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Christmas is a time of merriment and goodwill, and regardless of whether you are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, you can still enjoy a wonderful festive season with friends and family. If you focus on your health and take the necessary precautions, it will ensure you and your baby remain safe.
Queensland can be exceedingly hot and humid around Christmas, so remember to keep up your fluids, whether it’s with water or a recommended hydration drink. This is particularly important if you are in the middle of an IVF cycle. With our state’s beautiful weather, it can also be tempting to soak up some sunshine by the pool, at the beach or out and about at social gatherings. However, remember to stay Sun Smart by wearing a suitable hat and a high SPF sunscreen. This will protect your skin and minimise overheating which can lead to dehydration.
We always encourage exercise in pregnancy, particularly running and swimming. However, it is best to avoid bike riding and contact sports like netball, touch football and kickboxing. It is also wise not to let your pulse rate exceed 140bpm. If you wish to do intense exercise, make sure you limit it to 15 minute phases with a 10-minute warm-up beforehand and a 10-minute cool-down afterwards.
While overseas travel is out of the question in the short-term due to COVID-19, holidays around Australia are positively booming! However, if you are driving long distances by car, we recommend you mobilise every four hours. This involves stretching your legs and doing calf exercises to reduce the risks of deep vein thrombosis, which can sometimes occur when people sit for prolonged periods of time. This is particularly relevant if you are currently undergoing an IVF cycle. It is also important to wear a seatbelt that fits firmly (but not too tight!), and to have the lap part of the seatbelt under your baby bump and lying across your hips.
While catching up with family and friends, you might also be visiting people you don’t normally see, so abiding by COVID-safe practices is key. This includes regularly handwashing and maintaining safe distancing. If you are inadvertently visiting a hotspot or a location with a high density of people, it’s also worth wearing a mask. Fortunately, pregnant women have not been at high risk during COVID, which was a concern for medical professionals in the early stages. However, pregnancy is a time of suppressed immunity, so it is vitally important that you do as much as you can to avoid being in contact with the virus.
Eating And Drinking
Christmas is a time of celebration with friends, family and food of course! Most foods are safe to consume, however you should avoid those that can put you at risk of listeriosis, which can be a major risk to an unborn baby. These include uncooked seafood, soft cheeses, sushi, sashimi, foods served in salad bars, sandwich bars and smorgasboards. We also recommend that you completely abstain from alcohol if you are planning a baby or during pregnancy, and limit coffee to two cups per day.
Christmas is a time of festivity, but it can also be a time of stress and isolation for some people. Always remember that your mental health is as important as your physical health for a good pregnancy outcome. Be sure to maintain contact with family and friends, and if you have concerns, don’t hesitate to contact your doctor. We can be of help, but we do need to know if you have concerns. This is the world’s first COVID Christmas and there may be some new challenges as a result, but you should still be able to have a safe and enjoyable time.
I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!
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Herbal tea blends are very popular in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The packages are usually transparent to observe the components and may contain ten or more small packages inside. These blends may or not contain tea. Seeds, fruits, leaves, flowers and rock sugar are very common. The packages are very attractive, colorful and are for short term storage; the tea blends must be used freshly for the best flavor and aroma. The teas can be enjoyed hot or cold.
Nice herbal tea package from China. On the bottom right it shows one of the small transparent package. The tea is called Chrysanthemum Tea, but it is a blend
The use of rock sugar (solid sugar) has the advantage of the slow dissolution; on the beginning the tea is not so sweet and will get sweeter as is being enjoyed. When refills of water are made the rock sugar continues to dissolve and tea continues to be sweet for longer time.This eliminates the need of keep adding sugar in each refill. The color of the rock sugar varies from transparent to dark brown, depending on the amount of refining.
Chrysanthemum tea blend. The Chrysanthemum flower is on the top left, clockwise two fruits, seven goji berries, rock sugar on the bottom and green tea leaves on the left
The lavender, also called Lavandula tea is a very fragrant and aromatic tea, made with lavender flowers. It is usually mixed with green, black or other herbal teas. As the tea is prepared by adding the boiling water to the flowers a nice fragrance can be perceived in the whole room; it is one of the most fragrant teas. One or two teaspoons per cup of boiling water are sufficient to prepare a tea.
The dried fragrant lavender flowers have the characteristic pink-violet color, which is also called lavender color
When used alone as lavender tea it is slightly bitter, for this reason usually honey and lemon is added. When lemon (or other acid fruit juice) is added the color changes from pale yellow to pink as is illustrated below. This tea can be enjoyed hot or cold. It is a great summer tea! The pictures below are from a tea package I bought in Taiwan, where the use is very common.
Brewed lavender flowers. The tea color is pale yellow.
The common lavender species is called Lavandula angustifolia, also called English lavender. Most probably the name lavender comes from the Latin lavāre, of lavō, to wash. In the old days the lavender flowers infusions were added to the water to wash the clothes to give a scent. The word lavender and its variations is used in many languages (e.g. French: lavande; German: lavandel; Spanish: lavanda). In Portuguese lavender is called alfazema, a word with Arabian origin.
Typical lavender teacup made with 2 teaspoons of tea, lemon and honey added.
Brewed lavender tea. The neat tea with pale yellow color is on the left. The same tea with lemon juice is on the right. There is a nice color change with the addition of lemon.
Chrysanthemum, is very popular floral tea in Asia. The first time I enjoyed this tea was in China then had many times in Taichung, Taiwan. Hangzhou in China is very famous for the production and use. The Chrysanthemum tea can be enjoyed hot or cold. Many times it is sweetened with honey or rock sugar.
The name Chrysanthemum in Greek means yellow golden flower (chrys+anthemon). There are many types of Chrysanthemum flowers; here I describe the most common tea used in Asia. The petals are light yellow and the multiple carpels are intense yellow.
Dried Chrysanthemum flowers from Hangzhou, China
The dry yellow flowers are very delicate and have distinct floral fragrance. The flowers must be handled and stored properly to avoid damage and oxidation. Usually the flowers are good for a year from the date of packaging. After this time they start to reduce the smell and the petals are released. The color changes from yellow to light brown.
To brew the tea, a small amount of flowers (about 10 to 20) are put in a medium teapot and washed briefly with water at 85-90° C (185-194° F). Then tea can brewed with water at 85-90° C. After 2-3 minutes of infusion the tea can be filtered, served in teacups and enjoyed. Sugar or honey can be added to the teapot in small quantities before adding the water. The teapot can be replenished three or more times; it is a tea that has good replenishment characteristics.
The Chrysanthemum tea can be enjoyed also in small cups
The tea has a distinct floral smell and taste is very subtle, it is naturally sweet, refreshing and relaxing. This tea is caffeine free. It can be enjoyed hot or cold as an all day tea or during meals.
Chrysanthemum flowers after brewing
The brewed flowers are so nice that we can enjoy the beauty of the pictures.
Another detailed picture of the tea flowers
Chinese Herbal tea with a colorful mixture of dried fruits, seeds, flowers and sugar
Herbal teas are very common in China. They are also available in tea houses or for purchase in small packages with a particular blend. A typical tea will have dried flowers, seeds, fruits and leaves (including pine needles). Sometimes it contains rock sugar (solid pieces of sugar) as observed in the picture above. Most of them are caffeine-free. The tea is brewed with hot water in this cup where the lid is put on the top to keep it hot. After drinking the tea, it is replenished with hot water few times. It is usual to eat the fruits after drinking the tea. Some fruits are sweet and others are bitter.
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Emily’s half brother, Dr. William Burke, was a member of the fraternity, the Odd Fellows. When he attended the Loyal Midland Lodge’s anniversary in 1883 he was admitted as an honorary member. He cited the same in the medical directories, perhaps to add prestige to his profile.
The Odd Fellows are, like the Freemasons and Foresters a friendly society that permits only male membership. When Emily’s brother was accepted into the fraternity in 1883, many of the medical profession were members. Reflected in the medical journals at the time, articles with titles such as “Friendly Societies And TheMedical Profession. Statements Of The Friendly Societies, And The Facts As Ascertained”. There was also a air of distrust around such societies due to their secretive nature.
Provoked by the French Revolution, societies such as the Odd Fellows were classed as illegal. Informers sent in by the government were paid to infiltrate Lodges (branches). Secret signs and passwords were introduced to sort the real brothers from the imposters, as a matter of security. This tradition, which origin is not widely known is still used today, more as a tradition than necessity.
“Friendly Societies And The Medical Profession. Statements Of The Friendly Societies, And The Facts As Ascertained.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 1, no. 1956, 1898, pp. 1661–1662. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20255058.
In June 1919, writer, Darrell Figgis as editor began a new newspaper called ‘The Republic’, for an independent Ireland that was yet to emerge.
The publication had a short lifespan. It appeared to end a year into independence the paper’s print run came to an end. On October 7th 1922 copies of the publication were “seized and destroyed”. The reason given, that in a recent issue Civic Guard, Sergeant Fox, who was at the time subject to an inquest was slandered by the paper. Darrell Figgis, on the side of the ordinary man put it to the head of Government if it was their intention to compensate the newspaper vendors and paperboys. No reply was reported. | <urn:uuid:c1a28219-7f15-400f-81f3-2ba20035b0bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://emilymweddall.com/2019/06/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.981419 | 474 | 2.859375 | 3 |
WITH thousands of children looking forward to a bit of fun trick or treating on Friday, Congleton and Vale Royal police are encouraging a sensible and considerate approach to this year's event.
Inspector Alan Holt, head of the police crime and disorder unit, told The Chronicle: 'Previous events have been marred by a number of worrying incidents involving anti-social behaviour and damage to property.
'A growing trend is for groups of teenagers to call of homes that they have no connection with, demanding 'trick or treat?' Maybe they think this is funny, but they are giving no thought whatsoever to the effect on the home owners, many of whom are being intimidated in their own homes by this behaviour.'
He said: 'This sort of behaviour is entirely unacceptable. Police patrols will working to reassure the community by challenging any individuals or groups of teenagers behaving anti-socially.
'Any residents subject to behaviour of this nature are encouraged to contact the police immediately by dialling direct to the Congleton and Vale Royal Police control room on 01606 48000.'
Insp Holt added: 'While the majority of trick or treating is seen as fun for young children and is considered to be harmless, householders should never open their doors to strangers. Before answering the door it makes sense to always be sure who is calling, and if there is any doubt simply don't answer.'
Parents with young children who want to go trick or treating are advised to confine house calls to their immediate neighbours and to ensure beforehand that they will be welcome.
Particular care should be taken if children intend calling upon the elderly or people living alone, who can feel extremely vulnerable on these occasions.
Residents should be doubly sure that they are aware of any potential trick or treat calls and that they are happy to be involved.
The following advice is offered:
* Please confine trick or treat house calling to young children. Teenagers should leave involvement to them.
*Even though it will be fun for the children, will your neighbours feel the same way?
*Be sure beforehand that there are no objections to the children calling.
*Agree the time that calls will be made and stick to friends ..TEXT:or neighbours that you know in your immediate vicinity. *Respect your neighbours wishes and their right to privacy.
*Bear in mind that, with all the excitement, young children sometimes forget road sense, so take extra care at all times.
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Want to Change Health Care? ‘The One Thing That Doctors Respond to Is Data’
Experts agree: The health care industry can use information more wisely.
The industry can make data accessible to patients and partners. It can take a more nuanced approach to the information it already collects. It can work together to solve problems that virtually everyone acknowledges are making it more difficult to deliver care.
Three executives—Cleveland Clinic and Google Cloud adviser Toby Cosgrove, Pfizer chief patient officer Freda Lewis-Hall, and Geisinger interim CEO Jaewon Ryu—joined Stanford Medicine dean Lloyd Minor at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego on Wednesday to discuss the role of measurement in a world of real-world evidence.
Their conclusion? There’s much to be excited about—but a wealth of data does not easily translate to better outcomes.
For example, we need a national generational evidence platform, Lewis-Hall said. It’s clear that many organizations have caches of data, but today, they don’t integrate. That must change if we are to measure and share information more effectively, she said.
Besides, Ryu added, “What you measure, how you measure it, and why you measure it fundamentally changes in a fee-based environment versus an evidence-based world.”
With 5,300 medical journals publishing many thousands of articles per year, “we’re just swimming in data,” Cosgrove said. But “we’ve got to put it into a useable form” for exchange. The health industry needs to bring all of that information together “in a central place, the cloud,” he said. And it needs companies to support interoperability.
“The government unfortunately paid for the electronic medical record,” Cosgrove said, referencing an industry sore spot, “but [it] didn’t pay for interoperability.”
Why is that so important? “Every time you look at data, you find something you didn’t expect,” Cosgrove said. “And you have to change what you measure.”
Besides, Lewis-Hall added, patients differ in opinion for which input is most important to the improvement of their condition—a muscular dystrophy patient, for example, may track progress via his or her speed and accuracy of typing on a tablet computer. Medical professionals must search for “aha” moments to change patients’ lives.
In today’s data-driven world, sometimes the ratio is wrong between input (information) and output (insight), Ryu said: “You need a lot more miners to curate that [data] and make it real and tangible…and not just gather a whole lot of ore.”
Here’s the good news, according to Cosgrove: “The one thing that doctors respond to is data.” Their first response is usually, “I don’t believe the data.” Then it takes six months to convince them, and another six to move the needle. “Making it transparent brings peer pressure, which is potent,” he said.
Besides: Knowledge is power. Lewis-Hall recalled that her mother died of a stroke just shy of 52 years old. Data in studies conducted in 1955 showed that an African-American, post-menopausal, female smoker like her mother was high risk for a stroke. But “my mother died in 1977, and the data had not hit the front lines yet,” she said. “And it’s still that way. I can know what the Kardashians ate for breakfast this morning, but I can’t find out what the latest data is informing us to either look for or do, and I think we have a chance to fix that a little bit.”
It’s notable, Lewis-Hall added, that health care is one of the only industries that starts with experience and training and backs into data, rather than the other way around. “I think we have the technology down pat,” she said. “It’s our cultural transition that allows us to think that way and behave that way when a patient is in front of us.”
Cosgrove put it another way: “Health care is really in the process of moving from an art to a science.”
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By now, VP candidate Mike Pence's anti-LGBT attitudes are well documented, including signing a Religious Freedom Restoration Act last year, which allowed businesses to refuse service to LGBT customers based on their religious beliefs, and he's been adamantly opposed to same-sex marriage. There were protests from celebs and ordinary citizens alike after RFRA was signed, large corporations threatened to leave the state, and, according to The Advocate's Neal Broveman, Indiana lost $60 million in convention and tourism business in protest. But Pence's impact on the state's public health has been less widely reported.
If past is indeed prologue, than we would all do well to take a look at Mike Pence's tenure as governor of Indiana where cuts in Planned Parenthood and Medicaid led to an epidemic-sized HIV and hep C outbreak in a rural Austin, Indiana.
"There’s been a lot of speculation that the closing of Planned Parenthood clinics in Indiana that provided HIV testing and counseling played a role in increased HIV transmission," says Dr. Mary Ann Chiasson, of Public Health Solutions. "Also, implementing needle exchange took quite a while."
Chiasson's suspicions are buttressed by a New York Times story that seems to suggest the same outcome. His biggest blunder (an intentional decision) came when Scott County, Indiana, faced one of the biggest HIV outbreaks in the country directly correlated to opioid addiction and needle sharing among white injection drug users. In that case Pence doubled down on a strategy that found him obstructing needle exchange programs in the state. Pence eventually relented, but only by signing a bill that forces counties to ask permission to start a needle exchange.
Pence was also an early and vocal advocate for gutting Planned Parenthood funding in the state, another factor that contributed to an official state of emeregency being declared by the Centers for Disease Control when the outbreak increased by 80 percent within one month.
And we haven't even mentioned in the fact that Pence has gone on record as not knowing how condoms work. In 2002, after then-Secretary of State Colin Powell told MTV viewers the that they should be using condoms, Pence appeared on Wolf Blitzer's CNN show to contradict him. Pence told Blitzer that abstinence is king, adding that "the other part is that, frankly, condoms are a very, very poor protection against sexually transmitted diseases, and in that sense, Wolf, this was — the secretary of state maybe inadvertently misleading millions of young people and endangering lives. … But let's be clear, last year, the National Institute of Health, Wolf, and some 28 separate experts said at least a half dozen to 10 sexually transmitted diseases for which condom use has zero preventative value. The secretary of state is simply wrong." (For the record, what the NIH actually said in a 2001 report, according to New York magazine is that "condoms clearly prevented the spread of HIV and gonorrhea but there wasinsufficient evidence that condoms offered protection against human papillomavirus, chlamydia, syphilis, chancroid, trichomoniasis, and genital herpes. But it does not mean that they don't work; it means that more research is needed."
For many of us, especially those with chronic conditions, Pence's willful ignorance could be downright life-threatening. Dangerous rhetoric from the Religious Right is one thing. Dangerous rhetoric that bucks all data-driven evidence to the contrary, rhetoric that shows a shocking indifference towards public health issues, should scare us all. | <urn:uuid:723884e2-447e-4d32-85e9-5cbfd557af2e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hivplusmag.com/editors-column/2016/7/21/what-mike-pence-left-out-his-speech-last-night | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966299 | 712 | 1.960938 | 2 |
The Trump administration dealt a one-two punch to the Affordable Care Act on Thursday. Trump’s executive order would give Americans the option of buying lower-cost health insurance, but also could usher back the bare-bones insurance options that the Affordable Care Act was designed to eliminate.
In addition, Trump directed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to end the cost-sharing reduction payments (CSRs) to health insurers required under the ACA effective immediately. The payments always have been controversial, and the Trump administration, in justifying its action, noted that House Republicans earlier successfully challenged them in court.
The twin blows announced Oct. 12 could unravel the ACA, driving up insurance premiums and causing health insurers to abandon the ACA marketplaces, according to coverage by Robert Pear, Maggie Haberman and Reed Abelson of The New York Times. “After Republicans failed to repeal the health law in Congress, Mr. Trump appears determined to dismantle it on his own,” they wrote.
The Trump administration will face an uphill battle to implement both the executive order and the end of the CSR subsidies, since opponents likely are to challenge them in court.
The executive order would allow employers to give workers money to buy coverage on their own rather than through the company, according to a story by Julie Appleby at Kaiser Health News. Appleby also noted that the order is designed to slow consolidation among insurance companies and hospitals. Research shows that such consolidation drives up consumers’ hospital and health insurance costs.
Adam Cancryn of Politico summed up the order succinctly: “Trump’s order directs a trio of federal agencies to rewrite regulations to encourage the rise of a raft of cheap, loosely regulated health insurance plans that don’t have to comply with certain Obamacare consumer protections and benefit rules.” Such so-called bare-bones plans would attract younger, healthier people but leave older and sicker Americans who get their coverage in the ACA’s marketplaces with higher premiums, he added in his coverage.
After the ACA went into effect in 2014, some consumers complained that their health insurance costs had risen dramatically. Many of them before had opted for bare-bones plans with strict coverage limits and/or limited benefits. Such plans tend to attract younger, healthier people and families who don’t believe they need much health care and have premiums lower than more comprehensive coverage. However, the plans can be a poor choice for anyone with a chronic or costly medical condition – and of course even healthy people bear some risk of developing an expensive or complex condition.
Any health insurance option that segments the risk pool would have an adverse effect on those who need insurance the most, as we reported in August. The minimum essential health benefits required under the ACA were designed to eliminate risk pool segmentation. When consumers can choose health plans that offer less comprehensive coverage, premiums and risk will fall for those in the risk pool with lower risks than others, but premiums will rise for those who have high health risks, Avalere’s Caroline Pearson explained.
Also on Thursday, the Trump administration announced that it would immediately stop CSR payments to health insurers required under the ACA. The payments were to total about $7 billion this year, according to an article in The Washington Post by Amy Goldstein and Juliet Eilperin. CSRs were expected to total $10 billion next year, as CNBC’s Dan Mangan reported. Attorneys general in California and New York State have promised court challenges to Trump’s plan.
The text of the executive order was not yet online as of Friday morning, but the White House announcement said the Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta had been directed to consider expanding access to association health plans (AHPs) to allow employers to form groups across state lines. It also would allow for a broader interpretation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), which governs employer-sponsored health care. Such a move could “allow employers in the same line of business anywhere in the country to join together to offer health care coverage to their employees,” the White House said. Until those regulations are drafted, though, it’s hard to know precisely how the AHPs will be defined, or how broadly they will be available.
Employers almost certainly will challenge a broader interpretation of ERISA, as Jay Hancock at Kaiser Health News earlier reported. Brendan Pierson and Nate Raymond of Reuters reported on Thursday that lawyers familiar with the law warn that the administration’s plan to allow businesses to band together to buy low-cost health plans could violate ERISA. In addition, they wrote, states fighting the change could argue that Trump’s plan for AHPs oversteps its authority under ERISA.
- How Would Coverage, Federal Spending, and Private Premiums Change if the Federal Government Stopped Reimbursing Insurers for the ACA’s Cost-Sharing Reductions?, The Urban Institute
- The Effects of Terminating Payments for Cost-Sharing Reductions, Congressional Budget Office
- CBO: If Trump kills Obamacare subsidies, expect premiums and deficit to soar, Covering Health
On Facebook Live, Jay Hancock of Kaiser Health News discusses the implications and things to watch based on the Trump administration’s announcements.
— Chad Terhune (@chadterhune) October 13, 2017
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Oh the joy of seeing live theatre again after so long. It was a truly a gift to be at the opening of the Crow’s Theatre production of As You Like It, a radical retelling by Cliff Cardinal. I have seen a few remarkable online performances during the pandemic but nothing virtual can compare with being part of a live audience, of feeling the energy of the performers and the rest of the audience. Absolute bliss!
Admittedly I was fairly anxious before I went, to the point of considering not going. I gave myself permission to leave if I felt panicked during the evening and that eased my anxiety. Crow’s Theatre’s policy that all patrons have to be vaccinated and wear masks at all times on the premises also helped to calm me down. It was worth it to experience Cliff Cardinal’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s As you Like It.
I haven’t seen As You Like It in decades but I remember it as what I thought of as silly comedy so I was excited to see what Cardinal would do with it. He didn’t disappoint.
Cardinal is known for his “black humour and compassionate poeticism” – I put this in quotes because almost everything I read online said the same thing, with no attribution. So, no attribution from me either, sorry, but at least I used quotation marks. His radical retelling is written in everyday colloquial language, f-bombs and all. It’s darkly funny, and heartbreaking. Definitely not your grandparent’s Shakespeare.
The first five themes in As You Like it – of the eight listed in Wikipedia, are love, gender, usurpation and injustice, forgiveness, and court life and country life. Cardinal’s version is viewed through an Indigenous lens and fits the context perfectly.
Cardinal makes explicit the things that are ignored in Shakespeare’s version. He uses Canadian examples showing his audience a truer meaning of the themes and making us confront the reality behind the comedy while still keeping us laughing.
It’s an excellent interpretation and wonderful theatre. Maybe a bit difficult to sit with at times but that’s part of what makes theatre amazing. As You like It, a radical retelling by Cliff Cardinal, is fabulous. You should see it. You’ll be surprised and delighted, and it will make you think.
- As You Like It is playing until October 17, 2021 at Streetcar Crowsnest (345 Carlaw Ave.)
- Performances are Tuesday through Saturday at 8:00pm with matinees at 2:00pm on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays
- Ticket prices range from 56.50 to 67.80 with a discount for seniors.
- Tickets are available online and by phone at (647) 341-7390 ext. 1010
Patrons need to show proof of vaccination and complete a health screening prior to entering the theatre.
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12.3.1 Software in the Public Interest
Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is an IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization, formed when FSF withdrew their sponsorship of Debian. The
purpose of the organization is to develop and distribute free software.
Our goals are very much like those of FSF, and we encourage programmers to use
the GNU General Public License on their programs. However, we have a slightly
different focus in that we are building and distributing a Linux system that
diverges in many technical details from the GNU system planned by FSF. We
still communicate with FSF, and we cooperate in sending them changes to GNU
software and in asking our users to donate to FSF and the GNU project.
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"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7, KJV).
Do not fear. Don’t allow it in your heart. It is evil, and destroys all hope. Fear can’t live where His love and faith abound. “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love” (1 John 4:18, NIV).
“Fear has to do with punishment.” Guilt produces fear. Sin produces fear. Fear is the blight of this imperfect the world. There is fear of illness, of poverty, of loneliness, and of devastation. Fear runs rampant. But His perfect love drives out fear. His perfect love forgives and drives out the blame of sin. Faith springs up because the one who has forgiven has the power to make all things new within your heart.
This world lives in fear. You are perfected in His love, and do not need to live in fear. Fight it. Refuse to allow it into your heart. God has not given you a spirit of fear. He has given you power, and with His perfect love, a sound mind that can banish fear. | <urn:uuid:a3b30901-e359-4cf2-aca9-ea05e561b083> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lynnlacher.com/2014/02/his-love-banishes-fear.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.928219 | 278 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Two weeks ago, the former Home Minister, Zahid Hamidi, cropped up again in a negative light; this time involving allegations about foreign worker exploitation. Bangladesh workers hoping to work in Malaysia could only do so, after registration with a crony company.
The allegations, made on 1 November, by a Bangladesh paper are serious. They detail the scam involving anyone from Bangladesh wishing to work in Malaysia.
So, is there a similar syndicate for workers from other nations? Indonesia? Myanmar? Cambodia? Philippines? Nepal*? How large is the syndicate involved? How much did the senior politicians and their cronies make*?
The permits, which Zahid dished out in his capacity as Home Minister, have no real purpose. They do not benefit the workers, nor their employers.
One political cynic alleged that they were carefully engineered to benefit Zahid, his family and his cronies, as a means to steal from the rakyat. The exorbitant blood money is a massive burden on the Bangladesh and the innocent Malaysian taxpayer. The only ones who gained, were the cronies and the politicians who endorsed the deal.
In which sectors are these workers involved? Are they working in plantations, construction, domestic work or are they skilled workers? Are similar syndicates operating within these sectors?
No political will to protect foreign workers
If the governments from which the workers originate are not adept in negotiation with their Malaysian counterparts, to protect their nationals, who want to work in Malaysia, then the rights of their citizens will be severely curtailed.
Look at the plight of Indonesian domestic workers. We cannot enact tough legislation to protect these women. Each time a serious injury, or death, occurs we are shocked. Why should we be? We are helpless and are consumed by apathy. We have become immune to the suffering of the domestic workers.
Synerflux, the only IT company authorised by Zahid and protected by the Official Secrets Act
The Daily Star of Bangladesh exposed the dodgy dealings of Synerflux, the only IT company which provided the online registration. Zahid designated this company as the only officially sanctioned company for anyone wanting to hire workers from Bangladesh.
Having awarded the contract to Synerflux, Zahid hid any information about the company, behind the Official Secrets Act. One can safely assume that in Najib’s regime, anything which is blanketed under the OSA must lack fairness and transparency, and warrant further investigation.
The allegations of Bangladeshi worker exploitation do not surprise us. The allegations about senior politicians and their cronies abusing the system, for their own benefit, have been known for decades; however, our concerns were dismissed. The few who continued to complain were probably threatened or prosecuted under a slew of laws.
According to The Daily Star, the allegations resurfaced only when the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition managed to overthrow Najib. In other words, there was no more protection of the main actors in the saga. Corrupt officials in Putrajaya, under Najib, had for years milked the system, because no one dared to stop them.
The Daily Star said that Najib’s government created a “manpower syndicate” which “monopolised” the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers for Malaysia. The online registration system, set-up by the Malaysian authorities, “monopolised and manipulated the recruitment process.
More details stoked the fire. Politicians and officials from both countries were complicit in worker exploitation, and anyone who wanted to work in Malaysia had to pay hefty bribes. The Malaysian home ministry received RM1,500 per worker. Just translate these to the several hundred thousand or so Bangladesh workers who were recruited, and you will understand that a few people have become multi-millionaires.
Foreign workers treated like a cash cow
The poor foreign worker was treated like a cash cow, or ATM on two legs. Human resources managers of the companies, which employed the workers would “earn” RM 1,000 per person.
Agents and sub-agents would charge the foreign workers a further RM2,500 each. The worker was bled dry, even paying the employers fees for his recruitment.
As paperwork is invariably part of the recruitment process, more money had to be dished out to Home Ministry officials, who would approve the applications.
A few years ago, Malaysians alleged that the brother of a senior politician and Cabinet member were involved in the scam. but these were quickly dismissed by the said politician.
On 30 October, the Dhaka High Court ordered the Bangladesh government to investigate this monopoly and to present its findings within six months.
In 2015, Zahid declared that worker recruitment would be farmed out to the private sector instead of going through government channels.
Although the Bangladeshis had proposed the names of 745 recruiting agencies, the officials in Malaysia chose only ten companies. There was no negotiation and the Bangladesh recruitment agencies had no choice but to accept these companies which were controlled by a Bangladesh, who had been awarded a Datukship and permanent residence in Malaysia.
Attempts by the Bangladesh association in Bangladesh to break the hold of this Datuk Bangla were unsuccessful. Why would he give up this goose that laid golden eggs, especially as it was protected by none other than the Malaysian Home Minister.
Zahid should be severely punished for his role in worker exploitation. The Datuk Bangla should be stripped of his Datukship, and his cosy arrangement with Zahid should be thoroughly investigated.
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Google Maps has just made a significant update to help cyclists navigate the city. They’ve already offered bike routes in some cities, but now they’re making that information more accessible by including bike lanes in their directions and suggesting less hilly routes.
Getting More Bike-Friendly
Cyclists are some of the few beings on this planet still asking for directions. Cyclists need to know information unique to bike riders and can not find it with an app. To be successful as a cyclist, it is beneficial to ask other cyclists for advice.
Now, Google Maps has some new features that will help you find those things. The improved view for cyclists includes more data about bike routes when available and how busy the vehicle traffic is. Maps for cyclists warn you about obstacles on your route and provide turn-by-turn directions to accommodate bicyclists. They can tell you which roads have gravel sections and can provide directions depending on the type of street bike used.
Cyclists need some other reason to talk to one another. Maybe they can complain about the lack of transportation infrastructure founded on government investment.
3D views of Landmarks
Google Maps is now adding 3D views of landmarks. This new feature is a souped-up Street View setting that will let you zoom and pan around the world with unprecedented freedom. Google teased this new feature earlier this year. Google’s new landmarks aren’t precisely that, and the company hasn’t said when the feature will come out, but it seems a step in that direction.
Google Play Store Changes
Along with the Maps update, Google announced some changes coming to the Google Play store. The update is focused on removing certain apps that might prey on unsuspecting users. Such as apps that try to hoax people with false information about vaccines. Before this change, Google was not likely to give up on tracking cookies. Now, the company has slightly adjusted them so that ads are less disruptive. Nearly all updates will be done by the end of Aug 31.
This is an excellent update for cyclists who rely on Google Maps to navigate the city. With this new update, they can see bike lanes and suggest less hilly routes, making it easier for them to get around the city. This is just one more way that Google is making it easier for people to get where they need to go, and we hope that they continue to add more features like this in the future. | <urn:uuid:f56c61d5-fb39-49da-9135-5a5cf660b9f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drivingdirectionsgooglemaps.com/what-to-expect-with-google-maps-new-bike-friendly-features/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961462 | 497 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Cultivate Your Perfect Smile With Cosmetic Teeth Procedures
Smiling is a natural response to life events that surge joy and happiness in our lives, but many people may suppress it due to self-consciousness. Many things may cause people to hide their smiles. Whether it’s gaps in their teeth, discolouration, chipped teeth or misalignment, the appearance of your teeth goes a long way in how confident you feel about your smile. Although any smile is beautiful, some people may choose to have cosmetic teeth procedures done to enhance their appearance and improve their self-confidence. Dentistry is important to maintain oral hygiene and the longevity of your teeth and will help treat numerous problems like gum disease, cavities, infections and many other dental issues. Living with an unhealthy mouth can be uncomfortable and painful and poses significant health issues to the rest of your body. Bacteria in the mouth can be passed to the respiratory tract or digestive system and cause illness, so regular checkups and deep cleaning with your dentist should be prioritized.
Family Dental Care takes oral hygiene seriously and is committed to giving its patients the best services the industry has to offer. Take advantage of cosmetic teeth procedures and find the smile of your dreams.
Besides the health benefits, cosmetic dentistry has great benefits on your self-confidence and self-esteem. When you feel confident in your smile, you feel more excited to be out in public and may find your social life buzzing like never before. In addition, your camera lens will be seeing a lot more of you as you feel comfortable taking pictures and videos. Also, there are significant psychological and emotional benefits to smiling more as your brain releases hormones such as dopamine and endorphins, which give you a rush similar to falling in love. Non-coincidentally, though, you are falling in love with yourself, drastically improving emotional and mental well-being and generating a euphoric response when you smile and allow yourself to enjoy life’s moments.
For young and old, we rely on our teeth every day. When our teeth cannot perform properly, we are inconvenienced and may struggle to perform our most common tasks, like eating and talking. Cosmetic teeth procedures can significantly improve your quality of life in the following ways:
- Crowns – used to straighten or lengthen teeth, it improves the way your jaw closes and how well your teeth fit together and also improves how well you chew food to aid in proper digestion and absorption of nutrients.
- Dental implants – similar effects to crowns, dental implants will give a full smile and help with speech and proper chewing of food.
- Gum lifts can reduce the surface area for gum disease and improve your smile’s appearance by creating a longer and straighter visual.
- Porcelain veneers – helps to cover and repair chips or broken teeth and can significantly improve sensitivity issues from exposed nerves in your teeth.
- Braces – used to straighten your teeth and improve oral hygiene as your toothbrush can reach places that were once obstructed by other teeth. Invisalign is an excellent alternative to metal braces as they are transparent and are not obvious in your mouth.
In addition, cosmetic teeth procedures raise awareness for other dental issues that patients may be unaware of, saving patients from unnecessary procedures and costs.
Family Dental Care in Ottowa can help you identify issues with your teeth and recommend the necessary cosmetic teeth procedures to rectify and enhance the appearance and functionality of your teeth. Ask your dentist about the procedures and what to expect during and after so you can feel comfortable and confident before making your booking. You deserve a beautiful smile and a chance to experience the natural response to happiness without restraint. | <urn:uuid:5072a0c7-ba18-49d0-8849-327f340a0949> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thehealthage.com/cultivate-your-perfect-smile-with-cosmetic-teeth-procedures/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939587 | 763 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Bricks are used in constructions at all levels. Construction using bricks dates back to 7000BC. Bricks are one of the oldest construction materials which are widely used even now. It is due to its durability, availability and low cost. Initially, sundried bricks were used in constructions, later as in all other fields, the advent of technology lead to different types of bricks with varying characters depending upon raw materials used in its construction.
Some of the types of bricks used in India are sundried bricks, burnt clay bricks, f ly ash bricks, concrete bricks, engineering bricks, calcium silicate bricks and eco-bricks. Today bricks are made with raw materials such as cement, small stones, sand and slag using machines. Brick-making machines are environment-friendly and energy-efficient.
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EPA Cleanup Proposal Relies on Institutional Control Monitoring
A recent EPA cleanup proposal directly recognizes what many have come to accept as a given – cleanups need institutional controls (ICs), monitoring of ICs is a critical component of cleanup remedies, and private sector landwatch services make monitoring effective.
EPA’s proposed plan covers shallow and deep soil at the Del Amo Superfund Site, near Los Angeles California. Organic contaminants, such as benzene (among others) lie beneath this commercial/industrial business park, which spans 67 separate parcels and 280 acres of largely paved and built-out areas. The risk assessment showed elevated risks to commercial workers, construction workers and future residents (if the area were to be redeveloped). EPA selected a preferred alternative (subject to public comment) that would partially clean the soil with vapor extraction and chemical oxidation technologies (2) apply “engineering controls” at certain buildings to prevent chemical vapor intrusion, and (3) cap areas of the site which weren’t already paved or covered by buildings.
The plan also sets forth a comprehensive IC regime. It requires each of the parcels to record restrictive covenants designed to prevent inappropriate future land uses, and to prevent exposure to soil and/or groundwater contamination. The ICs also establish an EPA review of land use permit applications, designed to prevent or condition future uses and to collect additional site data (as necessary) prior to any new development. Finally, the ICs require current commercial/industrial zoning restrictions to remain flagged in the land use planning document (the “general plan”) so future planning efforts are aware of site restrictions.
The proposed plan recognized that establishing an IC regime isn’t enough – it must be monitored. “Institutional controls, caps, and building engineering controls would be monitored in perpetuity to ensure effectiveness” the plan explains. The feasibiilty study (available here) provides the basis of the proposed plan and explains “[m]onitoring of any IC tools selected in the ROD is an important component of remedy implementation.” The study continues by recognizing that private sector landwatch services “monitor and report … notices of plans to perform excavation or grading activities, records of applications for building or excavation permits, real estate marketing or transfer or ownership records, and applications filed for changes in zoning designation.” For example, the report continues, landwatch services “identify planned excavation activities before they occur … ”
Terradex LandWatch monitors hundreds of thousands of acres of contaminated properties in states across the country, including the Del Amo site, in precisely the way that the EPA remedy recognizes as being critical. Terradex LandWatch reviews land activity as frequently as daily and as future blog posts will explain, we see land activities occurring all the time that could threaten ICs, leaving us certain (as has been concluded by the proposed remedy described in this post and separately by ASTSWMO), IC monitoring is a critical component of cleanup remedies.
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Cisticola Information Page ... Index of Cisticola Species ... Photos of the Different Cisticola Species for Identification
The Pale-crowned Cisticola (Cisticola cinnemoneus) is found in the following African countries:
Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Gabon, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
It lives in damp or marshy areas in upland grassland.
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23 Feb READER QUESTION: “Are there any good foods for PMS?”
Scensibles, a Facebook follower, asks: “Are there must-have foods for PMS?”
My answer: It depends on what symptoms you want to counter. Here’s what I suggest for…
Beating bloat: First, try to avoid foods high in sodium, which worsen premenstrual water retention. Then, try upping your intake of foods and beverages that have a diuretic effect, which will help you shed excess fluid naturally. These include asparagus, celery, eggplant, onion, watermelon and dandelion tea (avoid if you have latex allergies). As you probably already know, caffeine also has a diuretic effect. However, it’s been shown to worsen premenstrual irritability and moodiness, so I don’t recommend using coffee or tea as a bloat-buster during your premenstrual Week 4.
Boosting mood: Feel down or blue during your premenstrual week? The problem is that plunging estrogen causes the brain’s store of mood-regulating serotonin to fall. To boost it back up, have a carbohydrate-rich/low-protein breakfast and lunch (for instance, whole grains, fruits and vegetables) and then have a protein-rich meal for dinner. The reasoning? Carbohydrates increase the brain’s level of tryptophan—the building block of serotonin—while protein lowers it.
Nixing irritability: Sweet tooths will appreciate this tip: Recent research out of Ohio State University shows that a sugar-sweetened food or beverages will reduce feelings of anger and irritation. And it works in mere minutes! As the researchers explain it, sugar (but not sugar substitutes) provides glucose to the brain, which is needed to curb a fiery temper.
Easing pain: If you’re bothered by premenstrual aches, cramps and other discomfort, try increasing your intake of foods and beverages rich in anti-inflammatory compounds. These include foods high in omega-3 fatty acids (such as flax seeds, tuna and salmon) as well as tart cherry juice, ginger (either as a tea, candy or raw) and chamomile tea. | <urn:uuid:4d09b2cd-6af2-4cd7-9341-910310847ccc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.myhormonology.com/reader-question-are-there-any-good-foods-for-pms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.913884 | 482 | 1.929688 | 2 |
While methamphetamine, most commonly known as meth, is sometimes used clinically to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), it is more often used recreationally. However, meth is a dangerous and potent drug that can be highly addictive. And many people do suffer from meth addiction. To be able to avoid accidental intake of the drug, it’s important to know what it looks like and how to identify it.
What Does Meth Look Like?
Meth comes in different forms. It is either clear, chunky crystals or powder that dissolves into clear, colorless, and odorless liquid. However, due to the production of the drug, it is not limited to a single appearance. It can be white, yellowish, or pinkish in color. It can also be odorless or have a chemical smell.
What Are the Different Forms of Meth?
While meth often comes as either a crystal or powder, it can actually take different forms.
Crystal meth is one of the most popular forms of meth. It is also one of the most difficult forms to detect, especially when it’s in small quantities. Crystal meth has a distinctive chunky appearance.
Crystal meth is often sold as a rock in different sizes. Some of them are even as small as a pea. While it has a large appearance, it does not have a strong smell like its other counterparts. Crystal meth is white and clear in color. Its name was derived from its chunky appearance, which is its most obvious differentiating factor.
Powdered meth is one of the most commonly found forms of meth. This form is extremely potent and often more dangerous than crystal meth. It is commonly sold as a powder, with some even as small as a grain of salt. It is white or off-white in color. Its powdery appearance is similar to the look of cocaine. However, its smell is different. Powdered meth has a chemical odor.
Powdered meth is sold in many areas. It can easily be compared to other stimulants like cocaine, nicotine, and caffeine.
Methamphetamine hydrochloride, also known as meth hydrochloride and referred to as meth, is used as a salt-like crystal. It is highly soluble in water and turns instantly into a liquid when mixed with water. It is often snorted, smoked, or injected directly into one’s bloodstream.
To avoid its water solubility and convert it into a more suitable form for smoking, meth was often heated in a glass pipe. During the process, its hydrochloride was removed, forming a new structure of meth called freebase.
This new form was solid at room temperature. It also had a sticky and gooey appearance. Freebase meth is sold in small round pieces or as little rocks. It is often cloudy and can sometimes be clear. It was named freebase because it was already separated from the hydrochloride salt.
When meth is heated, it often evaporates and becomes a vapor that can be inhaled directly into the lungs. However, once it is vaporized, its chemical components are changed. This form is called liquid meth. It is odorless, colorless, and tasteless.
The liquid meth can be easily inhaled into one’s lungs, making it highly dangerous to the user.
What Are the Different Ways Meth Is Consumed?
The most common way to consume meth is through inhalation. This can be through snorting or smoking. Another way of consuming meth is by injecting it into one’s bloodstream. Methamphetamine hydrochloride is a salt, which means that it can be dissolved in water. However, when it is dissolved in water, it becomes a liquid. Many ways of consuming meth involve dissolving it in water and then injecting or drinking it.
Freebasing or Smoking Meth
Inhaling is one of the most common ways to consume methamphetamine. This method is often used because it can be easily done almost anywhere. It can be done without anyone noticing, and it is easy to hide the smell or any other sachet. It is also easy to use, as there is no need for a syringe or any other material for it. It is simply a matter of soaking the drug in water, heating it up in a spoon, and then inhaling the fumes or vapor.
Inhaling is also done for stronger effects. It can be done by first giving oneself a shot so the drug can enter one’s bloodstream. Then the drug can be heated and inhaled. Some of the equipment used for inhaling include meth pipes, bongs, and glass tubes.
Injecting is another common way to consume meth. It is often used by its users because of the intense high they experience while using the drug. This is because injecting meth directly into the blood gives it a faster effect and a more intense high. The drug enters one’s bloodstream through the blood vessels and travels directly to the brain.
When one injects meth, it can cause serious health concerns. It can cause skin sores, infections, and even blood vessels to burst. It can also damage one’s veins, heart, lungs, and kidneys.
Drinking and Snorting
These two ways of consuming meth are not as popular and are used less often by users. Meth that has been dissolved in water can be drunk. It can be done in small amounts until one is high. It can also be done in large amounts so that one experiences the powerful effects quickly.
Snorting is another way to consume meth. It involves soaking the drug in water and then inhaling the fumes or vapor that comes off the water.
Do the Different Forms of Meth Have Different Effects?
The different forms of meth all have different effects. The most common form of meth is the powdered form. This form is often the most dangerous and is often more potent than the other forms. This is because it quickly enters one’s bloodstream and goes straight to one’s brain. This is often the most preferred form because it causes an intense high while offering a relaxing, long-lasting effect that can last for hours.
On the other hand, the freebase form is not as common. However, it is more powerful and has a rapid onset of action. It is often said to last for about 15 minutes, but it also depends on the person’s metabolism. The liquid form is also extremely potent, but it is also extremely dangerous because it is more likely to kill the user. The liquid form is often snorted or injected into the body. The crystal form of methamphetamine is less potent than its other forms. However, it is more addictive.
No matter what the form of meth, the immediate effects are the same. The high is caused by the amount of dopamine released. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that regulates mood, impulsive behavior, and other body activities. It can also increase the user’s sense of euphoria, which is why it is also called a “happy drug.”
The following are some of the short-term effects of meth:
- Increased energy
- Increased alertness
- Increased mental alertness
- Increased wakefulness
- Increased confidence
- Increased focus
- Increased talkativeness
- Increased heart rate
- Decreased appetite
Methamphetamine is a powerful stimulant that is considered a highly addictive drug. It can be found in many different forms, with each form having a different effect. Overdosing on the drug can cause serious effects, which is why it is important to recognize the signs and symptoms and the different forms of the drug. | <urn:uuid:9e76ad25-4931-41b9-9eaa-e1cec6b89f2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drugaddictionnow.com/2022/08/04/what-does-meth-look-like/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971707 | 1,605 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Do you think there’s anything special about foods starting with ‘G’?
There are plenty of foods that start with ‘G’ but these are the top 31.
These are the top 31 foods that start with ‘g’.
Some of them are common while others are less known.
Garum is a fermented fish sauce from ancient Rome. It was used as a condiment and flavoring agent. Today, garum is still produced in many countries around the world.
#2. Green Mango Chutney
Green mango chutney is a popular Indian pickle made from green mangos. It is usually served with meals such as idlis steamed rice cakes, dosas thin pancakes and other South Indian dishes.
#3. Garam Masala
Garam masala is a spice blend used in many Indian dishes. It consists of black pepper, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg, cumin seeds, bay leaves, mace, coriander seeds, fennel seeds, dried ginger, garlic, turmeric, and salt.
Ginger is a root vegetable native to India. It’s been used in Ayurvedic medicine since ancient times. In modern times, ginger is widely used in Chinese cuisine, where it is known as "Jiang" 江. Ginger is also used in Japanese cuisine, where it is called gari 和 or shōyu 蔥水, and in Korean cuisine, where it is referred to as jangajji 장가지.
Garlic is a bulbous plant belonging to the lily family Liliaceae. It is cultivated worldwide and is one of the oldest cultivated plants. It was originally domesticated in China around 4000 BC. It is believed to have originated from wild garlic Allium sativum found growing along riverbanks. #6. Onion
Onions are members of the genus Allium, a group of flowering plants in the amaryllis family Amaryllidaceae. Onions are used extensively throughout the world as a source of food. In many countries onions are regarded as a vegetable, while in others they are treated as a spice.
#7. Ghost Pepper
Ghost peppers are not actually peppers but belong to the Capsicum annuum species. They are named after their ghostly appearance because of their resemblance to the pepper’s namesake. The ghost pepper is a very hot pepper, ranking among the hottest known to man. It is native to Mexico and Central America, where it grows wild in tropical forests. Its name comes from the Spanish word "pimiento" pepper.
#8. Guajillo Chile
Guajillos are dried chiles originating from the Mexican state of Jalisco. They are medium sized, thin-walled, oblong shaped, and usually red in color. They are used extensively in Mexican cuisine, especially in dishes such as enchiladas, tamales, and salsas. #9. Habanero Chile
Ghee is clarified butter. It is obtained by heating butter until the milk solids separate from the fat. This process removes impurities and allows ghee to be stored longer. Ghee is used in Indian cooking because it is very flavorful and rich. It is used in many recipes, particularly curries.
Gelatin is a protein derived from collagen found in bones, skin, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and other connective tissues. Gelatin is used as a thickening agent, stabilizer, emulsifier, and binding agent. It is used in desserts, beverages, and pharmaceuticals. #11. Gluten
Grape juice is a popular beverage, especially among children. Grape juice is usually sweetened and flavored with sugar or honey. Grape juice is available in different varieties such as red, white, pink, purple, and black. Grape juice is also known as grape wine. #12. Granulated Sugar #13. Green Tea
Granulated sugar is a refined form of sugar derived from cane or beet. It is used in baking, candy making, and other desserts. It is also used in many beverages, particularly soft drinks. Green tea is a type of herbal tea that originated in China. It contains caffeine and antioxidants called catechins. It is believed to help reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer. Grapefruit is a citrus fruit that grows in tropical climates. It is very juicy and tart. It is sometimes served as a dessert.
#13. Green Apple
Apple cider vinegar is a clear liquid obtained from fermented apple juice. It is usually sold in bottles and is available in grocery stores. It is used as a salad dressing and marinade. A green apple is a sweet apple that is not fully ripe. It is greenish yellow in color.
Gooseberries are a type of berry. They are also known as snow goose berries. They are grown mainly in Europe and Asia. They are a cross between two species of plants: Rubus fruticosus blackberry and R. idaeus red raspberry. Gooseberries are a very popular fruit in many countries around the world. They are eaten raw or cooked. They are also used in jams, jellies, pies, sauces, drinks, wines, ice cream, and other desserts.
#15. Green Bean
Green beans are green vegetables that are harvested from the plant Phaseolus vulgaris. They are usually eaten young and tender. They are sometimes called string beans because of their long slender shape. Green bean varieties vary widely depending on where they are grown. In the United States, the main types are snap beans also called haricots verts, wax beans, and shell beans.
Guavas are tropical fruits native to South America. It is a member of the family Myrtaceae. The guava tree is a medium sized deciduous tree growing up to 30 meters tall. The fruit is oval shaped and grows about 2 inches in diameter. The fleshy pulp is white to yellowish green in color and contains numerous seeds. The flavor of the fruit is sweet and sour.
#17. Goji Berry
Goji berries are dried, red berries from the shrub Lycium barbarum Linn., belonging to the nightshade family Solanaceae. This plant is indigenous to China, Mongolia, Tibet, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
Guarana is a tropical evergreen tree native to South America. It is a member of the Fabaceae or Leguminosae family, specifically the Caesalpinioideae subfamily. Guarana contains caffeine, tannins, glycosides, saponins, flavonoids, anthocyanidins, catecholamines, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, oils, and essential fatty acids.
#19. Green Pea
Green peas are a legume plant belonging to the pea family Fabaceae. They are grown worldwide and are eaten fresh or dried. They are available year round. In the United States, green peas are usually sold frozen, canned, or dried. Fresh green peas are available from May through August. Frozen green peas are available throughout the year. Dried green peas are available year round.
Garambullas also known as garam masala is a spice mixture used in Indian cuisine. It consists of black pepper, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, cardamom pods, cinnamon sticks, cloves, nutmeg, mace, bay leaves, fennel seeds, mustard seeds, and chili powder. Garambullas is used extensively in curries, especially in South Indian dishes such as rasam, sambar, and thosai.
Garbanzos also spelled “garbanzo beans” are dried chickpeas, a type of legume native to the Middle East and North Africa. In English, the term “chickpea” is sometimes used interchangeably with “garbanzo bean”. Chickpeas are widely eaten throughout the world, particularly in Mediterranean countries. They are also popular in many cuisines from Central Asia to Southeast Asia. Chickpeas are among the oldest cultivated plants, having been domesticated in Mesopotamia around 8500 BC. They were originally grown primarily for their edible fruit, but today they are grown mainly for their dry seed, which is used to produce flour.
Genip is a herbaceous plant belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. It is known by several common names, such as garden cress, salad burnet, salad rocket, salad burnet, and salad burnetweed. The name genip comes from the Latin word genus genus, meaning “kind” or “class”. It is a biennial herbaceous plant growing to about 50 cm tall. It has basal leaves and stems, each leaflet being deeply lobed, and flowers in dense spikes. The seeds are produced in capsules containing numerous tiny seeds. The plant was introduced into Europe during the 16th century, where it became naturalized. It is now found worldwide, except Australia and Antarctica.
Gherkins are cucumbers grown specifically for pickling. They are usually harvested while still green and unripe. They are then left to cure until fully ripe, after which they are cut into pieces and packed in vinegar brine. This process is called curing. Curing is done to preserve the flavor of the gherkins. As they age, the flavor becomes stronger. Pickled gherkins are eaten raw in salads, sandwiches, and other dishes. They are also used in many different types of cuisine. Pickled gherkins are available in jars and cans. They are sold in supermarkets, specialty stores, and online retailers.
Galantines are meat pies filled with ground beef, pork, veal, lamb, or poultry. They are typically cooked in a pastry shell and served hot or cold. They are popular in France, Belgium, and Germany. In Britain, they are known as galantines.
Gazpacho is a Spanish soup made from tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, onions, garlic, olive oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper. It is traditionally eaten during the summer months. It was created in Spain around the 16th century.
Gateau French pronunciation: ˈgɑtaʀ; English: cake is a sweet dessert consisting of a pastry base covered with a layer of cream or custard, frosted with sugar, and sometimes decorated with fruit, nuts, chocolate, or other ingredients. The word gateau comes from the Latin word gātum meaning "cake".
Genoise French pronunciation: djénˌsõ; English: A light sponge cake made with eggs, flour, butter, and milk. It is similar to angel food cake but lighter and fluffier. It is usually baked in a tube pan, although round pans are used occasionally. The genoise is traditionally served plain, but it is often filled with jam, whipped cream, or ice cream.
Gigot de veau French or gigot d’agneau English, literally "lamb leg", is a cut from the hind leg of lamb. In France, it is generally cooked whole, though sometimes it is split into two pieces.
Gammon or gammon is the cured loin of a pig. It is usually sold in long strips called rashers. #30. Giblets
Giblets or gizzards are the organs found within the digestive tract of animals, such as birds and mammals. They are generally removed from the carcass during butchering.
Gin is a distilled spirit produced from fermented juniper berries, coriander seeds, orange peel, and other botanicals. It is usually mixed with sweetened or flavored alcohols such as sugar, honey, molasses, or agave nectar and sometimes spices such as cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg, ginger, or mace. #32. Gizzard
What foods begin with the letter G?
Fruits that start with G are: Grape, Guava, Ginger, Granadilla, Grapefruit, Grapes, Green Apple, Granny Smith Apple, Golden Delicious Apple, Honeydew Melon, Kiwifruit, Kumquat, Lemon, Lime, Mandarin Orange, Mango, Nectarine, Peach, Pear, Pineapple, Plum, Pomegranate, Prune, Quince, Raspberry, Red Apple, Rosehip, Satsuma Oranges, Tangerine, Watermelon, and Zucchini.
What foods begin with G?
Granola bars, granulated sugar, gelatin, garlic, ginger, grapefruit, grapes, green tea, guacamole, gummy bears, gum, hamburgers, ham, honey, hot dogs, ice cream, jellybeans, jello, ketchup, lemonade, lime juice, limes, macaroni and cheese, marshmallows, mashed potatoes, mayonnaise, milkshakes, molasses, orange juice, oranges, pancakes, peanut butter, peaches, peas, pineapple, pizza, popcorn, pretzels, pudding, raisins, rice, rolls, root beer, soda pop, spaghetti, steak, strawberries, syrup, tuna, vanilla ice cream, vinegar, wine, and zucchini.
What are fruits that start with G?
Snack Foods are those foods that people eat between meals. Snacks are usually eaten during breaks from work, school, or other activities. Snacking is an important part of our daily diet because it provides us with energy when we are not eating a full meal. Most snacks consist of some combination of carbohydrates sugar, starch, or fiber, protein meat, fish, eggs, cheese, milk, yogurt, beans, nuts, seeds, tofu, or legumes, fat butter, margarine, oils, salad dressings, mayonnaise, peanut butter, cream cheese, sour cream, or cottage cheese, salt, and sometimes caffeine.
What are the list of food items?
Grain, Gluten, Glutamine, Glycine, Glycerin, Glycolic Acid, Glycosylation, Glyphosate, Glyphosate/Roundup, Glyphosate Toxicity, Glyphosate Weed Killer, Glyphosate Herbicide, Glyphosate Fungicide, Glyphosate Insecticide, Glyphosate Pesticide, Glyphosate Poison, Glyphosate Herbicides, Glyphosate Fertilizer, Glyphosate Fumigant, Glyphosate Foliar Spray, Glyphosate Soil Treatment, Glyphosate Vapor Treatment, Glyphosate Weed Control, Glyphosate Weed Killing, Glyphosate Herbicidal, Glyphosate Insecticidal, Glyphosate Pest Control, Glyphosate Fertility Control, Glyphosate Plant Growth Regulator, Glyphosate Plant Nutrient, Glyphosate Plant Feeding, Glyphosate Plant Stimulant, Glyphosate Plant Defoliant, Glyphosate Plant Dessication Agent, Glyphosate Plant Sterilant, Glyphosate Plant Inhibitor, Glyphosate Plant Antagonist, Glyphosate Plant Parasite Suppressant, Glyphosate Herb, Glyphosate Weed, Glyphosate Fusarium Wilt, Glyphosate Root Rot, Glyphosate Bacterial Blight, Glyphosate Powdery Mildew, Glyphosate Anthracnose, Glyphosate Cercospora Leaf Spot, Glyphosate Septoria Leaf Spot, Glyphosphate Phytophthora Root Rot, Glyphosphate Rhizoctonia Root Rot, Glyphosat Phomopsis Leaf Disease, Glyphosat Pseudomonas Root Rot, Glyphospate Pythium Root Rot, Glyphophate Sclerotinia Root Rot, Glyphoate Phytophthora Fruit Rot, Glyphoates Phytophthora Fruit rot, Glyphoates Pyrenochaeta Fruit Rot, Glyphosates Phytophthora Root rot, Glyphosates Pythium Root rot, Glyphoate Sclerotinia Fruit rot, Glyphosate Sclerotinia Leaf spot, Glyphosate Sesame Leaf Spot, Glyphosat Sesamia Leaf Spot, Glyphoates Sesamia Root rot, Glyphosphate Sesamia Root rot. What foods end with A?
What are the most popular snack foods?
Food items are anything that we eat to satisfy our hunger. Food items include vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, poultry, eggs, milk products, breads, cereals, pasta, beans, nuts, seeds, oils, fats, sugars, salt, spices, herbs, condiments, and beverages.
What are examples of snacks?
Snacks are any type of food that you consume between meals. Snacks are usually eaten between meals, such as after school or work, while traveling, or during breaks. Examples of snacks include chips, crackers, cookies, pretzels, popcorn, candy, and drinks.
What snack starts with G?
Granola bars are a healthy alternative to other types of snacks. Granola bars are delicious because they combine nuts, seeds, dried fruit, and oats into a single bar. These bars are great for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Granola bars are usually low in fat and calories, but if you eat too many granola bars, you could gain weight. | <urn:uuid:d361dfa4-4e21-4669-bf87-7bb25bd45f7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://crowburgerkitchen.com/top-31-foods-that-start-with-g/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.935762 | 3,842 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Thank you, Molly.
There are two threads in this article that I have spoken of before:
1. The fundamental agenda continues to be rolled out, regardless of which political party is in power – in the United States or elsewhere
2. The so-called “Arab Spring” is promoted as representing a people’s uprising against tyrannical governments, when in truth it is US-sponsored activity, organised to undermine the current governments for their own purposes, or more accurately the purposes of those who run the game behind the scenes.
The following quote from that article covers it fairly well:
In an April 2011 AFP report, Michael Posner, the assistant US Secretary of State for Human Rights and Labor, admitted that:
“US government has budgeted $50 million in the last two years [starting in 2009] to develop new technologies to help activists protect themselves from arrest and prosecution by authoritarian governments. ”The report went on to admit that the US “organized training sessions for 5,000 activists in different parts of the world. A session held in the Middle East about six weeks ago gathered activists from Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon who returned to their countries with the aim of training their colleagues there.” Posner would add, “They went back and there’s a ripple effect.”
Not only were the protests in Syria planned, funded, and directed by the US State Department, years before the so-called “Arab Spring” began, but so were the alleged protests that “triggered” events in Syria – namely similarly engineered protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and the violent US-led subversion carried out in Libya.
What’s more disturbing is that the US-engineered “protests” were not designed to overthrow targeted governments, but instead to serve as a smokescreen for similarly pre-planned armed subversion. As early as 2007, under then President George Bush, the arming, funding, and otherwise supporting of sectarian extremists across the Middle East to undermine Lebanon, Syria, and Iran was put into motion.
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Our talented and caring teachers bring rich experience, professional expertise and inspiring dedication to our nursery school. Every classroom has at least one Lead Teacher certified in Early Childhood Education, which requires a Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education and successful completion of stat exams. Many of our assistant teachers are currently working towards an Early Childhood Education Masters or have recently completed a Masters program. Within our diverse community of lead and assistant teachers, we have a variety of educators, a chef, a marathon runner, an ice skater, a former Air Force musician, an avid botanist, a tennis player and several proud mothers, who all bring a love of learning and a wealth of talent to their work everyday.
Barrow Street believes it is essential to build on our teachers’ extensive formal training with ongoing professional development. We host many workshops during staff development days throughout the year. Workshops from this past year included a specialized science workshop, a child observation and recording workshop, an art workshop and a child development workshop on brain research.
We also provide rich and exciting learning opportunities through conferences hosted by NYSAIS, NAREA and NAEYC where our teachers are given opportunities to travel locally, nationally and internationally to reflect on personal teaching experiences, grow together as learners, and share ideas, lessons and opinions with others in a stimulating environment. In the past, we have sent many teachers to Reggio Emilia, Italy and other local, national and international Reggio schools. All teachers are CPR and First Aid Infant/Child Certified. | <urn:uuid:d5bb0126-2d74-4fb6-a758-09281570ac00> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greenwichhouse.org/bsns-staff-and-faculty/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958752 | 314 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Daffy first appeared in the 1937 cartoon Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery. The cartoon is a standard hunter/prey pairing for which the studio is famous, but Daffy (not more than a bit player in the short) represented something new to moviegoers: an assertive, combative protagonist, completely unrestrained and completely unrestrainable. When audiences left the theaters, they could not stop talking about (as Porky Pig puts it) "that crazy, darnfool duck." This early Daffy is not a handsome creature; he is short and pudgy, with stubby legs and beak. His voice (performed by Mel Blanc and patterned after Warners producer Leon Schlesinger's) is about the only part of the duck that would stay with him.
Animator Bob Clampett immediately seized upon the duck and cast him in a series of cartoons in the 1930s and 1940s. Clampett's Daffy is a wild screwball, perpetually bouncing around the screen with cries of "Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo!" Clampett also redesigned the character, making him taller and lankier, and rounding out his beak and feet.
By the early 1940s, director Robert McKimson tamed Daffy a bit, redesigning him yet again to be rounder, less elastic. The studio also instilled some of Bugs Bunny's savvy into the duck, making him as brilliant with his mouth as he was with his battiness. This era also saw Daffy teamed up with Porky Pig, the duck's one-time rival now his straight man. Daffy would also feature in several war-themed shorts during World War II. Daffy always stays true to his unbridled nature, however, attempting, for example, to dodge the draft in Draftee Daffy (1945) and battling a Nazi goat intent in eating Daffy's scrap metal in Scrap Happy Daffy (1943).
As Bugs Bunny supplanted Daffy as the Warners' most popular character, the directors still found ample use for the duck. Several cartoons place him in parodies of popular movies and radio serials. For example, Dripalong Daffy(1951) throws Daffy into a Spaghetti Western, while Robin Hood Daffy (1958) casts the duck in the role of the legendary outlaw. In Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century (1953) Daffy trades barbs (and bullets) with Marvin the Martian.
Bugs' ascension to stardom also prompted the Warner animators to recast Daffy as the rabbit's rival, intensely jealous and determined to steal back the spotlight. Friz Freleng would be the first to use this idea in Show Biz Bugs (1957) wherein Daffy's trained pigeon act is played to nothing but crickets chirping in the audience, while Bugs' song-and-dance numbers thrill the spectators. Chuck Jones would most successfully use the idea. Jones redesigned the duck once again, making him scrawnier and scruffier. In Jones' famous "Hunter's Trilogy" of Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck! Rabbit! Duck (1951 - 1953) Daffy's vanity and excitedness provide Bugs Bunny the perfect opportunity to fool the hapless Elmer Fudd into repeatedly shooting the poor duck's beak off. Jones' Daffy sees himself as self-preservationist, not selfish. However, this Daffy can do nothing right that does not backfire on him, singeing his tailfeathers as well as his dignity.
In fact, it is in the cartoons of Chuck Jones that this new, greedy Daffy becomes fully realized. Many critics consider Jones' Duck Amuck (1953) to be Daffy's (and Jones') finest cartoon. In it, Daffy is plagued by a godlike animator whose malicious paintbrush alters the setting, soundtrack, even Daffy himself. When Daffy demands to know who is responsible, the camera pulls back to reveal none other than Bugs Bunny. Duck Amuck is widely heralded as a classic of filmmaking for its illustration that a character's personality can be recognized independently of appearance, setting, voice, and plot. The short was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
After the Warner Bros. animation studio reopened in the 1960s, Daffy would become a true villain in several Speedy Gonzalez cartoons. The Warner Bros. studio was entering its twilight years, and even Daffy had to stretch for humor during the 1960s.
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The MKS unit of electric potential is the volt.
The same unit you see on light bulbs.
If a test charge q is placed where the electric potential is V, then its electrical potential energy is
Because the dependence on the test-charge has been divided out, the electric potential depends only on position.
It can be thought of as a property of space.
The difference between the potentials at two different points measures the work needed to move a unit charge between those points.
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TRINITY – WEEK 5 – SUNDAY
LESSON: LUKE 5:1-11
When they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish, and as their nets were breaking, they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. Luke 5:6-7
First of all, let us note here that those who believe in Christ will also have enough for their bodily needs. Christ attends to this matter here in supplying Peter and his partners with such a large number of fish, more than they would ever have dared to hope for.
We see here how Christ is genuinely concerned for the bodily welfare of His disciples. If only there were not so much accursed unbelief! Take the example of St. Peter in this Gospel. Look into his heart, and you will find that he did not reckon with the possibility of catching so many fish. But God intervenes here and brings the fish into the net in greater numbers than any of them had desired.
This example shows us that believers in Christ receive enough for their bodily needs. Unbelievers never have enough of anything. They never experience any real rest and are continually engrossed in the piling up of earthly possessions. This is how they become enmeshed in all kinds of harmful vices.
What Paul writes to Timothy is only too true: “Those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs” (1 Timothy 6:9-10).
SL 11:1304 (2-3)
PRAYER: You have given us the strongest of assurances, heavenly Father, that You will always watch over the needs of all Your children, even the needs of their bodies. Grant us the grace of contentment so that we always receive Your blessings with thanksgiving and with real benefit to ourselves and our neighbor, in and through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.
Editor’s note: No American Edition (AE) equivalent for today’s sermon excerpt exists at the time of this publication. For an alternate English translation of this sermon, see Lenker, Church Postil—Gospels, 4:131-140. | <urn:uuid:051e072a-dd96-4e9c-9bdf-58c8b44f7894> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lutherforthebusyman.org/index.php/podcast/trinity-wk5-sunday/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971668 | 509 | 2.484375 | 2 |
The rhetorical strength of The Twilight Zone lies in its rare but striking deviations from expectation. Just as a line in a strictly metered poem draws attention when it defies the established meter, thus garnering a stronger reaction from its reader, episodes of The Twilight Zone that seem to consciously reach outside of its established space have an increased potential for impact. The episode “Shadow Play” flirts with this technique in its closing narration:
But who ever thought that reality could be a dream? We exist, of course, but how, in what way? As we believe, as flesh and blood human beings, or are we simply parts of someone's feverish, complicated nightmare? Think about it, and then ask yourself do you live here, in this country, in this world, or do you live instead in the Twilight Zone? (Serling)
With this inquiry, Serling not only acknowledges the viewer but also dispels any notions that the Zone is distinct and removed from our reality. Audiences are encouraged to contemplate the Twilight Zone’s relationship to the world we consider home. This subtly places the events of the series in a different context, raising additional questions as to whether other episodes – perhaps the political allegories – could be reflecting or illuminating aspects of the non-Zone world as well.
Hints like the one “Shadow Play” pave the way for complications of ideology and ethics by complicating perceptions of reality. Once the viewer has begun to critically contemplate the gray areas of spatiality and cognition, they may be more receptive to the problematizing of other topics, even controversial ones. The episode “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” an analogy for Red Scare hysteria and its toll on American communities, ends with another, more targeted narrative statement:
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. (Serling)
A number of unexpected elements are working together to achieve Serling’s desired effect here. Though the residents of Maple Street voice their anxieties in ways clearly reflective of McCarthy and Cold War-era ideologies, no mention of – or even allusion to – nuclear weaponry is made until the closing narration. Characters are accused of spending late hours staring up at the stars or working on mysterious radios in their basements, all bearing implications of allegiance to extraterrestrial forces, but not to the Communist Party. The social commentary, then, comes not purely from allegorical parallels but from the creators of the show themselves.
In a rare instance, the Zone itself is secondary to the behaviors of its inhabitants. Though otherworldly invaders are revealed to be the perpetrators of the electrical anomalies, this is merely an afterthought, suggesting that the characters could have descended into frightened commotion even in the absence of an intercession from outside forces. The audience understands, then, that this was not a story that needed to take place within the Twilight Zone in order to be plausible, but perhaps is one that belonged to this space nonetheless because of its contentiousness. Serling is communicating that we should not allow personal prejudice and uninformed paranoia to eclipse our sense of humanity and empathy, a sentiment that – no matter how gently worded – could easily have resulted in accusations of communist sympathizing for Serling’s writing staff. Behind the veneer of generality and analogy, though, the episode aired successfully and became one of the most studied and iconic installments in the series.
Possibly the most outspoken message delivered within the uncanny bounds of the Twilight Zone appears in “I Am the Night, Color Me Black.” In this episode, a man is scheduled to be hanged at dawn for the murder of a bigoted neighbor. The townspeople are eager to deliver what they believe to be justice, and the condemned man is still seething with hatred despite the fact that the act was committed in self-defense. On the morning of his execution, however, the sun fails to rise. The town is trapped in darkness and though they carry out the hanging, the preacher speculates that the darkness is the physical manifestation of their mutual hatred: the townspeople’s vengeful bloodlust and the lack of repentance on behalf of the hanged man both. A radio transmission at the end reveals that the same darkness has descended upon other violently divided areas of the world, followed up by Serling’s monologue:
A sickness known as hate; not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ – but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone – look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether. (Serling)
With this closing imperative, Serling denies the audience the impersonality of allegory or the uncertainty of hypotheticals. Instead he delivers a plea that, once more, moves our understanding of the episode entirely beyond the Zone.
These events had to take place within the supernatural Twilight Zone in order for the darkness to become corporeal and thus communicate a foreboding warning, but the question of the rhetorical “so what?” still lingers once the twist has been revealed, and Serling’s narration answers it. This isn’t a generalization about all forms of hate, nor is it specifically refined to the characters in the episode. The audience is asked to apply the lessons vicariously learned to themselves, which simultaneously expands and specifies the proposed moral. By calling upon viewers to reflect critically upon their personal behaviors and predispositions, Serling is allowing individual interpretations of “hate” to guide their conclusion-making processes. At the same time, this also results in more relevant contemplations of social and political ethics, thus narrowing the scope of “hate” addressed, and making it more potent.
Although these episodes stand out as deviations from the show’s established structure, sometimes making the Zone itself conceptually secondary in order to achieve the desired effect, the setting of the show still plays a critical role in the delivery of rhetorical messages. The Zone is capable of providing a sense of security through vagueness at times, and cutting through the conceptual fog to reveal cultural criticism at others. As Masahiro Mori describes a figurative hiker traversing the uncanny valley, so must The Twilight Zone’s viewers be willing to expose themselves to the intimately unsettling depths of the valley in order to hopefully arrive at some summit of truth. This is fitting enough, considering that in the show’s opening, Serling informs us that the Zone “lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge” – or in other words, somewhere along the incline of a valley. | <urn:uuid:79e8a60d-03ee-4792-ba9a-683e8fc614e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scalar.usc.edu/works/index-2/rhetorical-messages-in-the-uncanny-valley.10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949636 | 1,451 | 2 | 2 |
College at 13 - Young, Gifted, and Purposeful
by: Razel Solow, Ph.D. and Celeste Rhodes, Ph.D.
What is it like to be 13 and going to college? Is such radical acceleration helpful or harmful? This book describes 14 highly gifted young women, now in their 30s, who left home to attend college at age 13 to 16, skipping all or most of high school. The authors describe what the women were like as young college students; the leadership, idealism, and sense of purposefulness they developed, and their lives 10 to 13 years later. This inspirational book will help educators and parents understand that gifted kids need academic challenge, that there are colleges with specific programs for such students, that it doesn’t harm them to leave home early, and that keeping them interested in learning is vitally important.
Length: 304 pages
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Who we are
sCORE is staffed and advised by researchers and practitioners at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Ph.D, Conservation Scientist, sCORE Co-Director
Kayri is the Medard and Elizabeth Welch Senior Director of Ecology and Conservation at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Her research interests include the effects of climate change on plant species, restoration genetics, pollination networks, ex situ conservation, and invasion biology. She is on the adjunct faculty of Loyola University, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois-Chicago. She chairs the Non-federal Cooperators Committee of the Plant Conservation Alliance and collaborates with a variety of academic institutions, agencies, and stewardship organizations to help improve conservation efforts for plants and plant communities.
PH.D, Director of Restoration Ecology, sCORE Co-Director
Andrea is the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Director of Restoration Ecology. Her research goals are to work collaboratively with land managers in the Chicago region to tackle priority questions related to the restoration and management of diverse and resilient native plant communities. This ranges from understanding why individual species aren’t germinating, establishing, or persisting at a site to investigating which management approaches are most likely to control aggressive species and support diverse plant communities. Andrea also oversees the Garden’s natural areas program and works with the team of ecologists who manage the Garden’s diverse natural areas. Through this work, she and the entire Garden team are dedicated to building sustainable partnerships and programs that advance equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in the field.
MS, Research Ecologist and sCORE Coordinator
Jacob Zeldin is a research ecologist and sCORE Coordinator at the Chicago Botanic Garden. His research interests are centered in plant community ecology with an emphasis on functional trait diversity, restoration, and rare plant conservation. He manages a micropropagation laboratory with the goal of propagating native plants to conserve and increase diversity of threatened and restoration relevant plant species in the Great Lakes region. Jacob works closely with academic and conservation partners, such as the Forest Preserves of Cook County, to improve restoration and conservation efforts in the region. Jacob also helps to mentor and provide ecological and statistical guidance to undergraduate and graduate students at Northwestern University.
PH.D., Conservation Scientist, sCORE Advisory Board Member
Sophie Taddeo is a sCORE advisory board member and conservation ecologist at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Her research focuses on the conservation and restoration of wetland plant communities in working landscapes. She also studies the diversity and ecosystem functions of plant communities in urban environments. She uses a variety of tools and techniques to understand factors shaping the diversity and resilience of wetland and urban ecosystems. Those include field work, spatial ecology, and remote sensing analyses.
MS, Managing Ecologist - Woodlands, sCORE Advisory Board Member
Matt Evans is a member of the sCORE advisory board. As the Woodland Restoration Technician at the Chicago Botanic Garden's Mary Mix McDonald Woods, he is emersed in ecological restoration every day. Matt employs an innovative mix of new tools driven by data and proven practices to investigate, better understand, and restore natural habitat. Matt works primarily in prairie, savanna, and oak ecosystems of the Midwest.
Graduate Student Researcher
Rory Schiafo is a PhD student in the Plant Biology and Conservation program at Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden. Rory is interested in the processes that influence community assembly and ecosystem functioning in restored woodlands and forests. Her research focuses on understanding how invasive species, land-use legacies, and management practice interact to influence the diversity and composition of plant communities.
PH.D, Postdoctoral Researcher, sCORE
Adrienne is a postdoctoral researcher with sCORE. With her research, she aims to bridge basic and applied ecology. She is especially interested in understanding how we can leverage community assembly and successional theory to improve restoration outcomes and land management more broadly.
Ecologist, sCORE Advisory Board Member
Jim Jabcon is a member of the sCORE advisory board and ecologist at the Chicago Botanic Garden. His management interests include woodland and prairie restoration with a focus on restoring natural communities into a functional and dynamic systems. He looks after the native seed nursery, helping to bulk seed collections to assist in establishing native plants. He uses his free time restoring a white oak savanna in his backyard, landscaping, and trying to keep up with his two boys.
Bianca is a programmer at the Chicago Botanic Garden, working with Plant Science and Conservation staff to develop a variety of web applications. Her passions include nerding about data management, designing intuitive applications, cooking, and removing garlic mustard from her garden. She is a graduate of the Computer Engineering program at Northwestern University.
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What are 3D Architectural Animation Services?
Unlike 3D renderings that are just still images with a single viewpoint, 3D architectural animation services provide often short movies that give a clear insight into a built project; except the project is still in design phase and all the building and it’s surrounding are modeled via computer-aided tools.
These computer tools help model an architectural project, the context it’s built on, and move through them to make an animation; all of which we will describe below.
Telling the story of your design
This short animation, created by 3D architectural animation services, can follow a process or a common scenario in a building you’ve designed. For instance it can capture the journey someone takes in a museum the production line in a factory. So architectural animation services are more than a just a glance into a moment of your hypothetical building; rather they tell a story.
Different levels of detail
3D architectural animations can exhibit the finished version of your building in great detail; or it could just give the plain impression required to introduce how a set of high-rises would sit in an urban setting. 3D Architectural Animation Services can cope, depending on how much detail the introduction of a project needs. Conceptual overviews of a project don’t warrant much detail and could best display the project with sketch-like models. Fully-modeled final representations of a project on the other hand, need to be detailed down to the smallest elements in construction.
Different views in 3D architectural animations
Depending on what you have in mind and what can best tell your story, different techniques are employed to film your modeled design. They’re mostly referred to as walk-through or fly-by demos.
Walk-through animations are mostly used to introduce relationships between the internal components of a building; often from human-level view. But fly-through demos are better to show how the building sits in its context and interacts with the urban fabric.
OutsourcePlan has been providing architecture firms, urban designers, and landscape architects with 3D Architectural Animation Services. Here we elaborate the procedure you as a client go through and the advantages that give us an edge. We then describe the tools we use to implement 3D architectural animations.
Start to Finish; How 3D Architectural Animation Services Work
The process our customers go through from the moment they contact our team, to when they are delivered the final 3D Architectural Animation Services, includes 8 steps. You should know that the client’s constant supervision drives implementation decisions through all these steps.
- Receiving the project’s initial documents from the client
- Presenting the project to our technical team and determining the client’s scope of corresponding services
- Presenting the cost, time, and required resources for implementing the project to the client
- Assigning the project to the corresponding teams
- Modeling the concept based on client’s preference, prior to the final simulation
- Creating 3D models out of 2D blueprints
- Adding material, texture, and lighting to the 3D model
- Presenting the client with the 3D model’s prototype and awaiting feedback
- Executing final editions and quality check
- Performing the final rendering
- Project delivery
What’s Different at OutsourcePlan
Our professional, collaborative teams of architects, graphic designers, and technicians will be available 24/7 to make sure you’re provided with the best 3D architectural animation services; hopefully as close as it can get to what you want your design to look like in real life.
Aside from our commitment to the work you lend us, we :
- World-class quality standards built on our client’s preference
- Professionally-trained team of experts with International work background
- Data protection through secure web-based channels
- Reasonable prices for high quality 3D animation services
- Scalability : we provide the most editable, scalable output
- Effective Team Dialogue with the Client for reaching the best output on the first go
- Attentive 24/7 Client Service
Tools We Use for 3D Architectural Animation Services
Here are some the most popular tools our teams use to implement your project :
Is widely-known for 2D construction documents. It is the most common tool for producing CAD-standard files. It is the one of the most common tools for 3D architectural animation services.
2. 3Ds Max
Is a mainstream software for architectural 3D modeling; but it can do a wide range of Architectural 3D visualization services like 3D mechanical and construction modeling, architectural rendering, and 3D walk-through and fly-through representations of a building. So it’s one of the main tools for 3D architectural animation services.
The name Revit is short for “Revise it”; meaning you can start modeling any building in as much detail as you like while being able to fully revise every element along the way and having the relevant pieces adjusted automatically. It practically allows us to make changes through our 3D architectural animation services up to the most fundamental scope possible.
It’s a much more than a geometric simulation environment in that it comprises architectural rendering tools, an extensive repository of building components, and the framework for any BIM-oriented project; So rather than just a building, you can simulate the construction process with all its time and cost requirements. Aside from 3Ds Max and Rhino, Revit can also provide powerful 3D architectural rendering services and animation visualizations of your design.
Is another 3D modeling software, that is more focused on applying BIM tools on your model. It helps deepen the visualization of your design down to the construction stages of your project; all of which could be visualized in 3d Architectural renderings, animations, and 3D animation services.
Is a NURBS-based modeling tool that facilitates the creation of curved forms. It responds to industrial engineers, jewel designers, architects, and a score of other fields. It has a vibrant supporting community and a great number of plug-ins for implementing complicated forms that are can not be done otherwise or at least with insurmountable effort. Some of our clients prefer to have their architectural drafting services done in Rhino, so we have a branch of technicians and drafters just for that. It is a tool we frequently use for 3D animation services.
Is a plug-in for Rhino that’s specifically developed for modeling parametric designs that are often based on an algorithm. It allows complicated algorithmically-generated patterns to be easily modeled, really fast.
Provides an easy way to model your 2D and 3D documents, similar to hand-drawn sketches. It also does 3D rendering services. SketchUp is best for creating renders and 3D animation visualizations with thin calculation load.
8. V-Ray (Chaos Group)
Is a powerful plug-in for a number of 3D rendering services like Rhino and 3Ds Max, that lets you create life-like 3D Architectural Visualization Services.
Is a rendering engine, providing real-life 3D architectural rendering services for architectural and industrial designs.
Is a simple, easy-to-use software for visualizing 3D models; it also has a broad stack of different material, lighting, and landscaping options. It has a significantly lower rendering time load comparing to Maxwell and V-Ray which comes at the cost of more animation-like renders rather than real portrayals. It is one of the fastest ways to create 3D visualizations.
11. Mental Ray
Is a 3D rendering software engine developed by Autodesk that fairly offers the same features as Maxwell but since it’s much more deeply integrated into Autodesk family, the transition of 3D model files would be more convenient.
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This is a description of how electrons REALLY behave, and more important than that, how CHARGES work. I also discuss how capacitors work.
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Spinal Lateral Recess Syndrome
A very common type of stenosis is lateral recess syndrome, which is a narrowing of the side of the spinal canal. Quite often a condition like a bone spurs, bulging or herniated disc is the root cause. Chronic pain and limited ability can keep you from doing everyday things so finding a treatment is vital.
When the nerve that travels along the spinal canal gets compressed, chronic symptoms can occur such as:
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CAD (computer assisted style software) happens to be a helpful a part of software program with regard to inside designers. Irrespective if you’re the custom manufacturer arranging a brand new location for that purchaser or maybe a person run within an professional style store, the program is really a useful as well as effective gadget which assists conserve inside makera??s cash as well as period.
CAD software program is actually computer-assisted, which makes it quicker as well as simpler compared to planning or even creating by hand. Instead of tearing upward record, massaging away sketches as well as continuously re-drafting, you’ll be able to modify your own plan with the click, helping you save trees and shrubs, period as well as cash! You will find various amounts of CAD style software program, you can buy fundamental software program for novices or even more sophisticated software program if you’re experienced using the style device. Exceptional CAD software program allows you to create gently thorough room applications, that ‘s the reason the program is really favored amongst significant inside merchants. An enormous home-promoting business may take advantage of CAD in order to strategy an easy cooking area within a couple of minutes permitting their own purchaser to find out exactly how their own cooking area is going to be — this particular increases customer guarantee producing a much better possibility of the actual purchase. With regard to stores, being conscious of their own customer could make changes on the style is really a essential advertising placement with regard to kitchen area places, areas or even washrooms.
Not just does it assist saving the actual store period as well as cash however the customer. For example, through viewing their own strategy within 3 dimensional about the computer, the client might get a good actual-existence feeling of the brand new space within real amounts, they might actually include furnishings, home appliances as well as their very own colour strategies. The moment the customer is totally, the actual store goes ahead with the building time period assured within being conscious of presently there defintely won’t be any kind of final-second modifications. It might price to train staff to utilize kitchen area planning software program however as soon as your own personnel happen to be competent, you’ll definitely end up being take advantage of higher earnings due to enhanced amounts associated with purchaser guarantee.
CAD software program signifies it’s styles along with complete precision, you should use the particular dimension of the space and it is home furnishings to make sure you are able to imagine your own completely new space precisely how it’ll appear. You’ll be able to proceed home furnishings near to with the click to operate by which furnishings seem best by which positioning. Customers that understand specifically exactly what their own brand new region might be such as in advance will most likely simply get it done with the purchase because they will be assured as well as pleased using their style within the exact meaning in the CAD software program. The program enables you to modify the tiniest particulars including as well as your individual products, the container round the worktop, or perhaps a lamp-shade about the bed room table, as well as lets you mess along with color methods to help you choose the actual style and design from the region as well as the practical elements.
It’s not hard to realize the important thing advantages of CAD style software program for that customer as well as store. The actual store includes a greater possibility of the purchase since the software program is really comprehensive as well as very easily modified, and also the client may adhere to the look procedure each and every action from the method so that they really feel reassured using the cash they’re shelling out for their own brand new space.
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USING A VPN IN AUSTRALIA
Using a VPN in any country is always highly recommended as now everyone has the internet on their phones and it is a part of their every day life. When you are on WIFI networks particularly public ones, hackers can sniff out your data packets and steal your information.
WHAT ARE DATA PACKETS?
A data packet is exactly as it sounds a packet of data that flows from your device back and forth to the internet, Data is broken down to packets and this process has been around since the space race in the late 1960’s. Hackers can sniff out the data packets of any other users on the same public WIFI networks as them and this can be very dangerous, as they can sniff out your banking passwords.
When you use a VPN, you connect to the internet via an end-to-end encrypted connection so that it is impossible for anyone to hack into your data streams.
Using a VPN is great not only for security but anonymity also. When you are online via a VPN, neither your ISP nor local government authority can see what you are doing online. This is great for those who want to download music and movies but for those who do truly believe in online privacy also. If you download when using a VPN, what you have downloaded is your eyes only and so you will not get any threatening letters form your ISP regarding downloading torrents. Also these torrent websites that are otherwise blocked will be unblocked once again so that you can download from them.
WATCHING TV ABROAD
Using a VPN when watching Television is a great way of being able to unblock say British TV apps when in Australia. This has been a popular pursuit with British expats for years and allows people to watch apps such as BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub and all other British and American TV apps. If you want to watch say Doctor Who outside of the UK, by far the bets way of doing this is on the BBC iPlayer service via a VPN.
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Aug 06, 2021
St. Bonaventure University was awarded a New York State Department of Labor grant to help create a talent pipeline for registered nurses in the region.
The St. Bonaventure University Underemployed Workforce Training Opportunity project is supported by a $200,000 state grant and will allow 10 associate prepared registered nurses residing in the Western New York region to achieve a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the university. The university will provide $120,900 in discounted tuition and fees to support the students.
Ten RN to B.S. in Nursing students will receive full tuition, fees, and supplies from this project opportunity with special focus given to veterans, single parents, and older individuals (55+).
“We are excited to use this grant funding to give back to nurses in our community who give to others every day,” said Connie Perkins, Ph.D., RN, founding director of the nursing program. “Giving nurses access to education is key to the health and future of our community and we are pleased to be part of that.”
St. Bonaventure’s RN to B.S. in Nursing program, completed in four semesters over two years, is an innovative way for registered nurses to earn a bachelor’s degree. All courses in the program are flexible and cater to working adults through weekly evening course instruction and overall hybrid format.
“This grant will generously provide both assistance and access to nurses who are in our community and will stay in our community,” said Doug Pisano, Ph.D., dean of the School of Health Professions at the university.
St. Bonaventure nursing students build upon essential nursing skills such as leadership, professionalism, collaborative care, and quality care while also learning about themselves as they work to become more emotionally intelligent providers. The program’s faculty also work to introduce technologically advanced concepts to students to build consumers of the future. The university’s program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
Students in the St. Bonaventure Underemployed Workforce Training Opportunity program will receive career development skills through program curriculum and through the university’s Career and Professional Readiness Center, as well as one-on-one nursing faculty advising and counseling. Business engagement opportunities will be provided to these students through lessons focusing on emotional intelligence throughout the program.
This training opportunity aligns with New York’s Regional Economic Development Councils and plans to prepare regional nurses to better care for our populations. Studies have concluded that having a workforce with bachelor’s prepared nurses decreased the odds of patient mortality and patient length of stay. Having a Bachelor of Science in Nursing also allows graduates to qualify for management positions.
The Cattaraugus-Allegany Workforce Development Board, Inc. will partner with St. Bonaventure on this project with referrals, support services and student recruitment.
For more information about the university’s RN to B.S. in Nursing program, visit www.sbu.edu/Nursing. To be considered for the grant, students must officially apply and complete an interview confirming they meet the grant criteria.
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Memory and Attention Control Processes
Hunter Ball, Assistant Professor
Dr. Ball’s research investigates the memory and attention control processes involved in the planning and coordination of future actions (i.e., prospective memory), maintenance of goal-relevant information (i.e., working memory), encoding and retrieval of information in long-term memory (i.e., episodic memory), and monitoring and regulation of one’s own cognition (i.e., metamemory). Within each of these domains, a central question concerns age-related changes in these processes.
Neural-Net Modeling and Decision Making
Daniel Levine, Professor
Dr. Levine's laboratory deals with both experimental and theoretical studies of decision making, cognitive-emotional interactions, and cognitive dissonance. Current research projects include:
- Simulated gambling tasks in which the participant has to decide between two alternatives that provide different probabilities of winning or losing different amounts of (virtual, not actual) money. Dr. Levine and his students look at the effects of various personality variables on gambling choices. They also consider the effect of how the alternatives are presented and how preferences are elicited.
- Studying how emotion contributes to perceived value of resources. Responses of the same participants are compared on two analogous tasks, both involving an unexpected loss after a sequence of gains. Preliminary results suggest the amount of time participants are willing to invest could differ between the two tasks.
- Studying different methods people use to reduce cognitive dissonance. Typically, cognitive dissonance studies assess the degree to which people will change relatively trivial attitudes or beliefs to be consonant with their behavior. However, when attitudes are particularly central to the person’s core identity, it is believed that they will use different methods to resolve cognitive dissonance than attitude change.
The laboratory also has a long-term goal of understanding how interactions among several brain regions (frontal lobes, amygdala, basal ganglia, etc.) contribute to emotionally-influenced decision making. To that end, the laboratory is involved in a collaborative project with a brain imaging laboratory at UT Southwestern to discern relationships between brain region activations and decision style on a probability maximization task. Also, the lab has a long history of pioneering work in brain-based neural network modeling of cognition and behavior (see Dr. Levine), and current modeling efforts are being integrated with the behavioral and physiological studies described above. For information about applying to work in Dr. Levine’s lab, contact him at email@example.com or 817-272-3598.
Matthew Robison, Assistant Professor
Dr. Robison's research examines some fundamental questions regarding the human cognitive system. He focuses largely on two core cognitive abilities: attention control and working memory. More specifically, his research tries to understand why people differ in these cognitive abilities. Why is it difficult for people to sustain and control their attention? How do our attention and memory systems interact to give rise to complex cognitive processes? He is particularly interested in determining what psychological and neural mechanisms that drive individual differences in cognitive ability. To answer these questions, he uses a combination of experimentation, psychophysiological measurement (e.g., EEG, pupillometry), and individual differences methods (e.g., factor analysis, linear mixed modeling, structural equation modeling).
If you are interested in helping conduct this research, please contact Dr. Robison! He is welcoming new undergraduate research assistants into his lab, and he will be accepting applications for Ph.D. students to begin in Fall 2022. Learn more at his website, https://www.utacamlab.com. | <urn:uuid:a64ddc1c-3651-480d-990c-6660b9db856b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uta.edu/academics/schools-colleges/science/departments/psychology/research/cognitive-psychology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.928444 | 799 | 2.1875 | 2 |
LAHORE, Pakistan, DEC. 20, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The director of the organization defending Asia Bibi says the Christian woman accused of blaspheming Mohammed needs medical care to ward off mental illness.
The Fides news agency reported the update given by Haroon Barkat Masih, international director of the Masihi Foundation, which seeks to protect the rights of Christians in Pakistan and is overseeing Bibi's legal and material assistance.
An international delegation from the Masihi Foundation met Bibi on Monday in the district prison in Sheikpura, where she has been for more than a year. They wanted to determine her condition, bring a word of hope and good wishes for Christmas, while the appeal process is still pending before the Lahore High Court.
A statement released by the foundation after visiting the prison reported that "because of her solitary confinement, Asia Bibi, 46, appears considerably older, has a pale complexion, she looks very frail, even unable to stand on her own."
"During the time spent with her, her eyes were not fixed at any one place at any time, she could not understand what was happening, she was completely confused and looked astonished," the statement continued. "During the whole conversation -- over 2 hours and 20 minutes -- her trail of thoughts were drifting."
"She reacted in mixed emotions, laughing, crying and going silent for long periods of time," the report added.
The visitors said Bibi was afraid to accept the water they offered her to drink, and that she had not been allowed to bathe for more than two months.
Nevertheless, Bibi told them she has forgiven those who accused her of blasphemy and only wants to return to her family.
The woman asked the Christians of the world "to continue to pray for her."
Haroon Barkat Masih echoed Bibi's own question of when she will be released.
"If Asia remains in isolation she is likely to risk mental illness that could seriously compromise her psychological equilibrium," the director said. "We ask authorities to immediately allow a team of doctors to visit her and give her treatment. [...]
"Recently, Pope Benedict XVI visited the prisoners in an Italian prison: We believe that, through his gesture, we have symbolically included all the prisoners in the world and even Asia Bibi, who will spend a sad Christmas, in solitude in a cell. We call on all Christians around the world to remember Asia Bibi to the Lord, on Christmas Eve, and to raise a prayer for her."
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President Emmanuel Macron of France begins his three-day visit to Africa Tuesday with a stop in Burkina Faso, before heading on to an African Union-European Union summit in Côte d’Ivoire and a visit in Ghana.
Macron plans to make African youth a priority, beginning at the University of Ouagadougou where he will address some 800 students. Analysts say it’s a strong sign that the French president is basing a new approach to African diplomacy that acknowledges the continent’s youthful future and the initiatives needed to secure it.
In August, Macron promised he was creating a Presidential Council for Africa, made up of business and civil society experts prepared to advise him on strategies and policy for the continent. Just before leaving, Macron showed off his team, seen in this image, and the time they’ve spent working on Africa. That team is traveling with him this week, the president said.
Yet developments since August, notably the Libyan slavery issue, and the ongoing conflict in the Sahel, promise to be at the forefront of the agenda in Abidjan and cast a shadow on what Macron may hope to achieve.
This is at least the third trip to African nations that Macron has made since taking office in May. He traveled to Mali immediately after he was elected, keeping a promise to visit French troops serving in Operation Barkhane. He returned to Bamako in July for a summit with G5 leaders in the Sahel and the launch of their security operation.
Macron also has hosted the leaders of Libya and Egypt, among others, since May. Previously, Macron visited Algeria while campaigning for office, and as France’s economic minister frequently met with leaders of Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, South Africa and elsewhere.
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The Bunnag Family: Thai People of Persian Decent
It is a fact that in the period of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, i.e. the early 17th century, Persian people migrated to Thailand. They were mainly traders and merchants. These people of Persian decent were referred to as ‘Khaek Ma-ngon’ (แขกมะหง่น) or ‘Shia Muslim’ which is ‘Khaek Chaosen’ (แขกเจ้าเซน) in Thai. Over the centuries, most of the Khaek Ma-ngon converted to Buddhism and were integrated into Thailand’s society.
The Bunnag family
Some of the Thai families of Iranian decent have been very influential in Thai public life. In this context, the Bunnag (บุนนาค) family is most well-known and established up until today. Their ancestor is Shaykh Ahmad Qomi who came as a merchant to Ayutthaya in 1602 and stayed in Thailand for 26 years.
The Bunnag family was acknowledged as a Siamese Royal Family in the early Rattanakosin period. They were most powerful in the 19th century. The first patriarch of the Bunnag, Akka Mahasena, was a close friend and confidant of Rama I who married five of Bunnag’s daughters as royal consorts. Thus, the Bunnag also influenced the succession in the Chakri dynasty. However, in the late 19th century the Bunnag’s power was restricted by King Rama V (Chulalongkorn).
The Bunnag daughters were royal consorts for centuries. Even during the time of King Chulalongkorn’s reign, the Bunnag sisters were concubines at the Royal Court. In this context, you may remember my article about Dara Rasami who was a Princess of Chiang Mai at the Siamese Court.
Dis Bunnag (Prayurawongse,1788–1855 ) was a son of Akka Mahasena. He was an important political figure and played a decisive role in the ascension of King Mongkut (Rama IV).
He became the kingdom-wide regent under King Monkut being granted the title of Somdet Chao Phraya Borom Maha Prayurawongse. One of his sons, Chuang Bunnag, became the regent for King Chulalongkorn.
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Bologna’s warm autumn has begun with three new occupations started on the 11.11 but local government promptly repressed two of them, clearing the protesters out of two the Sabin highschool and the Arcobaleno cinema.
In the morning of the 15.11 variuos police forces entered into the highschool courtyard threatening the students and forced them to leave the occupation. Students described local government decision as a very grave and worrying event. In solidarity with Sabin students, in the evening two other schools in town have been occupied.
On 16.11 at 6 am the Arcobaleno cinema occupation was also cleared. In the evening of the 15th, Timeout, a network of various grassroots movements united under the “Santa Insolvenza” (Saint Insolvency) logo, had a meeting with the city mayor, Virginio Merola, who did not give the occupants neither the permission to stay in the abandoned cinema nor the commitment to assign a new place. The occupants – students, activists and many common people – waited for the police while projecting movies and documentaries and playing music all night. During the four days of occupation the Cinema Arcobaleno became a centre of Bologna’s cultural life showing the capacity of local grassroots movements to reorganize a public space almost forgotten after five years of unfinished renovation works. Located in the very centre of the city, it was occupied to become a community cultural centre and to sustain the struggles for the right of insolvency. The occupants received variuos solidarity statements from the occupied Valle Theatre in Rome and from many italian intellectuals.
The mayor’s decision to assign a theatre to the Disobbedienti movement, which had started another occupation on 11.11, generated instead a bitter controversy and divisions among protesters. The Arcobaleno occupants accused the Disobbedienti of not sustaining a common struggle looking for their own advantages and using their proximity with the Sel (left-wing) party.
The students movement and the Santa Insolvenza followers affirmed that the struggle does not end. More rallies and protests are planned for today, the international students day. Meanwhile, in Bologna, two highschools and the humanities university continue to be occupied.
– text [it] Carabinieri at the Sabin Highschool during the occupation
– text [it] Cinema arcobaleno cleared out by police (Il Fatto Quotidiano)
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When a pregnancy ends due to miscarriage or stillbirth, the potential siblings of the infant may be experiencing some deep emotion. They have lost somebody, too. While you may be reeling with your own painful feelings, it's important that you give your children permission to grieve and give your loving support and understanding.
Parenting experts recommend a parent involve their children in preparing for the arrival of a new child. Assuming you have followed this advice, your child already felt an emotional bond to your pregnancy and the baby you carried. The loss of the infant is bound to bring feelings of distress, but also some curiosity. The best policy is for you to try and get your children to open up about their feelings in as honest a manner as possible.
Psychologists recommend asking your children open-ended questions that provide leeway for discussion. Be prepared to listen for as long as your child wants to speak. Your might want to ask questions like, "How do you feel about what's happened to the baby?" or "Is there something you'd like to do for the baby?"
It's important to give your child an honest account of what has happened to the baby. State the facts and try not to use euphemisms for death since these have a tendency to confuse children. For instance, avoid using phrases like, "We lost the baby," "the baby has gone on a long trip," or, "The baby is watching over our family, now."
Children are literal. It's much healthier to give them the sad news in a forthright manner. That means saying something on the order of, "The baby has died. Her heart no longer beats and her body can't work anymore. That means she isn't with us like she was. We will always remember her and feel our love for her, even so." These direct and plain-talking explanations are very helpful in getting your child to assimilate the sad facts, the first step in the grieving process.
Give your child a listening ear for any questions he may want to ask. The younger your child is, the more likely it is that he will need to ask you the same questions many times. Every time you repeat your responses, his understanding deepens. It might be very painful for you to have to address the same topic again and again, but this is something important you must do for your child. Your honesty, patience, and openness are integral to his ability to cope with the difficult concept of loss.
Sometimes, the grieving process is so deep that you feel your child needs more help than you can provide. Such help may come from other family members, close friends, social workers, teachers, or mental health care professionals. Here are some of the signs that your child may need some extra assistance in getting through the grieving process:
*He acts as though nothing happened
*His grades start to fall and he fears going to school
*He talks about suicide
*Seems very anxious
*Acts out with violence toward people or animals
*Poor interaction with the family
*Shows signs of drug or alcohol abuse
*Performs delinquent acts
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A popular facet of science fiction may soon become a reality with American military researchers currently looking to create "super soldiers" who can live without food and sleep and regrow their limbs thanks to genetic manipulation.
"It may be seen as blue-sky thinking but it has teeth and plenty of money behind it," the Daily Express quoted Novelist Simon Conway, who was given unprecedented access to Washington's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as saying.
With funding of almost 2 billion pounds-a-year DARPA, established in 1958 after the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik shocked America, is working on an exoskeleton that will allow soldiers to run faster and lift heavy weights.
"If you can efficiently convert fat into energy you don't need to feed your soldiers as often," Conway said.
"So you can send them into battle in remote areas plump and they live off their own fat.
"It is all about improving efficiency of energy creation in the body. Soldiers would be able to run at Olympic speeds, carry large weights and go without sleep and without food," he said.
The agency is also working out how to trigger cells to regrow limbs for soldiers, who are crippled by bombs.
"There is already a drug that allows people to shut off the trigger to sleep," Professor Joel Garreau, of Arizona State University, said.
"It was tested by the US army on helicopter pilots. They found that, after 40 hours, pilots actually had better concentration levels than if they'd rested.It is much better than amphetamines, which affect decision making and have led to many so-called friendly fire incidents," he said.
He confirmed that the agency was experimenting with turning fat to energy.
"The problem is that a Special Forces soldier burns 12,000 calories a day. You can't eat that much. Finding that metabolic switch would wipe out the 40 billion pounds diet industry in a heartbeat," Garreau said.
He said that the project to regrow limbs is being taken seriously.
"There are well-documented cases of young children losing a finger and it grows back.
"The trick is how to identify the trigger. Now it's a well-funded area of research," he added. | <urn:uuid:61d1e590-f458-41c6-adb0-b823ef3e7ba2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.medindia.net/news/american-researchers-hoping-to-bring-super-soldiers-out-of-science-fiction-105472-1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.980545 | 466 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Fruit juice has been falling out of favor for its high sugar content and low nutritional value. Now parents have another reason to pull the plug: heavy metals.
According to a study released Wednesday by Consumer Reports, measurable levels of cadmium, inorganic arsenic, mercury or lead were found in every single one of the 45 juice products it tested from major brands sold across the U.S. Almost half of the juices had metal levels so high they were deemed “concerning,” with seven of the products posting heavy metal concentrations high enough to harm children who drink as little as 4 ounces -- about half a cup -- a day.
"The risks we assessed were all due to chronic exposure -- persistent, daily intake over an extended period of time," James Dickerson, Consumer Reports' chief scientific officer, said in an interview. Whether you're an adult or a child, "it's a good idea to try to reduce the amount of non-refrigerated, ready to drink juice."
To be fair, it would be impossible to remove all heavy metals from food and drinks, since some can occur naturally, Dickerson said. Toxins can find their way into foods through water, air and soil, or they can be added unintentionally at manufacturing plants or in product packaging. In some of the juices tested, the level of a single metal wasn't concerning, but combined, they could have an adverse effect on children's developing brain and nervous systems, the report said.
Organic juice, or juice marketed for children, isn't necessarily safer: Neither group performed any better than other juices, Consumer Reports found. In general, grape juice and juice blends had the highest average heavy metal levels, the report said.
Certain juices from Minute Maid, R.W. Knudsen, Gerber, Welch's, Mott's and Juicy Juice were listed as potentially risky at either a cup or half cup a day. Some in-house juice brands from Trader Joe's, Walmart, CVS Health Corp. and Whole Foods were also found to be potentially harmful, although some of these same companies -- including Whole Foods, Juicy Juice, Gerber, Minute Maid and Mott's -- also had juices listed on the "better alternatives" list.
"All Welch's juice is safe and strictly complies with all food safety regulations for juice -- in the United States and in other countries around the world," Jackie Lee, senior manager of brand engagement for Welch's, said in an email. "Naturally occurring elements such as lead and arsenic are present in the soil, air and water. Therefore, they are also found in very low, harmless levels in many fruits and vegetables. Ongoing third-party testing shows that heavy metals in our products are far below federal limits."
Gerber, owned by Nestle, said it uses "some of the most precise analytical equipment and test methods available" to carry out regular tests. The company works with farmers to reduce and limit contaminants, and its juices "meet our rigorous safety and quality standards, which are based on the latest food safety guidance from sources like the Food and Drug Administration and international health authorities," the company said in an emailed statement. Gerber said it doesn't sell products that don't comply with its safety standards.
The other companies did not respond to requests for comment. The Juice Products Association, a trade group representing the industry, said it hasn't received a copy of the study from Consumer Reports, making it impossible to respond to specific findings.
"Juice producers make safety a priority 365-days-a-year, and believe the concerns cited by Consumer Reports' intermittent testing of selected products are unfounded. Consumers can be assured that juice is safe," the association said in an emailed statement. "Regardless of where the ingredients are sourced or where the juice is processed, all juice producers are required to manufacture products that comply with FDA regulations."
That's part of the problem, according to Consumer Reports: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn't have a proposed limit for cadmium in juice and hasn't finalized the one it's proposed for inorganic arsenic in apple juice. Consumer Reports also says the FDA's guideline for lead is too high. The FDA didn't immediately reply to a request for comment.
In general, juice consumption has gone down in the U.S., but companies have had a hard time developing substitutes to juice that kids want to drink. Juice has a lot of sugar, and almost none of the beneficial fiber that whole or frozen fruit contain.
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In the last two years, the Kiên Giang province has widened its efficient models of rice and aquatic species farming. More specifically, low yield rice growing has been shifted to aquatic species breeding. Additionally, farmers also rotate the farming, i.e., cultivating rice in the rainy season and breeding shrimp in the dry season, to enhance incomes. These models help to adapt to climate change and rising sea levels.
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Why does it take so long to rebuild Lytton?
When the city of Paradise, California burned down in 2018, residents were allowed to return home on their own after six weeks. So why did it take Lytton so long?
A Transportation Safety Board investigation that found that a train was not to blame for the fire that consumed Lytton prompted dozens of villagers to demonstration along a railroad track outside of town. Online, hundreds of people have signed a petition calling for a new federal investigation, which includes resident witnesses.
But for others, bigger questions loom. Three and a half months after the devastating fire, residents are far from returning home.
“They are scattered all over the place. They are still displaced, ”explains Edith Loring-Kuhanga, administrator of the Stein Valley Nlakapamux school, located about five kilometers from the city.
Loring-Kuhunga, who lost her home when fire ravaged downtown Lytton on June 30, now spends most of her time in Victoria, returning to Lytton whenever she can find an available Airbnb rental.
She says access to her properties and those of other villagers has been extremely limited.
“The only time we were able to go back was when we sifted through the ashes to see if there were any memories,” she told Glacier Media.
The residents, she adds, were to be accompanied by volunteers from organizations such as Christian Aid Ministries and Team Rubicon, which was due to complete its work this week, according to a written update from the village of Lytton.
Loring-Kuhunga says she had an opportunity to see her house burned down on September 10.
“We cannot go in alone. They sort it out and we keep an eye on it, ”she explains. “Everyone is trying to sift through their homes before winter and destroy what’s left.”
“This is why we are so frustrated.”
When Loring-Kuhunga evacuated on the day of the fire, she fled to the school where she works to help set up an emergency assembly post. About 200 people initially took refuge there.
She says that in downtown Lytton, where the fire is said to have destroyed 90% of the city, the majority of the population is elderly.
“I’m worried about them. They are (elderly) people over 75 years old. They are still displaced. How are they going to cope?”
A SLOW RESPONSE FROM THE GOVERNMENT?
In the first days after Lytton’s evacuation, the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) donated part of its offices in Kamloops to the mayor and village council. TNRD board chairman Ken Gillis said the regional body was doing all it could to help.
But when it comes to getting people back home and rebuilding the city, he says it ultimately depends on the village and the provincial authorities.
“I know there have been problems for a while,” he says. “There seems to be a certain disconnect between the city and the provincial authorities who are dealing with this – bringing people home.”
A spokesperson for Emergency Management BC (EMBC) said affected communities were behind the recovery from the wildfires. Advice, expertise and dedicated resources are provided at the request of communities like Lytton.
In Lytton’s case, that means providing money to hire numerous positions to help with the recovery, including a re-entry manager to coordinate ash screening, debris removal and critical infrastructure work.
“This team works daily with the village and Lytton First Nation on recovery planning, providing advice and support,” EMBC spokesperson Jordan Turner said in an email.
Turner says EMBC is still providing emergency support services to people who have lost their primary residence or are on evacuation orders. He says the province also made a formal request for help from the federal government through disaster financial assistance deals on July 29 and is awaiting a response.
This week, the village of Lytton announced that all insurance assessments have been completed. The Insurance Bureau of Canada says residents of the village have suffered insured claims worth $ 78 million.
Burnt trees are still pruned and removed from the village, and Interior Health is working with a company to restore the water.
Meanwhile, security fencing and 24-hour surveillance are still in place around the burnt down properties, according to the village. Once the cleanup is complete, the village says the survey will reestablish the property lines.
A spokesperson for the Fraser Basin Council said it is looking to refine a plan for a safe return to the village within the next week. This plan, says Denise Hoskins, includes the disposal of toxic debris, temporary accommodation on site and the provision of essential services.
Glacier Media has contacted Lytton Mayor Jan Polderman, but has not received a response.
WHEN PARADISE BURNT IT TAKEN SIX WEEKS TO RETURN
June’s record-breaking heat wave propelled Lytton into the international spotlight. The village set and reset Canada’s all-time temperature record for two consecutive days, now at a scorching 49.3 ° C.
When the devastating fire swept through the city the next day, Steve Crowder took note.
In 2018, Crowder was appointed advisor to Paradise, Calif. Two days later, the 180,000 acre campfire burned down paradise, destroying 95% of homes and leaving 27,000 people with nothing.
“I left my house that day with [the] clothes on my back, and that was it, ”he said.
The mayor quickly contacted his counterpart in Lytton. Soon her community had gathered $ 11,000 in gift cards to distribute to residents – gift cards, according to Crowder, were a lifeline when her community was decimated.
While in another jurisdiction under a different set of laws and expectations, the Paradise experience offers valuable insight into how quickly a community can return home after a devastating wildfire.
In the weeks following the Paradise fire, the California mayor said hundreds of thousands of gift cards had been handed out at an emergency center housed in an old Sears building. City council and staff, The Salvation Army and other government and nonprofit groups came together to distribute aid.
“There were only wall-to-wall people,” he says.
For six weeks, the city was shut down as emergency and recovery personnel cleaned up debris, burned trees and downed power lines and searched for bodies. In the end, 85 people died in the Paradise fire. After six weeks, residents returned home to sift through what was left of their belongings.
When they went to town, they had to show some ID to prove that they lived there. Residents were given protective suits – think light HAZMAT suits – and were given a curfew at 8 p.m.
“They could stay all day if they wanted. We had no restrictions,” Crowder recalls.
Yet, he adds, people were yelling at officials, saying six weeks was not fast enough. When asked if he could have kept people away for the three and a half months that the residents of Lytton endured, he was unequivocal: “There is no way.”
“It’s a long time to make it sure.”
EMBC’s Turner said sorting of debris should be done under supervision “to ensure the safety of residents and compliance with [WorkSafeBC] procedures. Turner notes that the screening is expected to be completed “shortly” and has already been completed for the Lytton First Nation.
Back in Lytton, a delayed return isn’t the only thing regarding Loring-Kuhunga.
The school administrator says she and other residents understand the colossal task of rebuilding a town, but hold the mayor and the three councilors to account.
“They can’t even hand out $ 30,000 in gift cards given to evacuees after the fire. We still haven’t received them. So how are they going to rebuild?” she questions.
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Care Extender Program at UCLA
The Care Extender Program provides opportunities for volunteers to experience Health Care, from a clinical perspective, through patient contact and volunteer involvement. Care Extenders gain first-hand experience on the role of healthcare providers by volunteering in various departments throughout the medical centers. Care Extenders are trained to assist Medical Center staff, who, in turn, are able to share their personal experiences with their volunteers. Time spent in the program proves invaluable because it provides each Care Extender with "in-the-trenches" experience in a real hospital setting. Care Extenders are respected as professional members of a patient care team. As a result, they gain an insider's understanding of the operations of the hospital - an experience which helps them determine their specific course for future studies.
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Advisor: Pamela R Cysner
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Sometimes it’s hard to keep your online personal training clients motivated, what have you done lately to increase motivation and give your online clients a little push? When was the last time you took a look and reviewed their initial goal setting? Maybe it’s time to check in with their short and long term goals – are they on track to meet these goals? Are they struggling to get over a specific obstacle?
Are all the initial goals set out for your clients revolved around aesthetics (i.e. dropping body fat, increasing muscle mass, or weight loss etc.)? Perhaps it’s time to add in a few more goals based around performance/training.
When trying to lose body fat it is easy to get frustrated when not seeing constant progress because progress comes in waves; however, to avoid that downward spiral of frustration and decreased motivation, challenge your clients in another way to take their minds off those aesthetic goals for a little bit.
Here are some examples of how challenges can get your clients to strive for progress and remain motivated. Challenge clients in a way that kind of distracts their focus from their long term weight loss goals:
1. Fitness related Challenge
This could be something in their program that they have found difficult, such as push ups or squats, for example. If you have a client who has had difficulty performing push ups off their toes then challenge them to this. Offer some kind of incentive if they take a video of themselves performing 5 push ups off of their toes. Make sure you tell them to track their challenge in Trainerize so you can monitor and follow their progress. If they have trouble getting low enough with good form in their squats, give them directions on how to improve their squat technique and then ask for a video as proof once they are able to do it properly.
2. Food Challenge
Challenge your clients to track their food (macronutrient) intake everyday for a month in one of many food tracker smartphone apps based on the specific macronutrient goals you have set out for them; if they hit their “macros” six days a week offer an incentive. You could also challenge them to create one new clean recipe each week and send you a picture of their creation for a month or two.
3. Building Their Support System
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These challenges should be different and more client specific than the challenges you send out to all of your online training clients, as this will help your client feel more individually motivated and like you actually care about their success in your program.
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WASHINGTON — Wheat flour production (including durum) in January-March 2015 totaled 103,116,000 cwts, down 0.7% from the first quarter of 2014. The 2015 figure was included in the first Flour Milling Products report issued May 1 by the by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The 2014 figure was based on data gathered by Veris Consulting, Inc., on behalf of the North American Millers’ Association and subsequently extrapolated by Milling & Baking News to encompass the entire U.S. flour milling industry.
Although NASS, NAMA (as interpolated) and earlier Census statistics are strictly not comparable, initial indications suggest they are close enough to provide meaningful comparisons. In addition to first-quarter 2015 flour data, NASS also published production data for the final two quarters of 2014, allowing for side by side comparisons with the NAMA figures.
The 24-hour milling capacity in January-March was estimated by NASS at 1,602,000 cwts, just shy of the previous old Census record and up 1,000 cwts from NASS estimates for the third and fourth quarters of 2014. The interpolated NAMA daily milling capacity was 1,559,000 cwts in January-March 2014. Census showed 1,539,000 in the first quarter of 2011.
Based on available NASS data, six-day grind in the first quarter was 84.7%, off from 87.9% in October-December and 86.7% in July-December. NAMA numbers suggest 87.6% a year ago. The Census in the first quarter of 2011 was 85.5%. | <urn:uuid:74119a89-7c0a-4d12-ac92-8a59f1213d19> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bakingbusiness.com/articles/28771-initial-nass-data-suggest-january-march-flour-output-down-from-year-ago | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96308 | 356 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Integrated engineering workstations in electrical engineering laboratories
This paper provides a description of integrated engineering workstations (IEW’s) used in undergraduate electrical engineering laboratories. The IEW’s are used for the design, analysis, and testing of engineering systems. Examples of laboratory experiments and software programs are presented.
IEEE Transactions on Education
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Historian Ian Reifowitz on How the Race-Baiting Invective of Rush Limbaugh on the Obama Presidency Led to TrumpHistorians/History
tags: Ian Reifowitz, Race, Obama, interview, Trump, Rush Limbaugh
Robin Lindleyis a Seattle-based writer and attorney, and the features editor of the History News Network (hnn.us). His articles have appeared in HNN, Crosscut, Salon, Real Change, Documentary, Writer’s Chronicle, Billmoyers.com, Alternet,a nd others. He has a special interest in the history of conflict and human rights. His email: email@example.com.
Ultimately, the right wing needs white racial anxiety. In fact, it cannot survive without it.
Ian Reifowitz, The Tribalization of Politics
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America—the first African American to attain this exalted office. Hundreds of thousands crowded the National Mall during the ceremony to wish the new president well.
However, rather than offering the president words of encouragement and congratulations, voices from the far right almost immediately expressed the hope that President Obama would fail and serve no more than one term. He had inherited a faltering economy, a war, a country still divided by race and other vexing issues, while the right-wing media labeled him as anti-American and unpatriotic, as a black president who would please his constituents of color to the detriment of white citizens.
Popular far-right talk radio host Rush Limbaugh was one of the most vociferous voices, and was the one with the largest audience. He uttered unceasing, racially-charged attacks on President Obama virtually every day of his two terms in office.
Historian Ian Reifowitz examines Limbaugh’s hateful invective and American political polarization in his new book, The Tribalization of Politics: How Rush Limbaugh’s Race-Baiting Rhetoric on the Obama Presidency Paved the Way for Trump (Ig Publishing).
To better understand the attacks on President Obama, Professor Reifowitz took on the daunting task of analyzing the transcripts of Limbaugh’s radio shows and associated materials from the Obama years. As a result, Professor Reifowitz has documented the manifold instances of Limbaugh’s hateful race-baiting and “othering” of the president. And Limbaugh has profited greatly as a leader in sparking white fear of racial peril.
The book traces the election of Donald Trump and the recent rise in white supremacist activity to the incendiary language of racism that the right-wing relies on to win politically. Historian Keri Leigh Merritt commented that The Tribalization of Politics is “is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how the US has reached its lowest point in race relations since the Civil Rights Movement.”
Professor Reifowitz teaches history at Empire State College of the State University of New York. His other books include Imagining an Austrian Nation: Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Search for a Multiethnic Austrian Identity, 1846-1919, and Obama’s America: A Transformative Vision of Our National Identity. He has published a number of academic articles in the Journal of Jewish Identities, Nationalities Papers, and East European Quarterly, among others. Professor Reifowitz is also a contributing editor at Daily Kos, and his articles have appeared in the Daily News, Newsday, The New Republic, In These Times, Truthout, Huffington Post, and others. His awards include the 2009 Susan H. Turben Award for Scholarly Excellence, and the 2014 S.U.N.Y. Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activities.
Professor Reifowitz graciously responded to a series of questions in an email exchange on his work and his new book.
Robin Lindley: You’re a historian specializing in the modern history of the United States. How did you decide to study history, and then to focus on the American past?
Professor Reifowitz: I’ve always, since I was in college (too many years ago) been interested in multiethnic societies, and specifically how they work to create ‘national’ bonds across lines of ethnicity to bind together their diverse population.
My graduate study, which led to my first book and other early academic publications, focused on Austria-Hungary. That state tried and failed to create strong enough national bonds, i.e., bonds based on citizenship in and loyalty to a common state, that would have allowed it to survive World War I and the overthrow of the Habsburg dynasty. Even while pursuing that research, I’d also been reading and thinking about another multiethnic society, the one we live in, that faces some of the same issues (thankfully, we don’t have to rely on a monarchy as the foundation of our unity).
Eventually, my passion for understanding how unity and diversity were playing out today drove me to begin writing and researching the contemporary U.S. I published a couple of articles in The New Republic, and later in other outlets, and began to read more deeply and develop my ideas further. Then along came Barack Obama. I wrote my previous book, Obama’s America, in which I examined his conception of American national identity, one that incorporates pluralism and inclusiveness into a strong, unifying vision of national community that, one would hope, Americans of every background could adopt.
Robin Lindley: How did you come to write about Rush Limbaugh’s race-baiting rhetoric in the Obama Era? Did the project grow out of your past research for Obama’s America?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: To continue the story from above, one section of Obama’s America examined critics (mostly on the right, but a few to Obama’s left) who criticized Obama’s vision of American national identity. I had spent some pages examining Rush Limbaugh’s rhetoric from the first couple of years of Obama’s presidency, and that had energized me (albeit with a sort of dark energy, compared to the more uplifting work of looking at Obama’s writings and speeches).
Then, in the summer of 2015, the idea came to me for another book, and I thought: why not do a comprehensive, close examination of everything Limbaugh said about the Obama presidency. I put together a proposal, started the work in late 2015 and kept up the research until Obama left office, and then started writing. In the meantime, of course, Trump had emerged and been elected. Trump’s campaign and then victory helped me decide to focus the book on Limbaugh’s race-baiting, both in order to document it in a comprehensive way for people, and to draw parallels between what he was doing—playing and preying on white anxiety—and what Trump did in his campaign (and, to be sure, for years beforehand, starting with his own incendiary, racist rhetoric about the Central Park Five and right up to him claiming the mantle of birther-in-chief).
Robin Lindley: You address our current political “tribalization” by focusing on Limbaugh’s rhetoric. In your view, what is tribalization, and how does it affect our politics now?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: I’ll give you the definition I used in the book’s introduction rather than come up with something off the top of my head.
“Tribalization refers to a transformation much more profound than merely convincing Americans to be partisans who vote based on a shared set of policy preferences. It means cleaving America in two, and, in the case of Limbaugh, creating a conservative tribe animated somewhat by political ideology, but more so by racial and cultural resentment that feeds a hatred of the opposing tribe."
Robin Lindley: This new Limbaugh project had to be daunting and possibly distasteful to you in view of your past research on President Obama and your favorable view of his efforts to unite our diverse nation. How did you feel as you put your book together?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: Well, I did mention above that I felt a different kind of passion motivating me on this project compared to the Obama book. But I have to admit that, once I got deep into the research, there were times when I wished I hadn’t committed to the project. There were plenty of times that I didn’t want to read through another word of Limbaugh.
I guess my stubborn streak helped. I wasn’t going to abandon a project that I’d already invested so much time and energy in, and certainly wasn’t going to do so because Limbaugh’s rhetoric was hard to stomach. I hoped I was doing something important, that could make some connections that would help people better understand where our politics has gone in the past few years.
Robin Lindley: What was your research process for your new book?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: I went to RushLimbaugh.com and read through the transcripts for every show he did during the eight years Barack Obama was president, which he thoughtfully published free of charge. To be honest, if the transcripts didn’t exist, I don’t know that I could have done the research by listening to the audio recordings. That might have been too much. Thankfully I didn’t have to find out.
I also read secondary sources on contemporary politics, in particular on matters of race and identity. After I started focusing on the connections between Limbaugh and Trump, I read political science scholarship on public opinion in 2016, which documented how white anxiety and resentment correlated with votes for Trump both in the primary and general election, and I incorporated that information into my analysis.
Robin Lindley: What did you learn about Limbaugh’s origins?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: I read some about his rhetoric in early years, how he had used racist language even before making his turn toward talking full-time about politics in the 1980s. But the focus of the book is on what he said about Obama, which spoke for itself. To clarify, I don’t care if he actually believes what he’s saying, because the effect his words have is the same whether he’s just a cynical opportunist or a true believer. I’m not especially interested in his motivations.
Robin Lindley: How did you come to focus on Limbaugh in your book. You see Limbaugh as a major force in dividing the US during the Obama era, but other potent Obama detractors included the current president, Senator Mitch McConnell and much of the Republican Party, Fox News, the Tea Party, and others. How would you weigh Limbaugh’s influence, if possible?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: My background, in terms of the kind of work I do, focuses on analyzing political rhetoric. Limbaugh was the person whose rhetoric I chose to examine because he broadcasts about two hundred shows a year, so there would be essentially no important issue relating to the Obama presidency that he would not address. Plus, he had the largest radio audience in the country throughout all eight years Obama was president (and decades before as well, and even in the years since up through the most recent month).
I used him as a case study—where the biggest part stands in for the whole of the right-wing media. The transcripts helped as well, as it would be impossible to read every word broadcast on, say, Fox. This way, I had a closed, yet comprehensive, set of data to use as my source base.
Robin Lindley: Thanks for explaining your process. Do you see Limbaugh as an ally of white supremacist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazis?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: His show helps push sanitized versions of some of their ideas into the mainstream. The views he expresses are not the same as the views of the KKK or American Nazis, but he taps into some of the same hate and fear that they do. I don’t think that makes him an ally, but more like an enabler.
Robin Lindley: How did Limbaugh view Senator Obama before he was elected in 2008?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: I didn’t look at the pre-inauguration rhetoric in a comprehensive way, but from what I saw nothing changed on Election Day.
Robin Lindley: How did Limbaugh usually describe President Obama?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: You want the whole book in a nutshell? Here’s a brief summary from the book:
“While Obama was president, Limbaugh constantly, almost daily, talked about him using a technique that scholars call “racial priming”—in other words, he race-baited. The host aimed to convince his audience that Obama was some kind of anti-white, anti-American, radical, Marxist, black nationalist, and possibly a secret Muslim to boot. This was neither a bug nor a supporting element of Limbaugh’s presentation, but instead stood as a central feature deployed strategically in order to accomplish a very specific task, a task reflected in the title of this book. The tribalization of politics is exactly what Limbaugh set out to achieve.”
I’ll add: “[Limbaugh] portrayed him in a way designed to exacerbate white racial anxiety about a black president, or depicted him as a foreign “other,” outside the bounds of traditional Americanness.”
Robin Lindley: How did Limbaugh exploit Islamophobia and the fear of immigrants to attack President Obama?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: He repeatedly sought to portray Obama as some kind of “secret Muslim” or somehow more sympathetic to Muslims—even terrorists—than to Christians and/or the interests of the United States. On immigrants, I’ll give you the following example:
“On July 1, 2015, two weeks after Trump’s infamous comments [made during his announcement that he was running for president] about Mexican immigrants being rapists and bringing drugs into the United States, a woman named Kathryn Steinle was shot and killed in San Francisco by Jose Inez Garcia Zarate [an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record].
“. . . On the campaign trail, Trump pounced, and Limbaugh followed suit a few days later. On July 7, in comments designed to inflame white racial resentment, the host claimed that Steinle’s name would “never be as well-known as Trayvon Martin,” and that the president would not deliver the eulogy at her funeral, even though Obama had not delivered a eulogy at the funeral of Martin or any other citizen killed by police. Obama did, however, speak at the memorial service for the five Dallas police officers murdered a year later….Limbaugh speculated that the president did not care about Steinle’s murder, and blamed it on the administration’s immigration policies, which were “coming home to roost”—this was a phrase uttered by Reverend Jeremiah Wright that was discussed so often on Limbaugh’s show. The host again talked about Obama hating America and wanting to alter its “composition” in order to change “the face of the country.”
Limbaugh attacked the president over Steinle on three more shows over the next week. On July 15, 2015, the host contrasted Obama not having contacted the Steinle family to his having written letters to forty-six felons whose sentences he commuted, and to his outreach to the family of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Limbaugh’s point was to remind his listeners that Obama cared more about prisoners (read: black and Hispanic people) and black people killed by cops than a white woman who was murdered by someone here illegally. If there’s one segment that both encapsulates Limbaugh’s tribalizing history of the Obama presidency, and shows how his race-baiting rhetoric set the way for the rise of Trump, this was it.
Robin Lindley: How did President Obama respond to Limbaugh’s attacks, particularly in terms of dealing with claims that he was pro-Muslim, anti-police, and anti-white?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: He basically ignored them, but I did not examine Obama’s responses comprehensively.
Robin Lindley: Limbaugh attacked President Obama almost daily during his eight years in office. For Limbaugh, it seems that the ideals of equality, tolerance, democracy, community, and serving the common good are anathema and, indeed, anti-American. What is your sense of Limbaugh’s view of these ideals?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: He would pay lip service to most of those ideals in the abstract, while attacking Obama and other liberals for seeking to change the traditional definition of them to something involving retribution and reparations that would take from whites and give to non-whites. He would turn any criticism of racial inequality in America back around and argue that the problem of racism in America stemmed from people overexaggerating it. For example, on July 25, 2013, Limbaugh “accused “the left” of wanting “race problems” to remain unsolved, and in fact wanting to make them worse. Why? Because “too many people make money off of racial strife, and therefore they’re always going to promote it.” Here’s a quote from May 26, 2010, about Obama and liberals in general: “everything’s about race. Everything is about skin color to these people, or however they classify people, however they seek to group them, whatever, they’re victims.” This is how he viewed racism in America.
Robin Lindley: Beyond Limbaugh, what are some things that you learned about the massive right-wing media misinformation machine?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: I didn’t do too much with them, because they do generally move in lockstep. I did note in the book that in the summer of 2018, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham on Fox News echoed Trump’s language of white anxiety regarding immigration and demographic changes. Limbaugh had spoken similarly as well during the Obama presidency, which I documented in greater depth.
Robin Lindley: Were there any particular findings that surprised you as you researched and wrote your book?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: Nothing really surprised me in terms of ideology, Rush pretty much delivered exactly what I expected when I started the research. I was already pretty familiar with his bile. However, when I came across Limbaugh’s comments connecting Tiger Woods and his sex-related scandals involving white women to Obama—which suggested that the president might be involved in something analogous based on little more than the fact that both were multiracial guys with a similar skin tone—that was something beyond even what I had expected. There were also a few times, at least until I got used to it, when I was surprised by how baldly Limbaugh just lied about facts and statistics, in particular regarding the economy. Either he really didn’t understand them, which is not likely to be true because he didn’t manipulate them to make President Trump look bad—only President Obama—or he just thought lying was the right thing for him to do.
Robin Lindley: Limbaugh wasn’t new to exploiting race to divide Americans. In fact, that’s been a Republican strategy for decades. What did you find about how Republicans use race to their political advantage?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: I wrote this in the book: “As journalist Dylan Matthews noted in an article entitled “Donald Trump Has Every Reason to Keep White People Thinking About Race,” a vast corpus of social science research indicates that “even very mild messages or cues that touch on race can alter political opinions,” and added that “priming white people to so much as think about race, even subconsciously, pushes them toward racially regressive views.”
Robin Lindley: What do you see as Limbaugh’s role in the election of President Donald Trump?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: I’ll share an example from the book, with some data, that demonstrates the role Limbaugh’s race-baiting rhetoric played in paving the way for Trump:
“Public opinion research data suggests that exactly this kind of rhetoric helped move some whites who had previously voted for Obama into Trump’s column by 2016—most Obama-Trump voters expressed high levels of anger toward non-whites and foreigners. It might be hard to imagine Obama voters being bigoted, but John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck found that significant numbers of whites who voted for Obama in 2012 expressed varying degrees of white racial resentment while also overwhelmingly embracing liberal positions on issues such as taxation and the existence of climate change. It might be surprising, but about 25% of those whites who found interracial couples unacceptable nonetheless voted for Obama in both 2008 and 2012. The country’s racial climate during Obama’s second term contributed to this phenomenon of racially resentful white Obama voters shifting to Trump, as [according to Zack Beauchamp at Vox] Black Lives Matter and Ferguson “kicked off a massive and racially polarizing national debate over police violence against African Americans.” Limbaugh took full advantage of that climate, and his race-baiting helped pave the way for Trump.”
Robin Lindley: What has Limbaugh been doing since Trump’s election? Does he continue to blame President Obama and Secretary Hillary Clinton for problems the nation faces.
Professor Ian Reifowitz: I’ve stayed away from Limbaugh to some degree, just to give myself a break. But he’s still a huge media figure. He’s done exactly what I expected, which is the same thing he did once Trump became the presumptive nominee. He’s been a huge Trump backer and has continued to use rhetoric aimed at ginning up white anxiety, to make sure those anxious whites keep on remembering who their (false) champion is. I did check to see what Limbaugh said about Tiger Woods recently, now that Trump has embraced him, and in fact Limbaugh has done a 180, offering nothing but praise for how been Tiger has been a friend to Trump. However, while discussing Tiger and Trump, Limbaugh made sure to remind his audience that Obama is still the one to blame for exacerbating racial tensions in America. He certainly doesn’t blame Trump—or himself, for that matter. None of those things qualify as a surprise.
Robin Lindley: What are some good ways to counter the hateful and inaccurate rhetoric of Limbaugh and his fellow extremists in the right-wing media?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: I’ll leave folks with the concluding paragraphs of the book, which are as close as I get to offering a prescription going forward regarding how to counter the Limbaugh/Trump vision of America:
“White racial identity has been the foundation of the single most destructive form of identity politics over the course of American history. In colonial times, slave-owners raised the status of white indentured servants—many of whom had developed close relationships with the enslaved African Americans alongside whom they worked—transforming these “plain white folks” into equal citizens and telling them that they were superior to blacks, who were thus undeserving of freedom. Why did they do this? Because the slave-owning elites had one fear above all: a white-black coalition of the masses that would unite to overthrow them. Similarly, after emancipation, the Southern economic elites made sure to bind poor whites to them through the race-based advantages conferred by Jim Crow, all in the name of thwarting that same white-black, class-based political partnership.
“In this century, some working- and even middle-class whites, especially those without a college degree, have been drowning economically in a way they have not since the Great Depression. For many, whatever privilege comes with being white is not enough to keep them afloat. They are angry, afraid, and looking for a scapegoat. Limbaugh has been only too happy to oblige. He has absolutely no interest in helping the country figure out how to deal in a productive way with the white anxiety that arises from demographic change. He is interested in one thing, and one thing only: exacerbating this phenomenon in order to keep separate whites and Americans of color who do share common economic interests. That is how Republicans win elections.
Limbaugh’s divisive approach, in that specific regard, is a carbon copy of the approach taken by the nineteenth century Southern white elites. The more he can get working, and middle-class whites to identify with their racial identity—their tribe—above their economic interests, the better he will be able to prevent the multiracial, progressive coalition assembled by President Obama from growing strong enough to defeat Limbaugh/Trump-style conservatism once and for all. Ultimately, the right-wing needs white racial anxiety. In fact, it cannot survive without it.
Robin Lindley: Thanks for those powerful words. What are you working on now?
Professor Ian Reifowitz: Right now? How about a nap? I’m still teaching full time, so I’ll be spending time thinking about a new project over the coming months.
Robin Lindley: Thank you for your thoughtful comments Professor Reifowitz and congratulations on your fascinating new book, “The Tribalization of Politics.”
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Cholesterol is often misunderstood as many people consider it a killer that will cause a heart attack. Cholesterol is actually a waxy fluid that flows in your blood helping maintain the fluidity of your cell membrane and the production of important substances such as hormones and Vitamin D. To stay viable, cholesterol needs to stay fluid meaning it keeps moving through your blood vessels. There is low-density cholesterol known as LDL which causes most of the health issues as it gets stuck in your blood vessels forming plaque. When we talk about reducing cholesterol, it is all about reducing LDL and it all comes down to your diet and lifestyle. Maintaining a daily exercise routine is important as well as these changes to your diet.
Eat more soluble fibre
If you enjoy a breakfast of whole grain oats, then you are already on track to reduce LDL because oats have lots of soluble fibre. Soluble fibre is by far the best solution to dietary cholesterol as it lines up your gut walls preventing the absorption of LDL in the first place. Other foods rich insoluble fibre are carrots, beans, peas, psyllium and citrus fruits. You need to go for whole foods to avoid adding saturated and trans fats while trying to stock up on soluble fibre.
Reduce consumption of saturated fat
Saturated fat directly increases the LDL in your bloodstream making it one of the worst things for your heart and circulatory system as a whole. Many heavily processed foods as well as fast foods have saturated fats and trans fats. These fats have longer strands that don’t break down easily and when absorbed into the bloodstream, they form plaque. Animal products such as red meat, organ meats, whole milk and pork have the highest content of saturated fat. It is easy to identify saturated fat because it tends to stay solid at room temperature.
Cut down on deli meats
Lunch meats make food preparation easy as they come cured and pre-cooked but they are stripped of nutrients and loaded with saturated fat. Sausages, ham, bacon and other cold-cut meats may also be made from offal and other cholesterol-dense parts of the animal all of which leads to increased LDL in your bloodstream.
Eat more unsaturated fats
Unsaturated fats are also known as fats with double bonds meaning they have shorter bonds with bends and can therefore be broken down easily. An eight-week study published in 2016 concluded that eating more unsaturated fats reduces your cholesterol as well as your LDL by up to 11 percent. The healthiest sources of unsaturated fats are avocados, olives, nuts and other plant-based sources of oil.
Eat seeds and whole grain foods
Another source of monosaturated and polyunsaturated fats is seed diets including flax, chia, sunflower, hemp, sesame and pumpkin seeds. The unsaturated fats in the seeds also help reduce the saturated fat in your body which reduces cholesterol. Seeds also make a good source of fibre as do whole grains. Fibre slows and also prevents the absorption of cholesterol into your bloodstream which is vital in reducing LDL.
Eat Herbs and spices in food
Garlic, ginger, turmeric and other spices are nutritional powerhouses with lots of benefits one being their ability to reduce the absorption of cholesterol into your bloodstream. Studies support that the regular consumption of ginger, garlic and turmeric significantly reduces LDL within just weeks of use. Antioxidants found in sage, bay leaf, oregano, mint and other herbs help prevent LDL from oxidizing in the bloodstream which prevents the growth of plaque in blood vessels.
Increase consumption of vegetables and fruits
Embracing a Mediterranean-style eating habit will save you lots of health problems including cholesterol. Vegetables and fruits have antioxidants which prevent the oxidation of LDL which is the main cause of plaque in blood vessels. They are also rich in soluble fibre which also prevents the absorption of cholesterol into the bloodstream. Research published in 2004 concluded that having four servings of fruits and vegetables per day will reduce cholesterol levels by up to 6% which also translates into lower LDL.
Embrace green tea
Green tea is another hub of antioxidants which have been shown to reduce the worst side effects of bad cholesterol in your body by preventing oxidation of cholesterol. Green tea is made using fresh tea leaves that haven’t been fermented which retains a group of antioxidants known as catechins which have been shown to reduce cholesterol.
Meet your dietary requirements of Oily Fish
Omega 3 fatty acids are vital to the well-being of brain cells and other body cells. These fatty acids are also a group of fatty acids responsible for replacing saturated fats and consequently, LDL from your bloodstream. Seeds as mentioned above are rich in Omega 3 but oily fish such as Mackerel, Salmon, Deep-sea tuna and herring are the best source of these fats.
Cut down your consumption of added sugar
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is one of the most common added sugar in processed foods with huge health risks. A 14-year study published in 2014 concluded that getting 10% of your calories per day can increase your risk of dying from heart disease by up to three times. The more added sugar you consume, the more LDL you have and the oxidation of LDL also seems to increase with the consumption of more sugar. You should therefore cut refined sugar from your diet as much as possible to reduce bad cholesterol.
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Veterinary Hospital Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Private Practice in Small Animal Behavior
Fear could be part of a normal behavior and can be adaptive. We have to determine if fear is abnormal, inappropriate or maladaptive by the context in which it occurs.
Phobia: is the term used to refer to fear responses that are persistent over time, consistent in terms of what causes the fear. Phobias are learned, irrational and not adaptive.
Normal dogs may exhibit alerting responses and may show mild anxiety if there is a severe storm immediately around the house.
You can call a dog thunder phobic when symptoms are disproportionately intense relative to the stimuli and or when symptoms occur in response to innocuous stimuli.
Severe storms are a real challenge because there are multiple stimuli involved.
During a storm, animals show fear to various stimuli: wind, rain, lightening, thunder, clouds, luminosity variations, barometric pressure, etc. which may result in serious injury to the dog and significant damage to property. It also generates ill feelings on the part of the owners, thus damaging the human-animal relationship.
An important factor to consider is that an animal with storm phobias is subjected to a high degree of suffering, but most dogs if treated will get better, even though they can relapse during severe storms.
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[arin-ppml] Legacy Space authority
tedm at ipinc.net
Mon May 5 14:03:01 EDT 2008
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> > Here in the US we do not have active hot wars going on over
> > the Louisiana Purchase, but they most definitely have them
> > going on in the Mid East with regards to Israel's land ownership.
> But in Canada there has been a low-level hot war going on for
> over 20 years, specifically with regard to who owns the land
> occupied by aboriginal peoples when Europeans first claimed
> land in North America. Not too many people have been killed,
> but there have been several armed confrontations.
> > Eventually one day the allocation of IP addresses is going to
> > be formalized in a law somewhere in some government - and
> > they will base that law on the precident that's being created
> > right now by people doing what they are doing today - and
> > that's being created partly by "opinions we may state on this list"
> No, none of it is being created by opinions on this list.
> However, some of it may very well be based on opinions handed
> down by Canada's
> Supreme Courts regarding aboriginal land claims. Vast areas
> of land have been recognized as being owned by aboriginal
> peoples, and where that land is now occupied by cities, the
> courts have ordered compensation to be paid. It is a hugely
> complex area of law, and since it is a form of international
> law (the law between sovereign nations) it could very well
> form a precedent for how international law
> develops in regard to "Internet properties".
This is a ripe example of circular logic as I have ever seen.
Your arguing that IP addressing is property, and property is
subject to future legal decisions of a court which will end up
proving that IP addressing is property.
Kind of like the people that claim the Bible is the actual
word of God and the reason being is that it says so in the
> > It already is. The entire IPv6 allocation system is based
> on how we
> > do things with IPv4.
> People are proposing some breaks with the past in regards to
> IPv4. I'm not so sure that they have thought out all the
> implications that this has for IPv6.
Well, since the IPv6 RSA that you have to sign to get IPv6 states
that by signing you agree that IP numbers aren't property, I
think that every day, week, month & year that passes results in
more and more IPv6 assigned under that agreement, and less and
less chance that 20 years in the future some court will overturn
that part of the agreement.
There may be some bad things with regards to IPv6 assignment but
at least this Legacy IPv6 argument won't be a burden to our
children trying to run things on the Internet.
> > Also, that soldier is breaking the laws of the government of
> > the people
> > he is killing, and if he is caught and put into a POW camp by
> > that government, they can torture him without breaking their
> > laws.
> Not if they signed the Geneva convention on war. This is an
> international treaty which, in effect, creates international
> laws. These laws have been used to prosecute people after WW
> II in Nurnberg and more recently in the International Court
> of Justice in the Hague. When a country signs an
> international treaty and then ratifies it in their
> parliament/congress, this treaty becomes part of their law.
> This is the basic principle underlying the European Union
> where the group of countries signed more and more treaties
> which then intruded more and more into their local laws. The
> NAFTA treaties
> are similar, although they are not as extensive as the EU agreements.
Except for the loophole which the US showed the rest of the world
which is to merely claim that the soldier was a non-combatant and
that Geneva does not apply, and is a non-citizen so has no legal
rights to appeal for relief under your laws, and to further claim that
the torture wasn't really torture. Thus, once more it turns in to what
your point of view is. Even if the rest of the world all agrees that
the soldier was a legal combatant, and what you were doing to him
was indeed torture, what your doing to him is still legal within
your system of laws.
If the rest of the world decides to "not invade you" such as is being
done with North Korea and Iran, why then as long as you don't step out
of the borders of your own country, you will never be subject to the
rest of the world's laws and you can live to a ripe old age and die
contented that you have never broken the law.
The ICJ in The Hague is extremely unlikely to take up an IP addressing
case until WIPO has weighed in on it. And I find that very unlikely,
if they were going to do that, they would have done it when they
extended copyright over Internet domain names.
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When Christopher Columbus and his crew landed on the shores of San Salvador Island in 1492 they brought along slavery, war, and disease. But before these calamities began, the Europeans were greeted peacefully by the residents of what is now the Bahamas: The Taíno, considered the first indigenous Americans to feel the full impact of European colonialism, laid down their weapons and brought the foreigners presents. This coexistence did not last long — by 1548 the Taíno population, estimated to have been in the millions, had dropped to only 500 people.
Today, whether or not the Taíno live on is up for debate. Historians, archeologists, and people who claim Taíno heritage have argued for years that the people did not go “extinct,” yet it seems to be standard practice to teach that the Taíno were wiped out. Now, however, their legacy is exonerated: In a paper published Monday, researchers reveal they encountered the first genetic evidence that the Taíno still have living descendants today.
In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper, scientists with international research project NEXUS1492 draw this conclusion by explaining what they found when they extracted the DNA of a 1,000-year-old tooth discovered in a site called Preacher’s Cave in the Bahamas. With this tooth, which belonged to a woman who lived 500 years before Columbus landed, they sequenced the first complete ancient human genome extracted from the Caribbean.
Once they had the ancient genome, the researchers compared it to the genomes of 104 living Puerto Ricans and to genomic data on people in 40 present-day indigenous groups from the Americas. They discovered that the Puerto Ricans were more closely related to the Taíno than any other American indigenous group and that 10 to 15 percent of people within the present-day indigenous groups were also closely related to the ancient Bahamian genome. This is proof that the Taíno, in many ways, still exist to this day, despite the fact that their population was nearly decimated upon the Europeans’ arrival.
The newly sequenced genome unearthed two more key discoveries. The first has to do with the Taíno timeline: While scientists had long believed that the Taíno didn’t make it to the Bahamas until 1,500 B.C. — the Caribbean was one of the last parts of the Americans to be populated by humans — the genome suggests that the ancestors of the Taíno originally lived in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, migrated to northern South America, then entered the Caribbean around 2,500 B.C., which is significantly earlier than the researchers expected. Secondly, the genome sequence showed no evidence of inbreeding despite the fact that the individual lived on an island, suggesting that her people had a large connection network over a wide chunk of geography.
“Archeological evidence has always suggested that large numbers of people who settled the Caribbean originated in South America and that they maintained social networks that extended far beyond the local scale,” co-author and Leiden University archaeologist Corinne Hofman, Ph.D., explained in a statement released Monday. “Historically, it has been difficult to back up this with ancient DNA because of poor preservation, but this study demonstrates that it is possible to obtain ancient genomes from the Caribbean, and that opens up fascinating new possibilities for research.”
In the past decade, the ability to analyze ancient DNA has revolutionized archaeology. However, notes Hofman, poor DNA preservation holds back analysis in tropical areas like the Caribbean from reaching the same level of progress. Her team’s success in sequencing the Taíno woman’s genome, however, is a hopeful sign of change. The project itself is an exciting opportunity for researchers and holds plenty of promise for those hoping for a better understanding of their ancestry.
“I wish my grandmother were alive today so that I could confirm to her what she already knew,” Taíno descendant Jorge Estevez explained in a statement accompanying the study. Estev, who works at the National Museum of the American Indian, assisted the project team and was taught in school that his ancestors had gone extinct.
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Deborah Klens-Bigman ◆ February 9, 2015
The teacher stood at the front of the room, a cavernously large dojo, wherein my colleague, my student and I occupied a small part. The rest of the room echoed around us. He held a wooden sword in his hand. “Mo ichi do,” (“One more time”) he intoned, tapping the butt-end of the sword on the hollow wooden floor for emphasis.
We began again, working through all ten kata of the standing set of the Shinto Hatakage Ryu Iai Heiho, an old and rather obscure style. We repeated and repeated, for the better part of three hours. Mostly, the teacher said nothing. Occasionally, he would make a correction. Each repetition of the entire set took about 15 minutes, so we worked through the set around 8-10 times (I wasn’t counting). By the end of the practice, we were sweaty and tired – and exhilarated.
When most Americans think of martial arts practice, they imagine lines of students in crisp, white uniforms, moving in unison and shouting “Yes, sir!” in loud voices whenever the teacher makes a request or gives an order. Koryu budo (old style martial arts) sword practice is quite different. Sometimes the group repeats traditional kata together, as we did in Japan several weeks ago; or, just as likely, the students spread out, each one working on individual kata, while the teacher circulates around the room, making corrections. Sometimes, when she decides the student is ready, the instructor assigns a new kata for a student to work on.
There are advantages to both types of practice. What they have in common, of course, is repetition. Repeating movements over and over sets up kinetic patterns, helping students remember the kata better. As good as group repetition is, however, for my part, individual practice at one’s own pace is the best way to learn kata. Repeating kata over and over again individually allows the student to develop concentration, so he can ignore whatever anyone else in the room is doing. Most importantly, perhaps, individual, repetitive practice encourages the student to solve problems and resolve questions about the movement and its meaning on his own terms. And, if he has any questions he can’t answer, the teacher is there to guide him.
Since we have moved into the new Resobox Studio, we have had enough room to spread out and work individually on different kata. As an instructor, I can see what sort of progress each individual student is making. As a student, I find it is the best way to both learn and remember sword kata. Even the very newest student, who has only been taking the sword class for a few months, is able to work on the first kata, starting to learn it on his own.
The other night, after about 10 minutes of practicing kata individually, everyone was exhausted. (People work a lot harder on individual sword kata on their own than they do as a group). At the end of the class, the students presented what they had learned, and everyone got some further corrections. And, I think, everyone felt a sense of accomplishment. | <urn:uuid:848d5158-5b44-4e1f-9db1-92931daf058e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://resobox.com/news/teaching-styles/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969416 | 678 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Zealots are Alone
By Rabbi Thomas Louchheim
41st Torah Portion, 8th in B’midbar
Pinchas 25:10-30:1 (168 verses)
Pinchas is rewarded for killing the Israelite and the Midianite woman who cursed God. Israel fights a war against the Midianites. A second census is taken. The daughters of Zelophekhad force a change in the laws of property inheritance. Joshua is chosen to be successor to Moses.
Pinchas is depicted as a zealot and the Talmud counsels: “Rabbi Hisda taught: ‘If the zealot comes to seek counsel, we are never to instruct him to act. “(Sanhedrin 81b) We have seen throughout history that for some monotheism is given to violence. Because a zealot is adamant that there is one God – and, according to them, only one way to serve God – it promotes the destruction of other gods and occasionally (and too often), their worshippers. There is a difference between zealousness and passion.
Too often religious zealousness and passion are seen as interchangeable. One can view the difference between the two as one view a knife. The knife can be an instrument of holiness or a tool for murder. As I have often taught, the voice of God is not so easily found in the concrete written word. As Elijah in our haftarah observes, “There was a great and mighty wind, splitting mountains and shattering rocks, but the Lord was not in the wind… After the earthquake–fire; but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, a soft murmuring sound.” (I Kings 19) We, as the prophet did, must strain to find God’s voice. Zeal represents uncontrolled anger and loud pronouncements. Passion on the other hand is a cultivation of the most meaningful experiences in your life and shaped to a larger purpose.
Does every disagreement have to be seen as a threat that necessitates radical action? Believing in one God does not require that we destroy others, or their followers. A plurality of beliefs does not negate our own firmly held convictions.
Yehuda Eiger notes that parashat Pinchas is both preceded and followed by double portions – Chukat/Balak and Matot/Ma’asei – and he infers from this that fanatics must live alone in isolation from society. He concludes, “Woe to a generation when the fanatics are joined together!”
- Are you aware of zealots in your life or community? Does the instruction from Sanhedrin make sense?
- Pinchas was award a “Covenant of Peace” (25:12). Is this a reward for his act or a cure for his soul?
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This section of the site offers a mixture of material from the press, academic journals and the wider literature on Margaret Thatcher. Items are written from all manner of perspectives and, of course, their contents do not express the views of the Foundation.
From The Daily Telegraph, Bill Deedes remembers his friend Denis Thatcher .
From 2005-08 most major items covering MT from The Times and Sunday Times are present on this site.
Obituaries of key figures in her life and political career are also available from 2003, again from The Times.
We are compiling a short bibliography of MT for download, and publishing some notable articles and extracts.
For example, Antonio Weiss has allowed us to publish his original research into Margaret Thatcher's religious outlook. Jon Agar has written on Margaret Thatcher's career as a scientist and its influence on science policy. | <urn:uuid:4464c70a-45d6-49e7-b2db-8b3e989a0b18> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.margaretthatcher.org/commentary | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.941403 | 184 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Here, I cover 6 free blue light filter software for windows. Using these programs, you can adjust the light of your computer/Laptop screen. The feature of reducing the brightness or using the night mode is common. These free software let you use custom colors where you can choose a standard or advanced color in order to make your computer screen look warm with different colors. Also, you can manage the screen light according to the sunrise and sunset. These programs let you set the day and night temperature of the screen as well.
Some of these software automatically detects the location and adjust the light of screen whereas other software just let you adjust brightness. And to change the color, you have to follow some steps in order to choose different colors. If you want to reduce the brightness lower than the minimum level, then you can read this article.
Let’s go through each software to understand their feature.
Free blue light filter software for windows
This (ScreenTemperature) is an application which you can run easily on your computer without installing software. Once downloaded, you can click on ScreenTemperature.exe file to run the file. Then, the (eye) icon of this application appears in the system tray.
To run this application as a blue light filter, click on its icon to view interface. As shown above, the image on the left is the interface of this application. There are two options in which one is an algorithm where you can adjust brightness using the slider whereas the second option lets you use a custom color. The above right image is the palette where you can choose any color. You can also use advanced color to change the shade of your choice. After that, you can save this color setting and prevent your eye from blue light.
F.lux is a popular software. This does not let you reduce just brightness but also automatically detects the light of your room. Then, it changes the light of your screen according to the time of the day.
After running this blue light filter software, a pop-up appears where it prompts your location. You can enter your location or zip code of the area. Then, it detects the temperature and adjusts the light of your computer screen. The interface displays a graph as well where it shows the sun that gradually moves according to the time.
Although there are other features to fix the different light of the computer screen. But to prevent eyes from blue light, you click on three lines on the top left in the interface. After that, you can click on the Effects and extra colors. It shows different names, you can choose any color. Thereafter, you will see the changed color screen which looks soothing.
3. Redshift GUI
Redshift GUI is another program to use as the blue light filter. After installation, you can open its interface. As you can see in the image above, the interface lets you adjust the brightness of the screen. Also, the sun presents in the interface moves gradually depending on the time of the day.
In order to use the blue light filter, you can click on settings option. After that, a new interface opens as shown in the above right image. Here, you can adjust the night and day temperature. Use the slider to make your computer screen look warmer. Then you will notice the screen becomes less bright which is safe for your eyes.
PangoBright is a good blue filter software. After installation, it resides in the system tray. Using its interface, you can adjust the screen brightness from minimum 20% to maximum 100%. Then, your screen turns into a warm color.
Although you can adjust the color of screen from this basic option. But to choose different color, you can click on Choose fade-out color. Then, click on any of the colors. Also, you can use custom colors. In this way, you can make your computer screen in soft color.
LightBulb is an application that works as a blue light filter. After installing, you can click on its icon that is visible in the system tray.
You can see the above image, it is the interface of this application. You can adjust day-time color, night-time color temperature, and transition duration. Apart from that, you can adjust its Gamma, temperature smoothening. In this way, you can match the light according to the environment. The application is easy to use. And, also it reduces eye-strain.
6. Eye Saver
As the name suggests, this (Eye Saver) software is an eye saver which works as blur light filter. When you install it, an icon appears in your system tray. You can click on that in order to open its interface. In the above image, you can see there are two options; the first one is to adjust brightness and the second option is to manage the blue color of the screen. You can use the slider to set the light according to you.
There are other features in this interface, you can use the effects as Invert, Grayscale, and Overlay. And also, you can use different modes like health, movie, hacker, etc.
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On November 18 and 19, Tostan’s Reinforcement of Parental Practices (RPP) team gathered religious leaders from each of the 66 Mandinka villages participating in the RPP module in the Casamance region of southern Senegal for a workshop on early childhood development and the teachings of Islam.
The RPP module helps parents to learn about the importance of early childhood brain development and the best practices that parents can use to stimulate their children’s learning capacities. This workshop was organized to actively involve local religious leaders, who play a major role in shaping the way their community raises their children, in order to ensure the acceptance and sustainability of knowledge gained during the RPP module.
Along with the 66 imams, the event assembled local officials including the governor, mayor, prefect and representative of the Regional Council of Ziguinchor, the chief of the Regional Office for Community Development, as well as representatives from the Regional Office for Social Action, the general secretary of the Association of Imams of Casamance, representatives from the Academy of Ziguinchor, and staff from Tostan’s international, national, and regional offices.
At the pedagogical level, the workshop aimed to give more information to religious leaders on critical topics related to children’s early development, such as cognitive stimulations and brain development, as well as share how communities are improving parental practices that support this development after participating in Tostan’s RPP module. Another aim of the workshop was to establish that there is no contradiction between the teachings of the RPP and what the teachings of the Koran and the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) say about parenting. The final goal of the workshop was to engage the religious leaders in the movement to abandon all forms of violence against children in their community and extended social network.
The two-day workshop hosted a series of speakers as well as two working group sessions. Siraba Traoré, Tostan Regional Coordinator for the RPP in Ziguinchor, presented a lecture on early childhood brain development, emphasizing parents’ role in encouraging healthy development. Tostan’s regional religious consultant Yaya Touré then presented teachings about early childhood education based on the Koran and the Sunnah, the ways of life prescribed for Muslims according to the teachings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Ibrahima Giroux, Tostan Head of Programs, consolidated these two presentations in order to demonstrate the strength of the relationship between the Koranic traditions and the teachings from the RPP. He made the link between fetal development and some verses of the Koran to draw the religious leaders’ attention to the idea that Tostan’s vision and theirs are one and the same.
Between the presentations, the imams were split into groups to discuss and present their perspectives on issues such as how the Prophet (PBUH) raised his children, what a religious leader can do to ensure a better education for the children in their community, and how religious leaders can work with Tostan on child protection and early childhood development.
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A groundbreaking tool that assesses classrooms in a whole new way!An inspiring environment is essential for helping young children learn. The Rating Observation Scale for Inspiring Environments(ROSIE) is an observation rating scale that challenges teachers to examine classrooms in a totally new way: with an eye for what is aesthetically beautiful and inspiring.Looking through an aesthetic lens of nature, color, furnishings, textures, displays, lighting, and focal points, educators will learn to determine a classroom’s level of aesthetic beauty. ROSIE then provides images and examples to assist in turning learning spaces into inspirational environments in which children can grow and learn.
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The main character you probably already know very well, who comes from the Japanese series. In this section you will have the opportunity to color many wonderful pictures, which depict precisely this extraordinary superhero, who all the time helps people in need. Choose one of the many available colored pictures and start your adventure with coloring with crayons.
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The Japanese series can be safely said to be a continuation of the previously created Ultra Q. On the other hand, it is the first film broadcast in which the unusual character of our main character appears. It belongs to the tokusatsu genre and in the country from which it originated it is considered a cult and very popular. Ultraman is an extremely clever character. He was able to outwit his team and many enemies. However, he is not a patient and understanding person, as he often resorts to aggression. We encourage everyone to watch the episodes of this manga and anime.
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Charles Grant of St Luke Chelsea
Profile & Legacies Summary
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Deceased slave-owner of Hopewell in St Mary Jamaica and Tydixton Park Pen in St John. In 1829 he left annuities of £4000 p.a secured on his Jamaica estates and enslaved people, which appear unlikely to have been sustainable.
- Will of Charles Grant of [Cadogan Place] St Luke Chelsea [made in 1829] proved 30/09/1830. In the will he specifies Hopewell and Tydixton Park Pen as his estates, leaving them in trust to support several annuities. He specified that 4/5th of the produce of the two estates should go to pay his debts, with the remaining 1/5th going to his wife Sophia Cecilia Grant subject to an annuity of £100 p.a. to his niece Frances Louisa Grant daughter of his late brother Peter Grant, and after the debts were paid to pay his wife an annuity of £2000 p.a.; £200 p.a. to his sister Mrs Elizabeth Burnett and £200 p.a. to his sister Margaret Lady Mackintosh widow of Sir Aeneas Mackintosh of Mackintosh; £400 p.a. to his niece Frances Louisa Grant in lieu of the £100 p.a. while his estates were still encumbered; £400 p.a. to his niece Eliza Bruce; £300 p.a to his nephew Col. James McDowall of the Coldstream Guards; and £100 p.a to his grandniece Caroline McDowall of Glengarry; and two further annuities totalling £400 p.a., one to Lt Col James Grant son of his late brother James Grant of £200 p.a. and one of £100 p.a. each to his cousins, the daughter of his late uncle Sir William Innes. Subject to these annuities he left the estates to his grandnephew Charles Bruce, son of his niece Eliza Grant, the daughter of his late brother Peter Grant.
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In woodworking hewing is the process of converting a log from its rounded natural form into lumber (timber) with more or less flat surfaces using primarily an axe. It is an ancient method still used occasionally to square up beams for timber framing.
Hew is a general term meaning to strike or blow with a tool such as an axe or sword; to chop or gash, and is used in warfare, stone and wood cutting, and coal and salt mining in this sense. Hewing wood is to shape the wood with a sharp instrument such as an axe, specifically flattening one or more sides of a log.
As an ancient method of timber conversion, different methods of each step in hewing have developed in history.
After a tree is selected and felled, hewing can take place where the log landed or be skidded or twitched (skidded with a horse or oxen) out of the woods to a work site. The log is placed across two other smaller logs near the ground or up on trestles about waist height; stabilized either by notching the support logs, or using a 'timber dog' (also called a log dog, a long bar of iron with a tooth on either end that jams into the logs and prevents movement). The hewer measures and locates the timber within the log on both ends and marks lines along the length of a log, usually with a chalk line.
The next step is to chop notches every foot or two, almost as deep as the marked line using a chopping or scoring axe, called scoring. At least three methods are used in scoring. 1) Standing on the log and swinging an axe to chop the score; 2) In Germany a method of two carpenters standing on the ground with the log on trestles and swinging downward to slice the scores. (see video in link below); 3) A chainsaw is used to notch the log, the sections created by the notching are then split off using a felling axe.
Joggling or juggling
The pieces of wood between the notches are knocked off with an axe, this process called juggling or joggling. This results in a rough surface pared down just shy of the marked line. Scoring and juggling remove a fair amount of wood, make hewing easier and prevent long shreds of wood being torn off.
Hewing is the last step in this whole process, which is also collectively referred to as hewing. Hewing is done on the logs sides with a broadaxe. Hewing occurs from the bottom of the stem upwards towards what was the top of the standing tree, reducing the tendency of the broken fibers to migrate inwards towards the eventual beam.
It is widely published that an adze was used to hew the top surface of a log flat in the same manner as an axe is used on the sides of a log. However, physical evidence of looking at the marks left by the hewing tools in historic buildings, called tracology, are swung in an arc and thus made by an axe, not an adz. Shipbuilders frequently used adzes in shaping ship timbers, the choice of tool being made by the position of the surface being hewn, the sides best hewn with an axe and the face best hewn with an adze. Historic illustrations do show some Asian carpenters hewing building timbers with an adz. Further smoothing can then be done using a hand plane, drawknife, yariganna (an ancient Japanese cutting tool) or any other established or improvised means.
Some 19th-century timber buildings in the U.S. have hewn long timbers in the same framing with vertically sawn and the later technology of circular sawn timbers. The reason for this is the long timbers were easier to hew with an axe than to take to a sawmill due to poor transportation routes.
Hewn railroad ties are known as axe ties and were made by a tiehacker.
Although still used in niche modern building, salvaged hand-hewn beams are now commonly recycled as architectural details popular in new construction and renovation of homes. They are also popular as decor in commercial and restaurant spaces.
- "Hew v." def. 2. Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. 2009.
- Wright, Joseph. "Hew" The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years;. London etc.: H. Frowde;, 18981905. Print.
- "Hew | Definition of hew by Merriam-Webster". Merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
- Kauffman, Henry J.. American axes: a survey of their development and their makers. Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, 2007.
- McRaven, Charles. The classic hewn-log house: a step-by-step guide to building and restoration. North Adams, MA: Storey Pub., 2005.
- Dialect Notes: The American Dialect Society. Vol. 2. 1900. 237. https://books.google.com/books?id=iEMOAAAAYAAJ
- McGrail, Seán. Woodworking techniques before A.D. 1500: papers presented to a symposium at Greenwich in September, 1980, together with edited discussion. B.A.R. 1982. 389. books.google.com/books?id=RJnfAAAAMAAJ
- "An Ax to Grind: A Practical Ax Manual, 9923-2823-MTDC, About the Author". Fhwa.dot.gov. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
- Marples, Geoff. "The Tiehack", part 1.. British Columbia Forest History Newsletter. No. 60. August 2000. Victoria, B. C., Forest History Association of British Columbia. p. 1-4. print.
- "About Hand-Hewn Beams". Longleaf Lumber Inc. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
- Video of the German method of hewing
- Video of a widespread method of scoring a log in the process of hewing
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Knee pain can be one of the most frustrating ailments to navigate. Knee pain has many different causes, and it results in difficulty moving a part of the body used frequently.
In this article, Health Report Live covers the physiology of the knee, root causes for knee pain, and treatment to help resolve knee pain.
Facts You Should Know About Knee Pain
Some people do not realize both the importance and the sensitivity of the knee until they are experiencing knee pain.
While knee pain can sometimes indicate a serious injury, there are many causes and degrees of severity for what generally gets classified as knee pain.
Here we will explore all the elements of knee pain and what to do should you be experiencing knee pain.
What Is Knee Pain?
People experience knee pain in various ways, either as a total discomfort around the entire area or a specific twinging or sensitivity in a particular part of the knee.
The Mayo Clinic notes that knee pain may result from an injury, such as a ruptured ligament or torn cartilage. Medical conditions such as arthritis, gout, and infections may also be at the root of knee pain.
Some types of knee pain are relatively minor and only require in-home treatment to resolve. In contrast, other types of knee pain may indicate damage requiring surgery to adequately resolve the issue.
Brief Anatomy of the Knee
The knee is one of the most vital joints in the body. It is also one of the most complex, with bones, ligaments, cartilage, and tendons joining the upper and lower leg.
Four bones come together at the knee joint, including the patella (or kneecap), positioned at the front of the knee joint.
The femur, connecting the knee to the pelvis along the thigh, is a significant part of the knee’s anatomy, as are the tibia and fibula, the two primary bones in the lower leg.
A number of the most concerning knee injuries involve the ligaments. Four ligaments connect the femur to the tibia and are vital to stability and flexibility.
- The anterior cruciate ligament (or ACL) prevents the femur from sliding backward on the tibia (or the tibia sliding forward on the femur).
- The posterior cruciate ligament (or PCL) prevents the femur from sliding forward on the tibia (or the tibia from sliding backward on the femur).
- The medial and lateral collateral ligaments (MCL, LCL) prevent the femur from sliding side to side.
The knee also utilizes cartilage for movement and stability.
A Mayo Clinic article observes, “Both the femur (thigh bone) and tibia (shinbone) are covered with small, white, well-lubricated articular cartilage that makes the knee joint glide and function well. Healthy articular cartilage is a central component of a normal healthy joint.”
Meniscal Cartilage (Meniscus)
In addition to articular cartilage, the meniscus plays a vital role in mobility. As the Mayo Clinic observes, the meniscus is “two C-shaped pieces of cartilage that act like a cushion between your shinbone and your thighbone.”
Tendons also figure into the knee’s complex anatomy. They are thick bands of connective tissue that connect muscles to bones, and they are sometimes involved in knee pain that people experience.
According to a UT Health San Antonio roundup, tendons associated with the knee include the quadriceps tendon, the patella tendon, hamstring tendons, and the iliotibial band.
Taking care of your knee joints can be one of the most important preventative measures in warding off knee ailments.
These include doing exercises to strengthen the muscles around the knee, stretching at least daily to encourage flexibility throughout the knee’s tendons and ligaments, and taking supplements like glucosamine and chondroitin (believed to help build up or protect cartilage).
People who are overweight can also reduce pressure on the knee joint by losing weight. Each pound lost works out to four pounds less pressure on the knee.
Though the severity of pain and discomfort is not necessarily consistent with the severity of the injury, a knee has a few specific ways of letting a person know there is some kind of injury.
As the Mayo Clinic notes, there are a few common symptoms that people experience due to a knee injury. Those include:
- Swelling or stiffness in the knee
- Redness and warmth to the touch
- A feeling of weakness or instability
- Noises (including crunching and popping)
- Not being able to fully straighten the knee
More serious symptoms, which should be indicators of needing medical attention, include:
- Not being able to bear weight on the knee
- A feeling of the knee “giving out” or otherwise being significantly unstable
- Significant and noticeable knee swelling
- Not being able to fully extend or even flex the knee
- Obvious deformity in the leg or knee
- A fever accompanying redness, pain, and swelling in the knee
- A known injury resulting in severe knee pain
For some people, knee pain is caused by arthritis, though there are many different types, ranging from treatable, acute conditions to more chronic types of arthritis that might require longer-term management.
The most common types of arthritis leading to knee pain — out of, remarkably, more than 100 varieties, include:
- Osteoarthritis, described by the Mayo Clinic as a “wear-and-tear condition that occurs when the cartilage in your knee deteriorates with use and age,
- Rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune condition that can affect the knees and other joints in the body — while it is chronic, it can vary in severity and range from intense flare-ups to being virtually unnoticeable,
- Gout, an arthritic condition that happens when uric acid crystals build up in the knee joint,
- Pseudogout, caused by calcium crystals in the knee joint fluid, and as its name suggests, is often mistaken for gout, and
- Septic arthritis is a condition resulting from an infection that can cause swelling, pain and redness — and, if unchecked, can quickly cause extensive damage to the knee cartilage. If a fever accompanies those common knee pain symptoms, it is wise to rule out septic arthritis.
Knee Ligament Injuries
An injury to one of the ligaments can lead to long recovery times. As sports fans know, tears to the ACL or MCL can sideline athletes for months as they undergo the needed recovery and rehab process.
As the Johns Hopkins site notes, a “sudden twisting motion (when the feet stay planted one way, but the knees turn the other way)” can result in an ACL tear.
A PCL injury is more commonly associated with direct contact injuries, like a car accident or being tackled in a football game.
As that site points out, it is also notable that a cruciate ligament injury does not cause pain. Instead, the person may hear a popping sound as the injury occurs.
That can then be followed by the leg buckling when trying to stand on it and then swelling. It is important to get an MRI if you suspect you have suffered a ligament injury.
Torn Knee Cartilage (Meniscus)
Meniscus tears are among the most common of all knee injuries, often caused by putting weight on the knee and then twisting or rotating it.
The Mayo Clinic site advises that while you might feel pain, stiffness, swelling, and might have issues extending it fully, at-home measures might be enough to address the issue.
“Conservative treatment — such as rest, ice and medication — is sometimes enough to relieve the pain of a torn meniscus and give the injury time to heal on its own In other cases, however, a torn meniscus requires surgery.”
Patellar Tendonitis and Tear
The patellar tendon connects the kneecap to the shinbone, and overuse can lead to this common variant of knee tendonitis.
The tendon helps muscles at the front of the thigh in running or other athletic activities, so it is something that fit people can experience following exercise. (Its common name is jumper’s knee, to suggest fitness.)
It can also impact people who are simply engaged in more common daily activities, and as it gets worse, it can impede people as they walk up stairs or even rise to a standing position. Ice and rest can be enough to take care of a bout of tendonitis.
However, it is important to take care of tendonitis before it worsens. As a Mayo Clinic article notes, repeated instances of stress on the patellar tendon cause tendonitis.
“The stress results in tiny tears in the tendon, which your body attempts to repair,” the article notes, before clarifying that “as the tears in the tendon multiply, they cause pain from inflammation and weakening of the tendon.”
When this tendon damage persists for more than a few weeks, it graduates to a condition known as tendinopathy.
If you try to “play through it,” whether engaging in your usual athletic activity or just trying to get around normally, you might make it worse.
Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
Patellofemoral pain syndrome is another condition that gets labeled “runner’s knee” or “jumper’s knee,” broadly defined as pain in the front of the knee (the kneecap or patella).
According to Cleveland Clinic, there are a range of causes for this syndrome, including “overuse of the knee joint, problems with kneecap alignment, weak muscles surrounding the knee, improper equipment use or sports training techniques, changes to footwear, and hard playing surfaces.”
If you are experiencing a dull pain or an ache in the front of the knee, or you are experiencing pain associated with bending the knee, you might be experiencing this particular syndrome.
Non Injury Knee Pain
Of course, pain does not have to be attributable to just injury: The variety of arthritis-related ailments afflicting some knee pain sufferers are not injury-related yet cause issues.
Other Common Causes
Bursitis is a fairly common knee ailment that does not involve injury or even overuse. Bursa are tiny sacs filled with fluid inside the knees that help cushion the bones in the knee joint.
If bursa becomes infected or otherwise irritated, they can become inflamed. Bursitis can be extremely painful; if you are experiencing any redness in the knee joint or tenderness or even a fever, bursitis might be the cause.
A Baker’s cyst is another ailment that affects the knee though it is not technically an injury. According to the Orthopaedic & Spine Center of the Rockies, a Baker’s cyst is also known as a popliteal cyst. It is located at the back of the knee and filled with fluid.
The swelling it causes can restrict movement. It can actually accompany an undiagnosed knee injury. However, in many cases, it will go away of its own accord. In some cases, though, it might require draining to resolve it.
If you are experiencing hip or foot pain, compensating for that might cause you to move or even just hold your leg in a way that causes a knee issue.
Less Common Causes of Knee Pain
Osgood-Schlatter disease is caused by irritation of the bone growth plate. As the John Hopkins site points out, it is a condition that will typically resolve with time, ice, and rest, and surgery is not usually needed to address it. Some kinds of cancer may result in knee pain, such as osteosarcoma.
Managing and Relieving Symptoms
If you have knee pain, you will be very interested in trying to resolve it. Here are some recommendations for managing symptoms as they first come up, and then eventually finding relief.
Balancing Rest and Exercise
A number of knee ailments are related to overuse and irritation, and just getting off it can be a huge help. You have likely heard the acronym R.I.C.E. in injury treatment, and the first word in that, of course, is rest. While you might need to keep entirely off it, depending on the nature of what you are dealing with, initially staying off your knee and getting some rest can help you take a beat and keep yourself from exacerbating the injury or pain.
While you might be able to mix in some exercise along the way, you might consider doing low-impact exercises while you are recovering from a knee injury. Taking a few laps in a pool will put far less stress on your knee joints than pulling on your running shoes and pounding the pavement.
Losing weight can be extremely helpful in managing your knee joints over time – though it is admittedly hard to exercise when you are experiencing knee pain, which is where those low-impact exercises can come in.
Each pound of body weight you lose takes four pounds of force off your knees. That puts you at less risk for a knee injury and allows you to move more.
Heat and Ice Packs
There is a debate between those who favor ice and heat. The authors of the site for OrthoCarolina — which works with pro football players — recommend ice in most situations, including recent injuries. They do note, however, that it is possible to over-ice a part of the body, and people need to be careful.
They recommend not more than 20 minutes of ice applied, as the narrowing of blood vessels that initially happens with icing will then actually lead to “reactive vasodilation, or widening, of the vessels as the body tries to make sure the tissues get the blood supply they need.”
Heat, on the other hand, can ease spasms in larger muscle groups, but will not typically be helpful for knee issues — especially acute injuries.
Support and Suitable Footwear
It may be helpful to have good support, especially with footwear, to help prevent knee injuries. Experts suggest that flexible and comfortable shoes are best, whereas more rigid shoes with thicker soles billed as “walking shoes” might actually put more of a load on the knees than more comfortable shoes.
Depending on the knee pain – particularly one in which stability is a concern, you might consider a knee brace or a neoprene sleeve worn over the knee to support it.
Paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen — though many refer to it by the Tylenol brand name — is one of the most widely used analgesics in the market. It might have a role in your treatment of knee pain.
Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs — Tablets
Many doctors treating knee pain recommend over-the-counter non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (or NSAIDs) for treatment.
Ibuprofen (the active ingredient in Advil) and naproxen (most commonly known by the Aleve brand name) are two typical go-to choices for people trying to resolve knee pain.
Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs — Rub-On Painkillers
NSAIDs also come in a topical form. Diclofenac is the active ingredient found in both Voltaren and Pennsaid, and those medicines can be applied directly to the knee to offer potential relief.
If you have experienced a previous knee injury, you could be at risk for a future knee injury, depending on the nature of your injury and the rehab program you embarked upon.
Being overweight can also make you more susceptible to knee issues, as can not being active enough to build up the muscles in your legs and around your knees.
It is quite possible, without getting the immediate medical attention or taking the proper precautions required of knee injuries, that what starts as a minor issue can get much worse.
For example, tendonitis that affects the patella can turn into severe tendinopathy if the tears in the tendon become larger and more pronounced over time. While some knee injuries can be treated at home, others require surgical intervention.
Which Types of Doctors Treat Knee Pain?
While a general practitioner or a family practice doctor will be able to make a basic diagnosis, you will want to see an orthopedic doctor or even a knee surgeon if it is a knee injury that steps up to the level of needing surgical intervention.
How Do I Know if My Knee Pain Is Serious?
The Mayo Clinic advises that if your knee pain is the result of a “particularly forceful impact,” or if your injury is accompanied by fever, significant pain, redness, warmth around the knee joint, or tenderness, those are all signs of injuries that likely require medical treatment.
However, it also notes, “If you [have] had minor knee pain for some time, make an appointment with your doctor or health care provider if the pain worsens to the point that it interferes with your usual activities or sleep.”
Remember that some knee injuries, like an ACL tear, might not immediately hurt. Hearing a popping sound with a painless injury is a sign that you might have suffered a significant injury like an ACL tear.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Certainly, any of the advice above can guide you. Simply, if you do not feel that what you can do at home is enough to sufficiently address the pain you are experiencing, make an appointment with a doctor just to make sure.
What to Expect at Your Office Visit
Your doctor will ask you about your knee pain and try to ascertain when, where, and how it happened. Also, expect the doctor to visually and physically examine your knee to try to determine more about the pain you are experiencing.
Your medical history might figure into what is causing your knee pain, including past injuries, whether or not you have had past surgeries, or whether or not you have had cancer.
Aside from the localized look at your knee, expect the doctor to at least take vital signs and do a cursory check to make sure you are not feverish, have a high pulse rate, or are otherwise experiencing distress.
Imaging or Radiologic Tests
It is possible that your doctor will want to get a quick x-ray of your knee to rule out any major issues.
However, to get a really good look at what is going on with your knee, an MRI is the gold standard. It is likely your doctor will want one, especially if the doctor thinks a ligament or meniscus injury is involved.
Blood tests might be necessary — including testing your uric acid levels if your doctor suspects that gout might be the culprit.
Removal of Joint Fluid (Arthrocentesis)
If there is joint fluid that needs to be drained (for lab testing, to relieve pain, or both), your doctor might do an in-office procedure called an arthrocentesis, using a needle to remove fluid.
It is also possible that in this procedure, the doctor will inject corticosteroids into the joint to address knee pain — though, for some types of knee issues, steroid injections might not be the answer.
It is possible that your symptoms match more than one diagnosis, so doctors might start with differential diagnoses and then aim to narrow it down to the diagnosis that appears correct.
Stronger Painkillers or Medication
It is possible that you might need medication not available over-the-counter. This may stronger pain medications, muscle relaxants, or even allopurinol to reduce the uric acid levels in your blood.
Physiotherapy or Physical Therapy
It is possible that physical therapy, with the guidance of a professional leading you through various stretches and exercises, can help you resolve your knee pain issues.
Talking Therapies and Pain Management Programs
It is possible that talking therapy or other types of pain management programs are appropriate for your situation. If so, your doctor might point you to resources that will allow you to pursue those avenues.
Complementary and Alternative Therapies
Similarly, there might be additional therapies, like acupuncture, chiropractic treatment, massage, and yoga, that can go a long way toward addressing your knee pain.
Corticosteroid injections are not indicated for all types of knee pain. They can provide pain relief and even healing in some instances.
Some knee injuries, most notably ligament tears, will require surgery as a step toward overall healing. While the surgery itself will not take a great amount of time, the recovery process can be significant.
An ACL replacement, for example, requires about nine months for recovery. It employs a significant course of physical therapy in order to help a patient return to a full range of motion in the injured knee.
Can Knee Pain Come Back After Treatment?
There is always a chance that knee pain can return after an injury — or that the same knee can be reinjured following recovery. However, medical professionals can help set people on a course for recovery that heals the knee while strengthening the joint and the muscles around it.
Knee pain, in all its forms, can be intensely painful or insistently nagging at first. However, with treatment and time, a number of people find relief from the pain that ails them. Those people are typically able to resume all their activities.
The best way to prevent knee pain, aside from maintaining a healthy weight to keep stress off your knee joints, is maintaining a healthy level of exercise. This includes low-impact exercise, with plenty of stretching before and after to keep your muscles limber and responsive.
Some people swear by glucosamine and chondroitin, especially people who are getting older. A supplement should be just that, though – a supplement to healthy and principled choices.
Working With Knee Pain
Some people have to try to carry out their daily duties while dealing with knee pain. If you are in that boat, make sure that you are taking the proper precautions to try not to make your injury worse.
Rest and elevate your leg as much as you can, try not to directly put pressure on your knee joint, and avoid activities that cause you discomfort. It can be challenging, though: Sometimes, the simple act of driving a car can cause you to bend or flex your knee in a way that troubles you.
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The leadership vacuum in Greece’s pro-Europe parties is hard to disguise. Yesterday I was watching late statesman Constantine Karamanlis’s historic speech in 1976 in Parliament, when he said, “We belong to the West.” The statement effectively pitted the conservative politician against popular sentiment in post-dictatorship Greece that had just started to be swept by a tsunami of populism.
And yet, a stubborn Karamanlis actually supported the obvious. He did not seek to flatter the masses and he did not go with the flow. He was up against Andreas Papandreou, the socialist founder of PASOK who liked to blame Karamanlis for choosing to make Greece a member of NATO and for aspiring to join what was then the European Economic Community (EEC).
I often wonder what the outcome would have been if Karamanlis had decided to put Greece’s membership of the EEC to a referendum. Most commentators agree that the result would have been far from certain. Today’s pro-European politicians lack bravado and leadership skills. They are not living up to the political challenges of the times. They never defended the need for bold, far-reaching reforms. Similarly, criticism of the government now leaves a lot to be desired. In order to avoid being labeled pro-bailout, they resort to populist arguments that have little credibility.
People want straight talk and clear messages. The vast majority who, as recent opinion polls have shown, want Greece to remain in the euro area feel that they have hardly any political representation at the moment. They are looking for individuals with credibility, experience and a meaningful strategy, individuals who can rise up against the spread of populism, the undoing of reforms, and against the prevalence of intolerant, extremist views.
Hardworking, tax-paying citizens concerned about the future of this country are seeking a political home where they can lay their hopes. They don’t want to wait for Greece to reach rock bottom before some messiah finally makes an appearance.
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There’s a website called DailyWorth that describes itself as “a community of women who talk money”, acting as a go-to source about personal finance.
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“Like Weight Watchers to dieting, and Cliff Notes to literature, DailyWorth makes complex financial concepts simple,” the website says.
The site, founded in 2009 by Amanda Steinberg, was born out of the realisation that women need solid advice, dished up in their own language, to get on top of their personal finances.
“DailyWorth seeks to empower women around the topic of finance… by providing an open and honest community of women who talk money,” the site says.
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“Home-Study Lesson: Doctrine and Covenants 17–19 (Unit 5)” Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Seminary Teacher Manual (2013)
“Home-Study Lesson: Unit 5,” Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Seminary Teacher Manual
This lesson will help students learn why repentance is necessary. It will help deepen their understanding of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. The more we understand about the sacrifice and obedience of Jesus Christ, the more our doubts about our ability to assist in God’s work will decrease.
Bring an interesting object to class, but do not let students see it. As class begins, tell students you have brought the object with you. Ask students if they believe you have the object even though they haven’t seen it.
Invite a student to read Doctrine and Covenants 17:2 aloud. Ask the class to follow along, looking for what the Three Witnesses needed to have before they could see the gold plates.
Why do you think the Three Witnesses needed to have faith before they could see the plates?
Invite a student to read Doctrine and Covenants 17:3–5 aloud. Ask the class to follow along, looking for what the Lord required the Three Witnesses to do after they saw the gold plates and other sacred objects.
What did the Lord tell the Three Witnesses they would need to do after they saw the gold plates and the other sacred objects?
What does the Lord require of us after we gain a witness of truth? (After we obtain a witness of the truth, we have a responsibility to testify of it.)
Invite the students to ponder what they know is true and how they can testify of those things.
Show students a piece of fruit, or show a picture of a piece of fruit. Ask them how we know when fruit is ready to eat. (Its appearance or other features indicate that it is ripe.)
Invite a student to read Doctrine and Covenants 18:6 aloud. Ask the class to follow along, looking for what the Lord said is ripening in iniquity.
What do you think it means that “the world is ripening in iniquity”?
What evidence do you see that this is occurring?
Invite students to read Doctrine and Covenants 18:10 (part of a scripture mastery passage) silently, looking for how the Lord feels about all people, even those who are ripening in iniquity. Next, ask them to read Doctrine and Covenants 18:10 aloud, in unison, multiple times until each member of the class can recite it from memory.
How does the Lord feel about His children?
How could knowing this influence how you treat those around you?
How can someone come to know that he or she is of great worth to God?
Point out that in many situations the worth of an object is determined by how much someone is willing to pay for it. You may want to display a few objects of differing value to illustrate this point. Invite a student to read Doctrine and Covenants 18:11–12 aloud. Ask the class to follow along, looking for the price the Savior paid for our souls.
What price was paid for our souls? Why was it paid? (You may want to write the following principle on the board: The worth of every individual is so great that Jesus Christ suffered and died so we can repent and return to Heavenly Father.)
What does repentance have to do with coming unto the Savior?
To help students better understand how repentance helps us come unto the Savior, ask a student to read aloud the following passage from True to the Faith:
“Repentance is much more than just acknowledging wrongdoings. It is a change of mind and heart that gives you a fresh view about God, about yourself, and about the world. It includes turning away from sin and turning to God for forgiveness. It is motivated by love for God and the sincere desire to obey His commandments” (True to the Faith: A Gospel Reference , 132).
Encourage students to contemplate any sins, behaviors, and attitudes they may need to turn away from in order to repent and come unto Christ.
Write the following scripture reference on the board: Doctrine and Covenants 18:13–16.
Invite a few students to take turns reading these verses aloud while the class follows along. You may want to suggest that students mark any form of the word repent in these verses (repenteth and repentance). After each verse is read, ask the class what that verse teaches about repentance. You could point out that Doctrine and Covenants 18:15–16 is a scripture mastery passage.
Add the truths that students identify to the board. Students may identify a variety of principles, but make sure it is clear that if we help others to repent and come unto the Lord, we will feel joy with them in the kingdom of God.
Invite students to think about what it might be like when they return to God’s presence to be judged. Ask them how they plan on preparing for that great event. Invite a student to read Doctrine and Covenants 19:4 aloud. Ask the class to follow along, looking for what we should do to prepare for that day.
According to this verse, what happens if we choose not to repent?
Invite students to silently read Doctrine and Covenants 19:13–19. Ask them to look for the consequences for those who choose not to repent.
According to Doctrine and Covenants 19:16–19, what reason did the Savior give for why He suffered for our sins? (You may want to add the following doctrine to those on the board: The Savior suffered for our sins so we could repent and not have to suffer as He did.)
Consider showing the students a picture of the Savior in Gethsemane, such as Jesus Praying in Gethsemane (Gospel Art Book , no. 56; see also LDS.org). Explain that most accounts of Jesus Christ’s suffering are given by someone other than Himself (see Matthew 26:36–39; Luke 22:39–44), but Doctrine and Covenants 19 contains the Savior’s personal account of His suffering.
Invite students to review Doctrine and Covenants 19:18–19 silently, looking for how the Savior described the suffering He experienced during the Atonement.
Write the following two questions on the board:
Invite students to choose one of the questions and discuss their answer with a partner.
Invite students to sing or listen to the words of the hymn “I Stand All Amazed” (Hymns, no. 193). Ask them to ponder the words of this hymn and think about what the Savior has done for them.
If time allows, invite students to share their testimonies about the Savior and the blessings of repentance. Encourage them to act on any feelings or promptings they have had to repent and come unto the Savior.
To conclude this lesson, invite students to recite Doctrine and Covenants 19:23 from memory or read it in unison from their scriptures. Ask how they think this scripture mastery verse relates to repentance and the hope of forgiveness.
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An active lifestyle is a healthy lifestyle. Unfortunately, you can’t always get to the gym or go for a run before work. But what you can do is perform a few basic exercises while you’re at work to keep you healthy, stress-free, and mentally engaged. Here are five exercises you can do during the workday.
If you have a spare moment to yourself, try shadow boxing. It’s a great cardio workout, and the action itself can prove very helpful for releasing some of the built-up workplace stress. Simply raise your fists in front of you in a boxing-style position, then punch outward with alternating fists. Continue for as long as you’d like — just make sure there’s no one in front of you!
Water Bottle Weights
Use a pair of full water bottles as makeshift dumbbells. Perform the same exercises you would do with free weights: bicep curls or shoulder presses, for instance. You’ll be surprised at the workout you get, and you have refreshing hydration ready to go the moment you’re done.
If you have a chair on hand that doesn’t roll, try performing leg raises. Sit up straight and extend your legs out in front of you, parallel to the ground. Now, lower them until your heels are just a few inches off the ground and hold your legs there for a count of 10 seconds. Relax, then repeat as necessary.
Shoulder shrugs are as simple as they sound. Stand up straight (or sit) and lift your shoulders toward your ears. Hold at the peak position for five seconds, then relax and repeat. To up the ante a bit, you can hold weights of some kind — water bottles, reams of paper, etc. — in your hands while performing the exercise.
Sit-Ups and Push-Ups
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Yuen says that scheduling is crucial to ensure that everyone’s wants are revered. She spends the night at Adam’s home a couple of nights each week, and the the rest of her week at her own home with Charlie, while the trio have their Sunday film nights collectively each week. Lea spends per week or more together with her anchor associate each couple of months, and sees one other companion, who lives in Dublin, each weekend. Until lately, she had a 3rd associate, who she would spend time with each different day. That stated, I would actually, actually, REALLY strongly advise against showing your companion the jars, bringing them up throughout a struggle or a relationship speak or even sharing the experiment in any respect. This exercise is NOT meant to be accomplished as a means of “grading” your partner or making them change their behaviour.
Why is polyamory illegal?
Polyamory is not a legally protected status, like being straight or gay. You can lose your job for being polyamorous. Courts can use it against you in child custody proceedings. Polyamory and non-monogamy take many different forms.
Some polyamorous relationships could prioritize one relationship, corresponding to a wedding. Others keep away from prioritization and focus attention equally on all companions. These types https://blogs.adb.org/blog/turning-mongolia-orange-behavior-change-communication-against-domestic-violence of polyamory are generally recognized as hierarchical and nonhierarchical, respectively. I realized that that is the third person who has tried so far me whereas in a poly relationship.
Support One Another
This includes listening to your partner’s needs and wishes. With open relationships, there’s a “major companion https://bestadulthookup.com/hot-or-not-review/,” who receives the lion’s share of affection and attention; everyone else is ancillary.
What is a Throuple?
As you’ve probably figured out, “throuple” is a combination of the words “three” and “couple.” The term refers to three people who are linked in some way by a romantic or sexual relationship or both.
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You might be wondering how a polyamorous relationship differs from extramarital affairs or cheating on your partner. Communication is significant in any sort of relationship – whether or not it’s a monogamous romantic relationship, a friendship, a relationship with a family member, or even a relationship with a co-worker. Ultimately, the presence of a metamour doesn’t necessarily threaten your relationship along with your companion – it’s attainable on your partner to want, worth, and care for a number of people without delay. Contrary to what many individuals think, polyamorous individuals can undoubtedly get jealous.
Can a monogamous person be with a poly?
My short answer – yes, it is possible. However, to make a polyamorous /monogamous relationship work takes partners who are secure in themselves and their choices, secure in the relationship, good communicators and willing to work.
Many monogamous individuals assume that both jealousy should be ever-present in polyamorous relationships, or polyamorous people don’t experience it. In fact, polyamorous folks probably experience jealousy no kind of than monogamous individuals; nonetheless, because they could encounter it more usually, they might be practiced at examining and processing emotions of jealousy.
Know That Its Okay To Experiment With Polyamory
Relationship specialists suggest reassuring your partner that you just nonetheless care about them. Express your reasons for wanting to strive polyamory while also assuring them that you are dedicated to the relationship. Polyamorous individuals, however, focus on fostering romantic relationships. Polyamorists may also be swingers or attend swinger parties.
How many people can be in a poly relationship?
Depends on the relationship. Some poly relationships, called “polyfidelity” relationships, have rules not much different from a traditional monogamous relationship, only there are more than two people involved.
Polyamory has come to be an umbrella time period for various forms of non-monogamous, multi-partner relationships, or non-exclusive sexual or romantic relationships. Its usage displays the alternatives and philosophies of the people involved, but with recurring themes or values, similar to love, intimacy, honesty, integrity, equality, communication, and commitment.
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This entails loss and grief, even if finally the joy of getting a sibling outweighs the loss of the mother and father’ total devotion. With an open relationship, it’s inevitable that there will be some loss and grief when someone who had a monopoly on their partner’s romantic consideration has to share that standing with another lover. Stephanie M. Sullivan is a Limited Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist together with her own non-public follow, Attunement LLC. She is predicated in St. Joseph, MI, however sees shoppers all over the state of Michigan by way of teletherapy. As a therapist, Stephanie specializes in nervousness, self-care, trauma, sexuality, polyamorous relationships, and other forms of consensual non-monogamy. She also presents speaking engagements, schooling, and session. A frequent mistake people make when opening up their relationship to polyamory is considering it’s going to repair whatever issues you currently have together with your associate.
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Cats have fascinated humans for millennia. From their earlobes to their wagging tails, it’s hard for us humans to ignore the mystery and beauty of cats. And if you’re looking for some amazing cat facts to share with your cat-loving friends, we’ve got just the thing.
1-A cat that blinks slowly at you shows its confidence
Cats, like many other representatives of the animal world, use their eyes as one of the ways to convey their feelings. You may have seen two cats looking at each other as if they were about to fight, you may have also noticed a cat looking intently into your eyes, and he may have even threatened you a bit.
It turns out that in the cat world, direct and prolonged eye contact is a sign of threat or defiance, while a cat that blinks slowly at you means it’s showing you trust and love.
If you’re meeting a cat for the first time, you should first be prepared to study it, and if it senses that you’re not a threat, it will eventually look away and blink slowly, conveying its trust to you.
2- Gloom can tell you a lot
While it seems obvious that the average cat should purr, we never really think about why they do it. It turns out that growling is a very common way to communicate different emotions and even minor requests. First of all, cats purr when they are completely satisfied with what happens to them; when the cat is in his favorite place, has a person he trusts, is not hungry and is slowly falling asleep, he will not miss the opportunity. Share his content with the world.
There are also cases where cats purr for the exact opposite reason: when they are hungry. Studies have shown that this is a different type of sound, although it is also recognized as a whisper. The hungry growl is slightly merged with the sound of a crying human baby (probably so that the human is ready to respond immediately to its owner’s needs). This means you have to be more careful not to miss their cat’s lunch.
Little kittens, even when they are only a few days old, purr to let their mother know they are doing well. On the other hand, mother cats use the same sound to soothe their babies. You could say that purring is a cat’s lullaby. And it’s not surprising that sometimes a cat can easily put an adult to sleep by purring.
Sometimes cats growl when they are nervous or even in pain. Various studies have shown that in addition to calming a cat, purring can help heal bones and wounds by making breathing easier. Not surprisingly, cats are good survivors, especially after a fall from height.
A good cat will also try to use the magical power of its purr on a sick person, and the healing effect is sometimes shocking, you just have to trust your pet’s best intentions.
3- Cats only meow at people
Cats are capable of making about 100 different sounds to communicate with each other. They moan, whisper, yap, howl and growl. But it turns out that meowing, which we think of as the most obvious way cats communicate, is not particularly natural for these creatures.
Research has shown that meowing was developed as a way for cats to communicate with humans and is an adaptation of the cat’s natural voice to human language. In a feral cat society, you won’t hear any meowing and you’ll never see a cat meow unless it has been raised around humans and developed this habit from a young kitten.
4- The cat rubs its face against you
It’s no secret that cats are not like dogs. They are not as loyal as dogs, they are unlikely to show you affection and probably stick to the behavioral pattern of master and slave because you are the last. However, they are not completely heartless.
Sometimes, if you really and truly deserve it, your cat can be kind enough to express certain feelings, rubbing his face against your leg is the most obvious sign that your cat loves you. Cats also express their love for each other or greet their partners after some time of separation by touching, so it is a kind of analogue of human hugs.
5- Cats and boxes. What’s the problem?
The strange feeling cats have for boxes is no secret. You may buy tons of special toys for your pet and probably only see indifference and disdain in his bored eyes. But try leaving an empty box, small, large, new or old, smelly and rotten, and you’ll give your cat the best gift imaginable. So what’s the problem with these boxes? Many researchers have tried to solve this mystery, and there is still no clear answer.
Some of them say that cats, being natural predators, like to hide in boxes, as if it’s easier for them to hunt from there, although if you’ve ever seen a cat in a box, you can’t see any desire to do anything but sleep in their eyes. . Others say that boxes that simulate indoor spaces help reduce a cat’s stress level, which seems like a more logical explanation.
Another explanation is that the boxes help cats stay warm. Cats are known to be more tolerant of higher temperatures than humans, and are probably just trying to make sure they don’t catch a cold during a long nap in the box.
6- Cats dream like humans
You may have seen your cat behaving strangely while sleeping: shivering, moving its paws, sometimes even smiling. It turns out that dreaming is quite normal for cats. With an average of 16 to 18 hours of sleep per day, cats need much more than they actually get.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, at least one case involving the newer omicron variant has been confirmed within the state, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH).
Lab sequencing has confirmed an Albany County adult with recent domestic travel is infected with the omicron variant of COVID-19. Confirmation is pending for a second Albany County adult presumed to also be infected with the omicron variant. Both cases were initially identified by a University of Wyoming laboratory with WDH involved with confirmation.
“With the quick spread of this variant across the nation, including within some of our neighbor states, we are not surprised with this result and expect there are other cases within Wyoming that haven’t yet been identified,” said Dr. Alexia Harrist, state health officer and state epidemiologist with WDH.
Harrist said there is much still to learn about omicron and its potential impact over time, but she is concerned about how easily and quickly the variant appears to be transmitted between people.
“We continued to encourage vaccination, including recommended booster doses, as the best and most effective strategy to counter COVID-19,” Harrist said.
All COVID-19 vaccine doses, including boosters, continue to be offered at no cost.
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A cycle lane on a road through a park in Edinburgh is regularly being blocked by drivers parking there – with the vehicles’ owners then getting out and riding static bikes as part of open-air fitness classes they are attending, claims the person who took the above photographs.
Twitter user Dave McCraw, who says the issue highlights the lack of safe cycling provision in the city, posted pictures of cars parked in the cycle lane plus a fitness class with participants pedalling on static bikes.
“We're struggling to reduce soaring traffic volumes in Edinburgh,” he wrote.
“Something that doesn't help is making it legal to park over cycle lanes to do stationary bike riding in the park.”
We're struggling to reduce soaring traffic volumes in Edinburgh.
Something that doesn't help is making it legal to park over cycle lanes to do stationary bike riding in the park.
Others found the whole spectacle rather bizarre.
They drive to the park, park in the cycle lane, then use the exercise bikes? That is so stupid it's hilarious. 🤣😡😢
— Bob (@bobajobbobby) May 30, 2022
Situated in Marchmont in the south of the Scottish capital, Melville Drive runs along the southern edge of The Meadows and the northern side of Bruntsfield Links.
A number of companies run fitness classes on The Meadows including Be Military Fit and Fitness trainers operating on the Meadows include Punk Fitness and Be Military Fit.
Fitness instructors operating in Edinburgh’s parks and other greenspaces are required to have permission from the council to hold classes there.
City of Edinburgh Council – now controlled by a minority Labour administration with the support of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats – says that registration is required to enable it to better manage such facilities.
Cycle lanes are covered by Rule 140 of the Highway Code, which governs the use of so-called “mandator” cycle lanes, separated from the main carriageway by a solid white lane, and “advisory” cycle lanes, which have a broken white line.
Rule 140 says:
You must not drive or park in a cycle lane marked by a solid white line during its times of operation. Do not drive or park in a cycle lane marked by a broken white line unless it is unavoidable.
Local restrictions on parking and waiting also apply – in this case a single yellow line, with Mr McCraw pointing out in a response to a comment on his original post that the issue was not so much people parking where they are allowed to, but rather that it highlights the inadequacy of much of the cycling infrastructure in the city.
No, I'm moaning that we've built cycle lanes that people can park on.
— Dave McCraw (@david_mccraw) May 29, 2022
What’s the point in a cycle lane that the very vehicles they aim to separate cycles from can (legally) make completely redundant?
— Deacon Thurston 🚴♂️ (@DeaconThurston) May 30, 2022
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him. | <urn:uuid:e9be27a2-c12e-4a33-887d-037218a27652> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://cdn.road.cc/content/news/parked-cars-block-cycle-lane-while-owners-ride-static-bikes-293161 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954398 | 771 | 1.5 | 2 |
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«In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.»
Author: Primo Levi
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, Grain of salt
, The wheel
«Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress»
«A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.»
Author: H. G. Wells
, Reasonable man
«And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.»
«When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.»
«And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.»
«A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends»
«This late dissension grown betwixt the peersBurns under feigned ashes of forged loveAnd will at last break out into a flame.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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I’ve worked with kids for almost 20 years and there are certain experiences that stick in my mind as truly magical. The common thread between all of them is some kind of process art that is almost always lead by the kids. I am a firm believer in process art, especially for young children. It’s something that, unfortunately, so many kids don’t get to experience very often, if at all. I would define process art as a creative experience that has no expectations or determined outcome. It’s about the experience! Here is a great pinterest board for tons of process art activities to check out. Having two toddlers, pretty much all the art we do is process art, but I recently had an experience that really reminded me of how important process art is for kids of all ages.
My dear friend Lindsay stopped by for a visit the other day and I am sooo glad she did. My girls were asleep, which gave us the perfect time to chat it up in the playhouse while her beautiful children, Chelsea, almost 4 and Nate, 7, were able to dabble in whatever happened to be laying around the playhouse. I recently had some kids over for an art play date so there were a lot of materials to chose from. As my girlfriend and I caught up, the kids were pretty much on their own to create and explore. There was no plan, except for the moms to find some time chat, which as we all know, is no easy feat with kids around. I was very thankful mine were asleep!
What happened over the next hour amazed and inspired me. The kids created the most gorgeous outdoor wonderlands I have ever seen. I couldn’t believe my eyes. They painted. They drew. They stamped. They sprayed water. They collected leaves and sticks. They squeezed glitter glue. They added birds. You name it, they did it. It was the most incredible creative process that brought forward such a wonderful sense of exploration and peace. Lindsay and I just kept peeking over, trying to contain ourselves. We barely said a word. We didn’t want to interrupt their flow. That’s the thing about process art for kids. It can be so subtle and so rich. I think one of the key’s is interesting materials. Paint is always good and there are so many different kinds. Adding bits of nature to art is totally inspiring for children. Having unusual objects around is a nice touch as well. For these kids, the birds were a big draw. All of a sudden Chelsea’s paint puddle became a beautiful blue lagoon, where her little birdie could rest her tired feet. Each world they created told such a distinct story. It was truly an experience to behold.
One of my favorite things about process art is that the kids decide when they are done. Nate added so many layers to his scene. He started with stamping and with each passing moment his world began to take shape. To some, it might look like a mess, but this was no mess! It was purposeful, insightful, engaged creativity. So thank you Nate and Chelsea, for giving your mom and her artsy fartsy friend a fantastic afternoon. We got to chat and we got so much more! | <urn:uuid:c26b6876-5ffa-4825-a424-f18ef7f3fc27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mericherry.com/2014/01/11/process-art-for-kids-its-no-mess/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.987199 | 669 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Vision from 2050
Freedom of movement for all – adults and children – is a hallmark of a ConnectedCity. Moving between towns is as easy. There are frequent inter-town services 24/7, and many towns have personal rapid transit.
All new development is close to a station and walkable using protected well-lit routes. Reaching the hub from any station takes no more than 15 minutes, so even the longest journey within the city generally takes less than an hour.
Bikes and small electric vehicles move freely about the city using the cycle network, which is safe and popular.
People still use cars and vans, but mainly to travel to places not on the rail network. Car ownership is low as it’s easier and cheaper to travel by public transport or taxi, and hire a car when needed.
Comfortable walking, cycling and other on-demand means of travel make movement within a Connected Town simple and attractive.
Movement between the Connected Towns of a ConnectedCity is normally by fast and frequent rail services, which are easily accessed via the local transport.
The hub towns are the stopping points of express rail services, although some still run from metroplis to metropolis. Travel by car and coach has increased, but the greatest increase has been in travel by rail, on both the new high-speed lines and the heritage lines. Domestic flights are between mega cities.
New High Speed rail was not a necessary part of ConnectedCities, but helped by:
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Need First Aid was established in 2006 and is the brainchild of Martin Graham. Martin was born in 1969 and started out by joining the British Red Cross Society at the age of 10. Martin was inspired at a young age for the passion and need for First Aid. After becoming a trainer from the age of 17 and developing his skills & qualifications over the years has given him expert knowledge of what first aid is all about. This now reflects in his teaching, of what can be a complicated subject into a way of putting across a subject to candidates whereupon keeping first aid “sweet and simple” for people to follow, but giving them the understanding of ‘why’ we need to use it.
With over 30 years of providing medical cover at events including TV & Film, British Championship Motocross, High Speed Kart Racing, BMX Racing (as seen at the Olympics), Boxing, Equestrian, Rugby and Football to name only a few, means that Martin has the ability to deliver a course with the knowledge and understanding of using First Aid procedures in real life situations.
Along side First Aid, Martin has worked across the Care Industry in Residential & Nursing Homes, the Domiciliary Care Sector, Mental Health Units and Learning & Physically disabled care homes. Combined with the relevant qualifications, Martin can deliver a ‘People Moving Handling Couse’ with the inside working knowledge of how the Industry works. This gives him a greater understanding when delivering the course to a nursing home, residential home or a group of homecare workers.
Having children himself and teaching into schools, pre-schools and Nurseries, Martin has also the understanding and knowledge to deliver the criteria required for the Level 3, two-day / 12-hour Paediatric First aid course and therefore help childcare settings work towards Mille’s Mark. | <urn:uuid:1c9b608f-5cfb-4ec9-a0e9-ab7b4ecda4a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sitebuilder48921.dynadot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959994 | 373 | 1.5625 | 2 |
People often spend a lot of time talking about how to recognize bad relationships, but what exactly makes a healthy relationship? In a happy relationship, both partners try to empathize with each other and understand each other’s perspectives, rather than constantly trying to be right. Partners in healthy relationships usually talk about everything that is going on in their lives.
Healthy, lasting relationships, whether friendships or romantic partnerships, require the ability to communicate well. By showing respect for your partner, you can build trust and increase communication, which can form a healthy foundation for the relationship. When a partner takes the time to communicate with his partner about something that is important to him, we must recognize that it is important to maintain a relationship in the long term.
Addressing problems early in the relationship gives both partners the opportunity to solve problems and develop healthy habits that are important for a long, lasting and satisfying relationship, such as mutual respect and understanding.
Couples Rehabs believes there are a few things are crucial to a happy, healthy relationship and that it will help you and your partner understand each other. Taking a healthy relationships type quiz can help you understand what healthy relationships are and what positive effects a healthy romantic relationship can have on your health and well-being. You don’t have to be romantic to enjoy the benefits of a healthier relationship. Think about the qualities you value in a friendship and see if they fit into your relationship, and if so, what do you think about them?
If you have these tendencies, it is important to work on them, because strong, healthy communication is the elixir of life that nurtures a good relationship. A healthy relationship is characterized by recognizing problems, including your own, that can jeopardize the long-term success of the relationship, and that is fine. Conversations are crucial if you want to maintain healthy relationships, especially those that meet people’s needs.
A truly healthy relationship is that you and your partner are able to learn and develop the relationship as it continues to improve.
In a healthy relationship, it is vital that you and your partner support each other in their goals and ambitions in life. If you are struggling in a relationship and feel that you have what it takes to fall in love, you may forget that your relationship with your partners improves with the improvement. This article explains how traits that fit into the traditional narrative of what love is and should be are actually necessary ingredients for lasting relationship success. Let us see what healthy relationships are, why they are so important and what you can do to build better relationships in your life!
How to Build Healthy Relationships
A healthy relationship is a relationship filled with happiness, joy and, above all, love. A healthy relationship is a place where you feel comfortable and safe; it is a relationship where there can be no fear.
A healthy relationship includes shared desire, shared control over decisions – and shared desires. A relationship that thrives does so because both partners are willing to devote time and energy to the health of the relationship. Being aware of where your relationship is on a scale of healthy and unhealthy behaviors can help you and your partner build strength and work on weaknesses to improve them. There is no question that a healthy relationship is one in which you, as an individual, are supported by your partners, both in life and in relationships.
A healthy relationship is a broad term, because what makes a relationship flourish depends on the needs of the people in the relationship. Part of the definition of a healthy relationship is to share exactly what you want and where you both want to go.
It depends on how well you communicate your needs and intentions to your partner. If you expect them to respond positively to what you say, you don’t want to share your feelings with them.
In a healthy relationship, it is possible to disagree about something, but it is important to find a way to compromise when you disagree. Disagreements are a natural part of healthy relationships, and they should not be allowed to get in the way of a mutually respectful way, so that one does not disagree. In every relationship there are times when there are differences of opinion, otherwise you are happy and in a healthier relationship.
This does not mean that we need to lower our standards of what constitutes a healthy relationship. Healthy boundaries in a relationship allow you to still do the things that matter to you, such as going out with friends and maintaining privacy while sharing important things with your partner. Unfortunately, family can also afflict us, and that is why we have developed the Healthy Relationship quiz to help you figure out what a healthier relationship is once and for all.
Bipolar disorder is a mental condition that causes a wide range of mood disorders, including depression, anxiety and anxiety disorders. It is caused by a combination of two different types of mental illness, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
A person with bipolar disorder alternates between severe depressive episodes and short-term periods of mild depression. People may also experience mild to moderate episodes of moderate depression and mild to moderate anxiety in people with Bipolar disorder, but some may never experience a major manic or depressive episode. There is also major depressive disorder that is it’s own type of mental illness.
If you have bipolar disorder in cycling, you may have had or have had it in your life, such as depression, anxiety, depression and anxiety disorders.
If you have fast cycling bipolar disorder, such as bipolar depression or Bipolar disorder in people with schizophrenia, then you may have had a previous bipolar episode or two or three bipolar episodes in the past.
It is important to know that there are different types of bipolar disorder, such as rapid cyclic bipolar disorder and rapid bipolar depression in cycling.
People with one of the two types of bipolar disorder may have the following symptoms depending on whether they are experiencing a manic or depressive phase. For example, bipolar depression is more likely to include both manic and depressive episodes, as well as a mix of depressive and manic episodes. A depressed bipolar person may differ from a person with unipolar depression who has a mixed depressive episode of depression type, which includes both bipolar and non-bipolar episodes of depression and other depressive symptoms.
Depression, anger and borderline personality disorder can mimic mixed bipolar episodes, so doctors should be careful to distinguish between these disorders.
How this differs from depression is that people with bipolar disorder also experience at least one manic episode. In fact, people with depression and bipolar disorder have a higher rate of manic episodes than those with unipolar depression or bipolar 2 disorder.
Individuals in bipolar-2 may have more than one depressive episode of depression, as well as a mix of depressive and depressive episodes of bipolar episodes.
If someone has not been officially diagnosed but has experienced a manic episode since taking antidepressants, this may indicate bipolar disorder rather than depression.
Since clinical depression does not develop and can turn into bipolar disorder, a person who has previously been diagnosed with depression may find that they actually have a different type of bipolar disorder.
For example, if you have suffered from depression in the past and have had an episode of mania at some point, you may be diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder.
This may not fit your earlier diagnosis of depression or unipolar depression, but it fits bipolar – 2 disorder or bipolar.
While manic episodes of bipolar disorder can be severe and dangerous, people with bipolar II disorder can be depressed, which can cause significant impairment.
At the same time, a person with a manic episode, such as grief or even joy, has the potential to trigger a depressive episode in someone with severe depression or bipolar disorder.
The transition from bipolar depression to mania or hypomania is a particular risk that requires a different approach to treating unipolar depression.
While antidepressants remain a key pillar of treating sadness in bipolar disorder, prescribing doctors must remain vigilant, as there is evidence that antidepressants can trigger manic or near-manic (or “hypomanic”) episodes and cause a rapid cycle of mood disorders.
Indeed, there was some concern that antidepressants can worsen bipolar disorder by triggering mania and hypomania, and by causing a rapid – cyclical mood disorder – stabilizing medication.
People with bipolar disorder are less likely to seek help if they are depressed than people without the disorder.
However, given the increased risk of suicide in bipolar disorder, anyone with what is known as bipolar disorder, which shows symptoms of worsening depression, should seek help as soon as possible, regardless of the symptoms.
If you suffer from bipolar disorder, you can learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of manic episodes and their approaching episodes.
If you have a manic episode, clinical depression should be diagnosed immediately, although you may have bipolar disorder.
A diagnosis is made if the patient has at least one manic episode and a history of depression, known as hypomania.
Bipolar II disorder, the person has bipolar I disorder but has never had manic episodes and is diagnosed if they have had at least one depressive episode or no depressive episodes in the last 12 months.
Sometimes referred to as manic depression, bipolar depression “can’t get out of bed, can’t follow a train of thought, speaks so fast and angry and talks too much,” Esposito said. Severe unipolar depression is characterized by a long history of manic episodes, such as one manic-depressive episode in the last 12 months.
Bipolar Depression Signs
There are several symptoms that you should be looking out for if you suspect yourself having Bipolar Depression. The symptoms of Bipolar Depression include: extreme sadness and/or low mood (sometimes, even low self-esteem), intense episodes of anxiety that can last for weeks or months, trouble managing daily tasks, and difficulty sleeping.
If left untreated, it can worsen to a point where the sufferer can’t maintain normal relationships or work. A manic episode includes feelings of being extremely happy and excited about things, while a depressive episode is marked by feeling sad or sorrowful about things.
It is important to note that Bipolar Disorder is a long-term condition that involves both brain chemistry and biological vulnerabilities. In order to better understand the symptoms and possible treatments, it is good to go through some of the treatment options available for this condition.
This includes medication, therapy, yoga, and herbal remedies. Each one addresses different symptoms and requires different medication and lifestyle changes. For instance, medication can help to balance chemicals in the brain to reduce the mood swings and help to stabilize moods.
Bipolar Depression often starts during childhood. Some of the classic signs of the condition include restlessness, difficulty concentrating, irritability, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.
Children with Bipolar Disorder are often difficult to handle because of their inattentiveness and emotional immaturity. However, children with Bipolar Disorder can learn to function on a regular basis as long as they receive appropriate treatment. In some cases, the condition is mild and it can be managed with therapy and medication.
People who have Bipolar Disorder can experience any or all of the following signs and symptoms: extreme emotional highs, deep sadness, chronic fatigue, and suicidal thoughts and/or attempts. Suicide is the third most common cause of death among people with Bipolar Depression.
Suicidal thoughts and actions are often connected with depressive symptoms. It is important to note that thoughts and actions related to suicide do not necessarily occur in isolation. Often times, people with Bipolar Disorder have co-occurring symptoms and they may even attempt suicide at the same time or later in life.
Another symptom of Bipolar Depression is hypomania. Some examples of hypomanic symptoms include feeling unusually talkative (that there is no “real” conversation), decreased concentration, racing thoughts, and increased sexual thoughts. The causes of hypomania are unclear and can range from drugs to nutritional deficiencies or possibly some kind of trauma.
When the cause(s) of hypomania are established, treating the imbalance that contributes to hypomania is the next step. Common treatments for hypomania include antidepressants, neuroleptic drugs, and beta-blockers. In some cases, hospitalization may be needed.
Bipolar Disorder Treatment
People who suspect they may be suffering from Bipolar Disorder are advised to get a proper diagnosis from a mental health care provider. This is done by a mental health professional who takes into account all the symptoms that are presented to them as well as their history of other illnesses.
Proper diagnosis can help prevent treatment mistakes that could prove costly. As is true with most diseases, if a person who thinks they may have this disorder is incorrectly diagnosed, it can result in the wrong treatment being prescribed. If treatment is started too early, it can have adverse effects on the patient.
Although it is possible to live with bipolar disorder for many years, it is also important to realize that living with bipolar disorder is not something that can be treated with a simple case of medicine and therapy. Although the disorder can be successfully managed with treatment, it is not curable.
In fact, bipolar depression and all the related symptoms greatly reduce a person’s quality of life. With this being the case, it is imperative that those who think they may be suffering from the disorder seek out medical treatment as soon as possible.
Bipolar depression is very similar to regular depression as the symptoms are very similar. The most noticeable symptoms are extreme mood swings, lack of interest in everyday activities, having trouble maintaining relationships, and sleeping too much or too little.
Couples Rehabs provides this information to help you make an important decision about your mental health. If you experience any of these symptoms and believe you may be suffering from Bipolar Disorder, you should contact your family physician to start an evaluation of your condition.
Common Questions about Bipolar Depression
Is There A Difference Between Bipolar Disorder And Bipolar Depression?
The main difference between the two is that depression is unipolar, implying that there is no “up” duration, however bipolar disorder includes symptoms of mania. To differentiate in between the two conditions, it helps to comprehend the symptoms of each one.
Can You Have Bipolar And Depression Together?
If you have bipolar affective disorder, you may alternate in between depression and hypomania or mania. You may also have durations in between when you have no signs It’s likewise possible to have the signs of mania and depression at the same time. This is called a blended bipolar state.
What Does A Bipolar Crash Feel Like?
You may feel helpless or sad and be less thinking about doing activities you normally enjoy. During these changes in state of mind and behavior, it’s not unusual to have extreme fatigue. Tiredness causes a total sensation of extreme tiredness and a lack of energy.
How Can You Tell If Someone Is Bipolar?
Both a manic and a hypomanic episode include three or more of these symptoms:
Abnormally upbeat, jumpy or wired.
Increased activity, energy or agitation.
Exaggerated sense of well-being and self-confidence (euphoria)
Decreased need for sleep.
Poor decision-making — for example, going on buying sprees, taking sexual risks or making foolish investments
Does A Bipolar Person Know They Are Bipolar?
So no, not everyone who has bipolar disorder understands they have it. There are lots of reasons why somebody with bipolar affective disorder might not understand it– or why they might deny having it even if they do. If you think somebody you know might have untreated bipolar disorder, there are a couple of things you can do to assist.
Can Someone With Bipolar Have A Normal Relationship?
You can absolutely have a healthy, pleased relationship with a partner who has been identified with bipolar affective disorder. The condition may bring both favorable and challenging elements to the relationship, however you can take steps to support your partner and to help them handle their symptoms.
Symptoms Of Mania or Hypomania In Males And Females Include:
feeling jumpy or irritated
having increased energy
having elevated self-esteem
feeling able to do anything
experiencing reduced sleep and appetite
talking faster and more than usual
having rapid flights of ideas or racing thoughts
being easily distracted
taking more risks, such as spending a lot of money or doing dangerous activities
Does Bipolar Get Worse As You Age?
Bipolar may intensify with age or with time if this condition is left untreated. As time goes on, an individual might experience episodes that are more serious and more regular than when signs first appeared.
What Are Bipolar People Like?
People with bipolar experience both episodes of severe depression, and episodes of mania– overwhelming delight, excitement or joy, substantial energy, a minimized requirement for sleep, and minimized inhibitions. The experience of bipolar is distinctively personal. No two individuals have exactly the same experience.
You have probably heard of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), an evidence-based psychotherapeutic treatment that focuses on changing negative thoughts and behaviours. There are several approaches to cognitive behavioural therapy, including cognitive behavioural therapy, cognitive behavioural medicine and behavioural psychology. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is not a treatment with scientifically proven benefits for depression, anxiety or other mental illness.
CBT is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on how a person’s thoughts, beliefs and attitudes affect their feelings and behaviors. Perhaps the most well-known therapy of this kind is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), which is used in a variety of situations to help people understand themselves better. In short, the treatment of depression by CBT consists in the application of cognitive behavioural therapy with a therapist who helps to identify the causes of depression and other mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression. The therapist can combine cognitive behavioural therapy with other treatments, approaches or types of psychotherapy, depending on specific difficulties and circumstances.
Cognitive behavioural therapy has undergone many changes over the years, and it is challenging to write a complete list of CBT techniques, because cognitive behavioural therapy is characterised by many changes. The list below of cognitive behavioural therapies and techniques is not exhaustive, but includes some of the most popular and popular techniques for treating depression and other mental illnesses.
This article is intended to help you get information about cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and where to get it. This comprehensive article provides a list of the most popular cognitive behavioral therapies and techniques for depression and other mental illnesses. I have also linked to a number of other articles that might interest other people, like this one.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Definition
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is one of the best-studied forms of treatment for mental illness in depression and other mental illnesses. Cognitive behavioural therapy is a type of therapy where individuals take part in a series of sessions with a therapist to achieve real breakthroughs. In many cases, cognitive behavioural therapy is a relatively short-term treatment, where the client acquires certain skills and learns how his thoughts, emotions and behaviour affect others. By contrast, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBt) is usually a longer-term solution – an oriented treatment that is usually designed to help patients control or change certain behavioral or thinking patterns.
Cognitive behavioural therapy is a treatment that can help patients with one of many disorders and is a form of therapy. Each type of cognitive behavioural therapy takes a different approach, but there is no doubt that it is an effective treatment for depression, anxiety and other mental illnesses. This treatment addresses and thus addresses the underlying patterns of thinking that contribute to mental stress.
Cognitive behavioural therapy has a considerable amount of scientific data to support its use, and many mental health professionals have CBT training that makes them effective and accessible.
In individual counselling sessions, therapists can use cognitive behavioural therapy to help a person recognise the automatic thoughts that hold them in a cycle of addictive behaviour and contribute to their mental disorder. Cognitive behavioural therapy is recommended for the treatment of addiction, depression, anxiety and substance abuse disorders. Couples Rehabs works with many treatment facilities that offers CBT as part of their program.
It will help individuals to develop coping skills that can be used immediately and in the future to deal with destructive thoughts, emotions and behaviour. Learning the tools of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) allows you to recognize the types of automatic thoughts you have, and by studying and challenging them you can reduce or eliminate them. Cognitive behavioural therapy allows us to learn to change our way of thinking so that our sensations change, which in turn changes the way we see and deal with difficult situations when they occur. It can help us distort our thinking and perception, which in turn changes a person’s behavior for the better.
With an approach called cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), you can better control your situation and help yourself with cognitive behavioural therapy techniques. So I have given you an idea of what CBT can do for you, but what can we help you to apply its techniques?
CBT is a psychotherapy originally developed to treat mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. This therapy is also called cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) because it also uses behavioural techniques. It is called cognitive behavioural therapy, or orCBT, and although it has been around in one form or another since at least the 1960s, it is not entirely new.
CBT is considered a therapeutic approach that has some similarities, including the use of cognitive behavioural therapy and other forms of psychotherapy such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), but it exists in a different form from these. Cognitive behavioural therapy is used to treat a wide range of mental health problems, from depression and anxiety to anxiety, depression and substance abuse.
Common FAQ’s for CBT
What Does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Involve?
CBT treatment generally includes efforts to alter thinking patterns. These methods may include: Learning to recognize one’s distortions in believing that are producing problems, and after that to reassess them in light of truth. Acquiring a better understanding of the habits and motivation of others.
What Is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy And How Does It Work?
Takeaway. CBT is a form of psychotherapy where an individual discovers to change their perceptions, and how they see things in their life. This can have a positive impact on habits and mood. CBT can help individuals with lots of problems, ranging from depression to chronic pain.
What Are the Main Components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
There are three primary elements in cognitive behavior modification: cognitive treatment, behavior modification, and mindfulness-based therapies. Cognitive treatment focuses primarily on idea patterns as responsible for unfavorable psychological and behavioral patterns.
What Is CBT Not Good For?
Downsides of CBT
Due to the structured nature of CBT, it may not appropriate for people with more complex mental health needs or discovering troubles. As CBT can include facing your feelings and stress and anxieties, you may experience preliminary durations where you are more anxious or mentally uneasy.
Can I Do Cognitive Behavioral Therapy On My Own?
Numerous studies have found that self-directed CBT can be really efficient. 2 evaluations that each consisted of over 30 studies (see references listed below) found that self-help treatment considerably lowered both anxiety and depression, particularly when the treatments utilized CBT techniques.
For how long Does It Take For Cognitive Behavioral Therapy To Work?
A highly effective psychotherapy called cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on how our ideas, beliefs, and mindsets can impact our feelings and habits. Conventional CBT treatment generally requires weekly 30- to 60-minute sessions over 12 to 20 weeks.
Does CBT Really Work?
How reliable is CBT? It is among the most reliable treatments for conditions where anxiety or depression is the main problem. It is the most efficient mental treatment for moderate and serious depression. It is as efficient as antidepressants for lots of types of depression.
What Are The Three Pillars Of CBT?
There are 3 pillars of CBT, which are identification, acknowledgment, and management.
Women with postpartum depression typically start experiencing symptoms from the first few weeks of pregnancy, while some women reportedly experience decreasing mood from the last third of pregnancy to the early final weeks. Unlike the postpartum blues, which effects up to 75 percent of pregnant women for an extended period (usually 1 to 2 months after delivery), postpartum depression impacts an estimated 50 to 85 percent of all women for short durations (usually lasting from a few weeks to several months). Some women experience both the blues and the depression; in these cases, it is extremely important to seek medical help. It is recommended that women suffering from the depression see a doctor immediately to receive a proper diagnosis. The sooner a doctor can diagnose the condition, the sooner therapy can begin to address the issues at hand.
For some women, the onset of postpartum depression may occur just after childbirth. These women typically discuss the feeling of sadness, lack of energy and interest in everyday activities. These women may experience feelings of guilt and shame, believing that they have failed their babies. In addition to feeling sad, tired and lacking interest in life, they may experience a loss of interest in sexual intercourse. In more severe cases, they may experience complete detachment from their babies and fail to respond to their child’s needs and wants in any way.
It is estimated that 1 in 8 women experience postpartum depressive signs such as feeling unfortunate, cynical or upset, sobbing more often, trouble sleeping, feeling disconnected from the infant and fretting about harming the infant.
Signs of Postpartum Depression
Signs of maternal depression during the early advancement phases of a baby could lead to long-term issues such as impaired mental and motor development, behavioral issues, poor self-regulation and low self-confidence. Postpartum depression poses a danger to the child by resulting in risky behaviors in moms, consisting of:
Stopping working to participate in well-child sees or not inoculating babies.
Not placing infants to sleep in a face-up position as recommended.
Utilizing car seats incorrectly.
WHO IS AFFECTED?
The primary risk aspects for postpartum depression include previous depression, anxiety and/or mood disorders. Other danger factors include low social assistance, tension during pregnancy (including emotional, financial, partner-related or traumatic stress), distressing birth experience, tobacco use during pregnancy, and not breastfeeding, early cessation of breastfeeding or negative early breastfeeding experiences.
The Frequency Of Postpartum Depression is Higher Among:
American Indian/Alaska Natives and Asian/Pacific Islanders than non-Hispanic white ladies.
Mothers who are more younger than 24 years old than older moms.
Mothers with lower instructional achievement than those with college attainment.
Mothers who are unmarried than those who are married.
Mothers who smoked throughout the postpartum duration than those who did not smoke.
Mothers who gave birth to low birthweight babies and babies requiring NICU admission than those who did not.
Mothers who had three or more stressful life occasions in the year before birth than those who did not.
The good news is that this form of postpartum depression generally disappears within a matter of a few weeks. For some women, however, the symptoms persist and need additional help. This is when it is time to discuss perinatal depression with your health care provider. Your health care provider will be able to determine if there are treatment options available to help women experiencing this problem.
Postpartum Depression Help
If there is an apparent cause for the depression, your health care provider may recommend Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or Individual Psychotherapy. CBT is a well-established psychological treatment that helps individuals explore and resolve their feelings of depression. The goal of CBT is to help the patient identify and control negative thoughts and feelings, and replacing these with realistic, healthy thinking and a desire to help others. However, if the cause of the depression cannot be identified, or if the patient is experiencing significant difficulties overcoming deep feelings of sadness, frustration and lack of interest, an outpatient cognitive behavioral therapy is usually enough to provide mild relief.
PPD or postpartum depression also commonly occurs in women who have already given birth. When a woman gives birth, her hormones may drop significantly and she may experience depression that stems from the changes in her body. Low levels of estrogen have been associated with feelings of sadness and frustration, and research has also found that women who have experienced major traumas like abuse or the death of a loved one often struggle with postpartum depression.
The symptoms of postpartum depression can resemble those of major life stressors like the death of a spouse or friend, divorce, a move, a broken relationship, or the birth of a child. However, there are many new moms to be who report feeling nothing like their usual self after having a new baby in their lives. Many new moms report feelings of exhaustion, anxiety, and sadness. They may worry about how they will take care of their new baby, and some even worry about if their baby will be healthy. Some new moms even go as far as to say that the death of a baby could have possibly been one of the biggest factors why they developed postpartum depression.
If you are experiencing these feelings, then you should know that there is hope. A great way to get help for your feelings of postpartum depression is to go and see a doctor who deals with issues like this all the time. Doctors know how to treat feelings of postpartum depression because they deal with this type of disorder on a regular basis. They can provide you with valuable information and feelings of hope.
If you are looking for help for your postpartum depression because you have exhausted all other treatment options, then you need to know that there are two different types of treatments that you can use. There are medications that your doctor can give you that will help you feel better and combat the symptoms of your condition. Your doctor may also suggest psychotherapy and even lifestyle changes to help you through your feelings of postpartum depression. Whichever treatment plan you are on, it is important to remember that getting help now before your condition worsens is more important than ever.
Sometimes it is difficult to tell if you are a new parent, and sometimes it is harder to tell you that you are. While you might hear a woman say she had a baby out of the blue , which does not necessarily mean that she has postpartum depression. Often it can mean that the woman had a baby blues or, worse, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Sometimes a person with postpartum depression believes that they suffer from normal baby blues or even post-traumatic stress disorder immediately after birth.
Postpartum Depression Symptoms
Even when you see these symptoms, one of the symptoms of depression is self-doubt, and you may wonder if these feelings are related. If you have ever suffered from depression, postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis, are pregnant now and have depression, ask your doctor or family member if they are looking closely, especially if they have bipolar disorder or have been pregnant and have depression. Since a personal history of depression can increase the risk of postpartum depression, let your doctor know if he or she has struggled with depression or anxiety in the past.
If you are worried about postnatal depression, you should have your first postnatal examination as soon as possible after the birth of your child. If you are taking the time to see someone struggling with postpartum depression, talk to your doctor about it and make an appointment after the birth. Postpartum depression can last up to six months, a period when many mothers plan to return to work.
If you are in the first year after giving birth and are still suffering, you may also have postpartum depression or anxiety. Although the symptoms are mild, they can start when you have your first period after the placenta or when your baby is breastfed. If you are even wondering if you may be suffering from postpartum depression or postpartum anxiety, make an appointment with your obstetrician immediately. Also seek help from an expert if you have had depression (PPD) during pregnancy, as there is an increased risk of developing it.
If you have postpartum depression, your doctor may recommend antidepressant treatment or psychotherapy immediately after birth. The same tips for getting your baby out of the blue can also be very helpful if you have postpartum depression. Mothers with postpartum depression can receive similar treatment and support if they are treated like a father.
If you experience a baby becoming depressed out of the blue after birth, it is imperative that you ask yourself questions to find out which treatment might be the best for you. If you know you suffer from postpartum depression, you should know that you are not alone and that getting help is crucial.
If you have postpartum depression, quick treatment can help you manage your symptoms and improve the bond with your baby. If you notice any of the above symptoms after delivery, inform your doctor and make an appointment. Signs of depression often occur during and after pregnancy, and women are taught to recognize the symptoms of this depression and ask about it before and during childbirth. Call your doctor immediately if you notice symptoms such as anxiety, anxiety – such as feelings or lack of interest in your child’s life or health.
One of the best ways to relieve or avoid postpartum depression is to take care of yourself. If you are seeking advice on how to prevent this, it can be helpful to talk to yourself about thoughts that are troubling you.
Mothers and childbearing parents are not the only ones who can experience postpartum depression. It can also affect women who have recently given birth and people who have recently adopted a child.
While “baby blues” are perfectly normal, they can also lead to postpartum depression. If the symptoms do not disappear or get worse after a few weeks, postpartum depression can occur. It is the behaviour due to past or present stress that makes you feel that you are lacking stability and stability. There are different clasifications of depression, like major depressive disorder, so it is best to seek a medical professional to discuss your issues.
In order to be clinically diagnosed with postpartum depression, the symptoms of PPD must be present after birth in order to distinguish them from “baby blues.” Although it is critical for effective treatment to detect the signs early and contact the doctor, it can be just as important to distinguish between the baby blues and other symptoms, such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
DSMIV – TR states that postpartum depression usually begins 4 weeks after birth, but most researchers define postpartum depression as 6 months after birth. On the other hand, it can last up to a year and occur as early as three months or even two years after the birth of a child. Postpartum depression begins with the birth of the baby and often occurs in the first weeks of the baby’s life. Although symptoms of postpartum depression often occur within the first few months after birth, women remain at risk of PPD for the rest of their lives, even after giving birth.
Alcohol abuse in America, no one likes to believe that alcohol abuse will ever happen to them or to their spouse. However, with alcohol and other common substance addictions including gambling, pornography, and overeating, many married couples will find themselves having difficult conversations with their spouses regarding alcohol addiction. In fact, an estimated half of marriages in the United States are at risk for separation or divorce due to alcohol abuse. Separation and divorce rates are even higher in countries where substance abuse is a widespread problem. If you or a loved one is suffering from alcoholism or another addiction, you should seek treatment immediately.
Medication: Medication can be used during rehabilitation to treat alcohol abuse and addiction. Typically, patients are treated with medications such as Antabuse (Clomid), Clonidine (Anafranil), Clomid xR (Clomipramine), Buspar (Bactrim), or Zantac (Aralen). These medications are taken in an outpatient setting under the supervision of a psychiatrist or psychologist. However, some medication is only prescribed for severe cases and requires medical supervision. Other options include inpatient drug treatment programs. An inpatient rehab program is more intense, includes more inpatient time, and requires specialized treatment settings and staff members.
Child Custody Outcomes It is well known that there is a strong link between child abuse and substance abuse and poor child custody outcomes. Therefore, it is imperative that both parents participate in treatment to combat addiction and alcoholism. Treatment can include family counseling sessions, individual counseling and therapy, and support groups. A combination of therapy and counseling may prove to be beneficial for a struggling couple. Alcoholics will need to have regular personal counseling sessions to help them address the stress caused by addiction and realize that they have a problem. Unfortunately, some addicts refuse to participate in treatments and may even begin to pursue other ways to support their addiction.
Drug Test Results Alcohol abuse and substance abuse often produce withdrawal symptoms that can affect the children who participate in the drug-treatment programs. When a parent is involved in an alcohol or drug abuse treatment program, it is important to undergo a drug test during the course of treatment to screen for any potential drug abuse. When a drug test is performed during the course of treatment and the test results are positive, then custody decisions must be made. Child custody outcomes are affected by the severity of the addiction and abuse issues.
What is Alcoholism and Drug Abuse?
Substance Abuse and Addiction Alcohol abuse and substance abuse present unique challenges when making custodial custody decisions. One of the biggest challenges faced by divorced fathers and mothers is protecting the safety of their children while they are living with an addicted parent. Fathers must make sure that they do not have access to dangerous substances such as alcohol and tranquilizers that can severely affect their children if they consume them.
If you are interested in obtaining child custody or want to know if your ex-spouse has a substance abuse problem, then contact a family law attorney. These specialized attorneys will assess the situation and present relevant legal documents that will allow you to obtain custody of your child. They will also work with you and your ex-spouse to make sure that you both avoid future legal issues regarding substance abuse. They will also help you establish a schedule of treatment so that your child receives the proper medical attention when necessary. If substance abuse is a significant issue in the divorce proceedings, contact a family law attorney today.
Alcohol and drug abuse is an issue that affects millions of people in the United States, and being married to an alcoholic can make things even more difficult by interfering in your relationship and perhaps even leading to divorce. Substance abuse in marriage is never easy, but it is often a factor in the breakdown of a marriage and can often lead to family breakdown and divorce, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). If you have spent much of your marriage giving up alcohol to prevent your alcoholic spouse from becoming angry or violent, it is reasonable to worry that initiating a divorce could set your spouse back by causing him to drift deeper into alcohol abuse.
If you have to file for divorce because your spouse is addicted to alcohol or drugs, seek representation from a divorce attorney. You will be in a much better position when you file for divorce, but you should definitely consult an experienced divorce lawyer, as alcohol and / or substance abuse will be factored into the divorce, making your case even more complex. Do you have evidence of alcohol abuse that can be proven by friends or family members? Do I have video footage documenting his behavior or other evidence to support my allegations?
Try to seek counselling or contact a center through Couples Rehabs who has experience working with alcohol abuse issues. If your spouse is receptive to help, there may be support groups around you such as Alcoholics Anonymous or the substance abuse and mental health charity.
Does Alcoholism Cause Divorce?
Although alcoholism and divorce seem to go hand in hand, the end of marriage, if the individual is truly willing to seek help, may be the best way to deal effectively and appropriately with an alcoholic spouse. When you get to the point where you’ve tried everything And you see that there is no way to repair your marriage , then you should get some tips for divorce from your alcoholic spouse.
If a spouse’s drug or alcohol addiction leads to divorce, you can file for divorce through fault. Note the steps you and your spouse can take if you divorce an alcoholic, which can make the divorce process smoother.
In states where there are no culpable divorce laws, you have the option of filing for culpable divorce – divorce based on mental, emotional, or physical abuse that could be a valid reason if your spouse abuses alcohol. However, in most states, including Texas and New York, divorce can be filed solely on the basis of the spouse’s drug or alcohol abuse, not any other factor.
In states that still allow culpable divorce – based on divorce – you may be able to file for divorce because of your spouse’s substance abuse. State evidence of abuse of alcohol or drugs by your spouse as a valid reason for filing for a culpable divorce.
The good thing is that there is no way for a spouse to present evidence that can be considered as evidence of divorce from an alcoholic spouse. If you think it is obvious that your spouse has a serious alcohol problem, it may be harder than you thought to prove alcohol abuse in court. Life with an alcoholic spouse is never and will never be easy, but it has been and is.
If you decide to divorce your alcoholic spouse, child custody is likely to become a key issue and could become a point of contention. If you have children and are divorcing an alcoholic spouse, you may have questions about the evidence of alcoholism in a custody case. In most cases, a spouse with alcohol abuse will be given sole custody, even if they are divorced.
If you are married to an alcoholic, you may need to stop covering it up and consider divorce. If you married someone you knew and they were alcoholics and now want to cite alcoholism as the reason for divorce, that is likely to hold. Alcohol abuse is an important factor in getting what you want in a divorce: custody of the child, maintenance and financial support.
If a parent does not seek help for his alcohol abuse, it can lead to separation or divorce. Without professional help, the damage caused by drug and alcohol abuse can grow to such an extent that marriage is irretrievable.
Everyone wants to have a happy family, and divorce from an alcoholic spouse is one of the best things you can do when you see the family break up because of alcohol abuse. Some even try to separate from the marriage in order to divorce the alcoholic husband or wife, so as not to hold him responsible for things he has done financially or otherwise.
Divorce can also affect things like custody of children, so if you divorce because of alcohol or drug abuse problems, it can change the course of your divorce. Whether you are divorcing an alcoholic or a drug addict, you need to know what divorce laws are in place in your state to protect you and your children.
Depression or major depressive disorder is a common and serious illness that negatively affects our feeling, thinking, acting and behaviour. Depression, often referred to simply as depression, is more than just being sad or going through a difficult patch. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems that affect how we think about ourselves, depression (also known as major depression or clinical depression) and a wide range of mental health problems.
You will have persistent low mood for two weeks or more, especially in activities you normally enjoy, such as work, school, family, hobbies and social activities. Severe depression is a condition in which a person feels depressed due to a number of factors, including sleep disturbances, fatigue, feeling worthless or guilty, inability to make decisions, anxiety, irritability, lack of motivation, and low self-esteem.
Medicines and psychotherapy in combination with medications have been shown to be effective in relieving the symptoms of a severe depressive disorder. If you or someone you know has a symptom of depression, a trained therapist is available to help you, specializing in issues related to depression and mood disorders. Depression is likely to have an impact on a person’s quality of life, as well as on their health and wellbeing. The more symptoms that are present and incessant, the more certain one becomes about the diagnosis of severe depression.
Major Depressive Disorder Treatments
Most cases of major depressive disorder can be treated, but the more severe the depressive symptoms and functional limitations are, the worse the prognosis will be compared to those with major depressive disorder that is not associated with bereavement. Severe depressive episodes can also occur in persistent depressive disorders, but if they occur together, early treatment must be started as soon as possible. A severe depressive episode can precede a persistent depressive disorder, and a depressive symptom with functional impairments is more serious and effective in treatment than a mild depressive episode.
A licensed mental health professional or psychiatrist will conduct a clinical assessment to diagnose a person with a severe depressive disorder. If you have symptoms or are in any way associated with severe depression, seek help from a doctor. If you are using drugs or alcohol to self medicate your depression or anxiety contact Couples Rehabs to learn about treatment options.
A behavioral physician will use the criteria for depression listed in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) to determine whether your symptoms indicate a severe depressive disorder. A licensed physician, such as a psychiatrist or psychologist specializing in depressive disorders, is required. If the full criteria of a depressive episode during the current episode are met, you will be diagnosed with a depressive episode according to DSM-5.
To be diagnosed with a major depressive disorder, five or more of the following characteristics must be present, represent a change in your previous functioning, include symptoms such as depression, anxiety, irritability, loss of interest in life and / or depression, and represent or include changes in behavior, mood, or other aspects of your daily life. To be diagnosed with major depression, you must have five symptoms in total. All five symptoms must not have been caused by a substance or medical condition.
This section begins with the specific criteria required for the diagnosis of a particular depressive disorder. All depressive disorders vary in their extent, but this module highlights the most common and well-known form of depression, a major depression (sometimes referred to as unipolar depression).
Unipolar refers to an oscillating state of depression or mania, which refers to the difference between severe depression and bipolar depression. While bipolar disorder is characterized by alternately similar depressive episodes, a severe depressive disorder can be characterized by persistent sadness and general disinterest.
Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
A major depressive disorder is diagnosed when a person has a history of depressive episodes of at least two or more episodes per year and when the depressive mood is so strong that it is better explained by schizoaffective disorders, but is not overshadowed by schizophrenia, delusions or psychotic disorders. A depressive episode can last for several weeks or even months, after which it can be alleviated and lead to the appearance of other symptoms such as anxiety, irritability, depression, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, hallucinations, paranoia, etc. The major depressive disorders are not considered as “severe depressive” disorders, but as those caused by a general illness, regardless of whether a substance (such as drugs, alcohol, medications) causes them or not. People with a variety of illnesses also experience severe, long-term and severe depression.
In severe depressive disorders, severe chronic illnesses do not directly cause symptoms, but can cause depression through the psychological and emotional effects of the disease. In combination with medication or psychotherapy, the risk of developing a severe depressive disorder may be increased. A teenager with severe depression may have a history of other mental health problems, such as anxiety, depression, anxiety disorder or bipolar disorder.
Common Questions about Major Depressive Disorder
How Is MDD Diagnosed?
For a diagnosis of major depressive disorder, a young adult will remain in a depressed or irritable mood most of the time, or lose interest or satisfaction in daily activities the majority of the time, or both, for at least 2 weeks. These symptoms should be an unique shift from previous performance.
Although depression might take place just once during your life, people generally have multiple episodes. During these episodes, signs happen most of the day, nearly every day and may consist of:
– Feelings of sadness, tearfulness, emptiness or despondence
– Angry outbursts, irritability or disappointment, even over little matters
– Loss of interest or enjoyment in a lot of or all regular activities, such as sex, hobbies or sports
– Sleep disturbances, including sleeping disorders or sleeping too much
– Tiredness and absence of energy, so even little jobs take additional effort
– Reduced appetite and weight loss or increased cravings for food and weight gain
– Anxiety, agitation or uneasyness
– Slowed thinking, speaking or body movements
– Feelings of insignificance or guilt, fixating on past failures or self-blame
– Trouble thinking, focusing, making decisions and keeping in mind things
– Frequent or persistent thoughts of death, suicidal ideas, suicide attempts or suicide
– Unexplained physical problems, such as pain in the back or headaches
If you have been feeling down and depressed recently, then you may be suffering from depression and/or major depressive disorder. This mental health disorder affects around one percent of the population each year, but can be a life-threatening condition. Many people that have been diagnosed with depression or major depression have committed suicide after months or even years of feeling unwell. Fortunately, learning about depression and its symptoms can help you get a full diagnosis before you begin to take action and find treatment.
The three forms of major depressive disorder are seasonal affective disorder, bipolar disorder, and bulimia nervosa. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) usually starts in late winter or early spring, during the period of low sunlight or when temperatures are high. Bipolar disorder can start in late autumn or early winter, shortly after the start of the winter season or about two weeks before it begins.
The symptoms of depression vary according to the levels of impairment and distress. For people who have not reached the point where they are debilitated or unable to carry out most of their day-to-day activities, depressive episodes will occur more frequently and last longer. When the sufferer’s life is disrupted by the presence of manic symptoms, it is diagnosed as bipolar disease. Bipolar disorder patients will experience four common mood cycles – depressive mixed state, manic episode, and rapid cycling. Manic episodes are distinguished by an increased drive and thrill, and this will often lead to suicide.
What Is The Meaning of Major Depression?
Major depression: A disease with specific characteristic symptoms and signs that disrupts the ability to work, sleep, eat, and delight in as soon as satisfying activities.
Is Major Depression With Psychotic Features A Disability?
Does Depression Make You Eligible for Disability? Depression is considered a psychiatric impairment under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It’s a considerable mood disorder that’s understood to interfere with everyday activities, which might include your capability to work.
What Is The Difference Between Major Depressive Disorder Recurrent and Single Episode?
A single episode is just the first occurrence of MDD signs; all subsequent episodes are considered “frequent” (the vast bulk of cases). MDD is categorized in classifications F32 (single episode) and F33 (persistent episode).
What Is Major Depressive Disorder dsm5?
Fatigue or loss of energy. Sensations of worthlessness. Lessened ability to think or concentrate; indecisiveness. Recurrent thoughts of death, reoccurring self-destructive ideation without a particular plan, or a suicide effort or specific plan for dedicating suicide.
Who Was The First Person Diagnosed With Depression?
In 1895, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin became the very first to identify manic depression, what we now referred to as bipolar illness, as an illness separate from dementia praecox (the term for schizophrenia at the time).
Is Major Depression A Permanent Disability?
Depression is a mental health condition that can make numerous daily activities challenging. In particular cases, the symptoms of major depression can end up being severe enough to negatively impact your ability to work. If this holds true, you may receive Social Security impairment advantages.
Is MDD And Bipolar The Same?
Bipolar affective disorder (sometimes called manic depression) is different. If you have it, you have severe mood swings. You experience periods of depression (comparable to MDD). But you also have durations of terrific highs.
What Percentage of People Suffer from Depression?
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) approximates that 16.2 million U.S. grownups had at least one major depressive episode in 2016. This represents 6.7 percent of the U.S. adult population. Depression is most common in ages 18 to 25 (10.9 percent) and in people belonging to two or more races (10.5 percent).
Who Is Most Likely to Suffer from Major Depression?
Major depression is probably to impact people between the ages of 45 and 65. “People in middle age are at the top of the bell curve for depression, however individuals at each end of the curve, the really young and older, may be at greater risk for severe depression,” states Walch.
Can Depression Cause Psychotic Episodes?
Some individuals who have serious clinical depression will likewise experience hallucinations and delusional thinking, the signs of psychosis. Depression with psychosis is called psychotic depression.
Is Major Depressive Disorder Genetic?
Depression is known to run in households, recommending that genetic elements contribute to the threat of developing this disease. Nevertheless, research study into the genetics of depression remains in its early stages, and extremely little is known for certain about the genetic basis of the disease.
What Is The ICD-10 Code For Major Depressive Disorder?
ICD-Code F33. 1 is a billable ICD-10 code used for health care diagnosis repayment of Major depressive Disorder, Recurrent, Moderate. Its corresponding ICD-9 code is 296.3.
What Is The Most Common Medication For Major Depressive Disorder?
SSRIs, that include fluoxetine, sertraline, paroxetine, citalopram, escitalopram, and fluvoxamine, have actually ended up being the first-line treatment for major depression.
What Is Major Depressive Disorder With Anxious Distress?
DSM-5 Anxious Distress Specifier Valid for Major Depressive Disorder. Feeling tense, trouble concentrating because of concern, fear of something awful might happen, feeling uneasy, and sensation that one may lose control are 5 signs of the anxious distress specifier.
Some patients are advised to avoid or limit the consumption of alcohol while taking medication because of the likelihood of side effects. Keep your doctor informed of your alcohol consumption before taking prescription or non-prescription medications. If you are prescribing gabapentin, you should not drink alcohol while taking it. Some reported possible side effects, others did not.
If you are not a doctor, the structure of gabapentin is similar to that of a neurotransmitter in the brain, called GABA. Alcohol is also a CNS depressant that acts on exactly the same GABA receptors. You can read more about NEURONTIN® (gabapentin) by clicking on their official website here.
This similar mechanism of action is underlined by the fact that both alcohol and gabapentin are taken at the same time, but not in the same way.
Couples Rehabs provides information about substance abuse and mental health. Our goal is to provide this information so people can make informed choices about medications, and treatment options.
Can you drink alcohol while taking gabapentin?
As they act on the same receptor system, the consumption of alcohol during gabapentin intake can increase the side effects of gabapentin and cause increased side effects. In contrast, the addition of gabapentin with alcohol can have negative effects, as they can increase the effectiveness of the other. However, when mixed, they do not work in the same brain pathways, and therefore their mixing cannot have any negative effects.
The positive effects on withdrawal symptoms have led many doctors to consider gabapentin as a treatment for severe alcohol dependence, although some risks still occur. Originally, it was an alternative to benzodiazepines as an alcohol-dependent treatment due to its low potential for abuse, but the growing popularity of recreational use may have prevented it from becoming a fully authorized treatment.
Gabapentin causes stress to the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system and can have particularly dangerous effects when consumed with alcohol.
As a medicine gabapentin is not combined with alcohol and should be used cautiously. Before taking gabapentin, it is important to understand why you should not mix this medication with alcohol. If you take it as prescribed, you should consider taking a safer medication instead.
Gabapentin, prescribed under the brand name Neurontin, is an antispasmodic medication used in epileptic seizures. It has massive effects on the central nervous system and is a dangerous medication that can be taken with alcohol. The power of gabapentin in the nervous system has led many doctors to use them to treat epilepsy and chronic stroke.
Although alcohol and gabapentin can be dangerous in combination, it has been shown to be useful for treating alcohol consumption disorders.
It can also be used to treat severe alcoholism by reducing the urge and minimizing the effects of alcohol consumption on the brain and other body parts such as the nervous system. The results of clinical trials suggest that gabapentin works in combination with other medications to treat alcoholism. The drug, which is normally used to treat epilepsy, could also be effective in treating alcoholism, according to a study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Alcohol – Patients who took gabapentin, an antispasmodic drug, were less likely to stop drinking than patients who took a placebo, the study found. In addition, participants who received gabapentin slept better, showed better mood and had fewer cravings for alcohol, the researchers said.
Common Gabapentin Side Effects
The more common side effects of gabapentin include:
abnormal eye movements that are continuous, uncontrolled, back-and-forth, or rolling
Gabapentin and alcohol are both considered to be nervous system depressants, and both slow the development of depression and anxiety and other side effects. In most cases, alcohol will increase the side effects of both drugs. When alcohol is used with gabapentin, it can slow down the nerves in the system, causing it to stop or even increase the severity of the side effect.
It is possible to take gabapentin and still drink a small amount, but you need to talk to your doctor about what to do. If you do not, you could have serious side effects from mixing the two medications, such as nausea, vomiting, dizziness, headaches and nausea. The medical community considers gabapentin to be a generally safe drug, although it can have some side effects.
Anyone who wants to stop taking gabapentin should first talk to their doctor about whether they can safely stop taking the drug. Typically, a person should reduce the gabapentin dose by at least 1 week before stopping the medication completely according to the prescription information. The time it takes for the person to lose weight may depend on the severity of the symptoms that have developed with the decrease in dose.
Some people may experience a bout of euphoria or intoxication when using the drug, which can lead them to use it in combination with alcohol, no matter how it is prescribed. If you or someone you know is struggling with drugs or you need more information about an alcohol addiction treatment program, contact our helpline now.
Misuse of the drugs can lead to more serious side effects and increase the risk of overdose and physical dependence. A study published in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy reports that addiction and abuse of gabapentin are more likely in people who have used other substances such as alcohol, cocaine and opioids. In general, the rate of gabapentin abuse is lower than that of other prescription drugs such as morphine and oxycodone, but still higher than that of other medications.
Common Gabapentin FAQ’s
What Should I Avoid While Taking Gabapentin?
Avoid taking an antacid within 2 hours prior to or after you take gabapentin. Antacids can make it harder for your body to absorb gabapentin. Prevent drinking alcohol while taking gabapentin.
Does Gabapentin Affect You Sexually?
According to a write-up in The American Journal of Psychiatry, both males and females may lose the ability to orgasm after taking gabapentin. Nonetheless, only ladies have actually also reported experiencing a lack of sex drive. A a lot more current study validates this possible adverse effects at doses of only 300 milligrams daily.
Does Gabapentin Make You Feel Drunk?
Gabapentin can create sensations of relaxation, peace and euphoria. Some individuals have reported that the high from snorted gabapentin can be similar to taking a stimulant. It can additionally enhance the blissful effects of other drugs, like heroin and various other opioids, and is likely to increase the threats when absorbed by doing this.
The Length Of Time Can You Stay On Gabapentin?
The threats of withdrawal are greater if you’re taking high dosages or have been on gabapentin for longer than 6 weeks.
What Is The Most Important Information I Should Know About NEURONTIN?
Do not quit taking NEURONTIN without very first talking with your healthcare provider.
Stopping NEURONTIN all of a sudden can trigger major problems.
Who Should Not Take NEURONTIN?
Do not take NEURONTIN if you are allergic to gabapentin or any one of the various other ingredients in NEURONTIN See completion of this Medication Guide for a full checklist of ingredients in NEURONTIN.
What Should I Avoid While Taking NEURONTIN?
Do not drink alcohol or take other medicines that make you drowsy or lightheaded while taking NEURONTIN without first talking with your doctor. Taking NEURONTIN with alcohol or drugs that trigger sleepiness or lightheadedness might make your sleepiness or dizziness even worse.
Do not drive, run heavy machinery, or do other harmful tasks up until you know how NEURONTIN affects you. NEURONTIN can slow your reasoning as well as motor skills.
How Should I Take NEURONTIN?
Take NEURONTIN specifically as suggested. Your doctor will certainly tell you how much NEURONTIN to take.
Do not change your dosage of NEURONTIN without talking with your healthcare provider.
If you take NEURONTIN tablets and break a tablet in half, the extra half of the tablet computer need to be taken at your next scheduled dosage. Fifty percent tablet computers not made use of within 28 days of damaging need to be discarded.
Take NEURONTIN capsules with water.
NEURONTIN tablet computers can be taken with or without food. If you take an antacid containing light weight aluminum and magnesium, such as Maalox ®, Mylanta ®, Gelusil ®, Gaviscon ®, or Di-Gel ®, you ought to wait at least 2 hrs before taking your next dose of NEURONTIN.
If you take way too much NEURONTIN, call your healthcare provider or your local Poison Control Center immediately at 1-800-222-1222.
General Information About The Safe And Effective Use Of NEURONTIN.
Medicines are in some cases recommended for functions aside from those noted in a Medication Guide. Do not use NEURONTIN for a problem for which it was not suggested. Do not give NEURONTIN to other individuals, even if they have the exact same signs that you have. It may harm them.
This Medication Guide summarizes one of the most vital information about NEURONTIN. If you would such as more info, talk with your doctor. You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacologist for info concerning NEURONTIN that was created for healthcare specialists.
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Doctors and pharmacists have also been vocal in the past that alcohol should not be on the list of things to do when you have pain or inflammation. If you take it, alcohol consumption is prohibited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
For example, if you drink while taking meloxicam, it can lead to stomach ulcers without warning or symptoms. People who consume more than three alcoholic drinks with one toxin have a higher risk of developing a stomach ulcer. Mixing alcohol with meloxicam can increase the risk of GI tract problems and increase the likelihood of gastrointestinal bleeding.
Alcohol is known to trigger attacks of gout and outbreaks of pain – in arthritic patients. Many studies have shown that alcohol is poorly combined with medications for rheumatoid arthritis.
The main risks associated with the use of meloxicam and alcohol include gastrointestinal perforations and liver damage. Alcohol itself weakens the gut, so drink while taking toxins Can cause gastrointestinal problems such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and vomiting.
Meloxicam is used to treat arthritis. It minimizes pain, swelling, and stiffness of the joints. Meloxicam is known as a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). If you are dealing with a persistent condition such as arthritis, ask your doctor about non-drug treatments and/or utilizing other medications to treat your discomfort.
Is it ok to drink alcohol with Meloxicam
Those who take it for a long time should refrain from taking these drinks – because of the potential for side effects. The most common side effect of taking meloxicam and 15 mg alcohol is gastrointestinal blood loss.
Three or more drinks a day with this drug increase the risk, and it is well known that long-term use of the drug harms the health of the patient. NSAIDs are contained in some over-the-counter medications, but it is known to cause side effects such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea Taking NSAIDs in combination with other medications, especially those that cause gastrointestinal damage or bleeding, can increase the risk of gastrointestinal damage and / or bleeding.
It is important to know how to take medication to avoid interactions between medications and food. Since the risk of gastrointestinal problems varies from person to person, and even if you do not have many risk factors, your doctor should occasionally consider drinking small amounts of alcohol. If you want to consume alcohol while taking Meloxicam, consult your doctor.
Meloxicam can affect intestinal health and lead to bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract as well as bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract. If you consume alcohol, try to consume it in small amounts to cleanse your stomach or intestine. To mitigate the irritating effects of alcohol on the stomach and intestines, you should not drink alcohol.
Inflammation can be relieved by blocking an enzyme that forms a chemical compound called prostaglandin. Your doctor may prescribe an anti-inflammatory medication such as ibuprofen, aspirin, paracetamol or a combination of these.
Meloxicam belongs to a class of non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs called NSAIDs, also known by their intense-sounding name. These drugs produce a high level of active ingredients, but they also come under the NSAID umbrella, such as ibuprofen and paracetamol, as well as some other drugs. NSAIDS, meloxicam is used to prevent the body from producing an enzyme that causes pain, fever and inflammation and relieves the symptoms associated with arthritis.
Paracetamol and certain NSAIDs, for example, are often combined with opioids as prescription painkillers. Although people who consume very little or no alcohol and only occasionally take NSAIDs or paracetamol are unlikely to experience potentially serious complications, combining alcohol with an excessive painkiller or other medications can make a medical emergency more likely. Different risks also arise from taking paracetamol or NSAID in combination with other medications.
Mobic is part of a group of drugs called “non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs” (NSAIDs). No major interactions between meloxicam and alcohol were found, except for a small number of interactions between the two drugs.
Although doctors do not know how NSAIDs increase the risk of bleeding, many different studies have shown that internal bleeding can occur. Because Mobic, like other NSAIDs, can increase the risk of bleeding and cause bleeding, doctors advise against drinking alcohol while taking Mobics.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put a black box warning on prescriptions for NSAIDs like Mobic because they can cause bleeding. The use of meloxicam in combination with other NSAID drugs such as ibuprofen can increase the risk of stomach bleeding caused by stomach toxicity.
Although scientific studies have shown that meloxicam takes about five doses, people taking it say it generally takes about two weeks, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
If you are taking an over-the-counter painkiller, be sure to read the label and there may be serious interactions, especially in people who suffer from an underlying condition that alters their body’s metabolic processes with drugs and alcohol. Moreover, OTC painkillers can pose a high risk when combined with small amounts of alcohol.
Meloxicam has a slightly lower risk of heart problems and may be easier on the kidneys, but if you suffer from a condition such as kidney disease, it is important to discuss these risks with your doctor.
It is recommended not to drink alcohol while using Meloxicam with alcohol as it may increase the likelihood of stomach irritation and stomach bleeding. Naproxen is also an NSAID, but can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain.
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Treatment with Suboxone can help people with opioid addiction find their way to recovery by relieving pain and withdrawal symptoms. However, it is a drug and has the potential to become addictive, so you should always seek treatment when you see your doctor. Because of the risk of addiction, many people are worried about how long Suboxone will remain in their system.
How long a drug, including Suboxone, stays in your system depends on a number of factors. It can take hours for the drug to be fully processed through the system, but with other medications it can take days or even weeks. Although everyone’s experiences differ, you can read more about how long Suboxone can stay in the system and learn about the factors that affect your body’s ability to metabolize it, as well as the effects of the drug.
The metabolic process of Suboxone can vary based on a number of factors, but again, everything depends on your circumstances. The body’s ability to metabolize Suboxone, as well as the effect of the drug, can vary.
If you have a positive test for Suboxone after eight days, which is not unusual, the metabolism in the liver produces a metabolite that can stay in the body longer than the drug. Some types of tests may detect buprenorphine within your system after the last dose you have taken. For example, blood, urine and saliva can be examined, as can hair follicles, while some had slightly altered times in which buprenorphine or Suboxone could be detected.
Suboxone can be identified by blood or saliva tests after a person’s last consumption, but it can also be detected in the blood, urine, saliva or urine of an adult with a drug history. It cannot be detected by a blood-saliva test, although it is also detected after taking a single dose of buprenorphine or Suboxone and using methadone.
In one study, researchers found buprenorphine was found in the urine of more than 80% of adults with a drug history. Unfortunately, there is no reliable data on how long it is in your urine, and there are many different estimates of the number of days it takes in your system. Suboxone can be detected by urine tests after taking the drug, but the duration of how long it remains in a person’s system varies. How long a urine test takes depends on the type of laboratory test used and the amount of medication.
The duration that Suboxone remains in your system depends on several factors, including the amount of medication, the type of urine test, and the duration of the medication in your system. The time when it can be detected in a laboratory test is not the same for everyone, but the results vary depending on the type of laboratory test used and the number of days it has been detected. These results are not the same for everyone and may vary from person to person, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Suboxone is used to treat opioid addiction, but some people take the drug on a freelance basis, become addicted or use it in combination with other drugs such as heroin or cocaine.
Contact us today and we can help you find new hope and treatment options for yourself and your family member with an addiction or addiction disorder.
How long Suboxone stays in the body depends on several factors, and many doctors turn to different treatments for different types of addiction. How long it remains active in the body and how long it lasts depends on a number of factors.
Here is a breakdown of how long Suboxone stays in your system and how it shows up in drug tests. This means that the drug is still working in the system, but answering the question “how long will it be in my system (or not)” in a drug test depends on a number of factors, such as the type of drug, the time it is active, and other factors.
Studies have shown that it takes about 11 days to eliminate buprenorphine, an opioid compound, and suboxone from the body.
When a person has to overcome an addiction, withdrawal can take longer because buprenorphine stays in the body longer than other opioids. Buprenorphine can be a slightly blunt – down high, so withdrawal affects the person in a different way than normal withdrawal from other drugs, such as heroin or cocaine. If a person can bypass naloxone and Suboxone, they will be able to take only 1,000 milligrams of the drug per day (mg / dl) to get high.
In high doses, taking trazodone and alcohol together can be fatal, and in higher doses, taking both can have serious side effects. Alcohol is a depressant and can increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure and death. This includes the use of off-label medications, while other first-line medications are effective but cause many serious side effects such as benzodiazepines.
The safety of trazodone and alcohol may depend on the dose and the specific case of the patient. Long-term use of trazodone and alcohol can also lead to abuse and withdrawal.
However, patients may find that moderate alcohol consumption while taking trazodone is safe, but Drinking alcohol while taking trazodone can be dangerous. Some manufacturers of medicines developed by manufacturers and approved by regulators advise against using alcohol, as alcohol can exacerbate side effects.
If alcohol is contraindicated for trazodone, patients should discuss their alcohol consumption with their doctor. Patients should also discuss the issue with their doctor to determine what precautions they should take before taking trazodone.
When drinking a glass of wine, it is not advisable to take trazodone as it can increase the effect of alcohol, cause dizziness, drowsiness or difficulty concentrating. Depending on your health status and dosage, your healthcare provider may allow you to drink light amounts of beer or wine or other alcoholic beverages, but only after you are aware of the specific effects of trazodone on the body. Ask your doctor if you can take safe amounts of alcohol during treatment.
It has been reported that it may take 1-2 weeks for trazodone to start working and you will then begin to feel the full benefits. In addition, some people may feel bad in the first week of treatment and feel better after a few days or even a week or two.
At normal doses, the enzymes may change in some people, but the increases are usually modest and do not require a change in dose or a stop in treatment.
Avoid activities that require mental alertness, such as driving or operating dangerous machines, until you know how your medication affects you. Do not take more than the recommended dose of trazodone; alcohol can increase the risk of depression, anxiety, depression – such as symptoms and suicidal thoughts and behavior. Taking trazodone with alcohol can be dangerous in some cases, as some patients may experience depressive or suicidal episodes in combination with medication and alcohol.
These unpleasant side effects can even be fatal for some patients. The information provided is not intended to replace complete and accurate information on the effects of trazodone and alcohol on the health of the patient.
Trazodone and alcohol can range from side effects associated with both substances to more severe symptoms that can be potentially life-threatening. Alcohol can increase the risk of depression, anxiety and other mental health problems such as anxiety disorders, depression and suicidal thoughts. trazodone can have serious side effects in combination with alcohol, which patients who are being treated for depression must be careful about.
Some users who have mixed trazodone with alcohol claim the combination impairs their thinking and judgment. Some users who have a mixture of alcohol and drink claim that this combination impairs their thinking, judgment and ability to think and think.
You may have read about trazodone users mixing the substance with alcohol, but you are not fully aware of the dangers of this combination. The most common cause of death among drinkers who have mixed the substances into alcohol is, of course, death. Mixing an antidepressant with a depressant can lead to unpredictable and dangerous consequences for different users.
You may have a friend or relative who has struggled with trazodone and alcohol abuse. Treatment and recovery can treat a variety of cases of drug abuse, including concurrent abuse and cases of dependence on other substances such as heroin and cocaine.
Trazodone is a commonly prescribed drug used to treat depression in adults and adolescents because it can alter chemicals in the brain. The problem with mixing antidepressants and alcohol is that alcohol can counteract the effects of antidepressants without exacerbating the symptoms of the prescribed drug, such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. Some doctors say that in most cases where antidepressants don’t work, it may have something to do with alcohol consumption.
Antidepressants can increase the intoxicating effect of alcohol, making you feel drunk and impaired more quickly, according to the National Institutes of Health.
People who abuse trazodone rarely abuse it alone or in groups, increasing the risk of overdose and harmful side effects. If you never drink alcohol, pay particular attention to taking mood-stabilizing psychiatric drugs. They can trigger dangerous, even fatal, reactions to alcohol and cause serious health problems, according to the Medlineplus.gov.
Trazodone can be abused in many different ways, but most people who take it only for the purpose of achieving high levels take the tablets for immediate release. Although not always considered a habit – formation of drugs, it can lead to physical dependence and withdrawal, so that Those who take them should do so carefully and under direct medical supervision.
Is It Safe To Drink Alcohol While Taking Trazodone?
Consuming alcohol while taking trazodone can be dangerous. Trazodone may amplify a few of the impacts of alcohol, which can cause hazardous levels of intoxication and even overdose and death. The combination can likewise cause extreme drowsiness, which can cause mishaps and falls.
Can I Have A Glass Of Wine While Taking Trazodone?
You can consume alcohol while taking trazodone, however it may make you feel drowsy. It might be best to stop consuming alcohol until you see how the medicine makes you feel.
What Should You Not Take With Trazodone?
Avoid taking MAO inhibitors (isocarboxazid, linezolid, methylene blue, moclobemide, phenelzine, procarbazine, rasagiline, safinamide, selegiline, tranylcypromine) throughout treatment with this medication. Many MAO inhibitors need to likewise not be considered 2 weeks prior to and after treatment with this medication.
Does Trazodone Hurt Your Liver?
Trazodone might trigger modification of liver enzyme levels at normal doses, however elevations are generally modest and generally do not require dose modification or discontinuation. Uncommon instances of ALF and death from trazodone have actually been described.
Will Trazodone Help Me Sleep?
Because of the chemical structure of trazodone, it has been discovered to have mild sedating impacts, and it is less reliable than other antidepressants for the treatment of depression. Therefore, trazodone has discovered greater energy as a sleep help than it has as an antidepressant medication.
Does Trazodone Feel Like Xanax?
Xanax resembles trazodone in that it might trigger negative effects such as feeling tired and sleepy. When this happens during the day, it can impact your day-to-day activities. Nevertheless, unlike trazodone, Xanax and other benzodiazepine drugs can be addicting, even if you’ve been using them as directed.
Trazodone Risks You Should Know About
It can also cause abnormally low high blood pressure and, in turn, trigger dizziness or perhaps passing out, particularly in elders, which can increase the threat of falling.
Can You Stop Trazodone Cold Turkey?
Giving up Trazodone cold turkey can lead to much of the uneasy withdrawal signs noted above, however a Trazodone detox program can supply safe, comfortable, and efficient treatment for withdrawal.
Is Trazodone Safe Long Term?
When used to treat depression, it is typically advised that you remain on the therapeutic dose of an antidepressant medication for 6-12 months after depression has reacted to treatment. As far as is known, trazodone is safe for long-lasting usage.
Can Trazodone Be Cut In Half?
The tablet can be swallowed whole or offered as a half tablet by breaking the tablet along ball game line. Do not break the tablet unless your physician informs you to. Do not squash or chew the tablet.
Is Trazodone An SSRI Drug?
While trazodone is not a true member of the SSRI class of antidepressants, it does still share numerous homes of the SSRIs, especially the possibility of discontinuation syndrome if the medication is stopped too quickly.
Does Trazodone Affect Your Breathing?
Trazodone, a serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitor, is the most typically utilized sedative in the United States. Trazodone has been revealed to reduce breathing disruptions without hindering upper airway muscle activity in an English bulldog model of OSA.
Is Trazodone An Effective Antidepressant?
Overall, trazodone is a reliable and well tolerated antidepressant (SARI) with an essential role in the present treatment of MDD both as monotherapy and as part of a mix technique.
Dosage Forms And Strengths
50 mg: White, round, scored, film-coated tablet; bisected with “50” and “P 005” debossed on one side and plain on the other side.
100 mg: White, round, scored, film-coated tablet; bisected with “100” and “P 006” debossed on one side and plain on the other side.
150 mg: White, rectangular, scored tablet; trisected on both sides, debossed with “P” and “007” on one side and “50”, “50”, “50” on the other side, with a bisect on each edge.
300 mg: White, rectangular, scored tablet; trisected on one side debossed with “100”, “100”, “100” and bisected on the other side debossed with “P” and “008”.
Storage And Handling
50 mg: White, round, scored, film-coated tablet; bisected with “50” and “P 005” debossed on one side and plain on the other side. Bottles of 100 NDC 58463-005-01
100 mg: White, round, scored, film-coated tablet; bisected with “100” and “P 006” debossed on one side and plain on the other side. Bottles of 100 NDC 58463-006-01
150 mg: White, rectangular, scored tablet; trisected on both sides, debossed with “P” and “007” on one side and “50”, “50”, “50” on the other side, with a bisect on each edge. Bottles of 100 NDC 58463-007-01
300 mg: White, rectangular, scored tablet; trisected on one side debossed with “100”, “100”, “100” and bisected on the other side debossed with “P” and “008”. Bottles of 100 NDC 58463-008-01
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Drought, beetles wreaking havoc on North Alabama trees
(WAFF) - Trees are dying at an alarming rate in north Alabama. Experts say the drought led to an attack on our trees, but the Alabama Forestry Commission is working as fast as they can to stop it.
Pests, including southern pine beetles, Ips engraver beetles and black turpentine beetles are partly to blame. And it appears the pine tree is most at risk.
Daryl Lawson is a forester and a tree farmer, and he knows exactly what to look for.
"Trees are turning yellow. and the ones that are yellow are stressed real bad," he said.
Lawson said he found a patch of trees that had the markings of the Ips engraver beetle, an insect that can kill hundreds of trees in one infestation.
"They're killing trees faster than I can get a handle on," he said.
Lawson estimates he'll lose between two and five acres but could lose his entire farm.
"This Ips beetles could turn around and lead to a southern pine beetle attack. When they attack, they start moving real fast. I could lose the entire 70 acres," he said.
Lynn Washington with the Alabama Forestry Commission said the drought brought the beetles. These insects thrive under extreme conditions.
"Those trees were under stress. They were stressed in September, more stressed in October, and by November were terribly stressed," he said.
Washington said whether you have one impacted tree or acres of impacted trees, you need to contact his office.
Another issue to watch out for is that trees are more likely to snap or uproot because of the dry conditions.
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ALERT: A SMiShing Scam is Targeting the 607 Area
Mobile devices associated with the 607 area code are being targeted by text message-based phishing attempts, also known as SMiShing. It is important that you are able to identify these messages so that you aren’t added to the list of those fooled by them. The same also goes for your employees.
How Are Oneonta Numbers Being SMiShed?
Members of the local branches of NBT Bank and Sidney Federal Credit Union have reported that fraudulent text messages have been sent, alleging that the recipient’s debit card has been locked, or needs attention. These messages then provide a number to call to help resolve this problem, which is how those behind the phishing attack extract the information they need from their targets.
We cannot express strongly enough: do not attempt to call or text this number if you receive one of these messages, and offer no information.
These messages have thus far focused on recipients with a 607 area code and come from the following three numbers:
NBT Bank provided this screenshot of the SMiShing attempt in their fraud alert.
SFCU has also provided a message on their website to warn their members that reads: “Scam alert! Fraudulent messages have been reported concerning debit and credit cards. Do not call the number or give any of your personal information.”
What is SMiShing?
We actually covered this a few years ago, when SMiShing was really emerging as a major threat. SMiShing is the mobile version of phishing, where deceptive messages meant to fool the recipient into an attack are shared via SMS text message, rather than an email.
Keeping SMiShing Away
- Do you know who it is who sent you the message? While many of us likely don’t have our bank’s mobile notifications saved as a contact in our phone, it shouldn’t be too hard to tell if both messages came from the same source. Naturally, any links should be avoided until you’re certain that the message is legitimate.
- Check the number it came from. There are many websites out there that can give you a sense of if a number is legitimate - and as an added bonus, you might find some results that tell you if a number is a known SMiShing number. If the message contains other numbers that aren’t phone numbers, it is a sign that the sender has masked their identity… and there are only so many reasons that someone would do that.
- What is being asked for? If a text message has asked you for financial information or encourages you to respond quickly, it probably isn’t legitimate.
Protecting Oneonta Businesses Through Awareness and Training
SMiShing, and just about every kind of phishing, can be tricky to spot. We encourage that you get some practice by leveraging this online quiz, and you may want to encourage your employees to do the same.
At Directive, we’ve committed ourselves to protect our clients from online threats - and yes, that includes phishing attempts. However, because these threats work differently than many of the others we help prevent, our approach is a little different as well.
Phishing just can’t be stopped by a special hardware or software solution - the only thing that works is being able to know it when you see it. This requires education, which is where we come in.
We have the tools to evaluate how susceptible your business potentially could be to phishing. We’ll run a phishing simulation to see who takes the bait, and then we’ll work to educate those who were fooled so they won’t be if they face the real thing.
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Many establishments had already started a long time ago to charge for plastic bags with the intention of reducing their abusive use. But, at the same time, they have begun to offer a more ecological alternative: paper bags.
Mercadona joined this trend at the beginning of May, offering paper bags and cardboard boxes in its stores in Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Barcelona and Vizcaya. Lidl has gone further and announced that it will eliminate plastic bags from all its stores in Spain throughout this 2018.
Carrefour has also joined the trend of collaborating in the development of the circular economy and has announced that they are working to reduce the use of plastic in the packaging of their products. Specifically, the company states that the packaging of its brands will be one hundred percent recyclable, reusable or compostable before 2025.
With these measures, the supermarkets have not only been ahead of the implementation of the Royal Decree, but also the definitive prohibition of light plastic bags that are not compostable, which will come into force as of January 1, 2020.
The fact of offering paper bags not only responds to regulations, but also to the growing demand from consumers, who are increasingly aware of and value sustainability as an element that helps them make their purchasing decisions.
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Get in Touch With Your Prana: Your Life-Force Energy
Energy is all around us—and in us. Our bodies run on electrical impulses that power our brains, hearts and central nervous systems. But can you feel it? If you practice yoga, you might be familiar with prana, or life force energy.
Prana is ephemeral. While it’s not necessarily measurable, yogis report being able to sense their own prana as it flows through them. It’s not the soul, but rather, the living energy that flows through the entire universe. It is referred to in “Hindu, ayurvedic, hatha yoga and tantric yoga traditions, but similar references to the ‘life force’ are seen in the Chinese principle of chi, ancient Roman anima, ancient Greece’s pneuma, ruh of the Islamic tradition, ruah of the Hebrew tradition, and the Christian holy spirit.” Every living being has prana, and can access their own, if not sense others’, life force.
How to sense your own prana
Ever gotten the shivers, a gut feeling or a deep sense of connection during breathwork? That’s your prana. We can sense prana primarily through breathwork, but there are other ways you might feel that electric sensation of pure life.
Accessing prana through breathwork isn’t just a way to remind yourself that you’re alive—it’s also a great way to reduce your stress levels, improve your mood, enjoy better sleep and more. There are many types of breathwork to try: for instance, box breathing (inhaling for four seconds, holding for four, exhaling for four and holding for four) and alternate nostril breathing can help you regulate your breathing.
As you breathe, really pay attention to your breath. How does it feel? Notice the cool air entering your nostrils and how you exhale warm air through your mouth. What emotional sensations are you experiencing? After all, we might sigh in relief or disappointment, or inhale sharply when surprised. Notice whether your breathing techniques create any emotional sensations, along with the physical act of breathing itself. When you’re in a place of calm mindfulness—and really feel alive—that’s prana.
Prana can be sensed through other means. When do you feel particularly connected, exhilarated or in tune with the world around you? Yoga and other forms of exercise can get us out of our heads and into our bodies, thus better able to experience our own prana. Meditation and mindfulness help, too, while journaling, getting out in nature and even throwing an impromptu dance party in your living room can help connect you to your own life force.
Prana 201: Advanced prana
When you’re comfortable with sensing your own life force, it can be interesting to start noticing the prana in everything around you. From houseplants to pets, parks to the ocean, our earth is pulsing with life.
The next time you have a quiet moment with a partner, friend or family member, close your eyes and try to sense your own prana. Once you’ve connected with yourself, start noticing what about them makes you realize that they’re alive. Is it the sound of their breath? Their heartbeat? Their body heat? The snoring that would rival a congested bear? As you become aware of their prana, try expanding your awareness even farther around you. This mindfulness practice can help you appreciate both the mundane and mystical qualities of truly being alive.
Being in touch with your own life force can help you understand how your environment affects you—and make adjustments according. You might notice that certain foods make you feel more in tune with your own body, while others make you sluggish. A walk in nature might help you relax better than an hour of yoga. As you become more sensitive to your own life force and world around you, your connection to your own body, spirit and the planet will improve.
Your life force is precious—honor it
While there are dozens of ways to refer to prana and just as many to access it, the basic concept is the same across religions and spiritual practices. Prana is simply shorthand for being alive in this moment, part of the universe’s larger life cycle.
Honoring your prana means treating your mind, body and spirit properly, and respecting the prana of other living beings. Making this a part of your spiritual practice can yield incredible physical, mental and emotional health benefits, just like meditation, mindfulness, yoga and other quiet practices.
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Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, on Monday, 24th of August, 2015, allegedly lost N141 billion following intense pressure of global markets as a result of ripples from the Chinese economic crisis.
He joins a long list of billionaires whose fortunes have tumbled over the past few days.
According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Dangote lost $708.6 million (N140 billion) as Chinese stocks sank lower after a rout on August 24 that the official state news agency, Xinhua, dubbed ‘Black Monday.’
Dangote gained $79.2m (N15.6bn) gain from Thursday to Friday last week, only to lose the same amount about nine times over. The 58-year-old was just one of 197 billionaires who lost billions of dollars in 24 hours, with only three of the world’s top 200 billionaires making gain on ‘Black Monday.’
Wang Jianlin, Asia’s richest man, and Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, lost $3.6 billion and $3.2 billion respectively as the worst hit billionaires on Monday.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, lost $1.7 billion, placing him behind Warren Buffet, world number three billion, who lost $2 billion.
The only three gainers were Alwaleed al-Saud, a Saudi business magnate; Tadashi Yanai, founder of Japanese Fast Retailing; and Petr Kellner, a Czech businessman. They gained $169 million, $105.5 million and and 87.3 million respectively. | <urn:uuid:122d750b-dff4-4183-94ef-a80c7452536e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yabaleftonline.ng/aliko-dangote-allegedly-loses-n141bn-in-24-hours/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.925785 | 336 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Justice: Jesus' Way
"Justice is what love looks like in public"
Jesus was a justice-maker, and a rabble-rouser. He turned over tables in righteous anger, and laid down his life for his friends. He hung out with women, lepers, and sex workers -- the kind of people who were most stigmatized in his time. He himself was a marginalized Jewish man, living under Roman occupation, who was executed by state violence. That's the Jesus we follow and the God we worship.
We honor that each person, and all of creation, are made in the image of God and should be treated with dignity, equality, and respect. And we walk our talk -- making sure that our daily lives, our votes, our activism, and our kindness reflect this truth.
Plymouth seeks to be a home and an incubator for “Faith Activists ” – people willing to work collaboratively with other churches, community groups, people of other faiths and no faith, the national UCC, and other local/national movements to carry Jesus’ gospel of justice and compassion into the world through education, service and witness.
Given the nature of these times, we are nimble and adaptable, ready to respond to the causes and efforts that touch congregants deeply and that respond to our changing social and political climate.
Our strategies include:
Education/Information: For instance, a special gathering about women, rage, and spirituality, movie nights with guest cast members of John Brown's Body at San Quentin Prison and The Medea Project, a book group about Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times by Carolina De Robertis, and workshops about the "What's Up With Our Jails?" report.
Service: We have a long-term partnership with Hoover Elementary school in West Oakland -- donating backpacks and winter coats, tutoring and teaching STEM subjects, and offering volunteers and seed funding to an extensive school garden. Some of our members have formed an accompaniment team to come alongside a recently arrived immigrant family with resources and support. We show up when hard things happen, both near and far; for example, we hosted a benefit concert for Hurricane Harvey, donated gift cards during the fires in Paradise, and sent a bilingual minister to Orlando to support survivors after the Pulse nightclub shooting.
Witness: We engage with local and national coalitions to witness for justice, advocating for the end of mass incarceration, marching at the Women's March, Oakland Pride, and the Climate March, serving as first responders when communities are threatened by ICE raids, participating in the Black Lives Matter movement and other demonstrations for racial justice, etc. | <urn:uuid:a7de1860-aca6-42cb-a47d-78faf2fbdce9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.plymouthoakland.org/justice | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954993 | 553 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Old age home is a housing system for the elderly people. The idea behind this thesis project by SK Tanvir Ahmed from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) was to upgrade the living standard of the elderly people by creating socially interactive and co-living spaces within the premise of the old age home.
According to a statistic, in 2019, over 13 million people in Bangladesh are aged over 60, which is 8 percent of the country’s population. This rate is expected to increase to 21.9 percent by 2050, with 36 million people aged above 60. This means that in every five Bangladeshis, there will be one senior citizen. Many NGOs have made rehabilitation centers and provides several food and medical services for the elderly people. For this old age home project, the main concept was to make the senior citizens feel a sense of ownership. For which, apart from all the functional requirements, a small garden court is designed where the elders can spend time by plantation and can even cultivate vegetables. The design also has a pond where the dwellers can go for fishing as well.
The master plan of the design proposes a 20 feet wide primary road where all kinds of vehicles can access. From the entry lobby, there lies administration sector and above it is a café for the visitors. In this lobby, there is a corridor which is connected to both the medical and the school. There is also a connection passage to the male and female dormitories. From the entry lobby, there is a straight corridor which first connects to the yoga center and the library and in the end, there is a sitting space designed in front of the pond. The focal point of the design is the surrounding canal that gives the scenic view. The dormitories are therefore designed beside the canal, so that each one can view the water-body from each room. In both the male and female dormitories, there is indoor game area which is connected to the central space and has service block to serve the male and female zone.
The design involves four clusters and, in every cluster, and in each floor, there is dining area, TV room, kitchen and a care-giving station. The building process involves the use of local materials and local construction workers. Brick wall, brick-pave, concrete floor and concrete roof are proposed to build the dwelling units. There is also a plan for vertical extension near future. | <urn:uuid:783f16a1-7f00-4be1-8a28-4762066e8f8f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.showcase.com.bd/student-thesis/probin-nibash-design-of-an-old-age-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969837 | 487 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Similar to people, canine expertise anxiousness. Whereas disagreeable, it’s a regular and in addition wholesome emotion. Canine anxiousness can have an effect on all breeds, however could have an effect on every particular person canine otherwise. Though it’s one thing that each one canine expertise from time-to-time, if disproportionate ranges of hysteria are left unchecked, a canine can develop an anxiousness dysfunction. If left untreated, canine anxiousness can result in behavioral and different points.
How have you learnt in case your canine has anxiousness? What are you able to do to deal with canine anxiousness? We’re right here to elucidate every little thing it’s worthwhile to learn about canine anxiousness — widespread causes, signs, and coverings. Moreover, we’ll focus on high ideas for anxiousness prevention. This manner, in case your canine ever does undergo from anxiousness — you’ll have all of the information you want as an proprietor to assist.
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Canine Anxiousness: Causes
In line with the Merck Veterinary Guide, canine anxiousness can have quite a lot of causes. A number of the most typical causes of canine anxiousness are:
- Growing old
Concern-related anxiousness could be brought on by loud noises, unusual folks or animals, visible stimuli like hats or umbrellas, new or unusual environments, particular conditions — just like the vet’s workplace or automotive rides — or surfaces like grass or wooden flooring. Though some canine could solely have temporary reactions to those sort of stimuli, they might have an effect on anxious canine extra consequentially.
Separation anxiousness is estimated to have an effect on round 14 p.c of canine. Canine with separation anxiousness are unable to seek out consolation when they’re left alone or separated from their relations. This anxiousness usually manifests itself in undesirable behaviors, reminiscent of urinating and defecating in the home, destroying furnishings and furnishings, and barking.
Age-related anxiousness impacts older canine and could be related to cognitive dysfunction syndrome (CDS). In canine with CDS, reminiscence, studying, notion, and consciousness begin to decline, much like the early levels of Alzheimer’s illness in people. This understandably results in confusion and anxiousness in senior canine.
Canine Anxiousness: Signs
So how will you inform in case your canine has anxiousness? There are a number of vital signs to look out for:
- Urinating or defecating in the home
- Harmful habits
- Extreme barking
- Repetitive or compulsive behaviors
A few of these signs could also be the results of occasional anxiety-causing occasions, however any of those can change into recurrent and subsequently, lead to extra critical points. This being mentioned, by far probably the most harmful symptom of canine anxiousness is aggression. This aggression could be focused immediately or not directly, relying on the state of affairs. Direct aggression happens when a canine acts aggressively towards folks or different animals. Oblique aggression could be equally harmful, and infrequently occurs when an individual comes between the canine and the supply of the canine’s aggression, reminiscent of one other canine. Even when a canine is prevented from harming others, aggressive behaviors reminiscent of growling or barking can result in undesirable conditions for people and canine, alike.
Urinating and defecating in the home is a standard symptom of separation anxiousness. Anxious canine usually work themselves as much as the purpose that they pee or poop in the home, even when they’re housebroken. That is irritating for homeowners and might trigger harm to property, to not point out the unpleasantness of the cleanup.
Harmful habits can also be widespread with separation anxiousness. The harm is normally situated round entry and exit factors, like doorways and home windows, however canine in a state of heightened anxiousness are additionally prone to harming themselves. Makes an attempt to interrupt out of canine crates, home windows, and even doorways may end up in painful accidents and costly veterinary remedies.
Canine Anxiousness: Therapy
One of the best ways to deal with anxiousness is to speak together with your veterinarian. Your veterinarian may help you determine the kind of anxiousness your canine suffers from and the doable causes and triggers. Your veterinarian can even find a way that will help you decide if the anxiousness is just situational, or whether it is turning into an awesome subject on your canine. Moreover, veterinarians may also rule out another medical circumstances that may very well be inflicting your canine’s signs.
Your veterinarian will allow you to give you a remedy plan. Since extreme anxiousness is usually brought on by quite a lot of components, one of the simplest ways to deal with it’s normally by a mixture of coaching, preventive methods, and in some instances, drugs.
Coaching and Counterconditioning
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There are a number of coaching methods homeowners can use to deal with canine anxiousness. A method is counterconditioning. The aim of counterconditioning is to vary your canine’s response to the stimuli chargeable for anxiousness, normally by changing the anxious or aggressive habits with a extra fascinating habits, like sitting or specializing in the proprietor.
One other coaching technique is desensitization. The proprietor slowly introduces the canine to the supply of hysteria, ideally in small doses and at a decreased depth. Repeated publicity and rewarding optimistic habits can go a good distance towards managing anxiousness.
You may need to contact knowledgeable canine coach that will help you select the very best strategy on your canine, as coaching an anxious canine isn’t at all times simple.
Anxiousness Medicines for Canine
In case your canine develops a critical anxiousness dysfunction, your veterinarian could suggest drugs or pure therapies. SSRIs and antidepressants are often prescribed for canine with anxiousness, together with fluoxetine and clomipramine. For predictable anxiety-producing occasions like thunderstorms, fireworks, or automotive rides, your veterinarian may prescribe a drugs reminiscent of benzodiazepine at the side of an antidepressant to assist your canine address the stress.
Senior canine with cognitive dysfunction syndrome could profit from the drug selegiline, which may help cut back a few of the signs of CDS. Selegiline can also be used for treating persistent anxiousness in Europe.
The Merck Veterinary Guide additionally states that pure therapies and merchandise may help canine with anxiousness. Some merchandise work finest at the side of different drugs, whereas others can be utilized alone, relying in your canine’s case. Pure merchandise use pheromones and aromatherapy to scale back anxiousness. Speak to your veterinarian in regards to the pure merchandise finest suited on your canine.
Utilizing CBD Oil for Canine Anxiousness
Some canine homeowners have reported success in utilizing CBD oil to deal with canine anxiousness. CBD is a compound present in hashish and hemp that canine homeowners, in addition to people, have discovered helpful for treating quite a lot of totally different well being circumstances. Anecdotal reviews from canine homeowners declare that CBD oil could be efficient in treating canine anxiousness.
It’s vital to notice, nevertheless, that though many people use CBD oil for anxiousness remedy functions, there may be at present no scientific knowledge on how utilizing CBD oil impacts canine. Moreover, CBD merchandise aren’t but regulated — that means consistency and purity aren’t at all times validated. Due to this fact, if you happen to’re contemplating utilizing CBD oil as a remedy for canine anxiousness, it’s finest to seek the advice of together with your veterinarian. Your veterinarian may help you identify if CBD oil may be remedy on your canine’s anxiousness, in addition to focus on totally different merchandise, doable unwanted effects, and dangers.
Be taught in regards to the CBD oil research being carried out by the AKC Canine Well being Basis.
Canine Anxiousness: Prevention
It may be tough to foretell precisely what is going to make your canine anxious, and much more tough to find out in case your canine’s anxiousness will develop right into a extra critical dysfunction. Nonetheless, there are methods to assist a canine or pet keep away from anxiety-related issues.
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Among the best issues you are able to do is be taught to learn canine physique language. Realizing when your canine is uncomfortable or scared may help you keep away from unfavourable experiences or use them as a optimistic coaching second. Physique language may also inform you when a canine is getting anxious, which is particularly helpful in case your canine has a historical past of aggression-related anxiousness.
Correct socialization can stop the event of hysteria. Introducing your canine to new folks, canine, animals, locations, and experiences may help keep away from an exaggerated response down the street, and in addition helps your canine change into a well-adjusted canine citizen.
Obedience coaching is an important instrument for stopping and managing canine anxiousness. It lays the muse of a wholesome relationship and establishes belief. A well-trained canine is less complicated to socialize than a canine with out coaching, and obedience courses are a terrific place for canine to fulfill different canine in a managed surroundings.
Train and Vitamin
Common train and stimulation are essential for a canine’s improvement, bodily, and psychological well-being. A stimulated canine is much less prone to decide up harmful behaviors, and good vitamin is equally vital on your canine’s well being. Ensuring you care for your canine’s bodily and psychological wants may help you stop any habits issues that don’t stem from anxiousness, letting the areas the place your canine wants probably the most assist.
In case your canine has been identified with anxiousness points, you may as well attempt to keep away from or stop conditions that set off your canine’s anxiousness. For instance, if that your canine grows anxious round giant teams of canine, you need to keep away from canine parks. Avoidance doesn’t imply that it’s worthwhile to put your life on maintain, however it will possibly cut back a few of the stress on you and your canine.
If the supply of the anxiousness can’t be prevented, preventive measures like leashes, physique harnesses, and, in some instances, basket muzzles, can stop harmful conditions. As soon as your canine’s triggers, you’ll be able to put together for these conditions forward of time.
Canine Anxiousness: The Backside Line
Like people, many canine will expertise anxiousness sooner or later all through their lives. Though not all canine can have anxiousness that results in a diagnosable anxiousness dysfunction, it’s vital to know the causes, signs, and remedy choices concerned with canine anxiousness. Understanding these vital sides may help you, as an proprietor, know the very best methods to assist your canine in anxiety-inducing conditions. In the event you assume that your canine might need a difficulty with anxiousness, it’s finest to seek the advice of your veterinarian — your veterinarian can diagnose your canine, rule out another well being points, and allow you to develop a remedy plan that most closely fits your canine and way of life.
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What Proportion of the Dinosauria were Meat-Eaters?
By studying the fossilised teeth associated with any dinosaur skull material, palaeontologists can have a good idea of the potential diet of that particular dinosaur. Occasionally, stomach contents are preserved and this evidence too, can assist in determining whether the dinosaur was a carnivore or herbivore. The boundaries become a little blurred when a potential omnivorous diet is considered but to date, with around 1,200 dinosaur genera known approximately sixty-five percent are plant-eaters.
The Proportion of Plant-eating Dinosaurs to Meat-Eating Dinosaurs
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5 Tips to Help You Revise for MRCS Part A
Junior doctor Catrin Jones passed MRCS A on her first attempt. Here are her 5 top tips for revising effectively and getting that elusive 'pass'.
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How do you prepare for MRCS Part A? It's a daunting thought: you're not in medical school anymore, you've got a busy job, it's expensive, the pass rates are low, and if your friends and colleagues are not surgically inclined, revision can feel like a long and lonely slog.
I passed my MRCS Part A on the first attempt this year, so I thought I'd share a few tips that I picked up along the way:
1. Give yourself plenty of time.I signed up to revision sites around 4-5 months before the exam, and started to work my way through the question banks.
2. Find your weak spots and target your revision. There is a temptation to try and methodically work your way through the syllabus before starting on the questions. However, the MRCS syllabus is vast and you probably already know more than you think. Trying to wade your way through a textbook systematically is largely futile in my experience.
I started by doing lots of questions, and then using the results to identify which areas I needed to sit down and go through thoroughly, and which areas I was already strong in. My bête noire was head and neck anatomy, and it can be hugely demoralising to do a practice test and get sub -50% scores. However, knowing early on that that was an area I needed to devote plenty of time to meant that I tailored my revision accordingly. By exam time I could rattle off the contents of the cavernous sinus like nobody's business!
3. Fit your revision around your day. One of the things I found the hardest with revising for MRCS was trying to fit revision in around my rota. I guess we've all surrendered our evenings and weekends to revision around exam time as medical students, but what can you do when you're on a horrendous run of on-calls and nights and you just don't have much free time left?
For me, having revision apps on my phone was my saving grace. Sometimes, especially when you're on a tough bit of the rota, you have to accept that exam prep comes second to general survival, but just being able to do a little bit, often, wherever I was, kept me on track, even when I had very little time or energy.
4. Inform your rota co-ordinator early that you are intending to sit the MRCS. Ask in good time (possibly months in advance) for study leave/annual leave/zero days/whatever you can negotiate around the exam. Also, do try to ask not to be on call or nights close to the exam day. Consider informing your educational supervisor and programme director as well, if you feel this might give some clout to your request. Obviously, what you manage to get will vary from job to job, but being well rested and having some time to prepare prior to the big day does make a difference. It's worth going out on a limb to ask for (and well worth whatever post-exam rota-awfulness you have to endure as pay back).
5. Go for it!
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Living Well during COVID with a Long-Term Condition
Having a long term health condition (such as diabetes, respiratory or cardiac conditions) during this pandemic can bring extra challenges to our ability to manage our health and wellbeing. This one-hour online workshop covers a range of ideas to support you during social distancing or isolation. Here we discuss topics such as: managing worries about our health and COVID, continuing to move with a meaningful routine during isolation, how to decipher information about COVID and much more.
Dates: Every Monday from 10am to 11am and Friday from 2pm to 3pm
Managing anxiety and worry during a pandemic
We know that during COVID, we may find ourselves worrying about a range of issues coming up with the pandemic and feeling increasingly overwhelmed or anxious. This one-hour online workshop discusses tools to help support you with this including; managing worries about COVID, looking after yourselves, coping with the increased uncertainty the pandemic presents and evaluating the information you read about COVID.
Dates: Every Tuesday from 10am to 11am and Thursday from 2pm to 3pm
Maintaining wellbeing during isolation
Life in isolation presents many challenges to our wellbeing; not being able to continue with many of the activities that would be meaningful to us. It’s therefore easy to notice difficulties in motivating ourselves or a drop in mood. This one-hour online workshop covers tools to help build a meaningful routine while in isolation, problem solve specific difficulties and manage hopeless thoughts we might have about the pandemic.
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Parenthood During COVID
Life during the pandemic is already stressful, but being a parent or going through pregnancy can add extra challenges to your wellbeing at this time. This one-hour online workshop is aimed at parents and women going though pregnancy and covers a range of topics such as: creating a well-rounded family routine, how to talk to children about COVID, managing worries about giving birth or COVID and being kind to ourselves if things don’t go to plan.
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I recently had the privilege of spending the better part of two days facilitating the Young Engineers of ASHRAE (YEA) leadership weekend. We started the session by exploring the challenging question of – What is your Why? I start by showing them the Simon Sinek video (https://www.kison.com//focus-on-the-one-thing-that-is-the-right-thing/) to get the ball rolling and from there we dug into what it means to them. The group explored how discovering their personal “why” could make them better engineers as it relates to the type of projects, companies and teams they chose to work with. We explored how their values and deep convictions, personally and professionally, should align to creating a personal vision, mission and values that shape a path for both their life and career. We began to develop their “why” statement to reflect and capitalize on their natural strengths and personality traits. This culminated Sunday morning by using their “why” statement to begin defining a personal brand position. The group seemed to know instinctively that companies and individuals who demonstrate a deep conviction to a cause or purpose based on their “why” are transformational change agents.
Many of us go through our lives in a perpetual mode of busy-ness based on task lists and juggling daily priorities. No matter how good your organizational skills are, or how hard you work, what you may be achieving may not necessarily be related to your why or be advancing your career.
This concept applies to everything in your life: your career, your personal relationships and your growth as an individual.
You should consider these three critical questions:
- Why you do what you do;
- How you do it; and,
- What you do.
For many people their “why” is determined by someone else, such as a parent, teacher or boss. For example, I have met people who became engineers because their father is an engineer. These individuals are intelligent and hardworking but often lack a deep sense of fulfillment or satisfaction from working solely on the technical aspects of a project. They often come to the realization that following in Dad’s footsteps seemed like a good idea at the time but simply fails to meet a deeper need for meaningful contribution. This usually happens with 3-5 years of graduation. Once these individuals discover their “why”, they may find that it relates more to leading teams, creating business opportunities and interacting with a wide spectrum of people. Individuals may become energized when their focus shifts from pure engineering to being a coordinator or catalyst for uniting a diverse group of people in a technical environment, or through effective networking to uncover new business opportunities and benefit from the effect their efforts have on many others.
Once you understand your “why”, the question of “how” must be addressed.
After you evaluate your “why”, the next step is to address the question of “how”. How can you get where you want to be? How can you be the person you want to be? How can you have the career that you deserve or crave? How do your values and principles guide you to bring the things you are committed to, or passionate about, to life? Do you have the discipline and commitment to not veer from your cause?
Living our “how” in a manner that reveals our “why” is one of the hardest things to do.
To achieve your “why”, you may require a trusted advisor such as a manager or supervisor, good friend or colleague or even a coach to assist you to develop an action plan. Your plan should be balanced between your personal and professional life. Succeeding at business while failing in your personal relationships is not true success; an objective advisor or coach can help you maintain balance.
Once you understand your “why” and “how”, the “what” is addressed.
Everything you say and do must prove you are committed to doing “what” is required to succeed. Review the following list and identify those outcomes that resonate most powerfully for you. The things you select will help reveal where you should be spending most of your time and energy. Your desired outcomes and supporting activities will enable you to align your passion and purpose and leverage your experience to achieve outcomes that are the most beneficial for you and others.
Consider the following points to help define your personal “why” statement.
- What drives you to do what you do? Is it money, recognition or power or is it a deep seated passion and belief that making a difference and having a positive impact on people’s lives, an organization or a cause is critical to success?
- Does your “why” make you inherently more valuable and build your personal brand not only to acquire a job and clients but in a way that potentially impacts society as a whole, your industry or profession because it leads to break through timing and innovation?
- Focus on your “why”. Knowing why you are doing something and what you hope to achieve is more important than defining what or how you are going to doing it.
- Does your “why” differentiate you from others and position you in the minds of your clients and colleagues and move you beyond being viewed as a commodity or value-add resource and make you either preferred, strategic or an innovator?
Here are two additional resources to help you apply your “why”. The first is my presentation to SMEI Vancouver where I provide some ideas on applying the concept in job interviews and to secure business. https://www.kison.com//resources/videos/#smei-why-hire-you
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A flexible learning tool created for kindergarten through 6th grade students, this curriculum helps children learn about water conservation, watersheds, stormwater management, and pollution prevention.
Our water, power, and sewer operations are an excellent starting point for project-based learning. To help teachers, schools, and parents foster the next generation of environmental stewards, we partnered with the Center for Ecoliteracy to produce this free K-12 curriculum resource that aligns with the Next Generation of Science Standards.
Have you ever thought about how the sewer system works? Or what happens when you flush the toilet? We partnered with the California Academy of Science to produce this fun and educational video to introduce the story of our sewer system to young audiences.
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It’s a scenario most Americans would find unbelievable: a police officer asking to smoke weed on the job. Yet north of the border, it’s a reality.
An officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was recently given a prescription for medical marijuana to treat job-related stress. He has now asked his bosses to let him use his medicine at work.
This has sparked the usual back and forth between marijuana foes and advocates. Those supporting the mountie say he has a disability that’s protected by law, while others say letting him smoke in uniform will tarnish the reputation of the national police agency.
Corporal Ronald Francis, who serves in the New Brunswick province, obtained a prescription for medical marijuana on Nov. 4. He got it under the country’s medical marijuana program, which dates to 2001, because he suffers from on-the-job stress. Francis then asked his superiors to let him use his medicine while in uniform, but they refused.
Those who oppose Francis’ request include Canada’s attorney general, Peter MacKay, who said it would “set a very poor example for Canadians.”
Francis and his supporters, meanwhile, say the issue is a medical matter, and employers need to learn how to deal with it.
Canada has had legal medical weed since 2001, when the nation’s courts struck down laws preventing it. Patients with debilitating medical conditions can be treated under the state-run CanniMed program.
Francis suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from 21 years in law enforcement, a condition alleviated by medical marijuana. He was prescribed up to three grams a day – slightly less than an eighth of an ounce – but told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. he doesn’t smoke that much.
“I get up in the morning, have my coffee and the marijuana,” he said. “I go at lunchtime, have a marijuana joint, and then again in the evening. That would be my medical regime. But that may change with my tolerance to THC. It may take two joints in the morning, I don’t know.”
Francis said the pot doesn’t impede his ability to function professionally. But the decision to use medical cannabis didn’t come easy to a career cop.
“I had to really make a moral decision about it,” Francis said. “Because the RCMP and law enforcement, they seem so anti-marijuana, and that’s a hard thing to overcome, so I had to make that decision for my own health. It wasn’t based on my career or anything.”
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As Mobile Revolutionizes Commerce, How Marketers Are Taking Advantage
How many of your daily tasks would be nearly impossible (or at least more difficult) without mobile devices, e-mail and the internet? It’s tough to imagine accomplishing even the simplest of tasks, especially when it comes to buying and selling goods. Mobile has revolutionized commerce, including the way consumers engage, research and ultimately purchase products. […]
How many of your daily tasks would be nearly impossible (or at least more difficult) without mobile devices, e-mail and the internet? It’s tough to imagine accomplishing even the simplest of tasks, especially when it comes to buying and selling goods. Mobile has revolutionized commerce, including the way consumers engage, research and ultimately purchase products.
On the flip side, advertisers now have more ways to reach and influence their audiences. Retailers are now witnessing first-hand how traditional “brick-and-mortar” ideology is rapidly transforming into a new “brick-and-click” reality.
Here’s how mobile assets are reshaping the commerce landscape and consumer buying behaviors:
Today, it is not uncommon for consumers to turn to their mobile devices to research products while in a store. This real-time access to information enables them to conduct their own on-site research on websites like Amazon and eBay for both price and product comparisons.
Large retailers like Best Buy are even using showrooming to compete with their competition through offers that match online and local retailers’ lower prices.
Other brands are implementing reverse showrooming strategies, in which consumers may look up products online, but are driven to complete their purchase in-store. The increase in showrooming should be seen as an incentive for brands to deliver real-time information and innovations to prompt consumers to visit stores in person.
2. Social Shopping
Social media is already becoming increasingly integrated into the brick-and-mortar experience, and mobile engagement is a driving force.
Notable brands like Nordstrom are leading the way with initiatives such as in-store displays showcasing top items pinned on Pinterest. Toyota is innovating the car shopping experience by inviting consumers to participate in Google Hangouts complete with tailored shopping tools and resources for building a customized car.
3. App Marketing
Apps are also bridging the gap between brick-and-mortar retailers and e-commerce sites. Essentially, they have opened up new marketplaces in which both marketers and consumers benefit. For consumers, apps create a personalized digital environment that is extremely user-friendly.
On the marketers’ side, apps provide a direct communication channel with their customer as well as access to real-time, user-level data that helps brands understand their customers’ journey. As a result, marketers become better equipped with knowledge of when to push out notifications, coupons, and deals, as well as deploy in-app targeting and update pertinent brand and consumer information.
In many ways, apps have changed the role of the e-commerce site with their ability to facilitate research either by expediting the process with a quick scan of a QR code or by sifting through personalized content within the app itself.
A great example of a branded app fulfilling timely consumer needs is American Apparel’s mobile app because it complements the in-store experience with outfit pairing suggestions, sale information and interactive product labels made accessible via QR codes.
4. Mobile Payments
One of the main benefits of shopping online is avoiding long checkout lines. Many retailers have risen to the challenge by offering mobile payment systems that empower in-store shoppers to conduct self-service checkout using their smartphones.
A recent study from LexisNexis and Javelin Strategy & Research illustrates how mobile penetration within the retail channel is growing rapidly, with nearly one in ten merchants accepting mobile payments in 2013 — an increase of 50% per year since 2011. An additional 25% expect to begin accepting mobile payments in 2014.
Earlier this year, Starbucks claimed to have over 10 million customers use their mobile payment and app program, which was estimated to drive nearly $1 billion in revenue in 2013.
5. Location-Based Ads
The ability to reach consumers based on their proximity to products, stores or general locales has become a game changer for brands. In fact, it has become more common to see marketers experiment with layering behavioral and intent data on top of location targeting as a means to influence purchasing decisions.
We see this in various mobile-based search retargeting campaigns as many overlay tactics like geo-fencing and keyword targeting to reach consumers on mobile devices.
By combining the power of location and other data-based targeting strategies, advertisers can improve the relevancy of brand messages and effectively drive up performance. A new report by BIA/Kelsey estimates that by 2017, over half of all mobile ad budgets will be allocated to location-targeted ads. While this might be a bit bullish, location is a key factor in the future of commerce.
Above all, the main takeaway is to make sure you have mobile assets in place. Marketers should capitalize on the ability to reach consumers in new and innovative ways. Retailers take note: ease of access, seamless omni-channel experiences, inspiring opportunities for engagement and personalization are the name of the game. The delivery is up to you.
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Not too long ago, encrypting your computer, files or folders were something that only geeks or people in extreme high security jobs would do. Well people have since the dawn of wars, kingdoms and enemies, world leaders and their adversaries tried to hide information from unauthorized eyes, but nowadays – everyone seems to concerned with it.
Windows 7 supports many different solutions to encrypt (and thereby protect) your data (like: EFS and BitLocker).
But what do you use, if any ?
And are you truly concerned about the loss of important data at all ?
Or, do you still think that encryption is for geeks and government employees ?
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BY JILL CLINTON, June 14th 2018
Mayors from all over the country, and even the world, met in Boston last Thursday, June 7th, to talk about climate change. The goal of the conference was to bring mayors together and share successes in and strategies for reducing greenhouse gases and preparing cities for climate change impacts such as hurricanes, flooding, and increased heat days. Boston mayor, Marty Walsh, held this conference despite President Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Accord, an international agreement to mitigate climate change.
While not every mayor faces the same climate challenges, it was clear that every mayor in the conference is committed to reducing the impact of climate change and preparing their cities for what lies ahead. Some cities have already begun to reduce their emissions and start resiliency planning. Salt Lake City, for example, already has net carbon neutral fire stations and is partnering with Delta to build the first net zero airport.
However, not all cities have taken action. Boston, ranked the most energy efficient city for the past three years, has not done much outside of the energy sector. As Mayor Walsh stated, “We have done an awful lot of planning over the past four years… but it’s time for solutions right now.” Boston’s Mayor discussed many plans to prepare the city for climate impacts and increase resilience such as raising streets up to six feet in Charlestown and developing resilient buildings in the Seaport District, but left much to the imagination in terms of emissions reductions.
In fact, most of the summit focussed on what mayors can do to increase resiliency, pushing mitigation to the back burner. Cities need proactive solutions to prepare for already felt effects of climate change, but mayors should be careful not to lose sight of the driver of these issues, which is carbon emissions. In Boston, increasing energy efficiency is not enough, and Mayor Walsh needs to do more and follow through with his call for action if the city is to meet its climate goals.
There is hope, as John Kerry stated, “we aren’t sitting here waiting for the discovery of the solution. We’ve already discovered it. We have alternative sources of energy. We have the ability to implement it.” Mayors over the country have the opportunity to move away from our country’s historic dependence on fossil fuels and move towards renewable energy solutions. Mayor Garcetti of Los Angeles, alongside Mayor Marty Walsh, announced plans for a nationwide solar project that will reduce costs and connect our country’s energy grids. To date, only nine cities have signed onto this solar project, which will be the largest solar project in the world if it succeeds. There is some doubt to the reality of the project as Mayor Walsh noted that they need to check city’s needs and then “if it makes sense, we will move forward.”
The summit provided first steps, bringing mayors together and sharing information. We will have to watch closely to see if any specific action plans come out of this summit in the coming weeks.
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TMZ just reported that Lee Thompson Young also known as Jett Jackson died at the age of 29. No information has been released so far. He was found dead by a gun shot wound that appeared to be self inflicted.
Why is the suicide rate increasing among black men? Jet interviewed several experts across the country who cited a number of reasons for the increase of suicide. Theories included drug and alcohol abuse, the easy availability of guns, poverty, the high unemployment rate, and the pressures of young middle class Blacks fighting racism in corporate America.
Reverend Cecil L. Murray, pastor of First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles notes, “Despair is increasing, and that despair is economic, political, educational, and social.” He also notes that the breakdown of the family leaves, “the young adult male without a hands-on mentor. Also recall that thedivorce rate is 50%; the rate of birth out of wedlock approaches 75% in impoverished communities, so the wheel of difficulty keeps spinning more rapidly.” Murray adds, “America is getting angrier and meaner, and those who are without an economic base find an outlet in self-destructive behaviors more than those who have the other options.”
Dr. Sherry Molock, Psychology Professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and Director of Clinical Training for the University’s Psychology Department suggests that poverty and unemployment contribute to the increase of suicide among Black men. Dr. Molock also notes, “‘Some of the men I work with have no hope for the future; they simply live day by day.”
Dr.O has a couple of theories that he would like to present for this new dilemma:
- Learned Helplessness-This is a age-old and tried theory of depression. No matter how hard the Black Man may try, without sufficient education and training-he will be slapped down. Many of them have found this out too late.
- Primitive Rage and Abandonment Anger-How often do we see young Black males that have been abandoned by the father (mostly) and or mother. Yes, sometimes it is both. They will simply throw their hands-up in despair and seek suicide as a way out. I see this a lot in my own clinical practice.
- Financial Stress-There are no jobs for the”Uneducated Black Man.” Moreover, what if you are just up-in-age and the possibility of going back to school just is NOT an option for you. Then guess what, you can’t provide for your family or for yourself. That can be a noose-around-the-neck within itself.
- Unresolved Early Childhood Abuse-This is becoming a more and more common finding in therapy. A lot of inappropriate verbal slandering and in the worse case, touching (both physical and sexual) is taking place with young “Black Males.” The culprits are fathers, uncles, cousins and even mothers. yes, I do have patients that revealed to me that their mother’s sexually abused them. What happens with this unresolved anger? It becomes turned-inward-that leads to depression-that could lead to suicide.
- Chronic Medical Problems-Imagine being Black with no healthcare in America. This in itself is a cry of desperation. We are prone to a number of diseases to include, hypertension and diabetes. Both are silent killers. Let’s be sure to give HIV/AIDS an honorable mention here also.
- Chronic Mental Health Problems– Schizophrenia, Bipolar and Attention-Deficit Disorder are fulminant in the African-American male population. Having any mental illness automatically predisposes you to higher rates of suicide completion. This is just a fact-enough said!
Is Suicide a Way Out?
This act is not a way out! No matter how much you may be in despair, there is help out there for you. A lot of people don’t want to face the realities surrounding this real dilemma, but I have decided to confront this problem head-on. If you know a young man, or better yet a young woman, in mental distress-please take them to the appropriate mental health professional. There are a lot of qualified persons out there to help. We are here for you!
This is what you should do.
- Query and ask them if they have an actual plan; If they have a plan-call 911 immediately.
- Query to see if they are on psychiatric medications. If so, see if they have taken their medications today. Withdrawal “Dysphoria” is a difficult feeling.
- Query to see of they own a gun or have a method of carrying out this wish-suicide. Remove the object or agent immediately.
- Talk to the person while help is on the way. Don’t leave them alone.
- Be empathetic-This is NOT the time for tough love; Maybe later but NOT right now.
- Call their physician-Let them know what is going on. They may have a technique for you to use while EMS is en-route.
I will not sound off on this issue any further but I will close with 5 points to ponder;
1. Do you know anyone who is depressed?
2. Did you reach out to help them or offer support?
3. Do you feel that “mental illness” is a sign of weakness?
4. Is the church ALWAYS protective against depression and suicide?
5. Do you have to be a therapist to help someone in trouble with depression?
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Bard gets $1M to create small hydropower projects
When Bard College took ownership of the Montgomery Place estate in January, it got more than just a historic home, trails and gorgeous scenery.
It also got a couple of old dams — and all the compliance responsibilities that come with them.
But where some may have seen a new regulatory burden, others saw an opportunity to generate power, albeit on a small scale.
Out of that idea came a project that received $1 million in state funding Monday. Bard was one of three colleges that received a $1 million grant through Gov. Andrew Cuomo's "Energy to Lead Competition."
The college identified 6,700 dams across the state where no power is being generated. Most are privately owned and many would be suitable for "micro" hydroelectric projects, or those that generate less than 100 kilowatts of power.
The grant will allow the college to develop micro-hydro projects at three locations, according to Laurie Husted, Bard's sustainability manager.
And it will allow for the creation of a public online repository of relevant research, including ecological, technical and logistical aspects.
"When this opportunity came along, we said, 'Let's figure out if it is possible to put micro-hydro on either of our two dams,' " Husted said.
It remains to be seen whether the projects will be targeted at Bard or elsewhere. Husted said there are places at West Point that might be a good fit.
But once developed, the small, hydroelectric projects are expected to result in the avoidance of 335 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
“Innovation is at the core of Bard’s mission," Bard President Leon Bottstein said in a statement, "and this award helps us to continue to innovate in environmental issues and energy conservation, and to signal the importance of these issues to the entire higher education community.”
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“With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians still 20 times more likely to die from RHD, the AMA’s call for firm targets and a comprehensive and consultative strategy is welcome. We encourage governments to adopt these recommendations immediately.
“As noted by the AMA, it is absolutely critical that governments work in close partnership with Aboriginal health bodies. Without strong community controlled health services, achieving these targets for reducing RHD will be impossible.
While this is a long term challenge, the human impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are being felt deeply right now. Action is required urgently.
NACCHO is standing ready to work with the AMA and governments to develop and implement these measures. We have to work together and we have to do it now.”
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) Chairperson Matthew Cooke pictured above at Danila Dilba Health Service NT with AMA President Dr Michael Gannon (right ) and the Hon Warren Snowdon MP Shadow Assistant Minister for Indigenous Health (left )
” RHD, which starts out with seemingly innocuous symptoms such as a sore throat or a skin infection, but leads to heart damage, stroke, disability, and premature death, could be eradicated in Australia within 15 years if all governments adopted the recommendations of the latest AMA Indigenous Health Report Card.
AMA President, Dr Michael Gannon see full AMA Press Release below
” We have many of the answers, we just need commitment from Govt to help implement necessary changes ”
Ms Olga Havnen is the CEO of Danila Dilba Biluru Binnilutlum Health Service in Darwin
NACCHO Press Release
The peak Aboriginal health organisation today welcomed the release of the Australian Medical Association’s Report Card on Indigenous Health as a timely reminder of the importance of community controlled services.
The 2016 Report Card on Indigenous Health focuses on the enormous impact that Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is having on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia with a ‘Call to Action to Prevent New Cases of RHD in in Indigenous Australia by 2031’.
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AMA RELEASES PLAN TO ERADICATE RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE (RHD) BY 2031
AMA Indigenous Health Report Card 2016: A call to action to prevent new cases of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Indigenous Australia by 2031
The AMA today called on all Australian governments and other stakeholders to work together to eradicate Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) – an entirely preventable but devastating disease that kills and disables hundreds of Indigenous Australians every year – by 2031.
AMA President, Dr Michael Gannon, said today that RHD, which starts out with seemingly innocuous symptoms such as a sore throat or a skin infection, but leads to heart damage, stroke, disability, and premature death, could be eradicated in Australia within 15 years if all governments adopted the recommendations of the latest AMA Indigenous Health Report Card.
The 2016 Report Card – A call to action to prevent new cases of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Indigenous Australia by 2031 – was launched at Danila Dilba Darwin Friday 25 November
Dr Gannon said the lack of effective action on RHD to date was a national failure, and an urgent coordinated approach was needed.
“RHD once thrived in inner-city slums, but had been consigned to history for most Australians,” Dr Gannon said.
“RHD is a disease of poverty, and it is preventable, yet it is still devastating lives and killing many people here in Australia – one of the world’s wealthiest countries.
“In fact, Australia has one of the highest rates of RHD in the world, almost exclusively localised to Indigenous communities.
“Indigenous Australians are 20 times more likely to die from RHD than their non-Indigenous peers – and, in some areas, such as in the Northern Territory, this rate rises to 55 times higher.
“These high rates speak volumes about the fundamental underlying causes of RHD, particularly in remote areas – poverty, housing, education, and inadequate primary health care.
“The necessary knowledge to address RHD has been around for many decades, but action to date has been totally inadequate.
“The lack of action on an appropriate scale is symptomatic of a national failure. With this Report Card, the AMA calls on all Australian governments to stop new cases of RHD from occurring.”
RHD begins with infection by Group A Streptococcal (Strep A) bacteria, which is often associated with overcrowded and unhygienic housing.
It often shows up as a sore throat or impetigo (school sores). But as the immune system responds to the Strep A infection, people develop Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF), which can result in damage to the heart valves – RHD – particularly when a person is reinfected multiple times.
RHD causes strokes in teenagers, and leads to children needing open heart surgery, and lifelong medication.
In 2015, almost 6,000 Australians – the vast majority Indigenous – were known to have experienced ARF or have RHD.
From 2010-2013, there were 743 new or recurrent cases of RHD nationwide, of which 94 per cent were in Indigenous Australians. More than half (52 per cent) were in Indigenous children aged 5-14 years, and 27 per cent were among those aged 15-24 years.
“We know the conditions that give rise to RHD, and we know how to address it,” Dr Gannon said.
“What we need now is the political will to prevent it – to improve the overcrowded and unhygienic conditions in which Strep A thrives and spreads; to educate Indigenous communities about these bacterial infections; to train doctors to rapidly and accurately detect Strep A, ARF, and RHD; and to provide culturally safe primary health care to communities.”
The AMA Report Card on Indigenous Health 2016 calls on Australian governments to:
Commit to a target to prevent new cases of RHD among Indigenous Australians by 2031, with a sub-target that, by 2025, no child in Australia dies of ARF or its complications; and
Work in partnership with Indigenous health bodies, experts, and key stakeholders to develop, fully fund, and implement a strategy to end RHD as a public health problem in Australia by 2031.
“The End Rheumatic Heart Disease Centre of Research Excellence (END RHD CRC) is due to report in 2020 with the basis for a comprehensive strategy to end RHD as a public health problem in Australia,” Dr Gannon said.
“We need an interim strategy in place from now until 2021, followed by a comprehensive 10-year strategy to implement the END RHD CRC’s plan from 2021 to 2031.
“We urge our political leaders at all levels of government to take note of this Report Card, and to be motivated to act to solve this problem.”
The AMA Indigenous Health Report Card 2016 is available at https://ama.com.au/article/2016-ama-report-card-indigenous-health-call-action-prevent-new-cases-rheumatic-heart-disease
TIME TO TAKE HEART
Labor calls on the Turnbull government to take heart and address Rheumatic Heart Disease, an entirely preventable public health problem which is almost exclusively affecting First Nation Peoples.
Labor welcomes the release of the Australian Medical Association’s 2016 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Report Card, A Call To Action To Prevent New Cases Of Rheumatic Heart Disease In Indigenous Australian By 2031.
Poor environmental health conditions, like overcrowded housing remain rampant in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, devastating families and the lives of young people.
“As the AMA’s report card suggests, we must build on the success of the 2009 Commonwealth Government Rheumatic Fever strategy, established to improve the detection and monitoring of Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease.
Funding under the Rheumatic Fever strategy is uncertain after this financial year,” Ms King said.
The Productivity Commission’s report Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage [OID] released last week found 49.4% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in remote communities live in overcrowded housing. Additionally, the report details no significant improvement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples access to clean water, functional sewerage and electricity.
“We know Rheumatic Heart Disease is a disease of poverty and social disadvantage, which is absolutely preventable. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, especially in the Top End of the Northern Territory, suffer the highest rates of definite Rheumatic Heart Disease,” Mr Snowdon said.
Labor applauds the work of the Take Heart Australia awareness campaign, and their work to educate and advocate putting Rheumatic Heart Diseases on the public health agenda.
“Like always, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities need to be front and centre in taking action. The most positive outcomes will come through communities working with Aboriginal and Community Control Health Organisations to design and deliver programs tailored to their needs,” Senator Dodson said.
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013-2023 noted more than three years ago the association of RHD with ‘extremes of poverty and marginalisation’, these conditions remain and are almost exclusively diseases of Indigenous Australia.
If we are serious about closing the gap, we must take heart, and address this burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease facing First Nation Peoples.
ACTION TO END RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE (RHD) IN 15YRS
The Heart Foundation has today supported the Australian Medical Association (AMA) call for governments to work together to eliminate Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in 15 years, by 2031.
Heart Foundation National CEO, Adjunct Professor John Kelly (AM) said RHD was an avoidable but widespread disease that kills and harms hundreds of Indigenous Australians every year.
“Considering how preventable RHD is, it is a national shame that our Indigenous population are left languishing.
“The Heart Foundation has strongly advocated from the RHD strategy. We continue to call on the government to fund the National Partnership Agreement on Rheumatic fever strategy and Rheumatic Heart Disease Australia (RHD Australia) with a $10 million over 3 years’ commitment, “Adj Prof Kelly said.
With the AMA predicting that RHD could be eradicated in Australia within 15 years if all governments adopted its recommendations, the time to act is now.
“We need to boost funding for the national rheumatic fever strategy. New Zealand is allocating $65 million over 10 years. A robust approach can put an end to RHD as a public health issue within 15 years,” Adj Prof Kelly said.
This call to action was part of the release of the AMA’s 2016 Indigenous Report Card – A call to action to prevent new cases of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Indigenous Australia by 2031.
“We want a strong and robust strategy to tackle this challenge. We will be working with the AMA to support and advocate for these recommendations which include:
- A commitment to a target to prevent new cases of RHD among Indigenous Australians by 2031, with a sub-target that, by 2025, no child in Australia dies of ARF or its complications; and
- Working in partnership with Indigenous health bodies, experts, and key stakeholders
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