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How it works
Competitors vault over a 4.5m-long horizontal bar by sprinting along a runway and jamming a pole against a ‘stop board’ at the back of a recessed metal ‘box’ sited centrally at the base of the uprights. They seek to clear the greatest height without knocking the bar to the ground.
All competitors have three attempts per height, although they can elect to ‘pass’, i.e. advance to a greater height despite not having cleared the current one. Three consecutive failures at the same height, or combination of heights, cause a competitor’s elimination.
If competitors are tied on the same height, the winner will have had the least failures at that height. If competitors are still tied, the winner will have had the least failures across the entire competition. Thereafter a jump-off will decide the winner.
Pole vaulting, originally for distance, dates back to at least the 16th century and there is also evidence it was even practised in Ancient Greece. The origins of modern vaulting can be traced back to Germany in the 1850s, when the sport was adopted by a gymnastic association, and also in the Lake District region of England, where contests were held with ash or hickory poles with iron spikes in the end.
The first recorded use of bamboo poles was in 1857. The top vaulters started using steel poles in the 1940s and flexible fibreglass, and later carbon fibre, poles started to be widely used in the late 1950s.
Did you know
Tom Ray, a Cumbrian vaulter who was the ‘world champion’ in 1887, used to gain several feet by climbing the pole when it was upright. This method has now been outlawed: if an athlete’s grip moves above the top hand after take-off, the vault is declared foul
USA racked up an incredible sequence by winning every men’s Olympic title from 1896 to 1968 (if the 1906 Intercalated Games are discounted), a sequence that was broken by East Germany’s Wolfgang Nordwig in 1972. Ukraine’s Sergey Bubka won six consecutive gold medals at the IAAF World Championships from 1983 to 1997.
The women’s Pole Vault came onto the IAAF World Championships programme in 1999 and first appeared at the Olympic Games in 2000. Both contests were won by the US vaulter Stacy Dragila.
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Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, some of the United States’ most senior military officials began advocating for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to order the mass detention of Japanese Americans. “The Japanese race is an enemy race,” wrote Lt. Gen. John DeWitt, the man in charge of the Western Defense Command. “And while many second and third-generation Japanese born on United States soil, possessed of United States citizenship, have become ‘Americanized,’ the racial strains are undiluted.”
Although there were a few voices in the administration against internment—particularly Attorney General Francis Biddle and Gen. Mark Clark, the Army’s deputy chief of staff—the president disregarded the dissenters. On Feb. 19, 1942, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the military to remove anyone from any area of the country, if deemed necessary for national security. During the months that followed, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were rounded up throughout California and shipped to internment camps in Arizona, Wyoming, Arkansas, and elsewhere. Fred Korematsu, a resident of San Leandro, on the San Francisco Bay, resisted deportation and was arrested, setting in motion a legal struggle that went all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1944, the court ruled, 6-3, in favor of the government’s action.
That ruling has quietly remained on the books all these years. But it may be revisited shortly if the court accepts a recent request to hear Hedges v. Obama, in which the plaintiff is challenging a 2012 law permitting the detention without trial of suspected supporters of terrorism. The wording of that 2012 legislation relies in part on the 1944 Korematsu decision. In a possible hint of which way the court is leaning, Justice Antonin Scalia said in a speech at the University of Hawaii last week that the internment of the Japanese was “wrong”—although he added, “You are kidding yourself if you think the same thing would not happen again.” [Editor’s note: On Jun. 26, 2018, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing the majority opinion of the Supreme Court in Trump v. Hawaii, stated in obiter dictum that Korematsu v. United States was wrongly decided, indicating a majority of the court agreed to overrule it.]
But while the Supreme Court may reconsider the issue, not everyone is willing to take a fresh look at the controversy. The recently re-opened Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in upstate New York includes a section on the roundup of the Japanese but skirts the most explosive research about Roosevelt’s motives. And that research, in turn, has an unexpected but important connection to the ever-simmering issue of FDR’s response to the Holocaust.
In 1980, Congress established the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Its final report, titled Personal Justice Denied, concluded that the internment was motivated by “race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership,” and recommended reparations of $20,000 to each surviving internee. After additional lobbying by Japanese American activists, legislation was eventually passed to distribute those funds, and both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush issued public apologies for the internment.
More recently, in response to additional public education efforts by Japanese Americans, 10 sites of former detention camps were designated historical landmarks. Last April, a Japanese American Internment Museum was established near the site of the Rohwer camp, in Arkansas. The ceremony opening the museum was headlined by actor George Takei, best known for his role as Lt. Hikaru Sulu in the Star Trek television series and movies. Takei described how, at age 5, he and his family “were forced from our home in Los Angeles at gunpoint by U.S. soldiers and sent to Rohwer, all because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.” His childhood was spent “in the swamps—fetid, hot, mosquito-laden. … Block 6, Barrack 2, Unit F. We were little more than numbers to our jailers, each of us given a tag to wear like a piece of luggage. My tag was 12832-C.”
Takei’s fame has helped open doors for him to educate the public about the internment, and he has lectured widely on the subject in recent years. (He also recently starred in Allegiance, a Broadway musical based on the experiences of a family similar to the Takeis during their years of detention.) The Star Trek alumnus has visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp, in Germany. The all-Japanese 522nd Field Artillery Battalion was one of the U.S. army units that liberated Hurlach, a slave labor site that was a sub-camp of Dachau. They also liberated a group of Jewish prisoners who were on a death march out of Dachau. “In my mind, I’ve always tried to draw a strong distinction between the internment camps and the extermination camps,” Takei told the San Diego Jewish Journal in 2012. “And what had the Jews done to deserve death? The stereotype was that they were ‘shrewd.’ Just like we’re supposed to be ‘inscrutable.’ That was our crime.”
As it turns out, the parallels between anti-Jewish and anti-Japanese stereotypes to which Takei alluded are crucial to understanding both Roosevelt’s decision on Japanese internment and his response to the Holocaust. Even FDR’s most ardent supporters today concede that the internment was wrong. The website of the Roosevelt presidential library, in Hyde Park, N.Y., calls the decision “a blemish on Roosevelt’s wartime record,” and curriculum materials designed for schools by the museum characterize it as “a great injustice.” At the same time, however, the museum, which recently re-opened after a nine-year, $30-million revamp and expansion, portrays the president as the victim of irresistible pressure from his military advisers and public opinion.
The museum’s exhibition on the Japanese internment makes no mention of the last decade’s most important new research findings concerning the motives behind the internment decision. By Order of the President, a critically acclaimed 2001 book by Greg Robinson, an American historian at the University of Quebec, revealed a number of incendiary articles about Asians that Franklin Roosevelt wrote in the 1920s. In those articles, the future president asserted that “the mingling of Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results.” FDR argued that because “Japanese immigrants are not capable of assimilation into the American population,” they could not be trusted and their right to purchase land should be restricted.
Interestingly, the museum does include the cover of By Order of the President, and a brief excerpt from the book, in a side panel—so nobody can claim the museum completely ignores Robinson’s book. But the excerpt they chose is from a passage that does not mention FDR’s writings about Asians. That choice says a lot about what the museum wants visitors to see.
Robinson concluded that FDR’s longstanding “negative beliefs about Japanese-Americans” played a significant role in the internment decision. Those beliefs help explain why Roosevelt was so quick to agree with the pro-internment positions of some of his advisers, despite the paucity of evidence of disloyalty among Japanese Americans. It also helps explain why he chose to imprison Japanese Americans, while not taking similar action against German Americans or Italian Americans despite their relation to countries America was fighting in the war.
Roosevelt’s views about the Japanese dovetail with his privately expressed opinions about Jews. In my own recent research in the diaries and correspondence of Roosevelt Cabinet members and others close to FDR, I have found a number of troubling remarks by the president in this vein. For example, he complained about Jews “overcrowding” certain professions in Germany, North Africa, and even in Oregon. He was one of the initiators of a quota on the admission of Jews to Harvard. He boasted to one friend—a U.S. senator—that “we have no Jewish blood in our veins.” He claimed antisemitism in Poland was a reaction to Jews dominating the local economy. And he embraced an adviser’s proposal to “spread the Jews thin” around the world, in order to prevent them from dominating their host countries.
FDR’s writings and statements indicate that he regarded both Jews and Asians as having innate biological characteristics that made it difficult, or even impossible, for them to become fully loyal Americans. Certain individual, assimilated Jews could be useful to him as political allies or advisers, but having a substantial number of Jews, especially the less assimilated kind, was—in his mind—inviting trouble.
FDR’s private views help explain an otherwise inexplicable aspect of his response to the Holocaust–his administration’s policy of suppressing refugee immigration far below the legal limits. The quota of immigrants from Germany (about 26,000 annually) was filled in only one year out of Roosevelt’s 12 in the White House. In most of those years, it was less than 25 percent filled. If public or congressional opposition prevented liberalizing the entire immigration quota system, why not at least permit the existing quotas to be quietly filled? The answer is that Franklin Roosevelt’s vision of America did not make room for substantial numbers of Asian or Jewish immigrants.
It’s not that prejudice was the only factor that went into Roosevelt’s internment of the Japanese or his response to the Holocaust. Obviously there were various political, military, and other factors that figured into the mix. But museum curators and historians who discount the importance of the president’s personal feelings are missing a crucial, and undeniable, aspect of the story.
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The actual statute of limitation for Workers’ Compensation claims imposes a more precise time track compared to your duty to forthwith notify your employer. Depending on the nature of your work-related illness or injury, either of two deadlines will apply to you:
If you are seriously injured enough on the job to be thinking about filing a Workers’ Compensation claim, chances are that you will be aware of your injury when it happens or shortly thereafter.
Occupational diseases, on the other hand, sometimes do not manifest themselves through symptoms for months or even years after the underlying cause becomes known. Prolonged exposure to hazardous materials that eventually leads to a respiratory condition, or repetitive stress injuries are two examples of how this delayed effect can happen. Note also that the two-year statute of limitations for occupational diseases treats hearing loss as a special case: instead of starting the two-year claim filing period when you are diagnosed with this condition, it begins on the date of your last exposure to whatever is causing it.
Filing your Workers’ Compensation claim by mail used to be common, and at least one Washington court decision turned on the question of whether the act of mailing the claim satisfied the “filing” requirement (it did not). Today, the DLI encourages filing online or by telephone; or, if your employer is self-insured, filing directly with your employer. The key thing to remember here is that the date of filing is the date on which the DLI actually receives your claim.
Even if you file by modern electronic means, waiting until the last possible day is not a good idea because if anything delays your filing you could find yourself going beyond the applicable statute of limitation period – and Washington courts have little sympathy for late-filed claims. The only way you can push beyond the time limit is if the last day to file is on a weekend day or a state-recognized holiday, in which case the last day gets bumped to the next business day.
Lastly, it is your responsibility to file your Workers’ Compensation claim. Even though the law requires the doctor or registered nurse who diagnosed you with the illness or injury to provide you with “all necessary assistance” in preparing your claim, getting the claim in on time is still up to you even if they fail in this obligation.
Not all work-related injuries and illnesses can be neatly isolated as single events. What happens, for example, if you experience one occupational disease but later on – past the two-year statute of limitation – another appears, based on the same circumstances that led to your initial claim? Are you precluded from seeking Workers’ Compensation benefits for this later-arising illness? Not necessarily: Washington law allows for re-opening a settled claim “within seven years from the date the first closing order becomes final.”
A major objective of Workers’ Compensation is to eliminate the need for you to file a lawsuit against your employer if you are injured or have an occupational disease. But this policy might not preclude you from having a separate legal claim that you can pursue in addition to a Workers’ Compensation claim. Particularly with on-the-job injuries, the cause of injury can sometimes involve others who have little or no connection with your employment, or even intentional wrongful behavior on the part of someone else you work with. Consider the following situations:
In each of these cases, you might have an independent, tort-based legal claim for compensation, with its own statute of limitation distinct from the Workers’ Compensation limitation.
If your injury or occupational disease is serious enough to lead to a disability that limits or prevents your ability to return to work, you may have one or more other sources of government benefits that you can apply for (for example, Veterans’ benefits or Social Security disability benefits). These have their own claim procedures and deadlines that you will need to take into account separately from the Workers’ Compensation statute of limitation.
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The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have rolled out an online survey dubbed “Business Tracker”, which aims at assessing the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana.
The study would also evaluate measures put in place by businesses to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 as well as efforts to build better recovery for businesses and cross border trade.
A joint statement issued in Accra on April 8, said results from the survey would inform policy directions in protecting jobs and safeguarding progress of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“The findings will also provide insights into keeping the promise of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCTA) alive as a tool to handle future pandemics and protect jobs and businesses especially for youth and women”, it said.
According to the statement, the socio-economic impact study was part of a broader partnership seeking to strengthen capacities for economic and strategic policy development in response to COVID-19.
It said the partnership, led by the GSS, included other government institutions, the UN system in Ghana, development partners, academia and private organisations.
It outlined other interventions of the partnership to include re-engineering SDGs financing architecture to protect jobs and safeguard SDGs progress amidst COVID-19; supporting youth innovations in fighting COVID-19; and building resilience of local economies.
The statement urged business owners, managing directors or representatives of micro, small and medium scale businesses to take the survey on the GSS website.
Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, the Government Statistician, commenting on the study,
noted that the roll-out of a soft loan scheme of up to GH¢600 million by the government, which will have a one-year moratorium and two-year repayment period for micro, small and medium scale businesses was a direct response to the adverse effects of COVID-19.
He posited that despite the minimal knowledge on the pathways and extent of effects, coping strategies and preparedness of businesses to recover post COVID-19, the exigency of the ramifications of COVID-19 led to the government’s policy intervention for businesses.
According to the statement, he therefore called on businesses to participate in the survey to inform policy decisions.
“COVID-19 is not only a health problem but also a development crisis with enormous socioeconomic impact, and for its assessment, empirical data will be required to ensure that recovery efforts are better directed.
“This is a growing partnership that we hope will make a difference in providing the much-needed data for policy options and decision making”, stated Gita Welch, acting Resident Representative of UNDP Ghana.
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For this week’s blog I’m sharing an original poem from Chewy. I read it and knew I couldn’t have said it better myself. Enjoy!
A Chewy Original Poem
‘Twas the year full of questions, COVID, and doubt. For months we wore masks, indoors and out.
Social distancing made us feel safe, but alone. Even our weddings were remote or postponed. While our kids went to school in ways unfamiliar, our own days and nights felt strained and peculiar. We binge-watched TV – the good, bad, and terrible. In short; this past year was barely bearable.
Yet each time we felt at the end of our ropes – Lo and behold! – our pets raised our hopes. They offered relief for our cares and our worry, relief that was feathered, or scaly, or furry, or swam ‘round and ‘round in a tank without sinking, or sat by a heat lamp, unmoving, unblinking.
Some of these critters are new family members. Some have been with us for days without number. Some were adopted as pandemic puppies. Some are ball pythons, or bunnies, or guppies. Honestly, though, species don’t matter – the point is that pets make everything better.
So yes, while we must also sadly attest that at times, this year, we were not at our best, acting crabby and sullen and often cantankerous, (Pets: You have the pandemic to thank for this!) again and again, for reasons inscrutable, we got back to booping those dogs snoots so boopable. We treated our cats to special cat treats. We taught new limericks to our old parakeets. We gave extra crickets to our cute bearded dragons. Even our fishes’ tails started waggin’.
We care for our pets – they need us, it’s true. But deep down we know that we need our pets, too. Their antics make us laugh when we’re tearful. They comfort the anxious, lonesome, and fearful. We need the sense that their presence provides us: The feeling that loved ones are always beside us.
2020 tested us in myriad ways. Weeks felt like months, and hours felt like days. A new year approaches. Who knows what’s in store? Who knows that fresh weirdness will barge through the door? But whatever may come, let’s all take a minute to celebrate our world and the animals in it. A world without pets would be a cold, dreary place, like the ocean’s dark floor, or the far depths of space. We have it in ourselves to shift our attitude and close our the year with a sense of gratitude.
So in that spirit, friends, let’s raise our voices, all: “Happiest of holidays – to creatures great and small!”
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SAP’s digital celebration Views 2021 will attribute investigation analysts from Harvard Business enterprise Evaluation and regional executives from Australia and New Zealand to communicate about organization sustainability tactics in thought of the upcoming of do the job, sustainability, and facts-pushed systems.
In excess of a yr into the pandemic, many organisations have realised that we are formally getting into a new world of do the job and there is no likely back to the outdated approaches. However technological know-how has been a crucial driver in the electronic transformation even prior to COVID-19, now, as never ever prior to, technological innovation has been the terrific enabler not only in minimizing the spread of the coronavirus but also in serving to organisations adapt rapidly and seamlessly into the constantly evolving work atmosphere.
Similarly important as surviving the world wide pandemic is setting up a sustainable enterprise that would prosper in the post-COVID-19 world– just one that appears to be beyond the social and environmental elements of each and every business operation. Understanding from very last year’s unparalleled troubles, enterprises are now harnessing a development frame of mind that embraces new small business styles that are resilient, digitally related, and consumer-centric.
Exploring Business Sustainability Methods
SAP ANZ is fostering today’s attitude shift on constructing a sustainable business enterprise by leveraging clever systems. The software program company will be internet hosting Views 2021, a virtual discussion board that delivers together Harvard Organization Evaluate research analysts and executives from Australia and New Zealand to explore the 2021 outlook and ways on how corporations can propel organization amidst the pandemic.
Going on on the 24th of March and broadcasting are living from Sydney, the electronic function will aspect a few consecutive panel discussions about the foreseeable future of do the job, sustainability, and making a facts-pushed tradition. Perspectives 2021 will give business leaders the prospect to re-believe and reposition their organisation in the new globe of work amidst the pandemic disruptions.
The Upcoming of Work phase will aspect Abbie Lundberg of Harvard Enterprise Critique Analytic Solutions Kim Lee of The Star Amusement Group in Sydney and Gaston Carreon of Accenture to share insights on the several workforce strategies that are needed for 2021 including anticipations for potential employment adjustments, readiness for distant operate, and financial commitment options around electronic systems. The dialogue will target on the next techniques for professionals in 2021.
The Function-led Sustainability panel will have Todd Pruzan of Harvard Company Publishing and Darcy Compact of Sydney’s Kua Espresso to explore why tomorrow’s top organisations should grow to be a generation of clever enterprises, whose function is not just to be resilient and lucrative, but also to be sustainable.
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The objective of an investment is to enhance one’s riches. An investor might buy a supply since it will certainly expand or because it has a positive result on their life. A mutual fund has its very own threats, but a mutual fund has a reduced danger. This sort of financial investment is commonly a far better choice for people who want to invest a large amount of money. An usual approach of investing in a bond is by buying and selling stocks.
Besides paying, an investment in a supply is a good choice for a person’s financial resources. It allows them to build wealth over time. This can also be a good way to diversify their riches. In addition to conserving, it allows a private to develop their emergency fund. The danger of shedding money is less than one percent of the overall assets of the portfolio. The disadvantage is that it is not risk-free to invest in the stock market.
The function of financial investment is to produce income by raising its worth over time. This term incorporates all mechanisms that create earnings, including getting property that can be used to produce products. It can additionally be specified as any kind of action that is taken to increase future incomes. For instance, seeking additional education and learning will enhance your understanding and abilities, as well as will certainly likewise enhance your earnings. While each capitalist has their own method to investment, there are some common features of each kind.
Among the first things to consider when spending is your timeline. This might be a few years or a couple of decades away. Ideally, you wish to invest in a lasting investment that will provide you a high price of return. A long-term method for financial investments ought to consist of shares. The objective is to raise the value of your investment over a tool to extended period of time. As an added benefit, you will certainly likewise make returns if you are an investor.
An investment is a possession that will certainly allow you to gain a return after tax. You can make use of the cash you make to satisfy a details objective, such as saving for retired life or meeting a certain commitment. Comprehending what financial investment is and how it is utilized will assist you pick the right instruments for your certain situation. Right here are a few of the different types of financial investments: equity, financial debt, as well as refractory material. As an example, equity investments are typically more pricey than financial debt and also often need a higher preliminary financial investment. investing in gold for dummies
When you are making an investment, you are putting your cash to work, under the guidance of someone else. Normally, you take a funding risk and expect a positive return. In contrast, cash is not mosting likely to expand and also might lose buying power gradually because of inflation. And, without investment, a business can not raise capital. However by investing, you will certainly be raising your monetary flexibility. And also, the secret is to make sensible investment choices. | <urn:uuid:d656d577-5440-4424-84d1-06b6b8328416> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://7dollarmillionaire.com/2022/02/01/basic-support-for-you-in-financial-investment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966145 | 1,301 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Once a busy glass factory on the edge of Shanghai city until the 1990s, Shanghai Museum of Glass went through several transformations since 2009 from an industrial legacy into a unique cultural destination.
It has evolved from a 3,500 sqm museum when it first opens in 2011 to a 17,800 sqm multi-functional museum park where visitors can spend the entire day. With the vision to build a constantly growing and living museum, a variety of display methods, both interactive and artistic have been incorporated over past years to engage not only the senses but also the minds of the visitors.
For the past decade, Tilman Thürmer, founder of Coordination Asia, has worked closely with Zhang Lin, President of Shanghai Museum of Glass, to create a constantly evolving influential cultural institute. Involved from the beginning, Tilman has helped to keep breathing new life into the museum park which now has grown to a major attraction in Shanghai, covering 17,800 sqm with 20 thematic exhibition halls and facilities. Instead of eradicating all traces of the past, the park translated existing structures and elements into an impactful design language, fusing with the memories of the place to forge a compelling narrative of the endless possibilities of glass.
Every inch of Shanghai Museum of Glass is carefully curated to unfold a multi-layered story of glass as well as its relationship with people and with the memories of the place. Sometimes informative and other times philosophical, the exhibitions constitute a symphony of artistic presentation and interactive displays.
Through the kaleidoscopic glassy tunnel at the entrance, a set of 5 screens greets visitors with slow-motion footages of the movement of people that resonates the movements of objects, capturing the underlying connections between the two. An impressive commissioned artwork consisting of 10 large stained glass windows depicts 10 faces of individuals of three different generations. Made of 900 glass shards of multiple colors and textures, this piece of artwork visualizes the strong bond between generations, also is a subtle hint of the legacy preserved in this space. Sitting at the very spot of the glass-making kiln in the former factory is an interactive media installation “Fusion”, which translates viewers’ movements into dynamic visualization of material and element, letting visitors experience three major sensations during the formation of glass. This installation is a collaboration between the museum and media artist Tobias Gremmler whose body of work explores movement in computer art. In the center of the main hall, eight animated lines of LED showing the history of glass manufacturing in Shanghai shoot out from the ground as if they are the residual heat of the kiln radiating from the past.
Instead of a static space that displays objects, Shanghai Museum of Glass is a growing platform that houses not only knowledge, inspirations but also all the events that take place here. An illuminated elevated house of glass on the 2nd floor of the main hall shelters a piece of unusual artwork – a pair of broken glass wings. Originally titled “Angel is Waiting”, this piece had been created by the artist Shelly Xue to mark the birth of her daughter. Unfortunately, on September 7, 2013 part of this beautiful work of art was deliberately damaged by a visitor and cannot be repaired. Despite the frustration and heartache, the artist and the museum decided to display the piece in the damaged form, hoping that it will serve as a warning and a reminder that everyone partaking in a cultural visit should respect and care for the artists’ works. The artist renamed this piece of work “Broken”, giving a new layer of meaning and deeper significance – any damage will eventually enrich the narrative as a whole.
Through collaborations with renowned national and international artists, Shanghai Museum of Glass has created a platform for art and the material glass. The artwork displayed at the entrance of main hall, titled “Warm Currents”, is a large circular structure consisting of glass beakers and vials slowly rotates in two directions with pink florescent fluid running inside. This impressive artwork is a collaboration between the museum and renowned artist Lin Tianmiao and it has become part of the museum’s permanent collection.
Adding a series of outdoor spaces and artist studios to the nexus of the museum park in 2019, Shanghai Museum of Glass creates opportunity for a vast range of activities, bringing the art of glass closer to the public. Located at the former warehouse of glass-making materials, the skeleton of the building is kept and integrated into a black steel dome structure, stretching over an open event platform and an outdoor theater. Clusters of trees and a web of lights on the ground shape a vibrant environment that welcomes visitors to stick around. Forum is a 260 sqm open platform that contains seats on a cascade of wooden stairs where visitors can enjoy drinks under the shades during various live events, such as music performances and lectures.
Adjacent to the back of Forum, a matrix of glowing red LED lines captures attention from distance, highlighting a visually impactful 436 sqm Outdoor Theater that accommodates up to 340 people for hot glass show or various live performances.The radiating light installation surrounding the elevated seats fully expresses the heat, passion and excitement on the stage.
Next to a new entrance to Kids Museum of Glass, an open runway gives young visitors a playground to spend time with their families and it also serves as a space for a diversity of activities designed for kids.
Started out with determination to be a cultural destination of global significance, Shanghai Museum of Glass has remained true to its original aspiration and the achievements are recognized by international awards and growing popularity both at home and abroad. As design director and consultant, Tilman Thürmer has helped President Zhang Lin at every step for last decade, to break rules, to realize daring concepts and make sure that Shanghai Museum of Glass keeps setting new standards for museums in China.
Architects: Coordination Asia
Location: 685 West Changjiang Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai, China
Design Team: Tilman Thürmer, Manuela Mappa, Bon Wen, Shirley Li
Special Consultant: Tobias Gremmler
Client: Shanghai G+ Culture Creative Developing Co.,Ltd
Area: 17800.0 m2
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Department of Health
The Northern Ireland Social Care Council in partnership with Skills for Care and Development, the University of Ulster, Queens University Belfast and the Office of Social Services has developed a new and innovative mobile application for Child Development.
The mobile app is a free resource which has been developed to give social workers, those who work in early years and other professionals in child care, instant access to high quality information on child developmental norms relevant to the 0-6 year’s age group.
The child development app is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland and is available on tablet and mobile phone in Apple and Android format free of charge. It is available to download from ITunes and Google Play at the following links;
Department of Education
The attached report provides information on the expected developmental milestones for children in the Early Years. Parents may find this information helpful in supporting their child’s development within the home. The publication is entitled:
“Early Years Outcomes: A non-statutory guide for practitioners and inspectors to help inform understanding of child development through the early years”, DE (UK) September 2013.
(LINK TO THIS PUBLICATION – once approval from DE is received)
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Halloween Playdate: Math or Treat? | 2nd & 3rd Grade Math
In this one time class, learners will work together as a team to solve math problems and treat the ghost, monster, princess and so on with virtual candies! We will also colour and decorate a pumpkin printable together.
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Hungry monsters need our help! Learners will work together as a team to solve math problems. If they do the problems correctly, the door will open and we can treat the ghost, monster, princess and so on with virtual candies! In the end, we will also colour and decorate a pumpkin printable together! This class will cover topics in 2nd and 3rd grade math: Multiplication, Division, multi-digit addition and subtraction, word problems We will look at the questions, teach different strategies...
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Pastor Wang Yi, a prominent voice in China’s Christian community, has been sentenced to nine years in prison. He was charged with “subversion of power” and “illegal business operations,” though he was first arrested last year during a crackdown on unregistered churches. Wang has denied the charges.
Wang led Early Rain Covenant Church, one of the largest unregistered churches in the country, drawing nearly 5,000 parishioners. The country’s ruling communist party requires that Protestant churches be regulated and registered with the government.
During the initial raid of the church last year more than 100 church members were detained. Many were released shortly after, however many were forced to sign documents in which they pledged not to go to the church again.
Recently, Wang released a statement called “My Declaration of Faithful Disobedience” in which he explained, “I firmly believe this is a spiritual act of disobedience. In modern authoritarian regimes that persecute the church and oppose the gospel, spiritual disobedience is an inevitable part of the gospel movement.”
In recent years, China has increased its crackdown on Christian churches.
Patrick Poon, China researcher at Amnesty International, has called for his release writing, “Today’s verdict makes a mockery of China’s supposed religious freedoms. Wang Yi was merely practicing his religion and peacefully standing up for human rights in China. This nine-year sentence is appalling and unjust. Wang Yi is a prisoner of conscience and must be immediately and unconditionally released.” | <urn:uuid:8fdd3818-5959-419a-8194-579a83e9f941> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://relevantmagazine.com/current/chinese-pastor-sentenced-to-9-years-in-prison-after-running-unregistered-church/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979272 | 321 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Written by Rob Lawrence, eSage Group’s Strategic Relationship Manager
Will someone please tell us all, once and for all, just what in tarnation is Big Data? What is it? Where is it? Who’s doing what with it? And why are they doing that? In one blog article I can maybe just scratch the surface of those questions. I might even provide some level of understanding for those curious marketers, bewildered and attempting to make heads or tails of the concept of Big Data. I could certainly dive deeper than even that because I’ve spent some time with this, and done homework, and lived Big Data. But this is a blog article, not a dissertation, so I’ll keep it at a 10,000 foot view of the ever elusive, yet intriguing, Big Data!
If you are one of the rare data scientists that have graduated recently from one of few schools offering Big Data degrees, which makes you an expert in this field, please feel free to stop reading here, or continue on to better understand what the rest of us are, well, trying to grasp when it comes to Big Data. For the rest of us, here is my take on the whole Big Data craze:
Big Data is simply all the data available. That means, in realistic terms, all of the data one can gather about a subject from all the places data resides: data sitting in some long forgotten enterprise software program in the basement of a large corporation, data from social media websites, website traffic data (click-through’s and pathing and such), text from blogs, even data from a sensor on a rocket ship or bridge in Brooklyn (not sure if they’re using sensor data on the Brooklyn Bridge, but they could be). Sources of data are vast, and growing. It’s cheaper to store data than ever before, and we now have the computing capability to sift through it, so now there is lots more data being collected, “Big” amounts of Data are being stored and analyzed. There is a lot you can do with all this Big Data, but this is where it gets dicey. You can collect all kinds of data with one subject, question or problem in mind, but end up realizing (through analysis) more important information about a totally different subject, question or problem. That’s why Big Data is so confusing to lots of folks just getting their hands dirty with it, and apparently also why it is so valuable to Marketers, Engineers, CEO’s, The FBI, Data Geeks, and anyone else interested in edging out the competition. Let’s explore some basics:
Wikipedia says: “Big data usually includes data sets with sizes beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, curate, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Big data sizes are a constantly moving target, as of 2012 ranging from a few dozen terabytes to many petabytes of data in a single data set. With this difficulty, new platforms of “big data” tools are being developed to handle various aspects of large quantities of data.”
The Big Data Institute says: “Big Data is a term applied to voluminous data objects that are variety in nature – structured, unstructured or a semi-structured, including sources internal or external to an organization, and generated at a high degree of velocity with an uncertainty pattern, that does not fit neatly into traditional, structured, relational data stores and requires strong sophisticated information ecosystem with high performance computing platform and analytical capabilities to capture, process, transform, discover and derive business insights and value within a reasonable elapsed time.”
So, we’ve only scratched the surface of truly understanding what Big Data is here in this blog, and really the multitude of possibilities Big Data represents has only begun to unfold to those of us using it to better understand whatever it is we’re collecting data about. I hope at a minimum by reading this you have gained a better understanding of what “Big Data” is, but moreover, a curiosity to learn more and perhaps even apply it to something you are working on. These are exciting times whether you are using data for marketing or designing a new rocket ship to explore Mars. Big things are coming, and it’s all due to Big Data!
Here are some great articles I’ve recently enjoyed regarding Big Data:
- Definition of Big Data Analytics by Margaret Rouse: http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/definition/big-data-analytics
- On Big Data, The Boston Marathon and Civil Liberties by Derrick Harris: http://gigaom.com/2013/04/17/on-big-data-the-boston-marathon-and-civil-liberties/
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Roger Bruce, a Duncan city councillor, has issues with the city’s plans to increase its tax rates in 2018.
Bruce said council’s decision at its meeting on April 16 to increase tax rates by 2.78 per cent is misleading taxpayers.
He said the actual tax hike would have been above four per cent this year if council hadn’t decided to take $54,276 from the city’s police bridging capital fund so that the tax increase would be under three per cent.
“I’ve always supported lowering taxes and have worked hard at that for the last three years that I’ve been on council,” Bruce said.
“I find it odd that with a vote on amalgamation with North Cowichan coming up in a few months, we’d take a chunk of money from our reserves so that we could keep our tax increase for 2018 under three per cent. I haven’t seen anything like it on my three years on council.”
The city’s police-bridging capital fund is money Duncan has been saving every year in preparation for when its population exceeds 5,000 people, and the city will be mandated to pay much more for its policing costs.
Bruce and Duncan Mayor Phil Kent were the only two council members who voted against the tax plan.
The city announced in January that homeowners and businesses in Duncan could see a slight decrease in their property taxes in 2018 for the first time in years.
That’s because it was determined at the time that there were significant new property assessments in the city due to new construction this year, providing the opportunity for additional funds to be contributed towards capital expenditures without major impacts to current property owners.
But Talitha Soldera, Duncan’s director of finance, said that there was a calculation error in the original estimates provided to council.
She said the original estimate of a tax decrease was determined when comparing 2018 tax rates to 2016 tax rates instead of 2017 tax rates.
Coun. Sharon Jackson said at the April 16 meeting that she realizes that the decision to take funding from the police bridging capital fund would have to be addressed again in future years, but she would still vote for the plan.
“I feel it’s important to keep the increase to tax rates under three per cent,” she said.
“It will give me some peace of mind, for this year anyway.”
Coun. Tom Duncan also said he wants to keep the tax increase under three per cent in 2018.
“The inflation rate isn’t even at three per cent,” he said.
“This will be more palatable for the public.”
Mayor Phil Kent said using money from reserve funds to help keep this year’s tax increase lower will have a “one-time impact” on taxes and the future council, whether it be Duncan city council or the council of a newly amalgamated North Cowichan and Duncan, will have to deal with the capital shortfall moving forward. | <urn:uuid:75f01df0-d5d6-4850-a886-1bb541256400> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/news/duncan-tax-hike-artificially-low/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970023 | 637 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The Strategic Student: Successfully Transitioning from High School to College Academics (Paperback)
"A practical guide of immense value to both students and their supporters as they deal with the new and different challenges posed by the transition from high school to college academics." -George Ballinger, Director of Family Affairs and Veterans Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder
"It is a must read for our junior and senior students" -Andrea Sabadosh, Jefferson County Colorado, International Baccalaureate Program Coordinator
"Perceptive and useful from a practical viewpoint. An easy read, I have no doubt incoming freshmen will benefit from its insights." -Anthony Chatham, Professor, Tulane University
1 in 4 college freshmen do not return for sophomore year. 45% of college freshmen will never graduate. 65% of college students feel they have underachieved. Why?
Every college student can succeed academically and obtain a high GPA. The reason so many college students underperform is because they're not taught how to transition from the structured high school environment to the unstructured college academic environment. The Strategic Student teaches high school seniors and college underclassmen how to make this transition and become more self-reliant. The author served as a college professor, academic advisor, and administrator at the University of Colorado in Boulder. As a freshmen professor and advisor, he collected lessons and study habits he learned from his students and later returned to school to take undergraduate classes to test and refine the strategies covered in this book. The Strategic Student is the only book that offers a student, professor, and advisor perspective along with tested and proven academic strategies.
About the Author
David Cass is an adjunct professor and administrator at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is also the CEO of Uvize, Inc., an education technology company focused on student student success. David holds a BA from Tulane University and an MBA from University of Colorado, Boulder. David is also a former naval officer. He lives in Boulder, Co. with his family. | <urn:uuid:b4fc8028-a00a-4e99-bca2-7409ea70bab7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sandmanbooks.com/book/9780983886303 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962003 | 422 | 1.945313 | 2 |
The Montessori Method
What does “Montessori” mean?
The Montessori method is named for Dr. Maria Montessori, the first woman to graduate from the University of Rome Medical School (1896). She devoted her adult life to the observation and study of children. Through her observations, Montessori became convinced that the child possesses an intense motivation toward her own self-construction. Optimal development occurs through an integral relationship with a nurturing environment prepared by an adult trained to observe and respond to each child’s needs. A child’s freedom to choose activities within the prepared environment allows the child to reveal himself to the teacher as well as to follow her inner guide, which directs growth. According to Maria Montessori, “the child is the father of man.” The child begins to develop within himself the foundations for a lifetime of learning: thirst for learning, favorable attitudes toward school, and habits of concentration, initiative, order, and persistence.
What are the characteristics of a Montessori school?
The Montessori class is a prepared environment structured to offer a sense of security and the possibility of freely-chosen, purposeful activity. A child is allowed to continue an activity until her inner need for it is satisfied. Materials are presented to correspond to children’s inner needs, and there is an emphasis on reality, nature, and beauty. A sense of community is fostered by the sense of ownership and responsibility the children develop toward the classroom environment and by the freedom children have to develop social relationships.
What is in a Montessori school classroom?
The Montessori classroom is a child-size world. Whatever is in the world outside can be incorporated meaningfully in the Montessori classroom. By careful selection of materials by the teacher, an environment is set up that allows the child a place to explore life on a level he can understand. The materials or exercises are designed to stimulate independent exploration. This prepared environment entices the child to proceed at her own pace from simple activities to more complex ones. Through this process, the child’s natural curiosity is satisfied, and he begins to experience the joy of discovering the world around him.
How do children interact in the environment?
As the children develop their sense of pride in their work, a feeling of confidence, well-being, and joy begins to manifest itself in each child. A general spirit of respect and cooperation among the children emerges.
What is the role of the Montessori teacher?
The goal of the Montessori teacher is to “set free the individual’s own potential for constructive self-development” (Lillard, 1973). The first role of the teacher is to prepare the environment. The teacher “is responsible for the atmosphere and order of the classroom, the display of materials, and the programming of activities, challenges, and changes of pace” to meet each child’s needs (Lillard, 1973). The teacher is also the link that connects the child to the environment, and she or he must function as a skilled observer to do this effectively. The Montessori teacher is also a partner to parents, seeking with them to determine how best to serve the whole child.
With all the freedom, isn’t there confusion?
The concept of freedom in the classroom is a freedom within limits. A child is allowed to work freely so long as she is respectful of the other children and the materials. Actually, the children who have the freedom to follow their interests are generally happy and busily involved in their work.
Why do you recommend a five-day preschool Montessori experience?
A child who attends preschool for five consecutive days each week will have the greatest opportunity for smooth, spontaneous learning. A child taken in and out of school frequently does not have the same opportunity and consistency to pursue his unfolding interests and develop social relations.
What about socialization and group work?
Socialization is very much a part of the Montessori method. In the classroom you’ll notice children interacting continuously, choosing to work on projects together, and older children helping younger ones. Each day there is some group activity and outside play.
Do you encourage parent involvement in the school?
You’ll find that parental involvement will enrich the experience that both you and your child will have at Follow the Child. Each family is asked to donate 15 volunteer hours over the academic year. You may choose to participate in social events, work days, family education, and other opportunities to become more educated about the Montessori classroom and your child’s experience there. Events are generally scheduled in the evenings or on weekends in order to accommodate various schedules. The sharing of parent skills and talents with the classroom is always welcome. | <urn:uuid:40d11dd8-17a7-485b-9c68-c70b5a7ef6bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://followthechild.org/montessori/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957213 | 983 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Education ballot initiative could have unintended consequences
Teacher Leah Jones speaks to Reclaim Idaho volunteers and supporters on July 6, 2022, at the Idaho State Capitol.
CLARK CORBIN/Idaho Capital Sun
| August 2, 2022 1:00 AM
An education funding ballot initiative that will go before Idaho voters in November could have the unintended consequences of reversing the Idaho Legislature’s 2022 tax cuts and increasing taxes for low-income families, state officials said.
The issue involves the Quality Education Act, which organizers from the nonprofit group Reclaim Idaho successfully qualified for the Nov. 8 general election after gathering voters’ signatures across the state. The initiative will likely appear on the ballot as Proposition 1.
Reclaim Idaho organizers intended to raise about $323 million per year for public schools by increasing the corporate income tax rate from 6% to 8% and creating a new 10.925% tax rate for individuals making more than $250,000 per year or married couples making more than $500,000 per year. In an interview with the Idaho Capital Sun on Friday, Reclaim Idaho co-founder Luke Mayville said that is still how the initiative works and he believes language on the initiative, the long ballot title, the funding source statement and fiscal note all make that clear.
Factoring in tax cuts passed by the Idaho Legislature this year
However, a July 14 article from the Tax Foundation, and an email written by the Idaho Attorney General’s Office, suggest passage of the Quality Education Act could raise taxes for all Idahoans who pay income tax, including low-income individuals, and raise more revenue than expected because it does not factor in the tax cut package the Idaho Legislature passed during the opening days of the 2022 session.
Part of the issue is timing.
Reclaim Idaho organizers drafted the language of their initiative and started circulating petitions for signatures in 2021, before the Legislature’s 2022 tax cuts were proposed or enacted.
As part of a $600 million tax cut and rebate package in House Bill 436 from the 2022 session, the Idaho Legislature reduced the number of income tax brackets from five to four and set the top rate at 6% for a taxable income of $5,000 or more.
“The ballot measure reprints the old, higher rates on incomes below the new threshold, potentially restoring the pre-2022 rates — a tax hike for everyone, not just high earners,” the Tax Foundation article states.
In a July 19 email to Chief Deputy Secretary of State Chad Houck that was obtained by the Sun, Chief Deputy Attorney General Brian Kane wrote that the concerns raised by the Tax Foundation “appear to be largely accurate.”
“The ballot measure uses the 2021 version of the statute as the base language to which it then applies amendments,” Kane wrote. “If the language in the ballot measure were enacted it would disregard all the 2022 legislative amendments that lowered tax rates.”
In a statement of opposition to the Quality Education Act submitted to the Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney on July 20, the Idaho Freedom Foundation argued passage of the initiative would increase taxes by $570 million per year, not $323 million, because of repealing the 2022 tax cuts and a mistake in calculating inflation adjustments.
“Idaho has a $1.3 billon budget surplus; it makes no sense to raise taxes!” the Idaho Freedom Foundation wrote in its statement in opposition to the education initiative.
The Idaho Freedom Foundation’s opposition to the education initiative was expected. In a 2019 opinion piece, the organization’s president Wayne Hoffman argued against public schools, which are a central requirement enshrined in the Idaho Constitution.
“I don’t think the government should be in the education business,” Hoffman wrote.
In a Friday morning interview, Houck said the Secretary of State’s Office is not taking a position on the education initiative, but is choosing to share Kane’s analysis with the public.
But Mayville said he still believes the ballot language reflects the intention of Reclaim Idaho organizers to not raise taxes on anybody making less than $250,000.
“Anyone who reads the petition will see that the document makes it perfectly clear that only annual incomes above $250,000 a year will be impacted,” Mayville told the Sun on Friday. “Only the top tax bracket is underlined in the initiative and so this is the only bracket that will be altered by the initiative.”
Mayville also said a mistake in calculating inflation adjustments that the Tax Foundation and Idaho Freedom Foundation flagged was language that the Idaho Attorney General’s Office originally suggested in a March 26, 2021, certificate of review that was conducted.
On page eight of the review, the Idaho Attorney General’s Office suggested several changes, including defining “adjustment factor” and suggesting language stating that “The adjustment factor is calculated by dividing the consumer price index for the calendar year 2024 by the consumer price index for the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year to which the adjusted bracket will apply.”
That calculator flipped the numerator and the denominator in the adjustment calculation so that when inflation goes up, the dollar threshold for the tax bracket goes down, Kane wrote.
If the education initiative passes, Mayville said Reclaim Idaho would be happy to work with the Idaho Legislature on an amendment to fix the adjustment calculation.
What happens next with the K-12 education initiative?
Ultimately voters, the Idaho Legislature and the court system may all have a say in how this all plays out.
Despite the conflicting views on what the effects of passing the education initiative would be, the Quality Education Act will be on the Nov. 8 ballot for Idaho voters to decide.
It would take a simple majority of votes for the education initiative to be approved. If it doesn’t receive a majority of votes, the education initiative would fail.
In his analysis, Kane wrote that the state doesn’t have the ability to correct the language in the education initiative.
“… as we have all agreed, there is nothing that we can do at this point about the ballot language or the text of the initiative,” Kane wrote. “If it passes, it will be up to the legislature to sort it out as it sees fit.”
If voters pass the Quality Education Act in November, legislators will likely play a role in how it is implemented. As with any law, legislators could amend the Quality Education Act or repeal it.
There is precedent for the Idaho Legislature overturning a ballot initiative passed by the voters. In 2002, the Idaho Legislature voted to repeal term limits that 59.4% of Idaho voters approved in 1994, according to the Idaho Secretary of State’s online initiative history page. Legislators then doubled-down on repealing term limits by successfully overriding then-Gov. Dirk Kempthorne’s veto of the bill.
Mayville said Reclaim Idaho would be prepared to take the matter to court to stand up for the education initiative’s original intention.
“If Proposition 1 passes in November and the state misinterprets the initiative, the only final resolution would come from the Idaho Supreme Court, and we are prepared to take the issue to court if necessary,” Mayville said.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, Reclaim Idaho organizers and volunteers announced a get-out-the-vote door knocking campaign in Boise to support the Quality Education Act.
Houck said the Secretary of State’s Office does not have a position on the Quality Education Act and is not issuing a ruling on what passage would or would not mean.
“Our office doesn’t have a position other than that which we have been advised,” Houck told the Sun. “There are a million ways that it could play out. The legislature could do things afterwards. If it did override all the tax cuts, the legislature could turn around and reintroduce the tax cuts and nothing would stop them. There is also precedent in Idaho of the legislature fully repealing a passed ballot initiative.” | <urn:uuid:3ca61678-e069-4ece-a33d-31a108cb1e1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bonnercountydailybee.com/news/2022/aug/02/education-ballot-initiative-could-have-snp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951269 | 1,674 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The Prince George’s County Planning Department maintains an enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS). Beginning on July 1, 2015 the Planning Department implemented its GIS open data initiative which allows for the distribution of digital data to anyone in the public and private sectors.
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Oct. 16, 2020
Dr. Jeremy Fantl addresses open-mindedness at upcoming public lecture
The Calgary Public Library (CPL) has partnered with the Department of Philosophy to present the online public lecture “Philosophy Now: Do We Always Have to Engage with the Other Side?” with Dr. Jeremy Fantl on October 21, 2020 (7-8:00 p.m.).
The talk will address the main argument of his book The Limitations of the Open Mind (Oxford University Press, 2018). When is it permissible not to engage with arguments on the other side of controversial issues? Can you know that you are right about controversial matters? What is open-mindedness, and is it always a virtue? In his talk, Fantl will suggest that “being closed-minded is not automatically a failing, but sometimes intellectually required.”
Fantl’s earlier work considers how knowledge relates to action and “whether knowing something allows you to take it for granted when deciding what to do.” He thinks it does, and that “whether you know something can depend on how important it is for you to be right about it.” If the stakes are really high, it can be harder to know something which, based on the evidence you have, you would know in a low-stakes situation. For example, you might be able to know that a dish is peanut-free if the person you’re serving it to isn’t allergic to peanuts, but not be able to know this if the person you’re serving IS allergic to peanuts. The stakes are higher.
Consider how Fantl’s lecture, concerning the virtues (or lack thereof) of open-mindedness, might relate to your current life circumstances. Can you think of an example during this pandemic where you can know you are right about a controversial matter, where being open-minded and engaging with opposing arguments is not necessarily a virtue?
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Is marijuana addictive? This question is especially relevant right now, as our society, in general, has shifting views on the use of the drug. Also, marijuana laws are changing rapidly.
While marijuana remains an illegal drug at the federal level in the United States, many states have created laws surrounding its use. States allow it for medical purposes only, and there’s also a significant portion of legal recreational marijuana.
In 2012, Colorado voters approved an initiative legalizing the recreational sale and use of marijuana. Colorado was the first state to do so. Eighteen other states, as well as Washington D.C., have since done the same.
Smoking marijuana is in some ways like alcohol. Even though the stigma surrounding its use is declining, that doesn’t mean it’s not harmful and doesn’t have potentially adverse consequences. No matter the laws or the perception, it’s essential to recognize the reality of the risks of marijuana and what they can entail, including its addictive quality.
How Does Marijuana Cause Addiction?
To explore the answer to “is marijuana addictive,” it’s helpful to have at least a general understanding of how it affects you.
Marijuana can have THC, a psychoactive compound and mood-altering substance. THC is what makes you feel high when you use marijuana. Regions of your brain that affect memory, learning, coordination, appetite, and pleasure have cannabinoid receptors. Those receptors are affected by the use of marijuana.
In the short term, THC alters the function of your hippocampus in your brain, as well as the orbitofrontal cortex. These parts of your brain influence your ability to learn and do complex tasks. There are effects on memory and focus too.
This also happens because marijuana’s impact on cannabinoid receptors affects your brain’s reward system.
The reward system includes brain regions controlling pleasurable actions that are healthy, such as eating and sex. However, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, drugs and alcohol can activate the reward system in unhealthy ways.
As with other drugs of abuse, THC will stimulate the neurons in your reward system. That stimulation then leads to the release of dopamine. The dopamine release occurs at much higher levels than stimuli that are naturally rewarding. As there’s a surge of dopamine in your brain, it’s learning to repeat the activity leading to the reward, giving the drug its addictive properties.
That all means that, yes, marijuana addiction can develop similarly to other types of drug abuse.
Marijuana isn’t necessarily as addictive as some substances of abuse. For example, alcohol and opioids might be more addictive, but that doesn’t mean marijuana doesn’t have addiction potential.
- Around 1 in 10 adults who use marijuana develop an addiction.
- Even more significant risk for addiction exists in young people.
- If you use marijuana before you’re 18, the addiction rates go to 1 in 6.
- If you’re addicted, you may have what’s technically called a cannabis use disorder. Someone with a cannabis use disorder will experience physical, social, or emotional problems because of their marijuana use.
- You may also hear it called a marijuana use disorder. As with other substance use disorders, it can be mild to severe.
According to the National Institutes of Health, cannabis use disorder is included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). The DSM-5 is the gold standard for the diagnosis of psychiatric and addiction disorders.
The Symptoms of Cannabis Addiction
According to the DSM-5, for a diagnosis of a marijuana use disorder, there should be the presence of at least two of the following symptoms.
These symptoms should occur within 12 months, indicating problematic long-term marijuana use.
- Continuation of use, despite adverse effects in your life. For example, you might keep using it even if you have psychological or physical effects you know are related to your usage.
- Creating health problems
- Having intense cravings for marijuana.
- Developing a tolerance and needing more and more for the same effects.
- Having marijuana withdrawal symptoms when you stop using the drug, which is a sign of physical dependence.
- Giving up other activities or interests in your daily life.
- Use more marijuana than you intend or use it for a more extended period than you initially intended.
- Dangerous use, such as using marijuana and then driving.
- Impacts on other priorities such as work or school, social life, or your family life. You might have a decline in school performance, for example.
- You spend a significant amount of time getting the drug, using it, and recovering from the effects.
- You’ve tried unsuccessfully to reduce your use or stop.
Marijuana Use and the Young Brain
As mentioned above, young marijuana users are at the highest risk of developing a substance use disorder involving marijuana.
- Marijuana addiction also puts young people at risk of permanent brain damage. Marijuana affects many areas of the brain.
- Sometimes when those effects occur on the developing brain of a young person, they may not be reversible, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
- Our brains are in a state of development until we reach our early 20s. During this time, we’re particularly susceptible to environmental influences, including substance use.
- The earlier someone begins their abuse of marijuana; the more detrimental the effects of cannabis are likely to be on their brain. For example, currently available data suggest vocabulary and information measures of what’s known as crystallized intelligence are lower in young people who use marijuana. Crystalized intelligence is a measure of the knowledge you gain through learning or experience.
What Determines Whether You Develop Marijuana Dependence?
Some people can use recreationally and never develop symptoms of addiction. For other drug users, using addictive drugs just a few times can lead to problematic patterns. As with different types of addiction, there isn’t one particular risk factor relevant to marijuana use disorders.
There are often multiple risk factors playing a role.
- Genetics is a strong predictor for the development of addiction, based on what we know from the National Institute On Drug Abuse.
- Mental health is another risk factor when it comes to addictive substances. It’s relatively common for people with an addiction to drugs or alcohol to have a co-occurring mental health disorder, such as anxiety or depression. You may use marijuana to self-medicate the symptoms of a psychiatric disorder, for example. You have underlying mental health issues that can also make you more prone to developing an addiction.
- The issue of marijuana potency is something that we talk about more now too. The more potent marijuana is, the more it affects your brain, especially if you’re under the age of 25. The drug is getting more robust based on marijuana samples.
What Can You Do?
Is marijuana addictive? Yes.
How does marijuana cause addiction? It’s a complex effect that occurs on your brain and primarily your brain’s reward system that leads to the addictive nature of marijuana. Marijuana can also lead to withdrawal symptoms similar to other illicit drugs as well as alcohol.
If you feel like marijuana use is problematic in your life, what can you do?
The most important thing is being honest with yourself and potentially your loved ones about what you’re experiencing. Again, because the stigma of marijuana is gradually reducing, we may think that it’s perfectly fine to use it. The reality is that it can have very real negative consequences.
Once you’ve recognized the symptoms of a marijuana use disorder in yourself, treatment programs and support groups are available to help with your dependence. We encourage you to call 855-953-1345 and talk to a care coordinator at Silicon Valley Recovery to learn more about marijuana addiction and how you can explore treatment options like marijuana detox to improve your quality of life. | <urn:uuid:d8a93f2c-328e-4cae-aa6c-2a0d52b49403> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://siliconvalleyrecovery.com/is-marijuana-addictive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.93091 | 1,647 | 2.109375 | 2 |
It’s back to school time! For early childhood teachers, this inevitably means inconsolable crying for some or most of their students as they experience separation anxiety being away from their parents. It’s a very difficult time for young children and parents, and just as painful for the teacher.
Last year I was made aware of the “Berlin adjustment model”- a conscious plan for easing children into the school environment. The main goal of the Berlin adjustment model is to develop a trusting relationship betwixt the child and their new teacher, and to create familiarity whit the school environment.
The Berlin model starts with a three day initiation phase wherein the children visit school for an hour each day with the parents. Day four brings the first attempt at separation from their parents, (attempt being the operative word). Meanwhile, the teacher is intensifying their relationship and attachment to the student so as to become a source of comfort for the child.
My school has a similar adjustment concept with an identical goal: to develop trusting relationships between teacher and child and to ease the child into independence at school. Our model at a glance is:
- A video message is emailed to families from the teachers introducing themselves and looking forward with anticipation for what delights the coming school year promises.
- Home visits are conducted where the teacher visits a child’s home for a short time, gifting a simple book with pictures of the school and teachers.
- Parents visit the school with their child in small groups to see the classroom and meet other families.
- Children come for a longer period of time to school, but parents stay outside on the play yard; children come in the classroom as they are comfortable.
- Children stay for two half-days without their parents. Parents can be called if the child is inconsolable.
Ideally, at the end of this easing-in process, the children are ready to separate from their parents and succeed at school independently.
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As Amtrak has been recording record ridership on its core routes, federal budget belt-tightening has forced the transit agency to engage the states in cost-sharing measures for some of its smaller lines. However; this also serves an opportunity for some lines to be upgraded with enhanced infrastructure thus enabling some routes to operate at higher speeds. More from the New York Times:
The railroad has traditionally subsidized some local routes, while leaving others up to the states to support, but now state governments will have to pay for all local routes of less than 750 miles in a state. The Northeast line, Amtrak’s moneymaker, is not included. If all the states chip in, Amtrak officials expect revenue to increase by about $85 million a year, which would shrink its chronic deficit. | <urn:uuid:4c894cba-39b9-412b-a56d-617d03d23283> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.urbancincy.com/2013/05/amtrak-shares-costs-to-improve-interstate-rail-service/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97604 | 157 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Seminar on Demand and Supply Projections for Agricultural Commodities.
Along the Pennine Way
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Facing up to China.
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Are you really ready for love?
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Crown and the Cabinet
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No Child Left Behind Act
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New trends in the schools
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Limiting Importation Packages of Cigars
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Geology of the Grandfather Mountain Window and vicinity, North Carolina and Tennessee
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The complete Mediterranean cookbook
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Surveillance, Discipline and The Society of Control.
The public reaction to the documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealing the extent of state surveillance in May 2013 in UK and America is to question how such an extensive surveillance program can be driven without an evil dictator at the wheel? The “nineteen eighty four ‘narrative that journalists attempt to throw over the revelations seem to disregard the state of control and surveillance that is easily operated through a moral code of social discipline and computational systems. The self disciplined order of western society and the public networked communication of the information age are systematically built to exercise this level of surveillance without their being any ‘bad guys’. In this short text I will summarise three extracts that go someway to understanding how such a successful state organised surveillance system can be successfully normalised without a cunning espionage or evil dictator. , ‘Crime and punishment’ (Foucault, 1975), ‘Postscript on Societies of Control’(Deleuze, 1992) and ‘Masters of Reality’ (Rushton, 2012).
In “Discipline and Punish” Foucault presents how the training of discipline utilizes the body to sustain power.
‘The Success of disciplinary power derives no doubt from the use of simple instruments: hierarchical observation, normalizing judgement and their combination in a procedure that is specific to it, the examination’ (Foucault, 1975, pg 170)
The three instruments Foucault defines implement a social order that facilitate and maintain order, the human then becomes trained to discipline themselves in a correct way through these social instruments.
Normalized judgement Before the 17th century in sovereign countries the body was disciplined by sacrifice, punishments were executed by mutilation of the body; the human form was a docile object that could not be corrected. The introduction of penitentiaries present a different model of human discipline, that through redemption and long-term suffering the individual could be corrected. The term penitentiary is derived from ‘penance’; ‘A voluntary self- punishment inflicted as an outward expression of repentance for having done wrong’. The act of penance is a disciplinary procedure to adhere to a normalized moral judgment. The self now internalizes discipline; a duty to behave in a correct way is established and can become achieved by training and reformation.
Hierarchal observation Hierarchal observation is then motivates individuals to maintain a normalized judgment and stay within a social discipline. Jeremy Bentham's architectural designs of the panopticon demonstrate how to create a sense of surveillance on society so that the disciplined individual would continue to behave accordingly;
“The Perfect disciplinary apparatus would make it possible for a single gaze to see everything constantly”… “A perfect eye that nothing would escape and a centre towards which all gazes would be turned” ((Foucault, 1975, pg 173)
“For a long time ordinary individuality – the everyday individuality of everybody - remained below the threshold of description.”((Foucault, 1975, pg 191)
By describing the human body for health examination averages can be formed, at normalized judgment established and a disciplinary social code of conduct maintained. We now measure our weight against a mass body index, through describing our observations of each other a record of averages can be documented.
The Society of discipline is achieved through an internalized understanding of normalized judgment that is enforced by hierarchal observation and examination. A productive, efficient society is maintained via interactions with space and time codes that regulate this disciplinary order. Schools, military bases, academies, all government offices are space codes that proscribe a disciplined order that is achieved through an efficiency of the self.
In ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’ Derrida amends Foucault’s ‘Society of Discipline’ to networked information age where power is now modulated through coded systems.
“In the Societies of control, on the other hand, what is important is no longer either a signature or a number but a code: the code is a password” (Deleuze, pg5, 1992)
The individual now carries the codes that grant them access to services that regulate power hierarchy through networked services.
“The numerical language of control is made of codes that mark access to information” (Deleuze, pg5, 1992)
Everytime a password is required for access a disciplinary mechanism of control is activated to maintain the dominant powers in society. It is important to note that the society of control is an expansion of the disciplinary instruments defined by Foucault in ‘Discipline and Punish’, that the same instruments to maintain power have been modulated into a socio technical age. The codes that constitute the infrastructure of the information age are systematically regulated and programmed for the user to operate in the same disciplines identified by Foucault. In ‘Foucault and Databases’ (1990) Mark Poster defines the ‘super panopticon’ an infrastructure that serves the same hierarchal observation of the panopticon through the networked digital systems that the individual exchanges data. We enter into coded agreements every time we share something, communicate with friends or buy products from online services. The normalizing of judgment is apparent in every profile and status created by the active subject, who
‘Is no longer a docile body but a body that performs in the database'’(Poster, pg 91)
The active subject’s performance of the self has thus lead to a ‘participatory surveillance’; individuals now examine each other with social networks where a normalized judgment can be maintained through observation. We are now all eyes in the super- panopticon, participatory surveillance allows individuals to manage a collective social discipline that requires no evil dictator to spy on us because power is distributed through controlling the flow of information. | <urn:uuid:064c8595-7cc9-40e8-b95a-ceb320c068e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Max_Dovey/Reading_Writing_Research_Methodologies/TRIMESTER_1_rwrm/Week4_rwrm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.91344 | 1,259 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Excel Pivot Tables , Pivot Charts, Slicers, and Timelines
Webinar ID: 500298
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In this webinar, you will learn how to take all of your raw data and quickly turn that data into easy to use flexible summary reports using Pivot Tables and Charts. We will start with the basics and built up to more complex pivot tables.
Many people struggle with how to create Pivot Tables, or maybe they don’t even know what they can do, or maybe they think they are too difficult. I’m going to show you what they, how to use them, and that they are not difficult, and they can give you tremendous results. We will then make Pivot Charts, to graphically show the data. Then, we will add sorts, filters, slicers, and timelines to create a very easy-to-use, but very powerful dashboard that can give you instant results, and allow you to slice and dice your data any which way. You and your staff will be instantly more productive in Excel. These techniques will work cross-industry, with any type of data. You will find it to be clear and concise and right to the point, and you will be able to apply these techniques to your own data immediately after the session.
Why should you Attend:
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Business owners
- CEO's / CFO's / CTO's
- Managers of all levels
- Anybody who uses Excel on a regular basis, and want to be more efficient and productive
Who Will Benefit:
- Creating and managing Pivot Tables
- Changing the calculation type
- Adding additional calculations
- Creating custom calculations
- Multilayer reports
- Creating Daily, Monthly, quarterly and yearly summaries
- Adding A pivot chart
- Adding Slicers
- Adding timelines
Tom Fragale is a computer professional with over 30 years of professional experience. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and a Microsoft Certified Expert in Excel. He has trained over 30,000 business people in on-line webinars, public seminars, and on-site training.
His clients include many Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, military bases, and companies large and small across many industries, including manufacturing, banking, pharmaceutical, education, retail, etc. He started his career as a database application programmer and has served as a consultant and project manager on many successful projects.
His topics of expertise include: Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Crystal Reports, SQL Server, Visio, QuickBooks, and SharePoint, among others. His passion is training people and helping people get the most out of their computers, and he is a published author having written a book on Microsoft Access. He graduated in 1988 from LaSalle University in Philadelphia, PA with a BA in Computer Science. | <urn:uuid:6cbb9c32-c085-4d2c-bc7e-b1a5170681db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onlinecomplianceexperts.com/webinar/excel-pivot-tables-,-pivot-charts,-slicers,-and-timelines--500298REC | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.934824 | 653 | 1.804688 | 2 |
State Of California To Add Insult, Injury To List Of Unemployment Benefits
Are you a recent victim of the Bush recession? Hoping to finally cash in on those (extremely meager) unemployment benefits you've been accumulating?
Better hope your cell phone bill is paid up:
In January, with the unemployment rate nearing 6%, nearly 12.6 million calls were placed to the state's toll-free phone number to apply for unemployment insurance benefits. But more than three-fifths never got through. Frank Hartzell knows the problem all too well. A laid-off Mendocino County social services worker, he tried calling morning and afternoon, 45 times in December. The computer hung up every time until No. 46, and he was able to apply.
Too bad the joke's on Jane and Joe taxpayer. As it turns out, the system was apparently designed to inconvenience.
Poor customer service has been the norm in recent years at the department. Four years ago, a Schwarzenegger-administration government-overhaul plan noted that "as many as 50% of the callers into their call centers receive a busy signal creating an irritating situation." The outlook could get worse. Last week the number of unemployment claims jumped 21% to 40,000, compared with the same week in 2007, and the state's unemployment rate rose to 5.7% in February from 5% a year earlier. On Friday the U.S. Labor Department reported that 80,000 nonfarm jobs were lost in March, the biggest decline in five years.
* A maximum time limit that appears to have been created specifically to worsen economic crises: "Benefits can be paid for a maximum of 26 weeks in most States." This length of time might be increased in times of mass economic hardship, but that increase will still have an artificial limit. (In other words, better hope the depression ends in 18 months.)
Obviously, anyone who can't find a new job in that length of time is a lazy Welfare cheat. Obviously.
* Taxes. You read that correctly. Not only are you literally begging the government for money you are supposedly entitled to, not only does this money come with an artificially imposed time limit that is unlikely to take the actual economic picture into account, and not only are you making a fraction for your former income. You'll still owe taxes. And guess what? They aren't withheld. SUPRISE!
Imagine finding out you owe money one money you didn't earn because you used other money that you supposedly received for hardship purposes to pay rent or buy food. Yikes! This doesn't even get into the bigger issue of how the tax code leans far more heavily on the middle class and poor than on the rich. Because doing so means you love the terrorists. Traitor.
* Hoping to use your time off to make yourself more employable? Ha ha, suck it braniac! There's a good chance that taking college classes will cause you to lose your benefits. Sure, there are some circumstances under which this isn't the case, but be warned - the state has a vested interest in denying benefits. So it's not going to be easy. And guess what? If your income in the previous tax year was awesome, even if you're destitute now, you probably won't qualify for financial aid.
Basically, you can suck it, or suck it large. The choice is yours.
Long story short, you would be highly advised to do your research into Unemployment Benefits now, before you're one of the millions of Bush era Lucky Duckies. In the meantime, instead of wasting your Cell Phone minutes calling the Unemployment Office, (minutes that would be better served calling your friends and family while you can still afford a cell phone,) might we suggest the internet?
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A Bacteria Heatmap For your Bathroom
Your bathroom is a space for relaxing, for recuperating and for cleaning away the stresses of the day. But just how clean are you getting, really? As it turns out, your bathroom is actually a haven for a plethora of deadly bacteria, all breeding in places you would never believe weren't sparkling clean. From your bathroom floor, to the drain in the sink you wash your face in every day, your bathroom is secretly harbouring a world of filth you knew nothing about. To help you identify the places where germs love to lurk, and hopefully help you in your efforts to make your bathroom gleam with perfect cleanliness, we've created the ultimate bacteria heatmap.
This heatmap locates the areas in the bathroom where bacteria love to thrive, and we can guarantee that some of these places are locations you'd never expect...
A Bacteria Heatmap For Your Bathroom
We use the bathroom every day, a sanctuary in which we clean ourselves in a variety of ways, but just how clean is this room? To help you pinpoint the dirtiest points of your bathroom we’ve created the bathroom bacteria heatmap for you to know where to clean and what to avoid.
The Typical Bathroom
There are certain places you’d expect to find bacteria, such as the bin in your home, which contains 411 bacteria per square inch. But what about your supposedly clean bathroom? How does it compare to something we so quickly assume will be dirtier?
Your toilet bowl has 3.2 million bacteria per square inch.
Cleaner Than Some
Your toilet seat can contain around 295 bacteria per square inch, which is actually a lot less than your toothbrush . . .
Think you keep your mouth squeaky clean? Think again: your toothbrush can contain at least 200,000 more bacteria per square inch than what’s on your toilet seat.
Scrub a dub dub
The grout between your bathroom tiles, the sealant around your bath and your bathroom taps all create the perfect little crevices for mould to lurk in., and the drain itself contains 119,468 bacteria per square inch.
Let There Be Light!
You touch it every time you go in and out the bathroom but it’s still surprising that your bathroom light switch contains 217 bacteria per square inch.
A study by the Cleaning Research Institute found that bathroom floors are usually the dirtiest things in your bathroom, containing around 764 bacteria per square inch.
Think Before You Flush
To keep your bathroom cleaner overall make sure you close the toilet when you flush to stop particles becoming airborne. Clean the flush handle regularly too, as it contains 83 bacteria per square inch.
Your bathroom countertop can contain 452 bacteria per square inch. This combines with potentially airborne toilet water means you should keep makeup out the bathroom!
Now Wash Your Hands
Don’t forget to clean your tap handles when you clean your bathroom; they can contain an astounding 6267 bacteria per square inch.
Mind Your Eyes
If you drop your contact lens in your sink, make sure you give it a through clean afterwards as the drain in your sink could be harbouring 2733 bacteria on just one square inch of its surface.
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There are always cycles in bank investment, especially because, unlike in other sectors, the banking sector does not stand alone but depends upon many things, particularly a country’s macro-economic condition.
All this poses a challenge to bank managers, including Meliana Sutikno, the retail banking head of Citibank who always strives to introduce innovative products. “In view of increasingly tougher competition, we must offer the best,” she noted.
She gave as an example of when fuel prices in October saw an average increase of 126 percent, followed by a weakening of the rupiah against the U.S. dollar and a rise in interest rates, investors made their own calculations to quickly determine their investment strategies.
At that time people were redeeming their mutual funds in droves. Capital Market Supervisory Board (Bapepam) data show that redemptions as per August 2005 stood at Rp 27.2 trillion (US$2.93 billion), while the total funds redeemed in the following three months totaled Rp 63.9 trillion.
Every manager must have been troubled by the situation. The flow of investment seemed unpredictable. But, in fact, it is precisely in this kind of situation that a bank can cash in on the opportunities available. The funds from the redeemed mutual funds went to the money market, namely bank deposits and foreign exchange.
Based on these two instruments — deposits and foreign exchange — Citibank introduced several relatively safe swap-based investment products. Its Dual Currency Deposit, for example, enables bank customers to enjoy a higher rate of return than bank deposits in general. The Dual Currency Deposit is a product of mass nature. In addition, Meliana explained, Citibank also offers more customized products that conform to the needs of its customers. “We do not sell products but offer portfolios,” said Meliana, who started her career at Citibank NA in 1990 as a management associate.
There are two types of Citibank customers, she said, namely corporate and retail. To exploit the retail market, Citibank has four divisions: credit cards, consumer finance, personal loans and wealth management. Meliana deals with matters related to the latter, which used to be the least popular as it was considered just part of the services given by the bank’s branches to well-off or prime customers placing funds in savings or deposit accounts.
However, the trend has changed now as banks have started to exploit the potential of wealth management. Although customers taking this particular type of banking service may be small in number, they may contribute the largest in terms of money circulation in the banking sector. Bank Indonesia data as per December 2005 show that third-party funds circulating in local banks stood at no less than Rp 1.1 trillion. According to a conservative calculation, some 60 percent comes from premium customers, who may not account for more than 20 percent of all bank customers.
Among foreign banks, Citibank may be regarded the pioneer in priority banking. With its head office on Jl. Sudirman, Jakarta, this bank calls this premium service Citigold Wealth Management Banking, a product launched in 2002 and an extension of Citigold Priority Banking, another Citibank product launched in 1980. While Priority Banking focuses on exclusive services, Citigold Wealth Management Banking concentrates on the management of customers’ financial portfolios. “It is no longer necessary to be product-centered, but customer-centered,” said Meliana, who earned her MBA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in 1990.
Exclusive customers require exclusive services. So a hypermarket concept will never apply to these premium customers as they prefer tailor-made products. Although there are many other investment products, what matters most is how to give such a service that enables a customer to achieve his/her goal.
Meliana, who in 2004 moved to HSBC as personal financial service head but returned to Citibank in September 2005, realizes that ordinary services are given by local banks but only a few banks provide customers with more specific services. And Citibank has really customized products different from other banks. Aside from being the largest credit card issuer in Indonesia, Citibank also targets the medium- and upper-class through its Citigold Wealth Management Banking program. These customers usually have a deposit or investable cash of at least Rp 500 million.
By depositing that amount, a customer can enjoy specific services, such as investment and financial management planning, the use of exclusive facilities at Citigold Center, such as safe deposit boxes, special merchant discounts and invitations to attend exclusive events such as fashion shows, music concerts, seminars, etc.
In addition, in terms of more serious financial matters, every Citigold customer can avail of the services of a Citigold Relationship Team, comprising a Citigold executive, an investment specialist, a foreign exchange specialist and support from research by global knowledge of the worldwide Citibank network. “We have about 80 Citigold relationships and all are of a high qualification standard that confirm to the Asia-Pacific standard,” Meliana said.
With the support of such a solid team, Meliana is convinced that Citibank can provide more customized services to its premium customers. The portfolio of a customer is usually made up of high-risk investments in trading, more liquid but short-term investments, long-term investments for a period of one year and longer and protective insurance. “There must be balance in someone’s portfolio to ensure that in case of fluctuations, one type of investment can be compensated for or helped by other kinds of investment. It is our job to tell them where they are better off investing their funds. We help them choose the right investment instrument,” she said.
Although acknowledging that she is not the only one responsible for this success, Meliana feels proud that Citibank, in the evaluation of Trisakti University’s Institute of Service Management Studies (ISMS), is one of 19 banks categorized as providing “service excellence and customer satisfaction.” The survey conducted by this institute in cooperation with Infobank magazine and involving bank customers in five areas as respondents led to Citibank Indonesia being named this year’s winner of the Best Bank for Services Quality award.
Today, bank customers are smarter in choosing a bank. They consider the services a bank provides and the bank’s management. Shariq Mukhtar, country business manager, Global Consumer Group, Citibank Indonesia, said banks must always give the best service. “Service is an ongoing process, that is why we try to improve it every day,” said Meliana who places her job above all else. Meliana added that the development of services was intended “to win customers’ hearts and create an interesting experience for customers.” (Burhan Abe) | <urn:uuid:28549a52-2576-4c17-8cec-1e879764c24a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jakartajive.com/2007/08/meliana-sutikno-rising-to-the-challenge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955327 | 1,413 | 1.554688 | 2 |
2 What is a constitution?It is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of government are established, limited and defined and by which the powers are distributed among several departments for their safe and useful exercise for the benefits of the body politics.
3 What is a constitution?It is a written charter enacted and adopted by the people of the state, through a convention of representatives or in any way the people may choose to act, which a government for them is ordained or established.
4 Conventional or enacted Cumulative or evolved Rigid or inelastic TYPES OF CONSTITUTIONWrittenUnwrittenConventional or enactedCumulative or evolvedRigid or inelasticFlexible or elastic
12 PARTS OF THE CONSTITUTION Art. I – National TerritoryArt. II – Declaration of Principles and State PoliciesArt. III – Bill of RightsArt. IV – CitizenshipArt. V – SuffrageArt. VI – Legislative DepartmentArt. VII – Executive Department
13 PARTS OF THE CONSTITUTION Art. VIII – Judicial DepartmentArt. IX – Constitutional Commissions(COA, CSC, COMELEC)Art. X – Local GovernmentArt. XI – Accountability of Public OfficersArt. XII – National Economy and Patrimony
14 PARTS OF THE CONSTITUTION Art. XIII – Social Justice and Human RightsArt. XIV – Education, S & T, Arts, Culture and SportsArt. XV – The FamilyArt. XVI – General ProvisionsArt. XVII – Amendments or RevisionsArt. XVIII – Transitory Provisions
15 “We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane society and establish a government that shall embody our ideals and aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of independence and democracy under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality and peace, do ordain and promulgate this Constitution.”
16 National Territory The Philippine archipelago All the islands and waters embraced thereinTerritories which the Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction
17 National TerritoryTerrestrial, fluvial and aerial domains of the PhilippinesIncluding its territorial seas, seabed, subsoil, insular shelves and other submarine areas
18 Archipelagic doctrine National TerritoryThe water around, between and connecting the islands of the archipelago…form part of the internal waters of the PhilippinesArchipelagic doctrine
20 CLASSIFICATION OF RIGHTS I. NATURAL RIGHTSPossessed by every citizen without being granted by the State as conferred by God to a human being to live a happy lifeEx: right to live; right to love II. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTSRights conferred and protected by the ConstitutionPart of the fundamental lawCannot be modified or taken awayIII. STATUTORY RIGHTSProvided by laws promulgated by the law-making body and consequently may be abolished by the same bodyExample: right to receive a minimum wage and right to inherit property
21 II. Constitutional Rights Political RightsCivil Rights
22 Social and Economic Rights Constitutional RightCivil RightsSocial and Economic RightsRights of the Accused
23 Classification of Constitutional Rights 1. POLITICALRights which give citizens the power to directly participate or indirectly in the establishment of administration of the governmentEx: rights of citizenship and suffrage2. CIVILRights which will be enforced at the instance of private individuals for the purpose of securing them the enjoyment of their means of happinessEx: 2.a. Social and economic rights2.b. Rights of the accused
24 Classification of CIVIL Rights 2.a. SOCIAL & ECONOMICRights intended to ensure the well-being and economic security of the individual2.b. RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSEDIntended for the protection of a person accused of any crime
25 ARTICLE IIITHE BILL OF RIGHTS- The declaration and enumeration of the individual rights and privileges which the Constitution is designed to protect against violations by the government or by individual or groups of individuals.
26 Bill of Rights Fundamental characteristic of a republican system It is “a charter of liberties for the individual and a limitation upon the power of the State”
27 Political vs. Civil vs. Legal Political RightsThose that pertain to an individual’s participation in government or the political processCivil RightsBasically refer to rights enjoyed to enable individuals to undertake the everyday business of life“Legal” RightsRights that apply to individuals when subjected to the law and/or legal procedures and processes
28 Freedom of speech Right to a free press Freedom of assembly Article III, Section 4Freedom of speechRight to a free pressFreedom of assemblyThe right of petition“No law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech, of expression, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances.”1.) Freedom of speech is not absolute, neither is a free press (more on that on the next slide)2.) Freedom of assembly refers mainly to peaceful demonstrations related to public affairs- Contrast: in Singapore, for large assemblies one must secure a public entertainment license3.) Right to petition i.e. to take up one’s grievances with government without fear of persecution“Public place” shall include any highway, boulevard, avenue, road, street, bridge or other thoroughfare, park, plaza, square, and/or any open space of public ownership where the people are allowed access.
29 Freedom to form associations Article III, Section 8Freedom to form associationsi.e. the right to organizeN.B.: So long as the association is not contrary to the law“The right of the people, including those employed in public and private sectors, to form unions, associations, or societies for purposes not contrary to law shall not be abridged.”In large part, this section reflects the country’s bad experience during the Martial Law years, when the right to assemble and form associations was unduly abridged.Obviously, however, it is equally clear that the government can exercise its police power and abridge this right if the association in question threatens the legal order.
30 The right to private property Article III, Section 9The right to private propertyExplicit limitation to the power of eminent domainPublic useJust compensation: fair market priceDue process of law“Private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.”
31 Power of Eminent Domain The power of the state to take property for public use with just compensation.
32 Especially with respect to correspondence Article III, Section 3Right to privacyEspecially with respect to correspondenceIllegally obtained material as inadmissible evidence“(1) The privacy of communication and correspondence shall be inviolable except under lawful order of the court, or when public safety or order requires otherwise as prescribed by law.“(2) Any evidence obtained in violation of this or the preceding section shall be inadmissible for any purpose in any proceeding.”1.) Right to privacy (especially with respect to correspondence)- Contrast: In the UK, the right to privacy is not recognized2.) Illegally obtained material is inadmissible as evidence
33 Article III, Section 5 Freedom of religion Corollary: the state has no official religionThe state shall not endorse any religion/religious preferenceReligion shall not be a prerequisite for political rightsAffirms the separation of Church and State“No law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination and worship shall forever be allowed. No religious test shall be required for the exercise of civil or political rights.”*Clearly this is related to Article II, Section 6
34 Liberty of abode Right to travel Article III, Section 6 “The liberty of abode and of changing the same within the limits prescribed by law shall not be impaired except upon lawful order of the court. Neither shall the right to travel be impaired except in the interest of national security, public safety, or public health, as may be provided by law.”Liberty of abode: The right to live where one pleases
35 Right of access to information Article III, Section 7Right of access to informationAccess to Public recordsRefers mainly to citizens but extends to aliens in some casesLegal restrictions may apply (e.g. matters of national security)“The right of the people to information on mattes of public concern shall be recognized. Access to official records, and to documents, and papers pertaining to official acts, transactions, or decisions, as well as to government research data used as a basis for policy development, shall be afforded the citizen, subject to such limitation as may be provided by law.”N.B. This is clearly related to Article II, Section 28
36 Art. III, Sec 15 - The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended except in cases of invasion or rebellion when the public safety requires it.
37 ART. IV -CITIZENSHIPThis denotes membership of a permanent character in a political community.A citizen of a state is one who owes allegiance to it and is correspondingly entitled to its protection.
38 Sec 1The following are citizens of the Philippines:Those who are citizens of the Philippines at the time of the adoption of this Constitution;Those whose fathers or mothers are citizens of the Philippines;Those born before January 17, 1973, of Filipino mothers, who elect Philippine citizenship upon reaching the age of majority; andThose who are naturalized in accordance with law.
39 METHODS OF ACQUIRING CITIZENSHIP Jus SanguinisNaturalizationJus Soli or Jus LociBirthHOW TO BECOME A FILIPINO CITIZENNaturalization
40 Right of blood – the children follow the citizenship of the parents BIRTH1. JUS SANGUINISRight of blood – the children follow the citizenship of the parents
41 2. Jus Soli (Right of Soil) of Jus Loci BIRTH2. Jus Soli (Right of Soil) of Jus LociPlace of birth serves as the basis for citizenship
42 Duties and Obligations of a Citizen To be loyal to the RepublicTo defend the StateTo contribute to the development and welfare of the StateTo uphold the Constitution and obey the laws
43 Duties and Obligations of a Citizen To cooperate with the duly constituted authoritiesTo exercise rights responsibly and with due regard for the rights of othersTo engage in gainful workTo register and vote
44 ART. V - SUFFRAGEThe right and obligation to vote for qualified citizens in the election of certain national and local officers of the government and in the decision of public questions submitted to the people.
45 SCOPE OF SUFFRAGEElectionPlebisciteReferendumInitiativeRecall
46 SCOPE OF SUFFRAGEELECTION – the people choose a candidate to fill up an elective post or government positionPLEBISCITE – a political right of the sovereign people to ratify or reject constitutional amendments or proposed laws
47 SCOPE OF SUFFRAGE3. REFERENDUM (Popular Vote) – the right reserved to the people to adopt or reject any act or measure which has been passed by a legislative body and which in most cases would without action on the part of the electors become a law
48 SCOPE OF SUFFRAGEINITIATIVE – the power of the people to propose bills and laws, and to enact or reject them at the polls, independent of the legislative assembly
49 SCOPE OF SUFFRAGE5. RECALL – a system by which an elective official is removed by popular vote before the end of his term
50 ExecutivePresidentVice PresidentLegislativeSenate (24)House of RepresentativesJudiciary/JudicialSupreme CourtCourt of Tax AppealsCourt of AppealsSandiganbayan
51 EXECUTIVE (Art. VII) QUALIFICATIONS PRESIDENTVICE PRESIDENTQUALIFICATIONSA natural born citizen of the PhilippinesA registered voterAble to read and writeAt least forty (40) years of age on the day of the election for PresidentA resident of the Philippines for at least ten years immediately preceding such election
52 LEGISLATIVE (Art. VI) Upper House: SENATE – 24 members Lower House: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES*(with not more than 250 members) – 20% comes from the party list representativesAs of last count, there are 297 members of the Lower House
53 Upper House - Senate Senate President (#3): Aquilino Pimentel III Senate President Pro Tempore: Ralph RectoMajority Leader:Vicente Sotto IIIMinority Leader:Franklin Drilon
54 Qualifications to be a Senator Natural born citizens of the PhilippinesAt least 35 years old on the day of electionAble to read and writeA registered voterA resident of the Philippines for 2 years preceding the day of the election
55 Lower House - House of Representatives Speaker of the House (#4):Pantaleon Alvarez,Davao del NorteMajority Floor Leader:Rodolfo Farinas (Ilocos Norte)Minority Floor Leader:Danilo Suarez (Quezon)Batasang Pambansa
57 Qualifications to be a Congressman/Congresswoman Natural born citizens of the PhilippinesAt least 25 years old on the day of electionAble to read and writeA registered voter in his district (except for party list)A resident of the Philippines for at least a year preceding the day of the election
58 JUDICIARY (Art. VIII) Power is vested in the Supreme Court Composition of the Supreme CourtChief Justice:Hon. Maria Lourdes Sereno14 Associate Justices
59 Qualifications to be a Justice Natural born citizens of the PhilippinesAt least 40 years oldJudge or a law practitioner for 15 years in the PhilippinesA person of proven competence, integrity, probity and independence
60 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSIONS Civil Service CommissionCommission on ElectionCommission on Audit
61 Provinces Regions Municipalities AS OF MARCH 31, 20178118ProvincesRegions1489145MunicipalitiesCities
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2017 Indian Assembly Elections: How Did the States Vote?
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Angshuman Choudhury reports on the proceedings of the discussion held on 21 March 2017
On 21 March 2017, IPCS hosted a discussion on the recently concluded legislative assembly elections in India. The speakers were Manoj Joshi, senior journalist, & Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation (ORF); and Ajay Vir Jakhar, Member, IPCS Executive Committee, & Chairman, Bharat Krishak Samaj (Farmers’ Forum, India).
The following are some remarks that were made during the course of the interaction.
The broad take-away from the outcome of the 2017 legislative assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP) is that the Mandal era, when the social justice platform dominated politics, is over. However, that does not imply that the Kamandal camp has won either. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) merely ran a well thought-out, skillful, and systematic campaign in the state, strategically triangulating complex caste equations. They managed to consolidate the upper caste community, a group that they are anyway viewed to represent.
Besides the BJP, UP had two major political parties - the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). Both had won certain big social groups as their ‘core’ - the SP won the Yadavs from the Other Backward Class (OBCs) community while the BSP won the Jatav Dalits. Additionally, both sought Muslim votes. The BJP, through its strategy, successfully won mostly the non-Yadav OBCs and non-Jatav Dalits. The party also won over several defectors, thereby effectively neutralising the 16-18 per cent votes from the Muslim, Yadavs and Jatav Dalit communities.
What former UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's SP did was similar to Hillary Clinton's campaign, i.e., projecting the present as ‘good’ and promising more in the future. However, today, this narrative hardly works. Conversely, the BJP, in its campaign, presented an appealing anti-status quo futuristic vision.
A communal agenda was largely missing from the dominant campaign narrative, barring in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘innuendo-style’ rhetoric. Prime Minister Modi also took to bashing Pakistan, which for him, some say, is an indirect broadside against Indian Muslims. Nevertheless, it was Modi’s energetic, authoritative, and credible leadership that delivered such a large mandate for the BJP. Without him, the party simply could not have won the elections.
Modi successfully changed the narrative around demonetisation, which in itself was a disastrously executed move. Despite the fact that a lot of people were hurt by the move, Modi managed to sell it as, among other things, an attack on the rich. No other leader could have managed to do this. Nonetheless, BJP President Amit Shah too played a crucial role in implementing the party's UP strategy, including spurring defections from other parties.
From the BJP’s point of view, the 2014 and 2017 elections have been ‘cumulation points’. It is not yet the default party. However, now, they have ventured into a new political experiment with the appointment of Yogi Adityanath as the Chief Minister of UP - a move that is somewhat imponderable. It is worth nothing that neither the SP nor the BSP lost its core electorates. However, the BJP was able to consolidate the rest by exploiting the anti-SP/BSP grievances.
The BJP's victory in UP in 2017 is extremely crucial for Modi. Everything he is doing today is aimed at winning in the general elections in 2019. Evidently, the erosion of his party has not begun yet, contrary to what many might portend. However, the economy is in a dismal state, with prospects of its future appearing dull; and job creation is abysmal. Prime Minister Modi therefore requires a clear strategy to win the 2019 general elections. Thus, it appears that he has decided to push the Hindutva narrative forward by anointing Yogi Adityanath essentially due to the fact that two years is drastically insufficient for any chief minister to deliver on big development promises.
With regard to the BJP’s links with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the latter is happy to have someone like Modi who is winning votes from them. In other words, the BJP is delivering the nation that the RSS wants. Hence, they are not complaining. However, theoretically, the Sangh does not prefer figures like Modi who think for themselves. The same applies to UP's new chief minister, who has an independent support base and does not kowtow to third-party lines. Yogi Adityanath holds a unique leadership position in this regard.
For now, Prime Minister Modi has successfully captured the narrative, without the presence of any effective national-level rival. In the era of fake news, the one who sets the narrative, wins.
In Punjab, there are several reasons as to why the Congress won and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lost. While the former projected a strong and trusted chief ministerial candidate in Capt (Retd) Amarinder Singh, the latter failed to do so. The AAP was clearly the anti-establishment entity in the elections, but Punjab dismissed it despite a historical propensity for change. It was correct in doing so as the party cannot do well in big states owing to its strictly urban based framework. For now, the AAP has no future in Punjab.
A big reason for the AAP’s loss was the exoneration of its convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur from the party. Despite the fact that he carried out meticulous groundwork to build a strong base for the party, fellow members like Bhagwant Mann did not favour him due to competitive sentiments. The party's image was also rocked by a sex tape and tickets-for-money scandal, which further dented its reputation. In fact, it was the only party in the state accused of selling tickets for money.
Furthermore, the AAP’s closeness with militant elements did not go down well with many, especially the local population of Malwa - a region that was once deeply affected by the militancy. It was also seen as incapable of handling sensitive issues like the Satluj Yamuna Canal Link (SYL) water dispute.
Some of the AAP’s vote was also deflected to the BJP-Akali Dal coalition due to unbridled support from the followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) sect, which is backed by poor, landless farmers. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the leader of the sect, is known to support whichever party is the incumbent at the centre - because the incumbent controls the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is investigating an active rape charge against him.
The Congress was advised by Prashant Kishor, who was eager to make his mark as an astute campaign strategist at the state level. As the party was desperate for a win, it incorporated most of Kishor’s advice. The elaborate “farmer’s loan waiver” form that they distributed worked in their favour, as it made the public feel that they would actually receive benefits. It also helped the party create a database of target groups.
However, Congress’ Punjab win does not denote any kind of revival at the national level. It merely ensures the party's survival, which still lacks a national unifying figure.
Rapporteured by Angshuman Choudhury, Researcher, SEARP, IPCS
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It is said that once you’ve cooked your terraria for a while, you will find that it loses some of its original flavor, but it still tastes good. That is, if you cook it right. If you cook it wrong, your terraria will taste like a plate of microwaved ramen noodles. We’ve had people say that they eat their terraria at the table because they’re not too keen on the thought of cooking it.
The good news is that if you cook your terraria right, you can make it last longer. The bad news is that it’s not easy. Terraria are not like most other plants and you need to learn how to care for them properly.
Terraria are basically fungi that live in the soil. One of the key things you need to learn about terraria is what to do when they get too long-lived. If you let them get too long-lived, they’ll grow into a “tree” with long, spindly branches and a crown. The crown will eventually die back and the branch will collapse, and your terraria will die.
In our experience, terraria get too long-lived, and have a hard time going through the natural death process. It’s like a tree branch falling apart, but a little more sudden. This can be quite dangerous, and with terraria having so many powerful attacks, they can quickly kill you. We have a few tips on how to keep them, and get them out of trouble, but you should be cautious with them.
The only way to keep them from falling apart is to make sure that the branch is kept upright and that the branches are kept out of the natural death process and from being too long lived. They can be deadly, and if you don’t have a plan to get rid of them, you should probably avoid getting too close to them.
Terraria is one of those games that is so powerful that it’s impossible to get out of trouble. They are so powerful, that one can easily lose all of your health, and the only way to get rid of them is to make sure that the branch is kept upright and that the branches are kept out of the natural death process and from being too long lived.
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Air mattresses are very popular because they are so convenient.
They’re light, easy to stow, and usually cheaper than a standard mattress. If you have guests in your home or you don’t want to spend all of your savings, it could be a great option.
However, many medical professionals recommend they shouldn’t be used in the long term. Despite this, some medical beds do have some surprising health benefits. Let’s look at conventional and medical air mattresses. They can enhance your sleep and quality of life in several useful ways.
Check them out!
- Do Air Mattresses Provide Health Benefits?
- Temperature Regulation
- Advantages of A Medical Air Mattress
- Health Risks of Sleeping on An Air Mattress
- Uneven Temperature Regulation
- Enhance the Lifespan of Your Air Mattress
- Final Thoughts
Do Air Mattresses Provide Health Benefits?
Most people know that potential issues may arise if you use an air mattress all the time. However, some airbeds can provide health benefits in unexpected ways.
Let’s look at them.
Hear us out before you raise your eyebrows.
One of the biggest problems with standard airbeds is their lack of back support compared to a regular mattress. However, some people with back problems prefer the former style. They prefer not to sleep on a firm mattress because it’s too uncomfortable or even painful.
Fortunately, you can inflate or deflate an air mattress to your personal preference. Sure, there’s a risk that it may deteriorate over time. But if it improves your quality of sleep, it may be a chance you’re willing to take!
One way that medical air mattresses can help you is by improving your blood circulation.
It should be noted that this won’t be the case with every airbed. However, many people enjoy air mattresses because the pressure points adjust when you change position. This enhances your blood flow while you’re sleeping.
Blood circulation is important because it enables your body’s organs to function properly. As people age, their blood circulation can slow down. This can result in fatigue and drops in concentration throughout the day. A good night’s sleep can make all the difference.
Mattresses can work in the same way as a massage by stimulating your body and releasing the tension in your muscles.
Your body temperature plays a key role in the quality of your sleep.
If you’re too hot, you’ll struggle to become comfortable. Meanwhile, if you feel cold, it could result in illness. A good mattress will help regulate your body’s temperature for a better experience.
Historically, conventional air mattresses have a poor reputation when it comes to this.
However, more advanced models can low-air loss technology. This enables the mattress to dissipate air through tiny air holes slowly. It provides relief from the heat during the hot summer months.
This also creates a weightless sensation that makes the airbed’s occupant feel like they’re floating!
Advantages of A Medical Air Mattress
If you want to guarantee the best airbed experience, you should consider a medical air mattress or mattress topper.
They are more expensive than standard airbeds but have multiple advantages that make them a superior option. Check out these benefits now!
Hospital Grade Technology
Medical airbeds are used in hospitals, so it makes sense that they have advanced technology.
Potential buyers can rest assured that they have an advanced mattress to serve their needs. Everybody wants a comfortable night of sleep, but sometimes you have to pay a little extra. However, it’s worth it.
We spoke earlier about their air release technology. Anybody who has tried to sleep on a humid summer’s night will agree that it’s a nightmare. This doesn’t have to be the case if you have a medical airbed.
Meanwhile, you can adjust the pressure to your personal preference. If you have a queen-sized air mattress, you can even change both sides. This may even remove some tension from your relationship because you’ll both be comfy!
Cheaper air mattresses use materials like PVC, which are highly flammable.
On the other hand, medical airbeds are much safer. They typically have flame-proof coverings that reduce this risk. This might not seem like a big deal if you don’t smoke in your bedroom.
But it’s better to be safe than sorry. You never know what could happen!
Programmable Air Control Pump
Another great aspect of medical air mattresses is the ability to manipulate their pressure.
This ensures that the occupant has the amount of support they require. Some people prefer harder mattresses, while others enjoy a soft bed. An air control pump allows the user to find the point of perfection accurately!
Different people find certain pressure points uncomfortable or even painful. That’s why an air control pump is such a valuable accessory. Bear in mind that they aren’t available with cheaper airbeds.
Health Risks of Sleeping on An Air Mattress
We’ve looked in depth at the potential health benefits of sleeping on an air mattress.
However, it’s important to note that standard airbeds are not intended for long-term use. Some health risks may arise as a result of increased use. Furthermore, your mattress may deteriorate and leak over time.
That’s why it’s best to invest in a premium mattress if you plan to use it every night!
Lack of Support
A premium medical air mattress or cover can provide support for your back. But the opposite is the case with cheaper products.
They lack the structural integrity to support your spine for prolonged periods adequately. You may experience pain and stiffness if you continue to sleep on an airbed. Some people think that placing an air mattress on a standard bed frame will solve this issue.
In reality, it will only exacerbate the problem.
Most bedframes have multiple wooden or metal slats that hold the mattress in place. A standard mattress is dense enough to retain its shape on the frame. However, air mattresses may sink over time.
As well as potentially damaging your airbed, you could hurt yourself. The mattress cannot support your body properly. Furthermore, it may leak, leading to a further reduction in density.
Uneven Temperature Regulation
Medical air beds and mattress covers can regulate your temperature.
Remember that cheaper options won’t be able to do this. Materials like PVC and vinyl retain heat, so they’ll be less comfortable in hot weather. It’s not a big deal if you’re sleeping overnight in a guest room. But if you’re using it all of the time, you’ll quickly realize that it’s not sustainable.
Eventually, you may fall asleep through sheer exhaustion. But your quality of sleep will be lower than if your temperature regulation is on point.
Risk of Falling
There is also a higher risk of falling off an airbed than a standard mattress.
This is especially true if you use it incorrectly and place it on a regular bed frame. The chance of the shape warping and the mattress leaking will increase. It’s inadvisable to allow children to sleep on it because they may fall off.
Air mattresses don’t have the same stability as heavier permanent options. Remember that they are intended for short-term use and not to replace a standard mattress. The latter has the structural integrity to offer the support that your body requires.
Enhance the Lifespan of Your Air Mattress
If you want to enjoy your airbed for a prolonged period, you must look after it properly. Look at these tips and keep them in mind!
Maintain Air Pressure
Mattresses should provide an appropriate level of back support. If your air mattress doesn’t have enough pressure, it won’t fulfill this.
That’s why you should pump it to the manufacturer’s specifications. Over time your airbed may leak. This is normal but remember to inflate it again. If you don’t, you may suffer aches and pains.
Furthermore, your airbed may be more susceptible to damage.
If you live alone, this may not be something you will consider.
However, it’s advisable to stow your air mattress away when you’re not using it. This way, people won’t be tempted to sit on it. This disproportional pressure can damage the seams and the long-term integrity of your airbed.
Also, it removes the risks of accidents happening during the day.
Children, pets, and even adults can all cause inadvertent damage. Store your mattresses in a sealable box or a separate cupboard if you want to ensure their protection.
Airbeds can offer some health benefits.
This is especially true of medical airbeds, which are easily available online. However, remember that they cost more than standard options. They utilize technology to great effect to provide a good night’s sleep.
But most airbeds are not ideal for long-term use because they’re not designed for it. Most people use them for visiting guests or even for camping trips. They’re great for sleepovers but less so for prolonged use.
They lack the structural support of a regular mattress, nor can they correctly regulate the temperature of the human body. It’s advisable to invest in a standard mattress when possible. You should do your research before buying one.
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Taking a look at the CES lineup this year, it seems like just about everyone is touting their latest netbooks. Intel is announcing a new reference design for its Classmate PC, and HP, MSI, and Asus are bringing new products to market as well. Great! Competition is our friend here in Ed Tech, where price is king.
However, please note that when I refer to netbooks in this blog, I will never be referring to $1649 Atom-powered MacBook Air wannabes. The Asus S121, as reported by PC Magazine,
The unit weighs 2.6 pounds and is only 0.75-inch thick. Its 12-inch widescreen is backed by LEDs and possesses a 1,280-by-800 resolution. Other luxurious features include a 128-GB SATA solid-state drive and twin batteries that can provide up to 10 hours worth of battery life. The only netbook trait that the S121 really has is that it runs the Intel Atom platform.
Do you know what I can buy with over $1600? At least 4 Acer Aspire Ones! Or an actual MacBook Air.
Market segmentation and product differentiation are fine ideas. I'm a capitalist at heart; how much should companies charge for their products? As much as the market will bear, as my old economics teacher would tell us. However, in a recession with drastically decreased tax revenues available for educational funding, let's keep these netbooks in perspective, OK?
Netbooks can solve a lot of problems. How do we cheaply deploy a lot of computers to students and teachers who really just need web access and productivity software? With netbooks, of course. Just make sure you leave the $1600 netbooks for overpaid executives to purchase with government bailout money and stick with the $2-300 bargain basement models for your classrooms. Buy what you need, folks, not what flashy models show you on the CES floor. | <urn:uuid:b971e407-0a2d-4a06-a2b5-782f84f474d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.zdnet.com/article/when-is-a-netbook-no-longer-a-netbook/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969623 | 512 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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CBD is now widely accepted to help reduce stress and aide sleep, but recent studies have found that it may also help people with weight loss too. Recent studies show a positive impact on people trying to lose weight when using CBD.
Before we go any further, we must state that CBD is not a “miracle” weight loss supplement and as with all diet supplements, it must be taken in conjunction with a healthy diet and exercise.
CBD works by targeting your Endocannabinoid System (ECS) which controls everything from Coordination, Mood, Pain, Movement and Appetite. It helps to modulate signal transduction to and from the Central Nervous System (CNS). This in turn can help your body to create what is known as “Homeostasis” where the body returns to its optimum, balanced natural state.
One thing that all experts do agree on is that with any exercise or diet, the key to results is “recovery”. Any athlete or body builder will tell you that sleep is as important as training. One will not achieve results without the other. This is where experts think that CBD and Diet may well work together?
One thing to consider when looking at CBD and Weight Loss is “Weight Gain”.
so, it only stands to reason then that alleviating all of the above can only be a positive and help you on the way to losing weight.
CBD in the UK (unlike America and some other countries), can only be classed as a “Food Supplement”. The MHRA will only allow UK CBD companies to sell it (and describe it) as this. Companies are not allowed to refer to CBD in any medical context and can (at best) describe it with phrases like “may improve overall wellbeing” and “may improve overall health”. Describing CBD in a medical context requires that the company has a “Medical License” to sell and advertise it as such. This would also mean that customers could then only buy these CBD products with a prescription from your Doctor/GP.
As we said earlier, the key to any diet is a healthy, calorie-controlled diet combined with some form of regular exercise. This combined with CBD though could help you to achieve your results a lot faster.
The good thing with so many of our CBD products, is that they are super low in calories. An average 10ml bottle of CBD oil (in MCT carrier oil) contains between 70 and 100 calories at most. This equates to 0.3 to 0.5 calories/drop (approximately). Based on an average of 10 drops/day, this would mean you had added approximately 3-5 calories to your daily total. This at least gives you peace of mind that you do not need to start counting CBD calories.
Another superb product to assist you in your Weight Loss regime are our new CBD Honey Pearls. High Quality CBD blended with the finest multi-flower Honey to create an amazing sweet alternative.
Each Honey Pearl is only 10 Calories each and can also be added to your favourite drinks as a sugar alternative.
How Much CBD Should I Take?
The Food Standards Agency UK (FSA) recently set a recommended limit of 70mg/day. All our products come fully labelled explaining CBD content/drop or with products like CBD Capsules, the CBD/Capsule etc. This makes it easy to monitor exactly the amount of CBD you are taking daily.
We recommend starting low and building up to this 70mg/day. Our personal studies and feedback tend to show that this amount is a good amount to help with your Weight Loss goals.
Although CBD does come from the Cannabis plant, it comes from the Legal Industrial Hemp plant and not to be confused with the Illegal Marijuana plant. All our CBD products are 100% legal and do not create a “high” that you would expect with Marijuana.
Although CBD is not Marijuana, it does come from the Cannabis Sativa plant and studies have found that Cannabis users, were normally leaner than nonusers.
Although research into CBD is in its infancy, one thing we do know with CBD is that it is completely safe. All our products are lab-tested for quality and content and all our products are currently going through the new FSA Novel Food Approval system. We are also CannaPro Approved Members which means all our products are legal and sold/described correctly.
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by C. Harmon
Jacob lived true to the meaning of his name: “deceiver.” He tricked his aged father, Isaac, into giving him the blessing that belonged to his older brother, Esau. Under Esau’s threat of murder, Jacob fled far from his father’s home. For the next twenty years he lived a frustrating life with his Uncle Laban. Jacob was now a victim himself of his uncle’s deceit. But for the love of one of Laban’s daughters, Jacob worked for him fourteen years. He stayed on another six years, establishing his own family and wealth, though sometimes still by conniving means. (Read the story of Jacob in Genesis chapters 25, 27–35.)
Finally, God told Jacob to return to his relatives back in Canaan, promising His presence and kindness. Jacob gathered his wives, children, servants, and flocks, and began the long trip home. Toward the end of their journey, at night and alone, Jacob was attacked by a man. The two wrestled all night. Jacob discovered that the man was none other than God, Himself, in human form, for He supernaturally put Jacob’s hip out of joint just by touching it. This was the turning point—Jacob realized it was useless to struggle against Almighty God. Instead, he became bold in faith, pleading for His blessing.
The Man answered Jacob’s request by asking something He already knew—his name. By stating his name, Jacob both revealed and confessed his nature as a deceiver and yielded in reverence to Him. This was the radical life change Jacob needed to become the father of a great nation. The Man declared that his name would now be Israel, which means “God fights.” Because of the patriarch’s stubbornness and pride, God had chosen to fight against him. In love and mercy, God had met Jacob face to face without destroying him, and Jacob recognized this (Genesis 32:30). Now God would fight for Israel, the person and the nation, and would overcome their enemies as long as they honored and obeyed Him.
Like Jacob, we need to recognize that our self-sufficiency, pride, and other destructive traits are incompatible with the work of God. God wants our total allegiance, and just as He chose Jacob, He lovingly chooses to use us in His work.
The apostle Paul declared, “We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.” (Colossians 1:9b, 10). Do those we live and work with see our love for people because of our God? Do they witness our joy in knowing Him? What we say about our Lord will have little impact if we don’t show a caring spirit. And people admire Christians who display joy, especially through difficulties.
In his book, Just Like Jesus, Max Lucado asks, “Wouldn’t you love to look back on your life and know you had done what you were called to do?” 1 The author suggests that “by answering four simple questions, we can be more like Jesus; we can stay on course with our lives.” 2 Here are the questions:
1) Am I fitting into God’s plan?
The author is referring to God’s ultimate plan—salvation for all mankind. He states
“. . . you are intended to contribute to the good plan of God, to tell others about the God who loves them and longs to bring them home.” 3
2) What are my longings?
Mr. Lucado explains: “When we submit to God’s plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God’s plan and our pleasures. What do you love to do? What brings you joy? What gives you a sense of satisfaction?” 4 He adds that we should consider our skills along with our desires, thus moving us on to the third question.
3) What are my abilities?
Max urges, “Identify your strengths, and then—this is important—major in them . . . Failing to focus on our strengths may prevent us from accomplishing the unique tasks God has called us to do.” 5
4) Am I serving God now?
The author suggests we should do what Jesus did—He served God at home through loving and helping His family, and then also sacrificially served others in His ministry. We imitate Jesus when we willingly serve others with a loving attitude. 6
These four questions form an acrostic: the first letter of the last word of each spells PLAN. Mr. Lucado adds, “God allows you to start fresh at any point in life . . .
Regardless of what has controlled you in the past, it’s never too late to get your life on course and be part of God’s P.L.A.N.” 7
It’s time to stand out as followers of Christ. To put Him first in our finances, activities, relationships, in every area of our lives. To determine what He is calling us to do with our lives now. To find our joy and strength in Jesus, not in people or accomplishments. To make needed changes in our lives with God’s help.
When have we been most on fire for the Lord?
What do we need to fuel that fire again?
Let’s not wait for God to give us new names. Let’s choose to burn brighter now!
1 Max Lucado, Just Like Jesus, Copyright (Thomas Nelson, 1998), 92.
2 Ibid, p. 94.
3 Ibid, p. 95.
4 Ibid, p. 95.
5 Ibid, pp. 96, 97.
6 Ibid, pp. 97, 98.
7 Ibid, p. 99.
The following are samples of available materials for helping believers share Jesus and the gift of salvation with others:
ReIgnite, an online course with videos, worksheets, and Bible-based studies. From the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. ReIgnite will encourage you to reignite your passion for evangelism and will train you to share Jesus with others.
People Sharing Jesus: A Natural, Sensitive Approach to Helping Others Know Christ, by Darrell W. Robinson. This is a book that includes inspiring stories and reality-based techniques on sharing Jesus with others.
I Am Second “is a movement meant to inspire people of all kinds to live for God and for others. . . . it is designed to help people discover their purpose in life.” Includes videos/films, questions to guide discussion, available online chat and blog, e-mail, phone contact.
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Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a new mathematical machine-intelligence-based technique that spatially delineates highly complicated cell-to-cell and gene-gene interactions. The powerful method could help with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases ranging from cancer to COVID-19 through quantifying crosstalks between “good” cells and “bad” cells.
By combining the mathematical concept known as “optimal transport” with machine learning and information theory, the scientists were able to equip unconnected single cells with spatial information, thereby highlighting communication links between cells or genes. The work is the subject of a new study a new study published today in Nature Communications.
“With this tool, we can identify cross-talk between virus-infected cells and immune cells,” said co-author Qing Nie, UCI professor of mathematics and the director of the National Science Foundation-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research, which supported the project. “This novel approach may have an immediate application in finding critical cell-to-cell communication links in the lung when the COVID-19 virus attacks.”
Nie said that accurate disease diagnosis and treatment requires both gene screening and tissue imaging. High-throughput gene profiling at single-cell resolution often requires dissociation of tissues into individual cells, leading to a loss of spatial information. But imaging intact tissues only allows the measurement of a small number of genes.
“This new mathematical machine-intelligence method greatly enriches our capability in integrating multiple biomedical datasets,” said Nie. “For the very first time, we can reveal how one gene in one cell – for example, in a particular cancer cell – may influence another gene in an immune cell, for instance.”
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In partnership with the Institute for Human Rights and Business, and with support from Ericsson and the Government of Sweden.
This roundtable meeting discussed ways in which to ensure safety and security, and protect privacy in the digital realm, particularly with regard to state responses to threats and dangers.
It brought together stakeholders from government, business, and civil society worldwide to facilitate frank and practical discussion in order to:
- Highlight the increasing challenges and dilemmas for companies in responding to lawful government requests for interception of communications worldwide;
- Examine the implications of the sale and export of technologies that may be used by States in ways that may violate international human rights standards;
- Address the appropriate balance between privacy rights, freedom of expression, and legitimate security concerns in designing new laws for data retention and surveillance.
Key issues that came out of the meeting:
- A division of the world into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ countries is unhelpful and should be avoided. Human rights are universal and international standards, in particular peremptory norms, apply to all states. Every state has the obligation to respect, protect and fulfil human rights. On the other hand, there is a clear demarcation between ‘open’ and ‘closed’ states and this distinction is a real one in the human rights and ICT debate.
- It is unreasonable to assert that users of digital communications have automatically forfeited their right to privacy. This is highlighted in reports by the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. The UN reports also observe that the use of mass surveillance technology effectively undermines the right to privacy of communications on the internet.
- In the UK, there is not yet a definition of mass surveillance or bulk access of digital communications and the law regarding bulk data collection and storage by the intelligence agencies is unclear. Large scale interception or surveillance of private communications should be in the public interest and proportionate to the threat. However, proportionality cannot be tested in the absence of a public justification of the operation; without transparency, public oversight cannot be meaningful.
- While the discussion on surveillance and appropriate oversight is taking place in the US and Europe, there are many countries where there is no public dialogue. In many states there is neither the political will nor safe space for stakeholders to debate the issues freely. However, open discussions about surveillance reform and oversight in Europe and the US could have a positive influence on the global discourse.
- Surveillance technologies created and manufactured in Europe have been used by governments with a poor record on human rights. The cost of conducting surveillance and collecting data has fallen and the technology is now more accessible and affordable. As a result, more states now have the technical capability to conduct surveillance- a power which few countries are likely to rescind.
- It is widely felt that export controls and regulations governing the sale of surveillance technology are being outpaced by technological developments. National and regional bodies, including the European Union, will need to act swiftly in order to update regulations governing surveillance exports.
- Companies and governments need to be more transparent. There is a view that corporate transparency reporting could be more effective and meaningful, and that governments should be consistent in releasing transparency reports.
- Governments developing an effective multidisciplinary approach to address surveillance, privacy and human rights should include the judiciary, parliamentarians, technologists, corporations, and the human rights community.
Mail and Guardian: Big Brother erodes our right to privacy (Jane Duncan)
Communities @ Risk: Targeted Digital Threats Against Civil Society
Report from BAE Systems: Business and the Cyber Threat: The Rise of Digital Criminality Report
Aljazeera: Q&A: Turkey’s battle with the internet
Global Network Initiative: GNI Submission to UK Investigatory Powers Review – David Anderson will be speaking at this event
Marietje Schaake article: In Defense of Digital Freedom – Marietje will be speaking at this event
Huffington Post: Human Rights in the Digital Age
UN General Assembly: Promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental
freedoms while countering terrorism (69th session) – note by the Secretary General
Paul Bernal blog: Knights of the ISC Round Table…. – Paul will be a chair at this event
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Hot dogs are one of the simplest meats to cook dinner. You can broil them, grill them, things them, skewer them, and simmer them. Historic cookbooks contains recipes for frying frankfurters and cooking them in sauce. Grilling cookbooks inform how to turn this basic sausage into shish-ka-bob and other fancy dishes.
When tasting the different cocktails you will be searching for sweetness from the tomato and the celery. This is not sweet like a punch or a soda, but a slight sweet flavor which rests on the tongue following you swallow. There ought to also be a decent earthy flavor from the garlic and onions. The heat you use will change the taste. You can use pepper, horseradish or scorching sauce depending on your choice. Just make sure you do not use too much or you will need a second consume to calm down the hearth from the initial one. Make sure you write down something you notice as you try various issues.
Think lean when you buy your meat and reduce off the additional fat. Think about removing the skin from chicken, prior to you eat it. Sometimes lean meat can taste like cardboard. Sluggish cooking and tons of spices is the solution. In the situation of not-so-lean ground beef, try draining off the fat. My spaghetti begins by adding spices to floor beef, cooking it on medium in a skillet, draining off the grease and then adding much more spices, before pouring in the tomato liquor hot sauce. When using ground beef for a Crockpot chili or stew, I use the exact same procedure.
Most of these desserts are season specific and can be found at most bakeries and patisseries throughout these times. Even though Cantuccini and Vin Santo are simpler to discover, as most Tuscan eating places will include them in their menus all the yr spherical.
Alternatives: If you happen to hit Panda Specific for dinner, and the vegetables appear like they have been sitting for a while, don’t be afraid to inquire them for new types. Orange rooster with fried rice arrives in at 950 energy. It also has 1440 mg of sodium and 245 mg of cholesterol, which is more than your daily recommended of much less than 200 mg. Think about getting steamed rice instead. Steamed rich is just that, no sodium, no cholesterol, nothing additional. For 1 of your sides consider the steamed veggies at 70 energy and 530 mg of sodium.
As a make a difference of fact, Romanians hate delays in cooking some thing good once they made up their mind about it. So allow us start right absent with the cheese ball, which you can discover in any great checklist of Romanian recipes. The cooking time for this preparation is about an hour.
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The working world is under rapid transformation, and this is inevitably having a profound impact on the skills required for students and graduates entering the workplace. Research shows that the skills they currently possess aren’t well aligned with employers’ requirements. In fact, 60 per cent of hiring managers find new graduates do not obtain critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are necessary for the job.
The modern skill set
Employers now have different expectations when it comes to their recruitment choices. They are looking to hire individuals that obtain a wide variety of skills, extending beyond academic abilities. Interestingly, a World Economic Forum study found that students with skills such as critical thinking and problem-solving, creativity, communication and collaboration are better equipped to succeed in the evolving digital economy.
Creativity as the key to success
Creativity is often perceived as a skill that is only necessary within certain industries and roles. However, it can and should be applied within every career and business model. Creativity is not only the ability to think innovatively, but also includes the capacity to solve problems and adapt to new circumstances: the lifeblood of any organisation.
Creativity should be integrated into learning at every level, and in every discipline. It should encourage lateral thought and thereby improve employability, while arming graduates with the essential skills to survive in a competitive marketplace. One way to weave creativity into the curriculum is to immerse it into the design of the environment, and ensure that students are encouraged by their surroundings to innovate and adapt.
An ecosystem of spaces
The environment in which students are learning cannot be static, either. The spaces should reflect both the diversity of the brain and of the students themselves. They should be provided with an ecosystem of spaces that allows for individuals to focus on the task at hand: with places for collaborative thinking, project help, communal studying and private work.
Interactive learning that encourages both communication and the ability to retreat into private work is a style of learning that reflects the human experience, allowing for emotions to play a role in the way we learn and think. Moving away from traditional classrooms is a democratisation of the space, taking into account the varying needs of each individual and their preferences to change. This adaptability of space can help translate into students and graduates being better equipped to constantly shift roles and acclimatise to new circumstances; a key skill in the current and future world of work.
The nature of student learning
Students are, by nature, keen to learn and adapt. By allowing their spaces to reflect this, we can start to consider student success as a more complex, diverse issue than simply grades and classifications. This will not only encourage creativity, innovation and leadership abilities, but it will also ensure that students are fully prepared before entering the workplace. | <urn:uuid:abd74582-5a18-4d83-8de2-3dc3dd68dcb2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://universitybusiness.co.uk/facilities/redefining-student-success/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958599 | 563 | 2.890625 | 3 |
What is a good warmup for basketball?
If we want a really fast warm up… we’ll do something like this: Jog or skip — forward and backwards. Shuffle or carioca. Choose a hip or hamstring dynamic stretch.
Is stretching good before a game?
Benefits of Warming Up and Stretching For Young Athletes
Whether the activity is skiing, running or playing a group sport like basketball or football, stretching keeps the young athlete’s body flexible. … Before any kind of physical activity, including stretching, the body needs to be warmed up with some light exercise.
Do NBA players stretch before games?
40 years ago, no one stretched before a basketball game. … We went out slow, did the two lines drill, broke into shooting time, and then started the game. Today, they stretch for an hour prior to a game, and there is no difference — it’s a waste of time …
Is stretching good before basketball?
Physical Therapy in Vancouver and Camas for Basketball. Stretching is an essential part of successful basketball. A good stretching routine can help to minimize muscle imbalances, prevent injury and improve your basketball performance.
What do NBA players do to warm up?
20 Basketball Warm Up Exercises
- Walking High Knees.
- Knee Hugs.
- Jumping Jacks.
- Ankle Pops.
- Butt Kicks.
- Quad Walk.
- Over the Fence.
What are the two types of stretches?
Stretches are either dynamic (meaning they involve motion) or static (meaning they involve no motion). Dynamic stretches affect dynamic flexibility and static stretches affect static flexibility (and dynamic flexibility to some degree). The different types of stretching are: ballistic stretching.
Is stretching bad for athletes?
They suggest, for one thing, that stretching does not bolster athletic performance when it is part of a full warm-up. But at the same time, they show that stretching does not impede performance, Dr. Blazevich says, even when the stretching is static.
Should basketball players be flexible?
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Address by Mr Bantu Holomisa, MP in the Parliamentary Debate: Budget Vote 30 – Environment (28 May 2013)
Chairperson, Minister and Deputy Minister and Honourable Members,
The UDM supports Budget Vote 30.
The high incidents of rhino poaching in South Africa over the past few years have been a cause of much embarrassment. More disappointing, however, is to see that South Africa seems incapable of dealing with this problem.
State Security has failed to gather intelligence on rhino poaching in South Africa. Such intelligence would enable us to nip this problem in the bud.
Rhino poaching has even risen in our transfrontier parks. Every day we read disturbing newspaper reports that rhino poaching has increased in parts of these Parks that are in our neighbouring countries.
While noble ideals underpinned the development of these Parks, the rise in rhino poaching in these Parks requires urgent attention.
We are duty bound to make environmental issues attractive to the people. This we can do by ensuring that we avoid using arcane academic language and jargon when we talk to our people about environmental issues. More important is that we develop practical solutions to environmental challenges for the public to implement.
Some of these solutions include, but are not limited to, packaging environmental solutions with food security initiatives and commercial foresting. People should also be encouraged to engage in tree-planting activities, as indigenous forests play a critical role in protecting homes against natural disasters.
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On September 25th, people from 32 villages traveled to the small community of Niaming, Senegal (less than 5 miles from the Gambian border) to celebrate the UN recognized International Day of Peace. These community members came from both sides of the Senegal-Gambia border and have all recently participated in Tostan’s Peace and Security Project. The meeting aimed to raise awareness of peace and security issues in the region and to explore best practices and lessons learned in conflict resolution and mediation.
Proposed and organized by community members in Niaming, their Community Management Committee (CMC), and their recently created Peace Committee, the event provided a way of sharing what they had learned through their participation in the Peace and Security Project. Another important objective was to give Niaming’s Peace Committee, made up of five dynamic members of the community representing men, women and youth, the chance to tell others about their successful mediations throughout the border region.
The cross-border meeting was attended by over 200 people including a significant number of women — key, though often overlooked, stakeholders in the peace and conflict resolution arena.
Several speakers linked the meeting to the Muslim religion, which places an emphasis on peace. The relationship between peace and development was also discussed, recognizing the fact that development cannot take place without peace and so the two issues are inseparable. Health, education, and economic empowerment were some of the examples given as aspects of human security that cannot progress in an environment where conflict is commonplace.
Many participants stated that the border that separates Senegal and The Gambia has become increasingly meaningless, as conflicts and other problems often ignore manmade borders. Speakers from both countries highlighted the remarkable work done by Niaming’s Peace Committee. Community members from various social strata described how the Peace Committee has solved conflicts across the region, including the case of a local Imam who hadn’t spoken to his brother for 20 years. Representatives from The Gambia echoed their appreciation of the Niaming Peace committee and said they had sent delegations across the border to ask for its help.
To deepen community members’ understanding of how the conflict resolution and mediation process works, Niaming’s CMC had prepared an amusing and informative sketch which revolved around a man who accused his neighbor’s cows of destroying some of his crops. When the neighbor refused to accept the blame, the son of the man whose crops were destroyed took revenge by sneaking into the neighbor’s fields and stealing some of his peanuts. The accused man’s son caught him in the act and proceeded to take him directly to see the Village Chief. The Village Chief asked the Peace Committee of Niaming to help him to mediate the disagreement and eventually, the men were able to come to a resolution — the neighbor promised to work harder to keep his cows from encroaching upon his neighbor’s fields, and the man whose fields were destroyed promised, in return, to control his son, since stealing is a serious crime in the community.
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Improved availability and access to safe drinking water to contribute to a better quality of life for the residents of El Salado in Colombia.
The corregimiento (subdivision of a municipality which includes a population centre) of El Salado is located 100km to the south east of the city of Cartagena, in the department of Bolivar in Colombia. It belongs to the El Carmen de Bolívar municipality, which is 19 km away. Although historically it was recognised as one of the better and more prosperous corregimientos in terms of quality of life in the region –due mainly to high income from the growing of tobacco and other agricultural produce–, armed conflict triggered large-scale disintegration of the social and economic fabric of the area from the mid nineties. Violence forced the residents of El Salado and neighbouring areas to flee, leaving the area empty.
In the year 2001, some 200 families decided to recover the area and return to the village, and numbers have been increasing since then. However, all productive, commercial and financial networks had broken down, public service infrastructures (electricity and water systems) were not functioning or absent, there was no support from social protection systems, and no proper education or health services and infrastructures were available.
As for water, the old water supply system was recovered, and there is a distribution network connecting houses to two elevated tanks, which are filled from underground sources (deep wells) by an electric pump. However, the system does not supply water continuously and the water that is supplied is not of adequate quality. This affects the living conditions of the population, particularly in regard to their health, and makes it difficult for people to reach their full productive potential. This in turn entrenches poverty.
Currently, the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in the corregimiento is 42% (figures from 2012), meaning that residents are 6.3 percentage points worse off than those living in other rural areas of the country when measured by the same aggregate index. The limited income generated by the community makes it difficult to pay for public services, food and access to education.
Ayuda en Acción
Within the framework of a process which aims to financially recover and rebuild the corregimiento of El Salado, Ayuda en Acción and its partner, Fundación Semana, have been working in the area through a cross-cutting approach. Thus, this water project carried out jointly with Ferrovial falls within the long-term integrated development programme being implemented in the region.
The aim of the project is to provide a continuous supply of quality drinking water to the residents of El Salado.
A solar pump system will be installed to reduce overhead costs. The pump system will function during the day, so that no battery will be required. This technology means that there is no need for mains grid connection, and this will reduce operating costs, an issue which is particularly relevant in El Salado, since one of the reasons for the current system not working continuously is the high cost of electricity required for pumping.
Water will be stored in a new tank, since the existing ones are in a bad state of disrepair. The water pipelines will be repaired where necessary, and protected where there is a risk of damage through exposure.
The social element of the project aims to mobilise the community to oversee and maintain their water resources. For this purpose, decision making spaces such as the Infrastructure Board, the Oversight Committee and the Administrative Board of the Water and Sewage Systems of the El Salado corregimiento will be strengthened. This process aims to ensure the proper functioning and sustainability of the water supply system in the long run, thus contributing to an improvement in the health of the population and the general wellbeing of children and their families.
Peace Through Water
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Why not get outside and enjoy the fresh air. Go for a walk around your local neighbourhood, or cycle around your local park. Or perhaps you can listen to some new music, have a virtual coffee date with a friend or watch your favourite TV show – anything that makes you smile.
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- Go outside and enjoy nature everyday
- Explore your local parks and waterways
- Play some music you love
- Cook something new
- Plant something and watch it grow
- Take up a new hobby
- Contact family and friends online or on the phone
- Watch a film you have always wanted to watch
- Keep a journal
- Take some time away from the news
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As we're all now spending a lot more time at home than we might like, staying as physically active as possible is more important than ever, for both our physical and mental health.
It can be tough to find ways to stay active when you’re locked down at home. But we're challenging you to get creative and Find Your 30 each day in lockdown.
30 minutes of exercise each day can lead to a happier and healthier lifestyle, and during this lockdown we've put together a creative list to help you find your 30.
To help you stay active while at home our partners have developed a range of online fitness programs to help you.
To help you make the most of your essential exercise outings during the coronavirus pandemic, VicHealth have created a list of tips for cycling and walking while staying physically distant.
Disability Victoria have compiled a list of exercises to help people with a disability keep active.
- You can access free mindfulness meditations from Smiling Mind. To listen to the meditations visit their website or download their free app.
- Watch the How to practice mindfulness and meditation for the Deaf Community video from the Karli Health Centre.
- Learn practical ways to protect your mental health via This Way Up.
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You Have Explained “What Is a Memo” but What Format Does It Take?
Now that we have addressed the question “what is a memo,” you want to know about format. These documents are typically arranged in a number of sections to make their purpose easy for readers to see and understand.
Begin with a Heading
The particular titles you choose to address recipients usually depends on how well you know an individual i.e. are you on first name terms with them? It may be possible to omit titles when addressing people you regularly work or collaborate. Failing this, it is advisable to address people such as Dr., Mr., Ms., Mrs., and so on. Be specific when choosing the subject for a memorandum essay. For example, a broad term such as “computers” could imply any number of things from the purchase of new office computers to system updates. So you should instead think about writing something along the lines of, “Computer Systems to Be Updated Next Week.”
If you adhere to accepted academic memo format guidelines, begin by outlining the reason for sending the memo, the problem or issue, and whatever background information – if any – you deem necessary, and a recommendation for resolving the problem. Try keeping your introduction to approximately a paragraph. The level of specific information can ultimately depend on the way you intend to write your memo. If you have a more direct plan, the introduction should be suitably explicit. Outlining the purpose of the memo is a way of encouraging people to spend time reading it.
Historical or Background Information
Use the background section to explain the problem that needs solving in greater detail. If appropriate, devote a few sentences or a whole paragraph to background.
The Task in Hand
Explain your plan for solving the problem in this part. If the task is to recommend a reasonable plan, you could begin by saying, “Further to your instruction, here are some suggested solutions …”
It is important that a memo writer does not lose focus or include information that is not relevant to the given problem. You should instead try to suggest solutions that are realistic and sufficiently detailed. If it is the case you have a task you are finding difficult to explain, it possibly points to inadequate planning. It is very important you address issues on the basis of priority.
Where a memo exceeds one page in length, you may want to consider summing-up your main recommendations and proposed solutions. Bearing in mind that your audience is probably made up of busy people, they are likely to appreciate having a short summary of key points. It is also permissible to draw attention to any sources and methods used in a memo writing assignment.
In the majority of memo papers, this section is the most lengthy part and it should incorporate detailed information as well as evidence showing how your concepts, ideas or proposed solutions are reasonable. Begin by discussing the information you feel is most important. This can mean your most important findings, evidence and/ suggestions. Ideas should also be listed in order, with the strongest ones first and moving downwards to the weaker ones.
This is almost our last piece of advice on memo paper format and it concerns the ending where we recommend you close by inviting readers to engage in further discussion. Your aim is possibly for readers to understand the benefits of taking some recommended action. You may want to end, for example, by saying, “This can be discussed in greater detail at our next Friday meeting. I would appreciate your feedback.”
Attach Relevant or Necessary Documents
If you use supporting figures, charts or statistics in a memo, you should include these as attachments at the memo’s end. Indicate that additional documents are attached in case these become separated. In formal memo format, attachments are usually referred to in the following way:
Attached: Results of Survey, January-April 2019
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In most cases, the tone should either be positive or neutral. Lastly, it is worth remembering that each word you write can matter so you should pay particular attention to consequences before you send it.
Memos serve a variety of purposes. They may provide information about a policy change. If you have to write a memo on policy and are not sure how to do this, you should be able to find some good examples online that will explain the basic organization of this type of memo. Memos may also be used to persuade a reader to take certain actions or support some initiative. Regardless of the aim, writing a memo can be a demanding undertaking
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Tiger sharks are polygynandrous, mating once every three years and breeding earlier in the northern hemisphere, from March-June than in the southern hemisphere, from November-March.
Tiger sharks are polygynandrous, meaning males and females have multiple mates. Tiger sharks do not pair-bond at any time. Not much is known regarding the behaviors of finding, attracting, and defending mates.
Female tiger sharks mate once every three years.
Tiger shark breeding seasons differ in the northern and southern hemispheres. In the northern hemisphere, females delay fertilization until March or May in order to give birth between May and June of the following year. In the southern hemisphere, females delay mating until November or January in order to give birth between February and March of the following year.
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This chapter deals with a generalised report and contains the name of the nadi seeker, his or her life span, how life is going to be, identity, names of spouses, parents, details about present profession, about brothers, sisters and children. This chapter also gives a summary of future predictions for all the 12 houses of the horoscope based on the planetary positions at the time of birth as mentioned in the nadi leaf. This is done with the thumb impression, for men the right thumb and women the left.
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Feeling overrun by your to-do listing? Decided to favours you now resent? For such a small term, it’s incredibly hard for plenty folks to say ‘no’. But give it a try, describes psychotherapist Sarah Crosby. It might convert yourself.
Exactly why is it that many people think it is impossible to state ‘no’ – merely to come across our selves distribute as well thinly? Why does refusing accomplish becoming a sugar baby one thing make one feel guilty or that we’ve try to let somebody all the way down? When this heard this before, your boundaries require some interest. Creating limitations in what you do and don’t believe delighted when it comes to and permitting group know isn’t greedy. Believe it or not, it’s the best kind self-care…
What exactly are borders?
Placing boundaries does not usually come to mind whenever the majority of us contemplate self-care, yet it’s probably one of the most successful tactics we are able to really take care of our selves. Borders are like limitations for the emotional, psychological and physical fitness. And achieving deficiencies in them starts the entranceway for other people to find out our mind, ideas and requires.
resentful or assumed, and instruct others the way we desire these to communicate with you. What’s more, they allow us to to protect our selves from burnout and damaging conduct. Knowing their restrictions and advising rest about all of them try effective stuff!
But discover common misconceptions about boundaries. We think that they force individuals aside. By stating ‘no’ to a hobby or favour, we envision we’re being self-centered. Or by establishing limitations the audience is for some reason being bossy or demanding. One of the most troubling misconceptions is the fact that they don’t apply at affairs with near family members or partners.
Why we should put limitations for all
Ironically, placing obvious boundaries does the entire reverse to pressing anyone aside – it actually brings a link eventually, within relationships, romantic relationships and groups. This is because all of them about revealing believe and admiration for ourselves among others. Actually, the only real people who are more likely to make one feel that we can be found in some way are selfish by setting out all of our limitations would be the folks who have become benefiting from united states having not one.
Let’s getting clear: asking for a change isn’t informing anyone what to do. We have all the right to state yes, no or suggest a compromise. Unlike manipulation, it isn’t about getting regulation or energy over some body; it’s about creating alternatives about our very own actions and our own existence.
And ‘it’s families’ isn’t a totally free pass for disrespectful or bad habits. When we wouldn’t recognize comparable habits from outside us, why enable it from our siblings, mothers or any other family members? People chew her tongue about specific things, acknowledging another’s conduct as ‘just the way they are’, or walk on eggshells so as to keep a semblance of harmony. However, limits are crucial inside the absolute most well-functioning of family affairs.
The three kinds of boundary
RIGID These work like wall space. They hold people solidly out. When your limitations were rigorous, maybe you have a hard time revealing your emotions or stress and asking for services, while intimacy and near relationships is a struggle for your needs.
POROUS Chances are you’ll overshare information that is personal, find it difficult to say no and/or experience responsible for the emotions of other people. Your usually recognize disrespectful actions, whether you indicate to or otherwise not, consequently they are scared of not-being appreciated.
FIT These limits fall somewhere in the midst of both past extremes. When you have healthier boundaries you could say no without guilt, talk your own needs and requires and pick so that in just those you would like. Your don’t compromise your prices and accept the decisions of people.
A number of all of our boundaries are more evident than the others, eg the length of time we invest with someone or how much cash we decide to display. Different limitations may not be thus clear until we’ve eliminated beyond them. Including: the quantity of news and social media we eat; how long we’re prepared to listen to others venting or discussing her serious pain; whenever a close relative gossips about another friend or a friend information all to you the amount of time or will continue to arrive at your household unannounced.
The secret to recognizing in which limitations are required comes from your.
Simple tips to set the limitations
We can’t ready good limitations if we become unsure of whatever you would like them is. This is often hard, particularly if you performedn’t bring healthy behaviours modelled available as a child. A lot of us don’t know a limit happens to be crossed until we begin to feel regarding manner.
A good way to recognize a maximum will be remember previous experiences the place you have thought aggravation, resentment, distress or defensiveness about a range being entered. How did yourself sense when this happened? Performed your cardiovascular system race? The face flush? Comprise your trembling?
This is certainly the essential challenging component, because need both energy and consistency when people examine your resolve.
There’ll continually be people who’ll make an effort to break the rules and state items like, ‘You’ve changed’, ‘I miss the older your’ or ‘You’re getting truly self-centered.’ It’s normal to have some amount of push-back, particularly from those that have expanded used to your earlier behaviour. The trick should assume it and go on it as a test that enables that strengthen your limits. Their self-confidence will thank you for this. Whenever following the limits becomes tough, it is crucial that you recall the reasons why you set them. Advise your self that you may need all of them to suit your health, it doesn’t matter what people may state. Nothing communicates the borders much better than live by all of them.
Use the proper terms… at correct time
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In an interview back in 2018, he said that he was unhappy with his iPhone because his mail app was broken. This, along with his latest interview, has led Tesla fans to believe that Elon Musk is, in fact, developing a phone.
So far, this is nothing but speculation, but when it comes to Elon, we know he likes to deliver on things, even those he hasn’t promised yet. He is vitally known for his straightforwardness. When he said that he wasn’t pleased with his iPhone, fans began to wonder immediately – Will there be a Tesla phone?
But more important than that is the question; What will happen to iPhone and Samsung if Elon were to launch his own phone?
Elon Musk argues that Tesla motors are an auto-tech company and not just an automotive company. To understand more about Tesla’s phone, we looked at the three things that make Tesla cars better than the rest. That is to say, three points that are relevant in the phone industry.
Tesla’s charging stations aren’t the regular electric vehicle charging station. By and large, Tesla’s Superchargers are multiple times quicker than most open charging stations. Indeed, Model S proprietors can get a half battery charge in only 20 minutes at a Supercharging station.
The mix of quicker charging speeds, helpful inclusion, and selectiveness not just set the establishment for Tesla’s arranged mass-market vehicle. However, it likewise gives the organization a transitory upper hand. As it were, it supports the organization’s aggressive desires.
- A swappable production strategy:
This point is once in a while raised in bullish and negative Tesla speculation proposals. Yet, it’s essential to the organization’s plan of action. Tesla vehicles are made in a far unexpected way in comparison to conventional cars. They have one standard battery stage on which they can mount shifting engines and bodies. Considerably more, Tesla’s engine is a minor one foot in the distance across. This swappable creation procedure could give the organization a benefit in accomplishing creation efficiencies.
Musk has communicated goals to ultimately accomplish overall net revenues that rival Porsche. Before Volkswagen obtained the extravagance sports-vehicle producer, Porsche was revealing a net income of around half. As of now, Musk says the organization should hit its 25% net overall revenue target, barring zero-emanation vehicle credits, by the final quarter of 2013.
- Capital infusion:
Because of financial backer confidence in the stock, Tesla’s $20-billion valuation has implanted the organization with money to forcefully put resources into Superchargers, creation, and global development. The actual valuation is an essential resource for the organization. Its $20-billion valuation implies that the administration has considerably more money than they had gotten ready for to make critical ventures or even increase creation and development all the more quickly.
What’s more to come:
Each of the three of these variables is building the establishment for the organization’s inevitable mass-market reasonable vehicle. What’s more, each component assists with getting Tesla’s spot among the large auto organizations – and changes the car industry until the end of time.
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HOLLYWOOD – ‘Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?’ says Indy in Raiders of the Lost Ark. And why indeed!? But sometimes, it is snakes and having some basic medical advice can be the difference between life and amputation or in extreme cases death.
Hi, I’m Steven Spielberg, director of Always, The Color Purple and Munich, although you probably know me better from the Jurassic Park or Indiana Jones films, especially Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Today I want to give you some advice on what to do if you or your hiking companion is bit by a poisonous snake.
Now there are several deadly snakes in California so the number one priority here is speed. I didn’t get to make several Oscar winning films by being a slow coach, oh no. As soon as you have been bitten, or a member of your party has been bitten, you need to leap into action. My contribution to action cinema is not entirely irrelevant. Aside from the afore-mentioned Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Lost Crusade, I also made Tin Tin: the Secret of the Unicorn, which holds up even today. It could be argued that Jaws is in fact a rollicking action movie, but we’re not here to talk about shark bites. No, we’re here to talk about snake bites, which can be, as I said already, deadly.
Time. Time is important. At the time, Hook and 1941 were treated quite harshly by the critics, but re-watching both those films recently, I think they hold up. Success, though, has a way of creating some quite venomous adversaries. And none more venomous perhaps, than snakes.
So I hope this has been helpful.
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California lawmakers are considering a bill that could help build a workforce of people living with mental illness to help guide others in need of services toward care.
When Eric Bailey landed in a San Diego hospital after a mental health crisis in 2013, he says he was at the end of his rope.
“At the moment of being ready to discharge, I had zero idea what I was doing,” he said. “I had no vehicle there at the time, my wife was leaving me, I’d lost my job, I was losing my apartment as well.”
Bailey didn’t know where to go. Then a stranger approached him and told him he’d been in that same psychiatric ward, and that he could help.
“I was very grateful for that,” Bailey said. “At that moment, I realized that there was something that I could do for myself as I was released from the hospital.”
That stranger was a peer support worker — someone who draws on lived experience with mental illness to guide others — and he pointed Bailey toward more resources.
Advocates say these workers are a vital, and often life-saving, component of the state’s behavioral health provider network. But many aren’t certified, which means their services aren’t Medicaid-reimbursable.
SB 10 from state Senator Jim Beall (D-San Jose) could fix that. The bill would require the Department of Health Care Services to establish a certification in four categories: peer, parent, transition-age youth and family support specialists. The department would define the practice guidelines for each specialist, including required training, continued education and a code of ethics.
There are roughly 6,000 peer support workers all over California, according to the Steinberg Institute, a nonprofit focused on mental health policy that’s sponsoring the bill. They say California is one of only two states that don’t have a certification process in place or in the works.
Former Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed an identical bill last year, stating a certification program would be too costly. A fiscal analysis from the prior bill found a certification program would cost DHCS approximately $2 million in the first year, with an ongoing cost of $3.8 million annually.
Under the new bill, the department would be able to use funds from Prop 63 — the Mental Health Services Act — to develop and administer the program.
Current Gov. Gavin Newsom has stressed additional investments in the state’s mental health provider network.
A statewide certification is required for states to bill for peer support services through Medicaid. As of 2016, 41 states and the District of Columbia were receiving federal reimbursement for the services provided by peer support specialists, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. In California, peer providers are helping Medi-Cal patients at the expense of counties.
Supporters of the bill say in addition to the cost-saving component, building up a workforce of certified peers is a key step in addressing the state’s severe mental health provider shortage.
“We need to have client and family driven practices,” said Adrienne Shilton, Government Affairs director for the Steinberg Institute. “We need to have the state recognize these individuals as professionals, as part of an interdisciplinary team, bringing them up to the standards that other licensed professionals have in California.”
Research has shown peer support can alleviate patient symptoms and reduce hospitalizations. In California, peers are already leading support groups, accompanying patients to appointments and serving as mental health liaisons in hospitals. The new bill prohibits them from diagnosing an illness, prescribing medication or providing clinical services.
Eric Bailey now works for Sacramento’s chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, using his lived experience with bipolar disorder to help connect people suffering from mental health issues to the care they need.
He says sometimes people need to speak to someone who isn’t a doctor or a therapist. He describes his role as “defrosting” people who aren’t quite ready to enter the mental health system.
“There’s a lot of that angst and animosity toward doctor’s offices and all of that,” he said. “I felt like I couldn’t convey my status, my symptoms, my feelings effectively to someone who hadn’t similarly felt those things or been in a position to have experienced those acute moments of distress or suicidal thoughts or extreme depression or extreme mania. I couldn’t help them realize what it was like to be me.”
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Unlocking the evolutionary secrets of local amphibians and lizards within the Lesser AntillesDutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA)
The islands of the Lesser Antilles serve as biodiversity hotspots within the Caribbean, known to host a great number of endemic species. Two new research projects led by scientists Michael L. Yuan and Jeffery H. Frederick of the University of California and Smithsonian Institution were set out to better understand the evolutionary history of a few reptiles and amphibians native to these islands. This research is not only critical for understanding the history of these species, but in designing effective conservation strategies for the future. Specimens collected during these projects will be donated to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and/or Nature Foundation Sint Maarten where they will serve to further scientific research and provide material for educational outreach. As climate change continues to threaten global biodiversity, learning to properly protect endemic species will become increasingly important, especially for small islands such as those of the Lesser Antilles.
Evolution of Anole lizards
The first research project is taking a closer look at how Anolis, a genus of lizards, are evolving to match conditions within their specific habitats, specifically dry scrublands versus more temperate climates. Often populations will evolve in similar ways in response to similar environments, due to either natural selection or shared evolutionary constraints. Although there have been many documented cases of this, scientists do not fully understand to what degree these observable evolutionary changes (phenotypic) relate to a genetic or cellular evolution. New technology grants researchers the ability to study specimens at both the genetic and cellular level. Researchers will work to compare Lesser Antillean anoles to better understand any overlap between phenotypic, genetic and cellular evolution.
Each island in the Lesser Antilles has been uniquely colonized by various species of Anolis lizards. St. Maarten in particular is home to two species of Anolis lizards, A. gingivinus and A. pogus, the Anguilla and Bearded anole respectively. With its diverse habitat range, paired with the fact that the Anolis populations of the island are known to have a wide variety of colors and patterns which may be adaptive to their environment, St. Maarten provides the perfect research site to understand the link between genetic, cellular, and phenotypic characteristics with the environment.
The St. Maarten study
In January 2020, researchers from University of California and Smithsonian Institution visited St. Maarten to collect data. Fifty individuals were collected from each of the two species (Anguilla and Bearded Anole). Each lizard specimen had a small genetic sample removed from their tail, then measured, photographed and released alive. In addition, six Anguilla anoles from one wet site and one dry site were collected. These individuals will be used for RNA analysis to fully capture their genetic makeup along with providing additional information through x-ray and CT-scanning analyses. Upon completion, these specimens will be given to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology to serve as a resource for the broader scientific community. Since the Bearded anole has been ranked as vulnerable, only non-lethal sampling techniques were used.
Previously, researchers completed a similar study on the island of Montserrat concerning A. lividus (Plymouth anole), as well the islands of Sint Eustatius, Saint Kitts, and Nevis inhabited by A. bimaculatus (Panther anole) and A. schwartzi (Schwartz’s anole). Here they were able to show a clear relationship between physical characteristics of the lizard and the habitat and climate. It was also demonstrated that individuals in colder climates were typically smaller overall, and had smaller appendages compared to body size. This is in line with broader patterns observed across lizards. Furthermore, they showed that montane rainforest populations had fewer and larger scales than their coastal counterparts and were darker and/or greener.
Evolutionary history of lesser Antillean amphibians and reptiles
The second study focuses on how the geographical history of the Leeward islands impacted the genetic evolution of local reptile and amphibian populations. Previous studies highlighted the impact of colonization from South America and the Greater Antilles, yet little is known about how the unique geographical characteristics of these islands shaped local populations. To compare the evolutionary history of the Lesser Antilles, three different groups were selected: Eleutherodactylus johnstonei (Antilles whistling frog), Thecadactylus geckos (turnip-tailed geckos), and two species of Sphaerodactylus geckos (least geckos). Each of these is widely distributed throughout the islands yet exhibit distinct historical lineages which should provide an interesting base for comparison. In addition, invasive species were sampled to study their impacts on native populations as they are known to introduce diseases. Samples collected will provide insight into how these diseases impacted the evolution and spread of reptiles and amphibians throughout these islands. Researchers sampled the following two invasive species: the Cuban tree frog (Osteopilus septentrionalis) and the house gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia).
Samples were collected across St. Maarten in January 2020. Antilles whistling frogs were photographed to collect data on their colorations and dorsal patterns. In addition, each frog was swabbed to test for the amphibian-killing fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, known to originate from invasive species, and a small tissue sample was taken for testing. Turnip-tailed geckos and both species of least geckos were photographed and a small tissue sample was collected. Similarly, for invasive species each was photographed and a small tissue sample was collected, in addition, each frog was swabbed for fungus and blood samples were collected from lizards to test for malaria.
Genetic sequencing will give researchers insight into the relationship between various populations. Scientists can use this information to better understand the evolution of each species as they spread between the islands of the Lesser Antilles. Following this, demographic modeling can be conducted to illustrate each population’s history. Lastly, unique characteristics of each species will be identified per location to highlight how the geographical history of each island played a role in the evolution of its native populations.
Understanding the differences between endemic populations could prove instrumental in designing conservation plans to protect these species in the future. For example, understanding the genetic structure of island populations can identify genetically unique lineages that may be of conservation interest. Additionally, for several species including Thecadactylus and Sphaerodactylus geckos which may represent complexes of undescribed species, their diversity has not been adequately assessed. Finally, through understanding their evolutionary history and adaptation to local environments, researchers can predict how further changes in the environment may impact these populations. | <urn:uuid:783cd844-ccc2-49ba-b794-804afa74dd6d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.naturetoday.com/intl/en/nature-reports/message/?msg=25941 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950466 | 1,433 | 3.671875 | 4 |
What is the best definition for foreign direct investment?
What is the best definition for foreign direct investment? A foreign direct investment is the purchase of more than ten percent of a firm or the creation of a new enterprise in another country. … Foreign investors who make direct investments in the U.S. economy.
What is foreign direct investment class 10?
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an investment made by a company or an individual in one country into business interests located in another country. FDI is an important driver of economic growth.
What are the benefits of foreign direct investment?
FDI creates new jobs and more opportunities as investors build new companies in foreign countries. This can lead to an increase in income and mor purchasing power to locals, which in turn leads to an overall boost in targetted economies.
What is foreign investment in simple words?
Foreign investment refers to the investment in domestic companies and assets of another country by a foreign investor. … Foreign indirect investment involves corporations, financial institutions, and private investors that purchase shares in foreign companies that trade on a foreign stock exchange.
What are the 4 types of Foreign Direct Investment?
Types of FDI
- Horizontal FDI. The most common type of FDI is Horizontal FDI, which primarily revolves around investing funds in a foreign company belonging to the same industry as that owned or operated by the FDI investor. …
- Vertical FDI. …
- Vertical FDI. …
- Conglomerate FDI. …
- Conglomerate FDI.
What is Foreign Direct Investment and how does it help the Philippines?
Through Foreign Direct Investment, new jobs are created. The establishment of new businesses opens more opportunities. It builds jobs, increases income, and creates a stronger purchasing power among locals–all of which contribute to a stronger economy.
Which countries invest China?
China’s main investors have remained broadly stable. Inflows from the US and Europe have dropped, but regional investment has continued to increase as flows from ASEAN countries grow. Singapore, the Virgin Islands, South Korea, the Cayman Islands, Japan, Germany and the United States count among major investors.
How many FDI are in India?
During FY 2020-21, total FDI inflow of $58.37 bn, 22% higher as compared to the first 8 months of 2019-20. FDI equity inflows received during April – November 2020 is $43.85 bn which is 37% more compared to April – November 2020 ($32.11 bn).
How does FDI work?
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When exposed to temperatures below their critical thermal minimum (CTmin), insects enter chill-coma and accumulate chilling injuries. While the critical thermal limits of water-breathing marine animals may be caused by oxygen- and capacity-limitation of thermal tolerance (OCLT), the mechanisms are poorly understood in air-breathing terrestrial insects. We used thermolimit respirometry to characterize entry into chill-coma in a laboratory population of fall field crickets (Gryllus pennsylvanicus). To detect potential oxygen limitation, we quantified muscle ATP, lactate and alanine concentrations in crickets following prolonged exposure to 0°C (a temperature that causes chill-coma, chilling injury and eventual death). Although there was a sharp (44%) drop in the rate of CO2 emission at the CTmin and spiracular control was lost, there was a low, continuous rate of CO2 release throughout chill-coma, indicating that the spiracles were open and gas exchange could occur through the tracheal system. Prolonged exposure to 0°C caused muscle ATP levels to increase marginally (rather than decrease as OCLT would predict), and there was no change in muscle lactate or alanine concentration. Thus, it appears that insects are not susceptible to OCLT at low temperatures but that the CTmin may instead be set by temperature effects on whole-animal ion homeostasis.
Critical thermal limits to activity and performance are used to study the adaptation of ectotherms to local climates, in part because such an approach allows for bottom-up predictions of climate-driven changes in animal distribution and abundance (Chown et al., 2010). These predictions depend on a clear understanding of the physiological underpinnings of critical thermal limits. In marine ectotherms, both the critical thermal minimum (CTmin) and the critical thermal maximum (CTmax) are set by an inability to supply sufficient oxygen to metabolically demanding tissues (oxygen- and capacity-limitation of thermal tolerance, OCLT) (reviewed by Pörtner, 2010). Beyond critical thermal limits, aerobic scope decreases, causing increased reliance on anaerobic metabolism to sustain ATP production, and an accumulation of harmful anaerobic byproducts (Zielinski and Pörtner, 1996). As a mechanism for setting critical thermal limits, OCLT is well supported in a wide variety of water-breathing animals, including marine invertebrates (Zielinski and Pörtner, 1996; Schröer et al., 2009; Frederich and Pörtner, 2000; Lannig et al., 2008) and vertebrates (Pörtner et al., 2004; Van Dijk et al., 1999). On a broader scale, OCLT predicts the effects of elevated temperatures on fish fitness and abundance (Pörtner and Knust, 2007; Farrell et al., 2008; Martins et al., 2011), thereby suggesting a mechanism for variation in thermal tolerance among wild populations (Eliason et al., 2011). When considered together (as an oxygen supply index), environmental oxygen supply and organismal oxygen demand can provide strong predictive power for aquatic ecological patterns in a changing climate (Verberk et al., 2011). Among air-breathing terrestrial insects, critical thermal limits have been similarly used in both theoretical and applied contexts to test hypotheses regarding variation in thermal tolerance (Klok and Chown, 2003; Terblanche et al., 2008; Nyamukondiwa and Terblanche, 2010). However, the current understanding of the physiological mechanisms underlying thermal thresholds in insects lags behind that of marine animals.
When cooled, insects cross their CTmin, defined as the temperature at which they lack the coordination to stand or cling to a surface, and are immobilized as they enter chill-coma (Hazell and Bale, 2011). Long-term exposure to temperatures below the CTmin results in the accumulation of injuries and eventual death (Kostál et al., 2006; Kostál and Tollarová-Borovanská, 2009; MacMillan and Sinclair, 2011a). Although the precise mechanisms underlying the insect CTmin are not known, onset of chill-coma is associated with a disruption of neuromuscular function. When cooled, muscle resting potentials of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae) depolarize, and the muscles lose the ability to generate action potentials (Hosler et al., 2000). In the fall field cricket (Gryllus pennsylvanicus Burmeister, Orthoptera: Gryllidae), this loss of muscle membrane potential is driven by a failure of whole-animal osmoregulation as inorganic ions and water migrate from the haemolymph to the gut during chilling (MacMillan and Sinclair, 2011a). Membrane potentials are expected to decrease below a threshold where the rate of ion leak exceeds the active transport capacity of cells, and tissues and ions diffuse down their concentration gradients (MacMillan and Sinclair, 2011b). If the insect CTmin and/or chill-coma is caused by an inability to deliver oxygen to tissues (as predicted by OCLT), then reduced aerobic metabolism would decrease substrate (ATP) availability and, consequently, lower the rate of ATP-dependent ion transport.
There are consistent changes in insect ventilation patterns at thermal limits (Lighton and Turner, 2004), which allows one to test the effects of experimental manipulation of ambient oxygen levels during heating or cooling on critical thermal limits by flow-through respirometry and optical activity detection during a temperature ramp (Lighton and Turner, 2004; Stevens et al., 2010). Using such an approach, the CTmax of tenebrionid beetles (Gonocephalum simplex, Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), does not decrease with oxygen concentration except under extreme hypoxia (2.5% O2) (Klok et al., 2004). Similarly, oxygen concentration has no effect on CTmin of Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) (Stevens et al., 2010). This suggests that, unlike marine animals, upper and lower thermal limits of terrestrial insects are not tightly linked by a common mechanism of OCLT but are instead probably set by alternative mechanisms (Stevens et al., 2010), which is consistent with wide-scale observations of decoupling of upper and lower thermal limits in insects (Addo-Bediako et al., 2000). Such experimental manipulations provide strong evidence against oxygen limitation at low temperatures in insects in the short term. However, OCLT in marine invertebrates can occur in normoxia and over periods of days, and the relationship between oxygen availability and thermal tolerance has not been examined in insects under these conditions.
The insect tracheal system delivers oxygen directly to respiring cells via diffusion combined (when the insect is active) with convective ventilation. The tracheal system delivers oxygen efficiently even at ambient oxygen levels below 10% (Harrison et al., 2001), which means that oxygen supply to insect tissues is unlikely to be limited during low temperature exposure in normoxia. By contrast, marine invertebrates do not have direct delivery of oxygen, and seawater is relatively hypoxic compared with air. Among fish and marine invertebrates, OCLT appears to be linked to sensitivity of the circulatory system. In particular, temperature affects cardiac output and the capacity for oxygen-binding pigments to bind or release molecular oxygen (Lannig et al., 2004; Melzner et al., 2007). The limiting factors that may lead to OCLT – oxygen delivery by way of oxygen-binding pigments and a circulatory system – do not occur in insects, suggesting that oxygen delivery may not be crucial for aerobic metabolism in terrestrial insects in normoxia.
If the CTmin was set by an inability to effectively deliver oxygen to tissues (OCLT), we predicted that aerobic metabolism would fail at the CTmin and crickets would rely on increased anaerobic metabolism while in chill-coma. To test this, we used thermolimit respirometry on fall field crickets to characterize respiratory phenomena associated with crossing the CTmin and determine whether the spiracles remain open following chill-coma onset. We also quantified muscle concentrations of ATP and anaerobic end-products (lactate and alanine) during prolonged exposure to, and recovery from, a temperature below the CTmin.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Fall field crickets (G. pennsylvanicus) were derived from a population collected on the University of Toronto at Mississauga campus (43.3°N, 79.4°W) in the summer of 2004 and were reared at a constant temperature (25°C), humidity (70% relative humidity, RH) and photoperiod (14 h:10 h L:D). Crickets were fed commercial rabbit feed (Little Friends Rabbit Food, Martin Mills Inc., Elmira, ON, Canada). Adult rearing and egg collection methods followed those previously described (Judge, 2010; MacMillan and Sinclair, 2011a). Eggs were stored at +4°C for 3 months between generations to accommodate an obligate diapause (Rakshpal, 1962). All experiments were completed on gravid adult females, approximately 3 weeks after the final moult.
CO2 production and activity of individual crickets were measured using flow-through respirometry following previously described methods (Klok et al., 2004; Lighton and Turner, 2004; Williams et al., 2010). Crickets (N=8) were placed individually in a cylindrical glass respiration chamber (11 cm3) inside a PTC-1 temperature-controlled cabinet [Sable Systems International (SSI), Las Vegas, NV, USA] where the temperature was held at 20°C for 30 min, then decreased at –0.25°C min–1 to 0°C, where it was held for 1 h. Dry, CO2-free air was passed through the chamber at 50 ml min–1 and flow rate was controlled by mass flow valves (Sierra Instruments, Monterey, CA, USA) and an MFC-2 controller (SSI). The CO2 and water vapour concentration of air exiting the animal chamber were determined with a Li7000 infrared gas analyser (LiCor, Lincoln, NE, USA). Throughout the period of data collection, activity was recorded using an AD-1 infrared activity detector (SSI). The temperature of the exterior of the animal chamber (the glass on which the insect was resting) was recorded using a type-T thermocouple and TC-2000 thermocouple meter (SSI). Carbon dioxide release and activity data were collected using a UI2 interface and Expedata software (SSI) and corrected by recording an empty chamber for 10 min at the beginning and end of each run and subtracting the baseline to correct for any instrument drift. Carbon dioxide data were corrected for the dilution of water vapour and converted into V˙CO2 (ml min–1) in Expedata software.
ATP, lactate and alanine quantification during cold exposure and recovery
The concentrations of ATP, lactate and alanine in cricket femur muscle were measured during prolonged chill-coma and chill-coma recovery as an index of energy status and reliance on anaerobic metabolism. A total of 112 crickets were placed individually into 14 ml plastic snap-top vials with lids loosely attached to allow for airflow. Crickets were exposed to a linear temperature decline from 20 to 0°C at a rate of –0.25°C min–1 and held at 0°C. Once 0°C was reached, eight crickets were removed from the cold and snap-frozen whole in liquid nitrogen; this was repeated every 6 h for 24 h, and every 24 h thereafter up to 120 h. In order to test for effects of cold exposure on metabolism during chill-coma recovery, a subset of crickets was exposed to the same temperature ramp followed by 24 h at 0°C before being removed to 20°C for 5 min, for 20 min, to the point of chill-coma recovery (when the animal could stand, ∼70 min) or for 24 h, then snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen. Control crickets were snap-frozen directly from their rearing conditions. As a positive control for the effects of impaired aerobic respiration, six crickets were exposed to anoxia (N2 gas) for 1 h at 20°C followed by snap-freezing without further exposure to air.
Frozen crickets were dissected on an aluminium plate cooled by liquid nitrogen. For each cricket, both hindfemurs were weighed and pooled to obtain a sample that was almost exclusively muscle tissue by mass. Tissue was immediately minced with scissors on ice in 1 ml of homogenization buffer (6% perchloric acid, 1 mmol l–1 EDTA). Minced samples were homogenized at 4°C with a bullet blender (Next Advance, Inc., Averill Park, NY, USA) using 1 mm glass beads and centrifuged at 20,000 g at 4°C for 20 min. The resulting supernatant was transferred to a new microcentrifuge tube and neutralized with 480 μl of a basic solution (2 mol l–1 KOH, 0.4 mol l–1 imidazole, 0.3 mol l–1 KCl). Samples were centrifuged again for 5 min to remove the resulting precipitate and the supernatant was stored at –80°C until use in biochemical assays.
ATP was quantified using an ATP-determination bioluminescence kit (Invitrogen Canada Inc., Burlington, ON, Canada), which quantifies sample ATP concentration from the rate of ATP-dependent light production by firefly luciferase (EC number: 220.127.116.11, Invitrogen Canada Inc.). Light production was quantified using a Sirius single-tube luminometer (Berthold Systems Inc., Pforzheim, Germany), and sample ATP concentration determined by comparison to standards of known ATP concentration.
l-Lactate was quantified in 96-well assay plates using lactate dehydrogenase (EC number: 18.104.22.168, Sigma-Aldrich Canada Ltd, Oakville, ON, Canada) in an NADH-linked spectrophotometric assay (Noll, 1984), with sample concentrations determined from standard curves of known lactate concentrations. l-Alanine was quantified in the same manner, but using alanine transaminase (EC number: 22.214.171.124, Sigma-Aldrich Canada Ltd) in an alternative NADH-linked assay (Williamson, 1990).
Respirometry data were managed in Expedata and statistical analyses were conducted with R version 2.13 (R Development Core Team, 2011). Thermolimit respirometry estimates of the CTmin, identified as a cessation of activity or spiracular control, were determined from the respirometry data as has previously been described (Lighton and Turner, 2004; Stevens et al., 2010). Briefly, absolute difference sums (ADS; a cumulative sum of absolute differences between consecutive data points) of cricket activity (a unit-less measure) and V˙CO2 were calculated using the ADS function in Expedata. Five-minute periods surrounding the cessation of spiracular control (V˙CO2) and activity were selected manually and the ADS regressed against time. The highest five consecutive residuals of the regression were selected and the mean temperature at the inflection point of activity (aADS) or V˙CO2 (vADS), which were considered as two separate estimates of CTmin, were recorded. Stevens et al. also used the final burst of CO2 prior to the cessation of activity as a third method of estimating the CTmin (Stevens et al., 2010). However, in G. pennsylvanicus the final burst of CO2 was indistinguishable from the bursts that preceded it (Fig. 1), so this method was not used. aADS and vADS CTmin values for each cricket were compared using a paired t-test. The estimates of CTmin derived from aADS and vADS did not significantly differ (see Results); thus, aADS-derived CTmin was used in subsequent analyses.
The slope of the aADS provides an index of activity level (Lighton and Turner, 2004), so aADS slopes and V˙CO2 from the duration of the temperature ramp (excluding the holds at 20 and 0°C) were binned into 1°C increments to estimate the thermal dependence of CO2 release and activity (Fig. 2A). Because each cricket had a different CTmin, binning of V˙CO2 data directly by temperature did not allow for estimation of the magnitude effect of crossing the CTmin on the proportional rate of CO2 release. To make such an estimate, V˙CO2 data were shifted such that temperatures were expressed as a positive or negative value relative to the CTmin of the individual cricket (such that 0 represents the CTmin). We then corrected for the resulting shift in the rate–temperature curve by expressing mass-specific rates of CO2 release proportional to the mean rate of each individual at 20°C (Fig. 2B).
We then examined the thermal sensitivity of metabolic rate before and after the CTmin. Rates of CO2 release from each individual cricket were split into three stages of cooling, and temperature coefficient (Q10) values over those temperature ranges determined as 10(10×slope) of a line of best fit of log10(V˙CO2) regressed against temperature. The first segment, from 15 to 0.5°C above the CTmin of each individual (determined from activity ADS data), was used to examine the effect of temperature on V˙CO2 above the CTmin. The second segment, from 0.5°C below the CTmin of each individual to the previously reported chill-coma temperature of 2.3°C determined from visual observation (MacMillan and Sinclair, 2011a), represented the effect of temperature on the V˙CO2 between the CTmin and chill-coma onset. The last period, from 2.3°C to the end of the temperature ramp (0°C), represents the effect of further temperature decline on V˙CO2 release while in chill-coma. Q10 values from different periods of the temperature ramp were compared using a repeated measures ANOVA using the lme() function of the nlme package in R.
The effects of 1 h anoxia, cold exposure duration and recovery time following 24 h at 0°C on muscle metabolite quantity were independently analysed using the lm() function (Pinheiro et al., 2011), with tissue mass treated as a covariate in all cases. As tissue mass was always a significant covariate (P<0.05), only parameters from exposure or recovery time are reported. All values reported are means ± 1 s.e.m.
A representative respirometry trace is presented in (Fig. 1). All crickets displayed continuous respiratory patterns without discontinuous or cyclic gas exchange. Rates of CO2 release were stable at 20°C (before the temperature ramp began) and decreased with the decreasing temperature. Activity was often detected in concert with spikes in CO2 release, indicating that the activity detector was probably recording abdominal contractions (active ventilation). Activity was detected throughout the temperature ramp until it ceased completely at an individual-specific threshold temperature (dashed vertical line in Fig. 1).
Thermolimit respirometry estimates of the CTmin determined by the aADS method (6.5±0.5°C) and vADS method (6.2±0.4°C) did not differ significantly (t7=1.48, P=0.183). CTmin estimates obtained by aADS were broadly distributed between 4.3 and 8.6°C (Fig. 2A). When expressed as a proportional rate of CO2 release at temperatures relative to the aADS CTmin (see Materials and methods for details), the rate of CO2 release dropped by approximately 44% between the CTmin and 1°C below the CTmin (Fig. 2B).
Q10 values above the CTmin (3.3±0.3) did not significantly differ from those between the CTmin and chill-coma onset (3.4±0.6, t10=0.23, P=0.822). However, the Q10 of V˙CO2 below the chill-coma onset temperature was 1.5±0.2, significantly lower than the Q10 above 2.3°C (t10=2.87, P=0.016).
Following prolonged (120 h) exposure to 0°C, muscle ATP concentration increased slightly but significantly from 8.4±0.6 to 10.5±0.5 μmol g–1 (F2,55=19.02, P<0.001; Fig. 3A). Low temperature exposure had no significant effect on muscle lactate (F2,52=1.32, P=0.256; Fig. 3A) or alanine (F2,52=0.22, P=0.641; Fig. 3A) concentration. No significant changes in muscle ATP (F4,21=0.49, P=0.488) or lactate (F4,21=0.13, P=0.717) concentration occurred during recovery from 24 h at 0°C (Fig. 3B). Following 24 h of recovery, muscle alanine concentration was significantly lower than when measured at the point at which crickets could stand (F4,25=5.45, P=0.003; Fig. 3B, ‘Flip’). No other significant differences were found in muscle alanine concentration during recovery.
During 1 h of hypoxia at 20°C, muscle ATP concentration decreased significantly from 8.4±0.60 to 1.8±0.8 μmol g–1 (F2,9=21.35, P=0.002), while muscle lactate concentration significantly increased from 0.23±0.04 to 0.31±0.03 μmol g–1 (F2,9=9.54, P=0.013) (Fig. 4). While alanine was detectable in muscles of control and cold-exposed crickets, muscle alanine was below detectable levels in five of six anoxia-exposed crickets, and low in the sixth (0.89 μmol g–1), compared with the control.
During a linear temperature decline, crickets ceased activity at individual-specific temperatures in a manner consistent with the CTmin (Hazell and Bale, 2011). Below this threshold, crickets did not actively ventilate, but released CO2 continuously, typical of insects exposed to temperatures beyond critical thermal limits or to anoxia (Sinclair et al., 2004; Lighton and Schilman, 2007; Lighton and Turner, 2004; Kovac et al., 2007; Stevens et al., 2010). These thermolimit respirometry estimates of CTmin are lower and more variable than those determined as the complete absence of movement in response to a stimulus (2.3±0.1°C) by crickets from the same population (MacMillan and Sinclair, 2011a). Estimates of CTmin often differ by several degrees among methods (Terblanche et al., 2007), and thermolimit respirometry also yielded significantly higher CTmin estimates than visual methods in tenebrionid beetles (Tenebrio molitor, Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) and a terrestrial isopod (Porcellio scaber, Porcellionidae; Isopoda) under similar conditions (Stevens et al., 2010). In Periplaneta americana (Blattaria: Blattidae), movement of the coxae can continue several degrees below the arrest of many other regions (Staszak and Mutchmor, 1973), possibly because thermal sensitivity of the nerves and muscles servicing the abdomen and limbs differ, and this could explain why crickets could continue to move their limbs to a lower temperature. However, estimates of CTmin determined by activity (aADS) did not differ significantly from those determined from ventilation (vADS), meaning all movement ceased when the crickets ceased control of ventilation in the respirometry chamber. This suggests that if the crickets remain untouched (as in the respirometry chamber), rather than being pestered by a scientist with a stick, all voluntary movement ceases with the cessation of ventilation, although the ability to move the limbs in response to stimulation is not yet lost. As such, thermolimit respirometry may better estimate limits to mobility in the wild than CTmin determination methods that require an operator to prod the insect under study. These results highlight the importance of establishing consistent terminology regarding the sequence of events leading to chill-coma, discussed extensively elsewhere (Hazell and Bale, 2011).
Upon crossing the thermolimit respirometry CTmin, there was an abrupt decline in the rate of CO2 release by G. pennsylvanicus. A similar breakpoint occurs at the CTmin of the sub-Antarctic caterpillar Pringleophaga marioni (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) during cooling and has been suggested to reflect kinetic failure of ATP-dependent enzymes maintaining ionic homeostasis (Sinclair et al., 2004). While we cannot rule out the possibility that this reduction in metabolic rate is related to changes in the metabolic supply of ATP, its magnitude is such that it may also be explained by cessation of the metabolic demands of neuromuscular processes. For example, when an insect crosses its CTmin and enters chill-coma, it no longer maintains posture, ventilation or gut motility. It is also difficult to determine whether thermolimit respirometry at low temperatures identifies physiological failure of the ventilatory system or a behaviour (the complete cessation of movement) in response to declining temperatures, which may have higher inter-individual variation than physiological failure of the neuromuscular system (Chown et al., 2009; Stevens et al., 2010). Indeed, coma in response to environmental stress could be adaptive, as it may act to protect against cellular damage (Rodgers et al., 2010). Temperature sensors have been confirmed in the third antennal segment and brain of Drosophila (Hamada et al., 2008). Future studies could assess whether the CTmin represents a direct consequence of temperature or a response to it, by testing the effects of excision of thermosensors on thermolimit respirometry estimates of the CTmin.
Although the rate of CO2 release by G. pennsylvanicus was low in chill-coma, it was clearly above baseline levels, suggesting that the spiracles were open, and that CO2 and O2 were being exchanged with the environment. If the crickets in the current study had been oxygen limited while in chill-coma, we predicted that ATP availability would decline at the onset of chill-coma and remain low, accompanied by the accumulation of anaerobic end-products. From other studies on terrestrial insects, we predicted lactate and alanine to be the primary end-products of anaerobic metabolism in crickets (Hoback et al., 2000; Hoback and Stanley, 2001; Feala et al., 2007). During prolonged chill-coma, however, muscle ATP concentrations significantly increased, and no increase in lactate or alanine concentration was observed over the same period. Even when maintained at 0°C for 5 days, which results in 100% mortality in this species (MacMillan and Sinclair, 2011a), no increase in muscle lactate or alanine was observed. This is in stark contrast to the effects of anoxia, which decreased muscle ATP levels by 79%, increased muscle lactate by 35% and reduced muscle alanine concentration to undetectable levels within 1 h at 20°C. These results suggest that cold exposure and anoxia differ in their effects on aerobic and anaerobic metabolism.
Although the increase in ATP during cold exposure was statistically significant, it was small (25% over 5 days) in magnitude, and may not represent a biologically significant change. An accumulation of ATP following cold exposure has been noted in the chill-susceptible beetle Alphitobius diaperinus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) (Colinet, 2011). Accumulation of ATP suggests that processes utilizing ATP (such as ion-motive enzymes) are slowed to a greater extent than oxidative phosphorylation. In contrast, total adenylate energy charge in the fat body cells of Pyrrhocoris apterus (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae) was unchanged during long-term cold exposure (Kostal et al., 2004). Disruption of metabolic processes is a common consequence of cold exposure, and ATP-producing pathways are targets for differential regulation in response to thermal challenges (Overgaard et al., 2007). Following removal from the cold and recovery from chill-coma, no change in ATP or lactate concentrations was noted. Thus, crickets probably do not rely on anaerobic metabolism to provide energy during long-term cold exposure that is known to cause injury, or during rewarming and chill-coma recovery.
Organisms faced with environmental stress often demonstrate a reduced thermal sensitivity of metabolism (Makarieva et al., 2006). To test for differences in thermal sensitivity of metabolic rate surrounding the thermolimit respirometry CTmin and the complete inability to move, we calculated temperature coefficients (Q10) in three separate regions of the temperature ramp for each individual. The mean Q10 of cricket CO2 emission prior to crossing the thermolimit respirometry CTmin was approximately 3, and did not differ significantly from Q10 values from below this breakpoint down to the chill-coma temperature of 2.3°C. Thus, metabolic rate remains temperature sensitive beyond the cessation of ventilation and voluntary movement. Interestingly, between 2.3°C (the point at which crickets cease responding to physical stimulation) (MacMillan and Sinclair, 2011a) and 0°C, the mean Q10 significantly decreased to 1.5, indicating that rates of CO2 emission are less temperature sensitive below the temperature at which no movement can be elicited from a cricket. Similarly, honeybees demonstrate low rates of CO2 emission that are largely temperature independent while in chill-coma (Lighton and Lovegrove, 1990), and animals that exhibit minimum life-supporting metabolic rates during times of stress have a mean Q10 of metabolic rate of 1.1 (relatively close to the Q10 of 1.5 we observed during chill-coma) (Makarieva et al., 2006). However, why metabolic rate would be less dependent on temperature when insects are in chill-coma is not immediately clear. Unlike those under normoxic conditions, animals in anoxia on average maintain a relatively normal Q10 of 2.75 (Makarieva et al., 2006), which further supports the suggestion that crickets in chill-coma were not oxygen limited.
OCLT is widely supported in marine ectotherms and has provided a useful conceptual framework for investigating the effects of environmental temperature on species abundance (Pörtner, 2010). We, however, found no evidence that crickets lack adequate oxygen when in chill-coma up to the point of death. We therefore posit that the insect CTmin is more likely to be set by the direct effects of temperature on reaction rates of ionoregulatory enzymes such as Na+,K+-ATPase.
Thanks to Dr Gerald Kidder and Kevin Barr for providing access to the luminometer, and to Raul Suarez and three anonymous referees for comments that improved an earlier version of the manuscript.
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It’s the second major explosion in four days in the town, the site of an important hydroelectric dam and a link in the water supply to Crimea through the North Crimea canal.
Video posted on social media showed loud explosions and a huge ball of fire lighting up the night sky.
Serhiy Khlan, a Ukrainian official who is a member of Kherson regional council, said on Facebook: “In Nova Kakhovka minus one Russian ammo depot. They brought, brought, stockpiled, stockpiled and now have fireworks at night.”
Khlan, who is not in Kherson, warn residents of Nova Kakhovka not to venture outdoors.
“Please take care of yourself and do not come close to the place of the detonation,” he said.
The Russian state news agency TASS made no reference to an ammunition dump exploding but late Wednesday reported: “The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region, a source said.”
But the deputy head of the Russian backed military-civilian administration in Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, said Ukrainian missiles did not hit the hydroelectric power station.
TASS later said warehouses holding potassium nitrate had exploded. Potassium nitrate is a highly combustible substance used as an ingredient in fertiliser and was the cause of the Beirut explosion two years ago.
CNN cannot confirm the cause of the explosions or what was destroyed.
“There are victims, the market, hospital and houses were damaged,” TASS reported, quoting the Russian-backed civil-military administration in Kherson.
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The Parc Monceau is doubtless the smartest garden in Paris. It is located in a very elegant and upscale neighbourhood in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and surrounded by beautiful buildings and luxury ‘Hotels Particuliers’.
The Parc Monceau was created in 1769 by the Duke of Chartres who entrusted its landscaping to the painter and architect Carmontelle. Carmontelle put there a variety of follies, which were very fashionable at that time: an Egyptian pyramid, the ‘Naumachie’, which is a pond surrounded by Corinthian columns and inspired by the Ancient Rome, greek columns, a sarcophagus,… During the French Revolution the Park underwent huge transformations.
One had then to wait until 1852 before seeing the Park be redesigned as a landscape garden. And in 1861 the Parc Monceau such as we know it today was inaugurated by Napoleon III : Some of the follies of Carmontelle are still there, including the impressive Naumachie ; many trees have been planted and other antiques and sculptures added. Among them a lovely Venitian bridge dating from the Second Empire: one of my favourites!
La Petite Ceinture du 15e is a 1.3 kilometre green walk in the south of 15th arrondissement in Paris between the rue Olivier de Serres westerly and the Place Balard easterly. This pedestrian lane opened in 2013 and has been fitted out along the line of the ‘Petite Ceinture’, a former railway built around Paris but unused since the seventies. This walk should be extended in the future so as to link by a greenway the two main parks of the arrondissement, the Parc André Citroën in the west and the Parc Georges Brassens in the east.
On a beautiful fall day nothing is more pleasant than strolling along the streets and gardens in Paris so as to enjoy the beautiful lights and the fall colours at their best. At this time of year I love the colours of trees in the parks and gardens and the displays of autumn flavours on the Parisian food markets. That is the reason why I am taking you for a walk in my area of Paris, the fifth arrondissement around the so cute Place de la Contrescarpe: from one garden to another, up and down the Montagne Sainte Geneviève, and through the Parisian food market of the Place Monge and the permanent food market of the famous rue Mouffetard. I hope that you will enjoy this 2-hour walk! | <urn:uuid:c25778a2-b2a7-4543-8722-4cc72de08188> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.goodmorningparis.fr/tag/garden/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952156 | 548 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Looking for ways to bring life and nature into your office? Then you should add plants all around. Studies show that interior plants not only add visual appeal but also bring health benefits to the people within the office. It provides a pleasurable and tranquil environment, helping reduce stress. Some plants can even increase productivity, improve indoor air quality, and lower background noise. For these reasons alone, office plant leasing benefits become clear, but we’ll get into more of them further.
To help save on overhead costs, take advantage of our office plant leasing Orlando. There’s no need to pay for plants at full price and you also have the option to switch to other species at any point of your lease contract.
Once you have all the plants you need, don’t just put them in the corner. They can double as decorations, after all.
Make wall art out of plants
Place plants in decorative pots or other creative alternatives, such as a wall hanging made of wood, and then hang them on walls. Doing so is the most organic way to decorate an empty wall and liven up space.
Use potted plants in a unique way
Instead of the usual pots, place air plants in shells and hang them upside down. Imagine the kind of image they create, like jellyfish out of the sea and right into your office. You can also experiment with other ideas for pots, such as a clear bowl or a 3-dimensional diamond shape made of copper tubes.
You can also place air in small conch shells and place them on every desk to give each employee a burst of good health and energy.
Bring driftwood back to life
Driftwood may belong to the shores or in the dump, but if you use it as a pot for plants, it can have a completely new purpose. Plants coming out of different parts of a driftwood create a stunning piece worthy of a spot in an art gallery.
Create a vertical garden
Instead of hanging a wall art or a painting in your office, why not add a vertical garden instead? You can use air plants, which is low maintenance, or some other types of plants. Some of the plants known to boost productivity include Golden Pothos, Lemon Balm, Philodendron, Peace Lily, and Spider Plant. Find out if you can use any of them for your vertical garden and get started on this project.
Make a terrarium for a centerpiece
Never let it be said that plants only grow in wide open spaces. They can thrive in glass bowls, bottles, and other containers too. With just a bit of sand, small rocks, and a few selection of plants, you can have your own landscaped yard in a box or glass. Set it up next to a tabletop Zen garden and you can keep stress at bay.
With a bit of imagination and help for office plant leasing Orlando, we can bring nature into your office which give a whole host of benefits. Who doesn’t want that?
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What is code smell in refactoring?
A code smell is a surface indication that usually corresponds to a deeper problem in the system. The term was first coined by Kent Beck while helping me with my Refactoring book. The best smells are something that’s easy to spot and most of time lead you to really interesting problems.
What is the relationship between code smells and refactoring?
Bad smells are indicators of code structure problems that may be solved via refactoring. Refactoring is a process of improving the internal structure of the source code without changing the external be- havior of the software system.
Do we have a chance to fix bugs when refactoring code smells?
Previous studies show that some code smells have significant effect on faults. Our results show that refactoring Blob, Long Parameter List, and Refused Parent Be Request may have a good chance to detect and fix bugs, and some code smells are particularly useful for improving the recall of fault prediction.
Which of these code smells is a bloater?
When you see a ‘bloater’ in the code you’re reviewing your nose should start to twitch. Usually, this type of code smell doesn’t pop up right away – a bloater is something that grows and accumulates over time as a program evolves (particularly when no developer has made an effort to point out the potential issue).
What is code smell example?
For example: Comments, Duplicate Code, Lazy Class, Data Class, Dead Code, Speculative Generality. All the smells in this group contribute to excessive coupling between classes or show what happens if coupling is replaced by excessive delegation.
How do I fix the smell code?
5 VERY common code smells and how to fix them
- 1) Conditionals should each get their own line. Generally speaking your code will be a lot easier to read if each statement has its own line.
- 3) Watch out for “Dead Stores”
- 4) Don’t Invert Your Booleans.
- 5) Use Templates.
How do I find the smell code?
Many smells are not possible to be found by manual reviewing and automated code review tools are used for identifying such bad smells. Code smells knowing or unknowingly are introduced in the source code, and may also form if you are solving other smells.
What is an example of a code smell?
What are the advantages or disadvantages of refactoring code?
Maintainability: After refactoring, the code is fresher, easier to understand or read, less complex and easier to maintain. Disadvantages of Code Refactoring: Time Consuming: You may have no idea how much time it may take to complete the process. It may also land you into a situation where you have no idea where to go.
Which of the following is an advantage of code refactoring?
Refactoring improves the design of software, makes software easier to understand, helps us find bugs and also helps in executing the program faster. There is an additional benefit of refactoring. It changes the way a developer thinks about the implementation when not refactoring.
What is Java smell code?
Bloaters are code, methods and classes that have increased to such gargantuan proportions that they are hard to work with. Usually these smells do not crop up right away, rather they accumulate over time as the program evolves (and especially when nobody makes an effort to eradicate them). Long Method.
What is bad code?
A bad code is when a programmer or coder do program to get things done faster without thinking much about future changes and ignoring the possibility of other developers touching the code.
How long is the long method code smell?
This method is 75 lines long, and is full of code smells. However, when refactoring we need to focus on one step at a time. In this case I’ll be focusing on refactoring this Long Method code smell.
What does refactoring do to a code smell?
Martin Fowler in his book Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code defines a code smell as: Refactoring is a process of improving the internal structure of our code without impacting its external behavior. Ideally, we should refactor old code while adding new features. It will save us some time as compared to trying to do it all at once.
What does duplicated code smell like in Java?
Duplicated code is the code smell we see when we have a similar code spread across multiple places in our codebase. It is a badly structured code and we should find some way to extract the common functionality out in a separate method.
How to refactor the Extract Method in Java?
This is known as the Extract Method refactoring. 1. Create a new method called void DecrementQualityForNormalItems (int i). 2. Copy the duplicate code into DecrementQualityForNormalItems (int i). 3. Replace the duplicate code with a call to DecrementQualityForNormalItems (int i). | <urn:uuid:2d0a3a4c-29b1-4884-a343-3a3e4824db1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cravencountryjamboree.com/other/what-is-code-smell-in-refactoring/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.92296 | 1,054 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Engaged double the audience from the previous year.
Requests for counselling on Gambling Help Online up 79%.
Campaign survey showed 70% attributed campaign to behaviour change.
Aussies really love a punt.
According to the stats, we love gambling more than any other country.
Responsible Gambling Awareness Week is all about educating the public on what responsible gambling behaviours looks like. Our challenge was to address problem gambling, without directly calling out problem gamblers.
Meet the Checkmates.
The Checkmates campaign focussed on the warning signs, and to avoid stigmatising gamblers, we reached out to their mates instead.
We created four relatable characters — Buck, Betty, Skip and Moby — who personify the most common behaviours of problem gambling.
Introducing the Checkmates.
Digital, radio and print were used to promote the campaign online, on air and in every major club in NSW. Fact sheets were also created as a resource for advocates to use at their discretion.
Online check in.
To find out more about the warning signs of problem gambling, the website allowed people to check in with the Checkmates to learn more about their behaviour and the right actions to take.
Upping the ante.
We also created Bet and Bust, an online game that puts you in the mind of a gambler to show you firsthand how easy it is for gambling to get out of hand.
The Checkmates needed to make an impactful first impression. We launched an activation in World Square in the heart of Sydney CBD where where passersby could interact with the website and play Bet and Bust on touch screen kiosks.
During the campaign lifetime:
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Breathe With Ease When You Call Atlanta Air Pro
Everything that contaminates your air flows through all the elements of your Atlanta air ducts and HVAC (heating ventilation and air conditioning) system. As the air flows through that HVAC system, contaminants in your air accumulate in and throughout each component.
Mold, mildew and pollen. Dander, fur, and hair. Smoke, grease, cooking and residues. Cigarette and cigar smoke. Chemicals produced by cleaning products, personal care products, and even scented candles and air fresheners. Off-gases from furnishings, paints, and carpets. Drywall dust, dirt, and grime.
All of those elements – many of them potential allergens and irritants that can contribute to and cause significant health issues – accumulate unseen inside your ducts, where some such as mold can multiply and be redistributed throughout your home.
To protect your family from irritants, allergens and threats to health that can accumulate in your ducts, have your home’s entire HVAC system — its lungs and circulatory system — assessed and cleaned every year.
When you think “ducts,” you may envision square metal tubes behind the walls and in the joists of your home that end in vents and returns. Your HVAC system is much more than just those tubes and vents, though. To understand just how important it is to have the entire system cleaned regularly, consider just how many elements there are in a residential HVAC system.
A standard residential HVAC system includes: an air handler unit that itself contains a blower, heating elements, and cooling elements; dampers that control the volume of air that flows through a zone or even seals off airflow in the event of a fire; fittings called take-offs that ensure the correct airflow from the main ducts through each subsidiary or branch duct servicing particular floors, rooms, and vents; a plenum that distributes the air into rooms through vents and brings air back into the air handler via return intakes; duct fittings that you might more commonly think of as vents or reducers with adjustments to ensure your comfort.
Accumulated dirt, dust, debris and other contaminants affects every component. Dirt, dust, debris, and other contaminants that accumulate in the mechanical parts components can be redistributed through your home to place the health of your air and lungs at risk. That same accumulation, especially when combined with the pollution of electrical and electronic components, can degrade the efficiency of your HVAC system. Which means at least two things — more discomfort and higher energy costs.
Our expect Atlanta air duct cleaning specialists are familiar with every variation of today’s residential HVAC systems. They understand the risks of a poorly maintained system, the warning signs of neglect, and the steps necessary to restore a neglected HVAC system — and the home’s air — to good health.
Atlanta Air Pro’s HVAC decontamination service includes an assessment, cleaning and decontamination of each essential element of the HVAC system in your home to eliminate accumulated dirt and grime on every component. To take the first and essential step toward a healthier and more comfortable home and lower energy bills, contact Atlanta Air Pro to have your HVAC system decontaminated. | <urn:uuid:d6c783d1-4dc4-490e-b928-1f72b5c6ef97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://airductcleaningatl.com/services/residential-hvac-decontamination/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.943328 | 687 | 2.09375 | 2 |
First snow of the fall season hits highway mountain passes in B.C.
Snowfall warnings in effect for Okanagan Connector, parts of Hwy 3
Mountain passes across southern B.C. were coated in fresh snow on Sunday night, marking the first significant snowfall of autumn.
The Okanagan Connector and sections of Highway 3 between Paulson Summit and Kootenay Pass received up to 15 centimetres on Sunday night, and CBC meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe said the next system Monday night could bring another 15-20 centimetres by Tuesday.
Ski hills like Whistler, Grouse Mountain and the SilverStar Resort also got a dusting of snow. Wet snow fell briefly on the Coquihalla Highway early Monday but didn't stick for long.
Environment Canada has snowfall warnings in effect for the Okanagan Connector and Highway 3. The agency said visibility could be suddenly reduced at times in heavy snow. Drivers are asked to slow down, watch for tail lights ahead and be prepared to stop quickly if the weather changes.
Wind warnings on coast
Away from the mountain highways, wind warnings are in effect for coastal areas of Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast.
Environment Canada said gusts could reach 100 km/h over western Vancouver Island late Monday and 90 km/h around the Strait of Georgia. Winds on exposed sections of northern Vancouver Island could reach 110 km/h.
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In 2009, Google introduced a method website owners could use to disambiguate duplicate content. By specifying a rel=canonical link element in the header of the page you give the search engine a hint as to the URL which should be authoritative for the given content. It should be noted Google has indicated they consider this method a hint, and not a directive. The conditions under which the hint will be ignored are not known, but such conditions are presumed to exist.
Imagine a simple example, anyone who has purchased a home or property in the US is reasonably familiar with the Multiple Listing System (MLS). Real estate agents add properties to the MLS and the exact same information shows up on the website of every agent and agency. How does Google know which website(s) are authoritative for this information if it is the same on potentially thousands of websites? This is a contrived example of a real-world problem, and implementing a strategy around canonical link elements can help to ensure people end up where you want them to be. One strategy might be to get visitors to the website of the agency, rather than the individual agents.
That information is all well and good, in theory, but how does it actually work in practice?
A tale of two websites…
Recently there was a case where a series of several dozen guest blogs on an established website needed to be moved, removed, or somehow re-incorporated into the overall strategy. The established site and its mission had grown and changed, meanwhile, the blog series in question had grown less relevant to the overall goals of the site. But it was still good content that many people accessed and used as a reference!
It was decided the content wasn’t “hurting” anything, and could remain, but would be inaccessible via primary navigation routes and should over the long term be given a new home. The original author of the blogs was willing to give the content a new, permanent, home on his own personal site. The authors site did not yet exist, had no existing inbound links, and zero authority with search engines — a blank slate!
Each blog post in question was re-posted on this new website, several dozen posts in total, a handful of which receive a reasonable amount of search engine traffic. The canonical links for the articles on the established site were then changed to reference these new pages on the formerly empty domain.
Google quickly adapted to the new “home address” of these pages, and within a matter of days, the new domain was seeing all the search engine impressions for these articles. After this quick adjustment over a period of a few days, the pattern held over the following month.
In the following graphic, a screenshot from the Google Search Console, you can clearly see the number of search engine impressions served by Google quickly ramped from 0 to in the neighborhood of 50 impressions per day.
Here you can see the same data, over a slightly longer period, from the established site. The “new” site neatly stripped away around 10% of the organic search engine traffic from the established site.
Most scenarios involving duplicate content management with the rel=canonical link element aren’t going to exactly match this one, so please take these results with a grain of salt. That said, it does clearly show the cause, effect, and timing surrounding changing the canonical links for established pages. It also clearly shows that Google pays attention to these canonical elements and can take fairly swift action on them. | <urn:uuid:eb20569a-e5e7-4a43-b1ab-98a5dbdcafd3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.thesjg.com/2016/03/real-world-effects-changing-canonical-url/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958134 | 713 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Mechanics was originally invented in the 12th century and has been described as a branch of astronomy. It became a branch of science because of the advances in mathematics that it involves. In fact, mechanics is considered to be the study of the relations between the motion of elementary bodies and the external forces that they experience. The study of mechanics can be divided into different branches. Among these are mechanics of heat and mechanics of sound.
Mechanics of heat involves the study of the mechanics of how the temperature of an area can be increased or decreased. This branch of mechanics involves a study of the transfer of kinetic energy from one state to another. As heat is absorbed, the kinetic energy is converted to heat energy. As heat is lost, the kinetic energy is transformed into work. This process occurs because of the difference in temperature of one point on the surface of a body and another point on the body.
Mechanics of sound involves the study of how sounds travel from a source. Sounds travel in waves, which are very much like waves in water. A wave consists of many different wavelengths and a sound wave consists of different wavelengths. When two waves meet, the frequency of their waves cancel each other out and this is the frequency of sound.
Mechanics of heat and mechanics of sound involve the study of objects that are made up of parts that move. The most common parts of these objects are metals and liquids. The movement of metal objects can be described using the law of conservation of energy. Conservation of energy refers to the law that states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. This law has been described as the fundamental law of thermodynamics.
Mechanical objects may also be described using the law of conservation of momentum. This law states that, every change of velocity, no matter how small, has a corresponding change in position. Conservation of momentum, like that of the law of energy, can be used to describe the motion of any object, including liquids and metals. and other non-moving objects. The relationship between these two laws is very important in determining the properties of a mechanical object.
Another branch of mechanics that is closely related to mechanics of sound and heat is mechanics of energy. The mechanics of energy refers to the laws that describe the conservation of energy, including the relationship between energy and velocity. Conservation of energy and velocity describes the fact that energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
The different branches of mechanics are important in our daily life. It is important to know how to study these different branches of mechanics to be able to make a better understanding of the world around us. For example, we use mechanics of heat, mechanics of sound, mechanics of motion, and mechanics of energy in order to make decisions that will help us make better decisions regarding certain situations. There are many good books available that describe these different branches of mechanics and are written for the layman.
There are various mechanical tools, including masonry tools and power tools, that help in shaping materials, such as wood or metal. The mechanics of motion is the study of objects that move and the relationships between these objects. Mechanics of energy, or mechanics of heat, is used in the study of how heat is generated and transferred from a hot area to a cold one. This is important because it can help us to create better heating and cooling systems in our homes and buildings. If you are interested in building a home, you will want to learn all about the laws of mechanics and how these different types of objects interact with each other.
Mechanics of motion is important in the study of many different fields. For instance, if you are interested in building an airplane, you will need to know about the mechanics of motion and how it relates to the mechanics of sound. You will also need to understand the relationship between the mechanics of heat and mechanics of sound and the mechanics of energy. All of these different fields are important to be successful builders and engineers.
Mechanics of motion is necessary in our everyday lives and is very important to have a good understanding of. Mechanics is also important because it can help us make more informed decisions in the business world. This knowledge can help us to build better homes and businesses. Many people find that their work improves when they are able to fully understand the relationships between these different fields. This is why it is important to study these different fields, and the relationship between them. | <urn:uuid:1ca4685a-f4ed-4e10-a867-b178c58c2f1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://workmyexam.com/understanding-mechanics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967077 | 886 | 3.75 | 4 |
Leaders recognize the importance of measuring performance because they understand this indisputable fact:
When performance is measured, performance improves.
This is true for measuring our own performance, as well as the performance of those we lead. It can be easier to focus on others, however, when perhaps what we most need is to take an honest look at our own performance and progress toward the goals that are most important to us. Leaders are committed to personal accountability, and having performance measurements in place is instrumental to our ability to hold ourselves accountable.
Questions for Leaders to Consider:
- How are you measuring your own performance?
- How could your performance improve if you measured it?
- What is holding you back from measuring your performance?
- Who can be part of holding you accountable for the goals that are most important to you?
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Every act, every decision, every thought will move you either a little closer to being that kind of person [you want to become]—or push you a little further away. What are the small temptations in your life? To become reliable in the big things, you have to practice reliability in the small ones. To become pure in the big things, you have to practice purity in the small ones. If you haven’t started practicing yet, now is the time. Pray for strength and begin.
If you were a typical teenager, you probably grumbled for years about the rules and limits your parents made you obey. Well, no one makes you obey them in college. Once upon a time, colleges and universities regarded themselves as standing in loco parentis, “in the place of the parents.” Except at a few Christian colleges, that notion hasn’t been taken seriously for years. Unless you cheat, commit a crime, or disrupt the campus, your school is unlikely to know—or even care—how you live. No one will tell you not to stay up so late. No one will wake you in the morning if you oversleep. No one will tell you when to come home from a date. No one will make you go to church. No one will remind you to do your homework, wash your underwear, or stay away from sex and drugs.
In these ways, you are forced to take responsibility for your own behavior. Being thrust all at once into the responsibilities of adulthood can come as a shock. Some of my students visit me to seek advice about life after college graduation. Many have made poor grades right up until their senior year. I ask them why. “When I got to the university I went wild,” says one. “For my first three years here I just partied,” says another. “Do you think that will hurt my chances of getting into law school?” You can guess how I have to answer. People invent all sorts of ways to adapt to the sudden pressure of adult responsibility. Some ways help; others don’t.
When I started college, one of the guys in the dorm told me that he’d found the perfect way to motivate himself to study. He kept an enormous jug of a cheap fruit-flavored wine on his desk, and for each page of homework he read, he rewarded himself with a swallow. As you might guess, he was always a little drunk. He got his reading done, but whether he remembered what he’d read was another question. I don’t remember seeing him take notes either. Maybe he couldn’t hold the pencil!
College sends students mixed messages. Although in some ways it treats them as grown-ups, in other ways it treats them as babies. You don’t have to prepare your own meals, because you can eat in the cafeteria. You don’t have to find your own doctor, because you can go to the student health clinic. You don’t have to come up with your own entertainment, because music, movies, and other amusements are provided on most campuses. At some colleges, the dorms even provide clean sheets (though you still have to put them on the bed yourself). All sorts of things are done for you at college that you’re perfectly capable of doing for yourself. The arrangement has some advantages, but it hardly encourages you to remember that you’re grown-up.
Of course you really are grown-up in one sense (you have full adult responsibilities) even though you really aren’t grown-up in another (you haven’t finished developing). What kind of person are you going to become? I’m not talking about the courses you want to take or the kind of job you want to get someday; I’m talking about the qualities you want to have. Do you desire to be wise, fair, and honest—or foolish, unfair, and crooked? Kind, loyal, and reliable—or mean, backstabbing, and unreliable? Brave, faithful, and pure—or cowardly, weak, and stained?
Maybe you’ve thought about the kind of person you want to become but not about how to become that person. Every act, every decision, every thought will move you either a little closer to being that kind of person [you want to become]—or push you a little further away. What are the small temptations in your life? To become reliable in the big things, you have to practice reliability in the small ones. To become pure in the big things, you have to practice purity in the small ones. If you haven’t started practicing yet, now is the time. Pray for strength and begin.
Going to college can be like moving to Mars. The first change you’ll notice will be in your physical surroundings. If you’re used to seeing cornfields stretching all the way to the horizon and your college is in the city where you can’t see the horizon at all, the landscape may come as a shock. If you’re used to getting everywhere by subway and bus and your college is in a spread-out place where there’s no public transportation and you have to drive, the change may be hard to get used to—especially if you don’t have a car! Compared to the cultural difference, though, the difference in your physical surroundings will seem tiny.
People at college may talk differently, socialize differently, and even eat differently. One reason for cultural differences, of course, is change in region, and the farther from home you go to school, the greater such differences are likely to be. They may be hard to take. Southerners, unused to the hurry and crowding of northeastern cities, tend to consider northeasterners rude and unfriendly. Northeasterners, unused to the relaxed speech and elaborate courtesy of the South, sometimes think southerners are slow and stupid. It isn’t always easy for such different groups to understand each other. An even bigger reason college may seem like Mars is the culture of the campus itself. Each school tends to develop a personality of its own. Some have good personalities; others don’t.
The personality of the school one friend attended for his first two years was neurotically intense and competitive. He’ll never forget one of the talks given during Freshman Orientation. The speaker, a dean, dwelled upon the large number of freshmen at the school who committed suicide or received psychological counseling. He wasn’t warning them—he was bragging, because he thought suicidal tendencies were a proof of intellectual brilliance! By contrast, the college another friend attended turned out to be a “party school.” In her dorm, the floors used to organize Progressive Drinking Nights. Students who participated went from room to room getting drunker and drunker. A number of women in the dorm announced that on certain evenings, they would have sex with any men who showed up at their doors. So many men showed up that they had to form lines.
By the way, don’t assume that your college will have a Christian personality just because it’s linked with a Christian denomination, says Christian things in its mission statement, or has the word “Christian” in its name. There’s more Christianity at some non-Christian schools than at some so-called Christian schools. A final reason for feeling that you’ve landed on another planet is that colleges and universities are magnets for extreme beliefs, ideologies, and cults… The sheer weirdness of the new environment puts some students into what sociologists call “culture shock”—taking the weirdness too hard and becoming deeply homesick and depressed. At the other extreme, some students adapt by “going native”—losing their sense of who they are and plunging into the ways of the people around them.
Four simple tips will help you keep your feet on the ground:
1. Research the school’s personality ahead of time to make sure you’re choosing a good one.
2. Remember that it’s normal to feel somewhat odd and homesick in any new place and that such feelings normally pass.
3. Remember that a little worldly homesickness can be spiritually good for you. It’s a reminder that Christians are always strangers in this world, for we are citizens of heaven.
4. Keep up your spiritual disciplines. What I mean is daily prayer, frequent Bible study and worship, evangelism, service to others, and constantly reminding yourself of the presence of God. If you stay focused on Christ, He’ll make even the desert bloom.
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As 19 July approaches and employees prepare to return to the office, commutes look set to make a comeback too, as seven in ten people plan to travel in the same way as before the pandemic, compared to just five in ten at the start of the pandemic, according to research by PwC.
More people are confident than last year that Covid-19 will not have a long-lasting effect on how they travel on public transport, but research by the accounting giant showed that there are some changes in how people plan their travel to and from the office, and why.
Half of those who took part in PwC’s survey, said they were willing to pay more in travel costs in order to maintain the environmental improvements, such as reduced pollution, seen during the pandemic.
Commuters will prefer to use contactless payments, and buy off-peak reduced price tickets over annual and monthly travel passes which, according to PwC, will be the least popular ticket types – with less than one in five planning to buy an annual pass.
This does not bode well for the flexible season tickets which were introduced by National Rail in recent weeks.
The new flexible season tickets allow passengers to travel for eight days in any month-long period. The tickets were introduced as part of the government’s much-vaunted revamp of the UK rail network and followed a year in which passenger numbers tumbled to historically low levels as a result of the pandemic.
But even as many workers adopt new flexible working patterns, which the flexible season tickets were designed to cater for, PwC’s transport research, which surveyed 2,000 people across the UK, showed that other priorities are occupying workers’ minds.
Increased cleaning and the ample availability of hand sanitiser are some of the top measures commuters want post-pandemic, with over half of the survey respondents citing these are important factors to them after restrictions are lifted.
“While people expect a significant shift back to normality after the pandemic, travel patterns and plans for greater flexibility have already changed because of Covid. Contactless payments and flexible part-time tickets will become more relevant to travellers as a hybrid of remote and on-site working becomes the norm,” said Grant Klein, PwC transport leader, in an official statement on the company website. | <urn:uuid:32e40efa-a800-4f85-ac7b-37930a331dc9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cityam.com/more-staff-yearn-for-their-pre-pandemic-commutes-as-return-to-looms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977648 | 486 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Press Release RCN
The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has established the maximum rates for the distribution of electricity in the Caribbean Netherlands that come into force on July 1st, 2019.
For Bonaire the variable usage rate drops from 0.2693 USD/kWh to 0.2672 USD/kWh. The Pagabon (prepaid) maximum rate descends from 0.4765 USD/kWh to 0.4744 USD/kWh. For the consumption of an average household on Bonaire this means a decrease of USD 0.50 per month.
For St. Eustatius, the variable usage rates increases from 0,2965 USD/kWh to 0.3047 USD/kWh. For the consumption of an average household on St. Eustatius, this means an increase of USD 2.00 per month.
For Saba the variable usage rate drops from 0.3516 of USD/kWh to 0.3278 USD/kWh. For the consumption of an average household on Saba, this means a decrease of USD 6.00 per month.
Distribution rates adjusted twice a year
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Spenser, Shepheards Calendar
dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney (end of preface)
E.K.'s preface -- defense of "rymes more ragged and rusticall" (echoes of Skelton in Colin Clout)
- "But all as in most exquisite pictures they vse to blaze and portraict not onely the daintie lineaments of beautye, but also rounde about it to shadow the rude thickets and craggy clifts, that by the baseness of such parts, more excellency may accrew to the principall; for oftimes we fynde ourselues, I knowe not how, singularly delighted with the shewe of such naturall rudenesse, and take great pleasure in that disorderly order. Euen so doe those rough and harsh termes enlumine and make more clearly to appeare the brightnesse of braue and glorious words. So oftentimes a dischorde in Musick maketh a comely concordaunce: so great delight tooke the worthy Poete Alceus to behold a blemish in the ioynt of a wel shaped body."
- "For in my opinion it is one special prayse, of many which are dew to this Poete, that he hath laboured to restore, as to theyr rightfull heritage such good and naturall English words, as have ben long time out of vse and almost cleane disinherited."
English has become "gallimaufray" (irony) of other speeches -- French, Italian, etc. -- but is good enough for its own verse
E.K. on glossing:
- "Hereunto haue I added a certain Glosse or scholion for thexposition of old wordes & harder phrases: which maner of glosing and commenting, well I wote, wil seeme straunge & rare in our tongue: yet for
somuch as I knew many excellent & proper deuises both in wordes and matter would passe in the speedy course of reading, either as vnknowen, or as not marked, and that in this kind, as in other we might be equal to the learned of other nations, I thought good to take the paines vpon me, the rather for that by meanes of some familiar acquaintaunce I was made privy to his counsell and secret meaning in them, as also in sundry other works of his."
after concluding his preface, E.K. asks Harvey to bring forth his poems so they may see the "eternall light"
"The generall argument of the whole booke":
- either they be "plaintive" (1, 6, 11, 12) or "recreative" (2, 5, 7, 9, 10)
- "A few onely except, whose speciall purpose and meaning I am not priuie to." -- irony; known/knowable/unknown interpretation
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Anorexia, like bulimia and the Binge Eating Disorderto get a mental illnesswhich has a negative effect on both body weight and eating behaviour. We explain what anorexia is and show how stress is related to the disorder.
What is anorexia?
Anorexia (med.: Anorexia Nervosa), also known as anorexia is a disorder in which the affected person compulsively controlling and minimizing food intake. This leads to a strong weight loss. Anorexia is associated with a limited body perception. Even if those affected have long been severely underweight, they still feel too fat.
Due to malnutrition and underweight, physical symptoms such as strong sensation of cold, fluffy body hair and, in women, the absence of menstruation occur. If the anorexia lasts for a long time, the Muscular atrophy, organ damage, osteoporosis and low blood pressure in addition. According to data from the Federal Ministry of Health, every tenth patient dies within the first ten years of the disease.
What forms of anorexia are there?
Anorexia appears in different ways, also vomiting, laxative and ravenous attacks of the so-called eating-binge eating addiction are possible in connection with the eating disorder. Doctors differentiate according to the International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems (short: ICD) in the diagnosis between active (F 50.01) and passive (50.00) anorexia. The latter form is also called the ascetic form of anorexia. Affected persons only follow a strict diet without taking any further measures to reduce weight.
In the active form, in addition to a strict diet, those affected take other measures to reduce their weight, such as vomiting, excessive physical activity, as well as taking appetite suppressants, laxatives or dehydrating agents.
How to recognise people with anorexia?
To find out whether someone is suffering from anorexia or not, outsiders must look closely. Apart from weight, eating habits are the most important factor here. According to the ICD, the following symptoms indicate an existing anorexia:
- The weight loss leads to a body weight that at least 15 % below the weight considered normal for a given height. The normal weight is determined by the so-called Body Mass Index (short: BMI). In children, possible anorexia is expressed by the fact that they do not continue to gain weight, but above all have hardly any growth in length.
- The weight loss is not caused by other diseases, but self-inflicted. This can include avoiding fatty foods, skipping meals and not eating sweets. Some people take appetite suppressants to suppress hunger.
- Anorexia is also manifested by disturbed self-perception of affected people who always perceive their body as "too fat". This feeling is connected with the fear of gaining weight and becoming fat.
- Affected persons define a very low weight as acceptable for themselves. If this is achieved, anorexics set a new low threshold. They make themselves dependent on the number on the scale.
- In the course of the nutrient deficiency, an endocrine disorder of the pituitary-gonadal axis develops in affected persons. It manifests itself in women as amenorrhoea (amenorrhoea), for men as lack of interest in sexual activity and in the form of loss of potency.
- In contrast to bulimia, anorexic patients have no regular eating fitswhich are caused by the strong "greed" for food.
In addition, on close observation of those affected, abnormal patterns of behaviour are also noticeable, some of which are related to disturbed self-perception and partly related to the disturbed relationship with food. If anorexia is suspected, friends and family members can look out for the following behaviours:
- as a rule, anorexics and bulimics suffer from Body Scheme Disorder. The affected persons estimate body measurements wrong and bigger than they are in reality
- People with advanced anorexia often wear oversized clothesto cover the unloved body that is considered too fat. Sometimes clothing is also used to keep weight loss a secret from relatives. This can be particularly the case if friends or family members have already pointed out the weight loss.
- Food triggers panic attacks. This manifests itself in the form of introverted or irritable behaviour at table. Conspicuous behaviour can also occur when food is overly discussed in general or in conversations.
- In order not to gain weight, anorexics tend to keep Strict control of eating behaviour. This starts with the selection, the quantity and the composition of the food. In some cases, ritualized eating behavior develops from this, or there are constraints such as chewing food the same number of times, eating food of one color or counting the number of foods exactly.
- In everyday life, people with restrictive anorexia or anorexia with vomiting (the atypical anorexia) in particular do not notice until the disorder is already advanced. This is because people with eating disorders develop targeted strategies in order not to attract "unpleasant" attention. In order to eat less food, affected persons eat excessively slowly, pretend to have allergies or intolerances or dispose of food inconspicuously in napkins. Frequent visits to the toilet during meals can also indicate that the food is spat out or vomited.
- Although anorexics hardly take any food at all, and at times not at all, in contrast to this, those affected sometimes prepare Excessive food for others closed without eating out
Where can I get advice and first aid for eating disorders?
In order not to unsettle potentially affected persons, it is advisable, if anorexia or bulimia is suspected, to first Contact experts. If necessary, they can also help to find a suitable therapy and give tips to relatives on how to communicate about the eating disorder.
Dealing with data subjects requires a high level of Caution and tactas there is usually no insight into the disease and no motivation for therapy. Help for affected persons and their relatives is provided by Advice centre of the Federal Centre for Health Education (short: BZgA). A anonymous online consulting affected families can make use of Caritas. In addition, families can contact advice centres of the Action group for eating and anorexia turn around.
Stress as a trigger for anorexia?
The development of anorexia is multifactorial. Triggers for anorexia can be stress factors in the Familyor in the circle of friends or in the Partnership be. Eva Hitzler emphasizes this, Head of the Caritas specialist outpatient clinic for eating disorders in an interview:
To what extent can stress lead to eating disorders?
Eva Hitzler: Eating disorders occur especially when I am dissatisfied with my body, my self-confidence is very low, there is too high a demand for perfection and self-criticism is a strict and permanent companion. This has to do above all with the attitude towards my body. This attitude can be disturbed by various stress factors - for example by abuse or by an unconscious contract that one has made with oneself because of certain beliefs.
Furthermore, restricted eating rituals of the family can also contribute to the development of eating disorders. If special emphasis is placed within the family on "being thin" and others from the extended family are criticised for their figure, this can also play a role in the development of eating disorders.
A lack of harmony and acceptance in the family can also chronic stress and thus bring about a change in eating habits. Sometimes an eating disorder is also a reaction to being put in a certain role but not wanting to accept it. In addition, pressure to perform and the Perfectionism of the parents, can be the trigger for an eating disorder in childhood and adolescence.
In adulthood an eating disorder can Component of other stress-related diseases be. For example, an eating disorder in men often occurs in combination with burnout syndromewith depression or due to an inappropriate family situation.
Does stress affect the development of eating disorders differently depending on the type of eating disorder (anorexia, bulimia, eating addiction)?
Eva Hitzler: The main symptoms of anorexia are Pressure to perform, the need to be perfect and having to please everybody. Anorexics often display altruistic behavior and ignore their own feelings. On the other hand, those affected are characterized by strong ego structure and a correspondingly strong selfishness. A combination that puts anorexic people under constant stress.
In bulimia, as in eating addiction, negative feelings and inner desperation are considered to be stress factors and triggers for eating fits. The latter have a calming effect on those affected who have no other way to deal with negative feelings.
How can eating disorders be prevented?
Eva Hitzler: Often the Cause of an eating disorder among others in the family. Thus, it is sometimes apparent in those affected that they have not learned to deal with their feelings, they project them to the outside and like to blame others. That is why it is important in everyday life to allow feelings to enter. Parents should therefore show their children how to show affection, talk about disappointment, etc. Within the family it is important to be able to talk about "everything" in a relaxed manner.
However, parents are not only a role model when it comes to open and honest communication within the family. Parents can also be a positive role model in terms of body awareness and eating habits. So it is advisable not to make negative comments about the figure of others. Excessive talk about food can also contribute to the development of an eating disorder. Parents should not tell their children too much about what to eat, nor should they try to show their children how to eat.
Lastly, it is important for children not to put too much pressure to perform or a strong sense of perfectionism. This attitude of the parents can be transferred to the children and later lead to an excessive attitude of entitlement. Physical contact, movement without excessive demands, joint activities, playing outdoors promote social cohesion, one's own sensual perception and convey a holistic feeling for the body. In this context, the attitude that one is not good enough is fundamental for the development of an eating disorder.
Physical stressors as trigger and maintenance factor of anorexia
In general, anorexia is considered a disorder that is directly related to social values and beauty ideals and is thus caused in particular by external stress factors. However, findings from neurobiology indicate that there may also be physical factors that favour the development of anorexia.
For example, the University of San Diego, California, School of Medicine, as part of the Eating Disorders Treatment and Research Program, conducted research measuring brain activity in women diagnosed with anorexia.
It turned out that the Reward system of anorexics works differentlythan in people without anorexia. While the latter responded positively to reward, brain activity was less pronounced in anorexic people in this case. On the other hand, people with anorexia were over-sensitive to punishment.
In concrete terms, this means that while a person without an eating disorder may feel that sweets or pastries are a reward, negative thoughts such as "the cake is unhealthy and makes you fat" automatically predominate in anorexics. The cause seems to be a Abnormal functioning of dopamine a neurotransmitter responsible for making us feel rewarded.
The measurements also showed an increased activity of the right insula. This part of the brain is responsible for the sensation of taste during food intake. In addition, the right insula is responsible for the perception of the body.
In an interview from 2016, Walter Kaye, director of the Medical Faculty's programme for the treatment and research of eating disorders, speaks of anorexia in anorexic patients. Hypersensitivity of the own body.
While people without eating disorders mainly notice discomfort such as stomach upset, people with anorexia are hypersensitive to processes taking place in the body. Kaye points out that the need to starve can be seen as a protective reaction of the body.
These findings could help those affected in the future to treat eating disorders holistically and to address social stress factors as well as physical weaknesses. However, Kaye stresses that here some more research needed is. It is not yet clear which neurobiological abnormalities precede the disorder and which arise only in the course of the disease.
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Picture a country plagued with financial struggle, unaffordable food, looting and rioting due to heavy disdain for the current regime, the wealthy exempt from paying taxes, and an expanding urban poor.
Thinking of the United States during the good year of our Lord 2020?
Think again. We’re talking late 18th century France.
Here’s a bit of context:
Lavish leaders and affluent aristocrats ran the country, owning a proportionally vast majority of the property in the nation and controlling a massive amount of wealth in the state. And of course, none of the nobility paid any taxes. Nor did clergy. The burden of public funding fell straight on the Third Estate: the lower 97% of the population that encompassed the upper working class and peasants.
There’s one problem though: that same lower 97% only held about 65% of the land in France. We’ll come back to this figure soon.
Not only was a burden of taxation upon the lowest earners, but loads of other problems ensued as well.
Because the French Revolution of 1789 didn’t have a single cause, it’s crucial for me to note here that income inequality wasn’t the only reason for tension. But it’s definitely an important factor to mention.
It’s also crucial to give an honorable mention to these factors when we’re working through a comparative study between 1789 France and 2020 U.S.A:
- Astronomical costs for Versailles’ upkeep
- Growing division between social classes
- Poor harvests
- Absolute monarchy
- Incompetent leadership under Louis XVI, the king of France at the time.
When the nobility looked like this:
French aristocrats, c. 1774 Antoine-Jean Duclos – Le bal paré, via Wikipedia Commons.
Members of the working class were hardly able to feed themselves and their families.
And all of that mess led to a history-altering revolution.
Sound familiar? In a country with citizens like Jeff Bezos — and with more transparency regarding others’ wealth (or lack thereof) than ever — it’s almost impossible to ignore the absolute inequality of it all. At the moment, the United States is a place where a pandemic is hardly being taken care of. Where millions are out of work. Where our president acts like a toddler and is still somehow a billionaire. Where a hospital visit might bankrupt us. We’re feeling some of the exact same tension that was apparent in France over 200 years ago.
Inequality is definitely here. But is it really that bad?
Let’s Break Our Wealth Inequality Down.
Below, you’ll see a graphic representing wealth distribution in late 18th century France, with data provided by an article entitled “The Income Inequality of France in Historical Perspective” by Christian Morrisson and Wayne Snyder.
A couple of notes on this data: these are estimates. I’ve decided to use the author’s low estimates just to illustrate the best case scenario of income inequality during the late eighteenth century in France. In this graph, and the graph to follow, each quintile represents 20% of the population. The first quintile is the lowest-earning 20% of society, where the fifth quintile is the highest.
So, at this point, the lowest 40% of earners held about 14% of the wealth in France, where the top 20% of earners held a whopping 60%.
With me so far? Now, let’s take a look at wealth distribution in the United States in 2018, when the distribution was last recorded by the Census Bureau.
According to the Census Bureau’s 2018 report on Income and Poverty in the United States, and represented by my lovely graph, the lowest 40% of earners in the U.S. were worse off than 18th century French peasants. They held just 11.4% of wealth. And our top 20% of earners held 52% of it.
Not looking too good, right? Let’s take another measure of inequality into consideration.
The Gini Coefficient
According to our Lord and savior Investopedia, which can always interpret economic jargon better than I can, the Gini coefficient is “a measure of the distribution of income across a population. It is often used as a gauge of economic inequality, measuring income distribution or, less commonly, wealth distribution among a population. The coefficient ranges from 0 to 1, with 0 representing perfect equality and 1 representing perfect inequality.”
Basically, the closer a state’s Gini coefficient is to 1, the more unequal its income distribution.
Let’s get into the numbers:
In 1789 France, the Gini coefficient of the nation was 0.59. Quite far from perfect equality, which is at 0.
In 2018, the United States had a Gini coefficient of 0.49. We’re definitely catching up, and still far from perfect equality.
Not a numbers person?
Just take a look around. Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the United States (and in the world) could potentially afford to end world hunger. The recently revamped White House rose gardens made headlines and drew outrage for costing $400 million. Members of Congress (not mentioning names, ahem, Nancy Pelosi) are flaunting $13 dollar tubs of ice cream inside of a fridge worth tens of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile, farm workers are struggling, food banks are overwhelmed, and loads of Americans are dealing with the perilous repercussions of COVID-19.
Is that really just?
We’ve seen that income distribution in the U.S. is dangerously approaching a level of inequality that helped lead to one of the most revolutionary, well, revolutions in modern history. But there’s one small problem:
Americans Just Can’t Overthrow the System.
We love to joke about it. Just look at these protestors who put a guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos’ home.
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 27, 2020
But we won’t do it. It’s just not within our good American souls to collectively question the systems that have led us to this point. Questioning the validity of the American system is certainly, in my humble opinion, not something we’re really brought up to do.
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Many people are becoming more and more aware of the harmful effects of prescription medication. These same concerned citizens are turning to natural alternatives.
As a consequence, the market for nutritional supplements (also known as dietary supplements) and “natural” solutions has exploded. As with any market opportunity, companies are using this new interest to increase sales, which leads to a lot of misleading information, contradictory messages, and unfortunately, misuse of potentially harmful substances
Dietary supplements promise to be safe and natural. They are subject to fewer restrictions, regulations and testing than their more harmful equivalents in the pharmaceutical realm.
On the one hand, this is great and makes remedies accessible to all, giving us the power to treat ourselves with safe and natural products. On the other hand, this leaves us vulnerable to sophisticated marketing, unreliable company ethics, and potentially unregulated or tested products.
We all want to go natural, take responsibility for our own health and have access to tools that allow that. But what happens when a seemingly “natural” remedy is so powerful and aggressive that it has the power to actually harm us?
Let’s take melatonin as an example.
Melatonin is the number one supplement recommended for sleep. Type in the words “sleep,” “remedy” and “natural,” and nine times out of ten, melatonin will be in all your search results for five pages.
But what is melatonin, really?
Melatonin is an endogenous hormone (meaning we make it ourselves). It is made by converting an amino acid called L-tryptophan into serotonin, which is then converted into melatonin by the pineal gland at the base of our brain. It is also produced by many other cells in the human body, such as in the GIT. It is present in many foods, such as bananas, walnuts, and rice.
It’s a reasonable alternative to harmful sleeping meds, and companies are doing their best to make sure you know it.
So what’s the problem?
First of all, melatonin does not just impact sleep. It has also been shown to affect the immune system, inflammation levels, and blood pressure. This makes it potentially harmful to a wide range of people with chronic conditions.
Secondly, there is nothing natural about the melatonin you are taking! The melatonin in supplements is 100% synthetic, chemical in composition, and made in a laboratory.
Because of that, it is mainly produced by the same pharma companies that are making prescription medications. So it’s actually more of a medication than a supplement.
Third, a powerful medication marketed as a supplement is not subject to the same regulations as medications that are marketed as medications. This leads to potentially harmful and poor quality products.
When comparing over-the-counter melatonin products, medical experts find there is a huge variation in potency, availability and release time. There are even misleading labels that promise this or that and are, in fact, completely inaccurate.
Because of its natural role in the body, and like any hormone, naturally-produced melatonin is extremely valuable to overall health and wellness.
There are melatonin receptors in nearly every cell of the human body. Melatonin functions similarly to other hormones and neurotransmitters. That means, when there is a lot of it in our blood, the body wants to use all of it because it’s precious.
The body can make accelerated use of hormones, like melatonin, by increasing the number of available receptors. The typical melatonin user will, unknowingly, trigger this biological function, creating more receptors for melatonin.
That means, when someone stops taking melatonin, he or she will have too many receptors. The body is then not producing enough melatonin to keep all those receptors functioning.
Also, when we give our bodies excessive amounts of a very valuable substance, a positive feedback loop tells the body we have enough, so it does not need to make more of it. In other words, taking melatonin supplements can damage your body’s ability to make melatonin naturally.
We can look at it this way: Let’s say I’m in the desert, and I’m collecting water. I am working hard to collect every drop of it from dew and rainwater.
Then, one year, a water company sends me a water truck with a year’s worth of water. Now I am overwhelmed. Instead of focusing on collecting natural rain, I am building collection tanks, and gardens and planting fruit trees so that I can use all this water.
A month later, this truck leaves. Now, I have all these collecting tanks, gardens and plantations that need a lot more water than I have. Also, I have neglected collecting my own water, so I am actually worse off than when I originally started.
That’s how melatonin receptors work. An excess of melatonin tells the body to make less melatonin itself.
Of course, no one is looking into the long-term effects that melatonin abuse has on the body. Why would they? A pharmaceutical product that is sold over the counter as natural medicine is a lucrative business. It works well for big pharma, not so well for the customer.
So let’s say we can’t sleep (which is probably not even related to our melatonin levels). We can take a synthetic chemical called melatonin, which causes us to be less sensitive to our own hormones, and leads us to make less of it. A melatonin user may, in the short term, get more sleep. But he or she is also likely to be developing a dependency on the substance.
It is true that, as we get older, the pineal gland, which produces our body’s natural melatonin, shrinks. But this does not mean we don’t have enough melatonin.
If you have sleep disturbances, there are other methods of addressing the problem. Support your bodies organic natural processes, don’t override them. Temporary relief with long term consequences is not the way to go. Read more about our all-natural CBD and medicinal plants Deep Sleep and Relax Tincture.
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As a promoter of collaboration, a mediator, a conflict resolution specialist, and a person that teaches ethics and negotiations, I did not initially appreciate the title of The Dark Side of Collaboration offered by Scientific America. However, the subtitle of “People working together often scheme to put profits ahead of telling the truth. New research points out ways to stop this behavior” gave me hope. I found this article extremely helpful and enlightening. This commentary that follows shares some of the highlights of that article and offers some additional observations.
Ethics and collaboration
It turns out from the research of the 34 articles researched that unethical behavior is common in collaboration. However, there are limits on how far people will go. This can be very problematic. Groups develop a mindset to reach the goal. If this involves lying, that can be deemed acceptable. If there was a chance for greater profit or similar motive associated with winning, participants were not against falsifying the truth. If there were downsides to lying such as a charity would receive less if it were found out that participants lied this cut down on lying. They also found that gender and age mattered.
Interestingly with older participants and with women lying took place less.
Past research shows that when women lie, they have been penalized more.
Another observation was that dishonest behavior was indeed contagious. Collaborative dishonesty also escalated with time. These findings suggested as soon as any dishonesty is detected it should be addressed. Not addressing dishonesty early means that others will see no negative repercussions for dishonesty and determine that the corporate culture cultivated this kind of behavior. Here are three examples:
- Think of Vietnam and the military’s need for body counts of enemy killed each week. It is estimated that 61% of American commanders considered body counts to be grossly exaggerated[i].
- Consider how Volkswagen engineers deliberately falsified emissions reports to meet government standards so that they could meet timelines and quality standards when they knew they were wrong.[ii]
- Wells Fargo opened millions of accounts without customer consent and settled for a $3 billion fine. Employees needed to open so many accounts to meet standards, so they started opening fictious accounts to meet standards with customer information[iii].
These are just the tip of the iceberg of examples regarding collaborative dishonesty. So, the question arises, how do you cultivate honesty?
How to encourage honesty
It is possible up front to develop a zero tolerance for dishonesty. That is integrity and honesty are true values of our organization and any fabrications or dishonest behavior will not be tolerated. Even small acts of deceit would not be tolerated. As examples:
- Here is the policy at Save the Children
- Here is the policy at a call center
- Here is the policy with computer science course work
Another opportunity is with whistle blowers. In this instance whistle blowers are encouraged. Whistle blowers will be forgiven for wrong doings on their part.
A more common management technique is to
request employees to bring to their managers attention any possible or probably administrative or technical issue that they believe their manager should know about.
This policy also asks employees to report any mistakes as soon as the employee is aware of any concerns. This avoids compounding issues from relatively minor simple mistakes or miss communications right away. This allows management to work with employees to resolve issues as soon as possible.
Nipping collaborative dishonesty in the bud at the very beginning is the best way to prevent the cancer from spreading.
What about harm?
As indicated from the research above collaborative dishonesty was reduced when harm was identified from lies. Realizing that others could be or would be harmed helps to reduce collaborative dishonesty. Educating others to the ramifications helps to reduce collaborative dishonesty. With the three examples above:
- Vietnam body counts – the military lying to the American public undermined confidence of the American people in the military and caused extremely negative repercussions by civilians against military veterans during the later stages of and after the Vietnam war.
- Volkswagen diesel emission tests – undermined confidence in customers view of Volkswagen, caused additional pollution and deaths as a result of the excess emissions being released into the environment.
- Wells Fargo fake accounts – undermined the public’s view of Wells Fargo as a banking entity and had negative impacts on individuals whose records were taken without consent. Privacy rights were violated by customers trusting in the integrity of the bank.
Given these ideas what can you do now?
Here are five ideas for your consideration.
- Assuming your firm has a mission, vision, and values statement meet with your group and discuss these with your team. What do these mean to you? Have a frank and open discussion. See where this leads. Promote ethical collaboration
- Learn your boss’s communication style and approach your boss the way he or she wants to be approached. Identify preferences for in person, email, text and when and how to communicate.
- Get to the point. Time is precious. Yes, ask how he or she is doing. Is this a good time for an interruption? If so, take the time ahead of time to concisely identify and state your concern. Have some solutions in mind from your perspective.
- Remember to stay within the chain of command. Do not undermine your boss unless your boss is part of the problem. If that is the case reach out to a mentor and ask what might be the best way forward.
- Be a problem solver. See if you can produce a way to overcome the barrier. Be proactive and show that you have the best interest of the organization regarding the issue. Your ideas may not be accepted, but if you come with a solution ahead of time, this will increase the probability of consideration.
Consider these ideas to address dishonest collaboration. Let me know how it goes. What are your ideas? Please share them with me.
About the author
Mike Gregory is a professional speaker, an author, and a mediator. You may contact Mike directly at email@example.com and at (651) 633-5311. Mike has written 12 books (and co-authored two others) including his latest book, The Collaboration Effect: Overcoming Your Conflicts, and The Servant Manager, Business Valuations and the IRS, and Peaceful Resolutions that you may find helpful. [Michael Gregory, ASA, CVA, NSA, MBA, Qualified Mediator with the Minnesota Supreme Court] | <urn:uuid:33311787-19eb-4ab0-ab23-c1a7bcb382d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mikegreg.com/blog/does-lying-collaborative-business-deals-really-pay | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957885 | 1,311 | 2.703125 | 3 |
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A new study sponsored by Microsoft explored whether organizations have a solid understanding of private cloud and to what degree they are adopting and benefiting from the technology. The Private Cloud in Context survey found that about 56% of respondents have a solid understanding of private cloud, and almost 60% feel that private cloud will play an important role in their organization.
The survey of 570 IT professionals was conducted by Freeform Dynamics for The Register. It defined private cloud as:
“The basic idea of Private Cloud is to pool a bunch of servers and other resources (storage and networking) to create a general purpose platform upon which a variety of workload types can be run simultaneously. An important attribute of private cloud is the rapid allocation/de-allocation of resources to/from workloads, enabling a more dynamic approach to management.”
Based on the above definition, the survey also revealed that:
- Private cloud adoption is strong. Approximately 28% of the respondents are using private cloud, while another 27% are “doing private cloud-like things”. Approximately 22% of the respondents are likely to adopt private cloud in the future.
- The more servers an organization has, the more likely it is to adopt private cloud. More than 70% of respondents with over 5,000 servers have adopted private cloud services, compared to approximately 40% of respondents with fewer than five servers.
- The biggest benefits of private cloud relate to service level enhancements and the reduction of costs and overhead. When it comes to service level enhancements, almost 80% of respondents cited the following as huge or worthwhile benefits:
- Rapid provisioning of infrastructure resources for new applications, speeding up rollout and time to benefit
- Rapid response to changing demands, allowing additional resources to be given to an app, or reclaimed from it, quickly and efficiently
As for cost savings, about 70% of respondents cited “Less need to over-provision resources, driving overall improvements in resource utilization within the IT infrastructure” as a worthwhile or huge benefit.
- Private cloud has a number of challenges. More than 80% of respondents are concerned about application and compatibility issues, as well as the lack of relevant industry standards. Many organizations also have a hard time making a business case for private cloud, as the messages that they receive from vendors are confusing and contradictory.
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Lettuce be clear: this could be a really exciting project.
Lettuce on Mars is a project designed by a team of students at Southampton University that aims to, you guessed it, grow lettuce on Mars, as a pre-emptive part of the Mars One landing, designed to send people to Mars by 2026. students just did a Reddit AMA, and here’s what we learned about the project:
The Lettuce on Mars team is just one of several teams trying to get their project on Mars: The Mars One project, an organization based in the Netherlands that claims will be sending a colony of volunteers to live on Mars permanently in 2026, will be sending an unmanned probe in 2018. This pre-emptive part of the Martian colony mission will be carrying a project designed by a student team. You can vote for your favorite project here.
The lettuce will be incinerated once it reaches full growth: Yes, it sounds like a bummer, but it apparently was the only way that the project could happen without disturbing the Martian surface, and also because NASA has taken considerable pains to avoid sending anything alive to Mars as part of a 1967 treaty.
The lettuce seeds would be frozen during their trip to Mars: Martian travel doesn’t happen in the blink of an eye. The lettuce seeds will be frozen during their journey to Mars, and the growth of the seeds will happen entirely in space.
The lettuce would be grown using aeroponics: It’s like hydroponics, but grown in the air instead of water. According to the AMA, “we are growing these plants using aeroponics. So we are going to suspend the seedlings and spray them with a spray of nutrient rich water,” said a member of the team.
They aren’t the only ones trying to grow lettuce in space! NASA and SpaceX already have plans to use ultraviolet light technology to grow lettuce in a satellite that orbits the Earth.
5 Reasons You Need to Try The Fresh Fork
Everyone's had that moment — you're running late for that dreaded 1:30 class, all you want to do is nap and you haven't had lunch yet. You glance at Burger King but suddenly remember how you failed last year's New Year's resolution to eat healthy after just a month.
Yeah, I've been there. But have no fear — there is a solution. The Fresh Fork, a new, local food prep business, offers prepared meals for you to grab and go. From 4-7pm Monday through Friday, selected dishes are available for in-store pickup throughout the day and on Saturday and Sunday, when InBloom Juicery opens their pop-up shop in the same location.
Another option is to order online. Chefs can cook up to a week's worth of meals for you to refrigerate and take as lunches, dinners or even snacks. The best part? Mr. Delivery can bring them straight to your door.
I interviewed Stacy Thompson, The Fresh Fork's owner, and Jade Simmons, The Fresh Fork's marketing intern, and figured out why The Fresh Fork should be your go-to for healthy, homemade food.
The complete mesh of fantastic and realistic elements where the impossible is treated as unremarkable. The fantastic is seen as mundane not just in the sense of being a natural part of the world, but also mundane in the sense of being dull. This separates it from general fantasy where magic is real but still attracts attention. The impossible elements don't rely on consistency to maintain Willing Suspension of Disbelief their presentation as unexceptional helps keep the audience from demanding a plausible explanation. In short, unlike normal fantasy story, a Mundane Fantastic one doesn't indulge in their own fantastic elements, because they're there only as flavor. This is more often seen in Urban Fantasy because they are set in a setting that's close to our real world, just with added fantastic elements.
This attitude can often be justified as more realistic in a story where the impossible has always been possible. In our world, hackers may be uncommon, but they're perfectly plausible, so there's no reason to constantly point them out all the time or give detailed explanations of their place in reality. So the people who know that their world has only two or three wizards in every town would consider this normal too. Not that everyone knows the difference between hacking and wizardry anyway. But while hackers attract attention and interest, Mundane Fantastic wizards are unremarkable even while being uncommon, much like county clerks.
For a purely artistic standpoint, the Mundane Fantastic is a major reason why a show might be animated instead of done live. On the other end of the spectrum, there's the idea that if a cartoon is to be taken seriously it has to be serious and played straight. A Mundane Fantastic show may Jump the Shark if a new writer comes on board and decides that all the fantastic elements have to be explained to death.
Anime uses this very frequently, which probably contributes to the perception of "inherent strangeness" for that visual medium.
If the story is in a realistic setting that is recognizable as our past or present world, it's Magic Realism. Isolated fantastic elements are typically considered Unusually Uninteresting Sights.
Inspiring little Einsteins
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — When our kids grow up, if they want to land a robot on Mars or cure a deadly disease, they’ll need strong science skills, and that learning starts early.
There are a lot of reading programs that help parents support their child’s language skills, but when it comes to science, many parents are at a loss. Now a new study finds the earlier parents expose their kids to science, the better their kids do in by the eighth grade. There are simple ways parents can support their kids before they even get to school.
A story before dinner. A book before bed. Many families have established reading routines. But when it comes to science, where do you start?
A national survey of more than 1,400 parents of children three to six years old showed nine out of ten parents do educational activities at home, but only about half of parents say they do activities that involve science. Many said they weren’t confident helping kids with science. Paul Morgan, PhD, Penn State Center for Educational Disparities
Research, studies how kids learn. He says parents can look for everyday ways to engage kids starting at home.
“Get down on the carpet or on the floor and work with them,” shared Morgan.
Build with blocks like an architect or pretend to fight fires. In the kitchen, cook with kids. Measure out ingredients, talk about the sequence involved in recipes. Point out changes as food cooks.
“Why is the egg looking different as I put it into the pan under heat than when it started? Why is putting the mix in the oven and exposing it to heat, what is it we are doing and why is it doing that?” continued Morgan.
Get outside. Ask kids questions about what they see in the garden, in the nearby stream, or at a construction site. And don’t worry if you don’t know the answer.
“Being inquisitive and going through the process of you learning the information too, that's helpful as well in terms of a model for children,” Morgan stated.
Learning that’s important, not only outside the classroom, but inside too.
“Being scientifically and mathematically literate is only becoming more important. We've seen examples where a lack of knowledge around scientific topics, for example, is probably working against us as a country, whether it's about vaccines or climate change or other potential topics. Equipping children to gain a basic proficiency in math and science as our economy and society and moves towards emphasizing those skills more over time will only benefit them across their lifespan,” said Morgan.
A (Very) Short History of Voting Rights in the United States
Written by Benjamin Clanton, Government Publications
The expansion of voting rights has a long and tumultuous history in the United States, and while the journey is not over (and may never be), a number of crucial events have made voting a more inclusive right that many people cherish as one of the most important responsibilities held by American citizens. The original text of the U.S. Constitution largely left decisions concerning voting rights up to the individual states thus, the right to vote was held almost exclusively by white male property holders in the early days of our nation. However, several Constitutional Amendments have expanded the electorate since the American Civil War. In the years immediately following the war, the Fourteenth Amendment extended the vote to all males above the age of 21 and further defined citizenship rights, and the Fifteenth Amendment seemingly outlawed the denial of voting rights based on race and “conditions of previous servitude,” laying out protections for former male slaves. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment extended the vote to women, a long overdue protection finally given after a decades long struggle.
The 1960s witnessed a new era in the protection of voting rights, particularly for minorities in certain parts of the country. States in the American South, following Reconstruction in the late 19 th century, long practiced efforts to disenfranchise African American voters through things such as a poll tax and literacy tests. In 1964, the Twenty-fourth Amendment outlawed the use of poll taxes, and the following year, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 laid out protections for minority voters, working to realize the promises made by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The Voting Rights Act has been amended several times over the past half century, extending protections to other minorities in the United States, including language minorities and voters with disabilities. Another important step to bring more people into the political conversation took place in 1971 with the Twenty-sixth Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18 nationwide.
There are many other important moments and pieces of legislation that serve to protect voting rights in the United States, and I would encourage further research if you are interested in both the high and low points of this part of the nation’s history. The protection of voting rights in the United States continues to be a pertinent topic in our society, and will likely remain so well into the future. There are a number of questions that arise during every election cycle. Are there enough polling places to accommodate the population, particularly in urban areas? What exactly is the future of early voting and mail-in voting, both exacerbated by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic? What about the disenfranchisement of felons in many states, either while incarcerated or after release? Should a person have to show identification to vote? One would hope that voting, one of the most sacred rights held by American citizens, one that countless people have fought for during the history of this country, will continue to become easier, with more and more people encouraged to use this opportunity to have their voices heard.
And this brings a reminder: please vote! It is such a privilege to be able to do so. It is important to keep up with what is happening on any given ballot. Many people only consider a Presidential election important. But there are so many elections that happen in conjunction with and in between it. Even in a year such as this one, there are other relevant things on the ballot one should be knowledgeable about. For example, as a Mississippian, I get the chance to vote on the following on November 3: President of the United States members of the U.S. Congress state Supreme Court justices a new design for our state flag and the possible legalization of medical marijuana. So, remember, being a voter is important, but being an informed voter is vital.
If you are interested in more information on voting rights, here are some links to online government resources that you can check out!
YouTube is one of the best resources around when it comes to free classes and learning. You can learn all levels of learning for any subject you can think of.
My favorite learning YouTube channels for kids are:
Crash Course Kids a bi-weekly show focusing on grade school science.
Science Channel Learn about outer space, leading scientific exploration, new technology, earth science basics, & more with these fun science videos.
SciShow Kids is focused more on younger children but is fun and engaging for all ages. Every Tuesday and Thursday, Jessi and her robot rat Squeaks talk about complex science concepts in a fun and simple way
National Geographic Kids is perfect for kids of all ages and has hundred of videos focusing on animals, science and more and has many fun and engaging videos.
Free School Focuses on art, music, children&rsquos literature and more and is perfect for children of all ages.
GEOgraphy Focus focuses on maps, flags, culture, languages, and travel. It also includes profiles of countries and regions, descriptions of important landmarks and geographical features, and discussion of international issues.
TheBrainScoop was made by Chief Curiosity Correspondent of The Field Museum in Chicago. She creates intriguing videos going to depth about things you might find in a museum. These videos are great when you can&rsquot visit a museum in person!
SciShow explores the &ldquounexpected&rdquo with each day of the week adding a new video focusing on the subjects like Wonders of the World, What&rsquos New in Science, and more.
Kids Learning Tube educates kids through music and animation in a fun and unique approach to learning.
Geek Gurl Diaries where us girls discuss, create, demo and interview all things &ldquogeek&rdquo. The coolest part is if your daughter has an idea for videos or tutorials, she could be interviewed!
Mike Likes Science This channel is a unique way to learn as all these science videos are done as music videos! Definitely one to check out!
Science Max This channel is for anyone who has ever done a science experiment and wondered &ldquoWhat would this be like if it were HUGE?&rdquo
SoulPancake focuses on the many ways people seek connection, love, hope, truth and purpose. SoulPancakes goal is to help everyone positively change the world by learning how to see the good.
Dr. Roger&rsquos Math Neighborhood Higher level math series&hellip online video series with detailed solutions to more than a thousand publicly-released College Board SAT Math, Subject Test Math Level 1, and Subject Test Math Level 2 problems.
Oklahoma lawmakers lay out plan to help Oklahomans become Real ID compliant
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Today lawmakers are addressing the massive backlog for Oklahomans racing to get a Real ID, creating headaches and long lines at DPS and tag agencies. Now, they say they’ve got a plan to get back on track.
“In this day and age, we can pretty much do anything. We can fly people to the moon. Now, we can send things to Mars. But we can’t go get a driver’s license renewed? I mean, it’s ridiculous,” said Lindley Welch, who drove to a rural tag agency to get a driver’s license.
Thousands of Oklahomans are hitting a roadblock.
“At this point, there are so many people now that are not in compliance. We are all driving around with expired licenses,” said April Crutison, who says she is still waiting to receive her license she ordered online in March.
Senate Bill 1057 was signed by Gov. Kevin Stitt on Monday, hoping to get the state back on track.
“Here we are now with a challenge before us to handle the backlog of the Real IDs,” said Rep. Dell Kerbs, R-Shawnee.
“This is a situation where Oklahomans deserve better. We are in a situation where due to the COVID crisis, due to our inability to provide enough systems, enough software, enough computers, to be able to handle the demand for Real ID,” said Sen. Chuck Hall, R-Perry.
That bill gives Oklahomans the option to extend their renewal license time from four years to eight years.
It will restore the 2020 budget cuts to the Department of Public Service bringing back more license examiners.
It will provide more equipment to tag agencies to process Real IDs.
And Real ID mega-centers are set to pop up in Oklahoma City and Tulsa this summer.
“I spent five days going to all these little, small towns in Oklahoma, waiting in line,” Welch said.
“In some cases, Oklahomans are driving two hours to get a real ID or get a schedule with a tag agency,” Kerbs said.
Hall and Kerbs say those mega-centers will be modeled off of the COVID-19 vaccine pods, hoping to keep people in the metro from driving to rural tag agencies.
But it’s not a solution for everyone, like Crutison, who says she has yet to receive her driver’s license she renewed online back in March, which she says she has already paid for, leaving her no choice but to wait.
“I literally carry around my receipt and my expired license so that if I were ever in a position where I got pulled over, I have some type of documentation that I’m aware of it and I’m working on it,” Crutison said.
Stitt’s office sent us this statement on Wednesday, saying the following:
“Senate Bill 1057 is a needed step toward making it easier to get a REAL ID or driver’s license and the governor is continuing to work with state agencies on additional solutions to fix the challenges Oklahomans are experiencing.”CHARLIE HANNEMA, CHIEF OF COMMUNICATIONS
Legislators say the mega-centers will cost $6.6 million to establish, but we’re told it will be no additional cost to Oklahomans.
Film Talk: Now Entering: "Days of the Whale," Grief, and Refuge
There is a group of people that exist in limbo. The immigrants, migrants, any one who has to say a Latinx, Asian, or African before they can say ‘American.’ Have you ever wondered what it’d be like to step fully into the world you hear family members sighing over? Have you ever wondered what it would be like coming of age or even being a young adult in South America? It is something I often think about. Having migrated here when I was eleven, I find I am attached to films that tell the story of what my upbringing would have been had my parents not brought me to the United States.
Planted zucchini, beets, Chinese cabbage, spinach seedlings this weekend. Reaped lettuce and chives. Sweet peppers appearing on plants. Celery looking good.
Hot pepper transplants still yellowish and struggling. Just a few baby carrots salvaged. Will plant more this week.
In the kitchen, I am now a cou cou expert but still to tackle bread.
Life is indeed interesting at present.
Bread is easy. Google a recipe and follow it.
They also have a salt bread recipe.
The problem is time. As I am a novice, the gardening is time consuming. I have to research and re-read before I work. Thanks for the links. I will use them as I did your microwave method for cou cou.
@ Donna June 29, 2020 9:02 AM “In the kitchen, I am now a cou cou expert.”
there is a story in the Sat 4 July nation newspaper about a Dr Cheryl Rock who is a food scientist in the US. she and her twin a bajan lawyer Susan Sealy will be putting on a course in food science in Bim. i thought of you and your protestations about black people and bajans not studying science when i read the story
@ Greene July 4, 2020 7:33 PM
Do you consider one person to be a lot?
I never mentioned anything about a lot and this comment was not to challenge your views. in fact i was attempting to show you that persons are perhaps doing what you wanted. who is to say she is the only one? why so defensive man?
BTW are you going to attend? and what are you view on the recent Govt non lethal PDF about combating the green monkeys
Greene I know that you did not ask me, but i read the non-lethal monkey document and it is non workable nonsense. Seemed to have been written by somebody who feels that nothing should ever die. We all die. Since the monkeys have no natural enemies, then we humans have to be the enemy. We need to kill some of the monkeys so that we humans get to eat our produce. I have been killing, principally chickens since my early teens.
We have a population of monkeys which predate on human food, the monkeys have no natural enemies, and do not understand how to use contraceptives. Are we going to wait until there a million monkeys and farming in Barbados becomes unsustainable?
This year because of drought and because of a large troupe of monkeys eating the blossoms on my avocado tree i will be lucky to get 50 pears instead of 500 or 1,000.
I have not read the document but I too believe that eventually the population will become unmanageable and will need to be culled eventually.
I love monkeys but if the choice is between their premature death and that of myself or my son, I choose their premature death. Quick and painless!
@ Cuhdear Bajan July 5, 2020 10:28 AM,
even the PDF seems to suggest that the measures therein may not work. the consensus appears to be that the only serious way to abate the situation lies in a lethal solution which the Govt seems reluctant to make happen.
@ Greene July 5, 2020 8:54 AM
That link will not work. That is local to your system. You will have to provide an external link or email to BU.
@ Cuhdear Bajan July 5, 2020 10:28 AM
“We have a population of monkeys which predate on human food, the monkeys have no natural enemies, and do not understand how to use contraceptives. Are we going to wait until there a million monkeys and farming in Barbados becomes unsustainable?”
The green monkey is not indigenous to the Caribbean. The ‘immigrant’ monkey was brought to Barbadoes on the same ships which transported the ‘captured’ people from West Africa.
Do you know the background to the presence of their relatively large numbers around Barbados?
Let’s just say that the green monkey is considered a delicacy in some West African culinary cultures including the ancestral source of many black Bajans.
Maybe the government should designate the Green monkey as the national animal of Barbados and you might see how fast those monkeys become an endangered species.
Among the headings of the opening page at GIS is a promo “How to start your backyard garden”. One can follow the links to obtain more information on methods and approaches to get a desired result. Everyone in Barbados complains about monkeys and the losses they incur because of the destructive nature of the animals. One cannot blame monkeys they will do what monkeys do but how can a Gov’t encourage people to start growing food without a national program aimed at decreasing the monkey population.
I have seen monkeys among the casuarinas at Miami beach I have seen them among homes in residential areas I have seen them in the older areas around chattel houses I have seen them in urban areas in the city and I have seen them in rural areas. If you are in Barbados and haven’t seen a monkey wait five minutes and take a photo. Humanitarian methods aimed at controlling them aint going to work, the nuclear option is best.
ECLAC Calls for Urgent Regional Cooperation beyond the Pandemic to Foster More Integration and Avert a Food Crisis
Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the UN regional commission, participated today in a conference organized by CELAC and FAO’s regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean.
(July 23, 2020) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, urged the region’s countries to implement urgent cooperation beyond the pandemic and foster greater productive, trade and social integration, during a virtual conference held today under the organization of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the regional office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Other participants in the webinar entitled Multilateral Action to Prevent the Health Crisis from Becoming a Food Crisis included Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, in its capacity as President Pro Tempore of CELAC Joseph Cox, Assistant Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Vinicio Cerezo, Secretary-General of the Central American Integration System (SICA) and Julio Berdegué, FAO’s Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean. Serving as moderator was Camila Zepeda, Director General for Global Issues at the Secretariat for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico.
During her presentation, Alicia Bárcena emphasized that the region is at risk of experiencing a true food crisis. She specified that more than 96 million people will be living in extreme poverty – 11.8% of all people living in cities and 29% of the residents in rural areas.
“This is a huge warning, the income of households is declining along with their access to the food basket. It is not that there is a shortage of food, it is that people do not have the resources to be able to acquire it. This comes on top of the low nutritional quality that people are experiencing, above all the poorest families,” she warned.
She added that in the region, we are in a lost decade in social and economic terms.
“This downturn will lead us to the worst crisis in a century: GDP will fall -9.1%, poverty will affect 37.3% of the population, and unemployment will reach 13.5%. In Central America and Mexico, the drop in GDP will be 8.4% with a big impact from the recession and unemployment in the United States. South America, meanwhile, will be the subregion most affected by the fall in international prices (-9.4%) due to its specialization in the production and exportation of commodities,” she said.
With regard to Caribbean countries, she indicated that while they have managed the pandemic crisis better in relative terms, they are experiencing a great plunge in tourism and have high external debt (68.5% of GDP). The GDP of the Caribbean will fall by -5.4%, she added.
ECLAC’s most senior representative added that governments have taken important measures, but they are not enough to account for the magnitude of the gap.
She explained that to confront the crisis, ECLAC proposes implementing an emergency basic income equivalent to one poverty line ($147 dollars) for six months, at a cost of 1.9% of GDP, along with an anti-hunger grant equivalent to 70% of one extreme poverty line ($57 dollars), which would cost 0.45% of GDP. The Commission also recommends longer repayment periods and grace periods for credits to Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) and partial co-financing of the payroll conditional support for at-risk big companies in strategic sectors expansive and progressive fiscal and monetary policies and cooperation for financing under favorable conditions.
It also proposes a political compact for a welfare State and universal, progressive and distributive social policies aimed at dismantling the culture of privilege.
Alicia Bárcena noted that to prevent the health crisis from becoming a food crisis, ECLAC proposes (in addition to complementing the emergency basic income with the provision of an anti-hunger grant) the granting of subsidies, debt restructuring and/or liquidity provision for agricultural and food-related SMEs and for family businesses, to guarantee the production and distribution chain.
Furthermore, she called for deepening regional integration through greater resilience in production networks, diversifying suppliers in terms of countries and companies, favoring locations that are closer to final consumption markets, and relocating strategic production-related and technological processes.
The senior United Nations official warned about the fragility of multilateralism and its exacerbation with the unilateral restrictions placed on the exportation of medical supplies in more than 60 countries. She also explained that in the post-pandemic period, globalization will not be rolled back, but there will be a more regionalized global economy organized around 3 poles: Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.
Finally, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary highlighted the importance of CELAC for expressing the region’s needs and urgencies, with a single voice, on the international stage, primarily in areas such as the search for financial support for middle-income countries under flexible conditions and guaranteeing the unfettered movement of food, medicine and goods.
· COVID-19 Observatory in Latin America and the Caribbean.
For queries, contact ECLAC’s Public Information Unit.
Email: [email protected] Telephone: (56) 22210 2040.
A lost decade in the region? Not just Barbados?
I planted a $1.52 package of okra seed on March 20. I had to give them a little water during the dry period. By July 20 when they stopped bearing I had harvested 600 okras. I gave some away. Some are in the freezer. i planted another set 3 weeks ago, so I should have some more okras soon.
The Chinese cabbage/bok choi turned our wonderfully. I harvested about 2 dozen so far, and another dozen or more are still in the garden. The seeds took a while to germinate, but once they germinated and the rains began they were so easy. I’ve chopped some, bagged it and put it in the freezer for later. Gave away some. Chinese cabbage goes well added to a pot of brown rice about 5 minutes before the rice is done. Goes well with stir fries too, and chopped in omlettes, or fried up with some saltfish, tomatoes and onions and a few cassava bakes for a wonderful “workman’s” breakfast, even if no workman is present. Lol! The sweet peppers which were planted on the same date had a poor germination. Only 3 plants have survived, but they are all in bloom now
The spinach which I planted about 4 years ago suffers in the dry season but regenerates once the rains start. It is blooming, loving the rain. I’ll start giving it away next week.
I planted some cucumbers from seed about 3 weeks ago. I will see how that goes. I haven’t seen any monkeys lately but it has been my experience that they are a much greater nuisance in the dry season when wild foods are scarce in the gullies.
I bought some hot pepper seedlings from a nursery and planted them out yesterday just before the rain. I am hopeful.
The cassava on the “plantation” [what has become of whitehill?] which was planted in January/February has survived the very harsh drought and is responding well to the recent rainfall. A few yams sprung up from I don’t know where, I guess pieces left behind from last years harvest. Will plant some sweet potatoes soon. The sweet potatoes did very well last year. A soup with okras sweet potatoes, fish and corn dumplings goes down in a very, very satisfying way.
I am glad that I enjoy gardening. During the “lock down” I did not feel locked down at all as I could still work in my garden as often as I liked. Could enjoy the fresh air and sunshine and exercise. People have spoken about gaining weight during the lock down, but I lost one pound.
Funny / Adventure Time
- Everyone's Bad "Bad Acting" when they're pretending to throw a dance party in the Ice King's cell, especially Lumpy Space Princess.
- The Ice King has just been beaten up quite badly by Finn. While unconscious, he dreams he is flying, and ponders why no one seems to like him:
- Jake's Big "NO!"
- "[If I could do anything] I would pick. AN APPLE." ". Lame."
- When Finn starts to express doubts about bringing Tree Trunks along on an adventure, Jake manages to convince him to go with it by waving his arms around and repeatedly saying "It's fine, it's fine. "
- This scene:
- "Watch where you're going!"
- The Keeper gives a long explanation of the quest for the Enchiridion, and Finn easily solves the first "riddle," without even saying a word until asked how he knew what to do.
- Doubly funny because the Keyper very obviously has a giant key tied to his head.
- "Never. Never.NEVER!!(proceeds to kick evil guy in the crotch)
- And then when Finn accidentally attacks the Keyper in a blind rage:
- The same balloons (complete with angry one) make a reappearance in the episode "What Is life?", when they carry Finn and NEPTR into the mountains.
- One of the frozen businessmen gets promoted by Finn for "taking one for the team" (letting Hot Dog Princess, a Dachshund, kiss him instead of Finn). Cue all the other businessmen trying to smooch Hot Dog Princess.
- Throughout the episode, Finn and Jake have been gaining weight due to sitting around and eating junk food, instead of going out on adventures. When they decide to start being heroes again, Jake simply sucks his belly away via his shapeshifter abilities. Finn tries to do the same, but nothing happens, and the episode ends on his disappointed reaction.
- Lady Rainicorn's old voice is hysterical, especially with how oddly sexual her dialogue comes off with Finn.
- How Jake plots revenge: he calls his friend Tiffany who is a boy.
- At the end, when Finn and Jake reconcile:
"Memories of Boom Boom Mountain"
- "I'M NAKED! HIHIHIHIHIHIHI!" The Naked Wizard can appear only once and steal the whole show.
- "WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" "AAAAAAAA!!"
- (puts a patch of cloud on top his head) "NOT NAKED!"
- "Woo yeah! Force that enthusiasm!"
- "YOUTH CULTURE FOREVER!"
- "Dang it, Leonard! If we don't talk at the same time, nobody will understand us!"
- When Finn and Jake get offered free wizard powers:
- The montage of citizens of the city of thieves stealing from each other.
- The ending, where Penny convinces Finn and Jake that she's reformed. then somehow steals the clothes off Finn's back.
- With flowers in his underwear. And he has to start over because the witch needed to record the dance (for her newsletter).
- After getting pelted with a garbage bag full of butter, Finn goes into a dramatic rant about Jake awakening his inner "pranking demon".
- "To the Mesosphere!" "Finally, we can die!"
- The fact that Finn had at some point earned a blood oath from a bunch of prankster, suicidal balloons.
- Finn's reaction to getting a single drop of seawater is to make a completely ridiculous face while doing a Slow "NO!".
- Finn conquers his fear in order to save Jake. temporarily, at least:
- Jake accuses Finn of not paying attention to his viola music, since Finn is sitting there with his mouth hanging open. Finn claims it's just how he looks when he listens to music.
- When the Ice King starts to get cold feet:
- Finn and Jake go to apprehend the Duke of Nuts. Finn angrily bursts in the castle screaming "Duke of NUUUUTS!" and Jake is a little more friendly.
- "This homeless old man looks hungry, but all I have is this little piece of sugar. Man, I'm friggin' all about sugar, but I'm even more about FEEDING HOBOS!"
- The Magic Man in all of his jerkassery. The best moment being him disappearing in a wave of fireworks that spell out "EAT IT".
- This part, when Finn tries to order the parts-people to work together:
- The Whywolves, who switch from being bloodthirsty to sophisticated in a single sentence. They then proceed to give a lecture on why they attack the House People, all the while sounding like an education video, complete with fitting music.
- And the abrupt switch after he has finished the lecture, as if his suppressed wild side has finally been set free:
- "WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO TALK ABOUT?"
- "I'M NOT RUNNING AWAY FINN, THIS IS JUST PART OF MY PLAN!"
- When Marceline is ordering Finn to hold down a man so she can feed on. the red from his bowtie.
- "Conversation Parade"
- "I'm a kick-butt reality master!"
- "AWW MAN! I IMAGINED MY MOM NAKED!"
- "DANG, girl, if you weren't a figment of my imagination, I'd wanna have your baby."
- Finn and Jake get the drop on the Ice King by hiding Jake in a can of peanut brittle.
- Jake makes one of the soft people go "wee wee". It apparently comes out their armpits.
- Finn:How come you never become a monster when I want you to? You're always saying, 'Not now. I have a headache.'
- The dialogue between Spiky Mayor and his wife Sharon after finding the stolen gold. The mayor's overdramatic "Why?!" was gold.
- Finn's reassurance of Jake that he's not sleep stealing is equal parts hilarious and creepy.
- Black Comedy example: "Daddy, Why Did You Eat My Fries" falls victim to Cerebus Syndrome incredibly rapidly, going from the titular goofy premise to Marceline wondering whether her father loves her in less than a minute.
- Marceline's dad finding out his ax has been converted into a bass guitar.
- then again considering future events and Gunter's true identity.
- "Gunter! Who told you you could fly?
Ice King: No one sucks the life from my penguins but ME! And maybe polar bears, because that's just nature, Gunter.
Ice King: (after being freaked out by Marceline's Dad) I've soiled my tunic! Completely by choice!
- Jake plays Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik". It calls over snakes.
- Pretty much the entirety of Finn and Jake's insomnia-derived descent into madness. But especially Jake's eventual plan to get rid of The Horse:
- Followed by the Ice King, just packing up his horse disguise, politely saying goodbye, and leaving. He apparently thought he could just walk away after all that. Finn promptly kicks his butt.
- "Did I tell you that I like the opera? But if you don't, I hate it!"
- When the Nice King orders Finn and Jake to break it gently to Turtle Princess that he doesn't really like her that much:
- At the beginning, Finn and Jake's dramatic confrontation with. a tiny ladybug.
- "Who is the one who bears the thimble?" "This dude."
- Sir Slicer is hilariously jerky, not to mention Sophisticated as Hell.
- Finn trying to be nonchalant while trying to find romance for his story for Jake: "Normal guy, forest guy, just like normal forest guy. (stumbles over a root)"
- Finn trying to see if a couple of ants are in love, resulting in this:
- After Snorlock busts into Finn and Jake's house and tells them of his problems, Finn and Jake go into a "hero huddle":
- Complete with Finn's horrified reactions throughout.
- The pec-flexing during the guy snail part.
- "Girl, you smell good. Did you take a bath in rainbows and cupcakes?"
- Jake randomly shoving ice cream into a toaster for absolutely no reason. Twice.
- "Untie me so I can beat you with that sack!"
- "Jake's on his way to mess you up!" (cut to Jake sitting on the front stoop of the treehouse, eating a sandwich and calling out for Finn)
- "Now it's time to power up the plasma ball. with sexy fun dancing!"
- Jake laughing at his own corny jokefor a little too long.
- Finn: No more games! No. More. PAJAMAS!
- "Must PARTY FOREVER!"
- Jake undergoes a rigorous journey of self-discovery and growth in order to rescue Finn, partly prompted by a comment from Cinnamon Bun. His last line of the episode as he exits with Finn?
- It's the chipper way Jake's dad delivers this line that really makes it.
- And later: "Punch them, Jake! Punch everybody! Why not? Come on! Why not?!"
- Later still:
- Finn's Insane Troll Logic in carrying the tarts through the Desert of Doom because no tart thieves would expect him to go that way.
- When Finn and Jake try to take a short-cut through a cave:
- Finn chewing up food to feed to baby birds.
- The Tree Witch showing off her powers by. briefly turning her arms into tree branches.
- "You're gonna have to spend the rest of your life in this witch's butt."
- After Finn is caught cutting some of LSP's lumps, LSP thinks he likes her and starts hitting on him, which scares away Finn.
"The Chamber of Frozen Blades"
- Ice King freezing the other patients in line at the hospital. including the one who was willing to let him cut ahead.
- "Just give it to me straight, doc. am I gonna have to pay for this?"
- "Three Jakes?! That's one too many!" Guess math isn't Finn's strong suit after all.
- "The Ice King abducted me while I was distracted by the horrifying beauty of birth."
- "Dear diary. and you better write me back this time!"
- "I was at the hospital, for it turns out that Gunter was preggers!"
- "You know, I thought painting ourselves rainbow colors using condiments and stuff from the fridge so we could pretend to be rainicorns was a good idea when you pitched it to me five minutes ago, but now I'm not so sure, man. "
- The fact that Mr. and Mrs. Rainicorn completely fall for Jake's Paper-Thin Disguise.
- Finn's initially horrified reaction to Soy People. turning to delight when he tries it.
- "Uh-oh, someone's gonna do a quest for a frog."
- Finn "testing" the piglets for evilness. with an actual pen-and-paper test.
- And succeeding. Kind of.
- Finn's line when he and Jake are fighting the Goblin King at the beginning.
- "DON'T YOU SEE, PRINCESS? WE WERE ALL BORN TO DIEEEEE!" Just that something so nihilistic could be said in a children's show is amazing.
- Near the beginning:
- B-MO's glower. So cute.
- Finn and Jake psyching themselves to fight Bouncy Bee-only for it to instantly cut to Finn writhing in agony as Bouncy Bee stabs his body with a drill.
- Curse this false virtual world!
- Somehow made even funnier by the fact Jake lamely throws a rock away.
- After Finn says the conductor is too obvious a suspect because he's "weird and creepy", the conductor randomly rides in on a skateboard and says this:
- The part where Jake calls Marceline. It cuts to a split-screen conversation between him and Marceline, until Marceline crawls out of the blankets next to Jake, still in split-screen, and scares him. Finn's response is simply:
- It's a clever joke because viewers who have their eye on Jake won't notice what Marceline's doing at first.
- Finn and Jake doing a corny blues song during karaoke:
- After Finn, Jake, and two hot dog knights enter the center of a labyrinth, they are each given one wish.
- Jake wants to make a romantic comedy, so various scenes have characters awkwardly working the phrase "Nyeh, Check, Please!!" into the movie.
- Lumpy Space Princess freaks out when Finn knocks over the beans she was cooking.
- After Ice King gets kicked out a window in PB's castle:
- The Ice King apparently sees things with his old, wizard eyes, what he sees when he admits this is just fucking hilarious.
- Though this is Harsher in Hindsight now that we know that the crown that causes the wizard eyes made him see visions in the past that eventually made him go insane.
- His reaction to thirteen-year-old Bubblegum:
- And when evil PB hurls the two through a wall, it crumbles and it shows the Ice to have been listening in with a paper cup.
- The montage of Finn and Jake taking pictures of the Cuties while Cute King gets increasingly frustrated.
- Jake thinks he sees a murdered goat after the Cuties break into his and Finn's house:
- Finn and Jake realizing the Fight King's trap before they even went into the arena.
- Finn stumbles upon a memory of the time Marceline's dad ate her fries, and while the circumstances make the incident Harsher in Hindsight note They were apparently scavenging for food in a post-apocalyptic city , it's also amusing that Finn's Chronic Hero Syndrome leads him to try and stop Mr. Abedeer. "Yo man. Don't eat those."
- Little Marceline cheerfully telling her plushie Hambo, as she sews a new eye to his face, "I'm hurting you because I love you."
- Marceline discovering an interesting memory of Finn's.
- "Ash gets hungies at 8 o'clock! You need to get back in the kitchen, and make me dinner! I want a Turkey Sandwich, with tomato! Also pickles."
- Most of Ash's lines in general:
- "Why?! I didn't DO anything!" The immature way the Ice King whines this.
- "Foooour weeks?" Finn's Nightmare Face.
- "Get outta here, Bubble-Butt!" Bonus points for having the Ice King's visible butt jiggle on his way out.
- Finn and Jake have a Let's Meet the Meat moment when they eat food from someone called Meat Man. It doesn't bother Jake at first, but that night he has nightmares about eating him. Finally comes the punchline later in the episode:
- "You know what happens when you're burned alive?Your eyeballs explode.Bagh!
- "Hey, guess what, guys? You're grounded!Underneath my butt! HAAHAHAHAHAHA!"
- His attempts to convince Scorcher to leave Finn and Jake alone, from bribing Scorcher with "night-vision X-ray goggles, for when you have the ladies over!" to trying to convince him to take out one of his "least favorite princesses" instead.
- His Look Behind You with Scorcher.
- "This castle is. in. Unacceptabllleee. Conditiiiiiiooon. UNACCEPTABLLLLEEE. " - That's Lemongrab's first line. That's the FIRST thing he says, which sets the tone of what his character is like: loud, neurotic, and deranged, even if he doesn't know any better.
- The way Lemongrab randomly raises his arms over his head and yells "MMLLUUUUUUUGH!" at Cinnamon Bun in the beginning. It's in these moments that the audience realizes that Lemongrab isn't a jerk- he's a "special" jerk.
- After yelling at Princess Bubblegum, Finn jumps up and slaps Lemongrab's hand, reprimanding him like a mom would reprimand her bratty kid. Lemongrab's eyes suddenly widen, and he glares at Finn, shouting "HHHHHOOOOOOOOO?!" Finn cringes with the most priceless "What the hell?" look on his face. Lemongrab purses his lips and keeps glaring at Finn, then he gasps, and pretends like nothing ever happened. A lot of the things LG does without even saying anything are hilarious.
- As LG is screaming "TOO YOUNG! TOO YOUNG TO RULE THE KINGDOM!", look carefully at Finn's face. That expression is priceless, too. It's like a combination of a grimace and a cringe. There was no better way to portray Finn's annoyance, confusion, and uncomfortableness.
- Especially with his voice&mdashhe sounds like an awkward teenager.
- Even the most mundane things he says are hilarious, because of the odd enunciation and volume/pitch changes: "Aaaaaie am next in line too thee throne! Sooou. I will be in charge. UNTIL PRINCESS BUBBLEGUM turns. EIGHTEEN AGAIN!"
- The way he whimpers on the floor, curled up in a Troubled Fetal Position, coughing pitifully. A hilarious contrast to the charismatic, screaming loony we previously saw. It's one of those scenes that's so unexpectedly sad that it's impossible not to laugh.
- And the unsettlingly awkward way he tries to laugh it off, in the most broken, unnatural laugh, with the most ridiculous, big smile. "Ha ha ha!" *coughs a horrible-sounding cough into his fist and winces in pain* "GOOD ONE! KEEP 'EM COMING! I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE! Hoo! Ha. Hahahoooow ow! OOOH!"
- There was an unused scene which takes place just after Lemongrab gets punched and pushed down. (No, it does not make any more sense in context.) Lemongrab takes a rice cake out of his pocket and smiles in a genuinely gleeful manner. then starts licking the rice cake all over with an overly-long, snake-like tongue. He says: "Jealous of my rice cake, little ghost pranksters?", then makes a face that's as close to Trollface as Lemongrab could make, and continues licking his beloved rice cake. As he's doing so, and giggling to himself, Finn and Princess Bubblegum look at each other. "I don't think that worked out too well, either," PB says to Finn.
- The episode opens with Finn and Jake randomly breaking out into a Boastful Rap, which ends with Finn yelling "PIZZA!" for some reason.
- "This'll be as easy as. um. " "EASY AS CHILDBIRTH!" "Yeah, okay. "
- LSP's wolf-story:
- Lumpy Space Princess trying to apply teen gossip drama to the family of wolves that was raising her.
- "I have powers TOO, you BUTTS!"
- The wizard and his cats.
- The Ambiguously Gay Abracadaniel. "Turn, and push! Turn, and push!"
- "WHAT?! You turned me PINK, bro!"
- Peppermint Butler singing.
- From the end:
- Prince Gumball's memetic "SO. VERY. LARGE." line, complete with appropriate face expressions and hand gestures.
- This exchange between Fionna and Ice Queen:
- The fact that the Ice King blatantly said "fanfiction" just made it twice as funny. Who would even think the show would get meta enough to use that word?
- Let's not forget the end of his story:
- When Beemo gets his controller stolen:
- The fact that Jake's obviously been slaving over it forever, and it actually looks pretty good, but he abandons it quickly enough as soon as Finn starts chanting.
- When the gang announces their mystery names:
- We have LSP trying to become beautiful by using a potion that turns one's lips gigantic.
- Jake declaring that he's only going along with Finn in order to be "Disruptive and obnoxious!"
- This scene:
- "Paging Dr. Ice Cream. ice cream for my mooouth!"
- Jake is initially convinced that everyone is off planning a surprise party for him, and he and Finn try to act unaware. Badly.
- When Finn chastises the deer that broke his legs, the deer reacts by licking his groin in Finn's general direction.
- Delusional!Jake is equal parts hilarious and creepy, from holding a puppet show surprise party to pretending to talk on the telephone with himself.
- "I'm listening, but I'ma keep eating!"
- "I've found this note stabbed to my door. man."
- The fight scene:
- The ice golem's "don't be noticed, don't get involved" expression while sneaking past Finn and Jake's fight with the Ice King.
- The alarm clock bird, and the way it gets clobbered every morning.
- Ice King's little freak out when Finn and Jake finally get the upper hand in their fight against him. "HELP! SOMEBODY HEEEEELP!"
- "You know, maybe we could all learn a thing or two from those sandwiches."
- Finn's claim that they won't have to worry about the Banana Man, as he'll just hit the sun if he keeps walking toward the horizon.
- Finn sees Marceline naked. His reaction is priceless.
- The next scene, where the two are Properly Paranoid, features Jake wearing a Modesty Towel in the shower, then putting on a second one when he gets out.
- "Pete, just stop winking."
- Finn using books to save Jake from the Moldos. using themas a blunt instrument, that is.
- Jake admits he's going to give up on reading about rainicorn history for now, saying "I was reading the same paragraph for, like, eleven minutes."
- This hilarious exchange between Jake and Joshua
- Said demon (whose name is Kee-Oth) shows up again at the end of the episode, citing a demonic law allowing him to tear off "Joshua's" 'love handles' if he doesn't give him back the blood used to make the sword. Jake just nonchalantly plays the clip of his father reciting the spell to banish Kee-Oth again.
- At the beginning, when Beemo promises to watch Finn while Jake is out.
- Finn spends about twelve seconds straight molding and stretching Jake's face while begging him for help tracking down Flame Princess.
- In one scene:
- Finn and Jake watch BMO do strange things in their bathroom while teaching his Imaginary Friend Football about being human. At one moment, he pretends to use a toothbrush.
- BMO demonstrates "peeing" by sitting on the toilet seat and pouring water into it.
- It also appears to be a male cow, given its voice.
- Even funnier because when she says it PB's mouth is shaped like Wallace's when he's talking about cheese.
- Before that the Ice King smells his own odor and assumes it's coming from Gunter. He attempts to remedy the situation. by putting Gunter on an ice floe and sending him out to sea. When Gunter comes back he's understandably pissed.
- Even better &mdash Ice King assumes the smell is Gunter farting, before concluding it's his own BO. At the end, after everything's settled, he tucks Gunter under his arm, and not even two seconds later Gunter cuts one.
- And then it gets better when Finn and Jake finish their ultimate high-five out of nowhere and they win instead.
- Finn's underwhelming attempt at mimicking Jake's acrobatic stunts.
- The flashback to Finn's overly-long fingernails.
- "I'm gonna take a nap while you grow out your fingernails."
- "Try to stay calm! Greet your fate with dignity. " Then the two flies start freaking out.
- Finn's reaction to Ed spinning a web.
- When Mr. Pig and Tree Trunks's public displays of affection disrupt Bubblegum's concert:
"Return to the Nightosphere"
- ANYTHING involving the jail guard.
- "Let's bury the hatchet! See how I'm not killing you?"
- Jake's line "Ow! My hippocampus!" as the explanation for how they lost their memory forced me to pause and just reflect on how hilarious that line was.
- The scene where Marceline proceeds to offer "Pain, Pleasure, or Weird Punishment" as the new Lord of Evil.
- The part where the guy who berated Finn and Jake for trying to cut was not let back in line:
- During the Iris Out to the bear's party, Jake quickly blurting out "I knew it."
- When Bubblegum reveals that no one actually mistook the bear for Finn, Jake (who was convinced the bear was trying to steal Finn's identity) is in the background looking nervous and literallyshrinking back.
- Finn is weirded out by the Hug Wolf's heart-shaped paws: "Is this an extra butt?!"
- "And don't tell me it's cuz I have repressed emotional feelings for Cinnamon Bun!"
- This exchange:
Gumdrop dad: GET AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER YA HAIRY TEENAGER!
- "Somebody broke into my house and stole my lumps!"
- Jake's nonchalant reaction to LSP assuming the thief is making out with her lumps: "Heh, heh. gross!"
- When Finn and Jake faint at the sight of Princess Monster Wife, Ice King assures her "They're our limp, sleepy children!"
- The Ice King's song. The lyrics and atmosphere are heartwarming, but its execution is hilarious. He's singing to a tape recorder playing a cheesy, pop ballad song, and he even has back-up vocals on a different tape recorder.
- The Ice King makes his wife a dress using a sewing machine. Then he sews a sock to it. Then he sews an empty pizza box to it. Then he sews his BEARD to it.
- All of the Ice King's names for his penguins turn out to be variants of "Gunther".
- The penguins freak out when one of them throws up after PMW blows him a kiss.
- The "normal people" on the Ice King's TV.
- "Lady parts."
- PMW giving Turtle Princess's head to LSP.
- Muscle Princess kisses her arm after getting it back.
- Peppermint Butler, for no apparent reason, was buried under Finn and Jake's lawn. He popped out to tell them that the princess had a message. It was never explained why Pepbut was buried underground. Finn and Jake were just as confused as us. Perhaps he tunneled there.
- The creation of Goliad in the flashback:
"Beyond This Earthly Realm"
- When Finn and Jake first find the sheep statue:
- After Finn overhears that Ice King tricked him, he just says, "Dude, come on, what?", as if not even surprised. Ice King then explains his plan (it being that he made Finn trap the monsters so Ice King wouldn't see them anymore) and says that since Finn is trapped in the spirit realm, Ice King is the only friend Finn will ever have. Then this exchange takes place.
- "Heeeeeeeeey, Jaaaake! Is Finn hooooooome?" Cue Jake turning away with a deadpan "Euw. "
- LSP wearing a Squeezy Mart shopping bag and caked-on lipstick (which was actually the juice from a fruit pie!)
- LSP half-conscious and drooling on the couch.
- "Heeeeeeeey, Girl!" "HEEEEEEEEEEY, GIIIIIIIIIRL!"
- The title card. Sexy, busty LSP reclining on a couch.
- Turtle Princess's voice. Steve Little has fine-tuned her voice to the funniest, lowest, crackiest voice imaginable.
- "THESE LUMPS ARE NOT FOR SALE, BILLY!" Cue LSP throwing a fruit pie at a vulture in a tree. Turtle Princess later goes out on a date with the vulture.
- LSP stripping off her bag-dress and swinging it around like a stripper.
- While going on an adventure, LSP struggles to lift. two small rocks, as Jake (who has shapeshifted into a box with legs) is carrying the rest.
- LSP accuses a swarm of ants of trying to get her lumps.
- While on an adventure, LSP gets a call from Turtle Princess, who tells LSP that she thinks the vulture is cute, and she wants to ask him out.
- LSP's ringtone- it's Turtle Princess saying "Heeeeey, Giiiirl!"
- LSP trying to be sexy for Finn, who totally ignores her.
- Finn and Jake taking pity on LSP and letting her work as their "Adventure Secretary."
- After Finn and LSP exchange a genuinely sweet, heartwarming few words about inner beauty, Jake loses his cool and yells "LSP, you're wearing garbage for clothes!!" LSP blissfully floats out of the window, ignoring him.
- A rogue cookie is hell-bent on taking Princess Bubblegum's crown, and he starts taking hostages. Princess Bubblegum offers him "a really big cowboy hat" instead, which he promptly refuses.
- Finn's battle-cry. "ALVIN'S HOT JUICEBOX ALVIN'S HOT JUICEBOX!"
- Jake's fake back-story for himself about being a milkman who wants to be a mailman.
- The Poo-Brain horse disguise, complete with protruding tongue and dilated pupils, is back in all its majestic glory! Made even funnier due to the fact that you can tell it's a trap: there's a prominent yellow ring around its middle with an arm holding a spear sticking out, making it obvious that a Banana Guard is in the suit.
- Baby-Snaps's reaction to his hilariously Bungled Suicide.
- For bonus points, the scene where Baby-Snaps actually falls to his "death" was depicted in a very poignant way, so seeing him mangled and shattered, but still alive and conscious makes for extreme Mood Whiplash.
- "Hmm. no, it says here I can floop the Pig. See?"
- Finn's troll-face when he keeps winning despite being a total beginner.
- Jake's temper tantrum when Finn manages to steal control of one of his most powerful monsters.
- When Finn goes to talk to BMO about Jake's obsession with the eponymous game, he is surprised to find the robot jumping from out of nowhere and chopping his head.
- After Magic Man transforms the deer from "No One Can Hear You" into a telescope and tosses it aside, deliberately not reversing the spell, his jovial, nonchalant response is hilarious:
- Jake's "Bacon Pancakes" song.
- Princess Bubblegum lets herself into Finn and Jake's house to collect taxes.
- Jake's Dream Sequence when he falls asleep during Princess Bubblegum's lecture
- Jake randomly applying women's makeup to his face. Including a swirl of lipstick on his face.
- Watching Beemo pretend to be a gritty detective is hilarious and adorable at the same time.
- Beemo "interrogating" a remote control.
- "I feel like I got hit with. a Dracula. by King Kong."
- "Our chicken's name is Lorraine?"
- Phil randomly pops out of Peppermint Butler's back and shouts "SATORI!" in a high-pitched voice while throwing a spoon at Finn's head.
- When Finn and Jake are reunited in the dream:
- "I'll use my BALLBLAMBURGLURBUR!"
- Jake's reaction to Rainicorn reveals to him that she's pregnant. He has a ridiculous mixture of shock, horror, and bafflement on his face as he gasps out the final line of the episode in a strangled voice:
- Although it becomes a lot less funny when you learn what she's talking about: a recurring nightmare where zombies attack her family. Knowing Adventure Time, this was deliberate.
- The fact that Princess Bubblegum asked for three candy people to volunteer to live with Lemongrab, and they responded by assembling an ANGRY MOB!
- All those noises Lemongrab makes. There's no way to spell them. He just opens his mouth to say meaningless, stuttering syllables.
- Lemongrab's self-revelation, and Starchie's response:
- The calm way in which PB tries to deal with the situation.
- When Lemongrab says "The earl of nothing," it sounds more like "The urrrrrrrl. " And when he says that, the pitch of his voice lowers about two octaves. He didn't even sound like LG.
- The promo art. It shows the Pup Gang pelting a basketball at a poor, squished-looking Jake, who looks completely startled and is farting.
- Crunchy is either a full grown Candy Person or a baby with the voice of a gruff old man. It's hard to tell which one makes the scene funnier.
- A note on the above example. Even funnier is that closed captioning reveals that Lemongrab doesn't say "Lemon Styles." He says "Lemon Stylez". How Gangsta of you, Lemongrab!
- Lemongrab IS gangsta. The dialogue is actually written as "lemon stylez" and "candy stylez" in the original storyboards.
- The Train being beaten by the Farm.
- Finn's use of Deadly Dodging, which leads to Jake slapping his own butt in an effort to get at Finn.
- When Finn hides in a hollow log, Jake dramatically stretches his head in to get at him, making a creepy face as dramatic music plays. then Finn turns around and punches Jake as the music cuts off anticlimactically:
- Two flame people pointing to each other with one hand and shouting "U! U! U!" and the other two flame people pointing with two hands to each other shouting "W! W!"
- Finn does another time when shouting random words confuse people like in "Princess Cookie", only this time it's this gem:
- The leader of the mud scamps is pretty amusing, with his tendency towards malapropism and going on tangents.
- Also, the part where the Ice King is leaving to get a new wishing eye. He tells Gunther to try not to break anything while he's out, and seconds later, Gunther is smashing the contents of the Ice King's refrigerator on the floor.
- Which comes back around in the ending when Ice King decides to not tell how he escaped Wizard City to be mysterious as per Jay T. Doggzone's advice.
- How does Ice King punish Gunther for his terrible crimes? By squirting him with a water spray bottle.
- Ice King singing his own version of Marceline's song from "It Came From the Nightosphere"
- Gunther suffering a Jaw Drop and dropping his popcorn and soda on the floor upon seeing the Ice King in a huge black wig.
- Finn and Jake awkwardly leaving after Marceline agrees to let the Ice King hang out.
- And then he says he sort of likes it. "Kind of freak-ay."
- And then when the gems are arranged within the Enchiridion, it turns out they didn't even need LSP's star.
- The scene is lightened at least a bit by Finn and Jake's Epic Fail at sneaking into her room.
- Big Destiny would probably be considered a depraved sociopath if he wasn't so damn entertaining to watch.
- First he lampshades Offscreen Teleportation when he goes from burning down a village from the top of his mansion to burning Finn's house down in the farmlands.
- Finn and Jake seem to think a book of nursery rhymes is a Tome of Eldritch Lore. This leads to them spending the rest of the episode sticking their thumbs into stuff while chanting "Oh, what a good boy am I!"
- Tree Trunks accidentally bumps into a statue that has a single fist raised, back-of-hand to observers, and runs off to report the perceived offense to the police. It later turns out Shelby (the worm that lives in Jake's viola) was reading while relaxing on the statue's fist, and called down to Tree Trunks from a vertical position in the middle of the fist.
- Tree Trunks trying to get together an angry mob. consisting of Cinnamon Bun and two gum-drop girls. Armed with pantyhose and stockings full of balled-up newspaper.
- When the mob tries to confront the statue, Cinnamon Bun puts on the pantyhose and dances instead of using it to fight.
- Finn and Jake pretending to be a "real" dog and owner is as hilarious as it is adorable.
- "C-listers, go back in the bag!"
- The blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene of Mini-Finn riding on Mini-Lemon Camel while Mini-Lemongrab chases them.
- Finn experiments a relationship with himself and Flame Princess, and then throws Princess Bubblegum into the mix. Hilarity Ensues.
- When Finn initially drops Bubblegum between himself and Flame Princess, she turns to Finn and then to Flame Princess as though considering her options, and then stares straight ahead whistling.
- Mr. Cupcake and LSP. With LSP flaunting her lady lumps.
- Turtle Princess spanking Zergiok's butt non-stop.
- Marceline licking Peppermint Butler constantly.
- Ice King and Beemo.
- Something tells me the writer paired a few of these for a sort of Ascended Fanon, as if some parts of the fanbase were shipping these pairs.
- When Jake refuses to read any more of "Baby-Eating Fox and the Babies" to his kids, T.V. pouts and throws a rubber duck at him, knocking Jake's hat off. Jake then uses his shape-shifting powers to grow his head into the shape of a hat, smiling serenely as he does.
- The Foxes deciding to eat babies after reading "Baby-Eating Fox and the Babies."
- The look the butterfly gives Jake when he tells his kids it might have "too much germs".
- Jake's Flashback:
- "FINN! Uh. HAVE DINNER WITH ME! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! FINN! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! FINN!"
- The Banana Guards making police siren noises and doing Airplane Arms as they arrive to break up a fight between two of Finn's fans.
- Finn, in disguise as Davey Johnson, rubbing his stomach to adjust his voice.
- Not just rubbing his stomach &mdash he was manipulating the computer he swallowed that lets him autotune his voice when he sings. The Brick Joke's, they just keep coming.
- The mustache talking back after Finn ditches his Davey identity and attaches the mustache to a candy horse's butt.
- "Hold tight your buns, if buns you do hold dear!"
- During this part, the Ice King is giving the earl the most priceless "What the hell is your problem, you psycho?!" expression. Let's go over that again: even the ICE KING thinks Lemongrab is a total freak!
- As LG yells the aforementioned line, he's turning his head around like Pinocchio to read the words on the wall behind him. Cue everyone giving him funny looks.
- And the fact that makes it all funnier is that the characters didn't come to life at all. The book itself did.
- Despite having no arms.
- And when Ice King tries to cheer him up by saying he's gonna throw in his Fionna & Cake fanfiction instead, Shelby just gives a pissed off expression. For a bonus: cue Lemongrab saying Ice King is useless now and must be destroyed.
- The completely bizarre appearances of the Lemongrabs's children. What. why does one have butt-wings?!
- "FIX THE DOOOOOOR. "
- "NOOOOOOOOOO CRUUUUUUUUUUMBS. "
- Jake's reaction to seeing the little screaming guy with the peeling face.
- The funniest part of this screenshot was written by a background designer on the show, and it reads: "I feel bad for those who try to read the thoughts of my sour brain noodle, because no clues are to be found to my origin or my future."
- "First one in the water is. um. first one in the water!"
- "Hats can be anything: pants, other people. it's fine!"
- BMO smacking Finn on the butt after Little Dude ruins the dinner he made for Finn and Jake.
- Lumpy Space Prince looking and sounding exactly like Lumpy Space Princess. except with a small peach fuzz stache.
- Marshall Lee summons an army of frightening skeletons. and then one of them starts beatboxing for him. Cue Boastful Rap.
- This entire sequence:
- Flame King interrupting Finn and Fire Princess's card game:
- Xergiok breastfeeding his birds, complete with Finn and Jake's shocked, wordless reactions.
- Xergiok's Progressive Rock song with its Disney Acid Sequence.
- At the end:
- Simon and Marceline find a video tape in the ruins. Simon asks Marcy if she wants to watch a movie. He then holds up the tape, looking at it a moment, then:
- A meta example is Marcy's reaction to the first time he does it, which is probably a Lamp Shade Hanging of the fact that many younger viewers will not get the Cheers reference.
- And then she hits the "mute button". Cue Simon mouthing words as though he's been muted.
- Even weirder/funnier is the moment where PB pulls her own hand away and says, "No." As if her own hand was trying to slip her some tongue without consent or something.
- (Princess Bubblegum bends down in front of Ice King) "Hey, are you prayin' to me? I'm into this! (PB lifts up Ice King's robe and gets it stuck on his crown, exposing Ice King's body.) I'm still into this. (PB shoves him to the ground.) . Stillintoit. "
- Rasheeta saying that he foresaw Finn's arrival in the tea leaves, the newspaper named Tea Leaves.
- The text in said newspaper&loz makes for a nonsensical and hilarious Freeze-Frame Bonus.
- Depressing though it may be, Old!Finn's rambling and expressions on his deathbed are absolutely hilarious.
- For example, after Finn's kids say they love him, Finn gives us this:
- Also earlier Finn is out chopping wool, wool trees. Also when he chops one tree down, it falls on a pillow sheep, the tree bounces off the tree and the sheep just shakes its head like nothing happened. Then what Finn does to it is pretty funny too:
- At the end of the episode, the Bubble asks for BMO's hand in marriage, but Jake pops it. BMO's reaction and Finn and Jake's reaction to his reaction are cruel but funny.
- However, the Bubble lives on, as air. It starts as a Heartwarming Moment, then turns into. something else.
- The Running Gag with arrows coming from off-screen to hit Jake. It turns out to be the red squirrel from season 1.
- Jake making a large number of appropriate signs, at least for the beginning of the day, while Finn only managed a few which don't apply to much of anything. This leads to an annoyed Finn scowling while holding up a sign that says "I LOVE YOU, JAKE".
- The fact that BMO somehow knows bikini girls who can fly.
- Jake's little adventure behind the wall while looking for BMO has him encounter a cartoony spider, a family of napping mice, and a sad little man on a typewriter.
- Finn being chased and smacked by bikini girls, and having the appropriate signs on hand. "OW OW HEY HEY"
- The ending, where Finn, Jake, and BMO dance with the bikini girls, and then the Party God shows up out of nowhere.
- Finn talks to Jake about Braco.
- After Braco predictably fails to impress her, he cheerfully smashes the soul stone with a smile on his face. "WHY WON'T SHE LOVE ME. "
The Party's Over, Isle de Senorita
- Ice King considering Princess Bubblegum his girlfriend.
- Not to mention him duct taping her at the beginning, claiming it's a surprise.
- Finn and his primitive noise band. All the funnier since it's his only scene of the episode.
- The Flying Lettuce Brothers use their skills of vocal mimicry to get the clerk at a convenience store to empty out the register and hand the money off to them. The Apathetic Clerk hates their job so much they just roll with it, not even looking at the Lettuce Brothers as they hand off the money.
- Jake says that he stopped stealing because when you get older you're supposed to get into other stuff like graphic design or pottery, which sounds like a friendly Take That! against Jake's VA's other most well-known role.
- The Banana Guard Captain gets a face-full of banana-flavored milk: "Noooo, the Forbidden Flavor! It's. delicious."
- Tiffany's, "Jake, I love you! I love you!" After he got caught by Jake while they were trying to escape in a van.
Another Five Short Graybles
- Cinnamon Bun freaking out over Princess Bubblegum taking his night light away, as well as his subsequent rampage over being unable to sleep without it.
- Although the last parts of the Lemongrab sketch were rather intense, this troper couldn't help but laugh when Lemongrab 2 wanted their doll, Lemonsweets, to go to bed, but instead, Lemongrab wanted to make the doll dance. LG 2 gets up and walks over to a cabinet where they keep little hats for Lemonsweets. He takes one out, examines it, turns around. to find Lemongrab hunched over the doll, still making it dance. The fact that he's flopping around his hands really fast, causing Lemonsweets to look like it's spazzing out more than dancing, and that Lemongrab is staring at Lemongrab 2 the whole time while he does it in what looks like a mixture of hatred and suspicion makes it all the more hilarious.
- Even though the final scene of Lemongrab eating Lemongrab 2 is absolutely horrifying, it's kicked off by Lemongrab making one of his all-time shrillest, most ear-splitting noises in the series (and coming from this guy, that's saying a lot):
- Finn and Jake screwing around with some cats in the begining of the episode.
- Bubblegum giving the panicked LSP a calming injection. from a needle about three times bigger than Bubblegum herself.
- Later PB arrives with the password to get through the wall which she got from Ice King. However, it has to be in his voice so she plays the entire tape of her interrogating him to get it. The entire tape is hilarious.
- Finn jumps off the roof of his tree fort and breaks his fall with Jake's crotch. That fence didn't stand a chance. To add insult to injury, BMO runs up and hit Jake's crotch with a piece of wood afterwards.
- Jake making Finn do his "Tough Tooting Baby" song and dance in front of Flame Princess's family. With sandwiches stuffed in his underwear. Jake is controlling Finn's body so Finn is visibly upset and sweating.
- When Jake visits Lady, it's revealed that T.V. is the only one of his pups not to have their own apartments. He gives off that sort of "nerd still living in his parents house" vibe, especially when he's on a computer with a bowl of chips. His suggestion for how Jake could win the bet is also humorous.
- The SMO's in the break room trying to drink coffee and eat donuts with their screen faces.
- The scene where BMO is connected to an SMO and the SMO vibrates. HARD.
- Finn expresses his concerns about the reinstallation process wiping BMO's memories:
- Bubblegum being woken up by a cukoo-alarm clock with the top half of a cat instead of a bird.
- Princess Bubblegum demonstrates how to resist sleeping gas to her elite protectors. Unfortunately, she demonstrates it while gassing them and everyone falls asleep. Except Cinnamon Bun who's apparently too stupid to be knocked out.
- Marceline threatening to bop Princess Bubblegum.
- Flame Princess burning Ice King's underpants in their first fight. He smartens up and gets fireproof ones afterwards.
- The little lemon-elf guard who is responsible for looking at passports. He stares at FINN'S passport in total confusion, grunting with effort (in the most adorable way imaginable,) glancing back and forth from Finn's passport to PRINCESS BUBBLEGUM and back to Finn's passport. Princess Bubblegum irritably says, "The OTHER one," and shows the lemon child her passport, prompting the lemon guard to become very surprised and let out a little, strained "Oooohhh!" The whole exchange was just adorably funny.
- Finn using Kilroy as a passport signature.
- Finn and Princess Bubblegum trying to get past the flame guards. Turns out all they had to do was say why they need to get through.
- Any moment with Cinnamon Bun that's not a Heartwarming Moment:
- "Wanna pet my dog? He lives at my house."
- The fact his dog is apparently a giant sponge with a mop head on top.
- "Plz feed my dog"
- Jake criticizes Magic Man's hastily-constructed riddle.
- Finn was apparently some sort of blob thing in a past life.
- The Bath Boy Gang Leader mispronouncing "amulet" as "omelette", as well as his reaction to Shoko correcting him.
- Shoko's casual description of her awful parents, and how she doesn't even realize they were abusive.
- The fact the Princess Bubblegum answered the phone in a German accent. And came all the way over to the tree house in her pajamas.
- Ice King's eagerness to marry the Slime Princess.
- And Jake's annoyance that he keeps getting involved.
- And BMO's laugh track.
- The way Finn evades Slime Princess's spooning efforts while yelling "NOOOOOOOOO!!"
- "There's one more trial after crooning and spooning&mdashsmooching. . I'm sorry it doesn't rhyme with crooning and spooning."
- Finn starts the episode sad and philosophical. And asking himself questions like "What is the meaning of'soup'?"
- BMO's reaction to the anticlimax of Jake's struggle to get rid of the corn chip stuck in his teeth, obviously intended to mirror the audience's reaction to the anticlimactic A-plot: "This is unsatisfying!"
- The fight breaking out between all the cats.
- Finn realizing that the "kingdom" was really just a bunch of cats playing in boxes after spending the entire episode taking it dead seriously. Then the episode ends with the cats piling onto him and cuddling/kissing him. It's as funny as it is adorable.
- There's something hilarious about how Jake's reaction to Marceline trying to eat him is to try cooking her.
- And how nonchalant she is about it afterwards. You'd think she just drank someone else's orange juice instead of, you know, sucking out their vital fluids and possibly killing them if not for their Bizarre CandyPerson Biology
- The fact that Ice King is still living with Finn and Jake.
- Bubblegum's lizard doppelganger being chased by a mob of candy people.
- The crazy conspiracy theories about Bubblegum being replaced by an evil lizard proven by BMO demanding that she eat a bug.
- Jake getting irritated by the Ice King mooching off them to the point of eye-twitching and contemplating murder.
- Finn getting an unwanted look at some risque tape Jake made for Lady Rainicorn. Twice.
- The second time, Finn has Lady promise he's not going to see any more weird Jake videos. She does, and the first thing that happens.
- James in general. He's just so goofy and he always does random sound effects for no reason. It helps that he's voiced by Andy Merill, the voice of Brak.
- Root Beer Guy narrating out the episode.
- Root Beer Guy having to invoke Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking when he calls the Banana Guards. When his breathless extended confession that he kidnapped Princess Bubblegum and was going to dump her in the lake fails to produce results.
- Tree Trunks' mother.
- Lumpy Space Princess trying to crash the wedding.
- When Finn blocks LSP's way, she pushes up against him and yells this out:
- Princess Bubblegum's expression going from teary-eyed sweetness to Oh, Crap! once Tree Trunks says that line.
- Princess Bubblegum told him to "take these drinks around for us" so he took those drinks around the forest. And still thought she told him to walk to the zoo.
- Cinnamon Bun's moves as a bartender.
- Finn struggling to fight handsome zombies with the damaged Demon Blood Sword.
- What makes Tree Trunks think Finn's new sword is cursed? It cuts apples a little too well. She turns out to be right, but still.
- Finn manages to beat the Hooligans Who Love Candles by cutting off their hair with his Grass Sword, causing them to retreat in fear and shame.
- Finn decides to throw himself back into serving as Princess Bubblegum's champion. by surprising her at 5:30 in the morning and insisting on helping her make breakfast.
- When Bubblegum remembers she's out of milk, Finn rushes off to get some. It takes him three weeks to get back with a bottle of mink's milk.
- "I'd throw Peppermint Butler off this balcony if you asked! Sorry Peppermint Butler, just joking. But kinda sorta not."
- Flame King and Flame Lord's intentionally bad fight. It's a Shout-Out to the iconic fight scene from They Live!, especially since the two are voiced by the same actors from the movie.
- After recovering from getting brainwashed, all the Flame Kingdom citizens gang up on the Flame King and start kicking the crap out of him.
- Finn sums up the episode's hilarity with one statement.
- Simon calls Marceline to tell her important information, but Marceline uncharacteristically faints upon hearing her old friend again.
- And Finn and Jake just kinda stare at her, not knowing what the heck is going on.
- Before that, Finn and Jake telling Marcy to lower her bass. Why? Because holding it up high like that makes her "look like a nerd".
- Jake dismissing Princess Bubblegum's time travel machine by saying that it's not true time travel and Ice King did a better job at it when he brought back Betty
- The Castle Lemongrab video straddles the line between funny Stylistic Suck and terrifying propoganda.
- "Hello, and keep away from Castle Lemongrab!"
- Lemongrab silencing his clone-brother, who is still alive in his stomach. by pinching his prodigious belly.
- "Looking for something? Well you found me: Fat Lemongrab!"
- "I CAN'T STANDS NO MORE!"
- Lemongrab's "things".
- The freshly reconstructed Lemongrab chimes in:
- Finn and Rap Bear's half-assed rap battle.
- Finn wearing one of Billy's old loincloths as a cape.
- Jordan, Lord of the Fairies, is unfazed by Finn using his Grass Sword to make Jordan's pants fall down. So Finn chops his head off, though Jordan seems to see this as more of an inconvenience.
Wake Up/Escape from the Citadel
- The way the guests at Prismo's party mock the dormant Lich by taking selfies on him.
- It's easy to ignore given the dramatic tone both before and after, but once Finn's dad exits the Citadel's atmosphere with some other prisoners, he quickly inquires,"Hey, what about air-" just before the atmosphere closes back up.
- Seeing the Lich flail around spouting frantic gibberish as he's defeated is both unexpectedly hilarious and satisfying.
- Jake regaining consciousness and opening his eyes, the first thing he sees being the Lich's aforementioned behavior. Without so much as a change of expression, he closes his eyes again and goes back to sleep.
- The Banana Guards' Keystone Kops-esque interactions with the numerous James clones. A hilarious match of witlessness.
- At one point, some of the James emerge from a glove shop with gloves. The guards don't recognize them until the gloves simply slip off.
- The James clones build a complex-looking trap. out of flimsy wood and other junk, which falls apart while the banana guards walk right through.
- Finn and Jake don't even bother to intervene, instead content to just watch the hilarity from the sidelines. They even get Princess Bubblegum to join them.
- A baby deer who can just barely walk is somehow able to climb all the way down the huge tower Finn was building.
- Finns tower toppling over at episodes end. It's so tall that it hits the Candy Kingdom and the mountains in the background. And the kicker?
- "Yo, Princess Bubblegum, do birds play football?" "No Terry, they don't."
- The first thing Finn and Jake do upon being transformed into birds? Break out into an electronic rendition of Mozart's "Queen of the Night's Aria".
- Tooooo aaaaa plaaaaaaannnnnt. aaaaaaa daaaayyyy iiiiis shoooooooorrrrrt.
- Ever wonder what happened to the Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant? Turns out he was buried under Finn and Jake's mountain of treasure.
- "I will continue to chill here until you command me!"
The Prince Who Wanted Everything
- Lumpy Space Prince's almost unbearable Parody Sue nature just adds that extra bit of hilarity to the episode.
- Lumpy Space Prince uses the power of not caring to defeat the giant monster his parents turned into. This causes the monster to turn back into Good Parents. then LSP kills them anyways with another shout of "I DON'T CAAAAARE!".
- During the song number, Lumpy Space Prince flies up to the sky with no issue and an eagle just randomly swoops him and carries him around Ooo as he continues his number.
- The numerous anime faces LSP makes during the episode.
- How did Kim Kil Whan get ownership of Finn and Jake's treehouse? By trading for the deed with Marceline for "one lunatic bass". Cue Kim summoning Marceline holding a ridiculous-looking bass guitar with four necks.
- Jake tries to get Kim Kil Whan's attention by throwing pebbles at the window. even though it's open. Then he throws some more pebbles at Kim when he opens the front door.
Thanks for the Crabapples, Giuseppe
- The bus is stuck in water, and everyone is going to drown. Ron James uses a "last resort potion", whose effects are unknown even to him. It swaps his head with Tree Trunks. as in Tree Trunks's entire body is now on top of Ron's neck, while his disembodied head is now on TT's sofa. It seems that he interrupted an intimate moment between TT and Mr. Pig. Even better, the Ice King immediately grabs the potion and downs the leftover drops, and his head is swapped out for the Ancient Sleeping Magi of Life-Giving's. who is standing right next to him anyway.
- Before that the three water nymphs try to use their water powers and lift the bus. It's too heavy for them and they just decide to leave.
- The Magi tries to get them out by bringing the bus to life. The bus just panics and flails around before the Magi undoes the spell.
- The only thing Marceline and LSP feel guilty about? Stealing Breakfast Princess' CD.
- PB's horrified reaction to Marceline admitting she's encouraging LSP acting "bad" via texting.
- Kenny the Donut's "high-tech device", which inexplicably has a pickle taped to it.
- When Bubblegum realizes Peace Master has discovered her surveillance system, she orders Peppermint Butler to "Make me some chamomile tea, so I don't stress out!"
- Peace Master's kids are hilariously unaffected by being turned into monsters by Peppermint Butler. They seem to think their new forms are kinda cool.
Joshua and Margaret Investigations
- The book of venom and antidotes&loz. Possible their best Freeze-Frame Bonus yet.
- Margaret finishing her Lock-and-Load Montage by exchanging her pillbox hat for a bigger, fancier hat.
- What's the first thing Jake does when he's born? Break into a song and dance number, then immediately fall asleep.
- When Jake calls in Peppermint Butler to handle the ghost fly, he assures him, Finn, and BMO that everything will be fine as long as he has his bag of dark magic stuff. Then the fly steals the bag. Pepbut responds by slowly putting his hat back on and then bailing out the window.
- Jake casually kills the Ghost Fly right after it fulfills its unfinished business.
- BMO making Jakes "unfinished business" the telling of a joke.
- BMO promised to revive Jake, but it turns out Doctor Princess had to do it.
- The Dream Ritual Finn and Jake perform to memorialize Prismo - their earnestness is both adorably heart-warming and hilariously goofy at the same time.
- Jake finds an exquisite bed and a glass of milk in Prismo's place and figures it's a trap. He then sleeps in it anyway.
- Jake lives his lifelong ambition of being a brick in a shack. He then realizes that being an inanimate object is boring.
- To pass the time, Jake decides to do an impromptu documentary and starts narrating what he sees. Finn broadcasts this to all of Ooo on radio, where it quickly becomes a smash hit.
- The rabbit that Jake focuses on gains a massive fan-base as the episode goes on. There's even merchandise for it.
- The candy people's attempts to break the closet door down. At one point, they try to blow the door down like the Big Bad Wolf.
- Finn and PB's interactions with Bubblegum's adorable giant cat, Timmy.
- As the Candy People fall into chaos, Jake is just kicking back, eating nachos, and enjoying the carnage.
- When things get even more intense, Jake thinks he should do something. So he takes some selfies.
- The Candy Wizard trying to stop Evergreen from freezing his counterparts. by shooting jellybeans from his hands, which makes farting noises as he does so.
- The laid-back drummer dude, who barely reacts to getting his head melted off by lava.
- The ending is loaded with Mood Whiplash it goes from Gunther the dinosaur going mad with power while repeatedly shouting "Guther, NO!" to Ice King yelling in his sleep while jumping up and down on his bed. Ice King falls out of bed and makes explosion noises, then wakes up to ask his freaked-out penguin minions if they've ever had a weird dream involving dinosaurs and magic.
- Ice King is seen trying to chat up a cloud lady while dressed like a stereotypical college boy from The Roaring '20s, with a big fur coat and boater hat. Then he loses his temper and freezes everyone there because people only seem to be into him because he knows Finn.
- It's Sweet P's first day of school! Tree Trunks and Mr. Pig get him all ready and when he walks out the door, he is escorted by not only Finn and Jake, but also an army of Banana Guards surrounding the house complete with a helicopter. Looks like Finn and Jake are not taking any chances with the reincarnated Lich.
- Sweet P getting even with the kids who bullied him by doing the truffle shuffle, making them laugh so hard they fall over and pass out, while he gets to class on time.
- Martin being Crazy-Prepared for Finn's one-time desire to rip his arm off.
- One of the little villagers laments "Everything is ruined. Everyone is fat. " after everyone partied too hard at Martin's insistence.
- Finn launching off Martin's spaceship with a grin on his face.
- Lemongrab literally has servants everywhere so that he doesn't even have to walk from one place to another. He can just be carried instead!
- "Lights out!" Cue every field worker instantly falling asleep where they stand. Including those in the trees, who fall out of them.
- When Lemongrab blew up the guard. A simple "excuse me" would've been nice.
- Susan's "camouflage" consists of three knocked out Porp workers stuck on her head and shoulders, which hardly covers any of her body. She then gets in line for the Super Porp machine. only to remember that this has nothing to do with her objective. She is then found out by a guard who has no trouble seeing through her feeble disguise, but they care more about the fact that she's covered in Pure Porp.
- Jake, Finn and Marceline briefly thinking about investigating the Super Porp factory. They decided to not bother for once.
- TV decides to "roleplay" B.P. ripping out the pages from her diary, leading to a candy kid stopping and staring.
- Jake goes out to check on TV at Lady's insistence, but he assures her "I'm sure he's fine!" Cut to Jake finding TV passed out in the Candy Kingdom's dried-out moat.
- Ice King deals with his mischievous penguins by shoving them into a spare room with a broom.
- "I brought tiny umbrellas!"
- How does Jermaine keep Bryce the demon trapped behind a magic barrier? With a Teddy Ruxpin-like toy called "Booboo Sousa".
- Jermaine's fight with Jake alternates between "sad" and "hilarious":
- A disembodied hand gives Jermaine something to throw at Jake. It turns out to be a winged sneaker that just flies away without hitting Jake.
- Jermaine tries throwing the wooden hand, and it grows to enormous size and grabs Finn. When Finn cuts his way free, the hand bursts into flame, which Finn finds pretty cool. until the "hand fire" starts consuming his Finn Sword.
- Jermaine throws a bottle that summons some kind of magical dinosaur wearing party hats on his head and tail, who says the words "Jazz-Bazz!" when he appears. and disappears, as he takes one look at the chaos unfolding and goes "Uh, no!"
- "If you punch me again, I'm gonna fart." When Jake makes good on that threat, Jermaine seems to think it's Actually Pretty Funny and starts laughing, calming down in the process.
- While Finn and Jake aren't impressed by Chips and Ice Cream's show, BMO and the bunny kids act like it's the best thing they've ever seen.
- The fact that the almighty Cosmic Owl literally lives in the cosmic equivalent of a cheap motel.
- Some of the dreams seen as Funny Background Events are pretty amusing, like Punchy the Punch bowl staring at a levitating cat spinning in mid-air, or Banana Man dreaming of Finn and Jake throwing him a birthday party.
- The sheer concept of "Daddy Sad-Heads", little creatures shaped like the frowning face of a middle-aged man that cling to people and make them too depressed to shake them off.
- One of Magic Man's "special friends" is Tiny Manticore trapped in a bottle.
- "Someone must be out there in the night. To guide my sleepy boat right." Cue Sweet P smashing right through the wall to find someone to help him with his bedtime routine.
- LSP's guilty conscience takes the form of her being shamed by the raccoon that kept trying to break into the trailer. "PARTAKE OF THE CHICKEN."
- Ice King somehow fails to notice the sleeping gas grenade the penguins stuck into the slice of cake he's eating.
- The elderly aliens blame the return of Orgalorg on the younger generation being too obsessed with "making out".
- Some of the things Orgalorg did through the ages while trapped in the body of Gunter the penguin include fighting as a gladiator in ancient Rome, running a vineyard, and directing a movie in Golden Age Hollywood.
- The bartender repeatedly glancing between Martin and Martin 2 and their huge wanted poster that just got hung on the wall behind them.
- The "old man" the guards are all after turns out to be Martin 2, who is not only Older Than They Look but also a lot tougher too.
- Princess Bubblegum angrily calling everyone dillweeds when she loses the election to the King of Ooo.
- Finn admits that he doesn't know what a "dillweed" is.
- Jake tries to propel himself through space via farting. It only smells up the inside of his space-suit.
- The Catalyst Comet's Long List of things Finn could seek freedom from gets a little ridiculous near the end.
- The way to Neddy's lair is guarded by three Banana Guards. who have not only gotten old and spotty, but have been guarding the tunnel for so long they forgot the riddle they were supposed to ask would-be visitors.
- While Neddy is fleeing from. reality, he briefly comes across a random bird and freaks out. Him and the bird shriek at each other a couple times, before Neddy runs away. and the bird celebrates winning the "showdown" by raising the roof.
- Finn grows to like his ornate new armor because he feels like a "fancy shield. or a dangerous candlestick!"
- Marceline flying into Bubblegum's bedroom thinking she's sleeping, but it turns out to be the King of Ooo wearing Bubblegum's pajamas and a wig.
- Cherry Cream Soda and Root Beer Guy's courtship apparently consisted of Princess Bubblegum creating them, then pushing them together and declaring them married.
- Dirt Beer Guy is oddly nonchalant about his unexpected ressurection.
- When the mega mushroom attacks, Finn tries to reason with it and compliments its looks. Then the mushroom reveals a creepy giant eye and Finn immediately takes back his compliment.
- The King of Ooo is childishly convinced that a mushroom pizza Finn brought him will make him fly. He even asks the Banana Guards to push him off a flight of stairs to make it work. That goes as well as you'd expect.
- The Banana Guard's randomly breaking out into the song "Mama Said" at the end.
- Finn's reaction to finding Football has smashed the bathroom mirror.
Stakes: Marceline the Vampire Queen
- Marceline is stuck in the shade of a tree, with her parasol just out of reach. She has just enough sunscreen left to cover her hand so she can get her parasol back. and then it blows away in the wind.
- Jake as the "bad cop".
- What does Marcy say to Finn as she's tied to a pole and about to be exposed to sunlight? Does she tell Finn to take care of Bonnie, or say a heartfelt goodbye to her friends? Nope, she tells Finn to burn all of her diaries because they're embarrassing. Thankfully she survives.
- A funny little Mood Whiplash from an otherwise tearjerking scene&mdashSimon is filming his goodbye video from the Christmas Special and predictably breaks down sobbing at the end. for about three seconds. Then he suddenly perks up and says a cheery "Okay bye!" before nonchalantly ejecting the tape and knocking over the camera, which then breaks upon hitting the floor.
- Princess Bubblegum demands to know why Peppermint Butler has a small arsenal of Vampire slaying gear. Pep But flat out says that it's in case Marceline ever turned on them. Bubblegum tries to deliver a What the Hell, Hero? to him, but Marcy stops her, saying that Peppermint Butler was right, and that she could have turned on them all and done them in quite easily. The cheery and bubbly tone in which she concedes the point causes Jake, already terrified of Vampires in general and the current situation in particular, to faint.
- Jake trying to describe the vampires to Peppermint Butler so he can draw them ala a police sketch artist. His descriptions are about as obtuse as they can get, and include such gems as "a wet uncle" and "if an ant hill were a girl." Predictably, they result in completely inaccurate drawings, prompting Jake to go, "Nah, that's not right," over and over.
- The final drawing manages to somewhat resemble its subject (the Vampire King) purely by accident. How was this one described?
- Ice King's various failed attempts to flirt with the Empress.
- The Empress is disgusted to find that Ice King is immune to her mind control, and was only obeying her because he was hoping she'd go out with him.
- Then she's used as a mace with stakes sticking out of her lumps as part of the groups' trap.
- And after that didn't work, she tosses Finn one of her stakes. Helpful, until she starts throwing a bunch more stakes at a rate where Finn has to keep dodging.
- Finn takes this opportunity to taunt him from the inside with his "the gallons and gallons of warm teenage blood that he can't have", blowing him as raspberry to boot. Then he reaches for a high five of approval from the others. Marceline happily obliges after a few seconds of PB and LSP being indifferent towards him.
- Princess Bubblegum is especially unimpressed. She shoots a look at Marcy just before she high fives Finn in full anticipation of her doing that.
- Finn and Jake trying to wake up an unconscious Marceline by burping in her face.
- The Vampire King randomly ripping his clothes off until he's in a pair of tighty-whities while making a grandiose speech about breaking the cycle of destiny.
- Princess Bubblegum tells Finn not to worry about Peppermint Butler, who has been blown to pieces.
The More You Moe, the Moe You Know
- ALLMO isn't exaggerating when they say BMO has a better imagination than all the other M Os. The concept of stacking bits of junk on top of each otherblows their collective minds.
- Mo's idea of fun games is "Hangman", but the only word in his MO body's database is "BURGESS MEREDITH", whom Jake has never heard of.
- Lumpy Space Princess has some hilariously over-the-top displays as a Prima Donna Director, especially nit-picking the size of the raindrops Viola sprays on Mr. Cupcake's raincoat.
- Mr. Cupcake keeps calling Tree Trunks by her real name instead of her character's name because it's too "dishonest" to do otherwise.
- Viola eventually gets fed up with LSP's attitude and teleports her to the Ice King's lair, where Ice King has to confirm Lumpy Space Princess is really there.
- BMO's process for making a "special sentient sandwich" which involves breaking a free range egg that is walking around on its feet, melting a piece of aged cheddar that has a hat and monocle, pepper farts, making a sentient tomatoe puke, for ketchup, and a piece of literally dancing parsley, and literal face bread.
- Jake's initially weak attempts at mimicking a horse.
- Memow somehow thinks that BMO's childish drawing of a wanted poster is for real, as does another bounty hunter at the end of the episode.
- BMO's rampage through the little cardboard town, fighting "bandits" that are just socks and underwear.
- NEPTR took 3 months to build that town, in exchange for a Finncake.
- When Jake asks why BMO suddenly has a real laser gun
"President Porpoise is Missing!"
- Banana Man and Ice King secretly being in Finn and Jake's house without anybody noticing until they reveal themselves. As well as Marceline, Princess Bubblegum, Starchy, Crunchy, Gumdrop Lass 1. Makes you wonder what would happen if there was ever an episode focused on a game of Hide and Seek.
- Ice King gets so invested in BMO's imagination game that by the end of the episode he's convinced he has kids at home, which he doesn't really have.
- Secretary Octopus having a vote for each of his tentacles.
- "We wouldn't want to deflate anyone's ego.
- Finn and Jake's attempts to get rid of the blank-eyed girl. At one point they try to repel her with flute music. Not only does she enjoy it, the music attracts five more blank-eyed girls in their house.
- Jake saying Starchie's advice is just "made-up baloney", and then calling Starchie to tell him so.
- One of the books Jake goes over while looking up information on creepy stuff is "Butt Stuff".
- The way Jake tries his hardest to not acknowledge the Blank Eyed Girls and failing miserably.
- The way the Blank Eyed girls turn out to just be regular girls with freaky contact lenses, which then turn out to be bald people, who turn out to be headless alien thingies, which turn out to be weird alienenergy beings.
- While having a crying fit over Gunther, Ice King blows his nose on Jake, who's partly morphed into a jeep. Jake is understandably disgusted.
- Finn and Jake take advantage of the fact that Ice King reverts to looking more like his old self when he's far from the crown by using his changing facial features like a "nose-compass".
- The Marshmallow Gang instantly becomes convinced Finn is a con artist just like them, simply because he got away with not being completely honest with Princess Bubblegum.
- Finn manages to get the Marshmallow Gang to help out on a camping trip by getting them to "bamboozle" some sticks into a campfire and "scam up" some wood for a lean-to shelter.
- Finn's reaction to learning Big Destiny is under the thrall of Lich-Jake.
- The montage of Jake sneaking up on Finn and forcing his eyes open, complete with Finn uttering the same piercing shriek each time.
- The episode starts with Jake playing a grind-heavy game on BMO which he can't save because the save file would be too big for BMO to make room for. In fact, the game was so big that BMO couldn't talk and run the game at the same time. Upon having a couple weeks of nonstop progress undone, Jake proudly proclaims "I live again!" and then goes on to sing a silly song about his life.
- To get him to start talking about how he's playing his flute, Huntress Wizard threatens to shove an arrow up Finn's nose. To which Finn casually replies "I'm especially agile when I'm nude, so good luck with that". Yes, Finn was willing to fight a girl with no clothes on. (And apparently his hair wouldn't get in the way of his dodging.)
- Huntress Wizard sleeps metaphorically and literally like a log. She only takes her cloak and boots off, drops to the floor on her back and starts snoring. Next time we see her wake up in the morning, she shape-shifts back into herself from a log and scrapes some mushrooms off her arm.
- After Finn and Huntress Wizard catch the Thunderboar, they rip off one of his tusks. Then the Thunderboar complains that they could have just asked if they wanted one of his tusks, as he instantly regenerates a new one.
- Just the image of Finn naked in the river playing his flute, with his absurdly long blond hair flowing around him. And his look of utter shock when HW startles him.
- During Finn and Jake's first attempt to get into the Banana Guard compound, some of the guards trip and fall over, then the guards coming in behind them slip and fall on their fellow guards' peels. Then a guard carrying a stack of cream pies comes in and things predictably escalate.
- How dumb are the Banana Guards? After Finn and Jake's failed attempt at entrapment gets them kicked out, Princess Bubblegum gets them back in by introducing them as new recruits, without making any further effort to disguise their identities.
- That face Jake made after being pushed to his limit.
- Finn's rapid succession of troll faces when he thinks he's found the mural painter.
- Gunther the dinosaur spends much of the episode playing the drums, trying to provide dramatic background music.
- Finn's eyes are cursed to change whoever he looks at into what he sees them as. It's revealed that the way he truly sees the Ice King is as Simon Petrikov, which is incredibly heartwarming - but the curse only changed his body, not his mind. Hilarity Ensues.
- Finn and Jake act like they're stoned on Princess Purple Patch's "purple stuff".
- Ice King expresses a desire to visit the bizarro version of Ooo from beyond the grotto. When Jake objects that he might lose his memories, Ice King replies that he's so absent-minded already, he doesn't have much to lose. Then he immediately forgets what he was talking about.
Lady Rainicorn of the Crystal Dimension
- Lady's ex-boyfriend Lee apparently liked to prank people by blowing stuff up with "rainbow bombs", from trash cans to city hall.
- Lady interrogates Lee's old friend Roy by messing up his latte foam-art.
- TV decides he needs to be more independent, and decides to stay in the Crystal Dimension. in the meantime, he moves in with his grandparents and starts sponging off them.
- BMO thinks it's ridiculous that Finn is talking to an inanimate object. and says as such to an extension cord.
- Bandit Princess is a ridiculously over-the-top Card-Carrying Villain, bragging about how evil and ruthless she is and how much damage she's going to do armed with the Finn Sword.
- Cinnamon Bun tries to warn Bun Bun not to press the button that will release the Flame King. He doesn't even finish his warning before Bun Bun runs over and presses it.
- Bun Bun is the one who points out that the old Flame King's attempt to raise an army of chipmunks probably won't work. She also helps him embrace his new role as "the Chipmunk King".
- Normal Man makes a ridiculously Long List of hazards on Wild Trap Mountain.
- After this, LSP tells him "You're running away from intimacy! You don't 'know'' that you'll get hurt!" Cue Tiny immediately accidentally knocking Lemongrab out as he flies by.
- You know how Ice King wrote the Fionna and Cake universe as a fanfiction? Well, Ice Queen writes her own fanfiction with gender flipped counterparts to the gender flipped counterparts to the original characters. And what we see of her story is Ice President reading his own stories to Flynn the Human Being and Jacques the Raccoon. Ice President's stories are about Lynn the Person and Janet the Fox, the gender flipped counterparts of Ice Queen's gender flipped counterparts of Ice King's gender flipped counterparts of Pendleton Ward's characters.
- Poor Flame Prince can't check out a book at the library because he keeps setting the books on fire by touching them. Later we find out that the only reason he was checking out a book in the first place was that he had to use the bathroom and thought you were required to check out a book to do that.
- Why is Ice King stealing all the wire coat-hangers in Ooo? So he can jury-rig a hook to get his keys out of a narrow crevice.
- Patience St. Pim's flashback to pre-Mushroom War Earth has the once-mighty elementals meeting in a coffee shop, where the Fire Elemental struggles to heat up his coffee with his fire magic.
- Princess Bubblegum has serious trouble with her elemental magic, barely able to conjure a single jellybean. which accidentally ends up saving the day when Patience trips on it, causing her to knock over her sailboat and wreck it, with a piece of the mast landing close enough to Fire Princess to refuel her and allow her to escape.
- Jake seems a little too excited at the prospect of being cursed by ancient human artifacts.
- Finn seems to think the horses on a kiddie mini-carousel in an abandoned video arcade are "the bones of a prehistoric horse".
- The flashback includes a Banana Guard having a long Newhart Phone Call about getting the "huge ambulance" to carry Finn, Jake, and Susan Strong to the hospital.
- After seeing Jake bust out of the hospital ward to rescue BMO from Grass Finn, Nurse Poundcake casually admits "I've got a crush on Jake."
- Mr. Fox is oddly nonchalant about his hand getting infected and swelling to grotesque size because of Finn's improper first-aid.
- The first thing Fern does after naming himself Fern? Thugging Starchie for his futuristic motorbike!
- Tree Trunks protests Princess Bubblegum's secret space program by painting the word "FASCIST" on a sign. in blue glitter, written in cursive.
- Tree Trunks seems unimpressed with the Veritas Bridgade, like one of the Banana Guards claiming he can channel an alien named "Booshy".
- Whipple rambles for a ridiculously long time about his dull and cliched ideas for stories. BMO accidentally reveals he stowed away because he can't take anymore and wants Whipple to shut up.
- The scene where Jake hallucinates his parents adrift at sea thanks to some poisonous jellyfish.
- While trying to convince the islanders to leave, Jake helps Finn get their attention. by giving him a purple-nurple so that Finn Screams Like a Little Girl.
- Lumpy Space Princess sees Finn fighting the Flame Princess who has now turned into a dragon monster. She remarks that she can still see their relationship working out.
- At breakfast shortly after the events of the previous episode, Finn awkwardly tries to broach the subject of Jake's new form as delicately as possible. Then BMO cracks and yells "Jake is a crab!" before running off screaming.
- BMO shows up at Marceline's house in a cute little vampire hunter's costume. Marceline points out the thing with the vampires happened months ago.
- BMO's wildly-distorted version of the "Islands" arc involves a giant cat with two extra pairs of legs on its back and flying powers.
- Marceline does her version of the "Elements" arc as a puppet show about "Lollipop Girl" and "Rock Star Girl", and how their friendship was tested by an "evil Blue Tranch" who turned everyone into potato-heads.
- Finn isn't happy about getting roped into going to one of Ice King's readings of his Fionna and Cake stories, but Jake is into it. "I kinda like being loosely adapted!"
- A Black Comedy example occurs when Fern suggests that they stop Sweet P from running by severing his tendons.
- Finn and Fern and calming Sweet P down "librarian style."
- And yet another darkly humorous example occurs when Fern explains what happens to people who travel in bogs at night.
- After Finn escapes from the temple where Fern imprisoned him, he's then shown quickly running up to Fern (shapeshifted into him) and yells "You donked up!" before jumping on him.
- The mere sight of BMO and Ice King in a Totem Pole Trench.
- Ice King bumbling his way around because he can't see out of the trenchcoat.
- BMO and Ice King get lost following a customer because BMO was impressed that Ice King managed not to bump into things while running through the forest.
- Among the wares BMO and Ice King sell are a ball of lint and a dust bunny. When showing them to Uncle Gumbald, he gets the two mixed up.
- Ice King wearing the salesman hat over his crown.
- Son of Rap Bear's raps are so powerful they dismember his opponents and blows holes on buildings.
- Flame Princess using flaming farts twice during her act.
- Bubblegum says the events about her uncle were "like, 800 years ago." The flashback opens with a title that actually reads "Like, 800 years ago."
- After Bonnibel creates a candy fish, its first words are "I can't breathe air!"
- The reveal that Chicle, Lolly and Uncle Gumbald became Crunchy, Manfried the Pinata, and Punchy the Punch Bowl, respectively.
- After watching Chicle eat the poisoned cupcake and suffering its effects, Lolly eats her cupcake anyway, then realizes it was poisoned too.
- The ending, where Finn looks utterly pissed after being defeated by Fern and Uncle Gumbald's gang and declares it his worst b-day ever. Not helped by the Ice King popping out of his birthday cake, dressed as his ex.
- Peppermint Butler presents Finn with the Night Sword, which has a compass on the hilt.
- Jake misinterpreting Marceline's attempt at shushing Finn as "air mattress talk".
- Kim Kil Whan wanting Finn and Jake to take down whatever was sighted inside Margaret and Joshua's old home. because it's not paying rent.
- The broken mirror in Margaret and Joshua's bathroom has a note that reads "You look great".
- Jake freaking out over seeing his own birth from Joshua's head.
- Finn and BMO smiling and waving goodbye to each other immediately after they argued about whether or not Finn's comic caption was funny.
- Ice King having his penguins burn down Ble headquarters just as Finn contemplates bringing the magazine back. Finn's response especially sells it.
- Jermaine hangs a lampshade on the convoluted Mind Screw journey they went through activating the space telometry capsule.
- Jake transforming and having Finn use him as his hat, suggesting they go for the "Cuteness Offensive" when confronting Gumbald.
- Fern/Green Knight casually complementing Finn's new sword during their fight.
- Jake transforming into different hats while Gumbald and Aunt Lollie are talking.
- Ice King and Gunther winding up in Gumbald's Legion of Candy Kingdom Haters.
- Shermy tries to trip up the Gumball Guardian with a trip wire. When that fails, he cheerfully comments that "I suck at knots".
- The new King of Ooo is revealed to be little ol' BMO.
- "Please have fun at the other side of this door."
- Gumbald tosses a lemon to the ground and then uses a weapon to blow it up with excessive force. An expressionless Lemongrab takes out a pen and paper, writes something down, then hands the note to Bubblegum. It simply reads "Unmake me".
- This exchange between Princess Bubblegum and Gumbald:
- Also, during that flashback, Simon is seen absorbed in the idea of harnessing Golb's energy, while squeezing the chocolate syrup on his ice cream sundae. Betty snaps him out of it when his sundae is filled to the brim with syrup. Simon sees this, reacts with an awkward laugh and an "Oh! Sure!" and still doesn't stop squeezing syrup onto it.
- At the end of the flashback, Ice King bluntly says I don't know who that is.
- It then hits the Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant, who just arrived because "We heard there was a war!"
- After Bubblegum made Grey Goo-like nanites which turned half of her arm and her cabin into muffins, she calls Jake while casually stretching and molding the remaining candy mass in her arm into a new arm.
- Finn accidentally saves the day when the disease he got in the last mini-sode combines with the nanites somehow. It turns into a giant figure who brings "a message from the microscopic world: we see you when you go number one!" Then it stomps off shouting "Beware!"
- When Finn delivers a Big "NO!" Jake says that he doesn't think the Lich can hear them from in the bag.
- Ice King writing a fan fic titled "Fionna and Cake Meet Finn and Jake" while using Gunther as a table. Then the Lich sucks them up.
- "Well, I GUESS you could say The Lich should've worn a wide-brimmed hat today, because he's spending an awful lot of time. IN THE SUN. "
- PB getting more annoyed by the fact that she had to give a royal speech for over 88 121 times without realizing it than over Jake breaking his promise of not using her time machine.
- Finn and Jake find themselves under the reader's control in a Gamebooks-type story. All three of their methods to get their free will back are quite silly: it involves either bribing the reader with the prospect of seeing Princess Bubblegum do a Royal Toot, overwhelming the reader with too many silly options, or casting a spell to make the reader fall under Princess Bubblegum's control.
- The last hazard on the list? The squirrel that hates Jake.
- While in a wintery landscape, Finn finds a pile of sacks in an abandoned hut, then seemingly fashions a survival suit out of them. but instead, he follows up with this:
- Jake's dream starts with him in a wacky sitcom with his dad Joshua and his brother Jermaine, complete with canned laughter. After the sequence ends:
- The entirety of the flame army's battle with the altered candy people is just as darkly hilarious as it is dramatic, what with the candy people never breaking out of their happy stupor as the flame people fight them to the death, and Candy Tower!Princess Bubblegum's sweet song.
"Fionna and Cake and Fionna"
- Tree Trunks leaving Randy just as they're about to go on their honeymoon.
- Warren Ampersand, who spend years absorbing the stretchy essence of his hundreds of children to keep himself young instantly willing to accept his death by the singularity once looking into it, despite panicking just a few seconds ago.
All's Well That Rats Swell
- BMO plucking Finn's mustache hairs.
Have You Seen The Muffin Mess?
- While watching NEPTR try to fix the time machine:
- Finn and Jake trying their hands at computer hacking, and finding that Hollywood Hacking doesn't really work:
Winter is the season of hot cocoa, crackling fires, and wool sweaters. For many, it is a place of childhood nostalgia – of skiing, sledding, and some slightly-mad snowday schemes. And even when the harshness of the weather manifests and the biting air, chills, and darkness perpetuate, winter reminds us of the human warmth. However, while at school, when we take ten minutes bundling up to trudge to class only to discover we forgot a mitten, we often curse this season. Robert Frost’s “Dust of Snow,” is the perfect reminder to us that beauty can be discovered in the brutality of the natural elements. In his short poem, a crow’s wings cause snow to fall upon the speaker passing under a tree, igniting “a change of mood” in the speaker’s heart, “and saved some part/ of a day I had rued.” This fallen snow has enlightened this man to appreciate the small things in life rather than seeing it as a lifeless and bleak season. We can all make our day better by appreciating and taking advantage of this weather rather than wishing for spring. We just need a push to get off campus and remember all that winter has to offer. Provided is an avenue for outdoor activities during cold weather in the Lewisburg and Pennsylvania area.
BLUE MOUNTAIN SKI AREA
Home of Pennsylvania’s highest vertical descent and the most varied terrain, Blue Mountain is the best mountain to visit to get the most out of a ski day. According to Mountain Snow Corporation, the mountain resort has the highest overall rating for best mountain resorts, for terrain parks, and falls second for best all-mountain terrain 1 . Additionally, as the East Coast’s leader in snow making capabilities, Blue Mountain guarantees snow days even if the weather does not permit.
Apres ski, kick back on the patio of the Summit Lodge Cornerstone or in the warm, festive atmosphere of Last Run Lounge on the top floor of the Summit Lodge or continue the adventure by snowtubing one of the 39 1,000 long lanes.
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Location: 1660 Blue Mountain Drive, Palmerton, PA 18071. 1 hour and 50 minutes
CAMELBACK MOUNTAIN RESORT
Camelback makes up for it’s smaller size with well-groomed trails and turbo-lifts, enabling you to spend more time on the quality trails. Apart from high-grade terrain, this mountain has the biggest snowtubing park in the US. The resort is also 100% lit for night skiing. This resort is ranked fourth for best all-mountain terrain in all of Pennsylvania.
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Location: Camelback Mountain Resort, 301 Resort Drive, Tannersville, PA 18372. 1 hour and 35 minutes
Blue Knob, as the highest elevated skiable mountain of all Pennsylvania, offers 100 acres of terrain and 42 acres of night-skiing terrain. The longer runs, steeper terrain, and low crowds make this a favorite among the many Poconos mountains… and a best kept secret. Due to the lack of crowds, this is the best place to find fresh powder after a big snow fall.
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Location: 1424 Overland Pass, Claysburg, PA 16625. 2 hours and 11 minutes.
This premiere Pocono ski resort makes a somewhat small mountain of 600 vertical feet feel large by having spread out trails. The black diamonds are some of the best in the Poconos, getting more advanced as you head towards the west side of the mountain. The glades, scattered between the groomed trails, range from intermediate to advanced and are the best in the region. If you want a good challenge, try the elevator, off the backside of the mountain.
The parking lot, located at the top, influences you to take more and more runs because when you try to call it quits you are already at the summit, so why not take one more run?
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Location: 357 Big Boulder Drive, Lake Harmony, PA 18624. 1 hour and 23 minutes
Jack Frost’s partner Big Boulder is considered more of the “snowboarders’ mountain” of the two. Jack Frost has longer runs and a higher vertical drop but Big Boulder, about five miles away, trumps Frost with their three main parks: Big Boulder Park, LOVE Park, and Freedom Park. There are various slopes for all levels but the main attraction is the terrain parks. Click here for more information.
Location: 434 Jack Frost Mountain Road, White Haven, PA 18661. 1 hour and 16 minutes
Note: You can get a double pass for Jack Frost/Big Boulder for $350. Just ask alumnus Doug Bogan who went out twice a week and weekends through January, February, and half of March. He claims the pass was “his best Christmas present” yet. Still not convinced? Ask anyone on the Bucknell ski team. Expect to be recruited mid conversation.
**make sure to use College ID for discounts on tickets
Cross-country skiing, ice skating, hiking, snowmobiling, and more at PA state parks:
Ricketts Glen State Park
Cross-country ski, snowmobile, or hike through this coniferous wonderland or escape the dense woods to ice skate and ice fish on Lake Jean. The 26 hiking trails offer views of 22 free-flowing waterfalls, diverse wildlife, and a beautiful terrestrial ecoregion of old growth timbers.
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Location: Ricketts Glen State Park, 695 State Route 487, Benton, PA 17814. 1 hour and ten minute drive.
Bald Eagle State Forest
The Bald Eagle State Forest, named after the famous Native American, Chief Bald Eagle, is 193,424 acres and offers over 200 miles of hiking trails, 300 miles of state forest roads and trails open for snowmobiling, and 24 miles of Nordic ski trails, some beginning at R.B. Winter State Park.
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Location: Bald Eagle State Forest, T420, Bellefonte, PA 16823. 1 hour and ten minutes away.
Colonel Denning State Park
Alumnus and avid hiker, Doug Bogan, raves that the views from the overlook of Flat Rock Trail, “are are amazing. You can see for maybe 30-50 miles on a clear day!” You can also cross-country ski on the hilly and mountainous terrain to catch a glimpse of these vistas, although there are no formal cross-country skiing trail system. Or skip out on the inclines and ice skate while still admiring the rugged beauty of the mountainous landscape.
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Location: Colonel Denning State Park, Newville PA. Click here for detailed instructions. 1.5 hours away
Worlds End State Park
Discover a 20-mile trail network perfect for Nordic skiing in the heart of Pennsylvania’s mountainous landscape. Apart from cross-country skiing, enjoy hiking or snowmobiling through the terrain. The Canyon Vista Trail is a 4 mile loop that challenges hikers with rocky, steep sections leading to a stunning view of the Loyalsock Creek Gorge. Before descending, explore the rock labyrinths adjacent to the vist.
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Location: 82 Cabin Bridge Rd, Forksville, PA 18616. 1 hour and ten minutes.
Tioga State Forest
Praised as one of the best rail trails in the North East, Pine Creek Trail, one of the many trails in this state park, offers Nordic skiers a verdantly dramatic 61-mile journey through the area known as the “Grand Canyon” of Pennsylvania. There are also over 170 miles of snowmobile trails.
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Location: The trail’s northern terminus is on State Forest land approximately one mile south of U.S. Route 6 on the Colton Road near the village of Ansonia (1 hour and 45 minutes). The southern terminus is on Pennsylvania Route 414 two miles south of Blackwell (1.5 hours).
HICKORY STATE PARK
A 15,990-acre park stretching across the Poconos Mountain doesn’t only offer 40 miles of great hiking but has an ice skating, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling.
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Location: 3613 State St, White Haven, PA 18661. 1 hour and 6 minutes. Click here for detailed driving directions.
Raymond B. Winter State Park
For a quick morning and afternoon adventure mid-week, explore this park that is an easy drive from campus. With 700 acres of the Appalachian mountains, this park offers cross-country skiing, hiking (Rapid Run is my favorite), ice-fishing, and snowmobiling. The 300 miles of snowmobile trails leads all the way to aforementioned Bald Eagle State Forest.
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Location: Raymond B. Winter State Park, 17215 Buffalo Road, Mifflinburg, PA 17844. 28 minutes away.
Crystal Lake Ski Center
Recommended to me by the head of Bucknell’s Outdoors Club, Crystal Lake Ski Center specializes in Pennsylvania’s finest cross country skiing. For an additional fee, experienced Nordic instructors are ready to guide you from beginning through skating and racing techniques.
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Location: 1716 Crystal Lake Rd, Hughesville, PA 17737. 1 hour away. Click here for driving directions.
And if I can’t convince you, maybe William Wordsworth will sway you
- The final drawing manages to somewhat resemble its subject (the Vampire King) purely by accident. How was this one described?
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Cygnus Mission Set to Wrap Up Oct. 23; Shutdown Nonissue for Virginia Spaceport
Updated at 10:40 a.m. EDT
WASHINGTON — Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Cygnus cargo capsule will wrap up its first mission to the international space station (ISS) Oct. 23, when the expendable spacecraft is set to re-enter the atmosphere and burn up along with a load of trash.
Cygnus was launched Sept. 18 from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), a state-run facility located at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. The craft has been berthed with the station’s Harmony node since Sept. 29 and will detach from the orbital outpost Oct. 22, Orbital said in an Oct. 11 online post.
A few days after Cygnus burns up over the Pacific Ocean, Orbital will provide NASA with a report on the mission, on which basis the space agency will decide whether the Dulles, Va., company is ready to fly eight cargo delivery missions to ISS ordered in 2008 under a $1.9 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract.
Should NASA give Orbital the thumbs-up to begin those missions, the first could launch as soon as late December or early January. Preparation for that mission, according to the company and its landlords at MARS, will not be interrupted by the ongoing government shutdown.
“The Antares team is able to continue working on our systems during the shutdown,” Orbital spokesman Barron Beneski said in an Oct. 8 email. “Apparently, the skeleton services available at Wallops are enough for our staff to access the facilities.”
The head of the state-run organization that owns and operates the coastal Virginia facility from which Orbital’s eight cargo resupply missions will launch said neither his organization nor the launch facility itself was affected by the federal government shutdown.
“There’s been no impact,” Dale Nash, executive director of the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, told SpaceNews in an Oct. 8 phone interview.
Nash said that between the authority and its subcontractors, about 60 people are working at MARS.
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Anne Wilson Schaef
Before I actually tried the Twelve-Step Program, I had many criticisms of it. I initially thought these criticisms were quite unique and creative, yet they turn out to be the ones I often hear from others. Here are a few.
Aren’t the Twelve Steps just a substitute addiction? People seem to have to go to meetings all the time and use them like a drug.
Certainly people in early recovery go to a lot of meetings and they may even substitute the Twelve Steps addictively. That is not the program. That is the addict, the program works.
I have seen people go to Twelve-Step meetings and not get better. How do you explain that?
I have seen people go to therapy, hospitals, and to all kinds of places and not get better. “Getting better” is up to the person. The program is not magic. It is a way. We have to do it ourselves. We do not have to do it alone.
Also, while some people get somewhat better by attending meetings, there is a great deal of difference between attending meetings and working a program. I have never seen someone actually working a program who did not get more sober.
Recovery is hard and sobriety is fragile. Recovery does not happen all at once, nor is it linear. It is a process, not a happening. Addiction is more “normal” for our society. The disease is always there lurking to invite us back in. Fortunately our healthy being-our sober self, our spirituality-is always there too. We have but to do our footwork. It is only when we accept and work with the broader picture that we can effectively work with addictions.
The meetings do not seem very clear to me. How can I recover there?
Of course they seem unclear at times-they are meetings of addicts, for heaven’s sake! The issue is to take from the meeting what there is for you and leave the rest. What one takes home is often more of an indication to one’s willingness and openness rather than what is or is not happening at the meeting. Judgmentalism is a characteristic of the disease.
People who attend Twelve-Step meetings leave their families and their old friends and make the program and program people the center of their lives. There must be something wrong with that.
This is often true. Early in recovery, one needs the support of other recovering people and the wisdom and modeling of those who have a good sobriety and long years of recovery. After recovery is better established, recovering people are not willing to be around those who choose to stay with addiction, and would rather be around recovering people willing to do Twelve-Step work. This choice is not out of disease: It is made out of health and recovery.
These are some sample criticisms. I find that they are usually made by persons who have not really tried the program or worked the steps. The steps have to be worked everyday and repeated endlessly. Yet the levels on which one is working them change and the perspective changes constantly as recovery proceeds.
Recovery is a miracle. When we think about the grip our addiction had on us, how we were trained into them, and how much they are all around us as the norm for society, it is truly a miracle that anyone recovers-and yet millions do.
Twelve-Step programs are the most effective way to recover from addictions. Melody Beattie, author of Codependent No More, writes, “I unabashedly love Twelve-Step programs.” They are “not merely self-help groups that help people with compulsive disorders stop doing whatever it is they feel compelled to do (drinking, helping the drinker, etc.). The programs teach people how to live peacefully, happily, successfully. They bring peace. They promote healing. They give life to their members-frequently a richer, healthier life than those people knew before they developed whatever problem they developed. The Twelve Steps are a way of life.”
Excerpted from an essay based on material from Escape from Intimacy, forthcoming from Harper & Row (Spring 1989).
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Frequently asked questions around Diwali like Why do we celebrate Diwali in India, How do we celebrate Diwali in India, what is the story about Diwali, and much more answered in simple terms. All Diwali information in one place
Recently I was asked – Why do we celebrate Diwali in India by my son. and then again in office by our manager who is not from India. Few things I knew about Diwali but there were some aspects that were not so fresh in my mind.
Satisfying a kids curiosity is important and something that’s definitely not easy 😉
So with the festive season around, I have researched and penned down frequently asked questions around Diwali. Hope it’s useful to you as well in explaining the significance of Diwali and why we celebrate it to your child.
What is Diwali and why is it celebrated?
Diwali in Sanskrit means “rows of lit lamps”.
This festival of lights is celebrated as the victory of good over evil, light over darkness, and knowledge over ignorance. It is the most widespread Hindu festival rejoiced all across south Asia wherever Hindus live.
This festival is not only celebrated by Hindus but also by Jains and Sikhs.
What is the story about Diwali?
According to the mythology, Ramayana is the story of Lord Rama who is the incarnation of god Vishnu and his wife Sita.
When Lord Rama his brother Lakshmana and Rama’s wife Sita were in exile Demon king Ravana abducted Sita and took her to his island Lanka. Then Lord Rama along with his brother Lakshman and an amazing monkey God holding unparalleled powers- Hanuman ranged a war against Lanka King Ravana and defeated him.
On return of Lord Rama after fourteen year exile to his kingdom earthen lamps were lit throughout the kingdom and was celebrated as Diwali for the first time.
This is the story of Diwali
How do you celebrate Diwali?
Diwali is a festival is of five days rejoiced with lights, Rangoli decorations, music, firework, Pooja and sharing of gifts and sweets with friends and relatives.
People make their homes ready for Diwali by cleaning the homes and decorating it with lights and flowers.
On the night of Diwali or the Deepavali festival, people wear new clothes and perform puja of goddess Lakshmi by offering payers for good health, wealth, and prosperity.
What is the purpose of Diwali?
Diwali has religious importance. It is one of the most popular Festivals in India.
It is rejoiced by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists according to their beliefs, stories, and historical events.
Reason or their beliefs may differ but Diwali signifies the victory of good over evil, knowledge over unawareness, light over darkness, and hope over misery.
Why do we celebrate the Diwali festival?
Diwali signifies the victory of good over evil and is celebrated as a festival of lights to commemorate the arrival of Lord Rama to his home Ayodhya after fourteen years of Exile.
Lord Rama is the seventh incarnation of God Vishnu. During exile, he fought with the demon king of Lanka- Ravana, and defeated him.
How many days after Dussehra is Diwali?
Exactly after 20days of Dussehra on the new moon day, the festival of Diwali is celebrated, usually in the months of October or November.
It is believed that Lord Rama defeated Demon King Ravana of Lanka in a battle that lasted for 10 long days and reached Ayodhya 20 days after defeating Ravana.
What are the 5 days of Diwali?
Diwali celebration is of 5days which is
- The first day is Dhanteras or the day of fortune
- The second day is Naraka Chaturdashi or the days of knowledge
- The third day is Diwali or the day of light
- The fourth day is Annakut or the beginning of the new year for Hindu’s
- The fifth day is Bhai Duj or the day of affection between siblings.
When Diwali will come in 2021?
This year 2021, Diwali is on November 4th.
It is witnessed on the 15th day of Kartik according to the Hindu astrophysical calendar.
How can we celebrate eco-friendly Diwali?
Diwali can be celebrated by giving back to society for example: spend time with poor and needy children instead of drinking, partying, or bursting loads of crackers.
Donate food, sweets, clothes, and stationary or play with them. Bring smile on their face and spread happiness during this festival of Diwali.
You can also do a bit by doing these:
- Buy earthen Diya from a needy person selling on the roadside instead of the fancy mall.
- Draw eco-friendly Rangoli
- Used recycled decors
- Eat healthily and give a miss to sugar
- Avoid bursting crackers
- Avoid Single-use plastics as much as possible
Read more on How to celebrate eco friendly Diwali
How do you celebrate Diwali at home?
We prepare our home for Diwali by cleaning and removing unused, unwanted things that clutter the home, then decorate our home with lightings, flowers and prepare homemade sweets.
You can check some amazing craft supplies here- DIY craft supplies
On the days of Diwali, we wear new clothes, perform goddess Lakshmi puja with the family and seek divine blessing for good health, wealth, and prosperity.
We light earthen Diya and meets friends, exchange gifts, sweets, and wishes. This is how we celebrate Diwali at home.
Here are some Awesome ideas – Diwali Decor Ideas & craft activities
What does Diwali mean in English?
Diwali is the most popular and the most important festivals celebrated in India.
The word “Diwali” means rows of lit diya or lamps. In this festival people buy diya’s( baked clay small cups) and light every corner of their home with lights and decorate.
Diwali Decoration Items
Here are some wonderful items that you can check for Diwali decoration. These will brighten up your home and make it ready for the festival.
Tea-Light Candles for Diwali Decoration
Brass Bells for Diwali Decor
Brass Urli For Home Decoration
Torans for Home Decoration- diwali, Dusserra and other festivals
Best Books on Diwali for Children
Books are the best ways to teach children about festivals. Most Hindu festivals have interesting stories behind them. These books below are some of the best books that share information, interesting facts and stories about Diwali.
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As human beings, we’re naturally curious and desire to have our questions answered. But there’s one area of questioning that overwhelms most of us with anxiety: asking for feedback.
It’s not an easy or natural task, asking for someone’s opinion or evaluation of you and your work, but it’s an essential part of career development. We can’t promise that it will be painless, but with the proper preparation and the right questions, asking for feedback can be a smooth process.
1. During an annual review. This is a routine and formal process where your boss will evaluate your progress/contributions over the last year. If your company doesn’t have a formal review process, you should ask your boss for a meeting, says Jaime Petkanics, Founder and job search consultant at The Prepary. “If those opportunities don’t present themselves naturally, I think asking for feedback once per quarter is helpful without being too overwhelming,” she says.
2. Before an important meeting, presentation, or project. Think of this as an opportunity to be coached or mentored by your boss. After one of these scenarios is also a good time to ask for feedback. Petkanics says, “It’s a good moment to take a step back, get your managers thoughts, and learn from the experience while it’s still fresh in everyone’s mind.”
3. During your day to day. There are small moments that occur everyday when it’s appropriate to ask for feedback, or when your boss will openly give feedback. This is ongoing feedback and the more often this happens, the more opportunities you have to grow in your career. It’s an indication of a healthy working environment.
When it’s time to meet with your boss and review your work, the general question, “How am I doing?” won’t get you very far. It provokes a simplified, one-word answer. Instead, Petkanics recommends asking about both the good and bad.
“Don’t just focus on the negatives,” she says. “Managers enjoy giving balanced feedback, so give them the opportunity to do so. You can ask ‘what are some things that I did well?’ and ‘what are some things I could have done differently or better?’”
The Prepary founder also recommends asking for details and examples. This will ensure that you know what steps to take and how to improve. Petkanics says, “For example, if you get feedback saying ‘you could be a stronger communicator,’ you can follow up by asking for an example of a time you communicated something effectively and a time you had room to improve. This will help you put that feedback into action.”
During your meeting, it’s important to ask both open-ended questions and specific questions, so you can get a true and thorough understanding of your boss’s outlook. Karin Hurt, the author of Overcoming An Imperfect Boss and a former Fortune 15 executive at Verizon Wireless, recommends asking these questions.
- What specifically can I do to better support our team’s mission?
- If your boss were to give me one piece of advice, what would that be?
- Who should I be working with more closely?
- Which parts of my style concern you the most?
- Specifically, what do I need to work on to be ready for (insert the job or assignment you’re most interested in here)?
Hurt also advises going in with an open mind and accepting feedback graciously. “Whatever you do, say thank you, and don’t get defensive,” she says. “You don’t have to agree with them, or necessarily follow their advice. But asking for feedback and then reacting poorly will do more harm than good.”
You don’t just work with your boss, so it’s important to make sure you’re the feedback you’re seeking out is well rounded. Approach all sorts of people. Speak to your boss, reach out to coworkers, engage with clients, and even try communicating with competitors. If you have contacts in competing companies, casually ask them, what did you think of this strategy? Or what do you think of this product we just launched? They may tell you when you’re onto something worthwhile, or something they envy about your company or projects.
And when you get all this feedback? Write it down. Keep a “compliments file.” Anytime you receive positive feedback, note it in your file. This list will keep you motivated at work. Noting the positive feedback you receive will be useful when you’re interviewing for new positions with other companies, when you request a promotion, or when you rightfully Ask4More.
This article originally appeared on Levo and is reprinted with permission.
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‘Everyone’s too busy talking about love to do their work,’ my son said after school today.
Girls are drawing hearts and kisses in their diaries, the names of boys in triplicate, dreaming of turning frogs into princes. Boys pretend not to notice but they stand straighter when the girls walk by, trying to look as cool as possible.
I remember those days. I was in love with a boy named Billy Dee when I was thirteen. A boy with hair so black I thought he could have been the son of Elvis. A boy who didn’t walk, who loped, who always seemed to be leaning against buildings looking interesting.
My friend told Billy Dee I liked him.
‘Big deal,’ he said. ‘Big deal.’
I was so hurt I wrote a poem that started –
I love Billy Dee
But he doesn’t love me
He said big deal
But I know it’s real
Bad, bad poetry. So it begins. Love. Seeking it. Finding it. Losing it. Wanting it. Needing it. Rejoicing in it. Giving up on it. It sure does make the world go round.
A girl in my son’s class asked if he wanted to be her boyfriend. This was how she put it –
Hey you, do you want to be my boyfriend?
Seems she was the last girl in her group to get a boyfriend and the pressure was on. Beggars can’t be choosers when it comes to love, so when the clock is ticking even some nameless boy just hanging out in the playground will do.
But my boy, he’s got standards. This was his reply –
I don’t think a relationship where you don’t know the other person’s name is going to last.
Wish I’d been aware of that waking up in some grotty student digs with a guy wearing a badly dyed black T-shirt that had bled all over the bed and me while my head pounded and my heart sank as I tried to remember his name. Charlie? Mike? Steve? Maybe it is the fate of all girls to at one time refer to their supposed beloved as Hey You. All I know is I couldn’t get the dye off my arms for weeks.
The girl in my son’s class was put out by his matter-of-fact rejection of her –
I never really loved you, anyway, she said.
What’s love got to do with it? my son countered.
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A safe street advocacy group gave the MTA a “D” rating and flunked the DMV in its report card on Vision Zero, the mayor’s plan to end traffic deaths.
Transportation Alternatives started giving the report card in 2015 to rank and evaluate the performance of agencies and officials responsible for eliminating deaths on the road.
The report card came on Wednesday, a day after Mayor Bill de Blasio, granted a B+ by the group, said traffic deaths last year were the lowest in city history. The group estimates that at the current rate traffic deaths will hit zero in 2055, rather than the mayor’s goal of 2024.
Transportation Alternatives rated the MTA a “D” for not being vocal in backing a Vision Zero law that made it a misdemeanor crime if a city driver hits a pedestrian with the right of way, such as in a crosswalk. De Blasio signed it into law in 2014.
The Transport Workers Union Local 100, which represents bus drivers, was critical when the NYPD arrested them for not yielding in fatal crashes. The union said that crashes with no intent or obvious recklessness were being criminalized and called for bus drivers to be exempt.
“The MTA was virtually silent when all the controversy and debate was happening around whether or not motorists should face real consequences for not yielding to pedestrians, and killing them in the crosswalk,” said Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives.
The MTA said in a statement that it has partnered with the city on Vision Zero since it first launched and that its training and safety program for drivers is nationally recognized. The DOT said the MTA began attending the initiative’s task force meetings in 2015, but conversations began in 2014.
“We’re proud of our bus safety efforts, and we measure our progress by our improved safety numbers last year, not by a publicity-stunt laden letter grade,” said spokesman Kevin Ortiz.
He said that bus crashes involving pedestrians have decreased from 133 in 2014 to 108 in 2015. Fatalities decreased from 8 to 7.
“While this advocacy group seems to judge us by our rhetoric, we judge ourselves on the facts — and they show the number of collisions and fatalities fell last year,” added spokesman Adam Lisberg.
The report card also gave the DMV an “F” for not having a permanent commissioner and canceling required safety hearings for drivers involved in fatal crashes.
“It’s been almost a year, and that’s unacceptable,” said White. “The DMV has a very key role to play in Vision Zero. We need more leadership there at the state level.”
A DMV spokesperson said all results of hearings on fatal crashes are released online and they are open to the public. It said the agency works with the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee to prevent crashes.
“In 2014 alone, there was a drastic decrease in two dozen major statistical traffic safety categories, along with a drop in total injuries and fatalities,” the agency said in a statement.
The report also gave the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, which is in charge of the 27,000 cars owned by the city, a B-. None were involved in fatal crashes last year, following eight fatalities the year before, but the analysis said the agency should move faster with installing side guards to protect pedestrians and cyclists.
About twenty vehicles total between the city’s fleet, taxis and MTA buses, have been testing new technology from a contractor called Mobileye that can detect a crash about to happen and warns the driver.
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Designed to fit into your busy schedule, this weeklong expedition starts out with a bush plane flight into the wilderness. As you trace the route back on foot, build your outdoor skills and develop your personal leadership style. You’ll start with the basics of backcountry living: pitching a tent, reading a map, and cooking tasty meals on a campstove. Later, move on to more advanced topics like off-trail navigation, wilderness first aid, and risk management.
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(August 5, 2022) To celebrate the RCSD’s Summer of Discovery, the District is highlighting staff members who support our summer learning programming.
Ms. Jennifer Monroe-Dewitz is the summer school principal for the Summer Quest program at Henry Hudson School No. 28. An Assistant Principal at School No. 28, Ms. Monroe-Dewitz is overseeing a summer science program focused on providing engaging, relevant, tactile experiences, and learning through math and science labs.
“The team of teachers working in the program are committed to relationships, providing engaging experiences and building community,” said Monroe-Dewitz. “Students love attending each day and are eager to share what they are learning.”
Ms. Monroe-Dewitz has been with the District for 25 years. She has worked as a pier diem substitute, taught at Monroe High School and Martin B. Anderson School No. 1, and has also served as an ELA coach.
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How to Fix Low Compression on Jet Ski
A jet ski is a type of personal watercraft that was invented in the 1960s. A popular activity for many people, Jet Skiing has been used as a form of recreation and military purposes. There are two types of jetskis- those with an enclosed cockpit or open bow. The first opened up to let the rider have more freedom while riding it, and some riders want to feel the wind on their face. The other type protects from waves and splashes because it is closed off from them, so you don’t get wet while riding it.
Low compression on a jet ski is when the engine of your jet ski suffers from too little pressure in its cylinders. This means it will not be able to generate enough power, and thus makes the performance of your watercraft slow or sluggish. A low-compression problem is usually caused by leaks in either the piston rings or valves; this results in high exhaust emission and oil consumption. Today I will be discussing some techniques on how to fix low compression on jet ski.
How to Determine Whether My Jet Ski Has Low Compression?
There are certain ways that you can tell if your jet ski has low compression:
- When it enters the water, the wave will be taller than the board:
- When you start the jet ski, if it is puttering:
- If when you are riding at a higher speed than normal and suddenly slow down, and there is no loss of power for the motor.
- If your jet ski operates normally on one tank of gas but then starts to sputter out after that, one tank is empty.
- If your jetski normally runs in cool water, but not in warm water.
- There will be less of an arch in the wake behind the Jet Ski;
- There will be more air bubbles coming from underneath (exhaust);
- It may sound different – like a higher-pitched noise instead of a lower one;
- You’ll see increased air being blown out from underneath (exhaust).
How Harmful is Low Compression for Jet Ski?
Many factors contribute to the engine’s performance on a jet ski. For instance, an old or low-rated battery will not produce enough voltage for it to start on its own. A dirty air filter blocking the flow of oxygen in the tank can also hamper your engine from running continuously. We are one of the largest suppliers of aftermarket parts in the US. We carry a wide range of high-quality OEM and aftermarket parts for PWCs from different brands.
The most important factor is probably the compression level of your engine, which dictates how smoothly and efficiently it runs. Of course, every car or jet ski enthusiast knows this. However, some people still fail to understand why a low-compression ratio is detrimental to a vehicle’s overall performance. A low compression ratio means that your engine will have a lower volume of air and fuel to burn, which can affect its output. Additionally, it can lead to increased fuel consumption and emissions, as well as decreased torque and power.
.If your compression level was too low, you’ll surely notice some signs like rough idling, hard starting, and getting worse gas mileage. Other than that, the overall engine performance will be affected as well. For example, if you have less power to accelerate or you can’t go as fast up hills or boat ramps. In fact, a vehicle with a poorly performing engine usually ends up being thrown away after a few years of service due to its poor quality and mechanics, even though it is still within the warranty period.
A Process on How to Fix Low Compression on Jet Ski
- Clean all of the parts that you remove from your engine and carburetor; this will be easier if you lay everything out in their respective place before removing them. Any dirt or grease on these components can keep them from working properly, so clean them thoroughly before assembling. Pay close attention to any areas where the rubber meets metal or air enters the jet ski’s body, as these are typically entryways for water. If a part is damaged beyond repair, replace it with a new one. Use pliers when handling any small nuts or bolts, carefully turning them to remove them from their respective sockets without bending or breaking them. Remove any rubber o-rings from the jet ski carburetor and clean those as well, replacing any broken or worn out.
- Disassemble the Carburetor by removing all of the screws on each part of it with a screwdriver; this will enable you to take it apart completely.
- Clean the inside of your engine and carburetor thoroughly, paying special attention to areas where air enters and exits the shell; that is typically how water enters, too, so keep these areas free of dirt and grime.
- Use a new gasket when reassembling your engine; they come in sets at most marine supply stores or can be purchased separately. Always replace rubber o-rings when you reassemble components, and make sure to avoid pinching any wires while putting your engine back together.
- When you have all of your components back in their proper place in the carburetor and engine, you’ll need to adjust them according to the manufacturer’s recommended settings: choke level, air/fuel mixture ratio, and idle speed. Again, consult your jet ski user manual for these settings if they are not printed on a sticker inside the carburetor compartment.
- Start your jet ski and test its performance after addressing issues with its compression; it should run smoothly now that all parts are clean and properly adjusted, but only testing it will tell you for sure.
Some Issues Related to Low Compression on Jet Ski
Aside from learning how to fix low compression on jet ski, it is necessary to have an idea about the common issues regarding this aspect. The most common problems related to low compression in a jet ski are the following:
A. Intake Gasket Leakage or Cracked
If you find bubbles at the surface of the water, the chances are that there is air entering through an intake gasket leak or crack, which is causing the low compression on your jet ski. You need to fix this problem by replacing the intake gaskets and/or fixing cracks, if any, to resolve this issue. What causes bad compression on a jet ski? The major reason for low compression in the jet ski is an intake gasket leak or crack.
B. Air Filter Assembly- Improper Installation
If you find that your vehicle has many air filters assembly issues such as holes, cracks, and loose bolts, then it may be because of improper installation. Scope out for any such possible issues so that these issues don’t cause any further damage. You can also find some air filters assembly issues if the top and bottom parts of the filter are not properly secured.
C. Water in the Crankcase
If you find that there is water in your crankcase, then it is possible that the breather hole might not be working properly, or it may have been clogged, and this could be causing the low compression on your jet ski. You need to fix this problem by cleaning up the breather holes to be free of any contaminants. If left unattended for a long time, these contaminants can cause corrosion within the engine compartment, which will eventually result in a total system failure. The best way to clean up these holes is to use a wire brush and follow it with an air gun to remove all dirt and debris accumulated inside them.
The above-listed reasons are the most common causes of low compression on a jet ski, and you need to address each one of them accordingly to resolve this issue. In addition, make sure that you use new bolts while repairing or replacing any part since the old bolts might not hold up against pressure which will cause further damage leading to total system failure. Before you replace any parts, however, make sure that the bolts are secure and tightened appropriately. Another cause of low compression is spark plug fouling, and you need to clean the plugs periodically to prevent it from happening.
In conclusion, I hope that the process mentioned here will help you learn properly how to fix low compression on jet ski. Maintain proper safety while performing the task. Have a nice day.
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The Pulitzer Center is partnering with Your Shot–National Geographic’s photo community made up of over 800,000 photographers from 195 countries–to create photographic assignments focused around Pulitzer Center reporting and issues. The first assignment is to share the stories of strong women in your lives, and to answer the question: “What inspires you about the woman or women you photographed?”
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This assignment will be curated and edited by National Geographic photographer Amy Toensing and Deputy Director of Photography Whitney Johnson; together they worked on the February 2017 National Geographic magazine story, “Life After Loss.” Amy is also a Pulitzer Center grantee, producing the project “A World of Widows” that documents communities of widows on three continents.
Part of the Pulitzer Center grant supported the National Geographic video about Betty Nanozi, who describes how over the 11 years of her widowhood, she was robbed of everything twice by her husband’s children from a previous marriage (all adults). Now, with the help of attorneys, social workers, and criminal investigators from the International Justice Mission, Nanozi is fighting back. As of January 2017, the alleged perpetrators, including the leader, Wasaja, have yet to be convicted, and the case is still ongoing.
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Sex Traffickers Have Online Access. Don’t Let Them Access and Recruit Your Kids.
Victims of human trafficking include children, women and men who are subjected to sexual exploitation or forced labor through force, fraud or coercion. According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, there are 27 million people enslaved worldwide. Sadly, this horrific crime is happening right here in Florida. In 2018, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center ranked Florida third in the number of calls received by the center’s human trafficking hotline.
Tips for Parents:
- Talk to your children about sex trafficking and sexual abuse. Describe human trafficking as modern-day slavery, where people are captured and treated inhumanely. Awareness is the first step in preventing it;
- Restrict use of the computer to the living room or other area of the house where other family members are present;
- Know your child’s screen names and passwords, even if you have your child write them down and put them in a sealed envelope. If anything happens, you will be able to access your child’s accounts to trace who he or she has been communicating with;
- Use the parental control settings on your computer to check the Internet history.Look for warning signs in your children, such as: mood swings and anxiety; new friends who are significantly older; and new gifts, pre-paid credit cards, clothes or cell phones that you did not purchase; and
- Let your children know that they can talk to you, or a trusted adult, about anything that makes them uncomfortable.
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A beautiful medium-sized cat that contains rex genes and resulted due to genetic mutation.
It is called the Selkirk Rex cat because it originated near the Selkirk Mountains.
The Selkirk Rex cat is more than just an unusually pleasant-looking cat.
Selkirk Rex History
The Selkirk Rex cat breed came into existence due to spontaneous mutation.
In 1987 in Montana, a cat gave birth to five kittens; out of them, one had an unusual appearance with curly fur.
Later, Persian cat breeder Jeri Newman produced a kitten, thinking it might contain rex genes.
He named the cat Depesto and as he thought, curly-coated kittens were born.
The Selkirk Rex cat breed got recognized by the International Cat Association in 1994.
Selkirk Rex Key Facts
The appearance of the Selkirk Rex is because of genetic mutation in their genes.
Unlike other cats, this cat breed gets greasy often and requires frequent baths.
The Selkirk Rex cat is not a lap cat as it has a unique independent personality and likes to spend time alone.
How Big Do Selkirk Rex Get?
The Selkirk Rex is a small to medium-sized cat breed that weighs about six to sixteen pounds.
It reaches full maturity after two to three years; that’s when its growth ceases.
A fully grown Selkirk Rex cat’s height is about nine to eleven inches.
Selkirk Rex Lifespan
Interestingly, this calm and loving cat breed lives up to fifteen to twenty years.
The secret to enhancing your cat’s longevity includes feeding it wet and nutritious cat food.
Secondly, keep your Selkirk Rex cat restricted to indoor activities as indoor cats tend to live longer.
Thirdly, neuter your Selkirk Rex cat as it decreases the chance of getting reproductive organ diseases and infections.
Lastly, physical exercise in playing and walking stimulates the cat’s body and mind.
How Much Does A Selkirk Rex Cost?
Luckily, the Selkirk Rex cat is not an expensive one.
Getting a Selkirk Rex cat from a renowned breeder will cost around $600 to $1200.
However, it is a rare cat breed, and finding one will be problematic.
The Selkirk Rex kittens are a little expensive and cost around $1500 to $2000.
Medical expenses, food, and grooming will also cost some extra bucks.
Selkirk Rex Personality
The Selkirk Rex cats are delicate, people-devoted, and sincere without being excessively stubborn.
The Selkirk Rex cat admires the human bond and adjusts well to indoor living as long as they get the toys to play with.
Like its ancestors, the Selkirk Rex cat loves chasing and preying on games.
They especially appreciate interactive cat toys.
Curiously, they generally need to stick their noses into all family movements.
The Selkirk Rex is very satisfied to sit in your lap for quality petting and spoiling after they’re finished hustling about the house.
Vocally tranquil, Selkirk Rex shout out when they have something outrageous to express, such as pointing out your unfilled food dishes.
Caring For A Selkirk Rex
The Selkirk Rex cat is an easy-going breed that adjusts to any environment.
Yet, keeping your kitty happy is the utmost task you must perform daily.
The Selkirk Rex cats are loving and affectionate, so that they will require your attention and lap often.
In addition to love and care, feeding the right kind of food at the right time, consistent grooming session, and health checkups is what your pet demands from you.
Selkirk Rex Nutrition
Feeding a Selkirk Rex cat can get problematic as it is picky about food.
The Selkirk Rex cat needs to be fed three times daily with a high protein and fat diet.
Amino acids, especially taurine, are essentially required by this cat breed.
Water should always be easily available at all times.
If your Selkirk Rex cat is facing medical conditions, fed formulated diets.
In the kittenhood, your Selkirk Rex requires optimal food for growth.
A kitten requires more calories, vitamins, minerals, and proteins.
Ensure certain things are never included in your Selkirk Rex diet, mainly low-quality fillers, artificial additives, toxins, and garlic.
How To Groom A Selkirk Rex?
A Selkirk Rex cat is a high-maintenance cat breed; grooming is necessary to keep your Selkirk Rex free from yeast infections, mites, flea bites, and skin diseases.
This breed only sheds hair during shedding seasons, so weekly brushing will help remove dead hair. Use curry brushes for this cat, as it has sensitive areas along the back, belly, and legs.
As Selkirk Rex cats have sensitive skin, use waterless cat shampoo for baths.
Using high-quality pet products for better grooming, such as de-shedding equipment, tip massager, and nail trimmer, is better.
The Selkirk Rex hair looks best in the cold seasons.
Daily eye wiping using baby wipes will help reduce the chance of eye infections.
Similarly, ear cleaning is vital to avoid ear infections.
Selkirk Rex Activity Levels
As Selkirk Rex cat is an indoor cat, playtime is necessary for maintaining a healthy weight.
Like other cat breeds, the Selkirk Rex cat is a natural predator, so keeping it close to its instinct will keep your kitty happier and healthier.
Schedule its playtime for early kittenhood.
Get some cat toys for your Selkirk Rex cat that will keep your Selkirk Rex cat occupied throughout the day.
Daily exercise for an hour will provide mental stimulation to your Selkirk Rex cat.
Selkirk Rex Health Concerns
The Selkirk Rex cat has inherited healthy genes from its parent and is susceptible to fewer health conditions.
While buying a Selkirk Rex cat from the breeder, ask for the genetic diseases seen in this breed.
However, some health concerns include hair, claws, and skin ringworm infections.
It is an infection caused by fungus and is known as dermatophyte.
The symptoms of this infection include bald patches and broken hair in a ring shape.
Next would be Hip Dysplasia, and in this condition hip joint is not properly fixed in place, leading to a degeneration of the joint.
This is a genetic condition and requires surgery.
Lastly, gingivitis is when gums are inflamed due to bacterial infection.
Gum color changes to red or purple.
Symptoms include bad breath and bleeding. Bacterial and fungal infections can be treated through medications and early prevention.
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Making friends can be challenging when you’re a kid. You don’t necessarily have the same shared experiences as adults, and it’s not always easy to find people in the same stage of life. But don’t worry – there are plenty of ways for kids to make new friends! The following blog will discuss tips and tricks for making new friends – no matter your age!
Get involved in extracurricular activities
One great way to make new friends is to get involved in extracurricular activities. This can include anything from sports teams to after-school clubs. Not only will you have the opportunity to meet new people, but you’ll also be able to bond over a shared interest. This is a great way to make long-lasting friendships!
If you’re not sure where to start, ask your parents or teachers for suggestions. They’ll be able to point you in the right direction based on your interests and age group.
Attend community events
Many community events take place throughout the year. This is an excellent opportunity for kids to meet other kids in the area who share similar interests. Attending these events will also help kids become more involved in their community.
Some examples of community events include:
– Street festivals
– Art fairs
– Farmer’s markets
– Concerts in the park
– Holiday celebrations
Attendance at any of these types of events is bound to result in some new friendships for your child. Who knows, they may even make friends with some of the adults they meet there as well!
Go On School Trips
School trips are an excellent opportunity for kids to make new friends. They can meet other kids who have similar interests, and they can learn more about each other. There are also many activities that kids can do on school trips, so they can bond with each other while they’re doing them.
Some tips on how to make new friends on school trips to Berlin:
– Talk to everyone. Don’t be shy! Everyone is there to make new friends, so don’t be afraid to start conversations with people. You never know who you’ll click with.
– Join in on the activities. Participating in activities is a great way to get to know people better and have fun simultaneously. It’s also a great way to show people that you’re interested in them.
– Be yourself. People will like you for who you are, so don’t try to be someone you’re not. Just be yourself, and the rest will follow.
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Ever heard of the “silent killer”? High blood pressure (hypertension) is a common condition that is often symptomless. And the bad news is, it can be deadly. When left untreated, high blood pressure can lead to life-threatening problems such as a heart attack, heart failure and stroke.
As Tuesday 17th May marks World Hypertension Day 2022, we’re taking a look at how obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) sufferers may be at risk.
What is hypertension?
High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, affects around a third of adults in the UK. Blood pressure is the term used to describe the strength with which your blood pushes on the sides of your arteries as it’s pumped around your body. Throughout the day, it’s natural for it to increase as you move around. However, if your blood pressure is consistently high even when resting, it’s time to do something about it.
Common symptoms of hypertension
Most people that suffer from high blood pressure experience no signs or symptoms. However, when symptoms do occur, they can include early morning headaches, nosebleeds and irregular heart rhythms. Severe hypertension can also cause fatigue, nausea and confusion.
The only way to know if you suffer from hypertension is by having a blood pressure test. It’s advised that all adults over 40 have a test at least every 5 years. It’s easy to have checked, and you can be tested at a number of places including your GP surgery or at some pharmacies. You can also check your blood pressure yourself using a home blood pressure monitor.
Is there a link between hypertension and OSA?
Studies have found that about one half of patients who have hypertension have obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). When OSA sufferers sleep, their mean blood pressure often fails to decrease as it would normally during sleep. Instead, it remains at a similar level to the awake blood pressure. This is caused by frequent apnoeic (the complete blocking of your airway)/hypopnoeic (the partial blocking of your airway) episodes. With up to 600 per night, these end with arousals that cause spikes in blood pressure, lasting for several seconds.
What is OSA?
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a sleep-related breathing disorder. It causes you to repeatedly stop and start breathing whilst you sleep. The most common indicator of OSA is loud snoring, and sufferers often make gasping/choking noises during the night. This is because snoring occurs when the airway narrows and air is dragged across the soft tissue in the throat For people with OSA, their airway becomes so narrow that the walls of the airway stick together and close. This usually happens for around 10-30 seconds at a time, but can occur for longer – sometimes up to 50 times an hour or even more.
When the airway finally opens again, you might produce a loud, violent snore. This is known as an apnoea. Throughout the night, your body will constantly come out of deep sleep in order to help you breathe – doctors call this an “arousal”. This is what causes you to feel sleepy the next day.
The symptoms of OSA
Symptoms of OSA can disrupt your everyday life, as well as your partner’s. However, it can also leave a greater emotional impact. Depression is highly common in people with untreated OSA. Many people are treated for depression for years before they realise that OSA is the cause.
You may experience some symptoms whilst awake, and as you sleep. Not everyone will experience all of them.
Symptoms during sleep:
- Breathing stopping and starting
- Making gasping or choking noises
- Waking up a lot
- Loud snoring
Symptoms whilst awake:
- Feel very tired
- Find it hard to concentrate
- Mood swings
- Have a headache when you wake up
You should always visit your doctor if you suspect you have OSA. They’ll be able to give you an official diagnosis and recommend the best treatment option for you.
How to treat OSA and manage hypertension
There are various treatment options available for OSA sufferers. If you suspect that OSA is linked to your high blood pressure, it’s a good idea to speak to your doctor first to see which treatment they recommend for you. This will not only improve your quality of sleep, but also help manage hypertension.
The most common treatment for severe sleep apnoea is a CPAP machine. This works by pumping air into your lungs at night to prevent the airways from collapsing. Studies have found that this treatment helps to lower blood pressure during the day and at night.
For mild-to-moderate sleep apnoea sufferers, start by making lifestyle changes like reducing alcohol and cigarette consumption. This will help with both treating OSA and lowering blood pressure.
The NHS recommends using an oral device which will hold your jaw forward and open your airway. The Snoreeze LabFit is a premium and bespoke oral device created from your unique dental impressions. This offers a more discreet and slimmer fit than regular mouthpieces. The Snoreeze Oral Device is also a great treatment option. Easily moulded at home, this boil-and-bite mouth guard is fully adjustable and offers a secure, comfortable fit.
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The following are the twelve steps to writing a children’s book:
- Find Your Most Creative Idea. You most likely already have a concept, but you should put some effort into developing it. Develop Your Main Character.
- Write the Story at the Appropriate Length. Start the story as soon as possible. Make a list of the most important problems.
- Use repetition.
- Write for illustrators. End the story as soon as possible.
How do I start to write a children’s book?
How to Begin Writing a Children’s Book for Children
- Make a list of your motivations and write or draw about them every day. Read a lot of picture books for youngsters. Characters should be developed one at a time. Make a list of probable tale components. Make a decision on an age group. Make a list of the issues, disputes, problems, and experiences that your age group is dealing with.
How much can I make from writing a children’s book?
Make a list of your motivations and write or sketch them down every day. Many children’s novels have been read. Individualize each of your characters. Compile a list of potential plot components. Identify a certain age range. Draw up a list of the issues, disputes, problems, and experiences that your age group is dealing with.
Do children’s book make money?
The earnings potential for children’s novels can be larger, with royalties of up to 10% of the book’s sales compared to royalties of up to 6% for picture books. As you create additional books, you will be able to receive a regular income from royalties, which will assist you to improve your revenue.
How much does it cost to make a children’s book?
If you intend to self-publish a children’s book, you should budget at least $5,000, but more realistically, more than that, unless you intend to do the illustrations yourself or have a friend or family member who will assist you with the illustrations, editing, layout, and other aspects of the book’s production.
Can anyone write a children’s book?
For more than twenty years, I’ve worked with hundreds of writers to help them write, edit, and publish their children’s book. Anyone can sit down and spit out a children’s book, and with a little help and encouragement, yours can be excellent enough to capture the interest of thousands of young readers and keep them reading for hours.
What should you not do when writing a children’s book?
When it comes to writing children’s books, there are several things you should avoid.
- Writing books that preach or lecture is encouraged. Talking down to children as if they are little, stupid people is inappropriate. Publish novels that don’t have a true tale (not a storyline with a beginning, middle, and an end). Art that is completely unsuited for the tale or the other way around
Is it hard to get a children’s book published?
Even if publishing a children’s book is challenging, it is surely doable. Many individuals, however, have misconceptions about what it means to publish a children’s book, and this may be frustrating. Here are a few things you should be aware of right from the start: To become a published writer, just as being a dentist or a teacher requires training and hard effort, so does becoming a published writer.
Can you illustrate your own book?
Achieving success with a children’s book is not easy, but it is possible. Many individuals, however, have misconceptions about what it means to publish a children’s book, which may be frustrating. From the onset, there are three critical points to remember: Just like being a dentist or a teacher, becoming a published writer requires training and hard effort.
How do I find an illustrator for a children’s book?
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and ChildrensIllustrators.com are both excellent sites to begin your search. Both provide online portfolio directories that allow you to search for exceptional illustrators for hire by style, medium, topic, and even geography, among other parameters.
How many pages should be in a children’s book?
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and ChildrensIllustrators.com are both excellent sites to begin your research. To locate exceptional illustrators for employment, both websites offer online portfolio directories that may be browsed by style, medium, topic, and even geography.
How much do self published children’s authors make?
Only a small percentage of those who self-publish for youngsters make a career from their efforts. Approximately 3.7 percent of the population earns $10,000 or more each year.
How do you submit a children’s book to a publisher?
People who self-publish books for children make a living from their work, but only a small percentage do so. Every year, around 3.7 percent make more over $100,000.
- Understand the market. Being aware of your target audience is critical while creating your book and much more so when marketing it. Revise and polish your manuscript. Find a children’s book agent to represent you. Directly submit your work to publications. Always remember to advertise yourself.
How many copies does the average children’s book sell?
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ASP.NET is an open-source web framework that extends the .NET platform with tools and libraries specifically to build web apps and services. This includes web pages, REST APIs, microservices, and hubs that push real-time content to connected clients.
From the above code, you can see how easy it is to use Razor syntax to build web pages. The @ sign is used to start a C# code, and the rest of the markup is your basic HTML and CSS.
Anyone can start with the Razor syntax because it is HTML and CSS, with the addition of C#, to make it powerful for building web pages.
But how do we create an interactive web UI?
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7 January, 2021A pattern of fatal accidents at the global steel company will only be resolved when workers’ have the right to organize freely and participate in safety systems, says the Korean Metal Workers’ Union (KMWU).
Accidents in November and December at POSCO’s Gwangyang steelworks in Korea resulted in the deaths of five workers. On 24 November, an explosion near a blast furnace lead to the deaths of three workers. In further incidents on 9 and 23 December, another two POSCO workers lost their lives.
This is the 18th fatality in the past three years at the company’s Pohang and Gwangyang plants. POSCO workers have been killed by asphyxiation, explosions, fires, physical crush injuries, fatal falls, and overwork. The accidents have continued despite the plants being subject to an inspection conducted by the labour ministry.
IndustriALL Global Union’s Korean affiliate the KMWU believes that POSCO workplaces will only become safer when union representatives are able to participate fully in safety structures. Instead, POSCO recently dismissed three union activists for exposing union busting, and failed to reinstate them after the National Labor Relations Commission ruled that the dismissal was unfair.
The KMWU argues that large-scale industrial disasters happen at POSCO due to management decisions to not upgrade aging facilities and equipment, to downsize subcontracted workers, and to outsource risks instead of eliminating them.
POSCO blocks the KMWU from accessing accident sites and refuses to allow union safety experts to participate in accident investigation. The company fails to disclose the true cause of an accident after an investigation is concluded, leaving workers to face the same risks that killed their colleagues.
South Korea has the highest occupational fatality rate among OECD countries and every year 2,400 workers die in industrial fatalities. In 2018, trade unions and civil society launched a campaign for a Corporate Manslaughter Bill after a young worker in his twenties was found dead in a power plant after the company violated standard operating procedures.
The signatures of 100,000 citizens placed this bill before the Korean National Assembly. The intent of the bill is to impose heavy penalties on employers who cause the death of workers, and to ensure that they adopt comprehensive preventative measures.
The KMWU believes that if the bill becomes law, POSCO CEO Jeong-Woo Choi should the first person to be held accountable.
The KMWU demands labour inspection with guaranteed union participation, a joint labour-management response system, fundamental safety measures that address root causes, measures to improve aging equipment, and an end to outsourcing risks.
KMWU’s international officer, Hyewon Chong said:
“Allowing a democratic union to function freely is a precondition for setting up a credible safety system at the steelworks. But instead of working with the union to make POSCO workplaces safer, the company dismissed three union activists for exposing their plans to bust our union.”
IndustriALL’s base metals director, Matthias Hartwich, said:
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Petroleum Chemistry and biofuels
Autumn. Taught every second year.
Objectives and Content
The course reviews the chemical and physical properties of petroleum and alternative motor fuels, including different types of quality parameters. Furthermore, modern procedures for fractionating and analysing oil and gas are presented, together with a chemical description of central refining processes. The product slate from petroleum refining is discussed. Additional subjects such as oil pollution, alternative motor fuels and the fluid properties of petroleum mixtures are included. A literature based project on selected aspects of energy resources or petroleum characterisation is part of the course.
After completing the course KJEM203 the students will be able to:
- give an overview of the chemical composition and physical properties of petroleum, petroleum products and renewable motor fuels
- specify quality criteria for petroleum products and renewable motor fuels
- present the chemistry of the most important refinery processes
- give an overview of the resource base for petroleum and renewable alternatives
- find information and perform individual evaluations of questions pertaining to production and use of petroleum from different sources and renewable motor fuels
Required Previous Knowledge
Basic principles of general chemistry.
Compulsory Assignments and Attendance
Project, included oral presentation. Compulsory work are valid for five following semesteres.
Forms of Assessment
Written exam (4h).
Examination Support Material
Non- programmable calculator, according to model listed in faculty regulations
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Understanding Reservoir Compartmentalization and Connectivity
Date: 07.04.20, 15:00 (GMT+8, KL Time)
Presenter: Vladimir Krichevsky
Reservoir compartmentalization and flow connectivity affects the volume of produceable hydrocarbons that are connected to a well in a field. Hence, this determines the volume of reserves that can be booked for that field as well as their valuation. Unexpected compartmentalization can seriously affect the profitability of a project, if more wells and more time are needed to extract the in-place reserves.
Therefore, reservoir compartmentalization is a major uncertainty that should be accurately assessed, in order to avoid unpleasant surprises during production, as well as identify any bypassed hydrocarbons.
Sofoil provides a set of integrated workflows that can be used to analyze long and short-term pressure and production data, to accurately identify connectivity and compartmentalization in an oilfield reservoir. They include techniques such as multi-well deconvolution, pressure pulse code testing and 2-D numerical pressure simulation. Including field static models along with these techniques leads to multi-scenario development planning on a complete digital twin of an existing oilfield. | <urn:uuid:d7bbda55-7065-4cfa-89e7-755467503763> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sofoil.com/news/86/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939138 | 252 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Freshly baked bread is often popular, even when people use a simple recipe. There are plenty of flavored types of bread that guests will also like.
Most flavored breads are also sweet, but this isn’t always the case. People can bake bread that has a more savory or salty flavor as well. They just have to make sure that those ingredients aren’t too dense.
Different bread recipes will provide people with the exact measurements that they need, so they usually won’t end up adding too much or too little of anything. The people who decide to start baking bread at home may need to purchase some specific ingredients, but only if they want to bake a particularly large variety of different bread types. Those bread ingredients may or may not be essential.
One of the main benefits of baking bread is the fact that most types of bread are still made using many of the same widely available ingredients overall. People will certainly need flour of some kind. If they want to bake multiple types of bread, they’ll probably need a few different types of flour.
However, other than that, they might just need salt and yeast, as well as water. Many recipes for bread also feature ingredients that will help give the finished bread a softer texture and richer or sweeter flavor.
However, people won’t need those ingredients for all of these recipes. Some types of bread really can only be made with half a dozen ingredients at the most, or even fewer main ingredients than that. People can sometimes improve the texture of the bread that they bake by just mixing the dough more carefully at the right stage. They might not need to find a new recipe for bread or use any ingredient that they don’t have with them. | <urn:uuid:79e9b3e8-1ebe-4880-8062-4091220b6655> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mamasbabycupcakes.com/2021/11/bread-can-be-made-using-only-a-few-important-ingredients.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.975395 | 365 | 2 | 2 |
Purpose. It is said that a warm compress for the eye improves the blood flow to the eyelid and melts the lipid of the meibomian glands. Yet, there are no warm compress methods that could increase the temperature of the eyelid certainly, safely and constantly. We developed a portable eye warming instrument using infrared radiation and evaluated its effect to the eyelid. Methods. The instrument had 19 LED using 940 nm infrared radiation and it had about 15 mW of energy per square centimeter (cm2). Ten normal subjects had their eyes warmed with the instrument for 5, 10 and 30 minutes and the temperature of the cornea, upper and lower lids were measured continuously. Results. The temperature of the eyelid increased up to between 36CC and 39C, approximately 4 degrees up on normal temperature after 30 minutes of warming. Since infrared radiation only penetrated 5 mm of the tissue, the effect to the eye ball itself was so limited that the temperature of the cornea increased only 2°C after 30 minutes of warming. The temperature increased rapidly among first 5 minutes and never elevated beyond 40'C in every points. Conclusions. This instrument increased the temperature of the eyelid safely and constantly. This method might be an effective treatment for the dry eye with meibomian gland dysfunction by melting lipid. None.
|Journal||Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science|
|Publication status||Published - 1997 Dec 1|
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Sensory Systems
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