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If you’re a gardener, killing is in the cards.
If you’re an organic gardener, you will kill, too. But you won’t kill indiscriminately. Your Weapons Of Mass Destruction (WMD) will be kind to you and your family and kind to the environment. WARNING: THIS IS A LONG POST…but worth the read. Oh and some of the ideas are gruesome…but they work.
Let’s start with an easy weapon you’ve heard about before – insecticidal soap.
Insecticidal soap is a good way to try to control pests before they get a foothold. You can use dishwashing liquid for your base because it is mild and, used in small quantities, won’t damage the plants.
The soap enhances the ability of the other additives to stick to the leaves of the plant for a bit longer. Soap also dehydrates the bug’s cell membranes and speeds their trip to bug heaven. One word of caution, don’t use too much soap. If you do, you could kill your plants right along with the bugs.
RECIPE: Home Brewed Insecticidal Soap
Here’s a base recipe for making insecticidal soap that may discourage your pests including the cucumber beetle.
6 cloves of garlic
1 large onion
1 to 2 tablespoons of red pepper flakes or 1 to 2 tablespoons of powdered cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon dishwashing soap
1 gallon water
Put the garlic, onion and pepper in a blender or food processor and liquefy.
Steep these ingredients for an hour.
Strain through cheesecloth.
Stir the blended mixture into a gallon of hot water.
Stir in the dishwashing liquid.
Cover and let it stand for two days so the bits of garlic, onion or pepper flakes settle to the bottom.
Strain again, stopping about an inch from the bottom to keep the bits of garlic or pepper flakes on the bottom of the jar from flowing into the newly strained liquid.
Pour the liquid into a spray bottle and spray affected plants thoroughly to discourage bad bugs!
WMD In The War on Bugs
Like any good general who goes to war, you can’t just rely on one weapon. There are a few more that really took me a couple of years to come to grips with.
Before gardening, I was a wimp. If a bug of any variety crossed my path, I drew myself up to my full 64 inch height, screamed and ran. Oh, yes I did.
Then I became an organic gardener. Bugs moved from the nuisance category to sworn enemy. And my arsenal expanded to include some pretty weird (and previously unthinkable) weapons.
Rocks are a favorite. They’re cheap and readily available. And they’re effective. Just hold a rock on either side of a squash leaf that’s harboring stink bugs and bring them down quickly, bashing the brains out of the vine borer before it lays eggs or pokes holes in your squash, cuke or pumpkin stems.
Oh, and make sure you check the bottoms of the leaves of your zucchini, summer squash, cucumbers and pumpkins for eggs. Once you see a stinkbug you can be sure you have a little batch of bright orange eggs stashed somewhere on the plant. Find them, crush them and move on.
Hands do the job with a bit more finesse than rocks. Okay, it’s a bit gross to grab a bug and squash it with your bare hands. But smaller beetles like cucumber, asparagus and Mexican bean beetles are much more agile than stink bugs so rocks rarely work.
NOTE: be prepared to spend a bit of time every afternoon or evening catching and crushing these beetles. I used to come home from the office, change and go out and vent all the pent up hostility of handling my staff, my peers and my bosses by crushing as many bugs as I could find.
Finding these winged pests and their crawling, larval offspring means taking the time to shake each plant. When they fly up and land again, squash them between thumb and forefinger while perhaps reciting the litany of crimes your co-workers have committed and the punishment you are meting out.
Be methodical. Flip the leaves of every plant over to look for larva and eggs. This is especially important for Mexican bean beetles. “Where there’s one,” my Mom used to say, “There are a million.” So be ruthless. Think sheer volume and crush away.
Slotted Spoon & A Pot of Water
There are some bugs I just will not tackle, bare-handed. When the Japanese beetles and their cousins, the Asian beetle and the Green Fruit beetle (looks like a Japanese beetle on steroids) come calling, I break out my slotted spoon and a pot of cold water. Weird weapons of choice for dealing with flying beetles that can hook to your clothes and get caught in your hair but, believe me, they work.
There’s just one trick. You have to go out to the infested plants early in the morning, as dawn breaks and before the sun begins to warm the air. These beetles are heavy sleepers and don’t start stirring until the sun is up. So it’s really easy to whack them into the pot of water with the spoon and wait for them to drown. Or if you’ve got chickens, set the pot in the coop and stand back. It will look like a Japanese horror movie as the chickens move in to eat their fill.
Sifter and flour
This is a trick my Mom taught me. She raised a lot of cole crops – cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts. And these plants were really plagued by things like the codling moth. Well, Mom showed me how to use morning dew, white flour and a sifter to turn the moths and their larvae into – well, how can I say this – papier mache bugs.
The flour and water mixed together to create a paste that baked in the sun and froze this insect enemy into tiny sculptures that could no longer chew their way through my plants. By the way, this also works for flea beetles.
Here’s another ingredient from the kitchen that works, all on its own, to help control roly-polies, earwigs, and some of our other not-so-welcome bugs. And it’s simple and cheap (my favorite combination). Sprinkle chili powder under targeted plants. It doesn’t hurt the plants but it sure does make the creepy crawlies take off and never come back.
Diatomaceous earth is a blessing for any gardener plagued by slugs. And if you plant tender lettuce and young pepper plants, you will probably have slugs coming over for dinner every night. Like the trick for killing codling moths, I tend to put the diatomaceous earth in the flour sifter and sift it gently over the affected plants but don’t inhale it. It can hurt you, too.
I also use a spoon to lay down little circles of diatomaceous earth around the stems of my plants and around the outside of the lettuce plants. Diatomaceous earth is made of the sharp, jagged skeletal remains of microscopic creatures. It acts like finely ground glass and lacerates soft-bodied slugs causing them to dehydrate.
I don’t want to be sexist here and I was going to write grandchildren but I just could not get my granddaughter engaged in this particular game. I paid my grandsons cash on the barrel head for Japanese beetle bodies. And they earned a considerable amount of money some years by just banging the beetles into a pot or crushing them with rocks.
Some of the tactics seem downright cruel but, remember, this is war!
Closing Thoughts on Controlling Bugs
There will be days when you are on the battlefield, armed with your weapon of choice and you’ll still feel a bit like David to the insect kingdom’s Goliath.
Take heart and smash, bash, drown and pick until you’ve cut into the insect front line troops. And remember that resisting a quick squirt of pesticide means knowing that your food will not kill you, your family or your friends.
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How did the idea for Lipowise came out?
Once upon a time, there was a very recognised Professor from the Faculty of Nutrition of the University of Porto that taught her students to assess body composition through skinfold callipers. Over the years she realized that this type of devices, even being accurate if used in the right way, were complex to operate and took a lot of time to make the assessment of localized body composition.
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OTTAWA: Canada on Thursday authorized the use of Moderna´s Covid-19 vaccine for children six months to five years of age.
This means 1.7 million children, among Canada´s population of 38 million, are now eligible to be inoculated against the coronavirus.
"After a thorough and independent scientific review of the evidence, Health Canada has determined that the benefits of this vaccine for children between 6 months and 5 years of age outweigh the potential risks," the agency said.
It said that in clinical trials the effectiveness of the regime for small kids was found to be similar to that observed in people aged 18 to 25.
"With this announcement, parents and caregivers now have an option to protect these very young children, a group at high risk of infection and where additional health prevention measures like wearing masks may not always be feasible," said Patricia Gauthier, president of Moderna´s Canadian unit.
The green light comes a year and half after the Moderna vaccine was approved in Canada for adults.
The United States launched its inoculation campaign for children under five in June.
Also Thursday, Ottawa reinstated mandatory random Covid-19 testing of air travellers arriving at the nation´s four major airports -- in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver -- after pausing the program last month.
"We need to keep border testing measures in place because that is how we track importation of the Covid-19 virus, and of new variants of concern," Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said in a statement.
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Introduction>Cheesemaking approaches vary relying on the intended last use or intake of the cheese. Cheese deserve to have widely varying characteristics.
Italian mozzarella-type cheese, supplied in pasta dishes, have to have great melting quality and also mild flavor. Hard cheese such as Romano and also Parmesan should be dried with distinct flavor. Mexico cheese, regularly used in fried foods, should be stable at high temperatures. The variety among cheese has emerged from differences in milk quality, diversity among native microflora (microorganisms naturally developing in a given region) and also differences in dealing with during processing. In north America cheese is generally made indigenous the milk of cows (Bos taurus) or goats (Capra aegagrus). In India cheese is frequently made of milk from water buffalo (Bubalus arnee). Yak (Bos grunniens) cheese is make in the internal of Asia.
Cow"s milk is composed of 88% water with 3.7% fat, 3.4% protein, 4.8% street (lactose), and also 0.7% minerals and also vitamins (USDA, 2005). The procedure of making cheese requires forming a curd indigenous milk solids such together fats, protein and also minerals that room separated and also concentrated (Hill, 2006). The discharged liquid, whey, consists of most that the lactose, water, straightforward proteins, minerals and also vitamins (Hill, 2006). Around 10 pounds (1.25 gallons) that milk are required to do one pound of cheese.
Making cheese is a dynamic process, affected by time, temperature and also the bacterial culture (lactic acid bacteria) and also coagulating enzyme (rennet) the are offered to concentrate and separate the casein (milk protein) and fat from the whey. Exceptions to this encompass cheeses such as Queso Fresco or Queso Blanco (traditionally consumed in Latin American countries) and also Paneer (traditionally consumed in India), which are made without bacterial cultures or rennet. This cheeses are made by curdling warm milk by adding an acid such together vinegar or fruit juice. This kind of fresh cheese is simple to make and also has greater yield since all the whey proteins normally lost are included in the cheese.
The enzyme rennet reasons casein to type chains and to build a mesh-like network or gel, trapping water and also fat. This semisolid gelatin is the curd. Once the gelatin is certain enough, it is cut into small pieces and, after ~ cooking, the whey is removed. The whey might be partially drained from the curd and the curd washed with water to boost its humidity content. The temperature throughout cooking and also handling of the curd affects the texture of the curd and the form of final product. When the curd has actually reached the desired moisture and also acidity, salt deserve to be added. Salting may be achieved through brine, similar to Gouda; surface ar salt, as with Feta; or dried salt, as with Cheddar. After salting, the curd might be partly drained and also again washed v water to boost the moisture content. As soon as the curds have reached the preferred moisture and acidity (pH), the whey is separated native the curd.
The cheese curd created is a an outcome of bacterial action on lactose convert to lactic acid. The acid acts together a preservative, clears water native the cheese curd, and develops cheese structure (Hill, 2006). Initially the enzyme from aboriginal microflora develop the odor components, which readjust during aging.
Commercial cultures have been occurred to produce a certain cheese type. Yogurt and also buttermilk contain live bacteria that deserve to be supplied as a society to do cheese.
Once the whey is removed, the curd is permitted to pole together, forming a mat. The mat is moved to a hoop or mold lined v cheesecloth, which contributes come the final shape. The mold can be pressed to type a dense cheese (Cheddar) or can be left to resolve under its own weight to have actually an open up texture (Feta).
Soft cheese have the right to be make at home without devoted equipment. Due to the fact that soft cheese contains over 45% water, it is highly perishable and also has a refrigerated life the only five to seven days.
Food security Concerns
There are four major pathogens associated with fresh cheese. These can cause foodborne illness. Lock are: Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, and Staphylococcus aureus. This pathogenic bacteria are managed by an excellent sanitation that equipment and also food contact surfbenidormclubdeportivo.org, ideal cooking, cooling and also handling that cheese curds throughout processing, and proper hand washing.
Sanitationto wash hands* and all equipment with soapy laundry detergent before and also after use. rinse all devices with clean safe and clean water, removing every soapy residue. cook all cheese-making equipment in between uses. Soak all cheese-making equipment in a bleach-water systems for 2 minutes, before and also after use. Maintain energetic chlorine in bleach water (see below). for best-quality cheese, use new cheesecloth each time you do cheese. (Sterilize cheesecloth by an initial washing, then boiling or soaking 2 minutes in bleach-water.) Squeaky clean is clean. If you deserve to feel a residue top top the equipment, the is no clean.
* Wash hands whenever hands touch dirty or soiled surfbenidormclubdeportivo.org, ~ a sneeze or cough, ~ bathroom use, after ~ eating, or after managing raw milk. Hands have to be dried fully with a clean disposable record towel.
Bleach-wateradd one tablespoon the standard family bleach come one gallon that water. Make a new bleach-water solution each time you do cheese. Test chlorine task of bleach-water ~ above a continuous basis making use of litmus test record (available in ~ hardware stores). Remake bleach-water if it becomes cloudy through food particles. Bleach-water recipe have the right to be double if necessary.
Pasteurization of raw Milk
The pasteurization of life milk is a vulnerable procedure dependant top top temperature and also time. The is recommended that the life milk it is in pasteurized by heater at 60–62.5°C (140–145°F) for 30 minutes. This warmth treatment will ruin pathogenic bacteria the could cause foodborne illness. After pasteurization the milk is cooled come 32–37°C (89.6–98.6°F). Climate the cheese making process may begin.use a food preparation thermometer in the milk to measure temperature. Temperature regulate is an extremely important. Perform not warmth milk over 145°F. That may readjust the texture and also flavor that the cheese. Temperature under 140°F will certainly not kill harmful bacteria.
Note: Pasteurized milk accessible at the grocery store store has actually been warmth processed and also homogenized for a ready-to-drink milk product. This affect milk protein and also fat texture. Back homogenized milk can be used, result cheese will have actually a various texture than the timeless cheese.
Selecting Milk and Cultured Products
The high quality of the cheese depends highly on the high quality of the life milk and also cultures used to do the cheese. Top quality is impacted by freshness, or age and also microbial standing of the life milk, and by the wellness of the dairy product cow. Cultures, as already mentioned, can be derived directly indigenous a caterer or indirectly from yogurt or buttermilk. Regardless of the resource of milk and also cultures, care must be taken to take care of the cultures properly to avoid microbial air pollution that may influence the plot of the culturing agent.
The texture and also flavor of cheese are established initially through the culturing agents, by the fat content of the milk product used, and also by the quantity of humidity left in the product. The milk products used in cheese-making contribute both fat and also moisture. Therefore, once the goal is to make a low-fat cheese, it is vital to think about that the flavor, texture and moisture content of a cheese made from low-fat milk will be much different than those the a cheese product through a higher fat content. Table 1 offers information on the fat contents of various milk commodities that might be offered in do cheese.
Table 1. Fat content of typical milk assets (USDA Nutrient Database, 2005)
|Dairy Product||Fat g/cup (g/240 g)|
|Half "n" fifty percent||28|
|Yogurt, plain, nonfat||0.4|
|Yogurt, plain, lowfat||3.5|
|Yogurt, plain, whole||7.4|
Equipment because that Making Soft CheeseThermometer v a temperature range of 40 to 165°F. Large dual boiler with around a 5-quart capacity for 1 gallon that milk. (Two large cooking pots of different sizes have the right to be substituted because that a double boiler.) Spatula long sufficient to reach the bottom the the double boiler. Long-handled spoon. Long-bladed knife. Digital timer or easy-to-read clock. Measure up cups, teaspoons. Cheesecloth or muslin, tea towel. Quart strainer to support draining cloth. Forms or molds for shaping the cheese. A homemade press have the right to be made from pan-shaped colander and also a salad bowl or a "follower." (Figure 1) A 1-pound coffee have the right to (smooth sided) can also be used. Punch holes in the bottom that the deserve to from the inside out so a towel liner will not capture on the steel edges. Make a follower the end of the can lid in the same way. A push or maker to put pressure on the cheese. Cans or glass jars the fit snugly in the coffee deserve to may be used for this purpose. Brining container do of glass or heavy plastic. Plastic bucket (2-gallon capacity) for whey discharge.
Figure 1. Coffee have the right to cheese press. (Taken native C. McDaniel and also P. Kendall, 2004)
No-rennet Queso Blanco (Latin American White Cheese)Recipe adapted from Hill, A.R. (2006)
Heat-acid or no-rennet Queso Blanco is a white, semi-hard cheese made without culture or rennet. That is eaten fresh and may be flavored with peppers, herbs and spices. That is considered a "frying cheese" meaning it does not melt and also may be deep fried or grilled. Queso Blanco can also be made by renneting whole milk with small or no bacterial culture.
Ingredients:4.6 fl. Oz. (137 ml) vinegar (5% acetic acid) 9.2 fl oz. (274 ml) distilled water 1.0 gallon (3.76 L; 8 lb; 3.63 kg) heat-treated or pasteurized milk 1 teaspoon (4.6 g) salt spices to taste
Procedure:warm milk to 176°F (80°C) for 20 minutes. add vinegar (5% acetic acid) come water and then include slowly come the warm milk till the whey is semi-clear and the curd particles start to mat together and become contempt stretchy. You should have the ability to stretch a piece of curd about 0.39 inches (1 cm) before it breaks. It may not be important to add all the the vinegar. different the curd by filtering through a towel bag until totally free whey is removed. work in salt and spices come taste. press the curd (high press is no required). package curd in boilable bags (vacuum package if possible) and also place in boiling water for 5 minute to sterilize the surface and prevent mould growth. Queso Blanco may keep for numerous weeks if correctly packed and stored in a refrigerator, but should be eaten in together fresh a state as possible.
Recipe adapted from Hill, A.R. (2006)
Ricotta cheese is additionally made through heat-acid precipitation of protein from blends the milk and also whey. It is provided in lasagna or consumed as a next dish along with the main course.
Ingredients:1 quart (940 ml) vinegar (5% acetic acid) 25 gallons ( 94 L; 200 lb; 90.72 kg) heat-treated or pasteurized whey 2.5 gallons (9.4 L; 20 lb; 9.07 kg) pasteurized totality milk
Procedure:add whole milk to new whey, then heat to 185°F (85°C). Heating must begin automatically after the whey is removed from the curd to prevent more acidification by the lactic acid bacteria. Some tiny curd particles will certainly form. gradually add around 2 teaspoons the vinegar every quart the whey v gentle agitation. You will see more curd corpuscle forming and also the whey will come to be less "milky." Pour into a cloth to separate the curds. After ~ the curd is dripped dry it is ready to eat.
Note: More vinegar might be added depending on the amount of milk used. Continue including vinegar until the whey is fairly clear. By adding the vinegar progressively over a time duration of around 5 minutes you will obtain far better quality curd and it will certainly be easier to understand when to stop.
Cheese Made with Rennet
Rennet is obtainable as a tablet computer or liquid. One teaspoon fluid rennet is tantamount to one tablet. Either type must be fully dissolved in cold insanity water. Difficult water have to be neutralized by adding 1/4 cup milk to water before the addition of rennet.
SAFE Queso Fresco (Fresh Cheese)
Recipe adapted from "Abuela project," Washington State university (2002).
This recipe to be designed to replace Queso Fresco made v raw milk after an increase in Salmonella outbreaks in Yakima County, Washington. Queso Fresco has a grainy, soft crumbly texture and also a mild, fresh flavor. This cheese have the right to be consumed in crumbly pieces in salads however holds up fine to heating, both baking and also broiling.
Ingredients:One tablet computer rennet or 1 tsp fluid rennet dissolved in 1/2 cup insanity water One quart (0.95 L; 2.15 lb; 911 g) cultured buttermilk for society Two quarts (1.89 L; 4.3 lb; 1.9 kg) heat-treated or pasteurized milk seven teaspoons (35 ml) white vinegar (5% acidity) 2 teaspoons (9.3 g) salt
Procedure:Mix one quart cultured buttermilk v two quarts heat-treated or pasteurized milk. add 7 teaspoons white vinegar to the milk mixture. Mix well. warmth milk to 90°F (32.22°C). Eliminate pan native the heat. include rennet mixture and also mix for around 2 minutes. Let was standing for 30–40 minutes until curd is firm. cut curd into 1-inch cubes and also let stand for about 5 minutes. warmth curds and whey come 115°F (46.11°C) without stirring. Eliminate pan native heat, climate let was standing for 5 minutes. pour mix with cheesecloth and allow whey to drain for 5 minutes. type curd into a ball and twist the cheesecloth tenderness to squeeze the end the whey. rest up curds right into a key and include 2 teaspoons of salt. Mix in salt and also let was standing for 5 minutes, then squeeze again as before. location curd in mold to type the cheese overnight in the refrigerator. remove cheese from mold and also package in one air-tight container. store cheese refrigerated during storage.
Recipe adapted from C. McDaniel and P. Kendall (2004)
Neufchatel (New-sha-TEL) is a milky-white cheese v a soft, smooth texture and is low in fat if made with reduced-fat or fat-free milk.
Ingredients:1 gallon (3.79 L; 8.6 lb; 3.9 kg) pasteurized milk (any level the fat) One tablet rennet or 1 tsp liquid rennet dissolved in 1/2 cup insanity water1/2 cup (4 fl oz; 114 g) fresh cultured unsalted buttermilk or 1/4 cup (2 fl oz; 57 g) fresh level yogurt because that culture3 teaspoons (14 g) salt (optional)
Procedure:placed 1 gallon that milk into the upper component of a dual boiler. Include enough water in the bottom of dual boiler to prevent milk from scorching. Stir in buttermilk or yogurt and warm gradually to 92 come 94°F (33.33 to 34.4°C). Preserve this temperature range through procedures 2 and also 3. add rennet mixture and stir into milk because that 2 come 3 minutes. Enable milk to collection undisturbed for around 30 minute or till a firm gel forms. To test because that curd formation, cut a cleft in the curd through a metal spatula, on slide under the curd and also lift slightly. If the reduced in the curd division clean, that is prepared for action 3. reduced the curd into roughly 1-inch cubes. Line gently and also continuously because that 20 come 30 minute to aid firm curds. Store the temperature variety 90 to 94°F (32.22 come 34.4°C). to water off whey (yellow liquid). Enable the curds to settle, and also dip out the staying whey. add 1 tespoon salt, mix gently. Wait 5 minutes and also mix in the second teaspoon salt. Wait 5 much more minutes and also mix in the critical teaspoon salt. divide the curds into two batches and also proceed as complies with for every batch. Line two coffee cans through clean cheesecloth or muslin. Place fifty percent of the cheese curd inside each lined can. Fold the towel over the optimal and include the follower. apply pressure by pressing with a weight, such together a number 303 deserve to of food, till the surface is smooth (2 to 4 hours). Perform this in the sink to allow the whey to drainpipe out of the cans. eliminate the created cheese and the cloth. Pave the cheese strict in plastic or in waxed document and save in refrigerator. That will keep for seven to ten job under refrigeration. It can be frozen for four to six months. However, freeze lowers the quality of the cheese.
Recipe adapted from C. McDaniel and also P. Kendal (2004)
Cream cheese has actually a mild, smooth texture and a slight citrus flavor well balanced with buttery cream. Cream cheese have the right to be blended with fruit and also seasonings, used as a dive or spread, or provided in desserts such together cheesecake.
Ingredients:3 1/2 quarts (3.3 L; 6.45 lb; 2.92 kg) pasteurized totality milk 1 pint (473.2 ml) pasteurized whipping cream 3/4 to 1 cup (6-8 fl oz; 177 ml; 242 g) new buttermilk for culture1 1/2 teaspoons (7.12 g) salt (optional) One tablet rennet or 1 tsp fluid rennet liquified in 1/2 cup madness water
Procedure:ar milk, cream and starter in dual boiler. Heat to 85°F (29.4°C). include rennet mixture, then stir gently because that 4 minutes. sheathe the milk and also let was standing for 1 hour or till the whey consist of the curd and also breaks clean native the side of the pan. Preserve a temperature the 85°F (29.4°C). cut curd into 1-inch cubes and permit to was standing undisturbed for 5 minutes. to water mixture into a muslin bag or cheesecloth-lined colander. Drainpipe overnight in the refrigerator. v a wood spoon, work in 1 1/2 teaspoons salt. Package and also store cream cheese in the refrigerator.
Recipe adjusted from C. McDaniel and P. Kendall (2004)
Also well-known as mozzarella, this fresh cheese is an extremely mild in flavor and also adds structure to cook dishes. Fresh cheese have the right to be save on computer in water yet must be eaten within 2 days.
Ingredients:1 gallon (3.79 L; 8.63 lb; 3.91 kg) 2% milk OR 2 quarts (1.9 L; 4.3lb; 1.95 kg) entirety milk to add 2 quarts skim milk 1/4 cup (2 fl oz; 57 g) fresh, plain yogurt One tablet rennet or 1 tsp fluid rennet liquified in 1/2 cup insanity waterBrine: use 2 pounds (907 g) that salt per gallon (3.78 l) of water
Procedure:heat milk to 90°F (32.22°C) and add yogurt. Stir gradually for 15 minutes while preserving this constant temperature. include rennet mixture and stir for 3 to 5 minutes. Cover, preserving temperature at 90°F (32.22°C). Enable to stand till coagulated, around 30 minutes. reduced curd right into 1/2-inch (1.27cm) cubes. Permit to stand for 15 minutes v occasional stirring. gradually increase temperature come 118°F (47.77°C) over a duration of 45 minutes. Host this temperature for an additional 15 minutes. (Total time because that this step is 1 hour.) enable curd to work out under whey. Eliminate whey and also transfer the mat of curd to a level pan that can be retained warm. Carry out not reduced mat, yet turn it over every 15 minutes for a 2-hour period. Mat should be tight once finished. cut the mat right into long strips 1 to 2 inches (2.5–5 cm) wide. Placed curd in warm water (180°F; 82°C). Utilizing wooden spoons, tumble and also stretch that under water till it i do not care elastic, about 15 minutes. remove curd from warm water and also shape it by hand into a round or a loaf. Ar cheese in cold water (40°F; 4.4°C) for roughly 1 hour. eliminate cheese native cold water and also put it into a saturated salt solution. To prepare salt brine, keep the brine cold (40 to 50°F; 4.4 to 9.9°C) if the cheese is in it. Overfill salt will stay on the bottom, i beg your pardon is normal. Since a brine solution is corrosive, ar in a heavy plastic, glass or ceramic container. Cover any exposed areas of cheese through dry salt. Leave cheese in the brine because that 24 hours. remove cheese indigenous brine and also let it dried for numerous hours. Pave in plastic wrap and refrigerate. This cheese may be used instantly or save on computer under refrigeration because that one week.
Resources obtainable Online
Dairy connection Incorporated http://www.dairyconnection.com/ This site sells products useful for making and also customizing cheese: coloring, cheese wax, cheese ladles, cheese cloths, draining mats, and thermometers.
Danlac.com http://www.danlac.com/ right here you can discover rennet and other enzymes, equipment, starter cultures and also information top top cultures.
Glengarry Cheesemaking and also Dairy Supply http://glengarrycheesemaking.on.ca/ below you can discover cheese presses, molds, rennet, ripening racks, drying racks, cheese vats, pasteurizers (both commercial and non-commercial), curd cutters, coatings, waxes, kits, videos, etc.
Junket http://www.junketdesserts.com/ This site gives information on rennet products and recipes for soft cheese and also custard desserts.
Moorlands Cheesemakers http://www.cheesemaking.co.uk/ below you can buy cheese making kits of all sorts, and also molds, rennet etc., although this website is based in the unified Kingdom, shipments deserve to be accepted in the U.S..
New England Cheesemaking it is provided Company http://www.cheesemaking.com/ This website is because that non-commercial cheese makers. They offer many complete kits for cheese making.
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Hill, A.R. (2006). Cheese. University of Guelph. Obtainable at: http://www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca/dairyedu/cheese2.html
McDaniel, C. And also Kendall, P. (2004). Making Soft Cheeses. Colorado State college Extension file no. 9.337. Accessible at: http://www.ext.colostate.edu/PUBS/foodnut/09337.html
U.S. Room of Agriculture, agricultural Research Service. (2005) USDA national Nutrient Database for traditional Reference, relax 18. Nutrient Data Laboratory home Page. Easily accessible at: http://www.ars.usda.gov/ba/bhnrc/ndl
Washington State university (2002). Fresh cheese make safely. Pacific Northwest extension publication. Obtainable at: http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/pnw0539/pnw0539.pdf
To find more resources for your business, home, or family, visit the college of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental scientific researches on the World broad Web at benidormclubdeportivo.org.
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Is the term “United States of America” ambiguous? In a decision with serious potential ramifications for employment law, the Honourable Justice Ellen MacDonald has held that it is.
Like some other cases considered by this blog, TD General Insurance Co. v. Baughan, 2013 ONSC 333, is not strictly speaking an employment law case. The case concerned an Application brought by an automobile insurer, TD, for the court's declaration that the United States Virgin Islands is not part of the “United States of America.” In reply, the insured, Baughan, argued that the term “United States of America” is ambiguous.
The case is of relevance for those in the employment law world because it is not uncommon for a non-competition agreement to list the “United States of America” as a geographic area in which a former employee is prohibited from working. If the term is ambiguous, then arguably the term is unenforceable.
In her reasons for decision, Justice MacDonald held that the term “United States of America” is “inherently complex and ambiguous” as it may include any combination of the following:
- the 48 continental states;
- the two non-continental states (Hawaii and Alaska);
- the District of Columbia;
- the three unincorporated organized territories (one of which is the United States Virgin Islands);
- the ten unincorporated unorganized territories;
- the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Guantanamo Bay.
To this observation Justice MacDonald added:
There is no guidance under any of the relevant provisions so as to enable an average individual purchasing insurance to understand whether he or she may be covered for an accident that occurred in the United States Virgin Islands. It may be particularly confusing, given that the words “Virgin Islands” have the words “United States” before them.
Furthermore in attempting to find a consistent meaning for the term “United States of America” Justice MacDonald noted that the statutory definitions of the term varied by statute, sometimes including the United States Virgin Islands, and sometimes not.
Given that the term was inherently ambiguous Justice MacDonald held the contra proforentum doctrine had to apply, resolving the ambiguity in favour of Ms. Baughan.
In the result, Justice MacDonald declared the U.S. Virgin Islands as a part of the United States of America for the purposes of Ontario automobile insurance.
While interesting, what does all this mean for non-competition clauses? Arguably it means that if the employee’s non-competition clause includes a prohibition against working in “the United States of America” post resignation or termination, then the clause may not be enforceable.
As readers may recall, in order to be legally enforceable a non-competition agreement must be reasonable in terms of the scope of services prohibited; the length of time for which it applies; and its geographic scope.
In the Supreme Court of Canada case of Shafron v. KRG Insurance Brokers (Western) Inc., 2009 SCC 6, the Court struck down a non-competition clause that used the term “Metropolitan City of Vancouver” as the term was devoid of meaning, and therefore the geographic scope criterion was not satisfied.
It is now at least arguable that the term “United States of America” is equally as ambiguous as the term “Metropolitan City of Vancouver” and therefore any agreement using such a term equally as unenforceable. Non-competition agreements using even fewer words than “United State of America,” such as “United States” or “USA” or “US,” may find themselves even more likely on the losing end of the ambiguity argument.
While some may find this argument a bit reaching, recall also this point, the Supreme Court of Canada has held that it is inappropriate for courts to read down ambiguous terms in a non-competition agreement. Either the terms are perfect or they are unenforceable. Any ambiguity will, generally, void the entire non-competition agreement. Given what can be at stake for some employees subject to a non-competition agreement there is merit in making the argument, even if the employee does not intend to work in the United States.
For more reasons why a non-competition agreement may be struck down by the courts, consider the post Wrongfully Dismissed Employee Not Bound by Non-Competition Agreement .
Takeaways for Employees with Labour Pains
The takeaway for employees subject to a non-competition agreement is that your agreement may not be as enforceable as you may think. Certainly, I would argue, any agreement that uses the term “United States of America” may now be unenforceable for want of certainty. Furthermore, if the term “United States of America” is ambiguous, what is to say the term “Canada” or “Ontario” is not?
If you are considering leaving your current job, or you have recently left you old job, and you believe you are subject to a non-competition agreement it may be prudent to seek a professional legal opinion before conceding defeat. The professional employment lawyers at Ottawa's Kelly Santini LLP would be happy to be of service you.
Takeaways for Employers with Labour Pains
The takeaway for employers with labour pains is that it may be prudent to have your non-competition agreements reviewed. While few likely foresaw the term “United States of America” being found to be ambiguous, there is now at least one Ontario judge saying that it is. If you believe that the terms of your non-competition agreement could use some updating, the professional employment lawyers at Ottawa’s Kelly Santini LLP would be happy to be of service to you.
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As always, everyone’s situation is different. The above is not intended to be legal advice for any particular situation. It is always prudent to seek professional legal advice before making any decisions with respect to your own case.
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Ohio Prison Phone Rates Drop
Ohio’s prison phone rates drop as Governor John Kasich and Gary Mohr, head of Ohio’s department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, reduced calling rates in Ohio prisons to 5 cents per minute.
The state says it will help cut down on the number of inmates returning to prison! The belief is inmates that stay connected to their families while incarcerated are less likely to repeat their crimes when they get out.
The decision was not made lightly. The State of Ohio will lose $15 million dollars/year in revenue with the lower rates. Since phone calls are paid for mainly by families and not inmates or the prisons, what is a loss to the State is a gain for Ohio families.
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What causes one person to feel anxious may not have the same effect on another person. Anxiety is usually caused by a combination of factors.
Personality, beliefs and attitudes
Physical health problems
Other mental health problems
Drugs and alcohol
Cultural beliefs and upbringing
If your parent or close relative has anxiety, it can increase your risk of developing it too.
Research suggests that certain personality traits, beliefs and attitudes can contribute to anxiety.
For example, you are more likely to develop anxiety if you:
We all go through stressful events and major life changes. It’s normal to feel anxious about these things. But if you find it hard to manage these emotions, you might develop anxiety. Some common triggers include:
Some chronic health conditions can cause anxiety.
There are several women’s health conditions that might cause anxiety.
Anxiety affects Tori as a result of living with chronic pelvic pain. Strategies such as activity pacing and seeing a pain specialist counsellor help to keep her anxiety in check. “You have sovereignty over your body and thoughts, and that’s the interface where you gain control over your whole life.”
Watch her story of anxiety.
Women go through different life stages such as puberty, after childbirth, before and after menopause. During these life stages, hormones such as oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone go up and down. Women can also experience hormonal changes when pregnant, breastfeeding or on the contraceptive pill. This can lead to low mood and, in some cases, anxiety.
If you think your anxiety is related to hormonal changes, talk to an experienced health professional for tailored treatment options.
People with other mental health problems, especially depression, have a higher risk of developing anxiety.
Drugs and alcohol can make your anxiety worse. If you are experiencing anxiety, it’s best to talk to your doctor instead of trying to manage it with drugs and alcohol.
The way you were raised and your cultural beliefs can increase your risk of anxiety.
Thanks to Liptember Foundation for supporting Jean Hailes to produce these pages on anxiety. Each year, the Liptember Campaign raises funds and awareness for women's mental health during the month of September.
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As President Obama gives a speech on national security — including defending U.S. use of drones to combat terrorism — Leila Sadat, JD, international law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, argues that such targeted killing by unmanned planes may violate international humanitarian law. Legalities aside, she also questions whether it promotes U.S. interests abroad.
Sadat wrote about the subject in her article, “America’s Drone Wars,” published in the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law.
Sadat notes that drone strikes have become a major part of U.S. military strategy and counterterror operations, but writes that the U.S. use of drones raises several troubling legal questions, such as what is the legal foundation for government use of lethal force and whether drone strikes are considered acts of aggression against other countries. She finds that the Obama administration largely continued the policy and legal rationale of former President George W. Bush regarding drones.
The U.S. argues there are no geographical constraints in the war on terror, Sadat writes, but adds that most authorities reject that idea.
“The process used by the executive branch to determine who and when to target human beings for death can be summarized in two words: ‘trust us,’” she wrote in the article.
But while she believes the administration is cautious, mistakes still can occur, and innocent civilians get killed, raising legal, political and diplomatic worries for the U.S.
“Some of these ‘mistakes’ end up as YouTube videos … which serve as recruitment devices for al-Qaeda and its associates, and fuel anti-American sentiment in areas where drones are operating,” Sadat wrote.
Sadat recently was appointed a special adviser on crimes against humanity for the International Criminal Court. She also is director of WUSTL’s Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute and the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law.
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Rooftop Solar Systems and Typesadmin
At KOR Energy, the Rooftop Solar Panel systems are generally of three types:
- Off-grid: An arrangement where the system functions only either a battery backup or diesel generator.
- Grid-tied: An arrangement where the system supplies the power generated to the grid. During any power failure, since the inverter shuts down the system becomes incapable of generating power.
- Grid-interactive: This system works in conjunction with either a battery backup or diesel generator to supply power to the system. Such a system works even in case of power failure.
The basic fact that should be remembered when integrating a Solar system with diesel generator is – the more load supported by the solar plant, the less will be load on diesel generator.
While you are installing a rooftop solar photovoltaic system, the cost of any such system will depend upon two factors. The first factor being the function it is serving which includes either the system is supplying the power to the grid or supporting the load during any power failure. Second factor remains the incentives that are available. Typical components of any rooftop PV System include PV Modules, inverters, cables. For a 1kwp system, the typical cost breakup will be like 52% for the modules, 23% for inverters, 17% for cables and some 8% for the installation. It should be noted that here battery backup has not been taken into consideration as it adds to cost of initial investment, maintenance, replacement.
The other factors that can affect the cost of such a system are the brand of the product and if meets any standard. The systems we offer at KOR Energy India Pvt. Ltd. are manufactured by tier 1 manufactures and are likely to be more expensive because our sourced products have been certified or meet some standards then also they are likely to be expensive. Price of such system may or may not vary depending upon the warranty it is offering.
Speaking about the incentives, several types of incentives are worldwide available for these systems. However, these incentives vary from one nation to other nation. The incentives for such systems are majorly classified into following:
- Capital subsidy: several governments provide capital subsidy for installing the solar rooftop systems. In India the central government provides subsidy support of 15% for systems up to 100kwp through Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
- Income tax credits: This category is similar to capital subsidy. Under this category, income tax is deducted by an amount of incentive.
- Accelerated depreciation: Under income tax act for solar PV Systems, nearly 80% of accelerated depreciation is available. Any taxable solar plant developer can get significant savings from this.
Rooftop Solar PV Systems are fairly heavy. Depending upon the capacity, the inverters and batteries can be very heavy. Thus, a concrete rooftop is essentially required to support such systems.
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Ensuring the database is healthy is one of the critical and important things that a database administrator must do. If we neglect the maintenance of the database, there is a higher probability that we run into a problem; for example, a database performance issue caused by a workload that has changed over time, or misconfiguration that leads to a data breach.
Regular checking of the configuration, resource utilization, backup and restore procedures, data security, query performance can help avoid database issues. We need to have a standard database check for our database environment, so we can monitor if the database is still under control.
What is a Database Health Check
A database health check consists of a number of tasks to check the condition of our database. Why do we need to run a health check? We need to identify and fix any issues or anomalies in our database environment, whether it is a performance issue, configuration issue, or something that can cause an outage.
We can breakdown the health check into a few categories:
Security check, to lock down access to the database and ensure the traffic comes from a trusted network with the right privileges.
Configuration check, to ensure the configuration meets the standard criteria that have been defined by the organization.
Performance check, to ensure that the database is making use of the hardware resources and is responsive to applications.
Backup and Restore procedures, to ensure that the backup we took from the database can be restored.
From those categories, we can make a breakdown of what we need to check in the database. This is very important, so we can have a detailed check on every aspect. For example:
Compare the user and privileges on the database with the user matrix access we have
Check the whitelist IP address on the database, whether traffic is coming from a trusted network
Ensure audit logging of the database is enabled
Check the SSL already in place
Ensure database configuration is correct (both permission and ownership)
Check the cache hit ratio of the database
Ensure the database connection still enough to handle the traffic
Backup and Restore procedure
Proper backup schedule, which delivers the agreed RPO
Ensure we test backups so we know the data is restorable
Based on the above list, we can create a script to check those items on each type of database (eg. MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB). Each database type will obviously have different commands.
Automating Database Healthchecks
We do not want to run a repetitive task on a weekly or monthly basis, the database health check is a time-consuming task. We run the script on every database node, so automation of the health checks saves us quite some time.
Based on the list of health check script, we can create bash script to run the tasks and schedule it with cron. Below is just sample of a simple database health check report:
#!/bin/sh # Simple database check report username = "audit_user" password = "pwd001" hostname = "db01-payment" mycnf = "/etc/mysql/my.cnf" dt=$(date '+%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S'); audit_name = "MySQL_Healthcheck_audit_report_"$dt # check the queries /bin/mysql -h $hostname -u $username -p $password --skip-column-names -B -e "SHOW STATUS LIKE 'Queries'" > $audit_name # check open table cache hit ratio /bin/mysql -h $hostname -u $username -p $password --skip-column-names -B -e "SHOW STATUS LIKE 'Table_open_cache_hits'" >> $audit_name # check the ssl session mode /bin/mysql -h $hostname -u $username -p $password --skip-column-names -B -e "SHOW STATUS LIKE 'Ssl_session_cache_mode'" >> $audit_name # check the buffer pool size cat $mycnf | grep "innodb_buffer_pool_size" >> $audit_name #check ssl key in my.cnf cat $mycnf | grep "ssl_key" >> $audit_name # check permission of my.conf ls -ltr $mycnf >> $audit_name
Health checks can also be automated by configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt,Chef, or Puppet.
Automating Database Healthchecks with ClusterControl
ClusterControl is an ops platform for databases, it shows server health, performance, or availability problems within their database environment, all from a central console. It supports automating database health checks through Operational Reports. You can generate or schedule the operational reports, as well as incident reports. There are few types of report as shown below:
The Daily System Report gives you insight about your current database cluster with consists of various information such as node service status, backup status, the uptime of nodes, top queries summary.
Package Upgrade Report gives you a summary of available packages for the upgrade from the repository manager.
Schema Changes Report compares database changes in a table structure that happened between two different generated reports.
Backup Reports gives you information about backup summary and details e.g., last backup created, the status of the backup, backup verification status, and backup retention period.
Apart from the Operational Reports, there are also the Advisors which gives you insight about the CPU, disk, database connections, etc., as below:
The Notifications via email and alert through configured third-party channels give insight on things that go wrong (e.g. failed backups, unrestorable backups, node failures).
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Similarly, What is the ring on a parrying dagger?
A side ring or sail on the guard is a typical feature on parrying daggers. This is to keep the hand safe. When the dagger intercepts the opponent’s blade, it is often at an angle that exposes the back of the hand to harm.
Also, it is asked, When was the parrying dagger invented?
Early 17th century parrying dagger
Secondly, How long is a Parrying Dagger?
Increase the value of your purchase Cold Steel is a brand of cold steel. 13-Inch Blade Length Alloy Steel is used for the handle. Large Parrying Dagger in Color Material of the blade Steel made of carbon
Also, Can swords parry Elden Ring?
Elden Ring Parry is a Normal Skill that can be found on the following weapons: Dagger, Curved Sword, Thrusting Sword, Fist, Claw, Medium Shield, and Small Shield.
People also ask, Can you parry with a rapier?
[PSA] When used in the left hand, the Rapier can parry.
Related Questions and Answers
What is meaning of parrying?
1: to deflect a weapon or attack by parrying aggressively and knocking his opponent’s blade from his grip. Stewart Cockburn can parry and thrust without losing the flow of his argument by parrying and thrusting.
What is the dagger symbol used for?
If an asterisk has already been used, a dagger, obelisk, or obelus is a typographical mark that generally signifies a footnote. The sign is frequently used to represent extinction or death.
Why is it called a quarterstaff?
During the Middle Ages, the quarterstaff was quite popular in England. It was normally constructed of wood, with iron shod ends, and was gripped in both hands, with the right hand grabbing it one-quarter of the way from the lower end (thus the name) and the left hand about the center.
What is the best dagger in Deepwoken?
Dagger for parrying
What’s the best starting weapon in Deepwoken?
The Sword (Medium) has the most weaponry available, making it the most accessible weapon in the game. This weapon is recommended as a good beginner weapon for getting a strong grip of the battle principles on your first few runs; it’s simple to learn but can be mastered by even the most accomplished swordsman with practice.
Is the mail breaker any good ds1?
With some daggers and fist weapons, it’s one of the lightest weapons in the game. Although it has a slightly better critical modifier than the other Piercing Swords, its AR is much lower on any upgrade route, resulting in less damage for both ordinary and critical strikes. In addition, it is shorter than other Piercing Swords.
Can a katana parry?
A parry is triggered by the forceful assault. The katana must be entirely lifted upwards for the parry frames to be active, which is distinct from other parries. This distinguishes it from other parries in that it must be prepared ahead of time.
Can you grab a rapier?
If you ask any Italian rapier instructor (for example, Fabris and Marcelli), they will warn you not to grip the sword. However, many non-rapier texts teach you how to seize the sword’s blade (either your opponent’s or your own, depending on the method).
Can you parry Melania?
Yes, Parriable. She can only be riposted every third parry; else, she will backstep.
Is there an ash of War for parry?
Elden Ring’s Ash of War: Parry is an Ash of War and Upgrade Material. Standard affinity and the Parry Skill are provided by Ash of War: Parry. Ashes of War may be worn on Weapons and Shields to adjust a Skill or an item’s scaling values, or to apply affinities that change scaling values.
Is there a buckler parry ash of War?
Buckler Parry doesn’t have any Ash Of War.
Can you parry Morgott?
Morgott’s sword, unlike his other weapons, may be parried at any time. To shatter his composure and land a critical blow, use your shield and timing your parries well.
Why can’t i parry Elden Ring?
In Elden Ring, you can parry most physical strikes, but not all of them. In general, any assault from giant foes cannot be parried, and strikes from adversaries using big weapons with two hands cannot be parried either. Parrying arrows, bolts, or shield bash assaults is likewise impossible.
Does Golden parry deflect spells?
Swing the shield and perform an Erdtree incantation to block opposing assaults and break their posture.
Can you riposte ds2?
Whips may be used to riposte in Dark Souls II.
The “sword and dagger fighting style” is a form of fencing that was popular in the 15th century. It was used by soldiers to fight with swords against other soldiers. The reason why this type of fighting style fell out of fashion is because it wasn’t effective enough.
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Furman awards inaugural recipients of Osher Reentry Scholarships
Furman University has named the first recipients of its Osher Reentry Scholarships.
The scholarships are made possible through a $50,000 grant Furman received earlier this summer from the Bernard Osher Foundation. Each adult learner receives an award of up to $5,000 to help them continue or supplement their education without interrupting their careers.
The recipients of the Osher Reentry Scholarships are:
Mason Davis of Easley
Lanette Ervin of Greenville
Kwon Jang of Greenville
Frances Moore of Marietta
Destiny Page of Taylors
Joel Satterthwaite of Greer
Including Furman, there are 93 universities and colleges with an Osher Reentry Scholarship program across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Furman Undergraduate Evening Studies (UES) officials say there’s a need to close the talent gap in the current workforce and attract more and better-qualified workers. In an earlier statement, UES Director Beth Crews noted that while the Greenville region is growing rapidly, the population is not keeping pace with the educational needs of the job market. “Furman’s UES prepares adult learners to fill the need for business leaders, resulting from the influx of new industry to our region,” she said.
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As time passes, our skin changes. Through the years, the skin will go through so many steps, from baby to mature skin, there are a lot of in-between.
We believe that every skin is beautiful, whether you suffer from acne, wrinkles, dark spots, you should always love your skin. If you want to change the aspect of your skin, do it for yourself and do it in a respectful way. Be good to your skin. You’ll wear it every day for the rest of your life!
If you want to avoid or at least slow down the process of skin ageing, you probably already asked yourself “When should I start using anti-wrinkle products?”, that’s the question we’re going to try to answer today.
It’s on an individual basis.
Skin ageing is a different process for everyone. By ageing, we mean the loss of elasticity, fine lines, wrinkles, dark spots, unevenness, etc. Some of us will face these changes sooner than others. We can explain this phenomenon by:
- Lifestyle: smoking, alcohol, lack of activity, stress, unbalanced diet favour skin ageing and the creation of free radicals. Excessive sun exposure, pollution and blue light will also harm the skin leading to premature skin ageing.
- Genetics: Ask your parents when they started to see the first signs of ageing, you’ll most likely experience them around the same time. Your gene pool defines the lifetime of your organs and this applies equally to your skin.
- Skin type: a lack of hydration results in the creation of wrinkles, it’s basically a crack in your epidermis. Thus, dehydrated and dry skin types that tend to struggle to maintain hydrating and the hydrolipidic film of the skin may experience signs of ageing sooner than other skin types.
When should I start using anti-wrinkle products?
It’s usually recommended to start between 25 and 30 years old but you should check for yourself. Observe your skin before applying your skincare and make-up, make faces in front of the mirror and if you see lines then it’s time to start anti-ageing active.
The most important thing here is to choose products made for your skin.
- Vitamin C: scavenges sun free radicals, great for dark spots and unevenness.
- Hyaluronic Acid: to hydrate and smooth your skin.
- Retinol, AHA, BHA: to exfoliate and lift your skin, great against wrinkles.
Keep in mind that if you are in your 20s and you’re facing blemishes, rednesses or even acne, you should try to work on that first. Some actives such as glycolic acid can benefit both young and mature skins but that’s not the case of every product. Also never forget that, whatever issues you might want to fix, you should always choose non toxic skincare products to take care of your skin.
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Branding is a company’s public image, which often serves as its de facto identity. Brands need a collection of marketing tools and assets.
About Personal Branding
“Persuading others to like you and your ideals.” It’s everything that makes you unique in your field.
Branding is essential for both organizations and people. Therefore, the popularity of single-searches will grow in 2022.
You can find all you need to know about personal branding here from definition to use.
Self-Branding: An Innovative Idea
Like Tylenol or KFC, a brand generally represents a company or product.
However, personal branding is one kind. Personal branding has gained popularity thanks to social media and influencers. You also have your own logo!
What you do and how you do it already builds a brand.
How do people view you online and offline? This, too, is dependent on how others see you.
You may conceive of yourself as a brand from your look to your values. For example, these characteristics identify your brand and should be used to your benefit.
Branding Is Important
A personal brand is crucial now that you understand what it is. The popularity of personal brands is increasing online.
Brands use several tools to sell themselves to individuals who look for them.
It’s increasingly common for someone to search for you online. Therefore, companies do it to hire you and at every professional level. Colleges check your name online first to see what’s available.
Having no online presence is seen as a disadvantage by some. Business and freelancers’ online profiles directly impact their companies.
Creating a Brand
Building a brand may seem difficult at first, but it gets more doable as time goes by. Therefore, create an online profile that emphasizes your skills.
Among the basic stage steps:
- What’s out there?
- Remove harmful elements.
- Choose your signature.
- Create a website.
Now you have an online identity. It will help you market your company and plan your future activities.
Analyze Your Online Image
If you’re new online, you have a modest social media presence. Also, be sure each internet page that refers to you provides the information you want. Now is the time to erase any information that might hurt your brand.
The first few pages of results for your name are vital. There are auditing tools, but you can do it yourself if you are thorough. For example, observe anything that doesn’t show up in the early searches on any sites where you have an active profile.
Delete Negative Content
A personal brand means that certain information is more suited to some than others. But your brand is linked to perception. Do you want to be considered for a job? If so, remove content that may minimize its possibility.
Start with Facebook
Therefore, because social media is your most apparent public face, people seeking information about you naturally go there. Delete things that present you in a negative light. Examine your films, other media, and online presences. Remove:
- Explicit sexual material
You may torpedo your brand unless you deal with potentially detrimental facts.
Pick Your Personality
Who am I? It depends on your objectives and methods.
It might be anything, so reflect on who you are and your goals. Adjust your goals to attract the right kind of attention.
Consider proving it in everything. It’s not enough to establish your identity and goals. You must also show your uniqueness. The essential thing is to back up your words with actions.
Once you know where you want to start, you may create short- and long-term goals.
Create Your Brand
With a clean web presence and a clear understanding of your strengths and weaknesses, it’s time to start establishing your brand. Commence building your online presence.
Everything, including your brand, needs a firm basis. In particular, having several accounts on social media and career-related websites is critical. Included on the list are:
You should also target related sites. Don’t overdo it. These sites are worth visiting to help populate the search results.
A personal website is also required. Websites are becoming more accessible to non-technical users. A personal website may be a portfolio and a link to all of your other essential sites. Therefore, it is worth finishing. But always beware of hackers and trolls.
Dusted up your web presence, recognized your brand, and started building a multi-channel presence. It’s time to shine. Credibility is vital in today’s internet-driven environment. People are increasingly aware of their online presence as remote employment becomes more frequent.
Promote Your Content
Writing strategic content is a great way to keep current. Create blogs, movies, audio clips, or anything that comes to mind. Once you are happy with it, you may display it to interested parties. LinkedIn is great, but any industry-related site can suffice.
Interacting with professionals in your field may help you get exposure and opportunities on their platforms, such as guest blogging. This boosts brand visibility, audience reach, and trust. You gain credibility by showing that people in the field trust you and your work.
With everyone in 2022 being so tech-savvy, you have to push yourself and your online presence to overcome challenges. For example, to go beyond the basics, you must:
- Find your target demographic.
- Reach out and engage with them.
- Know the best tools to employ.
Aim to reach out to those who have already entered these sectors. Unsupported camping is possible, but difficult. People already have credibility, which they can offer you.
Begin with people you know locally. If you don’t want to go further, reach out to those interested. Contact influencers, journalists, and massive audiences. Observe and learn from them.
Outsiders, especially those with a similar brand, may be helpful. Since a brand is more than your industry and professional ambitions. Connecting with like-minded individuals builds an audience.
Knowing where to find and how to use data may benefit even minor endeavors. You may modify and use what you learn in your career. Are your articles seen and read? Previous work?
Data rules. It saves time, improves results, and helps discover what works. Without it, you may be lost.
You want to strengthen your brand and audience relationship. That doesn’t mean you should stop improving, but rather focus on maintaining your best qualities. While comfort is excellent, provide something new.
Originality is as vital as quality. Since everyone has their unique brand, you must stand out. It also opens new doors and opportunities.
Consistency and excellent content are essential, so keep moving forward. Develop your brand one step at a time.
- Keep in touch with old and new pals.
- The ideal medium is social media.
- Great content isn’t enough to engage your audience.
- Respond to their questions.
- Befriend and mentor them.
Your content keeps people coming back and helps your branding strategy. More exposure expands your brand and audience. To develop great content and engage your audience and peers requires work and practice. While evolving, be true to your brand.
SEO Success Plan
Never forget about SEO. Making sure the right products appear when people search for your name is a valuable tool.
Make your brand noticeable. Your brand has a character. It should be evident in all of your internet content and accounts.
Take ownership. Others should not want your brand. Remember to be true to yourself. You want to stand out, and one method is to show who you are.
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The COVID-19 outbreak has put many of the EU’s foreign policy objectives on hold. However, as Julia Strasheim writes, the pandemic is not the only obstacle to boosting the European Union’s role as a global peacebuilding power. The bigger structural hurdle is democratic decline within its own borders, and the implications this has for the EU’s credibility abroad.
Before the coronavirus outbreak forced the EU into an exceptional public health and economic crisis, experts hoped that the upcoming German EU Council presidency and ongoing negotiations for the 2021-27 multiannual financial framework could provide an opportunity to boost the EU’s role as a peacebuilder and make promoting peace an EU foreign policy priority.
But even though Angela Merkel stressed in her May 2020 speech on foreign policy goals during the German presidency that she would like the EU to take on more responsibility for “peace and security in the world”, expectations are that the pandemic will force the union to look inward and downsize ambitions for a more influential global role.
But the pandemic does not mean that other challenges will go away, and it will likely exacerbate existing humanitarian crises and conflicts. Furthermore, the bigger structural, long-term obstacle to the EU advancing its peacebuilding agenda is not COVID-19, but democratic decline within its borders and unwillingness among political leaders to more forcefully condemn it.
This is because the EU remains “trapped in the liberal peace”. It has made promoting democracy in post-conflict societies the heart of its peacebuilding identity and strategy. Failing to defend democracy in Europe, most recently in Poland and Hungary, means the EU is putting its credibility as a peacebuilder abroad on the line – with potentially harmful consequences.
The EU’s evolving peacebuilding toolbox
The EU has carefully crafted an image of itself as a community of values, founded on respect for democracy, the rule of law, and human rights. These values are enshrined in treaties and institutions, play a crucial role in the everyday life of citizens, and are guiding principles of numerous foreign policy frameworks, such as the EU’s neighbourhood or accession policies.
Promoting democracy has also long been a crucial element in the EU’s toolbox for ending conflict and fostering peace. Via various peacebuilding instruments, such as its Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace, the EU has assisted countries in enhancing their electoral integrity (such as in Afghanistan), reforming security sectors (the Sahel), promoting the rule of law (Kosovo), or empowering civil society (Ukraine).
The EU has thus largely followed what political scientists call the “liberal peacebuilding model” – the dominant peacebuilding agenda among western actors in the post-Cold War era. The logic behind a peace-through-democracy approach is simple: if armed conflicts are fought over controlling a government or improving minority rights, then building democracies after civil war transforms the means of conflict “from the bullet to the ballot box”.
But liberal peacebuilding is under fire. Policymakers and academics alike think it is outdated, as a changing world order and widespread disillusionment with overly ambitious peacebuilding endeavours in the 1990s and early 2000s have pushed international actors, in discourse and practice, towards embracing stabilisation and counterterrorism. The EU in particular has shifted its narrative from peacebuilding to “resilience” – stressing stability, security, and order over transformative ambitions for political change.
Displacement crises in its neighbourhood have also pushed the EU toward humanitarian rather than democracy support – or even toward inaction, making it a liberal peacemaker “in theory” only. And even before recent developments, liberal peacebuilding was under fierce criticism as scholars emphasised how the policy privileges one-size-fits-all programmes for peace that are based on western experiences and templates.
Having said that, key EU foreign policy doctrines, such as the 2016 Global Strategy, still promise to support “inclusive governance” in conflict societies. Germany’s 2017 guidelines on resolving conflicts and building peace likewise accentuate that the “core principles of the free and democratic order in Germany” carry its peacebuilding activities. Rhetorically, most stabilisation missions today take place behind a facade of liberal values. Some policies now associated with the stabilisation paradigm have long been integral to liberal peacebuilding, such as security sector reform; and think tanks continue to recommend other liberal policies to EU peacemakers, such as electoral support. Generally speaking, it is exceptionally hard to change the course and aims of peacebuilding endeavours that have been going on for many years, such as in Afghanistan.
Practice what you preach
So besides a changing world order and shifting international discourse on peacebuilding, the biggest obstacle to boosting the EU’s role as a global peacebuilder is democratic decline within its borders. This is because the EU can only be an effective peacebuilder if it is also a credible one in the eyes of those on the receiving end of its policies – and this credibility is now at stake.
Peacebuilder credibility derives from many sources: established expertise, a good track record, or commitment to local ownership. But research also tells us it is just as vital that local populations perceive peacebuilders as role models for the policies they implement: they should practice what they preach. Politicians in Nepal, who I interviewed for my research on security sector reform, for instance, liked to point out that European donors want them to increase female representation in its security sector, but the officials proposing such changes were exclusively men.
Democracy has been retreating in the EU – and the world – for a while now. Already before the pandemic, Hungary had been the first non-democratic EU member state according to the Varieties of Democracy project. In Poland, the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) has for years been curtailing judiciary independence, media freedom, and women’s rights.
But Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s power grab in March 2020 that allowed him to suspend existing laws and rule by decree, and PiS’ efforts in May 2020 to enforce a presidential election amidst a global pandemic, have revived interest in democratic decline in the EU. Journalists have rightfully called reactions by EU leaders and institutions to these events powerless, wishy-washy, toothless, or even complicit.
To be sure: this is not the first time the EU’s credibility as a peacebuilder has been damaged. The 2015 refugee crisis exposed double standards between its democracy agenda and other interests; and internal divisions that prohibited better external action have damaged its credibility in Libya.
But research shows that yet another credibility crisis could potentially have harmful consequences for the EU’s peacebuilding agenda. When peacebuilders lose credibility, local partners in post-conflict societies may become suspicious of proposed policies and uncompliant in their implementation. At worst, resentment against international efforts can result in a backlash or even new violence, as happened in Kosovo. In the long run, Europe’s credibility crisis may help empower peacebuilders uncommitted to the promotion of human rights or the rule of law, such as China.
Even if Hungary’s emergency laws were only temporary, EU leaders’ reluctance to more forcefully condemn this attack on democracy and develop clear and functioning mechanisms to confront it may permanently call into question the consolidation of EU democracies. This jeopardises the EU’s credibility abroad and thus devalues its most powerful currency as a peacebuilder – at a time when, amidst waning US commitment to peacebuilding, a more ambitious role for the EU in this area is more important than ever.
Julia Strasheim @juliastrasheim is Deputy Managing Director and Program Director for European and International Politics at the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung in Hamburg, Germany, Research Associate at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. | <urn:uuid:2fff9a73-8f29-4291-95c4-562fbf4c79c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/eu-peacebuilding-covid19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947225 | 1,635 | 2.4375 | 2 |
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It seems there is more to blinking than meets the eye, as novel research describes a previously unknown, automatic eye movement serving as a visual reset function.
Published Aug. 23 in the biomedical journal eLife, the University of Tubingen (Germany) paper details a specific eye movement synchronized with blinking that helps the eye reset after twisting to view a rotating object. This function, coined a "blink-associated resetting movement" (BARM), helps reduce eye strain as viewers assess their often dynamic environments.
The study sought to determine whether torsional optokinetic nystagmus (tOKN) were synchronized with blinking to minimize interruption of visual perception. To achieve this, subjects' eyes were tracked when viewing a rotating pattern. While tracking, the eyes frequently reset via tOKN to prevent over-rotating beyond the eyes' mechanical limits. Researchers noted this resetting was imperfect, causing the eyes to gradually twist until the muscles couldn't twist any further. Once maximizing their movement, the eyes naturally reset via this BARM.
"To discover such a ubiquitous phenomenon in such a well-studied part of the human body was astonishing to us, and we're very grateful to the volunteers who took part in the study," said lead author Mohammad Farhan Khazali, in a press release.
Shaping our understanding of blinking
Aside from providing much-needed moisture to the ocular surface, blinking also helps protect the eye from irritants and disengages our attention, ever so briefly, to allow the brain to process. Darrell Schlange, O.D., associate professor at Illinois College of Optometry, says clinical evidence also suggests that blinks appear to provide increased intensity of the stimulus for saccades, pursuits, accommodation, vergence and visual attention. "This research investigates the resetting of the tOKN and motor synergy with blinks, thereby reducing the interference in optic flow, enhancing the continuity of visual input and avoiding a decrease in visual processing," Dr. Schlange notes upon reviewing the paper.
Discovery of a consistent, resetting tOKN during a blink supports a conclusion of motor synergy; however, Dr. Schlange says there are alternative theories of this process, such as merely concurrent actions—not synergistic—presented and countered in the paper's experimental findings.
"A primary human goal of improving visual inspection of our environment, without interruption of visual input during blinks, saccades and tOKN, is better understood by this important research finding," Dr. Schlange says, adding the clinical significance of this study is likely limited.
Screen time and eyes
Although such research likely won't influence chairside conversations, it does provide a more complete picture of blinking, especially as the relationship between digital device use and eyesight is scrutinized. A 2014 study determined that subjects reading from a computer screen versus hard copy were no more likely to blink fewer times for one or the other; however, computer-reading subjects were more likely to blink incompletely. It's an association that might help explain anecdotal evidence of increased eye strain and fatigue, and dry eye from prolonged digital device use.
Just as blinking provides a mental break, the AOA recommends device users follow the 20-20-20 rule (take a 20-second break every 20 minutes to look at something 20 feet away) to provide a visual break from devices and lessen the effects of digital eyestrain.
About 14 million children and adults attend camps annually in the U.S. What can parents do to help keep their campers happy? Camp health professionals and doctors of optometry advise.
Some doctors of optometry may see an increase in patients seeking care during the summer months, whether they’re playing sports or battling dry air conditions. Be prepared to share your expertise.
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It’s fairly common knowledge that the human brain continues to develop and change until the age of 25. We make children wait until they are 18 to no longer be under their parent’s care. You can’t join the military or buy cigarettes until the age of 18 and you can’t purchase alcohol until the age of 21. There’s good reason for all of that, so why in the world would anyone allow a child to make life-altering decisions about their gender before the age of 18?
The National Health Service (NHS) recently announced that it would be closing down the controversial Tavistock gender clinic for endangering children. The announcement came after “[w]histleblowers alleged that girls were deemed to be trans on such flimsy pretexts as not liking ‘pink ribbons and dollies,’ with a former governor of the trust, Dr. David Bell, warning that there was ‘virtually no psychological scrutiny at all’ before children were shunted onto a pathway towards life-altering medication and surgery by some physicians,” reports Breitbart.
One of the whistleblowers, Dr. David Bell, claimed that at least one child was allowed to receive life-altering puberty blockers after only one consultation. Dr. Bell said the standard for doing this needs to be “very, very, very, very much higher. It may be possible, in one or two cases, that it has to be done, but the way they’ve been used is totally inappropriate.”
Dr. Bell continued, “These were kids who said I’m a girl or I’m a boy and they were affirmed. They took the drugs and they went to opposite sex hormones and they had parts of their body removed, their breasts, their vaginas. Now, as one girl put it to me, ‘I don’t have the body of a man, I’ve got the body of a mutilated woman and that’s what I have to live with’.”
Another whistleblower, Susan Evans who is a nurse said, “The treatment pathway of children with gender dysphoria [was] bec[oming] ever more politicised, and mov[ing] away from high standards of clinical mental healthcare with good assessment and psychotherapeutic treatment.”
The subject of gender identity and transformation has become politicized in the United States, just like it has in the UK. In some circles, saying anything that isn’t supportive of people becoming “trans” at whatever age is forbidden. Children have no business making such life-altering decisions and it’s good that people at the Tavistock Clinic started speaking out. At what age do you think people should be allowed to medically transition their gender? | <urn:uuid:df81b748-e647-4f1a-833f-f015b2926557> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nextnewsnetwork.com/2022/08/02/uks-tavistock-gender-clinic-closing-was-treating-children-as-young-as-9/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973772 | 590 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Dartmouth College, the Ivy League university in New Hampshire, has announced that it will admit international students through a “need blind” process, meaning that their ability to pay tuition will not dictate their admission.
Dartmouth already had a policy of “need blind” admissions for U.S. applicants, but now foreign students will be considered for admission regardless of their or their families’ financial status.
The decision represents an effort to increase the number of international students at the university.
“Talent is spread all across the world. We want to remove any financial barriers,” Darthmouth President Philip Hanlon told the Financial Times. “This move benefits every student on campus, not just international ones. Tomorrow’s leaders have to be global citizens. By us bringing together students from all over the world … they will learn from their peers.”
In recent years, the college has increased its recruitment abroad, which is reflected in the growing proportion of international students in its student body. According to Dartmouth, its most recent class was composed of 14% international students, compared with 8% in 2013, when Hanlon became president.
Hanlon said in a statement from the college that there is no target for how many international students it now seeks, but he expects the proportion of international applicants to “skyrocket.” He said he would not be surprised if this figure reaches 25% in coming decades.
What is ‘need blind’ admissions?
Within the U.S., higher education costs have risen considerably in just decades. As a result, prospective students may be discouraged from applying because of their inability to pay tuition and other educational costs.
“Need blind” admissions are intended to encourage students to apply, even if they may not necessarily be able to afford a university’s tuition. This admissions process means that applicants are considered for admission without knowledge of their or their families’ ability to cover tuition and other fees.
How many universities use this process?
Across U.S. colleges and universities, the type of admissions process used for domestic and international applicants varies.
About 100 colleges and universities offer “need blind” admissions for U.S. applicants. Dartmouth’s new policy aligns it with five other universities using this process for international students.
Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Princeton University and Amherst College are the other universities that use this admissions process for all applicants, U.S. and international.
What does this process mean for students?
The “need blind” process means that students are not disadvantaged in the admissions process because of their financial status. Financial need is not a factor in the consideration process.
Some universities that operate under this status also work to meet 100% of students’ demonstrated financial need when determining how much financial aid they will provide them, including Dartmouth College.
“Under this policy, students are not disadvantaged in the admissions process because of their financial status,” Hanlon said in a statement.
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So it seems that 2006 will be remembered as the year of the climate film. How many more can we fit into the final three months? Any guesses?
No complaints here, though, because what it means is that this is an issue that has truly taken root in popular consciousness, at long last. And one can only assume that as more and more people come to realize the gravity of the situation, they will force our governments – and ourselves – into action.
The lastest film to join the roster is Out of Balance, which focuses particularly on the role of ExxonMobil in keeping the public fed with “junk science” and therefore unmoved to act. However, according to the website, “Out of Balance does not just critique ExxonMobil, it also offers challenging, large-scale ideas for the global social changes that must take place if there’s any chance of having a livable planet for future generations.” You can check out the clips on the homepage and here.
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Soticlestat, a small molecule that inhibits the activity of cholesterol 24-hydroxylase, one of several enzymes responsible for catabolism of cholesterol, has the potential to translate into a useful therapy for epilepsy, but more research from clinical trials are needed, experts said.
A compound that inhibits cholesterol catabolism has potential as an antiseizure drug, according to a study published March 22 in Epilepsia. The compound, soticlestat, reduced seizure frequency in a standard preclinical model, and appeared safe after prolonged dosing. Clinical trials of soticlestat in Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome are ongoing, sponsored by the manufacturer, Takeda, and initial results are promising.
“This is a new mechanism for treatment of epilepsy,” commented Edward H. Bertram, MD, FAAN, professor of neurology at the University of Virginia, who was not involved in the study. “But as with many drugs in development, the preclinical data, which look good, are not necessarily predictive of clinical benefit.”
Soticlestat is a small molecule that inhibits the activity of cholesterol 24-hydroxylase (CH24H), one of several enzymes responsible for catabolism of cholesterol. Inhibition of the enzyme lowers the level of 24S-hydroxycholesterol, a brain-specific metabolite that modulates a wide variety of receptors and ion channels, including the NMDA receptor, according to lead author Toshiya Nishi, DVM, principal scientist in neuroscience drug discovery at Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
Previous work by Dr. Nishi and colleagues demonstrated the antiseizure potential of reducing CH24H activity in a mouse carrying two Alzheimer’s disease genes, presenilin-1 and amyloid precursor protein, known for both seizures and sudden death. When crossed with a CH24H knockout mouse, the offspring not only had fewer seizures but also a lower risk of sudden death.
Mutations in the sodium channel gene are a cause of Dravet syndrome; previous work has shown that soticlestat reduced seizures and sudden death in a mouse model of the syndrome. “These results are encouraging, “Dr. Nishi noted, “but this model is not yet part of the standard suite of epilepsy models used to test the antiseizure potential of new drugs, and there is relatively little historical data from the model to help evaluate new candidates.”
For that reason, he and his team tested tested soticlestat in four of the canonical seizure models. Because of the slow turnover of 24S-cholesterol in the brain, soticlestat was administered for three days prior to provoking seizures. Doses were chosen to achieve a 50 percent reduction in 24S-cholesterol, which the previous study showed was necessary for effective seizure reduction. Sixteen animals were tested in each model, with half of each group receiving soticlestat.
There was no evidence of seizure protection in three of the models, although in the maximum electroshock seizures model, six mice died in the untreated group, compared with none in the soticlestat group. In contrast, in the audiogenic seizure model, seven of eight mice were protected against seizures by soticlestate, compared with none in the untreated group.
“Antiseizure medications do not necessarily work in all animal models of seizures,” Dr. Nishi noted, and it is common in epilepsy drug development to advance candidates that only show benefit in some models.
Next, the team explored the effects of both dose and pretreatment duration on seizure reduction in the audiogenic seizure model. They found that the highest degree of protection occurred with the maximum pretreatment period (three days prior to seizure induction) and at the highest dose (30 mg/kg), although significant benefit was observed at lower doses as well.
Dr. Nishi noted that, unlike in the other models, mice in the audiogenic model, so-called Fring’s mice, have an underlying genetic pathology that predisposes them to seizures. That suggests that blockade of CH24H by soticlestat “may be modifying the neurologic conditions behind seizure susceptibility, rather than addressing the basic pathology of audiogenic seizures,” he explained.
That hypothesis led him to ask whether soticlestat might reduce susceptibility to “kindling,” or the increase in frequency and severity over time often seen in mice (and patients) with an untreated seizure disorder. He found that prolonged treatment at certain doses did indeed retard the development of kindling, although only temporarily, as generalized seizures eventually appeared in most treated mice.
At the end of the study, an analysis of 24HS levels indicated a reduction in the brain at all soticlestat levels tested, up to 92 percent at the highest dose. “Studies thus far published consistently agree that a 50 percent to 60 percent reduction in 24S-hydroxycholesterol is explicitly required for efficacy in preclinical models, Dr. Nishi said. “Here, the greater the reduction in 24S-hydroxycholesterol, the greater the progressive effect on reducing seizure severity.”
Even at the highest dose, soticlestat did not cause sedation or other overt adverse effects, he added.
In phase 2 clinical trials for Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, soticlestat has been well tolerated, Dr. Nishi said, “especially during the up-titration that is common with all antiseizure medications.” The treatments in those trials were administered for 20 weeks; they were followed by long-term open-label extension studies, which are ongoing. The drug is now entering phase 3 trials for both conditions. The clinical dose currently under investigation is expected to consistently achieve a 24SH lowering greater than 60 percent.
“Since patients with these conditions are usually on multiple drugs to control their seizures, we believe that soticlestat, due to its novel mechanism of action, will effectively complement the treatment algorithms currently used to treat epileptic encephalopathies,” Dr. Nishi said.
This study is interesting, and the proposed mechanism is plausible, given the multiple known effects of 24S-cholesterol in the nervous system, including potentiation of glutamatergic receptors, commented Pavel Klein, MD, FAAN, director of the Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy and Sleep Center in Bethesda, MD. “The study is very comprehensive, using standard models for epilepsy, and the investigators are well established,” Dr. Klein said.
The results are discordant, but that is not necessarily problematic, Dr. Klein said. He noted that levetiracetam also displayed varied effectiveness in preclinical models, with virtually no effect on acute seizures in genetically normal mice, before going on to become the most widely prescribed antiseizure medication. “This is an intriguing parallel,” he added.
“The short answer is we don’t know” how predictive these results will be for clinical efficacy of soticlestat, said Dr. Bertram, who researches mechanisms of epilepsy. “Although we can find a potential mechanism for many of the medicines we use to treat epilepsy, we aren’t always sure that it is the actual one. And finding a specific mechanism doesn’t guarantee success in the clinic. And some drugs that look only weakly effective preclinically go on to be quite successful.”
Nonetheless, the results of this study indicate some promise, Dr. Bertram said, with a clear effect on brain activity, modest but good seizure reduction, and reassuring toxicology. “This is a new mechanism for epilepsy, which has the potential to translate into a clinically useful compound. But there are many steps ahead before it proves to be so.”
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Some 34% of the 70% of the country’s population targeted for Covid vaccination will be inoculated with vaccines received at the Covax facility, gifts from different countries.
The government of Bangladesh has so far reached an agreement for 32 crore doses of Covid vaccine – including purchase, gifts from China, India and other countries and Covax facilities – which will reach the country in phases until April 2022.
“As we have no shortage of vaccines, we have started giving booster doses to more than 60 people, health workers, front-line people and Covid patients before the outbreak of the Omicron variety of Covid-19 “, said the principal secretary of the Ministry of Health, Lokman Hossain Miah, during the inaugural ceremony. booster doses.
The government has so far bought 21 crore of vaccine doses worth around Tk 19,000 crore and the country will get 11 crore of vaccine doses as part of the Covax facility, he adds. .
Lokman Hossain further said that 6 crore of vaccine doses would remain after fully inoculating 70% of the population as per the government’s target.
Health Minister Zahid Maleque said Bangladesh needs an additional 13 crores of Covid vaccine doses due to inoculation of 70% of the population by April next year. For this, 6.55 crore of vaccine doses will arrive in the country during this month and 9 crore of additional doses by April 2022.
“Bangladesh received 1.78 million doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, donated by the US government via Covax. With this shipment, the American people donated 18.5 million doses of vaccine to Bangladesh,” may – read Sunday in a press release from the American Embassy.
France donated 1,197,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Bangladesh on Sunday as part of Covax.
According to data from the Health Services Branch, Bangladesh has so far received 17 crore in vaccine doses – including Covax purchase, gifts and installation.
So far, over 6.82 crore doses of vaccine have been given as the first dose and over 4.56 crore doses have been given as the second dose, he adds.
Booster doses in 64 districts after next week
Runu Veronica Costa, head nurse at Kurmitola General Hospital and the first person vaccinated against Covid-19 in Bangladesh in January this year, has become the first person to receive a booster dose in the country.
At the inauguration of the booster program on Sunday, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said the certification of the booster dose of Covid-19 remained on hold while the Surokkha app was being updated.
“According to the Ministry of ICT, the application will be updated by December 28,” he adds.
About 60 people, including ministers, police and journalists, received booster doses at the auditorium of the Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons.
On that day, five ministers – Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr AK Abdul Momen, Minister of Law Anisul Huq, Minister of Health Zahid Maleque, Minister of Fisheries and Livestock SM Rezaul Karim and, the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Mustafa Jabbar – received the booster doses.
After observing the health status of the booster dose recipients, the booster doses will be administered in 64 districts to frontline workers and the elderly, who received their second dose at least six months ago after the week. next.
There is no need to register further, and eligible people will receive text messages for the booster doses once the Surokkha app is updated.
Bangladesh on Sunday reported one death from Covid and 211 new cases in the past 24 hours.
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When I decided I wanted to hike to a spot called the Window in Big Bend National Park, I consulted my FalconGuide hiking book. It said that one-way, the hike was 2.8 miles, approximately 1.5 hours. I didn’t do the math to realize that the round-trip hike was 5.6 miles, approximately three hours. I did it in two hours, 15 minutes, and I only stopped for 127 seconds — seconds of pure terror.
I loved the movie “127 Hours,” based on the true story of Aron Ralston, a hiker trapped by a boulder for five days before he escaped by cutting off his arm. I could tell you all about the movie, how it’s not about survival but about relationships and confronting yourself honestly. But this column is about my hiking journey, not his.
The Window is the pour-off for the Chisos Basin, which means that when it rains, all the water pours off this ledge. The FalconGuide book warned, “Do not approach the top of the pour-off too closely; slippery wet rocks make footing treacherous. A fall would be fatal.”
But really, how fatal is fatal?
I was in Big Bend with my dad, who had always wanted to see the park. Now that my mom is gone, he needed a co-adventurer. Also, neither of us wanted to be in our homes on the anniversary of the days leading up to my mom’s death. So we set out for America’s least-visited national park.
Big Bend combines the Chisos Mountains, the Rio Grande and the Chihuahuan Desert. Each of our five hikes took us to completely different terrains. We’d seen balancing rocks, the spiny ocotillo plant that only blooms after a rain and Mexican mountain ranges. I wanted to do one more hike before we left, but my dad was ready to rest. So I set out alone, late in the afternoon, when there would be lots of other hikers.
The hike is downhill for the first half, which isn’t as easy as you might think. Anyone who’s ever had knee surgery can tell you that going down stairs is much harder than going up stairs. As I carefully made my way along the trail, I thought about how the desert is a lot like grief. It’s hard work. It takes longer than you think. It must be done alone.
I knew I was near the Window when the trail became what the book called “a polished rock course.” Even though there hadn’t been any rain, it was still slippery. Suddenly, I saw the opening, a 200-foot drop-off. Any courage I had left me right then and there.
Standing at the edge with a camera and an orange CamelBak, was a 20-something dude with a scraggly ponytail.
“I’ll move up, and you can come down,” he offered.
“No. I’ll stay back here,” I said. Just looking through the Window was making my stomach flip.
“Sure?” the dude asked. “You just slide down, and there’s this little dip for you to sit in. I’m done, anyway.”
And I thought, “I’ll probably get a better photo for my dad if I slide down like the dude says.” So I slid on my bottom to the little dip.
“Do you want me to take your picture?” the dude asked.
“No, thanks,” I said. I was too afraid to turn my back on the gaping maw of death for the length of time it would have taken him to snap my photo. I was also too afraid to look over the edge at what was supposed to be a spectacular view. I pulled out my iPhone, took a picture without looking and turned around to see if the dude would mind helping me back up.
He was gone.
That’s when I realized I was trapped — not by a boulder, but by fear. For approximately 127 seconds, I sat in my little dip, scared out of my mind. I thought about Aron Ralston. That guy cut off his arm! All I had to do was scooch up some polished rock. I didn’t need to pathetically wait for some hiker dude to rescue me. I could do this myself. I had to.
After a couple of shaky tries, I managed to pull myself to safety. And then I hiked back up the hill as fast as I could, without stopping even once. At the top, I looked at the photo I’d managed to take. Awful. I deleted it. Sorry, Dad.
Being in the actual desert for a few days made me realize that I’m not out of the emotional desert of grief yet. Like that hike, it’s something I have to do alone, something that’s asked more of me than I thought I had. But I’ve walked to that scary edge, pulled myself up and kept going. | <urn:uuid:99982059-d5c5-4373-a1d7-505a45aaa7c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wacoan.com/127-seconds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.978674 | 1,097 | 1.78125 | 2 |
This spring, we opened the doors to the new microscopy teaching lab! The microscopy teaching center (MTC) has been a long term goal of the core with Dr. Glen Marrs beginning the process approximately five years ago. Typically, teaching labs are set up with old clunky microscopes, which are challenging to use and only produce low-end images. These types of microscopes can be frustrating and are not what students will come in contact with for most of their careers. Biology wanted to create a modern facility with microscopes that are used in research labs and produce high quality easy to see images.
A capital request that was funded in 2018 finally made this goal within reach. During the summer of 2018, Drs. Glen Marrs and Heather Brown-Harding choose the microscopes, designed the tables, and focused on how the technology would be fast and easy for a lab environment. The MTC is designed for up to 16 students and has 8 compound microscopes with fluorescence capabilities and 8 stereo microscopes. The microscopes have cameras that connect to iPads via Bluetooth and allow the students to quickly capture images of their sample or display what they have found to the whole class.
The first undergraduate class to use the MTC was Dr. Regina Cordy’s parasitology class. Students that had previously hated using microscopes during previous lab classes were suddenly excited about coming to the lab. The experience in the new teaching center was described as “easy and fun.” A graduate-level course also used the MTC for Biological Imaging that focuses on all aspects of microscopy for research.
We are excited about more upper-level classes using the MTC to give students an active learning experience. If you are interested in using the room for your class, please email Glen Marrs for availability.
marrsgs (at) wfu dot edu
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Financially, leverage is the ability to control an asset with cash equal to less than the full cost. This means that you borrow to purchase the asset. The goal is to increase the rate of return from an investment.
When you buy stocks on margin or get a mortgage on a piece of real property, you are leveraging a small amount of your own money to control greater valued assets. These leveraged purchases allow you to retain all of the capital gains on a large purchase.
In real estate investment, it is routine to purchase a property -- even an investment property, with only ten percent down. If you do this only when you are sure that the income generated by the property will cover the payments on the note, over time, then you have realized all gains of equity through payment and appreciation by investing only one tenth of the cost of the property. From a cashflow perspective this is fantastic.
You can understand the analogy between financial and mechanical leverage by considering the fulcrum to be the divider between the chunk of the investment funded by you and the (hopefully much larger) chunk provided by your banker. The further over that fulcrum is (minimizing the percentage that you must invest) the more leverage you are getting on the investment.
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Information Technology in a Global Economy
Figure 9.1 shows the six stages of process development. Can you explain the six and how they can apply to your daily life? Additionally, there is a dotted line between Policy evaluation and production identification, Policy evaluation and Policy implement, and Policy evaluation and Policy formulation. Can you explain this line and why they are important?
Please make your post substantive. A substantive post will do at least TWO of the following:
Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic
Answer a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor
Provide extensive additional information on the topic
Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail
Share an applicable personal experience
Provide an outside source that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA)
Make an argument concerning the topic.
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Mere Christianity is one of the best books of Christian apologetics ever written. Arguably, no book other than the Bible itself has had as much influence for the cause of the gospel over the past 60 years. The story of how that message came to be created, during the rigors of World War II in England, is fascinating in and of itself. But it also addresses a very important question: How do we present the gospel effectively to a culture that has Christian foundations but has become largely secularized and ignorant of biblical truth?
C. S. Lewis & Mere Christianity develops the circumstances of Lewis’s life and the inner workings of the BBC. It also goes into greater detail about life in the middle of war against Nazi Germany, and Lewis’s series of broadcasts that extended into 1944. | <urn:uuid:a21ba016-191b-47c5-86bd-50088512062b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dev.tyndale.com/p/c-s-lewis-mere-christianity/4676/e-book | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965412 | 165 | 2.34375 | 2 |
When talking about chiropractic treatment, you are just implying a hands-on method that is wanted to treat most injuries nearby the body pains. It is a savvy intend to grasp that this treatment kind happen to improve retouching other than clinical strategy and medicine. The muscles, spine and joint prosperity are the areas that are astoundingly made sure about by the chiropractic care. Looking for a trustworthy chiropractor is a piece tedious. This is because they are an impressive parcel of them in the market. More to that, you will find that all the chiropractors available in the market are presumably going to guarantee to be the best for your needs. Here are diverse thing that you need to mind about as you scan for the best chiropractor.
First, consider getting referrals. For the primary go through patient, they are recommended to ruminate getting referrals from your fundamental thought doctor. It is indisputably that your basic thought pro knows the best chiropractor found in your close by area. You can get referrals from your poor partners, buddies, family members and neighbors.
To get the best chiropractor; you are likewise urged to watch out for credentials. The approving point is a basic guide that you require to ruminate if at all you are foreseeing picking a prosperity professionals. The best chiropractors are all around depended to offer quality similarly as strong therapeutic services to their patients. So that a specialist chiropractor can perfect the procedures in this field science, it is major for them to be by and large arranged and have more practices. Make sure that you cognizant to use a guarantee, competent and arranged chiropractor. If you are contemplating to get all the information concerning the preparation and the working establishment of the chiropractor that you have to enroll, you are urged to use the internet.
Moreover, you are urged to look at the experience. You need to understand that unending chiropractors in the market are approved and trained. However, you require to understand that not the whole of the available chiropractors have the experience to deal with treatments. When you pick a specialist chiropractor with a noteworthy degree of comprehension, it is advantageous as they are going to offer you first class service. When a chiropractor with a raised degree of experience runs over specific deterrents, the truth is that they are at a better state than oversee them. More to that, you will find that a specialist chiropractor will coordinate a free guidance meeting with the patient before the treatment is offered. The cost of the service is another tip that you need to contemplate to help you with picking the best chiropractor. | <urn:uuid:7819754b-fed8-434f-9648-0b0805307a9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.hercousa.com/2020/11/15/on-my-rationale-explained-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963252 | 527 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Drugs & Substance Misuse
On this page you can find out information related to drugs and substance misuse.
During your time at University there will be lots of new experiences and lots of opportunity to try out new things – some good, some not so good. Alcohol, prescription medication, illegal drugs and ‘legal highs’ can all casue problems.
There’s plenty of help available.
The first place to go for help depends on where you live:
Rhondda Cynon Taff -
The Drug and Alcohol Single Point of Access (DASPA) is a one call number which provides advice, information and an easier route into services for those affected by substance misuse. The freephone number 0300 333 000 is available throughout Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil.
e-das is the Cardiff and Vale single point of contact for access to services, advice and information, including a broad range of online information and support.
The phone number is 0300 300 7000.
GDAS is the single point of contact for the Newport area for drugs, alcohol and other substance misuse issues.
The only number you need is 0333 999 3577.
Many organisations give information and support for drug and alcohol issues.
- Barod – Substance misuse services across Wales, offering drop-in services, free advice, support services and a Live webchat service to those affected by substance use and for those who are concerned for others who may be affected by substance use.
- SMART Recovery – A confidential mutual aid group that helps participants decide whether they have a problem, builds up their motivation to change and offers a set of proven tools and techniques to support recovery. Barod facilitates SMART Recovery meetings within the Cwm Taf area. For more information please contact Barod Cwm Taf Service on 0300 333 0000.
- dan247 – Wales drug and alcohol helpline
- TheSite.org – Advice and information on drug addiction.
- Drink Aware – For most adults, it’s fine to enjoy a drink. At the same time, we all need to look after our health and well-being. Drink Aware provides information about how to do both.
- Alcoholics Anonymous – Alcoholics Anonymous provides a range of information, advice and face to face sessions to help people cope with drink related problems.
- Down your drink – Most of us drink. Some of us drink more regularly than others. But how often is too often? And how much is too much?
- Frank – provide information and advice for young people about drugs. Includes an A-Z of drugs, a confidential helpline, Confidential live webchat and advice on substance misuse.
- Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families – Provide a safe space offering Information and support for those who grew up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home.
- Club Drug Clinic– A service for people who have begun to experience problems with their use of recreational drugs. Club Drug Clinic offer support and advice to those seeking help and services for those supporting someone who is experiencing problems with substance use.
- Gamcare – GamCare provides support, information and advice to anyone suffering through a gambling problem.
University of South Wales support
Students who need support due to past or present addictions can access confidential support services on campus, or use the self-help resources recommended by these services:
- The Wellbeing Service
- Mental Wellbeing Service
- Health Service
Relevant university policies
Students who consume, possess or trade in restricted or illegal substances risk being subject to disciplinary procedures. The University will cooperate with the police in any enquiries. Any illegal activity can have serious consequences for students.
- Regulations governing student conduct
- Policy and Procedure Governing Fitness to Practise – policy that includes student conduct issues (among other things) and applies to students studying on nursing, midwifery, chiropractic or social work courses, and other courses leading to certain professional qualifications, for example in other professions allied to medicine.
- Declaration of Criminal Convictions
- Student halls policies
Students who are experiencing difficulties or whose behaviour is a cause for serious concern may also require support and an intervention from the University.
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Before you continue reading this, I would like to give you a trigger warning, this is a very sensitive topic. If you or someone you know is struggling with depression or has had thoughts of harming themselves or taking their own life, get help. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255) provides 24/7, free, confidential support for people in distress, as well as best practices for professionals and resources to aid in prevention and crises.
This topic is particularly hard to talk about but it must be addressed, understood, and prevented. It came to my attention to find out that Gen Z’s is seeing a mental health crisis worse than that faced by millennials, and they exhibit higher rates of suicide since studies began in 1950.
According to data taken from the United Health Foundation, Deaths of despair were the second leading cause of death among teens and young adults. From 2014 to 2019, suicide rates increased near to 60%, and depression diagnoses have seen a 47% increase.
Suicide is now, the second-leading cause of death of the young. However, while doing my research, I came across an article by Very Well Health where, Anna Mueller, Ph.D., professor of sociology at the University of Indiana who studies adolescent suicidality, said that CDC data should be interpreted with caution. “It usually takes the CDC two years to produce this data in a clean and rigorous fashion, so we should keep in mind that the numbers are provisional and subject to change”.
In this article, it’s mentioned how, since the pandemic, the data changed and saw a 5.6% decrease of cases in 2020 despite early predictions suggesting that with an event like COVID- 19 the rates would actually go up. during COVID-19 can make an already risky situation worse.
So far there hasn’t been a study that explains the decrease, but if I had to take a guess I would say factors like being with our families, staying away from sometimes a very toxic school environment, and even the way most of us switched our eating habits, all played a major factor. Honestly, I was pretty surprised to see these rates for Gen Z’s, From a millennial point of view, I think they’re smart, fair and they constantly push people to act better.
If you ever consider ending your life, remember that there’s always someone that will listen. There are many ways to prevent suicide. Reaching out to a friend, extending your support to a neighbor, or asking for help yourself are all important things to consider. Lives are way more valuable than we and sometimes it just takes someone to make us realize it.Comparte | <urn:uuid:1321e876-d40b-45e9-9fc9-796380f4a669> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kit.elaviso.com/gen-zs-the-most-depressed-generation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972372 | 555 | 2.328125 | 2 |
This is a from a report on Fox 5 San Diego about local crews beginning the process of dismembering and removing that 57-foot dead whale that washed up on shore a little while ago. You can watch the report here. It is goddamn unbelievable. And not just because of the thing where a gross smelly beached whale has apparently become a tourist attraction that people are bringing their children to. There’s another reason. Look at this screencap:
WHALE GUTS. EVERYWHERE. ON YOUR TV. ON THE NEWS. AT DINNER TIME.
But wait, it gets worse. From the report:
Crews began the process Thursday of removing a 57-foot dead fin whale that reappeared on San Diego County’s shoreline after being towed out to sea.
Crews used heavy machinery to tear into the whale’s body. It’s not a pretty sight — but it’s an exciting opportunity for scientists.
Well they definitely wouldn’t show footage of the heavy machinery ripping through the whale carcass, right?
Jesus. Well, look, I suppose it has scientific value of some sort to see how they’re disposing of this beached whale, even if it is a little gross. It’s not like they’re just blatantly throwing discarded whale innards into the background of interviews or anythi-…
“Okay, so I’m gonna need you to over here for your interview. No, a little to the right … a little more … little more … perfect. Gotta make sure the sun hits those whale guts just right.”
Amazing. And disgusting. But mostly amazing. And I haven’t even mentioned the part where they talk about the horrifying smell, or the guy who poo-poos it by telling the news — THE NEWS — that he grew up on a farm and dead pigs smell worse than dead whales. Good to know!
Anyway, the whole thing reminded me of one of my favorite news stories ever. No, not the famous one about the town that tried to blow up a beached whale and ended up raining whale parts on everyone. The other one. This one:
Residents of Tainan learned a lesson in whale biology after the decomposing remains of a 60-ton sperm whale exploded on a busy street, showering nearby cars and shops with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours.
The 56-foot-long whale had been on a truck headed for a necropsy by researchers, when gases from internal decay caused its entrails to explode in the southern city of Tainan.
Residents and shop owners wore masks while trying to clean up the spilt blood and entrails. [NBC News]
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1.2 million children live in a blended family and 2.2 million live in a single-parent family. These are the results of an INSEE study. (News of 13/10/09)
9% of minor children live in a stepfamily
- France has 580,000 step familiesor 1.2 million children under 18 years of age involved in this family pattern. Of these, nearly 800,000 live with a parent and step-parent, most often a father-in-law.
- In half of these blended familiesthere is a child of the current couple. 380,000 children live in a stepfamily, with their half-brother or half-sister, but with both parents.
- The gap between half-brother and half-sister is important. On average, 7 years separate the youngest child born from a previous union and the oldest from the current union.
In stepfamilies, women are older than men
- In a family recomposed on three, the woman is older than the man, she is on average 38.2 years old.
2.2 million children live in single-parent families
- If 1.2 million children under 18 live in a blended family, they are even more likely to live in a single-parent family: 2.2 million children live with only one of their parents. 1.9 million of them live with their mother and 300,000 with their father.
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The report, commissioned by the Australian Council of Social Service, shows consumption in South Australia would increase by $333 million and economic output would increase by $123 in 2018-19.
Out of the South Australian local government areas, the City of Salisbury tops the list of councils benefitting from a $75 per week raise, with increased spending of $33 million per year estimated for the area.
It is followed by the cities of Onkaparinga (an extra $31 million per year), Playford ($28 million per year) and Port Adelaide Enfield ($26 million per year).
Nationally, around 12,000 jobs would be created if the Federal Government injected an initial $3.3 billion to support the raise – generating $1 billion in revenue from increased economic activity.
The report comes as South Australian welfare groups, politicians and local councils ramp up pressure on the State Government to lobby its federal counterpart to increase the Newstart and Youth Allowance payment.
Approximately eight per cent of working-age people in South Australia receive an unemployment or student payment. Those living on Newstart receive $273 per week (just under $40 a day), which is $160 per week below the poverty line. Newstart has not been raised in real terms since 1994.
Announcing the report’s findings at a joint press conference in Canberra this morning, South Australian independent senator Tim Storer said the case for increasing income support payments was now “inarguable”.
“Put simply, if Australia is to live up to its reputation for equity and fairness, Newstart needs to be raised to a level which actually ensures the employability of recipients,” Storer told reporters.
“Letting it fall further and further behind national living standards for so long has just not worked.
“It has condemned many of the jobless to a life of poverty where they cannot afford the clothes they need or the bus tickets they require if they are trying to get a job.”
South Australian Council of Social Service CEO Ross Womersley told InDaily the $75 per week figure was calculated based on “the absolute minimum income people would need to get close to the poverty line”.
“We have always argued that it’s not negotiable – we can’t go to a figure below the $75 per week,” he said.
“Ideally we would like a bigger increase but a $75 increase would allow people to live frugally but reasonably.”
Womersley said “huge economic benefits” would fall to South Australia if the Federal Government were to increase the income support rates.
“It obviously is a fantastic job creator by stimulating the local economy. It would result in more spending comparative to what is currently in practice and it would be an excellent job creator,” he said.
“Our hope for this would be to see this report have an impact on local councils and the State Government to join the call to rate the rate of Newstart by $75 per week.”
So far 13 South Australian councils have voted in support of raising the Newstart payment, a number which Anti-Poverty Network SA coordinator Pas Forgione said made SA the “leading” jurisdiction advocating for a raise in Australia.
“The South Australian local councils have really stuck their necks out on this issue far more than any part of the country, which really speaks to SA’s leadership on this,” he said.
“What I would love to see now is our State Government adding its voice to the ground race.
“If John Howard can add his voice why can’t Steven Marshall? What we want is for this to transcend the party divide.
“We think this is a safe issue for him (Marshall). We know two-thirds of Australians support a rise. The point now is for the people on the conservative side of politics to come out – Steven Marshall in particular as the Liberal leader.”
City of Salisbury mayor Gillian Aldridge, whose council area is expected to benefit the most in South Australia from an increase to the income support payments, described the current rate of Newstart as “horrendous”.
“I have a relative who is on Newstart and he was camping out next to a river because he couldn’t afford rent on such a low payment,” she said.
“You literally can’t live on it – it’s impossible.”
The City of Salisbury became one of the first councils in SA to add its voice to the campaign to raise Newstart when it voted on the matter last year.
“At Salisbury, we are working to encourage our economy to grow and our young people to be trained, especially now with all the new business starting up here,” Aldridge said.
“But, for that to happen it would make my year if people – and not just young people but older people too – had a liveable income to end their suffering.
“We absolutely need the State Government to add their voice to this call.”
In a statement to InDaily Human Services Minister Michelle Lensink said Newstart was the responsibility of the Federal Government.
“The Liberal Government supports ongoing consideration and monitoring of Newstart and other related welfare payments to ensure they adequately address the current level of poverty among Australian job-seekers,” she said.
Earlier this year Greens MLC Tammy Franks established a Parliamentary Select Committee into poverty, which heard from welfare groups and individuals last month on the state of poverty in SA.
Local News Matters
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Mar 8, 2016
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By Marilyn E. Belhumeur
As part of the annual Aboriginal Storytelling Month, the Gabriel Dumont Institute Library in Regina hosted storyteller/singer/songwriter Joseph Naytowhow on Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Joseph is Plains/Woodland Cree from the Sturgeon Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan.
Speaking at times in Cree, and at times in English, Joseph captivated his listeners with a lively Wesakaychak story. He finished with a song that had many in the audience, which included a Grade 6 class from Ethel Milliken School, as well as Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program (SUNTEP) Regina students and faculty, singing along with him.
Students and staff enjoyed bannock, juice, and conversation with Joseph after the session.
In Prince Albert, Gabriel Dumont Institute Library partnered with the Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples to host Norman Fleury and Leah Dorion on February 25, 2016 at Shananigans Coffee and Dessert Bar. The Aboriginal Storytelling event was attended by about 45 people from both our SUNTEP family and the general public, and was organized by Gabriel Dumont Institute Prince Albert Library Resource Facilitator Nicolle DeGagne, with the support of Liza Brown and Jed Huntley from the SUNTEP Culture Committee. Leah and Norman spoke to the audience about their work together, and Norman also spoke about his work to preserve the Michif language. Attendees also enjoyed the traditional Metis fiddle ‘stylings’ of SUNTEP student Adam Daignault. | <urn:uuid:41e48a4a-4c24-4f5b-b076-afb5bc6973bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gdins.org/aboriginal-storytelling-marked-at-gdi-library-in-regina/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959749 | 334 | 2.328125 | 2 |
The Ten Commandments In City Hall
Laura Carlson of Colorado Public Radio reports on the controversy over a stone tablet of the Ten Commandments, mounted in Grand Junction's City Hall. A group of citizens has filed a lawsuit to have the tablet removed, on the grounds that it's an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. The city council will decide tonight whether to leave the monument and go to court, or move it.
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|Year : 2015 | Volume
| Issue : 2 | Page : 156-160
Pathobiology of cardiomyopathies: Experience at a Tertiary Care Center
Uma Nahar Saikia1, Ajay Bahl2, Baijayantimala Mishra3, Mrinalini Sharma3, Vandana Kumari3, KK Talwar2
1 Department of Histopathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
2 Department of Cardiology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
3 Department of Virology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
|Date of Web Publication||30-Sep-2015|
Dr. Uma Nahar Saikia
Department of Histopathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Background: Cardiomyopathies are a heterogeneous group of diseases of the myocardium associated with varied pathology. Pathology data from India are scarce. Methods: A retrospective, descriptive study of autopsies, as well as endomyocardial biopsy specimens, was done of patients with cardiomyopathy. The clinical and pathological features are described. Results: There were 32 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. Two were pediatric, and two had arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. Myocarditis was seen in 12 cases. In our endomyocardial biopsy data of 32 patients with restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM), we found amyloid in 13 and idiopathic RCM in the remainder. Our genetic studies in cardiomyopathies suggest that the same genetic mutation may lead to different phenotypic manifestations with restrictive or hypertrophic cardiomyopathies in different families. Conclusions: This study gives insight into the pathology and etiology of some of the cardiomyopathies seen in India. They differ from the west, and now with the availability of genotyping and magnetic resonance imaging, more data should soon be available from more centers.
Keywords: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy
|How to cite this article:|
Saikia UN, Bahl A, Mishra B, Sharma M, Kumari V, Talwar K K. Pathobiology of cardiomyopathies: Experience at a Tertiary Care Center. J Pract Cardiovasc Sci 2015;1:156-60
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Saikia UN, Bahl A, Mishra B, Sharma M, Kumari V, Talwar K K. Pathobiology of cardiomyopathies: Experience at a Tertiary Care Center. J Pract Cardiovasc Sci [serial online] 2015 [cited 2022 Aug 17];1:156-60. Available from: https://www.j-pcs.org/text.asp?2015/1/2/156/166333
| Introduction|| |
Cardiomyopathies are a heterogeneous group of diseases of the myocardium associated with mechanical and/or electrical dysfunction that usually (but not invariably) exhibit inappropriate ventricular hypertrophy or dilatation and are due to a variety of causes.,,, Cardiomyopathies were originally defined as diseases of the myocardium associated with cardiac dysfunction. They were simply classified as dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM), and arrhythmogenic right ventricular (RV) cardiomyopathy (ARVC). There is limited pathological data from India regarding these.
We compile our experience from autopsy, endomyocardial biopsy, and genotyping studies from these patients.
Twenty years' experience from autopsies, endomyocardial biopsy and genetic studies done at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh in patients with cardiomyopathy was reviewed and is presented to give an overall picture of etiopathogeneis of cardiomyopathies in India.
The autopsy, endomyocardial biopsy and genetic studies data on cardiomyopathy from the past 20 year is compiled and presented.
Since the mortality in DCM cases accounts up to 20–30% in India, we tried to look at our data at autopsy. In our experience of DCM at autopsy among a total of 32 cases of DCM, cardiomegaly was present in 28 and clinical signs of congestive cardiac failure were present in 25 cases. There was biventricular dilatation in 5 cases, and the remaining 27 cases had four chamber dilatation at the gross review [Figure 1]a. Right auricular thrombosis was seen in 20 cases and endocardial thickening in 8 cases. The coronaries did not show any significant narrowing, and there was no evidence of any ischemic or rheumatic heart disease. Two belonged to the pediatric age group with endocardial fibroelastosis, and two had ARVC.
|Figure 1: (a) Gross photograph of a dilated heart with four chamber dilatation and mural thrombi in dilated cardiomyopathy. (b) Microphotograph showing mixed interstitial infiltrate with myocyte necrosis (H and E, ×20). (c) Goss photograph of enlarged heart with deep brown color of myocardium in amyloidosis. (d) Microphotograph showing pale eosinophilic material within interstitium and perimyocyte (H and E, ×20). (e) Microphotograph showing myofiber replacement with fat (H and E, ×20). (f) Apical cross-sectional view showing fat on the free right ventricular wall in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.|
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Microscopically, the myocytes generally were hypertrophied and exhibited an extreme degree of attenuation with sarcoplasmic degeneration. The myocardial interstitium was quite cellular by stromal cells. Interstitial fibrosis was observed commonly, which was graded as mild, moderate and severe. This fibrosis can be delicate perivascular or pericellular, or there can be dense patches of replacement fibrosis. It is most extensively seen in the left ventricular (LV) subendocardium. Endocardial fibrosis when present is usually mild to moderate but may be dense with collagen deposition particularly in the areas of fibrosis. Our data revealed epicardial, myocardial, and interstitial mononuclear infiltrate in 28 cases. Interstitial fibrosis was present in 29 cases of which 22 had severe replacement fibrosis, 5 had moderate, and 5 had mild fibrosis with predominant CD68+ cells indicating histiocytic nature.
True myocarditis was seen in 12 cases with CD3+ cells. In 1 case, a mixed infiltrate admixed with eosinophils indicating hypersensitive myocarditis was seen [Figure 1]b. In some cases, lymphocytic myocarditis characterized by multiple microscopic aggregates of lymphocytes associated with degenerative or necrotic myocardial cells was seen in 12 cases only. The inflammation, however, was small and sparse in most of the cases.
RCM , is defined as heart muscle disease leading to a severely impaired diastolic filling of the ventricle. Idiopathic RCM (IRCM) is the most common (50% of all cases) cause of RCM. In our experience on endomyocardial biopsies of 32 patients with restrictive clinical features, we found amyloid to be cause in 13 (40%) [Figure 1]c and [Figure 1]d and remaining were IRCM. There was none with hemochromatosis or endocardial fibrosis.
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy or arrhythmogenic right ventricular disease/dysplasia
In our experience of 20 years, we found only 2 cases of ARVC at autopsy [Figure 1]e and [Figure 1]f and none on endomyocardial biopsy.
We studied a group of patients with restrictive physiology for mutations in the beta-myosin heavy chain (MYH7) and troponin I (TNNI3) gene. Among the 17 patients who had restrictive physiology, seven were HCM patients. Of the HCM patients, 7 (6.9%) had restrictive physiology. The mean age of these 17 patients was 40.1 ± 19.2 years (range: 15–67), 6 (35.3%) were males. The maximal LV wall thickness of the seven HCM probands was 20.7 ± 5.2 mm (range: 16–31), whereas it was normal in the IRCM probands. Ten probands (58.8%) were in New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III or IV. Seven patients (41.2%) had atrial fibrillation. All the probands were screened for mutations in selected exons of MYH7 and TNNI3 genes. One HCM proband with a maximal LV wall thickness of 17 mm and had p. Arg192His mutation in the TNNI3 gene. She had features consistent with restrictive physiology. Her father and sister had died of RCM.
There were 32 patients with DCM. Two were pediatric and two had ARVC. Myocarditis was seen in 12 cases. In our endomyocardial biopsy data of 32 patients with RCM, we found amyloid in 13 and IRCM in the remainder. Our genetic studies in cardiomyopathies suggest that the same genetic mutation may lead to different phenotypic manifestations with restrictive or hypertrophic cardiomyopathies in different families.
Clinically approximately 50% of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) of unknown etiology belong to primary or idiopathic DCM. Although coronary or valvular heart disease, connective tissue disorders, toxic causes, and systemic infections have been investigated as causes of DCM. However in predominant cases, the cause of DCM remains undetermined though cardiotropic viral infections have been suspected as a possible cause of myocarditis and DCM. DCM is a myocardial disorder characterized by cardiac dilatation and contractile dysfunction of the left and/or right ventricles.
Grossly the heart weight is increased 25–50% above the normal and is characterized by biventricular hypertrophy and four chamber dilatation. The ventricular wall thickness remains normal generally; however, thinning may be present due to the dilatation. There is subendocardial and transmural scarring that may be seen even in the absence of identifiable thromboembolic obstruction of the coronary arteries. The endocardial fibrosis may be prominent, particularly in children, that is, the dilated form of endocardial fibroelastosis. Mural thrombi are frequently encountered in any of the cardiac chamber and may vary in size. These on getting organized, produce focal endocardial fibrosis.
In a endomyocardial biopsy study of 20 patients from another center in India (age: 27 months to 45 years, mean 22 years; 15 males, 5 females) of idiopathic myocarditis histologically confirmed by endomyocardial biopsy, most common mode of presentation was CHF (16 patients) followed by arrhythmias (seven patients--five of whom had associated CHF) and chest pain resembling myocardial infarction (2 patients). Ten patients had a history of preceding upper respiratory infection. Only 1 of these patients had a significant rising serum titer for Coxsackie B3 virus pericardial involvement occurred in 1 patient. Radionuclide ventriculography showed a reduced LV ejection fraction (<50%) in 17 patients, global hypokinesia in 12 patients and regional wall motion abnormalities in 5 patients. LV and RV end diastolic pressures were elevated in 15 and 11 patients, respectively.
RCM is defined as heart muscle disease leading to a severely impaired diastolic filling of the ventricle. RCM results from an increase in ventricular wall stiffness that causes a steep rise in intraventricular pressure with a small rise in ventricular volume during diastole. RCM is a relatively rare form of cardiomyopathy. Approximately, 50% of cases of RCM are caused by specific clinical disorders, whereas the rest represents idiopathic form among the specific forms of RCM, amyloidosis is the most common outside the tropics. Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is particularly common in the tropics, especially in parts of Africa, India, South and Central America. Elsewhere it occurs sporadically. RCM can result from various local and systemic disorders.,
IRCM is the most common (50% of all cases) cause of RCM. Based on pathological involvement, RCM can be divided into two groups – with predominant endocardial involvement or myocardial involvement. Conditions causing predominant endocardial involvement include EMF, Loeffler's endocarditis, carcinoid heart disease, metastatic cancers, radiation, and drugs. Conditions with predominant myocardial involvement include IRCM, infiltrative disorders (amyloidosis, sarcoidosis), and storage disorders (hemochromatosis, Fabry's disease).
In our experience on endomyocardial biopsies of 32 patients with restrictive clinical features, we found amyloid to be cause in 13 (40%) [Figure 1]c and [Figure 1]d and remaining were IRCM. There was none with hemochromatosis or endocardial fibrosis.
Studies from another center are similar. In their study of 52 patients, all 52 patients had heart failure with normal or near normal LV size and function. Based on right and left ventricle angiography, patients were classified into two groups. Group I with findings suggestive of EMF (n = 30) and Group II no evidence of EMF on angiography that is, “idiopathic RCM” (n = 22). Echocardiography revealed typical features of EMF in Group I patients, with apical obliteration of right and LV apices. Group II patients had no apex obliteration. The Group II patients had features of IRCM in the form of normal left and RV size and function with restrictive features of Doppler filling along with dilated left and right atria. Angiocardiography in EMF patients showed isolated RV involvement in only 2 patients. In the remaining 28 patients, the obliterative changes were biventricular with RV involvement more severe than LV involvement. Angiographic findings in Group II (IRCM) patients were unremarkable with preservation of normal trabecular pattern and absence of obliterative changes. Histopathological examination revealed that endocardial thickening was more common (77% vs. 23%) in EMF patients. The presence of myocyte hypertrophy (70–80%), myocytolysis (40–50%), and interstitial fibrosis (46–56%) were similar in both groups.
Prognosis in RCM is variable depending on the underlying etiology. RCM secondary to amyloidosis has a poor prognosis with a median survival of <2 years. IRCM has intermediate prognosis with 5 years survival of 64%. Overall, it carries a poor prognosis, particularly in children. Various studies have reported 66–100% rate of death or cardiac transplantation within a few years of diagnosis.
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy or arrhythmogenic right ventricular disease/dysplasia
It is characterized by fatty replacement and fibrosis of the heart affecting commonly the right ventricle apex and outflow tract. However, sometimes left ventricle can also be affected.
ARVC is a progressive disease with the incidence estimated to be 1:3000–1:10,000. Manifestations are usually seen in teenagers. ARVC can occur in families; more than 9 different mutations have been described, most often with autosomal dominant inheritance.
One unique form of ARVD, called Naxos disease (after the Greek island where it was first diagnosed), had an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance.
The diagnosis of ARVC is a difficult diagnosis to make. Therefore, the European Society of Cardiology has created a list of diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of ARVC. Histologically, there is fatty replacement of RV myocardium by >50% with residual myocytes <60%, with fibrous replacement of the RV free wall myocardium on endomyocardial biopsy. In our experience of 20 years we found only 2 cases of ARVC at autopsy [Figure 1]e and [Figure 1]f and none on endomyocardial biopsy.
HCM is a common heart muscle disease and affects people of any age. With an incidence of 1 in 500 people in western literature, it affects men and women equally.
HCM is a common cause of sudden cardiac arrest in young people, especially young athletes. In HCM there is hypertrophy of the cardiomyocytes causing thickening of LV wall including the septum. Due to irregular septal thickening, bulging of septum takes place into the left ventricle. This also can block blood flow out of the left ventricle (The septum is the wall that divides the left and right sides of the heart). Despite this thickening, the ventricle size often remains normal. Sometimes, the thickening may block blood flow out of the ventricle causing obstructive HCM. When, the thickened heart muscle does not block blood flow out of the left ventricle. This is called nonobstructive HCM. The entire ventricle may thicken, or the thickening may happen only at the bottom of the heart. In both types of HCM (obstructive and nonobstructive), the thickened muscle makes the inside of the left ventricle smaller, decreasing its capacity. The walls of the ventricle also may stiffen due to which the ventricle is less able to relax.
Rarely HCM also can affect the heart's mitral valve, causing blood to leak backward through the valve and more rarely right ventricle or only the apex of LV may be affected. Microscopically there is irregular fibrosis in the interstitium resulting in myofiber disarray and marked hypertrophy of the myocytes. Perivascular fibrosis and luminal narrowing of the vessel is a relative feature which is commonly seen in HCM cases. We studied a group of patients with restrictive physiology for mutations in the beta-myosin heavy chain (MYH7) and troponin I (TNNI3) gene. Among the 17 patients who had restrictive physiology seven were HCM patients. Of the HCM patients, seven (6.9%) had restrictive physiology. The mean age of these 17 patients was 40.1 ± 19.2 years (range: 15–67), 6 (35.3%) were males. The maximal LV wall thickness of the seven HCM probands was 20.7 ± 5.2 mm (range: 16–31), whereas it was normal in the IRCM probands. Ten probands (58.8%) were in NYHA class III or IV. Seven patients (41.2%) had atrial fibrillation. All the probands were screened for mutations in selected exons of MYH7 and TNNI3 genes. One HCM proband with a maximal LV wall thickness of 17 mm had p. Arg192His mutation in the TNNI3 gene. She had features consistent with restrictive physiology. Her father and sister had died of RCM.
The classification of “hypertrophic-dilated-restrictive cardiomyopathies” has limitations and mixes anatomic designations (i.e., hypertrophic and dilated) with a functional one (i.e., restrictive). Consequently, confusion may arise because the same disease could appear in two categories. Furthermore, such a classification fails to recognize the heterogeneity of clinical expression now attributable to many of these diseases. The latest updated classification and major etiological factors proposed for cardiomyopathies is shown in [Figure 2]. The present classification recognizes the rapid evolution of molecular, as well as the introduction of several recently described diseases, and incorporates ion channelopathies as a primary cardiomyopathy.
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We have presented our data on the pathobiology of cardiomyopathies in India. With the advent of genotyping and with the availability of magnetic resonance imaging, more data are expected from many centers in India in the future.
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Did you know that when you monitor your kid’s smartphone activities you can actually get to know about their friend’s circle? Have you ever tried doing this and recognize the people your kids interact with online? Well, it can be an alarming situation if you don’t know the people they are talking to.
We are a part of a digital age where every individual owns a smartphone or tablet these days. Even kids have their own electronic devices now. That makes them explore the digital world on their own. While it’s good for kids to have smartphones as they can learn about several things and connect with lots of people but the internet world can also expose them to unknown dangers.
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To be able to monitor your kid’s smartphone, you need to either install a third-party cell phone monitoring app on their device or enable privacy settings on it so they can stay away from harmful online dangers as much as possible.
The world of the internet and social media has exposed our kids to several online dangers. No parent would want to risk their kid’s future and reputation. Therefore, every parent must consider smartphone monitoring for kids.
Below, we have explored some reasons that will help you understand why monitoring your kid’s smartphone or any other electronic device is a good idea.
Why Monitoring Kid’s Smartphone is a Good Thing?
Several reasons lead parents to monitor kid’s smartphone activities. Let us dig more and find out more about the internet dangers so that parents can keep their kids safe from them effectively.
Bullying is a threat that has affected the childhood of many kids. This danger is more common in school and college. However, with the advent of social media and other online platforms, bullying has taken the form of cyberbullying and it is becoming widespread in the online world.
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Implantable cardioverter defibrillator
Natural airway, nasal canula or facemask with EtCO2 monitoring
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Decreased ejection fraction, arrhythmia
Insertion of an automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD) is very similar to insertion of a cardiac pacemaker. Main differences include the underlying pathology requiring defibrillator functionality such as HFrEF, VT, or VF. Procedurally, one the device is in place, the cardiologist will induce V-Tach or V-Fib to test the AICD device. The following shock will require a short term plane of deeper anesthesia.
Labs and studies
Operating room setup
Patient preparation and premedication
Regional and neuraxial techniques
Monitoring and access
Generally 1 or 2 peripheral IVs are sufficient.
5 lead EKG monitoring for arrhythmia
Induction and airway management
Most often the procedure is done under monitored anesthesia care, very rarely requires general anesthesia.
Often a natural airway is used with a nasal canula or facemask with EtCO2 monitoring. Consider oral or nasal airway if signs of upper airway obstruction.
Supine with arms out
Maintenance and surgical considerations
IV sedation. Consider midazolam, fentanyl, propofol, or other medications.
The cardiologist will alert you when they are ready to test the defibrillator. With a short acting medication, such as propofol, increase the depth of anesthesia. Be mindful of the patients underlying cardiac status, such as decreased ejection fraction during this time.
Pneumothorax, pericarditis, heart perforation, infection, air embolism, arrhythmia/cardiac arrest
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We are excited to announce that #AGU20 will be mostly virtual. “Mostly” because if science and health professionals tell us it is safe for groups to convene, AGU would like to host a regional gathering in San Francisco. If we decide that is feasible, we will let you know by August. In addition, depending on where you’re located (and if it’s safe), you can create your own mini-#AGU20 watch party or hub. We’ll share guidance if you’re interested in being a convener of one of these mini-#AGU20 regional events.
No matter if we are 100% virtual or if regional gatherings are possible, #AGU20 will remain the global convening meeting for the Earth and space sciences community. And this year, we will be able to engage the wider global community.
#AGU20 will offer real-time sessions, networking and poster hall time that work for multiple time zones around the world. We will also offer recorded content so you can enjoy “on demand” or binge watch what others are sharing at any time.
We know that meeting fellow scientists and researchers are a major reason you attended Fall Meeting in the past and we’re going to make sure that remains a key feature this year. In fact, you may be able to meet even more people than you would have ever before by using some new tools that we’re testing out now.
This year’s theme is “Shaping the Future of Science.” We selected this theme in January 2020, but we couldn’t have imagined the events that have transpired over the last six months.
We have seen how the world’s trust and respect in science remains high. But we also know we have more work to do to be more inclusive and diverse.
Fall Meeting will offer sessions on:
- COVID-19, from lessons learned in Earth and space sciences to ideas for what to do to advance research when one can’t be in the field or in the lab.
- actions the Earth and space sciences should take to remove discrimination and eliminate racism to improve diversity and inclusion.
- how to better communicate your science to policymakers, reporters, voters and other key audiences.
Of course, we’ll still have more than 1,000 sessions on everything ranging from Earth’s core to oceans to exoplanets. Convergent themes including global science policy, data, natural hazards and climate science will be prominently featured.
As you know, we’re also excited about our Presidential Forum speaker Leland Melvin, engineer, educator, former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver.
Since we’ll have all this content, plus networking and some fun surprises, we will have Fall Meeting concentrated 7-11 December. But we’ll also likely begin earlier in December to extend the time frame and organize programming around our scientific neighborhoods. This design will help reduce overlap while recognizing that you have other priorities that need your attention and can’t spend a full day attending Fall Meeting online.
We are still finalizing many details, but we wanted to let you know as soon as the decision was made. We will be adding additional FAQs to our website later today that will answer many of your questions too. But we ask for your continued support and patience so that we create a flexible, fun, interactive and engaging Fall Meeting 2020.
Starting the week of 22 June, abstracts will be accepted until Wednesday, 29 July. When you submit your abstract, your eLightning fee will be included so there will be no additional poster platform or printing fee. We can’t wait to see what you submit!
With these new and reimagined offerings at Fall Meeting, we will be charging a registration fee. It will be about 50% less than the in-person rate and lower for graduate students and other groups. We assure you that the value that you have always experienced at Fall Meeting in-person will remain in our virtual version.
We are testing a variety of technology now, which will also serve as the foundation for the future of AGU Fall Meetings. We will soon announce those different online tools that will best serve you to learn, share, network and engage. Over the next five months, we will be offering a number of opportunities to ensure you are comfortable with the new technology, including training sessions and open hours for “hands-on” demonstrations. As a reminder to students, if you’d be willing to volunteer, please email us. In return, you’ll receive free registration to #AGU20.
Finally, since we will be mostly virtual, we know our carbon footprint will be less than ever before. We will be placing a calculator to keep track of what we’ve used on our website. It also means we’re as mindful as ever about making sure we’re good stewards of our planet.
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Prediabetes or diabetes diagnosis may come as a shock, but the sooner people accept it, the easier they’ll manage it. Living with diabetes doesn’t mean people should stop leading a normal life, but making certain lifestyle changes that will help keep their blood sugar levels under control.
Controlling blood sugar levels is of vital importance for health and wellbeing. If they are high most of the time, people can experience different health problems, and over time, it can damage their organs.
Diabetes affects the entire body and organs, and not controlling it can lead to damage to the kidneys, heart, eyes, nerves, and blood vessels. Some of the most common problems include heart damage, kidney failure, vision loss, neuropathy, foot damage, hearing impairment, skin conditions, and Alzheimer’s.
The treatment of diabetes includes medications and insulin, but we can further improve it by making certain diet and lifestyle changes.
Here are some of the best ways to control blood sugar levels naturally, but don’t quit the prescribed medications and insulin if you’re already taking them.
Diet is directly linked to blood sugar levels so it can either keep diabetes under control or worsen it. It all depends on what we eat and what we should stay away from.
What’s more, it can control lipid levels, which is important because diabetics are at risk of cardiac problems.
Try this diet as research shows it can improve blood glucose and lipid levels in those with diabetes. Follow the rules:
Try to stick to the ADA diet guideless for better blood sugar control, by following these rules:
Try some herbs, spices, and other natural ingredients to help regulate blood sugar levels. The most popular natural remedies for type 2 diabetes include:
Apple cider vinegar – dilute 20 g of this vinegar in 40 g of water and drink before meals to improve insulin sensitivity after meals.
Cinnamon – consume around 3 g of this spice a day to reduce fasting serum glucose.
Fenugreek Seeds – consume them regularly along with the diabetes medications to reduce insulin resistance and improve glycemic control.
Mango Leaves – boil 10 mango leaves and let them soak in the water overnight. The next morning, strain the leaves and drink the liquid before eating anything. Do this for two months.
Physical activity is an essential part of diabetes management. All we have to do is devote half an hour of our day to do some exercise. In fact, we can start with 5-10 minutes and gradually increase the time.
Besides controlling our blood glucose, staying physically active will help us lose some weight – which is good for those with diabetes.
Combine aerobic exercises like swimming, brisk walking, or dancing, with strength training such as weightlifting, doing planks and pushups in different days of the week.
Besides exercising, we can stay physically active by walking to work/school, choosing stairs instead of the lift, or parking our car away from our destination.
Yoga can help control our blood glucose by improving our glucose tolerance, lowering our risk of cardiovascular problems, reducing blood pressure levels, improving the lipid profile, and reducing stress.
We can try some simple yoga poses at first, and practice some deep breathing and meditation.
Did you know that smoking raises the risk of type 2 diabetes by up to 30-40%? So, try to quit or at least reduce smoking to prevent many diabetes complications such as heart or kidney damage, vision problems, nerve damage, and circulation problems.
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REGISTRATIONS OPEN: Inclusive mobility for an inclusive society: new approaches and solutions
The INCLUSION and HiReach projects team up and invite you to their final virtual conference titled Inclusive mobility for an inclusive society: new approaches and solutions. How can transport benefit us all?
Join the discussion and learn more about Tools, Methods, and Approaches to designing a more inclusive mobility system for all, and in particular, for vulnerable-to-exclusion people living in urban, peri-urban, rural and remote areas.
Professor Rosário Macário from the Lisbon Technical University (Portugal) will give a keynote speech on the topic. The event will be moderated by Karen Vancluysen, POLIS Secretary General.
Learn more about these projects!
INCLUSION is a three-year EU funded project focusing on improving transport accessibility for vulnerable user groups living in remote urban and rural areas across Europe.
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Since the sad news of Tony Gwynn’s passing came down this morning, we have heard countless tidbits and anecdotes about his brilliance as a hitter. If you’re like me, you can’t get enough of them. Joe Posnanski wrote about Gwynn’s legacy and artistry in his latest piece for NBCSports.com:
See, for most Major League hitters – even the best of hitters – hitting is some brew of instinct and technique and muscle memory and something unspoken. It’s a physical act and it’s a mental act, but it isn’t generally an application of imagination. The cliché is irrepressible, you’ve heard it a million times: Nothing in sports is as difficult as hitting a baseball. The greatest hitters have reduced the difficulty to platitudes because, well, you don’t talk about batting. You DO it.
“See the ball, hit the ball,” Tony Perez used to say.
“Empty your mind,” George Brett used to say.
“You can’t think and hit at the same time,” Yogi Berra used to say.
Gwynn did, though He thought and hit at the same time. He would not empty his mind. He did not only see the ball (and hit it), he would see the pitcher preparation, see the smallest hitch or twist in his delivery, see the openings in the defense, see the ball release from the pitcher’s hand, see the way the baseball turned, see angles and lines and geometric shapes like parabolas. I once asked him how closely he noticed the defensive alignment. “If the second baseman was one inch more to the left or right,” he told me, “I knew.”
It’s a wonderful tribute. Make sure to set aside a few moments and read it.
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You have probably heard that we should all be eating more fibre in our diets. But most of us are still not getting enough. Here's how to get the daily 30g.
How much fibre do we need per day?
UK government guidelines tell us that adults should be getting 30g fibre a day.
However, 9 in 10 people in the UK are not meeting this with most adults eating an average of 18g a day.
What is fibre?
Fibre can be categorised into two broad types – soluble and insoluble.
Soluble fibre dissolves in the fluids in your digestive system to create a gel-like substance, which binds to cholesterol, bad bacteria and other unwanted particles.
As the soluble fibre moves through the digestive system, it takes these substances along, eliminating them from the body with your stool before they are absorbed into the bloodstream.
Insoluble fibre adds bulk and form to your stool, enabling it to pass through your digestive system and out of your body rapidly.
When can I get fibre?
Our lives can be so hectic that selecting food for their nutrients can become an afterthought.
Luckily, including fibre each day should be as simple as making a few tweaks to your existing choices.
How to include fibre in your breakfast
You may crave toast first thing, but it’s time to step away from the white sliced supermarket loaf, which has only around 1g of fibre per slice (and can be low on nutrients too).
This type of bread leaves you feeling unsatisfied and likely to be hungry again by the time you arrive at work.
Wholemeal bread which has 3g fibre per slice is a better high-fibre breakfast alternative. Even better would be rye bread, with 4.4g fibre per slice.
Peanut butter and banana on toast
With this fibre-rich breakfast, you will be well on your way to meeting your 30g daily fibre target.
Toast a slice of wholemeal bread.
Top with peanut butter (8.5g fibre per serving).
Add a small sliced banana (1.4g fibre).
Another great breakfast option for a high-fibre day is oats.
Make a quick pan of porridge on the hob or spin for 3 minutes in the microwave.
Sprinkle with chia seeds, almonds or fresh or dried fruit for an extra fibre boost.
How to include fibre in your lunch
Lunch can be a tricky one where fibre is concerned. Many of us eat lunch during our work break, with errands and life admin often taking priority.
Take the initiative beforehand and prepare a simple pasta and vegetable salad that you can take to the office in a BPA-free lunch container.
White pasta may be delicious but it’s not great in the fibre department – there’s only around 1g of fibre per serving.
Wholewheat pasta has an impressive 8g per serving, or you could try chickpea or spelt pastas which are also fibre-rich compared to white.
How to include fibre in your dinner
You may find that dinner is the time when you can really get creative with your fibre goals.
Many delicious and healthy grains are high in fibre, such as bulgur wheat, quinoa and wholewheat couscous and pulses e.g. lentils and chickpeas.
Use these as the base for stews, curries and robust salads.
- chipotle black bean and quinoa chilli recipe with 12g fibre per serving
- warm green vegetable and quinoa salad with 7.5g fibre per serving
- Moroccan-style salad with butternut squash, chickpeas and couscous with 10g fibre per serving
How to include fibre in your snacks
Forget salty, fatty snacks like crisps or biscuits.
Make sure you’re smashing your daily 20g fibre target with delicious munch-able snacks such as carrot sticks and hummus with 8g fibre per serving or an apple with 3g fibre.
A few dried figs, dates, or prunes are great portable fibre powerhouses that taste amazing.
Beware of the high natural sugar content in dried fruit, however. It’s best to measure out a portion beforehand and keep in a reusable container for when you’re on the go to prevent eating too many.
5 high-fibre foods you won’t hate
If you don’t fancy adding a bowl of bran flakes to your daily routine, then you’re in luck.
These 5 foods are easily available in supermarkets, markets and smaller shops and will add a delicious dose of fibre.
You probably know them as antioxidant powerhouses containing high levels of vitamin C.
But with 8g per serving, raspberries are surprisingly high in fibre.
Raspberries are the perfect snack at any time of day with a handful of almonds (another healthy, fibre-rich food).
Unfortunately, the highly processed packets of flavoured popcorn you will find in the supermarket are not recommended, as any benefit from their fibre content is cancelled out by the high amounts of sugar, fat and additives.
However, plain popped corn is low in calories, fat and high in insoluble fibre with 6g per serving. It might be the perfect snack.
Why not replace crisps with popcorn flavoured with a pinch of salt, or cinnamon for a sweeter taste?
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If you’ve never tried rye bread, now is the time.
A long-time favourite in Germany and Scandinavian countries, rye bread is gaining in popularity in the UK thanks to its wonderful health benefits.
For a serious fibre boost that will start your day off right, swap your current breakfast for two slices of toasted rye bread with a tablespoon of peanut butter spread on top with a few raspberries.
Or try swapping your usual beans on toast to rye bread. Each slice of rye bread contains around 4.4g fibre.
There is plenty to love about this creamy, savoury Middle Eastern dip.
Hummus is a source of protein and healthy fats and tastes amazing with vegetable sticks or warm flatbread.
Hummus is also one of the best sources of fibre with 15g per serving thanks to its main ingredient, chickpeas.
When choosing hummus, make sure to stick to the traditional type made with chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice, garlic and salt.
Some brands, especially flavoured varieties, add unnecessary sugar and flavourings which offset hummus’ healthy credentials.
If you have time – why not try making your own hummus?
If you’ve written chia seeds off as yet another trendy food fad, then you’re missing out!
Chia are a tiny seed with a huge nutritional profile.
One of the best vegetarian sources of omega-3 fats, they are high in protein, calcium and iron, and have 11g fibre per serving.
The fibre in chia seeds is mainly the soluble type, meaning it slows digestion, helps you feel full and binds to bad cholesterol.
Extremely versatile, chia seeds can be added to both sweet and savoury dishes. Try them sprinkled on Greek yoghurt, oats or over salad for a mildly nutty flavour.
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In trivia quizzes I am usually useful for the medical questions but useless for the sports ones, that’s where a particular friend comes in handy.
This sharing of information we need and obtain from others is called “transactive memory”.
This was first described 30 years ago as meaning the division of the work or remembering shared information which is great as it frees us up from having to have duplicate sets of memory.
Today we now have so much more access to other information beyond our family members, books and encyclopaedias.
So where do we go to now when we have a question we want answered?
Well it’s quite likely to be Google.
The way we use the Internet today has drastically changed our ability to obtain information. But is it changing how our brain uses that information for future use as well?
That was a question that a researcher Betsy Sparrow recently set out to answer and her findings are really interesting.
And probably as you would expect, she found that people would often anticipate using the Internet to look up the answers to questions they weren’t sure of.
What was also interesting was that people were better able to remember the information, if they were told they would not be able to save it for future reference. Plus those who were asked to remember the information and where it was saved on their computer actually had better recall for where to find it than the actual information itself.
What does this mean?
Well perhaps using the Internet allows our brain to not have to do so much work, especially if we are confident the information will always be there.
We just need to know where to look for it. As another psychologist Roddy Roediger from Washington University said “why remember something if I know I can look it up again?”.
He also suggests that because we now have access to an ever-increasing information rich environment, this could be contributing to the so-called “Flynn effect”. This is the gradual increase in IQ score that has been observed over the last century.
What have you noticed for yourself or for your family in terms of their studying habits?
Do you think the Internet is useful in this way, or do you worry that we are outsourcing our brains too much to modern technology?
Let me know, I’d love to hear what you think.
Sparrow,S., Liu,J., Wegner, D.M. Google effects on memory: Cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips. Science. 14 July 2011 DOI 10.1126/science.1207745
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No teacher’s pet
An outspoken education reformer finally rests his red pen
“CHRISTOPHER,” Chris Woodhead’s general-studies teacher once wrote, according to the Daily Telegraph, “must learn to convince rather than cudgel.” By the end of Sir Chris’s six years as head of Her Majesty’s Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted), nearly all the teachers in the country agreed.
An energetic reformer who favoured traditional teaching over the pious orthodoxies of “progressive” educationalists, Sir Chris produced mixed feelings. After he resigned as head of Ofsted in 2000, he was awarded “villain of the year” by the BBC “Today” programme, but also placed second as “hero of the year”. He had been supported by Tony Blair, then the prime minister, but was at odds with David Blunkett, the education secretary. He raised standards: on his watch the government closed more than 100 failing schools and set about improving 604 more. But he infuriated schools, teachers’ unions and, finally, the Labour Party. He once declared that 15,000 of England’s teachers were incompetent. He later received razor blades through the post.
He seemed to take criticism on the chin. “I am paid to challenge mediocrity, failure and complacency,” he once said. He saw his role as combating “the blob”, a term he popularised to describe the educational establishment, which Michael Gove, a similarly outspoken former education secretary, recently revived. As with Mr Gove, a looming election meant Sir Chris was replaced by a less controversial option in Mike Tomlinson, but not before he hauled the teaching profession onto a straighter and narrower road.
After leaving Ofsted Sir Chris became a journalist for the Sunday Times, where he continued to rail against trendy teaching methods. Later, in 2004, he became chairman of a group of private schools, Cognita, and in 2009 published a book, “A Desolation of Learning”, arguing for a return to grammar schools and against what he saw as the vague thinking and Pollyanna-ish idealism of the national curriculum (which he described as a “solipsistic daydream”). This newspaper praised the book as a “substantial contribution to public debate on education”.
In 2006 he was diagnosed with motor-neurone disease. Later, struggling with the limits of the illness (he had been a keen hiker), Sir Chris campaigned for a change in the law on doctor-assisted dying, but not without identifying another brand of elbow-patched lefty he did not like: “The truth is, I would be more likely to drive myself in a wheelchair off a cliff in Cornwall than go to Dignitas and speak to a bearded social worker,” he told the Sunday Times. Sir Chris died on June 23rd, aged 68. He never managed to change the law on assisted suicide, but his influence on education will last. Sometimes a cudgel works, too.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline "No teacher’s pet"
From the June 27th 2015 edition
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From my point of view artichokes give us one of the most important advices for our life paths. Even if it is not their original meaning, I interpret it my way: heart + choke. If you don’t open your heart, you will choke on it. Not listening on your own heart beat, you will spend all your life singing a song that doesn’t belong to you. Life in dissonance tenses up the throat. The heart builds around itself tough, prickly and inedible layers of fear. So you hide it inside this shell, like a snake hides it’s legs. You may look very pretty and even colorful, but this flower will fade away and no one will ever hear the cry for help, from far away under your skin.
While I was starring at wide fields of artichokes in Salento, a very fertile region in southern Italy, I couldn’t help but think of that woman who rejected the most powerful man of those times. Zeus, the Greek Casanova, went crazy after this unusual beauty, who, unexpectedly, turned down his love. Furious, just like every rejected man, Zeus decided to punish the young woman transforming her into an artichoke.
But no one ever told why she turned him down?! Maybe to protect him from her wild nature, from her nomad soul, full of undreamed dreams? From the fire in her clear and honest eyes that made many men confusing the Adriatic Sea with the blue of the sky. I am sure, she had a good reason to say no to God.
In every of those big flowers on Salento’s ground I saw Zeus’ injured heart. Cutting off the leaves hardened from pain, I finally reached the gentle and miraculous centre. After I observed it for a few seconds, the heart suddenly started to darken. So I ate it. That was the best way to keep the true beauty of Zeus’ heart alive.
Artichokes spring salad
Ingredients (serves 2 hungry people):
green salad of your choice
3 spring onions, washed and finely chopped
100 g fava beans, removed from their pod and pealed (optional)
3 bay leaves
2 cloves of garlic, finely minced
2 lemons, their juice
knob of ghee, coconut oil or butter
5 Tsp olive oil
salt and pepper to your taste
1. Wash the artichoke thoroughly. Hold the artichoke under cold running water. Rinse in between the leaves without pulling on them. Dry the artichoke with a clean towel.
2. Using a large knife, cut off the top 2 cm of the artichoke.
3. Using a knife or pair of kitchen scissors, cut off the hard leaves until you reached the tender and light colored part of artichoke- heart.
4. Cut off the stem flush with the base and half the hearts of artichokes.
5. Salt the artichokes, pour them with 3 Tsp of olive oil and 2 Tsp of lemon juice. Set aside for 30 min.
6. In the frying pan heat the ghee (or coconut oil or butter). Add garlic and bay leaves and fry it just for a 10 sec. Add artichoke hearts, stir everything to combine and fry for another 5 min. Pour 1 dl water, reduce the temperature to medium and cook until the water is absorbed. Repeat the process with water so many times until the hearts are softened (I repeated it two times). If you use it, add pealed fava beans to the artichokes in the last minute of cooking.
7. Meanwhile, wash the salad and put it in a larger serving bowl. Pour with 2 Tsp of olive oil, the rest of lemon juice and pinch of salt and pepper.
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Recently, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, after three years of conducting the process, granted The Ohio State University protection for the trademark “THE”, for use on clothing.
Details of the procedure
While the representatives of the said authority, accountable for examining applications, claimed that “THE” in this particular case, especially from the consumer’s point of view, represents only an ornamental sign, and not the one used to mark the origin or distinguish a certain product from other products on the market, the representatives of the party emphasized that “THE” represents an essential element of its identity and history, and thus its trademark as well.
The main opponent of the mentioned party in this procedure is the fashion company “Marc Jacobs”, which has also been trying to protect the respective sign for the needs of its brand since 2019 and according to whose application the final decision has not yet been passed. However, it seems that interest of the subject parties in this situation do not overlap, since one brand is present on the market of sports clothing and equipment, while the other targets a slightly different type of consumers.
Trademark in domestic law
According to the Law on Trademarks (Official Gazette of RS no. 6/2020), a trademark is a right that protects a sign used distinguish the goods or services of one natural person or legal entity from the same or similar goods or services of another natural person or legal entity.
A sign protected by a trademark may consist of any signs, especially words, including personal names, or drawings, letters, numbers, colors, three-dimensional shapes, the shape of goods or their packaging, combinations of these signs or sounds, provided that:
- it is suitable for distinguishing in the trade of goods, i.e., services of one natural person or legal entity from goods, i.e., services of another natural person or legal entity; and
- it can be displayed in the Register of Trademarks in a way that enables the competent authorities and the public to determine the subject of protection clearly and precisely.
Legal protection of trademarks is achieved in an administrative procedure conducted before the Intellectual Property Office, which manages the Register of Trademarks. The procedure for trademark recognition is initiated by an application for trademark recognition, which contains the prescribed elements, while the applicant has the right of priority from the date of submission of the application in relation to all other persons who later submitted the application for the same or similar sign that marks the same or similar goods or services.
In addition to the regularity of the application itself, the competent authority examines the fulfillment of the requirements for trademark recognition. If the prescribed conditions are met, after the applicant submits evidence of fee payments for the first ten years of trademark protection and publication costs, the authority registers the recognized right in the Register of Trademarks and issues a trademark certificate to the right holder. The recognized right is also published in the official gazette of the Intellectual Property Office.
Given that a trademark represents a territorial right, i.e., which produces legal effects only in the territory of the country for which it is registered, if the applicant wants to protect the trademark in other countries as well, it is necessary to submit a request for international registration of the trademark to the Intellectual Property Office.
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Author: Public Record Office Victoria
The Royal Charter was one of the fastest ships traveling from Liverpool to Australia during the Victorian gold rush.
In August 1859 the Royal Charter passenger ship left Melbourne for Liverpool, carrying 452 men, women and children, and a cargo of gold valued at £320,000 – the equivalent of more than A$170 million today!
In the early hours of 26 October, the clipper was near Moelfre (off the north-west coast of Wales). Winds began to pick up dangerously: the ship had sailed into the worst storm to hit the Irish Sea that century. Sending up distress signals, but finding no pilot to respond, the captain dropped the anchors and powered the coal engines, but it was too late.
The Royal Charter was driven onto rocks only 50 yards (46 metres) from the shore and was battered against them with such force that the ship broke in two. Many people were thrown from the ship; some swam valiantly for shore but were weighed down by the gold in their pockets.
Seaman Edward Wilson, one of the crew to survive, described the terrible confusion on deck: ‘Fathers and mothers clasping their children in their arms, wives clinging to husbands, shrieking and crying, “Save me!”’. Another seaman, Joseph Rogers, was a hero. He tied a rope around his waist and managed to swim to shore. He secured the rope and aided the rescue of the 39 survivors – all men.
The Royal Charter Shipping List is preserved within the Public Record Office Victoria shipping records, here you can see John Bradbury's name at the top of this record, the only man who survived off this list. Shipping lists of those individuals who migrated to or from Victoria between 1852 and 1923 are now available to search online, and a valuable resource for family historians.
What's in the Archives?
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On Feb. 22, 2022, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (2021-present) met with his counterpart from Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi. During the meeting, Raisi expressed his readiness to expand economic and trade cooperation with Mozambique and other African countries, as well as to provide them with greater technology transfer and technical knowledge. Raisi claimed that the Islamic Republic “always had good relations with African countries,” and acknowledged their economic potential, human capital, and natural resources. With respect to the latter, and seeking to find common cause with post-colonial Africa, Raisi condemned the plundering of Iran’s rich resources by the West during the past few centuries — a theme that Raisi’s predecessors had also stressed in their rhetoric regarding the continent.
Since the beginning of his presidency, Raisi has called for increasing cooperation with Africa and recognized its material and manpower capabilities. As early as his third day in office on Aug. 6, 2021, Raisi delivered the same message while meeting with the speaker of Guinea-Bissau’s National Assembly, Cipriano Cassamá, who criticized U.S. sanctions against Iran. On Jan. 24, 2022, Raisi issued similar statements during his meeting with the Togolese foreign minister, Robert Dussey, who also opposed the sanctions. At both meetings and like his predecessors, Raisi condemned the exploitation of the continent’s resources by the West and claimed that Iran served as a true friend and real partner in helping it achieve welfare, development, independence, and progress.
Contrary to popular perception, Raisi’s meetings and statements with African officials were not part of a hegemonic project to further expand Iranian influence in Africa. Rather, they constituted an effort to reset relations with the continent after his predecessor, Hassan Rouhani (2013-21), spent eight years neglecting it while pursuing rapprochement with the West (the United States and Western Europe) and later the East (China and Russia). So far, Raisi has only met with officials from countries of second- and third-tier commercial importance in terms of bilateral trade, though they have other historical, diplomatic, and strategic significance. Beyond rhetoric, the question remains whether he will differentiate himself from his predecessor in practice by prioritizing Africa and restoring relations with longtime allies and top trading partners that severed ties with Iran in 2016.
Far from furthering Iran’s hegemonic and expansionist ambitions on the continent, Raisi’s meetings and statements with African officials could be accurately interpreted as an attempt to reset relations after his predecessor consistently neglected them. For this reason, during his meeting with Guinea-Bissau’s speaker of parliament in August 2021, Raisi emphasized that strengthening relations would be a foreign policy priority for the Islamic Republic and that “in the new government, all the capacities for cooperation with African countries will be seriously activated.”
Rhetorically, Raisi did not differentiate himself from Rouhani. In his statements and speeches, Rouhani repeatedly referred to Africa as a “top priority” and called for strengthening political, economic, and cultural relations. However, he dedicated little effort to implementing these policies in practice, as evidenced by his lack of official visits to Africa and by Iran’s low levels of trade with the continent. Despite his favorable discourse, Rouhani neglected Africa to prioritize détente and rapprochement with the West, culminating with the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015 and the partial sanctions relief that accompanied it in 2016.
Rouhani’s neglect of Africa was reflected in his lack of official visits to the continent. As of 2020, Rouhani had visited over 55 different countries in Europe, Asia, and America. The focus of these visits was to expand the Islamic Republic’s economic and trade relations within the framework of the JCPOA, and to maintain and salvage these relations after the United States withdrew from it and reimposed sanctions in 2018. Even after this happened and contrary to his predecessors, Rouhani exclusively turned his attention to the East and continued to neglect Africa and the South, with the aim of circumventing sanctions and alleviating pressure. Rouhani never traveled to Africa and rarely invited its officials to Iran. During his presidency, only three African presidents (from Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe) visited Iran, but only after the JCPOA was signed and the sanctions partially lifted in 2016 and 2017. Rouhani declined invitations to these countries and his reluctance to visit Africa was unusual given that all of his predecessors, starting with Ali Khamenei (1981-89), had done so at least twice.
Rouhani’s inattention to Africa was also a reflection of the Islamic Republic’s low levels of trade with the continent. During his presidency between 2014 and 2018, Iran’s trade with Sub-Saharan Africa as a percentage of its total trade reached a nadir of 0.19% in 2015 and never exceeded 1%, even after the signing of the JCPOA and the subsequent sanctions relief. By contrast, under the previous president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005-13), it had peaked at 4.54% in 2007 and remained above 1.5%, before declining to 0.31% in his last year in office in 2013. This decline resulted from the United States and the international community imposing draconian sanctions the previous year against the Islamic Republic’s oil and banking sectors over its nuclear program.
Under Ahmadinejad, Iran’s trade with Africa was higher due to his intensified rapprochement with the continent facilitated by his Third Worldist foreign policy and rising international oil prices. By contrast, under Rouhani, trade remained comparatively and continuously low because he initially and exclusively pursued rapprochement with the United States and West over Africa and the Global South to differentiate himself from Ahmadinejad and to ease international pressure and economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic. This policy may have been partially motivated by the sharp drop in international oil prices during Rouhani’s presidency.
Under Rouhani, the African Headquarters in the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs —established under Ahmadinejad in 2005 and responsible for expanding economic relations with Africa — was nearly wound down. Additionally, some Iranian trade counselors, who were stationed at embassies on the continent and tasked with increasing Iran’s trade, were called back home. In response to Iranian neglect and Saudi military cooperation and aid and economic assistance during the Yemeni Civil War (2014-present), the Islamic Republic’s longtime allies and top trading partners in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere on the continent, including Sudan, Djibouti, and Somalia, ended their relations with Iran in 2016.
It was against the backdrop of the Islamic Republic’s neglect of Africa and loss of longtime allies and top trading partners on the continent under Rouhani that Raisi likely aspired to reset Iran-Africa relations. So far this effort seems to have made limited headway, as Raisi has only met with African officials from countries of second- and third-tier commercial importance in terms of bilateral trade, namely Mozambique, Togo, and Guinea-Bissau, rather than first-tier ones like Sudan, Djibouti, and Somalia — all of which cut ties with Iran under Rouhani. In terms of the Islamic Republic’s trade with these countries as a percentage of its total trade with Sub-Saharan Africa between 1979 and 2018, Sudan ranked third (3.53%), Djibouti ranked sixth (1.09%), and Somalia ranked eighth (0.61%). By contrast, Togo ranked 16th (0.15%), Mozambique ranked 17th (0.13%), and Guinea-Bissau ranked 37th (0.01%) — even if foreign trade only comprises one aspect of bilateral relations between Iran and these countries.
Although they have less importance as trading partners, Mozambique, Togo, and Guinea-Bissau have historical significance and offer strategic value. Mozambique is not a top trading partner, but it could become one again in the future. During the Pahlavi monarchy between 1963 and 1978, it was Iran’s ninth largest trading partner in Sub-Saharan Africa and accounted for 3.63% of its total average annual trade with the continent. After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Mozambique was an important ally of the Islamic Republic. In 1986, then-President Khamenei toured it and three other countries in East Africa (Tanzania, Angola, and Zimbabwe) to gain diplomatic support during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88), provide development assistance through the Ministry of Construction Jihad, and market Iran’s military hardware and other manufactured goods. During Ahmadinejad’s presidency between 2008 and 2009, the Iranian Ministry of Agricultural Jihad (MAJ) sent delegates to Mozambique and 12 other African countries to offer agricultural and development assistance.
While Togo is also not a sizeable trading partner, it is a long-standing one and reportedly began trading with Iran as early as 1966. Moreover, it has other strategic significance as well, as a potential source of uranium for the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. As a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council between 2012 and 2013, Togo could have voted against resolutions condemning the program and increasing sanctions against Iran — even if this outcome rarely, if ever, came to fruition. At the same time, and as a member of the United Nations General Assembly, Togo voted against resolutions censuring the Islamic Republic’s human rights record between 2006 and 2014. During the 2008-09 period, the MAJ explored purchasing phosphate from Togo to use as a chemical fertilizer, presumably as a means of influencing these votes.
As with Togo, the Islamic Republic has sought diplomatic support from Guinea-Bissau in regional and multilateral institutions, including the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and African Union (AU) — of which Mozambique and Togo are also members. Toward the end of Ahmadinejad’s presidency between 2012 and 2013, and probably as a way of solidifying support from Guinea-Bissau in these institutions, Iran held bilateral talks and signed cooperative agreements with it in the areas of security and mining, health and medicine, agriculture and engineering, electricity and energy, and technology and development. Both countries also explored expanding cooperation between their private sectors, chambers of commerce, and consular facilities. Amid deteriorating Iran-Africa relations during Rouhani’s presidency, the speakers of parliament from the Islamic Republic and Guinea-Bissau met in Tehran on Jan. 21, 2018 to discuss strengthening economic, commercial, and parliamentary ties — a subject that was reiterated during Raisi’s meeting with Guinea-Bissau’s speaker of parliament in August 2021.
Rather than being part of a hegemonic and expansionist project, Raisi’s diplomatic outreach to Africa could be properly construed as an effort to reset relations with a continent that had been severely neglected by his predecessor. To this end, and less than a year into his presidency, Raisi has met with African officials from countries of second- and third-tier commercial importance that, nevertheless, possess historical, diplomatic, and strategic significance. It remains to be seen whether Raisi will differentiate himself from Rouhani by reinforcing relations with these countries and others beyond rhetoric into practice.
Compared with his predecessor, Raisi may prioritize Africa more given that he visited South Africa and other African countries as a presidential candidate in May 2017, unlike Rouhani throughout his entire presidency. In an international system with seemingly no permanent friendships or enmities, time will also tell if Raisi can restore relations with longtime allies and top trading partners on the continent that severed ties due to his predecessor’s neglect and Saudi cooperation and assistance. Beyond signing a new nuclear deal with the P5+1 and reducing economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic, achieving this foreign policy objective would require Raisi to show these allies and partners that he could deliver tangible diplomatic and commercial benefits to them discursively and practically.
Apart from engaging with Africa more than this predecessor, Raisi could learn at least two lessons from Ahmadinejad, who had encountered setbacks in Gambia, Senegal, and other African countries despite pursuing rapprochement with them. The first would be dialing down the anti-imperialist rhetoric to provide these countries with the diplomatic flexibility and geopolitical capital to pursue closer relations with Iran. These countries could do so without alienating the West and risk losing the latter’s aid, investment, and trade — even with China having surpassed the United States as Africa’s largest trading partner since 2009. The second would be implementing memoranda of understanding and other bilateral agreements, and prudently pushing them past the negotiating table while considering Iran’s financial, economic, and technological needs and constraints. After harboring high hopes during Ahmadinejad’s presidency, some African countries became disillusioned by Iran’s empty promises and unfulfilled commitments involving cooperation on trade, commerce, science, energy, health, and infrastructure — an outcome made worse by Rouhani’s neglect of these countries and others.
Eric Lob is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University and a non-resident scholar with MEI’s Iran Program. The views expressed in this piece are his own.
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Vision and objective of the PhD education at the Department of Food Science
The Department of Food Science aims to provide a PhD degree in Food Science at the highest international level. This requires dedicated PhD students and supervisors as well as a fine working environment. The Department of Food Science considers the PhD programme to be an important part of the research programme and supports and encourages the facilitation of an inspiring environment for the PhD students.
The Food Science PhD programme
The department carries out research in the whole food production chain to enable management of food quality characteristics of significance for consumer perception, nutritional and health quality of the raw material and the suitability for further processing. The research provides new knowledge concerning the sustainable production and quality of fruits, vegetables, ornamentals, dairy, meat and egg products and forms the basis for dissemination of knowledge at the highest level within the area.
Major research areas related to fruit, vegetable and ornamental research:
Major research areas related to dairy, meat and egg research:
Research in food science often takes place in close cooperation with leading food, crop and biotechnology companies beside internationally acknowledged universities and research centres. This set-up provides good opportunities for students to cooperate both with industry and/or the international research community.
The department has modern research and experimental facilities and equipment for a wide range of physiological and technical experiments: Field and stable facilities, state-of-art greenhouses, controlled environments, storage rooms and in vitro laboratories.
The analytical equipment includes: HPLC, GC-MS, Q-TOF, iontrap, Maldi TOF/TOF, high- and low field NMR, ESR, Chromatography equipment, DSC, FTIR and facilities for sensory science and state-of-art equipped photosynthesis and root laboratories.
The department is organized in six science teams
PhD students are assigned to the team where the project most naturally belong. Several of our PhD projects will often involve collaboration between different teams and exchange of different competences. A focus of the scientific environment at Department of Food Science is knowledge sharing and dissemination of knowledge.
Currently, 45-50 PhD students are working at the Department of Food Science. They have very different backgrounds both scientifically and culturally. Besides the main supervisor, a laboratory technician, another scientist from the department or a postdoc or PhD student might be assigned to the PhD student.
A focus area is to incorporate a change of environment, preferably a stay abroad, during the PhD study period. Furthermore, the PhD student is expected minimum once to present results from his/her PhD project at an international conference.
National and international cooperation
The science teams at Department of Food Science have many different national and international collaboration partners. Find a list of the present collaboration partners at the website under each science team.
Employment after graduation
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Staring at the blank piece of paper on the dining table, I struggled to compose the letter to my mother. The last letter I’ve written was probably when I was seven or eight when my mother and I got separated – she in the U.S and I in China. I remember writing that letter in Chinese, which was basic with lots of simple words and thoughts, considering I was in first grade and hadn’t learned too many characters yet.
Taking a deep breath, I tell myself, “Okay, get a grip. This isn’t your first letter and probably won’t be your last.”
Taking a pen, I begin to write, “Dear Mom,” and then it’s like I’ve run into the wall. What to say? How’s basic training? Ugh, no. How’s life in army boot camp? No! I still can’t believe she’s not allowed to use the phone. Writing a letter feels so old-fashioned and out of style.
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We share our lives and homes with our pets. Is it not ok to share our food with our furry legged friends? We pet parents spoil our pooches by sharing our snacks and food with our pets. Most of the fruits that humans consume are perfectly safe for your pets except for a few exceptions. Let us know more about fruits for dogs that are safe and can be given to them without any hesitation.
Why Do We Need To Feed Fruits For Dogs?
Fruits are loaded with vitamins and minerals. They also serve as healthy snacks and treat for your pets. Fruits are very good for us and for dogs.
The Most Common Fruits For Dogs That Can Be Fed:
Apple makes a wonderful snack for older pets too as they are low in fat and protein. Just make sure to remove the apple seeds as they contain traces of cyanide and are extremely harmful.
Watermelons are an excellent source of lycopene which provides antioxidants. Summer is perfect to treat your pets with watermelon. It refreshes, hydrates them and loads them with Vitamin A, B6, and Thiamin.
Bananas are rich in potassium and are loved by dogs. You could also make frozen popsicles with banana and peanut butter as a perfect summer snack for your pooches.
The next famous tropical fruit loved by everyone are mangoes. Your dogs will love this yummy fruit for their sweet taste. However, feed all the flesh of the fruit and avoid the mango pit.
Oranges are a source of vitamin C and are recommended for dogs. Vets tell us to remove the skin and seeds from the oranges as they are very hards on your pet's digestive system. The inner fruit is perfect for your dogs.
The above fruits are most commonly available fruits for dogs that can be fed without worries. There are certain fruits like grapes, avocados, grapefruit, lemon, and plums that are highly dangerous to your pet's health. Even small amounts can cause ill effects on your pet's well being.
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For our prompt of “Parrot” today, I ended up with three colorful macaws, because they’re my favorite kind of parrot and I couldn’t decide which version to sketch. As ever, while hunting through various references, I got lost for a bit watching videos of parrots talking. There was one parrot that knew over 350 words, spoke in complete sentences, and also in the voice of its owner. It was equal bits amazing, fascinating and creepy. To me, though, while the ability to talk makes for a fun video, it’s the longevity of parrots that I find the most interesting. The oldest living parrot on record is said to be one named Poncho who will be 93 this year, and is now retired after having worked in many movies alongside Hollywood’s biggest stars. There’s another parrot who is potentially older, but lacks the proper paperwork to prove it. This one is a 114 year old blue-and-yellow macaw named Charlie, and the owner says that it once belonged to Winston Churchill, which made tabloids quickly add an embellished story that Churchill taught her to cuss. Though the ownership was disputed by Churchill’s daughter, it’s still kind of funny to consider. And regardless of the teacher, Charlie the parrot is indeed said to have a rather colorful vocabulary.
As for this Charlie, I doubt I’ll live as long as the parrot version. If I even managed to live as long as my grandmother, who was 99 at the time of her death, then I’m about half way through my life. But, there’s no way to know exactly how long I’ll be around, so I just live each day doing what I love. Sketching birds is certainly on that list. Unlike parrots, dogs don’t live nearly as long, so this will be the decade that we will have to say goodbye to our dear Phineas at some point. But, I was talking with my friend once last year and telling her about the things I was doing and she said, “what a wonderful contribution!” I loved that expression. I think I’d just published another book or something, but those words reminded me that it wasn’t just about me. What I DO has some sort of an effect on others and my sincere hope is that it’s always a positive one. I’m not hoping for fame or fortune, though the latter is something few sensible folk would ever turn down. Instead, I’m just wanting to be a part of things and help to inspire people as I go along in life. And it struck me that while accomplishments are wonderful things, it’s the contributions we make in life that define our legacy.
That’s some rather deep thoughts to come out of watching parrot videos, to be sure, but they’re also happy ones. I truly believe that great things will happen this year and every year after that. Sure, maybe some bad things too, but never enough to shadow the sheer brilliance of the good. And it’s not surprising that longevity would be what inspires me most about parrots. I’m certainly not wanting to become a mimic and, instead, always try and keep things fresh and creative. And, more time equals more chances to contribute. Another day to make something. Another day to try something, fail miserably at it and then shrug it off and try it again with fresh hope. Another blissful day to enjoy a few moments with the ones you love most. And hopefully, in the process, make someone smile. Of all the things I’ve accomplished in life, the memories of moments involving others are the ones that stay in my heart. Sometimes, the most captivating contribution can simply come from showing up in your own uniquely colorful way, like the marvelous macaw.
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☑️Rabbit is very adorable animal which is reared either for mental pleasure or for commercial purpose.
We have seen rabbit in our lifetime and most of has played with it.
Nowadays, people are interested in Rabbit farming.
Many people don’t know about the idea and guides of rabbit farming though it has immense potential cause very less people are involved in Rabbit farming.
In this blog, we have provided brilliant article on Rabbit rearing and its commercial farming.
Rabbit farming is growing farming business which is being popular day by day.
We don’t need large area and large number of rabbit to start this business. We can start rabbit farming from less number of rabbits.
After rearing some rabbits, if you become sure you can do well in this field, then you can
start commercial rabbit farming.
We can also get trainings on rabbit farming from where we can get good information.
Why Rabbit Farming Is Good?
✔️Meat of Rabbit is cholesterol free (White meat) due to which it is good for heart patient
also. So, it has good price and good demand.
✔️Rabbit is used to make vaccine needed for pigs.
✔️Rabbit doesn’t need too much care.So, it is easy to farm.
✔️Rabbit farming can also be used for wool production.
✔️Gestation period of Rabbit is very short i.e 30 days and it matures fast.
✔️Feeding of Rabbit is very easy.
✔️Besides commercial production, it gives us mental pleasure and we becomes healthy.
Selection of good breeds according to climatic condition is very essential because it will ultimately ensures our profit.
There are rabbit with furs and without furs.
Here, we have provided some breeds of rabbit for commercial production:-
A female rabbit gives birth to about 5 rabbit area on an average.
We need 3 male for 7 female rabbits. That is, we keep 10 rabbits in 1 unit(cage).
On an average,100 Rabbits give birth to about 350 bunnies in every 350 days.
After bunnies attain weight of about 2kg, then they are ready to sell.
The feeding of rabbit is very easy. Feeding materials of Rabbit includes:-
✓Green grass like Barseem, Lucrene
These all feeding materials doesn’t costs high.
We don’t need more work in rabbit farm. Main work is feeding and cleaning. Sometime, medicine should be given to sick rabbit.
On an average, we need to work for (3-4) hours in day in rabbit farming.
Investment And Income
We need cages, feeder box, delivery box and other utensils. We can also make shades under which cage units are kept.
✔️Without shade, for about 100 Rabbits, we need investment cost of about 3 lakh(IC). We need extra 1.5 lakh(IC) for shade.
This cost also depends on the way and interest how you want to make setup.
The above metioned cost are fixed cost(which are one time investment).
Rabbit farming also needs variable cost which needs to invest in feeds, care and management, medicine, caring during delivery.
If we talk about Income. Rabbit farming has got attractive income. We can earn mainly by selling meat.
Rabbit meat costs Rs(250-300)/kg
. So, we can get profit.
We can also sell baby rabbit. One female rabbit can give birth to 5 baby rabbit.
✔️We can sell about 350 bunnies in every 45 days. We can earn about 1 lakh and 40 thousand by selling these bunnies.
The investment cost of about 100 rabbit is recovered within 1.5 years. From next year, we can get more profit.
From 100% income, about 30% income will be our profit (25000-3000 IC per month).
Note:- All the price are in indian currency.
It can be exported different parts of country and is also used to make vaccines for pig medication.So, there are multipurpose use.
During initial phase, marketing of Rabbit is quite difficult. But, once you develop your networks, you don’t need to worry about its marketing.
People are nowadays attracted to consume rabbit meat. As it is cholesterol free, heart patient can also eat it.
When you initially buy rabbits from a company then there is buyback agreement between you and company. This will end marketing problem.
Rabbit is has huge potential. You can start rabbit farming easily but it is good to take training before you start rabbit farming.
If you have any suggestions, do let us know in comments.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT CODES FOR A HEALTHY EARTH
As an evolution biologist and futurist and a co-founder of the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network everything Codes for a Healthy Earth stands for resonates deeply with me. They are just what we need.
~ Elisabet Sahtouris (PhD), Evolution biologist, Futurist, and Author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution
Codes for a Healthy Earth helps us understand the 'how of what' as we live through an all-systems breakdown and realize an all-systems breakthrough.
~ Dot Maver, Global Silent Minute
The thing that I appreciate so much about the Codes for Healthy Earth in this time, is that it brings in a pure, concise, whole system's approach to looking at all of the crises we face. These codes are simple distillations of essential wisdom that can be activated in a global way.
~ Andrew Harvey, The Institute for Sacred Activism
Codes for a Healthy Earth have managed to set out very concisely and with great elegance what we must do - heal ourselves, our communities and our world. I am greatly impressed and look forward to engaging whole-heartedly in this work.
~ Andy Goldring, Permaculture Association
These Codes are urgently needed to save all species on Earth, including plants, animals, water, humans, etc.- It is essential that all people of every tribe, nation, religion, and culture join in and agree to this!
~ Renee King-Sonnen, Rowdy Girl Sanctuary & Rancher Advocacy Program
At this major turning point in our evolutionary journey, Codes for a Healthy Earth are a vital and essential initiative inspiring a soulful response for whole systems transformation. As we make the transition to healthy, thriving, life enhancing systems, we need a comprehensive road map. I am deeply aligned with Codes for a Healthy Earth as we unite to co-create social and ecological restoration in service to the well being of all life.
~ Katharine Roske, Hummingbird Transformative Learning Centre
Codes for a Healthy Earth are replacing old system models, with new ways of being, but also new values and agreement fields that sustain life for the seven generations. We are the Codes. We live the Codes. This is a time of great emergence. There's the breakdown and the breakthrough, to really cultivate the internal alchemy that it takes in order to sustain oneself and those values and principles and devotion, as one family, as one planet, as one evolving, beautiful jewel in the great cosmic life of our reality.
~ Makasha Roske, Earth Guardians
This is so expansive and inspiring and well articulated. Within it I feel a collective shift in the consciousness of humanity being called forth. Meaning, the language is a resonant invocation, not just a conceptual roadmap (which it is also). It speaks to the soul and the wound and the presence of the healing right before us. It is a call to action and take up the power of our higher humanity. A living vision. Really amazing. Inspired. Sacred."
~ Lori Richards
There is no better time than right now to realize a Healthy Earth. I am grateful to be associated with Codes for a Healthy Earth and all that this effort stands for. This is an initiative and community of people I wholeheartedly endorse, believe in and love. May we all find our calling as individuals and as parts in this greater whole.
~ Bret Warshawsky, Together Life System
Just as there are frequency 'laws' in the Unified Field there are resonant, evolutionary codes that inform us of the shift in our collective consciousness. The 21st century invites us to bring forth our inner wisdom in partnership with others of like-mind, and it is my opinion that this co-creation [Codes for a Healthy Earth] is our strongest ally in the liberation of humanity from any loveless control system.
~ Cassandra Lea Martin
Codes for a Healthy Earth are necessary for our current survival and continued evolution! They inspire a thriving future for ALL people and beloved animals/creatures on our planet. The ultimate value of humanity living in peace and harmony with ALL aspects of nature and with one another is paramount for a healthy, happy, sustainable LIFE for our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and the next 7 generations. May the Codes for a Healthy Earth be the joy of our purpose, and the purpose for our joy!
~ Linda Linker Rosenthal, Insight Out Visionary Healing Arts
Ignorance has been a challenge to transformation. Bureaucracy and people sticking on seats to be seen working following certain rules will never work for us to save the world. We need a radical way of transformation which I believe the Vision of Codes for a Healthy Earth will offer. I endorse this from deep down my heart.
~ Christine Owinyi, Education for Sustainable Development
The principles and values of Codes for a Healthy Earth offers us the path and tools to heal our damaged planet and disturbed soul, and to live in a world of abundance and complementary relationships with our fellows, other species, and with nature. The Codes offer us the exciting opportunity become the care taker species of our magnificent planet.
~ Melvin Taylor, Climate Healers
This space is too small to deliver the full potential impact of these inspired Codes for Mother Earth and all her life forces. Instead this can be said: Governance through the eyes of these Codes will see the beauty and promise of a well developed and pristine planet of love for all. Betterment means adhering to all of the Codes' principles with love as the promise and the premise.
~ Carol Manetta, Reap Goodness
This is an amazing project and am very grateful for all the love, wisdom, passion, focus and energy that has been put into the design and launch of this incredibly vital project. Once we are through this crisis, we will be amazed at the leap of consciousness we as a species and as a planet we will have taken. Will look back with love and sadness on the struggle to get where we are, and maybe how silly we were then. The birth of this new consciousness is not a sure thing, because we could fail if we do not apply all our love, energy, focus, passion and determination to help it emerge. This project increases our chances to get through the metamorphosis before we damage nature to such extend that it cannot regenerate fast. May it find the wind under its wings soon, in love and gratitude.
~ Rob de Laet
Your initiatives resonate in every aspect that has meaning for me. I look forward to diving in more as I continue my personal deep dive of connecting my soul's journey in some way shape or form in support of these codes. Thank you for doing the work so far and am so enthused and grateful you are here and that I found you via Humanity Rising. Don't ever give up. Together, we can all move that pendulum and perhaps even finally raise the bar in consciousness in every aspect and for many individuals.
~ Linda Parker
I love the Codes because they offer a whole-system approach, which I think is the only way to deal with our planetary crisis. The vision to create a network of information and activism around the world is very important and deeply inspiring. Thank you for your comprehensive work and your deep care for this planet and all its inhabitants. It's time for all of us to come together and join hands and forces to heal and be healed, for humanity and all of Life.
~ Yael Treidel, Simply Love
Codes for a Healthy Earth feels like a culmination of what so many light workers, Earth Stewards, and Conscious communities have discussed and dreamed of. It is literally bringing to life a shared vision for how we want our beautiful Mother Earth to be cared for and how we as her children can all come together with our unique and individual cosmic codes and patterns to help co-create a new tomorrow. One that is fully aligned and in concert with our deepest shared vision.
~ Liat Cohen, WaterNow
The Codes are a breath of fresh air for all humanity and the community of life on Earth.
~ Sue Blythe, We, the World
There is nothing more important for human evolution than the care and healing of our precious and beloved Mother Earth. There are many challenges that face our species, and all life that we are connected to, but humans are very clever, creative creatures. It is time for humanity to unite. It is time for the female gender to be educated and free of the patriarchal bonds that have kept her, our worlds greatest human resource, from expressing the wisdom and nurturance that we collectively need to flourish. As more girls and women are able to fully participate and take their place on the Earth stage, this feminine energy will help shift our governing systems to those that are focused on ideas and solutions we've yet to discover. This will be only one huge shift that has the potential of leading us towards greater levels of peace, abundance, health and the better future that awaits us all. The Codes for a Healthy Earth are the foundation for global transformation that we need so desperately. Humanity must awaken. The time is now.
~ Rose Trefz, Global Sisterhood
Thank you for what you have endured over many life times to be here now, doing what your heart calls you to do, for hearing the cries of the children, mother earth and all life, making a difference, renewing our faith in humanity, making our ancestors proud. May the light you carry continue to touch and ignite the light in all, softening our hearts, opening our minds, ears and eyes, bringing healing and connecting us as one.
~ Kathy Harris
If we are to make progress on global challenges we need global systems of governance and agreement on basic human values. Codes for a Health Earth is one important step toward articulating a shared set of superordinate values and practices that emphasise the health of the planet and its inhabitants.
~ Paul Atkins, The Prosocial Institute
The Codes for a Healthy Earth can inspire our imagination, creative expression and cultural narratives to cultivate an informed and compassionate world that works in support of all life.
~ Thea La Grou, Films for the Planet
I'm inspired by Codes for Healthy Earth's new approach in creating a healthy and peaceful earth that will ensure peaceful coexistence and wellbeing of all citizens of the earth.
~ Cherno Jallow, World Faith Gambia
As a dedicated servant of Gaia I dedicate each day to tuning in to the needs, and abundant gifts, of our dear planet and exploring what presents. It is my sincerest prayer that all come into 'right relationship' with her fragile systems and employ awareness in all that they do, extending gratitude and fully assimilating our dependence on her ebbs and flows. And simply listen. I endorse these Codes for a Healthy Earth.
~ Kat Robertson, Rolling Om Productions
We are at a critical time for all life on our beautiful planet. There is no more time for hesitancy, contemplation or debate. We need to put Earth first in every decision we take on a daily basis. Codes for a Healthy Earth show us a new way of being, a way of being that should always have been and can still be.. it's up to you and me.
~ Wynter Worsthorne, Animal Talk Africa
Such interrelated systemic codes offer a real and potential option for personal and collective action that may actually make a difference.
~ Judith King
“Codes for a healthy Earth are a gift. They have the capacity to reform the fabric of society by spreading the understanding of oneness between humanity and nature. For me this means, what action I must take to save the diverse beauty, alive on earth.”
~ Jeevan Kreß-Jones
May initial blocks such as there is 'no way this can occur, our population is too dense' etc be released as we open to the unlimited possibilities of the unknown. May the way to endorse and fulfil the Codes open up.
~ Merrilee Baker
The Codes reflect all my inner beliefs and values on how to create a new positive, sustainable and sufficient future for all.
~ Lynne Franks
Thank you for this wise, embodied, balanced and urgent call for systemic change starting with the individual and rippling through humanity.
~ Violet Lange
“I've been looking for some sort of overarching organization that can pull together people and organizations to raise a concerted effort to effect the social change needed to contend with the challenges arising from climate change and the socio-economic circumstances that have put mankind in this unparalleled predicament. I think Codes for a healthy Earth may be it!”
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When I announced that I would be offering English online classes, many people wanted to learn more. Especially about what they would need in order to participate in an online class.
English online classes are very similar to offline classes, in terms of what you will be studying and able to learn. The main difference is the technology and hardware required for online classes.
In person classes require that you go to your class (you visit your teacher or they visit you).
One of the main advantages for online classes is that you do not need to leave your house or office.
This can be confusing for students sometimes but generally speaking you will not need to download or install any software in order to have an English class online.
For example, with AnyMeeting.com (the platform I will be using for my premium classes) all you need to do is visit the class link in your browser (chrome, explorer etc) and everything you need is already there.
Sometimes you will need to update a particular application in your computer, like adobe flash or a browser plug-in but usually your browser will have help windows to explain where to find them and how to install them.
Many students who have never had online classes are worried about the "user experience" or if they will know how to do everything once they are in the classroom.
A good teacher will always start a lesson series by dedicating a portion of the first class (or even the entire class) to introducing students to the platform and showing them how to use ever aspect.
You will learn how to use the chat space, how to interact with the teacher (raise your hand etc), how to activate your microphone and webcam and much more.
Trust your teacher. They are comfortable with the online environment and it is their job to make you feel just as comfortable.
If you have any questions while you are in the classroom...ask!
Teachers need to know when you are confused or don't know how to do something. Asking questions shows that you are participating and interested, but also allows you to clarify your doubts.
I hope that you now feel more confident about attending English online classes, and if you would like to have classes with me, just click here for more information.
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Meet the women who want to become the voice of people with special needs from the Republic of Moldova
They are determined and know that they can influence the political life in their hometowns or the villages where they live. We’re speaking about four participants in the Civic and Political Capacity Building Program for women with disabilities who decided to run in local elections in 2019.
Women with disabilities from Moldova demand their place in political, economic and social decision-making
For the first time in the Republic of Moldova, 40 women with disabilities across Moldova, including from the left bank of the Nistru river, who want to get actively involved in the economic, social and political development of the country, participated in “We Have Abilities - We Want Possibilities!” National Forum.
We have abilities, we want possibilities! The program to support more women with disabilities to enter in politics was launched
The Program for enhancing the political and civic participation of women with disabilities in Moldova "We have abilities, we want possibilities!" was launched, for the first time, in Chisinau. 40 women with disabilities from different regions of the Republic of Moldova, including from ATU of Gagauzia and left bank of Nistru river took part in the first session of the program. | <urn:uuid:403de9ff-d4ac-4f54-a66f-e9b6a541eda5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://moldova.unwomen.org/en/news-and-events/stories?f%5B0%5D=topic_stories%3A1308&f%5B1%5D=topic_stories%3A1320 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966482 | 281 | 1.515625 | 2 |
It should have been a spring day most Iranians could look forward to. The trees that lined Tehran’s boulevards glistened in the sun as a gentle breeze wafted through the city. But on May 8, 2018, the capital’s residents braced themselves for a terrible reversal of fortunes.
President Donald Trump was about to announce America’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal. It signaled the start of an onslaught of sanctions that would all but crush Iran’s economy. It also dashed the dreams of reform-minded Iranians.
“What Trump is about to do is extend the life of the regime by another 30 years,” an elderly Iranian-American told CNN in the hours before the speech. The Islamic Republic, established in the wake of the overthrow of the autocratic, staunchly pro-Western Shah, was just a few months shy of its 40th birthday. The nuclear deal, on the other hand, seemed to serve as the opening salvo of reform in the country.
In June 2017, Iranians had shown up in droves to reelect President Hassan Rouhani in what was seen as a referendum on his landmark deal. The urgency to preserve the most significant opening up of the insular country to the West was palpable.
But along came Trump. And Iranians, who have arguably witnessed more dramatic political twists and turns in the last seven decades than any other people, knew that the US President’s plans would backfire.
The so-called “maximum pressure” campaign would not achieve its stated goal of toppling Iran’s clerical establishment. It would prop it up. The skepticism of the West that forms the ideological core of the regime would be underscored, highlighted and scribbled around in frenzied circles.
Iran had kept up its end of the bargain, by the State Department’s own admission, but the US pulled out anyway. The ensuing sanctions led to rampant food and medicine shortages, and sent the country into a financial tailspin. European parties to the deal proved powerless in salvaging it.
“We told you so,” the conservatives told Iranians a thousand times over.
Much has happened since then. In 2020, Trump ordered the killing of Iran’s most revered general, Qasem Soleimani, further enraging conservatives. His funeral was one of the largest in the region’s history. Trump was voted out of office that same year. His successor, Joe Biden, immediately moved to restore the deal. Reformist Iranians thought, perhaps, that they could dial back the clock to May 2018.
But the clerical establishment’s response was a resounding “no.” Nowhere was that more loudly articulated than in this week’s election, which was engineered to deliver victory for ultra-conservative judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi, the most hardline president Iran has seen in decades.
Both the process and the outcome of the election were exceptional in their brazenness, even by the Islamic Republic’s standards. The Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was doubling down. Iran’s political future would become even more micromanaged by the ultra-conservative clergy.
But this election could have reverberations beyond the four or eight years Raisi will be president. Raisi, a close associate of the ailing 81-year-old Khamenei, is suddenly being referred to as an Ayatollah, an honorific title to indicate high rank among Shia Muslims. Khamenei currently holds that title. So did his predecessor and founder of the Islamic Republic, Ruhollah Khomeini. Images of Raisi alongside Khamenei pervaded Tehran’s cityscape in the runup to the election. Khamenei, people reminded each other in hushed tones, was also president before he ascended to the supreme leadership.
The clerical elite, it appeared, were rolling out Raisi’s rite of passage to succeed Khamenei and take the highest office of the land.
This has grated on many Iranians. Khamenei, it seemed, had chosen cementing his legacy over the public’s calls for constitutional reform. The conservative Guardian Council, which vets presidential candidates, barred Raisi’s serious rivals from the presidential race. As a result, voter turnout at the presidential election was below 50% for the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic.
To add insult to injury for the reformist camp, Raisi personifies the darkest aspects of the regime that Iranians have chafed under. For two years, he has headed Iran’s draconian judicial branch, which boasts one of the worst capital punishment rates in the world and metes out long jail sentences for some of the most subtle forms of dissent, such as protesting against the mandatory headscarf. In 1988, he allegedly was part of a death commission that executed and forcibly disappeared thousands of political prisoners in secret. For the rest of his career, he was a leading prosecutor who was linked to multiple crackdowns on dissent.
Most Iran’s voters did not vote for Raisi. But the clerical class opted to contend with public disgruntlement rather than deal with Western fickleness. The cost of US unpredictability was tremendous. Iranians buckling under the strain of a flailing economy have repeatedly protested in large numbers. Too much was at stake, and the conservative clergy want to cut their losses.
Moderate politicians, who under outgoing President Hassan Rouhani enjoyed a popular mandate, have been greatly undermined. Sanctions set the government up for failure, making Iran’s savvy negotiators and diplomats, like Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, look weak. Meanwhile, the hardliners have successfully portrayed themselves as survivors. They prevailed over the US maximum pressure campaign that was repeatedly billed by its own architects, namely former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as the most aggressive sanctions regime Iran has ever faced.
The message from Iran’s election will resonate around the region: in these most uncertain of times, only autocrats can ensure stability. Some of the biggest cheerleaders for authoritarianism – Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad – were quick to congratulate Raisi on his win.
Proponents of Middle Eastern regimes will argue that the growing gap between the region’s leadership and its people is a lesser danger to states than the risk posed by clumsy Western interventionism.
Trump’s maximum pressure campaign isn’t historically unique in this respect. In 1953, the CIA’s orchestration of a coup d’état that deposed Iran’s democratically elected and secular Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in many ways laid the groundwork for a longer pattern.
Today, once again, democracy in the politically tumultuous Middle East proves more elusive than ever, even as discontent grows. The region has repeatedly been rocked by pro-reform or democracy protests. But these are disorganized masses who face a much more organized, politically hardened elite. So, it may be true, as our Iranian friend said, that real change will take another 30 years to transpire. | <urn:uuid:77eddc1f-436a-4bf2-ada7-88be9fcb5bbc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/20/middleeast/iran-analysis-trump-raisi-cmd-intl/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969777 | 1,463 | 1.875 | 2 |
While unemployment insurance is compulsory in most of the EU and the UK, it’s partially voluntary in Sweden. To be entitled to the full income insurance benefits available in Sweden, you have to join an a-kassa, an unemployment fund that pays income-related insurance benefits.
Little wonder that Eva Nordmark, Sweden’s Minister for Employment, encouraged all workers in Sweden to join an a-kassa unemployment fund during the pandemic. The Local has partnered with Akademikernas a-kassa, Sweden’s biggest provider for university graduates, to give you five reasons why it still makes sense to take her advice, whatever the future brings.
Sweden is well-known for providing a generous social safety net. But few expats arrive with much idea of how it all works in practice. A-kassa funds are a crucial part of the Swedish system, providing members with income-related unemployment benefits when needed. You’re eligible to join if you’re a university graduate and currently work – or have previously worked – in Sweden, the EU, EEA or Switzerland.
Akademikernas a-kassa, one of the biggest funds, is specifically for people who graduated from higher education. Your profession is irrelevant. If you have a bachelor’s degree and work in Sweden, the fund is for you. Nor does it matter if you change your line of work or set up your own business; you can stay with the fund for your whole career. If you are working and currently studying for a bachelor’s degree, you can also join now.
It may be designed for people with above-average earning potential – but that doesn’t mean it’s expensive. The fee to join Akademikernas a-kassa is 130 kronor per month. Everyone pays the same rate because the fund has over 750,000 members and unemployment among them is low.
It is sometimes necessary to be in an a-kassa to get a loan, for instance for a mortgage from a bank, meaning you may get even more value for your money.
As of January 2021, you need to have been a member for one year before you can claim compensation based on your income. You can receive up to 80 percent of your previous salary with a ceiling of 1,200 kronor per day before tax (up from 910 kronor per day before the pandemic) for the first 100 days. If you had an average monthly salary of at least 33,000 kronor in the last year, you qualify for the maximum. From day 101, the maximum compensation is 1,000 kronor before tax per day.
Benefits paid to qualifying members now begin from day one, rather than day seven, as they have in the past.
You can receive payment for five days a week over a period of 300 days – that’s around 14 months. If you are a parent with children under 18, the maximum period is 450 days. Everyone who qualifies receives income-related benefits without any means-testing.
4. Covering the self-employed
Every economy needs its entrepreneurs. But in times of insecurity, the self-employed often feel they face extra burdens. This is no secret in forward-thinking Sweden; the self-employed have been entitled to join an a-kassa for almost 50 years.
As a member of Akademikernas a-kassa, if you start a business and it does not go as hoped your unemployment pay can be based on the income of your previous job (up to 24 months after leaving).
5. Nobody knows the future
As we have seen over the last two years, the world – and our own personal circumstances – can change very quickly. There is every reason for individuals, as well as nations, to want to be prepared.
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Fascial Counterstrain (FCS) is a gentle, hands-on manual therapy technique used to treat various anatomical systems of the body. There are natural tendencies of the body to undergo reflex spasms as a form of protection due to trauma, injury, and inflammation. These kinds of injuries are occurring in our everyday lives, from activities as simple as stepping off a curb incorrectly, or eating something that inflames our gut. As these spasms persist, they can cause pain and form diagnostic trigger points over time. These spasms can present as conditions such as idiopathic pain, stiffening of joints, and digestive disorders. With FCS, the therapist can locate and treat these trigger points and release tissue spasms with surgical precision.
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a light touch approach that can create dramatic improvements in your life. It releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction, and improve whole body health and performance. The stresses and strains with daily life are absorbed within the body. There is only so much tension the body can handle before the tissues begin to tighten, and potentially affect the brain and spinal cord. Unfortunately, this can compromise the function of the central nervous system and nearly every other system in your body. CST releases those tensions to allow the entire body to relax and self correct.
By freeing the central nervous system to perform at its best, CST has been shown to naturally reduce pain and stress, strengthen your resistance to disease and enhance your health and well-being. And because it is so gentle, CST has been shown to be effective for all ages, from newborns to elders. CST has shown to help full spectrum of pain and dysfunctions, including chronic neck and back pain, stress and tension related disorders, spinal cord injuries, migraines and headaches, infant and childhood disorders, post concussion symptoms, TMJ syndrome, scoliosis, central nervous system disorders, learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, post traumatic stress disorder, and more.
Somato Emotional Release
Somato Emotional Release (SER) is a therapeutic process designed to rid your mind and body of residual effects of past injuries and negative experiences which are stored as energy cysts within the cellular memory of the body. The physical forces that were put into a person’s body at the time of an accident or injury may be dealt with in one of two ways:
- The injured body may immediately begin dissipating these forces and the natural healing process will follow.
- The physical forces imposed upon the person’s body may be retained rather than dissipated.
During the therapeutic session, the release of the energy cyst frequently results in some re-experiencing of the pain, fear, anger, etc. that was present with the original incident, as well as other details that may have been long-forgotten. This re-experiencing of aspects of the original injury is a very good sign that the treatment is releasing some or part of the retained problem. When this type of experience occurs, a patient should not try to suppress the pain or emotion, rather with the support of the therapist they should allow the experience to unfold and move naturally towards a healing resolution.
Viscera relates to internal organs of the body, such as the liver, kidneys and intestines. VM is a gentle manual therapy technique that aids your body’s ability to release restrictions and unhealthy compensations that cause pain and dysfunction. VM does not solely focus on the site of pain or dysfunction, but evaluates the entire body to find the source of the problem. Underneath the pain or diagnosis is a compensatory pattern created in the body with the initial source of the dysfunction often being far away from where the pain is felt. Because of this, the practitioner searches for this pattern and the source, and treats the related tissues. The treatment is a gentle compression, mobilization and elongation of the soft tissues. As the source of the problem is released, the symptoms will start to decrease.
Some conditions that can be treated with VM are: whiplash and seat belt injuries, carpal tunnel, digestive disorders, acid reflux, post operative scar tissue pain, swallowing dysfunctions, women’s and men’s health issues, chronic pelvic pain, fibroids and cysts, pediatric health issues, colic, anxiety and depression and many more. | <urn:uuid:297a95a0-d772-46c7-9ada-e7b46253d715> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://omptny.com/about-us-2/manualtherapy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942264 | 917 | 2.421875 | 2 |
How do you cook salmon in tin foil?
- Directions Place salmon, skin side down, on a double thickness of heavy-duty foil (about 18 in. Grill, covered, over medium heat for 10-15 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
- 1 Is it better to cook salmon in foil or not?
- 2 Do you cook salmon in the oven covered or uncovered?
- 3 What temp should salmon be cooked?
- 4 How do you keep salmon from drying out in the oven?
- 5 How do you keep salmon from sticking to foil?
- 6 How do know if salmon is cooked?
- 7 Is it better to bake fish covered or uncovered?
- 8 What is medium rare for salmon?
- 9 What temperature should salmon be grilled at?
- 10 How long should I keep salmon in the oven?
- 11 Do you cook salmon on high or low heat?
- 12 Should you dry salmon before cooking?
- 13 Can I bake fish without foil?
Is it better to cook salmon in foil or not?
The foil locks in moisture and ensures that your beautiful piece of salmon turns out flakey, moist, and tender every single time. You don’t need to have ever cooked a piece of fish in your life to make this recipe with success. Foil acts as a flavor incubator.
Do you cook salmon in the oven covered or uncovered?
Bake salmon, uncovered, 4 to 6 minutes per ½-inch thickness. Always check your fish at the minimum baking time to ensure your baked salmon doesn’t get overcooked. Test Kitchen Tip: Seasoning salmon can be as simple as using salt and ground black pepper, especially if you are planning to serve it with a sauce.
What temp should salmon be cooked?
According to the FDA, salmon should be cooked to an internal temperature of 145°. When working with good quality salmon, we tend to check for doneness with a fork rather than a thermometer. Once the salmon easily flakes with fork, it’s good to go! Just be sure you’re checking the thickest part of the fillet.
How do you keep salmon from drying out in the oven?
For baking, you can top your salmon with olive oil and a “blanket” of accoutrements like parsley, shallots, and lemon slices to protect it from drying heat. Also, make sure to keep the salmon skin on; it’s a built-in barrier that contains the highest concentration of omega-3 fats in wild salmon.
How do you keep salmon from sticking to foil?
Brush one side with olive oil or melted butter. This will help prevent sticking. Place your salmon fillet on one side of the foil. Brush with olive oil or melted butter.
How do know if salmon is cooked?
Salmon will change from translucent (red or raw) to opaque (pink) as it cooks. After 6-8 minutes of cooking, check for doneness, by taking a sharp knife to peek into the thickest part. If the meat is beginning to flake, but still has a little translucency in the middle, it is done. It should not however, look raw.
Is it better to bake fish covered or uncovered?
Lots of people prefer to bake their fish by wrapping it in foil. This method is very efficient, as it cuts down on oven and utensil cleaning time. By wrapping the fish in a protective covering, it has a similar effect to steaming, as moisture is sealed within the foil rather than escaping into the oven.
What is medium rare for salmon?
At 110 to 125°F your salmon is medium rare. The connective tissue between layers of flesh has begun to weaken and if you insert a cake tester or toothpick into the fillet, it should slide in and out with no resistance. The meat is relatively opaque, but still juicy and moist without and chalkiness or fibrousness.
What temperature should salmon be grilled at?
USDA suggests cooking salmon to 145 degrees, so consider cooking to 140 and letting the rest period allow the temperature to continue to rise to 145 through carry over cooking. Chef’s Note: We pull our salmon at 135 degrees F because we buy quality salmon feel comfortable cooking to a medium rare finish.
How long should I keep salmon in the oven?
Season salmon with salt and pepper. Place salmon, skin side down, on a non-stick baking sheet or in a non-stick pan with an oven-proof handle. Bake until salmon is cooked through, about 12 to 15 minutes.
Do you cook salmon on high or low heat?
To get that delicious skin, make sure to cook your salmon skin side down on the stovetop over medium to medium-high heat. Also, make sure the fish is patted dry and comes to room temperature before placing it in the pan, both of these will help ensure that the skin gets super crispy.
Should you dry salmon before cooking?
Make sure the fillets are dry: Before adding the salmon fillets to the pan, use a paper towel or a clean dish towel to pat each one dry. When the fillets are moist or wet, they’re more likely to stick to the pan, and the skin won’t crisp quite as nicely.
Can I bake fish without foil?
Can you cook fish without tin foil? Baking in the oven without foil Oily fish such as trout or lean fish that is stuffed or coated can be baked in the oven on a baking tray. Even lean types of fish on their own can be baked, although the flesh will tend to be a bit drier. | <urn:uuid:c6752652-09dd-4ac3-b596-a73c0bf1cf2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wexfordhouse-ma.com/fillet-recipes/quick-answer-how-to-cook-a-salmon-fillet-in-tin-foil.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.924401 | 1,187 | 1.695313 | 2 |
While at work, I help an awful lot of customers pick out a new printer. So in this document will I will cover some on the most commonly asked questions I get hold of. But. Before you get out looking for almost any new printer, here are a few the stuff you should ask yourself.
If do not think that color speaks just complete this sentence, “red means —- and green means -” a child know what red means stop and green means go on it. If such simple ideas work for all of a given culture or market what could it mean to the graphic design of your website, brochure, or product by knowing inkjet marking machine some on the information.
This digital photo printer can print borderless prints of as long as 13 x 44 half inch. It also allows easy access for printing while not a Home computer. You have the choice to use various memory cards or PictBridge old digital cameras. The printer also has Real Life Technologies like Auto Red-Eye Removal, Photo Fix – contrast adjustment which can be edited through the LCD panel; while the Sharpening and SmartFocus features can be edited using the software while working by the document for apple.
So in designing your project it’s vital that know what colors signify. You can now see why a black back ground with green type will probably be bad, beyond being extremely difficult to read, if your target market thinks that black represents mourning and green ensures that they sick. Canetas Personalizadas to say.
The most vital part of picking the actual perfect printer is being aware of what you have to with the product. It may seem like an obvious answer “Well, I need to print.” However, printing serves many, many tasks a website task is most effective for cover your jewelry . printer. The this, everyday know what tasks workplace needs completed to properly pick out a printer. For instance, situation business just one of the that in order to print hi-def resolution pictures often, you will require a scanner on your printer. The three types of printers daily look at are: All-In One printers, laser printers, and inkjet printing machines printers.
In the ink jets, your current differences regarding the two. It has mainly comprehensive with the ink. There are two types, dye based inks, which more suitable for photo’s, and pigment based inks which more suitable for file types. Some inks are chemically formulated perform with ink sales brand of photo paper, but most brands of photo paper will use any printer. Hewlet Packard for example has put kind on a bar code on back of their photo paper which the printer reads, claiming a chemical bond with HP Photo Paper and therefore the fastest print.
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In Week One we will take a look at what the students have written and determine where they might need help. Week Two we will take a look at their characters and see what it will take to make them believable. Week three we will take a look at their settings and make sure they work with the story they are telling. Week Four we will look at character motivations and make sure they will support the story. Week Five we will take a closer look at the antagonist and the conflict in the story. Week...
The ultimate goal is to get the students to finish their first draft and start on the path to getting their books publication ready.
I have three published YA Fantasy novels; Palace of the Twelve Pillars: Book One, Palace of the Three Crosses: Book Two and Sanctuary of Nine Dragons: Book Three. She also has a woman’s Bible study Women of the Bible: A Study published. Recently the first two books in a MG Fantasy series were published, Sir E. Robert Smythe and the School Bully and Sir E. Robert Smythe and the Lost Detective with the remaining four to be published the near future.
Homework for each week will be for the student's to continue working on their books by taking a look at the subjects discussed in class.
Bring a story that you are writing along with your imagination. Be sure to have a pencil/paper and/or a computer.
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Plaintiffs’ complaint was amended to exclude Detroit
Judge Steeh: “. . .a law directed at temporarily reorganizing local government for the purpose of addressing a serious fiscal concern cannot be characterized as a vestige of slavery.”
Plaintiffs’ attorney Philo: “. . . this case has never been just about Detroit, it’s about the law as it’s applied throughout the state. Not about any particular emergency manager or city.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “. . .you begin to question the capitalistic economy. You begin to ask the question, ‘Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that’s two-thirds water?’
By Diane Bukowski
November 20, 2014
“There are forty million poor people here, and one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America?’ And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising a question about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. . . .And you see, my friends, when you deal with this you begin to ask the question, ‘Who owns the oil?’ You begin to ask the question, ‘Who owns the iron ore?’ You begin to ask the question, ‘Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that’s two-thirds water?’ These are words that must be said.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Where do we go from here? Chaos or community?” 1967
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Shakespeare: Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71–78
DETROIT – U.S. District Court Judge George Caram Steeh on Nov. 19 at long last issued a ruling keeping alive a lawsuit against Public Act 436, brought by civil rights groups, public officials, and residents of Michigan cities under emergency managers, but later voluntarily amended to exclude the City of Detroit. (See ruling at Steeh rulgin EM lawsuit 11 19.)
Steeh had promised to render a written opinion shortly after oral arguments on April 29. But he clearly waited until after U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Steven Rhodes affirmed Detroit’s bankruptcy plan Nov 7. Now that severe and possibly irreparable damage has been done to the people of the largest Black-majority city in the country, Steeh has decided it’s OK to rule.
Steeh dismissed eight of nine claims at the request of the State of Michigan. He upheld only a claim based on the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which cited the discriminatory use of Emergency Managers in Michigan’s majority-Black cities.
“The First Amended Complaint states that 52% of Michigan’s African American population resides in cities with an EM, a consent agreement, or a transition advisory board,” Steeh said. “At the same time, only about 2% of Michigan’s white citizens live in communities governed by an EM. . . Fiscal indicator scores between 5 and 7 place a municipality on a fiscal watch list while scores between 8 and 10 result in the community receiving consideration for review. However, six out of seven communities (85%) with a majority population of racial and ethnic minorities received EM’s when they had scores of 7. At the same time, none of the 12 communities (0%) with a majority white population received on EM despite having scores of 7 or higher.”
During the April 29 hearing, Attorney Herbert Sanders passionately argued that PA 436 also violated the 13th Amendment, one of eight claims that Steeh denied. (Original lawsuit at PA 436 Phillips 2 6 13.)
“The stigma of PA 436 is that African Americans are incapable of self-government,” Sanders said. “I submit the denial of the right to vote through the exercise and implementation of PA 436 is to impose the badge and incidents of slavery.”
But Steeh opined, “. . . plaintiffs have not lost their right to vote. Not only is there no restraint on plaintiffs’ ability to vote in local elections, the power of the entire political process is open to them. . . . They can initiate new legislation through the petition process, or use the referendum procedure to reject PA 436, as was successfully done on . . . PA 4. With every device in the political arsenal remaining available to plaintiffs, a law directed at temporarily reorganizing local government for the purpose of addressing a serious fiscal concern cannot be characterized as a vestige of slavery.”
Steeh wrongly stated several times that Michigan residents could reject PA 436 through a referendum. However, state statutes proclaim that the general electorate cannot rescind statutes with financial provisions in them. Such a provision was deliberately written into PA 436 to nullify the people’s right to vote on the act.
Most mainstream media coverage has echoed Crain’s Detroit’s take on the matter.
“U.S. District Judge George Steeh in a ruling today echoed U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes’ prior statement that the lawsuit against Public Act 436 of 2012 would not necessarily invalidate Detroit’s bankruptcy or debt shedding plans, and called that assertion from state officials ‘speculative at best.’ He also notes that the lawsuit claims are not directly related to Detroit.”
John Philo, another attorney for the plaintiffs, agreed that the case is not about Detroit.
“There are a hundred variables that come into play before that stage, and that (rescinding Orr’s appointment) is not our endgame,” he told Crain’s. “Because this case has never been just about Detroit, it’s about the law as it’s applied throughout the state. Not about any particular emergency manager or city.”
U.S. President Barack Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder evidently agreed earlier, refusing to open a Voting Rights Act investigation of PA 436’s predecessor PA 4, and then sending federal witnesses to the bankruptcy trial who testified on behalf of Detroit EM Kevyn Orr. Obama staff earlier met with Detroit Emperor Dan Gilbert and his evident ally Dennis Archer to map out plans for “The Detroit District.”
Steeh continues throughout his ruling to describe PA 436 as simply “a law directed at temporarily reorganizing local government for the purpose of addressing a serious fiscal concern.”
Such a simplistic description of the Act belies the truth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s’ statement challenging the system of capitalism.
The entire administration of Gov. Rick Snyder, in collusion with the Democratic administrations of two Detroit mayors and numerous Detroit legislators, have been acting at the behest of the banks and corporations represented by the law firm of Jones Day and others. They want to make an example of Detroit, boasting that they have now stripped the country’s largest Black-majority city of nearly all its assets, and of any economic self-determination whatsoever.
The capitalist system is foundering world-wide, and it is rushing to steal everything it can from the poorest and most oppressed segments of society, before moving on to the upper echelons. The future will show the level of resistance it encounters.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Harry Belafonte: “We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know that we will win. But I’ve come to believe we’re integrating into a burning house. I’m afraid that America may be losing what moral vision she may have had. And I’m afraid that even as we integrate, we are walking into a place that does not understand that this nation needs to be deeply concerned with the plight of the poor and disenfranchised. Until we commit ourselves to ensuring that the underclass is given justice and opportunity, we will continue to perpetuate the anger and violence that tears at the soul of this nation.” | <urn:uuid:cbe981c8-b1ad-4b81-ac75-b6a74663c547> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://voiceofdetroit.net/2014/11/20/judge-denies-all-but-pa-436-lawsuit-equal-protection-claim-after-detroit-bankruptcy-over/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950301 | 1,749 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Ubud is definite don’t miss while you’re in Bali. This much-beloved town is the centre of everything artistic and cultural and has so much to offer in terms of traditional arts, cultural relics and historical sites. Located approximately an hour away from Kuta, we will start the journey with a fascinating Barong performance before moving on to watch the process of making handmade Batik as well as basket weaving. In Celuk Village, you can see master silversmiths working on their crafts.
A little treat especially for the kids when we make a stop at the Bali Zoo or the Bali Bird Park in the village of Singapadu, right outside of Ubud. Here you can interact with the animals and even come into contact with some friendly mamals and birds for photo opportunities.
Once we reach Ubud, we’d visit the sacred and famous Monkey Forest. At approximately 27 acres, the forest is also home to 115 different species of trees and 3 Hindu temples. According to local beliefs, the monkeys are protecting something sacred that is deep within the forest. Aside to feeding and taking photos with the monkeys, you can also trek across a deep ravine and a stream that is also located within the forest.
Also located in Ubud is the Puri Saren Palace, the Royal Palace which used to be the center of administration for Ubud’s royal government. Last stop would be Ubud market; here you’ll see a large variety of unique handicrafts perfect for souvenirs and works of art / crafts such as wood carvings, handbags, paintings, clothing, sculptures and much more. | <urn:uuid:6dd3c979-f523-4d74-a88c-cad1f2e2bbc4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blue-marlin-bali.com/ubud-monkey-forest-tour/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958771 | 342 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Thunderclap campaign #StartatGOVUK
The UK’s Government Digital Service are launching a thunderclap (http://thndr.it/1qsJ9Cv) to encourage people to start at GOV.UK when accessing UK government information and services (#StartatGOVUK). Be awesome and beat the scammers!
There is a problem with websites pretending to be official UK government services. Some of these take money from people. These unscrupulous people use google ads to get to the top of search engine rankings so that they are clicked on by people looking to interact with government.
- Scammers make people pay for free services (e.g. E111 / EHIC are provided free, scammers charge people £20-£30)
- People pay twice for services (e.g. scammers make people pay more for government services and often the person also has to pay for the real service when they access it – this has happened on driving licence renewals, tax self-assessment and urgent passport services)
Dealing with the problem
There are two main parts to the problem. One is about stopping the misleading websites at source. Often the scammers are sticking to the fine line of legality, so enforcement action is limited to stopping them mislead people. If you look very closely at their sites you’ll find disclaimers and notices that they are not official. You’ll also find that they don’t take money for directly providing the service, but for facilitating your access. This stops them being done for fraud, but they rely on the consumer not spotting the very small print.
GDS have been working on this lately with the major search engine providers, and for certain key services this stopped adverts, for the time being at least.
The other main part of the campaign to stop people being mislead is user education, we need to make citizens able to spot the real Gov.UK. If they can spot the real thing then they won’t be scammed. All Government services now start from www.gov.uk, links from there take you to the service pages for individual transactions.
You can be awesome and beat the scammers by joining in. The UK’s Government Digital Service are launching a thunderclap (http://thndr.it/1qsJ9Cv) to encourage users to start their journey at GOV.UK if they wish to access UK government information and services (#StartatGOVUK).
What is a Thunderclap?
It is a tool that crowdspeaks (like an online flashmob). It works on the principle that a message is heard when everyone says it together at the same time. The message is shared via social media channels (twitter / facebook / tumblr). In signing up to a thunderclap, you are agreeing to a single message being published from your chosen social media account at a particular point in time (8 July in this instance). In advance of this date, work is done to encourage as many people as possible to sign up to the thunderclap so that the impact of the announcement, when it happens, is as significant as possible.
The Thunderclap activity has started – the Thunderclap itself will send your message on 8th July 1.30pm. This is the only time that thunderclap will have access to your account. After this, the thunderclap is finished and no further messages will be posted from your account.
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Gaining recognition in the Project Firefly community.
There are many ways of being recognized as a valued participant in the Project Firefly community and to become a future thought leader.
With the Project it could be through the submission of a number of compelling essays or videos. A single outstanding piece of work can also merit recognition and be awarded with a badge.
Recognizing top submissions is integral to the merit based principle of Project Firefly. The Academic Review Board has developed three levels of status, all of which have successfully met the requirements for publication, as well as other awards.
To win a Project Firefly competition is a prestigious achievement as each challenge attracts talented participants from around the world, at every degree level as well as recent graduates from thousands of schools and universities. Competition winners will earn at least the Contributor badge on the Project Firefly site with all associated benefits. Each competition has a specially designed prize that often includes career opportunities.
Honorary Mention badge recognizes competitors who have outperformed the vast majority of participants and have reached the final select few that the ARB is considering to win the challenge. They receive certificates and are often considered for career opportunities by our partners. Their work will be published and they will receive at least the Contributor status with all the associated benefits.
Project Firefly recognizes active and committed members who support our principles and continuously engage with the Community. Earning this badge gives additional benefits, such as the opportunity to get certificates or transcripts of the achievements within the Project, as well as receiving advice and feedback for non-published work in order to learn and improve performance
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EU has the global leadership in food safety. It has been investing in innovative and sustainable solutions through a comprehensive regulatory framework and integrated policies that are a worldwide benchmark. However, the scale and complexity of food safety challenges require a multistakeholder and crosscutting approach. From food traceability to risk assessment, from food waste reduction to nutrition, from climate change to public health, food safety is a collective responsibility, along the entire food chain.
European regions have a key role to play in strengthening food safety. At the regional level innovation, technology and food value chains are anchored which supports the enhancement of citizen trust.
This conference will bring together EU institutions, European regions, academia and key stakeholders to discuss current priorities in food safety, in order to contribute to shaping future policies in research and innovation as well as in sustainability of food chains.
In order to increase public awareness, the conference will explore the EU vision for post 2020 and discuss current challenges and common solutions, from a regional perspective.
Questions will include:
- Why regions matter in food safety?
- How could regions improve collaboration between stakeholders?
- Post 2020: what EU opportunities for food safety?
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English Department Hosts Ropes Lecture Series
Five prominent scholars are visiting the University of Cincinnati winter quarter as part of the annual Ropes Lecture Series hosted by the
. The series, called The Novel and City, will focus on the American city since 1900.
Were reading novels, yes, but also trying to touch on a variety of interdisciplinary contexts: history, architecture, sociology, urban planning and theory, says Associate Professor Michael Griffith. Already our first lecturer, Carlo Rotella, has linked up our subject to pulp noir novels, 1970s and 1980s film, 'The Wire,' and boxing history, among other things.
The popular series is named for Cincinnati industrialist Nathaniel Ropes and funded through Ropes' endowment to UC. Each year, the series focuses on a central theme, inviting prominent writers and scholars for public lectures, panel discussions, and participation in classes on the master's and PhD levels.
Griffith adds, The Ropes is sometimes described as a graduate seminar with a special effects budget, and it plays a unique role in our curriculum. The series allows us to bring in illustrious scholars and novelists who can contribute to the specific business of the seminar and interact with graduate studentsbut who also give public lectures that will be lively, sharp and accessible to people beyond our field and, we hope, even beyond the university. Its a chance, we hope, to build some cross-disciplinary bridges.
The Ropes Lecture Series schedule is below. All events are free and open to the public and will take place on Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. in Room 427 of the Engineering Research Center (the Michael Graves building).
The Rust Belt Canon
Carlo Rotella, Boston College
A Guggenheim Fellow and frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine and many other periodicals, Rotella has also written three books, among them October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature.
The Hotel Spirit of the Gilded Age
Betsy Klimasmith, University of Massachusetts (Boston)
Professor Klimasmith is the author of At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930.
A Hazard of New American Fortunes: Coming to Terms with the Modern American City
Carl Smith, Northwestern University
Carl Smith is Franklin Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies at Northwestern. His most recent book, The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City, won the Lewis Mumford Prize.
Waiting for the Demolition Men
Paul LaFarge, Bard College
Paul La Farge, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, is the author of three novels, among them Haussmann: or the Distinction, which centers on Baron Haussmann and the making of modern Paris.
Going Up, Falling Down: New Fiction about New York City
Tom LeClair, University of Cincinnati
Our former colleague Tom LeClair, a prolific reviewer of fiction and a member of the National Book Award jury in 2005, is the author of many books, among them In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel and The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction.
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Restoration of natural areas across New Zealand is one of our specialities, we are very passionate about it. We have a number of field teams that undertake restoration works year round, completing all aspects of the restoration process from planting plans to site preparation, planting and ongoing maintenance. As part of our work we can also offer photo points and monitoring, showing the enhancement of the area over time, including drone footage and GPS marker points.
We operate to an agrichemical reduction policy that sees us use low chemical volumes at all times to get the best response from the restoration area and are responsible in our use around sensitive areas like waterways.
Our teams love working with community groups and can organise community planting events, BBQs, education, and ongoing volunteer management to see a restoration area through to canopy closure.
We operate across New Zealand for our restoration services, managing terrestrial and aquatic weeds and pests.
Whether you have a farm and are preparing an area for subdivision, or a council owned park that needs ongoing and superior restoration , our friendly team can help you. | <urn:uuid:dc848e97-70b3-46c6-a16c-be7cb248d18d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.biosecurity.net.nz/restoration | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945952 | 216 | 1.773438 | 2 |
- What is the Internode Network Firewall?
- Why does Internode offer this feature?
- More about the Network Firewall
- I'm not sure if this will affect me…
- I have a Home or Residential plan
- I have a SOHO or Business plan
- I have a plan with a Static IP address
- I VPN into my company/work network
- Servers, Remote Access and Web
- Sending and Receiving email
- File Sharing
- I use "some other program"—any problem likely?
- Will the firewall affect anything on my own local network?
- Further general questions
- Can you make other firewall options available?
- Can I just have the port filtering but not the mail blocking or vice versa?
- What specific ports are you filtering?
- I don't want you to firewall anything—can I turn it off?
- When I login to My Internode, I don't see the option to change my network firewall settings, where is it?
The Internode Network Firewall (Port Blocking) is an included security feature which blocks some common Internet 'ports' that are used to transmit spam, viruses, or other malicious attacks against computers, routers, and modems.
This feature is available to Internode NBN, Fibre Estates, ADSL2+, NodeMobile Data, Wireless DSL, and Dialup customers.
Internode offers the Network Firewall to help customers maintain the security of their computers, equipment, and network.
We designed the Network Firewall to curb the potential of our network and customers contributing to—and being on the receiving end of—malicious activities on the Internet.
- The Network Firewall is provided as an additional and optional security measure. It is not a substitute for operating and maintaining your own virus, malware, and firewall protection.
- The firewall is on by default for Home and Residential plans.
- The firewall is off by default for Power, Business and Static IP Packs and SOHO and Business plans.
- Customers can enable or disable the Network Firewall/Port Blocking online at any time, through My Internode.
Below you can find details of exactly what the firewall blocks. Please note: this information may be somewhat technical.
If you do not understand what is described below, Internode highly recommends leaving the Network Firewall enabled.
Some broadband modems/routers have the potential to be compromised through a combination of weak administrator passwords and allowing administrator access from the Internet, or because the firmware (operating system) on the modem or router has not been kept up-to-date and is vulnerable to attack.
The Network Firewall helps to prevent your equipment from being compromised, by blocking the ability for people to connect to it from the Internet on common administrative (remote access) network ports. This does not affect connections to the Internet at all: it simply helps to stop unwanted or unauthorised connections from the Internet to your equipment.
Access to some common (but rarely used) Microsoft Windows file sharing service ports (often used by computer 'worms' and viruses to attack Windows PCs attached to the Internet) are blocked.
Note: This does not block you from using file sharing on your home computer network, or from using popular Internet file sharing applications.
Outbound email (email that you send out to other people using the email SMTP protocol) needs to be sent via the normal Internode mail servers (mail.internode.on.net or securemail.internode.on.net).
The network firewall prevents the use of other email servers to send email, except for browser based (webmail) email services. Note this does not affect incoming email (email that you receive from other servers, places, and people).
Generally, most customers should be able to leave the firewall turned on at all times, and we encourage customers to take advantage of this protection and leave the firewall enabled. However with the expanded set of port blocks that are now in effect, some customers who currently have the Firewall enabled may need to turn it off.
Note: if you don't understand any of what follows, you should leave the Network Firewall turned on.
Examples of when you may need to turn the firewall off include:
- when running a server (which requires people on the Internet to access it) on the service in question, specifically:
- a HTTP or HTTPS web server on ports 80 and/or 443
- an SMTP email server on port 25
- a TELNET or SSH shell server on ports 22 and/or 23
- for remote (from the Internet) web or shell access to a broadband modem or router on this service
- for remote (from the Internet) proxy server access on ports 3128 and/or 8080 on this service
The network firewall is enabled by default for customers on Home/Residential plans.
For existing customers: If you've previously disabled the Network Firewall or Port Blocking, your existing setting will be maintained.
The network filter is turned on by default for Home/Residential plans only.
If you are using any Static IP type plan or service from Internode (SOHO, Power Pack, Business, Corporate, etc.), the Network Firewall is disabled by default.
You can however choose to enable the Network Firewall functionality via My Internode, if you so wish.
If you are using any Static IP type plan or service from Internode (SOHO, Power Pack, Static IP Pack, Business, Corporate, etc.), the Network Firewall/Port Blocking is disabled by default.
The Network Firewall should not prevent you from connecting to a VPN, and as long as your traffic passes over the VPN connection, the firewall will not affect you.
This means, for instance, that if you VPN into your company network and send email via the company email server, it will continue to work fine without any need to disable the Internode Network Firewall for your service.
The Network Firewall does not affect your ability to connect to websites or web proxy servers from your Internode service.
If you run your own web (HTTP/HTTPS) or email (SMTP) server on your Home or Easy service, you should disable the firewall.
If you run a personal server or broadband router on your Home or Easy service that you need to access from the Internet (remotely) via Telnet, SSH, HTTP, or HTTPS, then you should disable the Network Firewall.
Windows Remote Desktop and VNC ports are not filtered and are not affected by the firewall.
The firewall does not affect your ability to use browser based email access (often referred to as webmail).
The firewall does not affect incoming POP3 or IMAP email.
The firewall only affects outgoing (SMTP) email (email that you send out), and it only impacts that if you decide not to use the Internode mail server for sending email (SMTP).
The Network Firewall does not affect sending email through browser-based (webmail) systems.
I use an email address from another provider and I send and receive email using their mail servers from my email program
If the firewall is enabled, you will be unable to send email directly via another provider's email servers.
In this case, you have two options:
- Turn off the Network Firewall.
- Configure your outgoing mail (SMTP) server setting to send via Internode's email server (mail.internode.on.net)
Note that if you use a webmail system (for example, Internode webmail, your company's remote access webmail, Gmail, or Hotmail) to access email, this is completely unaffected by the firewall. You don't need to disable the firewall to use web based email services. There is absolutely no impact on connecting to services on the Internet using HTTP or HTTPS (ports 80 and 443).
If you run your own SMTP email server, you have two options:
You can do one of two things:
- Turn off the firewall—if you need to send email direct to remote Internet hosts via SMTP, instead of using the Internode mail server as your outbound relay, or
- Configure Internode's email server (mail.internode.on.net) as the outgoing 'smarthost'—this will configure your mail server to send all email out via Internode's mail servers.
First, make sure you really are running an SMTP email server on your laptop.
If you are just using your laptop to send SMTP email to the Internode mail servers from your chosen laptop mail client, you have absolutely no problem to solve.
If you definitely run an SMTP server on your laptop, you can do one of two things:
- Turn off the Network Firewall/Port Blocking on your Internode connection, or
- Configure your outgoing email client to use authentication and SSL (Secure Email Settings), this will allow you to send email from any connection, anywhere, regardless of whether you're connected to the Internode network or not. We highly recommend this option.
The Network Firewall does not impact or block these types of applications.
As long as the email is sent via the Internode email servers (mail.internode.on.net or securemail.internode.on.net) you won't be affected.
Does the program you use:
- Require users from the Internet to connect to a system on your Internode service on ports 80, 443, 22, 23, 8080, or 3128, or
- Send email out using the SMTP protocol on port 25, directly to other email servers (not via Internode's email servers), or
- Use the Windows NETBIOS, SMB, or CIFS protocols across the Internet?
If it doesn't do any of the above, then it's extremely unlikely that the Internode Network Firewall will affect your program. If it does, then you can just disable the firewall through My Internode.
No, the Internode Network Firewall will not affect anything on your local network. The firewall only applies to traffic sent and received to and from the Internet.
Not at this time.
We may revise the options available in the future, but for the time being and for simplicity, the only options are "On" or "Off".
It's important to appreciate that this is only a basic network 'firewall', not an advanced firewall.
It is simply a filtering process to reduce the incidence of some very common forms of network 'attack'. The outbound email (SMTP) filtering is intended to reduce the impact that virus-compromised computers sending spam are able to have on other Internet users (and on you, due to load on your computer and your Internet connection).
The Network Firewall is designed to have zero impact for most Internode customers (other than increasing security and stamping out some computer viruses and spam).
Not at this time, see above.
In the event you have specific requirements that mean that any of these things do impact you, simply turn the Network Firewall off.
Outbound means: Connections or requests that you or your computers make to the Internet from your Internode service.
|Port 25||SMTP to anywhere except mail.internode.on.net.|
|Windows File Sharing|
Inbound means: Connections or requests originating from the Internet into your home or business network via your Internode service.
Internode may occasionally revise what is covered by the Network Firewall, should other ports become a specific and common attack vector for widespread, malicious worm/virus software.
Any permanent updates to the firewall will be noted on this page and also in the Network Firewall settings in My Internode.
Any temporary additions to the firewall (to deal with a new network 'worm' or similar) will be notified in an advisory.
Yes, login to My Internode, then select the "Network Firewall Settings" menu item (this may also be called "Port Blocking"), and then turn it off.
Please note: It may take up to one hour for changes to the firewall settings to take effect. If you don't think the firewall settings have taken effect after an hour, please reset your ADSL router/connection once, and this should pick up the updated configuration for your service.
When I login to My Internode, I don't see the option to change my network firewall settings, where is it?
If you don't see the "Network Firewall Settings" option in the "My Services" column, then the Network Firewall is not applicable to your service. This also means your service is not affected at all by the Network Firewall.
Note: You can enable or disable the Network Firewall/Port Blocking separately for different broadband accounts, and for any other eligible Internet accounts. The setting is not global for all your separate accounts and service types (even if you use the same username).
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We are often told that incurring debt is bad and it is a double-edged sword. Debt can be a scary thing for many people. However, is it really that bad? I will be sharing about good debt vs bad debt in this post and how I personally manage debt to my advantage.
When we talk about leverage, we need to make a distinction between good debt and bad debt. Good debt helps people achieve goals. For example, many people will not be able to own their homes if not for the mortgage loans from banks. Bad debt sets you back with additional burden. For example, incurring excessive credit card balances and unsecured credit which keep rolling at high interest rates.
I tend to think of leverage from the angle of cost of financing compared to the potential yield on my assets (return on investment). If after netting the cost of debt, I can get a decent return on my investment, then I think it is a good debt.
I will share my views on 3 common types of debt.
Most people aspire of home ownership. As property is a big-ticket item, most of us will at some point in life have a bank loan to finance our home. In this aspect, I see home loan as actually a good debt – it allows you to fulfil a dream. This is provided you manage the following aspects:
- Stretch your loan tenor to the maximum so you can manage the monthly loan repayment. You want to have some buffer and set the repayment amount at a manageable amount of your monthly salary. Preferably, the amount can be fully repaid using your CPF (for Singaporeans/PRs).
- Interest rates are low. Pay a bit more and go for fixed interest rates. It gives you a lot more certainty on the repayment amount.
- Pay down the debt as soon as possible when you have excess funds from your employment e.g. bonus, additional funds in your CPF.
Using the above 3 principles, I managed to repay my home loan in 15 years instead of the original 30 years tenor. Being debt free has always been my goal and one needs to stay focused to achieve this as soon as possible!
I’m sure everyone has at least one credit card in their wallet, if not more. In my opinion, credit cards are great as they give you extended payment terms at zero cost, provided you settle the outstanding balance on time. Personally, I go for credit cards with cash rebates as I don’t fancy getting miles or using points accumulated to exchange for gifts which take up more space in my house.
I do not advocate balance transfers or rolling your credit card debts, as these usually come at very high interest rates.
There are many leveraged instruments available in the investing world e.g. Futures, Options, CFDs. They all come with varying degree of risks. These are usually used by advanced and professional investors to get higher returns on their investments. Investors should ensure they educate themselves on the risk of the instruments before using them.
We’ve seen a lot of news on how people can get into trouble by borrowing to invest or investing in leveraged products which they do not understand.
“Earlier this year, 31-year-old insurance agent Heng Kai Sheng got advances on three separate credit cards to the tune of $150,000. With the money, he opened a share-financing account at a local bank and pledged the lot as collateral. He was granted leverage of around 3.5 times, a $500,000 kitty Mr Heng’s ploughing into the stock market.
“A price movement of more than 20 per cent within 15 minutes led to one of Societe Generale’s products shorting the stock – DLC SG5xShort SIA – losing all its value after a so-called “airbag” mechanism was triggered, the French bank said in a statement on Friday. Trading of the instrument has since been permanently suspended.
My advice for new investors is to keep it simple and start with buying shares of good companies. Adopt simple dollar cost averaging approach by progressively buying into good companies every month with your excess cash from employment.
Personally, I use a combination of equity and option strategies for my portfolio. If you want to know more about options and other leveraged instruments, pls reach out to me by leaving your contact details.
As you can see, leverage can be good if you use it correctly. It enhances your returns on investment and helps you attain the lifestyle you desire. Use it wisely! | <urn:uuid:0b109309-88e7-41ec-b214-325ba50a3a15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.emrichinvestors.com/leverage-is-it-really-that-bad/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962244 | 953 | 1.898438 | 2 |
By Lynsey Amundson, Kivitv.com
The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Idaho volunteer food service was canceled to protect its families from COVID-19. But, the Fork and Alavita restaurants in downtown Boise are stepping in to help.
An Idaho couple, Nick and Lauren Flores, know what it’s like to have a child in the ICU and how something as simple as a meal can help during that time. So, they set up a GoFundMe page, called Meals to Unite, for the community to donate money to help deliver meals to the families in need.
Through Meals to Unite, Fork and Alavita will be delivering 40 meals to the Ronald McDonald house with three additional delivery dates in the upcoming weeks with the money raised from the community.
“Not only are we supporting the families that are here and obviously struggling at the hospital,” said Nick Flores. “But furthermore, that Fork can continue to support those other merchants within the community with whom they buy their food and various inputs. And all in all, we just felt like this was too good of an opportunity for us to pass up.”
One hundred percent of the money goes straight to the Fork and Alavita to create meals that they will deliver to the Ronald McDonald House. For every meal that is delivered, Fork and Alavita will donate ten percent of the proceeds to a non-profit that focuses on helping the community.
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The Calling of St. Matthew by Jan Sanders van Hemessen, 1536, via Wikimedia Commons
September 21, 2017
We remember and celebrate this day the call of Matthew by Jesus. In Matthew 9:9 we read, “Jesus saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth.” Perhaps the most startling words in the entire account are those that indicate Jesus “saw him.”
It would have been easy for Jesus not to see Matthew. It would have been more efficient to walk on by and not bother. After all Matthew was a tax collector: a collaborator with the Roman government and understood as an extortionist who was getting rich off of his own people. Furthermore, we know that tax collectors were abhorred by the most pious of Jewish groups, the Pharisees. Yet Jesus did see Matthew and dared to call him into his circle of disciples in order that he might follow.
Who do we not see? Who would it be easy to walk on by, not recognize or acknowledge? Who do we choose not to value? Often when disasters strike such as in hurricanes, or even in our difficult conversations regarding immigration, it is precisely those who are too often the unseen who are suddenly exposed, particularly the poor. It is my hope that in our faith communities we are working very hard to see as clearly as Jesus sees and draw into his circle of care those to whom we need to respond, in word and in action.
As Matthew 9:13 reminds us quoting Hosea, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” Our religious devotion and our life as a Church mean little to nothing unless we too are willing to see as Jesus sees, with mercy, as we respect the dignity of every human being and act accordingly.
Bishop Skip Adams
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When we decommission nodes across different racks, the decommission process becomes really slow at the end, hardly making any progress. The problem is some blocks are on 3 decomm-in-progress DNs and the way how replications are scheduled caused unnecessary delay. Here is the analysis.
When BlockManager schedules the replication work from neededReplication, it first needs to pick the source node for replication via chooseSourceDatanode. The core policies to pick the source node are:
1. Prefer decomm-in-progress node.
2. Only pick the nodes whose outstanding replication counts are below thresholds dfs.namenode.replication.max-streams or dfs.namenode.replication.max-streams-hard-limit, based on the replication priority.
When we decommission nodes,
1. All the decommission nodes' blocks will be added to neededReplication.
2. BM will pick X number of blocks from neededReplication in each iteration. X is based on cluster size and some configurable multiplier. So if the cluster has 2000 nodes, X will be around 4000.
3. Given these 4000 nodes are on the same decomm-in-progress node A, A end up being chosen as the source node of all these 4000 nodes. The reason the outstanding replication thresholds don't kick is due to the implementation of BlockManager.computeReplicationWorkForBlocks; node.getNumberOfBlocksToBeReplicated() remains zero given node.addBlockToBeReplicated is called after source node iteration.
4. So several decomm-in-progress nodes A, B, C end up with 4000 node.getNumberOfBlocksToBeReplicated().
5. If we assume each node can replicate 5 blocks per minutes, it is going to take 800 minutes to finish replication of these blocks.
6. Pending replication timeout kick in after 5 minutes. The items will be removed from the pending replication queue and added back to neededReplication. The replications will then be handled by other source nodes of these blocks. But the blocks still remain in nodes A, B, C's pending replication queue, DatanodeDescriptor.replicateBlocks, so A, B, C continue the replications of these blocks, although these blocks might have been replicated by other DNs after replication timeout.
7. Some block' replicas exist on A, B, C and it is at the end of A's pending replication queue. Even though the block's replication timeout, no source node can be chosen given A, B, C all have high pending replication count. So we have to wait until A drains its pending replication queue. Meanwhile, the items in A's pending replication queue have been taken care of by other nodes and no longer under replicated. | <urn:uuid:b6f46e74-773e-42c5-a823-2e0497140a0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7128 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.891502 | 582 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Music has been a central element in many people’s lives, bringing story, language and resonance to our experiences and cultural identities. Through music, we may connect in a meditative way and bring about inner peace and greater focus in ourselves. Over the past decade, there has been a shift in the way we interact with music. The Ukulele has grown in overwhelming demand and for the first time ever; the instrument has sold in greater volumes than the guitar. The tiny and affordable instrument offers a poetic tone, demonstrating that learning an instrument can be accessible to everyone.
The Internet has created a booming stage for music lovers who wish to learn how to play the ukulele. With YouTube videos, music websites, and apps at your fingertips, it is becoming easier than ever to learn new chords and to become a self-taught musician.
The universal platform of the ukulele is expanding even wider as new developments allow you to take the instrument wherever you go. Developed by Novako Music, the Ava Ukulele is making waves as the perfect travel companion for adventurers across the world. Its novel features include compact storage as well as earphone compatibility so you may enjoy playing music without disturbing others in your environment. The instrument also produces electric signals to initiate amplification through a loud speaker. With the Ava Ukulele, travelers can delve into the introspective journey of the instrument, and share with others along the way.
Considering the universal nature of the instrument, it makes sense that the Ava Ukulele has received its grand echo of success through Crowdfunding.
In recent years, Crowdfunding has become a popular means for connecting diverse individuals and garnering support for entrepreneurial ventures. Put simply, crowdfunding involves gathering funds through local, national and international means. The act allows entrepreneurs to extend their project, cause or idea into a wide network that wouldn’t otherwise be possible and seek support in an efficient space.
There are a variety of crowdfunding websites welcoming ventures from various backgrounds. While some seek to represent ventures in niche themes and utilities, others provide an open environment for accessibility.
Kickstarter is a resource that is typically used by small businesses and start-ups. The website is aesthetically focused, encouraging businesses to promote their products in the most visually attractive way possible. Through visual storytelling, Kickstarter gives businesses an extra push to launch their ventures in a compelling way. Since mid-June, Kickstarter has helped to fund more than 145,000 projects, thanks to its fourteen million ‘backers.’
Platforms like Kickstarter are being supported tremendously by the power of social media. Through social engagements, campaigns are reaching wider audiences with a viral potential and connecting more deeply to potential funders through associations with the individuals behind the campaign. Crowdfunding provides incentives, both physical and digital, compelling active involvement.
The nature of contribution on this platform provides for accessibility as well. With multiple tier options and an attitude of ‘everything helps’, potential funders no longer feel pressured to unfist a tremendous amount of cash upfront. Instead, campaigns become an effort of building together.
Just sixteen hours following the launch of its Kickstarter campaign, the Ava Ukulele attained its $30,000 goal. The early success of the product is a nod to the impact of global sharing and a success story for adventurers, entrepreneurs, and music lovers across the world. Whether its sharing music, a project, or an idea, we can all play our part in supporting inspiration and our universal passions. Working together, we are all connected. | <urn:uuid:eba95342-dc24-430b-80f2-540e300fabbd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thedishh.com/category/life/page/29/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945912 | 722 | 2.171875 | 2 |
- Research article
- Open Access
The effectiveness of inpatient rehabilitation after uncomplicated total hip arthroplasty: a propensity score matched cohort
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders volume 19, Article number: 236 (2018)
Inpatient rehabilitation is an expensive option following total hip arthroplasty (THA). We aimed to determine if THA patients who receive inpatient rehabilitation report better hip and quality of life scores post-surgery compared to those discharged directly home.
Prospective, propensity score matched cohort involving 12 private hospitals across five Australian States. Patients undergoing THA secondary to osteoarthritis were included. Those receiving inpatient rehabilitation for reasons other than choice or who experienced significant health events within 90-days post-surgery were excluded. Comparisons were made between those who did and did not receive inpatient rehabilitation for patient-reported hip pain and function (Oxford Hip Score, OHS) and ‘today’ health rating (EuroQol 0–100 scale). Rehabilitation provider charges were also estimated and compared.
Two hundred forty-six patients (123 pairs, mean age 67 (10) yr., 66% female) were matched on 19 covariates for their propensity to receive inpatient rehabilitation. No statistically nor clinically significant between-group differences were observed [OHS median difference (IQR): 0 (− 3, 3), P = 0.60; 0 (− 1 to 1), P = 0.91, at 90 and 365-days, respectively; EuroQol scale median difference 0 (− 10, 12), P = 0.24; 0 (− 10, 10), P = 0.49; 5 (− 10, 15), P = 0.09, at 35-, 90- and 365-days, respectively]. Median rehabilitation provider charges were 10-fold higher for those who received inpatient rehabilitation [median difference $7582 (5649, 10,249), P < 0.001]. Sensitivity analyses corroborated the results of the primary analyses.
Utilization of inpatient rehabilitation pathways following THA appears to be low value healthcare. Sustainability of inpatient rehabilitation models may be enhanced if inpatient rehabilitation is reserved for those most impaired or who have limited social supports.
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01899443.
Total hip arthroplasty (THA) has been heralded as the ‘operation of the Century’ . Large improvements in mobility and patient-reported outcomes are typically observed with changes far exceeding the small-to-moderate effects seen with non-surgical interventions for arthritis [2,3,4]. These changes are often experienced in the early subacute phase and improvements are evident regardless of underlying aetiology [3, 5, 6]. Such is the success of the operation, annual increases in the volume of surgery in Australia – as it has elsewhere - have been recorded by the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry (AOANJRR) since 2003 . Presently, over 36,000 THA procedures are undertaken annually in Australia with the majority (~ 60%) performed in the private sector . In 2016, 87,733 primary THA procedures were performed in the United Kingdom (UK) . In the United States (US), it is estimated that up to 562,000 THA cases may be undertaken annually by 2030 .
Following surgery, physiotherapy-led exercise-based rehabilitation is often prescribed . Evidence in support of such prescription is apparent when physiotherapy-led programs are compared to no or minimal intervention following THA. A recent systematic review of randomized trials concluded that physiotherapy-led exercise programs yielded better gait-related outcomes post-THA when compared to no intervention . Interestingly, consistent with the evidence concerning the more intensive clinic-based rehabilitation programs following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) [11,12,13,14,15], clinic-based one-to-one or group-based programs have not been shown to be superior over monitored or unmonitored home-based programs for the recovery of mobility, function and health-related quality of life after THA [10, 16, 17]. Further, the evidence-base lacks randomized trials comparing inpatient-based rehabilitation with less intensive programs. This gap is important to address as utilization of inpatient rehabilitation is common and it is a comparatively costly pathway [18,19,20]. Recent Australian data from the private sector indicate the median referral rate per surgeon to inpatient rehabilitation is 29% (range 0–100%) . Inpatient utilization rates vary internationally [22, 23], with reported rates as high as 81% (Japan) and 53% (US) and as low as 0% (Spain, Turkey) and 3% (UK) .
Only one randomized controlled trial (RCT) has been published aimed at determining the efficacy of inpatient therapy over a non-inpatient alternative following THA . Eighteen days of inpatient rehabilitation was not more effective nor cost-effective compared to eigth domiciliary (physiotherapy) visits following THA or TKA (combined cohort).
Randomized trials are difficult to undertake in general, but they are particularly difficult to perform in the private healthcare sector where consumer and provider preferences are strong drivers of care delivery [26, 27]. This may partly explain why much of the evidence in this space - showing no superiority of the inpatient pathway - is predominantly provided by retrospective and prospective observational studies and administrative datasets [19, 28,29,30].
In light of the difficulty in performing an RCT, this study, using a propensity score (PS) matched cohort, aimed to determine whether privately insured THA patients who received inpatient rehabilitation, compared to those who did not, had better patient-reported joint and health scores across the first 12 months post-surgery. Informed by the high- and low-level evidence in this area, we hypothesized that the inpatient pathway would not procure superior patient-reported recovery to a level that was clinically meaningful over the alternative.
This study was nested within a national, prospective observational study involving 19 hospitals across five States (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01899443). We have previously reported the results of a related PS matched cohort aimed at determining the effectiveness of a rehabilitation pathway involving inpatient rehabilitation compared to one not involving inpatient rehabilitation following TKA . The PS is the probability of treatment assignment conditional on observed baseline characteristics [33,34,35,36,37,38]. Here, matching people on their probability of being allocated to inpatient therapy addresses treatment selection bias based on known patient characteristics.
Ethical approval and funding source
Ethical approval was provided by multiple ethics committees (see Declarations). Informed participant consent was obtained. The HCF Research Foundation funded the study, but had no role in study design or data analysis.
Sampling and hospital recruitment
Hospitals contributing to the AOANJRR performing over 275 TKA or THA procedures in 2012, were eligible to participate in the larger study. Related publications describe the sampling procedure which procured 10 public and nine private hospitals [31, 32, 39].
Patient enrolment and eligibility
Patient enrolment and eligibility were identical to that described in an aforementioned study . People awaiting arthroplasty secondary to osteoarthritis between August 2013–December 2014 were screened by site coordinators during their pre-admission review. Eligibility criteria for the larger study included primary surgery, no further arthroplasty planned within 3-months, and the ability to understand the protocol and be followed-up by telephone for 1 year. For this nested study, being privately insured was an additional inclusion criterion. Publicly insured patients were explicitly excluded because the few referred to inpatient rehabilitation (20/317, 6.3%) were primarily referred based on a clinical or social need (14/20). To reduce treatment selection bias and improve generalizability to uncomplicated THA, we also subsequently excluded the privately insured patients referred to inpatient rehabilitation due to slow progress, inadequate social supports (e.g living alone or without the help of an able carer), and those with conditions that would alter their rehabilitation pathway (e.g bilateral surgery or significant complication (defined below) up to 90-days post-surgery).
Patient-level variables collected prior to surgery (baseline) included weight, height, insurance status, comorbid conditions including requirement for daily medication, education level, presence of other lower limb or back conditions impairing mobility and patient-reported outcomes measures (PROM). Additional patient-specific data via clinician-completed forms were collected by site coordinators - American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) scores, complications, length of stay (LOS), discharge destination, and reason for referral to inpatient rehabilitation if relevant. Patient-reported outcomes, including surveys, ongoing rehabilitation details, complication, and time-off-work (patient, carer) were obtained by researchers by telephone at 35, 90 and 365-days post-surgery. For quality control, clinician-collected data were re-abstracted from the medical record by researchers; significant patient-reported complications were verified by treating hospitals, surgeons or general practitioners.
Acute complications were stratified according to the Clavien-Dindo Classification whereby the code applied (1–5) is based on the type of care deviation necessitated by the complication . People experiencing the more severe complications (coded ≥3) (e.g pulmonary emboli or dislocation), were excluded. Those experiencing a less severe complication, but one potentially affecting longer-term recovery (e.g neuropraxia) were also excluded. Patients experiencing any surgery-related complication requiring re-admission or any unrelated health event requiring hospital admission up to 90 days post-surgery, were also excluded.
The Oxford Hip Score (OHS) and the Euroqol Visual Analogue Scale for health ‘today’ (EQVAS) [42, 43], were the primary outcomes. The EQVAS was obtained using a VAS at baseline and verbally at the time of follow-up as the methods have been shown to be equivalent in people awaiting arthroplasty .
Rehabilitation charges were determined from the perspective of the provider and the methodology is described elsewhere . Table 1 summarizes the unit costs (AUD) applied for each rehabilitation ‘type’ encountered. Total provider charges for each participant were calculated based on the length of stay in a rehabilitation facility (where applicable), and the type and frequency of community-based therapy received up to 10-weeks post-surgery, including clinic, domiciliary, supervised hydrotherapy, and day hospital visits. Individuals in the ‘No inpatient rehabilitation’ group who also had no community-based rehabilitation were assigned $0 rehabilitation provider charges.
The projected sample size for the larger study was ~ 2000. Assuming our recruitment pattern was consistent with patterns observed in the AOANJRR , we anticipated the definitive sample would comprise 40% THA recipients (n = 800), and most of those (60%) (n = 480) would be private insured. We conservatively predicted, therefore, our sample for this nested study would exceed 128 people (64 in each treatment group) which is what would be required (80% power, 0.05 significance level) to detect a minimal important between-group difference of 5 points (0.55 of the baseline SD) in the OHS. A sample of 17 would be sufficient to detect a minimally clinically important improvement of 23 (1.36 SD [42, 43] baseline mean) for the EQVAS.
We assessed normality of the data prior to analysis. Mean, median and percentages were used to characterize the cohorts. Covariates of the unmatched cohorts were assessed using independent t-tests and χ2, whilst covariates and outcomes in the matched (paired) cohorts were assessed using paired t-tests, Wilcoxon signed-rank tests and McNemar tests [33, 34].
Propensity score determination and subsequent matching were determined as follows:
i) PSs for the prediction of referral to inpatient rehabilitation were estimated for all eligible patients using unconditional logistic regression [33,34,35]. Here, the outcome was treatment group and model covariates included variables thought to influence treatment assignment prior to surgery or the primary outcomes [33,34,35]. Covariates included baseline Oxford and EQVAS scores, age, body mass index (weight [kg]/height [m]2), gender, ASA scores, comorbidity (any condition of the cardiovascular, renal, respiratory, endocrine, liver, central and peripheral nervous systems, and excluding musculoskeletal conditions), other lower limb or back problems limiting mobility, surgical approach (‘anterior’ or ‘other’), and education level (Yr 8 or below, Yrs 9–10, Yrs 11–12, Degree qualified). We also included any measured variable that was found to be significantly different between the treatment groups prior to matching. For this reason, employment status was also used for matching.
ii) We assessed the distribution of the PSs across the two treatment groups using visual inspection and descriptive statistics to ensure there was sufficient overlap (area of common support [33,34,35]) in probabilities to receive inpatient rehabilitation.
iii) Using caliper matching without replacement [32, 33] we then used the PSs to match each patient who received inpatient rehabilitation in a 1:1 ratio with one who did not. A caliper distance of an absolute difference in PS of 0.05 was employed, equating to 0.28 of the pooled SD of the PSs for the unmatched cohorts. Successful matching was indicated by achieving a standardized mean difference (SMD) between the groups < 0.20 for any given variable (differences < 0.1 are considered negligible ; differences up to 0.25 are considered tolerable ), and an absence of statistical significant difference (p < 0.05).
Variables not included in the matching were ‘hospital’ and ‘surgeon’. The inclusion of these caused non-convergence of the estimate in the PS calculation owing to high correlation between surgeon or hospital and treatment group. To assess the influence of ‘hospital’ or ‘surgeon’ on primary outcomes, we performed multivariable linear regression analyses incorporating these variables.
As treatment allocation was not random, we considered the experience of a second arthroplasty (different joint) or later joint-related complication after 90 days as a potential between-group confounder of the primary outcomes. Thus, we conducted sensitivity analyses on the 365-day outcomes excluding persons who experienced such events.
We also performed sensitivity analysis using Rosenbaum bounds [37, 38] on the matched groups to determine the possible effect of unmeasured confounders on the conclusiveness of our results. A sensitivity parameter ‘Gamma’ was defined in the Rosenbaum bounds analysis. The Gamma indirectly informs how large the effect of the unmeasured confounder would need to be to change the conclusiveness of the matched results. The larger the gamma the more robust the result to an unobserved confounder. A Gamma of 1.2, for example, indicates that an unmeasured confounder would need to increase the likelihood of a patient being assigned to the inpatient group by a factor of 1.2 before the conclusiveness of the results are threatened [36, 44].
All analyses were conducted using SAS V9.4 (SAS Institute Inc. Cary, NC, USA) and the psens function in the rbounds package of R. No imputation was undertaken for missing data.
Figure 1 summarizes cohort ascertainment. From an eligible sample of 431 privately insured primary, unilateral THA patients from 12 hospitals, 123 pairs were matched.
In the unmatched cohort, a PS was estimable for 403 patients. The mean (SD) propensity score for the sample was 0.34 (0.18). Assessment of the overlap of the PSs across the unmatched groups revealed sufficient common support between the two treatment groups [Inpatient Group, n = 136 - mean 0.44 (0.18), min 0.06, max 0.85; Non-inpatient Group, n = 267 – mean 0.29 (0.16), min 0.02, max 0.85].
Unmatched versus matched cohorts
In the unmatched cohort, the inpatient rehabilitation group was older, had more males, had higher levels of comorbidity, and worse baseline OHSs (Table 2). Unadjusted comparisons between the two groups revealed significantly worse health scores at every time point and worse OHS at 90 days for the Inpatient Group (Additional file 1). Matching lowered the SMD for all but one covariate (it went from 0.10 to 0.11); the largest SMD was 0.14 (Table 3). Acute-care LOS was significantly longer in the Inpatient Group in both the unmatched (6.2 (2.2) vs 4.6 (1.7) days) and matched (5.9 (2.1) vs 5.0 (2.0) days) conditions.
Outcomes – Matched cohort only
35- and 90-days: Table 4 summarizes the comparisons between the matched groups. The Inpatient Group did not have superior outcomes at 35- or 90-days. Time-off-work outcomes were not significantly different. Median rehabilitation provider charges were significantly higher in the Inpatient Group regardless of whether inpatient provider charges were included in the calculation. The Inpatient Group received a greater number of physiotherapy sessions in the community (day hospital as well as clinic) [median difference 5 (IQR 9,0); Inpatient Group - 6 (IQR 2,10), Non-Inpatient Group 0 (IQR 0,3)] (Table 5). A greater proportion of the Inpatient Group were receiving community-based rehabilitation beyond week 10 (23.9% [95%CI 17.1–32.4] vs 12.2% [7.2–20.2]).
365-days: The Inpatient Group did not have superior outcomes at 365 days; the median OHS in both groups was the maximum score possible (48). Sensitivity analyses for the 365-day outcomes involving 114 pairs, yielded the same results (Additional file 2). In the analyses incorporating hospital and surgeon, neither significantly influenced the primary outcomes at any point (Additional file 3). Sensitivity analysis exploring the Rosenbaum bounds for the possible effect of unmeasured confounders yielded gamma values from 1.1 to 6.0 (Additional file 4).
Results from a related PS matched cohort involving uncomplicated TKA recipients indicated that the inpatient rehabilitation pathway, compared to the non-inpatient pathway, did not provide superior patient-reported outcomes up to 1-year post-surgery . The current study suggests the same is true for THA recipients. Importantly, the median between-group differences for the OHS and EQVAS were much smaller than the differences estimated to be clinically important. Further, the inpatient rehabilitation pathway was associated with far higher rehabilitation provider charges, and similar time-off -work outcomes for patients and carers. Overall, our findings align with the one aforementioned RCT conducted in this area involving hip arthroplasty , and highlight the impressive levels of patient-reported recovery typically seen after this surgery regardless of the rehabilitation pathway taken.
Our study has several strengths. The use of propensity-based scoring has allowed us to report the comparison between two rehabilitation pathways in simple, absolute terms of the outcomes whilst keeping measured covariates balanced between the groups. Most importantly, acceptable matching across all our measured covariates was achieved indicating that any differences in the outcomes observed are not attributable to confounding resulting from differences in these variables. Further, we removed other sources of ‘noise’ through our strict eligibility criteria, thus, between-group differences in the rate of complications or other major health events are not a source of bias. Finally, our cohort was derived nationally, thus, the characteristics of the unmatched and matched samples should reasonably reflect private patients who undergo THA in Australia.
Despite its advantages, a limitation of the PS method is that bias from unmeasured covariates that may be influencing treatment allocation or outcomes is not eliminated [33,34,35,36,37]. Here, surgeons and hospitals could be viewed as possible confounders. Our supplementary regression analyses, however, allowed us to adjust for the effect of these with neither having a significant effect on outcomes. We did not match on prosthesis type (as there were too many), though we did adjust for what may be considered more important (surgical approach). There is still a possibility that we have not accounted for all unknown confounders, but we think it unlikely we missed important ones. Our sensitivity analyses on the possible effect of unmeasured confounders indicate that an unknown confounder would need to change the probability of being allocated to inpatient rehabilitation by at least a factor of 1.3 for five of our outcomes in order to change the statistical significance of the results. Further, if an unmeasured confounder changed a result from non-significant to significant, the effect could still favor discharge directly home. Given we have included many of the known potential confounders in our PS analysis and supplemented this with multiple regressions including ‘surgeon’ and ‘hospital’, we contend the important variables are covered. Further, we are not aware of any other unmeasured confounder that the literature points to that would lead us to change our conclusions. That our results concord with the one RCT conducted in this area and several observational studies [28,29,30], it would appear we have not overlooked major confounding influences.
A potential limitation of our study is the lack of physical performance measures . It remains to be seen if inpatient rehabilitation improves gait or strength more so than rehabilitation provided in other settings. We note gait outcomes have not been shown to be superior in supervised community-based settings compared to home programs when conducted within 8-weeks of surgery [10, 17]. It is possible the same is true for inpatient rehabilitation.
An important caveat is that our results apply to those who have had an uncomplicated recovery and to those for whom discharge destination was a choice. We contend then that the inpatient rehabilitation pathway remains an important option for those with complications, limited social supports, and poor progress acutely. Based on the criteria used here, we estimate that a small minority (approximately 14%) of privately insured patients may require inpatient rehabilitation based on these three conditions (9.1, 4.1 and 1.2% respectively) (Fig. 1). We note, however, recent data from the US suggest discharge to inpatient rehabilitation facilities following THA is associated with increased morbidity . A reasonable approach, therefore, would be to avoid referral to inpatient facilities unless alternatives are exhausted.
A final important caveat is that our cost data pertain only to the first 90 days after surgery and only include rehabilitation provider charges. It is likely that there were continued cost differences beyond this time given a greater proportion of the Inpatient Group were still receiving community-based therapy beyond 10 weeks.
In conclusion, in the absence of sufficient high-level evidence to date, our study provides robust and useful signals concerning the comparative effectiveness and provider charges of a pathway that includes inpatient rehabilitation after uncomplicated THA. Consistent with the one published RCT in this space , our data indicate a rehabilitation pathway incorporating inpatient rehabilitation is not likely to be cost-effective for uncomplicated THA recipients. Our data and data elsewhere support the use of community-based and home-based programs to secure impressive levels of patient-reported recovery.
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The study was funded by the HCF Research Foundation The funder did not have any influence on the study aims, design, analysis or write-up.
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Naylor, J.M., Hart, A., Mittal, R. et al. The effectiveness of inpatient rehabilitation after uncomplicated total hip arthroplasty: a propensity score matched cohort. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 19, 236 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-2134-3
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How to maintain digital security in startups?
In recent years, cyberspace has changed dramatically. So it threatens all online businesses, big or small. Startups do not escape this difficulty, which is why digital security is vital within them.
Symantec reveals that startups are incredibly vulnerable to cyberattacks in their first 18 months. They clearly state that, despite taking their first steps in business, they do not escape from cybercriminals.
Tips for maintaining digital security in startups
Startups often focus on their business model, sales, and operations. However, they must take care of their digital security . Here are some tips that entrepreneurs need to know about cybersecurity.
1. Malware Prevention
Your startups are likely to fall for free downloads by various browsers. All companies should run some form of antivirus on all client workstations as a basic precaution .
2. Survival of ransomware
It has made headlines due to a large number of attacks that have had a devastating impact. Although large companies safeguard in the cloud , these backups can be attacked.
One tip is to keep your backups offline. Put them in a place where you don’t even have write access. It can be on hard drives updated weekly, on and off the premises.
Also Read: 5G TECHNOLOGY AND CYBERSECURITY RISKS
3. Zero Day Protection
Because it is completely unknown, many startups may have little digital security . Finding themselves defenseless against attacks that exploit such vulnerabilities.
The easiest way to avoid being attacked is to keep your software up to date. Most of the major providers are diligent about sending security updates to their users. To the point that attacks of 0 days are not so common; but it does not mean that they do not show up.
4. Don’t just depend on servers
Servers are complicated and managing them is difficult. But they are necessary to be able to have elements such as a mail server for the startup. Misconfigured servers such as email and website servers are easy targets for attackers.
One possible solution is to leverage the cloud for digital security . Where possible, avoid hosting on-premises servers. Efforts should be made to outsource them to cloud providers.
What to do if a cyber attack occurs?
Some of the measures to be carried out are:
- If the business has backup servers , change them immediately. It is possible that, through the main servers, the cause of the attack will be known to deal with it.
- Isolating and containing the cyber attack is crucial to minimize the damage done to the network. The technical team will test other parts of the network to make sure it has not spread. All this will lead to work on its elimination.
- Investigate and document the cyber attack.
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Identifying an Essential Package for School-Age Child Health: Economic Analysis
Authors: Meena Fernandes, Elisabetta Aurino
An affordable package of school-based health interventions for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is defined in this chapter and estimates for the costs and potential benefits are presented. The interventions can improve the quality and the quantity of schooling, generating a high benefit-cost ratio. The returns to education prove highest in low-income countries (LICs), due, in part, to higher per capita income in lower-middle-income countries. More research could show how to support countries in financing the essential package as well as evaluating the benefits over the life course. Interventions for school-age children can have significant impacts on schooling, earnings, health status, and productivity in LMICs. The estimated benefit-cost ratios for such interventions consistently exceed one, suggesting that the discounted value of gains exceeds the costs. These results support the case for placing school health high on the policy agenda and for promoting coherence with early childhood health intervention programs to maximize benefit gains. Benefits may not scale up, however, despite scale economies, and the benefit-cost ratio for nationwide implementation may prove lower. | <urn:uuid:32586662-2c01-4040-914f-8ed628c0e983> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dcp-3.org/chapter/2473/economic-factors-defining-school-age-package | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.910786 | 272 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Saudi Arabia won’t endorse female Olympians, official says
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Countering the earlier words of a Saudi prince who said that women could represent his country at the Olympics, Saudi Arabia’s sports minister said his country won’t officially support female athletes.
‘Female sports activity has not existed and there is no move thereto in this regard,’ Prince Nawaf Faisal said Wednesday at a news conference in the Saudi city of Jidda, according to Human Rights Watch. ‘At present, we are not embracing any female Saudi participation in the Olympics or other international championships.’
The prince reportedly said Saudi Arabia would cooperate with Saudi women living abroad who wished to participate in the Olympic Games to ensure their actions ‘comported with Islamic law,’ but said the Saudi National Olympic Committee would not officially back the inclusion of women.
Saudi Arabia is one of three countries -- along with Brunei and Qatar -- that has never sent a woman to the Olympics. Human Rights Watch issued a scathing report earlier this year on the gauntlet of obstacles Saudi Arabia puts up to female athletes, including not holding gym classes for girls and shuttering private gyms for women.
Last month, Prince Nayef ibn Abdulaziz said women could stand for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics this summer as long as they didn’t contradict Islamic law. Dalma Rushdi Malhas, a Saudi horseback rider raised in Italy who won a bronze medal at the Youth Olympics, was a widely rumored choice.
The human rights group argues that Saudi Arabia is not in compliance with the Olympic charter that bans discrimination. Simply including a woman or two on its Olympic team is not enough, it contends; Saudi Arabia must dismantle the systematic barriers to women taking part in sports.
‘It is impossible to square Saudi discrimination against women with the noble values of the Olympic charter,’ Human Rights Watch researcher Christoph Wilcke said in a statement Thursday.
So far the International Olympic Committee has shied from ultimatums or deadlines to require Saudi Arabia to include female Olympians in order to attend the Games, instead holding talks over the matter.
‘The IOC is confident that Saudi Arabia is working to include women athletes,’ it announced last month after Saudi Arabia proffered a list of possible Saudi female athletes to the committee.
Human Rights Watch wants the Olympic committee to discuss Saudi discrimination against female athletes at its next executive board meeting in May. The IOC could not be reached immediately for comment Thursday morning.
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Transforming youth trauma with creative therapy.
Since 2017, Seed House Project has helped 102 young men find independent living, employment, and financial stability after foster care. After five years of successful outcomes, we are deepening our impact by launching a creative therapy program tailored to the unique needs of these young adults. Our program will combine trauma-informed therapy with arts education and exploration to help youth process and transform their traumatic experiences into sources of purpose, propelling them into adulthood with a strong sense of identity and direction.
What is the primary issue area that your application will impact?
Support for Foster and Systems-Impacted Youth
In which areas of Los Angeles will you be directly working?
County of Los Angeles
In what stage of innovation is this project, program, or initiative?
Pilot or new project, program, or initiative
What is your understanding of the issue that you are seeking to address?
Within two years of exiting foster care, 24% of youth are incarcerated, 51% are unemployed, only 10% are in college, and 46% are homeless by age 26. Nearly 90% suffer from bipolar, depression, anxiety, or PTSD, compared to 20% of the general population. In 2016, troubled by how many former foster youth were on Skid Row, entrepreneur Garrett Underwood launched a youth jobs program. Though it employed 100 youth in its first year, the death of a young man brought Garrett face-to-face with the fact that jobs aren’t enough. Cameron had advanced through the program to gain full-time work, housing, and a car, but later relapsed into substance addiction. He was soon homeless again. Garrett later learned on social media that Cameron had passed away. The isolation many youth feel as they exit foster care leaves them vulnerable to substance abuse and other trauma-bonding behaviors. In honor of Cameron, Garrett founded Seed House Project to help youth find not just jobs and housing, but hope.
Describe the project, program, or initiative this grant will support to address the issue.
At Seed House Project, we define ourselves not as a shelter or housing program, but as an accelerator program for former foster youth. We help our residents establish stability through housing, job training, internship and job placement, financial literacy coaching, and academic tutoring. But more than just stability, we are interested in transformation. Through personal development workshops, entrepreneurship and business coaching, and onsite creative resources – including a music studio and podcast equipment – residents explore creative outlets, build perspective and confidence, and develop a positive vision for the future. Year after year, the creative tools at our house have helped residents find solace and practice self-expression amid chaotic or challenging life circumstances. With their input, we are now launching a unique “Purpose Therapy” program to help former foster youth experience even greater personal transformation. Taking advantage of our onsite creative equipment, our Purpose Therapy program will leverage a variety of creative modalities including art and music, combined with trauma-informed clinical therapy, to help young adults build skills and perspectives to serve them over their entire lives. Residents will participate in therapy, coaching, and workshops, all geared toward help them process traumatic experiences, build resilience, and develop a meaningful life direction that includes both personal fulfillment and advocacy for positive change.
Describe how Los Angeles County will be different if your work is successful.
Finding self-fulfillment, achieving one’s full potential, and expressing creative needs are defined under Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as “self-actualization” needs, the top tier of the hierarchy. We believe that by pursuing these higher-level needs, young adults can build the motivation and resilience that, along with adequate physical resources, can prevent long-term cycles of poverty, substance abuse, trauma, and despair. Many social services help individuals meet basic needs – food, shelter, jobs – but do not help them experience lasting change. The severe risks facing youth exiting foster care highlight that traditional “deficit-based” approaches are often quick fixes for deeper-rooted problems. Using an “asset-based” approach, our Purpose Therapy program will ensure that young adults exit foster care not just with housing and jobs, but with productive mindset and lifestyle habits to support them throughout their lives.
What evidence do you have that this project, program, or initiative is or will be successful, and how will you define and measure success?
We always aim for 100% of Seed House Project residents to transition to secure and stable independent housing and meaningful work following their time in our program. Since our founding in 2017, 80% of residents have transitioned to stable employment and independent living on their own accord as the result of our program. We connected the remaining 20% to a higher level of care to ensure they could continue to receive more intensive support based on their needs. During the pilot year of our new Purpose Therapy program, we will focus on developing best practices for the program by refining the specific workshops, activities, and therapeutic tools that are most effective for participants. We will solicit resident feedback on a continuous basis to improve the program. We aim for 100% of creative therapy participants to graduate from our living community with a clear vision, purpose, and direction for the next stage of their life.
Approximately how many people will be impacted by this project, program, or initiative?
Direct Impact: 20
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Hilton Head Island
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The Loggerhead sea turtle is the state reptile of South Carolina and the most common sea turtle nester along our shores. They are easily recognizable by the large size of their head in relation to their body and their brownish or yellow skin.
Loggerheads are listed as a threatened species by both the federal government and the state of South Carolina.
Many people who read about the plight of endangered or threatened species feel the problems these species face are too great for them to be able to help. But there are many very simple things we can do to promote the survival of Loggerheads on Hilton Head Island:
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Summer is a time to get out and enjoy the fun outdoors with the family. There are endless activities to enjoy together and opportunities to create lasting memories. Many of these activities can be done right near your home or with a little travel. Get ready for a summer filled with fun activities to do with the family!
Hiking & Biking
Your local and state parks may offer hiking trails so that everyone in the family can get more in touch with nature. Research ahead of time the different trails to help pinpoint what’s right for your family. There are hiking trails of different lengths and difficulty levels. Find the one that is right for your family. Often, many of these trails will also offer biking options as well.
Night Sky Stargazing
The scorching summer heat can be difficult to bear at times, so enjoy a nighttime activity with the family like stargazing. This can be done from your backyard or at a local campground. Just bring blankets and snacks to enjoy the amazing night sky. You may even want to sleep under the stars. It can be an opportunity to learn about the constellations and maybe you might just catch a view of a shooting star.
The beautiful summer sky and summer breeze provides perfect conditions to bring out the kite. Kite flying can be hours of fun enjoyment for the family. Watch as the kite runs free in the wind and summer sky. Young kids may also enjoy making their own kite to fly with a few simple materials.
Start a Garden
Have any green thumbs in the family? Teach kids about planting and how they can grow their own food. Some of the easiest herbs to grow in the summer are basil, dill, parsley, sage and rosemary. Tomatoes and berries are also great for a summer garden.
Want to dress up the garden or front porch? With some rocks, paint, and paintbrushes you’ll be on your way to giving the garden or porch a new look. Get creative with your rock painting making animals, insects, or characters of your family. There are endless ideas for rock painting.
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You’re Drinking More Water, But Not Enough.
The amount of water we need to stay hydrated depends on various factors including height, weight, and level of physical activity, so figuring out how much to drink can be challenging. However, Serena Poon, a leading chef, nutritionist and reiki master, explains that figuring it out can be game changing when it comes to your health. “When our bodies are properly hydrated, everything functions better—our metabolism, our digestion, our natural detoxification process, mental acuity and our bodies’ ability to properly absorb vital nutrients.” Unfortunately, she maintains that nearly every one of her clients comes to her dehydrated. “Drinking enough water and staying hydrated creates an immediate shift in the way our bodies look and feel and is a fundamental factor in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.” | <urn:uuid:47a71386-3741-44f7-8d9e-ecf322673f17> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://serenaloves.com/25-worst-mistakes-that-sabotage-your-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.931433 | 195 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Since William Shakespeare lived more than 400 years ago, and many records from that time are lost or never existed in the first place, we don't know everything about his life. For example, we know that he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, 100 miles northwest of London, on April 26, 1564. But we don't know his exact birthdate, which must have been a few days earlier.
We do know that Shakespeare's life revolved around two locations: Stratford and London. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford, but he worked in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. Even without knowing everything about his life, fans of Shakespeare have imagined and reimagined him according to their own tastes, just as we see with the 19th-century family scene at the top of this page.
Primary sources: Shakespeare Documented
Visit Shakespeare Documented to see primary-source materials documenting Shakespeare's life. This online resource of items from the Folger and other institutions brings together all known manuscript and print references to Shakespeare and his works, as well as additional references to his family, in his lifetime and shortly thereafter.
William Shakespeare was probably born on about April 23, 1564, the date that is traditionally given for his birth. He was John and Mary Shakespeare's oldest surviving child; their first two children, both girls, did not live beyond infancy. Growing up as the big brother of the family, William had three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard, and Edmund, and two younger sisters: Anne, who died at seven, and Joan.
Their father, John Shakespeare, was a leatherworker who specialized in the soft white leather used for gloves and similar items. A prosperous businessman, he married Mary Arden, of the prominent Arden family. John rose through local offices in Stratford, becoming an alderman and eventually, when William was five, the town bailiff—much like a mayor. Not long after that, however, John Shakespeare stepped back from public life; we don't know why.
Shakespeare, as the son of a leading Stratford citizen, almost certainly attended Stratford's grammar school. Like all such schools, its curriculum consisted of an intense emphasis on the Latin classics, including memorization, writing, and acting classic Latin plays. Shakespeare most likely attended until about age 15.
On Shakespeare Documented: Primary-source materials relating to Shakespeare's family
A few years after he left school, in late 1582, William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. She was already expecting their first-born child, Susanna, which was a fairly common situation at the time. When they married, Anne was 26 and William was 18. Anne grew up just outside Stratford in the village of Shottery. After marrying, she spent the rest of her life in Stratford.
In early 1585, the couple had twins, Judith and Hamnet, completing the family. In the years ahead, Anne and the children lived in Stratford while Shakespeare worked in London, although we don't know when he moved there. Some later observers have suggested that this separation, and the couple's relatively few children, were signs of a strained marriage, but we do not know that, either. Someone pursuing a theater career had no choice but to work in London, and many branches of the Shakespeares had small families.
Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet, died in 1596 at the age of 11. His older daughter Susanna later married a well-to-do Stratford doctor, John Hall. Their daughter Elizabeth, Shakespeare's first grandchild, was born in 1608. In 1616, just months before his death, Shakespeare's daughter Judith married Thomas Quiney, a Stratford vintner. The family subsequently died out, leaving no direct descendants of Shakespeare.
On Shakespeare Documented: Baptismal and burial records in the parish register for Holy Trinity Church
For several years after Judith and Hamnet's arrival in 1585, nothing is known for certain of Shakespeare's activities: how he earned a living, when he moved from Stratford, or how he got his start in the theater.
Following this gap in the record, the first definite mention of Shakespeare is in 1592 as an established London actor and playwright, mocked by a contemporary as a "Shake-scene." The same writer alludes to one of Shakespeare's earliest history plays, Henry VI, Part 3, which must already have been performed. The next year, in 1593, Shakespeare published a long poem, Venus and Adonis. The first quarto editions of his early plays appeared in 1594. For more than two decades, Shakespeare had multiple roles in the London theater as an actor, playwright, and, in time, a business partner in a major acting company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men (renamed the King's Men in 1603). Over the years, he became steadily more famous in the London theater world; his name, which was not even listed on the first quartos of his plays, became a regular feature—clearly a selling point—on later title pages.
On Shakespeare Documented: Primary-source materials relating to Shakespeare as a playwright, actor, and shareholder
Shakespeare prospered financially from his partnership in the Lord Chamberlain's Men (later the King's Men), as well as from his writing and acting. He invested much of his wealth in real-estate purchases in Stratford and bought the second-largest house in town, New Place, in 1597.
Among the last plays that Shakespeare worked on was The Two Noble Kinsmen, which he wrote with a frequent collaborator, John Fletcher, most likely in 1613. He died on April 23, 1616—the traditional date of his birthday, though his precise birthdate is unknown. We also do not know the cause of his death. His brother-in-law had died a week earlier, which could imply infectious disease, but Shakespeare's health may have had a longer decline.
The memorial bust of Shakespeare at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford is considered one of two authentic likenesses, because it was approved by people who knew him. (The bust in the Folger's Paster Reading Room, shown at left, is a copy of this statue.) The other such likeness is the engraving by Martin Droeshout in the 1623 First Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, produced seven years after his death by his friends and colleagues from the King's Men.
On Shakespeare Documented: Original copy of Shakespeare's last will and testament
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The small type: the guts for Cyber protection and Education is a nonprofit that delivers informative sources for folks who utilze the internet up to now, shop, game, and socialize. The internet has plenty available this singles and couples, but it’s not all smooth sailing and simple swiping. Fraudsters, hackers, catfishers, and other unsavory figures can pose a threat to unsuspecting customers, and that is in which the Center for Cyber Safety and knowledge is available in. The guts’s cybersecurity specialists assist increase consciousness towards potential cyber risks and urge individuals to shield their particular info and money as they mingle on the web.
As online dating grew to become a lot more popular, love scams have become one of the greatest threats to online security and safety. In 2019, People in america reported shedding over $201 million to love cons. To put that in perspective, that is above the GDPs of Wyoming, brand new Hampshire, and Alaska â merged.
The Federal Trade Commission has actually viewed a marked boost in the number of research about relationship frauds nowadays. Prior to now 2 yrs alone, individuals reported losing additional money to romance scams rather than other fraud reported toward Federal Trade Commission. Since 2015, research have more than doubled and reported losses have actually quadrupled.
Online dating sites is a double-edged blade. It could provide singles immediate access to neighborhood times and potential partners, nevertheless also can start the door to crooks who want to benefit from a single individual’s mental susceptability.
Thank goodness, the guts for Cyber Safety and knowledge can arm folks against on-line scammers by giving safety recommendations and sources focused on cyber security.
The middle’s purpose is teach and encourage digital people so that they understand how to search, talk, mingle, and link without putting on their own at an increased risk. The team has pioneered class programs and scholarships to boost understanding about cyber issues of safety, thus making the internet less dangerous for everyone.
A major international nonprofit company known as (ISC)² created the Center to create internet security resources offered to individuals. Cybersecurity pros from about earth have actually pooled their information and ideas to raise understanding about privacy issues, cybercriminals, along with other prospective risks online.
As on line daters navigate the courageous new world of swiping, the guts should be by their side to supply direction and cautions that may enable them to spot the predators, scammers, and catfishers within inboxes.
“the guts’s goal is always to keep developing and increase the sheer number of those who find our reference and give the city,” mentioned Patrick Craven, a spokesperson the team. “The more people have use of discover internet safety through our very own sources, the better we will all be.”
Cybersecurity professionals assist Raise Awareness
The Center is the just nonprofit with the special service of (ISC)2 members, the most known cybersecurity business around. This allows the Center generate precise and current material for a varied market.
Although the Center is a little nonprofit, it reaches classrooms, senior stores, PTA conferences, and communities around the world. A large number of volunteers have actually accompanied forces together with the five settled workers to spread the term about cyber protection.
Cybersecurity plus it specialists used the Center’s resources to instruct individuals about data breaches, on the web scams, cyberbullying, as well as other pitfalls of electronic existence. The Center’s volunteer presentations have-been crucial in disseminating necessary information about cyber protection making use of the public.
“the guts attracts seniors, parents, and teachers looking tools to educate yourself on or teach their loved ones about net protection,” Patrick said.
Some forward-thinking businesses have likewise combined because of the Center to sponsor scholarships for college students enthusiastic about learning cyber safety, info protection, alongside related areas. These scholarships notice that cybersecurity experts should be in sought after for the coming years, and it is vital that you have the best cheating apps and smartest on forward contours of the digital globe. In 2019, the guts provided out $180,000 in university scholarships and educational funding.
The guts’s free resources are online in 24 languages. You will find PowerPoint presentations plus research, infographics, and study obtainable in PDF style. The guts touches on every subject having to do with cyber protection, in order to find information regarding on the web banking, password defense, an internet-based matchmaking.
Everyone can install these resources and turn into cyber safety ambassadors in their communities. Folks can also support the Center through a donation. As a nonprofit, the middle depends on donations and fundraisers to power the efforts to help make the online world a safer spot.
Using the internet Daters may take Precautions in order to avoid Scams
Online matchmaking might accountable for many genuine interactions and marriages, nevertheless can prove unsafe to singles who don’t can get rid of the liars and fakes.
Seniors are especially susceptible to using the internet frauds since they’re inexperienced online and apps, in addition they may skip the warning flags of a fraud.
The middle provides senior safety suggestions to help folks feel more comfortable and safe on online dating sites. Satisfying complete strangers on the internet can seem daunting to start with, but singles may take precautions to make sure they don’t place their unique data, their funds, or their own private safety in danger.
The guts motivates web daters to vet their possible dates before circumstances get as well significant. Singles shouldn’t deliver gift suggestions or money to somebody they usually haven’t met face-to-face, plus they should not satisfy physically without first carrying out a background check and talking for very long sufficient to feel certain that individual is actually just who the individual says.
Your own history look does not have becoming all of that detailed. It can be as easy as a Bing search of the individual’s name or an image search associated with the profile image. It’s also possible to seek out social media users that verify your own love interest’s identity. You would be amazed what you could find out about one with only just a little info for your use.
Not all the dating sites verify pages or display screen members, very singles should treat each incoming information with a healthier number of uncertainty and skepticism.
“go on it gradually. Inquire and look for contradictory solutions,” Patrick advises. “In the event you a romance fraud, cut off get in touch with quickly.”
When you have already offered an online scammer cash, report the scam to your lender and determine as much as possible cancel the charges or cable exchange. It’s also wise to report that member on dating internet site or app where you came across, and lodge a complaint with the FTC.
Powerful safety measures Protect Girls and boys, teenagers, Adults & Seniors
Online safety impacts every person with an internet connection. It is a widespread issue that affects a user’s internet task beyond the web based internet dating scene. Every click and talk have a repercussion in real-world if consumers are not careful.
The Center’s professionals suggest using malware safety pc software maintain trojans from poaching important computer data, crippling your own hookup, and infiltrating the units. The moment the software program is set up, possible install automatic changes so it never ever gets outdated.
A strong code is yet another crucial line of defense for digital people. You may find it easier to bear in mind passwords offering a family member’s title or your own birthday celebration, but that help make your accounts more straightforward to hack. The essential safe passwords have reached least eight figures long plus don’t utilize context-specific words. Attempt to come up with a phrase rather than a word making it added hard to split.
“Make sure you make use of various passwords for every on the web account you’ve got,” Patrick mentioned. “If there is the opportunity to setup a two-factor verification, do it!”
Mail is a common access point for scammers looking to benefit from some body, very be wary about something in your inbox and validate the transmitter before you open the email. Occasionally a so-called immediate e-mail is really a phishing fraud designed to get people to select something, subscribe to some thing, and endanger their security. Look for too-good-to-be correct e-mails about winning cash or awards and additionally emails about a crisis or crisis.
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A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it. Belief leads to various forms of fundamentalism ...Adyashanti
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If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge. No, I have something else in mind. Today I hold a flame in my left hand and a sword in my right. There will be no ...Adyashanti | <urn:uuid:04a3430a-5ef3-4d86-8f91-2b160082534c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uberquotes.net/quotes/authors/adyashanti | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951645 | 305 | 1.75 | 2 |
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Red Bull first joined the market in early 1987 right after an Austrian toothpaste salesperson names Dietrich Mateschitz moved to Thailand and stumbled upon “energy tonic” which was invented by Chaleo Yoovidhya, it was said to keep those who drink it awake and focused.
Three years later Red bull was introduced in Austria April 1st ,1987 to the market but was doubted to be needed in the market. Red Bull later signed their first two international athletes and entered the UK market and created its first kiteboarding international competition in 1999.
Red Bull nowadays is dominant with more than 43% market share in 2015, still at a high point desired by a lot of people. Red Bull has dominated in less than 3 years. In 2016 it have become the exclusive broadcaster of 6 major music festivals.
Red Bull focused on targets that are of the age 18-35 years old where they are usually found (college, parties, bars, etc.) by giving free samples they got the people who tried it talking hence attracting more people to try their product.
Red Bull has sold a total of 6.8 billion cans which also counted up to 8% over 171 countries by 2018 countries growth in consumption included India with +30%, Brazil with +22% and Eastern Europe with the same percentage as Brazil. Ever since Red Bull was introduced to the market in 1987 it has sold about 75 billion cans. Value of the brand is 9.9 billion dollars.
Red Bull performed in three type ways including publicity stunts, events they created and sponsorships. Publicity stunts which include Stratos jump and the Red Bull air force, along with events like Red Bull crashed ice or Red Bull queen of bay this is to attract the attention of the fans of this type of sport and increase their brand awareness; furthermore, sponsorships from electric daisy carnival present in Las Vegas and Coachella which is a great position to be in as all the attendants are their target audience.
Red Bull competitions include products like Monster, Rockstar and Full Throttle which were introduced by the US they introduced completion in the price prospective to the segment. Monster trying to copy Red Bull with a similar taste and ingredients also targeting males of the ages 18-25. The major advantage of Monster over Red Bull is that Monster is available in 16 oz. cans while Red Bull is only available in 8.3 oz. cans so Monster is selling a bigger amount for the same price.
Rockstar also a competitor with Red Bull offers different flavors and targets young customers who want to be “wild and crazy” it is said to be 70% real fruit and 100% energy they also where the first to use the 16 oz size which caused all the others to follow aside from Red Bull still using the 8.3 oz cans.
Full Throttle owned by Coca Cola is marketed as a rebellious drink with a size of both 8oz. and 16 oz. It includes plenty of caffeine and contains taurine like Red Bull. Although Red Bull competitions are similar to it and are present in the market no other energy drink could keep up with Red Bull’s 90% of the market share over 100 countries all over the world.
By using social media in artistic videos and visually appealing images, music created by them, and sweet messages they are attracting more customers. Red Bull creates content that their audience find interesting and activities they know their target audience will participate in.
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