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It is part of a nationwide campaign to find a bone marrow donor for a little boy called Gaurav Bains, from Tipton in the West Midlands.
According to Gaurav’s parents, not enough people of Asian origin are registered as bone marrow donors. Without a transplant, Gaurav is in danger of developing an aggressive form of childhood leukaemia. He has a rare condition called Monosomy 7.
Richard Malton, marketing director at Ocean Outdoor, the company behind the campaign said:
“The more donors who volunteer, the better the chances of finding a match for Gaurav and other people who need a transplant. This is a race against time for Gaurav because there is a critical shortage of donors of Asian or non white origin.”
Back in March we ran a story about South Leeds Community Radio running adverts in Asian languages to encourage people of South Asian heritage to join the transplant register.
Organ transplants save lives, but it can be a very difficult decision for the families of people who have died at the time of great distress. Making the decision now to go on the Organ Donor Register can make that decision much easier for your family should you die.
A quarter (25%) of people currently waiting for organ transplants are from the African Caribbean and Asian communities. Yet less than 2% of the people on the organ donor register are from these communities.
Organ transplants are more successful if the donor and recipient have the same ethnic origin. As a result black and Asian people may wait three times as long as a white person for a kidney transplant.
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Title: Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession (fee or subscription required)
Authors: Robert W. Fairlie (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Publisher: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, vol. 22, no. 2
Date Published: Summer 2013
The U.S. economy shed more than 8 million jobs during the Great Recession, the steepest decline since the end of World War II. But was there a silver lining to the downturn? According to this study, which is the first to use data from the recession to analyze its effect on people’s decisions to start new businesses, this severe shock to the workforce fueled a surge in entrepreneurship.
The recession, which began in late 2007, sent corporate bankruptcy filings and closures soaring, of course, but its effect on business formation is less clear. Many sources of angel investments, bank loans, and venture capital dried up. However, the rapid increase in layoffs, the availability of newly unemployed workers, and a dearth of employment alternatives may have combined to create higher numbers of entrepreneurs than in pre-recession years.
The author put together a data set using the Current Population Survey from 1996 to 2009, a period encompassing boom times and the dot-com bust as well as the Great Recession, which officially ended in mid-2009. Conducted monthly by the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the survey covers more than 130,000 people in 250-plus metropolitan areas, a sample that is generally considered representative of the overall population. Using the data, the author tracked people who reported opening a new business as their primary job. Side businesses were excluded if people worked more hours at a salaried position.
The data provides detailed information on home ownership, level of education, initial employment status, and other demographic markers. This mass of information allowed for a much more comprehensive analysis of the links between local economic conditions, the state of the housing market, and business creation than was possible in previous research, the author writes.
A consistent theme emerged across several regression analyses: The lack of better employment opportunities and the chance to take advantage of slack regional labor pools outweighed the downturn’s other effects, such as limited demand for products and a shortage of investors.
Indeed, the Great Recession saw the largest increase in entrepreneurship of any period in the study’s 14-year time frame. The formation rate of new businesses went down in 2006, in the lead-up to the recession, and started to increase in 2007 before spiking in 2008. It hit its peak in 2009, when the rate was 17 percent higher than it had been three years before. The only other significant spike reported in the study occurred from 2001 to 2004, the period during which the boom times of the late 1990s gave way to the dot-com bust.
Delving deeper, the author found that the conditions of the local labor market played a major part in whether people started their own businesses. Throughout the approximately 250 metropolitan areas examined in the study, higher local unemployment rates were tied to higher rates of entrepreneurship. The unemployed started more businesses than those who held a job. And homeowners were also more likely to form a business—despite the collapse of the housing market, they apparently had an easier time than nonowners in obtaining loans to finance a startup. Having access to some credit or having a solid borrowing history seemed to give homeowners a leg up when funding was scarce. “All else equal, individuals living in areas with higher home values will have more equity in their homes,” the author wrote, and on average will start more businesses.
Interestingly, the types of businesses formed during the downturn are similar to those started in prosperous periods. In fact, the share of businesses created in each industry during boom and bust periods differs by less than a percentage point. The highest number of startups during the Great Recession appeared in the professional-services and construction sectors, followed by education and health services, wholesale, and retail. Manufacturing had the lowest rate.
Citing a study from 2009, which found that 57 percent of that year’s list of Fortune 500 firms got their start during previous recessions or bear markets, the author argues that many of the businesses created during the Great Recession could have staying power. “Therefore, one positive byproduct of the recent severe recession,” he writes, “is that a wide range of eventually successful firms might emerge and contribute to the long-run economy.”
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Posting Letters to the Moon.
When Celia Johnson’s husband Peter Fleming was away during the war, they wrote to each other regularly and these touching and amusing letters tell of the experiences of both during these years. Celia coped with a large house full of evacuees, learned to drive a tractor, dealt with rationing and whenever she could get away, she accepted offers to act for David Lean, Noel Coward, in wartime propaganda films and ultimately in the classic film Brief Encounter.
Peter Fleming was abroad for most of the war and writes about his adventures and trials working on deceptions in India and the Far East.
Not only are the letters highly engaging and personal but they provide a fascinating historical insight into that time of true austerity, indomitable courage and fear.
Lucy Fleming is the daughter of Celia Johnson and Peter Fleming and is married to Simon Williams. Together they read these poignant letters and recreate a deep love and a compelling story. Both Lucy and Simon are actors and each has appeared in The Archers. Simon’s most recent role was Joe Biden in The 47th at The Old Vic. | <urn:uuid:a513077b-87f0-4647-b45c-8fa9e4c22ac8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cuckfieldbookfest.co.uk/simon-williams-and-lucy-fleming/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972386 | 233 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Flyting in 15th- and 16th-century Scotland is analogous to a modern-day rap competition during which rappers improvise clever disses and put-downs against their opponents. Similarly, the makars (a Scottish word for "poets") engaged in verbal duels in which they voiced extravagant invectives in verse against their rivals. The base of flyting is the ancient verb flyte (also spelled flite), meaning "to contend" or "to quarrel."
Examples of flyting in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebDunbar and Kennedy supposedly faced off for a flyting in the court of James IV of Scotland around 1500, and their exchange was set down for posterity in Bannatyne's manuscript.
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Big Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Unaffordable, Secretary-General Tells Petersberg Climate Dialogue, Stressing Such Investments ‘Simply Deepen Our Predicament’
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the 2021 Petersberg Climate Dialogue today:
I want to thank Chancellor [Angela] Merkel and the German Government for convening this year’s Petersberg Climate Dialogue with the United Kingdom, President of this year’s United Nations climate conference. I strongly congratulate Germany for aiming to achieve carbon neutrality in 2045 and increase its 2030 target to cut its emissions by 65 per cent compared to 1990 levels.
Six months ahead of COP26, and still deep in the COVID-19 crisis, and after these first sessions, I would like to share with you my assessment of where we stand. Last year was yet another unprecedented period of extreme weather and climate disasters. Carbon dioxide concentrations again rose to a new high — 148 per cent above pre-industrial levels. This is the highest level for 3 million years. Three million years ago, the Earth’s temperature was as much as 3 degrees hotter and sea levels some 15 metres higher.
Last year was already 1.2 degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial times — dangerously close to the 1.5-degree limit set by the scientific community. Under current commitments, including the recent ones, we are still heading for a disastrous temperature rise of 2.4 degrees by the end of the century. We stand indeed at the edge of the abyss. But if we work together, we can avert the worst impacts of climate disruption, and use the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic to steer us on a cleaner, greener path.
To address climate change, it is clear to me that we need an equal balance between mitigation and adaptation, and both backed by finance and technological support to developing countries. This will allow both developed and developing countries to fully mobilize to reach global net-zero emissions by mid-century and build resilience to changes to come.
On mitigation, I see encouraging signs from some major economies. Countries representing 73 per cent of emissions have committed to net-zero emissions by 2050. But we need all countries, especially in the G20, to close the mitigation gap further by COP26. The bottom line is that, by 2030, we must cut global emissions by 45 per cent compared to 2010 levels to get to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Sometimes it’s complicated to compare things, as the reference year changes from pledge to pledge, but the net result is that we will keep hope of 1.5 degrees alive. A top priority must be to end coal use by 2030 in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and by 2040 across the globe. And the move from polluting to renewable energy must be a just transition, involving local governments, unions and the private sector to support affected communities and people, generating green jobs.
We can no longer afford big fossil fuel infrastructure anywhere. Such investments simply deepen our predicament. They are not even cost-effective. Fossil fuels are now more expensive than renewables. So we need the shareholders of multilateral development banks and development financial institutions to work with the management of these banks on funding a low-carbon, climate-resilient development that is aligned with the 1.5-degree goal. I welcome countries that have pledged to end fossil fuel finance and subsidies. It is time to put a price on carbon and to shift taxation from income to carbon.
I remain deeply worried about the lack of progress on adaptation. Already people are dying in big numbers, farms are failing, millions face displacement. And there is a false dichotomy that says adaptation finance can only increase at the expense of mitigation finance. The fact is that we need both.
With reduced fiscal space, high debts and mounting climate impacts, developing countries need mitigation and adaptation finance in equal measure. Yet adaptation finance to developing countries is a mere 21 per cent of climate finance. This represents $16.8 billion. Actual annual adaptation costs in the developing world alone are estimated at $70 billion, and these could rise to $300 billion by 2030.
I reiterate my call to donors and multilateral development banks to ensure that at least 50 per cent of climate finance is for adaption and resilience. And I ask them to make concrete proposals so small island developing States and the least developed countries can access climate finance more easily than today.
The success of COP26 rests on achieving a breakthrough on adaptation and finance. This is a matter of urgency and trust. Developed countries must honour their long-standing promise to provide $100 billion annually for climate action in developing countries. The upcoming G7 Summit is a pivotal moment. I call on the leaders of the G7 to take the lead, with other developed countries following, to make substantial climate finance pledges for the coming five years. For some, this means at least doubling their latest climate commitments.
We have six months until COP26. We must make them count. I encourage all ministers to start working on an ambitious and balanced political deal that supports developing countries. And I ask all stakeholders to make sure that their plans and initiatives are ambitious, credible and verifiable. There must be no doubt on the environmental integrity of our actions — from Article 6 negotiations to private sector net-zero commitments.
We have a small and narrow window of opportunity to do the right thing. But our future is in our hands, and in your hands, dear friends. Let us use the pandemic recovery and COP26 to promote a safe and sustainable future for all nations and people. I thank you and wish you a very successful conference. | <urn:uuid:447f45e1-c154-46b5-b084-fab45b4049aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://press.un.org/en/2021/sgsm20713.doc.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.934572 | 1,165 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Build Observable SystemsBy Sam Stokes | Last modified on January 11, 2019
What should you log?
When your systems break, it’s great to be able to look at what they were doing just before they broke. A log is a common solution. But hands up if you’ve come across a log that looks like this:
11:32:33 Processing request for user 42 11:32:33 Request processed successfully 11:32:33 Processing request for user 43 11:32:33 WARNING: user 43 sprocket needs adjusting! 11:32:33 Processing request for user 44 11:32:33 Request processed successfully 11:32:34 NullPointerException in adjustSprocket() 11:32:34 Processing request for user 43 11:32:34 Request processed successfully 11:32:34 Processing request for user 44
What caused the exception? Maybe it was the sprocket in need of adjustment, but we have to filter out a lot of uninteresting information before we can see that. Were there any other exceptions like this? Did every sprocket cause an exception, or was it just this one? That signal is buried in noise.
How about this kind of log:
09:00 Starting service on port 8080 15:34 Exception: the widget exploded! 15:34 Shutting down service
No noise to filter out, but… what happened in the intervening six hours? Was the service even doing anything? Whatever caused the explosion is anyone’s guess.
The first system is logging too much. The second one is logging too little. What’s the sweet spot?
The unfulfilled promise of log levels
The common solution to this problem is log levels. Log “Processing request” and “processed successfully” as
INFO; log exceptions as
ERROR; configure a log threshold, and everything will be fine. This turns into coding style guides like “don’t log for the common case” or “log expected occurrences on
But what’s the right threshold to set? If you configure it statically, you’re back to square one: either throwing away the detail, or printing useless noise. Even if you can change the threshold while the system is running, that’s still too late to see what happened before the explosion.
Again, there’s a common solution: log everything, and just
grep for the log levels you care about. That works! But you’re still storing all those
DEBUG logs on disk, even if you never look at them. If you’re running a high-volume system, you have even more logs being produced, and even more machines producing them, and log storage starts to be really expensive. So you dedicate an engineering sprint to cleaning up old logging statements, and you move things from
DEBUG, and suddenly you’re back to square one… again.
Eye of the beholder
The value of logs is in what questions you can answer with them. Logs are designed for humans to read. But logs are no longer human-scale - they are machine-scale, and we need machines to help us make sense of them.
grep is a very simple machine that helps us use logs to answer some simple questions, like “what happened to this user?” or “what major events happened yesterday?” Log aggregators are essentially larger-scale versions of
grep. Log levels are crude hints to the machine.
We need to demand more from our tools, and give our tools more to work with. What if instead of emitting logs for humans to read, we emitted events for machines to analyse? What would those events look like? What sort of hints would we want to give to the machine? What sort of questions could we ask it?
The spectrum of interestingness
The root problem with noise is that not all events are equally interesting. For example:
- Your server crashed. You probably want to know about that, and maybe even page somebody.
- A customer couldn’t buy your product because your server threw an exception. You probably want to be notified of that - at least the first time it happens, to tell you there’s a bug to fix. (This case is well served by exception notification services.)
- A call to the payment service timed out, but you retried and succeeded. Sounds like everything working as designed… if it happens once. But you probably want to know how often it’s happening: if it’s 50% of calls, that’s a problem.
- A customer bought a product successfully. Not a problem! The opposite of a problem. But you still want to know how often it’s happening!
These events lie on a spectrum, and there are many more examples I could give. Trying to cram all of this into a few categories like
ERROR is simply not expressive enough, and an all-or-nothing filter is not a powerful enough tool, to deal with events of varying degrees of interestingness.
What if we could provide a more expressive measure of interestingness? That’s what you get by tagging each event with a sample rate. A sample rate of 20 means “there were 19 other events just like this one”. A sample rate of 1 means “this event is interesting on its own”. As a developer instrumenting your code, you can decide how interesting a given event is likely to be: did an error occur, was the database call really slow, is this an important customer?
Once you know that one event is like 19 others, you can skip emitting the 19 others. That way, you don’t have to pay to store all that noise, or spend time filtering through it. But unlike grepping for
ERROR, you’re not dropping every uninteresting event - just the vast majority of them. That gives the tools something to work with. Now you can ask questions like “how many pages did we serve” and “how many exceptions occurred”, in the same tool, without storing tons of noise.
Of course, machines can do way more than filtering and counting. Now we’re emitting events for machines to read, rather than humans, we can supply much more context for every event - how long the request took, which customer made it, which database tables we queried. And the machine can do what machines do best - help humans make sense of data. You can see whether that spike in exceptions was correlated with elevated response times, or with querying certain tables, or whether it only happened for certain customers.
We need to build our systems to be more observable: so we can tell what’s going on, how busy they are, how healthy they are. But the tools we used to use - logs, read by humans, filtered by crude rules - aren’t good enough any more. We need better tools, and we need to design our systems to give the tools better data.
So say goodbye to your log levels, and bid farewell to noisy logs and opaque services. Build observable systems, today!
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In the mountains and jungles of southwestern Colombia, peasants, migrants and women carrying babies toil doggedly in the coca fields despite the dangers posed by guerrillas and drug-traffickers – and despite the government's anti-drug campaign.
These plantations are known as "San Coca" – Saint Coca – due to the locals' devotion to growing the plant, which provides the active ingredient in cocaine, and their understanding of all it provides to them in the face of the risks.
Colombia is still the world's largest producer of the addictive stimulant, even though successive governments in Bogotá have worked to combat the trade.
"Coca [plantations] were born as a response to institutional abandonment... and have allowed everyone in these areas to achieve a minimum of dignity," said Azael Cabrera, the leader of Agropatia, an organisation representing 12 rural communities and townships. "Forget about the state – it doesn't exist here."
For community leader Reinaldo Bolaños, "we don't see ourselves as belonging to this State, as for the State, either we don't exist or we are a burden."
For decades, the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were effectively in charge in Cauca until the historic 2016 peace agreement between the government and the leftist rebels.
In theory, the fighters left the area under disarmament plans, and the peasants expected the state to step into the void, but they never did.
So three years later, dissident guerrillas that opted out of the peace deal moved back in – with new weapons but the same ideology
With no state presence or support, the peasants were left vulnerable and turned to planting coca after suffering losses with other crops including yuca, corn, coffee and sugar cane.
And so the "coca economy" was born: a network of activities around the cultivation and processing of coca leaves which are then used to make cocaine, with rebels serving as the middlemen between the farmers and the traffickers.
The work puts food on the tables of locals, but there is a problem – the government does not distinguish between the coca-growers and the drug-traffickers.
Respect for those with guns
Despite a half-century battle by authorities against the drug trade, the white powder continues to flow freely into the United States and Europe.
During that period, 10 Colombian governments failed to put a dent in the illegal trade, despite millions of dollars in anti-narcotics support from Washington.
In Cauca, the guerrillas reign once again – they are part of the dissident Carlos Patino Front, and billboards and posters bear the face of Patino, a rebel killed in 2013.
Military interventions in the area are "less intense" than in other zones, Defence Minister Diego Molano admits, because of the danger posed to security forces.
"But that doesn't mean we're going to let these groups continue with this criminal dynamic," Molano added.
Nevertheless, the trade – which is lucrative because coca can be harvested four times a year, as opposed to just two for coffee – has grown considerably.
In 2010, there were 5,900 hectares (14,580 acres) of coca plantations in Cauca, according to the United Nations.
A decade later, that number had nearly tripled to 16,544 hectares.
"The army never came here after the Havana deal. Once again, this area is screwed by illegal armed groups," said Bolaños.
"We've learned to respect whoever has weapons."
Cabrera chimes in: "The peasants have no authority over the rebels – we can't tell them to leave, we have no choice but to let them come. But that doesn't make us guerrillas or drug-traffickers."
Entire families, old women, single mothers with their children, impoverished former city residents and even Venezuelan migrants who walked for months to reach Cauca can be found picking coca leaves in the plantations.
"Students who don't have classes or are on holidays also come to the fields to pick and so contribute to their studies and to putting food on the table at home," said community leader Abel Solarte.
While still a minor, Karen Palacios moved from the capital Bogotá to Cauca with her partner, a native of the region.
Now 20, she learned to pick leaves before the couple broke up, leaving her as the single mother of two-year-old Dana.
"I used to take her to the plantations and would set up a tent or a hammock so she could sleep while I worked," said Palacios.
At one point, she was able to put Dana in day care, but then the coronavirus pandemic swept through Colombia, and the centre closed, meaning Palacios again must bring her daughter into the fields.
And since the family shoe business succumbed to the ravages of the pandemic, Palacios's father, stepmother and brother all joined her in Cauca as coca leaf pickers.
Numerous single mothers like Palacios work in the fields.
"Many of us don't have a husband and we have our children, and if we go picking, we can get them food and clothing," said Dora Meneses, spokeswoman for a group of 60 pickers.
According to United Nations estimates, between 2016 and 2018, more than 200,000 families – amounting to just over a million people, or two percent of Colombia's population – were working on coca plantations.
Part of the boom was fuelled by one of the peace conditions that included cash payouts for those who agreed to destroy their coca crops.
Experts believe the peasants took this as an incentive to plant more, to earn more from their destruction.
Almost 100,000 families agreed to destroy their crops in return for the compensation and an end to legal proceedings against them, according to official figures.
But in the Patía townships, the business continues to thrive.
Yeison Enríquez fled Venezuela with his wife and three children as their country spiralled into economic meltdown.
He went from viewing coca as an illegal crop to defending the "source of work" that his brother also migrated to Colombia to do.
"We can't count on this opportunity in the city. In the countryside, there is always work and if they eradicate the coca. I think I will have to migrate once again," said Enríquez.
In 2017, plantations across Colombia reached a record level of 171,000 hectares.
In 2020, the country managed to reduce the size of its coca plantations to 143,000 hectares but without reducing the amount of cocaine produced – 1,228 tons – which the UN says was due to a better crop yield.
Since the arrival of right-wing President Ivan Duque in 2018, Colombia has increased its eradication of coca crops and the confiscation of drugs -- 549 tons in the last 18 months alone.
And controversially, it is preparing to restart aerial glyphosate spraying to eradicate coca crops, which had been suspended since 2015 due to its harmful effects on human health and the environment.
It is also a major threat to the peasants' livelihoods.
"We don't want to sink into misery. We're organising resistance – to march, to protest, to strike," said Solarte.
Staving off poverty
Antonio Tamayo, 40, a plantation leader, moved to Cauca from Antioquia, 700 kilometres (435 miles) away, after the coca crops there were destroyed.
In the same farm where the leaves are grown, they are shredded and then processed with lime, cement, gasoline and ammonium sulphate to produce the paste that forms the base ingredient for cocaine.
Every week, he says, "intermediaries" for the traffickers collect the hard, whitish paste to take it to clandestine neighbouring laboratories where "chemists" transform it into pure cocaine.
The peasants keep out of the most lucrative part of the business – the making and selling of cocaine – but complain that the government lumps them into the same category as the cartels.
"We're classified as drug-traffickers ... but others are making the money," said Cabrera.
What the coca pickers earn is just enough to stave off poverty. A seasoned worker can earn up to US$37 a day – more than four and a half times the minimum wage.
Prosperity on the horizon
The "San Coca" lands are crisscrossed by dirt roads that can turn into quagmires when heavy rains fall.
Despite this, the traffic is incessant. The trucks authorized by guerrillas pass one after another loaded with fuel, ice cream, bread, clothes and more.
The local "coca economy" has created a community of consumers that pay handsomely for things they used to produce on their own land.
And in urban areas, the coca bonanza has fueled a construction boom, Bolaños says. Roads are being improved and schools are getting more supplies.
"The big difference with coca is that it provides us with the ability to feed ourselves and also allows us to cover what the government doesn't," said Bolaños.
But in this mountainous region, everyone fears the return of aerial crop spraying – they recall communities left in ruins, people displaced, homes abandoned, and the death of much of the plant life.
Airplanes first sprayed the herbicide in 1984 before returning in the 1990s and then again in 2008.
"Aerial spraying is practically murder for these towns," said Bolaños.
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Context: The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting health and economies across the world, although the nature of direct and indirect effects on Asian agrifood systems and food security has not yet been well understood. Objectives: This paper assesses the initial responses of major farming and food systems to COVID-19 in 25 Asian countries, and considers the implications for resilience, food and nutrition security and recovery policies by the governments. Methods: A conceptual systems model was specified including key pathways linking the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 to the resilience and performance of the four principal Asian farming and food systems, viz, lowland rice based; irrigated wheat based; hill mixed; and dryland mixed systems. Based on this framework, a systematic survey of 2504 key informants (4% policy makers, 6% researchers or University staff, 6% extension workers, 65% farmers, and 19% others) in 20 Asian countries was conducted and the results assessed and analysed. Results and conclusion: The principal Asian farming and food systems were moderately resilient to COVID-19, reinforced by government policies in many countries that prioritized food availability and affordability. Rural livelihoods and food security were affected primarily because of disruptions to local labour markets (especially for off-farm work), farm produce markets (notably for perishable foods) and input supply chains (i.e., seeds and fertilisers). The overall effects on system performance were most severe in the irrigated wheat based system and least severe in the hill mixed system, associated in the latter case with greater resilience and diversification and less dependence on external inputs and long market chains. Farming and food systems' resilience and sustainability are critical considerations for recovery policies and programmes, especially in relation to economic performance that initially recovered more slowly than productivity, natural resources status and social capital. Overall, the resilience of Asian farming and food systems was strong because of inherent systems characteristics reinforced by public policies that prioritized staple food production and distribution as well as complementary welfare programmes. With the substantial risks to plant- and animal-sourced food supplies from future zoonoses and the institutional vulnerabilities revealed by COVID-19, efforts to improve resilience should be central to recovery programmes. Significance: This study was the first Asia-wide systems assessment of the effects of COVID-19 on agriculture and food systems, differentiating the effects of the pandemic across the four principal regional farming and food systems in the region. | <urn:uuid:a6add6f6-0c4b-4005-8a13-32cf0b4c6100> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://researchprofiles.anu.edu.au/en/publications/response-and-resilience-of-asian-agrifood-systems-to-covid-19-an- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949332 | 494 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Africa Risk-Reward Index 2021: Resilience and Recovery
In the sixth Africa Risk-Reward Index, Control Risks and Oxford Economics Africa plot the most likely trajectory of Africa’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. This recovery will not be simply about GDP growth, but about a wider transformation, innovation, and development in areas such as biotechnology and healthcare. This will raise as many challenges for investors in a range of sectors, as it does opportunities. The Africa Risk-Reward Index plots each country’s performance relative to its African peers by comparing some of the continent’s largest and emerging markets, offering investors a comparative snapshot of market opportunities and risks across Africa.
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MANCHESTER, NH – Join five Granite Staters on June 26 as they discuss diversity and inclusion in our state, how we can be more inclusive, and how we can keep the dialogue going in a positive direction into the future. The online conversation is set for 12 p.m.
New Hampshire is a tight-knit community where we support one another. Since colonial times, we’ve used town meetings as a way to discuss issues facing us and collaborate to find solutions.
Over the past few months, there’s been a renewed focus on the different lived experiences of Americans based on the color of their skin. The tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks (to name just a few) have served as rallying cries to confront the systemic injustices that continue to exist more than a century after slavery was ended. At the same time, our country is reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused the deaths of over 118,000 Americans and has led to the deepest recession in our lifetime. And the impact of both the virus and the collapse of the U.S. economy is being felt disproportionately by Blacks and Hispanics especially among racial minorities.
Five panelists of different ages, backgrounds and ethnicities will be participating and bringing their own unique experiences to the conversation that will focus on how we can do a better job of being inclusive in New Hampshire and what conversations should be taking place to foster inclusivity. Join us as we confront the impact of the legacy of racism and intolerance on our community today and continue the conversation … together.
Join the Conversation With:
- Rogers Johnson (NAACP, Governor’s Council on Diversity & Inclusion)
- Sudi Lett (NH Interfaith Action)
- Ahni Malachi (NH Commission for Human Rights)
- Major John Marasco (New Hampshire State Police)
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Life often gives lessons to people with high self-esteem and contempt for others. Therefore, it is not necessary to arrogantly judge those who are nearby, without knowing their life and soul. A family of farmers has lived in distant Australia for many years. The couple Martin and Olivia had two sons, but they are rarely seen with their parents. More often there are grandchildren who are looking with interest at the large household of their grandparents.
But they are still too young to learn the details of their grandfather’s life. Martin was born into a wealthy family. His mother was the daughter of a politician, and his father was the son of a respected doctor who decided to continue the dynasty. The marriage was arranged both for convenience (both families were rich) and for love, because a sincere feeling broke out between the guy and the girl. The first to be born was the elder sister of Martin. The children’s interests were completely different.
Daniela immediately decided to follow in her father’s footsteps, seeing this as a career opportunity. The boy has been special since childhood. He said that he dreams of eating what he will grow on the ground himself. The parents were very surprised, but did not prevent the boy. And he was happy to learn from his grandparents how to cultivate the land. The boy’s family became more and more well-off. And one day their father was offered a unique job in a huge medical center in Europe.
Under a long-term contract, social security and salary were offered at the highest level. The family decided to sell everything and move to another country. The boy cried and asked to be left with his grandparents. And he also asked to leave him a piece of land. While his family was settling in a foreign country, Martin began farming. Already at the age of 14, he received his first harvest. At the age of 16, he dropped out of school so as not to waste time on everything that interferes with work.
His parents were in shock and begged him on the phone to give up the crazy idea. Martin received support only from his grandfather. He gave him money for seeds, seedlings and equipment. After 3 years, the guy was not only able to return the money to his grandfather, but also built a new house on his plot. A year later, he looked after the girl next door and asked her to become his wife. The guy immediately told Olivia that he does not use the money of his rich family, but earns everything himself. The young wife did not object.
On the contrary, her respect for her husband only increased. After the death of his grandparents, Martin inherited all their property. He invested money in the development of the economy, and gave a huge house to his cousins. Having increased the volume of land, the man expanded his business so much that he began to ship products all over the country. There was already a lot of money in his account, but Martin always led a modest lifestyle: he just dressed, did not buy luxury items or jewelry.
The wife kept the house herself and managed to help her husband in the field. She also remained a very simple person. Martin’s two sons were more attracted to the city. They studied there first at school, then at the best universities. The village was visited only occasionally. But one day the elder Jack arrived very excited. He told his father that his aunt Daniela had called him, she said that their grandmother, Martin’s mother, was in a very serious condition and wanted to see her son before his death. Martin was terribly upset.
He also understood that it was necessary to fly by plane, but he was terribly afraid of it. The man asked someone from his family to fly with him. But the spouse could not leave the household, and the sons were busy at work and could not leave the country for a long time. They really asked their father to buy decent clothes for the trip, but he replied that they were clean and that was enough. Before boarding, almost all the passengers looked askance at Martin, he was dressed like a typical Australian farmer at work: in shabby jeans, a shirt rolled up to the elbow and a hat.
When he entered the rich salon in his light flip-flops, by the way, there was only a free ticket to business class, many rich people began to laugh. In a loud voice, someone said that the man got off the donkey for the first time. Others “encouraged” that even if all the clocks in the salon were to fail, this tramp would be able to tell them everything by the sun. Everyone saw that the old peasant was on the plane for the first time and laughed at him. But no one could have imagined that the unexpected would happen soon.
Instead of 14 hours of flight, the plane flew only 5, and suddenly the engine began to fail. By a lucky chance, the pilots managed to crash-land the liner. But it happened in the middle of the jungle. The crew commander was able to transmit the coordinates. Apart from him, only Martin and a few other people were conscious at first. The two of them began to bring people to their senses and pull them out of the plane.
The pilot said that the plane began to burn and the flames would sooner or later reach the gas tanks. Until then, we need to try to save people. Men began to be helped by recovering people. After a while, everyone was evacuated. People moved to a safe distance. The stewardess, who mocked Martin more than others, wanted to kneel in front of him, but the man did not allow it. Apologies and frustrated exclamations came from all sides.
No one, not even the pilots, knew what to eat in the jungle. And there was no help yet. Martin knew all the plants almost by touch. He explained to people what to eat and what not to eat, what water to drink and how to sleep safely in the jungle, he knew all this because of his hobbies with plants and a lot of books about survival that he liked to read at his leisure. Everyone felt terribly ashamed that they were being saved by the person they were laughing at. Help appeared only a couple of days later, without Martin, all the people on his flight would have had a hard time.
A day after the rescue from the jungle, all the Passengers, including Martin, were sent along the route on a specially allocated plane. It was very scary for everyone to get on the plane again. The peasant tried to cheer people up as best he could, and joked about his fears. Somehow it became easier for everyone. And, fortunately, this flight reached its destination without incident. His mother had aged and felt very ill.
But the arrival of her son affected her so positively that after 2 days she suddenly got out of bed. “You know, son, people should end their days at home,” said the mother, seeing Martin off, “we will be returning soon. I knew it when I saw you. You need to be close to your relatives and the graves of your ancestors.” The son was terribly glad that his mother got better and his parents would return. He said that he would definitely help them settle down where they were born and grew up.
When Martin returned to Australia, he was surprised to see a crowd of people meeting their plane. He was greeted as a real hero, it didn’t matter to everyone what a man looked like, since people knew what kind of person was really hiding behind this nondescript appearance. Martin returned to his work on the farm. The land was for him not only a means of making money, but also a real breadwinner.
He and his wife really hoped that one of their grandchildren would follow in their footsteps and become a farmer. The incident with the farmer on board the plane has become a lesson to those who are used to dividing people by social significance, nationality, religion or any other attribute. You should not humiliate someone who seems to you less educated or rich. Life can painfully punish arrogance and teach you to appreciate everyone. | <urn:uuid:2ff037da-7d62-4208-8813-f8ad65c280fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://timearmenia.com/archives/418 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.995345 | 1,673 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Navratri is celebrated to worship the goddess Durga. She is the embodiment of Devi, or the supreme goddess. This form of the goddess has nine aspects. Navratri therefore is dedicated to the worship of these aspects. Each form or aspect of the goddess has its own day dedicated to it.
The Navratri celebrations are devoted to the worship of the Eternal mother, which has its origins in the Vedas. Durga is also considered to be a combination of the Trinity of goddesses. They are Saraswati, Parvati, and Lakshmi. During Navratri, these three main goddesses are worshipped as well. The central theme of Navratri though is the triumph of good over evil.
Navratri lasts for nine whole days. However, each day has its own special significance and is celebrated separately. Along with the nine forms of Durga, obeisance is paid to the Trinity of goddesses as well.
1st — 3rd days: The first three days are dedicated solely to the worship of the goddess Durga. During this period, her energy and power are worshipped. Each day is dedicated to a different manifestation of Durga. On the first day, Kumari is worshipped, which signifies the girl child. The second day is dedicated to Parvati, who is the embodiment of a young woman. On the third day, Kali is worshipped. This form represents the woman who has reached maturity.
On the first day of Navratri, barley seeds are planted in a small bed of mud. This mud bed is kept in the pooja room. By the tenth day, each seed has sprouted into a shoot which is between three and five inches long. After the pooja performed on the tenth day, the shoots are plucked and given to the attendees. They are said to be a blessing from God.
4th — 6th days: These three days are devoted to the worship of Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity and peace. Although these days are dedicated to Lakshmi, the goddess Saraswati is invoked on the fifth day. This day is referred to as Lalita Panchami. On this day, all the books and other literature are gathered in one place. Then, a ‘diya’ or lamp is lit in front of them to call upon the goddess Saraswati.
7th — 8th days: The seventh day is dedicated to worshipping Saraswati, the goddess of art and knowledge. Prayers are offered to her, seeking spiritual knowledge. The knowledge of the spiritual world is said to free us from our earthly bonds. This, in turn, will bring us closer to God.
On the eight day, a ‘yagna’ is performed. This comprises of a sacrifice, which is offered to the sacred fire. The sacrifice honours the goddess Durga as well as bids her farewell. The sacrifice or offering is made out of clarified butter (ghee), rice pudding (kheer), and sesame seeds.
9th day: The ninth day is the culmination of the entire Navratri celebrations. This day is referred to as ‘Mahanavami’. On this day, a Kanya pooja is performed. Nine young girls, who have not yet attained puberty are worshipped during this pooja. Each one of them symbolises one of the nine forms of goddess Durga. Each girls feet are washed, as a mark of respect for the goddess. At the end of the pooja, each girl is given a set of new clothes as a gift from the devotees. | <urn:uuid:0c4c90f0-0433-476c-b920-b6f217cc9e8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.4to40.com/kids-questions-answers/social-science-questions-answers/what-is-the-significance-of-navaratri-and-how-one-keep-vows-on-these-nine-days/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971305 | 740 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Letter: Why industrial dairies hurt rural communities
I am writing regarding the long-term impact of A.J. Bos mega dairy in your state of South Dakota, near Bruce. The five years of stress while A.J. Bos’ mega dairy, Traditions Dairy, was in my community of Nora, Ill., until the company agreed to abandon the project in 2012, will forever be etched in my soul. I am an independent family farmer who worked over 20 years around liquid manure gases, causing my health to deteriorate. So, I knew that millions of gallons of manure polluting the air and water was very real.I heard lies and name-calling from agriculture groups that support big ag. They scared other farmers into thinking they would be put out of business by those being against this proposed 11,000-cow dairy. We were bullied and lied about publicly. All of this social injustice put families and friends against each other, leaving lasting scars.
Rural communities don’t need this, especially now as they struggle to survive. Putting a moratorium on these industrial ag facilities would go a long way into preserving rural communities for future generations. | <urn:uuid:c8d9d33c-6beb-4600-8b8a-7c0c3c8927cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.argusleader.com/story/opinion/readers/2015/04/21/letter-industrial-dairies-hurt-rural-communities/26136507/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962958 | 235 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Supplement to Transmission of Justification and Warrant
Transmission of Propositional Justification versus Transmission of Doxastic Justification
A few philosophers—mainly Silins (2005) and Tucker (2010a and 2010b)—have argued that transmission and failure of transmission of justification should primarily be conceived of as phenomena pertaining to doxastic rather than propositional justification, and that non-transmissive arguments of propositional justification can still transmit doxastic justification. A consequence would be that some puzzling philosophical arguments found defective as non-transmissive of propositional justification should be re-evaluated as transmissive of doxastic justification.
Transmission of doxastic justification presumably obeys conditions that parallel those delineated in Sect. 2 for transmission of propositional justification. A subject s's doxastic justification for p transmits to p's consequence q if and only if: (i^) s justifiably believes p, (ii^) s competently deduces q from p, and (iii+^) s justifiably believes q such that at least part of her justification for q has been acquired by her in virtue of the satisfaction of (i^) and (ii^). (s's competent deduction of q from p requires s to retain justified belief in p throughout the deduction, not to have relevant defeaters, and so on. See for instance Tucker 2010a). It follows that failure of transmission of doxastic justification is instantiated—if this phenomenon is ever instantiated—if and only if (i^), (ii^) or (iii+^) are not satisfied and, in interesting case, when (iii+^) is not satisfied while (i^) and (ii^) are satisfied.
Why should the phenomenon of epistemic transmission principally concern doxastic justification? In response it can be observed that epistemic transmission is valuable primarily because it is a means to attain the goal of forming doxastically justified beliefs through inference. To pursue this goal we need our inferences to transmit doxastic, rather than just propositional, justification. This is one reason why we should be primarily interested in transmission of doxastic justification (cf. Silins 2005 and Tucker 2010a). It should also be noted that by characterising transmission as a phenomenon principally concerning propositional justification, one would endorse a commitment to regarding many intuitively transmissive arguments as non-transmissive. Consider the following inference:
P. This object is red.
Q. This object is coloured.
Colour seems to instantiate indirectness (see Sect. 3.2 of this entry) so that it is non-transmissive of propositional justification. However, it also seems plain that Colour is a transmissive argument. An effective means for retaining this intuition is to locate epistemic transmission at the doxastic level. If s justifiably believes P but s does not yet justifiably believe Q, by competently deducing Q from P, s can form the justified belief that Q, thereby satisfying condition (iii+^). Colour shows that non-transmissive arguments of propositional justification instantiating indirectness can transmit doxastic justification. The same seems to be true of arguments instantiating the information-dependence template. Consider a deductively valid argument from p to q non-transmissive of propositional justification that satisfies that template. If s has justification for believing q but s does not bother, initially, to form the belief that q, s can arguably acquire doxastic justification for believing q by acquiring evidence e justifying p and by competently deducing q from p (cf. Silins 2005 and Tucker 2010a).
As said, the theses just illustrated interestingly apply to philosophically controversial arguments that many find defective as non-transmissive of propositional justification, and support the more favourable assessment that these arguments are at the service of improving s's epistemic standing towards their conclusion by transmitting doxastic justification. Among these philosophically controversial arguments there are Moore's proof of an external world (considered below in Sect. 5.1) and Dretske's Zebra-argument (cf. Silins 2005 and Tucker 2010a). Silins (2005) also argues that at the doxastic level it's much less clear that we still have a genuine contrast between failures of transmission and failures of closure. For an interesting response to some of these claims see Smith (2009). | <urn:uuid:92af815b-b95d-4187-8f84-3f2e58151017> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stanford.library.sydney.edu.au/archives/fall2018/entries/transmission-justification-warrant/propositional-doxastic.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.930058 | 909 | 1.523438 | 2 |
A pregnancy can be one of the most beautiful experiences one can go through. While many women experience a “glow” during this time, it can also bring on conflicting emotions. While new life is growing, there may be days when you’re frustrated by stretch marks, a growing abdomen, a disappearing waistline, and an overall change of appearance.
One common side effect we have seen with pregnancy is the appearance of spider veins and reticular veins on the breasts, thighs, hips and abdomen during and after pregnancy. A combination of multiple factors such as hormonal changes, weight gain, and loss of muscle tone is the cause, with genetics as a predisposing factor.
While pregnancy can bring on many bodily changes, in this post we want to address postnatal breast vein issues and treatments that can help restore your body's natural beauty after pregnancy.
What are Postnatal Breast Veins?
Postnatal breast veins are a common condition that can cause redness, swelling, and bulging of the veins on your breasts. These veins start to appear in the first trimester and continue to become more visible throughout pregnancy. Blood volume rises significantly during pregnancy, and your veins are hard at work keeping up with the flow.
They often continue to occur after pregnancy due to the hormonal changes your body is going through, as well as other factors.
What Causes Postnatal Breast Veins?
During pregnancy, your breasts grow to prepare for breastfeeding and storing milk for your baby. This growth process leads to high estrogen levels in the body, making it easier for blood vessels to break through connective tissue under the skin (subcutaneous tissue).
These new blood vessels can form spider or reticular veins on the skin's surface. Postnatal breast veins occur when these new vessels grow outside of subcutaneous tissue into deeper layers below the skin (submuscular), causing them to appear bluer than normal veins underneath the breast area.
These veins are not dangerous, but they can be a source of concern, especially if they form in places where they're visible through clothing.
The good news is that there are treatments available to get rid of these veins. Here are some options:
Sclerotherapy is the most common cosmetic procedure used to treat veins in the chest area. This treatment involves injecting a liquid chemical called a sclerosant into the problematic veins, which causes them to collapse over time—which means no more visible veins! The sclerotherapy procedure takes around 20 minutes and is completed without the need for anesthesia. Afterwards, you might experience mild bruising and itching for two weeks. It’s a popular choice for spider and reticular vein issues since it costs less than surgery, has easy unobtrusive post-treatment care, and enables an immediate return to work and daily activities in most cases.
Surface laser treatment uses light energy to destroy the blood vessels in your skin. Laser technology has evolved to allow experienced vascular doctors the ability to target only very specific veins while ensuring not to damage surrounding tissues. The procedure only works well for the smallest spider veins in your leg, breast, or face. Reticular veins are too large to adequately treat with laser. It's quick and easy, with minimal downtime after treatment—you'll be able to go back to normal activities right away. You may still have some slight redness or swelling for up to one week after treatment, but it will quickly disappear.
Some Common Postnatal FAQs:
Can You get Vein Treatment When Breastfeeding?
Many people are concerned about getting cosmetic treatments while breastfeeding because it's not clear whether or not it is safe to do so. However, the truth is that there is no evidence that getting a cosmetic treatment while breastfeeding will harm you or your baby.
If you decide to have a procedure done while breastfeeding, ask if the doctor can recommend any special precautions you should take so they don't accidentally expose your breast milk to the chemicals in their treatment.
How Long Should You Wait After Childbirth to Get Spider Veins Treated?
We usually recommend waiting three to six months after giving birth before having any cosmetic treatments done.
Waiting allows your body time to heal from the trauma of giving birth ensuring that the veins are fully healed before undergoing any procedures that might irritate them further or make them worse.
Not all women who suffer from spider or reticular veins opt for treatment, but the benefits of these treatments are undeniable, going beyond simple aesthetics. These procedures are much safer than undergoing surgery. They can have an immediate impact on your confidence and quality of life.
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When a person is ill because of cold, then we can say about him that
"He caught cold"
(in 1st p.: "I caught cold" or in modal "you can catch cold if you will not dress properly")
"He got cold"?
(in 1st p.: "I got cold" or in modal "you can get cold if you will not dress properly")
Normally I've used "got cold" but someone wrote me that she caught cold (she's not Native English speaker) and that's what brought me to ask my question here.
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The government is damned if it raises petrol prices, and damned if it doesn’t. How does economist Yousaf Nazar see this economic crisis in Pakistan unfolding, Asma Shirazi asked on her show Faisla Aap Ka on Thursday night.
Nazar started out by explaining the kind of political environment that has been created: The PTI says if it doesn’t win, it will burn everything down. The judiciary has become active. Then the government is almost silent. Either it doesn’t want to do anything or is hesitant.
“When I see all of this, as a Pakistani I feel we are hurtling to a crisis,” Yousaf Nazar said. “We could have avoided it. We needed the government to make decisions. I can tell you as an economist what to do, but if the government doesn’t firmly decide, this crisis will get worse.”
It was essential for major political parties to agree on some basic ways to address the economic crisis. “But it is a war zone out there politically. Whatever is done will be used to score political points. It was not as if something could not be done. It would have been difficult but not impossible.”
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the best and only friends of the Church: High Churchmen its bitterest enėmies.
No. 51 is a curious
The Three High Churches in England: "
The High-Churches, which differ from this Establishment, are three in number: 1. Dr. Bungey’s* High Church; 2. Mr. Lesley's High Church; and 3. Dr. Brett's High Church,
Here is a curious quotation from this virulent publication :
A High Churchman may be denominated from divers marks and exclamations. He must be devout in damning of Dissenters; he must roar furiously for the Church and its great modern apostle, the late Duke of Ormond, with some other pious and forsworn gentlemen, who are well affected to the Pretender and the Convocation; he must rebel for passive obedience; he must uphold divine right by diabolical means; and he must be loud and zealous for hereditary, indefeasible, and the like orthodox nonsense. But there is one sign more of a true Churchman, which is more lasting and universal than all the rest, and that is a firm and senseless persuasion that the Church is in danger.“ If a man believe this it is enough, his reputation is raised ; and though his life show more of the demon than the Christian, he shall be deemed an excellent Churchman. This is so true, that if an honest atheistical Churchman will but curse and roar against a toleration of Dissenters, he shall be sure to find a toleration himself for the blackest iniquities, be rewarded with reputation, and, if possible, with power. .
Now for the Low Church clergy.---Vol. iii. pp. 157– 163.
In Sir Walter Scott's edition of the Somers Tracts, vol. xii. p. 320, occurs a doggrel of six-and-twenty lines, entitled “ HighChurch Miracles, or Modern Inconsistencies, printed in the year 1710.” It commences thus:
The High Church have a right divine from Jove,
* A name for Dr. Sacheverell.
+ Defoe calls this “the motto" of the Church party. (See à curious passage in The Review, ii, 230.)
And ends with the lines
But I defy themselves and all their devils
Any Notes on the present subject would be imperfect without a reference to some of the voluminous writings of the author of Robinson Crusoe, the indomitable Daniel Defoe. It is necessary to notice, also, some of the writings of Charles Leslie the Nonjuror, who is styled by Puritan writers the great champion of High Churchmen—the Coryphæus of his party.
Defoe's most celebrated pamphlet is thus entitled :
The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church. London: printed in the year 1702. 4to., pp. 29.
The irony of this satire was so exquisite, that it deceived both High and Low; and many of the more violent of the former party welcomed it as an admirable production. When the writer was found out, and his scope perceived, the fury and indignation of High Churchmen knew no bounds. Defoe was prosecuted for libel, and condemned to pay a fine of two hundred marks to the queen,* to stand three times in the pillory, to be imprisoned during the queen's pleasure, and to find sureties for his good behaviour for seven years. A High-Church writer thus speaks of the pamphlet :
It passed currently as the work of one of those they called High Churchmen: and though the pretended zeal and earnestness of the author, to have the Dissenters treated according to their deserts, was universally condemned by Churchmen in general, yet it served the purpose well enough to brand that whole body with bloodthirstiness and a persecuting spirit, till, by the diligence of the government, it appeared that no Churchman had been so little a Christian; but that it was done by one of the chief scribes of the other party with a mere design to halloo the mob to make the world believe that the Dissenters throats were to be cut the shortest way, and to provoke these to begin first for their own preservation: for which wicked attempt the author had his just reward. But the party were so little ashamed of it, that whenever it was objected against them, it was only grinned off as a piece of wit and management.*
* By Defoe's long imprisonment on this occasion, he lost upwards of 3,5007., and was reduced to ruin.
To complete the punishment, the book was burnt by the hands of the common hangman by order of Parliament. However, the man who wrote a “Hymn to the Pillory was not likely to mind the latter indignity; accordingly, Defoe remarks in one of his works :
I have heard a bookseller in King James's time say, " That if he would have a book sell, he would have it burnt by the hands of the common hangman." - Essay on Projects, p. 173.
Shortly after he wrote
A Brief Explanation of a late Pamphlet, entitled “The Shortest Way with the Dissenters.” London, 1703, 4to." And next year our
“unabashed Defoe” publishes“ More Short Ways with the Dissenters.” London, 1704, 4to., pp. 24.
The keen satire entitled The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, drew forth a vast number of replies and animadversions. One is mentioned for the sake of the title:
The Fox with his Firebrand unkennelled and ensnared; or, a Short Answer to Mr. Daniel Defoe's “Shortest way with the Dissenters." As also to his “ Brief Explication” of the same. Together with some Animadversions upon the Sham Reflections made upon his “Shortest Way," and printed with the same. London: printed in the year 1703, 4to.
Defoe's satire was not altogether uncalled for, and is justified by many writings of the High Church party. It seems to have especial reference to a sermon of Dr. Sacheverell's, preached before the University of Oxford, and printed with the imprimatur of the Vice-Chancellor, dated June 2, 1702. It is entitled
* "A Caveat against the Whigs, in , & Short Historical View of their Transactions. Wherein are discovered their many Attempts and Contrivances against the established Government, both in Church and State, since the Restoration of King Charles II. London: 1711, Svo." The third and fourth parts of this work were published in 1712. The passage above cited is from Part IV., pp. 38, 39.
+ Defoe gives an "explanation" of this satire in another work also: see The Present State of Parties in Great Britain, London, 1712, 8vo., pp. 18, 21.
The Political Union: A Discourse, showing the Dependence of Government on Religion in General; and of the English Monarchy on the Church of England in particular. In it occurs the following passage :
Men must be strange infatuated sots and bigots to be so much in love with their ruin, as to seek and court it: and it is as unaccountable and amazing a contradiction to our reason, as the greatest reproach and scandal upon our Church, however others may be seduced or misled, that any pretending to that sacred and inviolable character of being her true sons, pillars, and defenders, should turn such apostates and renegadoes to their oaths and professions, such false traitors to their trusts and offices, as to strike sail with a party that is such an open and avowed enemy to our Communion; and against whom every man that wishes its welfare ought to hang out the Bloody Flag and Banner of Defiance. But in this, as well as most other circumstances, both our Church and State share the same common fate, that they can be ruined by none but themselves; and that, if ever they receive a mortal stab or wound, it must be in the house of their friends. Dennis replied to this sermon in a pamphlet entitled
The Danger of Priestcraft to Religion and Government; with some Politick Reasons for a Toleration, &c. London, 1702. Which was answered by Charles Leslie in
The New Association of those called Moderate Churchmen, with the Modern Whigs and Fanaticks, to undermine and blow up the present Church and Government, Occasioned by a late Pamphlet, entitled “ The Danger of Priestcraft,” &c. With a Supplement on occasion of the New Scotch Presbyterian Covenant. By a True Churchman. London, 1702, 4to.
Upon Nov. 5, 1709, Dr. Sacheverell preached his famous sermon at St. Paul's, The Perils among False Brethren ; which, after his being impeached before the House of Commons, and condemned by the Lords, was burned by the hangman.
Dr. Sacheverell's trial, and the agitation of the Tory mob, produced many publications. Ned Ward, one of the inferior grade of High Church partisans, published some effusions in separate cantos, and afterwards collected them into a volume with the following title :
Vulgus Britannicus; or, The British Hudibras, in Fifteen Cantos. The Five Parts complete in One Volume. Containing the Secret History of the late London Mob; their Rise, Progress, and Suppression by the Guards ; intermixed with the Civil Wars betwixt High Church and Low Church, down to this Time. Being a Continuation of the late ingenious Mr. Butler's "Hudibras.” Written by the Author of "The London Spy.” The Second Edition, adorned with Cuts of Battles, Emblems, and Effigies, engraven on Copper Plates. London: printed for Sam. Briscoe, &c., 1710, 8vo, pp. 180.
At this period Defoe published his
Instructions from Rome in favour of the Pretender. Inscribed to the most elevated Don Sacheverellio, and his Brother Don Higginisco. And which all Perkinites, Non-Jurors, High-Flyers, Popish-Desirers, Wooden-shoe Admirers, and Absolute Non-resistance Drivers, are obliged to pursue and maintain, under pain of his Unholinesses Damnation, in order to carry on their intended Subversion of a Government fixed upon Revolution Principles. London: J. Baker, 1710, 8vo.
The High Church Address to Dr. Henry Sacheverell, for the great Service he has done the Established Church and Nation: wherein is shown the Justice of the Proceedings of those Gentlemen who have encouraged the pulling down and destroying those Nurseries of Schism, the Presbyterian Meeting-houses. Submitted to the Consideration of all Good Churchmen and Conscientious Dissenters. London: J. Baker, 1710. Price One Penny.
* Wooden shoes rank among the chief evils from which we were delivered in " that never-to-be-forgotten year of grace, 1688." They are gratefully enumerated in the famous Orange toast: “To the Glorious, Pious, and Immortal Memory of the Great Deliverer, &c., who rescued us from Popery, Prelacy, Brass Money, and Wooden Shoes.” They may be said to form part of the Greater Litany of the Puritans. The Lesser Litany runs simply :
From Plague, Pestilence, and Famine;
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Pilots and air traffic controllers with diabetes treated with insulin may now be considered for medical certificates by the CAA.
Pilots and air traffic controllers with diabetes treated with insulin (and other medications that significantly lower blood glucose), may now be considered for medical certificates by the CAA.
Until now, only a limited number of medications for the treatment of diabetes have been allowed for pilots and air traffic controllers (ATCOs) applying for Class 1, 2 and 3 medical certificates.
However, over recent years there have been advances in the treatment and monitoring of the disease, allowing the control of the condition and any complications to be managed more effectively.
Individual diabetic applicants who are granted medical certificates under the new protocol will, however, be subject to a rigorous monitoring regime, including demonstrated stability of their condition and regular blood sample self-testing during flight/duty. This is to ensure that an individual does not begin a flight or shift with too high, or too low, a sugar level, and that a safe level is maintained.
The CAA says that it will shortly issue guidance information to pilots and ATCOs setting out the new procedures to follow.
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Farmall B Wiring Diagram For Your Needs.
Fixing electrical wiring, more than any other house project is about safety. Install an electrical outlet properly and it's as safe as that can be; install it improperly and it's potentially deadly. That's why there are several rules surrounding electrical wiring and installations. The particular rules can be complicated, for positive, and sometimes puzzling, even for grasp electricians, but there are basic concepts plus practices that affect almost every power wiring project, specifically the kind of which DIYers are competent to tackle.
Farmall B Wiring Diagram
Important Tips for Safe Electrical Repairs
1. Test for Energy
The best way to prevent power shock would be to CONSTANTLY test wires plus devices for power before focusing on all of them or near them. Simply shutting away from the power isn't good enough.
More, it's not uncommon for circuit breaker containers to get mislabeled, especially when the electrical services has been extended or adapted over the particular years. The routine breaker label may well not accurately describe what the circuit breaker actually controls.
Always check for power prior to working on virtually any circuit wires.
2. Check Amperage Rankings
All electrical wiring and devices have got an amperage, or perhaps amp, rating. This particular is the optimum quantity of electrical present they can safely carry. Most standard household brake lines are rated for 15 amps or 20 amps, while large-appliance circuits (such in terms of electric dryers and ranges) might be rated for 30, 40, fifty amps, or even more.
When installing or changing wiring or devices, all of typically the parts you make use of should have the correct amperage rating for the circuit. Regarding example, a 20-amp circuit must have got 12-gauge wiring, which usually is rated with regard to 20 amps. In case you install 14-gauge, 15-amp wiring about that circuit, a person create a fireplace hazard as the 20-amp circuit breaker protecting that circuit may possibly not turn off prior to the 15-amp wiring overheats.
Choosing the Right Amperage
When replacing a switch, light fixture, or outlet receptacle, create sure not to be able to use a device that is rated for more amperage than the circuit carries. This is especially important when replacing receptacles. A container rated for 20-amps has a unique prong form inside which one of many straight slots contains a Capital t shape. This form allows 20-amp home appliances, which have a matching T-shaped prong, to be inserted. Installing such a receptacle on the 15-amp circuit tends to make it possible to be able to possibly overload the particular circuit if a person plug this type of 20-amp appliance into it.
Take note, however, that there is no danger to putting in 15-amp receptacles inside 20-amp circuits considering that it is completely fine when a new plug-in device pulls less power compared to the circuit amperage. In fact, that is fairly normal for 20-amp general-use brake lines to be wired with 15-amp containers.
3. Make Restricted Wiring Connections
Electricity travels along conductors, for example wires plus the metal associates of outlets plus sockets. Tight connections between conductors produce smooth transitions from one conductor to a different. But loose cable connections act like rate bumps, restricting the flow and creating friction and heat. Very loose contacts can bring about arcing, by which electricity jumps through the air coming from one conductor in order to another, creating incredible heat.
Prevent fireplace hazards by generating sure all electrical wiring connections are restricted and possess full contact from the conductors becoming joined. When splicing wires together, usually use approved line connectors ("wire nuts").
Outlet receptacles in addition to switches are often created with push-fit wire connection slots on the back, together with the traditional screw-terminal cable connections on the sides of the device. These kinds of push-fit connections are usually notorious for dislodging or failing, so professional electricians practically unanimously avoid all of them in favor regarding making very restricted and secure attach terminal connections.
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Grounding and polarization are important for your safety regarding modern electrical methods. Grounding offers a risk-free path for run away electrical current triggered by a mistake or other trouble in a signal. Polarization ensures that electrical current travels coming from the source along "hot" wires in addition to returns to the particular source along fairly neutral wires.
Always stick to manufacturer's wiring diagrams when replacing a fixture, and understand—and use—your home's grounding system to ensure grounding and polarization remain intact.
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The Countrywide Electrical Code (NEC) requires that all cabling connections be produced inside an appropriate box. In most instances, this means an electrical box. Enclosures not merely protect the connections—and protect people through accidental contact with those connections—they also provide means for securing conductors (like power cables) and devices.
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Did you know... every time it rains, you could be getting free water from your roof? In 2016, Governor John Hickenlooper signed House Bill 1005 that allows a maximum of two rain barrels, with a combined capacity of 110 gallons, to be allowed at each household.
According to experts, just one good thunderstorm can bring in 50 to 60 gallons of free water for your garden and lawn! That can mean over 1000 gallons per year! How much money would that save you and your family?
Rainwater collection, also called rainwater “harvesting,” is the process of capturing, storing, and directing rainwater runoff and putting it to use. Water from roof gutter downspouts that is directed onto landscaped areas is not regarded as rainwater harvesting under this legislation.
So, how do you collect the rain water? A rain barrel is the easiest way (can be purchased at your local home-store) or you can build your own for a fraction of the price!
Keep in Mind:
- Under H.B. 1005, rain barrels can only be installed at single-family households and multi-family households with four or fewer units.
- Rain barrels can only be used to capture rainwater from rooftop downspouts and the captured rainwater must be used to water outdoor lawns, plants, and/or gardens on the same property from which the rainwater was captured.
- Rain barrel water cannot be used for drinking or other indoor water uses (it is extremely unsafe to consume).
Colorado State University has created a fact sheet for clarification.
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Women in developing countries have been subject to numerous programs to improve reproductive health.
Women in developing countries have been subject to numerous programs to improve
reproductive health. Many argue that state-based programs use coercion to regulate and control
women’s bodies. In addition to this, certain regions in developing countries still experience high
rates of infant and maternal mortality. It is argued that a women-centred approach focusing on
reproductive rights is necessary to improve conditions for women worldwide. Using examples,
explore the impact of shifting global discourses in terms of reproductive health management and
the experience of women’s health in developing countries.
Look at recent and past issues of journal ‘reproductive health matters’ – it has many relevant
articles over many years. Other sources might include the following
Chapman, R. 2003. ‘Endangering safe motherhood in Mozambique: prenatal care as pregnancy risk’,
Social Science and Medicine 57(2)
Ecks, S. & Sax, W. S. 2005. The Ills of Marginality: New Perspectives on Health in South Asia.
Anthropology & Medicine, 12, 199 – 210.
Jolly, M. and Ram, K. 2001. Borders of Being: citizenship, fertility and sexuality in Asia and the
Pacific University of Michigan Press.
Filippi V. et al 2006. ‘Maternal Health in poor countries: the broader context and a call for action’,
Lancet 368: October
Green, G. et al. 2001. ‘Female control of Sexuality: Illusion or reality? Social Science and Medicine
Edstrom, J. 2010 Time to Call the Bluff: (De)-constructing ‘Women’s Vulnerability’, HIV and Sexual
Health, Development, 53(2), (215–221)
Harcourt Wendy, 2009 Body Politics in Development: Critical Debates in Gender and Development,
Hardon, A. (2006). “Contesting contraceptive innovation – Reinventing the script.” Social Science &
Medicine 62: 614-627.
Loblay, V (2007): “Rethinking the ‘International’ in the Politics of Women’s Health: An Ethnographic
Excursion through the Story of the Anti-Fertility Vaccine and Beyond”, Outskirts 17 (Feminist
Engagements in Other Places).
Kaler. Amy 2001“It’s some kind of women’s empowerment”: the ambiguity of the female condom as a
marker of female empowerment’, Social Science and Medicine 52: 783-796
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Mohindra, K. S., Haddad, S. & Narayana, D. 2006. Women’s health in a rural community in Kerala,
India: do caste and socioeconomic position matter? Journal of Epidemiology and Community
Health, 60:, 1020-1026.
Paulson, S. and Bailey, P. 2003. Culturally constructed relationships shape sexual and reproductive
health in Bolivia Culture Health & Sexuality 5
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Attendants’ in Nepal. In: DAVIS-FLOYD & SARGENT, C. F. (eds.) Childbirth and
Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London:
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Ram, K. (1998b). “Na Shariram Nadhi, My Body is Mine: The Urban Women’s Health Movement in
India and its Negotiation of Modernity.” Women’s Studies International Forum 21(6): 617-631.
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Sage Publications India.
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control. In M Jolly & K Ram (eds), Borders of being: citizenship, fertility, and sexuality in Asia
and the Pacific. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 36-57.
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The transformative power of social media is evident across all areas of our lives. Healthcare has significantly benefited from it, albeit in some instances the tool has proven deadly. The reality remains that one cannot look at the advantages of social media and forgo the bad, but it comes down to leveraging it for the greater good. Below we shall explore the benefits social media has brought to healthcare with regards to helping the public.
Lack of knowledge has led many people to suffer unnecessarily. An easy example is how to remain healthy during flu season. A brain injury lawyer Vancouver expat may hold on to a belief that they have to catch flu from their family members and indeed ends up getting one. The reality is once can put some measures in place and not get it altogether. It is therefore not about a person’s social status. Social media raises awareness and equips us with information we did not otherwise have.
There are times when social media has stepped in to dismantle problematic beliefs and replace them with factual information. Immunization has been a contended topic along with homeopathic systems. With the use of social media, institutions can provide science-based material and leave the public to make informed decisions. Another aspect where the tool has proven to be an ally is when rumors that cause panic get spread. To avoid hysteria among populations, health care professionals can now get ahead of propaganda.
News breaks on Twitter and other platforms before it reaches news website and channels. Healthcare institutions know this and use it to reach masses. In the case of a health crisis such as opioid addiction or mental health, social media acts as the go-to tool to get breaking news out. Even during a big disaster when there is an appeal for donations, organizations such as the WHO and other non-profit organizations will use social media to rally support and resources.
Public engagement and monitoring
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In this day and age, most people don’t even believe that demons exist, but meanwhile the number of demonic encounters appears to be rising. This has created a surging demand for exorcists globally, but there just aren’t that many of them around anymore. In fact, as you will read about below, the Vatican held a week-long conference earlier this year to address this issue. Large numbers of people are being tormented by evil spirits, and they are turning to the Vatican and other large religious institutions for help, and often they are not able to get the help that they need.
Dr. Richard Gallagher is a professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College, and when he was originally asked to assist Catholic priests in dealing with these sorts of cases, he was quite skeptical.
But his skepticism rapidly vanished when he was confronted by the real thing.
During an encounter with one young woman, objects “flew off the walls and shelves” and the demons inside of her spoke very clearly in both Latin and Spanish…
“At one point, the voices spoke in foreign languages, including recognizable Latin and Spanish. (Julia herself only spoke English, as she later verified to us.) The voices were noticeably attacking in nature, and often insolent, blasphemous and highly scatological. They cursed and insulted the participants in the crudest way. They were frequently threatening—trying, it appeared, to fight back—’Leave her alone,’ ‘You’ll be sorry,’ and the like.
Julia also exhibited enormous strength. Despite the religious sisters and three others holding her down with all their might, they struggled to restrain her. Remarkably, for about 30 minutes, she actually levitated about half a foot in the air,” Gallagher wrote.
Of course this sort of thing does not just happen in the United States.
For example, just consider what happened in one case in Ireland…
A young couple were frightened and moved out of their house after Rosary beads and a crucifix were said to fly around a room.
Holy water was reported to heat to boiling point and then, just as quickly, it froze. A prayer card to St Michael the Archangel was said to have burst into flames and the man of the house started vomiting.
When stuff starts flying around inside your house with no reasonable explanation, it is quite understandable why people would seek out the services of an exorcist.
But at this point there are not many practicing exorcists, and this has created a global “demonic crisis”…
Major Christian denominations in the U.S., Ireland, and the U.K. have noted a “demonic crisis” in which the need for exorcisms has exceeded the number of available ministers to provide that service. Christian ministers attribute that surge in reported demonic activity to everything from the popularization of the use of witchcraft, to immigration waves from regions rife with animistic practices, to a growing brazenness of demonic forces in the faces of churches’ relative silence on the matter of spiritual warfare in recent decades.
In fact, this “demonic crisis” has become so severe that the Vatican recently held a week-long conference to address it…
The Vatican hopes to step up its game against demon possessions with a week-long international conference in April to address a threefold increase in demand in Italy alone for the services of exorcists.
The church is particularly alarmed over the uneven skills of some of its current exorcists and worried about priests who are no longer willing to learn the techniques.
But in the end, an “exorcist” is not required to deal with evil spirits.
If you have invited Jesus Christ into your life, then you have been given authority over all evil spirits. Just command them to leave in the name of Jesus Christ, and they must go.
Yes, there is much more to be learned about spiritual warfare than that, and for those interested in learning more I would recommend learning from Bill Schnoebelen of With One Accord Ministries.
Thankfully, if you are truly born again there is no need to fear the powers of darkness. Jesus has already won the victory for us, and at the name of Jesus all demons must flee.
About the author: Michael Snyder is a nationally syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is publisher of The Most Important News and the author of four books including The Beginning Of The End and Living A Life That Really Matters.
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Divorce touches the lives of everyone in our society, either directly through family experiences or indirectly through friends. There is almost daily reference to the epidemic of divorce that is sweeping America and the corrosive affect divorce has on the American family. The affects of divorce on children, the students in our classes, need to be explored by the educators who interact with these children for approximately six hours a day, one-hundred-and-eighty days a year. propose to heighten the awareness and sensitivity of the staff and to provide practical lessons and activities for students on issues and problems surrounding and created by divorce. I believe that if students are to benefit from the educational opportunities offered to them while they are in our care, they must feel good about themselves and about the environment they are in. Educators cannot correct the problems in their parents’ marriages, but we can be aware of and sensitive to the emotional turmoil that engulfs students because of these problems, we can work on improving students’ self-images, and we can offer a caring, stable environment in a time of upheaval.
As an educator and a divorced parent, I have become acutely aware of the many difficulties faced by children directly involved in a divorce. Many times the reason behind students acting out, withdrawing or poor academic performance is that their families are being ripped apart by family conflict, talk of separation, actual separation, desertion, or divorce. It is very difficult to act “normal” when the very foundation of your life is being destroyed and you are not sure what is happening or why it is happening. Divorce produces a very wide ripple effect in the lives of children. Children struggling with a divorce may have reduced attention to schoolwork and fall off in their participation in school activities. New issues may crowd their minds: explaining new living arrangements to friends; the shock of possibly being uprooted from familiar surroundings and moving to a new neighborhood; the trauma of losing old friends and the ordeal of having to start new relationships; and the disappointment of a changed style of life. All of these issues are heaped on top of the more direct inner family problems connected with the divorce.
Many Americans believe in the typical stereotypes relating to home, marriage, family and spouse. They believe we all will date, fall in love, marry, set up a home, bear and raise children, work, and live happily ever after. When this stereotype is not fully realized, the bubble pops: Divorce signifies failure to make the dream work. Failure is felt by everyone in the family unit. Our society is constantly bombarding us with the stereotype nuclear family consisting of dad, mom, brother, sister and their dog. Advertisements in magazines, newspapers and on television portray the happy, good-looking nuclear family having fun and enjoying life TOGETHER. Television shows such as “Happy Days” and “The Brady Bunch” depict life in the nuclear family as a happy, go-lucky, almost trouble-free existence where everything always works out. But then there is reality. In 1978, 18.5 percent of all children under 18 lived in single-parent families, and census bureau projections indicate nearly half of all children born in 1979 will spend a significant portion of their childhood with only one parent. This sizable population cannot be ignored by educators who work with them for such a large chunk of their childhood. These children bring with them unique problems that must be acknowledged and worked with.
Divorce is emotionally an extremely charged issue. Often the adults directly involved in a divorce are so wrapped up in their own needs, issues, and problems that they lose sight of the needs, issues, and problems faced by their children. We tend to treat children with a double standard. Children are expected to act grown up and mature in many situations—don’t cry, don’t be afraid, don’t be a baby—but then we act as though children are incapable of understanding the struggles their families may be going through. Children are denied information and are left out of the process of making decisions about what is happening to them because of the divorce. I firmly believe that children are better barometers of emotional weather than are adults. You can fool an adult easier than a child. Children can spot a phoney or sense unrest a lot faster than an adult can. Some adults act as if the tension between them is invisible, as if their fighting is unseen and unheard. All of these behaviors are happening around children, but the adults act as if the children are oblivious to them. Many children are forced into acting as if the high degree of tension does not exist and everything is “A-OK”. The children are expected to go on with life as normal without any or much of any explanation as to what is going on, until the final axe falls in divorce court. Many children, seeing how upset their parents are, do not want to further burden their parents with how upset they are. It is extremely important that the emotional needs of children involved in a divorce are not ignored by the significant adults in their lives, be they their parents or not. Children need to have some place in which they can work out what is happening to their lives.
There are many issues to be considered by the people who are involved with these children for a good deal of their waking day. One of the tasks is to understand the children’s fear that THEY may have caused the divorce by something they did or did not do. If only they had been good, or better students, or if they had not been bad or failed at school, this terrible thing would not have happened. They believe strongly in their ability to cause things to happen. Many children feel that they may have wished the divorce into being. Getting children to understand that the issues in the divorce are between their parents and not their fault is a tough nut to crack. An other important factor is the need for children to know that they are not unique. Many other parents have gotten divorces and the children in those families have survived. Fear of isolation from family and friends is paramount in the minds of many children. Adults should remember that children do not like to see their parents unhappy. It is very upsetting to see the primary adults in your life so emotionally distraught. Children like to wage power struggles with their parents from a very early age, but they quickly learn that an unhappy parent has a great deal of difficulty being an effective parent. When a situation is charged with anger, as it often is in a divorce climate, children are vulnerable. They often are pushed into making choices between parents. The loyalty of children to BOTH parents is deep rooted in our country’s family structure. To ask a child to choose one parent over the other, puts the child in a horrible predicament. Which hand would you like cut off? Your right or your left? Would you rather lose your hearing or your sight? What utterly ridiculous choices. The tug-of-war game that parents sometimes play with their children is unnerving to say the least. Each parent may pull at the child in an attempt to get back at the other parent through the child. Many children are made to feel like they are in the middle of a taffy pulling contest and they are the taffy. Relieving the child of any guilt and giving the child some space to stand back and objectively view the situation does a great deal to allow the child to get through a divorce with minimal emotional scars. Children need an environment where they can express their concerns and feelings about what is happening to their families and to them, but this is often denied to them because the adults around them discount them as significant individuals. It is hard for us to discuss sensitive topics such as death and divorce with children, although they are quite aware of both from a very early age on.
In such a negative environment as that created by divorce, it is difficult to perceive that positive things can come out of such negative experiences. But children can gain and grow emotionally by seeing the significant adults in their life work through and solve the problems created by a divorce situation. We can aid students to see that much can be salvaged from what seems to be a total failure, and people can work with problems, create solutions, and adapt to changes in their lives. Is the glass half empty or is the glass half full? Your frame of reference determines how you evaluate the situation. Our distance from their families’ divorces can give us a different perspective that we can share with students, thus enabling them to look at the situation with more positive eyes.
I have found that to aid students in understanding divorce it helps to reflect momentarily on some points about marriage that are not usually looked at. First, marriage in America is not uniform. There is Connecticut marriage, New York marriage, California marriage, and so on for each of the fifty states which define marriage by separate definite laws. Many people get married in certain states for their specific marriage laws, such as a shorter waiting time or younger age limits. The differences in the marriage laws found from state to state come out of earlier times in this country’s history when life was quite different in the various regions of this country. Today’s society is radically different from the times that gave birth to these individual laws. Second, our society does not ask for or even expect any degree of preparation for marriage. Potential drivers have to take a test to prove their readiness, knowledge and ability to drive before they are granted a driver’s license; but there is not any readiness test for marriage. Anyone may marry, provided he or she seems to fulfill whatever the marriage law requirements are for a particular state. Third, it is widely believed that men and women enter into marriage for radically different reasons. The man is ready to “settle down” to a more routine life. The woman has her romantic version of “and they lived happily ever after.” So here we have a tremendous range of requirements for marriage, readiness for marriage, and expectations about marriage. It is no wonder so many marriages end up in divorce, just considering these three points and not even to mention all the other social factors that eat away at marriage.
Students from both “whole” and “broken” families start to view the end result, divorce, in a more objective manner after considering these factors that may contribute to a poor beginning in some marriages. This helps children to feel less responsibility for the failure of their parents’ marriages to work. I cannot stress enough the importance of seizing every opportunity to reinforce that the problems are between the parents and not the fault of the children.
Divorce in earlier times was an action regulated by the church and strictly under the rules of the church. Now it is a legal action handled by the courts. All states have various laws on divorce and specific grounds on which a divorce may be granted. Adultery is the only grounds that all states accept.
The intricate legal workings that are involved in divorce are barely understandable to most adults let alone to children who are not usually consulted. But children do need to have some sense of the legal procedures involved in divorce. The following is a brief synopses of recent laws that pertain to divorce. It could serve as a starting point for students in the legal maze of divorce. Activities 9 and 10 may be helpful also.
This means that it is no longer necessary legally to label one of the partners guilty. Couples must simply show that they are incompatible or that their marriage has irreparably broken down.
This gives the court more leeway in determining property distribution or maintenance. Credit is given for being a homemaker, parent, or career helper. Property acquired during the marriage should be divided fairly, even if it is in only one partners, name.
UNIFORM CHILD CUSTODY JURISDICTION ACT
(UCCJA) This is a uniform system of determining where child-custody actions should be heard when there is a dispute between parents in different states.
FEDERAL PARENTAL KIDNAPPING PREVENTION ACT
This empowers federal agencies to locate and apprehend parents who child-snatch.
If you feel the need to give students a more detailed description of the legal workings of divorce, consult Haskell C. Freedman’s article “The Child and Legal Procedures of Divorce”, in
Explaining Divorce to Children
, Earl A. Grollman (ed.).
The act of divorce has always been looked upon in our society as the escape valve that lets out dissident spouses from their marriages, thereby removing a possible source of contamination to the majority of “happy marriages.” The reactions of society to the divorced people has not always been so compassionate. Some earlier accounts of divorced women would practically have you believing they were forced to wear scarlet “D’s” around their necks. Students find it interesting that society is more tolerant today of divorced people, especially divorced women, than it has ever been. 1 have found activities 1,2,3 useful in having students explore societal shifts in attitude toward divorce.
A theme that has popped up repeatedly in discussions with adolescents over the years is the difficulty parents have in admitting to their children that they, the parents, are wrong about anything or that they have ever made any mistakes. If parents cannot take any responsibility in the eyes of their children for the little things in life that do not go right, how can they create a constructive climate to help their children deal with divorce? Activity 4 heightens awareness of admitting you are wrong.
Adolescents complain also that their parents do not talk with them. After some initial scratching of the surface it usually becomes clear that they too are guilty of not communicating with their parents. The teenage years are typically a period of withdrawal and independence from family. Getting family members into the habit of truly communicating with each other may be beyond the scope of responsibility of schools, but there are ways in which schools can emphasize the value of strong communication lines in everyday situations and especially in crisis situations, and how to start building those lines or how to strengthen them. The importance of being able to communicate one’s feelings, especially when your parents are divorcing, cannot be over emphasized. Adolescents usually need help to develop this skill. Activity 5 has been effective in this area.
Parents and teachers are significant adults in the lives of children. Ideally, they are all concerned with the educational and emotional growth of the children. Instead of working separately or even against each other, it should be a partnership working for the good of the child. This is especially true when working with children connected with a divorce. Here are some points for teachers to be aware of when dealing with children in non-nuclear families:
1. Check out your own feelings about separation, divorce, and single-parent family life. Do you have any prejudices or bias about non-nuclear arrangements? If you feel you do have negative feelings about different life styles, this awareness of your feelings is the first step in broadening your acceptance of different family arrangements. Read appropriate literature, such as that listed in my bibliography, and talk with other staff members, social workers, pediatricians, other professionals, and the people involved in these family arrangements who can give you a more objective point of view.
2. Examine your classroom materials, textbooks, films, filmstrips, posters, etc., to make sure they are not exclusively nuclear family in orientation.
3. Be alert for any personality or behavior changes in a child that may be overall changes or cyclic changes.
4. Build a sound parent-teacher rapport EARLY in the year. Do not wait for only the forward parent to approach you. Try to make contact in a variety of ways, conferences, letters to all parents and individual notes, telephone conversations, invitations for class observations and to help with school activities, and home visits. Try to give each parent some positive feedback on their child. Parents will probably be more willing to work with you on problem areas, if they sense a positive environment.
5. Try to hold conferences and special events at a time when the single-parent family can participate as a unit.
6. Do not continually suggest to parent and child that school problems may be the result of a divorce, thereby heightening the guilt in both parent and child. Work instead on ways to change the undesirable behavior without repeatedly ripping open the old wound. Include the child in these conversations.
7. Be willing to suggest specific agencies or professionals who could assist the family. Do it in a supportive and not in a punitive manner.
8. Make sure the school provides for children from non-nuclear families when activities such as Father and Son Nights or Mother and Daughter Nights are held. Perhaps, the school could designate family events instead of specifying particular parent-child relationships. Does the school environment encourage parents to attend nontraditional events, for example, single mothers going to athletic events?
9. Provide for discussions about divorce in your curriculum throughout the year. All children are aware of divorce either directly or indirectly. If they have not experienced divorce directly, many are afraid it will happen to their families eventually.
“The significance of divorce lies mainly in what it does to all who are involved. It is a major upheaval a time of radical change, requiring the most difficult and profound adjustments. To husband and wife it means an end to many cherished hopes and dreams. To children, it may seem like the end of the world.”
But it is not the end of the world for children. They have their whole futures before them. We can help our students to weather the storm and to grow emotionally, if we reach out to them in a supportive manner.
Local Activities for Divorced People
The New Haven Register’s Weekend Guide, which comes out every Friday, contains a subsection “Singles” that offers a brief description of the week’s activities for a variety of social and supportive groups. Most listings provide a member’s telephone number. Assign a student or select a
volunteer to call one of these members and find out how the group works. I have found that most members are very willing to describe their groups to a truly interested inquirers. The students then report back their findings to the class orally and in written form.
As an additional activity, you could contact one of the local chapters of Parents Without Partners to see if anyone would be willing to be a guest speaker.
Earlier Attitudes About Divorce
Have students interview older family members, friends, and neighbors about what attitudes toward divorce and divorced people were when they were young. The students then report back their findings to the class orally and in written form and a class discussion follows.
Improved Availability of Financial Credit for Single Women
Have students investigate the improved credit climate for women. Women can not be discriminated against because of sex or martial status in applying for credit. Students can check out local practices and report back to the class.
Admitting You Are Wrong
Give students a writing topic such as the following: Admitting you are wrong to people is not always easy. Are you someone who can admit your mistakes? Do you own up to ALL mistakes or just small or big mistakes Do you only admit to being wrong with family, friends, strangers, or to everyone? How do you admit to being wrong? Do you wait awhile or do you immediately fess-up? How do people usually react to your admitting you were wrong? How do your friends and family handle being wrong?
I have found the use of humor to be a tension releasing device. I use cartoons found in newspapers and magazines to look at some serious issues around divorce. They are great discussion starters or stimulators for writing topics.
Communicating With Parents
I have found that to get students to communicate with their parents you need specific topics that each will be interested in. One such topic, “The Day I Was Born,” provides the basis for many discussions such as how children have effected their parents’ lives. The following is an example of what an interview might look like.
It is necessary for me to interview you in connection with my _____ course. The purpose of the interview is for me to become more aware of my own birth and subsequent child development. This information will not be shared with anyone but me, if you wish.
Thanks for your cooperation.
My Vital Statistics:
Date of Birth _____
Time of Birth _____
Place of Birth _____
City of Birth _____
Birth Weight _____
Birth Length _____
Obstetrician’s name _____
Pediatrician’s name _____
Pregnancy: Premature _____ Full-term _____ Over-due _____ Due date _____
When did you become aware of labor beginning?
When did you decide to go to the hospital?
How did you get to the hospital?
Could you describe the hospital admittance scene? Your reaction to nurses, doctors and hospital staff.
What anesthesia was used?
Did you have an episiotomy? This is an incision in the perineum, the area between the vagina and the anus, to enlarge the opening through which the baby will pass.
How long was labor?
Did you see my birth?
Type of delivery: Normal _____ Cesarean section _____
Who was in the delivery room?
Number of days in the hospital _____ Cost of doctor _____ Cost of hospital _____
Describe the room you were in. Did you nurse? _____ Did I room-in? _____
Who was the first visitor to see me? How was the food in the hospital? Was I a good baby in the hospital or did I fuss?
What did I wear home from the hospital?
Describe the day I came home from the hospital. Include the weather, how we got home, who came with us, who my first visitors were at home, what you had for our first meal at home.
Any additional information such as the reaction of grandparents, siblings, and other relatives, interesting events that were going on locally and worldwide at the time of my birth, would be appreciated.
Another topic for an interview that stimulates the sharing of common emotions felt in similar situations is early school memories.
I have found the use of humor to be a tension releasing device. I use cartoons found in newspapers and magazines to look at some serious issues around divorce. They are great discussion starters or stimulators for writing topics.
Students enjoy making up sayings and lettering them on posters. The overall topic can be divorce and making marriage work. Here are some examples of slogans my students have come up with that you can use to get your students going.
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but DIVORCE hurts everyone.
DIVORCE cost more than just money.
BEWARE—Divorce hurts children
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Communicating everyday keeps divorce away.
Good marriages don’t just happen.
They need continual work.
“Can This Marriage Be Saved?” or
Dear Ann Landers/Abby”
Utilize syndicated columns such as “Can This Marriage Be Saved?”, “Dear Ann Landers/Abby.” Give students each spouse’s side of their story without the counselor’s conclusions or give the letter without the columnist’s reply. Have them write what their solutions would be to the problems and then have a class discussion that tries to arrive at a group solution. Then go over the counselor’s or columnist’s reply.
Most students have seen on television the shows “Divorce Court” and “People’s Court”. Have the students play-act out the courtroom scene in various divorce cases.
Another version of this activity that requires fewer students is to play-act the scene of a marriage counselor advising a couple. Provide students with a skeleton situation by giving them cards with the key problems in the marriage.
Arrange a trip to New Haven County Court-Family Division. This would require students mature enough to follow courtroom etiquette. Students would get first-hand knowledge about what it is like to go to court for a divorce.
Divorced Children’s Bill of Rights
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An organic lawncare company can offer competitive rates, but that’s not the only part of the service that will save you money. A common practice of organic based lawncare is “grasscycling”, which leaves grass clippings on your lawn as a kind of fertilizer. It cuts the need for nitrogen … based fertilizers by 50%, thus saving you money you would have otherwise spent on extra fertilizer.
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It’s been suggested that synthetic pesticides can kill 60% to 90% of a yard’s earthworms; as earthworms are vital to soil quality, a lack of earthworms would cause a downturn in your lawn’s overall quality. In contrast, a grass bed treated with compost tea can produce roots two to four times longer than the average.
5. Organic Lawncare Treatment Is Better For The Environment At Large
Some estimates indicate that yard waste accounts for 18% of municipal waste; some of this waste can be recycled into organic lawncare. Furthermore, pesticides have been shown seep into ground water and have been ingested by wild, non … pest animals, causing long … term harm to their habitats and populations.
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Introduction and theorems book 4 the libri of aleister. John symonds the great beast the life of aleister crowley first. Aleister crowley books list of books by author aleister. Magick in theory and practice being part iii of book 4 192930, with leila waddell. The book then, opens up the qabalah to a modern audience and makes its techniques and principles accessible without the need for an intense study of the hebrew language though an understanding of the alphabet remains important. This is the rule of thelema, that its adepts shall be invisible rulers. John frederick charles fuller, 18781966 soror agatha leila waddell, 18801932. The sixth chakra of the human body by aleister crowley 45. In the second method identity is attained by paying special attention to the desired part of yourself.
The general principles of astrology, aleister crowley, limited edition hardcover. Original dark green cloth with gilt title etc to spine. The book of the law states that this must be love under will. With book 4 l begin my journey through aleister crowley s writings. Book four, parts i and ii, together with magick in theory and practice which is part iii of book four make up a complete course in magick, with practical instruction in yoga and mysticism.
Diverse as these statements are at first sight, all agree in announcing an. Chapter xviii of clairvoyance and the body of light its. Frater superior hymenaeus beta, includes book iv, part 1. This profusely illustrated new edition brings together the complete texts of all four parts of liber aba book 4 in one volume under the overall title magick this edition incorporates crowley s own additions, corrections and annotations, and restores dozen of passages omitted from the first editions. Its reissue with the authors own commentary gives occasion for a few notes. Magick is the fundamental textbool of modern magick in the new eon. It is a lengthy treatise on magick, his system of western occult practice, synthesised from many sources, including eastern yoga, hermeticism, medieval grimoires, contemporary magical theories from writers like eliphas levi and helena blavatsky, and his own original contributions. Magick, in the context of aleister crowley s thelema, is a term used to show and differentiate the occult from performance magic and is defined as the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will, including mundane acts of will as well as ritual magic. The first edition of crowley s famous second novel which tells the tale of a young woman caught up in a battle between two magicians, one of whom seeks to use her body as the vessel for the birth in human form of a nonhuman entity.
Books by aleister crowley author of the book of the law. John frederick charles fuller, 18781966 soror agatha leila waddell, 18801932 soror virakam mary desti, 18711931 soror rhodon mary. Aleister crowley devoted twentyfive years to writing and producing the four parts of this book. The text of this aleister crowley material is made available here only for personal and noncommercial use. John frederick charles fuller, 18781966 soror agatha leila waddell, 18801932 soror virakam mary desti, 18711931 soror rhodon. Moonchild by aleister crowley, first edition abebooks. The first two volumes of an intended six of crowleys autobiography autohagiography. Aleister crowley the original manuscript of the book of the law was rescanned for this edition, using the latest technology, for the clearest facsimile possible. Crowley s masterwork on magic, with enough libri in the appendices to keep you busy for a lifetime. Commentaries on the corrected version of the book of the law, old. Crowley outlines the basic principles of meditation, its outcomes, and tools to. L is the sacred letter in the holy twelve fold table. For this reason the magician will anoint first the top of his head before. Its full title is liber al vel legis, sub figura ccxx, as delivered by xciii418 to dclxvi,1 and it is commonly referred to as the book of the law.
Aleister crowley s most popular book is household gods. Soror ouarda rose edith crowley, 18741932 frater per ardua maj. In the first method identity with the god is attained by love and by surrender, by giving up or suppressing all irrelevant and illusionary parts of yourself. Aleister crowley has 492 books on goodreads with 98837 ratings. My scribe ankhafnakhonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this book. The three sounds represent the creative, preservative, and destructive principles. Aleister crowley 1875 1947, born edward alexander crowley, and also known as both frater perdurabo and the great beast, was an influential english occultist, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of thelema. From strange alteregos, to the occult concept of androgyny, and of course including references to aleister crowley and his thelema, bowie did decades ago what pop stars are doing now. Pdf israel regardie and the psychologization of esoteric discourse. Crowley wrote that it is theoretically possible to cause in any object any change of which that object is capable by.
Crowley s book on astrology is a superior choice to parkers astrology or the only astrology book youll ever need. With book 4 l begin my journey through aleister crowleys writings. This book is the introduction, the foundation upon which all further magical work will be based. Liber al vel legis is the central text of thelema, written by aleister crowley in cairo, egypt in the year 1904. Bowies alterego named ziggy stardust was a representation of the illuminated man who has reached the highest level of initiation. Posted in aleister crowley, philosophy, promulgation, thelema and tagged aleister crowley, book of the law, carl rogers, first principles of thelema, had, hadit, infinite space, liber al vel legis, nu, nuit, psychology, psychology of thelema, reception of liber al, reception of the book of the law, thelema on february 24, 20 by iao1. Top american libraries canadian libraries universal library community texts project gutenberg biodiversity heritage library childrens library. Like most popular books on the subject, crowley s general principles of astrology details attributes of the planets through all 12 signs of the zodiac, giving particular attention to the rising signs. See book 4, part iii, for an account of the new principles of magick. Magic is the highest, most absolute, and most divine knowledge of natural philosophy, advanced in its works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things. It is a lengthy treatise on magick, his system of western occult practice, synthesised from many sources, including eastern yoga, hermeticism, medieval grimoires, contemporary magical theories from writers like eliphas levi and helena blavatsky, and his own. Soberly, crowley describes each step as a technique of mental andor physical discipline, ultimately resulting in complete control of the will and with this, control of the physical and mental body. Magick, liber aba, book 4 is widely considered to be the magnum opus of 20th century occultist aleister crowley, the founder of thelema. Needless to say, of course, it is necessary in actual practice to use ones judgment in choosing the phenomenon which one next proposes to assimilate.
Book four, parts i and ii, together with magick in theory and practice w. First principle, james allen, self development, peace of mind, law of. Aleister crowley, born edward alexander crowley, was a british occultist, writer, mountaineer, philosopher, poet, and mystic. We have so much material by crowley himself about this. Crowley spent the first world war preacher for the sect and reading a chapter from the bible 4. An occult writer, peter carroll split the concept in two and speaks of two holy guardian angels. Yet these are rather special than general symbols, and this book purports to treat only of the grand principles of working.
Foreword the book of lies, first published in london in 19, aleister crowley s little master work, has long been out of print. The lesser key of solomon goetia the book of evil spirits by aleister crowley 616. Aleister crowley 18751947, who claimed to be the reincarnation of dr. This first onevolume edition of book four is dedicated to the memory of the a.
The spirit of solitude, subsequently reantichristened the confessions of aleister crowley 1929, vols. John dee among others, lived in england from 1875 through 1947. The first part of book four deals with yoga in a very sound and methodical manner, stripping it of the mysterious and glitter. Books of aleister crowley the libri of aleister crowley. He was an influential member in several occult organizations, including the golden dawn, the a. Negotiating science and occult experience in aleister crowleys scienti c. A treatise on astrology, liber 536 by aleister crowley, 1917 1. Soberly, crowley describes each step as a technique of mental andor physical discipline, ultimately resulting in complete control of the will.
Wicca, magick, occult science, occult symbols, aleister crowley, red books. According to his work liber null and psychonaut, one is the augoeides, a projected image of whatever the magician strives for, and the other is quantum uncertainty, which ultimately determines the acts of the magician and is a spark of the only. Its simplicity, clarity and depth is without equal in occult literature. The script of john burns one man play about aleister crowley, that was first performed at the edinburgh fringe festival in 2010. This that thou writest is the threefold book of law.
The word thelema is the english transliteration of the koine greek noun pronounced, will, from the verb. All s on aleister crowley material are held by ordo templi orientis. Hermetic philosophy, originally published in 1908 under the pseudonym of the three initiates, is a book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of hermes trismegistus. Book 4 the libri of aleister crowley hermetic library. Magick, liber aba, book 4 is widely considered to be the magnum opus of 20thcentury occultist aleister crowley, the founder of thelema. The six volumes first appeared in omnibus form as the confessions of aleister crowley. Just given his intense esoteric reputation, l was expecting a long, toughtoread book. Aleister crowley books for beginners aristocrats of the soul. General principles of astrology by aleister crowley. Regardies middle pillar ritual as epitomizing the basic approach to magic. His late period, after equinox i, covering some of eq iii diary of a drug fiend 1922. Rather, it derives its symbols and mathematical grammar from the english language as does the holy books of thelema.293 187 1114 1099 1549 1111 1476 1632 1415 931 828 304 1662 719 1567 442 644 1608 758 104 384 193 1678 673 831 1621 958 1383 123 1502 653 481 163 344 1198 781 1228 423 | <urn:uuid:f58c28a6-76ac-4fa8-a819-6536562501b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zoygilarea.web.app/432.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.912379 | 2,522 | 1.625 | 2 |
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Scientific name of Rough Bryony: Cucumis maderaspatanus
Name of Rough Bryony in different languages:-
Hindi: Aganaki, Agumaki
English: Madras pea pumpkin, Rough bryony
Malayalam: Perapaticka-പീരപപെട്ടിക്ക, Mukkpeeram-മുക്കാപീരം
It is a climber a perennial vine grows up to 6 meters high. Leaves are alternately arranged, hairy, rough bright green in color on the upper surface, Symmetrical ovate leaves, angularly, deeply 3 to 5 lobed, and up to 9 cm long. Flowers are small and yellow in color, which occurs in March-April. Fruits are green with white blotched stripes and it is turning bright red in color when it is ripe, commonly 2-3 seeds contain in the fruits.
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Twitter has become a phenomenon in the social media world, and with more than 200 million active users and more than a billion tweets sent out every three days, it’s no wonder that 30 percent of small businesses use Twitter as part of a comprehensive marketing plan. And, it pays off. Research shows that Twitter followers will visit your web site 60 percent more often than any other target audience. What’s even better is that the people who visit your site through Twitter are 50 percent more likely to become your customers.
How to Get Started Using Twitter
Twitter offers lots of tools for small business, but it takes some basic steps to get started and get comfortable with the platform before branching out into its more complex marketing tools.
- Set up your Twitter account (for free). Use your company’s name as your username so it’s easy to find, then let people know you’re on Twitter. Potential followers can find you at twitter.com/username.
- Make your account visible to everyone. You don’t just want your followers to be able to see your tweets, so don’t check the box beside “Protect my updates.”
- Connect Twitter and Facebook. You do have a Facebook page for your business, right? Let Twitter post your tweets on your Facebook wall. Start at your Twitter profile and select “Sign into Facebook and connect your accounts.” Select your privacy settings (they’re public by default) and follow the prompts to complete your setup.
- Set up Mobile and IM tools. Your best tweets might not come to you while you’re sitting at the computer, so take Twitter with you on your smart phone. From the Twitter profile, select Settings>Phone and IM. Follow the prompts.
- Find friends and start tweeting. “Followers” tells you who is listening when you tweet, and “Following” tells you whose tweets will show up in your news feed. Find people you know and get current patrons to follow your Twitter account by posting notices at your business and on social media. You want retweets, so build your following with Twitter-only coupons, promotions and contests that focus specifically on building a community. (Ex: “Retweet our daily status for more chances to win our monthly prize package.”) Remember: tweets are limited to 140 characters or less.
There’s so much more to Twitter than catchy status updates, but that is where it all starts. Get comfortable with the platform, build your following organically, and then employ some next-level Twitter marketing tools to promote great ads and positive local media coverage.
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Born 1953 in Dortmund, died 1997 in Vienna
What other artist has incited a hunger strike by a Catholic functionary and even a reaction from the Pope? In 2008, Kippenberger exhibited a periwinkle green frog nailed to a cross (1990) at the Museum of Modern Art in Bolzano. In protest, the president of the Tyrolean council, backed by a letter from Pope Benedict XVI, started a hunger strike and demanded that the museum remove it. He did not succeed. The crucified frog was still displayed in the museum.
At the end of the 1970s, Kippenberger, who studied with Werner Büttner and the Oehlen brothers in Hamburg, moved to Berlin. Here he founded the “Büro Kippenberger” with Gisela Capitain and became the manager of the SO 36 club where intellectual artists of bourgeois origin, such as Kippenberger, and the hard-core reality of proletarian punks came together. Kippenberger had a photo taken by one of them with a shrouded face, and he used this photo on a poster for the exhibition “Kippenberger. A Dialogue with Youth”.
Influenced by these experiences, Kippenberger was more than capable of balancing between intellectually intense thinking and staged absurdity, aggression, disgust, and awkwardness. Some of the titles include Heute denken—Morgen fertig (Think Today—Tomorrow Ready) or Durch Pubertät zum Erfolg (Through Puberty to Success), appearing on these posters which he thought were just as important as his pictures and installations. Kippenberger would have also undoubtedly agreed to exchange his posters with the Tichy Ocean Foundation, as permitted by the co- founder of “Büro Kippenberger” and manager of the artist’s endowment, Gisela Capitain.
Kippenberger’s often even vicious parody is directed against the jovial generation of fathers who wash down their Nazi past with beer and smooth it over with jokes, against leftist arrogance, as well as his own colleagues. At the exhibition “Peter. The Russian Position” in Cologne (1987), composed of 45 works of art, Kippenberger presented a table with a surface made of grey monochrome pictures by Gerhard Richter. He called this unusual piece of furniture Model Interconti.
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Light therapy is a form of treatment – often used for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) – that is quickly becoming a popular and alternative form of therapy for mental health disorders, and sleeping ailments. From easily available wellness lamps on e-commerce websites like Amazon, to health bloggers suggesting it in place of allopathic treatment, light therapy is making waves. But how exactly does it work, and what is the logic behind it?
The Concept of Full Spectrum Light Therapy
Light therapy involves a specific amount of intense exposure to light (under controlled conditions). The most common form of administering it is through fluorescent bulbs placed behind some kind of screen that diffuses the light. The person receiving the treatment has to sit in close proximity to the light. It is not recommended to stare directly at the light because most fluorescent bulbs and LEDs used in these lights contain a high level of blue light that can penetrate through protective layers and can be harmful to your eyes. Rather, the person engages in normal, day-to-day, stress-free activities (such as reading, writing, eating meals) for the duration of the exposure (which can range anywhere from 10-15 minutes, upto 3 hours).
The “dose” of the therapy is dependent on the condition, and decides a number of factors: how high the intensity of the light is, how long the exposure occurs for, how often therapy is done, and even the time of day when the treatment is administered.
Where is Light Therapy Used
Light therapy is used in the treatment of several conditions, such as jetlag, sleep disorders, altering circadian rhythms, and dementia. However, it is most commonly used to treat depression – especially seasonal affective depression. Since our eyes process light differently during different times of day, and different seasons expose us to different amounts of natural light, the brain chemical reactions can adjust depending on the time of year. Exposure to light therapy – which is essentially used as a substitute for the abundance of natural light during spring and summer – can cause this adjustment to be countered.
Benefits of light therapy include improved vision clarity, mental awareness, vitamin D synthesis, mood, and scholastic performance.
Therapy that is focused on natural environments is highly supportive of this form of therapy, since it mimics sunlight without introduction of allopathic medication. Although light therapy has had minimal side effects and is highly encouraged as a safe form of treatment, it is not an end-all form of therapy. The most effective use of light therapy is under correct guidance, and in combination with other forms of treatment for health disorders (whether seasonal or chronic).
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Today’s post was written by Edita Rabizaite, ESL teacher and ICT coordinator at the Kaunas Kazys Grinius Progymnasium School in Lithuania.
I have been working with kids, teachers and parents since 2012 on the concept of portfolio. A few years ago, I chose OneNote to create portfolios for my students and teachers. Back then, I was looking for a simple solution for kids and teachers to understand. OneNote, which looked familiar to teachers and students (like a digital notebook) proved to be a great tool for portfolios. It was easy for teachers and students to learn how to use. Many tools used for portfolios were technically hard for teachers to understand and for students to find all their work in one place and not scattered. OneNote helped me to create a class portfolio where all students and teachers in one class were connected in one place. It is hard to imagine it now, but in 2014, I created a folder in my OneDrive with 24 OneNote files for each student in that class, and then made a list in Word Online with students’ names and family names and links to each student’s portfolio, and shared that Word document with teachers who worked in that class and students. The practice of a few years proved that the methodology of a portfolio has a positive impact on students’ learning, creativity and motivation. Students like to compare their work from the last year and see how their knowledge developed this year.
The OneNote Class Notebook tool is simple to use and to create portfolios for students, because it builds off the structure of OneNote automatically with a the push of a few buttons.
If you would ask me, “What is a OneNote Class Notebook?” I would say that for me it is the digital space that connects students and teachers of one class into a virtual learning community.
In 2015, I started using OneNote Class Notebooks to create e-Portfolios for 5th-grade students to foster autonomous learning and 21st-century skills. With a teachers’ leadership group, we have tried various scenarios of teaching, which were shared with 35 schools in Lithuania. As one of our aims is to have each student’s learning e-Portfolio for at least four years, it is highly important to organize all materials in it and make them long-lasting, easy to find and to take it from storage anytime a student finishes studying in a school.
Let’s go through the main elements of an e-Portfolio and discuss how OneNote Class Notebook as a technological tool helps to implement it. The Collaboration Space area in Class Notebooks serves as storage and a workspace where students of a particular class learn together: share ideas, talk, create, reflect and interact. Each student’s notebook is used to store class work, notes, records and assessments. In the Collaboration Space, students learn and interact with peers and get feedback on their learning, and it serves as workspace for collaboration. The Content Library fulfills the function of storage as all materials that teachers share in that Class Notebook are stored for a period of several years. Students’ notebooks serve as:
- Storage of learning evidence; personalized learning plans; and feedback from peers, teachers and parents.
- Workspace for individual work, learning diaries and drafts.
- Showcase of examples of the best achievements.
There are six elements of an e-Portfolio that should be followed to turn the OneNote Class Notebook into an e-Portfolio:
- It should be digital.
- It needs to include learning evidence.
- It has to possess structured content and the student‘s reflection on the learning process.
- It should reflect a student‘s authorship, meaning a student has the choice whether or not to share the contents of the portfolio.
- It should demonstrate student reflection.
- It should showcase student work.
There should be the ability to work on a task and change it several times, select the best learning experiences and save to a place in the e-Portfolio and have work ready to share as learning evidence or achievement. Some of these elements can be implemented only by technical tools and some have to be put into teaching methodology, taken into a teacher’s attention while planning lessons.
Six elements of an e-Portfolio.
At the Kaunas Kazys Grinius Progymnasium School, we find ways to shift some of the responsibility for learning from the teacher to the students. In addition to using the e-Portfolio to accomplish this, we also deliver opportunities for personalized learning and develop students’ autonomous learning skills.
If we look closer at the skills of autonomous learning, we see that skills can be divided into three parts for any given lesson or learning period:
- Learning plan
- Learning strategies
According to this model, we used OneNote to create and save page templates to be used as customized learning plan templates for each student. Teachers keep the same structure and add features needed for the lessons of their subject. Templates are used to plan each student’s learning. In the image above, you see a learning plan template that hints at how it was built. A teacher and student discuss the topic of learning periods, aims, learning strategies and success criteria, and then they complete the learning plan template.
Students set their own learning goals (for example, learn more or less than 20 words) and choose how to adjust self-assessment criteria. After the teacher distributes a template of a learning plan to the students’ notebooks, students adjust it to their educational needs and abilities and make a personalized learning plan.
In this way, each student has the possibility to plan learning and personalize it through learning objectives, success criteria and self assessment (see image below).
A learning plan is adjusted several times during a learning period. As students assess themselves and receive feedback from peers and teachers, it is easy to trace if something goes wrong. The struggle points are discussed and changes are made to a learning plan, so the student is always on track to meet learning goals. A template of self-assessment sheets (see image below) is made by a teacher in Excel, and a student uses it several times. The student adds data into this sheet, which is stored in a OneNote learning plan page. The student can upload work for teacher review several times, correct it and present to a teacher again until the planned success criteria is reached.
In my school, we had lots of discussions about how the OneNote Class Notebook e-Portfolio should be organized. We built and deleted e-Portfolios three times. When you plan how your class portfolio will be organized, you have to consider long-term usage. After using it for four years or more, it should remain easy to navigate, easy to find materials and possess all necessary sections for deeper learning and storage of learning evidence. I would like to present some solutions that proved to be good ones.
Students Class Notebooks have two sections (see Option 3 in the image below): my library for adding important resources and my best work for showcasing the best achievements and section groups for different subjects. In this way, teachers who work in that class have more space than in simple sections, and it makes navigation for students more accessible.
To make navigation through pages quicker, we decided to add the year and then the topic of a lesson to a page title. For example, 2015 GR. Tenses refers to the school year, 2015 GR refers to the section of grammar and Tenses refers to the topic of the page.
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If your child experiences a mental health crisis The Child and Adolescent Facility-Based Crisis (FBC) program at Alexander Youth Network care is a short-term, medically supervised service that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The facility-based crisis center offers an alternative to hospitalization or emergency room visits when your child is experiencing a crisis.
The Child and Adolescent Facility-Based Crisis program is located in Greensboro and serves children ages 6-17 throughout the region. This program can serve up to 16 children at a time for an average length of stay of 7-14 days.
The Facility-Based Crisis Center Includes:
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- Assessments and treatment service planning that address each of the child’s primary presenting diagnoses
- Active engagement of the family, caregiver or legally responsible person, and significant others involved in the child’s life, with crisis stabilization, treatment interventions, and discharge planning
- Stabilization of the immediate presenting issues, behaviors or symptoms that have resulted in the need for crisis intervention or detoxification
- Monitoring of the beneficiary’s medical condition and response to the treatment protocol to ensure the safety of the child
In addition to providing crisis stabilization and assessments for your child while in treatment, Alexander Youth Network will also connect your child to after-care services. Our discharge planning begins upon admission and includes:
- Arrangements to new or existing community-based services that will provide further assessment, treatment, or rehabilitation upon discharge
- Coordination of after-care with other involved providers, including the child’s Primary Care Practitioner and any involved specialists for the ongoing care of identified medical conditions
- Contact for re-entry planning purposes with your child’s school
- Arrangements for a higher level of care if necessary
- Identifying and providing connections with natural supports in the community
- Developing the crisis plan with you to best assist you and your child in preventing and managing future crisis events
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Our Facility-Based Crisis Center is safe for kids and adolescents and includes:
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- Separate spaces for girls, boys, and children
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The Facility-Based Crisis Center is a partnership between Alexander Youth Network and Sandhills Center Mental Health Services. Under the guidance of the County Commissioner’s and Guilford County Behavioral Health Oversight committee, AYN and Sandhills Center have partnered with the county and Cone Health to bring an array of needed mental health crisis services to the Greensboro/Triad area.
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WINDOW ON EURASIA: SOCHI COUNTDOWN – 12 WEEKS TO THE OLYMPIAD IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS
Note: This is my 38th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the coming year, will not aim at being comprehensive but rather will consist of a series bullet points about such developments. I would like to invite anyone with special knowledge or information about this subject to send me references to the materials involved. My email address is email@example.com Allow me to express my thanks to all those who already have. Paul Goble
Putin Using Sochi to Keep Himself in Power, BBC Program Says. All host countries use the Olympics to boost themselves internationally, but “Russian President Vladimir Putin is also taking the opportunity to cement his own position in the world’s largest country,” according to the BBC. But he has so strongly identified the games with himself that many who oppose them view the competition as “Putin’s games” rather than Russia’s. Many Sochi residents are outraged by what has happened in their city. “We don’t know what to do,” one of them says. “We would like to petition God but we haven’t got his address. He’s the only person we haven’t petitioned yet.” Another asks “how can you have a positive attitude toward the Olympic Games when you are sitting at home with a candle. There is no light,no water, and in the distance ou see the Olympic Park and it is always illuminated …So you end up with the feeling that everything is being done for the Olympics and not for the residents” (bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24837138).
Another Terrorist Attack in the North Caucasus. Seventeen people were wounded and one killed as a result of the latest terrorist attack in the North Caucasus, this time in Makhachkala, the capital of Daghestan, Kavkaz-Uzel reports in its ongoing chronology of violence in the region near Sochi (kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/220120/).
Kostroma Residents Organize Anti-Sochi March. Residents of Kostroma were prevented from carrying torches to a demonstration protesting Vladimir Putin’s spending of billions on the Sochi Olympiad but doing little or nothing to promote sports among children. The police said that carrying Olympic-style torches represented a fire hazard. Consequently, the protesters carried kerosene lanterns instead (k1news.ru/news/politics/v-kostrome-proshlo-antiolimpiyskoe-shestvie/).
Kamchatka Resident Protests Sochi’s Cost – And Almost Loses Her Shirt. The arrival of the Olympic torch in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy was met by the largest crowd in that Far East city’s history. Among it were protesters like Natalya Butova who carried a sign denouncing the high cost of the Olympiad and the consequent failure of the authorities to support the population. After that sign was taken away from her by the police, they discovered she was wearing a t-shirt saying “For Russia without Putin.” They tried to take that off, apparently unsuccessfully. This case prompted an Ekho Moskvy blogger to suggest that the massive presence of siloviki along the torch route was not intended to protect the Olympic flame but to suppress any dissent (echo.msk.ru/blog/garycravt/1197000-echo/).
Sports Events like Sochi Costing Russians Their Pensions, Moscow Analysts Say.Commentators in Moscow suggest that the Kremlin is raiding the pension funds of Russian citizens to fund things like the Sochi Olympiad and that after the games, there won’t be enough money left to pay Russians what they are owed. Recent Russian government proposals to reduce pensions in the future have lent credence to these charges (ru-nsn.livejournal.com/3779336.html).
Moscow’s Use at Home and Abroad of Anti-Gay Position Undercuts Claims about Sochi. Russian officials, and echoing them, IOC officials, have suggested that Russia’s anti-LGBT propaganda law is strictly limited and in any case will not be applied to competitors or fans at Sochi. But Moscow’s use of its position on gay rights in its effort to increase its influence in Eastern Europe and its tolerance of anti-gay violence at home undercuts that argument. Russian officials frequently find themselves trapped between these claims and this reality as when Moscow city fathers banned a pro-Putin demonstration by Russian gays in the Russian capital (buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/russia-exports-homosexual-propaganda-law-in-effort-to-fight and
Gay Rugby Star Says Gay Athletes Should Compete and Win at Sochi … Gareth Thomas, a former rugby great who is openly gay, says that “nothing should hold back” gay athletes from going to Sochi and winning. “If I was part of a squad going to these countries, I would go there as a gay man and be the best at what I was doing and prove that their laws cannot stop me at being the best I can be in my sport. Athletes often have only one chance to be the best and they have worked so hard to get there that nothing should hold them back” (pinknews.co.uk/2013/11/08/rugby-star-gareth-thomas-says-nothing-should-hold-back-gay-athletes-wanting-to-compete-in-sochi-2014/ ).
… But Gay Commentator Says World Must Not Repeat Mistakes of 1936. Lorelei Erisis, who identifies herself as a transwoman, says that the international community must boycott the Sochi Games to demonstrate its solidarity with and support for LGBT people in Russia. “In 1936 we chose to ignore the plight of Jewish people in Germany in favor of ‘good sportsmanship.’ We all know how well that worked. Let’s hope we don’t repeat the same mistake today” (therainbowtimesmass.com/2013/11/08/boycott-2014-sochi-olympics-due-russias-anti-lgbt-law/).
Russian Commentators Attack Circassians for Opposition to Sochi … Russian writers have stepped up their attacks on the Circassians, arguing that Greater Circassia never existed, that no genocide ever occurred against them, and that all claims to the contrary are simply propagandistic inventions of those who forget that the Americans wiped out the Indians, an argument often invoked by Soviet authors against criticism of Moscow’s policies (echo.az/article.php?aid=51784, segodnia.ru/content/131128 and
… But Divide on Whether a Genocide Occurred in 1864 … Most Russian authors despite the existing evidence deny that the Russians engaged in an act of genocide by forcing out the Circassians from their historical homeland and killing many of the members of that nation in the process. But a small number of Russian writers are beginning to acknowledge that the Russian forces in the 19th century engaged in what would now be called ethnic cleansing and that the events of 1864 were a tragedy all around. Most Circassians have objected to the Sochi Olympics precisely because that city was the center of this Russian action and because the Games will occur on the 150th anniversary of that event, something that for many of them only adds insult to injury (apn.ru/publications/article30521.htm,
slavyanskaya-kultura.ru/blogs/istorija-slavjanskih-narodov/samye-strashnye-i-tragicheskie-sobytija-v-istori-kavkazskoi-voiny.html and hekupsa.com/cherkesiya/obzor/1931-olimpiada-v-sochi-pravozashchitniki-byut-trevogu).
Circassians from Syria Help North Caucasian Circassians Revive National Culture. Officials, scholars and activists in the North Caucasus say that the Circassians returning to their homeland from wartown Syria are helping their co-ethnics to revive their national culture because in the words of a hotel operator in Nalchik, “they possess cultural values we lost in the Communist era” (jordantimes.com/article/circassians-flee-syria-strife-for-russia-homeland).
Despite the violence, Circassians say they feel comfortable in their ancestral homeland.
Hamzeh Labeeb, a native of the Syrian city of Homs, came to Nalchik in 2002 to study at a local university — and decided to stay.”They’ve always treated me like their own,” said the bespectacled 29-year-old computer engineer.Meanwhile, locals think that their arrival benefits Russia. “They possess cultural values we lost in the Communist era,” said Vladimir Kaskulov, general director of the hotel chain in Nalchik that hosted more than 150 Syrians free of charge.
Circassians Urged to Look Beyond Sochi. Tiago Ferreira Lopes, a specialist on international security, says that the Circassians need to look beyond Sochi and “reshape” their ethnonational agenda.” If they do so, they still have the chance to achieve “an autonomous republic or independent Circassia,” even though they have not succeeded in their efforts to promote a boycott of the Olympics (strategicoutlook.org/caucasus/news-end-game-or-new-game-to-the-circabian-ethnonational-agenda.html).
Russian Ethnographers Describe How Sochi Ceased to be Circassian and ‘Became Russian.’ V.V. Trepavlov and L.S. Gatagova, two scholars at the Moscow Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, have published a new study entitled “The Resettlement of the Circassians into the Ottoman Empire – or How Sochi Became Russian [in Russian].” Thus study describes the expulsion and deaths of the Circassians during that process but does not characterize the event as a genocide. However, in contrast to many Russian articles, it does acknowledge that the memory of those events remains powerful in both the Circassian diaspora and in the Northwest Caucasus” within the Russian Federation” (sputnikipogrom.com/russia/6217/exodus/#13841478697911&event=tpLoaded&height=670&cb=false).
Circassians are the ‘Real’ Torches of Sochi, Artist Suggests. In a new painting, an artist suggests that the Circassians who died in Sochi and those who live there and in the diaspora now are the “torches” of Sochi unlike the Russian Olympic torch which continues to go out (facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=247616925396256&set=a.135239963300620.29866.103817093109574&type=1&theater).
Circassians in Turkey Call for Recognition of 1864 as Genocide. A group of Circassian activists and their supporters in Turkey are circulating a petition calling on Ankara to officially recognize the1864 mass killings and deportation of Circassians from the North Caucasus by Russian forces as an act of genocide (hekupsa.com/cherkesiya/diaspora/1939-v-turtsii-nachalsya-sbor-podpisej-za-priznanie-genotsida-cherkesskogo-naroda).
Putin Says Russians Visiting Sochi Will Have to Register with Police Within Three Days. President Vladimir Putin has issued an order requiring that all Russian citizens visiting Sochi between January 7 and March 21 but not saying in hotels or other public accomodations will have to register with the police if they remain in the Olympic city for three days of more. Such registration which recalls that of Soviet times is clearly intended to help combat the possibility that militants will infiltrate the city. The order, however, could also be invoked to arrest and remove anyone the Russian government deems undesirable (pravo.gov.ru:8080/page.aspx?67515).
Russian Officials Promise Electric Power Won’t Go Out During Games. Because power shortages and blackouts in Sochi have been widely reported and the failure of the Olympic torch to stay lit has received even more attention, Russian officials are promising that they will have enough electricity in Sochi during the games to ensure that the lights will be on. It is not clear whether their promises refer to the Olympic facilities alone or to the entire urban area where many residents remain without regular electric supplies (kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/233541/ and
Aeroflot Employees Say Company Must Follow Olympic Principles and Ensure Passenger Safety. Employees of the Russian airline have staged a demonstration in Mosco calling on Aeroflot to observe “basic Olympic principles” of non-discrimination and to stop putting profits above the safety of passengers. The protesters complaints were wide-ranging, but they have clearly used the reference to Sochi to get national and international attention (kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/233497/).
Newly-Appointed Krasnodar Official to Oversee Circassian Issue at Sochi Games. According to Asker Sokht, the president of the Circassian Public Organization of Krasnodar Kray, Mugdin Chermit, the vice president of the International Circassian Association, has been named deputy head of the department of domestic policy in Krasnodar and will oversee Circassian issues, including the issue of the “positive” presentation of the Circassian community during the Sochi Olympiad (regnum.ru/news/polit/1732251.html).
Pussy Riot’s Samutsevich Calls for Boycott of Sochi Games. Yekaterina Samutsevich, who served several months in jail after participating in the Pussy Riot protest against Puti, says that the international community must boycott the Sochi Olympiad just as it did the Moscow games in 1980. “An event which should be purely about sport is becoming highly politicized and rife with conflict. Our authorities are to blame for that,” she said, adding a boycott “has to happen because the latest policies go too far.” President Vladimir Putin is “obviously tightening the screws. Samutsevich suggested that “a lot of people will boycott” Sochi (chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-russia-pussyriot-olympics-20131114,0,3678262.story).
European MPs Concerned about Moscow’s Surveillance Plans at Sochi. Three European parliamentarians have called on the European Commission to investigate Moscow’s plans to use unprecedented surveillance techniques at the Sochi Games. Sophie in ‘t Veld, a Dutch member, said that”gGiven that everybody seems to be spying on everyone else these days, it seems legitimate to ask questions not only about the EU and the United States but about Russia as well … Russia is a particular problem because of the Olympics, which it is using as a pretext for stepping up surveillance, with no court oversight” (theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/13/meps-concerns-sochi-winter-olympics-surveillance?CMP=twt_gu).
Sochi Geography Society Says Real Crackdown Will Come After Games When No One is Looking. Maria Reneva, the head of the Sochi branch of the outspoken Russian Geographic Society that Moscow has harassed and tried to close in recent months, says that the real crackdown against groups like hers will come only after the conclusion of the Sochi Games. Then, no one will be paying attention to what the Russian authorities will do, and they will be free to act as they please (outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/europe/russia/The-Zoich-Olympics.html).
Moscow Must Actively Oppose ‘Geopolitical Enemies’ Now Exploiting Sochi Games. A Russian analyst says that “the geopolitical enemies of Russia” are exploiting the Sochi Games to expand their “information war” against Russia. Consequently, the Russian government and all patriotic Russians must respond harshly to these efforts being conducted by “a whirligig of different forces, organizations and personalities.” Moscow can only “win” if it “takes an active stand in the ‘Great Game’” now going on in the Caucasus (geopolitica.ru/en/article/geopolitical-aspects-information-warfare-northwestern-caucasus?nopaging=1#.UoPluuJcUUM).
Improperly Disposed Trash Harming North Caucasians’ Health. Builders involved in Olympiad and tourist resort construction are improperly disposing of construction waste, and poisons contained in this trash are leaching into the water supply and harming the health of people in many parts of the North Caucasus (newizv.ru/society/2013-11-13/192335-gory-musora.html).
On the Occasion of Olympiad, Muscovites Can Ride Subway Free if They Do 30 Squats. In a move intended to call attention to the Sochi Games and to promote public health, the Russian authorities are offering free rides on the Moscow subway to those who do 30 squats or lunges in front of a camera in one station (viralviralvideos.com/2013/11/11/moscow-subway-ticket-machine-accepts-30-squats-as-payment/).
Sochi Should Be Renamed Putingrad, Editor Says. Konstantin Remchukov, editor of “Nezavisimaya gazeta,” says that eventually Sochi should be renamed Putingrad in honor of the Russian president’s investment in the region. Others might think that such a renaming would be appropriate to highlight the ways in which the Kremlin leader has overseen the Olympiad (echo.msk.ru/programs/personalno/1195196-echo/).
‘Stalin was a Hipster’ T-Shirts on Sale at Sochi Airport. According to a Facebook post, visitors at the Sochi airport can purchase t-shirts featuring the legend, “Stalin was a hipster” (facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=515865311842716&set=a.388220434607205.89644.388217454607503&type=1&theater).
Someone is Stealing the Manhole Covers of Sochi. In addition to all the other problems that plague the Olympic city, thieves are making off with 30 to 50 manhole covers every day and selling them for more than 100 US dollars elsewhere in Russia. Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhmov says that “it’s already become a business that’s seriously harming the city.” The thefts are adding to the problems of driving attempting to navigate the city’s already much-torn-up streets (themoscowtimes.com/olympic_coverage/article/mass-manhole-cover-theft-harming-sochi/489444.html and privetsochi.ru/blog/sitiproblem/37214.html).
Could Putin Use Sochi as He Did Beijing to Attack a Neighboring Country? A cartoonist suggests Vladimir Putin may use the Sochi Games as the occasion to use military force against a neighboring country much as he did in 2008 when he sent Russian forces into Georgia while many world leaders were out of their home capitals and at the Beijing Olympiad (mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/?ui=2&ik=3b1b804189&view=att&th=14249b17e8450e5c&attid=0.1&disp=inline&safe=1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P_gSGIxTWxXkfk43z7emtYR&sadet=1384217906746&sads=7qKvSeZgQ2g1ejyiuzi227venLc ).
Olympic Torch’s Problems are Heaven’s Response to Evil Empire, Russian Regionalist Says. A commentator on the Ingermanland movement website, Ingria.info, says that the problems that Moscow is having keeping the Olympic torch lit reflect the attitude of the Heavens against Putin’s “parody” of an Olympics in “the Evil Empire” (ingria.info/lenta/865-2013-10-08-10-38-07).
Cartoonist Uses Gay Matryoshka Dolls to Condemn Putin’s Anti-LGBT Policies. Cartoonists have used many images to criticize Vladimir Putin’s anti-LGBT policies in advance of the Sochi Games but perhaps none is more telling than a cartoonist who showed two archetypically Russian matryoshka dolls holding hands on an Olympic medal (fastcult.ru/494551.html). Meanwhile, a Georgian artist has photoshopped a picture that shows Olympic medals in the form of gold, silver and bronze handcuffs to make a similar point about repression in Russia today (twitter.com/oleg_kozyrev/status/398798328759988224/photo/1).
Olympic Construction Firms with Friends in High Places Routinely Violate the Law, Activist Says. “Certain officials of the procuracy and the police in off the record conversations acknowledge that [these] firms have protects in the kray force structures and administration” and that there is nothing that law enforcement bodies can do against them, according to activists in Sochi. One of the worst consequences of their ability to act above the law has been their use of sand for construction, something that has become so massive and uncontrolled that many of the beaches for which Sochi is famous for have been effectively destroyed (blogsochi.ru/content/kak-shapsugi-shakhe-otstoyali).
MVD Will Monitor Most But Not All Visitors to Sochi. Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokotsev says that competitors and fans at the Sochi Olympiad will be subject to photographic and video monitoring except for those who are deemed special VIPs. That exception, some security analysts say, could open the way for militants who might want to disrupt the competition. Iosif Linder, head of the International Counter-Terrorist Training Association, says that there are always such exxceptions, but that many of them can be exploited by terrorist groups (http://izvestia.ru/news/560354).
Sochi Airport Remains Unfriendly to Russians. Even in third world countries, Russians say, there are special lines for the citizens of those countries at passport control facilities, but in Sochi, the authorities have not opened such lines despite complaints. Consequently, Russian visitors to the Olympic city have to wait in line far longer than they should, several bloggers say (privetsochi.ru/blog/bred_sochi/37209.html).
Muslim Prayer Rooms Will Be Available for Competitors But No Mosque for Fans. Askerby Kardanov, the head of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate of Adygeya and Krasnodar Kray, says that there will be a prayer room for Muslim competitors in each of the parts of the Olympic village but that unfortunately there will not be any mosque in the city for Muslim fans who may attend the Games (kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/233264/).
Russia to Field 64 Competitors at Paralympics. The Russian Federation will field a team of 64 for the Paralympics folloing the Sochi Games. The team has faced some problems in being assembled, but both Russian and international Paralympic officials are pleased that Moscow is sending such a large contingent in contrast to the past. What officials in both places are now worried about is that ticket sales for this competition are lagging, and many of the competitions may take place in sites with numerous empty seats (kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/233248/, http://www.insidethegames.biz/paralympics/winter-paralympics/2014/1016877-ipc-president-confident-about-gay-rights-and-barrier-free-access-but-concerned-over-ticket-sales-at-sochi-2014 andslon.ru/russia/moi_pyat_kopeek_aloprlvaorplo-1016201.xhtml?page=2#pager).
Gay NBC Correspondent in Moscow Condemns Russia’s Anti-LGBT Laws. Thomas Roberts, in the Russian capital to cover the Miss Universe pageant, spoke out at Russia’s law on gay propaganda to children. “I know the law is very vague and still hard to interpret for many people,” but it is discrimination and that’s definitive. And I don’t think that the LGBT population in Russia or anywhere should be marginalized to that degree. We are not asking for special protection. We’re just asking for equal respect” (queerty.com/watch-thomas-roberts-condemns-russias-antigay-laws-on-miss-universe-red-carpet-20131110/).
Sochi Officials Oppose But Ultimately Don’t Block Anti-Fascist March. Sochi police initially sought to ban an anti-fascist march there on the basis of President Vladimir Putin’s ban on demonstrations there. But that ban does not kick in until January 7, and after hurried conversations with more senior officials, the police allowed the march to go on (sochinskie-novosti.com/%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5-%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5-%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC%D0%B0/).
FSB Hosts Security Officials from ‘More than 50’ Countries at Sochi. Russia’s FSB hosted a three-day conference in Sochi that included representatives of the security services of more than 50 countries to discuss cooperation in advance of the Olympic competition. The centerpiece of the meeting was the confirmation by the head of Britain’s MI-6 that London has renewed security cooperation with Moscow (kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/233117/).
Sochi’s Rivers to Be Monitored for Possible Flooding. Because of the recent flooding in Sochi, the result of abnormally strong storms and the weakening of the city’s natural defenses because of Olympic construction, officials are installing special monitoring devices in the city’s rivers so that they will be able to issue more timely warnings about any flood threats in the future (sochi-24.ru/obshestvo/na-rekah-sochi-ustanavlivayut-trevozhnye-sistemy.20131112.70498.html).
Sochi Residents Protest Plans to Drill for Oil in Black Sea. Activists from the Ecological Watch on the North Caucasus, Green Russia, Yabloko, and the World Wildlife Fund organized a picket in Sochi to protest plans by Rosneft and ExxonMobil to drill for oil in the Black Sea region near Sochi. The activists said that such drilling threatened an already wounded ecological system (sochi-24.ru/obshestvo/rosneft-planiruet-dobyvat-neft-v-chernom-more.20131113.70528.html and ewnc.org/node/13069).
Flap about Smartphones Reflects Language Problems and Russian Contracts. Reports that Russian officials were going to ban the use of smartphones at Sochi were untrue. They reflected a problem with translation and the fact that Moscow’s contracts with companies covering the games restrict the right of others to film them. As Russian and IOC officials noted, participants and fans can use social media including taking still photographs as much as they want, but they cannot film the games for commercial broadcast elsewhere (abcnews.go.com/Technology/olympic-committee-clarifies-social-media-rules-sochi-2014/story?id=20862239, novoston.ru/news/zhurnalistam-zapretili-snimat-sochinskuyu-olimpiadu-5793, and en.rsport.ru/olympics/20131112/700631813.html).
Russian Orthodox Criticism of Olympic Symbolism Provokes Satirical Response. Statements by prominent Russian Orthodox clergy suggesting that Olympic symbolism is pagan and therefore not appropriate in a Christian country have provoked a satirical response by Alex Melnikov, a blogger for Ekho Moskvy. He offers what he describes as a memo to Mr. Zeus, Mrs. Hera and Mr. Apollo about how they should proceed given the Moscow Patriarchate’s opposition (aif.ru/society/religion/1015123, ng.ru/ng_religii/2013-11-08/3_kartblansh.html and echo.msk.ru/blog/alex_melnikov/1194628-echo/).
Russian Crackdown Against Ecological and Rights Activists in Sochi Seen Spreading. Detentions and arrests of activists in the Sochi area are increasing, their organizations say, an indication that the authorities may be planning an even broader crackdown against all civil society groups in the near future in order to prevent them from using the games to call attention to repression in Russia (rosbalt.ru/federal/2013/11/13/1199055.html,echo.msk.ru/blog/sergei_mitrohin/1197158-echo/, novayagazeta.ru/news/152617.html,ewnc.org/node/13039, gazaryan-suren.livejournal.com/119246.html,andprivetsochi.ru/blog/news_sochi/37141.html).
Abkhazia Becomes a Problem for Russia Because of Sochi. Security along the Russian-Abkhaz border nd the resulting lines and delays, Moscow’s failure to push for an Abkhaz team at the games, and some confusion in how Russian commentaries are treating events involving the Abkhaz and the Circassians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have transformed Abkhazia from what many in the Russian capital had hoped would be an asset at the Olympiad into a problem for Moscow because some Abkhazians are now upset about what Russia is doing and not doing on their behalf (blogsochi.ru/content/granitsa-na-zamke,abkhazworld.com/news/misc/1034-there-will-be-no-restrictions-during-the-sochi-olympic-games.html, ekhokavkaza.ru/content/article/25160455.html and kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/233332/).
Sochi has More Cars Per Capita than Does Moscow and Even Worse Roads. There are 410 cars for every 1000 residents of Sochi as compared to only 297 for every 1000 Muscovites, and the roads in Sochi are not only narrower but torn up from continuing construction. As a result, getting around is hard and getting harder not easier, despite Russian denials which are further undercut by plans to arrange special transportation for journalists so that they won’t see the traffic tie ups at the time of the Olympiad. The authorities are reducing the problem slightly by seeking to identify and cart off cars that have been abandoned because they no longer work ( blogsochi.ru/content/pervyi-kanal-unikalnuyu-transportnuyu-sistemu-sozdali-v-sochi, kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/233489/, sochi-24.ru/obshestvo/zhukov-transportnyh-problem-v-sochi-ne-vozniknet.2013118.70342.html, and http://sochi-24.ru/sochi-2014/dlya-zhurnalistov-v-sochi-organizuyut-specialnyj-transport.20131112.70490.html).
Sochi Residents Said Increasingly Angry at City, Region and Moscow. The disruptions to electricity, water, sewage, gas, and heat, streets torn up for the installation of new lines, and the unwillingness of officials at any level to respond to their complaints is angering Sochi residents and leaving some of them in what bloggers call an “increasingly revolutionary” mood. Some have indeed protested, but most are simply sharing their anger with each other and with journalists Russian and Western who visit their city (blogsochi.ru/content/ty-zhitel-olimpiiskogo-sochi-esli , sochinskie-novosti.com/%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE-%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE/ ,ntdtv.ru/novosti-rossii/olimpiada-menyaet-ochertaniya-sochi,theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/11/sochi-olympics-have-made-life-way-worse-locals/7584/, blogsochi.ru/content/vse-iznutri-olimpiada-2014,privetsochi.ru/blog/sitiproblem/37293.html, kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/233234/, kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/233207/, privetsochi.ru/blog/bred_sochi/37171.html,blogsochi.ru/content/inosmi-u-zhitelei-sochi-snosyat-doma-za-ikh-zhe-schet-ntd-kitai,privetsochi.ru/blog/sitiproblem/37249.html, andhttp://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/11/sochi-olympics-have-made-life-way-worse-locals/7584/).
Foreigners Have Problems Getting Visas and Russians Have Problems with Cost. Some analysts are wondering whether the Sochi Olympiad will attract as many people as officials project because foreigners are reporting problems with getting visas, despite the opening of special “windows” at some Russian missions abroad and because the costs of attending are beyond the means of many Russians. Most experts say that 90 percent of attendees will be citizens of the Russian Federation, and they are unanimous in saying that Sochi will not attract as many people after the Olympiad as the Kremlin has suggested in trying to amortize the enormous costs of the games (km.ru/economics/2013/11/12/ekonomika-i-finansy/725023-golodnye-olimpiiskie-igry, ng.ru/economics/2013-11-11/1_sochi.html andnbcnews.com/business/sochi-olympics-going-gold-spending-red-8C11565193).
FMS Told Workers Not to Register; Now It Arrests Them. The Federal Migration Service told gastarbeiters in Sochi not to register or extend their registration in order to make it easier for construction companies to get the labor they need. As a result, however, many of them have never been paid because they do not have the documents they need. And increasingly, many of them are being rounded up by the very agency that told them not to register in the first place and is now expelling them without their having received their wages (kavpolit.com/sochinskuyu-zarplatu-zhdut-v-uzbekistane-i-tadzhikistane/ andblogsochi.ru/content/olimpiiskikh-stroitelei-kinuli-na-5-millionov).
Georgia Remains Undecided on Sochi. Despite Russian claims, Western pressure and the statements of individual Georgian politician and commentators, Georgia remains undecided as to whether and how it will participate in the Sochi Olympiad (politcom.ru/16736.html and kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/233297/).
Krasnoyarsk Officials Want the Money But Residents Don’t Want the Universiade … Officials in Krasnoyarsk very much want the influx of money that holding the Universiade there would bring, but more than 84 percent of the residents are against the idea because of the disruptions in their lives that they believe it would cause, another consequence of reportage about Sochi (novayagazeta.ru/sports/60904.html and ng.ru/regions/2013-11-11/2_universiada.html).
… And Sochi’s Bad Reputation Means Munich Doesn’t Want 2022 Games.Meanwhile, Germany’s “Tageszeitung” reports that officials in the Bavarian capital have concluded that they don’t want their city to compete for the 2022 Games. The paper said that what the officials and people in Munich had heard about Sochi was a major reason for that conclusion (novoston.ru/news/prichinoy-provala-idei-o-provedenii-v-myunhene-igr-2022-stali-sochi-5957).
No Swimming or Flying in Sochi During Olympiad. The FSB continues to issue new restrictions on Sochi residents and visitors. They will not be allowed to swim or fly any kind of plane during the Games. Meanwhile, the Emergency Situations Ministry says it will add another 10,000 officers to its detail in Sochi to help provide security (ufmskrn.ru/site2/news/66458/,
Moscow Officials Worried about Plunge in Sochi Property Values after Games. If apartments and land in Sochi are sold off too quickly after the Olympiad, prices could plunge putting at risk residents, investors and the banks. Consequently, Moscow officials are discussing ways to ensure that sales after the games close will proceed more slowly. The details of just how that might work have yet to be announced, but it is an indication that the Russian government recognizes that it has created a bubble in Sochi and that that bubble could burst, harming some of its supporters and moneymen (http://www.aif.ru/sport/olymp/1020433, kuban.aif.ru/politic/1020354 http://www.kuban.aif.ru/money/details/1020403, itar-tass.com/c1/952946.html, www.ng.ru/economics/2013-11-13/4_sochi.html,
Sochi in ‘Chaos’ and Still Far from Ready for Games, Residents and Visitors Say. “Complete chaos” is one of the descriptions of the roads and other infrastructure offered by local residents who say that they do not believe official claims that everything will be ready in advance of the Olympics. Roads are still torn up. Electric power lines continue to be cut. Water, sewage and heating pipes are not installed. And the interior of many buildings is not finished. But one blogger, Tivur Shaginurov, says he would not want anyone to think that he had only negative impressions. “That isn’t so. Having fled from [Sochi], I fell in love with the sea and thought: who knows, three months from now there will not be any Sochi, 30 years from now there won’t be a Russia, and 300 years from now, quite possibly there won’t be any huan beings. But the sea will remain, unless of course Gazprom has its way” (blogsochi.ru/content/polnyi-khaos-pri-podgotovke-k-olimpiade, blogsochi.ru/content/roza-khutor-ne-vlezai-ubet, kasparov.ru/material.php?id=527B7BBF09D48,blogsochi.ru/content/%C2%ABdubler%C2%BB-reka and
Ongoing Counterterrorism Exercise Elicits Skepticism and Anger. The Russian siloviki launched a major counter-terrorism exercise in the Sochi area on November 10. Most residents think it is all for show, but they are annoyed by how it is being carried out – officers playing terrorists are frightening people, schools and transportation are being disordered, and the Russian force structures are using the occasion to throw their weight around, arresting some people and disturbing the peace of others. Some commentators have used the word “pokazukha” for what is going on, but others say the exercise needs to be described as “a senseless violation of the rights and interests of citizens.” And no independent observer thinks it has been effective or shows that the Russian security services are really able to provide security. There are at least three clear targets: the Circassians and their various subgroups, human rights and ecological activists, and journalists who are being excluded from certain zones in the name of security and thus cannot offer independent assessments of what is going on (ewnc.org/node/13074, blogsochi.ru/content/katok-antiterroristicheskikh-uchenii-%22olimpiada-2014%22-proekhal-po-kubani-i-adygee, sochi-24.ru/obshestvo/antiterroristicheskie-ucheniya-v-sochi-obernulis-pokazuhoj.20131114.70595.html, kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/233506/, natpress.ru/index.php?newsid=8532, itar-tasskuban.ru/news/article?type=sochi&i=49818, ewnc.org/node/13072,ewnc.org/node/13058, sochinskie-novosti.com/%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BA-%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%80/ and kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/233306/). | <urn:uuid:0ef4e1e6-75e5-4944-aa1d-4c2bc8875a5d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://krasnaya-polyana-genocide1864.com/2013/11/15/window-on-eurasia-sochi-countdown-12-weeks-to-the-olympiad-in-the-north-caucasus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.905281 | 9,593 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Concerned about the ongoing seismic activity in Thiva, central Greece, scientists are investigating whether the hundreds of quakes that have occurred in the area since last Friday are part of a swarm or a harbinger of a stronger one.
The largest of these quakes was 4.3 on the Richter scale, according to Thanasis Ganas, director of research at the National Observatory’s Geodynamics Institute.
“We are considering two possibilities. The first is that it is a swarm, which will continue to produce earthquakes of medium or small strength and will gradually ease. The second is that it is a pre-earthquake sequence with a stronger event to follow,” he told Kathimerini, adding that what make scientists optimistic is that neither the location of the earthquakes nor their magnitude has changed.
The fault, he said, runs from east to west near the town of Thiva to the village of Eleonas, while additional seismographs have been installed in the area. | <urn:uuid:57c10432-aee5-4cca-ab80-68a0d5fc19df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1164472/thiva-tremors-keeping-scientists-on-high-alert/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962658 | 204 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Lawrence E. Corbridge
|Lawrence E. Corbridge|
|First Quorum of the Seventy|
|April 5, 2008|
|Called by||Thomas S. Monson|
|Born||Lawrence Edward Corbridge|
April 6, 1949
Moscow, Idaho, United States
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Lawrence Edward Corbridge (born April 6, 1949) has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2008. He is a member of the church's First Quorum of the Seventy.
Corbridge was born in Moscow, Idaho, and raised in Provo, Utah. Corbridge has a bachelor's degree and a J.D., both from Brigham Young University. From 1968 to 1970, he was a Mormon missionary in Argentina. He married Jacquelyn Gayle Shamo in 1974 and they are the parents of five children.
Prior to being called as a general authority, Corbridge was a lawyer for a Salt Lake City law firm. He served in many LDS Church callings, including bishop and stake president. He served from 2002 to 2005 as president of the Chile Santiago North Mission. After serving previously as a counselor in the church's Chile Area, he served as president from 2011 to 2012.
- "Elder Lawrence E. Corbridge," Liahona, May 2008, p. 135
- 2009 Deseret News Church Almanac (Deseret News: Salt Lake City, Utah, 2008) p. 49
- "General Authorities: Elder Lawrence E. Corbridge", lds.org
- Grandpa Bill's G.A. Pages: Lawrence E. Corbridge
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According to Vietnamese news site, Baodautu, the group has invested 1.14 billion dong ($52,930) into the new facility, which will stretch across 20 hectares in the Que Son district. It will include 3,000 spindles, which are expected to produce 4,600 tons of material each year, a fabric dying area with a capacity of 5,000 tons per year and 20 production lines that will produce 20-25 million knit products annually.
Vinatex also built a sewage treatment plant to treat 5,000 cubic meters of water per day.
When the factory is completed, it will not only provide raw materials for the textile industry in Quang Nam, but for other provinces in the country as well including, Da Nang, Phu Yen and Ha Tinh, which will help the country meet its social consumption and export needs.
The new facility will also create jobs for roughly 2,000 workers in Que Son and the United States, with a monthly salary of 4.5 million dong ($209). | <urn:uuid:d198a826-4ebf-4f93-8d46-9721ebe15438> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sourcingjournal.com/topics/trade/vinatex-begin-building-new-factory-quang-nam-ll-26382/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.943066 | 213 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Immerse yourself in the visual world of 50 cultures at SCRF
May 24, 2021 / 6:35 PM
During the event
Sharjah 24: The integral role of the visual narrative in storytelling and enhancing a child’s sense of wonder takes the spotlight at the 12th Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF) currently on at Expo Centre Sharjah where artists and illustrators from 50 countries are exhibiting 395 works at the Sharjah Children's Book Illustration Exhibition, running alongside the main event.
Currently in its 9th edition, the Illustration Exhibition features 106 works of artists from across 15 Arab nations while artists from 35 foreign countries are exhibiting 289 picturesque works.
From realistic and abstract styles to images with a bright and cheery palette, or sombre shades and monochromatic illustrations, the works on display instantly shifts the mood from happy and magical to mysterious, gloomy, or scary as it provides an immediate connection with the setting of the story.
Depicting a wide range of artistic techniques to effectively provide the context and the personality of a book’s characters, the exhibition demonstrates the power of the visual narrative in helping young readers establish a relationship with the written word, and in opening the doors to their understanding of a story.
Incorporating both modern and folkloric elements from 50 cultures around the world including Estonia, Chile, Greece, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, Lithuania, Argentina, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt, amongst others, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the unlimited possibilities a single image has in bringing a story to life.
The UAE is represented through the works of Emirati artists Salem Al Junaibi and Asma Alhosani, the bold colours of Eman AlRaesi’s simple designs and the stark visuals of Khalid Al Banna.
The bold, expressive, and innovative artistry on display reinforces the endearing appeal of illustrations in sparking imagination and enriching the text even as it transcends the boundaries of language. | <urn:uuid:49fbe558-2310-4015-ac47-ee29b7fff980> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sharjah24.ae/en/articles/2021/05/24/Immerse-yourself-in-the-visual-world-of-50-cultures-at-SCRF | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.905752 | 422 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Chinese students flying home from overseas to escape the coronavirus pandemic face a frosty reception from sections of the public who view them as wealthy, spoiled -- and potentially contaminated.
The number of officially reported cases in China has dwindled dramatically over the last month, but the country is now taking drastic steps to try and stem a second wave of infections brought in from abroad.
With most international flights cancelled and nearly all foreigners barred from entering the country, the vast majority of returnees are Chinese nationals, including many students.
The situation has exposed animosities over class and privilege in Chinese society, fuelled by online posts stereotyping returning students as ungrateful and even dangerous -- using the irresponsible behaviour of a few individuals as proof.
"Right now, public opinion in China is very unfriendly towards Chinese overseas students, and quarantine facilities there are mixed," said Hestia Zhang, a master's student at Yale University.
She has decided to stay in self-isolation on campus rather than go back, despite the United States now accounting for almost a quarter of reported global infections.
"There are also a lot of risks on the journey home, so I might as well stay here and wait it out," she told AFP.
Meanwhile Cathy, who landed in China on Tuesday morning, is resigned to the fact that she may encounter prejudice. Using her English name to conceal her identity, she said she had "no choice but to bear it".
Nearly half of China's 800 imported virus cases are overseas students.
Most returnees need to spend two weeks in isolation, and a widely shared video of a returned student who tried to escape her quarantine accommodation in the city of Qingdao has prompted outrage online.
- 'China-hating wretches' -
A similar angry reaction met clips showing another returnee angrily demanding bottled mineral water from quarantine facility workers in Shanghai.
"They eat food from our bowl, yet turn on the motherland as soon as they stop eating. We don't need to take them back," wrote one user, garnering thousands of likes.
There is a widely held belief that international students see themselves as superior to their fellow citizens, said Yik-Chan Chin, a professor of media and communications at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
This is often compounded by perceptions of the students' extreme wealth and multiple nationalities, she said.
The vast majority of China's 1.6 million outbound students are still overseas, according to the education ministry.
Many want to come back but face astronomical ticket prices and gruelling multiple-transit flights, plus the increased risk of infection en route.
Beijing chartered a flight Monday to rescue some 200 overseas students left stranded in Ethiopia after their transfer flights to China were cancelled last-minute, and another took off on Thursday to bring students back from the UK.
"I hope those you're taking back are conscientious and patriotic, and not a group of ungrateful, China-hating wretches who are only concerned with living a life of luxury," one user fumed.
However there has been some sympathy, especially as many overseas students donated medical supplies in the initial stages of the outbreak.
"Who emptied global supermarket shelves of protective supplies and sent them back to China? International students!" wrote the film director Lu Chuan in a Weibo post. | <urn:uuid:ecec2d7f-990d-4274-851f-f3f38927e3a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.yahoo.com/chinese-students-fleeing-virus-face-uneasy-reception-back-033349829.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968146 | 692 | 1.5 | 2 |
Viajes to Kenya
Today we will talk a little bit about How to Travel to Kenya? and airlines that travel to Kenya.
The first thing we find when searching for flights are the search engines google flights or skyscanner.
Did you know that you can search flights directly on the pages of the airlines?
Some of the airlines that fly to Kenya are (This information is based on departures from Spain (Barcelona, Madrid):
- KLM, it usually stops at Amsterdam
- British Airways, you pass through London
- Lufthansa, it stops at Frankfurt
- Kenya Airways, You take a little walk by Paris or London
- Emirates Airways, with a stopover in Dubai
- Qatar Airways, Stopover in Doha
- Turkish Airlines, You stop in Istanbul
- Egyptair, You pass through Cairo
Prices vary in each airline, there is also the time factor or days of travel, for that’s good to open a tab with several companies and make a comparison.The
cheapest flights are usually between € 350 to € 600. Companies like Qatar Airways and Emirates usually have competitive prices, in addition Turkish Airlines and Egyptair usually have the lowest prices.
I hope the information is useful for you to find your flight to Kenya, also if you know of any airline or search engine that is not on the list, share it in the comments, it will be very helpful for the next travelers. | <urn:uuid:21c7b938-1229-44b3-ad1a-53c4f237e21f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.adventurevolunteer.org/en/how-to-travel-to-kenya/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.923439 | 302 | 1.53125 | 2 |
One very important factor that applies to people over the world is to be healthy. In today’s context to be healthy is somewhat a challenge. Years back our ancestors lived very close to nature. Their lives dependence was very much nature based. Mostly their work was agriculture-based involvement. Their food was grown by planting trees or harvesting paddy. Had dairies and Poultry for milk and eggs.
Grew herbal plants for medical purposes. History tells us that they weaved their own cloth to wear. As living was village based then, villagers as refered to them lived in a closed community. The villagers shared amongst them all things. Although the work the villagers did was physically strenuous mentally, they were relaxed. The villager familiesat an end of a day would meet up share amongst them food and drink, sing songs and whatever news that is appealing.
They would engage in outdoor popular activities such as Running a race, Swimming in natural tanks and rivers, Boat racing. All these gave them relaxation and freshened them up to face another day of work. With years progressing and many developments taking place in technology new industries started to come up. With these cities came about and exclusive zones consisting of industries came about. All of these contributed to the world becoming more sophisticated and the village-based living expanded. People seeked employment in these industries resulting in societies expanding and becoming more in population.
As work became more formal with working hours specified peoples lives too became busier having to work to time and to attend to their personal needs. No wonder a common reference attributed to the people of today is “They are running a rat race” This situation has increased stress levels of people in alarming proportions. Medical statistics of stress related Illnesses prove this.
About Pop TV App
In this time constraint world, people have to find the most suitable means of relaxation to ward off the stress to meet their timing. According to the findings of several international polls, watching TV ranks first on the list of the most common and preferred activities that people use to unwind. Due to its popularity, a contemporary app has been created to make watching TV even more convenient. It is none other than the classy POP TV App thrilling Millions of its viewers all over.
POP TV features the most popular contents of TV broadcast by making available an unbelievable volume catering to fulfill all tastes of the viewers including children’s programs.
Wide Live Streaming is available 24/7 giving the viewers the choice of watching at any time convenient to them. It has lined up all the box offices hits of the most popular movies from the most popular studios around the globe. All of the Emmy Academy award winning movies are included. With the POP TV APP it is guaranteed that all the customers will be catered most extensively to keep them satisfied and relaxed to the maximum. So, enjoy the best content at ease!
Install Pop TV app Fire TV stick
You can use Amazon App Store on Fire TV devices and Play Store on Android TV boxes to install Pop TV app. There are many free Movies and TV shows applications for both Fire TV and Android TV. You can use Applinked, Filesynced or unlinked app stores to find those. All three App stores has its own public store located at the home page or each app. No need to use Applinked code to access AppLinked store, Filesynced code or Unlinked code. Click here to download Filesynced. | <urn:uuid:8253c92d-457c-4749-a902-89a47a2ca27e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://facetag.org/pop-tv-app/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971892 | 700 | 2.40625 | 2 |
We explain that how to make a bird table platform? A bird table is a structure suspended outside a building or house on which bird food is placed. It is a kind of bird feeder that allows you to put all kinds of food and leftovers for your bird. Most of these tables are made of wood, but many are made of plastic. You should note which table corresponds to your bird’s preferences and well-being.
Bird tables generally have flat spaces where the bird can sit when eating, they also have steps where the birds rest. You can find many bird table designs. Here we provide information so you can make your own wooden bird table.
How to make a bird table? The things you need are:
- One piece of cedar or oak with a minimum of 9 feet in length for the base
- A 1 X 1 square or oak shaped piece of board.
- 6 feet of oak or cedar plank for use around the edges.
- Heavy hammer
- A friend to help you hold the pole that you will use as a base.
Step 1 – Choose a suitable place to set the bird table
- The bird table should be kept out in the open and away from trees so that squirrels cannot eat your bird’s food.
- The placement of the table should be visible so you can monitor the birds.
- The table place should be away from cages of other animals, or usual predator loitering places.
Based on your choice, bird comfort and preference, pick the perfect spot and get ready to put up the base post.
Step 2 – Place the base. Have your friend or helper hold the pole straight so you can pin it to the ground and climb the ladder. You must put it deep in the ground. A 9-foot pole should have at least 1 foot buried in the ground, for a longer one you should go deeper.
Step 3- Make the table. Cut the background to fit the edges of the square board. Use a nailer or hammer and nails to set the edges; This will help keep food in place and help your bird have a place to perch.
Step 4 – Assemble and fill the bird table. Place the tabletop on top of the base and glue it firmly with 2-inch screws. Make sure it is securely attached so that it can stay stable and will not rotate in the wind. Put some seeds, tallow, or leftover food on the bird table and walk away.
The aforementioned information provides a guide on bird tables and how to make them. Making a bird table will always be better since you can design it according to the requirements of the birds you want to attract to it. | <urn:uuid:fcb73f79-a620-47a3-8df5-c482262b70e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pediamaster.com/bird-tables/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.918771 | 560 | 3.046875 | 3 |
DENTON (UNT), Texas – University of North Texas College of Engineering assistant professor Tao Yang earned the prestigious 2018 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities for his research into the future of electrical distribution, microgrids.
“Traditionally, electricity is provided through one central distribution network. This means a problem in one area will affect the entire grid causing power outages and blackouts,” Yang said. “Now, imagine if each user had a microgrid. People would be able to manage their own power distribution so if the main grid goes down they will still have power.”
While a microgrid does draw power from the central grid, it can break away and operate using its own generators and other power sources such as solar and wind. The microgrid Yang designed has its own generator and draws power from renewable energy sources currently in use on campus. Yang’s microgrid would continue to work if the rest of campus lost power due to mechanical failure, severe weather, etc.
The Powe award, aimed at enhancing the research and professional growth of young faculty, is awarded to professors teaching engineering, sciences, mathematics, policy management or education. Awards from Oak Ridge, a consortium of 121 major Ph.D.-granting universities nationwide, can be used as funds for faculty summer salary, graduate student salary, travel, equipment or other assistance relevant to the faculty member's research.
About Tao Yang
Tao Yang is an assistant professor in UNT’s College of Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering. Prior to joining UNT, he was a scientist/engineer with the Energy & Environmental Directorate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. From 2012 to 2014, he was an ACCESS Post-Doctoral Researcher with the ACCESS Linnaeus Centre at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
His research interests include distributed control and optimization with applications to power systems and transportation systems, Cyber Physical Systems, machine learning, networked control systems and multi-agent systems.
Yang received a bachelor’s of science degree in Computer Science from Harbin University of Science and Technology, a master’s degree with distinction in control engineering from City University, London, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Washington State University. | <urn:uuid:2547815d-4395-4d51-960b-e2c9a273821a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.unt.edu/unt-electrical-engineering-assistant-professor-earns-prestigious-powe-award | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948972 | 469 | 1.953125 | 2 |
January 24, 2019
IntelBrief: Russia Flexes Influence in Serbia
Russia has long maintained considerable influence in the Balkans, particularly in the former Yugoslavia and now, in Serbia. This influence has steadily grown more overt since the fall of the Soviet Union. Russian foreign policy is more aggressive, particularly in its near abroad, and Moscow’s use of political warfare, sometimes referred to as ‘active measures’ has increased too. In Serbia, the issue of Russian influence matters not just for the future of Serbia but also for the European Union (EU), of which Serbia hopes to be a member. Serbia has extensive linkages with Russia regarding its military and intelligence services. While it was never formally in the Soviet Eastern Bloc, it was a close neighbor with whom Moscow shared military weapons and hardware, along with intelligence training and tactics. That relationship deepened during the NATO-led military campaign in the Balkans throughout the 1990s.
Membership to the EU is, by design, always a lengthy and arduous process. Serbia’s path to membership is perhaps even more complicated because of its conflict with neighboring Kosovo. Serbia refuses to recognize Kosovo as an independent and sovereign nation and instead views Pristina as a rogue province or vassal state that still ‘belongs’ to Belgrade. More than 100 other countries have recognized Kosovo but, importantly, China and Russia are not among them. With its own concerns over Taiwan, Beijing is reluctant to recognize what it views as a breakaway province. Russia, having lived through the collapse of the U.S.S.R, an event that Putin once dubbed ‘a major geopolitical disaster of the century,’ feels similarly. The cultural bonds between Serbia and Russia are strong and include Eastern Orthodox Christian religious ties. Putin has effectively positioned Russia as the defender of Slavic and Orthodox ‘culture,’ and Russia is a prime engine in far-right nationalistic and white supremacist movements across the EU, a phenomenon that even extends to the US.
The recent decision by Kosovo to formally create its ministry of defense and its own formal and standing army has caused significant enmity in Belgrade. Under the agreements that led to the cessation of fighting between Kosovo and Serbia, NATO would be the sole standing military force in Kosovo, though there has always been a sizable Kosovo defense force that is technically not a formal army. During his visit to Belgrade, Putin echoed Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s vocal condemnation of the Kosovo decision, saying the ‘irresponsible actions of the Kosovo leadership can lead to destabilization in the Balkans.’ President Vucic is an unabashed admirer of Putin, as well as of Hungary’s Viktor Orban, another autocratic strongman who sees much of what the EU stands for—freedom of the press, multiculturalism, free and fair elections, a crackdown on corruption—as a threat to further solidifying his grip on power.
In recent years the Kremlin has made a serious push to shape pro-Russian opinion in Serbia through media outlets supported and coordinated by Moscow. These efforts have been successful to a degree, with the likeness of Putin plastered everywhere in the lead up to his visit to Belgrade. Economics also play a major role in Moscow’s presence and influence. During his visit, Putin highlighted the economic ties between the two countries. He noted that Russia has already invested more than $4 billion in Serbia, with an additional $1.4 billion forthcoming to help build up the natural gas energy pipeline and infrastructure Moscow needs to expand its TurkStream project, a massive program to supply Russian natural gas to southern Europe and beyond. Russia’s vast energy reserves and role as a major supplier of natural gas to Europe provides it with serious leverage, what some commentators have referred to as ‘energy blackmail.’ Unless European nations can find a way to diversify their sources of energy, this dynamic will continue, with Putin using energy as a cudgel to secure a geopolitical advantage for Russia at every turn.
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18 Oct Energy efficient buildings
Belgium Academies (ARB) 2010
In the industrialized world, residential housing and equivalents consume up to 40% of the annual total end energy use. The major part in cool and cold climates goes to heating, though in terms of percentage the share of domestic hot water, lighting, function and cooling increases when the heating needs diminish as a result of higher energy efficiency. By goal-oriented design – compact, smart glass use, very well insulated, airtight – buildings now allow important savings in heating without jeopardizing usability. Since 1973 energetically better construction has evolved from “insulated” over “energy efficient” to “low energy” and, recently, “passive quality”, “zero energy” and “plus energy”. In both last cases, a building produces as much or more energy through photovoltaic cells than it consumes on an annual basis. Anyhow, if applied on a large scale, both concepts will demand a complete transformation of the electricity grid, from passive to smart. Also, contrary to low energy buildings, passive, zero energy and plus energy buildings are beyond the economic optimum.
The EU decided to decrease energy consumption in 2020 by 20% compared to a business as usual scenario, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% in 2020 compared to 1990 and to increase the share of renewable sources in the energy production to 20% by 2020. Even if from 2009 on all new construction would be of passive quality, 20% less consumption in the built environment will not be achievable by 2020. Moreover, the extremely stringent conditions in terms of energy use for heating in passive buildings have as a consequence that domestic hot water, lighting, function and cooling become the largest consumers, typically in the form of electricity, which weighs heavily in terms of primary energy (_ 2,5). And, energy conservation when these three are at stake is not easy. The only way out in the years to come is, aside of imposing performance requirements at the level of the economic optimum for new construction (E60, K30), promoting with all means energy efficient renovation, energy efficient lighting and energy efficient appliances. | <urn:uuid:d2720d56-4c37-4e04-9289-bd207642192c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.euro-case.org/energy-efficient-buildings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.933001 | 445 | 3.390625 | 3 |
03/04/2021 | Trends
Meanwhile, the profession has attracted public attention. But what is actually behind it? Dr. Benedikt Schmidt and Dr. Marco Gärtler from ABB describe the job and explain why you should be enthusiastic about it.
DECHEMA: ABB is partner of the KEEN platform, which focuses on the application of artificial intelligence methods in the process industry. What role do AI methods play in ABB's research projects?
__ Dr. Benedikt Schmidt: For ABB, AI is considered as an additional tool for the method orchestra. They complement classic methods such as physical modelling (first principle model). Machine learning as a subset of AI is used to generate knowledge from data and to facilitate decisions based on this knowledge. This process always takes place in interaction with the other tools of the orchestra. Machine learning, for example, is able to identify patterns in existing data sets.
DECHEMA: As Data Scientist, both of you have already applied AI methods. What is behind the job description of a Data Scientist and what makes the profession so exciting?
DECHEMA: What special qualities are necessary for the job?
DECHEMA: ABB has formulated a question for the KEEN Hackathon. What is interesting about your challenge and why is participating at a hackathon a special experience?
The interview was conducted by Dr. Simone Rogg/DECHEMA e.V.
studied mathematics at the University of Konstanz. He completed his doctorate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the field of Computer Science. He has been working at ABB as Data Scientist since 2018 and has been developing AI methods for the process industry as part of the KEEN project since April 2020. He contributes to the formulation of the ABB - Challenge for the KEEN Hackathon.
studied computer science at the University of Paderborn. After his studies, he worked as a research assistant at SAP's research center and completed his doctorate at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Since 2015, he is employed as Data Scientist at ABB.
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Traditional healing techniques, using indigenous medicinal plants, practiced efficiently for hundreds of years by some of India’s most elusive tribes residing in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is all set to become public. ICMR’s Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) is preparing a unique Community Biodiversity Register (CBDR) for the tribals of the Andaman and NicobarIslands that will document their traditional healing practices, use of medicinal plants, healing record, mode of preparation of plants’ parts and number of patients treated. Scientists have travelled to 11 of the 15 villages of the Car Nicobar Island, inhabited by the ancient Nicobarese tribe, documenting the use of 124 medicinal plants that are being prescribed to cure 34 different diseases. They have also interviewed 42 Traditional Knowledge Persons (TKP)/folk healers for the project, which is estimated to cost over Rs 38 lakh. The ICMR plans to acquire patents of these traditional healing techniques for the tribals. RMRC director Dr Palaru Vijayachari said, “Traditional treasures of the tribal people, like their healing techniques, need to be protected. We are documenting them so that patents can be applied for such practices. We will be documenting all medicinal plants among all accessible tribes. Scientific explanation of the use of the plant will accompany it. “Dr Vijayachari said, “Mostly these medicines made by the tribes are a combination of plants. The duration of treatment is different, and isn’t the same for all diseases. We will collect all information, scientifically validate them and then help patent them on the name of the tribal healers. Scientists are also collecting the plants and their parts used for treating ailments, and have also developed an herbal garden where some of these species are being studied. According to the Indian Patent Act, no traditional knowledge can be patented by anybody but the exclusive knowledge of the tribal/folk healers must be ascribed to them and registered in their name so that nobody can misuse that knowledge for commercial purposes without their prior permission and sharing its benefits with them. “Thus, if any new product is developed based on that knowledge and any form of Intellectual Property Right ( IPR) is taken for that, the folk/tribal healers must be included as the innovators and get due share of benefits as its co-patentees. CBDR will have a photo of the TKP and his personal details. Also, it would include the diseases being treated, local names of plants, combination of plants used and mode of preparation,” Dr Vijayachari added.
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“It takes no compromise to give people their rights.. it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.” – Harvey Milk
Manoj belonged to a middle class family. It was a family of scholars. His parents were teachers at a neighbourhood school. His best friend Tez studied in the same school where Manoj’s parents taught. He stayed with his uncle. Manoj was being home-schooled since he had some ‘issues’. These were according to his parents, though he was not aware of any. The two friends met every day; they played cricket, and kho-kho with other kids of the society; they lay in the grass every evening, enjoying the sunset. It was in the year 2005, when Tez fell victim to a bus collision accident. His bones were severely fractured; he had several concussions and had lost a lot of blood. Manoj was stupefied after hearing the news. He rushed to the hospital just to see his friend lying in a coma which would last for two months. It was a devastating situation for Manoj; he had no one to talk to and no one to spend his play hours with. He tried to talk to the other neighbourhood kids in order to seek solace; however, they would avoid him. Confused and disappointed, he sought the reason why he was being avoided. He was thwarted by everyone’s negative attitude towards him and finally went to see Tez’s uncle and asked him why everyone stayed away from him.
“You see, Manoj, there are a few things which the older people don’t understand.”
“According to your parents, you possess some ‘feminine’ attributes. But don’t worry, that’s what makes you special – different from the others. The fact that you are special is what the elders don’t understand.”
“I don’t get it, uncle.”
“I know, dear. But one day you will. You will understand all of this and you will make the others understand it too. No one will avoid you then. In fact, you will attract a lot of people – a lot.”
Manoj went home and tried to confront his parents. He was certain that they did not want him to mingle with the crowd. Furious with their child’s rebellious behaviour, they shut Manoj inside his room for weeks. His mind was dazed; perplexed by many conflicting thoughts, he tried to find out why his parents despised him that much. He missed Tez at the same time. He kept thinking over what his uncle had said. He would visit Manoj twice a week just to see how he was doing. Tez’s uncle was his only company. Tez woke up from the coma; he got better and re-joined school.
Tez had very little or no idea about what had happened in the world outside while he was in the coma. He met Manoj couple of times a week and noted the changes in his behaviour. He asked his uncle and came to know about Manoj’s house arrest mandated by his parents. He understood Manoj’s circumvention when they came across each other. Their eyes did not meet anymore. Tez comprehended the changes that took place in Manoj’s body – he became thinner, paler, rickety and feverish; he also developed dark circles under his eyes and wrinkles appeared too. Tez finally decided to have a candid conversation with his friend. They met at the beach on a Saturday. They walked barefoot along the shore. The softness of sand really comforted the feet of any tormented soul. First they talked about regular neighbourhood and school affairs, and then Tez switched the subject of their conversation.
“What happened to you, Manoj?”
“What do you mean?”
“You don’t talk to me now-a-days. You look sick. Why?”
Manoj increased his pace. Tez seized his arm and he stopped.
“You can trust me, buddy. I will listen to you. Tell me everything.”
Manoj told him everything about what he had to go through for two months to make his parents believe that he was ‘normal’, in order to come out of the house. He told Tez about the torturous attitude of his parents towards him and how all the other kids avoided him. He also shared some information on being ‘feminine’ that he found on the internet which said that ‘feminine’ males were called ‘gay’. He was in tears and he choked. Tez was appalled by his friend’s agonizing situation. He felt dismayed and angry.
“Tez, do I behave like a girl?”
Tez gave it a long thought and said, “Yes, sometimes you do.”
“Is that a bad thing?”
“No, not at all. I like it, in fact.”
“Yes, my friend.” Tez smiled and out his arm around Manoj.
He promised Manoj that he would speak to his parents and the other kids. He would not let anyone harm his feelings and assured him that he would never let him down. They walked into the approaching dusk; the sunset bathed them and they felt succoured.
“Do you like me?” Tej’s voice was shaken.
“Of course, I do.”
“No. Do you like me?”
Manoj smiled and replied. “Yes. I like you.”
They hugged each other tightly and walked the rest of the evening holding hands. They realized holding hands made them feel more comfortable and invulnerable.
On the following Monday, Tez went to the staff room during recess to see Manoj’s parents. He told them to treat him properly at home or he would expose their behaviour towards their son in front of their colleagues. They were intimidated by Tez and called his uncle immediately to tell him that his nephew would be suspended if he came back to the staff room again. Tez convinced the others kids that Manoj was as normal as them. Manoj found back all the company that he had lost. He was happy and utterly indebted to Tez. None of the neighbourhood parents liked Manoj. They did not want their kids to play with him. But that did not stop the kids from discovering what a ‘special’ person Manoj was. As few years passed by, his parents realized that he needed school education and real classmates – that would help him prepare for the competitive examinations. Then, Manoj had more time to spend with his friends, particularly Tez, the person he loved. They were happy and their feelings for each other intensified over the following years.
Manoj excelled in High School. He established the fact for himself that he was gay and had no restraint regarding the matter. He was often disregarded by the authorities and was warned and suspended a number of times. He was loved by the most, but hated by the rest. People made fun of him, ridiculed their relationship and tried to make them feel bad whenever they found an opportunity.
Homophobia-triggered aversion was more prominent in the faculty. Some people considered homosexuality an infection that spread to more people, causing fear or affliction to the unaffected rest. Manoj and Tez never gave up. They organized low-profile ‘Rainbow’ meetings at the canteen and tried not to draw the staffs’ attention. However, they had enemies who were not so tight-lipped. They counselled the fellow students who wanted to come out of the closet and the straight people who supported their cause. The duo made statistical notes of attacks against homosexuality. The students suffered back in their homes – their basic freedom inhibited by the parents, relatives, friends, neighbours and everyone else. They were smitten by demotivating remarks passed by and the sheer sanctimony amongst the people ‘close’ to them.
In his High School graduation speech, Manoj decided to unveil what he held back for years – how he felt, what he discovered in himself and why he was ‘special’, as Tez’s uncle once called him.
“… and now, my friends, I’d like to discuss something important. As a kid, I was victimised by many people for no rational reason whatsoever. It was just because of my sexuality. I was discriminated and anguished at each step of my life, which took me closer to hope. My parents wouldn’t let me go outside with my ‘femininity’. Other parents wouldn’t let their kids play with me. I was subjected to macabre situations because I was considered ‘abnormal’. As I grew older, I realized that I wasn’t alone – there are thousands of others like me. A very special friend gave me hope and accepted me for what I am. He paved the way for me so that I could transcend, distinguish myself and pronounce my sexuality as ‘normal’, if not straight. I won’t say thanks to him ‘cause he deserves something that my words can’t speak. ‘Society’ and ‘civilization’ are two different things. Our society may or may not be civilized. I’d rather rise in the civilization than limit myself to the constraints set by the society, which is again made by man. I just want to say that people are afraid of the ‘truth’. People are afraid of the good things – things that are different – strange, but good things. The world had seen so much sin that people are afraid of the virtues now. They feel that the virtues might destroy them.
Homosexuality is something like that. It doesn’t spread like an infection, but it spreads like love. It shows you that we have different colours in the world. Never be afraid of it. It’s the cardinal right of an individual to express his or her sexuality. We are like flowers in the garden, clouds in the sky; we are everywhere and we need your support. Trees require water, sunlight and minerals to grow. We are like the trees; we require your support to grow. If you don’t let the trees grow and cut them down, the land becomes barren and lifeless; people fail to see the beauty of trees, they die of hunger when the crops don’t flourish. We are like those trees; without us there will be only wilderness in the population and people won’t see the beauty of us. The trees cleanse the air you breathe; we cleanse your sombreness with colour. Let me ask you once again; please let us live, because we can’t live in falsehood. We can’t hide and we won’t! We wait for the day when people like us won’t be afraid to say that they are queer. That’s all, thank you.”
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Posted At: 2021-09-01
The hybrid of ML & IoT leads to growth in the leverage of digital twins. As Object Management Group program, the digital twin consortium was introduced in August, which operates on defining standards & taxonomy, enabling simulation & AI tech. In addition, the digital twin in the supply chain permits a comparison between historical & current performance data, wherever the sensor is located.
Posted At: 2021-08-29
In 2003, the simulation hypothesis was reduced to a helpful thought test by Nick Bostrom, a philosopher of the University of Oxford; a paper 'Are you living in a computer simulation' explores the idea of providing current computing power trend to efficiently run simulations of billions of universes. The paper has stimulated serious topic discussion, especially in the secret realm of quantum
Posted At: 2021-08-27
The neural circuit connection design in the brain is quite complex. New tech development allows the reconstruction of human brain networks on the macroscale. The functional & computation specialization developed from the network design - connectomes that are densely interconnected core are still unknown.
Posted At: 2021-08-12
Natural Language Processing (NLP) developments enable computers to identify what humans say & aid users to communicate via chatbots, machine translations, and voice-controlled assistants. But often, these researches target on spoken languages rather than 200 signed languages and approx. 70M people depend on them to communicate.
Posted At: 2021-08-04
Machine Learning (ML) & Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the latest technological trends, where these 2 terms differ in concepts even though ML, a part of AI. AI is a vast concept of machines that carries out tasks in more ingenious ways, while ML provides data access to machines.
Posted At: 2021-06-25
DeepMind has publicized that AI is used to handle the most deadly parasitic diseases in the developing world. The London-based Alphabet-owned lab will operate with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDI) to treat Chagas disease & Leishmaniasis. Scientists spend years in labs mapping protein structures. Last year, the firm's AlphaFold program achieved the same precision in a matter
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Intel has developed a 5G smart factory from the ground up to explain the merits of industry 4.0 digitalization. The end-to-end smart factory is Verona-based, Italy & is based on Intel FPGAs, Intel Edge Controls for Industrial & Edge Insights for Industrial Software, & Intel Atom & Xeon Scalable Processors. Intel is partnering with Telecom Italia (TIM), EXOR International & JMA Wireless
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EU lawmakers are drafting regulations to prohibit AI systems used for ranking social behavior or for mass surveillance. While organizations using Artificial Intelligence could face fines of up to 4 percent of global turnover (or €20 million, if more significant) if they fail to obey new regulations governing the software applications.
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It is considered the crucial cloud-based data analytics form with a massive processing scope, minimizing the time & efforts. Evidence shows that by the end of 2022, the global edge computing marketplace will reach $6.72B, offering numerous IT & software engineer jobs.
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Technology is everywhere. Technology is changing our lives. We’re more into technologies than ever before. With IoT, AI, Virtual Reality, Blockchain, we’re entering into Society 2.0, very fast.
Posted At: 2020-11-12
The cognitive behavior of Robots should be implemented through the body-environment interaction while enabling the agent to maintain its autonomy and adaptability. Robot behaviors are usually designed by pre-defined modules and control methodologies by the roboticists which make the robots task-specific, and also limiting their flexibility.
Posted At: 2020-11-05
Continental Automotive India with a 30% extra workforce and partly aided by automation processes is already supporting the manufacturing sector. The industry 4.0 standards facilitate various smart factory features which supported rather the resumption of work seamlessly apart from production.
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An excitement approach of AI in the study of science and technology is increasing day by day. Research says psychology-related problems can never be solved by any machines except humans but it's again a breakthrough in this technology. AI is going to be a supporting system in making decisions and recommendations for treatment based on the findings.
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World Economic Forum forecast that half of all the work will be taken over by the machines by 2025, in transpose likely to worsen inequality. It also warns workers to face binary threats from an acceleration in automation and the fall of the covid-19 recession where the pandemic expedites to the digital world.
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KPMG -Global Climate Response launched in 2008 governs the environmental impact across its firms with the target of a 10% emission reduction and 60% of purchased electricity from global renewable energy sources by 2020. To prove its sustainability, it records the net carbon emission per FTE 27% since 2010, and 46% of purchased electricity is from renewable sources in 2018.
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Sex crimes are very common these days and are among the most heinous crimes. It always carries a negative stigma. Once someone is convicted as a sex offender, he or she is tagged with that description for life. This stigma can adversely affect their life forever. It can affect you mentally, emotionally and socially. Sex crime charges can destroy your reputation, negatively affect your personal relationships and harm your career.
Some of the common types of crimes are:
- Child Pornography: Section 2256 of Title 18, United States Code, defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (someone under 18 years of age). Visual depictions include photographs, videos, digital or computer generated images indistinguishable from an actual minor, and images created, adapted, or modified, but appear to depict an identifiable, actual minor. Undeveloped film, undeveloped videotape, and electronically stored data that can be converted into a visual image of child pornography are also deemed illegal visual depictions under federal law.
- Prostitution: It is the exchange of sex for money or any other commodity. Everything about prostitution, acting as a middleman between the customer and the prostitute or solicitation, asking for the services of a prostitute is illegal.
- Indecent Exposure: Indecent exposure is also known as public indecency. It is the intentional exposure of parts of one’s body, especially one’s genitals, in a public place and in a way considered offensive to established standards of decency.
- Forcible Touching: A person is convicted of “Forcible Touching” when he /she intentionally, and for no legitimate purpose, forcibly touches the sexual or other intimate parts of another person for the purpose of degrading or abusing such person or for the purpose of gratifying the actor’s sexual desire. Forcible touching includes squeezing, grabbing or pinching. Forcible touching is a misdemeanor.
- Rape: It is performing a sexual act against another without their consent. It could involve actual physical force, threats or intimidation. At times, under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the victim is unconscious and unaware about how they are being used.
- Molestation, Sex Abuse & Sexual Assault: “Sexual abuse”, also referred to as “molestation”, is forcing undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. When that force is immediate, of short duration, or infrequent, it is called sexual assault. “Sexual assault” includes any type of unwanted physical contact with a sexual organ and may include aggressive, sexually suggestive statements. “Sexual Assault” constitutes sexually-motivated touching that falls short of sodomy, criminal sexual act or aggravated sex abuse. Sexual assault includes any type of unwanted physical contact with a sexual organ and may include aggressive, sexually suggestive statements.
If you are facing a sex crime charge, you need an immediate representation by a highly experienced and aggressive sex crime defense attorney to protect your rights and, if warranted, take your case to trial. In order to avoid being falsely convicted of a crime you did not commit or treated too harshly for a mistake, please contact Mr. Paul Petrus, sex crime defense lawyer in NY to see how he, along with his associates could help you. | <urn:uuid:1198617d-dea7-4e31-ad2d-45141cb82a29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://petruslaw.com/2014/05/04/types-of-sex-crimes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.938142 | 666 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Fueled by ever-increasing demand and the boom-and-bust cycles of global commodity markets, large-scale mining destroys forests and pollutes soil, air and water. Violent conflicts, sexual exploitation, criminalization and displacement of communities living in forests destroyed for mining, are examples of social impacts that are inherently linked with the mining industry.
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This article highlights the voices of Justiça Ambiental! in Mozambique and the African ecofeminist alliance WoMIN.
WRM spoke with close allies from Brazil, Gabon, India, Mexico and Mozambique, to hear from them and learn about their understandings of development.
The extractivist paradigm in Southern Africa threatens the lives and livelihoods of peasant communities, in particular women and girls: From the Tete Province in Mozambique, where women confront water scarcity and pollution to Zimbabwe’s Marange community, where militarised and often sexualised violence haunts women’s daily lives. | <urn:uuid:7f7713b3-fcb1-4630-be98-74839335e24b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wrm.org.uy/subjects/large-scale-mining?f%5B0%5D=country%3A102 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.906581 | 209 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Live Through This by Mindi Scott
Coley is living a lie. Her life appears to be perfect on the outside. She is popular, dances on the school dance team, and has started dating a cute guy in her class. But that’s just the surface. After her mother fled an abusive husband in New Zealand, she has since remarried and now has three children with her new husband. Coley and her brother, Bryan, feel like outsiders sometimes, so many years older than the other children in the family. And then there is the secret that Coley can’t even admit to herself. A family member is molesting her at night. All Coley can do is pretend that it doesn’t happen and just continue to try to live her life. But it does happen, and it’s getting more and more difficult for Coley to pretend it away. This is a riveting story about the cost of living a lie and the courage it takes to tell the truth.
Scott’s writing is all the more powerful because of all she leaves out. Readers know from the very first pages that Coley is being sexually assaulted at night, but Scott doesn’t reveal who it is in her family. This builds the tension tremendously, making the book impossible to put down until that mystery is solved. Scott depicts the abuse itself with an unflinching honesty that makes it all the more sinister.
Scott powerfully captures the character of a girl who is working as hard and as fast as she can to stay in denial about what is really happening. Coley is a complex person, a loving and warm girlfriend and daughter on the surface, but there is so much fear and self-loathing underneath. Coley also carries a large amount of guilt with her, because of her reaction to the abuse. Scott does not shy away from the difficult emotions here, while always making sure that readers understand who is truly at fault.
A powerful, wrenching novel for teens that tackles incest and survival. Appropriate for ages 15-18.
Reviewed from copy received from Simon & Schuster.
The Bear in the Book by Kate Banks, illustrated by Georg Hallensleben
A little boy sits in bed reading a book with his mother. It’s a book about a bear getting ready to sleep for the winter. The boy and his mother share the story together, talking about the pictures and the bear. The bear eats and eats, getting ready to hibernate until he finally curls up and falls asleep. Then the snow comes, and the little boy can almost feel the cold from the page of the book. He looks closely at the pictures and finds hidden animals in the snowy landscape. The snow continues and the boy snuggles in closer, the bear sleeps on. As spring nears, the boy gets sleepy. Just as the bear is about to wake up, the boy falls asleep for the night. Now it’s his turn to sleep long and deep in a cozy bed.
This book is pure joy. It celebrates both the written word and the art of the picture book. Even more so though, it celebrates the connection built by sharing a book right before bed. Just as the boy could feel the winter emanating from the page, here you can feel the warmth and coziness. With my librarian hat on, I am delighted to see a book that models what reading aloud to a small child should look like. There should be conversations about the pictures, questions and answers about what is happening in the story, looking at the colors on the page, finding hidden animals, and much more activity than simply reading a story aloud.
Hallensleben’s illustrations have a gorgeous rough texture to them. The paint is lovely and thick, resulting in rich colors that add to that feeling of warmth and home. They also bridge the connection between the book and the family reading together, flowing seamlessly back and forth, uniting as an entire story.
Highly recommended, this is a book that will have you curled up and sharing it with your own little one immediately. Appropriate for ages 3-5.
Reviewed from library copy.
Amazon offers several annual best books lists. These are their 20 Best Picture Books of 2012:
The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare by Sam McBratney
Bear Has a Story to Tell by Philip C. Stead, illustrated by Erin Stead
Big Mean Mike by Michelle Knudsen, illustrated by Scott Magoon
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer and Elizabeth Zunon
The Cloud Spinner by Michael Catchpool, illustrated by Alison Jay
Crafty Chloe by Kelly DiPucchio, illustrated by Heather Ross
The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? by Mo Willems
Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce and Joe Bluhm
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr., illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Llama Llama Time to Share by Anna Dewdney
Nightsong by Ari Berk, illustrated by Loren Long
Oh No, George! by Chris Haughton
Olivia and the Fairy Princesses by Ian Falconer
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by James Dean and Eric Litwin
Rocket Writes a Story by Tad Hills
This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
This Moose Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers
Those Darn Squirrels Fly South by Adam Rubin, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri
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HELP FOR STRESS DISORDERS
By Eleanor Eggers, Ph.D., LP, BCB, (Senior Fellow)
It usually takes about a week to develop the ability to sense the coolness in the forehead quickly and to reduce the number of repetitions of the formula from many to just one. When you have done that, you have completed learning the six standard formulas!
The optional formula deals with tension in the neck and shoulders, a very common situation. Therefore, many people like to add this formula. It has been found to be very helpful in solving this problem. You can choose between saying “neck and shoulders” or just “shoulders”.
Please begin by reviewing the information given under "Basic Information" and in Lesson 1.
Lie down on your bed or recliner chair and focus your attention in a very passive way on your arms and legs and say to yourself (think) once:
Switch your focus of attention to your heart and say to yourself once:
Switch your focus of attention to your breathing and say to yourself once:
Switch your focus of attention to your abdomen and say to yourself once:
Switch your focus of attention to your forehead and say to yourself once:
Switch your focus of attention to your (neck) and shoulders and say to yourself once.
Then say to yourself several times:
Now you can spend the rest of the twenty minutes just enjoying being in this state of deep relaxation. Follow the directions given in Lesson 1 on how to maintain a completely
At the end of the twenty minutes be sure to cancel by making two fists, bending and tensing both arms, and then opening your eyes.
You will soon find that you can say the shoulders formula to yourself at other times during your daily activities when you want to help your shoulders relax and that you get an immediate relaxation response from your shoulders. Eventually, just saying the word “heavy” while focusing your attention on your shoulders will produce relaxation of the shoulders (and neck).
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Part 1 of this blog (Ref. 1) has described at a high level the guidance provided by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on in-use stability testing of multi-dose products for human use (Ref. 2 and 3).
The second of this 2-part blog series includes for completeness and reference, information on other world-wide (WW) regulatory guidance covering in-use stability studies for multi-dose products for human use.
WHO stability guideline
The World Health Organization (WHO) stability guideline contains a specific section on in-use stability studies, also applicable to multi-dose products (Ref. 4). This section combines the recommendations and text of both the ICH Q1A(R2) section (Ref. 5) and the EMA guideline (Ref. 2) on in-use stability studies. The WHO guideline derives from the EMA guideline the recommendation on the number of batches on which to perform the in-use stability study (i.e., two), with one batch chosen towards the end of its shelf-life.
A peculiarity of the WHO stability guideline vs. the other guidelines and regulations mentioned in this 2-part blog series, is that it normally considers an in-use period of 30 days to be acceptable without additional supporting data.
ANVISA stability regulation and guideline
ANVISA (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária), the Brazilian Human Health Regulatory Agency, has reported its requirements and expectations on in-use stability studies for multi-dose products after first opening of the container, in the stability regulation RDC 318/2019 (Ref. 6) and in the related stability guideline 28/2019 (Ref. 7). It may be interesting to note that the ANVISA definition of “multi-dose product” specifically includes, in addition to dosage forms in packaging such as bottles or tubes, also blister packs, when the dosage unit can be half of a scored tablet, and the unused half is returned to the blister pack (Ref. 7).
Key points to note in the sections of these two ANVISA documents on in-use studies for multi-dose products can be summarized as:
- The in-use stability study for multi-dose products should be designed to simulate the use of the product after opening the container at a long-term storage condition recommended by ANVISA (Ref. 6 – Art. 29 and 32), in the most critical in-use conditions of the product (Ref. 7).
- The in-use stability study must be performed on at least two batches, with at least one batch tested at end-of-shelf-life (Ref. 6 – Art. 31 and 32). If the long-term stability study is still in progress at the time of submission of the registration document, the in-use stability study must be performed at 12 months or at the last time point before submission (Ref. 6 – Art. 32).
- All tests planned in the long-term stability study should be performed at the test points planned in the in use stability study (Ref. 6 – Art. 35). In-use stability tests should be performed both immediately after container opening and at the end of the in-use shelf-life (Ref. 6 – Art. 30).
- For multi-dose products with a defined dosing regimen, the in-use study must demonstrate stability for the maximum duration of treatment (i.e., for the maximum possible period of use of the container), considering the lowest dosing regimen (Ref. 6 – Art. 33 and Ref. 7). An example is provided in the ANVISA stability guideline (Ref. 7) for an in-use study of a tablet presentation with a defined dosage regimen, packaged in a bottle, with two alternative fill counts, as summarized in table 1 in the Appendix.
- For multi-dose products with a non-defined dosing regimen or intended for sporadic use, the in-use stability study should alternatively be performed up to (Ref. 6 – Art. 34):
- the shelf life proposed for the closed product after closure breaching
- when there is a confirmed out-of-specification result in any test result in the in-use study
- the in-use expiry date after opening, if already defined in previous in-use studies
- The in-use study design for a product without a defined dosing regimen should consider, according to ANVISA, any situation in the actual in-use condition of the product, as e.g. by bracketing containers left nearly full or nearly empty after their first use. An example is provided in the ANVISA stability guideline (Ref. 7, Fig. 11 and 12) for a tablet presentation in a bottle, with a shelf-life of 24 months for the unopened container, for both a less stable and a more stable product option, once the container is opened. This example is summarized in table 2 in the Appendix below.
- In both cases (i.e. for both a less stable and a more stable product under in-use stability conditions) the in-use shelf-life after opening the packaging is the last time point at which all tests comply with specifications (Ref. 7).
- The ANVISA stability guideline also allows, as a possible option, to demonstrate the in-use stability of a product by means of positive stability data obtained after its direct exposure, outside its primary packaging, to storage conditions at elevated temperature and humidity for a time period corresponding to the in-use shelf-life period (Ref. 7). However, when applying this option, all the relevant requirements of the ANVISA RDC 318/2019 regulation (Ref. 6) must also be considered.
Other Guidelines and References
Other WW guidelines specifically mention and recommend in-use stability studies for multi-dose products for human use, such as e.g., the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) stability guideline, whose section text on in-use stability studies (Ref. 8) is superimposable to the corresponding sections in the WHO stability guideline and the Health Canada guidance on NDSs and ANDSs (Ref. 9).
A literature reference on in-use stability studies is also given in the ‘References’ section below (Ref. 10).
Final Conclusions and Overall Summary
In-use stability testing studies should be considered for multi-dose products, taking into account such points as:
- Preliminary definitions of: [in agreement as far as possible, with the interested internal departments (e.g. Medical and Commercial)]
- Product daily dosing schedule, i.e. assumed number and frequency of doses (e.g. number of tablets or volume of a liquid to be administered within all possible frequencies and dosing variations)
- Pack size, i.e. number of doses included in the packaging(s) planned for marketing
- Pack type and any dosing device present in the pack or recommended in the leaflet
- Simulate in the in-use stability study, the worst case conditions for opening the container & dose sampling by the patient or user according to the recommended dosing regimen, as per product leaflet.
- A minimum of two batches should be tested for the in-use stability study, with at least one tested at end-of-shelf life plus at the last time point before registration document submission.
- For oral solid dosage forms in multi-dose containers, according to EMA, in-use stability studies should be considered (only) when available stability data indicate possible product degradation in the conditions of container opening & closing in clinical practice. The in-use stability study length should be defined in this case, on the basis of the treatment duration and number of multi-dose containers needed for the entire treatment for these products, applying a worst-case scenario approach for sampling the dosage forms from container(s) throughout the maximum treatment length.
- Open dish’ stability studies (i.e., studies with the dosage form exposed outside its packaging) may be used to waive or supplement in-use stability studies for solid oral dosage forms. The EMA Guidance (Q&A Page) specifies the exposure conditions as 25°C/60%RH. ANVISA’s open dish exposure recommendations are more vaguely described as “stress conditions with elevated T/RH%.” When making any open dish study design decisions, consider the information available in the stability profile of the product at high %RH and the countries in which the relevant registration application will be submitted. Always consult with your Regulatory specialist before proceeding.
The information included in this two-part blog is intended to supply only high-level coverage of world-wide regulatory expectations for in-use stability studies for multi-dose products to the StabilityHub community. The author therefore recommends personnel directly involved in these studies, to review detailed contents of original and relevant documents mentioned in the ‘Reference’ sections of Parts 1 and 2, within the context of the information of the product under development.
Piero De Filippis is the StabilityHub EU Regional Contributor, based in Italy. His e-mail address is email@example.com.
References (Part 2)
- P. De Filippis, In-use stability studies for multi-dose dosage forms: guidance by EMA and by other world-wide Authorities (Part 1: EMA). stabilityhub.com. Published 10 August 2021
- European Medicine Agency (EMA, former EMEA) “Note for Guidance on In-Use Stability Testing of Human Medicinal Products” CPMP/QWP/2934/99 (1 March 2001). https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/use-stability-testing-human-medicinal-products . Accessed 20 August 2021
- EMA Quality of Medicines Questions and Answers: Part 2 – a) Section “Design of in-use shelf life for solid oral dosage forms in multi-dose containers” – b) Section “Claims for in-use shelf-life for solid oral dosage forms in multi-dose containers”. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/research-development/scientific-guidelines/qa-quality/quality-medicines-questions-answers-part-2#design-of-in-use-shelf-life-for-solid-oral-dosage-forms-in-multi-dose-containers-section and https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/research-development/scientific-guidelines/qa-quality/quality-medicines-questions-answers-part-2#claims-for-in-use-shelf-life-for-solid-oral-dosage-forms-in-multi-dose-containers-section. Accessed 20 August 2021
- World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Report Series, No. 1010 – Annex 10 ‘Stability Testing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Finished Pharmaceutical Products – Section 2.2.11 In-use and hold time stability (2018)
- International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) Guideline Q1A(R2). Stability Testing of New Drug Substances and Products – Section 2.2.7. Storage Conditions (6 February 2003)
- ANVISA Resolução de Diretoria Colegiada (Collegiate Board of Directors Resolution) RDC No. 318/2019. ‘Estabelece os critérios para a realização de Estudos de Estabilidade de insumos farmacêuticos ativos e medicamentos, exceto biológicos, e dá outras providências’ [‘Establishes the criteria for conducting Stability Studies for active pharmaceutical ingredients and drug products, except for biological, and provides other arrangements’] (7 November 2019 – in Portuguese). https://www.in.gov.br/web/dou/-/resolucao-rdc-n-318-de-6-de-novembro-de-2019-226513805 . Accessed 20 August 2021
- ANVISA Guia [Guideline] Nº28/2019 – Vers. 1 ‘Guia de Estudos de Estabilidade’ [Stability Study Guideline] – Sect. XI ‘Estudos de estabilidade em uso’ [In-use stability studies], pages 27-29 (11 November 2019 – in Portuguese). http://antigo.anvisa.gov.br/legislacao#/visualizar/409543 . . Accessed 20 August 2021
- ASEAN Guideline on Stability Study of Drug Product– Sect. 4.8. ‘In-use Stability’ (2018). https://asean.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/25PPWG-ANNEX-7-iv-Final-ASEAN-Guideline-on-Stability-Study-Drug-Product-R2.pdf . Accessed 20 August 2021
- Health Canada Quality Guidance ‘New Drug Submissions (NDSs) and Abbreviated New Drug Submissions (ANDSs)’ – Sections P.2 ‘Pharmaceutical Development’ and P.8.1 ‘Stability Summary and Conclusions’ (Effective Date 30 January 2018). https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/drug-products/applications-submissions/guidance-documents/chemical-entity-products-quality/guidance-document-quality-chemistry-manufacturing-guidance-new-drug-submissions-ndss-abbreviated-new-drug-submissions.html. Accessed 20 August 2021
- Bawazir AS. et al. Shelf Life Assessment of Drug Product after opening Container for the first time. International Journal of Scientific Development and Research. 2018; 3(8): 88-91.
Table 1 – Summary of an ANVISA example of an in-use stability study for a tablet presentation in a bottle with a defined dosing regimen of one tablet, minimum every 12 hours for 10 days (Ref. 7)
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When it comes to sales, top sales performers have certain qualities that make them successful. Being a top performer in sales isn’t easy. By definition, not everyone can be at the peak of the game; most will struggle just to hit their quota. Still, that doesn’t mean you can’t take steps to boost your sales performance by learning from the best. Whether you want to make money online, on the phone, or in-store, these sales skills will help you up your sales game.
Top Sales Performer
The top sales performer is the person who sells the most products or services within a certain period of time. This person is usually rewarded with commissions, bonuses, and other incentives.
What makes a good salesperson?
A good salesperson is more than just a pitchman – they’re an enthusiastic individual with the resilience to take the time to get to know their customers, show empathy, and deal confidently with their product. They also know how to handle rejection and learn from both their successes and failures.
Successful salespeople know how to deal with both their successes and losses.
Here are some characteristics of a good salesperson.
A great first impression is key to beginning any professional relationship on the right foot. As a salesperson, you should always aim to look put-together and approachable. First impressions matter, so make sure you’re making the best one possible!
When it comes to being a successful salesperson, it’s all about putting in the hard work – even when things get tough. Having the motivation to see a task through to completion is a key indicator of passion, which is essential for anyone in sales.
As a salesperson, it is important to be friendly to your potential customers. However, you also need to let them know that you are prepared and ready to do business. Customers want to work with salespeople who they can depend on, who are driven by facts, and who will ask the right questions to get the answers they need. By being all of these things, you will build a strong relationship with your customers that can lead to successful deals.
Sales numbers may ebb and flow, but that’s no reason to get discouraged. A good salesperson will take a step back, reassess their strategy, and then get back to work.
A good salesperson understands that every customer has unique needs. By actively listening, you can better understand what those needs are, and tailor your pitch accordingly.
A Salesperson Must Be Thorough
A salesperson must be knowledgeable about what they are selling in order to be successful. Customers will view a salesperson as more reputable if they can demonstrate their expertise on the product or service.
Empathic Connecting to Your Customers’ Emotions
By connecting with your customers’ emotions and understanding what they really desire, you can provide them with new solutions to meet their needs.
Confident in Your Product Or Service
If you’re confident in your product or service, your customers will be too. The same goes for how confident you are in yourself.
The sales industry is always changing, and the best sales reps are adaptable. They are able to change up their strategy or manage their schedule accordingly.
Successful salespeople don’t give up. They understand that it’s a difficult job, but those who are hungry for success will strive for it.
To become the best at sales, you must not only understand the qualities that make up a great salesperson, but you also need to develop and practice those traits.
Become the best salesman you can be with these tips.
Best practices for top sales performers
1. Try to see everything from the perspective of your customer.
Most sales reps spend most of their time thinking about what customers want, but sales pros take this thought process even further.
Top salespeople always take the time to understand a prospect’s priorities, needs, and pain points. This enables them to better customize their pitch and product to fit that prospect. This level of personalization is what separates the best from the rest.
This personal treatment is what gives the top salespeople the ability to provide their customers with exactly what they need, making them feel taken care of and like they are being treated well.
2 Believe in your Product
A genuine passion for a product is contagious and impossible to feign.
When salespeople believe in their product, they can reframe their entire sales approach by focusing not on selling, but on solving their clients’ issues.
This consultative approach puts your prospect more at ease because it feels like you’re working with them rather than trying to make a sale.
1. Understanding who your ideal customers are is (far) more important than having the best products.2. Having a great product is not (nearly) as important (as) knowing who your customers are.
Every salesman should believe in the usefulness of his products once he has identified his ideal customers.
3 Stop Beggaring Lukewarm Leads to Buy
A good salesman knows his product is for certain people and is honest enough to admit it.
A truly great salesperson will know when to walk away from a prospect who isn’t a good fit.
Forcing your leads to purchase your product may net you a quick commission, but in the long term, it could hurt your reputation as a salesperson.
Instead of trying to close a lukewarm lead, you should focus on finding more new, highly qualified ones or nurturing your current relationships with them.
4. Ask the right questions
A sales rep who is a top seller will be more focused on having conversations than on selling.
Top sales reps will have a number of great questions to ask their prospects, so they’ll always have something to say.
Rather than pitching your product or service, try having a conversation with your customers. This will allow you to organically uncover their needs, and allow you to tailor a sales pitch that speaks directly to them.
5. Become an expert on your product.
After a salesperson has figured out his customers’ needs and concerns and has determined the best solution, he then draws on his expertise to relay that information to the customer.
A salesperson’s main goal is to sell their product or service and to do that, they need to understand how that service/product will benefit their customers. They also need to have a few facts to back up their claims.
This seems like an obvious tip, but it can’t be understated. Having product knowledge on-hand is incredibly important, so there’s no reason for a salesperson to let this slip.
6 Build Trust
A smart salesman knows that trust is the foundation of any sale.
Rather than approaching each potential client as someone to sell to, try viewing them as people you can help. This shift in perspective will help you build rapport and trust.
A star salesperson will leverage his expertise in an industry by participating in online discussions, either on forums or on social media. By doing so, he will establish himself as an authoritative figure in his industry and build trust with potential customers.
A sales expert will leverage his or her knowledge by participating in online conversations and participating in local networking. By commenting and answering in industry-specific forums and discussions, a salesperson can position themselves as an industry authority, driving highly qualified leads to their doorstep.
While average salespeople are content to hide behind anonymity, sales pros work hard to establish themselves as experts in their field.
7. Ditch your script.
The slideshow and script are general and written with no one in particular as the target.
A good sales script will cover all of the relevant points, but a great salesperson will know how to tailor his selling approach and language to the client.
Top performing salespeople know that clients don’t like listening to long, boring, and repetitive sales pitch. Instead, they focus on engaging with their clients on a more personal level.
8. Don’t waste your customer’s time.
Nothing says “amateur” more than wasting time on irrelevant information that the customer doesn’t need to know.
Good salespeople know not to go over information with potential clients that they know beforehand.
A good sales person will always put their clients first. They will make sure that their meetings are productive and that their client’s concerns are addressed.
9 Be Tenacious When Prospects Have Oppositions
A top performing salesperson knows how to handle customer concerns. Instead of panicking, he calmly asks questions in order to get to the bottom of the issue.
Being pushy and obnoxious does not equal being assertive. When a customer raises an issue with your price, it’s usually more about their trust with you than the actual price of your offer.
Great salespeople know that an objection is an opportunity to learn more about the client and, instead of getting defensive, they take a step back, reevaluate their strategy, and provide more relevant information.
10. Enjoy the process.
Of all the traits that separate top salespeople from everyone else, the most important one is their passion for selling. This passion allows them to enjoy the process, and it’s what separates them from the rest of the pack.
Of all the sales skills that are most important for sales success, this is the one that cannot be learned.
Top salespeople know that the key to closing more sales is by building trust and being seen as an expert in their respective field.
Traits like competitiveness, optimism and achievement are all critical to being a successful salesperson.
Most salespeople are not aware if they have the personality trait of persistence, so it’s a good idea to test for this during the hiring process.
If you want to be a top sales performer, then you need to master these essential sales skills. With the right mix of rapport-building, objection-handling, and product knowledge, you’ll be well on your way to success!
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Background: Rapid eye movement [REM] sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) may herald neurodegenerative diseases. Neurobiological deficits similar to those identified in neurodegenerative diseases have been reported in idiopathic RBD. Researchers are looking for early markers supporting a possible role of RBD as a harbinger of impending neurodegenerative disease. Objective: To examine the neuropsychological functions in idiopathic RBD subjects. Should they be found to present a neuropsychological dysfunction that overlaps that reported in neurodegenerative diseases, it would be possible to consider cognitive deficits as possible early markers of an underlying degenerative process. Methods: Twenty-three subjects with idiopathic RBD (21 males, mean age 67.0 ± 7.0 years) and a group of healthy controls matched for sex, age and education underwent a neuropsychological battery evaluating different cognitive domains. Findings: Considering mean values, poorer performances were observed in the Word Span (p <.001), Rey-Osterrieth's complex figure recall (p = .003), Digit Span (p = .003) and Logic Memory (p = .003) tests. On the basis of equivalent scores, the RBD subjects performed significantly more poorly on tests of visuo-constructional learning abilities (p <.001). Interpretation: Our data show the possible presence of cognitive deficits in RBD defined as idiopathic, sharing common features in particular with Lewy body disease. Neuropsychological evaluation in RBD could lead to presymptomatic identification of neurodegenerative disease, but until more prolonged long-term follow-up data are available, the true neurobiological significance of cognitive deficits in RBD will remain unknown.
- Early markers
- Idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder
- Lewy body disease
- Neuropsychological performances
- Parkinson's disease
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It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
Christmas Carol - Christmas HymnThis score is an arrangement of the Christmas carol It Came Upon the Midnight Clear for descant recorder with piano accompaniment.
It is set in the key of D Major.
For your greater enjoyment, this sheet music includes the lyrics in English (four verses).
Duration : 00:34 per verse
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“The first rule of social media is that everything changes all the time. What won’t change is the community’s desire to network.”
Kami Huyse: Community Builder, Speaker, PR and Social Media Strategist, Entrepreneur, CEO of Zoetica Media
Social media does indeed change at the rate of knots. Everywhere you turn, there are many new platforms springing up all over the place. And with this comes new ways of marketing to the audiences on these channels.
There must be some merit to social media marketing. Why otherwise would 97% of small businesses use this medium to market their businesses? However, when interviewed, it was found that almost 87% of these businesses did not know the first thing about social media marketing. All they knew is that they ‘have’ to be on social media.
So this then begs the question. How does one ‘do’ social media marketing? What are the dos and don’ts that you need to practise in order to become a guru with marketing on this platform?
Social Media Marketing guide
Interact first, market later
The reason why social media started in the first place was to facilitate people getting to know each other and staying in contact. This means that when people are on social media, their first instinct is to find out what’s going on with their network, to join in a pertinent discussion or to keep up with the latest trends.
What they don’t want – more than anything else – is to be marketed to. If you do this, you’ll get the reputation of not having much to say and that you’re not original. This will probably lead to people no longer following you.
So the first thing that you need to do is to develop relationships with your audience. Make them see that you’re giving valuable contributions to the discussion. Allow them to see the value that you contribute. And then, when you have them hooked, only then do you introduce your sales message. Because your audience trusts you they will be more likely to buy from you. | <urn:uuid:f66df69c-bbc0-41c9-8f4b-61fe92de6358> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalschoolofmarketing.co.za/blog/how-successful-is-social-media-marketing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964813 | 435 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Things you should remember when Building a Murphy bed! There are some powerful skills you need to have when you choose to build a Murphy bed.
Although the development process of building a Murphy bed is not extreme for someone with essential woodworking skills, it can be a challenge for someone who has not done any woodworking projects before. So if you don’t have the needed skills always keep in mind that you need to get professional help, because improper installation of a Murphy bed can result in damages.
There are five principal steps to do a Murphy bed project.
Step 1 – Cutting the wood
You can use the fast cutting sheet that comes with Easy DIY Murphy Bed Kit and takes it to a home improvement or lumber store to get the wood cut there if you don’t have a saw or if you don’t cut wood for a Murphy want to reduce the wood yourself. Keep in mind that it would be tough to get the wood cut in a small apartment, so it is always a good option to get the wood cut at your local home improvement stores such as Home Depot or Lowes.
If you live in a house and have a garage or a shop you can cut the sheets of wood cut according to your cutting sheet yourself if you have tools and expertise to do so.
Step 2 – Preparing the wood
If you have a large working table that you can get the wooden parts prepared for the next step good for you! If not be aware that the most challenging part of a Murphy bed project in small wood for Murphy apartment is that you have to get the job done on the ground which is not as comfortable but it’s doable.
In this step, you need to bind the edges of the wood, make holes and get the hardware ready to be collected. Buy a roll of heat activated edging tape that is the closest to the color of the wood that you are using to cover all of the exposed edges of your bed. We show you precisely in the construction guide which borders you need to apply the line to so you end up with a known looking Murphy bed.
Cut a piece of the edging tape an inch or two higher than what you need and press the edge along the plywood with an iron, then run along the side of the tape while pushing down with a bit piece of wood. After that, you can use a knife or an edging deceiver to trim the excess tape. If you’re using plywood, you can sand the sides to make it smoother.
Step 3- Construction of the bed
This is the essential part of the method of building a Murphy bed. There are hardware parts and measurements that have to be followed correctly to let you go through the assembly construction of Murphy bed without any problems. If you have any question during the process, you can call us at our toll-free number that is in the standard and video. Detailed descriptions and the pictures will show you where each item of hardware is located and how it has to be installed.
Most of the fundamental woodworking skills such as screwing and drilling will be required during the construction of the bed. In the second part of this step, you need to make holes and put all the hardware in place. The Easy DIY Murphy Bed construction guidebook, assembly booklet, cutting sheet and items list, along with the instructional video all guide you step by step to get through the process.
Step 4 – Assembly of the bed parts
Assembly is very simple, but you will need someone to help you to construct the bed. All the pieces that you have already built will be put together at this stage, but don’t worry it is pretty simple to put all the earlier made pieces together in an hour or two.
Step 5 – Installation of the Murphy bed
Installing the cabinet and bed is probably very simple compared to the other parts of the project, but it is necessary to get this part of the plan appropriately done to have a safe and installing a Murphy bed secure installation.
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The Labour Party and the Struggle for Socialism by David Coates
The Labour Party isn’t what it used to be, and in fact, it never was. There have been no wins on the British left for quite some time, but historically even the biggest wins have lead to disappointment and alienation of the working class which is a major Clause 4 concern. This book investigates why the Labour Party fails to meet the socialist promise built into its founding values and why the leadership repeatedly undermine the interests of their membership and the wider electorate. A scathing critique of poor leadership, weak organisation and deficient tactics, this book would be helpful for any Labour politician looking to win power. However, it is more likely to be used as a weapon to highlight the incompetence and spinelessness of the party. Labour Party don’t need help in losing so instead of dwelling on that I will discuss the wider contents of this thorough and honest text as it illustrates the limits of state power, the instability of capitalist society and the fractured consciousness of the working class.
The working class is subjected to many more contradictory pressures than other groups which leave it more divided and less likely to vote as a block. This is the result of conflict and compromise with liberalism as well as a lack of material difference in what parliamentary parties offer them. The book impressed me with its in-depth analysis of the causes of this problem and I found that a lot of the issues of the last century seem to be cyclical and return the same failings and debates endlessly. As frustrating as this is I felt more at peace after gaining an understanding of the causes and the challenges faced by a socialist party, let alone a socialist government. These challenges led to electoral defeat in the 1951 General Election and with that working class support drifted away too. The Conservatives could tolerate maintaining, and slowly eroding, the NHS and the welfare system as it did not stop them from serving capital. The social transformation brought about by the necessity of rebuilding the nation after WW2 was a significant but inevitable one. The writer makes the case that Labour was never as radical as they claimed to be and even when it brought 20% of the economy into public ownership this only included basic services and failing industries. The benefit to the working class was negligible and it bailed out the capitalists who then avoided having to deal with the consequences of derelict industries.
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first generic versions of a drug used to treat schizophrenia, the government organization announced Wednesday.
People who suffer from schizophrenia now have the option of treating their symptoms with the generic version of Seroquel (quetiapine) tablets. Quetiapine is also used to treat or prevent episodes of mania or depression in patients with bipolar disorder.
Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder that affects approximately one percent of Americans, according to the National Institute of Medical Health (NIMH). Symptoms of the disorder include hearing voices other people don’t hear and having paranoid thoughts.
Schizophrenia affects men and women equally and usually begins in teenage years or early adulthood, though it can manifest later, the NIMH said.
Quetiapine treats schizophrenia by restoring the balance of natural substances in the brain. It has been shown to help decrease hallucinations, improve concentration and prevent or decrease severe mood swings.
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New George Brown College facility to help individuals launch careers in fashion industry
TORONTO, March 29, 2016 /CNW/ - George Brown College announced today the launch of a new fashion hub that is improving employment opportunities for immigrants and at risk youth in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood. The "Fashion Exchange" is a collaborative space where fashion, education and industry are linked together in one location.
Reflecting George Brown's longstanding commitment to community, social and economic development, the hub connects the Regent Park community to the city's fashion sector through skills training, educates fashion students in advanced production systems and offers manufacturing expertise to companies and emerging designers.
To help address industry skills shortages while developing young talent and creating job opportunities for under employed youth, the Fashion Exchange will deliver training through the Ontario Youth Skills Connections program to prepare individuals for entry-level jobs in the fashion industry. Developed in partnership with the Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure and George Brown's Community Partnerships Office, the Apparel Fit Technician and Industrial Power Sewing programs are open to youth ages 18-29, completed over 16 weeks through George Brown's School of Fashion Studies.
"George Brown is proud to take a leadership role in building bridges between the community and employment. The Fashion Exchange brings fashion and education together, forging new pathways to employment for residents of Regent Park," said Anne Sado, President, George Brown College. "With new programs concentrated on jobs currently facing labour shortages, we are also building the workforce the fashion sector needs and delivering career-ready graduates necessary to fill critical vacancies in and around the GTA."
In addition to delivering community-based skills training, Fashion Exchange will provide exciting opportunities for fashion students to experience day to day challenges of apparel production in a "lean" small scale setting. With a goal of enabling a new generation of production specialists, new programs will be developed to prepare students to enter the industry with a grasp of the sustainable production process and how to balance cost, quality, environmental and ethical production requirements.
To retain local talent and boost domestic apparel production in Toronto, the facility will also offer manufacturing support to local companies and emerging designers for production of short runs and samples. These services will enable growth of small brands as well as develop capacity and expertise for production in Toronto. New designers will have access to the Fashion Exchange to produce their collections until they reach sufficient scale to evolve to larger production.
The facility was supported by $570,000 from the Ministry of Economic Development Employment and Infrastructure, as well as financial contributions from The Daniels Corporation, The R. Howard Webster Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co., The State Street Foundation and Toronto Community Housing.
"Ensuring today's youth are well prepared for the future is a key priority for this government. Our Youth Skills Connections fund – part of Ontario's Youth Jobs Strategy – supports high-impact, sector-focused partnerships between business, labour and educators to give young people the industry-recognized skills and opportunities they need," said the Honourable Brad Duguid, Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure. "We're excited to partner with George Brown and fashion industry leaders on this collaborative hub, which will solve gaps in the sector while training youth for in-demand jobs."
The Fashion Exchange builds on George Brown's growing reputation as a leading fashion educator. The School of Fashion Studies currently delivers certificate, diploma and post graduate programs that introduce students to fashion technology and the fundamentals of design, marketing, merchandising, manufacturing and fashion management.
About George Brown College
Toronto's George Brown College has established a reputation for equipping students with the skills, industry experience and credentials to pursue the careers of their choice. The college offers programs from its three campuses located across the downtown core, including its newest location at the Toronto waterfront, which opened in September 2012. George Brown offers 149 full-time programs and 224 continuing education certificates/ across a wide variety of professions to a student body of over 28,000 (full-time enrolment) students, including over 3,500 international students; and over 64,000 continuing education registrants. Students can earn certificates, diplomas, postgraduate certificates, apprenticeships and degrees. www.georgebrown.ca
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Developing Self Awareness – The 5 Stages of Awareness Mastery
When I was young I remember listening to my elders promulgating that knowledge is power.
Learn, my child, they used to say, for knowledge makes you smart and smart people have a chance to thrive in this world we inhabit.
Their words sounded vague to my callow ears. What is the knowledge they are referring to? Knowledge of mathematics? Knowledge of physics? Knowledge of languages? Street knowledge? Knowledge of human relationships?
Unable to properly fathom their equivocal advice, I grew up to become a generalist. That is a person with a wide array of useful knowledge. Although I did complete my studies in Electrical Engineering and Business, I didn’t choose to specialize in them. I preferred to use them as a stepping-stone to acquire more knowledge. Knowledge that could help me achieve generalist status.
I did that hoping that a generalist reality can grant me access to a huge network of information that will allow me to view reality from a holistic perspective. For I thought that this was the secret to decoding the hidden message of the “knowledge is power” adage. I thought that this was my only good chance of finally understanding.
I can’t really say that I regret my decision. The generalist pathway urges you to delve into different topics and, eventually, try to develop an interdisciplinary approach when it comes to thinking. I started to think in systems and this mode of cognition led me to deeper states of consciousness that challenged the way I interpreted the world. I became more aware of my own existence, my own limitations, and my own potential.
And that’s when it dawned on me.
The elders were right, but not right enough.
In their quest for knowledge, bewildered by its intimidating nature, they ignored the true essence of what knowledge’s purpose actually is.
Knowledge is indeed power. But the path from knowledge to power is not immediate. There is a succession of steps one needs to follow and it could be summarized in the following sequence:
Knowledge -> Awareness -> Control -> Power
Knowledge breeds awareness. That is the consumption of knowledge leads to a collection of wisdom nuggets that, when properly construed, can raise awareness. Awareness is the ability of the individual to make sense of oneself and, consequently, of the world around him. Once this process manifests itself, one is able to transition from a state of cluelessness and incompetence to a state of control and power. For power transpires when you focus on things you can control. And you can control only what you can understand – what you are aware of.
So the imperative word here is not knowledge, but awareness.
Allowing oneself to embrace this word and immerse into the totality of its nucleus is akin to allowing oneself to become totally free. For awareness has always been the key to a life defined by clarity, intent, and cohesion.
Apropos, there is a path that one needs to follow in order to properly grasp what constitutes awareness and where its real potency lies. And this path I endeavor to lay out today.
In the following paragraphs, I will examine 5 stages one needs to cover in order to develop extreme self-awareness. For awareness does not develop overnight. It is a gradually evolving process that is predicated upon the willingness of the individual to battle through the obstacles encountered in every stage.
Developing self awareness
Stage 1: Feeling clueless
The major issue young people face and have always been facing is cluelessness and incompetence. Empirical investigation has led me to believe that the reason for that is twofold and has little to do with intelligence or experience.
The two major forces that enforce this circumstance are the education system and the development of our frontal cortex.
A brief history of how modern education came about (you can read the detailed summary here) reveals that from the 17th century onwards the purpose of school was to create better workers, not better humans. Employers in industry viewed school as a means to teach future employees the rules of punctuality, following directions, tolerance for long hours of tedious work, and a minimal ability to read and write. On top of that, as nations became more centralized, national leaders saw a great chance in schooling to lay the foundations for the facilitation of future patriots and soldiers.
In essence, the school was not a place where the child could enjoy a holistic education and develop a healthy personality. It was more like a prison where he or she would, eventually, lose his or her identity, become a virtual nonentity and blend into the uniformity of collectivism.
Development of frontal cortex
Prolific biologist Robert Sapolsky revealed in one of his lectures something groundbreaking: The frontal cortex is the last part of the brain to fully develop.
On average, the frontal cortex manages to completely mature at the age of 25. This astonishing finding postulates two things:
- Frontal cortex is predominantly sculpted by environment and is least constrained by genes. Which apparently suggests that it is quite malleable and its development hugely relies on the environment one chooses to occupy.
- Young people don’t have the capacity to totally benefit from most of its uses, which include planning complex cognitive behavior, personality expression, decision making, and moderating social behavior, until their mid 20s.
If we take into account these two factors and combine them with the proclivity of humans to, usually, choose the path of least resistance when it comes to action taking, we find ourselves in a very unfavorable situation. Developing self awareness under such circumstances becomes a far-fetched goal. We end up with a huge amount of the population feeling not only clueless about who they are but also lacking the necessary context that would empower them to discover their individual constitution.
Nonetheless, the first stage is possible to overcome, firstly if the individual understands his or her limitations and secondly by methodically accruing knowledge relevant to the alleviation of these limitations.
How to stop feeling clueless: Patience is key here and when coupled with an incessant tendency to question conventional wisdom, it can produce extremely interesting outcomes. My suggestion would be to delve into the fundamentals of personal growth and attempt to internalize them. Such fundamentals include: Meditation, working out, improving productivity, improving social skills, to name but a few. “30 Challenges – 30 Days – Zero Excuses” is a great place to start.
Stage 2: Understand yourself
The prominent maxim “know thyself” has been echoing through history since its first usage by Plato in his dialogues. There are at least six instances during which Plato employs the maxim, and in every one of them he does so in order to stress out the importance of self-discovery in the development of the individual.
Although the context in each instance is different, the rationale remains the same. A self-aware individual is a conscious individual. Individuals who can’t partake in the process of self-exploration will systematically fall victim to their own lack of awareness and to the ramifications that such a state begets. Some of the ramifications include:
- Confusion due to a lack of intent behind decision-making.
- Frustration due to a lack of understanding why certain calamities eventuate in their lives.
- Hyperbolic emotional reactions when certain needs remain unmet.
- Manipulation by external agents that will try to present themselves as saviors and take advantage of the predicament the individual faces.
Essentially, a lack of self-awareness is the main source of dogmatism in society today. Sam Harris, during one of his podcasts, while examining why dogmatism can ruin a person’s life, stated beautifully:
“The state of being dogmatic is the state of believing in things strongly, despite an absence of evidence or even in the face of counter evidence. That is the state of having no error-correcting mechanisms in your worldview. You’re simply not available to reality and you will continually bump into hard objects wherever you go.”
Humans will always seek to belong and this lust for tribalism can often yield friction within society. Most people who cling to certain (usually extreme) ideologies do so because they haven’t sorted themselves out. The absence of a strong individual identity destabilizes the substrate of their being and they are constantly in the look for more stable worlds to grab onto. These stable worlds are often dogmatic worlds that reject certain aspects of reality in an attempt to deal successfully with its innately chaotic nature. Religions, political movements, cults, extremist groups, all fall in that category and are there to remind us what a lack of self-awareness can engender.
In a way, people who belong in these groups are manifestations of a person’s inability to face the concept of the shadow as Carl Jung put it forth.
The shadow is the unknown ‘‘dark side’’ of our personality. Dark because it is very obscure and also because we need to dig very deep within our psyche in order to discover it. It is a conglomeration of all our fears, desires and impulses like sexual lust, power strivings, selfishness, greed, envy, anger or rage, and due to its unenlightened nature it operates in a subconscious level. A person can never reach the state of self-actualization if they haven’t managed to face the shadow until they can understand it, deal with it, and eventually internalize it.
Slay the dragon.
Embrace the shadow.
Be the hero.
Own your life.
— Adrian Iliopoulos | The Quintessential Mind 🏴☠️ (@theQSLmind) August 10, 2017
Plato also pointed out that understanding ‘thyself,’ would also result to a greater understanding of the nature of a human being. Syllogistically, understanding oneself would enable a person to form an understanding of others as a result. Which is our next stage.
How to understand yourself: In order to understand yourself, first you need to understand your past and how your past affects your present and your future. The operative word here is past, but I use it to allude to both our past as individuals, but also to our past as species. From an individual’s perspective, psychoanalysis is the most pertinent tool one can use to explore certain aspects of their personality. Major events in your past have played a critical role in shaping your persona. Going back to these events, facing them and creating associations with current ones can significantly raise self-understanding. From a species perspective, humans are a work of evolution in progress and our current state can’t be fathomed if we don’t examine closely the practices and habits of our ancestors and draw parallels to current behavioral patterns.
Stage 3: Understand social patterns
The complexity of our social fabric is an omnipresent conundrum across the span of our lives. We are egotistical creatures that perpetually try to balance individuality with togetherness. Usually, we fail dramatically in that attempt but it doesn’t always need to be that way.
The way a person forms their understanding of social dynamics is fostered during childhood and depends largely on the way the upbringing functions. Within the household, a child can get a glimpse of how real society operates and adopt certain characteristics that will help him or her transition smoothly from the microcosm of his or her family to the wilderness of the real world.
Therein the child develops an intuitive ability to interact and cooperate with others. Hence most people make judgments about others based on intuition. Intuition is indeed a powerful skill but alone is not enough. It can offer a rough understanding of social patterns, but if you want to understand the mechanics deeply, you need to enhance your social repertoire with more skills.
In that respect, I am going to briefly touch upon three major areas one needs to be aware of:
Our perception is usually confined within the limits that our ego dictates. We are raised to think individually and not syllogistically. That process seriously hinders our capacity to understand and cooperate with fellow humans and our ability to form mutually beneficial connections suffers dramatically.
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. It is the process that leads to a complete re-engineering of a person’s worldview since it can offer them a completely new perspective on life.
Cultivating empathy is the first step into unweaving the mysterious entanglement that encompasses our social life.
Humans are evolved primates with an extremely sophisticated set of cognitive tools. The way, however, our social structures are formed rely more on power rather than sophistication. For years we have attempted to evolve our social edifice from a dominance hierarchy to a more egalitarian constitution. For years we have failed miserably to do so.
That reality is a result of an eclectic amalgamation of reasons such as cultural discrepancies, environmental influences, intelligence, tribalism, nepotism and a general lack of affinity towards forming collective views. It seems that, on average, our primitive mind tends to dominate our more rational one and the future doesn’t look much promising in that respect.
One needs to be aware of these truths and to exercise his or her capacity to deal with them consistently in order to stay sane and competent in our power-oriented environment.
The reason our species thrived and managed to reach this prosperous time in history is predicated upon our ability to cooperate and establish laws that will allow stability to prevail within our societies. These laws would have never existed in the first place if it weren’t for the aptness of certain individuals to influence and persuade others to follow their ideas and causes.
Influence and persuasion are two of the most ancient human arts and have shaped our social makeup like no others. Yet, not so many seem to pay close attention to them. While most people emphasize the significance of STEM disciplines or the necessity of the humanities, few recognize the level of importance influence and persuasion has in transforming the world around us.
A heightened awareness cannot manifest itself with the absence of basic knowledge in influence and persuasion. Not only does this knowledge allow the individual to see behind the scenes of reality, it also offers him or her a competitive advantage in dealing with the complexity of human nature. Such knowledge shouldn’t be clouded by neglect.
How to understand social patterns: Books like 48 Laws of Power, Sapiens, Emotional Intelligence, and The Prince are great primers to the basics of the areas introduced above. Also, have your eyes open and try to assume observer mode as often as possible. The secret is to learn to identify behavioral cues that are invisible to the untrained eye.
Stage 4: Afraid you’ll go crazy
Moving through the stages of awareness mastery is a precarious process. One will inevitably reach a point where reality will become very different than before. The interpretation of patterns both within oneself and within others can result to an over-analytical mode of thinking and this over-analysis can, more often than not, be too much to handle.
People transform from random entities that interact with you in an aimless fashion into intricate structures that reveal all their intentions and hidden agendas just by the way they move, talk, and operate. Reality gets examined to the point of madness.
This idea gained instant currency when I stumbled upon the writings of the infamous novelist László Krasznahorkai. This prodigious figure showcased his quintessential mind when he introduced us to a writing style so dense and tireless that felt like the ideal analogy to an over-analytical interpretation of the world.
Below is a long quote from his book “War and War,” that illuminates what reality examined to the point of madness feels like:
“because he didn’t feel like going home to an empty apartment on his birthday, and it really was extremely sudden, the way it struck him that, good heavens, he understood nothing, nothing at all about anything, for Christ’s sake, nothing at all about the world, which was a most terrifying realization, he said, especially in the way it came to him in all its banality, vulgarity, at a sickeningly ridiculous level, but this was the point, he said, the way that he, at the age of forty-four, had become aware of how utterly stupid he seemed to himself, how empty, how utterly blockheaded he had been in his understanding of the world these last forty-four years, for, as he realized by the river, he had not only misunderstood it, but had not understood anything about anything, the worst part being that for forty-four years he thought he had understood it, while in reality he had failed to do so; and this in fact was the worst thing of all that night of his birthday when he sat alone by the river, the worst because the fact that he now realized that he had not understood it did not mean that he did understand it now, because being aware of his lack of knowledge was not in itself some new form of knowledge for which an older one could be traded in, but one that presented itself as a terrifying puzzle the moment he thought about the world, as he most furiously did that evening, all but torturing himself in the effort to understand it and failing, because the puzzle seemed ever more complex and he had begun to feel that this world-puzzle that he was so desperate to understand, that he was torturing himself trying to understand, was really the puzzle of himself and the world at once, that they were in effect one and the same thing, which was the conclusion he had so far reached, and he had not yet given up on it, when, after a couple of days, he noticed that there was something the matter with his head.”
I have been there many times. I assume that most of you have been there too. Your mind is trying to navigate your thoughts through this labyrinth of madness and you feel hopeless. You are afraid you’ll go crazy.
Humans are not designed for this. We progressed from a state of security and simplicity to a state of randomness and complexity quite abruptly. Technology allowed us to connect with each other and stretch our cognitive limits in unprecedented ways. We thought that we would improve every aspect of our experience, but in reality we started to lose our minds.
Once you discern that imbroglio, be gentle with yourself. Don’t fight it. Don’t get mad. Don’t despair. Don’t worry about feeling uncomfortable. Instead, understand that feeling uncomfortable should be viewed as a virtue, not a hindrance.
The key here is to realize the necessity of this stage. View it the same way you view adversity and growth since adversity is a necessary ingredient of growth.
Allow it to train you and toughen your mental resilience. For it probably constitutes the most imperative stepping stone to reaching what one so desperately desires – extreme self-awareness and extreme self-ownership.
How to not go mental: Apart from meditation and exercising presence, another activity that has helped me tremendously is self-talk. I like to record my thoughts almost on a daily basis. This is a form of audio journaling that helps me let off some steam and unloose the thoughts that would otherwise stay imprisoned in my mind and probably lead me to experience clouding of consciousness.
I often talk to myself.
Few do this. Many think I am mental.
Self-talk = understanding = awareness = confidence.
Few understand this.
— Adrian Iliopoulos | The Quintessential Mind 🏴☠️ (@theQSLmind) May 3, 2017
Stage 5: Accept human nature and control your narrative
Chaos, randomness, entropy, and serendipity are all elements of disorder that engulf the human experience.
When dealing with them, people can be easily categorized into two groups: The ones that despair and the ones that accept.
The first group will constantly find reasons to complain, lament and allow reality to devastate them.
The second group will accept reality as it is, understand what they can control and eventually come up with a strategy.
Human nature is what it is. One cannot change the world as a whole, but one can definitely change his or her world. That’s the power of self-awareness and that’s what the final stage of awareness mastery feels like.
During that stage, one should consider seriously the triptych of pragmatism, antifragility, and search for meaning.
Pragmatism allows us to see and speak the truth. We stop being delusional and we adopt a proactive stance towards challenging quandaries. The absurdity of this world can be dealt with only when we stop idolizing circumstances and instead adapt to the requirements every circumstance demands.
Antifragility is the word that was missing from our vocabulary since the closest we could get in describing things that withstand pressure is robustness. When Nassim Taleb introduced us to the term antifragile, our whole experience shifted gears.
We didn’t have to accept robustness as our ultimate option, and we managed to move beyond that to a state that actually gains from disorder. Its essence can be summarized in the following tweet:
If you are smart and don't despair during turbulent times, you can turn into gold even the most unfavorable circumstances.
— Adrian Iliopoulos | The Quintessential Mind 🏴☠️ (@theQSLmind) August 21, 2017
Finally, a lack of meaning can lead to nihilism and although nihilism can be useful in certain cases, excessive adherence to it can lead to chaos. Meaning brings structure and structure is the only antidote to the deleterious effects of chaos.
Internalizing this triptych leads to the completion of the last stage of awareness mastery. Completing that stage can lead to confidence and panache oozing out of every moment of your life.
That’s probably what controlling your own narrative feels like.
That’s probably what freedom feels like.
When I discovered the five stages to awareness mastery, it felt like a momentary vision, one of profound effect; and one to which my first response was to run off to tell somebody about it.
This article is, perhaps, a microcosm of my pursuit of self-awareness – it represents the vital need to confess my own unique experience and share it, in all its immediacy, with you.
Navigating through the five stages of awareness mastery can be a daunting task. The best way to make it more manageable is the strategic adoption of the right habits and practices. If you are unsure where to start, the “30 Challenges – 30 Days – Zero Excuses” ebook provides a selection of habits and practices that can prove extremely valuable in that respect.
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AYS Daily Digest 23/07/2021 — Greek Rationale for Declaring Turkey “Safe Third Country” Finally Released
Official justification for safe third country status inadequate, NGOs say//Shipwreck between Turkey and Greece//Caravan for equal rights on Canary Islands
Greek Asylum Service finally releases rationale behind Turkey’s “safe third country” decision—and it is inadequate
Greece has finally published the legal rationale behind declaring Turkey a safe third country for people from Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The Joint Ministry Decision was based on an “Opinion” of the Head of the Asylum Service (which is not considered a strong enough legal basis to declare a third country safe), which it refused to reveal to the public for over a month, even though changes in asylum policy must be immediately justified with legal documentation.
The Greek government fought off several legal challenges to reveal the rationale behind their decision, but now a public prosecutor ordered them to release the document. Now that the Opinion has been released, it actually reveals that the sources the Asylum Service relied on do not consider Turkey to be a safe third country. They mentioned violations of human rights such as deportations to Syria, forcing people to sign voluntary return forms, denying Afghan people any kind of legal status, and other violations.
The sources used were also not rigorous enough to justify a complete change in asylum policy according to Greek law. There was no independent fact-finding mission, instead, the Opinion was based on existing, poorly-cited open source information that was nowhere near rigorous enough to justify a change in policy.
Even the official documentation of the Home Office, hardly an entity known for its bleeding-heart sympathy towards people on the move, is rigorous and up-to-date, a far cry from the hastily put together document that the Greek government released.
This mimics the Danish government’s decision to declare parts of Syria safe despite the opposition of most of the organizations consulted in its fact-finding.
The insistence of both countries that up is down and black is white when deciding asylum policy against the recommendations of the very papers they purport to use as evidence would be absurd if it was not ruining people’s lives. Greece has already denied several asylum applications with the rationale that Turkey is a safe third country for applicants from certain nationalities, even though it is nothing of the kind.
It is important to look at this decision within the wider political context of Europe attempting to ignore its international responsibility towards displaced people and forcing them into camps in third countries that do not have even close to as many resources as the continent. This decision will particularly affect Afghan people, many of whom are already fleeing the Taliban and are hoping to reach Europe. They will probably be surprised to find that Turkey, where they are not entitled to any kind of legal protection and where many Afghans already live outside of society, is where they will be “safe.” Then again, Europe has considered Afghanistan safe for Afghans while its own embassies in the country shutter due to the security situation, so this is nothing new. What is unsafe for one group is apparently tolerable for others.
Hundreds of new arrivals, many rescues
Arrivals: On the island of Pantelleria in Italy, over 100 people arrived in seven different boats, some of whom were intercepted off the Italian coast by the authorities. Elsewhere in Italy, a group of seven people arrived in Sardinia and 212 people in 10 different boats arrived in Lampedusa.
Rescues: In less than 24 hours, there were five boats in distress in the Central Mediterranean. Proactiva Open Arms was involved in three rescues, including one rescue of 50 people off the coast of Italy. Salvamento Maritimo rescued a patera with 45 people near the Canary Islands and six people in the Gibraltar strait.
Pullbacks to Libya: The cargo ship VOS APHRODITE, owned by the shipping company VROON, rescued about 200 people in distress at sea and then immediately handed them over to the so-called Libyan Coast Guard, thereby not meeting its obligation according to international law to take people in distress at sea to safety. That brings the total of the number of people returned to Libya over the past three days to 1,500, almost all returning to torturous conditions. The UN has repeatedly said conditions for people on the move in Libya are inhumane, with many detained in torture camps.
Eight missing after shipwreck between Turkey and Greece
Eight people are still missing after a boat carrying 45 people sank about 260 kilometres off the coast of the southwestern Turkish city of Kas, close to Crete. Turkish and Greek authorities were involved in the rescue of 37 people.
One of the most shameful things about this deadly shipwreck is that the Turkish and Greek governments are each using it as an opportunity to pursue their political agendas without acknowledging the role that their respective policies played in the deaths. Neither country’s media acknowledged the presence of the other country among the rescuing forces. In fact, it is difficult to tell that the newspapers are talking about the same shipwreck! The Greek government even took the opportunity to blame Turkey for the shipwreck, saying that Turkey is ignoring its international obligations and that the Greek government has to rescue people because of them—even as the Greek government ignores its obligations to grant asylum and the Turkish Coast Guard has had to save countless people from Greek pushbacks.
More Afghan people coming to Turkey
As the Taliban gains more ground in Afghanistan, more and more people are fleeing the country. Local sources report that hundreds of people cross the Iranian-Turkish on foot each day. Viral videos have been shared of long convoys of people on foot, although the Turkish interior minister has claimed that those videos are from the Iranian side of the border.
Unfortunately, this has kicked off virulent xenophobic, dehumanizing reactions in many parts of Turkish society, who complain that Turkey has “enough” refugees already. This dehumanization of people on the move is encouraged by politicians that purposefully stoke nationalism for their own political gain. And xenophobia rarely stays on the Internet — at least six Syrians were murdered last year in hate crimes.
Of course, the European Union is hoping that these desperate Afghans will stay in Turkey, Afghanistan and neighboring states—as long as they do not come to the glistening shores of Europe. That is why the EU is creating a financial aid plan that would give more money to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran (Turkey already receives significant money with the purpose of refugee “deterrence”) with the goal of keeping people in Afghanistan or neighbouring countries. Giving aid money as an incentive to stop people from moving has been proven not to work, and money will not address the main reason people are leaving their homes in Afghanistan—the resurgence of the Taliban. But as long as Europe can keep people out, the effectiveness of what it is doing does not matter.
The U.S. is also getting involved by asking the Central Asian countries of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan to house Afghans in danger from the Taliban because they worked for U.S. forces (therefore, meaning that they are displaced because of the U.S. government). Although they say that they would eventually get U.S. visas, many Afghans who worked for the American military have been denied resettlement in the past. Uzbekistan has denied the request. Separately, Tajikistan said that they have the capacity to take in 100,000 people from Afghanistan.
While global and local countries play hot potato with the futures of millions of Afghan civilians, the dangers that they are in will not magically go away.
Overcrowding on mainland camps
It turns out that punting people to the mainland is not a solution to relieve overcrowding in island camps. More and more people are now winding up in Camp Eleonas, a camp in Athens filled way over capacity. Thousands of people live in the camp with no relief from the summer heat, no electricity, and no safety.
A far-right Greek MP has asked in Parliament if “on-the-spot deportations” (aka illegal pushbacks) could be carried out in Evros, citing increasing numbers. Of course, those deportations are illegal and violations of human rights. The panic about people coming through Evros has been fueled by local news which publishes sensationalist articles about people on the move and dehumanizing videos, usually taken without consent.
A new report has found that people on the move are still facing significant barriers to integration, which has been made harder by the pandemic. The Greek government is in the process of creating a New Strategy for Integration and must take the current situation into account.
Another report examined the barriers that recognized refugees face when transitioning from humanitarian assistance to the national system.
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
The UNHCR has published an update on the situation for people on the move in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which you can read here. In June, 1,855 people came to BiH.
Caravan for equal rights on the Canary Islands
In the face of growing xenophobia and violence against people on the move, organizations on the ground in the Canary Islands organized a caravan calling for freedom for all, regardless of citizenship status. On Friday, the people marched on Tenerife demanding that reception policies actually follow the law instead of violating people’s rights through extensive detention. After merging with the Las Raices column, the caravan marched past the Los Rodeos airport to protest deportations. A separate column went to protest in front of the National Police, saying that the headquarters are a bloody place. The caravan aimed to highlight all the institutions involved in such a bloody migration policy and calling for the right to freedom of movement for all.
Syrian people in Germany help in flood recovery
After unprecedented floods hit Germany’s western states, a group of Syrian men now living in Germany organized a volunteer group to go and help out. Watch the reportage about their selfless actions here.
The EU’s murky dealings with foreign nationals
Spying on some, cooperating with others…the EU’s policy towards third-country nationals are in flux. The European Commission has put forward a proposal to expand Europol’s powers to collect alerts from non-European states about nationals in the European Union, but member states are reluctant to give that much power to the EU agency.
The Commission also proposed expanding externalization of migration further to North African countries.
What are Frontex’s obligations in SAR zone? Learn more in this series from Statewatch.
Even if Frontex does not have any SAR obligations (it certainly does not bother fulfilling them), that does not stop it from bragging on Twitter about its officers completing training for “search and rescue activities.” Newspeak in 2021, not 1984!
Even as Frontex denies its obligations in any SAR zone, it is expanding its surveillance capabilities. The agency now has long-range drones in its Frontex Aerial Surveillance Service. Frontex’s drone program has existed since 2009, but since then it has rapidly expanded its program of aerial surveillance, often building close relationships with weapons and surveillance manufacturers.
People on the move at the Olympic Games
Friday saw the official opening ceremony of the controversial 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The games have an official Refugee Olympic Team with 29 members to give stateless athletes an opportunity to compete. While it is good that these athletes will not have to give up their dreams because of circumstances beyond their control, it exposes a larger problem, namely that millions of people are in states of legal limbo and displacement, often for years on end, that prevent them from functioning normally. Most others do not have the opportunity to work and pursue their dreams.
ELENA have published their weekly legal update, which you can read here. One of the most important stories from this week was the ECtHR ruling against Bulgaria for the illegal pushback of a journalist to Turkey.
How relevant is the U.N. Refugee Convention, seventy years after its signing and when most of the world’s refugees are in countries that are not signatories, and even the signatories are flaunting its guidelines? Read more in this blog on the Refugee Law Initiative.
Deportations are more than a violent act of removal, although they certainly are violent, they are transnational processes affecting multiple countries due to institutional racism, the remnants of colonialism, and more. One such book unpacking the process of deportation is Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica. You can read a review of the book here.
Paris-based friends, here’s an event worth attending today! Club Dissident is hosting a discussion at 5PM on the situation in Afghanistan for women and minorities. The panel will consist of Afghan people in Paris and those participating via call from Kabul.
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Training on the beach is great, but the question is…is it better than training in the gym?
Let’s face it big gyms can be crowded, dark, dust filled and cost intensive if you don’t visit them frequently. Where-as outdoor training on the beach provides you with sunlight and fresh air and an environment that can intensify any workout.
Here are a few different situations or scenarios where someone would benefit from this type of training.
- If you are bored or have hit a plateau
- If you want to drop fat weight and develop muscle
- If you are going on a holiday and want a do anywhere program to follow while away
- If you want to compete in beach sports
- Or simply want to be healthier than you are right now.
Beach training, with the combination of the sun, the wind, the water and the sand, offers training stimuli that cant be obtained in ANY OTHER WAY!
So we put together a short list of our number one reasons for deciding to continue to offer beach training even though we now work out of our exclusive Female Only Functional Training Studio in the HEART of Bondi Beach AND why our clients get such great results in a short amount of time!
- There are strong indications that beach training is more effective than indoor training to promote FAT LOSS.
- Sprinting or running on the beach will spare ankles and knees opposed to running on a treadmill in a gym. The sand also simultaneously make muscles “scream for mercy”.
- It’s scientifically proven that barefoot movements are superior to any sports shoes, its also extremely ‘grounding’ to workout on the sand with no shoes.
- Water resistance is an incredibly effective training tool for developing strength and power.
- Beach Training allows those who spend the better part of the day in an office, to take advantage of the amazing health benefits of the sun and the fresh air – and prevent all the diseases linked to lack of Vitamin D.
- With Beach Training there is NO waiting for equipment and NO rush hour traffic.
Expect your body to react differently to a beach workout. It’s a different training mode. Running on soft sand is excellent, but it’s a much more difficult workout. Plus you’re going to have to spend a little more time stretching because it’s going to put extra stress on the calf muscles because of the uneven surface of the soft sand.
Your muscles have a tendency to accommodate your workout so if you’re doing the same routine all the time, it gets stale, and you don’t get the gains a lot of people are looking for. Training on the beach is a way to keep things new, fresh, and challenging. It puts the fun back into the workout!
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Homeowners and building managers alike have wondered, “What’s dry rot and how do you fix it?” Dry rot is often caught once the problem has advanced to the point of no return. Find out how you can identify this nemesis and get rid of it once and for all.
What Is Dry Rot?
Causes of Dry Rot
Dry rot is caused by a type of fungus that grows in damp areas where wood is present. Spores land on the wood and fester once moisture is added. Any home or building is at risk of dry rot regardless of its age or location.
Test for Dry Rot
You can figure out if you have dry rot in your home, church, or other structure by testing the strength of the wood. If it is spongy and soft when you poke it with a screwdriver or your hand, you need to repair or replace the wood. You may see white or gray growth on the wood or even a mushroom head if the rot has advanced far enough. Areas in your home that may be affected by dry rot include:
Replace or Repair Dry Rot
Catching dry rot early is the best thing you can do to maintain your home or other building. If the fungus affects the structural integrity of your building—such as beams and joints—you will want to replace it. When repairing or replacing wood due to dry rot, you will want to seal out moisture from the area, so the problem does not return. Possible ways that moisture can cause dry rot include:
- Leaky roof
- Damaged gutters
- Poor ventilation
- Plumbing problems
Sister Siding is a Portland siding replacement company that specializes in siding repairs and residing. Take the guesswork out of what dry rot is and how to fix it when you work with our experts to diagnose the problem. Sister Siding can repair or replace siding damaged by dry rot. Take care of your dry rot issue before the problem gets out of hand. | <urn:uuid:2ae1aaa9-6d73-41ea-a742-3f00e203e395> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sistersiding.com/whats-dry-rot-and-how-do-you-fix-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937272 | 431 | 2.25 | 2 |
Lake Plains Eye Center your eye health vision center offers the following recommendations for maintain healthy eyes.
Good eye health and eye care are crucial to preserving your vision, treating eye problems early, and protecting your overall health. Your eyes are the “gateway to your soul,” and they can also reveal common or serious health problems — such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and HIV. Learn about eye exams and when to get them, how to practice good eye health, and how to treat and prevent eye conditions, from pinkeye and blepharitis to glaucoma and cataracts.
Everyone should schedule a yearly eye appointment.
What a baby sees?
At birth, infants are very sensitive to light but cannot focus on objects or see colors very well. Their vision continues to develop during the first few months. By 1 month, they can focus on objects up to 3 feet away. By 4 months, they can see across a room. Also around 4 months, they can see a full range of colors and shades.
First Eye Exams
A pediatrician may screen a child’s vision during routine exams in his first year of life. Some experts recommend a vision screening with an eye doctor at 6 months and a complete eye exam at age 3. Vision problems like nearsightedness or lazy eye may be apparent by that age. An early vision exam may include tests for visual sharpness and overall eye health.
Nearly 1 in 4 school-age children has vision problems, most commonly nearsightedness. However, only about one-third of students get eye exams before starting school. Some experts recommend an eye exam before starting first grade, and then every two years. Because eyes develop as a child grows, nearsightedness typically gets worse until about age 20.
What Is “Lazy Eye”?
Amblyopia or “lazy eye” (shown) affects 2 to 3 of every 100 children. It occurs when nerve signals between the brain and one eye do not work properly. Most children can be successfully treated with a patch over the stronger eye or with other methods. Crossed eyes happen when both eyes do not line up. Patching, special glasses, or even surgery may help.
Computers and Eye Strain
Prolonged use of digital devices like computer monitors, smart phone screens, and video games may result in eye strain, dryness, and fatigue. Luckily, using such devices does not seem to have permanent effects on the eyes. To prevent eye strain, adjust the computer monitor so that it’s 2 feet in front of you. Use desk lighting to reduce glare. Take a break every hour. Spend a few minutes looking at something much farther away than the monitor.
Adults, Protect Your Eyes!
Healthy adults younger than 40 usually enjoy stable vision. To maintain your vision and overall eye health, wear sunglasses in bright sunlight. Wear protective gear when playing sports or working with power tools, machinery, or chemicals — both at work and at home.
Oh, No! It’s Time for “Readers”
The need for reading glasses is a classic sign of middle age. By the time you reach your mid-40s, you may need help reading and performing other close-up tasks. This vision change is called presbyopia, and it’s normal. You can wear reading glasses, bifocals, or special contact lenses to correct your vision. Sometimes laser surgery can help, too.
What Happens in Presbyopia
Before the age of 40, the natural lens of the eye is very flexible. This flexibility helps the lens focus on objects that are close up or far away. But as we get older, the lens tends to lose its flexibility. Gradually this reduces the ability to see up-close objects. If you have presbyopia, you might have to hold an object like a book or a menu farther away from your eyes to see it clearly.
Age-related Diseases and Vision
Some diseases, like diabetes and high blood pressure, may have an effect on your vision and eye health. Diabetes is a leading cause of new cases of blindness in adults. People with diabetes may develop retinopathy (shown, damage to blood vessels in the retina). High blood pressure can damage the eye’s blood vessels and nerves. It can cause permanent vision loss. When you take care of your overall health by eating well and not smoking, your eyes benefit.
Cataracts and Glaucoma
Cataracts (shown) and glaucoma can happen at any age, but are most often associated with people over 60. A cataract is a clouding of the eye’s natural lens. It can easily be removed and replaced by a special lens in the eye during surgery. Glaucoma is a deterioration of the eye’s nerve over time. It is often accompanied by increased pressure in the eye. Glaucoma is treated with eye drops or surgery to decrease eye pressure.
Slowing Down Macular Degeneration
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is more common in people over 60. It can cause a partial loss of vision. “Wet” AMD is associated with new, unwanted, leaky blood vessels in the eye. It can be treated with medicine. “Dry” AMD is a slower process and does not have specific treatment. Vision rehabilitation may help a person adjust to life with AMD.
Nutrition and Vision
A healthy diet can help maintain your overall eye health. And some foods may be especially good for eyes, too. Omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins C and E may promote eye health. So eat citrus fruits like oranges and tangerines, green, leafy vegetables, nuts, and fatty fish. Eating fish and green, leafy vegetables may prevent age-related macular degeneration, too. | <urn:uuid:67c0ff21-370f-4818-aa0e-b59add6f8d83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lakeplainseyecenter.com/eye-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945243 | 1,216 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Facsimile of early Irish map of the tribes of Israel
from MS BNF lat. 11561, f43v
In the section on Joshua there is an interesting map of the Holy Land with the tribal allotments. This is the earliest extant example of the use of a biblical map as a means of understanding the biblical text, something that we take for granted today. In drawing this map the Irish author had to rely on the biblical data and extra biblical sources. This was no mean achievement without the aid of an atlas.
The map is entitled as terre repromissionis (promised land) which is drawn from Hebrews 11:9, revealing, as Thomas O'Loughlinn has pointed out, that the author is viewing Joshua through the lens of the NT. The location of Dan to the north, as opposed to where it usually appears in modern biblical maps to the west of Ephraim, is due to Dan's northern migration away from their allotted land in the west to take easier territory in the north (Judges 17-21). Another curious feature is the tongue like shape of the dead sea (mare mortuum) which is shown in a south-westerly direction. This anomaly is derived from the fact that the author had in all likely-hood never seen the dead sea portrayed on a map and the text of Joshua 15:2-3 describes the dead sea as the tongue that faces to the south.
The cities listed on the map are Jerusalem, Rama, Bethlehem and the cities of refuge. The early Irish church took a great interest in the concept of the city of refuge (de civitatibus refugii). They adapted the rules laid down in the OT and applied them to their churches, in order for a church to qualify as a city of refuge it needed a bishop, a scholar and a superior. Irish canon law set down the rights and privileges for a church that acted as a city of refuge (cathair attaig). This application of the OT city of refuge to ecclesiastical sites was unique in Europe to the early Irish church in this period.
The use of a map in the reference work on the bible shows an originality and confidence to early Irish exegesis. It was a bold attempt to present the often confusing biblical details relating to tribal inheritance into a coherent and easy to understand format. In this it paved the way for later exegetes to do the same. It also shows us the ability of Irish exegetes at this stage to move beyond a simple allegorical interpretation of the text (such as Ailerán viewing the seven Canaanite nations as the seven vices) into a more historically sensitive interpretation that sought to understand the text as it related to the history of Israel. | <urn:uuid:e2411771-e209-4711-93ee-d8aefe30ba07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://anglandicus.blogspot.com/2012/07/das-bibelwerk-and-irish-exegesis-of.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962889 | 570 | 3.375 | 3 |
3This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’ ”
6Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. 7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. 9And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
10The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
11“I baptize you with
12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
The Baptism of Jesus 13Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.
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Low Motivation & Job Dissatisfaction
It takes place when an employee doesn’t feel happy and satisfied in their job. The reasons can be related to professional and personal issues but it becomes important for the employee to take professional counselling services to allay the pain of ineffectiveness. Working People have expectations of what their job should be like.
- Crucial Reasons for Job Dissatisfaction are:
- Lack of Motivation & Appreciation
- Being Underpaid
- Biased Management
- Lack of Training Programs
- Lack of Career counselling Jaipur Growth Options
- Work-Life Imbalance
- Workplace Relationships.
In this fast-paced and erratic corporate world, maintaining a work-life balance is a herculean task. Due to technology and social media, people have got engrossed in their work and fail to separate work from their personal lives. Spending quality time with family has been replaced by checking emails every time, taking business calls at the dinner table and working on the laptops on weekends.
Important reasons which create work-life imbalance are:
- Less salary, More expenses.
- Increased responsibilities.
- Working longer hours.
Workplace harassment is quite prevalent but unfortunately, not spoken openly resulting in a toxic and abusive work environment. Infact, many people don’t realise that they are being harassed by their co-workers and seniors. The organization must realise that such a disturbing and uncomfortable workplace can affect its productivity and reputation in the business world.
The main reasons behind Workplace harassment are:
- Skilled Workers become the targets.
- Well-liked employees become the targets.
- Vulnerable Non-Assertive people become the targets.
- Female employees become the targets.
Time is considered to be one of the valuable assets of an organization and poor time management can damage the company’s goodwill and destroy its outputs. If the employees aren’t following the rules leading to an accurate and productive time management system, then professional counselling services in jaipur is needed for them to get proper direction. There can be many factors behind time mismanagement.
Important reasons resulting in Poor Time Management are:
- Poor Planning Skills
- Faulty setting of Priorities
- Unclear Goals
- Consistent Procrastination
- Remaining Demotivated
Performance pressure originates from intense work demands and constant pressure on the employees who aren’t very sure about their skills and abilities. The workplace challenges demanding productive outcomes can be harmful to the workers who start to give up on themselves without even trying.
Major factors which create performance pressure and issues are:
- Job Insecurity
- Work Overload & Underload
- Lack of proper training
- Managerial skills
- New Technologies
- Organizational Changes
- Interpersonal Conflicts
- Lack of Feedbacks
- Multiple activities at same time
Communication at the workplace means the exchange of information may it be upward, downward, horizontal, diagonal within an organization and it has to be clear, concise, concrete and courteous to assure effectiveness and productivity. The great and successful interpersonal communication between the employees and the employers leads to smooth workflow and attainment of desired results.
The major reasons for Communication Failure in an organization are:
- Poor Leadership
- Psychological Barrier
- Physical Barrier
- Socio-Cultural Barrier
- Organization Structure Barrier
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link between India and Italy is based on common values: Vincenzo de Luca
In this interview, Italian Ambassador to India, Vincenzo de Luca talks about the importance of culture in relations between India and Italy.
Vincenzo de Luca, the Italian Ambassador, has been a career diplomat since 1989. Over the years, he has held several positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in diplomatic representations in Khartoum, Tunis, Paris (at the Permanent Representation to of the OECD), and in Shanghai, where he served as Consul General for four years. He has long-standing expertise in the internationalization of the economic system of the public and private sector, both in Central Offices, as Diplomatic Advisor to the Ministries of Industry, Transport and Economic Development, and in large companies. such as ENI and ENEL. He presented his credentials as Italian Ambassador to India in December 2019.
In this interview, Ambassador Vincenzo de Luca talks about the importance of culture in India-Italy relations, the main attractions of the upcoming Italian National Day and Republic Day celebrations, priority areas to further strengthen the cultural link between India and Italy, and the role of the Cultural Center in promoting Italian culture in India. He also talks about the various scholarships offered to Indian students to study in Italy, the support given by Italy to Indian filmmakers who wish to shoot in Italy and the importance of food diplomacy in the context of India and the Italy.
Q. How do you see the importance of culture in relations between India and Italy? How were the cultural ties between India and Italy strengthened by last year’s meeting between Prime Minister Modi and his Italian counterpart Mario Draghi on the sidelines of the G20 summit?
A. Cultural exchanges between Italy and India date back to ancient history and this is also why relations between our two countries are based on common values. Not only do the links between European and Indian cultures date back to 700 BC, but there are also records of linguistic influences in the 16th century. In the last century, Giuseppe Tucci and Luigi Tessitori contributed to the knowledge of Indian culture and artistic tradition in Italy by collecting scientific studies and artistic testimonies still preserved in Italy. Moreover, Italy has the most important tradition of Indology studies in the world outside of India. Over the past 50 years, exchanges in the field of cinema have multiplied with the production of docu-films by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Rossellini and awards at the Venice Film Festival for Satyajit Ray and Mira Nair. These ties are not only rooted in the past, but are very much driven by innovation, creativity and contemporary cultural contamination. In 2021, we celebrated the Festival of Italian Culture in India, in collaboration with the Embassy of India in Rome, through a large number of events and activities in the fields of cinema, music, literature, visual arts, fashion and design. These have paved the way for stronger cooperation in the years to come and we have continued to work closely with our Indian partners to encourage our creative industries to develop more joint projects.
Q. What can we expect this year on Italy’s National Day and Republic Day on June 2?
A. After two years of online programs, this year we will finally celebrate the Italian National Day in person, with a reception organized at the Residence of Italy. This year marks the 75th anniversary of Indo-Italian relations and we have many surprises in store for you: we will unveil a new logo to mark this crucial moment in our bilateral relations. The friends of Italy who will be present will have the opportunity to savor an Italian meal and take part in enchanting shows. I won’t spoil the details, but the evening will be enriched by live opera and jazz music from the Neemrana Foundation, a contemporary dance performance live from Italy by the Oliva Contemporary Dance Project and a group of young dancers from Verona. The dancers will also perform in the coming days at the India Habitat Center. Hope everyone was lucky to find tickets as they sold out in 48 hours.
Q. Given that much of the time has been lost due to the pandemic, what will be your priorities to further strengthen the cultural bond between India and Italy in the future?
A. We are now focusing on fostering bottom-up interpersonal relationships. The idea is to bring Italian-Indian cultural relations to younger generations through education in the most attractive fields of study such as design and fashion. This is why we support the development of new university courses in India promoted by the best Italian institutions. We are also promoting more business opportunities for our creative industries, also through the conclusion of important agreements that facilitate Italy-India film co-productions.
Q. In your speech last year on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Center of the Italian Embassy, you described it as the cultural center of Delhi. Could you please clarify the role of the Cultural Center in promoting Italian culture in India?
A. Italy is a soft power superpower thanks to the immense wealth of beauty, arts, music, literature, monuments, cinema, lifestyle, fashion and innovative creativity. To promote all this in the world, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinates a network of 82 Italian cultural institutes. These represent meeting places for intellectuals, artists, Italians living abroad and all those who want to foster relations with our country. Italian cultural institutes are involved in the development of various activities to promote Italian culture where they are located. To do this, they organize artistic, musical and literary events. Some of them also offer Italian language and culture courses. The Italian Cultural Institute in Delhi is a cultural hub and its Managing Director, Andrea Baldi, has done an excellent job of setting out a high-level and among the most dynamic and rich program of activities. The added value of his work is the ability to engage with major cultural institutions in Delhi.
Q. What are the different scholarships offered to Indian students to study in Italy?
A. There are a number of scholarship opportunities for Indian students wishing to study in Italy. Let me remind you that more than 5000 Indian students are currently enrolled in our higher education system and some of them have benefited from such scholarships.
First, there are scholarship opportunities offered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Every year, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) offers scholarships in favor of foreign citizens not residing in Italy to pursue study, training and/or research programs in the institutes of Italian higher education.
Indian students are also eligible to apply for the Invest Your Talent in Italy program which offers postgraduate courses in the field of engineering, advanced technologies, architecture, design, economics or management and a complete training opportunity, as it offers university studies in prestigious Italian universities. as well as a period of on-the-job training, through an internship in a leading Italian company.
Also, many regional scholarships are open to Indian students who are regularly enrolled in a degree or postgraduate program in Italy. The scholarships are awarded annually, on a competitive basis, to all university students who meet certain income, merit and regular attendance requirements, and include free accommodation, meals and a monthly payment to cover additional expenses (sports activities , books, etc).
Finally, Italian Universities/AFAM offer scholarships and other benefits to international students applying to their degree programs. These scholarship opportunities may be merit-based and/or income-based and change accordingly depending on the reference higher education institution.
We have an office in Mumbai, Uni-Italia, which organizes promotional activities on studying in Italy and offers guidance service and personalized advice to students from all over India interested in pursuing their future higher education in Italy. You can reach them at [email protected]
Q. Indian movie “Radhe Shyam” starring Prabhas was shot entirely in Italy. What kind of support does Italy give to Indian filmmakers if they want to shoot in Italy?
A. We encourage the production of foreign films in Italy as much as possible, especially because we have one of the most beautiful countries in the world in terms of landscapes for film sets. Support is provided by a network of some twenty film commissions which bring together organizations which provide free services such as logistical assistance, access to financial resources, granting of permits, mapping of skilled labor and service providers, including finding the best locations. Italy has the best workforce when it comes to make-up artists, costume designers, technicians. The Ministry of Culture also offers incentives for foreign productions, with tax credit measures intended to optimize and support film production activities also through joint projects involving Italian and foreign production companies that choose to film all or part of their projects on Italian territory. You will find all the details on the website of the Italian Ministry of Culture. Currently, two Indian projects are being shot in Italy: “Four More Shots Please! », an Amazon series shot in the Piedmont region and «Anni Manchi», a film by Nandini Reddy, shot in Tuscany and Liguria.
Q. How do you see the idea of food diplomacy in the context of India and Italy? What dishes would you recommend to someone unfamiliar with Italian cuisine?
A. Certainly, food is part of our culture and food diplomacy is something we are very fond of. In fact, every year we organize Italian Food Week all over the world and in India it has always been a great success. For the occasion, we invite the most renowned chefs in the world to present their culinary masterpieces and organize events for them throughout the city. I cannot choose a particular dish or meal. I can say that Italian cuisine is not limited to pizza and pasta, and Italian cuisine is extremely diverse and rich in flavors and ingredients. | <urn:uuid:ff9fe6d9-d184-442a-8841-34f65a5bc913> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ultimate-orienteering.com/link-between-india-and-italy-is-based-on-common-values-vincenzo-de-luca | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964371 | 2,000 | 2.40625 | 2 |
The eleven three-phase induction motors, suitable for operation in explosive atmospheres will be used to drive the centrifugal pumps feeding water into the cooling towers at the Petrobras Abreu e Lima Refinery in Ipojuca, Pernambuco. This is one of the wealthiest regions of Brazil, and close to the world famous beach resorts of Porto de Galinhas.
The pumps and motors are to be located in the refining area and will be used to feed the cooling towers associated with the site’s main steam turbines. The pumps will operate to provide water for circulation and for cooling the plant and equipment which is critically important within the refining process. The pumps are being supplied by KSB, which has been manufacturing in Brazil for over 50 years.
“These KSB pumps and associated equipment require special motors that offer a high degree of reliability,” explains WEG engineer, Marcelo Vedana. To enhance their reliability the motors are designed to be robust and use the best quality bearings and ancillary components. The windings are precision made and balanced, whilst advanced thermal management ensures cool running.
Explosion proof motors are designed to contain an explosion if it occurs within the motor. This is to prevent the release of explosive gases and to minimize internal sparking within the motor. They are most commonly used in the chemical, mining, textile and petrochemical industries, but also find applications in many other fields. Not only must an explosion proof motor be designed to reduce the likelihood of exploding, it must also be capable of completely containing an internal explosion so that it does not propagate to the surrounding area. Thus their bodies tend to be more robust than standard motors and to be able to maintain integrity at highly elevated temperatures. They must also resist corrosion and to have flame-tight joints and flanges with minimum tolerances so that hot gases from an internal explosion will cool down before exiting to the wider environment.
There are several approval bodies that can certify motors are explosion proof. As a major international motor manufacturer, WEG meets the safety requirements for all regions. Petrobras, amongst the five biggest energy companies in the world, says that Abreu e Lima is one of the most advanced refineries ever built in Brazilian territory. It will be the first with the capability to process 100% heavy crude oil with the minimum environmental impact and to produce fuel with a lower sulphur content than that required by the strictest of international standards, that is to say 10 ppm of sulphur.
Brazil is widely recognised as one of the fastest developing countries of the world, being listed in the BRIC acronym (Brazil, Russia, India and China) as having a rapidly advancing economy. Its population is about 200 million and its land mass makes it the fifth largest country in the world. Rich in natural resources, it also has tremendous potential for hydroelectric power generation.
A global major in the power distribution, automation and control sectors, WEG has just celebrated its 50th birthday. The company’s global sales now exceed the US$3-billion mark, representing increasing global success across a wide range of product groups, including the latest generation of transformers, LV control gear, generators, inverter drive systems, soft starters, LV and HV motors, ATEX- compliant explosion proof motors, smoke extraction motors and full turnkey systems. In addition, WEG has recently made a significant strategic expansion of its product portfolio, following the establishment of a joint venture for the manufacturing of wind turbines and the purchase of an Austrian gearbox manufacture, WATT Drive. | <urn:uuid:d732f3ee-fa64-4ef8-9d6d-ba4ceffcdb2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.weg.net/institutional/US/en/news/products-and-solutions/motors-drive-the-pumping-heart-of-new-brazilian-refinery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.943808 | 730 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Brighten Up Your Fall
Dull headlights, window haze, glare, yellowed headlight lenses, burned out bulbs.
Drivers encounter a few more challenges as the autumn sun sits lower in the afternoon sky and sets earlier. Addressing key visibility components can add a lot of brightness to your fall driving.
Check your vehicle for signs of visibility problems. Start with the following items:
Dull bulbs. Do the beams appear less bright than a year ago? Traditional halogen headlight bulbs lose brightness with age. Replacing bulbs annually delivers optimum visibility for dark roads and is a small investment in your driving safety.
Beam alignment. Do your headlight beams look cockeyed? Get lenses straightened out to increase light on the road ahead without glaring into oncoming traffic.
Hazy windows. Use a streak-free glass cleaner designed for vehicle glass. Remember to clean interior and exterior sides for best visibility. Vapors inside the cabin turn into haze on the inside panes, and that creates glare when the sun is shining at a low angle.
Roadway hazards. Some navigation apps can warn you if there are potholes, breakdowns or speed traps ahead.
Roadside visibility. Safety experts encourage drivers to use emergency flashers when they need to pull off the road or when involved in a collision. Accidents often occur when drivers and passengers exit vehicles on the sides of roadways. Besides vehicle flasher lights, add reflective vests and flashers to your vehicle safety kit.
Yellowed lenses. Summer’s ultraviolet rays can turn headlight lenses yellow and dramatically reduce the amount of light reaching the road. Ask your advisor about headlight polishing. Severely yellowed lenses may require replacement.
Windshield clarity. De-icing spray is used on the outside of the windshield, while defogger is applied to the interior side. Note: Some types of de-icer products contain chemicals not permitted in all regions.
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It been quite some time now since the last official release of VSCP & Friends but here its is, the brand new 0.4.0 Fluorine version, the free and open source framework for M2M and IoT setups. As of 28 of August VSCP & Friends has become thirteen and is now a teenager. Who could ever think we would still be on it today back in 2000. But we are.
We have now reached all the goals
- We have uniform device discovery and identification.
- We have uniform device configuration.
- We have autonomous/distributed device functionality.
- We have a uniform way to present data.
- We have a uniform way to update/maintain device firmware.
The software package has always worked well on Raspberry Pi boards and on BeagleBone Black boards and on all other small boards out there, as well as on bigger systems. Regrettably we have to drop native windows support for the vscpd daemon from this version, as we just does not have the time to support it at the moment. All software around it will however still work also on the windows platform and will do so also in the future. That’s a promise. If you absolutely need it, it should be possible to build with MinGW or similar.
So what is new in VSCP & Friends in this release.
First of all there is a new driver model which we call Level II drivers. This type of drivers can use the variables of the daemon for it’s configuration and therefore becomes very flexible as the variables of the daemon can be edited and changed remotely. This is a development that aims at drivers that can be installed and configured on a remote machine just as apps. are installed on cellular phone today.
A built in webserver is available in the system. This web-server can, as any other web-server, let a browser fetch pages you put on the servers file system. But it’s also a built in user interface for the vscpd daemon where you can edit, delete and create variables. Investigate interfaces on the machine. Add, delete and create decision matrix elements so that you can create automation tasks such as running a series of programmes when a button is pressed or something else happens. The possibilities with the built in scheduler is endless. The user interface for the daemon will be extended in the future with many new features.
The VSCP protocol by itself is an abstraction for other real world protocols and even if a real world component can hook on to the VSCP & Friends on any of the well defined interfaces, a driver is the most common way to add support for other real world systems. VSCP & Friends is not built to be the only solution, it is designed to take advantage of all other solutions/protocols by make intelligent abstractions of there functionality.
A level II TCP/IP link driver has been added. With this driver it is possible to connect to other daemons on other remote machines and/or on smaller boards with a simple TCP/IP interface. The connection will be held up by the daemon even if it falls.
A level II socketcan driver and a Level I socketcan driver has been added. So now all CAN devices that have socketcan support (most) is supported by VSCP.
A level II logger is added to the level I logger which can help in debugging you system. This logger also can log events for later user friendly inspection in VSCP works.
A level II MQTT subscribe/publish driver has been added to make it possible to use this popular IBM protocol to send VSCP events over a topic-channel. As MQTT is available on many, many platforms this extends the reach for VSCP & Friends to.
A level II raw Ethernet driver has been added. This driver makes it possible to send raw ethernet VSCP frames instead of IP frames and therefore build clients that does not have to implement a full TCP/IP stack on them and also has no need for being setup with an IP-address etc and thus works when started up. A temperature sensor or a switch hooked up to a local Ethernet just don’t need the space taken up by the TCP/IP stack.
A level II LM-sensors driver has been added which makes it possible to monitor the health (temperature/voltage/rpm of fans) of a mainboard and CPU’s and the disks on a remote machine.
And then there are the old Level I drivers. can232, xap and others.
The helper-dll is now pretty complete and makes it easy to interface the different interfaces of VSCP & Friends and decode/code data.
VSCP-Works now can update firmware using the generic algorithm as well. Sample firmware for AVR processors is available. It also have support for Level II and can read and write multi page and decision matrix of remote devices. It can also handle abstractions from the MDF specification from the device and therefore configure devices on the highest user level. This is still tool for developers and we expect many of it’s user friendly parts to be moved or be doubled in the web-interface.
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Arles is a city in the south of France. It was built in the 6th century BC by the Greeks. Today more than 50,000 people live there. In the 1880s, the famous painters, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived there. Vincent van Gogh painted his famous Sunflowers in Arles.
|• Mayor (2014–2020)||Hervé Schiavetti (PCF)|
|758.93 km2 (293.02 sq mi)|
|• Density||69/km2 (180/sq mi)|
|Time zone||UTC+01:00 (CET)|
|• Summer (DST)||UTC+02:00 (CEST)|
|Elevation||0–57 m (0–187 ft) |
(avg. 10 m or 33 ft)
|1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.|
The city is at the heart of the Camargue. Not many people live in this region, so there is a lot of free land around Arles. Because of this, Arles is the city in France to have the largest area (nearly 760 square kilometres). | <urn:uuid:bbf89413-ac56-4ce5-82bd-150901646422> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arles | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.73234 | 407 | 2.484375 | 2 |
New Zealanders served in Britain's Royal Navy, where many were involved in anti-submarine activity protecting the movement of supplies across the Atlantic. During 1942 and 1943 they served on cruisers which escorted convoys in the North Atlantic taking supplies to the Russian port of Murmansk. Conditions were extremely icy and cold, as shown in this photo from the Auckland Weekly News of 6 May 1942.
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Things You Should Know About Mortgages
Your house is probably one of your biggest investments in life. Understanding the meaning of mortgage loan can help you avoid losing your most precious property. Remember that you can lose everything you have if you are ignorant. Before signing up a mortgage loan, you should know the following things.
The Interest Rate
Before signing a mortgage loan, you should know how much interest would you pay for the entire duration of the loan. Loan interest differs depending on the loan agency and the amount you are trying to loan. You should know your entire loan payment with a piti payment calculator with the interest rate before you sign. The loan term is also another factor you should take a look at. It would not be wise to go for a low interest rate but a short loan term.
Interest-only mortgage loans should be avoided. You might not get ownership of the home if you are unable to purchase it at the right time. Adjustable mortgage loans are the most advisable, especially for new home owners.
There might be times where you have to pay for miscellaneous fees before you could get your loan. Up front payments can greatly help reduce the monthly payment for mortgages. Long term mortgages should always be carefully planned before you sign up for one. The interest rate plus the rolling cost might stack up over time which could really become a burden.
Mortgage Loan Vs Cost of Ownership
You should decide for the right mortgage terms depending on the type of home you will be buying. It would be best to get a home that you can afford based on your monthly income.
To know how much you will be paying in a month for a specific house, get a piti payment calculator. It is advisable to get a simple house if your monthly income is not really that high.
Remember that you will be paying more than just the mortgage loan in owning a property. To know your net monthly payment, try using a piti payment calculator. After your calculation, you should assess if you can afford your prospective house. There are a lot of better choices when it comes to houses. Never decide to get a different loan just to pay for something that you cannot really afford.
Do Not Pay for Something You Do Not Need
Always review the mortgage terms before you sign it. Get to know the company policies in case you will not be able to pay for a month or two. If you want to stop, is there an alternative? A monthly mortgage payment is always advisable, even for able clients. If you want automatic payments every month, use a piti payment calculator first. For big upfront payments, you should be able to acquire a low interest per month.
If the loan terms include additional fees, review the entire thing again. You can know if the extra fees are justifiable with a piti payment calculator.
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Matthew 16:13-20, CEB: Peter’s declaration about Jesus
13 Now when Jesus came to the area of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 14 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the other prophets.” 15 He said, “And what about you? Who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 Then Jesus replied, “Happy are you, Simon son of Jonah, because no human has shown this to you. Rather my Father who is in heaven has shown you. 18 I tell you that you are Peter. And I’ll build my church on this rock. The gates of the underworld won’t be able to stand against it. 19 I’ll give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Anything you fasten on earth will be fastened in heaven. Anything you loosen on earth will be loosened in heaven.” 20 Then he ordered the disciples not to tell anybody that he was the Christ.
In Matthew 16:13 Jesus asks “What do people say about me?” Here is a story of Jesus asking what people said about him. This story is remarkable not because of what people said, but because of how Jesus responded to their opinions .
He is told that some say he is John the Baptist – killed by Herod but come back from the dead – or a prophet in the tradition of Elijah, or Jeremiah, or one of the others who had opposed the religious leaders in Jerusalem. Simon then added that they thought Jesus to be the Anointed One: “the Christ, the Son of the Living God” (Matt 16:16). These are powerful images. Perhaps in our modern imagery we might hear people saying to Jesus
- You are the leader for our time
- You are just what we need to lead us out of this mess
- You are the one who will make our lives great again
And as we read the story it feels like Jesus literally brushes their words aside. Jesus was secure enough in himself not to need others boosting his ego (In fact the mark of a great leader is someone who does not need to be told how great he is!). But more revealing of the character of Jesus is what he did next. He says “I tell you that you are Peter. And I’ll build my church on this rock” (Matt 16:18) Jesus says to him “I see potential in you: you are the foundation for the new movement I am beginning. I will call you Peter (Greek: Petros – a rock): a foundation stone”. Now Jesus was not stupid. He knew that Simon was not perfect. After all Simon/Peter was the man with the short temper. He was the one who had a big mouth and was quick with a knife. Jesus knew those things…. but he saw the potential: “you are Peter and on this rock I will build my church (Matt 16:18).” Jesus saw the potential of what Simon could become, and he told him that he could become Peter – one who is rock-solid.
This then is the good news of our faith: We do not have to worry about other people’s opinions of us, because God looks beyond our failures and shortcomings and sees the potential for what we can become. God does not look for the cracks in us. Instead God looks for the potential. So if anyone feels inferior, or inadequate should hear the whisper of the Spirit of God saying “You are more than a Simon…you are my Peter”!
But I would fail us if I did not point out the moment of challenge to us all: Just like God sees beyond our failings to our true potential, so we are challenged by Jesus to look for potential in the people around us. I suspect that we often focus on each other’s faults rather than looking for the human potential that lies within that person.
- When we encounter a tired, irritated store assistant – will we see the single mother who is working two jobs to care for her family?
- When we meet an old man struggling to park his car – will we see a father and a grandfather who is loved by his family?
- Particularly close to us right now are the political passions that cause us to be say hate-filled words to those who hold a different opinion: I challenge us to be kind to one another
- The Virus debate has also led us into opposing camps, where we use insults and curses towards those who hold a different opinion
The challenge of this week is to look beyond the Simon…. and to discover the Peter in the people we meet The invitation is to look for their potential. The fact is that far more good is achieved by kind words than by angry words. Let us be kind to one another. Even if you disagree – be kind.
I have found this quote to be useful: “In a World Where you can be anything – be kind”
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Are Those Pricey Euro Cars More Expensive to Own?
Mechanics are frequently presented with the question, “are those ‘fill in the blank’ (Audis, BMWs, Mercedes, Porsches) more expensive to fix and own?” It seems I am hearing that question more and more these days.
I am also seeing more and more of those vehicles locally or at least Kootenay wide. As a mechanic who has spent many an hour under various higher end Euro vehicles I should have an opinion at least.
I would have to say yes. A more expensive car is more expensive to own. Logically a more expensive car is more expensive to make. Cars are made up of parts and more expensive cars are made up of more expensive parts. Many of those parts are wearable items.
Think simply brakes, tires, and fuel. Most higher end European vehicles require premium fuel. We all see the price of premium fuel at the pumps. A steady diet of premium is harder on your wallet.
European vehicles are usually more oriented to high speed driving and sporty handling. As such they are typically equipped with high performance wheels and tires. The tires are wide. The sidewall is short. The rubber is sticky. The wheels are aluminum and they are very expensive. Hit a pothole with an aluminum wheel and a short sidewall tire and a bent wheel is much more likely on your Euro SUV compared to your steel wheeled Ford Escape.
Sticky performance tires wear out fast and they cost a lot more. There is no magic. That is a double whammy in the cost of ownership.
Then there are the brakes. Short repeatable stopping distances from high speeds require big powerful brakes. Higher end Euros have big powerful brakes. Just because they are big and powerful does not mean they do not wear out. My experience is these brakes feel better but they do not last any longer and they do cost more.
So just taking into account wearable items a more expensive European car will cost more to own.
Many will think those high end Euros must be extremely reliable. The engines and transmissions will last forever. Being in the business of trying to make engines last forever I quickly learned that the engines that last forever are the ones that are taken care of the best.
Proper care of a high end European vehicle is just as important as any vehicle. Again these vehicles will require special oils, special filters, and special tools. In all likelihood the cost of these parts and services will be higher.
Unfortunately many expensive European vehicles are originally bought by people that have lots of money and will drive the vehicle for a few years with no real concern for maintenance and simply replace it in a couple years with the latest new version. I think that contributes to the high depreciation rate many of these vehicles experience. That high depreciation is what draws many people to buy these vehicles. A six year old eighty thousand dollar vehicle is for sale for only twenty five thousand. Such a deal.
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PEN strongly condemns the five-month prison sentence (with six months suspended) handed down to Dareen Tatour today by the Nazareth District Court. As Tatour has already served three months in jail, she is reportedly due to serve only the remaining two months, starting from the 8 August 2018. The organization considers that Tatour has been targeted for peacefully exercising her right to free expression through poetry and activism.
Tatour, a Palestinian poet and citizen of Israel, was convicted by the Nazareth Court on May 3, 2018 on charges of incitement to violence and support for terror organizations. She has spent almost three years in jail or under house arrest since October 2015. Tatour’s conviction is mainly related to a video in which she recites one of her poems entitled: ‘Qawim ya sha’abi, qawimhum (Resist, my people, resist them).’
PEN International President Jennifer Clement, who met Dareen Tatour at her home in Nazareth last year, said: “Today PEN International stands with Dareen Tatour, as we have for the past torturous years of jail time, trials and house arrest, and defends freedom of expression and asks for her freedom. We stand with Tatour’s own words: poetry is not a crime”.
PEN has been campaigning to end the judicial proceedings and to ensure Tatour’s release for a couple of years.
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Depends on the attack vector
Hackers steal 45 million passwords. The six-digit PIN mechanism is immune to this sort of attack, because the PINs are generated on the fly and presumably have a short lifespan. There is nothing to steal.
How I'd hack your weak password. The six-digit PIN mechanism is immune to this sort of attack, because the user does not choose them, and they cannot be inferred from demographic information.
Brute force cracking. The six-digit PIN mechanism is not immune to this sort of attack, but the hacker only has a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of getting it right. Depending on the lockout mechanism that it uses, the hacker may have 3-5 chances, which still offers very poor odds.
On the other hand, you are in a less comfortable position if
- A hacker steals your email password
- A hacker steals your mobile phone
- A hacker is able to intercept your email because it was not sent securely
- A hacker is able to intercept your SMS, somehow....
There may be other, hidden security mechanisms
Payment processors tend to have additional security mechanisms that you can't even see. For example, your payment may end up going through a risk engine and will get blocked or sent to escalated auditing if it appears fraudulent (i.e. if someone is sending a lot of small transactions to one place, or if the IP address is in Syria, for example).
Who is at risk?
It may ease your mind to know that the security mechanisms in payment processors' sites are not so much there to protect you as they are to protect them. They are the ones who have to come up with the money if any of your funds are stolen. Your personal liability is limited to $50. | <urn:uuid:3d420ff8-9ead-4c17-823d-d3d23a5b37d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/141133/are-six-digit-temporary-numerical-pins-secure-enough-for-online-accounts/141141 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957035 | 368 | 2.5 | 2 |
- Press Release
- August 11, 2022
Crewed Missions to Mars: Modeling the Impact of Astrophysical Charged Particles on Astronauts and Assessing Health Effect
The impact of exposure to astrophysical ionizing radiation on astronaut health is one of the main concerns in planning crewed missions to Mars.
Astronauts will be exposed to energetic charged particles from Galactic and Solar origin for a prolonged period with little protection from a thin spacecraft shield in transit and from the rarefied Martian atmosphere when on the surface. Adverse impacts on astronaut health include, for example, Acute Radiation Syndrome, damage to the nervous system, and increased cancer risk.
Using a combination of radiation measurements and numerical modeling with the GEANT4 package, we calculate the distribution of radiation dose in various organs of the human body for various expected scenarios simulated with a model human phantom. We rely on medical studies to assess the impact of enhanced levels of radiation dose on various physiological systems and on the overall health of astronauts.
We suggest mitigation strategies such as improved ways of shielding and dietary supplements, and make recommendations for the safety of astronauts in future crewed missions to Mars.
Dimitra Atri, Caitlin MacArthur, Sriram Devata, Shireen Mathur, Giulia Carla Bassani, Roberto Parisi, Dionysios Gakis, Konstantin Herbst, Azza Al Bakr, Tammy Witzens
Comments: 93 pages
Subjects: Space Physics (physics.space-ph); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Cite as: arXiv:2208.00892 [physics.space-ph] (or arXiv:2208.00892v1 [physics.space-ph] for this version)
From: Dimitra Atri
[v1] Mon, 1 Aug 2022 14:31:33 UTC (1,258 KB)
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Human history is a fragment of biological history. If we are to learn enduring lessons it is best to go back in time. Our view of the world is fairly shallow. We look backward but rarely to a time before we were born let alone the 5,000 years of recorded human history. Organic systems, on the other hand, are about 3.5 billions years in age and offer an even more statistically relevant dataset. So, if we are to look for lessons, the organic systems bucket seems like fertile ground. | <urn:uuid:5d409a49-c427-490f-be00-64b6005a1d41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.businessthinking.com/will-and-ariel-durant-three-lessons-biological-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970785 | 103 | 2.21875 | 2 |
High oil prices are much more than just a drain on drivers' pocketbooks or a sign of tough economic times ahead; they could also prove to be a leading indicator of the unraveling of our global civilization.
That may sound unlikely, or melodramatic. But consider this: Now, almost everything we eat can be converted into automotive fuel. And once the price of oil surpassed $60 a barrel last year, the business of transforming wheat, corn, soybeans and sugarcane into fuel for cars instead of food for people became hugely profitable. As crops that have long sustained us are diverted to provide fuel, we may encounter the same fate that brought down great civilizations of the past.
Plans for new ethanol distilleries and biodiesel refineries are announced almost daily, setting the stage for an epic competition. In a narrow sense, it is one between the world's supermarkets and its service stations. More broadly, it is a battle between the world's 800 million automobile owners, who want to maintain their mobility, and the world's 2 billion poorest people, who simply want to survive.
Whenever the food value of a crop drops below its fuel value, the market will convert it into fuel. Ultimately, this dynamic risks driving up world food prices, destabilizing governments in low-income nations and disrupting global economic growth.
Ours is not the first society to face a predicament of this kind. In his book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," Jared Diamond assesses our current civilization against the backdrop of earlier ones, some of which recognized only too late how their future depended on safeguarding their basic resources.
Take the Sumerian civilization of the fourth millennium BC, which was based on an ingeniously engineered irrigation system -- one yielding a food surplus that supported the first cities. Some of the irrigation water percolated downward, slowly raising the water table. As the water rose, it began to evaporate, leaving a residue of salt. Over time, the accumulating salt lowered wheat yields, and the Sumerians turned to barley, a more salt-tolerant crop. But eventually the yields of barley also fell, bringing down this once-great civilization.
The New World counterpart to Sumer was the Mayan civilization in the lowlands of southern Mexico and Guatemala, a society that flourished from AD 250 until around AD 900. But deforestation and the resulting soil erosion undermined their agriculture. Today this region is covered in jungle, reclaimed by nature, and the Mayan civilization is a mere archaeological curiosity.
Some early societies recognized environmental trouble and fashioned an effective response. In the 15th century, Icelanders realized that overgrazing of their grasslands was leading to soil erosion. Farmers then calculated how many sheep the land could sustain and allocated quotas among themselves, thus preserving their grasslands -- and a wool industry that thrives today.
What salt levels, deforestation and soil erosion foretold for past societies, high oil prices could reveal about our own.
Among the many environmental threats to our future -- increasing CO2levels, melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, falling water tables and shrinking forests -- the depletion of oil reserves may be the most immediate for our oil-based global civilization.
The price of oil has more than tripled over the past four years, jumping from $20 to nearly $70 a barrel. Mainstream analysts talk about prices rising to $100 a barrel or more if major disruptions in supply occur -- such as the explosion of violence and chaos in the oil-rich Middle East. And even though the discovery of oil reserves last week beneath the Gulf of Mexico was hailed as a boost for the U.S. oil industry, it will only temporarily delay the ongoing depletion. The real news is that so few such discoveries are made.
These runaway oil prices are now driving biofuel production, once spurred mainly by government subsidies. Brazil, the world's largest exporter of sugar, converts half of its crop into ethanol for cars, contributing to a doubling of the world sugar price over the past two years. In Europe, where rapeseed is grown for both biodiesel and cooking, margarine manufacturers have asked the European Parliament for protection from the heavily subsidized biodiesel refineries.
However, it is Malaysia, the leading producer and exporter of palm oil -- the most widely used vegetable oil -- that plans to lead the world in biodiesel production. Within the past 18 months, it has approved 52 proposals to build palm-oil refineries, raising doubts as to whether there will be enough palm oil to satisfy its export commitments and to feed these refineries.
And in the United States, investors are jumping on the biofuel bandwagon, pumping billions into new ethanol distilleries and biodiesel refineries. Last year, the United Sates produced more than 4 billion gallons of ethanol. Corn use by the ethanol distilleries has increased from 18 million tons in 2001 to an estimated 55 million tons from the 2006 crop, or nearly one-sixth of the U.S. grain harvest.
In some Corn Belt states, ethanol distilleries are taking over the corn supply. In Iowa, a staggering 55 ethanol plants are already operating or are planned. Iowa State University economist Bob Wisner observes that if all these plants are completed, they would use virtually the entire Iowa corn harvest.
With so many distilleries being built, livestock producers fear there may not be enough corn to feed animals, possibly leading to shortages in milk, eggs, beef, pork and poultry. And because the United States supplies 70 percent of world corn exports, importing countries -- such as Egypt, Japan and Mexico -- should be worried, too.
In agricultural terms, our appetite for automotive fuel is insatiable: The grain required to fill a 25-gallon SUV gas tank with ethanol would feed one person for a full year. If the United States converted its entire grain harvest into ethanol, it would satisfy less than 16 percent of its automotive fuel needs.
Yet, no one in the United States or internationally is monitoring the escalating diversion of grain to fuel distilleries to ensure that it will not disrupt food supplies. Instead, a market free-for-all dominates, with commodities going to the highest bidder.
All of this is unfolding as the world's farmers are trying to feed 76 million additional people each year. In six of the past seven years, world grain consumption has exceeded production. As a result, the reserve of public and private grain stocks that we rely on as a carryover from harvest to harvest has fallen to the lowest level in 34 years.
There are alternatives to this food-based fuels scenario. The equivalent of a 3 percent gain in U.S. automotive fuel supplies from ethanol could be achieved several times over -- and at a fraction of the cost -- simply by raising automobile fuel-efficiency standards by 20 percent. We can also shift to highly efficient gas-electric hybrid plug-in vehicles. And if we invest in wind farms, feeding cheap electricity into the grid, cars could run primarily on wind energy, and at the gasoline equivalent of less than $1 a gallon.
Like earlier civilizations, we face a choice. When the Sumerians got into trouble on the food front, they substituted barley for wheat, which delayed but did not prevent their ultimate decline. We are similarly substituting ethanol for oil, treating the symptoms rather than the cause. The question is whether we will move quickly enough to reduce our dependence on oil, or whether we will continue with business as usual. Will we choose to follow the Icelanders, or the Sumerians and Mayans?
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The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Parts Adjacent, vol. 3
This is a large heavy building of brick, occupying the south-west angle of , and belonging to seceders from the presbyterian kirk of Scotland. The western front has a recessed portico, flanked by antae and containing columns of the Ionic order supporting an entablature and pediment. The entablature, with the addition of a blocking course, is continued as a finish to every part of the building; there are no windows in this front. The entrance is within the portico, and has an arched head. The south side of the chapel has arched windows, and a door leading to a vestibule, in which are the stairs to the gallery; at the east end is a vestry, on the upper part of which is a sun-dial, ornamented with a figure of Time. The north side corresponds with the just described. An attic story of an horseshoe form rises above the principal walls, sustaining a low dome, covered with copper, and pierced with circular windows. The interior is very plain, without the least attempt at ornament; the plan is in the form of a horseshoe, the end closed with a wall. The whole building is surrounded with a gallery, sustained on Ionic columns. This building was erected in the year , A. Joy, esq. being the architect.
On the north side of is the
The design of forming a public library in the city of London, appears to have been suggested by Carte, the historian; who, early in , published a prospectus for the establishment of a library, upon a large scale, at the ; and, in the details of his plan, it was proposed, that the principal companies of the city, should each subscribe for the purchase of books, and other incidental expenses. This scheme, however, did not meet with the desired encouragement, and it was reserved for the active patriotism of a few affluent and public spirited citizens, to carry into effect so laudable an undertaking. In furtherance of the plan, a meeting was held at the city of London tavern; and, sir Francis Baring being called to the chair, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:--
The general meeting of the proprietors was held on the , and, on the in the following year, extensive premises in the were rented for temporary purposes, and completely prepared for the use of the proprietors. This spacious edifice was erected in , by sir Robert Clayton and, during the time it was appropriated to the use of the institution, the library was arranged on the floor, and the newspapers and pamphlets in small apartments on the ground floor. The staircase of this mansion was finely painted by sir James Thornhill, for the original proprietor, and it exhibits several allegorical designs from the mythology of Hercules; among which are the rape of Dejanira, copied from a celebrated painting by Guido. On the expiration of the lease of the above mansion, the board of management purchased more extensive premises iii Kings Arms yard, , which were entered upon at the beginning of .
of the principal objects of the institution, however, still remained unprovided for: namely, the diffusion of literary knowledge by the delivery of literary and scientific lectures. To effect this desirable object, the board of management entered into a treaty with the committee of city lands, for the purchase of a suitable site in . This was accomplished on terms highly advantageous to the institution, as the committee nearly doubled the extent of the original ground plot, without any increase in the sum specified. The premium of guineas offered for the best design, was awarded to William Brooks, esq. architect, and the stone of the new edifice was laid by the right hon. Samuel Birch, lord mayor, . Mr. C. Butler read an admirable and eloquent
on the occasion.
The architect and builder, (Mr. Cubitt) had considerable
|difficulties to contend with in the performance of his arduous duty, but by dint of great exertion, the present elegant and spacious mansion was erected for the use of the proprietors, .|
The principal front, which has an extent of feet inches, and an elevation of feet inches, is built with Portland stone; the elevation is in stories. In the centre is a portico composed of fluted Doric columns of the Greek order, between square and insulated antae which conjointly support an entablature; the frieze, in imitation of the choragic monument of Thrasyllus, is charged with chaplets of myrtle; the entablature is continued along the whole front, and forms a finish to the story: within the portico is a lintelled doorway between arched windows, and in each of the lateral divisions are other windows of a similar character; the design is bounded by piers forming pedestals to the coupled pilasters; in the upper story, the height of the portico is composed of fluted columns of the Corinthian order sustaining their entablature, the frieze enriched with festoons of foliage suspended from the horns of the skulls of bulls, and the whole surmounted with a pediment; the entablature is also applied as a finish to the story, the enriched frieze being omitted: a range of lofty arched windows occupy the whole extent in breadth of the front, and above these, are a like number of square windows; the piers between the windows have attached ante, which are coupled at the extremities of the front; the side divisions are finished with a ballustrade relieved by a sculptured block. The flanks have no windows, the walls are relieved by antae, and finished by an entablature continued from the front surmounted by a parapet. To give effect to the building, it was detached from the adjacent houses; on each side are small wings, each of which consists of a recess containing columns of the Doric order sustaining an entablature of the same description as the lower order of the main building, and surmounted by an acroterium: the entrance in the western wing leads to the gas works of the establishment. The eastern is intended to connect the circus with a covered way leading to the lecture room. The interior is divided into floors; the around floor has a spacious hall in the centre, the remainder of the plan being partitioned into pamphlet and newspaper rooms, right and left of the hall in the front, and a committee room, and apartment for the sub-librarian in the rear. The principal entrance within the portico opens into the hall, which is spacious and handsome, and equal in depth with the building; the ceiling is pannelled, and sustained upon fluted Ionic columns of Bath stone: opposite to the principal entrance is a small vestibule, from whence the other parts of the edifice are approached by a handsome flight of stairs leading to a landing, from which a door communicates with the lecture department; above the landing flights of stairs
|branch off right and left, and communicate by means of a small vestibule on the upper landing with the library, which occupies the entire upper story, and contains upwards of volumes. spacious and noble room is covered with an horizontal pannelled ceiling; the area is an irregular octagon occasioned by a series of recesses fronted by ante, and crowned by a continued entablature and dental cornice; recesses on each side of the entrance, and on the opposite side of the room, contain bookcases; the central recess at each end is occupied by beautiful fluted Corinthian columns from Greek examples; and in the wall behind are fire places, the side walls being occupied with bookcases; the lateral recesses uniting with the others diagonally, create the octangular form; they are filled in with screens, and form small private reading rooms. A gallery occupies the entire covering of the recesses, and the walls around it are lined with shelves for books; instead of a ballustrade, the gallery is fronted with a breastwork of reticulated iron railing. The dimensions of this noble room are feet by , and the height is feet; the bronze candelabra set against the ante of the recesses are handsome in design, but proved inadequate to light the saloon, which is at preseent effected by pendant gas pipes of lights each, which being only experimental, are without ornament.|
The lecture department of the establishment occupies a secondary pile of building, situated behind the western part of the back front of the principal pile; the exterior from its concealed situation, is without architectural ornament: the theatre is only approached at present by the entrance hall and grand staircase; the doorway on the landing of which leads into an octangular vestibule lighted by a lantern; from this a passage leads directly into the theatre, which in plan forms a portion of a circle greater than the half, the wall which cuts the circle is constructed to avoid acute angles, being partly strait and partly diagonal; the portion which is not occupied by the rising benches for the auditory is in stories; the lower comprises lintelled recesses, the side ones containing entrances to the laboratory and apparatus room. In the upper story is a large recess, containing fluted Ionic columns, and the back wall is ornamented by a pediment, sustained on ante; the side walls are relieved by antae, which, with the columns, sustain a continued entablature, on the cornice of which rests the ceiling, which is horizontal and marked by lines accommodated to the form of the building; the light is only admitted by a circular lantern. The fittings up for the lecturer and company, shew a small pit for the former, in the centre of which is the lecture table, by which arrangement, room is afforded for the removal of apparatus, &c. during the lecture, without disturbing the company; the seats rise theatrically, and afford accommodation for spectators; a low wall, or rather breastwork, separates this portion from a walk by which the communication is kept up
|with the benches by staircases; the light is excluded when necessary by a false ceiling sliding down the lantern, which excludes the windows from the room; the laboratory and apparatus room are situated behind the theatre, and with some domestic apartments complete the buildings of this grand establishment; the laboratory is furnished with furnaces, sand-baths, a still, wormtub, and a complete collection of chemical apparatus.|
The apparatus-room forms the opposite wing to the laboratory. It is lighted by an oblong lantern; and the models and philosophical instruments were constructed and purchased under the direction of Mr. Pepys. An observatory to be erected above the roof of the saloon, formed a part of the original plan, but it is understood the idea has been abandoned.
The library is open from o'clock in the morning until the same hour at night, with the exception of Saturdays and Sundays, on the former of which days it is closed at o'clock, and on the latter, it is of course always shut. On the nights of the scientific converzationes, which have recently been established here, viz. on the and Wednesdays of the months of February. March, April, and May, the saloon is appropriated to the company who attend this new species of entertainment, to which only proprietors are admitted with liberty to introduce friend, the pamphlet and news-room are not closed on those days.
The following course of lectures have been delivered on the evenings appropriated to a converzatione:--
Mr. Partington on a series of new discoveries, by M. Clermont.
Mr. Barry on electro-magnetism.
Dr. Birkbeck on a new rotary steam engine.
Mr. Partington on steam carriages. Mr. Brande on the new extract of bark, called Quinine.
Mr. Brayley on the quinarary arrangement of Mr. Vigors.
Dr. Birkbeck on ventilation.
Mr. Partington on the application of acoustical science to the construction of musical instruments.
The last-mentioned gentleman, who is well known in the scientific and literary world, from having been the author of several valuable and interesting works, is the curator of the above novel species of entertainment.
The receipts of this institution, for , amounted to . and the disbursements to . , out of which for books, l for lectures, and for newspapers was paid.
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On the 19th day of March, 1929, E. 0. Howerton, a Cherokee Indian, member of one of the Five Civilized Tribes, died in Delaware County, Oklahoma, at his place of residence, leaving real estate and personal property in said county, and real estate in Benton County, Arkansas, and also certain government bonds of considerable value in the custody of the First National Bank of Siloam Springs, Benton County, Arkansas. Howerton had resided at Siloam Springs, Arkansas, for a short time, and there became indebted to the Producers’ State Bank of Siloam Springs in the sum of $1,500, evidenced by two promissory notes executed, respectively, on the 19th and 21st days of December, 1927, due in 90 *435and 60 days after date. Payments had been made on the notes in question which reduced the amount due to $1,478.97. After the death of Howerton an effort was made to collect from Irene Howerton, the widow of E. 0. Howerton, on the two notes, but payment had been refused on the ground that they were not just claims.
On the 20th day of May, 1929, the Producers’ State Bank filed in the probate court of Benton County a petition for the appointment of an administrator on the estate of Howerton, deceased, setting forth his death in Delaware County, Oklahoma, the indebtedness due by the deceased to the petitioner in his lifetime, and that the deceased left no relatives in Benton County who would be entitled to administer his estate, but left a widow and two infant children in Delaware County, Oklahoma, and that the widow had refused to administer on the estate of deceased in Delaware County, Oklahoma, or elsewhere; that the deceased owned an estate in Benton County, Arkansas, and prayed that citation be issued to Mrs. Howerton to show cause why an administrator should not be appointed in Benton County, Arkansas. The hearing of the petition was set for June 17, and notice of the application given Mrs. Howerton, who, on the day set for the hearing of the application, appeared and filed objections to the appointment of the administrator for the 'reason that the court had no jurisdiction to hear the application or to grant the administration, and that the statutory time in which to have an administrator appointed in the State and county of the decedent’s residence had not expired. On the hearing the court rendered judgment in favor of the petitioner, appointing W. L. Lineback administrator, who qualified and gave bond. Letters were duly issued to, him by the clerk of said court, from which order and judgment Mrs. Hower-ton appealed to the circuit court of Benton County, and on the 18th day of September, 1929, renewed her motion to dismiss on the ground that the deceased died domiciled in, and a resident of, Delaware County, Oklahoma, *436that he was a member of the Five Civilized Tribes and a Cherokee Indian by birth, and that the court was without jurisdiction to hear and determine the petition for administration, and that the order made by the probate court was void.
A response was filed to this motion, and the case was heard on the pleadings and the testimony of a number of witnesses, from which it appeared that Howerton was a member of the Five Civilized Tribes and enrolled as a citizen in the Cherokee Nation. At the time of his death he owned real and personal property in Oklahoma and in Benton County, Arkansas. Testimony was also introduced, to which objection was made because of incompetency, tending to show that after the application for, and the appointment of, the administrator in Arkansas, letters of administration had been issued by the proper court in Delaware County, Oklahoma, and that the estate of the deceased was then in the process of administration in said State. The judgment of the court, after reciting the filing of the motion of Irene Howerton to dismiss for want of jurisdiction and the response thereto by the administrator, found that, “since there is now an administration of the estate of E. 0. Howerton duly established in Delaware County, Oklahoma, not a great distance from Siloam Springs where the plaintiff resides, and that due notice to creditors to present such claims as creditor's may have against said estate has been given, and that plaintiff yet has ample time to present its claim to the administratrix, and if disallowed may try the issue before the probate court of Delaware County, Oklahoma, and the court, being advised, doth dismiss said cause of action at the cost of plaintiffs.” From this judgment the administrator has duly prosecuted this appeal.
After the judgment and while the appeal therefrom was pending in this court, the Producers’ State Bank on the 23rd day of December, 1929, filed its claim for the balance 'due on the notes aforesaid amounting to the sum *437of $1,478.97, inclusive of interest to October 10, 1929, in the district court in Delaware County, Oklahoma, and the appellee filed in this court her motion to dismiss the appeal herein because by the filing of the claim, in the Oklahoma court the jurisdiction of that court was recognized, and therefore the appellant was barred from further litigation of the claim in the courts of this State.
We find no merit in the motion to dismiss the appeal, as it is well settled that an action pending in a foreign court cannot be pleaded in bar or abatement of a proceeding upon the same cause of action in the courts of this State (Grider v. Apperson & Co., 32 Ark. 332; Moore & Co. v. Emerick, 38 Ark. 203) and a resident of this State, it has been held, will not be enjoined from prosecuting an action in another State because a suit by him upon the same claim is already pending in this State. Green v. Cook, 88 Ark. 93, 113 S. W. 1009, 16 Ann. Cas. 671. See also Williams v. Ayrault, 31 Barb. 364; 1 C. J., 1165, § 426.
We are unable to discover anything in the acts of Congress referred to and quoted by the appellee regarding the jurisdiction of Indians and their property that would preclude the courts of this State from dealing with property of an Indian, whether alive or dead, which is situated within the borders of this State. At most, these statutes were intended to apply to the personal and property rights of Indians in the Indian Territory, now a part of the State of Oklahoma, reserving to the government of the United States the right to preserve by law the property and other rights of the Indians acquired by treaty or otherwise and could not have, and were not intended to have, any extra-territorial effect.
The judgment of the court appears to have been bottomed on the fact that at the time of its rendition there was an administration pending in the courts of Oklahoma where the appellant’s rig'hts mig’ht be enforced, and on this ground administration in this State was denied. In this holding the trial court erred. Without *438passing on the question of the competency of the testimony .presented to establish the existence of the administration in Oklahoma, as the determination of that question is not necessary, we are of the opinion that the probate court of Benton County, Arkansas, had jurisdiction, and it was its duty, on petition, regardless of the administration pending in a foreign State, to appoint an administrator to protect the rights of the domestic creditors, thus relieving them from the necessity of having to invoke the aid of foreign .jurisdiction to establish and enforce the claims against a decedent estate to residents of Benton County, and having property therein. It was the duty of the administrator, thus appointed, after the claims had been allowed by the court, to proceed to collect out of the assets in this State the amount of the claims, to report his action to the court and pay whatever surplus, if any, to the administrator of decedent’s domicile. As the appellee had failed and refused to administer upon the estate of the decedent, the appellant, Producers’ State Bank, as a creditor, had the preferential right next to the widow and heirs to move for the appointment of an administrator. We think there is no doubt as to the correctness of the position taken, and it is in accord with our decisions. Clark v. Holt, 16 Ark. 257; DuVal v. Marshall, 30 Ark. 231; Williamson v. Furbush, 31 Ark. 539; Shegogg v. Perkins, 34 Ark. 117.
In the case of Clark v. Holt, 16 Ark. 257-268, where-an administration was granted in the State of Tennessee on the application of local creditors, and afterward letters testamentary were issued by the probate court of Allen County, in the State of Kentucky, this court said: “We are not to suppose that the county court of Davidson County, Tennessee, granted letters to the appellant for the purpose of authorizing him to administer such of John Clark’s estate as was in Kentucky, where he was domiciled, or in any other State, but for the purpose of talcing charge of and administering such of his assets * * * as were found within the jurisdiction of that *439court; and this, we have seen from the general principles of law above quoted, that court had the right to do, and no local law of Tennessee to the contrary is averred. On this hypothesis, there would be no necessary conflict between the administration in Kentucky and that granted to the appellant in Tennessee, though the latter would be ancillary to the former, and the appellant would have finally to account to the executor or administrator, with the will annexed, appointed in Kentucky, that being the domicile of John Clarlq and the laws of the domicile controlling the disposition of his estate, subject to the provisions of his will.”
This decision has been followed and approved in the cases cited supra, and is a sufficient answer to the contention of the appellee, and necessitates a reversal of this case. The cause is therefore reversed and remanded to the circuit court of Benton County with directions to enter judgment in accord with the findings and judgment of the probate court. | <urn:uuid:e908b8ee-8380-4dc0-9158-edb084075a95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cite.case.law/ark/181/433/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97379 | 2,163 | 1.890625 | 2 |
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Localization, Mapping and Moving Object Tracking
mapping and moving object tracking serve as the basis for
scene understanding, which is a key prerequisite for making a robot
truly autonomous. Simultaneous localization, mapping and moving object
tracking (SLAMMOT) involves not only simultaneous localization and
mapping (SLAM) in dynamic environments but also detecting and tracking
these dynamic objects. It is
believed by many that a solution to the SLAM problem would open up a
vast range of potential applications for autonomous robots. Accordingly, a
solution to the SLAMMOT problem would expand robotic applications in
proximity to human beings where robots work not only for people but
also with people.
establishes a new discipline at the intersection of SLAM and moving
object tracking. Its contributions are two-fold: theoretical and practical.
From a theoretical
perspective, we establish a mathematical framework to integrate SLAM
and moving object tracking, which provides a solid basis for understanding
and solving the whole problem. We describe two solutions: SLAM with
generic objects (GO), and SLAM
with detection and tracking of moving objects (DATMO). SLAM with GO
calculates a joint posterior over all generic objects and the robot. Such an
approach is similar to existing SLAM algorithms, but with additional
structure to allow for motion
modelling of the generic objects. Unfortunately, it is computationally
demanding and infeasible. Consequently, we provide the second solution,
SLAM with DATMO, in which the estimation problem is decomposed into two
separate estimators. By maintaining separate posteriors for the
stationary objects and the moving objects, the resulting estimation
problems are much lower dimensional than SLAM with GO.
From a practical
perspective, we develop algorithms for dealing with the implementation
issues on perception modelling, motion modelling and data association. Regarding
perception modelling, a hierarchical object based representation is
presented to integrate existing feature-based, grid-based and direct
methods. The sampling- and correlation-based range image matching
algorithm is developed to tackle the problems arising from uncertain,
sparse and featureless measurements. With regard to motion modelling,
we describe a move-stop hypothesis tracking algorithm to tackle the
difficulties of tracking ground moving objects. Kinematic information
from motion modelling as well as geometric information from perception
modelling is used to aid data association at different levels. By
following the theoretical guidelines and implementing the described
algorithms, we are able to demonstrate the feasibility of SLAMMOT using
data collected from the Navlab8 and Navlab11 vehicles at high speeds in
crowded urban environments.
| The full paper is available in PDF.
AUTHOR = "Chieh-Chih Wang",
TITLE = "Simultaneous
Localization, Mapping and Moving Object Tracking",
SCHOOL = "Robotics
Institute, Carnegie Mellon University",
YEAR = "2004",
address = "Pittsburgh, PA",
month = "April",
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Technology has dramatically changed the way we work, allowing people to work remotely and connecting colleagues around the world. But there is a darker side to these new technological advances, as many workers are finding out.
Shortly after starting a new job at a PR firm in London, Clare* found herself a victim of cyberbullying at work. “My colleagues would be emailing or texting each other while in the same room and then smirking and laughing at each other. This escalated to one of them ‘accidentally’ sending me emails that contained insults about me and then feigning innocence and saying it wasn’t about me and he didn’t know why I’d got the email.”
Clare’s colleagues also tried to damage her reputation with her boss and contacts outside of the business. “They would purposely tell me the wrong time to arrive at events, so they could then tell the boss I was late. They also repeatedly didn’t copy me into other email communications so I was left in the dark about what was going on at work, then email me asking me to follow up with something I had no idea about,” she says.
“I began to dread going into work and became paranoid, wondering what every email they sent was saying and if it was about me. I felt constantly anxious and close to tears, and was reminded of the misery of school bullying,” she says.
Cyberbullying is often associated with teenagers and schools, but it is increasingly common in workplaces. “Adult cyberbullying in the workplace can be more subtle, but is equally distressing. The outcomes are often the same – to humiliate, undermine and distress the person being targeted,” says Dan Raisbeck, co-founder of anti-cyberbullying charity The Cybersmile Foundation.
Clare believes that working in a small company meant she did not receive adequate support when she raised the issue with her boss. So after six months she decided to leave. “There is a feeling that the bullies have ‘won’ if you’re the one that ends up quitting,” she says. “But I had to weigh up whether taking the moral high ground and refusing to be beaten was worth the impact it was having on my mental health.”
Victims of bullying are often told to toughen up and just ignore the behaviour. But with technology generating an always-on work culture, and blurring the boundaries between personal and professional lives, bullies have new ways to infiltrate their victim’s life outside office hours.
Fiona* also found herself subject of insulting emails sent between her former team-mates at the digital marketing agency where she worked in Manchester. This bullying, which took place over the course of a year and got worse when she was promoted, extended beyond the physical realm of the office, spilling into her personal life. “When I would put something on Instagram, they would screenshot it and mock it. Even when I was away from the office or on holiday, I’d think about what I would post and second guess myself.” She was afraid that blocking them on social networks would make matters worse.
“I’m normally a very happy and confident person. It really destroyed my confidence for a bit and made me meeker,” she says.
Cyberbullying often inspires a “gang/pack mentality” in workplaces, leaving the victim feeling very isolated, says Emma Kenny, psychologist and founder of wellbeing site Make Your Switch. “It can almost feel like stalking – as if people know something about your life, true or untrue,” she says.
The fluidity between work and home presents a challenge for employers who want to stamp out bullying behaviour – especially as they increasingly use social media tools themselves for employee engagement. Since employers have a duty of care to their employees, is it their responsibility to take action if the bullying between co-workers takes place outside of the office on personal computers and devices?
The law is still catching up in this area, but it is possible for employers to discipline employees and even fire them for their behaviour and activities outside of work, says Anna Byford, senior employment lawyer at Kemp Little, a law firm that specialises in technology and digital media. “What is particularly challenging for employers – assuming they are good ones trying to create a culture where [bullying] is not acceptable – is that there is every chance they won’t know about it, so their ability to police it is quite limited,” she says.
Having well-drafted company policies, which spell out that this behaviour will be considered a disciplinary offence, irrespective of whether it occurs outside or inside of the office, is helpful here, says Byford. More broadly, employers should be thinking about creating procedures and training to ensure they have a culture able to deal with bullying, she says.
Fiona has since found a new job at a larger, global company, where she says such policies are in place. She believes that if her previous employer monitored communications between staff, the issue would have been picked up and sorted out earlier. “We were always told that we were being monitored, but evidently we weren’t.”
How much companies can monitor their employees is a grey area, however. “Most employers aren’t monitoring everything their employees do because that’s very difficult to justify,” says Byford. “But when it comes to cyberbullying, they may be able to justify it, provided it is proportionate – and their position is a lot stronger if they have informed employees in a policy in their contract that they may monitor email correspondence where they suspect wrongdoing.”
Since offending digital communications can be saved and stored, it is arguably easier for victims to collect evidence of cyberbullying themselves. Yet there is always the risk that digital communications might be misconstrued or interpreted differently, too – which bullies could use to justify their behaviour. Taking note of incidents related to the cyberbullying – such as being passed over for a pay rise or promotion – can be helpful in these circumstances, says Byford.
Since being cyberbullied, Fiona is wary of friendships in the workplace and makes a point of stepping away from the computer and building face-to-face relationships with colleagues and avoiding cliques. “People hide behind their keyboards. I make sure it’s not all the same people who go to lunch together, not always the same people who work together on a project, and I make sure I have open conversations, rather than constant email threads.”
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Museum of Idaho receives long awaited grant to aid expansion project
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IDAHO FALLS — The Museum of Idaho learned this week that it is finally receiving a much-needed grant.
After applying for the gift the past nine years, The National Endowment for Humanities announced it’s giving $500,000 to the museum.
Museum of Idaho Executive Director David Pennock says the funds will go toward changing the physical appearance of the museum through a much-needed addition.
“The Museum of Idaho can’t sustain its current programs in the building we have now. The building was not built to support the programs that we do,” Pennock said.
He said the museum is closed for about 2 months a year to switch-out temporary exhibits. The new addition will eliminate these closures and enable the museum to run year round.
“It’s not good for our mission fulfillment to turn people away from a museum,” Penncok said. ” What museum does that?”
The addition will hold the traveling, or temporary exhibit, and the Idaho History exhibit will expand into the current space.
Pennock says he believes the museum didn’t receive the grant sooner because the the building was still developing. He also says it is unusual for a fairly new museum in a sparsely populated area to receive a grant from the NEH.
“The Museum of Idaho is very proud to be the recipient of one of these very prestigious challenge grants,” Pennock said. “I hope the entire community of Eastern Idaho is proud of their involvement in making this happen.”
He says the museum has seen a high number in visitors over the years and this helped secure the long awaited funding.
“The average museum in the United States of our same budget size sees around 59,000 people a year,” Pennock said. “The Museum of Idaho’s average over 13 years has been 101,000 people a year.”
The ground breaking for the addition will not be finalized until the museum reaches their grant goal of 3 million dollars. Currently donations are over halfway there.
Docent Jim Seydel says the expansion will be a great benefit to the public and they can continue to look forward to exciting features.
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The DNA testing of several prominent Egyptian mummies has revealed the identities of the mother and the father of famous boy king Tutankhamun. Egypt’s head of antiquities, Zahi Hawass, says tests also revealed what killed Tut.
Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass says the results of two years of tests on famous Egyptian mummies show boy king Tutankhamun died of malaria.
Speculation Tut was murdered was debunked by the exhaustive scientific investigation. Hawass says a series of CAT scans revealed damage to Tut’s head was just part of the mummification process.
“The important thing is how King Tut died. Everyone thought in the past that King Tut was murdered because of the blow on the back of the head. But, the study of the CAT-scan machine proved that the blow at the back of the head was opened to put the liquid for mummification,” he said.VOA | <urn:uuid:85ccac27-2f1c-4553-8a0d-c26ea4d3434f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yalibnan.com/2010/02/18/dna-testing-egypts-king-tutankhamun-died-of-malaria/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965679 | 195 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Following the fallout of COVID-19, tonight’s “most important federal budget since WWII” has focused on stimulating the economy with job creation incentives. However, disability advocates argue these measures should have included a greater focus on accessible employment.
“It’s well recognised that people with disability face multiple barriers to finding and keeping paid work,” said Romola Hollywood, Director Policy and Advocacy, People with Disability Australia (PWDA). “Without targeted measures, in a tightening labour market, people with disability will continue to be excluded from mainstream employment. This budget has missed a critical opportunity to turn the tables, and that is a shame.”
PWDA has called for a National Jobs Plan to address the ongoing underrepresentation of people with disability in mainstream employment.
“We welcome the Government’s announcement of a wage subsidy scheme to help young people find a job, however, we would also like to see incentives for employers to employ more young people with disability.”
In PWDA’s survey on the experiences of people with disability during COVID-19, more than 91 per cent of respondents reported increased expenses for basics such as groceries, medical supplies and transport. Yet, some 680,300 Australians who receive the Disability Support Pension missed out on both JobKeeper and the JobSeeker supplement, instead receiving two payments of just $750 earlier in the year.
“This latest top-up of two $250 payments does very little to cover the unexpected costs our community have incurred during the pandemic,” said Ms Hollywood.
In regard to National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Ms Hollywood said, “PWDA acknowledges the increased funding to the NDIS, which we understand reflects the natural growth of the scheme as it rolls out.
“We would, however, like to see a more detailed breakdown on how increases in funding to the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission will be allocated.
“We have learnt from the tragic death of Ann-Marie Smith that strengthening safeguards for people with disability to prevent violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation is an urgent priority, and we hope that the additional funding for the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission will be used to develop a proactive approach to investigations and spot checks on NDIS providers.”
For more information, contact:
Director Policy and Advocacy
People with Disability Australia
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Electronic Voting Publication date : May 25, 2022
Electronic voting cannot be left to experts alone; this book provides clear and precise answers to any questions citizens may have.
Véronique Cortier is an IT engineer, CNRS research director at the Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (Loria – CRS/Université de Lorraine/Inria). She developed, in collaboration with other researchers, an open source electronic voting software, Belenios. She was awarded the Prix Inria – Académie des Sciences du Jeune Chercheur in 2015.
Pierrick Gaudry is a CNRS research director (LORIA, Nancy).
Are you for or against electronic voting?
This a recurring question in public debates. Voting over the internet is more modern and would help to reduce abstention rates, as well as accelerate the counting process and make it more efficient. Above all, it avoids people voting in person, which in a pandemic, presents undeniable benefits.
This book, written by two of the best computer security researchers in the world, analyses under which conditions electronic voting would make sense compared to traditional voting. This gives rise to a lot of questions, firstly, which elections and on what scale? Electing the president of a small local organisation is quite different to electing a country’s leader. How can we guarantee the security of this voting system, as well as its secrecy and fairness? Are there better systems available and what should the criteria be for choosing?
The issue of electronic voting cannot be left only to experts, which is why this book answers all the questions citizens may have in a clear and precise manner.
“The blockchain will solve everything”, “The server will know who I voted for!”, “Paper is safer”, etc. This book tackles all the preconceived ideas about electronic voting and invites readers to draw their own conclusions. With a theme that runs throughout: 100% security doesn’t exist, and each type of election must be carefully analysed to decide on the best solution. | <urn:uuid:d09eb06f-01ba-4f03-b960-2989ce168e63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/human-sciences/politics/electronic-voting_9782415002206.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.925118 | 439 | 2.171875 | 2 |
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