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Network and Modem
Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT, and XP
IBM Netfinity 10/100 Ethernet Adapter from IBM Corp allows you to upgrade a desktop PC to a wired and faster connection for office and home networks. With the adapter, you can access networks for high-speed internet connections, file sharing, online gaming, video streaming, and for other purposes. The adapter connects to computers via PCI communications subsystem to which the adapter connects and this interface plus the different technologies, protocols, and standards that the adapter uses are facilitated by the device drivers.
Drivers are small utilities from IBM Corp. and they act as interfaces between the hardware components and the software components. IBM Netfinity 10/100 Ethernet Adapter drivers connect the different components that make up the adapter as well as the adapter to other attached devices. This ethernet adapter supports 10/100 bus architecture and this is facilitated by the device drivers. These drivers also support the different device features.
IBM’s Netfinity drivers facilitate the retrieval of manufacturer and device details and compatibility information such as compatible operating systems and devices and the OS uses this information to register the printer with IBM Corp, to configure the adapter, and to facilitate the updating of the drivers. They also provide the interrupt handling required for any necessary asynchronous time-dependent interface. Although the adapter can run on generic motherboard drivers, IBM recommends that you use device-specific drivers, because the generic ones will only support basic device features and functions. | <urn:uuid:564027db-254b-464c-941a-d946f173d03c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://downloaddriverx.com/ibm-netfinity-10100-ethernet-adapter-driver/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.914662 | 320 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Dr. Abramson discusses some complications that can occur with Rhinoplasty.
Rhinoplasty has many times been referred to as one of the most complex and difficult plastic surgery procedures. From my background in head and neck, and ear, nose and throat surgery, I have a unique advantage of knowing the insides, as well as the outsides, of the nose. In particular, I focus on the interal aspects of the nose where there are many different portions of, and anatomical structures that are important to evaluate and make sure that they are working together in order for the patient to breathe well after surgery.
The septum is one of the most important parts of the inside of the nose. If you think of it as the divider, or the wall between both sides of the nose, that is almost never perfectly straight in any patient, but in many patients it is so deflected or deviated that the airway problems that it creates necessitate there being a procedure to help straighten that out. Even after previous surgeries sometimes, those can be the most challenging as if there’s residual deflection of the septum and continued nasal obstruction, then that also necessitates what we would call a Revision Septoplasty.
There are also structures inside the nose call turbinates. These are structures that look like shingles hanging from the side of the nose. The inferior turbinates are the ones that have quite a bit of function in terms of warming the air, cleaning the air, as well as essentially getting it ready for the lower airway as you breath in. These sometimes become enlarged, in fact sometimes so enlarged that they actually create more obstruction and they’ll need to be reduced. There are many ways to do this and I use one where I hopefully will have the patient postoperatively with minimal recovery, maximal airway, and little to no complications.
Dr. Abramson performs Rhinoplasty procedures in his own surgical suite in Atlanta, GA, a convenient drive for those in Buckhead, Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Marietta, Roswell, Alpharetta and beyond. Abramson Facial Plastic Surgery looks forward to meeting your needs and to answer any questions that you may have. | <urn:uuid:a1bcb9ec-6fcc-43b6-b952-853ead02b6d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://facialplasticsatlanta.com/rhinoplasty-complications/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967139 | 457 | 1.554688 | 2 |
According to the Council on Foreign Relations, “economic precariousness, government corruption, crime, violence, and—increasingly—climate change” are just a few of the reasons many migrants from Central America are arriving at the U.S. southern border illegally in 2021.
Now, almost a month after Vice President Kamala Harris warned Guatemalan migrants not to come to the U.S. while the nation works on sweeping immigration reform, VERIFY viewer Richard wants to know if more people have died trying to cross the border during the first six months President Joe Biden has been in office compared to the four years of President Donald Trump’s term.
Have more people died trying to cross the U.S. southern border during the six months President Joe Biden has been in office compared to the four years of President Donald Trump’s term?
No, more people have not died trying to cross the U.S. southern border during the six months President Joe Biden has been in office compared to the four years of President Trump’s term.
WHAT WE FOUND
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) keeps a record of each time an agent finds a migrant's body along the Southwest border. It's important to note that the data does not record when a person may have died or why they may have tried crossing the border, just when their body was found.
According to data (view below) shared with VERIFY by a CBP spokesperson, 203 bodies were found from October 2020 through May 2021, which includes the first five months of President Biden’s term in office and almost four months of the end of President Trump’s term.
That number is far less than the 833 bodies found from Oct. 2017 through Sept. 2020, which does not include nine months of data from when Trump was in office because CBP tracks data using fiscal years.
CBP notes “there are separate instances unaccounted for where other law enforcement agencies recover deceased migrants without USBP involvement.”
Meanwhile, the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office in Arizona tracks migrant deaths in detail since the county shares a 120-mile border with Mexico.
Data shared with VERIFY show the county recorded roughly 595 deaths during Trump’s term in office. This year, through June 22, they report to have found 100 bodies.
While the recorded numbers from CBP and the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office show a significant number of migrant deaths at the U.S. southern border, the data does not show that the number of deaths has significantly increased during Biden’s first six months in office in comparison to Trump’s four-year term.
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By: Christopher Chau
Following the contentious 2020 election, controversy surrounded the validity of Pennsylvania’s election process as voters requested and submitted record numbers of mail-in ballots. While no-excuse mail-in voting was legalized under Act 77 in 2019, Republicans in the Pennsylvania Senate quickly turned against the practice and claimed that it was vulnerable to voter fraud. On September 3, 2021, the Republican majority announced a “full forensic investigation,” in what seems to be an audit of the election results, voting to subpoena the PA Department of State for voter records along with nonpublic personal identification information, such as Social Security and driver’s license numbers. According to Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman: “This is about looking at our system inside because hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Pennsylvanians, have questions.” While Corman asserted that voters’ information will be kept private, many remained concerned about the invasiveness of the audit. Meanwhile, Senate Democrats and PA Attorney General Josh Shapiro criticized the measure, citing that there was no evidence of voter fraud and that the investigation was a waste of taxpayer money and an invasion of voters’ privacy. | <urn:uuid:7089c9e6-1a0f-4cc3-9992-83bf13672e0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stateofelections.pages.wm.edu/author/electls/page/4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962768 | 243 | 1.710938 | 2 |
GREAT SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE BRINGS STEAM WEEDING TO TASMANIA
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What is it?
Steam Weeding is the latest answer to chemical free weed control. We use patented Satusteam technology from the world leaders Weedtechnics to provide chemical free and environmentally friendly solutions to weed control.
Why is it better?
Our Steam Weeder can be used in all weather conditions, eliminating spray drift, wash off and off target damage.
It is a safe alternative protecting children, pets and environment from harmful herbicides.
Where can it be used?
Steam Weeding can be used safely in and around schools, childcare centres, farms, orchards, playgrounds, wetlands, waterways, landcare groups and residential homes.
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Bird watching in Turkey
Turkey is a vast country with an almost unparalleled variety of natural environments that are as attractive to wildlife as to people. The rugged contours of the southern coast around Kalkan have prevented any mass development, and away from the beaches, there are lush pine-forested slopes around Fethiye and the Bozburun Peninsula. Travel inland and you’ll quickly climb to over 1500m, where coastal olive and citrus groves cede to Alpine scenery, cedar forests and snow-capped mountains.
Turkey is situated at the crossroads of three continents, and forms a bridge for many species of birds between their breeding areas in the north and their winter nests in the south. This, combined with the great tracts of mountains, forests, rivers, reed beds and marshlands, enables keen birdwatchers to observe nearly 300 different species of birds. Amongst these are buzzards, golden orioles, yellow-headed buntings, rollers and even the lesser-spotted eagle and the rare Smyrna kingfisher. The marsh areas around Patara near Kalkan are a particularly rich environment, making it relatively easy to spot bee-eaters, kingfishers and the very distinctive hoopoes amongst many others. There are raptors here too, with sightings of peregrine falcons, marsh harriers and long-legged buzzards all at Patara.
One of the favourite sights for bird watchers during spring and early summer are the white storks. Spring heralds the return of the storks from their warmer winter home in southern Africa. Storks are known as ‘pilgrim birds’ in Turkey and are regarded as special guests. They build their distinctive nests on village houses, mosques and telegraph poles, and traditionally the presence of an occupied nest is regarded as a sign of good fortune. The clattering of their beaks is a familiar sound during the spring months.
Storks mate for life and the breeding pair often return to the same nest year after year to raise new chicks. Preferred breeding grounds are in low wetlands and close to rivers and seas where it’s easy to find food in the form of frogs, earthworms, and beetles, as well as lizards, mice and snakes. First, the male arrives to repair the nest after the inevitable wind and rain damage. He is then joined by the female days later. The hatchlings can usually be seen popping their heads up from around the middle of May, and by the middle of June they start practising flight from pillar to post. By the end of June, the entire family has departed until next spring. The number of couples breeding in Turkey annually amounts to between 15,000–35,000.
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A professional snake trapper is recovering after being bitten in the finger by a poisonous copperhead snake in Maryland.
The Frederick News-Post reports Tammy McCormack was removing a copperhead from deer netting in a Silver Spring garden on Wednesday when the snake bit her right index finger. On the drive back to her home in Frederick, McCormack says her finger swelled up and she began experiencing excruciating pain, nausea and a headache.
McCormack was taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital for treatment and will likely remain there for several days.
This isn't the first time McCormack has been bitten by a poisonous snake. She's also been bitten by a timber rattlesnake.
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With TV shows on the decline and facing a troubled future (and mark my words, virtual reality is a fad) indie filmmakers are now at the forefront of a new media landscape. But there are plenty of reasons to make indie films besides being on the cutting edge — let’s take a look at why so many of our most talented youngsters are turning to indie film…
1. To become your own film marketer and entrepreneur! The most exciting part about making indie films nowadays is that the actual movie is not what’s most important. It’s the marketing and business side that’s truly essential. To quote this article on The Death of the Artist — And the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur (The Atlantic), “we don’t have to worry about the art anymore, we can just be business people like our parents wanted in the first place.”
2. To attend film festival panels and post film Q & A’s. If you love panels, indie film is for you. Any industry insider knows that the secret to film festivals is to skip the movies and instead, use your $600 badge to gain access to the always illuminating indie film panels. This is the best way to hear from the industry’s top middlemen. Be sure to pick the brains of these unsung heroes of artistic pursuit by asking tough questions. They’ll divulge priceless secrets like, “it’s important to get people’s email addresses” and “make your movie about something with a built-in audience.”
As far as those famous post film Q and A’s, what can be better than a scintillating conversation between filmmakers who clearly know why they made their movie, and audience members hungry to hear what camera they shot on.
3. To use the newest cameras. When making an indie film, it’s essential that you use the newest camera. I’m a broken record about this, but it’s true: never make an indie film unless you have the latest and greatest equipment! Once you’re ready to upload, please god make sure it’s in 4k. Use whatever free time you have to complain to the Vimeo staff that they aren’t 4K compatible. (Once everyone is 4K compatible, start complaining that they aren’t compatible with whatever comes after 4K)
4. To look like an auteur. When you see the on-set photographer lining up a shot of you behind-the-scenes, make sure you point at something so you look busy and in charge. It doesn’t matter what you point at it, just get that arm up.
And when you get to a film festival, take a bunch of pictures in front of the Press Wall Backdrops (see above photo). This reminds people of celebrities and so, even though it’s just you, you kinda seem famous.
5. To be honored at the annual Indie Spirit awards in sunny Los Angeles. This is the award show for the scrappy indie filmmaker. Blockbuster films like “Birdman” and “Silver Linings Playbook” are not eligible so you don’t have to worry about competing with the Hollywood celebrity system. And, of course, the awards ceremony is not a fundraiser, so the biggest names won’t automatically win so they raise more money. Good news for you!
7. To get emails from people who saw your movie and think you can help them with theirs. Make sure you give out your email address publicly so that anybody can email you and ask for favors, such as putting them in touch with Janet Pierson or Sundance. You might even get an email from a student filmmaker inviting you to answer 20 questions for their class assignment! This is really cool because it’s fun to whip up 20 answers that no one will ever read except their professor.
8. To get emails from composers with a link to their awesome film score tracks. It’s so nice to hear from these random people who you’ll probably work with because you don’t have any friends who do music. A good idea is to use the music from the first composer who emails you their SoundCloud page.
9. To get an amazing distribution deal. As an indie filmmaker, you’ll have a tremendous wealth of distribution offers. All you’ll have to do is decide how much money you want in advance. There are hundreds of indie distributors who pay top dollars for premium indie product. None of these indie distributors prey off desperate indie filmmakers, offering them zero money, publicity or advertising. This which would result in an industry of middlemen, where the only people making a living are the distributors and aggregators. And that’s definitely not the case since we know plenty of indie filmmakers making a living off their films. We definitely do.
10. To make quick cash. Believe the hype. Indie film success is easy. Since we all have social media now, all you have to do is link to Amazon or iTunes. You should start Twitter accounts a month before your movie comes out to tweet, “Buy my movie” over and over. Use an app to automatically post the same tweet 100 times a month. I’ve said it before, but make sure NOT to use any of your own personality to promote your film. Just copy and paste typical marketing messages.
Well, I should get back to set now. Thanks for tuning in to another edition of my helpful knowledge. I hope you’ll join me in the #indiefilm community and movement. There’s a huge supportive network just waiting for you to make your first film. Once you make a film, you’ll join the family. Typical conversation after you’ve made a film:
“Have you made an indie film?”
“Oh great, that’s all you need.”
“Okay, glad to be a part of the family.”
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About Field Education
The School of Social Work prepares professional practitioners at the baccalaureate and masters levels to provide service to vulnerable and oppressed individuals, groups, families, communities, and organizations located in the Detroit metropolitan area.
Because of Wayne State University's historical legacy, the school places special emphasis on this goal to prepare all professional practitioners to work with clients who have been disenfranchised through unjust and inequitable policies, practices, and programs institutionalized in society and its social institutions.
Field education is an integral part of the social work degree curriculum and is required of all students in the BSW and MSW programs. CSWE (Council on Social Work Education) requires colleges and universities offering accredited social work degrees to provide students educational instruction and opportunities in five areas: human behavior, policy, practice methods, research, and field education/work.
Coronavirus (COVID- 19) Office of Field Education updates:
The WSU School of Social Work administration has been carefully monitoring the emerging COVID-19 pandemic and assessing the impact of this crisis on our social work students. This situation is dynamic and ever changing, and we are working to make the best decision for our students and agencies. Students are eligible to attend field, as field has not been cancelled nor delayed. Students will still receive oversight and insurance from the school. Please review the contingency plan, located here, in the event students are prohibited by state or agency policy from returning and that will be evaluated as presented. Please reveiw our most up-to-date communications at https://socialwork.wayne.edu/current or via your course CANVAS page.
Important field information
Spring/Summer 2022 (BSW Part-time Students Only) Important Dates:
- Monday May 2, 2022: Spring/Summer Field Placement begins, unless a different date is provided by the agency.
- Learning Plan is due Friday, May 27, 2022
- Process Recordings or PRACSIS due dates:
- Process Recording/PRACSIS 1: May 27, 2022
- Process Recording/PRACSIS 2: June 10, 2022
- Process Recording/PRACSIS 3: June 24, 2022
- Process Recording/PRACSIS 4: July 8, 2022
- Process Recording/PRACSIS 5: July 22, 2022
- Midterm Evaluation due June 24, 2022
- Field Instructor Assessment of Student Competencies (FIASC) due August 10, 2022
- Friday August 12, 2022: Official last day of Field for Spring/Summer 2022. All students must remain in field until this date.
Required clock hours for Spring/Summer have been reduced by 15%. BSW Part-time Students must complete a minimum of 196 hours for the term. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN FIELD HOURS expires at the end of Summer Term.
Fall 2022 Field Placement begins on August 29, 2022, unless a different date is provided by the agency.
Student training programs
Become a field agency site
If you are part of a social work agency in the metro Detroit or surrounding area, and you would like to work with our social work students, please feel free to contact us. We are always interested in forming relationships with new agencies. The first step in the process would be to complete the Application for Agency Participation. If your agency is already a partner site and you are looking to become a Field Instructor for your agency, please complete the New Field Instructor Application. | <urn:uuid:735096e5-9aa4-4b6b-b083-38d589d60cf7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://socialwork.wayne.edu/field | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937785 | 714 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Most people don’t think of constipation as a serious disease, but it can be. It’s also a serious health issue, with the number of emergency room visits for constipation reported to be rising.
A study in the
American Journal of Gastroenterology reports that there were 497,034 ER visits for constipation in 2006; 703,391 visits in 2011, an increase of 42 percent. Infants and seniors are the most likely visitors. The estimated cost of those visits was $1.6 billion.
The medical definition of constipation is an acute or chronic condition in which bowel movements occur less often than usual or consist of hard, dry stools that are painful or difficult to pass. While bowel habits vary by individual, an adult who has not had a movement in three days or a child in four days is considered to be constipated. It’s estimated that constipation affects 12 to 19 percent of the U.S. population.
Constipation is typically caused by a lack of dietary fiber(recommended daily fiber intake is 25-30 grams). Here are 13 more surprising causes:
Hypothyroidism, which means an underactive thyroid gland slowing the body’s metabolic processes.
- Painkilling medications, especially narcotics. There is some evidence that chronic use of pain relievers like aspirin and ibuprofen may also cause a problem.
- Chocolate (also bananas and black tea), particularly in persons with a chronic condition or
irritable bowel disease. Read more about
- Some nutritional supplements, such as calcium and iron, can cause a problem in some people.
- Overuse of laxatives. Some laxatives work by stimulating bowel activity, but overuse can result in dependence, meaning the body stops functioning normally without them. Use only as directed by label or your doctor.
- Too much dairy (high fat/low fiber) can slow the digestive system.
- Antidepressants, such as
selective serontonin reuptake inhibitors, have been associated with higher risk of constipation.
- Antacids, particularly those containing calcium or aluminum, can lead to constipation.
- Blood pressure and allergy medications. Constipation can be a side effect.
- Inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn's disease and
- Childbirth can cause constipation, possibly due to sluggish abdominal muscles or drugs used during delivery. Constipation can also be a problem during pregnancy.
- Diabetes and neurological conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis that may damage nerves affecting the digestive process.
Care at UC San Diego Health
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Washington, DC – In May 2021, the US imported 1m refrigerators. This is up by 6.0%, at 57,000 more units than were imported in May 2020.
US refrigerator imports increase by 6% in May 2021
The year-to-date total of refrigerators imported to the US is 5.27m, an 80% rise compared with the same time frame in 2020. So far in 2021, the US has imported 2.3m more units.
The largest source of imports to the US in May was China, which provided 873,000 refrigerators. Thailand, with 59,000 units, was the second largest source, followed by Mexico, with a total of 22,000 units originating from there. Turkey was the fourth largest, supplying 15,000 units.
In May 2020, the largest source of imports was China, at 916,000 units. Mexico, with 16,000 units, was second, while Canada in third accounted for 6000 units.
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Architectural Firms Are More Than Just Exterior Design
Posted by Rohan Kumar on January 21st, 2020
If you're thinking about building or improving upon a home or commercial piece of land, an architectural firm can assist you with not only the structural design aspects of the project but with many other important factors. Companies have expanded their expertise to include offering a range of services including interior design, landscaping, and custom tailoring designs to suit specific needs. Here are some ways an architectural firm can assist you beyond just the basic design ideas.
Hiring a qualified architectural firm to oversee your next construction or home project will give you greater peace of mind, ensuring that everything is up to high standards of safety. This is often especially important if the building is in an area liable to natural disasters which will destroy property like earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornados. Architectural firms may also help improve the security and privacy a building offers through careful planning and style layouts. A well-placed door or window is often a way better deterrent to intruders than even the most expensive security systems.
Parking, Handicap access, Climate. These and many more factors and little details got to be considered when designing a new building or home or improving upon an existing one. A good architectural firm is skilled at tailoring projects to the actual location as well as to their clients' needs. The direction a door faces to the location of the stairway can have a serious impact on the practicality and flow of a building. An architectural firm can assist you to maximize the strong points of a design plan and minimize any negatives of the situation.
Many firms also have interior design plans and options to assist you to match the outside of your home with the inside furniture and décor. Designers will help you optimize the positive points within your home or building to create an engaging, relaxing atmosphere that represents a mood of your choosing. Professional interior designers can also assist you to improve your home by creating a greater sense of space or helping you organize.
Creating a building or home also involves plotting landscaping that's not only aesthetically pleasing but useful. Firms can assist you to create a striking exterior that will also improve the climate and functioning of the interior of your home or building.
One of the foremost important aspects of building and designing your house or building has it fit your unique sense of favor and taste. An architectural firm can assist you to achieve a design that comes with your sense of aesthetics with modern conveniences and functionality. They will help you create your vision within a group budget and offer valuable suggestions and solutions to potential problems that will arise.
Before you start your next land project, consider hiring an architectural firm to help with planning, design, and execution of either or both the interior and exterior. Not only will you be getting professional services and expert advice, but your project will run smoother and be less stressful. Choosing an architectural firm could also be the perfect fit if one is looking to form a drastic change in one area of their home or business space.
Taurus Inspro is the Best Architecture Firms in Bangalore. We offer creative house plans based on traditional modern and contemporary architecture at Best Residential Architect Bangalore. We have experienced and professional Commercial Interior and architectural designers for Office Design, Hotels, Resorts, Cafes and Pub.
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Equality & Diversity: How to ensure that your workplace is inclusive
Fairness in the workplace is a vital part of a successful business and many companies claim to be committed to championing equality, diversity and inclusion, but what can business actually do to cultivate a truly inclusive workplace? And why is it so important?
pro-manchester's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee has put together an expert panel to discuss issues around inclusion in the workplace, such as:
- How to create cultural change in business, creating a safe environment for everyone in the workplace.
- How to measure success and outcomes.
- How to ensure that diversity is a priority for your business.
- How to cultivate an open working environment.
- How to ensure that your company isn't "all talk" when it comes to workplace inclusivity.
About the Speakers:
Social impact consultancy Noisy Cricket builds people-powered movements through bringing diverse voices together to create social change. Working purposefully and collectively on the root causes of social issues, founder Lauren Coulman and the team work to engineer strategic and cross-sector responses to systemic, cultural and personal challenges in our society, all with impacted people at the heart of the solutions designed. Using humanity-centred design to develop insight, build community, shape campaigns and innovate social products and services, Noisy Cricket’s powerful model is facilitating change within homelessness, health inequality, body politics and tech ethics, all with the aim of empowering people to achieve their own equality.
Carl was the first openly gay Lord Mayor of Manchester 2016 – 2017, Served on Manchester City Council representing Burnage from 2011 – 2018, was lead member for LGBT issues within the City Council. Also owns his own Cleaning Company VA Clean – working with Property Management Companies specialising in the communal areas of apartment blocks.
Carl was one of the last people to be discharged from the RAF in 1997 due to his sexuality although having an exemplary service record, he was the first openly gay person to join Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service in 1998 and then went on to win Mr Gay UK 2001.
Carl is a trustee of LGBT Foundation, Fighting With Pride (supporting health, welfare and wellbeing of LGBT+ Veterans discharged between 1955 – 2000 due to their sexuality) We Stand Together Charity – building on Community Cohesion, The President of Contact – a young person’s theatre based on Oxford Road. A Diversity Role Model, an Advocate of The Proud Trust, Chair of the Running Bee Foundation, Co-Chair of pro-manchester Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee and recently received an honouree Doctorate from the University of Bolton for his services for the community.
In August 2018 The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham appointed Carl to be the LGBT Advisor to himself and The Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
In April 2019, his daughter Willow was born where Carl & his husband Simon are carrying out duel parenting with a lesbian couple.
November 2019, was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater Manchester and was awarded the OBE in the 2020 Queens New Year’s Honours List for services to Charity and the LGBTQ+ Community.
Amy has been working with technology teams for over a decade and currently heads up diversity & inclusion (D&I) for ThoughtWorks, a global software consultancy. A curious and adaptable leader, Amy advocates passionately for social justice and remains committed to amplifying those who often go unheard and underserved. She is part of BIMA’s D&I council, has been included on Northern Power Women’s 2019 Future List and has been a driving force behind ThoughtWorks LGBTQ+ journey, which has seen them climb 223 places to reach the Stonewall Top 100 this year.
Rose-Marie Drury is a Senior Associate and collaborative solicitor at Mills & Reeve in family law. She is an expert on issues involving children including co-parenting arrangements, parentage arising out of donor arrangements, UK and international surrogacy, child arrangements orders and relocation applications.
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The Other Big Deficit: Many Teens Fall Short On Sleep
Most high school students are chronically tired. They juggle school, sports, homework, chores, friends and family.
To meet all of these demands, surveys show, high schoolers usually stay up close to midnight on school nights. And then they have to get up early the next morning, typically around 6 or 6:30 a.m., to get to school on time, as most high schools start classes around 7:30 a.m.
By Friday, most teens are very tired, says Dr. Helene Emsellem, a sleep researcher with George Washington University in Washington, D.C. And then comes the weekend.
"Every parent of a teenager knows that if you try to get them up in the morning on the weekends, they're tired, grouchy, irritable and not the charming individuals that they're capable of being, because they're so exhausted," says Emsellem, a neurologist who also runs the Center for Sleep and Wake Disorders in Chevy Chase, Md.
She says the typical high school senior gets less than seven hours of sleep on school nights. But they need a great deal more.
Growth Spurts Call For Sleep
"Most studies show a fairly consistent 9 1/4 hours sleep requirement," says Emsellem. "So there's a huge gap between what they're getting on an average school night and what they require."
An adolescent's biology bears some of the blame for this sleep problem. As teens progress through puberty, unprecedented growth occurs in body and brain that requires a lot of sleep.
In addition, something else is changing: The very brain chemical that makes one feel sleepy — a hormone called melatonin — is released later and later in the evening as teens get older.
Because of this shift in the onset of melatonin, teenagers don't feel sleepy until later at night, says Stephanie Crowley, a sleep researcher at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
"A 16- or 17-year-old might be able to stay awake later compared to a 10-year-old who will likely fall asleep on the couch watching TV," Crowley explains.
Accruing A 'Sleep Debt'
Most studies show a fairly consistent 9 1/4 hours sleep requirement. So there's a huge gap between what they're getting on an average school night and what they require.
When a teen's propensity to fall asleep later is coupled with the early-to-rise school start times, most high school students end up accruing a "sleep debt" of five to 10 hours by the end of a school week.
And teenagers' typical habits on the weekend create even more chaos in their sleep-wake cycle.
"What the majority of adolescents do is they will try to recover their sleep on the weekends," Crowley observes. "And what usually will happen is they'll stay up late to socialize with friends and then sleep in in the morning."
But this sleep-wake pattern makes things worse for the teen, not better, Emsellem says.
"Even if you catch up by sleeping in late on your weekend mornings," she says, "by doing so, it makes it harder for you to fall asleep by 10 or 10:30 on Sunday night. And you start all over again, sleep restricted."
But Emsellem offers some suggestions for the weekends, based on her sleep research in the lab — and her personal experience of raising three daughters.
"As a parent myself, I feel like a criminal if I ask them to get up at 7:30 or 8 in the morning. But I do try to get them up by 9. And I encourage them to get some activity and some light exposure in the morning," she says.
Let There Be Not Much Light At Night
Light, Emsellem says, is a "drug that promotes wakefulness" in the morning, in the same way that darkness can promote sleep at night. In the evening, she recommends dimming and even turning off some lights in the house to minimize light exposure.
The teen should also try to make the transition to sleep time by taking a warm shower or doing some gentle stretching. Emsellem suggests that there be a lights-out time in the teen's bedroom during the school week and that they try to stick with it.
But if the teenager gets into bed and turns out the lights but cannot sleep, Emsellem says, just lying there in bed doing nothing is just as frustrating for the teen as it is for an adult. In that case, electronics can be helpful if used carefully — for example, soothing music or an audio book. But she suggests limiting such sleep aids to 30 minutes.
Making The Case For Sleep
Emsellem wants teenagers to understand what sleep does for them every night.
"I think it's important for teens to recognize that during the day, they're gathering information," she says. "But they're really not learning it till they sleep on it."
Another tip for teens: no caffeine — including chocolate — after midafternoon. Emsellem says caffeine stays in a teen's system for at least six hours.
Experts also recommend naps. Over the weekend, an hour or so can help a teen catch up on sleep. During the school week, naps should be short — 20 to 30 minutes — and are best taken during study hall or a break before midafternoon. Otherwise, they could interfere with nighttime sleep.
Naps can be particularly helpful when teens have a test in the afternoon. "Studies have shown they'll do better on their test with a nap midday," Emsellem says.
There's another advantage to an early afternoon nap: Teens will then have more energy and concentration to power through homework later in the evening.
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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA2171: A History of the Modern Middle East, 1900-2014
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
This module aims to develop your skills in historiographical as well as historical analysis in the manner in which it looks at the ways in which different pasts, histories and memories have been created across the modern Middle East. It will contrast Orientalist forms of scholarship with more critical approaches and aims to develop the conceptual and theoretical capabilities of students, as well as their subject knowledge. Additionally, the module will explore the methods of comparative, transnational and global history, exploring how these ideas are developed in scholarship and how they can be deployed in your work.
|On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:|
|Module-Specific Skills||1. Appreciate the diversity/uniformity which marked the historical development of modern states in the region, and to evaluate it in the light of current debates on colonial and post-colonial socio-political systems.|
2. Demonstrate an in-depth critical understanding of the relationship between ideology, politics and culture as forces which have shaped the modern Middle East;
|Discipline-Specific Skills||3. Discuss empirically-based research in the light of wider theoretical frameworks and to critically evaluate historical processes from a range of cultural perspectives;|
4. Understand historical change through a multi-disciplinary approach;
5. Demonstrate an understanding of the interdisciplinary methods upon which Area Studies and Middle East Studies are based;
6. Appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of types of history and forms of historical evidence;
|Personal and Key Skills||7. Study independently and in and group work, including participation in oral discussion; and|
8. Organise data effectively to produce a coherent argument to a deadline, both orally and in writing.
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Thu Bon River
Flowing all the way from Ngoc Linh Mountain to the South China Sea, the Thu Bon River is responsible for Hoi An’s development as a major trading post. The river runs through Hoi An Ancient Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is flanked by some of the city’s most famous attractions, including the Japanese Covered Bridge and Hoi An Central Market.
One of the most popular ways to experience the Thu Bon River in Hoi An is on a 1- or 2-hour boat ride. Head out on a bamboo boat with a fisherman to learn local fishing techniques, or opt for a short cruise in a modern boat to Cua Dai Beach. If you’re a thrill seeker, spinning madly on a basket boat is a must-try experience.
Things to Know Before You Go
Walking along the banks of the Thu Bon River reveals the majority of Hoi An attractions.
Be aware of your belongings as the riverside is nearly always very crowded.
It’s a good idea to visit the Ancient Town section of the river by both day and night for two different perspectives.
Throughout the day, locals offer rides in the wooden rowboats that line the riverbanks.
How to Get There
The most famous section of the Thu Bon River is undoubtedly the one that runs through Hoi An Ancient Town. However, lesser-known parts of the river reveal local life in Vietnam and lead all the way to Ngoc Linh Mountain, which is shrouded by fragrant cinnamon forest.
When to Get There
By traditional sampan or luxury yacht, the most popular time for a Thu Bon River cruise is sunset. Or, if you’d like to see life on the river at its most active, come at 7am or 4:30pm to experience it at rush hour.
Hoi An Full Moon Lantern Festival
Although Hoi An looks postcard-pretty every evening, the Ancient Town is at its most spectacular during the monthly Lantern Festival, when local release illuminated paper lanterns into the river to promote good health and fortune. It’s a must-see that’s worth tweaking your Vietnam itinerary to catch.
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- Thanh Ha Terracotta Park
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- Hoi An Silk Village (Lang Lua Hoi An)
- Phung Hung Ancient House
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- Cantonese Assembly Hall (Hoi Quan Quang Dong)
- Museum of Sa Huynh Culture
- Tan Ky Old House
- Kim Bong (Carpentry Village)
- Museum of Trade Ceramics
- Hoi An Handicraft Workshop
- Hoi An Museum (Bao Tang Hoi An)
- Phuc Kien Assembly Hall (Fujian Assembly Hall)
- Hoi An Central Market (Cho Hoi An)
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U.S.On Affirmative Action, the Court Tackles a Deceptively Simple QuestionWhen it comes to race-based admissions, both sides contain people of good will. And neither group can understand a word the other says.By Garrett EppsOctober 15, 2013Share Shanta Driver, the national spokesperson for By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), delivered arguments before the Court today. Here, she celebrates the Supreme Court's 2003 ruling in favor of race-based admissions. (REUTERS) You could say that the whole point of something like the Equal Protection Clause is to take race off the table,” Chief Justice John Roberts mused from the bench yesterday. Many Americans believe just that—that the central command of the Equal Protection Clause is to produce a system where race doesn’t matter and we don’t have to think about it. Many other Americans, however, believe that the point of the Clause—of the whole Fourteenth Amendment, in fact—is to bring about real equality, not as goal or a motto but as a fact. And if government has to take account of race to do that, so be it. Both groups contain people of good will. And neither group can understand a word the other says. The gap was on display Tuesday at the Supreme Court, when the justices heard argument in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. Schuette asks a deceptively simple question: Can the people of a state, by majority vote, make it unlawful for colleges and universities to use race-based affirmative action in admissions—which is perfectly legal under the Constitution? One side says, of course! No state is required to use affirmative action at any level. Equal treatment is the sole aim. The other side responds, are you kidding? The voters take a program designed to boost minority numbers and, by majority vote, place that one program off limits. What's equal about that? Proposal 2, now Art. I Sec. 26 of the Michigan Constitution, says that state universities "shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting." It was placed on the ballot after the twin 2003 Grutter cases, in which Supreme Court upheld one of the University of Michigan's affirmative action policies. Fifty-eight percent of the voters supported it in November 2006. Soon after, two groups challenged it. One is the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action by Any Means Necessary (BAMN), which as the name implies, is made up of old-line civil rights groups. The other group has come to be known as "the Cantrell respondents"--a group of students and faculty at state universities, and some people who hope to apply. The two cases were consolidated, even though the two groups had, and have, very different arguments to make. In 2012, the Sixth Circuit, sitting en banc, agreed that the law was unconstitutional. The opinion noted that race-conscious programs are rarely even permitted, much less required. But the Sixth Circuit's relied on a seldom used doctrine called "the political restructuring doctrine.” In essence, it says that legislatures and voters can't rewrite the law to make it impossible for minority groups to achieve their political goals—for example, by requiring a referendum before any civil rights law can be passed by the legislature. The Sixth Circuit enunciated the rule as saying that "the majority may not manipulate the channels of change so as to place unique burdens on issues of importance to" minorities. Amendment 2 requires advocates of affirmative action to amend the state constitution--"a lengthy, expensive, and arduous process"--in order to reinstate affirmative action. "The existence of such a comparative structural burden undermines the Equal Protection Clause's guarantee that all citizens ought to have equal access to the tools of change," the majority said. The minority filed a series of dissents, asserting with varying levels of rage that, as Judge Boggs put it in his, “holding it to be a violation of equal protection for the ultimate political authority to declare a uniform policy of non-discrimination is vastly far afield from the Supreme Court precedents.” On Wednesday, Michigan Solicitor General John J. Bursch told the Court that "political restructuring" should apply only when a measure both repeals an anti-discrimination law and makes it harder--by amending the state constitution, say--to enact a new one. Proposal 2 doesn't repeal any prohibitions on discrimination, it strengthens them, he said. "The people of Michigan decided to move past the day when we are all focused on race." There are two ways for a lawyer to respond to this argument. One is to say, "With respect, I believe that the argument doesn't fully take account of the facts and the law." The other is to say, “Are you kidding me? A white majority overrules a civil-rights victory with a polarized referendum, and you think race was not involved?" Both arguments have a good deal of truth in them; but only one is the right way to approach this Court. The "Cantrell plaintiffs," in a brief written by a galaxy of legal stars including Laurence Tribe of Harvard, adopted the first approach. (It was clear from the tone of the briefs, and the relatively unusual division of the oral argument into two fifteen-minute segments, that there had been some disagreement between the two groups of challengers. Justice Elena Kagan did not take part in the argument.) The Cantrell brief proposed a narrow rule: “when race is the predominant factor explaining a state's decision to establish a distinct political process, the governmental action creates a racial classification subject to strict scrutiny." What Michigan had done, their lawyer, Mark Rosenbaum said, was wall of racial admissions decisions and create a special, harder procedure for adopting them: “Under their theory, the people of the State -- of a State could amend their constitution, put in the legislature two rooms, one for racial matters one for all other sorts of matters, and say to any entrant who wants to enter that first room: You may do so, but first you have to pay an exorbitant cover charge and then you have to mount multiple stairs, flights of stairs, just to begin the process of enacting constitutionally permissible legislation.” Shanta Driver, the head of BAMN, gave the justices a taste of the “Are you kidding?” approach. In its brief, BAMN had compared Proposal 2 to the post-Civil War "black codes" that regulated what work non-whites could perform. In her opening, Driver asked the Court “bring the 14th Amendment back to its original purpose and meaning, which is to protect minority rights against a white majority. . . . It’s a measure in which the question of discrimination is determined not just by -- by power, by who has privilege in this society, and those minorities that are oppressed, be they religious or racial, need protection from a more privileged majority.” This was too much for Justice Antonin Scalia. “So if you have a banding together of various minority groups who discriminate against -- against whites, that's okay? . . . Do you have any case of ours that propounds that view of the 14th Amendment, that it protects only minorities? Any case?” “No case of yours,” Driver said. The ironic tone may have been in the ear of the hearers. The rest of the argument focused on when a state or local government could, under the “restructuring doctrine,” abolish an affirmative-action program. That question bothered Justice Anthony Kennedy—no fan of affirmative action—as well as Alito. But it also bothered Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who noted that governments make dozens of decisions on hiring, at many levels. Was Driver advocating a rule that would make each lower-level decision unamendable? When Driver seemed to be struggling with the answer, Justice Sonia Sotomayor jumped in to rescue her: “It's when the . . . political process has changed specifically and only for race, as a constitutional amendment here was intended to do, that the political doctrine is violated. Have I restated?” Driver gratefully agreed. The Court was harder to read than usual, but the question in my mind at the end of the argument was not which way the justices would rule but how many of them would vote to reinstate Proposal 2. Justice Sotomayor, who has said she regards affirmative action as key to her career, seemed to be favoring the challengers; the other moderate-liberals held their fire. One part of the briefing provided an unstated ironic backdrop to the argument. The “restructuring” doctrine shouldn’t apply to Proposal 2, and indeed was a good candidate for being overruled in toto. And Proposal 2 was necessary in the first place because a Michigan citizen seeking to implement § 26’s policy through the “political process” would have to elect a majority of Michigan, Michigan State, and Wayne State’s eight-member boards of trustees (which would take an eight-year process spanning at least three statewide election cycles) willing to abolish preference programs, then hope that the trustees would stand up to the faculty committees that believe that they alone have exclusive control over the admissions process. 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Last September, the Trump administration announced that it would be ending Deferred Action for Early Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Executive branch program that had provided 700,000 undocumented immigrants, who were brought to the U.S. as children, with temporary legal status. In explaining this decision, Attorney General Jeff Sessions argued that DACA was illegitimate as a matter of constitutional law, and inadvisable as a matter of policy.
Hours later, the president implored Congress to give some form of amnesty to Dreamers — and suggested that he might reinstate the (ostensibly unconstitutional) DACA program if Congress failed to act.
Trump’s position on the issue is as incoherent today as it was then. Throughout negotiations over an immigration package, Trump has presented amnesty for Dreamers as an urgent necessity — and also, an odious concession that is only acceptable when paired with a restrictionist revolution in American immigration policy. This contradiction reflects ideological divisions within both the White House and congressional GOP. But it also reflects the president’s clumsy attempt to execute a bluff.
Before he took the Dreamers hostage, Trump couldn’t get Congress to give his border wall — or proposed cuts to legal immigration — any serious attention. In recent weeks, as DACA’s final expiration date crept closer, congressional Democrats were ready to throw billions at Trump’s monument to American xenophobia, if it would buy Dreamers some peace of mind (and/or spare Chuck Schumer the hassle of trying to mediate between the demands of #TheResistance and those of Joe Manchin). But the president turned that offer down, opting to hold out for draconian reductions to legal immigration.
It now looks like Trump pushed his luck.
In order to secure policy victories through hostage-taking, you need to be willing to shoot the hostages — or at least, capable of convincing your opponents that you’re willing to shoot them. And the president, and his party, have given every indication that they aren’t ready to pull that trigger. On Monday, Politico reported on the latest (and most blatant) tell:
Congress may just end up punting on its Dreamer dilemma.
As lawmakers grasp for a solution for the young undocumented immigrants, one option is a temporary extension — perhaps one year — of their legal protections paired with a little bit of cash for border security.
… [A] bare-bones Dreamers bill would be likely to face resistance in the House, where conservative Republicans are already complaining that even the White House framework — which calls for sharp restrictions to the family-based immigration system — is too generous to young undocumented immigrants.
Lawmakers may soon have no choice, however.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) has discussed how a temporary DACA fix could be accompanied by equally short-term measures.
If the choice facing Democrats was between accepting permanent reductions in family-based immigration and seeing Dreamers dispossessed and deported in large numbers, it’s plausible that Team Blue would give Stephen Miller what he wants. But the actual choice appears to be: Accept drastic, right-wing changes to immigration and secure permanent legal status for Dreamers — or reject those changes and secure temporary legal status for them.
Given that the Dreamers’ own advocacy groups believe Trump’s ransom isn’t worth paying, Democrats have no reason to pick door No.1. One year from now, the party will (almost certainly) have more power at the federal level than it does today. Thus, it makes little sense to cut a permanent deal now, if that requires gutting family-based immigration rules that a wide variety of Democratic constituencies value.
And the evidence that Republicans aren’t actually willing to strip legal status from Dreamers extends well beyond Politico’s dispatch. As Vox’s Dylan Matthews demonstrates, a large majority of the American people (upwards of 75 percent in multiple polls) want Dreamers to be allowed to stay here legally. And the Republican leadership, from Donald Trump to Mitch McConnell, has been thoroughly unwilling to tell such voters that they’re wrong. Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has felt compelled to promise (however emptily) not to deport law-abiding Dreamers, even after they lose their legal status. And, after a federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to reinstate DACA (on grounds that most experts regard as legally shaky), the White House declined to seek a stay of that decision, opting instead to reopen renewal applications for the program — ostensibly welcoming the opportunity to extend DACA well past the initial deadline of March 5.
While it’s hard to reconcile that decision with Jeff Sessions’s rhetoric, it’s perfectly compatible with the GOP’s best interests. Put simply, DACA worked great for Republicans. The “Dreamers” issue drives a wedge between one part of their base and the rest of the country. Republicans’ fear of angering the former makes it hard for them to vote for legalizing Dreamers; their fear of alienating the latter prevents them from calling for the mass deportation of 700,000 American-raised, law-abiding, gainfully employed people (who have deep ties to American companies, churches, universities, and communities). An Executive branch program that sidelines the issue — giving Dreamers legal status, while keeping them disenfranchised, and congressional Republicans insulated from nativist backlash — was an elegant solution to the party’s dilemma. Alas, there was short-term political gain in painting Barack Obama as a tyrant willing to shred the Constitution to help “illegals.” So now, Republicans have to find a legislative way of safely escorting the Dreamers back into purgatory.
All of which is to say: Unless Trump or his party indicates that temporary legal status isn’t an option, Democrats have the leverage in immigration negotiations. Team Blue can live with one more year of limbo for Dreamers. By contrast, it’s unclear how ready Trump is to live with another year of failing to fund his wall. And if the president wants to save face on that score, he’s going to need to put permanent status for Dreamers on the table — and take cuts to legal immigration off of it. | <urn:uuid:d7068714-6bf0-4884-956b-780685f35089> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/02/trump-has-lost-the-upper-hand-in-the-immigration-fight.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949308 | 1,288 | 1.625 | 2 |
If you already consider yourself an experienced driver and risk going on trips with a child, then pay attention to some features of such trips to ensure both the comfort of the child and safety for both of you.
Most importantly – do not forget about the car seat, and not just because it is regulated by law. The presence of a car seat is an elementary safety requirement because a child fastened in a chair with straps will not be able to fall, climb on the front seat, and in general, restricting its mobility will save you from many dangerous situations.
The car seat should be selected according to the size of the child. Even for the little ones, there are special car seats in the form of a cradle – for newborns. For children who have already learned to sit, the chair is installed against the movement, facing the mother sitting next to it. All other car seats are fastened face forward and, as a rule, behind the driver’s seat. This place is considered the safest in the car.
It is necessary to go with the child very accurately not only not to get into an accident, but also not to frighten the kid with sharp braking. And, of course, you need to avoid all sorts of road fights, because the screams of the brakes, outside the window, screams, and curses of drivers, sound signals can scare the child.
When going on a trip with a child, do not forget that children always want to go to the toilet at the most inopportune moment. To avoid such situations and not to look for a feverish place to park in the middle of a busy road, make it a rule 30-40 minutes after leaving home, look for a convenient place on the road, where you can park so that the child in advance, without haste. need.
Don’t forget to take your toys with you. These can be plush toys, transformers. It would be good to take a tape recorder with fairy tales, as well as juice in small packages, candy, fruit – all that a child can do during the trip. Only you should arrange all things correctly so that at breaking they did not fall on the child or on your head.
Also, talk to your baby while driving. The rearview mirror does not show what is happening behind your back, and if the baby suddenly calms down, it is possible that he is busy with something illegal. And since you can’t turn on the move, it would be better if you control him all the time, asking what he does, what he sees, and so on.
And yet, if you are a novice driver, do not risk going with a child immediately on a long trip. Try first how you can organize short, safest routes, find out how the child behaves, how much you are distracted by it during the trip, choose the best place, toys, entertainment for the baby. And take someone to insure on such test trips. | <urn:uuid:f67be5de-4995-4278-a5b5-74f362544fcf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://postobi.com/traveling-with-a-youngster-is-a-unique-experience/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971372 | 606 | 2.203125 | 2 |
1834 - 1910 Author of "A Child of the King" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Hattie (Katie) Eugenia Peck Buell USA 1834-1910. Born in Cazenovia, NY, she lived in Manlius, NY, until 1898, then moved to Washington, D.C., but maintained a summer residence at Thousand Island Park, NY. She married Willard Barnes Buell, and they had two sons. Her husband died in 1905. She wrote poems to the Northern Christian Advocate in Syracuse, NY.
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Religion Matters series will host Seth Perry of Princeton
Centenary College of Louisiana's Religion Matters speaker series will host Dr. Seth Perry of Princeton University on April 20 at 7 p.m. in Kilpatrick Auditorium for his presentation Playing Paul in the Early Nineteenth Century: Lorenzo Dow's Apostolic Performance. This event is free and open to the public.
"Lorenzo Dow was the most famous evangelical preacher in America during the first decades of the nineteenth century," said Perry. "Dow achieved his fame through eccentric behavior modeled on that of the apostles as described in the New Testament. Dow traveled widely, founded churches, dispensed advice and explained doctrine in lengthy epistles."
In addition to his public presentation, Perry will discuss Why Study Religion? with the Religious Studies Honor Society, TAK, and lecture to Dr. Spencer Dew's Introduction to Christianity course on various American visions of Jesus.
Perry is Assistant Professor of Religion in the Americas at Princeton University. He has received fellowships from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the American Antiquarian Society. His work has appeared in the edited collection Gods of the River: Religion and Culture along the Mississippi (Indiana University Press, 2013) and American Periodicals as well as in publications such as The Chronicle Review, Sightings, and Religion Dispatches. | <urn:uuid:6c53ded9-ad6d-43d3-830f-e64d0439def0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/entertainment/2015/04/17/religion-matters-centenary/25957389/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949746 | 269 | 1.703125 | 2 |
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GAY & BISEXUAL MEN - HIV Prevention including PrEP, PEP & U=U
HIV Prevention including PrEP, PEP & U=U
If you have anal sex, the best way to prevent getting or passing on HIV is to use condoms and lube. Going for regular check ups is also important since STIs can increase both a HIV negative person's risk of becoming infected with HIV and an HIV positive person's risk of transmitting HIV to someone else.
Giving oral sex is very low risk for HIV, however having cuts or sores in your mouth, having an STI in your throat, or having had recent dental work done increases the risk from oral sex.
Knowing your HIV status has never been more important. If you are HIV positive you can get treatment to help keep you fit and healthy. When on effective treatment the amount of HIV virus in your body may get below a certain amount, and then HIV can become undetectable. Your HIV doctor is the only person who can confirm that you are undetectable.
If the amount of HIV in your blood has been undetectable for more than six months and you continue to take your HIV treatment as prescribed by your HIV doctor, and you do not have any sexually transmitted infections (for example gonorrhoea, chlamydia or syphilis) you cannot pass HIV on through sex. This is called untransmittable. U=U (short for undetectable = untransmittable) has been a game changer for people living with HIV since it can lead to better self esteem as well as helping to reduce stigma and discrimination. It's important to remember that U=U ONLY prevents HIV being passed on through sex - it doesn't prevent HIV being passed on through other routes such as sharing injecting equipment. U=U does not prevent passing on hepatitis B, hepatitis C or other STIs. Using condoms and lube is the best protection against STIs. Never sharing injecting equipment is the best protection against hepatitis C. A safe and effective vaccine for protection from hepatitis B is available.
To find out more about U=U go the THT website.
Knowing you are HIV negative can be a great incentive to practice safe sex. You may also be eligible for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication to reduce your risk of getting the virus.
PrEP is available free from sexual health clinics in Scotland. It is a combination of two medicines (tenofovir disoproxil and emtricitabine) taken as one pill. Depending on the type of sex and how often it takes place, pills need to be taken every day or only around sex.
It will only be prescribed to men who meet the eligibility criteria which can be found at https://prep.scot/.
In 2015, two studies (PROUD in the UK and IPERGAY in France) reported 86% reduction in acquiring HIV in gay men and trans women using PrEP. It is not expected that people will take PrEP for many years at a time, or forever. Most people will be prescribed PrEP to cover the time that they are at greatest risk of HIV infection. This means people can discuss stopping PrEP when they are no longer at increased risk of HIV infection.
Less than 10% of people report mild nausea, mild bowel disturbance, bloating and headache when starting PrEP. These side effects usually stop within the first month. Occasionally PrEP can cause more serious side effects that reduce kidney function.
Men who are prescribed PrEP need to attend a sexual health clinic regularly for monitoring of their renal function and HIV status.
PrEP will not protect against any STIs other than HIV. As condoms are still the best way to prevent HIV and other STIs we recommend that you use condoms too.
If you would like more information on PrEP you can download the Scottish version of the i-Base PrEP leaflet.
For HIV negative people not on PrEP, post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV is available. It is a month of antiretroviral therapy taken after exposure to a person known to have or thought to be at high risk of HIV. PEP should be started as soon as possible and definitely within 72 hours. To check if you've been at risk of contracting HIV through sex and what action you may be able to take use the on line assessment tool available at https://www.tht.org.uk/PEP-tool
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This blog will discuss how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be a valuable tool in Public Safety. The Mapping Tech in Public Safety Blog will also be a companion to the podcast of the same name. The purpose of this blog is to introduce non-technical information about GIS
and the benefits for Public Safety Agencies. Information from the podcast can be found on this blog along with links to GIS website resources.
What is GIS?
ESRI – a leading GIS software company used by many GIS professionals defines GIS as a framework for gathering,
managing, and analyzing data. Rooted in the science of geography, GIS integrates many types of data. It analyzes spatial location and organizes layers of information intovisualizations using maps and 3D scenes. With this unique capability, GIS reveals deeper insights into data, such as patterns, relationships, and situations – helping users make smarter decisions.
No matter what area of Public Safety, GIS can be useful. GIS can be used during major operations, pre-planning, various daily operations, incident type analysis, disaster preparedness, support for Operation Centers, and Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP).
Many Public Safety personnel have never heard of GIS or have just seen maps during an incident. Even if you don’t plan on becoming a GIS professional, the material discussed can provide an understanding of uses for GIS to provide Public Safety Professionals with the knowledge to be able to approach a GIS professional to request maps for their purpose. GIS has the ability to analyze data and visually present that data. Meaning a map user can ask questions about information and receive visual answers on a map.
What infrastructure can potentially be affected during a Hurricane Storm surge?
Where are the closest shelters for residents during a mandatory evacuation?
What are the hot, warm and cold zones during a Hazardous Material incident?
Identify areas that have been completed, in-progress or not started during a Search and Rescue.
What electrical power grids are off-line during a natural disaster, man-made disaster or black-out?
Does our fire department meet the NFPA standards for response times? If not, what are the areas that are not adequately covered?
What residential areas are threatened from a wildfire?
These are the samples of visualizations that can be seen utilizing GIS in Public Safety. While Chris and I both have a background in the Fire Service and Emergency Medical Service (EMS), there are many fields of Public Safety that GIS is useful. Our plan is to discuss our experience and to also discuss GIS applications for other areas of Public Safety with experts in those fields. As mentioned, podcast and blog materials are meant to be non-technical but we may discuss various mobile apps, Web Map applications and desktop software to explain how GIS can be utilized. Many Web Maps and mobile apps are made to be simplified to visual, collect and edit GIS data for field personnel. We will also try to interview guest from software companies to demonstrate options that agencies can use but we do not promote any specific software company. | <urn:uuid:848f1c25-39bc-4ac3-9fc2-464a60e9291d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mappingtechinpublicsafety.com/mapping-tech-in-public-safety/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.932822 | 653 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Santana was just 2 years old when he was diagnosed with autism. He was nonverbal and could get aggressive when he became frustrated. His parents, Juan and Lydia, were both in the military, so Lydia left the service on a hardship discharge to focus on caring for her son. She didn't know anything about autism but was determined to learn everything she could. It wasn't long before she recognized signs of autism in Santana's younger sister, Senovia. A diagnosis confirmed that she, too, was on the spectrum.
Lydia and Juan made it a priority to get treatment for their children. Although Juan was still deployed and wasn't always at home, he and Lydia were united in their commitment to help their children be as happy and independent as possible. They were also determined to be proactive and prepare for what was ahead rather than react as problems came up.
When Santana was 4, Juan attended one of his special education meetings for the first time and decided to get educated so he could advocate for his son. Juan and Lydia both became experts on special education laws and fought to get Santana the services he needed. By the time he was 12, Santana was having major issues with rage and became aggressive at school and at home, especially toward Lydia. Even his sister, Senovia, was afraid of him. The school district tried to accommodate Santana's needs by moving him to a different middle school, but the problem only got worse.
By this time in their lives, Juan and Lydia had both taken what they learned about autism into the workforce. Juan was working for the Brighton Center as an advocate and Lydia as a Registered Behavior Technician. They were frustrated because, while they were able to help other families with their children, they felt they couldn't help their own. Then, Santana's school district suggested the Autism Treatment Center as an option.
Santana enrolled in ATC's school in January 2020. Even with the change to online learning at home early in the pandemic, Santana's behaviors improved and he was able to work on academic goals. It was just a few months ago, though, that it hit Juan just how much progress Santana had made. Recently, Juan and Santana went to get a haircut together and Santana was able to sit through an hour appointment, then wait another 20 minutes for his dad to finish his haircut. It was the first time they had both been able to sit at the same time without Juan providing positive reinforcement every minute or so.
Afterwards, they went to the grocery store, something Santana had not been able to tolerate in several years, even before the pandemic. This time he helped carry items and put them on the counter. And, he didn't need reinforcement to reward his good behavior. "He is generalizing the skills he learns at ATC and showing who he really is," says his father. The biggest indicator of Santana's progress, though, has been the overall sense of happiness for the whole family. He can now self-regulate and when he does get upset, he recovers much faster. He is very loving and likes to cuddle. He especially likes being tickled. "We know 100% that the changes have been because of what he has done at ATC," says Juan. "For years I said, 'I want my son back'. Several times over the past few months, I've found myself saying, 'there he is!"'. | <urn:uuid:752336be-afc9-47af-9769-609bb28f034f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.atcoftexas.org/santana.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.995091 | 700 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The most typical reasons individuals seek out credit card debt relief is due to an impending lawsuit. You will find really few things as frightening and concerning as being offered a summons to arise in court. For most people, being sued for the financial obligation could be the very first experience they’ve ever endured within the courtroom.
The absolute most lawsuit that is common see when individuals file bankruptcy cases are for collection legal actions. Collection legal actions begin each time a creditor (some body your debt) files a petition in court. Typically, these situations are filed within the county your location. In Missouri, there clearly was a site called CaseNet, where these legal actions might be seen by people.
When the lawsuit is filed, the court dilemmas a summons. The summons is actually a duplicate regarding the petition which has been filed along side a address sheet providing you with information that is general anyone being sued, frequently like the court date.
The summons must then be offered to you, either by delivering a copy for your requirements at your house . or your home of employment, or by leaving a duplicate with a grownup member of the home. Summons are generally offered by sheriff’s deputies or by an ongoing process host.
The judge will likely issue a “default judgment” against you if you do not appear, or have an attorney appear on your behalf, at your court date. a standard judgment is a purchase finalized by the judge that offers the creditor a way to gather funds away from you by garnishing wages or bank reports or seizing other assets you have got.
The great news is the fact that filing a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy can stop collection lawsuits by creditors. Which means you will not need to can be found in court in-front of a judge or talk to the lawyer that filed the lawsuit.
Filing a bankruptcy situation can prevent creditors from also gathering on any judgments against you. Once you file a bankruptcy instance, a stay that is automatic spotd into place, which forbids creditors from trying to gather cash from you. The automated stay prevents all collection efforts, such as the filing or extension of legal actions.
Even though majority that is vast of could be entirely stopped as soon as a bankruptcy case is filed, there are a few limits for this guideline. As an example, unlawful situations aren’t typically remained by the filing of a bankruptcy instance. Likewise, claims you might have against some other person, such as for example Social safety claims or for injury, aren’t remained because of the filing of a bankruptcy situation.
You to make an informed decision on how to proceed with your lawsuit and determine if filing bankruptcy is your best option to stop checksmart loans title loans a lawsuit from a debt collector in Springfield Missouri if you are being sued, speaking with an experienced bankruptcy attorney will enable.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — October 4, 2021 — X-Rite Incorporated, a global supplier of color science and technology, and its subsidiary Pantone LLC, announce that its popular Fundamentals Seminar Series focusing on color science and quality control is now available in an online learning format. The remote format consists of two courses and features self-paced modules, downloadable course guides, educational videos, product demonstrations, and interactive activities. Attendees will learn about color theory and how to measure, control, and communicate color to improve production workflows, reduce waste, and meet sustainability goals. In addition to the virtual format, the seminar will also be held in-person this fall throughout the United States.
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M, b. 1278, d. 1338
|Father||Roger de Swynnerton d. b 8 Feb 1298|
|Mother||Joan de Hastings|
Sir Roger de was born in 1278 in Swynnerton, Staffordshire, England. He was stated as a minor in 1298 when his father died. But he appears to be an adult by 7 September 1299 when he appears in a lawsuit. Sir married Matilda (?) circa 1303 in Staffordshire, England. Roger was a man of great abilities both as a man of military skills and as a man of political skills. He used all of his skills in the nearly 40 years in which he flourished under the rules of Edwards I, II, and III; even at one point being an adversary by backing the Lancaster rebellion, turning away from them when the Lancasters chose to seek the aid of the Scotch. Politically, he seemed to have great intuition as to who and when to support. With his military skills, rulers were eager to have his support and rewarded him well for his service and loyalty. Not only did Roger maneuver himself well with the Edwards, but was also a favorite of Isabella, the regent queen after the death of Edward II. Yet, when Edward III, as a very young man decided to challenge his mother, Isabella, Roger was a party to coup-d’ etat which disposed of Isabella and saw her favorite, Moritmer sent to the scaffold. His active career as both politician and military aide was long especially for the turbulent times in which he lived. Sir departed this life in 1338 at the Tower of London. Where he was at his post. He was constable of the tower at the time. He was succeeded by his son, Robert, who was 26 years of age at the Inquisition. Robert was rector of Barrow.
- [S103] Clarence E. Pearsall, History of the Pearsall Family, Volume II: Chapter 23 Humphrey Peshall, section 2 Helen Swinnerton, division 3, page 811-814 - he was sued 7 September 1299; 34 Edward I he was given a charter for free warren for all his lands in the Manor of Swynneton & also for keeping a market there upon the Wednesday for every week;.
- [S914] C. R. J. & Greenslade, M. W. Currie, A History of the County of Stafford, Volume VII: pages 8-27 - ... in 1327, the king granted his share of Alstonefield to Sir Roger Swynnerton; 1338, Sir Roger was succeeded by his son, Robert, rector of Barrow
Volume VII: pages 49-56 - What was called the manor of QUARNFORD in 1321 was held by Hugh Despenser, created earl of Winchester in 1322. It may have originated in the early 13th century, when Hugh's grandfather owned a park in Quarnford. Hugh Despenser was executed in 1326, and in 1327 the Crown assigned Quarnford to Sir Roger Swynnerton, along with Despenser's share of Alstonefield manor and his manor of Rushton Spencer, in Leek. At his death in 1338 ... | <urn:uuid:150bf827-78a5-4934-9d92-eca718225fae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mccurdyfamilylineage.com/ancestry/p13492.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.988328 | 705 | 1.875 | 2 |
Date 2nd August, 2020.
To National University of Ireland, Galway.
To Whom it Concerns,
HOW NON-CONSENSUAL BRAIN TO BRAIN INTERFACE IS BEING ACHIEVED SCIENTIFICALLY.
We all have neural dust inside our brains and bodies and it got there mostly through inhalation and ingestion. Each neural dust mote contains a piezoelectric crystal. The neural dust motes inside our brains and bodies are being used to read our brain signals and the data gathered from our brains and bodies is collected by whatever smart phone is registered to the name of each individual. The smart phones automatically transmit the data to a central control system. This has all been achieved without the permission of the majority of the human race by individuals who wish to wirelessly enslave or else torture or genocide us.
When our neurons fire and pass signals to each other they reach what is known as an action potential when generates and electrical pulse. These electrical pulses are measured using EEGs and are automatically translated into what you see, hear, feel, smell, touch, taste and they are also translated into all of your muscle movement including the smooth muscle movements of your intestines. This information is extracted from your brain and is transmitted wirelessly to a central storage system. This system is called A BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE.
A COMPUTER BRAIN INTERFACE writes information into your brain using transcranial magnetic stimulation or by a number of other means. Phosphene induction is used to write information into the brain. The process of writing information into your brain is used to stimulate your action potentials which generates electrical pulses. The process is called SSVEP. The electrical pulses which are generated by this process cause you to see, hear, feel, smell, touch and taste what is not actually real. It is simply an illusion but yet you can be made to feel as if you are inside a virtual reality setting which can be used to either torture you or to allow you to experience a state of bliss. Some of the electrical pulses which are generated when information is written into your brain can be used to cause the muscles of your face and body to be remotely controlled against your will, which can be used to turn you into a bio-robot. This process is currently being used throughout the world as a form of wireless remote controlled secret torture. I am one of the victims of this type of secret torture.
A BRAIN TO BRAIN INTERFACE is created by attaching a BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE TO A COMPUTER BRAIN INTERFACE. By means of brain computer interface the brainwaves are extracted from one human being and they are stored inside a computer. They can then be sent thousands of miles across the world to another computer which can be owned and controlled by criminal neuro operatives. The criminal neuro operatives write this information into the brain of a second human being, often against the will and without the consent of that second human being.
The industrialist Elon Musk has stated that he plans to inject a neural lace into the brains of members of the public in such a way that the neural lace would form a brain computer interface which would in turn enable him and and his colleagues to connect the brains of members of the public to the internet. This has already been largely achieved through chemtrail spraying of the skies over our heads with nano materials which we later inhale and ingest. In the past microchips were forceably injected into some non-consenting individuals but those non-consenting victims were sometimes able to have them removed. What is now being implemented to be injected into us might never be never be removed. An scientist from the United States called Celeste Solum who is an ex employee of FEMA has informed us that DARPa have developed in method of injecting nano particles into human beings by combining them in a bio-compatable gel called hydrogel A combination of nano material, hydrogel and self-replicating material is planned to be placed in a syringe and then injected into us. The hydrogel then begins to self assemble inside us and it then fuses to our tissue, it fuses to our cells, it fuses to our ligaments, it fuses to our muscles and it fuses to our our bones. It grows and grows inside our bodies and we then become interfaced with our own computers and smart phones. We become part of them and they become part of us. We become one with artificial intelligence then. Please do not accept vaccines for the forseeable future until we are fully informed of their contents.
If you have the relevant nano materials inside you then artificial intelligence will report your health status to the department of health without your participation or consent. You will not be allowed to ever leave your own home unless you accept the hydrogel injection. You will not be allowed to buy or sell unless you accept the hydrogel injection.
Targeted individuals whose brains are already permeated with neural dust can now be accessed by thousands of criminals with knowledge of neuro science who the victims do not know and who work at remote locations which are unknown to the victims. The victims can be remotely harassed, tortured, enslaved, bio-robotized and even genocided by any number of unknown brain and body hackers. Targeted individuals of remote wireless torture can have their bodies externally controlled to such a level that a hoax of demonic possession was created as one of many cover stories in order to cover up the extremely advanced current capabilities of science and technology. Targeted individuals can now have their facial muscles and their speech controlled to such an extent that criminal neuro scientists and neuro operatives can actually speak through the targeted individual and by this means force the targeted individual to confess to a crime that they did not commit and even to unwillingly sign a statement to that effect. Targeted individuals can now have their moods, their appetite for food, their sexual appetites, their internal bodily functions and even their belief systems wirelessly and non-consensually externally controlled by unknown operatives while these aforementioned unknown operatives work from a location which is unknown to the victims and could possibly be thousands of miles from the location of the victims.
American Universities Brown University and Rice University received nineteen million dollars to create layers of nano chips on the human cortex for the purposes of direct brain computer interface, and also for the development of artificial intelligence equipment, psychotronic equipment, nano chips and so on. There American Universities do not create these technologies themselves. They accept information which has already been discovered using illegal black budget experimentations which have already been conducted on non-consenting human research subjects and which has been in secret development for many decades. They then falsely claim that they developed those aforementioned technologies themselves so that all traces of black budget research which has been conducted on non-consensual and extremely unwilling human subjects can be deleted from public knowledge forever.
THE GERM THEORY HAS BEEN LEGALLY RECOGNISED TO BE A HOAX THEREFORE THE WHOLE WORLD HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN ON THE FALSE ASSUMTION THAT COVID-19 EXISTS.
There is no scientific basis for the germ theory whether bacterial or viral. The medical establishment was once legally challenged to prove that a virus caused measles and they failed to do so. A supreme court judge in Germany found in the favour of the legal challenger who was a virologist named Dr Stefan Lanka against the medical establishment.
In order to prove the existence of covid-19 the medical establishment need to be able to isolate the virus and categorise it with its genetic make-up. They then need to produce an original scientific paper which proves that this particular virus is thesole cause of that particular disease which it is attributed to causing. This has never been done for measles, HIV or corid-19. Therefore the world has been shut down without any proof.
Even by the recognition of the medical establishment, the particulates which they have named viruses are not alive. They don’t meet any of the scientific criteria for being alive because they do not replicate, they do not eat, they do not excrete and they have got a minimum DNA. They are dead. They are bits of protein.
Medical doctors and scientists who are brave enough to speak out are challenging the medical establishment to come up with the proof of the existence of covid-19. The problem starts with medical education. Trainee medical doctors are told that that a certain bacteria or a certain virus causes a certain manifestation. Trainee medical doctors are never shown the esperiments to say how that information came about. It is all being built on assumptions.
Louis Pasteur admitted at the end of his life that he was completely wrong and that he was a fraudster.
The above information is to be found at the following youtube link
The youtube video itself is called ‘What is disease and how to stay healthy. The keys to life’ by David Parker, Dawn Lester, Clive de Carle.Measles Virus put to the test
Here is some more online information about the legal challenge of Dr Stefan Lanka against the medial establishment which he subsequently won, and it is to be found at the following link
Dr. Stefan Lanka wins in court…
Since the early 1990s, German biologist Dr. Stefan Lanka has been at the forefront of challenging the medical theory stating that viruses are the cause of infectious diseases such as hepatitis, AIDS, the flu, polio, herpes, or measles. Caroline Markolin has presented Dr. Lanka’s activities in her lecture video “Virus Mania” in great details (watch Part 2 of the recordings on this website – starting at 08:08).
Based on his studies in virology, Dr. Lanka discovered that viruses are vital components of simple life-forms that do not exist in complex organisms such as humans, animals, or plants. His research shows that the viruses believed to cause “viral infections” are in reality ordinary cell particles that have been misinterpreted as constituents of the viruses in question. Dr. Lanka also determined that viruses don’t have a destructive effect on the host, as commonly believed. These findings are in full accordance with the discoveries of Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer who demonstrated already in the 1980s that contrary to the standard theory, microbes do not harm the organism but play instead a supportive role during the healing process of diseases (see Fourth Biological Law of the New Medicine).
The “measles virus trial” between Dr. Stefan Lanka and German medical doctor David Bardens has by now received international attention (see the 2015 reports in CTV News Canada and BBC News). The court case has not only heated up the ongoing “virus debate”. It also fuelled the discussion about the justification of childhood vaccination and of vaccinations in general.
Here is a brief overview of the court proceedings:
On November 24, 2011, Dr. Lanka announced on his website that he would offer a prize of € 100,000 to anyone who could prove the existence of the measles virus. The announcement read as follows: “The reward will be paid, if a scientific publication is presented, in which the existence of the measles virus is not only asserted, but also proven and in which, among other things, the diameter of the measles virus is determined.”
In January 2012, Dr. David Bardens took Dr. Lanka up on his pledge. He offered six papers on the subject and asked Dr. Lanka to transfer the € 100,000 to his bank account.
The six publications are:
1. Enders JF, Peebles TC. Propagation in tissue cultures of cytopathogenic agents from patients with measles. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1954 Jun;86(2):277–286.
2. Bech V, Magnus Pv. Studies on measles virus in monkey kidney tissue cultures. Acta Pathol Microbiol Scand. 1959; 42(1): 75–85
3. Horikami SM, Moyer SA. Structure, Transcription, and Replication of Measles Virus. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 1995; 191: 35–50.
4. Nakai M, Imagawa DT. Electron microscopy of measles virus replication. J Virol. 1969 Feb; 3(2): 187–97.
5. Lund GA, Tyrell, DL, Bradley RD, Scraba DG. The molecular length of measles virus RNA and the structural organization of measles nucleocapsids. J Gen Virol. 1984 Sep;65 (Pt 9):1535–42.
6. Daikoku E, Morita C, Kohno T, Sano K. Analysis of Morphology and Infectivity of Measles Virus Particles. Bulletin of the Osaka Medical College. 2007; 53(2): 107–14.
Dr. Lanka refused to pay the money since in his opinion these publications did not provide adequate evidence. Subsequently, Dr. Bardens took Dr. Lanka to court.
On March 12, 2015, the District Court Ravensburg in southern Germany ruled that the criteria of the advertisement had been fulfilled ordering Dr. Lanka to pay up. Dr. Lanka appealed the ruling.
On February 16, 2016, the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart (OLG) re-evaluated the first ruling, judging that Dr. Bardens did not meet the criteria since he failed to provide proof for the existence of the measles virus presented in one publication, as asked by Dr. Lanka in his announcement. Therefore, Dr. Lanka does not have to pay the prize money.
On January 16, 2017, the First Civil Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) confirmed the ruling of the OLG Stuttgart.
Critics of the judicial verdict argue that Dr. Lanka’s victory is solely based on how he had formulated the offer of reward, namely to pay the € 100,000 for the presentation of a single publication of evidence (which Dr. Bardens was unable to provide). This argument, however, distracts the attention from the essential points.
According to the minutes of the court proceedings (page 7/ first paragraph), Andreas Podbielski, head of the Department of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene at the University Hospital in Rostock, who was one of the appointed experts at the trial, stated that even though the existence of the measles virus could be concluded from the summary of the six papers submitted by Dr. Bardens, none of the authors had conducted any controlled experiments in accordance with internationally defined rules and principles of good scientific practice (see also the method of “indirect evidence”). Professor Podbielski considers this lack of control experiments explicitly as a “methodological weakness” of these publications, which are after all the relevant studies on the subject (there are no other publications trying to attempt to prove the existence of the “measles virus”). Thus, at this point, a publication about the existence of the measles virus that stands the test of good science has yet to be delivered.
Furthermore, at the trial it was noted that contrary to its legal remit as per § 4 Infection Protection Act (IfSG) the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the highest German authority in the field of infectious diseases, has failed to perform tests for the alleged measles virus and to publish these. The RKI claims that it made internal studies on the measles virus, however, refuses to hand over or publish the results.
Dr. Lanka: “With the Supreme Court judgment in the measles virus trial any national and international statements on the alleged measles virus, the infectivity of measles, and on the benefit and safety of vaccination against measles, are since then of no scientific character and have thus been deprived of their legal basis.”
If you wish to know exactly how the covid-19 hoaxed pandemic has been created please watch the following live explosive interview which the independent researcher David Icke gave to Brian Rose on a platform called London Real. This interview was subsequently deleted from youtube and can now be found on another video platform which is called www.bitchute.com
at the following bitchute link https://www.bitchute.com/video/H4W7FwBy0Ukh/
David Icke stated on the aforementioned interview that the medical establishment control the covid-19 death figures in various ways and one such was is by misattributing death from other causes to death after being tested positive from covid-19 and further to that, because the covid-19 virus has never in fact been identified, the test that is being given is for a genetic material which is known to be found in the bodies of most healthy individuals and it is not for covid-19 at all.
If we attempt to challenge the by now well known covid-19 hoax then psychiatric labelling is being used as a tool to suppress us. Psychiatric labelling is now being used as a means to deny individual freedom to many who attempt to publicly challenge the false reality which is being created by the by now mostly privately owned main stream media. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders is a political document which is being used by the establishment on some occasions to shut people up if they speak up voluntarily or write the truth and then come to the attention of the main stream media. Millions of people are now being falsely labelled as mentally ill. Patients have been diagnosed with “chemical imbalances” despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim and the fact that there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance should look like.
If 5G is erected and activated on a worldwide scale then members of the world military or world intelligence service acting alone could then wirelessly torture someone else to death on the other side of the world without experiencing any legal repercussions to themselves. 5G is millimeter wave technology which is capable of carrying extreme pain signals which can be made to lock on to your unique energy imprint signature and then to torture you by wireless means. If you wish to have a normal future where you enjoy free will you will immediately do something about it today.
My name is Gretta Fahey from Newbrook, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Eircode F12 Y560, Ireland and I am a long term victim of neural control. I was disbelieved by all government officials who I have informed about this situation. Through lack of knowledge and through remote subliminal influencing they misdirected me towards mandatory psychiatric evaluation to the extent that the problem was not solved and it is still ongoing. Many Irish people are now revealing publicly that they are being attacked by wireless weapons from unknown remote locations. They are being remotely assaulted using largely invisible frequency or directed energy weapons and other mind control and body control technology. Falsely labelling such people as being mentally ill and forcing them to do a psychiatric evaluation or having them locked up in psychiatric hospitals are all old tricks that have been used worldwide to silence those who attempt to expose corruption in society.
Please make a public announcement to the people of Ireland that wireless torture technology exists and is in widespread use throughout Ireland. Please have all infrastructure which enables this technology to be used against us disassembled and banned as soon as possible.
Gretta Fahey, Newbrook, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Eircode F12 Y560,
My landline home phone number is 094 9360901.
I also have a youtube channel under my own name.
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The Horizon 2020 'Food Trails' project is looking to procure a provider to deliver a pilot in the Ladywood area of Birmingham to support householders to separate food waste from general waste. In addition to the waste separation, the pilot will test ways to encourage householders to turn food waste into compost. The compost produced through this activity will be used either for home growing activity or be collected and used locally. The pilot should look to test the approach in a variety of household types: high-rise flats and houses with gardens and houses with yards.
The successful provider will be required to demonstrate pre-existing links with the target community in Ladywood and a track record of working with disadvantaged communities. The provider will have experience of working with food waste to produce compost and have experience of working with communities to support growing activity. The provider will have experience of how to encourage a permanent adoption of food waste separation activity as well as how to build an appreciation of the importance of food waste as a contributor to soil production/composting.
The provider will be required to develop a data collection methodology to report the amount of food waste collected and work with a knowledge partner to develop a methodology for calculating the amount of methane saved and the carbon saving as a result of food waste diversion from landfill. The data from these calculations will be shared with the contractor (BCC, including the Waste Management Team and the Public Health Food Team) and the H2020 Food Trails team. The provider will also be required to deliver a formative and summative evaluation of all pilot activity. This will also require establishing links with existing composting projects in Birmingham to collect data from their activity to provide a compelling case to BCC Waste Management team. The ultimate goal is to achieve a roll out of pilot activity across Birmingham.
Applications from consortiums will be looked upon favourably, although the pilot will be led by a single provider who will be the accountable body for project activity.
As specified in the Environment Act 2021, all councils will be required to make weekly collections of food waste from 2023, so the learning from this pilot is timely.
The H2020 Food Trails project is led by the Council's European and International Affairs (E&IA) team with strategic and policy input from Public Health. Food Trails is being delivered over four years from October 2020 to September 2024.
Timeline for Food Trails Food Waste Pilot contract delivery:
Contract awarded October 2022
3 months set up phase October - December 2022
Benchmark data collected - January 2023
12 months pilot delivery - January 2023-December 2023
Impact data collected - by January 2024
Pilot evaluation delivered - April 2024
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The flag of England is derived from St. George's Cross (heraldic blazon: Argent, a cross gules). The association of the red cross as an emblem of England can be traced back to the Middle Ages, and it was used as a component in the design of the Union Flag in 1606; however, the English flag has no official status within the United Kingdom. Since the 1990s it has been in increasingly wide use, particularly at national sporting events. In 1188 Henry II of England and Philip II of France agreed to go on a a crusade, and that Henry would use a white cross and Philip a red cross. 13th-century authorities are unanimous on the point that the English king adopted the white cross, and the French king the red one (and not vice versa as suggested by later use). It is not clear at what point the English exchanged the white cross for the red-on-white one. There was a historiographical tradition claiming that Richard the Lionheart himself adopted both the flag and the patron saint from Genoa at some point during his crusade. This idea can be traced to the Victorian era, Perrin (1922) refers to it as a "common belief", and it is still popularly repeated today, even though it cannot be substantiated as historical. | <urn:uuid:a3b4e34e-e204-4526-ba51-c9b64498a8ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.curioos.com/product/print/flag-of-england | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955149 | 390 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Scientists following COVID patients up to 12 months after diagnosis have found that mild cognitive impairment is common even after mild to moderate COVID. The study results, currently in preprint on the medRxiv server awaiting peer review, suggest that cognitive impairment, though barely noticeable, may affect large portions of the global population.
The finding comes as the US Centers for Disease Control reported that up to 1 in 5 Americans experienced at least one symptom that could be attributable to Long COVID.
SARS-CoV-2 is believed to cause lasting cognitive impairment in some cases, though the exact nature of it was not clear. Severe COVID cases risk damage through hypoxia, stroke, as well as the immune and inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2. Mild to moderate COVID cases are still at risk of brain dysfunction, and cognitive deficits, providing a window into the potential mechanisms of brain injury without the confounding role of severe disease and its complications. Given the large numbers of people who had mild to moderate COVID disease, there would be significant implications for public health.
To assess the effects of the disease, the researchers studied 128 SARS-CoV-2 positive patients, assessing cognition and olfaction at set intervals after COVID diagnosis, along with lung capacity and blood biomarkers including the kynurenine pathway (KP).
After correcting for demographics, mild to moderate cognitive impairment was present in 26% on year post diagnosis, respectively. Overall cognitive performance declined mildly, but was statistically significant. KP metabolites quinolinic acid, 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid, and kynurenine were significantly associated with cognitive decline.
“The immune system reacts first with the virus … tries to basically get rid of the virus,” she said to ABC News. “Then it goes a little bit into overdrive and this overdrive does not fully calm down.”
The KP pathway was seen to be disturbed similarly to the way inflammation is caused by viruses such as HIV.
“I think we’re seeing something a bit akin here, where this low level of inflammation is more and more understood as being able to traffic to the brain, or even being within the brain and affecting those regions of the brain where we process information that demand speed, extra attention and extra cognitive demands,” she explained.
Dr Cysique emphasises that the cognitive decline recorded among most participants in the study is mild and they may not even notice it.
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Reye’s syndrome is a rare and potentially fatal condition affecting children and adolescents, initially described by Australian pathologist R.D. Reye in 1963.1 It is a metabolic noninflammatory encephalopathy associated with fatty degeneration of the liver.2 Reye’s syndrome is typically preceded by a viral illness, and generally presents with severe protracted vomiting, followed by encephalopathy that may progress to coma or death, or may spontaneously resolve.3 Residual neurocognitive effects may remain after recovery from Reye’s syndrome, although some children recover completely.
The initial report by R.D. Reye described 21 children who presented with severe vomiting, tachypnea, hypoglycemia, and elevated liver enzymes.1 They also experienced mental status changes and varying degrees of reduced consciousness, some progressing to coma. Of these 21 children, 17 died within the first 3 days of admission. Prior to this syndrome, each of the patients had experienced malaise, usually associated with an upper respiratory infection. In this report, Reye notes that the etiology may not be identical in all of these 21 cases.1
In the mid 1960s, after the publication of Reye’s report, physicians and researchers around the world worked to identify a cause for Reye’s syndrome. As early as 1965, it was suggested that the syndrome could be caused by hypersensitivity to salicylates.4 This view was generally accepted by the late 1980s.5 In 1986, the FDA placed a warning on all OTC aspirin-containing products, and a warning remains on aspirin products today.3 It reads: “Children and teenagers who have or are recovering from chicken pox or flu-like symptoms should not use this product. When using this product, if changes in behavior with nausea and vomiting occur, consult a doctor because these symptoms could be an early sign of Reye’s syndrome, a rare but serious illness.” However, the link between aspirin and Reye’s syndrome has not been proven, and this link is still challenged and debated today.
In 1977, 454 cases of Reye’s syndrome were reported in the United States. Of the 373 cases with follow-up, 42% of these patients died, and 11% survived with residual neurologic damage.6 Incidence was increased with viral epidemics, especially influenza B and varicella. Reye’s syndrome cases in the U.S. numbered 555 in 1980, but they have fallen drastically. From 1994 until 1997, identified cases in the U.S. were fewer than two per year.7 The mean mortality rate of Reye’s syndrome is approximately 40% and appears to be higher in males than in females.8
There are several proposed causes for the drastically reduced rate of Reye’s syndrome cases. Because of efforts to educate the public regarding the potential danger of using aspirin in children and adolescents, aspirin use in this population has been largely abandoned, except for several clinical scenarios in which aspirin is significantly beneficial, such as Kawasaki disease. Another reason may be improvement in the recognition and diagnosis of various metabolic diseases and inborn errors of metabolism, which may present with symptoms similar to Reye’s syndrome. In fact, some of the cases originally diagnosed as Reye’s syndrome were later found to be patients with metabolic disorders. In 2008, a report by Gosalakkal and Kamoji describes a 14-year-old girl presenting with symptoms very similar to Reye’s syndrome.9 It was determined that the patient actually had long-chain acyl-coenzyme A (CoA) dehydrogenase deficiency, a metabolic disorder. An additional explanation that has been proposed to explain the changing rates is viral mutation over time.10
Although the incidence of Reye’s syndrome is certainly dropping, there are still reports in the literature. McGovern et al report two cases of Reye’s syndrome occurring in 1999 in a 12-year-old boy and a 9-month-old boy.11 Both children were given aspirin, and metabolic disorders were ruled out. Bhutta et al reported on a 3-year-old boy in 1999 with recent history of fever and upper respiratory infection who presented with vomiting and mental status changes.12 This patient had been given aspirin during his febrile illness and also promethazine for his vomiting. Liver biopsy was consistent with Reye’s syndrome, and severe cerebral edema resulted in herniation. Autopsy results supported the diagnosis of Reye’s syndrome. Chow and Cherry report a 10-year-old girl presenting in 2002 with a recent history of sore throat and upper respiratory infection, for which she had taken aspirin.6 Three days following her aspirin therapy, she experienced progressive vomiting and dehydration, followed by confusion and combativeness. Once admitted, she became obtunded and apneic and was therefore intubated. Symptoms and biopsies were consistent with Reye’s syndrome. After a few days, the patient was declared brain dead.
A case of Reye’s syndrome associated with H3N2 influenza and salicylate intake was reported by Ninove et al.13 The patient was a 12-year-old boy who presented in early 2009 with a recent history of upper respiratory tract infection, later found to be influenza A (H3N2), and fever. He had been treated with aspirin for this illness. Two days later, he was admitted with neurologic distress and gastrointestinal (GI) disease and hematemesis. He also had hypoglycemia and liver dysfunction. Soon after, he experienced confusion and drowsiness, and later cerebral edema. This patient died 2 days after admission.
Pathophysiology and Risk Factors
The pathophysiology of Reye’s syndrome is thought to involve mitochondrial injury, which inhibits oxidative phosphorylation and fatty-acid beta-oxidation. High concentrations of ammonia may accumulate due to the decrease in the activity of the mitochondria. On biopsy, the liver will appear fatty, and changes to the appearance of the mitochondria are often evident. A brain biopsy will show similar findings, along with edema. The proposed mechanism for aspirin contributing to the development of Reye’s syndrome is related to mitochondrial damage that can be caused by salicylates, which may be intensified during viral illness by endotoxins and cytokines.14
Causation of Reye’s syndrome remains unclear and is a topic of debate.14 There are many published case-control studies that support a strong association between aspirin and Reye’s syndrome. One study found a dose-response effect as well.15 A total dose of less than 45 mg/kg of aspirin was found to increase the risk of Reye’s syndrome 20-fold, and the authors concluded that any amount of aspirin is unsafe in a child with a viral infection, regardless of the dose. Many authors point to the radically decreasing rates of Reye’s syndrome that occurred with the cessation of aspirin use in children as evidence of a causative link as well. Since it is now recognized that several metabolic disorders can cause symptoms that are very similar to Reye’s syndrome, many hypothesize that reported Reye’s syndrome cases represented a variety of disorders. These disorders likely include metabolic disorders that were not diagnosed at the time, and may also include idiopathic Reye’s syndrome in which aspirin was, in fact, a contributing factor.16
Others, however, claim that the association between aspirin and Reye’s syndrome does not necessarily prove a causal relationship. Reye’s syndrome was first described in 1963, but aspirin was used in children long before the 1960s. In addition, aspirin was not universally used in all children who developed Reye’s syndrome, and there were some control patients without the syndrome who had taken aspirin. Skeptics of this link further highlight that these case studies are retrospective, and recall bias can be an issue with this type of study design. They also point out that at the time most of these case studies were done, parents may not have distinguished between acetaminophen and aspirin.10 Salicylate serum concentrations were usually not measured in the patients studied, and biopsy confirmation of the Reye’s syndrome diagnosis was also frequently not obtained.10 As such, some authors have questioned whether aspirin does, in fact, need to be avoided by children.17
Several infectious agents have been correlated with Reye’s syndrome and Reye-like syndrome. Viral agents include influenza A and B, varicella, parainfluenza, measles, adenoviruses, coxsackie viruses, cytomegalovirus, Epstein–Barr virus, HIV, hepatitis A and B, and rotavirus.18 Some bacterial agents may play a role as well, including Mycoplasma, Chlamydia, Shigella, and Salmonella.18
Of note, an association has also been observed between Reye’s syndrome and several other medications and toxins, including hypoglycin from the ackee fruit, aflatoxin, paint-thinner, acetaminophen, valproic acid, outdated tetracycline, zidovudine, and didanosine.19 The relationship of these agents to Reye’s syndrome is not as strong of an association as that of aspirin and the syndrome. A possible role of antiemetics was suggested in the 1970s because at that time, as many as 71% of Reye’s syndrome cases were associated with phenothiazine use early in the course of the disease.19 This hypothesis was discarded based on the results of epidemiologic studies in the 1980s, but some authors and practitioners argue that this relationship may, in fact, be significant.19
Because no test is specific for Reye’s syndrome, it is a diagnosis of exclusion. A high index of suspicion must be present in a patient with vomiting and mental status changes. Diagnostic criteria from the CDC are listed in TABLE 1.20
Diseases and conditions that resemble Reye’s syndrome must be ruled out. These conditions include metabolic disorders such as defects in fatty acid oxidation (including acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiencies), disorders of oxidative phosphorylation, urea-cycle defects, disorders of carbohydrate metabolism, other metabolic disorders and errors of inborn metabolism, CNS infection or meningitis, and drug or toxic ingestion. Disorders causing presentation with acute liver failure should also be ruled out.
Reye’s syndrome is a biphasic condition that typically occurs in a child who is otherwise healthy. It begins as a prodromal febrile illness that is likely viral in nature, such as an upper respiratory infection or varicella, or possibly rotavirus.21 After this illness resolves, the child will recover for 3 to 5 days.18 Following this period is sudden onset of protracted vomiting along with a degree of mental status changes that will vary with severity of disease. Patients will often present with some degree of hepatomegaly and hepatic dysfunction due to fatty degeneration of the liver, but they will not be icteric. There also may be an elevation of intracranial pressure.
The severity of Reye’s syndrome can be classified with the clinical staging system (TABLE 2).22 Stages 1 through 3 are considered to represent mild-to-moderate disease, while stages 4 and 5 of the illness represent severe Reye’s syndrome.
There is no specific treatment for Reye’s syndrome, and therefore the appropriate treatment strategy is to provide supportive care. Early diagnosis is important, and other diseases causing similar symptoms must be ruled out. Hypoglycemia can be treated by administering fluids such as 10% dextrose, thus providing glucose to the patient. Coagulopathies may be managed with blood transfusions, and intubation may be necessary to provide adequate oxygenation. Intracranial pressure must be monitored and controlled in patients with cerebral edema. Management of cerebral edema may involve fluid restriction, diuresis, and corticosteroids. Pentobarbital has been given to patients to decrease cerebral metabolic demands.23 Therapies to reduce hyperammonemia may also be indicated. In patients who develop seizures, antiepileptic medications may be necessary.
Reye’s syndrome is a serious condition of children and adolescents that is rarely seen today. Aspirin is considered to be the most significant causative agent, although this association is often challenged. Pharmacists can play a role in ensuring the appropriate use of aspirin in the pediatric population. Despite the controversy regarding the relationship of aspirin to Reye’s syndrome, this is a condition with significant morbidity and mortality and therefore it is prudent to continue to limit the use of aspirin in children. A risk-benefit assessment must be done on a patient-by-patient basis. While the benefit likely outweighs the risk in patients with disorders such as Kawasaki disease, the pharmacist can play a role in ensuring that these patients receive their influenza vaccination to decrease their chance of viral illness during their aspirin therapy. In otherwise healthy children, the use of aspirin as an antipyretic or anti-inflammatory agent is not recommended because the benefit likely does not outweigh the risk. In this circumstance, the pharmacist can play an important role in recommending an alternative agent, such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen.
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4. Giles HM. Encephalopathy and fatty degeneration of the liver. Lancet. 1965;1:1075.
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7. Belay ED, Bresee JS, Holman RC, et al. Reye’s syndrome in the United States from 1981 through 1997. N Engl J Med. 1999;340:1377-1382.
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9. Gosalakkal JA, Kamoji V. Reye syndrome and Reye-like syndrome. Pediatr Neurol. 2008;39:198-200.
10. Orlowski JP, Hanhan UA, Fiallos MR. Is aspirin a cause of Reye’s syndrome? A case against. Drug Saf. 2002;25:225-231.
11. McGovern MC, Glasgow JF, Stewart MC. Lesosn of the week: Reye’s syndrome and aspirin: lest we forget. BMJ. 2001;322:1591-1592.
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14. Glasgow JF, Middleton B. Reye syndrome—insights on causation and prognosis. Arch Dis Child. 2001;85:351-353.
15. Forsyth BW, Horwitz RI, Acampora D, et al. New epidemiologic evidence confirming that bias does not explain the aspirin/Reye’s syndrome association. JAMA. 1989;261:2517-2524.
16. Glasgow JF. Reye’s syndrome: the case for a causal link with aspirin. Drug Saf. 2006;29:1111-1121.
17. Langford NJ. Aspirin and Reye’s syndrome: is the response appropriate? J Clin Pharm Ther. 2002;27:157-160.
18. Pugliese A, Beltramo T, Torre D. Reye’s and Reye’s-like syndromes. Cell Biochem Funct. 2008;26:741-746.
19. Casteels-Van Daele M, Van Geet C, Wouters C, et al. Reye syndrome revisited: a descriptive term covering a group of heterogeneous disorders. Eur J Pediatr. 2000;159:641-648.
20. CDC. National Reye syndrome surveillance—United States, 1982 and 1983. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1984;33:41-42.
21. Devulapalli CS. Rotavirus gastroenteritis possibly causing Reye syndrome. Acta Pediatr. 2000;89:613-619.
22. Lovejoy FH, Smith AL, Bresnan MJ, et al. Clinical staging in Reye syndrome. Am J Dis Child. 1974;128:36-41.
23. Balistreri WF. Reye syndrome and “Reye-like” diseases. In: Behrman RE, Kliegman RM, Jenson HB, ed. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 16th ed. Philadelphia: WB Saunders Company; 2000:1215-1216.
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A long history of continuous improvement
Incorporated in 1952, General Dynamics is proud of its history serving the aerospace and defense communities.
From 1952 to the 1990s, the company provided tanks, rockets, missiles, submarines, warships, fighters and electronics to all of the military services.
In the early 1990s, we sold nearly our entire portfolio except for our military-vehicle and submarine businesses. Starting in the mid-1990s, we began expanding again by acquiring Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, combat-vehicle-related businesses, IT product and service companies and additional shipyards, forming the foundation of our company today.
We continue to expand our business through organic growth and acquisitions. We focus on delivering superior products and services to our customers, and creating value for our shareholders through a relentless focus on operational excellence and continuous improvement.
Major Events that Have Shaped the Company
- Electric Boat begins full construction of first Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine
- General Dynamics Land Systems awarded $5.8 billion by the U.S. Army for M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks and Stryker IM-SHORAD vehicles
- GDIT awarded $4.4 billion for the Defense Enterprise Office Solution (DEOS) from the General Services Administration in partnership with the DoD
- Gulfstream G600 receives European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) type certificate approval, enabling aircraft registrations and deliveries to begin for EU customers
- Gulfstream G700 completes its first flight
- G600 certified by the FAA, first customer deliveries
- GDIT awarded $2 billion State Department global supply chain contract
- G650ER breaks speed record for longest business jet flight in history
- Electric Boat awarded $2 billion contract for Virginia-class advance material
- G280 sets city pair record using sustainable fuel
- U.S. Army orders 174 updated Abrams tanks from General Dynamics Land Systems
- CSRA acquired for $9.7 billion, the largest acquisition in company history, and integrated with GDIT
- FAA certifies new G500 aircraft, first customer deliveries
- Acquired Hawker Pacific, adding 19 locations in Asia-Pacific and Middle East to the Aerospace global footprint.
- Increased the range of the G600, to 5,500 nautical miles at Mach 0.9, a 700-nautical mile increase over original projections.
- Received contracts totaling $4.8 billion for the construction of DDG-51s
- Acquired Germany's FWW Fahrzeugwerk GmbH; established General Dynamics European Land Systems–Deutschland
- Received a $5.1 billion contract to complete the design and prototype development for the Columbia-class submarine.
- Delivered the first SEPv3 Abrams tank to the U.S. Army.
- Delivered the first ship in the DDG-51 restart program.
- Announced an increase in the range of the G500 and G600 to 4,400 and 5,100 nautical miles, respectively, at 0.9 Mach.
- Expanded Jet Aviation’s service network with an FBO at Washington Dulles International Airport and new FBOs in Massachusetts and Dubai.
- Electric Boat named prime contractor for the Columbia-class submarine program and cut steel for the first hull in August.
- Gulfstream delivered the 200th aircraft in the G650 family and the 100th G280.
- Jet Aviation expanded its West Coast presence with the Avjet acquisition and the opening of its eighth U.S. FBO at Van Nuys Airport.
- General Dynamics Mission Systems acquires UUV manufacturer Bluefin Robotics.
- Gulfstream receives Robert J. Collier Trophy, the National Aeronautic Association’s highest award, for the G650.
- Electric Boat ramps-up construction of two-submarines per year on the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class submarine program.
- NASSCO delivers six commercial ships and signs a two-ship contract with Matson, Inc.
- Gulfstream announces three new large-cabin business-jets: the G500, the G600 and the G650 extended-range (ER).
- Awarded $17.6 billion for construction of 10 additional Virginia-class submarines, the largest dollar-value shipbuilding contract in U.S. Navy history
- Established General Dynamics European Land Systems-Czech
- Phebe N. Novakovic becomes chairman and chief executive officer
- Acquired Earl Industries’ Ship Repair Division, growing NASSCO's shipbuilding repair and maintenance operations on both coasts
- Acquired Vangent, a leading provider of healthcare information technology and business systems to federal agencies
- Acquired Metro Machine Imperial Docks in Norfolk, Virginia
- Purchased Jet Aviation, a global business aviation service provider based in Switzerland
- Purchased Anteon International Corp., integrating it with GDIT
- Acquired Swiss vehicle manufacturer MOWAG, as part of General Dynamics European Land Systems
- Purchased General Motors Defense, Veridian and Digital Systems Resources (DSR)
- Purchased Austrian vehicle manufacturer Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug, and established General Dynamics European Land Systems
- Purchased German company EWK Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern, renaming it General Dynamics European Land Systems-Germany
- Purchased Spain's Santa Bárbara Sistemas, one of the world's oldest arms manufacturers, which started making cannons in 1540.
- Acquired Motorola Integrated Systems and Primex Technologies.
- Acquired Gulfstream Aerospace
- Acquired GTE Government Systems
- Acquired NASSCO
- Acquired Advanced Technology Systems from Lucent Technologies
- Acquired Computing Devices International from Ceridian
- Acquired Armament Systems and Defense Systems from Lockheed Martin
- Acquired Bath Iron Works
1990 - 1994
- With the downturn in the defense industry, the company divested many of its divisions. In 1991, the company sold its Data Systems Division. In 1992, Cessna and its electronics and missile businesses were sold. In 1993, the Fort Worth aircraft production business was sold. In 1994, the company sold the Space division and the remaining Convair Aircraft Structure unit.
- Acquired Cessna Aircraft Company\.
- Acquired Chrysler Defense; General Dynamics Land Systems formed
- Canadair sold to the Canadian government
- General Dynamics merges with Material Service Corporation
- USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, is christened at Electric Boat
- Acquired Convair
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Make sure your home is flood prepared before a natural disaster, including FEMA data, flood maps, flood insurance info and an emergency flood checklist.
While our hearts go out to natural disaster victims across the country, it’s important to keep in mind that floods can happen almost anywhere, and are the most common natural disasters in the U.S. Flooding does not just happen near bodies of water or with rainfall. Take for example a heavy accumulation of snow on a Minnesota farm house. A warm snap happens, and the snow begins to melt while the ground is still frozen. If the house is on flat land, flooding can occur rapidly. A summer flash flood can be just as destructive. In towns, construction and new development take away natural drainage and can increase flooding. In other areas, dam structures can break and rivers can overflow their banks.
According to the National Flood Insurance Program, just three inches of water in a 2,000 square foot home could cost you $22,590 in damages. FEMA reported that the Great Midwestern Flood of 1993 lasted over four months, ruined 49,000 homes and caused at least $16 billion in property damage.
Make a flood plan before there is an emergency
Following are six of the best ways to be prepared before a flood hits:
🌊 Know your flood risk
Keeping in mind the flood scenarios above, think about the flood risk where you are. This is also important to consider before moving or purchasing a home. Check out flood maps for your area on the FEMA website to help assess risk.
☎️ Make a communication plan
Don’t assume your family will be together in an emergency. Decide in advance how to get in touch if cell phone, Internet and landlines don’t work, and how you will let other loved ones know you are safe. Ready.gov has a free communication plan that you can download, fill out and share with family members.
⚕️ Keep an emergency preparedness kit
FEMA has an emergency kit checklist to help you think through what you need to store for your family. It’s also important to refresh stored food and water supplies every six months, and rethink your provisions as your family’s needs change.
🏥 Know where your nearest emergency shelters are located
Your city or township should be able to tell you where to go to get to higher ground, or provide evacuation procedures. Include this information in your communication plan.
📺 Keep informed
If an emergency is imminent, stay tuned to the National Weather Service on the Internet, check your phone, TV, or radio for emergency alerts, weather updates, emergency instructions, or evacuation orders. Keep cell phones on chargers so that you have a full battery when evacuating.
📝 Evaluate purchasing flood insurance
When you consider that in 2015, the average residential flood loss claim was over $43,000, while the average premium was $700, flood insurance may be something to consider. The public service website floodsmart.gov has comprehensive information, including what to ask an agent before purchasing insurance.
We all hope a flood will never happen, but if it does, the best way to survive the tide is with a little advance planning.
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I know, you’re dying to find out what could possibly be the subject of that random mash-up of Jane Austen and P.T. Barnum (possibly inspired by a touch of heatstroke from the warm weather).
I said, it has been rather warm with temperatures in the 80’s, and the warm temperatures make the new shoots grow like crazy.
simple equation: warm temperatures=crazy kids (I mean shoot growth)
Some varietals, such as Viognier and Sangiovese, like to throw shoots from the trunk- the area between the graft union and the crown of the vine. We call these shoots coming off of the trunk- wait for it- “suckers”. The buds on the trunk that have been dormant up until now decide to grow, thus necessitating another pruning of the vine.
So what’s wrong with the little suckers? Well, they aren’t called suckers for nothing- they literally suck away some of the water, energy and nutrients from the main part of the vine. We want the shoots that come off the cordon or canes to receive the energy and nutrients, not the trunk; this ensures even top growth and proper fruit development. If we let the suckers grow, we would have to put more fertilizer into the ground and the whole shebang becomes a nightmare to manage. We do the trunk suckering at this time as the shoots are still green and are easily removed by hand- just running a gloved hand over the areas with the suckers and brushing them off.
If we wait another month or so to do this, we would need to break out those red-handled clippers to remove them- more labor intensive- and by that time, the suckers will have already drawn off some of the nutrients. Are there machines that can do this? Of course, there are machines that can do anything, but like many things that keep machines from making people obsolete, they cannot do as good a job as good old human elbow grease. The machines have a greater chance of damaging the outside bark of the vine and are not as thorough as hand suckering. When you have a large production vineyard, the ability to get through the pruning in a timely matter makes the machines desirable, but the size of our sweet little piece of paradise doesn’t warrant it.
So, at Naggiar, a sucker may not be born every minute, but they do die about every 20 seconds (in an 8 hr day).
A job well done. Death to the suckers!
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Roaring into space from asea-based mobile platform, a powerful direct-to-home broadcasting satellite wasdelivered into orbit Wednesday to expand DirecTV's lineup of high-definitiontelevision programming in the United States.
Fastened atop a Zenit 3SLrocket, the 13,058-pound (5,923-kg) DirecTV 11 satellite began its ride intospace at 2248 GMT (6:48 p.m. EDT) Wednesday with a blastoff from the Odysseylaunch platform stationed along the equator in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Managers delayed the launchfrom Monday to review a technical issue, according to a statement by Sea LaunchCo., the launch service provider.
The Ukrainian-built Zenit'sfirst stage engine, producing 1.6 million pounds of thrust, lifted the rocketthrough overcast skies to an altitude of more than 225,000 feet (68,580 meters)during the first two-and-a-half minutes of the flight. The booster's secondstage took over for a six-minute burn, before giving way to the Block DM-SLupper stage nearly nine minutes after launch.
The Russian Block DM-SLengine put DirecTV 11 into a preliminary orbit 13 minutes into the mission.After a half-hour coast, the kerosene-fueled stage fired again for sevenminutes to reach the planned geosynchronous transfer orbit stretching from alow point of about 155 miles to a high point of 22,671 miles.
DirecTV 11 was releasedfrom the upper stage 61 minutes after launch, and Sea Launch officials hailedthe mission as a success. But it was expected to take several hours for a SouthAfrica ground station to receive the first signals from the satellite.
"We're proud of ourrole in (DirecTV's) continued success as they roll out their high-definitionservice," said Rob Peckham, Sea Launch president and general manager.
Next up for DirecTV 11 willbe a series of burns using the spacecraft's on-board propulsion system to reachits final orbit in the geosynchronous belt along the equator at 99.2 degreeswest longitude.
Thespacecraft will also deploy its twin power-producing solar array wings. Thepanels span 158 feet tip-to-tip.
"We still have a lotleft to do with the satellite," said Phil Goswitz, DirecTV vice presidentof space and communications. "We've got to do our orbit-raising, and thenour deployments and our in-orbit testing, so...we'll have many of theseheart-wrenching moments, but it's all exciting and we'll make this a successfor our subscribers."
Designed for a 15-yearmission, DirecTV 11 will use a multitude of Ka-band communications instrumentsto reach the company's 16.6 million customers across the United States.
The craft contains nearly adozen Ka-band reflectors, including two large antennas 9.2 feet in diameter.
The satellite was built byBoeing Co.'s commercial satellite manufacturing division based in California.The craft is based on the company's Boeing 702 satellite bus.
DirecTV 11 and DirecTV 10,a predecessor launched last summer, will significantly increase DirecTV'shigh-definition television programming across the country. The two satelliteswill allow DirecTV to broadcast local HDTV channels to 90 percent of itscustomers, according to Boeing.
Goswitz said each DirecTVsatellite beams about 750 channels to customers, but only about 70 channels arebroadcast across the country. The others are mostly local network affiliatesand regional channels.
DirecTV 11 is the fourthhigh-definition broadcasting satellite in the company's fleet, and the craftwill double the number of local markets served by DirecTV's network of HDTVchannels, according to Goswitz.
The satellite will alsoallow DirecTV to switch more nationwide channels to HDTV.
"We currently havealmost 100 channels of high-definition, like ESPN and HBO and Disney and all ofeveryone's favorites," Goswitz said. "DirecTV 11 will add anadditional 50 channels to that.
"By the time (DirecTV)11 is up and in orbit and operating, we'll have 150 channels of high-definitionand we'll have 150 markets of local (HDTV) channels," Goswitz said.
Boeingis also manufacturing DirecTV 12, a sister satellite that will furthersupplement the DirecTV fleet's capacity.
The launch of DirecTV 12will bring the total of national HDTV channels in the company's lineup to about200, according to Goswitz.
Catalysts for the increaseduse of HDTV broadcasting satellites by DirecTV and rival DISH Network have beenthe explosive growth of the market for high-definition television sets and aleap in space technology. Goswitz said the development of high-power satellitesallows spacecraft to transmit sharper video to receiving dishes at homes andbusinesses.
"Everyone hascontributed to basically doubling the business, especially with respect to thesatellites," Goswitz said. "That kind of vivid detail and color withhigh-definition takes five times the satellite capacity to do what we used todo for standard video."
Sea Launch will next turnits attention to the first mission of the company's Land Launch subsidiary,which will use modified Zenit rockets flown from the Baikonur Cosmodrome inKazakhstan.
Land Launch's inventoryincludes both two-stage and three-stage rockets tailored for low Earth orbitand geosynchronous orbit delivery missions, respectively.
The first Land Launchrocket, known as the Zenit 3SLB, rolled to Baikonur's Complex 45 last month tobegin several weeks of pathfinder activities. The tests included fit checksbetween the booster and the pad, countdown rehearsals, and filling thelauncher's three stages with liquid oxygen, according to Roscosmos, the Russianspace agency.
Testing successfullywrapped up last week, and the rocket returned to its assembly building forfinal pre-launch preparations, which will include receiving its 3,300-poundsatellite payload.
The Zenit 3SLB will launchthe Israeli AMOS 3 communications satellite, which will facilitatecommunications between the United States, Europe and the Middle East.
The first of three LandLaunch missions on the books for this year, the flight is scheduled to get offthe ground in late April or May, said Paula Korn, a Sea Launch spokesperson.
Four more Sea Launchmissions are also scheduled for the remainder of 2008, with roughly one launchevery other month, Korn said.
The next Sea Launch flightis expected in May with the Galaxy 18 communications satellite for Intelsat.
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This is an archived release.
Retail sales up
The seasonally adjusted volume index of retail sales rose by 1.0 per cent from January to February 2005.
The volume index not adjusted increased by 4.3 per cent in February 2005 compared with February 2004. Retail sales not in stores, which include sales via mail order houses, rose by 15.1 per cent in this period. Retail sales in non-specialised stores, which mainly include food stores, decreased by 0.7 per cent from February 2004 to February 2005.
The total value index of retail sales increased by 3.2 per cent in this period.
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In 2002 Adobe launched its Desktop Publishing software (DTP) Adobe InDesign, at the time the main DTP software was QuarkXpress. Adobe quickly took over the market with its far superior offering that worked seamlessly with Adobe Photoshop – their already very well established and industry standard image editing software.
Adobe Software has always been associated with the design industry, being used only by the professionals due to its perceived complexity and intimidating work spaces.
This is true to an extent as all Adobe Software can be used at a very advanced level, you can create some very complex design work and the scope is vast.
However for the everyday Marketeer Adobe InDesign can be used at a very useful level where posters, leaflets and brochures can be created very quickly and easily. Especially if you are in a position where your company logo has already been created and you have branding elements to use.
With your Logo and images to hand you can quickly and easily create marketing material to fit in with your already established brand. Once you grasp the basics of Adobe InDesign you will soon see the advantages over using Microsoft Powerpoint or Word to create your layouts.
Adobe InDesign is also a master at creating PDFs for many different outcomes. You can generate high quality print ready PDF artwork that can be sent to a commercial printer to print your work in volume. You can also generate a low resolution PDFs to distribute digitally.
Ive been using Adobe InDesign since its inception in 2002 and training people in it for over 12 years and in the last few years I have seen what I believe to be the two big changes that Adobe have made that have seen its popularity soar within the marketing world on top of its already huge Graphic Design customer base.
1. Adobe InDesign Changing to a subscription model
It used to be that Adobe InDesign was purchased off the shelf with a single licence, it would typically cost you around £800-£900 and you would own the software forever. Every few years there would be a significant update so you would pay Adobe £200-£300 to upgrade your software to the latest version.
This high cost would certainly put off the casual user or anybody who’s main job role did not include the use of Adobe InDesign on a daily basis.
Now however Adobe InDesign is purchased on a subscription model which means you pay monthly for the use. At the time of writing Adobe InDesign was £19.97 per month, no upfront cost just download the software (7 days free trial) then start your subscription. It will also automatically update when new features and improvements are made.
Im sure you can see how this monthly cost can be easily absorbed if you are paying design agencies £50 per hour to do tasks that are not particularly complex, resizing adverts, creating posters amending stationary etc…
2. Interactive PDFs increasing in popularity
It wasn’t too long ago that all our main marketing material was printed to hard copies and distributed, there still is a big need for the printed material but I’m sure we have all noticed the huge turn towards everything being distributed digitally via PDF.
The development team at Adobe InDesign have been very quick to react to this and have been consistently updating and improving the way we can present our digitally distributed material from Adobe InDesign.
Once you can use the basics of Adobe InDesign it isnt a big leap to then start adding some really cool interactive features that will make your PDFs much more presentable on anybody’s screen. You can add image galleries, buttons, hyperlinks and submittable forms.
Overall Adobe InDesign can be very daunting when you open up the programme, its not very intuitive, it doesnt help you along with templates etc like Microsoft Powerpoint and Word do but with a bit of instruction and guidance you can very quickly get up to speed with the industry standard DTP software.
By learning Adobe InDesign you could save you and your company thousands in art-working costs by bringing a proportion of your design and marketing material production inhouse.
We have two main Adobe InDesign courses here at Creative Studios and they are increasingly becoming filled with Marketing professionals looking to give themselves the edge in an increasingly popular and competitive industry.
Our first course is a one day Adobe InDesign bootcamp, this will cover all the layout aspects of Adobe InDesign, starting frm the very beginning we will get you up to speed quickly and give you confidence that when you leave you can create your own marketing material in Adobe InDesign.
The second course is a two day Adobe InDesign course that covers all that is covered in the one day course but on the second day we look at all the exciting interactive features that we can add to our PDFs through Adobe InDesign.
We also have an online InDesign course that you can follow along at your own pace in your own time. Everyone that attends the classroom based Adobe InDesign courses will receive 3 months access to the online course and 6 months support from the tutor for any problems they come up against after the course.
If you are interested in getting up to speed with any of the Adobe Creative Cloud Applications check out our upcoming courses, or if you would like to have a quotation from us to come to you and train in your own offices just fill out the form below and we will get back to you with more information and a no obligation quotation. | <urn:uuid:c8fd9111-894e-4a5f-a6a8-67d46ec30dce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://creativestudiosderby.co.uk/why-adobe-indesign-is-becoming-an-essential-skill-for-all-marketeers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95166 | 1,099 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Developing and Implementing
Electronic Document & Records
New approaches to electronic preservation and new services are beginning to offer new options for information lifecycle management including electronic archiving and shared electronic records management services. This programme is designed to equip delegates with the skills necessary to understand, plan for, and implement an Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS).
The course highlights the key issues required for successful implementations, and how to avoid the pitfalls commonly associated with EDRMS systems
This is a non-Accredited course.
At the end of this workshop, delegates will:
- Understand the legal environment surrounding electronic documents and records.
- Understand the policy and procedures which need to be created and implemented.
- Understand the core components that make up an EDRMS system and how to evaluate which components are required in their organisations.
- Be able to plan for and compose the team who are needed to conduct the implementation.
- Develop a classification scheme.
- Have a working knowledge of the applicability of digital signatures
- Be able to implement a records retention schedule
- Create an inventory of records in the organisation
- Determine the current maturity and readiness of the organisation to implement
- The Electronic Documents and Records Management (EDRM) Legal Framework
- Current Legislation Governing the Management of Information in Organisations:
- Identifying the types and characteristics of information resources to which the legislation applies
- Defining the steps for developing an EDRM policy in your organisation
- Examining and quantifying the potential benefits and business case for designing and implementing a records management frameworkTeaching and Learning Process
- Development of Effective DRM Policies and Procedures
- Determine the essential elements of your DRM policies and procedures document
- Evaluate the management of different types of documents
- Determine the infrastructure and technology resources required to actively manage your records management system
- Examine the criteria for identifying and selecting an appropriate DRM system
- Analyse effective roll-out methods and adoption for efficient application by all users
- Change Management Requirements and Planning
- Identifying what needs to change in your organisation in order to ensure the highest level of success in managing your business documents and records
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Classification Processes and Plans
- Project planning for Electronic DRM Systems (EDRM)
- Appraisal, Retention and Disposal
- Disaster Recovery and business continuity Planning
- Quality, Integrity, and Security Measures
This training runs for 5 days
Training times can be arranged accordingly in order to cater for the client’s needs.
Available on request.
Anyone who deals with movement of files and all general records duties. IT, records managers, business unit managers and other information professionals who need to ensure that your organization’s information and records are managed effectively.
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We live in troubling times. In fact, safety procedures and precautions that were once only required of banks other financial institutions are now a part of many other places. From schools to hospitals to churches and doctor’s offices, more and more places are having to pay attention to managed access control systems and other different security system products.
In the heart of the midwest, a Saturday morning informational meeting had as its sole purpose to inform pastors and church council members of the steps that they can take to make sure that their own congregations are safe. In the same week when area churches were considering the plans that they need to have in place, an area superintendent felt compelled to compose a letter to the 3,000 families in the district.
At at time when the superintendent wishes that he was simply writing a letter about the outstanding attendance at parent teacher conferences, he instead decided that he needed to address safety concerns that appeared to be increasing after the latest school shooting in Florida. In his letter he announced that it was necessary to take time to address school safety, security, and mental health.
Security Camera Solutions and Managed Access Control Systems Are a Part of Upcoming School and Church Budgets
Although there should be no safer place than schools and churches, every time a situation like Parkland, Florida, occurs parents, teachers, administrators, and school boards reconsider all of their safety procedures. From managed access control systems to monitor everyone who enters and exits to security cameras, more and more school systems help people feel better about the safety of their children when they are at school.
Many communities have taken important steps in helping build confidence in both safety and security. From school bond issues to congregational budgets, more and more places are providing secured entrances, door locks on classrooms and meeting spaces, as well as doors and walls to existing open concept spaces. As an additional precaution, schools and churches alike have to practice safety drills with students and congregation members and complete multiple safety audits throughout the year.
Although communities teach kindness in schools, screen teens for depression and continue to build important partnerships with community service providers to address mental health, there is still a growing concern among many people. As a result, it is more and more important that all spaces are safe.
In an effort to be hyper vigilant about safety, parents need to make sure that they continue to talk to their children about appropriate comments and social media posts. And while parents are responsible for looking out for their own children, it remains essential that schools, churches, and other organizations make sure that they are implementing managed access control systems and other necessary precautions.
- Statistics show that 94% to 98% of alarm activations are false, but it is important to be prepared for the other 2% to 6%.
- There are significantly more break ins during the last two weeks of the year, the time when Christmas and New Years fall, than at any other time of year.
- Approximately one out of seven businesses has an alarm system, and now places that we once considered sacred and safe need to be protected as well.
- Yearly numbers from police indicate that authorities respond to 38 million alarm activations every 12 months.
- Studies show that most alarm systems have a built in delay before contacting a monitoring company. A delay that can range anywhere from 30 seconds to three minutes.
- As many as 67% of burglaries can be avoided by video surveillance installation.
- Fire and security systems are an important part of the safety plan of schools, hospitals, churches, and many other public spaces.
- Every shooting incident forces places to reconsider their safety plans.
It is not always easy to STAY SAFE in today’s world, but taking the time to install the latest security measures can help keep people feel more confident, whether they are sending their children to school or attending a worship service with their family. From home security to making sure that our public spaces are safe, a growing number of people are relying on security systems and controlled access management solutions to make sure that you are as safe and secure as possible.
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The first major update to Windows 10 was released on November 12, 2015. Officially, it’s called Windows 10 Version 1511, but it is also referred to as the Windows 10 November Update.
9 Aug 2017 Download PDF Cumulative update KB4034660 is for Windows 10 version 1511, and is one of four updates that each supported version of 1 Feb 2019 After download Windows 10 iso, you can read this article to know How to 10 Professional build 1511: YTYG9-FR8RD-QBQC8-HC7J2-2JJFF Since its release, this browser has scored 402 out of 555 points on HTML5test. 13 Aug 2019 That includes all versions except for the first feature update, version 1511. If you're on the Windows 10 May 2019 Update, or version 1903, you'll get KB4512508, bringing the build You can manually download it here. 17 Jul 2019 This includes downloading updates for Windows 10 Version 1903 The latest cumulative update details about Windows 10 Version 1511. How much internet data will it take to update "Windows 10 version 1511" to How much data will it take to download the Windows 10 feature update, 1803? 15 Nov 2017 As you may already know, Windows 10 Version 1511 recently reached its end of support. However, the operating system continues to receive
But there was this update "Windows feature update 1803", it was downloading. The problem is that it has been three days that my system downloads this update, Windows 10 is an operating system developed by Microsoft. Microsoft described Windows 10 as an "operating system as a service" that would receive ongoing Microsoft регулярно выпускает новые версии Windows 10, известные как «обновления Первая версия Windows 10 «Initial Version» (с англ. — «начальная версия») Поддержка Windows 10 1511 прекращена 10 октября 2017 года. 14 ноября 2017 Download the latest update to Windows 10 Build 10240 (англ.) Microsoft Windows 10 TH2 ISO Download 32-Bit Version (x86) "Threshold 2". Windows 10 Threshold 2 ISO download (Build 10586) 32-Bit is mostly needed for Windows 10 version 1511 and Kaspersky version 10.2.x not updating Click this 2017 Kaspersky Fix link to download and run the 2017 Kaspersky Fix. 2. Windows 7 (32-bit) Windows 7 (64-bit), 385.87 *As for Windows 10, it works in Windows 10 version 1511 (build 10586) or later. 989 MB, Download
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Download and install previous Windows SDK and emulator releases for development on earlier versions of the Windows and Windows phone platforms. Learn about how to find your product key to activate Windows, and when you'll use a digital license instead. This topic lists new and updated topics in the What's new in Windows 10 documentation for Windows 10 (versions 1507 and 1511) and Windows 10 Mobile. 1511 to 1607 Enterprise Feature Upgrade Failing - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. 1511 to 1607 Enterprise Feature Upgrade Failing Preview builds are delivered to Insiders in three different rings. Insiders in the fast ring receive updates prior to those in the slow ring, but might experience more bugs and other issues. | <urn:uuid:de2b6428-72d8-411d-9bb5-c9ae96e55d03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog2020idsrn.web.app/where-to-download-windows-10-version-1511-856.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.766226 | 1,015 | 1.796875 | 2 |
1. It is not known when racing first took place at Redcar but the Redcar Race Committee was formed in 1850. Back then, Redcar Races were held on the sands, the run-in was roped, the judge was based in a bathing van, and the stewards used a farm wagon.
2. The Chairman in those days was John Hikeley, who owned the Lobster Inn in Coatham.
3. At one meeting on the beach, a race was held between foxhounds and racehorses to discover which were faster. Unfortunately, the trail left for the hounds blew into the sea and the race ended in a fiasco. Here are some reports of meetings on the sands in 1863 and 1866.
4. The final meeting on the sands was held in 1870, with the big race – The Cleveland Hunt Cup – won by top jockey John Osborne. The prize was £30.
5. John Hikeley and a group of local sportsmen approached Mr AHT Newcomen, of Kirkleatham Hall, and secured a twenty-one-year lease on the present course. Thomas Dawson was appointed Clerk of the Course and was responsible for putting in drains, levelling the track and returfing where necessary.
6. The first meeting at the present course was held “on ground adjoining the gasworks” on August 9, 1872. Admission to the Grandstand enclosure was six shillings, and admission to the Course enclosure was two pennies.
7. The first ever race at the course was the Zetland Welter Handicap Plate for gentlemen riders and was won by Mr John Osborne’s Wetherby.
8. In the Kirkleatham Plate on that first day, St Paul’s and Little Duchess fought out a close finish, “the others having run out at the turn, did not pass the post”. The other winners were Little John, St Paul’s, Mineral and Highflyer. Thank you so much to Merlyn Edwards for unearthing the below report of that historic first meeting.
9. The Redcar & Coatham Grand Stand Company was formed in 1875, with a capital of £4,000 to purchase or lease land, and to erect a building known as the Redcar and Coatham Grand Stand. Mr. Newcomen was the Chairman, and the Earl of Zetland was Vice-Chairman. The Directors decided to spend £2,650 to build a new permanent grandstand to replace a wooden stand. At the Directors’ meeting in September that year the Chairman declared: “Redcar has a stand second to none in the Kingdom."
10. In 1877, it was decided to build a stand for those in the second enclosure.
11. In 1878, stables were built on the site so horses no longer had to be stabled in the yards of local inns around the town.
12. In 1879, Redcar Racecourse was placed firmly on the map when the Racing Correspondent from Bailey’s Magazine – the racing paper of the day – described Redcar as having “a pretty stand, convenient business offices, a straight mile, and good going”.
13. In 1884, Mr Newcomen died and was succeeded by Lord Zetland as Chairman (pictured below). Lawrence Dundas, the 1st Marquess of Zetland, was a key player in the opening of the present course, and the Zetland family have been synonymous with Redcar Races ever since.
14. An extract from an article in Racing Illustrated Magazine, dated August 26, 1896: “Redcar has of late years become quite an institution among the north country racegoers, who in visiting the little Yorkshire watering-place are able to unite the pleasures of their favourite sport with the relaxation of a seaside holiday.” The picture below is from 1896 and shows Silver Fox, ridden by Tom Loates, being led back after a winning at Redcar. And the one below that shows a paddock scene in 1896. (pictures courtesy of Stephen Dixon)
15. And here’s an extract from an academic paper, titled The Teesside Seaside, using newspaper reports from the 1920s and 1930s: “Although Teesside had three major resort areas, Redcar (with Coatham) was its main popular resort. Redcar’s popularity had been boosted by its Whitsuntide race meeting, which was a magnet to working-class racegoers throughout the region.”
16. The North-East Daily Gazette reported in 1920 that no less than 200 trains of various kinds would be dealt with at the races, and that ‘all previous records are likely to be eclipsed.’ Below is a racecard from 1927 and some day badges from the 1920s. Below that is a view of Redcar Races from1920. (pictures courtesy of Stephen Dixon)
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Who does stomach cancer affect most?
Stomach cancer mostly affects older people. The average age of people when they are diagnosed is 68. About 6 of every 10 people diagnosed with stomach cancer each year are 65 or older. The lifetime risk of developing stomach cancer is higher in men (about 1 in 96) than in women (about 1 in 152).
Does anyone survive stomach cancer?
Survival rates can give you an idea of what percentage of people with the same type and stage of cancer are still alive a certain amount of time (usually 5 years) after they were diagnosed.
5-year relative survival rates for stomach cancer.
|SEER stage||5-year relative survival rate|
|All SEER stages combined||32%|
What are the odds of beating stomach cancer?
The 5-year survival rate for people with stomach cancer is 32%. This statistic reflects the fact that 62% of people with stomach cancer are diagnosed after the cancer has already spread beyond the location it began.
How do you get stomach cancer?
The main cause of stomach cancer is a genetic mutation (change) in the cells of the stomach, which causes the cells to grow rapidly and eventually form a tumor. Risk factors that can increase a person’s chance of getting stomach cancer include: Family history. Smoking.
How do you feel when you have stomach cancer?
Vague discomfort in the abdomen, usually above the navel. Feeling full after eating only a small meal. Heartburn or indigestion. Nausea.
What are 7 warning signs of cancer?
Signs of Cancer
- Change in bowel or bladder habits.
- A sore that does not heal.
- Unusual bleeding or discharge.
- Thickening or lump in the breast or elsewhere.
- Indigestion or difficulty in swallowing.
- Obvious change in a wart or mole.
- Nagging cough or hoarseness.
How long can you have stomach cancer without knowing?
As the cancer progresses, the symptoms that do appear can be misdiagnosed as normal gastrointestinal issues. As a result, stomach cancer can go undetected for years before the symptoms become concerning enough to warrant diagnostic testing.
How quickly does stomach cancer progress?
Stomach cancer begins when cancer cells form in the inner lining of your stomach. These cells can grow into a tumor. Also called gastric cancer, the disease usually grows slowly over many years. If you know the symptoms it causes, you and your doctor may be able to spot it early, when it’s easiest to treat.
How long do you have to live if you have stage 4 stomach cancer?
Around 20 out of 100 people (around 20%) with stage 4 stomach cancer will survive their cancer for 1 year or more after they are diagnosed. These statistics are for net survival.
Where Does stomach cancer spread first?
The most common place for stomach cancer to spread is to the liver. It can also spread to the lungs, to lymph nodes or to the tissue lining the abdominal cavity (peritoneum).
What stage is stomach cancer usually diagnosed?
The troubling part is that stomach cancer rarely shows symptoms in the early stages. With the tumor being impossible to see from the outside, most cases of stomach cancer are diagnosed at a late stage.
What can be mistaken for stomach cancer?
Consequently, stomach cancer may be confused with the following conditions: Irritable bowel syndrome. A condition that affects the lower gastrointestinal tract and causes abnormal bowel movements and abdominal pain. Indigestion.
What are the symptoms of Stage 1 stomach cancer?
Early Stage Stomach Cancer Symptoms
- Unexplained weight loss.
- Abdominal pain or vague pain just above the belly button area.
- Indigestion, heartburn or vomiting.
- Loss of or decrease in appetite.
- Weakness or fatigue.
- Blood in vomit or stool.
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Various statistics indicate that “Drinking and driving” (DUI) accidents happen in significant numbers in and around major holidays. With St. Patrick’s Day occurring on March 17, 2016, various agencies are issuing warnings against drunk driving, as well as preventative tips.
On March 10, 2016, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) issued a press release titled “Don’t Push Your Luck on St. Patrick’s Day.” An excerpt from the release:
Beginning this weekend, through St. Patrick’s Day and the following weekend, Illinois law enforcement will be working overtime to crack down on drunk drivers. Officers will be conducting roadside safety checks, planning saturation patrols and strongly enforcing seatbelt laws to remind motorists to “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” and “Click It or Ticket.”
The press release also offers five tips for preventing drunk driving from happening.
On March 15, 2016, the Naperville Patch published an article titled “Drunken Drivers Make St. Patrick’s Day a Deadly Holiday: Police.” This article discusses various topics regarding drunk driving enforcement efforts by the Naperville Police, as well as providing various tips for preventing drunk driving, including picking a “designated driver” and not letting friends drive drunk.
A notable excerpt from the article:
Pedestrians are at risk, too. If you are walking, keep an eye out for cars. Even a sober driver is a risk if you are drinking and walking. Designated drivers: Be alert for impaired walkers who may not obey street signs.
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In 2019, the Wednesday Journal Homes section covered local housewalks from Wright Plus to the Parenthesis Kitchen Walk, featured locals who work in the housing arena and let readers visit a variety of homes and gardens in Oak Park and River Forest and surrounding suburbs without leaving the comfort of their own homes. Here’s a look back at some of this year’s stories.
In January, we took a look at a Historic Preservation Award-winning renovation in Oak Park. Homeowners Dan and Rachel Stark were just getting comfortable in the Victorian on the 400 block of South Home, when a storm felled a tree, destroying much of their front porch.
The couple turned to the Oak Park River Forest Historical Society to research their home’s past and architecture. Working with contractor Peter Thomas, they restored the porch to what it most likely looked like when the home was constructed in 1898.
During February, we covered Sister House’s relocation to Oak Park. Founded in the Austin neighborhood in 1982, Sister House was originally conceived as a means of helping women make the transition from prison to life in the outside world.
By the time the organization made the move in 2019 to the former convent of St. Catherine-St. Lucy Parish, the organization was focused on helping women break the cycle of addiction to alcohol and drugs.
We took a look at a coach house-turned-single-family home in March with a story on 616 Iowa St. in Oak Park. Designed in 1911 by architect Thornton Herr, the coach house was built for the original owners of the house to its east, John and Anna Nelson.
Nelson made his living selling horse blankets. Historical Society Executive Director Frank Lipo noted that what goes around comes around in observing that there is a new trend in the village to construct large coach houses behind prominent homes.
In April, we looked across Austin Boulevard to celebrate the architecture of Frederick Schock. The neighborhood encompassing the Schock houses was planned by Oak Park developer Henry W. Austin, who began selling lots in the then-suburb of Chicago in the late 1800s.
Today, the Austin Schock Historic District includes four remaining Schock-designed houses, located at 5749 and 5804 W. Race Avenue and 5804 and 5810 W. Midway Park. In 1999, the city of Chicago designated the Queen Anne and shingle-style Schock houses in Austin as historic landmarks.
In May, Oak Park’s Maze Branch Library celebrated the return of spring with a renewed focus on its Sensory Garden. Inspired by a trip to the Chicago Botanic Garden, Children’s Librarian Shelley Harris wanted to integrate the natural world into the library’s programming.
A new concrete sidewalk was poured to make the courtyard accessible to visitors in wheelchairs. The library also called on staff member Linda Miller who helped enhance sight and sound for visitors with plants of different textures, colors and scents, as well as added enhancements like wind chimes.
In June, we covered the conversion of Oak Park’s Hales Mansion into a new home for the Language and Music School. Now known as the International Mansion, owners Maria Emilia Fermi and son Brando Crawford moved the school from its former storefront location just down the street on Oak Park Avenue.
The mansion at 509 N. Oak Park Ave. had been on and off the market since 2006, when it was listed for $2.65 million. Fermi and Crawford purchased it in May 2019 for $1,575,000.
The home was designed in 1903 by architect Henry G. Fiddelke for grain magnate Burton Fr. Hales and his wife, Frances. After a period of being used as housing for Jesuit priests, the house was a single-family home prior to school’s purchase. With the aid of local architect Deb McQueen, Fermi and Crawford spent the summer renovating the home to prepare for a fall opening.
In July, we turned to neighboring Maywood to discover a Tallmadge and Watson-designed Prairie-Style bungalow. When Berwyn police officer Loren Buchmeier and his wife, Alyse, found the home in 2011, its most recent occupants had been a family of raccoons.
As a carpenter on the side, Loren thought he had what it took to rehabilitate the house, and with the help of his father, he set about saving the home. Over seven years, the Buchmeiers worked tirelessly to restore the home, known as the Henry Akin House, which was built for one of Maywood’s first mayors.
In August, we visited Sojourner House, the first dedicated bridge housing in suburban Cook County. Located on Austin Boulevard, Sojourner House contains five separate apartments, as well as a detached coach house, and bridges the gap between homeless shelters and permanent housing for vulnerable men, women, and families facing homelessness.
A combined effort of Housing Forward, Oak Park Housing Authority, MacNeal Hospital and Oak Park Residence Corporation, the house is designed to keep families together with short-term stable housing until they can find permanent housing; to serve as an alternative to PADS shelters for people requiring accessible accommodation and to provide temporary residence for people recovering from medical treatment.
In September, we followed the case of the missing dog tag, a mystery solved by two intrepid River Forest sleuths, George Summy and Fletcher Neri, who happened upon some rusted dog tags while digging in Neri’s backyard.
With the help of Summy’s mom, Carrie, the internet and the Oak Park River Forest Historical Society, the two boys learned a lot about the tag’s original owner, Wayland Cedarquist, whose wife’s family lived near the Neri’s River Forest house when Cedarquist returned from World War II. The boys plan to return the tags to a Cedarquist relative.
In October, we interviewed Lee Bey, photographer and architectural critic about his new book, “Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side.”
A former Oak Park resident, Bey worked as the architecture critic for the Sun-Times, served as the deputy chief of staff for urban planning under former Mayor Richard M. Daley and currently is a senior lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as an independent consultant.
His book delves into the architectural richness of the South Side, which Bey says can be overlooked in a city know for architectural greatness.
The village awarded 408 N. Kenilworth Ave. in Oak Park landmark status in November. Homeowners Myrtle and George Mason applied for historic landmark status for the place they have called home for over 50 years. With the help of architect Jack Lesniak, they uncovered an interesting architectural history before submitting their application.
Originally designed by architects Patton and Fisher, the home was later remodeled twice by Tallmadge and Watson, making it a unique example of the styles of two notable pairs of architects.
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In order to generate the necessary pressure for atomizing the water, a pump is required. Our pumping plant is frequency-controlled, so only the required amount of water is under operating pressure. If the spray nozzle is operated with too low water pressure, the necessary droplet size cannot be achieved. Therefore, the whole system needs to be used with high pressure, which enables the spray nozzles to disperse the water into small droplets.
This construction bears the following advantages compared to the classic process without frequency converter:
- The pump transports only the amount of water which is used up
- Variable conveying capacity (0-100%)
- A lot of energy-saving in the partial load operation
- Gentle pump priming prevents peaks of pressure
- Less pump wear-out
- High-efficient engine
- Operation without forced ventilation
The simple schematic diagram of the pump process looks like the following:
How does the spray nozzle mechanism work?
The water is added and runs through the filter to clean it from contaminants which can possibly clog the spray nozzles. After that, the water is pressurized by the high-pressure pump and forwarded into the isle of valves which consist of different numbers of valves. Through the valves, the water is then transferred into the separate circuits. The water is then atomized with the help of the mist spraying nozzles right above the dust emission points.
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As of today, humans have already used a year’s worth of natural resources in 2022 – a calendar event known as Earth Overshoot Day.
The annual date marks the point at which humanity has used all the biological resources that the Earth can regenerate during that year.
But in 2022 it’s earlier than ever before, largely due to a demand for food, land, timber and new urban infrastructure to cater to a growing population.
Demand for these resources outstrips the Earth’s biocapacity – its ability to renew those resources – meaning we now effectively have gone into overdraft.
It also means we’ve outstripped the planet’s annual capacity to absorb waste products such as carbon dioxide.
Humans ‘busted Earth’s budget’: Earth Overshoot Day is the calendar date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. Pictured is Earth, captured by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera
Humans ‘busted Earth’s budget’: Earth Overshoot Day is earlier than ever before this year (Thursday, July 28)
WHAT IS EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY?
Earth Overshoot Day marks the point at which humanity has used all the biological resources that the Earth can regenerate during that year.
This year, it’s on July 28. So in under seven months, humans have use more natural resources than the planet is able to produce in a 12 month period.
For the remainder of 2022, we will be living on resources borrowed from future generations.
It is calculated by dividing the world’s biocapacity – the amount of natural resources generated by the planet that year – by humanity’s natural consumption of Earth’s resources for 12 months.
It is then multiplied by 365, the number of days in a year.
The concept for Earth Overshoot Day was created by Andrew Simms, climate economist at Global Witness, a London-based think tank.
Earth Overshoot Day – which is hosted and calculated by Oakland, California-based sustainability think tank Global Footprint Network – came more than a month later than usual in 2020, due to global lockdowns imposed because of Covid.
But last year it was back to the end of July, and this year it’s earlier than it’s ever been, since the annual date was launched in 2006.
Mathis Wackernagel, President of Global Footprint Network, said humans use 75 per cent more biological resources than Earth can regenerate – as much as if we lived on 1.75 planets.
But if humanity can ‘move the date’ of Earth Overshoot Day by six days every year, humanity will be able to push this rate to below ‘one planet’ before 2050.
‘One planet is the regenerative capacity of the entire planet Earth,’ Wackernagel told MailOnline.
‘This is our physical budget. We also want to share it with wild species, so we humans may not want to use the entire budget.
‘Currently we consume at least 1.75 fold that, meaning we leave as if we had 1.75 Earths at our disposition – hence we witness depletion.’
Nigel Topping, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion at COP26, told MailOnline that humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels for producing electricity, powering vehicles, heating and constructing homes and much more ‘is still way too high’.
‘We are at a crossroads. With every tenth of a degree of warming, we choose to inflict more economic damage and pain on ourselves, our businesses and communities, our children and their children.
‘This is a moment of massive decision and consequence, whether we choose to see that or not. The more we emit now, the more expensive and radical the actions we will require in a few years.’
Graph shows the change in date from 1971 to 2022 of Earth Overshoot Day which designates the date when humanity has consumed all natural resources that the Earth can renew in a year
The date of Earth Overshoot Day changes every year, based on how much of Earth’s natural resources humanity is using.
It’s computed by dividing the planet’s biocapacity – the amount of ecological resources Earth can generate that year – by humanity’s demand for that year, known as our ecological footprint, and multiplying that figure by 365, the number of days in a year.
If the global population’s demand for ecological assets exceeds the supply, it runs an ecological deficit.
For example, humans plant around 2 billion trees in a year. Earth Overshoot Day marks when we’ve used up 2 billion trees, for timber or to clear space for rearing cattle.
For the rest of the year after Earth Overshoot Day, humanity has to cut down other trees to cater to demand – meaning at some point in the future all of Earth’s trees will eventually be used up.
PAST EARTH OVERSHOOT DAYS
2021: July 28
2020: August 22
2019: July 29
2018: August 1
2017: August 3
2016: August 5
Although Earth Overshoot Day only started in 2006, researchers have used data to backdate the milestone going back as far as 1971.
Back in the 1970s, Earth Overshoot Day did not come until November or December, but the date has since come sooner and sooner at an alarming rate.
Neil Ross Russell, founder of London environmental services company Net Zero Now, said ‘we are all responsible’ for Earth Overshoot Day getting earlier.
‘Not one person or company should feel they are excluded from this issue,’ he told MailOnline.
‘The food we eat, the packaging that is used, the energy that we use or clothes that we wear – they are all contributing to the speed at which Earth Overshoot Day comes.’
Russell said members of the public can do their bit by walking or cycling to work, removing meat from their diet one day a week, and opting for reusable water bottles instead of buying plastic bottles.
Emily Tradd, climate project manager for Net Zero Now, added that it will be important for the public to vote for leaders who support ‘real climate action’.
‘Members of the public can choose public transport, select renewable tariffs when possible, fly less, consume less animal products, select more responsible pension funds, and vote,’ she said.
Global Footprint Network also this year calculated when Earth Overshoot Day would arrive if all the world’s population consumed resources as fast as a single country.
If the world had Qatar’s consumption habits, the day would come on February 10 – making the Arab country the world’s worst offender for plundering the world’s resources.
Renowned for its mass consumption habits, the US had the joint third-soonest date, along with the UAWE and Canada – March 13 – while the UK registered 32nd on the list with May 19.
Poverty-stricken Indonesia consumes resources less rapidly than any other country, meanwhile, and if we all lived like Indonesia, Earth Overshoot Day would arrive on December 20.
Graphic shows when Earth Overshoot Day would fall if the world consistently consumed resources as fast as different nations. The UK is listed 32nd on this list, with a date of May 19
Overall, greenhouse gas emissions from burning coal, oil and gas make huge contributions to mankind’s ecological footprint.
Topping told MailOnline that certain companies and countries have had ‘an outsized impact on the current climate crisis’.
‘This is important to recognise, particularly when considering the future of developing countries – many of which have historically contributed the least in terms of emissions and are often the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and the nature crisis,’ he said.
‘Tackling climate change is in many ways everyone’s responsibility and the more we can act together, the more holistic the solutions will be, the faster they will be implemented and the more inclusive and fair that deployment will be.’
Richard George, senior campaigner for Greenpeace UK, previously told MailOnline that the problem is big commercial companies that ‘find, extract and use resources as quickly as possible’.
‘Responsible companies are torn between doing the right thing and competing with big businesses refusing to change course without government action,’ he said.
‘Unfortunately, our government is sitting on its hands instead of leading from the front.’
Global Footprint Network is urging people to ‘move the date’ of Earth Overshoot Day, which is driven by energy consumption, food production and more
Helena Bennett, head of climate policy at Green Alliance, said: ‘While we can all play a role in reducing our own impact on the planet, ultimately the government needs to ensure green choices are easy and cheaper for the public to make.
‘Due to rising gas prices, energy bills are set to soar this winter and people are rightly concerned.’
‘But many of the solutions to cut emissions can also deliver cost savings: insulating buildings means less energy is needed to heat our homes and expanding renewable energy will reduce our reliance on importing Russian oil and gas.’
WORST CONSUMERS BY COUNTRY
Dates as follows are when Earth Overshoot Day would fall if the world consistently consumed resources as fast as different nations:
February 11: Qatar
February 14: Luxembourg
March 13: US, Canada, UAE
March 23: Australia
March 14: USA
March 26: Belgium
BEST CONSUMERS BY COUNTRY
If the world consumed resources at the same rate as the following five nations, Earth Overshoot Day would fall much later in the year:
December 20: Jamaica
December 6: Ecuador
December 3: Indonesia
November 25: Cuba
November 24: Iraq
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In this episode I’ll:
1. Discuss an article about vasopressors and pressure ulcers in critical care.
2. Answer the drug information question: “How long should I hold etanercept before surgery?”
3. Share a resource I use to obtain pictures of the chemical structure of medications.
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Lead author: Jill Cox
Published in the American Journal of Critical Care in November 2015
Vasopressors provide life-saving support for many critically ill patients. Given their vasoconstrictive effects it would seem they would also play a role in the development of pressure ulcers.
The purpose of this study was to examine associations between type, dose, and duration of vasopressors (norepinephrine, epinephrine, vasopressin, phenylephrine, dopamine) and development of pressure ulcers in critically ill medical, surgical and cardiothoracic patients. A secondary goal was to examine predictors of the development of pressure ulcers in these patients.
The study was a retrospective sample of 306 medical, surgical and cardiothoracic patients who received vasopressors in 2012 in Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in New Jersey.
Norepinephrine and vasopressin were found to be significantly associated with the development of pressure ulcers. When multivariate analysis was applied variables that were significant predictors of the development of pressure ulcers were:
Cardiac arrest (odds ratio [OR] = 3.894)
Mechanical ventilation longer than 72 hours (OR = 23.604)
Hours of MAP less than 60 mm Hg while receiving vasopressors (OR = 1.096)
Administration of vasopressin (OR = 4.816)
Cardiac diagnosis at time of ICU admission (OR = 0.035)
The authors concluded that:
The addition of vasopressin administered concomitantly with a first-line agent (often norepinephrine) may represent the point at which the risk for pressure ulcers escalates and may be an early warning to heighten strategies to prevent pressure ulcers. Conversely, because vasopressors cannot be terminated to avert development of pressure ulcers, these findings may add to the body of knowledge on factors that potentially contribute to the development of unavoidable pressure ulcers.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, National Quality Forum, and Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services have proclaimed that pressure ulcers are “Never Events“. While most pressure ulcers are avoidable, studies like these support the growing idea that some pressure ulcers in critically ill patients are in fact unavoidable.
Drug information question
Q: How long should I hold etanercept before surgery?
A: 1 week.
Biologic therapies such as etanercept are associated with an increased risk in the development of infection. There is no data from randomized trials that can guide the decision of how long to hold these agents prior to surgery. Current recommendations are to withhold these types of medications for 1 to 4 weeks prior to surgery, depending on their half-life.
Something I recently noticed about Lactmed is that each medication monograph has a picture of the medication’s chemical structure. This image is in the public domain and may be copied with attribution. Occasionally I’ll look at the structure of a medication to guess at cross-allergenicity or cross-reactivity with laboratory testing. Using a source like Lactmed for this is more reliable than an alternative like Wikipedia.
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Kistefos Museum is one of Europe’s most important sculpture parks for contemporary art. Established by consul Anders Sveaas in 1889, the museum is built on the grounds of a historical pulp mill in Jevnaker, Norway about an hour’s drive from the capital Oslo.
“Kistefos today comprises an industrial museum, two art galleries and an impressive sculpture park in scenic surroundings. It has a mission to conserve the buildings and industrial heritage of the area whilst also celebrating the best of Norwegian and international contemporary art” said Ms. Birgitte Espeland, Director of Kistefos Museum.
Kistefos, as we know it today, was established in 1996 by Norwegian businessman and art collector Christen Sveaas, grandson of Anders Sveaas.
“Kistefos has a mission to conserve the buildings and industrial heritage of the area whilst also celebrating the best of Norwegian and international contemporary art”
Ms. Birgitte Espeland, Director of Kistefos Museum
Each year the sculpture park is expanded with one or more sculptures. Today it contains 46 sculptures by prominent contemporary artists such as Yayoi Kusama, Claes Oldenburg, Fernando Botero, Tony Cragg, Olafur Eliasson, and Anish Kapoor. Many of the sculptures are made site-specific and directly inspired by the area, nature, and history of Kistefos. Last year’s sculpture was made by the American conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner.
Every year, Kistefos presents new art exhibitions by highly recognized national and international artists in Nybruket Gallery and The Twist. The Twist is a gallery, a bridge, and a sculpture, all in one. The building was designed by the Danish star architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and opened in autumn 2019. The months after the opening Kistefos experienced that visitors from all over the world came to visit – and many of them from the US, people particularly interested in contemporary art and architecture.
Kistefos and The Twist were both named together as a “must-see” cultural destination by the New York Times, Bloomberg and The Telegraph, among others. “The most common feedback we receive from our guests implies that Kistefos is unique and outstanding due to its combination. In addition, it is also appealing to a multitude of generations” explained Espeland.
“Unfortunately, the international guests were absent in 2020 due to covid-19. Therefore we look forward to especially welcoming guests from the US again when the pandemic is over. At the opening in May 2021, Kistefos is delighted to unveil this year’s new sculpture, made by an American artist, Carol Bove” she concluded. | <urn:uuid:35d92bc1-65df-4c41-ad70-c27e12e1066f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mercuryglobalreports.com/2021/01/13/kistefos-and-the-twist-norways-must-see-cultural-destination/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948228 | 589 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Nurses are humans too. They do become ‘superhuman’ sometimes, absorbing other people’s problems and troubles. But since they are humans too, they are vulnerable to traumas and stresses life will bring. Because like any other normal human being, nurses have their limits too.
So, how can nurses overcome these difficult times of their lives? Here are some tips that could help nurses deal with it.
1. Focus. Have the presence of mind. Too many worries and problems may cause for a nurse to rattle and be confused. It would be great if nurses can still focus and have the great presence of mind while trying to deal and and think of a way on how to solve the situation.
2. Trust your flexibility. There is a big possibility that you’ve already been in the same situation before. You just have to think over what you have done then. Think of your inner strength that you’ve used to overcome the difficulty. Analyze thoroughly the problem you are facing, and then searched within you the strength you could use to solve it. There is always your natural inner strength that will become your power to handle the problem.
3. Foresee your victory. Look at your situation as your stepping stone to achieve the success you wanted the most. Visualize what you have or what you should do to be able to move to the next chapter of your life as a grown up person and nurse. Think of out of the box solutions. Think of new positive visions and descriptions for yourself which you’ll carry on to the next phase of your life.
4. Forgive and Forget. Past experiences that have hurt you the most or people who may have caused them intentionally or unintentionally should be forgiven and forgotten. It is you who carries the burden of this past, so you should forgive, forget and move on. You will not be able to face future problems that may somehow be related to the hurtful past you’ve had if you can’t forgive and forget. If you keep on holding grudge over someone or something, you will not successfully grow as an individual.
5. Welcome support. No man is an island. It is a saying identifying that no person will be alone forever. You have family, relatives and friends that is willing to give you all the support you need in any situation you’re at. Don’t let your pride get in the way. Sharing your burden or problems with other people will lighten the burden you have. Their advises may be helpful in your situation. So don’t close your door to other people.
6. Take care of yourself. Nurses should also take care of themselves, next to their priority of taking care of their patients. Nurses shouldn’t abuse and overstressed themselves over matters at work. Have time to nourish yourself. Take a break. Do the things you loved to do that could make you feel relaxed. Go to places or be with people you feel good to have around. Because having such good times and being with people that gives you positive vibes will renew you. You may not realized it but these things refreshes you. | <urn:uuid:c799fa78-82d4-433f-87df-0f115915f6a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.studypk.com/articles/tips-nurses-strong-difficult-times/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966788 | 652 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Seminarium: Atmospheres of ultra-hot exoplanets: Metals and chemistry on WASP-121b
- Datum: –15.00
- Plats: Ångströmlaboratoriet 95110 Å och Zoom: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/62091586806
- Föreläsare: Jens Hoeijmakers, Lunds universitet
- Kontaktperson: Anish Amarsi
Ultra-hot Jupiters form a new class of exoplanets that tend to orbit hot early type stars in short periods. The hottest of these may be heated to temperatures of far over 2,000 K on their day-sides. The extreme temperature dissociates all but the most strongly bound molecules (CO, water, metal oxides and hydrates) and a significant fraction of the atomic gas may be thermally ionised. Under these circumstances, line absorption lines by metals are dominant sources of opacity. We have carried out observations of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121 b, revealing a rich spectrum of various metals, including iron and vanadium, but with a notable absence of titanium, which may be due to condensation processes. In this talk I will present our recent observations and demonstrate the power of high-resolution ground-based spectrographs in helping us understand the chemistries of exoplanets.
We will take the speaker to lunch at Sven Dufva (departing house 9, floor 5 of Å at around 12.20). There will be fika after the seminar. | <urn:uuid:1c8e2bbc-f405-4bb6-9be2-582d6decae33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://physics.uu.se/kalendarium/evenemang/?eventId=66708 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.837336 | 345 | 1.882813 | 2 |
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- Distributes its traces and malicious files in different locations of the hard drive.
How HackTool:Win32/Patch.B Virus Enters into Windows System?
You usually protect your PC using powerful antivirus programs and also update Firewall on a regular basis for its protection. But still malicious infections like HackTool:Win32/Patch.B Virus easily bypass your security system. The question here rises is “How these infections enter into the PC”? Well, the exact answer of this question is still a nightmare for the common people because cyber criminals use different-different advanced techniques to find and exploit the loopholes in your system and find an easy way of get in. So, for your knowledge some of the common mediums by which PC threats infiltrates in to the computer system are mentioned below –
- Using infected Network Drives.
- Downloading freeware and shareware stuffs from unsafe sites.
- Visiting malicious websites and clicking suspicious links on it.
- Attacks from executable code scripts.
- Using infected removal storage devices.
- And several others.
How to remove HackTool:Win32/Patch.B Virus from PC Effectively?
HackTool:Win32/Patch.B is a Trojan Infection which enter into computer via infected websites, spam email attachments, unsafe downloads and click on links from social networking sites or install a cracked freeware program from internet. It causes severe attacks on the infected PC and hides itself as Java Script file. There are two removal processes, by using which you can remove this critical virus program from your PC. Manual removal process and automatic removal process, Manual process is a time consuming process and requires lots of technical skill to find all the traces of threat and delete it from your system. It is better to try Automatic removal process by downloading the link given below, it will search all the traces of Trojan and automatically remove it from your system and also optimize the speed and performance of your system. So it is recommended to remove HackTool:Win32/Patch.B virus from PC as fast as you can.
To view complete installation, check out Installation Guide!
Manual removal methods of HackTool:Win32/Patch.B Virus tends to be little less reliable & effective, but still those methods are explained below –
Step 1 – Start your Windows system and keep pressing ‘F8’ button on your keyboard until Windows Advanced Option menu shows up. Then select the ‘Safe Mode with Command Prompt’ option from the list and press ‘Enter’.
Step 2 – Stop HackTool:Win32/Patch.B Virus processes –
- Click the Start menu, select Run.
- Type taskmgr.exe into the Run command box, and click “OK.” You can also launch the Task Manager by pressing keys CTRL + Shift + ESC.
- Click Processes tab, and find badware processes.
- Once you’ve found the badware processes, right-click them and select “End Process” to kill badware.
Step 3 – Delete related files from PC:
- Click Windows Start menu & then click “Search.”
- A pop up will ask, “What do you want to search for?” Click “All files and folders”
- Type a badware file name in the search box, and select “Local Hard Drives”
- Click “Search” and wait till all badware files are found.
- Once you get them simply delete them.
Step 4 – Delete DLL files related to this rogue –
- Open the Start menu, and click “Run” Type “cmd” in Run, and click “OK.” (In Windows 7, just type “regedit” into the “Search programs and files” box in the Start menu.)
- To change your current directory, type “cd” in the command box, press “Space,” and enter the full directory where the badware DLL is located. If you’re not sure where the badware DLL is located, enter “dir” in the command box to display a directory’s contents. To go one directory back, type “cd ..” in the command box and press “Enter.”
- When you’ve found a badware DLL, type “regsvr32 /u AnyDLLName.dll” (e.g., “regsvr32 /u jl27script.dll”) and press “Enter.”
Step 5 – Remove related registry keys –
- Click the Start menu, and click “Run.” An “Open” field will appear. Type “regedit” and click “OK ” to open up your Registry Editor. In Windows 7, just type “regedit” into the “Search programs and files” box in the Start menu.
- Registry Editor opens as a two-paned window: the left side lets you select registry keys,the right side shows the values of any selected registry key.
- To find a badware registry key, select “Edit,” then select “Find,” and in the search bar type any of badware ‘s registry keys.
- When the badware registry key appears, to delete the badware registry key, right-click it, and select “Modify,” then select “Delete.”
How to Protect PC from Future Malware Attacks?
You should always take good care of your Windows system because it is something that you use on a daily basis and you want it to be healthy and work properly. So, to avoid any future intrusions from any malware you must follow or take some precautions to avoid cyber attacks and keep PC safe and healthy. Some very useful PC protection tips are mentioned here below –
- First of all, always update the security program you are using on a regular basis like its virus definition and program version.
- Avoid clicking any suspicious links of any un-trusted websites.
- Check email attachments before opening it especially if they are of spam mails.
- Try not to click or open any malicious advertisements from any social or unsafe websites.
- Avoid downloading stuffs like free programs, audio/video codec’s etc. from torrents or sites.
- Use a powerful Firewall to block any incoming connections from malicious hosts.
- Before using any secondary storage device scan it properly for any traces of virus infections.
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Hannah Nigrin stepped up to the telescope manned by Harford County Astronomical Society president Rick Fensch, excited to see her first-ever solar eclipse.
The 18-year-old Harford Community College student later described a mix of emotions upon seeing the near-total eclipse. She was one of about 1,000 people who gathered in the parking lot of the HCC Observatory to see the eclipse as it made its way across the United States Monday afternoon.
"It's very intimidating to look at, and it's awesome — it's very beautiful," Nigrin, a resident of Bel Air, said.
Nigrin is going into her second year at HCC; she studies cybersecurity.
"I'm so interested in how our solar system works," she said.
The Astronomical Society, which holds open houses at the Observatory on the first Saturday of the month, hosted Monday's eclipse viewing.
Spectators, many of them parents and their children, gathered at telescopes manned by society members, or they looked through special eclipse glasses or pinhole viewers made from aluminum foil and cereal boxes.
Society member Susan Williamson had rigged up a viewer involving a piece of cardboard covering one lens of a pair of binoculars. The eclipse was projected through the other lens onto a piece of white posterboard.
Spectators could see the shadow on the posterboard as the moon made its way across the sun until about 80 percent of the sun was blocked.
"I saw this on the Internet, and I said, 'Yeah, I've got to do that,'" Williamson said of her device.
People in Oregon, the Midwest and Southeast could see a total eclipse, where the moon covers all of the sun, as they were directly in its path. It is the first total solar eclipse visible across the U.S. since February of 1979, according to NASA's website.
Williamson said a number of Harford Astronomical Society members traveled South to locations such as Tennessee to see the full eclipse Monday.
"They've been planning this for over a year," she said.
Elaine Santos, another HCC student, watched the eclipse's shadow creep across the posterboard.
"It's primitive and innovative just to watch it go across a white board," the 19-year-old Joppa resident said.
Santos, who is in her second year and studying digital arts, said she had not seen a lunar or a solar eclipse before.
"This is literally my chance, make it or break it," she said.
The next total solar eclipse will be visible in the U.S. between Maine and Texas in April of 2024, according to NASA.
Bel Air residents Alma Illian, 76, and her partner, Clyde Miller, 79, watched television coverage of the eclipse in the air-conditioned comfort of the observatory.
Illian remembers seeing the 1979 eclipse from her home outside Washington, D.C.
"It just got dark, like night, and then it started to get light again," she said.
She has four children, who were young at the time but enjoyed the experience.
"They really liked it," Illian said. "In fact, my older son went to South Carolina to view it this time."
She said she and Miller plan to be around to watch the next eclipse in 2024.
John Franchetti, of Bel Air, noted every place he went to to find eclipse viewing glasses was sold out. The astronomical society gave out 200 pairs of glasses at Monday's event.
"They provided glasses here, so I thought I'd come out and take a look at it," Franchetti said. "It's not something that you often see."
The weather was sunny Monday with scattered clouds, so the view was occasionally blocked when a cloud went across the sun. It did not get dark outside, though.
"Since we weren't in the path of totality we didn't get to see the sun's chromosphere, and we didn't get to see any stars during the day," Rick Fensch, president of the astronomical society, said.
The upper layers of the sun such as the chromosphere and the corona, which are not usually visible to the naked eye, can be seen during total eclipses as a ring of light around the moon, according to NASA.
"It's so exciting that the Harford astronomy group is here, sharing their equipment with us, so we get that up-close and personal look," Pamela Stell, HCC's human resources director, said.
She and her colleagues at the college stopped by to see the event.
The atmosphere outside the Observatory resembled that of a concert in the park, as families relaxed on blankets and children played nearby.
"If I had known it would be this crowded I would have brought a concession or a cooler of drinks to sell," Tom Trafton, of Abingdon, joke. "This is quite an event."
Trafton, 67, is retired from Harford County Public Schools. He taught environmental science and astronomy at Fallston High School and Havre de Grace High School.
He attended the eclipse event with his daughter, Bridget Strama, 44, of Parkville, two of her children as well as seven other children and three other mothers from Strama's home school group, Team Home School.
The group serves students in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Students in pre-Kindergarten through second grade were at Monday's event, according to parent Lynda Overbey, of Baltimore.
Trafton said the children were called back from their play every few minutes to see the gradual changes as the moon covered more of the sun.
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The children expressed wonder and joy as they looked through glasses or viewers.
"It's instant gratification, but a little bit at a time," Trafton said.
Strama grew up in Harford County, and she graduated from HCC in 1993.
"It was amazing," she said of the eclipse. "We keep telling [the children] they're going to be excited about it when they grow up."
Matt Buckleman, 40, of Bel Air, looked through Fensch's telescope, along with his 11-year-old daughter, Grace, and 8-year-old son, Jonah.
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Sixty percent of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Why it matters: This comes as the Omicron variant continues to spread across the U.S. It has been detected in 19 states, and the number is expected to increase, CDC director Rochelle Walensky said during Tuesday's White House COVID-19 briefing.
- Yes, but: Walensky noted that the Delta variant is still the dominant strain in the U.S.
By the numbers: Approximately 71% of the U.S. population has received at least one vaccine dose, and around 23% have had a booster shot.
- Some 64% of those over 5 years old are fully vaccinated. That number is around 72% for all adults.
What they're saying: "While we are still working to understand the severity of Omicron, as well as how it responds to therapeutics and vaccines, we anticipate that all of the same measures will at least in part provide some protection against Omicron," Walensky said.
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[Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair]
I beg to move,
That this House has considered the role of employers in improving work outcomes for people with long-term health problems.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship on this very interesting day, Mr Hollobone. The Prime Minister has promised that her Government
“will do everything we can to help anybody, whatever your background, to go as far as your talents will take you.”
Today, I intend to focus on what that means for employers of people with long-term health problems and disabilities. In all the very welcome debate about how the Government can best achieve their aim of halving the disability employment gap, the critical role of employers in supporting people to stay in work and, more positively, to reach their potential has been relatively neglected. “Improving Lives”, the Green Paper on work, health and disability, is an excellent foundation to start filling that gap. The Department for Health and the Department for Work and Pensions are to be commended for working in partnership and shining a light on the role employers can play in preventing people from falling out of work through ill health.
Some 83% of disabled people acquire their disability during their working lives. We all know friends, colleagues, family members and constituents who had a job and then suffered a serious health problem. We have seen how, once the shock of diagnosis starts to dull, people quickly ask themselves whether they will be able to keep working and how they will support themselves and their loved ones. When ill health stops someone from working long term, getting back to work can be a key milestone in their recovery and a big step towards them feeling themselves again.
Effective support from employers can make an enormous difference to people’s physical, mental and emotional health and to their chances of returning to work. But sadly, the reverse is also true. Many employers do not create a culture where employees can even disclose health problems. Groundbreaking campaigns such as “Time to Talk” and those run by Heads Together have done much to make it easier for people to speak about their mental health, for example, but too many people are still too scared to speak to their employer and too few employers are ready to respond in the right way.
Research by the Mental Health Foundation last year found that 45% of working people with a diagnosed mental health problem had not disclosed it to their employer in the past five years. Of those who had told their employer, only half reported mainly positive consequences. As one of the people who took part in the research said,
“no one is able to say, ‘I have a mental health problem and I can’t come to work today’”.
As co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on breast cancer, I have heard at first hand how hard many people find it to tell their employer that they have cancer. I suspect that may be even more of an issue for those types of cancer that are more common among men. Research by the charity Maggie’s found that one in five men with cancer find it so difficult to tell their employer that they put it off until they have to leave work to seek treatment. One in 10 do not tell their employer at all. If employees do not feel they can disclose a health problem, employers cannot hope to put in place the right support.
I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on bringing this important matter forward for debate. Does he agree that one way of doing it would be for the Government to create an index of employers based on how they support staff with disabilities and health conditions? Companies could be encouraged to consider how best to promote disability inclusion. Further, the Government could look at how employers’ legal and tax obligations could be changed to incentivise them to engage more proactively with the health of workers.
The hon. Gentleman is right, and I will touch on tax incentives later. There are lots of opportunities there. The Green Paper is a good and innovative start in looking at how we can move things forward.
The earlier those open supportive conversations between employers and employees happen, the more effective the support will be. Well-managed employees can focus on their recovery and are more likely to successfully come back to work when they are ready.
By 2035, one in two people will get cancer. In the two short years I have been in Parliament, I can think of perhaps half a dozen colleagues across the House who have had cancer. Cancer is often defined by its survivorship, such as the great work that Macmillan does. Does my hon. Friend agree that a more open dialogue allows people to be helped through that illness—which is not necessarily a long-term condition or a terminal illness—so that they can return to work and enjoy fulfilling careers and supporting their families?
I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I know she speaks from experience. She is a few steps ahead, mind-reading my speech. I will come to the valid point she makes, but I definitely agree with her comments.
Obviously such conditions can have many knock-on effects for families. When someone gives up work for health reasons, their partner will often cut back or stop working to become their carer. That can double the financial impact. Employers clearly have an enormous role to play in the health and working lives of disabled people and those with long-term health conditions. As the number of working people living with chronic health problems grows, the impact employers have on the population’s work and health outcomes—both positive and negative—will grow, too. Around 21 million people of working age in the UK will have at least one long-term condition by 2030. By the same year, the number of working-age people with cancer is set to increase from the current figure of 750,000 to an estimated 1.7 million. Ensuring that employers retain as many of those people as possible and support them to progress their careers will also help the Government to tackle some of the other big challenges facing our society.
The Government’s report “Fuller Working Lives: a partnership approach” and the recent independent review of the state pension age by John Cridland are both responses to our ageing workforce. Demographic change is sometimes presented as a problem for the long term, but we need to confront some implications now. In five years’ time, there will be 763,000 more people in the UK aged 50 to 64 and 292,000 fewer aged 16 to 49. One in eight people stop working before reaching the current state pension age due to ill health or disability, and raising the pension age will only increase that figure. It is inevitable that as people age, they are more likely to have health problems—half of over-50s have a long-term health problem—but it is not inevitable that so many should be forced to give up work.
More flexible and understanding employers would retain a greater amount of those people, and it would also mean that people would retire with bigger pension pots. The DWP has said that if the average earner worked to 65 instead of 55, they could have more than £200,000 in extra income and increase their pension by 60%. It would also be good for people’s health and the sustainability of the health service. The “Five Year Forward View” for the NHS in England recognises the need for “new partnerships” with employers to help people
“get and stay in employment”
as part of a
“radical upgrade in prevention and public health”
“the sustainability of the NHS, and the economic prosperity of Britain”.
I am pleased that the Government prioritised the critical role of employers in the Green Paper, which also makes a strong business case for employers to invest in inclusive workplaces and health and wellbeing. It would reduce the £9 billion direct cost of sickness absence and boost productivity through healthier, more engaged employees. The Green Paper includes welcome plans to ensure that the public sector
“leads the way in developing employment practices that allow disabled people and people with health conditions to flourish.”
But it is the Government’s proposals for the 26 million people working in the private and third sectors that could have the biggest impact on work and health outcomes, and it is on those that I wish to focus. The Green Paper asks how those employers could be incentivised to invest in the things we know create healthy workplaces and prevent people from falling out of work. How can we create a culture where people feel confident about disclosing health problems? How can we ensure employers have regular conversations with employees who are off work to agree steps to support their return? How can employers put in place timely access to occupational health and vocational rehabilitation support? The Green Paper proposes sensible reforms to statutory sick pay to ensure that people are not penalised financially by returning to work. It also proposes putting in place a one-stop shop for employers with information on the different things they can do to support staff and the return on investment they can expect to see from such measures.
While such measures would be welcome, they would not alone bring about the vision set out in the Green Paper of a society where everyone is ambitious for disabled people and those with long-term conditions, where jobs actively support and nurture health and wellbeing and where everyone at risk of long-term absence or falling out of work due to ill health gets early action as needed to stay in or return to work. The Government acknowledge that much more needs to be done.
The Green Paper is a call for bold, ambitious ideas and I understand the response from individuals, charities, employers and others has been very encouraging, with thousands already putting their views forward. That momentum must not be lost. Making progress towards the Government’s vision will bring enormous benefits to working people who live with long-term health problems, and to their families, employers, the economy and taxpayers. My first question to the Minister is therefore how the Government will involve those outside Parliament who have engaged so valuably up to now and have so much to bring to the debate.
My second question relates to one of the bold ideas put forward to rapidly improve the ability of employers to provide effective early support for those at risk of long-term sickness absence. The Green Paper includes a section on group income protection insurance, recognising that it not only provides an income to those who are too ill to work, but also includes vocational rehabilitation and practical support for employers, which together prevents and reduces sickness absence and stops people from falling out of work altogether. Group income protection insurance is purchased by employers, who cover their staff. One virtue of that is that, save for the very highest earners, there is no medical underwriting, which means that insurers do not ask any questions about employees’ medical history or existing conditions. People with health problems are covered at no additional cost.
The evidence is that group income protection is highly effective. The Green Paper cites a report from the Centre for Economics and Business Research, which found that such insurance reduces the length of sickness absence by an average of 16.6%. Research from one provider, Unum, found that seven out of 10 people with serious health problems who used its return-to-work service got back to work with the same employer. The most common conditions for those returning to work were mental health and musculoskeletal problems, which are the two health problems prioritised in the Green Paper.
Currently, just 7% to 8% of employees have group income protection from their employer. The Green Paper states that the Government think group income protection insurance has a much greater role to play. Coverage is particularly low among female workers and those working for small and medium-sized employers, yet both are most likely to benefit from the support it provides. Rates of sickness absence and disability are higher among female workers than men, yet for some reason employers fail to protect them in equal numbers.
SMEs are less likely to have experience of managing someone with a serious health problem or to have access to human resources, occupational health or vocational rehab expertise. As a former small business owner myself, I know what an impact it has when one of a small team needs to take time off. I know how difficult it can be to try to support an employee with a long-term condition, while also meeting legal obligations and keeping a business on track.
In my role as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on insurance and financial services, I have received representations from across the sector that make the case for tax incentives for employers to invest in group income protection for their staff. Insurers, their trade bodies and employers, through EEF, make the case that a tax incentive for employers would be the most effective way to increase coverage. They argue it would raise awareness of the benefits of providing the insurance, would act as a signal from the Government that group income protection is something good that employers should consider investing in, and would stimulate demand for and supply of this insurance.
Working with its members, the Association of British Insurers has produced an economic evaluation highlighting the gains to taxpayers if a modest incentive increased coverage. Fewer people would fall out of work or would require state support. Those in work and those who were too ill to work and so receiving an insured income would continue paying taxes on their salaries. Will the Minister explain how the Government intend to support a much greater role for group income protection insurance? Are they minded to consider the case for a temporary tax incentive for employers, particularly SMEs, to invest in it?
The Green Paper vision is rightly ambitious and I am sure it will have broad support from those inside and outside the House who follow the debate. The Green Paper talks of a 10-year plan to achieve that, but there is clearly potential to make great strides in a much shorter timeframe. The Government can take action now that will make a huge difference to the lives of working people with long-term health problems, their families, employers and the taxpayer.
Janey, a solicitor who shares her story in a guide from the British Heart Foundation, was 35 when she was diagnosed with a serious heart condition after giving birth to a baby boy. Janey’s employer communicated with her and together they agreed a successful plan so she could return slowly and steadily to her job, starting after a long absence on a two-day week and building up to four days a week over six months. She got back to work doing longer hours, but always making sure she was home in time to be with her son. That is the kind of positive experience we want everyone to have. So my final question is how the Government will measure success in delivering their vision. What are their top priorities in supporting employers to improve the work and health outcomes of people with long-term health problems?
I welcome the Government’s approach to this important subject. There are some exciting opportunities for innovative solutions to help those with long-term problems to remain in work. I look forward to the Minister’s response.
Thank you, Mr Hollobone. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I shall start standing, but will take you up on your kind offer if it becomes too much.
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Warwickshire (Craig Tracey) on securing this debate on a critical issue that faces the country, at an opportune moment, with the Green Paper consultation having just finished. I also thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St Edmunds (Jo Churchill). We have had a lean but fit debate, and I thank them personally for their contributions.
As has been stated, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Health published the “Improving Lives” Green Paper in October last year, to start a national discussion about how we can support more disabled people and people with health conditions to get into work, stay in work and have full and fulfilling careers. The consultation ended in February and we have received a huge response from a wide range of employers, disabled people, people with health conditions and organisations with an interest. I thank Members who held events during the consultation period, and healthcare professionals who have also responded. We are now taking stock of what we have heard and will decide the next steps on this important agenda.
In moving forward, we want to continue working with stakeholders—that includes employers—to build on those contributions to the debate and to keep the momentum going. It was always going to be tricky to give my hon. Friend satisfaction about exactly when a White Paper would appear; it is even more tricky bearing in mind announcements made earlier today. I can assure my hon. Friends that we want to seize the momentum that the Green Paper has built and bring forward a White Paper very swiftly. Work can continue outside of the civil service, in the private sector and the third sector, which will play a critical role in delivering the support. We want those organisations to continue thrashing out the issues so that we can arrive at a White Paper in good time.
Let me focus on the case for employer action. It is clear that there are compelling reasons for employers to take action on health and work. Employers who invest in inclusive workplaces and in the health and wellbeing of their staff can expect wider access to talent and skills, improved engagement and retention of employees and consequential gains for the performance and productivity of their businesses, reduced sickness absence and also reduced presenteeism, which is an issue, although it is not often spoken about. They will be more able to capitalise on the purple pound’s nearly £250 billion of spending power in this country because of the insight that their workforce will have.
Employers will increasingly need to help their employees remain healthy and manage their conditions if they are to benefit as much as possible from the skills and experience of our ageing population, which my hon. Friend the Member for North Warwickshire referred to. Older people will make up an even greater part of the workforce in the future. In the next five years, it is estimated that the number of people aged 50 to 64 will increase by 800,000, while the number of people aged 16 to 49 will fall by about 300,000. We know that older workers bring great benefits to businesses by drawing on their knowledge, skills and experience, and can help businesses to remain competitive.
My hon. Friend the Member for Bury St Edmunds spoke about cancer, which is becoming a chronic condition. Although we are living longer, we are living more years in ill health. There is clearly a correlation between our ageing population and the increased prevalence of long-term chronic conditions and multiple health issues, so this is an incredibly important agenda for the nation.
Cancer is often referred to as a generic, but various forms present very differently. The TUC has a great campaign called Dying to Work, which is driven by someone with metastatic cancer. They have a limited lifespan, but they want to carry on working. That is part of this agenda. If a person feels fit and able, whatever their condition, the Government should be doing all they can to encourage them.
My hon. Friend makes a very good point. Part of the importance of the Green Paper is that it tries to push the concept of work as a health outcome. Whatever someone’s circumstances, meaningful activity is a key part of keeping them healthy, and it benefits their emotional wellbeing.
We can already move forward with many of the things we trailed in the Green Paper. The one-stop shop will be not just a passive repository for Government information to support employers, but a shop window to the third sector and other organisations that can provide the expert, bespoke support that employers want. If, for example, a business has employed someone with autism, it will want expertise and expert advice, so we want to move forward with that immediately. The Disability Confident scheme is gathering pace, and there are many other things we can do to improve services, such as Access to Work.
On the issue of statutory sick pay and income protection, through the consultation we have been exploring how employers can actively promote health and wellbeing and manage sickness absence, including whether statutory sick pay should be reformed to better enable supportive consultations and a phased return to work. We also know that group income protection insurance, which offers preventive programmes, wellbeing services and income protection elements, can offer benefits and has the potential to help employers retain disabled employees and those with health conditions.
Analysis by the Centre for Economics and Business Research indicates that long-term absences among employees who have access to and use early intervention and rehabilitation services tend to be nearly 17% shorter than those among employees who do not. We want employers to do more to invest in their employees’ health and wellbeing, and thereby to reap the benefits that such investment brings. That includes actively considering whether group income protection could be part of the answer in promoting the health and wellbeing of their workforce. That was a key focus of the Green Paper, and we want to focus on it as we go forward.
We welcomed the responses to the consultation, in which we asked questions about the role the insurance sector should play in supporting the recruitment and retention of disabled people and people with health conditions. We also asked for feedback on the barriers and opportunities for employers of different sizes when adopting those insurance products for their staff. In particular, we asked why larger employers are not making better use of such protection schemes, and how take-up among SMEs in particular can be encouraged. We are now reviewing the full range of opinions expressed in the consultation, and we look forward to continuing to work with the industry to consider how those barriers can be overcome. We will consider what role the Government might play in reducing those barriers to take-up, and what the industry might need to do. We welcome offers to continue to work with the Government on these issues to encourage wider employer action to help employees stay in or return to work.
A number of health trials are going on at the moment, and we wish to run further trials with our innovation fund. Many of them touch on the incentives for employers to make the investments and follow good practice in their workplace. For example, one trial is introducing a wellbeing premium—a reduction in local business rates provided the business puts in place particular things to support the mental health and emotional wellbeing of its staff.
As we explore what works and what is good practice for employers, we need to remember that we are already asking employers to do a lot. They have done a lot on pensions, and some of them are doing a lot on the apprenticeship levy. Those are really good things, and businesses clearly see the merits of investing in them. We must also bear in mind that we want employers to create jobs, so we have got to get the balance right. That is why I think this is one of the interesting parts of the Green Paper consultation and the White Paper that will follow.
It is important that any efforts to improve opportunities and outcomes for disabled people and those with long-term conditions also focus on mental health. Only one in three disabled people with a mental health condition is in employment, and 49% of the 2.4 million employment and support allowance claimants have a mental health condition as their primary condition.
In January, the Prime Minister announced the first steps in our plan to transform the way we deal with mental health problems at every stage of a person’s life—not just in our hospitals, but in our classrooms, at work and in our communities. An important strand of that plan is to support mental wellbeing in the workplace. That is why Dennis Stevenson, who has campaigned for a better evidence base for mental health for many years, and Paul Farmer, the chief executive of Mind, have been commissioned to review how employers can better support all employees, including those with mental ill health or poor wellbeing, to remain in and thrive through work. They are considering best practice across the full range of employers, and engaging with individuals with lived experience. They will present evidence and recommendations for employers and the Government to consider.
My hon. Friend the Member for North Warwickshire made a point about measurement, which will clearly be a focus for us as we bring forward our ideas in the White Paper. Although we will continue to report the labour market statistics and look at the disability employment gap and other such numbers, we need locally driven solutions in health and employment services and education, so we need to focus on the current unmet need, whether in healthcare or employment support. By looking at the local numbers and getting local ownership so the different stakeholders can wrap support around the individual, we will get really good things to happen at a local level. That is what we need to enable and encourage—so expect some of those targets, which will look at the actual numbers, and formulas surrounding the disability employment gap. Once again, I thank my hon. Friend for securing this important debate and all hon. Members who took part in it.
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Because by attending your classes you become responsible, you gain new knowledge everyday and you get to socialize with the people in your school.
Though gruesome, war caused the rapid development of technologies that we are using and enjoying today.
Examples:A Male Wristwatch - A wristwatch was necessary to synchronize maneuvers and to deliver supplies during the war. It was designed to be durable and thus had bulky designs.Oil Rig - World War 1 begun with coal power, but the arms race to create powerful machines with an internal combustible engine that powered planes, tanks, supply trucks, and mechanized infantry lead humanity into the usage of oil. Today, Oil is a necessity for every economy. Prosthetic Limb - It was during WWI that the development and mass production of prosthetic limbs begun. This lead to the use of aluminum alloy instead of wood. Today, prosthetics are far more sophisticated with the addition of electronics.Canned Food - Canned food wasn't a new thing before WWI, but the armies needed a method to avoid food spoilage while being produced at massive amounts that could be easily delivered to the frontlines. Today, canned foods are more of a household necessity while the military developed new food for the soldiers called M.R.E.(meals-ready-to-eat).
POLITICSA woman voting - Women throughout the western world had proven their importance to the war effort and were given the right to vote in many countries throughout the first half of the 20th century.Standardized testing - In 1917 and 1918, the military tested more than 1.5 million men to determine what type of soldier someone is suited for. After the war, institutions of higher learning relied on the Alpha test to determine class placement for students, such as ACT or SAT in college placement.
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DECATUR, Ala. — Let's unzip Decatur, AL, 35601. Did know that that Decatur zip code is home to the largest concentration of Victorian-era craftsmen and bungalow homes in the entire state of Alabama?
Some of these homes date back to the early 1800's, while others were constructed around the turn of the 20th century. Decatur mayor, Tab Bowling just recently moved into a Victorian-style home himself. "Our home was built in 1886 and I just mounted some wall-mount TVs...goodness gracious those are real 2 by 4s - rough cut, true 2 by 4s."
Speaking of things built to last, Decatur is also the home to the first ever wave pool to be introduced to the united states. Engel & Volkers real estate adviser Jean Paradise told us, "From what I understand, someone told me that somebody from Decatur went somewhere in Europe and saw a waterpark and got the idea and then came and built the waterpark."
That person is actually somebody very important to the city itself. Mayor Bowling confirmed, "Yes, it is the first wave pool under the leadership of former mayor Gilmer Blackburn, very visionary..." During time spent in Germany, Mayor Blackburn saw wave-activated swimming pools and decided they would be a great tourism attraction to bring back to Decatur.
Decatur is also known as the River City, but just like it's neighboring city, Huntsville, the 35601 is home to rockets. "For years if you wanted a rocket you had to come to Decatur, Alabama to get that rocket. We were the only place in the country that was producing rockets," said Mayor Bowling.
The city houses ULA, United Launch Alliance. In recent months, Amazon and ULA have teamed up to built 47 rockets in total at its Decatur location as part of Amazon's initiative to increase global broadband access.
This is a huge economic win for the 35601, alongside the established trade industry that already lives there with the river, railroad, and I-65. There's talk of building another bridge over the Tennessee River. Bowling says, "We're home to the largest port on the Tennessee River. And with that, we know that we need a new bridge to get us over the river. We need that to lessen the freight that's going on our current bridges. And thankfully ALDOT, Alabama Department of Transportation is supporting that effort."
With that grow and development comes more people, but take it from the Decatur resident and reality expert herself... the 35601... is the place to be. "I expect more people to move here, especially with well, right now Huntsville is the number one place to live in the country. But there's only so many houses there and if you don't like traffic, Decatur is a place to be," said Paradise.
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The Fourth foreign Church at Dober,
BY WILLIAM MINET, M.A., F.S.A.
The history of the various Foreign Churches in Dover, which preceded the one founded in 1685, has been treated by Mr. Overend', who had it as part of his scheme to deal with this Church also. That he has found himself unable to carry out his intention cannot but be matter of regret to all of us. This however being unfortunately so, Mr. Overend handed me the materials which he had begun to collect, requesting me to undertake the task.
Admitting my unworthiness to take Mr. Overénd's place in a matter involving considerable antiquarian knowledge and research, I would, however, submit two reasons why, failing him, the work should fall to me. The fourth Church at Dover, with which this paper is to deal, grew directly out of the dispersal of the Church at Guînes; and, as one of the editors of the Registers of that Church, I cannot but feel a considerable interest in the fortunes of those with whom I became so well acquainted while engaged in that work. Secondly, I am constrained by a feeling of filial piety. For more than thirty years the conduct and prosperity of the fourth Church at Dover depended very largely on Isaac Minet, who remained its last member at its dissolution in 1731, and with whom also then remained what was left of its property. I have in another place dealt with some aspects of the life of Isaac Minet?, and, seeing that the story of the Church of which he was the mainstay and support must form to a great extent a part of the story of his life, it seems but fitting that, failing Mr. Overend, the duty of writing its history should fall to Isaac Minet's direct descendant.
Proceedings, vol. iii, pp. 91, 286. ? Huguenot Family of Minet: London, privately printed, 1892. VOL. IV.NO. II.
The fourth Church of Dover was founded in August, 1685, as an outcome of the closing of the Church at Guînes in June of that year, as well as of the persecutions which accompanied the Revocation in the district of Picardy. The Church of Guînes had been a large and flourishing one; but it is not to be expected that all its members should have been firm enough in their faith to sacrifice their fatherland and their possessions rather than surrender it; nor have we any means of knowing how many of those who had formerly worshipped at Guînes fled from France at the Revocation. The number must, however, have been considerable-of one hundred and seventy seven refugees whose names are recorded in the Dover Church books as having landed there during the years immediately following the Revocation, no less than one hundred and thirtyseven were from the Church of Guînes; and if, as a further means of proving how completely the Dover Church owed its origin to that of Guînes, we take the names occurring in the Registers, we shall find that out of sixty-five names of those who had belonged to foreign Churches, forty-one were certainly from the Guînes district.2 Moreover, it must be remembered that these, the only available statistics we have, are far from complete; the "Reconnaissances' do not give the names of all those who landed at Dover, nor do the Registers contain the names of all the Members of the Dover Church.
Before beginning the story of the Church, let us briefly review the materials on which it is based. First among these must be placed the Guînes Registers-not, it is true, an actual authority; yet; seeing to what an extent the Dover Church was the successor of that at Guînes, they are of value as giving us the earlier history of many of its members. Next, and by far the most important, are the books of the Dover Church, in the possession of Mr. F. A. Crisp, who has placed them at my disposal, with the same liberality as he formerly did at that of Mr. Overend. These books are three in number:-i. The Registers (which have been printed by Mr. Crisp). ï. The book containing the accounts (from 1646 to 1731) and having also a summary history of the Churches from 1642 to 1731, written, in 1737, by Isaac Minet. iii. The book containing the 'Actes' of the Consistoire, and (at the other end) the ' Reconnaissances,' of those who, coming from abroad and having in any way fallen from the faith under persecution
1 For details as to these, see the preface to the Transcript of the Guines' Registers ; quarto Publications of the Society, Vol. iii.
• See Appendices II and III.
testified on arrival at Dover their sorrow, and were admitted to the Church; these Reconnaissances 'are valuable as giving us the autograph signatures and place of origin of no less than one hundred and seventy-seven refugees. Lastly, we have the 'Actes’ of the Church of Canterbury, which during 1693 and 1694, throw considerable light on the Church at Dover. I am indebted for permission to use these to Mr. F. W. Cross, of Canterbury, in whose keeping the originals now are.
It has been a difficult question how best to utilize the abundance of material which these authorities provide. Two courses were open to me: one to write the story of the Church, using the materials at my disposal ; the other to allow the documents to tell their own story, simply arranging them in what seemed the best order, and weaving them together with what information might be gleaned from other sources. Seeing, however, that one of the objects of our Society is to preserve and make available for students the actual records of our ancestors, I have chosen the latter course, and in the following paper I shall give verbatim the documents preserved to us.
I am the more drawn to this decision by a feeling that any tampering with the actual language used by those to whom the records are due, would rob them of much both of their charm and of their utility.
The foundation of the Dover church then is, without doubt, due to the dispersal of that of Guînes. As it was formally established on August 1st, 1685, the exodus from France, which was the cause of its foundation, must have been going on for some considerable time previous to this date, and may, in the Picardy district at all events, be dated from the appointment of Claude le Tonnelier de Breteuil to the see of Boulogne, in 1681. We know from other sources that at least for two years before the issue of the Edict of Revocation (October, 1685), the zeal of this prelate had burned fiercely against those of the faith.
By 1685, a sufficient company must have been gathered at Dover to make it possible to constitute a church; the story of its foundation is told in the Minute book of the Consistoire NOSTRE AIDE ET COMMENCEMENT SOIT AU NOM DE DIEU, QUY A FAIT LE CIEL ET LA TERRE, Amen.
A Douure, le 1 Juillet, 1685. La Prouidence de Dieu ayant conduit au milieu de nous le Huguenot Family of Minet: p. 19.
Sr Salomon de le Becque, cy deuant ministre en l'église de Prouuillel ou ce receuilloit celle d'Amiens, pour exercer son ministere en l'église francoise de ce lieu, en vertu de la vocation quy luy en a esté adressées, ses exercises pub estants interrompus depuis quelques années, nous auons esté obligés pour en procurer le rétablissement de recourir au bon plais" de sa majesté quy a eu la bonté de nous faire expédier le Breuet dont suit icy la coppie.
SIMON CONIET. JAMES R. Trusty and well-beloued we gred you well, and have thought fit hereby to signify our will and pleasure to you that you permit such of the French nation as inhabit in and about Dover to make use of the French church built there in ye time of our Royal father, King Charles the first of blessed memory, prouided they make use of the seruice of the church of England according to the rubrick, and as it is used by the French congregation at the Sauoye here: wherein if they faile we do authorise and require you, or the mayor and juratts of our said town, to shut up the church dores and suffer them to meet no more, and for so doing this shall be yk warrant, and so we bid you farewell.
Giuen at our Court at Whitehall, the 30th day of July, 1685, in ye first yeare of our reigne,
By his Majties com’and. COLONELL STRODE.
Du 9 Aoust, 1685. Le sieur Salomon Delebecque aiant consenty de nous donner son ministere suiuant les conditions dont nous sommes conuenu, scauoir qu'il se contenteroit de la contribution vollontaire et anuelle à laquelle les particuliers ce taxeroient, sa vocation luy a esté confirmé; en consequence de quoy nous luy auons
Dept. Somme ; Arr. Doullens. ? This date is 30 days later than that of the minute in which it is recited. The date of the warrant is the same as in the copy to be found in the Tanner MSS., and in the State Papers, Dom., Entry Books (Eccl. War.) v. 57, p. 3, and must, therefore, be taken as correct ; moreover it is confirmed by the accounts, where we are again told it was July 30. We must, then, assume that the minute is wrongly dated, and that it should be August 1st. One is loth to begin by accusing the records of the Church of inaccuracy, but I can see no other explanation.
donné une lettre d'enuoy adressé a Monseigneur de Cantorbury pour le supplyer de l'approuuer et de luy conférer les ordres du St. ministere selon les loix de l'église Anglicane.
SIMON CONIET. S. DE LE BECQUE.
Du 15 Nouembre (1685). Comme sa Majesté nous ordonne par son Breuet du 30 Juillet derer de nous Conformer à la Pratique de l'église de la Sauoye ou il y a un consistoire formé, et que d'ailleur cet usage est conforme à la Parolle de Dieu
toutte chose se face honnestement et par ordre en son église ; les chefs de famille extraordinairement assemblés cejourdhuy dimanche quinziesme Nouembre 1685, present Monsieur Robert Jacob, Majeur de cette ville, pour procedder a la nomination et élection d'anciens conformement aux susdittes ordonces: ont esté élus pour exercer cette charge les Srs Isaac de la Croix,
1 The lettre d'enuoy' will be found in the Tanner MSS., preserved in the Bodleian Library, and is as follows:
en son hostel,
A Lambeth. Monseigneur, Le Sieur Salomon de le Becque qui sera nostre pasteur souz votr. bon plaisir, vous rendra cette lettre d. notr. part, par laquelle nous prenons la liberté de vous supplier tres humblement que, veue la permission que sa Majte. a eu la bonté de nous faire expédier pour prescher en l'église Francoise de cette ville selon la lithurgie Anglicane. Il vous plaira, Monseig. neur, fauoriser de votre Protection et de votre Saincte Bénédiction l'établisse. ment dudit Sieur au milieu de nous pour la consolation des families ( ? isolées) de France quy se sont icy retirées, et quy pourront s'y retirer cy-apres.
Il vient se présenter devant vous pour rendre ses tres humbles soumissions, et pour recevoir de votre Grandeur le Pouvoir d'exercer le St. ministere en cette église. Mais, Monseigneur, comme nostre église n'a pas encore tous les moyeus de faire un entier subsistance pour le ministre, et que nous sommes bien persuarlez de votre grand charité par les preuves manifestes que vous en donnez aux églises Francoises nouuellement establies en votre diocese, qu'il vous plaise nous pardonner si nous implorons le secours de cette libérale charité en vous supplyant tres humblement de nous en faire sentir les fauorables etfets par quelques petites gratifications quy nous aydroient fort a l'établissement de l'église, et a la subsistance de notre pasteur.
Nous sommes, avec un profond respect, Monseigneur, Vostr. hum. & tres obysst. seruitrs. les chefs de famille de l'église francois, receuillis a Douvres, et pour tous.
ISAAC DE LA FORCE. ROBT. JACOB.
ISAAC DE LA CROIX. ABRAHAM STOCK. A Douvres, le 25e Aoust, 1685.
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December 8th, 2015 By Jack Morton
Another important lesson learnt during my week at eurobest is that best practice isn’t always best practice.
There is no science to marketing, (it would certainly be easier if there was) and extraordinary work is not something that we can churn out like a machine.
There are so many sophisticated methods we use to understand people based on quantifying data, but what really motivates people is when we tap into human emotion, which cannot be quantified. There really is no strategic formula to understand what people want.
Instead, experiential marketing should be seen as
An ever-changing art that flowers on freshness and withers on imitation
– Bill Bembach, Founder, DDB
And although strategy does raise the floor when it comes to answering briefs, there is also the potential for it to lower the ceiling—too much could actually be worse for creativity than none at all. The winning work at eurobest all had one thing in common: that leap of faith.
But taking a leap of faith and embracing our intuition does not exclude the need to also be strategic.
Strategy is an essential building block for good ideas, but in order to tackle briefs effectively, we need to give ourselves space. Think about the problem, know as much about the problem as we possibly can, then go and do something else; paint, swim, sing, cook—this is when our best creative thinking can kick in.
John Clark, the planning director of Coley Porter Bell said:
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has moved to address cyber threats through a review of the agency’s resilience and security posture, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday.
Adrian Gardner, FEMA’s chief information officer, told the station the review aims in part to respond to disasters with the use of mobile technologies and big data analytics over the next five years.
He said the big data effort is part of the agency’s effort to modernize its information technology infrastructure by standardizing data with open systems and geospatial platforms, Jason Miller reports.
“We have gone out and looked at all of FEMA’s assets and resources to look at them from a security and resiliency standpoint, to ensure we have thought about not only the current state of those capabilities, but what’s next,” Gardner told the station.
“That’s something we’ve been doing over the last nine months and it’s a big deal for us,” Gardner added.
Gardner told Federal News Radio his agency will also work to eliminate redundancies.
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How a Queensland sea sponge is helping scientists unravel a 700-million-year-old mystery of evolution
Many human traits, such as height and disease susceptibility, depend on genes that are encoded in our DNA. These genes are switched on and off and further fine-tuned by important but hard-to-find regions in the genome.
A particularly important class of these regions are known as enhancers, which boost the likelihood that a particular gene will be activated. Trying to find enhancers based on the genome sequence alone is incredibly difficult, like finding a light switch in a dark room.
That's why, until now, there has not been a single example of a DNA sequence enhancer that has been found to be similar right across the animal kingdom.
In a new study published in Science, we found that humans, mice, zebrafish—and most likely the entire animal kingdom—share enhancer regions with a sea sponge that comes from the Great Barrier Reef. Because sea sponges and humans last shared a common ancestor more than 700 million years ago, this means the functional mechanism has been preserved across all this time.
What we did
Our study involved a team of researchers from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, The University of Queensland, The Centenary Institute, and Monash University. We started by collecting sea sponge samples from the Great Barrier Reef, near Heron Island.
At the University of Queensland, we extracted enhancer DNA from the sea sponge and injected it into a single cell from a zebrafish embryo. We found that while the sea sponge enhancer sequences were very different from zebrafish enhancer sequences, they still worked: they successfully and consistently drove the expression of a fluorescent protein in certain types of zebrafish cells.
Based on computational predictions, we also identified and tested similar enhancers from humans and mice, to show that these sequences drive the expression of a fluorescent protein in similar zebrafish cell types during development.
We discovered that despite differences between the genetic sequences of sponges and humans due to millions of years of evolution, we could identify a similar set of genomic instructions that controls gene expression in both organisms.
What this means
Our findings represent a fundamental discovery in understanding the connection between our genomes and our physical traits.
The sections of DNA that are responsible for controlling gene expression are notoriously difficult to find, study and understand. Even though they make up a significant part of the human genome, researchers are only beginning to understand this genetic "dark matter".
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Along with many other commentators, I’ve reported on side effects associated with the coronavirus vaccines. Of particular concern are heart problems and, specifically, myocarditis, which is inflammation of the heart muscle.
Now, you’ll hear different stories about how common these issues are. Government officials and the medical establishment will claim they’re rare, while others say differently (and that the feds’ Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, is undercounting vaccine-coincident deaths). But when your anecdotal experience starts to align, suspiciously, with the warnings of danger, it’s eyebrow-raising.
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I haven’t taken any COVID vaccines and have no intention of doing so. But I learned that a friend of mine had, by way of a complaint he registered: He developed heart inflammation, as he put it, after taking the shot and said he was on medication to treat it. He’s just one person, however.
Then, approximately a month later, which was also about a month ago, I had a conversation with an employee at a recreational site. He mentioned that he’d had a coronary two months after taking a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Oh, he understood that this didn’t prove cause and effect, but he was suspicious. He noted that he began experiencing cardiac symptoms after receiving the injections. Of course, this could have been coincidence.
A few days ago, however, I was at that recreational site again. I got to talking with a certain fellow, and he mentioned that his doctor had relegated him to engaging in only non-strenuous activity because he’d had a heart attack. A short time later, a light bulb went off in my head. I asked him, since my mind had wandered, “Hey, when did you say you had your heart attack?” “May,” he responded. Let me ask you, I then followed up with, “Did you receive a COVID vaccine?” He said yes, so I asked him when.
“April,” he replied.
Admittedly, all these men are older. My friend is 64, while the two other fellows were, respectively, approximately 70 and 60. But here’s the thing: Working from home and being an alien (as I like to put it), I don’t interact with the humans all that much. Nor did I conduct any kind of even limited investigation or seek these people out. Yet that’s three vaccine-coincident heart-ailment stories that have come my way.
Now, this has to be interpreted figuratively here, but as James Bond creator Ian Fleming put it, “One time is an accident. Two times is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” When do these personal experiences relating to curiously congruent COVID vaccine stories stop being coincidence?
I’d never intended to take the shot, but what I’ve learned via research and my anecdotal experience has only stiffened my resolve in that regard.
Of course, everyone has to make his own decisions regarding health matters, as he’ll reap the benefits or suffer the consequences thereof. But for food for thought, I’ll present an alarming late July interview (video below) with renowned COVID doctor Peter McCullough. The man has quite the résumé (which you can read here) and said of the vaccine that “at this point in time, I really can’t recommend it to anybody.”
Of course, contradicting McCullough, the world’s Faucis and Rochelle Walenskys very much want us to get injected. And, really, this may be the best reason of all to be wary. | <urn:uuid:72965b57-6f09-4bc5-b56a-3c156e45d14b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thebluestateconservative.com/2021/08/13/my-troubling-covid-vaccine-story-experiences/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97463 | 801 | 2.171875 | 2 |
bêche-de-mer, plural bêche-de-mer or bêches-de-mer, also called trepang, boiled, dried, and smoked flesh of sea cucumbers (phylum Echinodermata) used to make soups. Most bêche-de-mer comes from the southwestern Pacific, where the animals (any of a dozen species of the generaHolothuria, Stichopus, and Thelonota) are obtained on coral reefs. Bêche-de-mer is consumed chiefly in China.
Bêche-de-mer, or beach-la-Mar, is a pidgin English term used in New Guinea and nearby islands, where the trepang trade has long been important. The term Bêche-de-Mer has also come to designate the pidgin English language spoken in these regions. | <urn:uuid:c3629d07-b0c8-4ec0-bced-3208881d81ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/beche-de-mer-food | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.866584 | 181 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Have you ever tried salt painting? It is a fun and fascinating process and working with the glue is wonderful for honing those fine motor skills. That and the kids love shaking the salt. These salt painted Easter eggs are so much fun to make, you will want to make them again and again.
If you tune in with us regularly, you probably already know that my daughter loves to read. She has many favorites that we read all the time, but we try to introduce new books as much as possible. We visit the library every two weeks & pick out our new reads & look for potential new favorites.
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‘First the Egg’ is a charming book with beautiful and simple illustrations. It shows the development from egg to chicken, tadpole to frog, caterpillar to butterfly & more. It uses cut-outs to form the initial form & then reveals the transformation when you turn the page. We enjoyed this one so much that it inspired an art project based on its lovely cut-out concept.
Fold a piece of tan construction paper in half like a book. Sketch out an egg shape on the top page & cut it out.
Lightly trace around your cut-out onto the bottom page. Open the page up & paint a picture of a chicken. Make sure to cover all of the light outline. My daughter kept the book open in front of her & did a great job painting. My daughter blended the blues & yellows into the chicken just like in the book.
Set the painting aside to let it dry & then glue one googly eye onto your chicken.
When you close the page, it will show the egg on the front.
When opening the page, the egg is revealed to have the chicken underneath.
This was a fun project & it sparked my daughter to want to create similar crafts using the same cut-out technique. If you haven’t already, I recommend checking out this delightful book.
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Being Vietnamese, I grew up eating rice. I ate a lot of rice. As an adult not much has changed. It is one of my favorite side dishes to a meal, but rice doesn’t only have to be a side dish. Sometimes it can be the main course.
Day old rice – 2 cups measured before cooking.
2 ham steaks, cubed
1/2 cup of chopped onion
1/2 cup of thinly chopped or shredded carrot
1/2 cup of chopped baby corn
1 can of chopped water chestnuts
1 cup of frozen peas
2 tbsp of olive oil
1/4 cup of raspberry jam
1/4 cup of bbq sauce
1/2 tsp of minced garlic
2 tbsp of seasoned soy sauce ( Green mountain or Maggi are my favorites,) They have a completely different taste than Kikkoman or La Choy.
Pepper to taste 1 tbsp of water
Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Stir well.
Cook 2 cups of white rice. Refrigerate overnight. This is important. Fresh rice will make for mushy fried rice.
Cut the skin of the outside of the ham steaks & cube into 1/4 inch chunks. Chop and set aside all vegetables except the peas.
Scramble the eggs with a splash of water. Water makes for fluffier eggs. Spray a large frying pan or electric skillet with cooking spray. Turn the stove or skillet to medium- low heat. Add the egg. When the bottom of the egg firms, flip it quickly. Let cook briefly. You want them just firm and fluffy. Transfer to a bowl and set side.
Turn up the heat to medium – high heat. Add a tbsp of olive oil. Add the ham & stir, cooking until the edges brown slightly. Add all the vegetables. Stir until the peas have thawed and onions have tendered. Pour the sauce mixture over the vegetables. Stir until evenly coated. Pour vegetables into a bowl and set aside.
Add another tbsp of oil & add to the pan or skillet. Add the rice. The rice will be hard and need to be broken apart as you stir. Spread out in a flat layer & and fry until the edges brown slightly. Pour the vegetable and sauce mixture over the top and stir until the rice, vegetables and sauce are evenly distributed. Remove from the heat & toss in the egg. Serve hot.
Mai wanted to learn too.
This was a huge hit. My husband ate 3 full plates worth. That is all the applause I need.
Yesterday was an emotional day for me. Not only was it the anniversary of my mother’s passing, but I received a phone call at work from my brother-in-law letting me know that my husband had been in a car accident while on duty. Luckily, my husband left the accident with only a few aches and pains and a dented cruiser. I was very happy to have my injured hubby home in one piece. It was definitely an occasion for comfort food & comfort for my husband start with bacon.
Pasta La Carbonara
While this is a fairly simple recipe to make, timing is very important in preparing this dish. The egg is added to the dish at the very end & is cooked by the heat of the pasta. It is very important that the past is hot, so the bacon must be ready before or at the same time as the pasta. Also, be sure to have your egg mixture ready before you finish your pasta.
1/2 package of extra thick cut bacon (chopped into 1 1/2 – 2 inch pieces)
1 lb of pasta
3 eggs (room temperature)
1 cup of parmesan
1/2 tbsp of minced garlic
1 tbsp of olive oil
1/2 tbsp of garlic salt
Pepper to taste
In a large skillet add olive oil & bacon. Cook over medium heat. Cook the bacon halfway through & add the minced garlic. Cook until just under crispy. Drain excess grease, leaving a little in the skillet to toss the pasta in & flavor. Cover & set aside until the pasta is ready. Make sure that the bacon is finished before the pasta. You need the pasta to be hot.
In a mixing bowl beat the egg. Add the parmesan, garlic salt & pepper. *Prepare this before the pasta is finished cooking. It must be added to the pasta while still hot as the heat of the pasta is what cooks the egg.*
While the bacon is cooking, cook the pasta. Drain the pasta & immediately add to the skillet & toss with the bacon. Remove from the heat and add the egg mixture and toss together. The egg will cook as you toss it & form a creamy sauce. Enjoy!
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More than usual, it seems, this April has defended its rainy reputation. We have hardly gone 3 days in a row without needing to pack along the umbrella (or canoe). Often I have found this kind of weather to have a pretty significant effect on my mood. The rain confines everyone inside, the skies are dark, and the birds are quiet.
It is sometimes pretty tough to shake these rainy blues. Rain is reflective. (Cue the movie scene of the girl sitting in the window seat watching the melancholy drops stream down the glass, daydreaming of her lost love…) So what are we to do? How are we to keep looking forward when it is so hard to see through the downpour?
I would offer a new perspective. So many times we get so caught up in the first half of the old adage that we forget the end: “April showers…bring May flowers!” I don’t know how much you know about gardening or growing flowers, but take it from this amateur- flowers will not bloom without the rain. It is simple. In order to reap the beauty, sometimes you must endure the storms.
So let’s get practical. Here are some tangible ways we can not only ride out the rainy days, but also use them to make us ready for the sun.
Growing up in a gardening family, I am drawn back to the process of preparation. In order to get your plants ready to go in the ground, you must start the seeds inside where you can nurture and care for them with more attentiveness. In this same way, we can not know what is just around the corner. We can not know what is coming tomorrow or next week or even in the next few hours. We can not know, but we can be ready! Take this rainy season to nurture and care for yourself. Create in yourself a firm foundation, a strong sprout, so that when the time comes, you are ready to thrive! Take time to learn yourself, and when the sun does shine on your life, you will be ready and waiting to soak in those rays.
One of easiest ways kill a plant is to let the weeds grow up around it and choke it out. Take this time to get rid of the bad habits or toxic situations or relationships in your life that are suffocating your progress and growth. You can choose what you will let stress you out and slow you down. Choose wisely! If it is not uplifting and drawing you towards a better life, dig it up! Don’t let the “weeds” take hold. Don’t give them space to grow.
Much like the idea of starting your seeds, it is a good time now to rest. Rainy days are perfect for renewal. Things may take off in the near future, and you will need all the reserve energy and gumption that you can muster. So store it up now!
You will face some hard times, but how wonderful it is to be able to use those times to prepare yourself for the future and for the good times to come. Above all, like I have said before, be encouraged! It may look bleak now, but look forward to better days. May is coming!
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More than two million adorable puppies are purchased annually online and in pet stores. Almost every one of those dogs came with a dark secret: they were products of inhumane puppy mills operated by breeders with little to no regard for animal welfare.
Fortunately, most people already awareness that puppy mills are centers for abuse and cruelty thanks to the continued efforts of the Humane Society of the United States and other animal welfare groups over the years.
Unfortunately, puppy mills are still able to persist thanks to online sales that provide instant gratification and pet stores obscuring where pups are really coming from. Caring fatigue is also a very real issue the takes away from cause marketing effectiveness in the space.
As Creative and Media Agency of Record for the Humane Society, Rokkan was tasked with launching the latest in a series of PSA campaigns on behalf of the organization to continue its advocacy against puppy mills and raise awareness among potential puppy buyers.
Being mindful not to add to the emotional exhaustion that cause marketing in the space can induce, "Don't Buy into Puppy Mills," contrasted the innocently imagined origins of puppies with the hidden reality that is the still-thriving puppy mill industry. The campaign was centered around a film that focused on a group of children's imaginative responses to the question: "Where do puppies come from?" Their optimistic and uniquely innocent answers were then transformed into visual animations to convey a sense of wonder before pointing to the harsh realities of puppy mills and encouraging viewers to help "change the story for more dogs."
A decidedly more hopeful and positive campaign approach when compared to other similar efforts.
This campaign was more than just an informational film, but also a true call to action that expanded the Humane Society's overall reach. Viewers were directed to visit DontBuyIntoPuppyMills.com and sign the "Puppy Pledge" to affirm that they will choose not to buy their next pet from a pet store or website; refuse to buy supplies from any pet store that sells puppies; and always consider adoption as a first choice. Pledge signers could also opt in to receive regular updates on Humane Society efforts to advance animal welfare. Visitors to the campaign page were also encouraged to spread the word by creating a custom puppy story on and sharing it on Facebook.
Additional elements of the campaign included social, banner content, and a series of targeted search marketing buys intended to divert potential online puppy sales toward the campaingn's landing page and content.
To date, the campaign has delivered millions of overall media impressions, including more than three million completed video views. It has diverted over 120,000 clicks away from searches in the "puppy for sale"vein, and netted more than 34,000 Puppy Pledge sign-ups during its planned two-month promotional period, far surpassing the Humane Society's three-year goal for the Pledge sign-ups.
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Wildlife Rescue 101
December 8, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
An event every week that begins at 11:00 am on Wednesday, repeating until December 29, 2021
Have you ever come across wildlife in “distress” but did not know the appropriate steps to help? Florida is home to more than 700 terrestrial animals and other invertebrates, and they all depend on our sustainable recreational practices to survive. From posturing to vocalizations, animals communicate in a variety of ways and, at times, indicate their need for human assistance. Whether it is deterring visitors from feeding birds on the beach or detaching a pelican from fishing line in the mangroves, this program will cover wildlife rescue assessment as well as handling techniques!
One of CROW’s Animal Ambassadors will be present.
General Admission – Adults: $12, Ages 4-12: $7, Ages 3 and under: Free
Guests learn about CROW’s history and day-to-day operations through displays, interactive exhibits and video. The center also features live animal exhibits, special children’s areas and live camera feeds of the hospital intake room and several outdoor rehabilitation enclosures. General Admission includes the Daily Presentation and no reservation is required.
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The authorities said on Thursday that due to the surge in life-threatening infections among coronavirus patients, the authorities will build a special hospital ward in the Indian capital New Delhi to combat “black fungus.”
The authorities said it was a rare disease in normal times. The authorities said that in the fight against the Covid-19 wave, thousands of people across India have been infected with mucormycosis or black fungus. In the past month In, the disease has killed more than 100,000 people.
Some doctors say that heavy use of steroids to fight the coronavirus has caused black fungus to explode.
The disease kills more than 50% of sufferers within days. In some cases, eyes and upper jaws are removed by surgeons to stop the spread of the infection.
New Delhi’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said special wards would be set up at three hospitals to handle the increased number of black fungus cases.
He also vowed to ensure that all patients will get the medicines they need, with anti-fungal drugs the latest shortage to hit India’s already stretched healthcare system.
There are more than 200 black fungus patients in New Delhi hospitals, with dozens on waiting lists for beds, according to media reports.
Indian social media has been flooded with requests from relatives of Mucormycosis sufferers pleading for help to find medicines.
The Rajasthan and Telangana states have declared black fungus epidemics. Maharashtra state alone has reported more than 2,000 cases.
Since the coronavirus boom hit six weeks ago, relevant authorities have not provided data on deaths from mucormycosis.
Black fungus is caused by organisms called slime molds, which can enter the human body through breathing or skin damage.
These naturally exist in soil and decaying organic matter, but once they enter the human body, they can infect the forehead, nose, cheeks, and air pockets between the eyes and teeth.
Some doctors say they have been panicking about using steroids to fight Covid-19, and Covid-19 has helped the spread of black fungus.
Coronavirus patients with diabetes and a weakened immune system are particularly susceptible to black fungus.
Many drugs used to fight the coronavirus suppress the body’s immune system, and the immune system usually protects against fungal infections.
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Art historian (1 January 1964, Trabzon). He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature and Mimar Sinan University, Social Sciences Institute. He completed his postgraduate education at İstanbul University, Department of Archeology and Art History and received his PhD at Mimar Sinan University, Social Sciences Institution in the Turkish and Islamic Arts Program (1992). He became a researcher at Mimar Sinan University, Social Sciences Institution in 1993 and an academician at Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Turkish and Islamic Arts in 1993. He became an associate professor at Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Literature. He is still an academician at the same university.
Anadolu Selçukluların Taş Tezyinatında Orta Asya ile Bağlantılar (Connections Between the Stone Decorations of the Anatolian Seljuks and Central Asia, 1988), Türk Resim Sanatında Hayvan Sembolizmi (Animal Symbolism in Turkish Painting, 1992), Türk Şamanizminde Biçim Değiştirme Olayı ve Türk Sanatı ile Bağlantısı Üzerine Birkaç Söz (The Metamorphosis in Turkish Shamanism and A Few Words on Its Relation to Turkish Art, 1987), Padişah Askılarının Manası (The Meaning of Sultan Motifs, 1988), Akkışlar / Pamucak Türkmen Obası ve Bazı Görüşler (Akkısh / Pamucak Turkmen Tribe and Some Thoughts, 1989), Leningrad Hermitage Müzesi ve Türk Sanatı (Leningrad Hermitage Museum and Turkish Art, 1990), Kültigin’in Baş Heykelinin İkonografik Bakımdan Tahlili (The Analysis of the Head Statue of Kültigin in Relation to Iconography, 1991), Batılılaşma Dönemi İstanbul Cami Minaresinde Taçkapılar (Crested Doors at İstanbul Mosque Minarets in the Westernization Period 1993), Türk Sanatında Görülen Maymun Figürlerinin Sembolizmi (The Symbolism of Monkey Figures Seen In Turkish Art, 1994), Türk Sanatında Balık Figürlerinin Sembolizmi (The Symbolism of Fish Figures in Turkish Art, 1995), Çağdaş Türkmenistan Sanatının Öncülerinden Kılıçmurad Yarmadoğlu (One of The Pioneers of Modern Turkmenistan Art , 1996), Eski Merv’de Kız-bibi Türbesi (Girl-Aunt Tomb in Old Merv, 1997), Türk Sanatında Hayvan Sembolizmi (Animal Symbolism in Turkish Art, 1995), Erken Devir Türk Sanatının ABC’si (The ABC’s of Early Turkish Art, 1997). | <urn:uuid:702c86d8-61a8-46ca-ba29-9fbf9c886116> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.biyografya.com/biyografi/17981 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.670833 | 690 | 1.679688 | 2 |
The Complete Guide to AI in Graphic Design And How It’s Already Changing the Industry
Introduction: What is AI in Graphic Design?
AI in Graphic Design is a set of technologies that enables machines to perform tasks that would otherwise require human intelligence.
It includes the use of algorithms and machine learning to solve problems in graphic design.
It can be used for image editing, classification, color manipulation, and font design.
AI allows designers to speed up their design process and create data-driven designs that are more likely to achieve business goals.
Automated Design Processes – The Pros and Cons of Using an AI
Graphic design is a highly competitive field.
It is also difficult to break into because designers need a strong portfolio and an eye for detail.
This can be especially hard for those looking to make it in the freelancing world.
One way that graphic designers can get ahead of their competition is by using artificial intelligence in their design process.
AI in graphic design has been around for a while, but it’s just recently become more accessible and affordable.
The pros and cons of using AI in graphic design are:
AI provides designers with tools that would otherwise be too expensive or too time-consuming to use
AI takes care of tedious and repetitive tasks
AI speeds up the design process
It takes time to set up
It can have a steep learning curve
Can create errors
4 Time-saving AI Design Tools
Lets Enhance can increase the resolution of images
Dalle 2 can create images from a text input
Khroma: an ai color tool for creating color palettes
Rytr: An ai writer for content
What are Some Impacts Of Artificial Intelligence on Graphic Design?
Artificial intelligence is changing the way the graphic design industry operates.
Graphic designers are now using AI to automate specific tasks and reduce workload.
This positively impacts the industry in terms of cost-effectiveness, time efficiency, and quality of work.
AI can help designers in many ways, such as generating mood boards, creating logos, designing typography, etc.
It can also be used for photo editing, color correction, and illustration.
When will Artificial Intelligence automate Graphic Design?
AI will never fully automate Graphic Design.
Graphic design is a creative process that requires human input.
AI may have the ability to create some designs, but it will never be able to replace the creativity and innovation of a human designer.
We can look at AI as a helpful assistant to designers. It can carry out many basic operations, but a human designer will need high-level original creative work.
3 Ways Machine Learning Already Enhances the Design Process
Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence that allows systems to learn without being explicitly programmed. It has been used in many design processes to enhance the design process.
1) Machine learning can generate new product ideas or features that the designers did not consider. This is done using a machine-learning algorithm to analyze data from past designs and identify patterns in successful products.
2) Machine learning also helps with mundane tasks like sorting through thousands of images for inspiration, generating logos, and even designing a website layout.
3) Finally, machine-learning algorithms can be used as an early warning system for errors or anomalies in designs before they are released into production.
3 Reasons Creative Industries Should Care About AI Today
Artificial intelligence is a hot topic these days, and it’s not just for tech companies.
The creative industry has used AI in various ways for years, whether it’s to generate content or aid creatives with their work. AI is the future of creativity, so all creative industries should care about AI today.
1) Creative industries can use artificial intelligence to generate content:
With AI assistants’ help, copywriters can use their skills more efficiently. They can ensure they are not wasting time on skillsets they don’t have and instead focus on what they are best at – creativity and emotions.
2) Creative industries can use artificial intelligence for graphic design:
Graphic designers are already using AI software to create graphics, like logos or illustrations. An AI-based application also allows people to draw their pictures.
3) Creative industries can use artificial intelligence for data analysis: The process of data analysis is critical in the creative industry. It helps creators identify what content works well and what doesn’t. AI offers a range of tools that creative professionals can use, like machine learning, to analyze large datasets
Conclusion: Why Designers Need to Learn About AI Now And How To Get Started
Designers are the most creative people in the world.
They can think and create beautiful things.
But they also need to know what is coming next and how it will impact them.
AI will change how we live and work, so designers need to start learning about it now.
Designers need to learn about AI because they must know how it works when designing for a project that includes AI.
It’s essential for designers to know what tools are available for them and what tools their clients might want them to use with their projects.
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> Tours > Virtual Tour
Travelling may be limited due to the Covid-19 pandemic but the experience of discovering incredible places across the globe doesn’t have to be. Our new initiative — the Virtual Tour — brings you Vietnamese top attractions, fun facts and fantastic untold stories online!
With the topic “Into Viet people”, Hanoikids hopes to accompany you on an interesting trip beyond your own four walls.
General Tour Package Information:
• Starting time: Your choice – Local Time Zone.
• Duration: ~ 1 hour.
• Platform: Google Meet / Zoom.
• Note: In 1 hour, it will be suitable when you choose 2 storylines, but if you are interested in more than 2, do not hesitate to negotiate with our Kids, the tour can last longer.
Into Viet People
This tour is the daily life of the largest ethnic group in Vietnam – Việt People. You will be able to explore some of the most outstanding features that are unique to Vietnamese culture, traditions, and beliefs.
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The world-renowned instructional design specialist, Neil Lasher – who is also the President of the ASTD Global Network UK and a committee member of the eLearning Network (eLN), the UK’s foremost professional association for users and developers of e-learning – is running his International two-day Masterclass on a modern approach to instructional design again at the RBS Williams Formula 1 (F1) Conference Centre, in Grove, Oxfordshire
In addition to learning about the basics of instructional design; learning styles; emotional significance, creative advantage and Lasher’s ‘Five ‘A’s of Learning’ – a model of instructional design (ID) which encapsulates the lessons of 20 years of designing e-learning and related materials to produce a model for ID specifically relating to task-based and ‘rapid’ or ‘workflow’ e-learning – delegates receive a tour of the Conference Centre. This includes seeing all of Williams’ F1 cars since 1977 and visiting the Williams F1 team’s trophy museum.
Since the previous ID course at the Williams Formula 1 Conference Centre was over-subscribed, Lasher – who also heads up Trainer1, one of the UK’s leading independent e-learning specialists – is running another course at the RBS Williams F1 Conference Centre on 1st and 2nd April.
To coincide with the start of the Formula 1 season last weekend, Lasher announced that, on 15 May, he will be running the first ‘Advanced Instructional Design’ course – at the same location. This one day course involves delegates initially going through a teambuilding exercise to become a ‘pit crew’ working on a real F1 car.
This advanced course is structured to provide highly memorable experiential learning which should remain in delegates’ long term memory. By the end of the course, the delegates will have dissected the training they have received, discussing – among other things – the instructional design (ID) models and ‘learning cycles’ used, as well as determining the optimal ID model and the ideal ‘blend’ of learning delivery methods.
“Instead of merely looking at, and analysing, pieces of e-learning, the delegates on the Advanced Instructional Design course will experience the effects of their efforts,” Lasher said. “This should be highly memorable – after all, when was the last time you got the chance to change the tyres on a F1 car under timed conditions?”
For some time, Lasher has been running the ‘More Than Instructional Design’ (MID) course around the world – notably in the UK, USA, Russia and Canada.
”Delegates receive tips on how to isolate the learning requirements, create the right blend to address different groups and styles, design a course map, identify opportunities for interactivity, learn to consider the correct intervention and practice using creativity,” Lasher explained.
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The process of buying a property with cryptocurrency has become more convenient and profitable. Experts expect a cryptocurrency to become a full-fledged type of payment. Many real-estate agencies and stand-alone homeowners adopted this new form of payment — and nowadays, you can buy properties with crypto.
In addition to the fact that cryptocurrency brings many changes to the payment system, it also leads to the creation of new marketplaces.
The development of crypto reality can be assessed from different perspectives. The knowledge threshold is higher than people are used to on the real estate market. It will take time to research and really understand everything crypto transactions are made of. But, there are positives to this advancement: alternative kinds of payment, increased safety in deals’ transactions, new forms of small-scale investments, and so on. So, let’s talk about what can be done with crypto on a real estate market in more detail.
Bitcoin is a real discovery of the twenty-first century. Over the past decade, the value of this asset has increased thousands of times — the price of one bitcoin is approximately $43,000 — and now, you can buy real estate with it.
People buy luxury real estate around the world exclusively for bitcoins or divide the price tag between cash and a cryptocurrency transfer. Right now, more than 40 million Americans have bitcoins — and, apart from simply buying the house, they now turn their coins into more stable assets.
Blockchain For Real Estate
Transactions in real estate spaces are full of fraud. Most often, fraudsters falsify apartment ownership documents: for instance, change the names of the previous owners or remove information about the unpaid mortgage. This creates enormous difficulties for the new owners.
Blockchain is a network that eliminates the involvement of man in the middle in any transactions, and it has many benefits for the industry that are rooted in its very structure.
Firstly, all information about real estate will be fragmented and stored across multiple computers all over the world: all documents, property rights, names of previous owners. Only the owner of the info will have the cryptographic key that gathers it from across the distributed network and assembles it into its initial form. Secondly, everything that happens on the network connected to this info is recorded. There’s no way to delete transactions that have occurred. Each new transaction carries the history of edits, changes, and attempts to interact with the info into the next one. Finally, the distributed info itself is unchangeable. Safer transactions equal, obviously, better deals in the industry.
The ICO (Initial Coin Offering) is gaining great popularity among real estate sellers and investors. If ICO in its classical understanding is a way for the crypto industry to attract investors’ find for a new blockchain-based app, new currency, or service. In the case of real estate, ICO is used to create platforms, in which sellers would be able to list their property for what’s called fractional ownership by investors. That’s nothing new in the world of fiat transactions, but pretty fresh in crypto world. It’s also more affordable in the crypto industry, according to investors, because it’s much cheaper to maintain the assets’ security on the blockchain.
Basically, investors are paying for the part of the house in crypto — the common one, like bitcoin, or the one that’s specific to a platform. Of course, then the ICO-specific coin — a tokenized equity — is entering circulation. Its value may drop or rise, subsequently decreasing or increasing the cost of the house. When the owner decides to sell the property, all parties — a seller and the investors — would enjoy the gain in value.
Tokenized real-estate shares have the potential to make the real estate market more volatile and add up liquidity. Of course, many traditional investors appreciate this industry precisely because it is known as one of the most stable ones, but a new generation of crypto-first investors would likely prefer investing in houses in that way than by simply buying shares. Besides, while regulations for this investment method are unclear right now, it’s pretty obvious that blockchain-based transactions with real estate are more flexible. People can sell and buy houses being hundreds of miles away from each other.
Cryptocurrency can be a great opportunity. Using this type of payment when buying real estate, you get many benefits: privacy when shopping; tighter control over transactions and no in-between parties’ involvement; etc. International transactions are easier to conduct. Relying on blockchain gives you a higher level of security. Finally, in general, if you own crypto and don’t know what to do with it, investing in real estate is one of the best ways to gain something solid for pretty volatile assets. | <urn:uuid:4056453e-c2b4-4228-b3b9-1adf988c0ca1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.finsmes.com/2022/01/future-has-come-the-rise-of-crypto-and-real-estate.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951735 | 974 | 1.976563 | 2 |
“The funds will proceed to be diligently deployed to create worth for buyers with ongoing drilling of our thrilling Kato venture and exploration of our different gold properties in Japan,” added Wilton. The Kato gold venture is BeMetals’ most superior exploration venture in Japan and covers near 2,000 hectares in Hokkaido.
The property, fomerly often called Seta River, was drilled by Japan’s metals mining company within the Nineteen Nineties. Throughout that point, intervals of high-grade gold together with 17.5 metres grading 8.15 g/t and 18.65 metres grading 5.01 g/t had been returned. Little work was performed on the property since then.
On prime of Kato, BeMetals has 4 different gold exploration initiatives in Japan that collectively type a land place overlaying extensions and related geological terrains recognized to have hosted a number of high-grade mines. Examples embody the presently working Hishikari gold mine on Kyushu, which produced 7.9 million oz. of gold between 1985-2020 at a median grade of 30-40 g/t gold.
Along with advancing its Japanese initiatives, the corporate may even allocate funds in direction of its copper exploration within the Zambian copper belt and the South Mountain zinc venture in Idaho. It should additionally speed up its efforts in figuring out and securing potential growth initiatives. | <urn:uuid:d1864ea4-b97b-4911-bbf7-efcd8d5967e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cryptomininghub.net/2022/08/05/bemetals-receives-5-million-loan-from-b2gold/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954009 | 286 | 1.5 | 2 |
Stretching is an important part of any exercise program. Most aerobic and strength training programs involve tightening and contraction of your muscles.
Stretching after you exercise helps your joints move through their full range of motion and boosts muscle blood flow.
As a general rule, stretch your major muscle groups after you exercise. In some studies, performing static stretching right before an athletic event has been shown to decrease athletic performance.
If you don't exercise regularly, you may want to stretch a few times a week after a brief warmup to maintain flexibility.
When you're stretching, keep it gentle. Breathe freely as you hold each stretch for around 30 seconds. Try not to hold your breath. Don't bounce or hold a painful stretch. Expect to feel tension while you're stretching. If you feel pain, you've gone too far.
Doing movements similar to those in your specific sport or physical activity (dynamic stretching) at a low level may be a helpful complement to static stretching and may help improve athletic performance.
April 08, 2022
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10 Black U.S. Senators Who Walked So Rev. Raphael Warnock Could Run
From a formerly enslaved person to the man who'd go on to become the first Black U.S. President, these individuals have been the only Black people to represent their states in the Senate.
January 08, 2021 at 8:59 pm
With his victory, Warnock became the first Black person to represent the state of Georgia as a United States Senator. He also became only the 11th Black member of the Senate in the entire history of the United States. As Warnock prepares to take his seat on Capitol Hill, it’s important to remember the individuals who paved the way for him.
Here are some things you should know about the only 10 Black U.S. Senators in American history.
Hiram Revels, Republican Senator from Mississippi, 1870-1871
Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first Black person to serve in either chamber of the U.S. Congress, had an unusual and impressive background for the time. Born into a free North Carolina family in 1827, Revels obtained both college and seminary education and became a minister. During the Civil War, he served as an army chaplain and helped recruit Black soldiers for the Union. Moving to Mississippi after the war, Revels' talent and status as a newcomer helped him move up the ranks in local politics. An opening prayer given by Revels to the Mississippi state legislature in 1870 caused his star to rise.
"That prayer,—one of the most impressive and eloquent prayers that had ever been delivered in the Senate Chamber,—made Revels a United States Senator," Congressman John Lynch wrote. "He made a profound impression upon all who heard him. It impressed those who heard it that Revels was not only a man of great natural ability but that he was also a man of superior attainments."
Later that year, Revels was chosen by the Mississippi legislature to fill a Senate seat that had remained vacant since the Civil War. Despite objections from several sitting senators who argued that a Black man was not a citizen, and thus could not be a senator, Revels took up his seat representing Mississippi from 1870-1871. After serving in Washington, Revels returned to Mississippi, where he founded Alcorn State University.
Blanche K. Bruce, Republican Senator from Mississippi, 1875-1881
Blanche Bruce was born into slavery in Virginia, in 1941, making him the only formerly enslaved person to serve in the U.S. Senate. Bruce escaped during the Civil War and eventually settled in Mississippi. As noted in his Senate profile, during his time in Congress he “supported desegregation of the army, protection of African American voting rights, and more humane treatment of Native Americans.”
After serving one term in the Senate, Bruce left Congress but served in several positions in President James A. Garfield's administration. He enjoyed friendships with President Ulysses S. Grant, Booker T Washington and Frederick Douglass. Bruce even received several votes to be the vice-presidential candidate for the Republican Party in 1888, a nomination that eventually went to Benjamin Harrison. Sadly, with the end of Reconstruction and widespread disenfranchisement of Black Americans throughout the South, it would be over 85 years before another Black senator held office.
Edward Brooke, Republican Senator from Massachusetts, 1967-1979
Brooke was the first Black person to be voted into the Senate. A Washington, D.C. native and alumnus of Howard University, Brooke served during World War II, having signed up for the army in response to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. It was his time in the army that first brought Brooke to Massachusetts, where he was stationed in segregated conditions before leaving to fight the war abroad.
Brooke returned to Massachusetts, where he earned a law degree from Boston University and opened up a private firm in Boston's predominantly Black Roxbury neighborhood. After several failed political campaigns, Brooke eventually became Massachusetts Attorney General during the tumultuous 1960s, where he fought discrimination but was criticized by some as being too moderate with regards to civil rights activism. Brooke’s moderate views helped him be elected to the U.S. Senate, where he became a greater champion for civil rights, promoting fair housing, defending the 1965 Voting Rights Act against challenges and championing the declaration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a holiday.
Carol Moseley Braun, Democratic Senator from Illinois, 1993-1999
Carol Moseley Braun was born and raised in Illinois and followed her degrees from the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago Law School to launch a career as a prosecutor and then as a politician. After being elected in 1992, she became both the first female Senator from Illinois and the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. While in the Senate, she helped author and pass several pieces of legislation helping to support women, especially mothers, divorced women and widows.
Among her accomplishments in the Senate were two symbolic victories: helping to change the Senate dress code for women by wearing pants on the Senate floor and denying a design patent renewal to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for their insignia, which included the Confederate flag. After serving in the Senate, Moseley Braun became a U.S. ambassador and ran for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. She recently emerged as a possible pick by President-elect Joe Biden for Secretary of the Interior.
Barack Obama, Democratic Senator from Illinois, 2005-2008
Amazingly, when former President Barack Obama was elected as the second Black person to represent Illinois in the U.S. Senate, he also became only the fifth Black Senator from any state. The son of Ann Dunham, a white American woman from Kansas, and Barack Obama Sr., who came to America from Kenya to study in Hawaii, Barack was born in Honolulu in 1961. By the time he was elected to the Senate, he had graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School and worked as a community organizer in Chicago and an Illinois state senator. He'd also given a transcendent keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that made him a rising star within the party.
He, of course, went on to become the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee, winning the election in November to become the country’s first and so far only Black president.
Roland Burris, Democratic Senator from Illinois, 2008-2010
After President-elect Obama resigned from the Senate, a seasoned public servant was chosen to temporarily fill his seat. Roland Burris, a Howard Law graduate, had served in many roles in government. Among other achievements, he had been the first Black elected official in the state of Illinois when he was elected comptroller in 1978.
A 2008 New York Times profile called Burris “a Low-Key Pioneer” and noted the respect and stellar reputation he earned through decades of politics in Illinois, a state that was at the time embroiled in various political scandals. In 2020, Burris was inducted into the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers Hall of Fame, an organization he helped to found
Tim Scott, Republican Senator from South Carolina, 2013-present
The first Black Senator to represent a southern state since Reconstruction, Tim Scott served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 until 2013, when he was selected to replace retiring Senator Jim DeMint. Scott subsequently won the election to finish DeMint’s term, and later won his own full term in 2016.
Scott has become one of the most famous Black politicians within the Republican Party and has attempted to move the GOP to address issues of racial justice, such as by sponsoring the Republican version of the Justice in Policing Act and working with Democrats Cory Booker and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to pass long-delayed federal anti-lynching legislation. Senator Scott was one of the standout figures of the 2020 Republican National Convention, giving an inspiring speech on the racial progress that his own family and the country had seen, noting that his family “went from cotton to Congress in one lifetime," as Blavity previously reported.
William “Mo” Cowan, Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, 2013
“Mo” Cowan, as he is commonly known, only served in the U.S. Senate for 5 ½ months, but his short term was nonetheless significant. Appointed to replace John Kerry, who left the Senate to become Secretary of State, Cowan served alongside Senator Scott – the first time that two Black people served together in the Senate.
Prior to his Senate term, Cowan worked as a prominent lawyer and then served in the administration of Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who appointed him to replace Kerry. Since serving in the Senate, Cowan has returned to private practice and has been an executive for General Electric. He was also chosen as a Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.
Cory Booker, Democratic Senator from New Jersey, 2013-present
Cory Booker holds a very impressive academic resume; he is an alum of Stanford University and Yale Law, and he studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Booker grew up in New Jersey, living in Newark during part of his time at Yale. He eventually became the mayor of Newark, where he gained a reputation as a man of the people who personally connected to and met the needs of his constituents – he once famously went out and personally shoveled snow for residents who requested help through social media.
In 2013, Booker won a special election for an open Senate seat from New Jersey and has represented the state ever since. Among his legislative achievements, he has championed multiple criminal justice reform bills, including the First Step Act that was signed into law by President Donald Trump.
Kamala Harris, Democratic Senator from California, 2017-present
Kamala Harris grew up in Oakland, California, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, respectively. After attending Howard University and the University of California Hastings College of the Law, she became a prosecutor in her home state, moving up the ranks to become district attorney of San Francisco and then-Attorney General of California. She won the election to Senate, taking office in 2017. She joined Scott and Booker, making her tenure the first time that three Black senators served together.
Harris ran as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. She dropped out of the race in December 2019 but was chosen in August 2020 to be the running mate of nominee Joe Biden which energized the Democratic campaign. The Biden-Harris ticket defeated incumbent President Trump in the 2020 election, and Harris will soon leave the Senate to assume her new role as Vice President of the United States; she will be the first: woman, Black American and Indian American to serve in that role. | <urn:uuid:8a7bc440-7c49-4464-af7b-b3257c2a405a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blavity.com/10-black-us-senators-who-walked-so-rev-raphael-warnock-could-run/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.980581 | 2,210 | 3.640625 | 4 |
King James Bible Translators
Personal and Family Life
Miles Smith was born about 1554 in the cathedral city of Hereford, Herefordshire. Of his parents little is known except that his father was a fletcher and "a man of no mean of taste". A fletcher was a maker of bows and arrows, a significant vocation in a time before gun powder. Of "no mean taste" indicated that his family was prosperous.
He likely had a good preparatory education at Hereford before going on to Oxford. At some point he became enamored of books and learning. He once said he was covetous of nothing but books. Indeed, he left some of his library to the Hereford Cathedral where portions of it are on display as part of the 400th King James Bible (hereinafter KJB) Anniversary Celebration.
He became a thorough going scholar of ancient languages, and a faithful churchman. Religiously, he was a Calvinist but was a conformist in his allegiance to the Church of England.
He married twice. His first wife was Mary Hawkins of Cardiff, Wales. After Mary's death he married again to a woman whose name is not known. Miles had a large family. Sons included Gervase named for Smith's friend Gervase Babington, his namesake Miles, Robert, and Matthew. He also had at least four daughters, Margaret (Morgan), Elizabeth (Williams), and Margery (Clent). The last named daughter died in childbirth.
In disposition Miles Smith was mild. It was said of him that "he leaned always in matters of discipline to the gentler side".
He died on 20 October 1624 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire and is buried in the cathedral there.
Miles Smith was likely a student at the Hereford Cathedral Grammar School where he would have received a good educational foundation.
He became a student at Corpus Christi College, Oxford about 1568. He soon transferred to Brasenose College and graduated B.A. in 1573, proceeded M.A. in 1576, B.D. in 1585, and finally D.D. in 1594. Anthony á. Wood, Smith's biographer, discussed his university experience thusly:
At Brasenose [he] took the degrees in arts as a member of that house, where in by benefit of a secure discipline that was in his time exercised, and by his indefatigable industry, he proved at length an incomparable theologist.
For Miles Smith, unlike many of his associates on the KJB translation project, his professional life was primarily taken up with church service. Despite his prodigious scholarly gift his time was not largely spent in the university setting after obtaining his degrees. In this he was much like Lancelot Andrewes, his fellow Translator.
Miles Smith's first church appointment came in 1576 when he was made a chaplain/petty canon of Christ Church College, Oxford. This was followed with obtaining a prebendary of Hereford Cathedral, a position he held for the rest of his life. He later became a canon residentiary at Hereford, and prebendary of Exeter Cathedral in 1595.
Smith's first pastoral office came with his selection in 1584 to be vicar at Bosbury, a small village near Ledbury, Herefordshire which had been associated with the Knights Templar. This was followed with the rectory of Hampton Bishop in the same diocese, and with rectories in Hartlebury and Upton Severn in Worcestershire.
His final appointment was as Bishop of Gloucester. He was consecrated in Croyden on 20 September 1612. George Abbot, by this time Archbishop of Canterbury, was instrumental in the appointment of his fellow Translator to this high office. Miles, the scholar, experienced church leader, and family man, undoubtedly brought to his service a gentle, genial, and wise touch. This style did not fit well the aggressive approach of his ambitious and high church dean, William Laud. Laud took it upon himself to institute changes at Gloucester Cathedral without consulting Miles Smith, his bishop. His insubordination deeply offended Smith.
When Miles Smith died in 1624 he left a number of his sermons in print which, along with his preface to the KJB, give a glimpse of the intellectual stature and spirituality of the man. (See
Miles Smith and the Translation
The hand of Miles Smith, as much as any other person, is evident in the work of the KJB translation. A biographer of Smith said he was chief among the Translators, and he "began with the first and was the last man in the translation".
Certainly, Miles Smith as one of the members of the First Oxford Company was involved in the translation at its beginning, and as one of the committee of two final reviewers, along with Thomas Bilson, was there at the end. His beginning to end involvement in the translation enabled him to be the person perhaps most qualified to pen the Bible's preface to the readers. He and the other members of his company translated the prophets, Isaiah through Malachi.
Miles Smith came to his position as Translator through much disciplined study over many years. It has been noted that from his youth he constantly applied himself in reading the ancient classical authors in their own languages, and that Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Chaldaic, Syriac and Arabic were almost as familiar to him as his native tongue. We are told, "he had Hebrew at his finger ends". Another called him a "walking library".
Miles Smith in his KJB preface entitled The Translators to the Reader, sheds great light on the attitude and approach the Translators took to their work. He made it clear that the Translators were greatly indebted to those who had gone before, that they were "building upon their foundation that went before us". As Translators they were attempting to make "out of many good ones [translations] one principal good one…". He explained that they "were greater in other men's eyes than their own", and they "sought truth rather than their own praise". Miles Smith explained that as the Translators came together they did not trust in their own knowledge but sought unto God for inspiration in the work, it being a spiritual as well as intellectual endeavor. He further explained that they didn't feel under any time constraints and were willing to re-visit and revise that which had previously been decided upon, in Miles Smith's words "to bring back to the anvil that which we had hammered".
An example of Miles Smith's power of speech has been cited by canon John Tiller of Hereford Cathedral, a successor in office to Miles Smith. It is taken from a Christmas sermon Smith gave upon the text of Isaiah 7:14: Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and she shall call his name Immanuel (God with us):
Many are the dangers whereto God's children are subject. When we lie down we know not whether we shall arise. When we ride forth, we cannot tell whether we shall come home. When we send our children abroad, we cannot tell whether we shall ever see them again. Now what is our comfort therein? God is with us, we will not care what man can do unto us. Who can hurt them that Jesus Christ vouchsafed to be born for. Doth not his very name teach us that he is with us? Then to them that love God, and are beloved of God, all things must work for the best, whether it be tribulation, or anguish, famine or poverty, or imprisonment, or loss of friends, or loss of children, or loss of living.
In all these bodily assaults we shall be more than conquerors. So shall we be also in the spiritual. Our sins do threaten God's vengeance upon us, our consciences to accuse us, the law containeth matter of indictment against us; all the creatures of God which we have abused, all the calling of God which we have neglected, do witness against us. Hell opens her mouth wide, being ready to swallow us up. The world forsaketh us, our friends have no power to help us. What is to be done in this case? What shift shall we make, what place of refuge shall we fly unto? Only this, that the son of God became the son of Man to make us the sons of God; vile he became, to exalt us; poor, to enrich us; a slave to enfranchise us; dead, to quicken us; miserable, to bless us; lost in the eyes of the world, to save us. Lastly, partaker of our nature, of our infirmity, of our habitation, to advance us to his kingdom and glory, that is, to be unto us according to his name, Emmanuel, God with us. God to enlighten us, God to help us, God to deliver us, God to save us. To him with Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory for ever and ever. | <urn:uuid:8e043633-5e5e-4b53-a7a7-484f1dc7e027> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://kingjamesbibletranslators.org/bios/Miles_Smith/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.987474 | 1,906 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Hurricanes and other disasters: Plan now, panel advises Collier companies
The best time to prepare for a natural disaster is now.
After one of the most active Atlantic hurricane seasons on record in 2017, Collier County businesses are coming together to prepare.
The Above Board Chamber of Florida hosted a “Disaster Preparation — Prepare Now!” luncheon Monday, May 7, at the Hilton Naples with a panel of local business professionals who have experience with several natural disasters.
Experts from Colorado State University — regarded as the nation’s top seasonal hurricane forecasters — last month predicted 2018 will have seven hurricanes among 14 named tropical storms. Both numbers are above the average of six and 12, respectively.
Of the seven predicted hurricanes, three are expected to spin into major hurricanes — Category 3, 4 or 5 — with sustained winds of 111 mph or greater.
Last year, six major hurricanes rated as Category 3 or higher raised concerns. Three of them made landfall as devastating hurricanes: Harvey in Texas and Louisiana; Irma in the Caribbean and the southeastern U.S.; and Maria in the Caribbean, including a destructive landfall in Puerto Rico.
“Government can’t do it all — we need the local businesses,” said Dan Summers, director of the Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services. “We need you to respond and reopen.”
Summers has been in the emergency management field since 1985 and has coordinated 11 presidential disaster declarations, nine since coming to Collier County.
For businesses to quickly respond and reopen after a disaster strikes, they need to create a plan for before, during and afterward.
“It’s much easier to be proactive than reactive,” said John Ingoglia, vice president of operations for Jarvis Property Restoration.
Some essential planning points discussed during the luncheon included insurance, shelters and evacuations; mental preparedness; gas and supplies; and how to provide for employees.
Brandie Packard Dickerson, executive vice president of Tri-Town Construction LLC, advised that the first thing a business owner needs to do when preparing for a disaster is to assess — internally and externally.
“The most precious commodity we have is our staff,” Packard-Dickerson said. “Think about what are my staff going to need that I need to provide for them to be able to come back to work.”
Packard-Dickerson said her business stocked pallets of water before Hurricane Irma and made sure they had extra food to share with employees. She even booked hotel rooms in case employees lost their homes.
You also need to take steps to prepare your business to operate as soon as possible after a disaster hits.
Most businesses center on their software, hardware and data.
“When a hurricane hits, you can almost always count on a disruption of power,” Ingoglia said. “If you didn’t plan ahead where to get access to your data, your business can come to a screeching halt.”
Power outages sometimes can last for weeks, so panelists advised businesses to prepare a site outside the affected area.
Ingoglia, who has 25 years of experience with disaster repair and insurance, said the best thing a business owner can do is have steps in place and to practice them within the company and with employees.
Sometimes businesses have serious structural damage, which can leave them without an operating site for months. For this reason, panelists highly recommend business owners make sure they have a mitigation plan and that all insurance is up to date.
"Since Irma hit, it's been a nightmare," Ingoglia said.
Ingoglia advised business owners to document everything.
"Your documentation has to be tight, with photographs and anything that has to do with your claim," he said. “When you are prepared ahead of time, you can restore your operations much quicker."
Shelters and gasoline supplies were also hot topics.
Asked whether Collier has enough shelters available for the upcoming hurricane season, Summers said the county is planning to increase the number of shelters from 11 to 21.
However, Summers clarified the purpose of a shelter as a place providing only the basics during a disaster.
“A shelter is a lifeboat, not a love boat,” he said. “You need to come self-sufficient.”
Summers said many of those who took shelter during Hurricane Irma could have sheltered in place.
As for gas supplies during a disaster, Summers said, the best place to get accurate information is GasBuddy.
According to Summers, GasBuddy had a representative updating in real time during Irma.
"GasBuddy should be your new friend during times of disaster," he said.
Summers also mentioned he plans to present a proposal for more gas pumps to the Collier Commission in June.
"We're bringing a proposal to the Collier County board later in June and spent seven months evaluating this of requiring stations that have 16 or more nozzles, which is basically eight or more pumps, and having to have a generator — not just the transfer switch — in order to be able to sell fuel," he said.
Not being mentally prepared and ready to accept the new "normal" can make recovering from a disaster more difficult, Packard-Dickerson said.
“Part of your plan to prepare is to know life is now different and will be for a while,” she said. “You have to be willing to accept that, or you will drive yourself crazy. You have to realize supplies are going to be low and service is going to be slow."
The next seminar, with experts on business models built to last and ways to cash out, will be Thursday, May 10, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Pelican Preserve Town Center, 10561 Veneto Drive, Fort Myers. | <urn:uuid:bdabb663-9d11-45c2-b503-14824d352bee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.naplesnews.com/story/money/business/local/2018/05/09/above-board-disaster-preparation-panel-advises-businesses-plan-now/578106002/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967932 | 1,223 | 1.710938 | 2 |
From Kabul to Africa, the jihadists are ready to follow the Taliban
The most effective trick for the devil, they say, is to convince us that he doesn’t exist. The opposite is true for global jihad: to make the threat of the Islamic State appear enormous, ISIS theorists had launched a continuous claim for every violent gesture against Western objectives, perhaps linked to local factors or madness.
The mechanism restarted with the reconquest of Afghanistan by the Taliban, almost without fighting. All over the world, radical Islam rejoices and feels involved. And in Africa, a land of expansion for both Al Qaeda and Daesh veterans, the taking of Kabul is becoming a legend among the fundamentalists beyond profound differences between the geopolitical and historical contexts.
The first to exult were the Somali jihadists of Al Shabaab, who have sworn allegiance to Al Qaeda. “God is great,” read on a site linked to the fundamentalist organization on the news of the fall of Kabul. But, according to the London analyst Ahmed Rajab, interviewed by Deutsche Welle, “it is not clear what the link between the Taliban and the Shabaab is, whether there are organic or just opportunistic links.”
Kenya follows with concern the events in Afghanistan: “They could inspire other terrorist groups in East Africa to continue waging long-term wars in the hope of achieving similar victories in the future. The jihadists will try to emulate what happened in Afghanistan. It is a security threat to the region. Nairobi should return to the UN Security Council so that Al-Shabaab is finally labelled as a terrorist group, “Mustafa Y Ali, president of the study center,” Horn International Institute for Strategic Studies of Nairobi said.
In Mali, Iyad Ag Ghaly, the leader of Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, another al-Qaeda affiliated organization, made his first public outing to congratulate the Taliban in two years. “We are winning,” said the fundamentalist leader, drawing a parallel between the withdrawal of foreign troops in Afghanistan and the French decision to reduce the military presence in the Sahel.
The enthusiasm of radical groups for Afghan events goes hand in hand on media and social networks with warnings for local governments, especially those who refer to foreign forces for maintaining security. “In Mali, many people are afraid because they see the same situation in Afghanistan,” Bouraima Guindo, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Le Pays. Nevertheless, Guindo reaffirmed that the foreign soldiers’ presence is necessary. If they leave, the situation will be more dangerous.
In the Nigerian press, a commentator points out that the Afghan lesson can serve the government of President Buhari because it does not trust the “repentants” of Boko Haram. And the Sahel Center for Strategic Studies warns not to forget the local jihadist groups, rooted in the area between Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, as well as Libya, which has been without a government for years.
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Every hobby or strange activity can be easily the kind of sport. Oh, what a good motto for the International Federation of Unofficial Sports, whenever it will be in future. It can have enough place for funny and sometimes silly activities, including eating hot-dogs and grass-cutter racing. The world of sport has no free spaces any more. The territory is divided by the football, tennis, basketball and other leading sports in their financial power. The players of these sports get their millions of honorariums and world popularity. How about young sports?
Some of the sports are young but also honorable, like swimming or beach volleyball. They became legal in sport because of their mass popularity. The sport factory works every day, day by day. Sport game is the important form of a human activity. What a favorable platform for alternative sports. How about the swim racing in mud or mobile telephones throwing? This is also interesting sport activity that attracts more and more people every year. Alternative sports live with their own life.
Great Britain takes the leading position in discovering new and interesting alternative sports. The country is known as the motherland of football and tennis. Nevertheless, the country is interested in eggs throwing and grass cutters racing. These alternative sports attract millions of people every year. The new sports are also cost-based, but ambitious and available for everyone. The most of them has big chances to get in the TOP position. Of course, it needs some time. So, you may use Internet to find the name and date of the sport you like. You may also use rental car services in London to get to the sport location easily.
Eggs Multisport Competition
Came from Britain
England is a motherland of eggs multisport competition, but not only football and tennis. Who decided to throw the eggs? Nobody knows. Nevertheless, the sport of throwing eggs is held in the territory of England for many years. This is a kind of national sport now to get the international status. The competitions of this kind are available for all people who have eggs near at hand. The cold-minded Englishmen get much fun from participation in this funny sport. You can not only throw with eggs, but carry them in the mouth, or throw them long.
The rules are simple. You put about 6 eggs in the basket – 5 boiled eggs and one raw egg. The sportsmen are sitting one after another to throw the egg from the face to face. Those, who’d got the raw egg are out of the game. There is one place in the final.
Came from Britain
Do you like to cut the grass? Oh, cutting grass is the sacred duty of every English citizen. This is the tradition that goes from the father to son. The most of modern people use grass cutters to cut the grass quickly. The group of young people used that instrument for racing. The official history says that the first racing was started in 1973 by two young Englishmen. That was the start for British Lawn Mower Racing Association. Later, the idea to race the grass-cutters was given to Americans. Officially, the first race started in April, 1992.
The rules are also simple. It is necessary to throw out the blades from the machine to make the mini car from your apparatus. The price of it can be $5 000 to $200 000. The participants compete in 4 classes that differ from one another with technical characteristics of the machines: stock (16 km/hour), imow (32 km/hour), prepared (80 km/hour) and factory experimental (96,5 km/hour). You may win the prize or diploma.
Underwater Mud Run
Came from Britain
The new interesting kind of sport was born in the end of 80th in Llanwrtyd Wells. It was offered to say good bye to your complexes and jump into mud. The idea was greatly met and approved to be the every year championship. The sport event welcomes all enthusiasts from Europe, USA, Australia. The championship is available for everyone. The thing you must have is mask for underwater swimming, breathing tube, fins and 15 pounds for entry fee. All participants are obliged to swim for 60 meters in the mud. You can be dressed differently, but no younger than 14. One of the participants is 70! She swam the line for 1 minute and 57 seconds to get unbelievable impressions.
Man Versus Horse
Came from Britain
The story of this amateur sport started in 1980 in the city of Llanwrtyd Wells. It was said that a man cannot run faster than a horse. It was also checked and approved. Thus, England became the organizer of the every-year competition Man versus Horse and potential investors.
The rules as always are simple. The distance of the Wells marathon is 22 miles (42,195 kilometers). The route goes through the country valleys, hills, streams and flats. The participants may be one man or group of people. The horse makes a couple with the horse rider. What about the prize? The prize is usually made of the entrance fee that everyone must pay. As a rule, the prize is won by the man and a horse. There was only one case, when the man came faster than a horse – 2 hours and 5 minutes to win 25 000 of prize money.
As you can see, Great Britain is rich in interesting alternative sports for fun. Nevertheless, Britain cannot surprise you such impressive view as the Wife Carrying (Finland), for example. As it was found out, wife is good for sport. This bright idea came to the Finns’ head in 1800. Do you know the tradition of bride-napping? It was the base of the original sport event, when husbands compete in carrying of their wives. This is a good opportunity to get fit and prove yourself. The championship in Wife Carrying takes place every year in the city of Sonkajarvi. You may try to participate. The rules are also simple. All you need is a distance map and a wife near at hand. | <urn:uuid:b700dcd0-8bcf-4be7-9f6e-21e73fb3cfa4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.worthytoshare.com/came-from-britain-top-4-alternative-sports-for-fun/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965876 | 1,247 | 1.890625 | 2 |
I never had a sister, but my sons have one, which means I have a daughter.
Now, our oldest son is two years younger than our daughter, who is the
oldest, but it was interesting to see as I watched their relationship what
I had missed growing up. Oh, there was a lot of kidding around; the kids
called it "busting." They had some exciting disagreements growing up
because, well, they're two very different people.
There were some hugs, there was some advice, there was sometimes some
conflict, but one thing was really clear in that relationship - no one had
ever better do my son's sister wrong. Even though he's two years younger,
he was her personal - I'm going to make up a word here - "look-out-forer."
I'm looking out for her! In fact, when any guy wanted to date her, he
first had to pass my son's very high requirements. Oh, he's younger, but
he was his sister's protector. Now, if you're a sister, it's nice to have a brother like that.
I'm Ron Hutchcraft, and I want to have A Word With You today about "Every
Sister Needs a Brother."
Now, our word for today from the Word of God comes from 1 Timothy 5, and
I'm going to be reading verse 2. It's a road map for relationships
between, well, men and women in general, but particularly between young
men and young women. He is addressing Timothy, who is a young man, and
Paul says, "Treat the younger men as brothers, the older women as
mothers," and then get this part, "and treat the younger women as sisters
with absolute purity."
Now, if you grow up in our culture today, that's not the message you're
getting. Oh, no, our culture says, "Hey, if you're a young man, treat the
younger woman as a conquest; as a lover." But that's not God's design. He
says, "Treat the younger women as sisters." Now, what does that mean? Does
that mean you tease them all the time? Does that mean you argue with them,
which brothers and sisters are known to do? No. Do you know what I think
it's referring to?
See, the love of a brother for a sister is, after all is said and done,
protective love. It's like my son and daughter, "I'm not going to let
anything happen to you that could hurt you, Sis." That's how young men are
supposed to view young women. Not as targets, not as conquests, not as
things to use.
That's why it says, "Treat them with absolute purity" so you won't hurt
them. You're supposed to guard your sister. That means you look at the
women around you and say, "I will not use you. I will not push you for
physical involvement. I won't even think about taking your greatest gift
from you - your virginity. I won't let my mind wander into scenes where I
reduce you to being a thing. I will guard your reputation, sister. I will
guard your purity. I will guard your character." Now, that's manhood! And
you know what? Ask a lot of young women today, and they'll tell you there
is a critical shortage of that kind of man.
See, what happens is you begin to say, "I'm going to develop some sisters
here." So, you begin to develop friendships, and not just romances. And
that becomes more important than just a passionate romance. You open the
door to some real legitimate closeness, and really getting to know
somebody. And you do that by finally throwing your sexual agenda out the
Now, if you're a woman, by the way you dress, the way you act, the way you
talk, the way you move, encourage this kind of relationship. Remember the
kind of bait you offer determines the kind of catch you get. Act like you
want brothers. Act like you want guys who will be friends, not users; not
conquerors. And men, cultivate sisters; a level of sharing and caring that
the sexual conquerors will never even get close to. Treat her like family.
She's your sister, man! And every sister needs a brother.
I saw one of those bumper frames for your license plate. It said, "Happiness is being a grandparent." Oh, that's the truth! I mean, I remember when I was a little kid. Happiness was having a grandparent with you, especially my grandmother. Because it always meant surprises; it meant going out to eat, and it almost always meant money! That's what grandparents are for, of course, to spoil kids. Any time I knew that I would be seeing Grandma I was excited to see what surprises she would bring. If we're that way about grandma, we should really be looking forward to what Father has for us today; that's Father with a capital F.
As you know, life is divided into 24-hour chunks. We have this sort of death and resurrection thing that takes place every day. You know, we sort of die about 10:00, 11:00, or 12:00 o'clock at night, and sort of start all over again the next morning. It's like beginning again the next day. So, life isn't this big old blob - life. It just really comes down to these 24-hour things doesn't it: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, etc.? There's a very interesting look in the Bible at a day in the life of a child of God, because that's really what it amounts to...have a good day. That's how you live the life of a Christian, you have a good day.
Go back to the book of Psalms, and here's what a day in the life looks like at beginning and end; sunrise and sunset in the life of a child of God. Our word for today from the Word of God, Psalm 5:3: "In the morning, O Lord, You hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before You and wait in expectation."
Okay, that's one end of the day. Let's go to the other end of the day. The sun has gone down now. Psalm 4:8 (same page in my Bible) says this; "I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety." Now, it's interesting as you read this morning beginning with the Lord, beginning this 24-hour period of time. It talks about the many moods
of praying. There's not just one mood of praying; it's sort of like Baskin Robbins. There are a lot of flavors you can pray in. It says, "Give ear to my words, O Lord." Okay, that's just kind of making a statement. Then it says, "Consider my sighing." This is the kind of praying when you're totally depleted; you don't even know what to say. "O Lord, I can hardly get this out." And then it says, "Listen to my cry..." my cry for help.
This is desperation. And then he says, "I lay my requests before the Lord" every morning laying out the concerns of my heart.
By the way, did you do that this morning? Do you do that every morning? Talk to Him and say, "Lord, here's what I'm afraid of today; here's what I'm hoping for today; here's what I'm dreaming about; here's what I'm crying about; here are the people I love; here are the needs I'm anticipating." You empty your hands. Now, how can you tell if you've really prayed or if you just went through the motions? Notice that it says, "I lay my request before the Lord and wait in expectation." Hey, that's like Grandma's visit; waiting in expectation for her surprises. You know you've really prayed when you get off your knees expectantly and you go through your day looking for the fingerprints of God on that day. It may not be like I thought it would be, but there will be His surprises. Expectation is the byproduct of faith. So, are you uh... expecting? You say, "No, I'm a man. How could I be expecting?" No, I mean expecting good things from God. Expecting God's touch on what you've turned over to Him.
No wonder at night we can lie down and sleep in peace. You allow time each morning to turn over the specifics of that day to Jesus, and then you live in an air of expectancy. My grandmother seldom disappointed me, and your Heavenly Father never will.
When our sons were playing football, the varsity guys let them know an
important factor in impressing the coach. He'll be looking for you in the
weight room, not just at practice. Coaches know serious that athletes
serve their time in the weight room, concentrating on becoming stronger.
They're not there because it's fun, it's not. But because it's important
to winning the battle. One measure of your growing strength is what the
lifters call your bench press. That's not lifting a bench of course, but
it's how much you can lift over your head as you lie on a weight bench.
I've worked with a lot of football players and weight lifters, but I've
seldom met one who's content to keep the amount they can lift where it is.
They're always adding a little more weight to that bar. So, if your bench
press is 170 pounds, you want to go to 180... 190. If you've been lifting
200, you work to get it to 210... 220. Always pressing more.
I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "God's
Weight Room." Now, it's a principle of physical strength - and it's a principle in
God's gym as well. If you want to get stronger, you constantly have to be
lifting something heavier than you've lifted before. God, of course, isn't
just building biceps and triceps, he's building the one kind of strength
in us that opens up all He has for us. He is building faith muscles - the
ability to trust Him more than you've trusted Him before. Because "without
faith it is impossible to please Him" (Hebrews 11:6). Now, if you're just
proceeding on the basis of what you can see, what you can figure out, what
you can pull off, then God isn't very happy with you. God's will requires
moving by faith, which is by God's definition, "being certain of what we
do not see" (Hebrews 11:1).
So how does God help you build more faith muscles so you can win greater
victories than ever before? Well, by giving you something to lift that is
heavier than you've ever had to lift before. Since God continually uses
Abraham as His example of a life of faith, let's check out how Abraham
performed in God's gym. In Romans 4, beginning with verse 19, our word for
today from the Word of God, we see how he handled this very heavy
situation. The promise of God that He would defy all reproductive biology
and give them a son through their aging bodies and then the long wait that
ensued between the promise and the fulfillment.
The Bible says, "Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that
his body was as good as dead - since he was about 100 years old and that
Sarah's womb was also dead." Now notice, faith does not deny that there
are daunting realities in the situation or the apparent impossibility of
an answer. It says though, "Yet he did not waver through unbelief
regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave
glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had the power to do what He
had promised." Abraham lifts by faith what he had never lifted before and
he is "strengthened in his faith." That's how it works. Greater weight to
develop greater faith to experience greater things.
You may have been wondering why God has allowed such a heavy burden into
your life right now. It may very well be, not that He's unhappy with you,
but that He loves you enough to help you become stronger than you've ever
been before. He's building your faith muscles. If He only trusted you with
what you've lifted before, you'd only have as much faith as you've had
before. And He's growing you for greater things, for future battles, for
more miraculous victories. But you have to serve your time in the weight
room - not because it's fun, but because it's the only way to get strong
enough to play spiritual varsity.
God's your spotter. He won't allow you to have more weight than you can
handle right now. He's promised that. But He will give you something
heavier than you lifted before, so you can become more powerful in Him
than you've ever been before.
Many of the world's greatest dramas are not on a stage or a screen, but they are played out in that quadrennial spectacle we call the Olympics. One year Britain's representative in the 400-meter race, Derek Redmond, went down in the back stretch with a torn right hamstring. As the medical attendants approached, Redmond fought to his feet and set out hopping, desperately trying to finish the race. He knew he wouldn't win, he was just trying to finish.
When he reached the final stretch, a man came out of the stands, pushed past a security guard, and ran to Redmond and hugged him. That man was Jim Redmond, Derek's father, and he said to him, "Son, you don't have to do this." Gritting his teeth and with tears in his eyes, his son said, "Yes, I do."
His father's reply, "Well, then, we're going to finish this together." Derek's head was sometimes buried in his father's shoulder, but they stayed in his lane to the end. When they crossed the finish line, the crowd stood to its feet, cheered, and wept as those two men finished the race.
Moses says to Israel in Deuteronomy 1:29-31 , "Then I said to you, 'Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. The Lord your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, and in the desert. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.'"
Maybe today you are tired, banged up, or stressed out, and like that 400-meter runner in the Olympics, you are staggering right now. You're having a hard time finishing your race. You started well, and you have been running hard, but you're about to go down. Maybe you have been hit by discouragement, illness, family trouble, a lack of support, or a lack of help. Maybe you've run into obstacles or pain and you are hurting, and there is still more of the race ahead of you. God wants to give you the good news that someone has left the stands to help you. He is coming to the track to help you finish the rest of the way.
It's your Heavenly Father.
God left the stands to come to the cross, and there He rescued us from the sin wounds that would have kept us from reaching heaven. He knows we can't make it alone. He is an all-powerful Father who offers to carry us, but we have to let Him. If we are too proud to collapse in His arms and surrender to His control, then our power is limited, and we're not going to make it. If we will totally release control to Him and, in the words of Scripture, humble ourselves, we will have all His power. Even little children know where the power is when they sing, "...they are weak, but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me."
Each of us experience days when we just don't have any more to give. Maybe you're there now. It's those moments in the race that can take you deeper into the love and power of Jesus than you have ever been before. Your Father is not a spectator in the stands today. His arm is around you right now, where you are. Listen to His voice saying, "We're going to finish this together!"
"We were closer when we were poorer." The lady who told me that was
speaking about her marriage, and she wasn't poor any more. You could tell
that by looking at her. She was very affluent. But she was telling me that
she and her husband were closer in the early days of their relationship
when they were pinching pennies, and scraping by, and wondering how they
were going to pay the rent, and fighting the wolf at the door. But they
were at least fighting the wolf together.
Now, since that conversation with that lady I've had many opportunities to
quote her at, oh, women's luncheons and dinners. And I always see women's
head nodding in agreement as if that's been the case in their life too.
Apparently there's something about not having much that can make a
I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "Very
Needy, Very Close."
The Apostle Paul knew about poor making you close, in life's most
important relationship that is. He talked about it in our word for today
from the Word of God. It's in 2 Corinthians 12:9. He says, quoting the
Lord, "But He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is
made perfect in weakness.' Therefore (Paul says) I will boast all the more
gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power will rest on me. That
is why, for Christ's sake I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in
hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am
I've had the wonderful privilege of meeting believers from a lot of other
countries: Haiti, Africa, India, a lot of places like that. And I've
noticed something about them. It's something, honestly, that I covet. They
seem to live in the supernatural more than I do, and more than most
Christians I know in this country. They seem to pray powerfully and they
expect and honestly they often get miracles. They're radically Christian.
And I feel like a pale office worker who hasn't been out in the sun all
year, standing next to someone who just got back from Florida with a deep
spiritual tan. I want what they have. And one believer summed up their
secret. He said, "Ron, we live in a poor village. We have no regular
support. We don't have organizations or manuals or tools. We only have
God." I can't get those words out of my heart, "We only have God."
See, they're rich in God because they're poor in earth. They're very needy
and they're very close to God. Now, our Christianity is active, and
sophisticated, and well managed, well planned, well financed, and often
pretty powerless. The early church had little machinery and much power. We
seem to have much machinery and, yeah, little power.
I guess there are three roads that we rich Christians can take. One, we
can continue with our mediocrity, doing the biggest things that man can
do. Two, we can learn God's power through a time when He strips us of all
the earth things that we are depending on. Or three, we could use all God
has given us, but put no trust in it.
You know, couples can have a lot but hold it loosely and still love each
other as if they were living on pork and beans. A Christian can live in
America and have it all but ask God to teach them childlike dependency.
All that we have blinds us to our total need - our desperate need - of
God and His power. We're as needy as the Christian from India, barely
surviving in his village. We just don't recognize it. We just don't admit
it. We just don't acknowledge it. We just don't live like it.
When you recognize how poor you are, you're really rich. Whether we live
in a condo or a hut; whether we eat filet or rice, we only have God.
I can't remember the names of all seven of Snow White's dwarfs, but I
don't feel bad about that. I do remember one - Grumpy. Actually I've heard
that the Grumpy shirt is one of Disney's big sellers these days. I might
know why. Grumpy is kind of the mood of a whole lot of people these days.
I mean, you know, when you take just the state of politics in America,
most people don't seem to be very excited about anybody. We've got one
group who wants us to stop spending money, and then there are some who
want people to stop making money. And there are some who don't like what
the President's doing, and some don't like what Congress is doing. And a
lot of people aren't impressed with any candidate so far. "Hello, Grumpy!"
I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "None of the Above."
See, if there was a "none of the above" choice on the ballot, he might
just win. I mean, it doesn't matter whether you're in America or many
other countries of the world, we're just hurting for a leader who won't
let us down; who can actually do something about the baffling tangle of
problems we have. And it's not just politicians who've let us down.
Sometimes parents fail us...a church or a pastor fails us...a leader that
we've looked to disappoints us...betrays us.
I guess we shouldn't be surprised. Our leaders are a lot like us. And I
know I sure haven't been everything people needed me to be. I'm sure I've
disappointed folks along the way.
As much as human leaders may have let us down, it doesn't change the fact
that our hearts are hungry for someone to look to; someone who can take us
where we haven't been able to go ourselves. Who totally lives what he
says...who not only promises hope but delivers it...who can fix the
unfixable...who we can follow with the confidence that they care about us
more than they care about themselves.
That's Jesus, and only Jesus. As our word for today from the Word of God
in Romans 10:11 tells us, "Anyone who believes in Him will never be
disappointed." I sure haven't been. This Man who had the power to walk out
of His grave has had more than enough power to change what I couldn't;
people I couldn't change, problems I couldn't fix, dark parts of me that I
couldn't control. He's led me on roads that didn't always make sense on
the first mile, but always ended up putting me in a better place.
And there's no doubt about Him caring more about me than about Himself. He
offered Himself to be nailed to a cross and separated from God so my sins
could be erased and I could be with Him in heaven forever. And anybody who
loves me enough to die for me will never do me wrong.
There really is a hole in our hearts that's starved for a loving leader
for our life. A "shepherd" as Jesus said. He said, "My sheep listen to My
voice; I know them, and they follow Me." And where does following Him end
up? He said, "I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish" (John
10:27-28). That's a promise that only Jesus can make, and only Jesus can
keep. And it may be that in a heart that's listening today that feels lost
inside, needing someone to look to, looking for that person who can fix
what you can't fix, take you where you've never been able to go, make
sense out of the scattered pieces of the puzzle, then you're ready for
Jesus and He's ready for you.
Why don't you reach out to Him today and say, "Jesus, I'm Yours. You died
for me; I can trust You. I'm Yours." Go to our website. Find out there how
to be sure you've begun your personal relationship with Him. Go to
Remember a couple of years ago, we heard a plane crashed in the Hudson
River? And I thought it was just going to be massive carnage. Instead we
saw "the miracle on the Hudson." This jetliner's engines had been totally
disabled, it looked like there was going to be a tragic crash. But their
captain, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger, was a veteran fighter pilot,
airline pilot and crash investigator; probably one of the few pilots who
could bring them in safely. And he was the one at the controls.
I've been on some flights where I wish I could have picked the captain in
the cockpit. I've never been able to pick the pilot for my flight, but I
got to pick the pilot for my life, and it's Captain Jesus.
He's the one Pilot who can bring you in safely...no matter what happens.
Mystery rides were part of growing up at our house. Usually it was a
Sunday afternoon, and I'd pile our three kids, who were little then and
never will be again, into our car for a ride. I think we explored every
corner of our area. And as we did, we discovered over the years, a lot of
great things. But I've got one son who's a lot like me. He wants to know
the plan before we leave.
"Hey, Dad, where are we going? Where are we going to eat? What are we
going to eat? What are we going to do while we're there? How long will we
be there? What time are we going to get home?" He would pump me with
questions; I felt like I was being interrogated by a police sergeant.
Sometimes I knew it was better not to explain where we were going. Oh,
we've done things that would have sounded boring if I had told about them,
but they turned out to be exciting and I knew they would. Plus surprises
are fun anyway. So, my kids got used to hearing two words when we were
about to begin a mystery trip, "Trust me." I don't think I let them down.
It was good training for journeys with their other Father.
I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "Going
Our word for today from the Word of God comes from the life of the Apostle
Paul; he's still Saul of Tarsus here. Acts 9 - he's on his way to wipe out
Christians. He missed some in Jerusalem. So he said, "I'll get them in
Damascus. They all went there; I'll find them in Syria." We begin in verse
3: "As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven
flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him,
'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?' 'Well, who are you, Lord?' Saul
asked. 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,' he replied. 'Now, get up
and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.'"
Now, it's interesting that Saul's training for his whole life in Christ
began immediately with a mystery trip. Yeah, did you notice that? He has
just opened up to Jesus, and the Lord says, "Go into the city and you will
be told." "Lord, what do you want me to do there? Who am I going to meet
there? How am I even going to be able to see; I'm blind right now?" The
Lord says, "Go and you will be told." Well, he spent the rest of his life
living like that.
In Acts 20, when he was on his way to Jerusalem as the great Apostle Paul
and his friends were trying to discourage him, he said, "Compelled by the
Spirit, I am going not knowing." See, you have a heavenly Father who often
takes His children on mystery trips. Maybe you're on one of His mystery
trips right now. There's a good destination He's got in mind, but right
now He's telling you just the next step. In essence, He's saying to you as
He did to Saul, "Go, and you will be told as you are on the way."
It may well be that you're in the middle of one of those times right now,
and the tendency is to say, "Now, Lord, if you'll just give me all the
information, give me all the facts, I'll start going that direction." And
the Lord says, "No, you start moving in that direction I've told you to
go, and you'll get more information as you go."
Now, maybe you're waiting to have all your questions answered before you
move, and right now there are more question marks than there are periods
or exclamation points for sure. Can you almost hear your Father saying as
He bundles you into His car, "Trust Me, let's start traveling together."
Hey, He died for you. Is He ever going to do you wrong? God's mystery
trips always lead to a destination that is selected with you in mind for
your good. So, why not settle back, enjoy the trip, and let Him drive.
Trust your Father and don't be afraid of going not knowing.
Bill Cosby did a classic comedy routine about it, and I'm not sure it's that funny, frankly. You get up and you go into the other room to get something, then you can't remember for the life of you what you went in there for until you go back and sit down. Oh, ever happen to you? That's the harmless kind of forgetfulness. But too many of us have had loved ones who, as the years went on, remembered less and less; sometimes even the people who loved them. When people's memory goes, they can become very easily disoriented; they can make some very bad decisions and even place themselves in great danger.
I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "The High Cost of Forgetting."
For the most part, there's not much you can do about memory loss - the mental kind, that is. But there is something you can do about spiritual memory loss, because forgetting spiritually can be pretty damaging, too.
It was, in fact, one fundamental reason why God's ancient people kept wandering from God, messing up their lives, and suffering God's judgment. And it's one reason we make the same kinds of mistakes. In Psalm 106, beginning in verse 12, our word for today from the Word of God, God summarizes the unhappy history of His people then and now. "They believed His promises and sang His praise." That's the good news. "But they soon forgot what He had done and did not wait for His counsel." Now, the results were disobedience and resulting judgment. In the same psalm, God says that at other times, "They gave no thought to Your miracles; they did not remember Your many kindnesses, and they rebelled..." (Psalm 106:7) "...they forgot the God who saved them" (Psalm 106:21). Again, disastrous results.
We're all prone to quickly forget the great God we have and the amazing things that He's done for us. And like a person who loses their cognitive memory, we start to get disoriented - to wander where we never should wander - to leave God's ways and to leave God's will, and to experience the pain of God's correction and judgment or simply the painful consequences of our own wrong choices.
But unlike cognitive memory loss, there's a simple antidote for spiritual forgetting. It's called praise; regular, specific, conscious praise to God for who He is and what He's done. Praise is actually a discipline - a deliberate focusing of your thoughts on things you have to thank God for. We should wake up praising. As we're getting ready in the morning, we should train our mind and heart to be expressing thanks to God, enumerating things we appreciate about Him. Talk about getting your day off to a right kind of start! Whenever we pray, we should train ourselves to begin with praises to God before we rush to our requests. And through the day, we need to be looking for evidences of God (I call them God sightings.) all over the place and then sending up thanks to God for them.
When we stop praising God, we start forgetting God. And when we forget the kind of God we have, we start wandering, we start getting hurt, and we are much more likely to take matters into our own hands, to panic, to get impatient, to get discouraged or to get depressed. But the more you train yourself to be a "praiser," the less mistakes you're going to make - the less regrets you're going to have. You lose so much when you forget.
I was speaking at a youth conference, and we all had breakfast in the
cafeteria together. And then when we got together for our morning session
I said, "Now, I want you guys to imagine that somebody who was at
breakfast with us comes in the room and his cheeks are all puffy and you
ask him what's wrong, and he just goes, "uh...uh... uh..." And you go,
"Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Here's a piece of paper." And you give him
a piece of paper and he writes down, "I'm starved." Now I ask him, "Did
you eat breakfast?" "Uh-huh." "And you're still hungry?" "Uh-huh." And
then I would ask him, "Did you swallow it?" "Huh-uh." "Oh, maybe that's
why you're still hungry." See, it isn't enough just to ingest your food;
you've got to swallow it for it to do anything for you.
Well, I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about
"Swallowing What You Eat."
Now, our word for today from the Word of God is in Joshua 1:8. And you
might say it's about spiritual eating and spiritual digestion, because
ingestion is not enough to satisfy your appetite. Ingesting food is not
enough to nourish you. Joshua 1:8 puts it this way in the biblical formula
for personal success. It says this, "Do not let this book of the law (the
Bible) depart from your mouth. Meditate on it day and night."
In other words, be saturated with the Bible. Take a Bible bath. You should
be in it day and night, really knowing what it's saying. But listen, it
says, "So that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you
will be prosperous and successful."
Did you catch those words "careful to do"? It doesn't say, "I want you to
read the Bible to just know what it says." I want you to read the Bible to
do what it says. The purpose of being in God's Word is to memorize it,
meditate on it, but then to do what you read. In other words, until the
Bible gets into your real life; until you've found a change you're going
to make because of what you've read, all you've done is sort of take it
in, kind of hold it in your mouth spiritually, but it's not in your system.
So when you study the Bible, if you're going to read it to do something,
that means before you close the Bible each morning when you're with the
Lord, you say, "Lord, help me make a connection to something I'm going to
face today." Always make that connection between what you're reading and
what your life is doing right now. So, if you're reading about loving your
brother, you say, "Okay, which brother am I having a hard time loving?"
Okay, "Love your Ralph." Or whoever's the hard guy to love.
If it's talking about patience, you say, "Let's see, who do I need to be
more patient with right now? Okay, Lord, help me be more patient with my
Mom, or my wife." If it's talking about temptation, then you say, "Which
temptation am I facing right now?" And you put that temptation into the
verse. So if it says, "Do not let sin control your body." Then which sin?
Okay, so you put in there, "Do not let gossip control your body (the one
you struggle with, whatever it is)."
For example, in James 1. Let's try this. You're reading the book of James,
and it says, "Consider it pure joy my brothers whenever you face trials of
many kinds." Now if you're just ingesting, you'd kind of go, "Today I read
about trials." Now, wait a minute. No, no! Which trial are you facing
right now?" You go, "Oh, man, my boss!" Or you might say if you're
married, "My in-laws." Okay, then make it in the verse, "Whenever you face
trials of many kinds (with your boss), (with your in-laws) because you
know that the testing of your faith (by your boss), (your in-laws)
develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may
be mature and complete, not lacking anything."
Now, that verse could just be about trials in general, or it could be
about someone or something you're facing today. When you make that
connection, you begin to swallow what you're eating. God's got a lot of
fat children who've never put into use what they're reading.
Every day ask yourself the question, "What am I going to do because of
what I read?" And once you do that and start to make those changes, you
are well on your way to an exciting new you; one day, one change at a time.
Hey, don't be content to just ingest the Bible, digest it. That's the only way you grow.
People do the craziest things to lose weight. I know. We will take away all the normal food out of our lives, and then it's tremendous. You can have water, grapefruit, all the lettuce can eat, lots of celery, and watery soup. You can lose weight that way, but you know what? Take it from an old diet expert here, you can't keep it lost. You just can't live that way. You just can't always eat just grapefruit and unlimited lettuce. You have to find some new foods that you can eat and enjoy for the rest of your life. Otherwise you violate the key principle: If you're going to take away something you enjoy, you had better put something good in its' place if you want the change to last. Actually that applies to spiritual change.
In our word for today from the Word of God in 2 Timothy 2:22, Paul is writing to young men and he's talking about a subject that would have to do with young men. He talks about the "evil desires of youth." He says, "Look, I know especially when you're young that one of the challenges spiritually is controlling your glands, and your sexuality, and your feelings toward the opposite sex." And he talks about something you should lose. You could almost call it losing spiritual weight. Except here it's losing a bad habit.
He says, "Flee the evil desires of youth." Okay, that's the diet plan; that's the fattening things you've got to lose. But I'm glad he doesn't leave it there, because he gives you something new to put in its place. He says, "Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue..." Okay, it's not just running from things. There's something you need to chase. "...and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace."
I'm afraid that a lot of Christians would just stop with the negative - with the prohibition. "Flee youthful lusts, my son." And he's right when he says that, and we're right to have those negatives. Don't cheapen sex, don't fill yourself up with destructive music, or websites, or worldly amusements. Don't go out with unbelievers, don't read magazines that have garbage values, and don't watch junk TV.
But notice that Paul doesn't stop with a "don't." He says, "Go chasing..." And then he says, "...pursue some good stuff to do. Go after faith." Well, that means adventures that can stretch you and your faith in God. He says, "Go after love." In other words, be pursuing bridges to other people; more ways to put them first. He says, "Be a peacemaker between other people." He gives one don't and four do's. That's a spiritual diet that can have lasting
affects. Lasting results because you've got many more things you are doing than things you stopped doing.
Jesus talked about a man who swept the house and got rid of an evil spirit, but he didn't have anything in the house after the spirit was gone. And seven spirits worse came back because there was a vacuum. See, I don't think we can just be against things; we've got to be for a lot more things. We've got to invest in alternatives to the wrong thing.
We should major on healthy friendships, invest in those, encourage those, spend money for our kids to have good input and fun family times without regrets, and healthy recreation to develop their abilities. Go on spiritual missions together in your neighborhood or somewhere else in the world.
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U. CHICAGO (US) — Scholars have completed a dictionary that offers insight into the lives—taxes, work, and marriage—of people in ancient Egypt.
The ancient language is Demotic Egyptian, a name given by the Greeks to denote it was the tongue of the demos, or common people. It was written as a flowing script and was used in Egypt from about 500 B.C. to 500 A.D., when the land was occupied and usually dominated by foreigners, including Persians, Greeks, and Romans.
This marriage annuity, written in the Demotic Egyptian language, provides information on how a husband agrees to provide for his wife. The flowing script was used in Egypt from about 500 B.C. to 500 A.D. (Credit: Oriental Institute Museum)
This illustration traces the evolution of the word ebony through the Middle Egyptian, Demotic and Greek languages. (Credit: Oriental Institute Museum)
The language lives on today in words such as adobe, which came from the Egyptian word for brick. The word moved through Demotic, on to Arabic and eventually to Spain during the time of Islamic domination there, explains Janet Johnson, editor of the Chicago Demotic Dictionary.
Ebony, the dark wood that was traded down the Nile from Nubia (present-day Sudan), also comes from Demotic roots. The name Susan is indirectly related to the Demotic word for water lily.
“Demotic was used for business and legal documents, private letters, and administrative inscriptions, and literary texts, such as narratives and pieces of wisdom literature,” says Johnson, a professor at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute.
“It was also used for religious and magical texts as well as scientific texts dealing with topics such as astronomy, mathematics and medicine. It is an indispensible tool for reconstructing the social, political, and cultural life of ancient Egypt during a fascinating period of its history,” she continues.
“This dictionary will be very useful, as there are more unpublished documents in Demotic than any other phase of ancient Egyptian,” says James Allen, a professor at Brown University and University of Chicago PhD graduate.
The Demotic language was one of the three texts on the Rosetta stone, which was also written in Egyptian hieroglyphs and Greek. In addition to being used on stone carvings, the script was left behind on papyrus and broken bits of pottery.
“Before Demotic, Egyptians developed a script form of hieroglyphs called hieratic; Demotic evolved from that. Because it was cursive, it was much easier and faster to use than were the elaborate pictures of the hieroglyphs,” says Johnson.
The script was particularly useful as a means of conducting everyday business, such as paying taxes.
“People would write the information down on potsherds and put them in the basement, much as we keep track today of our income tax records by keeping copies of our past returns,” Johnson adds.
Johnson has worked with Demotic since she was a graduate student at the Oriental Institute. The advent of computer technology facilitated the assembly of the Demotic Dictionary, which unlike its older sister, the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, could be organized electronically rather than on index cards.
The 21-volume Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was completed last year after 90 years of work, while the Demotic Dictionary, which does not include as much information as the Assyrian Dictionary, was completed in less than half the time.
Scholars at the Oriental Institute are also working on a dictionary of Hittite, a language once spoken in Anatolia (present-day Turkey).
“The last four decades have seen a real explosion of Demotic studies, with more scholars focusing on this material, and great leaps in our understanding of this late version of the Egyptian language,” says Gil Stein, director of the Oriental Institute. “The Chicago Demotic Dictionary is reaching completion at the perfect time to have an enormous impact on our understanding of Egyptian civilization in the final few centuries, when it still flourished as a vibrant and unique culture.
“The Chicago Demotic Dictionary provides the key to understanding the vast body of Demotic contracts, letters, tax records and other documents; this allows us to hear the voices of the people who made up the vast majority of Egyptian society during the period when they were under first Greek and then Roman rule.”
37 years later
The work began in 1975 as a supplement and update to Wolja Erichsen’s Demotisches Glossar, published in 1954. The dictionary is based on texts in Demotic that were published by scholars from 1955 to 1979, and lists new words not included in Erichsen’s work as well as new uses of words included there.
The words are listed in the dictionary with references to how they were used in documents.
The use of computers helped speed the process of preparing the dictionary because it allowed scholars to reproduce the cursive script of Demotic electronically and add information in Roman fonts. By providing photographs, or facsimiles of the script, the dictionary provides an exact representation of the way people wrote the language.
The final entry for “S” has been completed, and 24 other letters are online. Eventually there will be a published dictionary primarily for university libraries.
How men and women lived
Much of Johnson’s own work deals with scholarship on women who lived during a period of transition in Egyptian society. Although the rulers in the classical worlds of Rome and Greece frequently minimized the role of women in their cultures, the Egyptians had an idea much closer to equality of the sexes.
On a wall in the Oriental Institute Museum, for instance, is a papyrus scroll on display bearing the text of an annuity written in Demotic. Annuities were written by a husband to a wife to acknowledge money she had brought into marriage and also guaranteeing to provide a set amount of food plus money for clothing for her use each year during their marriage.
The documents in Demotic show that people during the period continued the respect for women that had been typical of earlier times in Egyptian history. Women could own property, for instance, and also had the right to divorce their husbands.
Another Demotic scholar at the Oriental Institute is Brian Muhs, who has worked on tax records written in demotic, both official government tax records, and tax receipts issued to taxpayers.
Authorities conducted censuses, which were used to collect taxes with different rates for men and women; compulsory labor requirements for men only, such as digging ditches; and professional taxes for people practicing a profession. There were sales taxes and taxes collected as grain from harvests.
“The government often leased the collection of taxes to the highest bidder, who was required to pay the amount of the bid to the government regardless of how much tax they collected,” says Muhs, associate professor at the Oriental Institute.
“To protect the taxpayers from overzealous tax collectors, the tax collectors were required to issue tax receipts to taxpayers upon payment of their taxes,” he explains. “Multiple tax receipts for the same individuals frequently survive, because individuals usually kept their tax receipts together for multiple years.”
The preserved literature tells stories of human drama, with consequences in the afterlife of rewards for the righteous and punishment for the sinful.
The literature also has proverbs rich with folk wisdom, carried in instructions that are left on papyrus. They provide insights in the way people were expected to behave. “Do not sit down before a dignitary,” the instructions caution, for instance.
Other examples of common sense include: “Pride and arrogance are the ruin of their owner”; “Do not sit or stand still in an undertaking which is urgent”; and “Money is the snare the god has placed on earth for the impious man so that he should worry daily.”
Tool for scholars
Friedhelm Hoffmann of the Institute for Egyptology at the University of Munich said: “The Demotic texts play a crucial role in providing the necessary insights into the time when the classical world of Greece and Rome had close contacts to the Egyptian culture.
“The stories Herodotus (fifth-century B.C.) tells about Egyptian kings of the second-millennium B.C., for example, have to be understood not in the light of how the second millennium really was, but in the light of what the Egyptians of the fifth-century B.C. thought and narrated about these ancient times,” he explains.
“I myself have been using the Chicago Demotic Dictionary since the first letters were published, not only for looking up words and but also finding their meaning,” Hoffmann adds.
The publication of the dictionary has doubled the number of words known in Demotic, and subsequent translations and publications will produce even more, Hoffmann says.
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Nio's auto stations have now swapped out 500,000 EV batteries
We're no strangers to being able to remove a battery unit from an ebike for charging indoors, and even if you move up the electric vehicle ladder to an electric scooter, you may be lucky enough to be able to swap out a dead pack for a fresh one. But things get more complicated for electric cars. Chinese EV maker Nio has had swappable batteries at the heart of its design language for a while now, and has recently celebrated its 500,000th battery swap.
The convenience of being able to pull up to a "fuel station" when your car's battery pack is running low and have it swapped out, rather than wait around for a top up at the charger, is an appealing one. A company called Better Place set up a number of demonstration projects over a decade ago, and even launched commercially, but couldn't balance the books and went into liquidation in 2013.
Nio packed more than 500 patented technologies into its battery swap solution, the first of which opened at the Nanshan High Tech Industrial Park, Shenzhen, in 2018. The idea is that Nio EV drivers can pull up to one of the company's Power Swap stations and have the vehicle's battery pack automatically swapped out in just three minutes. The onboard electrical systems are also given a health check as part of the process.
More Power Swap stations have been installed since, and there are now 131 units in 58 cities across China, with the latest opening in Foshan just last month. But the 500,000th battery swap actually took place at the Shanghai Auto Expo Park on May 25.
Another advantage of such a service is that drivers could benefit from higher capacity or better performing battery technology as it comes along, potentially without having to purchase a new electric vehicle. But there's still some way to go before battery swap technology reaches mainstream usage for electric cars, but with three major Chinese economic zones already covered, Nio looks to be charging ahead with the service. | <urn:uuid:8113f9fd-fcd6-4c61-9e0f-0c29448a8fec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newatlas.com/automotive/nio-power-500000-battery-swaps-ev/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96327 | 419 | 2.09375 | 2 |
PETA Hopes to Place Ads Where Bacon Fest Attendees Will Be a Captive Audience
For Immediate Release:
October 30, 2015
Sophia Charchuk 202-483-7382
Easton, Pa. – A disturbing message may soon be greeting visitors in need of a pit stop near Easton—home of the upcoming PA Bacon Fest—where PETA hopes to place ads in bathroom stalls reading, “BACON: It’s What’s Rotting in Your Colon.” The ads follow a new report from the World Health Organization officially confirming that processed meats—including bacon—are carcinogenic, just like other dangerous substances such as nicotine and tobacco.
“The World Health Organization’s new report highlights what studies have reported for decades: that eating animals’ bodies makes us sick,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “By placing these ads in an impossible-to-miss spot, PETA is hoping to raise needed awareness and save lives.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—has long pointed out that ditching meat and dairy foods is a great way to boost your health, as vegans are less likely to suffer from heart disease, strokes, diabetes, cancer, and obesity than meat-eaters are. And their consciences are lighter, too, because every person who goes vegan spares more than 100 animals every year daily suffering and a terrifying death.
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It’s always a good thing to have conversations with people who don’t understand why or how education for kids of urban communities differ from those in the suburbs. This one went a little to the right as one women acknowledged her privileged. She is parent (C). She then attempts to advise another mom (S) to use her privilege to just “do what ever it takes to get out of the neighborhood”.
Yep! I was livid and this is why we need more open conversations about racism. The thought that one minute she acknowledged and the next she threw shade at a parent for not using privilege to make better choices for her kids. The old “if you want it bad enough you will make it happen” mindset really disturbed me. | <urn:uuid:0b372e1c-85f1-450a-97e2-a28e2530beb4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://detroitschooltalk.org/2017/09/privilege-joins-conversation-parents-selecting-schools/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977734 | 157 | 1.578125 | 2 |
The Japanese Language School of Philadelphia (JLSP), founded in 1972, is a not-for-profit 501-3(c) organization recognized by the State of Pennsylvania and partially funded by the Ministry of Education of the Japanese Government.
The School is governed by the Board of Trustees, administered by the Principal who is assigned by the Japanese government, and operated by a group of dedicated professional educators and parents.
The School offers instruction in 20 programs within four broad categories:
1.) Japanese curriculum, as defined by the Ministry of Education, grades 1 thru 12
2.) Japanese as a Heritage Language (JHL) classes for children, ages 6 thru 18
3.) Japanese as a Second Language (JSL) classes for adults
4.) Japanese pre-school classes, age 4 thru 6
Classes are held weekly on Saturdays, according to the Japanese school calendar from April to March (except for JSL classes, which begins in Sept) on the campus of Friend’s Central School in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Currently there is a highly diversified population of over 230 students from a broad area of Southeast Pennslyvania, Delaware, and New Jersey studying at the JLSP, supported by 30 teachers and staff.
The Japanese Ministry curriculum (Category 1 above) follow guidelines from the Ministry of Education, such as Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The textbooks used in these programs are the same as those used in domestic schools in Japan. The Japanese government has approved the curriculum to assure that JLSP provides the equivalent level of Japanese education scheduled at the same pace as the Japanese domestic schools. Therefore, JLSP students complete each grade in the same school year as their counterparts in Japan. These high-level programs provide a smooth transition from the United States education program to the Japanese domestic education program when participants and families return to Japan.
For the information of our JHL program (Category 2), please refer to the page “Japanese as a Heritage Language for Children.”
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The EU is about to slap Google with a $3.4 billion fine: The Telegraph
The European Union is preparing to fine Google for anti-competitive practices, according to a report from UK’s The Telegraph.
The newspaper cites sources claiming that Google is facing a fine of around €3 billion ($3.4 billion), with the final decision expected to be taken before the summer recess. An announcement could happen as soon as next month.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, thinks Google is stifling competition and ultimately hurting consumers by manipulating search results for its own gain.
In this particular investigation, which started in 2010, Google is accused of unfairly promoting its shopping services at the expense of competitors. But, as we explained here, it’s very difficult to draw the line between what’s fair and what’s not. On the one hand, Google should be able to reap the benefits of its own labor. On the other, when a company is as dominant as Google is in the search market, normal rules no longer apply and regulators have to step in to ensure that smaller competitors get a fighting chance.
Google has vigorously opposed any wrongdoing accusations. The company has tried to settle the charges at least three times, according to Reuters, and offered to make changes to the way results are displayed in its search engine. But, under Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, the EC has adopted a harsh stance and Google’s chances to avoid a fine are very small.
The maximum penalty that Google faces is 10% of its annual revenue, which is around $7.5 billion. The largest competition fine the EU ever applied was $1.4 billion, to Intel, in 2009.
In addition to the blistering fine, Google will reportedly be forced to change its search algorithms, something that the company has strongly refused so far.
This is just one of the Google inquiries that the European Commission is conducting. Last month, the Commission officially charged Google with alleged anti-competitive practices in its Android business. According to the charge, Google unfairly restricts companies from developing Android forks. European regulators also took issue with the way Google requires phone makers to preload Android devices with specific apps, like Gmail or YouTube.
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This thesis seeks to understand public perceptions of women politicians in Germany, specifically Chancellor Angela Merkel, and evaluates these perceptions based on gender, region, and representation of CDU/CSU female legislators in the Bundestag. While literature suggests that there are benefits of greater female representation in legislatures, there is a lack of research regarding how this representation impacts perceptions held by the citizens these women represent. Important to the study is also the difference in perceptions according to gender and the former East/West divide in order to understand the gender gap in Germany and the extent of the social impact left by the Communist regime. Using bivariate and multivariate tests of an original survey and data from the 2017 Pre-and-Post Election German Longitudinal Election Study, I find significant distinctions across genders toward female legislators in Germany but limited geographical influence. Further data analysis suggests that while greater presence of CDU female legislators negatively impacts perceptions among CDU women of Merkel, the extent or strength of that relationship is unclear. Analysis of interviews of German female politicians provides overall support of the gender bias findings, providing first hand insight into role of gender in German politics.
Advisor(s) or Committee Chair
Dr. Timothy Rich, Dr. Laura McGee, Dr. Alexander Olson
International Relations | Models and Methods | Other German Language and Literature | Women's Studies
Woggon, Erin, "Public Perceptions of Angela Merkel and Other Female Politicians in Germany: A Mixed Survey Approach" (2019). Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects. Paper 828. | <urn:uuid:ac241b53-9384-4cc7-a3fe-8faebc34d6e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/stu_hon_theses/828/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.895824 | 367 | 1.6875 | 2 |
You have signed up for a half marathon and been training for the last few weeks. You also have a desired goal time in mind. But how do you know if this goal is actually realistic? Before the race, you need to be able to estimate your goal time as accurately as possible in order to choose the right running pace. This is important because it helps you to optimize your half marathon prep and select the best strategy for the big day.
Today we have some tips for you on how to go about finding a realistic running pace for your half marathon.
This post includes 2 useful tools for planning your race pace:
- A pace calculator
- A downloadable PDF with a half marathon pace chart
1. Calculate your running pace based on previous races
The easiest way to estimate your half marathon pace is to look at your race times over shorter distances. Using certain factors, you can calculate your expected half marathon time from your 5K or 10K personal best (PB).
Formula for calculating a realistic half marathon time:
- 5K PB x 4.667
- 10K PB x 2.223
Example: Your 10K personal best is 50 minutes. Multiply this time by 2.223 to get your realistic half marathon time: 1:51 h. This is equal to a 5:16 min/km pace.
2. Do several timed runs during your training
Another method for estimating your race pace is to do several timed runs during your training. The goal is to develop a feel for different speeds over different distances. You can then use this during the race to adjust your running pace accordingly. For this method to be effective, you need to be very aware of your body.
This pace calculator will help you determine the pace you ran over different distances:
3. Determine your individual training zones
Finally, the most accurate, but slightly more complicated, method for finding your realistic race pace is to determine your individual training zones. You can determine them through specific tests performed in the lab or out in the field, such as a lactate threshold test or a VO2 max test .A sports scientist or experienced coach can also estimate the expected finishing time with a high degree of accuracy and advise you on your training zones and race pace.
Once you have determined your realistic half marathon time, you can then divide this goal time by the number of kilometers in the race to find your race pace per kilometer. Try to run each kilometer at a steady pace during the race.
We have put together a half marathon pace chart as a pdf for you with the expected goal times and the corresponding pace times in min/km. This gives you a good overview of the pace you need to run at to achieve different goal times.
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Gas rig in Kansas. Photo by CNN
KERRY LESTER,Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois came a giant step closer to approving the nation’s strictest regulations for high-volume oil and gas drilling on Friday, as lawmakers approved a measure they hoped would create thousands of jobs in economically depressed areas of southern Illinois.
The Senate passed the legislation 52-3, one day after it was overwhelmingly approved in the other chamber. Gov. Pat Quinn promised to sign it, calling the legislation a “shot in the arm for many communities.”
The legislation was crafted with the help of industry and some environmental groups — an unusual collaboration that has been touted as a potential model for other states.
Legislation sponsor Mike Frerichs, a Champaign Democrat, said stakeholders “sat down for hundreds and thousands of hours” to hammer out the issue.
“These are tough regulations that are going to protect and preserve our most valuable resources in our state,” he told floor members. “We are going to increase home produced energy in our state in one of the most environmentally friendly ways possible.”
While proponents have said hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” would generate tens of thousands of jobs, opponents have been pushing for a two-year moratorium to allow more time to examine health and environmental impact. They are worried fracking could cause pollution and deplete water resources.
“This bill was written by industry and parties that have a vested interest,” said Annette McMichael, a property owner in Johnson County who belongs to a coalition that opposes fracking. “We have no say in our own water. … We are totally helpless.”
Despite the numerous protests by her group, Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment, and others — one woman was forcibly removed from the House chamber on Thursday after the vote — there was little opposition to the measure on the floor. Senators on both sides of the aisle praised the compromise.
“This could be a bright economic future for many, many Illinoisans,” said Sen. Kirk Dillard, a Hinsdale Republican.
Fracking uses high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals are used to crack rock formations deep underground and release oil and natural gas.
Among the provisions in the proposed legislation are requirements that drillers disclose the chemicals they use and that they test water before and after fracking. Companies also would be liable for any water pollution.
Sen. Mattie Hunter, who was among the few who voted against the legislation, said in a statement that the state should “halt fracking practices and allow for a task force to complete concrete, comprehensive evaluation of this highly controversial industry moving further.” The Chicago Democrat had introduced a measure that would put a temporary ban on the practice.
Sen. Sue Rezin, a Morris Republican described the legislation as having “the highest environmental regulations in the entire country.”
Energy companies are eyeing the New Albany shale formation in southern Illinois, where they believe there are significant oil reserves 5,000 feet or more below the surface.
While the measure passed easily in both chambers, the road there wasn’t easy. An amendment requiring energy companies to hire a state-licensed water well driller delayed the vote for more than a month before industry and unions reached a compromise that gives drillers a break on extraction taxes if at least half of their employees are from Illinois.
Two bills proposing a moratorium were offered, but neither gained traction.
Opponents say the regulatory legislation would leave Illinois communities with no control over the practice.
But others felt it was the best the state could do. State Sen. Don Harmon, an Oak Park Democrat said it was “about as good of a regulatory bill as we could offer.”
“God willing,” Harmon said, “it’s good enough.”
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The mercy of God is not a little thing. God is not little, nor is His mercy small or puny. It is a wondrous thing; full of light, life and love. Meditate on God’s mercy. It is so sweet and tender. It heals, and restores the broken heart. His mercy changes the look and feel of our bodies. Oozing wounds are bound up. It soothes our troubled minds, and bring joy to our souls. Mercy puts a smile on the face, where moments before there was a frown. God’s mercy is wide and infinite. It can’t be measured or put in a bottle to be stored and saved for a rainy day. It always ready, and available to everyone. Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, the psalmist wrote. Mercy brings us to the throne of Heaven so we can dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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LONDON (CBS Sacramento) - A new study finds that the downside to global social networks is the potential to ‟aggravate or even induce psychotic symptoms" in psychologically vulnerable patients.
Five doctors examined the real-life case of a 31-year-old woman the authors called ‟Mrs. C," who was admitted to the psychiatric ward of a hospital in Berlin.
Medical records showed "Mrs. C" had never shown signs of any kind of personality disorder until she was committed following a year-long obsession with Twitter.
‟Sometimes, she would spend several hours a day reading and writing messages, neglecting her social relationships and, sometimes, even meals and regular sleeping hours," said the study.
Under examination, Mrs. C. told the doctors she believed a famous actor was secretly responding to her tweets through coded messages, which she claimed to receive from lots of different sources on Twitter.
‟During the next couple of weeks, Mrs. C increasingly felt that the messages of other users were ‛meant in a symbolic way'' and that she had to react to these ‛tasks' in a certain manner," the doctors noted. ‟After approximately two months, she started to discover the same symbols in her real-world environment. She then began to feel that there ‛must be some organization behind these tasks' and started to suspect a sect, pointing to the development of systematized paranoid delusion."
Mrs. C. eventually recovered from her symptoms, losing all interest in Twitter in the process. The doctors declared her free of Internet addiction.
But they warn that other patients with similar psychological illnesses could respond the same way to social networks and perhaps create dangerous fixations for those already predisposed to psychosis.
The researchers say the unique nature of interactions on Twitter could make the social network a major draw to those already in peril0us psychological situations.
"The authors believe that the amount of symbolic language (caused by the limitation of 140 characters per Twitter message), the automated spam responses with seemingly related content, and the general interactive features of Twitter might combine several aspects that could induce or further aggravate psychosis," they wrote.
The article is published in the Journal of Nervous And Mental Disease.
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