coronavirus and CDC’s website at www.cdc.gov/coronavirus.
What the State of Emergency Declaration means to you?
The State of Emergency announcement made on March 19 does not impact daily functions of government and private services agencies, including:
• Private and public electric, water, gas and internet service providers will continue normal operations
• County and city services, including garbage, recycling, stormwater, and water and sewer systems, and social and veterans services will continue normal operations.
• Public safety departments, including police, fire and EMS, are staffed at normal levels and available when needs arise
Last week, local agencies began implementing changes to events and operations of the public library system, and park and recreation departments to meet federal and state guidelines on mass gatherings. Other announcements about non-essential services may be forthcoming from the individual entities.
What can you do?
This is not a natural disaster, such as a hurricane or winter weather. Your ability to obtain food, water or other necessities is not in jeopardy. Make practical purchases for your household’s needs. A sensible way to help our most vulnerable populations is to avoid stockpiling or hoarding and leave supplies on shelves. Residents should also heed recommendations about social distancing.
For more information, visit the following sites:
March 25, 2020
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has reported the first COVID-19 associated deaths. Click here for more information.
March 23, 2020, 4 p.m.
March 20, 4 p.m.
We have closed the playground equipment areas in our parks.
Although, we have always practiced safe hygiene methods at our parks, we feel that it is prudent to take this action due to COVID-19.
Our parks and greenways remain open and we hope that you will practice safe distancing and enjoy this beautiful weather.
March 20, 10:30 a.m.
Click here for updated guidance for restaurants and bars.
March 19, 4 p.m.
The City of Kannapolis continues to work closely with the Cabarrus Health Alliance and the Rowan County Health Department to respond appropriately to COVID-19. Things are changing rapidly every day and we are working with our neighboring cities, counties, businesses and other agencies to ensure we do everything we can to keep our community safe.
Today, the cities of Kannapolis, Concord, Cabarrus County and the towns of Midland, and Mt. Pleasant declared a State of Emergency. This action will help the County and municipalities seek federal funding when appropriate for administrative support and proactive resource mobilization related to COVID-19 preparation, response and recovery. The declaration also gives us the authority to act against anyone who may attempt to sell goods or services at excessive prices and to ensure that people adhere to the state and federal restrictions on public gatherings.
This is not a natural disaster, like a hurricane or winter storm. Your ability to obtain food, water or other necessities is not in jeopardy. The City urges its citizens to make practical purchases for your household’s needs. A sensible way to help our most vulnerable populations is to leave supplies on shelves. Avoid stockpiling or hoarding provisions or supplies. There will be more than enough food and supplies for everyone if we take this approach together.
“The state of emergency does not change how we are responding to this public health crisis or in our delivery of services to you. It is a formality that allows us to take measures needed to protect us and to hopefully seek federal financial aid to help our health departments respond to COVID-19 and to apply for any federal aid which may help our community recover. We hope the drastic measures we are taking today will help us flatten the curve and thus protect the health of our residents,” commented Kannapolis Mayor Darrell Hinnant.
The City of Kannapolis is open for business. All services are being maintained 24/7. Garbage, recycling, police and fire protection, customer service, water and sewer systems are working on regular schedules. Our parks and greenways are open, although the carousel and train at Village Park will remain closed until further notice. However, our parks and recreation programming and special events have been postponed or cancelled. We are also not accepting any rentals of our city facilities or park shelters. We will reassess these activities in the upcoming weeks and make announcements regarding these services when it is appropriate.
To keep you and our staff safe we will close all City buildings to the public today, March 19, at 5 p.m. – until further notice. City staff will continue to work during normal business hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday thru Friday. In order to comply with the recommendations of local, state and federal health agencies, city staff are practicing social distancing by staggering in-office schedules and telecommuting.
City employees may be reached by phone or email using this staff directory - www.kannapolisnc.gov/Contact-Us
We want to ensure that the recruitment of new businesses and economic development projects in our City continue to progress to the greatest extent possible during this time. Our planning, development, and engineering services are also available electronically – https://www.kannapolisnc.gov/Government-Departments/Planning and staff is available by phone or email.
Economic Development questions and needs may be sent to Irene Sacks at firstname.lastname@example.org or 704.920.4326.
During this time customers will need to pay your utility bill online, by postal mail, drive up drop box in the parking lot at City Hall or by telephone. All the information you need to pay your bill is located here – www.kannapolisnc.gov/UtilityBilling
We will not disconnect any customer’s water service during this difficult time. We suspended all service disconnections last week when it became clear that good hygiene habits prevent COVID-19.
Downtown Revitalization Project/Atrium Health Ballpark
Our downtown revitalization projects are moving forward. Final touches are underway on the Atrium Health Ballpark and it will be ready when Minor League Baseball and state and local health agencies deem it safe to start the baseball season.
Construction on VIDA, the mixed-use district of apartments and businesses, is still underway and it is on schedule to open in February. The townhome project is still scheduled to start construction this Fall. Housing developments throughout the City are also still progressing.
Announcements for several new businesses who have signed leases along West Avenue are expected shortly and renovation of those spaces is underway.
In the upcoming days and weeks, we will continue to work with our community partners, businesses and you as we all struggle to find our new normal. Please follow us on social media and our website for daily updates and information.
What Can You Do to Help Our Community?
We are compiling a list of what we can do to help the missions of our non-profits. If you are a non-profit that has a need please contact Sherry Gordon at email@example.com. As we become aware of needs in our community, we will share them on our website and social media channels.
We hope you understand that we are taking these measures in order to prevent community spread and hopefully to flatten the curve of COVID-19. We thank you for your patience as we all work together to keep everyone healthy.
March 13, 4 p.m.
Following N.C. Governor Roy Cooper’s recommendations, we are emphasizing that you be cautious and use common sense in how you interact with each other to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. We are hopeful that the precautions we each take will help us save lives and prevent massive outbreaks of the virus.
Handwashing is critical. Self-quarantine if you have any symptoms particularly fever, shortness of breath and cough.
If you are over the age of 65 or have an underlying condition such as heart, liver, lung disease, diabetes or auto-immune diseases you should be vigilant in protecting your health.
We strongly discourage you from coming to City Hall if you are in the vulnerable category. Instead of paying your water and sewer bill in person you are welcome to use our automated phone system, pay online, use our drop boxes at City Hall (indoors and in the parking lot), or mail your utility bill payment. See this link for details – www.kannapolisnc.gov/utilitybilling
Beginning Monday, March 16 – the City will postpone or cancel all activities such as programs, special events and activities until April 14.
Postponed: Open House Celebration of the Atrium Health Ballpark, Rhythm and Run 5K, Spring it On Run, and Senior Day Trips. We will announce new dates for these events as soon as possible.
Cancelled: Daddy and Daughter Dance, Open Gym, Zumba, Cheer, Self-Defense Classes, Girls Who Code, dodgeball and all youth sports such as basketball and soccer.
The March and April City Council, Planning Board and Board of Adjustment meetings will continue as planned but social distancing guidelines will be followed.
All parks are open for your general use. We encourage you to stay healthy, Loop the Loop and enjoy the parks and greenways – however all rentals of shelters, and events planned in the parks are canceled until April 14. The train and carousel in Village Park will not open until April 14.
All rental of City facilities such as the Laureate Center, Train Station and Village Park Program Room, are cancelled as of Monday, March 16. If you have rented a city facility, please contact firstname.lastname@example.org to reschedule your event or activity. Deposits will be refunded upon request.
These best community health practices will remain in effect until April 14 when we will reassess.
March 12, 6 p.m.
Following N.C. Governor Roy Cooper’s mandates, we are emphasizing that you be cautious and use common sense in how you interact with each other to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. We are hopeful that the precautions we each take will help us save lives and prevent massive outbreaks of the virus.
Handwashing is critical. Self- quarantine if you have any symptoms particularly fever, shortness of breath and cough.
If you are over the age of 65 or have an underlying condition such as heart, liver, lung disease, diabetes or auto-immune diseases you should be vigilant in protecting your health.
The City will continue to provide all services such as garbage, recycling, water, and emergency services.
We do encourage you to call or email us if you have questions about city services at 704.920.4300 or email@example.com.
We strongly discourage you from coming to city hall if you are in the vulnerable category. You are welcome to use our automated phone system, pay online, drop box at City Hall, or mail your utility bill payment versus paying in person. See this link for details – www.kannapolisnc.gov/utilitybilling
Beginning on March 13 – the City will postpone or cancel all activities such as programs, special events and activities until April 14.
Postponed: Open House Celebration of the Atrium Health Ballpark), Rhythm and Run 5K. We will announce new dates for activities when appropriate.
Cancelled: Daddy and Daughter Dance, Open Gym, Zumba, Cheer, Self-Defense Classes, and all youth sports such as basketball.
All rental of city facilities such as the Laureate Center and Train Station, are cancelled. If you have rented a city facility, please contact firstname.lastname@example.org to reschedule your event or activity. We will refund your deposit if you do not wish to reschedule.
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The PUSD Education Foundation is governed by an independent volunteer board of directors comprised of business and community leaders, parents, and alumni. Directors are elected to three-year terms and may be re-elected. The foundation links community and alumni resources – time, money, services, and expertise – with the needs of our school to enhance and complement the educational mission of PUSD. The Foundation builds broad-based support for educational excellence, increases the visibility and value of our schools, and promotes the understanding that everyone in the community is responsible for creating a quality educational system.
We are passionate people inspired to help provide for the much needed resources that are not funded through local, state, or federal taxes.
How did PUSDEF start and why?
The Foundation was created as a result of the frustration in the lack of funding for public district schools in the State of Arizona. Prescott Unified School District was unable to pass a bond and override request to our school budget in 2013. As a result of this lack of perceived community support, a group of parents and community members got together to see what could be done privately by the people who did care about our district schools. A non-profit supporting PUSD was born in 2015.
What need is this organization fulfilling?
The need for support – financial and community. Arizona district schools operate on a slim, bare bones budget system. In order for our children, the future, to have an excellent educational experience and graduate from our high school prepared to contribute to our community, money is needed. Additionally, our teachers and staff deserve to be supported in the amazing work that they do and they deserve the ability to dream big in educating our children. The foundation gives them the ability to do so.
WHAT WE DO
- Enhance and enrich educational opportunities for all PUSD students.
- Support PUSD staff for innovative teaching efforts and recognize employees for exemplary performance.
- Involve the community in assuring a quality education for all PUSD students.
WHAT WE FUND
- Innovative Teaching Grants
- Innovative Programs that Support Instruction
- Recognition of Academic Achievement
- Recognition of Teaching Excellence
- College and Career Readiness
Our Success Depends on the Generosity of our Donors.
The funds raised by the PUSD Education Foundation come from people just like you who value strong public schools in our community.
The PUSD Education Foundation operates independently of PUSD, though we do share a vision of educational excellence, student achievement and teacher support. The Foundation is organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Foundation receives and disburses funds, property, and gifts of any kind exclusively for the benefit of Prescott Unified School District.
Nonprofit Tax ID # 47-3380485
PUSD District Office
300 E Gurley St.
Prescott, AZ 86301
928-445-5400 ext. 70136
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It is well known that the so-called transition period, from shortly before calving to shortly after calving, is of critical importance in dairy cows. This article looks at another critical period that is often neglected, but which can have a significant impact on the economy of a dairy, namely the period before breeding/AI.
The ideal is to get cows pregnant as soon as possible after calving. The body condition of the cows during the transition period has a significant influence on the readiness of the cows for breeding/AI. Body condition score, and disease related conditions such as retained placenta’s, uterine inflammation, mastitis, and metabolic diseases plays an important role in re-conception.
The trace mineral status of the cow before breeding/AI, plays a major role in the development of viable ova, oestrus, the successful release of ova, successful fertilisation and embryo survival. A cow loses about 30% of her trace mineral status during the birth process via the calf, amniotic fluid and placenta.
Several studies have shown that a trace mineral top-up supplement with MULTIMIN® before breeding/AI can help to optimise the trace mineral status of the cow to support the critical reproductive functions (Grace N, Knowles S. 2012; Moreira da Silva et al., 2010). Studies (Mitchell et al. 2008) show that MULTIMIN® supplementation improved conception percentage and also reduces the number of open days in cows, i.e. cows conceive earlier.
When we take a more in-depth look at each trace mineral's role in reproduction, we see the following:
Manganese (Mn) plays an important role in the production and regulation of sex hormones.
Zinc (Zn) plays an important role in the successful fertilisation of the ova and the development of the embryo, as zinc is essential in rapidly dividing cells.
Copper (Cu) is important in embryo survival, among other things. A shortage of copper can also delay or suppress the onset of the oestrus cycle.
Selenium (Se) is known as the "fertility” trace mineral. It plays an important role in the development of the ova, fertilisation, and embryo survival. Optimal levels of selenium, in conjunction with vitamin E, are important to prevent/reduce early embryonic losses (or resorption). Vitamin A, works synergistically with zinc. This is why we recommend giving a vitamin A and E supplement along with a good injectable trace mineral source, such as MULTIMIN®.
Chromium (Cr) has the ability to increase the number of viable oocytes and decrease subclinical metritis.
Trace minerals also promote the optimal functioning of the immune system. Trace minerals are essential to limit oxidative stress. Zn, Mn, Cu, as well as Se, play an important role in enzymes that counter the excessive production of reactive oxygen species (free radicals), which lead to oxidative stress (Sies H. 1997).
A healthy dairy cow's reproduction rate is obviously better!
Grace N, Knowles S. Lack of production response in grazing dairy cows supplemented with long-acting injectable vitamin B12. N Z Vet J. 2012;60(2):95-9
Moreira da Silva F, Marques A, Chaveiro A. Reactive Oxygen Species: A Double-Edged Sword in Reproduction. Open Vet Sci J. 2010, 4:127-33
Mitchell K, Smith W, Storch A, Michael N, Els J. Injectable trace elements increase reproduction efficiency in dairy cows. In: Schlegel P, Durosoy S, Jongbloed A, editors. Trace elements in animal production systems. Wageningen, The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers; 2008 p. 296-8
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NOTES OF THE SOCIETY
In accordance with Art. V, §2, of the Constitution of the
Society, the Executive Committee, thru the Corresponding
Secretary, reports the following actions taken by it since the last
annual meeting of the Society.
Pursuant to a vote of the Society (see Proceedings, in Journal,
40. 222), the Executive Committee took under consideration the
proposal contained in the report of the Committee on Co-opera-
tion with the other Oriental Societies (Journal, 40. 215-216) that
this Society co-operate with the other Oriental Societies in regard
to planning a General Dictionary of Buddhism and issuing an
appeal for aid in its preparation. The following resolution was
submitted to each member of the Committee by the Secretary and
was approved by four out of the five members (Professor Clay
being absent from the country and unable to respond), on or
before June 4, 1920.
'Whereas, the American Oriental Society, at its meeting held
in Ithaca, N. Y., on April 6 and 7, 1920, referred the report of the
Standing Committee on Co-operation with Other Oriental Socie-
ties to the Executive Committee with power to act upon the pro-
posal contained in the report that this Society co-operate with the
other Oriental Societies in regard to planning a General Diction-
ary of Buddhism and issuing an appeal for aid in its prepara-
The Executive Committee, on behalf of the American Oriental
Society, hereby gives the general approval of the Society to this
undertaking and authorizes its representative on the Committee
for planning the Dictionary to join in signing and circulating
the appeal that may be approved. '
Thereafter Professor James H. Woods, who is the representa-
tive of this Society on the joint Committee for planning the Dic-
tionary of Buddhism, on his return from the joint meeting of
Asiatic Societies held in Paris in July, 1920, submitted to the
Executive Committee the subjoined 'Projet de Circulaire' with
the request that this Society authorize its circulation in the same
manner as the French and the British Societies had already
agreed to do. This request was transmitted to each member of
the Committee by the Secretary, and the issuance of the circular
appeal was unanimously approved by them, on or before Sent 28
362 Notes of the Society
On Saturday, Oct. 23, a meeting of the Executive Committee
was held at Columbia University, New York City, all the members
being present. The minutes of actions already taken thru
correspondence votes (as stated above), were unanimously rati-
fied and approved.
A resolution, 'that the American Oriental Society extend to
the Asiatic Societies of England, France, and Italy an invitation
to hold a joint meeting in this country at the time of the annual
meeting of the American Society in 1921, or, if it seems prefer-
able, at some other time in that year, ' was referred to the decision
of the Board of Directors, in such manner as the President of the
Society might direct.
The matter of the investment of any uninvested capital belong-
ing to the Society having been referred to the Executive Commit-
tee by the Board of Directors, it was voted : ' That the investment
of such part of the funds of the Society as may seem wise shall be
referred to the Treasurer with power to act, after consultation
with and upon the advice of the Treasurer of Yale University.'
The affairs of the Committee on Preparation of a Statement
setting forth the Scope, Character, Aims, and Purposes of Orien-
tal Studies having been referred to the Executive Committee by
the Board of Directors, it was voted : 'That the President appoint
a committee from among the younger members of the Society to
prepare a statement setting forth the aims and the importance of
Oriental Studies, such committee to report to the Executive Com-
mittee at its next meeting. '
Charles J. Ogdbn,
PROJET DE CIRCULAIRE
La Federation des Societes Asiatiques (Amerique, Angleterre, France,
Italie), a pris 1 'initiative d'une publication qui grouperait dans un effort
commun des equipes nationales de savants orientaux et occidentaux. Elle a
entrepris la preparation d'un Dictionnaire GSnSral du Bouddhisme (doe-
trine, histoire, geographie sacree, etc.) fonde sur un depouillement direct des
sources (Sanscrit, pali, tibStain, ehinois, japanais, langues de l'Indochine et
de l'Asie Centrale) et elaborS par des specialistes locaux dans chacun des
pays de civilisation bouddhique, sous le contrSle d 'un ComitS de direction elu
par les Societes ffiderees.
Une pareille entreprise exige le concours d'un nombre considerable de
travailleurs qu'il est necessaire de retribuer, et elle comporte des le debut
des frais eleves de mise en oeuvre et de materiel. Le prix de revient total,
Notes of Other Societies 363
encore impossible a preciser, atteindra des centaines de milliers de francs.
Pour couvrir ces dispenses, les SociStes Federees sollicitent la generosite des
souscripteurs. En tant que religion, philosophie, litterature, art, le boud-
dhisme a jou6 dans le monde un role trop considerable pour qu'un homme
eultive' puisse s'y declarer indifferent.
Les souscriptions sont recues.
The Directors, at the Annual Meeting, authorized the Editors
to undertake the preparation of an Index of Volumes 21-40 of the
Journal. Prof. R. K. Yerkes has kindly consented to prepare
this Index, and it will appear in 1921, to be sold at cost. It will
be recalled that the Index to Volumes 1-20 was prepared by Mrs.
George F. Moore and appeared in Vol. 21.
The Annual Meeting of the Middle West Branch of the
Society will be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wis., February 25-26. Communications for the program should
be sent to the Secretary, Prof. A. T. Olmstead, 706 So. Goodwin
St., Urbana, 111.
NOTES OF OTHER SOCIETIES
A Joint Meeting of the Oriental Societies of France, Great
Britain, Italy and America was held in Paris, July 6-8. The
representatives of the American Society present were Drs. Clay,
Gottheil, Gray and Woods. The sessions were divided into two
sections, of Near Asia and Far Asia. M. Senart, President of
the French Society, gave a reception on Wednesday and there was
a dinner on Thursday. The following was the program :
M. B. Gottheil. Sur une nouvelle typographic orientale.
M. Goloubew. Sur 1 'organisation au Musee Guimet, d 'un depfit de cliches
archeologiques. — Communications de MM. Pelliot et Lartigue sur leurs ex-
peditions en Extreme-Orient. Projections.
Sir G. A. Grierson: Eeport on the Linguistic Survey of India.
M. Meillet: Sur le caractere des Gathas. •
Dr. H. B. Morse: The super cargo in the China trade, circa 1700.
M. Ccedes: Les origines de la dynastie de Sukhodaya.
M. A. T. Clay: The Amorite name Jerusalem.
Dr. Cowley: A Hittite word in Hebrew.
M. Chabot: Traces de 1 'influence juive dans les inscriptions palmyreni«
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Other states could learn from California; their maternal mortality rate is a third of the American average. Maternal mortality is defined as the death of a mother from pregnancy-related complications while pregnant or within 42 days of giving birth. Hemorrhage and preeclampsia (pregnancy-induced dangerously high blood pressure) are the two most common causes of maternal death. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 60 percent of these deaths are preventable.
It may come as a surprise to Americans that women who give birth in the U.S. have a greater risk of dying in childbirth compared to women in other rich nations. Rather than seeing improving statistics, the U.S. maternal mortality rate is increasing while other countries are making strides in making pregnancy and labor even safer. In fact, maternal mortality in the U.S. increased by 27 percent, from 19 per 100,000 to 24 per 100,000, between 2000 and 2014. During this time the global maternal mortality rate dropped by 44 percent worldwide between 1990 and 2015 and by 48 percent in developed countries. The U.S. was one of only 13 countries – including North Korea and Zimbabwe – that had its maternal death rate increase since 1990.
According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) the U.S. maternal mortality rate is more than three times the rate of the United Kingdom and about eight times the rates found in the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
Why do women bleed to death during delivery?
Placenta accreta is a condition that causes the placenta to grow out of control and then embeds to the uterine wall instead of being flushed out after birth. Doctors believe that the condition is usually caused by scarring from previous C-sections; this belief seems to be matched by the statistics. In the 1950s when C-sections were rare, the condition developed in only one in 30,000 deliveries in the U.S. Today the condition presents in one in 500 births, which seems to reflect the dramatic rice in C-section deliveries. The issue is that one in 14 American women with placenta accreta die, most often because of hemorrhaging too much blood. A mother can bleed to death in childbirth within five minutes.
What is California doing to decrease the maternal mortality rate?
Even as the maternal mortality rate has been increasing across the U.S., California is bucking the trend. Women giving birth in California have an advantage because of the hemorrhage guidelines created and implemented a decade ago by Dr. David Lagrew as part of Stanford’s California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC). CMQCC is a truly revolutionary initiative to make births safer for moms giving birth in California. As of 2013, there were 7.3 deaths per 100,000 in California, which matches the rates of other developed nations such as the U.K. and a third of the national rate.
Horrified after witnessing a woman die on the operating table from a hemorrhage caused by placenta accreta in 1984, Dr. Lagrew learned about the connection between C-sections and the condition. In 1989 when he was appointed medical director at Saddleback Hospital in Laguna Hills, he began to gather and present data on individual doctor’s C-section rates while educating them about the risks of unnecessary C-sections including complications like placenta accreta. His efforts paid off; C-section rates at Saddleback were reduced by half within five years. In addition to this initial outreach, he created a spot for newborn babies and a red “hemorrhage cart” in case a mother begins to bleed heavily after pregnancy. Adapted from the “code blue cart” used to treat cardiac arrest, the “hemorrhage cart” is filled with tools doctors and nurses need to manage a hemorrhage during or after childbirth. Lagrew has implemented his approach at the eight hospitals where he’s worked since and at hundreds more in the state through CMQCC.
There seems to be evidence that too many American mothers die in childbirth because women’s health is not valued like it should be. About half of U.S. states do not make a formal review of the causes of maternal death on a regular basis which is necessary to identify which deaths are preventable and how reduce or prevent those types of deaths from happening. The U.S. National Center for Health Statistics hasn’t even published an official maternal mortality rate since 2007.
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Tunxis Community College dental hygiene students in the student chapter of the American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD) have started “Recruit a Smile” an ongoing service project to provide free oral care to Tunxis student veterans.
Tunxis veterans can receive free preventive dental care, cleaning, fluoride and X-rays from Tunxis dental hygiene students, funded through donations and delivered by Tunxis dental hygiene students at the college’s clinic at UConn Health. They are also referred to area dentists who will provide restorative care for free or at a reduced cost.
“This will provide a system of oral care to an overlooked population, especially for dental care,” said Robin Knowles, Tunxis dental hygiene professor and AAPHD chapter advisor, who added that only service members who are 100 percent disabled are eligible to receive dental care from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
As part of the project, Tunxis student Amber Humphrey, co-president of the chapter, wrote and submitted a grant proposal to undertake research and received $2,500 from the American Association of Public Health Dentistry. The grant will be used to collect data from the student veterans on their experiences and barriers in accessing dental care, and their level of oral health knowledge and value. Humphrey, who resides in Plainville, will be recognized for her role in the project at the National Oral Health Conference in Memphis in April.
The newly formed chapter at Tunxis is the only community college chapter currently, and includes 15 dental hygiene students. All student chapters participate in service, education and research.
Other chapter service projects since September have included educating more than 120 athletes at the Connecticut Special Olympics Winter Games in Windsor, and hosting a continuing education program that provided hygienists and students with information on delivering dental care to patients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Five students will work this semester with psychiatric nurse practitioner Nancy Cabelus, DNP, to write a paper on treating dental patients with PTSD which will be submitted to a peer reviewed journal for publication.
The chapter is accepting donations for its “Recruit a Smile” project. Donations can be made online at tunxis.edu/donate by selecting “Recruit a Smile” under dental program donations. Checks can also be made payable to Tunxis Community College Foundation, with AAPHD chapter in the memo, and sent to TCC Foundation, 271 Scott Swamp Rd., Farmington, CT 06032.
Tunxis dental hygiene students have many opportunities to participate in community outreach projects on the local, national and international level, providing services to underserved populations including children, the elderly and those without dental insurance. The Tunxis dental hygiene program is unique in that students go to clinical sites in the community to treat a diverse range of patients rather than patients coming to campus. Accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation, Tunxis is the only public college in the state to provide a degree in dental hygiene.
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Bamboo building has actually typically been rather simple: Whole stalks are made use of to develop latticed buildings, or woven in strips to form wall-sized screens. The impact can be spectacular, as well as useful in parts of the world where bamboo flourishes.
Scientists in Gibson’s laboratory have actually gathered bamboo samples of different densities to evaluate bamboo’s microstructure. Credit: Jennifer Chu/MIT
However there are constraints to developing with bamboo. The durable yard is susceptible to pests, and structure with stalks– basically hollow cylinders– restricts the shape of individual structure elements, along with the sturdiness of the structure itself.
MIT researchers, together with designers and wood processors from England and Canada, are searching for methods to turn bamboo into a building product more comparable to wood composites, like plywood. The concept is that a stalk, or culm, can be sliced into smaller sized pieces, which can then be bonded together to form tough blocks– just like traditional wood composites. A structural item of this sort might be made use of to build more durable structures– especially in locations like China, India, and Brazil, where bamboo is plentiful.
Such bamboo items are presently being established by numerous business. The MIT task means to get a much better understanding of these products, so that bamboo can be better utilized structurally. To that end, MIT scientists have actually now assessed the microstructure of bamboo and discovered that the plant is more powerful and denser than North American softwoods like pine, fir, and spruce, making the turf an appealing resource for composite products.
“Bamboo grows thoroughly in areas where there are quickly establishing economies, so it’s an alternative structure product to concrete and steel,” states Lorna Gibson, the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “You most likely would not make a high-rise building from bamboo, however definitely smaller sized structures like homes and low-rise structures.”.
Gibson and her coworkers evaluated areas of bamboo from the within out, determining the stiffness of each area at the microscale. As it ends up, bamboo is densest near its external walls. The scientists utilized their information to establish a design that forecasts the strength of a provided area of bamboo.
The design might assist wood processors figure out the best ways to put together a specific bamboo item. As Gibson describes it, one area of bamboo might be preferable for an offered item than another: “If you desired a bamboo beam that flexes, perhaps you ‘d wish to put the denser product at the bottom and leading and the less thick bits towards the middle, as the tensions in the beam are bigger on top and bottom and smaller sized in the middle. We’re taking a look at how we may enhance the choice of bamboo products in the structure that you make.”.
Gibson and her associates have actually released their lead to the Journal of the Royal Society: Interface.
For their experiments, the scientists evaluated specimens of moso, the primary types of bamboo made use of in China. Like many types of bamboo, moso grows as hollow, cylindrical stalks, or culms, segmented by nodes along the length of a stalk.
“One of the excellent things is how quick bamboo grows,” Gibson notes. “If you grew a pine forest versus a bamboo forest, you would discover you can grow much more bamboo, and much faster.”.
Scientists utilized electron microscopy to get photos of the bamboo microstructure and produce full, microscale cross-sections of the whole culm wall at various heights along the stalk. The resulting images revealed density slopes of vascular packages– hollow vessels– that bring fluid up and down the stalk, surrounded by strong fibrous cells. The density of these packages enhances radially outside– a slope that appears to grow more noticable at greater positions along a stalk.
The scientists cut areas of bamboo from the within out, keeping in mind each sample’s longitudinal and radial position along a culm, then determined the stiffness and strength of the samples by carrying out flexing and compression tests. In certain, they carried out nanoindentation, which utilizes a small mechanical suggestion to lower on a sample, to acquire an understanding of bamboo’s product homes at a finer scale. From the outcomes of these mechanical tests, Gibson and her associates discovered that in basic, bamboo is stiffer and more powerful than many North American softwoods typically made use of in building, as well as denser.
This images reveals a vascular package. You can see it is comprised of the vessels (big dark holes, empty looking) and supporting fibers (rather dark extremely strong looking areas). The parenchyma (light round cells) surround the vascular package (vascular package describes the general clover shaped structure).
The scientists then utilized the stiffness and density information to produce a design that precisely anticipates the mechanical homes of bamboo as a function of position in the stalk. Gibson states wood processors that she deals with in Canada might utilize the design as an overview of put together long lasting bamboo blocks of different sizes and shapes.
Going ahead, the processors, in turn, will certainly send out the MIT group composite samples of bamboo to identify. For instance, an item might be processed to consist of bamboo in addition to other products to lower the density of the item and make it resistant to bugs. Such composite products, Gibson states, will certainly need to be comprehended at the microscale.
“We wish to take a look at the initial mechanical buildings of the bamboo culm, in addition to how processing impacts the item,” Gibson states. “Maybe there’s a method to decrease any results, and make use of bamboo in a more functional method.”.
Oliver Frith, acting director of program for the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, locateded in Beijing, states that few types of bamboo have actually been categorized, and the absence of understanding of the product’s microstructure has damaged efforts to design effective, optimum structural items.
“MIT’s work is really prompt and has excellent possible to support advancement of the sector,” states Frith, who was not associated with the research study. “While bamboo has resemblances to wood, as this research reveals, the product likewise has really unique buildings. Although existing methods to establishing structural crafted bamboo have actually had the tendency to concentrate on simulating crafted wood items, the future will most likely depend on innovating brand-new techniques that can much better boost the natural benefits of this special product.”.
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The Sanskrit passive-stem
Its sign is accented yd, added to the root. Since the root was
unaccented, its form was the weak one : bandh, badh-yd-te. The
grammars, in long succession, state that, before added ya, the root
undergoes changes: thus final r becomes ri; final i becomes i;
and so on.
These changes lose the aspect of irregularity, if we consider
that the ya of the passive, like the ya or iya of the gerundive, is
often dissyllabic, i-a, or (with the 'transition-semivowel' or
'disjunctive semivowel') iMa. Thus kr-iya-te becomes kr-iya-te;
ci-iya-te becomes ciyate. The a-roots (few in number, but of
frequent occurrence) weaken to *: pa, ply ate. Thus after the
powerful analogy of forms like piyate, ciyate, even roots in u
show m ; sru, sruyate.
To this it may be objected that 'the passive-sign is never
resolved into ia in the Veda.' So "Whitney, Grammar, 771g: cf.
Edgren, JA08 11, p. iv, Oct. 1878.— 'Is the passive ya ever
resolved into iaV Clearly, in view of the forms like mriyate,
hriyate, dhriyate, etc., it is no less a begging of the question to
answer this question with 'never,' than it is to say that these
forms prove that it is so resolved.
Accordingly let us look at the Prakrits and Pali. (See
Pischel's Prakrit Oram., § 535-; Geiger's Pali Gram., § 176.)
Here are found corresponding forms in abundance which show
the formative element ya as a true dissyllable : Prakrit, gamiodi,
gaccMadi, suniadi, jdniadi, sumariadi; Pali, sodhiyati (sodh-
yate), mdriyati, sariyati, and so on.
The gerundive (it may be added) is simply a verbal adjective.
Latin laudandus is properly 'laudable,' just as faciendus (and
facilis no less so) is simply 'do-able.' The Sanskrit gerundives
'formed with ya, tavya, and amy a,' are better treated all alike
as secondary verbal adjectives in ya (in the Veda often i-a: see
Edgren) or iya, from different primary verbal substantives : kar-
ya (kar-ia) from kara; kartav-ya from kartu; karan-iya from
karana. (Cf. Pischel, § 571; Geiger, § 199.)
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Benefits of Building Inspections
Regular building inspections can help you improve the lifespan of your home by uncovering hidden damages. Although some people argue against them, they can benefit you in several ways. After all, a good-looking apple can be rotten on the inside! Here are three reasons why regular building inspections are necessary. First, weigh the benefits against the costs. Here are four top reasons to hire a building inspector.
Building inspections are particularly important for private sales because the report will help you negotiate a higher price. If you’re planning to sell your home in the future, a building inspection can help you negotiate for a lower price. In addition, a building inspection report will show you any structural problems, which can save you thousands of dollars down the road. It also enables you to make a better decision regarding the home’s maintenance.
Building inspections can be beneficial to the seller and buyer. For example, if you sell your home, a building inspection can help you establish a strong negotiating position. In addition to ensuring the condition of your property, it can also give you confidence when marketing your property. As a result, it will help you avoid a lawsuit. You can also get a copy of the report to use when negotiating. After all, you’ll be more likely to get a lower price if you know about any major problems with the structure.
A building inspection is important to a buyer and seller. It allows you to identify significant issues before investing in a new home. It helps you determine the value of a property to negotiate with confidence. The inspection report will also help you protect yourself from legal problems if you fail to perform routine maintenance. Even though most homes have minor problems, you can use them to lower your asking price during negotiations. It’s best to have the building inspected as soon as possible, as many defects are hard to spot on your own.
Getting a building inspection is also helpful for sellers. The report can help them sell their property if it has significant defects. A building inspection report can provide buyers with peace of mind while considering purchasing. Furthermore, a building inspection will let them know if the home is safe. It’s a good idea to schedule your building inspection before starting the purchasing process – last-minute inspections can be a waste of time.
A building inspection can be helpful for both a buyer and a seller. A building inspector can help you sell a property more effectively. By conducting a thorough inspection, you can protect yourself from potential lawsuits. A credit report will help you sell your home more quickly. Further, the report will help you save money by helping you sell the property faster. If you’re selling your home, it’s best to get a building inspection from a professional.
A building inspection is beneficial for both the seller and the buyer if you’re selling a house. It will help you identify major defects before investing, allowing you to negotiate the price confidently. Besides, it can also protect your investment by giving you better bargaining power when you’re selling your home. The most important reason for getting a building inspection is because you’ll be able to save money.
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Hong Kong still needs America’s help
What’s next for Hong Kong? You can bet that China’s ruler, Xi Jinping, is forming an answer to that question.
The Chinese Communist Party is smarting from a temporary setback in the troublesome city that long has been a beacon of freedom and prosperity in Asia. Tensions are still simmering in the wake of this month’s peaceful protests, which brought more than 2 million protesters — at least a quarter of Hong Kong’s population —to the city’s streets. Facing public outrage, the city government suspended an extradition bill that would have given China power to ignore Hong Kong’s rule of law. Now pro-democracy leaders are calling for further protests during the G-20.
This isn’t the first time that massive protests derailed China’s plans to whittle away Hong Kong’s autonomy. In 2003, more than half a million people marched against a bill to crack down on free speech and freedom of association, forcing its withdrawal. In 2014, the so-called “Umbrella Movement” brought more than 100,000 people to the streets in opposition to Beijing’s attempts to dictate who could stand in the city’s elections. Those protests, which I witnessed, resulted in another loss for the pro-Beijing camp.
Yet no demonstration has defeated China’s will to dominate Hong Kong. When Beijing is forced to step back, it simply advances on other fronts.
In 2010, China forced through electoral reforms that increased its power, using vague — and since-broken — promises of greater freedom to win over skeptical lawmakers and citizens. In 2016, Beijing prevented pro-democracy candidates from running in elections. In 2017, it imprisoned some of the city’s leading activists. And numerous times in recent years, communist agents have kidnapped people in Hong Kong and taken them to mainland China.
This history guarantees that Beijing will try again. It’s telling that Hong Kong’s legislature only suspended the extradition bill, rather than withdrawing it, as happened after the 2003 protests. This means the city’s legislature can bring it back up at a moment’s notice and quickly adopt it. And despite the loss of public confidence, Carrie Lam, the city’s chief executive, refuses to resign. She has her job only because the Communist Party gave it to her. If the party’s leaders aren’t forcing her out, it means they still believe she can advance their agenda.
The leaders of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement are not naïve. They know their victory is incomplete. Our organization has spoken with many of them in recent days, and all of them express a similar sentiment: It’s only a matter of time before Beijing tries another approach. To a person, they also tell us that the free world isn’t doing enough to keep Hong Kong free. Sadly, they’re right.
For more than two decades, China’s rulers have undermined Hong Kong’s autonomy without facing a significant American response. Such silence cannot continue. The U.S. should use its special relationship with Hong Kong as leverage.
Since the U.S.-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992, our nation has given the city preferential trade, travel and economic treatment, based on the assumption that Hong Kong is separate from — and freer than — Communist China. Yet, in addition to undermining the city’s autonomy, Beijing is exploiting the preferential treatment given to Hong Kong to circumvent U.S. export controls, customs duties, sanctions, and to conduct influence and espionage operations. It also gives Beijing financial padding during the ongoing trade confrontation with the United States.
We must send a clear message to the Chinese Communist Party that Beijing’s abuse of Hong Kong will carry a high cost. Congress has advanced several bipartisan legislative initiatives to this end.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) have sponsored a bill amending the 1992 law to require the federal government to issue a report on China’s exploitation of U.S. laws. Leaders of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), and Congressional Victims of Communism Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) have introduced another worthy bill, the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. Among other measures, it requires annual certification of Hong Kong’s autonomy to justify the special treatment afforded to Hong Kong and for those responsible for human rights violations to be sanctioned.
The United States must act — soon. Hong Kong is to China what West Berlin was to the Soviet Union: proof that communism impoverishes and freedom enriches — economically, scientifically, artistically, spiritually. Like Taiwan, it represents a better path that is possible for the Chinese people, one that doesn’t involve Beijing’s tyranny.
Hong Kong, therefore, is a mortal threat to Xi Jinping and the Communist Party. China’s rulers will continue to squeeze Hong Kong, just as the Soviet Union tried to strangle Berlin. As we have heard from the city’s pro-democracy leaders, they fear the day is coming when Beijing does to them what it did to thousands of peaceful protesters in Tiananmen Square 30 years ago, and in the nationwide crackdown that followed.
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If we ask you which city is your favorite in the world and why, the answers will mostly be personal based on your own experiences, where irrespective of anything ones own hometown will always win.
This is actually quite tough to choose among so many cities in the world, where cities are full of various kinds of people with contradictory mindsets and distinctive urban features.
Time Out along with Tapestry Research surveyed thirty four thousand city dwellers all around the world for the Time Out Index Survey. These anonymous city dwellers were from Tokyo, Cape Town, Tel Aviv, Melbourne, Chicago and many other such metropolitan cities contributed in making this list of the best.
They were questioned about many things, like their community, food, drink, neighborhoods, affordability, convenience, and even overall happiness and other key factors also contributed in making this decision. These set of questions were further sent to the Time Out’s global network of editors who created this rankings of the world’s best cities 2019.
So, these are the top ten best cities in the world, where you should be right now.
1. New York
5. Los Angeles
Now, for the Indians this maybe a little disheartening that none of our city made it to the top ten but according to this recent study by Time Out, Mumbai and Delhi made it to rank 22nd and 37th respectively.
Delhi and Mumbai are even ahead of cities like Seattle, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Boston.
Yes, you read that right. Mumbai the land of dreams and Bollywood was recognized for being a sociable and a city of dynamic character. Delhi was declared as a city of ‘tight-knit kinship’ where it is also termed as a ‘gastronomy-packed Indian capital’.
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|While we've been relying heavily on Titans and colonial expansion, other nations have been developing weapons to counter us. As a result, our strategy has come to bite us on the ass.|
|— Commander Theo Magath deduces the origin of Anti-Titan artillery|
Anti-Titan artillery was created for the purpose of destroying Titans of all varieties with great efficiency. It fires 150mm shells, and the armor-piercing type of which has enough firepower to kill even the Nine Titans, such as the Armored Titan and Beast Titan, with a single shot. Besides killing Titans, the gun was also used in normal bombardment missions in which it fired fragmentation shells.
During the battle of Fort Slava, four anti-Titan artillery guns are mounted on an armored train surrounding the fortress, allowing for great mobility on the battlefield. However, the guns were more commonly mounted in field gun carriages. At least 28 guns in the latter configuration were deployed on the fort's wall, forming the main barrage ring of the Allies' defender.
Even when fitted on a field gun mount, the anti-Titan gun was very maneuverable, being able to turn about quickly by a crew of four to face threats behind it. For example, the guns managed to score a few hits against a fast-moving Armored Titan, and were able to react effectively against the mindless Titans landed inside the fort. However, it was not without its weakness. The gunners still have to land an accurate shot on the approximate area of the nape of the neck for an effective kill. The gun also has a limited degree of depression, as the field guns on the fort were unable to fire upon the Cart Titan and Jaw Titan who were outside the wall, but the standing Titans inside the fort were within range.
Although the gun was said to be a new weapon, its sizable number and different variants may suggest that the Allies mass-produced the gun in such quantity that it became the Allies' standard field artillery piece by the time of the battle.
Anti-Titan artillery makes its debut in the Marley Mid-East War during the battle of Fort Slava, where it is mounted on an armored train traveling along rails surrounding the perimeter of the fortress. The presence of the weapon prevents the use of the power of the Titans possessed by Marley, drastically reducing Marley's ground-based power. However, the armored train and its anti-Titan gun turrets are both rendered unusable when Warrior cadet Gabi Braun destroys its lead car with a bundle of grenades, allowing for Galliard to make use of his Jaw Titan power and directly attack the Mid-East Allied Forces' defenses.
After Titans are airdropped into the fort, the field guns remaining on the fort attempt to put them down, but are stopped by the Armored Titan. Although the Armored Titan succeeds in destroying all the guns by sweeping them apart with an armored train which it uses as a club, the damage it sustains alert him of the unprecedented lethality of the new weapon.
After the war ended, the Marleyan military was able to acquire the guns for their own usage. While inexperienced, they were able to use them to hinder the Attack Titan's movements against the War Hammer Titan before the guns became targets for the Scout Regiment and their re-purposed Thunder spears.
An anti-Titan artillery gun was airdropped alongside with Marleyean forces during the Paradis Island Surprise Attack, this time being mounted upon the back of the Cart Titan and being operated by Theo Magath and Koslow. The three were able to destroy the Attack Titan's motor skills, allowing time for the Armored Titan and the Jaw Titan to break free from the Attack Titan. Improved upon from Mid-East technology, the Marleyan anti-Titan gun was designed to destroy the Founding Titan and penetrate even through hardening.
As Zeke and Eren try to make their way to the other, Eren notices out of the corner of his eye that a tearful Gabi has picked up an anti-Titan rifle. Before anyone can react, she shoots a round into Eren's neck, decapitating him. | <urn:uuid:c8a7c042-390b-4086-ab19-7cfd0279e1ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Anti-Titan_Artillery_(Anime) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976988 | 884 | 2.515625 | 3 |
To the dismay of the mayor of Indianapolis, many local citizens, much of the arts community in Indiana and beyond and, most of all, artist James Wille Faust, on Monday night workers removed Faust’s site-specific work, Chrysalis, from its prominent spot over the main escalators at Indianapolis International Airport.
Chrysalis had been made for and installed in the airport’s new passenger terminal back in 2008, as part of the $4 million collection of permanent public art work that had been commissioned for the building from 17 artists and six poets.
But at IND airport, “permanent” doesn’t seem to mean what we thought. Faust’s work is to be replaced by what the airport calls an “innovative LED video wall … that will feature video-based artworks and commercial advertising.”
The video wall, to be installed in time for holiday travel, will be 22 feet wide and 7.5 feet tall and, in addition to advertising, will feature a video art series put together by curators from the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
According to a release from the airport, in its first year, the On Screen art program will feature Perm Press: The American Cycle (2011), a video by Indianapolis-based artist Artur Silva that runs about a minute and includes images of Abraham Lincoln and other American icons. A project by New York-based Nina Katchadourian called Seat Assignment (2011) will follow.
In a statement, airport authority CEO John Clark said the removal of Chrysalis and the installment of the video wall was a decision made in part “to remain competitive and support our goal of being the airport system of choice.”
But many local residents, including Indianapolis mayor Greg Ballard, were disappointed in the decision.
“Mayor Ballard has long believed and publicly stated that visitors to our city should be welcomed by a high profile display of public art,” said Mark Lotter of the mayor’s office.
Faust also issued a statement that said in part, “We believe this defiant and perceived underhanded action speaks for itself.” | <urn:uuid:13214533-47c9-4c23-828f-ad7a886a8fb4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stuckattheairport.com/2011/11/30/indianapolis-international-airport-removes-%E2%80%98permanent%E2%80%99-artwork/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959505 | 442 | 1.695313 | 2 |
I have found the Federated Search option really useful, this is what I love.Helen Barber, Past Head of Learning Resources & Information Literacy
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Established in 1985, Immanuel College is a Christian co-educational day and boarding school catering for students from Years 7 to 12.
The Resource Centre is a multi-function facility which is widely used as a learning centre for class groups, individuals, and collaborative group meetings (e.g. debating). It also acts as a leisure centre for the school, with students and staff making use of the games resources, extensive fiction collection and magazines.
Displays encourage students to read and use the centre and the staff are available to help with resource selection and search.
The Resource Centre integrates with the state of the art program in Senior School which utilises the latest technologies in a learning context. It also integrates with the MYP.
They also have a wide range of digital resources including:
Helen Barber, Past Head of Learning Resources & Information Literacy, said digitisation potential and the importance of integration with Web 2 were the key factors that made them change to Oliver v5 in 2014.
In choosing a new Library system, it was important that it was web-based with cloud backup, accessible from anywhere, linked to mobile devices and had the capacity to integrate easily with Immanuel College’s growing collection of digital resources.
“Our previous system was functional but didn’t have the necessary elements to cope in a modern school library environment. We needed a system which could create a one stop shop for all of our resources including our digital and video resources."
Immanuel College was also looking for a system that was attractive and interactive for students and staff, that would integrate with their college management system, and that worked with RFID as they were just about to introduce self-service kiosks.
Oliver v5 was able to tick all of Immanuel College’s functional requirements and more.
Product support and ongoing development was also important for the College.
“The fact that Softlink has an Australian base, that the company representative was helpful and supportive and that NSW schools have gone on to the system consolidated our decision to move to Softlink and Oliver v5."
The benefits of Oliver v5 were realised quickly by the library staff and students.
“The search capability has greatly improved. The home page with the College logo looks great. The ability to customise with links, reading lists, information and so on have really helped to promote the library and its resources."
Immanuel College is also happy with the range of functionality available in Oliver v5.
“We wanted to be able to catalogue archived materials including documents and photos, the opportunity to catalogue more than library and book hire has been very beneficial."
Immanuel College are also making the most of their Oliver v5 Federated Search.
“I have found the Federated Search option really useful, this is what I love."
Helen said that the implementation of Oliver v5 was a seamless process, with the assistance of Softlink staff and a supportive College IT Manager.
“Use of the systems is straightforward and fairly intuitive. I think that the benefits are truly just beginning as we think of creative ways of utilising the system." | <urn:uuid:da7cee7f-57e2-476e-b58d-4a74b0df46b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.softlinkint.com/case-study/immanuel-college-case-study/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966609 | 727 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Bank transfers have different names in different countries. It can be called a wire transfer, ACH and many other names. The process usually involves receiving casino bank details that can be used by players. They then use these details to make a payment to the online casino through their online banking.
The same can be said for making a withdrawal. Bank transfer is simple and is overseen by financial institutions so it is also safe. Privacy is also an important part of making a bank transfer. There is no need to sign up online for e-wallets and other payment methods which use the client's personal data. | <urn:uuid:5750e28d-e49f-4c9c-9dd2-02cd0f3d44cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://livecasinorank.co.za/withdrawal-methods/bank-transfer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.969692 | 121 | 2.125 | 2 |
Baby bibs, mats and blankets tested by scientists with NAFTA’s environmental arm contain toxic chemicals linked to higher rates of cancer, infertility and suppressed immune systems — substances already banned from most other products in Canada.
Muhannad Malas, the toxics program manager at Environmental Defence, says the Commission for Environmental Co-operation study shows it’s time to do away with the federal exemptions that allow the use of such chemicals in clothes and other textiles.
The chemicals, known broadly as PFAS, are synthetic substances created in the 1950s and used for a number of purposes in consumer and industrial products, including fire resistance, non-stick surfaces and in stain and water-resistant fabrics.
The study, which looked at products in Canada, Mexico and the United States, found the chemicals present in 86 per cent of the tested baby bibs, blankets, outdoor jackets, children’s snowsuits, winter gloves, cycling clothing, waterproof pants and weightlifting gloves available north of the border.
Malas says many of the products are billed as being BPA-free, lead-free or made of organic materials, making them seem safe without providing consumers with all the information needed to make an informed decision.
He says he wants Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, whose department is reviewing the federal legislation that governs toxic chemicals, to either ban the substances from clothing or require more detailed labelling to better inform consumers.
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Guolin Ma, PhD, research assistant professor with the Center for Translational Cancer Research at the…
Research finds that a common protein may help “fine tune” inflammation following a heart attack—and determine how well the patient will do
An American has a heart attack about every 40 seconds. Many factors contribute to how well a patient does after a heart attack, or myocardial infarction, to use the technical term. The two biggest factors are the size of the initial infarction (the obstruction of the blood supply) and the efficiency of the recovery process.
One way to improve the recovery process might be to fine-tune inflammation after a heart attack, and researchers at the Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology uncovered a potential new approach in the journal Circulation. There are possible ways to improve recovery, and those are exciting because they significantly reduce heart attack patient mortality and the associated severe complications, such as arrhythmia and aneurysm, and make the healing process of the injured heart smoother.
“After a heart attack, there is a massive inflammatory response, which is a double-edged sword,” said Jiang Chang, MD, PhD, professor at the Institute of Biosciences and Technology Center for Translational Cancer Research and corresponding author of the paper. “The body built this inflammatory response to rescue tissue and repair injury, but many times, it is greater than it should be and actually causes harm. Balancing the inflammatory response is the key—and the challenge.”
Chang’s approach involves a protein called RhoE, which might be able to fine tune that response. Using an animal model that doesn’t have any RhoE, he and his team were able to show that lack of this protein causes an intense inflammatory response and poorer heart function.
In fact, the researchers created a patient-oriented model to test whether reducing RhoE could mimic what happens in patients with a poor prognosis after a heart attack and found that it could. This is likely due to the excessive inflammation, which leads to larger infarctions, decreased contractility of heart muscle and increased risk of death.
“This is a new biomarker that can help predict the patient’s outcome, but perhaps more importantly, it is also a potential new therapeutic target,” Chang said. “We hope to be able to finish these preclinical studies in the next four years, and then we may be able to move potential new drugs targeting RhoE into clinical trials.”
This research was supported, in part, by the National Institutes of Health through grants NIH-NHLBI R01HL102314, R01HL123953 and R01HL141215. Drs. Yuan Dai, Jiangping Song and Wenjiao Li are the co-lead authors of the study.
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MINSK, 9 June (BelTA) - The European Union is the one to be blamed for growing food costs in the world, Russian economist Vasily Koltashov, the head of the New Society Institute, said on the air of the Belarus 1 TV channel, BelTA has learned.
"The World Bank's forecast for surging prices for oil, energy, fertilizers, food, in fact for everything, has come true earlier than expected. The increase is 50% on average," Vasily Koltashov said.
According to him, this is a catastrophe and it is looming over many countries. "It is the West that plays a decisive role in this catastrophe. It is the one to be blamed for it. The European Union is to be blamed for the spiraling food prices in the world. Because the European Union is generating the price hike," the expert said. “How? By its policy of sanctions that creates chaos: transport chaos, a shortage of goods, and then a rise in prices. This price increase spills over into the international market. The weakening of the European currency against the dollar also contributes to it. "
"The Eurocracy, the Brussels bureaucracy, which is hated by peoples of Europe - the French, the Hungarians, the Poles, even the Dutch and the Danes, not to mention the Greeks and the Spaniards – are generating a price hike and very high inflation in the European Union which leads to the world food shortages and high costs," Vasily Koltashov stated. | <urn:uuid:2b445c51-b1ed-48fa-8f08-1813e0f07e24> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eng.belta.by/politics/view/european-union-blamed-for-surge-in-food-prices-150877-2022/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961015 | 312 | 2 | 2 |
Geeks, who have been around for long enough, remember their first hard-drives. Some remember their first gigabyte, others remember forty megabytes while even some remember luggage-sized 5 meg drives. It continually shocks us when newer and smaller storage is made available, and we get all giggly when it happens.
No exception, these little drives are the smallest we’ve ever seen. Barely bigger than the tip of your pinky, and less than 4mm thick, it’s positively small.
Available in capacities of 1GB to 16GB, this mini-size model measures just 12mm by 29.5mm, and is 6.5mm thick. The USB connector swivels out from the nickel-clad device for easy hookups, and tucks away for safe-keeping. A ring loop lets you attach the device to a key ring or lanyard.
Physically, the Lexar JumpDrive FireFly is the smallest drive in Lexar’s USB lineup. Each of its four colors corresponds to a capacity: 2GB (black), 4GB (white), 8GB (charcoal), and 16GB (red). The drive has a slide-off plastic top that might be tough to keep track of, but this top does have a small loop through which you can hook a lanyard.
Verbatim’s mini drives live up to their name, with a candy-colored plastic enclosure around the USB connector. Each drive measures 12.7mm by 30.2mm and is just 1.5mm thick. The drives are available in four colors, each matching a different capacity: black for 16GB, purple for 8GB, green for 4GB, and orange for 2GB. The lanyard hold is plastic, and the drive includes a key-ring loop.
Similar in size and form to the Verbatim Tuff ‘n’ Tiny, the Pico is billed as water-resistant, too. This capless model comes in chrome, gold-plated, and nickel-plated varietals, in capacities from 2GB to 32GB.
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Anton Kazimirovich Suschkevich
BiographyFirst let us note that Anton Kazimirovich Suschkevich's family name is transliterated in several different ways. These include Sushkevich, Suskevic, and Suschkewitsch, in addition to the form Suschkevich that we shall use throughout this biography. His father, Kazimir Suschkevich, was a railway engineer. This seems to have been of sufficiently high status that the family were quite well-off and certainly able to afford a top quality education for their son. As he was growing up, Suschkevich had two passions, one being mathematics and the other being music. Of course, this was not unusual for many top mathematicians struggled to choose between mathematics and music in their youth. Those like Suschkevich who chose mathematics almost all continued their interest in music throughout their lives. At age seventeen, when he had completed his schooling in Russia, Suschkevich still wanted to keep both his interest in mathematics and his interest in music open. He went to Berlin in 1906 and there he studied mathematics at the University of Berlin while, at the same time, he studied the cello at the Stern Conservatory in that city. This famous music school had been founded by Julius Stern (1820-1883) in 1850 and when Suschkevich studied there it was located in the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall on Bernburger Strasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg. In fact he was highly proficient in two instruments, both the cello and the piano.
At the University of Berlin, Suschkevich had many talented teachers. He attended lectures by Georg Frobenius, Issai Schur and Hermann Schwarz. For example, he attended the two courses Differential calculus and Integral calculus by Hermann Schwarz, Number theory by Frobenius, and Algebra by Schur. After two years studying at both the University and at the Stern Conservatory, he made the decision that he would concentrate on mathematics. He finished his studies at the Conservatory in 1908 but continued studying at the University until 1911. Examples of courses he attended at this stage in his career are: Determinants, by Frobenius in the summer of 1908; Algebra I and Algebra II by Frobenius in 1908-09; Ordinary differential equations, by Schur in the summer of 1909; Chebyshev's Theorem, by Frobenius in November 1909; Bernoulli numbers by Frobenius in the summer of 1910, and Matrices, by Frobenius in the winter of 1910-11. He also studied applied mathematics courses by Max Planck: General mechanics, in the winter 1909-1910, Mechanics of deformable bodies, in the summer of 1910, Theory of electricity and magnetism, in the winter of 1910-1911, and Theory of optics, in the summer of 1911. We should note two things of particular importance to Suschkevich's future mathematical studies from this time in Berlin. One was the lectures by Frobenius whose approach, putting groups in an abstract setting yet not seeing abstraction as an end in itself, had a large influence on Suschkevich. Frobenius took this approach because he felt that it led to greater clarity and precision. The second thing to note from Suschkevich's time in Berlin is his meeting with Emmy Noether. After Suschkevich returned to Russia, he continued to correspond with Emmy Noether for many years.
After graduating from the University of Berlin in 1911, Suschkevich returned to Russia. Of course he had experienced a top quality education in Berlin but at this time foreign qualifications were not recognised in Russia so Suschkevich had to take a Russian degree. He studied at St Petersburg University, graduating in 1913. He had planned to return to Germany to study further but, in the summer of 1914, international tensions grew considerably following the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand by a Bosnian Serb. By the end of July Russia was mobilising its forces and by August 1914 Russia and Germany were at war, ending Suschkevich's hopes of returning to Germany. Instead he went to Kharkov (now Kharkiv) in the Ukraine where he began teaching in secondary schools. However, he had not given up on his aim of becoming a university professor and so, in parallel with his work as a mathematics teacher, he studied for his Master's Degree (equivalent to a Ph.D.). He submitted his dissertation to Kharkov University in 1917 and was awarded the degree. However, the Russian Revolution made the following years extremely difficult. Ukraine declared itself an independent state in January 1918 but an agreement between the Bolshevik government and Germany saw German troops occupy Ukraine. The Bolsheviks established Kharkov as the capital of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic in 1919 while Kiev was the capital for those trying to establish an independent Ukraine. Suschkevich began teaching at Kharkov University in 1918 and, at the same time, he began working towards his doctorate (comparable in level with the D.Sc. or habilitation). He writes in that dissertation :-
My research in this subject started in 1918 and, consequently, took place in very difficult times, often interrupted for longer or shorter periods of time for reasons beyond my control.In 1921 Suschkevich went to Voronezh, in western Russia, where he began teaching at the university. This city was the main town of the district in which his hometown of Borisoglebsk was situated (about 200 km away). Voronezh University had been founded three years earlier by staff and students from the University of Tartu who had left following the German occupation of Estonia. Suschkevich submitted his 80-page dissertation Theory of operations as the general theory of groups (Russian) to Voronezh University in 1922. It was not examined until 1926 when it was approved by Sergei Bernstein and Otto Yulyevich Schmidt. The dissertation contained a remarkable study of semigroups and other generalisations of groups which is described in detail in . The Introduction reviews the axiomatic approach to group theory and generalisations up to 1914. The outbreak of World War I in that year prevented him having access to any books and papers written after that date. He discusses the work of William Burnside, Leonard E Dickson, Walther von Dyck, Georg Frobenius, Otto Hölder, Edward Huntington, Leopold Kronecker, George A Miller, Eliakim H Moore, Eugen Netto, James Pierpont, J-A de Séguier (1862-1937), Heinrich Weber and Alfred Young. The dissertation contains a wealth of results in the theory of semigroups and quasigroups. We refer the reader to for a detailed discussion of the contents but we give one example of the remarkable nature of these contributions. This is in Chapter 6 entitled 'Non-uniquely invertible groups' which is devoted to the study of semigroups. In this Chapter there is an excellent contribution to the major structure theorem for algebraic semigroup theory which today is known as the Rees Theorem (named after David Rees) which classifies completely 0-simple semigroups. The authors of explain that:-
... the content of this dissertation [is] surprisingly rich both in results and ideas. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was ahead of its time by 30-40 years. It contains ideas and results in the theory of semigroups, the theory of quasigroups and the theory of groupoids which have been fully appreciated and developed only in the post war years. Many of these results were rediscovered and only rarely the authors of such results noticed that they had a predecessor - A K Suschkevich. Of course, the reason for it is that it rarely occurred to anyone that in the twenties and thirties, results so near to the spirit of the modern theory of semigroups could be published.While at Voronezh University, Suschkevich began publishing in a number of areas. For example he published On a theorem of Weierstrass (Russian) (1923) on analysis, On methods of teaching mathematics in secondary school (Russian) (1926) on mathematical education, Über die Darstellung der eindeutig nicht umkehrbaren Gruppen mittelst der verallgemeinerten Substitutionen (1926) and Sur quelques cas des groupes finis sans la loi de l'inversion univoque (1927) on groups, and he produced the set of lithographed lecture notes Theory of definite integrals (Russian) (1929). In 1928 he published the 20-page paper Über die endlichen Gruppen ohne das Gesetz der eindeutigen Umkehrbarkeit in Mathematische Annalen. Christopher Hollings writes :-
Early on in their study, semigroups tended to be approached from one of two different directions: either by the dropping of selected axioms from a group, or by dropping an entire operation (namely, addition) from a ring. Judging by the introduction to his 1928 paper, Suschkevich's approach seems to have been the latter: he states his goal as being the development of an abstract theory for certain types of finite semigroups which was analogous to that given by Wedderburn (1907) for linear algebras. However, his set-up was very much 'group-axiomatic' in spirit; he drew upon the notation of his erstwhile lecturer Frobenius (1895). Suschkevich defined his objects of study to be finite 'groups' in which the elements do not necessarily have unique inverses: the 'endliche Gruppen ohne das Gesetz der eindeutigen Umkehrbarkeit' of his title. Suschkevich's own rendering into English of 'das Gesetz der eindeutigen Umkehrbarkeit' was 'the rule of uniform reversibility'. In modern terminology, this rule is simply cancellativity: if either ac = bc or ca = cb, then a = b.In 1929 Suschkevich returned to Kharkov where he taught at the University as well as being appointed to the recently founded Ukrainian Mathematics and Mechanics Research Institute. In the same year he was appointed as a professor in the Kharkov Geodetic Institute. In 1933 he was appointed to the chair of algebra and number theory at Kharkov University. Despite the brilliance of his contributions and the remarkable development of an area many years before others realised its importance, still Suschkevich made an unfortunate error. This was in a paper he published in 1935 with the title On the extension of a semigroup to a whole group (Russian). In this paper he claimed to have proved that every cancellative semigroup can be embedded in a group. Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh wrote a review of the paper in which he pointed out several gaps in the proof that Suschkevich presented. In a response, Suschkevich claimed that the gaps could be easily filled and included the "theorem" in his wonderful monograph Theory of generalised groups (Russian) (1937). Anatoly Ivanovich Malcev seemed to have proved beyond doubt that Suschkevich's result was wrong when he produced an example of a cancellative semigroup which could not be embedded in a group. At first Suschkevich seemed reluctant to accept his mistake but eventually did so and removed any reference to his 1935 paper from his publication list.
We must not let this episode in any way diminish the credit that is due to Suschkevich. Other factors meant that Theory of generalised groups (Russian) failed to have the impact on the development of semigroup theory that it might otherwise have done :-
... this book is not readily available today, as there are very few copies remaining; the majority of copies were held in Kharkov, a city which changed hands several times during the Second World War, and which suffered greatly as a consequence. The unavailability of his book certainly has not helped the dissemination of Suschkevich's work.Suschkevich's contributions to mathematics extend to many other significant works in a variety of different areas. His textbook Foundations of higher algebra was published first in Russian in 1923, then in Ukrainian in 1931. Several later editions of the work in both Russian and Ukrainian appeared. Another textbook which ran to several editions in both Russian and Ukrainian was Number theory first published in 1932. He wrote several important works on the history of mathematics and also lectured on the topic. For example he produced copies of his lectures on the history of mathematics as Short Course of the History of Mathematics (Russian) (1939) and published the 214-page paper Materials for the history of algebra in Russia in the 19th century and early 20th century (Russian) (1951). He was honoured for his contributions to the history of mathematics by the Soviet Association of Science Historians who awarded him their Euler Medal in 1957. Let us mention a few of his later papers (all in Russian): Investigations on infinite substitutions (1940); On the construction of some types of groups of infinite matrices (1948); On a type of algebras of infinite matrices (1949); On an infinite algebra of triangular matrices (1950); and An algebra defined as an infinite direct sum of rings (1952).
The authors of note that:-
Anton Kazimirovich Suschkevich was an excellent lecturer who attracted many young people to this work in the field of algebra. His students work in many universities.In the obituary it is noted that:-
Despite suffering a serious illness, Anton Kazimirovich did not stop his usual duties in the last months of his life, having students come to his house. Aware that he did not have long to live, he hurried to complete the new edition of his book on number theory to which he attached great importance. Anton Kazimirovich failed to finish the task, but his intentions were known to the disciples of the deceased and the work will be completed by them. The Kharkov Mathematical Society mourns the death of leading member who has always been a sensitive friend, a great teacher and a great educator of youth.Finally, we note that Suschkevich was honoured at the '7th International Algebraic Conference in Ukraine' held in August 2009 in Kharkov which was "dedicated to the 120th anniversary of Professor Anton Kazimirovich Suschkevich".
- Anton Kazimirovich Suschkewitsch: obituary (Russian), Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 17 (2) (104) (1962), 165.
- L M Gluskin and E S Lyapin, Anton Kazimirovic Suskevic (on his seventieth birthday) (Russian), Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 14 (1959), 255-260.
- L M Gluskin and B M Schein, The theory of operations as the general theory of groups (Anton Suskevic, dissertation, Voronezh, 1922): an historical review, Semigroup Forum 4 (1972), 367-371.
- C Hollins, Anton Kazimirovich Suschkewitsch (1889-1961), Bull. British Soc. Hist. Math. 24 (3) (2009), 172-179.
- Yu I Lyubich and E M Zhmud, Anton Kazimirovich Suschkewitsch, Kharkov State University Newspaper (April 1989).
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Guest post by Dr. John Bratton the author of Work and Organisational Behaviour, published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan.
Income inequality has grown in Britain since the early 1990s. Research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies found that wages were 1 per cent lower in real terms in late 2014 than in the same period in 2001. Between 2011 and 2013, the disposable income of the richest 20 per cent of households grew by an average of £940, while the disposable income of all the other groups fell by around £250, with the poorest 20 per cent of households experiencing the biggest fall of £381. Less disposable income means less money going into retail and other SME’s. Economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that we are paying a high price for our inequality – an economy that is less stable, less efficient, with less growth.
It’s in this context that we should welcome the news reported last month that the target for having 150 firms across Scotland all paying employees a Living Wage had been reached earlier than expected. In the report, Peter Kelly, director of the Poverty Alliance, was quoted, “All those who have become accredited Living Wage employers over the last year understand the benefits that it brings.” Inequality affects peoples’ health, education and quality of life, but it also negatively affects, workplace productivity, business effectiveness and competitiveness.
Writing in the Guardian recently, economist Paul Ormerod provides a counter narrative to the dominant view that more and more cheap labour promotes economic growth. Instead, he argues that the most important source of sustained growth is innovation. To compete Scotland must rely on innovation – the process that bestows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Innovation can improve existing products, services and also enable firms to do things totally different. As the late Steve Jobs CEO of Apple Inc, observed, ‘Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have … It’s about the people you have, how you’re led.’ UK managers have a low propensity to innovate, they underinvest in both people and technology. Here we get to the nub of the problem, low pay discourages investment in machinery and employees and consequently drains the human energy for innovation.
Studies show that in workplaces characterized by pay satisfaction, high levels of autonomy, engagement in decision-making are more creative, more productive and employees are less likely to leave their employer and more likely to be open to change.
Researchers at Strathclyde Business School provide evidence that high-quality employees and good employment relations matter. The study – Innovating Works… – shows that workplace innovation is grounded in continuous learning, reflexivity and improvement and involves employees at all levels. Innovation is predicated upon high-trust workplace relations, high-quality jobs, improved employment terms and employee engagement thereby increasing innovative capability, productivity and business effectiveness and competitiveness. If all employment legislation is devolved to Holyrood, we can build an ecosystem that makes the business case for paying the `Living Wage and encourages innovation and investment alongside workplace democracy to faster grow our economy. | <urn:uuid:94a79b42-913b-4da1-9938-f54736b9482d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.businessforscotland.com/a-living-wage-can-drive-workplace-innovation-in-scotland/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951682 | 636 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Finals are just around the corner and with the onslaught of tests, projects and papers comes stress. But it might not be too late to turn that GPA around, without pulling an all-nighter. In a new study released in USA Today by Purdue University, researchers found that visiting the gym is correlated with a higher GPA.
The study found those who worked out four times a week have an average GPA of 3.2, compared to an average of 3.1 for those don't work out. Elon's Department chair of Health and Human Performances Resa Walch agrees.
"There is a lot of research around the cognitive benefits of exercise... there are a lot of things triggered in a body when a person is physically fit or when they reach their target heart rate. Some of those things that are triggered are certainly related to the brain, recall, following things from short-term memory to long-term memory."
Elon Senior and group exercise instructor Bridget Creel says working out keeps her active and gives her a sense of purpose.
"On days I don't exercise are days that I am lazy, essentially days that I don't feel like doing anything and that goes with homework," said Creel. "I never regret a workout. No one walks out of the gym and goes: darn I'm really sad that I just did that."
Ginette Archinal, Elon's Medical Director of Student Health, says exercising is key to an overall improvement of your health.
"We know if you exercise regularly, you sleep better, we know your mood is better," said Archinal. "It improves your energy, your sense of well-being and therefore your ability to focus on everything that's important in life."
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Looking around, it sometimes seems like COVID-19 restrictions aren’t being adhered to like they were a year ago. In the UK, for example, there have been frequent reports of people not following lockdown rules, with sharp rises in the number of penalties issued to rule-breakers in recent months. But is it really the case that people are taking things less seriously?
Last spring, I wrote about how movement data gathered from Google devices might indicate how lockdown compliance had changed over time. With this same dataset, we can now compare different periods of restrictions to get a rough indication of whether adherence is lower now than before.
Of course, this approach is limited. Not everyone uses a Google device, and tracking mobile devices doesn’t definitively show what people’s movements have been. Greater movement also doesn’t necessarily mean people have been breaking the rules. This method provides is a suggestion of how behaviors and attitudes have changed, rather than concrete proof.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Google has been releasing mobility data gathered from devices using its software (such as Android and Google Maps). Places people visit are broken down into six categories: homes, workplaces, parks, public transport stations, grocery shops and pharmacies, and retail and recreational locations.
For over 200 countries and territories, Google then aggregates visits to each of these location types and compares this to a baseline: January 3 to February 6 2020. As no special events happened during this period, subsequent deviation from the baseline (apart from seasonal trends, like people going to the beach in the summer or shopping before Christmas) can be interpreted as people’s collective response to the pandemic and restrictions.
Using this data, I’ve then compared behaviors in several European countries between mid-February 2020 and late February 2021. As suspected, it appears people haven’t responded as strongly to restrictions in the second wave.
This first graph shows how much time people have spent at home during the pandemic. In most countries, people appear to have stayed at home substantially less during the second wave (late 2020 onwards) than they did in the first (spring 2020). This is especially striking considering case rates have been higher and the weather less inviting in the second wave.
However, not all countries’ measures were as stringent across both waves. Italy, for example, entered a nationwide lockdown in March 2020, shutting all schools and non-essential industry. But when cases rose again in the autumn, it introduced a tiered lockdown system that still allowed some parts of the country certain freedoms. Only now is it moving back to something resembling a full lockdown.
So to make sure that we’re looking at differences in compliance and not in the restrictions themselves, let’s focus on countries whose control measures were similarly restrictive across the first and second waves. The Reuters COVID-19 Tracker suggests that the UK, Denmark, Greece and Ireland fall into this category. Sweden, consistently having very few legally binding restrictions, is added for comparison.
As cases rose last autumn, lockdowns were introduced in the UK, Greece and Ireland. You can see the clear effects of these, with time at home rising sharply in these countries in late October-early November. However, as the Reuters data shows, these countries’ autumn lockdowns tended to be less strict than those seen previously. Schools, for example, tended to be left open. This may explain why stay-at-home rates were lower in autumn 2020 than in spring.
However, after some loosening around Christmas, lockdowns tightened. By January 2021, the strength of measures in these countries was very similar to spring 2020. Yet, time spent at home was still much lower.
In some countries restrictions have actually been stronger this time round. In Greece, for example, a curfew was imposed in the second wave, unlike the first. Still, the data suggests that in February 2021 Greeks spent only about 10% more time at home compared to last February when there were no measures at all.
Among the countries depicted, only Denmark witnessed a peak in stay-at-home hours in the second wave that’s comparable to that in the first. Note that its restrictions intensified later than the other countries, which explains its stay-at-home rate remaining low in November-December 2020.
Altogether, we can perhaps consider these trends a sign of adaptation and fatigue, that nine months into the pandemic, people had got used to bad news and were tired of staying at home. However, what people have been doing when not at home has varied from country to country. Take, for instance, grocery shopping.
In Greece, the data suggests people have been visiting grocery stores a lot in 2021, at times even more than in the pre-pandemic benchmark period. In the UK, Denmark and Ireland people have responded to this year’s restrictions by shopping less, though shop visits have crept up over time.
In these latter three countries, this is perhaps another sign of fatigue, or maybe a response to perceived risk, given that cases fell and vaccine coverage rose in all three over this period (especially in the UK). Of these three, only Denmark appears to have matched its shopping behaviors seen in the first wave.
Finally, let’s look at visits to workplaces. Tougher restrictions after Christmas seem to have reduced the time spent at workplaces, though not as much as in spring 2020.
Note, though, that workplace attendance hasn’t crept up in 2021 in the same way as grocery shopping, particularly in the UK and Ireland. This perhaps suggests something interesting: that people may be more consistent in adhering to restrictions when these are mediated by someone else (their employer) but less so when they alone are in charge.
Why this matters
Remember, mobile data doesn’t provide definitive proof of whether people adhered to restrictions, so any conclusions drawn from it are only tentative. Nevertheless, the data suggests that overall adherence hasn’t been as strong in the second wave as it was in the first, and that it has tailed off over time.
This is important. Facing rising cases, some European countries are now reintroducing lockdowns. Others, such as the UK, have plotted long exits from lockdown that will require citizens to continue following restrictions for months.
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Do speaking publicly scare you? Are you having trouble figuring out what to say for your big speech? Do not get worked up just yet. Try the following tips on public speaking to help make the best of the situation. These tips worked for many others, and they can work for you.
Being prepared is key to making good public speaking impressions. Know exactly what you are going to say. Do research to support your statements if necessary. Take notes of whatever you have to say. Practice your speech until you have it memorized. The better prepared you are, the more confident you’ll be when delivering the speech.
Know your surroundings. Take a few moments when you arrive to acquaint yourself with your surroundings. If you can arrive early, go to the podium and do a soundcheck before your audience arrives. If you have visual aids, practice using them while you are orientating yourself with your surroundings.
Never drink before you have to speak in public. People under the influence tend to slur their words or forget them altogether. You may go up to podium and think you have everything under control only to realize you were incorrect. That is why you should skip drinking any type of alcohol.
Use your most powerful voice when you are delivering your message and it will be received much better. People listen harder to people that have confidence, and speaking loud will convey that message. Even if you are not 100% confident, no one will know that if you seem to be while you speak.
Make eye contact with your audience members. Doing so makes them feel as if you are speaking directly to them and helps keep them engaged. It also makes you appear confident and poised. Look at various members of the audience as you speak to help engage as many of them as possible.
Avoid drinking alcohol before your speech. While you may think it will help loosen you up, you are asking for trouble. You don’t want to stand behind the podium feeling tipsy because you may forget what you want to say or your speech may be slurred.
Don’t beat yourself up if you make a mistake during your presentation. Unless the information given wrongly is important do not correct your mistake. Instead, continue on with your speech like nothing has happened. If you need to correct the mistake you made, apologize and correct the mistake and continue on.
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Reconsider having a few drinks to loosen yourself up. You may be so nervous before the speech or at such a fun event that you drink a little too much. Some of the most embarrassing speeches are the fault of having a little too much to drink before making the speech.
Be sure to make good eye contact with your audience. If you are really prepared and know your speech well, this should be easy. Look around the room in a relaxed way. Make eye contact and connect with individuals here and there throughout the audience. In this way, people will feel that you are really addressing them.
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Get in a good mindset. It is generally normal to feel anxious. It’s a very common feeling. But, keep yourself from going negative in your thoughts. If you start thinking about failing, chances are you will fail. Think about succeeding, and you’ll be more likely to succeed.
Create a simple outline for better public presentations. In public speaking your aim is clear communication. This does not happen by chance. A simple outline should include an introduction, a body and a conclusion. The introduction should capture attention and present your thesis. The body should include your major ideas. The conclusion should repeat your thesis and end with a call to action. Using an outline will ensure that your ideas are presented in an understandable manner.
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Cities are at the forefront of humanity’s responses to widespread and disruptive change. Within fifty years they will be home to over 50% of the world’s population. How cities respond to a warming climate, whether they enable transition to low carbon communities or continue to extract and exploit natural resources, how they relate to rural communities and source their food and drinking water, will determine how and whether viable ecosystems are sustained over the next century. The ways in which cities appropriate digital technologies, whether they are used as instruments of control and surveillance or as resources for conviviality in support of humanity, will shape the parameters of human experience of freedom. How cities respond to contemporary crises in democracy, whether they are able to create collective forums for encounter, negotiation and imagination, or become sites for the exercise of oligarchical power, will determine the lived experience and political rights of millions around the globe. That the stakes are high is evident in the raft of publications proposing new directions for the future city. Everywhere there are calls for cities to radically evolve, to become new sorts of cities: ‘sharing cities’ and ‘viable cities’, ‘smart cities’ and ‘resilient cities’, ‘rebel cities’ or ‘inclusive cities’.
Our contention in this article, however, is simple: that learning, and in particular what we call everyday and expansive learning, is an essential part of any attempt to reimagine and remake cities for sustainable and socially just futures. Learning, we argue, is the fundamental process by which individuals, groups and organizations recognize and understand what is going on in the world, confront challenges, imagine new possibilities, build relationships and create personal and societal change. Learning is not limited to the formal processes of education that take place in schools and universities. Rather, learning is a powerful social process that is central to any societal transformation. Understanding how everyday learning in the city works, understanding how it is nurtured and facilitated by individuals, communities and public spaces as well as what enables transformative and expansive learning processes at city scale must be central to the agenda of anyone with an interest in transforming the city.
We understand Everyday Learning as the ongoing processes by which individuals draw on the social, material, and cultural environments in the city in order to develop intellectual or emotional capabilities or embodied skills and routines. Everyday learning happens through the people and materials that exist in specific places – from playgrounds to pubs, from shops to city streets. For instance, the improvised learning that happens between skaters in relation with the urban environment as they share and learn new tricks and ways of moving around the city or the learning we do as we garden in building our understandings of the kind of soil we are working with, the way the sun shines or doesn’t on our plots, the access to water, the seasons and what they allow us to grow or not grow. Everyday learning is what we all do all of the time, more or less intentionally. What is important about Everyday Learning in the city is that encountering different conditions, resources and experiences at home, at work, in the community, means that individuals and groups come to develop very different ways of knowing and being in the world. What emerges from everyday learning, then, is a rich patchwork of different forms of knowledge distributed across the city and reflecting different cultures and experiences and resources.
Expansive Learning meanwhile can be understood as the processes that assemble and collide different people and their different ways of knowing to enable multiple perspectives to be brought to bear on problematic or new situations. Such expansive learning processes may be intentionally convened by city actors – think of how universities, city leaders and community organizations are increasingly forming alliances to address the challenges of inequalities during the recent pandemic. These processes of convening the public around an issue create the possibility of thinking or making something new together and enable new relationships to emerge between different social actors.
Expansive Learning practices are precisely the places in and through which inhabitants of cities can learn to live together, to negotiate together, to generate new forms of common knowledge and to collectively engage in the task of renewing the city. It is therefore vital that we understand these processes, what it takes to convene them and to explore how to overcome the difficulties that necessarily face anyone attempting to create collective learning. This is especially the case when you consider the different ways of knowing and experience that emerge from everyday learning practices. Expansive learning, we propose, is the foundation of democracy in our cities.
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Many Red Fish, Steve Spence
Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2019 £7.00
I write this review while in isolation — and somehow Steve Spence foretold this in his pamphlet, Many Red Fish.
In truth, the poet can’t have known about the impending outbreak of Coronavirus or the impact it would have upon society, and yet many lines in this collection echo phrases in the media today — like this, from ‘In the public realm’:
may face problems and we are looking at a period of
serious disruption and chaos.
Or this, from ‘A fork in the towpath’:
We urge all parties to accept the
outcome. A little stretch will facilitate easy movement.
Many of the poems’ titles themselves take on a meaning enhanced by the current situation (in chronological order): ‘A negative situation’, ‘A long descent on an escalator’, ‘At such short notice’, ‘In the public realm’, ‘Hard to navigate’, ‘Aware by now’, ‘Waiting for permission’, ‘Statistics swirl around the room’, ‘Steering clear of danger’.
But the phrases which resonate most are stark, punch-you-in-the-stomach lines, which Spence delivers with precision: ‘Immediate internment may be the least of their troubles’, from ‘A cold-eyed lawyer’; ‘Can we make an advancing army look like an empty street?’ from ‘Waiting for permission’; and, from ‘A word in the right ear’: ‘we are told the worst is still to come’, ‘We are filled with fear.’
Unless Spence has a psychic ability to match his poetic talent, the parallels I draw are more by coincidence than design. And yet, I do wonder whether the poet’s style lends itself to the reader finding meaning within seemingly ambiguous lines.
The poetry in Many Red Fish is fragmented: a series of images and phrases drawn together — sometimes linked, sometimes unrelated. We find clarity by focusing upon the statements which mean something to us and in this way, Spence’s work becomes personal.
I found something unexpected in this pamphlet — poetry which reflects the world at an uncertain time and strangely provides comfort. The line which lingers as I observe the outside world (from a safe distance) is the concluding statement in ‘Keep it coming’:
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How to Get a Crown-of-Thorns to Bloom
Native to Madagascar, the plant known as crown of thorns (Euphorbia milii) is a woody, succulent shrub. An evergreen, it may be grown outdoors in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 to 11, where it is winter hardy, or it can be grown elsewhere as a houseplant. The crown of thorns is also sold under the name Christ plant.
Crown of Thorns Identification
In its native habitat, the crown of thorns plant may reach heights between 5 and 6 feet. However, according to the Missouri Botanical Garden, in Florida, one of the few places in the United States where this plant can be grown outdoors year-round, it usually maxes out at around 3 feet. It is even shorter when grown indoors as a houseplant. The flowers of the crown of thorns plant are inconspicuous. However, the petallike bracts, which may be red or yellow, are very showy.
As its common name suggests, this succulent plant is covered in thorns. In fact, the name was inspired by the legend that it was this plant that was used to fashion the crown of thorns that Jesus, per Christian teachings, was forced to wear at the crucifixion. It is therefore imperative to wear gloves when handling this plant and not just because of the thorns. Euphorbia species also secrete a toxic sap that may cause a skin rash.
Crown of Thorns Blooming
The crown of thorns plant is a seasonal bloomer. In tropical locales, it may produce flowers continuously throughout the year, with spring and summer representing peak blooming. In Florida, where this plant is popular, you can expect the most blooming in winter and spring. Houseplants bloom from late winter through fall, says the Missouri Botanical Garden.
A crown of thorns plant will bloom best when it receives full sun, which means six hours of sunlight daily. However, according to the Wisconsin Horticulture Division of Extension, too much light at night can be detrimental, as these plants require evening darkness to stimulate blooming.
As a succulent, the crown of thorns plant can handle quite a bit of heat and dry conditions, which makes it low maintenance. However, the Missouri Botanical Garden notes that the plant may bloom better with consistent albeit moderate moisture. This kind of watering should also help to reduce leaf drop.
Crown of Thorns Care
Few flowers on a crown of thorns plant may be due to excessive fertilization. According to the Wisconsin Horticulture Division of Extension, this will typically result in more leaves and fewer blooms. A light application of a balanced fertilizer in the spring and again in the summer is adequate for this plant.
The crown of thorns plant is susceptible to frost and freezes and will be damaged if exposed to temperatures below 35 degrees Fahrenheit. If you live in a cold climate and grow a crown of thorns as a houseplant, you may move it outdoors during the summer. However, do so gradually so that the plant does not become sunburned.
Outdoors, a crown of thorns plant can handle some rain, but too much moisture can lead to fungal diseases. If these diseases do develop, it is important to move all of the affected plant tissue in order to keep them from spreading.
Things You Will Need
- Crown-of-thorns plants are temperature-sensitive as well as highly reactive to moisture. A sudden chill or damp spell is first reflected in the absence of bloom. Experienced growers counsel consistent care and patience.
- The milky sap of the crown-of-thorns, like that of all members of the Euphorbia family, is highly irritating to skin and should be regarded as toxic to pets and children. All parts of the plant should be regarded as dangerous around children and animals.
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Most people start with a quote when they are ready to make the switch to solar energy. They shouldn't just choose the cheapest price, but there are other factors to consider. After deciding on the type of solar panels and figuring out how to finance it, the buyer is ready to make the most difficult decision: choosing the installation team.
The chosen team will work in one's home, or at their business. They will build a custom solar power plant. Solar installers are different in size, experience, reputation, and product offerings. It's also difficult to evaluate them using standard methods of financing, cost, and general benefits. Solar installation in lower plenty is not difficult. The job should go smoothly if the team involved is skilled.
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Area can be defined through the use of axioms, defining it as a function of a collection of certain plane figures to the set of real numbers. It can be proved that such a function exists.
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Therefore the area of the right-angled triangle formed would be equal to the area of a circle. Area of a circle = Area of triangle = (1/2) × b × h = (1/2) × 2π r × r.
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To work out the area of a square or rectangle, multiply its height by its width. 2020-07-26 · Learn and revise how to work out the area of two dimensional shapes such as squares, rectangles and triangles with BBC Bitesize KS3 Maths. Se hela listan på study.com Find 45 ways to say AREA, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com, the world's most trusted free thesaurus. Definition of area noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. Area of rectangle = length × width In practice, when looking for the area of shapes, you will be using real life units such, inches, yards, feet, and so forth The following examples demonstrate how to do this Mathematics (from Greek: μάθημα, máthēma, 'knowledge, study, learning') includes the study of such topics as quantity ( number theory ), structure ( algebra ), space ( geometry ), and change ( analysis ). It has no generally accepted definition.
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The most basic symbols are the decimal digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), and the letters of the Latin 2019-05-30 · Updated May 30, 2019 Area is a mathematical term defined as the two-dimensional space taken up by an object, notes Study.com, adding that the use of area has many practical applications in building, farming, architecture, science, and even how much carpet you'll need to cover the rooms in your house. Sometimes the area is quite easy to determine. Definition of Area formula explained with real life illustrated examples.
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The future of workspace - introducing Hybrid work
Working remotely allows us to work and complete our tasks more efficiently than we ever thought possible. This is a new paradigm in all work environments, especially since the quarantine shutdown of companies.
In the face of this, employers are slowly reopening their offices and getting back to business as usual at the pace of vaccinations. However, many employers recognize that the new "normal" may be a thing of the past. This is due to the rise of hybrid work as a performance modality. The challenge for companies, therefore, is to transform their environments to telecommuting-friendly environments.
Build work environments around people.
Employees have demonstrated that they can be just as productive working remotely over the past year. Given this, most want to maintain this way of working even when the epidemic ends.
Employees want to spend approximately the same amount of time in three locations after COVID-19. These would be corporate offices, their homes, and alternative environments such as co-working spaces or cafes.
In response, companies and chief executive officers (CHRs) are under great pressure to inform their employees of what they will do in the future. This is because these people have to organize their lives around it. The solution for most companies is to opt for a hybrid work scheme—three days in the office and two days at home on a regular schedule.
However, the biggest challenge will be to provide all employees with the technological tools to perform their duties in the best possible way.
The spectrum of hybrid work
Companies that have adopted a hybrid strategy have often opted for very different paths. Some adopt a more tolerant mentality. The work results or the need for teamwork will influence how often an employee visits the office.
In the meantime, employees expect to be on-site for some meetings or projects. At the same time, these employees will be able to work from home in their free time.
How to achieve this work synchrony?
Companies must address various concerns when moving to a hybrid model, ranging from COVID-related security to workforce management considerations.
In the face of this, companies may also encourage workers to use work locations other than their homes or corporate offices. An example of this would be co-working facilities. These environments offer a change of pace that can enhance creativity, cooperation, and other professional outcomes.
Getting the hybrid work model right
To be successful, you have to be creative and create what works best for your employees. Also, so they can be engaged and take pride in the results they generate.
Business leaders who take steps to ensure that hybrid arrangements are as effective and equitable as possible in the post-COVID future will be well-positioned to thrive.
That's why effective workforce management is also crucial to getting the hybrid approach right. Companies should establish clear rules about what work should be done in the office and what work should be done from home. This approach can be based on the performance of staff in their tasks.
Performance-based management has been standard practice in the workplace from the beginning. Individuals want to be praised for their achievements, but it turns out that working from home is the only viable option.
For these reasons, the idea of hybrid work input is supporting people and making their work-life and work easier with technology.
The bottom line
As a result, several managers have told me that the epidemic has accelerated its more robust performance management systems.
Thus, the idea is to collect more data, 360-degree assessments, and regular performance audits. For these reasons, Conwotec recommends the following:
- Help your employees find the balance: employees need technological tools to perform at their best. Because of this, the best thing employers can do is to give them space, time, and tools to work effectively. To do this, you have to study your company's options and thus see your chances of adopting hybrid work in your environment.
- Plan to achieve the objectives: Appropriately execute each stage to achieve success. From Conwotec, we seek to accompany you in the planning, strategy development, implementation, and review of the entire transition plan to hybrid work.
Once you do all these activities, the idea is to select the best information and communication technology tools to improve employees' capabilities. This translates into a better performance of the company and, therefore, better results.
So, when you need advice to make this migration to remote work, you can rely on Conwotec. We have enough experience to adapt to the particular situation of your company and to be able to provide you with tools for your integral growth.
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Historical USGS topographic quad map of Lake Mathews in the state of California. Map scale may vary for some years, but is generally around 1:24,000. Print size is approximately 24" x 27"
This quadrangle is in the following counties: Riverside.
The map contains contour lines, roads, rivers, towns, and lakes. Printed on high-quality waterproof paper with UV fade-resistant inks, and shipped rolled.
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In the ever changing world of social media, you might be wondering if you are getting the most out of your business’s social media campaign. Our social media marketing course covers everything from setting up your profile, to achieving interaction.
Let’s look at some basic tips that apply to any social media platform that your business is utilising. These are the methods that even advanced social media users tend to forget now and again.
Make sure your social profiles are complete and up to date
Obvious, but usually forgotten! Type your name and your business name in to Google and see which social media profiles rank on the first two pages. Make a note of them and now visit each profile to make sure all of your information is filled out and up to date. This includes your website information.
Cross promote your social profiles
Look for opportunities to add links from one social profile to others. Your YouTube channel offers a spot for Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ links. Also, don’t forget to include your social profiles in your email signature with applications like WiseStamp or simple text links to your social networks.
Check your email contacts for new people to connect with on social networks, and do this periodically
If it’s been a few months (or a few years) since you last checked your email contacts for new people to connect with on social networks, now is a great time to do so. Try it on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
Stop buying followers and fans
It’s an easy trap to fall into when your goal is to simply inflate your number of social followers. But networks like Facebook are already working to remove fake likes from pages; and tools for Twitter are exposing accounts with a high volume of fake followers. So just remember that it’s not worth it – fake followers and fans will do nothing for your engagement or your bottom line.
Use each platforms analytics to measure your social media efforts
Check each platform to see how many people are seeing and engaging with your posts. That way you can see which platforms are working for your business, and which aren’t.
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The youth program is developed to assist middle and high school youth with disabilities in making healthy decisions as they approach adulthood and graduation.
This program is designed to meet the unique needs that youth with disabilities face in their daily lives. Our focus is to give youth ideas about building vocational, educational, or independent living goals. Exciting field trips, motivational speakers, and recreational activities with their peers occur during the program.
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According to Barnard, Lismore House was established at a time of rising youth unemployment and homelessness and when there was widespread concern about gaps in services for young people in the Barwon region. In 1979, the Victorian Department announced a pilot scheme to help community agencies to provide emergency accommodation and related services to young people, as an alternative to incarceration in youth training centres like Turana and Winlaton.
When the department offered a $40,000 grant for a new youth hostel in Geelong, Barwon Association for Youth Support and Accommodation (BAYSA) was formed as a legal entity. BAYSA purchased the two-storey bluestone house in Kilgour Street Geelong, which would become known as Lismore House (Barnard, pp.43-44).
The first manager of Lismore House was youth worker Shane Murphy and it employed four residential staff when it opened in June 1982. It accommodated up to 12 residents in shared bedrooms. It had two beds reserved for emergency accommodation of shorter stays up to 7 nights.
Lismore House and other BAYSA programs helped to reduce the number of young people from Geelong being sent to youth justice institutions in Melbourne (Barnard, p.45). As well as the youth hostel, BAYSA's programs expanded in the 1980s and 1990s to include support work with young people living in the community.
BAYSA sold the property in Kilgour Street in 1995 and replaced it with a purpose-built facility called Wahroonga, which housed only 5 residents (Barnard, p.47).
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GARC’s new community-based rabies surveillance tool released for testing and training
GARC has developed an easy-to-use software tool that is designed to provide simple, yet comprehensive, surveillance of both humans and animals that have been exposed to rabies. This new software tool is aptly named the Community-Based Rabies Surveillance System (CBRS) and now is in the final stages of testing prior to its pilot launch in the Philippines.
The CBRS tool was developed to facilitate integrated bite case management (IBCM) programmes, which track and monitor human bite cases and rabies-suspect animals that occur in the same geographical area. The implementation of an effective IBCM programme can be challenging because it requires strong intersectoral collaboration, reliable and accurate data collection and analysis, and rapid responses. The CBRS is one of the first rabies-dedicated software tools of its kind for IBCM, and is now available to assist countries in the implementation of effective IBCM programmes. The CBRS tool is part of the overarching Rabies Epidemiological Bulletin (REB), thus coalescing the grassroots-level IBCM data into the overall county surveillance data on the REB. The CBRS itself is a component of the REB, ensuring that all data gathered in a country via various means is stored, analysed and aggregated in a single system.
The functionality and ease-of-use of the CBRS was recently tested in an October training workshop in Muntinlupa City, the Philippines. This workshop was held for representatives from the City Health Office, City Veterinary Office, and the National Laboratory, as well as community health workers. The workshop was limited to 14 people who tested the CBRS, provided feedback, and reaffirmed their buy-in and their interest in using this tool.
The CBRS was well received and the feedback was positive. Participants–including people who rarely use computers–enjoyed using the programme and found it relatively intuitive to use. Within a short time, workshop participants were actively entering data from case scenarios. In addition, as part of the overall project, local government veterinarians and private practitioners were also trained by RITM in the straw technique for the collection of animal rabies samples.
Before the CBRS, the tools available to facilitate accurate rabies IBCM data collection were lacking and were designed only to address specific aspects of rabies surveillance data, such as dog vaccination, national data collection, and international data reporting. A truly integrated approach to event-based case monitoring has been elusive until the development of the CBRS tool.
GARC’s CBRS system has been designed to facilitate and improve active rabies surveillance at the community level through an integrated approach by including inputs from community health workers, veterinarians, human health professionals and laboratory professionals. This all-inclusive system tracks and links suspect animals and humans that have been potentially exposed to rabies. The CBRS not only helps identify these events, but also tracks the suspect animal or exposed person throughout the entire process, gathering the latest information of each event. Automated SMS and email notifications are also included, informing the relevant people of the event status.
Most importantly, apart from simply just tracking a suspect animal or an exposed human, the CBRS is capable of directly linking the exposed human to the suspect animal that may have bitten them, resulting in informed decision-making processes and actions. Thus, the CBRS truly incorporates the One Health ethos, directly linking human and animal cases, whilst automatically sharing the data between the sectors. The CBRS is versatile in the fact that a triggering event can originate from any source (i.e., an event can be initiated when a suspect animal is identified in the community; when a human bite victim is identified; when a sample is received at the laboratory; or when a dead animal is identified in the community). This versatility is one of the key features of the CBRS, making it an all-inclusive, event-based surveillance system for rabies.
Large-scale training for widespread implementation of the CBRS at the national level in the Philippines will begin in January 2019, after which the system will go live. Those interested in bringing the CBRS to their own countries are encouraged to contact GARC for more information on having the tool customized for their own country’s situation.
Article contributed by Dr. Terence Scott, GARC Rabies Epidemiological Bulletin administrator. Additional information on the Rabies Epidemiological Bulletin can be found here.
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The foreign reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) fell week-over-week by $125 million to $19,169.1 million on 1 October, from $19,294.5.
Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves declined by $151 million in the week that ended on 1 October, according to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan on Thursday.
The country’s total liquid foreign reserves stood at $25,999.9 million on 1 October, down from the reserves recorded at $26,150.8 million on 24 September.
Meanwhile, the net foreign reserves held by the commercial banks fell to $6,830.8 million, as compared to $6,856.3 million in the previous week.
The central bank’s reserves soared to a record high of $20.15 billion in August after the International Monetary Fund directed Special Drawing Rights worth $2,751.8 million to the former. However, the SBP’s reserves began to decline steadily since August, which it attributed to the fulfillment of debt repayments.
Meanwhile, the local currency is depreciating sharply and crashed to a record low against the US Dollar at 170.96 on Wednesday.
Pakistan’s trade deficit more than doubled year-over-year to $11.66 billion in the first quarter of the fiscal year 2021-2022. Similarly, its current account deficit widened to $1.50 billion year-over-year in August as imports surged by 86 percent.
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Ministry of Health has warned that the country will go back to lockdown and closing of schools if we experience increased cases of Covid-19.
Health CAS Rashid Aman said that Covid-19 numbers are rising in unmanageable manner.
“We will have to face it. If we find that the numbers are rising and unmanageable we will have to take action to restrict movements perhaps even go back. It is a possibility that we could go back to closing schools if we see that,” Aman had said.
Covid-19 cases have been rising exponetially in the recent days.
On Tuesday, for instance, out of 2,592 samples tested in 24 hours, 318 positive cases were identified, signifying a positivity rate of more than 12 per cent.
Ten more patients died on Tuesday, raising the fatalities to 787.
The Health Ministry has raised the alarm over exponential increase of Covid-19 cases in the past week after the rate jumped above the WHO-recommended five per cent.
The rise in cases has been attributed to the relaxation of some of the containment measures put in place by the National Emergency Response Committee at the onset of the virus.
In the previous weeks, the positivity rate has been slightly below five per cent, with the ministry warning that should Kenyans drop the ball, the gains achieved would be reversed.
Health CAS Rashid Aman has warned that a second wave of the infection might be inevitable unless Kenyans adhere to the containment measures and protocols.
“For instance, you can note that today our positivity rate was above 12 per cent. These positivity rates may fluctuate over time but when we look at the seven-day moving average and we begin to see that we are moving above the five per cent positivity rate it is a sign that we are moving in the wrong direction,” the CAS said.
“To avoid moving in that wrong direction we need to be able to strictly adhere to the measures, avoid public gatherings of any nature, whether social, political, entertainment. They are one of the biggest sources of infection.” he added.
The government will also be closely monitoring the situation in schools, with plans underway to conduct some tests there to ascertain transmission among the students.
Consequently, the government will monitor the rate of Covid-19 infections in the next few days and take appropriate action should the situation warrant it.
The ministry has also warned against spraying or fumigation of school children, saying it is against the recommended protocols.
He added: “However one of the things that are coming out from a lot of work that is being done outside is that the risks of children spreading as thought earlier is not as bad as was considered before.”
The caseload in the country is 41,937 from 595,791 tests conducted so far since March.
Nine of the new cases were foreigners; 215 were men and 103 women aged between three months and 90 years old.
Nairobi recorded the highest number of new infections with 112 cases followed by Uasin Gishu with 30, Mombasa with 29, Nakuru with 25, Busia with 24, Kisii with 21and Kisumu with 19.
Kakamega and Murang’a had eight cases each, Kilifi had six, Laikipia, Kiambu and Embu each had five cases, Homa Bay reported four, Trans Nzoia and Turkana had three cases each, Machakos, Isiolo, Kajiado had two cases each while Nyandarua, garissa, Tharaka Nithi, Vihiga and Kirinyaga recorded one case each.
The ministry said 243 more patients recovered from the virus; 132 from the home-based care programme while 111 were released from various hospitals.
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Gambling is now a recognized element of popular culture, similar to recreational activities. It is just like attending films, athletic events as well as concerts or stage plays. In New Zealand, a large majority of Kiwis who gamble at New Zealand casinos do this as a form of relaxation with great reservations that it would have unfavorable implications.
Nevertheless, for some, gambling has stopped being as an amusement. They have turned it into something that they need to do instead of something they would like to do. Thus, it is necessary that even in gambling you need to establish your personal guidelines, whether you are playing in some Las Vegas or NZ casinos. Be sure to adhere to it, whether you win or loss at the casino gambling tables. sm카지노
- A person who wishes to gamble needs to set his or her limitations as to how much money to spend on the casino tables. He or she must decide how often he or she would play.
- Consider that the money you will spend to gamble is part of your budget for leisure and entertainment. Never gamble because you wanted to earn more money. Just spend your extra fund so that when you lose at the gambling tables you will not be greatly affected.
- No one should feel compelled to gamble or pressure anyone because the decision to go to the casino and play is an individual decision.
- Know your gambling limitations and most of all, be able to stop when you have reached the boundary that you have set. Be strong enough to resist the compulsion to continue gambling.
- It’s not right and a big no-no to loan from friends, relatives or credit institution the money that you will spend at the casino games. Worst, you will risk yourself to plunge deeply into the debt quagmire if you promise to pay your loan with your gambling winnings.
- Do not gamble when you are young and dependent on your parents’ support. Never make gambling as your source of income. Don’t gamble if you are putting to risk the welfare of your family, job, relationships, and health. Also, it is not good to gamble because you want to make up for your past losses.
- Avoid going to the casino when your purpose is to cool your anger, recover from a stressful situation, or when you are lonely and coping with the loss of a loved one. Better learn card and magic tricks than to gamble because you wanted to impress somebody.
Well, there is no other gleeful place of entertainment than to be in a casino. All you need to do is join in the games and if you feel like just chilling out you may choose to stay in the lounge, or at the poolside bar or adjacent restaurant and enjoy the music while eating and drinking with friends. In whatever state your nights would bring you, always live by the guidelines as you gamble by in casinos of Las Vegas, Macao, or even at casino NZ | <urn:uuid:937f33d3-edba-4d00-92fb-f2bc5a301f06> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.texaspokerccc7.com/save-money-by-playing-casino-games-online/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965177 | 596 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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