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ERIC Identifier: ED393958
Publication Date: 1996-03-00
Author: Raywid, Mary Anne
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on
Urban Education New York NY.
Downsizing Schools in Big Cities. ERIC Digest. No. 112.
Over the last 30 years research and experience have suggested that students
benefit in many different ways from attending small schools, as opposed to large
ones. Many existing schools, however, and even most under construction, can
accommodate 2,000-4,000 students. While educators may disagree about the right
school size, they recommend that the schools serve between 100 and 1,000
This digest briefly reviews the current movement to downsize urban schools to
help educators decide whether and why to pursue such a move, and to indicate
which models appear most promising.
RATIONALE FOR DOWNSIZING
The school downsizing movement is
only a decade old, and still small, but the evidence is strong that small
schools benefit the entire school community: teachers, students, and parents.
STUDENT BENEFITS. Small schools are particularly beneficial for disadvantaged
students. Specific benefits already documented for these and other youngsters
include: better attendance and retention; better behavior, attitude, and
engagement; enhanced academic performance; and increased involvement in
extracurricular activities. The extra attention that students get from the staff
affords them greater educational, psychoemotional, and social services, and also
makes them feel part of a community. This sense of belonging, as well as
academic performance, are further enhanced when students can choose their
school, and make their selection based on the school's focus.
TEACHER BENEFITS. Teachers, especially those who are able to choose their
school, frequently experience the same growth in commitment to it as students
do. The result is that they willingly participate in planning and analyzing
practice, and they are likely to expend extra efforts to ensure that the
students achieve and the school succeeds.
INSTITUTIONAL BENEFITS. Downsizing frequently improves school organization:
more effective and appropriate governance, stronger student supports, improved
staff effectiveness and satisfaction, better advisement, and enhanced curricula.
The benefits to the school increase along with its autonomy and separation from
other district schools, since there are fewer time- and energy-draining
bureaucratic hurdles to overcome, and the ability to develop its own
distinctiveness is empowering. Further, small schools are easier to
"restructure" than large ones and reform strategies are easier to implement
there, so models for successful change within them are emerging.
Finally, creating several small schools from a large, failing school is a
solution to the problem of what to do with such a school, as well as an
effective way to improve education without incurring construction costs, since
the new schools are housed together in the old building.
CHARACTERISTICS OF SMALL SCHOOLS
Some small schools are
quite different from large ones in all areas of operation, while others differ
mainly in the fact that they serve fewer students. In addition, some schools are
limited in their ability to fully implement the small school concept, because of
their relationship to the school district and other schools within it, or
decisions and regulations imposed by the administrators of the building where
they are located.
Some small schools operate in a structure
totally their own, but most exist within a building that houses other schools.
In the latter circumstances, the small school either may be one of several small
schools that combine to fill the building, all with equal decision-making
authority over building-wide issues; or it may be the only such school in a
building otherwise housing a single larger, "host" school that makes all
building-wide decisions and may exercise some controls over the small school as
Some schools identified as small schools are really just special programs
within a "parent" school, usually developed for a special student population
such as limited English speakers. Most aspects of their operation are controlled
by the host school administration, and the teachers may have duties in both the
parent and small schools. These schools are often less successful than the small
schools that achieve the separateness and autonomy necessary to distinctiveness.
Small schools with a building of their own obviously have greater control
over their operations and are not limited by having to share resources. Such
facilities are, however, often harder to locate. Especially in urban areas, it
may appear nearly impossible to find unused space unattached to an existing
Different cities and school districts design
their small schools very differently, and to different purposes. Although labels
differ, four broad types of small schools are distinguishable:
HOUSE PLANS. In a house plan students and teachers may remain together for
some or all coursework. A house can be organized on a one-year or multi-year
basis. It is usually overlaid upon the department structure of the traditional
middle or high school that hosts it, which restricts the amount of change the
arrangement can create.
MINI-SCHOOLS. This arrangement has some of the properties of a house plan and
is also dependent on its larger host school for its existence. But mini-schools
almost always serve students over a several-year period, and they usually have
their own instructional program, giving them more distinctiveness from one
another than houses usually achieve.
SCHOOLS-WITHIN-SCHOOLS. These are separate and autonomous units with their
own personnel, budget, and program, authorized by the board of education or
superintendent. They operate within a larger school, sharing resources and
reporting to the school principal on matters of safety and building operation.
Both students and teachers choose to affiliate with such a school.
SMALL SCHOOLS OR SCHOOLS-WITHIN-A-BUILDING. These have the properties of a
school-within-a-school, but differ in that each is an entirely new, separate,
and independent school--as opposed to one carved from an existing larger school.
They have their own organization, instructional program, budget, and staff.
COHESION. Aside from their size, many
small schools differ from larger ones in that their creation was based on a
particular philosophy or a distinctive set of organizing principles.
AUTONOMY. To the extent possible, usually through permission or authorization
from host schools or school districts, subschools and small schools develop
their own organizational structure and climate. The four types represent a
continuum with respect to autonomy and control over their own instructional
programs, budget, and personnel.
FOCUS. Many small schools have an agreed-upon focus or theme. Some are
created specifically to provide students with a specialized curriculum, such as
a career magnet, or to provide a certain student population with a program
tailored to its unique needs. A school's focus may also be its instructional
approach. It can be either broadly defined, such as use of inquiry learning
techniques; or based on specific strategies, such as cooperative learning. The
usual function of the focus is to attract and sustain learner engagement across
a full curriculum.
CONSTITUENCY. A self-selected staff and constituency results in a school
community that is cohesive and committed to common goals. Ideally, therefore,
small school teachers must volunteer to work in the school. Similarly, students
benefit most when they elect to enroll, and when the student body is assembled
on the basis of shared interests instead of on the basis of ability or
achievement levels. Also, because they choose the school, presumably because of
a special affinity for its program, parents tend to be more involved in its
operation and in their children's performance there.
FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR SMALL SCHOOLS
cities--New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, among them--have a significant
investment in school downsizing, through strong professional and reformer
support, and through financial support from private foundations and partnerships
with non-profit organizations which are convinced that small schools are
essential to urban education improvement. Downsizing experience to date has been
mixed, although optimistic about its potential. It appears that, besides limited
resources, the greatest inhibitors to a small school's ability to realize its
potential is lack of autonomy--constraints imposed by stringent regulations,
bureaucratic regularities, and longstanding labor agreements; and the need to
mesh with policies and practices of the board of education, the school district,
and the host school--and the hesitation of some education personnel at all
levels to make fundamental changes in the way they function.
Despite the difficulties, small schools are opening and many more are being
planned. They combine a number of the features currently recommended by both
researchers and reformers in the interests of transforming schools into engaging
and responsive places to teach and learn.
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McGregor, K., & Zuckerman, D. (1995). The coalition campus schools project:
Inching toward systemic change in New York City. New York, NY: Teachers College,
National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching.
Fine, M. (1994). Chartering urban school reform. In: M. Fine (Ed.),
Chartering urban school reform (pp. 5-30). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
(ED 374 178)
Foley, E. M., & McConnaughy, S. B. (1982). Towards school improvement:
Lessons from alternative high schools. New York, NY: Public Education
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Lee, V. E., & Smith, J. B. (1995). Collective responsibility for learning
and its effects on gains in achievement for early secondary school students
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, Center on Organization and Restructuring
Lieberman, A. (1995). The work of restructuring schools: Building from the
ground up. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
McMullan, B. J., Sipe, C. L., & Wolf, W. C. (1994, March). Charter and
student achievement: Early evidence from school restructuring in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, PA: Center for Assessment and Policy Development.
Oxley, D., & McCabe, J. G. (1990). Restructuring neighborhood high
schools: The house plan solution. New York, NY: Public Education Association and
Bank Street College of Education. (ED 326 596)
Raywid, M. A. (1994). Focus schools: A genre to consider. Urban Diversity
Series No. 106. New York, NY: Teachers College, ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban
Education. (ED 377 293)
Raywid, M. A. (1995). Alternatives and marginal students. In M. C. Wang &
M. C. Reynolds (Eds.), Making a difference for students at risk: Trends and
alternatives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. (ED 380 519)
Wehlage, G., Smith, G., & Lipman, P. (1992, Spring). Restructuring urban
schools: The new futures experience. American Educational Research Journal, 29
(1), 51-93. (ED 446 636)
This digest is based on a monograph, Taking Stock: The Movement to Create
Mini-Schools, Schools-Within-Schools, and Other Small Schools, by Mary Anne
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CONGRESSWOMAN ELISE STEFANIK
H.Res. 701 is expected to be considered on the floor of the House on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, under a motion to suspend the rules, requiring a two-thirds vote for passage. The resolution was introduced by Rep. James P. Moran (D-VA) on July 30, 2009.
H.Res. 701 would resolve that the House of Representatives:
• "Recognizes the Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve of Fairfax County, Virginia, as a unique and precious ecosystem that serves as an invaluable natural resource both locally and nationally;
• "Recognizes and expresses appreciation for Representative John Dingell's, Representative John Saylor's, and Representative Henry Reuss's leadership in preserving this precious natural resource;
• "Celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Federal legislation designating the Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve as a protected wetland habitat;
• "Expresses the need to continue to conserve, protect and restore this fragile habitat, in which a diverse array of plants, animals and other natural resources is threatened by past dredging and filling, a gradual depletion in size, urban and suburban development, river traffic, stormwater runoff, poaching, and non-native invasive species; and
• "Commends the Friends of Dyke Marsh for its longstanding commitment to promoting conservation and environmental awareness and stewardship, so that the Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve may be enjoyed by generations for the next 50 years and into the future."
According to the resolution's findings, the Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve, on the west bank of the Potomac River just south of Alexandria in Fairfax County is one of the largest remaining freshwater tidal marshes in the Greater Washington, DC area.
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Conflicts of Interest in Infant Feeding Training Programs
Designated hospitals and those seeking designation are required to comply with the most current US Baby-Friendly Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria (GEC), which includes adherence to the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (International Code). Our goal is to ensure that the judgements and recommendations of health care staff and providers are free from commercial interests and obligations and meet the individual needs of mothers and babies.
It is appropriate for staff to be trained on the scientifically valid indications and contraindications of infant feeding products, their use and infant feeding techniques, and such information should not imply that bottle feeding, or formula, is equivalent to or superior to breastfeeding. To the extent that any training program does contain some product logos, the facility shall make clear to its staff that it does not endorse any of these products.
Information on breastfeeding must be provided by skilled professionals who: (1) support the importance of breastfeeding and the “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding”, (2) are themselves compliant with the International Code, and (3) are competent in the specific skills they are teaching.
It is appropriate for information regarding other forms of infant feeding to be provided by a skilled professional and not by sales personnel. In addition, the International Code does require that training and materials that include information on the use of infant formula and infant feeding bottles must also clearly indicate that breastfeeding and breast milk are the optimal forms of infant nutrition. We add that nothing in the training or materials may undermine this statement.
Regardless of the specific topic areas, all trainers and training programs should be free of conflicts of interest under the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes. To the extent that trainers and training programs have a conflict of interest, that conflict must be disclosed, and the facility shall take appropriate measures to mitigate such conflict.
Skilled professionals may not be employees or contractors of infant feeding products manufacturers or distributors and may include the following professionals:
- lactation care professionals;
- occupational therapists;
- physical therapists;
- developmental specialists;
- medical doctors; and
- speech/language pathologists.
No promotional logos, or any advertising for any infant feeding products, may be used on educational brochures, electronic applications or websites directed towards patients, unless specific to the individual patient’s needs.
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Crab, common name for 2 groups of decapod ("ten-footed") Crustaceans. The Anomura, including hermit, mole and lithoid crabs, have relatively normal abdomens. In true crabs, infraorder Brachyura, including genera Cancer and Carcinus, the abdomen is greatly reduced in size and is flexed beneath the thorax. Worldwide there are 4500 species inhabiting marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments. Crabs comprise one of the largest groups of the subphylum Crustacea; as individuals, they are among the largest of arthropods. Giant Japanese and Australian spider crabs, larger in size than the largest lobsters but weighing somewhat less, may have a claw span of over 3 m and weigh up to 14 kg. In Canada crabs are found in marine deep-water and in intertidal and estuarine environments on both coasts. Some, eg, East Coast snow or queen crab (Chionoecetes opilio) and West Coast Dungeness crab (Cancer magister), are of considerable economic value.
See also Crustacean Resources.
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This article was originally published in The Notebook. In August 2020, The Notebook became Chalkbeat Philadelphia.
Katrina Stevens, former senior adviser to the U.S. Department of Education during the Obama administration, will be speaking Tuesday at Drexel University’s ExCITe Center about policies that are working in classrooms nationwide and how to successfully scale those models to implement them in other schools and districts.
The free event runs from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone Research Center, at 3126 Market St.
Stevens spent eight years teaching English at private schools in Maryland and Pennsylvania. She then moved out of the classroom to design curriculum for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth in Bermuda, before being promoted to the deputy director of that center.
Then she moved into the public school system for the first time, becoming an English language arts supervisor at Baltimore County Public Schools, where she designed and implemented a literacy curriculum incorporated across content areas for three years.
Next, Stevens entered the consulting world, helping to co-found LessonCast Learning — a company that develops and markets two pieces of software used for professional development. She left the company two years later to work as a consultant for Maryland Public Television, where she spent two years designing STEM units and aligning the station’s educational content with the Next Generation Science Standards.
She spent the following year working as a consultant for Tuscany Strategy Consulting, and the next year as the summit director and a contributing writer for EdSurge, before being hired by former President Barack Obama’s Department of Education.
She worked in the Office of Educational Technology, where she led the development and launch of Tech Rapid Cycle Evaluation Coach — a free online platform that helps districts and schools choose the best technology for their needs and circumstances.
“The need to make good decisions based on evidence, as opposed to relying on marketing hype or the buzz among a small group of peers, is critical,” Stevens wrote in a blog post at the time. “The goal is to fundamentally change the procurement and implementation process to include a continuous cycle of evidence-based decision making and to help states and districts spend millions of dollars more effectively.”
Since Obama left office, she has been operating her own firm: Katrina Stevens Consulting. The firm will “provide analysis and strategy, develop new programs, and support transitions for organizations of various sizes and types including national organizations, startups, and local, state and university education institutions,” according to Stevens’ LinkedIn page.
Her clients include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Jefferson Education, Digital Promise, Jobs for Future, and the Alliance for Excellent Education — an organization whose president, former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise, has promoted the rapid expansion of virtual charter schools in legislation written by Jeb Bush, and whose leadership has spoken at the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council’s Education and Workforce Development Taskforce.
You can register online for the event.
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Turkey has nearly 20.000 years of a rich and a long history. It has been the home of hundreds of great civilizations starting from Lydians, Hittites, Romans, Greeks to Ottomans, bearing thousands of languages before it became Turkish Republic in 1923. Anatolia is considered to be the birth place and the cradle of trade which begun with the invention of coinage by the Lydians who are believed to be one of the oldest habitants and the first civilization to form democracy.
With the invention of money, the exchange of goods reached another dimension. The dating of the first stamped coins is one of the most frequently debated topics but according to the evidents the most common opinion is that they were minted at the beginning of the reign of King Alyattes who ruled Lydia c. 610-550 BC.
|Turkey has always been an important trade center because of its strategic geological location forming a bridge between Europe and Asia. Hence many important trade routes have led through the Anatolian lands for centuries. One of these trade routes was the Silk Road which is believed to be over 4000 years old. It was the biggest trade road in the world, stretching as far as 7000 miles. The famous Silk Road was a trade path and a corridor in full operation and the main part of it crossed from one point of Turkey to the other.|
Before the invention of coins, market places dating back to the Middle Ages, expanded as shopping centers. People would shop for goods at a weekly market in nearby towns in exchange for bread, pigs, rare seashells, whale’s teeth, and (often) cattle which were the first instances of money with intrinsic value. Currency was introduced as standardized money to facilitate a wider exchange of goods and services. This first stage of currency, where metals were used to represent stored value, and symbols to represent commodities, formed the basis of trade. Today the unit of Turkish money is Turkish Lira. The currency codefor Lira is TRY, and the
Turkey has always been an important trade center because of its strategic geological location forming a bridge between Europe and Asia. Hence many important trade routes have led through the Anatolian lands for centuries. One of these trade routes was the Silk Road which is believed to be over 4000 years old. It was the biggest trade road in the world, stretching as far as 7000 miles. The famous Silk Road was a trade path and a corridor in full operation and the main part of it crossed from one point of Turkey to the other.
Before the invention of coins, market places dating back to theMiddle Ages, expanded as shopping centers. People would shop for goods at a weekly market in nearby towns in exchange for bread, pigs, rare seashells, whale’s teeth, and (often) cattle which were the first instances of money with intrinsic value. Currencywas introduced as standardized money to facilitate a wider exchange of goods and services. This first stage of currency, where metals were used to represent stored value, and symbols to represent commodities, formed the basis of trade. Today the unit of Turkish money is Turkish Lira. Thecurrency codefor Lira is TRY, and thecurrency symbolis
The Innovations of Trade
As the century wore on a tremendous variety of goods and manufactures were steadily made available for the urban middle and upper classes. This growth in consumption led to the rise of ‘shopping’ – a proliferation of retail shops selling particular goods and the acceptance of shopping as a Cultural Activity in its own right. Specific streets and districts became devoted to retail. Over the course of the two centuries from 1600 onwards, the purchasing powerof the average person steadily rose becoming an important reality of the daily life.
From there on shopping innovations started expanding rapidly and in some ways it turned in to an important Cultural Trademark and a part of our daily social lives. Nowadays, Turkey is not only rich in shopping alternatives ranging from historical shopping locations to modern shopping malls but also the symbol of diversity of products. The world’s first shopping center, the Grand Bazaar, was built to revive the city by the time Istanbul was conquered and is of great importance even today. These historical shopping centers where craftsmen offer a variety of artifacts to their customers are among the must-see attractions of Turkey. The hans and caravanserais in major cities of Turkey, once located on important trade routes like the Silk Road, Spice road and Kings Road, still serve as local shopping centers as they did in the past. Today, more than 300 modern shopping malls spread all over Turkey offer quality products in addition to entertainment opportunities. Most of these malls open 7 days a week from 10 am to 10 pm and are big enough to offer all sorts of brands at one location.
This continuous liveliness has left a lasting cultural, intellectual and artistic legacy and also built a solid economical base for the future in Turkey. This base led Turkey to its current position where it is considered as one of the world’s leading producers of textiles, agriculture, electronics and home appliances.
MOST FAMOUS TURKISH PRODUCTS
–Carpets and Kilims
One of the main shopping attractions in Turkey is the hand-knotted carpets and kilims infused with hundreds of years of tradition, with millions of varieties from new to antique and silk to wool. In the annually held International Carpet Design Awards, Turkey is one of the most reward winning countries for its handmade carpets. The techniques used in handmade carpets were brought to the Mediterranean coast by the Seljuks in the 12th century. The demand for carpets in different periods dictated the pace of the development of carpet weaving. The motifs and colors of Turkish carpets and kilims constituted an important medium of expression for the weavers and their community.The most important feature in terms of involved cultural heritage is the nature of the motifs employed. The Turkish craftsman possessed the ability to imbue his hand-woven fabrics with his own identity, his social position and communal traditions. The tradition lives on throughout the country and sold in specialty boutiques and shops in every corner of the land. What makes these carpets and kilims so special is the fact that they are all hand-made string by string by talented weavers, some inspired by the Ottoman times, some from modern times, some from ancient or modern arts and etc. It has become an important component of our culture. Turkey’s competitiveness in this sector with other markets derives from the fact that the harvested cotton is easier to process because of its quality. Usually the raw cotton goes through 3 processes before it becomes wool but in Turkey this process is decreased to 2 processes which provide less need for labor ship. Thanks to our devoted artists and craftsman and also our Government with their never ending support for this sector, Turkish Carpet Sector is still fully standing. By hanging on to our values and culture throughout the centuries, Turkey is still an incomparable brand with its handmade unique designs.
Aside from skillful carpet manufacturing, Turkey is a jewelry-lovers paradise and first-time visitors will undoubtedly be impressed by the wide variety of designs on offer. Jewelry has always been an important part of human culture, serving several purposes that are deeply significant to each of us.One of the most common uses of jewelry and body decoration throughout human history has been to proclaim
one’s social status. Special and meaningful jewelry items are often given to mark an important rite of passage such as reaching the age of adulthood in primitive societies. In modern cultures, this has transformed into a tradition of allowing a young girl to wear pierced ears when she is deemed mature enough or giving a young man his first adult watch, often at a celebration. In medieval times, those with authority often carried special signet rings, pins, or even chain necklaces to indicate their power to their often illiterate subjects. Today, we choose jewelry to mark our marital status viaengagement ringsandwedding bands but body decorations do not always have to have deep commemorative meanings. Many people choose their items simply because they like the items. A Western style outfit isn’t complete without bright silver accents and turquoise. The rich history of Turkey is much reflected in the jewelry we see today in terms of methods and designs which is the most important feature of jewelry making. Inspired by Hittites and many other civilizations that lived in the central and western Anatolia, the making of jewelry using precious metals and gems has left its strong influence to this day.
Craftsmen who lived back then in Western Anatolia, which was also a commercial center in the world, created an “Oriental” synthesis by combining their western lands with the east they observed. Turkish Jewelry Industry, which continues to grow with a stable and constant development, has become one of the prominent countries in the silver and jewelry market around the globe with momentum gained in the recent years. Turkey is among the top 5 countries in terms of world’s silver jewelry production. There is an incredible range of jewelry available, from simple beaded necklaces to opulent designs that can rightfully be called wearable works of art, and from funky modern pieces to refined and elegant classics, all carefully designed and manufactured with precious and beautiful gems and stones. The jewelry sector in Turkey has the capacity to meet any demands of its international clients and to offer a dazzling array of choices with perfection.
It is also possible to find excellent quality leather apparel such as coats, jackets, skirts, dresses, vests, hats, gloves, handbags, wallets and many other items that are carefully prepared and tailored. The leather industry is one the oldest industries known to mankind. The segment of Turkish leather goods in the world market is high expertise and talented hand work makes work force of the sector highly skilled and specialized. In terms of quality, Turkey is relatively able to offer higher standards compared to other countries for many reasons. In some parts of Turkey the earth crust is quiet thick reaching nearly 1100 centimeters which provides a much healthier flora and fauna combination. This reason provides a better breeding environment for animals. Hence the number of sheep herded in Turkey is very high compared to other countries. Especially in the eastern parts these lands are called “the lands of heaven” because of their fertility. The principal methods of making leather haven’t changed much over the years, but that doesn’t mean it is easy. Today there are about 17 Industrial Leather Zones in Turkey which enables us to use modern technology andto produce environment friendlyhigh quality products.With a strong tradition of leather processing dating back to ancient times, Turkey, today is one of the leading countries in producing premium quality products with reasonable price. Since Turkey is not a UN member, the sector is able to offer more competitive prices compared with the UN member countries. In processing of sheep/goat leather, Turkey is second in Europe after and fourth globally.Besides, Turkey is the world leader in fur production with an annual processing capacity of 80 million units. The leather in Turkey is commonly made from sheep, cow and cattle skin going through meticulous procedures before it reaches the customers.
–Turkish Ceramics and Tiles
Aside from these treasures, Turkey has been famous for its tiles andceramics. The art of Turkish tiles and ceramics occupies a place of prominence in the history of Islamic art and Middle East. Its roots can be traced at least as far back as the Uyghur’s of the 8th and 9th centuries.Ottoman Turks inherited the design and the craftsman ship of Seljuk’s Ceramic arts and developed the techniques of ceramic making. The late 15th and early 16th century marks the beginning of a new period in Ottoman tile and ceramic-making. The admirable tiles of Turkey were one of the most important features of the ancient times. Especially in the Ottoman architecture, it is possible to see many fascinating compositions used in mosques and palaces. Most traditional ceramic products are made from clay (or clay mixed with other materials), shaped by hand, subjected to heat and painted by hand after being glazed before reaching its final state which makes them highly unique. Although the traditional designs of stylized prior to 17th century are plant motifs, arabesques, and Chinese clouds appear in the compositions, there is a shift towards a more naturalistic style in which tulips, carnations, hyacinths, roses, spring blossoms, lilies, cypress trees, and clusters of grapes and vine leaves appear. Compositions are relaxed and free, offering greater scope for experimentation with new and richer arrangements. Enriched by the arrival of the Seljuk’s, the ceramic industry in Anatolia achieved a deservedly worldwide reputation with the support of the Ottoman court. Still holding true to the influences of design stemming from the Ottoman Empire; the art of Turkish tile and ceramic-making developed over the centuries incorporating many different techniques and styles building a fine reputation for ceramic production in traditional style and in spirit, offering thousands of varieties, shapes, designs and decorations.
|Turkey is also famous for its rich cuisine and is largely the heritage of Ottoman cuisine, which can be described as a fusion and refinement of Central Asian, Caucasian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and Balkan cuisines. Turkish cuisine and palatal tastes varies across the country depending on the growing products. The cooking of the Aegean region inherits many elements of Ottoman court cuisine, with a lighter use of spices. The cuisine of the Black Sea Regionuses fish extensively, especially the Black Sea anchovy(hamsi), has been influenced by Balkan and Slavic cuisine, and includes maize dishes. The cuisine of the southeast – is famous for its variety of kebabs, mezes and dough-based desserts such as baklava, kadayıf and künefe. The most famous and well known sweet/candy of Turkey, Lokum(Turkish delight), is eaten for digestion after meals and called “rahat hulkum” in the Ottoman era which is an adaptation of sweet and not sweet flavors. Premium varieties of lokum consist largely of chopped dates, pistachios, and hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel; traditional varieties are mostly gel, generally flavored with rosewater, mastic, Bergamot orange, or lemon. Lokum was introduced to Western Europe in the 19th century. An unknown Briton reputedly became very fond of the delicacy during his travels to Istanbul and purchased cases of it, to be shipped back to Britain under the nameTurkish delight. It became a major delicacy in Britain and throughout Continental Europe for high class society. During this time, it became a practice among upper class socialites to exchange pieces of Turkish delight wrapped in silk handkerchiefs as presents. To this day the fame of Lokum continues.|
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Once the Bodhisatta was born as Dhammapāla, son of Mahāpatāpa, king of Bārāṇasī and his queen, Candā. One day Candā was playing with her seven-
This roused the king’s jealousy, and he sent for the executioner and had the prince’s hands and feet and head cut off and his body encircled with sword-
The story was, told in reference to Devadatta’s attempts to kill the Buddha. Devadatta was Mahāpatāpa and Mahāpajāpatī was Candā (J.iii.177‑82). The Jātaka is often cited (e.g., J.iv.11; v.113) to illustrate how anger, when once arisen, is difficult to control.
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To prepare for a hurricane, you should take the following measures:
Be sure trees and shrubs around your home are well trimmed.
Clear loose and clogged rain gutters and downspouts.
Consider building a safe room.
Determine how and where to secure your boat.
Install straps or additional clips to securely fasten your roof to the frame structure. This will reduce roof damage.
Make plans to secure your property. Permanent storm shutters offer the best protection for windows. A second option is to board up windows with 5/8-inch marine plywood, cut to fit and ready to install. Tape does not prevent windows from breaking.
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Limited government groups are taking aim at the so-called "Chevron" deference appeals courts accord agency rulings in appeals of the aforementioned.
The most recent such ruling regarding the FCC, which is targeted by the groups in a joint letter to Congress, was the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decision upholding essentially all of the FCC's decisions in reclassifying internet access as a Title II common carrier service subject to common carrier regulations.
In Chevron v. NRDC, the Supreme Court said that federal agencies were generally granted deference in interpreting ambiguous statutes given their subject matter expertise. In the case of the Open Internet order, the court was not ruling on the wisdom of that reclassification, only on whether the FCC did not exceed its authority in interpreting its ability to regulate internet access under prevailing statute.
In their letter, more than a dozen groups including Tech Freedom, the Taxpayer Protection Alliance and the appropriately titled Less Government said they wanted Congress to check "regulatory overreach" like the FCC's Open Internet order, by passing the Separation of Powers Restoration Act (SOPRA)—there is a House and Senate version—a Republican-backed effort to "clarify that the Administrative Procedure Act [APA] requires courts to conduct a new review of relevant questions of law when evaluating agency regulations — rather than simply deferring to the agency’s judgment."
APA is the law laying out how federal agencies can make their rulings. For instance, they can't be arbitrary and capricious.
“The FCC’s Open Internet Order is just one of many instances where Chevron deference has enabled gross regulatory overreach. SOPRA would prevent administrative agencies from effectively re-writing legislation to suit their purposes — often driven by politics — and restore legislative power to the American people’s elected representatives in Congress," the groups said.
President Obama very publicly pushed the FCC to reclassify ISPs as common carriers at a time when the FCC still appeared to be leaning toward not doing so.
Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Dhaval N Mehta1, Jigna Shah2, Bhavik Thakkar3
1Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Karnavati School of Dentistry, Uvarsad, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
2Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Government Dental College and Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
3Department of Orthodontics, Karnavati School of Dentistry, Uvarsad, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
Amelogenesis Imperfecta (AI) represents a group of developmental conditions, genomic in origin, which affect the structure and clinical appearance of enamel of all or nearly all the teeth in a more or less equal manner. AI is a serious problem that reduces oral health-related quality of life and causes some physiological problems. We presented here four case reports of AI (Hypoplastic and Hypomaturation) which we diagnosed on the basis of classical clinical and radiographic features.
Keywords: Amelogenesis imperfecta, enamel hypoplasia, hypoplastic teeth.
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Some things seem small...
Yet are extraordinarily strong!
Robust Superhydrophobic Surfaces via the Sand-In Method.
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Superhydrophobic surfaces have gained sustained attention because of their extensive applications in the fields of self-cleaning, anti-icing, and drag reduction systems. Water droplets must have large apparent contact angle (CA) (>150°) and small CA hysteresis (<10°) on these surfaces. However, previous research usually involves complex fabrication strategies to modify the surface wettability. It is also challenging to maintain the temporal and mechanical stability of the delicate surface textures. Here, we develop a one-step solvent-free sand-in method to fabricate robust superhydrophobic surfaces directly atop various substrates with an apparent CA up to 163.8° and hysteresis less than 5°. The water repellency can withstand 100 Scotch tape peeling tests and remain stable after being stored under ambient humid conditions in Houston, Texas, for 18 months or being heated at 130 °C in air for 24 h. The superhydrophobic surfaces have excellent anti-icing ability, including a 2.6* longer water freezing time and 40% smaller ice adhesion strength with the temperature as low as -35 °C. Since the surface layers are fabricated by sanding the substrates with the powder additives, the surface damage can be repaired by a direct re-sanding treatment with the same powder additives. Further sand-in condition screenings broaden surface wettability from hydrophilic to superhydrophobic. The sand-in method induces the surface modification and the formation of the tribofilm. Surface and materials characterizations reveal that both microstructures and nanoscale asperities of the tribofilms contribute to the robust superhydrophobic features of sanded surfaces.
View details for DOI 10.1021/acsami.2c05076
View details for PubMedID 35862236
Turbostratic Boron-Carbon-Nitrogen and Boron-Nitride by Flash Joule Heating.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Turbostratic layers in 2D materials have an interlayer misalignment. The lack of alignment expands the intrinsic interlayer distances and weakens the optical and electronic interactions between adjacent layers. This introduces properties distinct from those structures with well-aligned lattices and strong coupling interactions. However, direct, and rapid synthesis of turbostratic materials remains a challenge owing to their thermodynamically metastable properties. Here, we report a flash Joule heating (FJH) method to achieve bulk synthesis of boron-carbon-nitrogen ternary compounds with turbostratic structures by a kinetically controlled ultrafast cooling process that takes place within milliseconds (103 104 K s-1 ). Theoretical calculations support the existence of turbostratic structures and provide estimates of the energy barriers with respect to conversion into the corresponding well-aligned counterparts. When using non-carbon conductive additives, a direct synthesis of boron nitride is possible. The turbostratic nature facilitates mechanical exfoliation and more stable dispersions. Accordingly, the addition of flash products to a polyvinyl alcohol nanocomposite film coating a copper surface greatly improves the copper's resistance to corrosion in 0.5 M sulfuric acid or 3.5 wt% saline solution. FJH allows the use of bulk materials as reactants and provides a rapid approach to large quantities of the hitherto hard-to-access turbostratic materials. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
View details for DOI 10.1002/adma.202202666
View details for PubMedID 35748868
Brushed Metals for Rechargeable Metal Batteries.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Battery designs are swiftly changing from metal-ion to rechargeable metal batteries. Theoretically, metals can deliver maximum anode capacity and enable cells with improved energy density. In practice, these advantages are only possible if the parasitic surface reactions associated with metal anodes are controlled. These undesirable surface reactions are responsible for many troublesome issues, like dendrite formation and accelerated consumption of active materials, which leads to anodes with low cycle life or even battery runaway. Here, we report a facile and solvent-free brushing method to convert powders into films atop Li and Na metal foils. Benefiting from the reactivity of Li metal with these powder films, surface energy can be effectively tuned, thereby preventing parasitic reaction. In-operando study of P2 S5 -Li anodes in liquid electrolyte cells reveals a smoother electrode contour and more uniform Li metal electrodeposition and dissolution behavior during cycling. The P2 S5 -Li anodes sustain ultralow polarization in symmetric cell for >4000 h, 8* longer than bare Li anodes. The capacity retention is 70% higher when P2 S5 -Li anodes are paired with a practical LiFePO4 cathode (3.2 mAh cm-2 ) after 340 cycles. Brush coating opens a promising avenue to fabricate large-scale artificial solid-electrolyte-interphase directly on metals without the need for organic solvent. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
View details for DOI 10.1002/adma.202202668
View details for PubMedID 35709635
Light-activated molecular machines are fast-acting broad-spectrum antibacterials that target the membrane.
2022; 8 (22): eabm2055
The increasing occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the dwindling antibiotic research and development pipeline have created a pressing global health crisis. Here, we report the discovery of a distinctive antibacterial therapy that uses visible (405 nanometers) light-activated synthetic molecular machines (MMs) to kill Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, in minutes, vastly outpacing conventional antibiotics. MMs also rapidly eliminate persister cells and established bacterial biofilms. The antibacterial mode of action of MMs involves physical disruption of the membrane. In addition, by permeabilizing the membrane, MMs at sublethal doses potentiate the action of conventional antibiotics. Repeated exposure to antibacterial MMs is not accompanied by resistance development. Finally, therapeutic doses of MMs mitigate mortality associated with bacterial infection in an in vivo model of burn wound infection. Visible light-activated MMs represent an unconventional antibacterial mode of action by mechanical disruption at the molecular scale, not existent in nature and to which resistance development is unlikely.
View details for DOI 10.1126/sciadv.abm2055
View details for PubMedID 35648847
Heteroatom-Doped Flash Graphene
2022; 16 (5): 6646-6656
Heteroatom doping can effectively tailor the local structures and electronic states of intrinsic two-dimensional materials, and endow them with modified optical, electrical, and mechanical properties. Recent studies have shown the feasibility of preparing doped graphene from graphene oxide and its derivatives via some post-treatments, including solid-state and solvothermal methods, but they require reactive and harsh reagents. However, direct synthesis of various heteroatom-doped graphene in larger quantities and high purity through bottom-up methods remains challenging. Here, we report catalyst-free and solvent-free direct synthesis of graphene doped with various heteroatoms in bulk via flash Joule heating (FJH). Seven types of heteroatom-doped flash graphene (FG) are synthesized through millisecond flashing, including single-element-doped FG (boron, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur), two-element-co-doped FG (boron and nitrogen), as well as three-element-co-doped FG (boron, nitrogen, and sulfur). A variety of low-cost dopants, such as elements, oxides, and organic compounds are used. The graphene quality of heteroatom-doped FG is high, and similar to intrinsic FG, the material exhibits turbostraticity, increased interlayer spacing, and superior dispersibility. Electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction of different heteroatom-doped FG is tested, and sulfur-doped FG shows the best performance. Lithium metal battery tests demonstrate that nitrogen-doped FG exhibits a smaller nucleation overpotential compared to Cu or undoped FG. The electrical energy cost for the synthesis of heteroatom-doped FG synthesis is only 1.2 to 10.7 kJ g-1, which could render the FJH method suitable for low-cost mass production of heteroatom-doped graphene.
View details for DOI 10.1021/acsnano.2c01136
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View details for PubMedID 35320673
Machine Learning Guided Synthesis of Flash Graphene.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Advances in nanoscience have enabled the synthesis of nanomaterials, such as graphene, from low-value or waste materials through flash Joule heating. Though this capability is promising, the complex and entangled variables that govern nanocrystal formation in the Joule heating process remain poorly understood. In this work, we construct machine learning (ML) models to explore the factors that drive the transformation of amorphous carbon into graphene nanocrystals during flash Joule heating. An XGBoost regression model of crystallinity achieves an r2 score of 0.8051 ± 0.054. Feature importance assays and decision trees extracted from these models reveal key considerations in the selection of starting materials and the role of stochastic current fluctuations in flash Joule heating synthesis. Furthermore, partial dependence analyses demonstrate the importance of charge and current density as predictors of crystallinity, implying a progression from reaction-limited to diffusion-limited kinetics as flash Joule heating parameters change. Finally, we show a practical application of the ML models by using Bayesian meta-learning algorithms to automatically improve bulk crystallinity over many Joule heating reactions. These results illustrate the power of ML as a tool to analyze complex nanomanufacturing processes and enable the synthesis of 2D crystals with desirable properties by flash Joule heating. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
View details for DOI 10.1002/adma.202106506
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- Sounds of Synthesis: Acoustic Real-Time Analysis of Laser-Induced Graphene ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 2022
Phase controlled synthesis of transition metal carbide nanocrystals by ultrafast flash Joule heating.
1800; 13 (1): 262
Nanoscale carbides enhance ultra-strong ceramics and show activity as high-performance catalysts. Traditional lengthy carburization methods for carbide syntheses usually result in coked surface, large particle size, and uncontrolled phase. Here, a flash Joule heating process is developed for ultrafast synthesis of carbide nanocrystals within 1s. Various interstitial transition metal carbides (TiC, ZrC, HfC, VC, NbC, TaC, Cr2C3, MoC, and W2C) and covalent carbides (B4C and SiC) are produced using low-cost precursors. By controlling pulse voltages, phase-pure molybdenum carbides including beta-Mo2C and metastable alpha-MoC1-x and eta-MoC1-x are selectively synthesized, demonstrating the excellent phase engineering ability of the flash Joule heating by broadly tunable energy input that can exceed 3000K coupled with kinetically controlled ultrafast cooling (>104Ks-1). Theoretical calculation reveals carbon vacancies as the driving factor for topotactic transition of carbide phases. The phase-dependent hydrogen evolution capability of molybdenum carbides is investigated with beta-Mo2C showing the best performance.
View details for DOI 10.1038/s41467-021-27878-1
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Ultrafast and Controllable Phase Evolution by Flash Joule Heating
2021; 15 (7): 11158-11167
Flash Joule heating (FJH), an advanced material synthesis technique, has been used for the production of high-quality carbon materials. Direct current discharge through the precursors by large capacitors has successfully converted carbon-based starting materials into bulk quantities of turbostratic graphene by the FJH process. However, the formation of other carbon allotropes, such as nanodiamonds and concentric carbon materials, as well as the covalent functionalization of different carbon allotropes by the FJH process, remains challenging. Here, we report the solvent-free FJH synthesis of three different fluorinated carbon allotropes: fluorinated nanodiamonds, fluorinated turbostratic graphene, and fluorinated concentric carbon. This is done by millisecond flashing of organic fluorine compounds and fluoride precursors. Spectroscopic analysis confirms the modification of the electronic states and the existence of various short-range and long-range orders in the different fluorinated carbon allotropes. The flash-time-dependent relationship is further demonstrated to control the phase evolution and product compositions.
View details for DOI 10.1021/acsnano.1c03536
View details for Web of Science ID 000679406500017
View details for PubMedID 34138536
High-Resolution Laser-Induced Graphene from Photoresist
2021; 15 (5): 8976-8983
The fabrication of patterned graphene electronics at high resolution is an important challenge for many applications in microelectronics. Here, we demonstrate the conversion of positive photoresist (PR), commonly employed in the commercial manufacture of consumer electronics, into laser-induced graphene (LIG). Sequential lasing converts the PR photopolymer first into amorphous carbon, then to photoresist-derived LIG (PR-LIG). The resulting material possesses good conductivity and is easily doped with metal or other additives for additional functionality. Furthermore, photolithographic exposure of PR prior to lasing enables the generation of PR-LIG patterns small enough to be invisible to the naked eye. By exploiting PR as a photopatternable LIG precursor, PR-LIG can be synthesized with a spatial resolution of ∼10 μm, up to 15 times smaller than conventional LIG patterning methods. The patterning of these small PR-LIG features could offer a powerful and broadly accessible strategy for the fabrication of microscale LIG-derived nanocomposites for on-chip devices.
View details for DOI 10.1021/acsnano.1c01843
View details for Web of Science ID 000656994100093
View details for PubMedID 33900723
Millisecond Conversion of Metastable 2D Materials by Flash Joule Heating
2021; 15 (1): 1282-1290
Controllable phase engineering is vital for precisely tailoring material properties since different phase structures have various electronic states and atomic arrangements. Rapid synthesis of thermodynamically metastable materials, especially two-dimensional metastable materials, with high efficiency and low cost remains a large challenge. Here we report flash Joule heating (FJH) as an electrothermal method to achieve the bulk conversion of transition metal dichalcogenides, MoS2 and WS2, from 2H phases to 1T phases in milliseconds. The conversions can reach up to 76% of flash MoS2 using tungsten powder as conductive additive. Different degrees of phase conversion can be realized by controlling the FJH conditions, such as reaction duration and additives, which allows the study of ratio-dependent properties. First-principles calculations confirm that structural processes associated with the FJH, such as vacancy formation and charge accumulation, result in stabilization of the 1T phases. FJH offers rapid access to bulk quantities of the hitherto hard-to-access 1T phases, a promising method for further fundamental research and diverse applications of metastable phases.
View details for DOI 10.1021/acsnano.0c08460
View details for Web of Science ID 000613942700099
View details for PubMedID 33412009
Nanocars with Permanent Dipoles: Preparing for the Second International Nanocar Race
JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
2020; 85 (21): 13644-13654
With the desire to synthesize surface-rolling molecular machines that can be translated and rotated with extreme precision and speed, we have synthesized a series of five nanocars. Each structure features a permanent dipole moment, generated by an N,N-dimethylamino- moiety on one end of the car coupled with a nitro group on the other end. These cars are designed to be stimulated with an electric field gradient from a scanning probe microscopy tip. The nanocars all possess unexplored combinations of structural features: tert-butyl wheels, short alkyne chassis, and combination sets of wheels including one set of tert-butyl wheels and another set of larger adamantane wheels on the same car. Each of these features needs to be assessed as preparation for the second International Nanocar Race that is taking place in 2022.
View details for DOI 10.1021/acs.joc.0c01811
View details for Web of Science ID 000589941700023
View details for PubMedID 33085894
Flash Graphene Morphologies
2020; 14 (10): 13691-13699
Flash Joule heating (FJH) can convert almost any carbon-based precursor into bulk quantities of graphene. This work explores the morphologies and properties of flash graphene (FG) generated from carbon black. It is shown that FG is partially comprised of sheets of turbostratic FG (tFG) that have a rotational mismatch between neighboring layers. The remainder of the FG is wrinkled graphene sheets that resemble nongraphitizing carbon. To generate high quality tFG sheets, a FJH duration of 30-100 ms is employed. Beyond 100 ms, the turbostratic sheets have time to AB-stack and form bulk graphite. Atomistic simulations reveal that generic thermal annealing yields predominantly wrinkled graphene which displays minimal to no alignment of graphitic planes, as opposed to the high-quality tFG that might be formed under the direct influence of current conducted through the material. The tFG was easily exfoliated via shear, hence the FJH process has the potential for bulk production of tFG without the need for pre-exfoliation using chemicals or high energy mechanical shear.
View details for DOI 10.1021/acsnano.0c05900
View details for Web of Science ID 000586793400117
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Laminated Laser-Induced Graphene Composites
2020; 14 (7): 7911-7919
Laser-induced graphene (LIG) is a porous graphene foam generated by lasing carbon-based precursors. Compositing LIG expands the spectrum of applications for which the material may be used. Techniques for scale-up of LIG composites will be essential as the technology approaches commercialization. Roll-to-roll processing is of special interest, as precisely controlled patterning can be performed in conjunction with continuous formation of composites. Here, we demonstrate a simple lamination compositing method that is compatible with roll-to-roll processing and yields functional, patterned, and multilayered LIG composites with various thermoplastic films. Multiple lamination steps are used to encapsulate LIG within composites. We also demonstrate several applications for LIG that have been enabled by the lamination compositing technique. These include robust flexible electrodes generated through laminating copper foil strips into the LIG composite, LIG-based triboelectric nanogenerators to harvest waste mechanical energy, antimicrobial LIG composite bandages with varying hydrophobicity, and LIG puncture detectors.
View details for DOI 10.1021/acsnano.0c02835
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Self-Sterilizing Laser-Induced Graphene Bacterial Air Filter
2019; 13 (10): 11912-11920
Nosocomial infections transmitted through airborne, droplet, aerosol, and particulate-transported modes pose substantial infection risks to patients and healthcare employees. In this study, we demonstrate a self-cleaning filter comprised of laser-induced graphene (LIG), a porous conductive graphene foam formed through photothermal conversion of a polyimide film by a commercial CO2 laser cutter. LIG was shown to capture particulates and bacteria. The bacteria cannot proliferate even when submerged in culture medium. Through a periodic Joule-heating mechanism, the filter readily reaches >300 °C. This destroys any microorganisms including bacteria, along with molecules that can cause adverse biological reactions and diseases. These molecules include pyrogens, allergens, exotoxins, endotoxins, mycotoxins, nucleic acids, and prions. Capitalizing on the high surface area and thermal stability of LIG, the utility of graphene for reduction of nosocomial infection in hospital settings is suggested.
View details for DOI 10.1021/acsnano.9b05983
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Laser-Induced Graphene Triboelectric Nanogenerators
2019; 13 (6): 7166-7174
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) show exceptional promise for converting wasted mechanical energy into electrical energy. This study investigates the use of laser-induced graphene (LIG) composites as an exciting class of triboelectric materials in TENGs. Infrared laser irradiation is used to convert the surfaces of the two carbon sources, polyimide (PI) and cork, into LIG. This gives the bilayer composite films the high conductivity associated with LIG and the triboelectric properties of the carbon source. A LIG/PI composite is used to fabricate TENGs based on conductor-to-dielectric and metal-free dielectric-to-dielectric device geometries with open-circuit voltages >3.5 kV and peak power >8 mW. Additionally, a single sheet of PI is converted to a metal-free foldable TENG. The LIG is also embedded within a PDMS matrix to form a single-electrode LIG/PDMS composite TENG. This single-electrode TENG is highly flexible and stretchable and was used to generate power from mechanical contact with skin. The LIG composites present a class of triboelectric materials that can be made from naturally occurring and synthetic carbon sources.
View details for DOI 10.1021/acsnano.9b02596
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Rewarding Study for a Rewarding Career
A nursing education from EIT is highly regarded with graduate nurses being recognised nationally and internationally. When you graduate with a nursing degree you will be fully equipped to provide nursing healthcare to people at every stage of their lives.
You will develop, practice and refine your learning in a hands-on approach in our Clinical Arts and Technology (CAT) Centre, which is set up like a working hospital.
Building on your compassionate and empathetic nature you’ll learn how to assess and manage patients in hospitals and the wider community, while working alongside other health professionals.
The Bachelor of Nursing (BN) is a full-time, three year programme (or five years equivalent part-time) which offers you stimulating undergraduate degree level studies and provides a pathway to your professional qualification as a New Zealand registered nurse.
The BN programme enables you to enter practice as a registered nurse with a sound knowledge base of nursing theory, social sciences, biological sciences, research and professional nursing practice skills. Theoretical and nursing practice experiences are balanced throughout the programme.
Work-integrated learning experiences occur in a wide range of community and acute health care settings and comprise approximately fifty percent of the programme.
The BN programme is delivered in a blended mode. This means that there will be both face-to-face and online teaching and learning. You will need to have access to a computer with broadband facilities.
- Anatomy and physiology
- Therapeutic communication
- Knowledge of professional nursing practice – aged residential care, primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare
- Understanding and application of Te Tiriti o Waitangi to nursing care
- Human development
- Health promotion
- Health in Aotearoa
- Māori health and health equity
- Mental health
- Evidence-based practice
You are welcome to make an appointment to discuss your study options with our staff and to view our facilities.
Career Opportunities and Outcomes
Nursing is a professional practice and an essential part of health care. EIT nursing graduates have high rates of employment.
Possible jobs and career opportunities can include:
- Public and private hospitals
- Community health
- Tamariki Ora / Plunket (Well Child Health)
- Independent practice
- Public health
- Nursing education
- Child health
- Mental health
- Registered nurse prescribing
- Nurse practitioner
There are two entry dates per year:
Entry with Credit
International Entry Requirements
EIT Nursing Training in Action
Today’s nurses aren’t just caring for the sick; they’re changing our very notion of modern health care delivery. A nursing education from EIT is highly regarded. Our graduate nurses are recognised nationally and internationally. Employment rates are high. EIT’s Bachelor of Nursing programme gives graduates a sound knowledge base of science, research and professional nursing skills.
Academic Learning Services
Academic Learning Services is here to assist you on your journey towards the successful completion of your studies at EIT. Our aim is for you to become confident, competent and independent learners.
We have dedicated advisors who can assist with your learning.
Find out more:
EIT offers a variety of scholarships across various subjects and programme levels. Some scholarships are based on your age, some are specific to the subject you want to study. Not all scholarships are based on your academic ability and anyone wanting to study should investigate what scholarships are available to them.
You can find a list of EIT scholarships here however there are many more scholarships offered nationally. Information about these is on an database called “givME”. givME is accessible at EIT or at some public libraries. If you would like to come to EIT to look through the giveME database don’t hesitate to contact firstname.lastname@example.org or call in for a chat.
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Eastcroft farm is in Eastcott. It lies on the main road through this settlement but also has a little loop lane all of its own.
We can see its location towards the top right hand corner of this modern map.
And here’s a view along the main road, possibly in about 1920.
Eastcroft Farm is on the right. On the left is Ducks Farm and straight down the road is the Manor House in Eastcott. Horse power is being used to haul a load towards the cameraman.
Almost inevitably, the view is more wooded and concealed today.
No sign of the Manor at all there. Ducks Farm has extended but what we see of Eastcroft Farm looks much the same.
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Here is list top electronics websites and community that were thought to be useful to electronics engineers, hackers and makers. If you notice a broken link, or want your page linked here, feel free to mail us at [email protected]
*There is no particular order for rankings.
- Hackaday – Fresh hacks every day.
- Hackster.io – The community dedicated to learning hardware.
- Instructables – How to make anything.
- Fab Foundation – Fab Lab is the educational outreach component of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), an extension of its research into digital fabrication and computation. A Fab Lab is a technical prototyping platform for innovation and invention, providing stimulus for local entrepreneurship. Seeed has cooperated with many fab labs such as Fab Lab Barcelona
- All About Circuits – Electrical Engineering & Electronics Community
- EEVblog – Australian electronics design engineer and video blogger.
- MickMake – Live. Learn. Make – Mick made a lot of awesome reviews and tutorials for open source hardware.
- Electromaker – Board Guide 2019 Edition– A carefully researched and curated list of 100 boards worthy of your attention.
- geekstips.com – A blog about Internet of Things, ESP8266, Arduino projects and Automation Technologies.
- Node.js and Raspberry Pi – The Raspberry Pi has a row of GPIO (General Purpose input/output) pins, and these can be used to interact in amazing ways with the real world. This tutorial will focus on how to use these with Node.js.
- Programming Electronics Academy – Helps you scale this mountain of knowledge and teach you the programming and electronics necessary to get you started prototyping your ideas. They use the Arduino platform as the basis for our curriculum.
- CNXSOFT – EMBEDDED SYSTEMS NEWS
News, Tutorials, Reviews, and How-Tos related to Embedded Linux and Android, Arduino, ESP8266, Development Boards, TV Boxes, Mini PCs, etc..
- RTL-SDR.COM – RTL-SDR (RTL2832U) and software defined radio news and projects. Also featuring Airspy, HackRF, FCD, SDRplay and more.
- IT PRO – Enterprise & Business IT News, Reviews, Features & How Tos
- Make Magazine: is an American bimonthly magazine published by Maker Media which focuses on do it yourself and/or DIWO projects involving computers, electronics, robotics, metalworking, woodworking and other disciplines.
- Pi My Life Up – 101+ DIY Raspberry Pi Projects & Guides
- electronics-lab – Open Source Electronics Project and News.
- Arduino Create
Arduino Create simplifies building a project as a whole, without having to switch between different tools to manage all the aspects of whatever you’re making.
- CNET – Product reviews, how-tos, deals and the latest tech news
- Android Authority – Android News blog dedicated to providing expert tips, news, reviews, Android Phones, Android Apps, Android Tablet, Rooting & Howtos.
- TechCrunch – Startup and Technology News
- The New Stack – For developers and engineers building and managing new stacks around the world that are built on open source technologies and distributed infrastructures.
- EEWEB – Electrical Engineering News, Resources, and Community
- Electronic Design – The premier independent information source for electronics engineers that provide must-have, fully comprehensive coverage of the electronics industry through its vast network of experts.
- eLinux.org – Preserve and present information about the development and use of Linux in embedded systems as well as open source projects and tools for general embedded development.
- LinuxGizmos.com: embedded Linux news & devices
- ZDNet – Technology News, Analysis, Comments and Product Reviews
- Lifehacker – Hardware – Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Doing Everything
- 96Boards – Develop & Prototype on the Latest Arm Technology – Products built with the latest silicon, based on open platform specifications for developers, makers and businesses.
- The Register: Sci/Tech News for the World
- Dangerous Prototypes – release a new open source hardware project every month.
- Random Nerd Tutorials – Random Nerd Tutorials helps makers, hobbyists, and engineers build electronics projects.Since establishing in 2013, Random Nerd Tutorials has become a trusted place to learn electronics and programming online. RNT has more than 200 free tutorials published online that anyone can follow.
- DIY Projects – DIY Projects, tutorials, examples in Home Automation, connected devices (IoT).
- Opensource.com – Opensource.com publishes stories about creating, adopting, and sharing open source solutions.
- Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange – Q&A for electronics and electrical engineering professionals, students, and enthusiasts.
- tutorialspoint – Arduino Tutorial – Arduino Tutorial for Beginners – Learn Arduino in simple and easy steps starting from basic to advanced concepts with examples
- Ask Ubuntu – Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; it only takes a minute.
- Eltechs Blog – Eltechs is a young high-tech software startup. There are many useful tutorials in the blog especially for Raspberry Pi
- Simple Projects
This small blog provides simple electrical and electronics projects with circuit schematic diagrams and source codes. Most of projects are based on Microchip PIC® microcontrollers and Arduino.
AndroidPimp – Cool Products Worth Buying Online
- Not Enough Tech – Blog that covers various topics like home automation, DIY projects, apps and gadgets through reviews, tutorials, DIY projects and live-streams.
- ESP8266 in LibreOfficei – Linux, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Calc, Raspberry Pi Zero W, Steuern, Smartphone, Technik, Physik, Bücher, ESP8266, Mikrocontroller, Software
- PHPoC – Started by Sollae Systems, they provide embedded network solutions through PHPoC which is a programming language and an IoT hardware platform.
- Eldruin’s Blog – Blog that covers programming, C++, Rust and embedded stuff.
- IT4Nextgen – Blog on gadgets and technology that are easy to understand with lots of descriptive images with reviews and also best-of’s lists.
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It’s turning out to be a very exciting racing season for kids: Wednesday Night Races at BHP, KOM/Cup series at some of the best MTB sites in the province, and MTB racing as part of the Manitoba Summer Games for the first time in over a decade!
To keep things going smoothly, it’s still important that all of us – coaches, parents and Commissaires – keep safety considerations at the forefront. We all know that cycling and mountain biking is risky. But there are things that are within our collective control that could lessen that risk. We wouldn’t send kids onto a soccer pitch wearing metal cleated shoes, for example. And so we shouldn’t send kids into a program or race with bikes and equipment that could result in further injury.
Recently it was observed by Commissaires that some bikes in a KOM race really needed some TLC: grips were off; bar-end plugs were missing; the bikes themselves were the wrong size for the rider…etc. Commissaires are nice people; they didn’t pull racers from the course – an action which is certainly within their authority as race officials. So what kinds of injury prevention measures could Commissaires reinforce at the start of a race?
Attached is a letter from Dr. Lynne Warda, Associate Professor with the Injury Prevention and Child Health department of WRHA. She kindly reviewed the academic literature – studies and case reports – about handlebar injuries that doctors see. It’s scary stuff.
Of course there are no guarantees; cyclists can get injured just like any other athlete. But when a coach, official or store mechanic suggests a few low-cost changes that could prevent a serious injury, say “thank-you – let’s do that right away”: it really is expert advice that’s in the best interests of the child.
Karin McSherry, KOM and Commissaire Director
Jason Carter, MCA President
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Nov 24, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake has proposed to end the tax-free vehicles given to state workers and elected ruling class as it has generated a 40 billion revenue loss per year to the government.
Public servants and government officials were offered tax cuts to purchase vehicles of their choice, under the vehicle permit schemes.
“The vehicle permit schemes have been politicized and misused and have created a huge revenue loss over 40 billion rupees a year to the government,” Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said in the budget for 2016.
“I propose to abolish all the vehicle permits granted under different schemes, including to Parliamentarians,” he said.
“However, I ensure all government officers will be financially compensated for the benefit foregone,” he said.
“Further, all the vehicles purchased to the Government will be subject to all applicable taxes and necessary allocations will be provided in the budget.”
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This week we feature Shade Sails in and around Kew in Melbourne’s inner east and the City of Boroondara.
This area is very leafy and prestigious, with many gracious old and impressive new homes.
This house in a leafy street has an interesting backyard shade sail which has a single post and fixed to two walls at ninety degrees with anchor plates.
Compare this to some of our backyard shade sail projects.
Another shade sail at Rossbourne School on Power Street in Hawthorn. The hyperbolic grey shade sail fits in well next to large water tanks and is attached to both the eaves and three posts providing shade to a small courtyard area. It is very visible from the street, making a great visual statement.
Compare to some of our school shade sails.
This last one is in a residential back street, it looks a bit like a home made job or possibly even temporary. Two black square shade cloths are attached to the timberwork over a deck, however at least one of them appears to be poorly tensioned and secured such that it was flapping about badly in the breeze. This sort of thing could cause major problems.
Compare to our deck shade solutions which are of high quality.
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Fans of craft beers could soon face higher bar bills as small, independent brewers face a potentially serious shortage of a vital ingredient: hops.
Last summer’s hot and dry weather blighted the European hop harvest and strong demand for increasingly popular craft beers, which use a lot of hops, is putting small brewers’ profit margins under pressure and forcing them to raise their prices.
Prices of some hop varieties have risen by up to 50%, industry sources say, while industry insiders say others are up to five times more expensive or simply not available.
On his farm in Kent, not far from London, Tony Redsell has been growing hops since 1948 and some of the varieties he cultivates, strung along yarns supported by rows of high poles in traditional fashion, are more than 200 years old.
He sells most of his hops under contract to small brewers in the United States and his prices have risen by 20% in the past three years. Last year the German crop was well down and American growers could not make up the difference, suggesting prices will go up again.
“The growth of craft brewing in the United States has boosted demand for English varieties,” Redsell told Reuters.
“It’s a good time to be hop farmer.” Most brewers have contracts with hop growers that protect them from sudden price surges, but future supply is at risk. The scarcity may also get worse as multinationals such as Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller buy up craft brands and ramp up their production.
“It’s tough for brewers, especially brewers that don’t have hop contracts or who were a little late to the contracting game,” said Bill Manley, small batch product manager at Californian craft pioneer Sierra Nevada.
If you underestimate sales and need more hops, as can happen if a beer suddenly gets popular, he said “you have to go around and knock on doors like a neighbour trying to borrow a cup of sugar“.
Along with water, malt and yeast, hops are one of the main ingredients of beer. Germany and the United States are the two dominant hop growers, each accounting for one-third of world production.
But Germany’s harvest shrunk by 27% last summer, according to the International Hop Growers’ Convention. There were also sharp declines in other European producers such as the Czech Republic and Slovenia.
“There has been a considerable tightening of supplies on the European hop market after the major reduction in the 2015 harvest with a sharp increase in prices,” said Stephan Barth of German-based global hop merchant the Barth Haas Group.
“Europe will need at least an average harvest in 2016 otherwise we could see serious supply shortages,” he added.
Barth said some hop prices had already shot up by 35 to 50 percent depending on type since last summer.
HOP HEAVY Craft beers are produced by small, independent brewers using traditional methods. Popular styles such as India Pale Ale can use six times the volume of hops used in the conventional lagers from which they have taken market share.
Rabobank analysts Ciska van den Berg and Francois Sonneville forecast an increase in global beer consumption of around 1 percent in 2016 as drinkers continue to trade up to craft beers.
Craft beer accounts for one pint in eight in the United States and is becoming more popular elsewhere, according to Bart Watson, chief economist with the US Brewers Association.
“We’re seeing small and independent brewers spring up in a variety of locations across the globe. Europe, particularly northern Europe, is one area,” Watson said.
Rabobank said craft beer had become “a worldwide phenomenon“ and would ensure strong demand for hops this year.
The world’s big brewers, producers of lagers like Budweiser, Miller Lite, Heineken and Coors, do use hops but in smaller amounts than in than craft beers. That may be changing though, as they have been jumping on the craft beer bandwagon by buying small brewers or developing their own craft-like brews.
AB InBev “has a policy of long-term contracts and sufficient physical inventories in place to protect against the current shortage for our brewing operations“, a spokeswoman said.
The company, known for Budweiser and Stella Artois, also owns craft beers including Goose Island, Blue Point and Four Peaks in the United States and Camden Town in Britain.
Compared to independent brewers, AB Inbev will have much more clout when it comes to buying hops, potentially further reducing supply for small players.
Evin O’Riordain, founder of South London’s Kernel Brewery, whose beers include six hop-heavy pale ales, called this “a worry on the horizon” but expressed hope that higher prices would encourage more farmers to grow hops.
“If a hop farmer can get a better living out of growing good quality hops, then I think that’s positive,” he said.
Hops often range in price from about $3 per pound to about $25 per pound, but extreme demand can push prices much higher.
HOP SWAPS Hops fall into two main categories, alpha, which give beer its bitterness, and aroma, which enhance smell and flavour. Aroma hops are currently either not available or in very tight supply, but ways have been found to help brewers.
“By shifting inventories from well stocked breweries to those in need, the hop merchants have been able to balance the market,” Barth said.
Sierra Nevada, which helped launch the American craft beer movement with its flagship Pale Ale in 1980, said that given the perishability of hops, brewers will often transfer them to other beer outfits if they have more than they need.
“Sometimes we’ll trade, like 60 empty bourbon barrels for 500 pounds of hops or something like that,” Manley said.
Small brewers are also making beers that use fewer hops while still retaining their flavour, or substituting less popular but cheaper varieties.
Rabobank said high prices would bring an increase in plantings but since it takes three years for a new hop field to reach full yield hop prices will rise further this year.
This will not affect mainstream brews, where hops make up at most 2% of the price, Barth said. “But craft beers have a higher proportion of hops and so an impact on prices may be seen,” he said.
Hops grow fast and this leaves them open to disease. On his farm at Boughton under Blean in east Kent, Tony Redsell is keeping a close watch on his increasingly valuable fields.
“Virtually every day of the week during May, June, July and August, I will be walking the hop trees,” he said.
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How to watch and judge a barbershop contest
The first contest of the Barbershop Harmony Society, held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June of 1939, was an extremely casual affair. There were no scorecards, no trained judges—in fact, no one’s quite sure how many quartets actually competed. We do know that the Bartlesville Barflies of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, beat the Capitol City Four of Springfield, Illinois, after a “sing-off,” and took home $50 and the coveted title of
“World Champion Quartet.” The second contest, held at the New York World’s Fair in 1940, was judged by a panel of dignitaries that included Governor Al Smith, whom one competitor overheard whispering to a fellow judge, “They all sound good to me—who should I vote for?”
The Barbershop Harmony Society’s judging system is far more precise today. Judges today undergo a rigorous three year-training process leading to certification in one of three scoring categories: Singing, Performance, and Music.
The Singing judge evaluates the degree to which the performer achieves artistic singing in the barbershop style through precise intonation, a high degree of vocal skill and appropriate vocal expression, and a high level of unity and consistency within the ensemble. Mastering these elements creates a fullness and expansion of sound, and when combined with expressive vocal skills conveys a feeling of genuine emotion to support the message of the song.
The Performance judge evaluates entertainment within the barbershop style. Vocal and visual elements, in the context of the song choice and delivery, are evaluated for their contribution to the overall entertainment effect of the performance.
The Music judge adjudicates the song and arrangement as performed, taking into account melody, harmony, and the extent to which the musical performance displays the hallmarks of the barbershop style, and the degree to which the musical performance demonstrates an artistic sensitivity to the music’s primary theme.
How contests are conducted
- Chorus and quartet contests are scored under the same Categories.
- In each round, performers sing two songs of their own choosing.
- The chorus contest is a single round.
- After each quartet round, cumulative scores determine who will advance. In the international contest, the top twenty quartets advance the semi-final round; ten quartets advance to the finals, and the quartet amassing the most points in three rounds is declared the International Quartet Champion.
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By Faith Nyasuguta
The World Health Organization has endorsed the widespread use of the first-ever Malaria vaccine in Africa.
Experts say that the move could annually save tens of thousands of children’s lives across the continent.
Dubbing the move “historic”, the WHO director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that after a triumphant pilot programme in three African nations, the RTS, S vaccine ought to be made available more widely.
“I started my career as a malaria researcher, and I longed for the day that we would have an effective vaccine against this ancient and terrible disease. And today is that day, a historic day. Today, the WHO is recommending the broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine,” Tedros revealed at a Geneva, Switzerland press conference.
The RTS, S jab, alias Mosquirix, was developed by the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and has so far been administered to over 800,000 children in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi since the pilot programme launched in 2019.
The vaccine has undergone lengthy clinical trials and has limited efficacy. It prevents just 39 per cent of Malaria cases and 29 per cent of severe Malaria cases among young African children above four years.
Despite that, an August study spearheaded by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) revealed that when the children were given both the RTS,S and antimalarial drugs, there was a 70 per cent drop in hospitalization or death.
“Using this vaccine in addition to existing tools to prevent malaria could save tens of thousands of young lives each year,” Tedros said on Wednesday.
“It is safe. It significantly reduces life-threatening, severe malaria, and we estimate it to be highly cost-effective.”
He added: “Malaria has been with us for millennia, and the dream of a malaria vaccine has been a long-held, but unattainable dream. Today, the RTS, S malaria vaccine, more than 30 years in the making, changes the course of public health history. We still have a very long road to travel. But this is a long stride down that road.”
For a while now, there have been fears that years of progress towards bringing a halt to malaria has stalled, with some nations, including Eritrea and Sudan, experiencing key reappearances in recent years.
In 2019, some 409,000 people, mostly in Africa, died from Malaria with over 270,000 of the victims being children under five.
However, experts believe that the WHO’s endorsement will re-energize the race to find other vaccines, a quest that has been ongoing for about 100 years.
Earlier in 2021, scientists at the Jenner Institute of Oxford University revealed that a vaccine they had developed had shown results that would make it the first to meet the WHO goal of 75 per cent efficacy.
For over a year, the jab showed up to 77 per cent efficacy in a trial in Burkina Faso involving some 450 children. Larger trials are now kicking off with 4,800 children in four nations.
GSK’s chief global health officer, Thomas Breuer, said: “GSK is proud that RTS, S, our groundbreaking malaria vaccine, developed over decades by our teams and partners, can now be made available to children across sub-Saharan Africa.”
“This long-awaited landmark decision can reinvigorate the fight against malaria in the region at a time when progress on malaria control has stalled. Both real-world evidence and clinical trial data show that RTS, S, alongside other malaria prevention measures, has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives.”
GSK reassured its commitment to supplying up to 15 million doses annually at a price not exceeding five per cent more than the production cost. It is set to work alongside partners, funders, and states to support the additional supply of the vaccine.
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January 4, 1947 - China to USA
Because of his position in the Kuomintang, Liu, wife and eldest daughter fled China, leaving Gaylon with family in China.
They were on a plane but one of Liu’s students whom he had helped in the past warned him that the Communists knew. He helped Liu get passage on a ship (General M.C Meigs) which left Shanghai and landed in San Francisco 2 weeks later. They traveled cross country eventually settling on the Upper East side of NYC in Yorkville.
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The Tears of the Cauldron
In the old days, Korean mothers made a furnace-fire and cooked rice with a cauldron. Just as building a house, sewing a dress, or writing a paper requires much effort, making rice with a cauldron is not easy, either. It is more strenuous than cooking rice in an electric rice cooker or a gas stove.
You need proper skills to wash and soak the rice, measure the proper amount of water, and make a fire using wood. Once the rice starts cooking, you need to wipe the cauldron lid with a cold dishcloth as steam releases. That way, the vapor inside the lid will become water and flow down blocking the gap between the cauldron and the lid.
The water flowing out of the cauldron is called the “tears of the cauldron.” The name seems to represent the life of mothers who had to make rice every day for their families. She had many difficult tasks and lived a strenuous life living together with her in-laws; concealing her tears. Koreans say they live off the energy from cooked rice. In actuality, they live off the love and sacrifice of their mothers.
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Education & Training
Education and training is a critical mission at the Yale Medical School and the Psychology Section fulfills this mission through a wide array of training experiences in psychology in diverse settings at the Yale Medical School and its affiliated institutions. This mission is being carried out by 88 full time faculty psychologists within the Department of Psychiatry and an additional 109 psychologists serving in part-time clinical faculty roles.
We offer two separate Doctoral Internship Programs, one within the Department of Psychiatry with placements at Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, and the other at the Veterans Administration Medical Center. Both programs provide broad clinical training experiences within numerous specialty placements focusing on serious and persistent mental illness, substance abuse and addictive behaviors, clinical health psychology and behavioral medicine, neuropsychology, psychosocial rehabilitation, and PTSD. Highly specialized research and clinical post-doctoral experiences are offered throughout the department and its affiliated institutions.
A large proportion of the faculty psychologists contribute to these training experiences as advisors, supervisors, seminar leaders, and lecturers. In addition, the psychology faculty are involved in lectures, workshops and clinical supervision in diverse interdisciplinary settings throughout the medical school. As a group, psychologists within the Department of Psychiatry are passionate about training the next generation of psychologists and are considered by doctoral fellows to be nurturing and caring mentors.
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DRUG FREE AUSTRALIA 30 January 2019
Drug Free Australia has been very concerned about the national pill testing push within Australia and New Zealand which has chiefly been led here by members of an organisation, Harm Reduction Australia.
Our concerns have pivoted on the fact that MDMA, which is a most sought-after substance at music festivals, has been the substance responsible for almost all deaths within Australia, rather than impurities in party pills or other illicit drugs in the pill which are unknown to the user. To that end I am communicating with you as a New Zealand Parliamentarian.
We are urging you, as a parliamentarian who makes evidence-based decisions for the well-being of your nation’s individuals, to totally reject any further discussion on pill testing in New Zealand until such time as its advocates have demonstrated from available NZ Coroners’ reports that
- it is NOT the substance MDMA, or MDMA in a polydrug use context, which is chiefly responsible for the many NZ deaths
- that most of the deaths are alternately from MDMA consumed in amounts beyond what is considered normal for recreational use
In Australia we have previously made our view known to Australian politicians, a view which has been backed by strong evidence from the medical literature, and this has now led to many parliamentarians here no longer considering pill testing as an option. In our communications we had asserted that MDMA is the sole drug responsible for many of the deaths, but has also contributed via polydrug use to many others.
We have cited the only Australian study on ecstasy-related deaths. This studied 82 deaths over a five-year period (2001-2005)[i] where MDMA was the sole drug responsible for 23% of the deaths, with another 59% due to MDMA taken in combination with other licit and illicit drugs, totaling 82% of the 82 deaths. Coroners’ reports in more recent years, as reported in the media, concur. Of the five festival deaths in NSW this summer, ecstasy has been implicated as the cause in all five, according to Professor Andrew Dawson, as reported recently by the Daily Telegraph.
We have also alerted our politicians to the fact that most MDMA deaths are not overdoses. As DanceSafe[ii], an American harm reduction group has persuasively outlined:
Overdosing means taking a higher than appropriate dose of a medicine or a drug. In other words, it simply means taking too much or taking a “dose” that is “over” the proper therapeutic or recreational amount. The association of the word “overdose” with “drug-related death” is primarily reflective of heroin and opiate-related deaths, where the majority of fatalities may, in fact, result of overdosing. However, MDMA-related deaths are rarely the result of an overdose, and calling them overdoses is dangerous and negligent. It sends the message that “you will be okay as long as you don’t take too much,” which is simply not true. In the vast majority of cases of MDMA-related deaths, where no other drugs were found in the person’s bloodstream, the deceased had taken a dose within the normal range for appropriate therapeutic or recreational use.[iii]
Even the USA’s Drug Policy Alliance, with whom all Australian and New Zealand pill testing advocates are ideologically aligned, asserts the same[iv], stating that most deaths are not overdoses. Also, on this same issue we point to evidence in the medical literature, such as the British Journal of Anaesthesia[v] which records that:
Typically, after oral ingestion (75–150 mg), desired effects begin within 1 h and last 4–6 h. Blood levels in asymptomatic users and those with serious side-effects are often similar, suggesting that adverse reactions are likely to relate to the circumstances in which the drug is taken, and that there may also be an idiosyncratic component. A number of fatalities have been reported with blood levels of 0.1–2.1 mg litre−1. However, a case of a deliberate overdose of MDMA in which the blood level reached 4.3 mg litre−1 with no more than mild sinus tachycardia and a degree of somnolence has been reported. Another analytically documented overdose resulted in a plasma MDMA of 7.72 mg litre−1, the highest recorded in a surviving patient, with just a ‘hangover’, tachycardia and hypertension.31 The highest level reported in association with multi-organ failure in a subsequent survivor was 7 mg litre−1.
Some observations regarding MDMA deaths are that many are from taking a single pill, and can be described as more akin to an idiosyncratic individual allergic reaction to MDMA, making first-time ecstasy use more akin to playing Russian roulette[vi]. A group of friends can all ingest the same amount but only one might die.[vii] This was precisely the case with Anna Wood, Australia’s fist ecstasy death in 1995. She took the same pill as her three friends, but only she died. (Tony Wood, her father, can be contacted through Family First NZ)
We understand that it may seem somewhat confronting that Drug Free Australia is putting the onus of proof onto pill testing advocates themselves concerning the notion that party pill deaths are not mostly from using MDMA or are alternately from MDMA ‘overdoses’. However, our reasoning is as follows . . .
- Advocates assert that pill testing is needed because impurities or unknown drugs in the pills cause deaths (which is rarely the case in our country and likely the same in yours)
- Advocates also assert that pill testing is needed because of unknown MDMA purity in party pills, suggesting that deaths are often from MDMA overdose (which is rarely the case in our country and likely the same in yours)
- The implicit conclusion from these first two pieces of misinformation is that pure MDMA is safe if ingested in normal recreational quantities (which is against all evidence)
- Drug Free Australia further contends that unless NZ advocates clearly and openly publicise that most deaths are tied to MDMA itself, they are personally responsible for the current spurious sense of security surrounding tested MDMA
- Drug Free Australia cannot think of a more sure way to widen demand for a dangerous substance via an entirely false sense of security for festival attendees, which will only cause an accelerated escalation in deaths.
We would like to see every NZ parliamentarian ask advocates for a list of names from coroners’ reports of all those deceased after taking party pills where the fatal impurity or other illicit drug in the pills was nominated by the Coroner. For those found by the Coroner to have overdosed, a list containing the name of the deceased and the report’s estimate of the amount of MDMA ingested. We suggest the impurities and overdose lists will be very short, and the list of MDMA deaths long.
I might just mention that Drug Free Australia does recognise that there have been three deaths here in Melbourne in January 2017 from party pills which were due to the drugs 4-FA and 25C-NBOMe. These drugs were found in purported ecstasy pills, nevertheless these drugs would not have been identified by current pill testing equipment.[viii] Drug Free Australia also asserts that most GHB overdoses are by users who know they are taking GHB, as was the case in Melbourne, for example, in February 2017.[ix]
Drug Free Australia urges a proactive political response from New Zealand Parliamentarians, which will save the lives of many of your young citizens.
Major Brian Watters AO [x]
President, Drug Free Australia
Chairman, Prime Minister’s Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) 1998-2005
Australia’s representative to the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 2004-2012
Letter provided to Family First NZ to pass on to Members of Parliament.
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ITIL/Service Management Online Courses
Online ITIL courses are a popular choice for those looking to further their knowledge and career in IT service delivery. Individuals who work within project management or IT services role can benefit from online ITIL courses. What’s more, with TSG Training, getting ITIL certification online couldn’t be easier.Here at TSG Training, we offer a range of ITIL online courses and exam options. So, no matter your current level of knowledge, you can learn ITIL online.
What Are Online ITIL Courses?
ITIL stands for Information Technology Infrastructure Library. It is the pre-eminent framework for delivering IT services across the globe. When you learn ITIL online, you will learn about the service lifecycle model, which covers processes including design, development, support and delivery of IT services. ITIL certification training online through online ITIL courses are an easy way to learn these processes and demonstrate your knowledge.
There are various options for ITIL online training and exam, with different levels available. Whether you are a complete beginner in ITIL online, or already have a good level of knowledge, there is ITIL training online for you.
Why Get ITIL Certification Online?
Many companies choose to adopt the ITIL framework because it means that all services and projects are delivered using a set of well-defined and consistent processes. Best practices are used to ensure that there is an excellent level of service for users. ITIL results in a reduced development cost, boosted customer satisfaction and increased productivity within IT teams.
Completing ITIL certification training online is a simple and easy way to learn and demonstrate knowledge. An online ITIL course with TSG Training covers everything you will need to know, with no hidden costs as course materials and exams are all included. Because you can learn ITIL online, all course materials are available to access whenever suits you, so you can learn in your own time and at your own pace
No matter your current skills or level of knowledge on ITIL, there is a course to suit you. We recommend that beginners start with the ITIL 4 Foundation eLearning, which introduces the key concepts and principles of ITIL.
Those with a basic knowledge of ITIL already could benefit from some of our more specialist courses such as ITIL Intermediate Continual Service Improvement eLearning. This course teaches learners how to implement ITIL Continual Service Improvement best practices and gives a solid understanding of the responsibilities within CSI. Our Online ITIL Courses are ideal for development and engineering staff, account managers, IT services staff, and many more.
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Facebook is a fast follower of nascent technologies and online services as they start to gain widespread adoption by consumers. The playbook is to identify apps and features internet users enjoy, develop a version for its own platform, then use its scale to reach billions of users.
Sometimes the new ventures pay off in a big way and other times they fizzle, though Facebook has minimal downside in rolling out new features to stave off emerging threats. Instagram ‘Stories’ is a well-documented and successful response to Snapchat’s competitive threat while ‘Reels’ appears to be challenging TikTok’s supremacy, though competition remains fierce. By contrast, its ‘Hobbies’ and ‘Dating’ responses to Pinterest and Tinder are yet to gain any meaningful traction.
Online audio services took off last year as the pandemic generated global lockdowns and work- or school-from-home. Many tech startups and smaller players such as Zoom quickly grew their user bases, and larger platforms were quick to release their own offerings to compete. While late to the party, Facebook announced that it is developing its own suite of audio-related features this month.
Live Audio Rooms and Podcasts
Virtual rooms will host live chats, similar to rival offerings such as Clubhouse and Twitter’s new ‘Spaces’ feature. Aside from Facebook’s scale benefits, its ‘Groups’ feature provides an ideal site for content creators to facilitate interactions and nurture relationships with their community of listeners outside live and recorded events. Facebook’s deep knowledge of users’ interests and preferences will likely optimise the experience for both creators and users.
Like its Newsfeed function, the audio feed will be based on each user’s social graph, using algorithmically determined audio snippets which they have named ‘Sound Bites’ to sort and prioritise feeds based on the user’s known interests and preferences. The clear advantage here is Facebook’s knowledge of its users.
TikTok went viral globally by executing a similar strategy using short-form video clips while offering video editing tools and monetisation options for content creators through its ad-supported platform. Facebook is developing impressive audio creation tools and providing access to an extensive music catalogue for creators to use in their audio compilations. Its aggregation of billions of users globally enables content creators to use the scale and reach of its global platform to generate lucrative monetisation opportunities.
Changing user habits
The unanswered questions are whether consumers will use the largely visual platform they know to consume audio content, and can Facebook successfully compete with the audio giants such as Apple Music and Spotify which command the overwhelming share of audio entertainment.
Facebook’s platform provides some clear advantages and if it can deliver a seamless and convenient user experience in audio, it may make a compelling argument for content creators to migrate to its platform, though a change in consumer habits and behaviour is a necessary precursor for success. Users clearly preferred their experiences on Pinterest and Tinder, impeding takeup of Facebook’s Hobbies and Dating services. Spotify’s strength in audio has been increasing steadily, and it is expected to become the largest streamer of podcasts in the US this year according to eMarketer, surpassing Apple for the first time. The two companies account for the lion’s share of online music and podcast consumption, and Facebook will need to provide a more compelling experience for users to change their current habits and leave either platform.
ThePodcastHost.com reports just over half the US population has actually listened to a podcast. This gives Facebook an opportunity to reach new users through free trials and recommendations and once they adopt the new medium, users may remain on Facebook’s platform over the longer term. Further, once a podcast is recorded, it is in the creator’s best interests to distribute the content across all available channels to maximise their reach and ultimately, monetisation.
Even if it remains a smaller competing service to the leading incumbents, Facebook will likely develop new opportunities for content creators and further entrench its users on the platform.
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With the growing threat of coronavirus hitting the United States full force, the prospect of having to work from home is becoming increasingly likely for a wide swath of workers. If that occurs, normal work patterns, modes of communication, and team dynamics will be disrupted. The increasing uncertainty and anxiety about the personal dangers from the epidemic and its impact on the economy will make the challenge of adjusting to these work changes even greater.
Here are some strategies that leaders can employ to ensure their teams continue to collaborate effectively and maintain momentum in the business.
Spell Out Goals and Roles
Teams that suddenly change work patterns — particularly moving from co-located to distributed — need to rethink how to accomplish their tasks and ensure that everyone understands his or her role.
Clarify and re-clarify goals and roles. The move to home-based working is a great opportunity for a team to revisit the basics in order to ensure everyone understands the team objectives, their individual roles, and how each person contributes to the outcome. Clarifying roles among the team helps people understand when they can turn to peers instead of the leader, which prevents the leader from becoming a bottleneck. This increased communication throughout the group also helps peripheral members stay engaged.
A disruptive event like coronavirus will generate new and competing tasks across the business. As a result, leaders need to continually clarify goals at the team and individual level to stay focused on key priorities. Watch out for an ever-expanding list of tasks. And when you do re-prioritize goals, think carefully about who gets the assignment and make sure the changing goals are communicated to the entire team.
Map skills and capacity. Most people today work on multiple teams and projects at once. In these volatile times, it is highly likely that another project that involves some of your team members will face an unexpected shock, which could affect your group’s projects. To minimize the impact, think now about where you have skills redundancy built into your team or how to access capacity from outside.
Because of the number of new tasks that arise during a crisis, many of your team members are likely to be pulled in multiple directions. Don’t add even more stress to your workers by expecting them to handle these tensions on their own. Make it clear that they can count on you to help manage the claims for their time.
Changing priorities may also require you to bring new resources onto your team, such as an operations expert to assess how the epidemic might disrupt your supply chain or a marketing expert to figure out how to launch a new product if a trade show gets cancelled. Unfortunately, onboarding a new team member while everyone is working from home can make it difficult to build team cohesion and trust. So invest the time to formally introduce new team members, focusing on the personal and professional.
Emphasize Personal Interactions
People suddenly working from home are likely to feel disconnected and lonely, which lowers productivity and engagement. Leaders, especially those who are not used to managing virtual teams, may feel stressed about keeping the team on track. Under these circumstances it is tempting to become exclusively task-focused. To address these challenges, making time for personal interaction is more important than ever.
Keep everyone in mind. Inevitably, leaders have favorites on the team — people they are more likely to turn to in times of stress. Those tend to be people who are demographically like them — what researchers call homophily. Conversely, research in cognitive bias shows that some kinds of people will be “out of sight, out of mind”: women, minorities, and others who are on the periphery of a team are less likely to have access to information or resources and influence on the team leader. To combat this tendency, make a list of the current core and extended team members with their photos and keep it in front of you while you’re working each day to help you make more conscious decisions about allocating responsibilities and information.
Schedule regular meetings. Set times for the team to come together virtually; it is easier to cancel if the meeting isn’t needed than it is to pull together last-minute conversations without creating additional disruption. If you only meet on an ad hoc basis, you risk excluding some people who are either too busy to join or are out of sight, out of mind.
Create the virtual water cooler. Set aside time on the agenda for personal updates, the kind of small talk you might start an in-person meeting with. This preserves the sense of camaraderie. In addition, set norms that people should regularly call one another as needed rather than wait for scheduled meetings.
Humanize communication. Instead of relying exclusively on e-mail, which tends to limit the depth of debate, switch to richer, real-time media such as FaceTime, video conferences, web chats, or even phone calls. These forms of communication are more personal, allow team members to read one another’s emotions, and help to boost morale. They also improve decision making by more fruitfully bringing alternative voices into the conversation and allowing people to debate ideas more effectively and completely.
Normalize New Work Environments
Working from home creates new distractions and the potential for misunderstandings. The more the members of your team know about each other’s environment, the better they will be able to make sense of one another’s behavior. Teams often ignore the advice to orient each other, because the idea seems hokey or a waste of time. But the practice has a strong basis in social psychology: Fundamental attribution error is the tendency to explain another person’s behavior as a personality trait while discounting the impact of situational factors (“He never speaks up, he’s uncommitted” instead of “He’s trying to stay on mute to avoid the background noise at home”).
Take a virtual tour. At the start of a project, encourage each person to take a few minutes to show the team his or her home workspace and share some personal context. What are the possible distractions — like barking dogs, noisy passing trucks, or kids coming home from school? The aim is to help colleagues develop an understanding of each person’s work context so they can be more sensitive to each other’s constraints.
Acknowledge non-traditional workspaces. Michael, a millennial working in New York City, lives in an apartment with multiple roommates and doesn’t have private office space for working at home. If some of his roommates are also working remotely, he is likely to face the challenge of people walking or talking in the background during video calls. Let Michael know you appreciate his challenge and are open to discussing alternatives like flexing work hours so that calls happen when it’s quieter for him.
Keep your assumptions or stereotypes in check. Sarah, an executive participating on a conference call, received a text message from a colleague: “Mute yourself. We can hear your baby crying.” She replied: “My baby is napping. That’s Matthew’s son you heard.” The ambiguity inherent in having team members working from home can lead to biased assumptions about focus and commitment to work.
Threats like the coronavirus will create disruption. But you can use strategies to respond effectively and continue to deliver against your business goals. Disruption also creates opportunity. Use this time to explore new ways of working and revisit old assumptions that will likely benefit you in the long run.
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IRYNA BALACHUK – THURSDAY, 7 JULY 2022, 13:20
One of the missiles that the Russians fired at Odesa region on 7 July hit the empty tanker "Millennial Spirit '', sailing under the flag of Moldova, which is drifting in the Black Sea.
Source: Serhiy Bratchuk, the spokesman for the Odesa Military Administration, referring to the official message by Operational Command South, on Telegram
Quote from Operational Command South': "In the following air strike on Odesa region, two X-31 missiles were launched from an Su-30 aircraft. One hit the tanker "Millennial Spirit", sailing under the flag of Moldova, which is drifting in the territorial sea without a crew with the remains of some diesel fuel on board."
Details: It is reported that the remains of the cargo may be burning on the ship.
Operational Command South calls to mind that the tanker had been fired upon by Russian warships in the Black Sea at the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
At the time of the first hit, the ship had been carrying more than 500 tons of diesel fuel.
Due to the blockade of shipping by the Russians, the tanker has been drifting at sea without a crew for 4 months.
According to Operational Command South, the second missile self-destructed over the sea.
At dawn on 7 July, the Russian invaders launched rocket attacks on the Odesa region and Zmiinyi Island.
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Nobel Laureate to Give 2010 Commencement Address
April 20, 2010
April 20, 2010
Ahmed Zewail, the first Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, will give the 2010 commencement address at Southwestern University. The ceremony will be held Saturday, May 8, at 2 p.m. in the Corbin J. Robertson Center.
Zewail is the Linus Pauling professor of chemistry and professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology.
A native of Egypt, Zewail received his bachelor’s degree and his master’s degree in chemistry from Alexandria University in Egypt. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the Caltech faculty in 1976.
Zewail was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in chemistry for pioneering the development of a new field known as laser femtochemistry. Using lasers and molecular beams, femtochemistry has made it possible for researchers to see chemical reactions as they happen in real time. Femtochemistry has had an impact on chemical, biological and medical research all over the world, and is someday expected to yield practical results by allowing improved control of chemical processes used in manufacturing and drug design.
Since winning the Nobel Prize, Zewail has focused his research on the development of another field, 4D electron microscopy, the direct visualization of materials and biological behavior in the familiar three dimensions of space plus time. He currently serves as director of the multidisciplinary Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at Caltech.
Zewail has received numerous awards for his work, including the 2009 Othmer Gold Medal, the 2006 Albert Einstein World Award of Science, the 1998 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry, the 1997 Welch Award in Chemistry, the 1993 Wolf Foundation Prize in Chemistry, the 1992 Carl Zeiss Research Award and the 1989 King Faisal International Prize in Science.
He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of London, the French Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed him to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He also serves as one of three U.S. science envoys to the Middle East.
Zewail has been awarded honorary degrees from 40 universities, including Oxford, Cambridge and the University of Pennsylvania.
Zewail’s life is detailed in an autobiography titled Voyage through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize.
In addition to his scientific work, Zewail is known for his work to help developing nations through science and technology and for his efforts to put forward peaceful solutions to complex world problems. He is one of nine Nobel Prize winners featured in the 2006 film “Nobelity.”
Zewail’s daughter, Maha Zewail-Foote, is an associate professor of chemistry at Southwestern.
“It is a great honor to have such a distinguished and world-renown scientist as our commencement speaker,” said Southwestern University President Jake B. Schrum. “It is a special pleasure that his daughter is a much-respected member of our faculty.”
Two hundred and fifty-six graduates are expected to receive degrees at the May 8 ceremony. In an effort to continue Southwestern’s dedication to sustainability, graduates will wear robes that are made from recycled material and are bio-degradable.
For friends and relatives who are unable to attend the ceremony, it will be streamed live on the Internet. For details on how to watch the broadcast, go to http://southwestern.edu/alumni/graduation/webcast.php
Overflow viewing also will be available in Room 105 of the Olin Building.
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Almost every runner when they’re starting out wonders why it’s so dang hard. So if that’s where you’re at right now, and wondering if it’s ever going to get any easier, join the ranks of pretty much every runner who had to start somewhere. Running IS hard, and there’s a good reason for it.
Running can be hard for anyone but is especially hard for a new runner doing too much, too soon. Running at a pace that you have not adapted to will cause you to breathe harder and harder as you try to get the air you desperately need. The force on your body as well as the role your mind plays make running hard, too.
Read on to find out why running can be so challenging (even for the very well trained!) and what you can do differently to make it into something you look forward to instead of dreading.
Running is Hard When You’re New
The movement of running is innate. We’ve been doing it since we were toddlers which makes it completely different than pretty much any other sport that you have to learn how to do. So then why is it so challenging?
If you need to quickly run across the street or run to your toddler to take something unsafe away from them…well, that’s pretty easy. Your body knows exactly what to do. But even trying to run to your mailbox halfway down the street will probably leave you feeling out of breath if you’re not trained for running in any way.
It’s not the motion of running that’s hard (though it can be hard on the body which we’ll discuss later), instead it’s what’s happening on the inside of your body that makes it difficult.
Here’s what you’ll probably feel when you run when you’re not used to it:
1.) A quick increase in your heart rate. Like with any cardiovascular exercise (cycling, swimming, etc.), it doesn’t take long for your heart rate to increase. If you have a watch or heart rate monitor you’ll watch the numbers tick up, up, up as you keep moving. And of course, you’ll feel your heart beating faster as it works harder to supply oxygen to your body as you move.
2.) You start breathing hard. As your heart works to pump oxygen to your body, you have to breathe it in fast enough to supply it to your heart. At the same time, you need to breathe out the carbon dioxide that builds more quickly in your body than when you are walking or at rest.
3.) Feeling so out of breath that you have to stop. A trained runner’s heart rate and breathing rate will eventually even out as they get going. For me, I can maintain a pace with a heart rate in the 140s/150s for a really long time. An untrained runner, however, or even a trained runner who is running really hard, will get to a point where they can’t get rid of the carbon dioxide faster than they’re bringing oxygen in. This means you’ve hit an anaerobic state and you can’t stay there for very long. Either you slow down or stop.
So a quick burst of running is something most people can handle, but for the untrained runner, even running a mile can feel impossible.
Why is running a mile so hard?
In high school, we used to have to run something in P.E. class that everyone referred to as the “square.” It was essentially the sidewalk all around the grounds made up by the baseball fields, tennis courts, and the football field. It was close to a mile around.
And I hated it! Most of us did. Why? Because it was really, really hard. And they would time us, and of course, no one wanted to be last.
So why was running the mile so hard?
Many of us were athletes after all…I played sports year-round. But I wasn’t in endurance running shape.
It sounds like “just a mile” should be easy enough to do. But for someone untrained, it’s not. Now it wouldn’t take weeks and weeks of training to work up to running a mile, but with none, you may be able to run a mile but it probably won’t feel that good.
The other reason it’s hard to run even a mile for some people is that they’re just going out too fast. Honestly, that’s what I probably did in high school. Not wanting to be last I would give it all I had and then I would be close to walking by the end. I would finish completely out of breath feeling like I was going to puke. Sound familiar?
Even as a trained runner, running a mile can still be hard. If I’m going at my all outpace, then that will probably feel puke-worthy at the end (and pretty much every 5k race I run, as well!)
So what do you need to do if you want to be able to run a mile without stopping?
This is where training comes in. If you want to run a mile or be able to run one without sucking wind, here’s what you need to do.
1.) Slow down. Nobody said you had to run as hard as you can. And if you’re just starting out as a runner, you shouldn’t be. It can be hard to find that right pace, so you want to keep it conversational. And if you feel your heart rate starting to rise or that you have to catch your breath, that’s the sign that you need to bring it down a notch or two.
2.) Take walk breaks. Slowing down your running may not be enough, depending on your current level of fitness. Don’t be afraid to take a walk break to even out your breathing. Once you recover enough, you can start running again. However, don’t run hard and then walk and then run hard again. The goal here is to eventually run the whole mile – so slow your running down as much as you need to in order to run as long as possible without stopping.
3.) Stay consistent. Keep up with your running at least a few times per week. With this consistency it won’t be long until you’re able to run a mile without stopping. Then build to 2, and so on.
Anyone who is staring out running is going to have a hard time running a mile, so don’t think there is anything wrong with you! Your body and cardiovascular system just need time to adapt to the new demands you’re requiring of it.
Running more will strengthen your heart and improve your body’s ability to circulate oxygen. That means it will get easier and easier over time, and you’ll be able to run faster at a much lower effort level.
But what about all that pounding? That part is definitely hard, too.
Why is running hard on the body?
Ground reaction force (GRF) can be used to describe how much force the ground puts on your body every time you take a running step. It’s a much greater force than when you’re walking, up to two to three times your body weight, according to Kistler Instrument Corp.
GRF isn’t the same for everyone because everyone has a different gait as well as different foot strike. But what’s true for everyone is that running puts a lot of stress on your body – your muscles, bones, joints, ligaments, tendons…all of it! So when you try to run a distance that you’re not used to, all of that pounding is going to put a lot of load onto your body that it hasn’t had time to adapt to.
Running can be even tougher on the body if you’re overweight. In my article, “The Best Body to Run a Marathon Isn’t What You Think,” I cited the following research from the Arthritis-Health: “Experts estimate that for every 1 pound you weigh, your knees feel the force of 3 pounds of pressure when you take a step. So losing 10 pounds will result in 30 pounds less pressure per knee, per step.”
This should NOT deter you at all from running, in fact, it’s the opposite! It just means that you may need to take things easier in the beginning than someone who may not be overweight. With a mix of slow running and walking, your body will adapt. Your body will be able to sustain a longer period of running without discomfort, and running will make your cardiovascular system healthier, too.
So, how do you make running easier on your body?
Really, it’s similar to what we suggested for making running easier in a cardiovascular sense. Your body needs time to adapt. You need to:
- slow down,
- take walk breaks, and
- stay consistent.
You also need to make sure you are building your mileage slowly, so your body is able to have time to reap the benefits of your running training without overdoing it.
A good rule of thumb is to not increase your mileage by more than 10% each week. Cutting back on mileage every few weeks gives your body even more time to adapt so that you stay free of injury.
Running expects a lot from your body, but what about the mental challenges it can bring?
Why is running hard mentally?
Do you get bored with running or find it hard to push through when it gets challenging? This is normal.
The mental aspect brings a whole other element to the difficulty of running. You could have all the physical factors you need in place and still have difficulty reaching your goals because your thoughts keep getting in the way of your potential. This could be a lack of confidence, lack of motivation, or boredom with your running.
Running is more than just one foot in front of the other. When it gets tough physically and your heart is pumping, it’s your brain that has to will yourself to keep going. And when your body is filling up with carbon dioxide, we’re lucky we have our brain to step in to scream at us to stop and catch some air. But it’s also our minds that make us give up on something too soon when it gets a bit challenging.
Running is also hard mentally because it can get boring. Through the miles your mind wanders and you think of the 10 million others things you could or should be doing.
So how do you overcome the mental hurdle that can come with running?
1.) Listen to music, podcasts, or books. This allows you to zone out while you run. It’s one of the best ways to focus on something else other than how much you want to stop running. And don’t forget to mix it up – that will help, too.
2.) Remember why you’re doing this. Whether you have a goal race that you’re training for, want to live a healthier lifestyle, lose weight…whatever it is, keep that as your focus.
3.) Run with other people. I run alone a lot. It’s what I prefer for the most part. But I recently joined a local running group that a mom put together via Facebook. She plans these great runs every weekend, and I look forward to them every Saturday. We run at an easy pace and talk the whole time. It may sound trite, but the miles really do fly by. I don’t even look at my watch because I’m too caught up in our conversations. Find a friend or several who you have something in common with (well you already have one thing in common before you even start) and I think you’ll be surprised how much you enjoy running.
4.) Get used to your thoughts. Unless you have some speedwork mixed in, running really isn’t all that exciting when you’re training. Being alone with our thoughts really isn’t something we’re that used to doing these days…we’d much rather scroll through Instagram. But the more you run and get used to that voice in your head, the easier it will become.
5.) “Run the mile you’re in.” This is one of my favorite runisms. You can even make it be “run the minute you’re in.” If you feel like you just can’t finish a run or maintain a particular pace you’re trying to hold, just focus on finishing that one mile (or minute) and not worrying about the rest of your run until it comes. Chances are you’ll finish that mile, and then be able to do another one. And then another one. If you’re always thinking something like, “How am I ever going to make it through this?!” the task seems more daunting and you’re much more likely to cut it early.
I’m also all about mantras when the going gets tough. Like in my marathons, I constantly repeat words to myself as a way to keep pushing forward even when my mind is telling me to stop. One of my favorites is: The body achieves what the mind believes.” Find the mantra that works for you and put that on repeat.
Why is the first several minutes of running so hard?
Are you someone who is able to run a long way already, but struggle as you start to run? If it takes you a mile or two to get into a groove and get past that “dead leg” feeling you’re not alone.
The first portion of a run can often feel like the hardest part…even when you’re just at an easy warm up pace! This is normal.
This of this time as your body acclimating to the stress you’re putting on it during a run. Your heart rate is making a big shift as you start to run, and your muscles and joints need time to get warmed up to. That little shock to the system can make the first mile or so feel pretty tough.
The solution to making the first part of your run easier?
Slow down. Walk if you need to. You can even consider doing some warm-up exercises before you even begin your run to wake your body up a bit. This is especially important for cold winter running or for those runs you do first thing right after your wake up.
Remember this is just your warm-up. You don’t need to prove anything here. Once you feel shaken out and ready to roll, the rest of the run will feel easier.
Will running ever get easier?
If you are new to running, it probably feels like running will always be hard. You may feel like you’ll never be able to get to a pace where you can just run comfortably and enjoy conversing with a friend as you move along.
With consistent training, you will absolutely get to a point where you can run at a pace that feels sustainable and even enjoyable. For some people, that may be 13 minute miles early on. The key in the beginning is to not focus on the time but to be proud of yourself for getting to a spot where you run mile over mile at what is YOUR easy pace.
So does that mean that running will never be hard after that?
Everyone has a threshold for where running turns from easy to uncomfortable to really hard to impossible. Even though I’ve been running for 20 years, running is still really hard when I’m doing any type of speed work or racing. And running a sub 6-minute mile is about near my maximum capability at this point…with a 5-minute mile being impossible. (I’m all about Eliud Kipchoge’s #no limits, people, but I just don’t think that’s ever in the cards for me. And that is totally ok!)
I always tell people that if you’re working toward your potential, then running will always have a hard aspect to it. But that doesn’t mean you need to make it hard if you don’t want to. You will, though, if you want to get faster.
The bottom line is that yes, you can get to a point where running is always easy in terms of pace. And you’re welcome to hang out there! I definitely enjoy my easy run days. And you’ll even be able to eventually run a marathon or more if you keep at it. (Did you know 80% of your running should be at an easy pace, by the way?!)
But easy running all the time can lead to boredom. Never changing anything up with your running can get quite monotonous and you probably won’t want to continue.
In order to combat that, you’re probably going to want to mix in some hard days with your easy days…you know – those types of running workouts that set your lungs on fire! And that’s when you’ll realize that running, when you keep pushing yourself, will never be easy. But isn’t that the beauty in it, after all? And snagging those PRs? I sure think so.
This is where I tell you to keep going, don’t stop, and stay consistent. You got this!
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The German government has made it mandatory to wear medical masks covering mouth and nose (MNC) as an effective strategy to fight SARS-CoV-2 infections. In many countries, this directive has been extended on shopping malls or public transportation. The aim of this paper is to critically analyze the statutory regulation to wear protective masks during the COVID-19 crisis from a medical standpoint.
We performed an extensive query of the most recent publications addressing the prevention of viral infections including the use of face masks in the community as a method to prevent the spread of the infection. We addressed the issues of practicability, professional use, and acceptability based on the community and the environment where the user resided.
Upon our critical review of the available literature, we found only weak evidence for wearing a face surgical mask with ties as an efficient hygienic tool to prevent the spread of a viral infection. However, the use of MNC seems to be linked to relevant protection during close contact scenarios by limiting pathogen-containing aerosol and liquid droplet dissemination. Importantly, we found evidence for significant respiratory compromise in patients with severe obstructive pulmonary disease, secondary to the development of hypercapnia. This could also happen in patients with lung infections, with or without SARS-CoV-2.
Epidemiologists currently emphasize that wearing MNC will effectively interrupt airborne infections in the community. The government and the politicians have followed these recommendations and used them to both advise and, in some cases, mandate the general population to wear MNC in public locations. Overall, the results seem to suggest that there are some clinically relevant scenarios where the use of MNC necessitates more defined recommendations. Our critical evaluation of the literature both highlights the protective effects of certain types of face masks in defined risk groups, and emphasizes their potential risks.
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December 23, 2020
For many clients, copyright law appears to be a complex area, and we are often tasked with dispelling and clarifying popular copyright misconceptions. But, copyright law does not have to be complicated. So, listed below, we have popular opinions, principles and statements regarding copyright. Can you identify which are fact or fiction?
We often take enquiries from clients seeking assistance with ‘registering’ their copyright. If you are wondering, this is in fact fiction. Under UK copyright law, copyright is automatic and there is no requirement for formal registration. As a creator of any literary, artistic, dramatic or musical works, you will automatically generate copyright protection in the work you create. It is therefore important that you retain copies of each version of the things you create, as each version will attribute its own copyright.
If you have been reading our blogs you probably know that this is indeed fiction. Under UK copyright law the owner of the copyright is the author of the works. The exception to this principle is works created by employees during the course of employment, in this instance, the copyright will be owned by the employer.
However, it’s different with a freelancer. Even if you pay for a freelancer’s services the copyright will remain with them unless you sign a written agreement that assigns copyright in the work over to you. It is therefore important that whenever you instruct freelancers or a consultant, you consider entering an agreement that ensures you own the copyright in all work that is created.
This is true. Under copyright law, the copyright owner has the exclusive right to prevent another party from:
Therefore, if a third party carries out any of the acts listed above (whether in whole or a substantial part), they are at risk of copyright infringement unless an exception applies. In order to avoid the risk of infringement, you should always seek to get the copyright owner’s permission.
This is, by far, one of the more worrisome misconceptions we encounter. As copyright is automatic, so long as the work is original and falls into one of the following categories of work, it will acquire automatic copyright protection:
Copyright protection will generally last the life of the author plus 70 years from death (50 years for sound recordings). Although work may be published on the Internet freely accessible and downloadable, unless copyright protection has expired it is certainly not free to use. Failure to obtain permission will put you at risk of infringing someone else’s copyright.
Copyright does not protect ideas. It can only protect the tangible manifestation of your idea. So, the moment your idea becomes a written script, book, photo, drawing or music, it will automatically acquire copyright protection on creation. Unfortunately, if someone independently creates something that is similar to what you have created, they will not be infringing on your copyright, so long as they have not actually copied your work.
If you have an idea that is worth protecting the safest way to protect it is to ensure that you sign a non-disclosure agreement with anyone you disclose your ideas to.
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MOSCOW (AP) - The Russian government has vowed to retaliate against U.S. sanctions on a new Russia-Germany pipeline, work on which was suspended on Saturday.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed legislation last week that provides for sanctions against individuals and companies involved with the vessels laying the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany.
The move prompted a Swiss company that operates ships laying sections of the pipeline to suspend the work.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Moscow will take measures of “reciprocity” over the sanctions, which Russia considers unacceptable.
“How and when it will be done remains a question of Russia’s national interests,” Peskov told reporters on Monday, adding that the Kremlin still hopes to complete Nord Stream 2.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated the sentiment, saying that Russia would respond to “these absolutely unacceptable, blunt actions that violate all norms of international law and diplomatic and human decency” after some “cool-headed analysis” of the situation.
Later on Monday the country’s prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, said he tasked the cabinet with looking into “possible restrictions” that could be imposed on the U.S. in retaliation for the sanctions.
The U.S. has been an outspoken opponent of the pipeline, which will allow Russia to transport natural gas about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) directly to Europe, bypassing Ukraine. Along with eastern European countries that also oppose the project, the U.S. government argues that it will increase Europe’s dependence on Russia for energy.
Nord Stream 2 is owned by Russia’s Gazprom, with investment from several European companies.
The German government said it regretted the enactment of the U.S. legislation and considered the sanctions an interference in the country’s domestic affairs. However, Chancellor Angela Merkel made it clear last week that Germany isn’t considering retaliation against the sanctions and said that there is “no alternative to conducting talks.”
Copyright © 2022 The Washington Times, LLC.
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President Biden on Friday is expected to privately urge Saudi leaders to ramp up oil production in a bid to curb massive global price spikes and relieve a mounting political headache back home, but there are already signs that his push may have an unintended winner: Russia.
Saudi Arabia in the spring and early summer more than doubled its quarterly imports of Russian oil, according to a Reuters report Thursday, using that Russian fuel to meet its own energy needs at home and subsequently freeing up more Saudi fuel to ship to countries around the world, including the U.S. Riyadh’s major uptick in Russian fuel imports — and its reluctance to embrace the Western condemnation of recent Kremlin moves — have undercut efforts by the U.S. and its NATO allies to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine by choking off revenue from energy exports, which represents the backbone of its economy.
At the same time, Mr. Biden is facing withering criticism at home from Republicans and energy industry leaders who question why the administration appears eager to buy more oil from Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations while refusing to embrace more drilling on American soil.
“President Biden is going halfway around the world looking for a solution found right here at home,” Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said in a statement Thursday. “Unleashing American energy is the surest way to boost our economy and reduce energy prices. It would also weaken the influence of Russia and China. But the president won’t let us get it out of the ground.”
Instead, Mr. Barrasso argued, Mr. Biden “is begging the Saudis to produce more oil to get him out of a political jam.”
The run-up to the president’s high-stakes meeting with Saudi leaders on Friday has mostly been dominated by human-rights concerns and Mr. Biden’s own past threats to make Riyadh a global “pariah” after Saudi officials were implicated in the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S.-based journalist and critic of the kingdom’s rulers.
But global fuel prices and the Russia-Ukraine war’s impact on international energy markets also will be a key topic, both in Friday’s meeting with Saudi officials and in subsequent discussions with Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) leaders.
Administration officials have been coy when asked whether Mr. Biden will explicitly push Riyadh and its OPEC partners to boost oil production, but they stressed that “energy security” in the U.S. and around the world will be on the agenda.
“We’re in constant contact not just with producers in the Gulf, but producers globally,” White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Wednesday. “We’re also working, obviously, on domestic production as well. And those conversations will continue during this trip.”
“The president talked about energy security in Asia, he talked about energy security in Europe. He’ll talk about energy security here,” Mr. Sullivan said.
Buying from Russia
It’s unclear whether Thursday’s news that Saudi Arabia is now relying more on Russian oil imports to power its own economy could impact Mr. Biden’s strategy in his closed-door meetings. From April to June, Saudi Arabia imported about 48,000 barrels per day of Russian fuel, Reuters reported, about twice as much as the previous quarter.
The prospect of the U.S. buying more Saudi oil and subsequently boosting Russia’s own energy export profits — which will help fund its war in Ukraine — would almost surely lead to political blowback for Mr. Biden. The president is also taking heat for allowing American fuel exports to China at a time when domestic gas prices are hovering near $5 per gallon.
Such record prices have again cast a spotlight on Saudi Arabia’s irreplaceable spot among the globe’s top producers of oil, and its unique ability to turn off and turn off the pipelines to move markets and shift prices.
The so-called OPEC+ nations, which includes both Saudi Arabia and Russia, have raised production steadily as the world has come out of the global downturn sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, but have moved far modestly and methodically than the U.S. and other energy-hungry nations would like.
In 2021, the U.S. led the world in oil production, churning out nearly 19 million barrels per day, which represented about 20% of the global total, according to figures from the federal Energy Information Administration. Saudi Arabia came in second, at about 10.8 million barrels per day, followed closely by Russia at just under 10.8 million, the EIA said. Both nations accounted for about 11% of total international oil production.
The U.S. last year consumed about 19.9 million barrels of oil each day, or about 7.2 billion for the entire year. About 6% of its total crude oil imports came from Saudi Arabia, according to EIA data.
The numbers can fluctuate wildly from month to month. For example, in March of this year the U.S. imported 504,000 barrels of Saudi Arabian crude oil each day. In April, that figure dropped to 413,000, according to the most recent EIA figures.
Meanwhile, American energy industry leaders say Mr. Biden could take steps to quickly increase U.S. production and get more fuel to market, pushing prices down and eliminating the need to enlist the help of the Saudis.
“Instead of meeting with foreign governments to ask them to increase energy production, look to reliable U.S. energy sources here at home,” Mike Sommers, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, said in a video released by the organization Thursday.
“With a tight global market, Washington can no longer ignore the immense potential of American energy,” he said, inviting Mr. Biden to tour U.S. energy production sites across the country.
There is also the question of how much more oil Saudi Arabia can reasonably produce. The kingdom’s decision to dramatically increase its Russian imports suggests that either Riyadh feels it is already nearing peak production or has economic or geopolitical motives for keeping some production capacity held back.
Figures compiled by the website Statista this week show that Saudi Arabia’s daily crude oil production in May was about 10.4 million barrels per day. The maximum production level is about 12 million per day, the website reported, citing OPEC figures and international media reports. Still, it’s not entirely clear whether the Saudis could quickly ramp up to that maximum level, or if they’d even be willing to do so.
“If the Saudis can in fact produce more, they might also not want to. Driving oil production to the edge of what is possible globally holds an inherent risk should another disruption” upend global markets, Katharina Bucholz, a Statista journalist, wrote in an analysis of Saudi oil production this week. “Since that disruption can then not be compensated at all, it could cause an even more drastic jump in oil prices.”
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My question is can you tell me where specifically did the four text types
originate and when they originated and by whom or what local group are
most likely to have done so? I understand by Bruce Metzger that using the
fathers to locate a certain family of text or reading is also a factor. Is
this right or do I not understand him correctly?
It seems to me that you may be assuming too much. What I mean is that you
may be assuming that the different text types were the result of one
person or one group of persons and that one can reconstruct the place and
time where these text types were created. This simply is not the case.
The division of the textual types into the four categories is somewhat
arbitrary. This reflects an effort by scholars to classify the kinds of
changes which made their way into the later New Testament texts. They are
only rough guides to help us to understand what happened. You should not
take these rough guides too seriously, although they can help us to
organize our understanding of the ways in which copyists and editors
inserted small additions and changes into the original text.
The four families of texts which are referred to by scholars are;
1. The Alexandrian. This is so-called because it was used in particular
by church fathers who were centered around the church in Alexandria,
Egypt. Please take the designation Alexandrian with a grain of salt, but
important manuscripts which are considered to be of this type include the
most important ancient manuscripts, such as the Codex Vaticanus and the
Codex Sinaiticus. Codex Alexandrinus is thought to be Alexandrine except
for showing some signs of the Byzantine in the four gospels.
2. The Western text-type. Again, this is only a helpful guide. Its name
comes from the fact that manuscripts which incorporated some paraphrasing
into the text tended to arise in the Western churches. Apparently, there
were some significant additions and variations in the Western manuscripts
in the book of Acts. The Codex Bezae is the only really important
manuscripts which contains at least elements of the kinds of textual
changes which ended up in this family of manuscripts. Maricion the
heretic (mid-late 2nd century) and Irenaeus (late 2nd-early third century)
and others are said to have used this family of texts, although it is
possible that these men simply did some paraphrasing of their own in their
letters. It is also said that the early Latin versions and, more
importantly, the Vulgate were influenced by this text type. (I have also
heard it said that they were influenced by the Byzantine text type, to
show you that these issues and distinctions are not clear) I suggest you
listen to the scholars on these things, but take them with a grain of salt.
A third text-type which is mentioned is the Caeserean. This is so-called
because some of those who used this supposed text type were from Cesaerea,
which was in Palestine. It is said to contain a mixture of Western and
Alexandrian elements. It is not hard to see that this third category can
be rather arbitrary. Caesarea lies on the travel line between Alexandria
and the West.
The fourth text-type, as I mentioned earlier, is said to be the
Byzantine. This became a sort of official text for the Greek church in
the East. It, therefore, became the source of Erasmus famous Greek text
and all the early translations into English.
Scholars of the New Testament will all tell us that no one uses any of
these text types today, although the Alexandrian clearly represents the
most primitive and the most accurate of the four. Scholars attempt to use
common sense rules to eliminate editorial changes, as well as relying on
the quotes of the earliest church fathers and the most authoritative
manuscripts (such as Codex Vaticanus) to reconstruct the most accurate
version of the Greek original as possible. You should realize that the
differences between the Alexandrian and the original are truly miniscule.
This plus the other tools at the disposal of scholars allow them to
produce a Greek text which is virtually identical with the original, to
the point that Bible readers can accept what we have to be for all
practical purposes the original autographs of the New Testament writers.
It may be helpful to learn about the text types, but the main point is
that we do not use any of the text types. Do not allow yourself to become
too distracted by the history of what happened over the centuries as a
number of very slight and even a few significant variations came into the
texts. If you become too focused on this, you may tend to miss the big
picture, which is that we have a virtually perfect Greek texts available
Bruce Metzger is infinitely more well acquainted with these issues than
I. I agree with him that quotes from the early church Fathers are as much
an indication of the text types as the manuscripts themselves. I believe
you will do well to use Metzger as a resource. I simply suggest you not
get lost looking at the trees, but rather look at the forest, which points
us toward confidence in our Greek New Testament.
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S2 Grupo will protect online players from cybercrime
- This initiative aims to build a bridge between parents and young people in the field of online games, in which adults often do not know how to advise their children.
- The main dangers of online video games are cyberbullying or harassment, grooming, theft of bank details, theft of personal information or malware.
Valencia, July 22, 2020.- The increase in cybercrime in the field of online video games and eSports is a reality that is growing in parallel with the increase in its users. For this reason, the cybersecurity company S2 Grupo has been implementing various initiatives for years to raise awareness among parents and adults on how to use them safely and avoid falling into the nets of cybercriminals.
Along these lines, S2 Grupo has launched “Protected Games” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOW4qpW4yxs) which is a project in which Hijos Digitales, its cybersecurity awareness blog for families, has created a YouTube channel in which videos will be presented to show how to use in a cyber-secure way the most popular online video games & e-Sports such as Fornite, Clash Royale, etc.
“Our objective is that this initiative serves as a bridge between parents and young people to facilitate the understanding of the characteristics of these video games and, of course, the possible risks that may exist in them. This point is essential, because we need to know where the potential danger lies in order to avoid it”, said José Rosell, managing partner of S2 Grupo.
“In these videos, created by experts from our team, we will pay attention to common cyber risks of these online games such as micropayments within the games, account security or ways of communicating between players. These are the ones that can lead to cybercrimes such as cyberbullying or harassment, grooming, theft of bank details, theft of personal information or malware. And, in addition, from Protected Games, the specific risks that can be found in each video game will be shared, as well as the best practices and recommendations to avoid them among the general public”, explained Miguel A. Juan, managing partner of S2 Grupo.
In this YouTube channel the games will be shown as they are and thus they will have simple tutorials that will teach them how to properly configure the accounts so that they are secure. Among the information that will be available in Protected Games are video game reviews, the main risks that can be found, security tips, a summary of the best parental control practices, etc.
S2 Grupo has insisted that this sector should not be viewed as "negative" because online games and sports allow dynamic learning, encourage group work, stimulate memory, etc. You just have to use them responsibly because having chats with which to talk with other players, being able to share cameras, etc., simply requires paying attention to safeguarding privacy.
This action is part of Evoluciona2, S2 Grupo's corporate responsibility strategy to raise awareness in society about cybersecurity and protect the most vulnerable groups, mainly.
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Obituary: Albert Freedman died on April 11th
The chief player in the quiz-show scandal of the 1950s was 95
THERE was no doubt who sponsored “Twenty One”, the NBC quiz showAlbert Freedman took over in 1956. The word “Geritol” appeared above the stage and on the lectern of the host, Jack Barry. Barry gave “America’s number-one tonic” a plug at the start, and in the intermission up popped the salesman like a conjurer from the curtains, cradling that familiar brown bottle and promising that if you felt weak and run-down, Geritol would vitaminise your tired blood in a matter of days.
So when the boss of Geritol complained that “Twenty One” too was tired, and threatened to take it off the air, Mr Freedman was recruited to save it. Briefly put, he had to get rid of Herb Stempel, an expressionless, awkward nerd from Queens who, with his extraordinary memory, just kept on winning, and find someone more sympathetic to replace him; someone exciting. That was the purpose of this shiny new medium, television, after all. It offered spectacle, showmanship, illusion, escape; it carried, like those Geritol commercials and the ever-smiling blondes who decorated the sets, a whiff of the fairground. And Mr Freedman, at 34, having said yes, was on his way to contriving the biggest American scandal of the 1950s.
Content as he was producing his own quiz show, “Tic-Tac-Dough”, he did not want to switch. But with his background in variety TV, on the Pinky Lee and Groucho Marx shows, and with his “eighth sense” for good contestants, he knew what was needed. And what he needed appeared. In a fluke of history, a touch of fate or God, he met Charles Van Doren at a party in the Village. Mr Van Doren was not only charming and bright but turned out to be electrifying on screen. The show, once he joined it, piled on viewers, so that 50m were watching on the night, December 5th 1956, when Mr Stempel was at last kicked off.
The fact that Mr Van Doren had been coached was something only he and Mr Freedman knew for sure. The contestant—once the beans had been spilled, in 1958, by Mr Stempel and others—bitterly regretted his behaviour. Mr Freedman didn’t. Control—the words “fixed” or “rigged” never crossed his lips—was common in quiz shows, which were hugely popular then. CBS’s “The $64,000 Question” was controlled, as was “Tic-Tac-Dough”. Producers and viewers both thought, “So what?” You needed drama, suspense. You had to spike the rivalry between the contestants with more ties, more dropping behind and pulling ahead. Simply to have two dummies in earphones proving they knew science was unbelieveably boring. By giving Mr Van Doren the questions in advance—not the answers, Mr Freedman insisted—he “assumed he knew how to play it” to catch Mr Stempel up and, with luck, out.
The rest was advice on performance, which any director would give. It was like Shakespeare, he told the literary Mr Van Doren: just entertainment. He instructed him to pause more, look worried, “forget” things and return to them. If he felt queasy about this, though he had no reason to, he should consider what good publicity he was giving to teachers like himself. Mr Stempel, who was also coached by a co-producer, acted the unlikeable robot, dabbing his sweaty brow in the torrid isolation booth. Mr Van Doren’s role was to “make it natural” and “make it real”: more real.
The result was great television. For that, Mr Freedman would not apologise. “Twenty One” made millions of viewers at home very happy. Contestants won a lot of money. The show changed their lives. It inspired middle America to buy television sets as never before. The shame in his view was that its success, and Mr Van Doren’s celebrity, also ended the years of innocence. Television became a phenomenon so powerful that, in his own now-loaded words, it was out of control. The press attacked it as a hated rival, and the authorities started snooping; so though his shows had broken no laws (there being none in force), he was hauled before a grand jury, lied to it, recanted, and narrowly escaped a perjury rap. His TV career was over, after that. He moved to London to work for European Penthouse and assorted sex publications: another area, he said defensively, full of misplaced guilt and ignorance.
Acts of generosity
The moment he revisited most wistfully was meeting Mr Van Doren at that party. If he hadn’t gone—and liked him, and suggested that he could pep up his pitiful salary by a couple of thousand by coming on the show—he would never have got into trouble. For that act of generosity, worth $129,000 by the end, Mr Van Doren should have thanked him. In fact, all humanity should have thanked him for entertaining them. Instead, to gather by the film “Quiz Show” of 1994, his control of “Twenty One” had started a moral rot that led inexorably to Vietnam, Watergate, and lies and corruption on a national scale.
He resented that, almost as much as he loathed the invasion of television by Hollywood glitz, violence and wild unreality. Looking back to the quiz shows with their simple format, basic staging and ordinary people in sober discussion of books or history, he felt that a better, more straightforward era had disappeared, and mourned it. Surely all he had done was give “Twenty One” a dose of Geritol (“You’ll feel better in seven days, or your money back!”) as the sponsor recommended?
This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline "That’s entertainment"
From the May 6th 2017 edition
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The activist and writer was hanged by the military regime on July 23rd
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Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) are experiencing significant growth across the world in response to consumer, buyer and producer demands, according to ‘The State of Sustainable Markets 2018: Statistics and Emerging Trends’ report.
The report outlines data on global production volumes and areas, as well as certified producers, for 14 major VSS. These standards, which provide consumers assurances that their purchases support sustainability, can enhance market connections and price premiums for producers, but potentially come with substantial compliance costs.
The State of Sustainable Markets 2018: Statistics and Emerging Trends is the third joint report by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), and the International Trade Centre (ITC). The report is the most comprehensive global data source available for certified agricultural commodity markets. It presents data that helps small firms take advantage of trends to supply consumers with products that are environmentally sustainable and socially responsible.
The report shows that agricultural land on which certified commodities are grown continues to increase. For some products, such as coffee and cocoa, more than 20% of global cultivation is certified as sustainable. Certified cotton is witnessing the highest growth rate, with the area under cultivation trebling between 2011 and 2016. Certified cocoa also almost trebled in area; while oil palm and tea-certified areas more than doubled during the same five-year span.
The report finds that in 2016, more than 57.8 million hectares of agricultural land across the world were organic-certified, including land that is in the process of becoming certified as such. This represents 1.2% of all agricultural land worldwide.
In terms of individual standards rather than crops, the State of Sustainable Markets finds that the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) experienced the greatest jump, with the certified area covered expanding more than seven-fold. The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) area increased nearly five times, while that of Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) nearly quadrupled.
Between 2015 and 2016, certified cocoa demonstrated the strongest growth with a 28% increase. However, over the same period, most other commodities experienced single-digit growth or even saw a decline in certified area.
In 2016, over a quarter of global coffee was certified by at least one of the following standards: 4C, Fairtrade International, Organic, Rainforest Alliance and UTZ. This is a conservative estimate, as the figure could be as high as 45%, if the coffee is not certified by multiple initiatives.
Market uptake is largely driven by standards directly targeting mainstream adoption within a specific sector. In each of the sectors discussed, where single-commodity standards have been developed (coffee, cotton, forestry, oil palm, sugarcane and soy), they are by far the largest standards. The dominance of single-commodity standards is particularly remarkable given that they tend to be the newest standards on the market, with the exception of the forestry sector.
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This is a question that I get several times a day. Many people will go get a hearing test, see what their hearing healthcare professional recommends, and then come home to do some research online. Upon researching the aids online, people come across advertisements and opportunities to purchase hearing aids online, whether it be from an online dealer or from a person who is selling aids (perhaps from a loved one who is deceased, or maybe for someone who had a change of hearing and is no longer a candidate for the aids they had).
Purchasing hearing aids online can be a difficult and frustrating task, but every once in a while a good deal can be found. Please keep in mind that this is more of a rarity than it is the norm.
Buying Used Aids Online
People sell barely used hearing aids online all the time. eBay and other similar venues will have hearing aids listed on there by manufacturer and model. For someone who is looking to replace an older aid, or maybe one got lost or chewed up by the dog, this can be a viable option. It would be important to make sure that the hearing aid is a BTE (behind-the-ear), Open Fit, or RIC (receiver-in-the-canal) style of instrument. Avoid any custom products, as the likelihood that they will be a good fit for another person’s ears are slim to none. Buying used aids online is always a risk…diseases can be passed from person to person through earwax and other bodily products, there’s no way to tell how well the person selling the aids took care of them, and it can be challenging to find a hearing healthcare professional who is willing and able to program the hearing aids if purchased online. Please…before putting someone else’s used hearing aid in your own ear, take it to a hearing healthcare provider who can show you how to properly clean and sterilize the device.
Buying New Aids Online
Some hearing aid dealers and insurance groups do have the option of selling hearing aids online these days. They will require the patient to send in an audiogram (and sometimes an ear impression) and then they program the aids based off of the test results and send them back to the patient. The problem with this particular model is that the service component is a huge part of getting a hearing aid, so if one orders new aids online and they are uncomfortable or don’t work properly, are too loud or not loud enough…one must send them back to the place from whence they came and hope that when they get them back in a few weeks, things are better. Once again, one of the major pitfalls of this particular model is finding a local provider who can help you with learning to use the aids.
A few points to consider:
- Research the aids. If it seems like it’s a deal that is too good to be true, it probably is.
- Before purchasing anything, contact local hearing health providers. Ask them “How much do you charge to program a hearing aid I didn’t buy from you/that I bought online/that I bought used?” Ask them if they charge per device or if the quote is for two aids. Ask them what they charge for each follow up visit. Ask them if they have the necessary software to program your aid, and if not, ask them what they will charge you to get it. Then, add all these costs to whatever the price is on the computer screen. THAT is the new cost of your “great deal” hearing aid.
- If buying a used aid, find out what area of the country or what climate it’s coming from. Find out how old it is, who used it and how much. Find out why they aren’t using it anymore. Ask what battery size it takes, if there is a case included, if there are cleaning tools included, etc.
Buying aids online is definitely not for everyone, but it does come up and in certain situations it may be a viable option. More often than not, though, it’s one of those deals that seems almost too good to be true
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Visibility and acceptance of lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI) in Southeast Asia have grown in recent years even though some countries continue to criminalise same-sex relations or individuals with different gender expressions.
From Myanmar to Indonesia to Timor Leste, even the most difficult environments have given birth to stories of love, hope and humanity. In this report, APCOM sums up the conditions and recent progress for LGBTI in each country and highlights the strategies that have helped to advocate for change.
The situations and conditions for LGBTI in Southeast Asia as follow:
(A) Countries that criminalise LGBTI
INDONESIA: Pluralistic, Muslim-majority Indonesia does not criminalise same-sex relations, except in Aceh and South Sumatra provinces, some cities and districts.
Still, rising anti-gay rhetoric by politicians and officials have made it more difficult for LGBTI to organise, hold events and be open about their identities. Wielding Indonesia’s broadly-worded anti-pornographic law, which outlaws “pornographic action”, Muslim vigilantes, sometimes joined by police, have raided places where LGBTI are known to gather. These include a night club, the office of a HIV prevention organisation, and even private homes.
Through directives and recruitment guidelines, some government agencies have tried to exclude LGBTI.
Indonesia country came close to criminalising same-sex relations in September 2019, when legislators were due to consider amendments to its penal code that would have outlawed sex between people who are not married to each other. But protesters took to the streets, fearing that the bill, which also outlaws “obscene acts” in public and restricts abortion, would roll back decades of Indonesian progress on human rights. President Joko Widodo postponed discussion on it.
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM: The global storm over Brunei’s recently enacted Syariah Penal Code Order, which punishes gay sex with death by stoning, has faded somewhat after Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah announced in 2019 that the country’s moratorium on capital punishment would extend to its syariah laws.
Yet the affluent oil-funded monarchy retains onerous laws. Brunei’s secular penal code punishes anyone who has sex “against the order of nature” with whipping and up to 30 years’ jail.
Under its syariah law, sex between men, including that between a Muslim and non-Muslim, remains punishable by whipping and seven years’ jail. Lesbian sex is punishable by a B$40,000 fine, ten years’ jail, whipping, or any combination of two. Cross-dressing is punishable by three month’s jail and a B$1,000 fine.
SINGAPORE: Singapore retains a colonial-era law, Section 377A, which prescribes up to two years’ jail for any man who commits “any act of gross indecency” with another man.
Wary of upsetting conservatives among its electorate, including a vocal evangelical Christian minority, the ruling People’s Action Party government has resisted calls to repeal the law, but promised not to proactively enforce it. Activists say this law is often used to justify discrimination and makes it difficult for LGBTI youth to reconcile with their identities.
Singapore’s media licensing regime prohibits attempts to “justify a homosexual lifestyle”. LGBTI groups are denied registration as societies.
In 2014, the court of appeal dismissed two separate challenges arguing that Section 377A violated the constitutional right to equality. In November 2019, a Singapore court heard three fresh challenges to the controversial law.
Pink Dot, an annual rally of LGBTI and their allies in downtown Singapore to challenge discrimination, attracts thousands of participants each year, despite changes to the law to effectively ban foreigners from the venue.
While Singaporeans who undergo sex-change operations can alter the gender on their identity cards, public hospitals stopped offering the procedure in 2013.
MALAYSIA: Same-sex relations have long been criminalised under separate laws that Malaysia has for Muslims and non-Muslims. But LGBTI have become more vulnerable lately amid rising ethno-religious rhetoric used by former ruling party UMNO, which recently allied with the ultraconservative Parti Islam SeMalaysia.
The opposition camp, branding itself as the protector of Islam and Malay rights, claims the governing Pakatan Harapan coalition government is too “liberal”.
Meanwhile, both Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and premier-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim – previously jailed on colonial-era sodomy charges – have publicly rejected LGBTI rights. Islamic Affairs Minister Mujahid Yusof Rawa says the government is trying to rehabilitate LGBTI.
High profile raids by Islamic enforcement authorities have stoked fear. In November 2019, five men were sentenced to jail, fines and caning for attempting to have sex with men. They were part of a larger group detained in an apartment in 2018 by officers who had monitored their messages, say activists. In September 2018, two women were caned at a Terengganu state syariah court for attempting to have sex with each other – the first time women have been caned for such a violation, say activists.
MYANMAR: Myanmar’s National Youth Policy, enacted in 2018, mandates ending discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. But sweeping pre-independence laws allow police to harass and blackmail LGBTI.
Section 377 of Myanmar’s penal code prescribes up to ten years’ jail for “carnal intercourse against the order of nature”. Section 30 of the Rangoon Police Act and Section 35 of the Police Act, known locally as “darkness laws”, allow police to detain anyone loitering after sunset without a satisfactory explanation.
Police have invoked Section 377 to enter homes of people suspected of having gay sex and used the “darkness laws” to make arbitrary arrests of transgender women in particular. The victims were very often doing normal things like returning home from work or taking a stroll.
Yet Myanmar’s LGBTI events have gradually come into the open. In 2018, authorities granted permission for a Pride event to be held in a public park in Yangon for the first time, and it was attended by some 12,000 people. In 2019, a flotilla of boats sailed down Yangon’s river in a Pride boat parade.
(B) Countries that do not criminalise LGBTI
VIETNAM: Communist-ruled Vietnam has steadily dismantled legal hurdles for LGBTI since 2013, when it abolished fines for same-sex weddings. In 2014, the Law on Marriage and Family was amended to lift the prohibition on same-sex marriages – without actually recognising same-sex marriage.
Changes to Vietnam’s Civil Code allowed transgender people who have undergone sex reassignment surgery to register their new gender from 2017. A draft law that will enshrine these protections is expected to be discussed by the National Assembly in 2020.
Patriarchal societal attitudes remain the biggest hurdle. While hate crime is rare, LGBTI commonly face violence from family members when they come out, say activists.
CAMBODIA: Cambodia LGBTI tread on ambiguous territory. While same-sex marriage is not prohibited, the constitution states that marriage is between a husband and a wife. Local officials have issued marriage certificates to a few same-sex couples by designating one spouse as a “husband” and the other as “wife”. Same-sex couples often find it difficult to get a Family Record Book – a commonly-used identity document. Among those that obtain it, the spouses are often recorded as siblings. The Rainbow Community Kampuchea Organisation has tried to provide some legal protection through a document called “Declaration of Family Relationship”, signed by same-sex couples in the presence of local officials.
Cambodian law does not allow a legal change of gender.
Societal discrimination and family violence persist, with some female-born LGBTI forced or pressured to marry men. Discrimination, especially in rural areas, limits their job opportunities.
In February 2019, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Cambodia was not ready to legalise same-sex marriages but appealed to the public to not discriminate against LGBTI.
LAOS: Laos neither criminalises nor protects LGBTI. While same-sex relations are not criminalised, same-sex marriage is not legal. A transgender person cannot legally change his or her gender.
Societal stigma persists, especially against transgender people.
Laos’ communist government keeps a very tight rein on civil society groups but has acknowledged LGBTI issues. In 2015, a transgender outreach worker was able to talk about her hopes on national television as state-owned Lao National Television covered the local commemoration of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.
Proud To Be US, a local LGBT group, has also collaborated with the National University of Laos and the Law and Development Partnership to document the conditions and attitudes of Vientiane-based LGBT employees and their employers.
TIMOR LESTE: In Timor Leste, crime motivated by discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is an aggravating factor in sentencing. Generally though, the country’s laws are silent on same-sex relations and gender identity.
Catholic-majority Timor Leste organised its first Pride march in 2017, in the capital of Dili. Then prime minister Rui Maria de Araujo recorded a video message ahead of the event, urging Timorese to accept people of different sexual orientations and gender identities.
In this conservative, patriarchal society, lesbians, bisexual and transgender women have been ostracised and physically attacked by their families, or raped or forced to marry men.
Teasing and abuse in schools have made LBGTI youth reluctant to attend school, affecting their education and employment opportunities.
(C) Countries with laws that protect LGBTI
THE PHILIPPINES: Filipino LGBTI are protected by their fellow citizens’ relaxed attitudes as well as an increasing numbers of local ordinances that outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Over two dozen cities, provinces and barangays in Catholic-majority Philippines have enacted these ordinances so far.
In 2019, a broader anti-discrimination bill that penalises harassment and the stigmatisation of LGBTI which had sailed through the House of Representatives did not make it past the Senate before it adjourned in June. The bill has been refiled for consideration but faces stiff opposition from some senators.
The Philippines elected its first transgender lawmaker, Geraldine Roman, in 2016.
President Rodrigo Duterte, who sparked outrage when he said he cured himself of being gay, has flip-flopped in his support of LGBTI rights.
In September 2019, the Supreme Court dismissed a same-sex marriage petition based on a technicality, saying the matter was better left to legislators.
THAILAND: Despite its gay-friendly reputation, it was only in 2015 that Thailand enacted a law that prohibited discrimination based on “the fact that the person is male or female or of a different appearance from his/her own sex by birth”.
While transgender women are highly visible in Thai society, and the kingdom is a popular place for sex-change operations, Thai law does not allow a legal change of gender.
LGBTI youth face bullying in schools. Some government-approved textbooks that pronounced homosexuality as a “problem” were modified in 2019 with inputs from activists.
In December 2018, the Thai cabinet gave in-principle approval to a draft civil partnership bill that will allow same-sex couples to jointly own and inherit. As at end 2019, the draft law had not made it to parliament. The Constitutional Court refused to consider a petition by a lesbian couple who argued that current law allowing marriage only between a man and woman is unconstitutional.
Meanwhile, four openly LGBTI politicians were selected by their party to take seats in House of Representatives – a first for the country. Their selection was the result of the March 2019 national election, and through the party list system.
Intersectional solidarity Working together with other human rights groups or on issues that may not directly have an impact on LGBTI was something which evolved naturally in some places. In several countries in Southeast Asia, this approach has become vital.
Discussion about the welfare of gay and bisexual men, for example, first entered the mainstream through public campaigns to combat the spread of HIV that also involved effort to halt transmission from mother to child, and also through heterosexual sex.
These days, LGBTI rights discussions can be explored in events about media freedom, progressive faith, or general human rights. These collaborations strengthen civil society as a whole.
On the flip side, the advance of LGBTI welfare cannot be done in isolation, at the expense of general human rights. Activists warn against “pinkwashing” and say it’s important that those in power not be allowed to use minor concessions on LGBTI issues to gloss over larger attacks on democracy and freedom of expression.
Allies and advocates Cultivate, support and promote the work of key allies. In Cambodia, activists have worked with local officials who bear witness to the signing of Declarations of Family Relationship for same-sex couples, to provide some legal protection in the face no official recognition for same-sex marriage.
Singapore’s ambassador-at-large Tommy Koh, as well as prominent corporate couple Ho Kwon Ping and Claire Chung, are high profile advocates for the repeal of Section 377A, which criminalises sex between men.
In Indonesia, the Youth Interfaith Forum on Sexuality is flourishing. APCOM continues to have conversations with some Islamic clerics and Protestant pastors who are open to interpreting religious texts in a progressive manner. In Central Java, transgender man Amar Alfikar, also active in GAYa NUSANTARA, promotes diversity while teaching in an Islamic boarding school that his parents founded.
Visibility Myanmar’s Miss Universe contestant Swe Zin Htet became the first openly lesbian contestant in the beauty pageant’s history when she came out in 2019. One year before that, Myanmar male actor and model Okkar Min Maung came out by Facebook video, stunning a country more used to stereotypes of effeminate gay men.
Visibility is important, whether in the form of celebrities, public gatherings like Pride events, or on a quiet everyday level in the school or workplace. Coming out and being visible in society is vital to counter the discourse that LGBTI are products of Western influence and inimical to local culture.
Acceptance becomes easy when more people are aware LGBTI are friends, relatives, colleagues and neighbours – and look as similar or different as anyone else.
Financial and economic inclusion Social exclusion heightens inequality that is very prevalent in this Southeast Asia region. LGBTI living in urban areas, for example, have access to vastly more resources and support than those living in rural areas.
Meanwhile, homophobic bullying and strict gender conformity in schools often make LGBTI more likely to drop out. This limits employment opportunities already narrowed by their own shunning of jobs that would not allow them to express their identities.
LGBT groups should work towards bridging these gaps to promote financial and economic inclusion of the most disadvantaged individuals.
Legal advocacy Challenging legal boundaries can come in the form of demanding laws against discrimination or questioning the constitutionality of laws that criminalise gay sex or fail to recognise same-sex unions. Mounting periodic challenges open spaces for the legal system to adapt to fast evolving social environments.
At the same time, it is important to create an environment that not only penalises discrimination but also promotes respect and acceptance of diversity.
As societies evolve, new allies and advocates for LGBTI equality spring from even the most challenging conditions. Southeast Asia offers a rich environment for finding commonality and harnessing the best practices for LGBTI advocacy. APCOM believes the strategies here are only a fraction of the long list in practice, and is committed to creating more space for lasting change
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and LGBTI Rights in ASEAN - Dr. Dédé Oetomo - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Southeast AsiaWatch on YouTube
In putting together this report, APCOM was generously informed by the opinions shared by the following LGBTI activists:
Alan Seah (Singapore), Pink Dot
Amar Alfikar (Indonesia), GAYa NUSANTARA
Aung Myo Min (Myanmar), Equality Myanmar
Bern Chua Hang Kuen (Malaysia), Universiti Sains Malaysia
Charmaine Tan (Singapore), Pelangi Pride Centre
Kong Yara (Cambodia), Micro Rainbow International Foundation
Ly Pisey (Cambodia), Rainbow Community Kampuchea
Luong The Huy (Vietnam), Institute for Studies of Society, Economy and Environment
Mia Nguyen (Vietnam), Ladies of Vietnam
Roy Tan (Singapore), Independent archivist of LGBT history
Ryan V. Silverio (Philippines), ASEAN Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression Caucus
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A rare and significant Suffragette banner that provided the backdrop for some of the most famous Emmeline Pankhurst rallies was tucked away in a filing cabinet in Leeds for a decade.
The purple banner, which has been described as "the most important suffrage object that has come out of the last decade", was created 100 years ago at the height of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) campaign.
Embroidered with the slogan "Manchester - First in the fight", the iconic banner was used at huge Suffragette rallies in Manchester and London, before its owner Edna White took it to Leeds when she moved in the 1930s.
After her death, her relative donated the banner to Halton Moor and Osmondthorpe Project for Elders and it spent 10 years tucked away in a filing cabinet at the charity's office, before it was sold at auction to a private collector for £13,000.
The People's History Museum in Manchester realised the historical significance of the unique artifact, but it was outbid at the auction. However, it eventually bought it off the collector for £20,000.
Georgie Spedding, a spokeswoman for the charity which provides advice and support to elderly people, said the banner was occasionally "used for reminiscence work" but it was rarely taken out of filing cabinet in her office.
She said: "We had it in a filing cabinet for 10 years, not doing anything really. We weren't aware of the monetary value of it and when we auctioned it, we thought it would bring in about £500.
"We know the significance of the Suffragettes and the Pankhurst movement.
"But we honestly actually didn't know a great deal about it (the banner)."
The museum secured various grants, from organisations such as Arts Council England, and raised £5,000 through a crowd funding campaign to buy the banner.
Helen Antrobus, curator at the People's History Museum, told BBC Breakfast: "This is probably the most important suffrage object, that has come out of the last decade.
"It's the Manchester WPSU banner. Even though it says 1903 on it, it was made in 1908 and taken down to the Hyde Park rally in London which was the biggest rally so far of the suffragette movement.
"Most importantly it says on it first in the fight, that's to say that Manchester was the place that it all started."
She added: "It had been there (in the charity offices) for 10 years before it was found and put on auction so we were very, very lucky to acquire it into the collection."
The museum now holds what is believed to be the world's largest collection of trade union and political banners .
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Pheasants are not known for their flying skills. They are primarily terrestrial birds spending most of their time on the forest floors of Asia, though they are capable of short, fast bursts of flight. Field zoologists have noticed that golden pheasants are susceptible to bleaching if they are exposed to sun for long amounts of time. The shadowed forests they live in protect their vibrant colors.
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A flagging model
America’s higher-education system is no longer delivering all it should
IN HIS PROPOSAL for reforming the curriculum at William and Mary College in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote that it should nurture “those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use, if not sought for and cultivated”. Inspired by Jefferson, Americans expect higher education to boost the chances of disadvantaged people, but it seems to be failing in that task—and in some of the other jobs its customers want it to do.
Higher education has two sets of customers: students and the government. Students want all sorts of things from it—to make friends, sharpen their minds and get away from home. But most of all they want it to improve their economic prospects.
Despite rising costs, college still does that. An investment in a four-year degree offers a return of around 15% a year for somebody working until the age of 65, a figure that has been steady since 2000. But the returns have held up not because graduates have done so well but because those with only high-school degrees have done so badly (see chart 5). And although average returns remain decent, the range is vast. According to Payscale, a pay consultancy, it varies from +22% to -21%. Rising inequality increases the range of possible outcomes, and hence the risk of taking on student debt.
Governments want three things from higher education: research, human capital and equity. On the research side, America’s government has little to complain of. Although several European countries have more Shanghai top 100 universities in relation to their population than the United States does, America still dominates the summit of research: 19 of the world’s top 20 universities in Leiden University’s ranking of most-cited scientific papers in 2014 were American.
On the human-capital side, things look less good. In 1995 America had the highest graduation rate in the OECD. Now it lags behind seven other countries. President Barack Obama has set a target for his country to return to the top of the graduation league by 2020, but it is unlikely to be met. Young American graduates are below the OECD average in numeracy (see chart 5) and literacy, and are doing relatively worse than older ones. Some of the explanation lies with the poor performance of America’s schools, but the most expensive tertiary-education system in the OECD might be expected to help students catch up.
Recent work by American academics suggests that it does not. Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia, authors of “Academically Adrift”, looked at the results of 2,300 students who took the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), a test of critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing, and found that 45% of the sample showed no significant gains between their first and third years.
On equity, the results also look bleak. Graduation rates between rich and poor are diverging (see chart 5). Given the difference in spending on those at the top and at the bottom, that is perhaps not surprising. “Community colleges”, says Derek Bok, a former president of Harvard, “spend roughly $10,000 per student. Harvard probably spends over $100,000. And our students are much easier to teach.” The combination of state spending cuts, which have led some community colleges to restrict entry, and endowments lifted by booming stockmarkets is increasing the gap further.
In real terms, tuition fees have nearly doubled over 20 years. Big bills mean big debts (see chart 5). Nearly a third of students are in default, and the rate is rising. Student loans can rarely be discharged, even by bankruptcy, so default damages people’s credit history, makes it hard to get mortgages and thus both harms people’s welfare and acts as a drag on the economy. Given unprecedented default rates, there are worries that the federal government will be stuck with a lot of the debt.
Not what it seems
In most markets, the combination of technological progress and competition pushes price down and quality up. But the technological revolution that has upended other parts of the information industry (see article) has left most of the higher-education business unmoved. Why?
For one thing, while research impact is easy to gauge, educational impact is not. There are no reliable national measures of what different universities’ graduates have learned, nor data on what they earn, so there is no way of assessing which universities are doing the educational side of their job well. Universities are paid on the basis of research, not educational, output.
Students, meanwhile, are not buying education any more than the government is. They are buying degrees, whose main purpose is to signal to employers that an individual went to a—preferably highly selective—university. Harvard degrees are valuable because there are so few of them. Harvard therefore has no incentive to make them cheaper, nor to produce more of them: that would make them less precious.
This helps explain why America’s universities are failing to deliver equity. People are prepared to pay through the nose to buy advantage for their children, so top institutions charge ever higher prices and acquire ever more resources, while those at the bottom get less. That does not serve the Jeffersonian ideal of nurturing the talents of the poor as well as the rich for the greater good of society. So higher education has a divided soul: it is both a great collective enterprise to increase the nation’s welfare and a fight to the death between status-hungry parents.
Employers are not much interested in the education universities provide either. Lauren Rivera of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management interviewed 120 recruiters from American law firms, management consultancies and investment banks. Their principal filter was the applicant’s university. Unless he had attended one of the top institutions, he was not even considered. “Evaluators relied so intensely on ‘school’ as a criterion of evaluation not because they believed that the content of elite curricula better prepared students for life in their firms…but because of the perceived rigour of the admissions process,” Ms Rivera wrote. After the status of the institution, recruiters looked not at students’ grades but at their extracurricular activities, preferring the team sports—lacrosse, field-hockey and rowing—favoured by well-off white men.
If employers are not interested in grades, students might as well take it easy. That is, indeed, what they seem to be doing. Time-use studies show that the time students spend in class or studying has dropped from 40 hours a week in the 1920s to the 1960s to 27 hours a week now. And since academics are promoted largely on the basis of their research, they might as well give up teaching. That is, indeed, what they seem to be doing. Tenured faculty—the ones with the well-paid, secure jobs—spend less and less time with undergraduates. Increasingly, teaching is done by “non-tenure-track” faculty on short contracts. Mr Arum and Ms Roksa conclude that “no actors in the system are primarily interested in undergraduate student academic growth.”
The peculiar way in which universities are managed contributes to their failure to respond to market pressures. “Shared governance”, which gives power to faculty, limits managers’ ability to manage. “It was thought an affront to academic freedom when I suggested all departments should have the same computer vendor,” says Larry Summers, a former Harvard president. Universities “have the characteristics of a workers’ co-op. They expand slowly, they are not especially focused on those they serve, and they are run for the comfort of the faculty.”
Cost control is especially hard. As Clark Kerr, who designed the Californian higher-education system in the 1960s, wrote: “The call for effectiveness in the use of resources will be perceived by many inside the university world as the best current definition of evil.” Bringing about change is also tough. Change is rarely welcome, but in most organisations competition makes it inevitable. Mr Kerr doubted that university faculty “can agree on more than the preservation of the status quo”. Academics’ resistance to change gains added strength from their belief that education is not an occupation but a calling; and that to defend it against barbarians is not self-interest but moral duty.
But the pressure for change is growing. Some of it comes from the federal government, which is trying to make higher education more equitable and to get more value for money. On the equity side, Mr Obama announced in his state-of-the-union address in January that attending community college would be free for most people. But since the least well-off already get grants to cover their living expenses as well as tuition costs, it is not clear how much difference that will make.
On value for money, the government has launched an attack on for-profit colleges. A report by a congressional committee published in 2012 found that for-profits had a 64% drop-out rate and spent 22% of revenues on marketing, advertising, recruiting and admissions, against 18% on teaching. The government is asking colleges to ensure that average debt repayment of graduates on their programmes is below a set percentage of graduates’ incomes. For-profits point out that they don’t control students’ borrowing, nor can they control incomes, which depend on the economic cycle. They maintain that the measure—currently stuck in the courts—would damage equity: since poorer students are more likely to get into financial trouble, “the powerful incentive”, says Andrew Rosen, chairman of Kaplan, “is to jettison the least-prepared students.”
Better information about the returns to education would make heavy-handed regulation unnecessary. There is a bit more around, these days, but it is patchy. The CLA has been used by around 700 colleges to test what students have learned; some institutions are taking it up because, at a time of grade inflation, it offers employers an externally verified assessment of students’ brainpower. Payscale publishes data on graduates’ average income levels, but they are based on self-reporting and limited samples. Several states have applied to the IRS to get data on earnings, but have been turned down. The government is developing a “scorecard” of universities, but it seems unlikely to include earnings data. “A combined effort by the White House, the Council of Economic Advisers and the Office of Management and Budget is needed,” says Mark Schneider, a former commissioner of the National Centre for Education Statistics. It is unlikely to be forthcoming. Republicans object on privacy grounds (even though no personal information would be published); Democrats, who rely on the educational establishment for support, resist publication of the data because the universities do.
There is pressure on the sector from the market as well as from the government. After years of big increases in tuition fees, universities are facing resistance from the customers, and financial prospects for the sector are looking gloomy. Moody’s has a negative outlook: universities are “expecting the weakest net tuition revenue in a decade in fiscal year 2015”. It expects tuition fees at public universities to rise by an average of only 1.9%, though at private universities the increase is likely to be a more comfortable 2.7%. In the past five years college enrolment among those finishing high school has fallen, as cash-strapped community colleges turn applicants away and for-profits restrict recruitment of marginal students.
“America seems to have hit a wall,” says Simon Marginson. The country that has given the world so many ideas about how to run higher education could do with some new ones itself.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline "A flagging model"
From the March 28th 2015 edition
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The Department of Tourism (DOT) pays tribute to the local tourism workers.
Asia has a lot to offer when it comes to tourism. But what makes a place stand out is the people who live there. Filipinos’ hospitality makes the Philippines a prime tourist destination. But tourism, especially sustainable tourism, takes a village. Everyone, from the locals to the tourists, has a part to play. That’s why the Department of Tourism (DOT) is highlighting the people at certain places.
This ad dedicated to the local tourism workers became the DOT’s most-watched TikTok video. When director Joe Limchoc came up with the concept, he decided he didn’t want to use drone shots. So he took a different approach. He chose to zoom in, so to speak.
“What makes it more fun in the Philippines are its people,” Limchoc said. “The bangkeros, the manongs, the tourist guides, and the waiters. So we wanted to highlight them.”
The video is a collaboration between various creatives. It aims to showcase the diversity of local talent. It featured original music scoring that included Pinoy ASMR touches. Such touches are crashing waves, footsteps on a forest floor, and traffic. The team layered T’boli instruments and vocals by Pinikpikan’s Carol Bello over those.
Fifty dancers executed the complex choreography seen in the video. Detailed airbrushed paintings by street art groups Gerilya and Pilipinas Street Art Plan. This is one of the most conceptual Philippine tourism commercials shot in a studio.
Former Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat spearheaded the project. The DOT focused on providing for the Philippines’ greatest natural resource: our people.
Featured Image Daniella Sison
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Who We Are
Okogun Odigie Safewomb International Foundation (OOSAIF) is a non-religious, non-political, non-profit but educational, cultural and charitable organisation. OOSAIF is registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission and has United Nations ECOSOC Consultative Status (Special Category), it has its headquater in Abuja FCT. OOSAIF is affiliated to national and international bodies.
OOSAIF was born from the founders’ interest spanning decades and in response to government clarion call that it need society to join hands in development effort as well as the United Nations concern to uplift the dignity of mankind through programmes such as Millennium Development Goals(MDGS) Poverty Reduction and Population Polices etc. In order to achieve these laudable objectives, there must be a positive behavioral change hence values re-orientation activities for sustainable government.
To help develop and create a society that protects life, its dignity and quality.
To empower persons to be right in their decisions, appropriate actions and associations in matter concerning life issues and policies which are not only essential for vibrant sustainable society but also for the preservation of positive values and culture.
- Respect for life, right, colture and for the environment
- Volunteerism/ Community Service
- Non – Violence
- Education and Training
- Youths empowerment
- Reproductive Health
- Gender Issues
- Climate justice
- Capacity Building and Advocacy
- Merit Awards
- Mr & Miss Values Pageant
- Creating awareness of authentic positive values for environmental sustainability
- Promoting civic responsibility
- Guidance and counseling for and character education.
- Center for Etiquette and Culture
- To counsel and train women and young persons so that they can realize their full potentials and make valuable contribution for societal advancement.
- To advocate and lobby for the right for life.
- To provide a holistic approach to the prevention and elimination of ill practices in young persons and women.
- To establish a functional and learning centre for Etiquette and Culture for young persons, the unprivileged and other vulnerable persons.
- To raise awareness about
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Praxis Institute on the
Sustainable Development Goals
Palmyra Partners led on program management and bringing an equity and inclusion lens to BCCIC's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Praxis Program.
This innovative program focused on how development practitioners can better enact, embody, and practice the SDGs as a tool for transformational change.
Impact Benefit Agreements in the LNG Sector
Palmyra Partners created a research report and virtual Wayfinding Guide to meet our client's needs for information on Impact Benefit Agreements (IBAs).
The goal of the project was to support Indigenous communities to define their preferred approaches to scoping and implementing IBAs.
Responsible Sourcing & Gender Equality in Artisanal Gold Mining
Palmyra Partners worked with our government client to increase the percentage of artisan-mined gold that meets globally-recognized standards for responsible sourcing.
Our technical support focused on gender equality (SDG Goal 5) and responsible consumption and production (SDG Goal 12).
Strategic Program Development
Palmyra Partners supported a non-profit client to accelerate a national business integrity and anti-corruption program related to the mining sector.
Our technical support focused on building new partnerships and strategically-grounded program development.
Open Government Partnership Break the Roles Campaign
As a member of the Gender & Extractives Advisory Committee, we peer reviewed the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) & World Resources Institute (WRI) research project that aims to foster gender transformative policy commitments by governments. Read the report here.
Gender & Environmental Impact Assessment
Palmyra Partners collaborated with The UBC Centre for Environmental Assessment Research on a book chapter related to gender-based analysis and environmental impact assessment processes for natural resource sector projects. The work offers a practical introduction to key issues, debates and tools on the topic.
GBA+ and Impact Assessment - Richer Analysis, Better Outcomes
Palmyra Partners were invited by Oxfam Canada to join a virtual workshop with experts from across the country to discuss challenges, gaps and opportunities in integrating intersectional gender-based analysis (GBA+) in impact assessments. Read the workshop report here.
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Yoga and Indian Approaches to Psychology
September 29 - October 1, 2002
The National Conference on Yoga and Indian Psychology was attended by approximately 175 participants, most of them faculty members at psychology departments and research institutes in India. There were also a number of students and PhD scholars, some independent professionals, and a few psychologists from outside India.
A total of 84 papers were presented (see: Yaiap-papers ).
At the end of the conference a Declaration was passed on the position of Indian approaches to psychology (see: IP-Manifesto).
Below follows the text of the Conference Announcement:
Academic Psychology in India is based almost exclusively on the European tradition. The reductionist and physicalist foundation of modern, as yet largely Western science, is, however, not adequate to deal with the complexity and multidimensional nature of the human psyche. It stresses the most outward and mechanical parts of human nature and neglects our higher faculties, our more subtle and intimate experiences, the meaning and in a way the very essence of human existence. There are post-modern approaches to psychology that are more open in this respect, but they don't offer as yet a comprehensive framework for the whole of psychology.
The Indian tradition, on the other hand, with its emphasis on integrality and on consciousness as the primary reality, can provide a coherent and appropriate foundation for a truly integral psychology. Its wealth of inner disciplines offers, moreover, not only invaluable tools for psychotherapy, education, management and social work, but also opens the possibility of developing rigorous methods to arrive at valid, detailed and reliable knowledge of subjective reality.
We hope that this conference will become a turning point in the development of a new approach to psychology, which will carry in itself the very best of what modern psychology and the Indian tradition have to offer. It seems the right time for a breakthrough, for the world is in desperate need of a more integral, more spiritually focussed psychology and it is India that can provide the lead in its development.
Objectives of the conference
- Exposition of existing approaches to Indian psychology
- Exploring important areas and issues that can make Indian psychology a living force for the future
- Development of practical applications of Yoga and Indian approaches to psychology
- Developing research methodologies for Yoga and Indian approaches to Psychology
- Identifying support structures that will enable a successful introduction of Indian approaches to psychology at Indian universities and colleges
The structure of the conference
To achieve the objectives described above, there will be plenary, concurrent and, in case of sufficient interest, poster sessions. Each of these sessions will be devoted to one of the main objectives. The plenary sessions will have invited speakers only. The concurrent and poster sessions will work out the different issues in further detail. The highlights of the concurrent and poster sessions will be reported to all the participants during the last plenary session, after which there will be occasion to discuss concrete plans and projects for the follow-up of the conference.
Topics of the concurrent sessions
- Schools of Indian psychology that are relevant today
- Present applications and practice of Indian psychology
- Indian concepts of personality and higher levels of mind
- Yoga and Indian approaches to psychology as a means to effect change and transformation
- Research in Indian psychology, development of new methodologies
- The syllabus of Indian psychology, not as a relic of the past but as a force for the future
- Appropriate methods for teaching Indian psychology
for submission of papers was August 15th.
The deadline for submission of papers was August 15th.
For an overview
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Pondicherry is the place where for forty years Sri Aurobindo did his tapasya. In one of his own observations about this period he says, "I am concerned with the earth, not with worlds beyond for their own sake; it is a terrestrial realisation that I seek and not a flight to distant summits."
The ashram where Sri Aurobindo and his spiritual companion, the Mother, lived and worked for the transformation of our collective consciousness, still carry a strong spiritual atmosphere. Sri Aurobindo called Yoga, "nothing but practical psychology" and it cannot be by chance that Pondicherry was chosen as the place for this conference. May we all draw inspiration from the special surrounding in which the National Conference on Yoga and Indian Approaches to Psychology is held.
This conference is organised by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research in association with
- Infinity Foundation
- Pondicherry Psychology Association
- Indian Academy of Applied Psychology
- National Academy of Psychology
- Consciousness Research Group, Sri Aurobindo Ashram
- Prof. K. Ramakrishna Rao
- Prof. Anand Paranjpe
- Prof. R.C. Tripathi
- Prof. K.V. Kaliappan
- Prof. G.P. Thakur
- Prof. George V. Mathew
- Prof. Janak Pandey
- Prof. Girishwar Misra
- Prof. P. V. Krishna Rao
- Dr. Aster Patel
- Dr. Matthijs Cornelissen (Chairman)
- Prof. B. Mukhopadhyay (Vice-Chairman)
- Dr. Panch. Ramalingam (Organising Secretary)
- V. Kishore Kumar (Joint Secretary)
- Dr. S. Ganapathy (Treasurer)
Address for correspondence
Dr. Panch. Ramalingam
17, 14th Street, Krishna Nagar
Phone 0413 252476 (R)
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Japan is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean with dense cities, imperial palaces, mountainous national parks, and thousands of shrines and temples.
Japan is in many a traveler’s list of places to visit and rightly so! Japan is a myriad of stunning colors, beautiful natural treasures, and stunning mountain peaks!
Japan’s charm and appeal, however, lies not only in its natural resources or amazing people but also in its stunning cities.
Japan can be whatever you want it to be. But no matter which side of the coin you land on, it’s bound to be breathtaking. A trip here is sure to be one that’s exciting, informative, and even inspiring.
Here are the 10 Best Places to Visit In Japan.
In Kyoto, traditional culture is rich and vibrant, seen weaved in the citizen’s daily life. Kyoto, once the capital of Japan, is a city on the island of Honshu known as the sacred city with iconic temples, shrines, palaces, gardens, and bamboo forests, Kyoto often tops the list of people’s favorite Japanese cities for good reason.
It is also known for its lovely gardens and the Gion Matsuri festival, a July celebration that is considered one of the best in Japan.
It is a flower garden featuring patterned rows of colorful blossoms, plus alpacas, a small shop & an eatery.
So, arriving at Shikisai-no-oka, you might think your train was diverted and you somehow ended up in the Netherlands.
It’s not Europe, but the colorful patchwork of dozens of varieties of flowers in the quaint hillside village of Biei-Cho would leave any monarch jealous.
The park is open year-round, but you’ll catch the fields at their best from April to October.
Tokyo, Japan’s busy capital, mixes the ultramodern and the traditional, from neon-lit skyscrapers to historic temples.
Travelers who like to mingle with people will love Tokyo. Here a visitor can easily spend a few days dining on fresh seafood, wandering through the many museums, gazing up at the skyscrapers, and enjoying a lifestyle of opulence and culture.
To give a sense of how busy this city of 13 million people can be, the intersection at Shibuya Crossing is known as ‘The Scramble.’
Osaka is a large port city and commercial center on the Japanese island of Honshu. It’s known for its modern architecture, nightlife, and hearty street food. visitors.
It hosts Universal Studios Japan, the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, and Osaka Castle Park. Osaka is a huge business hub in Japan and home to many global businesses and international corporations.
The heart of the city, Dotonbori, is a place filled with flashy billboards, scrumptious dining options ranging from fine restaurants to food carts, and shops.
5. Biei Blue Pond, Shirogane
Blue Pond is a man-made pond feature in Biei, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the result of works on the Biei River, carried out after the 1988 eruption of Mount Tokachi, to protect the town of Biei from volcanic mudflows.
Way up north in rugged Hokkaido swirls the Biei Blue Pond, aptly named for its enchantingly blue waters whose hue changes with the seasons.
The pond is full of lifeless larch and silver birch trees that reflect on the surface like a turquoise mirror.
Sapporo, located in the mountains and renowned for its cold brew, is one of the best places to visit in Japan for thrill-seekers and adventure travelers.
There are lots of reasons to visit Japan, but beer doesn’t always top that list.
However, beer lovers simply must visit Sapporo, which is famous for beer and the capital of Hokkaido, the northernmost mountainous island of Japan.
Sapporo hosts ice sculpture festivals, ski and snowboard competitions, and is a prime base for athletes wanting to hit the slopes themselves.
8. Kawachi Fujian wisteria garden, Kitakyushu
Kawachi Fuji Gardens in Kitakyushu, Japan is where you will find the most amazing wisteria tunnel in the world.
It is a private garden in the wooded hills south of central Kitakyushu, famous for its spectacularly presented, large numbers of wisteria flowers.
The garden is opened to the public seasonally during the wisteria season which usually peaks around late April to mid-May and during the maple leaf season in autumn.
People make a big to-do about Japan’s cherry blossom season. It’s spectacular, but it’s not the only reason to visit in the spring.
Again, this popular spot is only open during wisteria season and when colors start to change in the fall.
There are two stunning tunnels draped with long swaying wisteria vines to mosey through.
9. Takeda Castle, Asago
Often referred to as Japan’s Machu Picchu, Takeda takes the castle on a cloud to a whole new level.
Takeda Castle is a ruined castle in the city of Asago, in the northern part of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
It’s believed to have been built in 1443 but was ultimately left abandoned by the 17th century.
To catch the morning mist shrouding the castle, and the magical views that follow, bring a Thermos of coffee and set up camp before sunrise.
10. Lake Kawaguchiko
Lake Kawaguchi is located on the border of Fujikawaguchiko and Minobu, southern Yamanashi Prefecture near Mount Fuji, Japan which is easily accessible from Tokyo.
It is the second largest of the Fuji Five Lakes in terms of surface area and is located at the lowest elevation.
It’s a prime spot for mind-blowing views of Fuji-san. The early-morning mist gives the mountain an ethereal vibe in this sacred, inspiring landscape.
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The World Loves The Smartphone. So How About A Smart Home? : All Tech ConsideredThe ultimate smart-home vision is a home that basically runs itself, from coffee makers to washing machines. But we're not there yet: The real world is a hard place for little computers to operate in.
My coffee maker is texting me again. It's scheduled to make coffee tomorrow, the message says, but I need to refill its water tank. Welcome to the future.
The Mr. Coffee Smart Optimal Brew Coffeemaker with WeMo — yes, that is its official name — is just one of many household appliances being remade to connect to the Internet and take care of themselves. There are thermostats, smoke alarms, washing machines and even $1,000 Bluetooth-connected toilets.
A Google subsidiary, Nest, which makes smart appliances, likes to talk about turning "unloved products" into "simple, beautiful, thoughtful things." And the company's chief, Tony Fadell, has predicted that in 10 years, "everything will have data in it."
That's not difficult to imagine anymore. Computers are cheap and tiny. Wireless Internet is nearly everywhere, so technologists are looking to implant some computing power in nearly everything.
I will admit. This can feel silly. I mean, who needs a coffee machine that texts him? Is that really necessary?
Clearly it's not. For years, I've used a simple French press. It does not have sensors, nor does it connect through my wireless network to nag me about its needs. All my simple French press does is make delicious coffee that's a bit better than what my supersmart Wi-Fi-enabled drip maker can manage. And yet, who does not want to hit the "brew coffee" button from bed? I, at least, wanted to know what that felt like. And it felt good.
And even if they are silly now, these intelligent appliances are going to change the way our homes work. Because they have sensors built in, they'll be able to tell us when there are problems. Our homes will soon be like our cars, which can tell us when their tires are flat, the coolant is low or you've left the door ajar. Just like the coffee maker told me about the water level, when the connected thermostat we installed in our home began to have trouble accessing the Internet, its app on my phone informed me that the little device hadn't been logging in. And with all of these gizmos and widgets becoming tiny computers, we're going to need to count on them to be smart enough to help us figure out this IT mess. No one wants the air conditioner to go offline as often as the printer does.
But diagnostics are only one part of what data will do for these household objects. The other thing is that tracking data at least offers the opportunity to optimize a routine. So: Imagine that a future coffee maker might notice that I make coffee at 6 a.m. but don't pour it until 6:45. It might spot that trend and offer to push back the brew time, so that the coffee's fresher. Already, some thermostats automatically make just these sorts of decisions about heating and cooling.
The ultimate smart-home vision is a home that basically runs itself. The egg carton tells the fridge it's empty, which puts eggs into the list for a shopping app, which then delivers those things to your door. Meanwhile, the smart front-door lock knows the delivery person is coming and opens itself automatically when he arrives. All the little things that need to happen for a home to run smoothly will be assigned to your own personal army of domestic bots connecting through apps to on-demand services.
But boy are we not there yet! The real world is a hard place for little computers to operate in. Sure, I can control my Nest thermostat from bed, but because of the way our heating system was set up in the 1990s, new wires needed to be run to power it. That required getting an electrician to visit our house and a couple of fun hours in the dank basement.
And the coffee maker, for its part, is not a magical all-in-one machine that grinds and brews coffee with self-replacing filters. It still requires me to take a bunch of steps — from buying consumable materials to cleaning — and only automates the final one, the brewing process, which is actually the easiest part.
At this point, the reason to use smart appliances is not that they are better than standard machines at a given job, but that they make everyone's favorite device — the smartphone — more fun and powerful.
Internet-connected things make your phone feel like a controller for the world — and if the utility each appliance adds is small, the collective convenience of all those things gathered into little rows of icons is startling. From bed, in 10 taps, I can make coffee, turn up the heat, call a car, turn on my stereo and record a television show with my cable box.
All I have to do is push a button on a screen and something happens out there in the physical world. And that action, funny as it might be in the current forms of Internet-connected toilets and Wi-Fi-enabled coffee makers, really is the future.
Alexis Madrigal is a visiting scholar at Berkeley's Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society and is the Silicon Valley bureau chief for the Fusion cable and digital network.
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CrossFit is a strength and conditioning program designed to help people gain a broad and general fitness. CrossFit programming concentrates on constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity to achieve overall physical fitness, so people are prepared for any physical challenge.
“Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand. Pirouettes, flips, splits and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc., hard and fast. Five or six days a week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.”
The roots of CrossFit trace back several decades beginning with Greg Glassman at his gym in Santa Cruz, California. Over the years he developed a fitness program to train athletes for the unknown and the unknowable. Many of his initial clients as well as a large portion of those who CrossFit today consist of law enforcement, military, paramedical, and fire personnel seeking to prepare themselves for the physical demands of their job.
In 2001, Glassman introduced www.crossfit.com, the main site, allowing for the program to spread across the internet, ultimately creating the open information CrossFit community we have today. The community now consists of over 1500 affiliates throughout the world. The CrossFit prescription of constantly varied, functional movements, executed at high intensity is allowing people of all ages, skill levels, body sizes, job fields, etc. to revolutionize their fitness lifestyle.
Explaining CrossFit to people who have never been exposed to its methodology is a painstaking task. Glassman’s basic definition: constantly varied, functional movements executed at high intensity is quite ambiguous. Basically, what this definition attempts to say is that CrossFit is not your average, everyday Globo Gym workout. Your standard Globo Gym workout consisting of chest/tri’s, back/bi’s, shoulders/legs and 30-45 minutes of cardio for your average lifter or 45-90 minutes of cardio and light lifting movements for the average female is far from constantly varied, functional, or executed at high intensity.
Going to the gym day in and day out and doing the same thing over and over again eventually leads to non-functional, lackluster workouts and endless plateaus where you struggle to make gains. CrossFit offers the best solution to this problem.
The CrossFit strength and conditioning program promotes broad and general overall physical fitness through targeting the ten fitness domains: cardiovascular and respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, coordination, flexibility, power, speed, balance, accuracy and agility. The program uses a variation of strength and conditioning techniques including weight lifting, running, rowing, gymnastics, calisthenics, and much more executed at high intensities to prepare CrossFitters for the unknown. Working out in groups, CrossFitters are constantly pushing each other to achieve their goals within these domains. As a result, the fitness community has begun to see an influx in athletes with increased work capacity across broad time and modal domains.
The communication of CrossFit coaches, trainers, and athletes, through the use of the virtual and physical community spanning the world is allowing for the advancement of the art and science of human performance. At over 1500 affiliate websites, human performance is now measured and publicly recorded as a means to empirically drive the methodology forward. In return, CrossFit has established itself as a premier fitness program to improve the lifestyle of anyone willing to join the community.
CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.
Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.
The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.
The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. Our terrorist hunters, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen.
Thousands of athletes worldwide have followed our workouts posted daily on this site and distinguished themselves in combat, the streets, the ring, stadiums, gyms and homes.
We also publish the CrossFit Journal, designed to support the CrossFit community detailing the theory, techniques, and practice d by our coaches in our gym, in essence bringing your garage or gym into ours, making you a part of the CrossFit family.
Courtesy of CrossFit, Inc
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FCS has adopted a Common Core State Standards (CCSS) based math program that focuses on depth rather than breadth, building conceptual foundations, and most importantly, engagement in the process and application of math concepts. Math Expressions (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) has been designed to reflect the way children learn mathematics. It provides a solid conceptual base that is grounded in over 20 years of research. Students are expected to problem solve, explain their thinking, and prove their answers. Each unit begins with an inquiry-based activity to activate thinking, access prior knowledge, and address preconceptions. Foundational to our mathematics instruction is the understanding that there are multiple paths to solving a problem. Providing a math learning environment that goes beyond memorization, rote learning, and basic computation allows students to learn with understanding which then leads to transference and the ability to apply learning in new situations.
English language arts (ELA) curriculum reflects a workshop framework: students reading and writing across genres, making textual connections, and communicating those ideas in various ways. Students read at their independent reading levels and engage in guided reading at their instructional level. They are expected to respond orally and in writing to the texts they read. This framework provides students with instruction in the many genres of texts, strategies for metacognition, and opportunities to practice these skills. Students set personal goals for becoming better readers and writers; through extensive and close reading, guided reading, conferring and daily writing students actively work toward achieving those goals. This approach emphasizes skill development (phonics, comprehension, text structures, etc.) with a particular focus on vocabulary development (the greatest predictor of academic achievement) and learning the language of workshop.
Social studies and science curriculum are California standards and Next Gen standards-based with GLAD strategies embedded. They are both published by UpLevel. CCSS ELA standards play an integral part in the instruction. Of key importance in the UpLevel curriculum is that students learn how to learn, their learning capacity is increased, and they are able to comprehend new ideas and concepts faster. All elementary students receive a weekly Time for Kids. Teachers use TFK to discuss current events and further extend social studies learning. Field trips, projects, labs, engineering kits, STEAM nights, and other media and materials provide enrichment for these content areas.
Word Study and Grammar help students recognize patterns in the English language to inform their reading and writing. Word Study is very different from the traditional spelling test. Word Study focuses on identifying the spelling and meaning patterns in the English language to learn how to spell and infer meaning of words so that students can transfer this knowledge to previously unknown and unseen words. Grammar is taught within context so that students learn to recognize how grammar changes meaning.
The California CCSS language standards require students to learn to print legibly, and beginning in grade three, write legibly in cursive. We use a D’Nealian Handwriting program (Scott Foresman) that begins with printing and, in later grades, transitions into cursive. D’Nealian printing provides a natural progression into cursive writing. Even in this age of technology, it is important for individuals to be able to handwrite legibly. Dr. William Klemm (2013), a professor of neuroscience at Texas A & M University, describes the many developmental and psychological benefits of learning cursive including sensory-motor coordination, cognitive demand which benefits thinking processes, the engagement of both hemispheres of the brain, and developing tactics for learning in general.
The kindergarten Bible program, Biblical Choices for a New Generation (Standard Publishing), is focused on character building through Old and New Testament stories and learning scripture. Beginning in first grade Building on the Rock, published by Summit Ministries, not only focuses on character development but on understanding the foundations of a Christian worldview through the building of the House of Truth. The content of the curriculum affirms the metanarrative of Scripture: (1) God created all things good. At creation, all things were in harmony. (2) At the Fall (Genesis 3), the whole created order fell into disharmony due to the disobedience of man. (3) In the person of Jesus Christ, God began the process of redemption and renewal. (4) In the end, God will restore all things through his Son Jesus Christ.
We believe the biblical metanarrative is manifested in four key relationships of creation. (1) Fellowship: The relationship between God and man. God created man for relationship with Himself; that relationship was broken because of sin; that relationship is restored through Jesus Christ. (2) Image-bearers: Man was created as whole and healthy being, as an imagebearer of God; sin brought disharmony and conflict into the life and heart of man. Redemption through Jesus Christ begins the healing process within man. (3) Servanthood: God created man for harmonious and loving relationships with other people; sin is the cause of disharmony and discord among people; part of restoring mission of Jesus Christ is to bring people back into harmonious relationship with one another. (4) Stewardship: God placed the whole created order under the rule and care of His image-bearers (Genesis 1); with the Fall, the relationship between man and the rest of the created order was marred; In Jesus Christ, God continues to call His image-bearers to work to preserve and protect the created order.
In the interest of developing the whole child, all students receive twice weekly instruction in both music (Koda´ly Method) and physical education. Chromebook carts are provided for every grade level and are used to integrate web-based applications into the teaching and learning both in classrooms and at home. In third grade, students learn to play the recorder. Students may then opt to participate in either symphonic band or hand bells beginning in the fourth grade in addition to classroom music. All students in fourth and fifth grades learn to sing chorally and perform at different events during the year.
Big-School Opportunities in a Small-School Environment
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Author: Alexander Wahl (RWTH Aachen University) , Christoph Wellmann (RWTH Aachen University), Björn Krautwig (RWTH Aachen University) Patrick Manns (RWTH Aachen University) Bicheng Chen (RWTH Aachen University), Christof Schernus (FEV Europe GmbH) and Jakob Andert (RWTH Aachen University).
Abstract: Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are currently enjoying rising sales figures. However, BEVs still have problems with customer acceptance, partly due to limited driving ranges. To improve the situation, this paper introduces a novel approach utilising temperature-dependent efficiencies using an economic model predictive control approach (MPC) in combination with an active grille shutter in order to accelerate the heating of the permanent magnet synchronous machine. The measurements of temperature-dependent component efficiencies on a powertrain test bench are presented and analysed in detail in the speed/torque range. Thermal models based on the lumped parameter thermal network approach were developed and validated as part of the system-level validation against a US06 wind tunnel measurement. After the build-up and implementation of the MPC, various simulations were conducted. For the investigations, three driving cycles were considered
at component start temperatures of 20–80 ◦C. The results show that using the MPC with the grille shutter can save 0.69–2.02% energy at the HV level compared to the rule-based control with a shutter, of which up to 1.02% is due to temperature-dependent efficiencies. Comparing the MPC with the grille shutter to a vehicle without a shutter, savings of 2.8–4.2% were achieved, while up to 1.67% was achieved due to temperature effects in the powertrain. <READ MORE>
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A bachelor is a four-year degree that allows students to choose their concentration and field of study. Many schools offer part-time schooling options so that students who wish to earn a bachelor’s degree can do so even while working or caring for family.Programs of study in the field of health sciences prepare students to work in the healthcare industry in a wide range of roles. Coursework… Read more
A bachelor is a four-year degree that allows students to choose their concentration and field of study. Many schools offer part-time schooling options so that students who wish to earn a bachelor’s degree can do so even while working or caring for family.
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A Retrospective Analysis of Softball-Related Head and Facial Injuries Treated in United States Emergency Departments, 2013-2017
Background: Softball is a popular sport played through both competitive and recreational leagues. While head and facial injuries are a known problem occurring from games, little is known about the frequency or mechanisms by which they occur. Purpose: To analyze head/face injury diagnoses and to identify the mechanisms associated with such injuries. Study Design: Descriptive epidemiological study. Methods: A public database was used to query data related to head/facial injuries sustained in softball. Data including age, sex, race/ethnicity, injury diagnosis, affected body parts, disposition, incident location, and narrative descriptions were collected and analyzed. Results: A total of 3324 head and face injuries were documented in the database over the time span of 2013 to 2017, resulting in a nationwide weighted estimate of 121,802 head/face injuries occurring annually. The mean age of the players was 21.5 ± 14.4 years; 72.1% of injured players were female, while 27.9% were male. The most common injury diagnoses were closed head injuries (22.0%), contusions (18.7%), concussions (17.7%), lacerations (17.1%), and fractures (15.1%). The overwhelming majority of injuries involved being struck by a ball (74.3%), followed by colliding with another player (8.3%), colliding with the ground or a fixed object (5.0%), or being struck by a bat (2.8%). For those injuries caused by a struck-by-ball incident, most occurred from defensive play (83.7% were fielders struck by a hit or thrown ball) as opposed to offensive play (12.3% were players hit by a pitch or runners struck by a ball). Although helmet usage was poorly tracked in the database, female players (1.3%) were significantly more likely to have been wearing a helmet at the time of injury than were male players (0.2%) (P =.002). Conclusion: The present study demonstrates that a large number of head and face injuries occur annually within the United States as a result of softball play. A variety of injuries were observed, with the majority involving defensive players being struck by the ball, which highlights the need for more focus on player safety by stronger adherence to protective headgear usage and player health monitoring.
Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Strickland, John S.; Crandall, Marie; and Bevill, Grant R., "A Retrospective Analysis of Softball-Related Head and Facial Injuries Treated in United States Emergency Departments, 2013-2017" (2019). UNF Faculty Publications. 956.
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May 12, 1638 – By order of the Great and General Court, Newetowne is renamed Cambrige (Cambridge).
May 1638 – The College Yard expands as the Town of Cambridge grants the College a lot of land that today includes Harvard, Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy halls.
May 1855 – Led by Charles W. Eliot (Harvard’s future 21st President) and Edward H. Ammidown, a Harvard Club of Boston is formed. It goes bankrupt in 1857, however, and a Boston club does not reemerge until 1908.
May 1879 – The committee on women’s education (chaired by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz) announces its first course offerings (51) in the following subjects: English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Spanish, history, mathematics, music, natural history, philosophy, physics, and political economy.
If required, instruction could also be given in chemistry (pending available laboratory space), Sanskrit, comparative philology, and Romance philology. Full tuition costs $200; a single course is $75. With this fee structure and $16,000 in contributions, the committee expects the educational experiment to survive four years.
May 21, 1890 – A University statute combines faculty of the Lawrence Scientific School with the College Faculty (which is the same as the Graduate School Faculty) to form the 62-member Faculty of Arts and Sciences. There are 12 Divisions, with larger ones broken down into Departments.
– From the Harvard Historical Calendar, a database compiled by Marvin Hightower
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When can babies eat feta cheese? It is best to wait until after your baby’s first birthday to serve feta cheese as it is extremely high in sodium. The best cheeses for babies under 12 months of age are fresh mozzarella, fresh ricotta, goat cheese, mascarpone, and Swiss cheese.
What Cheese Can I Give My 8 month old?
Start your baby off with a mild-tasting, pasteurized variety (children should not have unpasteurized cheese), like mozzarella or a non-sharp cheddar, either shredded or cut into tiny cubes.
Can babies eat pasteurized feta cheese?
Babies can eat pasteurised full-fat cheese from 6 months old. … Many cheeses are made from unpasteurised milk. It’s better to avoid these because of the risk of listeria. You can check labels on cheeses to make sure they’re made from pasteurised milk.
Can my 8 month old eat cheese puffs?
No, it is not okay. The first food, other than milk, that a baby should eat is rice cereal at four months, 1st food baby food at six months, and then start introducing table food at eight months. There is absolutely no nutritional value of cheese puffs.
Can 8 month old eat goat cheese?
When can babies eat goat cheese? Goat cheese may be introduced as soon as your baby is ready for solids, which is generally around 6 months of age.
What Can I Give My 8 month old for breakfast?
Breakfast ideas for babies and young children
- unsweetened porridge or lower-sugar cereal mixed with whole milk and topped with fruit, such as mashed ripe pear or banana.
- wholewheat biscuit cereal (choose lower-sugar options) with whole milk and fruit.
How do I give my 8 month old cheese?
Start by offering your baby just 1 to 2 ounces of cheese (and other protein-rich foods) a day if your baby is between 6 and 8 months old. Babies between 8 and 10 months old may get double this amount — 2 to 4 ounces each day. Even this small amount provides notable benefits.
Is Greek feta pasteurized?
Imported feta is usually pasteurized.
However, if you’re visiting Greece or surrounding countries and you’re eating feta or feta style cheese, you may come across the unpasteurized versions as the producers have the option of making it. Feta may also be homemade in an artisan style, from raw milk.
Can 8 month old eat eggs?
Around 6 months, puree or mash one hard-boiled or scrambled egg and serve it to your baby. For a more liquid consistency, add breast milk or water. Around 8 months, scrambled egg pieces are a fantastic finger food.
Can 8 month old have salt in food?
There’s no need to add salt to your baby’s food. Babies need only a very small amount of salt: less than 1g (0.4g sodium) a day until they are 12 months. Your baby’s kidneys can’t cope with more salt than this.
When can I give baby puffs?
When can you give your baby puffs? Puffs baby food fill the aisles at most grocery stores and you can plan to pick up a container once baby can pick up smaller foods with their fingers—or their “pincer grasp”. This usually happens around 8 or 9 months.
Can baby choke on puffs?
Milanaik and her colleagues blind-tested nine products in food groups marketed to “crawlers” — melts, cooked produce, puffed grain products, biscuits and cereals — and found most are potential choking hazards, especially if they are not eaten within an hour.
How do I introduce my baby to puffs?
Place a few puffs onto their tray during meal time. Your baby will rake, grab, and eventually pinch the puffs between their thumb and forefinger, bringing the puffs to their mouth. If they can’t get the puffs into their mouth on their own, resist the temptation to do it for them.
Can 8 month old have yogurt?
Yogurt can be introduced to babies anywhere between 4-8 months of age. Since yogurt is so nutrient-dense, I would recommend serving it to baby as one of their first foods but talk with your pediatrician if there is someone in the family with a dairy allergy.
WHAT CAN 8 month eat?
Your 8-month-old will still be taking 24 to 32 ounces of formula or breast milk every day. But mealtimes should also involve an increasing variety of foods, including baby cereal, fruits and vegetables, and mashed or pureed meats. As the solids increase, the breast milk or formula will decrease.
Can babies eat olives?
When can babies eat olives? Olives may be introduced as soon as your baby is ready to start solids, which is generally around 6 months of age, however, it would be best to wait until the first birthday to serve them with any regularity.
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This required some adjustment for royal women,who have been accustomed to the power offered by their positions within the Inner City and proximity to the royal family. When Chulalongkorn embarked on his 1897 trip to Europe, the nation was left within the hands of the Queen, who presided over the daily ministerial conferences of the Front Court. As the main character Ploi observes in Kukrit Pramoj’sSi Phaendin, the authority of the Queen meant that the all-female Inner Court came to take on even greater political significance than the Front Court of male advisors. The Siam Rudivoravan returned to was present process a gender revolution. This was due to reforms in royal gown initiated beneath King Chulalongkorn and accelerated beneath King Vajiravudh.
So, they give up flirting with different men endlessly once they get married. And, of course, they offer all their like to kids and do every little thing potential for them to be pleased and wholesome. These type and diligent ladies do every thing their husbands ask them to do.
This program provides skill and knowledge training needed for high-skilled work requirements within the trade. As part of the initiative, the corporate plans to combine the Women’s Empowerment Principles in its practices to raise awareness for gender inclusiveness by selling inclusive education and more alternatives for ladies. In 2019, Bank of Ayudhya became the primary private sector entity within the Asia Pacific region to concern more than 6 billion Thai Baht in gender bonds. This pioneering investment initiative goals to deal with diverse monetary needs of women-owned SMEs, improve their resilience to altering thai females operating environments, and enhance their contributions to financial development. As a outcome, the Bank’s women micro-SME portfolio grew from 19.zero billion baht (USD zero.63 billion) to 20.eight billion baht by 9.60% compared with 2019 and generated employment for greater than 37,000 folks. Tibor Pandi, Country Head and Citi Country Officer at Citibank N.A., has proven dedication to advancing variety and inclusion via various policies and mechanisms. Key actions embrace promoting gender inclusive recruitment, enhancing women’s illustration in leadership roles and encouraging networking and educational actions on gender diversity in the organization.
Not least from her mom who was initially worried the trade would not present a steady income. “Even 15 years ago, I was making 3,000 baht a day in sales, however now it’s 300,000… 500,000… or even one million per day,” he says, talking over a buzz of notifications on LINE, an prompt communications app, from several smartphones in front of him.
I’ve additionally seen many success stories, and watched others end in tears. And my inbox (Ooh er, Mrs!) has also witnessed the phrases of many an infuriated boyfriend/husband/lover.
The former military basic toppled the country’s elected authorities in 2014, and five years later received a controversial election tilted closely in his favor. Some of the hacking targets are among the most outstanding leaders of a protest motion demanding Prayut’s resignation or reform of the country’s highly effective monarchy and, taken together, face dozens of criminal costs. The hacks first got here to light final 12 months, when Apple started notifying iPhone owners that their devices had been compromised. Yingcheep Atchanont, iLaw’s program supervisor, advised VOA the joint research group inspected some 200 iPhones and found Pegasus on 10 whose owners had both not received or seen Apple’s alerts. Twenty other of the iPhone owners had seen the alerts and had the infections confirmed by the research team. A girl checks the website of Israel-made Pegasus spy ware at an workplace in the Cypriot capital Nicosia, July 21, 2021. Three surprising winners and there was yet one more, Lin Tzu-Yu emerged the women’s singles class 9-10 winner, overcoming colleague and top seed, Tian Shiau within the last (11-9, 11-5, 11-5).
The psychological tragedy—as true in the us and different societies as it is for Thailand—is that ladies born into gender-stereotyped societies generally internalize these beliefs and settle for them as valid. The small-time breeders who buy his birds are hoping for a genetic payoff [Mailee Osten-Tan/Al Jazeera]Mod sits among the different cockerel house owners as they wait to pair their birds for a fight.
The Women’s Empowerment Fund was established to help women acquire simply these things. The fund program, lead by Amporn Boontan, is based in the northern part of Thailand, within the city of Chiang Mai. In 1951, she determined to move to the U.S. as a broadcaster for Voice of America. She brought only her children “so they would grow up in an working democracy,” and left her husband behind. By 1956, she was awarded a commendable service award by the united states However, reforms underneath Vajiravudh weren’t restricted to aesthetics. Like Rudivoravan, Vajiravudh had studied in the United Kingdom and introduced back distinct concepts of womanhood.
The normative work allows UN Women to link and scale up its work with other key areas similar to women’s leadership and political participation, women’s access to justice, and ladies, peace and safety. UN Women Thailand will assist the implementation of normative work on the policy and local levels.
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Loving-kindness guru Sharon Salzberg points us via Twitter to an Ode article about Italian psychotherapist Piero Ferrucci, who tells us that happiness and freedom start with being kind:
The most sensible way to look after our own self-interest, to find freedom and be happy, is not to directly pursue these things but to give priority to the interests of others. Help others to become free of their fear and pain. Contribute to their happiness. It’s all really very simple. You don’t have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It’s one and the same.
And in his book Survival of the Kindest, Ferrucci writes:
People who are suffering don’t need advice, diagnoses, interpretations and interventions. They need sincere and complete empathy—attention. Once they have the feeling that the other person is putting themselves in their shoes, they are able to let go of their suffering and head down the path of healing. Attention—being completely available—may well be the most coveted gift. We silently hope that someone will want to do that for us. Pure attention is given without judgement and without advice. Attention is a type of friendliness and the lack thereof is the worst kind of rudeness. Attention is the means that allows us to let friendliness flow. Anyone who can’t give others attention, will never be friendly. Attention gives energy, while the lack of attention takes it away.
Sharon passes along a question Mind & Life poses—also via Twitter: “Is it possible to be kind … all the time?”
The person I can think of that comes closest to round-the-clock decency is the happiness expert himself, the 14th Dalai Lama, who wrote the introduction to Ferrucci’s book.
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For the past two school years, federal funding allowed us to provide free meals for all students due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This funding has ended, requiring us to return to charging students for meals. We ask that students not bring cash with them through the lunch line each day. Instead, you may deposit funds on your student’s meal account, and the cost of their meals each day will be deducted from this balance. We ask that parents complete a pre-order form weekly for school lunch. Knowing just how much we need to make before we order or prep something helps us to reduce the amount of waste we generate.
Per federal guidelines, we are accepting applications for free or reduced price meals throughout the school year. The quickest and easiest method to apply for these benefits is via the Atlanta Public Schools online free and reduced meal application for 2022-2023.
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Ten-year old Jay R. Smith made his debut as part of the “Our Gang” comedy group in Boys Will Be Joys in 1925. He was brought on by Hal Roach as a replacement for the popular Mickey Daniels. Freckle-faced Jay stuck with Roach Studios for five years, appearing in over thirty short films, until he called it quits from the movie business in 1929.
As a young man, he served his country in World War II. After the war, he moved to Hawaii and started a retail paint business from which he enjoyed great success. In the 1990s, Jay retired to Las Vegas. He regularly traveled to California where he was a frequent guest at the Hollywood Collector Show, where he met fans and signed autographs. He said “Looking back, [filming “Our Gang”] was a very pleasant time in my life, and as I grow older, it gets more valuable.”
In 2002, Jay befriended Charles “Wayne” Crombie, a homeless man. Crombie performed odd jobs around Jay’s home in exchange for the use of a shed to sleep in. On October 5, 2002, Jay’s body was found in the desert, 25 miles north of Las Vegas. He was a victim of robbery and had died of a result of multiple stab wounds. Crombie was eventually tried and convicted of Jay’s murder and sentenced to two consecutive life terms. Crombie died in prison on July 17, 2014.
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Creating a long-term financial plan that ties your life aspirations to your financial goals can help you to distinguish wants from needs, establish clear priorities, and avoid misguided investment decisions. This is why when it comes to financial planning you should focus more on your goals and less on the numbers.
Financial planning is a complex, lifelong process that people tend to approach with a numbers orientation. What rate of return do I need to reach my goal? How much insurance do I need? Can I afford a bigger house? How much money do I need to save for retirement?
To support a pursuit of the "right numbers," people often use separate advisors. They may call on a banker, a financial planner, an insurance agent, a tax professional, and an estate planning attorney, all to oversee the various components of their household wealth. But can too many cooks spoil the broth? Moreover, how do you ensure that each of your advisors is working in sync with the other?
This "siloed" approach to financial planning can easily lead to redundant investment strategies that could create exposure to unnecessary levels of risk. It may also result in multiple, random investment accounts in need of consolidation. Furthermore, such an approach may inadvertently overlook crucial tools, leaving entire planning areas to chance.
Unlocking Financial Synergies
When viewing your financial goals - such as buying a home, paying for a child's education, or saving for retirement - you may typically think in terms of what those goals cost rather than how achieving them might affect your life. If, however, you were to re-engineer the planning process and assess your current life issues and future aspirations prior to selecting investments and asset allocation strategies, you may be in a better position to achieve satisfactory outcomes. Perhaps equally important, by putting life circumstances at the center of financial decision-making, you may find more meaning in your actions with regard to money.
Indeed, values have a significant role to play in determining how individuals manage their assets. This is one way in which a holistic approach to "financial life planning" enables individuals to better assess their wants and needs, establish meaningful priorities, and avoid misguided investments. And, as life circumstances and priorities change - as they inevitably will - so do financial goals. In this way, individuals employing a holistic approach to planning can easily identify and address those areas of their financial lives that are still working well and those that may be hindering their financial well-being.
Crafting a Financial Plan
Crafting a financial plan that reflects your unique situation and that ties your life aspirations to your financial goals is part art, part science. To achieve this level of planning you need to rely on the guidance of a single skilled advisor - someone who will take the time to get to know you and your circumstances and who will put together an appropriate combination of vehicles, strategies and, where appropriate, additional planning professionals to help achieve your goals - whatever they may be.
If you want to explore putting a long-term financial plan in place that will help you to achieve your life goals, contact our team at Castle Financial today at (732) 888-4994 for a free consultation. We work closely with individuals and families across the United States to help them reach their future financial goals.
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Dancing Can Help Combat Brain Aging
And age doesn’t matter. In fact, dancing is one of the best ways for older people to keep the balance between their body and mind at an ideal level. On top of that, physical activity in general (especially dancing) can help reverse the signs of brain aging in the later stages of your life.
“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
Doing physical activity to combat brain aging
As you grow older, there will be changes going on in your brain. These include a decrease in brain tissue, a reduction in blood flow, and less communication between brain cells. All those changes can start to interfere with your cognitive abilities, especially learning and memory.
A lot of studies have suggested that physical activity during adulthood can help slow down the cognitive deterioration associated with aging. Along these lines, a study published by the journal, Neurology, found a direct link between regular moderate-to intense-exercise, and a a slower drop in memory and mental capacities in people older than 50.
But doing regular moderate-to intense-exercise isn´t for everyone, especially when it comes to people who are older than 50. The good news is that there are effective ways to do exercise and fight against brain aging that don’t mean having to go to a gym or put on a pair of running shoes. Dancing is one. Or at least that’s what they say in a new study published in the magazine Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Dancing’s effect on your hippocampus
The study we just mentioned included 52 healthy adults between 63 and 80 years old. Each participant was randomly assigned to one of the two possible groups for 18 months. One group had to take part in a 90 minute dance class every week for those 18 months, and the other group took part in 90 minutes of strength and resistance training every week.
It’s worth pointing out that there were other differences between the groups. The dancing group learned new routines while the strength and resistance training group did the same activities the whole time.
The dance group had constant changes in their routines. So every two weeks they would change steps, arm positions, formations, speed, and rhythm so the participants could experience constant learning.
Both at the beginning and end of the study (after the 18 months), MRI scans were done on every participant’s brain. A sensory organization test was also carried out to evaluate every participant’s balance before and after the study.
The researchers found that both groups showed an increase in the size of their hippocampus. But that increase was bigger for the dancing group. Only the people from the dancing group showed an increase in the neuron connections in the hippocampus’ trisynaptic circuit, which is the part of the brain associated with learning, memory, and emotion. It’s also the part of the brain that tends to feel the most effects from changes related to aging.
Dancing is great exercise for older people
The researchers had a theory that the process of constant learning that was part of the dance class could explain the added benefits. In fact, they discovered that dancing also leads to better results when it comes to balance. And it turned out that the strength and resistance training group didn’t show the same progress.
The researchers also found the group that danced for 18 months showed increases in specific parts of the hippocampus that the other group didn’t. This could also mean that, on top of being good for the physical condition, there are other factors related to dancing that lead to changes in the size of the hippocampus.
That’s why they claim that the added challenges of the dancing program, specifically cognitive and sensorimotor stimulation, caused extra changes in the size of their hippocampus, on top of the changes that came from the physical skills.
The researchers also pointed out that physical activity is one of the most important lifestyle factors that can help you stay healthy and independent for as long as possible. That’s because it can help counteract many risk factors and slow down the decline that comes with age. So, dancing can be a powerful tool to use to give your body and mind new challenges, especially in your old age.It might interest you...
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Dungiven is a strong republican town on the Main Derry to Belfast road. The town is a good base for exploring the nearby Augustinian priory. This contains the tomb of Cooey na Gal a Chieftain of the O’Cahans who died in 1385. The tomb is highly ornate and worth a visit. Dungiven, is also well situated, if you want to explore the Sperrin Hills.
Getting to Dungiven and Around
Our Co. Derry Transport Guide provides more information on getting to and around County Derry.
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Jill Biden sees teachable moment in the depths of a pandemic
WATERFORD, Pa. (AP) — Jill Biden sees a teachable moment in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic.
The first lady sat in a socially distanced circle in the library at Fort LeBoeuf Middle School in Pennsylvania, listening and taking notes as parents expressed relief that the school had reopened and their kids were back in the classroom.
One mother talked about the "bumpy patches" of online learning and said reopening "has been so to the T" that she doesn't worry about her son and daughter. Another mom said the district included parent input and she was comfortable her children were in a "safe environment."
A teacher herself, Biden praised the small circle of parents, teachers and administrators for working together to help reopen Fort LeBoeuf. And she repeated a message she had delivered earlier that day while visiting Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Meriden, Connecticut.
"We've been through really tough, hard times, but I think the one good thing about educators that I love — and that includes the cafeteria workers, the bus drivers, the teachers, everyone involved — is we've all learned from this," Biden said of the pandemic and its emotional, social and human toll.
"We're all going to take everything that we've learned and are going to turn it into opportunity to make things better for students as we move forward," she said.
The first lady seems intent on turning every aspect of her new job into an opportunity, for that matter, especially anything related to her triple passions for education, fighting cancer and supporting military families.
A few days after she became first lady, Biden told governors' spouses during a virtual meeting at the White House that her new platform is "one that I would never let go to waste."
She's long been focused on education, having taught at a high school, a psychiatric hospital and community colleges for more than three decades. She's still teaching, virtually from the White House, and pining for the day she can go back to the classroom.
Finding a cure for cancer also motivates her and President Joe Biden.
The couple lost son Beau to brain cancer in 2015 at age 46. Her parents died of cancer, and one of her sisters had a stem cell transplant. Doctors also gave the dreaded breast cancer diagnosis to four of her girlfriends within a one-year period in the 1990s.
The Bidens also advocate for service members and their families, an appreciation that stems from Beau Biden's service in the Delaware Army National Guard, including a deployment to Iraq. Jill Biden intends to revive a military family support program that she led with former first lady Michelle Obama when Biden's husband was President Barack Obama's vice president.
Jill Biden quickly set her agenda as first lady by highlighting all three of her longtime causes in her first weeks.
She has been busy with virtual meetings, teaching her community college English class, official travel, running errands in the Washington area and settling the family's dogs into the White House. Even the light blue scrunchie she wore in her hair has gone viral.
Biden, known for springing surprises and practical jokes, also is intent on injecting some levity into things as her husband faces daunting crises: She woke him up to show him giant hearts she had displayed on the White House front lawn for Valentine's Day.
"She's off to a fast start, and I think a very solid one," said Myra Gutin, author of "The President's Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century."
The first lady is also keeping a robust travel schedule despite the pandemic.
Her first official outing was to a nonprofit community health center in Washington to highlight services for cancer patients. From there, she made a detour to personally deliver chocolate chip cookies to National Guard troops stationed at the U.S. Capitol.
She recently traveled to Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond to tour its Massey Cancer Center, where researchers study the socioeconomic and cultural factors that contribute to disparities in cancer outcomes.
The first lady was delivering remarks Monday at the State Department's virtual International Women of Courage Awards ceremony before hopping on a plane to spend Tuesday and Wednesday visiting U.S. military installations in Washington state and California.
Biden also met virtually with the leaders of teachers' unions, the spouses of defense officials and governors, military kids and their teachers, and government cancer researchers, among others. She sent prerecorded remarks to several conferences, and taped a public service commercial with Champ and Major, the family German shepherds, urging people to wear face masks.
Tammy Vigil, author of "Melania & Michelle: First Ladies in a New Era," said Biden's experience as the spouse of a longtime U.S. senator and vice president was an asset that helped her quickly put together a staff. She also didn't need time to figure out the issues she wanted to focus on.
There apparently are no incognito errand runs for Jill Biden.
Unlike some recent first ladies who tried to hide their identities on unofficial outings in the Washington area, as Michelle Obama once did on a shopping run to Target, Jill Biden goes out as herself.
Stephen Bota said he knew a VIP visit was in the offing when plainclothes U.S. Secret Service agents showed up unannounced at his DuPont Circle newsstand in late January, but they left him to guess about who it would be. Hours later, Jill Biden walked through the door.
"I was kind of, 'Oh my God, it's the first lady," Bota, an immigrant from Kenya who owns The Newsroom, recalled in an interview. He and his employees — just his wife and sister-in-law — are featured in a photo with the first lady now on display in the store.
"I told her that we are so grateful that she came to see us," Bota said.
Biden also bought coffee at Brewer's Cafe in Richmond and confections at The Sweet Lobby on Capitol Hill, both of them Black-owned. The president, for his part, stopped his motorcade after church one Sunday for son Hunter Biden to pick up a bagel order.
"She seems more inviting," Vigil said, noting that everyone can relate to running errands.
With the purchases, the Bidens appear to be encouraging support for small businesses, which generate most of the jobs in the U.S. but are struggling to survive the pandemic.
They also seem to be signaling that they will participate in city life.
Former President Donald Trump went only to his hotel near the White House or his golf club in northern Virginia. For dinner in a city with a robust restaurant scene, he opted to dine exclusively at the hotel restaurant. His wife, Melania Trump, kept any outings in the Washington area in an unofficial capacity under the radar.
After Jill Biden released a photo of herself at the counter of The Sweet Lobby, the boutique bakery wasn't the only thing that became an instant hit.
The powder blue scrunchie holding up the first lady's hair went viral.
Biden said she had no idea until daughter Ashley called to tell her.
"I said, 'What scrunchie?' I didn't know what she was talking about," the first lady told talk-show host Kelly Clarkson during an interview at the White House. "I still don't understand it."
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“Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day” ~Zen Saying Simplicity, at its heart, comes down to eliminating the excess in our lives.
Excess needs, wants, possessions. The list goes on. Society tries to sell us on the idea that having more in our lives should be the goal and is the answer.
But is more really improving the quality of our lives? Do more possessions beyond a certain point really add value to our lives?Read more on tinybuddha.com
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BAGHDAD — Iraqis have been looking at the announcement of Pope Francis’ plan to visit to Iraq next year with various but positive outlooks.
The announcement gained more momentum after Iraqi President Barham Salih's visit to the Vatican in November in which he encouraged the pope to visit Iraq. A year ago, the patriarch of Babylon for the Chaldean Catholic Church, Louis Raphael I Sako, was elevated to cardinal, one more indication that the pope is paying more attention to Iraq and the future of Christians in the country.
The pope’s visit schedule would probably include the historical city of Ur in southern Iraq, which many believe was the birthplace of the Prophet Abraham. As such, it should be an event of profound symbolic significance that affirms the unity of Iraqis regardless of their religious beliefs since Abraham is known as the father of prophets; this commonality in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic narratives shows the exceptional spiritual significance of Ur for all major faiths in the Middle East.
The pope had previously announced his desire to visit Iraq this year. That visit, however, was subsequently held off for security concerns, causing widespread disappointment in Iraq.
The late Pope John Paul wanted to visit the ancient Iraqi city of Ur in 2000, which was the first step of a three-stages pilgrimage to Iraq, Egypt and Israel. However, the visit did not take place as the negotiations with the then Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein rule broke down.
Positive reactions to the pope's intention to visit Iraq next year came from Islamic figures as well as Christian ones.
Shiite Muslim leader Jawad al-Khoei, head of the Najaf-based Al-Khoei Institute, said the pope's visit would be historically significant and would serve as a supporting element for peacemakers and those involved in the Islamic-Christian dialogue in Iraq. Khoei stressed that religious leading figures who advocate for peace and love, whether Muslim or Christian, must work together.
Khoei, the grandson of Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, who was the world’s highest spiritual Shiite authority, said he would love it if the pope visited Najaf, the Shiites' Vatican in a sense, and met Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Khoei believes that both Sistani, Shiite Islam's highest authority, and Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, have a lot in common in the sense that they both wish to establish world peace, in addition to holding top religious posts.
Khoei said a case can be made for the similarities between the Vatican and Najaf. “I hope to see Pope Francis walking around in the streets of Najaf and visit ayatollahs in their humble homes,” Khoei concluded. “This [humility] is a trait that the pope has as well. He has been known for his humility compared with his predecessors.”
Abdul Wahhab al-Samerrai, the head of Abo Hanifa Mosque in Baghdad and a member of highest Sunni council in Iraq, told Al-Monitor, “We Iraqis all believe that the pope's visit to Iraq has several messages. First, it is spiritual support from the highest Christian leader to all Iraqis, including Muslims, after the very difficult situation Iraq went through in the past. Second, it is a great contribution to our experience of coexistence and religious tolerance. Third, it is a message to the world that Iraq is progressing significantly and it is full of kindness and generosity among its all components, including Christians and Muslims.
“Christians are the history of Iraq. They were here in Iraq before Muslims,” Samerrai said, also expressing his hopes that “the pope allocates time for meeting with the Sunni religious leaders in Baghdad.”
Meanwhile, some high-ranking religious Christian sides are being tight-lipped about their efforts in preparation for the planned 2020 visit, part of a strategy that has to do with the security requirements for the trip.
Sako said, “It’s premature to reveal the details of the visit and the preparations. That said, it is certainly a sign of hope for Iraq in particular and the region in general at this turbulent time for Christians in Syria, Iraq, and other areas in the Middle East.”
There also was a great deal of interest about the visit in Iraqi Kurdistan. Leading Kurdish figures have visited the Vatican — including Massoud Barzani when he was president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and his successor, Nechirvan Barzani, when he was prime minister — as part of a major diplomatic effort to build relations with the Holy See.
Khaled al-Bir, a top official in the KRG's Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, told Al-Monitor, “The request made to the pope to visit the region has been extended by the collective of the Kurdish political leadership during their visit to the Vatican, as well as the region’s representatives in the Vatican and from me personally on multiple occasions in my meetings with the pope.”
Bir said that should the visit to the Kurdistan Region come to pass, it will be a “historical event,” especially after the region welcomed internally displaced persons from different religious minorities, including 138,000 Christians who fled to the region’s provinces after Islamic State (IS) raided Mosul and the Ninevah Plains, where displaced Christians have recently started returning. The visit could have profound implications on the Christian presence and its status in its historical areas that saw horrors perpetrated by IS during the time the group was in control of Nineveh province.
Some see Iraq playing a role as a hub for an important religious debate in the region. The country is facing deep ethnic divisions in light of the sectarian politics in the Middle East in recent years, the heavy legacy of the Arab-Israeli conflict over the decades and the threats Christianity faces in the region following the IS invasion of Syria and Iraq.
The Rev. Fadi Du, a Maronite Catholic who heads the Lebanon-based Adyan Institution, told Al-Monitor, “Encouraging the pope to visit Iraq has been the fruit of regional and national efforts in coordination with all stakeholders. Especially in Vatican circles. This stems from our conviction in Lebanon and Iraq, as well as other states in the area, of the importance of the diverse social fabric in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, the birthplace of all Abrahamic faiths. This also asserts Iraq’s role as a hub for religious, ethnic and linguistic openness in the area, and to eliminate the image associated with it as a diversity-averse country, which was the result of IS actions.”
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Crunch Time: Kellogg’s takes the Government to court over new health promotion regulations
May 10, 2022
3 min read
What's going on here?
US food multinational Kellogg’s is taking legal action against the UK Government’s Department of Health and Social Care. This comes following the announcement of new regulations preventing food and drinks that are high in fat, salt, or sugar from being overtly displayed in stores and online.
What does this mean?
The new rules, deemed to be part of the UK’s levelling-up agenda, come into force from 1 October 2022. They affect products which are defined by the nutrient profiling model (NPM) 2004-2005 as ‘HFSS’ – that is, high in fat, salt, or sugar. There are three key elements to the restrictions. The first stipulates that HFSS products will not be allowed to be displayed front and centre at store entrances, aisle ends and checkouts, as well as online on homepages. The second will see a ban on TV advertisements promoting unhealthy products before 9pm. Finally, restrictions will be placed on volume price promotions like “3 for 2” or “buy-one-get-one-free”.
So, what is Kellogg’s arguing? The company has reportedly turned to the courts for judicial review of the regulations with the company’s UK Managing Director, Chris Silcock, claiming unlawful implementation. More specifically, it wants the formula for how HFSS products are calculated to be changed. The formula currently does not take account of the nutritional value of milk or yoghurt added to 92% of cereals. However, an unlawful formula is unlikely to be the only point of concern for Kellogg’s. The new measures are undoubtedly set to harm sales as cereal boxes get pushed to the back of many stores. Kellogg’s currently dominates the cereal aisle with a reported 38% market share and 10 of the top 15 cereal brands, such as Crunchy Nut, Coco Pops, and Special K.
What's the big picture effect?
This isn’t the first time the company has stepped foot in court to challenge health and advertising rules. In 2018, Kellogg’s confronted an advertising regulator and managed to reverse a ban on their Coco Pops TV advert which supposedly targeted children. This case garnered large amounts of criticism from health campaigners, the same ones now condemning Kellogg’s recent move. Caroline Cerny from Obesity Health Alliance describes the case as an attempt to avoid profit limits on “marketing their unhealthy products”.
The Department of Health and Social Care cites rising childhood obesity rates as the drive for the new rules. With breakfast cereals contributing 7% to the average daily sugar intake of children, how will this strategy help? The Government is relying on evidence which links food retail price promotions to influencing food preference and purchasing habits. The report claims that the bombardment of unhealthy promotions makes it difficult for families to make healthy choices.
On top of this, the statistics don’t look promising. Reports from NHS digital suggest that almost two thirds of adults in the UK are deemed overweight and over a quarter are classed as obese. Globally in 2020, the UK was ranked tenth in the world for the percentage of the population with obesity. These figures reportedly cost the NHS over £6bn per year, set to rise to £10bn by 2050. According to the National Child Measurement Programme, one in three primary school children are obese or overweight. The situation is so concerning that the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health considers it “one of the greatest threats” to children.
Whilst the Government hopes to halve childhood obesity by 2030, let’s consider how the market is already changing. A good way to predict market trends is by looking at investor activity. Perhaps it’s the pandemic that has made investors more aware of public health. Perhaps it’s the frightening statistics mentioned above. What remains certain is a growing trend of investors putting pressure on food giants – including Kellogg’s, Nestlé and Heinz – to deliver higher degrees of disclosure when it comes to nutrition.
Kellogg’s may have another success like it did in 2018, but what are the options if its challenge is unsuccessful? One option is to take the inevitable hit to sales whilst honing its marketing formulas to keep products catching the eyes of consumers. Or it can hone cereal formulas to line up with new regulations. Yet, the latter option may be another risk for sales if kids turn up their noses to sugarless, saltless, and fatless cereals.
Report written by James Evans
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Hahira, Georgia, April 5, 2022 — Trying to protect clean water with current laws and regulations is like trying to defend free speech without the First Amendment. Montana, Pennsylvania, and just last year New York have enshrined Rights to Clean Water, Air, Land, and a Healthy Environment (RTCW) in their constitutions alongside free speech and other basic rights. Florida has a statewide petition signing right now for the 2024 ballot. How can Georgia get RTCW into its constitution? Why should it? And what would such an amendment consist of? This webinar explores those questions. We invite your participation and feedback.
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As per the annual Lowy Institute poll--which allegedly seeks to find-out the opinions of the voting age adults in Australia on the most significant national subjects--despite the fact that the nationals are more positive about the gains of immigration, education and health are the most crucial subjects for the nation nowadays.
While nearly 885 persons named education as being an incredibly vital matter, 83% reportedly named health, 79% domestic violence, and 77% the national economy.
Against the backdrop of the general election coming up in some weeks, the opinion poll reportedly discovered that individuals are rather disheartened about domestic politics. They are also not very happy about the nation’s foreign rule and are not very keen on Donald Trump being the next US President.
The poll found that as much as 45% think that Australia will do well to distance itself from the US in case it chooses Trump, even as 51% assert Down Under should continue to be close to the US, in spite of the fact that who becomes US President.
Other matters that make often headlines--like refugees & refuge-hunters, immigration, climate change, and China’s significance in the world--are of considerably lower priority for today’s nationals of Oz.
The survey also discovered more proof that outlooks of China & the US are gradually shifting. When asked two years back which association was more crucial, 48% asserted the US, and 37% stated China. But, this year both the nations receive 43% of the votes.
In the matters of immigration, the administration’s rather tough stand on sending back boats, full of refuge seekers, keeps on drawing strong support. Roughly two out of three voters thought stopping the boats meant the Kangaroo Land could take more refugees via the United Nations (UN).
The survey also discovered that support to this rule did not denote that the people of Australia are not in favor of immigration and certainly the bulk see it as rather good and in the interest of the national economy. Roughly 73% agreed that on the whole, immigration has a pretty positive effect on the economy of Oz, and 72% that admitting immigrants from several different nation makes Down Under pretty stronger.
When probed about the probable negative effects of immigration, just a marginal, 40%, agreed that on the whole, there is too much immigration to Australia, and the identical figure felt that immigrants are a load on the social welfare structure. Only 35% concurred that immigrants cart-off jobs from other nationals.
Significantly, confidence about the Australian economy has evaporated this year, post the remarkable decline registered in the last year’s census, when public confidence about the performance of the Australian economy in the world headed south to its lowest stage since the first survey done way back in 2005.
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‘When ideas are limited with technology, we strive. Always looking forward, we create technology to match our dreams.’ – Easton LaChappelle, UNLIMITED TOMORROW
Selecting materials for this post I have come across, in my opinion, a very inspirational example and would like to share it with you. Although the scale of the enterprise I will talk about is incommensurable to the changes that big companies have been doing and difficult to put it on the same level with the famous brands, I believe such little kind of things truly change our world for the better. This is the case when human’s curiosity, different thinking, and good intentions make things possible turning daring technologies to the stuff that empowers people.
When Easton LaChappelle was a teenager, he was eager to do something outstanding and for a long time was cherishing this idea in his mind. Now he is a 20-year-old young man, he makes people talk about his inventions, has worked at NASA, President Obama shook his hand, has traveled around the world sharing his ideas about wide opportunities to learn outside of the general educational system, he considered the prosthetics pioneer and established his own company Unlimited Tomorrow.
At the age of 14, he has built his first robotic arm out of LEGOs, fishing wire, and electrical tubing. He didn’t have a lab, coworkers, and any university knowledge, obtaining all needed information from the Internet. The turning point was when he met with a 7-year-old girl at a science fair who had a prosthetic arm. It cost $80,000, could only open and close and would need to be replaced several times when she outgrew it. He decided that he can do the prosthesis in better quality and at an affordable cost. During the years, he has been working on his model and now advanced robotic limb has more functionality than a traditional prosthesis and is purely 3D-printed.
‘The full robotic arm has 9 degrees of freedom (DOF). Each DOF allows the robotic arm to move in a different direction. V 1.0 of the robotic arm features finger control, wrist and bicep rotation, elbow articulation, and shoulder flexion and extension movements. Each section of the arm is interchangeable so large amounts of DOF are possible. With interchangeable parts, you can make this project as big or small as you can handle.
Almost every component can be printed on a consumer FDM 3d printer. This includes fingers, palm, forearm, elbow, bicep, shoulder, and gears. An entire arm uses about 2kg of PLA plastic.’ – UNLIMITED TOMORROW
On the company website, everyone can access all instructions for how to create your own robotic arm for free (all is needed to agree to a Creative Commons License). All the tools, print settings, and steps are freely available as well. It was estimated that the appropriate cost of Easton’s artificial hand is $350. Besides this, the more prices for 3D printing are going down with the years, the less will be the producing cost of the robotic hand.
Currently, Easton LaChappelle with the Unlimited Tomorrow team is developing a new concept of an exoskeleton to help people with paraplegia walk again. Unlimited Tomorrow has a goal to make technology accessible to those who need it most and enable humans to perform otherwise impossible tasks. Also, through the opening and sharing all information free of charge Easton looks forward to others who willing to extend and improve his inventions what in its turn will enhance the lives of everyone.
Here is the link to the Easton LaChappelle speech on the TED Talks:
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Asher was infatuated with superheroes when he was little. He could not get enough of superhero action figures or costumes and his affection grew tremendously when he met a “real life” superhero at a local event. Asher was only four years old when he enthusiastically and confidently stated, “A superhero is going to be at my birthday party.”
“And so it began, the parent journey of helping our little human realize his big dreams.”
A most memorable six-year-old life-sized dream came true when we took Asher and his sisters roller-skating. We knew our girls could physically skate, but Asher had never walked independently, let alone rolled on skates. That day at the roller-skating rink, Asher did not sit on the sidelines or sit in his wheelchair because he had bigger plans. So, with a lot of help from the business owner and a lot of muscle power from dad, Asher literally skated.
Recently, we watched a show where a main character was announced valedictorian. Asher, now almost eight years old, immediately asked what it meant to be a valedictorian. When the word was defined for him, he said without hesitation, “I want to be a valedictorian.” To which I replied, “I bet you will be, buddy.”
The same way we figured out how to bring a superhero to Asher’s birthday party, or how to help Asher skate, we will figure out how to help Asher become the valedictorian he wants to be.
“We will figure it out together, with encouragement and love.”
And we will welcome those who come along, like that business owner or that “real life” superhero, to help us make Asher’s dreams come true, one dream at a time.
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Born: July 1, 1936
Founder, Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie
Wally Amos—entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and author—founded the Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie Company in 1975 selling bite-sized homemade chocolate chip cookies. While Famous Amos soon lived up to its name, thriving for nearly a decade, the company's founder lost control of his business. When he sold Famous Amos in 1985, Wally Amos lost more than a company. When the dust settled, he was barred from using his identity or his face to sell cookies. Always the survivor, Amos started a new company in 1992, this time selling freshly baked muffins and cakes. He eventually returned to Famous Amos as a "director of cookie fun," and travels the country lecturing on how to overcome misfortune and concentrate on the positive aspects of life.
"Obituaries always list the year you were born and the year you died, separated by a dash, i.e. 1900-1996. When you were born or when you died is not nearly as important as what you did in between—what you put in that dash. What have you put in your dash?"
Wallace Amos Jr. was born in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1936, the only child of Wallace and Ruby Amos. His parents divorced when he was twelve, and Amos was sent to live with his Aunt Della in Harlem, New York. Aunt Della loved to cook and bake, and it was she who gave Wally Amos his first chocolate chip cookie. This simple, affectionate act had lasting consequences in the life of the young boy, who eventually went on to make his living from fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.
When his mother and grandmother came to New York, Amos moved in with them in 1951. He enrolled in a trade high school specializing in cooking, and had a job as a cook after school. But Amos became restless and dropped out of school just months before graduation, signing up for the U.S. Air Force in 1953. During his four years in the military, he finished his high school education.
When Amos returned to New York, he studied at a secretarial school and was briefly employed at Saks Fifth Avenue before moving on to the William Morris Agency. Although he was hired to work in the mail room and to do some janitorial work, Amos got noticed by the upper management because he was willing to do things that were not part of his job description. Before long he had worked his way up to secretary for Howard Hausman, an executive vice president at the agency. After Amos discovered two young musicians named Paul Simon (1941-) and Art Garfunkel (1941-) and convinced them to sign with William Morris, he was promoted again and became their agent.
For several years, life was very good for Amos. He had an impressive client list, which included Simon and Garfunkel, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye (1939-1984), Sam Cooke (1935-1964), Dionne Warwick (1940-), and Diana Ross (1944-). He had also started baking small chocolate chip cookies to give to clients and friends as a way of saying hello or thank you. He brought them to meetings and gatherings, always getting enthusiastic praise.
Although Wally Amos was introduced to chocolate chip cookies by his Aunt Delia and her old-fashioned recipe, when Amos started his own business he used a recipe by Ruth Wakefield, who is credited with inventing chocolate chip cookies at her Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, in the 1930s. This is also how Toll House brand cookies got their start.
In 1967, Amos decided to leave William Morris and launch his own talent agency. He started in New York, then relocated to Los Angeles, California, nearer the show business capital of Hollywood. Yet Amos grew tired of showbiz and being an agent and by 1974, he was looking for something new. That something was baking cookies.
Amos started baking to console himself, since cookies always made him feel better. In the back of his mind, however, he considered the idea of selling his cookies. Because he had little money, Amos almost abandoned the idea. Instead, he started thinking of ways to promote his business. As a man who had made his living promoting other people as an agent, he used his background to come up with ways to sell cookies. He wrote up a business plan and approached some of his famous friends including singers Helen Reddy (1941-) and Marvin Gaye, who each contributed to his start-up funds. Soon he had $25,000 in financial backing. Amos planned a big party to launch his new business: he hired a band, bought champagne, and invited many of his celebrity friends. The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie Company was officially born in March 1975 at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Formosa Avenue in Los Angeles.
While the launch of Famous Amos was glitzy, the man behind the glitz worked from dawn to dusk baking and selling his cookies. He had no money to advertise, so he became the new company's showman, passing cookies out on the streets, delivering them to friends, and taking them everywhere he went. As quoted in a Black Enterprise profile from November 1992, Amos said, "I knew I had the best product; all I needed to do was to convince the public of something I already knew."
During its first year in business, Famous Amos had sales of $300,000 and Wally Amos's smiling face became increasingly well known since it was featured on every tin or bag of cookies. By 1977, when Wally moved to Hawaii with his family, Famous Amos had added two baking and manufacturing facilities and additional stores around Los Angeles and its first in Hawaii.
Famous Amos was selling $5 million worth of cookies by 1980, and just two years later sales had rocketed to $12 million. Yet with such phenomenal success came mistakes. Amos began selling shares of the business to outsiders; he also tried to launch new products such as chocolate sodas, which did not work out. In 1983, he wrote his autobiography, The Famous Amos Story: The Face that Launched a Thousand Chips. As Amos celebrated the book's success, his business was losing money. By the time the Bass Brothers of Fort Worth, Texas, came on the scene in 1985, the company founder was in serious financial trouble. Feeling he had little choice, Amos sold his remaining interest in Famous Amos to the Basses for $1.1 million, keeping a small tie to the company as a board member.
In 1986, Amos was given an Entrepreneurial Excellence Award by President Ronald Reagan (1911-) in appreciation of his remarkable American success story. It was a huge honor and one he would never forget; yet it had come, ironically, after Amos had been forced to sell his company. Over the next several years, Famous Amos was bought and sold a number of times. Amos continued writing, publishing his second book in 1988 (The Power in You: Ten Secret Ingredients for Inner Strength) and a third (The Man With No Name: Turn Lemons into Lemonade) in 1994. The later book dealt with Amos's legal battles with Famous Amos, which resulted in Amos being unable to use his name or face to sell any baked products.
In the aftermath of the court cases, Amos abandoned all hopes of baking and selling cookies and sold muffins and cakes under the Uncle Noname label (originally formed in 1992). While it certainly was a comment on the fact that he could not use his own name, Noname actually had a Hawaiian pronunciation, No-nah-may. Under the Uncle Noname label, by 1996 Amos had again scored success with fat-free gourmet sweets.
Famous Amos's distinctive packaging became almost as famous as the cookies themselves: every brown bag featured a smiling Wally Amos, dressed in a straw Panama hat and a decorated white shirt. In 1980, the hat and shirt Wally wore on the early packaging of Famous Amos cookies were placed in the Collection of Advertising History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Amos's fourth book, Watermelon Magic: Seeds of Wisdom, Slices of Life, was published the same year. In this upbeat effort, Amos offered readers plenty of homespun advice and lively chitchat. His title choice, however, raised some eyebrows. Watermelon was a food that had taken on a negative meaning since all African Americans were assumed to be especially fond of it. People wondered why Amos would choose to feature such a stereotype in his title. He did so on purpose, but rather than stir the fires of racial stereotypes, Amos thoughtfully examined the topic of race and bias, along with many others issues he had come into contact with throughout his life.
Famous Amos was bought by Keebler Foods in 1998, which pleased Amos. After years of bouncing from one owner to the next, Famous Amos would be part of a cookie empire with well developed national distribution methods. In addition, Amos believed that the company would return the cookies that bore his name back to their original quality. He was positive that somewhere along the way his recipe had stopped being used. Amos considered the Famous Amos cookies of the 1990s to be cheap knockoffs, which had neither the quality nor the taste of his original cookies.
In 1999, Keebler approached Amos to help promote Famous Amos, and he happily agreed. As Amos told Diane Toops of Food Processing magazine, "It took me a while to catch up with my name. I'm happy to be back, and the people at Keebler are wonderful folks. I'm especially glad that Famous Amos Cookies are now in the hands of people who love, live, and breathe great-tasting cookies." Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of Famous Amos in 2000, Amos went on the road for Keebler, calling himself a "director of cookie fun."
Keebler also gave Amos another gift: the use of his name and face. He changed Uncle Noname to Uncle Wally's, and published his fifth book, The Cookie Never Crumbles: Inspirational Recipes for Everyday Living, in 2001. By 2002, when Keebler and Famous Amos were bought by the Kellogg Company (see entry), Amos was unconcerned. Kellogg, like Keebler, was a billion-dollar company known for its quality and outstanding products.
Wally Amos, married three times and with three sons and a daughter, lives happily in Hawaii. In 2002, he was traveling the world promoting Uncle Wally's muffins—and himself—since he had become a sought after inspirational speaker earning up to $12,000 per appearance. Perhaps Dennis Kimbro and Napoleon Hill of Black Enterprise said it best when describing Amos: "Some call him a promoter, others say he is a public relations wizard—but neither title adequately describes what he does best. Wally Amos is a salesman who uses flair, hype, and showmanship to convey his message."
Amos, Wally, and Camilla Denton. The Man With No Name: Turn Lemons into Lemonade. Lower Lake, CA: Aslan Publishing, 1994.
Amos, Wally, Eden-Lee Murray, and Neale Donald Walsch. The Cookie Never Crumbles: Inspirational Recipes for Everyday Living. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.
Amos, Wally, and Gregory Amos. The Power in You: Ten Secret Ingredients for Inner Strength. New York: D. I. Fine, 1988.
Amos, Wally, and Leroy Robinson. The Famous Amos Story: The Face That Launched a Thousand Chips. 1983, Reprint. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986.
Amos, Wally, and Stu Glauberman. Watermelon Magic: Seeds of Wisdom, Slices of Life. Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words Publishing, 1996.
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Automated Synthesis to Understand the Role of Side Chains on Charge Transport
The development of next-generation organic electronic materials critically relies on understanding structure-function relationships in conjugated polymers. However, unlocking the full potential of organic materials requires access to their vast chemical space while efficiently managing the large synthetic workload to survey new materials. In this work, we use automated synthesis to prepare a library of conjugated oligomers with systematically varied side chain composition followed by single-molecule characterization of charge transport. Our results show that molecular junctions with long alkyl side chains exhibit a concentration-dependent bimodal conductance with an unexpectedly high conductance state that arises due to surface adsorption and backbone planarization, which is supported by a series of control experiments using asymmetric, planarized, and sterically hindered molecules. Density functional theory simulations and experiments using different anchors and alkoxy side chains highlight the role of side chain chemistry on charge transport. Overall, this work opens new avenues for using automated synthesis for the development and understanding of organic electronic materials.
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New YorkGladstone Gallery
11 April – 8 June
Snails, Francis Ponge writes, “secrete form.” In their humble lives, they “stick so well to nature, savoring it perfectly from up close,” leaving only spiraled monuments when they are gone. What fascinates Ponge about snails is their absolute devotion to digesting one element: earth. “It travels through them. They travel through it.” In their silver trails, Ponge reads the mark of life transmuted into a work of art.
Staring up at the whorl of orange and blue that opens Vivian Suter’s show at Gladstone, I saw the lump of a snail’s shell being carried, two protruding eyes glancing skyward. The work is smudged and airy, born from loam and wind.
Suter has worked for over 30 years in her home on Lake Atitlán, in Guatemala, which she shares with her mother, the artist Elisabeth Wild. Their story of displacement and migration winds from Vienna to Buenos Aires to Basel, then back to South America. Suter’s work feels both settled in place and open to the possibility of change. Painted both indoors and outdoors, her canvases are subject to the unstoppable forces of nature—hurricanes, flooding, critters—but do not resist their effects.
Suter’s paintings fill every nook of the gallery: walls, corners, floor, even the ceiling. Many hang from the rafters, wavering with the slight shift of air currents when the gallery door is opened. In both their imagery and their forms, the paintings evoke a landscape with beaded scorpion tails wagging in the wind, pink rows of cabbage or rivulets of wet clay, the flattened blue horizon of a hazy lake.
Employing a range of techniques and media, Suter seems to encounter imagery through material exploration. A carmine canvas, completely overloaded with pigment, curls into an irregular trapezoid. Without line or modeling, it is as viscerally provocative as Soutine’s carcasses of beef. In a corner, an abstracted angel cuts into an orange background, equal parts Christmas cookie and Romanesque carving softened by centuries of rain. Flecks of dried leaves are caught in the brushstrokes of a green composition.
Especially impressive here is how Suter draws attention to painting’s labor without sacrificing any of the work’s formal integrity. The paintings reveal their constituent parts but never dissolve. Standing among them, I am aware that cotton and flax are cultivated, processed, and woven, that pigment is sifted earth. These thin films of color require vast plots of land, mines, factories, and animals for their glue. In this embrace of congruent entropies, the canvases become less screens on which to project, but skins with which to live. They are carpets, nationless flags, and clothing to be formed.
On the subject of canvas, Vilém Flusser writes, “It is a textile that is open to experience (open to the wind and spirit) and then stores these experiences.” To Flusser, the billowing of a tent is akin to a transferring of experience. He notes that the German word for canvas, Leinwand, contains “wall” within it. In French, toile is used both for canvas and web—that which collects. If a canvas is a membrane, then its minuscule pores are dictated by warp and weft, its substance balanced on the precarious taming of natural fibers into a perpendicular logic. Filled, these pores are units in an illusion, grain in the picture space.
It is not that Suter undoes this logic, but that she works outside of it. There is nothing radical about freeing canvas from its support, but these paintings need not claim freedom from their supports; they are self-sustaining. I crane my neck toward their stains and wrinkles, I want to rifle through them like a wardrobe.
I think again of the snail—the artful consumer—and the burden and freedom of carrying your house with you, the beauty of being so porous, so flexible.
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The event, character, timing, composition, may appear from time to time; the attention of Maria Teresa Martinez, Mayte is to meet and understand everything that moves around for photography. Clouds sometimes are given to imitate birds, they migrate in flocks and Mayte, who understands them, looks for their best angle.
Cordial invitación a todo el público a la
Exhibición Colectiva “ASTROS”
27 de octubre, 2017 a las 7 pm. Entrada libre!
ESTRELLAS QUE PARTICIPAN
y Mayte Martinez
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Duccio di Buoninsegna (Italian: [ˈduttʃo di ˌbwɔninˈseɲɲa]; c. 1255–1260 – c. 1318–1319) was an Italian painter active in Siena, Tuscany in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
He is considered to be the father of Sienese painting and, along with a few others, the founder of Western art. He was hired throughout his life to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy. Duccio is credited with creating the painting styles of Trecento and the Sienese school, and also contributed significantly to the Sienese Gothic style.
For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duccio
His interest is drawing since childhood. Took a painting course at the Technological Institute of Monterrey and some drawing lessons with Arch. Efrén Ordoñez outside this learning has been largely self-taught, however took some courses and workshops at the Art League of Brownsville, Texas, one of sculpture at the School of Art in New York and another mural painting at the National Academy of Design in the same city. He has countless exhibitions both individual and collective.
Tribute to Frida
Author: Roberto Juarez
Technique: Acrylic on wood
Size: 19 x 27 cm
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The Lone Sailor statue represents all people who ever served, are serving now or who are yet to serve in the Navy. The Lone Sailor is a composite of the U.S. Navy bluejacket, past, present and future. He’s called the Lone Sailor, yet he is hardly ever alone, standing there on the broad granite plaza which forms the amphitheater of the Navy Memorial. Visitors to the Memorial are immediately drawn to him to peer into his far seeing eyes, to admire him or size him up, to see if he’s as tough or as gentle as he seems. Visitors find that he is all that he seems and probably more.
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Call For Papers:
International Congress on Lusitanian Amphorae – Production and Diffusion
Tróia, Portugal – 10-13th October 2013
Even though a number of Lusitanian amphora production sites are fairly well known today, and sites like Tróia had a large production capacity for fish products exported in those amphorae, the diffusion of these containers is not well documented.
A review by Portuguese archaeologists of the principal Lusitanian amphorae products, as well as a workshop featuring samples of these amphorae, will contribute to better understanding of these containers. Invited scholars from Italy, Belgium, France, and Spain will present their findings on the long-distance Lusitanian amphorae trade. Presentations from other investigators who wish to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of Lusitanian amphorae in the Roman economy are necessary and welcome.
Inês Vaz Pinto
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Please phone the number above during working hours to make an appointment. Our reception service will be happy to book your session.
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Bodybuilding is about lifting weights and developing large muscles on your body, but it's not about using them for strength. It's all about performing to showcase the hard work you put into it. Competitive bodybuilding is a sport where men and women will compete to see who has the better muscular body frame. It's almost like a form of art, where you're presenting a physique that you carefully crafted through specific methods of weight training and dieting.
When you're competing against others, judges will evaluate your body form and rate you on things like symmetry and body conditioning. They determine your scores by having you, and the other contestants perform, on a stage, certain poses that show off your sculpted muscle mass. They will declare the one that gets the best overall scores, the winner.
As ABC Health & Well Being reports, competitive bodybuilding looks healthy on the surface, with lean bodies and beefed up muscles. However, the process to get those sculpted physiques aren't always the healthiest and can be downright hazardous, if you're not careful. Performing exercises improperly and not maintaining a healthy diet are recipes for an unhealthy future.
Training starts a couple of months before the competition. Bodybuilders will increase their fat intake, eating more carbs than they're actually burning off. This is to help when it's time for growing muscles. The next phase of training is when they start weight lifting to build muscles in various parts of the body.
About two months before the competition, a bodybuilder will then lose the weight, by adding some intense workouts into their regime, while still keeping up with the weight training. The problem is, though, to get lean, these athletes will eat less food, so they can burn more energy than they're taking in. Add in the high-impact cardio workouts and intense exercises on top of that, and it spells disaster for some.
Other negative effects intense training has on the body are:
When an athlete isn't sustaining a proper diet, and they're taking part in a rigorous exercise routine, they run the risk of injuries, like a muscle strain or joint damage. Bodybuilders will often compete in many competitions, thereby repeating these cycles of training and hardcore dieting, which can cause scarring on the muscle tissue. This will be problematic later on in life.
Some bodybuilders thrive from the challenges they face with intense training. That's great, but not all athletes will have the same positive attitude from it. In fact, many will suffer from mental health issues after the competition is over. When they go back to a normal diet, they gain weight and losing the body physique they had. Coping with that change can be tough.
While not every bodybuilder does this, some will take their training to the extreme, days before the competition, by deliberately dehydrating themselves. Diuretics and cortisol and insulin-controlling drugs are added into their regime to accomplish this. The intent is to get even leaner right before they get on the stage, but, for some, it fails, because they end up passing out during the competition.
There's nothing wrong with competitive bodybuilding, provided you set more healthful goals to accomplish the physique you're looking for. Physiotherapy can help you make the most of your weight training while preventing injuries from occurring.
Some benefits physiotherapy offers, include:
Bodybuilding trainers are great for helping you with your form for proper lifting techniques and using the right-hand positions on the lifting bars. What they don't always take into account is the way the muscles move, and how they respond to certain resistive techniques.
A physiotherapist's job is to know pretty much everything about a muscle. They can evaluate the exercise and show you the best method to achieve the result you want, without causing injuries to occur. You'll learn the correct way to warm up before training and how to stretch your muscles out when you've completed your routines.
What you do in your younger years can have an impact on your ageing body. The longer an athlete performs bodybuilding training, the more likely they are to face serious problems in the future, when they're older.
Muscle and joint pain are common complaints from retired bodybuilding athletes, who can no longer get around as easily as they once could. A physiotherapist can help you keep your body healthy while you train so you're not regretting it when you get older.
If you find yourself struggling with muscle aches or have pain when you're weight training, a physiotherapist can help you heal the muscle and get you back on track with your bodybuilding goals.
Special massage techniques or other procedures can relieve scarring on tissues, increase range of movement, and help improve elasticity with muscle fibres. For those who've been competing for years, a physiotherapist can help with posture issues or use non-invasive methods for spinal manipulation.
It's easy to seek out medications from a health professional to handle pain caused by an injury. But, continued use could bring on a new set of problems you're not prepared to deal with.
Pain-killer meds are highly addictive and should be avoided as much as possible. Physiotherapy will help you keep from getting injuries that would normally have you seeking those pills in the first place.
If you're a competing bodybuilder or plan to become one, consider adding physiotherapy to your bodybuilding goals to see the results you expect from your training. At CK Physiotherapy, we help you build the routine that not only gets you the winning body but one that's injury-free and won't cause damage you'll regret when you get older. Consult one of our physiotherapists today to see what our extensive experience and knowledge will do for your bodybuilding goals.
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27. American Dirt (Cummins, Jeannie)
Despite the raging controversy, American Dirt is a difficult book to put down. It starts with unbelievable violence that leaves Lydia and her son with one option, to take their chances on La Bestia (riding the rails) to escape the cartel which is searching for them. The violence truly takes your breath away and leaves the reader feeling anxious and distraught as they race to the end, hoping for a positive outcome!
Lydia and her son try leave behind their grief and save themselves along with a motley group of migrants, each with their own devastating story. The price for their escape is high and the story includes rape, murder, theft and trauma… I will never walk over a bridge without imagining these characters leaping down onto the top of a moving train!
While some have identified stereotypes within the text, the story does open readers to the experience of migrants as they gamble everything, including their lives, for a better life. In the times of the “build a wall” American President (and I struggle to refer to that man as “president”), this book details the humanity and desperation of migrants through well-researched fiction that helps readers to have empathy for the refugees seeking a better life.
26. Woman on the Edge (Bailey, Samantha M)
This mystery begins when a woman is frantically, handed a baby in a train station. When she looks up she sees the woman, dead on the track. Was it postpartum depression or was there a sinister plot? This novel will keep readers second guessing what is happening almost until the end.
For a debut novel, it was well written and suspenseful. It was a great palate cleansing read and can be read in a day. The main character makes some decisions that leave the reader scratching their head but it is fiction and if you ignore a few of these choices, you will get carried away in the mystery.
25. The Toll (Shusterman, Neal)
I begrudgingly finished the final book in this trilogy. I love to read along and discuss books with the kids and started this series when my son read The Scythe for a grade 7 project.
The Scythe was a terrific tale, I enjoyed the second book but the finale seemed to fall apart. It was a challenge to keep reading to the end but perhaps YA readers would have a different experience.
I would have liked to chat with my son about the challenges faced by Citra and Rowan, in The Toll, but he only finished the first book of the series.
Not being a big fan of watching TV, I do think that this series would make a great movie trilogy!
24. Rick Mercer Final Report
Who doesn’t love a great Rick Mercer rant? The are are fun to watch and fun to read! The rants are short, sarcastic and funny. Written for him to orate in 90 seconds they are each 2-3 pages long and many focus on politics.
I had been looking for a lighter read from a Newfoundland author (after The Wake and Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club) and my friends on the CanadianContent group succeeded with a great suggestion.
I loved reading the sections describing his collaboration with Canadian singer, Jann Arden as well as the time that he spent with Pierre Berton as the 90 year old taught Canadians to roll a joint… and kept the extra weed!
This is a great book to read between more serious tomes… just reading a couple of rants a day is a fun reflection on Canadian politics and issues over the last decade.
23. Radicalized (Doctrow, Cory)
Radicalized was my last Canada Reads book and it was not an easy book for me to finish (or start, if I am honest) but it certainly was thought provoking. It seemed prescient in a time when the world is struggling with homelessness, COVID19, cancer, racism and the disparity between the rich and the poor.
This book is a collection of 4 short stories and would likely be excellent fodder for book club discussions. It is thoughtful and was well-written despite not being my go to genre.
As readers are aware, Canada Reads was postponed due to COVID19 (which feels like its’ own short story) and the debates will start on July 20th! It will be interesting to see how this collection fares amongst strong fiction and a harrowing memoir.
22. Thunderhead (Shusterman, Neal)
After reading The Scythe along with my son who was reading this with his class, I kept going with the series. I enjoyed the characters and the story helped me ponder a society where people can be fixed to the point of immortality. Of course, the world can only support so many individuals so the solution is to glean!
I enjoyed the next instalment in the trilogy and look forward to The Toll. Reading YA is a relaxing type of read, with good fiction and an easier pace when the world which seemed the right choice as early March had us contemplating a potential pandemic.
21. Flowers for Algernon (Keyes, Daniel)
Flowers for Algernon is a thought-provoking story of Algernon (a mouse) and Charlie Gordon (a man with intellectual disabilities) who both experience increases in their intelligence following experimental surgeries. The character of Charlie is so vividly described as he learns about himself, reflects on past experiences, writes case notes and struggles to learn how to interact and live in his world with his new abilities to think and learn.
The book, published in 1966, uses the vernacular of a different time. As a child of the seventies, I recall classrooms called TR room, standing for the “the trainably retarded” and am glad that we no longer uses terms like “retard“, “retardate” and “moron” to describe individuals as they did in this book (and commonly a few decades ago).
My friend recommended this book, recalling that she enjoyed it in grade 10 (in the eighties) and it would be a great book to discuss in relation to understanding and treating others with compassion and respect. It was written in a time when students were segregated based on ability, unlike today where there are blended classrooms.
It is interesting to note that the author worked with students with special needs and was impacted by a student asking for help to “be smart“. According to wikipedia, it was rejected by 5 publishers and was originally written as a short story and later expanded to a novel. By 2004, it had sold over 5 million copies and been published in 27 languages. It was made into a film called Charly which won an Academy Award for best actor.
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Healthy kids make happy kids. Happy kids make happy parents. But what do you do when school starts again in the middle of a Pandemic? Whether they’re heading back to school or learning from home, here are six easy ways you can make sure healthy living is part of their daily routine.
This year, “back to school” is taking on a much different tone as some schools open and others prepare for more distance learning. COVID-19 has changed the landscape for parents, educators, and custodial staff –– but especially for children.
Whether parents are sending their kids off to school again, or preparing for a hybrid model where their children divide their time between the school building and home, keeping their kids healthy ads yet another layer of stress to parenthood. Let’s face it: your plate is already full enough as a parent. While there has never been a silver-bullet or magic pill to keep your kids healthy while they’re at school, COVID-19 has thrown parents a curveball. That’s why we’re here. While we can’t give you an ironclad plan that’s going to eliminate the stress that comes from sending your kids back to school during a pandemic, these tips can help make sure they’re minimizing risks during the day.
1. Help them wear their masks.
While kids may not spread viruses as effectively as adults, they should still wear their masks indoors at all times. No matter how many ways people like to debate this, the science behind mask-wearing is fairly simple. When children are in close proximity, the virus spreads much slower if everyone is wearing masks that cover their mouth and nose.
Mask wearing can be tricky, especially if you’re raising younger children. That’s why it’s important to get them comfortable wearing a mask for extended periods of time while they’re at home. Make sure their masks fit them comfortably and are made out of materials they won’t mind wearing at school. And don’t forget that kids will model your behavior. If they see you wearing a mask, they’ll be more inclined to do the same.
2. Develop healthy habits.
COVID-19 spreads through air particles as well as surfaces. And anybody who has stepped foot inside a school building over the last 100 years or so knows that surfaces play a big part in how your kids interact. Bus surfaces, desk surfaces, windows, cafeterias, etc. All signs show that schools and custodial staff are all stepping up and taking extra cleaning precautions. But keeping your kids (and their classmates) healthy during the school day starts at home by developing healthy habits. Teaching them how to use a tissue to wipe their nose instead of their arm sleeve, staying a safe distance from other children, and simply telling mom and dad when they don’t feel well.
Germs spread faster in school. Kids are in close contact with each other, and they’re also not the most hygiene-first demographic of our species. Since there are five ways (from our nose, mouth and eyes, surfaces, animals, dirty hands, and children), one of the healthiest habits you can instill is teaching your kids about viruses, and how to sanitize and wash their hands regularly.
The CDC has created some great resources like this that explain how viruses work and spread. Help them understand, and then develop healthy hand-washing habits before meals, after they use the restroom, and whenever they’re done playing outside or with certain activities. If you make hand-washing a habit, you’ll be able to worry less while they’re at school. You’ll also be doing your part to protect other kids as well.
3. Pack their bags the night before.
Forgetting a pencil during a global pandemic is one thing. Forgetting a mask or hand sanitizer is something entirely different. To help make sure your kids stay safe during the school day, help them pack the night before. This means making sure they have everything they need, so their health isn’t compromised when they leave the house.
Hand sanitizer, snacks (so they don’t have to purchase or “borrow” on from a friend, and a mask are all pandemic staples they should be carrying in their backpacks. It’s also a good idea to pack an extra mask or two because kids never lose things, right?
4. Teach them about social distancing.
The CDC and health experts agree that maintaining 6 feet of distancing helps prevent the spread of COVID-19. From limiting classroom sizes to restructuring outdoor activities during recess, schools are doing their part to make sure contact between kids is minimized during the school day. But parents should also teach their kids the importance of social distancing while at home and in public. Show them how far 6 feet is.
Create a fun mnemonic to help them remember, and place reminder notes in their backpacks and lunch bags.
5. Pack their lunch.
Research shows that COVID-19 is spread through the air and surfaces –– and not by food. So you shouldn’t worry about what your kids eat at school. However, packing their lunches can help them choose safer locations to eat during the day and keep them away from cafeterias and high-traffic areas that expose kids to more germs and surfaces.
6. Make sure you know.
In normal times the how-was-your-day dinner time question would usually involve fairly straightforward answers about recess games or teacher venting. But during a global pandemic, consider asking your kids about how safe they feel at school. Is their school taking enough precautions. Are your kids taking enough precautions? Understanding how safe they’re feeling during the day will help you make adjustments throughout the week –– and sleep a little better at night.
Additionally, don’t delete the email updates that your school sends. These can be valuable resources about the measures your local school board is taking to mitigate risks as well as follow up tasks for you. When it comes to raising kids during a global pandemic, the more you know, the better.
7. Use reminders.
Kids tend to forget things that fall outside of the sports/video games/friends realm. That’s why it might be a good idea to leave them convenient reminders wherever and whenever possible. Use a family whiteboard that reminds them to put their masks on when they leave the house. Drop a note in their lunches reminding them to keep their distance. And since it’s 2020, maybe send your older kids a few “friendly” texts during the day.
From educating kids about how germs work, to establishing daily habits like washing hands and eating good meals, we’ll set our children up for success during the school day. Like most things in life, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So take the time to dive into some of the research and information available to parents. The internet and library are full of other resources. Plus, you’ve got great intuition and you love your kids. Those two things are, perhaps, the greatest, most important resources you’ll ever have when it comes to keeping them healthy during the school year –– and the rest of their lives.
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In Quechua, the native tongue of Peru, the word Pisco means little birds. It was also the name of the native inhabitants of the river valley that leads to the sleepy Peruvian port of Pisco and also the clay containers used to store Pisco. Inland from Pisco is the Ica Valley where the Spanish Conquistadors brought grapes to this part of the New World in 1553. According to historical archives, Pisco is first mentioned as a distilled spirit in 1613. Since 1630, Pisco was exported from the shores of Peru.
In the 1840’s, in the midst of the Gold Rush, American ships stopped at the port of Pisco to load up on Pisco while on their way to San Francisco. Pisco became all the rage and the world famous Pisco Punch was invented at the Bank Exchange Saloon. In Rudyard Kipling’s 1889 epic From Sea to Sea, he immortalized Pisco Punch as being “compounded of the shavings of cherub’s wings, the glory of a tropical dawn, the red clouds of sunset and the fragments of lost epics by dead masters”. It was also favored by writers visiting San Francisco including Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
In 1919 however, Prohibition banned this liquor from U.S. shores and Pisco production was severely diminished for this and other reasons. Pisco experienced a renaissance in Peru in the 1990’s and has now hit full stride now becoming the fastest growing type of liquor in the United States. History is repeating itself, in San Francisco and throughout the U.S.
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Are you itching to start your own strategies for photography? Do you actually know how and where to start the process? Do you know what can work for your shots? This article is here to help you find answers to those questions and progress as a photographer.
It can be very inspirational to see what other photographers have done. You will stimulate your creativity and reach out for new ways a moment can be captured by seeing some of the methods other photographers have used.
Get in close to your subject for a better shot. Getting in nice and tight allows your subject to fill the frame, and blots out background distractions.
When shooting people, make sure to emphasize the foreground by blurring the background a little. Having a sharply focused background can detract from your subject matter, making it difficult for any viewers of your photo to focus the way you intend them to. You can accomplish this by having your background further away from your subject.
While sunny days may look beautiful in person, sunlight can actually ruin the quality of an image. It causes awkward shadows, including shadows, and highlights unevenly. Early morning or twilight are ideal when doing an outdoor shoot.
Don’t pack your equipment carelessly when traveling. Bring all lenses that you think you will possibly use, plus a few extra batteries and cleaning tools. Only take what you really need and what can be easily transported on the trip.
Choose only the best photography to highlight and display. Don’t show your entire portfolio of photographs or select too many photos and vary the subject matter. It can get very boring if people are looking at the same sort of image again and over again.Keep things fresh by showing off a variety of shots.
Shoot photos of a wide range of individuals. Of course, it is recommended to request permission first before snapping pictures. When traveling, looking at these pictures will remind you of particular memories, even if the people you photographed do not look like they would stand out from a crowd at the moment when you take your picture. When selecting people to photograph, always look for those dressed casually and sporting candid expressions.
Experiment with the feature that allows you to adjust levels of whiteness. Indoor shots tend to have a yellowish cast thanks to artificial lighting. Instead of altering the lights in the room, adjust the white balance on your camera to get a whole different atmosphere. This slight change in quality will definitely provide your photographs have a professional appearance.
Take a lot of photos when you are trying to improve your skills, but buy a memory card with a large storage space. If you have a memory card that is large enough, you will never worry about being able to store additional photos on your card. Having a memory card with a large capacity allows you to experiment with different shots and analyze them later to see which techniques worked best for you.
Here is a little did-you-know photo tip! Learn about the speeds your shutter has. Your camera will have setting indicators for S, M,P, and P modes. The “P” setting represents the camera represents program mode.This will have the shutter and aperture already set. If you are not sure what you will shoot, use your “P” setting.
You should find a good combination of ISO, shutter speed, and aperture. These three features determine the exposure of your picture. You don’t want to overexpose or underexpose a picture, unless you are going for a certain look. If you try out the different features and how they work together you can find what works best for you!
You should enjoy.Taking photographs should allow you to capture the essence of a memorable event in your life, and reviewing them later should give you a sense of warm nostalgia. Have fun when taking the pictures and will will soon fall in love with photography.
Learn how to compose your photos properly to improve their quality. Whether you want to be a professional photographer or just want to take photos for fun, your photographs can benefit from learning composition principles. Like other art forms, if the composition is lacking, the work is not the best it can be. There are many different methods of composition that you can practice to improve your photography.
Take pictures of vacation souveniers from your trips. This helps create stories for your travels.
Many tasks call for us to place things evenly and symmetrically for best results. You can make your pictures look original by placing your main subject slightly on one side, rather than right in the center of your picture. Watch out for auto-focus features that might lock on the object that sits at the center of your lens. Focus the shot manually, then fix the focus before hitting the shutter button.
Move closer to whatever subject you’re taking a picture of.
Get creative with different perspectives and scales in your photography. Even an ordinary object can be transformed into a work of art if its setting makes it appear dramatically magnified or diminished in size or placed in a situation that is humorous or unique. Your composition of your photos will create interest when you are creative with common objects.
Composition is an important factor that every beginning photographer should consider and master when delving into photography. Like some other artistic ventures, if your composition is lacking, then the outcome will not be the best.
As you journy to new and different places, look for tips on what interesting things there are to photograph. Go look at postcard racks to get some ideas. Local subjects and attractions featured on postcards are likely memorable and distinctive enough to be worth your photographic attention.
Most of the time the subject is looking straight into the camera. If you want to make your photos a little more interesting, have your subject fix his gaze on an object outside the camera’s field of view. You could have them look at something in the frame, such as a person or flower too.
When you take photos in fluorescent lighting, adjust the white balance settings in your camera to the appropriate setting. Fluorescent lighting can cause green or bluish light, so your subjects might appear a cooler hue than you expect, unless you compensate for lack of the color red with your camera.
Be on the lookout for patterns whenever you are shooting any subject. Patters make photographs look a lot more interesting. Try using patterns for unique angles or backgrounds on a subject matter.
When photographing more than one person, let them know what they should wear before the shot. They do not have to match, but they should try complementary shades to produce the best results. If brighter colors are called for, try pairing them with something neutral so it does not clash.
Manually set the white balance feature on your camera. Using your manual white balance will dramatically change the mood and look of your photographs. Through experience you will learn to see what gives the results you want. Starting out with your camera set for manual white balance gives you room to be creative.
You may want to set your camera to take lower resolution pictures so that you can fit more images onto one memory card, but low-res photos look really bad when you print them.The lowest setting should only be used for images that will be to display them on your computer screen.
For a creative touch, experiment with the focus. Using a smaller depth of field, otherwise known as an f-stop, will allow you to keep the background blurry and the subject in clear focus. Try this strategy when taking portraits or other close-up shots. The bigger the f-stop number, the bigger the depth of field. This means that if your depth of field is larger, then a larger portion of the picture will appear focused on. You want to do this when taking landscape photos.
Many methods for creating a silhouette exist, there are many different ways to reproduce this effect. If the background is more illuminated than the subject, you will be able to see a silhouette. Just bear in mind that sometimes the outline may cause an unflattering feature.
Get in as many practice shots as you can, especially when photographing a new environment or subject. The more practice shots you take, the more comfortable you will get with the environment. Every situation in photography varies quite a bit. The light in which you are shooting can vary frequently, and therefore you should take test shots as often as necessary.
You can make anything look interesting by adjusting your camera’s settings, using a different kind of lighting or even by just changing the shot angle. Play with these things before you go out to capture the picture that you are planning for so you better understand how it will change the shot.
Use different speeds for more creativity. While most recreational photographers rely on a faster shutter speed to snap action shots, imagine the possibilities of taking pictures with a slower shutter speed.Did you see that guy on the person riding a bike who was going past at a fast pace?The result is that the bicyclist is fairly sharp yet the background is streaked horizontally, this will show movement.
You need to include an object that is interesting for the foreground of the photos, which adds more appeal. This could be something as simple as a leaf or a rock, and it will add a lot of value to your photo. You can help viewers of your photo focus on the main subject with artful use of detail.
A tripod is beneficial if you’re taking a good shot of a landscape.
Get down to the child’s eye-level when taking a picture of them. This will make a huge difference in the quality of your shots.
This will help you out in the long run.
One easy way to be sure of getting good shots is to simply take lots of shots and cull out the bad ones later. With digital photography, this is easier to do than ever before.
Many cameras will let you zoom up really far, but keep in mind that image quality decreases when the camera switches from optical zoom to. Digital zoom uses an algorithm to add pixels which hurts the quality of the image by adding pixels.You may want to check how to disable the feature.
In order to produce great photographs in low light setting, you need to decrease the aperture, or the f/stop setting on your camera. This will open the aperture as much as possible and let more light in when you take your picture.
Get close to your photograph. When you are framing a shot, either zoom into the subject or get closer to it. Make the subject fills the frame. Too much scenery or visual noise, no matter how scenic, distracts the eye from where the focus should be: the subject.
Generally, only one shot in twenty is satisfactory artistically, but you shouldn’t throw the other nineteen away. Keeping the losers around, as well as the winners, gives you a comprehensive look at what you can improve, as well as what you’re doing right.
Increase shutter speed whenever the environment you’re taking your photograph in low light. This will help to prevent any blurring on your final product.
Food photography can be very difficult. Food items tend to wilt, melt, shift or undergo other changes, especially if they are under hot lighting. When you are taking a food picture, you want to have everything (the silverware, glassware and napkins) set up beforehand. Once you have everything set up, make sure you have the proper lighting, and then you can place the food correctly and snap away.
Crop pictures to make them look even better. There are times you may think your photo would be excellent if it weren’t for that has an undesirable object in it. There are also times where the picture is perfect, but it is slightly off-center. These issues can be fixed by clever cropping later.
Share pictures that are unique and unexpected. Even though your camera can hold a lot of pictures, try to simplify your album by saving only your favorite pictures.
Take the time out of your schedule to study your camera.
When photographing your children, you will likely get the results you want if you allow them to be free and natural. Children have so much pent-up energy that it can be frustrating to attempt to get them stationary for a picture. Have some fun and try to get an action shot instead.
How would you do with the questions from the beginning of the article now? Where will you begin with your own concepts in photography? Can you now find a place to begin? Have you figured out how to better compose your shots? If you can answer these questions, you are well on your way to becoming a better photographer.
Check the camera’s settings in order to get the desired shot you are intending to take. If shooting an object that is moving, you will need to change the settings to capture this picture. Using the correct settings will help you take great pictures that look amazing.
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Making & Being: Workshop
Susan Jahoda & Caroline Woolard
Want your work to make a difference? It all comes down to knowing what you’ve got, and how to work with it. You might already have everything you need…
Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard will begin this workshop by introducing you to the work of the collective BFAMFAPhD and the frameworks for their book “Making & Being: Embodiment, Collaboration and Circulation in the Visual Arts.” This will be followed by an attunement practice, Asset Mapping—an activity that supports members in identifying resources that already exist within their group—and a Q&A period. The workshop will end with a closing activity.
Susan Jahoda is Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Jahoda is an artist, educator, and organizer whose work includes video, photography, text, performance, installation and research-based collaborative projects. Works have been produced for venues in London, Paris, Basel, New York, Seoul, and Moscow. Jahoda is a core member of BFAMFAPhD and the Pedagogy Group, collectives of socially engaged artists and educators based in New York City.
Caroline Woolard is Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Hartford, CT and employs sculpture, immersive installation, and online networks to imagine and enact systems of mutual aid and collaboration. Her work has been featured twice on New York Close Up (2014, 2016), a digital film series produced by Art21 and broadcast on PBS. Woolard is the 2018–20 inaugural Walentas Fellow at Moore College of Art and Design and her work has been commissioned by and exhibited in major national and international museums, including at MoMA, the Whitney Museum, and Creative Time. Woolard is a core member of BFAMFAPhD.
BFAMFAPhD is a collective that formed in 2012 to make art, reports, and teaching tools to advocate for cultural equity in the United States. The work of the collective is to bring people together to analyze and reimagine relationships of power in the arts. More information is online at: http://bfamfaphd.com
Making & Being offers a framework for teaching art that emphasizes contemplation, collaboration, and political economy. Authors Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, two visual arts educators and members of the collective BFAMFAPhD, share ideas and teaching strategies that they have adapted to spaces of learning which range widely, from self-organized workshops for professional artists to Foundations BFA and MFA thesis classes. This hands-on guide includes activities, worksheets, and assignments and is a critical resource for artists and art educators today. Making and Being is a book, a series of videos, a deck of cards, and an interactive website with freely downloadable content. http://makingandbeing.com
This workshop is hosted in conjunction with knowingdoing (exhibition dates TBA, pending provincial restrictions), curated by Alison Cooley. What lessons do we find in knowing and doing? What knowledges do movement, practice, play, embodiment, and the cycles, systems, histories, and economies of artistic work open us to? In this exhibition, works by Helah Cooper, Erika DeFreitas, and Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard of BFAMFAPhD exist between modes of practice, play, embodiment, sensing, and pedagogy, recoupling knowing and doing. Assembling projects that both predate and arise from the context of COVID-19—a force that restructures our modes of relation, encounter, activity, and gathering—the exhibition traverses diagrammatic, participatory, sculptural, and moving-image practices in order to refocus attention on the lessons carried in embodied practice.
This exhibition at The Bows is animated by online talks and workshops, including visiting artist lectures by Helah Cooper and Erika DeFreitas in AUArts studio art courses taught by Alana Bartol and Sarah Nordean, and an open public workshop by Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard on April 10, 2021.
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Websoft giants are doing great
Do you know HOW great?
We already knew that “Big Tech” was making even more money than usual thanks to the pandemic, but how much, and with which impacts? Some of the many answers to these questions became a bit easier to find yesterday, when the italianfinancial analysis and research center of MedioBanca published a report about the resilience of “websoft” giants during the pandemic.
Websoft stands for “Web and software”, and the giants would be the 25 companies operating in that sector, that declared revenues over 8.5B Euros in 2019 (that is the dotted line in the figure above). The reports analizes the performances of the “giants” from 2015 to 2019, or the first half of 2020, and it does not include Apple (probably because it is a bank, posing as hardware maker). Here are some of the factoids of the report that may, no: should be of more general interest.
Money! Lots of money
- in 2019, those 25 websoft giants gained 146B Euros * 14 of them are based in the USA (Delaware, except Microsoft), 6 in China (with legal seat in the Caymans), 3 in Japan and 2 in Germany * Free markets are less and less free, and less and less markets too: in 2019, the first three giants got about half the total revenues of the sector, and the gap in revenues between the first five and the last five doubled from 2015 to 2019
- the websoft giants grew over ten times faster than manufacturing industries in 2015⁄2019
Good. That’s also a lot of tax revenues, right?
Not really. Quite less than it should be, in any case: “about half of pre-tax revenues of the websoft giants is taxed in “reduced fiscality countries”, with total savings in the 2015-2019 period of more than 46B Euros: Microsoft, Alphabet and Facebook saved respectively 14.2B. 11.6B and 7.5B Euros”.
The report also mentions that the italian subsidiaries of the same giants paid to the italian revenue service almost 70M Euros in 2019, corresponding to an actual tax rate of 32.1%.
But it still means lots of JOBS, right?
Again, not really:
- Employment by the giants grew between 2015 and 2019 of one million units, that is a 90% increase. In the same years, employment by manufacturing multinationals only grew 3.8%. However, a great part of this “growth” consists of acquisitions of other companies, NOT of new, additional jobs
- Besides, websoft giants need much less people to make the same money. To make ten millions of Euros in revenues, retail colosses like Amazon or JD.com only need 32 or 31 employees, Alibaba 18 and eBay 14. In comparison, to make the same revenues the big names of food distribution must employ,on average, 51 people
Cloud computing to rule them all. Especially in Italy
Another “interesting” news in the report, for Italy at least, is how much the pandemic increased the dependency on foreign single points of failure, er, I meant: providers of digital services:
“Cloud adoption is mainstream and we expect a strong acceleration in upcoming months, as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic and when considering adoption in Italy stands at 9% (vs European average at 18%).”
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Frequency and mortality of septic shock in Europe and North America: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Critical Care volume 23, Article number: 196 (2019)
Septic shock is the most severe form of sepsis, in which profound underlying abnormalities in circulatory and cellular/metabolic parameters lead to substantially increased mortality. A clear understanding and up-to-date assessment of the burden and epidemiology of septic shock are needed to help guide resource allocation and thus ultimately improve patient care. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was therefore to provide a recent evaluation of the frequency of septic shock in intensive care units (ICUs) and associated ICU and hospital mortality.
We searched MEDLINE, Embase, and the Cochrane Library from 1 January 2005 to 20 February 2018 for observational studies that reported on the frequency and mortality of septic shock. Four reviewers independently selected studies and extracted data. Disagreements were resolved via consensus. Random effects meta-analyses were performed to estimate pooled frequency of septic shock diagnosed at admission and during the ICU stay and to estimate septic shock mortality in the ICU, hospital, and at 28 or 30 days.
The literature search identified 6291 records of which 71 articles met the inclusion criteria. The frequency of septic shock was estimated at 10.4% (95% CI 5.9 to 16.1%) in studies reporting values for patients diagnosed at ICU admission and at 8.3% (95% CI 6.1 to 10.7%) in studies reporting values for patients diagnosed at any time during the ICU stay. ICU mortality was 37.3% (95% CI 31.5 to 43.5%), hospital mortality 39.0% (95% CI 34.4 to 43.9%), and 28-/30-day mortality 36.7% (95% CI 32.8 to 40.8%). Significant between-study heterogeneity was observed.
Our literature review reaffirms the continued common occurrence of septic shock and estimates a high mortality of around 38%. The high level of heterogeneity observed in this review may be driven by variability in defining and applying the diagnostic criteria, as well as differences in treatment and care across settings and countries.
Sepsis, the association of organ dysfunction with an infection, is a complex multifactorial disease that has severe health and economic burden on both the patient and healthcare systems worldwide. Sepsis is one of the leading causes of death and critical illness in the world [1, 2], with in-hospital mortality rates in the USA as high as 25–30% . Data drawn principally from large retrospective database studies point to high population-level incidence rates for sepsis among patients hospitalized in high-income countries; indeed, admissions of patients with sepsis exceed those of patients who have suffered myocardial infarction or stroke [4, 5]. The incidence of sepsis in developed countries has been reported to be increasing [6, 7], although this is controversial and may in large part be a phenomenon of reporting bias related to financial reimbursement, increased awareness of sepsis definitions among medical professionals, and changes in diagnostic codes [8,9,10,11]. A recent study in which sepsis was defined according to the latest guidelines suggested relative stability in the rate of sepsis from 2002 to 2012 .
Septic shock, characterized by arterial hypotension, altered tissue perfusion, and increased blood lactate levels [13, 14], is the most severe form of sepsis. In 2016, Shankar-Hari et al. conducted a systematic review to evaluate clinical criteria currently used to identify septic shock. They reported worldwide estimates for hospital mortality but provided no information on intensive care unit (ICU) or 28-/30-day mortality rates or on the frequency of septic shock. Moreover, Shankar-Hari et al. included data from patients enrolled between 1989 and 2015 (publications from 1992 to 2015), yet our awareness of sepsis has increased considerably since then and patient management has also changed.
We therefore conducted an updated systematic review to identify observational studies conducted in Europe and North America that reported epidemiological data of patients with septic shock. This was followed by a quantitative meta-analysis to determine the frequency of septic shock and its associated mortality.
Materials and methods
A systematic review protocol was prepared based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) and in accordance with established guidelines from The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions and the Center for Reviews and Dissemination .
A comprehensive literature search strategy combining Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and free text terms for the epidemiology of septic shock, health-related quality of life, costs, and treatment guidelines was used to retrieve articles of interest from MEDLINE, MEDLINE In-Process Citations & Daily Update, Embase, and the Cochrane Library databases. Searches were limited to papers published between 1 January 2005 and 20 February 2018. Full search strategies are provided in Additional file 1.
Study selection criteria
Observational studies of adult patients (aged ≥ 15 years) with sepsis were eligible for inclusion if they reported data on either frequency or mortality of septic shock. Studies were limited to those conducted in Europe, the USA, or Canada. For the frequency assessment, they must have included cohorts of ≥ 100 patients, and for the mortality assessment, cohorts of ≥ 15 patients. Non-observational studies or studies of patients within specific disease groups or other exclusive populations were excluded. Conference abstracts, reviews, systematic reviews, and studies indexed as case reports, editorials, and letters were also excluded. The full list of inclusion and exclusion criteria is available in Additional file 1.
Screening and study selection
Double screening was performed, with four authors (K.K.C., E.O., S.D., and G.J.) in pairs providing an independent assessment of the titles and abstracts of all records retrieved in the electronic searches. The full text of each study that met the criteria for inclusion was then reviewed, with discrepancies between the reviewers resolved through discussion.
The following data were extracted from papers identified at full-text screening: article identifiers (authors, year of publication, objective), study identifiers (sample size, design, country, length of follow-up, inclusion criteria, definition and criteria used for identifying septic shock, comorbidities, number of organ failures), setting and population (age, sex, reason for admission, severity scores, acquisition of infection, microorganisms identified), and outcome measures (frequency, incidence, mortality).
Assessment of methodological quality
Quality assessments of the studies that were eligible for meta-analysis were performed using “The Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Checklist for studies reporting prevalence data” for frequency studies, with a modified version of “The Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Checklist for case series” used for studies reporting mortality.
Statistical analysis and meta-analyses
Random effects meta-analyses were performed to estimate pooled frequencies of septic shock diagnosed at admission or during the ICU stay and to estimate septic shock mortality in the ICU, hospital, and at 28 or 30 days. Separate analyses were performed on studies in which The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) were used, as this introduced hyperlactatemia as a component for septic shock. Using frequency and mortality rates from patients diagnosed with Sepsis-3 definitions was considered a potential source of heterogeneity given the more narrowly defined, more severe patients these criteria would identify with the addition of this component. Unless otherwise stated, estimates given are derived from studies in which any criteria except Sepsis-3 are used to identify septic shock. Confidence intervals for individual studies were calculated using the Clopper-Pearson method and between-study variances were estimated using the DerSimonian-Laird technique. For frequency, data were pooled using the inverse-variance method and the Freeman-Tukey double arcsine transformation to calculate an overall proportion, before back transformation to the original scale and the logit transformation were used to pool hospital mortality data. A continuity correction of 0.5 was applied in studies with zero cell frequencies. Statistical heterogeneity was assessed visually using forest plots and formally using the I2 statistic; heterogeneity was considered to be high for I2 values greater than 75% .
For frequency, two meta-analyses were performed according to the time of septic shock diagnosis reported in the study (at ICU admission or at any time during the ICU stay). For mortality, three meta-analyses were performed according to the type of reported mortality: ICU mortality, in-hospital mortality, and mortality at either 28 or 30 days. Subgroup meta-analyses for frequency and mortality were performed for European vs North American studies, and for single center vs multicenter studies. Publications that did not report data as proportions (n/N) but as percentages were excluded if the proportions could not be accurately back-calculated. Studies that reported 1-day point prevalence estimates were also excluded from the meta-analyses.
All analyses were performed using R software (www.R-project.org) and the package “meta” (general package for meta-analysis) (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/meta/meta.pdf).
The literature search identified 6291 records following de-duplication. Following title and abstract screening 460 articles met the criteria for full-text evaluation. A total of 71 met the eligibility criteria and were included in the qualitative systematic review; 50 publications reported data from Europe and 21 publications reported data from North America. Full details of study selection and exclusions are shown in the PRISMA flow diagram in Additional file 1: Figure S1.
Frequency data were reported in 36 of the 71 publications covering 27 individual studies/datasets [22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57] (Additional file 1: Table S1). Data from the Sepsis Occurrence in Acutely Ill Patients (SOAP) study were reported in four separate publications [26,27,28, 32]; data from a single 1-day frequency study from Germany were reported in two publications [29, 34]; the French EPIdemiology of Septic Shock study (EPISS) was detailed in two publications [46, 47]; a multicenter study from the Piedmont Intensive Care Unit Network in Italy was reported in two publications [48, 49]; the OUTCOMEREA database was used for three publications [22, 36, 51]; and the Portuguese Community-Acquired Sepsis (SACiUCI) study was reported in two publications [37, 39]. Mortality data were reported in 62 publications covering 57 individual studies [10, 23,24,25,26,27,28, 31, 32, 34, 35, 37,38,39,40,41,42,43, 45,46,47,48, 50,51,52, 54, 55, 57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91] (Additional file 1: Table S2).
The proportion of studies that fulfilled each item on the quality assurance checklist is shown in Additional file 1: Tables S3 and S4 for the studies that report frequency data and mortality data, respectively. For frequency, the areas that raised concern were the validity of methods used for identification of septic shock, the reliability of septic shock diagnosis among patients, and rate of response and methods employed to manage low response rate. For mortality, the areas that raised concern were, again, the reliability of septic shock diagnosis among patients, in addition to completeness of inclusion, and clear reporting of demographics of the septic shock patients.
Frequency estimates ranged from 2.5% to 23.4% when septic shock was diagnosed at ICU admission (Additional file 1: Table S1). Three studies reported 1-day point prevalence estimates for frequency and were excluded from the meta-analyses [29, 34, 53]. The overall pooled frequency of septic shock was estimated at 10.4% (95% CI 5.9 to 16.1%) with a high level of heterogeneity (I2 = 100%; p = 0) (Fig. 1). This pooled frequency decreased to 6.5% (95% CI 5.6 to 7.5%) when using Sepsis-3 criteria. When septic shock was diagnosed at any time during the ICU stay, estimates ranged from 1.4% to 27.6% (Additional file 1: Table S1) and the overall pooled frequency of septic shock was estimated at 8.3% (95% CI 6.1 to 10.7%) with a high level of heterogeneity (I2 = 99%; p = 0) (Fig. 2). Estimates for septic shock frequency at admission and at any time during the ICU stay were higher in European populations than in North American populations (11.4% vs. 6.0% and 8.9% vs. 4.6% respectively; see Additional file 1: Figures S2 and S3). Estimates for septic shock frequency at admission were higher in multicenter than in single-center studies (10.6% vs. 9.0%), but the reverse was true for septic shock frequency during the ICU stay (7.6% vs. 9.9%); none of these differences were statistically significant (Additional file 1: Figures S4 and S5).
Mortality rates in the included studies are reported in Additional file 1: Table S2. Three random-effects meta-analyses were performed to evaluate the mortality of septic shock in the ICU, in the hospital and at 28/30 days; these are shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5. For seven of the publications reporting mortality, the number of patients could not be calculated and these were excluded from the meta-analyses [37, 39, 58, 67, 79, 88, 90]. One study reported a 1-day point prevalence estimate for hospital mortality and was excluded from the meta-analysis . The mean mortality was 37.3% (95% CI 31.5% to 43.5%) in the ICU and 39.0% (95% CI 34.4% to 43.9%) in-hospital. Mortality at 28/30 days was estimated at 36.7% (95% CI 32.8% to 40.8%). Statistically significant heterogeneity was observed in all meta-analyses with reported I2 values of 98, 100, and 90 for in-ICU, in-hospital, and 28-/30-day mortality, respectively. ICU and hospital mortality estimates increased to 51.9% (95% CI 43.9 to 59.8%) and 52.1% (95% CI 51.6 to 52.6%) respectively when septic shock was diagnosed using Sepsis-3 criteria. As with frequency, estimates for mortality in the ICU and hospital and at 28/30 days were all higher in European populations than in North American populations (37.9% vs. 32.8%, 42.7% vs. 32.3%, and 38.5% vs. 33.2%) though not significantly so (see Additional file 1: Figures S6–S8). Estimates for ICU, hospital, and 28-/30-day mortality were higher in multicenter than in single-center studies (41.8% vs 37.1%, 43.1% vs. 34.0%, and 37.2% vs. 36.2%, respectively; Additional file 1: Figures S9-S11); none of these differences were statistically significant.
Our systematic review shows that approximately 10% of ICU patients have septic shock at admission and 8% of patients admitted to the ICU have septic shock sometime during their ICU stay. Populations assessed using Sepsis-3 criteria had a lower estimate at admission (approximately 7%). This may be a result of the narrower definition used in comparison to previous consensus criteria . Earlier versions of the sepsis consensus definitions did not take into account lactate levels and required that patients met 2 or more systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria; therefore, they are likely to be more inclusive [38, 93, 94]. The high occurrence of septic shock among ICU patients supports current efforts to raise awareness of the condition among healthcare professionals and the general public, but caution should be exercised when interpreting our pooled estimates given the high heterogeneity observed between studies. This variability in estimates could be driven by patient populations and, as the European- and North American-specific estimates suggest, country of origin. The different methods of identifying cases, using discharge codes, administrative data, or electronic chart reviews, might also account for some of the differences. For example, some coding abstraction methods may underestimate the diagnosis and significant numbers of patients may be misclassified by electronic health record-based definitions when the frequency of the condition is low . Additionally, the higher number of septic shock cases reported in some countries may partly be explained by the lower number of ICU beds resulting in a concentration of more severely ill patients. For example, a study of Portuguese ICUs revealed an unusually high frequency of septic shock diagnosed at admission (approximately 23%) that the authors suggested was most probably related to the lack of ICU services in Portugal . The differences observed might also be due to seasonal variations in the epidemiology of septic shock as the time period of the studies varied widely from a single day to several years. Additionally, the reporting of the data was not always satisfactory. Many studies collected data from a mix of patients diagnosed either at admission or screened prospectively during their ICU stay. These data were often not reported separately, so our estimates may be a mix of frequency and incidence rates.
Our results show that, regardless of the time-point of assessment, the septic shock mortality rate is approximately 38%. This is somewhat lower than the results of the systematic review conducted by Shankar-Hari et al. that estimated a septic shock-associated crude mortality of 46.5% . This may be a result of the inclusion of some long-term follow-up data by Shankar-Hari et al. whereas the current review focused on short-term mortality. Moreover, the Shankar-Hari review included studies in which patient data were collected prior to 1995 when mortality rates may have been higher on average than in more recent studies. Indeed, 20–25 years ago, non-selected populations had a crude mortality rate for septic shock of more than 50% [97, 98]. In the years since, observational studies have reported higher survival rates [7, 46, 99,100,101,102], likely because of improvements in the general management of patients with septic shock. Our estimates for 28–30-day mortality are higher than those identified by a systematic review on long-term mortality , which reported post-acute phase mortality (difference in proportion between cumulative 1-year mortality and acute mortality) of 16.1% (95% CI 14.1 to 18.1%), levels that are likely to incur a high burden on overall costs and quality of life. Estimates for ICU and in-hospital mortality were higher using Sepsis-3 criteria than non-Sepsis-3 criteria (52% vs. 37% and 52% vs. 39%), which may be a result of the greater severity of disease associated with the addition of hyperlactatemia as a component for septic shock diagnosis. This is consistent with previous research that found that Sepsis-3 identified patients who were more advanced in the course of their disease and in whom a poor outcome was more likely than in those identified using Sepsis-2 criteria . Our results thus support previous studies postulating that the significant shift in the diagnostic criteria from SIRS criteria to a focus on organ dysfunction would have a major impact on mortality [38, 94].
An up-to-date understanding of the incidence of septic shock and associated mortality is important to help guide resource allocation and inform healthcare budgets. Indeed, the economic costs of sepsis are a significant burden on healthcare systems. In the USA, approximately US$20 billion is spent annually on hospital care for sepsis patients, with septic shock requiring longer ICU care and higher hospitalization costs . In the UK, recent data suggest total annual hospital costs of just over £1 billion for patients with sepsis . The effects of sepsis on patient health last beyond hospital discharge, with an increased mortality risk for years after hospitalization [107,108,109]. Nearly a quarter of sepsis survivors are readmitted to hospital within 30 days of discharge , and survivors often exhibit profound immune suppression, physical and psychological disorders, and impaired quality of life [107, 109, 111]. These long-term consequences greatly contribute to the high total economic cost of the disease, which is estimated to be around US$67 billion yearly in the USA alone . In the UK, the total annual costs of sepsis taking into account these indirect costs are estimated at around £10 billion .
The results of our review should be interpreted with consideration of certain limitations. Firstly, we only included studies published in English, potentially leading to language bias as relevant studies published in other languages were not included. Secondly, estimates using Sepsis-3 criteria were derived from very few studies.
Our findings suggest that septic shock occurs frequently in ICU patients and mortality remains high. Considerable differences in diagnostic criteria have been employed in the different studies over the last 15 years. Our review indicates that the adoption of Sepsis-3 criteria is still at an early stage (≤ 3 studies); however, as Sepsis-3 is increasingly adopted and more epidemiological studies are published in which these criteria are used, a more complete picture will emerge concerning what differences, if any, exist between countries and different care settings. This would allow a more accurate estimation of the burden of septic shock, thus enabling the development of better policies for public health planning and hospital management.
EPIdemiology of Septic Shock study
International Classification of Diseases
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Medical Subject Headings
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols
Portuguese Community-Acquired Sepsis study
Systemic inflammatory response syndrome
Sepsis Occurrence in Acutely Ill Patients study
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Vincent, JL., Jones, G., David, S. et al. Frequency and mortality of septic shock in Europe and North America: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Crit Care 23, 196 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-019-2478-6
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A 50 year old guy from Alabama dies on the Mount Everest today. He is one of several to die on the Mount Everest this season.
Did you know that no less than 292 people have tried climbing the Mount Everest?
The most deaths occur due to avalanches and there is not much you can do about that! Other causes of death are falls, exposure, ice collapses, and also health issues because of the altitude.
For a climber, the Mount Everest is the ultimate challenge, but everyone knows the dangers. Some bodies are frozen in place and have been there for years.
In April 2015, 19 people were killed on the mountain in an avalanche, this was the deadliest day in the history of Mount Everest.
There are many dead bodies at the top of the mountain, but there is also a lot of trash, empty oxygen cans, etc... I recently read an article that said climbers are now required to bring a certain amount of trash down from the mountain when they climb it. Let's hope the mountain gets cleaned up that way eventually.
I've always been fascinated with Mount Everest, ever since I can remember. Not sure why.
Mount Everest is pretty cool. I've heard the first guy who actually climbed Mount Everest to the summit for the first time and came back alive was asked why he'd done it, and he said something to the effect of, "Because it is there." Referring to the fact that it is human nature to take on a challenge, simply because the challenge exists. (A lot of drunk guys take a dare and wind up taking a pratful because of that, but at least climbing Mount Everest is a whole lot more awesome.)
If only I were younger! I'd absolutely love to climb Mount Everest, that would be such a challenge. I hugely admire people who take on that monster.
It's definitely a risk, because you don't have control over avalanches or earthquakes, but there are so many other things in life that are risky and even the things that aren't considered risky can kill you.
Probably the most important thing is practice and being in good shape. You can't just go climb Mount Everest without making sure you can actually handle it physically.
It would have been more exciting many years ago when there was less trash on the mountain... and less frozen bodies �
Either way, it's a dream, and it will always be just a dream because it's way too expensive. I believe a climbing pass costs $11,000 and that is not counting your equipment, food, travel expenses to get there, and so much more. I'd like to find out how much the average climber spends to climb there.
I read somewhere that the youngest person to climb Mount Everest was 13 years old. If I had kids, I don't think I'd let my 13 year old go for a climb like that.
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NO FREE SPEECH ALLOWED HERE
"You're not crazy"
says Justice Jenkins
The attack against Mr. Carten was initiated to protect a gang of criminals operaitng inside the administration of justice including the BC Ministry of the Attorney General headquarters in Victoria and the Law Society headquarters in Vancouver.
This is the effect of the Court Order Jenkins made.
The railroad started on day one of a four day hearing.
Every motion Mr. Carten made in court was denied by Justice Jenkins.
From the first day, Justice Jenkins proved that he was going to do exactly what the Government of British Columbia wanted.
Again and again, Justice Jenkins refused to remove himself from the case as his bias towards Mr. Carten grew more obvious with every passing day.
Mr. Carten, who was a lawyer for a very long time (22 Years), who graduated from Canada's prestigious Dalhousie Law School and who helped thousands of people with legal matters, is no longer permitted to share his knowledge with anyone and he is not permitted to tell you that he is a lawyer even if he is more skilled than most lawyers in British Columbia due to his understanding of how the legal and judicial mafia works in Canada.
So, the reader is advised that wherever the word lawyer is used to describe Mr. Carten on this web site that word is hereby declared to mean "former lawyer" and the reader is advised that Mr. Carten who many people regard as a fine lawyer may soon be put in jail because the criminal gang operating inside the Law Society some how persuaded Justice Jenkins to break four hundred years of legal jurisprudence that had protected freedom of speech in English speaking countries.
Lawyers for the British Columbia Government, Peter Ameerali, and the Law Society of British Columbia, Angela Westmacott and Michael Kleisinger advised the Court that they wanted the Court Order made quickly to specifically prevent Mr. Carten from helping both Gordon and Catherine Pastula save their farm in litigation based in what appears to lawyer inspired mortgage fraud and John Douglas English and his children in a litigation in another case involving lawyer fraud.
Not all losses in court are losses because after days of argument by legal counsel for the BC Government and its Law Society mouthpieces, Justice Jenkins looked directly at Mr. Carten and said "You' re not crazy" proving that the BC government position was a massive lie from the beginning.
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Personalized medicine is on the rise – the German government has also recognized this and confirmed the research funding focus on personalized medicine as part of the “High-Tech Strategy 2020 for Germany”.
Personalized Medicine can no longer be limited to drugs
Personalized Medicine supports the optimal patient-specific treatment plan in every phase of treatment, from diagnosis to the right therapy – in other words, treatment is always individually tailored to the patient and considers his or her anatomical and physiological characteristics.
This comes very close to the vision of predictive, preventive, participatory and personalized medicine (“P4”), long advocated by Leroy Hood and other pioneers of systems medicine.
However, in the context of personalized or individualized medicine, thanks to advances in information technology, computer modeling, and engineering, one must now consider much more than stratified medicine with the patient-specific use of drugs.
Advances are enabling a fundamentally new approach to the prevention medicine, diagnosis, and treatment of human disease.
In this context, the term personalized medicine is broadly defined as a set of in silico methods used in healthcare with the fundamental intent of building and maintaining digital patient twins.
The “in silico” part includes all types of methods and techniques based on extensive use of computational modeling and simulation (CM&S), while the “personalized” part indicates that the approach explicitly considers patient-specific data.
Among all aspects of personalized medicine and in silico methods, we focus here on physics-based, patient-specific modeling of the human body, its functions, and medical devices that interact with the body, such as prostheses and implants. Personalized medicine in this context only works in the context of simulation. This is also referred to as personalized physics-based modeling.
Data-driven applications and pharmacogenetics/pharmacogenomics are thus not considered in this contribution to personalized medicine. This also includes precision medicine, which is based on modern diagnostic methods such as genome sequencing or molecular imaging.
How can medicine be personalized and what are the advantages of personalized medicine?
Computer-aided modeling and simulation are powerful tools for improving the quality of medical care. Following geometric design in 3D, simulation is the next logical step towards verification of personalized medical devices.
Numerical simulations provide important information that can be used both a priori, e.g. for virtual evaluation of the desired therapeutic outcome, and a posteriori, e.g. for clinical follow-up. For example, simple virtual proofs of the safety and performance of personalized implants can be performed.
Access to sometimes complex physical simulations in personalized medicine opens up many new possibilities and advantages for personalized treatment of patients:
- Cost and time savings for medical device manufacturers: the virtual test setup and use of medical simulation can eliminate the need for costly animal and human testing. The safety of the medical device is tested in the digital patient twin, thus accelerating the approval process.
- More innovation: by testing medical devices in the digital patient, even ethically difficult experiments can be carried out and innovative treatments can be developed
- Tailored & safe: personalized medicine enables patient-specific treatments and better adaptation to individual patient needs. This often results in shorter treatment times and less invasive interventions with personalized medicine. This leads to shortened follow-up care, if needed at all. In addition, the risk of implant failure is reduced while tolerability is improved.
Meanwhile there are many fields of application for patient-specific in-silico models in personalized medicine:
- Virtual product development
- Virtual testing / virtual test procedure
The applications differ depending on the general maturity, readiness, user group, complexity, capability and degree of automation of the simulation.
Using the example of our software Simq VIT for virtual implant testing with the help of simulation, it quickly becomes clear what is meant by personalized medicine. Simq VIT is the first, easy-to-use software for the digital verification of patient-specific implants. By virtually applying physiological or standardized loads to a patient-specific situation, performance and safety can be tested quickly and efficiently using objective criteria. Computer tomography or magnetic resonance imaging scans of the patient are used for this purpose and the implant designer can personalize the implant for the respective patient based on the individual situation. This ensures optimal patient care and increases quality and safety for medical device manufacturers and patients at the same time.
In addition to strength testing of implants and implant fitting, there are already other field-tested possibilities for personalized medicine in the areas of manufacturing of devices, support of diagnoses and the most appropriate selection of treatment methods, as well as surgery planning.
Regulatory perspective/future prospects of personalized medicine
The approach of personalized medicine through in-silico methods has the potential to be used as an approval method for medical devices in various fields in the future.
In addition, simulation will not only be used primarily to support diagnoses in the future, but will also be used for therapy and planning and thus be classified as a medical device. Potential examples of this are Simq OSA and Simq RPE.
With the help of Simq OSA, we aim to optimize the diagnosis for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) using patient-specific data and numerical flow simulation, and to support the treating physician in finding the most suitable therapy for the respective patient.
Our medical software Simq RPE is already in use as a preoperative planning tool for forced palatal expansion. Here, simulation-based optimization is used to specifically optimize the surgical incision in order to achieve a symmetrical result for all patients.
Furthermore, there are already approaches for verification & validation (V&V) for patient-specific models and software as a medical device (SaMD) using in-silico methods. Of particular note is ASME V&V 40, which provides a framework for evaluating the relevance and adequacy of completed V&V activities that establish the credibility of a computational model. In addition, there is the FDA 1807 guidance. The purpose of this guidance is to provide recommendations to industry for the formats, organization, and content of computer modeling & simulation (CM&S) study reports used to support medical device submissions.
Medical simulation will also provide quality management relevant reports and documentation for medical device manufacturers and physicians and support post-market surveillance (post-market surveillance) of medical devices with objective data.
Until we can fully exploit the aforementioned benefits and application areas of personalized medicine and thus further improve patient care, acceptance and the necessary regulatory requirements must be created.
Currently, we see the following challenges for the use of personalized medicine with the help of in-silico methods:
- No requirements for Notified Bodies on how in-silico methods should be evaluated in the approval process. The current Medical Device Regulation MDR only confirms that they can be used for evidence generation.
- There are no guidelines yet for medical device manufacturers in the EU on how simulations should be documented for regulatory approval.
- No certainty whether guidelines from US FDA (1807 Guidelines describing recommended documentation) or ASME (all V&V documents) will be accepted by notified bodies.
- No harmonization between US-FDA and EU MDR guidelines, for example.
In addition, several barriers currently stand in the way of integrating simulation-based personalized medicine into clinical workflows. One of them is the accessibility of numerical simulations to non-CAE engineers (medical professionals and medical device manufacturers). We at Simq have recognized this problem and are working to make personalized medicine accessible to the widest possible audience.
How do Simq’s solutions help with personalized medicine?
Personalized medicine is the central approach of Simq’s software products. Numerical simulation is used to open up new possibilities for personalized treatment of patients.
Our solutions are all based on our Simq platform, which also enables physicians and medical professionals to use state-of-the-art Ansys simulation technologies within predefined workflows without any prior computer-aided engineering (CAE) knowledge.
To enable personalized medicine, we convert specific medical questions into Simq modules. The modules work as a stand-alone product together with the Simq platform. Our goal is to provide an easy-to-use, scalable and secure SaaS solution that allows medical professionals to benefit from highly complex numerical simulations.
A prerequisite for personalized medicine is the use of individual patient data such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. Of course, the security of this patient data is always our top priority.
What else should I know about Simq and personalized medicine?
Simq is a certified simulation service provider and software manufacturer in the field of medical technology and is one of the pioneers of in silico medicine.
Simq products and services enable medical device manufacturers, physicians and medical staff to practically apply numerical simulation and use it for more effective, safer and personalized patient care.
Simq is committed to the standardization and broader application of in silico medicine as part of the Avicenna Alliance, thereby ensuring safe, affordable and cost-effective healthcare.
Personalized Medicine means that each patient is treated in the best possible way according to the individual circumstances of the disease diagnosis. This also includes the effective adaptation of therapy.
Personalized Medicine offers cost and time savings for medical device manufacturers by eliminating animal and human testing. Furthermore, it gives innovative treatment methods and is tailor-made as well as safe.
Simulation will be used for therapy and planning in the future. In the future, medical simulation data will also be relevant in the area of quality management for medical device manufacturers as well as physicians.
In order for there to be uniform methods in the approval process for medical device manufacturers in the EU, the necessary guidelines must be created. In addition, there is no guarantee whether guidelines from the US FDA will be accepted. Furthermore, the guidelines vary between the US FDA and the EU MDR.
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WASHINGTON — Mohammed Miah signed onto the Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York City to operate trains. He did not sign up to be punched in the face.
Still, it’s happened twice since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. He’s still recovering from the second assault, which occurred last September and left him with a jaw injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. To his knowledge, no suspect has been arrested.
“If you assault a police officer, you get in really big trouble,” he said. “That’s not the case for us.”
Transit operators and unions say they’ve seen a spike in violence against transit workers since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. And workers complain it’s hard to quantify that spike.
Under the Federal Transit Administration’s prior definition, a worker was considered assaulted if, for example, they had to be hospitalized for more than 48 hours or of they had certain fractures, severe bleeding, or damage to nerves, muscles, tendons or internal organs. The FTA also does not separate customer assaults from assaults by fellow workers in the National Transit Database, according to the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO.
Provisions in last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law aim to change that.
The provisions create a legal definition of assault as “a circumstance in which an individual knowingly, without lawful authority or permission, and with intent to endanger the safety of any individual, or with a reckless disregard for the safety of human life, interferes with, disables, or incapacitates a transit worker while the transit worker is performing the duties of the transit worker.” It also requires transit agencies to develop a risk reduction program for assaults on transit workers.
That the law creates a more specific definition of assault is important, according to Greg Regan, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO.
Currently, “the way they define assault is really odd,” he said. “You could have a worker with a broken nose, and it would not be considered an assault under the current guidelines. Similarly, a driver who had hot coffee thrown on him would not be considered assaulted.”
Without data, he said, unions have had to collect information via Google search or news clips — a method that doesn’t capture the full scope of assaults.
What they are capturing is grim:
— In February, a bus driver in the Bronx was attacked by a passenger wielding a tree branch. The driver was hospitalized.
— In March, a passenger beat a Richmond, Va., bus driver and kicked him in the head.
— In 2019, before the pandemic, a Tampa bus driver was killed after a passenger slit his throat.
Regan said transit operators aren’t the only ones who’ve seen a rise in violence: Flight attendants are also reporting incidents of being kicked, punched or groped.
Last week, the House passed 339-85 a bill that would require all transportation modes to establish formal policies, training and reporting structures on sexual assault and harassment — another effort to combat a reported rise in hostility against those who work in transportation.
John Costa, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, representing more than 200,000 transit and transportation workers, said his union has worried about violence on transit operators for years.
Back when he was serving as the state president of ATU Local 819 in Newark, N.J., an operator was stabbed seven times. The assailant was charged with simple assault. Ultimately, the union had to fight to get the charges upgraded, showing up at court hearings and publicizing the charges. “I don’t know how you can stab someone seven times and call it simple assault,” Costa said.
“When I get on a plane and someone says something out of line, they’re taken off the plane and banned from flying on that airline again,” he said. “We don’t do things like that. … I think that’s why it’s gotten out of hand — people just think they can treat an operator any way they want and who cares.”
FTA Administrator Nuria Fernandez has set a July 31 deadline for agencies to begin work on transit safety plans, and a Dec. 31 deadline to complete them. The law requires the plans be crafted by labor and management and be updated every year as long as the law is in place.
“FTA will continue working with labor and management throughout the country to ensure those committees are created and that they are effective at protecting American transit workers,” said an FTA spokesperson said, adding “It is unacceptable for the men and women who connect all of us to our communities to fear for their safety at work.”
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“When we consider what religion is for mankind, and what science is, it is no exaggeration to say that the future course of history depends upon the decision of this generation as to the relations between them.” – Alfred North Whitehead, 1925
In 1899 Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916), Pioneer of Applied Psychology in Industrym (old spelling) Law, Medicine and Education and contemporary of William James and F.C.S. Schiller, wrote an article in the Atlantic Monthly entitled “Psychology and Mysticism” bebunking extra-sensory reality.
In response to this article, Professor F. C. S. Schiller responded with an article “Psychology and Psychical Research: A Reply to Professor Munsterberg in:
The Boss of divine power: Professor Hugo Munsterberg, of Harvard University, the lord of I don’t know how many thousand dollars’ worth of psychological machinery, has planted the banner of the ‘only genuine’ psychology amid the pulverised fragments of ‘Mysticism,’ and sent back ‘the Cinderella of the sciences, ‘ Psychical Research, to supervise what alone she is fit for, viz., the culinary operations of the witches’ caldron.
Read the full article >>>
I bring this up in 2022 because I don’t think the Academic community has moved very far into the area of what Professors Munsterberg and Schiller termed ‘Mysticism’ and ‘Psychic Research’ at the turn of the 20th Century.
To make my point, I reference two recent items that have come to my attention. One is Brian Muraresku’s, ‘The Immortality Key considered “a groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization, and a real-life quest for the Holy Grail.”* This done in the name of ‘science’ without ever taking any sacrament itself….very objective! Not. And then there is Rupert Sheldrake who has been shunned by his community of ‘scientists’*:
I don’t see much progress ‘beyond’ the nickname, “show me” state of Missouri’ in over 120+ years. But, yes, I see the articles on ‘micro dosing’ (and all the research about it) and Michael Poland’s book along with his Netflix documentary.’
But, considering the experience of millions of people worldwide for thousands of years, when will the academics cross the ‘Indus River’? For centuries no one had been aware of the ancient Indus civilization—even Alexander the Great, whose Greek army invaded the Indus river valley in the 4th century B.C. Even today, the serious study of the ancient wisdom of India and other civilizations that have ‘mapped’ what the West calls ‘psychic’ territory and the East calls ‘esoteric’ territory, the academics and scientists today are still in the 19th Century crawling into the 21st Century holding onto logic, mathematics, and the Missouri’s sobriquet.
“The law of conservation of energy may be substantiated by experiment, but there is not demonstrable principle of the conservation of good.”
For those who wish to go beyond the conventional model of 19th century thought and jump into the 21st Century I suggest you start here:
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Did you know the reason behind many people in India not buying an AC despite having the affordability? They don’t want to keep spending a large amount in the form of the monthly electricity bill. But if you can implement a few tips smartly, then you may be able to choose an energy-efficient AC for your home. Would you like to know those tips? Continue reading this article! Choose the right sized AC You may get an escalated energy bill because your AC has not been installed in the right place. It is forced to strain to work which means consuming more power units. Hence, it is vital to install the right sized AC or any other in the right room. Install up to 1 Ton AC in a small sized room, and 1.5 ton and more in a medium to the large room. This way, you would be able to save big on the power bills per month. Choose the right place to install your AC Many times, you may still have to bear the brunt of the hefty power bills despite installing the right size in the right room. It may be because you may not have installed the air conditioner in the wrong place. When you get it installed in the corner of the room facing sunlight all day, then it may be one of the reasons for AC not working. Thus, you should install an AC in a shaded area so that it works well and is not strained to increase the light bill. Set the AC temperature at 24 degrees and more Did you know the Ministry of Power, Government of India has made it mandatory for AC manufacturers to make the AC default temperature at 24 degrees? Yes, it means that the AC temperature will be set at 24 degrees when you switch on the machine. And if you run it at that temperature, then you will be able to save up to Rs.4,000 per year on power bills. If you can keep the AC temperature at 26 degrees, then it will mean pocketing around Rs.6,500 on electricity bills annually. Thus, if you want to enjoy consistent cooling without paying hefty energy bills, then you should run the AC at 24 degrees. Other energy saving tips for ACs The next advice is using a ceiling fan when the cooling has begun. Yes, when you use a ceiling fan while the AC is working, it can help you circulate the cold air fast and bring down the temperature. It will help you avoid straining the AC, and in turn, it will lead to lower power bills. You should also ensure to keep the doors and windows of the room where the AC is installed completely shut. A leakage will mean the escaping of cool air from the hole and bringing in hot air. It will affect the efficiency of the AC and lead to higher electricity bills. This would also be recommended to not to keep on opening and to close the AC room door to avoid escaping of cool air. The recommendable is to buy an inverter AC to save at least 20-25% on power bills. It is because an inverter AC is not bothered by fluctuating room temperature, and the compressor is not going on and off. If you are looking for the best air conditioner in India, then buying an inverter AC would be a better option. If you are not buying an inverter AC, then you should at least get a 4-5 Star Rated conventional split or window AC to save on the light bill. By employing the discussed tips, you will easily be able to get efficient AC cooling without escalation of the electricity bills.
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By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Describe the composition and function of acid–base buffers
- Calculate the pH of a buffer before and after the addition of added acid or base
A mixture of a weak acid and its conjugate base (or a mixture of a weak base and its conjugate acid) is called a buffer solution, or a buffer
. Buffer solutions resist a change in pH when small amounts of a strong acid or a strong base are added (Figure 1). A solution of acetic acid and sodium acetate (CH3
COOH + CH3
COONa) is an example of a buffer that consists of a weak acid and its salt. An example of a buffer that consists of a weak base and its salt is a solution of ammonia and ammonium chloride (NH3
) + NH4
Figure 1. (a) The buffered solution on the left and the unbuffered solution on the right have the same pH (pH 8); they are basic, showing the yellow color of the indicator methyl orange at this pH. (b) After the addition of 1 mL of a 0.01-M HCl solution, the buffered solution has not detectably changed its pH but the unbuffered solution has become acidic, as indicated by the change in color of the methyl orange, which turns red at a pH of about 4. (credit: modification of work by Mark Ott)
How Buffers Work
A mixture of acetic acid and sodium acetate is acidic because the Ka
of acetic acid is greater than the Kb
of its conjugate base acetate. It is a buffer because it contains both the weak acid and its salt. Hence, it acts to keep the hydronium ion concentration (and the pH) almost constant by the addition of either a small amount of a strong acid or a strong base. If we add a base such as sodium hydroxide, the hydroxide ions react with the few hydronium ions present. Then more of the acetic acid reacts with water, restoring the hydronium ion concentration almost to its original value:
The pH changes very little. If we add an acid such as hydrochloric acid, most of the hydronium ions from the hydrochloric acid combine with acetate ions, forming acetic acid molecules:
Thus, there is very little increase in the concentration of the hydronium ion, and the pH remains practically unchanged (Figure 2).
Figure 2. This diagram shows the buffer action of these reactions.
A mixture of ammonia and ammonium chloride is basic because the Kb
for ammonia is greater than the Ka
for the ammonium ion. It is a buffer because it also contains the salt of the weak base. If we add a base (hydroxide ions), ammonium ions in the buffer react with the hydroxide ions to form ammonia and water and reduce the hydroxide ion concentration almost to its original value:
If we add an acid (hydronium ions), ammonia molecules in the buffer mixture react with the hydronium ions to form ammonium ions and reduce the hydronium ion concentration almost to its original value:
The three parts of the following example illustrate the change in pH that accompanies the addition of base to a buffered solution of a weak acid and to an unbuffered solution of a strong acid.
Example 1: pH Changes in Buffered and Unbuffered Solutions
Acetate buffers are used in biochemical studies of enzymes and other chemical components of cells to prevent pH changes that might change the biochemical activity of these compounds.
Calculate the pH of an acetate buffer that is a mixture with 0.10 M
acetic acid and 0.10 M
Calculate the pH after 1.0 mL of 0.10 M
NaOH is added to 100 mL of this buffer, giving a solution with a volume of 101 mL.
For comparison, calculate the pH after 1.0 mL of 0.10 M
NaOH is added to 100 mL of a solution of an unbuffered solution with a pH of 4.74 (a 1.8
solution of HCl). The volume of the final solution is 101 mL.
Check Your Learning
Show that adding 1.0 mL of 0.10 M
HCl changes the pH of 100 mL of a 1.8
HCl solution from 4.74 to 3.00.
If we add an acid or a base to a buffer that is a mixture of a weak base and its salt, the calculations of the changes in pH are analogous to those for a buffer mixture of a weak acid and its salt.
Buffer solutions do not have an unlimited capacity to keep the pH relatively constant (Figure 3). If we add so much base to a buffer that the weak acid is exhausted, no more buffering action toward the base is possible. On the other hand, if we add an excess of acid, the weak base would be exhausted, and no more buffering action toward any additional acid would be possible. In fact, we do not even need to exhaust all of the acid or base in a buffer to overwhelm it; its buffering action will diminish rapidly as a given component nears depletion.
Figure 3. The indicator color (methyl orange) shows that a small amount of acid added to a buffered solution of pH 8 (beaker on the left) has little affect on the buffered system (middle beaker). However, a large amount of acid exhausts the buffering capacity of the solution and the pH changes dramatically (beaker on the right). (credit: modification of work by Mark Ott)
The buffer capacity
is the amount of acid or base that can be added to a given volume of a buffer solution before the pH changes significantly, usually by one unit. Buffer capacity depends on the amounts of the weak acid and its conjugate base that are in a buffer mixture. For example, 1 L of a solution that is 1.0 M
in acetic acid and 1.0 M
in sodium acetate has a greater buffer capacity than 1 L of a solution that is 0.10 M
in acetic acid and 0.10 M
in sodium acetate even though both solutions have the same pH. The first solution has more buffer capacity because it contains more acetic acid and acetate ion.
Selection of Suitable Buffer Mixtures
There are two useful rules of thumb for selecting buffer mixtures:
- A good buffer mixture should have about equal concentrations of both of its components. A buffer solution has generally lost its usefulness when one component of the buffer pair is less than about 10% of the other. Figure 4 shows an acetic acid-acetate ion buffer as base is added. The initial pH is 4.74. A change of 1 pH unit occurs when the acetic acid concentration is reduced to 11% of the acetate ion concentration.
The graph, an illustration of buffering action, shows change of pH as an increasing amount of a 0.10-M
NaOH solution is added to 100 mL of a buffer solution in which, initially, [CH3
H] = 0.10 M
- Weak acids and their salts are better as buffers for pHs less than 7; weak bases and their salts are better as buffers for pHs greater than 7.
Blood is an important example of a buffered solution, with the principal acid and ion responsible for the buffering action being carbonic acid, H2
, and the bicarbonate ion,
. When an excess of hydrogen ion enters the blood stream, it is removed primarily by the reaction:
When an excess of the hydroxide ion is present, it is removed by the reaction:
The pH of human blood thus remains very near 7.35, that is, slightly basic. Variations are usually less than 0.1 of a pH unit. A change of 0.4 of a pH unit is likely to be fatal.
The Henderson-Hasselbalch Equation
The ionization-constant expression for a solution of a weak acid can be written as:
Rearranging to solve for
, we get:
Taking the negative logarithm of both sides of this equation, we arrive at:
which can be written as
is the negative of the common logarithm of the ionization constant of the weak acid (pKa
= −log Ka
). This equation relates the pH, the ionization constant of a weak acid, and the concentrations of the weak acid and its salt in a buffered solution. Scientists often use this expression, called the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation
, to calculate the pH of buffer solutions. It is important to note that the “x
is small” assumption must be valid to use this equation.
Lawrence Joseph Henderson and Karl Albert Hasselbalch
Lawrence Joseph Henderson (1878–1942) was an American physician, biochemist and physiologist, to name only a few of his many pursuits. He obtained a medical degree from Harvard and then spent 2 years studying in Strasbourg, then a part of Germany, before returning to take a lecturer position at Harvard. He eventually became a professor at Harvard and worked there his entire life. He discovered that the acid-base balance in human blood is regulated by a buffer system formed by the dissolved carbon dioxide in blood. He wrote an equation in 1908 to describe the carbonic acid-carbonate buffer system in blood. Henderson was broadly knowledgeable; in addition to his important research on the physiology of blood, he also wrote on the adaptations of organisms and their fit with their environments, on sociology and on university education. He also founded the Fatigue Laboratory, at the Harvard Business School, which examined human physiology with specific focus on work in industry, exercise, and nutrition.
In 1916, Karl Albert Hasselbalch (1874–1962), a Danish physician and chemist, shared authorship in a paper with Christian Bohr in 1904 that described the Bohr effect, which showed that the ability of hemoglobin in the blood to bind with oxygen was inversely related to the acidity of the blood and the concentration of carbon dioxide. The pH scale was introduced in 1909 by another Dane, Sørensen, and in 1912, Hasselbalch published measurements of the pH of blood. In 1916, Hasselbalch expressed Henderson’s equation in logarithmic terms, consistent with the logarithmic scale of pH, and thus the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation was born.
Medicine: The Buffer System in Blood
The normal pH of human blood is about 7.4. The carbonate buffer system in the blood uses the following equilibrium reaction:
The concentration of carbonic acid, H2
is approximately 0.0012 M
, and the concentration of the hydrogen carbonate ion,
, is around 0.024 M
. Using the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation and the pKa
of carbonic acid at body temperature, we can calculate the pH of blood:
The fact that the H2
concentration is significantly lower than that of the
ion may seem unusual, but this imbalance is due to the fact that most of the by-products of our metabolism that enter our bloodstream are acidic. Therefore, there must be a larger proportion of base than acid, so that the capacity of the buffer will not be exceeded.
Lactic acid is produced in our muscles when we exercise. As the lactic acid enters the bloodstream, it is neutralized by the
ion, producing H2
. An enzyme then accelerates the breakdown of the excess carbonic acid to carbon dioxide and water, which can be eliminated by breathing. In fact, in addition to the regulating effects of the carbonate buffering system on the pH of blood, the body uses breathing to regulate blood pH. If the pH of the blood decreases too far, an increase in breathing removes CO2
from the blood through the lungs driving the equilibrium reaction such that
is lowered. If the blood is too alkaline, a lower breath rate increases CO2
concentration in the blood, driving the equilibrium reaction the other way, increasing [H+
] and restoring an appropriate pH.
Key Concepts and Summary
A solution containing a mixture of an acid and its conjugate base, or of a base and its conjugate acid, is called a buffer solution. Unlike in the case of an acid, base, or salt solution, the hydronium ion concentration of a buffer solution does not change greatly when a small amount of acid or base is added to the buffer solution. The base (or acid) in the buffer reacts with the added acid (or base).
- pKa = −log Ka
- pKb = −log Kb
- Explain why a buffer can be prepared from a mixture of NH4Cl and NaOH but not from NH3 and NaOH.
- Explain why the pH does not change significantly when a small amount of an acid or a base is added to a solution that contains equal amounts of the acid H3PO4 and a salt of its conjugate base NaH2PO4.
- Explain why the pH does not change significantly when a small amount of an acid or a base is added to a solution that contains equal amounts of the base NH3 and a salt of its conjugate acid NH4Cl.
- What is
in a solution of 0.25 M CH3CO2H and 0.030 M NaCH3CO2?
- What is
in a solution of 0.075 M HNO2 and 0.030 M NaNO2?
- What is [OH−] in a solution of 0.125 M CH3NH2 and 0.130 M CH3NH3Cl?
- What is [OH−] in a solution of 1.25 M NH3 and 0.78 M NH4NO3?
- What concentration of NH4NO3 is required to make [OH−] = 1.0 10−5 in a 0.200-M solution of NH3?
- What concentration of NaF is required to make
= 2.3 10−4 in a 0.300-M solution of HF?
- What is the effect on the concentration of acetic acid, hydronium ion, and acetate ion when the following are added to an acidic buffer solution of equal concentrations of acetic acid and sodium acetate:
- What is the effect on the concentration of ammonia, hydroxide ion, and ammonium ion when the following are added to a basic buffer solution of equal concentrations of ammonia and ammonium nitrate:
- What will be the pH of a buffer solution prepared from 0.20 mol NH3, 0.40 mol NH4NO3, and just enough water to give 1.00 L of solution?
- Calculate the pH of a buffer solution prepared from 0.155 mol of phosphoric acid, 0.250 mole of KH2PO4, and enough water to make 0.500 L of solution.
- How much solid NaCH3CO2•3H2O must be added to 0.300 L of a 0.50-M acetic acid solution to give a buffer with a pH of 5.00? (Hint: Assume a negligible change in volume as the solid is added.)
- What mass of NH4Cl must be added to 0.750 L of a 0.100-M solution of NH3 to give a buffer solution with a pH of 9.26? (Hint: Assume a negligible change in volume as the solid is added.)
Show Selected Answers
- A buffer solution is prepared from equal volumes of 0.200 M acetic acid and 0.600 M sodium acetate. Use 1.80 × 10−5 as Ka for acetic acid.
- What is the pH of the solution?
- Is the solution acidic or basic?
- What is the pH of a solution that results when 3.00 mL of 0.034 M HCl is added to 0.200 L of the original buffer?
- A 5.36–g sample of NH4Cl was added to 25.0 mL of 1.00 M NaOH and the resulting solution diluted to 0.100 L.
- What is the pH of this buffer solution?
- Is the solution acidic or basic?
- What is the pH of a solution that results when 3.00 mL of 0.034 M HCl is added to the solution?
Show Answer to Question 1
- Which acid in Table 1 of Relative Strengths of Acids and Bases is most appropriate for preparation of a buffer solution with a pH of 3.1? Explain your choice.
- Which acid in Table 1 of Relative Strengths of Acids and Bases is most appropriate for preparation of a buffer solution with a pH of 3.7? Explain your choice.
- Which base in Table 2 of Relative Strengths of Acids and Bases is most appropriate for preparation of a buffer solution with a pH of 10.65? Explain your choice.
- Which base in Table 2 of Relative Strengths of Acids and Bases is most appropriate for preparation of a buffer solution with a pH of 9.20? Explain your choice.
- Saccharin, C7H4NSO3H, is a weak acid (Ka = 2.1 10−2). If 0.250 L of diet cola with a buffered pH of 5.48 was prepared from 2.00 10−3 g of sodium saccharide, Na(C7H4NSO3), what are the final concentrations of saccharine and sodium saccharide in the solution?
- What is the pH of 1.000 L of a solution of 100.0 g of glutamic acid (C5H9NO4, a diprotic acid; K1 = 8.5 10−5, K2 = 3.39 10−10) to which has been added 20.0 g of NaOH during the preparation of monosodium glutamate, the flavoring agent? What is the pH when exactly 1 mol of NaOH per mole of acid has been added?
Show Selected Answers
amount of an acid or base that can be added to a volume of a buffer solution before its pH changes significantly (usually by one pH unit)
mixture of a weak acid or a weak base and the salt of its conjugate; the pH of a buffer resists change when small amounts of acid or base are added
equation used to calculate the pH of buffer solutions
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Why today : 25th May evening is not going to be the start of Ramadan ?
We need to understand the Ramadan begins with the sighting of new moon today evening, after Magrib, which is after sunset.
After analyzing, the data about the setting of sun and moon which is collected over the years, we have come the following results:
|Ramadan Does NOT start on 25th May 2017|
|Place||Moonset||Sunset||Which set first Sun or Moon ?|
|Makkah||6:36 PM||6:56 PM||Moonsets 20 min. before Sunset|
|Madinah||6:41 PM||7:02 PM||Moonsets 22 min. before Sunset|
|Riyadh||6:11 PM||6:34 PM||Moonsets 23 min. before Sunset|
|Jeddah||6:38 PM||6:59 PM||Moonsets 21 min. before Sunset|
|Dammam||5:59 PM||6:24 PM||Moonsets 25 min. before Sunset|
|Khamis Mushait||6:19 PM||6:39 PM||Moonsets 20 min. before Sunset|
|Tabuk||6:59 PM||7:22 PM||Moonsets 23 min. before Sunset|
The points of observation have been taken from extreme ends of the country – East (Damman), West (Jeddah), North (Tabuk) and South (Khamis Mushait) and also the central region (Riyadh).
It can be seen that in all cases moon set earlier than sun by 20 minutes or more. Hence it is almost impossible to view the moon after sunset.
Hence we believe that that moon cannot be sighted today evening and first fasting will be only on Saturday. But as per Islamic tradition, the people will look out for moon until one hour after sunset before declaring anything.
QSaudi.com wishes its viewers Ramadan Kareem.
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Viewpoint by Cameron Kaiser, MD, Medical Consultant for Tuberculosis, Riverside County Department of Public Health, California and guest WGND blogger.
Antibiotics are, to the typical patient, always the quick fix. Despite our best attempts to convince them that their viral bronchitis will get better without that course of amoxicillin, anyone who has worked a primary care clinic knows the pressure to throw antibiotics at the problem, even when we ourselves know it’s not the answer, because our patients perceive it as the fast track to health. A couple weeks, they reason, and the infection is over. Normalcy ought to resume. Then you tell them they have tuberculosis, and “normalcy” is at least six months away, if everything goes according to plan. And tuberculosis is a wily enough contender to make sure everything won’t.
In our county in southern California, where the majority of tuberculosis cases are followed by our public health department, I personally as the treating physician am well acquainted with this drawn-out battle with my patients’ illness. It requires me to be the cheerleader to reassure them that all these pills will eventually lead to a good result and the risk of reactivation will be beaten back into improbability. It requires me to repair my relationships with patients after a first attempt at cure caused some inexplicable medication intolerance or worse. It requires our overworked department staff to put out thousands and thousands of worker-hours monthly in both directly observed therapy contacts plus innumerable phone messages to make sure that medications get to patients, are taken properly, and side-effects and complications are noted. And most of all, it requires the patience and trust of our tuberculosis patients to tolerate such a complex regimen with a nebulous target and a raft of setbacks.
These problems are especially magnified for our multi-drug resistant patients. A regular four-drug tuberculosis regimen is already long, complex, laden with potential for side effects and not a guaranteed cure, but MDR regimens are years in length, even more complicated with injectables and unusual medications, likely to be more toxic, and without good efficacy data particularly as increasingly resistant strains now demand unconventional regimens with at best anecdotal evidence. Many of these patients will enter lifelong surveillance afterwards (in our jurisdiction, we follow all of them regularly), some will relapse, and some will die. Given that the burden of many of these unfortunate patients falls on already cash and labour-strapped public health jurisdictions such as our own, the tremendous direct and indirect costs of treatment are a significant yet frequently unrecognized impact on stressed public services. Even in low-prevalence areas the care of an MDR patient can consume a large part of a budget for an extended period of time, and in high-prevalence areas the eventual outlay for a collection of cases can be astronomical and perpetual.
It is a moral and public health imperative that dangerous communicable diseases like tuberculosis be treated, first because of the disease’s tendency to disproportionately affect those who are least able to be treated, and second because of its potentially serious impact on those around them who are exposed and may themselves acquire latent or active disease. The ability to do so effectively is slowly becoming more and more undermined by a limited selection of drugs and an onerous baseline regimen that has not significantly changed in decades.
As a treating physician, I have my own particular wish list for what I’d like the direction of new drug development to turn towards. Nearly everyone who treats tuberculosis patients wishes for a routine that is less toxic, has novel activity, and takes less time. Clearly, any new regimen offering these advantages would be welcomed and widely embraced for its clear benefit.
In ‘Part Two’ Dr. Kaiser will share his thoughts and specific suggestions on R&D approaches that can aid in improving TB drug treatment.
Cameron Kaiser, MD is the medical consultant for tuberculosis for the Riverside County Department of Public Health in southern California. This essay reflects his views and not necessarily those of the department or the county. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Are you interested in taking your music career to the next level? Are you looking for a way to do this while still serving your country? If so, becoming a Bandperson in the Army National Guard is an option to consider. Through a part-time appointment, you can focus on serving your country while staying involved with music ? talk about the best of both worlds!
As a musician in the Army National Guard you will perform in a variety of situations, ranging from small ensembles to ceremonies among others. Additionally, you will specialize in one of the following instruments: guitar, keyboard, trumpet, percussion, French horn, clarinet, obo, flute, saxophone, bassoon, euphonium, trombone, or tuba. Which one of these do you have the most experience with? Which one are you interested in mastering?
One of the primary benefits of becoming a Bandperson is that you will be considered a professional musician. But remember, this is just one of your responsibilities. When you are part of the Army National Guard you will definitely be seen as somebody who is protecting their country and ready to do whatever it takes in the future to ensure its security.
As you continue your stint in the Army National Guard, you will have the chance to work with other musicians while constantly honing your skills. Along with this, when your time serving is complete you will have additional skills that can help you land a job in the civilian sector.
Earn and Learn
As a Bandperson you will receive compensation as you learn. What more could you want? This gives you the chance to not only improve your skills but to ensure your financial security along the way.
Training to become a Bandperson
Just like any position in the Army National Guard, to become a Bandperson you need to complete the appropriate amount of training. To start, you will take part in 10 weeks of Basic Training. During this time, you will be taught basic soldiering skills. From there, you will attend 24 weeks of Advanced Individual Training directly related to your position. You will spend this time at the Armed Forces School of Music in Norfolk, Virginia.
Before you get too excited, it is important to note that not everybody is qualified to become a Bandperson in the Army National Guard. Fortunately, the requirements are not too strict.
– High school diploma or GED
– Between the ages of 17 and 35
– Able to pass a physical exam while also meeting all moral and legal standards
– Must meet all US citizenship requirements as set forth by the Army National Guard
In addition to a monthly paycheck and the ability to serve your country, there are many other benefits of becoming a Bandperson in the National Guard.
– Paid training
– Access to the Montgomery GI Bill for future education
– Up to 100 percent tuition assistance for those who are interested in attending college
– Student Loan Repayment Program
– Retirement benefits
– Healthcare benefits
– Up to $400,000 in low cost life insurance
Did you know that the position of Bandperson in the Army National Guard may also qualify for a sign-on bonus? To learn more and to determine your eligibility, contact your local recruiter.
Final Word on becoming a Bandperson
With multiple benefits, it is easy to see why so many people are interested in joining the Army National Guard as a Bandperson. If you love music and are interested in improving your skills, while also serving your country, this could be the first step towards a better future.
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David Cameron is talking about super interesting things in the UK at the moment:
“The Big Society is about a huge culture change – where people, in their everyday lives, in their homes, in their neighbourhoods, in their workplace – don’t always turn to officials, local authorities or central government for answers to the problems they face but instead feel both free and powerful enough to help themselves and their own communities. It’s about people setting up great new schools. Businesses helping people getting trained for work. Charities working to rehabilitate offenders. It’s about liberation – the biggest, most dramatic redistribution of power to the man and woman on the street.”
He’s talking about the UK government as platform and wanting to implement it. Last week, he totally restructured the NHS so it becomes more of a platform, rather than top-down, micromanagement. Here’s my post on The Future Well about what this means to the future of health in the UK.
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Aloe vera L. (Aloe barbadensis Miller.)
Many species belong to the Aloe genus. These plants grow spontaneously in many parts of the world. In particular, it grows in the subtropical areas of Central America, the United States, Mexico, Australia, but also in the Mediterranean basin, southern Arabian Peninsula, Madagascar, India (north-east) and Japan. The species belonging to the Aloe genus are herbaceous, shrubby or arborescent, perennial and succulent plants. They have woody stems with differing heights from a few centimeters to about ten meters. The leaves are simple, sessile, and lanceolate. They are very showy, fleshy, with a thick cuticle and with a spiny margin and apex. Usually aloe leaves are gathered in rosettes (rosette-like). The flowers are gathered in large and hanging bunches. The color of the flower varies based on the species. The fruit is a capsule general containing winged or flattened seeds.
The most common species for their uses are:
Aloe barbadensis Miller. (Aloe vera – Barbados aloe)
The plant reachs maturity after four years and can have leaves of medium length, also more than 60 cm and a base width of 10 cm, each of which can weigh more than a kilo. Its overall life cycle is twelve years. It has a number of leaves ranging from twelve to thirty leaves. It is a plant well anchored to the earth through an adequately developed root system (acaulescent bush).
The rigid and woody stem of the flower develops from the central part of the foliar tuft, with a height that can reach a meter and a half. The flowering happens in summer with yellow, tubular formations in clusters, on the end of the woody spike. Its leaves are very rich in gel compared to the external cuticle, which is rich in acemannan, an important polysaccharide.
Anthraquinone is found in the sub-cuticle layer, which in Aloe barbadensis is called barbaloin. It is easily recognizable from its ocher color and intense and unpleasant smell. Actually, Aloe barbadensis turns out to be the most used and known in the world, mostly because of the of the high yield of its leaves, for their robustness and for their easy transformation into pulp to drink or gel for external use.
Aloe arborescens Miller.
The species is native to central-southern Africa, very diffused in South Africa, in Asia and, above all, Russia and Japan. Unlike Aloe vera, Aloe arborescens extends from a woody, central trunk, with alternating leaf growth, that can reach up to two or three meters at maturity. The plant comes in the form of a chaotic bush, full of stems, in which a parting root is not distinguished, as in the case of Aloe vera. The large, spiraling leaves are a green-grey color and are less meaty with respect to those of Aloe vera; these, in fact, are thin and threadlike, have lateral thorns and reach a length of about 30 to 50 cm and each weight about 10 to 100 grams.
The external cuticle is thicker and it makes the plant more resistant to atmospheric and environmental adversities. This characteristic gives way to a high presence of anthraquinones (sub cuticle), principally aloin. It flowers annually and it has a red-orange colored inflorescence.
Aloe ferox Miller (The bitter aloe)
It stands out against Aloe vera for the presence of bumps on the blade of the leaf.
Other species can be harvested and used, such as:
- Aloe africana F.
- Aloe spicata Baker
- Aloe arborescens
- Aloe dichotoma
- Aloe maculata = saponaria Haw.
- Aloe perfoliata = A. mitriformis Mill.e spp.
- Aloe perryi Baker = socotrina Lam., indigenous plant of Socotra island.
The Aloe genus, however, must not be confused with the so-called American Aloe that belongs to the Agave genus.
A juice (latex) is obtained from the cuticle incision of the leaves that is subsequently condensed and concentrated through boiling. A dark brown, solid mass is obtained if Aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis Miller.) was used for the extraction, or a mass with greenish reflections if Bitter aloe (Aloe ferox Miller.) is used. Such an extraction has an elevated content of anthraquinone that has a strong laxative action and a characteristic bitter taste.
After having eliminated the external cuticle of the leaf and taking away the internal aquifer parenchyma, a gel is obtained.
The mucinous internal gel is viscous to the touch and it contains a high number of polysaccharides, resulting particularly from mannose and various other components (fats, essential amino acids, vitamins, hormones and minerals) in high concentrations.
Caution: Aloe juice, which is often sold in the market, is really Aloe gel made liquid following different treatments to make it more easily consumed.
Climate and soil:
Plants of the genus Aloe can easily be cultivated in almost all subtropical areas of the world, even in climatic conditions of constant drought.
It is very important not to expose these plants to extreme climate conditions, for example wide temperature changes or excessive humidity.
Young plants prefer half-shade exposure; older plants prefer full-sun exposure.
They grow well in sandy, well drained, porous soils.
The best temperature for vegetative growth is of 20°C-27°C, but they survive down to a temperature of 5°C. They can be cultivated successfully in desert and drought areas.
Planting and propagation:
It is possible to cultivate aloe in pots or in open fields.
Cultivation in containers:
Planting is carried out in Spring using a mixture of draining soil for cactuses or succulents, made of 1/3 sand or pebble.
Like all succulents, aloe does not do well with water stagnation.
The propagation method is by seed or by vegetative parts, like cuttings.
It is not possible to assure the offspring will have the same characteristics of the mother plant, because Aloe has a natural tendency to hybridization.
For commercial cultivation by the way, artificial hybrids are made.
As decorative plants they are cultivated in pots, beds, and rock gardens. They need repotting every 2 to 3 years.
Cultivation in field:
The main propagation method for Aloe Vera is vegetative propagation by cuttings.
This technique is much easier and more convenient compared to direct sowing, because the seed is only available in late Summer.
Generally about 8-10 tons/hectare of manure are spread during the soil preparation. Before the planting it is advisable to carry out 2 or 3 deep plowings in order to make the soil more light and crumbly. The appropriate fertilizer will be added before the last plowing.
After 40 days carry out a manual weeding followed by a mechanical weeding.
Then plant the seedlings and proceed with cover fertilization and tamping.
Irrigation must be abundant in Summer and low in Winter.
It is necessary to avoid water stagnation, to limit the development of parasite or other diseases.
The loss of humidity from the soil is controlled using green leaves or weed stems for the tamping.
The plant maturity in terms of active substances is reached at the age of 3-4 years.
The yield is of 40-50 tons/hectare/year of leaves.
Cultivation in pot:
Aloe plants grown in pots need fertilizer for succulents.
Cultivation in field: Aloe Vera is not very susceptible to parasites and other diseases, but a improper irrigation causes root rot, and consequently the onset of diseases.
The soil should have good draining capacity to prevent insects and other parasites infestations (mites, bedbugs, mealybugs).
The plants may need pruning and cleaning to improve the productivity of the cultivation.
The foliar section is made of 3 parts:
- An internal parenchymatous tissue, slimy and compact, called “gel”, rich in polysaccharides and a wide variety of other compounds.
- A richly vascularized intermediate layer formed by xylem, phloem and pericyclic tubes (elements of the conduction system).
- An outer cortical layer, green, made of cellulose layers, chlorophyll and a waxy cuticle that gives the characteristic leathery effect.
For industrial utilization of the internal gel, the leaves are harvested manually, two or three times a year, from plants which are at least 3-4 years old.
A clean cut is made at the base of the leaf with a sharp knife, to limit the oxidation damage before the stabilization.
Then the leaves must be processed as quickly as possible.
Mechanized harvesting is carried out only by large companies.
Part of the plant used:
Among the hundreds species of Aloe existing, few have any pharmacological activity, and they are selected for extensive cultivation.
In particular there are large cultivations of Aloe barbadensis Mill. = Aloe vera Burm. and Aloe arborescens.
Most of the scientific studies are about these two species.
From the whole leaf of the Aloe spp., two different drugs can be obtained:
- A condensed and dried exudate with a high content in anthracene and anthraquinone compounds, with a strong laxative action.
- A mucilaginous slimy internal gel, which can be treated in different ways, with a high content in polysaccharides deriving from mannose and various other components (lipids, amino acids, vitamins, hormonal and mineral compounds) in low concentration.
The two products have different therapeutic properties and are used for different purposes both in animal and human field (pharmacological, medical, cosmetic).
Properties and uses:
Aloe is a plant of high interest for medicinal and cosmetic purposes or as a food supplement.
The main active compounds of Aloe vera are about 75: (excluding water, which constitutes more than 95% of it) mono- and polysaccharides and mucilages, anthraquinones, vitamins, enzymes, minerals, both essential and non-essential amino acids, and a wide range of heterogeneous components such as lectins, B-sitosterol, salicylic acids and more.
Aloe is known mainly for being capable of healing wounds, heat and X-ray burns, skin ulcers, chilblains and dry skin. (Briggs, 1995; Swanson 1995; Bruni, 1999).
It is used in various regions of the world against hemorrhoids, synovial inflammation, edema, hair loss and constipation (Morton, 1961).
It is also an ingredient in dietetic herbal teas and other preparations with laxative, eupeptic and cholagogue functions.
Aloe pure juice is free from aloins, or contains only small amounts of them.
It is recommended for different purposes regarding the maintenance of the physical balance.
The utilization of Aloe has reached considerable levels since the industry started to propose Aloe as a treatment or prophylaxis to alleviate a vast range of not well defined systemic conditions. Possible adaptogenic and immunostimulant properties are also been reported.
The pure juice is also used for the production of bitters, Fernet liqueurs, soft drinks and jams, thanks to its high bitterness.
As a food supplement it has eupeptic and digestive effect.
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