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The IFO business index fell to 106.9 from 109.9 in April, only slightly above its recent low in October 2011 of 106.5. This was worse than the consensus expectations, which fell to 100.9 from 102.7, while the assessment of the current situation dropped to 113.3 from 117.5 in April.
The IFO index is a monthly economic report, it surveys over 7,000 companies in Germany to obtain their opinion of the current business situation and asks them to quantify their response by selecting good, satisfactory, or poor and provide their expectations for the future business climate using the same criteria. The index measures the changes in business confidence and is an early indicator for economic development in Germany. It shows whether business spending and capital investment is likely to increase or decrease.
The business climate in wholesale fell from 12.7 to 8.0 and plummeted in retail from 10.7 to -3.6. Construction firms also reported a weaker business climate (-5.1 after -3.9), but assessed the current situation more positively. In the manufacturing sector, the business climate deteriorated significantly from 15.4 to 10.6, primarily due to a much poorer assessment of the current business situation, according to IFO.
Analysts at Barclays said that data indicates continuing robust domestic demand but weak investment and foreign demand,
“likely reflecting the renewed intensification of the euro area sovereign debt crisis and the ongoing recession in several euro area member states.”
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I’d like to begin with an acknowledgement that we stand on the land of the Gadigal people, and we draw inspiration from their story. I pay my respects to them as the Traditional Custodians of this land, and I also pay my respects to Elders both past and present.
And I welcome you all, especially those who have travelled from overseas and interstate, to the fifth international vitamin conference, and the first to be held here in Australia. You’ll notice I am holding on to my pronunciation of vitamin, I just can’t bring myself to say VYE-tamin like the Aussies.
I think the conference theme says it all when it comes to the importance of research into vitamins.
The breakthroughs that have happened in this area have highlighted that diet and nutrition are indeed crucial ‘from the womb to the tomb’.
The correlation between health and vitamins is not new, of course. Everyone has heard tales of old seafarers suffering from scurvy because of a lack of fresh vegetables.
Many a mother of a certain generation would try to frighten their children into eating Brussel Sprouts by telling them they would get scurvy if they didn’t.
But since World War II we have seen enormous strides in public health because of vitamin supplementation and fortification. Scurvy with Vitamin C, for example, beriberi with thiamine and the Vitamin K shot for newborns.
One of the conference topics, Vitamins in pregnancy and the first 1000 days after birth, features in this morning’s session, and I want to highlight the work of two of this morning’s speakers to illustrate how the research journey can differ.
Professor Carol Bowers and Heather D’Antoine’s work on the effect of folic acid on neural tube defects is built on decades of research…while Professor Sally Dunwoodie’s work is new and novel.
Professor Dunwoodie and her team – after 12 years trying to find that one change in six billion pieces of DNA data that would be the key to a breakthrough – found the never-before-associated link between birth defects and miscarriage and low levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide…and that vitamin B3 has the potential to restore NAD levels, and prevent defects.
And while we eagerly anticipate the results of Professor Dunwoodie’s work in the years to come, Professor Bower’s work to have folate added to our flour shows astounding results…particularly in Indigenous Australian communities where, before the folate initiative, babies were 40% more likely to have a neural tube defect than those with non-Indigenous mothers.
In 2016, seven years after folate was introduced into the nation’s bread, an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report showed a statistically significant reduction of 14.4 percent in neural tube defects – but among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, that rate reduced by a phenomenal 74 percent.
I know Professor Bower and Heather D’Antoine will expand on this during their presentation but it is powerful illustration of the role of vitamins in public health. It illustrates what Professor Dunwoodie has said about her work with NAD and Vitamin B3…the fact vitamins are cost-effective, natural, water soluble and easy to administer makes these discoveries particularly consequential for remote or disadvantaged communities.
This is where research is so crucial to better equality in health outcomes and the many benefits that cascade out of that.
This conference will have many more stories of successes and new endeavours. It allows the sharing of knowledge, the chance for young and emerging scientists to present their research, and the opportunity for all of you to encourage each other to keep going with your valuable work.
As a researcher myself, I understand that our work can at times be frustrating and thankless. But collegiality, multidisciplinary collaboration and a dedication to the greater good often give us the impetus to persist.
And for the presenters I’ve just mentioned, the parents of babies born with birth defects who participated in their studies were a great motivation.
The willingness of those parents – the ‘real heroes’ as Carol Bower described them – to help find answers, truly captures the generosity of spirit which we, as researchers, must strive to achieve in our own work.
Research matters. It is the cornerstone of a successful, prosperous, healthy society. And that will be the strong message I deliver next week when I address the National Press Club in Canberra.
Society, as a whole, must care more about research. In Australia we are faced with the reality of falling behind the rest of the world’s leading economies in Research & Development spend.
Some of you visiting from overseas may also experience this in your own country. Not only has business investment in R&D in Australia declined for the first time in two decades, but we lag internationally.
We spend just 1.9 % of GDP on R&D while the OECD average is 2.4%, with Israel’s spend way up at 4.5%. So, if there are any Israeli researchers out there, please tell us your secret.
Public research institutions in Australia are constantly asked to make their case for government funding. We need to change the mindset in some quarters that funding research is tantamount to a charitable donation.
It is not. It is an investment with a significant economic return. But it is not just a source of revenue.
Research changes lives. It changes entire communities. And, in some cases, it changes the world. I applaud you for your work and your dedication to finding answers. And I wish you all the best for the conference.
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In its simplest definition, threat hunting is a process to identify whether adversaries reached to the organization’s network or not.
Despite many precautions taken at the perimeter level and many technologies used, breaches cannot be prevented. As a result of this situation, technologies to detect whether an attacker is inside have also come to the fore in recent years. EDRs and NDRs are mostly developed and used for detecting and they use many different methods for this.
In the event of a breach, the most important way to lower dwell time is to implement a regular and continuous threat hunting process. Earlier, as discussed in pyramid of pain, there are several methods for threat hunting like using signatures, IoCs, anomaly detection or TTPs.
A signature can be IP addresses, domains, or file hashes about the threat actor but as you can see above, they are at the bottom of the pyramid. Because they can be changed very easily by the attacker and these information mostly include false positives. When attackers register a new domain, or get a new IP address, it will be a 0-day for the organization and will be impossible to detect the attack via IoC sweep.
Therefore, using the attackers’ TTPs for threat hunting will give much more accurate results. Attackers do not change the techniques that they are using frequently, especially if they have been successful before with these techniques. The MITRE ATT&CK framework is the best way for this technique. Many organizations have adapted their infrastructure to miter or continue to work on this issue. If they haven’t started this yet, they should start as soon as possible.
Threat Intelligence: For a better and continuous threat hunting, threat intelligence is essential. There are lots of techniques and tactics in Att&ck and analysts must decide with threat intel where to start. For a start, it may be a good method to start by identifying the actors that will threaten them depending on the country, region and sector of the organization. This process will prioritize TTPs for hunting. It must be ensured that the threat intel provides this information up-to-date.
Developing Hypotheses: After prioritizing the TTPs for hunting, next step is to creating the hypotheses. This step means determining the data that should be collected to detect the adversarial behavior. According to the required data, it is determined with which security controls the detection should be made.
At this stage, also there is a need to make a gap analysis to be ensure that we can detect all the related activity. If necessary, other security controls should be added. This process can be done with security validation tools like Verodin, since In Verodin all tests and reports are Att&ck based. Hunt teams should correct both they can get needed logs from every piece of the network and these logs are sent to SIEM regularly. So Verodin also should be used for these steps.
This data selection phase also provides to use SIEM more effective. By understanding the adversarial techniques, organizations can reduce the log size by reducing the volume of data collected. This will also allow analysts to encounter fewer false positive alerts and saves time.
The most annoying thing in SIEM administration is the volume of data. Thus, while we are getting data from host or network security controls, we should carry out that we do not send useless data to the SIEM. Be careful about both EDR and especially NDR solutions can create huge amount of data.
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'Shark Tank' appearance gives 500% boost to metro Detroit native's coding app for kids
As she eyed the long list of majors up for her choosing, the Columbia University freshman scoffed at the computer science program — it was obviously not for her, she thought at the time.
Little did metro Detroit native Samantha John know that years later, she would be the co-founder of the foremost children’s coding educational tool, Hopscotch.
Aimed at young and beginner coders, Hopscotch simplifies coding by allowing users to drag and drop blocks of coding to build scripts that then translate into games that children can share with others on the app or online.
It would be a long path before John found that computer programming was fun and an avenue to express her creativity, and then went on to corner the children's coding market.
Born in Dearborn and raised in Detroit's Woodbridge neighborhood, John completed her degree in Applied Mathematics at Columbia University in New York.
“I don't know exactly what I thought it was, I think I thought it was something that people did in the basement with black screens and green letters, and it felt so inaccessible and so uninteresting to me,” John, 34, said. “I found out the secret of programming is really fun. And no one knows. So, how can I tell all the other little Samanthas in the world that there's this really awesome thing that they could totally do, that they just don’t know about.”
And so John and her co-founder, Jocelyn Leavitt, went to work.
For more than a year, the two worked full time on creating the app — taking on consulting gigs in the meantime to pay rent. The app became the first program of its kind to allow users to code on touch-screen devices without a keyboard, thereby eliminating the need to learn the minute ins and outs of coding.
“Programming language is similar to a human language in that it’s a set of instructions to tell a computer what to do. But because computers are not as smart as humans, you have to write the instructions very, very specifically,” John said. “And if you get anything wrong — especially with a lot of the programming languages that are out there right now — if you mess up one little thing nothing works at all.”
When coding, a single incorrect symbol can obstruct the computer’s ability to read the script and perform the desired action. Learning programming languages can be a similar process to learning a foreign language, including its unique syntax.
“Part of what we did was take away some of those barriers that prevent people from learning to code because they get so frustrated, and making something that has orders of magnitude less frustrating and easier to use,” John said.
Hopscotch launched in 2012 for free and was downloaded 20,000 times in its first week. From there it took off, earning an average of 200,000 active users a month and even more fans — particularly one in a high place that is currently helping the app reach greater heights.
In April 2020, John received a message from a casting producer with "Shark Tank," an ABC show where entrepreneurs pitch business ideas to a panel of investors for the chance of scoring an investment in exchange for equity. The producer encouraged her to submit an audition. Fast-forward to September, and John is face-to-face with the sharks including Lori Greiner, Kevin O’Leary and Mark Cuban.
In the deep end
John begins her pitch with having each shark grab the iPad set before them. On the device is a Hopscotch-created game called Kaleidocosmos, a drawing game that repeats drawings eight times to create a kaleidoscopic image, that has received 2.4 million plays in the five years since it was created.
“You talk to kids about how they are the entrepreneurs of the future, here’s your chance to put your money where your mouth is,” John says to the sharks, explaining that along with coding experience, the app equips children with skills in game design, graphics and animation.
John’s goal was $400,000 for 4% equity in the business. After the app’s initial launch, John implemented a subscription model in 2015 to access exclusive features and currently has more than 6,000 subscribers. The app also has an internal currency model that users can buy through the app store and use to unlock items and other users’ games.
“You guys were on top of the world, you guys were dominating for kids’ programming language,” Cuban says to John, adding that his own daughters use the app. “When it comes to kids in school, there are some alternatives, but Hopscotch is the go-to name.”
Following her demonstration, which included a demo of how to create a game using Hopscotch’s coding model, some of the sharks bowed out, citing either unfamiliarity with the sector or, for O’Leary, a promise to never return to the children’s gaming industry.
Subscriptions run for either $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year, which keeps the business running but doesn’t leave the five-person team with extra revenue, John said. She’s seeking to eliminate the paywall and instead rely on the app’s internal currency model, and in the future allow users to cash out the currency they’ve accumulated from other players — a move that was questioned by investors.
“What I see here is you are a tremendously brave young woman,” said Barbara Corcoran before taking herself out of the negotiation.
John was then left with Cuban, whose net worth is estimated to be about $4.3 billion by Forbes.
“I’ve been a Hopscotch fan for forever and just talking to you, I look up to you for what you’ve been able to accomplish and what you’ve been able to do for my daughters (and) for my son,” Cuban said.
After firing offers back and forth, John and Cuban finally agreed to $550,000 for 11% equity, valuing the company at $5 million, and plans to create a coding camp for disadvantaged kids.
Hopping into the future
In the eight years since Hopscotch was founded, its users have grown with the app, and John wants the app to continue to suit their interests and education.
One user reached out to say that thanks to Hopscotch, he was starting at MIT to study computer science. And he’s far from alone, Hopscotch’s user base is fiercely loyal and often emails the company to express their gratitude.
“I'm excited to help them take the next step with us, and actually be able to make something that they can sell and that other kids will want to buy and have those kids be an inspiration to show the younger kids what they're capable of and what they can achieve if they put their heart into it,” John said, “and to really have that path be open for people because I think as a kid, a lot of the time, you don't get to do things that are real; like, you just get the kid version of things.
Being able to make real programs that you can sell "makes it feel so much more worthwhile because you can see the path from learning the skill to actually creating a career out of it."
Since Hopscotch’s segment aired Feb. 26, downloads have increased 500%.
John continues to work with Cuban, a partnership that has been amazing, she says, toward growing Hopscotch and its audience.
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Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are set to announced their new government today as the country faces economic collapse and food shortages.
This comes more than two weeks after the Islamist militia captured Kabul and brought a deadly end to 20 years of war, with the Taliban now back in control of the country as they were from 1996 to 2001.
Taliban official Ahmadullah Muttaqi said on social media a ceremony is being put in place at the presidential palace in Kabul after the US withdrawal, while private broadcaster TOLONews said an announcement on a new government was imminent.
Meanwhile, one-third of the country is facing food insecurity and is in desperate need of funds, according to the World Food Programme amid warnings of a humanitarian crisis in the country.
The Taliban are unlikely to get quick access to around $10 billion of assets held abroad by the Afghan central bank, and are struggling to reassure banks that the economy under the group will be fully functional.
It is expected that the Taliban’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, will have ultimate power over a new governing council, with a president below him, a senior Taliban official told Reuters news agency last month.
The supreme Taliban leader has three deputies: Mawlavi Yaqoob, son of the movement’s late founder Mullah Omar; Sirajuddin Haqqani, leader of the powerful Haqqani network who the FBI have offered a $5 million reward for finding; and Abdul Ghani Baradar, who founded the group along with Mullah Omar in 1994.
In a new development, the Taliban trying to present a more moderate face to the world since theyreturned to power last month, promising to protect human rights and refrain from reprisals against old enemies.
But the United States, the European Union and others have cast doubt on such assurances, saying formal recognition of the new government and the economic aid that would flow from that – is contingent on action.
‘We’re not going to take them at their word, we’re going to take them at their deeds,’ U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland told a news briefing on Wednesday September 1.
‘So they’ve got a lot to prove based on their own track record … now they also have a lot to gain, if they can run Afghanistan, far, far differently than they did the last time they were in power.’
Gunnar Wiegand, the European Commission’s managing director for Asia and the Pacific, said the European Union would not formally recognise the Islamist group until it met conditions including the formation of an inclusive government, respect for human rights and unfettered access for aid workers.
Speaking to the BBC, Akhundzada said on Wednesday: ‘All ethnic groups that are living in Afghanistan – they’re Afghans – they have a right to be in the government.
‘But future government – the next government – they will be selected as per [their] merit. All those Afghans who have the ability, capacity and capability to work according to their profession – they will be in the government,’ he claimed.
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Trend Mini Mobile Security is a totally free application that antiviruschips.com/best-antivirus-for-iphone will protect your iPhone out of viruses and also other malicious software program. The program offers a number of beneficial features. The free type has many valuable features, including an anti theft feature, in order to find your iPhone when it is stolen or lost. Very low built-in GPS DEVICE tracker that can be used to track your gadget. These features make this software a good choice intended for the iPhone.
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122 – How to Crochet Fingerless Mittens (Triangle Stitches)
This tutorial is easy to learn. Used Triangle Stitch. Mittens can be done in no time and it’s really a nice and useful item. Ideal for gifts. Happy knitting!
You need to know how to crochet Slip Stitch (ss), Chain Stitch (ch), Single Crochet (sc), Double Crochet (dc) and dc2tog (dc 2 together).
Be sure to check out my YouTube Tutorial Video.
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Hook Size 3 mm
Yarn 50 g
Oz 3.52; Nm 3.00
1/2 ball of orange yarn. Ball contains 328 yds/ 300 m.
1 m = 1,0936 jardi (yds)
sst – Slip Stitch
ch – Chain Stitch
sc – Single Crochet
dc – Double Crochet
dc2tog – dc 2 together
Rnd 1-33: 1 chain; 11 single crochet stitches in the back loops only
Rnd 1-7: 3ch; *dc2tog, 1ch* – repeat entire row, dc in the last stitch, tie it together, slip stitch; Total 42dc
Rnd 8: thumb – 5ch; skip 8 stitches; 3ch; dc2tog; 1ch; dc2tog; 1ch; dc2tog… (33dc+5dc)
Rnd 9-11: 3ch; *dc2tog, 1ch* – repeat entire row, dc in the last stitch, tie it together, slip stitch; Total 38dc
Rnd 12: cingle crochet stitches all row
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The international trade court has effectively outlawed the sale of dolphin-friendly canned tuna in American supermarkets, ruling such labels were unfair to Mexican fishermen.
The ruling, delivered on Wednesday, was the third from the World Trade Organisation against the use of a voluntary system of labels for dolphin protection and was immediately denounced by conservation groups.
"It's an absurd decision," said Mark Palmer, a marine mammal expert at the Earth Island Institute which devised the voluntary standard for canned tuna.
The label system was introduced 20 years ago to protect dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific, the source for almost all of America's tuna.
Campaigners say the labels have been successful in reducing the number of dolphins killed by tuna fishing fleets, and the system has strong support from the Obama administration and from congress.
But the WTO said in its ruling that the labels were not "even-handed" when it came to Mexican fishermen.
"We find that the US 'dolphin-safe' labelling provisions provide 'less favourable treatment' to Mexican tuna products than that accorded to tuna products of the United States and tuna products originating in other countries," it said.
A spokesman for the US trade representative, said the government stood by the labelling system. "The US remains committed to ensuring that consumers receive accurate information concerning whether the tuna in a product labelled 'dolphin safe' was caught in a manner that caused harm to dolphins," said Nkenge Harmon.
Under WTO regulations, the Obama administration has about 18 months to do away with the dolphin-safe label entirely, or make an exception for Mexican fishermen.
It could also decide to help train Mexican fishermen in techniques that do not involve chasing and encircling dolphins – the practice the label is intended to end.
"I suspect the issue is going to boil down to whether we allow Mexico to kill dolphins and then say their tuna is dolphin safe," Palmer said.
Dolphin and tuna tend to congregate near each other in the Pacific. Until then fishing vessels, occasionally with air support, would chase and encircle dolphins to try to get to the tuna swimming beneath the water.
Fish sold under that label must be caught without chasing dolphin, and without the use of drift nets. Vessels operating in the eastern Pacific must have observers on board to ensure they follow the code.
Campaigners say virtually all of the tuna sold in the US meets that standard, and that major supermarkets will not stock cans of tuna that don't carry the dolphin-safe label.
However, Mexican fishermen continue to fish using those methods, and the government challenged the label as an unfair trade practice. Venezuelan and Colombian fishermen use the same methods, but those countries were not part of the suit.
Public Citizen, which also campaigned against the WTO intervention on canned tuna, said the ruling was an intrusion on US consumer choices. "If Mexican fleets choose to use dolphin-safe tuna-fishing methods, they can use the label just like US, Ecuadorean and other nations' fleets," the group said in a statement. "But Mexico, which challenged the US rule, wanted access to the label without meeting the standards."
Mexico's ambassador to the WTO welcomed the ruling, saying he hoped it would help open up the billion-dollar tuna market to his country's fishing fleets.
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SEOUL: North Korea said Wednesday it had achieved its goal of becoming a nuclear state after successfully testing a new intercontinental ballistic missile that put the "whole mainland of the US" within its range.
After watching the launch of the Hwasong-15, the North's leader Kim Jong-Un "declared with pride that now we have finally realised the great historic cause of completing the state nuclear force", the official KCNA news agency said.
The test triggered global outrage with US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis saying it marked a significant step toward North Korea building missiles that can "threaten everywhere in the world, basically."
It was the first missile test of any kind since September 15, and squashed speculation that the North may have held back in order to open the door to a negotiated solution to a nuclear standoff.
"The ICBM Hwasong-15 type weaponry system is an intercontinental ballistic rocket tipped with super-large heavy warhead which is capable of striking the whole mainland of the US," KCNA said.
It said the development of the weapon would defend the North against the "US imperialists' nuclear blackmail policy and nuclear threat".
While Pyongyang has yet to prove its mastery of the re-entry technology required to bring a warhead back through the Earth's atmosphere, experts believe it is on the threshold of developing a working intercontinental nuclear strike capability.
Wednesday's test caused deep consternation among the North's neighbours.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called it an intolerable, "violent" act and South Korean President Moon Jae-In condemned Pyongyang's "reckless" behaviour.
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What is testJKT?
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Mondays & Wednesdays, Nov 14-Feb 15, 2:45pm-3:45pm, In-Person @ Whitney/Zoom. Tai Ji Quan is an evidence-based fall prevention program designed for older adults developed by Fuzhong Li, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the Oregon Research Institute. TJQMBB transforms martial arts movements into a therapeutic regimen aimed at improving: - postural stability - awareness and mindful control of body positioning - functional walking - movement symmetry and coordination - range of motion around the ankle and hip joints - lower-extremity muscle strength. This workshop will be held in-person at Whitney Senior Center and on Zoom.
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This program is funded in part by the State of MN Department of Human Services Live Well at Home grant, and the Older Americans Act through the Central MN Council on Aging.
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I hope that it is obvious from the questions my inquiry is NOT politically motivated, but seek to understand how citizens can avoid repeating a similar long-term detention.
A US citizen was detained for 23 days by CBP. The CBS article indicates that the citizen was denied a phone call. After one month, his case was expedited when an attorney brought the issue to the press.
- Did the citizen have the right to make a phone call after being detained?
- If not, what prevents the indefinite detention of the citizen?
- Absent any indication of a crime or violation, does CBP have the authority to detain a US citizen if presented with proper identification documentation (passport card, passport)?
- What obligation does CBP have to process a detained US citizen in a timely manner?
- Does CBP \ ICE have juris diction or authority to demand ID from citizens in a non-border or non-airport context?
The above questions are posed because, I would like to understand:
- Did the citizen do anything to warrant the detention?
- Is there anything the citizen could have done at the checkpoint to avoid detention?
- If the citizen refused to answer CBP questions, could this produce a better outcome?
- Once, detained, what could the citizen do to reduce the detention duration?
- What are the lessons-learned for other citizens?
- Why is it that the CBP process did not resolve the matter in timely manner and was not resolved until media indicated attention forced the issue? There is a claim that 2/3 Americans live in the CBP inspection zone:
I realized that the subject matter is politically charged, however, I would like to keep the politics out of the dialogue and focus on the legal questions of the case. Obviously, I am not a lawyer and seek to understand the contours of law and its resulting process.
Update: CBS news indicates the detention of American Passport Holders in CBP detention of unknown duration:
Last week, a California congresswoman visiting the Border Patrol's processing center in McAllen encountered a 13-year-old girl holding a U.S. passport. The girl was waiting with her mother, who had allegedly crossed the border illegally. After inquiries were made, the Border Patrol released both.
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Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.— Vicomte De Chateaubriand
The most unforgettable Vicomte De Chateaubriand quotes that will activate your desire to change
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
Aristocracy has three successive ages.
First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly.
That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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Mim Kut Festival is a post harvest festival celebrated in Nagaland, North East India and also in other parts of Mizoram. The festival is celebrated and honored by the Kuki Nagas. It is one of the many popular festivals of Nagaland. The celebration is ostentatious and is of important essence to the Kuki tribe. It expresses exhilaration and triumphant over the harvest of Mim (Maize), which is the last harvest crop for the season. The festival celebrates the harvest of maize in particular. The Kuki people hold strong belief that the souls of their deceased ancestors rise from their graves and visit their family homes. The people offer tribute to the dead souls in form of wine that is naturally prepped from rice at every home. Other offerings include fresh vegetables, maize, bread made from maize and handmade symbolic jewelry. The dead souls are also worshiped by the villagers. The Mim Kut festival like most festivals of Nagas includes, tradition singing, dancing, playing musical instruments and proud display of culture.
History of the Festival
The Mim Kut Festival celebrates the annual harvest of the maize crop (Mim). The origin of the festival has its ties connected to the Kuki story of “Mim”. The original story explores the love and bond of two brothers when they were abandoned by their mother. Lendou and his younger brother shared a piece of Mim when their stomachs were wrought with hunger. It was Mim that got them through these hard times, brought them closer and taught them love. Mim is the last harvest of the year in the Kuki society. The people summon their deceased ancestors and pay their respects on this day. They offer tokens of maize, jewelry, clothing, bread and rice wine. Half of the harvest is dedicated and offered to the dead souls. It is customary to do so but not really mandatory. The souls of ancestors that have passed away are presumed to return to their homes during this festival. The festival has received wide recognition from the state and tourism department.
Duration of the Festival
The festival is observed in the later part of December after the crop is harvested. It is celebrated every year. The festivities are celebrated for about two consecutive holidays.
Highlights/ Important Rituals of the Festival
- The Kuki people carry out ceremonies to honor age old traditions of this important Kuki festival.
- They also pay homage to the souls of their deceased ancestors.
- There are extravagant dance performance and signing performed by cultural groups from different villages with a religious edge to them. Large traditional drums, long horns and other conventional instruments are used to produce a harmonized cacophous music.
- The Mimkut State festival allows people to join in the merriment and celebration of the Kuki society.
- The Kuki people exhibit their ethnic culture through art work that represents their roots..
- There are numerous games, contests, fashion shows, talent hunt, voice hunt and other fun competition and activities along with musical rock concerts, food stalls, fairs and sports.
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The following was submitted to the New York State Department of Transportation on November 16, 2016.
My name is Richard Murdocco. I am the founder and publisher of The Foggiest Idea, and am land use columnist who writes professionally on regional real estate development issues. I am writing to share my perspective on the NYS DOT’s plans for the Sunken Meadow and Sagtikos Parkways.
Moving forward, it’s critical that the NYS DOT update to the Sagtikos Parkway to not only be responsive to the needs of current commuters today, but prepare this route for the changes in commuter demands decades from now. With a variety of large-scale regional projects in the development pipeline of the townships that surround the roadway, it’s crucial that the State prepare the road for the added demands projects such as Heartland Town Square will bring.
Further, while Suffolk County is ambitiously pushing for the eventual creation of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route using the Sagtikos/Sunken Meadow corridor, the NYS DOT must ensure that present demands placed upon the roadway are being met. While it is advisable to leave the door open for future changes, it’s important the parkway’s most important function, a link between the north and south shores to Long Island’s main east/west roadways for commuters travelling by car, is maintained.
As existing conditions show, the parkway’s current level-of-service is inadequate for the communities that the route both serves and connects – any expansion of the roadway must take into account projected changes of commutation patterns, as well as maintain the unique aesthetics and landscaping that drivers on the Long Island Parkway System have come to expect.
Both the Sagtikos and Sunken Meadow State Parkways are critically important links that connect Long Island’s north and south shores. This effort must ensure that the integrity of the road’s flow of traffic must be maintained.
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Exam Guides & Instructions
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The National Elder Law Foundation (NELF) does not provide exam preparation materials. The scope of the exam is broader than most practices and you must design your studying on the areas with which you are not familiar. NELF does suggests the following publications:Representing the Elderly Client by Thomas D. Begley Jr. and Jo-Anne Herina Jeffreys, Elder Law in a Nutshell and Advising the Elderly or Disabled Client by Lawrence Frolik, and Tax, Estate and Financial Planning for the Elderly by Rebecca Morgan and David English, and the Elder Law Answer book by Robert Fleming and Lisa Davis.
In addition, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) offers an Advanced Elder Law Review that focuses on elder and special needs law. Please contact Pam Yanni at 703-942-5711 x 231 or firstname.lastname@example.org for additional information.
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Using drugs carries a range of physical and mental health risks, and the
only certain way to eliminate these is not to use any drugs at all. However,
this may not be realistic when the decision to use or not to use a
particular drug is a matter of personal choice, but it must be acknowledged
that when choosing to use a drug, a person must accept the associated health
All drugs will affect the user's judgement and probably reduce
their inhibitions, increasing the likelihood that they may find
themselves in situations they would normally avoid and which may
be unsafe. Sexual situations may be more likely to occur when
drugs are involved and it may be harder to remember the importance
of practising safer sex when using drugs, thus increasing the
risks of unplanned pregnancy and sexually- transmitted infections
Safer sex is about preventing body fluids such as semen, vaginal and
cervical secretions and blood from entering the bloodstream. The most
risky activities are penetrative anal and vaginal intercourse so it is
important to use condoms (with a water-based lubricant for anal sex) every
time. Oral sex is considered safer but there may still be a risk involved
if there are cuts in the mouth. A condom for fellatio and a dental dam for
cunnilingus or anilingus will help to reduce the risks of transmission.
Always remembering to carry and use condoms will help to reduce these risks.
Injecting drugs directly into the bloodstream carries some very
serious health risks. Firstly there is a risk involved where the
injection is not carried out correctly; puncturing an artery or
allowing air into the bloodstream. Secondly, if the equipment
used to inject (needles, syringes, spoons, filters etc.) is not
clean, or is shared with other users, there are risks of Tetanus,
Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV and other blood-borne infections.
Our advice is: do not inject drugs.
If you are a regular intravenous drug user always use clean works
and equipment. These can be available free from your local needle
exchange facility. Contact the National Drugs Helpline for participating
pharmacies in Northern Ireland, Tel:- 0800 77 66 00. Thirdly,
the impurities that are without doubt mixed with any street drug
(ranging from rat poison to talcum powder), may cause allergic
or toxic reactions with unpleasant short-term symptoms, and can
also block veins and infect injection sites causing septicaemia
Best to Avoid Drugs
Generally it's best to avoid drugs especially if you're feeling anxious or
depressed. You should be particularly careful if you're taking prescribed
drugs, as there could be unpredictable side effects. The effects of drugs
vary depending on how you're feeling emotionally, how fit you are, who
you're with etc. You should also note that the less you weigh, the more
powerful the effect of any drug will be. If you're going to take drugs,
try to make sure that you are with friends. It's usually not a good idea
to be on your own. Friends can help when you're coming down or having a bad
each other what you are taking in case you run into difficulties.
Finally under no circumstances should you drive under the influence
of any drug. Drugs can alter your perception and reaction times,
increasing the chances of having an accident behind the wheel.
The police are increasingly looking out for drivers using drugs
and you could lose your licence.
Other useful info
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In chemistry, a substrate is typically the chemical species being observed in a chemical reaction, which reacts with a reagent to generate a product. It can also refer to a surface on which other chemical reactions are performed, or play a supporting role in a variety of spectroscopic and microscopic techniques. In synthetic and organic chemistry, the substrate is the chemical of interest that is being modified. In biochemistry, an enzyme substrate is the material upon which an enzyme acts. When referring to Le Chatelier's principle, the substrate is the reagent whose concentration is changed. The term substrate is highly context-dependent.
In three of the most common nano-scale microscopy techniques, atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), a substrate is required for sample mounting. Substrates are often thin and relatively free of chemical features or defects. Typically silver, gold, or silicon wafers are used due to their ease of manufacturing and lack of interference in the microscopy data. Samples are deposited onto the substrate in fine layers where it can act as a solid support of reliable thickness and malleability. Smoothness of the substrate is especially important for these types of microscopy because they are sensitive to very small changes in sample height.
Various other substrates are used in specific cases to accommodate a wide variety of samples. Thermally insulating substrates are required for AFM of graphite flakes for instance, and conductive substrates are required for TEM. In some contexts, the word substrate can be used to refer to the sample itself, rather than the solid support it is placed on top of.
Various spectroscopic techniques also require samples to be mounted on substrates such as powder diffraction. This type of diffraction, which involves directing high-powdered X-rays at powder samples to deduce crystal structures is often performed with an amorphous substrate such that it does not interfere with the resulting data collection. Silicon substrates are also commonly used because of their cost-effective nature and relatively little data interference in X-ray collection.
Atomic layer deposition
In atomic layer deposition, the substrate acts as an initial surface on which reagents can combine to precisely build up chemical structures. A very wide variety of substrates are used depending on the reaction of interest, but they frequently bind the reagents with some affinity to allow sticking to the substrate.
The substrate is exposed to different reagents sequentially and washed in between to remove excess. A substrate is critical in this technique because the first layer needs a place to bind to such that it is not lost when exposed to the second or third set of reagents.
In biochemistry, the substrate is a molecule upon which an enzyme acts. Enzymes catalyze chemical reactions involving the substrate(s). In the case of a single substrate, the substrate bonds with the enzyme active site, and an enzyme-substrate complex is formed. The substrate is transformed into one or more products, which are then released from the active site. The active site is then free to accept another substrate molecule. In the case of more than one substrate, these may bind in a particular order to the active site, before reacting together to produce products. A substrate is called 'chromogenic' if it gives rise to a coloured product when acted on by an enzyme. In histological enzyme localization studies, the colored product of enzyme action can be viewed under a microscope, in thin sections of biological tissues. Similarly, a substrate is called 'fluorogenic' if it gives rise to a fluorescent product when acted on by an enzyme.
For example, curd formation (rennet coagulation) is a reaction that occurs upon adding the enzyme rennin to milk. In this reaction, the substrate is a milk protein (e.g., casein) and the enzyme is rennin. The products are two polypeptides that have been formed by the cleavage of the larger peptide substrate. Another example is the chemical decomposition of hydrogen peroxide carried out by the enzyme catalase. As enzymes are catalysts, they are not changed by the reactions they carry out. The substrate(s), however, is/are converted to product(s). Here, hydrogen peroxide is converted to water and oxygen gas.
- Where E is enzyme, S is substrate, and P is product
While the first (binding) and third (unbinding) steps are, in general, reversible, the middle step may be irreversible (as in the rennin and catalase reactions just mentioned) or reversible (e.g. many reactions in the glycolysis metabolic pathway).
By increasing the substrate concentration, the rate of reaction will increase due to the likelihood that the number of enzyme-substrate complexes will increase; this occurs until the enzyme concentration becomes the limiting factor.
Although enzymes are typically highly specific, some are able to perform catalysis on more than one substrate, a property termed enzyme promiscuity. An enzyme may have many native substrates and broad specificity (e.g. oxidation by cytochrome p450s) or it may have a single native substrate with a set of similar non-native substrates that it can catalyse at some lower rate. The substrates that a given enzyme may react with in vitro, in a laboratory setting, may not necessarily reflect the physiological, endogenous substrates of the enzyme's reactions in vivo. That is to say that enzymes do not necessarily perform all the reactions in the body that may be possible in the laboratory. For example, while fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) can hydrolyze the endocannabinoids 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) and anandamide at comparable rates in vitro, genetic or pharmacological disruption of FAAH elevates anandamide but not 2-AG, suggesting that 2-AG is not an endogenous, in vivo substrate for FAAH. In another example, the N-acyl taurines (NATs) are observed to increase dramatically in FAAH-disrupted animals, but are actually poor in vitro FAAH substrates.
Sensitive substrates also known as sensitive index substrates are drugs that demonstrate an increase in AUC of ≥5-fold with strong index inhibitors of a given metabolic pathway in clinical drug-drug interaction (DDI) studies.
Interaction between substrates
Metabolism by the same cytochrome P450 isozyme can result in several clinically significant drug-drug interactions.
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- IUPAC, Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book") (1997). Online corrected version: (2006–) "substrate". doi:10.1351/goldbook.S06082
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What do paddleboarding and life advice have in common? Our fellow paddlers have some great ideas! In setting out to share a variety of tips and helpful guides to learning to paddleboard, participating in various paddleboarding activities, what conditions to SUP paddleboard under, and how to find the right paddle board size and type for you (whether your SUP board should be inflatable or non-inflatable) or extra gear such as a leash, we came to a great realization that sounds way ludicrous at first. There is a lot you can learn about life from your simple experiences paddling on a paddleboard. Here are a few tips we’ve come up with for not only paddle boarding right, but also living a successful, fun life. Feel free to check out our SUP news, tips, and insights!
Discovering a Greater Purpose in Paddleboarding
We have a vision in mind beyond simply providing great paddle boarding, surfing, and water sports equipment and informational guides. We want to work together with people who love paddling and paddleboarding, love to get outdoors, and love to find creative, fun ways to stay active with a spirit of adventure and a life vest when they fall. We want to make a way to build a sense of community where people who find joy in a sport like SUP and being in nature can step back into every aspect of life with a feeling of confidence, purpose, and hopefulness.
Life Lessons from Paddle Boarders
As we dove into ideas like the profound lessons learned from being outside and gaining tips and experiences from SUP on the water, we learned that the best type of magic can take place in the form of collaboration, with arms and doors open and inviting, cultures and people coming together to create, and ultimately a shared experience that becomes even more significant, regardless of whether you’re a beginner or more experienced paddlers. That’s why we want to share a few of these special moments and tips with you from the SUP boards of fellow paddlers.
Along the way, it struck us that the metaphors utilized in paddling and SUP aren’t all that obscure when looking at the lives people lead, such as those who would spend a lot of time on the water with activities like stand-up paddleboarding, or even people involved in sports or the outdoors in general. This is great news!
Sometimes You Need an Escape to Flourish
As far as tips go, this one seems as if it would be counterintuitive to use. People naturally possess love and respect for the water and the outdoors, whether they are beginner-level or expert-level paddlers (or they love to surf). For many, a method of ‘escape’ brings an opportunity for changing gears and gaining a brand-new perspective. Being outside at the beach or a lake, pushing forward through the water and wind and waves with your paddle to see the kind of places that would fill you with awe and wonder at the beauty of creation does a lot of good for your mental health. Some benefit spiritually from admiring the greatness of God through his works in nature, and retreating into this on a SUP board, away from the different types of ways we often feel burdened by normal life, can revive us and give us the second wind we need.
Learning Takes Time
If you are a beginner in paddleboarding, you may be nervous about the learning process and how long it will take you to get confident and know how to use your paddleboard. We want to encourage you by saying that it is okay to take all the time you need to learn, practice, and grow in your SUP skill level. Keep a leash on your board so it doesn’t get away from you. You may stay on calm, flat water always, or you may decide someday you want to get out and stroke the waves to try some SUP surfing. Either way, you don’t need to try to compare your paddleboard or surf progress to anyone else’s. Know that mastering your paddleboard right will take much more than one session at the beach or lakeside.
Learning something new in life is best done at your own pace, especially if you are learning something you love. Some of the best tips we can offer are to give yourself the time you need, take it one step at a time, be patient with yourself, and make sure to have fun with it! If you need help, that is okay! It’s always a great idea to get guidance and tips from others when learning something new.
Adaptation Makes us Strong
The basis of stand-up paddleboarding is keeping your balance on a stand-up paddleboard over water while you keep paddling yourself forward with as much strength and agility as possible. An essential component of keeping your balance on paddle boards is being able to adapt to the type of changes in position your board takes as the water moves beneath it. When you begin adding other factors into the paddleboarding equation, such as wind or waves, putting your kids or dog on the SUP board with you, or adding fishing or camping equipment to use, additional adaptation is required as you make sure to compensate for this change in the positioning of your board all over again. From the moment you start to stroke the water as a SUP beginner to when you become an expert at paddling near the beach after, you constantly make sure you’re adapting and learning to better gain your balance on the board through all phases of paddleboarding.
On just about any other side of life, this idea of having the ability to constantly adapt can be a key to success as well. There’s a universal understanding that adaptation is essential to success, but it’s similarly always changing. In order to adapt in technical areas of life, we continually discover, talk about, analyze trends and innovations, and ultimately find the balance. Adapting to changes in your season of life, such as growing up into adulthood, living alone or with others, or even adjusting to having a family of your own all require a lot of adaptation and responsiveness to change.
Community is Advantageous
Some of the greatest places to stand up paddleboards are places where a lot of other people are already going to check out. One of the beautiful things about stand-up paddleboarding is how extensive a community is involved in SUP, and linking up with others to explore new spots together, find out about great places to go that others have been to, and get to share in the joy of paddleboarding together are a few of the best ways this is expressed.
It’s our belief that the knowledge of the community, frequently cycling generations, along with the need to work together and be inclusive, is inherent to human life. People are hardwired to be good collaborators, and luckily these qualities fit well with bold initiatives. Through shared experiences in life, each one of us benefits and sees greater things accomplished than through separate people individually.
Heed the Coast Guard
Rules that apply to paddle boarders (and anyone else who happens to be out on the water, that includes you Jesus) are for your own safety, including remembering to wear a personal flotation device that is the right size and fit (think about the option to wear a wetsuit if you are going out in cold conditions). It’s important to make sure you understand the purpose behind them and heed them properly as you best make your way around the coast in order to avoid putting yourself in a dangerous situation or accident, or becoming a threat to someone else. Whether you are a beginner or an expert SUP paddleboarder, safety should be a priority, and obeying the coast guard and laws associated with paddling and water sports is always essential (such as bringing a type of personal flotation device to wear).
Friendship is a Joy…
One of the things people love so much about stand-up paddleboarding is that it gives you an opportunity to use to spend quality time with a friend or family member. Friendship is a precious aspect of life, and taking the time to pour into your friendships as well as receive all the ways our friends bless us with their nearness is something that takes alarmingly low priority in our lives if we aren’t careful!
Investing in your friendships is wise no matter who you are or what you do. Make space in your life to check in! Whether you’re paddleboarding together, doing some other lakeside activity, or just wanting to get some time to rest in each other’s presence, the time you choose to spend with a good friend is time well spent, and with consistency, it will help you to thrive.
And Solitude is Restoring
As important as it is to make sure you spend quality time with others, spending restful time alone can also be fairly vital. Though it would seem counterintuitive because stand-up paddleboarding is a fairly intense form of exercise, keeping your body and muscles engaged and your mind active through a sport like SUP while you get to explore outside and take in the world around you is a wonderful way to refresh your mind, your body, and your attitude, and keep you fit on your board. So head back out there!
Jesus Christ spent a lot of time alone in the wilderness, praying to the Father and being at rest in the middle of the many ways he served the communities he touched. In fact, he was on such a high after his moment in solitude that he raced his buddies who were in a boat across the waves of the Sea of Galilee on foot, trying to beat them to the other side (and he gave them a head start!) in some crazy weather conditions.
The Thrill of Adventure Motivates Us…
Whether we are beginners in stand-up paddleboarding, or we get to a more intermediate or expert level, we love the thought of adventure, choosing to face a challenge, and making our best achievement. This kind of incentive draws us into activities like stand-up paddleboarding and surfing (keeping safety in mind, don’t forget to wear a life vest as you find those waves to stroke!). We love the challenge and the thrill these and other sports first give us, and making progress to grow fit and improve in skill on our board over time is exciting to see.
All of us admire the risk-takers and change-makers in life, as well as the family, good friends, and neighbors that support them in what they do. We love to take on big things and see those around us take on big things. We love watching those around us face and overcome challenges, and we love cheering each other on. Face the waves of life, and keep a leash on your board!
But Discipline Keeps Us Going
Anyone who has gone stand-up paddleboarding for any length of time knows that it’s not ever all smooth sailing, especially on the beach. There are times the flow of the water or the wind getting caught on your body will beat you back when you try to move your body forward, and your exhausted muscles that you have to keep engaged throughout the entire time you are balancing on the water can start to feel like they are going to just fall off with the next stroke after paddling long and hard enough. This is where perseverance comes in. Get back up!
As important as the first motivation to want to take on big adventures and challenges is, equally important is being able to use the discipline and devotion to keep persisting when we become worn out and weary. Those who choose to be devoted like this, to their purposes and to one another, are the people who show up and always have your back. May we all choose to discover our balance between excitement, safety, and discipline with each new adventure, and learn to help one another.
Keep Calm and Paddle On
Complications arise while you’re out on the water, especially if you’re taking long trips, you’re paddleboarding at night or in an unfamiliar area, or you are learning something new like racing or stand-up paddleboarding with your dog. The best way to overcome these challenges and learn from them is to first make sure you keep your head cool. Freaking out while paddling increases your likelihood of a fall on your SUP board or back into the water (which may not affect your safety but may or may not be highly inconvenient).
Similarly, in real life, it’s important to keep calm and use an approach to challenges and tough conditions where you keep your head clear in order to not fall. From handling conflicts to pursuing big opportunities to performing under pressure, remaining calm and confident will go a long way towards obtaining success and keeping you at ease. It is a delicate balance, having an acceptance of responsibility that doesn’t allow the weight of that responsibility to become a burden and create an unnecessary sense of urgency.
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If you are looking for new stand-up paddleboards to find a SUP board of your own to get started paddling around the waters of life, we are here to help (both metaphorically and literally!). Paddle Sesh offers some of the best paddleboard and surfboard brands and gear (both inflatable and non-inflatable) such as a leash for your board, and we have compiled a host of resources to help you get started stand-up paddleboarding right or even master stand-up paddleboarding. We can help you find the perfect SUP board and gear at the right size and explore your options for all sorts of activities on the water you are sure to love.
We are also here to encourage you as you build your confidence and strength on the water. We know that confidence and well-being in general life can start with the conditions of the right type of habits for staying active and challenging yourself with a fun, adventurous sport that improves your coordination and strength under a variety of great, exhilarating conditions such as this.
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The situation with Covid-19 has had a significant impact on healthcare for patients with confirmed or suspected IBD. Hospital services have stopped doing almost all routine work so that wards and staff can be diverted to dealing with patients with Covid-19. Endoscopy has been affected, but urgent and suspected cancer investigations are still happening. Access to blood tests and faecal calprotectin is harder, and some hospital trusts have temporarily stopped doing the latter. All patients who are due a colonoscopy will be have their notes reviewed and will be written to if it is appropriate to delay their colonoscopy. If patients have been given a date for a colonoscopy then please encourage them to attend.
Shielding has been the source of much discussion, with the government stating that patients would be contacted at the end of March then retracting that promise as it became clear that the initial guidance did not match that issued by specialist organisations. The British Society of Gastroenterology have produced a grid to help determine who falls into the highest, moderate, or lowest risk groups and the IBD registry have turned this into a useful interactive tool to assess and share risk scores with secondary care. Patients in the highest-risk category should have their care delivered at home where possible, although visits to healthcare facilities (for infusions and some blood tests) can still be carried out where this is done in a manner that keeps the risk of exposure to an minimum.
The symptoms of Covid-19 can include abdominal pain and diarrhoea, and it can be difficult to know if these are the symptoms of a flare. For those patients with new onset persistent symptoms, please do not assume that any gastrointestinal symptoms may be due to Covid-19.
For those patients on medication, much has been written about the risks versus benefits of immunosuppressants. Almost every patient will be at a lower risk of Covid-19 if they continue their prescribed medication than if they stop or reduce their dose against medical advice and then suffer a flare with subsequent hospitalisation and high systemic steroid doses. The one exception to this is patients taking high dose prednisolone, and these patients should have had a discussion with their IBD team about their risk. Patients should not stop prednisolone suddenly because of the risk of an adrenal crisis occurring.
As well as the advice for patients on the Crohn’s & Colitis UK website, the BSG have published guidance for the management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease during the COVID-19 pandemic to help balance the risks of Covid-19 against those of undertreated, active IBD. NICE has released a rapid guideline to help secondary care manage patients with gastrointestinal and liver conditions treated with immunosuppressants, however guidance specifically for primary care is still needed.
The advice regarding Covid-19 has changed on a daily basis over the last month, but the situation is now settling. It looks like we will be stuck in some form of lockdown for several months. As the BSG said “Take care of yourself but also be kind and considerate to others in these difficult times”
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Representatives Edward Markey and Joe Barton recently introduced the “Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011,” which would expand and modernize the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and also would introduce new privacy protections for all minors under 18.
COPPA currently prohibits operators of websites and online services from knowingly collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from children under 13 years of age without parental consent. The Do Not Track Kids Act would, among other changes, expand COPPA to cover online and mobile applications and to protect unique device identifiers such as IP addresses.
Separately, the bill would establish new privacy rules to protect minors under 18. If enacted, the bill would prohibit the use of personal information for targeted marketing to minors, require express consent from parents or teens prior to the collection of geolocation information, require operators to provide a means to delete personal information shared publicly by minors, and require covered entities to implement a “Digital Marketing Bill of Rights for Teens” that would be influenced by the Federal Trade Commission.
After the jump is a summary of the bill’s key provisions.
Amendments to COPPA
The bill would make the following key changes to COPPA:
- Scope of Services Covered: COPPA currently applies to operators of websites and online services. The bill would expand COPPA’s reach to include online applications and mobile applications. The bill would continue to apply only if such operators either (1) direct their activities to children or (2) have actual knowledge that a user is under 13.
- Scope of Data Covered: The bill would expand the definition of “personal information” subject to COPPA’s restrictions to include numbers that can be used to identify devices, including IP addresses.
- Required Continuation of Service: COPPA currently permits operators to terminate service to a child if a parent withdraws consent to the use or maintenance of the child’s personal information. The bill would reverse this position — it would prohibit operators from discontinuing service upon withdrawal of parental consent unless it would not be possible to continue the service.
- Expanded FTC Discretion in Defining Key Terms: The bill would provide the FTC authority to define the terms “online,” “online service,” “online application,” “mobile application,” “directed to children,” and “directed to minors.” Each of these terms are key to demarcating COPPA’s scope.
- Telecommunications Carriers and Cable Operators: Although these entities generally are exempt from FTC authority based on their sector-specific regulation by the Federal Communications Commission, the bill would clarify that they are subject to COPPA and the FTC’s authority under that law.
New Privacy Protections for All Minors
The bill establishes the following new privacy protections for minors:
- Prohibition on Targeted Marketing: Covered entities would be prohibited from using, disclosing, or compiling personal information from minors for targeted marketing. The bill defines “targeted marketing” to mean advertising aimed at a specific individual or device based on personal information or a unique device identifier, as a result of the individual’s use or the device’s access to the website, online service, online application, or mobile application.
- Geolocation Data: For children under 13, parental consent would be required to collect geolocation information. For teens, express consent from the user would be required. Covered entities also would have to provide opportunities to access the geolocation information collected.
- Digital Marketing Bill of Rights for Teens: The bill would require covered entities to adopt a “Digital Marketing Bill of Rights for Teens” that balances social media participation against privacy and incorporates seven “Fair Information Practice Principles.”
- Eraser Buttons: Any operator of a website, online service, online application, or mobile application that makes personal information collected from individuals under 18 publicly available — regardless of whether the operator directs its activities to minors or has actual knowledge that it collects personal information from minors — would be obligated, to the extent technologically feasible, to make it possible for users to delete a minor’s personal information.
The FTC and state attorneys general would enforce the bill’s new privacy protections and COPPA amendments.
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Prince Harry and Princess Meghan astounded the world — and the Royal family, apparently — when they announced they were giving up on their senior royal duties and decamping to Canada. In fact, Meghan has gone already — appearing to leave Harry to pick up the pieces at home.
And it’s a shame, because the UK really did seem ready to embrace its new American princess when the pair tied the knot in a fairytale wedding at Windsor in 2018. Furthermore, the British people really do support the monarchy and do tend to cut them a lot of slack. So what could possibly have gone wrong?
–All those flights–
So, it turns out that British people really aren’t that fond of hypocrisy. And one of the most obvious forms of the art this century has come from the media class, lecturing the ordinary folk on not taking flights while on jet aircraft themselves.
Meghan — and by extension, Harry— has turned out to be an absolute master of the genre. Flying to Africa to hector the rest on climate change was a highlight — working to save the world, one private jet at a time.
The fact is, being a Royal is a pretty globetrotting job and folk accept that — the British monarchy is also the monarchy for 15 other Commonwealth Realms worldwide including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. Far from hating on the Queen for the flights she makes, Britons really love the modest way she also travels by train a lot, in preference to the private motorcade or helicopter, without feeling the need to lecture everyone about it.
Indeed, the Queen often skips the more expensive Royal Train altogether these days, and is sometimes seen travelling on ordinary public commuter trains, going with only a single aide to carry her bags. Well, she is 93, after all.
–Because stoicism is for other people–
The famous British stiff upper lip has taken a mighty beating in the modern era — amid the army recruiting millennial snowflakes and young men being encouraged to talk about their feelings rather than learning to regulate them like sane, well-adjusted people. It is small wonder there’s any sangfroid left to shore up a civilised society at all.
But even so, perhaps the United Kingdom’s much-reduced sense of reserve is not easy to acclimatise to if coming from the emotions-trump-facts luvvie world of Hollywood. Nobody expected Meghan Markle to break with Royal protocol in a television interview with British network ITV in 2019 to talk about how hard her life was — not least the interviewer, who appeared genuinely amazed to have his questions answered.
Describing marrying into one of the wealthiest, powerful, and respected families on the planet, former U.S. television actress Meghan told the documentary her life was “hard” and a “struggle”.
So there you go.
‘It’s Hard’: Meghan Markle Laments the Pressures of Royal Life https://t.co/DRk6LCAeaQ
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 21, 2019
— Going too far, too fast–
It may have been the case that Meghan privately believed that under the staid exterior, curly sandwiches, and luke-warm tea the British people were actually mega-woke and just praying that some forward-thinking Royal would finally bring up their children as gender-neutral.
Talking about feeling the “embryonic kicking of feminism” from your unborn child and declaring you’d not have too many children because climate change — which certainly wins applause in narrow, liberal circles — just comes across as a bit odd to the majority.
–Demanding princess treatment–
Could there possibly be truth in the impression given that Princess Meghan expects to be treated as more Royal than the Royals?
The papers have run with repeated claims that Meghan has had to be told off by other Royals including Princess Catherine and the Queen herself for failing to treat members of the Royal staff with sufficient respect. That’s just not the way things are done in Britain — you treat the lowliest with a respect those in other nations might reserve only for the highest, or at least you’re meant to.
In fact, revulsion at the haughty way a growing number of well-to-do people regard those at the bottom of the ladder was one of a thousand little nudges that pushed the United Kingdom to vote for Brexit in 2016 — have no doubt. The idea that the Queen would be rude to a member of the public just rings hollow.
Through an entirely separate Royal scandal in the past year we now know, supposedly, that well known Royal princesses occasionally go out for dinner with their Duke fathers at local branches of entirely ordinary eatery Pizza Express. A far cry from Meghan and Harry banning their neighbours from petting their pet dogs and ordering tennis fans to put their cameras away at Wimbledon because the Princess was present — despite sitting very prominently in the Royal box for all to see.
–She broke Prince Harry–
Prince Harry is — was — really popular with the British people. And little wonder. He was the handsome attack-helicopter pilot who served on the front line with the infantry in Afghanistan prone to occasional silly decisions (extremely questionable fancy dress choices and turning up naked at a pool party, for instance). He was the man who tragically lost his mother at a young age in the public eye and has devoted much of his adult life to charity work.
The well of public sympathy for Harry in Britain is deep.
And yet, rightly or wrongly, the public has perceived a sudden change in the party Prince in a very short space of time, and Princess Meghan being at the helm during that adjustment.
Country pursuits are a key part of the social calendar for the family Meghan married into — yet Harry made headlines in 2017 when he declined to attend the Royal family’s traditional Christmas shoot. This reportedly was to please his “flexitarian” activist then-fiancée.
Harry once took his military roles very seriously. But now the British tabloid press reports the Royal Marines, who he enjoys the honour of leading, haven’t heard from him in “months”. What is going on?
— Because Britain’s really racist–
Yeah, not really.
In fact, it is the American mainstream media which made such a meal out of ethnicity, not the British. And yet North America is where the couple is heading.
In a survey at the time she became a princess, Meghan was more popular in the UK than a whole host of royals, including the heir to the throne, Prince Charles. If British people were just interested in how light someone’s skin was, you might expect that to be the other way around.
Another piece of research at the time found the British people were extremely relaxed about the whole thing — 79 per cent said they were fine with a Royal marrying a foreigner, 78 per cent were cool with a divorcee, 69 per cent had no objection to different ethnicity. In fact, the only area that didn’t have overwhelmingly majority support was whether a royal could have a gay marriage or not, and even then more supported than opposed, at 44-to-41 with 15 per cent don’t knows.
This and many other reasons is why James Delingpole points out that the United Kingdom is a country more comfortable with race than many others in the west. Despite what certain pedlars of agitprop and alleged racism would claim otherwise.
Delingpole: Meghan Markle Is NOT a Victim of Racism https://t.co/tWB91sIqwG
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 10, 2020
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As AOC calls for 'media literacy' commission, colleges push New York Times' debunked 1619 Project
During an Instagram live on Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that Congress is looking into creating a commission on “media literacy” after last week’s U.S. Capitol siege.
Meanwhile, colleges across the country continue to push the debunked New York Times' 1619 Project.
During an Instagram Live post on Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that Congress is looking into creating a commission on “media literacy” after the January 6 U.S. Capitol riots.
“We’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so you can’t just spew disinformation and misinformation,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
But as the self-described Democratic Socialist pushes to "rein in" the media, colleges across the country continue to push the debunked New York Times' 1619 Project. The controversial initiative that began in August 2019 "aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative."
The Pulitzer-winning New York Times essay has faced criticism by many historians and scholars for historical presuppositions. One history professor at the University of New Hampshire criticized the project for “not telling the whole story.”
"Where the 1619 Project errored...was overlooking or ignoring several very important complications,” Professor Eliga Gould said in footage obtained by Campus Reform.
According to the essay, a primary motive for the American Revolution was to protect institutionalized slavery.
However, the National Association of Scholars said this is "a claim for which there is simply no evidence.”
Campus Reform spoke with NAS President Peter Wood about his new book 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project, in which Wood stressed that the country began in 1776, not 1619. Wood also expressed that he feels there are many dangers that come along with teaching an entire generation of Americans this form of history.
“I was looking for a succinct way to say, that's not really where we began. It may be historically interesting...but it's not our origin story,” Wood told Campus Reform.
Despite the overwhelming criticism, educators are still utilizing the debunked New York Times' 1619 Project.
At the University of Oregon, the school selected the project as its common read in response to police shootings in 2020. According to the university's website, more than 90 percent of incoming students will participate in the common reading through one of their classes or residence halls.
Meanwhile, Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts announced the project would "set the tone" for the school year.
Princeton University Professor Emeritus James McPherson called the essays an “unbalanced, one-sided account” that “left most of the history out.”
Follow the author of this article on Twitter: @JezzamineWolk
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WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The primary mission for the Armed Services Blood Program is to spread the word that the blood donor program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at the Wright-Patterson Medical Center.
“Summertime is a period when blood donation needs go up because of increased accidents and compounding the blood shortage during these months are PCS (permanent change of station) moves and vacations for donors,” said Nikki Edwards, a technician in the center.
The 88 Medical Group Blood Donor Center is located on the second floor, clinic side right across from the Women’s Health office, Wright-Patterson Medical Center in Area A.
“The shelf life for blood is only 42 days and regular donors need to wait 56 days before donating again. There is always a great need to find new donors of all blood types and especially during the summer months because quotas cannot be met during this time period,” said Edwards.
Anyone who has access to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is eligible to donate blood, including civilian retirees and veterans.
“Restrictions are listed on the militaryblood.dod.mil/donors website and even if you think you have a deferral, come into the center and let the professionals assess you and give you the correct answer,” said Edwards.
“One new incentive is a Pint for Pint. Baskin Robbins has donated coupons for $3 off a cake, $1 off a frozen drink or one pint of ice cream for each pint of donated blood. The coupons are available to any donor who gives blood at the center,” said Edwards.
There are mobile blood drives available at various locations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Hours for the center are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday thru Friday. Walk-ins are welcome and it only takes 30 to 45 minutes from start to finish. Some organizations will give individuals 59 minutes to come over to the center and donate.
For additional information or questions regarding blood donations, call Armed Service Blood Program, Wright-Patterson Blood Donor Center at 937-257-0580 or visit www.militaryblood.dod.mil and Facebook.com/WrightPattBlood.
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After two years of delays, and huge increases in costs, the U.S. Army cancelled the ARH-70 scout helicopter last year. This helicopter was supposed to replace 340 OH-58s, a model that was introduced four decades ago. The army was supposed to get the first of its new ARH-70 scout helicopters by September, 2008. But two years ago that slipped to sometime in 2010. The ARH-70 was supposed to cost $8-9 million each. That was the 2005 estimate. But at the end, the manufacturer, Bell Helicopter, wanted over $12 million each. The army originally wanted to buy 368 ARH-70s. But with the delays and price increases, that army gave up after three years of effort.
The current OH-58s are wearing out. Those used in Iraq are in the air 72 hours a month. Those in Afghanistan, 80 hours a month. In peacetime, these choppers spend about 24 hours a month in the air. Moreover, combat use puts more stress on the aircraft. Plus there's battle damage. In addition, 20 OH-58s were lost to battle damage. The current solution is to spend several billion dollars to refurbish and upgrade the current fleet, to keep the OH-58 in service for another 10-12 years. It is believed that a replacement will be found and built before then.
The 2.8 ton ARH-70A was a militarized Bell 407. The helicopter it was replacing, the OH-58D, was itself a militarized version of the older Bell 206. ARH stands for armed reconnaissance helicopter. ARH-70 had a max speed of 243 kilometers an hour, and max range of 577 kilometers. It was supposed to be a straightforward conversion. A new engine and tail assembly, plus adding a fire control and weapons system similar to that installed in the OH-58D. But problems were encountered, that took more time, and money, than Bell expected, to fix. If you follow defense procurement, you've heard that many times before. The ARH-70 experience will loom over the effort to develop another replacement.
The delays and price increases are attributed to the usual problems. The manufacturer over-promised, and the army keeps adding new features to the fire control and cockpit electronics. The manufacturer knows how this works, and have lawyers, tech writers, Congressional lobbyists and public relations teams standing by to come up with perfectly good, and legal, reasons for the delays and cost increases. The military, and the taxpayers, usually relent and pay up. Not always, but usually. Collective amnesia then sets in, and the process is repeated endlessly. But in the last decade, that has begun to change. Troublesome projects are increasingly at risk, and that acts as an incentive to make things work. The ARH-70 was a sharp reminder that, even when you are aware of how you can screw it up, you can still drop the ball.
The OH-58D Kiowa Warrior has a top speed of 226 kilometers per hour, and a range of 241 kilometers. It has a mast-mounted sight, which carries a powerful FLIR (heat sensing camera) and a laser designator. The OH-58D is lightly armed, and usually only carries four Hellfire (anti-vehicle) or Stinger (anti-aircraft) missiles, or 14 70mm unguided (or guided) rockets. The upgrades will include new, and improved, electronics, but also the possibility of a much needed new engine. Over the decades, the new equipment has been added, without an increase in engine power. For a scout helicopter, the OH-58 was getting more sluggish as it got older.
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Large parts of central and eastern China were reeling on Friday from the worst floods in decades, as disruption mounted for key supply chains, including crucial personal protective equipment for fighting the coronavirus, and economic damage piled up.
The central Chinese city of Wuhan and the provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang declared red alerts on Friday as heavy rain swelled rivers and lakes.
Wuhan, on the banks of the Yangtze river where the novel coronavirus emerged late last year, warned residents to take precautions as water levels fast approached their maximum guaranteed safety level.
The giant Three Gorges reservoir, which has been holding back more water to try to ease downstream flood risks, is more than 10 metres higher than its warning level, with inflows now at more than 50,000 cubic metres a second.
The Poyang lake in Jiangxi province, which is formed from the overspill of the Yangtze, is 2.5 metres higher than its warning level. It has expanded by more than 2,000 square kilometres during thus flood season, and parts of the surrounding town have been inundated.
Further east, the Tai lake near Shanghai has also declared a red alert after its water level rose to nearly a metre higher than its safe level.
The summer rainy season brings floods to China almost every year but the impact of the disruption they cause is being felt further afield as Chinese goods become more important in supply chains of items such as personal protective equipment (PPE).
“It’s just creating another major roadblock here in terms of PPE getting into the United States – it is the worst of times for it to happen but that’s what we’re dealing with right now,” said Michael Einhorn, president of Dealmed, a U.S. medical supply distributor, which sources disposable lab coats and other products from Wuhan and nearby regions.
“We cannot get product out for over a week, which is a very long time in our business,” he said, adding that the delays could last another two or three weeks.
Economic activity in parts of China, especially construction and steel and cement demand, continues to be hurt by the flooding, analysts say, suggesting some loss of momentum after a stronger than expected bounce in the second quarter from the coronavirus crisis.
“We estimate recent floods in Yangtze River regions could lead to a gross drag of 0.4-0.8 percentage points on third-quarter GDP growth,” analysts at Morgan Stanley said in a note to clients on Friday.
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There is no difference between a DBA and Fictitious Business Name. The terms are interchangeable.
No. a DBA is only needed if you are doing business under a name that is different than what is set forth on the Articles of Incorporation/Organization. This includes variations on the name.
A DBA is not typically required if you are doing business under your individual name. However, most banks will not allow you to open a business account without a DBA. A DBA is necessary if you are doing business under a different name. For example, if you do not have a corporation or LLC, and wanted to do business using the name, “Joe’s Computer Repair,” a DBA would be in order. This will not, however, provide you with any liability protection.
No. DBAs do not afford any liability protection. If you are interested in protecting your assets, in connection with your business venture, you should consider forming a corporation or LLC.
Yes. Registering a DBA does not provide you with the exclusive rights to the name. Somebody else would be able to register the same name in a different county, or as a Corporation or LLC. If you are looking to obtain full and exclusive rights to use a name, you should consider registering a federal trademark.
Publication requirements vary from state to state. When publication is required, the DBA statement must be published in a specific newspaper, once per week, for one month.
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Cleaning and fixing driveways requires both time and persistence. There are different techniques to clean a driveway however the most significant mystery to have a decent looking driveway for a long time is to intermittently perfect and seal it. Permitting the stains or splits to remain on a superficial level for extensive stretches of time will make perpetual harm your driveways. In spite of the fact that there are different techniques for driveway cleaning, pressure washing the driveway can likely be one of the most least demanding and compelling strategies for cleaning. Pressure cleaning pavers can undoubtedly expel any sort of stain independent of how intense or hard it is to evacuate. These washers accompany various sorts of spouts which gives you the adaptability to alter the weight contingent upon the kind of driveway surface. The most significant part of utilizing a weight washer is that the whole cleaning process takes less time, cash, utilizes less water and synthetic compounds. At long last, the outcome you get is fulfilling.
It is fitting to enlist a pressure cleaning administration rather than you doing the whole procedure of cleaning. Recorded underneath are a portion of the advantages of employing a pressure cleaning administration. Hiring a pressure cleaning administration is extremely prudent when contrasted with you doing the cleaning. The experts will realize how much weight must be applied for what sort of driveway cleaning surface. They will likewise know the sort of synthetic substances that ought to be utilized for various surfaces. In particular they will do driveway cleaning in an expert way. Practice and experience assumes a significant job in cleaning any sort of surface. In the event that you are a first time client of a weight washer, neglecting to peruse and adhere to the directions may make some genuine and undesirable harm you and your driveway.
Hiring assistance for cleaning pavers and fixing driveways will fundamentally spare you a great deal of time and vitality. Employing assistance will assist you with having a spotless driveway in less time. It will likewise assist you with investing greater quality energy with your loved ones. The whole cleaning procedure can be done immediately when contrasted with different sorts of cleaning strategies. A weight washer utilizes less measure of water when contrasted with different kinds of cleaning strategies. It utilizes less water at high weight. This expels the stain from the surface and at the same time washes it away from the surface. This causes you spare a great deal of water which you would have in any case squandered in the event that you had utilized a nursery hose or a pail to clean the driveway. Hiring a pressure cleaning administration that have staff who are prepared and experienced in the field of pressure cleaning and driveway fixing will assist you with having a driveway which looks a great deal cleaner when contrasted with different kinds of ordinary cleaning or fixing techniques.
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Running a business presents you with a host of different rewards and challenges. Unfortunately, some of the most complicated challenges you face are also some of the most important to get right. For example, filing accurate sales and use tax returns is an essential part of keeping your St. George business running smoothly. However, they can be pretty complex for most people to handle on their own.
When filing sales and use taxes, there are a number of things you’ll need to keep in mind. Some of the pitfalls of filing your own return may include:
- Constant changes in local tax rates and regulations
- Finding accurate calculations for a variety of categories and locations
- Filling out time-consuming, confusing forms
- Consistently getting your taxes in on time
As you can probably imagine, ensuring proper preparation and filing of your sales and use tax returns has become pretty complex. Adding more confusion is the fact that these returns will probably only become more complicated as time goes on. As the level of complexity continues to rise, so do the risks associated with filing incorrectly.
Is It Time to Get Some Help?
Tax mistakes can cost you financially and damage your reputation.Hiring a professional accountant to help you file sales and use tax returns can keep you on top of the process and out of hot water. After all, when it comes to dealing with the IRS, you can never be too careful.
Letting a qualified accountant handle your taxes can provide your business or organization with reliable, up-to-date information on the newest regulations and tax rates. An accountant can help you reduce your risk of missing deadlines or losing important documentation. They’ll ensure you’re in complete compliance with any necessary reporting and tracking. And should the IRS make an inquiry, you’ll have someone you already trust ready to help you. You may even reduce your tax liability.
In short, with an accountant on your side, you’ll have better control, less stress, and more peace of mind. Perhaps best of all, you don’t necessarily need to hire someone full or even part-time. There are plenty of third party accounting services in St. George that can help you with sales and use taxes and much more.
While they can be difficult, there is no reason to let sales and use tax returns be a boil on the neck of your otherwise healthy business. Talk to an accountant about your situation. You’ll see how easy it can be to keep your taxes organized and accurate, while you focus on growth and productivity.
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For those of you who haven’t “bought into social media,” or haven’t gotten around to implementing programs, here’s an example of a traditional manufacturing company that’s “doing it right.”
The name of the company is RIDGID and they are a manufacturer of hand and power tools for several industries including Plumbing, HVAC/R, Utility, Industrial and Electrical markets. (Disclaimer: We have been the Ad Agency for RIDGID for almost 25 years and other than helping them with a few back-end details, they have done all this in-house under the guidance of the brand director.) By the way, they’re doing a great job.
RIDGID is a traditional manufacturer that realized that social media was allowing them to have another avenue to reach current and potential customers worldwide. They entered social media gradually and are getting good feedback from existing customers and potential ones.
Web site – When they redesigned their site, they made sure that as social elements were added, they included links to Twitter and Facebook, and to view their latest video, they added a link to YouTube, or to look at their product photos, they added the link to Flickr.
Forum – One of the first things they did was to introduce a forum to begin building a strong online community. They have several threads including plumbing and construction.
RIDGID not only promotes new products like RIDGIDConnect with social media, they promote industry events as well as their annual Reputation Roadshow. Tactics they use to engage their audience are elements such as catchy contests on Twitter or giving incentives to those who join their Facebook Fan page.
They’re doing everything right. But it was a process. They, like the rest of us, when entering the social space, had to re-think how to approach the medium because it’s different from “traditional marketing.” Whether it was Facebook or Twitter, they walked before jumping in with both feet.
I’d suggest that if you’re still on the fence about diving in, click onto some of the links I’ve supplied and follow them to see how RIDGID is doing it. It’s not rocket science, just good old fashioned marketing using a different medium to reach their core audience.
I’d like to hear from you if you have any other examples of manufacturers doing it right.
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In Robineau v. France, the death of a suspect in custody caught the attention of the European Court of Human Rights. Dr. Michel Robineau was in the Tribunal de grande instance courthouse under police custody, in connection with an investigation following “a complaint for rape filed by two young women who accused him of unjustified vaginal probing.” Robineau asked the police if they could take off his handcuffs and let him talk to his attorney in private. The police honored his request, and twenty minutes into Robineau’s conversation with his attorney, he unexpectedly stood up, apologized to the lawyer, and jumped out of the window to his death.
Robineau’s family believed that the police were obliged to keep him safe. Robineau’s family filed a criminal complaint for manslaughter and a civil action for damages against the officers. Both cases were dismissed, and the investigating judge in the criminal matter stated that it was not foreseeable that the suspect would commit suicide. On appeal, the Court of Cassation, rejected the application. Robineau’s family then re-filed with the European Court of Human Rights “relying on Article 2 (right to life) arguing that the State is obliged to protect a person from committing suicide while in custody.”
The Court found that “people held in police custody should be considered as being in a vulnerable situation, like any detainee, and that the authorities had a duty to protect them.” But Robineau showed no signs of being suicidal. The police did not uncuff him so that he could commit suicide; the police respected his wishes by uncuffing him, and treated him more like a regular individual speaking to his attorney in private, and less like a prisoner. Should they be punished for being humane? The psychiatrist who examined Robineau found him stable, the suspect appeared calm, and there had been no evidence implying that Robineau was suicidal. The European Court of Human Rights held that “a more precise legal frame work was needed” in these situations because police alone should not be expected to assess a suspect’s psychological situation. And in this particular case, the precautions the police took were sufficient, thus the application by Robineau’s family was denied.
Do you agree with this ruling? This case reminded me of Ariel Castro committing suicide in prison here in America. Do you think the police acted appropriately, and if so, should the United States reach a similar decision should Castro’s family ever sue?
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Late-onset HC is a well-recognized complication associated with cyclophosphamide/acrolein-induced toxicity. It poses a management challenge when hyperhydration and bladder irrigation do not result in clinical improvement as desired. The data regarding use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO2) as an early treatment modality in this clinical setting are limited. We present 2 cases, that were refractory to hyperhydration and bladder irrigation but responded to HBO2. They were treated with 20-30 daily sessions over weekdays with 100% oxygen for 90 minutes at 2 atmospheric pressure units (2 atm). Both patients reported improved symptoms within the first 15 sessions, and hematuria diminished by 20 sessions. Hyperbaric oxygen is a less invasive, outpatient therapy that is effective for treatment of HC and is tolerated well by young patients.
- bone marrow transplant
- hyperbaric oxygen
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
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Nicomedes IV Philopator (Greek: Νικομήδης Φιλοπάτωρ) was the king of Bithynia from c. 94 BC to 74 BC. He was the first son and successor of Nicomedes III of Bithynia.
Memnon of Heraclea wrote that Nicomedes IV was the son of Nicomedes III by his wife Nysa, but according to Granius Licinianus he was a son of Nicomedes III by a first wife called Aristonica, who Granius Licinianus claims died nine days after his birth. He had three half siblings, Nysa by his fathers second marriage to Nysa, and a half brother named Socrates Chrestus from his fathers concubine Hagne and possibly Pylaemenes III by an unknown woman.
His reign began at the death of his father. The first few years of his kingship were relatively peaceful, but soon King Mithridates VI of Pontus (the maternal grand-uncle of Nicomedes IV), one of Rome's greatest enemies during the late Republic, began harassing Bithynia's borders.
Nicomedes IV's brother, Socrates Chrestus, assisted by Mithridates VI, defeated Nicomedes IV's army in 90 BC, and Nicomedes IV was forced to flee to Italy. He was restored to his throne by Manius Aquillius due to Rome's influence in the region. However, Aquillius encouraged Nicomedes IV to raid Mithridates VI's territory, prompting Mithridates VI to retaliate again in 88 BC. Nicomedes IV fled once again to Rome. Mithridates invaded and conquered Bithynia and the Roman provinces of Asia starting the First Mithridatic War.
The East was seen by the Romans as a province providing an abundance of gold and silver. As such, two powerful Romans, Gaius Marius and the consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla aimed at a command in the region. After marching on Rome and outlawing Marius, Sulla sailed east and fought Mithridates VI on several occasions over the next three years, and finally in 85 BC, Mithridates VI sued for peace, and was allowed to retain his kingship in Pontus after paying a heavy fine.
Nicomedes IV was restored to his throne in Bithynia in 84 BC. The years that followed were relatively peaceful, though Bithynia came more and more under the control of Rome. In 80 BC, young Gaius Julius Caesar was an ambassador to Nicomedes IV's court. Caesar was sent to raise a fleet using Bithynia's resources, but he remained so long with the King that a rumor of a sexual relationship between the two men surfaced, leading to the disparaging title for Caesar, "the Queen of Bithynia", an appellation which Caesar's political enemies made use of later in his life. During Caesar's Gallic Triumph a popular verse began: "Gallias Caesar subegit, Caesarem Nicomedes," (Caesar laid the Gauls low, Nicomedes laid Caesar low), suggesting that Caesar was the submissive receiving partner in the relationship. It is unknown if a sexual relationship existed or was only a story told by his opponents, and Caesar vigorously denied its truthfulness.
As one of his last acts as king of Bithynia, in 74 BC, Nicomedes IV bequeathed the entire kingdom of Bithynia to Rome. The Roman Senate quickly voted it as a new province. Rome's old enemy Mithridates VI of Pontus had other plans for Bithynia, however, and Nicomedes IV's death and bequeathal led directly to the Third Mithridatic War.
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“I feel like I don’t fit in anywhere in this world. I don’t have a group of friends, and I don’t fit in at work. I have nothing in common with my family, either. It feels like there’s no place in society for me.”
It’s tough to feel like you don’t fit in. Belonging is one of our basic needs.
We all go through periods of feeling lonely or like we don’t fit in. Sometimes, it’s just a feeling or a short-term problem. Other times, though, there is a deeper issue that needs sorting out.
We’re told to be ourselves, but that’s not always simple. And what happens when we try to be ourselves, but we don’t find anyone else that we seem to connect to?
Depression and anxiety can make someone feel like they don’t fit in. You may be an introvert who doesn’t enjoy being in groups. Or you may believe that there is something wrong with you and feel safer when you distance yourself from others.
The best way to find where you belong is to get to know yourself. What interests you? Find the courage to try new things and go to new places by yourself. Doing different things opens you up to talking to people you may never have met otherwise.
When you feel like an outsider, the feeling might or might not be based on facts.
For example, if you’ve just started a new job and don’t know any of your colleagues, then you are (for now) an outsider. It can help to remind yourself that this kind of situation is temporary and that most people feel like they don’t fit in at some point in their lives.
But other times, it feels like we never fit in however much we try. This might be because you are making social mistakes, but it could also come down to how you see yourself. Your feelings of “not fitting in” may be coming from a place of self-judgment.
For example, if you think you are “weird” or “strange,” you may always feel like you don’t fit in. If this sounds familiar, see our article on what to do if you don’t like your personality.
Sometimes, we have to adapt to certain situations or environments. For example, we’ll talk in a more polite way around our parents or boss. But if you try to change or hide the core of who you are, you’ll continue to struggle. Even if you succeed in getting friends in this way, you’ll still feel like you don’t fit in because you’re not showing your true self.
Body language plays a big part in how others perceive us. When we’re nervous, we may tense our body, cross our arms, and have a serious expression on our face.
When talking to others, notice how you’re holding your body. Try to relax your jaw and forehead. We have more tips on how to look friendly and approachable.
Part of fitting in with others is sharing about ourselves. Being a good listener is important, but most people look for balanced relationships. We feel more comfortable sharing with others when they share with us, as well. Opening up to others is scary, but it will make your relationships more rewarding.
It can be difficult to know how much to share at what point in the relationship. We have an in-depth article on how to open up to people.
To fit in with people, we have to give them a certain level of trust. Trusting others can be scary, especially if you’ve been hurt before. However, trust is something we can learn to develop and nurture.
Read more in our guide to building trust in relationships.
Show interest in others by asking them questions. People like talking about themselves, as long as you appear to be asking out of genuine interest instead of coming from a place of judgment.
Make sure that the questions you ask are relevant to what they are talking about and aren’t too personal. You can build up to more personal questions later.
For example, if someone mentions that they recently went through a break-up, try asking how long they were together instead of the reason for the break-up. They will share more personal information if and when they are ready.
People tend to like people who are similar to them. If you’re someone who feels you don’t fit in, this can make you feel like no one will like you. But the truth is, we can usually find something in common with the person we’re talking to, even if it’s just a love of Korean noodle cups.
Try playing a little game where you assume you have something in common with every person you meet. Your goal is to find out what that similarity is.
Depression and anxiety can be a barrier to connecting with other people. They can make you believe that you’re not worthy of other people’s attention.
You can work on these issues with a therapist or coach, who will help you pinpoint your problems and find solutions tailored to your specific situation. Self-help books, online courses, and support groups may also be helpful. We also have a guide on how to make friends when you’re depressed.
Working on framing your problem in a more specific way can help you overcome it. For example, “I need to work on my feelings of self-worth” or working to overcome your feelings of feeling judged are more manageable problems than “I just don’t fit in.”
You may see people teasing each other and want to participate. Once we’re close to someone and feel safe with them, teasing and bantering can be a fun activity that solidifies the relationship. However, when you’re trying to fit in, don’t tease others until you can be relatively sure how they will take it.
To fit in at work, you need to understand your workplace’s social rules and norms. Your workplace may be a formal place that expects people to keep their personal life private. On the other hand, in some workplaces, you will find the boss talking about video games with employees over lunch.
Try to observe how other people act at work. Do they use humor when they talk to each other, or are they mainly formal? Do your colleagues ask each other about their family and hobbies, or are the conversations centered on work? Is it OK to walk up to people’s desks and ask a question, or are you expected to communicate via email?
Some people act very differently socially and professionally, while others act in the same way in and outside of work. Understanding how people are at your place of work is the first step to fitting in.
If your workplace is formal, making an effort to dress nicer may help you fit in. If your workplace is more casual, adopting a similar attitude can help. Remember, you’re not trying to be someone you’re not, you’re just showing different parts of yourself.
Don’t lie about your skills, work experience, or background to fit in or impress your coworkers. It will backfire if someone finds out.
Avoid oversharing at work. For example, if someone asks you about your family, you don’t need to say, “I’ve cut contact with my father because he’s an alcoholic.” Instead, try something like, “I’m not close to my family.”
Similarly, don’t ask your coworkers too many personal questions. For example, don’t ask a coworker about their divorce unless they start the conversation. Respect your coworker’s privacy and let a friendship develop naturally. Some people prefer to keep their work and personal lives separate. Don’t take it personally if they don’t open up.
It’s usually best to keep political and moral discussions to existing friendships outside the workplace. Try not to bring up sensitive topics that people might have strong views about. If someone says something that you disagree with, ask yourself if it is worth arguing over before commenting.
If you need help with this, read our guide on how to be more agreeable.
One of the best ways to bond is over a food or coffee break. It can be intimidating to join someone for lunch in the beginning, but give it a try. Do people go out to eat together? Ask if you can join in.
One common problem in many social settings and particularly in high school is that we tend only to notice extroverted and popular people. We may try hard to fit in with them but struggle to know how to do that. In the process, we may miss other interesting, kind people we may get along with quite well.
To find like-minded people, look around. Try to notice something about everyone in your class. Is there a classmate you often find doodling that you could talk to about art? Perhaps you share a similar taste in music with the classmate who walks around wearing headphones. Take a chance on the shy kid who sits off to the side.
Join groups for things that you’re interested in, or consider starting one. Read our guide on finding like-minded people for more tips.
Say you hear classmates talking about meeting to play basketball. “I don’t play basketball,” you think. When they talk about Dungeons and Dragons, you say, “I don’t know how to do that.” When you’re at a party, you sit to the side and watch others dance. You don’t try watching the new TV show everyone is talking about because you assume you won’t like it.
No one is born knowing what they are good at or what they like. We find these things out through experimentation. Engaging in the things others are engaging in will help you feel like you fit in with them because you share an experience together.
Of course, if you already know without a doubt that you hate yoga, don’t try to force yourself only to fit in with others. But if there is something you are unsure about, give it a shot. You may surprise yourself. Even if you end up disliking it, at least now you know from experience.
You may have an image in your head of what friendship should look like. You may dream of having a best friend that you do everything with.
That works for some people, but others have several people they do different things with. Some friends may like to play video games together but need to study alone. You can find other friends to study with, but they may not have the same hobbies as you.
You may believe that in order to fit in, you need to be similar to others. You need to like the same TV shows, have the same hobbies, the same taste in clothes, and similar religious or political views.
The truth is, it’s very rare to find someone you will be completely similar to. You can be very close friends with someone even if you have opposing views or if you don’t have an opinion on something they’re passionate about.
For example, if someone asks you, “What’s your favorite band?,” it’s OK to say that you don’t have one, even if they think it’s strange. You don’t need to have an opinion about everything. Or maybe there’s a trend everyone is into. It’s OK not to like it. Just try to express your opinion respectfully, without being critical of others. Neither of you is right or wrong. You’re just different.
Feeling like you don’t belong in your family can be challenging, especially when it feels like everyone else is getting along and you are the black sheep.
You may be carrying childhood hurt and resentment that gets in the way of feeling comfortable around your parents, siblings, or extended family. Perhaps you remember the ways they hurt you when you were young and find it difficult to get over these experiences. You may find that even now, your family can be critical or disrespect your boundaries without them even noticing. Or the problem might just be the fact that you’re different from them.
Perhaps you have different views about religion or culture. Or maybe you enjoy spending your time in very different ways.
Instead of telling your family that they’re wrong for their beliefs, try to understand why they feel the way they do. Ask them about their jobs or hobbies, even if it’s not something you’re typically interested in.
Remember that it’s very common for different generations to have conflicting beliefs. And while some children adopt the views of their parents, others do not.
Sadly, sometimes our family won’t be able to meet us at the emotional level we need. There may be several topics we find we can’t talk about without getting judgemental comments.
The solution may be to find “safe” topics you can talk to your family about. That way, it feels like you’re sharing without giving away too much.
Safe topics can include practical information about your hobbies or day-to-day life. (For example, “My tomatoes seem to be growing really well. I’m not sure why the cucumbers aren’t.”) You can think of some topics you can discuss with them in advance before you meet up.
Sometimes it can be hard to hold a conversation with family members. In many cases, doing something together can help you feel closer and give you something to talk about when there are gaps in the conversation. Is there something that your family would be open to trying together? For example, you could suggest hiking, cooking, board games, or watching a movie.
It’s normal to feel out of place when you’re in a group of people who know each other quite well. Here are some tips:
When someone is talking, smiling and nodding sends them a signal that we are listening and that we accept them. You appear as a friendly person who is nice to be around, even if you aren’t contributing much to the discussion.
For more, read our in-depth guide on how to make eye contact.
Talking to people in a group is different than talking one-on-one. When speaking in a group, it’s best not to try to dominate the conversation but know when and how to speak up. Read our in-depth guide on joining group conversations.
Try to notice the groups’ energy level—not just what they’re saying, but how they’re saying it. Sometimes, you may need to raise your energy level to fit a group if they are lively and joking around. Other times, the group will be having a serious discussion, and making jokes may not be appropriate.
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Students from Quitman County High School participated in 2 tours. The first one was the Tyson plant located in Eufaula. The plant manager, Shawn Goodson met with the students. We went to the conference room where we saw a presentation about statistics for Tyson and their expectations for employees. One statistic he gave was that Tyson produces enough nuggets for 8 million kids’ meals per day.Mr. Goodson told the students how he started his career right out of High School working on the line and worked his way up. He stated that Tyson rewards someone who does their job well and is always trying to improve. We went into the plant where students observed how chicken nuggets are made. It was very clean and cold. The workers wore long white coats and all hair was covered.
Students then went to Wallace Community College. Students were greeted by Ms. Mary Wiggins, Recruiter. We toured the various administrative offices of the campus as well as academic and technical programs. We saw the Criminal Justice program, Welding, Cosmetology and HVAC. The students learned that they could receive a certificate in 6 months, certification in 1 year or an Associates degree in 2 years. We also learned that any associates degree would transfer to any 4 year college.
The Georgia High School High Tech Program is a comprehensive community-based program providing youth with disabilities a link to academic and career-development experiences that enable them to successfully meet the workforce demands of the 21st century.
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The back of Oakley Court Hotel is a familiar sight for Rocky Horror Picture Show fans. — Photo courtesy of © Steve Larese
If you know how to do the “Time Warp,” chances are you’re already familiar with the Oakley Court Hotel in Windsor, England. It doubled as Frank-N-Furter’s castle in Richard O'Brien's 1975 horror-movie send up The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as well as the set for many classic Hammer Film Productions. But before fame on the silver screen, Oakley Court was a posh English estate. Today it’s a luxury hotel, and you can sleep where Dracula prowled and Transylvanians partied.
The Drawing Room at Oakley Court Hotel is where the "Time Warp" dance was filmed in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. — Photo courtesy of © Steve Larese
The manor retains its famous gothic exterior and English manners along a half-mile bank of the River Thames. After extensive renovation beginning in the 1980s and a recent sale in 2014, Oakley Court Hotel harkens back to its charm as a regal English manor. Guests luxuriate in 118 modern rooms with wainscoting, wingback chairs, regal curtains and plush king-sized beds. The lobby and sitting rooms glow with wooden paneling, leather furniture and fireplaces with elaborately wooden or stone-carved Victorian mantels. Outside, guests may stroll the path along the Thames and herb gardens, and enjoy the gym, sauna, pool, and French-inspired restaurant. Its 35 manicured acres include a 9-hole golf course, tennis courts, croquet lawn and not one, but two helipads.
Gargoyles abound at Oakley Court. This one can be seen in The Rocky Horror Picture Show when Brad and Janet arrive at the castle. — Photo courtesy of © Steve Larese
Oakley Court was built in 1859 for magistrate Richard Hall Say and his wife, Ellen, says Oakley Court historian Jake Roche. Originally called Water Oakley Manor, the property was typical of a high-class country estate with its gothic gargoyles, tower and stepped stonework. Originally the home had six reception rooms, 14 bedrooms, two nurseries, four bathrooms and accommodations for 16 servants. Its 35 acres also housed stables for 14 horses and later motor houses for cars. Leslie Ward (the “Spy” artist for Vanity Fair), Prince Imperial Louis Napoleon, Prince Edward VII and actress Lillie Langtry were all guests at Oakley. More recently, Queen Elizabeth II's 2009 visit here for the annual Swan Upping is still a point of pride.
The exterior of Oakley Court Hotel has changed very little from its completion in 1859. — Photo courtesy of © Steve Larese
The estate passed through the family until the last know private owner, Ernest Olivier, died in 1965. With no clear ownership, Oakley began to fall into disrepair, making a perfect set for horror films. But Oakley Court started being used in movies years before Olivier’s death. Olivier was often away traveling, and in 1949 Hammer Film Productions rented his estate and filmed five movies there.
In 1958 Peter Cushing filmed the critically acclaimed Dracula at Oakley, and he starred again in 1960’s The Brides of Dracula. Hammer Films would purchase nearby Down Place as its permanent studio, but still used Oakley’s photogenic exterior in establishing shots for its gothic horror films. After Oakley was abandoned, Hammer Films used the dilapidated interior for many of its classic horror films, including The Plague of Zombies (1966). Amicus Productions filmed Theatre of Blood starring Vincent Price at Oakley in 1973. The property became so run down that Susan Sarandon caught pneumonia there while filming The Rocky Horror Picture Show as parts of the roof had fallen in, and she was often scantily dressed for the movie.
The original rooms of the manor are now sitting rooms and the bar. — Photo courtesy of © Steve Larese
For Rocky Horror enthusiasts, there are annual costume gatherings at Oakley. The exterior is still instantly recognizable, and although the interior has been refurbished, areas where scenes were shot are still identifiable. The front door and banister where Riff Raft greets Brad and Janet can be seen, and the famous Time Warp dance sequence took place in the back Drawing Room, where the entry doors, fireplaces and other details can be spotted.
Windsor Castle is a quick cab ride from Oakley Court Hotel. — Photo courtesy of © Steve Larese
Oakley Court Hotel is less than four miles from the charming city of Windsor and Windsor Castle, where you can tour the Queen’s weekend getaway, watch the changing of the guard and explore items and art spanning England’s royal history. Rooms at the Oakley Court Hotel begin at $200.
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All health-conscious individuals attempt to eat proper and concentrate on the dietary content material of their each day diets. However the truth of the matter is that there is no such thing as a such factor as a organic “free lunch.” Because of this totally different vitamins generally tend to cancel one another out. In some contexts, you may want a ton of nutrient A, however in different circumstances you’ll wish to cut back your consumption of nutrient A as a result of it inhibits the absorption of nutrient B.
This dynamic performs out in many various combos, and because of this even individuals who eat wholesome diets can discover themselves poor in a sure vitamin or mineral with out understanding about it. This text will cowl a nutrient known as phytic acid and associated compounds known as phytates, and the way they are often helpful or dangerous, relying on the eating regimen and well being circumstances of these consuming them.
What are Phytates and Phytic Acid?
Phytic acid is a pure compound present in vegetation, nuts, and grains. In some well being communities (notably the Paleolithic Food regimen group) it’s thought of an “anti-nutrient” due to the way it can intrude with the absorption of sure minerals.
So if there’s a dangerous compound in sure meals, it’s only a easy matter of avoiding these meals, proper? The issue is that many meals containing phytic acid are literally good for you, and in some areas of the world, make up the majority of the native eating regimen.
Phytic acid is often discovered within the following meals:
- Legumes (beans, lentils and peas)
- Brazil nuts
- Sesame seeds
- Wheat bran and wheat germ
When phytic acid is eaten, it could bond with minerals like zinc and iron and develop into a phytate. Phytates inhibit the absorption of those minerals by the physique (to lesser extent, this could occur with calcium as nicely). In areas of the world the place phtyic acid-rich staple crops like corn and wheat make up the bottom of the eating regimen, there are larger ranges of iron and zinc deficiency.
To make issues extra sophisticated, there may be additionally proof that phytic acid can truly be helpful in your well being in some methods. Phytic acic will help cut back the danger of creating sure types of most cancers, heart problems, kidney stones, hemochromatosis (overdosing on iron), and even diabetes. There’s additionally proof that it could enhance insulin resistance by lowering the glycemic response after consuming. Because of this you’ll really feel full for an extended time frame after consuming a meal, thus lowering the propensity for overrating.
What are you able to do about phytic acids and phytates?
If that is all making your head spin, don’t fear — there may be some excellent news about how you can keep away from this drawback, and it’s not as sophisticated as you may assume.
The most effective protection towards phytate-induced mineral deficiency is to easily eat a wholesome, balanced eating regimen. When you eat meat frequently, there may be most likely no want to fret about deficiency in iron or zinc, since meat (notably pink meat) is wealthy sufficient in these minerals that’s cancels out the dangers posed by phytic acid.
The opposite key issue to avoiding nutrient deficiency linked to phytates is timing. Whenever you eat meals wealthy in phytic acids performs a giant position in how a lot mineral bonding will happen. The adverse results of phytic acid solely happen in the event you eat meals containing it throughout the identical meal as meals with iron and zinc. So if you wish to eat a handful of almonds, wait a short time after consuming some iron-rich meals in an effort to forestall any interference with the absorption of the minerals.
Your vitamin D ranges additionally play a task. Analysis has proven that in case your vitamin D ranges are wholesome, they’ll forestall phytic acid from interfering with mineral absorption as a lot because it ordinarily may. Lastly, with sure meals like beans, soaking them, cooking them, or permitting them to sprout earlier than consuming them will cut back the phytic acid content material.
Educate your self concerning the particular vitamins in meals, and concentrate on the potential interactions between them. With a little analysis and correct timing of whenever you eat particular vitamins, you possibly can reap the advantages whereas avoiding the downsides.
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By Nick Sestanovich
Studies have shown students reading comprehension decline over the summer. Researchers call this effect the summer slump. To help combat the summer slump, the Benicia Public Library started the Summer Reading Program, which continues through Aug. 31.
The Summer Reading Program encourages children from ages 0-18 to pick up a book and begin the journey literature can provide. The library gives participants of the summer program a Bingo card, which they can fill out with the books they read over the summer. According to library staff, the Summer Reading Program and Bingo card give plenty of opportunities to keep up reading skills but also encourage children to do such activities as make their own joke book, go to a Farmers Market on Thursdays or Movie in the Park, or to try out a program for children at the library. When children complete a bingo, they can come to the library and collect rewards for reading. Aug. 31 will be the last day children can come to the library and get their rewards for reading over the summer. Teens can also participate in the Summer Reading Program, as there are events just for them including a series of “Lifehacks for Teens,” and a new twist to the prizes this year.
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Swerea MEFOS has been engaged in a large number of green technology projects, from recovery of valuables from wastes to green energy production using metallurgical concepts.
The total budget in this field is more than €30M (excluding the ULCOS project) in the past 10 years, with 90% of these projects financed by international companies and institutions.
Decreasing carbon dioxide emissions is a global priority. The European steel and mining industries have joined forces in ULCOS programme. One approach of the programme is the development of the top-gas-recycling blast furnace process, partly financed by the EU Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS).
So far, three versions of the topgas- recycling blast furnace process have been tested in the LKAB experimental blast furnace. Two versions were tested in the first trial, autumn 2007. One of these was further explored during recent trials, together with a third version. The best version will be verified in upcoming trials.
The experimental blast furnace is, from an operational point of view, equipped like a modern industrial furnace. It is integrated with the equipment for CO2 removal and the operation is controlled and evaluated through sophisticated measurements and material sampling. This offers the opportunity to explore the new process in comparison with conventional blast furnace operations. Various raw materials can also be compared and tested for the new process.
Swerea MEFOS is the leader of the equipment modification at the LKAB experimental blast furnace and the last few months have been busy with design, construction, installation, preparing for the recently completed trial campaign.
Researchers from project partners representing the European steel industry have spent several weeks in Luleå. The plant is managed and operated by staff from Swerea MEFOS.
Under the leadership of LKAB, the trials and processes are managed by onsite researchers through evaluation of process data. During daily process meetings, results are discussed and decisions made about process control and how to move to the next step.
Improved equipment and a well-designed trial plan contribute to this success.
The knowledge achieved in terms of equipment and operational experience will be used to transfer results to industrial scale. Engineers from Swerea MEFOS can assist the actual plant in the equipment design, installation and operation start up.
Less carbon dioxide
Its VILD research programme – Vanadium in LD-slag – is ongoing. This is an eight-year project with a total budget of about €5M (2005– 2012) financed by The Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA) and Nordic steel industries such as SSAB, Ruukki, LKAB and Merox.
The environmental potential includes savings of 1Mt of carbon dioxide emissions and 2TWh of energy at SSAB alone.
SSAB and Ruukki are currently running their blast furnaces solely with LKAB pellets containing 0.2% V2O5. After reduction in the blast furnace and subsequent decarburization, the oxidised vanadium ends up in the LD slag, with a vanadium content of 2.2–2.8%.
The production of LD-slag in Sweden alone is 350–400kt/y. The coarser fraction is recycled to the blast furnace to fully use the excess CaO in the slag. The recycling rate is limited by the tolerance for phosphorous and vanadium accumulation.
The fine fraction, about half the production, is disposed and stored. Disintegration of the slag and high vanadium content are the main problems for external use of the slag. The total vanadium content in the Swedish LD-slag disposed is about 5000t With the current vanadium price, this corresponds to a total value of €100M lost in the slag yards each year.
The VILD concept aims at two final products, a well-reduced and modified slag product ready for external use and a standard FeV for use in the steel and foundry industry. The VILD concept consists of three steps:
Step 1 Hot slag reduction aiming at a high vanadium recovery and a slag product for external use or internal circulation to the blast furnace.
Step 2 Removal of phosphorus from the metal obtained in Step 1.
Step 3: Final production of a standard FeV product.
Swerea MEFOS has verified the concept with 150kg and 4t trials at Swerea MEFOS and 4–10t trials at industrial scale at SSAB during Phase I. Results from these initial trials show that the hot slag reduction step is feasible and the vanadium content can be reduced to well below 0.1% which is set as the limit for possible use in cement production.
In the second phase (2009– 2012), the industrial trials in slag reduction and treatment will be intensified and basic studies and evaluation of the V-bearing slag system continued. At the end of the project, an industrial concept will be presented.
ULCOS stands for Ultra–Low Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Steelmaking. It is a consortium of 48 European companies and organisations from 15 European countries that have launched a cooperative research and development initiative to enable drastic reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from steel production.
The consortium consists of all major EU steel companies, energy and engineering partners, and research institutes and universities and is supported by the European commission. The aim of the ULCOS programme is to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of today’s best practices by at least 50 %.
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Mental health is about how we think, feel and behave. One in four people in the UK have a mental health problem at some point in their lives, which affects their daily life, relationships or physical health.
Mental health disorders take many different forms and affect people in different ways. Schizophrenia, depression and personality disorders are all examples of mental health problems. Diseases such as Alzheimer’s and dementia generally develop in old age, whereas eating disorders are more common in young people.
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Tropical Cyclone Linda has formed in the Coral Sea, with wild winds and dangerous surf to batter the Queensland coastline.
The low-pressure system intensified into a category one system this afternoon and four-metre waves are expected to lash the coast from tomorrow.
Forecasters say it will weaken back into an intense tropical low by Thursday morning before it tracks southeast out to sea.
Winds near the eye of the cyclone are expected to reach 65km/h, with wind gusts of up to 95km/h.
By Thursday and Friday, the weather system is expected to come within 300km of Australia's coastline before swinging back around and heading towards New Zealand.
Meanwhile, residents in the state's flood-ravaged north are being warned of an active monsoon which is expected to bring another deluge to northern Australia in the next week.
The monsoon also increases the chance of more cyclones developing in the coming weeks, particularly around the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
In the southeast, a strong wind warning was issued today for the Mackay, Capricornia and Fraser Island coastlines, with predictions these will strengthen into gale-force winds by tomorrow.
The BOM is warning locals to stay out of the surf, as dangerous four-metre waves are expected to pound southeast Queensland's coastline, with the most dangerous surf conditions expected along the east coast of Fraser Island and the Sunshine Coast.
Forecaster Dean Narramore said high tides tomorrow and Thursday could cause some inundation in low-lying areas prone to flooding, but the system was unlikely to bring much rain to the southeast.
"Most of the heavy rainfall will be offshore. Coastal areas could see quite a few showers but no widespread heavy rain," he said.
Redland City Council is not taking any chances. The council has issued a warning to prepare for wild weather and have set up sandbagging stations for the community.
The Sunshine Coast State Emergency Service is also on standby and have 3000 sandbags ready to go.
The wild weather preparations in the south come as flooded areas of northern tropical Queensland continue their clean up after the biggest floods they've seen in a decade.
Weeks of rain in the state's previously drought-stricken north burst rivers, shut down schools and cut off many regional communities.
Flood-affected residents have been warned by the Queensland Environment Department to watch out for crocodiles as locals report sighting dangerous wildlife in the region, including bull sharks, spiders and snakes - as well as one report of a crocodile lunging at a 4WD.
The usually drought-affected community of Winton, 850km west of Rockhampton, recorded its wettest day in 18 years last week, with 101.8mm of rain falling in just 24 hours - around a quarter of its average rainfall for the entire year.
In Mount Isa, where weeks of heavy rain left the town partially isolated, supermarkets starting imposing rationing on bread, prompting Woolworths to fly in 15 tonnes of fruit, vegetables, meat products, baby nappies and baby formula to relieve the town's 22,000 stranded residents.
But unlike their south-eastern counterparts, communities up north can look forward to a generally dry week with just the odd shower expected early in the week, allowing flood waters to recede.
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At Ingham, north of Townsville, the Herbert River continues to fall, leaving residents whose homes and businesses flooded to contend with a blanket of sludge.
The Queensland government still doesn't know how much damage has been done to the road network in the north, but a multi-million dollar damage bill is expected.
Earlier this week, a huge spider spotted clinging to a branch above floodwaters in north Queensland was rescued.
Video shared by Andrea Gofton shows the eight-legged freak trying to stay high and dry outside a SPAR Supermarket in the town of Halifax, northeast of Ingham, on Sunday.
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The federal public safety minister said he wants people to celebrate Canada Day, but with protests planned for the upcoming holiday weekend in Ottawa, Marco Mendicino says he’s hoping the mistakes of last winter won’t be repeated.
“I think Canadians should celebrate Canada Day. We’ve been through a marathon of the pandemic and there’s reason for hope and optimism,” he said in an interview last week.
“I do think it is troubling that some are fanning flames … we don’t want a replay of last winter and we don’t want people engaging in illegal behaviour or violence that is disruptive to the community here in Ottawa or anywhere else.”
Protest groups have said they plan to hold ongoing demonstrations throughout the summer, starting on June 30 and building toward Labour Day.
The Ottawa Police Service said they’re aware of upcoming protests and are “planning accordingly.”
The capital city’s police force continues to face criticism about how it handled the anti-COVID-19 restriction protests last winter that gridlocked Ottawa for three weeks after protesters — some calling for the overthrow of the federal government — were able to park trucks and other vehicles on main arteries around Parliament Hill.
This week the sergeant-at-arms for the House of Commons said he was “flabbergasted” by police inaction at the time.
Protesters were eventually pushed out of the downtown core after the federal government took the never-before-used step of invoking the Emergencies Act. In the end more than 100 people were arrested, leaving a multi-million dollar policing bill.
“I think it’s important that we take some lessons from last winter,” said Mendicino.
“We’ll continue to give [police] the tools and the support that is necessary to ensure that there’s public safety as we celebrate Canada Day.”
‘We did what a responsible government would do:’ Mendicino
Mendicino ended the spring sitting of Parliament, now on a summer hiatus, under intense questioning about how the decision to invoke the Emergencies Act was made.
The legislation authorized a ban on travel to protest zones, allowed banks to freeze the accounts of some of those involved in the protests and allowed officials to commandeer tow trucks. It also enabled the RCMP to enforce municipal bylaws and provincial offences as required.
The minister told a parliamentary committee investigating the issue that the government acted on “the advice of non-partisan professional law enforcement.”
Under questioning, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell testified that they did not ask the government to invoke the act, although they have said the new powers served as a deterrent.
Interim Conservative Leader Candice Bergen has called for Mendicino to resign, accusing him of “lying to and misleading Canadians about the Emergencies Act.”
Mendicino said his government was talking to law enforcement daily, sometimes hourly.
“We did what a responsible government would do, which is remain in contact with law enforcement for the purposes of making the decisions that were necessary to restore public safety,” he said.
At the time of invocation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau argued its use was necessary to address “serious challenges to law enforcement’s ability to effectively enforce the law.”
But that reasoning has been questioned by the opposition and other critics who have asked whether other measures, including policing tactics, could have been used.
Mendicino pointed to testimony Lucki gave where she spoke about the ability to direct tow trucks to help move vehicles clogging Ottawa’s streets.
“Other powers that were granted under the Emergencies Act were done with the benefit of the advice which we proactively sought from law enforcement prior to invoking the Emergencies Act. That’s the way the system is supposed to work,” he said.
“It made enormous sense for the government to be in conversation with police, identifying where gaps in existing authorities lay, and then filling those gaps with unique, exceptional time-limited and targeted powers.”
Mendocino added that Lucki has “corroborated that” in her testimony.
‘I’ll never apologize for doing what is necessary:’ Mendicino
Outside of the parliamentary committee, an independent inquiry will also soon begin digging into the reasons behind the decision to invoke the Emergencies Act for the first time.
“We hope we don’t ever have to use those rare powers again,” said Mendicino.
“But I’ll never apologize for doing what is necessary to protect Canadians and invoking the Emergencies Act was the right thing to do.”
The upcoming protests are scheduled to kick off when James Topp, a veteran marching across Canada against vaccine mandates, plans to end his cross-country journey at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa.
Last week the federal government lifted the vaccine mandate requirement for federal employees and for passengers wishing to board a plane or train in Canada.
Earlier this week Topp and other organizers met with Conservative MPs near Parliament Hill where he said the protest has become something bigger
“Their issue is not so much with mandates anymore, it’s their satisfaction with the federal government,” Topp said.
“There is a divide in this country I have never seen or experienced before — I’ve only ever seen it in a war zone.”
Cypress Hills-Grasslands MP Jeremy Patzer said politicians of all stripes should listen to what the group has to say.
“I’m not willing to demonize or accept this narrative that people that have views that other people don’t agree with, that they should be demonized for holding those views,” he told CBC.
Canadian army veteran charged with murder after mass shooting in Belize nightclub – CTV News
A Canadian Armed Forces veteran has been charged with murder in connection to a mass shooting in Belize that left two people dead and eight others injured.
J.R. Smith, who served with the Royal Canadian Regiment in Afghanistan as part of Operation Medusa in 2006, is accused of driving the getaway vehicle following the July 31 shooting at a nightclub.
Police in Belize allege that three local men who were with Smith got into an argument over a woman in the club. They left, but allegedly returned later with guns and opened fire.
Smith and the three other men were arrested and paraded in handcuffs.
Smith’s partner, Denise Hepburn, told CTV News that he was not involved in the shooting, and was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Hepburn also alleged that Smith was repeatedly beaten by police after his arrest, which resulted in the black eye seen in his arrest photo.
“He defended this country. He is a decorated soldier,” she said. “He’s a good person … he would never do something like this.”
Smith, originally from Newfoundland, moved to Ontario after he left the CAF. He studied woodworking and later opened a cabinetry business. He was profiled by CTV News five years ago as part of a Remembrance Day feature on veteran entrepreneurship.
Global Affairs Canada says it’s “aware of a Canadian who has been detained in Belize” and stands ready to provide consular assistance. Smith remains in custody in a Belize prison and is due back in court in November.
With files from CTV Barrie’s Mike Arsalides
Little change to Vancouver downtown street encampment as residents wonder where to go
VANCOUVER — It was difficult to see any difference had been made to the tent encampment in Vancouver’s troubled Downtown Eastside on Wednesday, a day after city staff began what’s expected to be a weeks-long process to remove the structures.
That’s for good reason, said a resident who goes by the name Edith Elizabeth — the people who live in the tents have nowhere else to go.
She said previously, residents would relocate their structures nearby so city staff could clean the street.
“It’s just like, ‘Okay, cool, take down our structures and move down the block so they can wash it,’ and that’s it,” said Elizabeth. “But here, now, it’s just like we have to disappear or something.”
Vancouver fire Chief Karen Fry ordered tents along the stretch of Hastings Street dismantled last month, saying there was an extreme fire and safety risk.
The city has said staff would concentrate their efforts on the “highest risk” areas, but several structures in those areas remained in place on Wednesday.
The neighbourhood struggles with many complex challenges including drug use, crime, homelessness, housing issues, and unemployment.
It was tense on Tuesday, Elizabeth said, with a heavy police presence on the street.
The Vancouver Police Department released a statement Tuesday saying multiple people were arrested after officers were assaulted during a “melee.”
It said staff at a community centre had called police to report a man throwing computers and behaving erratically. The man resisted arrest, police said, as “a large crowd gathered, and became hostile and combative with the officers.”
Elizabeth said police used pepper spray and the incident left people feeling scared.
An update from the city on Wednesday said a big contingent of police at the Main and Hastings intersection in the afternoon “was not as a result of the City’s effort to remove structures”, and instead stemmed from the incident outside the community centre.
The city said staff aimed to approach encampment residents “with respect and sensitivity, encouraging and supporting voluntary removal of tents and belongings through conversation.”
“We recognize that some people believe the city should not do this work, but there are significant safety risks for everyone in the neighbourhood that the city cannot ignore,” it said.
Elizabeth stood near her belongings on the sidewalk where she said she’s been staying for about three weeks after moving from another spot nearby.
“It’s not like this is a forever, permanent place,” she said, although she’s not sure where she might go next.
“As far as options down here, generally there’s been Crab Park, which is like tent city,” she said, referring to tents set up around the park near Vancouver’s waterfront.
Elizabeth said she, like many others living in tents along the street, doesn’t feel comfortable or safe in single-room occupancy buildings with “awful” conditions.
The city said staff have been meeting each week with a community-based working group since May, and more frequently with members of the Overdose Prevention Society and Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users over the past two weeks.
Staff spent Wednesday telling residents about storage options for their belongings, the city said.
These included up to two 360-litre storage totes, which staff would seal with tamper-proof labels before placing them in short-term storage. The city said the totes are on wheels, so owners can take them away if they did not want them stored.
A long-term storage container is also being provided nearby, the city said.
Community advocacy groups, including the drug-user network and Pivot Legal Society, have said clearing the encampment violates a memorandum of understanding between the city, the B.C. government and Vancouver’s park board, because people are being told to move without being offered suitable housing.
The stated aim of the agreement struck last March is to connect unsheltered people to housing and preserve their dignity when dismantling encampments.
The City of Vancouver may enforce bylaws that prohibit structures on sidewalks “when suitable spaces are available for people to move indoors,” it reads.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 10, 2022.
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Draft speech on residential schools edited out blaming Ottawa for abuse: documents
Ottawa was careful to avoid admitting abuses Indigenous children suffered at residential schools happened “at the hands of the federal government” in remarks prepared for a Liberal cabinet minister after the discovery of unmarked graves last year, documents show.
The Canadian Press obtained documents through the Access to Information Act that show a draft version of a speech written for Carolyn Bennett, who was then minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, originally contained those words before they were edited out.
“It gets to me that they’re still in a place of defending themselves,” said Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada.
In May 2021, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation announced ground-penetrating radar had found what are believed to be the unmarked graves of about 200 children on the site of a former residential school near Kamloops, B.C.
The revelation spurred a reckoning across the country about the legacy of residential schools, which were government-funded, church-operated institutions that about 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were forced to attend in Canada over more than a century. Thousands of children experienced physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect, or even died.
The discovery also prompted questions about what Ottawa was going to do about it.
Days later, the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations was drafting a speech for Bennett in anticipation of a possible emergency debate on the matter in the House of Commons.
That never happened. Another form of debate was held and it appears the draft speech, as written in the documents, was not the one that Bennett ended up delivering.
One section of the draft remarks addresses the suffering children endured in residential schools, originally saying “they experienced unthinkable trauma, including physical, mental and sexual abuse at the hands of the federal government by simply attending school.”
Speech writing can be a lengthy process. Text is often drafted by the department and then sent to staff in the minister’s office and to the minister, and then sometimes back and forth again.
Edits contained in the 17 pages of drafts show the words “at the hands of the federal government” were struck out. The reason for the revision was redacted before the documents were released to The Canadian Press.
“The government, they talk a great deal about reconciliation,” said Eleanore Sunchild, a Saskatchewan lawyer and advocate from Thunderchild First Nation, who has represented many residential school survivors in physical and sexual abuse cases.
“That, however, doesn’t speak of reconciliation at all, taking out those words.”
Saskatoon Tribal Council Chief Mark Arcand said he found it “disturbing … that Canada keeps trying to minimize its role in residential schools.”
The Crown-Indigenous Relations Department has not yet responded to a request to explain the change. But the office of the current minister, Marc Miller, said in a written statement that the federal government “takes full responsibility” for its role in the residential school system, “including the abuse that Indigenous children suffered at these institutions.”
Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper apologized for Canada’s role in residential schools in 2008 as part of the historic Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement.
In his speech, Harper apologized for the government “failing to protect” children at the institutions, which he said “far too often … gave rise to abuse or neglect.”
He also apologized for the separation of children from families and acknowledged it carried consequences for future generations.
In the speech that Bennett ultimately gave on unmarked graves on June 1, 2021, she said she wanted to give her “profound apologies to the families and survivors,” but she did not mention abuse or assign blame.
Last month, Pope Francis came to Canada to apologize for residential schools on behalf of the Catholic Church, which operated more than 60 per cent of the institutions.
The pontiff asked forgiveness for the “evils” committed by “many Christians” against Indigenous children in residential schools. Many Indigenous leaders said they had hoped for an apology that specifically spoke about the role of the Catholic Church.
Bill Percy, a Winnipeg-based lawyer who has represented survivors seeking compensation for sexual and physical abuse, said it’s possible government took issue with the words “at the hands of” in the draft.
“That implies that they were the physical abusers,” he said.
“Most of the direct abusers would be church-related employees, not federal government employees.”
Regardless, he said Canada has paid out most of the billions of dollars distributed to abuse complainants under the settlement.
“When push comes to shove, in the court cases, the federal government always has taken responsibility.”
Blackstock said she sees where Ottawa has “wiggle room,” given that the federal government did not directly perpetuate abuse.
“What the federal government did is knowingly leave children in situations where this was happening, and were choosing not to intervene to save them from the deaths and save them from the abuse,” she said.
She said whether it’s the Vatican or Canada, institutions have demonstrated a reluctance to take full accountability for residential schools.
“What I’ve been concerned about writ large is the portrayal by the federal government as this is a ‘dark chapter in history,’ and not really owning the fact that they knew what they were doing was wrong. They knew it was leading to children’s deaths.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 10, 2022.
— with files from Jim Bronskill
Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press
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This is not going to be a sad story, I promise. But it does start out with the process of going through my parents’ condo after their passing.
Genocide has been in the news lately. On March 17th, Secretary of State John Kerry declared, “In my judgment, Daesh (ISIS) is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its control, including Yazidis, Christians, and Shia Muslims.” But unless the world’s most powerful nation fulfills its legal and moral obligation under the Genocide Convention, thousands more men, women, and children will fall victim to the crime that once had no name.
Yom Hashoah arrives this year on the eve of two historic anniversaries: the 80th anniversary of the coming into effect of the Nuremberg Race Laws, which served as prologue and precursor to the Holocaust, and the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, which served as the foundation for the development of contemporary international human rights and humanitarian law. We must ask ourselves two questions: What have we learned? What must we do?
A less well-known part of the Holocaust is that the Nazis also rounded up gays and lesbians, forcing them to wear pink triangles on their clothes so they could be easily recognized and further humiliated inside the concentration camps.
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Whatever the reason for the fire, the analysts say it strikes hard at the heart of the Russian navy as well as national pride, comparable to the US Navy losing a battleship during World War II or an aircraft carrier today.
“Only the loss of a ballistic missile submarine or the Kutznetsov (Russia’s lone aircraft carrier) would inflict a more serious blow to Russian morale and the navy’s reputation with the Russian public,” said Carl Schuster, a retired US Navy captain and former director of operations at the US Pacific Command’s Joint Intelligence Center.
Alessio Patalano, professor of war and strategy at King’s College in London, said losing the warship would be a “massive blow” for Russia.
“Ships operate away from public attention and their activities are rarely the subject of news. But they are large floating pieces of national territory, and when you lose one, a flagship no less, the political and symbolic message — in addition to the military loss — stands out precisely because of it,” 그는 말했다.
The 611-foot-long (186 미터) Moskva, with a crew of almost 500, is the pride of the Russian naval fleet in the Black Sea. Originally commissioned into the Soviet navy as the Slava in the 1980s, it was renamed Moskva in 1995 and after a refit reentered service in 1998, according to military site Naval-Technology.com.
The Moskva is armed with a range of anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles as well as torpedoes and naval guns and close-in missile defense systems.
All those represent massive amounts of explosive ordnance in its ammunition magazines. Any fire nearing them would have given the crew limited options to deal with the threat, Schuster said.
“When a fire reaches your ammunition magazine(에스), you have two choices; 1) flood them or 2) abandon ship,” Schuster said. “Otherwise your crew is onboard to be wiped out by the catastrophic explosion that follows a fire reaching several hundred tons of ordnance.”
Odesa state regional administrator Maxim Marchenko claimed in a post on Telegram that Ukrainian forces had used Neptune cruises missiles to attack the Moskva. If that’s true, the Moskva would potentially be the largest warship ever taken out of action by a missile, Schuster said.
Such an achievement would represent a big advance for Kyiv’s forces.
The Neptune is a Ukrainian weapon, developed domestically based on the Soviet KH-35 cruise missile. It became operational in the Ukrainian forces just last year, according to Ukrainian media reports.
If it was used to attack the Moskva, it would be the first known use of the Neptune during the war, according to a post on the website of the Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC) from Lt. 지휘관. Jason Lancaster, a US Navy surface warfare officer.
His post for the CIMSEC on Tuesday said the threat posed by mobile shore-based cruise missiles like the Neptune “changes operational behavior” of an enemy.
러시아인 “ships will operate in ways to minimize the risk of detection and maximize their chances to defend themselves,” Lancaster wrote. “These behavioral changes limit Russia’s ability to utilize their fleet to their advantage. The added stress of sudden combat increases fatigue and can lead to mistakes.”
According to Patalano, the war professor: “It would appear the Russians have learned that the hard way today.”
In the CIMSEC post, Lancaster notes the British Royal Navy lost several ships to missiles fired by Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War.
During that war, a British submarine sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, a former World War II US Navy ship similar in size to the Moskva.
The Moskva also poses symbolic significance to Ukraine as it was one of the ships involved in the famous exchange at Snake Island in February, according to Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to a purported audio exchange in late February
, as the Russians approached the Ukrainian garrison on Snake Island
, also known as Zmiinyi Island
, in the Black Sea
, a Russian officer said
: “This is a military warship
. This is a Russian military warship
. I suggest you lay down your weapons and surrender to avoid bloodshed and needless casualties
. 그렇지 않으면, you will be bombed.
A Ukrainian soldier responded: “Russian warship, go f*** yourself.”
If the Moskva is lost, it would be the second large-sized Russian naval vessel to suffer that fate during Moscow’s war with Ukraine.
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Bahrain - All new buildings in Bahrain will have to be designed with solar energy panels in mind as part of a new policy, according to an official.
The policy will be in line with the Sustainable Energy Unit’s (SEU) renewable energy action plan.
The goal of the unit is to ensure that five per cent of Bahrain’s total energy consumption is met through renewables by 2025, increasing this to 10pc by 2035.
“The policy will require real estate developers to integrate renewable energy technologies into the designs of new buildings,” said SEU senior technical advisor Dr Khalid Burashid.
“Before they start work on the building, designers will have to account for a certain percentage of renewable energy to be incorporated within the building’s design.
“This is aimed at new buildings and real estate developers, the main incentive for the target group being to reduce the demand for energy for the building from the grid.
“This in turn will reduce their electricity bill.”
Dr Burashid was speaking to the GDN on the sidelines of the two-day International Conference on Green Cities, Sustainable Buildings and Renewable Energy, organised by Kingdom University.
The event was held under the patronage of Electricity and Water Affairs Minister Dr Abdulhussain Mirza at ART Rotana Hotel, Amwaj Islands in co-operation with the International Renewable Energy Network.
The conference was attended by a number of professional speakers from Bahrain, Britain, Italy, Romania and Malaysia, including Sudanese Urban Planning and Water Resources Minister Dr Babeker Ahmed.
The GDN previously reported Dr Mirza saying that the ministry was working on the development of renewable energy mandate for new buildings, which will make it mandatory for new buildings and real estate developments to integrate a certain percentage of renewable energy in the design of the building.
Dr Burashid said another policy discussed was to have all government buildings supplied with solar panels from the private sector.
The government will seek quotations from the private sector for the installation of the equipment which will help motivate the private sector to be involved in renewable energy.
Dr Burashid also discussed the net metering scheme which came into effect from January 1 and under which the Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) will no longer be the sole producer of power in the country.
Home-owners and others who are able to generate electricity through solar PV systems will not only be able to reduce their consumption of power from the grid, thereby reducing their bills, but also be able to charge the EWA for the excess electricity they produce by pumping it into the grid.
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Instead of finding low morale in the current economic turmoil, in a recent survey, employees more specifically the higher level of employees were found to have high morale and better moods in work. It may happen because the working condition is such that employees are feeling comfortable to work now-a-days. They may have found their colleagues (both superiors and subordinates) as friendly co-operative; at the same time protecting privacy and respecting each other. Better work environment, better behavior by the superiors, encouragement for creativity, acknowledgement for better performances and better communication are the core factors that seem to be causing the higher morale and better moods.
Read the original article here:Survey: Recession-Weary Workers Appear More Upbeat — At Least To CFOs
Employees Upbeat Inspite of Recession
by Harrison Barnes
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Opportunity Zone Program
The Opportunity Zone Program is an economic development tool created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The program encourages long-term investment in designated census tracts by providing a tax incentive to investors who move unrealized capital gains into projects located within these zones. The program allows capital gains taxes to be deferred and reduced for investments held for a minimum of 5 years. Additional benefits are available to those holding their investments for 7 or 10 years. The program is intended to bring new private investment into qualified zones and encourage business creation within the zones.
This program is new and the rulemaking process is being conducted by the U.S. Department of Treasury. In broad terms, the program incentivizes investors to make investments in real estate or businesses inside the zone in return for periods of 5, 7, or 10 years. The tax benefits are more advantageous the longer the investment is held. For investors holding the investment up to 10 years, the program allows for the investment to be sold free of capital gains tax and receive a reduction on the untaxed capital gains that were originally rolled into the Opportunity Zone.
Opportunity Funds are the financial vehicle that organize and deploy the private capital into Opportunity Zones. These funds must invest a minimum of 90% of their capital in Opportunity Zones. Qualifying investments include tangible business property that is used to improve the property located within an Opportunity Zone, stock in a domestic corporation located within an Opportunity Zone, or partnership interest in a business located within an Opportunity Zone.
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Superb Falesia in Cismon del Grappa. ' 'The base of the cliff is a large ledge from one meter up to three with medium to high grades.
- Section: veneto
Access: The cliff, exposed to the South, is located in Cismon del Grappa. Once in the square, take the paved mule track that runs through the naturalistic ring called Gusela. After about 30 minutes you arrive at a capital, turn left and after 2 short bends at the 3rd bend, leave the mule track in the direction of the overlying cliff above; continuing on a short rope you get to the base. About 35 minutes from the car. '' Note: The via ferrata presents difficulties for experts. The ledge in some cases is exposed. It is not a place for people with little mountain greenery. Do not go there with dogs or other things. Do not go with people who are not mountain-based.
- Crag: Gusela
- N. Routes: 22
- Level: 6b/8c
- Height: 400 mt.
Exposure: Recommended period is from October to May. The cliff is in the sun from around 11:00.
Gear: Chiodatore: Giulio Abrate. WARNING: use only 70m ropes.
Rock: Climbing type: Technician and Fingers on a yellow vertical dolomite wall.
N 45.9204º/E 11.7293º
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Logistic: Notes: not recommended to bring children, the base is not very comfortable. For more info: www.montegrappa.org
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Here’s how we counted
We arrived at these figures by relying on publicly reported estimates of march locations and the number of participants involved in each. We started a spreadsheet and called for crowdsourced information about the location and number of participants in marches. Before long, we had received thousands of reports, allowing us to derive low and high estimates for each event. We carefully validated each estimate by consulting local news sources, law enforcement statements, event pages on social media, and, in some cases, photos of the marchers. When reports were imprecise, we aimed for conservative counts; for example, if observers reported “hundreds” of participants, we reported a value of 200 (“thousands” was 2,000, “tens of thousands” was 20,000, etc).
From this, we counted at least 653 reported marches in the United States. These involved huge gatherings of well over 100,000 marchers in Washington; Los Angeles; Oakland, Calif.; San Francisco; New York; Chicago; Denver; Seattle and Boston.
But there were some places with surprisingly high turnout. For instance, in Wyoming, eight marches brought out between 3,800 and 5,000 people statewide. And in Alaska, 25 marches mobilized nearly 9,000 people statewide.
In total, the women’s march involved between 3,267,134 and 5,246,670 people in the United States (our best guess is 4,157,894). That translates into 1 percent to 1.6 percent of the U.S. population of 318,900,000 people (our best guess is 1.3 percent).
To put this in perspective, the combined armed forces of the U.S. military — including the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps reserves, National Guard, and Coast Guard — comprise just over 2 million people.
How strongly were people motivated to protest?
After a story came out with the headline that 1 in 100 Americans had marched, some critics noted that the other 99 did not.
True, during an election for president or Congress, winning one of 100 votes would be a poor performance. But this misses the meaning of protest numbers. Marching requires a much higher level of commitment than voting. It takes more time, is not anonymous, often involves financial costs and could put the marcher in harm’s way or at risk of arrest or retaliation — particularly in areas where the marchers are expressing a minority sentiment.
In some instances, marchers had to overcome serious limits on mobility to join, suggesting highly intense motivation. For example, five people marched in the cancer ward at a Los Angeles-area hospital. Fifty women marched in a retirement community in Encinitas, Calif. And 415 women’s mobility was so limited that they participated in the women’s march online.
Braving harsh weather was another test of intense motivation. In Alaska, 2,000 people marched in Fairbanks with a high temperature of 19 below zero; in Unalakleet, 38 or 40 people marched despite a windchill of 40 below. One woman in a Western mountain state was snowed in and couldn’t get to the nearby town where she intended to march. Instead of giving up, she held a march of one in her own town.
There were marches everywhere in the U.S.
Our count revealed that the women’s march took place in areas that were urban and rural, red and blue. About 68 percent of the marches had 1,000 or fewer participants. Overall, there were 297 marches in states Trump carried in the election, with between 721,000 and 1,005,000 total marchers. In red states such as Montana and Alaska, many people marched — if you use “many” to mean more than 1 percent of the state’s population using low estimates. Among the thousands of submissions received as people sought to fill in the spreadsheet, we could feel a palpable sense of pride among Montanans for the 10,000-strong attendance at the Helena march.
If you look at the marches’ size and locations as a map, it contrasts sharply with the news media’s usual electoral map that makes the country look starkly divided.
Sister marches took place around the world, as well
The Women’s March on Washington had sister marches in international locales ranging from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. We found at least 261 marches abroad, with attendance totaling between 266,532 and 357,071 people (our best guess is 307,275 people).
Observers should take these marches seriously, too. Transnational solidarity often gives a movement more leverage than a purely domestic movement might otherwise have. Moreover, it can be powerful and emboldening when activism is witnessed by others at home and abroad.
We don’t know yet whether this transnational solidarity will help the U.S. protest movement; most of the research to date has been on movements elsewhere that get support from U.S. activists.
What did the marches mean?
We don’t want to overestimate the power of a single march, however large. A march won’t have much effect unless it’s translated into continuing organized and disciplined mobilization, pressure on the government, collaborative problem-solving and electoral action. But if a march inspires, convenes and energizes, it can catalyze a great deal of change. Very large movements are more likely to translate their goals into real political, social and political change, particularly as they expand their networks into leverage.
These marches reveal momentum or insight from earlier movements, such as Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, climate action, immigrant rights, the tea party, trans rights, and Occupy Wall Street. As others have argued here recently, U.S. conditions are ripe for more women’s — and other — protests in the coming months and years.
We will keep counting
Documenting the women’s march in real time, we learned how important it was for people to be seen, witnessed and counted. Because accurate information on popular participation helps gauge their progress and latent power, we are launching a Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) that will aim to continually keep track of how many people are protesting. We already have live spreadsheets underway cataloging the periods Jan. 22 — Feb. 5, and Feb. 6 — Feb. 19, 2017.
The CCC is not a research project. It’s a public service. To see more about the CCC, check out the website.
Erica Chenoweth is a professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Oxford University Press will publish her next book, “Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know,” early next year. Find her on Twitter @EricaChenoweth.
Jeremy Pressman is an associate professor of political science and director of Middle East Studies at the University of Connecticut. Find him on Twitter @djpressman.
Note: This post has been updated to include the Coast Guard amongst the branches of the U.S. military.
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Home Remedies To Try For Healing Occasional Cuts And Wounds
Getting cuts and wounds occasionally is quite normal. The most effective method to protect them from any infection is by applying mild soap and cleaning them with lukewarm water. However, in case your wound gets infected, you will need more than just mild soap and lukewarm water. If you have a mild infection, you can apply a topical antibiotic on the cut or wound. Before you visit a doctor, it’s suggested that you make use of natural remedies that are easy to apply. You might not be aware of the fact that there are a host of natural remedies that you can opt for wounds and prevent them from getting infected. Would you like to know some of them in detail? Then read on.
There is no doubt in the fact that honey is one of the best natural remedies available. A lot of studies have vouched for this fact as well. Clinical researchers say that honey helps in healing minor wounds and prevents them from turning into infections. It also serves as an alternative to dressings and bandages. As per research conducted in the year 2016, honey is also used in traditional dressings for faster healing.
According to research conducted in 2018, lavender oil may help your wound and cuts to heal up quickly. However, it has to be in its essential form. Lavender oil is known to have antibacterial as well as antimicrobial properties that are indispensable for wound healing. Since you are using it as an essential oil, you need to dilute the oil with almond oil, olive, or jojoba, whichever you have ready at hand.
Turmeric is one of the best agents for wound healing. It contains curcumin, an antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory component that is helpful for cuts and wounds. You need to apply it topically for the best effects. As per a 2018 review, turmeric is also said to contain anti-infectious components. A small tip – never take turmeric supplements orally as they might cause bleeding. Turmeric is best when you have it in raw form. Even Ayurveda, an alternative medicine system in the Indian subcontinent, has highlighted the vast benefits of turmeric and has revealed its anti-infectious properties.
If a 2016 study is to be taken into account, marigold boosts the production of collagen. It is also known to stimulate anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial activity. You might get marigold in ointments. Another option is to use brewed tea bags on your wound. In case you have a ragweed allergy, you are advised to go for a patch test so that you don’t have any difficulties later on.
Aloe Vera, a subtropical pant, has several benefits. It has proved to be a natural remedy for many cases such as sunburn, rashes, burns, and other skin problems. The gel from its leaves is applied to the skin for better results. If you consider a 2012 and 2016 review, aloe vera is also effective in treating cuts and wounds, owing to its anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties. Aloe vera is also helpful for the healing of skin tissues.
Tea Tree Oil
Tea tree oil, one of the most natural antiseptics, is quite effective for wound healing. It is also known to cure skin inflammation. With that being said, you need to keep in mind that you should never apply products containing tea tree oil on burns. As an option, you can use the diluted essential oil form and apply it to your skin twice a day. You can also opt for products that contain tea tree oil in its essential form.
Topical Vitamin E
Vitamin E is popular for its anti-inflammatory properties. Many researchers have verified the fact that it helps in treating cuts and wounds and also protects the tissue from any damage later on. The antioxidant is present in coconut oil. However, tropical formulas are usually also available at a local pharmacy. Do check one out in your locality.
To sum it up, you need to keep a few facts in mind. First, never take raw turmeric orally. If you are taking oral supplements and have a medical condition, stop taking them right now. If you have a wound that is bleeding profusely or has pus in large amounts, contact a doctor before it gets worse.
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Mind your own beeswax
For the past two terms Helensville Primary has been participating in litterless lunches to reduce the amount of rubbish our school produces. This has been really successful,but we discovered one large problem. Plastic wrap!
So, the Rimu team researched some alternatives and discovered beeswax wraps were easy and cost effective to make. They provide a more sustainable way to wrap sandwiches, biscuits and fruit, etc. and beeswax is reusable, so it doesn’t harm our marine life.
Here is how we made them;
1. Cut pieces of cotton fabric to size
2. Melt beeswax into an electric frying pan
3. Soak our pieces in the wax
4. Wait to dry
5. Use them.
The Rimu team would like to thank Mr. Graham Clark, a local beekeeper, for his donation of beeswax.
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With the support of our employees, we are manufacturing & supplying Water ATM Machine, for years now. It is an automated water vending machine, which is used for dispensing pure water. It follows the mechanism and working of an ATM machine, just provides water instead of money. This is and can be installed in areas, which do not have access to pure drinking water. Water ATM Machine uses the process of reverse osmosis, to purify the water and has a prepaid card system. Buttons are used to take out the amount of water required, and a particular amount gets deducted from your card.
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…While Helping “Average” People Make a Great First Impression
We have all been there, standing in the checkout line at the grocery store. Our eyes seem to have a mind of their own. We don’t want to look, but we do. Our gaze wanders from headline to headline, heralding the latest celebrity gossip. And as we scan from cover shot to cover shot, we often ask ourselves the same question: “Are those real?”
We know that the Madison Avenue media machine uses the tool of digital photography to capture our attention with cover pictures and ads intended engage our senses. We are bombarded with the glossy results of this advanced technology. Eyes that look brighter and younger. Bodies that look more toned than they really are and of course the touched and re-touched breasts. Oh, and hair. The perfect hair.
All of this is done in order to persuade us to buy stuff that we are made to believe we want and need. That’s how the ad world is ostensibly “helping” us.
How about you? Whether or not you are a business owner, we are all in the business of helping others solve problems. Whether it is working for a company that provides products or services. Whether it is satisfying orders or providing customer service, the professional life of a professional is about making things work better for others.
In this three-part article, it is my privilege to share an interview with a couple of talented people. These are two people who harness the same photographic technology and techniques that I described above. But in this case, the tools that are routinely used to make many feel inadequate are instead used to improve the lives of real people like you and me.
The Digital Age Is Here…
… And with it, the opportunity to make the real look unreal and to make the good look better. Such technology also has the potential of making us feel better, or worse, depending upon the view we have of ourselves.
I recently gained some valuable insight into this dynamic when I sat down with a very talented professional photography team. Meet photographer, Corey Schatz, and his partner, Kat, the administrator and booking agent. I met them at their very clean, very busy, cutting edge, custom-built photography studio in Lakewood, Washington. Their business: DigiShotz.
For the past several years, the economy has been tough for a good many industries. So, I was curious how it is that, in such trying economic times, these small business owners have kept so busy. I also wanted to know what obstacles they have overcome to achieve their success. And finally what, if any, obstacles they are good at helping others overcome.
For starters, I was given a quick tour of the facility. It features a photo studio, the interior of which is two stories high and boasts enough space for vehicles and large group shots. But it can also easily be closed-in for single person photo sessions.
Another separate room upstairs is home to a small video studio for taping video blogs, interviews, etc. These spaces are lined by a shadow-free, soft, bright white background.
Many of DigiShotz’s projects utilize what is referred to as a “chroma key” background (commonly referred to as “green screen”). This is a special effect that, in post-production, makes something called “digital layering” possible, which is the same technology weather anchors use on the evening news. The desired background is digitally inserted “over” anything green. This makes it possible for a picture of a beach in Fiji to be put in the background.
Or if it is a video shoot, a person can be standing in front of the camera, wearing a tank top. Behind them, the viewers would see the trees moving in the wind and the gentle waves caressing the shoreline. Is he in a tropical setting or in a studio? Well, only the photographer or videographer knows. With this cool technology, the subject can be digitally inserted anywhere in the world and/or in just about any situation imaginable… from the DigiShotz studios.
After the shots are taken, some pretty high-end software comes into play to do all kinds of special digital enhancements to every frame. Hence, the business name: DigiShotz, a direct reference to the state-of-the-art technology they bring to bear in every project.
So, if anyone can share the secret to success in this industry, it would be these two. But what about the ways in which the latest photographic technology reflects where we are as a society? They can speak to that too.
Over the years, Corey and Kat have interacted with literally thousands of individuals who have sought the photographic expertise of the DigiShotz duo. Most of DigiShotz’s work comes from professionals who want to harness the power of branding. These are people who wish to upgrade their “look” in photographic form. As such, both Corey and Kat have a fairly up-to-date and unique perspective on the impact technology has on the popular culture. They also see, first hand, the impact technology has on consumers.
I posed my first question to Kat. She is generally the first company representative people make contact with. She speaks with the clients on the phone. And she is also the first person greeting them when the client first arrives at the DigiShotz studios.
JIM: So, can your company be blamed as part of our society’s shallowness problem, or credited as part of the solution?
KAT: [she smiles at this question] I don’t think we can blame technology for bad things, or give it credit for solving anything for that matter. People can either use technology to do good things or bad things. Technology is just a tool. So, if anything, I think we are part of the solution. We use technology to do good things.
Your True Self in Photographic Form
Corey began by discussing how today’s photography client expects the finished product to look: “People are sometimes overly expectant of us achieving their idea of perfection. Now that airbrushing can be done digitally, . We have a strong desire to improve our looks. Part of that is from seeing the beautiful people on magazine covers. We see how celebrities are made to look better than they actually look in person. Frankly, there have been times when I have had to remind clients that that stuff isn’t real. They shouldn’t want to look unreal either.”
JIM: So, as a professional photographer, what problem would you say you are you solving for your clients? What obstacles do you help people overcome?
TO BE CONTINUED…
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Young children love listening to stories and songs with rhyme, rhythm, and repetition. These types of storytelling help promote brain development, imagination, and language skills among toddlers and young children.
While children are away from school, it is important for them to continue learning to keep up with their development. Sharing with them fun stories and songs every day is very beneficial, and that’s why DBS has initiated the online storytelling for parents to share with their children at any convenient time.
Let’s join the DBS teachers, LAs, and even the Principal himself, in a storytelling session where they read out loud lots of favourite and famous children’s picture books. Children could listen to the English pronunciation, learn more vocabulary, and have fun and run their imagination wild following all the stories.
Led by Mrs Sophie Berry, our Head of Pre-Prep, and Mr James Gower, our Music teacher, together they sang the nursery rhymes live online to encourage students to engage and interact with each other. Please enjoy our recorded sessions where your child and yourself can enjoy together with us!
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Data Highlights Gen Z Women’s Ambiguity Towards Technology
Generation Z, those born after 1998, are the first generation born and raised in a smartphone world. It is perhaps understandable that they would have a unique connection and feelings about technology. Market researchers GfK Consumer Life report that these effects are even more pronounced among Gen Z women, noting that they love new gadgets but question their impact on quality of life.
GfK Consumer Life research found that 56 percent of Gen Z women say they prefer products that offer the latest in technology—eight points higher than all U.S. women, and five points above Millennial women. However, it also found that Gen Z females are cognizant of the downsides of digital devices and services. Overall, just 34 percent of Gen Z women report optimism about the effects of technology on society—15 points below the total U.S. average for women, and 16 points under Millennial women.
Almost two-thirds (61 percent) of Gen Z women say they have difficulty taking breaks from technology, a finding significantly higher (by 20 points) than that of all U.S. women, and 12 points above Millennial women. At the same time, Gen Z women are less likely than their Millennial counterparts (66 percent versus 71 percent) to want to be “always reachable.” GfK points to this as a potential sign of tech fatigue.
Security and privacy are also key themes when it comes to Gen Z women and technology. The survey found that 39 percent say they are “always concerned about [their] safety and security,” and 19 percent are worried about their personal information “getting into the wrong hands.”
“Women and moms of Gen Z depend on apps to juggle their many roles in life—but they also know the downsides of tech too well,” says Jola Burnett, GfK’s vice president, consumer life. “Marketers focusing on the new moms of tomorrow need to approach digital devices and services with care, to be sure their brands are viewed as solution providers—not problem creators. Respecting women’s busy-ness and need for privacy is essential and bringing simplicity and clarity to everyday problems could make any brand a standout in Gen Z’s eyes.”
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I have been looking at the X-end ALS setup.
I was playing with the control bandwidth to see the effect to the phase tracker output (i.e. ALS err).
For this test the arm was locked with the IR and the green beat note was used as the monitor.
From the shape of the error signal, the UGF of the green PDH was ~10kHz. When I increased the gain
to make the servo peaky, actually the floor level of the ALS err became WORSE. I did not see any improvement
anywhere. So, high residual error RMS cause some broadband noise in the ALS??? This should be checked.
Then when the UGF was lowered to 3kHz, I could see some bump at 3kHz showed up in the ALS error.
I didn't see the change of the PSD below 1kHz. So, more supression of the green PDH does not help
to improve the ALS error?
Then, I started to play with the phase tracker. It seems that someone already added the LF booster
to the phase tracker servo. I checked the phase tracker error and confirmed it is well supressed.
Further integrator does not help to reduce the phase tracker error.
For the next thing I started to change the offset of the phase tracker. This actually changes
the ALS error level! The attached plot shows the dependence of the ALS error PSD on the phase tracker
output. At the time of this measurement, the offset of -10 exhibited the best noise level.
This was, indeed, factor of 3~5 improvement compared to the zero offset case below 100Hz.
I'm afraid that this offset changes the beat frequency as I had the best noise level at the offset of -5
with a different lock streatch. We should look at this more carefully. If the beat freq changes the offset,
this give us another reason to fix the beat frequency (i.e. we need the frequency control loop.
= Today's ALSX error would have not been the usual low noise state.
We should recover the nominal state of the ALS and make the same test =
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Recently the Australian government had announced price mechanism for the carbon dioxide emission. Such a scheme is likely to raise the cost of traditional sources of energy. Household budget is therefore going to get effected due to this. On the contrary Australian government has proposed to compensate for such a price mechanism to the low income households by exempting tax benefits. The paper’s aim is to examine the impact of such a price mechanism on the following parameters:
- Impact of high energy prices on the economic wellbeing of households.
- Increase in cost of traditional energy sources on the energy consumption pattern of Australian household.
- Impact of increased cash payment on household budget, energy consumption and economic wellbeing.
The following segment is concerned with the study of the consequences of legislation.
Brief Review On Carbon Price Mechanism
Australia being the hottest and the driest continent on earth has been exposed to drastic changes in the climatic conditions more than any other OECD countries. The excessive temperature variations had affected the country’s agriculture which in turn had effected the food production in the country. Although a meagre amount of green house gases are emitted by the country in contrast to the worldwide share but the intensity of emission is high in terms of per capita GDP. This is largely due to the heavy dependence on the electricity sector which accounts for one third of the country’s emission. In order to rectify the problem of climate change, government ratified Kyoto Protocol in the year 2007.It is expected that the total emission of green house gases will be reduced below 60% by 2020
In order to meet this target, government has planned to go for carbon price mechanism. The objective of such a mechanism is to make the dirty energy expensive and the cleaner energy attractive. The big polluters are required to pay on the basis of every tonne of pollutant emitted by them.
The mechanism is subject to commencement from July 2012.There will be a fixed price for carbon in the first three years such as $23(1st year), $24.15 (2nd year) and $25.40(3rd year).The fixed price has been devised in order to avoid price shocks. The floor price in the first three years will be AUD15 and the ceiling price has been set at AUD20 which will be above market price. This will be done to ensure greater predictability of price .The presence of floor price also ensures the investors that the price will not fall beyond a certain level. It is predicted that the scheme will cover more than 60% of Australia’s green house gas emission. However forestry and agriculture are excluded from the scheme. Free permits will be allocated to emission prone industries that are involved in international trade
Flexible price mechanism will be introduced from 2015, during which carbon price will be evaluated through Emission Trading Scheme. Revenue generated via selling the carbon permits will be utilised in investing to cleaner energy activities. It is also decided that various mechanisms will be used to provide assistance to a number of sectors. Technically the carbon price mechanism is not a tax.
In a paper presented by Antonio Cornwell and John Creedy, it has been cited that a tax on carbon emission will eventually affect fossil fuel prices and hence the consumer prices. Such a price change will then lead to alterations in the levels of final demand, use of fossil fuel and overall carbon dioxide emission.
An important element of this mechanism is to establish a system that would govern the dynamics of carbon price within the nation as well as achieve the goal of long term reduction in emission of green house gases.
The major thing that concerns the most is the impact of such price mechanism on the households. It has therefore been proposed that the households will be taken care of by revising the family payments, welfare and income tax scenario. Individuals with a family income of AUD65000, will be given a tax exemption of $300 whereas s families having only two children will be benefitted by $1200 every year trough tax savings as well as government payments. So it has been estimated that about two thirds of the family will be compensated.
However the question that arises is that whether the exemptions and reliefs mentioned above are sufficient for the well being of a household? At the same time the questions that arises is that whether the proposals of carbon price mechanism turn out to be fruitful in the long run?
The Effect Of Rising Energy Prices For The Economic Wellbeing Of Households
Rise in the price of energy sources has a negative impact on the economic well being of a household. A part of household’s disposable income spent on energy sources increases which could otherwise be utilised for other purposes. This hampers the well being of a household. Since every household is subjected to a budget constraint, therefore households have to go for efficient budget management in order to generate resources for purchasing the energy sources whose prices tend to increase. Although the Australian government has announced tax exemptions and reliefs for low income households, but the empirical validity of such a proposal is yet to be seen in the near future. In general consensus it can therefore be said that the well being is expected to decrease.
Poor households are most likely to get effected, specially the rural households as they are mostly dependent on traditional sources of energy to meet their basic necessities. Most of the rural dwellers are ignorant of the alternative sources of energy, so they will be worst effected by such rise in energy price as compared to the urban residents.
Figure 1: Demand supply schedule for energy sources
Impact of Rise In Price of Traditional Energy Sources on Energy Consumption Pattern of Household
The traditional sources of energy that are used by the Australian households mainly include coal and LNG. The rise in prices of these energy sources would likely compel the households to move for alternative sources of energy. The alternative sources that can be used are solar energy, biomass energy, wind energy, wave energy and thermal energy. Therefore there will be a shift in the demand patterns, as there will be rise in demand for alternative sources of energy as compared to the traditional sources. As these alternate sources of energy are renewable they are likely are to have a beneficial impact on the environment as well. The situation could be treated in a way similar to the impact on demand of a commodity when the price of its substitute good rises. Accordingly, the following demand-supply schedule could assist in representing the scenario. It shows that there is an increase in both price and demand of Carbon.
Impact Of Increased Government Cash Payment On Household Budget, Energy Consumption And Economic Wellbeing
If the government provides cash payment such as an increased pension payments then it is obvious that the disposable income of the household increasesWhen disposable income rises, demand increases as well. When the pension increases the future income increases and therefore households value the future income more than the current income. Therefore the households become more spend thrift in the current period as they have a secured future and thus the propensity to save decreases. Ultimately the wellbeing of the households increases in the present as well as in the future.
Apart from increased pension payment there are other ways in which the government increases the cash payment for the households such as providing tax exemptions, loans, guarantees and subsidies. An increased budget allows the households to purchase energy resources whose prices are increasing due to carbon price mechanism. The situation could be represented with the help of a similar diagram as the above case.
So it can be said that the economic well being, energy consumption pattern and the household budget are all going to get effected by the adoption of carbon price mechanism. Rise in energy prices will decrease the disposable income so the well being of the households specially the poor households will decrease. On the other hand increased energy prices will compel the households to move towards alternate sources of energy. Whereas with an increased government cash payment the well being is likely to increase along with an increase in household budget. Therefore the demand for energy resources will also increase.
- Australian Institute of Family Studies. 2011. “Families in Australia 2011: Sticking together in good and tough times” [Online]. Available at: https://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/factssheets/2011/fw2011/fw2011d.html [Accessed: August 27, 2011].
- Cornwell, A. & Creedy, J. 1996. “Carbon taxation, prices and inequality in Australia” [Pdf]. Available at: https://www.ifs.org.uk/fs/articles/fscorn.pdf [Accessed: August 27, 2011].
- Earth trends country profile. 2003. “Energy and resources Australia” [Pdf]. Available at: https://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/ene_cou_036.pdf [Accessed: August 27, 2011].
- Hepburn, C. 2011. “The Australian government’s proposal for a carbon pricing policy” [Online]. Available at: https://www2.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/Media/Commentary/2011/August/Australian-government-carbon-pricing.aspx [Accessed: August 27, 2011].
- KPMG. (2011). “Australia’s climate change plan” [Pdf]. Available at: https://www.kpmg.com/AU/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/Documents/Australias-Climate-Change-Plan-v3.pdf [Accessed: August 26, 2011].
- Laurie, K. & Macdonald, J. (No Date). “A perspective on trends in Australian government spending” [Pdf]. Available at: https://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/1352/PDF/03_spending_growth.pdf [Accessed: August 27, 2011].
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2010). OECD Economic Surveys: Australia 2010. OECD Publishing.
- Frazer, S. & Sundakov, A. 2011. “Australia’s carbon pricing policy-what does it mean foe New Zealand business?” [Pdf]. Available: https://www.businessnz.org.nz/file/2127/BusinessNZ%20-%20Au%20C-Price%20Policy_20110727%20%282%29.pdf [Accessed: August 27, 2011].
- Garnaut Climate Change Review. 2011. “Carbon pricing and reducing Australia’s emissions” [Pdf]. Available: https://www.garnautreview.org.au/update-2011/update-papers/up6-carbon-pricing-and-reducing-australias-emissions.pdf [Accessed: August 27, 2011]
- International Energy Agency. 2005. Energy policies of IEA countries Australia 2005 review. OECD publishing.
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2010, p.110-111.
- Hepburn, 2011
- KPMG, 2011, p.4
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- Hepburn, 2011
- Earth trends country profile, 2003
- Australian institute of family studies, 2011.
- Laurie & Macdonald, n.d., p.2
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Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Ephesians 4:29
1. RESIST NEGATIVITY. Words are powerful. They can contain either hurt or healing and they can contribute to someone’s suffering or to someone’s cure. The Greek word for unwholesome in Ephesians is translated as “rot.” So, just like the expression “one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch,” one complaining person can contaminate a whole group of people.
The tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire! James 3:5
2. SPEAK LIFE TO OTHERS. We can use our energy to articulate the problem, or we can use our brain power to speak encouragement to one another. Our words can start a raging fire of strife or they can fan the flames of each other’s calling. Listen to the Holy Spirit for what He wants you to say “according to the need of the moment!”
3. EXPECT GOOD THINGS. In Numbers 13, the people of Israel had a whole list of reasons why it was impossible to advance into the Promised Land. But Caleb had a different spirit and spoke with faith and expectancy: “We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it” (Numbers 13:30). Decide to be a carrier of hope and gladness and reinforce the promises of God to those around you!
God Bless You!
Since life and death are in the power of the tongue, I choose to speak life over my day! The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want (Psalm 23:1). The Lord is my light and salvation; I will fear no one (Psalm 27:1). No weapon formed against me shall prosper (Isaiah 54:17). God knows the plans He has for me, plans for welfare and not for calamity, to give me a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11).
To build; establish. To instruct in such a way as to improve, enlighten, or uplift morally, spiritually, or intellectually.
Copyright © 2022 St. Louis Family Church. All rights reserved. No part of this article may be reprinted or distributed in any form without prior written permission of St. Louis Family Church. Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture references are from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. “Edify.” YourDictionary, LoveToKnow, https://www.yourdictionary.com/edify. Accessed 30 Jun. 2022.
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10 years after enrolling, the average income of former Williamsburg Technical College students who are working and no longer in school is $25,900, which is 24% below the national median. Sources, U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard / Department of Treasury.
If you are having trouble affording your Williamsburg Technical College student loan debt, explore your options.
Primary data source, U.S. Department of Education https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=218955 IPEDS survey data for Williamsburg Technical College.
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Denise and I visited Boston in the fall of 2018 as part of one of my last work trips. We spent the weekend walking the city and exploring the area, taking in its history and culture. One of the things I always try to do when visiting a place is buy a book that is indicative of the area. In this case, I bought a few, and I know that doesn’t surprise anyone. One of them was “Poems of Phillis Wheatley” and subtitled “A native African and a slave.” With all the discussion today, I thought it interesting to read again some of what she wrote, as a native African, brought over to America and sold as a slave.
Within 16 months of her arrival in the colonies in 1761, she “attained the English language, to which she was an utter stranger before, to such a degree as to read any, the most difficult parts of the Sacred Writings, to the great astonishment of all who heard her.” (Quote taken from a letter written to her publishers from her master, Thomas Wheatley, in 1772.)
There has been quite a bit written about George Whitefield lately, and the fact that he was a slave-owner. I thought this was an interesting perspective on him written by a slave.
ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD. — 1770.
HAIL, happy saint! on thine immortal throne,
Possest of glory, life, and bliss unknown:
We hear no more the music of thy tongue;
Thy wonted auditories cease to throng.
Thy sermons in unequalled accents flowed,
And ev’ry bosom with devotion glowed;
Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refined,
Inflame the heart, and captivate the mind.
Unhappy, we the setting sun deplore,
So glorious once, but ah! it shines no more.
Behold the prophet in his towering flight!
He leaves the earth for heaven’s unmeasured height,
And worlds unknown receive him from our sight.
There Whitefield wings with rapid course his way,
And sails to Zion through vast seas of day.
Thy prayers, great saint, and thine incessant cries,
Have pierced the bosom of thy native skies.
Thou, moon, hast seen, and all the stars of light,
How he has wrestled with his God by night.
He prayed that grace in ev’ry heart might dwell;
He longed to see America excel;
He charged its youth that ev’ry grace divine
Should with full lustre in their conduct shine.
That Saviour, which his soul did first receive,
The greatest gift that ev’n a God can give,
He freely offered to the numerous throng,
That on his lips with list’ning pleasure hung.
“Take him, ye wretched for your only good,
“Take him, ye starving sinner, for your food;
“Ye thirsty, come to this life-giving stream,
“Ye preachers, take him for your joyful theme;
“Take him, my dear Americans, he said,
“Be your complaints on his kind bosom laid:
“Take him, ye Africans, he longs for you;
“Impartial Saviour is his title due:
Washed in the fountain of redeeming blood,
“You shall be sons, and kings, and priests to God.”
Great Countess, we Americans revere
Thy name, and mingle in thy grief sincere;
New-England deeply feels, the orphans mourn,
Their more than father will no more return.
But though arrested by the hand of death,
Whitefield no more exerts his lab’ring breath,
Yet let us view him in the eternal skies,
Let ev’ry heart to this bright vision rise;
While the tomb, safe, retains its sacred trust,
Til life divine reanimates his dust.
(The Countess she references is the Countess of Huntingdon, to whom Whitefield was chaplain. In fact, Phillis Wheatley’s dedication of this book of poetry was to the Countess of Huntingdon in 1773.)
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Korea District Heating Corporation (KDHC) was established in 1985 and supplies district heating to about 1.41 million households as of the end of 2016. Korea’s metropolitan area is densely populated, and over the past 30 years, more towns have been developed near metropolitan areas. Due to this development district heating systems in Korea have been rapidly spreading.
Currently, all DH systems in Korea are 3G. Building insulation standards have been continuously strengthened over the past decade, and the government’s acts for the use of new and renewable energy have been also been reinforced. KDHC finds it necessary to develop a new district heating system linked to renewable energy in existing district heating systems.
In connection to this, they are interested in learning more about the currently operating 4G DH systems in Europe. The delegation visited Denmark the 26th and 27th of April to study Danish 4G DH systems. During the visit, the delegation was introduced to Danish sustainable energy solutions at State of Green. They also visited the city of Albertslund, where they got at hands on introduction to Danish 4G DH.
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Some information is provided in the paragraph below. Answer the questions based on this information
A weekly television show routinely stars six actors, J, K, L, M, N and O. Since the show has been on the air for a long time, some of the actors are good friends and some do not get along at all. In an effort to keep peace, the director sees to it that friends work together and enemies do not. Also, as the actors have become more popular, some of them need time off to do other projects. To keep the schedule working, the director has a few things she must be aware of:
J will only work on episodes on which M is working
N will not work with K under any circumstances.
M can only work every other week, in order to be free to film a movie.
At least three of the actors must appear in every weekly episode.
In a show about L getting a job at the same company J already works for and K used to work for, all three actors will appear. Which of the following is true about the other actors who may appear?
In a show about L getting a job at the same company J already works for and K used to work for, all three actors will appear.
Thus, L, J and K are definitely appearing on the show.
We are given that:-
J will only work on episodes on which M is working. Thus, M is also working.
O may work as there are no conditions restricting O.
Hence, option C is the correct answer.
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The United Nations COP26 Climate Summit starts on 01 Nov 2021. That means there is just over one month to go to one of the biggest events ever hosted in Scotland. The aim for the 200 world leaders in attendance will be to reach agreement on tackling the global climate emergency by limiting greenhouse gas emissions to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
Education Scotland has been working closely with key partner organisations to provide support and resources to help education settings and learners engage in the five key climate education themes of the COP26 Conference: nature, clean transport, energy transition, finance, adaptation and resilience.
Resources and support can be accessed via the Countdown to COP page on Education Scotland’s National Improvement Hub. https://education.gov.scot/improvement/learning-resources/countdown-to-cop26/
This includes access to the following elements:
- A COP26 Wakelet collection – bringing together some of the best COP26 resources from partners around the world
- Early Years – See Dug’s Discovery Den ThingLink resource and eBook of Dug’s visit to Arran
- Primary – A ThingLink resource for learners covering all five COP26 themes and accompanied by a practical guide for teachers
- BGE Secondary – Countdown to COP resource for learners in S1 to S3.
- New! – We’ve also now added COP26 challenges to encourage learners to develop creative and innovative solutions to climate change.
You can also join our Countdown to COP Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) Live sessions being run by Education Scotland in partnership with Founders for Schools and e-Sgoil. These live and recorded sessions provide an insight into a wide variety of green jobs linked to COP themes: https://www.e-sgoil.com/countdown-to-cop26/ . Live sessions are running Fridays at 11:00am through to the start of COP26.
Scotland’s Assemblies – these live and recorded assemblies are a great way to introduce learners at First and Second Level to COP themes: https://e-sgoil.com/p2-7/ . Join us for our next COP assembly at 09:45am on Friday 1 October.
Learning for Sustainability Practitioner Network – connect, network and share ideas with over 300 other like-minded practitioners on MS Teams in Glow. Joining code: o4sj08j
Don’t forget! The work doesn’t stop at the end of COP! Education Scotland is asking every school and setting to build a lasting legacy for the COP26 conference by ensuring that all learners in Scotland receive their entitlement to Learning for Sustainability, an entitlement that is embedded within Scotland’s curriculum. Find out about the wide range of resources and professional learning support available through the following pages:
- Learning for Sustainability summary page: https://education.gov.scot/improvement/learning-resources/a-summary-of-learning-for-sustainability-resources/
- Outdoor learning summary page: https://education.gov.scot/improvement/learning-resources/a-summary-of-outdoor-learning-resources/
- Climate change in Scottish education briefing: https://education.gov.scot/improvement/self-evaluation/climate-change-in-scottish-education/
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While guiding us through the marketplace in Harar, Ethiopia’s coffee capital, our tour guide Yohannes pointed to a tarp covered with tan-colored coffee beans, laying out in the sun.
“There’s a legend about discovering coffee in Ethiopia,” he said. “One day, more than 1,000 years ago, an Ethiopian a goat herder saw his goats acting funny… jumping and running around. So the guy, Kaldi, went closer and saw they were eating a red berry. He tried it too, and was surprised to feel really awake afterwards. That plant… that was coffee.”
He smiled and bent down to pick up a handful of beans, saying something in Amharic to the woman sitting next to the tarp.
“She’s drying them right now. Next, she will roast them into coffee,” he explained before handing us a couple to inspect.
I thanked her and we moved on through the crowded market, talking more about how since Kaldi’s accidental discovery, coffee has revolutionized Ethiopian life. Yohannes explained it has become not just a major export, but an important aspect of Ethiopian life and culture.
“Almost half of all coffee grown in Ethiopia is drunk by Ethiopians,” he said. Clearly, my friend and I had made the right choice to travel to Ethiopia for its coffee.
Coffee Culture in Addis Ababa
Not that we hadn’t already been immersing ourselves in local coffee culture. When we arrived in Addis Ababa one week before, we quickly discovered a smattering of cafes and coffee shops throughout Ethiopia’s sprawling capital. We passed everything from roadside stalls to posh, Italian-style cafes with glass tables, and even a Starbucks lookalike called “Kaldi’s”, named for — you guessed it — the apocryphal herder who first discovered coffee.
As expected, each place featured aromatic, fruity, and full-bodied roasts from Harar, Sidamo, or Yirgacheffe — the main coffee growing regions in Ethiopia — served in tiny glass cups. However, the real star was Tomoca, the oldest coffee roaster in Addis.
Entering their original downtown location, the scent of coffee roasting mixed with the sound of clattering espresso machines and loud conversations. A total whirlwind of sensory experiences, this coffee shop was everything the American cafes I’d last tasted Ethiopian coffee at were not.
After ordering a macchiato, a shot of espresso with milk, and a buna (more or less a shot of espresso) for my friend, we sipped our tiny cups of robust, full flavored Tomoca house roast while standing — Italian style — at a tall table. We both agreed hands down that Tomoca had the best coffee we’d tried thus far.
Harar: The Heart of Ethiopian Coffee
But however delicious that cup was, we had yet to get to the heart of coffee production and culture in Ethiopia. We had yet to set foot in Harar, Sidamo, or Yirgacheffe regions, where the majority of the country’s beans are grown. More significantly, Addis was fantastic for stumbling upon stylish coffee shops, but not so much for experiencing a classic Ethiopian coffee ceremony.
So we headed to the walled city of Harar, in the arid, camel-dotted north of the country — not generally what you’d expect of one of the world’s leading coffee growing regions.
Nonetheless, Harar is, and has been, an important trade center for coffee. Throughout the city, women like the one we met with Yohannes were laying out beans to dry in the sun or roasting them over charcoal fires. Even as a passing observer, the importance of coffee was clear.
“Tomorrow, we’ll go to my aunt’s place,” Yohannes said, after he finished showing us around the marketplace. “She can do the coffee ceremony for us.”
Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony
The coffee ceremony is a ritual that embodies coffee’s importance in Ethiopia, but one that can’t be bought like a Tomoca buna.
After a bus ride into Harar’s surrounding countryside, we arrived at a small thatched hut with a dark and earthy interior — Yohannes’ aunt’s home. It smelled of incense, earth, and of course, the sweet aroma of his aunt roasting coffee in a pan over an open charcoal fire.
She patted on bundles of hay placed next to the fire, signaling for us to sit down. After a few minutes, she removed the beans and began to pound them with a mortar and pestle before finally making the coffee in a tall, Aladdin-esque coffee pot known as a jebna.
“She says this first cup of coffee will be very strong — do you want sugar?” he said, handing us a tray with thimble sized cups of coffee, one for each of the three of us, for us to slurp down as his aunt fanned the flame.
We drank our cups, and returned them back to the tray. Again, she boiled water with the coffee beans in her coffee pot, and poured the coffee into our cups. Cup two. And a third time, she repeated the ritual, pouring a watered down version of the first cup of coffee into our cups. Cup three.
By this point we were as jittery as the first goats who discovered coffee, but also satisfied that this ritual had forced us, in a way, to enjoy coffee with patience and deliberance.
In the weeks we spent in Ethiopia, we had succeeded in sampling some of the best coffee on earth, but also an unexpected cultural connection to coffee. In the West, coffee serves as the drink to fuel and caffeinate our days, but in Ethiopia, it’s the vehicle that lets people pause. Although we, naturally, packed in our suitcases as many bags of beans as we could, at least that ritual was something we could only carry home in our hearts.
Where to Drink Coffee in Ethiopia
- Tomoca – Tomoca’s the oldest roaster in town and great place to buy whole beans.
- Kaldi’s Coffee – With multiple locations in Addis, this “Starbucks” imitator is just as popular.
- Yeshi Buna – This restaurant chain, started from a coffee roaster, serves coffee and traditional Ethiopian food.
- Lime Tree – This hip vegetarian spot not only brews a mean cup o’ joe, but some tasty breakfast and lunch as well.
- Wude Coffee – A high-class Ethiopian joint with top notch coffee in a pleasant outdoor garden.
- Ezana Cafe – Stop here for breakfast and a buna before a full day touring Aksum.
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Dear Doctor: I'm 58 years old and have begun leaking urine. Once it was while I was at exercise class and another time when I sneezed. I've never had children, so why is this happening? What can I do?
Dear Reader: First, we'd like to reassure you that you're not alone. Urinary incontinence is quite common among women of all ages. Up to 45 percent of women will experience some degree of urinary incontinence, or UI, during their lifetimes. That's twice the rate of UI as occurs in men.
Urinary incontinence is when, due to a lack of bladder control, urine is accidentally released. Although UI falls into two main categories -- stress incontinence or urge incontinence -- some women will experience a combination of both, known as mixed incontinence.
Stress incontinence is when physical movement places pressure on the bladder and causes urine to leak. Urge incontinence is the strong and sudden need to urinate, followed immediately by involuntary bladder contractions that cause it to empty. With either type of incontinence, how full the bladder is doesn't matter.
People with Alzheimer's disease, individuals with damage to the spinal cord or brain, and people with certain neurological conditions like multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's disease can also often experience UI. Temporary UI may be caused by certain medications, drinking large amounts of fluids, a urinary tract infection and constipation, which can exert pressure on the bladder.
From your description, what you have experienced is stress incontinence. It occurs because the muscles of the pelvic floor, which supports the bladder, and of the urinary sphincter, which controls the release of urine, have weakened. As a result, any physical movement that puts pressure on the bladder -- a cough, laughing, lifting a bag of groceries -- may overcome the impaired resistance of the urinary sphincter and cause urine to be released.
You're correct that the physical changes that take place during pregnancy and childbirth can contribute to UI. However, other factors, like weight gain, obesity, menopause and the physiological changes associated with advancing age, can also play a part.
It's a good idea to check in with your family doctor. He or she may ask for a urine sample to rule out infection, and to check for traces of blood or other problems. Bladder function tests and a review of your medical and family history can help your doctor to pinpoint any external factors playing a role in the onset of the UI.
How much the UI bothers you will factor into what steps you take next. Many patients are comfortable using a panty liner to absorb a minor amount of leakage. In severe cases, surgical interventions are possible. At this time, there are no approved medications in the United States to address UI.
In the majority of cases, doctors recommend certain changes to lifestyle and behavior. It's possible you'll be asked to manage how much you drink and at what times. Losing excess weight is often helpful. And exercises known as Kegels, which work the muscles of the pelvic floor, can return strength and tone to help you to regain control.
(Send your questions to firstname.lastname@example.org, or write: Ask the Doctors, c/o Media Relations, UCLA Health, 924 Westwood Blvd., Suite 350, Los Angeles, CA, 90095. Owing to the volume of mail, personal replies cannot be provided.)
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BACKGROUND: ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) may be helpful for the management of hypertension, but little is known about its tolerability in people with dementia.
OBJECTIVE: to review the published evidence to determine the tolerability of ABPM in people with dementia.
METHODS: English language search conducted in MEDLINE and EMBASE, using 'Ambulatory blood pressure' AND 'Dementia' (and associated synonyms) from 1996 to March 2015.
INCLUSION CRITERIA: people diagnosed with dementia AND in whom blood pressure was measured using ABPM. The initial search was undertaken using title and abstract reviews, with selected papers being agreed for inclusion by two reviewers. Potentially eligible papers were assessed, and high-quality papers were retained. Two reviewers agreed the abstracted data for analysis. Meta-analysis was used to combine results across studies.
RESULTS: of the 221 screened abstracts, 13 studies (6%) met inclusion criteria, 5 had sufficient data and were of sufficient quality, involving 461 participants, most of whom had mild-moderate dementia. 77.7% (95% CI 62.2-93.2%) were able to tolerate ABPM; agreement with office BP was moderate to weak (two studies only-coefficients 0.3-0.38 for systolic blood pressure and 0.11-0.32 for diastolic blood pressure). One study compared home BP monitoring by a relative or ambulatory BP monitoring with office BP measures and found high agreement (κ 0.81). The little available evidence suggested increased levels of dementia being associated with reduced tolerability.
CONCLUSIONS: ABPM is well tolerated in people with mild-moderate dementia and provides some additional information over and above office BP alone. However, few studies have addressed ABPM in people with more severe dementia.
- Aged, 80 and over
- Blood Pressure
- Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory
- Predictive Value of Tests
- Reproducibility of Results
- Severity of Illness Index
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Lawrence Anthony devoted his life to animal conservation, protecting the world's endangered species. Then he was asked to accept a herd of "rogue" wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand. His common sense told him to refuse, but he was the herd's last chance of survival: they would be killed if he wouldn't take them.
In order to save their lives, Anthony took them in. In the years that followed he became a part of their family. And as he battled to create a bond with the elephants, he came to realize that they had a great deal to teach him about life, loyalty, and freedom.
The Elephant Whisperer is a heartwarming, exciting, funny, and sometimes sad memoir of Anthony's experiences with these huge yet sympathetic creatures. Set against the background of life on an African game reserve, with unforgettable characters and exotic wildlife, Anthony's unrelenting efforts at animal protection and his remarkable connection with nature will inspire animal lovers and adventurous souls everywhere.
About the Author
LAWRENCE ANTHONY (1950-2012) founded the Thula Thula wildlife reserve in Zululand, South Africa; launched The Lawrence Anthony Foundation; and received the UN's Earth Day award for his efforts to save the animals of the Baghdad Zoo. With Graham Spence, he is the author of Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo, The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild, and The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures.
GRAHAM SPENCE is a journalist and editor. Originally from South Africa, he lives in England. Together he and Lawrence Anthony wrote Babylon's Ark: the Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo.
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“The feelings of powerlessness that often accompany failure start with those all-too-familiar ‘could have’ or ‘should have’ self-inventories. And our fear grows in tandem with the strength of our belief that an opening has been forever closed. Pervasive feelings of powerlessness eventually lead to despair. My favorite definition of despair comes from the author and pastor Bob Bell: Despair is a spiritual condition. It’s the belief that tomorrow will be just like today. My heart stopped what I heard him say this. man. I know what it feels like to be under that rock and to believe, with all of my heart, that there’s no way out and that I’ll be in that exact same spot tomorrow. For me, that feeling is absolutely a spiritual crisis.
In my work, I’ve found that moving out of powerlessness, and even despair, requires hope. Hope is not an emotion: It’s a cognitive process–a thought process made up of what researcher C. R. Snyder called the trilogy of ‘goals, pathways, and agency.’ Hope happens when we can set goals, have the tenacity and perseverance to pursue those goals, and believe in our own abilities to act.”
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Could not reserve enough space for 2097152KB object heap
Today, I tried to start up the Minecraft server for my kids. I had already set it all up in a script, which I can just double-click to start. But the Minecraft server didn't start. Instead, I got the following Java error message:
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Strange, indeed. Why does the Minecraft server run last week, but not this week? My now, I have already performed "Optimizing Minecraft on a Notebook Computer. By optimizing, I give the Minecraft server 1GB of RAM to start and let it grow up to 2GB of RAM. This optimization has worked wonderfully on the Minecraft server average tick. I'm not about ready to give it up.
Typing "java -version" revealed the following output:
java version "1.8.0_31"
Hmmm. I didn't remember installing Java 1.8. So I ran "Which" on "java"...
That was just great. Oracle had installed JRE 1.8 behind my back and it had the guts to put its PATH in front of my JDK 1.6 installation. What a sneaky thing to do.
After changing my script to explicitly call out JDK 1.6, Minecraft server runs just fine. But that doesn't explain why Oracle's JRE 1.8 couldn't allocate the same 2GB of RAM that JDK 1.6 could. The notebook computer I'm running on has 4 GB of RAM total. 2GB of RAM allocation should not be a problem, as JDK 1.6 shows.
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Odd is a word we often use and we use it in various ways.
odd one out,
and the very famous Odd Couple
Dictionaries offer several definitions that adequately explain those usages above and the word all by itself. They also seem to describe me!
- Different from what is usual or expected; strange; peculiar; weird: funny
- Numbers that cannot be divided exactly by the number two without having one left over
- Separated from a usual pair or set and therefore out of place or mismatched; unpaired; single; lone; solitary; extra
- Strange or unusual as in odd-looking, odd-sounding
- Peculiar as in “a very odd way to…”
- Being without a corresponding mate
- Left over after others are paired or grouped
In my dictionary, if you look up “odd” you see this definition:
And it makes sense looking at the definitions. I’m single. When everyone pairs up, I’m the extra. That’s just a matter of math, and all my math teachers told me that math is very cut-and-dry, there is only one answer. Sometimes that doesn’t matter to me at all, and at other times, it is my sole focus.
I’m the odd [wo]man out. Have been all my life. I’m the one sitting at the fringes of the Girl Scout troop because none of these girls were my friends. I didn’t even really know them. The odd one at church camp – no one there I knew and all of the other kids had done this before. And on top of it, the counselor was openly flirting with my dad because she said she thought he was my brother. This was my one and only camp experience. I don’t reach out and make friends easily and confidently.
I was always the last one chosen for any team at recess or in gym – and the last one wanting to play any sport (could be a correlation). All of my family are devoted sports fans. Not just one sport. Not just one team. No, they have teams in every sport and they all play or played some sport: golf, football, wrestling, soccer, field hockey, lacrosse, rugby, gymnastics, running. One of them runs marathons. My exercise comes from jumping to conclusions and running late.
I have always felt that I must be strange, peculiar, weird – although I’m not sure how. When I found groups that I chose to join or I was let in, it never seemed to last long. I mean, my book club quit me! At least I think they must have since I no longer get any notice of the book choices or meetings. I’ve always felt like I was trying to put my square self into their round organizations. I’m too liberal for some groups and too conservative for others.
While I am often categorized by others, their assessment doesn’t feel right either. I’m a Christian woman who has a tradition in evangelical churches but I’m not a registered Republican, I don’t see eye-to-eye with them on their treatment of women or of people of color, or of LGBTQ people. I often don’t agree with them on issues they see as black and white because I see lots of gray. In another group, I’m odd because I’m not a registered Democrat and I often see shades of gray where they see black and white too. That leaves me – the odd one out.
I don’t mind being the odd ball when it comes to opinions I have that are on moral issues. I believe that Black lives matter. I understand that people of color have often been treated as if they don’t matter. What they are trying to point out is that their lives matter too. I understand the idea that “all lives matter,” but I understand that no one has to tell white people that their lives matter. We’ve always been told that in many tacit ways. I also understand that many of those same people saying “all lives matter” are ready and willing to discriminate against anyone different than them whether because of color, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, or their sports teams. They don’t really mean ALL lives – just the ones like them. That’s a moral position in my mind. If I don’t fit into a group because I feel this way, then it isn’t a group I want to belong in.
I have opinions on behaviors that I grew up being taught were sinful. I don’t think that what behaviors are wrong and right have changed. I still believe it’s sinful to take things that don’t belong to you. It’s sinful to harm others. It’s sinful to commit adultery and inflict pain on someone. It’s sinful to do whatever you have to do in order to get ahead no matter the cost or method – the ends don’t always justify the means. I don’t care if you have a billion dollars or twenty-two cents to your name: wrong is wrong.
Am I really that odd in those beliefs? They seem very basic to me. So there must be something else that is making me an odd duck. But what is it? I read an article today in Plough about Mr. Collins the “awkward vicar of Pride and Prejudice” (https://tinyurl.com/2p845pd9). One of the points author Joy Clarkson makes is about how unaware Mr. Collins seems to be that he is so truly awkward. He cannot “read the room” enough to realize when he is not fitting in, when people are deriding him, mocking him, laughing at him. Can the same be said of me? Is anyone aware enough of self to see what others’ perceptions of you are?
I have a few very good friends and we have been friends for many years. I was never part of the “in” crowd, the popular people. I talk too loud and too much sometimes, and in other situations I can’t find a word to say. I am completely intimidated by a party crowd, a large gathering, and become totally tongue-tied. I wander and finally sit in a corner. I don’t dance because I was always sure I looked like a dork. My taste in music is quite eclectic but hasn’t included a lot of the top songs for many years. My interests are varied so I’m not someone who bores others with my one-note conversations on bat guano or something, but I’m not very good at small talk in situations where there are crowds or where I’m the newbie.
In these days of such deep division and polarization in society, I’ve come to see that I have isolated and hidden part of myself from lots of people including close friends and family because I don’t know if it’s okay that I don’t agree with them or see things the way they do. I’ve known for a long time that there are places I’d like to go and things I would like to do or see that no one else is interested in, no one else will just go along to join me. That’s okay. I go alone or try to find someone else to go with or throw away tickets purchased as gifts in some cases. We have lots of shared interests and I find new things at times by going along with what they want to do. But what happens if we get into the weeds of our differences in core beliefs. What happens if I allow myself to be vulnerable?
Sometimes I feel like I’m wearing a mask everywhere and still stand out as the odd one. So why the mask? I mean, it must not be working so well. Would revealing my heart leave me wide-open to be completely shunned or would it make me more liked? I don’t know. I just know that I was raised to worry about what people think and that in many ways fear of turmoil or ridicule keeps me quiet and the mask in place. While talking to my cousin this morning we discussed being who you are without regard to what others think. We talked about our parents who instilled in us the belief that we should always consider “what the neighbors will think” as we lived. He’s become a pro at being himself and not worrying about it. I’m working on it and improving, but vulnerability is scary.
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The American Cheese Society did an industry study that, not very shockingly, revealed that the specialty cheese industry is in a depression. The study reported that, overall, specialty sales are down 58 percent. Not surprisingly, the study finds sales are down in all markets, both foodservice and retail; that 71 percent of respondents have applied for some kind of financial assistance, such as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP); that 48 percent of respondents have reduced employee hours; and 30 percent have laid off employees.
While 61.5 percent of respondents predict that the “new normal will be very different from the past,” there are some silver linings: The cur-rent situation creates an opportunity to pause and improve business operations (73 percent) and to reach out to new customers (73.5 percent).
Though the survey includes nearly 1,000 stake-holders, the accuracy of their reports and the degree to which they constitute a valid representation of the market is uncertain. Still, you don’t need perfect research to realize things are tough for a field, such as specialty cheese.
First, these products are relatively expensive food items, so if one is losing a job or is uncertain about the future, buying expensive foods isn’t the natural inclination.
Second, specialty cheese often sells better when a consumer gets usage information, say by inter-acting with a cheesemonger. Yet, current circumstances discourage this kind of interaction.
Third, sampling is often crucial to exposing people to new tastes and flavors. But typical sampling mechanisms — leaving out a bowl of cubed cheese — is simply horrifying to many people now.
Fourth, eating out at restaurants is not only a form of sustenance, it often is a form of celebration. Even as restaurants open, if the clientele is office workers needing lunch or travelers needing sustenance — if social-distancing rules are still in place — the purchasing profile will be very different than if people are celebrating events.
Fifth, eating at home is also changed by current circumstances. Normally, one might have friends over, perhaps a party. Maybe there would be cheese plates out with wine or beer. Summer is approaching, which means barbecues and social invitations. Part of hospitality is variety and abundance, but none of that seems right now.
The truth, however, is that this pandemic brings about changes that go far beyond cheese. We’ve seen reports about farmers having to destroy vegetables or milk. Think about this for a moment: right now, almost everyone who has lost a job is getting unemployment… indeed, some are receiving more compensation from unemployment than they were receiving from their job.
Though there are stories of people waiting hours to get free food, and there are certainly some people who are falling through cracks in our system, most people in the workforce either have a job or are eligible for unemployment insurance, which is currently paying $600 a week more than what it would have otherwise paid.
So the issue is not that everyone is impoverished and can’t buy food. The issue is that staying at home changes consumption patterns.
At school or at work, a cheeseburger is likely to come with a slice of tomato, a piece of lettuce and the option for a slice of onion. Almost certainly there is some kind of side, such as fries, cole slaw or potato salad. Very often, there is some kind of appetizer or soup or salad. Yet, a hungry teen looking to grab lunch may make a burger, squeeze some ketchup on it and call it a day as he runs back to his room to do a Zoom class for high school.
We don’t have good data, but it doesn’t seem insane to think that many people might use this interlude as the time to go on a diet. They figure they are sacrificing less than when their friends are inviting them to dinner, although it is also possible that more people are depressed and snacking away.
Retailers respond to consumption patterns, so at first they may have delisted items so they could carry more hand sanitizer and masks. But as normal inventorying returns, we can expect many items to remain delisted because they no longer match current consumption patterns. To put it in simple terms: many of the “normal” food items are not selling.
We can certainly act to support producers we want to see succeed, and the American Cheese Society is pushing those efforts. The country is gradually reopening, but the real question will be whether the country is prepared to stay open if there is a rebound in virus cases. This rebound is likely as social interactions reengage. Will people find a rebound in COVID-19 cases a price they are willing to pay? Or will they want to see the country shut down once again? On this question everything hangs.
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When Pope Francis denounced “libertarian individualism” last year, few people could find a flesh-and-blood example of the philosophy as articulated by the pontiff. However, the gimlet eye of Stream editor John Zmirak may have found a related species in a creature he identifies as Homo Economist – a theoretical person who contrasts almost completely with the human person as viewed by advocates of constitutional government, ordered liberty, faith, and adherence to the precepts of natural law.
In the pope’s accounting, libertarianism “exalts the selfish ideal” in which “it is only the individual who gives values to things and interpersonal relationships,” and it is “only the individual who decides what is good and what is bad.” Writers such as Patrick Deneen and Rod Dreher have blamed the state of affairs as the inevitable end result of liberalism – the dominant philosophy of the Anglo-American sphere in modernity.
But it was not ever thus, Zmirak writes. He calls this person Homo Economist – not “homo economicus,” who seems an entirely fictional character, but rather one whose views he sees exemplified by secular pundits clustering in the prestige financial press. This man could be identified with the person whom late Samuel Huntington denominated as “Davos Man” – a rootless cosmopolitan who seeks unbound autonomy, not merely from capricious government, but all forms of tradition, particularity, family and, increasingly, the iron-clad laws of nature. (Witness Silicon Valley’s febrile exploration of technologies that they hope will make death optional.)
“Stealing the name of a noble movement against brutal tyranny that predates him by many centuries, Homo Economist dubs it ‘Liberalism,’” Zmirak writes in an article for The Stream. And thus his excesses become associated with those who share some of his economic views but none of his philosophy. Both proponents and detractors of this form of “liberalism” trace its origins to the French Enlightenment’s animosity toward kings and priests.
But John Locke and Adam Smith didn’t invent the concern for freedom. They were drawing on (and feeding off of) a much older tradition. Thomas Becket, resisting the power of the Crown. Thomas More, dying for his conscience. The Protestants who died under Mary. …
John Locke came out of a specific movement. That was the English, Christian, Protestant movement for freedom of conscience. And secure property rights. And limits on royal power.
Liberalism, which sprang from Christian thought and is premised upon Christian presuppositions of human dignity and individual rights, need not end in a Reign of Terror, a Bolshevik menace, or a sexual state that suppresses the free expression of religion.
The Acton Institute’s Sam Gregg – whose letters to the editor are more enlightening than most books – located the genesis of the new secular liberalism in its estrangement from natural law. This took place, he noted, at the same moment that organized Christianity began to abandon the supernatural for the subjective, the socially oriented, and the schmaltzy (this last being my term, not his). Zmirak, too, writes:
Adam Smith merely extended this English, Christian tradition. John Stuart Mill corrupted it, with his call on the State to “liberate” individuals from the “tyranny” of private, voluntary or natural institutions such as the Church and the family.
Deneen and others are correct that this form of “liberalism” cannot sustain society. But, as with “libertarian individualism,” there is a gulf between the term as presently understood and its historic pedigree.
“Liberalism,” particularly classical liberalism, embraces the restraints of what Sir Roger Scruton calls “unchosen obligations”: families, nations, and innumerable other intermediary institutions. As Eamonn Butler wrote about adherents of Classical Liberalism:
While they emphasise the priority of individuals, they recognise that people are not isolated, atomistic, self-centred beings. On the contrary, they are social animals and live in families and groups and communities that partly shape their values – clubs, associations, unions, religions, schools, online communities, campaigns, self-help groups, charities and all the other institutions that we call civil society.
Thus, as Lord Acton wrote, “Liberty is established by the conflict of powers.” The absence of these institutions strengthens the one remaining power exercising its trenchant might in our lives: government. Butler writes:
Civil society also provides a buffer between individuals and governments. If we really were all isolated individuals, our freedoms would be easily suppressed by a despotic government.
It is well worth identifying Homo Economist with the recognition that he cannot create a free and prosperous, much less virtuous, society.
(Photo credit: Ministério da Indústria, Comércio Exterior e Serviços-Brazil. CC BY-SA 2.0.)
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America’s Fracking Gold Rush Portends the Greatest Environmental Disaster of a Generation by Denise Grollmus, September 20, 2012, Miami New Times
But it wasn’t long before Mayer received another surprise — this one less pleasant. One morning he turned on his kitchen sink. Instead of water, the tap hissed with gas. Mayer grabbed his lighter and held it to the faucet. It burst into flames. Though Fortuna had yet to drill on his property, the company was already at work six miles to the west. Mayer called the New York Department of Environmental Conservation to file a complaint in January 2009. His case was assigned to an investigator, though no one came out to investigate. “[Our] staff concluded that the gas in Mr. Mayer’s well was naturally occurring and that no investigation was warranted for several reasons,” says Emily DeSantis, an agency spokeswoman. Not only was Mayer’s residence more than a mile away from the nearest drilling, DeSantis says, but also “naturally occurring methane is commonplace throughout the state.” Mayer knew better, of course. His water hadn’t become flammable until Fortuna began drilling nearby. More than three years later, he can make every faucet in his house dance with flames. He can’t drink from his own tap. Sometimes the gas pressure builds up so much that it blasts coffee cups from his hands while he does the dishes. Still, he was less upset by the contamination than he was about not making money from it. About the time Mayer signed his lease, then-Gov. David Paterson watched as drilling devastated neighboring Pennsylvania, where thousands of contamination complaints have been filed. In one incident near Pittsburgh, toxic wastewater ended up in the Monogahela River, leaving 850,000 residents without drinkable water. So Paterson banned fracking in New York.
The first wells sprouted in 2000. But the onslaught wouldn’t begin until 2004, when the Bush administration ruled that fracking “posed no threat to drinking water.” Bush’s scientists would later be discredited, of course.
Sharon Wilson is often dismissed as an anti-fracking loony. … She writes of people who report that their children are passing out in the shower due to gas leaks in their water supply. Others discover their farm animals are losing hair or dying after drinking from contaminated streams. People from around Texas and as far away as Colorado, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania began contacting her with horror stories of their own, begging Wilson to post home videos of their own flaming faucets and dying animals. Steven Lipsky was among them. He was just another Texas homeowner with a flaming faucet. But he also had something else: confirmation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that fracking had left his water laced with benzene, capable of causing cancer and birth defects. The danger had forced his family to evacuate their home. After Wilson posted video of his combustible faucet, Lipsky sued Range Resources for poisoning his water. He also asked the Texas Railroad Commission, which oversees environmental issues in the state, to back the feds’ finding. But Range Resources knew that if Lipsky won, thousands of homeowners would set upon the industry, seeking restitution for poisoned land. So it hired the best scientists money could buy — in this case, Harvard and MIT grads as well as Halliburton’s experts. Then it took its case to a Railroad Commission already stacked in its favor. As the Dallas Observer detailed, nearly every member hearing the case had a financial interest in Range or one of its subsidiaries. Even Ethical Corporation’s Entine, who is critical of anti-fracking arguments, admits that “the Railroad Commission is totally corrupt.” Expectedly, it ruled that the EPA was wrong, asserting that the gas was naturally occurring. The ruling caused the feds to backpedal. In the end, Lipsky not only lost his case, but also was countersued by Range, claiming he was part of a conspiracy to defame the company by providing a “misleading” video and falsehoods to the media. Wilson was named as a co-conspirator. … “It’s such bullshit,” she says. “All [Lipsky] did is send me a video, and it was over a month after the EPA made their ruling. Like most of the blog, I’m just linking to stuff that’s already out there. This is how insane and aggressive this company is… Industry can go on and say never once has there been a case where it has been proven, blah, blah, blah. But on the ground, we know better. We know that when they frack, our water gets contaminated.”
Where the science of fracking is concerned, engineer Tony Ingraffea and geologist Terry Engelder agree on almost everything except this: “Tony thinks fracking should stop, and I don’t,” says Engelder, a Penn State geologist credited with discovering the state’s potential for fracking. “I believe that economic health has to come before environmental health is worked out. Tony is arguing for environmental health at any cost.” … But while environmental regulators continue to see no evil, Cornell University engineer Tony Ingraffea is just as vigorous in warning of the dangers. “Four years later, the industry is still trying to figure out what to do with their crap,” he says. “Bad things happened. And bad things continue to happen.” His biggest beef is with the industry’s misinformation campaign. Despite all evidence to the contrary, gas companies claim it’s impossible for fracking fluid to come in contact with drinking water. “They are simply telling downright lies because they think people are stupid, but this is really street-smart stuff,” he says. … Ingraffea sees it as part of a pattern where the industry buys off the country’s most prestigious universities “like MIT to do pseudo-science.” Meanwhile, the Natural Gas Alliance, an industry lobbying group, shelled out $80 million to Hill and Knowlton Strategies, the same PR firm used by Big Tobacco to argue there was no link between smoking and cancer. “The whole goal is to put a little seed of doubt in people’s minds,” Ingraffea says. “And for those who believe that they can get rich from leasing their land, there is a willing suspension of disbelief. But the real question is: How many bad things can go wrong right in front of your eyes before you finally accept the truth that this stuff is nasty and extremely dangerous?”
While the gas industry is busy paying scientists and politicians to minimize the risks of fracking, it’s also greatly exaggerating its economic potential. Like most opponents, Deborah Rogers didn’t pay much attention to the boom until Chesapeake was about to drill a well only 100 feet from her property. After working in finance for years, she quit her job in 2003 to open an artisanal cheese-making operation on land she’d inherited in Fort Worth. Instead of signing away her property to one of the many land men knocking on her door, she decided to attend a chamber of commerce luncheon where Chesapeake CEO McClendon boasted of the economic benefits of fracking. “So I went home and looked into it and discovered that some of these companies had enormous amounts of debt,” Rogers says. “It was more likely that they were drilling to meet debt service rather than for profitability.”… Not only do the companies overestimate earnings to landowners, but they are also able to borrow huge sums of money against these exaggerated estimates. “After a decade of fracking, we’re beginning to be able to show that, without a doubt, this was simply a very well-orchestrated public relations campaign,” Rogers says. “There is gas there, but is there as much as they said? No. Are we gonna see the economic stability they promised? The answer is no.” … In the end, Rogers says, the money these wells actually produce isn’t enough to offset the cost of land rendered worthless thanks to contamination. In essence, the industry is creating thousands of mini Superfund sites, leaving someone else to deal with the ruin. [Emphasis added]
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Read the following scenario and complete the questions below.
The entire poultry industry is working hard to keep up with demand, but egg production is falling behind. According to the USDA’s Economic Research Service, the price of eggs in the U.S. is expected to rise more than 35 percent in 2018. The cause of this egg price increases? An uptick in foreign demand for US eggs is partly to blame. When the avian influenza devastated Europe this past year, egg suppliers in the U.S. stepped in to help fill the demand in these countries. Another problem arose in late 2017 where some egg supplies were contaminated with a dangerous insecticide, affecting countries including Germany, France and Belgium. With millions of eggs being pulled from the shelves in Europe, US exports of eggs rose 663 percent between 2016 and 2017. Domestic demand has increased as well. In the United States, 2017 saw a 20-year record in egg consumption at 275.2 eggs per person per year. When you multiply that by 325 million Americans, that’s a lot of eggs.
Now, consider the commercial use of eggs in the production of grocery items such as bread, ice cream, pasta, cakes and waffles. Let’s focus on the Sara Lee® All Butter Pound Cake® found in the freezer section of your local grocery store. The first ingredient listed on the package is, you guessed it – eggs. The pound cake sells for around $3.97 at the grocery store. However, with the price of eggs on the rise, it is likely that $3.97 price may change.
- Which of Sara Lee’s variances will be affected by the increase in egg prices? Why?
- Will the increase in egg prices result in favorable or unfavorable variances for Sara Lee? Why?
- What is Sara Lee® likely to do to its standards based on this increase in price and which standards will be impacted?
- What, if anything, can Sara Lee® do to mitigate the impact of the rising cost of eggs on its manufacturing costs?
This assignment is available for download as a Word Document.
- Assignment: Cost Variance Analysis. Authored by: Linda Williams. Provided by: Lumen Learning. License: CC BY: Attribution
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Among the ambiguous areas in the state medical marijuana laws from coast to coast is the status of cannabis and its derivatives as veterinary medications. Now, a new non-profit has been launched to advocate for legal standards and clarity on the question.
The Veterinary Cannabis Society (VCS) defines its mission as “to create lasting solutions that ensure the safe use of cannabis in pets through education, advocacy, and promoting product standards.”
Dr. Gary Richter of Holistic Veterinary Care in Oakland, Calif., is vice president and co-founder of VCS. He describes his practice, which he began in 1998, as “integrative medicine” — incorporating both the conventional Western model but also “alternative” treatments such as acupuncture, chiropractic, and herbal applications.
This includes cannabis. “I have been seeing patients for years that have benefited from medical cannabis,” he tells Project CBD. He says he has discussed cannabis as a treatment with his patients’ owners, as is now permitted by California law.
In a 2017 interview with Project CBD, Richter named gastrointestinal issues, pain, and inflammation as conditions that cannabis appears effective for in animals.
Education & Advocacy
Dr. Richter describes his new organization as “a forum for pet owners and vets to get involved in advocacy efforts, to get things sorted out on a state-by-state basis. We want to make sure products are put together properly, by developing a certification process.”
He foresees that soon companies “can put the VCS seal of approval on their products — assuring that they were made in a facility that meets standards, that they are properly analyzed, and labeled accurately for content. We want to make sure companies in their labeling and advertising are doing it right, and not making inappropriate claims, not promising things they shouldn’t promise, and so on.”
Richter hopes to see such standards adopted uniformly nationwide through a three-pronged strategy of “education, advocacy, and working with the industry.”
The VCS was launched with members in multiple states, and will be reaching out to more people through a panel discussion the group will be hosting at the annual conference of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association (AHVMA), to be held in Reno this October.
California Assembly Bill 2215
While cannabis or (at least) cannabis extracts are permitted for medical use in nearly all states now, California is one of the few states that has taken the first tentative steps toward providing some legal clarity on the status of cannabis and cannabinoids for veterinary use.
The impetus came in February 2017, when the California Veterinary Medical Board, a body of the state government, sent a memo to every vet in the state entitled “Current Laws and Policies Regarding Marijuana, Hemp, and Animals.” It stated: “There is nothing in California law that would allow a veterinarian to prescribe, recommend, or approve marijuana for treating animals. Veterinarians are in violation of California law if they are incorporating cannabis into their practices.”
The memo closed with these foreboding words: “From an enforcement perspective, if the Veterinary Medical Board were to receive a complaint related to a Board licensee’s involvement in the treatment of an animal with a marijuana or hemp-related product, the Board would be obligated to conduct an investigation and take appropriate disciplinary action if the findings so warranted.”
This led to passage of Assembly Bill 2215 that year, written by Ash Kalra of San Jose, which allows vets to discuss cannabis with their clients without fear of disciplinary or legal action — but not to actually “recommend” it. The Veterinary Medical Board ultimately supported its passage, with a caveat raising “concerns regarding the need for cannabis research.”
Dr. Richter was more enthused by an alternative legislation, Senate Bill 627, authored by Sen. Cathleen Galgiani of the Central Valley, which would have amended the state Health & Safety Code to allow vets to explicitly recommend cannabis (for pets, not livestock). But SB 627 failed to pass after a tortuous year-long journey through the legislative process. “That would have sorted out all our problems,” Richter laments.
A Weaker Legal Remedy
What led to the defeat of SB 627? It had passed the California Senate unanimously in May 2019. But when it moved to the Assembly, the Business & Professions Committee added amendments allowing veterinary cannabis products to be sold freely without formal recommendation at either medical dispensaries or adult-use retail outlets. These proved a poison pill for the Appropriations Committee, which nixed the bill in 2020.
A new bill introduced this year, AB 384, again by Ash Kalra, is a weaker legal remedy — it would prevent the Veterinary Medical Board from disciplining a vet for recommending cannabis, but does not actually define cannabis products for animals as medicine, as SB 627 did.
Michelle M. Cave, public information officer with the California Department of Consumer Affairs, the Veterinary Medical Board’s parent body, tells Project CBD that the Board “does not have a position on AB 384. The VMB is watching it closely and will continue to discuss it at future meetings.”
The California Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA), which represents the industry in the state, opposed AB 627 on the grounds that its provisions for “continuing education” in cannabis medicine for vets were too weak. It now supports AB 384, stating: “The CVMA is working closely with Mr. Kalra and his staff to represent the veterinary profession on this issue.”
Keeping Pets Safe
Dr. Richter sees AB 384’s failure to formally designate cannabis as medicine as a serious flaw in the legislation. In his view, the need for standards and oversight is actually underscored by the loosening of strictures on cannabis under California’s adult-use legalization, in effect since 2018.
“Recreational availability allows people to circumvent the process,” Richter says, “which means animals could be dosed improperly, or be given cannabis when something else might be more appropriate. We want medical dispensaries to be able to sell cannabis products for veterinary use. And I’m optimistic we can get that done. With more support from the public and the profession, we can get legislators to take action to keep these guys safe.”
While CBD products are being marketed openly for pets in California, with the firm VetCBD a leader in the sector, Richter thinks the real regulatory urgency is for psychoactive products.
“Regulation is much less of an imperative for CBD. The legislation in California concerns THC. Anything with a significant amount of THC we think should be sold with a medical recommendation to prevent toxicity or accidental overdose,” he says.
Richter has already had to deal in his practice with pets that have overdone it. “The large majority of cases of toxicity are accidental — the dog ate something that was intended for humans,” he relates. “Usually the dogs are fine on their own, but sometimes medical intervention is necessary — such as intravenous to speed the excretion process and get everything out. In rare cases, it can be fatal.”
This echoes the findings of a study by European researchers published this March in the Germany-based journal Animals and posted to the US National Institutes of Health website. The abstract states: “As cannabis-derived products have become more available, veterinarians are seeing more cases of toxicosis. In addition, animal owners are having an increasing interest in using these products for their pets.”
Emergency Room Visits
Based in the Mendocino County town of Laytonville, Lovingly & Legally is a registered “social purpose corporation,” which had formally sponsored AB 627 in the Assembly. Its co-directors Paul Hansbury and Susan Tibbon have years of experience in the local cannabis industry, and now say they are working for “the very best health and welfare for human and animal patients.”
“Treating animals with Dr. Facebook or Dr. Google, or whatever the budtender has to say about it — that’s no way to treat a sick animal,” says Hansbury. He states that since the passage of Prop 64, which legalized marijuana for people 21 years and older in California, there has been a “substantial increase in veterinary emergency room visits for cannabis toxicity.”
“It’s usually because a pet got into an edible,” Tibbon clarifies. “But a portion is due to an error of omission or commission when a product was discussed. There’s a lot of aggressive advertising, creating a craze for what happens to the be pet product du jour.”
“It’s a dangerous situation,” she adds. “If a cat is suffering from hyperthyroidism, they could be subject to organ failure if they don’t get professional diagnosis. We have agency that animals don’t have. That’s why it says ‘keep away from children and animals” on everything in your medicine cabinet. There’s a reason for that.”
“All AB 2215 did was reaffirm veterinarians’ First Amendment rights,” Hansbury tells Project CBD. And AB 384, he notes, would change the Veterinary Medical Practices Act to allow veterinarians to recommend cannabis — but would not explicitly bring vets under the regulatory framework of the Medicinal & Adult-Use Cannabis Regulatory Safety Act (MAUCRSA), the enabling legislation for the 2016 initiative that legalized cannabis for adults in California.
So even if AB 384 becomes law, there will be “no guardrails, no safety precautions,” says Hansbury. “Vets want to recommend medical marijuana to pet parents,” he asserts, pointing to another shortcoming in the bill. “But this would be useless in a county like Napa that doesn’t allow recreational dispensaries. Nothing will change in those counties unless we can alter MAUCRSA by changing the definition of physicians to include vets and patients to include animals.”
Adverse Industry Influence?
Hansbury and Tibbon point to the lobbying efforts of VetCBD, a California brand, as critical to the failure of any measure to pass that would bring veterinary cannabis products under state oversight. It should be noted that because their CBD products are derived from what California state law calls “cannabis” (rather than “hemp”), they too would be subject to regulation.
Reached for comment, VetCBD founder and CEO Dr. Tim Shu says that his company “supported AB 2215, which allows veterinarians to discuss cannabis with clients, but not recommend it. Because many veterinarians are not clear where the boundary lies between discussion and recommendation, many are still uncomfortable discussing cannabis with their clients in any capacity. That’s where VetCBD’s support of AB 384 comes in. The passage of AB 384 would allow veterinarians to recommend the use of cannabis as a therapeutic without fear of legal reprisal. Additionally, AB 384 will create a category of pet cannabis products tested and regulated under the standards of MAUCRSA, California’s cannabis framework.”
Asked about VetCBD’s relationship with lobbying, Shu said only: “VetCBD has been bolstering awareness efforts for AB 384 by asking the public to join in supporting the measure by writing letters to the California Legislature.” He pointed to the website launched for this effort, PetCannabis.org.
Veterinary Medicine & Cannabis in New York
Other states around the country are also beginning to grapple with this issue. Andy Fleming of Rochester, NY, is a founding member of the Veterinary Cannabis Society and former president of the New York State Veterinary Society. He is encouraged that the Empire State’s new cannabis legalization statute at least implicitly recognizes veterinary uses.
Fleming formerly ran Rochester’s Cats Exclusively hospital, and still maintains a multi-disciplinary practice, incorporating Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture to treat conditions such as paresis in cats and dogs. He studied Chinese medicine at Chi University in Reddick, Fla, the veterinary school founded by Husing Xie, who was trained in China, where veterinary herbology is widely taught and practiced. Fleming says cannabis was not mentioned in his coursework, but when CBD became widely available, he began to inform himself, and followed up with a University of Colorado online course in use of medical cannabis in humans.
While he sees potential in veterinary CBD products such as HempRX in treatment of ailments such as osteo-arthritis in dogs, Fleming believes much more research needs to be done in veterinary use THC. “This could be key to phasing out opioids in veterinary medicine,” he says.
A turning point for Fleming was when he attended a presentation entitled “The Endocannabinoid System & its Clinical Relevance” at a September 2019 Northeast regional meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) in Portland, Me. This was led by Dr. Casara Andre of the Colorado School of Animal Massage, based in the Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge. “Massachusetts had just legalized, so there was a lot of interest and enthusiasm,” she recalls.
Andre, also a founding member of the VCS, calls herself an “integrative holistic practitioner,” but started her veterinary career working with dogs in the military, including at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg. She was trained at Virginia Tech’s veterinary school on Uncle Sam’s dime in exchange for 10 years of service as a commissioned officer. Her commission ended in 2016.
Andre notes that in 2016, the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) issued a memo, “CVMA Position Statement on Marijuana and Marijuana-derived Products in Companion Animals,” which states: “Veterinarians have an obligation to provide companion animal owners with complete education in regard to the potential risks and benefits of marijuana products in animals.” She also notes that Michigan in January 2021 passed a law allowing veterinarians to discuss use of cannabis products with pet owners — or, in the terminology increasingly preferred by vets, “pet parents.”
But a fundamental gap in the law remains. “Cannabis is either Schedule 1 on the marijuana side or not scheduled at all on the hemp side,” says Andre. “So you can’t prescribe either way. And there are currently no laws that allow a veterinarian to recommend, in the sense of actually giving an animal a medical card that allows something to be purchased from a dispensary specifically for them. The pet parent has to buy it for themselves and then decide ‘Oh, I want to use this on my dog.’ We are lacking precise terminology, so everyone winds up getting very confused.”
Before the law is clarified, Andre says, she hopes the VCS and responsible vets can provide guidance, making sure pet parents review and understand the certificate of analysis for cannabis products — the label required by California and other states, assuring that the product has passed muster in a licensed laboratory and meets standards.
“We need to make sure the product is not dangerous for animals,” Andre emphasizes. “Some edibles are made with chocolate — but chocolate is quite bad for animals, especially dogs. The sweetener xylitol is used in some cannabis products, and a very small amount of that will cause renal failure in dogs. Cannabinoids and terpenes themselves are really safe to work with, we find, but products that have been processed for humans can be trouble.”
Another VCS founding member is Dr. Trina Hazzah of Long Beach, CA, who serves as the organization’s president. She was also certified at the Chi Institute, and recently left her veterinary oncology practice to start a cannabis consulting service, to be called Green Nile.
While she believes the anti-inflammatory, anti-pain and anti-seizure properties of cannabis products demand attention, “lack of knowledge and fear of disciplinary action by the Veterinary Board are holding us back. We need a society where vets can feel comfortable discussing cannabis — a non-judgmental space for sharing information. And a process to tighten up veterinary cannabis medicine and develop standards.”
Dr. Hazzah sees greater scientific clarity emerging. “If a pet parent has a particular set of needs, we are starting to know which molecules are most effective. CBDA, for instance is COX-2 inhibitor. COX-2 is an enzyme involved in inflammation, so CBDA might be good to include in the profile of molecules were looking for to treat that.”
Promising studies on CBD to treat arthritis in dogs have recently been undertaken at Cornell and at Colorado State University. “Research shows CBD is very safe in both dogs and cats,” Gary Richter says. “But there has been precious little research done regarding animals and THC, where veterinary medicine is concerned.”
Bill Weinberg, a Project CBD contributing writer, is a 30-year veteran journalist in the fields of drug policy, ecology and indigenous peoples. He is a former news editor at High Times magazine, and he produces the websites CounterVortex.org and Global Ganja Report.
Hero image courtesy of Emily Mueller.
Copyright, Project CBD. May not be reprinted without permission.
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Plan for user authentication methods in SharePoint Server
APPLIES TO: 2013 2016 2019 Subscription Edition SharePoint in Microsoft 365
The user authentication methods mentioned here applies to SharePoint Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2016, SharePoint Server 2019, and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition.
Learn the user authentication types and methods that are supported by SharePoint Server and how to determine which ones to use for web applications and zones.
Learn about SharePoint authentication in Microsoft 365.
In SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, we now support OIDC 1.0 authentication. For more information on how to work with this new authentication type, see OpenID Connect 1.0 authentication.
User authentication is the validation of a user's identity against an authentication provider, which is a directory or database that contains the user's credentials and can confirm the user submitted them correctly. An example of an authentication provider is Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Other terms for authentication provider are user directory and attribute store.
An authentication method is a specific exchange of account credentials and other information that asserts a user's identity. The result of the authentication method is proof, typically in the form of a token that contains claims, that an authentication provider has authenticated a user.
An authentication type is a specific way of validating credentials against one or more authentication providers, sometimes using an industry standard protocol. An authentication type can use multiple authentication methods.
After a user's identity is validated, the authorization process determines which sites, content, and other features the user can access.
Your planning for user authentication types and methods should determine:
The user authentication types and methods for each web application and zone
The authentication infrastructure needed to support the determined authentication types and methods
Windows classic mode authentication is no longer supported in SharePoint Server 2016, SharePoint Server 2019, and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition.
User identity in AD DS is based on a user account. For successful authentication, the user provides the account name and proof of knowledge of the password. To determine access to resources, applications might have to query AD DS for account attributes and other information, such as group membership or role on the network. While this functionality works well for Windows environments, it doesn't scale out to third-party authentication providers and multi-vendor environments that support Internet, partner, or cloud-based computing models.
With claims-based identities, a user obtains a digitally signed security token from a commonly trusted identity provider. The token contains a set of claims. Each claim represents a specific item of data about users such as their names, group memberships, and role on the network. Claims-based authentication is user authentication that uses claims-based identity technologies and infrastructure. Applications that support claims-based authentication obtain a security token from a user, rather than credentials, and use the information within the claims to determine access to resources. No separate query to a directory service such as AD DS is needed.
Claims-based authentication in Windows is built on Windows Identity Foundation (WIF), which is a set of .NET Framework classes that is used to implement claims-based identity. Claims-based authentication relies on standards such as WS-Federation, WS-Trust, and protocols such as the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML).
For more information about claims-based authentication, see the following resources:
Due to the widespread use of claim-based authentication for user authentication, server-to-server authentication, and app authentication, we recommend claims-based authentication for all web applications and zones of a SharePoint Server farm. For more information, see Plan for server-to-server authentication in SharePoint Server. When you use claims-based authentication, all supported authentication methods are available for your web applications and you can take advantage of new features and scenarios in SharePoint Server that use server-to-server authentication and app authentication.
For claims-based authentication, SharePoint Server automatically changes all user accounts to claims identities. This changes results in a security token (also known as a claims token) for each user. The claims token contains the claims pertaining to the user. Windows accounts are converted into Windows claims. Forms-based membership users are transformed into forms-based authentication claims. SharePoint Server can use claims that are included in SAML-based tokens. Additionally, SharePoint developers and administrators can augment user tokens with more claims. For example, Windows user accounts and forms-based accounts can be augmented with extra claims that are used by SharePoint Server.
You don't have to be a claims architect to use claims-based authentication in SharePoint Server. However, implementing SAML token-based authentication requires coordination with administrators of your claims-based environment, as described in Plan for SAML token-based authentication.
Classic mode authentication in SharePoint Server 2013
In SharePoint 2013, when you create a web application in Central Administration, you can only specify authentication types and methods for claims-based authentication. In previous versions of SharePoint, you could also configure classic mode authentication for web applications in Central Administration. Classic mode authentication uses Windows authentication and SharePoint 2013 treats the user accounts as AD DS accounts.
To configure a web application to use classic mode authentication, you must use the New-SPWebApplication PowerShell cmdlet to create it. SharePoint 2010 Products web applications that are configured for classic mode authentication retain their authentication settings when you upgrade to SharePoint 2013. However, we recommend that you migrate your web applications to claims-based authentication before upgrading to SharePoint 2013.
A SharePoint 2013 farm can include a mix of web applications that use both modes. Some services don't differentiate between user accounts that are traditional Windows accounts and Windows claims accounts.
For more information about migrating before upgrading, see Migrate from classic-mode to claims-based authentication.
For more information about migrating after upgrading, see Migrate from classic-mode to claims-based authentication in SharePoint Server.
For information about how to create web applications that use classic mode authentication in SharePoint 2013, see Create web applications that use classic mode authentication in SharePoint Server. You can't migrate a web application that uses claims-based authentication to use classic mode authentication.
Office Online can be used only by SharePoint 2013 web applications that use claims-based authentication. Office Online rendering and editing will not work on SharePoint 2013 web applications that use classic mode authentication. If you migrate SharePoint 2010 web applications that use classic mode authentication to SharePoint 2013, you must migrate them to claims-based authentication to allow them to work with Office Online.
Supported authentication types and methods
SharePoint Server supports various authentication methods and authentication providers for the following authentication types:
SAML token-based authentication
The Windows authentication type takes advantage of your existing Windows authentication provider (AD DS) and the authentication protocols that a Windows domain environment uses to validate the credentials of connecting clients. Windows authentication method, which is used by both claims-based authentication include:
For more information, see Plan for Windows authentication in this article.
Watch the Windows claims authentication in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Server 2016 video
Although not a Windows authentication type, SharePoint Server also supports anonymous authentication. Users can access SharePoint content without validating their credentials. Anonymous authentication is disabled by default. You typically use anonymous authentication when you use SharePoint Server to publish content that doesn't require security and is available for all users, such as a public Internet website.
In addition to enabling anonymous authentication, you must also configure anonymous access (permissions) on sites and site resources.
Internet Information Services (IIS) websites that are created by SharePoint for serving web applications always have the Anonymous Authentication and Forms Authentication methods enabled, even when the SharePoint setting for Anonymous and Forms Authentication are disabled. This is intentional and disabling Anonymous or Forms Authentication directly in the IIS settings will result in errors in the SharePoint site.
Forms-based authentication is a claims-based identity management system that is based on ASP.NET membership and role provider authentication. Forms-based authentication can be used against credentials that are stored in an authentication provider, such as:
A database such as a SQL Server database
A Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) data store such as Novell eDirectory, Novell Directory Services (NDS), or Sun ONE
Forms-based authentication validates users based on credentials that users type in a logon form (typically a web page). Unauthenticated requests are redirected to a sign in page, where a user must provide valid credentials and submit the form. The system issues a cookie for authenticated requests that contains a key for reestablishing the identity for subsequent requests.
Watch the forms-based claims authentication in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Server 2016 video
With forms-based authentication, the user account credentials are sent as plaintext. Therefore, you should not use forms-based authentication unless you are also using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt the website traffic.
For more information, see Plan for forms-based authentication.
SAML token-based authentication
SAML token-based authentication in SharePoint Server uses the SAML 1.1 protocol and the WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile (WS-F PRP). It requires coordination with administrators of a claims-based environment, whether it is your own internal environment or a partner environment. If you use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0, you have a SAML token-based authentication environment.
A SAML token-based authentication environment includes an identity provider security token service (IP-STS). The IP-STS issues SAML tokens on behalf of users whose accounts are included in the associated authentication provider. Tokens can include any number of claims about a user, such as a user name and the groups to which the user belongs. An AD FS 2.0 server is an example of an IP-STS.
SharePoint Server takes advantage of claims that are included in tokens that an IP-STS issues to authorized users. In claims environments, an application that accepts SAML tokens is known as a relying party STS (RP-STS). A relying party application receives the SAML token and uses the claims inside to decide whether to grant the client access to the requested resource. In SharePoint Server, each web application that is configured to use a SAML provider is added to the IP-STS server as a separate RP-STS entry. A SharePoint farm can represent multiple RP-STS entries in the IP-STS.
Watch the SAML-based claims authentication in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Server 2016 video
The set of authentication providers for SAML token-based authentication depends on the IP-STS in your claims environment. If you use AD FS 2.0, authentication providers (known as attribute stores for AD FS 2.0) can include:
Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and AD DS in Windows Server 2008
All editions of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008
Custom attribute stores
For more information, see Plan for SAML token-based authentication.
Choosing authentication types for LDAP environments
Forms-based authentication or SAML token-based authentication can use LDAP environments. Use the authentication type that matches your current LDAP environment. If you don't already have an LDAP environment, we recommend that you use forms-based authentication because it's less complex. However, if your authentication environment already supports WS-Federation 1.1 and SAML 1.1, then we recommend SAML. SharePoint Server has a built-in LDAP provider.
Plan for Windows authentication
The process of planning and implementing Windows authentication methods is similar for claims-based authentication. Claims-based authentication for a web application doesn't increase the complexity of implementing Windows authentication methods. This section summarizes the planning for the Windows authentication methods.
NTLM and the Kerberos protocol
Both NTLM and the Kerberos protocol are Integrated Windows authentication methods, which let users seamlessly authenticate without prompts for credentials. For example:
Users who access SharePoint sites from Internet Explorer use the credentials under which the Internet Explorer process is running to authenticate. By default, these credentials are the credentials that the user used to sign in the computer.
Services or applications that use Integrated Windows authentication methods to access SharePoint resources attempt to use the credentials of the running thread, which by default is the identity of the process, to authenticate.
NTLM is the simplest form of Windows authentication to implement and typically requires no extra configuration of authentication infrastructure. Select this option when you create or configure the web application.
The Kerberos protocol supports ticketing authentication. Use of the Kerberos protocol requires more configuration of the environment. To enable Kerberos authentication, the client and server computers must have a trusted connection to the domain Key Distribution Center (KDC). Configuring the Kerberos protocol involves setting up service principal names (SPNs) in AD DS before you install SharePoint Server.
The reasons why you should consider Kerberos authentication are as follows:
The Kerberos protocol is the strongest Integrated Windows authentication protocol, and supports advanced security features including Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption and mutual authentication of clients and servers.
The Kerberos protocol allows for delegation of client credentials.
Of the available secure authentication methods, Kerberos requires the least amount of network traffic to AD DS domain controllers. Kerberos can reduce page latency in certain scenarios, or increase the number of pages that a front-end web server can serve in certain scenarios. Kerberos can also reduce the load on domain controllers.
The Kerberos protocol is an open protocol that many platforms and vendors support.
The reasons why Kerberos authentication might not be appropriate are as follows:
Kerberos authentication requires more configuration of infrastructure and environment than other authentication methods to function correctly. In many cases, domain administrator permission is required to configure the Kerberos protocol. Kerberos authentication can be difficult to set up and manage. Misconfiguring Kerberos can prevent successful authentication to your sites.
Kerberos authentication requires client computer connectivity to a KDC and to an AD DS domain controller. In a Windows deployment, the KDC is an AD DS domain controller. While this network configuration is common on an organization intranet, Internet-facing deployments are typically not configured in this manner.
The following steps summarize configuring Kerberos authentication:
Configure Kerberos authentication for SQL Server communications by creating SPNs in AD DS for the SQL Server service account.
Create SPNs for web applications that will use Kerberos authentication.
Install the SharePoint Server farm.
Configure specific services within the farm to use specific accounts.
Create the web applications that will use Kerberos authentication.
Digest and Basic
With the Digest authentication method, the user account credentials are sent as an MD5 message digest to the Internet Information Services (IIS) service on the web server that hosts the web application or zone. With the Basic authentication method, the user account credentials are sent as plaintext. Therefore, you shouldn't use the Basic authentication method unless you're also using SSL to encrypt the website traffic.
You might have to use these older authentication methods if your environment uses web browsers or services that only support Digest or Basic authentication to websites.
Unlike the NTLM, Kerberos, and Anonymous authentication methods, you configure Digest and Basic authentication methods from the properties of the web site that corresponds to the web application or zone in the Internet Information Services (IIS) snap-in.
If you're using claims-based authentication, see:
Plan for forms-based authentication
To use forms-based authentication to authenticate users against an identity management system that isn't based on Windows or that is external, you must register the membership provider and role manager in the Web.config file. SharePoint Server uses the standard ASP.NET role manager interface to collect group information about the current user. Each ASP.NET role is treated as a domain group by the authorization process in SharePoint Server. You register role managers in the Web.config file exactly as you register membership providers for authentication.
If you want to manage membership users or roles from the Central Administration website, you must register the membership provider and the role manager in the Web.config file for the Central Administration website. Register the membership provider and the role manager in the Web.config file for the web application that hosts the content.
For detailed steps to configure forms-based authentication, see Configure forms-based authentication for a claims-based web application in SharePoint Server
Plan for SAML token-based authentication
The architecture for implementing SAML token-based providers includes the following components:
SharePoint Security Token Service This service creates the SAML tokens that the farm uses. The service is automatically created and started on all servers in a server farm. The service is used for inter-farm communication because all inter-farm communication uses claims-based authentication. This service is also used for authentication methods that are implemented for web applications that use claims-based authentication. These methods include Windows authentication, forms-based authentication, and SAML token-based authentication.
Token-signing certificate (ImportTrustCertificate) This certificate is the one you export from an IP-STS and then copy to one server in the farm and add it to the farm's Trusted Root Authority list. Once you use this certificate to create an SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer, you can't use it to create another one. To use the certificate to create a different SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer, you must delete the existing one first. Before you delete an existing one, you must disassociate it from all web applications that may be using it.
Identity claim The identity claim is the claim from a SAML token that is the unique identifier of the user. Only the owner of the IP-STS knows which value in the token will always be unique for each user. The identity claim is created as a regular claims mapping during the mapping of all desired claims. The claim that serves as the identity claim is declared when the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer is created.
Other claims These claims consist of extra claims from a SAML ticket that describe users. These can include user roles, user groups, or other kinds of claims such as age. All claims mappings are created as objects that are replicated across the servers in a SharePoint Server farm.
Realm In the SharePoint claims architecture, the URI or URL that is associated with a SharePoint web application that is configured to use a SAML token-based provider represents a realm. When you create a SAML-based authentication provider on the farm, you specify the realms, or web application URLs, that you want the IP-STS to recognize, one at a time. The first realm is specified when you create the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer. You can add more realms after you create the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer. Realms are specified by using syntax similar to the following:
$realm = "urn:sharepoint:mysites". After you add the realm to the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer, you must create an RP-STS trust with the realm identifier on the IP-STS server. This process involves specifying the URL for the web application.
SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer This is the object that is created on the SharePoint farm that includes the values necessary to communicate with and receive tokens from the IP-STS. When you create the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer, you specify which token-signing certificate to use, the first realm, the claim that represents the identity claim, and any other claims. You can only associate a token-signing certificate from an STS with one SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer. However, after you create the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer, you can add more realms for extra web applications. After you add a realm to the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer, you must also add it to the IP-STS as a relying party. The SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer object is replicated across servers in the SharePoint Server farm.
Relying party security token service (RP-STS) In SharePoint Server, each web application that is configured to use a SAML provider is added to the IP-STS server as an RP-STS entry. A SharePoint Server farm can include multiple RP-STS entries.
Identity provider security token service (IP-STS) This service is the secure token one in the claims environment that issues SAML tokens on behalf of users who are included in the associated user directory.
The following diagram shows the SharePoint Server SAML token claims architecture.
SAML token claims architecture
The SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer object is created with several parameters, which include:
A single identity claim.
A single SignInURL parameter.
The SignInURL parameter specifies the URL to redirect a user request to in order to authenticate to the IP-STS.
A single Wreply parameter.
Some IP-STS servers require the Wreply parameter, which is set to either true or false. False is the default. Use the Wreply parameter only if it's required by the IP-STS.
Multiple claims mappings.
To implement SAML token-based authentication with SharePoint Server, implement the following steps that require planning in advance:
Export the token-signing certificate from the IP-STS. Copy the certificate to a server in the SharePoint Server farm.
Define the claim that will be used as the unique identifier of the user. This claim is known as the identity claim. The user principal name (UPN) or user e-mail name is frequently used as the user identifier. Coordinate with the administrator of the IP-STS to determine the correct identifier because only the owner of the IP-STS knows the value in the token that will always be unique per user. Identifying the unique identifier for the user is part of the claims-mapping process. You use Microsoft PowerShell to create claims mappings.
Define extra claims mappings. Define the extra claims from the incoming token that the SharePoint Server farm will use. User roles are an example of a claim that can be used to assign permissions to resources in the SharePoint Server farm. All claims from an incoming token that don't have a mapping will be discarded.
Use PowerShell to create a new authentication provider to import the token-signing certificate. This process creates the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer. During this process, you specify the identity claim and extra claims that you've mapped. Create and specify a realm that is associated with the first SharePoint web applications that you're configuring for SAML token-based authentication. After you create the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer, you can create and add more realms for extra SharePoint web applications. This procedure enables you to configure multiple web applications to use the same SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer.
For each realm that you add to the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer, you must create an RP-STS entry on the IP-STS. You can create this entry before the SharePoint web application exists. Regardless, you must plan the URL before you create the web applications.
For an existing or new SharePoint web application, configure it to use the newly created authentication provider. The authentication provider is displayed as a trusted identity provider in Central Administration when you create a web application.
You can configure multiple SAML token-based authentication providers. However, you can only use a token-signing certificate once in a farm. All configured providers are displayed as options in Central Administration. Claims from different trusted STS environments won't conflict.
If you implement SAML token-based authentication with a partner company and your own environment includes an IP-STS, we recommend that you and the administrator of your internal claims environment establish a one-way trust relationship from your internal IP-STS to the partner STS. This approach doesn't require you to add an authentication provider to your SharePoint Server farm. It also enables your claims administrators to manage the whole claims environment.
You no longer have to set network load balancing to single affinity when you are using claims-based authentication in SharePoint Server.
When a web application is configured to use SAML token-based authentication, the SPTrustedClaimProvider class does not provide search functionality to the People Picker control. Any text entered in the People Picker control will automatically be displayed as if it resolves, regardless of whether it is a valid user, group, or claim. If your SharePoint Server solution uses SAML token-based authentication, plan to create a custom claims provider that implements custom search and name resolution.
For detailed steps to configure SAML token-based authentication using AD FS, see Configure SAML-based claims authentication with AD FS in SharePoint Server.
Planning zones for web applications
Zones represent different logical paths to gain access to the same sites in a web application. Each web application can include as many as five zones. When you create a web application, Central Administration creates the zone named default. To create additional zones, extend the web application and select one of the remaining zone names: intranet, extranet, Internet, or custom.
Your plan for zones will depend on the following:
- Claims-based authentication (recommended) — You can implement multiple authentication providers on a single zone. You can also use multiple zones.
Implementing more than one type of authentication on a single zone
If you use claims-based authentication and implement more than one authentication method, we recommend that you implement multiple authentication methods on the default zone. The result is the same URL for all users.
When you implement multiple authentication methods on the same zone, the following restrictions apply:
You can implement only one instance of forms-based authentication on a zone.
Central Administration allows you to use both an Integrated Windows method and Basic at the same time. Otherwise, you can't implement more than one type of Windows authentication on a zone.
If multiple SAML token-based authentication providers are configured for a farm, all appear as options when you create a web application or a new zone. You can configure multiple SAML providers on the same zone.
The following diagram shows multiple types of authentication implemented on the default zone for a partner collaboration site.
Multiple types of authentication implemented on the default zone
In the diagram, users from different directory stores use the same URL to access the partner web site. The dashed box that surrounds partner companies shows the relationship between the user directory and the authentication type that is configured in the default zone.
Planning to crawl content
The crawl component requires NTLM to access content. At least one zone must be configured to use NTLM authentication. If NTLM authentication isn't configured on the default zone, the crawl component can use a different zone that is configured to use NTLM authentication.
Implement more than one zone
If you plan to implement more than one zone for web applications, use the following guidelines:
Use the default zone to implement your most secure authentication settings. If a request can't be associated with a specific zone, the authentication settings and other security policies of the default zone are applied. The default zone is the zone that is created when you create a web application. Typically, the most secure authentication settings are designed for end-user access. So, end users are likely to access the default zone.
Use the minimum number of zones that are required to provide access to users. Each zone is associated with a new IIS site and domain for accessing the web application. Only add new access points when they're required.
Ensure that at least one zone is configured to use NTLM authentication for the crawl component. Don't create a dedicated zone for the index component unless it's necessary.
The following diagram shows multiple zones that are implemented to accommodate different authentication types for a partner collaboration site.
One zone per authentication type
In the diagram, the default zone is used for remote employees. Each zone has a different URL associated with it. Employees use a different zone depending on whether they're working in the office or are working remotely.
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In an emergency, HOA boards can use email to make critical decisions. But board members need to know what constitutes an “emergency” under the law.
The CID Open Meeting Act, Email, and Emergencies
The Common Interest Development Open Meeting Act (Civil Code §4910) regulates how boards announce and conduct meetings, and requires new ways of managing association business. Perhaps the biggest impact concerns the use of email: “the board of director shall not conduct a meeting via a series of electronic transmissions, including…electronic mail”. There is an exception:
Electronic transmissions may be used as a method of conducting an emergency meeting if all members of the board…consent in writing to that action, and if the written consent(s)…are filed with the minutes of the meeting of the board.
This article discusses when and how email may be used to deal with emergencies and other tools that can be used to address emergencies without reliance on the emergency exception to the ban on email for decision making.
What is an “Emergency” under the Open Meeting Act?
The definition under the Open Meeting Act (“Act”) of an “emergency” warranting special decision making procedures has not changed. It exists when there are:
- Circumstances that could not have been reasonably foreseen, which
- Require immediate attention, and
- Possible action by the board, and which
- Of necessity, make it impractical to give either two days notice to the membership (for executive session meetings) or four days notice (for regular or special board meetings).
These four requirements emphasize that an “emergency” is an event or circumstance that really wasn’t planned for and must be discussed and possibly acted on sooner than two or four days (the time periods required for posting notices of board meetings on common area).
Not all emergencies will involve money, health and safety or repairs, but many will. Here are some examples of situations that in some cases could be deemed emergencies requiring fast board discussion and possible action:
- Contractor found dry rot that poses threat to safe use of deck
- Decision re removal of newly found asbestos
- Final strategic decisions before impending small claims court hearing
- Lawsuit threat requiring immediate response
- Previously unknown opportunity to attend City Council meeting to protect association
- Addressing false publicly distributed emails relating to an important pending special assessment vote
As you can see, the list of topics that constitute an emergency under the Civil Code is broad. It is not, however, all encompassing. A board relying on the emergency exception to the general ban on email decision-making should be confident enough to promptly disclose the decision made and stand behind the need to do it “secretly” (that is, without notice). The statute itself mandates this in the two ways discussed below.
Unanimity and Post-Decision Notice in Minutes
One required safeguard against abuse of the emergency exception to the email ban is that, in addition to the four requirements listed above, the emergency action to be taken must be authorized by all directors. There is some debate as to whether all directors must consent to the initial email stating the existence of the emergency and the need for action but generally the answer to this question is irrelevant: if all directors fail to respond to the email or refuse to agree to the proposed action, it cannot be authorized electronically whether or not the situation would otherwise be deemed an emergency.
The last requirement for emergency meetings by email is that copies of the email (or emails) reflecting the action taken and its unanimous support must “be filed with the minutes of the board.” In reality, this is not a new requirement and compliance is easy: a reference to the emergency action should be referenced in the minutes of the next board meeting and copies of the email(s) can be attached to those minutes. One purpose of this requirement is to assure that members are given notice of the action taken and perhaps this is intended to minimize abuse of the general rule against use of email for board decisions.
If an Emergency, Then What?
An emergency can be addressed in several ways, depending on practical and political considerations and the extent to which board authority has been delegated. As discussed above, these include conducting a “meeting by email” which can work well if all directors actively use email and consent on an issue is likely. Alternatively, if these conditions cannot be met, the President or two directors can call a meeting and if a quorum is met, emergency action can be authorized by a majority attending (in person or by telephone) even if unanimous agreement cannot be reached. The method of timing of such notice is not specified in the Civil Code; the Corporations Code provides for 48-hour personal telephonic notice to directors for “special meetings” but does not deal with emergencies. No law requires providing members with prior notice of an emergency meeting.
In reality, many associations will probably choose to deal with emergencies without any board action, whether by emails, telephonic or “in person” meetings. Amendments to the Act specifically reference the board’s authority to delegate the right to make decisions concerning association operations (which would include spending authority) to one or more officers, directors or an executive committee (in all three cases involving less than a majority of directors or the manager. In the six scenarios noted above, the right to address emergencies without board action could have been handled by less than the full board, without email or a noticed meeting, assuming a proper prior delegation had been made.
The days of using email to conduct normal business by the full board are over. Like so many other changes to California homeowner association law that seem so dramatic and negative, recent amendments to the Act may actually promote better decision-making, as alluded to in our previous article. As it stands, the use of email for emergencies should adhere to the rules discussed above. If a true emergency exists, email decision-making can be an excellent tool used to protect or promote an association’s interest.
Steve Weil is one of the founding principals at Berding/Weil LLP in Alamo. He has practiced community association law since 1984 and has dealt with virtually every kind of challenge facing directors, managers and community association members. He is a member of the ECHO board of directors.
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- Press Release
- August 9, 2022
Association of Space Explorers Briefing: Asteroid Threats: A Call for Global Response – Results
MEDIA ADVISORY September 5, 2008
Media Advisory: Association of Space Explorers Committee on Near Earth Objects
For the past two years the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) — the international organization of astronauts and cosmonauts from 33 countries — has been developing a program to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts.
To assist it in developing this decision program for the international community, the ASE’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Committee formed a distinguished international Panel on Asteroid Threat Mitigation. The Committee then organized a series of four workshops with the Panel to identify and address the international legal, political, scientific and disaster management aspects of the challenge.
The findings and recommendations from this work, Asteroid Threats: A Call for Global Response, will be detailed in a special press briefing to be held on September 25, 2008 at the Offices of the Google Foundation in San Francisco, California.
The results of this two-year effort will be submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in its 2009 sessions in Vienna, Austria for deliberation and action.
The ASE NEO Committee and its Panel will complete its deliberations in a final workshop in San Francisco, September 22-25. At the close of that workshop the ASE and its Panel of international experts will hold a press conference to announce the results of its program and its plans for bringing its recommendations to the attention of the world’s space agencies and political leaders.
WHEN: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2008 at 10:00 A.M.
WHERE: Offices of the Google Foundation
345 Spear St., 2nd Floor
San Francisco, California
Following the press conference individual astronauts, cosmonauts and Panel members will be available for personal interviews.
Press packets will be available at the reception area outside the press conference.
For more information, contact:
Rusty Schweickart, Chairman
ASE NEO Committee
- Rusty Schweickart, USA (Chair)
- Sergey Avdeev, Russia
- Franklin Chang-Diaz, Costa Rica
- Chris Hadfield, Canada
- Tom Jones, USA
- Ed Lu, USA
- Dorin Prunariu, Romania
- Viktor Savinykh, Russia
- Panel on Asteroid Threat Mitigation
- Aidgun Ade Abiodun, Nigeria
- Vallampadugai Arunachalam, India
- Roger Bonnet, Switzerland
- Sergio Camacho-Lara, Mexico
- James George, Canada
- Tomifumi Godai, Japan
- Nandasiri Jasentuliyana, Sri Lanka
- Peter Jankowitsch, Austria
- Sergey Kapitza, Russia
- Paul Kovacs, Canada
- Walther Lichem, Austria
- Gordon McBean, Canada
- Martin Rees, UK
- Karlene Roberts, USA
- Michael Simpson, France
- Crispin Tickell, UK
- Richard Tremayne-Smith, UK
- James Zimmerman, USA
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A Romantic Italian Meal For Valentines Day
How are you going to woo the one you love on Valentine’s Day? Well, the male of the species usually finds that flowers and chocolates do the trick. And what better than chocolates whose name translates as “kisses”? So out you go, gents, and find yourself a box of Baci, the chocolate and hazelnut combination that is the pride of the Umbrian town of Perugia.Each individual Bacio – some romantics like to present a symbolic, single chocolate; and, no, not because they are too tight to buy a box – comes with its own message of love guaranteed to melt the heart. Well, that’s the idea, anyway.
Baci: Italian the Chocolates
Baci were the brainchild of a local confectioner, Luisa Spagnoli, who called them “punches” because their shape reminded her of a closed fist. Thankfully a colleague, Giovanni Buitoni saved Signora Spagnoli from a marketing disaster by coming up with the much more appealing name by which they are known today.
Terni: the Home of St ValentineOf course, all this would be reason enough to point lovers in the direction of Umbria as the most romantic region of Italy, but there is another, more obvious reason why you would expect love to be in the area east of neighbouring Tuscany: it is the home of St Valentine, himself. Well, more accurately, the town of Terni claims him, Valentine having been its first bishop. Each year, the lovers he protects flock to the town for a festival to celebrate his life and his legacy.
Veal Escalope With Truffle OilWherever you are in the world on the big day, it is only appropriate that you should serve up a dish or two from St Valentine’s native region in his honour. Romantic meals should never be too heavy on the stomach, so let’s skip the primo (first course) and go straight for a secondo of veal escalope served with porcini mushrooms with the added luxury of a little truffle oil. Of course, you could go one better, forget about the oil and garnish with a little shaved fresh truffle, but that could stretch the budget too far. The seductive earthiness of the truffle aroma should be more than enough to stir the passions a little.
Dried porcini will do fine for the recipe: simply reconstitute them in some warm water and add them to a skillet containing some foaming butter and a little olive oil to prevent the butter burning. Then lay in the veal, beaten thin with a rolling pin, along with some finely sliced garlic and cook for three minutes on each side. Add the truffle oil as a garnish along with some chopped flat-leaf parsley. Serve the veal with a side dish of green salad leaves such as rocket or watercress, tossed in a little oil and lemon juice. Those hungrier for a lot more than love may appreciate the veal served on a robust bed of Castelluccio lentils, another famous name that hails from the region.
Italian Pastries: Rocciata di AssisiFor dessert, a horseshoe-shaped pastry casing containing apples, pine nuts and sultanas served with some mascarpone should do the trick. Known as Rocciata di Assisi, home to another Umbrian patron saint, St Francis, the recipe calls for 250 grams of plain flour, 50g of sugar, a pinch of salt, olive oil, 500g of apples peeled, cored and thinly sliced, 100g of sultanas, and 50g of pine nuts.
To make the pastry, mix together the flour, sugar and salt with some warm water and a good splurge of the olive oil. Roll out thinly, then place the fruits and nuts lengthways. Roll up the pastry into a sausage shape, then form into a horseshoe. Bake in the oven on a medium heat for around 30 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown. Dust the dessert with icing sugar, then serve individual slices adorned with the mascarpone and perhaps some slivers of lemon zest to give the ensemble an extra lift.
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Countering the Centre’s push to hold simultaneous election, Chief Election Commissioner Om Prakash Rawat proposed holding one election a year as an alternative. He also said that the move would also prevent violations of Model Code of Conduct on social media, as the social media platforms can be ordered to not run any poll-related news 48 hours before the elections.
Rawat also highlighted that conducting simultaneous elections will require a huge manpower, especially security forces.
For some months, the issue of holding simultaneous elections across the country has been a raging debate with a stakeholder discussion called for the One Nation, One Poll proposal by the Law Commission of India. The Law Commission and NITI Aayog have often repeated that simultaneous elections are somehow acceptable because “elections to Lok Sabha and all state Legislative Assemblies were held simultaneously between 1951 and 1967”.
While the BJP mooted the simultaneous elections proposal, Opposition has repeatedly denounced the Law Commission’s agenda. Most Opposition parties flayed the concept of simultaneous elections, terming it as “anti-democratic” and “unconstitutional”.
Rawat had earlier said that it would take a long time to get the legal framework for holding Lok Sabha and Assembly elections together ready. “We cannot put the cart before the horse. Logistical issues are subservient to legal framework. Unless legal framework is in place, we don’t have to talk about anything else because legal framework will take a lot of time, making constitutional amendment to (changing) the law, all the process will take time,” he remarked.
If simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies are held in 2019, the Election Commission will require nearly 24 lakh EVMs, double the number required to hold only the Parliamentary polls. During their discussion with the Law Commission on 16 May on the issue of holding simultaneous polls, the Election Commission officials had said they would need around Rs 4,500 crore to buy nearly 12 lakh additional electronic voting machines (EVMs) and an equal number voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines.
“There are nearly 10 lakh polling stations across the country. Since EVMs and paper-trail machines are deployed in every polling station, the requirement is for 10 lakh EVMs and an equal number of paper-trail machines. In addition, 20 percent of the machines are kept in the reserve. That comes to two lakh. Therefore, to hold the Lok Sabha polls in 2019, the EC needs 12 lakh EVMs and an equal number of VVPAT machines,” explained an Election Commission functionary.
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By Daniel Hunter
The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee will officially launch its inquiry into Women in the Workplace on Tuesday 13 November.
Members of the Committee will also discuss the inquiry on the BBC Radio 4 programme, Woman’s Hour, during two live shows airing on Tuesday 13 November and Wednesday 14 November.
On Tuesday 13 November, Committee member Ann McKechin MP, in conversation with Woman’s Hour host, Jane Garvey, will talk about why the Committee decided to hold this inquiry, some of the issues that may be looked at and how Select Committees work.
On Wednesday 14 November, the Woman’s Hour programme will be hosting a phone-in devoted to the inquiry. Committee Member Rebecca Harris MP will answer calls.
“Inequality has no place in the workplace," the Chair of the Committee, Adrian Bailey MP, said.
“Discriminating against female employees is not only unfair to women, it is detrimental to businesses and damaging to the economy.
“Complacency, inactivity and stereotyping can all act as barriers to progress.
“We need to know what steps have been taken to tackle gender inequality, what effect they have had and what more might be done.
“This debate needs to take place in public. The BIS Committee is not afraid to innovate or to break out of the so-called ‘Westminster bubble.’ By discussing these issues on Woman’s Hour, we are bringing the work of our Committee to an important new audience.
“We want to hear from real people, talking about real issues so that, together, we can find real solutions to this vital problem.”
Terms of reference
The BIS Committee recently extended its deadline for the submission of written evidence until Christmas 2012. It has identified the following issues as being of particular interest:
· Do the Gender Equality Duty and the Equality Act go far enough in tackling inequalities, such as gender pay gap and job segregation, between men and women in the workplace?
· What steps should be taken to provide greater transparency on pay and other issues, such as workforce composition?
· What has been the impact of the current economic crisis on female employment and wage levels?
· How should the gender stereotyping prevalent in particular occupations, for example in engineering, banking, construction, and the beauty industry, be tackled?
· What more should be done to promote part-time work at all levels of the workplace and to ensure that both women and men have opportunities to gain senior positions within an organisation while working part time?
· To what extent have the recommendations in Lord Mervyn Davies’ Report “Women on Board” (published in February 2011) been acted upon?
· To what extent should investors take into account the percentage of women on boards, when considering company reporting and appointments to the board?
· Why are there still so few women in senior positions on boards, and what are the benefits of having a greater number?
· How successful is the voluntary code of conduct (a recommendation of the Davies Report) which addresses gender diversity and best practice, covering relevant search criteria and processes relating to FTSE board level appointments?
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Wellness Wednesday – Recapping Healthy Heart Month with Nurse Lauren
Hi there, Nurse Lauren here with your Wellness Wednesday tip! It’s the last Wednesday in February, so let’s recap all we have learned this month on how to keep our hearts healthy and beating strong! Following these three tips will help you prevent heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United States. 80% of deaths from coronary artery disease are attributed to preventable factors. Preventable! Making good choices today about what you eat and how often you exercise can keep your heart healthy for years to come. Keep in mind that family history can also be a factor but the tips above are risks that you can control.
Tip #1: Nutrition is key! Eat a healthy diet that includes less processed foods and more fresh fruits and vegetables.
Tip #2: Get off the couch and get moving! Exercise lowers your blood pressure and cholesterol level.
Tip #3: Do not smoke! Quit or don’t start. This habit is the leading cause of preventable deaths.
By keeping healthy you are taking part in the Million Hearts® initiative to prevent one million hearts attacks and strokes by the year 2022. Are you a clinical practice or a health system that has exceptional rates of hypertension control? If you do, you can enter the 2018 Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Challenge (For eligibility, you must have achieved hypertension control rates of at least 80%.) If your practice is successful at helping control your patients high blood pressure then enter by April 6, 2018.
To learn more about heart disease, its risk factors and how to prevent it, you can refer to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For a recap of all we have learned this month, check out my Healthy Hearts infographic below for all the information you need.
This is Nurse Lauren, contributor of NursesNOW, signing off with your Wellness Wednesday tips. Remember to follow all of these strategies (healthy foods, be active, stop smoking) to keep your heart healthy for years to come!
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I started a blog called The https://oceansidetaxi.ca/ Flawless Blogspot as a hobby. Eventually, I made a big pivot, and here we are today with the blog and podcast! But it all started and stemmed from a hobby that brought me creative joy. And having a hobby that will also help you grow professionally will be a cherry on top.
- There are many mediums , but start withbeginner’s kit.
- All you need is some paper and coloring pencils that can be purchased for a more than reasonable price at your local dollar store.
- And it’s a rewarding hobby, too as your effort leads to blankets, pillows or decorations you can show off to friends & family.
- Maybe your interest in cooking will land you on an episode of Chopped.
- Also wrongly considered by many to be a dying art, cobbling, or shoemaking is an invaluable skill or hobby for almost anyone.
Everyone needs a hobby, as the old saying goes. Hobbies help develop our tastes and our passions in life – they can be as diverse as gardening, cooking, writing, skydiving, stand up comedy and sewing to name but a few. In these uncertain times, it is easy to see why is it important to have a hobby. However, I do enjoy it and I frequently lose track of time as I am happily writing away regardless of the topic. One hobby I LOVE to engage in is making and decorating birthday cakes for my family. Regardless of the season, I love cooking and baking as well as writing on my blog.
Quiz: Which Hobby Or Passion Will Fuel Your Life?
Knitting is, aside from an enjoyable pastime and a way to craft a perfect gift for someone you love, a fantastic tool for enhancing productivity. It uses the same multi-tasking and planning skills that a modern day workplace will utilise, and it promises a physical, tangible end product to your endeavours. Whether it’s writing articles, plays, radio scripts or diary entries, writing helps unlock your creative side, and helps you be as productive and healthy as possible. One of the most productive hobbies to have is to write in your spare time.
Hobby Ideas To Get You Started
Have you noticed how some of the best YouTubers and Instagrammers are young students? Content creation is turning into a hobby that many enjoy, and it can be the perfect hobby for you too. Using your smartphone camera, you can share your perspective on different topics and bring value to the audience.
Learning a creative hobby has the added benefit that you will be exercising parts of your brain that don’t get as much activity on a daily basis. If you are considering a career move, participating in a hobby related to a new field can help prepare you and let you know if you’re well-suited for that job. It can also give you things to include on your résumé. You may also meet new friends, keep your brain sharp, or make some extra money on the side. Some pursuits combine several of these ingredients.
The initial plan was to learn how to puppeteer, but they quickly learned how complex it is. If you want to dabble,buy a couple of puppetsormake your ownif you’re feeling crafty. I took art classes when I was younger and Jacob bought mean easel so I can start again. Whether you just want to doodle,draw anime characters, orcomics, you can learn how to draw.This bookis so great for people who don’t think they can draw. We started taking hip hop classes last year, but after a few lessons, our teacher had to leave the city. Maybe next we’ll try salsa, ballroom, belly dancing, or even pole dancing.
There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Keep in mind that we may receive commissions when you click our links and make purchases. However, this does not impact our reviews and comparisons. We try our best to keep things fair and balanced, in order to help you make the best choice for you. So go to thrift shops, pawnshops, lawn, and estate sales to find the best deals on things you want. There’s no need to buy new, so learn how to spot hidden treasure and go on an adventure-seeking out whatever you want.
And I can promise that just because you own a copy of photoshop, you are no graphic designer. That would be like me saying I should be able to be a doctor because I took a CNA course, watched house and know how to google. Stress is a major symptom of a complex and fast paced society.
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Say goodbye to plants: Synbio player Antheia earns new backers in quest to redesign flora-derived medicine manufacturing
The age of synthetic biology is officially upon us with super-unicorns like Ginkgo Bioworks changing the game in terms of how investors view those cell engineering platforms. Now, a California company looking to do away with fragile flora supply chains in drug development has earned a new round of investment to chase its goal.
Synbio player Antheia raised a $73 million Series B round it will use to advance its pipeline of compounds derived from a plant-alternative manufacturing process using whole yeast cell engineering, the company said Wednesday.
The round was led by Viking Global Investors and included participation from Sherpalo Ventures and Hillspire.
Antheia will aim to engineer and advance its first pharmaceutical compound developed through its yeast cell fermentation process as well as a range of key starting materials (KSM) and API, it said. Many of those precursor compounds are derived from plants with a supply chain Antheia described as “fragile” given environmental threats, including natural disasters and geopolitical conflict.
The company’s engineering platform would, in theory, replace the need for complex plant-derived compounds altogether, using engineered yeast cells acting like a “miniature factory” to churn out molecules at commercial scale. The company has some early data backing up its claims, with its first engineered KSM running at what the biotech calls “commercially relevant titers” at the pilot scale.
Meanwhile, Antheia has achieved biosynthesis in four classes of plant-derived medicines, it said, including tropane alkaloids, the process of which was documented in a September article from CEO Christina Smolke in Nature. Those drugs, which are used to treat neuromuscular disorders such as Parkinson’s and muscle spasms, rely on the “intensive cultivation” of nightshades, Antheia said, due to the fact that there is no commercial-scale chemical synthesis process available.
The supply chain for tropane alkaloids, including the antimuscarinic agent atropine used to reduce salivation before surgery and anti-nausea patches made with scopolamine, is particularly vulnerable to disruption, making it a ripe target for Antheia’s platform. To replicate the drugs, Antheia’s yeast platform had to express 26 genes derived from 10 organisms with eight gene deletions, underscoring the complexity of those drugs and Antheia’s engineering power.
“Antheia’s synthetic biology platform can prevent drug shortages by enabling more resilient and agile production of essential medicines for the US and global markets, solving one of the most challenging problems in the industry and improving the overall healthcare system,” Smolke said in a statement.
The three other plant-derived medicine classes where Antheia has achieved biosynthesis include antitussives, chemotherapeutics, and neurotransmitter inhibitors. Meanwhile, the company has eyes on “undruggable” classes of therapeutics given the potential to crack open areas of drug engineering where chemical synthesis isn’t possible.
Synbio platforms have come a long way in recent years as companies that once couldn’t hold investors’ attention are now scoring massive public offerings and fundraising rounds.
The largest, by far, is Ginkgo Bioworks, which went public in May as part of a reverse merger that valued the company pre-money at a whopping $15 billion. Ginkgo scrapped for years to earn that valuation, working on areas as diverse as perfume and synthetic meat before their commercial-scale drug manufacturing process went viral.
Meanwhile, companies like Zymergen, using cell fermentation to produce industrial materials, are also seeing a wave of new interest. The biotech closed a $500 million IPO in April with the ambitious goal of using its platform to disrupt a potential $3 billion industrial materials market.
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Courtney recently wrote us the following:
I recently did a hair analysis on one of our competition horses, and it came back showing that he was very high in several heavy metals, which were Iron, Chromium, Lithium, Aluminum, Arsenic, and mainly Lead. We tested other horses on the same property and on a similar diet, and they didn’t have these high levels, so we are guessing he’s been dealing with this overload since before we purchased him. We use activated charcoal for ourselves for detox and I’ve read articles on detoxing horses high in heavy metals, but I am struggling to find dosages. Can you offer any insight or help?
Detoxing your horse is a good idea and the Vet Dtox™ may be very helpful, however, please note that Lithium, which is a salt and used in psychotropic drugs, will not be adsorbed by the Vet Dtox™, as charcoal is not interested in minerals or nutrients. However, to aid in detoxing the heavy metals, you can add the Vet Detox™ powder to the horse’s food or water to administer to him.
Please note: never administer it as a loose powder, unless of course it is in a capsule or tablet, as it must be mixed in a liquid first and then added to food. There is no taste to the charcoal, so it should work even for fussy palates.
It is important to note that charcoal is not soluble, so it will sink to the bottom of the water trough, therefore, it will be necessary to stir it up when it settles to the bottom. Stirring it once a day should suffice.
Below is the dosage chart and a link to a short list of the many poisons that activated charcoal adsorbs.
We hope this helps!
Horses, cattle 50 – 200 g
Foals, calves, pigs, sheep, goats 15 – 50 g
Piglets, lambs, dogs, cats 3 – 10 g
Poultry, birds 1 – 2 g
Poisoning .75 g per kg body-weight.
Method of administration:- oral administration, preferably in the feed or drinking water.
5.8 Overdose (symptoms and measures): Not applicable.
5.9 Special warnings for the target animals: None.
5.10 Withdrawal periods: Zero days.
5.11 Special warnings for operators: None.
List of poisons charcoal is known to adsorb: https://charcoalremedies.com/poisons/
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Large statues are usually made for Gods and Rajnikanth, There are statues like the Buddha in Bamiyan and Hyderabad, and Gomateshwara in Shravanabelagola which we all admire. Now joining that league is Chairman Mao. The place for the statue is also classy – Tibet.
CHAIRMAN MAO’S stern features are to gaze out over Tibet for the first time. A huge statue of Mao Zedong, whose Red Armies entered the deeply Buddhist Himalayan region in 1951 to extend Communist Party rule, is to stand in a newly built square in the town of Gongga. The 7.5m (24½ft) figure, weighing 35 tonnes, is a gift to the small Tibetan town just south of the regional capital, Lhasa, from the central Chinese city of Changsha, where Mao was born.
The statue was designed by Zhu Weijing, president of the Changsha Sculpture Institute. He has created a whole new image of the late chairman that will be unique to Tibet, with his features made to look more like those of Buddha. [Mao turns Buddhist for Tibet]
They should also place a statue of Mao under a Bodhi tree to see if it gets enlightened.
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In this world full of prejudices, it’s hard to find a true friend. Modern communication methods allow people to strike a conversation with each other quickly. However, turning that conversation into a long-lasting friendship is no easy feat to achieve.
But, a particular Husky in Minnesota teaches us to set aside one’s biases to create a lasting friendship with an adorable duck.
Hello there, Quackers.
Somewhere in tiny Strout, Minnesota, one can see an unusual pair of animals trotting along Highway 28. Most of the time, this rare sight attracts the attention of motorists who pass by, prompting them to stop driving and take a picture with them.
These local stars, a twelve-year-old Husky named Max, and a four-year-old duck named Quackers, started their journey together in the most unlikely way.
When Max’s best buddy, Sasha, passed away, the dog’s left alone without a friend. However, all these changed when Max’s fur parents brought home a cute duckling they eventually named as Quackers.
Let’s go on an adventure, bud.
As Patrick and Kirsten Riley relay, the two did not immediately interact closely during their first meeting. While Quackers remained inside his warm pen, Max stayed beside the enclosure all the time.
However, when Quackers finally went out of the enclosure, Max continued to stay by his side. From then on, they do everything together. Whether it’s sleeping, eating, or taking some walks along the highway, they make sure to accompany each other.
But, the pair’s oblivious to all the attention they’re getting. As Max and Quackers go their merry way, motorists stop for a bit and send pictures to the Rileys along with positive comments.
Though Max’s no longer young, the fantastic friendship he made with Quackers made its mark in the hearts and minds of their fur parents and neighbors.
If you wish to view the animals’ beautiful story, take a look at the video below.
Video Credit: WCCO – CBS Minnesota via YouTube
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Strength training volume for hypertrophy always seems to be a contentious topic, whether people are arguing about one set versus multiple sets, or whether they are arguing about the exact number of sets at which the dose-response relationship plateaus (or even starts to have a negative impact).
Even so, in many of these arguments, there is rarely a clear understanding of exactly what volume is, how it is defined, and how the research has linked different amounts of volume to hypertrophy.
In addition, we need to understand which reps actually stimulate hypertrophy (not all reps do, otherwise endurance exercise would produce a lot of muscle growth, as it usually involves a huge number of reps). Only when a rep stimulates hypertrophy should it really be counted towards volume. We also need to appreciate the substantial difference between ?workout volume? and ?weekly training volume,? and how each of those things have been studied by researchers.
What is volume?
Volume is the way in which we measure the size of the dose of a strength training program. In this respect, it is quite similar to time under tension, which is another very commonly misunderstood concept. Greater volumes provide a larger dose of training, and produce a greater stimulating effect on the muscle fibers to increase in size.
Volume is measured in a number of ways by researchers, although none are really that satisfactory. The most common ways are (1) the total number of sets to failure, (2) the total number of reps (sets x reps), and (3) the volume load (sets x reps x weight).
Studies have only linked the number of sets to failure to a dose-response on muscle growth. Measured in this way, greater volumes (number of sets to failure) lead to more hypertrophy. Measured in either of the other two ways (total number of reps or volume load), there is no relationship whatsoever between volume and the amount of hypertrophy that occurs after training.
For example, when two groups of strength-trained individuals perform similar training programs using 3 sets of the same 7 exercises to muscular failure but with either light loads (25?35RM) or moderate loads (8?12RM), they achieve the same amount of hypertrophy, and yet training with lighter loads involves far more volume (sets x reps) and volume load (sets x reps x weight) than training with moderate loads.
Similarly, the relationship between training volume and hypertrophy also disappears when we do not take sets to failure. This can be seen in studies of German Volume training, where moderate and high volume training programs cause similar muscle growth. It can also be seen when comparing training programs of light or moderate loads with the same volume load, where failure is not reached, in which strength training with a moderate load leads to greater muscle growth.
Failing to realize that research has only really linked increases in this one, single measurement of training volume to hypertrophy can easily lead even quite experienced commentators astray.
Even so, there is a very good reason why this must be the case.
What is volume really?
Biologically, volume is really just the number of stimulating reps that are performed for a muscle group in each set.
A stimulating rep is one that involves (1) the recruitment of high-threshold motor units (and therefore the activation of their associated muscle fibers), and (2) a slow shortening velocity.
We need to recruit high-threshold motor units for two reasons. Firstly, despite being quite few in number, they actually control the large majority of muscle fibers. Secondly, the very slow twitch muscle fibers that are controlled by low-threshold motor units are not very responsive to the workout stimulus, and tend not to grow after training.
The recruitment of high-threshold motor units is determined largely by the effort involved in performing a movement. When we lift a heavy load, or move a light load explosively, or lift a light load to muscular failure, we are using a high level of effort, and motor unit recruitment is high.
However, simply recruiting the motor units (and activating the associated muscle fibers) is not enough. We also need to expose the activated muscle fibers to high levels of mechanical loading. This is accomplished through the force-velocity relationship. When the activated muscle fibers shorten slowly, they produce a lot of force, and therefore experience high levels of mechanical loading. When the activated muscle fibers shorten quickly (as in very fast movements), they produce little force, and experience little mechanical loading. This is why lifting light loads explosively involves maximal motor unit recruitment but does not stimulate muscle growth.
Importantly, the last five or so reps of a set taken to failure involve similarly high levels of motor unit recruitment and similarly slow bar speeds as a result of increased local muscular fatigue. Therefore, regardless of the weight on the bar, the muscle fibers controlled by high-threshold motor units experience approximately the same number of stimulating reps, when training to failure (training with a certain number of reps in reserve produces the same effect, albeit with 1 or 2 fewer stimulating reps, as appropriate).
This is why the number of sets to failure is often a good way of measuring training volume, regardless of the weight on the bar, because every set to failure usually contains the same number of stimulating reps. When we do not perform sets to failure, it is not clear how many stimulating reps are done in each set. In fact, the number of stimulating reps is often smaller when some so-called higher volume routines are performed!
When is the number of sets to failure a poor measurement of volume?
Although the number of sets to failure is often a good measure of the number of stimulating reps in a set, sometimes it is not. It fails to be a good measure if the number of stimulating reps is cut short for some reason. While this always happens when we stop a set short of muscular failure, it can also occur during a set despite reaching failure.
During a set of strength training exercise, our ability to exert force can be negatively affected by either (1) reducing the ability of the muscle itself to exert force (called ?peripheral fatigue?), or (2) reducing the ability of the central nervous system to activate the muscle so that it produces force (called ?central nervous system (CNS) fatigue?). The activation of the muscle by the CNS is accomplished by the recruitment of motor units, in size order, from low-threshold to high-threshold.
Consequently, both peripheral and CNS fatigue contribute to us reaching muscular failure. Importantly, CNS fatigue reduces the level of motor unit recruitment, while peripheral fatigue increases it. However, CNS fatigue takes precedence by virtue of being the ultimate controller of muscle function. So when there is more CNS fatigue (either because of a shorter recovery time, a greater aerobic demand, or increased lactate accumulation), we can reach failure in the exercise before actually achieving full motor unit recruitment.
For example, when short rest periods are used, muscular failure is reached on each set but the stimulating effect of the set is less than expected. This can be attributed to greater CNS fatigue with short rests (either due to the reduced recovery time for this type of fatigue, the greater aerobic demand, or the increased lactate accumulation). This same logic can be applied to increasing training volume, because CNS fatigue increases over the course of a workout. This means that later sets likely contain fewer stimulating reps than earlier sets. This can help explain the effects of exercise order and also suggests that adding extra sets to a workout will have progressively smaller and smaller incremental benefits.
In addition to affecting our ability to accomplish stimulating reps in workouts with short rest periods, CNS fatigue can reduce the number of stimulating reps achieved in a workout, if we have not yet recovered from a previous workout. If we train a muscle too soon after the last workout, there will be muscle damage present. When this muscle damage is present, it can lead to accompanying CNS fatigue. This is why training too frequently each week can fail to produce greater muscle growth, even when the volume is greater with the higher frequency.
Essentially, CNS fatigue experienced during workouts (either because it accumulates within the workout, or because it is still present from a previous workout) means that we cannot simply add up the number of sets to failure performed in all of our workouts in a week and expect to be able to calculate the total number of stimulating reps per week. That is not a valid calculation. Some of the later sets in a workout, and some of the later workouts in a week will not involve as many stimulating reps, because of CNS fatigue.
When does an exercise stimulate a muscle?
One last factor that must be taken into account when measuring training volume is the effect of an exercise on a muscle group.
Stimulating reps can only be counted in full when an exercise produces full motor unit recruitment for the worked muscle group, which usually means that the muscle group has to be the limiting factor for the exercise. Yet, many exercises involve multiple muscle groups, and not all of them are worked equally hard. For example, the squat probably stimulates the quadriceps maximally, as they are the limiting factor, but likely leaves some stimulating reps in the tank for the working hip extensors (adductor magnus and gluteus maximus), especially when a traditional high bar squat variation is used.
Moreover, the impact of an exercise may not be quite as obvious as we like to think. Although the squat is a good exercise for the quadriceps, it only really develops the single-joint quadriceps. The rectus femoris is actually very poorly trained by this exercise, which in reality makes sense, because it is a hip flexor and the production of a hip flexion turning force would oppose the important work being done by the hip extensors. (This causes problems both in practice and also in research. For example, when studies measure the rectus femoris after squat and leg press training, we are not really going to get a good insight into the effects of volume on that muscle group).
Conversely, while we may program bench presses for the pectoralis major and anterior deltoids, they are actually similarly effective for the triceps brachii. So if we are following a body part split routine, and include bench presses for the chest and shoulder muscles, and then carry out a separate day involving single-joint exercises for our arms, then we are actually training the triceps twice as often as the chest and shoulders.
Ultimately, whether an exercise stimulates a muscle must be determined by an understanding of the biomechanics of the exercise, and not by whether it has traditionally been included in workouts for that body part. Including multi-joint exercises will always lead to some confusion, but that is a problem we may need to work with, if we are to benefit from using them.
What does this mean in practice?
In practice, this means that we can produce the following working definitions of workout and weekly volume.
Workout volume ? volume is the number of stimulating reps achieved for a muscle group in a workout. This is likely to be approximately 5 reps per set to failure with an exercise that involves that muscle as the limiting factor, although if short rest periods are used then this number will be smaller. Also, later sets in a workout may not contain quite as many stimulating reps as earlier sets, due to CNS fatigue.
Weekly volume ? volume is the number of stimulating reps achieved in each workout. This is likely to be approximately 5 reps per set to failure with an exercise that involves that muscle as the limiting factor in each workout, although if workouts performed earlier in the week lead to substantial muscle damage, then CNS fatigue will cause a reduction in the number of stimulating reps achieved in each set to failure in later workouts.
Consequently, while many strength training experts measure weekly volume as the sum of the sets to failure done each week, this is *not* valid, because of CNS fatigue caused by muscle damage. Similarly, while many research groups try to identify the weekly volume that produces the most hypertrophy by altering the number of sets in a workout while maintaining the number of workouts per week the same, this is a not a valid calculation, because of the interaction between workout frequency and workout volume.
So how does workout volume affect muscle growth?
What is the dose-response effect of workout volume on hypertrophy?
Workout volume clearly produces a (non-linear) dose-response effect on post-workout increases in signaling in the mTOR pathway, in increases in muscle protein synthesis (MPS) rates, and in myogenic signaling responses. Studying each of these dose-responses carefully can help us understand better how workout volume affects muscle growth.
mTOR pathway ? The dose-response of workout volume on signaling in the mTOR pathway seems to increase fairly linearly with increasing workout volume.
MPS rates ? The dose-response of workout volume on post-workout increases in MPS rates is a gradual increase up to a plateau, after which there is no change in the response (either up or down). This makes sense, because MPS rates are determined by the rate of protein synthesis per ribosome (translational efficiency) and by the amount of translational machinery in a given volume of muscle (translational capacity). Temporary increases in MPS, such as after single workouts, are likely caused by an increase in translational efficiency, while long-term strength training is believed to increase translational capacity, which requires the production of new translational machinery through ribosome biogenesis. Since there is a limit to how much efficiency can be increased, this strongly indicates the presence of a plateau in the post-workout increases in MPS rates as a result of training volume.
(Note that it is not completely unusual for post-workout increases in muscle protein synthesis to differ from post-workout mTOR signaling, although the two responses normally move in tandem. Indeed, mTOR signaling has been observed to diverge markedly from MPS responses on occasion).
Myogenic signaling responses ? The dose-response of workout volume on myogenic signaling responses seems to to be delayed and even slightly reduced at high volumes. The delayed response has been attributed to the negative effects of muscle damage, since greater workout volumes produce more muscle damage, and since the post-workout MPS response occurs both in order to repair muscle damage and also in order to produce muscle growth. Therefore, when a (high volume) workout causes a lot of muscle damage, this could lead to a need to devote more of the post-workout increase in MPS rates to muscle damage repair, and less to hypertrophy. This could then imply that the mTOR signaling response is also partly related to the need to repair muscle damage.
The muscle damage response to a workout is also important to consider.
When muscle damaging-exercise is extremely severe, it can lead to muscle fiber loss. Muscle damage can range from very small disruptions to the myofibrils and cytoskeleton of the muscle fiber, to tears in the cell membrane, to ruptures of the muscle fiber, and ultimately to its wholesale destruction. When a muscle fiber is slightly damaged, it can be repaired. In such cases, the damaged areas are cleared away and replaced with new structures. When a muscle fiber is very severely damaged, it becomes necrotic and is completely removed. Afterwards, a new muscle fiber is grown inside the cell membrane of the old one. This is called regeneration. It is possible that some muscle fibers are not regenerated after they have become necrotic. This is then observed as the loss of muscle fibers or muscle mass.
Overall, we can therefore describe the dose-response of workout volume as being formed of three elements: (1) a non-linear relationship between workout volume and MPS rates up to a plateau, and (2) an increasing (probably linear) relationship between training volume and the amount of MPS that must be directed to muscle damage repair instead of to hypertrophy, and (3) a (probably non-linear) increase in the number of fibers that become necrotic and yet are subsequently not regenerated. Together, these three relationships suggest that there might be a U-shaped curve of workout volume on hypertrophy, rather than simply an increase up to a plateau.
N.B. Effects of using different volume definitions
It is important to note that the above analysis refers to volume as defined by the number of stimulating reps. Clearly, CNS fatigue will also have an influence on the actual number of stimulating reps that are performed during a workout. CNS fatigue therefore also has an effect on the relationship between the more common measures of volume (such as the number of sets to muscular failure) and the resulting muscle growth after training.
What is the dose-response effect of weekly volume on hypertrophy?
To identify the real dose-response effect of weekly volume on hypertrophy requires us to find the right combination of workouts over the week that allows the maximum number of stimulating reps to be performed.
Importantly, this will depend on the optimal training frequency for (1) the individual, and (2) the muscle group. Optimal training frequency has been shown to vary between individuals (most likely because the susceptibility to muscle damage also varies between individuals), and muscles take different durations of time to repair the resulting muscle damage from the same volume of training, which implies that training them with the same frequency will lead to quite different results. Also, the level of psychological stress that an individual is currently experiencing affects the rate of workout recovery, most likely by altering the speed at which muscle damage is repaired.
In general, many strength training workouts allow full recovery of muscle damage (and associated CNS fatigue) within 24 hours, but high volume workouts typically require 48 hours (for the lower body) or 72 hours (for the upper body). Even so, there are some studies that have recorded a markedly suppressed ability to produce force (indicating muscle damage) for far longer, even up to 5 days post-workout. Therefore, the effect of recovery rate on the optimal weekly training volume is very important.
However, the majority of the literature exploring the effects of training volume has examined the effects of altering the number of sets to failure in single workouts over the course of a week (where some groups do 1 set per exercise in each workout, while other groups do 2 or more sets per exercise).
Such studies tell us about the maximum workout volume that can be used in the context of a given training frequency for the majority of the individuals in the cohort. For example, a recent study examined what happens if strength-trained individuals perform 1, 3, or 5 sets per exercise, within the context of a training program involving 3 workouts per week. These studies do not tell us the maximum weekly volume that could be used, if we also modified training frequency to best fit the stimulating reps into the week according to the optimal balance between workout volume and training frequency (and the answer is likely to be different for different individuals and muscle groups!)
Failing to spot this problem can easily lead even experienced commentators to give guidelines about maximum weekly volume based on a body of literature that doesn?t actually answer that question.
What is the takeaway?
There is probably a specific amount of volume that can be performed in a workout that maximizes the amount of hypertrophy that results for a given muscle, because there are good reasons why moderate volumes will produce superior growth than low volumes, and why excessively high volumes will produce inferior growth to more moderate volumes.
Similarly, there is probably a specific amount of volume that can be done in a week that maximizes the amount of hypertrophy that results for a given muscle. However, this may not involve performing individual workouts with the amount of volume that maximizes the amount of hypertrophy for a given muscle, because it is the optimal combination of frequency and volume that leads to the weekly volume that produces the most muscle growth.
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A crucial part of the software development process, QA testing can often be the make-or-break of many a start-up. Implemented properly, you’ll ensure that any proprietary software you develop works to the highest of standards and that your customers receive a quality piece of tech. Implemented incorrectly or skipped entirely, however, and a lack of software QA testing could mean small mistakes end up slipping through – potentially leading to financial losses and early business failures.
A business can excel in many different areas: good customer service, a strong social media presence, innovative and progressive ideas, for instance. But if a software start-up neglects to conduct the proper QA testing, the negative effects on the business can be difficult to reverse.
If software QA testing is something you’re unfamiliar with, then this beginner’s guide is here to help. We’ll run through what it entails in more detail, delve into the types of testing you can do, why the process is so crucial in software development, and some best practices you can use.
- What is QA Software testing?
- Why is QA Software testing important?
- What types of QA Software testing are there?
- What does the QA Software testing life cycle look like?
- What are some of the best practices for QA Software testing?
Software QA (quality assurance) testing is the process of evaluating the functionality of a software application to find any bugs or issues. It analyses whether the developed software has met the specified requirements and identifies any defects in the software, so that a high-quality product can be made. Software QA testing executes a system to identify any possible gaps, errors or missing requirements in contradiction to the current requirements.
• Cost-effectiveness: Testing software on time can save you money in the long term. Software development is a multi-faceted process, and the earlier you spot any bugs or errors in this process, the less it will cost to fix them.
• Security: Your customers will be searching for a trusted, reliable product without having to worry about sensitive data and security issues. Software testing helps in identifying and removing any problems or risks that deal with user security.
• Product quality: Your software in theory and practice can end up being two different things, so it’s essential to follow the product requirements to get to the required results.
• Customer satisfaction: You want your software to provide the customer with something they’ll be happy and satisfied with. Software testing should create the best user experience possible. If you operate in a saturated market, then it pays to offer the best product available, gaining customers who trust you in the process.
The type of testing you choose depends on several factors, including the requirements of the project, budget, timeline, expertise and suitability. For this starter’s guide, software testing can be broadly categorised into two areas, per the below:
Manual testing is done in person, with testers clicking through the application or interacting with the software and application performance interface (APIs) with the necessary tools.
This method tends to be very expensive since it requires someone to set up an environment and execute the tests themselves. This is a process that can be prone to human error since the tester may end up making typos or omitting steps in the test script.
However, manual testing is something that’s still worth doing as it allows for exploratory testing, i.e. the uncovering of issues that aren’t obvious. Exploratory testing sessions need to have a clear brief to help testers focus on a specific area of the software.
Once briefing has been completed, it’s up to testers to try out various actions to check how the system behaves. Again, this can be expensive, but it can be vital in uncovering UI issues and verifying complex user workflows. If a new capability has been added to your software, then exploratory software is well worth doing to understand how the new addition behaves.
Manual testing allows for a wider range of conditions and scenarios to be tested, with tested feedback allowing for more experiential feedback. When conducting manual testing, it should be performed by skilled, experienced testers who represent different user profiles and use a wide range of devices and operating systems.
Automated tests are performed by a machine that executes a test script written in advance. These vary in complexity, ranging from checking simple functions to making sure that performing a sequence of complex actions in the UI leads to the same results.
This makes it more reliable and robust when compared to manual tests, but how well the automation goes is dependent on how your test scripts have been written.
To save time, any manual testing can be supplemented by frequent automated tests. If anything needs to be performed repeatedly, then you should opt for automated testing; it’s practical, reliable and can help you make sure the app performs from a technical standpoint.
Automation isn’t always the best fit for all testing needs. If this is the case for you, consider crowdsourcing your testing, which allows you to test things on a much larger scale in a more time-efficient manner.
The software testing life cycle is a sequence of activities that ensures the quality of the product. It also identifies what test activities to carry out and when. In the software testing life cycle, tests are carried out systematically, with each phase containing different goals and deliverables.
• Requirement analysis: The first step in the test cycle involves the Quality Assurance team understanding the requirements, which will inform which tests to carry out.
• Test planning: Defining the objective and scope of the project, test planning is the most important phase of the test cycle since the test strategy is defined. Here, the Test Manager’s inputs are used to determine the effort and costs for the entire project.
• Test case development: Here, the test team prepare the cases and data that will be used for testing. Once this is complete, they are passed on to be reviewed by peer members or the QA Lead.
• Test environment setup: Test environments, consisting of software and hardware, are created for the testing teams to execute their test cases within.
• Test execution: The next step is the process of executing the code and comparing the results with those the team expected. When this phase begins, the analysts execute the scripts based on what was defined in the test strategy. Any defects that were found are reported at this stage. Note that once any bugs or defects are detected, testers are required to retest the functionality in question.
• Product release: Once the software has been tested for things like functionality, compatibility and scalability, the product can be release for its intended users.
• Test one thing at a time: Always make sure that tests have clear objectives. Each test should look at an individual feature or look at specific things like user interfaces or security.
• Use regression testing: Mentioned above in the execution phase of the test cycle, it’s important to test the main features more than once. This is because any new codes that get added can interfere with features that have previously passed testing.
• Leverage analytics: Keep records of all the tests that have been conducted and use this data to determine where bugs are likely to occur. Such data will allow you to create new tests that address problem areas.
• Broaden your environments: Try covering a wide range of scenarios, including different devices, operating systems and user profiles.
• Remember the UI: If you’re doing exploratory testing, create end-to-end scenarios so they can get a feel for the user interface.
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Store2018 Build and Deployment
The course is part of these learning paths
This course will enable you to:
Understand the principles and patterns associated with microservices
Understand the principles and patterns associated with Restful APIs
Understand important requirements to consider when migrating a monolithic application into a microservices architecture
Understand the benefits of using microservices and associated software patterns and tools to build microservice based applications at speed and scale
Understand tradeoffs between different architectural approaches
Become familiar and comfortable with modern open source technologies such as Dotnet Core, Docker, Docker Compose, Linux, Terraform, Swagger, React
Become familiar with Docker and Container orchestration runtimes to host and run containers, such as Docker Compose, Amazon ECS using Fargate, and Amazon EKS
A basic understanding of software development
A basic understanding of the software development life cycle
A basic understanding of Devops and CICD practices
Familiarity with Dotnet and C#
Familiarity with AWS
Software Developers and Architects
DevOps Practitioners interested in CICD implementation
Anyone interested in understanding and adopting Microservices and Restful APIs within their own organisation
Anyone interested in modernising an existing application
Anyone interested in Docker, and Containers in general
Anyone interested in container orchestration runtimes such as Kubernetes
Okay, welcome back. In this demonstration, we're set up our tooling to allow us to communicate and create our EKS clusters. So there are three tools that we're gonna install. The first is kubectl, the second is the AWS IAM Authenticator, and the third one is a helpful utility called eksctl. So let's now discuss each of these three tools. So those unfamiliar with, kubectl. Kubectl is a command line interface for running commands against Kubernetes clusters. The AWS IAM Authenticator is a tool that allows you to use AWS IAM credentials to authenticate against Kubernetes clusters, and eksctl provides a nice abstraction for creating clusters, it's a command line interface tool and provides a very simple method for bringing clusters up.
As we'll see later on, all you need to do to bring up a EKS cluster is run eksctl create cluster to bring up a EKS cluster is run eksctl create cluster and underneath, it will take care of all of the wiring up of the various individual components. Okay, let's begin the installation. So the first thing we'll do is we'll navigate to the Getting Started with Amazon EKS Guide that AWS provides. Navigating down, we'll jump to the instructions for installing kubectl, as you can see, Amazon has provided operating system specific binaries for kubectl, since I'm running on a Mac, I can use the MacOS version or simply, I can copy this command here. We'll jump into the terminal. I'll quickly do a directory listing, that cmd, I'll paste the command that I just copied, and this will download the version specific for MacOS. Okay, that's finished, we'll do a directory listing again, and you can see that we've downloaded the binary. Next, we'll add execute permissions to it, so, we do so by running chmod, +x, and then the binary.
Do a directory listing again, and you can see now that it's got the execute permissions. From here we want to move or copy, the binary kubectl, the binary kubectl, into our /usr/local/bin/ directory. And to ensure that we run this particular version of kubectl we need to update our path variable. So we'll prepend the directory that we just copied it into to the PATH environment variable, and then, we can simply run the command, we'll query the version of it, we only want the client version portion, and here we see we've got version 1.10.3, now it's very important that you run with the 1.10 or greater version of kubectl, as this particular version is designed to integrate with the AWS IAM Authenticator, which we'll install next, so that's a good start. Okay, we'll jump back to the AWS documentation, Okay, we'll jump back to the AWS documentation, and the next thing we'll do is install, the AWS IAM Authenticator, again AWS provides operating system versions for this particular binary, and again, because we're running on MacOS, I'll just copy this command here. I'll jump back into my terminal, paste the command, and this will download the AWS IAM Authenticator locally.
'll do a directory listing, we can see we've downloaded the AWS IAM Authenticator, I'll add execute permissions to it. Again, that's now executable. We'll again copy it into /usr/local/bin/, We'll again copy it into /usr/local/bin/, because we updated the PATH environment variable previously, we know this will run when we request for it. So now we can test it by running aws-iam-authenticator with the help parameter. And here you can see that this particular binary has run successfully, and finally, to install the eksctl utility, we can do brew install weaveworks/tap/eksctl, we can do brew install weaveworks/tap/eksctl, so here you can see that I'm being informed that I've already got this installed, as expected, but I can upgrade it by running brew upgrade eksctl, which I'll do. brew upgrade eksctl, which I'll do. Okay, so that's completed successfully, so we can now test it out eksctl and we can run it with the parameter help, and again, you can see that that's completed, so the binary has been successfully installed. Okay, the next prerequisite that we need to ensure has been installed is the AWS CLI, so we can simply run, aws iam get-user so we can simply run, aws iam get-user to see whether we have the AWS CLI set up, so it's installed on this machine, but I haven't yet configured the credentials that it operates under, so I'll do that in the background, so here I'll run export AWS_PROFILE-CA with the profile so here I'll run export AWS_PROFILE-CA with the profile that I've got configured, and if I rerun that I've got configured, and if I rerun that command, I can see now that I'm authenticated against my AWS account, so everything is configured locally, I can now go back to the eksctl command and run help again, I can now go back to the eksctl command and run help again, I can see that there's a get to check for particular resources, so one final thing we'll do in this demonstration is to run eksctl get clusters, to run eksctl get clusters, to run eksctl get clusters, and this should return back empty because I don't have any EKS clusters set up.
Okay, so that succeeded and as expected it's come back with no clusters found. We're gonna use the eksctl tool, which we installed in the previous demonstration, to do all of the heavy handling for us, so, before we start, let's just quickly review how eksctl is used to create clusters. So on their website, it's very well documented in terms of the parameters that can be used, you can simply run one by running eksctl create cluster, and that cluster will kick off with a number of defaults, including, it will provision 2x m5.large nodes, including, it will provision 2x m5.large nodes, for the workers, and it will use the AWS official AMI image, for the workers, and it will use the AWS official AMI image, and the placement will be into the us-west-2 Oregon region. Beyond that, you can customize further the provisioning process for your cluster, for example, you can specify a custom name for your cluster and you can specify the number of nodes, or worker nodes, that you want, another interesting thing you can do is to use auto scaling for the worker nodes, so in this case, you're setting the --nodes-min to three, and at the other end you're setting --nodes-max equal to five, so that will create an auto scaling group for the worker nodes and will scale in the worker nodes and will scale in and out between three and five.
Okay, let's jump into the terminal and we'll begin the process, so, we'll type eksctl create cluster, so, we'll type eksctl create cluster, we'll give it a custom name, we'll call ours Cloud Academy dash Kubernetes, we'll call ours Cloud Academy dash Kubernetes, we'll put it in the Oregon region and we'll specify the SSH key that we'll use to SSH onto the worker nodes, and finally we'll specify the number of worker nodes that we want, in this case we'll go with four and we'll specify that the worker node type and we'll specify that the worker node type will be m5.large, okay, so kicking that off, will be m5.large, okay, so kicking that off, in the background eksctl will start provisioning the Kubernetes cluster, so straight away, we start to get some feedback, a couple of interesting things you'll notice, eksctl is using CloudFormation, and specifically it's going to launch two CloudFormation stacks, so, currently right now it's launching the first of the two stacks and this will be for the provisioning of the AWS Kubernetes managed service control plane, of the AWS Kubernetes managed service control plane, which will contain the Kubernetes master nodes, once this CloudFormation stack completes eksctl will then kick off the provisioning, using CloudFormation again, to create the worker nodes and join them into our cluster, so we'll let that bake, it will take about ten minutes.
Okay, excellent, that has fully completed and we now have an AWS managed service Kubernetes cluster, looking at the timings, you can see that we started roughly at 13:30 and we finished at 13:45, that we started roughly at 13:30 and we finished at 13:45, so that's about 15 minutes for the in between process to complete, so it's not instantaneous, but, having said that, to have a fully working Kubernetes cluster, created in 15 minutes, is still something to be very happy about, so again, reviewing the output, a couple of things that we should take note of, so this particular cluster stack creates the managed service control plane into which the Kubernetes master node's are provisioned.
The second stack is the worker node stack, into which our four worker nodes will be created and provisioned in, down here you can see each of the 4 nodes, and also that eksctl has updated our of the 4 nodes, and also that eksctl has updated our kube config file with the connection information for our cluster, so let's take a look at this file. You can see here that we have a cluster, the certificate authority data has been pasted in, we've got the server endpoint, at this stage we can now simply run kubectl, and we could do get services, and we could do get services, and kubectl will have been configured to use our cluster that we've just provisioned, and here you can see that we've got output from our AWS managed service Kubernetes cluster, which is an excellent outcome, again we can re-run the same command and this time we'll add in --all-namespaces and this time we'll add in --all-namespaces and here we can see a couple of services that run as part of the cluster, okay, let's jump over into the AWS console, and the first thing we'll do, is well take a look at CloudFormation, and in here we should see our two CloudFormation stacks that were created, and indeed we do, so the first one, again, is for the control plane into which the master nodes are provisioned, and the second one creates the worker nodes, that are then joined into the cluster, okay, let's now take a look at the EKS console, so we navigate into it, we click on clusters, and here we can see the cloudacademy-k8s cluster that we just created, so we'll click it, so here we can see all of the specific settings for the cluster itself, in particular, we've got the API server endpoint, and the certificate authority, now jumping back into the terminal, again if we have a look at the .kube/config file, you'll see that the certificate authority data here, is the exact piece of data that is represented here, likewise, with the API server endpoint that is represented here, and this is the beauty of the eksctl tool, it performs all this wiring and plumbing for us, so that we don't have to manually configure the config file.
The end result is that this information is used to perform both the connection and the authentication to the Kubernetes cluster, here we can see the cluster name and the user, here we can see the cluster name and the user, where this user, under the users section, uses the AWS IAM Authenticator, and in doing so is able uses the AWS IAM Authenticator, and in doing so is able to establish authentication against the Kubernetes cluster, and once that is complete we can then perform the kubectl commands to it, jumping back into the AWS console, let's now go to the EC2 servers, let's now go to the EC2 servers, in here we'll be able to see our worker nodes, so if we order by name, you can see here that we've got our four worker nodes, and that they are a m5.large, and they're distributed across each of the available zones in the VPC, now the VPC that hosts these worker nodes was created as part of the eksctl create cluster command, so selecting the first worker node, if we take a closer look at it, we can see that it has private IP of 192.168.149.200 that it has private IP of 192.168.149.200 and then it's being provisioned with many secondary private IPs, and all of these IPs are bound to the first ethernet interface, eth0, so all of these secondary private IPs will be used by the AWS Kubernetes CNI plugin, the AWS Kubernetes CNI plugin, and they will be allocated to each of the pods that spin up on this particular worker node, jumping back to the terminal, let's take a look at the resources that were created for each stack, so we need to give it the stack name, so here we're using the AWS CLI, and the stack name we can retrieve from our output from the create cluster command, so we'll take the first one, and we'll pipe it out to jq, and we also need to specify a region, so here you can see all of the resources that were created, so we're creating an AWS EKS cluster, some security groups, we're creating an internet gateway, an IAM policy, a route, route table, subnet route table association, a route, route table, subnet route table association, some subnets, and the VPC that hosts all of them.
So in the second one, which is our node group, let's take a look, so we take the name of the node group stack, enter, and this time we're creating some security group egress, rules, ingress rules, an auto scaling group for the nodes, an instance profile, launch configuration, an IAM policy, and then a security group, so that gives you some background as to what the eksctl create cluster command actually does and how it does it. So before we do the deployment, let's go over the internals of the architecture, as seen here, the microservices based architecture is composed of four containers, three backend service containers, each exposing a RESTful API, there is the accounts service, the inventory service and shopping service, and a frontend presentation layer container, within the same project we have an additional method for doing the frontend presentation rendering, in this case we're using React, so navigating to the same host, but with the path /home/react, we'll use React on the frontend, meaning the browser will make AJAX calls directly back to our service components, so we'll also demonstrate this, so here we can see our store2018 microservices application is declared amongst a number of Kubernetes yaml files, so let's open this up in Visual Code, we'll start off in the deployment folder, and we'll look at our backend services, in this case we're looking at the accounts service, here we can see that we've declared our accounts service as a deployment kind, it's given a name, as a deployment kind, it's given a name, in this case store2018-accountservice, it's given an app label set to accountservice, we're requesting three replicas matching on the app label, set to accountservice, and then the particular image that we're gonna launch, is declared here, together with the container port set to port 80, so, let's jump back into the terminal, and we'll launch this as a deployment on our EKS Kubernetes cluster, we'll jump into the deployment folder, and then we'll run the command kubectl apply -f, for file, and then we'll run the command kubectl apply -f, for file, store2018.accountservice.yaml, enter, store2018.accountservice.yaml, enter, so now if we run again kubectl get deployments, so now if we run again kubectl get deployments, we should see our accountservice deployment, here we've set the desired to three and currently we're running three, if we do a get pods, you can see our three pods if we do a get pods, you can see our three pods that make up this particular deployment, so that's a great result, next, we'll launch the other two backend services, so again, kubectl apply -f, we'll do the inventory service, so again, kubectl apply -f, we'll do the inventory service, followed by the shopping service, and then finally, the presentation layer frontend service, so at this stage, we've launched four deployments, and each deployment requests three pods, so again, if we run, get deployments, you'll see that we've got our four deployments, each with three pods, that we've got our four deployments, each with three pods, so we're looking good, the next thing we'll do, is jump back into Visual Code, and this time we'll open the store2018.yaml file.
Now the reason being, is we want to focus on understanding how it knows to contact the downstream service components, so the store2018 presentation layer is making synchronous calls, and is contacting our downstream services, based on three environment variables that we're passing in, the ACCOUNT_SERVICE_API_BASE, the INVENTORY_SERVICE_API_BASE, and the SHOPPING_SERVICE_API_BASE, so when the store2018 pods launch, they'll make downstream synchronous calls to each of these service pods using the environment values declared here, now there's nothing special in that, apart from the fact that the host name is actually a service discovery name managed by Kubernetes, now that is the point of interest here, so for the ACCOUNT_SERVICE_API_BASE, it's making a call to store2018-accountservice, which is a service discovery managed endpoint, if we copy this value here, and we go back to the equivalent account service yaml file, you'll notice that that is this name here, likewise, the store2018 inventory service, comes from this name within the equivalent inventory service yaml file.
Okay, next, let's take a look at the way we declare our Kubernetes services under the service folder, so a service within Kubernetes is used to expose the backend deployment as a publicly accessible endpoint, we're exposing port 80, which is then forwarded on to the container port, port 80, and uses a type of LoadBalancer, so with this particular declaration, in the backend, EKS will launch a classic ELB, to which we can form connections against, okay, let's jump back into the terminal and launch our services, so, we navigate into our service folder, and then we'll launch each of our services, we do so by running kubectl apply -f, we do so by running kubectl apply -f, and we do this once for each of these service files. Okay, so, this will result in four services being launched on Kubernetes, now if we run kubectl get services, now if we run kubectl get services, we should see each of our services that we've just launched, where each is of type LoadBalancer.
Now, if we rerun the command, but with the -o wide parameter, we'll be able to see the full external IP address, so in this case, the external IP is represented by the DNS name generated by AWS as highlighted here for the store2018 service, and has an internal cluster IP address of 10.100.108.130. Let's jump over into AWS, Let's jump over into AWS, and we'll take a look at the load balancers. Clicking on Load Balancers, here we can see that AWS in the background, is part of the EKS managed service, has launched our four ELBs, let's jump back into the terminal, and at this stage, let's now do a curl, let's now do a curl, against the accounts service, so we'll copy this portion, we'll go to api and consumers 5 to get the fifth consumer, we'll go to api and consumers 5 to get the fifth consumer, excellent, so we've got our result, so what we're doing here is simulating a call to the accounts service, next we'll confirm the inventory service is up and running, so again we go curl http api and this time we call products, so again we go curl http api and this time we call products, and here we're getting a list of products that we sell on our e-commerce website, let's rerun that same command but we'll pipe it out to jq to get some formatting on it, so here we can see the result, much more clearer now, when we call the inventory API, and finally, let's confirm the shopping service deployment ELB, shopping service deployment ELB, curl, http, /api, cart, and we'll go for 5. curl, http, /api, cart, and we'll go for 5. curl, http, /api, cart, and we'll go for 5. Excellent, so we got our results, returned as json, for the shopping cart API, again, if we pipe this out to jq, this time we'll add in the silent flag, and, again, you can see the result of calling this particular API, so, calling the shopping cart API shows this particular API, so, calling the shopping cart API shows us the items that the user has put into their shopping cart, so everything is looking good.
The final service, that we need to test, is a call to the frontend, so let's, take, the DNS name, so let's, take, the DNS name, for the presentation container, as exposed by an ELB, and we'll jump into our browser, and we'll simply paste it here and if everything goes well we should get our presentation layer, which we do, which is an absolutely fantastic result, so here the presentation layer has been service layer rendered using ASP.Net Core in which backend calls have been made synchronously to our backend microservice components that we had just tested in the terminal, so, altogether, this is an absolutely fantastic result, and shows the real power of building a microservice architecture leveraging containers, so jumping back into our architecture diagrams, this particular one is the deployment that we've just done on EKS, where we've got four containers, we have the presentation layer container and that makes syncrhonous calls to our backend services, if you recall, we mentioned that we also had a secondary implementation for the presentation layer, one in which, uses a React based model, whereby the frontend, as rendered within the browser, makes direct AJAX calls back to our service components, so let's take a look at this, so this particular implementation exists on the path /home/react, so we'll go back to our frontend, and this time, we navigate to home/react. So this is the result the first time we make a call to this, so here we're missing a couple of things, we're missing our products, and we're missing the logged on consumer, so why is that? So let's jump into our developer tools to examine the network calling, so we'll do a reload, so here we can see that the frontend React AJAX generated network calls have failed, and that the likely issue, is shown here, is the DNS name has not resolved, now in this particular setup, I'm using Route 53, and I have these DNS names already registered, I need to go into Route 53 and update them as pointers to the ELBs that the EKS managed service created for us, to the ELBs that the EKS managed service created for us, so let's jump back into our terminal and we'll get the address for the accounts service, so this is the ELB address, we'll copy that, we'll jump into AWS Route 53.
On Hosted zones we'll go to democloudinc.com, so this is the particular Route 53 record that we need to update, so in the value box, we'll paste in the ELB address, clicking Save Record Set, and then we need to repeat this for the inventory service, so again, we'll go back to the terminal, we'll copy the ELB name that EKS generated for us, for the inventory service, back to Route 53, and then updating the api-products DNS record, save record set, now we need to give this a little bit of time for the previous records to expire, we'll take a copy of one of our records and we'll jump into our terminal and we'll test to see whether it resolves to our new ELB. So here in the answer section it's resolving to afbf, and if we scroll up, our account one should be going to afbfe, so it looks good, likewise we'll now repeat this for the products inventory endpoint, and this one resolves a03011, and, that looks good. Okay, so we can now test the full implementation, Okay, so we can now test the full implementation, api-accounts-democloudsinc.com/api/consumers/5, api-accounts-democloudsinc.com/api/consumers/5, silent flag, pipe it out to jq, silent flag, pipe it out to jq, and that has worked, so that is a good result, and we'll also test it for products, remembering that the products path is /products, excellent, so that is all working, so we'll jump back into our browser, we'll go to our frontend, and we'll do a reload, we'll go to our frontend, and we'll do a reload, so again, when we examine our AJAX calls, we can see that something's not quite right, we've managed to resolve the names, and we know that's working based on the tests that we just did in the terminal, but for some reason, we're not getting our result back, so if we click on one of these links, and we look at the headers, the reason being, is that we're actually making our requests to an SSL or HTTPS endpoint, now we haven't actually set up HTTPS on our ELB, so we need to do that to fix this last problem, so let's jump back into the terminal, and, and we'll run kubectl get services again, -o wide, and we'll run kubectl get services again, -o wide, and then for the accounts service, we'll copy this part, go back to EC2, so under Load Balancers, we'll search for this particular load balancer, so this is our account service load balancer, we'll go to listeners, we can see here that we're quite clearly only setup to listen on port 80 for HTTP calls, so let's edit this, to listen on port 80 for HTTP calls, so let's edit this, we'll use SSL Secure TCP and the reason we need we'll use SSL Secure TCP and the reason we need to do this is that the instance protocol has to do this is that the instance protocol has to be TCP on the backend, we use the same to be TCP on the backend, we use the same Instance Port which EKS manages for us on our cluster and we'll pick a SSL certificate that we've already provisioned with an ACM, in this case our wildcard certificate, okay, we'll save that, and we'll go close, we'll repeat this also for the inventory service, we'll repeat this also for the inventory service, so in this case we'll copy this string here, and this is our inventory ELB, edit, add, choose SSL, and this is our inventory ELB, edit, add, choose SSL, 443, TCP on the backend, same port, 443, TCP on the backend, same port, 443, TCP on the backend, same port, and same wildcard ACM certificate, save, close, and same wildcard ACM certificate, save, close, and then finally for each ELB we need to update, the corresponding security group on it to allow 443 incoming connections, edit, add rule, HTTPS from everywhere, save, HTTPS from everywhere, save, and likewise for the other ELB, inbound, edit, add, inbound, edit, add, HTTPs, 443, from everywhere, save.
HTTPs, 443, from everywhere, save. Okay, so if we jump back to the terminal, and this time, and this time, and this time, we'll go to HTTPS, enter, excellent, so now we're able to make HTTPS connections, via the ELB to our backend services, we'll test it for the products endpoint as well, and again, that has worked, so, finally, we'll jump back into our frontend, just back into network, we'll clear, and we'll do a reload, and this time we see that our AJAX calls have a 200 on both of them, if we drill in, we can see the response, excellent, we'll close that down, so if we look at the user interface, in the top right hand corner, we have the user, which is provided from the accounts service, and we have our products for sale, which comes from our inventory service, well, the products API endpoint, so again, this is a great result and shows that we've launched a microservices application using two different user interface rendering techniques, one using server side ASP.Net Core rendering and the other using client side React rendering, so again, jumping back into our architecture diagrams, what we've just completed configuring is this particular version of our store2018 application, so again the frontend is using React to make client side AJAX calls via the AWS EKS created ELBs all the way through the AWS EKS created ELBs all the way through to our backend microservice components as launched and deployed on our EKS cluster. Okay, that completes this demonstration, go ahead and close it and we'll see you shortly on the next one.
Jeremy is a Content Lead Architect and DevOps SME here at Cloud Academy where he specializes in developing DevOps technical training documentation.
He has a strong background in software engineering, and has been coding with various languages, frameworks, and systems for the past 25+ years. In recent times, Jeremy has been focused on DevOps, Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), Security, Kubernetes, and Machine Learning.
Jeremy holds professional certifications for AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, CKS).
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St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square
St. John's Episcopal Church
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St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square is an historic Episcopal church located at Sixteenth Street and H Street NW, in Washington, D.C., along Black Lives Matter Plaza. The Greek Revival building, designed by Benjamin Latrobe, is adjacent to Lafayette Square, one block from the White House. It is often called the "Church of the Presidents".
Every sitting president has attended the church at least once since it was built in 1816, starting with James Madison. With the exception of Richard Nixon, every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt has attended spiritual services on Inauguration Day, many at St. John's. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.
Organized as a parish in 1815, it was named for Saint John the Evangelist. The building opened and the first service was held at St. John's Church on October 27, 1816. The Rev. William Dickinson Hawley served as its rector from 1817 to 1845, also serving as Chaplain of the Senate.
Inception and construction
Two years after Maryland had ceded to the United States the territory constituting the present District of Columbia, the legislature of that state, appreciating the necessity of providing for the spiritual needs of the Protestant Episcopal inhabitants who were to reside there, and on their petition, passed the act of 26 December 1794, creating a new parish, to be known as Washington Parish-to be composed of so much of the Rock Creek Parish, in Montgomery County, Maryland, as St. John's Parish, in Prince George's County, Maryland, as was within the boundaries of the new city of Washington. In the next year a vestry was elected by the Episcopalians of the eastern end of the new parish, and the Rev. Mr. Ralph was appointed rector of the charge then organized, and took his seat in the Maryland Convention of 1795. This congregation occupied a small building on D Street and New Jersey Avenue, in the southeastern part of Washington, which since 1780, had been used as a chapel of ease connected with St. John Parish in Prince George's County. In 1806 a vestry was elected from the people worshipping at this chapel, and, in 1807, a new church was established in that vicinity, which was named Christ Church.
In Georgetown, in 1796, the Protestant Episcopal inhabitants had inaugurated a movement resulting in the establishment of a church within the new parish, which was consecrated in 1809-so that, when the general government was removed from Philadelphia, in 1800, the newcomers found three places of worship for Episcopalians within the district, two previously mentioned and the third being St. Paul's Church in Rock Creek Parish; but all too far removed from the central and more populated portion of Washington to be practically useful in those days of almost impassable roads. To supply this great need the residents in what was known as the First and Second Wards of Washington-lying between Georgetown and Sixth Street-in the year 1814 took decided measures to procure the erection of a church in the part of the city referred to. The persons who seem to have been most actively engaged in this work were Thomas H Gillis, James Davidson, Lund Washington, Peter Hagner, John Graham, John Peter Van Ness, Joshua Dawson, William Winston Seaton, John Tayloe III, Thomas Munroe, James Thompson, James H. Blake, David Easton, and Joseph Gales Jr.
The first entry in the earliest record book of the church, under date May 10, 1816, is in these words:
"May 10, 1816. At a meeting of citizens, resident in the First and Second Wards of the City of Washington, it was resolved that the following named gentlemen be appointed Trustees to manage the secular affairs of St. Johns Church, until a Vestry can be legally appointed, and to apply to the next Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church for a division of the Parish of Washington; so as to attach the Parish of St. John's Church, viz: John Davidson, Peter Hagner, James Thompson, John Peter Van Ness, John Tayloe III, Thomas H Gillis, James H. Blake, and Roger C. Weightman."
Joseph Gales Jr. ca. 1844 by George Peter Alexander Healy
On December 27, 1816, being St. John's Day, Bishop James Kemp of Maryland performed the ceremonies of consecration, and religious services were conducted by the bishop and attendant clergy. The church building was designed by Benjamin Latrobe Esq, and constructed under his superintendence. He declined to receive any compensation for his valuable services, but the vestry voted him a pew free of rent, in acknowledgement of his generosity. This he declined, expressing his preference for some token that he might transmit to his children, and the testimonial took the form of a piece of plate. John Tayloe III donated to the parish a communion service of silver, which Bishop William Meade, in his work on the old Churches of Virginia, says had been purchased by Col. Tayloe at a sale of the effects of the Lunenburg Parish Church/Farnham Church in Richmond County, Virginia, to prevent its desecration for secular use.
By 1842, it had become evident that further increases of the seating capacity of the church was expedient, and at a meeting of the pewholders called by public notice, on the eleventh of November, 1842, a committee, consisting of Richard Smith, John Canfield Spencer, Peter Hagner, Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, and William Thomas Carroll, was appointed to report a plan by which the number of pews should be increased, improved access given to galleries, and the interests of the existing pewholders properly adjusted. The committee reported on the twenty-eighth of November, and in the following April, Col. John James Abert, Gen. Winfield Scott, Frank Markoe, and Charles Gordon, were appointed a committee to carry the plan into effect. In its execution the original arrangement of pews and aisles, which had hitherto remained substantially unchanged, was very greatly altered. The box and high-back pews were changed to low-back seats; the brick pavement disappeared with the old form of the aisles; the chancel was enlarged, and the wine-glass pulpit was removed.
Bishop William Meade
Still more extensive changes were made in 1883 under the direction of Bancroft Davis and Gen. Peter V. Hagner, when almost all the windows were filled with stained glass, dedicated, for the most part, to deceased members of the congregation. The chancel was considerably enlarged; a new organ placed within the chancel rail; an addition made at the southeast corner of the church for a chantry, and a new vestry room, choir rooms, and offices erected. Altogether at least 180 sittings were added, making the entire sitting accommodation of the church at 780.
"Church of the Presidents"
Beginning with James Madison, every president has been an occasional attendee at St. John's due both to the disproportionately Episcopal religious affiliation of U.S. presidents and the church's proximity to the executive mansion. Perhaps the most devoted presidential attendee was Abraham Lincoln, who habitually joined evening prayer throughout the Civil War from an inconspicuous rear pew. St. John's is popularly nicknamed the "Church of the Presidents".
President James Madison established the tradition of a "president's pew", selecting pew 28 for his private use in 1816. The church was supported by pew subscriptions during its early history; although the vestry offered a pew to President Madison for free, he insisted on paying the rent. During a renovation in 1843, the pews were renumbered, and the president's pew became pew 58. President John Tyler asked that pew 58 be assigned to him, and paid for its use in perpetuity by presidents of the United States. Additional renovations in 1883 renumbered the seat to pew 54, and this pew has remained reserved for the president's use when in attendance. Although the "president's pew" is open for the use of any U.S. president who wishes to worship at the church, during weddings and other events the president usually sits in the front pew as a matter of protocol.
President Chester A. Arthur commissioned a memorial window for his wife, Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, who died in 1880, which was displayed in the church's south transept that is visible from the White House and lighted from within at his behest.
Role in the 2020 protests
During the George Floyd protests on the night of May 31, 2020, several fires were set in Washington, D.C. including one set in the basement of Ashburton House, the parish house of St. John's Episcopal Church. The fire was isolated to the church nursery and extinguished by firefighters. According to the church's rector, the Reverend Rob Fisher, during the protests "a fire was lit in the nursery, in the basement of Ashburton House" of the church. Fisher wrote that the fire was small, destroying the nursery room but leaving the rest of the church untouched, except by graffiti.
The next day, police and National Guard troops cleared out demonstrators in the immediate area around the church, using tear gas, smoke canisters, and pepper balls, to allow President Donald Trump a photo opportunity standing in front of the church. The Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Mariann Budde, who oversees the church, criticized the use of tear gas to clear the grounds of the church for a photo opportunity "as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus."
In 1966, St. John's Church was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior, and is designated a contributing property to the Lafayette Square Historic District and Sixteenth Street Historic District.
The church building was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, architect of the U.S. Capitol Building, and is constructed of stucco-covered brick, taking the form of a Greek cross. In 1820, the portico and tower were added.
The bell in St. John's steeple weighs nearly 1,000 pounds (450 kg). It was cast by Paul Revere's son, Joseph, at his Boston foundry in August 1822 and installed at St. John's on November 30, 1822. President James Monroe authorized a $100 contribution of public funds toward the purchase of this church bell, which also served as an alarm bell for the neighborhoods and public buildings in the vicinity of the church. St. John's bell is one of two Revere bells in Washington, both cast and installed in 1822. Of the two, however, St. John's bell is the only one that has been in continuous service since its installation. According to at least two accounts, whenever the bell tolls because of the death of a notable person, six ghostly men in white robes appear in the president's pew at midnight and then vanish.
Artwork in the church includes two sculptures by Jay Hall Carpenter, a chapel cross in polished brass, and Ascent Into Heaven, a 3/4 lifesize bronze angel and child overlooking the church's columbarium.
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- White House Historical Association
- Burke, Daniel (January 20, 2016). "Inflammatory pastor preached to Trump before inauguration". CNN. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
- Grimmett, Richard F. St. John's Church, Lafayette Square: The History and Heritage of the Church of the Presidents, Washington, D.C. Minneapolis, Minn.: Hillcrest Publishing Group, 2009. ISBN 1-934248-53-3
- Hagner, Alexander B. "History and Reminiscences of St. John's Church, Washington, D. C." Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., vol. 12, 1909, pp. 89–114. www.jstor.org/stable/40066995.r
- Touring Historyland: The Authentic Guide Book of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia, the Land of George Washington and Robert E. Lee, Volume 186, Northern Neck Association, 1934
- "Historic Places: St. John's Episcopal Church". Abraham Lincoln Online. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
- "Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur". White House. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
- Barnes, Sophia (June 1, 2020). "Historic Church Near White House Damaged Amid Unrest; Leaders Pray for Healing". NBC 4 Washington. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
- Danner, Chas; Hartmann, Margaret (June 4, 2020). "More Than 10,000 Americans Have Been Arrested at George Floyd Protests: Updates". New York. Archived from the original on June 6, 2020. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- Hermann, Peter; Bailey, Sarah Pulliam; Boorstein, Michelle (June 1, 2020). "Fire set at historic St. John's church during protests of George Floyd's death". The Washington Post.
- McCreesh, Shawn (June 1, 2020). "Protests Near White House Spiral Out of Control Again". The New York Times. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
- Lowe, Lindsay (June 2, 2020). "A look at damage inside historic St. John's Church, which burned during protests". today.com. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- Chappell, Bill (June 2, 2020). "'He Did Not Pray': Fallout Grows From Trump's Photo-Op At St. John's Church". NPR. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
- "Trump stands in front of St. John's Church holding Bible after threatening military action against protesters". NBC News. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
- Charles Creitz (June 1, 2020). "St. John's Church rector on aftermath of fire, impromptu Trump visit: 'Like I'm in some alternative universe'". Fox News. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
- "Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's Response to the President". Episcopal Diocese of Washington Facebook Page. Archived from the original on February 26, 2022. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
- Federal Writers' Project (1937). Washington, City and Capital: Federal Writers' Project. Works Progress Administration / Government Printing Office. p. 126.
- St. John's History Archived 2010-10-13 at the Wayback Machine St. John's Church Lafayette Square website
- Hauck, Dennis. Haunted Places: The National Directory. 2d ed. New York: Penguin Group, 2002. ISBN 0-14-200234-8
- Hein, David. "For God and Country: Two Historic Churches in the Nation's Capital." Anglican and Episcopal History 56 (March 1987): 123–26.
- St. John's Episcopal Church Website
- Washington, D.C., A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary – St. John's Church
- The History and Heritage of the Church of the Presidents, presentation by Richard F. Grimmett (March 24, 2010); 46 min.
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Katherine Weber of the Christian Post asked me some questions this week about the recent revelation that the Gospel of Judas had been authenticated by a number of means. See http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/08/17656331-scholars-reveal-how-they-scrambled-to-authenticate-gospel-of-judas for the news report, and http://www.christianpost.com/news/gospel-of-judas-free-of-forgeries-but-still-fake-heretical-says-new-testament-scholar-93781/ for Katherine’s article (published 11 April 2013).
Below are her questions and my responses. This will also be published in the Christian Post later this week.
1) What are your thoughts on the authenticity of the Gospel of Judas? Is ink testing and comparison, in your opinion, an adequate method of determining the validity of an ancient text?
Paleography—the discipline of analyzing, deciphering, and dating ancient manuscripts—is little known outside of specialized circles. Traditionally, scholars especially use handwriting analysis to date manuscripts. Handwriting changes over time, and ancient Greek papyri, of which there are hundreds of thousands still in existence, give us plenty of illustrations of these changes. Actual dated papyri give us concrete evidence for when a particular style of writing was used. Of course, the manuscripts do not use our modern dating system. Instead, they are indexed to the reigns of the Caesars, mention a known person in an official capacity whose dates are known, or speak of astronomical events. For example, a petition to a government official written in “the 25th year of Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Caesar” was penned in AD 216. By such fixed dates on some of the papyri, scholars can fix the patterns of handwriting of other papyri to a range of dates. On such undated papyri, the range can be as short as fifty years.
But Coptic manuscripts are notoriously difficult to date because the handwriting was more stable than Greek manuscripts. Pinpointing the date to within one hundred years is difficult, if not impossible, in most cases. Ink analysis is important because of the shifts in ancient technology and methods that can be located in time. Radiocarbon dating is not usually used on ancient manuscripts because, until recently, it necessarily destroyed part of the document being analyzed. Apparently, radiocarbon dating was used on the Gospel of Judas, however. (There is a relatively new method for dating manuscripts that is non-destructive. I did not see any discussion of this in the report. Developed by Dr. Marvin Rowe of Texas A & M University and his doctoral assistant, Professor Karen Steelman, the method uses a plasma chamber that does not damage the artifact. See Marvin W. Rowe and Karen L. Steelman, “Non-destructive 14C Dating: Plasma-Chemistry and Supercritical Fluid Extraction,” March 2010, ACS National Meeting 2010. So it would indeed have been possible to get a relatively firm date on this fragment without destroying any text.) One problem with all kinds of radiocarbon dating, however, is that this too cannot give a precise date. Depending on the age of the artifact, the range can vary widely.
The recent revelations by Joseph Barabe indicate a date of “approximately A.D. 280,” but this seems to be more precise than the technology would suggest. Most likely, the confluence of ink analysis and radiocarbon dating have both legitimately authenticated this codex and fixed the date to the late third to early fourth century.
2) What criticisms do you have of the Gospel of Judas’ authenticity?
It is important to distinguish two concepts regarding its authenticity. First, there is the issue of whether this document is a modern forgery or a bona fide ancient text. The evidence seems to be quite strong that this is the latter. Second, when we hear the word ‘authentic’ regarding an early sub-Christian writing it is natural to conclude that authentic = true as regards the historicity of the Christian faith. This is not the case in this instance. All that is being claimed is that the manuscript really was produced in the late third century.
3) If it became a fact that the Gospel of Judas were real, how would this change the study of the New Testament?
Most likely, the original Gospel of Judas was written in the second half of the second century. Irenaeus, writing in about AD 180, condemned a gospel by this name as a fake, and described its contents as revealing that Judas “alone, who knew the truth as no one else did, accomplished the mystery of the betrayal” of Jesus. This fits well with the contents of the codex, in which Jesus praises Judas as the one who will set his spirit free from the bonds of his physical body. This is vintage Gnosticism, which made a hard distinction between the spiritual and material world, branding the one good and the other bad. But does this mean that there is any historical truth to the Gospel of Judas, that it actually tells us the real story about the relation of Jesus to Judas? Hardly. Not a single scholar thinks that this conversation has any historical credibility. Irenaeus was right: this is a fake gospel which promotes a heretical idea about Jesus of Nazareth. The discovery and authentication of the Judas codex does nothing to disturb that assessment.
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