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People carry out the sport of body building for all sorts of reasons, but physical fitness is probably the most significant among all. There's no doubt that people who take the time to focus on the muscles in their body and honing them to a chiseled state are probably among the most fit of professional athletes. We can quickly utilize the terms body building and fitness interchangeably with each other.
We are a fitness conscious society, and body building suits perfectly with that concept. Physical fitness suggests more than simply slimming down and having a trim body. It indicates living a healthy way of life and sculpting the best body you can through a variety of approaches.
You will realize a level of physical fitness you never knew was possible since being an effective body builder suggests having the correct diet plan. You need to have a well-balanced nutrition strategy that gives you the nutrients you require to have a great body.
You will be providing your body vital nutrients that will make you healthy just by consuming them because you are consuming in this method. Body structure needs a very particular diet plan with great deals of protein and great deals of carbs. Body builders are also very familiar with what they are putting in their body, so fitness is attained in the diet just by concentrating on what you eat.
Body structure likewise needs an exacting exercise schedule where you lift weights and perform exercises that concentrate on specific muscle groups as well as specific muscles. They end up being extremely well defined and healthier when you begin to sculpt those muscles. That's why body building is excellent for a physical fitness regime.
Fitness is very important in living a healthy and full way of life. When you are ignoring your health, staying fit both in body and mind contributes to a sense of wellness that you won't find anywhere else. It is a million dollar industry that helps us stay healthy and trim, and the aid is out there aplenty when you look for it.
Body building for physical fitness is the best way you can go about not just losing weight but likewise acquiring body mass and ending up being more powerful. When you accomplish the level of physical fitness you are wanting, you will be able to look in the mirror and be proud of what you see.
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2012-2015: Post-doctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Virginia, USA
July 2012: Ph.D., Zoology, School of Life Science, Peking University, China
July 2005: B.S., Bio-Technology, School of Life Science, Peking University, China
Fang Wang was a postdoctoral scholar in the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS). He received his Ph.D. in zoology from Peking University, during which he has spent 4 years in Qinling Mountains working and living with nature reserve staff. Before went to graduate school, he was a contract nature photographer traveling across major mountains in rural China. These varied experiences, combined with bilingualism in Mandarin Chinese and English, have strengthened his capacity to network, collaborate in multi-cultural environments, and consider projects from local and global perspectives.
He worked on modeling the spatiotemporal structures of animal communities in forest environments, as well as revealing the complex interactions between coupled human and natural systems. Specifically, his research aimed to demonstrate the complex, long-term impacts of human activities on giant panda and its sympatric species communities. Such knowledge would serve as decision-making tools in conservation practices.
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After much research and consideration, you want to add sheep to your farm. The barn is ready, you have feed on hand and you’re excited to find your sheep… now what?
There are a number of places and ways you can find sheep to buy:
- Kijiji and online ads – ah yes, Kijiji sheep. Nearly everyone has bought some with a range of success. It is important to ask lots of questions as well as view the sheep in person before buying.
- The sales barn – while you can easily go to your local sales barn and bid on sheep, this option should never be done unless it is a breeder sale. The risk of disease is very high from a sales barn and you will only have limited information available to you.
- Direct from a breeder – this is your best bet. You can find breeders through a variety of ways, there is the Canadian Livestock Records Corporation, provincial sheep organizations and GenOvis.
Once you have located a source for the sheep you want, you should find out information about their health, genetics and performance.
- Look for sheep that are disease-free and that have not been exposed to footrot. You can check online to see if the farm is participating in any health monitoring programs such as Maedi-Visna, Scrapie or the Ontario Sheep Health Program.
- Ask about the vaccination schedules that have been used as well as the products. Tasvax 8 and Glanvac 6 are fairly standard vaccines being used across Canada.
- Check if the farm has GenOvis records. This is a performance tool used by producers to track weight gain and productivity in their sheep. GenOvis has indexes to help you select the best sheep for your goals.
- Enquire about the overall performance of the flock. Ask how many lambs get weaned, what age and weight are they weaned at? What is the mortality rate?
- Ask about the feed and breeding schedules to gain an understanding of the dietary needs and the out-of-season breeding ability.
Overall, regardless of the breed, you want to find healthy sheep with good conformation and multi-generation performance records so that you can get the best start possible. While buying the cheapest sheep available can work once, it is not a good idea to buy sheep without further research once you have an established flock. If you are unsure, take someone with you to look at your first sheep. | <urn:uuid:4763cc6a-4abc-4458-9c1e-90997afa6693> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://farmingfrontiers.ca/purchasing-livestock-sheep/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961633 | 512 | 1.5 | 2 |
Jay Senter and Shaila Dewan, New York Times, July 7, 2022
A white Minneapolis police officer whose murder of a Black man outside a convenience store touched off protests around the world was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison on Thursday, in a case that signaled a new readiness to hold police officers criminally accountable for misconduct.
The former officer, Derek Chauvin, 46, was sentenced for using excessive force under color of law against both George Floyd, the man who died in the encounter, and a 14-year-old boy, also Black, who was injured in an unrelated, though similar, incident.
With time already served deducted, Mr. Chauvin’s sentence amounts to 20 years and five months, near the lower end of the range of 20 to 25 years prescribed by the sentencing guidelines. His federal and state sentences are to be served concurrently.
The sentencing marks the likely end of Mr. Chauvin’s legal saga. He was convicted of murdering Mr. Floyd in a dramatic trial in state court last year and sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison, a conviction he has appealed. The sentence on Thursday came in a separate federal civil rights case in which Mr. Chauvin pleaded guilty, severely limiting his right to challenge the sentence.
Philonise Floyd, Mr. Floyd’s brother, urged the court to give Mr. Chauvin the maximum sentence. “I haven’t had a real night’s sleep because of the nightmares I constantly have hearing my brother beg and plead for his life over and over again,” he said.
Prosecutors also argued for Mr. Chauvin to receive the maximum sentence, in part because he pleaded guilty in two encounters.
Mr. Chauvin, who has made scant public comments since his arrest, also addressed the court, though he offered no apology for his actions.
Both he and his lawyer, Eric J. Nelson, sought to portray Mr. Chauvin as a casualty of prevailing political winds. “Your honor, I recognize the difficult and unpleasant job of this case — having to follow legal standards in a charged political environment must be very trying,” Mr. Chauvin said.
Carolyn Pawlenty, Mr. Chauvin’s mother, spoke on her son’s behalf, just as she did at his sentencing in the state trial. She cited his 20 years of service to the Minneapolis Police Department and said that many of its members had “failed to back their own,” an apparent reference to condemnation of her son’s actions and testimony against him by fellow officers.
She said her son had received thousands of cards expressing support, enough to fill a room of her house.
The plea agreement suggested that Mr. Chauvin’s federal sentence be about the same length as the state sentence, 20 to 25 years, giving him the opportunity to do his time in a federal prison where he would be less likely to encounter people he had helped convict when he was an officer.
Three other officers participated in the fatal arrest of Mr. Floyd: two rookies, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, and a more experienced officer, Tou Thao, who, along with Mr. Chauvin, arrived on the scene to provide backup. Bystander video of the encounter went viral and all four officers were swiftly fired.
They also faced federal civil rights charges in addition to state murder charges, a move that Mark Osler, a former federal prosecutor and law professor at the University of St. Thomas in the Twin Cities, said was more than a practical safeguard against acquittals or successful appeals in state court.
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Hope High School is a provider of the Duke of Edinburgh Award (DofE) This award aims to help young people take part in various challenging activities. It helps our pupils develop key skills for their time at Hope High, further education and later life.
Pupils from Year’s 9,10 and 11 will have the opportunity to participate and progress through the Bronze and Silver awards, with expert guidance from Hope High School staff.
Taking part in this award develops a young person’s confidence and helps to develop their self-esteem, as they learn more about themselves in various environments.
The award comprises of four elements; Physical, Skill, Volunteering and the Expedition. The award is highly regarded by colleges and employers alike and it also provides our pupils with a great opportunity to improve their ability to work within a team. Pupils will initially work towards their Bronze award; some pupils will then move onto the Silver Award. From this they can follow on and progress to their Gold in further education.
Over the past year our pupils have shown that they can adapt when faced with big changes.
For their skill element of the award pupils have learnt and practiced bushcraft skills, where they have shown confidence and the ability to safely light and maintain a fire which they have then cooked over. With the restrictions that we were faced with, due to Covid-19, pupils worked on their cooking skills at home, before being able to complete this section around a fire as a group. Pupils also had the chance of tying knots, lashing and demonstrated their ability to put up a basic shelter.
For their physical section of the Bronze Award pupils took part in hiking. Starting this section our pupils walked across different terrain and progressed in distance. During lockdown pupils worked on their own fitness programmes at home before hiking again in the local area around our school once lockdown restrictions were lifted. This section was finished looking at basic navigation skills and the group working as a team to lead on a number of routes around Beacon Country Park.
At the start of their voluntary section pupils demonstrated great determination by working together, in supporting the National Trust to maintain cleanliness, with litter picking at Formby beach. When unable to travel due to covid-19 restrictions, pupils completed this section by litter picking at Beacon Country Park and in the the local area around the school site.
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Between 1969 and 1972, a new type of archaeological site was created. For the first time, human bodies and the technology needed to sustain them altered the landscape of another world. The astronauts from the six Apollo missions left a suite of space-age artefacts behind on the lunar surface. And not only that: the missions brought to the Moon new kinds of shadows, cast by machines and bodies and flags and rovers, in an interplay of movement and stillness. (the conversation.com)
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A master of business administration (MBA) is a professional degree given to those who study business management at a business school. Various forms of analysis and strategy are covered including operations, marketing, finance, and accounting.Courses in marketing and communication teach how to create a marketing plan based on market research and marketing principles. These classes usually form part… Read more
A master of business administration (MBA) is a professional degree given to those who study business management at a business school. Various forms of analysis and strategy are covered including operations, marketing, finance, and accounting.
Courses in marketing and communication teach how to create a marketing plan based on market research and marketing principles. These classes usually form part of a certification or degree program. Other subjects include how to utilize consumer decision making trends to help create a brand image.
While distance learning courses have due dates that must be met, there is a fabulous deal of compliance as to when you can carry out assignments when studying at a distance. With the online option, You could exit the discussion group as required to return to work and then join after work if needed. Distance learning courses can be taken in whatever place you have Internet access. You can even complete classes from the Internet lounge in any hotel around the world if you need a vacation.
Education in the United States is mainly provided by the public sector, with control and funding coming from three levels: state, local, and federal, in that order. The common requirements to study at a higher education level in United States will include your admissions essay (also known as the statement of purpose or personal statement), transcript of records, recommendation/reference letters, language tests
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A climber walks in a box of emeralds, gems and sapphires buried for decades in Mont Blanc. France, Rewarded with half the treasure.
An unnamed climber discovered the gems in 2013.
The box is believed to have belonged to someone on an Air India flight that crashed into a bush 50 years ago.
The climber applauded after handing the box to the police. The law should be made in France.
But now he has been rewarded with half the treasure of hundreds of precious stones, while a local officer in the Chamonix in the French Alps took the other half because he could not find the family in India. Their owner.
The gemstone, valued at $ 170,000, is divided into two equal parts, Somonix Mayor Eric Bornier told AFP.
Mayor Praised the “integrity” of the mountaineer By handing over your discovery to the police.
At least 48 people were killed when two Air India planes collided with Mont Blanc in 1950. In 1966, the second plane of the Indian National Aircraft crashed into a mountain with 117 people on board.
Authorities believe the gems may have come from the 1966 plane crash from Bombay to New York.
No human remains have yet been found on the mountain, No luggage of those on board.
In 2012, it was discovered that a consular bag from India contained newspapers, agendas and a personal letter dated 1966.
A physicist known as Homi J Baba, the “father” of India’s nuclear program, One of the victims of the 1966 crash.
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The Maori first arrived in New Zealand (they call it Aotearoa) around 1000 years ago by canoe from one or more of Hawaii, Tahiti and the Cook Islands. There were many migrations over the following centuries. As they travelled around the islands and into the North Island the Maori encountered volcanic and geothermal activity. Their stories and legends passed down indicate they were very familiar with this geographic phenomena and earthquakes. They immediately made spiritual connections with hot springs, geysers, mud pools and volcanoes. Maori people of the central North Island around Rotorua tell of the High Priest Ngatoroirangi who called to his sisters Te Hoata and Te Pupa from his homeland of Hawaki. They appeared to him above the ground in the form of this geyser and according to stories also created the other geysers, thermal springs and volcanoes.
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There is a strong feeling that over the past few decades, unfortunately, India has become a hub of corruption, frauds, black money and scams. Property disputes are on the rise too. Invariably, people come to us seeking legal advice from our expert litigation lawyers. To curb these, the government is doing everything possible from implementing demonetization to seizing benami properties.
Creating a transparent environment for all the citizens has become a major focus for the present government. In order to achieve this, the Indian government is introducing new rules and exercising new limits related to investments, finance, and property. This step directly or indirectly affects not only the permanent citizens but also the NRIs.
Even with the government trying its best to eradicate corruption, human nature still remains a huge barrier. Due to various reasons, the NRIs tend to depend on their friends and relatives for the management of their properties. Despite strong laws, this dependency often leads to problems such as unauthorized occupancy and even loss of ownership entirely.
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Living away from roots is always challenging, and on top of that when NRIs are faced with false allegations in the country to which once they belonged, it becomes tough for them to manage things.
Though most of the time these accusations are either baseless or non-existent altogether, it becomes dreadful for the NRIs to visit India and maintain their properties here. Often these false litigations are initiated by the friends, relatives or others. These invalid implications are made to prevent them from coming to India and seizing their property or maintaining its illegal occupancy.
Certain precautionary steps can be taken to avoid all the property issues that NRIs face without any intentional fault such as Updated documents and issue of Specialised Power of Attorney (POA).
Often knowing all the details about the property is not enough. Maintaining proper and appropriate documents required to claim the ownership is necessary. It is imperative for an NRI to possess validated title deed, current updated documents with ground reality of the property to protect themselves from any fraud such as illegal possession or selling off their land or false criminal litigation or transfer of assets.
Maintaining updated property documents can help NRIs prove their innocence and claim their property at any point in time.
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- Clear document stating the description of the property
- Explicit mention of the area and size
- Explicit mention of the name
- Details of the property after the proper evaluation the same
Translation of the documents in the language understood by the NRIs is necessarily required.
These documents should clearly state information about what the NRIs own and possess in India.
For an NRI, it is tough to travel to India from time to time to manage their property and protect themselves from any fraud. Thus, they need a viable solution which is available as Power of Attorney (POA). The POA document is a crucial document which may even be used against us if not made properly or if handed over to the wrong person.
The POA is a legal document which authorizes some other person to act on behalf of the owner (the NRI). There are two types of POA – General POA and Special POA.
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- The Special POA is a legal document that authorizes the other person to act on certain matters on the NRI’s behalf. It is a restricted document that limits the action of the POA holder.
Thus, it is beneficial, in fact, essential that NRIs give special POA instead of the general POA.
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Let’s say you heard a friend say, “I was arrested for DUI the other night while I was parked in a parking lot and sleeping off the
alcohol that I drank earlier in the evening.” When you heard the story, you were shocked and then you responded with, “But how could you get a DUI if you weren’t driving?”
The above story is a common scenario that I hear often from clients. They drank alcohol at a bar, nightclub, or restaurant and decided to do the right thing and spend the night in their car. Their goal was to “sleep off the booze” so they didn’t drink and drive. But as they slept, they were woken by a police officer tapping on their window. What happened next was field sobriety tests, a
breathalyzer test, and finally a DUI arrest.
DUI While Sleeping It Off
Most, if not all, licensed drivers are well-aware that it’s illegal to drive under the influence of drugs or alcohol. But a lot of people do not know that they can be arrested for DUI when they are sitting in their cars while impaired. The truth is that if you’re caught sleeping in your car while under the influence of alcohol, you CAN be arrested for DUI, even if you were not driving.
Under Section 316.193(1) of the Florida Statutes, it says: “A person is guilty of the offense of driving under the influence and is subject to punishment as provided in subsection (2) if the person is driving or in actual physical control of a vehicle within this state” and they are under the influence of alcohol, a chemical substance, or a chemical substance.
If you’re sleeping (or sitting) in your car and you’re in “actual physical control” of your vehicle, and you’re under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or a chemical substance, you can be arrested for DUI and face the same punishment as if you were driving.
To be in actual physical control of the vehicle, you can basically put the keys in the ignition and drive off whenever you want. So, if the keys are in the ignition, in your pocket, in your purse, or within reach, the state would argue that you were in “actual physical control.”
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How to Become a Physical Therapist Assistant in Montana
A great choice of career in healthcare is to become a physical therapist assistant, or PTA. It requires less training and education than becoming a physical therapist and will still allow you to work with patients. Some duties of PTAs include:
- Guiding patients through exercises
- Following patient plans designed by physical therapists
- Observe and report on patient progress and challenges
- Educate patients and their families and communicate instructions from therapists
In Montana, you must be licensed to work as a PTA, but it takes just two years of schooling to qualify. Demand for licensed PTAs is currently high in the state and salaries are competitive.
Steps to Becoming a PTA in Montana
After finishing high school or earning a GED, your next step in becoming a physical therapist assistant in Montana is to enroll in a post-secondary program. The state requires that PTAs complete an accredited program, and you can find a list of those through the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE).
Upon completing the PTA program, you will be ready to pass the National Physical Therapy Assistants Exam (NPTE). Finally, you must complete a Montana jurisprudence exam and submit an application with the required fee to the Montana Board of Physical Therapy Examiners.
CAPTE-Accredited PTA Programs in Montana
There are two approved physical therapist assistant programs in Montana:
- Flathead Valley Community College, Kalispell. Flathead Valley offers an Associate of Applied Science degree in physical therapy assisting. You must have prerequisite general education courses completed before applying to the program. Once those are done, students can finish the PTA program in just three semesters. It is important to do well in prerequisite courses, as admissions are selective and only 12 students are admitted each year.
- Great Falls College-Montana State University, Great Falls. The PTA program at Great Falls also requires prerequisite courses. There are 32 credits of these courses that take at least one year to complete. Students can then apply for the three-semester PTA program, which is rigorous and challenging. Program coursework includes clinical experience working with patients.
How to Become Licensed in Montana
You must be licensed by the state Board in Montana in order to practice as a physical therapist assistant. Once you are enrolled in an approved program, you have begun the necessary steps. After graduating you can submit your application, which must include school transcripts, a $100 fee, an official test score for the NPTE and a completed jurisprudence exam, which is attached to the application.
PTA licenses in Montana must be renewed every two years on odd-numbered years. You must complete 30 hours of continuing education credits every two years to be eligible for renewal, although this is waived for the first two-year period after initial licensure.
Career Outlook and PTA Salaries
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, growth in jobs for PTAs is very strong, at 30 percent throughout the country. The growth rate is also 30 percent for Montana. In 2016, the state had 100 employed physical therapist assistants, and is expected to have 130 by 2026.
The national average salary for a PTA is $22.56 per hour and $46,920 per year. The average in Montana is comparable at $22.32 per hour and $46,430 per year. Those PTAs earning the top salaries in the state earn annual salaries of $59,000 and higher. These are PTAs with more experience, working in larger facilities or with specializations.
Finding Work as a PTA in Montana
Most PTAs are hired by physical therapy practices, which may be stand-alone businesses or affiliated with hospitals or surgery centers. You may also look for work at a hospital or surgical center directly, with nursing homes or with home healthcare service companies. You may want to join the Montana Physical Therapy Association for networking, job opportunities and continuing education opportunities.
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Strong, successful departments drive growth and improve overall employee morale, and departmental teams and work teams need to form friendly and effective working relationships to achieve positive results. When bolder characters overwhelm more subtle personalities, power imbalances emerge, and productivity begins to falter. Carefully designed custom team-training programs turn the dysfunctional aspects of cross-functional teams (or executive teams) into opportunities for growth, empowering participants and instilling them with new enthusiasm.
An effective team is a collaborative unit that's able to work toward a common goal successfully. If your team is dysfunctional in any way, you'll see a failure to meet your goals or a delay in meeting them, as well as fractured relationships and non-productive interaction between team members.
Turnkey Coaching and Development Solution's team development program focusing on the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team provides a highly useful metric by which to evaluate your own work team or leadership team.
Former professional basketball player Phil Jackson once said, "The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." That quote says everything about the importance of working together and developing trust — each team member is weakened if the group isn't cohesive and working toward common goals. The team as a unit is strengthened when everyone communicates, works together and applies their unique talents and skills in logical, cooperative ways.
Louisa May Alcott, author of the classic book Little Women puts it even more succinctly. She says, "It takes two flints to make a fire." Organizations that want to light a fire within work groups must bring the right people together and help them understand how to strike against each other in positive ways to create the right flames.
Your team development program must include a way to assess whether your development efforts are working. The Harvard Business Review recommends paying attention to the team's output and the ability of the team to collaborate, as well as individual assessments of each of the team members.
The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Progress Report provides a template for just such an assessment, allowing you to pinpoint areas of improvement to celebrate and build on as well as those ways in which your team still needs to improve.
If a team is truly working together in a relationship of mutual accountability, the Progress Report makes that clear. It also shows obstacles to development and paves the way for team members to assess their own collaboration.
We believe team-building is an ongoing process, and more effective teams mean more productive employees. For example, managers usually don't inherently know how to effectively motivate their employees or foster a team that's cohesive and works together well. That's what our research-backed team development program is for. The members of a cohesive team have confidence in its abilities and productiveness. They also:
When leaders are properly trained, they have the skills to motivate and inspire their teams, resulting in increased work production and company profitability. And, when team-members understand how to improve their interpersonal effectiveness within the team, the team itself becomes an organization's most prized assets.
This type of staff training is effective because it pinpoints the major pitfalls that exist within ineffective teams and replaces them with positive behaviors. It also motivates team members who may be low performers or disengaged, two unhealthy characteristics of team members.
Where Team-Building Programs Take Place
The answer is — everywhere. We provide client-focused team-building programs all over the country, so chances are, there's a team development program available in your area. The result of your time and investment is a more cohesive, productive team that's able to take on multiple challenges, regardless of your industry.
What We Are and What We Are Not
We are not a company that provides week-long or day-long retreats that HR managers attend with other managers. This is not what the "Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team" philosophy is about. Instead, we deliver customized, focused assistance and team training for intact professional teams. This includes managers and the employees who work for them. We design individual programs to suit each client's requirements and goals to fix major issues that need addressing. A typical session involves between 6 and 40 employees, depending on the size of the organization.
You Can't Put a Price on Effective Communication
The bottom of the pyramid of the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team features a foundation of trust, and the key component of this is good communication. An ineffective teammate doesn't communicate well. In cases like this, team members may not know what is expected of them, resulting in conflict, increased difficulty with accomplishing tasks and, ultimately, a professional team that's unproductive and a poor contributor to the success of the company. This is yet another reason why our team-building and team training solution is valuable.
The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team leadership team training and development program is tailored to meet your organization's very specific and unique needs and culture. Through training, coaching and team development, you can facilitate trust, strengthen your team members’ ability to deal with conflicts, and their collaborative skills, all of which come together to produce the results you want your executive and work teams to achieve.
When you're able to harness the talents and personalities of your team members to work together cohesively toward a common goal, everyone benefits. Imagine your team making smart decisions together, tapping into each person's special abilities, and staying focused cooperatively to get results. That's the kind of teamwork that provides your organization with the ability to compete at its best.
Our team development program aims to provide your team with the resources required to meet and exceed goals — together. Ability alone isn't enough to sustain a professional team for long; team members need proper training, trust and commitment to the team's goals to be successful.
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ICMP Online Inquiry CenterWelcome to the ICMP Online Inquiry Center.
ICMP’s Online Inquiry Center (OIC) is a tool to provide information or obtain information about a missing person. It is an online resource that can be accessed by families of the missing and others.
Developed on the basis of ICMP’s long-standing record of helping governments, families of the missing and others, the OIC is a place where concrete and usable information is collected and stored so that it can be utilized when it is needed in the search for missing persons. Read more.
In the Inquiries section you can submit a missing person report by providing details, for example, name , date of birth, place where the missing person was last seen. If you have additional information about a missing person, you can also submit this. ICMP will only share this information with others if you agree. Please see ICMP's policy on personal data processing and protection for detailed information on how personal data is processed and protected by ICMP.
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First Nations Ministry
There are 11 First Nations communities in the Diocese of Nelson, British Columbia.
There are several First Nations Reserves in the Diocese of Nelson.
In the Kootenays, are the:
Ktunaxa First Nation:
- St. Mary's Band at the St. Eugene Mission, Cranbrook, B.C.
- Akisqnuk Band (formerly Columbia Lake Band) at Windermere, B.C.
- Tobacco Plains Band, Grasmere, B.C, south towards the Montana Border
- Lower Kootenay Band, Creston, B.C.and the Kinbasket People
- Shuswap Band, Invermere, B.C.
- Penticton Native Reserve (Sacred Heart Mission) – west of Penticton BC (Penticton Indian Band)
- Inkameep/Nk'Mip Native Reserve (St. Gregory Mission) – near Oliver (Osoyoos Indian Band)
- Chopaka Native Reserve (Our Lady of Lourdes Mission)– near Osoyoos (Lower Similkimeen Band) Contact: Mona Heinrich, 250-499-5604
- Westbank Native Reserve (St. Patrick Mission) – near West Kelowna (Westbank First Nation)
- Upper Similkameen Indian Band, Hedley (Princeton)
CHURCH MISSIONS IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE DIOCESE
Nestled in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies is the home of the St. Mary’s Band of the Ktunaxa Nation located near Cranbrook, B.C. Ktunaxa Nation members live on five reserves throughout the East Kootenays of British Columbia and two of their Bands are across the border in Idaho and Montana.
The St. Eugene Church along with the Kootenay Indian Residential School, opened in 1912, was served by the Oblate Fathers until its closing in 1970. From that point on the St. Eugene Church was put under the jurisdiction of St. Mary’s Parish in Cranbrook and is served intermittently for sacraments such as Baptism, Confirmation, First Eucharist, Marriage and for funerals, Christmas Midnight Mass and Easter Sunday Mass.
The Ktunaxa First Nation people are striving to restore their identity and culture as a Nation, which will include their traditions and some acceptance of Christianity, as most of the Ktunaxa people are rooted in the Catholic Faith and some still seek sacraments especially Baptism, Eucharist and Confirmation and the presence of a priest or lay pastoral worker at their funerals. Although faith is not mentioned in their Ktunaxa mission statement, they are people of a deep spirituality and are trying to reclaim it.
CHURCH MISSIONS IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE DIOCESE
Four missions are part of the Okanagan Nation in the northern and western part of the diocese
- Penticton Native Reserve (Sacred Heart Mission)
- Inkameep Native Reserve (St. Gregory Mission)
- Chopaka Native Reserve (Our Lady of Lourdes Mission)
- Westbank Native Reserve (St. Patrick Mission)
The Okanagan Nation also includes:
- Upper Similkameen Indian Band (Princeton)
Native Ministry Teams minister in both the Okanagan and East Kootenay regions.
Native Ministry for the North/South Okanagan & Kootenays
- St. Patrick Mission, Westbank: c/o O.L. of Lourdes Parish, West Kelowna, Email
- Sacred Heart Mission, Penticton: Adam Eneas, Penticton, 250-490-0909
- St. Gregory Mission, Osoyoos: c/o Oliver, 250-498-3934 Email
- O. L. of Lourdes Mission, near Osoyoos: c/o Penticton, 250-495-6815 (Email) and Mona Heinrich, 250-499-5604
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a new webpage on the Catholic Church and Indigenous Peoples in Canada. It outlines several chapters that retrace the multiple links between the Catholic Church and Indigenous peoples, including activities in each of the four pastoral regions of Canada. The new section can be accessed at the links below:
The Gospel does not destroy what is best in you. On the contrary, it enriches, as it were from within, the spiritual qualities and gifts that are distinctive of your cultures.” “Preserve and keep alive your cultures, your languages, the values and customs… these things benefit not only yourselves but the entire human family.”
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For me, the annual Book Review issue is a time for reflection. It provides an opportunity to take stock of scholarly trends, reassess conventional wisdom, and gather new insights to apply to the practice of law. The reviews contained in this year’s issue address a wide range of subjects, including the history of public defenders, the use of bigotry rhetoric in conflicts over marriage and civil rights law, the role of cost-benefit analysis in federal policymaking, and racial inequities in tax policy. This impressive commentary on an astute and varied collection of books about the law will inspire many of us to pause and consider larger questions about our own work: Where do things stand? How did we get here? What comes next?
My career has largely focused on reproductive rights. It is an area of the law that is perpetually at a crossroads and therefore always ripe for reflection. These rights, long recognized and deeply valued by a majority of Americans, are continually under attack and always—it would seem—on the brink of elimination. Almost from the day Roe v. Wade was decided, critics began calling for it to be overruled, and commentators began predicting its downfall. Although it has weathered the storm for nearly fifty years, those critics and commentators remain undeterred, still forecasting Roe’s imminent demise. And who knows? Perhaps this charged moment in our nation’s history, which seems increasingly like the dystopian future that prescient novelists warned of long ago, will see a disruption in constitutional protection for reproductive rights. Or perhaps the rights that have been central to the liberty and equality of women and gender-expansive people for half a century will continue to endure.
In this Foreword, I would like to reflect on two aspects of reproductive rights law in particular. First, there is a seeming duality in the Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence. On the surface, it embodies a longstanding commitment to safeguarding the right to abortion. But just below the surface, the caselaw reflects a deep tension between this commitment and the Court’s recognition that certain members of our society—some motivated by “unprincipled emotional reactions” and others motivated by “principles worthy of profound respect”—will never accept that the Constitution grants the authority to make decisions about the outcome of a pregnancy to the individual who is pregnant rather than to the government. Second, the abortion right has proven surprisingly durable despite powerful efforts to subvert it. It seems that the vital relationship of this right to core constitutional values like liberty, equality, and freedom of belief, and the critical role that it plays in the ability of women and all people with the capacity for pregnancy to participate fully and equally in society, make it extremely difficult to cast aside, rhetorical denunciations notwithstanding.
The Never-Ending Struggle for Reproductive Rights,
Mich. L. Rev.
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LARGE MOON. This Wednesday, July 13, 2022, look up to the sky to observe the “Super Thunder Moon”. What time to observe it? How far from Earth? What effects? Know everything.
[Mis à jour le 13 juillet 2022 à 20h20] Warning to moonlight lovers, the Supermoon this Wednesday night, July 13, the eve of National Day, will be spectacular! Once again, the full moon will be closer to our blue planet and we will be able to see it bigger and brighter than usual, a phenomenon that is nicknamed a “supermoon” but that scientists prefer to call “perigee-syzygy”, when the la A full moon is at the closest point in its orbit to Earth.
Waiting for photos with weather as conducive to observation as the previous Super Moon, here are the most beautiful photos of the Super Moon of June 14, taken in France, the United States, China or even Russia:
For those who miss the astronomical event, a third and last Super Moon will be visible on August 10 of this year, 2022. Another astronomical phenomenon, comet C/2017 K2, will pass closer to Earth tomorrow, July 14, but only visible from a telescope. . Find out below all the information on the distance of the Supermoon from our Earth, its observation in mainland France or elsewhere, and its scientifically proven effects.
The Supermoon on July 13 will be at its perigee precisely at 11:50 a.m., according to the Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Ephemeris Calculation (IMCCE). Its observation in France will only be possible from moonrise at 10:23 p.m. until 4:52 a.m. on July 14, the National Holiday.
The phenomenon baptized as “supermoon” by astrologer Richard Nolle, but which scientists prefer to call “perigee-syzygy phenomenon”, occurs when the point of the lunar orbit is at a minimum distance from Earth. When is the Moon closest to Earth? When it is at a distance of less than 360,000 km (the average distance between the Earth and the Moon is 384,400 km) according to the Paris Observatory. This Wednesday, July 13, the full moon will be about 357,264 kilometers from Earth.according to the Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Ephemeris Calculation (IMCCE).
The Super Thunder Moon bears this name given by the Native American tribes because it coincides with the storm season due to the high heat of summer. It is also called the Deer Moon in Native American lore because deer antlers also grow back at this time of year.
The phenomenon of the Super Moon is only visible from countries where it is dark when it passes behind the Earth, as will be the case in France on Wednesday, July 13, from moonrise at 10:23 p.m. The Super Moon is only really observable after sunset, with the naked eye, using binoculars or telescopes. To be able to observe a Super Moon in optimal conditions, it is necessary to equip yourself with astronomical glasses or a telescope, away from atmospheric pollution, or go to one of the clubs of the French Astronomy Association (AFA). View map.
To be sure to see all the details of the upcoming Super Moon, you should arm yourself with a telescope or binoculars and be as far away from city lights as possible. The Super Moon can only be observed without a telescope if the weather is very good. To observe a Super Moon, the sky must not be cloudy.
In astronomy, this event is called “perigee-syzygia”, the name of Super Moon has nothing scientific, since it is an invention of the astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979. “A Super Moon occurs when the full moon coincides with the moment when that the Moon comes closest to Earth in its elliptical orbit, a point called perigee,” explains the NASA website.
By Super Moon, therefore, we mean a celestial phenomenon that is due to two elements: the only satellite of planet Earth passes closest to us when it is a full moon night.
A Super Moon appears slightly brighter and larger than a Full Moon, simply because it appears at perigee, at its closest point in orbit to Earth, less than 360,000 km away.
Due to the full moon’s proximity to our planet Earth, its effects have an even greater impact on tides, mood, and sleep. In fact, as a Swiss scientific study carried out in 2013 and published in the journal Current Biology explains, “a lunar rhythm can modulate the structure of sleep in humans.” This means that the time to fall asleep is prolonged by 5 minutes, deep sleep is reduced by 30%, and the duration of sleep is reduced by 20 minutes. Consequently, the level of melatonin, a hormone secreted during sleep, which has a role to play in mood, is lower, which can cause irritability or even depression.
If lunar eclipses can occur several times a year, the conjunction of the two phenomena (supermoon and total eclipse) is rare and gives rise to what is called the blood moon. Centuries ago, “blood moons” were perceived as heralding great catastrophes. Today we know that this color is due to the projection of sunlight. During the lunar eclipse, it is possible “to see the reflections on the lunar surface of all the sunrises and sunsets on Earth”, a phenomenon that results from “a rare alignment of these three astronomical cycles”, said Professor Jason Aufdenberg of the University Embry-Riddle Aeronautics in Florida.
If a supermoon is advertised as a super blue moon, it has nothing to do with its color. It is so called because it is the second full moon of a calendar month. An event that only happens every 19 years. The last Super Blue Moon was in January 31, 2018. The conjunction of the phenomena, super blue moon and super blood moon, has not occurred since March 31, 1866 and the next one will not occur before January 31, 2037. The use of the term “blue” would be the result of a blunder in an article in the American magazine of amateur astronomy. sky and telescope, in 1946. The article in question was entitled “Once in a Blue Moon” and was written by journalist James Hugh Pruett who misread the 1937 Maine Farmers’ Almanac. And so this confusing expression has gone around the world in a short time . .! Every two or three years, the year includes 13 full moons instead of 12. Therefore, the super blue moon is associated with the number 13. The beliefs of the Middle Ages associate these years with 13 full moons with natural disasters, but gardeners particularly prefer to evoke rain. unfavorable years for harvests.
The expression “Super Moon of the century” should be taken with a grain of salt. The last time our satellite came so close to Earth was in 1948. On November 14, 2016, the Moon had never been this big since 1948. NASA, who spoke of “super extra moon”, announced one of the ” most impressive lunar moons”. apparitions of the century.” But if you were hoping to see a giant Moon, you may have been disappointed. “This full moon [était] actually closest to Earth for the year 2016 […]but its change in apparent diameter [n’était] it is absolutely not easy to perceive with the naked eye”, explained scientific author Guillaume Cannat on his blog Around the sky. The concept of “Super Moon” would have been invented by an astrologer forty years ago, and clumsily used by the press office of NASA,” he continued. Although the phenomenon is quite exceptional, Guillaume Cannat warned us then about the “exceptional” character of observing it.
Mark the date of the next Super Moon on your calendar: on Wednesday August 10, 2022, scheduled at 7:08 p.m.. The next Super Blue Blood Moon will not occur again until January 31, 2037.
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Study links hepatitis B vaccine to multiple sclerosis
A study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health has linked hepatitis B vaccines with multiple sclerosis, with people receiving the vaccination shown to be at three times greater risk of developing MS over the following three years than those not inoculated, the British Medical Journal reports. The study may have particular significance for gay and bisexual men, who are urged to be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted hepatitis A and B viruses. The researchers analyzed the United Kingdom's General Practice Research Database, which contains data on more than 3 million adults, and found 163 cases of MS diagnosed between 1993 and 2001. About 6.7% of the adults with MS had received a hepatitis B vaccination; MS was detected in about 2.4% of patients in a control group that weren't vaccinated against hepatitis B. Previous studies by other researchers had shown either no link between MS and hepatitis B vaccines or a significantly lower risk than discovered by the Harvard team.
The scientists say their findings don't necessarily mean that those at high-risk for hepatitis B infection should avoid vaccination. "Any decision concerning hepatitis B vaccination needs to take into account the large benefits derived from the prevention of a common and potentially lethal infection," the researchers say. A spokesman for the Multiple Sclerosis Society says that the Harvard study's finding could be taken "in the context of other recent research, which has shown no link between the vaccination and MS." The World Health Organization advocates for the inclusion of hepatitis B vaccines in routine childhood immunizations for children in every country. The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association and other gay health groups urge all sexually active gay and bisexual men to be vaccinated for both hepatitis A and B in order to prevent infection by the sexually transmitted diseases. Fewer than half of gay men at risk for hepatitis A and B have received the vaccines, according to the GLMA. | <urn:uuid:7b55cfcb-afc8-499a-a873-d999a88d64cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vaclib.org/news/ms.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954116 | 393 | 2.296875 | 2 |
On Sunday, Am Yisrael lost a true a gadol, a great man and teacher: Rabbi David Hartman. Rabbi Hartman, originally from Canada, made his home in Jerusalem, and created the Shalom Hartman Institute. SHI is a modern Orthodox, progressive think tank that generates unbelievable work on moral and political thought, the meaning of Zionism, and theology. SHI convenes Jewish scholars from all streams of Judaism and beyond Judaism, thinkers in all fields of humanities and social science, from around the world. They bring Talmud and Midrash alive, as probing texts for the existential dilemmas of modern life and modern Israel.
Rabbi Hartman's books are academic but pulsing. He was an outspoken, sometimes solitary voice for Klal Yisrael, the whole of the Jewish people within Orthodox Judaism and Religious Zionism. I myself saw him as an Orthodox rabbi take an aliya in an egalitarian Shabbat service on a college campus. He embraced and taught rabbis of all denominations; he was a conscience for the State of Israel. He believed in the role of women in modern Jewish religious life. He was a dynamic speaker and teacher, erudite and funny, and he believed in the transformative power of Talmud Torah, the study of Torah.
You may not have ever heard of him, or perhaps you did hear his voice through the Israel-related columns of Tom Friedman in the New York Times. Here are some words of remembrance from my friend and colleague, and Hartman Institute faculty member, Rabbi Rachel Sabath-Halachmi in The Times of Israel:
David Hartman was a powerful, brilliant, restless, demanding, inspiring, impatient and loving giant. There was nothing not fierce about David Hartman, one of the most – if not the most – influential thought-leaders of our time. His embrace of Jewish tradition, the State of Israel, the Jewish people, Christians, Muslims, and every human being was both fiercely loving and incessantly demanding. Impatiently he engaged every text and every person with an urgent question which must be answered now – as though all of Judaism and the future of the Jewish people and humanity itself depended on the unknowable answers. But no one could possibly embrace other human beings and wisdom itself as fiercely and as passionately as he did.
Every year, for more than 30 years, hundreds – and now tens of thousands – of academics, rabbis, lay leaders, Christian and Muslim scholars, Israeli educators, high school students and IDF officers came to sit at his feet at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Through them, millions of people have been influenced and challenged by his mind and his redemptive vision for religious pluralism, the State of Israel, and the Jewish People.
It was nearly 25 years ago when I first studied Talmud with David Hartman at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He picked up a piece of Talmud, held it to his nose, and screamed at us: “Can’t you smell it?? Can’t you smell the inconsistencies and ambivalences of the sages about women??” And then he would slam the big book of Talmud down on the table and read and reread the same lines over and over again. Exhausted, he would then call on a student to read it another ten times, until he thought we began to hear the cacophony of the voices of the sages arguing over the centuries, understand the logic and illogic of their arguments, and the interpretive task at hand.
It took another 10 years of study, rabbinic ordination, and numerous courses with other Hartman scholars of Talmud and philosophy before I moved to Israel and dared to enter into his Beit Midrash – study hall – at the Hartman Institute. The rules of engagement demanded a total willingness to learn, struggle, critique, love, and think seriously about every text and every aspect of human existence. He hated it when we agreed with him. If we couldn’t challenge him he couldn’t respect us. His Beit Midrash was a culture of constant debate, mutual respect, searing critique and big embraces. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the brilliant scholar and iconoclast, and Krister Stendahl, the radical Christian Harvard Divinity School dean, were there too, not only in text but in person. David taught and argued with all of them in the same impatient, demanding, loving way. Being in his Beit Midrash was all-consuming, terrifying, and wildly inspiring all at the same time.
He was a indefatigable warrior for the State of Israel and its significance for the Jewish people and the world and demanded that it live up to the ethical standards set out for it both by the revelation of Sinai and the crematoria of Auschwitz. He was a warrior for the status of women in traditional Judaism, he was a warrior demanding higher standards of knowledge and Zionist and spiritual commitment from liberal rabbis, he built an institution with the highest standards of intellectual excellence. He invested in and believed in people and their capacity to rise to their potential. He wasn’t afraid of anything or anyone, except how he would be judged by God and by history.
He screamed and laughed and cried – sometimes simultaneously in the middle of a lecture, or a meeting, or even just in a daily encounter about the news or a new book. He would walk into my office nearly every day to argue about something. When missiles were falling on Israel and suicide terrorists were blowing up buses and cafes in the neighborhood, more than once he walked in and screamed at me, “Why do they hate us so much?” Or in quieter times he would walk in and pick up some recent work of theology lying on my desk and say, “Why can’t they do theology more seriously?!” But he also listened carefully as I offered a tentative response. And then, disgusted or quieted by whatever answers I gave, he would shoot off another litany of questions – this time asking after my husband and children by name, how our little Reform shul was doing, and why wasn’t I writing more academic stuff and how was I feeling. Being with, studying with and working for David Hartman was a unique experience of being simultaneously constantly challenged, rebuked, and loved. Nothing could have been more inspiring.
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value investment (n): a form of investment in which those who invest select companies’ stocks or other forms of financial receptacles that are either undervalued objectively on the market or have a yet-undiscovered or yet-unactivated potential, both relative to the potential as understood by investors
Value fund managers look for companies that have fallen out of favor but still have good fundamentals. The value group may also include stocks of new companies that have yet to be recognized by investors.(from this post on Merrill’s website)
As an example:
Say you have a human person who identifies a need, and then the mind model or conceptualization for the product that can meet the need.
I’ll share one company which I follow on Twitter, to which I gave a shout-out, given that great thriller or speculative writers might find something very interesting for themselves in this company’s work, if their plot development depends in any shape or form on cool IT or tech developments that have never been treated before in fiction: Axon produces technology to help protect the lives of police officers and others working within the public safety realm. (Check out the video on this page. Isn’t this the coolest?)
Using Axon as a purely theoretical example — I do not know the details of Axon’s own strategic planning or history, in terms of conceptualization-to-patent-to-product-development — this can be said: Before someone thought about the time that it takes a police officer to identify a person who observed a crime, to taking notes in an interview, to transcribing those notes for their own chief, to then moving on the transcription — a product did not exist that could aide police officers in saving this time.
Then someone figured out this genius idea, and then Axon moved on the concrete product development, and then it had to launch its own public stocks, and then people had to identify those stocks, and then invest in them. Before these stocks took on some form of public urgency, though — and certainly before the product was ever developed — the value of the product and thus of the stock was undervalued; by value, here, we mean its financial weight relative to other stocks on the market (it’s valued less than it ought to be, given the definition above). A good value investor, in doing his/her research, will identify products of this kind.
Find the newest, coolest need; respond to it; invest in it; and then watch your investment return significantly greater funds than investment in a product that meets a need that isn’t really a need.
Besides this form of dynamic financial value, measured at the level of the stock, there is also the value of the product or company understood in its human or aesthetic sense — the value met, in a personal way, of a product developed and used. It’s an interesting matrix, to think about both the value of the stock as it is, financially, and also the value of the product in human terms.
A long time ago, during my undergrad, I took a course in international development, and one of the questions treated in the course was micro-financing. I was fascinated, also, given that it made sense — both on paper and in experience, especially considering huge case studies abroad — for an investor to pay $250 for a sewing machine, and give a woman a sewing machine, so that with apt sewing skills, she could maximize the value of the $250 over time with the development and sale of her own products (and the investment serving as a sort of guarantor of that kind of value-maximization over time), than to just give her $250.
Shocking, isn’t it, what a basic “mind model” distinction between pure funds and product value, in one form or another contingent on funds, can do to investors — as well as to the creation and maintenance of healthy infrastructure, over time?
If you think about it, book publishing is sort of like this — or could be like this, if writers, agents, editors, publishers, and investors in the book publishing realm thought about their own work with this kind of an acute sensibility and analysis of the kind of product being pitched. This applies, in a particular way, to non-fiction, especially non-fiction that is built and ordered toward the development and maintenance of longevity in infrastructure — a good book about tobacco as a public health concern will aide federal and state governments in responding to these public health concerns in actuality, beyond the theory about the issue and the theory about the necessary public health response contained within the book.
The book is both a product of theory as it is a product that opens up a demand — an undervalued need, say, before the book is published — among readers across the world.
One way to think about agenting on the non-fiction end is this: A primary underlying task involves sifting through huge quantities of research of diverse kinds (financial, creative, regional, personal, and more) to place the highest-quality products, unique in their content, before publishing houses for purchase, given the model above. The research is key to finding holes in published products. Why has the whole planet, for example, never published a book about some of the world’s most key, individual historical icons? You might be surprised about the depravity in biographies.
I, for example, with regards to the development of proposals from the ground up for non-fiction books, help academics sift through large quantities of data and their own research to shape an argument for popular/trade publication (think your big five publishing houses: Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, etc.). Buy this, because it is genius, and it needs to be published; it fits a need, and it creates an experience, and it moves readers over time to remain committed to a product and an imprint, to an idea and to a conversation.
[Read: At its heart, agenting and publishing in this way is a project of ‘long-term, value-only investment’ applied to a different form of creative work. I spend time with ‘companies’ (books) to place before ‘analysts’ (editors, publishers) to maximize authors’ returns (royalties, post-advance earnout) over time. Fun, isn’t it — what it does to the mind?]
So much more could be said, but this is one of the reasons why I came back to book publishing. Really good books, fiction and non-fiction both, have a huge potential to save the world — good fiction aides culture, creates minds and hearts in a vision of humanity and the good; genius non-fiction helps us understand the structures we create and adopt, and helps us also run a thousand miles in the direction of change that brings true joy, and freedom, collaboration and acute responses, and moves those with minds and hearts for good conversation into those exact conversations.
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Editing 101: Exercise 4 - Keep It Short
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STEM Fellowship's Scholarly Writing Workshops aim to complement learning experiences with relevant digital tools. The Editing 101: Learn To Be Your Own Editor workshop will largely focus on editing, where workshop attendees will learn strategies to edit for flow, clarity, grammar and conciseness in a series of hands-on exercises. | <urn:uuid:6014b219-a21c-4c83-8743-bde279df83e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sv.overleaf.com/latex/templates/editing-101-exercise-4-keep-it-short/kwhsvwdhjrvb | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.761782 | 110 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Date and Time of Visit: September 15, 2017, approximately 9:00 a.m.
Nowadays, the “Most Beautiful Villages” association, which started in France, has spread all over the world. In September 2017, I took advantage of the time off from my new job to travel around Europe for three weeks. In September 2017, I took a three-week trip to Europe, taking advantage of the time off from my new job to visit some of the most beautiful villages in Switzerland. We had plenty of time (though it was still hectic in the end), so we were able to conquer all 27 villages in one trip.
Villages with diverse cultures
As you know, there are three main cultural areas in Switzerland. The eastern part is German-speaking, the western part is French-speaking, and the southern part is Italian-speaking. There is also another official language, Romansh. Romansch is the official language of the country, and it is spoken only in the eastern part of the country, near Austria and Italy. Unfortunately, none of the Romansh-speaking areas are registered as one of Switzerland’s most beautiful villages, so I didn’t visit them this time.
And as always, at the bottom of the post you’ll find village location information and (in my opinion only) a village rating chart, if you’re interested.
Beautiful villages in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland
In the beginning, we will introduce you to the most beautiful villages in the Italian-speaking world. There are five Italian-speaking villages that have been selected.
The village “Ascona” is a resort in the north of Maggiore.
Now, the first village of this volume is “Ascona”. It is located in the south of Switzerland. From the southern part of Switzerland to the northern part of Italy, there are many beautiful lakes such as Lake Como, Lake Lugano, and Lake Maggiore. It is famous as a popular tourist resort area. Ascona is a beautiful village on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore.
This is a beautiful village, and unusually, it is also introduced in the Globe-Trotter. This is probably because there is a big town called Locarno just east of Ascona. This is also a tourist destination on the shores of Lake Maggiore. I think it’s introduced because it’s near a big town, so it’s easy to access.
By the way, Locarno is the name of a city that you’ve heard of as a world history nerd, of course. (If you want to know more about it, please refer to the internet.
So, our visit to Ascona was first thing in the morning on September 15, 2017, as it was right after our previous night’s stay in Locarno and was about 3 km away. We arrived around 9am. There was a large parking lot in the center of the village with plenty of space above and below ground. I felt that I could park even if I visited in the afternoon or evening because there is a considerable capacity. Of course, first thing in the morning it was empty.
The weather was beautiful and the area was warmer than most of the areas we had visited (we had already been to several beautiful German and Italian speaking villages), so we had a nice morning walk along the lake.
A brief introduction to the history of this village. As a matter of fact, it is said that this area has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times. And in the Middle Ages, it seems to have served as an important fortress. It is said that there were four chateaus at that time, but unfortunately none of them remain now. The church, the symbol of the village, whose steeple can be seen in the photo below, already existed in 1264 and was rebuilt in the 16th century. It was written like that on the page of the official website.
By the way, the official page has been upgraded a lot in the last 6 months and it looks cool.
However, to be honest, I think that there were not many places to feel the so-called medieval atmosphere, although it was undoubtedly a nice sightseeing spot. If you want to taste the old town, I felt that Locarno was better. Nevertheless, the atmosphere of the village is excellent and the public transportation seems to be accessible, so I gave it 4 stars overall in my selfish evaluation as usual. | <urn:uuid:aab1d59c-1308-4f2e-8e34-a75e26f1f19c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.yuukoma.me/ascona/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979925 | 1,169 | 1.578125 | 2 |
What is the difference between Mobile Responsive and Mobile Friendly?
When HTML messages are sent from AWeber using our Drag & Drop Email Builder, they are "mobile responsive" by default. This is not to be confused with "mobile friendly" which would be a different display.
Why are AWeber messages mobile responsive? There are several reasons, but the primary reasons are:
- Easier for subscribers to read on both desktops and mobile devices
- Text, images, and buttons automatically adjust to fit
- Multi-column layouts adjust to a single column (left column stacks on top of right)
- Content is easy to access with both a mouse and a touchscreen
Here at AWeber we code our templates to be mobile responsive using a Media Query. That code will check the device being used to view the message, and adjust the format accordingly. Please keep in mind, however, that some apps will fall back to a mobile friendly version in the event that media queries are not supported on their end. The table below will show which apps will read that code, and which will not.
|App Name||Media Query Support|
|Gmail App (iOS, Android)||Yes|
|Gmail App IMAP (Android)||No|
|Yahoo Mail! (iOS, Android)||Yes|
When viewed on mobile devices versus desktop clients, responsive email uses "media queries" to adjust the layout of the email message, font sizes, images, and buttons; in some cases, they can even be used hide or swap content. This means, in effect, there are two versions of the email message - the desktop version and the mobile version. Based on where the message is being opened, PC or mobile device, the code automatically adapts and optimizes to the specific screen size or viewing device.
Responsive email design is rapidly growing as more and more users open email messages on mobile devices. It should be noted that media queries and responsive techniques don’t work everywhere. Within AWeber, should a client or device not accept media queries, the message defaults to a mobile friendly (scalable design).
Mobile Friendly (Scalable Email Design)
Mobile friendly design can be defined as a single design that works well across both desktop and mobile email clients. There is no specific HTML/CSS code to adjust content or image sizes between the two platforms. Mobile friendly designs generally appear the same on a mobile device but "scaled down" to about half the size.
What if I have issues designing my messages?
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The first four weeks of beginning band or orchestra are a pivotal time. This is when we develop relationships and expectations. It’s also our chance to lay the groundwork for a successful beginning to a lifetime of playing, creating, performing, and enjoying music. When I think about this month, the three main areas I focus on are creating music and sound immediately, building a collaborative atmosphere, and giving students tools they can apply when they begin playing.
I have spent my career teaching in Chicago Public Schools where it is common to start beginners in high school. While I know many of my experiences reflect this unique setting, I believe that the strategies I employ can be adapted to apply to beginners in any age group.
The first day of school should also be the first day of music making. After establishing basic classroom expectations and procedures, I jump right in with rhythm. I’ll start by introducing the basics: whole notes, half notes, quarter notes. I write these rhythmic combinations on large flash cards and cycle through them at the beginning and end of class. It’s an effective “bell ringer” and is also a great way to take advantage of every last minute of class. I’ll also ask students to count and clap and practice with a metronome. Then to spice it up I’ll playa popular song in the background while students clap the rhythms on the card in time.
We also begin trying instruments out. I start by having students use only the mouthpieces. Students and I both rate their success. This serves as a useful tool when I review their instrument preferences. Students try every instruments mouthpiece in the initial round.
Though physical traits can be helpful as you assess a student, I typically do not share this info with students because I have many times been fooled by a low brass player with “thin lips” or a trombone player with short arms. Additionally, this is information that could easily upset a young student’s self-image.
Another trick I use in instrument auditions is peer teaching. I will coach one student on how to get a tone on a clarinet mouthpiece and barrel, and then have them work with two of their peers while I shift to the other end of the table to assist a flute player.
Students will continue to try out instruments this week. They’ll also get to try a fully-assembled example of their first choice instrument. By mid-week, every student should be assigned their instrument, just in time for our Beginning Band Parent Night.
All parents and guardians are invited into the school during the second week of school, instead of waiting for much later in the year (as is more common). This meeting allows you the opportunity to communicate directly with parents, allay any financial fears, and advocate for your music program.
During this week I also begin incorporating activities that encourage students to collaborate and build the relationships that they will need to form a strong ensemble. I use numerous activities including human knots, name games, and more.
One game starts with students standing in a circle and tossing a ball of yarn to each other until it forms a net connecting every student. As they throw the yarn, students can practice names or share an exciting event from the summer. Once everyone is connected with the yarn it serves as a great metaphor for an ensemble. If one or two members of the band drop their yarn, other members have to pull back to tighten the web, carrying the weight of their colleagues. Countless team building exercises exist and most exhibit some parallel to the rehearsal or ensemble situation.
Throughout the first three weeks I am always delivering information, strategies, and tips to the students with the hopes that they will be able to help both themselves and their peers once they begin playing.
One of the most effective projects I have done is called “The Instrument Basics Project.” Students start by independently reading and taking detailed notes on the first pages of their method books that cover details such as instrument care, assembly, posture, and formation of the embouchure. Then they join the other students in their section to develop a presentation about their instrument.
As they present, I step in with helpful tips (i.e. correctly attaching a reed, lining up bridge keys, steps to holding the trombone) and correct misunderstandings. By the first day of playing, students already have many of the basic skills needed to get started, which means a more focused classroom and independent learners.
By the fourth week we are ready to start learning our instruments! I begin with a focus on mouthpiece activities before adding the fully assembled instrument. Their first playtest occurs this week and requires them to be able to play a steady pitch on their mouthpiece (with neck or barrel), and for the woodwind players to match the correct standard pitch (i.e. clarinet mouthpiece and barrel should be a concert F#). This is an easy test that can be quickly assessed by having students play in succession and serves as an opportunity to deemphasize the nerves of playing in front of your peers.
Most method books fly past the first few notes, but I find my students need more practice. I developed a full page of beginning band warm-ups that focus on the first five notes. These allow students to practice good habits of breathing, effectively use air, and build endurance.
Using aural skills alone, numerous songs can be played with the first five notes. (My kids love “We Will Rock You.”) You can also teach these songs by assigning notes a number, solfege, or introducing concert pitch note names. However you do it, breaking out of the book and learning a few songs gets students making music fast. It also gives them an opportunity to practice the fundamentals introduced in the opening pages of a method book.
Knowing your students, anticipating struggles, and front-loading information will enable a successful start for your beginners. Consider first what you want your students to know and be able to do in December or May. Then plan backward all the way to their first day. With an organized plan tailored to you and your students, a successful first four weeks and year will be inevitable! | <urn:uuid:efd8c2d9-0ac2-4d71-91fe-f495f7f637aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smartmusic.com/blog/first-four-weeks-successfully-starting-beginners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960435 | 1,285 | 3.03125 | 3 |
This Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi, the parishioners, students and clergy of the Diocese of Parramatta present our reflection, created to show the beauty of our Diocese and the worldwide Christian celebration of the Season of Creation.
For Catholics around the world, the 2020 Season of Creation marks five years since the release of Laudato Si’, the letter from Pope Francis on the care of our common home. Pope Francis says “This is the season for letting our prayer life be inspired anew, to reflect on our lifestyles, to undertake prophetic acts for creation. It’s a time to call for courageous decisions, and direct the planet towards life not death. The Season of Creation is a time to care for the most vulnerable, and restore the connections that make us whole.”
We thank all those members of our Diocese who submitted their art for inclusion in this reflection. In coming days further submissions will be featured on The Well. | <urn:uuid:29020889-45e5-4c13-8fec-a8330613ed5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catholicoutlook.org/our-dioceses-celebrates-the-season-of-creation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.938443 | 198 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Learn how to organize a fridge in a few simple steps!
Fridge organization is so important. Without it, you could end up with expired condiments, old leftovers, and moldy vegetables.
Organizing your fridge can prevent all of this, saving you time and money. These quick and easy ways to get your fridge in order will have you wishing you did it sooner!
So, let’s get started and organize your fridge.
Organizing a Fridge
Empty and Wipe Down
Before you can get your fridge in order, everything must come out for a thorough cleaning and sanitizing.
Remove all food items, as well as the racks, drawers, and shelves if possible. Using a disinfecting wipe or spray, clean up dirt, stains, and spills within the fridge and on the doors.
Wipe down and sanitize all the removable holding compartments and shelves and return them to their spot in the fridge.
At this point, it’s also a good idea to find a place for a deodorizer, such as baking soda, to keep your fridge fresh.
Now that the fridge is clean and disinfected, food items can be placed back into the fridge nice and neat. Let’s start with one section and keep going until everything has a home.
The best items for the top shelf in the fridge are drinks and other liquids. Items like milk, creamer, juice, maple syrup, and maybe even sauces can have a great home on the top shelf.
Leftovers, grab-and-go prepared snacks, deli meats and cheeses, and eggs are good on the middle shelf.
These items typically have a shorter shelf life, so keeping them around eye level helps them to be seen and get used before they expire.
The bottom shelf is great for items such as raw meats and other meal prep ingredients. Keep in mind raw meats need to be stored properly to prevent unhealthy contamination.
It may be a good idea to keep each raw meat in its own separate container until it is ready to be cooked.
These drawers are for fruits and veggies. Most of them have a temperature/humidity control to keep your items fresher longer.
Most fruits need to be stored in a low humidity environment, while leafy greens and veggies are better in a high humidity drawer.
Keep these drawers clean by lining them with paper towels before stocking them with your favorite fruits and veggies.
Because the warmest part of the fridge is the door, it’s best to store less perishable items here. Items such as salad dressings, mayo, mustard, ketchup, hot sauce, pesto, and pickled foods are perfect for fridge door storage.
Try keeping like items together to maintain a more streamlined look.
Sometimes, keeping a fridge in order means adding a few useful organizers that the fridge didn’t come with.
One organizer to consider using is a lazy susan. This is helpful for items like open pickle jars and condiment bottles, which make them easily accessible with just a spin.
Another great storage option is a hanging basket. They can be hung under a shelf or suctioned to a wall to keep loose items like string cheese or meat sticks in one place.
Bins are also very helpful for storing small items together that are in pouches or bags, such as applesauce and go-gurt.
Keeping your fridge neat and tidy doesn’t have to be a challenge. Now that it’s in order, all you have to do is keep that way. Give it a good once over, about every three months to maintain its cleanliness and enjoy your newly organized fridge! | <urn:uuid:836a67a7-5a0d-4dcf-8659-c50e188abc2d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theorganizationhouse.com/how-to-organize-a-fridge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94376 | 797 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Cows Help With COVID-19 Treatment, No Bull
It turns out, cows may play an important role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SAB Biotherapeutics is in the business of making what are known as polyclonal antibodies. These are a collection of different antibodies that a body makes to ward off a specific invading organism.
The company has made polyclonal antibodies to treat influenza and MERS. Now it’s making them with the aim of treating or even preventing COVID-19. To make them, SAB uses cows.
These aren’t just any cows. They are cows that have been given genes from the human immune system that make antibodies.
These special cows are injected with what essentially amounts to a coronavirus vaccine that will then cause them to try to fight off what the body sees as an infection — and they will “produce a specifically targeted high-neutralizing antibody that can be used in patients,” says SAB CEO Eddie Sullivan.
These targeted neutralizing antibodies can, in theory, help slow an infection in someone who is sick or prevent an infection in someone who is exposed to the virus.
Why a cow? The antibodies circulate in the animals’ plasma, and you can get a lot of plasma from a cow.
“Between 30 and 45 liters of plasma every month from each animal,” says Sullivan.
Sullivan says they’ve already shown that this concept can work for Middle East respiratory syndrome, an illness caused by a virus similar to the one that causes COVID-19.
“So we already have considerable background in producing these antibodies to a coronavirus,” he says.
Whether the antibodies will work against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 still has to be shown. To do that, SAB has partnered with William Klimstra at the University of Pittsburgh. Klimstra says the first step is to show that the COVID-19 antibodies are not causing more health problems than they solve.
“We’re doing initial antibody tests for that, and then subsequently we’ll be doing efficacy tests,” Klimstra says.
Efficacy tests will show whether the antibodies actually prevent disease in animals exposed to the coronavirus.
“We will look at virus production, weight loss, signs of infection to evaluate how sick they get,” he says.
Assuming Klimstra’s tests show that the antibodies can prevent disease, SAB says it hopes to start testing them in humans later this summer.
Both the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Defense have supported SAB’s polyclonal antibody production plans.
The DoD is always looking for ways to protect its war-fighters from infectious diseases.
Traci Pals is with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. As an example, she says her agency was behind the production of an Ebola vaccine.
“Started out in development in our office. So we did the early development,” Pals says.
So it’s not surprising that the DoD was interested in the work that SAB was doing.
Perhaps more surprising is where SAB is located. Biotech companies tend to crop up adjacent to research universities, frequently on the East and West coasts.
SAB is in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, but for a good reason.
“One of the best reasons I can give you is this is a great environment for cattle to live,” says Sullivan. “If you’re going to be a cow, you would want to live in one of our facilities in South Dakota.”
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Watch Young Cassidy
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Set in Ireland during the protest against England's rule, Young Cassidy tells the story of a young man who does hard labor work during the day and who writes pamphlets at night. When the issues that he discusses in his pamphlets cause riots, he realizes just how influential his words can be. John Cassidy then sets out to begin writing plays for a living, and he realizes that he has more of a knack for it than he originally thought. | <urn:uuid:43689639-b76f-4a61-89d9-ffa2c20f2fdc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yidio.com/movie/young-cassidy/1916 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.978601 | 117 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has required three global ocean carrier alliances – 2M, OCEAN, and THE – and each of their member companies to provide pricing and capacity information, to assess carrier behaviour and marketplace competitiveness.
As global shipping lines made an astounding operating profit of over $110 billion in 2021, the changes introduced by FMC are the result of a year-long examination by the Commission’s Bureau of Trade Analysis (BTA) to determine the data needed to properly analyse carrier behaviour and marketplace trends – hence regulating the market further.
Under the new requirements, carriers and alliances will need to submit pricing information about cargo traffic on the major trade lanes and will be instructed to submit information related to capacity management.
One key objective is to determine whether existing agreements result in an anticompetitive impact on the marketplace.
The three ocean carrier alliances are already subject to the most frequent and stringent monitoring requirements – including detailed operational data, minutes from meetings among agreement principals, and regularly scheduled meetings with agreement parties where FMC addresses concerns.
Resulting from record demand and supply chain capacity challenges, container lines saw record earnings in 2021 – Maersk and CMA CGM being amongst the top performers. | <urn:uuid:0698f51b-78ff-4940-8f07-983ec8b8d886> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.porttechnology.org/news/carriers-to-undergo-monitoring-by-fmc-as-profits-keep-surging/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.91896 | 247 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Raft – Tangaroa tower code and puzzle passage
Players must solve a puzzle with the Raft Tangaroa Tower code to complete the part of the game dedicated to the Tangaroa tower. The puzzle includes a keyboard attached to a rescue boat that needs to be lowered into the water. To start a rescue boat, they need to choose the code for the keyboard. Nevertheless, here’s how to get the keyboard code of the Tangaroa tower and solve the puzzle.
How to solve the code puzzle of Tangaroa tower
To unravel the tango tower code, you need to find out the correct code which opens the keyboard on the top of the main tower on the island of Tangaroa. Fortunately, it is easy to solve the puzzle as soon as you get to the top of the tower. In short, you need to open your magazine and look at a note with several symbols and listing the names of the streets. The note depicts several places on the island in the following order:
- Virtual arcade
- Burger restaurant
- Clothing store
All four places listed above will have a number indicated on the building. Taking all four numbers that you can find, you will receive 4813 as a keyboard code. Take this code to the top of the main tower, and you can enter it to launch a rescue boat.
where to find the code puzzle Tangora Tower
To find the riddle of Tangaroa’s tower, players need to enter Home Tower on the island of Tangaroa. You can get to the main tower using plantation elevato r after repair. Having fixed the elevator, you can get to the roof and use the cable car to get to the main tower. On the top floor you will find the code puzzle of the Tangaroa tower.
To learn more about RAFT, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with both versions. Can you play RAFT on Mac? And how to make and get garbage cubes in RAFT | <urn:uuid:f2143657-e3fc-44b1-800b-9f50a681310a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ezwow.xyz/2022/07/07/raft-tangaroa-tower-code-and-puzzle-passage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.932714 | 409 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Among the many benefits of the RV is the opportunity to relax inside the living quarters, which is next to impossible when it's filled with noxious odors. To get the most out of your RV experience, you will need to learn the basics of odor removal. Odors in an RV come from a wide variety of sources. The holding tank can produce terrible odors, as can mold and mildew. Cooking and pet odors can permeate the interior carpeting and fabrics, making the smell difficult to get rid of.
1. Ventilation Is Key
Due to the size of the RV as compared to a home, bad odors are more pronounced. This problem is worsened when an RV remains closed and unused for long periods of time with the odor trapped inside. Ventillation is critical to removing odors and heat build-up inside the RV. Consider purchasing a ventilation product that is uniquely designed for the RV. These products allow you to leave windows and vents open all of the time, even during rain. Products range from a standard vent cover to a powerful fan and roof ventilator. These products can be easily found online or at many RV dealerships. They are worth the investment because they will keep the air circulating in and out of your RV.
2. Remove Nasty Holding Tank Odors
The RV holding tank is designed with a vent pipe that runs from the tank to the roof. The holding tank odors accumulate inside the tank and cannot escape, because there's no air pressure to force the gasses that produce the odors out of the vent pipe. This problem is exacerbated when traveling because the wind blows across the vent cap on the top of the roof, forcing air back down the vent pipe. The gasses are pushed back to the toilet whenever the air pressure outside the holding tank exceeds the air pressure inside the RV. To address this problem your best bet is to purchase a redesigned breathing system. You can attach the system to the top of the vent pipe, drawing the fumes out of the holding tank. One such product is RV-360, which works whether or not your RV is moving.
Another odor problem related to the holding tank is due to the use of chemicals. Some of the chemicals are dangerous to people or the septic system that the holding tank will be emptied into. To address this problem, consider using an environmentally friendly holding tank treatment product that can function both as a deoderizer and a cleaning agent. One such product is called Oxy-Kem, and there are others available
3. Pay Attention to Your Refrigerator
Remember that odors are trapped inside the RV in many places, such as carpeting and upholstery. Therefore a key component to odor control is prevention. Many RV users complain about odors that build up in the refrigerator when it's not in use. To prevent this problem, as part of your procedure for closing up your RV, defrost your freezer and clean the refrigerator completely. Leave the refrigerator doors open and put a box of baking soda or some charcoal inside it to absorb remaining odors. You can also follow these steps whenever you need to get rid of odors in your refrigerator in your home. | <urn:uuid:c987baef-7063-4413-b178-7b700e182e81> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.doityourself.com/stry/top-3-ways-to-remove-smells-from-your-rv | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.940406 | 645 | 1.570313 | 2 |
12 de jun de 2016
A very good courser, especially for people like me that have a lot experience in coding c program but want to learn something more to advance my career. I'll recommend this course to my friend.
16 de out de 2016
Just right for programmers seeking to update their skills to the new V11 C++. I recommend getting the book by the author that helps along with a text or Coursera course on Algorithms.
por RAMANALA N•
2 de mai de 2020
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2 de mai de 2020
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28 de dez de 2019
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19 de jul de 2018
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18 de jul de 2018
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8 de jul de 2018
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29 de mar de 2016
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23 de fev de 2021
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16 de jul de 2020
por Pietro P•
14 de out de 2016
The course is good and exercises are not trivial, the teacher speaks very slowly but this is to accommodate not native English speakers and I find it to be fair.
The course mixes a bit of graph theory with the teaching of the C++ language and I reckon that to be a good idea as it makes you solving non trivial problems thus stressing the C++ topics covered during the lecture, that would not have been the case if problems were simpler.
The only big limit I see in the course is the grading system as the peer-review system does not work very well as the student's preparation is very uneven, you can't expect much more from an on-line course though.
To draw a conclusion I had the sense of having learned something at the end of the course, which is rewarding, I really appreciate the work you are doing in striving to provide the best knowledge to everybody, I think it is a small revolution.
por Nicola C•
24 de abr de 2021
I'm an experienced C programmer with just a faint knowledge of C++ and graph theory and I got a lot from this course.Well, according to many comments of my course fellows, the first assignment is trivial when the second is very hard and really time consuming and I didn't expect so an hard task following the lessons. Neverthless it was just this 2nd assignment that lifted me a level up. I think that I got enough from the lessons, but I got much more from committing to write my own code trying and failing and searching reference guides over internet. Of course peer grading is not the best. I submitted 2nd assignment that was not so good and I obtained maximum score, moreover I found a lot of plagiarism.
My advices are : don't cheat and learn from code that you are reviewing and You will obtain a lot!
por Jerry C•
1 de ago de 2017
It's a nice course for C programmers to get to know what C++ is all about. The homework assignments are challenging, forcing you to really understand and implement the new language. The peer-review mechanism is somewhat amazing. I actually learned 1/3 of my C++ skills from reviewing others work. However, the contents itself could still be further refined. The audio volume is somewhat too small, the speech rate is rather slow, and the wording could be further simplified for non-native speakers. All in all, its a nice and compact course, I would surely recommend this course to anyone who want to learn C++ as a C programmer.
por Jim R•
6 de abr de 2016
Very good course, the content is great and well organized. The slides with code are a bit of an embarrassment for the University of California. The code is presented on what looks like a power point slide with bullets so the formatting and alignment is totally messed up, and then there are no shortage of typo's and code errors. But, the material is very good and Ira Pohl does an excellent job presenting it.
All in all a great course and exactly what I was looking for.
por Evan B•
1 de nov de 2017
The course is great, the only thing that really annoys me is that the camera switches to the teacher talking rather than remaining on the notes he is talking about. I would have much preferred if the notes and the teacher were displayed simultaneously or if just the notes were displayed as we heard him talk. Too many times I found myself copying something down or elaborating on something only to look up and see the notes were replaced by video of the teacher.
por Thiago P B•
17 de mar de 2017
Great overall introduction to C++ for C programmers. It should be emphasized FOR C PROGRAMMERS.
Once you know your stuff and a little bit of Computer Science (data structures and algorithms), this course can benefit you if you never had a formal course or introduction on C++.
The instructor is well-versed in the topic and the examples are pretty interesting from a CS point of view.
por Juan D R O•
31 de dez de 2021
The overall course is good if you are disciplined enough to follown and not cheat the assignments. However I prefered the previous setting of the course where we were able to see hand on hand Dr. P's terminal and the programs were compiled on the video. In this version is conference-like but there is no direct programming during the session so self-learning is fundamental
12 de jun de 2019
Professor Pohl is so calm and intuitive that just delivers the info right away. It's so smooth course as C engineer coming from Mechatronics major (missing a lot of graph theory and data structures). I'm glad that i was enrolled in the course and totally recommended! Points to improve: Codes representation could be improved for readability.
por Tiantian G•
10 de jul de 2017
Professor Pohl provided vivid clarification of important concepts in C++ programming. Homework projects are great opportunities to practice C++ programming. I also learned much from peer grading. Of course sometimes it can be really hard for a beginner to follow since the course targets experienced C/Java programmers.
por Connor W•
15 de out de 2017
If you have been a C programmer, this course is a gentle introduction to the world of C++. The programming exercises are good opportunities for you to rewrite some of your C codes in C++. The lectures are rather fun, Ira Pohl is a good at explaining, and he covers quite a lot of essential C++11 features.
por Omar H•
23 de jan de 2022
Learned a lot in this course. One thing I would improve would be getting some feedback towards the homework (unfortunately peer grading didnt provide me with much feedback), or maybe have a sample solution after submitting the homework just to see how I can improve.
por Udayan P S•
4 de set de 2020
Very good course content and depth, with proper pacing! I think the assignment evaluation can be improved, however. Peer review seems very biased and rigged, based on the discussion forums. There should also be a button to report assignments that have been copied.
por Milos R•
7 de jun de 2016
The course is good overall but needs more to focus on new things in C++ and not on algorithms. I would recommend this course if you are struggling with C++,it goes throw the basics and tells you how the STL works.
The homework are hard and that is a big plus :)
por Javier A•
17 de fev de 2018
I highly recommend this course, it provides a great introduction to C++ and some of its most interesting features. If you are an experienced programmer, you will probably have the feeling that it is a slow pace course, but it is still worth it.
por Adhityan V•
23 de jul de 2020
was good to learn c++ advanced topics after learning the basics at my high school.
it had some very essential topics that dealt with too much innovative coding. It was good learning experience.
por Colin R•
20 de dez de 2021
Great course. Peer reviewed programming assignments were difficult and though I received good marks, I got very little constructive feedback on them have no idea if they were "correct". | <urn:uuid:81aa2c19-c5a1-406f-aaf1-aafd25633055> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pt.coursera.org/learn/c-plus-plus-a/reviews?page=18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956097 | 1,760 | 1.820313 | 2 |
As we get older, our nutritional needs change. What once was adequate when we were in our 20’s is not quite what is needed later in life, say your 50’s. This is especially true with protein. As we get older, our muscle mass gradually decreases. To offset this loss, we must increase our intake of protein. A recent study revealed that on average people over 50 were not anywhere meeting their daily nutritional needs. The average older adult requires 1.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight every day. The question is, what foods are rich in protein that can help you reach this goal?
Below are several tasty selections for helping you achieve your protein intake goals.
Whole eggs aren’t only one of the healthiest, good for you, foods on the planet, they are also chock full of protein. Although the entire egg is full of protein, the egg whites are almost pure protein. One large whole egg can supply you with 6 grams of protein.
A very popular snack already, almonds are healthy for you as well. Although all nuts have a good amount of protein, the tree nut Almond is one that contains a significant amount. In just one ounce of almonds, you will get 6 grams of protein.
- Chicken Breast
Although all meats are protein rich, chicken breast is your best bet. If you prepare it without the skin (where most of the calories live), in one roasted chicken breast you will receive 53 grams of protein.
One of the healthiest whole grains on the planet, oats are chock full of fiber and other essential nutrients. However, most people don’t realize they are a great source of protein as well. In just ½ cup of raw oats, you will receive 13 grams of protein.
- Cottage Cheese
Chock full of a whole list of essential vitamins and minerals, cottage cheese if both low calorie and low fat. Not only that, but it is a great source of protein as well. One cup of cottage cheese contains 27 grams of protein.
Ever since childhood we have been told to drink our milk. That is would make us grow up healthy and strong. That is because milk contains almost every vitamin and mineral the human body needs to function. Add in the extra benefit of 8 grams of protein per cup, and how can you go wrong?
The next time you find yourself needing more protein, try some of the foods listed above. They will put you on the right track to building and maintaining that necessary muscle we all rely on. | <urn:uuid:ca42fe66-e548-4740-b4c2-3225ed1a16bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://livestly.com/6-protein-rich-foods-for-preventing-muscle-loss/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961518 | 534 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Slides of Introduction to Database Lifecycle Management Talk at /dev/summer 2015
Yesterday, I was at /dev/summer 2015, Cambridge. It was a really good event and I had a chance to attend a few talks on Go Language, Web Profiling and Open Source.
I have uploaded the slides under my Speaker Deck account.
Also, here are the links I have at the end of the slides and a few more:
- Demo Source Code
- SQL Source Control
- DLM Automation Suite
- Octopus Deploy
- DLM Dashboard
- Continuous Delivery for Databases by Alex Yates
- How to Use Octopus Deploy Step Templates for SQL Release
- Setting up automated SQL Server builds in TeamCity
- Configure a TeamCity build step using SQL CI | <urn:uuid:b32b61cc-f317-44a3-bb63-8ed4fc4e3196> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tugberkugurlu.com/archive/slides-of-introduction-to-database-lifecycle-management-talk-at-devsummer-2015 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.923625 | 177 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Several factors over the coming weeks will play a critical role in the timetable for production of the first barrel of oil from the Liza Phase 1 Development at the Stabroek Block offshore the South American country of Guyana.
Initially scheduled for Q1 2020, ExxonMobil and co-venturers Hess and CNOOC are eyeing an earlier start-up for oil production, potentially before the year ends.
“Liza Phase 1 is continuing to progress very well with key activities running ahead of plan, and it’s a possibility that first oil could be this year,” Deedra Moe, ExxonMobil Guyana Senior Director, Public and Government Affairs, told OilNOW on Wednesday.
However, an earlier start-up is dependent on several factors which operator ExxonMobil is mindful of.
“We are currently in the hookup and commissioning phase for the Liza Destiny Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The coming weeks are a critical time period where progress can be impacted by weather and a number of other factors, however, we continue to progress our schedule safely and in a manner that is protective of the environment,” She said.
Development drilling began in May for the first of 17 wells planned for the Liza Phase 1 Development, laying the foundation for production startup.
The Liza Destiny FPSO – Guyana’s first oil production complex – has a production capacity of 120,000 barrels of oil per day and will develop approximately 450 million barrels from the Liza Field. The vessel arrived in Guyana from Singapore at the end of August. | <urn:uuid:c5fa360c-848e-4ddc-855c-75edad7afcd0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oilnow.gy/featured/progress-in-coming-weeks-critical-to-early-oil-production-exxonmobil/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936851 | 330 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The Space Force plans to swear in NASA astronaut and Air Force Col. Michael S. Hopkins while he’s aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Crew-1 Mission, a service official confirmed to Air Force Magazine. Hopkins was commissioned into USAF in 1992, according to his NASA bio. He went on to work with “advanced space system technologies” at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., graduate from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School’s flight engineering course, and test C-17s and C-130s as a member of the 418th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., it notes. His other pre-NASA accomplishments include training at the Defense Language Institute, studying abroad in Italy, supporting the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office as a project engineer and program manager, and serving as a special assistant to the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hopkins, a member of NASA’s 20th astronaut class, completed his Astronaut Candidate Training in 2011, according to his bio. The Crew-1 Mission marks his second stint on the ISS.
Lt. Col. Jared “Vic” Santos, 388th Fighter Wing special projects manager, recently became the first Airman to accrue 1,000 flying hours in the F-35A Lightning II fighter jet. He hit the milestone during a training sortie Oct. 22, the wing said. Wing Commander Col. Steven Behmer said, “A relatively short time ago, the Air Force was standing this program up. Now we’ve got our first 1,000-hour pilot. Pilots like Vic are able to pass that experience on to younger pilots in the F-35 community.”
Tech. Sgt. Theodore Crowley III from Eielson Air Force Base’s 354th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron was named one of the unit’s first-ever dedicated F-35A crew chiefs on Oct. 9. Maintenance “guardian angels” ensure the tails they’re assigned are safe and ready. “It’s an honor to be one of the first F-35A Dedicated Crew Chiefs on Eielson,” he said. “I treat the maintenance of the aircraft with the utmost seriousness, and I do my best to make sure that the aircraft is ready everyday.”
Air National Guard Brig. Gen. James McEachen was named an Aerospace Medical Association Fellow in recognition of his professional achievements in and commitment to aerospace medicine. He pulls double duty as the ANG assistant to the Defense Health Agency’s director of combat support and as the head of DHA’s Reserve Liaison Office, and is leading research into how to optimize human performance in “extreme operational environments” at AFRL.
Kadena Airman 1st Class Leonard Cantrell Jr. saved a mother and daughter from drowning in a waterfall in Okinawa, Japan. After realizing the mother was in distress, he swam to meet the two and pulled them to safety. “We are all neighbors at the end of the day, so it’s important to remember to be a positive ambassador wherever we go and help out if needed,” said Cantrell, who works as an executive communications technician with the 18th Communications Squadron.
Seven Airmen from Malmstrom Air Force Base’s 41st Civil Engineer Squadron fire department helped battle a wildfire near Fort Shaw, Mont. Local firefighters contained the blaze, and Malmstrom troops were among forces that were called in after intense winds aggravated the situation. “Our brush engine was embedded with volunteer units to support suppression efforts, while our tender engine was assigned to resupply the main volunteer fire engine,” said Squadron Crew Chief Staff Sgt. Aaron Theriault.
The 908th Airlift Wing recently memorialized fallen 908th Maintenance Squadron maintainer and Alabama State University graduate SrA. Jarvise Gibson with a C-130 Hercules paint job. A few of the wing’s C-130s bear the logos of nearby universities, but the ASU logo is also a tribute to their late crewmember. Wing Commander Col. Craig W. Drescher said Gibson’s “wingmen have decided to remember him in this special way.” They hope in the future to see this plane fly over a special ASU event.
After the COVID-19 pandemic led Air Mobility Command to halt the distribution of pillows and blankets to passengers on flights out of the Travis Air Force Base, Calif., in an effort to slow the spread of the virus, one of its squadrons decided to put the excess supplies to use in the local community. Airmen from the 60th Aerial Port Squadron donated 1,000 of the pillows and blankets to the Yolo County Animal Services Shelter in October, and plan on giving 4,000 more to other area shelters soon.
When she’s not working as the 7th Logistics Readiness Squadron’s individual protective equipment supervisor at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, Staff Sgt. Tanya Siford serves as a member of the U.S. Air Force Women’s Rugby Elite Performance team. She says the sport helped her escape her comfort zone and become more open “to new experiences and people. … Professionally, it helped me become a better leader and follower, as well as how to quickly adapt to new situations,” she said.
Editor’s Note: This story was updated on Dec. 12 at 10:27 a.m. EST to correct the name of the school which SrA. Jarvise Gibson attended. | <urn:uuid:3cfef2bb-c7be-4ece-ae76-58f0c7164da7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.airforcemag.com/article/faces-of-the-force-14/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961563 | 1,175 | 1.898438 | 2 |
“masculine” cultures more likely to add information to the wikipedia
Skimming through a paper on cultural differences in editing the Wikipedia, I am baffled at the following:
The higher the MAS [masculinity index] of a country, the more contributions in the categories Add Information and Clarify Information are found. Although we did not predict this outcome, a possible explanation could be that in countries with a relatively higher MAS (e.g., Japan), success and progress are more important than in countries with a lower MAS (Hofstede, 1991).
I hadn’t heard of masculinity indexes before, so obviously had to re-skim the bit of the paper explaining them:
Masculinity, according to Hofstede, “pertains to societies in which social gender roles are clearly distinct (i.e., men are supposed to be assertive, tough, and focused on material success whereas women are supposed to be more modest, tender, and concerned with the quality of life). Femininity, in contrast, “pertains to societies in which social gender roles overlap (i.e., both men and women are supposed to be modest, tender, and concerned with the quality of life)” (Hofstede, 1991, pp. 82-83).
The Masculinity Index (MAS) describes the extent to which a country tends to be masculine. In countries with a high MAS, it is valued to be ambitious, successful, and assertive (Hofstede, 1991). In countries with a low MAS, relationships with other people and the preservation of the environment are important (Hofstede, 1991).
A little odd, but odder still: this index was based on observations made (of IBM employees in 70 countries) between 1967 and 1973. I should jolly well hope gender relations have come along a bit since them.
It’s interesting to see any kind of cross-cultural analysis of wikipedia use – though surely there are more recent measures of cultural differences than the ones this paper uses, from 1967-73. | <urn:uuid:ba4d37ab-70bc-414c-b671-3470b95f59cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jilltxt.net/masculine-cultures-more-likely-to-add-information-to-the-wikipedia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947547 | 431 | 2.1875 | 2 |
One of the goals of the People’s Postcode Lottery is to raise awareness of the need to protect our oceans. Through The Wildlife Trusts’ Living Seas campaign, it is supporting work locally and nationally to inspire people about marine wildlife, convincing the UK government to pass new laws to protect the sea and carrying out vital research to help protect sharks, dolphins, seals, corals and a host of rare and fragile habitats.
Marine conservation brings a number of challenges. It is very different from land-based action – we cannot buy the seabed and declare it a reserve; we cannot send teams of volunteers with cutters and bowsaws to prune back a kelp forest; or let loose “herds” of limpets to graze on an algal meadow.
Under 2009’s Marine and Coastal Access Act, the UK has committed itself to creating a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). MPAs are a proven way of safeguarding important habitats and wildlife, allowing nature and our seas to recover and thrive, restricting human interventions and using the sea’s resources in an environmentally sound and sustainable way.
Our seas and sea life have a remarkable capacity to recover – but only if we give them a chance. Our generation could go down in history as the one that set our seas and oceans on the road to recovery.
Simon King is President of The Wildlife Trusts.
A unique archive of commissioned essays
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Features and Benefits
- Gain Bandwidth Product: 325MHz
- Slew Rate: 140V/μs
- Wide Supply Range: 2.5V to 12.6V
- Large Output Current: 85mA
- Low Distortion, 5MHz: –80dBc
- Low Voltage Noise: 3.5nV/√Hz
- Input Common Mode Range Includes Both Rails
- Output Swings Rail-to-Rail
- Input Offset Voltage (Rail-to-Rail): 550μV Max
- Common Mode Rejection: 106dB Typ
- Power Supply Rejection: 105dB Typ
- Unity-Gain Stable
- Power Down Pin (LT1806)
- Operating Temperature Range: –40°C to 85°C
- Single in SO-8 and 6-Pin Low Profile (1mm)
- Dual in SO-8 and 8-Pin MSOP Packages
The LT1806/LT1807 are single/dual low noise rail-to-rail input and output unity-gain stable op amps that feature a 325MHz gain-bandwidth product, a 140V/µs slew rate and a 85mA output current. They are optimized for low voltage, high performance signal conditioning systems.
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The LT1806/LT1807 have an input range that includes both supply rails and an output that swings within 20mV of either supply rail to maximize the signal dynamic range in low supply applications.
The LT1806/LT1807 maintain their performance for supplies from 2.5V to 12.6V and are specified at 3V, 5V and ±5V supplies. The inputs can be driven beyond the supplies without damage or phase reversal of the output.
The LT1806 is available in an 8-pin SO package with the standard op amp pinout and a 6-pin SOT-23 package.The LT1807 features the standard dual op amp pinout and is available in 8-pin SO and MSOP packages.These devices can be used as plug-in replacements for many op amps to improve input/output range and performance.
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Did you know that November 29th, 1931 is a very special day? It's the day of your birthday. We've compiled 14 facts about your birthday that might surprise you. You'll read about how many people in the world share your birthday, what the color of the year is for the year you were born, and which famous people share your birthday.
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If you forget what day you were born, we will tell you that you were born on Sunday, 29th of November 1931. Exactly, it was the 333rd day of 1931 which was 48th week of that year. People born on Sunday are blessed with the Sun’s luck. They are typically creative, bold, and bright. People born on Sunday often need to find their path in life. They stand out in a crowd and are eager to shine. Sunday is the beginning of the week, so its children will be natural leaders.
Countdown to Your 91st Birthday-- days-- hours-- minutes-- seconds
This year will increase your age. You will celebrate your 91st birthday on Tuesday. Get ready, maybe you will get gifts and surprises from your family or friends. It will be a very pleasant day that you will remember for the rest of your life. You can also prepare to make a festive party on your birthday, celebrating in a beautiful place with family and friends will certainly be a pleasant memory.
Did you know that people born on November 29th, 1931 will be 34,000 days old on December 30th, 2024? How do you plan to celebrate your 34000th day? This is an excellent opportunity to celebrate your birthday in a different way.
We have calculated and figured out your birthday for the next 10 years. Prepare yourself to welcome your upcoming birthdays with your family and close friends. You will get many gifts from people who love and care about you. There are 473 days until your next birthday. By then, you will be 92 years old. There have been 33130 days since the day you were born. If you slept for 8 hours each day since birth, you have slept for a total of 11044 days, which is equivalent to 30.26 years. You spent 33.62% of your life sleeping!
|2023||Wednesday||92 Years Old|
|2024||Friday||93 Years Old|
|2025||Saturday||94 Years Old|
|2026||Sunday||95 Years Old|
|2027||Monday||96 Years Old|
|2028||Wednesday||97 Years Old|
|2029||Thursday||98 Years Old|
|2030||Friday||99 Years Old|
|2031||Saturday||100 Years Old|
|2032||Monday||101 Years Old|
According to western astrology, the zodiac sign of people born on November 29th, 1931 is Sagittarius and grouped into Fire element. Free-spirited and enthusiastic, Sagittarius are the travelers of the zodiac. They love to get out and explore the world in search of answers to the big questions in life. With a philosophical view and an open mind, they're always happy to take risks and make changes. Sagittarius is an extrovert who's always up for a good time with friends.
Topaz is birthstone held by people born on 29th of November 1931. November birthstone holders are lucky, especially financially. They have the ability to buy whatever they need or want. This is because they are hard working and persistent, even when the situation seems impossible.
Here are a list of celebrities who were born on November 29th, including Martin Cabello, Houman Seyyedi, Bárbara Rodiles, David Lei Brandt, Boris Borisbone17 and more.
When you were born, there were many famous people in history who were born on the same day as you but in different years. The following are famous people in history who commemorate birthdays on November 29th.
|1803||Gottfried Semper, German architect and academic, designed the Semper Opera House (d. 1879)|
|1816||Morrison Waite, American jurist and politician, 7th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1888)|
|1818||George Brown, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 10th Premier of West Canada (d. 1880)|
|1818||William Ellery Channing, American poet and author (d. 1901)|
|1823||La Fayette Grover, American lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Oregon (d. 1911)|
|1825||Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and psychologist (d. 1893)|
|1831||Frederick Townsend Ward, American sailor and soldier (d. 1862)|
|1832||Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet (d. 1888)|
|1835||Empress Dowager Cixi of China (d. 1908)|
|1843||Gertrude Jekyll, British horticulturist and writer (d. 1932)|
Did you know that on November 29th in history, many notable people were died? This list will remind you of the deaths of these important historical figures.
|1967||Ferenc Münnich, Hungarian soldier and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1886)|
|1970||Robert T. Frederick, American general (b. 1907)|
|1972||Carl Stalling, American pianist and composer (b. 1888)|
|1974||James J. Braddock, American boxer (b. 1905)|
|1975||Graham Hill, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1929)|
|1975||Tony Brise, English race car driver (b. 1952)|
|1980||Dorothy Day, American journalist and activist, co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement (b. 1897)|
|1980||George J. Maloof, Sr., American businessman (b. 1923)|
|1981||Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938)|
|1982||Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist (b. 1894)|
History has been made on your birthday. The following are important historical events that occurred on November 29th.
|2007||The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.|
|2009||Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.|
In 1931, there were many popular baby names. For baby boys, Robert is the most used. A total of 60,518 baby boys were named Robert in 1931. The rest were named James, John, William and Richard. While the popular baby girl name in 1931 was Mary. There were 60,295 baby girls named Mary that year. While the rest were named Betty, Dorothy, Barbara and Joan. These statistics are obtained from ssa.gov which compiles popular baby names of the last century in United States.
Florida man is a predicate given to someone, both man and woman, who commits a strange or insane crime that is often reported in Florida. From 2013 until now, florida man became an internet meme that breaking the internet and social media. What did Florida Man do on your birthday? This then became a challenge called the #FloridaManChallenge. To find out what florida man did on November 29, 1931, type the phrase "florida man November 29, 1931" into your favorite search engine. You will find a lot of news related to Florida Man that you can share on your social media accounts.
We have collected some interesting news headlines related to what florida man did on November 29, 1931 which we found on google search engine. You can use the headlines below as material for your meme that you can share on your birthday.
Shanetta Yvette Wilson 'farted loudly' in store, officials say. AP Author. Published: November 29, 2018 9:10 am. Tags:.
He was charged with a felony charge of criminal mischief. A bank manager was notified around 1 p.m. Nov. 29 about a man who was outside the ...
November 29, 2019 at 9:41 am ORLANDO (CBSMiami/AP) — For the second time in a month, a Florida man has been arrested after he reportedly tried to ...
It's Thursday, November 29th – and NBC6 has the top six stories you need to know for the day. NBC 6 South Florida 3 – A Miami man, named the Facebook killer, for killing his wife and posting pictures of it, will remain in ...
The trend began on Twitter, urging people to google "Florida Man" followed by their birthday. For example, someone with a birthday on November ...
Police: McDonald's worker arrested in serial killings that terrorized Florida neighborhood. by The Associated Press | November 29, 2017 at 7:37 ...
Grant Amato, 29, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the Police: Florida man killed parents, brother over $200K sent to porn site 'girlfriend' with grand theft, though the charge was dropped in November.
November 29th is a happy day for you. We also want to make you happier by making some birthday wishes for you. We wish you happy and always happy.
Add your opinion about Funny Birthday Facts About November 29, 1931 or share your experience celebrating your birthday on November 29th.
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Venn Diagrams are one of the most visual approaches to showing students the logical relationships between sets and connectivity of data. It uses overlapping circles to show the wholeness of data and then where they overlap other data sets. It’s easy to find templates for them–in MS Office, Google Apps, Canva, and more.
One of our Ask a Tech Teacher crew has organized the basics on how to teach Venn Diagrams to elementary-age students:
- What is a Venn Diagram
- How to make it digitally
- How to make it clear to elementary students (get crafty)
- How to use it to design games
How to Teach Venn Diagrams to Elementary School Students
Teaching children Venn diagrams is the beginning of teaching them how to sort and manage data, a skill that is becoming ever more useful in this technological era. However, finding a way to teach them that sticks is important – generic worksheets just won’t do! We’ve come up with a few ways you can teach elementary school students Venn diagrams that will make your lessons dynamic and fun.
What is a Venn Diagram?
It’s important to make sure you first understand what a Venn diagram is. A Venn diagram is a plot of overlapping circles that can display items via specific categories, as well as relationships. For example, you can have a Venn diagram representing blue eyes with one circle, and brown hair with another circle. Those with blue eyes but not brown hair will end up in only the segment for blue eyes; those with brown hair but not blue eyes will be placed only in the segment for brown hair. Those with blue eyes and brown hair will be placed in the segment created by the overlap of the two circles.
This is a fun concept to teach to children because it’s a visual method, so it isn’t difficult to find something both visual and interactive to make sure it’s memorable. Now for the methods!
Make it Digital
With technology becoming the main focus of life, especially for the younger generation, one of the best ways to connect and share ideas is through technology. This means using digital tools and accessing an online venn diagram can be incredibly helpful for many reasons. Firstly, it allows you to project what you’re describing on your smartboard or interactive whiteboard, allowing you to demonstrate to the class what you mean. It makes a good start!
The benefit of having an online Venn diagram tool however is that you can share it with the students. Not only can they view it with your help in class, but they can go home and interact with it there, whether that’s for homework or simply for some extra time to understand and make sense of the concept. You could even set online tasks for them to complete! The possibilities are endless.
Another great way to teach Venn diagrams to elementary school students is to use some arts and crafts to make it interactive. Venn diagrams are a concept that can be applied to many different domains, giving students the ability to apply it to their own life. You might ask them to create their own Venn diagram based on class features, or perhaps something related to their interests, whether that’s pop culture references or the latest movies.
You can take it further than drawing though – you could ask them to make their own small model or display with tape. This is particularly good as an activity where you might change the categories – you can create some counters representing specific people that move dependent on when the categories change.
This also works as a great group activity. Putting children into groups and asking them to create their own Venn diagram with paper, glue, and fun colorful bits is a great way to get them excited about the topic, and also apply their own situation to the topic.
Play Some Games
There’s nothing that perks up a classroom more than the phrase “let’s play a game”! Venn diagrams are one of the best topics for designing games, as you can make them super interactive for the students.
One of our favorite games is to create a big space in your classroom and to use tape to plot out two big circles. These will act as your Venn diagram for the children to themselves interact with. Start by explaining the basics of a Venn diagram, and then have rounds where you label the two circles and ask the children to fit into the part of the diagram they belong to.
For example, you may have one circle for children who like bananas, and one circle for children who like strawberries. They should fit into the appropriate space regarding whether they like just bananas, just strawberries, both fruits, or neither. This is not only a good way to make Venn diagrams fun, but it’s also a good way to identify children who may be struggling with the concept and need extra support.
With these three ideas, you’ll find that teaching Venn Diagrams is not only simple but can be really fun. You’ll for sure create a lesson your students won’t forget any time soon!
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Fisheries are composed of one or more parts, each of which is entitled to receive an MSC certificate. These parts or “units” are defined by their target stock(s), fishing gear type(s) and if relevant vessel type(s), and the fishing fleets or groups of vessels.
When the term “Unit of Certification” is used for fishing units that are in assessment, it refers to the “Unit of Assessment” or “Unit of potential certification”. Expand a status below to view the parts that form this fishery. To check the detailed scope, download the latest certificate or open the Assessments page to get the latest report. Find out more by visiting our page on Fisheries
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Catch by Species
|Species||Reported Catch Year||Metric Tonnes|
|Chilean nylon shrimp (Heterocarpus reedi)||2020||3,040|
|Carrot squat lobster (Pleuroncodes monodon)||2020||1,667|
|Blue squat lobster (Cervimunida johni)||2020||2,340|
Information is provided by an independent Conformity Assessment Body as live weight (the weight of species at the time of catch, before processing) and where a fishing season covers multiple years, the end year is given as the reported catch year. Additional information is available in the latest report, see the assessments page.
Eligibility, client groups and vessel lists
A fishery may choose to define the members of the fishery certificate. These members can be vessels or other client group members (e.g. companies that own vessels and/or companies that are named as eligible to handle certified product covered within the fishery certificate scope). Please refer to the fishery certificate statement on additional product specific eligibility criteria (e.g. product eligibility limitations, eligibility date, exclusive points of landing and the point where Chain of Custody certificate is required). Please consult the fishery Public Certification Report for product eligibility rationale.
|Vessel List||03 Apr 2020||1 files|
|List of client group members||17 Nov 2015||1 files|
About this Fishery
Nylon shrimp and squat lobsters are targeted by trawling vessels along a large part of the Chilean coast.
Traditionally, crustacean trawlers in Chile used two-panel trawl nets constructed from gear previously used in purse seine fisheries. Factors such as overall size, thick twines, heavy materials and small meshes resulted in poor performance and selectivity. This led to studies to improve the selectivity of the traditional trawl nets and a new design was developed in 2007. Only vessels using the newer, modified trawl gear are covered by the MSC certificate.
The nylon shrimp fishery developed in the 1950s. In 1995, the fishery was found to be fully exploited and catch quotas were introduced. Since 1998 annual seasonal closure between July and August has been in force. Temporary closures of various areas have also been made since 2001. The Fisheries Development Institute (Instituto de Fomento Pesquero - IFOP) who support sustainable development of Chile’s fisheries have monitored the fishery since the 1970s.
The squat lobster fisheries also started in the 1950s and have been subject to conservation measures since the 90s. Biological and seasonal closures, including complete closure of some areas for long periods, and catch quotas have all been introduced. There is an annual closed season between January and March.
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An escape room, also known as an escape game, puzzle room, or exit game, is a game in which a team of players discover clues, solve puzzles, and accomplish tasks in one or more rooms in order to accomplish a specific goal in a limited amount of time.
Escape The Room Game
The goal of the game is to escape from the site of the room. These games became popular in North America, Europe, and East Asia in the 2010.
The game not only tests problem-solving and lateral thinking (“thinking outside the box”) but also team work. When players are stuck in the game hint are also given in various form using some mechanism.
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Escape room puzzle consist word games, numbers, and “arranging things into patterns” such as substitution cyphers, riddles, crosswords, Sudoku, word search, and mathematics; puzzles involving physical objects such as jigsaw puzzles, matchstick puzzles, and chess.
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Westermo’s operating system, WeOS, is a powerful tool that enables a huge range of technologies and protocols for any industrial network. This course introduces you to WeOS and teaches you how to set up your WeOS device, the basics such as password and factory reset, and introduces our own industrial networking configuration tool, WeConfig.
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|Language||Available in English and German|
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|What you will learn||Learn how to set up and configure your device safely using the CLI, Web and WeConfig.
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Exercise and balanced diet for health
Based on our short survey and your comments, we see that while more emphasis should be placed on each of these pillars, exercise and eating is the most neglected part of our lives. We have put together some tips on how to improve these areas.
The first step is to keep a food diary for 1-2 weeks, recording what you eat and how much. Log every meal, even with a quick photo, and then at the end of the day write down what you ate. Often we think we don’t eat that much unhealthy food, but a food diary can shed light on our unhealthy habits.
Once you have a food diary, you can compare your current diet with the main general rules:
- Avoid foods made from refined flour, bakery products and pasta.
- Eliminate sugary foods, juices and soft drinks from your diet. Replace sweet flavours with healthy sweeteners. With FTTYIN sweetener you can sweeten your favourite desserts with peace of mind without having to say goodbye to delicious flavours.
- Use less fat when cooking, and steam or simmer your food instead.
- Eat fruit and vegetables 2-3 times a day. Replace heavier side dishes with fresh salad or steamed vegetables.
- Eat less, but more frequently.
- When reforming your diet, be careful not to overdo it. Rather than extreme diets, choose a balanced diet and the key is to remain consistent.
The naringin ingredient in the FYTTIN dietary supplement drink is a powerful antioxidant that also lowers blood fat and cholesterol levels. It is recommended to take one dose (10ml) three times a day: in the morning on an empty stomach, at noon and in the evening 1-1.5 hours after meals, and to hold it in the mouth for a short time before swallowing.The food supplement is not a replacement for a balanced, varied diet and a healthy lifestyle.
You can find out more about eating habits and lifestyle advice on the FOOD FYTTIN blog.
Regular physical activity
Regular exercise is difficult to introduce into a busy daily routine, with most of us looking at a rigorous 2-3 hour gym session a day, when exercise can be varied and fun.
Depending on your mood, personality and the time of year, there are lots of ways to work your muscles. We can choose from team sports, dance or individual sports. You can try zumba, wall climbing, rowing, or stick to more classic forms of exercise like running, swimming or cycling.
You might not think it, but just 30 minutes of walking a day can make a big difference to your health, not only helping you lose weight, but also benefiting your heart and playing a significant role in preventing osteoporosis. If you take public transport to work, you can walk the last few stops. A weekend walk, for example, can be a great way to spend time with family and friends, while strengthening your abs, back, ankles and knees. Yoga, which is all the rage these days, not only provides a mental and spiritual refreshment, but also strengthens deep muscles, improves posture and aids digestion.
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While working with my son, I had the most amazing epiphany about his progress. I felt as though he had hit a plateau- as if he was becoming a little complacent in his work product. Well, I realized that this may not be all his fault. Immediately, I thought of the phenomenon that occurs when I’m trying to lose weight.
After losing weight at some point my weight loss does not occur as rapidly as it does at the beginning of my weight loss regiment. From speaking with trainers and conducting my own research I know that a plateau usually signals the need to change something in your regiment. Typically it means I need to turn up the intensity. Perhaps if I was walking 1 mile, then I need to walk 1.5 miles. If I was walking on the treadmill at 3.5 miles then perhaps turning up the speed to 3.8 can help kick the weight loss back into high gear. I’ve decided to apply this same principle to my son’s learning.
I have began to provide him with other types of learning activities at home. Recently while at the Decatur Book Festival, I visited the Usborne Books tent and purchased a deck of logic cards. They are the neatest little activities. Portable cards with a dry erase marker that consist of great age appropriate logic puzzles. My rationale is that I want to get another section of his brain firing off neurons. Additionally, we took the summer off from violin. I was a little slow about getting him back into it. The plateau I saw rearing its ugly head put me into gear. Guess who is going back to violin every Saturday now.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who has noticed a change in their child’s energy and excitement towards learning. I think as parents we have to respond to these impending slumps with a change of activity or more intense learning opportunities. Unfortunately, I know some adults who I believe their plateau went undetected and therefore unaddressed.
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If you have been out of the water for a while it’s natural to feel that your scuba skills could be a little rusty and in need of a tune-up. Some dive centres might insist that you do one before diving. Former instructor Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell takes a look at why all divers should consider taking a refresher following time out of the water.
Back in the days when I was working as a full-time instructor, I made the observation that ’90 per cent of the divers who ask to do a refresher don’t really need to do one, and 90 per cent of the divers who refuse a refresher really do.’
In the first instance, the sort of diver who knows that they are a little bit rusty and wishes to reacquaint themselves with scuba skills and knowledge is often the sort of safe, considerate diver that I would want to dive with. If they’d gone straight to the check dive then they probably would have been fine, but out of concern for themselves, their buddies, the dive team and the environment, they wanted to brush up on their skills and reduce the possibility of accidents before they occur. It’s an attitude to diving that all divers should possess.
In the second instance, people who refused to do refresher programmes – even though an experienced instructor had recommended they take one – tended to create problems for everybody else. After having to be constantly assisted – even rescued – by their guide, it was not unusual for such a diver to finish a dive and, octopus between their legs, admit that they would be very grateful if they could sign up for a refresher course.
Some dive centres will insist that divers take a refresher programme before being allowed to dive with that centre. I have heard of operators insisting on refreshers regardless of experience and length of time out of the water – which is daft – but the best centres will use their judgement as to who should be recommended for a refresher programme, or for which divers it should become mandatory.
It’s not always easy to judge and blanket rules don’t really cover everybody, so the final decision is often left to the diver. A good diver should be able to use their own judgement to determine whether or not they would benefit from a thorough refresher programme, or just need an easy check-dive to get themselves back into the water. If you’ve been out of the water for any length of time then some form of refresher is eminently sensible, so let’s take a look at exactly what’s involved.
What do you mean by ‘refresher’?
A refresher is a programme where divers receive the assistance and supervision of a dive professional in a pool or shallow water environment while they review the basic skills of diving. It should also include a thorough review of equipment usage and a knowledge development session, maybe with a short quiz. This differs from a ‘check dive’ in which a group of divers might be asked to check their weighting and perform a few skills to demonstrate basic diving competence before heading off into deeper water to enjoy a regular dive.
Official programmes include PADI’s Scuba Review (or ReActivate), the Scuba Skills Update from SSI, and BSAC’s Scuba Refresher. Every agency has one and although there may be variations in how it’s conducted, they all include a review of the basic dive skills and knowledge that were learned in entry-level courses. Some dive centres will do it in a short classroom session followed by a pool session, others will extend it with a second dive, some charge extra for doing so.
Personally, I think it should be two dives – one shallow/pool session and one deeper, open water dive, plus a knowledge review session. I also prefer a more flexible approach to the required skills in order to concentrate on, and remediate if necessary, the most fundamental skills associated with basic diving and dive safety. As an instructor, I would much rather have divers focus on buoyancy control, clearing flooded masks and monitoring their air supply before moving on to other, less essential skills.
When should you take a refresher?
This all depends on a diver’s level of experience and the length of time they have spent out of the water. If a diver was certified Open Water but made no other dives after the course, then a refresher is all but essential if the next dive is anything more than a few months later. For a diver with less than 20 logged dives then 6-12 months out of the water would warrant a tune-up of some description. An absence from the water of more than two years should make even experienced divers consider a confined water or pool session before heading out into the depths.
Don’t forget that not only do we, as divers, change in terms of physique and physiology and fitness, but scuba diving changes with us. Entry-level courses have changed in recent years, with new skills such as SMB inflation now part of the programme and a dedicated shift to ensure all skills are performed mid-water and not kneeling on the bottom as was the case for many years. Refresher programs don’t just clear out the cobwebs, they may well add skills to a diver’s repertoire that they had never learned before.
At home or on holiday?
Ideally, getting in the pool with a local dive club before heading off to the tropics would be a good idea, but make sure you get some sort of documentation to prove that you did so. If you take an official agency programme then you’ll get an official agency certificate, but if you’re just tootling about in the pool with a friendly instructor then make sure you get a signed statement in your logbook, otherwise your holiday dive centre of choice may insist you take a full refresher that you don’t need.
You may still be required to do a check dive once you’re on holiday – the pool and the deep ocean are clearly not the same thing and most dive professionals are going to want to take a look at how a diver performs in the open water where conditions can be substantially more challenging. Having reacquainted yourself with the basics, however, you’ll probably find that first dive back in the ocean a lot less nerve-wracking than it might otherwise have been.
What should be covered in a refresher?
Ideally, a refresher – as with the various agency programmes – would cover all the basic skills and knowledge of entry-level training. I think that in a typical holiday resort-type environment, however, the divemaster or instructor conducting the official agency-sanctioned programmes can feel pressured into conducting all of the required skills, rather than focusing on particular problems that a diver might be having, especially when it comes to buoyancy control and mask clearing exercises. This is why I preferred to be flexible with how the refresher is conducted. If somebody has no control of their buoyancy, it is pointless to attempt to remove and replace a set of scuba gear underwater.
Poor buoyancy control is the most common problem exhibited by divers, often leading to the most dangerous situations. The most common causes are incorrect weighting and poor understanding of how to operate a BCD’s inflator/deflator mechanism and quick-release valves. A thorough explanation of the physics behind correct weighting and use of breath control is essential, as is a review of the use of a BCD, before heading into the water and making a proper weight check.
Panic associated with flooded masks is another common problem, and I think it’s important that a diver’s buoyancy and mask clearing skills are assessed as early as possible during a refresher, and dealt with as appropriate. Neither the diver nor the dive professional should be afraid of remediation – right back to kneeling on the bottom and clearing a mask or doing fin-pivots if necessary, before moving on to conducting a mask removal drill while neutrally buoyant in the water column.
Once the most fundamental aspects of scuba diving have been covered, then out-of-air drills, regular air supply checks and SMB inflation are among some of the most important skills that divers need to review. SMB inflation may be a brand new skill for many divers to cover as it was only introduced to entry-level training in recent years.
Should refreshers be mandatory?
In certain circumstances, absolutely. The life of the diver themselves, other divers they might be diving with and, indeed, their guides and instructors might depend on their competence in the water. One diver’s inability to perform basic dive skills can quickly lead to a dangerously unsafe set of circumstances. A diver with poor buoyancy control and mask clearing skills is an accident waiting to happen – perhaps making an out-of-control ascent in an area with heavy boat traffic, meaning the guide has to leave the group to assist the panicked diver, thereby putting both themselves and the group at risk. If the diver had been through some remediation prior to getting in the water with other divers, that scenario might have never occurred in the first place.
As mentioned earlier, some judgment should be applied by dive centres when it comes to either recommending or insisting that a diver take a refresher before joining the regular dive trips. Asking somebody with 5,000 dives and 20 years of experience to do a refresher after a 12-month absence from the water would be a bit silly, but then somebody with 5,000 dives and 20 years’ experience would probably ask to do a check dive of some description before heading out to more challenging sites. Not a refresher, exactly, but a reacquaintance with the water.
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Two civil society organizations (CSOs) have called on African countries to mobilize revenue from within to finance development in the face of global economic challenges.
The West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) and STAR Ghana Foundation (SGF) unanimously observed that due to dwindling donor funding and the ravages of COVID-19 , it had become imperative for countries on the continent to engage their citizens in what they termed “community philanthropy”.
This, the two organizations explained, was that local people help each other by sharing resources for their common good and supporting the development of local communities on the continent.
WASCI’s Head of Knowledge Management and Communications Unit, Jimm Chick, and STAR Ghana Foundation Executive Director, Alhaji Ibrahim-Tanko Amidu, made the call during separate media interviews in Accra yesterday. .
First learning meeting
This was on the sidelines of an initial week-long Learning and Reflection Partners meeting under the Giving for Change (GfC) project.
The meeting was co-hosted by WASCI and STAR Ghana and aimed to bring together representatives of GfC’s global partners to learn, share ideas, build relationships and reflect on progress in GfC implementation over the past 18 months. .
The GfC is a five-year project that aims to strengthen civic space and civil societies through domestic resource mobilization, philanthropy and community giving for social change and development.
It is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and implemented in eight countries. These are Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda and Burkina Faso.
The others are Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique and Palestine.
Mr. Chick explained that there are many resources on the continent that could be tapped for the rapid development of communities. They included financial, technical and material aspects.
“We have many rich and well off people including poor people on the continent, not leaving you and me behind who can donate GH¢1 for a specific development program can make a significant difference in our communities respective,” he said.
He said the combination of financial, technical and material resources would ultimately help address the many challenges faced by communities on the continent, including food scarcity, poverty, disease and nutritional challenges.
Mr. Chick expressed his optimism that when people are encouraged to see the need to mobilize local resources effectively, it will lead to “the building of an industry of local philanthropists that will really help Africa advance its development faster than we currently know”.
“That’s why we’re building this powerful force or movement in Africa; dependence on donor funding and aid comes with some restrictive and mandatory measures that may not really favor our countries and organizations,” he warned.
Alhaji Amidu said African governments could also support the process by creating an enabling environment for people and communities to support development.
He noted that governments could do this by releasing a certain percentage of public funds to encourage communities who were able to finance and own around 60% of the projects they undertook, especially those that supported poverty reduction. .
It is equally important, according to Alhaji Amidu, that the government provides start-up funds to support local initiatives.
“Philanthropy is part of our culture, just that over time it gradually fades. In Ghana people feel that if you show that you are rich you will be targeted or people in your community will come after you,” he said.
The Executive Director of the Global Fund for Community Foundations, Jenny Hodgson, said the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs is spending €25 million on the implementation of the GfC project in the eight beneficiary countries.
“People in Africa and elsewhere have always contributed to funerals, burials or weddings and so the systems already exist, but so far they have been ignored and neglected by the international development system which relies on the ‘money from outside the continent’, she sated.
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Missing that knock on your door? Jehovah’s Witnesses are too
The Jehovah’s Witnesses community is known for its door-to-door outreach but have you noticed that there hasn’t been an unexpected knock at your door on a Saturday afternoon in a while?
Like religious organisations the world over, its members have had to pivot in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
What they have missed most is the opportunity “to build lasting relationships with others”, said Alexander Mosley, the local media contact for the organisation.
“Physically not being out in the community and helping people in person is certainly something that we miss,” he said. “We found a lot of joy meeting people face-to-face and seeing their reactions to our message, physically assisting [people] with tasks they may have needed for themselves or their families, and even returning to visit ones that have shown interest in the Bible.”
However, having to switch their focus to different forms of outreach has provided other benefits.
Said Mr Mosley: “We decided to shift our ministry to telephone witnessing and letter writing primarily. This has also proved to be fruitful as we have had an increase of fellow believers participating in our efforts to provide comfort through the scriptures during these challenging times.”
The change in outreach has also meant that Witnesses have not been able to distribute physical copies of their magazine, TheWatchtower. Instead they are sharing it electronically, in more than 300 languages online.
It has been nearly a year since Bermuda’s faith community unexpectedly shifted to virtual fellowship. While some church denominations resumed in person services briefly during the summer the local Jehovah’s Witnesses community continued with virtual services, uncertain how the coronavirus pandemic would play out.
“All meetings are virtual now, so we no longer meet in a physical building,” Mr Mosley said. “This has actually allowed us to have even more participants at our meetings as many can join from the comforts of their homes and not have to worry about their safety.”
The Jehovah’s Witnesses community base their ministry on Matthew 28: 19-20, where Jesus instructs his disciples to make disciples of people of all the nations. Witnesses model their outreach after this instruction and the example of first century Christians.
“We certainly hope that for everyone we are able to get back to normal as we were before Covid-19, but currently we are focusing on what we can do now in reaching the hearts and minds of those wanting to study the Bible and provide comfort in these times of need as best we can,” Mr Mosley added.
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In this article the Brethren explore some rarely mentioned aspects of Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani’s political practice. A close reading of his oath of allegiance, adds a new dimension to our existing understanding of his political project. It excites and liberates us from the Manichean question of secular-versus-religious politics that dominates our discourse so unproductively. It is in the greater interest to supersede this intellectual roadblock, which causes national self-harm, but is woven into a narrow account of our people’s historical experience. It is high time to question current ‘banking’ education narratives and ask whether it is not time for a new ‘Historiography of the Oppressed’.
Down I went into the Diaspora (Piraeus)…
Have you heard the one about the Maulana and the Marxist?
My first brush with the meanings of Maulana Bhashani was at one of those social gatherings that are part of London diaspora life. It was at the height of the kitsch culture madness of Shahbag in early 2013, which was reaching its Islamophobic conclusion of calling for a banning of religion from politics in Bangladesh. I sat next to a former graduate of Sylhet’s famed MC College, a lifelong JSD (National Socialists Party) member, and a Maulana, a Qawmi Madrassa graduate. Their conversation soon descended into an argument, with the JSD member scolding the Maulana, ‘Why don’t you Mullahs give up politics?’ To this the Maulana replied, ‘How does the son question the existence of his father?’ He continued, ‘Without a free India and Pakistan there would be no Bangladesh, without Bhashani there is no Mujib, where do you think free India and Maulana Bhashani came from?’
or the one about the ‘Bismillah Capitalist’?
Related to the above topic, I remember a conversation with the late Dhaka University’s Dr Aftab Ahmed, months before his 2006 assassination and the 2007 Diplomat’s Coup. He was puzzled by a conundrum that came out of study on Islami Chhatra Shibir alumni. He found that a minority progressed into the hierarchy of Jamaat e Islami, and a small number would leave to pursue their spiritual quest, mainly ending up in the ranks of the quietist Tablighi Jamaat. The majority went into the corporate world or private business, and became good capitalists. He noted an important limitation of the party, that it was basically a modern one with a sprinkling of Islam here and there.
Living in London, which comically pitches itself as global Islamic Finance hub, I observe a similar phenomenon. We call them ‘Bismillah Capitalists’, capitalism with a sprinkling of Islam to make it palatable for an indigenous market, and switch off our people’s critical faculties. A thread of the conversation I am sorry not to have developed was Dr Aftab’s call for a Liberation Theology amongst Muslims, and the courage to see and study the politics between the Prophet’s (pbuh) companions. Perhaps the optic of Maulana Bhashani’s soulful politics provides some yeast for the former.
Escape from the shadow of Lagado: Preventing Violent Eurocentrism (PVE)
To understand the significance of Bhashani, we are minded to read him within his tradition. Thus as readers we have to leave our prejudices and let the Maulana speak for himself and be understood in his own categories and definitions.
We must avoid the mistake of many academics at the Academy of Lagado (La-puta), who use Eurocentric monocles, even when gazing in the mirror. This use of an outdated and discredited tradition is unwittingly kept alive today in the field of Bangladesh Studies (BS) by the likes of Ali Riaz and his supporters of publicists and hangers on. It is an academic practice which claims to understand Islam and Muslims, but has no training in philology or religion but a combination of journalism, political science and interests in (self) sustainability. These experts take a cue from a section of their colleagues in Middle Eastern studies, and speak in the name of foreign policy and development, creating an arid landscape ready for the neo-con mind to wrap its talons around. The consequences of such misdirection is increased ignorance and grist to the burgeoning ‘War on Terror’ industry, with ever increasing collateral damage, bordering and crossing over into Islamophobia. An ignorance multiplier effect, exposed by Farhad Mazhar about media manipulation in general and specifically by a recent article on the editorial policy of a national newspaper in Bangladesh, the Dhaka Tribune.
This approach has been critiqued in terms of its professed political objectivity by Edward Said in his ‘Orientalism’, and methodologically by the Native American scholar Ward Churchill in his seminal ‘White Studies’. For the interested, a good starting point for a constructive and knowledge-based philological study of Islam are the works the Malaysian thinker Syed Naquib al Attas, especially his ‘Islam and Secularism’.
The Tao of Remembrance (Mudhakara)
Bhashani’s life reflects the journey of his people, born and educated during the British Raj, he mobilised throughout the United Pakistan period (when not incarcerated) and was revered in Independent Bangladesh. Politically he began with Jamiatul Ulema-e-Hind and signed off in the left wing National Awami Party.
One document that that might help us understand the essence of this enigmatic figure is the disciple’s oath (bayah) he administered to his followers. It is reproduced and translated below.
“I give an undertaking that in Allah the Supreme I profess firm belief. I will believe with certainty that Rasulullah is the sent messenger. I will abide by all the regulations pertaining to the permitted and disallowed, as propagated by the Messenger.
I will not bow my head to anyone besides Allah.
I will endeavour tirelessly to establish socialism, the only way to relieve all forms of human extortion and embezzlement.
I will join the volunteer’s corps of the peasantry to eradicate from society all forms of imperialism, capitalism, feudalism, usury and corruption.
I will perform litanies, contemplation, meditation, prayers and fasting… according to the tariqah of Qadria, Naqshbandiya, Chistiyyah.
Every year on the 19/20th January 5 Magh I will attend the large seminar at Santos, Tangail and assist in the advancement and progression of the Islamic University.”
The disciple’s oath presents two features of Islamic pedagogy; action melded with belief and an anchoring to an oral tradition. Action, or orthopraxy, is seen in the obligation of adherents to engage physically from prayer, fasting, to attending annual gatherings. It is similar to the Aristotelian concept of hexis, a state of being, conditioned by habits and practice known colloquially in Bangladesh as ‘adab’.
The oral tradition is seen in reference to the Chistiyyah, Qadiriya and Naqshbandi Sufi orders and their practices. The Islamic tradition is oral before being written, even the word Qur’an means recitation. Arabs often distinguish between the Qur’an as recitation, and the written copy of it, the mus’haf. Oral primacy is maintained in Islamic pedagogy: from Qur’an memorisation; to the science of understanding where a Prophetic tradition has been narrated from; to the teaching genealogies preserved in the supplications of the Sufis. Such live oral traditions continue to breathe in Bangladesh, through the independent, non-government Qawmi (community) Madrassas, and the Sufi orders.
People with Muslim heritage can relate to this oral tradition through their formative childhood experiences, through the teaching and memorisation of short verses of the Quran, to the method of how to perform the five canonical prayers. This cycle of instruction and embodied practice is communicated from the first community in Makkah with a template established during the early Prophetic period, with the Angel Gabriel teaching the Prophet (pbuh) to recite and memorise the first verses from the Quran, and showing him how to pray.
The principles of this epistemology are laid out in a Prophetic tradition found in the Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas, founder of the Maliki legal school and author of the first book of sacred law. Imam Malik knew many traditions recommending the seeking of knowledge, but felt suffice just to narrate this single hadith on the matter, one which expresses the essence of seeking knowledge, heart to heart – ‘sina ar sina’, teacher to student all the way back to the Prophet (pbuh),
Luqman the Sage (pbuh) made his will and counselled his son, saying, “My son! Sit with the learned men and keep close to them. For Allah gives life to the hearts with the light of wisdom as Allah gives life to the dead earth with the abundant rain of the sky.”
Genealogy of Resistance (Mujahada)
‘Let there be among you who enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong’.
The Oath affirms actions and a continuous struggle against imperialism and feudalism. Our 2013 Twin Towers of industrial and state crimes deserve better than, the paparazzi politics of the Reshma Rescue, the middle class guilt of Lungi March and the Dad’s Army that is Sushil Samaj. The Oath excites a soulful politics of the human solidarity and spiritual awakening – towards the creation of Al Insan al Kamil (the Perfect and Universal Man).
The impact of the Sacred on Bhashani’s political training can be seen not just in the oath’s content and monotheistic refusal to submit to all but God, but in the relationship of his teacher’s to the growing power of colonial capital. As T S Eliot wrote in ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’,
‘No poet, no artist of any art, has complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation, is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.”
Bhashani was the disciple of the Baghdadi Pir of Lakhimpur in Assam, who advised him to journey to the Deoband seminary in Uttar Pradesh to study under Maulana Mahmudul Hassan. Bhashani’s chain of teachers were deeply committed to anti-imperial activities against the British before, during and after the 1857 War of Liberation.
Mahmudul Hassan accompanied his father in the war as a boy, and his own teacher Rashid Ahmed Gangohi had to flee from the British for his participation, he was later caught and imprisoned. Gangohi was the spiritual disciple of the Sufi Master Haji Imdad Ullah Makki. The pictures below of Delhi show the ferocity of British retribution on the built environment in the aftermath of 1857, and the simplicity of the graves, reflecting the humility of those who took part in the struggle.
All three scholars (Hassan, Gangohi and Makki) were either influenced, intimately took part in, or were inheritors of the Madrassa Rahimiyyah, the intellectual centre of resistance to the British in 1857. Scholars and students from Rahimiyyah participated in the war intellectually and physically, giving it moral legitimacy and directing movements and defences. Rahimiyyah, translates as an adjective of the enduring manifestation of Divine mercy, grace and love, as a consequence of human work, sacrifices and supplications. The madrassa was established in the 17th century during the reign of the Emperor Aurangzeb by Shah Abdul Rahim, who also helped to compile the Fatawa Alamgiri, a landmark codification of the Muslim legal tradition.
When the British eventually captured Delhi, amongst other civilising barbarities, their Army decided to destroy the leading Islamic educational institute in India, ordering the Rahimiyyah closed and selling it to Hindu businessman. The poet Mirza Ghalib is quoted in William Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal,
“The madrasas were almost all closed, and their buildings were again mostly bought up-and in time demolished – by Hindu moneylenders. The most prestigious of all, the Madrasa-i-Rahimiyyah was auctioned off to one of the leading baniyas, Ramji Das, who used it as a store (p463)”.
Out of the ashes of Rahimiyyah, its alumni began a new wave of Muslim institutional innovation, with Deoband (1866), Aligarh (1875) and Nadwatul Ulema (1894) founded to establish dignity, social justice and representation for radically disempowered Muslim communities. These institutions were supported across India, cascading regional developments. Without Deoband, Aligarh and Nadwatul Ulema, there would be no Hathazari or Dhaka University. They also schooled leaderships for the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League, who led the freedom struggle for Independence. This contribution was recognised in the anniversary celebrations of the Deoband Madrassa in March 1982, by the attendance of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and leading members of her opposition including Raj Narain, Jagjivan Ram, and Chandra Shekar.
The Academy and the Maulana : Escaping the Cave
Talking about Bhashani connects with wider narratives of religion, politics and the subaltern Bangladesh. He is claimed by most factions as their own, from members of Jamiatul Ulema to Marxists who place his picture beside Marx and Lenin. He continues to suffer poor treatment from the Joy Bangla Kitsch Culture Machine. Recovering Bhashani washes away the formaldehyde into which Bangladesh’s (mis)leadership has tried to drown and trade religion, and remove dynamic religion from both the political sphere and informed public debate. Recovering Bhashani transcends this bourgeois political cul-de-sac of the post-Liberation era.
In the unfortunate political shorthand of our times, leftists are invariably considered atheists who battle with rightists, who invariably aren’t. Figures who cross these two immiscible currents are pathologised if not dismissed outright, for example the case of Abul Hashem, author of ‘The Revolutionary Character of the Kalima’, a formative influence on the Awami League and proponent of Islamic Socialism. His son, Marxist-Leninist historian Badruddin Umar is on the record as saying that his father was ‘a political schizophrenic’.
Between the politics of competition and class considerations, enchantment with the Maulana is not shared by all. In a certain camp of Political Islam, Bhashani has even been takfired upon. His politics of the dispossessed disturbs the tactical movements for business as usual, but with beards. A deconstruction of the cold war politics and the personal anxieties of the individual allegedly behind this dismissal is long overdue. Looking through the eyes of the colonially colour blinded, it seems Bhashani was a flash in the pan never to be found again. Yet the same kind of personalities and struggles against oppression can be found all over the Muslim world.
To the West, in Syria we have Abd al Rahman al Shaghouri (1914 – 2004), a scholar of sacred law, poet and sufi. Originally a weaver, then a textile mechanic and later foreman of technicians at a fabric plant, his story has more than a few lessons of how we think of our garments workers. Al Shagouri was instrumental in unionising workers in Damascus and was part of the team that led the Syrian Textile Workers Union to a successful 40 day strike for workers compensation. To the East, in Malaysia we see Nik Abdul Aziz, graduate of indigenous punduk seminaries and elected premier of Kelantan State for a period of 23 years. Last year we saw a coalition of his Islamic party, Chinese Malaysians and Anwar Ibrahim’s Kedalan forming Pakatan Ryat, The People’s Alliance, and mount the biggest challenge to the Malay ethnonationalist UMNO establishment so far.
Nearly four decades after Bhashani, there seems to be a deliberate attempt to cover up his politics and enduring contributions. The erasure takes several forms, from the demotion of his life in textbooks, to the festival cancellation, following his annual death memorial prayers. In Bangladesh today there is only room for the cultural hegemony of the feudal-industrial complex, which splices the dynasty of ‘The Sheikh’ to the kitsch culture of Shahbag. Judging by the quantity of faces on billboards, or media mentions, or columns in print, the legacy of Maulana has faded away.
The urge to forget emanates from a structural push by literary custodians of elite history to exorcise the undecidability and derailment that Bhashani brings to their ‘Little Boxes’. The false dichotomies we see bandied around today, of religious vs secular, urban vs rural etc, were delivered by ‘Biman’s’ own ‘cabin crew’. The court painters of the Republic’s history have stopped exercising their memory and have forgotten themselves. Their reliance on external marks of writing instead of their internal capacity to remember and relate, holds them hostages to their own appearances. Seemingly knowledgeable and connected, but unfortunately quite the opposite, they are thoroughly intolerant of dissenting views. We see this attitude evident in the ‘Academy’ of Bangladesh today, like three prongs of the same thrusting trident. The flat earth mantra of 3 million war dead, mediated by faux objective civil society speak, and somewhat more sophisticated but juvenile ersatz Jean-Luc Godard, Marxist Existentialist mirages of ‘Utopia’.
Can the subaltern remember?
Unfortunately for his detractors, the ghost of the Maulana and the legacy he represents refuses to die and continues to live in the body politics of Bangladesh. He is the tip of an iceberg of a living collective memory and continuity that permeates and ennobles the lives of ordinary people. Bhashani is more than politics, and in many ways emblematises the country’s story (mistakes included) of an uphill struggle for truth, justice and dignity. It is a narrative which also unfolds in India, as expressed by Mahmood Madani in a recent intervention with Tehelka.
Such a narrative disrupts the orthodoxies of contemporary politics, from the traditional far left arguments of religion being an opium of the masses, to the public Islam offered by Jamaat, of an Islam in the public sphere, relegated to the Islami Bank, local shopping centres, and a few ministries in a coalition government. Tariq Ramadanechoes a similar view when he observes that the present generation of Political Islam in Egypt had strayed from his interpretation of their original raison d’etre – of Liberation Theology. Bhashani’s anchoring in the Sacred speaks to a greater narrative of the Bangladeshi people, which we visit next.
The struggle continues: (left) Maulana Bhashani (1880 – 1976) and (right) Aminul Islam (1973 -2012) trade unionist who struggled for workers rights, and was tortured and killed by individuals linked to the security services of the current Bangladeshi government.
Uncovering the Story(ies) of Bangladesh
Clifford Geertz’s definition of culture as ‘the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves’.
In 1989 the British Broadcaster Channel 4, commissioned a three part documentary called the ‘The Story of Bangladesh’. It was directed Faris Kermani, and the theme was betrayal, from Plassey to the modern day. Following the tumultuous events of 2013 and our most farcical election in January it’s hard to say anything has changed. Maybe it’s time for critical introspection, into whether these are isolated events or woven into an overarching narrative of self harm.
The nation’s elite and their foreign partners tout the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 as the end of history. It is a story, of a land without progress and development for progressives and developers without a land. A story which is the exclusive property and achievement of the elites. The villain on this blank canvass is the country bumpkin, who doubles up as an Islamic militant if not a microloan borrower, in a tale faithfully retold recently in the Washington Post.
Viewing the world with this history explains the radio silence and editorial misdirection of its adherents regarding the government’s human rights violations, hamstringing of oppositional voices and state crimes in Bangladesh. The case for investigation has been submitted and is being processed by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Contrast this complicit silence with the amplitude of humane concern when that same alleged state sponsored violence spills over into the homes of minority religious communities. The secret, open to all who work in and know the sector, is in the funding streams and the agendas that frame them.
Towards a Historiography of the Oppressed
There are other histories, for those who listen, rarely recorded by foreign observers and their native informants, but spoken and heard locally and regionally, amongst the people. This Deshnama has its roots in the deeper history of the Bangladeshi people, the places they have been and the peoples from whom they are descended. It is where the history of a sacred land meets its residents, a memory that not only has its (re)source in the Medinan community of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), but connects with precedents in the edicts of Ashoka.
It is a familiar synthesis, to the incorporation of the Ethics of Aristotle and the Republic of Plato, into Christian thought by St Augustine and St Aquinas, co-authored and harmonised in the works of medieval Muslim theologians such as Al Ghazali, Al Razi and Averroes. These authors, books and ideas are still read and heard in the mosques, madrassas, churches and temples that bejewel Bangladesh today. The country’s music and poetry is filled with the same cosmopolitan religious symbolism shared and contested by all those who live within it.
Near my abode, there is a wondrous City of Mirror,
where my Great Neighbour lives.
(‘The Great Neighbour’ – Lalon Shah)
It is a chronicle prologued by Atish Dipankar, who arose amidst the general background of the Buddhist struggle in Bengal against the hegemony of the Brahmin led caste system. To invoke a few Prophetic paradigms, it is like a replay of the battle between the Prophet David (pbuh) and Goliath with the dialogue of the Prophet Moses (pbuh) with Pharaoh.
Oppression (zulm) transforms with time from local rajas, Delhi Emperors, the inimitable British East India Company, The British Crown, Calcutta zamindars, military juntas to Indian hegemony. The same can be said for the movements and figures that champion the oppressed (mazlum) like Shahjalal, Isa Khan,Nuraldeen,Titu Mir, Dudu Mian, and Bhashani. Post independence, we might observe Ziaur Rahman’s struggles and achievements, against internal and external opposition, in this vein, in laying the foundations of a modern democratic state amongst the ‘basket case’ ruins of despotictotalitarianism and the devastating 1974 Famine .
This is a story of people with a rich culture, entangled in global and regional developments, and a history of struggling against great odds, with great losses, for justice and dignity, inspired and strengthened by the Sacred. In this narrative, 1971 is a continuation of that history and not its end.
When an individual participates in this of sort historical experience, he or she comes to a new sense of awareness of self, has a new sense of dignity, and is stirred by a new hope. It gives the individual the tools to take on the arrogance, violence and false ending, that characterises the power discourse in Bangladesh today, or at least partially defang it.
Finally, have you heard the one about the Maulana and the Britisher Teacher?
During my research on the 2013 May Massacre in Dhaka, I was fortunate to meet a graduate of the Hathazari Madrassa. He had moved to the UK, taken up a career in business and was now married with children. In our discussions on the importance of education placed by the historian Ibn Khaldun (1332 – 1406), he narrated an anecdote.
That one day, his son came home from school and told him that he learnt from his teacher that Bangladesh was a poor and backward country, to which the UK government gives a lot of money for development. The next day, instead of dropping his son off to school, the Maulana took him on a day out, stopping first at the Tower of London. As they stood looking at the crown jewels, the Maulana pointed at the Kohi Noor stone and asked his son, ‘where do you think that came from?’ All day father and son visited various landmarks throughout London, which breathes heavily with the impacts of colonial capital, and discussed their history.
The next day at school the furious head teacher wanted to take the Maulana to task for taking his son out of education. When pressed by the head teacher for an explanation, the Maulana indicated to his son to reply. His response and act of defiance is something worth sharing across our amnesiac nation, ‘We learnt in school that Bangladesh was a poor country but that’s a lie, because all its wealth is here in the UK along with the riches of other nations stolen by the British Empire’.
“But the Emperor has nothing at all on!” said a little child.
(Emperor’s New Clothes –
Hans Christian Anderson)
As practitioners of the ‘Academy, Journalism and Art’ and as seasoned desh watchers, our roles should be to listen and record the stories that the people of Bangladesh tell us, not the ones that our foreign ‘development partners’ (funders & masters) pay for and want to hear. The challenge is to cultivate a dignifying and polyphonic history to humanise each other and heal the divisions that plague Bangladesh – a new ‘Historiography of the Oppressed’.
O you who have attained to faith!,
Be ever steadfast in upholding equity,
bearing witness to the truth for the sake of God,
even though it be against yours own selves,
or your parents and kinsfolk.
Whether the person be rich or poor;
God’s claim takes precedence over [the claims of] either of them.
Do not then, follow your own desires,
lest you swerve from justice:
for if you distort [the truth], behold,
God is indeed aware of all that you do!
We would like to dedicate this article to Mohammed Burhan Uddin who passed on a few days ago in Tangail, Bangladesh. Pictured here in his mid 80s, he was one of Bhashani’s oldest surviving disciples (mourides). He became involvedas a young man in the 1950s when he heard Maulana Bhashani pray openly ‘don’t do anything for my kids but provide freedom for all’.
He was a cultivator who had not finished his primary education, but well informed about Syria and American Imperialism in general. He was part of a cultivator’s committee which went around checking prices of fish from market to market – just to make sure people were not getting swindled.
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Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundatation of the Islamic Revolution in Iran
Scores of books and articles have been published, addressing one or another aspect of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Missing from this body of scholarship, however, has been a comprehensive analysis of the intellectual and ideological cornerstones of one of the most dramatic revolutions in our time. In this remarkable volume, Hamid Dabashi brings together, in a sustained and engagingly written narrative, the leading revolutionaries who have shaped the ideological disposition of this cataclysmic event. Dabashi has spent over ten years studying the writings, in their original Persian and Arabic, of the most influential Iranian clerics and thinkers.
Examining the revolutionary sentiments and ideas of such figures as Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Ali Sharicati, Morteza Motahhari, Sayyad Abolhasan Bani-Sadr, and finally the Ayatollah Khomeini, the work also analyzes the larger historical and theoretical implications of any construction of "the Islamic Ideology." Carefully located in the social and intellectual context of the four decades preceding the 1979 revolution, Theology of Discontent is the definitive treatment of the ideological foundations of the Islamic Revolution, with particular attention to the larger, more enduring ramifications of this revolution for radical Islamic revivalism in the entire Muslim world.
This volume will be of interest to Islamicists, Middle East historians and specialists, as well as scholars and students of "liberation theologies," comparative religious revolutions, and mass collective behavior. Bruce Lawrence of Duke University calls this volume "a superb and unprecedented study.... In brilliant figural strokes, he arrays EuroAmerican sociological theory as the crucial backdrop of a deeper understanding of contemporary Iranian history."
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Why We Can’t Ignore Fish Disease In Discussions About Sustainable Aquaculture
Many of the ongoing discussions about sustainability now involve water, our waterways, the health of our oceans and life underwater. It is impossible to look at any of these aspects in isolation without considering the many forms of life that thrive within it.
Aquaculture – or the rearing of aquatic organisms within controlled conditions in waterbodies – is today one of the fastest-growing food production systems in the world. It is currently responsible for the supply of over 50% of the total seafood globally and is expected to be the primary source of seafood. Demand is estimated to reach 232 million metric tons by then, which means aquaculture production will need to double. There is no better time than now for us to begin thinking about sustainable practices in aquaculture and all the ways to keep this practice going in a healthy and holistic way. Aquaculture practised in this manner can not only be a valuable source of food and nutrition but can also help provide livelihoods and fuel economies in developing parts of the world. According to a World Bank report for an aquaculture system to be truly sustainable, it requires a triumvirate of:
1. Environmental sustainability: Aquaculture should be practised responsibly, in a way that does not create any major disruption to the ecosystem, resulting in a detrimental loss of biodiversity, pollution or greater environmental impact.
2. Economic sustainability: For aquaculture to be a viable business with long-term economic benefits to communities engaging with it, it must be developed in an economically sustainable manner.
3. Social and community sustainability: Aquaculture must be socially responsible and contribute to community well-being.
Approximately 800 million people globally, depend on fisheries and aquaculture as a primary means of livelihoods. A bulk of the global aquaculture produce comes from developing countries, and from significantly low-income food-deficit areas. Additionally, aquaculture has the potential to be a sustainable, viable practice that can support and supplement fast-dying capture fisheries. This is a very good way to positively contribute to the pressing need to feed the world’s growing population as well as significantly contribute to employment for men and women alike. Which is why the aspect of sustainability and health of aquatic life begs to be looked into so that we can begin to:
1. depend on the naturally occurring biological cycles amongst aquatic organisms
2. research and develop various methods of disease control among fish
3. refrain from using synthetic fertilisers and other chemicals that could potentially harm fish and their environment
The World Fish Centre reports that fish disease poses a serious threat to the potential scope of growth within aquaculture, due to approximately “USD 6 billion lost annually due to the problem (World Bank 2014).” Particularly harmful when found amongst farmed-fish populations, dealing with fish disease has become an important topic when discussing sustainable aquaculture. Managing, curing and preventing further spread of fish disease is a crucial element to making aquaculture truly sustainable so that we may minimise production losses and significantly increase productivity.
What does “fish disease” look like?
Unlike other farmed animals like livestock, farmed fish pose a challenge in that the fish spend most of their lives underwater where it becomes difficult to observe changes as they occur. One of the most noticeable signs of disease in fish is a refusal to feed or come up to the surface for air. Sometimes there may be visible deformities like polyps or ulcers on the body, cloudy or colourless eyes, but these are not readily apparent until the disease has progressed significantly. Fish disease is, in fact, more prevalent in aquaculture than wild waters, and caused by pathogens existing within the environment. While pathogens are present in wild as well as farmed environments, they can spread faster and gain sufficient volume to produce epidemics amongst farmed fish due to the sheer concentration of numbers of fish that exist together.
Pathogens enter aquaculture enclosures due to several changes in the environment around them such as climate change that affects the composition and temperature of waters, excessive fishing that doesn’t stick to natural seasonal cycles, the effects of pollution emanating from the unchecked flow of untreated wastewater loaded with organic and chemical pathogens into our rivers and seas.
The major danger with disease in farmed fish is that large tracts of water contain a multitude of fish in close proximity, which increases the chances of pathogens spreading, crossing and multiplying.
There are seven major categories of disease amongst fish – bacterial, fungal, parasitic, protozoan, non-infectious maladies, viral and miscellaneous diseases. These include conditions like Red Pests, Mouth Fungus, Tuberculosis. Lymphocytis, Ergasilus, Anchor Worms, Brown Blood disease, to name just a few.
Are probiotics the answer to fighting fish disease?
As in humans, there is also a growing interest in the research and development of naturally occurring beneficial bacteria, or probiotics, as a key way to counter the effects of antimicrobials that are now being questioned in aquaculture. Probiotics are “good” bacteria that have a host of beneficial effects, by creating a natural balance in the microbial community within the organism’s body. Many of these bacteria are responsible for setting off and regulating essential biological functions within the system, such as feeding, and responding to fighting disease.
The use of probiotics and the need to work around establishing healthy gut systems is now being looked at as a viable route to improved animal health, especially in aquaculture.
A healthy gut that has a right balance of intestinal microflora working their magic has a positive impact on:
· the way the organism responds to, absorbs and assimilates the nutrition it receives
· prevention of pathogenic infections
· integrity and function of digestive organs and other major organ systems
· a robust immune system that can respond to and fight disease sooner
Soil and water probiotics are usually introduced into waters where fish are farmed, to restore the natural balance of microflora, and help maintain water quality and colour, as well as stabilise the dissolved oxygen concentration in the water in which fish are reared.
In commercial aquaculture, stocking densities are high, with space being limited. While such rearing conditions are often unavoidable, use of probiotics makes it far less detrimental to fish health and improves their immunity against diseases and environmental stress caused by such intensive breeding conditions.
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Integrated Leadership Development (ILD)
Veritas College International has developed the theory and practice of Integrated Leadership Development (ILD) to equip believers, ministry leaders and church leaders for ministry.
Integrated Leadership Development provides a way of training to serve the church in the twenty first century. We believe training should be faithful to biblical principles and be relevant to the needs of a changing church in a changing society. Veritas is committed to the ongoing development of ILD to ensure it remains biblical and relevant.
Although the characteristics of ILD will be listed under separate headings, these are all related and may overlap.
The characteristics of ILD
1. Integrated into the life of the church
1.1 Training in the context of church life
With the tremendous training needs in the church in our time, ILD is an appeal to the local church to take up its responsibility in this regard. Training should be an integral part of the life and ministry of the church. The apostle Paul understood this by following a strategy that integrated evangelism, the establishing of churches and the development of leaders:
He preached the gospel and led people to God.
- Establishing churches
He organised the believers into the community of the church, leading them to spiritual maturity and to impact the world in all areas of life.
- Leadership development
He discipled the believers into leadership ensuring that they were well equipped for ministry.
Paul in turn encouraged these churches to evangelise, establish churches and train leaders locally and in other places.
ILD could be done by a single local church or by a number of local churches working together. Organisations, theological seminaries and Bible colleges could function as resource centres and consultants for them.
ILD that takes place in the context of the church has many advantages:
- It has an immediate impact on all the activities of the church.
- It links the leaders or potential leaders who are trained strongly to their churches and they are not alienated from them.
- It is time efficient as the learned skills and knowledge are used immediately in the church.
- It is relevant to the needs of the church and is practically applied.
- It is a continual process of leadership development and discipleship that secures the future of the church as church leadership is passed on from generation to generation.
- It covers all the areas of the life of the participant (not only the intellectual) and therefore produces mature disciples.
- It helps more believers to be involved in ministry.
1.2 Promoting the objectives for church growth
ILD helps the church to reach its objectives and fulfil its calling in the world. The objective of ILD is not to encourage the individual to obtain knowledge for its own sake, but to equip the church to fulfil its part in God’s purpose with the world (Missio Dei). The success of ILD thus has to be measured by its influence on the life and ministry of the church.
The starting point for ILD is to formulate good objectives for the life and ministry of the church. These objectives must be biblical and relevant to the situation of the local church. As the training proceeds, it should be evaluated against the following recommended objectives:
- Understanding the biblical message of salvation and identification with Christ.
- Discovering and using relevant ways of leading people to Christ.
- Building up the church as a body and its individual members in spiritual maturity.
- Continuously evaluating and improving the ministry of the church and its individual members to ensure it is biblical as well as relevant.
- Having an impact on all areas of society by showing Christ's love to the world in word and deed.
- Ensuring that the way in which the church and its individual members view the world and all relationships is biblical and has an influence on the worldview of society.
- Promoting the church and the individual member’s ability and responsibility to do theology (understanding and applying the message of the Bible).
- The church taking up its responsibility to train and disciple its leaders and members.
- The church encouraging new leaders to take more responsibility in the church so that more people can be involved in ministry.
- Committing to the Great Commission of evangelising, establishing churches and developing leaders locally and in other cultures.
1.3 Equipping all believers to serve God
More and more churches all over the world have leaders who are not formally trained. This provides wonderful and exciting opportunities to equip church members so that all of them can be active in serving the Lord in the church and also in their families, in society, and in their jobs.
1.4 Effective in all parts of the world
Major changes have taken place in the spread of Christianity during the last century. The majority of Christians are no longer found in Western Europe and Northern America but in dynamically growing churches in other parts of the world (also called the Majority World). These churches are also experiencing a shift towards more members ministering in the church. Many of the countries where the church is growing do not have strong economies and it is financially impossible for them to provide residential facilities to meet their growing needs for theological education.
Because ILD is part-time and takes place in the context of the life and ministry of the local church, it can be adapted to the facilities and resources of the local church and can be run in the humblest setting.
2. Promoting the development of an integrated person
2.1 Training for all areas of life
ILD should not be seen as training people only for ministry in the church, but should also impact all areas of life. Many church members face challenges to provide financially for themselves and their families. They may also face ethical issues when they do business or work in their professions or jobs.
As ILD teaches how to do theology (see 3.1), the participants are equipped and encouraged to interpret the Bible themselves and to apply it to the different areas of their lives. The more relevant to everyday living the training is, the more successful it will be. This is applicable to all areas of productivity that could fall into one or more of the following seven main categories:
- wage work (receiving a fixed salary)
- fee work (receiving payment for work done)
- earning commission (receiving payment according to success achieved)
- own business (eg farming, having a shop)
- homework (work done around the home)
- gift work (eg church and charity work)
- study work (including constantly renewing and upgrading one’s skills)
2.2 Training in the context of all relationships
ILD should also equip believers to better understand and function properly in all relationships. These can be summarised as the following:
- Relationship with God
- Relationship with others
- Relationship with nature (including all material things and money)
- Relationship with self
2.3 Equipping the whole person
ILD emphasises that knowledge, character and skills should all be developed throughout the training. As the training is integrated into the life of the church, the church members interact and keep one another accountable for growth in all areas of life.
3. Integrated theological practice
3.1 Practising inter-active theology
ILD enables participants to develop their own theological understanding (beliefs) through the inter-action of the Word with all areas of life and ministry. Although the Bible is truth, we all tend to fail in our own theology or understanding of that truth. The challenge is to have our theology inter-act with the truth of the Bible as well as the reality of all areas of life and ministry. Sometimes the reality of the world reveals the inadequacies of our theology and challenges us to re-evaluate it in the light of the Bible. This process holds to the authority of the Bible and challenges pet theologies. It helps us to apply God's truth to the needs of society.
By developing a curriculum that equips the church to find theological answers for itself, a major need is fulfilled. In missions many have been teaching that churches should be self-governing, self-supporting and self-propagating, but have neglected the element of self-theologising. The latter is probably the most important one of all these 'selves'. For example how can a planted church in a disadvantaged country be self-supporting if it follows a model of ministry that can only function within a wealthy setting? In such a case the planted church should develop a self-supporting model of ministry that is relevant to the local setting and based on biblical truth.
3.2 Establishing the rightful position of the Bible
Through the process of practising theology interactively, the Bible takes its rightful place in the church. It is treated as the authoritative source and provides truth for the church in its calling to be God’s people in the midst of a changing world.
There are many exciting opportunities to provide sound scholarly approaches and methodologies of Bible interpretation to emerging generations of faithful church members. This training has to be easily accessible to the average church member by presenting and applying it in the local church setting. If we fail in that, the church will be much poorer and certainly not well-equipped to serve the Lord and to oppose false teaching.
Veritas presents an approach and methodology of Bible interpretation and application that are used by numerous churches to train their members. For this purpose we have made extensive use of the insights and methodologies brought to us by semantics and semiotics. The methodologies to analyse exposition/ exhortation, narrative and poetry as applied to the different categories of Bible books have already been thoroughly field-tested.
The inter-active practice of theology does not only take the Bible seriously, but also the cultural context. It is theology in context. As the context demands responses, answers are found from the Bible. This not only requires good exegesis of the Bible, but also a good understanding of the context.
3.4 Integrated curriculum
It is important to remember that there used to be only one discipline of theology. Under the influence of the Enlightenment in Europe (around 1700-1800) a division between theory and practice emerged. This in turn developed into the four separate disciplines of Bible, church history, systematic theology and practical theology. ILD seeks to integrate these separate disciplines through the practice of inter-active theology.
A particular subject like salvation (soteriology) will for example be covered through exegesis. The biblical answers are applied to the individual or society. How to effectively communicate them is then worked out. The way in which the church through the ages has answered its questions also needs to be taken into consideration. The answers are to be applied to the present situation to test their relevance. In this way various theological disciplines are integrated.
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Many civilians seeking to escape Daesh territory have to pay smugglers fees to the PKK who then don't deliver and seek more money from them.
Desperate to escape Daesh-held territory, more and more women and children are falling victim to human trafficking scams, ending up in the notorious Al Hol camp with no way out.
Umm Ahmad was the French wife of an ISIS (Daesh) militant. Trapped in a small pocket in eastern Syria, she was surrounded on all sides by YPG-dominated SDF militias in the final phase of their ‘al-Jazeera Storm’ offensive.
"I wanted the world to know of my suffering and of the suffering of many women like myself," Umm Ahmad tells TRT World.
As the siege tightened day by day, and with barely anything to eat and only contaminated water to drink, the situation became unbearable. Those trapped by the siege were starting to become ill from the water.
US aircraft, supporting YPG and SDF militias linked to the PKK, an organisation that they themselves designate as a terrorist entity, were bombing the area indiscriminately with hundreds of civilians killed as a result, Umm Ahmad relayed back to me from the besieged pocket.
Umm Ahmad’s husband, also a French national, was killed as the Daesh terror group slowly lost its territory. A widow, she and her two-year-old son are now in limbo.
The life of civilians and the wives of militants who surrender to SDF militias can be a precarious one and the beginning of a new phase in their ordeal. Looked upon suspiciously, many are taken to the Al Hol camp unable to leave and what some have called an open-air prison. Umm Ahmad, however, is now seeking a way out.
“Inside the camp women and children live in tents, newcomers often share tents until they are able to acquire an individual tent, they have extremely limited access to medical services and are banned from leaving the camp even in dire situations” said Umm Ahmad speaking to TRT World over a phone she had smuggled into the camp.
Merchants of misery
For over three months I have been investigating how SDF militias have turned their war against Daesh into a business opportunity to extort the besieged people trying to escape Daesh-held territory.
My investigation has exposed how the SDF has formed a people smuggling industry projected by locals to be worth millions of dollars, though I was not able to verify the accuracy of this figure due to the difficulty of extracting verified information.
These militias, in addition to local smugglers, have financially exploited the human misery and desperation in the last besieged pocket of Daesh-held territory.
For the SDF, the war against Daesh has created perverse incentives even as hundreds of their militants have been killed, including many foreign militants from Western countries who have joined the YPG, the Syrian branch of the PKK which the EU, NATO and the US recognise as a terrorist organisation.
In my phone conversations with smugglers in the southeastern provinces of Al Hasakah and Deir Ezzor I have found one thing they all have in common: opportunism. Many of these opportunistic smugglers come from destitute and impoverished backgrounds, they have found a chance to jump on a "get rich quick" scheme in war torn Syria where regular jobs are scarce.
On one occasion, a smuggler known as Muhsin Ayid al Samran told me that his neighbour Abdullah was an unemployed man living in his parents' house struggling to eat and is now driving a $10,000 Toyota Hilux from money he made through smuggling families out of Daesh territory.
I contacted Abdullah to confirm this statement. Abdullah himself confirmed that he charges $2,500 per head to cross over from what's left of Daesh territory to SDF held territory.
I first spoke to Abdullah on December 15 2018, and by January, prices had increased significantly going up from an initial $2,500 per person to $4,000.
The increase in prices reflects the increased desperation of the families trying to escape, and the greed of the members of SDF militias to fund their activities through human trafficking.
Although rebel-held Idlib province would appear to be the preferred destination of many of those seeking a way out of Daesh-held territory, hardly any of these families ever make it there as Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) does not want to host potential members of Daesh and neither does it want to host their families, as confirmed to me by a senior HTS member whom I contacted during my investigation in order to know HTS’ position on Daesh families.
No man's land
So where do these families smuggled out of Daesh territory end up? Most have been scammed by smugglers in the hope of trading money for safety and end up in the SDF-managed Al Hol camp if they are women, children or civilian men. If they are men suspected of being members of Daesh members they are held in SDF prisons.
There is little mention in the mainstream media of the camps despite there being more than 30,000 people confined there including 500 Daesh members’ wives.
Conditions for the women and children in the Al Hol camp are horrific. The World Health Organization has called for unhindered access to the camp and admitted that "more help is required."
According to the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, even the documents of the people residing in the Al Hol refugee camp are confiscated, rendering them helpless and at the mercy of the SDF militias.
Umm Ahmad was handed over to the Asayish, a PKK linked militia, by the smuggler Muhsin who was paid a sum of $3,000 by her French relatives to smuggle her out of the Daesh-controlled pocket in the south of Syria.
After much searching by her family who contacted her friends and the SDF, Asayish smugglers that they had access to, her relatives told me they "were able to locate her three weeks later only to find she was in the Al Hol refugee camp".
The Al Hol camp outside a small village from which it gains its name is a few kilometres from the Iraqi border has become the unlikely epicentre of what is becoming an international problem, the question of what should be done with the foreign militants is now increasingly becoming an urgent question.
But for Umm Ahmad’s family, the urgency is personal. Her family informed me that she was "in bad health condition" as she was ill and "barred from receiving crucial medical treatment" by the militias in charge of the camp.
She even told me of a woman who lived in her tent a while ago who tried to hang herself and her two daughters out of grief, only to be restrained by other women.
These women are not allowed contact with the outside world, although some manage to hide their phones on arrival to the camps. Some of these women are Syrian while others are foreigners.
Others, even entire families, have totally disappeared off the map with rumours circulating that they have been killed and sold for their organs.
How the smuggler's profit
The smugglers claim to be able to get women and families out of the Al Hol camp if a bribe of $5,500 is paid to militia members.
I was told this by a smuggler going by the name Abdullah al Deri, who operates out of al-Hasakah province, in northeastern Syria. The total price of smuggling women and families to Turkey and FSA controlled Euphrates Shield area was $7,500 a head; $5,500 is what the SDF militias take and the rest of the money is kept by the smugglers.
I managed to get in touch with Umm Ahmad's relatives abroad who discovered the hard way that human trafficking is a lucrative scheme for SDF militants and that, “the smugglers they work with and that once the money is received by the smugglers, they would no longer respond to messages,” they told me over the phone.
I was told by one of Umm Ahmad's relatives that when a smuggler going by the name Ra'ad al Faouri received a sum of $1,500 from them on December 22 2018, as an initial payment, he claimed that he would "deliver the woman from the Al Hol camp to the rebel-held province of Idlib."
However, Umm Ahmad had already paid $3,000 to the smuggler Muhsin Ayid al Samran to leave Daesh territory in the back of an overcrowded pickup truck through the desert a few days earlier, only to be scammed.
It seems that SDF militias and local smugglers have used and are using people's fears and uncertainties to sell false hopes of leaving Daesh territory as well as the Al Hol camp controlled by them in order to profit financially. They do this by working with shady smugglers who are simply looking for a payday and have no concern for their clients or their safety - and don’t think twice about cheating them out of large sums of cash.
As if that wasn't enough, these clients and their families abroad often discover that it was a trick to extort money from them and that they were sold out from the beginning as the smugglers were working hand in hand with the militias.
This is criminal, corrupt and unethical and runs contradictory to the image of heroism and discipline that SDF militias try to portray to the world. Umm Ahmad is not the only victim here, I spoke to at least three other women who fell for the same trick.
They were too afraid to give me information which could identify them due to expected reprisals from the SDF militias. I have been told by these women that wealthier Syrian civilians who can afford to pay the smugglers have also fallen prey to this trick out of fear of being taken to the Al Hol camp, but so far I have not managed to verify this claim.
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Varsha R Jenni is a 2nd year undergraduate student at the RV College of Engineering.
Varsha has interests in machine learning and distributed computing. She has found HPCC Systems to be a great open source platform which makes data processing analysis easier and faster.
Density-based spatial clustering of data with noise (DBSCAN) is a popular clustering algorithm that groups data points which are close together using two parameters eps - which is the radius of each cluster, and Minpts, which is the minimum number of points in each cluster. However, the performance of DBSCAN reduces for the datasets with varying density clusters. The poster proposes the implementation of a novel distributed and adaptive DBSCAN algorithm on the HPCC Systems platform. The proposed approach uses techniques such as grid search and Gaussian kernel to search optimized values for the threshold density of clusters, thus eliminating the requirement for users to specify the parameters. Further, the experimental investigation suggests that proposed ADBSAN performs better compared to existing ADBSCAN implementations using k-dist and Gaussian kernels.
This study aims at the implementation of an efficient, distributed, and adaptive DBSCAN(ADBSCAN) algorithm HPCC Systems which first determines the threshold density, for any given dataset, including datasets with variable density clusters for clustering. Thus eliminating the need for users to specify the values. Further, the manuscript discusses other ADBSCAN implementations and compares the proposed approach with them using various open datasets.
In this Video Recording, Varsha provides a tour and explanation of her poster content.
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Well, 2015 was an exciting year. It was so exciting that it’s kept me away from this space for a while. I know you thought I’d gone on some walkabout.
Well, I did, sort of.
This same time last year, my book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain had been out only six weeks. As more and more teachers began reading it, I wanted to find out what was going on in classrooms around CRT. So, I set out to learn what questions, misconceptions, and challenges teachers had related to it.
Over the 10 months that followed, I crisscrossed the country and listened as teachers talked about CRT.
Here are five things I learned about how they think about culturally responsive teaching that might be getting in the way.
1. Teachers still think of CRT as separate from “regular” teaching. On several occasions, a group of teachers would be talking and someone would say, “But when I go back to regular teaching…” When we think of culturally responsive teaching as different from our “regular” instructional routine, we reinforce the mindset that it’s an add-on set of strategies. Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings reminds us that culturally responsive teaching is “just good teaching.”
2. Leaders still conceive of it as simply about social-emotional learning and not about cognitive development. I was talking with a teacher during a recent workshop. She was very interested in setting up more culturally responsive structures and routines that were focused on reducing stress before the main lesson began. When I asked her why she hadn’t, she said that her principal pushed back on the idea. “ He said he wants us to focus on getting test scores up, not on relationships or CRT.” Now, don’t get me wrong. I appreciate that there’s been a much needed focus on SEL in schools in the past few years. Yet, not understanding how the CRT and SEL are connected is short sighted.
Unfortunately, there’s still not enough effort to connect the dots between what neuroscience tells us about SEL, relational trust, and the student’s ability to do higher order thinking or deep learning. These are at the heart of what it means to be culturally responsive. It’s not either/or but both/and. If you want more information to help them connect the dots, check out The Social Neuroscience of Education.
3. Teachers still confuse CRT with multicultural education.
Another mindset that keeps teachers from implementing culturally responsive teaching effectively is the fact that they confuse CRT with multicultural education. If we were to do a Venn diagram, I’m sure we’d see some overlap. But the truth is culturally responsive teaching and multicultural education each have very different purposes.
Multicultural education is focused on celebrating the diversity among students. It aims to expose children to different cultural traditions through literature and social experiences. On the other hand, culturally responsive teaching is focused not on celebrating diversity but on using culture as a cognitive scaffold for processing new content during learning.
Remember, each is important, but multicultural education doesn’t concern itself with cognitive development and increasing brainpower for culturally and linguistically diverse students like CRT does.
4. Teachers have a limited definition of what it means to be a warm demander.
It’s funny how many times I’d hear a teacher say, “Oh, I already do that,” when I talk about being a warm demander. Turns out they were usually talking about being a “no non-sense nurturer” as it relates to classroom management. It’s a pretty common stance these days thanks to Doug Lemov’s “warm/strict” technique made popular in his book, Teach Like a Champion.
But, that’s just half the story. In culturally responsive teaching, the warm demander stance isn’t about classroom management but about getting the student’s permission to push him cognitively into his zone of proximal development (ZPD). The demanding part involves helping students stay focused and persevere through the hard parts of learning with care. (Oh yeah, another SEL connection: Relational trust is the key to getting students’ permission to push them).
5. Most teachers can’t figure out how to bridge the “knowing-doing” gap.
The last mindset I came across on a regular basis this year was the confusion many teachers have around how to move from understanding culturally responsive teaching conceptually and operationalizing it in their classrooms. To successfully implement CRT we have to consider some of the mundane things that go into effective teaching like time, routines, groupwork, formative assessments, and timely corrective feedback, to name a few.
Developing a CRT growth mindset in 2016.
Think about how these mindsets show up around culturally responsive teaching for you. This year, I’ll be spending time thinking about how to support more teachers to implement elements of CRT in their classrooms and how to help them cultivate a growth-oriented mindset toward CRT so it doesn’t seem so overwhelming.
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To the Editor: A 12-day-old infant with no significant birth history presented with several 1-mm grouped pustular lesions on erythematous bases on the back and right axilla, and vesicular lesions on the umbilicus (Figure 1). The patient looked well, and vital signs were within normal limits. There were no other symptoms or parental concerns. A physical examination was otherwise unremarkable. Complete blood count, metabolic panel, and urine analysis results were within normal ranges. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate was mildly elevated at 26 mm per hr (reference range = 0 to 10 mm per hr). Swabs were collected for a bacterial culture and herpes simplex virus (HSV) polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A Tzanck test was performed, which found multi-nucleated giant cells and viral cytopathic effect. A lumbar puncture was performed, and cerebrospinal fluid studies showed a mildly elevated protein of 65 mg per dL (reference range = 15 to 45 mg per dL) with no pleocytosis. The patient was admitted to the hospital and administered empiric ampicillin, ceftazidime (Fortaz), and acyclovir.
Urine, blood, and lesion cultures had no bacterial growth after 48 hours. The HSV PCR of skin and plasma was positive for HSV-1. HSV-1 and HSV-2 were not detected in the PCR of cerebrospinal fluid. The patient completed a 14-day course of intravenous acyclovir and was discharged with oral suppression therapy.
Neonatal HSV infections are classified into three subtypes: localized with skin, eye, or mouth disease; localized central nervous system disease; and disseminated multi-organ involvement. 1 Skin, eye, or mouth disease presents at 10 to 11 days after birth with groups of discrete vesicles on erythematous bases. These lesions coalesce into clusters, differentiating this infection from erythema toxicum neonatorum.2
A skin examination revealed grouped vesicles on the umbilicus, which are morphologically different from the more typical HSV lesions of grouped pustules on an erythematous base found in other areas. Early diagnosis of neonatal HSV and adequate antiviral treatment have lowered the percentage of patients with a developmental delay because of skin, eye, or mouth disease from 25% to less than 2%.3
Tzanck smear with Giemsa stain is an inexpensive test for rapid detection of HSV infection. Although the Tzanck test has lower sensitivity than PCR, a positive Tzanck smear with multinucleated giant cells and viral cytopathic changes is 100% specific for HSV infection.4 For this patient, a Tzanck smear expedited the initiation of anti-viral therapy before PCR results were available.
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Table of Contents
- What Is WordPress?
- 19 Free WordPress Themes for Beginners
- Key Takeaways
Back in the day, it was necessary to have some sort of coding knowledge to design your blog. Then came premium themes offered by blogging portals, making it possible for bloggers to pay a fee and have their blogs built with the help of expertly pre-designed themes. Cut to today, bloggers don’t necessarily need to worry about shelling out any amount to have their blogs designed. There are plenty of free WordPress themes that you can choose from.
With the new year coming up, we thought we’d help you enhance your blog by discussing our selection of the 19 best, free WordPress themes. So if you’re a blogger who uses WordPress for your blogging activities or if you’re simply looking to start your own blog in the new year, read on.
What Is WordPress?
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Puerto Rico is known for its white sand beaches, crystal-clear water and, to some in the international business community, its low tax rates. In recent memory, the island has been plagued with economic struggles compounded by devastating natural disasters like Hurricanes Irma and Maria within the same year, testing the resilience of its people, resources, and infrastructure. But now, according to Puerto Rico’s new Secretary of the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, Manuel Cidre, the island is poised for long-term revival and business investment.
In April 2021, it was revealed that the U.S. government delayed providing Puerto Rico with nearly $20 billion in hurricane relief since 2017, hindered investigations into the funding delay, and falsely claimed that the Puerto Rican government wanted to use the federal aid to pay off its debt. Recently, those restrictions were swiftly removed. As a result, the island will receive a total of $100 billion to repair and rebuild the island’s infrastructure and strengthen America’s supply chain.
Because funding is no longer stalled, according to Secretary Cidre, Puerto Rico is about to undergo its own renaissance that benefits everyone from business investors to tourists on vacation.
Reimagining Economic Development
The focus of the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, a Puerto Rican government department of 500 employees, is manifold yet consistent: implement strategies that combine commerce and economic development, while bolstering sectors such as education, security, and social justice. As newly appointed leader of the department, and founder and former CEO of his own Puerto Rican-based company, I spoke with Cidre on The CEO Show to explain the current state of Puerto Rico and give reasons for why investing in the island now is advantageous.
“COVID is under control here with our vaccination and hospitalization rates comparing favorably to that of the states. We have more than 5,000 FEMA projects and $70 billion to rebuild infrastructure. This is our turning point that guarantees from now that investment would be successful.”
Importantly, Cidre cites the critical influence of the island’s resilience and how it is a tool for projects to come.
“Sometimes, between the natural disasters and the pandemic, you look at the glass half empty,” he said. “I prefer to see the glass half full. It is because of these phenomena that we have billions of dollars to transform the island in ways that will impact infrastructure like roads, bridges, energy, transportation, as well as education, safety and health for years to come.”
A Program of Entrepreneurship
Cidre’s belief that revival is inevitable for the island is backed by five core strategies: Attract and retain; Empower local entrepreneurship; Foster the ease of doing business; Build a workforce of the future; and Develop Puerto Rico’s geographic zones.
“We are reducing the cost of doing business, reducing regulations, and making Puerto Rico a one-stop shop for investors.”
Amongst the most competitive incentives to attract and retain are a 4% corporate tax rate combined with Opportunity Zone benefits that include 96% of the territory. Digging deeper into these strategies, Puerto Rico is investing in its 60-year history of experience in pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing as the largest exporter of bio pharmaceuticals in the U.S. and the highest proportion of STEM degrees. COVID-19 accelerated the national push to re-shore production of critical medical materials, and in so doing, tested the resiliency of its production pipelines that can extend to other industries as well. With 90% of air cargo passing through Puerto Rico being bioscience, the recently granted Air Transshipment Waiver makes Puerto Rico the second transshipment hub in the U.S and dramatically expands shipment and air cargo opportunities well beyond current capacity.
“Every year, 140,000 planes fly over the Puerto Rican skies,” Cidre said. “That number represents 140,000 investment opportunities to the island from all over the world.”
Moreover, the talent behind the making these reshoring efforts possible extends to the island’s growing tech sector, which spans digital financial services to AI and blockchain-based software development to cyber and IT security. Compared to tech hub neighbor Miami, Puerto Rico is already home to global companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP.
A Versatile Leadership Strategy
Cidre’s career took a seemingly sharp pivot from founding and leading his own bread making company to leading an essential department of the Puerto Rican government. But it is his entrepreneurial mindset that shapes his approach to leadership.
“My advice to other CEOs based on personal experience taught me three key lessons: focus on results, cut everything that doesn’t bring value to the table, and follow your instinct to make decisions.”
These are three pillars that shape how he is bringing DEDC’s strategies to life. His goal for Puerto Rico, and his source of inspiration, is to become “the richest, safest, most prepared, most sustainable territory” in the Caribbean.
“My inspiration is thinking of Puerto Rico 10 years from now.”
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Randa Aweis, a 58-year-old Christian Arab, has been treated at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem for nine years. Her need for a kidney transplant had become urgent. When Yigal Yehoshua died from his injuries after a mob threw rocks at him as he headed home from a Torah-dedication ceremony in Lod last week, his family consented to donate his kidney.
The transplantation was performed by Dr. Abed Khalaileh, director of Hadassah's Kidney Transplantation Service. “Yigal will go straight to heaven, to a better place,” relates Aweis. “Here we—Christians, Muslims and Jews— must all strive for peace. All of us. I can't wait to host Yigal's family in my home.”
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Being the first Black woman to own a cannabis dispensary in the U.S. is not exactly an honour as far as Wanda James is concerned. To her, it merely underscores that the industry is 98% white-owned.
“Things like ‘first’ and ‘only’ just motivate me to open up the floodgates,” says James, a Navy veteran and former Fortune 100 executive who owns three Colorado-based companies, her dispensary Simply Pure, a cooking school/catering company, and a consultancy firm for cannabis business opportunities.
James is to be a keynote speaker at the O’Cannabiz Conference and Expo, which takes place at the International Centre from June 1-3, 2022. The perspective she brings on the historical connection between drug law enforcement and social inequality is sobering food for thought. “Wanda James is an inspiration. She represents the conscience of the cannabis industry,” says O’Cannabiz President, Neill Dixon. “Legalization was born as a reaction to injustice, and we should never take for granted the lives that were damaged and even destroyed by the so-called War on Drugs. Wanda is a force that will move the industry forward through sheer will, and we’re all better for it.”
On one hand, being surrounded by pot-smoking white friends at the University of Colorado protected her from repercussions. Later, when she entered the business world after her military service, she discovered some of the most influential executives smoked cannabis freely and surprisingly openly.
On the other hand, her brother was sentenced to 10 years in prison for pot possession at age 19. She says he was allowed to work off part of his sentence by picking cotton. While working to improve conditions in the cannabis industry and erase its stigma, she is keenly aware that Prohibition was used as a tool to incarcerate mainly young Black men. James, who received support in the past from President Barack Obama, feels the cannabis industry has an ethical responsibility to be socially positive, politically active, and progressive.
“As we move closer to legalization, equity in cannabis must be addressed. After almost 100 years of devastating communities of color through the failed drug war, cannabis is a real opportunity to right some of those wrongs,” added James.
About O’Cannabiz Conference & Expo
Voted the No. 1 Cannabis Event in Canada by High Canada Magazine, O’Cannabiz is known for its ability to showcase and promote the people, businesses, and brands that are making a difference as cannabis continues its path toward global acceptance. Many of these visionaries will be celebrated during the 2nd Annual O’Cannabiz Industry Awards Gala, slated for the evening of Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 at the majestic Casa Loma castle located in midtown Toronto. The producers of O’Cannabiz have decades of experience producing national profile events and creating global connections between business communities in the arts, broadcasting, media, and technology. They have organized trade summit initiatives with governments around the world and have worked closely with sponsors at all levels of the Canadian government. To learn more about the O’Cannabiz Conference and Expo, including how to purchase tickets, become a sponsor or reserve a booth, visit: https://ocannabiz.com/ | <urn:uuid:526e5aff-f343-4c7a-aa01-d0c1701fd00a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cannabisproonline.com/news/african-american-industry-pioneer-and-vocal-critic-of-its-whiteness-wanda-james-joins-ocannabiz-conference-expo-as-a-keynote-speaker-june-2-2022/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970487 | 695 | 1.609375 | 2 |
European smart city stakeholders and representatives gathered in Utrecht on the 1st-2nd of June to understand the hidden factors behind the successful implementation of climate friendly solutions.
Cities of all sizes need to accelerate their transformation to climate-neutrality in 2050. Since 2014, a pioneering group of 120 cities have been working hard to deploy over 500 solutions in more than 20 countries through the European Smart Cities and Communities Lighthouse programme – referred to collectively as the Scalable Cities Community. But mainstreaming the hard-won, climate friendly, smart city solutions and creating sustainable system change in cities is proving challenging.
As one of the 100 selected cities by the European Commission to achieve the goal of Climate Neutrality by 2030, Utrecht is a great example of a trendsetting fast-growing city with green ambitions. And therefore, an ideal venue to host the “Moving from Solutions to System Change event” which brought over 140 representatives of the Scalable Cities community together to ask the following question: to enable a more systemic approach to smart city innovation, is it time to replicate success factors and enabling conditions, rather than solutions?
To answer this question, the conference invited participants to play a game of “Smart City Sherlock” in which six experts in six areas of smart city innovation (or “transitions tracks”) were invited to present and share their innovation story. Using examples from around the Netherlands and beyond, the six keynote speakers, rather than pitching their technological innovation in the usual way as they might do to a potential investor, were instead invited to trace back the steps that led to these innovations, highlighting whenever possible the less tangible and more hap-hazard elements that helped to bring about their innovative solutions.
In relation to positive energy districts, Theo Venema brought us along a fascinating story of Warmtestad and the development of public heating network of Groningen, while Daniel Grisaleña Rodriguez shared a great story of SmartEnCity and the citizen approach to retrofitting in the town of Victoris-Gasteiz. Robin Berg shared his story of the WeDriveSolar project with his visionary idea to store solar electricity electric cars and share it in a vehicle-to-gird network in the city of Utrecht whereas Lidia Stulen explained how the Digital Twin of Utrecht has been developed and the main organizational and governance challenges. Then Raginhild Scheifes shared her story of co-creations and social design through the example of greening of the roofs at the business park and environment in Bunnik; and finally, Carolien van Hemel highlighted the role of innovation brokers through her experience in working on the IRIS Smart Cities project.
After the keynotes delivered their presentations, it was then up to the audience, through 6 breakout sessions, to analyse each story under a specific set of “lenses” that aimed to highlight process elements such as informal networks and events, meaning and culture, timing and chance; and the role of specific kinds of individuals in the innovation narrative such as the so called “champions”, “knights” or “boundary spanners”. What each story highlighted in different ways was how different stakeholders interact and collaborate not only in formal structures, but often through informal structures. Meaning that learning to recognize, understand and work with informal connections and serendipitous events could be a powerful tool in creating lasting impact. To find out who a “boundary spanner” is and some initial outcomes of the experimental “Smart City Sherlock” exercise you can download the summary presentation
Day 2 of the event offered participants to not only talk the talk but also walk the walk and see smart city solutions in action through different site visits in Utrecht. They went on guided bike rides to visit the first high-rise retrofitted Positive Energy Building in Henriëttedreef and learned about the city´s bidirectional charging ecosystem. A guided walk in the neighborhood also passed by the largest multi-modal hub of the Netherlands underground bicycle parking and provided insights on design approaches that can foster inclusive energy transition schemes co-created with citizens. | <urn:uuid:60916744-21b8-45e4-bc8f-d64d4c61f8d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://irissmartcities.eu/smart-cities-investigate-climate-friendly-success-stories-through-a-different-lens/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.940506 | 846 | 1.867188 | 2 |
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EPILEPSY AND CHILDHOOD AUTISM - with special reference to neuropsychiatric aspects on surgical interventions for medically intractable epilepsy
Epilepsy is much more common in individuals with autism than in the general population. The extent to which epilepsy influences the outcome of autism is poorly understood. Many children with medically intractable epilepsy ...
Autism Spectrum Disorders in preschool children: cognitive aspects and interventions
Aim: The overarching aims of this thesis were to (a) gain further insight into the developmental/cognitive aspects of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in young children, and (b) assess outcome after interventions of varying ...
Narcolepsy in children: Relationship to the H1N1 influenza vaccination, association with psychiatric and cognitive impairments and consequences in daily life
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For Mark Shirk, “the idea that the state is receding in the face of globalization or that it is no longer as important as it once was is a straw man.” (p. 147) For him, the Westphalian state has undergone several transformations, and the current global capital attack on the state is but a convoluted way of registering transformation. In short, Shirk finds that the state endures. Only that one’s understanding of it has to be broadened and démodé conceptions abandoned.
The gist of the book is that state and anti-state actors or structures reinforce each other, all for the benefit of the former. The latter could be early eighteenth-century pirates, late-nineteenth-century anarchists, or early twenty-first-century jihadists. In each example, Shirk takes, the state’s initial response is largely inadequate. Eventually, the state learns its lesson through dynamics, which he calls: shattering and reinscribing. In exhausting its resources, the state causes some dysfunctionalities, but it gradually harnesses the courage to defeat the challenge. But the state neutralizes threats once ingrained habits, those thought useful for bypassing the threat are challenged. Only new and transboundary practices reinvigorate the state to the point that the state itself is transformed, almost beyond recognition, particularly for observers reared on entrenched practices. With each violent crisis, Shirk illustrates three he deems pivotal. It is not exactly the concept of the state but rather an outmoded understanding of its nature and role, which must be left behind. In the end, “boundaries have always been shattered and reinscribed; change is constant and the state [emerges] as a project, a process.” (p. 146)
In “Change and Continuity in Political Order”, the definition of state actors has to accommodate what we currently call the private sector since the latter operates in a state ecosystem. Because threats are transboundary, like with three examples treated in the issuing three chapters, old theories (such as geographical sovereignty and state competitions) are bypassed in understanding the evolution of the concept of statehood in practice. In conclusion, we read that borders are fluid (defined by surveillance, not by exclusion), and sovereignty is almost ontological. It comes irrespective of territory or citizens’ acquiescence.
In “The Golden Age of Piracy and the Creation of an Atlantic World”, readers find that from 1710 to 1730, piracy around the Caribbean Islands and the costs of what is today the United States constituted a major threat to the mercantile economy and the chances of European emerging capitalisms for expansions. Only by relocating judicial power to the periphery (the colonies) piracy was finally extinguished, and commerce resumed. Britain (not France or Holland) emerged as the biggest winner, less through design and more by accident.
In “‘Propaganda of the Deed,’ Surveillance and the Labor Movement”, we read that by the end of the nineteenth century, radical socialists or anarchists called for a stateless order. Their means to achieve such an objective is the assassination of monarchs, heads of state, and lesser state representatives. States’ repressions followed, but efforts to quell anarchism only succeeded when state legislators introduced the welfare state and the eight-hour working day. The state funnelled the anarchists’ energy into labour movements.
In “Al-Qaeda, the War on Terror, and the Boundaries of the Twenty-First Century”, Shirk observes that following 9/11, the policies the U.S. took, such as the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, did not pay off. Such responses were more expressive of anxiety and confusion than judicious countermeasures. In the following decade, targeted killing by drones and data surveillance succeeded in illuminating terrorists’ threats. Data surveillance, in particular, has irrecoverably transformed the state in the sense that liberal democracy that guarantees the individual’s (citizen and alien) privacy is fundamentally challenged.
One cannot agree more with Shirk’s proposal. Topping the three illustrative scenarios lies perhaps marron communities and Marronage as an anti-state institution. Those slave escapees who established independent communities at the top of mountains and other inaccessible localities and challenged empires could only be destroyed once the technology became available. But what dictates the transformation of the state is that situation where capital takes over from the state because it no longer needs a state, at least the one that is paternalistically understood.
Leaving the issue of the teleological unfolding of the process of state transformation to others, I choose to dwell on the book’s approach. The practice theory unveils itself as anti-historical. Instead of universal principles, we read that “…it is situations that determine the meaning and outcome of the event.” (p. 139) Even when deploying three historical situations, Shirk’s proposition cancels historical destiny, that is, people’s aspiration for freedom from state orders, the way the pirates, the anarchists, or jihadists dreamed of. So why deny that history has a sense, a universal principle called emancipation? Shirk’s argument can be confused as the trust that there is neither right nor wrong outside space and time, but it is not. For him, that which is working (not that which works) has to be right is an ideological imposition, seeking to eradicate the subaltern’s (the wretched of the world) resolve to challenge the state because the latter is presumed to be too invincible and as such cannot be successfully challenged.
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Whenever a race for a single seat has more than two candidates, more than half the voters can strongly oppose the "winner" in a traditional plurality system. To eliminate "spoilers" and embrace voter choice, a growing number of cities and colleges are moving to the instant runoff form of ranked choice voting (RCV). It's used to pick the Best Picture Oscar and is now under serious consideration for statewide elections.
Experience RCV yourself through mock Oscar elections, a great new explanatory video, and more!
- Top scholars support RCV in San Francisco
- Maine wants RCV for gubernatorial elections
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15 Fun Activities to try in New Orleans with Toddlers
March 29th 2021
When you first think of a place to go with your kids, visiting New Orleans is probably not the first idea that comes to mind. New Orleans, however, has a lot to offer when it comes to great kid-friendly options for your next trip! Keep reading to discover 15 Fun Activities to try in New Orleans with Toddlers.
Table of Contents
- What to do in New Orleans with Toddlers?
- New Orleans Zoo
- New Orleans Aquarium
- New Orleans Butterfly Garden & Insectarium
- Bayou & Swamp Tours
- The National WWII Museum
- Mardi Gras World
- City Park
- Global Wildlife Center
- Louisiana Children’s Museum
- Mardi Gras for Kids
- Ride on a Street Car
- Carriage Rides
- Preservation Hall
- The French Market
- The Music Box Village
- Family-Friendly NOLA
What to do in New Orleans with Toddlers?
The Big Easy is really the perfect spot for families. Between the historic French Quarter and wild and wondrous swamps and bayous, you will be amazed with all of the family-fun there is to be had. So, what is there to do in New Orleans with toddlers? Find out below!
New Orleans Zoo
You will feel right at home with your little wild ones at the New Orleans Audubon Zoo! Your children will love the daily animal presentations at Shell’s Wildlife On Stage, where they will get to learn about one of the many animals that call the zoo home which include:
- And MORE!
Your whole family will be so enamored with all there is to see, that it will surely be a day everyone will always remember!
New Orleans Aquarium
Getting up-close-and-personal with the magnificent marine life at an aquarium in the Big Easy. Photo Courtesy of Audubon Nature Institute
If you are looking for something to keep your kids entertained while on a trip to the French Quarter, take a brief pitstop to the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, which is located just adjacent to the area on the Mississippi River.
Start your visit in the Amazon Rainforest exhibit, where your family will get to learn all about the infamous payaras and piranhas. Then climb up to the Amazon “tree-top loop” to catch a unique view of what the Amazon rainforest looks like from above.
You will want to be sure to check out the pride and joy of the aquarium, the gigantic 400,000-gallon Gulf of Mexico exhibit! Your kids will be at a loss for words while obsessing over the animals swimming around the 17-foot deep tank which include:
- Sea Turtles
New Orleans Butterfly Garden & Insectarium
According to a recent Traveler Story, their child’s favorite part of their trip to New Orleans was the butterflies at the Butterfly Garden. Photo Courtesy of Audubon Nature Institute
If your kids just will not sit still on your trip, take them to get a glimpse of some other creatures that like to zip around constantly. The Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium will have your children feeling right at home, and adults will definitely not complain about getting to watch the thousands of beautiful butterflies flutter around in the Asian garden.
If you are at a loss for what to do in New Orleans with toddlers in tow, this place might be your saving grace with its Underground exhibit, where visitors get to experience the illusion of “shrinking” to the size of a bug. Be sure to also attend “Field Camp” where your kids can meet live insects and talk to an insect expert until their hearts are content!
Bayou & Swamp Tours
Swamp boat tours, like the one pictured above, are one of the best swamp tours for families to take
Swamp tours will give you the opportunity to see wonderful wildlife and impressive scenic views on your thrilling ride. You will be able to explore firsthand the natural habitat of many wild animals that call New Orleans home including:
- Wild Pigs
If your children love a wild ride, then check out one of the many bayou and swamp tours New Orleans has to offer! Tour operators will take you out in an incredible swamp vessel like an airboat, pontoon, or swamp cruiser (learn more about visiting the swamps in our recent blog). It would be a crime to come to the area and not go on an adventurous outing through the wet marshland the region is known for.
The National WWII Museum
In a recent Traveler Story, one grandmother explains how she enjoyed teaching her granddaughter about the war her grandfather was in. Photo Courtesy of The National World War II Museum
Play on your children’s natural curiosity and teach them about the rich history that came long before them at the National WWII Museum. This is the perfect place for all generations, as it is consistently ranked the #1 attraction in the city!
When thinking about visiting New Orleans with toddlers, this should be placed at the top of your list due to its incredible experiences and exhibits such as:
- The Arsenal of Democracy
- Beyond All Boundaries
- Road to Tokyo
- Road to Berlin
- Bayou to Battlefield
The vibrant displays and beautiful storytelling will leave your family in awe of the history behind WWII.
Mardi Gras World
Tours of Mardi Gras World allow you to see some incredible Mardi Gras floats, decorations, and more
It can be hard with school schedules and the needed routines of your little ones to make sure you get to the Big Easy for its annual Mardi Gras celebration. Do not be upset if you are not able to make it this year, because you can still give your family the colorful experience of Mardi Gras at Mardi Gras World!
At Mardi Gras World, you will get a behind-the scenes look at all that goes into the giant celebration. It is a great option for all ages as the tour is only an hour long and completely indoors. Beyond just looking at how all the floats are made and the history behind the holiday, you will also get to chow down on a slice of King Cake and take in a gorgeous view of the Mississippi River!
Image of a moss-covered tree at City Park courtesy of http://neworleanscitypark.com/
When thinking about visiting New Orleans with toddlers a beautiful warm day, the first thought that comes to mind is taking a trip to City Park. Upon your visit you will immediately get to see a more tranquil side of the city, and your kids will love Storyland’s colorful themed playground with 20 larger-than-life sculptures of fairytale characters.
You will also want to check out the Train Garden, which features replicas of streetcars and trains winding around a 1,300-foot track. Exploring this attraction truly offers a glimpse into life during the late 1800s through the early 1900s and is sure to help your kids gain a new perspective. Other popular City Park attractions include:
- The Botanical Garden
- The Carousel Gardens Amusement Park
- City Putt
With so many fun things to do at City Park, you can spend a whole day enjoying the beautiful New Orleans weather outside with your little ones!
Global Wildlife Center
Giraffes, like the one pictured above, zebras, bisons, and llamas are just a few of the animals you can expect to see at the Global Wildlife Center
Let your kids embrace their wild sides at the Global Wildlife Center! This energy-packed attraction offers the largest free-roaming wildlife preserve of its kind in the country, and is sure to keep the attention of children of all ages with its over 4,000 exotic animals!
The 900-acre preserve has 12 ponds and a lake to explore on its guided Safari Wagon Tour. You and your children will get to experience some incredible animals face-to-face on this exciting excursion!
Louisiana Children’s Museum
Photo Courtesy of the Louisiana Children’s Museum
Get those little minds working and little hands moving at the Louisiana Children’s Museum! With over 30,000-square-feet of exhibit space, the museum offers a wide-range of activities that promote learning while on your trip.
You can feel good about your vacation after giving your kids the opportunity to experience engaging lessons with first-hand experiences. They will have a ball playing on the bubble table, and see things in a new light at the Eye to Eye exhibit, where they will learn all about vision. They can even get some retail therapy of their own at the kid-sized Lil’ Grocery Store!
Mardi Gras for Kids
An intricate and interesting Mardi Gras float rolling down the street for one of New Orleans’ famous parades
You may not think of Mardi Gras as a great way to spend time in New Orleans with toddlers. This may be especially true if you’ve experienced Mardi Gras firsthand in your younger years. Believe it or not, there is a less crazy side to this famous New Orleans celebration!
You obviously will want to avoid the French Quarter with its adults-only activities, but you can still get your family dressed up in their best beads, feathers, and masks for a different take on the holiday!
There are a number of kid-friendly parades you can see with your family outside of the French Quarter. You can also venture just a short distance from the downtown Mardi Gras celebration to “Family Gras.” This family friendly event offers pre-Mardi Gras parades, local creole food vendors, an art fair, and engaging musical entertainment.
Want to know more about Mardi Gras in New Orleans? Check out these interesting facts and become a Mardi Gras expert for your next trip to the Big Easy:
Ride on a Street Car
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You might think it would be hard to see all of the city with your children in tow, but there really is an endless amount of options for exploring New Orleans with toddlers if you think creatively. Taking one of the many street cars the city has to offer will give you a charming and easy way to see many areas of the Big Easy!
There are four distinct lines that all originate in Downtown, that each highlight different feels of the city. For example, the Saint Charles Street Car Line is known for its sense of romance, while it travels by dozens of antebellum mansions. The Canal Street Line, on the other hand, will drop you off to explore some of the area’s most historic cemeteries known as “Cities of the Dead.”
Along with hop on hop off and double decker bus tours, Street Cars offer a fun and family-friendly way of exploring the city. We wrote all about bus tours, boat tours, and more in our article regarding the best ways to explore New Orleans!
Carriage rides through Royal Carriages, like the one pictured above, are one of the best ways to tour the French Quarter
Help your kids feel the magic of New Orleans on an enchanting carriage ride through the city. Your family will love seeing the beautiful mules pull your carriage as you observe the gorgeous architecture surrounding you.
There are many different types of carriage rides, which can offer different locations and themes for whatever your family would prefer. This is a great chance to sit back and relax and see a slower, more easy-going side of life in New Orleans.
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When in New Orleans, listening to some great jazz music is a must! Give your kids the chance to experience the more sophisticated side of the Big Easy at the family-friendly Preservation Hall. Open nightly for concerts, Preservation Hall offers five performances every evening.
Make sure to get in line early to get your tickets, since the venue holds only 100 people at a time. Additionally, make sure to stop by an ATM before your visit as general admission is cash only. Your whole family will love swaying and dancing to the music provided by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which serves as an enthusiastic reminder of the history of this vibrant genre!
The French Market
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Take a trip to one of the most historic sites in the Big Easy by going to the French Market, which has existed on the same site since 1791. Explore these six blocks in the French Quarter that contain a variety of restaurants and shops.
Your children will be able to find the perfect souvenir to take home from their New Orleans vacation, and you are sure to find something nice for yourself as you make your way through all that the French Market has to offer.
From gift shops to artists’ galleries to a farmer’s market, everyone in the family is sure to love the endless amount of local shopping there is to do here!
The Music Box Village
Image courtesy of Music Box Village
For a truly unique experience in New Orleans that your toddlers will love, make sure to put the Music Box Village at the top of your list! This one-of-a-kind, artist-built sculpture garden is full of whimsy and magic. This hidden gem will bring out the child in anyone, as what looks like a bunch of tree houses are revealed to actually be musical instruments artists use to perform.
Children are invited to explore and play during public hours, as long as they have adult supervision due to the delicacy of the musical instruments. There are also a variety of performances you can attend that will help to bring the Music Box Village to life!
New Orleans, Louisiana, is the perfect destination for both you and your kids to have the most memorable vacation! There is no limit to what you can do in New Orleans with toddlers with new family-friendly attractions popping up constantly throughout the Big Easy! So, pack your bags and make this family vacation the best one yet!
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The results of this research were published in Drug Alcohol Dependence in September 2014.
Study Title: Trends in fatal motor vehicle crashes before and after marijuana commercialization in Colorado
Co-authors: Salomonsen-Sautel S, Min SJ, Sakai JT, Thurstone C, Hopfer C.
Citation: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2014 Sep 1;142:360.
Legal medical marijuana has been commercially available on a widespread basis in Colorado since mid-2009; however, there is a dearth of information about the impact of marijuana commercialization on impaired driving. This study examined if the proportions of drivers in a fatal motor vehicle crash who were marijuana-positive and alcohol-impaired, respectively, have changed in Colorado before and after mid-2009 and then compared changes in Colorado with 34 non-medical marijuana states (NMMS).
Thirty-six 6-month intervals (1994-2011) from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System were used to examine temporal changes in the proportions of drivers in a fatal motor vehicle crash who were alcohol-impaired (≥0.08 g/dl) and marijuana-positive, respectively. The pre-commercial marijuana time period in Colorado was defined as 1994-June 2009 while July 2009-2011 represented the post-commercialization period.
In Colorado, since mid-2009 when medical marijuana became commercially available and prevalent, the trend became positive in the proportion of drivers in a fatal motor vehicle crash who were marijuana-positive (change in trend, 2.16 (0.45), p<0.0001); in contrast, no significant changes were seen in NMMS. For both Colorado and NMMS, no significant changes were seen in the proportion of drivers in a fatal motor vehicle crash who were alcohol-impaired.
Prevention efforts and policy changes in Colorado are needed to address this concerning trend in marijuana-positive drivers. In addition, education on the risks of marijuana-positive driving needs to be implemented.
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Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) hails from tropical India, Nepal and South Asia. What is cardamom? It is a sweet aromatic herb not only employed in cooking but also part of traditional medicine and tea. Cardamom is the third most expensive spice in the world and has a rich history of use in many countries as part of spice blends, such as masala, and as a crucial ingredient in Scandinavian pastries. An interesting and crucial piece of cardamom information is that the plant is in the Zingiberaceae family, or ginger. This can be seen in the aroma and flavor. The many uses for cardamom have made it one of the most sought after of the spices. This forest dwelling plant is a perennial, which grows from large rhizomes. Cardamom spice can successfully be grown in United States Department of Agriculture zones 10 and 11. | <urn:uuid:db1104a7-2502-4a8a-a450-fdedf1a80e86> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://myplantin.com/plant/2818 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951968 | 183 | 2.90625 | 3 |
The Ankara-Mogadishu partnership is “extremely positive and growing by the day and by the night,” said the visiting Somali president on Tuesday.
Speaking at a panel titled Benefits of the Türkiye-Somalia Partnership, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said: “Among the key benefits of Somalia’s relationship with Türkiye is a strong political and diplomatic connection, and cooperation in the fight against global terrorism.”
He said the centuries-old relationship between Somalia and Türkiye is based on respect and cooperation, adding that “the whole world was astonished” when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid a visit to Somalia in 2011 at the height of a humanitarian crisis in Mogadishu.
In every meeting with Erdogan, Turkish government officials, civil society members, and the business community, Somalia is “seen as more than just an opportunity,” Mohamud told the panel held by an Ankara-based think tank, Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research.
“It is not only humanitarian (concerns) that drives the Turkish energy to support Somalia, but it is a value base faith that is what drives the Turkish government and the Turkish people to support Somalia,” he added.
Somalia is receiving support from all over the world for the last couple of decades, but Türkiye’s support is “unique and different,” Mohamud said.
– Focus on core governance structures in Somalia
Somalia has been struggling with the al-Qaeda-affiliated international terrorist organization Al-Shabab for 15 years, as it has harmed many lives in the Horn of Africa country.
The president stressed the importance of security for Somalia, saying: “We wanted to focus on building Somalia’s core governance structures and systems to be as inclusive, transparent, and beneficial as possible to enable our country to be more unified, stable, and with sustainable development.
“Somali people will be at the core of implementing this vision. We know that it is also managed to do the heavy lifting for their own future.”
This vision, he said, is a journey rather than a race. “Social cohesion on public trust in the national institution will take place. We have a social reconciliation agenda to reconcile our society in all their settings.”
Somalia’s president is paying a two-day official visit to Türkiye, ending on Tuesday.
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- Research article
- Open Access
Prehospital emergency medical technicians can perform ultrasonography and blood analysis in prehospital evaluation of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a feasibility study
BMC Health Services Research volume 21, Article number: 290 (2021)
Crowding of the emergency departments is an increasing problem. Many patients with an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are often treated in the emergency departments for a very short period before discharged to their homes. It is possible that this treatment could take place in the patients’ homes with sufficient diagnostics supporting the treatment.
In an effort to keep the diagnostics and treatment of some of these patients in their homes and thus to reduce the patient load at the emergency departments, we implemented a prehospital treat-and-release strategy based on ultrasonography and blood testing performed by emergency medical technicians (EMT) or paramedics (PM) in patients with acute exacerbation of COPD.
EMTs and PMs were enrolled in a six-hour educational program covering ultrasonography of the lungs and point of care blood tests. During the seasonal peak of COPD exacerbations (October 2018 – May 2019) all patients who were treated by the ambulance crews for respiratory insufficiency were screened in the ambulances. If the patient had uncomplicated COPD not requiring immediate transport to the hospital, ultrasonographic examination of the lungs, measurements of C-reactive protein and venous blood gases analyses were performed. The response to the initial treatment and the results obtained were discussed via telemedical consultation with a prehospital anaesthesiologist who then decided to either release the patient at the scene or to have the patient transported to the hospital. The primary outcome was strategy feasibility.
We included 100 EMTs and PMs in the study. During the study period, 771 patients with respiratory insufficiency were screened. Uncomplicated COPD was rare as only 41patients were treated according to the treat-and-release strategy. Twenty of these patients (49%) were released at the scene. In further ten patients, technical problems were encountered hindering release at the scene.
In a few selected patients with suspected acute exacerbations of COPD, it was technically and organisationally feasible for EMTs and PMs to perform prehospital POCT-ultrasound and laboratory testing and release the patients following treatment. None of the patients released at the scene requested a secondary ambulance within the first 48 h following the intervention.
The usual approach: “To transport the patient to the hospital”, where all acutely ill patients are consistently transported to hospital for further care is challenged by increasing costs because of an ageing population, the increased incidence of chronic diseases, the socio-economic disparity associated with most chronic diseases and the ensuing crowding of the emergency departments [4, 5].
Patients with acute exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AE-COPD) are frequently transported to the emergency room of the hospital. In many cases, these patients are discharged shortly after admission following a brief treatment consisting of broncholytics and in some cases corticosteroids and antibiotics [6, 7]. The transport of these patients for very short stays at the hospital have both implications for health service costs as well as for the patients’ well-being. Among prehospital providers, there is a notion that many of these patients are not really interested in the short stays at the hospital, but would rather stay home if this decision could be supported medically. Could these short term stay be reduced, the total health care costs may be reduced. As some of the patients with AE-COPD can be efficiently treated with bronchodilation, steroids and in some cases antibiotics there is a potential room for prehospital evaluation and treatment in the homes of these patients without the a need for transportation to a hospital [8, 9].
A treat and release strategy, however, requires that life-threatening differential diagnoses, such as pneumothorax, pleural effusion or cardiogenic pulmonary oedema, have been ruled out before deciding not to transport the patient to the hospital and instead initiate goal-directed AE-COPD treatment in the patients home.
Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) of the lungs have previously been demonstrated to have a high diagnostic accuracy regarding pulmonary interstitial syndrome as well as pneumothorax . Both of these diagnoses are important differential diagnosis in evaluation of patients with suspected AE-COPD and are easy for non-experienced POCUS operators to learn to identify .
We designed a study to investigate whether a treat-and-release strategy in COPD patients was feasible if carried out by the emergency medical technicians (EMT) and paramedics (PM). The strategy was based on clinical assessment and standard broncholytic therapy supported by the use of POCUS of the lungs, measurements of venous blood gases, and blood tests to evaluate the inflammation level. All of these investigations were performed by the EMT or the PM at the scene. Following the clinical and paraclinical investigations, telemedicine counselling between the EMTs or PMs and a prehospital anaestesiologist clarified whether the patient was in a condition that allowed for the patient to be released at the prehospital scene. If indicated, the EMT or PM could initiate oral treatment with steroids and/or antibiotics and refer the patient to the general practitioner the following day.
The aim of the study was to test the technical setup, the clinical training of the personnel, and the implementation and feasibility of the treat-and-release strategy.
Material and methods
This is a descriptive study of the technical setup and the clinical training of the personnel, and the implementation and feasibility of the strategy.
In Denmark, five regional emergency medical dispatch centres handle all healthcare related calls and dispatches the relevant prehospital response units based on the perceived urgency of the health-related problem . The EMS in the Region of Southern Denmark is a three tiered system consisting of approximately 70 ambulances, three paramedic-manned rapid response vehicles, and six ground-based anaesthesiologist-manned mobile emergency care units (MECU) [12, 13].
The regional EMS and the private ambulance entrepreneur employ approximately 600 EMTs and PMs. The basic education for an EMT has a duration of 1 year and is carried out within the public health educational system. However, at least one of the two mandatory EMTs manning an ambulance must have received supplemental education consisting of an additional 18 months of internship in an ambulance service and a further 5 weeks of education. An EMT may continue the education and may become a PM after 3 years of practice as an EMT and having undergone a further 5 weeks of theoretical and practical education . Furthermore, paramedics are obligated to participate in at least 1 week of supplemental training / continuous education per year. All ambulance personnel work by delegation from a physician, and handle medications independently. In the Region of Southern Denmark, the EMTs and PMs are usually designated to one ambulance station only. The EMTs work in two different shifts: One shift consisting of 12-h rotas and one shift consisting of 24-h rotas. Interhospital transports of patients are usually carried out by the ambulance personnel working in the 12-h rotas while personnel working in the 24 h rotas to a larger extent handle the emergency calls. Personnel working in 24-h rotas thus in principle have more contacts with the acutely ill patients. As there are also differences in the workload between the urban ambulance stations and the rural ambulance stations, the number of emergency missions carried out by each individual EMT or PM differs considerably.
The task of training all the EMTs and PMs (i.e. 600 people) in the RSD was considered unfeasible. Furthermore, the number of patient contacts in a given observation period depends on both the rotas and the particular ambulance station that each EMT or PM was attached to. We thus restricted the study participants to the ambulance personnel operating the 24-h rotas in the five ambulance stations in the region with the highest number of patient contacts. This decision was considered the optimal number of EMTs and PMs in relation to the possibility of encountering acutely ill COPD patients in the study period. The strategy resulted in a total of 100 EMTs or PMs participating in the educational program.
The study was conducted from October 1st 2018 – May 31st 2019, the months of peak seasonal occurrence of exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. During the study period, the EMTs or PMs were instructed to screen all patients calling for an ambulance because of dyspnea. Patients were enrolled if all of the conditions listed below were present.
Dyspnea as sole complaint in a patient that could inform the EMT or PM that he/she had previously been diagnosed with COPD.
Based on clinical judgment, the patient did not require immediate transport to the hospital (e.g. a “scoop and run strategy” was not indicated).
According to the EMTs or PMs “clinical judgment”, the patient was assessed as having a potential for being released at the scene following treatment.
Based on the patient’s history, clinical examination, the vital parameters, and the ECG, there was no reason for the EMT or PM not to assume that the condition was caused by COPD.
The patient was able to fully comprehend the nature of the investigations and the extent of the treatment.
The patient being able to self-administer any steroid or antibiotic treatment initiated by the EMT or PM at the scene.
EMT or PM not educated in the use of the equipment.
Patients in which COPD was not the main complaint (e.g. chest pain, thoracic trauma).
Patients that were unable to understand the intervention (e.g. language barriers, dementia).
The EMTs or PMs performed an intial screening examination of the patients including vital parameters, ECG, and pulmonary auscultation before considering inclusion of the patient into the protocol.
Portable smartphone ultrasound
Lumify (Lumify C5–2, Philips Eindhoven, The Netherlands) is a portable ultrasound device applicable to a smartphone and other handheld devices. See Fig. 1. The device consists of three different transducers (high frequency linear tranducer, curved low frequency abdominal transducer, low frequency cardiac transducer) and cables, a smartphone (Galaxy G960 S9, Samsung, Seoul, South Korea) with an installed Lumify-app and a power cord. The system is powered by React’s collaborative platform (React-Secure-app, Innovative Imaging Technologies Inc., Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) which provides secure instant messaging/file transfer, interactive video conferencing, and real-time integrated tele-ultrasound (i.e. these functions require that the mobile phone receiving the call has an installed React-Secure-app). For a real-time tele-ultrasound or tele-medical video supervision, the supervising units and the MECU physicians used an Apple iPhone 8, 64GB (Apple, Cupertino, California, USA) equipped with a React-Secure app.
POCUS protocol and diagnostic criteria
We applied a specific prehospital POCUS protocol in which only the anterior and lateral scanning zones on each hemithorax are examined. This protocol is a simplified version of a protocol adapted for in-hospital use and the protocol has previously been used and validated prehospitally in patients with respiratory failure .
The protocol was used in a focused manner addressing the following dichotomous yes/no questions:
Pleural effusion present?
Interstitial syndrome present?
Lung consolidation present?
Other obvious abnormal finding present?
The diagnostic criteria used for pneumothorax, pleural effusion, and lung consolidation was in accordance with criteria recommended in international consensus statements . The diagnostic criteria used for interstitial syndrome were in accordance with criteria previously validated in a prehospital setting .
The QuikRead Go (QuikRead go CRP instrument, Medic Denmark, Brøndby, Denmark) analyses the quantitative measures of c-reactive protein (CRP) in whole blood and plasma. The system consists of a photometer, which is designed and calibrated for both photometric and turbidimetric measurements and a ready-to-use reagent kit.
CRP is an acute-phase protein synthesized by the liver within 6–8 h of inflammation. CRP is a valuable biomarker in differentiating between viral and bacterial infection. Furthermore, CRP performs better in predicting bacterial infections than traditional biomarkers, such as white blood cell count and absolute neutrophil count . While standard laboratory CRP results are available within 60–90 min of sampling, CRP test results with QuikRead Go are available within 2 min of sampling, with values ranging from 5 to 200 mg/L (values lower than 5 are shown as < 5 mg/L and values greater than 200 as > 200 mg/L). The apparatus cannot function in temperatures lower than 15 °C.
These assets makes the use of point-of-care CRP at the emergency departments (ED) or prehospital settings relevant .
The i-STAT (i-STAT Alinity, Abbott, Illinois, USA) is a point-of-care (POC) analyser that measures blood gases and electrolytes with ion-selective electrode potentiometry. The handheld device operates with single-use test cartridges (i-STAT Alinity Base station, Abbott), requires the application of two to three drops of blood in the cartridge, and can deliver results within minutes . The system requires a temperature above 15 °C to operate .
Education and training of the EMTs and PMs
The eligible EMTs and PMs each completed one study session held within small groups. The lessons were constructed as didactic lectures covering basic ultrasound scanning technics, normal ultrasound anatomy, imaging interpretation of both normal and pathologic lung (i.e. sonographic signs, including ‘lung sliding’, ‘B-lines’, ‘the lung point sign, pleura effusion, and consolidation) [15, 20]. Following the didactic lectures, practical physician-supervised ultrasound sessions were held in which the participants scanned each other. By the end and to ensure competence, the participants demonstrated their knowledge and skills to the supervisor by receiving a case history, performing an examination, and interpreted ultrasound clips (normal and pathological) presented on a laptop.
The aim of the lessons were to enable the participants to scan the four anterolateral zones of the lungs (corresponding to zone 1 and 3 in the focused lung ultrasound (FLUS) protocol) using a curved low frequency abdominal transducer . Following the course, the participants should be able to recognise basic pulmonary pathology signs, and to save the ultrasound loop-images for later assessment and evaluation.
In total, the EMTs and PMs received 6 h of didactic lectures and supervised hands-on training. Furthermore, the participants received two lessons concerning the use of POC equipment intended for blood testing. In order to ensure standardised use of the POC-equipment and to avoid procedure errors, a detailed protocol containing how-to-use manuals for the devices and described when-to-use indications could be accessed by the participants in the internal educational internet-based system. As a quality assurance measure, the stored ultrasound clips were continuously checked during the study by two of the investigators (CBL, PIP).
The EMTs and PMs in the interventional ambulances were equipped with 1) a QuikRead GO apparatus for measuring c-reactive protein, 2) an i-Stat device for measuring venous blood gases (including electrolytes), and 3) a portable ultrasound-scanning device (Lumify, Phillips) for the examination of the lungs.
When dispatched to COPD-patients with respiratory insufficiency, in addition to the standard treatment, the interventional-ambulances would 1) collect blood analysis for c-reactive protein and blood gases from an antecubital vein, and 2) perform a focused ultrasound-scan of the lungs according to the standardized protocol. In all cases, the intervention crew could transmit the ultrasound loop-images in real time to the anesthesiologist manning a nearby MECU.
If the stabilising treatment applied on-site significantly improved the condition of the patient, the clinical findings were discussed over the telephone with the nearest available MECU physician. The telemedical conference between the interventional EMT/PM and the MECU-physician would clarify whether the clinical condition of the patient after initiated treatment and the obtained point-of-care test results would permit the release of the patient at home. This decision was made without prior establishing of guidelines or rules. Patients released at home were instructed to contact their primary care physician the next weekday. Should the diagnostic findings indicate a need for treatment with corticoids and/or empirical antibiotics, the patient was given a three-day course of methylprednisolone and/or amoxicillin combined with clavulanic acid according to current guidelines. Furthermore, the patient was urged to contact the emergency medical dispatch centres in case of worsening of the symptoms. Finally, the patient was handed a written report, including the clinical and laboratory findings, and the treatment given onsite. This report was intended for the patient’s general practitioner.
All investigations pertaining to the patient inclusive the ultrasonographic findings were documented in the prehospital electronic journal registry.
See Fig. 2 (Study overview) for study procedures.
Data management and statistical analyses
Data were retrieved from the national Danish Prehospital Medical Records Database .
Demographic data are presented as median and quartiles or range (where appropriate). All data were analysed using non-parametric statistics (Kruskal-Wallis test). Differences were considered significant when p < 0.05. All data and tables were categorised and prepared using Microsoft Office Excel 2016 (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA). All statistical calculations were performed using STATA 16.1 (StataCorp, College Station,Texas, USA).
The study was conducted in compliance with all national regulations governing the protection and privacy of human subjects and the Helsinki Declaration. Informed consent was obtained from the participants when they were included in the study. Scientific ethical approval for this study was waived by the Regional Scientific Ethics Committee of Southern Denmark as the committee considered the study a quality assurance study (project-ID: S-20182000 − 130). According to the Danish legislative requirements, the study was subsequently approved as a quality assurance study by the Prehospital Director of the Region of Southern Denmark (project-ID: 19/14433) and approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (project-ID: 20/24845). Before initiating the study an agreement was made regarding ownership of data and interpretation of data. The agreement stated that the academic collaborators who had no commercial or other interest in either of the participating organisations (authors GN, CBL, PIP, HMC, ILT, ATL, and SM), were responsible for analyses, interpretation of data, and for drafting the first version of the manuscript. Furthermore, these authors had the full authority to decide if and where to seek to publish the results.
The education and training of the 100 EMTs and PMs in the use of the point-of-care blood analysis apparatuses and performing POCUS of the lungs was carried out in the 3 months preceding the peak seasonal occurrence of COPD.
During the 8 months of the study period, from October 1st 2018 to May 31st 2019, an ambulance from the five ambulance stations in question was dispatched to 771 patients in respiratory distress. The medical records of all these patients were audited post hoc by one author (SM).
For various caused (COPD not singular reason for calling an ambulance; emergency transportation with lights and sirens required; substitute EMT operating the ambulance), only 81 patients were considered eligible to enter the study.
Inclusion of patients and outcome of the intervention
Of the 81 potentially eligible patients, 41 were included in the study. Of these 41 patients, 20 patients (49%) were released at the scene following treatment. In ten of the 41 cases, technical failure of the equipment (primarily related to blood tests) led to a patient’s exclusion from the study. Eleven patients were transported to hospital following on-scene treatment. Of these, five patients were admitted to hospital by a MECU following telemedical consultation, four were admitted at the discretion of the EMT/PM, and two were admitted due to patient’s request following the intervention.
For details, see Fig. 3 (flowchart)
The overall median age of all the included patients was 70 years (quartiles 65–77 years) and 53.7% were females. Twenty patients were released at the scene following treatment; three of these despite the examination program not being fully completed. The patients released at the scene had a median age of 70 years (61, 73 years) while patients admitted to hospital for all reasons had a median age of 73 (66, 81 years). This difference was not significant (p = 0.136). For demographic overview and results obtained through POC-testing, see Table 1. Of the 20 patients that were released at the scene, nine patients were prescribed corticosteroids following consultations between the EMT or PM and the physician. A further three patients received corticosteroids prior to the incident. Six of the 20 patients that were released were given antibiotics by the EMTs/PMs prior to release. A further two patients already received antibiotics when they called the ambulance.
None of the patients released at the scene requested a renewed ambulance within the first 48 h following the intervention.
The on-scene time (time from arrival at the address and until the ambulance left the address) spent by the ambulances differed when treating patients that although assessed as potentially eligible, for some reason were not included into the study, and patients that were included in the study. When tending to potentially eligible patients that were not included in the study, the ambulance spent 18 min (quartiles 8–22 min) at the scene, while they stayed at the scene for 70 min (quartiles 44–89.5 min) when including patients in the study. This difference was significant p < 0.0001.
In this study, we have found that in selected cases of acute exacerbations of COPD, a treat-and-release strategy can be feasible when driven by EMTs and PMs with access to telemedical consultation with prehospital anaesthesiologists.
General home care of patients with COPD is already an established possibility in some countries . It has further been reported that the majority of acute COPD patients receiving care in the EDs are discharged within 24 h of the admission [6, 7]. A logical notion thus could be that patients with acute exacerbations of COPD also to some extent could be treated in their homes. In Denmark, home care of patients with COPD usually involves nurses and the patients’general practitioner. However, at present, there are no firm recommendations available about which patients with an exacerbation are most suitable for Hospital-at-Home or early discharge .
Acute respiratory insufficiency in a patient with known COPD is usually caused by an exacerbation of the underlying illness. In clinical practice, however, other aetiologies present with the same symptoms as acute exacerbation of COPD, and upfront diagnostics are essential to establish the diagnosis and start the correct treatment [23, 24]. A prerequisite for treating and releasing the patient out of hospital is thus an assurance that what the care giver perceives as an exacerbation of COPD is not, in essence, a concurring bout of a potentially life threatening condition. To that end, the exclusion of pneumothorax and cardiogenic pulmonary oedema which in most instances requires admission to hospital, is paramount.
Although the use of POCUS and blood gas analyses are routine examinations in most EDs and emergency care units today, the systematic use of this technology in the prehospital field is limited.
Other studies have reported the use of POCUS in various healthcare settings, including use by prehospital physicians, EMTs, flight nurses, and emergency physicians in military combat and on both ground and air ambulances [25,26,27]. Furthermore, other researchers have found that an accurate interpretation of POCUS images by prehospital physicians and non-physicians may lead to specific interventions or may facilitate the hospital preparations before the arrival of the patient [28,29,30,31]. Even though POCUS have been demonstrated to have a high diagnostic accuracy for diagnosing pleural effusion, pneumothorax, and interstitial syndrome (e.g. cardiogenic pulmonary oedema), it still have some limitations . In COPD patients with suspected pneumonia, an important differential diagnosis is community acquired pneumonia. The ability of POCUS to visualise lung consolidation as part of a pneumonia is limited as pathological findings in lung parenchymal that does not lie directly in contact with the visceral pleura cannot be visualised by ultrasonography. Despite this limitation, studies have indicated that the diagnostic accuracy of POCUS is acceptable and not inferior to chest X-ray . POCUS findings should, however, always be critically appraised and integrated with the findings and results of the entire diagnostic process. Our combination of POCUS and blood analyses thus allowed for an improved on scene diagnostic process regarding the possible aetiology of the acute exacerbation of COPD. The CRP measurements and the blood gas analyses assisted the telemedical advisor in deciding whether the EMTs or PMs at the scene should initiate antibiotic therapy. Furthermore, the POCUS assisted in the decision making process as the ultrasound examination relayed to the physician, together with the verbal description of the POCUS findings assisted in ruling out other potentially life threatening causes of respiratory insufficiency.
The treat-and-release strategy reduced the time from the occurrence of symptoms to first treatment. The strategy also helped to distinguish between patients requiring admission to hospital and patients with mild symptoms who could be treated at home.
The median time needed to complete the intervention on the scene was 70 min. Thus, the ambulances spent longer time at the scene than ambulances simply loading the patients and heading for hospital. In some prehospital cases, reducing the time spent at the scene is important. This is, for example the case for trauma patients, where longer on scene time is associated with adverse prognosis [33, 34]. However, it is important to underline, that scene time was prolonged for only the stable COPD patients who were included in the intervention while unstable patients were transported to hospital immediately. It should be noted, however, that prolonged on-scene time may reduce the general availability of ambulances potentially influencing “the next patient”.
The adequate quality of ultrasound images obtained in our study suggests that the EMTs and PMs had sufficient POCUS abilities to perform and obtain the predefined views in the used protocol. In our study, the ambulance crews received 6 h of training. This constituted a more elaborated training course than in other studies. Teaching lessons of down to 1 h has been reported to enable EMTs to interpret POCUS images for specific life-threatening pathologies and to retain this capability over time . In that study, however, the study subjects were volunteers, which may have increased the students’ willingness and abilities to learn the POCUS basics.
Prerequisites for implementing a treat-and-release strategy
The i-STAT alinity operates only if the internal temperature is within 16 to 30 °C . We observed technical failures due to low operating temperature during the cold winter months of study. This forced us to develop simple warming systems in the ambulances. There were no reported technical or operational problems with QuickReady Go and LUMIFY during the project period.
The objective of this study was not to assign the EMTs and PMs the overall competences to investigate the patients and on their own to make the decision to release the patient at the scene or to admit the patient. Thus, to establish similar concepts like ours, where medical decisions were made using telemedicine (i.e. tele-counselling, or real-time tele-ultrasound), it is imperative that the internet connection is sufficient in all of the catchment area.
The inclusion of patients in the study was dependent on EMTs or PMs in the field, and we acknowledge that prehospital personnel sometimes work under time-dependent conditions which might have played a factor for missed inclusion of patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria.
A total of 28 patients did not fulfil the protocol as they expressed their wish to be admitted to hospital either before, during or after inclusion into the project. A major factor may be that patients feel safer when treated in a hospital or having physical contact with a physician. Future studies are warranted in this respect.
The present outpatient treatment strategy for AE-COPD patients was applicable due to POCT. POCT, when used in appropriate scenarios, could be a useful tool to minimize the time-to-treatment initiation by providing immediate information to healthcare professionals about the condition of the patient and improve patient outcomes . Numerous reports highlight decreases in turnaround times for test results with POCT in an emergency setting [37, 38]. Also, the use of POCUS by emergency physicians has increased in the past decades, and it is now an essential diagnostic tool routinely used in EDs.
Even though POC-devices are portable and can be carried to the patient, the devices do not necessarily come with the same expertise as a laboratory physician would provide. Furthermore, the quality of the measurements may pose a problem. Although newer of POC-equipment have inbuilt quality control, it is vital to maintain internal and external controls of the devices. We thus suggest that future POC-systems are implemented with the assistance of the departments of laboratory medicine.
Strengths of the study
In our study, the assignment of the POCUS and blood test competences were pragmatically based on the rotas of the participating EMTs and PMs. Thus, we did not only include prehospital personnel with specific interests and specific competences in acquiring new knowledge but tested the concept in a large scale.
In the Danish prehospital setting a certified EMT have almost 2½ to 4 years of education . It is possible that other prehospital personnel with a different educational background will affect the outcome in other prehospital systems.
Limitations of the study
Despite 771 patients were screened as requiring an ambulance because of respiratory complaints, only 81 were potential candidates for the study. Although previously diagnosed with COPD, a large proportion of the patients initially screened had called the emergency medical services for complaints that could not solely be attributed to an exacerbation of COPD. Previously, we have shown that the prehospital clinical characteristics of COPD patients does not allow for prognostication as patients with COPD constitute a very disperse group . As our study clearly shows, there are thus limitations to the level of ambitions regarding treat-and-release of patients solely suffering from COPD.
Another important limitation in this study is that only half of the patients that were assessed as potential candidates for the treat-and-release strategy were included in the study. Fifteen of the patients that were offered participation in the study declined participation before the investigations were carried out, while 20 of the potentially eligible patients were not included without any documented reason for the EMTs or PMs not to include them. This may be caused by the pragmatic principle of the study. It is possible that some of the EMTs or PMs were not comfortable with the increased level of competences and thus omitted to implement their newly assigned competences.
It is feasible for prehospital EMTs or PMs to perform prehospital point of care ultrasound and laboratory testing among patients with acute exacerbations of COPD. This may enable a treat-and-release strategy in selected COPD patients, thus reducing the number of emergency department visits and short hospital admissions. The concept of adding advanced competences to the curriculum of EMTs and PMs, however, may show promise in other patient categories where point-of-care technology may add valuable knowledge to the patients’ condition.
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The EMTs and PMs are acknowledged for their acceptance of the study and their eagerness in implementing the study elements. The physicians manning the mobile emergency care units in the region are thanked for their participation in the study.
The project was in part funded by contributions from the regional ambulance company, Ambulance Syd (represented in this publication by authors DW, SH), and the privately owned ambulance company, Response, and their owner, Falck (represented by authors MKS, LBN, C-HR).
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Scientific ethical approval for this study was waived by the Regional Scientific Ethics Committee of Southern Denmark as the committee considered the study a quality assurance study (project-ID: S − 20182000 − 130). According to the Danish legislative requirements, the study was subsequently approved as a quality assurance study by the Prehospital Director of the Region of Southern Denmark (project-ID: 19/14433) and approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (project-ID: 20/24845). Informed consent was obtained from the participants when they were included in the study.
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All authors have read and approved the final manuscript and consent to publication. No person-identifiable information about the participating patients are provided in this manuscript. Thus, Patients’ consent for publication is “Not Applicable”.
The regional ambulance company, AmbulanceSyd (represented in this publication by authors DW, SH), sponsored the study and has a potential interest in the study. The privately owned ambulance company, Response, and their owner, Falck, (represented by authors MKS, LBN, C-HR) all had a commercial interest in the concept. However, apart from contributing to the design of the study, the ambulance companies had no role in the analyses or interpretation of data or in the decision to publish the results. Authors GN, CBL, PIP, HMC, GJ, ILT. ATL, and SM had no competing interests in the study.
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Nadim, G., Laursen, C.B., Pietersen, P.I. et al. Prehospital emergency medical technicians can perform ultrasonography and blood analysis in prehospital evaluation of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a feasibility study. BMC Health Serv Res 21, 290 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06305-7
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Rehearsing a String Quartet – Chamber Music – Apart from its popular themed classical string quartet concerts, the Manor House String Quartet also gives recitals of more substantial works too. One of these took place at the Leighton Buzzard Music Club and can be read about here.
The programme consisted of Beethoven’s Quartet in A (Op. 18 No. 5), Ferdinand Ries’s Quartet in G (Op. 70 No. 2) as well as Schubert’s Quartet in A minor (D. 804). Rehearsal time was limited – which is always good in preserving the spontaneity of the music making and focusing the minds of all four players! A few ground rules that we stick to often save us an enormous amount of time though. Here’s what we try and do:
- I try and get all four parts bowed before the first rehearsal, with consistent bowings that are the same when instruments share similar music. Some may subsequently be changed and will naturally evolve as all the players reach a unity of purpose, but at least time won’t be wasted in bowing parts from scratch.
- We Agree that a pianissimo really is a pianissimo. A big time-waster in rehearsals is constantly stopping to try and get players to play quietly. If all the players agree to this at the start and stick to it, then it will help in creating a unified sound. Often, particularly when rehearsing in domestic settings, the natural acoustics of the room will favour certain instruments, so it’s best to be aware that balance issues may change when you turn up to the venue to perform the concert.
- The internal metronome. When all four players have a highly developed sense of the rhythmic pulse, very often their own internal metronome will ensure that the music remains rhythmically on track without the need to constantly adjust to the other players’ pulse.
- In advance, we agree on tempi which naturally allow the music to open out and breathe. It’s often significant how much difference this can make and how much easier a movement can flow when the tempo set reflects the true qualities of the written notes. I often feel that it’s all about finding space in music, and that (to quote Claude Debussy), Music is the space between the notes. It is the swing between one rhythmic pulse and the next which is almost more important than the pulse itself. So when we are able to capture the right feel together, suddenly the music seems easier to play.
- We try and discipline ourselves not to solo‚ ie. to compete with the others when you think there is a passage that will make you shine. That is all about the personal ego and its desire to be appreciated and this can do nothing but get in the way of the music itself! If a composer has adjudged a passage to be mezzo piano, it is not for us to play it mezzo forte because we want to be heard. Any quartet is simply a vessel for the music with no importance of itself. Once it starts to direct attention to itself and away from the composer’s music, it ceases to be of much interest, acting as a barrier between composer and audience.
- Balance. I remember watching a documentary on the Amadeus Quartet and the cellist Martin Lovett was trying to pinpoint what the ‚ÄòAmadeus‚Äô sound was. He replied that people are always amazed that we sound like one, but from the individual player’s point of view it means listening to the others, preferably more than to himself, so he is constantly, imperceptibly adjusting to tiny little differences so that it gives the impression of one mind spiring to sound like the Amadeus Quartet is a wonderful aspiration to have, even if the end result falls far below this!
- We try and ‘master’ our parts before coming into the first rehearsal. Or the complete opposite…making sure that none of us have looked at the music at all, so that we can evolve with the music together. I must admit, I do prefer the first option as I believe that a small yet concentrated rehearsal time can lead to a very fulfilling performance! | <urn:uuid:1c6d8fb4-2258-4fb0-af30-67efddeb72ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.manorhousemusic.co.uk/blog/2014/11/27/rehearsing-a-string-quartet-chamber-music/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960634 | 892 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Associated Place: Sky Harbour; Goderich, Ontario; No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School
Dimensions: 5 x 7 in.
Item #: A992.0003.367a
Black and white medium close up portrait of a man in a Fleet Air Arm uniform. There is a Leading Seaman badge on his left arm. The negative (labelled a) was accompanied by one black and white print (labelled b), and one proof (labelled c). Written on the back of the proof in pencil is "X 3".
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The old writer sat up in bed, surrounded by his loved ones. They were trying not to cry, even as silent tears streamed down every cheek, but he was smiling calmly.
“Don’t be sad,” he said. “I am only going where everyone is headed, sooner or later. And I have had an extra lease on life, even.” He chuckled, and looked at the stack of books by the bedside table, stretching one pale hand to stroke the cover of the topmost book.
“These will outlive me,” he said.
“Yes,” his son choked. “But we wish we could have you instead.”
“We don’t always get what we wish, Son,” the old father said. “And sometimes that is a very good thing. When I was younger, I did not wish I could live to see this moment.”
The old man closed his eyes and thought back to that day, approximately fifty or so years ago, when he had walked alone at night to the lonely bridge. As he contemplated the black turgid waters below, he had a moment of hesitation. Then he shook his head, squared his shoulder, and lifted one leg over the railing.
“That is not a wise choice,” the voice came from nowhere, startling the man so that he fell back against the pavement.
There was a figure standing there where there had been none before, wearing something that was like a cloak–it was hard to tell in the darkness. Yet the strangers’ eyes burned like coal, even in the night.
The young man shuddered. “Who are you?”
“A well-meaning friend here to advise you that this is not a good idea.”
“Why not?” The young man said belligerently, “What do you know of me and my decisions anyway? What right do you have to tell me what to do?”
“I am not telling you what to do. I am simply reminding you of what you already know–this is not a good idea. What you do with the reminder is up to you. But I will say one more thing: If you do this thing, what will happen to your stories?”
And with that, the stranger disappeared, as if he (or she?) had never been.
The man felt a chill run through him. Stories? What stories did the stranger mean?
Whatever he meant, the mood had been ruined. Drained, the young man dragged himself home. He stared at the bare walls of his apartment, the single journal in the corner. For some reason, he sat down and picked up a pen. Then he started to write:
“It was half past midnight when the young man reached the bridge. He stared into the black and turgid waters, and hesitated…”
A year later, The Stranger on the Bridge was published to great critical acclaim. Thereafter, the young man (not so young now) continued to write, book after book, story after story. It was as if a plug in his soul had unplugged and the ideas poured forth, cleansing him, and bringing light to his readers.
Eventually, the young man moved out of his apartment. He got married, had a family, and kept writing as he raised his children. He was known as a beloved father, a wise teacher, a compassionate writer.
And now he was dying.
But fifty or so years after he had last planned to.
The old man looked fondly at the tearful faces surrounding him. “Thank you,” he said. “For giving my life so much meaning. The stories…” he gestured weakly at the stack of books.
“We’ll take good care of them, Daddy, don’t you worry. We’ll make sure your stories get to the biggest and best audiences,” his daughter said, sobbing as she clasped his hand.
He shook his head slightly. “They are not so important,” he looked at his daughter, then his son, then his other sons and daughters, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, then smiled.
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We Could Soon See A New Brewery Replace Former Big Apple Bagels on S. Westnedge
The longer I live in the Kalamazoo-area the more I realize we've got a strong case for snatching the Beer City USA title away from Grand Rapids. With such notable breweries such as Final Gravity, Wax Wings, One Well and of course the OG craft brewery, Bell's, there is no shortage of libations to go around!
However, it sounds like one more brewery is ready to throw it's hat into the craft beer ring: Apoptosis Brewing Co.
These days in order to stand out in the craft beer crowd one must have a catchy name. I'm not sure if "Apoptosis" is catchy enough. In fact, it's kind of hard to pronounce! However, it's definitely not a name you hear very often. If you have heard the term "apoptosis" it was probably in a biology class.
Upon a quick Google search of the word "apoptosis" several cancer institutions popped up as a result. Cancer.gov defines apoptosis as, "A type of cell death in which a series of molecular steps in a cell lead to its death. This is one method the body uses to get rid of unneeded or abnormal cells...also called programmed cell death."
Well, I learned something new today!
First reported by MLive, Apoptosis Brewing Co. plans to open at 3811 S. Westnedge Ave., the site of the former Big Apple Bagels that suddenly closed last year. However, the big move isn't finalized until the Kalamazoo County Commission approves the permit.
On their official website, Apoptosis owners Andrew Birr and Dustin Johnson say they are two craft beer enthusiasts with over a decade of homebrew experience.
Apoptosis Brewing Company was created to bring creative, explosive flavors to the West Michigan beer scene...we believe in crafting unique beers in a wide variety of styles and expressions that everyone can enjoy.
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Kiritsuke Single Bevel Edge
The single bevel edged Kiritsuke is a versatile knife that can be used to perform some of the tasks usually done by the Yanagiba and Usuba. The heel section of the knife is virtually flat and can be used just like an Usuba. However, because it a essentially a combination of two knives that were developed for very different tasks, this leads to several functional compromises which require considerable skill to workaround. In fact, in many Japanese food restaurants only the head chef is allowed to use them, therefore the single bevel edged Kiritsuke is often considered to be a symbol of expertise and status, or seniority. In appearance, the single bevel edged Kiritsuke resembles a wider version of the Kiritsuke Yanagiba and it shares the same ‘reverse tanto’ / ‘clip point’ tip, which is very useful for precise cutting. The heel section of the knife is virtually flat, and can be used like an Usuba, but the overall blade length is much longer than the typical Usuba. The larger 270mm-330mm sizes are perfectly capable of performing the long drawing cuts usually done with the Yanagiba.
Kiritsuke Double Bevel Edge (kiritsuke Gyuto)
The lightweight, double bevel edged Kiritsuke might be compared to a combination of the Nakiri and the Sujihiki. It is a very versatile knife that can be used to perform many of the tasks normally done with a Gyuto. The double bevel edged Kiritsuke is available in a variety of different styles, ranging from knives with a blade profile identical to the singe bevel edged Kiritsuke, tall rectangular versions that look like a long Nakiri with a ‘reverse tanto’ tip / ‘clipped point’, and knives which look like a combination of Kiritsuke and Gyuto. All of these types of Kiritsuke have less blade curvature / ‘belly’ than the the typical Gyuto, making them less ideal for ‘rock chopping’, but better suited to ‘push cutting’ and ‘pull cutting’. However, a similar result to ‘rock chopping’ can be achieved by using the tip of the blade with a series of ‘pull cuts', or ‘back slices’, if you make a subsequent second series of cuts at 90 degrees to the first. The double bevel edged Kiritsuke can be used for ‘tap chopping’.
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Breaking in your horse is an important step in the life, training and bonding between you and your four-legged friend. For a young horse it is of course not an easy task to get used to a rider and all his accessories. While "breaking" the horse was common in the past, fortunately horse owners today want species-appropriate and gentle methods of breaking in.
Since breaking in is the foundation for further training, you should pay special attention to making your horse feel comfortable while practicing, praising him and keeping it fun. Trust and joy are the basis of successful training. To clear up your unanswered questions and provide you with all the important information, here is our ultimate guide to breaking in your horse.
Table of Contents:
Why the right riding in is so important
Horses are good-natured animals who are happy to forgive our mistakes in case of doubt. Unfortunately, this often leads to the fact that the necessary attention is not given to the breaking in of a horse. In some cases the animal is immediately fitted with saddle, equipment and rider – if this works out without much reluctance, the horse is considered broken in.
However, the long-term consequences are not desirable for either horse or rider. The sudden and unaccustomed weight bearing (often before growth is complete) and the lack of learned coordination can cause physical problems such as lameness and posture problems. This leads to permanent damage and in the worst case to the fact that your horse can no longer be used for riding much earlier than usual.
Besides the physical damage, the psychological aspect should not be forgotten: If you overtax your horse, he will not enjoy going for a ride, but will associate it with stress. This in turn leads to a loss of performance and a reduction in the quality of life. In order to make the most of breaking in as an important phase in your horse’s life, you should proceed carefully and always at the pace of your four-legged friend.
Break in the horse yourself or have it broken in?
Since breaking in requires some knowledge and experience, it may make sense to have your horse broken in by a professional. Of course it is best for the bond between you and your animal if you take care of it yourself. But often there is simply a lack of time and experience. Before you cut back on the quality of the breaking-in training, we recommend that you spend some money and consult an expert for the training.
Of course, this option is not cheap: in the best case you should calculate with 300 to 500 Euro per month, with highly qualified and experienced trainers even up to 1000 Euro. In addition, there are the adjustment costs. The time of the structured basic training is about 3 months.
A horse is also an investment in this respect. However, professional and species-appropriate breaking in pays off for the life of the horse. So if you don’t feel up to performing this important and basic training phase yourself, find out about ways to still give your sweetheart the training help he needs.
When should I break in my horse?
There is always a debate about when is the right time to start breaking in young horses. Especially if a horse is to be managed athletically, many owners want to start training as early as possible.
First of all, it can be said that there are indeed breed-dependent differences in the physical development of horses. Thus, some animals are developed earlier enough to start training than others. Roughly speaking, it is common to distinguish between the 3. and 5. It is important to start breaking in the horse at the age of two. Icelandic horses, however, should not start training until they are 5 years old.
In the meantime, there are many voices in favor of not breaking in a horse until it is 5 years old. or even 6. Start breaking in the horse at the age of. From this point on you can be relatively sure that the horse is physically as well as mentally ready to do the demanding workout. Since the physical development can be quite individual, you should best have the time of the training start clarified by a veterinarian.
Note: Up to the age of about 7. The horse is in the growth phase. For this reason it is not recommended to break in the horse too early.
Horses also differ in terms of their personality. Therefore, the training and its beginning should be primarily oriented to the animal itself. If the physical prerequisites are met and no illnesses are present, it is up to the trainer to decide whether your horse is ready for training.
Important factors to consider when evaluating are:
- Movement sequence of the horse in free running
- Appearance and muscling of the back
- Fright, fear and insecurity of the horse
- The horse’s ability to concentrate
It is also possible to break in an older, not yet trained horse. Here exactly the same indications apply, as with young horses. Under certain circumstances, however, the training is more difficult and protracted, if the animal has had bad experiences. In this case, you should focus more on building trust between the two of you.
Preparation: From care to ground work
The training necessary for breaking in begins long before your horse has a rider on its back. Many intermediate steps are necessary to prepare your animal gently for this big step. In the everyday care and handling of your animal you build a bond between you. This is also already part of the training, because the horse as a flight animal must build a solid foundation of trust to experience the handling and work with humans stress-free and at best with pleasure.
A central part of the preparation for breaking in is ground work. This means any work with the horse that the person does from the ground, i.e. without sitting on it. The goal is to take away the horse’s fear, to promote curiosity and trust, and to train the horse’s ability to lead. This kind of training should already be used for very young animals (from approx. 1.5 years) should be started.
The first step in ground work is accordingly the simple touching of the animal (for example, also lifting the hooves), the everyday handling and leading on the rope. Here your quadruped learns to yield to the pull or pressure exerted by the human being willingly and at the same time in a controlled manner. If your pet is willing to be led, you can start with specific exercises. This includes, for example, standing still as well as walking on command as well as backing up.
Note: Pay attention to short and playful training sessions, especially in the beginning, so as not to overtax your horse.
If your horse has mastered this hurdle, you can start to build a course through which you lead your four-legged friend – there are no limits to your imagination here and the more securely the lead works, the easier the later training will be.
Attention: This training should not be started too early, because very young horses cannot yet keep the necessary balance and lunging can become very uncomfortable for them.
Another great training option is lunging. Here you let your horse run on a long leash in a circular track. Prerequisite of this method is however an already secured guidance and some running experience (straight as well as in curved lines) of the young animal.
This training has several advantages: Because of the distance between your animal and you, you have the opportunity to closely observe the course of movement. This is important to assess the physical development of your horse as well as its coordination.
At the same time lunging is an ideal gymnastics for your horse: With this form of movement he learns to keep his balance, to arch his back and to show willingness to stretch.
The latter is the absolute basis of riding in. Through the stretching posture, the horse adjusts its center of gravity to that of the rider and thus learns to carry the weight more gently. In addition, the musculature necessary for riding is built up in this way.
Getting used to the equipment
Besides the bonding work and the physical preparation for riding, you should introduce your horse just as gently to the necessary equipment. This can also be combined perfectly with ground work.
©Paul Henri Degrande
You should generally take care to approach new equipment calmly and carefully to your horse. For this it is advisable to have your animal held by a helper. This way you have both hands free and can show your darling the equipment and let him sniff it extensively. If your four-legged friend shows signs of fear or stress, just stop calmly and try again at a later time.
Pay attention when breaking in a well-fitting snaffle bit that your horse really accepts – not every bit fits every horse. The advice of a horse dentist can be very helpful here to avoid damage to the bit or tongue.
The biggest step for your horse is of course getting used to bridle and saddle. Here, too, the rule is: Strength lies in calmness. Let your four-legged friend approach the unknown accessories with curiosity and pay close attention to his behavior. It can also be very helpful to let your horse watch other horses being saddled and broken in regularly from an early age and to work with rewards.
Sometimes it takes a while before your horse is ready to accept the bridle, blanket and saddle. The more patience you bring with you, the more positively your animal will relate to the new impressions. This minimizes stress, which benefits training success in the long run.
Tip: Be prepared to replace or adjust the equipment regularly. Wrong or inappropriate equipment will not only harm the training success, but in the worst case also the health of your horse. There are costs that you should take into account right from the start.
When the time has come to mount for the first time, it will be exciting for you and your horse. If you have patiently completed the previous training and adapted it to the needs of your favorite, you are ready for this exciting step. Note that this experience is formative for your horse, as it feels the unfamiliar weight of a rider on its back for the first time. It is therefore all the more important to approach the situation with skill and calmness.
So that even in this situation neither stress nor overload, you should organize two helpers. In addition, it is important that the first mounting is done by a rider who is not too heavy (and saddle-firm). The two helpers can hold your horse and lift you by the lower legs, so that the entire body weight is not immediately on the horse’s back. If your horse becomes restless and shows signs of stress, be patient and stop the mounting if necessary to try again at a later time.
When the mounting goes smoothly, you are ready to go. At a walk and trot, you slowly get your horse used to moving with a rider. Always train positively, patiently and with a lot of praise. So your four-legged friend will not lose the fun of it and you will make steady progress.
Note: The horse must never carry the weight of the rider with its back muscles. Instead, it must learn to use its neck ligament, neck, head and neck.
Breaking in your horse is an exciting step for you and your animal. Wait until your horse is physically and mentally ready for this challenging workout. Here, for example, the veterinarian of your confidence can advise you.
Preparation through ground work is essential to ensure that breaking in is done in a manner appropriate to the species. Through a patient and trusting training atmosphere you ensure that your horse learns with lasting effect and with pleasure.
If you get stuck breaking in your horse, it is most likely due to human error. Be honest with yourself and observe your horse’s behavior as well as your own very closely.
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- Format: eBook
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-3461-5
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Published Date: April 2020
- BIC Category: History, Medieval History, Legal history, European history: medieval period, middle ages, England, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, 14th century, c 1300 to c 1399, HISTORY / Women, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485), England, Society & social sciences / Gender studies: women, Legal History, Humanities / Medieval history
- Series: Gender in History
This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England. It draws upon the rich records of three English towns - Nottingham, Chester and Winchester - and their courts to bring to life the experiences of hundreds of women within the systems of local justice. Through comparison of the records of three towns, and of women's roles in different types of legal action, the book reveals the complex ways in which individual women's legal status could vary according to their marital status, different types of plea and the town that they lived in. At this lowest level of medieval law, women's status was malleable, making each woman's experience of justice unique.
'Medieval town life has been heralded for offering women increased opportunities for economic activity and social advancement. However, the study of women in urban judicial courts complicates this picture by reporting occasions in which women violated principles of peace and equity or were themselves victims of violation. Phipps (Swansea Univ., UK) samples the legal records of the medium-sized English towns Nottingham, Chester, and Winchester, showing them to be rich sources of social history for better understanding urban justice. The cases indicate that women's legal action was not defined primarily or solely by gender, as they were perpetrators or victims of the same kinds of misbehavior as men. Although marriage technically transferred a woman's legal responsibility to her husband-the concept of coverture-town courts held flexible ideas about how to apply this at least until the mid-15th century, not hesitating to find a woman fully responsible for some crimes. The study of debt litigation, regulation of work and trade, public disorder, and verbal disturbances sheds light on women's roles in urban settings, where justice and peacekeeping were seriously pursued for the profit and well-being of all within their walls.'
--L. C. Attreed, College of the Holy Cross
Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.
'Dr Phipps' book is undoubtedly a valuable contribution to the scholarship in this field and will appeal to a wide readership.'
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Dr Shaun D. McGuinness
'In this meticulously researched book, Teresa Phipps surfaces the working lives of women in three medieval English towns-Nottingham, Chester, and Winchester-through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of their appearances in legal records, often in the context of commercial disputes.'
1 Women, town courts and customary law in context
2 Commerce, credit and coverture: women and debt litigation
3 Law and the regulation of women's work
4 Violence, property and 'bad speech': women and trespass litigation
5 Public disorder, policing and misbehaving women
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Overview: Bucephalandra Belindae is a fairly new species from the genus Bucephalandra. The leaves of this plant are long and narrow which makes it a great foreground plant. Bucephalandra Belindae leaves will change their colors depending on the condition of the water. For a stronger green color, a CO2 supplement may be needed.
Size Portions: Bucephalandra Belindae is priced per plant
Lighting conditions: Low to Moderate
Growth Length: 5 – 12 cm (length), 1 – 2 cm (width)
Difficulty or care: Easy
Placement in an aquascape: Foreground to midground
PH: 6.0 – 7.5
Temperature: 65 – 84 F
Reproduction: Propagation is done by cutting and attaching the roots to rocks or drift woods.
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The outbreak prompted New York city officials to declare a public health emergency, and order residents in affected neighborhoods to be vaccinated or pay a $1,000 fine.
Before the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine became available in 1963, the CDC said an estimated 48,000 people were hospitalized with the disease each year, and 400 to 500 people died of the disease annually.
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- Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was awarded Harvard University's Radcliffe Award on Friday.
- During the ceremony, she joked that if she could be CEO of any company, it'd be Facebook.
- "It's the biggest news platform in the world," says Clinton, and needs to get its act together.
Hillary Clinton might be looking for work in Silicon Valley.
The former presidential candidate jokingly said she would prefer to be the CEO of Facebook, if she had the choice, according to video obtained by the NTK Network.
Clinton's remarks came during an on-stage conversation with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, at a ceremony where she accepted Harvard University's prestigious Radcliffe Award. Healey asked Clinton which company she would want to lead as CEO, and Clinton came back with Facebook, with a laugh.
"It's the biggest news platform in the world," Clinton said. "Most people in our country get their news, true or not, from Facebook."
"Now Facebook is trying to take on some of the unexpected consequences of their business model, and I for one hope they get it right because it really is critical to our democracy that people get accurate information on which to make decisions," she said.
However, it doesn't look like Mark Zuckerberg is ready to give up the throne at Facebook anytime soon, no matter how much she might want to be CEO.
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As factories come back on line and essential businesses that never went off line continue to face daily challenges of operating amidst a global pandemic, attention falls squarely on the health and safety of workers. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists distance between workers and contact with contaminated surfaces as distinct factors that impact workers' risk for exposure to the novel coronavirus.
Focusing on COVID-19 risks in the workplace has shed new light on the benefits of automation, especially robots. These coworkers are innately immune to biological viruses. In fact, they kill them. Robots have already proved their mettle as mobilized germ zappers decontaminating hospitals and airports, robot temperature screeners and food delivery bots for quarantined people. We’ll explore how robot manufacturers and integrators are using robotics to reinforce social distancing, reduce contact points and provide remote support for manufacturing.
Users don’t typically go looking for palletizing systems as a primary method for social distancing, but it ends up being a nice piggyback benefit. Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company, is a global material handling and robotic systems integrator based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Matt Kohler, Sales Manager for Bastian Solutions’ robotics group, says they see more opportunities for palletizing and depalletizing, even for low-volume applications.
“Traditionally those have been accomplished manually, but if you have team lifts or heavier product that requires multiple people, robotic palletizers offer complete autonomy in a warehouse or manufacturing environment. There’s a lot of opportunities there, maybe not traditionally justifiable for labor savings or ergonomic concerns alone, but it now it provides a secondary benefit.”
Fewer Touchpoints with Robotic Bin Picking
In addition to social distancing, personal hygiene and wearing cloth face coverings, it’s important to minimize workers’ exposure to surfaces that can become potentially contaminated with the virus. That means reducing touchpoints. Ready to lend a hand in that endeavor are goods-to-robot systems. These advanced technologies use swarms of robotic shuttles to autonomously deliver goods to robotic arms for picking.
“We’re seeing a lot of demand and interest for robotic bin picking, which not only provides labor savings, but also eliminates some high touch surfaces,” says Bastian Solutions’ Kohler. “If you think about a bin that may be circulated 10 to 15 times a day to various picking ports, that’s additional touches that each person could have on that particular bin. It’s not necessarily the biggest driver, but there is an ancillary benefit to having a robotic system doing bin picking as opposed to a human.”
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If you are going on a road trip, you should know that your risk of getting stopped for a traffic offense is high. Here are four possible explanations for this heightened risk:
The High Mileage
Research shows that the more you drive, the more you are likely to be involved in a traffic violation. Road trips, by nature, involve driving over long distances. Therefore, your risk of committing a road offense and getting noticed by a traffic officer increases on a road trip. After all, you are likely to cross multiple traffic checkpoints, meet different patrol officers, and drive over different roads (highways, rural roads, gravel roads) – all of which increase your risk of committing an offense.
Different Traffic Laws
Different states have different traffic laws and rules. Sure, the basic things like driving under the influence (DUI) are illegal in all states, but there are a few differences. For example, in Vermont police officers don't have to prove that you were going over the speed limit; they can just guess at your speed, claim that it was over the limit, and the court will accept their word. Therefore, if you are used to your state's driving laws, you may be in for a rude shock when you get stopped for something that wouldn't raise eyebrows in your home state.
Tiredness and Sleepiness
When on a road trip, you may get to a point where you are too tired, but you don't want to stop driving before meeting your target. Maybe you want to cover a certain number of miles, reach the next town or drive until a particular hour of the day. For example, you may keep on driving even if you are tired because the next town is famed for its pizza, and you want that to be your next meal. Unfortunately, driving while tired or drowsy increases your risk of committing a traffic violation because it decreases your awareness of the road.
Many Americans consider alcohol an essential part of a road trip. Some people don't plan to drink and drive, but "find themselves" doing it when their designated drivers get tired or when they convince themselves they aren't intoxicated. Unfortunately, alcohol and driving don't go well together, and DUI is one of the most serious traffic violations in any state.
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Previously, we have looked into how probiotics contribute to regulating immunity and inflammation. Personally, I still encourage eczema patients to try probiotics as supplementation to their eczema diet. So what are the benefits?
What are the benefits?
Intestinal microflora in the early years of life can influence our whole life. It helps our immune system mature. Greater diversity in the microflora is believed to reduce the risks of allergic diseases and eczema. They are also capable of producing essential vitamins – K, B2, B7 & B12 with the help of fermenting prebiotics, which acts as the “fuels” for our microflora. Microflora could also produce short-chain fatty acids, important substances to help maintain blood glucose and appetite, which are important to prevent diabetes. It was also proven in some studies that probiotics could reduce depression and anxiety, which may trigger eczema. Lastly, probiotics were also proven to be effective in preventing bacteria-induced diarrhoea in adults and children.
What kind of probiotics should we take?
There are two ways to obtain probiotics for our body.
The first way is to ingest them from natural foods.
Probiotics are usually found in fermented foods, and one of the most common fermented foods is yoghurt. Yoghurt usually provides at least one type of the following probiotic – Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Streptococcus thermophilus. Interestingly, ingesting more than one strain (multi-strain) of bacteria from foods is not guaranteed to exert a greater effect than ingesting only one strain. Since there is no single best probiotic for eczema, it is more of a trial and error for each eczema patient to find the one that helps.
Apart from being probiotics, yoghurt is also regarded as one serving of milk and alternative in the food pyramid. These dairy products are useful to provide important nutrients like calcium and vitamin B12. Other popular natural probiotics including kimchi, cheese also contain different probiotics and nutrients.
Please bear in mind these beneficial bacteria may die during the cooking process. It is better to consume directly. However, if you are undergoing a food elimination diet, i.e. reducing chemical loads by excluding some of the food groups – dairy foods in the diet, you may have to search for alternative products.
Another way of obtaining probiotics is through supplements.
There are different commercial probiotics available on the market. They are advertised to relieve common health problems, such as constipation, diarrhoea and hypercholesterolemia (too much blood cholesterol). Some are advertised to improve infants’ immunity and prevent infants from developing eczema and asthma. Usually, there is research to support the bacterial strain the commercial products use (you may want to check it in the product information). However, it is NOT guaranteed that everyone has the same beneficial effect.
Dosage and frequency
Research has not indicated the best dosage and frequency of consuming probiotics. If you choose to try probiotic supplements, take them according to the products’ instructions. If you choose the natural way, there is no definite method, but you can try eating every day for at least 2 weeks. Probiotics are not drugs or antibiotics that may exert an immediate effect on the intestinal microflora. It takes time to shape the microflora.
Most probiotic supplements are designed for the general healthy population. Lactobacillus found in fermented food is considered safe for the body. For patients with immunosuppressive conditions, however, they should seek medical advice first before consuming any probiotic foods as their microflora is more vulnerable than others.
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The ultimate to Chinese dumplings including dumpling dough, how to roll wrapper from flours, how to prepare Chinese dumpling fillings, how to cook dumplings and the popular dipping sauces. As one of the most symbolizing food on Chinese table, Chinese dumplings are the most popular food for Chinese New Year all over the country. Chinese dumplings can be further divided into three types based on the cooking method.
Boiled dumplings (水饺): for Chinese, dumplings are boiled dumplings in most cases, not pot-stickers and steamed dumplings. We have special name for those two types. Boiled dumplings are soft, juicy and moist. In northern provinces, are considered as the staple food all year around.
Pan-fried dumplings (potstickers, 锅贴) are crispy and chewier than boiled dumplings. Pan-fried dumplings are popular across the country mainly as street foods or side dishes.
Steamed dumplings (蒸饺): steamed dumplings are less famous compared with the two types above. In China, they are mainly served as side dish, dim sum or breakfast.
Making dumplings (either boiled dumplings or pan-fried version) with family members is one of the most important family activities for celebrating Chinese New Year in Northern provinces. All family members contribute to a healthy, well-balanced and rich in flavor dumpling dish. The older generation with more experience in making dumplings makes the most of the preparation works including making well flavored dumpling fillings and a dumpling wrapper dough with an appropriate hardness. When the dumpling party begins, someone starts to roll the wrapper and all of the others help to wrap them. Team work is always funny and rewarding. Everyone is get involved and everyone express their blessings to other family members. Everyone is enjoying the precious family reunion time and looking forward to the next “get together” dumpling party.
Make Juicy &Flavory Fillings
It is really a long store if we want to explain possibility of fillings for dumplings. But there are rules. Dumpling fillings are well-balanced nutritionally with ground meat (might be pork, beef, shrimp, mutton and sometimes chicken) and chopped vegetables (carrot, celery, cabbage, mushrooms and radish), so dumpling itself is a perfect one dish meal. Here are some tips to make your dumpling filling with running juice and rice flavors.
Fat content should be guaranteed|If possible, choose ground meat with at least 30% fat content. Most of Chinese dumplings use ground pork or sometimes ground lamb. Both of the two types of meat can provide enough oil after cooking, and avoid the filling becomes tight and dry. If other leaner meats are used as the main ingredients for filling, including chicken, beef and shrimp, a common technique is to add some extra fat. This is well proofed in famous Har Gow, extra pork fat is added to make the shrimp filling juicy.
Marinate the ground meat a few hours prior to folding|Longer marinating time help the meat to absorb the seasonings. Firstly add all the seasonings, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, white pepper, salt, ginger, cooking wine, sesame oil, egg and chopped scallion. Then heat for around 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil and drizzle the hot oil on the top of the scallion. Stir the meat mixture for 2-3 minutes in one direction until getting a paste texture. Then set aside and marinate for 1 hour or cover with plastic wrapper and fridge overnight.
Apply appropriate treatments to fresh vegetable| the treatments of the vegetable including, stir-frying, blanch, salt marinating and oil mixing. If you use vegetables have a higher water content for example cabbage, chop them firstly and then marinate with salt for 10-15 minutes. After marinating, slightly squeeze the extra liquid out. This can prevent the filling becomes watery and spoil the dumplings wrappers. For vegetables with lower water content (like chive in this recipe), chop firstly and then coat with oil before mixing with ground meat. This prevents the vegetables from dewatering due to the salt.
Mix vegetables with ground meat just before wrapping. If the vegetables are added too early, the dewatering process happens, making the filling watery and hard to handle.
After cooked, the chive is still green.
How to make dumpling wrapper from scratch
We have full access to store-made dumpling wrappers now but a “real dumpling” better starts from flours.
- 300g all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting (for around 45 to 50 dumpling wrappers)
- 150ml to 160ml water
- a small pinch of salt (around ½ tsp, 2g.)
- Mix a small pinch of salt with flour, dig a hole in center and then stir the water in. Mix the flour with water with chop-stickers during the process so you can adjust the water amount if necessary. Then knead the dough for 8-10 minutes with a stand mixer or by hand until the dough is almost smooth. Cover and rest for 15 minutes. Then re-knead the dough for 2-3 minutes so we can get a very smooth dough. Cover and continue resting for 1 hour.
- When the dough becomes soft and smooth, cut into halves and knead each half into a round ball. Take one half and dig a small hole in center. Then shape it to a large circle round. Cut so we will end up a long log. Shape the log around 3cm in diameter. Divide the long log into small dumpling dough pieces (each around 10g). Dust each of them so they will not stick together. Press one down and then roll it into a wrapper around 10cm in diameter. You can refer to the video for the technique.
- Get your assistants here and begin to wrap the dumpling at the fastest speed, because the wrappers will get dried out soon and become harder to seal together.
Tips for easy to roll dumping wrappers
Tougher dough is better for softer dough. It is quite important to use harder dough if you want to make thin papers. If the dough is too soft, it is hard to roll the wrappers and the dumpling cannot keep a nice shape. If you feel your dough is slightly too hard to work with, you can slightly lengthen a resting time.
If you plan to make steamed dumplings, use hot boiling water to make the dough so the dumplings will be much softer and easy to steam. We call this dough as hot water dough (烫面).
How to cook dumplings
Boiled dumplings (水饺) : heat a large pot of water to a boiling, add a small pinch of salt. Then cook the dumplings in batches. Slightly move the dumplings with a large ladle or scoop so they will not sticky to the bottom. Then the water begins to boil again, add around ¼ cup of cold water. Repeat once. When the dumplings become transparent and expand because of the air inside. Transfer out.
Pan-frying (potstickers): brush 1 tablespoon of oil in a pan (nonstick pan recommended for beginners), place the dumplings in. Pleats side up. Heat over medium fire until one side becomes browned. Swirl around ½ cup of water and then cover the lid immediately.
Continue heating until all of the water is evaporated.Slow down your heat and heat until the bottom becomes crispy and golden brown.
By the way, if you want to get more assembling ways, check my post: how to fold dumplings.
How to Make Chinese Dumplings (Jiaozi)
- 300 g all-purpose flour ,plus more for dusting
- 155 ml water ,room temperature or hot boiling, see tip3
- 2 g salt
Pork and chive filling
- 400 g Ground pork ,at least 20% fat (you can replace ⅓ pork with shrimp)
- 200 g Chive ,hard ends removed
- 1 tsp.salt
- 1 tbsp. cooking wine
- ½ tsp. white pepper
- 1 tbsp. light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp. oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp. minced ginger
- 2 large eggs
- 3 tbsp. sesame oil ,divided
- ⅓ cup chopped scallion
- 2 tbsp. hot oil
- 2 tbsp. vinegar
- 3-4 ginger shreds
- In a mixing bowl, add ground pork, a small pinch of salt, egg, light soy sauce, white pepper, oyster sauce grated ginger and salt. Then place the green onion on top and drizzle hot oil on green onions. This helps to improve the aroma of the green onion.
- Stir the filling in one direction for 2-3 minutes until getting a paste texture and the filling becomes quite sticky. Set aside for 1 hour or cover with plastic wrapper and overnight.
- Finely chop chives and mix with 2 tablespoons of sesame oil or other vegetable oil. Mix chive with pork before wrapping.
- Brush 1 tablespoon of oil in a pan (nonstick pan recommended for beginners), place the dumplings in. Pleats side up.
- Heat over medium fire until one side becomes browned. Swirl around ½ cup of water and then cover the lid immediately. Continue heating until all of the water is evaporated.
- Slow down your heat and heat until the bottom becomes crispy and golden brown.
Boiled dumplings (水饺)
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This will depart from your relatives filing for insolvency to produce ends meet right after the sudden death. Another potential reason for bankruptcy following the passing of the cherished person is he or she had been in the process of filing for bankruptcy at that time of their passing. If this is true, a specified comparative will require above their Chapter 7 situation and also watch it through to the conclusion .
Know Everything You Really Should And Should Not Do
Becoming ready to loosely answer fully the query”How can the personal bankruptcy process do the job?” Is insufficient. You should also know the ins and outs of this approach. It is very important to see everything you shouldn’t really do. Below are some essential dos and also don’ts of submitting insolvency.
If you have to, then sell your issues, but maintain a list of it. It isn’t illegal to sell your things before filing for insolvency. It might be described as a prerequisite, particularly if you’re strapped for cash. If this includes finding the greatest prices paid for diamonds and gold or even taking part in dollars for golden programs, do it. Sell things you need to, however maintain a meticulous listing of it disprove any wrongdoing.
Be frank regarding your earnings and your own debts. Speaking of wrongdoing, do be fair about your trades. Usually do lie. If your papers and papers don’t represent the fact, the courtroom will more than likely throw away your case. This consists of purposely omitting details or carrying questionable actions, such as giving a second valuables or car to family members and asking for back them later.
Make use of a bankruptcy lawyer. Bankruptcy law is complicated. Do not get overly confident in realizing the fundamentals of”Just how can the personal bankruptcy process function ?” You will need to find out far more than the fundamentals. People who decide to reveal themselves throughout insolvency filings are infrequently successful.
Planning The Future
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Guns the Right Way: Introducing Kids to Firearm Safety and Shooting (2015)
Your Child’s Friends, Neighbors, Teachers and Relatives
Children are by nature curious and rather vocal. They enjoy pleasing other people (especially young children), and also like to impress their peers and those from whom they seek approval. This desire for approval and to please can be a great asset when introducing a child to firearms, as well as in later lessons on skills and safe shooting. It can be a detriment, however, when it comes to other people they come into contact with who may not be as “firearm friendly” as you.
Here are some helpful tips and guidelines in preventing problems or misunderstandings, as well as protecting your child when dealing with friends, neighbors and teachers.
TALKING WITH FRIENDS ABOUT FIREARMS
Have you ever given your child something special, perhaps something that was a little bit out of the ordinary? One of the first things they most likely wanted to do with that special item was show it off to their friends. If and when your child has his or her own firearm, you can expect the very same behavior.
Remember - children like to please and impress. The rules with a firearm, however, are a bit different.
For my oldest daughter’s 10th birthday, she received her very own shotgun, as she was old enough to participate in the state’s youth hunting seasons and showed both desire and skill in clay target shooting. Her birthday is in August, and one of her very first questions was, “Can we bring my new shotgun in one day for show and tell?”
“No, we cannot, but we can take a picture of you with your new shotgun and, if you like, we can talk to the teacher about letting you talk about it during show-and-tell time.”
Unfortunately (and unbeknownst to her) the idea was shot down almost immediately by the teacher and backed by the principal for fear of “creating questions they weren’t comfortable answering.”
It is a shame that we live in a society today where we have to worry about everything that may come out of a child’s mouth as being misunderstood, misconstrued or, in some cases, even twisted to follow an agenda. Though there are many people who are open to firearms but not specifically pro-firearms, and others who are pro-firearms, there are also others who are anti-firearms, and you can count on somebody being offended.
There is that old phrase that you can’t please all of the people all of the time, and that is clearly the case when it comes to guns. Prepare yourself for this fact and understand that it is nothing against you or your child.
Take every opportunity to both practice and teach firearm safety. ©National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc.
I was taught from a young age to not talk about the numbers or types of guns that we had in the house. I still believe that is a good idea, as there are nefarious persons in the world who may use that information with malicious intent. Usually, that means someone looking to steal a gun or a friend of a friend looking to steal a gun, or the assumption that because you have guns you also have a lot of money. (Alas, if that were only true.)
Yes, the incidence of these persons is probably rare of course, depending on the area in which you live, but they are out there.
While what you are comfortable sharing with others is entirely up to you, I advise you to take the path of caution, at least initially. Why risk it?
I also believe that children should not be exploited in order to affect the parent. What do I mean by this? There is been increasing concern regarding the questioning of children during their annual medical exams regarding whether or not there are guns in their home. That question is right up there with, “how much money do your parents make?” In other words - it is not really anyone’s business whether or not I own something that is not only legal, but that is specifically addressed in the bill of rights of our Constitution. Anyone that walks into my home will immediately realize that there are firearms there, if for no reason other than there are many taxidermy mounts hung on the wall.
I have talked to my children and the children who I have mentored into firearm shooting and ownership that it is certainly okay to be excited and talk about your new gun. I am also careful to explain to them that they also need to realize that some people may not be pleased, nor will they be impressed with the fact that they have a firearm, and that’s okay, too.
I have always allowed my children to show their friends their new firearm in the control of my home or a shooting range. I also use that opportunity as a chance to both practice and teach safety. I am often surprised at the reactions from children not familiar with guns, as well as the behavior of the child with the firearm in handling it safely.
I find that children also love to teach their peers, and will say things like, “you can hold it but first we have to check and make sure it is empty.”
Finally, in teaching children about firearms, firearm handling and safety, and firearm ownership, I teach from a position that owning a firearm is no more extraordinary than owning a car or a house. Lots of people have them, some are nicer than others, and all should be respected.
PROPER STORAGE OF FIREARMS IN THE HOME
I am an advocate of gun safes and/or locking, steel cabinets to store firearms in a home. There are several reasons for this.
Firearms are dangerous when handled improperly, and the best way to prevent improper handling is to have absolute control over access.
It seems that even those who are uncomfortable with firearms to the extent that they may not allow their children to visit our home are often put more “at ease” when assured that our firearms are stored unloaded and locked in a safe to which only my spouse and I have access.
Do you leave your jewelry out on the kitchen counter? Firearms, in addition to having the potential to be dangerous, are also rather valuable. An easy way to prevent theft of anything is to lock it up.
Just say “NO” to a wooden gun cabinet with a glass front. While these types of storage cabinets can be attractive and show off your firearms collection, the same thing that makes them hat way also puts them at risk. Glass can easily be broken in a theft situation and the locks on these types of cabinets, if they even have them, usually are easy to overcome.
Firearms, in addition to having the potential to be dangerous, are also rather valuable. An easy way to prevent theft of anything is to lock it up.
Without a doubt, Cannon Safe has the best warranty in the safe business. Cannon Safe offers a zero cost lifetime replacement policy. The lifetime policy includes hassle-free 100% no-cost repair or replacement after a burglary, fire or natural flood emergency. They also manufacture many different sizes and models for every need and budget. They are also the parent company of GunVault, manufacturers of small, lockable containers for handguns that can be chained to a bedframe or bolted to a nightstand.
Homak Corporation has been manufacturing cabinets since 1947 and was at the absolute forefront of gun cabinet manufacturing since the early 1980s. Their cabinets feature a top and bottom lock, and come pre-drilled so you can bolt them to the floor or wall in your home, both an additional deterrent to theft.
Cannon provides its customers with the best value in the business, an excellent product, at a fair price, with the best warranty available.
Many people own handguns for personal protection and are wary of locking them up, as they feel it defeats the purpose of having the gun in the first place. After all, if you can’t reach your principle means of self-defense in time, what good is it? The problem is that, as we previously discussed, children are curious. No matter how well you think you may have “hidden” your handgun, there is an excellent chance that your or someone else’s child will find it.
GunVault Corporation has solved this problem. They manufacture an entire line of discreet, secure, lockable storage systems designed specifically for immediate access by an authorized person to a defense firearm. Using a combination of numerical combination, “finger combinations” and even biometric analysis, GunVault’s products keep a firearm absolutely secure until you need it.
HOW TO DEAL WITH A NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE
Guns and gun ownership can be a relatively polarizing topic. Your child’s friends or parents may have a strong reaction and objection to your child shooting a firearm. There have even been instances where well-meaning parents misinterpret something a child has said and wind up making phone calls to child protective services, the police, the PTA, etc., thinking that they are “protecting” a child from some evil deed.
With today’s increased awareness of the concealed and open carry of firearms, there is even a nefarious new term given by people who are anti-gun to the process of intentionally calling in police on a gun owner - it’s called “swatting” (because a police SWAT team usually responds) and can have serious and even deadly consequences.
Hopefully the most you will have to worry about is someone saying something negative to your child about guns.
When this happens, it is important to take the child aside and speak to them about differences in opinion and how just like not everybody likes chocolate ice cream or broccoli, some people don’t like or understand guns and shooting. Kids get it rather quickly.
I instruct children that if their friends or friends’ parents say anything negative about guns they should just remain calm and tell them that they are always safe when they shoot and that in their house they believe in gun ownership, and that they should immediately tell me/their parents about what happened.
This conversation is also better had before a negative experience occurs. Remember, at many stages of a child’s life, peer pressure is a motivating and molding factor in their social status and acceptance. Preparing a child to “diffuse and deflect” a polarizing topic can prevent consequences from a heated interaction between two children who, most likely, both know little about the facts, opinions and politics of guns.
TEACHERS AND SCHOOL
I am often amazed how people entrusted to educate our next generations of citizens can sometimes be so ignorant of both the law and peoples civil rights that they would speak of and even discourage the use and possession of guns. But it happens. It actually happens quite a bit.
There was a day when most schools, (even those in urban areas like Chicago and New York) had shooting as one of their physical education activities, some even having their own range and firearms on school grounds!
How sad we have come so far away from that model of teaching every child both the enjoyment that can be had from shooting guns as well as the serious danger that they can possess.
Unfortunately, due to the heinous acts committed by some seriously mentally ill people at schools with mass shootings, there is an extremely heightened sensitivity about children and guns. This heightened sensitivity extends even to the mere discussion of guns. Children have been thrown out of school for pointing their fingers at other children in pretend handgun fashion. They have been expelled for making a piece of bread in the shape of a gun.
It is absurd, I know, but the fact that it happens means that we need to address it and address it thoroughly before it is your child, or a child who you teach, who is in that situation.
DEALING WITH THE EDUCATION SYSTEM AND FIREARMS
Every year we have a parent teacher conference or open house at the beginning of the school year in order to meet and talk with the new teachers who will be responsible for our children for that school year. It is during this time that my wife and I have what we have dubbed “the conversation” with each of my children’s teachers.
This conversation was brought about by an incident with my younger son and a school staff member misunderstanding something that he was talking about with shooting guns. He was rather young, and as young children do, they were talking about “good guys and bad guys.” My son said that if he was dealing with a bad guy he would simply take a gun and shoot him. A fairly straightforward answer for a six-year-old child.
A portion of that discussion was overheard by a teacher, misconstrued and concluded with a referral to the principal’s office and a visit with the school psychiatrist, as well as a very concerned phone call home.
I started off our “mandatory meeting” afterward incredulous that such a minor incident as speaking about shooting bad guys (and I don’t know about you, but I recall that even the old-time westerns out there had “good guys” and “bad guys” who were always shooting at each other) could result in such a frenzied and detailed response. I often wonder if there would be the same reaction if my children spoke of pounding nails with a hammer, as many assaults and homicides are committed with them as well.
I begin these conferences discussing how we live in a violent world with people who intentionally cause harm and do bad things. I also talk about how we desire to keep communication lines open between the school and us regarding our children. Then I explain to them that in addition to it being a part of my business, my children both own and regularly shoot firearms.
To my children, having a gun is as common as owning a car or having a pet. They think nothing of it and are taught all of the safeties and responsibilities of safe firearm use and handling. They are talked to about and believe that a child having and shooting a gun is a completely normal process and think nothing of talking openly about how often and how well they shoot. My children, from a young age, have also each had their own pocketknife. They were taught similar safety measures and safe and responsible use of a knife. In our house, knives and guns are tools that are similar to hammers and drills. They have a purpose and are used for that purpose. They are never used for anything outside their intended purpose or that may put them or somebody around them in danger.
I ask them to, if they hear my children speaking of guns, reserve judgment on any conversation, and if they have any concerns to immediately contact me and I will speak with both them and the child.
As your child gets older, and because of the proliferation of organizations such as the scholastic clay target association, these conversations become easier to have and the teachers have seemed to be a little more open.
The most important thing regarding children, firearms and school is that conversations are had prior to them attending so that there are no misunderstandings by people with good (or bad) intentions.
DEALING WITH ANTI-GUN PARENTS
This can be a delicate situation. Unfortunately, we have known children who, once the parents became aware that we are a firearm-friendly home, do not allow their children to come over and play. It is a rare instance, but it does happen.
Remember, again, that your two goals when introducing children to firearms is for them to be safe, and to have fun. Not being able to play with their friends is no fun.
This is one of the few instances where I will not pursue a conversation with those parents, but rather simply allow my children to go over to their house to play and interact or to be involved in school and in after school activities with them. Children (especially young children) should not be put in the middle of a battle between parents, as they are still at a point that they do not understand differences in beliefs and values. Besides, I’ve found that most times these parents are not even open to the discussion.
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Artek stool 60 is one of the most famous creations of the legendary Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto, who considered it his most significant contribution to the world of furniture design. Extremely practical and affordable, this stool has become an emblem of Scandinavian design over time and has been in continuous production since 1933, with total sales of over six million pieces.
Its shapes are reduced to the essentials: a circular seat that rests on only three legs in curved wood, sufficient to guarantee extreme stability. The reduced number of legs also allows you to stack the stool, positioning it slightly staggered so as to form a spiral effect of great scenographic impact. Another strong point is its great resistance: Aalto himself personally tested it by repeatedly knocking several prototypes to the ground to test their robustness.
However, the real reason why the stool 60 entered the history of design lies in its innovative “L” legs, the arrival point of Aalto’s research on curved wood. The fold of the legs forms a delicately curved 90 ° angle, defined by its creator as “bent knee”, and allows them to be firmly fixed to the bottom of the seat.
They are made through a complex and innovative procedure for which Aalto was able to register the patent both in Scandinavia and in the United Kingdom: at the end of a piece of solid wood five parallel cuts are made, with the cracks that extend just below of the fold you want to achieve. Veneered wood sheets are then inserted and glued in these cuts that allow it to be folded by a press without breaking and increase its stability.
The wood used for the legs and for the circular seat is solid birch, a very light and pleasant to the touch essence of whose forests Finland is particularly rich. However, Artek offers several versions, such as a black or white lacquer or with a walnut effect. The seat can then be lacquered in many other different colours or covered in fabric, while maintaining the same proportions.
In the two years following the creation of the stool, Aalto began to experiment with different versions, all based on the “L” legs. Adding a leg and reaching four, the E60 stool was born, while slightly changing the proportions, the same compositional philosophy lends itself to giving shape to a coffee table, such as the Aalto Table Round and 90D models. By extending the legs for a greater seat height, Aalto arrives at the creation of the bar stool 64, while adding a backrest and slightly modifying the rear legs he obtains the chair 65, from which in turn the models 66 and 69 derive.
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It appears that you are a kind and empathetic parent, which is great, and is especially necessary in dealing with irrational fears.
You can't counter irrational fears with rationality. For example, telling a child that monsters don't exist will not decrease their fear of the monster they know is under their bed. You need to deal with their fears by validating the emotion, talking about their fear, gradual desensitization if the problem is amenable to this, and seeking solutions perhaps outside of the norm.
Validating their fears is not the same as agreeing with them; it simply means acknowledging that their fear is real. Try to find out if she experienced something traumatic (e.g. someone at preschool had an accident on the toilet and someone got mad), or what she thinks will happen if her urine touches a strange bowl or the pipes. Is there a toilet monster? Will it hurt her? Will the bowl or the pipes be angry/act up? Why is it threatening? Understanding her irrational fears will help you in your approach to the problem.
Desensitizing is time consuming; it's a chore. It would be a lot easier if, e.g., her fear was of dogs. But her fear is of toilets, so you kinda have to go there with her. Since she's not afraid of the toilet at home, this is more problematic. Do you still have her potty chair? Is it small enough to travel with? (There are some very portable travel potties.) What you do to help desensitize her depends on understanding why she's afraid. No reason is too silly; they're not silly to her. Perhaps you can go to a (clean) public restrooms at fast food restaurants or such where she can identify a threatening toilet. Have her use the potty, then dispose of her urine in the toilet together. If she's afraid of injury, note that the toilet (isn't angry/whatever her fear is.) Next perhaps you can have her use a strange toilet while you are there to protect her, holding her. Next, without you holding her (maybe just her hand.) Etc.
If this is not feasible, you can let her take the travel potty wherever she goes. If it's just to pee, she can pee in a paper cup (practice at home) and pour it into the toilet, wipe herself, and flush. Crumple the cup, throw it away, wash hands and it's done.
These are just suggestions; I'm sure you can come up with better ones when you know her specific fear. When she becomes more rational or her desire to be like everybody else is greater than her fear, she'll outgrow it.
Ideas to Help Reduce Your Child’s Fear and Anxiety
About Using the Toilet
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Dog snouts have long put humans’ to shame, but now they’re really rubbing our noses in it. Bats aren’t one trick ponies.
Recent new things:
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On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control announced new guidelines that say vaccinated individuals can take off their masks in almost all indoor settings and outside in crowds.
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The CDC is still recommending masks in crowded venues such as planes, public transportation, hospitals, and homeless shelters.
Around 154 million Americans have received at least one vaccine dose and over 117 million have been fully immunized – over half of all adults in the nation.
The Pfizer vaccine was also approved Wednesday for use in children as young as 12.
The Biden administration has come under increasing pressure to relax restrictions in recent weeks given the sharp decrease in cases and the rising number of vaccinations. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) said on a White House call with governors this week that leaders need to start showing trust in the vaccines.
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Biden said his administration would "be moving on that in the next little bit."
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Buying a Business in Alabama
Buying a business can be an advantageous investment for both individuals and companies. However, the transaction is much more complicated than an usual purchase.
Buying a business sometimes involves laws concerning mergers, acquisitions, negotiations or securities exchanges. These fields are governed by Alabama and Federal law.
What Parts of the Business Am I Buying?
A buyer of a business in Foley gains a right called "control", which is the right to direct the business operations as they see fit. Control involves ownership of the business assets and customers, along with the company's debts. Accordingly, the party buying a business will want a complete picture of the financial position of the business. Through a process called "due diligence", the financials of the company are disclosed. Through due diligence, federal and Alabama guidelines are used to inform both parties, and there may be legal consequences for not following these guidelines properly. However, the best informed decision about whether to buy the business can only be obtained through obedience to the due diligence process. Added benefits also include a smoother transition once the business is purchased.
How Much Will the Business Cost?
The price of a business mostly depends on how much ownership stake is required for control. The value of the business property and the type of business are also important factors. There are specific laws in Alabama that dictate procedure for how the right of control of a company can be transferred and modified, and these procedures may make buying the business cheaper or more expensive, depending on a variety of factors.
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Help a US Army team and Security Forces disrupt illicit activities and connect local populations in Panama
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With the help of our donors, Spirit of America purchased 150 AM/FM radio units for a total of $2,755.
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Panama has long been an attractive location to transnational criminal organizations capitalizing on its strategic geography between cocaine-producing South America and trafficking routes through Central America. Criminal groups have come to rely on the deep jungle terrain, the geographic chokepoint of the Americas, to smuggle migrants and drugs on their way to the United States. You can read more about the Darien Gap here.
Recently, a US Army communications team based in Panama conducted an assessment of remote areas in the Darien jungle at the Colombian border. As part of their assessment, the team evaluated how local populations receive information and concluded that radios were the simplest technology with the highest penetration into the deepest parts of the Darien jungle. Messages received via radio are crucial to inform local populations of current events, severe weather, and upcoming humanitarian efforts from which they may benefit, and have the potential to advance security interests as well.
The Army team has been working with Panamanian security forces to game-plan distribution and content creation for the potential use of radios to create local buy-in. Indigenous populations that are poor, vulnerable, and isolated are susceptible to recruitment by drug and human trafficking organizations. The US and Panama will join forces to create content that, in addition to being entertaining, reiterates security concerns for those participating in illegal activities, as well as clear instructions to inform Panamanian authorities about these activities. If the bad actors are the only ones communicating with them, the local populations often feel there is no other choice. These radios provide the alternative.
While their vision falls short for lack of technical equipment, with your assistance, US Army troops can make this a reality. 150 radios are needed to cover 30-40 small communities in their desired communication network. With 10-15 families in each village, the goal is to provide at least two radios to each village. Help Spirit of America assist our partners in Panama and bring this essential project to fruition.
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