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What happened to elevator music [StoreStreams]
Elevator music refers to a form of music that is traditionally instrumental music that is not intended to be a the primary focus of the potential listener circumstance. It is also referred to as background music sometimes and has developed into a musical genre of its own. As the name suggest Elevator Music was traditionally heard in an elevators, waiting room, doctors office or lobbies in North America. Elevator music was and still is designed to ease stress , tension and or anxiety utilizing music with preset specific volume levels to affect behavioral and emotional responses in humans that directly affect mood, anxiety, concentration, relaxation, distraction, and excitement.
Today listeners who experience elevator music are uniquely subject to various forms of instrumental elevator music with no control over its volume and content. The range of listener responses created once exposed to an elevator music station are of great variety, and even opposite, depending on numerous factors such as, setting, culture, audience, and even time of day.
Today's Elevator Music [Instrumental Elevator Music]
Today's elevator music libraries go beyond that distinct retro classic elevator music sound that everyone thinks of when they hear the term elevator music. The quirky 1960s elevator music instrumentals are a thing of the past and now most elevator music stations provide a wide variety of instrumental musical with multiple genres that include:
1. smooth jazz or elevator music jazz
2. instrumental pop hits or pop elevator music
3. happy elevator music or feel good elevator music
4. ambient relaxing electronic music
5. Instrumental piano music or piano elevator music
Where Elevator Music Is Used Today
Elevator music is commonly played where there is no designated specific audience at all such as at a concert or music venue. Elevator music is usually encountered by listeners in commercial public spaces such as in an empty hallway, restrooms, fitting rooms, waiting rooms "sometimes called waiting music" and of course in commercial buildings and it's elevators. It is also used in the telephony space, such as music played while on hold during a telephone call. Elevator music is typically played at low volumes from multiple small ceiling speakers that is distributing the stock elevator music across the commercial public space or business building.
The widespread use of elevator music in offices, restaurants, and stores began with the founding of Muzak in the 1930s and was characterized by the repetition of simple instrumental musical arrangements. Today the use of background music has grown worldwide and incorporates proven psychological research relating to consumer behavior in retail environments, employee productivity, and workplace satisfaction.
Due to the growing variety of different business settings ranging from retailers, restaurants, hotels, doctors offices and or airports, many styles of music are now utilized as background music to set the tone at a business. Today various genres of music can be played to create a desired social experience a business owner wants to project on its customers visiting their business. Music is now used to reinforce the business atmosphere, image and brand association with the music being played. Music sets the mood of the room and tempo at a business. This helps connect the business with its customers through atmosphere association putting the customer at ease or creating that specific environment that is unique to each business.
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IC 1747 - Planetary Nebula in Cassiopeia
IC 1747 is a Planetary Nebula in the Cassiopeia constellation. IC 1747 is situated close to the northern celestial pole and, as such, it is visible for most part of the year from the northern hemisphere.
Photometric information of IC 1747
The following table lists the magnitude of IC 1747 in different bands of the electomagnetic spectrum (when available), from the B band (445nm wavelength, corresponding to the Blue color), to the V band ( 551nm wavelength, corresponding to Green/Yellow color), to the J, H, K bands (corresponding to 1220nm, 1630nm, 2190nm wavelengths respectively, which are colors not visible to the human eye).
For more information about photometry in astronomy, check the photometric system article on Wikipedia.
Apparent size of IC 1747The following table reports IC 1747 apparent angular size. The green area displayed on top of the DSS2 image of IC 1747 is a visual representation of it.
Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 1747
The image below is a photograph of IC 1747 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins).
Celestial coordinates and finder chart of IC 1747
Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox of IC 1747 are provided in the following table:
The simplified sky charts below show the position of IC 1747 in the sky. The first chart has a field of view of 60° while the second one has a field of view of 10°.
Rise ans set times of IC 1747 from your location
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I love stories of humans who have managed to develop a closer bond with the machines. The optimist in me believes wholeheartedly that humankind is that much closer to the Singularity every time a new prosthetic arm is developed! Which is why this piece by Finnish programmer Tuukka Ojala, over at the blog for Vincit, his software development company, is THE BEST.
Ojala, who is blind, describes the nuts and bolts of his working procedure. Most of his strategies offer an experience that seems closer to the way a computer might “think” than that of sighted monitor-and-mouse users. (In fact, he’s long used a screen reader that fires off what he’s working on at a staggering 450 words per minute!) Ojala says he is most at home on the command line, the most text-based basic access point to a computer’s programming. But unfortunately, too much of his working style is dictated by a lack of accessibility among his tools (which is a problem in the industry).
“[G]iven my love of the command line, why am I sticking with Windows, the operating system not known for its elegant command line tools? The answer is simple: Windows is the most accessible operating system there is. NVDA, my screen reader of choice is open source and maintained more actively than any other screen reader out there. If I had the choice I would use Mac OS since in my opinion it strikes a neat balance between usability and functionality. Unfortunately VoiceOver, the screen reader built in to Mac OS, suffers from long release cycles and general neglect, and its navigation models aren’t really compatible with my particular way of working. There’s also a screen reader for the Gnome desktop and, while excellently maintained for such a minor user base, there are still rough edges that make it unsuitable for my daily use. So, Windows it is.”
In addition to coding like a demon, Ojala has taken up the mantle of general accessibility consultant at his job: “Or police, [depending] on how you look at it.” He has ideas about how to make coding, and web pages in general, more accessible for users who are blind or visually impaired. I’m looking forward to reading more of his blog, for the inside scoop on accessibility, as well as the wonderful world of coding. (Singularity, here we come!) | <urn:uuid:c74899db-20f4-406a-8152-b322ffb2ec29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dfc.com/at-the-speed-of-the-screenreader-a-blind-programmer-shares-his-method/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960415 | 508 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Urbanite. It's all the rage these days in sustainable design and I guess we can see why. Urbanite is simply a fancy word for broken up concrete, often times from old patios, driveways, etc. that up until recently was commonly hauled to the dump. What's so great about it? It's plentiful, economical, ecological and is an all purpose hardscape material. Thanks to recent trends and internet forums, craigslist, etc. it's becoming more and more common practice for construction companies to leave their urbanite from jobsite demolition to be picked up by sustainable landscaping companies or DIY home owners. And everybody wins- they save tons of money on dump fees, people get an affordable hardscape material and the earth gives a great big sigh of gratitude... also I'd like to think that the concrete is probably happy to be reincarnated into something lovely and have decades more use in a new garden. I've collected a few images below of creative uses of urbanite, although the sky is the limit. Enjoy.
Contemporary. Below urbanite and pea gravel are a perfect marriage. Left: industrial modern elements blend seamlessly with the ubanite and gravel patio. Right: Narrow saw cut concrete strips may seem an awkward shape to deal with
and utilize in design, but this garden artfully paired and placed the urbanite
strips with pea gravel to create a contemporary clean geometric design
that looks as though the strips were intentionally poured in place!
Pathways and Patios.
Below the rough edges of broken concrete are softened and warmed with plant material. Sweet cozy and inviting.
Planters, Benches and Raised Beds.
Left, urbanite is mortared and capped with poured concrete top to create permanent custom seating. Foundation Design in LA.
Below drystacked urbanite vegie beds are super fantastic... what better thing to do that rip out the concrete, keep it on site and reuse it to GROW FOOD. What's not to love about that. Dry stack beds below are by Terra Nova Landscaping here in Santa Cruz. You gotta love their keyhole planter (bottom)
So there you have it, a lite crash course in urbanite.
To find creative ways to re-use materials in your garden contact your local landscape designer, or hey- how about me, Andrea Doonan Horticulure + Design at www.AndreaDoonan.com | <urn:uuid:55075442-71bb-4e55-8563-8604a1c85cf3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://andiplantsadventures.blogspot.com/2013/06/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.939721 | 501 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Many people have felt sad or depressed at times. Depression occurs without regard to gender, age and lifestyle. Feeling depressed can be a normal reaction to loss, life’s struggles or an injured self-esteem. But when feelings of intense sadness — including feeling helpless, hopeless and worthless — last for days or weeks and keep you from functioning normally, your depression may be something more.
• Depression is a common condition, affecting about 121 million people worldwide.
• According to a 2009 report in the New York Times, the use of antidepressants doubled between 1996 and 2005. Today, it’s estimated that 10% of Americans take antidepressant medication — that’s 32 million sufferers.
• Depression is among the leading causes of disability worldwide.
• Depression can be reliably diagnosed and treated in a primary care setting.
• Fewer than 25% of those affected by depression have access to effective treatments.
Signs of Depression**:
Two major signs of depression are:
1) Loss of interest in activities normally enjoyed and,
2) Overwhelming sense of hopelessness or pessimism.
Other symptoms or behavioral indicators for depression include:
• Persistent sad, anxious or “empty” feelings
• Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in nearly all activities most of the time
• Excessive or inappropriate feelings of guilt or worthlessness
• Sluggishness, loss of energy or fatigue most of the time
• Difficulty concentrating
• Insomnia, especially early morning awakening, or excessive sleeping
• Increase or decrease in appetite
• Recurrent suicidal thoughts or attempts
• Constant pains, headaches or stomach problems that do not respond to treatment
Every individual may exhibit different signs and symptoms with different frequency or severity. But if five or more of these symptoms apply to you or someone you know, it could signal depression.
Depression can affect everyone***:
Depression can be prevalent in a specific phase of a person’s life. For example, teen depression is a serious condition that affects emotions, thoughts and behaviors. Although teen depression isn’t medically different from adult depression, teenagers often have unique challenges and symptoms. Issues such as peer pressure, academic expectations and changing body types can cause various moods, and ups and downs for teens. For some teens, the lows are more than just temporary feelings; they’re a sign of depression.
Many moms experience the “baby blues” after childbirth. Most common are mood swings and crying spells. Some experience a more severe, long-lasting form of depression known as postpartum depression.
Men also go through “andropause,” which is the equivalent of menopause in females. Andropause correlates directly with depression, a significant factor in the so-called mid-life crisis men experience during their late 40s to late 50s. There are a variety of symptoms and conditions that hormone-impaired men experience during this mid-life transition, including irritability, loss of libido, lack of energy and weight gain.
No matter how you look at it, depression can be a disabling condition, if left untreated.
Traditional therapies used to treat most emotional distress are antidepressants. Common among them are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Prozac, Lexapro and Zoloft. These drugs have been shown in clinical trials to be no more effective than a placebo for the vast majority of those taking them. Worse, they have a long list of side effects, including weight gain, sexual dysfunction and increased risk of suicide and violent behavior.***
Treatment options offered at The Woodlands Institute target the underlying causes of depression, which may be related to dietary habits, vitamin deficiencies, food sensitivities and hormonal imbalance (despite normal blood levels of hormones). Depression is NOT caused by a deficiency in a pharmaceutical drug!
If you or a loved one is suffering from any form of depression, please call 281-298-6742 and ask to speak to a wellness consultant, who will assist you in finding the program that will best fit your symptoms and specific health goals.
Some excerpts of this article have been derived from http://www.articles.mercola.com and from http://www.doctoroz.com
*Statistics from WorldHealthOrganization.com
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How HAMP Hurt Homeowners
At FireDogLake, David Dayen has done great work to show how the Home Affordable Modification Program — the Obama’s signature effort to keep financially distressed homeowners in their homes — has not just failed, but has actually hurt the people it is meant to help.
HAMP encourages homeowners to work with their banks to modify their mortgages, reducing their monthly payments if increasing their principal slightly. The problems with the program are many. HAMP does nothing to reduce the size of the mortgage in accordance with falling home prices. The process often takes months and months, and requires extraordinary amounts of tedious paperwork. It kicks out too many trial participants. And worst, perhaps, too often, HAMP does not significantly reduce monthly payments — meaning that a homeowner going through the HAMP process keeps paying a mortgage they can’t afford for a few months before defaulting anyway.
Dayen and Atrios, as well as ProPublica, the Huffington Post and a few other news organizations, have done an excellent job of describing the program for the catastrophe it is — particularly given that continued falling home prices and the long foreclosure crisis threaten pitching the economy into a double-dip. But there remains a lack of scrutiny about the program and the administration seems content to stay the course, slowing the crisis without solving it. | <urn:uuid:86394ce6-0615-4009-b047-36461201d164> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://washingtonindependent.com/95998/how-hamp-hurt-homeowners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966354 | 273 | 1.609375 | 2 |
An Australian woman whose skinny jeans cut off the blood supply to her calf muscles collapsed and was forced to crawl to seek help.
The 35-year-old woman from Adelaide, who doctors have labelled a “fashion victim”, suffered nerve damage severe enough to bring about numbness. She had to spend four days in hospital.
A consultant neurologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Thomas Kimber said the woman’s decision to wear the restrictive leg-hugging denim had brought about the medical episode.
“She spent all that day really squatting down to help her relatives clean out cupboards,” he said, adding “she noticed that her legs were becoming increasingly uncomfortable as the day went on (but) didn’t really think much of it”.
Dr Kimber said the compression of two major nerves in the woman’s calf had caused her increasing weakness in her legs.
When the woman took a break with a walk in a park, she noticed her feet becoming increasingly weak before falling.
“By this time it was dark and quite late at night. She was unable to stand up again and really was there for some time before she could crawl to the side of the road, hail a cab and bring herself to the Royal Adelaide Hospital,” said Dr Kimber.
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Let’s skip ahead to 2020 and the discovery that inspired this entire series. During the past year I had been working with Loretta Cologna transcribing the school notebook of Tillie Genetti, who was my grandfather’s younger sister. As we worked through the text, adding historical information about Tillie and her siblings, I naturally used a timeline to trace personal information and immigration dates for my great-aunts and uncles. The family had arrived during three separate years: 1902, 1904 and 1906. Tillie, with her mother and five siblings, disembarked from their ship at Ellis Island in 1906. Although I had always been aware of the family’s immigration years, I had not paid close attention to the specific dates other than noting the Manifest Passenger List as a source citation in my Ancestry family tree.
While working on the school notebook, I was particularly interested in the transitional period of Tillie’s life between her final school year in Castelfondo and her new life in Pennsylvania. As I created her timeline I noted Tillie’s arrival in New York City on December 3rd, 1906. This date is correct and confirmed through public record according to the ship’s manifest and Ellis Island passenger records.
A few months later while I was updating sections of our family website and playing with a new photo colorization tool, I stopped in my tracks! It suddenly occurred to me – the date included in the caption for the boarding house photo was suspect! Since Tillie and her older sister Dora had both attended the wedding and were clearly pictured standing in the front row, the date of October 1906 could not possibly be correct. Here’s why: while we believe Dora arrived sometime in 1902 with her father and sister Ester (there are no public records to confirm this year), Tillie had not arrived until much later in December of 1906 – three months after the supposed date of when the photo was taken – October of 1906!
Obviously, the story of Lucia Genetti giving birth upstairs in 1906 while a wedding took place downstairs was an interesting family legend – but alas, not founded in truth! Public immigration records verified this date could not be accurate as Tillie was not living in Pennsylvania in October 1906!
But what was the true date?
Although I was fond of the story attached to our infamous photo, it was obvious that we needed to correct the misnomer. It was time to dig into Pennsylvania marriage records at Ancestry.com to learn more!
Part 4 – coming soon!
Note – In both documents from Ellis Island we see that Oliva and her five children were detained for further examination. It appears that little Ann was only about three years old at the time and suffering from a hip problem. In Stanley Genetti’s biography he explains:
“Before we left Europe my three year old sister, Ann, suffered from leg poisoning and had to be operated on. She was still unable to walk when our ship docked at Ellis Island and my oldest sister carried her. One of the inspectors told her to put Ann down and let her walk. When she responded that Ann could not walk, they were both detained for special inquiry.
“The rest of the family had passed through inspection when we received the bad news. We had to wait three days for my father to arrive from Hazleton. During our wait mother became very upset. She said she feared that we would all be deported, but I think that she was more afraid that the two girls would be deported by themselves. Finally, my father arrived and convinced the authorities that he would have a doctor treat my sister and she would never become a public charge. We were released on the fourth day.”
Extra note: Little Ann went on to have a successful life and career, reaching the amazing age of 102 – outliving her entire family! | <urn:uuid:0c0bae46-d79e-4ff1-85f6-b105926cab89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://genettifamily.com/category/ancestors/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.988196 | 791 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Beetroot noodles are colorful and very aromatic. The combination of beetroot and warming spices is well suited to the cold season. Learn how to make your own vegan recipe here.
The beetroot paste is simple and filling, while the spices heat up and add interesting flavours. Besides, it is Beetroot is healthybecause it contains many vitamins and minerals. It is one of the few local vegetables that can still be had in winter. All this makes beetroot paste an ideal winter recipe.
When buying ingredients, make sure they are sourced organic farming and fair production come. demeter, organic land or fair trade there are signs to look out for. While the organic seal prohibits, among other things, chemical-synthetic pesticides, the Fairtrade seal sets minimum standards for fair working conditions. The latter is especially important for exotic products such as spices.
by the way: Plant beets it is very simple.
Beetroot noodles: recipe
- Preparation: about 35 minutes
- People: 4 servings
Apple cider vinegar
Organic lemon zest, grated
Cook the noodles in salted water according to package directions until al dente. Drain well in a colander after cooking.
Pour beetroot juice, olive oil and apple cider vinegar into a saucepan. Reduce liquid over medium-high heat for 6 minutes.
Wash the beets and cut them into small cubes. Add them to the juice mixture with the vegetable stock and cook for another 10 minutes.
Tip: Avoid wastage by using all parts of the beet. There are many delicious recipes with beetroot leaves.
In a saucepan, mix the noodles with the beetroot mixture. Toss the noodles in the beetroot sauce for three minutes until the noodles have turned the color of the beetroot.
Clean the spinach and add to the pot with the beetroot noodles along with the lemon zest. Mix everything together and after another two minutes, remove the pot from the heat.
Season the beetroot noodles with salt, pepper, cinnamon and nutmeg.
It goes well with beetroot noodles
Beetroot Noodles is an easy seasonal recipe. After cooking, place the beetroot noodles on a plate. Serve them simply as per the recipe or add a subtle ingredient.
Beetroot noodles are especially good for:
- Lamb salad: Healthy leafy greens are in season in winter and add a fresh touch to pasta.
- walnuts: Sprinkle a handful of crushed walnuts over the beetroot noodles. It gives the dish a nutty aroma and surprises with a bit of bite when chewing.
- The classic combination is with beetroot feta. Place some small cubes of cheese on top of the beetroot noodles. For a vegan version you can use make your own vegan feta cheese Or replace it with yeast flakes.
Tip: Add a little butter or vegan margarine to the finished beetroot noodles. This will make your dish even more full of flavor.
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Although the impact of child sexual abuse (CSA) is well documented in the international literature, little is known about the critical points of recovery across the life course for survivors of institutional CSA. The aim of this study was to identify critical points, or events across the life course that may increase, or decrease, a survivor’s vulnerability to the complex traumatization of institutional CSA (ICSA). The sample consisted of two hundred and forty-eight witness statements extracted from the 56 publicly available case studies presented to the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse during 2013–2016 (Commonwealth of Australia, 2017). A content analysis and thematic coding of the statements identified seven main themes in the witness statements (Gender, Organization, Triggers, Trauma, Mental Health, Intervention and Compensation), that appeared to be critical events across the life course. The themes were transformed into variables for further analysis using SPSS. Significant Likelihood Ratios were found between associations with the organization where the abuse occurred and between triggers and breastfeeding/sensory, breast feeding/childcare, emotional and physical distress, and mental health (p < 0.01). Significant associations were also found between receiving compensation for the CSA and triggers, trauma, breast feeding-sensory and childcare (p < 0.05) and gender and breast feeding (p < 0.05). Overall, the findings showed that triggers can be random across the life course occurring mainly through indirect association, or in situations that evoke memories of the CSA, and that receiving compensation can assist survivors in their recovery journey. The findings also indicate the need for health care professionals to be aware of the critical points in a CSA survivor’s recovery and how triggers may impact on their mental welling throughout the life course. | <urn:uuid:08895d3b-a231-475e-bc5c-d1f4e9e221b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.x-mol.com/paper/article/1531638471614099456 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943727 | 366 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Ag Science 6th Year Extra Subjects
The Dublin Academy of Education will provide students with everything they need to maximise their marks in the practical and written aspects of this course.
Practical Portfolios will be worked on within class time and as part of the course, students will undertake laboratory experiments.
Students will sit a mock exam paper in February.
The following topics are covered:
- Animal Diseases
- Animal Physiology
- Animal Production (Cattle, Sheep, Pigs)
- Classification of Organisms
- Crop Production
- Fertilisers, Pollution & the Environment
- Plant Physiology
- Soil Science
Meet your Agricultural Science Teacher – Megan Mulvihill: Megan Mulvihill holds a first class honours Degree and Professional Masters in Education.
Megan achieved an Academic Excellence award in the area of Science while in college and she now wants to pass her passion and experience to her students.
She instils confidence in her students by providing a clear understanding of exam content and structure while immersed in an interesting, thought provoking environment.
Her knowledge in the areas of Science and her use of up to date methodologies, will help equip students for the Leaving Certificate exams in order to support each individual obtain their best possible result. | <urn:uuid:ef462972-88b7-4145-915d-d25dcf430819> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dublinacademy.ie/product/ag-science/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.88798 | 273 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Experts warn the continent needs to get ready for blazes that reach a massive new scale
By BARRY HATTON Associated Press
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The European Union describes wildfires as “a serious and increasing threat” across the continent.
Most alarmingly, forest blazes are growing in intensity, especially in southern countries such as Greece, Spain, France, Italy and Portugal but also in Scandinavia.
Experts warn the continent needs to get ready for blazes that reach a massive new scale. These superfires, or mega-fires, are catastrophic events that kill and blacken broad areas and are hard to stop.
Here’s a look at Europe’s wildfire problem.
Between 2000 and 2017, 611 firefighters and civilians died in wildfires in European Union countries, with economic damage calculated at more than 54 billion euros ($60.5 billion).
Portugal suffers more than most, recording over 18,000 wildfires a year since 2007. Huge blazes in 2017 killed at least 106 people.
Though the European trend is for fewer blazes and smaller areas charred, except in Portugal, bigger and meaner forest fires are stretching emergency assets and government budgets.
Added to that, the peak fire season is becoming longer, extending into June and October, with an increasing number of mega-fires.
These extreme blazes are characterized by the rapid spread of flames, intense burning, unpredictable shifts in direction and embers that are carried far away.
But according to an EU report last year, authorities are still using traditional methods to fight fires, relying on water to extinguish flames instead of investing in long-term efforts needed for prevention.
WHAT’S CAUSING IT?
In Western Europe, people have been leaving the land and moving to the cities.
Abandoned fields, pastures and forests have been left to themselves, becoming overgrown with what turns into fuel for wildfires.
Instead of a properly tended patchwork of different vegetation, some of which is more fire-resistant, large areas of countryside have dense and continuous forest cover which benefit and propagate blazes.
Conifer forests and eucalyptus plantations, which provide income for landowners, are common and burn fiercely.
The spread of urban areas, meanwhile, has brought homes close to forests, and danger lies in the proximity.
In Greece last summer, an additional hazard came from lax oversight of urban planning. Illegally constructed buildings in woodland and coastal areas were a contributing factor in the deaths of 101 people in Mati, outside of Athens, where many drowned as they tried to swim away from intense heat and smoke engulfing beaches.
More severe droughts nowadays are leaving forests tinder-dry. Spells of unusually high temperatures are also facilitating blazes. Both of those challenges have come with climate change, with scientists saying that Sahara-like conditions are jumping the Mediterranean Sea into southern Europe.
Forest management policies work on a decades-long timescale and need to be more adaptable, EU authorities say.
Prevention “does not receive the necessary emphasis and funding compared to fire suppression,” according to the EU, while “the preparedness of agencies and communities to deal with extreme fire events is often far from optimal.”
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
Experts say authorities must shift their firefighting focus from suppression to prevention, taking into account aspects such as climate adaptation, education and preparedness.
That includes the regular thinning of forests and undergrowth; creating fire breaks; introducing more climate-resilient plant species; and ensuring diversified forests.
Preventively setting fire to countryside, called “prescribed burning,” is regarded as an efficient prevention technique but is controversial in some countries. Greece prohibits it while others, such as France, Portugal and some regions of Spain and Italy allow it under certain conditions.
Technology is also being developed to help fight wildfires, including drones for detection, quick responses, mapping and assessing fire dynamics.
But the EU notes that fire management in Europe is “not making full use of the knowledge and innovation delivered by scientific projects.”
The EU is urging governments to get a better grasp of how climate change is affecting their countries.
The European Forest Institute, established by 29 European countries, struck a gloomy note last year.
If authorities don’t change the make-up of the countryside, the EFI said in a report, emergency services won’t be able to stop what experts refer to as “6th generation wildfires” — commonly known as fire storms.
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Severe acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology in children—what is known?
BMC Medicine volume 20, Article number: 280 (2022)
The ongoing investigations into clusters of children affected by severe acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology have put our global capacity for a coordinated, effective response to the test. The global health community have rapidly convened to share data and inform the response. In the UK, where most cases were initially identified, a coordinated public health and clinical research response was rapidly initiated. Since then, cases have been reported from other countries, predominantly from higher-income countries. While agencies are keeping an open mind to the cause, the working hypothesis and case notifications raise important questions about our capacity to detect emerging cases in lower-resourced settings with a recognised lack of access to diagnostics even for commonly circulating viruses such as hepatitis A. The limited capability to generate integrated global pathogen surveillance data is a challenge for the outbreak investigations, highlighting an urgent need to strengthen access to diagnostics, with a focus on lower-resourced settings, to improve the capacity to detect emerging diseases to inform care and to improve outcomes and outbreak control.
On 31 March 2022, Public Health Scotland (PHS) was alerted to an increase in severe hepatitis of unknown aetiology among children in Scotland . The UK National Health Boards (NHS) were alerted on 1 April and the World Health Organization (WHO) on 5 April [1, 2]. The severity of the cases, affecting young, previously healthy children, some experiencing fulminant hepatitis and liver transplants and within the context of the pandemic, rapidly raised concerns internationally. Cases were initially predominantly identified in the United Kingdom (UK) but have since been reported in multiple countries [2,3,4]. The WHO reported 650 probable cases from 33 countries worldwide (as of 26 May 2022) . Thirty-eight (6%) of these cases have received a liver transplant, and 9 (1%) have died . Most cases identified are in children without underlying medical conditions under the age of 5 years (median 3 years) . Early data from Glasgow, Scotland, indicated that the number of children presenting with abnormal liver function tests was higher-than-expected only in children under 5 years of age . In the UK, most children (86.0%) affected were of white ethnicity and 50.0% females . Most children identified presented with jaundice, preceded by gastrointestinal symptoms including abdominal pain, diarrhoea, pale stools and vomiting and with increased levels of liver enzymes (aspartate transaminase (AST) or alanine aminotransaminase (ALT)) . The most common viruses that cause acute viral hepatitis (hepatitis A, B, C, D and E) were not detected. There has not been any toxicological, environmental or other exposure identified as a causative agent, although investigations continue .
Pathogen testing identified adenovirus in blood samples in 75% of the children tested in the UK . Adenovirus is ubiquitous globally with infections most commonly identified in young children due to a lack of humoral immunity . Adenovirus commonly causes an asymptomatic or mild, self-limiting disease with gastrointestinal or respiratory symptoms . In immunocompromised patients, human adenovirus can sometimes cause severe infections such as cystitis, gastroenteritis, pneumonia, encephalitis, hepatitis or disseminated disease, resulting in significant morbidity and also mortality , but it has not been associated with severe hepatitis in children without any predisposing comorbidities . For the severe acute hepatitis in children with unknown origins, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has published current working theories in order of likelihood. The main working hypotheses include an adenovirus infection plus a co-factor such as abnormal susceptibility or host response due to priming by prior SARS-CoV-2 infection or an exceptionally large wave of adenovirus infections causing a rare consequence to present more frequently . Additional working hypothesis includes a post-SARS-CoV-2 syndrome and/or drug/toxin/environmental factor .
In the UK, the UKHSA is coordinating ongoing public health investigations including case-control studies and is collaborating with international public health agencies such as the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the WHO and with clinical researchers [1, 5].
UKHSA conducted an analysis of 144 confirmed and possible cases presenting with severe acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology (Fig. 1) . They found the median age of patients to be 3 years old (IQR 2–4 years old) . The majority (86.3%) were of white ethnicity, and 50% were females . Onset typically starts with nausea and diarrhoea followed by jaundice, which is the most common feature at presentation. Vomiting, lethargy and pale stool are also common features. Fever and respiratory symptoms were less commonly reported . Blood work shows high transaminases (> 500 IU/L (normal range 10–40 IU/L)), with some cases in Scotland reporting levels higher than 2000 IU/L [1, 5]. As of 16 May, UKHSA reported that 53.3% of the children had fully recovered or been discharged from hospital in England . By 27 May, globally, 38 (6%) of 650 children had reportedly received a liver transplant and 9 (1%) children had died .
Working case definitions
Early during the investigations, there were different case definitions used by different public health organisations, which may have impacted the identification of cases and numbers. Whereas early on, some organisations only included cases with a confirmed adenovirus infection, the case definitions have since been aligned more across organisations, to include any cases of severe acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children. However, there are still differences to consider, such as variation in the age cut-off and time frame for case inclusion (Table 1). The UKHSA case definition is the only one identified that defines a confirmed case . The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), WHO and ECDC have defined cases as those presenting since 1 October 2021, but the UKHSA only includes cases from 1 January 2022 [4, 5, 9, 10]. The UKHSA and US CDC define cases as children below the age of 10, whereas the WHO and ECDC definition include children up to the age of 16 years old [4, 5, 9, 10] The differences between case definitions may impact the number of cases reported nationally and globally. Harmonisation of case definitions is recommended, including a standardised definition for inclusion in international research studies.
Preliminary investigative findings
Hepatitis strains A–E were not identified in any of the cases . As of 25 April, none of the 145 identified confirmed cases under 10 years old in the UK was vaccinated against COVID-19 ; globally, 10 (25.9%) of the 63 probable cases with known vaccination status had received a COVID-19 vaccine [4, 5]. Early investigations detected SARS-CoV-2 in 16 out of 125 (12.8%) cases in England, and 7 (5.6%) of these cases had an adenovirus co-infection . WHO reported that 19 of 169 (11.2%) cases identified up until 21 April were SARS-CoV-2-positive with an adenovirus co-infection . No links to international travel have been reported, except for a case in Spain where a child had travelled from the UK . The UKHSA technical briefing illustrates the multiple pathogens tested for . Adenovirus was the leading pathogen identified in 116 of 179 (64.8%) cases tested . Of the 35 cases that were sub-typed, 77% (n = 27) of these were identified as adenovirus type 41 . The virus was reported more commonly in blood/serum samples than in stool/respiratory samples . Of the 31 cases where adenovirus was not detected, 13 had no testing on blood reported. Blood appears to be the most relevant sample type for the syndrome, and the presence of adenovirus cannot be definitively excluded in other sample types if not detected . WHO reported that of the 181 cases tested globally, 110 (60.8%) tested positive for adenovirus . In the past, adenoviruses have occasionally caused hepatitis in children in children with underlying conditions/immunosuppression . Adenovirus continues to be the most frequently detected pathogen among cases with available data. WHO reports that adenovirus was detected in 55% of cases in the European region and in 45% of cases in the US. SARS-CoV-2 was detected in 15% of cases with available data in the European region and 10% of cases in the US (as of June 2022) .
Since December 2021, there has been a wide range of viruses detected in children under 10 years old, particularly in children aged 1 to 4 years old, including adenovirus, enterovirus, human metapneumovirus, rhinovirus and norovirus . Adenovirus is endemic globally, with more than 50 serotypes identified . Different serotypes display different tissue tropisms that correlate with clinical manifestations of infections. The predominant serotypes circulating at a given time differ among regions and countries and change over time . When comparing adenovirus trends over the last 5 years, there was a notable increase in positive cases detected in 2022 in the UK . However, it is not clear if this is related to an increase in circulation, the easing of pandemic restrictions, changes in social mixing patterns or an incidental finding due to enhanced testing [4, 5, 14].
So far, toxicology investigations have not revealed any specific toxicological or other environmental factors as the cause of the severe acute hepatitis in children detected in multiple countries, but public health investigations are ongoing . The Emerging Infections Task Force (EITaF) from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases earlier queried whether aflatoxins produced by certain Aspergillus fungi, present in multiple foods, may be linked to the hepatitis cases . The UK investigations have not identified aflatoxin as a source, nor any other sources to date. A food-borne toxin or other source is still a working hypothesis under investigation . The current working hypotheses defined by the UKHSA (as of 19 May 2022) are presented in Table 2.
WHO risk assessment
The UK has reported a recent unexpected significant increase in cases of severe acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology in young children . Although the potential role of adenovirus and/or SARS-CoV-2 in the pathogenesis of these cases is one hypothesis, other infectious and non-infectious factors need to be fully investigated to properly assess and manage the risk. As there is an ongoing increasing trend in cases in the UK over the past months together with more extensive case searching, it is very likely that more cases will be detected before the aetiology has been found and corresponding appropriate control and prevention measures have been taken . The WHO is closely monitoring the situation with member states and partners for cases with similar profiles . The WHO has assessed the public health risk at a global level as moderate . This is taking into consideration that (i) the aetiology remains unknown and cases are clinically severe; (ii) there is limited epidemiological, laboratory and clinical information; (iii) limited surveillance capacity may mean that case numbers are underestimated in certain settings; (iv) the likelihood of spread has not been established due to a lack of transmission information; and (v) human-to-human transmission is yet to be ruled out .
Public health response and geographical spread
On 31 March 2022, Public Health Scotland (PHS) was notified of an increase in hepatitis cases with an unknown aetiology affecting children (Fig. 2). On 5 April 2022, the International Health Regulations (IHR) National Focal Point (NFP) for the UK notified the WHO of ten cases of severe acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology in previously healthy young children (age range 11 months to 5 years old) across central Scotland . Of these, nine had onset of symptoms in March 2022 and one in January 2022 . In Glasgow, the number of children presenting with abnormal liver function tests was confirmed higher-than-expected only in children under 5 years old . A National Incident Management Team was established to retrospectively identify cases presenting from 1 January 2022 . ECDC put out an alert on 12 April, and currently, PHS, UKHSA, WHO, ECDC and other public health organisations are collaborating . The WHO has been supporting information sharing with professional networks and is in the process of developing further guidance for member states on diagnostics, case investigation and clinical management .
As of 26 May 2022, the WHO has reported a total of 650 cases across 33 countries dating back to 1 October 2021 (Fig. 3) . The highest numbers have been detected in the UK (n = 222), followed by the USA (n = 216), Japan (n = 31), Spain (n = 29) and Italy (n = − 27) . Of the 33 countries reporting detection of cases, two are low- and middle-income: Indonesia and the Occupied Palestinian Territories . The exact number of cases is uncertain, due to the variations in case definitions used and ongoing investigations. There are differences between the epidemiological updates provided by different public health organisations, which may be partly due to the different case definitions and different reporting systems and timeframes for updates. The requirement for access to diagnostics for defining a case may impact the identification of cases in settings with limited access to diagnostics and a high burden of hepatitis viruses, which means that the total number of cases globally is largely unknown. The emerging data in this evolving situation highlight a need to support investigations in lower-resourced settings to fully understand the global burden, to inform targeted public health and clinical management strategies globally.
Public health investigations and research
Public health agencies are leading the responses and producing regular updates. The UK has activated enhanced paediatric surveillance of severe acute hepatitis in children and investigations of liver tissue to explore mechanisms behind liver injury (e.g. histopathology, T cells review) . Matched case-control studies with sampling are ongoing under the lead of public health organisations (UKHSA) in order to test the associations with potential factors including adenovirus, co-infections and other risk factors for severe hepatitis observed . The UK Clinical Characterisation Protocol (CCP) has been activated across the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, to document standardised patient data and samples for research, including meta-genomics (Table 3) . The WHO is collaborating with other organisations in the coordination of investigations. For cases in Europe, joint WHO/ECDC data collection will be established using the European Surveillance System (TESSy) . Guidance derived by the UKHSA has been issued to affected countries to support a thorough investigation of suspected cases. A survey of paediatric and liver centres, to establish if severe acute hepatitis is above previous background rates, has been expanded and implemented in multiple countries .
There are significant challenges remaining in identifying the cause of the observed increase in cases of severe hepatitis of unknown aetiology in children. There are challenges in ascertaining whether it is a true increase or partly an effect of easing of earlier pandemic restrictions together with increased identification of cases. Differing case definitions used early on, and limited access to surveillance data on the circulation of non-notifiable viruses, such as adenoviruses adds to the complexity. Although there is a range of working hypotheses, there are yet no confirmative evidence.
The investigations are led by public health authorities in affected countries, as is the norm for clusters of cases, or outbreaks of unknown aetiology of this nature. The fact that we are still responding to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic may have contributed to the heightened response and alert of global organisations. The rapid identification and notification to the global community via WHO and the IHR mean that global health agencies have rapidly convened to help coordinate investigations and step-up preparedness in other regions.
Although the notification of cases shows collaborative coordination between organisations globally, it has also raised important issues around the capacity to detect cases if they were to emerge in lower-resourced settings, where access to the required diagnostics is limited.
The early and ongoing response highlights that the global capability for a coordinated response has improved, through timely notifications and sharing of protocols and data between health and public health agencies, and close collaboration between microbiologists, clinicians, researchers and public health experts, informing an appropriate response. It also however highlights the known gap in surveillance data and a need to strengthen the capacity for detection, diagnostics and surveillance in many settings worldwide . Moreover, there is a need for harmonisation of case definitions for case detection and for research. Furthermore, coordination of information and channels for conveying data to the public prevent fake news, with a wider impact on health systems, responses and individual health decisions. There has already been remarkable cross-organisational collaboration, nationally and internationally. The speed of the initial response potentially reflects lessons learnt during the COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting once again the importance of sustaining an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to outbreak response. The severity of the cases and the fact that they are affecting young children add to the importance of keeping an open mind to the aetiology and the urgency of identifying and controlling the correct source to prevent exposure, identify appropriate treatments, reduce morbidity and improve outcomes for those affected.
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FSU’s hadronic physics group is a leading member of the GlueX Collaboration at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The group ran highly sophisticated experiments around the clock for months at a time over several years starting in 2016. Their main goal is to ferret out new information about the material — called the gluonic field — that ties together quarks. Quarks are fundamental particles that create protons and neutrons.
In a new paper published in Physical Review Letters, the hadronic physics group at Florida State University and their collaborators laid out the first-ever measurements of a subatomic particle — called the J/psi particle — created out of the energy in the photon-proton collisions.
“It’s really cool to see,” said Assistant Professor of Physics Sean Dobbs. “This is opening up a new frontier of physics.”
When researchers run these experiments, they blast a photon beam into the GlueX spectrometer where it passes through a canister of liquid hydrogen and reacts with the protons in the nucleus of these hydrogen atoms. From there, the detectors measure the particles created in these collisions, which allows physicists to reconstruct the details of the collision and learn more about the created particles.
Dobbs compared it to a car wreck. You might not see the wreck happen, but you see the result and can work backward. In this case, researchers collected about one to two million gigabytes of data per year through this process to try to piece together the puzzle.
The J/psi particle is composed of a pair of quarks – a charm quark and an anti-charm quark. In measuring the J/psi particle in these collisions, scientists can also look for the production of other charm quark-containing subatomic particles.
The measurements were taken at an energy threshold below where previous studies looked at production levels, meaning it was more sensitive to the distribution of the gluons in the proton and their contributions to the proton mass.
Scientists found a much larger production of J/psi particles than expected, meaning this gluonic structure is a big contributor to the mass of the proton structure, and thus the nucleus as a whole. These initial measurements suggest that the gluons directly contribute more than 80 percent of the mass of the proton. Further measurements of these reactions currently underway will give more insight into how the gluons are distributed around the nucleon.
These measurements also brought into question observations from experiments on the Large Hadron Collider, a particle detector at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Scientists there briefly glimpsed what they are calling pentaquarks – short lived particles made of five quarks.
FSU physicists did not specifically see pentaquarks in their data, which has ruled out several models which attempt to describe the structure of these pentaquarks. Further measurements underway are expected to give a more definitive answer on how the five quarks are arranged in these particles.
This work is funded by the Department of Energy and supported by the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The GlueX collaboration involves scientists from 29 institutions around the world.
FSU Professor Volker Credé, FSU Scientists Alexander Ostrovidov, postdoctoral fellow Daniel Lersch, and several FSU graduate students contributed to this work. The graduate students are Jason Barlow, Edmundo Barriga, Bradford Cannon, Ashley Ernst, Angelica Goncalves, and Lawrence Ng. | <urn:uuid:01acdb89-e436-4f44-bfc3-5d3b7360a3cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.fsu.edu/news/science-technology/2019/10/09/fsu-physics-researchers-break-new-ground-explore-unknown-energy-regions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.931163 | 821 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Vibrant and colorful. Folk dances in Indian states are India’s identity in a way. India is a land of the most diverse cultures and traditions in the world. Be it a folk, classical or any other style, India has a wide range of dance forms. In a country, where dialect and food changes every 100 km, how could the folk dances remain the same?
So folks dances in India also change in style, dress, artists, music, folklore etc. India has dances for four different seasons as well. There is at least one dance in almost every state for the harvest time. These folk dances have evolved with time and depict expressions of happiness, sorrow, devotion, discipline and different moods and emotions of the society. Some of them also teach us a lesson. But all of them showcase the life in different forms of Indian culture.
Table of Contents
- 1 Folk Dances of Assam
- 2 Folk Dances of Gujarat
- 3 Folk Dances of Himachal Pradesh
- 4 Folk Dances of Ladakh
- 5 Folk Dances of Manipur
- 6 Folk Dances of Rajasthan
- 7 Folk Dances of Uttarakhand
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Folk Dances of Assam
If we talk about dances in Indian states, Bihu dance is not only a folk dance of Assam but stands in the top ten folk dances of India. The Bihu Dance is a traditional dance form of Assam state, named after the famous Bihu festival. There are three Bihu festivals but Bihu dance is performed during ‘Rongali Bihu’. The festival is celebrated in mid-April every year during the Asssamese new year and the Bihu festival dance showcases the fertility of fields. It is more like celebrating the season with a harvest dance.
Traditionally Bihu dance is performed among the local farmer community mainly in fields, forests or at river banks. The exact details about the history of Bihu dance is not known but Bihu is considered as the start of Spring season in Assam. The group dance of Bihu is performed by both young males and females to show their joy of spring season arrival.
The Bihu dance involves rhythmic and energetic dance steps with quick hand movements. As for the dresses for dances goes, the male performers wear traditional dhotis and gamocha in bright colours while women wear traditional assamese attire- Chador and Mekhela for the dance. The music is a vital part of Bihu dance and instruments like Dhol, Pepa,Taal etc are used. The music instruments play the main role in any folk dance and it’s the same in case of traditional Bihu dance. Everyone dances to the tunes in beautiful and colorful attire sharing the joy of festival season.
The traditional Bihu dance is eye catching and it’s worth cherishing. If you happen to visit Assam, you can see the tribes performing this harvest dance at villages during Bihu festival.
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Another group dance of Assam is Jhumur dance. It is the clinking sound of the anklets worn by the dancers that gave this traditional folk dance of Assam its name – Jhumur. The dance is also, performed in some parts of West Bengal during the Autumn season. It does not just celebrate auspicious festivals like Karam Pooja but also, fills as a harvest dance in the idle time at the tea plantations.
Women clad in white sarees with red borders hold each other by hands or waist and move rhythmically to the beats of a traditional drum called Madal. The other musical instruments that are used in Jhumur group dance include flutes and Taal. The men usually wear long dhotis and join in with these musical instruments.
This is one of the best dances in Indian states. The beauty of this traditional dance of Assam Jhumur comes in from the perfect synchronization of not just the group dancing style but also, the way they move in tune to the beats of the Madal. The folklore dance theme revolves around everyday life. Sometimes, it also portrays a love dance of courtship and love. It is also, believed that Jhumur pleases the Rain God, who then showers his blessings on the various tea estates.
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Folk Dances of Gujarat
If you take names of Indian dances, Dandiya will probably come in top five. Dandiya dance or Dandiya Raas from Gujarat is one of the most popular Indian folk dances played during Navratri. Navratri symbolises the victory of good over evil and celebrates the spirit. Dandiya Raas is a way of that celebration in honor of Goddess Durga. Dandiya is the dramatization of a mock fight between the Goddess and Mahishasura – the mighty demon-king. The sticks (dandiya) used for Dandiya raas represent the sword of Goddess Durga. Hence, it also is nicknamed as “The Sword Dance”.
The dresses for Dandiya dancers is traditional attire comprising of multi-colored three-piece dress with a long skirt, blouse and bandhani dupatta for women, all heavily embroidered with colored threads, shells, beads and mirror work. Costume for men also is a heavily decorated jacket and dhoti.
The dance is performed in partners and they rotate during the dance. Dancers perform in a graceful and rhythmic manner on the beats of music in a circle as they circle around the ‘mandvi’. The movement is continuous.
Folk Dances of Himachal Pradesh
One of the folk dances of India is Nati dance. Nati is a traditional folk dance of Himachal Pradesh that is popular throughout the state. There are numerous versions of the dance, including the Kulluvi Nati, Shimla Nati, Lahuali Nati, Kinnauri Lati, and more.
The tradition is performed in large groups, participated in a competition of group dances and even broke the Guinness World Record for the largest folk dance in the world. This title was given after more than 9000 women danced Nati at once during a 2015 local festival.
Though women may have broken the world record, both genders can participate in this long-standing tradition, and in fact, it is believed to have originally been joined in by men only. One of the most notable features of Nati is that it is performed for days on end during weddings and other celebrations. It is one of the wedding dances in Indian states but is not a bridal dance. Dancers join hands in a crisscrossed fashion and move synchronically to the beats of dhol drums and trumpets.
Traditionally, men will wear white outfits and colorful, streaming headdresses while women will wear both colorful outfits and headgear. Since the dance is known to continue on for hours on end, some days of weddings and festivals will see dancers in more casual outfits.
There is no training for Nati, it is simply a unique Indian group dance that has been passed down through generations of Himachali locals, everywhere from Parvati Valley to Kalpa. If you want to see Nati performed up close (and perhaps get a chance to jump on into the group yourself), the easiest way to do this would be by attending a Himachali festival.
Since weddings are held randomly and wouldn’t be known about without local contacts, attending a celebration like Dussehra, which is held each October in Kullu, would be the perfect place to start. The massive annual event is where the world record was broken and is attended by tens of thousands from all over the state and the country. If you do plan to attend, be sure to book a hotel room early. These days, Dussehra even attracts international visitors and rooms can sell out.
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Folk Dances of Ladakh
One of the popular dances in Indian states is the Cham dance is a vibrant mask and costume dance associated with some sects of Tibetan Buddhism. Cham has a religious significance, therefore, it is performed by only monks and lamas. It is a form of meditation for both dancers and the audience The music for the dance is played by the monks using traditional Tibetan percussion musical instruments such as cymbals. They also use Dramyin Cham, where time is kept using Dramyin. Generally, the leader of the Cham is a musician and guides the team of performers.
The colorful and impressive ritual is performed for the greater cause of humanity, destruction of bad spirits and for moral instruction to viewers. The dance also known as the ‘God Dance’. But the western world of 20th century has given it another name, derived from its costumes, …. ‘ Devil dance’. 🙂 During the dance, monks impersonate deities and protectors.
Cham Dance is a form of offering for performing Monks and is performed during religious festivals. This religious dance can be seen in parts of Himalaya, Ladakh, Dharamshala, Lahaul Valley, Spiti Valley & Sikkim, and Bhutan and Tibet.
Folk Dances of Manipur
When it comes to traditional folk dances of India, one cannot forget to mention the Manipuri Raslila dance. The dance is native to the beautiful north-eastern state of India, called Manipur and occupies an important position not just in local Manipuri culture but in ancient Hindu culture as well.
Performed in the capital city of Imphal and its surrounding provinces, the Rasleela or Raslila dance is a subdivision of the Jagoi dance form. The particular Raslila dance is a tribute to the love story between Lord Krishna and his committed devotee Radha.
Raslila is one of the most graceful classical Indian dance forms whose corresponding music is mainly played on two instruments – flute and a Manipuri drum called Pung. The songs sung for the dance speak highly of the two lovers – Radha and Lord Krishna, and show a playful visualization of how they fell in love.
The dance has a rich history and finds references in the Vedic texts dating back to the 18th century. As for dresses for dances goes, what’s unique about the dance costume is, with the women wearing a Koktumbi attire with a Potloi cylindrical skirt with embellishments on it.
There are five types of Raslilas – with two performed in public and three performed in Shri Govindaji temple. The dance is performed by people belonging to the local Manipuri tribe “Meitei“, generally on the occasion of Krishna Janmashtami i.e. a festival celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna but you can also see the dance being performed in Manipuri weddings.
The group dance can be performed by both guys and girls so it isn’t gender specific. If you’re visiting Manipur during August, then don’t miss out on watching this elegant and beautiful dance form!
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Folk Dances of Rajasthan
In a country with so many folk dances in Indian states, Chari from Rajasthan definitely stands out for many reasons. Named after the pots that the women hold over their heads, Chari Dance celebrates the art of collecting water by the Rajasthani women in a chari or pot in their daily life. The origins of this dance trace back to the Gujjar community in Kishangarh. And it’s a dance where only women perform.
The first thing that reaches out to you while watching a Chari performance is the powerful sound of dhol and bankia, an Indian music instrument. The background folk music also uses other instruments such as thali, harmonium and nagada.
Then one takes note of the colorful attire of the women, the assorted Rajasthani golden ornaments such as the big nose rings, Hansli, Timniya, Mogri. The women dance together to the music while balancing the flaming pots on their heads skilfully, without even touching the pots really. The flame is lit with a diya (oil lamp) or with cotton seeds immersed in fire.
In Rajasthan, the Chari dance is often performed in big festivals, and to celebrate marriage ceremonies and childbirth. If you are a foreigner visiting India, and you are in Rajasthan, chances are that it might be performed as a welcome dance in a hotel as well or in touristy places.
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Another one of the famous folk dances in Indian states is Ghoomer. A famous traditional folk dance of Rajasthan, Ghoomer was originally performed by the Bhil tribe as a part of worshipping Goddess Saraswati. But then was adopted slowly by other communities in Rajasthan as well. And it can now be witnessed at several special occasions like wedding dance and festival dance.
While performing this dance, the ladies wear the traditional Rajasthani dress “Ghagahra” and put a long veil (called “Ghoonghat“) which covers their head and most part of their face. One of the main steps of this dance form is to move in circles and at the same time go round and round at high speed around an invisible circular circumference. Which requires exceptional stamina and balance on the dancer’s part. Not just that, since it is performed in a group, the dancers also have to pay attention that while performing the dance, they maintain the exact distance between themselves from the start to the end. The energy, rhythm and the balance is something that really sets this Ghoomar dance form apart. When performed synchronously in a group, with the traditional Rajasthani music & song in the background, it produces a beautiful and mesmerizing sight to behold.
One can have the pleasure of witnessing the Ghoomer dance performance by top local artists in Shilpgram – the artist village setup in Udaipur. The dance is also performed at several other tourist locations across Rajasthan at designated times of the day. If one is visiting the Bagore Ki Haveli Museum in Udaipur, or the City Palace of Udaipur, they can witness the Ghoomer dance performance there towards the evening. When visiting the Thar deserts of Rajasthan, one can witness small groups of local artists who entertain and perform the dance in the middle of the desert on tourist demand, thereby producing a beautiful and colorful scene in the middle of the golden sea of sand. Overall, it’s one of the most captivating and beautiful traditional dance forms of India.
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Folk Dances of Uttarakhand
One of the popular folk dances in Indian states is Choliya dance. This dance form is practiced in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, Choliya Dance is a sword dance that is usually performed on auspicious occasions. This particular dance form is exceedingly popular in Almora, Pithoragarh, Bageshwar, etc. of the Kumaon region and is thousands of years old.
Earlier, this dance was performed at local Rajput weddings and has a religious dance significance. This dance is basically a folklore dance and is said to offer protection from demons and evil spirits. Marriage processions were considered the apt time for demons to follow the people and bewitch them. And performing Choliya Dance was the only way to prevent it and ensure that the marriage processions go without a hitch.
Since this dance is based on the martial art traditions of the Kumaon region, they play battle-like music and engage in synchronized mock fights as part of the dance. The dancers hold instruments such as swords, turhi, ransing, etc., they perform the group dance and give the impression of fiery warriors who are heading for battle. There are also musicians that hold dhols and dumaus to play the music while the dancers engage in a sophisticated routine.
What’s really interesting to note is their dress code for this performance. They wear traditional Kumauni attire including white churidar pajama, chola, taanka on the head, and sandalwood paste covering their face. They resemble the martial warriors that earlier stayed in the Kumaon region and it is a privilege to watch them perform this Sword dance. Best way to reach Uttarakhand from Delhi is to take a road trip.
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) started final stage of drilling 13 wells in a giant gas field close to the southern island of Kish with the aim of producing one billion cubic feet (bcf) of gas per day.
National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) discovered the field back in 2006. The gas field holds 66 tcf of gas in place of which 50 tcf is recoverable.
The development plan of the gas field will be implemented in 3 phases. The first phase of the gas field will be completed with the aim of producing 3 billion cu ft of gas, 45,000 barrels of natural-gas condensate as well as 2.9 bcf of low-density gas per day.
According to Abdolreza Haji Hosseinnejad, the managing director of Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC), which is developing the Kish gas field, the giant gas field will be operational in November 2015.
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Transcript from the "v-once & v-pre" Lesson
>> v-once and v-pre, I mentioned before that I have my favorites. These are my less than favorites. I mean, they're okay but they're just not quite as useful. v-once will not update once it's been rendered to the page and v-pre will print out the inner text exactly how it is, including code.
[00:00:16] And I will show you an example so that you can see that with some clarity. So if I say what, is my favorite kind of taco, and I say I like Al Pastor tacos, I'm gonna say, I like Carne Asada tacos. You can see that that first v-once, which has the mustache templates, didn't change, right?
[00:00:36] It outputted to the page what I had initially, which was I like Al Pastor tacos, but as soon as I updated it, it didn't change at all. So that's useful sometimes, sometimes. I also show you v-pre next to pre because I think it's important to know that there's this distinction there, sometimes people get caught up in like, I thought it was gonna do this.
[00:00:58] The pre tag is just a basic HTML pre tag that's outputting kind of pretty printed code to the page, whereas the v-pre isn't doing quite the same thing. The v-pre is taking whatever I have in here and it's not evaluating anything the typical view way. So rather than evaluating those mustache templates to tacos, like we did above, it's just going to show you that moustache template is just gonna show you a string.
[00:01:26] And the reason why we have something like this is it's really useful for documentation. So if you're working on a doc site and you need to show people, no, literally, this is exactly what this is, this is a really good way of doing that. And beneath, I'm using this opportunity in showing you pre to show you a cute little debugger thing.
[00:01:47] This dollar sign, when we use it in view, often is referring to the view instance itself. It's a special thing the view is giving us to dive into some of the internals. And here what we're saying is dollar sign data, which is a relationship with this. So it will print whatever I have in data to this page.
[00:02:07] It will say hi, and it will literally say hi beneath. Now, you know that we have those view dev tools that we've been working with, but there might be some instances where you don't wanna go back and forth to a dev tool, or you just wanna see something really quickly.
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We have stories on the blend this morning with sis Diana cotton, director of marketing and media for smart environmental radon and mitigation. We also have Mike Carroll, who’s a certified radon mitigation technician. Welcome back to the blend Diana. You’ve been here before and told us a bit of radon, but I want you to remind viewers what raid on it. Yeah, so radon is a naturally occurring carcinogenic gasp. It’s the number two cause of lung cancer, second only to smoking. And it’s a breakdown of your radium in rock and soil in the ground creeps into homes through the foundation. How do we know if we have it, and that would be by testing a simple DIY test? You can purchase that flash right on or go to 911 right on.com to get a simple DIY test there. And like this is probably where you come in because once we do that test and we find that yes indeed there is radon what happens that you’ll have a radon mitigation system installed, we brought a video that will show you what a system looks like being installed. Let’s take a look. In this video, we’re showing you how to put a standard system into a sump pump. The first step will be to drill a pilot hole through to the outside to locate the system. Once our pipe and our electrical are run through into the inside of the house, we will make a lid for the subcover. We anchor the clamps to the wall and anchor our pipe to the wall after gluing it into the 90-degree fitting that was first placed on. Once our pipe is down to the appropriate level, we will run it into the sump pump. Now starting on the outside, we will cut the pipe approximately six inches away from the wall to allow a bigger fan if necessary. On this system, a standard fan is all that is needed for pulling from a self crop. Now that the pipe is cut, we will put a 90-degree fitting and rubber coupling and then our fans. Now we are going to start running the pipe vertically on the home. We will cut the pipe to an appropriate length to make sure that we are at least 18 to 20 inches above the roof once. We have the pipe run to the appropriate height, and we will clamp the pipe to the house. We will take the customer downstairs and show them the gauge that we have placed on the pipe. The gauge is significant because it shows that we are pulling a vacuum. A fan has stopped running if the two blue fluid lines on the gauge are equal to zero. The only maintenance that is required for this system is checking this team. Now that our technician has explained everything on the system as far as maintenance and testing goes, the system is complete. This could save lives. It’s so important to get that if they’d like to get that work, and they do that again so they can call one eight hundred no right on. Alright, thank you so much, guys. | <urn:uuid:4d9136d9-4af7-46cf-ae49-5978ed658a96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kycontractor.com/eliminating-radon-from-a-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951445 | 626 | 1.78125 | 2 |
To properly address research and innovation in nanomedicine and advanced therapies, the confluence of several scientific disciplines such as microelectronics, chemistry, physics, biology and biomedicine among others, becomes highly relevant. These multidisciplinary research groups build upon strong cooperation with clinical specialists and health care providers to ensure proper clinical translation. For this, intellectual and physical proximity of medical care and basic and clinical researchers is fundamental. It is a form of convergence of doctors, health care and research, which convey the applied knowledge needed to ensure success. This will guarantee both the development and validation, together with the applicability of the progress and results of the investigations, from bench to bedside. | <urn:uuid:b6780732-8216-4508-a9ca-7603de003d7c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.cibbim.eu/cibbim-services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.922722 | 146 | 1.859375 | 2 |
The fault most often lies upfront in the design cycle - with a failure to understand the needs of the organization and learning audience. In this course, you'll examine how to conduct a proper learning needs assessment, a key step in ensuring that learning is aligned with the correct workplace performance issues and focused on the right skill and knowledge gaps. You will learn match the best needs analysis methods for a variety of situations, practice various techniques for collecting and interpreting data, and prepare a needs analysis plan. Through practical exercises and case studies you will strengthen your own ability to analyze situations and confidently present recommendations.
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With today’s bustling and growing economy, it is hard to maintain a balance between work life and our personal life. Some of us work for 10 hours a day and barely have any energy left to relax. Some of us are so preoccupied with work that it is hard to feel the need to take a break. Some of us feel that if we take a break, it will disrupt our work flow and some of us don’t want to work at all but just do to survive. So how do we maintain a balance between taking a break and relaxing versus working productively? Do not worry because we are here to tell you how.
Before learning to balance the priorities in your life, it is first important for you to understand what exactly your priorities are. Are you doing something you love or are you working at a job you hate? Do you put career before your life? What is your current life situation? What are your future goals? These are some questions you might want to tackle first before making the balance.
It might be hard to tackle all these questions in a day and especially at a time. Start by taking a notebook. Write down your priorities. Write down your questions. Write down what you would like to achieve in the future- your future goals big or small.
Once you have answered all these questions and got your answers in place, the next thing you do is, keep that book of answers in a corner safely. Do not touch that book until further notice. Now it is time to plan your life in accordance to the answers you have written in the book. If your main priority is to work, then work. If your main priority is to become a better person, then take steps towards that. Whatever it is you plan on achieving, start doing it right away. It may not be attainable in a day but practice is what makes a man perfect.
Now, coming to the second point, if you are a workaholic, how can you maintain a balance between your work and personal life? Do not worry, it is achievable. All you need is a little bit of perseverance and dedication along with self control.
First of all, you need to understand that work is not life. Life has so many things to offer and you are missing that by looking at your screen or sitting in meetings. Money can buy you a lot of things but definitely not happiness. Explore the world, create memories, do something adventurous that you haven't done before like skydiving or surfing. Life is too short and precious to waste it in front of the corporate world stuck in the capitalism simulation.
Secondly, an important aspect- it is okay to not be perfect. No one on this planet is absolutely perfect. It is okay to not work continuously and take a break. Working without taking a break can actually have a negative effect on your mental and physical health. It can even cause psychosomatic diseases, meaning you will develop stress in the mind that can lead to failure of multiple organs. It is okay to not be perfect. Let go of wanting to be a perfectionist. But this does not mean neglect everything and make mistakes all the time. It means that you do the best you can and do not compare yourself to others to see if you are doing better than them or do not stress yourself out and put yourself down for no reason at all.
The next step is, you unplug. Get rid of all electronic devices once you’re done with work. You will already be spending too much time looking at screens throughout the day. And now, especially because we are in a pandemic, it is obvious that a lot of us are working from home and rely on technology to connect us to work, peers and family. When you are done with your work for the day, turn off all your electronic devices. Spend time sleeping, cooking or relaxing. It is preferable that you do something that relaxes and rejuvenates you rather than stressing you out.
Have you ever received complaints from your family that you are too busy and that you do not spend enough time with them? Then do not worry because you are in the right place for the answer. As a working individual, it is obvious that you want to do great at your workplace and at the same time, be there for your family during the important and best moments. This is where you learn how to segregate your time. Once you finish work, come home and spend time with your family. As you enter the house, refrain yourself from indulging in any work calls or important appointments. Family always comes first. It is important that you learn the fact that you can make money and support your family. Losing a job means you can always get another job but losing a family member means they are lost forever. Make sure your family and yourself are your highest priorities. Do what you love not what you have to.
If you are undergoing too much stress, pick up a few stress busting activities such as picking up a new hobby, listening to music, reading books, exercising and meditating. Exercising and meditating have proved strongly to be effective ways to rejuvenate yourself for when you’re feeling stressful. They can also help you deal with negative emotions such as anger, depression, rage, sadness, stress etc. They also help keep you fit and healthy, benefiting your physical and mental health positively. A healthy diet can also help you keep going effectively at work for long hours without feeling lazy or lethargic.
This is a common activity we witness with most people. Since they have to work throughout the week, they have no time to hang out with friends and party. Hence, they party on the weekend instead. This is not a good activity and we will tell you why. You probably get one or two days off and you will have to hustle for 5 or 6 days in a week. Is it really worth it spending the one day you can take rest to go drink and then suffer with a hangover and probably get sick?
We are not advising you to not party. Partying is great every body loves a great party. What we are saying is, refrain yourself from doing it as often as every week. Limit yourself to hanging out from once a week to probably once in two or three weeks.
Here is a scenario for you. You are a working individual. You work for 10 hours a day and now you’re finally back home, ready to prepare a meal for you and your family and go to bed. However, over the course of time your workload increases and you have to work for longer hours. This means you have no time to spare at home to do the cooking or cleaning. What do you do?
Do not fret. You cannot tell your boss or employees that you can’t work so late but you can tell your family that you will now be delegating work. Ask someone in the household to buy the groceries and keep them cut and ready for you to cook. Delegating work among family members not only creates a stronger bond but brings about an understanding among all the family members. It also makes each individual more responsible towards their duties. Do not change the course of others existing lives but instead change the course of yours.
And last but not the least, take it easy. Do not expect the whole course of your life to change at once. After all, Rome was not built in a day. Take small steps and start small. Then, gradually change the course and design your life which benefits you and the ones around you.
Do not expect results to come easily or even in a day. With just a little bit of determination and hard work, anything is achievable. We wish you the very best for your future endeavors.
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اللاتفية for beginners
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Learn اللاتفية quickly and easily with 50LANGUAGES MP3-language courses! اللاتفية as a foreign language includes 100 easy lessons. All dialogues and sentences are spoken by native speakers. No prior grammar knowledge is needed. You can start learning immediately! Just click on the sentences to see the answers.
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Vatican City, Aug 3. Pope Francis today criticized the ideologies that threaten the history and traditions of ancestral peoples and asked the Church not to repeat mistakes and build unity, “respecting and valuing the diversity of each people and each person.”
He said it during the audience this Wednesday held in the Paul VI Hall of the Vatican and recalling his trip to Canada, made between July 24 and 30, a journey of “memory, reconciliation and healing” that he described as a “penitential pilgrimage” to “ask forgiveness from the indigenous peoples who suffered for so many Christians, including many Catholics”.
“Faced with the ideologies that threaten peoples trying to erase their history and their traditions, the Church feels challenged and does not want to repeat mistakes. Her mission in the world is to announce the Gospel and build unity, respecting and valuing the diversity of each people and of each person,” said Francisco, during the greetings in Spanish to the faithful present in the audience.
Moments earlier, and in Italian, he recalled how in Canada “the colonizing mentality is presenting itself today in various forms of ideological colonization, which threaten the traditions, history and religious ties of peoples, flattening differences, concentrating only on the present and often neglecting the duties towards the weakest and most fragile”.
“It is therefore about recovering a healthy balance, a harmony between modernity and ancestral cultures, between secularization and spiritual values,” he argued.
The pope assured that “in Canada a journey has begun to write a new page, an important page, of the path that the Church has been following for a long time together with the indigenous peoples.”
“It was a penitential pilgrimage. There were many moments of joy, but the meaning and tone of the whole was one of reflection, repentance and reconciliation,” he added.
Finally, he wished that “the indigenous peoples of Canada be an example for all native populations not to close, but to offer their indispensable contribution to a more fraternal humanity.” EFE | <urn:uuid:b00abb9d-0bbd-4a8d-a8e2-dc870dc2bfcd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.accessnfr.live/2022/08/03/pope-criticizes-ideologies-that-threaten-ancestral-peoples/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966856 | 445 | 2.34375 | 2 |
- IU Bloomington
John W. Foster was born in Petersburg, Indiana, in 1836. Foster graduated from Indiana University in 1855 and then earned a Harvard law degree. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Foster was commissioned a major with the 25th Indiana, then became commander of the 65th Indiana Mounted Infantry, and later was made commander of the 136th Indiana and promoted to colonel. Foster’s men were the first to enter Knoxville, Tennessee, after the Siege of Knoxville.
After the war, Foster became a journalist and a strong advocate of the Republican party. He went on to serve as ambassador to Mexico, Russia, and Spain. Eventually, under fellow Hoosier Benjamin Harrison, he served as secretary of state, where his most notable role was in the annexation of Hawaii.
Foster also had a law practice in Washington, D.C., that represented the interests of foreign countries and corporations. He lobbied on behalf of the Chinese government to end the ban of Chinese immigrants to the United States, and authored several books on diplomacy and foreign relations. Foster Quad on the Bloomington campus was named in his honor. To read more about John Watson Foster’s military service, read War Stories for My Grandchildren, a very limited print autobiography of his military service available via the IU Library. | <urn:uuid:52f75567-2f19-4ab7-a50f-9ba6f592dc53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://goldenbook.iu.edu/veteran-stories/foster-john.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.984962 | 275 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Alternative Payments Infographic: International E-commerce
There are 200+ payment methods used around the world. This infographic illustrates where credit cards are falling short and some of the variety of payment types. Also a brief look at SEPA, the mandate to change bank debits in all EU countries.
The advantages of offering Alternative Payment methods may be lost in the credit card dominated US. This illustrates where e-commerce can benefit by offering the preferred payment types outside the US. | <urn:uuid:696d9b60-4e99-40ff-9722-980470e92487> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alternativepayments.com/blog/alternative-payments-infographic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.922357 | 95 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Many readers of our books have written to us asking about how to confront psychoheresies in their churches and families. This is often a delicate issue. There is often an immediate suspicion that someone is attacking a person rather than questioning ideas and practices from a biblical perspective. Thus, the person who confronts psychoheresies is very often branded as divisive. (See “Ad Hominem,” page 8.)
The partial verse that is used to condemn anyone who might question psychological counseling theories and methods is this: “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses. . . and avoid them.” But they ignore the middle of the sentence, which reads “contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned.” Here is the whole verse in context:
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple (Romans 16:17,18).
Therefore the ones about whom this passage speaks are those who are teaching unbiblical doctrines. The passage thus applies to those who are attempting to combine the psychological notions of men with Scripture and who are teaching “another gospel.”
Jesus, Our Example
How then can we contend for the faith in a climate that will not tolerate controversy and in a psychologized church? There is no simple method, but there is a Person to follow. Jesus Christ, who is living in every believer, is our example, wisdom, and enabler. We need to look at how He contended for the true faith in the midst of a perverse generation.
In His wisdom and grace Jesus spoke the perfect words with the perfect attitude. He spoke according to what He saw to be the faith of the listener. He challenged Nicodemus, who approached Jesus with an open heart, with spiritual truth. Yet He publicly condemned other Pharisees to their faces. He patiently taught those who would listen. He did not succumb to teaching them what they wanted, but rather the very Word of God.
Jesus knew when to speak and when to be silent. He knew the right approach with each person. Thus we need to be in prayer about each situation. And we need to be prepared: “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15). If we have been hiding the Word of God in our minds and hearts we will more easily be able to “shun profane and vain babblings,” which “increase unto more ungodliness” (2 Timothy 2:16).
Sometimes people feel compelled to say something in each and every situation to set people straight. However, there are times when the best wisdom is to be silent. Jesus was silent when Herod questioned Him. Furthermore, He did not allow Himself to be drawn into pointless discussion even though the Pharisees attempted to trick Him time and again.
There are other times when just a few words may be as much as a listener will receive. We never see Jesus filling the air with wasted words. He knew when He had said as much as one would receive. We need to pray for His wisdom!
But even with His great wisdom, Jesus met with much opposition—not only from the Pharisees, but even from some of his followers. At first huge crowds followed Him and seemed to take in His teachings with great enthusiasm. But, we see a turning point in Chapter 6 of John’s Gospel. The thousands who had eaten the miraculously multiplied bread had followed him to Capernaum to receive more benefits. Jesus pointed out their wrong motivation and challenged them to something greater than material gain:
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed (John 6:26,27).
He further challenged them with the truth of His identity: “I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst” (John 6:35). He told them that even though they saw Him, they did not believe. Then he gave an important key concerning how people respond to truth. He said: “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). And when the people murmured, he said: “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:44). Thus, after Jesus taught further about being the Bread of Life, “Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? (John 6: 60).
Many people equate speaking the truth in love with never saying anything negative about anyone. However, when Jesus spoke the truth in love He said plenty of negative things—not only to the Pharisees but also to the crowds. Those whose hearts were hard and unresponsive to the truth turned away and even became antagonistic, but those whose hearts had been prepared by the Lord responded in faith. Here is the record of the opposite responses:
From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him (John 6:66).
Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God (John 6:67-69).
What a contrast! Stark unbelief and the height of faith!
Approach and Attitude
What must be our approach and our attitude? First we need to determine where we are in the controversy. Has the person yet been taught properly? Has the person even considered the possibility that psychological counseling theories and therapies might undermine the Word of God and the work of the Holy Spirit? Or, is the person already committed to and promoting psychoheresy? Since we cannot know the mind and heart of another individual, we must begin with patient, careful teaching with the attitude of meekness, according to Paul’s instruction to Timothy.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will (2 Timothy 2:24-26).
If after prayer, one presents the case for the Word of God and the work of the Holy Spirit and sounds the warning, people leave the psychoheresy and turn again to the Word of God, then that person has won a brother. If, on the other hand, the person warned remains committed to psychoheresy, then the best thing to do is to continue to pray and to wait on the Lord for further opportunity.
We cannot depend upon our own cleverness or our own powers of persuasion in such spiritual battles. Paul’s words to the Ephesians on spiritual warfare are of supreme importance here. How we desire to encourage Christians to “put on the whole armour of God” so that we all “may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil”! (Ephesians 6:11-18.)
Our desire is to reveal the errors of psychology so that Christians will clothe themselves with truth, arm themselves with the Word of God, and shield themselves with faith in God rather than in the wisdom of men.
The deception of the enemy is so very clever that even Christians who know their Bibles are being snared by various forms of psychoheresy. We often hear of churches in which the pastor preaches faithfully from the Word on Sundays and yet many of the programs during the week are steeped in psychoheresy. Somehow the truth of the Word is not applied in the life, and people fill the gap with the wisdom of the world.
Deidre received a phone call from woman who did not identify herself, but who attends a church where the pastor strongly speaks out against the use of psychological counseling theories and therapies. She said she was confused. As they talked, she continually responded with, “Yes, but . . .” and would proceed to parrot the usual one liners spoken by those who promote psychoheresy. After their conversation, it occurred to Deidre that the woman probably feeds on psychoheresy during the week. Then on Sunday she attends church and hears just the opposite. No wonder she is confused! Deidre tried to encourage her to be a Berean and test these things with the Word of God. We pray that she will.
So many seem to have lost confidence in the Lord’s provisions and in the sufficiency of Scripture for all matters of life and conduct. Ears have been tickled with vain babblings of psychological theories and therapies that subvert the Word of God and circumvent the work of the Holy Spirit. (See 2 Timothy 4:3-4.) Nevertheless we never know when there will be a hungry heart in disguise.
For instance, a pastor told us a story about a strong promoter of 12-Steps who read 12 Steps to Destruction: Codependency/Recovery Heresies. She admitted to him that she became more and more furious as she read, but by the time she finished the book she was convinced. Not only did she see the folly of 12-Step programs and abandon them; but she saw the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and was saved.
Another person was engaged in a public debate with Dave Hunt over the issue of psychology. At the end of the debate, the man saw the errors of psychoheresy and now ministers to people, who have severe problems of living, with the Word of God through the gracious work of the Holy Spirit.
At other times, change has come about very gradually, through gentle persistence with a word in due season or an article or book timely placed. In all these instances the Lord used a mere human trying to teach the truth in meekness and love, but it is the Lord Himself who does the converting. He is the one who prepares and changes hearts. To Him be the glory for ever and ever!
But there are those who refuse every possible argument, every possible gesture of kindness and concern, every article or book. Perhaps one day they will change.
In the meantime we must stand, pray, and speak the truth in love. May the Lord give you grace to do just that according to His marvelous grace and almighty power!
Let us know how the Lord is working with you in this regard.
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Why the Data Scientist and Data Engineer Need to Understand Virtualization in the Cloud
This article covers the value of understanding the virtualization constructs for the data scientist and data engineer as they deploy their analysis onto all kinds of cloud platforms. Virtualization is a key enabling layer of software for these data workers to be aware of and to achieve optimal results from.
Justin Murray, Technical Marketing Architect at VMware.
More and more application workloads are moving to the different cloud platforms. This could be a move to a public, private or hybrid cloud (where the latter is a mixture of public and private). Big data and analytics application workloads are on the move too. It is important that the data science/engineering community has a good understanding of these clouds at a deeper level so as to make the best use of them for doing their analytics work more effectively.
Virtualization is at the core of all modern cloud environments – it is the cloud infrastructure shown below. The unit that provides the flexibility, elasticity, ease of management and scaling in any cloud is the virtual machine – essentially through the hardware independence and portability that virtual machines offer.
Although non-virtualized servers may be supported in some clouds, it is very rare in our experience that a cloud deployment would use this native hardware approach – and it can become inefficient. No cloud service provider wants to be duty bound to acquire and provision new hardware servers when you want to expand your analytics processing cluster or other distributed application– that kind of setup can take some time! Virtualization is the answer here, through rapid provisioning of virtual machines for this purpose – given the hardware capacity to do so, of course. Multi-tenancy on the cloud is also achieved through virtualization. Two tenant workloads may live on common servers, but are separated from each other through their encapsulation in virtual machines.
Data scientists and data engineers have been accustomed to running their data processing and analysis work on a bare metal or physical environment up to now. But with the recent rapid growth in cloud infrastructure, these folks need to understand the new virtualized infrastructure within their clouds, as it is now underlying and controlling their workloads. We will go through the main points of interest for the data scientist in this virtualization area and the benefits from using it here.
An Industry Trend
Many data science/engineering workloads are based on Hadoop and Spark platforms today, with Python, Scala, R, Java or others as the programming environment that operate on them. We see a big growth in interest in deploying these platforms to all types of clouds over recent months. As one example, the Databricks company, a leader in the development of Spark, deploys the platform to the public cloud, first. The Spark technology is absolutely suitable for the private cloud too, as we will see in a later section.
Leading Hadoop distributors such as Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR have developed tools for deploying their distributions to public and private clouds. The pure play analytics/machine learning vendors, like H2O and Turi also deploy their software as a service on the cloud. We see many smaller software companies deploying their big data products or infrastructure from day one to some form of cloud, no longer just to bare metal.
There was an early misconception that virtualization in this way would slow the big data analytics workload down. However, extensive testing has shown that quite the opposite is true. Performance is as good as bare metal for virtualized private cloud-based big data workloads that use the underlying virtualization layer in the right way. We will show some testing results here to prove that point. The result of all of this is that the pace of companies’ moving to cloud is now picking up.
Sharing the Cloud Infrastructure Language
Business managers ask their data science teams to find the answers to key business questions. Data scientists depend on their data engineers to integrate, load, cleanse, index and manage the data so it is suitably organized for their queries. These queries or jobs can range from questions about fraud detection, customer pattern analysis, product feature use, sentiment analysis, product quality or many other business areas.
Data science teams are made up of people with a variety of skills, with analytics and statistical processing in general being very prevalent among them, along with data cleansing, data integration and SQL/programming ability as essential skills for data engineers. Data scientists/engineers are often not involved in choosing or managing the infrastructure supporting their applications, though naturally they want to get the highest level of flexibility and the best performance from their applications.
It is very advantageous to the organization if the data science/data engineering people can speak the language of the cloud infrastructure decision makers, so they can have a conversation about the best deployment choices. This can be as fundamental as how many virtual CPUs or how much memory a set of virtual machines should have, for optimal behavior of particular workloads –or about the architecture of the system as a whole.
Iteration on a Data Problem
Data scientists often iterate several times on the solution to a data analytics question. They refine queries that give different answers to a question over time before they are happy with the results. They expand or contract the quantity of data used for queries and along with that, the processing framework that holds the data – such as a Spark cluster as one example. This is a dynamic environment, where the amount of compute power and storage needed to support the analysis is unpredictable. Demand on the infrastructure can fluctuate widely over the course of a single project’s lifetime. This variability means that the application infrastructure must be open to expansion and contraction at will, according to user needs.
The types of software services that data scientists need will vary too – requiring a lot of freedom of configuration by the end user community. One group may be using dashboards, another workbooks/notebooks, others SQL engines for querying data while others still will write programs in Python and Scala to process the data. The toolkit for the data scientist/data engineer is growing continually with new features appearing regularly.
To do their work properly, data scientists need a scalable compute infrastructure and high-performance data storage mechanism to support them. Their demands on the infrastructure will vary, but when they need it, performance is at a premium.
The data science teams also need their supporting infrastructure to be available on-demand – their time should not be wasted in waiting for that infrastructure to be provisioned. The scientist may use the infrastructure heavily for a period of time and then move off the initial project to some other activity.
Trading off the compute requirements of separate data science teams with different measures can be a significant task for the manager or the Chief Data Officer (CDO), who is in over all of these teams.
This is the key area in which virtualization and cloud can help these communities. When managers such as the CDO are concerned with keeping their data analytics teams operating at maximum efficiency, they don’t want the infrastructure getting in the way. By carving up their total set of computing resources into pools that can be allocated to teams flexibly, they can avoid the single-use purpose to which many physical clusters were initially put and use cycles from elsewhere that happen to be available.
Multiple Changing Factors in the Big Data World
In big data, one infrastructure does not fit all processing needs. At the Hadoop level, for example, older distributed platforms may be suitable for some batch-type workloads whereas Spark should be used for other more interactive requirements or for iterating over a dataset. This means that there will almost certainly be more than one distribution of the platform (e.g. the Spark version) or combinations of other products in use at any one time. We have found many versions and two or more distributions of this software in use at once at many of the enterprises that we interact with, for example. Virtualization provides the key to running all of these variants at once, with separation between them.
Other variables are also at play:
- The types of questions being asked by the Chief Data Officer vary over time requiring differing application types to support them
- The infrastructure, (such as open source Hadoop and Spark distributions) are changing at a rapid pace
- Multiple versions of the software infrastructure are likely to be needed at the same time by different teams
- Separation of performance concerns across these teams is essential
- Data may be shared across multiple teams while the processing they do on that data may differ
- Certain instances of the infrastructure may be tuned for interactive response while others are designed for batch processing
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Two luxury hotel chains will not be checking in together
INDIA and Orient-Express have never rubbed along. The luxury hotel firm’s buccaneering founder, James Sherwood, visited the country in the early 1990s and had “a nightmare”. His private jet was delayed for an age in Mumbai while officials checked that the bottles in its on-board bar were sealed correctly. He signed a deal to run the Lake Palace Hotel in Rajasthan (pictured), owned by local royalty. The deal collapsed when lawyers discovered that Mr Sherwood’s interlocutor was not the real Maharana of Udaipur, but his brother.
The Lake Palace was run then, and still is, by Taj Hotels. It is part of Tata Sons, India’s biggest conglomerate. For the past half-decade Taj has fantasised about swallowing its American-listed rival. In 2007 it took a stake in Orient; it owns 6.9% today. In 2012 it made a takeover bid valuing Orient’s equity at $1.3 billion. Orient dismissed this as one of its guests might a bell hop, arguing it was too low. On November 8th the Indian firm abandoned its pursuit.
Orient has 45 trophy properties including the Hotel Cipriani in Venice and the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro. Most were acquired after years of negotiation by Mr Sherwood, who retired as chairman in 2007. A glorious symbol of extravagance, the firm entered the global financial crisis with too much debt. As profits collapsed it barely survived and its market capitalisation dropped to $144m at the low point. Since then it has been groping its way back to financial health. The Taj bid speeded that process. Days after it was made in October 2012, Orient appointed a new boss, John Scott. The firm has cut costs and sold assets. Its market capitalisation has recovered smartly to $1.5 billion—above the Taj bid, although some way off the $2.7 billion valuation it enjoyed at the peak.
For Taj life has got harder. It is now the smaller of the two firms, with a market cap of only $600m, from a peak of $2.6 billion. It is losing money and is almost as leveraged as Orient was at its nadir, measured by net debt relative to gross operating profits. The boom in India has faded. Intense competition from global chains has lowered room rates. Taj’s adventures in America—it owns The Pierre in New York, for example—have also strained its finances. Taj could not have made the 2012 bid without help from its parent group. It also roped in a minority partner, a fund linked to Luca di Montezemolo, the chairman of Ferrari.
Perhaps Tata’s new boss, Cyrus Mistry, who took over from the patriarch Ratan Tata at the end of 2012, has taken a tougher stance. About two-thirds of the capital employed in the wider Tata group is making a post-tax return on capital of 10% or less, according to calculations by The Economist. Taj hotels is a small part of this underperformance but Mr Mistry may have insisted that it gets its own house in order before it does any more empire-building.
Just as Taj’s problem may in part have been a forgiving controlling shareholder, Orient has also been insulated from shareholders’ wrath. Its “B” shares act as a poison-pill structure that puts voting control in the hands of the firm, not its owners. As both firms have battled the business climate and each other, they have missed a half-decade of change in the industry.
Global hoteliers such as Starwood and InterContinental have performed far better. They have “asset light” business models, in which they merely manage hotels rather than owning them. They have multiple brands aimed at different kinds of customers. Taj has experimented with this approach but has been timid, and Orient-Express is still an old-school affair. Both hotel groups specialise in historic buildings that are lovingly maintained. Both need to do more to avoid becoming ancient monuments themselves.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline "Disorientation"
From the November 16th 2013 edition
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Miniature scenes created from felt and stitchery . Nature is a most wonderful creator and inspiration to create and connect.
Some time ago l did some very small embroidery samples to try out new stitches and ideas. This one,about 5cm ,was a result . It was rediscovered and has become very relevant now as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues.
It seems all the more appropriate now for many people worldwide have this question in their minds and hearts.
Why the cruelty why the killing,why the destruction,Why?Why?Why?
Outside the wind is whispering that Autumn will soon be here. Thinking of Autumn inspired this project.
As the scene evolved so did the realisation that in its death and decay the stump is creating new life and enabling life to flourish. There is a never ending cycle of life and the interconnection of all things.
On the stump grow vines,fungi, and moss. At the base are toadstools and mushrooms,plants of all sorts. Leaves blow down from trees and enrich the soil.Seeds will sprout in the Spring Insects,reptiles,birds and small animals seek shelter in its hollows. A little mouse forages around the stump.
Beginnings and endings merge Change is inevitable.
The tIny bird has found a place to rest and observe ,to wonder and to muse.
How wonderful to be creating again. This is one of four toadstool houses, and each a new adventure. They emerge with no plan other than the general idea of making a toadstool house with a garden of delights.
It has been a too long absence. Life threw in a few challenges. For last two years l have been legally blind,somewhat an impediment to crafting,and writing the blog. That and covid. However at the end of 2022 the miracle of sight was returned through cataract surgery. The gratitude for the gift of sight is overwhelming. A wander in the garden is a daily adventure especially to see tiny details and colours.
Yesterday this miniature bird happened and seems like a miracle. It is not a great work of art but it was very exciting to be able to do this,to reconnect .
The Koala Foundation announced a few days ago that that Koalas are now functionally extinct
Massive land clearing combined with climate change, and the ignorance and lack of care by governments have created this tragic situation. It is estimated that by 2050 these iconic creatures will be extinct in NSW.and parts of Queensland, If we continue to ignore their plight by 2100 the species\ will entirely disappear .
One of the joys of having a daughter stay is to be able to craft together. Living Crafts Magazine inspired this creation which was made as a gift.
While we enjoyed the process and togetherness it brought to mind a trip to the U.K several years ago. Each encounter with swans was breathtaking and has been etched in memory as is now is the pleasure of this creative experience.
Good falls of rain have come to us at last and have bush and spirits revived,Grey dampness is most welcome after this searing summer .
The cooler weather and grey skies remind that autumn is coming and has brought on the urge to seek a quiet, cosy nook to snuggle into to knit and dream.
For me knitting is therapy. It calms with its rhythm.When the brain is too busy a more complicated pattern calls for focus that acts like meditation.
Crochet blankets have a,nostalgic and warming nature,They seem like an ongoing hug .
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Living in today’s world amidst the threat of economic crisis, depleting oil reserves, terrorism, global warming and the possibility of a worldwide catastrophe that could change the entire world as we know it, it’s hard not to imagine what would it would be like if something truly bad were to happen to our little planet. I’m sure pretty much all of us (especially being gamers) have imagined what it would be like to survive a nuclear holocaust or a zombie apocalypse or an economic meltdown. Fallout 3 lets you experience what it would be like to live in a world totally ravaged by nuclear war.
The year is 2277, 200 years after a global nuclear war has devastated the entire world. Only a few survivors remain scattered across the globe along with others who have spent their entire lives underground in “Vaults”, large nuclear shelters with all the basic needs for human survival, safe from the harmful radiation and dangers of the outside world.
The game takes place in a post apocalyptic version of Washington DC. The world of Fallout is futuristic (complete with laser rifles and robots), yet strangely stuck in a retro 1950s American style. The washed out posters on the walls, the music on the radio, the various gadgets, monochrome CRT displays and even the game’s artwork all create a bizarre, yet amazingly captivating retro-futuristic atmosphere which sci-fi fans will feel right at home with.
You play as an inhabitant of Vault 101, located deep underground in the Wastelands of DC. The game begins with you being born in an elaborate blurry scene with the doctors getting you out of your mother’s womb, all in a first person view; a scene which I’m quite sure you haven’t really seen before in a video game. Unfortunately, your mother dies due to complications during the delivery, leaving your dad (played by Liam Neeson) in charge of taking care of you. This is where the character creation comes in. Like Bethesda’s previous game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the character creation is not just a screen with text and numbers but a part of the plot, which also doubles as the tutorial level. This is presented via various stages in your life, from a toddler to a 12-year-old to a teenager.
You can customise your character’s name, gender, appearance, attributes (known as S.P.E.C.I.A.L., which stands for Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck) and your primary skills. Note that unlike Oblivion, your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes do not increase when you level up, so choosing wisely in the beginning is the key. You’ll also receive your very own Pipboy 2000 – Fallout 3’s version of the standard RPG journal.
As expected, things go bad in the Vault which results in your dad suddenly going AWOL and leaving you to pick up the trail and find him. Getting out of the Vault is not easy but after some effort you are finally able to escape and venture outside into the Wasteland. Stepping out into the open for the first time is quite an experience. Your character’s vision gets blurred as his eyes take time to get adjusted to the bright sun outside. Just looking around and taking in the seemingly limitless wasteland around you is a truly breathtaking moment, not different from the first time you stepped out of the prison in Oblivion, only a lot more epic.
From here on out you are free to explore the world of Fallout 3 as you wish. You can either stick to your main quest and go looking for your dad or forget about it and just do what you like. Then again, if you are planning to just stick to the main quest then you’re playing the wrong game. Fallout 3 encourages exploration and finding random side quests and locations. This is where the game starts feeling a lot like Oblivion. A lot of the initial reactions to Bethesda’s taking over of the franchise were that Fallout 3 would eventually turn out to be nothing but “Oblivion with guns”. For the most part it is actually true. Fallout 3 does in fact feel that way. Right from the conversation system to the character voices to the way you use your Pipboy to fast travel, similarities to Bethesda’s previous RPG juggernaut are apparent.
You can also switch from first person to a third person view at any time. However, there are several key differences and tweaks to the Oblivion formula. For starters, the difficulty level of Fallout 3 is much higher than Oblivion. Enemy level does not scale with you. Wander into an area you’re not supposed to be in and you’ll get slaughtered in no time. This alone makes Fallout 3 a much better RPG experience than Oblivion. You will be spending a lot of time making your character better by raising skills in the right areas and finding better equipment. Guns are the weapons of choice in the Wasteland, and although you will find a few melee weapons, the combat is designed around the use of firearms.
Combat is another standout feature of Fallout 3. It is extremely well designed and addictive. Combining turn based and real time combat is not an easy task but Bethesda has somehow managed to pull it off. You can fight in real time with controls that work very similar to a first person shooter. However, the damage that you inflict is stat-based and so is the aiming. You can manually aim to target different body parts of enemies but it all depends on your skill with the particular weapon you’re using.
This is where the Vault-tec Assisted Targeting System (V.A.T.S.) comes in. You can pause combat at any time with the press of a button during which you are free to select your targets as well as where you want to hit them. Your probability of hitting your target depends on your skill, your distance from the enemy as well as the stance the enemy is currently in. Also hitting specific body parts has different effects on the enemy. Hitting them in the head affects their accuracy and paralyzes them temporarily or shooting them in the leg cripples them slowing them down. You can also knock their weapons right out of their hands by targeting the weapon or their hands, if they’re holding a grenade you can even target the grenade and cause it to explode while in their hands! The possibilities in V.A.T.S. are many and in most situations, it’s actually a life saver rather than a fancy gimmick, especially early on in the game when you don’t have decent equipment and health.
Using V.A.T.S. will also give you a cinematic slow motion view of the action once you resume the game. These scenes can be incredibly over the top gory. Later on in the game you can blow heads and limbs clean off or make your enemies explode into chunks of meat if you have the “Bloody Mess” perk. And it never gets old.
Like most story-driven western RPGs, Fallout 3 does not rely on grinding. The level cap is (only) 20 and large amounts of XP can only be earned through quests. Speaking of quests, there are plenty of side quests and optional tasks to be found. The number of side quests is comparatively much lesser than Oblivion but the quality of these quests more or less makes up for it. Each quest has multiple objectives and sometimes you will have conflicting objectives where you must make choices which can potentially affect your “karma”. This will usually depend on the kind of character you’re playing. You can either be Mr. Goody Two Shoes “Hero of the Wasteland” or a murdering psychopath who shoots everything in sight. Yes, the game can be played that way. You can also choose to align yourself with any of the game’s factions or choose to be a lone explorer. Still, much of the game’s fun comes from exploration and doing your own thing.
The main quest is passably decent (better and more involving than Oblivion’s main quest) but leaves a lot to be desired. However, it would have been good to see a longer, more fleshed out story. The game does have multiple endings depending on the type of person you’ve been throughout the game. The main quest can be completed under 20 hours or so but if you want to do each and every thing in the game then it should take you around 40-60 hours or more. There are also things like weapon crafting, synthesising chems (Fallout 3’s “potions”) and scavenging for materials, but none of these feel particularly necessary for progress. Most of the good equipment can be found through looting corpses or dungeons but if you’re still inclined to build stuff on your own, the game allows for that.
Bethesda has pretty much nailed down the atmosphere of the Fallout universe with this game. Every single location from the barren wastelands to the ramshackle towns and settlements to the run down downtown DC looks just like it should. There is an incredible attention to detail in each environment. The graphics engine does a great job of pumping out amazing visuals at a steady frame rate. The partially destroyed DC landmarks such as the Washington Memorial or the Capitol building look very convincing. The day/night cycle is also worth mentioning, since it adds a lot to the atmosphere. The environments alone make the game world worth exploring despite the odd low resolution texture.
However, the same cannot be said about the character models. They’re rather stiff and the animation is awkward at times. Most of the NPCs and enemies have the same fixed set of animations and sometimes they will just slide instead of walking. In conversation, they look lifeless and boring, especially if you’re spoiled by Mass Effect. The same issues plagued Oblivion as well. On the other hand, the weapons, armour and equipment looks great, appropriately detailed and worn out. Some of the larger guns look ridiculous but cool and somehow fit in well with the setting. From a technical standpoint, Fallout 3 might not be the best looking game of this generation, but it’s still a pretty solid looking one.
Fallout 3 also features some amazing sound design. All the weapons pack a punch. Whether it’s the booming shotguns or the whirring of the minigun, the guns sound loud and crisp. Creature sounds can be very effective especially while exploring dark underground subway tunnels or abandoned buildings. The scuttling noises of mutated scorpions or roaches scurrying about will have you checking around your feet every now and then.
The music sounds quite similar to Oblivion for the most part (especially the laid back tunes that play while you’re exploring with no enemies around). The music ramps up during battle and some of the themes that play during some of the game’s dramatic scenes are rather nice. You can also tune in to the in game radio and listen to American oldies. The effect of the music while exploring the desolate wastelands and buildings is actually quite chilling. Voice work is decent. Bethesda has used more voice actors this time around and quality of voice acting itself is better than Oblivion. But still, expect to hear quite a few familiar voices. The highlight, however, is Liam Neeson. He’s somewhat underused but still adds a lot of charisma to the game. His calm yet commanding voice is absolutely perfect for the character of Dad.
As a highly anticipated RPG title, Fallout 3 delivers on all fronts, but the real question is does it live up to the standards set by the previous games? A lot of Fallout purists may be turned off by the “oblivionisation” of the game. Many will feel that it has been dumbed down to appeal to larger audience. And to a certain extent, it is true. Fallout 3 is a lot more accessible than its predecessors and you don’t actually even need to be an RPG enthusiast to be able to like the game. A lot of the humour which made the past Fallouts stand out has been toned down significantly. There are almost no pop culture references this time around.
However, appealing to a broader audience is not a bad thing, especially in Fallout 3’s case. This is a game that should be played by every self-respecting gamer whether you like RPGs or not. Also, judging from Bethesda’s previous efforts, Fallout 3 looks like a game that’s going to be around for a while. It’s safe to expect at least a couple of expansion packs and new adventures in the near future. The main game itself should keep you busy for quite a while and the PC version will also enjoy extra benefits courtesy of the modding community.
Despite a couple of technical flaws and a rather bland story, Fallout 3 is a winner. It oozes enough atmosphere and style to please long time fans as well as grab the attention of newcomers. Regardless of the platform of your choice, Fallout 3 is an extremely well made and polished title. Take our word; don’t miss it and enjoy the apocalypse the way it’s meant to be.
(+) Very atmospheric, highly detailed and fun to explore game world
(+) Wide open world with many random quests and locations to be found
(+) Weapons and equipment are fun to use, especially the ‘Fat Boy’ mini nuke launcher
(+) Amazing presentation and top notch production values
(+) Liam Neeson
(-) Main quest and story is somewhat disappointing
(-) Character models and faces are somewhat lacking
(-) Voice work could have been a little better
IndianVideoGamer Verdict: 9/10 (Must Buy)
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov announced again on Thursday that the return of the turbine requires Russian documents, which will confirm that this facility is not subject to the expired sanctions. Gazprom would be very happy to get this turbine back. But it was not Gazprom that imposed the sanctions, said Peskov. Gazprom needs to protect itself (due to the risks associated with sanctions), he added.
A source familiar with the situation said today, according to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, that Gazprom, on behalf of the German company Siemens Energy, is in charge of the turbine service, received a set of documents, including permission from the German Federal Agency for Economy and Import Control (BAFA) for the turbine to pass through customs controls .
According to the letter, the German company also told Gazprom that there is no date officially announced by the European Commission regarding the sanctions, and Britain has confirmed in writing that the day of sanctions for the return of the turbine is not applicable.
German chancellor Olaf Scholz declared in the center, e the turbine is fully functional and should be sent back to Russia at any time provided that Moscow is willing to accept it. Scholz discovered the conduit where the turbine was first located and where he could inspect it. Nord Stream 1 transports gas from Russia to Germany through the bottom of the Baltic Sea and is the main route for Russian gas supplies to Europe | <urn:uuid:4913c61b-6577-4fbc-b762-e94b626a482f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mailbd.net/world/only-one-turbine-out-of-eight-russia-responds-to-problems-with-nord-stream-business-3711/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96745 | 286 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Commencement of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has spurred global investment attention to the continent, Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the AfCFTA has indicated.
He is therefore calling on Africans in the diaspora to position themselves to benefit from the opportunity available, as well as aid the continent’s economic growth.
Mene believes that with the launch and operationalisation of the AfCFTA, the discourse about Africa shifting from one of challenges and gaps to one of opportunities and prospects is gaining traction.
The AfCFTA Secretary-General made these remarks when he addressed the Ghana Diaspora Investment Summit organised by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) recently.
Mr. Mene said: “Africa is now receiving a high level of interest as an investment destination from investors from across the globe”.
He added that AfCFTA is creating a new narrative that should inspire the African diaspora to explore opportunities on the continent, and invest in the various sectors.
Owing to the dearth of opportunities on the continent, its educated people – seeking better opportunities – are often found in the remotest parts of the world eking out an existence; they can now seize the opportunity to invest in the economy’s various sectors now that the prospects are looking much brighter for the continent.
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), if managed well and implemented effectively, could spur investments in Africa – both from within and outside the continent.
To that end, outside investors will buy controlling stakes in African enterprises, create affiliates for sourcing and outsourcing inputs, as well as the provision of goods and services in the (African) host countries.
Foreign investors and investments are attracted by market size (population size and income per capita), openness, economic growth and policy certainty and predictability, among other things.
For instance, the reduction of regulatory barriers to trade in services across the continent could well attract investors in the services sector. Manufacturing firms will also benefit from service trade openness through the ease of access to more and higher-quality services inputs.
Investment has always been recognised as an essential tool for development in Africa countries’ national, regional and continental development strategies. Concerted efforts have been put in place at national and regional levels to attract foreign investment.
Investment builds industries, connects international markets and drives innovation and competitiveness.
Editorial 2: Informal economy struggles to transition into ‘new’ normal
Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) data show that in the first quarter of this year, the informal sector grew by 0.7 percent compared to 4.4 percent for the same period in 2020. This goes to confirm the fact that the country’s informal sector is still struggling to recover from ravages of the pandemic.
The data further show the sector has seen significant disruptions in its activities, as it contracted 5.7 and 4.5 percent respectively in the second and third quarters of 2020 compared to the overall economy’s contraction of 5.7 and 3.2 percent respectively in the same period.
Compared to the pre-pandemic period, the informal sector’s growth overtook the overall economic growth or was slightly below it. For example, in the first quarter of 2019 general growth of the economy was 5.9 percent, whereas the informal sector’s growth was 6.3 percent.
This suggests that the informal sector, which is the largest employer in the economy, has been badly hit by the pandemic far more than the formal sector. While businesses in the formal sector were able to devise innovative strategies to meet customer’s demand, the informal sector found it challenging to transition to the new normal of doing business with increased digitisation and technology.
It was realised that most players in the informal sector did not have both the technical and financial capacity to adapt to the changing environment, as these digital platforms require knowledge and finance to operate.
It is important to recognise that most businesses in the sector are micro in size and operate on a hand-to-mouth basis, making it difficult to raise the needed finances to invest in digital platforms.
Director at the Institute of Social, Statistics and Economic Research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana, Prof. Peter Quartey, corroborated this assertion when he stated that slow recovery of the informal sector can be attributed to the general economic slowdown and the sector’s inability to adjust to the new normal like the formal sector did.
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Perhaps one of the most helpful illustrations I’ve both seen used and used myself in pastoral conversations is this. You take a glass and you fill it with water up to the brim and then set it on a table. Then you hit it so that water spills out. You ask those observing why the water came out and some of them will no doubt say “because you hit the glass.” More thoughtful ones will respond “because the glass was full of water.”
The point is this, I can blame other people, events or circumstances for my behaviour, whether that’s a problem with temper, course language etc but in the end, the problem is not that people and circumstances knock up against me, the problem is that those sinful habits and desires are already within me.
Jesus makes the point in response to complaints that his disciples are not strictly following the kosher laws. The accusation is that they are defiled because they are not washing their hands before eating in line with the rules and customs of Judaism. Jesus refutes this claim with a biology lesson. It’s impossible for us to contaminate our hearts by what we eat because the food passes straight through the digestive system. It doesn’t go to the heart but to the stomach and passes through.
In the immediate context, Jesus is making the point that the rituals and ceremonies people follow cannot defile them and make them unclean, conversely, nor can they make them holy. It’s helpful to remember again that rituals and ceremonies including those we get into within our own church traditions won’t change us, it’s only the work of God’s Word in our lives.
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Nicknamed The Boston Garden, or The Garden, the TD Garden is a historic sports arena in Boston, Massachusetts which primarily serves as the home of the NBA’s Boston Celtics.
The arena was originally named the Shawmut Center, when it was completed in 1995. Then changed to FleetCenter, then later to TD Banknorth Garden.
The arena not only serves as home for the NBA’s Boston Celtics, but it’s also the home ice for the National Hockey league’s Boston Bruins.
• Capacity: 18,624
• Opened: September 30, 1995
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• In 1985 the rights to the location of the proposed stadium were awarded to Boston Garden owner Delaware North. However, construction was riddled with setbacks and economic troubles that slowed progress.
• Construction of the arena took over two years with ground broken on the project on April 29, 1993 and opening on September 30, 1995.
• The stadium has received major renovations three times since its completion. First in 2006, and then again in 2009 and 2014.
Past and Current Teams
Boston Celtics (NBA) (1995–present)
Boston Bruins (NHL) (1995–present)
Boston Blazers (MILL) (1996–1997)
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Lesson 91: Understanding Christian Unity (John 17:20-23)Related Media
May 10, 2015
Our subject is Christian unity: Jesus hits it three times in these four verses (John 17:21, 22, 23), so we can’t miss it. Ironically, there are widespread differences of opinion on the subject of unity among those who profess to follow Christ. This is evident by the fact that there are approximately 40,000 Christian denominations, and the number grows annually.
When the subject of unity comes up, I always think of the familiar chorus, “We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord,” and why I can’t stand that song. First, the song comes out of the Catholic Charismatic movement, which taints it with all sorts of serious doctrinal problems. Are we really “one” with every group that claims to be Christian, even if they claim that we must add our good works to faith in Christ to be saved? That’s the issue that Paul confronts in Galatians. The Judaizers claimed to believe in Jesus as their Savior. But they also insisted that in addition to faith a man must be circumcised and follow the Law of Moses to be saved. Paul didn’t say, “Let’s set aside the areas where we don’t agree and come together where we do agree.” He said, rather, that those teaching this false gospel were accursed (Gal. 1:8-9).
A second reason I dislike that chorus is more personal. When I was in Coast Guard boot camp, as far as I could tell, none of my fellow recruits in my company were believers. They consistently used foul speech and bragged about their sexual exploits. But every week, they’d march to the chapel and join together, under the liberal chaplain, singing, “We are one in the Spirit.” I attended once, but after what I saw and heard, I couldn’t go again. I’d take my Bible and sit outside the chapel and read, while I listened to them proclaim their unity in Christ. So now you know why that won’t be our closing song today!
I want to try to help you understand what true Christian unity is by answering three questions: What is Christian unity? Why is it important? How is it expressed? To sum up:
Christian unity is based on shared life in Christ; is a major source for witness to the world; and is expressed through common love, purpose, and mission.
What is Christian unity?
1. Christian unity is not organization or external, but rather is based on shared life in Jesus Christ.
It is important to understand that there are two types of unity in the Bible. In Ephesians 4:3, Paul says that we are to be “diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” The unity of the Spirit is already a fact for believers, but we must be diligent to preserve it. Then in Ephesians 4:13, after talking about the ministry of pastors and teachers who equip the saints for the work of ministry, Paul adds, “… until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.” This unity of the faith is not yet a reality, but is attained to as we grow to maturity in Christ. (See, also, Eph. 2:14-22.) We might call these “positional unity,” which is a fact; and “practical unity,” which is a work in progress.
We see the same thing in our text: In verses 21 & 22, Jesus prays that those who believe in Him would be one, even as He and the Father are one. That prayer was answered when the Holy Spirit baptized all believers into the one body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:13). Yet Jesus also prays that believers may be “perfected in unity” (John 17:23), which implies a process of growth. So it’s much like sanctification: We are positionally sanctified in Christ (1 Cor. 1:30; 6:11); yet, we must grow in sanctification (2 Cor. 7:1; 1 Thess. 4:3).
A. Christian unity is not organizational or external unity.
1) Christian unity is not denominational unity.
Organizations such as the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches are prominent in promoting organizational or external unity among various denominations. The idea is to set aside the areas we differ and come together on common ground. But both councils are notoriously theologically and politically liberal and inclusive of denominations that deny or compromise the gospel. Christ was not praying for a one-world church organized under one leader and church government.
2) Christian unity is not uniformity.
Being one body in Christ does not mean that we all must look alike, talk alike, and enjoy the same kinds of activities. Back in the early 1970’s, I knew many “hippie” young people who got swept up in the “Local Church” movement under the Chinese leader, Witness Lee. Overnight, they cut off their long hair and beards and started wearing white shirts with narrow black ties, just as Witness Lee did. They even gestured and sounded like him when they talked. It was kind of eerie, but it had nothing to do with true Christian unity! The very analogy of being members of Christ’s body implies that all the members do not look the same or serve the same function. The beauty of the body is that it functions as one body although it consists of many different members.
3) Christian unity is not unanimity on every doctrine.
We need to think carefully here! There are three broad levels of Bible doctrines: (1) Essential truths, necessary for salvation. To deny any of these would be heresy and a denial of the faith. All true Christians agree on these truths. These include: The inspiration and authority of Scripture; the Trinity; the full deity and humanity of Jesus Christ; His substitutionary death on the cross; His bodily resurrection; His bodily second coming; and, salvation by grace through faith alone, apart from works.
(2) Important, but non-saving, truth. These truths affect how we live as Christians, the way we understand God, man, salvation, the Christian life, etc. But genuine believers differ on these matters. Some examples: Biblical prophecy; Calvinism vs. Arminianism; views of baptism; charismatic gifts; roles of men and women in the church and home; church government; Christians and psychology; and, views of creation. Some of these issues are more important in that they border on essential doctrines (e.g., some issues in Calvinism vs. Arminianism deal with salvation and the gospel). So there are gray areas between each of the categories.
(3) Interesting, but not essential or important matters. These issues won’t affect the way you live your Christian life. They include minor interpretive issues on difficult texts; some methods that are not mandated by Scripture; and other issues. For example: Who were the sons of God in Genesis 6? When does the battle in Ezekiel 38 take place? Did Christ descend into hell (1 Pet. 3:19-20)?
So it’s important to discern the level of importance of a doctrine before you debate it with another Christian or divide from him over it. Paul instructs Timothy (1 Tim. 1:4-5) not to pay attention to myths or endless genealogies, which only give rise to speculation, but to focus on teaching that leads to love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith. Christian unity is not organizational or external unity. Then, what is it?
B. Christian unity is based on shared life through faith in Christ through the apostolic witness to Him.
If you have put your trust in Jesus Christ, then He is praying for you in these verses. He says (John 17:20), “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word.” Note two things:
1) Christian unity is based on our common salvation in Jesus Christ.
Jesus is not praying for the entire world here (John 17:9). He is not praying for inter-faith unity among all Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims, as promoted by many inter-faith prayer services this past week. Rather, He is praying specifically for those who believe in Him through the apostles’ word. That word is recorded for us in the New Testament, which the Holy Spirit inspired them to write (John 14:26; 16:13, 14).
The core message of the apostolic witness centers on salvation through faith in the life, substitutionary death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. As we saw (John 1:12-13), “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” The new birth is the basis of our unity in Christ.
Jesus compares this unity with that which exists between Him and the Father (John 17:21): “that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, …” Jesus and the Father are eternally one in their shared nature as God. When we are born again and become children of God, we share in the divine nature (John 1:12-13; 2 Pet. 1:4). So in this sense, Jesus’ prayer was answered on the Day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came on all believers, uniting them in the one body of Christ. Since then, all who believe the apostolic witness to Christ share new life in Him (1 Cor. 12:13): “For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.” This is the unity of the Spirit that Paul talks about (Eph. 4:3). It is a fact, and yet we must be diligent to preserve it.
2) Christian unity is based on our common glory in Jesus Christ.
Jesus prays (John 17:22), “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one.” What does Jesus mean? Godly commentators differ, so I can’t be dogmatic. We know that Christ has an incommunicable glory, which He did not receive and He does not bestow. In that sense, God does not share His glory with anyone (Isa. 42:8). But we can piece together several verses that steer us in the right direction. John (1:14) testifies, “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.” Then John 1:16 adds, “For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.” So in part, the glory that Christ has given us is the glory of our salvation, received and sustained by abundant grace.
Also, for Christ, the epitome of His glory was displayed at the cross (John 12:28; 13:31-32), which supremely shows His love, justice, holiness, and grace. This leads Leon Morris (The Gospel According to John [Eerdmans], p. 734) to interpret the glory that He gives to all of His disciples: “… just as His true glory was to follow the path of lowly service culminating in the cross, so for them the true glory lay in the path of lowly service wherever it might lead them.” (D. A. Carson, The Farewell Discourse and Final Prayer of Jesus [Baker], p. 198, concurs.) Morris (p. 735) and Carson (ibid.) cite William Barclay (The Gospel of John [Westminster], 2:219):
We must never think of our cross as our penalty; we must think of it as our glory…. The harder the task we give a student, or a craftsman, or a surgeon, the more we honour him…. So when it is hard to be a Christian, we must regard it as our glory, as our honour given to us by God.
Also, Jesus explains what this glory entails in John 17:23: “I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.” There are two parts to this: First, “I in them and You in Me” points to Christ’s indwelling us through the Holy Spirit, who is given to all who believe. Through the Spirit, the triune God dwells in every believer! Even though the world may not see it very clearly, as we are perfected in unity, they will get a glimpse of the glory of God (e.g. the fruit of the Spirit) in us.
Second, Jesus says that the Father has loved us, even as He has loved Jesus! What a staggering statement! The love of the Father for the Son is eternal and infinite. There is no way to measure it. It surpasses all comprehension (Eph. 3:18). The best picture we have of the Father’s love for us is when He sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins. Have you experienced the love of God for you in Christ at the cross? That love is your glory and the common glory of every true believer. It brings us together into the one worldwide family of God. Our unity is based on our common salvation in Christ and our common glory in Christ.
Why is Christian unity important?
2. Christian unity is important because it is a major factor in our witness to the world, so that they may believe in Jesus Christ.
Jesus mentions this twice: In John 17:21, He prays that we all may be one … “so that the world may believe that You sent Me.” In verse 23, He prays that we may be perfected in unity “so that the world may know that You sent Me.” Note that faith is not nebulous or subjective. Rather, faith centers on the truth that the Father sent Jesus, His Son, to earth. As John repeatedly emphasizes, He sent Him to be the Savior of all who believe in Him. But, how can the world believe in Jesus? Paul explains (Rom. 10:14-15),
How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!”
We are often the only Bible that people read. By our godly lives, by our verbal witness to the person and work of Christ, and by our visible unity with all true believers, we proclaim to the world the truth that God sent His Son to pay for the sins and give eternal life to all that believe (John 3:16). That leads to the third question:
How is Christian unity expressed?
3. Christian unity is expressed by believers’ common love, common purpose, and common mission.
A. Christian unity is expressed by believers’ common love.
Jesus makes the staggering statement that the Father has loved us even as He loved Jesus! While we will spend eternity trying to fathom the depths of the Father’s love for us, it should be increasingly influencing our daily lives. Perhaps it is nowhere expressed more eloquently than in Paul’s conclusion of Romans 8, where he says that nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I remember holding our firstborn child in my arms and feeling my love for her well up as I gazed into her tiny face. Suddenly, it dawned on me, “My parents must love me as much as I love my baby daughter!” Then it further hit me, “The heavenly Father loves me far more than any earthly father can love his children!”
John applies this wonderful truth (1 John 4:11): “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” The logic of that is so simple, and yet it is often so difficult to obey! But after loving God, the second great commandment is that we love others even as we do in fact love ourselves (Matt. 22:39).
It’s relatively easy to love folks who are just like you. But the church is to show Christ’s love across racial, cultural, generational, and economic divides as we worship together and care for one another. There was no greater divide in Paul’s day than that between Jews and Gentiles. But Paul emphasized that the glory of the church is that Christ removed the barrier between those two diverse groups and made them one (Eph. 2:14-22). He insists (Col. 3:11) that in the church, “there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.” When people who are divided in the world display their love for one another in the local church, the world takes notice.
In the early 1970’s, I had the privilege of visiting the “Body Life” service at Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto, California, where the late Ray Stedman was the pastor. There were little white-haired ladies sitting next to long-haired hippies. Through the stories shared, it was evident that although they were from very different segments of American life, both sides loved each other. That display of Christ’s love resulted in many unbelievers coming to see what was going on and eventually coming to faith in Christ.
B. Christian unity is expressed by believers’ common purpose.
Although we have different gifts and different callings, our common purpose is to glorify God in all that we do (1 Cor. 10:31). We glorify Him by living in obedience to His commands and by bearing much fruit (John 15:8, 10). We glorify Him as we are more and more conformed to the image of Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 3:18).
C. Christian unity is expressed by believers’ common mission.
In urging the Philippian church toward unity, Paul put it like this (Phil. 1:27): “Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel.” Our common mission is to fulfill the Great Commission, to make disciples of all the nations (Matt. 28:19). Again, while we may differ with other believers over secondary matters, as long as they proclaim the truth of the gospel, we should rejoice that Christ is being proclaimed (Phil. 1:15-18).
I could spend several more messages on some of the practical ramifications of our Lord’s teaching here, but I’ll try to list a couple of things that you can explore further (see, also, my article on the church web site, “Separation Versus Cooperation”).
First, while we must strive to love and accept all whom Christ has truly saved, we also must be careful not to compromise essential biblical truth. The more common danger, I think, is not the failure to love, but rather the failure to hold to sound doctrine. This was illustrated in the “Evangelicals and Catholics Together” statement that was signed by many prominent Christian leaders in the 1990’s. That statement confused and compromised the essential truth of the Reformation, that we are justified by grace through faith in Christ alone, apart from works. The Catholic Church teaches that we must add our own works or merit to God’s grace to be saved. But that’s the same as the Galatian heresy. We are not one with those who deny the apostolic gospel. As I said, Paul did not come together on common ground with the Judaizers. Neither should we!
Second, while we need walls of separation both as individuals and as a church, those walls may be different on the individual and corporate levels. For example, if in private conversation with a Roman Catholic priest, I determine that he truly has trusted in Christ as his Savior and is not trusting in his own good works, I can have a degree of fellowship with him based on our common salvation. Of course, as our relationship deepened, I would challenge him to leave his affiliation with an apostate church.
But I could never do anything publicly to imply that our church is one with the Roman Catholic Church. I would never endorse a unity or prayer service that included churches that deny the gospel. New life in Christ is the only basis for true unity. Let’s pray for discernment and graciously strive for unity and love with all that know Christ without compromising the gospel or minimizing important truth!
- Have you struggled on the personal level with where to draw lines of fellowship? How did you sort through the issues?
- Should an evangelical church work with a church that denies the gospel to help prevent abortions? Why/why not?
- How do we determine where to draw doctrinal lines for church membership without becoming divisive?
- How do we determine which doctrines are essential and which are important, but not essential? What criteria apply?
Copyright, Steven J. Cole, 2015, All Rights Reserved.
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This illustrates that in the antibiotic era, preseptal cellulitis is by far the most common orbital complication of rhinosinusitis, and to a much lesser extent postseptal/orbital cellulitis and subperiosteal abscess, whereas orbital abscess and cavernous sinus thrombosis are fairly uncommon. The most commonly isolated organisms in children are Streptococcus pneumoniae, nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, and Staphylococcus aureus. If surgical intervention was required for orbital disease, these risks were 0 and 24%, respectively. The authors noted that subperiosteal abscesses located superiorly or superolaterally within the orbit were more frequently associated with orbital complications, as was significant frontal sinus disease. In the literature on adult cases, Goldstein and Shelsta10 reviewed 11 patients, with an average age of 29 years, with methicillin-resistant S. Their younger, teenage cohort of patients had focal abscesses with surrounding cellulitis that were easily drained and treated with oral antibiotics on an outpatient basis. They found that polymicrobial infections including anaerobes were cultured most frequently. These series demonstrate that the adult population differs from the pediatric population in that polymicrobial, anaerobic, and odontogenic organisms predominate, in contrast to the S. Single aerobic pathogens are more common in infection within the first decade of life as compared with polymicrobial infection and more severe presentation of postseptal infection in the older group. Subperiosteal abscess can present with minimal symptomatology but can also be the initial result of extension of sinusitis into the orbit, especially in ethmoid sinusitis. Subperiosteal abscesses secondary to sinusitis in children up to 9 years of age are likely to contain a single aerobic species and frequently respond to antibiotic therapy. A recent series of children with subperiosteal abscesses found that medial abscesses were highly amenable to antibiotic treatment. Because of the lack of frontal sinus aeration in younger patients, intracranial extension is more likely to occur, as the diploic veins bridge the orbit with the dural compartment. Both preseptal cellulitis and orbital cellulitis may present with swelling and erythema of the tissues surrounding the orbit, with or without accompanying fever. Preseptal cellulitis commonly arises from an infection of the soft tissues of the face and eyelids resulting from acute dacryocystitis (32. It is unusual for untreated preseptal cellulitis to progress to orbital cellulitis by local extension through the orbital septum; however, orbital cellulitis may be indistinguishable from preseptal cellulitis early in its course, creating the appearance that stepwise extension has occurred. Although orbital cellulitis is supposed to generate an axial proptosis, as opposed to subperiosteal abscess, orbital imaging (or surgery) is required to make the definitive diagnosis. Orbital Abscess Orbital abscess may be clinically indistinguishable from orbital cellulitis. It may present with more severe proptosis, globe displacement, and ophthalmoplegia related to inflammation of the oculomotor muscles, and patients are more likely to appear toxic. Infection may extend to the orbital apex, causing decreased visual acuity, or intracranially, causing intracranial abscess, meningitis, or septic cavernous sinus thrombosis. Intracranial involvement may present with oculomotor nerve palsies, mental status changes, contralateral cranial nerve palsy, or bilateral orbital cellulitis. Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis Cavernous sinus thrombosis (Chandler group V) is a potentially life-threatening complication of rhinosinusitis. The cavernous sinus is the most centrally located dural sinus and the most frequent site of infection and thrombosis. It is positioned just lateral to the base of the sella turcica and the sphenoid sinus and collects the venous blood from the sphenoid sinus mucosa and orbit. This explains how orbital cellulitis may diffuse to the cavernous sinus, or, alternatively, how sphenoiditis may give rise to cavernous sinus thrombosis. Sphenoid sinus infection is particularly difficult to diagnose, and treatment is often delayed, providing time for the infection to spread to the cavernous sinus. Because of this intimate relationship, cavernous sinus thrombosis may result in ophthalmoplegia. The early symptoms of cavernous sinus thrombosis are not specific to the diagnosis. However, in a patient with orbital signs and/or headache, the presence of cranial neuropathies should raise clinical suspicion of cavernous sinus thrombosis. Headache is the most common early symptom and generally precedes fever and periorbital signs by several days.
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Such materials are normally available as a flat sheet of tissue that comes in varying thicknesses, Surgical Deformities and Corrective Procedures 461 depending on the requirement. Rolling the implant to form a more solid structure that can be used to augment the dorsum has been advocated, but this risks long-term absorption, thereby leaving a residual defect; thus, the use of these materials is advocated for covering grafts only. Multiple revision surgeries can cause significant thinning of the dorsal skin; hence, such soft tissue cover can prove of great importance. Porous polyethylene promotes significant tissue ingrowth that may be advantageous but has the distinct disadvantage of potentially causing major soft tissue damage if removal proves necessary. Irradiated autogenous rib cartilage has also been advocated, but risks associated with it include long-term absorption and the possibility of warping. Alloplasts risk infection and long-term rejection and need to be used with caution. Surgical Deformities and Corrective Procedures the scope of revision rhinoplasty is wide and cannot fully be covered within this chapter. Common deformities encountered in revision rhinoplasty surgery are described here, and options for their correction are detailed. The list is by no means exhaustive, and as corrective techniques often do not differ markedly from standard techniques, the principles outlined can be applied to both. Problems with soft tissue deformities are discussed separately from structural deformities. For the latter, we divide the nose into its anatomical thirds and highlight each area separately. Dissection in correct surgical planes, during both primary and revision rhinoplasty, prevents postoperative scarring and differential thickness of the soft tissues. Of particular concern are the erythematous changes over the dorsum that can occur in up to 10% of patients after revision rhinoplasty. Patients with the extremes of very thin and very thick skin types are equally problematic. The thin skin in revision surgery is often fragile and risks perforation while trying to raise it off the underlying structures. It is prone to redness postoperatively, and minor irregularities are easily seen through it. Thicker skin has the converse problem of hiding any underlying change to the structure. Patients with very thick skin may be disappointed by the lack of definition of the nasal contour postoperatively and should thus be appropriately counseled beforehand to temper expectations. The underlying soft tissue can be gently trimmed by judicious plucking of the subdermal area using multitoothed Brown-Adson forceps, removing only what easily comes away. Sharp dissection using scissors in the region is best avoided, as it risks damage to the subdermal plexus. The use of postoperative steroid (triamcinolone) injections to reduce the risk of soft tissue pollybeak formation is discussed later in this chapter. Upper Third Deformities Deformities of the bony upper third of the nose following primary surgery are mainly due to inadequate lowering or conversely overresection of the bony hump or formation of dorsal irregularities, or they can be secondary to osteotomy asymmetries (see Video 30, the Crooked Nose, and Video 31, the Up-rotated Tip, Revision Surgery). Underresection Underresection is relatively easy to correct with resection of the bony dorsum with an osteotome, rasp, or powered instrumentation,17 thus deepening the nasofrontal angle. Dorsal bony irregularities may be minimized by careful palpation with a wet finger following final bony reduction with a fine rasp. 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The final result should be a piece of cartilage that has the texture of a mat, is completely pliable, but will not disintegrate into small pieces when manipulated. The cartilage should be placed in precise pockets so it will not move; when used over the nasal tip lobule, it is usually fixed in place with sutures. It is not infrequent to see that after the desired projection, rotation, definition, and structural support in the nasal lobule are achieved, the horizontal orientation of the nostrils change to a shape that is more oval looking, and the base reduction becomes unnecessary. Alar base reduction should be performed to decrease alar flare, alar base width, or both. The medial incision is placed at the natural crease that is formed at the junction of the nasal sill and the ala. The lateral incision should not extend into the alar facial groove, as this could leave an unsightly scar, Morcelized Cartilage this is done with pieces of cartilage ideally harvested from the septum. 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Dr. Simpson was a visionary in structural mechanics
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Howard Simpson, a founder and first president of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH), died on 23 January 2020. Dr. Simpson established SGH in 1956 along with Frank Heger and Werner Gumpertz. His expertise in structural engineering and mechanics as applied to precision structures – such as radars, antennas, and radio and optical telescopes – and development of computer models of significant structures led SGH to quickly become one of the leading firms for solving complex engineering problems in structural mechanics. Dr. Simpson’s brilliant and business-minded outlook strongly contributed to the company’s success during his tenure as SGH’s first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) from 1983 to 1995 and as the head of the firm’s Engineering Mechanics division until 1989.
“Howard Simpson set the standard for SGH. His critical thinking, technical expertise, and leadership were guideposts for SGH for his entire career and continue to inspire us today,” said Charles Russo, SGH CEO and Senior Principal.
Dr. Simpson entered Cornell at the age of sixteen, where he earned his B.C.E. with Distinction. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he earned both his S.M. and his Sc.D. in Civil Engineering. He served as a professor at MIT for twelve years, where he taught graduate courses in reinforced concrete, shell design, and structural analysis. He then brought his expertise in these fields to SGH, where his perseverance and technical acuity led to groundbreaking accomplishments on notable projects, such as NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in 1963, the Multiple Mirror Telescope at the Whipple Observatory in 1975, and the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Haystack radar antenna.
Dr. Simpson remained very active in his profession throughout his career, serving as a member and leader of many professional associations, including the American Society of Civil Engineers, Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Applied Technology Council, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Building Seismic Safety Council, American Arbitration Association, American Concrete Institute, and New York Academy of Sciences.
“Howard was a leader and innovator who helped push the AEC industry in many ways, including using computers in finite element analysis,” said Mehdi Zarghamee, SGH Senior Principal. “He set a great and lasting example for his peers at SGH and for all future engineers.”
Aside from his prestigious career and accomplishments, Howard had a true passion for traveling, poetry, and photography. He brought his enthusiasm for art and painting to SGH, where he co-led a museum art-lending program at the company’s headquarters.
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Cooking the Books 1: The market fails again
Within a month of the Live8 concerts that were supposed to influence the leaders of world capitalism to do something about poverty in Africa, the charities had to get their begging bowls out again. This time for a famine in Niger, an ex-French colony to the north of Nigeria with a population of over 11.6 million.
In October last year various international agencies including the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation signalled that, due to a bad harvest and an invasion of locusts, cereal production in Niger in 2004-5 was likely to be 7.5 percent below normal. In accordance with the law of supply and demand the price of millet, the main cereal grown and consumed in Niger, began to rise, with the result that the farmers whose crop had failed were unable to afford to buy enough food for their families. Malnutrition, especially amongst children, grew.
The government reacted by bringing in a scheme to sell millet at a reduced price, but although this was below the market price it was still two times higher than the price the farmers had received for their 2003-4 crop.
Dr Isabelle Defourny, of Médicins Sans Frontières, takes up the story:
“In early June, Niger’s prime minister acknowledged that the government’s response was ineffective when he noted that hundreds of thousands of the 3.5 million people threatened by the food shortage were too poor to be able to purchase cereal, even at a low price. Those most severely affected by the food crisis have the least resources, including farmers whose harvests were poor and cattle producers and craftsmen. Many had already exhausted their resources, selling goods and animals to feed themselves.” (Messages, MSF newsletter, July-August, www.msf.fr/documents/base/2005-07-01-Messages137VA.pdf )
MSF urged that “free food distribution is the only way to keep the situation from worsening and to prevent large numbers of deaths”, a perfectly reasonable proposal if we were living in a society geared to serving human needs and welfare. But we’re not. The authorities took a different view, for reasons explained by social researcher, Jean-Hervé Jezequel, in an interview in the same issue of Messages:
“ . . . in early June, at a meeting of the Joint Commission for Consultation, the decision-making body of the ‘action plan’ which includes representatives of the state and of institutional donors, the government of Niger declared that despite the seriousness of the food crisis, it would not set up free distribution operations. The only political reaction from the institutional donors came from the ambassador of France, who was glad there was a ‘policy that will not destabilize the markets’. The ambience was almost surreal: ignoring the emergency food situation, economic considerations were, without hesitation, given priority over the fate of endangered people.”
The French newspaper Libération reported that some cereal merchants had held back stocks to drive up prices further and that others had “disposed of their stocks in neighbouring Nigeria where the population has a higher purchasing power” (9 August).
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Americans have been getting a taste of the global food crisis at the check-out counter in recent days, as chain stores including Costco and Sam's club have put a limit on the sale of specialty rice. The United Nations has called the current crisis a "perfect storm" of rising demand from developing countries, the impact of climate change, and policy responses by governments. What policy changes does the west need to make to end the crisis? How has the use of farm land for ethanol production affected global food supplies? How are Wall Street investors helping to keep commodities prices high? What are the long-term solutions for feeding the hungry?
What Can Be Done to Ease the Global Food Crisis?
- Viji Sundaram - Healthcare Editor, New American Media
- Tom Buis - President, National Farmers Union
- Per Pinstrup-Andersen - Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, Cornell University
- James McGovern - Congressman (D-MA)
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“Not long ago and not far away, a Nobody named Ordinary lived in the Land of Familiar.
Every day was pretty much the same for Ordinary. In the mornings he got up and went to his Usual Job. After work, he ate almost the same dinner he’d eaten the evening before. Then he sat in his recliner and watched the box that mesmerized most Nobodies on most nights
Time passed. Then one morning Ordinary woke up with these words echoing in his mind: What you’re missing, you already have
Could it be? Ordinary looked and looked. And then he discovered that in a small corner of his heart lay a Big Dream. The Big Dream told him that he, a Nobody, was made to be a Somebody and destined to achieve Great Things
Then he had a surprising idea. Could it be that maybe the Dream Giver gave every Nobody a Dream, but only some embraced their dreams? And even fewer pursued them?”
Excerpted from The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkinson
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Colloidal silver with scalar wave codes & energies encoded with our Divine Tools technology. Antibacterial, antimicrobial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory properties with a wide variety of scalar wave zero-point quantum signatures.
Dating back to ancient times of 6000 years, silver was also a popular remedy to stop the spread of diseases. Its use as a natural antibiotic continued all the way until the 1940s, when modern antibiotics arrived. This true Colloidal Silver content consists of nanometre-sized silver particles. This will be the most effective type of colloidal silver and is most commonly used worldwide. Added with our Divine Tools technology, this high-frequency water can assist in your health and wellbeing as it has antibacterial, antimicrobial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory properties. Our Colloidal Silver contains 20 ppm (parts per million) freshly made from distilled waterfall spring water from Spain + our added amplified scalar wave quantum signatures. Read more in our description section.
The bottle contains 0,5 liter of Scalar Silver 20 ppm.
All of the products are encoded with specific high energies. We capture with scalar wave technology the energy, amplify it with the Krystal Sequence over a few billion times and encode it into the product with proprietary technology.
What Are The Benefits?
Lets say everything has a core frequency song, this frequency is no sound or light but for this instance, it comes from The Primal Sound Field (which is an in-audible field), the field just before source itself where everything is just created as an impulse or quantum signature. From this state, light is created, from light to matter and thus our reality. From this Field we can change our reality, the several different Primal Sound Field codings, which are amplified millions of times, are contained in the bottle and in the label. We use specific scalar wave technologies and subtle energy signatures embedded into the physical and digital content.
Our Divine Technology is composed of three steps:
1. CAPTURING – With Divine Connection and Intent, we use specific scalar wave technologies to capture, amplify and encode the quantum signature of the object, substance, intention and codes.
2. AMPLIFICATION – We then run the recorded quantum field in a proprietary algorithm amplifying it with the Krystal Sequence over a few billion times.
3. ENCODING – Finally, we can now encode this amplified signature in a perfectly balanced state into any physical or digital content.
Colloidal silver is a solution of water containing nanometre-sized particles of suspended silver. The total silver content is expressed as milligrams of silver per liter of water, or mg/L, which is numerically the same as parts per million (ppm).
Silver has been used for at least six thousand years to prevent microbial infections. It has proven to be effective against almost all organisms tested and it has played an important role in the development of radiology and in improving wound healing, according to research out of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Before the invention of the refrigerator, it was common practice to drop a silver coin into a container of milk as a preservative because silver was known to prevent the growth of algae, bacteria and other undesirable organisms.
Dating back to ancient times, silver was also a popular remedy to stop the spread of diseases. Its use as a natural antibiotic continued all the way until the 1940s, when modern antibiotics arrived.
Today, people obviously don’t need to drop silver coins into their water to experience colloidal silver benefits. All you need to do is carefully take a few drops from a bottle that you buy at the store.
According to a report written by Richard Davies and Samuel Etris of The Silver Institute in 1996, there are three primary ways that colloidal silver can supposedly help heal the body:
Catalytic Oxidation: Silver naturally holds onto oxygen molecules, which readily react with the sulfhydral (H) groups that surround bacterial and viruses. In turn, this helps block the life-preserving cellular process known as cellular respiration, which is the set of metabolic reactions and processes that take place within the cells of organisms in order to convert biochemical energy from nutrients into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and then release waste products.
Reaction with Bacterial Cell Membranes: Silver ions can attach to bacteria cell membranes directly and produce the same respiration-blocking effect.
Binding with DNA: Shown to literally enter bacteria DNA, up to 12 percent of silver has been detected in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. According to one source, “While it remains unclear exactly how the silver binds to the DNA without destroying the hydrogen bonds holding the lattice together, it nevertheless prevents the DNA from unwinding, an essential step for cellular replication to occur.”
There are basically three types of products that are marketed as “colloidal silver” and these can be categorized as:
1. Ionic silver
Ionic silver solutions are products whose silver content primarily consists of silver ions. Although ionic silver is often marketed as colloidal silver, it’s not true colloidal silver.
Because it’s the least expensive to produce, ionic silver is the most popular product in this category.
The problem? It simply won’t produce the same benefits that true colloidal silver can.
2. Silver Protein
In order to keep large silver particles suspended, silver protein-based products add gelatin. Silver protein is the second-most popular type of colloidal silver product on the market and can easily be made by adding water to silver protein powder.
Again, it’s also often marketed and labeled as colloidal silver, but should not be confused for the real thing. Silver protein is less effective for human use, and you won’t experience the true colloidal silver benefits.
3. True Colloidal Silver
Lastly our used silver water, true silver colloids don’t contain any protein or other additives, as the vast majority of the silver content consists of nanometre-sized silver particles. This will be the most effective type of colloidal silver.
By having a direct effect on cellular respiration, colloidal silver benefits the body in numerous ways, including providing numerous medical uses. There are eight proven healing properties that I consider to be particularly supported by the medical literature.
1. Antibacterial and Antimicrobial
First, colloidal silver’s ability to control antibiotic-resistant superbugs is impressive. While employed at UCLA Medical School in the 1980s, Doctor Larry C. Ford documented over 650 different disease-causing pathogens that were destroyed in minutes when exposed to small amounts of silver.
Colloidal silver, unlike its modern prescription antibiotic counterpart, simply doesn’t create resistance or immunity in the organisms that are killed by it. This point cannot be emphasized enough, especially in light of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reporting that more than 2 million people in the U.S. suffer illness every year as a result of antibiotic-resistant infections and 23,000 dies from these infections.
In addition, a study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine supported ionic colloidal silver as a broad-spectrum antimicrobial agent against both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, but its activity wasn’t as pronounced against fungi.
2. Wound Care/Skin Health
Robert O. Becker, MD, says that colloidal silver stimulates healing in the skin and other soft tissues. In a research article produced by Pharmacognosy Communications in 2012, it was specifically recommended that certain colloidal silver preparations should be considered for topical use to treat burns, thrush, periodontitis and other conditions.
For instance, you can potentially treat ringworm (Tinea capitis) at home with colloidal silver because it’s a potent anti-fungal. Caused by a fungus that lives on the top layer of the skin, ringworm presents as round, scaly patches.
It’s contagious and spread by skin contact and by contaminated materials, such as clothing.
Colloidal silver benefits many skin conditions as well, including psoriasis and eczema. It’s soothing to scrapes and even repairs tissue damage from burns.
In fact, a colloidal silver-based nanogel was successfully used as a dressing for superficial pellet gun wounds in a Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care study. Such silver nanoparticle-based gel dressings for wounds or even chronic wounds are becoming more common.
Topical silver historically was used on burns, but usage stopped after the advent of antibiotics, until the 1960s when it kicked back into popularity. The combination of silver nitrate and sodium sulfadiazine to create SSD cream helped lead to burn recovery in many patients.
Applying a silver coating to specialized foam, as part of a wound vacuum system, provides antibacterial activity in vitro. According to research, this technology may assist in preparing infected chronic venous stasis wounds for skin grafting, ultimately leading to better healing.
3. Pink Eye/Ear Infections
Although more research is needed to understand its full potential, the antiviral and antibacterial properties of colloidal silver may allow it to fight some common infections.
Pink eye is an inflamed mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and eyelid lining, and it’s primarily caused by a bacterial or viral infection. Colloidal silver can be used for prompt action against this irritating and highly infectious virus and bacteria under the care of your doctor.
When applied to the infected eye, the tiny silver colloids are used to pick up the infected cells by attracting them electromagnetically and sending them into the bloodstream to be eliminated.
Our modern prescription antibiotic drugs are designed to work against specific classes of bacteria, but ear infections may be caused by multiple classes of bacteria or can even be fungal. In this case, the prescription antibiotic will be useless, whereas colloidal silver is effective regardless of what may be causing your infection.
Again, more research is needed to fully understand the mechanisms and safety of colloidal silver for pink eye, ear infections and other bacterial or viral issues, but we do know that it’s a powerful antimicrobial agent that has helped many people treat these conditions.
Colloidal silver benefits can be experienced as an anti-viral for HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, herpes, shingles and warts. Colloidal silver suffocates the virus and can even reduce the activity of the HIV virus in AIDS patients.
There are also numerous anecdotal accounts of colloidal silver’s efficacy against the hepatitis C virus.
According to a study published in the International Journal of Nanomedicine, “silver nanoparticles are capable of reducing viral infectivity, probably by blocking the interaction of the virus within the cell.” This might depend on the size and zeta potential of the silver nanoparticles, as smaller-sized particles were able to inhibit the infectivity of the viruses that were analyzed.
Colloidal silver is also a fantastic anti-inflammatory remedy. Case in point: Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) studied the effects of inflammation after being treated by colloidal silver, and they found that the inflamed skin of pigs treated with silver experienced near-normal skin after 72 hours, while other treatment groups not treated with silver remained inflamed.
Research is beginning to reflect what many people have already known anecdotally for years — that colloidal silver can reduce swelling, speed healing, and boosts cell recovery. More studies on humans are needed to understand the true potential of colloidal silver for inflammation, but what we have already seen is promising.
Widely used to control sinus infections, colloidal silver can benefit people when it’s used as a nasal spray, according to a study published in the International Forum for Allergy and Rhinology in 2014.
And a recent 2018 study published in Frontiers in Microbiology found that colloidal silver nasal rinses, when used twice daily for 10 days, are safe and effective for patients with chronic sinusitis.
Twenty-two patients completed the study and were given either oral antibiotics with saline rinses twice a day or colloidal silver nasal rinses twice daily. The results indicate that both forms of treatment showed similar improvements in sinusitis symptoms, and using colloidal silver in this manner for ten days was deemed safe.
You can purchase a good quality, pure colloidal silver nasal spray product or add a few drops of liquid colloidal silver to a “neti pot.” To apply it directly into your nasal cavity, let it drain down your throat while tilting your head back.
Also, it’s important to point out that recent research indicates that hidden infections by pathogens could be a cause of respiratory inflammation associated with common allergies and asthma. Colloidal silver destroys Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections, which may be the reason why airborne allergy sufferers often find such dramatic relief from colloidal silver.
Some claim that colloidal silver helps prevent all types of flu, including swine flu, as well as the common cold.
Few studies have been done to test this clinically, but in 2011 the NIH took 100 children under the age of 12 suffering from the common cold and nasal congestion and assigned them into two groups; the first group was treated with a solution of colloidal silver and beta-glucan, and the second group with saline solution. Even though both groups benefited from the treatment, 90 percent of the people in the colloidal silver group completely recovered.
And a study published in the Journal of Virological Methods demonstrated that silver nanoparticles have anti-H1N1 influenza A virus activities, especially during the early dissemination stage of the virus.
Our modern drugs have become limited in their efficacy when it comes to fighting bronchitis or pneumonia symptoms. Typically, antibiotics are administered as the first line of defense, but when the pneumonia is viral, antibiotics won’t help in the least.
The unique quality of colloidal silver is that it can help regardless of the pathogen, as research indicates it has antiviral and antibacterial properties.
Colloidal silver is a remarkable product to help fight against bronchitis and pneumonia when ingested internally, but an even more effective way to utilize it? Simply breathe it into your lungs.
This way, the silver directly contacts the germs residing in the lungs, which are causing bronchitis or pneumonia. It’s basically the same thing as using respiratory support, and it works speedily, clearing it up within a couple of days.
Now, the most effective method to get the colloidal silver into the lungs is to use a nebulizer. Generally, use one teaspoon approximately three times a day for 10 to 15 minutes.
9. Scalar Wave Zero-point Quantum Signatures
What are Quantum Signatures? All matter (and non-matter) in the universe resonates on a quantum level with a unique signature. Each and every object, living or non-living beings, substances, chemicals, thoughts and even intents, basically everything on Earth and beyond Earth reality, has its own constant Quantum Signature.
This is beyond sound and light, it is the impulse that decides, the object or living matter, to be for what it is. It is the basic foundation of our existence. With special care and equipment, we capture this subtle energy state of the chosen intents, objects, substance, codes and even feelings, then we amplify the signal billions of times, and are able to put this signal in physical and digital objects and products.
Which in turn broadcasts the signal in the most purest, powerful and constant stable way. Quantum Signatures explained in a nutshell!
All the added quantum signatures are non-chemical and thus non-reactive chemically. Delivering the information to your electric magnetic field, to your cells, DNA, as well on your physical, mental, spiritual and emotional bodies. All codes and scalar wave energies are there to support your maximum authentic state and wellbeing. Aligning you with your potential angelic human being. Read more in the next drop-down description.
Coated Nano Silver
20.000 ppm silver water, highly concentrated coated nanosilver. Made from Organic materials: polysaccharides, silver and water. Natural elements from our earth. Mainstream scientific literature considers coated silver (whether coated with non-organic or organic materials) to be orders of magnitude safer than colloidal silver. Coated silver does not clump or agglomerate. Friendly to the microbiome in the body. At 20,000 parts per million, this coated silver is the highest concentration on Earth. Super concentration (at least 83 times more concentrated than colloidal silver).
Highest Stability: Practically Unlimited shelf life.
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Wild Oregano Oil
As an herbal supplement, the oil of oregano is known for its antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties. It contains several potentially healing compounds, such as carvacrol, thymol, and terpinene. People have traditionally used the oil of oregano for respiratory health. It’s also become a popular alternative remedy for cold and flu symptoms.
Sodium borate is an important naturally-occurring boron mineral that has historically been used in pharmaceutical applications because of its preventative and healing properties. There have been various research done on it with numerous health benefits, and arthritis cures due to people being deficient in boron, which is involved with healthy bone development and density and proper calcium deposition in the right places. Borax is also used by many to remove toxic fluoride from the body as well as calcification in hurtful locations in joints and muscles. Particularly great for clearing nanoparticles in the human body, the reason we included it in the audio.
Vitamin C is a vital nutrient for health. It helps form and maintains bones, skin, and blood vessels. It is also an antioxidant, meaning that it can neutralize free radicals that can damage cells at the genetic level.
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Take every day on an empty stomach one sip of water and hold it in your mouth for several minutes before swallowing. In case of sickness or starting flu, take double in morning and evening one sip. Can also be applied topically on wounds, acne or for any other skincare. Stop after 10 days double intake and ingest normal dosage again for normal maintenance.
There’s plenty of debate about the potential health risks of colloidal silver. So is it safe to use colloidal silver supplements or products?
According to a review published in Environmental Health Perspectives, this is a controversial topic that has contenders on both sides. The review states “despite its widespread use, nanosilver remains a fairly poorly understood material to both regulators and scientists. Consensus remains elusive on subjects as essential as how it behaves in the human body and environment, and the extent to which its use may contribute to bacterial resistance.”
Of course, there are two opposing arguments in this debate — what are being called “watchdog groups” that seize on the confusion surrounding colloidal silver side effects and safety, and advocate groups, like the Silver Nanotechnology Working Group, that proclaim its usefulness and safety, noting that most applications use extremely small quantities of silver in their formulas.
What the research indicates is that misuse of colloidal silver, or choosing inexpensive, low-quality products that are not true colloidal silver, can cause adverse side effects. For instance, you may have come across warnings about it causing an irreversible condition called argyria, which is when people turn blue.
This is usually caused by cheaper products marketed as colloidal silver, such as ionic silver or silver protein.
Although the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health reports that colloidal silver may cause poor absorption of some drugs, including antibiotics and thyroxine, which is used to treat thyroid deficiency, there is limited research proving that these side effects to colloidal silver exist.
There is evidence that using colloidal silver for the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis is not only effective, but safe when used as a sinus rinse for 10 days. Researchers found that colloidal silver rinses demonstrated a good safety profile with no major adverse events.
A lab study published in Particle and Fibre Toxicology found that when the human lung is exposed to silver nanoparticles, it does not cause adverse effects. Lung cells were only sensitive to high silver-ion concentrations.
A 2016 study conducted at the University of Michigan found that when oral doses of silver nanoparticles were administered for 28 days, it did not alter the structure or diversity of the animal gut microbiome. This is in contrast to the detrimental effects of broad-spectrum antibiotics.
Many advocates are pointing to this study when suggesting the beneficial use of colloidal silver for pets.
And in a summary of literature published in Frontiers in Microbiology, researchers concluded that although there are some concerns and controversies related to nano’s safe use in human disease treatment and healthcare, the research that has been done suggests that it can be engineered to “enhance its antimicrobial efficacy, stability, specificity, biosafety and biocompatibility for increased therapeutic benefits and reduced potential side effects.”
From the current research, our take is that colloidal silver may work as a potential antimicrobial agent, but it needs to be used appropriately. Only true colloidal silver should be used and studies indicate that short-term use does not cause adverse side effects.
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Singapore’s manufacturing output grew at a slower rate of 2.2% year on year in June as both semiconductor and pharmaceutical production saw much lower output compared to the previous year.
The Economic Development Board released data also indicated excluding biomedical manufacturing, output in June grew 4.2% this is after Singapore revised its June growth to 10.4% in May. On an occasionally adjusted month-on-month basis, manufacturing output fell 8.5% in June, excluding biomedical output declined 6.9%.
Transport engineering: Output expanded 32.0% year-on-year in June 2022 compared to a year ago. The marine & offshore engineering segment increased 44.0%, supported by a higher level of work done in ship-repair and offshore projects. The
aerospace segment grew 32.2%, on account of higher production of aircraft parts and more maintenance, repair and overhaul jobs from commercial airlines with the easing of global air travel restrictions. In the first six months of this year, output of the transport engineering cluster expanded 17.7% compared to the same period in 2021.
- General manufacturing: Output expanded 10.1% in June 2022, with all segments recording an increase in output. The printing and food, beverage & tobacco segments grew 12.2% and 9.7% respectively, with the latter recording higher output of beverage and milk products. The miscellaneous industries segment increased 9.5% with higher production of structural metal products and wearing apparel. Cumulatively, the general manufacturing industries cluster expanded 12.3% for the period January to June 2022 compared to the same period a year ago
Electronics output rose 2.3% in June 2022 on a year-on-year basis. The infocomms & consumer electronics and computer peripherals & data storage segments recorded output increases of 38.3% and 4.7% respectively. On the other hand, output of the semiconductors segment fell 2.6% while the other electronic modules & components segment declined 23.5% with lower export orders from China. On a year-to-date basis output of the electronics, cluster grew 9.2% compared to the same period a year ago.
- For Biomedical manufacturing output declined 9.2% in June 2022 on a year-on-year basis. The medical technology segment grew 14.3% with higher demand for medical devices from the US and China. By contrast, the pharmaceuticals segment contracted 24.9% due to a different mix of active pharmaceutical ingredients being produced. Overall, the biomedical manufacturing cluster decreased 4.0% year-on-year in the period January – June 2022. Chemicals: Output decreased 11.0% in June 2022 compared to the same period in The specialties segment grew 3.9% on account of higher production of food additives.
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These flexible scholarships are deferrable through summer 2021, a new offering introduced by FEA to help their new scholars survive the current disruption to higher education caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“In an economic downturn, scholarships are necessary to get students on programs”
Including this new cohort, a total of 590 scholars, including minority, first-generation college and community college students, have benefited from over US$2.1 million in scholarships granted since FEA’s inception in 2010.
This year, 88% of awarded scholars are first-generation college students, 94% are minority, and 35% either transferred from or are attending a community college.
“In finalist interviews over the past two weeks, students overwhelmingly expressed resolve to pursue their study abroad dreams,” said FEA executive director, Jennifer Calvert.
“In an economic downturn, scholarships are necessary to get students on programs. FEA is the only non-governmentally funded national study abroad scholarship provider.”
New this year are four named and dedicated scholarships, including the first-ever funded by an FEA Scholar, the Breakout Scholarship for Community College Students.
Also new are the Eleni Zachariou Memorial Scholarship for Study in Greece, the Holland America Line Scholarship for Students Studying Travel and Tourism, and the Kacenga-Cladera Family Rainbow Scholarship.
The American University in Cairo and the University of Auckland have also funded two new Access Partner Scholarships.
“We expect FEA will be a vital resource to the study abroad sector as it emerges from the current global health and economic crisis,” said FEA chair, Anne Krieg.
“We are particularly grateful to the donors funding six new scholarships, and to all our supporters and partners who have helped us award more than $2 million in scholarships in a decade.”
FEA funds scholarships of up to $10,000 for study abroad, enabling students to study across the globe for a minimum of four weeks to a full academic year.
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Our photo compositions are just as prone to bad habits as any other regular activity. Every now and then it pays to step back and rethink our approach to taking pictures. This begins the process of creating compelling compositions.
One habit to avoid is always holding the camera the same way, at the same level. By raising your lowering the camera, your angle of view changes and so do your compositions. Another trick is to walk around your subject and not just take the first shot that presents itself. And don't forget to zoom in and out while experimenting with your compositions.
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Decreasing stress and increasing self-awareness in school
Teaching mindfulness in the classroom is an important part of social-emotional learning and character education. Does your classroom feel chaotic? Do your students seem overwhelmed and unable to maintain attention? Empower your students by teaching mindfulness!
I often cover being mindful in my lessons, I use this Character Education: Mindfulness resource that includes everything you need for teaching mindfulness in your classroom. Looking for more ideas on how to teach Mindfulness in the classroom? Check out this blog post on Children’s books that teach Mindfulness.
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is paying attention to your body, your thoughts and feelings, and what is happening around you. Essentially, it is emotional awareness.
When there is high stress or a lack of self-awareness in a classroom, the atmosphere often feels all topsy-turvy🤪. We know we need to get our students back into focus, but sometimes it’s hard to know how to really do this when we are in the moment.
When it comes down to it, we teach mindfulness in the classroom by modeling and leading students in techniques to help calm themselves.
Some examples of mindfulness strategies include:
- Deep breathing
- Guided imagery
- Sensory experiences
- Coping strategies
- Moments of gratitude
- Calm corner in the classroom
Why teach Mindfulness?
There are so many benefits to teaching mindfulness to students (and using it yourself as the teacher!)
It’s a lifelong skill, which is why it’s SO important for us to address with students at a young age. We have the capability to develop positive stress management techniques and self-awareness in our students before they are adults.👏🏼
Mindfulness techniques can help students with transitions throughout the day. For some students, transitions are challenging when they are unexpected. For other students, transitions are difficult when they are unregulated from being overtired or participating in one task for too long.
Fights and melt-downs
These strategies are also helpful to de-escalate fights and stop meltdowns. Visually modeling strategies like intentional deep breathing can help students choose mindfulness when they feel overwhelmed.
Help students establish coping skills by turning challenging behaviors into opportunities for learning, aka growth mindset! Using mindfulness techniques can help students learn to control their shifting attention and manage increasing stress in unpreferred classroom tasks.
When students are equipped with proper techniques for emotional awareness and have opportunities to practice them (without consequences for not being 100% perfect), you will often find that your classroom environment begins to morph from chaos to peace and calm. We all want that, right?!🤩🧘🏻♂️
Use premade resources
This Character Education: Mindfulness resource is one of my favorite resources to use to teach emotional awareness in the classroom. It is perfect for online or in-person lessons.
Teach students what it means to be mindful, by practicing deep breathing, yoga poses, guided imagery, sensory experiences, and more. Bulletin board posters are included in this set for easy-to-reference visuals for students.
You can also find mindfulness in my Character Education Vol. 1 Bundle, along with activities for 9 other character traits like kindness and courage.
Books & videos about mindfulness
Read alouds are a wonderful way to incorporate teaching mindfulness in the classroom. Check out this blog post about Children’s books that teach Mindfulness. Here are a few highlights of my favorites:
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In I Am Peace, a young boy tries to settle the anxious thoughts in his mind. When his mind clears, he begins letting things go, sharing kindness with others, and watching the clouds roll by. Once he practices these mindfulness techniques, he feels peaceful. In turn, the young boy is able to share his peace with others.
During a retreat in Santa Barbara, Tich Nhat Hanh developed a meditation technique specifically designed for children and their families. This simple practice involves using four pebbles to focus children’s energy and help them connect with nature. Hanh hopes that children can eventually do this practice on their own.
With 30 guided breathing and meditation techniques, Breathe Like a Bear gives children effective ways to feel calm and connected. This book is an easy way to bring mindfulness to your classroom, with no prep work!
Check out this 5 minute video to practice mindfulness in the classroom with students. The Body Scanner! Mindfulness for Children
Use this short video to practice deep breathing. Candle and Flower Breathing – Mindful and Calming Breathing Technique
Teaching mindfulness can be an easy thing to do! I’m sure the atmosphere of your classroom will change (for the better!) as you incorporate some of these into your school day.
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A pandemic of the new coronavirus has killed more than 499,000 people worldwide.
More than 10 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to a paucity of evidence, many unreported cases, and suspicions that some governments are hiding the extent of the outbreaks from their nations.
The United States has become the most affected country, with more than 2.5 million diagnosed cases and at least 125,539 deaths.
San Antonio issues a “stay home” alert, as 795 cases of COVID-19 reported Saturday, a high number of daily coronavirus deaths in the US exceeds 125,000, as the top 2.5 million 4 states recorded high numbers of cases Saturday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral to celebrate the first public mass since March
10:50 am: 200 doctors ask for Republican convention to be postponed in Jacksonville, masks ordered
Approximately 200 Florida doctors signed a letter to Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry requesting that the Republican National Convention be postponed, calling the decision to organize the event “foreseeably damaging” and “medically disrespectful to citizens of this city”.
Doctors also called for the use of masks in the city, according to the letter obtained by WJXX, an affiliate of ABC Jacksonville.
The letter, which was sent to Curry on Saturday, notes that more than 40,000 people from across the United States are expected to attend the convention.
“It is extremely dangerous and contrary to current public health recommendations to organize a large event in an area where the number of cases is increasing,” the letter states.
On Saturday, the state registered nearly 10,000 new cases of COVID-19.
Mayor Curry, who has not responded to the letter, announced Saturday that all members of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department would be evaluated after 14 employees were positive.
5:57 am: Confirmed global cases of COVID-19 exceed 10 million
A new milestone was reached Sunday morning, with more than 10 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide, according to John Hopkins University count.
The current number according to Johns Hopkins University is now 10,001,527.
The United States has been the most affected country, with more than 2.5 million diagnosed cases and at least 125,539 deaths. The United States is followed by Brazil, Russia, India and the United Kingdom as the most affected countries in the world.
2:56 am: San Antonio issues a “stay home” alert when 795 cases of COVID-19 were reported Saturday, a daily high
San Antonio officials urged residents to stay home, as the city recorded the highest number of cases in a single day.
An emergency alert was sent just minutes after the city reported 795 new cases of COVID-19. That brings the city’s total number of cases to 9,652. Two new deaths were reported and the number of deaths is now 107.
The wireless emergency alert, similar to an amber alert, urges residents to stay home, wear face shields, practice social distancing, and avoid meeting with people outside their home.
“This action is reserved for emergencies only, and we have clearly reached a state of emergency,” Mayor Ron Nirenberg said in a press release. “We need every person in San Antonio and Bexar County to take this crisis seriously and behave accordingly to stem the exponential growth of the virus.”
In San Antonio, there are currently 984 staffed beds and 449 fans, or 21% of beds and 66% of fans.
1:25 am: 3 states had record numbers of cases on Saturday
Florida, South Carolina and Georgia reached a record number of cases on Saturday with Nevada more than double its highest daily total.
Georgia reported a record in cases of nearly 2,000. The 7-day average for cases has nearly tripled since late May. Hospitalizations have also risen again after falling from May to June.
Meanwhile, South Carolina surpassed its original registration mark for most COVID-19 cases in a single day with nearly 1,599 positive tests on Saturday. Previously, the maximum was 1,293. In addition, there were 15 new confirmed deaths and 2 probable deaths on the COVID-19 related list.
The Florida Department of Health reported a total of 132,545 cases of COVID-19 with 9,636 new positive cases on Saturday. The total of yesterday’s tests was 76,129 with a positivity rate of 12.7%.
Nevada also had not reported more than 500 cases in a day, but on Saturday, the state reported nearly 1,100, although health authorities later said hundreds of those cases could be attributed to a delay in laboratory tests and were not new cases. in the last 24 hours, according to the Las Vegas Sun.
Overall in the United States, about 43,000 new cases were reported Saturday, which is close to the record. These numbers are the result of increasing tests that capture the rapid spread of the virus in a large swath of the country.
States also reported 591,000 tests completed on Saturday. The United States never reached 500,000 tests in a day before June and has now exceeded that number in nine of the last 10 days.
12:29 am: St. Patrick’s Cathedral will celebrate the first public mass since March
St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City will reopen for its first public mass since March on Sunday morning.
The cathedral said in a statement that they will begin to have a small number of masses during the week at 25% of their capacity.
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If you lived in Laguna Beach during prohibition you would have recognized his name in a heartbeat— Anthony "Tony-the-Hat" Cornero.
If you had made the mistake of crossing him, perhaps the name alone would send shivers up your spine.
Tony the Hat was Southern California’s most famous rumrunner; notorious throughout the county. The mobster used a pretty simple scheme: with a shrimp boat acting as his cover, he smuggled massive shipments of whiskey and rum into Southern California. His shrimp boat would then idle three miles offshore while small skiffs, painted black, delivered case upon case of contraband to Laguna’s secret coves. One of the popular drop off points for the contraband was Crescent Bay, isolated from view from the rest of the coast it made for the ideal spot to truck in the liquid gold.
Laura Davick, who wrote CRYSTAL COVE COTTAGES: ISLANDS IN TIME ON THE CALIFORNIA COAST tells stories of delivery crews dropping burlap sacks full of alcohol overboard rather than risking capture. Later, when bottles of booze were found rolling around the shallows, locals would collect them and throw parties. The book LEGENDARY SURFERS by Malcolm Gault-Williams details the city’s first surf-explorers having the beaches to themselves “except rumrunners’ leftover crates, boxes, and bottles.”
Even if the apocryphal stories can be believed, one of Tony’s skiffs once washed up on the sand at Crystal Cove, piled high with cases of spirits. Local residents, living in tents right on the sand, were used to finding a stray bottle or two…but this was different. For 36-hours the boat and the crates never moved. No one dared touch the Admiral’s liquor. On the second night, the entire shipment vanished, leaving only the wrecked boat behind.
Tony was a millionaire before age 25; but he’d been arrested by 27 and fled the country (later, he would resurface in the Las Vegas criminal underground). There was no shortage of bootleggers waiting to take his place. The Orange County photo archives have images of James Cagney-looking police officers posing with their guns drawn, aimed at boats sitting offshore. That’s not to say that all of the seized alcohol was dumped out. One local police official claimed that prohibition “ruined a generation of good cops” by corrupting them. So it’s no surprise that the rumors of booze drops in Laguna Beach’s many secluded coves persisted.
Naturally, all of that alcohol had to get stored somewhere, and there aren’t many old buildings in town that don’t have at least a few tales of hidden rooms and clandestine drop offs. One of Laguna Beach’s oldest standing structures, the MURPHY SMITH BUNGALOW (where the Laguna Beach Historical Society is currently based), was purportedly a favorite stash spot for rumrunners.
As for consumption, Laguna Beach in the twenties and early thirties had become a haven for movie stars trying to party away from Hollywood’s ever present flashbulbs. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford owned a home in Irvine Cove that was frequented by their famous friends. A number of prominent movie producers enjoyed the proximity to LA and the bohemian vibe, buying up their own properties in town. Of course, often times the booze never left the beach—multiple histories point out that the very best parties were usually those held right on the sand.
These days you can drink legally at any number of spots in town, but the mythos of Tony the Hat and his bootlegging ilk continues to grow, fueled by the occasional glass bottle appearing on the beach after a good storm.
Now you have a chance to own a slice of the Laguna Beach prohibition history with a home that overlooks the notorious cove, Crescent Bay, that holds secret stories of rum runners. Luxury Home Buyers shows off this enchanting property in the video below.
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These proposals as well as every other proposal that comes before the House should, I would imagine, be examined from certain standpoints and those standpoints should be related to the time in which the proposals are being put forward.
I would like to start by examining these proposals from the point of view of their necessity as evidenced by public demand. Nowhere can I see any evidence from the circumstances obtaining at this time that there is a necessity for them nor that there is any public demand. In 1959 when similar proposals to these were being discussed, one rarely listened to anybody from either side of the House in the almost universal absence of everybody, unlike this evening. At that time the Public Gallery was relatively full. In the Public Gallery at this moment there is but one person and while, of course, the Press has its own way of doing things, it cannot be said that two members of the Press in the Press Gallery for a debate of this kind would show that their readers are avidly waiting for anything that we may say on either side of the House. As far as I can see and as far as I can hear from meeting people in different parts of the country the question generally asked in relation to this matter, when it is asked indeed, is "why now?" Why, when there are so many things pressing, so many problems crying out for solution, so many people unemployed, population falling drastically in certain areas, take the public eye of scrutiny off these matters by discussing in Dáil Éireann and later in Seanad Éireann and taking up the time of the House and the time of the country and newspaper space and people's time reading those newspapers with a proposed change in the voting system?
Deputy Mrs. Desmond who has just spoken has put her finger on the pulse of this matter. It is my view, too, as indeed, it is the view of many people not alone inside the House but outside it as well that these proposals have been put forward by the Government at this time because, first of all, they know that the constituencies must be revised in order to avoid a constitutional questioning of an election before the next election and the Government know, too, that in that part of the country along the western coast the population has so fallen that County Mayo lost about 28,000 people between the census of 1961 and 1966 and what is the Government's immediate proposal to remedy that in County Mayo? It is to maintain the number of Deputies they have at the moment by bringing in this Third Amendment which for convenience sake I shall call the tolerance proposal.
How can anybody argue that, in a three-seat constituency which will have to be enlarged on the one hand or if not enlarged the number of persons per Deputy reduced, if it were enlarged and the Deputies consequently reduced that the people would be much worse off with three-fifths of their present representation than they are with the whole of the representation now obtaining? I cannot for the life of me see how, for instance, I can be of any more use to 16,000 people than I would be to 20,000 people nor do I see how one and two-fifths of me could make for happier conditions among the number of people I represent at the moment.
We are told that this tolerance is necessary because of rivers, lakes, hills and mountains and, of course, coupled with that, the great difficulty the Deputy has in moving around and visiting his constituents. It has been called a duty by Deputy Davern, the Parliamentary Secretary. While it may be a duty and while it may be a very commendable thing, I want to say here and now that a lot of the going around by Deputies with good news, bad news or neutral news is not something in the interests of the people they represent, nor is it something in the interest of the constituency they represent. It is all part of the merry-go-round of his advancement, being first with the news. I know of very few Deputies in rural Ireland who are not able to cross the ravines, walk the hills, down the dales and even use boats to the islands in order to be first with the news. Tolerance, therefore, is not any solution, in my view, to the problems which exist in areas seriously denuded of population. How can it? Surely going around inquiring about old age pensions, social welfare benefits, rural improvement schemes and housing grants must become easier if the number of people grows less? If one is to follow this argument logically, the tolerance should go the other way because we are not on horseback travelling those queer ravines and galloping madly. Travelling conditions have changed since the beginning of this State. It probably was not easy at the beginning for somebody representing a very large area like Sligo-Leitrim or the whole of County Galway, having regard to the travelling conditions available to Deputies. Perhaps some of us would like the conditions for getting around to be improved but I still think the necessity to get around must not be the criterion by which this is changed.
It is not because a Deputy goes around and carefully nurses every vote from election to election and carefully nurses the coming of age of people that this should be changed. If that is a legislative necessity, then I do not know what legislative necessity is. When we talk of travelling conditions nowadays, we know that we can get to either end of our constituencies, however long they are, in less than two hours. When Deputy Davern was speaking about the tolerance, he made a complaint that Mr. Justice Budd did not have all those physical conditions before him. I remember this case well. Surely all the machinery of the State was available through the law officers of the Government, their representatives in the court, all their technical witnesses from the Department of Local Government who gave evidence and there is no need for any Fianna Fáil Deputy to come in here criticising the judgment of Mr. Justice Budd as being faulty because he did not have all the information which they in their wisdom think he should have had. If he had not, let them blame their own law officers and their technical advisers in the electoral section of the Department of Local Government. If they were not satisfied, why did they not appeal? There is a Supreme Court in this country to which we can appeal in such cases. The machinery of appeal was not used and constituencies at that time were redrawn in accordance with the principles laid down by Mr. Justice Budd in that judgment.
Those principles are still valid and the constituencies now under PR must be redrawn according to the very same principles. It is to avoid this that the Government are bringing in these proposals now. They see very clearly that opinion in the areas, for which they seek tolerance, is now mounting against them. I forget what the actual figures were in say 1948 but I think in the province of Connacht at that time, there were certainly not more than five—I know there were four— Fine Gael Deputies. The present representation in this House from the province of Connacht, where there are 23 seats, is 12 Fianna Fáil and 11 Fine Gael Deputies. That is as close as one could have it where there are 23 seats, that there would be 12 one way and 11 the other way. In the province of Connacht, on a redrawing of the constituencies, and in Donegal and possibly Clare, although I am not sure of that, maybe Kerry, West Cork, Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon, the number of Deputies inevitably would have to be reduced and on that reduction, from my own study of the figure, the Fianna Fáil Party would suffer. It is not easy to determine how much but they would have certain losses.
It of course is not desirable from the point of view of the Fianna Fáil Party, or indeed from the point of view of any Party, to have losses. The Fianna Fáil Party are determined like the Israelites of old in, I think, the Book of Leviticus, to go a-whoring after false gods. Those people at that time were urged not to do this. At a later date in constitutional history, one reads of the efforts of the Liberals of the day under Asquith to increase the number of Liberals to avoid trouble from the Upper House. I think it was Sir William Harcourt who advised them to hold tight to principles and not go a-whoring after false constitutions. I would similarly urge on the Government of the day in this country.
I do not think there is very much more to be said about this question of tolerance. Tolerance, as interpreted in this Bill, is an effort by the Fianna Fáil Party to maintain their numbers as far as they can in the areas denuded of their population under their policies. There is no need for that. In modern conditions one can represent up to 30,000 people in a rural area, however vast it is, however many hills there are, however many ravines and however many rivers there are. Let nobody tell me that the purpose of a legislator is to spend virtually all the time when not in this House moving around his constituency looking for work and looking for it in such a way that he seeks to curry favour in every possible move.
What is really needed is a rationalisation of the services in the country. One can get an old age pension in 999 cases out of 1,000 by simply filling an application form which can be done by a local teacher or by somebody in his or her own house at the moment and producing a birth certificate. That is all that is required. The local officer comes along. There might be an occasional time, a very occasional time, when injustice is done, but in my experience, it is inadvertently done, certainly not deliberately done by any of the officers of the Department of Social Welfare. It is due to the fact that they have not been given all the evidence or they may make some kind of mistake due to the evidence being improperly put to them. Grants for houses are the same.
In every sizeable area in this country at the moment, there is an officer of some sort, one for social welfare, one for local government, one for agriculture, one for forestry—I could go on and on giving them. They are there in rural Ireland to be used by the people, at the service of the people and there is no need for the humbug of having TD's approached by the people to go to these officers and then going back to say: "You were lucky you asked me because if you had not, you would never have got it."
Let us stop the codology; let us stop the nonsense and become legislators, what we are intended to be. We are not all the drones that Deputy Davern made us out to be in his colourful verbiage, not based on truth, but arrogant nonsense. It would be a good thing if some of the men here in Parliament, even the junior Ministers, realised that logic is based on syllogisms, that there is the major premise, the minor premise and the conclusion, and without them you cannot reach the truth. Truth is not a political variant, to be taken from or added to as expediency requires. That is not the kind of Parliament that was envisaged for our people. These are not the kind of charges that should be levelled against Members of this House.
The single-seat constituency, the first past the post system, is where, whatever number of candidates stand, the man who gets the highest number of votes gets in. Again, we are told that it makes it easier to get around, around with the news, to be able to get to know everybody, to be able to move with greater ease in the knowledge that one recognises that baby's blue eyes belong to every mother to whom they in fact are alleged to belong. It has become very important in this matter of gathering votes, extremely important, but the more it progresses, the less effective Parliament will be. People will not have the time to do the work appropriate to Parliament.
How many Deputies go through even a fraction of the Bills brought before the House, Bills for social reform, fiscal measures, occupational injuries? How many go through them in the detail necessary and with the understanding that is more necessary still if they are to fulfil their true purposes here as legislators for the community? Would I not be right in saying that the number who do that— I do not say they should do it with all Bills because we all have our special likes for the things that apply to our special areas—is small? How many go through them all? It may be that this is not due to reluctance or laziness on their part, or incapacity to understand. It may well be due, and I think in many cases is due, to the fact that Deputies have to spend so long in this House either dictating letters to a secretariat or writing them themselves in longhand.
I confess straightaway that I am not a believer in the universal letter writer and I am often amazed when I meet Deputies in the corridors, Deputies of all Parties, with armfuls of letters. I ask myself: "I wonder what they are writing about; what is it all about and what is the necessity for all this?" Again, of course, it has been built up by the system that says you cannot get anything under any of the enactments of Parliament or any budgetary proposals unless you approach a TD, a Senator or a county councillor. What can be more ridiculous than that? What is more awful? Do people not feel ashamed writing as they do and talking as they do to innocent people, saying: "If you had not spoken to me, you might have had trouble in getting it"—let it be a pension, a housing grant, or anything else to which these people are perfectly entitled and which the officials of the appropriate Department will see they get?
Let us be rational, let us be realistic about our services, on the one hand, and let us be proper engineers of this House, on the other. I do not represent Dáil Éireann in North Mayo. I represent North Mayo in Dáil Éireann and anybody who does not want me on that basis is perfectly free to reject me.
On the single-seat constituency, too, we had the Parliamentary Secretary telling us we were going to get a better type of Deputy. Part of this, of course, is the complaint about the competition between Deputies of the same Party in a constituency. We do not have to worry about this in my particular constituency at the moment, where there are two Fine Gael TDs and one Fianna Fáil TD. So that, as far as the better type of Deputy is concerned, Fianna Fáil have them. They have their very best in my constituency in North Mayo. I want to know what Deputy Davern is seeking and at whom is he hinting when he says he wants a better type of Deputy.
For instance, in his own constituency in South Tipperary, the representation is two Fianna Fáil, one Fine Gael and one Labour. Does he think that by having the Fine Gael and the Labour man replaced by two Fianna Fáil men, he will have a better type of Deputy, or does he think that his other colleague would be replaced by a better type of Fianna Fáil candidate in whatever new area would be allotted to him, if allotted at all? There was never any doubt not that Deputy Davern was the better type of Deputy but that he was the best type of Deputy that was ever here. That well may be. But, the fact that a man has great capacity, great political insight, great experience, great knowledge of the law and all its consequences—Deputy Davern has all of these qualities to the full—does not give him the right to decry anybody else of lesser stature. He, obviously, is quite certain that there are people of lesser stature.
In Dublin North-East, there are five seats. Two of the representatives are Ministers in this Government; two of them are members of the Fine Gael Party; one is a member of the Labour Party. What better type of Deputy is the Parliamentary Secretary, Deputy Davern, looking for in North East Dublin? Whom does he want to eliminate in order to get better types? In Dublin North Central there are Deputy Major Vivion de Valera and Deputy Mrs. Celia Lynch, on the one hand, and Deputy Luke Belton, Deputy Michael O'Leary representing Fine Gael and Labour, respectively. Who is to be destroyed there in the interests of getting a better type of Deputy?
Does it not all amount to this, that this is a phrase that somebody thought up in order to convince the public in some queer way that a better type of Deputy will emerge if you have a single-seat constituency? How will it be done? Are Fianna Fáil going to change the machinery of the Convention, the ratification by the Party Headquarters or are they going to impose on a constituency somebody from outside? Somebody in Fianna Fáil should tell us.
The Parliamentary Secretary, Deputy Davern, had great complaints about our going to Clare and saying who would go and who would not go. He was on very dangerous ground there because his Party has got a history of imposing on constituencies people from outside whom the constituents do not want. That was done as recently as the last general election. I do not propose to follow the Parliamentary Secretary along that illogical path.
We are told by Government spokesmen that the single-seat constituency will make for stable government. Have all their own Governments over the last 30 years not been stable? What was wrong with them? They say that it makes for a quicker change of government. Do they seek a change of government? Are they holding out the hand of electoral friendship to Fine Gael and saying to us that this is our only chance of getting a sufficient number of seats to form a Government and that they are giving us this chance? Really, we are being treated as babes in arms if we are expected to believe in this kind of electoral generosity coming from the Government benches to us. I suppose the same would apply to the Labour Party, that they are making a similar offer to them.
Again, the single-seat constituency is being sought after now by Fianna Fáil because they see that opinion is mounting against them in all of the constituencies. I know they can say that they won five by-elections in a row and all that kind of thing. Certainly they did, but a by-election is a different proposition altogether. Fianna Fáil should look at their total polls. They are going down steadily. The fact that that is happening means that the Fianna Fáil Party vote will be considerably reduced at the next general election under proportional representation. Accordingly, they want to destroy proportional representation. They want to destroy anything that comes in their way.
In addition, there is this dishonest racialist remark of the Tánaiste, that proportional representation was imposed on us by the British and we must get rid of it. This is 1968. Some people never grow up. As far as his bitternesses are concerned, I do not think the Tánaiste has grown up. Anglo-Irish trade agreements are ex-tolled on the one hand and, on the other hand, the Tánaiste says that we must get rid of PR, which was imposed on us by the British, which was a terrible thing—which, of course, is absolutely removed from the truth. Assume for a moment the false premise of the Minister for External Affairs, that proportional representation was imposed on us by the British, why was it enshrined in the Constitution of 1937 by the Fianna Fáil Party, in which Party Deputy Aiken was then, as now, a considerable controlling force? In fact, I would say that his controlling force in 1936 and 1937 was stronger than it has been in recent times. Why did he not use that superior force and influence which he had in those days to prevent PR from being enshrined in the 1937 Constitution? Why should he in 1968 be indulging in all this ráiméis about PR being imposed on us by the British?
To follow that argument to its logical conclusion one could say that the British imposed income tax, local government laws, the rating system, the county system and a great deal of British common law. They imposed all these things but Fianna Fáil do not point to any of them as being bad until it begins to hurt them. We had all this old argument trotted out in 1959 as to the British imposition of PR but the people did not believe that, they rejected it, and they do not believe it now.
Under proportional representation there is fair play. Take, for instance, the recent by-election in Clare where almost 20,000 voted for Deputy Barrett and something over 9,000 voted for Mr. Bugler. I do not believe for one moment that the 20,000 voters in Clare who voted Fianna Fáil would like to see the 9,000 to 10,000 persons who voted Fine Gael disfranchised and not represented in Parliament. At the moment, following the by-elections, there are three Fianna Fáil Deputies and one Labour Deputy representing Clare. The normal representation of Clare, I would say, under proportional representation, at a general election, would be two Fianna Fáil Deputies, one Fine Gael Deputy and one Labour Deputy.
In regard to this Commission pre-sided over by a judge—I will have something to say about that incidentally, not critical of any judge or judges but of the unfairness of putting a judge so close to the political scene— I do not care what kind of Commission you have. If it were formed in heaven —and a Fianna Fáil inspired commission is not likely to come from such a celestial source—you can divide County Clare on the streams, the rivers, the mountains, the burns and the roads, and I do not care what four areas you emerge with, on the present voting strength you are going to get four Fianna Fáil Deputies.
Deputy Mrs. Desmond said that if there was not a Fianna Fáil Deputy somewhere they would have to go to the next one. Where do the people go to if they want to have representations made on their behalf? They go to one of the four and in the process become indebted. Being the nice, decent people we are in the West of Ireland, we never forget a favour, not openly anyway. Of course, when the next election comes around the four go in again somewhat strengthened by the little pieces of patronage they have successfully manoeuvred over the preceding time. Here are four of the safest seats you could possibly imagine. Where is this violent change the Fianna Fáil Party are offering us? Where is this great chance to come when every possible piece of Government patronage and local patronage will be used to cement in their safe seats these four people in the County of Clare?
At present we have got in the province of Connacht 12 Fianna Fáil Deputies and 11 Fine Gael Deputies. Now I do not care how this Commission divides up the various parts of the counties—that is maintaining the counties—the very best we could hope for in the Province of Connacht on the present voting system would be five, six, or maybe seven. But Fianna Fáil would maintain their twelve plus the ones we lost. Again, over the period between elections I have no doubt but that the power and patronage would be suitably used so that the people would never be able to lift a pencil in their hands to vote in any other way except for the sitting Deputy of the Fianna Fáil Party.
I am serious in what I say now. I believe that even Fianna Fáil Deputies from the country would be prepared to admit this or certainly go a good part of the way with me. I wonder would Deputy Miller agree with me that he would rather see a constituency where there were Deputy Brigid Hogan O'Higgins and Deputy John Donnellan at one end and at the other Deputy Carty, Deputy Kitt and himself thrown in to keep a suitable balance, a majority, because that is what a suitable balance is in Fianna Fáil parlance? I do not think he would like to see the people who have been voting for Deputy Hogan O'Higgins and Deputy Donnellan put into the position of having to come to him. I have no doubt in the world but that he would receive them with the greatest courtesy, not alone offering but giving them his best help. But, at the same time, within himself he is bound to feel that here are people who would prefer to be going to somebody else, and in his heart of hearts he believes that they should have that somebody else to whom to go. This is what I call fair play. Nobody wants to see people ruled out of an audience. They must have an audience. From time to time the Deputies of a constituency get together on a deputation. I think the deputation from a constituency composed of all shades of political opinion parliamentarily represented is a much stronger delegation than the one-man deputation from the one-seat constituency.
I do not want to go over the old arguments in 1958 and 1959. This proposal was beaten then and from the tone of the people, particularly from their apparent lack of interest, I would think they are a trifle annoyed at parliamentary time being given and taken up by this performance. Face up to the situation, I would say to the Government. Redraw your constituencies along the legal principles that are there for you to follow. Use proportional representation as it has been used from the beginning of the State. If it puts you out of office there is always and always has been—it has happened in the past—the possibility that the same system will put you back again into office. It is not nice to be holding on to office all the time. It is not nice to be changing the rules when you think the game is going against you. That is the philosophy of the bully. I would say by and large particularly the rural Deputies—and this applies equally to the rural Deputies of Fianna Fáil—they are not bullies nor do they believe in the philosophy of bullying. I would say there exists within them the same modicum of fair play we all sense and like to practice. They would be as appalled as we are over here at changing the rules when you think you are losing the game.
Proportional representation has worked extremely well in this country, even though it has kept us in opposition for a much longer time than we would like to be in it. But we are not completely and utterly lost even in opposition because from time to time we give on the one hand, and on the other hand it is stolen, so much of our good policies to the Government that they are kept going. When they appear to be bankrupt of ideas for policies they just look up Fine Gael speeches and tracts on policy and set them in motion as of their own.
Proportional representation was adopted here and used because of its inherent sense of fair play. There is no point in people taking things out of context and quoting what somebody said in 1927 and what somebody else said in 1937. That is each side of the House. Fianna Fáil people made statements they do not want to hear, and I am quite sure there are statements made by Fine Gael people they do not want to hear. These things which were said were applicable in the times when they were said. They do not apply now, but that PR does give fair play is something that never changes.
The main plea I am making is to keep fair play in operation. In a three-seat constituency, PR may give two to Fianna Fáil this time. It may take the third one from them. It may give two to Fine Gael the next time. There will always be a time after that. After all, PR has done extremely well for the Fianna Fáil Party in the three, four and five-seat constituencies. It gives the people a choice. I have never yet heard anyone from the Fianna Fáil benches, a senior or a junior Minister or a backbencher, giving a real reason why they now want to change from PR to the single vote.
They talk about people having fire in their guts, fire in their bellies and looking for power. You have the power under PR. Are you not satisfied that you are going to retain it under PR? If you are, what is wrong with PR? If you are in doubt, as I believe you are, then you want to change the rules in the course of play. In earlier times at the foundation of the State, PR protected the religious minorities. I do not think this would be a valid reason for us to give now, because there has been such intermingling, such a great understanding and such a growth in neighbourliness among all our people, irrespective of creed or class, that that kind of protection for that kind of minority is no longer necessary.
Minorities are not always religious minorities. There will always be minorities, and I think they should have a voice. That is all they are asking for. I should have thought that in seeking to have this principle of fair play not only established but maintained, a far-seeing and thinking Government, called the youngest Cabinet in Europe, would keep in mind the future of this country. In the event of Partition going as we all hope it will—the economic barriers are being removed gradually and all that remains is a barrier of hearts, and irrespective of hand-shakings in Belfast and afternoon teas here, the barrier of hearts is still there and will always be there as long as you are content to deal with the top stratum; real friendship can be got only at the ordinary neighbourly level—I believe that the man and woman now voting Unionist in Down or Armagh or elsewhere coming into this State as citizens of the Republic of Ireland would like to feel that they would live in constituencies where they would have Parliamentary representation. If for nothing other than for our lost brethren across the Border, I would urge this Government to keep PR.
Nine years is a very short time. The people voted against this in 1959. They rejected it then. Nine years is a very short time in the history of Parliaments and a very short time in the history of a nation. It is too soon to ask the people to decide again. There may well come a time—certainly not this year or next year or even in the next ten or 20 years—when it might not be a bad idea to have another look at this, when we have gone through the full cycle of tariff reforms, when the recent Anglo-Irish Free Trade Agreement is fully implemented, when tariff barriers are fully down and customs impositions reduced to the minimum, when the Border as an economic barrier will have ceased to exist, and when our younger people North and South will begin effectively to work on the removal of the barrier of hearts.
Keep PR for that time and when they are all together—very few of us will be here—let them in a united Ireland decide whether they want to change their electoral system. That is the plea I am making here. I am making it almost non-politically. I am making it on behalf of minorities. It is of no great concern to some of us as each year passes whether the future lies with Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael or Labour. The future will have to have its own assessment made in the days I am talking about, the days distant when all of this island will be one, and all of its people now unborn will be called upon to deal with and talk about constitutional issues for all of our people.
It is a shame to be wasting parliamentary time with proposals such as these when there are so many problems pressing upon us. It is a shame for Government speakers such as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries to come in here and talk about absentee Deputies, and Deputies who have other work to do. Those of us who have other work to do and who gain experience from that work can bring it to bear on parliamentary discussions. I will not be a runner up hill or down dale at the behest of Deputy Davern on any principles he chooses to lay down as to the proper and appropriate duties of a Deputy. That argument is all directed towards the growth of the professional politician.
It is not a bad thing occasionally to have a professional politician here and there, whether he is a trade unionist or simply someone devoted entirely to politics, having given up something else. When the Parliamentary Secretary comes here and smugly attacks absentee Deputies and Deputies engaged in other work, earning another living outside of here, I want to ask him: "What did the others give up to become professional politicians." Where do insults begin and where do they finish?
It is extremely difficult, at times, not alone in this House but outside it, to listen to the neo-philosophers, the sophists, the gimmick-men, pronouncing views as if they were God-made. If any Fianna Fáil speaker succeeding Deputy Davern has anything to say about people engaged in work apart from Parliamentary duties let him tell us what their professionals gave up, let him tell us what their professionals left. If it is to perpetuate that kind of thinking and if it is to impose that kind of philosophy upon our people that this Government want to get rid of proportional representation, to destroy fair play, to change the rules as the game is going on, I urge upon them to withdraw. They are merely putting the people of this country to a certain waste of time and to an equally certain waste of public money. Fianna Fáil's effort to destroy fair play will not be tolerated by our people who have resisted all disruptive attacks on their democratic structure. They will resist this attack, too.
Mind you, the Fianna Fáil Party might do better if they drew the constituency lines again in accordance with the principles that are there laid down for them and took their chance in an ensuing general election. They might do better than they think they will do by trying to put something down the throats of our people which our people do not want.
It never ceases to amaze me nor, I am sure, does it cease to amaze reasonable people how it is that the Fianna Fáil Party, collectively, always seem to think they know what is good for the people of this country even though the people think otherwise. One would imagine that the people were some sort of bug-infested patients at the mercy of a Fianna Fáil medical equipment outfit going around with syringes and injecting into the people principles they want to operate in their veins as each day succeeds the other.
I say to this Fianna Fáil Government: be brave: withdraw these proposals. Have the real courage. Do not say these proposals are courageous— because they are not. These are the proposals of the coward. These are the proposals of the one who wants to change the rules while the game is still proceeding when he thinks he is losing. These are cowardly proposals. Be brave: withdraw them. At least, save yourselves the humiliation of having the people kick them back in your teeth. | <urn:uuid:0e2b2f0f-dec9-4a7c-93d0-ea485f389cf6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1968-04-02/48/?highlight%5B1%5D=bill&highlight%5B2%5D=bill | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.982913 | 7,320 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Firing or disciplining public school teachers is a simpler, speedier and far more management-friendly process after Act 10.
In the collective bargaining days, teachers often had the right through union-negotiated contracts to help select an independent arbitrator to decide disputes.
Now, school administrators alone typically pick — and pay — the referees, known as “impartial hearing officers.” It’s common for districts to turn to current or retired personnel managers from other districts.
Teachers say the new system means fewer safeguards against punishment for political leanings or opposition to school policies.
Administrators say they can more quickly weed out problem teachers without getting tripped up on technicalities or getting outlasted by appeals.
Decisions often come in a few months, or even weeks; in the past, cases typically took more than a school year to resolve, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analysis of Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission files found.
The old process, administrators said, discouraged districts from getting rid of teachers except in the most egregious cases. Instead, they often paid problem teachers to walk away.
In the five years before Act 10, state arbitrators sided with teachers in 40% of appeals where a job was on the line, the Journal Sentinel analysis found.
School districts won 52% of the time; split decisions accounted for the rest.
Officials on both sides say the process is now clearly tipped in favor of the districts — most of which have lowered the bar for proving their own case, a Journal Sentinel review of policies in 100 randomly selected districts found.
Few workers even take the first step of filing a grievance, according to officials in both union and management.
In non-firing cases, the union’s diminished appeal options mean teachers now face harsher penalties, said Barbara Zack Quindel, an attorney on the union side.
“There’s more fear now,” she said. “Teachers feel they are not protected.”
Attorney Mark L. Olson of Waukesha has represented school districts and municipalities for many years.
“The schools would almost universally say this is better,” said Olson.
But in some cases, public pressure has worked in teachers’ favor under the new system. School boards are now the final arbiter in grievances.
In West Bend, a union activist was put on paid administrative leave for three weeks after the teacher tangled with an administrator over a teacher petition objecting to the use of a testing system known as Galileo.
The School Board agreed to return the teacher, Tanya Lohr, to her classroom amid an outpouring of support from the community.
“It was a big win,” Lohr said. “It showed that teachers and the community would push back.” The district’s new superintendent, Erik Olson, declined to comment on the decision, which came before he was hired.
In the case of an Oconto teacher who grabbed a disruptive student’s arm, an administrator called for firing, but the school board reinstated the teacher with back pay and reprimanded her for inappropriate behavior.
The hearing officer process “was intended to give the employer control over the workforce, and it does,” said longtime arbitrator William Houlihan.
He said school administrators can pick hearing officers with whom they are “very comfortable.”
In turn, those selected can make the union side uneasy.
That is the case with one prominent hearing officer, Mark Kapocius, who has tangled with unions, in court and out, while working in Milwaukee-area districts.
Kapocius, human resources director and general counsel for the Greenfield school district, is openly critical of WEAC, the statewide teachers union, calling it a “desperate” organization.
His public comments followed a Whitefish Bay teachers union lawsuit that named him personally. He was personnel director when the district reined in retirement health benefit costs. A 2013 union lawsuit challenging the benefits changes was dismissed. In a 2016 interview, Kapocius said teachers should consider quitting the union and pocketing their dues payments as a way to get a raise.
Kapocius, a municipal judge in Greendale, said he follows Supreme Court rules requiring impartiality.
One district dropped him from hearing a case after the union claimed in court that Kapocius was biased. He called it a baseless intimidation tactic.
“It’s part of doing business,” Kapocius said. “I just know what labor leaders are capable of, and I know what I think their objectives are.”
Unions went on strike and negotiated over decades to secure a “just cause” firing standard from school districts.
Now, from the review of 100 districts’ policies, it’s clear that most have jettisoned that standard.
The old standard set a high bar for districts trying to justify non-renewal of contracts or discipline for misconduct.
In one high-profile case, an arbitrator overturned the 2006 firing of a Cedarburg teacher and union leader accused of viewing pornography on a school computer. The arbitrator’s decision, which ordered a reprimand, was later overturned by state and federal courts.
The old standards required proof of adequate notice to employees of the rules, objective investigations and evenhanded discipline, among other things.
Now, instead of that “just cause” standard, many districts just outlaw “arbitrary or capricious” decisions, the review of handbooks found.
One district, De Soto in southwest Wisconsin, said its reasons for punishment must be “not wholly frivolous and inconsequential.” Others use a “best interest of the district” benchmark.
Administrators have new leverage but it may not last if they overreach, said arbitrator Houlihan. The system is prone to abuse because it’s so one-sided, he said.
“We’ll see if it survives as a long-term institutional feature of the employment relationship,” Houlihan said, “but I suspect it will not.”
Brittany Carloni was a research assistant as part of the O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism program at Marquette University.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Dave Umhoefer studied the five-year impact of Act 10 during a nine-month O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism through the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University.
He was assisted by Marquette student researchers Sarah Hauer, Brittany Carloni and Stephanie Harte.
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Skyscrapers are surely a sight to be seen and definitely are one of the most enticing aspects of New York City. While the skyline surrounding Manhattan is already astounding, New York Yimby says there is room for more.
According to their report, construction on nine new buildings will begin this year including six supertalls over 984 feet.
Manhattan long held the title of the world’s most impressive skyline, with the boom of the 1920s cementing the island’s status as the skyscraper capital of the globe. The Chrysler Building (at 1,046 feet) and the Empire State Building (at 1,250 feet) marked the city’s first official supertalls, and the ESB held the title of the world’s tallest building until the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center were completed in the early 1970s.
These iconic landmarks will be surpassed by three of the nine new buildings; 30 Hudson Yards standing at 1,296 feet, 111 West 57th Street climbing to 1,438 feet and 217 West 57th Street soaring at 1,550 feet making them the tallest buildings in Manhattan.
Here is a look at the nine new buildings to rise in the year to come.
- 217 West 57th Street - 1,550 feet
- 220 Central Park South - 950 feet
- 111 West 57th Street - 1,438 feet
- 53 West 53rd Street - 1,050 feet
- 30 Hudson Yards - 1,296
- 15 Hudson Yards - 915 feet
- 35 Hudson Yards - 1,005 feet
- 1 Manhattan West - 995 feet
- 175 Greenwich Street - 1,070 feet
via New York YIMBY
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Infiltration/Inflow (I/I) causes dilution in sanitary sewers. Dilution of sewage decreases the efficiency of treatment, and may cause sewage volumes to exceed design capacity. Although inflow is technically different from infiltration, it may be difficult to determine which is causing dilution problems in inaccessible sewers. The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines the term infiltration/inflow as combined contributions from both.
Early combined sewers used surface runoff to dilute waste from toilets and carry it away from urban areas into natural waterways. Sewage treatment can remove some pollutants from toilet waste, but treatment of diluted flow from combined sewers produces larger volumes of treated sewage with similar pollutant concentrations. Modern sanitary sewers are designed to transport domestic and industrial wastewater directly to treatment facilities without dilution.
Groundwater entering sanitary sewers through defective pipe joints and broken pipes is called infiltration. Pipes may leak because of careless installation; they may also be damaged after installation by differential ground movement, heavy vehicle traffic on roadways above the sewer, careless construction practices in nearby trenches, or degradation of the sewer pipe materials. In general, volume of leakage will increase over time. Damaged and broken sewer cleanouts are a major cause of infiltration into municipal sewer systems.
Infiltration will occur where local groundwater elevation is higher than the sewer pipe. Gravel bedding materials in sewer pipe trenches act as a French drain. Groundwater flows parallel to the sewer until it reaches the area of damaged pipe. In areas of low groundwater, sewage may exfiltrate into groundwater from a leaking sewer.
Water entering sanitary sewers from inappropriate connections is called inflow. Typical sources include sump pumps, roof drains, cellar drains, and yard drains where urban features prevent surface runoff, and storm drains are not conveniently accessible or identifiable. Inflow tends to peak during precipitation events, and causes greater flow variation than infiltration. Peak flows caused by inflow may generate a foul flush of accumulated biofilm and sanitary solids scoured from the dry weather wetted perimeter of oversized sewers during peak flow turbulence. Sources of inflow can sometimes be identified by smoke testing. Smoke is blown into the sewer during dry weather while observers watch for smoke emerging from yards, cellars, or roof gutters.
Dilution of sewage directly increases costs of pumping and chlorination, ozonation, or ultraviolet disinfection. Physical treatment structures including screens and pumps must be enlarged to handle the peak flow. Primary clarifiers must also be enlarged to treat average flows, although primary treatment of peak flows may be accomplished in detention basins. Biological secondary treatment is effective only while the concentration of soluble and colloidal pollutants (typically measured as biochemical oxygen demand or BOD) remains high enough to sustain a population of microorganisms digesting those pollutants. Secondary treatment is expected to remove 85 percent of soluble and colloidal organic pollutants from sewage containing 200 mg/L BOD;<ref? but BOD removal by conventional biological secondary treatment becomes less effective with dilution and practically ceases as BOD concentrations entering the treatment facility are diluted below about 20 mg/L. Unremoved organics are potentially converted to disinfection by-products by chemical disinfection prior to discharge.
High rates of infiltration/inflow may make the sanitary sewer incapable of carrying sewage from the design service area. Sewage may back up into the lowest homes during wet weather, or street manholes may overflow.
Smoke test results may not correlate well with flow volumes; although they can identify potential problem locations. Where sewage flow is expected to be relatively uniform, significance of infiltration and inflow may be estimated by comparison of sewage flow at the same point during wet and dry weather or at two sequential points within the sewer system. Small areas with large flow differences can be identified if the sewer system provides adequate measuring locations. It may be necessary to replace a section of sewer line if flow differences cannot be corrected by removing identified connections.
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Given the vast amounts of funding required to finance the transition of our economies, these new bonds, which raise money not for a specific project but for a company to implement its overall sustainable transition strategy, are increasingly being used. Each SLB must define a specific set of Sustainability Performance Targets (SPTs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Should the issuer not meet these predefined sustainability objectives within the set timeframe, certain penalties come into play, including for example, the raising of the interest rate paid to investors via a coupon step-up. These penalties aim to ensure that issuers of SLBs deliver on their commitments.
There has been a marked increase in the number of companies committed to reducing their emissions and becoming more environmentally friendly. It is now estimated that one in five of the world’s major listed companies has committed to becoming carbon neutral. This desire to move resolutely towards net zero is also reflected in the search for new financing methods to achieve these objectives, such as SLBs. According to figures published at the end of April by the Climate Bonds Initiative, the SLB market grew by no less than 941% over the course of 2021. At the end of last year, the total market reached USD 135 billion with issuance during the year amounting to USD 118.8 billion.
Recognising these new products since the publication of the Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles by the International Capital Market Association in June 2020, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) is also seeing rapid growth in the number of SLB issued globally. “At the end of 2021, there were 246 SLBs listed worldwide, including 138 in Europe. At the end of April this year, global SLB issuance passed the 300 bonds mark, which represents a further increase of 25%,” observes Laetitia Hamon, Head of Sustainable Finance at LuxSE. On the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX), LuxSE’s platform dedicated to sustainable securities, 59 SLBs were already displayed at the end of April and, according to Hamon, the positive growth is expected to continue.
“Companies from specific sectors, especially large emitters of greenhouse gases, have made important transition commitments and are taking concrete action in this direction. For this group of issuers, an SLB is a very interesting tool as it links a company’s sustainability objectives and financing strategy in a new way”, continues Hamon. And, in general, insofar as green bonds will not be sufficient to curb climate change and meet the considerable challenges of global warming, having new financial tools is critical to accelerate the green transition.
Unlike green bonds, which finance specific green projects, SLBs raise financing for general corporate purposes, and the issuer does not disclose how the proceeds are allocated. However, the SLB Principles have defined obligations that should prevent the temptation to greenwash.
In the initial phase of the issuance, the issuer must define KPIs. These KPIs must be directly related to the company’s business and be of strategic importance for current or future operations. They must be measurable and verifiable and must be comparable in order to measure their real impact. This is essential because after this first phase comes the definition of SPTs. These must be sufficiently ambitious in addressing sustainability issues, as opposed to more business-as-usual objectives.
The KPIs are analysed at the outset by a specialised agency to assess their definition and level of ambition. For each KPI, a deadline is set, which may be before the maturity date of the bond itself. A thorough audit will therefore be carried out and, if the target is missed, penalties will be applied. Currently, 90% of the KPIs defined by SLBs are aimed at environmental objectives, but some issuers have defined social objectives as well, such as targets for increasing gender balance on company boards.
As outlined in the SLB principles, issuers are also expected to seek further verification of their performance level by an external and independent auditor or environmental consultant, taking into account each SPT and their respective KPI. This should take place at least once per year until the last SPT trigger event of the bond has been reached, with the aim of assessing the need for potential adjustments of the SLB’s financial and/or structural characteristics.
As SLBs are particularly relevant for companies and their transition objectives, 89.5% of issuances were made by non-financial corporates in 2021. The amounts are also relatively smaller than in the case of green, social and sustainability (GSS) bonds, which are often issued by multilateral development banks (MDBs), sovereign and supranational issuers as well as major financial institutions. According to the Climate Bonds Initiative’s figures, 44.6% of SLB issuances are between 500 million and one billion dollars, 25.8% are over 1 billion and 27.1% are between 100 and 500 million.
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Since its inception as a public company for power generation and transmission in 1968, Eletrosul comes transposing financial crisis in the electricity sector and the political changes in the country. One example was the privatization process occurred in 1998, when all its generation facilities has been sold.
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2010 a 2014
- Wins the auction for the construction of the hydroelectric plant Teles Pires, with a capacity of 1,820 MW in Mato Grosso (participation of Eletrosul is 24.5% of the work, ie 445.9 MW);
- New Brand Launched of the Eletrobras System and hence Eletrosul;
- Ranked among the 150 best companies to work for in Brazil, according to the Guide VOCÊ S / A –and EXAME Magazines;
- With the Federal company TELEBRAS, signs infrastructure usage assignment of the transmission and fiber optics system;
- Signs loan agreement with the German bank KfW of EUR 2.8 million;
- Inaugurates the complex Cerro Chato Wind Farm (90 MW);
- Inaugurates the Passo São João hydroelectric plant (77 MW);
- Inaugurates the Mauá Hydroelectric Power Plant (445.9 MW).
- The participation of Eletrosul is 24.5% (177 MW);
- Brazil and Uruguay signed the minutes of electricity interconnection projects management commitments;
- Inaugurated Hat Barra do Rio PCH (15.15 MW);
- Inaugurated the new premises of the Campos Novos Maintenance Sector (SC), its first sustainable building;
- Performs the first auction of own energy sales;
- Hydroelectric Plant São Domingos (48 MW) comes into commercial operation;
- Inaugurates the first Telecentre Itaipu, on the border with Uruguay;
- Signs term sheet with Itapiranga City (SC) for the implementation of a biogas plant;
- In 2013, records the full operation of all hydroelectric plants, totaling 337.05 MW;
- Inaugurates the small hydro plant in João Borges (19 MW).
- In December 2013, Eletrosul completes 45 years of foundation consolidating its position as a national reference company in transmission and generation of renewable energy.
- With more than three months in advance, TSBE (southern Brazilian energy Transmitter) energized in February, the first transmission line segment in extra-high voltage (525,000 volts), known as ¨Linhão do sul¨, bridging the Salto Santiago (PR) Hydroelectric to the Itá electrical substation (SC), with a length of 188 km.
- Start of commercial operation of the wind farm Cerro dos Trindade, which is part of the project to expand the Wind Complex Cerro Chato in Sant'Ana do Livramento (RS);
- Signing the work order for the construction of Wind Complex Fields Neutral in Santa Vitória do Palmar and Chui (RS). With investments of approximately R $ 3.5 billion, gathers Geribatu Chui and Hermenegildo plants (583 MW), with capacity to meet the consumption of 3.3 million inhabitants.
- Inaugurates the Megawatt Solar Power Plant (1 KWh), administrative headquarters in Florianópolis (SC) - the largest complex of integrated photovoltaic generation in Latin America to a building;
- Participates in the special scheme to ensure the operation of the national electric and telecommunication systems during the World Cup 2014. Part of the 1600 km of optical cables the company was responsible for the simultaneous transmission in high definition of all matches played in Curitiba (PR) and Porto Alegre (RS);
- Celebrates 10 years of the return to generation activities, after the end of privatization. In the period, investments totaled R $ 5 billion and more than 2 GW of installed capacity in operation and under construction;
- Conducted the first auction for sale of energy from the Megawatt Solar Power Plant;
- It is the first Brazilian company to receive the Procel Building certificate for the administrative headquarters and the maintenance sector in Campos Novos (SC);
- Concludes the main batch transmission auction 004/2014 of ANEEL (National Agency of Electric Energy), comprising 1852 km of transmission lines,7 substations and expansion of 14 units in Rio Grande do Sul. He also won lot in Mato Grosso do sul, where 266 km of lines will be deployed, one sectioning, a new substation and expansion of two existing units. Investments totaled R $ 3.2 billion.
- Coordinates the update of the Wind Atlas of Rio Grande do Sul State prepared by the Agência Gaúcha for Development and Investment Promotion (AGDI) and launched in December 2014;
2005 a 2009
- Inauguration of the new Operation Center Eletrosul System (COSE), one of the most modern in the country;
- Achievement in the new energy auction, the Passo São João hydroelectric plant (77 MW), in Rio Grande do Sul State;
- Winning the lot for construction of the Mauá Hydroelectric Power Plant, the third new energy auction, in consortium with COPEL;
- ANEEL (National Agency of Electric Energy) transfers to Eletrosul the granting of hydroelectric plant Santo Domingo, in Mato Grosso do Sul State;
- Win in partnership the auction of the hydroelectric plant of Jirau, first venture outside of its area of operations, and winning three lots of Madeira River Transmission Lines;
- Eletrosul, in partnership with Wobben, won the race for the establishment and operation of Wind Complex Cerro Chato, consisting of three parks of 30 MW each, located in Sant'Anna do Livramento (RS);
- Wins Award for Best Electricity Company in the country, the ISTOÉ Money magazine for five consecutive years;
- The first generation MWh Eletrosul, stored solar energy in the pilot plant (photovoltaic coverage) at Headquarters;
- Joining the the Global pact of the United Nations (UN);
- Opens the Efficient House, which is among the certified projects during the launch of National Energy Conservation Label, directed to homes and multifamily buildings;
- Energy full interconnection of the Santa Catarina island (Florianópolis) via submarine cables, to the National Interconnected System;
- ISO 9001: 2008 - Central Office Equipment and recertification of the supply area.
2000 a 2004
- Retake the condition to participate in the electricity generation segment in March 2004 (Law No. 10,848), concurrently with the approval of the New Electricity Sector Model;
- Authorization to carry out emergency basis, works to reconnect the Florianopolis island to SIN, because of accident during maintenance in the distribution network, which left the island in the dark for 52 hours;
- Received the Valor 1000 Award, offered by the newspaper Valor Econômico, as the best performing company in the electricity sector;
- The Paraná Regional Office receives the recognition in the bronze medal in the 2002 cycle, and gold cycles in 2003 and 2004, the Quality Award of the Federal Government Program (PQGF), coordinated by the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Administration;
- Publication of the ELETROSUL first Social balance.
1995 a 1999
- Eletrosul inclusion in the National Privatization Program (PND);
- Inauguration of the thermoelectric unit Jorge Lacerda IV, with capacity of 350 MW and 11% increase in the generation capacity of the company. Jorge Lacerda, with its four units totaling 832 MW, it is the largest thermoelectric complex of Latin America;
- Privatization of ELETROSUL Generation ;
- Eletrosul becomes an electricity transmission company, with about 30% of its original size, and closes the period with 1,325 employees;
- Eletrosul, as the first federal company for electricity transmission, goes also to act temporarily as the National System Operator (ONS) for the Southern Region;
- Down 13 towers of the Transmission Line Areia-Campos Novos, 525 kV, caused by winds with gusts exceeding 170 km / h. The recovery work was carried out by a staff of 248 people, on an ongoing basis and in partnership with others in the industry, providing a national record with the recovery of all the towers in just 13 days;
- Implementation of Substation in Sant'Angelo (RS).
1990 a 1994
- Eletrosul starts the remote deployment program of 16 substations of 230 kV and 138;
- Citizens Action Core formation against Hunger and Poverty and for Life, thanks to the solidarity of the employees of Eletrosul;
- Inaugurates the Converting Frequency of Uruguaiana, connecting the Argentine and Brazilian electrical systems to the power of 50 MW.
1985 a 1989
- Creation of the Board of Directors, a collegiate body of deliberative functions passing to divide the business management with the Executive Board;
- Into operation four more substations, increasing the capacity by 1,706 MVA.
1980 a 1984
- Mato Grosso do Sul joins the Eletrosul area of operation ;
- The nominal installed capacity of power generation of the company reaches 3,222 MW. The extension of transmission lines in the different tensions, adds 6047 km. The processing capacity reaches 4,662 MVA installed in 15 substations.
1975 a 1979
- Into operation the first units of Thermoelectric Complex Jorge Lacerda and Salto Osório;
- Enlargement in 1637 km of new transmission lines;
- The headquarters and the central office company start operating in Florianópolis (SC).
1968 a 1974
- Creation of Southnern Brazil Power Plants in SA - Eletrosul, a subsidiary of Eletrobras, regional context, based in Brasilia and central office in Rio de Janeiro;
- Beginning of generation and transmission of electricity in the states of Parana, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina;
- Construction of hydropower plants Salto Osorio and Salto Santiago, both in Rio Iguaçu, Paraná, with pioneer and systematic work to reduce environmental impacts and preserving natural resources;
- Transmission system construction linking the three southern states;
- Operating a 492 km of transmission lines;
- In 1971, effectively begins to generate electricity, to incorporate thermoelectric Charqueadas;
- In 1972, are incorporated in Thermal Power Alegrete and Thermoelectric Society Capivari SA (SOTELCA);
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In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, that’s difficult.
1939 film: Zenobia (1939)
Release date: April 21, 1939
Cast: Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, James Ellison, Jean Parker, Alice Brady, June Lang, Olin Howland, J. Farrell MacDonald, Hattie McDaniel, Stepin Fetchit, Hobart Cavanaugh, Zenobia the elephant
Studio: Hal Roach Studios
Director: Gordon Douglas
Set in 1870, Dr. Tibbett (Oliver) is a country doctor who no longer cares for the rich people in town. His daughter Mary (Parker) becomes engaged to Jeff Carter (Ellison), whose mother Mrs. Carter (Brady) is one of the high society people Dr. Tibbett used to care for and Mrs. Carter doesn’t believe Mary is good enough for her son. Mrs. Carter schemes for her son to marry Virginia (Lang). Amidst the engagement news, Dr. Tibbett tries to care for a carnival elephant, Zenobia. | <urn:uuid:28adde14-125a-4ac5-91cc-7cded7274ba1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cometoverhollywood.com/tag/oliver-hardy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.934485 | 280 | 1.65625 | 2 |
30-11-901. Definitions. As used in this part, the following definitions apply:
(1) "Community of interest" means a continuing financial interest that the grantor and grantee have in common.
(2) "Construction equipment" means any vehicle, machine, or attachment designed or adapted and used in construction, heavy construction, highway construction, and remodeling work.
(3) "Dealer" means a person who is a grantee of a construction equipment dealership situated in this state.
(4) "Dealership" means a contract or agreement, expressed or implied, whether oral or written, including a franchise as defined in 61-4-201, by which a person is granted the right to sell or distribute construction equipment, in which there is a community of interest in the business of offering, selling, or distributing construction equipment.
(5) "Department" means the department of labor and industry established in 2-15-1701.
(6) "Designated family member" means the spouse, child, grandchild, parent, brother, or sister of a dealer.
(7) "Designated successor" means a person designated in writing by the retiring dealer to succeed in the dealership or, in the case of an incapacitated dealer, a person appointed by a court as the legal representative of the dealer's property or the appointed and qualified personal representative and the testamentary trustee of a deceased dealer.
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The introduction of pulse oximetry in clinical practice has allowed for simple, noninvasive, and reasonably accurate estimation of arterial oxygen saturation. Pulse oximetry is routinely used in the emergency department, the pediatric ward, and in pediatric intensive and perioperative care. However, clinically relevant principles and inherent limitations of the method are not always well understood by health care professionals caring for children. The calculation of the percentage of arterial oxyhemoglobin is based on the distinct characteristics of light absorption in the red and infrared spectra by oxygenated versus deoxygenated hemoglobin and takes advantage of the variation in light absorption caused by the pulsatility of arterial blood. Computation of oxygen saturation is achieved with the use of calibration algorithms. Safe use of pulse oximetry requires knowledge of its limitations, which include motion artifacts, poor perfusion at the site of measurement, irregular rhythms, ambient light or electromagnetic interference, skin pigmentation, nail polish, calibration assumptions, probe positioning, time lag in detecting hypoxic events, venous pulsation, intravenous dyes, and presence of abnormal hemoglobin molecules. In this review we describe the physiologic principles and limitations of pulse oximetry, discuss normal values, and highlight its importance in common pediatric diseases, in which the principle mechanism of hypoxemia is ventilation/perfusion mismatch (eg, asthma exacerbation, acute bronchiolitis, pneumonia) versus hypoventilation (eg, laryngotracheitis, vocal cord dysfunction, foreign-body aspiration in the larynx or trachea). Additional technologic advancements in pulse oximetry and its incorporation into evidence-based clinical algorithms will improve the efficiency of the method in daily pediatric practice.
Pulse Oximetry in Pediatric Practice
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Sotirios Fouzas, Kostas N. Priftis, Michael B. Anthracopoulos; Pulse Oximetry in Pediatric Practice. Pediatrics October 2011; 128 (4): 740–752. 10.1542/peds.2011-0271
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Guide to the Superstition wilderness
The Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix are the stuff of legend.
The biggest legend pertains to a lost gold mine. The tale has been embellished by more than a century of history, hyperbole, lies and, more recently, Internet conjecture. Enough already. Search-and-rescue teams have covered enough ground in the Supes to know that the only things lost out there are people looking for the mine.
It's easy to explore the Superstitions without becoming a rescue mission. They are a great place to hike, drive, camp and learn history, and they're right in our backyard. Here are places to get started.
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Guidebooks: Local authors Jack Carlson and Elizabeth Stewart have written the definitive guides to hiking and horseback riding in the Supes. "Superstition Wilderness Trails West" and "Superstition Wilderness Trails East" are a wealth of information on the trails, legends and history of the region. Find them in bookstores, online sellers or at clearcreekpublishing.com.
Online: The Tonto National Forest website has loads of information for hikers and equestrians. Call 480-610-3300 or go to www.fs.usda.gov/tonto.
Lost Dutchman State Park
The park is named after prospector Jacob Waltz, the man who started all the excitement over the mine, although he was German, not Dutch.
The park's trails are well-groomed, well-signed and reasonably easy to follow. Keep an eye out for wildlife if you hike in the morning or late in the afternoon. Be aware that the trails connect to longer trails, such as Jacobs Crosscut and Siphon Draw, that can lead you out of the park and into the wilderness. The park is a reliable place to see spring wildflowers.
Facilities include a visitor center and gift shop, picnic ramadas with grills, 134 campsites for tents and RVs, restrooms and showers. Campsites with electric hookups cost $25-$30 per night; campsites without cost $15-$17. Reservations can be made online.
The park hosts many activities in fall, winter and spring. Among the popular offerings are guided hikes and stargazing events. See a schedule online.
Details: 6109 N. Apache Trail, Apache Junction. $7 per vehicle; $3 for bikes. 480-982-4485, azstateparks.com/parks/LODU.
This historical road covers 46 miles from Apache Junction to Roosevelt Dam. It was built to supply crews working on the dam, one of the country's first reclamation projects. Once the dam was built, the road was billed as a tourist attraction because of its stunning views of the Superstitions. It is still a popular getaway, with parks, trails and lakes along the way. The upper portion of the road is gravel but fine for cars. The road is listed as a Historic Road by the Arizona Department of Transportation.
To drive the Apache Trail from west to east, take U.S. 60 to exit 196, State Route 88/Idaho Road and turn north (left). Drive about 2.3 miles and take the right fork to get on SR 88 (Apache Trail). Turn east and follow the road to the dam, at the junction of SR 88 and 188. To drive it from east to west, take U.S. 60 east to Globe, then SR 188 northwest to SR 88. Turn west and take the Apache Trail back to Apache Junction.
This tourist watering hole on the Apache Trail got its start as a freight camp during construction of Roosevelt Dam. It's a fun, kitschy place to have a meal, beverage or ice cream. If you're coming from the west, you should know that the pavement ends not long after Tortilla Flat, but some of the area's best scenery awaits.
Details: 18 miles east of Apache Junction on the Apache Trail. 480-984-1776, tortillaflataz.com.
Tonto National Monument
The monument preserves remnants of the Salado culture, which shared cultural aspects of ancient Pueblo and Hohokam villages to the west. The Salado people grew corn, beans, squash and cotton along the Salt River and produced a polychrome style of pottery that set them apart from other native cultures.
The lower cliff dwelling is open for self-guided tours all year. The upper dwelling is open from November through April and can be seen only by guided tour. The tour covers 3 miles and lasts three to four hours. There is no extra charge, but reservations are required. Wildflower and photo tours are frequently offered in the spring.
Details: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Closed on Christmas. The monument is about 110 miles from central Phoenix. Take U.S. 60 east to Globe/Miami. Turn left on SR 188 and go 25 miles northwest to the signed entrance. $3; free for age 15 or younger. 928-467-2241, www.nps.gov/tont.
Superstition Mountain Museum
The museum displays the artifacts, history and folklore of the Superstition Mountains, Apache Junction and vicinity. There are exhibits on ranching, mining, geology, Native American history, the Lost Dutchman Mine, Roosevelt Dam and more.
The museum sprawls across 12 acres and includes a self-guided nature trail, a mill and lots of memorabilia, including the Elvis Presley Memorial Chapel, an artifact from when "the King" filmed the movie "Charro" in the area in 1968. An exhibit showcasing the work of artist Ted DeGrazia will be on display until April 9.
Details: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. 4087 N. Apache Trail, Apache Junction. $5; $4 for age 55 or older; free for age 17 or younger. 480-983-4888, superstitionmountainmuseum.org.
Goldfield Ghost Town
Goldfield once was quite the bustling burg, complete with a general store, blacksmith shop, schoolhouse and three saloons. During its heyday in the 1890s, it even looked as if the upstart mining town, nestled between the Superstition Mountains and the Goldfield Mountains, might grow bigger than Mesa, its neighbor to the west.
But when the ore quality dropped, the boomtown went bust and its population plummeted.
Today Goldfield (actually a re-creation) lives, featuring all manner of Western-themed activities, shops and restaurants. Visitors can tour the Mammoth Gold Mine, pan for gold, take a ride on a narrow-gauge railroad and witness an Old West gunfight.
Details: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. 4650 N. Mammoth Mine Road, Goldfield. Free to visit; fees for activities. 480-983-0333, goldfieldghosttown.com.
This is one of the most popular and easily accessible trailhead areas. It's at the end of Peralta Road, about 8 miles east of Apache Junction on U.S. 60. Part of the road is graded dirt and fine for cars. The trailhead has a parking area with a pit toilet. No water is available.
From the trailhead, the Peralta, Bluff Spring and Dutchman's trails connect with other routes and will take you as deep as you like. Those who want to see the wilderness should have a map. Those who do not want to see the wilderness should definitely have a map — the crisscrossing routes can be confusing.
The Peralta Trail is easy to follow and leads to a fantastic view of Weavers Needle. It's short and sweet — a little more than a mile one way, uphill but not too steep — and is often crowded. The Dutchman's Trail works its way east after climbing away from the parking lot. It then eases into a series of rolling hills and connects to other trails, such as Whiskey Spring and Coffee Flat. The Bluff Spring Trail is steep and rocky and not recommended for horses.
First Water Trailhead
This popular trailhead is a short distance east of Lost Dutchman State Park along the Apache Trail. It has a pit toilet but no water.
You can do anything from a short stroll to a multiday backpack. Popular day-hike destinations are Hackberry Spring and Boulder Canyon. You get great views of Weavers Needle from the Black Mesa Trail.
Numerous less-known, less-used trails await those willing to drive past Superior. Some are well-defined; others have fallen into disrepair and navigation can be tricky. The area is best suited for experienced, well-equipped hikers. Use caution, read a map and pay attention to landmarks. Those who do so will be rewarded with beautiful views and more solitude.
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Peter Asaro is an associate professor of media studies at the New School. His work examines artificial intelligence and robotics as a form of digital media and the ways in which technology mediates social relations and shapes our experience of the world. His current research focuses on the social, cultural, political, legal, and ethical dimensions of military robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles, from a perspective that combines media theory with science and technology studies. He has written widely cited papers on lethal robotics from the perspective of just war theory and human rights. As co-founder and co-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (www.icrac.net), he works on the human rights issues surrounding targeted killing by drones, and arms control issues for autonomous lethal robotics. | <urn:uuid:a3fff555-dc9a-4900-b61e-158f49a4eb37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thebulletin.org/biography/peter-asaro/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.939947 | 150 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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Here in the Marshall Islands, Runit Dome holds more than 3.1 million cubic feet — or 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools — of U.S.-produced radioactive soil and debris, including lethal amounts of plutonium. Nowhere else has the United States saddled another country with so much of its nuclear waste, a product of its Cold War atomic testing program.
Between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs on, in and above the Marshall Islands — vaporizing whole islands, carving craters into its shallow lagoons and exiling hundreds of people from their homes.
U.S. authorities later cleaned up contaminated soil on Enewetak Atoll, where the United States not only detonated the bulk of its weapons tests but, as The Times has learned, also conducted a dozen biological weapons tests and dumped 130 tons of soil from an irradiated Nevada testing site. It then deposited the atoll’s most lethal debris and soil into the dome.
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adverb. of the period coinciding with the Christian era; preferred by some writers who are not Christians.
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Eugeni d'Ors i Rovira (Barcelona, 1881-Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1954). A writer and philosopher, he was a key intellectual of the Noucentisme. He used the pseudonym Xènius. His best known works are Glossari and La ben plantada.
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Exclusive GPs will be required to submit photographs with any referrals for skin cancer, which will determine whether the patient is seen by specialists, under plans from CCGs in the North East of England.
Under the new system, GPs will have to take three photographs using their mobile phones and a dermatoscope and submit those with the referral. A consultant will then review these and offer either an urgent or routine appointment, or an alternative treatment plan
The CCGs leading the project – NHS North Durham CCG; NHS Durham Dales, NHS Easington and Sedgefield CCG; and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust – said the move is a response to receiving about 150 referrals for urgent dermatology outpatient appointments every week, most of whom do not have cancer.
Pulse understands that NHS South Tyneside CCG is also considering implementing the scheme.
The plans, the CCGs said, will help determine how quickly patients need to be seen and enable other patients to get earlier appointments if they need to see a consultant quickly. They will also fund the dermatoscope and training for the GPs.
Although the plans are intended to remove unnecessary appointments, GPs can request appointments for their patients even if a consultant initially thinks it is not necessary.
Pulse understands that several South Tyneside GPs have expressed concerns to them that the new scheme, intended to save OPD appointments and potentially money for the CCG, will lengthen GP appointments and expose GPs to risk if and when dermatology decline to see these patients. They add that no funding has been offered to compensate for the likely increase in workload, and that the issue has been raised with the LMC.
Another GP told Pulse: ‘I find it hugely disappointing that at a time when it is widely recognised that primary care is under unprecedented levels of pressure, our CCG has decided to further increase our workload with this additional step before an urgent skin cancer referral can be made. We have an excellent local teledermatology service to assess less suspicious skin lesions so I’m struggling to see why this new step is required.
’As well as adding to the workload of already overstretched GPs, I have concerns that it may potentially delay skin cancer diagnoses by making the referral process unnecessarily bureaucratic. For instance, we have been told that if a photo is not uploaded within 24 hours of a referral having been made then it may well be rejected.’
However, Dr George Rae, chief executive of Newcastle and North Tyneside LMC, said he was broadly supportive of these plans – as long as they are implemented correctly: “There might be technical problems with it. Having said that, if the technology is right, if the photograph is absolutely succinct and able to see definitively what the actual lesion is, this is not at all a bad idea.
’It will expedite things. It will make it such that patients will get quicker reassurance of the way forward.”
He said that in his personal experience, he has found that mobile phone images have not been clear enough for definite conclusions, but that the addition of the dermatoscope could be beneficial. He was also optimistic that, with training, the plans should not have an “inordinate” impact on GPs’ workload.
A spokesperson for the CCGs said: ’Digital technology is used increasingly across the NHS and evidence indicates it improves patient experience. This particular technology is already being used successfully in other trusts.
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Esperanza climate guide, Antarctica
Welcome to the Esperanza climate guide, which shows average weather for Esperanza, Antarctica. Check maximum temperature, the number of days with rainfall, sea temperature and daily hours of sunshine for each month of the year.
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Franz Marc Locations
Franz Marc was born in 1880, in the German town of Munich. His father, Wilhelm, was a professional landscape painter, and his mother Sophie was a strict Calvinist. He began study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in 1900. In 1903 and 1907 he spent time in Paris and discovered a strong affinity for the work of Vincent van Gogh. Marc developed an important friendship with the artist August Macke in 1910. In 1911 he formed the Der Blaue Reiter artist circle with Macke, Wassily Kandinsky, and other artists who decided to split off from the Neue K??nstlervereinigung movement.
He showed several of his works in the first Der Blaue Reiter exhibition at the Thannhauser Galleries in Munich between December 1911 and January 1912. The exhibition was the apex of the German expressionist movement and also showed in Berlin, Köln, Hagen, and Frankfurt. In 1912, Marc also met Robert Delaunay, whose use of color and futurist method was a major influence on Marc's work. Marc became influenced by futurism and cubism, and his art became stark and abstract in nature.
His name was on a list of notable artists to be withdrawn from combat in World War I. Before the orders were carried out, he was struck in the head and killed instantly by a shell splinter during the Battle of Verdun (1916).
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A crewed Mars mission could happen sooner than you think.
Astronauts will likely make it to the Red Planet's surface before the end of the 2020s, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC's Shepard Smith recently.
"I think we need to get a large delivery to the surface of Mars, and then people will start thinking harder about it," she added. "And then, I think within five or six years, people will see that that will be a real place to go."
SpaceX, of course, aims to be the one to make this ambitious vision a reality. The company is developing a huge, reusable rocket-spaceship combo called Starship to take people and payloads to the moon, Mars and beyond.
Starship already has several moon missions on its docket. In 2018, for example, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa booked the vehicle for a round-the-moon trip with a target launch date of 2023. And NASA picked Starship to be the first crewed lunar lander for its Artemis program, which plans to put astronauts down near the moon's south pole in 2025.
NASA views Artemis as a moon-to-Mars program and intends to launch a crewed Red Planet mission in 2040 or thereabouts — about a decade later than Shotwell sees boots first crunching into the red dirt.
SpaceX is working toward a big milestone in Starship's development — the vehicle's first-ever orbital test flight, which the company wants to launch from its South Texas facility, called Starbase, in the near future. That launch cannot happen, however, until the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wraps up an environmental assessment of the activities at Starbase.
That review was originally supposed to be done by the end of 2021, but the FAA has pushed its completion back several times, most recently to May 31.
Shotwell's interview with Smith was part of "Inspiring America: The 2022 Inspiration List," a program that will air this weekend across NBCUniversal News Groups' television and streaming networks. Learn more about "Inspiring America" and how to watch it here (opens in new tab).
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There (opens in new tab)" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall (opens in new tab). Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom (opens in new tab) or on Facebook (opens in new tab). | <urn:uuid:73aee0e8-ae64-4453-85a3-891f2a396ad2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.space.com/humanity-mars-2020s-spacex-president-shotwell | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961068 | 527 | 2.25 | 2 |
Bavaria is a bear that was first released on September 1, 2013.
Bavaria appears to be a bear with a brown fur coat, blue feet, inner ears and eyes. Bavaria is also holding a heart that says "Bavaria."
- This bear is part of a big collection of Beanie Boo bears that represent countries and states of Europe
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Covid-19: Long-term vs short-term
Assessing the effect of the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 on work and employment will be a long-term endeavour. While much of the emphasis has been on when and how economies may safely re-open, we draw attention to the undervalued workplace considerations therein.
We have produced an early assessment of measures taken regarding Covid-19 and Work. Our aim has been to further discussions on the pandemic and work as an item of great importance to everyone.
Assessing the situation
On 11 March 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared Covid-19 had reached the level of a pandemic. The announcement date marks a convenient point for canvassing and then analysing governments’ actions regarding employment. Since that time, there has been a preoccupation with discussions surrounding recession, depression, and other downward economic measurements. Given the amount of money that has been spent in order to maintain a sizeable number of workers while businesses have largely been temporarily closed due to the pandemic, the possibility of austerity measures or tax increases within Member States looms. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimated around 18 March 2020 that 25 million jobs would be lost due to Covid-19. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted, in April 2020, the global economy would contract by about 3%, with the growth figure amongst advanced economies (such as France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US) being about -6.1%. In May 2020, the European Commission estimated a contraction of about 8% in EU GDP, with a ‘rebound’ of 6% in 2021. It also forecast the euro area rate of unemployment as approximately 9.5%.
A missing step
Without getting ahead of the immediate health crisis of Covid-19, this pandemic challenges the status quo regarding employment and the economy in the coming years. Still, the longer-term effects of the pandemic of 2020 lie further ahead than the more immediate planning for a return to work; which is a fluid situation until (if) a vaccine is found and widely available. To further illustrate the point, consider the IMF statement in April 2020 as an orthodox response to the pandemic: ‘This crisis will need to be dealt with in two phases: a phase of containment and stabilization followed by the recovery phase.’
A step is missing. The preoccupation with thinking about a time when Covid-19 has passed has meant that we are in danger of overlooking matters of more immediate urgency. We suggest a focus on more immediate planning for a return to work where many uncertainties remain and plans will need to be modified. An important bridge between containment and recovery is currently underdeveloped. It centres on how countries deal with the work(place) implications. Whether it is the ill-advised grand re-opening or a staggered effort to gradually restart workplaces, dealing with the virus at the workplace level must be one essential pillar in any overarching response. It may additionally prompt a reconsideration of the organisation of the workplace and its regulation at the national and European levels.
The workplace requires health and safety considerations which are inextricably linked to the economy. If insufficient steps are taken to limit the virus’ spread as individuals return to their workplaces, businesses may again be profoundly impacted and the economic implications extended; with even more far-reaching consequences than anticipated in relation to the lockdown initiated in and around March 2020. Equally essential, the role of work in the economy and the purpose of work when the very health of the population is at stake might need to be reconsidered or at least made an object for further reflection.
Assessing what has been done
Our study offers an overview of measures taken regarding businesses and their workers; calling upon the select country reports from our colleagues. Those pieces summarise the initiatives of Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, The Netherlands and additionally the United Kingdom. These contributions also offer brief analyses regarding support programs. Drawing from those submissions, country examples are contrasted and a critical overview of these efforts is offered. The ensuing sections aim to highlight some points for further attention related to what is viewed as a gradual or staggered return to work, as compared to the circumstances faced prior to the pandemic. A concerted effort has been made to factor into the discussion the legitimate concerns of both employees and employers.
Covid-19 and the workplace: a work-in-progress
We have canvassed the initial responses of Member States to the pandemic for the purpose of setting out similarities and distinctions, but also and mostly to foreground an analysis of problems related to work. Important points for continued monitoring are also identified and an overview of some of the employment law considerations in re-opening workplaces are critically assessed. In the light of that, teleworking garners particular attention due to its prominent role during the lockdown and its possible growing place in labour law in the near future.
The final goal of this assessment is to demonstrate that the crisis opened up some regulatory vacuums with reference to teleworking; while making it essential for many workers without clear (normative) frameworks of at least some basic rights, such as: the right to disconnect, an adaptation of the working time directive, the right of employers to give directions and instructions which may have shifted where teleworking has been introduced. In sum, working from home carries its own challenges for employment protections. | <urn:uuid:e2b1170d-cfe1-4e0d-b72e-b8373e0f70f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://regulatingforglobalization.com/2020/07/14/an-unprecedented-social-solidarity-stress-test/?doing_wp_cron=1595089394.6492080688476562500000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961625 | 1,122 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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|An act of faith|
Blue law is the US term for laws limiting retail activities on Sundays, including laws restricting or barring the sale of alcoholic beverages, or restricting or barring businesses from being open at all on Sunday. These laws originated in Christian tradition but are often maintained for economic or political reasons. "Blue" in this sense comes from a 17th century (or in the US, 18th century) usage meaning "rigidly moral".
The trend over the past few decades has been to repeal blue laws, although many still remain on the books. The strictest blue law still in effect is in (of all places) New Jersey. Bergen County, New Jersey contains a high concentration of high-end shopping malls, which attract shoppers from New York City taking advantage of lower state sales taxes. This has motivated residents to retain the county's law banning sales of just about everything on Sunday, despite many referenda to repeal it. The blue law is estimated to cost the county millions of dollars in lost business and sales taxes, but there's a compelling case to be made that keeping New Yorkers away for at least one day a week is worth it.
Some blue laws, such as those preventing automobile sales from being conducted on Sundays, were pushed forward not by religious groups but by local industry leaders, to give them a day off and ensure that none of their competitors would be open on that day.
In some European countries, particularly Switzerland and Austria, laws restricting Sunday trading have been supported by an alliance of religious conservatives, workers' rights activists (who are concerned that 7-day opening would lead to pressure on low-paid workers to work all 7 days) and small business supporters (as both countries exempt shops, etc., where there are no employees and only the owner or joint owners work there).
- National Sunday law: A Seventh-day Adventist conspiracy theory about Sunday blue laws in the United States.
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Authorities is partnering a consortium of nine banks to deliver credit score to present youth-led firms and, in the system, make one million work in the future 3 several years.
Less than the professional programme of the YouStart initiative, the banks will provide assistance for present youth-led companies with in between GH¢100,000 operating funds and GH¢500,000 for those people in require of funds expenditure. Curiosity level will not be more than 10 percent.
Mr. John Awuah, President of the Ghana Association of Bankers, mentioned the collaborating financial institutions as GCB Bank Ltd., Consolidated Financial institution Ghana (CBG), Obtain Bank, Absa Lender, FBN Financial institution, ADB, Fidelity Financial institution, Ecobank and Financial institution of Africa. He was self-confident that with time, more banking companies would occur on board.
He claimed the community of financial institutions was knowledgeable of the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in accessing credit rating, and so the scheme aimed at earning lending circumstances significantly less stringent to permit enterprises to scale up and produce work.
“The banking sector is persuaded that authorities needs to make an entrepreneurial nation as a result of youth entrepreneurship. We have decided that this is fantastic, and we want to develop with the private sector,” he said, adding: “Our benefit is that we are by now dealing with the non-public sector, so we have a truthful awareness of all that goes into generating a business perform. We are confident that with the very well-crafted disorders we are supplying and our ammunition of funding, we can make fund accessibility less difficult to empower younger business owners to start into the deep.”
Listing the situations for accessing the plan, Mr. Awuah mentioned it was open to present organizations whose prime movers had been youths in between ages 18 and 40. Business people aged over 40 will have to confirm that their personnel had been SSNIT contributors, and that 50 % of their staff members have been concerning 18 and 40. They will also have to present that their corporations, when supported, will be profitable and build youth work.
“YouStart will not fund any small business that is into obtaining and promoting,” Mr. Awuah said, explaining that: “We really don’t want to generate import-dependent enterprises.”
He reported as a result of the commercial module of the YouStart programme, younger men and women with enterprise concepts or people who had started off corporations would be experienced by experts at the Banking University, Chartered Institute of Bankers and other establishments.
Beneficiaries who successfully graduate from the education will be assisted to attain product or service certification and good quality assurance for their items and providers to guarantee that their organizations conform to specifications, restrictions, and the legislation of their market.
Entrepreneurs will be educated, supported with organization development solutions, and funded around the future 3 decades.
On how interested applications can access the fund, Mr. Awuah claimed a internet site will before long be released. All a prospective applicant has to do is fill out the kind. Successful applicants can access funding “within a brief interval right after applying”.
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SALUTE TO KOREAN WAR VETERANS
"THE FORGOTTEN WAR".
This is a label that has been given to the Korean War. But the Korean
people have not forgotten. They are grateful to the soldiers who fought
and to those families whose loved ones were killed to enable their country to
enjoy peace and freedom.
The Korean American Cultural Foundation from Seoul, South Korea, in order to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the war, honored Korean War Veterans in ceremonies throughout California. At the July 15th ceremony in Sacramento, the Art Delegation, consisting of mostly university students from Korea performed dances and music in their beautiful traditional dress. Korean War Veterans, Major Kurt Lee, USMC Retired, and Colonel Delyle Redmond, US Army Retired, were among the speakers as well as The Honorable Kim Jong Hoon, The Consul General of the Republic of Korea.
"Medallions of Appreciation" were presented by the Art Delegation to all Korean War Veterans who had pre-registered and also to the families of those who were killed in the war, or who have since passed on.
The Sacramento ceremony was held at the Sacramento City College Auditorium. The facility was filled with veterans and their families. A similar ceremony was held earlier in Roseville where the "Medallions" were presented and a "moment of silence" was observed at the newly dedicated Korean War Veterans Memorial.
©Copyright September 1, 2002 by M.L. McNeill
All photos unless otherwise credited are property and © by M.L. McNeill
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To Sprinters, Hot Weather in Tokyo Feels Just Right
Marathoners are the NASCAR racers of running, trying to keep their radiators from boiling over during 26.2 miles and more than two hours on the …
Marathoners are the NASCAR racers of running, trying to keep their radiators from boiling over during 26.2 miles and more than two hours on the road. Sprinters don’t have the same worries about heat and humidity. They are dragsters, generating massive power and searing speed then pulling the parachute after a few seconds.
The men’s and women’s Olympic marathons will be held in Sapporo, Japan, 500 miles north of Tokyo, to escape the smothering blanket that is Tokyo’s average August weather: a high of 88 degrees, low of 77; humidity at 73 percent; a “feels-like” temperature or heat index of 101.3 degrees.
But when the men’s and women’s sprints begin Friday (Thursday night in the United States), most competitors will embrace the hot weather, reveling in conditions that Carl Lewis, the nine-time Olympic champion sprinter and long jumper, calls “the Caribbean without the breeze.”
“Ninety-nine percent of sprinters love it, especially Americans,” said Lewis, now an assistant track and field coach at the University of Houston. He might have added, so do Jamaicans, the world’s other dominant sprinters.
Historically, top performances from 100 meters to the metric mile, at 1,500 meters, and field events like the long jump have mostly come in July and August, the hottest time of the year, when major international competitions are held.
If the past is any guide, some extraordinary results could occur in Tokyo, perhaps especially in sprinting and jumping performances enhanced by many factors, including rapid muscle contraction in the heat and, to a lesser extent, the physics of reduced air resistance.
“You need those muscles to fire at a rapid rate,” said Rai Benjamin, an American hurdler and sprinter who is a gold medal candidate in the men’s 400-meter hurdles. “When you’re cold and stiff, it makes for you to be more cautious. Although sometimes you don’t want to be, subconsciously it’s in the back of your mind, ‘OK, its cold out here I don’t want to hurt myself.’”
There is another weather-related phenomenon, widely discussed but little understood, in the track and field world: A handful of astonishing record performances, in Tokyo and elsewhere over the past half century, occurred just before or after stormy weather.
“If it rains right before a race, I’m going to run fast,” said Noah Lyles of the United States, the Olympic favorite in the men’s 200 meters.
Coincidence? A correlation between performance and stormy weather, when the atmosphere becomes electrically charged with molecules known as negative ions? No one knows with any certainty.
Purported cardiovascular, respiratory, psychological and cognitive benefits of exposure to negative ions have been a matter of scientific debate for a century. Enthusiasts sometimes call them “vitamins of the air.” Research has been inconsistent. Some skeptics dismiss the supposed benefits as pseudoscience.
“If someone would come up with actual information, that would be interesting,” said Lance Brauman, who coaches Lyles and other Olympic favorites in Clermont, Fla., in the Orlando area. “These guys are neuromuscular machines. Anything that would stimulate the electrical system of the body would theoretically help.”
Performance advantages for sprinters in hotter weather are relatively small, gains of 1 to 2 percent, scientists say. Other factors like altitude, biomechanics and doping are considered more impactful. The outcome of races in Tokyo could depend on a number of influences: Top runners competing head-to-head. Advanced shoe technology. The absence of energy from spectators, banned by the pandemic-related regulations. Reaction to the starting gun. The length and frequency of strides. The amount of force exerted into the ground. The hardness or springiness of the track. The speed and direction of the wind.
Not all athletes respond to heat the same way. But it will play a role. And in sprinting and jumping events that can be decided by a hundredth of a second or a quarter of an inch, tiny benefits might help make the difference between winning a gold medal or no medal at all.
“That could be the small margin of performance that will make you faster and put you on the podium,” said Olivier Girard, an exercise physiologist at the University of Western Australia who studies sprinting and heat. “Tokyo is supposed to be the hottest Olympics in history, so surely we might see something interesting.”
At the last major international track and field competition held in Tokyo, the 1991 world championships, Mike Powell set a world record of 29 feet 4 ½ inches in the long jump that still stands. Lewis, who engaged Powell in an epic jumping battle, also set a world record there of 9.86 seconds at 100 meters. That record has been broken repeatedly since then but remains a landmark. For the first time, six sprinters ran below 10 seconds in the same race.
Hotter temperatures help boost the short-term power output needed for world-class sprinting. There is probably an optimal temperature range in skeletal muscles for unleashing the energy-producing molecule in cells known as adenosine triphosphate, or ATP; for activating motor nerves and for quicker muscle contractions that increase the rate or frequency of a sprinter’s strides, scientists say.
“Those slightly warmer temperatures like 80-90 degrees are going to be much better than 60-70 degrees for that,” said Robert Chapman, an environmental physiologist at Indiana University and the director of sports science and medicine for U.S.A. Track and Field, the national governing body.
The top American sprinters, and many international stars, train in the hot weather of Florida, Texas and California. Jamaica has a similar climate for speed. Heat serves as a passive warm-up device for muscles, so it does not take as long to get them limber with pre-race exercises, athletes say.
“When it’s warmer weather, I’m able to focus firmly on my race plan and tactics,” said Trayvon Bromell of the United States, a gold medal favorite in the men’s 100 meters. “When it’s cooler, I feel that my mind drifts to making sure my body is warmer first. It leads me to build a different pre-race plan.”
Hot, humid air is also less dense than colder air and slightly reduces drag. This helps explain baseballs traveling farther when hit in hotter weather. As the temperature rises, gas molecules in the air move faster and farther apart, lowering resistance to moving objects. And contrary to what many people think, humid air is lighter, not heavier, than dry air because water vapor displaces weightier nitrogen and oxygen molecules.
In places near sea level, like Tokyo, the combination of heat and humidity should result in about a 3 percent reduction in air density (as compared to a 25 percent difference between sea level and the 7,300-foot altitude in Mexico City, the site of the 1968 Summer Olympics), Chapman said.
“Would a 1- to 3-percent change in air density end up affecting performance? It has to,” he said. “It’s just a question of what’s the magnitude and how does that magnitude compare to the 57 other things that can influence an athlete’s performance from mental to physical to everything else?”
The main concerns for sprinters in Tokyo will be remaining properly hydrated and rested; staying out of the sun as much as possible and expending as little energy as necessary to advance through the preliminary rounds.
They might also want to pray for rain.
At the 1968 Olympics, Bob Beamon’s startling long jump, which broke the existing record by nearly two feet, came just before a storm. So did Wyomia Tyus’s world record in the women’s 100 meters. Clearly, altitude influenced those performances. But Powell’s jump that broke Beamon’s record in 1991 also came before a storm, in Tokyo, which is only 130 feet above sea level.
Usain Bolt of Jamaica first broke the world record in the 100 meters following a rainstorm at a meet in New York before the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A light rain followed the setting of his current world record, 9.58 seconds, at the 2009 world championships in Berlin, observers said.
“My focus was always on executing the race and I didn’t care too much about the weather,” Bolt said.
In the 1970s, Soviet and East German scientists found no positive effect of negative ions on physical performance, said Alfred Nimmerichter, an Austrian exercise physiologist. His own 2014 research on negative ions and cycling found no increase in oxygen consumption.
“From the gut, I would say the performance versus storm relationship is coincidental, at least from a physiological standpoint,” Nimmerichter said.
Other research has variously suggested that exposure to negative ions could elevate mood and alertness, reduce stress and stimulate the fight-or-flight response by increasing the heart rate and blood flow to the muscles.
Skepticism remains. Lewis recalled that he was long-jumping in Indianapolis in the 1980s during stormy weather when a man excitedly approached his father and said, “Oh my God. He’s got to jump again. The ions are right. I was in Mexico City and it was just like this for Beamon.”
And what did his father tell the man?
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The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has published its emergency temporary standard. It mandates employers with at least 100 employees to “develop, implement and enforce” a COVID-19 vaccine policy. Employers may choose between requiring all employees to be vaccinated or establishing a policy where employees undergo regular COVID testing and wear face coverings at work.
There are separate rules for healthcare facilities.
It is not directly enforceable by Fed-OSHA in California, but California must adopt standards that are at least as effective.
The Federal ETS will become effective November 5th when it is published in the Federal Register. Employers will be required to comply within 30 days.
Fed-OSHA can issue an ETS if it determines that employees are subject to “grave danger” from exposure to harmful substances or agents. OSHA’s Federal Register posting states, “Unvaccinated workers are much more likely to contact and transmit COVID-19 in the workplace than vaccinated workers. OSHA has determined that many employees in the U.S. who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 face grave danger from exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in the workplace.”
“OSHA is confident that employers with 100 or more employees have the administrative capacity to implement the standard’s requirements promptly,” the agency says, “but it is less confident that smaller employers can do so without undue disruption.”
The vaccine mandate raises many questions for California’s occupational safety and health community, including:
- What is the requirement for an ETS? How soon would Cal/OSHA have to adopt the provisions of the ETS? With regular rulemaking, a state plan must be at least as effective as the federal requirement within six months.
- How does this development affect the pending readoption of Cal/OSHA’s COVID ETS? The Standards Board recently released draft language for the readoption, which is expected to have a vote in December. Will the board now include the vaccine mandate in the ETS?
- Will employers who currently require employees to be fully vaccinated or lose their jobs be forced to change the policies?
- How many California employers will be affected by this mandate?
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Counseling Specializations and Mutidiciplinary Teams
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Teams Developing a strong professional identity provides counselors with the opportunity to understand how their unique roles play a part in an overall client wellness team. Counseling professions from different specializations frequently need to work together to provide effective services to students and families. Overall, wellness can be established and managed when multidisciplinary teams take into account the physical, emotional and social aspects of a client and treat them simultaneously. Historical Perspective Counseling developed in the late 1890-1900s. Its focus on wellness makes it appealing to all those seeking a healthy life-stage transition and productive life. At one point in time, the sole emphasis of counseling was to assist individuals of all ages and at all stages of life to avoid making poor choices by equipping them with meaning, direction and fulfillment in the decisions they made (prevention). It also was meant to help individuals grow resilience in dealing with change or loss. Today, counseling is much more. Counseling is grounded in wellness, development, mindfulness, meaningfulness and remediation for individuals, couples, groups and families. Wellness in counseling is defined as a way of life which targets optimal health, well-being in body, mind and spirit to live a full life.
A model of wellness was developed by Myers et al. (2000) and revolves around five life tasks spirituality, self-direction, work and leisure, friendship and love. Tasks such as self-direction are then broken down further into subtasks sense of worth, sense of control, problem solving and creativity, sense of humor and self-care. The foundation of this model is that there is an interactive developmental continuum where healthy behaviors affect later development and functioning. In all, counseling is a unique profession that is committed to wellness (Myers Sweeney, 2008). Counseling Specialization It is important to examine the history of counseling because an informed counselor is well versed in the development and evolution of their profession. He/she is likely to have a strong professional identity and subsequently make significant contributions to the field. As a result of social, educational, political and economic trends, school counseling surfaced and continues to transform. In the late 1800s school guidance programs were closely tied to vocational education.
Early school guidance programs entailed lessons on character development, teaching socially appropriate behaviors and assisting with vocational planning. The general trend of school counseling was directive. Over time, this scope and focus of school counseling adjusted to address personal growth, provide services for the at-risk population and offer developmental programs. While responsive services, such as remediation and crisis intervention, are still offered, there is more of an emphasis on prevention and the promotion of healthy development for all students (Paisley Borders, 1995). Collaboration Family therapy is a branch of Psychotherapy psychotherapy that works with Family families and couples to foster change and development. Family therapy originates in the social work movements of the 19th century, but 20 years after social work and psychiatry family therapy evolved. Family therapy came about as a result of psychiatrists and therapists who broke away from their standard practice of confidential individual interviews. The new community psychiatry practice promoted meeting patients in their natural environments. The experiences acquired while treating battle trauma of World War II with support group methods promoted this new role of familial therapy.
The common belief was to incorporate families in solutions and this very method benefited clients. Another contributing factor to the emergence of family therapy was a greater focus on family centered social ideals of the era (Beels, 2002). Collaboration in Casework School counselor and family therapist professionals can collaborate together to look at Ashleys circumstances in a more critical manner. As stated by McAllister, Morrissery, McAullife, Davidson, McConnell Reddy (2011) the mnemonic device of POEM is useful in distinguishing a deeper understanding of another disciplines history and belief systems (philosophy), how a professional acts in relation to the person who is struggling (ontology), the theory or knowledge that guides a disciplines practice (epistemology) and the strategies or tools that disciplines tend to use (method). When working with Ashley, utilizing POEMs raises awareness and allows for a more comprehensive interpretation of her individual situation. It also emphasizes the role of the family therapist and school counselor and how he/she can assist Ashley in creating relevant solutions in order to help Ashley adjust, act confidently and experience success in school and at home.
When addressing Ashleys situation it should be viewed from both a personal and social perspective. Reynolds (1990) noted that depression affects multiple areas of personal functioning, including the behavioral, emotional, somatic, and cognitive domains. It is very likely that Ashleys inability to focus or complete work is a result of her depression. Ashleys change in mood likely interferes with her ability to concentrate which inevitably causes a decline in school performance. Most likely Ashleys depression is a result of a change in relationships at home. Ashley spends the majority of her day in school therefore, the school counselors should play a role in addressing her depression. School counselors cannot diagnose depression, but they do have an awareness of the symptoms of depression and can help identify students in need of referrals or treatment. The school counselor can provide assistance to Ashley in a variety of ways. The school counselor can conduct assessments by interviewing Ashley individually, consulting her teachers, and/or receiving parent input (Rice Leffert, 1997).
The school counselors role can include conducting individual counseling and small group counseling with Ashley and other students in similar situations of divorce, remarriage and blended families. The focus of these group sessions can be to address problems adjusting to a new family and roles at home, as well as concerns with concentration and focus in school. These counseling sessions can give Ashley an opportunity to learn appropriate communication and coping skills and help her discover the positive aspects to a blended family. Furthermore, the school counselor can serve as Ashleys advocate, ensuring that her parents and teachers understand Ashleys need for help. According to Larner (2009), the family environment has a significant contribution to adolescent depression and family therapy can play an equally significant role in the prevention and treatment of this depression. In Ashleys circumstance collaboration with teachers, parents, and a family therapist is critical. Family therapy can assist Ashley and her newly blended family work through issues she is experiencing. In these sessions Ashley and her step siblings will be provided a venue to sort out their roles individually and collectively, while her parents can do the same.
Family therapy will help address family issues and concerns while providing a platform for each member to voice feelings in a respectful and loving way. Team Collaboration Often family therapy originates outside the school setting and there is a disconnect with the educational atmosphere. Even when family therapy is a result of a school referral communication between school and therapists if poor and at times non-existent (Rotter Boveja, 1999). To ensure successful communication and collaboration between the school counselor and family therapist, planning and debriefing meetings should be scheduled. During these sessions decisions can be made collectively by both the school counselor and family therapist. They can work together to determine topics of focus, techniques and goals. Furthermore, review and feedback after each counseling session is vital to facilitate and assess goals, determine the direction of future sessions and allow for collaborative evaluation of overall progress.
Beels, C. (2002). Notes for a Cultural History of Family Therapy. Family Process, 41(1), 67 82. Larner, G. (2009). Integrating Family Therapy in Adolescent Depression An Ethical Stance. Journal of Family Therapy, 31(3), 213-232. McAllister, M., Morrissery, S., Donna, M., Davidson, G., McConnell, H., Reddy, P. (2011). Myers, J., Sweeney, T., Witmer J. (2000). The Wheel of Wellness Counseling for Wellness A Holistic Model for Treatment Planning. Journal of Counseling and Development, 78, 251-266. Paisley, P. Borders, D. (1995). School Counseling An Evolving Specialty. Journal of Counseling and Development, 74, 150-153. Reynolds, W. (1990). Depression in Children and Adolescents Nature, Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment. School Psychology Review, 19(2), 158-173. Rice, K. Leffert, N. (1997). Depression in Adolescence Implications for School Counsellors. Canadian Journal of Counselling, 31(1), 18-34. Rotter, J., and Boveja, M. (1999). Family Therapists and School Counselors A Collaborative Endeavor. The Family Journal, 7(3), 276-279. | <urn:uuid:7949c241-de82-4a7f-88de-b3a4a3ad1a5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blablawriting.net/counseling-specializations-and-mutidiciplinary-teams-essay | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941348 | 1,800 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Anesthesia for Oral Surgery Patients Branchburg NJ
Call our Branchburg office today at Branchburg Oral, Maxillofacial and Implant Surgery Phone Number 908-218-0300 to make an appointment with Dr. Maloney.
Several methods of anesthesia are available. The method of anesthesia that is chosen for or by a patient depends upon the nature of the surgical procedure and the patient’s level of apprehension.
The following table illustrates the choices of anesthesia, a description of the anesthetic technique, and the usual indications for that technique.
|Method of Anesthesia||Description of Technique||Usual Indications|
|Local Anesthetic||The patient remains totally conscious throughout the procedure. A local anesthetic (e.g. lidocaine) is administered in the area where the surgery is to be performed. Local anesthetic is used in conjunction with the other methods of anesthesia in all oral surgery procedures.||Simple oral surgery procedures such as minor soft tissue procedures, tooth extractions and placement of dental implants.|
|Nitrous Oxide with Local Anesthetic||A mixture of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and oxygen is administered through a nasal breathing apparatus. The patient remains conscious in a relaxed condition. Nitrous oxide has a sedative and analgesic (pain- controlling) effect.||Simple oral surgery procedures, especially for children, such as simple extractions or extraction of baby teeth|
|Office Based IV Sedation/General Anesthesia||Medications are administered through an intravenous line (I.V.). The patient falls asleep and is unaware of the procedure being performed. Medications most commonly used are Fentanyl (opiate), Versed (benzodiazepine), Ketamine, and Diprivan. Supplemental oxygen is delivered through a nasal breathing apparatus and the patient’s vital signs are closely monitored.||General anesthesia is available for all types of oral surgery. A patient may choose general anesthesia for simple procedures depending on their level of anxiety. General anesthesia also may be necessary if local anesthesia fails to anesthetize the surgical site, which often occurs in the presence of infection.|
|Hospital or Surgery Center Based General Anesthesia||A patient is admitted to a hospital or surgery center where anesthesia is administered by an anesthesiologist.||Indicated for patients undergoing extensive procedures such as face and jaw reconstruction. Also indicated for patients with special needs, or multiple medical conditions who require general anesthesia.|
To administer general anesthesia in the office, an oral surgeon must have completed at least three months of hospital based anesthesia training. Qualified applicants will then undergo an in office evaluation by a state dental board appointed examiner.
The examiner observes an actual surgical procedure during which general anesthesia is administered to the patient. The examiner also inspects all monitoring devices and emergency equipment and tests the doctor and the surgical staff on anesthesia related emergencies. If the examiner reports successful completion of the evaluation process, the state dental board will issue the doctor a license to perform general anesthesia.
Again, when it comes to anesthesia, our first priority is the patient’s comfort and safety. If you have any concerns regarding the type of anesthesia that will be administered during your oral surgery procedure, please do not hesitate to discuss your concerns with your doctor at the time of your consultation.
Worried About Pain During Your Treatment?
Anesthesia is available for your comfort and safety. Contact us to learn more or to schedule an appointment.
Intravenous Sedation (“Twilight Sedation”)
Our office offers our patients the option of Intravenous Sedation or Dental Intravenous Anesthesia or to some it is referred to as “Twilight Sedation” for their dental treatment. Intravenous Sedation or “twilight sleep” helps you to be comfortable and calm when undergoing dental procedures. Your treatment can be completed under intravenous sedation.
Intravenous sedation or “IV sedation” (twilight sedation) is designed to better enable you to undergo your dental procedures while you are very relaxed; it will enable you to tolerate as well as not remember those procedures that may be very uncomfortable for you. IV sedation will essentially help alleviate the anxiety associated with your treatment. You may not always be asleep but you will be comfortable, calm and relaxed, drifting in and out of sleep – a “twilight sleep”.
How is the IV Sedation Administered?
A thin needle will be introduced into a vein in your arm or hand. The needle will be attached to an intravenous tube through which medication will be given to help you relax and feel comfortable. Some patients may be asleep while others will slip in and out of sleep. Some patients with medical conditions and/or on specific drug regimens may only be lightly sedated.
Nitrous Oxide (Laughing Gas)
Nitrous Oxide is a sweet smelling, non irritating, colorless gas which you can breathe. Patients are able to breathe on their own and remain in control of all bodily functions. The patient may experience mild amnesia and may fall asleep not remembering all of what happened during their appointment.
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In this course you will apply (through hands-on simulation) everything you have learned about production, marketing, finance, planning and other management functions to actually managing a company. Your new job will be like moving from playing an instrument in an orchestra to being the conductor.
You will be managing a company that makes the electronic Sensors used in many products like smart phones, pace makers, watches and do on. However, I do not want you to get too focused on the product all the decisions you will make are also fully applicable to any other product or service. For example, sensor customers are looking for Price, Performance, and Reliability and so on… In addition, if you were managing a service company your customers would be looking for Price, Quality and Reliability of your service and so on. Most management decisions are common across industries, products, services, and even countries.
In this course, your company serves two markets: (1) the high-tech segment that includes the health care market where the quality and performance is critical and (2) the low tech (cheap watches for example) where price is the most important consideration.
You will act as President and CEO of the company for a period of 8 years. During that time, you will be responsible to your Board of Directors, shareholders and stakeholders for:
1. Recommending and implementing the companys strategy:
2. The product specifications (Size, MTBF (reliability), performance (speed), price) that you will offer in your high tech and low-tech markets.
3. The marketing and sales of your products — that is, how much will you spend on promotion (letting people know about your products); on sales (making it easy for people to find and buy your products) and, of course, what prices you will charge.
4. Production: How much of each product you will produce — How much plant capacity will you need and to what extent should you invest in automation. How much inventory should you have and so on?
5. And finally, you must make financial decisions on how you will equity and debt you will have this includes decisions on how much of your profits you will reinvest or pay out in dividends.
Fortunately, the Capsim.com simulation program provides you with excellent information sources to help you make your decisions:
The Foundation Team Member Guide tells you about every decision you need to makeyou should consider this guide as your “text book” for the course.
The Conditions Report tells you what your customers are looking for in size, performance, reliability and price.
Fast Track report that provides you with financial and operating reports on how your company and your competitors are doing.
Additionally, there are many other reports and tutorials to help you through every step of the process.
Your performance will be measured using the Balanced Scorecard method (more later) to evaluate how well you did in each of the functional areas (product design, production, customer service, marketing , finance). It is expected that your decision-making skills will improve over time, as you become a more experienced manager. In summary, you are expected to increase shareholder value and to leave a healthy organization for your successor at the end of your management term — all while running an highly ethical company.
Do not be dismayed by the amount of decisions you have to make. It may seem overwhelming at first– this is normal for anyone new on any job. To help you through this process, the course is divided into three sections:
1. LEARNING (aka) Rehearsal: In this part of the course (two weeks) you will learn about the decision making process; what makes for sound decisions; where to find information about your company and your competitors; how to evaluate your companys strengths and weaknesses (Situation analysis); determine and prepare an implementation plan for your strategy. THIS SECTION IS NOT GRADED
2. PRACTICE: In this section (two weeks) you will practice running your company. I will be your co-pilot guiding you in your evaluations and decision-making. You will manage your company for a period of 6 years (rounds). THIS SECTION IS NOT GRADED
3. APPLY (PART A). (COMPETITION ROUNDS): In this section, you will make your own decisions and run your company for a period of 8 years. I will be acting as the Chairman of the Board watching carefully how well you are looking out for the Shareholders best interests but not interfering with your management decisions (except for emergency situations). On the other hand, I will always be available to support and guide you but only in response to your requests. THIS PART IS WORTH 70% OF YOUR FINAL GRADE Note that the grade for this section is based on your balanced scorecard performance and is outside my control.
4. APPLY (PART B) SHAREHOLDERS REPORT/FINAL EXAM: Here you are asked to write a professional shareholders report showing how your company did in relation to: 1) the implementation of the companys strategy; 2) the financial and operational condition of the company and 3) as compared to your competitors. You are expected to identify and discuss your mistakes as well as your successes; what you have learned from the management experience and how you would manage the company in the future should your contract be renewed.
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The National Audit Office has made clear that the Government is doing a poor job assessing its own projects, and in doing so is wasting our money.
The amount of tax that we pay has been steadily increasing in recent years. In fact, the latest data from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) shows that between April and November last year, total tax receipts came to £448.1bn, a whopping £106.8bn more than the same period in 2020.
This isn’t a one-off either. The figures show that on a monthly basis, income from the likes of Income Tax, National Insurance and VAT have been consistently above the amounts earned at the same points in the last five years.
Government spending has risen too, particularly with the authorities launching a host of schemes in order to provide financial support during the pandemic, from the furlough scheme to Bounce Back loans.
Unfortunately, it would appear that no matter how good the intentions of these schemes may be, the Government is setting itself up to fail and in doing so is wasting taxpayer money.
An absence of oversight
According to Gareth Davies, head of the National Audit Office ‒ which is tasked with assessing and reviewing how well government delivers value for money on its various projects ‒ the Government is making fatal errors which means it is wasting taxpayer money.
Writing in The Times last week, Davies warned that all too often the Government does not bother evaluating its “interventions”, those times when it steps in to splash the cash in a bid to put things right.
Central Government guidance states that the various departments are expected to comprehensively assess their projects, in order to learn from both successes and failures.
Conducting these sorts of evaluations would mean that the authorities are better able to ensure that taxpayer money is well spent, not only on current projects but on future ones too.
Davies pointed to the example of the Kickstart scheme, which was launched in September 2020, which is designed to provide employers with funding to encourage them to offer six-month work placements to young workers.
There’s nothing wrong with that as a concept.
However, as Davies points out the Department for Work and Pensions as “limited assurance” over the quality of those work placements, and having not done enough to monitor the jobs and training which are being put in place through the scheme, it is in no position to deliver a “robust estimate” of its impact.
In other words, the Government threw money at a perceived problem without having a proper system of oversight in place to ensure that the scheme would deliver what it was supposed to, let alone provide value for money to taxpayers.
This is far from an isolated example either. A previous study from the NAO found that just 8% of major Government projects had robust evaluation plans in place. That’s utterly pathetic.
Without clearly defining what you’re trying to achieve ‒ and what constitutes a success ‒ how on earth can you ensure that you deliver value for money to taxpayers?
As Davies points out, a lot of what the Government does is far from “novel”. It could easily learn lessons from its previous exploits, and those of the private sector.
Yet there are limited consequences for failing to learn lessons, and limited incentives to do a better job of evaluating whether the project has succeeded.
In other words, normal taxpayers like you and me are paying the price for the slack approach of Government departments towards honest assessment of their own efforts.
Paying tax is tougher when the money is wasted
Nobody particularly enjoys paying tax.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a libertarian disputing whether there even should be taxation at all, or whether you’re a big supporter of public services who would prefer that things like energy and railways were brought into public ownership.
The moment you see your payslip and how much of it has ended up somewhere other than your bank balance, it does tend to sting just a little.
However, most of us will accept that needs must. The money raised through taxation is vitally important, going towards everything from the state of our roads to teachers, doctors and the like.
Yet the payment of tax becomes even more painful when there’s little faith that the money will be spent properly. This goes beyond agreeing with a Government’s spending philosophies and whether you agree with their pet projects, to a basic question of competency.
After all, I might disagree with a project that the Government comes up with, but I still want it to make sure that the money spent on that project isn’t wasted. That means it will then have the cash needed to devote to other areas that I might agree with.
But it sticks in the craw when it feels like the Government doesn’t bother worrying about delivering value for money, and treats taxpayer cash like it’s there to be squandered.
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Alcoholism, or alcohol dependence, is the most severe form of alcohol use
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DIFFERENT is a joyful rhyming book encourages children to value the “different” in all people, leading the way to a kinder world in which the differences in all of us are celebrated and embraced.
“When I was in elementary school I had a dream of writing children’s books. When my kids entered my life, kids with stories that just didn’t quite fit typical molds, I searched for children’s books which told their story, or parts of it at least. And as the years have gone by raising children who don’t fit the molds, kids labeled as different, I’ve rediscovered that all of us have felt different at some point in our lives. And often feeling different felt bad. BUT, the thing my kids have taught me, two of whom have Down syndrome, is that it is our different that makes us great. I’ll say that again: IT IS OUR DIFFERENT THAT MAKES US GREAT!” – Heather Avis, author of Different, Speaker, Shouter of Worth, Narrative Shifter
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- Printer's proof copy of The Journal of Sir Walter Scott 1825-26 (ed J G Tait) 1939
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John Guthrie Tait (1861-1945 ) attended the University of Edinburgh and the University of Cambridge and then proceeded to the English Bar. He left for India while still in his twenties, to assume the Chair of English in the Mysore Government Central College at Bangalore, India, where he was later to become Principal, from which he retired in 1917 ; and he married while there as well. On his return to Edinburgh after the First World War, he began a detailed examination of the journals of Sir Walter Scott, collating the MSS in the Pierpoint Morgan Library, New York, with the edition published in 1890 . This work showed that that edition had been incomplete, and Tait commenced the work which would lead to his eventual 3-volume edition, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh and London, 1939-1946 ).
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President Biden responded to a spate of mass shootings with a prime-time address Thursday urging Congress to crack down on guns, including by banning “assault weapons.”
It’s not at all clear banning assault weapons would actually help prevent mass shootings.
WHAT HE SAID
Speaking from the White House, Biden said the time had come for a federal prohibition of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
“How many more innocent American lives must be taken before we say ‘enough‘? Enough!” Biden declared. “My fellow Americans, enough! Enough. It’s time for each of us to do our part. It’s time to act.”
- The president also called on lawmakers to address America’s “mental health crisis,” bolster background checks, pass red flag laws and strip gun manufactures of liability protections.
“I know what happened when we had rational action before, when the crime bill was — the law that got passed. It did significantly cut down on mass murders,” Biden said Monday, referring to the 1994 crime bill and assault weapons ban he helped pass as a senator.
However, the best available evidence does not support Biden’s assertion that a nationwide assault weapons ban would reduce mass shootings.
Some studies have indicated the 1994 ban, which ended in 2004, may have had a small negative effect on gun massacres.
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Children who have developmental delays, which can include learning disabilities, intellectual disorder, cerebral palsy, and other impairments that prevent a child from developing at a rate equal to others their age, often require additional assistance to function well at school, including medical treatments or therapies to increase their functioning. These additional treatments and therapies can be financial straining on families. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is available to children who qualify.
When your child is struggling with a disability and is denied disability benefits through SSI, it can be very frustrating as a parent. There are several reasons why children are denied benefits, and the reason they are denied will affect the actions that you take. Below are some of the reasons children are denied benefits.
Once you understand why your child was denied benefits, you must make a decision as to whether or not you are going to appeal the decision. Please be mindful that you need to give Social Security notice of your intention to appeal in writing. You have 60 days to do this from the day you received the denial notice, or you will lose the ability to appeal your decision. If you fail to appeal, you will need to reapply in order for your child to receive disability benefits.
When your child is denied SSI benefits, there are four steps that can be taken in order to get SSA's decision reversed. Hopefully, the first step will be successful and you will not need to further appeal the benefits decision.
For more information on each level of appeal, see our article on the four levels of Social Security appeals.
For children who are denied disability claims for developmental delays, the key area of concern for winning an appeal is the medical record. Whether the record was not properly "developed" (meaning SSA did not collect all of the needed medical records) or the records do not say what is needed (because the child did not receive treatment or visit a psychologist or psychiatrist frequently) or the records failed to show the extent of your child's impairments or limitations, it is essential that you take the time to collect the medical records that you need to support your child's case. This may include asking your child's doctor or psychologist to write a statement about how your child's delays negatively affect his academic and social functioning.
For children, there are other records that can be used beyond medical records to prove a child's functional limitations. These other records include:
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When Erica Kyriakatos awakens on a winter morning to the hush of new-fallen snow, she’s thrilled to see how the familiar landscape of home is transformed. Kyriakatos, a vinyasa flow teacher in Cranford, New Jersey, loves pulling a cozy hat over her ears, slipping on a pair of fuzzy boots, and heading outside for a walk in the white-frosted world. There’s just one drawback: For most of the season, her skin pretty much turns to leather. “My whole body seems to dry up,” she says.
The dry, chapped feeling that many of us live with during the colder months is something that the therapies of Ayurveda, India’s first form of medicine, are uniquely suited to address. That’s because Ayurvedic remedies treat not only the symptom of dry skin but also the underlying imbalances that can cause it.
Ayurveda recognizes three basic energies of life: The first is known as vata; the second, pitta; and the third, kapha. Vata also means “wind” in Sanskrit, and vata’s sensory qualities—dryness, coolness, mobility, lightness, unsteadiness, and roughness—are much like those of the wind. In late fall and early winter, as the air turns dry, leaves drop, temperatures cool, and winds shift, our world naturally buzzes with vata’s energy. We’re more likely to face vata imbalance now than at any other time of year.
“When vata is aggravated, arteries, capillaries, and nerves become dry and won’t work properly, affecting your circulation,” says Archana Rao, an Ayurvedic doctor at Safronya Ayurvedic Retreat in San Rafael, California, explaining the theory behind dry skin. “Your hands and feet become cold. Skin becomes rough and dry. Your heels may crack or your lips peel. Inside and out, we’ve got to calm that vata down.”
Rao’s skin-soothing recommendations are based on two Ayurvedic principles: limit exposure to vata’s qualities and increase exposure to those substances and experiences that are the opposite of vata. So in late fall and early winter, we should nurture ourselves with foods and sensations that are warm, stable, heavy, smooth, and grounding.
Warm oil is a natural opposite to vata. One ancient practice, abhyanga, is traditionally performed by two therapists who massage warm sesame oil all over the body, using sweeping strokes to redirect vata’s energy into a healthy pattern. “[Abhyanga is] the No. 1 technique for calming vata,” says Naina Marballi, Ayurvedic physician, esthetician, and founder and director of Ayurveda’s Beauty Care Spa in Manhattan.
While it’s a treat to receive abhyanga from trained therapists, it’s also a gift that you can give yourself. The oil itself does wonders for parched skin, but the benefits go deeper. The word for lubrication in Sanskrit, snehana, is also the word for affection. Vata dryness tends to come packaged with vata-type mental states such as worry and insecurity.
Abhyanga calms the mind, leaving you feeling grounded yet focused and alert, and with balanced emotions. It’s also revitalizing, supporting stable energy levels during the day while promoting easy, restorative sleep at night.
In Kerala, India, where I spend part of each year, Ayurveda is still very much a part of daily life. On a recent visit, traditional healer S. Sanjeev Kumar sat down with me in the front room of his thatched house and called his wife, Bindhu, and her amma (mother) in from the kitchen. Together they gave me a rundown on their favorite homemade emollients. One in particular, Kumar said, is easy for Westerners to make at home.
“First heat some whole cow’s milk in a small pot,” he said. Double-checking his instructions with the women, he went on: “Let a skin form on top, remove the skin, and place it in a small saucer. As soon as it is cool, add a few drops of lemon juice.”
“Ah?” he queried, turning to the women. Bindhu’s amma had mentioned something, and Bindhu repeated her words to Kumar. “OK,” he added. “You can use a little lemon juice or a little rose water. Then take the back of a spoon and stir this into a creamy paste. Smooth the mixture onto your face or any dry skin, and leave it on for 30 minutes to 2 hours before rinsing with water. This special cream of the milk is very nourishing.”
Kumar’s wife and mother-in-law smiled. “Your skin,” he said, “will become lustrous once again.”
Another simple potion is a paste of warm water and almond meal, which contains fatty acids that help keep skin smooth. (Don’t use hot water; it strips skin of its natural protective oils.) Making the almond meal is easy: Use a food processor, blender, or coffee grinder to pulverize raw organic almonds into a fine powder. (Be sure to pulse the mixture for a few seconds and then pause, so you don’t end up with almond butter.) Refrigerate the powder in a clean glass jar. It will keep for about three weeks.
When you’re ready to use it, pour a teaspoonful into your palm, add a little warm water, and blend that with your finger to make a paste. Smooth it onto your face, massaging in gentle circles to enhance circulation and exfoliate dead skin cells. Then rinse with warm water and moisturize as you usually do.
To smooth rough elbows, knees, and feet, mix together two parts mung- or garbanzo-bean flour with one part full-fat organic yogurt. Let this mixture sit in a bowl for 10 minutes, then massage it with circular motions into your rough spots. Let it dry, and leave it on your skin for 30 minutes or so. Rinse with water, and then do your usual moisturizing routine.
Nourish from Within
Other Ayurvedic therapies for dry skin work from the inside out. “When someone comes in with dry skin,” says Cheryl Silberman, founder/director of Kanyakumari Ayurveda Education & Retreat Center in Milwaukee and a clinical Ayurvedic specialist, “the first thing I ask is ‘How much coffee are you drinking?’ People drink more coffee in winter, and caffeine is a diuretic, purging water from the body. It has a direct impact on the nervous system, upsetting vata’s normal regulation of circulation, forcing the fine capillaries of the skin to dilate and constrict unnaturally.” Silberman suggests drinking frequent servings of warm water or warm spiced milk throughout the day in place of caffeinated drinks.
What you eat can make a difference, too. “When there is dryness, a person should try eating regular warm, moist meals such as thick soups and stews, lightly spiced,” Silberman says. “Dry skin usually responds well to plenty of fat intake. Adding ghee (clarified butter) to meals can really help.”
And while ghee does contain saturated fat, you’ll find that a tiny bit goes a long way. Ghee is sold at health food stores. (For more on ghee, including how to make it, visit yogajournal.com/health/ghee.)
“Increasing essential fatty acids with oils like borage or hemp is great, too,” says Silberman. “Walnuts are a good source of healthy fat, and soaking them in water overnight makes them really easy to digest,” she adds.
When Kyriakatos added vata-balancing practices to her winter routine—getting into the abhyanga habit along with eating regular meals of warm, moist foods and sipping warm water throughout the day—her dry skin lost its roughness and turned soft and supple.
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Sometimes intelligent people fail to notice a glaring error. By preventing what I call the “snow blindness” syndrome, you can save time, money, and grief.
When team members overlook details, the resulting errors may be due to one or more of these factors: fatigue, over-familiarity, or poor morale.
Too tired to think straight
Physical or mental fatigue may be due to personal factors, such as a new baby. If this is the case, talk to the team member and try to come up with a solution.
Or is employee drowsiness work-related? Is the team working long hours to meet a tight deadline? Remember that harried, exhausted workers make more mistakes. One solution is to institute a “no overtime” policy for a brief period in order to give your team a chance to recharge.
Seen it all before
Are team members so familiar with the task at hand that they’re getting bored and becoming sloppy?
A programmer gave me her unorthodox solution to this problem: Write a small section of pure code first with no comments, and then add comprehensive comments a day or two later (or, better yet, get someone else to add them). Revisiting your or someone else’s code, and making sense of it in enough detail to comment on it thoroughly, can identify errors that might otherwise be missed. I wouldn’t recommend this as an official standard, but it does emphasize how important it is to encourage coders to revisit their work in a new way to help spot slips.
Regular, officially sanctioned code walkthroughs can be a double salvation on the overfamiliarity front. Pair up programmers working on maximally different aspects of the project, and schedule them to perform code walkthroughs for each other. Not only will a fresh pair of eyes help spot obvious mistakes, but it will also provide more variety in everyone’s day.
This forms an important part of so-called extreme programming. If you have the resources available, “third-party walkthroughs”—where programmer B walks through programmer A’s code with programmer C—can extend these benefits and provide an extra layer of sanity checking, ensuring that B really does understand what A has done.
Lost their drive
Team members may have poor morale for various reasons, including an abrasive team leader or dissatisfaction with pay or conditions. And when low morale leads to poor motivation, everything starts to slide. That’s when the “it’s good enough” attitude creeps in, and concentration on details begins to slip.
A small-scale way to lift team members’ spirits is by taking them out for a team lunch or a recreational event. Let them know they can trust you and that you’ll listen to their frustrations.
On a more tactical level, if large-scale organizational issues are affecting your team’s morale, take this up with senior management. Be sure to let your team know that you’re acting on their behalf. Even if this doesn’t have a practical effect, the knowledge that their concerns are being voiced can help overcome feelings of frustration and disempowerment.
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