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Economics has been heavily criticised for being unnecessarily complex, unresponsive to criticism, and unable to predict and respond to major financial crises. Recently, we have seen calls for a broader range of perspectives to be included in the ways in which the subject is traditionally taught and understood. However, one perspective – feminist economics – has so far been missing.
Current neo-classically dominated economic thinking is limited in its understanding of the present crisis. As a result, the solutions proposed – often focused around spending cuts and austerity measures – do not have the effects that are promised. Proponents of new ways of teaching economics have demanded a syllabus in universities that includes alternative and more varied ways of understanding the world that are often rejected by mainstream economists.
Feminist economics, which has been producing sophisticated analysis for more than 20 years, can provide us with some new insights into the present crisis as well as some solutions.
Feminist economists have, for example, been looking at the causes of the current financial crisis and exploring what would have happened if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters. They argue that although there are many myths and stereotypes about male risk-taking and female caution that need to be dispelled, there is evidence to show that companies that have larger numbers of women on their boards are more profitable.
But there is more to it than simply wanting more Christine Lagardes or Janet Yellens in charge at the IMF, Federal Reserve Bank and other big financial institutions. This is not just the “business case for gender equality”.
Feminists also argue that mainstream economists need to change the ways in which they understand the world. Traditional economics views people as fundamentally rational individuals who know and pursue their own best interests at all times – a view that was demonstrated to be clearly untrue in the recent crisis.
Traditional economics also fails to count all the things that we have to do to keep ourselves going. Think of unpaid domestic work in the home, for example, or looking after children, old people and the sick. These tasks need to be recognised as important economic activities in the same way as other forms of work, such as producing consumer goods in factories or working in a shop or a bank.
If all of this counted as part of our economic calculations we would value them very differently. And of course it is often women who do much of this unpaid work; they tend to take up the slack when spending cuts mean a reduction in the provision of childcare and care for the elderly, pushing those tasks back onto the family and the community.
As a result, feminist economists advocate some different solutions to the present crisis. The UK-based Women’s Budget Group has argued that even many of the current Keynesian solutions of stimulating the economy out of crisis are still too limited.
For example, instead of thinking about spending on infrastructure primarily in terms of physical projects – roads, nuclear power stations, high speed train links and so on – we should also prioritise developing social infrastructure.
Spending on childcare and care for the frail and elderly would create more jobs than spending on physical infrastructure. And this type of spending would also create more jobs for women rather than jobs that predominantly go to men.
This is not an academic debate: economic ideas focused on gender can clearly be applied to pressing, real-world issues. So it is not just traditional economists teaching in universities who could benefit from the insights of feminist economics, but policymakers too. Let’s start listening.
A version of this article first appeared on Manchester Policy Blogs.
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A Small Local Shrine, With Lots of Character in Toyota City (HDR Photo)
Wakamiya-Hachiman-sha 「Wakamiya-Hachiman Shrine, 若宮八幡社」 in south Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture is a small local shrine with a rustic worship hall. Surrounded by a small wooded grove, this shrine is an isle of green in an agricultural and industrial area.
The area around the shrine is called Shinbayashi and sits on the outskirts of Toyota City. The land here is mostly covered by rice fields, but also contains some industrial areas including part of the Toyota Motor Corporation manufacturing facilities.
Just a few blocks south is a major highway interchange, where two main expressways meet:
- Tōmei Expressway: One of Japan’s major routes, running from Tokyo (Japan’s biggest city) to Nagoya (Japan’s 3rd biggest city)
- Isewangan Expressway: Starting just north of here near the city center of Toyota, winding its way around Ise Bay into Mie Prefecture
View Wakamiya-Hachiman-sha Shrine on Google Maps.
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Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s trip to Paris last week to manage the NSO crisis, and the visits by government representatives’ to the company’s offices in Herzliya, were meant to assuage global public opinion, rebuff international criticism and create the image that the defense establishment cares about human rights abroad.
It’s an illusion, a charade. Successive Israeli governments, Labor and Likud alike, always preferred, in the mercurial name of “national interests,” selling arms – including particularly lethal offensive weapons – over ethical considerations. Legislators and the courts, which repeatedly waved off petitions seeking to change Israel’s military export policy, are partners to this cynical approach.
Israel’s arms industry was founded to fulfill a vital need: the building of a strong army to defend the country. This need regained importance when the supply of Soviet weaponry was halted after the 1948 War of Independence and the military struggled to obtain weapons from the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. When France, then a strategic partner, levied an arms embargo – just before the 1967 Six Day War – against Israel, the government realized it must establish a modern, independent arms industry that would reduce its dependence on outside suppliers. This step dovetailed with the effort to be at the forefront of science and technology, helping Israel preserve its military edge over all enemies.
At a certain point, the tables turned. Israel went from producing weapons for itself to exporting arms. It justified exports as contributing to employment, GDP and Israel’s foreign interests. As a result, Israel became one of the world’s top 10 arms exporters. In this endeavor, it never loathed any methods, placed no limits on itself, had no inhibitions and put its conscience in storage.
Israel sold arms to the worst regimes. In the 1970s, its military industries sold ships, missiles, planes, artillery and ammunition to the apartheid regime in South Africa. Israel collaborated with it in nuclear technology and trained its security services. The disgusting cooperation between the state that arose out of the Holocaust’s ashes and the white racist regime, which sided with the Nazis in World War II, will forever live in infamy.
Israel at that time also supplied arms to brutal dictators in South and Central America like Chile’s Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Argentina’s military junta, Honduras and Guatemala, known for their atrocities and slaughter.
Israel often ignored UN decisions forbidding arms sales and military aid to be used in civil wars in Africa and Asia. The bar here for military exports has certainly been immeasurably lower than it’s been in the European Union and other Western democracies. Over the last 15 years, in the wake of Israel’s advanced technological research and development, the emphasis in military exports switched from weapons systems to sophisticated tools based on high-tech, like drones, robots, military fire control, avionics and cyberweapons. As the Pegasus case proves, these tools can be no less lethal.
- NSO's Pegasus: The Israeli Cyber Weapon Used Against 180 Journalists
- In First, Israeli Spyware Found on U.K. Phone. The Target: A British Rights Lawyer
- Where Bibi Went, NSO Followed: How Israel Pushed Cyberweapon Sales
And yet, the explanations and excuses remain unchanged. We obey the law; if we didn’t sell, others would; the exports boost the economy; it’s important for the military and for foreign relations. So it’s hard to believe the government’s decision to establish a committee to review NSO’s weapons sales and their abuse by the police and security services of dubious regimes in Africa, Asia and Central America, or even in semi-democratic regimes like Hungary and India, will lead to substantial change.
The NSO has essentially created a balance of deterrence with the defense establishment. The Defense Ministry and the Mossad encouraged sales of Pegasus and cyberweapons from other companies like Cellebrite, Verint Systems and Candiru to countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan – states that Israel views as strategic assets, especially in the struggle against Iran, and from which it wants diplomatic, intelligence and military returns. NSO and the others know too many of the defense establishment’s secrets, and they are not prepared to be a scapegoat to satisfy public opinion.
What is truly needed from Israel is not a superficial, indifferent investigation into one cybersecurity company or another’s behavior. Instead, what’s needed is a thorough review of military export policy, one that would set criteria clearly delineating what and to whom sales are forbidden. The new policy must fall in line with Western democracies, combining national and security interests with considerations of ethics and human rights – not only those of Jews and Israelis.
For this task, what’s needed is a committee that includes independent experts, not just security establishment figures, which is like leaving the cat to guard the cream. Such a committee should include not only Defense Ministry, Foreign Ministry and Mossad officials but also human rights organization representatives, jurists, ethicists and historians.
And it won’t happen.
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Germany is a country of rich and diverse architecture which has gone through a tumultuous culture. Its official name is Federal Republic of Germany, situated in Central Western Europe and has one of the strongest economies in Europe. Germany’s economy is mixed and it has a social market economy with a highly skilled labor force, a large capital stock, a low level of corruption, and a high level of innovation. In addition to that German art has played a significant role in the development and shaping of Western art. It is one of the world’s largest car producers. The German Government has been keen to encourage immigration over the past 50 years, to address the low birth rate in the country. As the country provides well-performing economy, education system, and employment opportunities, so Germany is one of the most popular immigration destinations in the world.
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* Extended release formulation.* Therapeutic Indications: – Hypertension. – Angina pectoris.*Psology and method of administration: – The extended-release tablet should be given once daily, preferably in the morning. The duration of effect is 24 hours. The tablet should be swallowed with water but must not be chewed or crushed. The extended-release tablet may be taken on an empty stomach or together with a light meal that is low in fat and carbohydrates. # Hypertension: The dose should be adjusted individually. Treatment should be initiated with 5 mg once daily. The normal dosage is 5 mg once daily. If necessary, the dose may be further increased or another antihypertensive agent added to Plendil. For some patients, for example, elderly patients and patients with impaired liver function, 2.5 mg once daily may be sufficient. Doses higher than 10 mg once daily are usually not needed. # Angina pectoris: The dose should be adjusted individually. Treatment should be initiated with 5mg once daily, if needed, increased to 10 mg once daily. Plendil may be combined with beta-blockers. – Impaired renal function: Impaired renal function does not affect plasm concentrations of felodipine. No dose adjustment is required. Plendil should be used with caution in patients with severly impaired renal function. – Children: Experience from treatment of children with felodipine is limited.* Contraindications: Pregnancy. – Known hypersensitivity to felodipine or any other component of the product. – Uncompensated heart failure. Acute myocardial infarction. Unstable angina pectoris.* Special warnings and precautions for use: – Aortic stenosis, liver impairment, severly impaired renal function (GFR<30 mlmin), heart failure after acute myocardial infarction. Hypotension, which may cause myocardial ischaemia in sensitive patients. – Concomitant administration of drugs that induce CYP 3A4 leads to strongly reduced levels of felodipine and the risk of a lack of effect of Plendil. This combination should be avoided. – Concomitant administration of drugs that are potent inhibitors of CYP 3A4 leads to markedly elevated levels of felodipine. This combination should be avoided. – Concomitant intake of grapefruit juice leads to markedly elevated levels of felodipine. This combination should be avoided.* Do not store above 30 degrees C.* Packed by: AstraZeneca – Egypt Under License of: AstraZeneca – Sweden.
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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Vavasor (0.00879 detik)
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English → English
, n. [OE. vavasour, OF. vavassor, vavassour,
F. vavasseur, LL. vavassor, probably contr. from vassus
vassorum vassal of the vassals. See Vassal
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The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron,
and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a
baron; a title of dignity next to a baron. --Burrill. “A
--Chaucer. [Also written vavasour
Vavasours subdivide again to vassals, exchanging land
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The wave nature of small particles is common knowledge to people who have studied physics up to the High School level. Considered one of the basic tenets of quantum mechanics, it is the only way that researchers can explain the bizarre behaviour of extremely small particles that are not being observed.
Amongst the other mysteries that quantum mechanics seemingly presents us with, the wave and particle nature (also known as dual nature) of the particles is a central one. The truth is, we do not know why this happens. However, it does not stop us from utilizing these properties to our advantage.
Ever since this bizarre property of particles came to light, efforts have been made to better understand why and how a particle can exhibit wave nature. In a majorly successful venture, physicists have just found a new way to demonstrate the wave nature of extremely large molecules by showing how they ripple with the same uncertainty as the small ones.
The new study has recreated an old experiment with an added twist to it. They have achieved a wave-like diffraction pattern in two different organic chemicals. The new experiment will not only help us demonstrate the dual nature of these molecules but could also provide some advancement in the field of imaging materials.
In the experiment, the researchers used the antibiotic ciprofloxacin as the organic material. The researchers used a laser to create a mist of the organic material, which was made up of individual atoms numbering around 40 to 60. In the other experiment, the organic material used was a dye called phthalocyanine.
As is done in the classical double-slit experiment, the mist was passed through a series of narrow openings, and then a second laser was used, after which the mist was deposited on a screen. The results were fascinating as the mist displayed the classical wave interference pattern, which is observed in the Double slit experiment.
The idea that things can behave as particles and waves is an interesting one. More than that, it has some serious consequences for physics as we know it. Ever since Louis de Broglie proposed the idea that everything can have wave-like properties, the idea has become mainstream. This experiment is just the latest one in a long line of attempts to exhibit the wave nature of particles much bigger in size than an electron or a photon.
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Writing is one of the central pillars of developing strong literacy skills, and the 2015 policy platform builds a request around this truth: “Ensure comprehensive literacy education that promotes evidence-based approaches to the teaching of writing.” But in an era of increasing emphasis on assessments that are cheap to make and easy to score, writing often gets sidelined in literacy learning.
It’s important to advocate for time and space for writing and to make a case for the core qualities that define a good writing experience. Read up on these resources and share them with your colleagues:
- Share NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing.
- See NCTE Beliefs about Students’ Right to Write.
- Read NCTE’s Resolution on the Student’s Right to Incorporate Heritage and Home Languages in Writing.
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pvc (polyvinylchloride) is the oldest and probably the most widely used of all plastics. A rigid plastic, it is usually grey in colour, but is also available in red or black.
pvc has a very high resistance to many chemicals including concentrated acids, alkalis and alcohols. Its excellent mechanical strength and ease of machining also make pvc an exceptionally useful plastic for pipe fittings and components where chemicals are used in industry. It can be milled, turned, drilled and tapped with ease.
Moisture absorption is low at 0.2% and pvc has good electrical insulating properties.
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Bhanvad's Ghumli is one of the oldest historical place in Jamnagar district. Ghumli was neglected till date but now Gujarat Govt. and ASI are working hand in hand to save this place of historical importance.
The renovation cost will be around 3 crore and it will be completed by 2010.
Ghmuli temple will resembled Somnath temple, marble stones for the same are bought from Adityana (Kutch). Ghumli was capitol of jethva clan and the city was at the peak from 10th to 13th century AD. Later Jadeja from Kutch invaded and controlled the Halar province, Jam Rawal made Jamnagar in late 14th century, see http://www.halar.org/history/nawanagar_jamnagar.aspx and http://www.halar.org/history/nagmati_rangmati.aspx for more details
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Many and varied, I guess, and there will be lots of fevered speculation. But I liked this summary by Quartz’s Gideon Lichfield:
“It’s not a human move.”
What shocked the grandmasters watching Lee Sedol, one of the world’s top Go players, lose to a computer on Thursday was not that the computer won, but how it won. A pivotal move by AlphaGo, a project of Google AI subsidiary DeepMind, was so unexpected, so at odds with 2,500 years of Go history and wisdom, that some thought it must be a glitch.
Lee’s third game against AlphaGo is this Saturday. Even if man recovers to beat the machine, what we will remember is that moment of bewilderment. Go is much more complex than chess; to play it, as DeepMind’s CEO explained, AlphaGo needs the computer equivalent of intuition. And as Sedol discovered, that intuition is not of the human kind.
A classic fear about AI is that the machines we build to serve us will destroy us instead, not because they become sentient and malicious, but because they devise unforeseen and catastrophic ways to reach the goals we set them. Worse, if they do become sentient and malicious, then—like Ava, the android in the movie Ex Machina—we may not even realize until it’s too late, because the way they think will be unrecognizable to us. What we call common sense and logic will be revealed as small-minded prejudices, baked in by aeons of biological and social evolution, which trap us in a tiny corner of the possible intellectual universe.
But there is a rosier view: that the machines, sentient or not, could help us break our intellectual bonds and see solutions—whether to Go, or to bigger problems—that we couldn’t imagine otherwise. “So beautiful,” as one grandmaster said of AlphaGo’s game. “So beautiful.”
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(Haftara Shmuel I, 20:18-42)
- [25:31] “Sell me your birthright.” Ya’akov is called an “ish tam”—an honest man
[25:28]. However, he takes advantage of Esav’s weakness and buys the birthright
from Esav. Can he still be called an honest person after this sale? Can he still be
called an honest man after he tricks his father in order to get the blessing?
- [26:27] “Why have you come to me?” asked Yitzchak. “You hate me.” Avimelech
had driven Yitzchak away and now he wanted to make peace. Yitzchak is at first
truthful and antagonistic, and later becomes friendly. What are Yitchak’s real
feelings and what does this encounter tell us about Yitzchak?
- [27:46] “Rivkah said to Yitzchak: I am disgusted with life because of those Hittite
women.” Rivkah is again deceiving Yitzchak with this speech. She really wants to
protect Ya’akov from Esav. This whole story is full of deception. However, the
mission of this family in the world is to practise and teach the world “kindness and
justice” [18:19]. How can such a pure mission come out of a beginning so full of
- [Haftara: 20:33] “…And Saul threw his spear at him…” Saul is the first king of
the Israelites in the land of Israel, and it is obvious that his mind is unbalanced.
Why does our tradition insist on telling us that our heroes are not always heroic and
our leaders are sometimes far from perfect?
- [Haftara: 20:42] “God will be between me and you, and between my descendants
and your descendants forever.” Our tradition considers the love between David and
Yehonatan to be a pure love, as opposed to other types of love. What is a pure love?
Since the commandments were given by God in order to bestow His highest good
upon us, they should be observed in a thankful spirit befitting such a gift. One
should therefore keep the commandments out of love and reverence for God, not
because of one’s preferences or logic, or for any other ulterior worldly motive. In all
observance, one’s only motive should be to serve God…
–R. Aryeh Kaplan, 1934-1983, USA.
This study page is dedicated to the memory of Gad Eliahu ben David and Kochava–
And to the memory of Sarah Bella bat Yitzchak Kummer, Chaim Yosef Yechiel ben
Eliyahu Kummer and Eliyahu and Margaret Kummer
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Ethereum is open access to digital money and data-friendly services for everyone – no matter your background or location. It’s a community-built technology behind the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and thousands of applications you can use today.
This introductory paper was originally published in 2014 by Vitalik Buterin.
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Solana: A new architecture for a high
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Vision for a heterogeneus multi-chain framework.
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Dance embodies one of our most primal relationships to the universe. It is pre-verbal, beginning before words can be formed. It is innate in children before they possess command over language and is evoked when thoughts or emotions are too powerful for words to contain.
Children move naturally. They move to achieve mobility, they move to express a thought or feeling, and they move because it is joyful and feels wonderful. When their movement becomes consciously structured and is performed with awareness for its own sake, it becomes dance.
A few of the many benefits children gain from participating in a regularly scheduled dance lesson benefits:
Here at Backstage we offer many different styles of dance for children age 18 months through 18 years of age.
The best part of our programs is that we offer “options”. Students may join us just for the love and education of dance without participating in any performances or they may choose to gain stage experience. This is always optional. Students may also be a part of our BDC family as recreational students or they may choose to participate in a more serious and committed company program.
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Most visitors planning a visit to Bologna will probably read about “Le Due Torri” (Two Towers) or see photos of them in guidebooks – after all, they are landmarks of the city.
But not many know that one of Bologna’s nicknames is “la turrita”, meaning ‘the city with many towers’. It’s estimated that, between the 12th and 13th centuries, Bologna had as many as 180 towers, built by the wealthiest local families both as a symbol of their power and as a defense system during the bloody wars between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, factions supporting the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, respectively. Over the centuries, many towers were severed or torn down, others collapsed; only 24 remain today, and often are not clearly visible, sometimes almost disguised between two buildings, or much shorter than what they used to be.
A fun way to discover Bologna is to follow an itinerary connecting some of the towers still standing today.
A Walking Tour of Bologna’s Medieval Towers
Start in Piazza Maggiore, Bologna’s main piazza, with:
- Torre Accursi or dell’Orologio (Clock Tower), Piazza Maggiore 1. Overlooking Piazza Maggiore, this 13th century tower takes its name from the large clock that was added in 1444; all other clocks in the city were adjusted according to this one.
- Torre dell’Arengo (Arengo Tower), Piazza del Nettuno 1. It is located on top of Palazzo del Podestà, visible if you stand in the center of the piazza and look toward the palace. This tower has been testimony to the lively activity of this area of the city since the 13th century.
- Torre dei Lambertini (Lambertini Tower), Piazza Re Enzo 1. In order to see the tower, you need to stand on via Rizzoli, just behind Piazza Maggiore, by Via Caduti di Cefalonia, and look toward Palazzo Re Enzo. This 12th-century tower takes the name from the Guelph family who built it, the Lambertini, responsible for the famous capture of King Enzo, son of Emperor Frederick II, one of the most powerful Holy Roman Emperors of the Middle Ages; Enzo remained imprisoned inside the palace (hence the name Palazzo Re Enzo) for the rest of his life.
Since you’ve moved over to via Rizzoli, continue to the end of the street to reach:
- Le Due Torri (The Two Towers), Piazza di Porta Ravegnana. The Asinelli and Garisenda towers, which take their names from the families who had them built, are the iconic symbols of Bologna, and still a beloved landmark (also, a popular meeting point for the Bolognesi! “Vediamoci sotto le due Torri”, let’s meet at the Two Towers). Both were built during the first two decades of the 12th century. The taller one -the Asinelli- is 97 meters high and you can climb the 498 steps up to the top for a great view of Bologna; the shorter one -Garisenda- is 47 meters, but used to be taller; it had to be shortened because of its dangerous incline!
Fun Fact #1: at 97 meters, the Asinelli is one of Italy’s tallest towers.
Fun Fact #2: the Garisenda, which leans at an impressive 3.22 meters, is mentioned by Dante in the 31st canto of the Inferno: “As when one sees the tower called Garisenda from underneath its leaning side, and then a cloud passes over and it seems to lean the more, thus did Antaeus seem to my fixed gaze as I watched him bend…”
Now go back to via Rizzoli and turn right onto via Oberdan. Turn left on via Altabella to find:
- Torre Azzoguidi or Altabella (Azzoguidi Tower), via Altabella 15. It represents the classic medieval tower, with a perfectly squared base made of selenite blocks. From their tower, the powerful Azzoguidi family, along with the Prendiparte family, who owned a tower nearby, watched over St. Peter’s Cathedral and the entire city, ruling over Bologna between the 13th and 14th centuries. Both families belonged to the Guelphs faction, therefore they were supporters of the Pope.
Fun fact: from here, you may catch sight of another tower, the Bell Tower of the Cathedral of San Pietro, Bologna’s cathedral dedicated to Saint Peter.
Head down via Sant’Alò to reach:
- Torre Prendiparte or Coronata (Prendiparte Tower), Piazzetta Prendiparte 5. Bologna’s second tallest tower at 60 meters, it was built in the 12th century as a defense tower and is one of the city’s best preserved buildings from the Middle Ages, thanks to its solid bricks. In the 18th century, it was used as a prison.
Fun fact: the Torre Prendiparte is now a Bed & Breakfast. Read my article about its history and how you can experience a magical stay there.
Now head back toward Piazza Maggiore and turn right on Via IV Novembre until you reach Piazza Galileo Galilei, where you’ll find:
- Torre degli Agresti (Agresti Tower), Piazza Galileo Galilei 1. Nestled between two buildings, this 13th century tower had to be rebuilt and leveled down following a fire in 1641.
Fun fact: This tower shows perfectly how many of the surviving torri of Bologna are often not immediately visible – you have to know where to look, or, perhaps, lift your gaze up frequently when you’re walking around town!
As you retrace your steps back on via IV Novembre, look to the left and you’ll see:
- Torre Lapi (Lapi Tower), via IV Novembre 1. Incorporated into the complex of the Palazzo Comunale, this tower is thought to have originally been a passage of the walls that encircled Bologna in the Middle Ages. It was later converted into a tower by the Lapi family.
Now head down the pedestrianized via D’Azeglio to check out the last tower on this itinerary:
- Torre Galluzzi (Galluzzi Tower), Corte de’ Galluzzi 1. Built in 1257, it belongs to the so-called “triad of Bologna’s medieval skyscrapers”, along with Torre Azzoguidi and Torre Prendiparte, all built by powerful Guelph families who supported the Pope. It used to be taller than its current 30 meters, which, along with its very thick walls, helped protect it from attacks or fires, and made it a perfect symbol of power and wealth.
Although I haven’t included all of the towers still standing in town, this itinerary should provide you with enough material to spend a couple of fun hours exploring Bologna through one of its most distinct features: le torri.
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Are our capacities for perception up for what reality demands?
There was something about the morning sun coming through the window and what it was doing to the bedroom rug: magnifying each fiber and bit of fuzz, changing them into little reflected blazes of daytime starlight. It was a magical act, similar to how the swash of waves on the beach turns smashed shells and ancient shark teeth into treasure where the entire ocean begins and ends. Each curlicue of shed hair that the rug had snared since the last time I vacuumed shimmered in loose, golden sheaths. Every synthetic strand glowed with that life force with which the sunshine gilds the inanimate. What would ordinarily be food for my Hoover had become strands of silver pinhead diamonds, flakes of gold.
It is an old rug, usually the color of river clay under the light of our bedroom’s ceiling fixture. The rug’s weave is worn and flattened into the paths we walk over: from the bed to the bedroom door, from the door to the closet, from the closet to the dresser, all the time, never even thinking about it. I cannot remember where we got the rug. Ikea, Target, Walmart? Perhaps somebody gave it to us secondhand. Made in a factory in a different country, far away from any place I’ve ever been, there are hundreds of rugs just like it, thousands probably, in houses all over the city. To which the sun, at the right angles and times of day, would do the same as it does to my rug.
And one day we will get a new rug and throw this one away. When that day comes I will roll it up, hoist it onto my shoulder, and leave it at the curb for the garbage truck.
The most practical conclusion that I can come to, observing the sun and my plain old bedroom rug, is that beauty is common, or at least much more common than we recognize or care to admit. We have collectively organized our perceptions of beauty into categories like majestic and rare. This is not to say that what Michelangelo did to the Sistine Chapel or the way snow-capped Mt. Baker slams into our rods and cones aren’t self-evident examples of beauty. But the faulty assumption is this: That which is beautiful must also be obvious, otherwise it cannot be beautiful.
To fully recognize beauty, wherever we encounter it, we must understand that our generally untrained powers of observation cannot provide us with an entire definition. In the mundanity of regular living, where even the obviously beautiful is either mostly absent or, worse, mostly ignored, beauty still abides. That we can’t perceive it, or even choose not to perceive it, has less to do with its actual presence and much more to do with our own lazily conditioned capacities for perception.
It is also true that all objects of beauty will, one day, quit being beautiful. The Sistine Chapel will collapse into ruin. Mt. Baker will succumb to the never-ending power of erosion. Therefore, to hang our notions of beauty on the finite is to misunderstand a particular fundamental at the heart of beauty. That to which we would typically affix the designation “beautiful,” like a particular piece of art or a gob-smacking mountain, is a conduit for beauty, not beauty itself.
Thank God the beauty evinced by the interplay of the sun and my raggedy bedroom rug is one of these conduits. It is a fleeting beauty, one that exists on its own brief terms, whether I was there to observe it or not. However, the beauty of the Sistine Chapel or of Mt. Baker is similarly fleeting. It is just that, first, their fleeting qualities are stickier than the fleeting quality of sunshine through a window, and, second, the human lifespan falls somewhere between “sunbeam” and “enormous rock.” But were there no Sistine Chapel, no Mt. Baker, and even no bedroom rug and no sunshine, beauty would—with a nod to Dr. Malcolm—find a way.
Paul Luikart is the author of the short story collections Animal Heart (Hyperborea Publishing, 2016), Brief Instructions (Ghostbird Press, 2017), Metropolia (Ghostbird Press, 2021) and The Museum of Heartache (Pski’s Porch Publishing, 2021.) He serves as an adjunct professor of fiction writing at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia and lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Pay day loans are a type of temporary loan with very high interest rates – see our personal help guide to learn about all of them and precisely what the alternatives tend to be.
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While I usually love all things French, I was perplexed to discover that the shifter bosses on the early 1980’s Méral Randonneuse I am currently restoring are not threaded “normally”. What is normal threading for a shifter boss? Well, it’s the same 5 mm x .8 that you will find on much of the rest of your frame: bottle cage mounts, rack mounts, etc.
Fasteners have several elements that help identify their size, the two most important of which are: thread pitch, which is the distance from the crest to the crest, and thread diameter which is the outer measurement of the thread crests. English threading is designated by the frequency of how many threads are counted along one inch. This is know as “threads per inch” or TPI. Metric threading uses the direct pitch measurement in millimeters, measuring between two adjacent thread crests. A fastener designated as TPI is “standard”. Unfortunately, some fasteners are “mix and match”, with both a TPI and a metric size, such as Italian bottom bracket threads labeled “36mm x 24 tpi”. There are standard coarse metric threads which are designated with the letter “M” followed by the thread pitch. For example M6 = 6.0 diameter with a 1.00 mm pitch.
This Méral has a shifter boss on the seat tube – for engaging a bottom bracket mounted dynamo. When I acquired the bike, the lights and dynamo had been removed from the frame. So, I planned on reinstalling a BB dynamo hooked up to a friction shifter on the seat tube. That’s when I discovered that the threads on the shifter mounts did not match any threads on any shifters I tried, even including some Simplex shifters from this era.
That’s because these shifter bosses are tapped with 6 x .8mm threads (not 5 x .8), as you can see from the above nomenclature on the bike’s Simplex shifter boss bolts. These Simplex shifters use a nonstandard threading on the boss. My research indicates that Simplex used a variety of threading standards for its shifters: 5 x .8, 5 x 1.0, as well as 6 x .8, shown above. Classic Lightweights has a discussion of these sizing anomalies.
Here is one idea for a BB dynamo for this bike – a Soubitez which is in good shape. I’ll need to set up the seat tube shifter, and given that the boss threading is non standard, it’s back to the drawing board for now.
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Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) has asked Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) to stop electricity production using gas. "We have to work to ensure that the gas crisis is not accompanied by an electricity crisis," Lindner told the "Bild am Sonntag". "Therefore, electricity can no longer be produced with gas, as is still happening." Habeck would have the legal authority to prevent this, added Lindner.
In this context, the finance minister once again advocated the continued operation of the nuclear power plants in Germany in order to obtain “other electricity capacities”. "There is much to be said for not shutting down the safe and climate-friendly nuclear power plants, but using them until 2024 if necessary," he said.
Due to fears of a stop in Russian gas deliveries, a possible extension of the service life of the last three nuclear power plants still in operation in Germany, which according to current nuclear law would have to go offline at the end of December, is currently being discussed. The employers' association Gesamtmetall even advocates the construction of new reactors in Germany.
President Stefan Wolf told the "Funke Mediengruppe": "But we also have to have a debate about the construction of new nuclear power plants. 50 new nuclear power plants are currently being built worldwide, and the technology has advanced." Renewable energies would not be sufficient to cover the total electricity demand in the future.
Union and FDP are campaigning to allow at least limited continued operation beyond the turn of the year. The SPD and the Greens in particular are still skeptical. They also do not want to generally rule out at least temporary continued operation in the event of a crisis.
The chairman of the FDP parliamentary group, Christian Dürr, has promised further relief in view of the rising energy costs. “If energy costs go up, we have to take countermeasures. We must not let consumers fall into the price trap with their eyes wide open," Dürr told the German Press Agency.
According to Dürr, it would be conceivable to reward recipients of unemployment benefit II if they save energy. “Anyone who uses less gas than in previous years could receive part of the heating costs saved as a subsidy. In this way we could also relieve those who are having a particularly difficult time in this crisis.
Dürr went on to say that Finance Minister Lindner had announced relief for low-income earners and for small and medium-sized businesses. “We want to make this possible by abolishing cold progression and allowing the commuter allowance to take effect earlier. That would also relieve the workers who depend on buses and trains.”
Because of the state gas levy, companies and private households will probably be charged an additional several hundred euros per year. From autumn, the levy is to benefit gas suppliers who have to buy replacement gas from Russia at high prices for the missing gas volumes.
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HRUBY, FRANK, SR. (IV) (1856-9 Dec. 1912) became one of Cleveland's foremost band leaders and patriarch of one of America's most renowned musical families. Born in Cehnice, Bohemia, the elder Hruby obtained his first musical job with the Hagenbeck Circus, beginning at the age of 9 and and finishing as director of its 3 bands. For several years he then played in a band at Brighton Beach, Eng., before returning to Bohemia to organize a band that toured through parts of Europe. Hruby came to America in 1883, advised by Czech-born band leader Joseph Zamecnik of a need for experienced musicians in Cleveland. After obtaining a job through Zamecnik's intercession with the orchestra of the EUCLID AVE. OPERA HOUSE, he brought his wife Katerina (1861-1933) and infant son Frank to Cleveland. In 1889 Hruby reorganized the Great Western Band, leading it in appearances in city parks, at the dedication of the SOLDIERS' & SAILORS' MONUMENT in 1894, and at the Republican Natl. Convention in St. Louis in 1896. As a total of 8 children arrived, he taught them all to play various instruments and organized them into a family band. In 1912 he took them to Europe for a 5-month tour in which they played a repertoire of Sousa marches and the new American novelty, ragtime. Several months later, the elder Hruby died in his home on E. 51st St., survived by his wife and 8 children (see HRUBY FAMILY).
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Biofabrication techniques such as microlithography and 3-D bioprinting have emerged in recent years as technologies capable of rendering complex, biocompatible constructs for biosensors, tissue and regenerative engineering and bioelectronics. While instruments and processes have been the subject of immense advancement, multifunctional bioinks have received less attention. A novel photocrosslinkable, hybrid bioactive and inherently conductive bioink formed from poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) nanomaterials within poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate-co-polyethyleneglycol methacrylate) p(HEMA-co-EGMA) was used to render complex hydrogel constructs through microlithographic fabrication and 3-D printing. Constructs were directly compared through established metrics of acuity and fidelity, using side-by-side comparison of microarray grids, triangles incorporating angles 15–90°, and a multi-ink hydrogel disk array. Compositional variation from 0.01 to 1.00 wt% PEDOT:PSS produced hydrogels of varying and tunable electrical and electrochemical properties, while maintaining similar rheological properties (up to 0.50 wt% PEDOT:PSS). Furthermore, hydrogel membrane resistances extracted from equivalent circuit modeling of electrical impedance spectroscopy data varied only according to the included wt% of PEDOT:PSS and were agnostic of fabrication method. An in-silico variable frequency active low-pass filter was developed using a microlithographically fabricated Individually Addressable Microband Electrode (IAME) as the filtering capacitor, wherein 3-D printed lines of varying wt% of PEDOT:PSS hydrogels were shown to alter the cutoff frequency of the analog filter, indicating a potential use as tunable 3-D printed organic electronic analog filtering elements for biosensors. Bioinks of different PEDOT:PSS (0.0, 0.1, and 0.5 wt%) manufactured into hydrogel disks using the two methods were shown to yield similarly cytocompatible substrates for attachment and differentiation of PC-12 neural progenitor cells.
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A fish is an aquatic vertebrate with scales, fins, and gills. About 32,000 fish species are known, divided into jawless fishes (agnathans), cartilaginous fishes (chondrichthyans), and bony fishes (osteichthyans). Fishes occur wherever water of reasonable integrity exists, from sea depths of 8000 m to mountain streams and lakes at 5000 m altitude. Marine fishes constitute 58% of all species, freshwater species 41%, with 1% of fishes moving regularly between sea and fresh water. Tropical areas have the highest diversity. Fish biodiversity is threatened by many human activities, but habitat modification, overharvest, and introduced species are particularly injurious.
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Here is a little sampling of where the ants are actually marching. A key part of March of the ants is exploration and control of new territory. When you explore you flip over a face down hex tile and place it anywhere on the board that you like. Hex tiles have a number of collection sites – square boxes – with icons next to them indicating the resource that will be collected. Hexes can also have centipendes, wormholes, or contain strange and powerful forces that will affect the surrounding hexes. These are just a sampling of the colors and textures that are found underground in the world of the ants.
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The best defense in the age of biologics
Speakers evaluate familiar infections that sometimes coexist with dermatologic disease.
Three speakers addressed testing and treatment for dermatologic disease in patients suspected of having COVID-19, HIV, hepatitis B and C, and tuberculosis. During Friday’s U022 – Danger and Defense in the Age of Biologics, they also explored conditions under which treatment with biologics was recommended.
Because in many instances more definitive data, clinical trials, and guidelines are still needed, according to the speakers, the treatment discussion was predicated largely on available literature and the speakers’ own experiences. Using case studies from their practices, they described the steps they took, revealed their experiences, and provided results for those cases.
Universally, they encouraged thorough testing as a starting point. Most dermatologists check their patients for underlying infections prior to starting systemic therapy, whether conventional immunosuppressants or biologic therapies. However, a positive test will require new disease management and treatment considerations.
“Immunosuppressives are not a significant risk factor for COVID-19 infection,” said Kieron Leslie, MBBS, professor of dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco, and head of the HIV Dermatology Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. On the other hand, he said high-dose steroid use appears to increase the risk of infection.
He pointed to AAD guidance related to COVID-19, which simply says to continue immunosuppressives in patients who have not tested positive or exhibited symptoms of COVID-19, discontinue in patients who have tested positive for COVID-19, and restart when they have recovered.
Because patients with HIV are more susceptible to psoriasis and other inflammatory skin diseases, Dr. Leslie suggested topical therapy in mild-to-moderate cases, phototherapy, and antiretrovirals as first-line therapeutic agents in mild-to-severe cases, and oral retinoids for second-line treatment. For more severe disease, he said cautious use of cyclosporine, methotrexate, hydroxyurea, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha inhibitors may be considered.
Dr. Leslie said the optimal approach for immunosuppressive management in dermatology patients with HIV is to:
- optimize antiretroviral therapy
- consider non-immunosuppressive alternatives
- consult with the HIV/ID physician
- monitor the CD4 count/viral load
Erin Huiras Amerson, MD, FAAD, chief of dermatology service at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and UCSF clinical professor of dermatology, reviewed hepatitis B and C epidemiology, testing, and treatment.
She discussed drug choice (IL-12/23, IL-23, IL-17, and rituximab) and monitoring of patients with viral hepatitis who are initiating biologics and recommended when prophylactic antiviral treatment may be appropriate.
Detailing regimens for patients with tuberculosis, Rita Khodosh, MD, PhD, FAAD, vice chair and associate professor of the department of dermatology at the University of Massachusetts, said pretreatment latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) testing is recommended for all psoriasis biologics.
Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors carry a high risk of tuberculosis reactivation. The risk may not be increased with IL-17 and IL-23 inhibitors. She also noted that shorter treatment regimens for LTBI are preferred due to the higher likelihood of completion. Biologics may be restarted one month after the initiation of LBTI treatment, she said. For active tuberculosis, biologics may be restarted after at least six months of treatment.Visit AAD DermWorld Meeting News Central for more articles.
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The FOOD program at MSK is a program that provides food supplementation to people who are food insecure while they're getting their cancer treatment. At comprehensive cancer centers, 18 to 30 percent of people are food insecure. They don't have enough to eat, or they don't have enough food to give their families. This is a way for us to address that while also being able to come for their cancer care.
We’ve got some sardines or some tuna fish.
Tuna fish, please.
Tuna fish, awesome.
I learned about the food pantry from my aftercare specialist in 2017, and ever since then, every week I’ve been coming to pick up the food.
I came also with my wife, both of us, we are patients. I didn’t have any kind of income at that time, so I was really concerned about what kind of food I was going to provide to my family.
It gives me less stress about how I can manage to eat properly. It has been a big, big help.
This is the 10 year anniversary of the food pantry. I had no anticipation that it would grow, that it would be so big. We now have 14 food pantries, and during COVID, the number of patients needing food and the number of meals we delivered has grown exponentially. In the last year alone, we served over 1,000 patients with over 100,000 meal equivalents.
With regular spaghetti and one of the ...
If you are food insecure, you are significantly more likely to miss appointments and not complete your treatment. When we bring the pantry in, almost a hundred percent of the patients now complete their treatment.
It’s cut me down on carbs. I lost a little weight — it helps improve my health overall.
I see the results; my body is getting back in shape again. I never have a day without food on my table.
During their cancer treatment there is so much going on for them. And to be able to take this worry, this burden away from them, is so gratifying and so important.
All I can say is that it is a God blessing for many people, including me. The way it is run is perfect because they make you feel welcome.
It’s always a pleasure to see you.
Have a wonderful weekend, okay?
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When you read a book of poems, you know that someone else has likely read that book, so on one level you become a member of a community of people who have read it and developed a response to it. But you don’t have much awareness of that community. Your membership is not active or visible.
For an example of readerly membership, consider old-fashioned library cards. When I was in grade school, I’d check a book out by signing my name on a lined index card that was in the front of the book. The librarian would take the card and date stamp it. I could see on the card in the book a list of everyone else who had read the book before me. I could make myself known to them, and I’d be known as a reader of that book by anyone who read it after me or who had the impulse to look at the card. In this way I became aware of other kids who shared my reading tastes, my interests; as meta-information one level removed I became aware that two or three other kids in the school read as much and as widely as I did.
A poetry reading or spoken word event creates a visible literary community. The sharing of information is visible. You know who’s heard what you’ve heard. Even if you don’t say anything, by attending the event you become engaged in public discourse, or potentially engaged.
In blogging communities, the visibility of readership creates strong reading communities. For example, I feel a kinship of shared knowledge with someone who has been a regular commenter on a blog that we both read. I can see not only that they read it, and not only the tenor of their responses, but a glimpse of their level of engagement with the text. I may not know their own blog or their work, but I have a textual relationship with that fellow commenter.
Wanting a lot of people to come to your reading goes way beyond wanting to feel a diva-like popularity. When people come to a reading, their presence magnifies the importance of the event in each others’ eyes, because they personally become visible to a larger literary community. They have an opportunity to make connections with other listeners and to have conversations about the work. Events with only 6 people attending can be powerful too, if those 6 people respond strongly and put their information visibily into the mix. If they all go off and write reviews of the event, or poems in response to what they heard, or have a blog discussion the next day, then an event of literary importance has probably occurred.
In literature as it is treated in the literary-academic world, there are authors, readers/listeners, and critics. The categories overlap. It’s particularly powerful when we see their strong overlap, for example when poets write poetry about other poets’ poems, or when a novel has complex intertextual relationships. When this happens, we as readers realize we have a relationship to the text that is potentially creative and critical. In addition, the subjectivity of the critic is strongly exposed. We also as readers can now see something of the internal library, or the blogroll, the information feed, of the author. As a reader and critic, I want to know the information feed of whoever I’m reading.
I take notes at readings and think about what I’m hearing, about patterns and fashions in poetry. It’s difficult to write frankly about what’s good and bad in other people’s writing without being offensive or hurting people. I’m hoping I can strike a balance: focus on the positive without pulling my punches. I’d like to practice exercising judgement and drawing other people into critical thinking about poetry and translation.
Here’s a list of some of the readings and open mics that I have been going to over the last 5 years in the Bay Area:
Waverly Writers, in Palo Alto
Art 21, also in Palo Alto
Writers With Drinks, San Francisco
Kvetsh, San Francisco
Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco
The Saturday Poets, in Burlingame
San José Art League, in the Minor Street house around 2000-2002
Willow Glen Books, San José
Poetry Center San José
Redwood City Not Dead Yet Poets’ Society
Various reading at City Lights, Modern Times, Valencia St. Books, Chimera, Kepler’s, & other bookstores.
I hope I can expand this list and take a peek into other readings, other scenes that have their own particular thing going. I recently wrote an article for a book on the Waverley Poets on this specific subject: the academic/literary page poets and the spoken word poets don’t have a context for judging each others’ works, because they don’t know each others’ information feeds.
I’d like to get some of the people in different scenes around the Bay Area reading or listening to each other, and looking for each others’ ways of being intertextual and literary.
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Esther Honig is a freelance journalist who decided to send an unaltered photograph of herself to more than 40 Photoshop enthusiasts around the world, with the simple and only instruction: “make me beautifulâ€
Her clever plan was to see how each photoshop enthusiast would depict her, so she could compare the different cultural standards of beauty.
The results startled her, as the changes she saw were far more drastic than she expected. She titled the project Before & After, and it has since taken the internet and social media by storm.
Below are the photographs that Honig has received.
From looking at these pictures it appears everyone has their own definition of beauty, but what Honig found most striking about this fascinating experiment is the collective message being sent across.
“What I’ve learned from the project is this: Photoshop [may] allow us to achieve our unobtainable standards of beauty, but when we compare those standards on a global scale, achieving the ideal remains all the more illusive.â€
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Eight times Olympic gold medalist Jennifer Beth Thompson, also famous as Jenny Thompson, has a net worth of $1 million.
Not to mention, Jenny Thompson comes #10 in the list of top 10 rich swimmers of all time. And she is a good anesthesiologist as well.
In her one-decade-long swimming career, this amazing swimmer has seen a lot of ups and downs. But, talking about Jenny’s net worth, she earned most of it through her swimming career.
Likewise, this American female swimming legend is the most decorated female swimmer in the history of the Olympics.
Similarly, Jenny has won 12 Olympic medals, out of which 8 are gold; the most number of medal wins from any female swimmer.
Besides, Jenny has been awarded the 1998 US Swimming’s Swimmer of the Year by the swimming world magazine. Apart from that, she has also been awarded as the Swimming Swimmer of the Year twice.
In a concise period of time, Jenny successfully garnered fame and respect for her. No wonder Jenny is considered one of the most celebrated female swimmers in history.
Before we move any further, let us have an instant look at the quick facts.
|Name||Jennifer Beth Thompson|
|Birthdate||February 26, 1973|
|Birthplace||Danvers, Massachusetts, United States|
|Age||49 years old|
|Father’s Name||Phillip B. Thompson|
|Mother’s Name||Margrid J. Thompson|
|Siblings||Aaron M. Thompson|
|Education||Dover High School|
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physics
|Height||5’9″ (177 cm)|
|Weight||69 kg (152 lbs)|
|Body Measurements||34-23-35 inches|
|Shoe Size||8 (U.S)|
|Net worth||$1 Million|
|Achievement||8 Olympic Gold Medals|
7 times World Championship (LC)
11 times World Champion (SC)
|Club||Seacoast Swimming Association|
Badger Swim Club
|Husband||Daniel Richard Cumpeli|
|Hobby||Collecting American Flags|
|Merch||Book, Swimming gear|
|Last Updated||August, 2022|
Jenny Thompson Net Worth and Income
At present, Jenny draws a net worth of $1 million and features exotic and expensive business and advertisement deals with renowned and big companies.
Additionally, Jenny earns a stately amount of money from brand deals and endorsements apart from swimming. However, just from her swimming career, she earned $100,000 yearly, excluding bonuses and prize money.
If you are unaware, the athletes who have won gold, silver, and bronze medals in Olympics, for them, the Olympic Committee provides a certain amount of money.
However, cash is allocated based on the medal athlete have won.
Besides, Jenny has won eight gold medals in Olympics, which means Jenny has earned $200,000 by winning a gold medal eight times.
Similarly, Jenny has won three silver medals which makes her prize money $45,000. Further, Thompson has won one bronze medal with the prize money of $10,000.
Likewise, the total amount of money Jenny has earned from Olympic till now is $255,000. Indeed, she used to stand among the well-paid female athletes.
However, to date, she is considered one of the top ten richest swimmers in swimming history.
Net Worth of Jenny Thompson in Different Currencies
Also, have a look into Jenny Thompson’s net worth in different currencies.
Jenny Thompson Net Worth | Brand Endorsement
During her career days, Jenny used to be featured in high-end brands. Likewise, she was sponsored by brands like Speedo and Environ.
Similarly, in 1998 Jenny signed a contract with Environ International. But later, Cutillo bought Envion, which created confusion; Thompson couldn’t understand who would pay her or owed her money.
As a result, Jenny filed a lawsuit against Environ. As expected, Thompson later wins the lawsuit and gets $280,000 from Environ after winning the case.
Apart from that, Jenny was also the brand ambassador of Speedo. Likewise, Speedo and Thompson signed a contract in 2000.
In these few years, Thompson has turned into a motivational speaker, which definitely adds to her net worth.
If you want to call her for any program or a guest lecturer seminar, you can consult her managing team.
More than her swimming career, Jenny has earned from her brand deals and endorsements.
However, Jenny does not promote any brand now because she has retired, and every brand seeks a new and famous face to increase the face value of their product.
Nevertheless, these days Jenny is working as an anesthesiologist. Further, she is doing great in her career and is a reputed anesthesiologist.
Jenny Thompson Net Worth | Lifestyle
Undoubtedly, Jenny has established herself as one of the celebrated swimmers of all time, and of course, it did not come easy. However, Jenny lives a simple life as she likes to keep everything lowkey and minimal.
During her career days, Jenny’s everyday routine was very hectic, and it consisted of heavy training, practice, and hard work.
Jenny used to go to the pool five times a week, yes! Five times, insane, isn’t it?
Nonetheless, if you have a responsibility to represent the whole country on your shoulder, there definitely is no room for any excuses.
Unlike many swimmers, Jenny loved her training sessions. However, in her many interviews, Jenny has said that she was there not because of the brand endorsements or the gold medals but of her love for training.
Apart from that, Jenny also went to the gym to increase her stamina, endurance, and patience.
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Jenny Thompson Diet Plan
During Jenny’s career days, she was very health conscious; however, she still is. Similarly, there was never a cheat day for her, and Jenny always ate healthy to perform well.
Nonetheless, Jenny loves to eat veggies and greens. Jenny feels veggies and green food keeps the body maintained and even helps keep yourself calm and composed.
A Glance at Jenny Thompson’s Life
Jenny Thompson was born on 1973, February 26, in Danvers, Massachusetts, United States.
The former swimmer is the daughter of Phillip B. Thompson (father) and Margrid J. Thompson (mother).
Likewise, Jenny and her brother Aaron M. Thompson had an average childhood.
Even before Jenny could walk, she started swimming, which means she was interested in swimming from a very early age.
Unfortunately, in 1994 Jenny broke her arm at a fraternity pool party; however, she recovered quickly.
At the age of ten, she was representing her country in various international competitions.
As a result, she became the youngest swimmer in the United States. Sadly, the journey to the Olympics was not easy for her, and she was rejected various times.
Olympic Gold Medalist
Thompson started managing time for swimming and her medical school. Then from a full-time swimmer, she turned into a part-time swimmer.
However, her passion for swimming never decreased. Even today, she feels like going to the pool and participate in the Olympics. But, unfortunately, this amazing lady retired from swimming in 2004.
Indeed, Jenny is an inspiration to a lot of young women and aspiring swimmers. Because of her hard work and dedication, she successfully managed to win eight gold medals in Olympics.
In total, Jenny has like sixty-six gold medals, which is totally mind-blowing. If it weren’t for her hard work and dedication, she wouldn’t have been in the place where she is today.
Who has more medals Jenny Thompson or Katie Ledecky?
Katie Ledecky comes in the list of #1 female swimmers in the history of swimming. However, Katie is very young who just started her career a few years back.
- Talking about Jenny, she is much more senior than Katie. Similarly, Jenny has been a role model to Katie, and Katie follows Jenny.
Even though Katie Ledecky is doing great, she has won five Olympic gold medals to date, and Jenny has won eight gold medals.
So let’s see if Katie can break the record of Jenny and create a new history; only time will tell.
Some of Jenny Thompson’s awards and medals are highlighted below.
- Eight gold, three silver, and one bronze Olympic medal.
- Gold medal in 1987 Pan American games, at the age of fourteen.
- Twenty-six NCAA titles and twenty-three national titles.
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- “People were really divided about whether it was appropriate.”
- “How can the university honor me for accomplishments in an endeavor which they clearly do not respect?”
- “It’s an interesting example of the way war shapes a culture.”
What does Jenny Thompson do now?
Jenny Thompson is currently working as an anesthesiologist.
At what age did Jenny Thompson retire?
Jenny Thompson retired at the age of 31.
Is Olympic Champion Jenny Thompson a Doctor?
Yes, Jenny Thompson is a respected anesthesiologist and surgeon. She attended Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and graduated in 2006.
Who is the coach of Jenny Thompson?
Mike Parratto is the coach of Jenny Thompson.
How many Olympic medals has Jenny Thompson won?
Jenny Thompson has won 12 Olympic medals over the course of four Olympic Games: eight gold medals, three silver medals, and one bronze medal.
At which Olympics did swimmer Jenny Thompson first compete?
Jenny Thompson first competed in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
How old was Jenny Thompson when she won her first gold medal?
Jenny Thompson was just 19 years old when she won her first Olympic gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics Games.
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Simone Hoermann, Ph.D., is a Psychologist in private practice in New York City. She specializes in providing psychotherapy for Personality Disorders, Anxiety, and Depression ...Read More
A&E is airing a 60 minute reality TV show on people who have trouble with hoarding– the inability to discard personal possessions even if they appear to be only of limited value. Each episode follows two people with challenges and tells their stories.
The show illustrates the many problems that come along with hoarding: From difficulty walking around the home, to health risks, conflict with family members, threat of eviction, or fire hazards. Many hoarders are too ashamed to invite people to enter their home, ending up socially isolated and feeling overwhelmed, demoralized, and hopeless.
Protagonists are matched up with therapists and professional organizers to help them adress the issue, get organized, and get rid of the clutter. This poses tremendous emotional strain on the hoarder, who tends to react with intense feelings of loss, grief, anger, or anxiety. The show acknowledges that the home visit is usually just the beginning, though. In real life, clutter is often not the only thing a person is struggling with. Change is difficult, and maintaining the newfound order and clutter-free state is a challenge.
It so happens that the journal Clinical Psychology Review currently has an article in press in which several international experts on hoarding, including Alberto Pertusa, Randy Frost, and Gail Steketee, review the current state of the art on this issue. Let me summarize here for you a few of the major conclusions of their paper that may even surprise some regular viewers of the A&E show:
- It’s common: Significant compulsive hoarding appears to occur in around 5% of the population.
- On its own: Hoarding has long been considered a part of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and is also considered a symptom of Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. Some people who have OCD and hoarding behaviors (in fact, about one-fourth of them) report having obsessions and compulsions around their hoarding (for instance, checking behaviors; fear that people can become contaminated if items are discarded; or mental rituals when discarding an item). However, after a thorough review of the literature, Pertusa and colleagues suggest that compulsive hoarding, while it commonly co-occurs with OCD and Personality Disorders, may be best classified as a concrete disorder with its own diagnostic criteria.
-Hoarders are spenders: There seems to be a relation between hoarding and impulse control problems: Hoarders like to acquire and collect things excessively, and have a hard time discarding items. Nearly 75% percent of hoarders engage in excessive buying and about 50% excessively acquire free things.
-Cluttered, not filthy: While the A&E show may present many people whose homes look unhygienic and flithy, research on the topic of squalor (domestic neglect and lack of personal hygiene) and hoarding is still scarce. Despite this scarcity, Pertusa and colleagues conclude that the great majority of hoarders do not exhibit self-neglect and squalor.
-In the family: The review references a study by Frost and Gross (1993), which found that 78% of people with compulsive hoarding reported having a first-degree family member who was also a hoarder.
-There’s hope: Frost and Steketee have developed a treatment manual that is based on Cognitive Behavior Therapy and includes office and in-home sessions, skills training such as organizing, problem solving, and decision making, and exposure to sorting, discarding, and not acquiring. The course of treatment takes about 26 sessions over 7-12 months, and it was tested on 14 hoarders. Ten of them completed treatment and showed significant decrease of their hoarding behavior.
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The Russian central bank wants to ban investments in cryptocurrencies in Russia, seeing risks to financial stability in the rising number of crypto transactions, two financial market sources close to the bank said. This comes after the central bank said that the annual volume of cryptocurrency transactions carried out by Russians is 5 billion USD.
Central Bank First Deputy Governor Ksenia Yudaeva said this month that cryptocurrencies’ increasing popularity raised concerns about risks to financial stability.”The situation in developed market countries more and more resembles the so-called shadow financial system,” Yudaeva wrote in an article, adding that use of cryptocurrencies lowered the efficiency of monetary policies.
Russia has argued for years against cryptocurrencies, saying they could be used in money laundering or to finance terrorism. It eventually gave them legal status in 2020 but banned their use as a means of payment.
The central bank is now in talks with market players and experts about a possible ban. If approved by lawmakers, it could apply to new purchases of crypto assets but not to those bought in the past, said one of the financial market sources, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Another source close to the Bank of Russia said the central bank’s current position was a “complete rejection” of all cryptocurrencies. In a reply to Reuters’ request for comment, the central bank said it was preparing an advisory report to voice its stance on the issue. It did not comment on specifics.
Pointing to China’s experience, she said Russia needed a further adjustment of cryptocurrency regulation.
The Bank of Russia is planning to issue its own digital rouble, joining the global trend to develop digital currencies to modernise financial systems, speed up payments and counter a potential threat from other cryptocurrencies.
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Decisions about whether to reopen schools during the coronavirus pandemic are naturally fraught, given the many potentially conflicting needs that are involved: the health of pupils and teachers; the need for education and socialization; and economic and mental-health imperatives for parents to be able to work without simultaneously caring for their kids, Fortune writes in the article Masks, small classes, and outdoor lessons: How 5 countries in Europe are reopening schools.
In some countries, such as the U.S., the calculus is complicated by the fact that COVID-19 transmission remains widespread in communities. In Europe, where infection rates are now far lower—though not yet entirely under control—the flattened curve has allowed schools to reopen more freely over the past few months. Here's how that's gone in five European countries–and you will notice the same themes recurring everywhere, to varying degrees.
Some German schools partially reopened in the spring, but it is only now, after the summer break, that schools are fully reopening across the country. Under Germany's federal system, each state has its own timing for the summer break, and the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania—which has had Germany's lowest infection rates—last week became the first to fully reopen its schools. Berlin, Brandenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and North Rhine-Westphalia are following suit this week. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's early experience was not particularly heartening. By the end of that first week back, two schools had to be closed due to infections—a teacher in one school, a pupil in the other. There's a big debate around whether kids should have to wear masks at school. In Schleswig-Holstein, doing so is not compulsory. In Berlin and Brandenburg it is, though only in corridors, canteens, and stairwells. In North Rhine-Westphalia, masks will be compulsory in the classroom, too—but only until the end of August. Germany's federal education minister, Anja Karliczek, would simply prefer everyone to wear masks in school buildings.
Schools never closed in Sweden, nor did they substantially change their rules. This created an opportunity to collect data on how COVID-19 might spread in schools under such circumstances—but such data was never collected. Anders Tegnell, Sweden's top virologist, maintains that the decision to keep Swedish schools and day-care centers open did not have much bearing on infection rates. He has also warned that opening schools only to close them again, due to resurgences in infections, would be "disastrous" for trust in public authorities.
Scottish schools are set to reopen Tuesday, with the authorities noting that just 0.8% of Scottish cases have involved people under the age of 15. Schools are encouraged to ventilate rooms as much as possible, and to quarantine returned library books for three days. Social distancing is not required for kids in primary schools, but older children might be discouraged from physical contact. Many Welsh schools reopened at the end of June, making classes smaller and staggering them so only a third (at most) of pupils are present at any one time. All schools are supposed to open fully in early or mid-September. However, Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has warned that local flare-ups could lead to school closures. As for England and Northern Ireland, Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants schools fully open in September. In June, his government began a phased reopening of schools but had to change its mind due to staff shortages and the spatial implications of trying to organize smaller classes. A study published last week in The Lancet predicted that the reopening of schools in September would have to be accompanied by widespread coronavirus testing, quarantine, and contact-tracing measures—otherwise a second wave would probably appear, peaking in December.
Italy was unusual in keeping all schools closed after its initial lockdown ended, though it was of course hit very badly by the pandemic early on. Now, it plans to reopen schools on Sept. 14. Classes will need to be smaller to allow for social distancing—50,000 temporary teaching staff are supposedly going to be brought onboard to make this possible, with federal funding, and some school districts are literally sawing desks apart so children won't need to be too close to one another. Students and teachers will have to wear masks (and the latter will need to wear face shields, too). There will also be a big push to hold lessons outdoors where possible, or take classes to theaters and museums.
France started reopening schools in May, on a voluntary basis. Dozens of potentially school-linked infections quickly appeared, leading to many urgent school closures, but the government said the length of incubation made it likely that the infections took place before the schools opened their doors. Following weeks of gradual reopening, the return to French schools began in earnest in late June, after President Emmanuel Macron said it was "obligatory." There were no social distancing rules for kindergarten children, a one-meter rule for primary schools, and a mask mandate for older children in cases where social distancing was not possible. However, this compulsory schooling lasted only a couple of weeks, as France's two-month school summer holidays kicked in at the start of July. That means September will be the time to assess how things are going.
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Education Sector HotlineMarch 12, 2019
Transforming RTE through Impact Investment
The Constitution of India was amended in the year 2002 to make the right to education for children, in the age group of six to fourteen years, a fundamental right.
To give effect to this right, the Indian Parliament enacted the ‘Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009’ (RTE Act) with the aim to provide free and compulsory elementary education to all children between the age group of six to fourteen years. This is a central legislation applicable to the entire country. The implementation of RTE Act has been left to each state through respective state specific rules.OBLIGATIONS UNDER RTE ACT AND ISSUES IN IMPLEMENTATION
The RTE Act is a legislation which places responsibilities on the government as well as private schools to fulfil its objective of providing elementary education to children.
While the Central Government provides :
- grant-in-aids to state governments
- technical support and resources to state governments for promoting innovation, researchers, planning and capability building
there are other obligations on the central/ state government1 as well. Some of the key obligations includes:
- establishing schools within such areas or limits of neighborhood as may be prescribed
- ensuring availability of neighborhood schools
- providing funds for carrying out provisions of this RTE Act
- providing fee elementary education to children of age 6-14 years
- providing infrastructure including school building, teaching staff and learning equipment
- providing training facility for teachers
- reimbursement of per-child expenditure to RTE students admitted by unaided schools
The implementation of all/ any of the above requires the requisite budgetary allocation which is almost never adequate. Government budgets for education have been woefully lacking as a percentage of our GDP. As a result, governments grapples with setting up schools and providing them with basic infrastructure facilities (benches, water, toilets etc).
Hence, RTE Act is not being implemented in its truest form mainly because of lack of adequate funds in states across India.
Unaided schools (including private schools)2 also have to fulfill affirmative action obligations under the RTE Act. These schools are required to admit in Class I (or pre-schools where they are attached to schools) to the extent of 25% of the strength of the class, children belonging to weaker section and disadvantaged group in the neighborhood and provide free and compulsory education till its completion. The inability of the governments to provide adequate schooling opportunities automatically shifts the burden of RTE on private unaided schools.
Private unaided schools are entitled to reimbursement from the government on a per-child expenditure basis. This per child amount is pegged to the fee / expenditure related to a child in a government school in that area. This is of course much lower than what the private schools themselves end up spending in fulfilling their RTE obligations. The reality is that the governments are generally not even in a position to reimburse the schools for the basic expenditure as well. The lack of this basic support from the governments has also led to many low cost private schools having to close down as a result of their inability to comply with RTE obligations. Resultantly, the unaided and private school sector is unable to comply with their constitutional obligations.
With proper budgetary support, government as well as private schools can become instrumentalities for change and effective implementation of RTE. The question that arises is how to effectively fund and monitor RTE?SOLUTION THROUGH IMPACT INVESTMENT
Impact investment could be the possible solution to this issue as the philosophy of impact investment is based on generating returns through creating a positive social impact.
The model could include a structure facilitating domestic and foreign grants to public charitable trust / society / section 8 company operating schools. The purpose of grant would be to effectively implement RTE Act. These grants could help solve the funding issues of the government / private schools. In addition, the grants and any further funding would be linked to the specific RTE related outcomes being achieved, such as improvement in RTE enrollment, learning outcomes of RTE students, their progression and other similar quality matrix.
This funding model will encourage schools to effectively implement their duties and discharge their obligations under RTE Act with a focus on quality and learning outcomes. It would also supplement or in some cases even replace the funding responsibilities of the government. Effective implementation of this model could lead to a transformational improvement in the primary education system in India.
1 As applicable.
2 Except minority schools.
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The fruit of Aurore ripens early in the season between late August and early September. Although the vine is resistant of many mildew diseases, is productive and vigorous; the fruit suffers susceptibility from bunch rot and bird attack.
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Iron Sulphite Agar is a modification of Cameron Sulphite Agar developed by the National Canners Association of America. It was shown by Beerens that 0.1% sulphite concentration in the original formula was inhibitory to some strains of Clostridium sporogenes. This observation was later confirmed by Mossel et al, who consequently showed that 0.05% sulphite concentration was not inhibitory to the organisms. Most clostridia have sulfite reductase in their cytoplasm but they are unable to expel them to the exterior. So when H2S is produced from sulfite, the colony becomes dark due to the formation of precipitates of iron sulfide from citrate.
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Norwegian SIDS and Stillbirth Society (Landsforeningen uventet barnedød - LUB) is a nationwide society for bereaved families who have lost a little child unexpectedly before or after birth.
The Society aims to prevent unexpected deaths in pregnancy and infancy, promote infant health and improve psychosocial health for bereaved families by:
- providing peer to peer support to bereaved families
- providing information on infant health, baby care and how to prevent sudden infant deaths to health professionals and the general public
- providing information about grief and grief reactions
- encouraging professionals to give adequate support and long term follow up after the loss of a child
- supporting and funding stillbirth and SIDS research, and research on bereavement strategies
Booklets from LUB in English:
- Relationships and grieving after the loss of a child
- When a small child dies – during pregnancy, at birth or during its first years
- A funeral for your child. Your options and some guidelines
Films with English subtitles:
Returning to work while grieving (Sorg og arbeidsliv): 8 films to facilitate faster and better return. All the films have both English and Norwegian subtitelse - choose by clicking on CC.
Kjenn liv/"Feel life" - a short film for pregnant women about how to monitor your baby's movements - Kjenn liv-film with English subtitles
Stille fødsel / Born still - a film to help parents prepare for stillbirth (Password: Stillbirth) - an information film for parents who have just got to know that their baby is dead. English subtitles.
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We had just landed in Normandy. It was the summer of 1944, but it was relatively cold. We were thousands of miles from home and the landscape was unknown to us. Yet, we had to push deeper into a country we didn’t know in our goal to push the German forces out of France. There was regular machine gun fire and mortar bombardment. It was really scary, but we remained Undaunted: Normandy by Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson from Osprey Games.
In my third article about teaching games, I want to talk about light games. The advantage of these games is, that they are easy to teach and quick to learn – and often also quick to play. So, this article should be rather short, but as we know, the easier something is, the better you have to execute it and given that lighter games are usually the sort of games new people to the hobby will come in contact with first, we need to do a good job teaching these types of games or we may miss a chance to grow our hobby. So, no pressure.
My two best friends were here and we decided to go out into the yard and see who else was about. Chef and Prince were hanging around the street at the back of the house, while Smoke and Doc were playing tag. Blitz and Sweet Pea were up the ash tree in the neighbour’s garden. It was a motley crew, but we usually got up to some fun. Suddenly I had an idea. It would be cool if we had a little competition with all the other kids in the neighbourhood and see who could build the biggest and strongest Fort by Leder Games.
The crowds were gathering outside, asking difficult questions, asking to be let in, not sure if we still had any control over them – but we fobbed them off with excuses, sent them to a different office and generally put up a smokescreen. We hadn’t finished our final project yet. There was so much left to do, so much evidence to destroy or get out of the back door. We didn’t know how much time we might have left, when we finally heard the chanting outside: “Stasi raus, es ist aus!” by DDR Museum.
I think like pretty much every hobby, playing board games is about having fun. You might prefer to play solo, you might like to play with your partner or you have a group of friends you play with. You probably play different types of games with different people. Maybe you play lighter games with your loved one in the evenings, because you’re both tired after work and want to have some relaxing time together, but when you play with your games group you want something complex and thinky to really stretch your brain. Ultimately though, I think it’s all about having fun.
As we all know, different people play games for different reasons and with different goals. Even the heaviest of games can be played in all sorts of different ways, and I don’t mean with different strategies in mind. Sure, in an 18xx game, you probably want to do everything to win and it’s unlikely that people will play it who just want to build scenic routes going through cities that they like – but it is a possibility. In this article, I want to look at the different motivations players have and how different games accommodate them to a larger or smaller extent.
If you have played a number of games, you will have noticed how the pace in some games changes over time. A game might start slow and then speed up towards the end, or it keeps an even pace throughout. Some games even slow right down in the last round. In this article, I want to look at this more closely and see what affects the pace of a game.
As many of you probably know, I only have limited space for games. That’s why I very much like small box games that have a lot of gameplay crammed into a small volume. It’s also the reason why I have been reboxing games that come in bigger boxes, compressing them down and getting rid of all the extra air that came with the original packaging. I have written about this in my article “Box clever?” a couple of years ago, and this time I want to give you some concrete examples of small box games crammed to the brim and larger box games that I have shrunk down.
It was time to build a better future and turn this city around. We knew we had to reduce our carbon output quickly. Our aim was to be carbon neutral. Yet, the road there would be difficult and tough decisions had to be made. Modernizing our housing stock, building wind farms, offering grants for solar panels and everything else would cost a lot of money. If we wanted to move quickly, we might have to accept a temporary increase in carbon output to build factories, that would help us finance the final goal – or we could go slowly and use our existing funds to improve things gradually. We were not alone though. There were a number of others who wanted to become the first Carbon City Zero by Possible.
The stage is prepared: a dusty old tome in the middle, a silver dagger encrusted with rubies across the open pages marking a specific section in the ancient text, a goblet in front of the book filled with the blood of thirteen poor souls, and five candles arranged in a pentagon around the periphery of the white marble pedestal. The whole room is gloomy and the air is thick with incense. There is absolute silence as you focus your mind on the difficult ritual you’re about to perform. The stakes are high, but if you succeed you will be able to summon a greater demon, who will bestow you the nine favor [sic] you need to become The Chosen, the highest-ranking cultist in your circle. The Blessed Dark by Nathan Meunier drags you away, kicking and screaming, into a world of deck building, rolling dice and casting spells.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom authored a Labor Day op-ed that let Big Labor know he has their backs and made it clear to businesses that he has little to no concern for their sustainability in the Golden State.
Gavin Newsom (D) has come out in support of AB-5, legislation that would reclassify many gig economy workers from independent contractors to employees, guaranteeing them labor protections and benefits ― and potentially upending the business models of tech companies like
Uber and Lyft.
opinion piece in The Sacramento Bee on Monday, which was Labor Day, Newsom said he was “proud to be supporting”
Assembly Bill 5, which details the conditions under which a worker should be considered an employee ― and therefore entitled to benefits like a minimum wage, unemployment and disability insurance, and a right to form a union.
That last part is really what this is all about — artificially propping up Big Labor. He’s well-coached in all of the “for the workers” rhetoric, of course:
“Our economy has stopped working for working people … Corporate profits have gone through the roof while worker pay has remained in the basement,” Newsom wrote in the piece. “Contributing to this imbalance is the
misclassification of workers, where companies eager to save on labor costs identify workers as ‘independent contractors’ rather than employees.”
HuffPo notes that “hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers” were involved in recent protests around California with a group called “Gig Workers Rising.”
The article also says that Uber and Lyft have hundreds of thousands of drivers in California.
California politics are overwhelmingly dominated by union money. The California Teachers Association is the most powerful political lobby in the state. Given that, it’s not surprising that Newsom is enthusiastically supporting this blatant attempt to create a pathway to quickly mint more union workers.
I am a very frequent user of Lyft and Uber, and I was for the last three years I lived in California. Almost every one of them I’ve talked to — and known personally — loved the gig and had no desire to become a union company person.
I have also been an independent contractor for almost my entire adult life, surrounded by other independent contractors. There is no clamor among us to have the Nanny State step in and help. In fact, it’s the government and taxes — not the people we work for — that most of us complain about.
Yes, everything I’m sharing here is anecdotal. I would be more inclined to put some stock in this “protest” in California if thousands, rather than hundreds, were involved.
In my many years of political activism, I’ve encountered — and infiltrated — scores of protests by left-wing groups. None of them are organic. All have professional organizers who are funded directly or indirectly by organized labor. That they were able to incentivize a few people to complain isn’t surprising. It’s also not indicative of anything.
Uber, Lyft, and similar companies have long been targets of states and cities controlled by Democrats because they’ve upended the taxicab racket. Dems and unions know that they can’t compete with the inferior product they were able to get away with under monopolistic conditions, so they want to screw up a functional free market with government intervention.
All the while pretending that they care about the workers.
Which they don’t.
PJ Media Associate Editor Stephen Kruiser is the author of “Don’t Let the Hippies Shower” and “Straight Outta Feelings: Political Zen in the Age of Outrage,” both of which address serious subjects in a humorous way. Monday through Friday he edits PJ Media’s “Morning Briefing.”
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Phone: (909) 607-0724
Given the changing nature of graduate education and the increasingly complex problems requiring experts to collaborate across different disciplines, faculty established the Transdisciplinary Studies Program as a part of the graduate curriculum in 2004. The mission of the Transdisciplinary Studies Program is to 1) enable University scholars to collaborate and innovate around society’s most complex issues, and 2) offer students opportunities to construct, blend and transcend traditional academic fields so they may shape their individualized courses of study to extend beyond disciplinary boundaries. Here are a few of the Transdisciplinary pathways students can pursue at CGU:
- Students, with the approval of their advisors, may select courses and work with faculty outside of their specific school or department.
- Students may pursue dual degree programs, simultaneously completing two degrees in different schools or departments.
- Students may also propose interfield degree programs that combine two disciplinary fields in one degree.
- Students may take transdisciplinary courses in which multiple disciplines and fields of study are combined. Transdisciplinary (TNDY) courses are offered each semester and are open to all CGU students. Doctoral students admitted or readmitted in the Fall 2004 or later are required to complete the Transdisciplinary Course Requirement outlined in the Academic Policies - Doctoral Degree Regulations section of the Bulletin.
In addition to these pathways, the Transdisciplinary Studies Program offers a number of funding opportunities. Each year, the Transdisciplinary Studies Program awards up to five dissertation awards to PhD candidates. These awards recognize students who have embraced a cross-disciplinary, collaborative, and disciplinarily reflective research approach in developing a compelling and innovative project centered on a socially or culturally complex problem. Awards range from $3,000 to $10,000. The Transdisciplinary Studies Program also offers other funding opportunities to encourage and support innovative approaches to complex problem solving. For more information about the Transdisciplinary Studies Program’s funding opportunities please visit our webpage.
Finally, the Transdisciplinary Studies Program supports and hosts a number of programmatic intellectual community-building events and workshops. To learn more about the Transdisciplinary Studies Program, including its mission, values, funding, and intellectual community building efforts, please visit Transdisciplinary Studies at CGU.
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2018 Study Abstract
To evaluate whether childhood obesity is associated with infertility in women’s reproductive-aged life.
Prospective longitudinal study.
A total of 1,544 girls, aged 7–15 years in 1985, and who completed questionnaires at follow-up in 2004-2006 and/or 2009-2011.
Main Outcome Measure(s)
Infertility was defined as having difficulty conceiving (had tried for ≥12 months to become pregnant without succeeding) or having seen a doctor because of trouble becoming pregnant.
At ages from 7–11 years, girls at both the lower and upper end of the body mass index (BMI) z score had increased risk of infertility. Compared with normal weight girls, those with obesity at ages 7–11 years were more likely in adulthood to report infertility (adjusted relative risk [aRR] = 2.94, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.48–5.84), difficulty conceiving (aRR = 3.89, 95% CI 1.95–7.77), or having seen a doctor because of trouble becoming pregnant (aRR = 3.65, 95% CI 1.90–7.02) after adjusting for childhood age, follow-up length, highest parental education, and marital status.
Childhood obesity before 12 years of age appears to increase the risk of female infertility in later life.
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The main component of sand and most rocks and soils, silica can be present in fine particles that can enter the lungs and cause serious health problems for construction workers. PPE is just one way to control this hazard: responsible businesses are also using environmentally friendly dust suppression techniques to keep silica dust under control on site.
How does silica become a health risk?
Silica is a common ingredient in different construction materials including concrete, mortar, composite stone, tiles and even some plastics.
When workers cut, crush, drill, polish, saw or grind products that contain silica, dust particles are generated that are small enough to lodge deep in the lungs and cause serious health repercussions. It’s common to see construction workers drilling, working or excavating in a cloud of dust, and if concrete, mortar or stone is involved, this can be a serious safety risk.
If workers are exposed to silica dust on site they run the risk of silicosis, emphysema, lung cancer, kidney damage and other life-altering conditions. PPE including well-fitted respiratory protection is important when working with any products or materials containing silica.
Dust hazards on site
The best solution, of course, is to limit the dust produced in the first place. Although many responsible employers do provide their team with appropriate PPE, there is a series of other hazard controls that should be reviewed first to see if dust hazards can be better managed on your site.
These include choosing different products that don’t contain silica, isolating the task, and other engineering controls such as using dust catching attachments when cutting hazardous materials.
However, often it is very difficult to substitute for an appropriate product or isolate the hazard when you’re working on a huge site that is exposed to the elements and at the mercy of the weather.
Even relatively mild winds can whip up dust across your site which can become a hazard to workers that are nowhere near the source of the silica. Staff working 100m away may not be wearing the necessary protection because they are not involved in that particular task – and yet, they can still potentially be exposed to this dangerous dust.
So what are the options for controlling silica dust on construction, infrastructure, mining and other large exposed sites?
Dust control with water or chemical suppression
Traditionally, water or binder formulations have been used to keep dust under control on-site, either by large-scale spray techniques or smaller more targeted spraying.
However, in our dry climate, it is not always the most environmentally responsible choice to use water in such a wasteful manner. Wet roads and surfaces don’t stay that way for long, and the application of water to roads can cause secondary hazards of vehicle slips and pooled water.
Other techniques on the market use chemicals or minerals to bind the dust particles together. These include proprietary blends of latex, polymers, styrene, acrylates and other substances that require less frequent application than water, however, their chemical makeup, particularly those based on magnesium chloride, can be a cause for concern on some sites.
A better solution: dust control with Road X2
Road-X2 is a much cleaner and safer alternative to magnesium chloride-based products. It is simply mixed with water and applied with any spraying equipment. Once applied Road-X2 will typically last for a minimum of 3-6 months.
Effective even under harsh weather conditions on a wide variety of soil types, Road-X2 can be deployed on-site quickly and easily using a water cannon, tanker truck or hydro truck, spray bars, or smaller spraying equipment and hoses. This product can be used without negative impacts on the environment making it suitable for use in farming, horticultural and agricultural applications.
Simply dilute Road-X2 in water and apply at a rate of 1 – 1.5 litres per square metre. Road-X2 can be used on construction sites, remediation sites, unpaved roads, forestry roads, raw material stockpiles, quarries, mining sites, industrial yards and unpaved parking lots.
Find out more about silica at Safe Work Australia
Safe Work Australia has more information on silica. Always refer to the local regulations and requirements in your area. This information is a guide only.
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Meet the little leaders. They're brave. They're bold. They changed the world.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Did you know the treatment for leprosy was developed by a young scientist called Alice Ball? And Josephine Baker- world famous cabaret singer and dancer- was also a spy for the French résistance? Featuring 40 trailblazing black women in the world's history, this book educates and inspires as it relates true stories of women who broke boundaries and exceeded all expectations. Debut author/illustrator Vashti Harrison pairs captivating text with stunning illustrations as she tells the stories of both iconic and lesser-known female figures of black history. Inspire your own little leader with the stories of these amazing women. Review Be bold. Be courageous. Be you. Be true.
- Author: Vashti Harrison
- Why we love it: A must have for all libraries, inspire young minds with stories of these amazing black women trailblazers
- Paperback: 96 pages
- Reading Level: 5-7
- Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches
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ChildAid in Myanmar
Our ministry partner, Word of Hope in Myanmar, runs the Word of Hope orphanage which provides care and a loving home to needy children. The children taken into Word of Hope come from the poorest area of Myanmar where 70% of families are living below the poverty line. The children are either orphans or their parents cannot afford to take care of them.
At Word of Hope, the ministry team, care for around 50, providing them with food, essentials, and medical checks as well as a safe and positive environment. The children also attend weekly Sunday school.
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A community virtual ward model to support older persons with complex health care and social care needs.
BACKGROUND: Globally the older population is increasing rapidly. As a result there is an increase in frail older persons living within the community, with increased risks of a hospital admission and higher mortality and morbidity rates. Due to complexity of care, health care professionals face challenges in providing effective case management and avoiding unplanned admissions to hospital. A community virtual ward (CVW) model was developed to assist health care professionals to support older persons at home during periods of illness and/or functional decline.
METHODS: A quantitative observational study was conducted to examine if a CVW model of care reduced unplanned hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) presentations in 54 patients over a 12-month period. The sign-rank test examined matched data on bed days, ED presentations, and unplanned hospital admissions pre- and post-CVW implementation. Other risk factors for admission to hospital were examined using the Mann-Whitney test pre-and post-CVW admission, including falls, living alone, and cognition. Correlations between hospital admission avoidances and unplanned hospital admissions and ED presentations were tested using Spearman's
RESULTS: There was a reduction in ED presentations post-CVW admission (
CONCLUSION: Through an integrated approach to care, a CVW model in the care of older persons can reduce ED presentations and unplanned hospital admissions.
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Minutes in Agriculture and Planting ... Illustrated with Specimens of eight Sorts of the best, and two Sorts of the worst Natural Grasses
(2), viii, 92, pp., 3 plates with dried grass samples, 9 engraved platess (2 hand-col), 4to, cont. half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, corners worn, leather spine label chipped. Some foxing and offsetting. Good copy. Contemporary bookplate of S. Hanbury and small ink stamp to endpaper. I. On the Structure and component Principles of Vegetables. II. On the Culture and Use of nine of the best artificial, and of eight of the best natural Grasses. III. On the Construction and Use of a Sward Dresser. IV. On the Construction and Use of a Thistle Cutter. V. On the Construction and Use of a compound Roller. VI. On the Construction and Use of a Tree-transplanter, for removing and planting large Trees. VII. On the Construction and Use of a Scuffle. VIII. On the Construction and use of a Couch Grass Drag. IX. On the Construction and Use of a Couch Grass Rake. First edition. Rare. With 10 well preserved, dried grass specimens (on three leaves), each secured with two printed name labels (English and Latin names) pasted across the stem, two specimens with small printed figures showing detail pasted alongside; two hand-coloured plates of grasses; seven plates of agricultural equipment by the author and engraved by B. Howlett. Single leaf manuscript index bound in at rear. As with other copies seen, the line following the imprint at the foot of title-page has been neatly erased.
William Amos (c.1745-1825) was a Lincolnshire farmer, bailiff and steward. At Brothertoft in Lincolnshire he was estate steward to the political reformer John Cartwright. Through his collaboration with Cartwright, Amos also met their near neighbour Sir Joseph Banks, who later described Amos as 'an honest man and an ingenious one' (Wikipedia). Amos contributed through his inventions and published writings to the British agricultural revolution. He designed a number of improved agricultural machines and actively promoted more efficient farming techniques.
Author AMOS, WILLIAM
Publisher Printed by J. Hellaby: Boston [Lincs.]
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As the days move into weeks, and we continue to try to find a “new normal” sheltering in place at home, we'd like to share with you a brief COVID-19 Stay At-Home Survival Guide created by Ruth Steinberg, LCSW.
#1 Physical Distancing, Not Social Distancing
Remember that the term “social distancing” is truly a misnomer. While we are being told to distance ourselves physically from others, we do not need to be out of touch with them. On the contrary, this is the time we need to be closer than ever. Whether by phone, FaceTime, or Zoom, we need each other and to know we are available to each other for support. This is particularly important for those you know living alone. Connecting with them is crucial—it is a lifeline right now. And physical distance is now no obstacle to being in touch. Connect with loved ones near and far during this challenging time.
#2 Add Structure to Your Day
As we enter this third week in a new, surreal environment, it is more important than ever to be sure there is rhythm to your day, as without this added structure, it can lead to a feeling of hopelessness and even depression. If you are working from home, structure your day and give yourself realistic goals. But, be sure to add in relaxation and pleasurable experiences to look forward to, such as a great meal to prepare or an excellent movie to watch!
#3 Physical Health and Mental Health
We must pay attention to both our physical and mental health. If you can, try to stay moving—especially if you were active before. There are terrific yoga and exercise classes now being offered online. If you can get outside safely and physically distance, take a long walk. I do this every day, and it is keeping me sane! But our mental health is equally important. Protect yourself from too much negativity, as we can only absorb so much before it overwhelms us. Stay informed, but limit how much news you listen to and watch from reliable, neutral sources—and then turn it off. If you have ever considered meditation or mindfulness work, now is a good time, and there are many resources available. Try some of the Jewish Federations of North America's new resources at https://www.jewishtogether.org/for-the-self.
#4 Get Creative to Lift Your Spirits
Let’s face it, this is a tough time. It is very easy to get despondent and lose hope, especially when we are confronted with fear and the uncertainty of how long this situation will last. But we must be active in getting creative about lifting our own spirits, and those of our loved ones. The Los Angeles Times just published an entire section called Lift Your Spirits: We Know What We Can’t Do, Here are 100 Things We Can. Call on those things you already love, or cultivate something new. In my house, we are huge opera fans, so we have been devouring the Metropolitan Opera’s free nightly streaming of past telecasts at www.metopera.org.
#5 Reach Out to Others
Finally, research shows that when life is at its darkest, reaching out to others in need can help us feel better, more useful, and more in control of what otherwise makes us feel so powerless. There are ways to help, even without leaving your home. Something as simple as calling people on the phone, who may not have others to call them, is very meaningful. Remember that something which feels small to you may be huge to someone who receives it. As the Chasidic quote at the top of this letter reminds us: even a small amount of light can dispel a great deal of darkness. What light can you bring to this darkness?
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Canceled: Due to COVID-19, this course has been canceled, but will likely be offered in 2021.
Masonry structures require careful understanding of their materials, construction methods, conditions, and environment before any intervention is performed. This workshop, offered in partnership with the Vanishing Treasures Program, combines classroom and hands-on field work to give trainees an effective introduction to pre-contact masonry preservation, with special emphasis on preservation at archaeological sites. Conservation science topics covered in the classroom will include basic geology, stone and mortar characteristics, and common deterioration patterns. Working with experienced archaeologists, students will have opportunities to practice reading condition in the field and discuss when it is necessary to consult professional engineers or conservators. Professional craftspeople will lead field exercises working with masonry tools to repoint mortar joints and stabilize courses.
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A growing body of research indicates that prolonged sitting can lead to numerous health problems. A Washington Post infographic, “The Health Hazards of Sitting,” points out that too much sitting – the average U.S. adult clocks eight hours a day in that position – negatively impacts our health from our head to our toes. Increased risk of heart disease, strained neck muscles and poor circulation are among the potential downsides of prolonged sitting. This mainly affects office-based workers as they are the main people to be sat down over long periods of time, whereas industry-based workers are stood up most of the time and the CKS Holdings PCs that they use are wall mounted, normally with no seating.
Employees with sedentary desk jobs may face limited options in creating a healthier workspace. Behold: The End of Sitting, an art installation in the Netherlands that explores “an experimental work landscape” where no one sits – at all. Designed by studio Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances (RAAAF) and visual artist Barbara Visse, the art installation dreams of a new office design that “resembles a rocky landscape containing nooks and crannies that only afford workers a variety of standing, leaning and even lying-down postures,” according to the Huffington Post.
What options exist for the average employee who doesn’t have access to this futuristic office space, and who hesitates to perform expert-recommended “workout at work” moves that are varying degrees of difficult, sweaty or humiliating (unless you typically “raise the roof” at work, in which case, carry on!)?
The Cleveland Clinic recommends the following actions to make your workday more active:
- Take a break every hour and walk down the hall for a glass of water.
- Stand while talking on the phone or reading hard copy reports.
- Do simple exercises while seated at your desk exercises such as interlocking your fingers, turning your palms out and extending your arms, or rotating your shoulders, neck and ankles.
- Use a standing desk or therapy ball rather than a traditional office chair.
As for the “right way” to sit? The Washington Post says, “If you have to sit often, try to do it correctly. As Mom always said, ‘Sit up straight.’” This visual guide from the Mayo Clinic illustrates the best ways to optimize a traditional workspace.
Do you use a standing desk or other non-traditional office workspace, and have you found any benefits to it? What trends do you see emerging in office spaces to create healthier workspaces?
Marie Ruff is Communications Senior Manager at NAIOP.
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What a beautiful 4th of July weekend we just had! Let’s hope the great weather lasts for all of us golfers, boaters, and swimmers here in Central New York. And if it does, we’ll be turning on our room or central air conditioners. So this is a good time for some tips on home cooling.
Did you know that 2/3 of all U.S. homes have air conditioners? And $11 Billion is what it costs homeowners for power to keep them running. So we checked with U.S. Department of Energy and found some terrific information on home cooling.
Natural Ventilation Can Cool Your Home
- It seems obvious, but opening your windows to allow natural wind to create a “chimney effect” cools your home. Letting the clean air of the Mohawk Valley breeze through your home is an inexpensive way to keep cool.
- Fans also create a wind chill effect in your home. You can use ceiling fans or even table, floor, and wall-mounted fans to cool your room. But fans cool people, not rooms, so to save energy, turn them off when you leave.
- Whole house fans pull air in through your windows where it exits your attic and roof. These are professionally installed and may be a substitute for central air conditioning.
How You Can Lower Your Home Cooling Costs
- You could install a programmable thermostat, which could save you up to 10% on your heating and cooling costs per year. These are thermostats where you control the settings to take effect at different times of the day. So you regulate the temperature ahead of time based on when you’re actually home.
- Use a ceiling fan…see above.
- Insulate your attic and walls, seal cracks and openings. Just as this saves on heat during our long Central New York winters, it also keeps warm air out during the summer.
- Insulate and seal your ducts. Air loss through ducts can account for up to 30% of your cooling costs.
- On hot days, use the outdoor grill instead of the stove. It’s fun and you don’t heat up the house. And turn on the fan when you take a shower. This keeps the bathroom heat and humidity out of the house.
- Install window coverings such as shades, draperies, or awnings. These can save on heat in the winter when they let in the sunlight and cool your home in the summer by blocking the sun.
- If you do get an air conditioner, get an ENERGY STAR-qualified unit. It can be up to 15% more efficient than non-qualified conditioners.
We recommend you take a look at the Energy Department’s Energy Saver 101 Infographic: Home Cooling for much more on air conditioners, how they work, and some good maintenance tips.
Now let’s hope that we continue to get a summer with days where you’ll need to cool off a bit inside.
Until next time,
Your SZW Team
Scalzo, Zogby & Wittig, Inc. is your New Hartford area independent insurance agent. Call us for a quote on insurance for your home, car, business, or life at 315.792.0000. Or request a quote here.
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Research Paper Outline
Writing a research paper successfully requires prior planning. A research paper outline is a useful tool that you can exploit to help you in organizing your research paper assignment. A research paper outline should bear the structure of format demonstrated below:
a) The title
b) The statement of purpose
c) The introduction
The introduction should describe the research problem, the importance of researching on the problem and analysis, the scope of study and research questions, and how the results obtained from the research will be applied.
d) The methodology–
This section of the outline should state the most suitable method for data collection and data analysis. It should also give the rationale behind the data collection and data analysis made. The researcher need also to explain how this method will be applied and the criteria for testing them.
This chapter requires the researcher to record what he/she observed in the field when collecting data.
f) The discussion and analysis
This section of the research paper outline helps the researcher to organize evidence from different sources, organize concepts in sub-topics, group the sources, and test the validity of sources used in the research assignment.
g) Recommendations and conclusion
Based on the observations made and discussion advanced, the researcher is expected to give a recommendation for further research in the future. In this section, the researcher is also expected to help the reader internalize the new perceptions and introduced in the field of study.
The conclusion on the other hand gives the researcher an opportunity to restate the problem, solution, and point of view. In addition, it helps the researcher to demonstrate the link in all sections of the research paper.
h) The references
It is the final section of a research paper outline and consequently the research paper. the function is to state the sources used for the research assignment.
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Wooden stairs give special charm to the interior and exterior of the house. Besides a very noble look, wooden structures are able to create an amazing atmosphere of comfort and naturalness. Elegant balusters will give balance and harmony to such stairs, while the carved structures for the staircase, creating its drawing, will add a unique identity.
Interior styles and carved railings
It is considered that columns carved from wood represent only the elements of ethnic style, when in fact such decorative details are welcome not only in village homes. Staircases and magnificent balusters with elegant lace-like balusters and pretentiously decorated entry columns will definitely emphasize the greatness of palace style, eternal beauty of classic interior and even elegance of premises in the modern style.
The most important thing for the decoration of staircases with such elements is a careful selection of materials, precise adherence to the manufacturing technologies and uniformity of style.
Balusters are used not only for the decoration of staircases: they are quite common elements in the furniture design and are used for the decorative railings of the shelves, wardrobes, kitchen sets and even armrests of the soft furniture. Main feature of furniture balusters is their lightness, small size, convenience of installation and possibility of quick replacement.
Types of balusters
There are different types of balusters depending on the chosen staircase design.
According to the method of manufacture and appearance, balusters are divided into the following types:
- Fine-molded. They are manufactured on lathes, leading to their simple and elegant appearance. Such elements are considered least complex for performance, but that doesn’t mean they can have only cylindrical shape: judging by the photo, you can find spherical and teardrop columns in the design of stair railings, and square balusters that are also original but very simple to install.
- Such columns are decorated with milling machines. Therefore, their design is characterized by screw thread, different grooves and geometric longitudinal ornaments. The photo on the right shows the carved balusters, manufactured by machine.
- Handwork makes this element quite expensive. Experienced masters can create the most elegant floral patterns and even the entire plots on a wooden bar. Entry balusters, carved in the forms of statues or animals represent special glamour. Such balusters look very expensive.
- The main feature of these elements is that cutting flat blanks in a certain way, you can create an original pattern or motive, coming throughout the baluster. Such structures are very compact and attractive.
When choosing one or another type of elements, you should take into account that the price of carved balusters can differ significantly. Thus, handmade columns (especially those made of expensive wood sorts) will cost much more than the modest fine-molded decorative racks. You can get a perfect price/appearance ratio, if you choose milled or flat elements.
Materials for the elements
Different types of wood are used depending on the planned deployment and type of balusters for the stairs. Each of them has their own softness indicators, resistance to environmental exposure and unique shade, especially for the fans of wood.
When choosing the material for the carved balusters, you should be familiar with the properties of one or another sort of wood: distinctive qualities of the most popular wood species are described in the table below.
Note! It is important that baluster and staircase be made of the same material: it will provide the unity of shade and solidity of staircase.
When developing the design of baluster, you should consider not only the shape of carved balusters: shaped railings, decorative overlays, entry columns, head and other components for the stairs – everything must be performed in one style. The quality of application, repeated on all elements of railing, carving makes the whole staircase look irresistible
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In yogic terms, Truth, known as Satya, can be defined on three levels: (1) that we speak the truth about what we think, (2) what we feel and (3) what we do.
When we feel out of alignment, it is usually where there is a conflict between what we think and what we feel. When we aren’t honest we feel unsteady, anxious, and uprooted—everything that happiness is not.
In the Yoga Sutras Chapter 2.36, it is presented that if we are “dedicated to the truth and integrity, our thoughts, words and actions gain the power to manifest.” (Translation from Secret Power of Yoga by Nischala Joy Devi).
To read the complete article go to DOYOUYOGA
By: Silvia Mordini, Featured on DoYouYoga.com
In school, you can try to fake knowing more than you do but when it comes time for the test the truth comes out by way of your grade.
In bed you can try to fake feeling more than you do, even orgasm, but when it comes down to it you’re only fooling yourself if you think your partner can’t tell.
In teaching yoga, you can show up, pretending to be “ultra spiritual” a la JP Sears and act the part of a yoga teacher, even faking happiness and serenity, but eventually one of two things will happen to you:
- You’ll fall apart or give up from the exhaustion of pretending
- Your students will call you out as being a Poser.
You can’t keep faking you have your shit together if you really don’t and aren’t even trying to discern what is real or not. Yoga is like truth serum and it will make you tell on yourself.
Read the full article here.
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In September 2013, Stark County expanded its EFNEP program to include youth education. EFNEP provides evidence-based programming to Kindergarten-12th grade students.
Youth EFNEP teaches nutrition education to student in grades Kindergarten-12. A series of 6-7 classes is offered in school classrooms and in out-of-school time community settings. Curriculum alignment to Common Core Standards available upon request.
EFNEP works with schools, after-school programs, summer food service programs (SFSP), and summer camps.
EFNEP is free for school districts with 50% or more of their student population eligible for free or reduced school lunch/breakfast.
Youth EFNEP is offered as a series of six to seven, dynamic one-hour weekly lessons. Lessons are based on MyPlate concepts and include nutrition, label reading, increasing physical activity, and food safety.
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The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is launching a Sexual Health Awareness and Guidance (SHAG) campaign in collaboration with the HSE 11-14th February, including distribution of 30,000 ‘SHAG Packs’, as well focusing on tackling growing STI rates, education on consensual sex, and all-options supports for unplanned pregnancies.
MEDIA DIARY/PHOTOCALL NOTE:
Date: Monday, 11th February
Location: TU Dublin, Kevin Street (the Annex).
Photocall will include: USI, HSE, HIV Ireland, IFPA, NWCI, DRCC
This Monday 11th February ahead of Valentine’s Day, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) are set to launch the highly anticipated National Campaign ‘SHAG’ Week. Monday kicks off a week-long Campaign Roadshow where USI will be visiting:
- TU Dublin (Kevin St)
- Waterford IT: Cork St & College St. Campus
- DCU: Glasnevin Campus.
- IT Sligo: Main campus.
The Union of Students in Ireland have partnered with the HSE Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme in this exciting and educational campaign for third level students.
SHAG Week 2019 will focus on areas such as:
- STI’s (awareness, prevention, testing and treatment)
- Unplanned Pregnancy (promotion of HSE MyOptions)
- Contraception (the various methods of contraception and how to use them)
Throughout the week, 30,000 ‘SHAG PACKS’ will be distributed around USI affiliated colleges in Ireland. The contents of these will include condoms, lubricant, information on consent, STIs and contraception.
HSE research finds: Chlamydia in young people (aged 15-24) makes up 50% of all cases reported, Gonorrhoea in young people make up 39% of all cases reported while genital herpes in young people make up 38% of all cases reported
USI in conjunction with SmartConsent, will roll out consent education workshops across the country during the week.
USI President, Síona Cahill said;
“SHAG Week is one of the most important campaigns in the student calendar year. Being intimate with someone should be an amazing experience when you’re ready, but it’s an experience we’re often afraid of talking about – so for USI SHAG 2019, we’re focusing on how communication is genuinely essential for healthy, pleasurable and safe sex – every time”
It is widely recognised that students have not receiving adequate sexual health and wellbeing education in primary and post-primary, and SHAG week is an opportunity to educate them about safer sex, how to protect themselves from STI’s or unplanned pregnancies, as well as the importance of consent, and has done so for over two decades. We will continue to advocate and support moves to improve the sex ed curriculum as a matter of urgency”
“This year it is the first time in Irish history that USI can legally provide all-options unplanned pregnancy information to our members through HSE MyOptions, after 35 years of student activism for pro-choice healthcare in Ireland. USI will strive to ensure each student reached throughout this campaign will be given legal and responsible information on how to access abortion care, should they need it.”
“USI are heavily weighting the campaign on consent education,, through our SHAG Packs and rollout of consent workshops. It’s also important that every student who’s sexually active looks after their own sexual health. This means getting tested regularly, and using condoms and contraception to protect you from the risk of contracting an STI”
This campaign is the only one of its kind and is set to reach over 30,000 students in third level at least.”
Follow SHAG week on USI’s social media channels:
To stay up to date, use hashtags:
- The Union of Students in Ireland represent over 374,000 students across the island of Ireland
- USI SHAG acronym stands for Sexual Health Awareness and Guidance
- USI have partnered with the HSE Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme for this National Campaign
- 30,000 SHAG Packs will be distributed throughout the week
- Find 2017 HSE STI report statistics HERE
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Interesting Facts about Memory
Since ancient times, people have always tried to understand what memory is. Various explanations and metaphors were used to describe this phenomenon. Even today some people compare our memory with a wide cabinet containing numerous folders for information storage. Others think that it is similar to computer with a huge capacity and speed of operation. But scientists have proven that it is far more complex than that.
Our memory isn’t located in a particular part of our brain. It functions due to the joint work of several brain areas. It is not a thing which you can see or touch. For a better understanding, let’s pass on to a simple example. Considering the act of car driving, we can distinguish several brain areas responsible for this process: the memory of how to operate the car, the memory of how to reach the final destination from the starting point, the memory of road traffic regulations, etc.
It is widely known that there are two types of memory: short-term and long-term. They differ in the ways they are encoded and stored in our brain. The areas of storage are also different. Unfortunately, we don’t know much about the mechanisms of our memory work, but still it is proved that memory can be easily trained and improved. If not trained, it gradually worsens.
The scientists affirm that human memory has no limits. Adult people can remember up to one hundred thousand words. Moreover, there are a lot of people who have a phenomenal memory.
Bill Gates knows hundreds of codes of the programming language he designed.
Mozart could play and write down a melody he heard once.
Winston Churchill knew by heart almost all Shakespeare’s works.
Alexander the Great knew all the names of his soldiers.
Dominic O’Brien was able to remember card location of the whole pack in 38 seconds.
Memory is individual. Some people perceive visual information better. For others it is easier to memorize what they hear. Thus, we can distinguish between visual and auditory memory. Feelings also play an important part in data remembering and recalling. An emotional splash can evoke memories forgotten a long time ago.
Your learning skills depend on ability to memorize. To make your educational process more effective, you are to define the easiest way for you to perceive information.
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Watch here my most favorite animation on work: El Empleo
Many people I talk to think that good work has nothing to do with the climate crisis. They are wrong. People who are frustrated in their jobs do not contribute positively to our societies and compensate their frustration with excessive consumption. They might be loyal consumers and obedient citizens but they eat up themselves and the planet.
Ken Robinson explained in his 2010 TED talk that job frustration is a problem of education.
I meet all kinds of people who don't enjoy what they do. They simply go through their lives getting on with it. They get no great pleasure from what they do. They endure it rather than enjoy it, and wait for the weekend. But I also meet people who love what they do and couldn't imagine doing anything else. If you said, "Don't do this anymore," they'd wonder what you're talking about. It isn't what they do, it's who they are. They say, "But this is me, you know. It would be foolish to abandon this, because it speaks to my most authentic self." And it's not true of enough people. In fact, on the contrary, I think it's still true of a minority of people. And I think there are many possible explanations for it. And high among them is education, because education, in a way, dislocates very many people from their natural talents. And human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves. And you might imagine education would be the way that happens, but too often, it's not. Every education system in the world is being reformed at the moment and it's not enough. Reform is no use anymore, because that's simply improving a broken model. What we need -- and the word's been used many times in the past few days -- is not evolution, but a revolution in education. This has to be transformed into something else.
If you are reading this and you are already past your education years, then I invite you to assess your working situation with a few scaling questions. If you score low, consider to quit your job and do something different. Its never too late to move into a career that matters. To you. and the world.
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Virat Kohli is famous for his ‘virility and marriage’ quotations. He states that a man should not seek out beautiful spouses, but rather should look for the most beautiful wife. I personally disagree with him about this. Therefore , a few have a look at his ideas about marriage and virility, so that we can generate our heads up on this.
Virat Kohli includes a unique way of expressing himself. He is recognized for his controversial phrases and his impression as a turn. Nevertheless , he has some brilliant ideas on marriage and virility. In this article, we shall take a look at some of his thoughts on relationship and social media.
Firstly, let us take a look at his definition of a perfect better half. In his book, How To Be A Great Relationship; Virat Kohli clearly describes a perfect better half as someone who is fabulous and wise. He says that her profile should never only include her appears but her brains, her kindness and intelligence. The lady should also be described as a lively person, and your lady should be familiar with needs of her man. Virat Kohli is a cricket fan, so he obviously contains a vivid thought of what a delightful wife seems like, and his crickinfo player wife is no exception.
The idea of an ideal wife will not stop at appears, however. Wonder is certainly not the only requirement. A beautiful deal with is useless if it are unable to woo the contrary sex. A lovely body is ineffective unless it is actually pleasing to the attention. So it would seem www.elite-brides.com/brazilian-brides that Virat Kohli is in favor of employing wigs being a sign of beauty, although not a sign of intellect.
In fact , wigs are not only a sign of beauty, fortunately they are a sign of intelligence. The key reason why that crickinfo wigs are becoming such a trend is merely because crickinfo is a video game that involves a whole lot of operating about, balancing and making-ups. This means that a cricket participant needs to be speedy, nimble and agile, which is why he has to have a high-quality hairpiece. And if wigs can manage to do all the while looking eye-catching, then zero other accessory can do what it can.
Not all women of all ages are gifted with gorgeous faces. A few women are only average looking, and no subject how much they make an effort, they still cannot seem to improve on all their looks. That’s where wigs can be found in. Wigs can easily hide an array of hair defects and at the same time will make them seem more appealing. The more eye-catching they appear, the better it truly is for a girl.
One more why wigs are extremely crucial during the meet is because cricket matches occur in humid and hot conditions. This is where water is a must. Without correct moisture, the head of hair cannot stay hydrated and appear healthy. Wigs are particularly made to absorb moisture, and will provide an extra layer of protection to women’s hair. This is why cricket wigs are put on during a match.
Crickinfo wigs are available in a wide range of styles, colorings and designs. Also, they are affordable, consequently even the poorer members of the family are able to afford to get a hairpiece. However , before going shopping, it is vital for you to consider carefully your budget. Low cost wigs may look interesting, but in the long run, they will not serve decent purpose.
If you are looking for a cheaper option, there are a great number of discount retailers that sell off wigs on the Internet. This method is also convenient, as you do not have to for me personally visit the shop. All the necessary details is available web based, and you can purchase your wig’s straight from the comfort of your own home. The only drawback is that you’ll not get a likelihood to make an effort them in for size before buying all of them.
There are many professional retailers of wigs in the market, also. Professional vendors, who have been dealing with hair-styling and gadgets for many years, are certain to have the finest selection and quality of hair wigs. You should be able to find a suitable color and style of the hairpiece that agrees with your personal design. Professional vendors also offer to supply the wigs to you, at no cost, in most cases. They know what you need, and make sure that you will not regret fail to produce the natural beauty in your mane.
You can also purchase wigs over the cellphone from listed sellers. This kind of method is more convenient mainly because you do not have to go to the shop and look at the different options in person. As well, the seller provides you with the option of selecting the best design for your curly hair, without having to keep the comfort of your home. Yet , this option is additionally very expensive. Should you really want to get wigs, it is advisable to buy all of them from respected sellers, so that you will not only be capable of geting good quality but also save money.
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ISIS has taken the Middle East – and the world – by storm, murdering thousands and wreaking havoc everywhere they go.
They have carried out brutal massacres of ethnic minorities, enslaving, raping and selling women on the black market.
The Kurds are one of the minorities targeted by ISIS who have refused to go down without a fight. Unlike the Iraqi army, they have battled back, pushing the ISIS terrorists out of their ancestral lands.
Kurdish women have volunteered in large numbers to fight alongside the men.
Don’t miss this report from the front lines and see why one courageous Kurdish girl says ISIS aren’t used to seeing women in uniform.
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At last, unemployment is easing. But the latest low rate—hovering below 6%–obscures a deeper, longer-term problem: “skills mismatches” in the labor force, which will only worsen in years to come. According to the most recent figures, 9.3 million Americans are unemployed, but 4.8 million jobs stand empty because employers can’t find people to fill them. With new technology transforming work across a range of sectors, more and more businesses are struggling to find workers with the skills to man new machines and manage new processes.
One solution has enchanted employers, educators, and policymakers on both sides of the aisle: European-style apprenticeship. The Obama administration is about to announce $100 million worth of apprenticeship grants—and wants to spend another $6 billion over the next four years. Meanwhile, lawmakers as different as Democratic Senator Cory Booker and Republican Senator Marco Rubio have expressed interest in the idea.
Americans should proceed with caution.
I’ve just come back from Germany, where I visited some half dozen apprenticeship programs at brand-name companies like Daimler, Siemens, and Bosch, and the metaphor I came away with is a native tree—flourishing, productive, highly adapted to its local climate zone, but unlikely to take root or grow in a climate as different as the America’s. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t adapt the German model. But it’s not going to be quick or easy.
The US has its own tradition of apprenticeship going back many years. But like most kinds of vocational education, it fell out of fashion in recent decades—a victim of our obsession with college and concern to avoid anything that resembles tracking. Today in America, fewer than 5% of young people train as apprentices, the overwhelming majority in the construction trades. In Germany, the number is closer to 60%—in fields as diverse as advanced manufacturing, IT, banking, and hospitality. And in Europe, what’s often called “dual training” is a highly respected career path.
“Dual training” captures the idea at the heart of every apprenticeship: Trainees split their days between classroom instruction at a vocational school and on-the-job time at a company. The theory they learn in class is reinforced by the practice at work. They also learn work habits and responsibility and, if all goes well, absorb the culture of the company. Trainees are paid for their time, including in class. The arrangement lasts for two to four years, depending on the sector. And both employer and employee generally hope it will lead to a permanent job—for employers, apprentices are a crucial talent pool.
The first thing you notice about German apprenticeships: The employer and the employee still respect practical work. German firms don’t view dual training as something for struggling students or at-risk youth. “This has nothing to do with corporate social responsibility,” an HR manager at Deutsche Bank told the group I was with, organized by an offshoot of the Goethe Institute. “I do this because I need talent.” So too at Bosch.
“Building world-class diesel parts is hard,” the executive in charge of the program explained. “We’re very careful about who we hire. We’re looking for quality.” As for trainees, they learn quickly enough: A mistake on the factory floor is a million-dollar mistake—and they grow up fast, learning not just skills but responsibility. No wonder the apprenticeships are popular: At the John Deere plant in Mannheim, 3,100 young people apply each year for 60 slots, at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, it’s 22,000 applicants for 425 places.
The second thing you notice: Both employers and employees want more from an apprenticeship than short-term training. Our group heard the same thing in plant after plant: We’re teaching more than skills. “In the future, there will be robots to turn the screws,” one educator told us. “We don’t need workers for that. What we need are people who can solve problems”—skilled, thoughtful, self-reliant employees who understand the company’s goals and methods and can improvise when things go wrong or when they see an opportunity to make something work better.
A final virtue of the German system: its surprising flexibility. Skeptical Americans worry that the European model requires tracking, and it’s true, German children choose at age 10 among an academic high school, a vocational track, or something in between. But it turns out there’s a lot of opportunity for trainees to switch tracks later on. They can go back to school to specialize further or earn a master craftsman’s certificate or train as a trainer in the company’s apprenticeship program—and many do. What education reformers call “lifelong learning” is still a distant dream for most Americans. In Germany, it’s a reality.
So where’s the rub? Why is it likely to be hard for Americans to transplant the German model? It starts with cost. Each German company has a different way of calculating the bill, but the figures range from $25,000 per apprentice to more than $80,000. It’s likely to be more expensive still in the US, where firms will have to build programs from scratch, pay school tuition (in Germany, the state pays), and in many cases funnel money into local high schools and community colleges to transform them into effective training partners.
The apprenticeship program at the Siemens USA plant in Charlotte, North Carolina reportedly spends some $170,000 per apprentice. And even the most generous policy proposals on the table in Washington would cover only a fraction of these costs. In the US as in Germany, the lion’s share will fall to business.
This issue came up at nearly every stop on the tour, we Americans asking about what costs mean for ROI and the Germans telling us to look beyond ROI to the longer-term benefits, for the company and society. Ultimately, of course, they’re right. But it’s hard to imagine many American firms, generally focused on short-term financial gain, building the kind of in-house training centers we saw at every German plant: immaculate, state-the-art facilities, complete with robots, the latest computerized machining tools, and a raft of uniformed instructors overseeing busy trainees.
Another challenge, if anything a more difficult one, has to do with the centralization of the German system and the role the state plays in regulating what happens in private companies. What makes dual training work, every manager told us, are the standardized occupational profiles, or curricula, developed by the federal government in collaboration with employers, educators, and union representatives. Every young machinist training anywhere in Germany learns the same skills in the same order on the same timetable as every other machinist. This is good for apprentices: It guarantees high-quality programs where trainees learn more than one company’s methods, making it possible for those who wish to switch jobs later on. But it’s hard to imagine this level of state control or business-labor cooperation in the US.
The final obstacle is arguably the biggest: American attitudes toward practical skills and what Germans still unabashedly call “blue-collar” work. Attitudes are changing in Germany too. Globalization has brought the bachelor’s degree, unknown until recently, and with it, a new, broader interest in attending college. But there’s little sign that the growth in BAs is undermining apprenticeships. And in both settings, university and dual training, it’s agreed that the purpose of education is to prepare people for jobs. In America, we’re not sure. We’re committed to the idea of education that prepares people for life and suspicious of anything that smacks of training.
Many German educators we met on the tour had advice for Americans interested in importing apprenticeship. “You don’t have to take the whole bouquet,” one vocational education teacher told us. “Make sure the first experiments succeed,” someone else advised. But ultimately, no German expert is likely to have the answer for the United States. The adaptations and adjustments are going to have to come from within, and they aren’t as simple as it sometimes seemed in the heady discussions on our trip. Americans aren’t simply going to jettison old attitudes and decide, for example, that long-term gains, however broad, should trump short-term ROI.
This doesn’t mean the system can’t be adapted if we start with our eyes open and a full understanding of the differences between the two countries. What’s likely to drive programs, in the US as in Germany, is the need for talent. “German companies want to train,” one trade association executive told us, “because they know the schools can’t do it. Especially in today’s tech economy, vocational schools alone can’t prepare the workers we need.” The American HR managers in our group nodded grimly. This was something they understood from experience. It wasn’t what they wanted to hear, but no one could deny it—or what it implies for the future of training.
This post appears courtesy of New America’s Weekly Wonk magazine.
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The vast majority of users are leaving app tracking disabled after upgrading their iPhones to iOS 14.5, according to early analysis from a data firm.
Flurry provides insights across two billion mobile devices per month and reports just 13 percent of worldwide users have actively chosen to opt into app tracking. In the US, that number drops to just four percent.
Apple launched iOS 14.5 at the end of April, which included its much talked about App Tracking Transparency feature.
First announced in 2020, it means users must give explicit permission for apps to track them across other apps and websites for advertising purposes.
The move has been criticised by Facebook which says it will have a negative impact on small businesses.
"To help people make a more informed decision, we're also showing a screen of our own, along with Apple's," wrote Dan Levy, VP Ads and Business Products for Facebook in a blog post.
The "educational screen" appears on both the Facebook and Instagram apps.
"It will provide more information about how we use personalised ads, which support small businesses and keep apps free," he wrote.
"If you accept the prompts for Facebook and Instagram, the ads you see on those apps won't change. If you decline, you will still see ads, but they will be less relevant to you."
App tracking notifications appear when first used post-installation, but can be switched off by default in the Privacy > Tracking setting.
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Source: Massey University
Veterinary scientist Professor Craig Johnson received a Doctor of Science for his research on reducing animal pain.
Reducing the pain animals experience – in medical procedures or prior to slaughter for human consumption – has been the major focus of Professor Craig Johnson’s career. The veterinary scientist was awarded a Doctor of Science degree from Massey University this month for his lifetime’s work.
His groundbreaking research in veterinary anaesthesia, particularly in advocating for compulsory stunning of cattle in both Western and halal slaughterhouses, has resulted a more humane death for millions of beef cattle worldwide.
His Doctor of Science was awarded for his thesis titled The Minimal Anaesthesia Model: Development and Refinement of the Concept and Subsequent Practical Applications.
Professor Johnson, who qualified as a veterinary surgeon from Liverpool University and worked in a small animal practice before deciding to specialise in veterinary anaesthesia, says his passion as a veterinary surgeon “has always been to do all that I can to improve the welfare of animals wherever they are.”
His research into how we perceive and understand animal pain involves both domestic and farm animals. His main contribution has been the development of the Minimal Anaesthesia Model, and its application in a number of areas related to animal welfare. “It has enabled pain to be investigated for the first time without actually causing pain to the animals that are studied – a significant refinement.”
His studies using this model have resulted in the publication of more than 70 research papers and have contributed to changes to animal welfare regulations in New Zealand and other legislatures including Australia, the UK and the European Union. It has resulted in an increased use of stunning prior to slaughter – such as in the UK, where stunning before halal slaughter has increased from 0 to 80 per cent, an increase of 91 million animals in 2014 alone.
“In the UK, the change in practice came without a change in legislation. In Jordan, a FATWA (Islamic proclamation) was published indicating that animals should be stunned prior to slaughter. In some EU countries, slaughter without stunning has been banned – as it has been in New Zealand with some very small exceptions.”
Recently the European Food Safety Authority issued a scientific opinion that slaughter without stunning causes severe pain and distress, he says. “All these changes add up to many more animals being stunned prior to slaughter than was previously the case, but it’s pretty much impossible to put a definitive number on this.
“For the animals, my studies demonstrated that slaughter without stunning was perceived as painful in the period between the neck incision and loss of awareness. In cattle, this period usually lasts up to about 20 seconds, but in some instances can be as long as a minute or even more. Stunning prior to neck incision renders the animal immediately unconscious before the neck incision is made and so protects against this painful period.”
How we understand animal pain
“The signs of pain are about communication and they can be very different between different species and also between animals from the same species that have different cultures (working dogs and pet dogs, for example).
“One of the key things we’ve come to understand in the last couple of decades is that the communication is intended to be communication within the group, not necessarily communication with humans,” Professor Johnson explains. “As humans, we find pain more noticeable in dogs than sheep, for example, because the signs of pain in the dog happen to be more like the signs of pain in people. Pain causes behavioural changes in sheep, but the signs are not what we (as people) might expect and so we can easily miss them.”
Professor Johnson’s research on minimising pain in animals has led to changes in legislation to make stunning cattle prior to slaughter mandatory in many countries (photo/Jenny Hill:Unsplash).
Pain relief research
With a clinical background in veterinary anaesthesia (he holds European and UK specialty board qualifications in this discipline), he was running the anaesthesia department of Bristol Vet School prior to coming to Massey.
“I came to Massey primarily to focus on research rather than spending most of my time managing clinical cases because it seemed to me that research related to pain relief had the potential to improve the welfare of many more animals than I could reach when in the clinics.”
Professor Johnson did his clinical specialty training at The Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, UK and obtained both Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and European College of Veterinary Anaesthetists Diplomas in Veterinary Anaesthesia.
After a stint as a locum lecturer in Pretoria, South Africa, he returned to the UK and gained a PhD from Cambridge University before taking up a faculty position in anaesthesia at Bristol University Veterinary School. He moved to Massey 20 years ago, and is now Professor of Veterinary Neurophysiology and Director of Research Ethics, as well as co-director of Massey’s Animal Welfare Science and Bioethics Centre, and a member of the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee.
We can do better in regard to animal welfare
Professor Johnson says we are “better than we were, say 30 years ago, at spotting and alleviating pain in mammals generally. We need to pay some more attention to farmed animals because they can often get worse treatment than companion animal species, and there is a potential conflict between using drugs to treat pain and producing food that is free of drug residues.
“At the moment we are beginning to look at pain in animals that are very different from ourselves and that often live in very different worlds. Birds as well as fish and other aquatic animals that we hunt/fish/farm fit into this category. There are some potentially very great causes of suffering in the ways that we interact with these animals.”
Paying attention to animal needs
It’s often small things that can make a big difference, he says. “You just have to try to be alert to the needs around you and make decisions that are based on the animals rather than what else is going on.”
“I remember when I was doing clinical work, that one day I was in the ward looking at some animals at feeding time and one dog was very upset because it wasn’t being fed with the others. When I asked the kennel staff about it I was told that it didn’t need feeding because it was going to be put to sleep that afternoon. The staff were waiting for the owners to arrive as they wanted to say goodbye. I told them to feed the dog and as a result it was immediately much happier.”
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EU bans majority of Russian oil imports
European Union leaders have agreed to ban more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports, in an effort to increase economic pressure on the country as its offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region escalates.
Reached last night, the compromise deal cuts “a huge source of financing for its war machine,” Charles Michel, the European Council chief, tweeted.
The agreement also includes plans for the EU to send €9 billion (£7.6 billion) in “immediate liquidity” to Kyiv, Michel announced, adding the moves would put “maximum pressure on Russia to end the war”.
Efforts to impose energy sanctions looked to have faltered at a meeting in Brussels yesterday, amid divisions over the economic impact on countries dependent on Russian fossil fuels.
President Zelensky took the bloc to task
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Beta-carotene sentence example
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Beta-carotene, lycopene, and lutein have been singled out as extremely potent antioxidants.
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CentOS 7 - Updates for x86_64: system environment/libraries: ucx
ucx - UCX is a communication library implementing high-performance messaging
UCX stands for Unified Communication X. UCX provides an optimized communication
layer for Message Passing (MPI), PGAS/OpenSHMEM libraries and RPC/data-centric
applications. UCX utilizes high-speed networks, such as RDMA (InfiniBand, RoCE,
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information provided by the Office of the Governor
CHICAGO, Ill. (May 14, 2020) – Earlier this week, Governor JB Pritzker announced that the “All In Illinois” website will now offer a kid-friendly content series to connect children and families with educational resources from Illinois museums and attractions. The content series features videos and activities to inspire, educate, and entertain children while Illinoisans continue to stay home to flatten the curve against the coronavirus pandemic.
To launch the new series, All In Illinois is proud to partner with the Field Museum in Chicago, John Deere Pavilion in Moline, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, and several attractions in southern Illinois. New kid-friendly content will be released on the website from partners across the state over the next four weeks. Content will also be featured weekly on social media channels. The series will kick off with a video from Emily Graslie, Chief Curiosity Correspondent at the Field Museum and host of “Brain Scoop,” a popular vlog on YouTube:
“Our goal is to provide fun and educational activities for children to engage with as we continue to be ‘all in’ and stay home to support each other through this challenging time,” said Governor Pritzker. “This content series also offers a taste of a variety of family-friendly experiences that will be available to them, once it’s safe to visit.”
Available resources on the All In Illinois website include downloadable coloring pages, word searches, crossword puzzles, educational videos, virtual field trips, and more.
Illinois museums or attractions interested in contributing kid-friendly content to be featured on All in Illinois should contact [email protected].
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You received a beautiful bouquet. It is so nice! Flowers delight your eyes and bring a sense of holiday to ordinary life. What can you do to make this feeling last as long as possible? First, let's help the bouquet do not droop the next day. Below we collected 10 simple tricks to maintain the freshness of your flowers.
1. To have what to save first you must get a bouquet of fresh flowers. If you do not know how to choose them you can use the service of flower and gift delivery — such a service guarantees you the highest quality of bouquets.
2. Even if you like bouquet wrapping you have to get rid of it. Flowers do not like dense films and tight waists. Free them from the wrapper, expand them and let them ‘breathe’.
3. Do not forget that plants do not like changes of temperature. Therefore, when you bring a bouquet from a cold street to a warm apartment try to find a cool place to let your flowers adapt to the environment; this may be a porch or gazebo. The same relates to summer: turn off the air conditioner in your apartment before you bring in a bunch of flowers.
4. Then take care of the bouquet itself: inspect each flower, cut the thorns and leaves that are in the water. They rapidly decompose creating an environment that can kill the whole composition. Tear off mashed leaves and dead flowers. They not only look unsightly but also seize the strength and power from healthy parts of plants.
5. Trimming the stems is very important moment for the preservation of flowers. Place the ends of the flowers under water running from a tap or put them in a basin or tub with cool water, then make a bevel cut with a sharp knife. This must be knife, not scissors, so that you would not crush the stem and disturb the ways that deliver the water to the flower! And this must be done under the water, not in the air, because the air may block vessels and prevent feeding the plant with the moisture!
6. For better adaptation to the new environment leave the plants in the water for 30-60 minutes.
7. Remember that high quality water is the most important element for preservation of your bouquet. It should be cool, settled or, ideally, boiled.
8. You can add some means to support the viability of your flowers: aspirin, sugar or salt. To prevent efflorescence of your water make a weak solution of potassium permanganate, pour some alcohol or vinegar. You can also use ready-made compositions, such as ‘Chrisal’, sold on flower salons.
9. Be sure to watch out for cleanness and freshness of the water. Change it every day. It is also important to periodically cut the stems.
10. Finally! Put the vase in a cool place, away from windows and radiators, so that sun and heat would not pull moisture from the leaves and buds. Drafts are harmful for flowers, too. If you want to make your bouquet feel just great, spray it with water sometimes.
Flowers refresh our everyday lives and make them more colorful and bright. If you take care of your bouquet, it will stay fresh for up to 2 weeks. Afterwards, wash the vase thoroughly — for your new and even more beautiful bouquets!
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Little Walter – King of the Blues Harp!
Little Walter, is an American blues harp player whose innovative approach of playing the harp, still impacts future generations. Now mind you, there are other harp players out there, but he knew how to manipulate the harp to his musical needs. Furthermore, he figures out how to make the instrument reach its optimal potential. How the hell does he do it? He amplifies it! Needless to say, he made so much noise when playing the harmonica, that people, including musicians would gravitate to him just to check out how he’s making that harmonica moan for mercy!
Hailing from Louisiana, he quits school at age 12 and starts doing odd jobs and busking around in different cities to make ends meet. Along the way he hangs out with Sonny Boy Williamson 2, Honeyboy Edwards and Sunnyland Slim in Helena, Arkansas. Shortly after he’s heading to Memphis and St. Louis. But Walter knows that Chicago is where he needs to be and at age sixteen, he’s on his way. No surprise to anyone, he finds work quite easily with the likes of Tampa Red and Big Bill Broonzy.
Although playing different gigs with others, he was often seen hanging out on Maxwell street strip playing guitar and the harmonica places where he would receive the most attention. It’s during this time, he decides to use a microphone plugged into a guitar amp to make his harmonica heard over the loud guitars permeating from the clubs. While playing the harp, he could push the amps to extreme levels allowing him to get the perfect sound effects and tone. Luck is also on his side as he receives a chance to record his first record in 1946.
Which leads to touring and recording with Muddy Waters in 1948. Besides recording with Muddy Waters, he also shows up on other musicians’ recordings. With his powerful harmonica playing with other artists, and in 1952, he begins to record under his own name. In 1955 ‘My Babe’ tops the R&B charts along with many other hits. Simply put, Little Walter was the Jimi Hendrix of the Harmonica at the time. A triple threat as well considering that he could play guitar, also was a great singer and of course a ferocious harp player.
Listen to any Canned Heat song, Clapton blues song, or pretty much any song from the 60s and you’ll hear Little Walter’s influence. These early recordings along with ‘Key To The Highway’ represent the cream of Little Walter’s output that has influenced blues musicians for the last half century. Little Walter and Muddy Walters dominated the Chicago Blues scene back in the 1950’s. Below is a video performance is from the American Folk Blues Festival in 1967. One of his last performances before passing in 1968.
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Little Walter was inducted to The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. “Sideman” category, making him the first and only artist ever to be inducted specifically for his work as a harmonica player. Also, his song “Juke” is the only harmonica instrumental to ever top the Billboard R&B charts at #1. Ben Harper Inducts and Accepts the award for Little Walter at the 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
One thing is for sure, he made a simple harmonica into a major instrument when it came to playing the blues. While making the blues audiences sit up and take notice of how something so small can stand out in a band. To this day, there are many Blues artists that incorporate this instrument into their music and live performances. Lastly, Little Walter scored fourteen top-ten hits on the Billboard R&B charts between 1952 and 1958, including a second #1, “My Babe” in 1955.
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Spanish Archeologists Uncover Prehistoric ‘Crystal Weapons’
Spanish archeologists have uncovered a set of prehistoric ‘crystal weapons’ found in the megalithic tombs of southwestern Spain.
A set of crystal arrowheads and dagger blades were found at the site of Valencina de la Concepcion, dating back to the 3rd millennium BCE.
The Montelirio tholos, excavated between 2007 and 2010, is “a great megalithic construction…which extends over 43.75 m in total”, constructed out of large slabs of slate. At least 25 individuals were interred within the structure, along with “an extraordinary set of sumptuous grave goods…the most notable of which is an unspecified number of shrouds or clothes made of tens of thousands of perforated beads and decorated with amber beads”. Additionally however, a large number of crystal arrowheads were found together, which be suggestive of a ritual offering at an altar. The arrowheads have the characteristic long lateral appendices of flint arrowheads from the area – but investigators remarked that “even greater skill must have been required to produce these unique features when using rock crystal.”
Dagger blade from Structure 10.049 (PP4-Montelirio sector).
Structure 10.042-10.049 is another large two-chambered megalithic construction made from slate slabs. In the second chamber archaeologists found the body of a young male aged between 17 and 25 lying in the foetal position along with a large set of grave goods. These included an undecorated elephant tusk laid above the young man’s head, a set of 23 flint blades, and numerous ivory objects. Additionally, red pigment made from cinnabar had been sprayed over the body and the objects surrounding it. The “remarkable crystal dagger blade”, however, was not found with these grave goods, but instead in the upper level of this chamber.
The rock crystal dagger blade appeared in the upper level of Structure 10.049 of the PP4-Montelirio sector, in association with an ivory hilt and sheath, which renders it an exceptional object in Late Prehistoric Europe… The blade is 214 mm in length, a maximum of 59 mm in width and 13 mm thick. Its morphology is not unheard of in the Iberian Peninsula, although all the samples recorded thus far were made from flint and not rock crystal…
The manufacture of the rock crystal dagger blade must have been based on an accumulation of transmitted empirical knowledge and skill taken from the production of flint dagger blades as well from know-how of rock-crystal smaller foliaceous bifacial objects, such as Ontiveros and Montelirio arrowheads… It was obtained from a large monocrystal at least 220 mm in length and 60 mm in width. Given that these single crystals are hexagonal, they would have a similar width along all their different axes.
The rock crystal source used in creating the crystal weaponry has not been pinpointed exactly at this stage, though analysis suggests two potential sources, “both located several hundred km away from Valencina”.
Objects studied in this paper. A: Ontiveros arrowheads; B: Montelirio tholos arrowheads; C: PP4-Montelirio dagger blade (Structure 10.049); D: Montelirio tholos core; E: PP4-Montelirio knapping debris (from UE-345 on the left and UE-919 on the right); F: PP4-Montelirio micro-blades (from Structure 10.015 on the left and Structure 10.043 on the right); G: Montelirio tholos microblades.
Given the technical skill and difficulties involved in creating the objects from crystal, rather than flint, researchers believe the motives behind their construction must have been very specific. They note that while crystal objects were found throughout the site…
“The more technically sophisticated items, however, were deposited in the larger megalithic structures… As such, it is reasonable to assume that although the raw material was relatively available throughout the community … only the kin groups, factions or individuals who were buried in megaliths were able to afford the added value that allowed the production of sophisticated objects such as arrow heads or dagger blades.
In this respect, however, it is important to note that, paradoxically, none of the most sophisticated artefacts studied in this paper can be ascribed to any particular individual: the rock crystal dagger from Structure 10.042-10.049 was found in the upper level of the main chamber (10.049) in which no human bones were identified; in Montelirio, neither the core nor the arrowheads can be ascribed to any on 20 individuals found in the main chamber; lastly, in the case of Ontiveros, the only available publication offers no evidence that the 16 arrow heads were associated to any particular individual.
It seems therefore reasonable to suggest that rock crystal may have had a dual significance for the Chalcolithic society of Valencina. On the one hand, it had a social significance due to the exoticism of the material and the fact that its transformation required very specific skills and probably some degree of technical specialisation. These objects would have had a ‘surplus value’ based on the exoticism and rarity of the raw material, the techno-economic investment of their manufacture (a know-how limited to very few people) and their use linked to the world of beliefs and funerary practices. They probably represent funerary paraphernalia only accessible to the elite of this time-period.
On the other hand, rock crystal must have had a symbolic significance as a raw material invested with special meanings and connotations. The literature provides examples of societies in which rock crystal and quartz as raw materials symbolise vitality, magical powers and a connection with ancestors In her analysis of European Neolithic religion, Marija Gimbutas linked the ritual and votive use of white quartz nodules to a symbol of death and regeneration often associated with funerary spaces. Quartz and rock crystal were even portrayed as rocks with great supernatural powers in European Christian tradition. In his Lapidarium, King Alfonso X the Wise of Castile (1276-1279 CE) emphasised its power to connect human beings with the spiritual world, as well as its ability to protect them from danger.” – Morgado, A., et al., The allure of rock crystal in Copper Age southern Iberia: Technical skill and distinguished objects from Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain)
Interestingly though, despite being found relatively frequently in burials of the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE, crystal implements disappear from later funerary monuments in the Early Bronze Age (beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE) – a “truly striking” development, researchers say, as it would seem “the use of this raw material as grave goods was almost entirely abandoned”, although the reason remains a mystery.
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What are the Shoplifting Laws in Texas?
Many people think shoplifting as the act of a person swiping an item from a shop, putting inside his/her bag or pocket and then walk outside the store. While that is what shoplifting is all about, according to the penal code of Texas, shoplifting is a type of theft. According to the state's law, there are different kinds of theft while shoplifting is only one of the several theft crimes, which have been put under the umbrella of theft.
It can be an embarrassing experience to get caught for shoplifting and can have severe consequences. There are many states with laws that attach jail time and hefty monetary fines for specific shoplifting offenses and the law in Texas is not an exception to that.
Shoplifting in Texas
Shoplifting in Texas refers to criminal offenses and are included in the category of thefts according to the Penal Code of Texas. Also, deactivating and shielding instruments deployed for shoplifting are explicitly prohibited according to the state law. The kind of any shoplifting charge, as well as, the associated punishment will be based on a few factors such as the stolen property's value and whether the shoplifter was earlier convicted of any kind of theft. While a shoplifting charge can appear to be a matter of irritation, it may have serious repercussions in the state of Texas.
Definition of shoplifting in Texas
- According to the Penal Code of Texas, the definition of the term "theft" includes different kinds of offenses, which include shoplifting
- The state law defines theft as the illegal appropriation of merchandise with the intention of depriving the property owner
- The state considers it as a criminal offense to distribute, manufacture or possess deactivating or shielding instruments, which are used for shoplifting.
Shoplifting Penalties in Texas
The convicted can be slapped with charges of a felony or misdemeanor based on the stolen property's value, as well as, punishment can include fees and prison time.
- When the stolen property's value is below 550 USD, the convicted can be slapped with the charges of the Class C Misdemeanor and is penalized by a maximum fine of 500 USD
- In case the stolen property's value is between 50 and 500 USD, the convicted may be slapped with charges of the Class B misdemeanor and is penalized by a maximum fine of 2,000 USD and a maximum jail term of 180 days.
- When the stolen property's value is between 500 and 1,500 USD, the guilty may be charged with a misdemeanor of type Class A and is penalized by a maximum fine of 4,000 USD and a maximum jail term of 1 year.
- When the stolen property's value is between 1,500 USD and 20,000 USD, the guilty can be charged with a maximum fine of 10,000 USD and a jail term between 180 days and 2 years
- In case the stolen property's value is between 20,000 and 100,000 USD, the convicted will be charged with the felony of third-degree and is penalized by a maximum fine of 10,000 USD and a prison term between 2 and 10 years
- While the stolen property's value is between 100,000 and 200,000 USD, the guilty can be penalized by a maximum fine of 10,000 USD and a jail term of 2 2to 20 years
- When the stolen property's value is over 200,000 USD, the guilty are penalized by a maximum fine of 10,000 USD and a jail term between 5 years and 99 years.
Thus, it is obvious that as the value of the stolen property increases, the penalty to be faced by the convicted goes up in the state of Texas.
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S-Metolachlo CAS: 87392-12-9 178961-20-1 is an organic compound that is widely used as an herbicide.
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Agricultural use of S-Metolachlo CAS No. 87392-12-9 178961-20-1
Its acts by inhibition of elongases and of the geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate (GGPP) cyclases, which are part of the gibberellin pathway. It is used for grass and broadleaf weed control in corn, soybean, peanuts, sorghum, and cotton. It is also used in combination with other herbicides.
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Production and basic structure
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Metolachlor has been detected in ground and surface waters in concentrations ranging from 0.08 to 4.5 parts per billion (ppb) throughout the U.S.
It is classified as a Category C pesticide by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA),which indicates limited evidence of carcinogenicity.
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Metolachlor induces cytotoxic and genotoxic effects in human lymphocytes. Genotoxic effects have also been observed in tadpoles exposed to metolachlor. Evidence also reveals that metolachlor affects cell growth. Cell division in yeast was reduced, and chicken embryos exposed to metolchlor showed a significant decrease in the average body mass compared to the control.
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Managing Safety Dilemmas
dilemma: de-‘le-ma, noun—an argument presenting two equally conclusive alternatives
In the July issue of Insulation Outlook, we introduced the idea that managing performance with the goal of sending people
home safe at the end of the day frequently involves balancing dilemmas: two assumptions or conditions that are both true and
in opposition. We looked at the accountability dilemma—where what a supervisor controls is different from what s/he is
responsible for—and the risk dilemma—where acceptable risk differs from acceptable consequences. Both situations present a
In this second installment of our three-part series, we examine two more dilemmas that can send someone rushing off to the
medicine cabinet for migraine relief: the leader dilemma and the measurement dilemma.
The Leader Dilemma
The Hewlett-Packard (HP) board of directors’ decision to part company with CEO Carly Fiorina put the spotlight squarely on a
dilemma every high-profile business leader faces.
It might appear that this dilemma is all about the gap between what a leader is held accountable for and what that leader can
control or influence. That is the accountability dilemma, as described in the first article of this series on managing safety
The leader dilemma is an entirely different animal, and a very troubling one at that. It is first and foremost about
leadership at the top of an organization. That should come as good news to just about every reader of this article: Most
people work and live a long way from the corporate suite.
But no one should get too comfortable. There is something in the leader dilemma for leaders at any level who want to send
their team members home safe at the end of every day. This gets to the heart of what it takes to be the leader and what
leadership styles produce the best results: Who makes the best leaders?
Let’s start with a question: Which of the following leadership prototypes makes the best business leader?
- Type A: the high-profile visionary; a superb communicator who is a tough and unrelenting driver of change
- Type B: the self-effacing, limelight-avoiding tactician who tends to focus on continuous improvement rather than radical
These descriptions are oversimplifications of individual leadership styles, designed to make a point. Few leaders exactly
match either description, and there are plenty of good leaders who fit neither.
On the other hand, anyone who has been around an organization for a while has probably seen enough of both leadership
behavior types to recognize them and is likely to have an opinion on which style is the most effective.
So, which type of leader is best?
The modern theory of management teaches leadership techniques right out of the Type A description: Figure out the vision,
sell it to the organization and set about orchestrating the grand strategy to accomplish it. Stay relentlessly on task, but
leave the details to others. This is what “good” leaders are supposed to do (and is exactly why Fiorina was hired).
Type A leaders are not always the easiest bosses to work for, however, and that can play a big role in determining who makes
the better leader.
Working From the Bottom Up: Going From Good to Great
One reliable way to determine the most successful leadership style is to start at the bottom line, find businesses that get
the best results and examine the type of leaders who produced those results. Jim Collins did exactly that, as detailed in his
book Good to Great. The results are surprising.
Collins was a professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and is the author of Built to Last, a book that
documents the approach taken by businesses that “got it right from the start.” Successful companies that he researched
include General Electric Co., Johnson & Johnson, Wal-Mart and American Express. Ironically, HP was also one of those
Built to Last was a bestseller, and Collins went on the lecture tour, giving speeches that drew crowds. However, audience
members often articulated what you or I would have wanted to say had we been there: “Nice to hear about a company that got it
right from the start, but that’s not my company.”
Collins heard that comment so many times that he finally decided to stop arguing and start looking: Which companies went from
average to great, and how did they do it?
When he started examining good-to-great companies, he set the standard high. “Good” was defined as average returns to
shareholders over a period of 15 years; “great” described shareholder returns that were three times the market average for 15
years. Thirty years of business performance ruled out any one leader’s good or bad effects.
So who showed up on the list of companies in Good to Great? First surprise: Not high-flying, high-tech companies. The winners
of the 1,473 companies examined were 11 rather standard names: The Kroger Co., Abbott Laboratories, Circuit City® Stores
Inc., Fannie Mae, The Gillette Company, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Nucor Corporation, Phillip Morris, Pitney Bowes, Walgreen
Company and Wells Fargo.
The second surprise lies in the answer to the question, Was the secret of their success strategy technology, products, IT
and/or service? All played a role?but a supporting one. The foremost role was leadership—more specifically, leader
behavior. It turns out, there is truth to the quote by Peter Drucker, “Companies don’t compete; managers compete.”
What kind of leader behavior was associated with business results that went from good to great, Type A or Type B? The answer
even shocked the author. The leader behavior described as Type B was found as the single-most critical factor in achieving
the business results Collins described as “great.” Companies in the great group were led by a succession of leaders described
as “self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy—these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and
Sure, these leaders could communicate and had a sense of direction, but like the New England Patriots, they were the
consummate no-namers—passionate about getting sustained results but happy to give others the credit, with no need for
The Dilemma, Please
So where is the dilemma? Here’s one: How did these relatively low-profile performers find their way to the top of their
organizations in the first place? Most of those in charge of selection—not to mention those on Wall Street—are
far more inclined to choose Type A leaders, those who make waves and get noticed. More significantly, their leader behavior
styles fit the perceived norm of what leaders are supposed to do.
Were it not for Collins’ bottom-up approach, we probably wouldn’t know who the Type B leaders are. The last place one would
ever expect to see them is on the cover of Business Week. It’s unlikely that even an M.B.A. student could name more some of
the 11 CEOs.
Here’s another dilemma: How do these types get results? The Type B leadership style seems counterintuitive. After all,
leaders are the people making great speeches and heading charges up the hill, right?
Collins’ research suggests a different effect of the Type A leadership style, where the leader becomes the focal point of
everyone in the outfit. The focus is on them, potentially at the expense of performance.
A Different View
Maybe it’s time to rethink what leaders actually do. It turns out that the way they lead plays a pivotal role in sustained
business success and, there is every reason to believe, in sustained safety performance improvement. It makes sense, and that
is the message for everyone who shares the goal of leading people to work and back home safely.
Collins makes the point that the good-to-great leaders are fanatically driven to produce sustained results for the good of
the organization, no matter what it takes and no matter who receives credit. Harry Truman once said, “You can accomplish
anything in life, provided that you don’t mind who gets the credit.”
This type of leadership is needed at every level of an organization where leaders hold the safety of those who work for them
in their hands. The workers must be the focus of leadership efforts, with the goal of keeping them safe to pursue all the
truly important things in their lives.
Keep your eye on that target, and don’t think you have to be a Type A leader to get great results!
At a 1972 executive council meeting at HP—in response to an industry award nomination—Bill Hewlett remarked,
“Look, we’ve grown because the industry grew. We were lucky enough to be sitting on the nose when the rocket took off. We
don’t deserve a damn bit of credit.”
After a moment of silence Dave Packard responded, “Well, Bill, at least we didn’t louse it up completely.”
The Measurement Dilemma
No good deed goes unpunished.
Consider the law of unintended consequences: What starts off as a solution to one problem may wind up creating a far bigger,
This maxim explains all sorts of problems. For example, when NASA was worried about leaky O-rings on solid rocket boosters 20
years ago, seal-test pressure was increased to ensure that there would be no leaks. Another example: Two hundred years ago,
gypsy moths were imported to the United States as a potential replacement for silk worms. When the plan failed, a few moths
were released, and they ultimately created a swarm of insects capable of deforesting New England.
Solutions to improve safety performance are also susceptible to this law. In measuring safety performance, the law of
unintended consequences created the measurement dilemma.
Manufacturing Measurement, Then and Now
The sophisticated measurement processes in place in manufacturing operations worldwide are one critical factor in the
revolution of manufacturing productivity and quality seen in the last 25 years.
Those from the baby boomer generation know it wasn’t always that way. In the 1960s, measurement in operations was pretty
crude. Those working in production may have known how much was made, but they probably knew little more. If a product did not
meet specification, that was the quality inspector’s problem, not the workers’.
By the 1980s, that model was crumbling. Demanding customers simply weren’t buying that kind of product quality anymore, and
there were plenty of manufacturers willing to supply better quality products. Thus, industry changed.
Quality and productivity gurus with names like Deming, Juran and Crosby stressed “doing it right the first time.” This
approach required far better information and performance measurement than previously seen. Everyone got into the business of
Unlike many management fads, this was a change that has not gone away. The world of manufacturing measurement was forever
changed and became subject to the pressure of continuous improvement: Over time, Two Sigma became Six Sigma.
Meeting the Numbers
Anyone who has spent a day in management knows that measuring performance is only one part of the job. Rewards also play a
significant role: Set the goal, measure the performance and then recognize and reward performance. This model has served
management well in the quest for quality.
Paying for performance also has been the source of unintended consequences. Troubles at Worldcom as well as a few other
well-publicized corporate accounting scandals have shown how “meeting the numbers” can go awry. Managers did whatever it took
to meet the numbers that Wall Street expected. Their personal fortunes were at stake.
“The probability that a performance measure will be corrupted is proportional to its use in determining compensation.” This
is Darly’s law, and Darly was right on the money. However, measurement as it relates to improving product quality has one big
factor on its side: It is virtually impossible to make the numbers into something that they’re not. Customers keep the system
As tempting as it might be to try to make product quality look better, the data are what they are. The process began by
defining quality as “conformance to requirements.” Darly defined the requirements, and the customers are the scorekeepers in
When it comes to product quality, “meeting the numbers” means meeting the numbers.
Measuring Safety Performance
In managing and measuring safety performance, “meeting the numbers” has long loomed large.
An old story illustrates just how far a company might go to keep its safety record: It seems a poor fellow working for one of
the industry leaders in safety had the misfortune of falling off the top of a smokestack. By the time he hit the ground, he
was fired. That’s one way to meet the numbers!
Measurement processes for safety run directly in the face of both Darly’s law and the law of unintended consequences. Here is
an example of each that has undermined the measurement system:
- Believing that increasing the number of peer-to-peer safety observations would improve safety performance, a small reward
was offered to employees making two or more safety observations each month. The number of observations steadily increased,
but safety performance did not. As a matter of fact, those filling out safety observation cards had an injury rate higher
than their nonparticipating peers.
- Convinced that better results from safety audits ultimately would lead to improved safety performance, the internal
safety audit process was stepped up. Performance rewards and consequences were established based on audit findings. Getting
“audit-ready” took on a life of its own. Audit grades improved, and that led to even tougher audits. Meanwhile, safety
performance headed in an independent direction. Over time, audit scores and safety performance no longer aligned.
It is not difficult to see the effect of Darly’s law and the law of unintended consequences in each case. It appears that no
good deed goes unpunished.
Things don’t always go this way, though. There are plenty of success stories on the impact of observation and audit programs.
However, there are enough failures to suggest that the problem is real.
Defining The Measurement Dilemma
Here, then, is the measurement dilemma: Measurement is a vital part of managing and improving safety performance—”If you
can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”—but the process of measuring can alter behavior.
A change in behavior can be beneficial; however, it also may be simply a case of management getting the desired data. In the
latter case, the value of the measurement is diminished or nullified.
Unlike product quality, when it comes to measuring safety performance, there is no customer to help keep the system honest.
The dilemma is more pronounced when behavior is being measured and is particularly acute when the factor being measured is
used as a “leading indicator.”
If that is the case, and if management does not appreciate what is really happening, this can lead to a false reading about
Results and Consequences
How can you step up measurement without creating unintended consequences? Here are three ideas: Beware of certainty, use
multiple measures and remember Darly’s law.
Naming the beast is the first part of taming it. In physics, this is called the uncertainty principle: You can’t be sure
about everything you observe. For safety, this is the measurement dilemma. The best way to manage the problem is to beware of
certainty: Don’t fool yourself into thinking that the data present an accurate picture of what is really going on.
Multiple measures are better than one. In performance measurement, this is known as the “balanced scorecard” approach: Do not
depend on just one measure of performance or leading indicator as the means of understanding what is happening.
If the factors don’t match up, that should be the tip-off to dig deeper into the numbers to see what is really going on. For
example, audit scores are up, but injury performance is flat or down. Why?
Incentives can be a great way to encourage and recognize the right behavior, but they can also undermine the measurement
system. Ignore Darly’s law at your own risk. If incentives are used, the Darly effect should be considered.
All of this means that leaders have to rely on other means to calibrate underlying behavior and performance, and on other
methods to drive change and improvement. For example, if an incentive for safety observations is to be used, it could be
paired with an independent audit of behavior. If audit performance becomes important, audit scores should be correlated with
bottom-line safety results.
The Final Word
The measurement dilemma should not discourage leaders from applying the techniques of performance measurement to the process
of managing safety. Leaders should just be sure to recognize the various factors that come into play: For this dilemma,
recognition is the name of the game.
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Separate measurements of Bmax, the density of available receptors, and KD, the equilibrium dissociation constant in the human brain, with PET have contributed to our understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders, especially with respect to the dopamine D2/D3 receptor system. However, existing methods have limited applications to the whole striatum, putamen, or caudate nucleus. Improved methods are required to examine B max and KD in detailed functional striatal subdivisions that are becoming widely used. Methods: In response, a new method (bolus-plusinfusion transformation [BPIT]) was developed. After completion of a validation study for 11C-raclopride scans involving 81 subjects, age-associated changes in Bmax and KD were examined in 47 healthy subjects ranging in age from 18 to 77 y. Results: The BPIT method was consistent with established reference tissue methods regarding regional binding potential. BPIT yielded time-consistent estimates of Bmax and K D when scan and infusion lengths were set equal in the analysis. In addition, BPIT was shown to be robust against PET measurement errors when compared with a widely accepted transient equilibrium method. Altogether, BPIT was supported as a method for regional binding potential, Bmax, and KD. We demonstrated ageassociated declines in Bmax in all 5 functional striatal subdivisions with BPIT when corrected for multiple comparisons. These agerelated effects were not consistently attainable with the transient equilibrium method. Irrespective to methods, KD remained unchanged with age. Conclusion: The BPIT approach may be useful for understanding dopamine receptor abnormalities in neuropsychiatric disorders by enabling separate measurements of Bmax and KD in functional striatal subdivisions.
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We've been shining a light this week on the ways our region is helping some of the most vulnerable of our residents. On Tuesday 4/14 we talked about food insecurity and mental health. Today we’re talking about public housing, and domestic violence. Not light topics, but still extremely important to address right now. While sheltering in place is hard on everyone, there are some situations it disproportionately exacerbates. My guests on Friday's show are Lisa Baker, CEO of Yolo County Housing, and Bridgette Guerra, Legal Advocate at Empower Yolo.
Lisa Baker of Yolo County Housing mentioned that they continue to serve close to 3000 families via phone, fax, and email since their nine offices are not currently open to the public to visit in person. Their staff are finding creative ways to continue to assist with their in-house community services such as after school programs, wellness calls, and support for farm worrkers. Their office number to call is (530) 662-5428.
Bridgette Guerra of Empower Yolo told us that there has been a recent spike in domestic violence. They continue to provide family law legal assistance navigating, shelter and food assistance, online therapy and their clothing closet. Their regular business line is (530) 661-6336 and their 24-hour crisis line is (530) 662-1133.
Tune in at noon and 5 pm at KDRT 95.7 FM or stream live/download a show at kdrt.org
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DENVER (KDVR) – Colorado has the chance to see either a spectacular meteor storm on Monday night or nothing at all. It all depends on an observation from 2009 and the speed of the meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere.
Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (SW3) was first observed in 1930 by German astronomers as it orbits the Sun. In 1995 the comet broke into large fragments and is now considered a broken comet.
When SW3 began to fragment in 1995, some fragments were ejected at double the normal speeds. If that is true some of those fragments could reach the Earth. Observations of SW3 in 2009 by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, show that some fragments are still moving fast enough.
The fragments that enter the atmosphere will be slightly larger than normal (the size of a grain of sand or smaller), meaning a brighter flash. However, the speed of the fragments plays a major role in if we can see anything. With slower speeds, the meteors will be very faint, and even slower means we will be able to see nothing.
If it all turns out as expected we could get a meteor storm, where we could see 1000+ meteors per hour. Or we could see nothing. To see this possible meteor storm, look to the east on Monday, May 30, around 11:00 PM.
The meteor storm will radiate from the constellation Hercules.
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Hepcidin and Anemia in Trauma
Principal Investigator: Lena M. Napolitano, MD
Institution: University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor MI
Anemia is common in trauma patients and is associated with a high rate of blood transfusion. This “anemia of inflammation” develops via three mechanisms: 1) impaired iron regulation, 2) shortened red blood cell life span, and 3) reduced rate of erythropoiesis. Hepcidin is decreased by iron deficiency, most anemias, and tissue hypoxia. It likely plays an important role in the acute inflammatory response that occurs with trauma. However, no studies have measured hepcidin in critically ill trauma patients. If serum hepcidin levels are elevated in trauma, this would confirm that inability to use existing iron stores is part of, if not key to, the anemia of trauma and critical illness. This has important implications, since the use of blood transfusion for anemia treatment may further induce an inflammatory response.
The hypothesis for this study was that hepcidin would be increased and erythropoietin decreased early after trauma and that resolution of anemia would not occur until late (28-31 days). This study addressed two specific aims: 1) to define the temporal relationship between serum and urine hepcidin concentrations, anemia, and iron and erythropoiesis studies in critically ill trauma patients, and 2) to assess the correlation between hepcidin levels, anemia, and degree of inflammation. The study provided the first available data regarding the time-dependent changes of the peptide hormone hepcidin in anemia associated with trauma and critical illness. The temporal relationship between serum hepcidin concentrations, anemia, and iron and erythropoiesis studies was defined and the correlation between hepcidin levels, anemia, and degree of inflammation as determined.
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A beautiful compilation of inspirational writings, featuring seven classic works in one box set. The box set includes: 'Mere Christianity' 'The Screwtape Letters' 'Surprised by Joy' 'The Four Loves' 'The Problem of Pain' 'The Great Divorce' 'Miracles' C. S. Lewis's works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year, appealing to those seeking wisdom and calm in a hectic and ever-changing world. Each volume is written with the lucidity, warmth and wit that has made Lewis revered as a writer the world over. From 'The Problem of Pain' - a wise and compassionate exploration of suffering - to the darkly satirical 'The Screwtape Letters', Lewis is unrivalled in his ability to disentangle the questions of life. His writings offer hope, wisdom and a true understanding of human nature.
Born in Ireland in 1898, Clive Staples Lewis gained a triple First at Oxford and was Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College from 1925-54, where he was a contemporary of Tolkien. In 1954 he became Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. C. S. Lewis was for many years an atheist, until his conversion, memorably described in his autobiography `Surprised by Joy': I gave in, and admitted that God was God ... perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. He is celebrated for his famous series of children's books, the Narnia Chronicles (which have been filmed and broadcast many times), as well as his literary criticism and science fiction. C. S. Lewis died on 22nd November 1963.
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Quality Time. Physical Touch. Summary There are five love languages: Words of Affirmation, Acts of Service, Receiving Gifts, Quality Time, and Physical Touch. Each one is important and expresses love in its own way. Learning your partner’s and your own primary love language will help create a stronger bond in your relationship.
This theory appeared at the same time as Gary Chapman’s book, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, which was in 1995. Nowadays, it has become a standalone theory. 2020-09-23 2020-09-28 · Love language 4: Quality time Ask yourself, how do you feel when your partner gives you their undivided attention and you engage in meaningful conversation or activities? According to Chapman, the five ways to express and experience love called "love languages" are: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, physical touch. Instead of cashing in "love" on your emotional account 5 times, you only cashed in once. ONCE!!!
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A modern relationship therapist, Dr. Gary Chapman, identified five languages of love through his work with couples over a long period of time. His book, The Five Love Languages, provides a lot more detail. And finally, many people express their love through the closeness of physical touch (The 5 Love Languages). “To this person, nothing speaks more deeply than appropriate touch (The 5 Love Languages). Love Language # 1: Words of Affirmation Love Language # 2: Quality Time Love Language # 3: Receiving Gifts Love Language # 4: Acts of Service Love Language # 5: Physical Touch Revive Your Marriage How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
2020-02-03 · I’m going to break down each love language below, and give you insight as to what your love languages may be! Who knows, this may just be your marriage’s (or friendship’s!) saving grace! 1.
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Staying in love--that's the challenge. How can you keep Five Love Languages Revised Edition bokomslag Äktenskapets 4 årstider : nycklar till ett livslångt äktenskap bokomslag Five Love Languages For Men Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with specific, simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and Chapman, Gary D., 1938- (författare); [The five love languages for singles. Svenska]; Upptäck kärlekens olika språk för singlar / Gary Chapman ; [översättning: Five Love Languages for Men: Tools for Making a Good Relationship Great: Chapman, Gary: Amazon.se: Books. EXTENDED SUMMARY | THE 5 LOVE LANGUAGES: THE SECRET TO LOVE THAT LASTS - BASED ON THE BOOK BY GARY CHAPMAN - CONTENT A Did you catch Dr. Gary Chapman of "The 5 Love Languages" on The Campfire last week? Kirk Cameron Feb 4, 2018 - If you are single, married, dating, parenting kids, a devoted friend, a boss, a coworker . . .
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to the memorial website dedicated to
the history of the former
The following pages are in
memory of this Jewish community
that existed for 300 years in the heart of Wielkopolska,
where the culture of Ashkenaz
had flourished for centuries,
the area that later became the Prussian
province of Posen.
remember the men, women and children of the
became ensnared in the Holocaust
Z'Chor - זכור
- their names are not forgotten -
(Photo courtesy František Bányai, Prague)
synagogue of Schneidemühl, consecrated on 15 October 1841,
blessed by Rabbi Plessner with these
“May this house serve
also as a monument to the unforgettable man and
father of our country,
the late King
Friedrich Wilhelm III.”
During the pogrom
night of 9/10 November 1938, (an
event the Nazis mockingly called 'Kristallnacht,')
this House of God—a government-protected monument in
the center of Wilhelmsplatz—
was desecrated, burnt and destroyed by notorious Nazi elements of Schneidemühl.
solemn ceremony on 8 November 2018 - eighty
years after the synagogue's destruction -
dignitaries from the city council of Piła found it in
their hearts to gather where the synagogue had
stood for nearly one hundred years, joined by representatives from the
Poznan Jewish community,
to commemorate the tragic events of 1938
a replica of the synagogue had been
created for the occasion by the local
artist Marek Brose-Kwasigroch
memorial plaque on the wall of the city's old
Royal Post Office,
opposite of the locale where
the synagogue once stood -
this place stood the synagogue of the Jewish
kehila, which was located in the middle
of the former Jewish Market.
The Temple was consecrated by the Berlin Rabbi
Salomon Plessner, October 15, 1841.
The brick, three-story synagogue building
was erected on the rectangular plan in the
inspired by the work of Karl Friedrich
Schinkel. The main facade featured
characteristic three rows of windows.
The synagogue was burnt by the Germans
during the Kristallnacht on the night of 9
"Piła, 8 listopada
Five hundred years ago this town was
known to Polish-speaking people by
such names as Pyła or Piła.
The early Low
German-speaking settlers liked to call
their town Snyde-Mole, Schnyde-Möhle, or
Schneidemühl was the German name that was given to
town of Piła by the Prussians
in 1772, after their annexation of the area.
town’s Polish name Piła — derived from the Polish
root word 'pila,'
meaning ‘saw’ — referred to a place where rushing
water powered a device used for sawing wood.
The word Schneidemühl is a literal translation from
Polish to German.
Piła, as a kehila,
was never regarded by its Jewish community as a shtetl,
the Jews of the area simply wrote the name of their
town פילה in Hebrew letters.
the late 1700s until 1940, Schneidemühl was the home
generations of this webmaster's ancestors, the Simonstein
(Photo courtesy Bella Rothenberg, Kfar
of the Destroyed Communities'
* * *
Vashem, on the Mount of Remembrance in Israel.
The community of Schneidemühl — one of 4,500
destroyed communities —
is commemorated here in stone, together with others
of Pomerania, Posen and West Prussia.
* * *
- What happened to the Jews of
Schneidemühl during the Nazi period?
- The Jews
of the community fell victim to the
mass deportations 1941-44. (see
- Is there a Yizkor book for
- No. But a
comprehensive book on the community's
history has recently been written that
will answer many of the questions
below. (see article below)
- How large was the Jewish community in
its heydays, and before the Nazi period?
- The size
of the community peaked during the
- By the
late 1920s only a fraction remained.
- Are there any Landsmannschaften
for the Jewish community of
Landsmannschaften were rarely formed
for communities that used to be
located in the former Prussian
province of Posen.
- What is the current name of
- Since the
end of the Second World War the
town, situated in the province of
Wielkopolskie in north-western
Poland, is known again by its
original Polish name Piła.
- Are there any extant Jewish birth,
marriage or death records available for
- With more research
they might still be located in Polish
or German archives.
- Where can one find any civil birth,
marriage, death records of Schneidemühl?
The truth about the
deportations and fate
of the Jews of Schneidemühl
the past fifty years, numerous
accounts concerning the fate of the Jews
of Schneidemühl have appeared in print.
However, none of them accord with historic
were but distortions of historical
these errors have been perpetuated to this
day in numerous books, articles and
websites that deal
with this period of the Holocaust.
The erroneous claim that the Jews of
Schneidemühl had been deported together
with the more than 1,200 Jews
of Stettin (who were subsequently
is not supported by evidence found in the
extant volume of files of the
der Juden in Deutschland.
75 C Re1, No. 483, Bundesarchiv
Berlin, and USHMM Archives:
RG-14.003M; Acc. 1993.A.059)
It must therefore be stated that
— while the deportations of the Jews of
Schneidemühl had indeed been planned by
to coincide with the
terrible events that occurred in Stettin —
those actions were NOT carried out
A full account of these events can be found
in the book below.
of the Jewish Community of
1641 to the Holocaust
Peter Simonstein Cullman
x 10", hardcover, 390 pp.
ISBN 1-886223-27-0 2006
While until recent times no
memorial book existed for the destroyed
Jewish community of Schneidemühl, this
publication, a comprehensive work in
English brings to life again the
true history of this 300-year-old
In documenting the growth of this
community—from the arrival of Jews in this
Poland in the 16th century to its
destruction in the 20th century—this book
reader with a keen interest in
German-Jewish history a fine portrayal of
vanished Jewish community. Viewed against
the background of major European
historical events and of Haskalah,
the Jewish Enlightenment of the late 18th
century, the reader is
also given a detailed description in word
and picture of the Tempel,
the once splendid synagogue of
As a result of many years of painstaking
research by the author, the lives and the
most members of this Jewish community — as
it existed in the 1930s — could be traced.
The chapter Z'Chor features
chronologies of all those who were caught
in the Nazis' web.
Here their fate is documented in detail to
ensure that their memory is preserved.
The complete data of the 1939 German
Minority Census for Schneidemühl, lists of
emigrants and survivors, as well as an
annotated burial register, covering the
period 1854-1940, with names and data of
more than nine hundred members of the
are just some of the many archival records
found in this work.
Although no trace of a past Jewish
presence can be found in today's renamed
town Piła —
this book brings back to memory a once
notable, vibrant and sizable Jewish
book can be purchased directly from
the publishers by visiting:
794 Edgewood Avenue, New Haven,
CT 06515 USA
The above memorial book has been
translated and published in 2017 as the
Historia Żydów w
Gminy Żydowskiej z Piły od roku
1641 do Holokaustu
translation by Agnieszki Kin -
x 6.5", hardcover, 510 pp.
book can be ordered directly from
Inicjatyw Społecznych EFFATA
ul. W Witosa 26/5,
PL 64-920 Piła, Poland
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57 percent of Republicans say coronavirus death toll is ‘acceptable’
A majority of Republicans said that the number of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. — now topping 176,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University — is “acceptable,” according to a poll released Sunday.
A CBS News-YouGov poll determined that 57 percent of Republican respondents said the U.S. death toll for COVID-19 was “acceptable,” while 43 percent said it was “unacceptable.” Republicans were the only partisan group of which a majority of voters said the number of deaths was acceptable.
Among Democrats, 10 percent said the coronavirus death toll in the U.S. was acceptable, while 90 percent said it was unacceptable. For independents, 33 percent labeled the death toll as acceptable, and 67 percent called it unacceptable.
Republican respondents also differed among all voters on whether the U.S.’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic is “going well,” with 73 percent agreeing with that assessment. A total of 38 percent of all voters said it was going well.
Most voters — 62 percent — said the pandemic handling is “going badly,” but only 27 percent of Republicans agreed.
Republican participants were also more likely than all voters to say that the U.S. death toll is actually lower than what’s being reported, at 64 percent. Overall, 36 percent of all voters supported that statement.
A total of 44 percent of all respondents thought the death toll is actually higher than reported, while 18 percent of Republicans concurred.
The CBS News-YouGov poll surveyed 2,226 U.S. registered voters between Aug. 19 and 21. The margin of error was 2.4 percentage points.
The U.S. COVID-19 death toll has reached at least 176,579 fatalities, or almost 22 percent of the world’s reported deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The U.S. has documented more than 5.6 million cases, amounting to about a quarter of the world’s reported cases.
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History & Watchmaking
About Rolex Watches
Wearing a Rolex watch enables entry into a world of unlimited possibilities.
Rolex’s story began when founder Hans Wilsdorf created the first waterproof wristwatch – the Oyster – and developed into a range of timepieces that have become icons of watchmaking. Discover Rolex watches on the wrists of pioneers, artists, athletes and visionaries and journey to the very highest summits and the deepest part of the oceans.
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Pioneer in the development of the wristwatch, the brand is at the origin of numerous major watchmaking innovations.
Rolex has registered over 500 patents in the course of its history. Few companies have been so consistently identified with the pursuit of excellence, the quest for the absolute, the discovery of original approaches and innovative solutions.
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Margaret Cardillo holds degrees from Boston College and the University of Miami. Her first children’s book, Just Being Audrey, a biography of Audrey Hepburn, won the Florida Book Award Gold Medal. Margaret’s writing for the screen has won a College Television Award and received several Best of Fest awards. A former children’s book editor, Margaret now teaches screenwriting at the University of Miami. Just Being Jackie (Harper Collins) is a stunning and inspirational nonfiction picture book about the life and style of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis from Margaret Cardillo and Julia Denos, the team that created Just Being Audrey. Jackie Kennedy was an American icon of style and grace—but there was steel under that style. Her poise under fire, intelligence, and tireless work as First Lady earned her the respect of leaders worldwide and made her beloved by generations. Jackie’s legacy also extended beyond her time in public life. She was a talented journalist, a preservationist who secured the legacy of national landmarks, and an editor of award-winning books. The creators of Just Being Audrey have brought us another insightful, dazzling book about the real woman behind the famous name, who was so much more than first appearances.
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Queensland's Mines Minister Anthony Lynham says he is surprised bureaucrats in his department have been found to have obstructed a black lung inquiry.
A bipartisan inquiry report by a Queensland parliamentary committee found some officers of the Department of Mines and Natural Resources displayed "resistance and obstruction".
The inquiry was set up in response to the "re-emergence" of black lung among Queensland coal miners, as first revealed by 7.30 in 2015.
The committee today handed down its second report, making 68 recommendations, including setting up a new independent mining health authority and reducing the permissible exposure level to coal dust.
Dr Lynham said he could not commit to any of the recommendations but he would consider them.
"I haven't had a chance to read the report," he said.
7.30 asked the Minister what action he would take in response the committee's finding some members of this department were "argumentative" and "resistant".
"The committee doesn't see my department as I see my department," he said.
"I see hard working public servants absolutely committed to eliminating this insidious disorder from the Queensland workforce."
Committee finds catastrophic failures in handling of disease
The Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis Select Committee recommended the Public Service Commissioner review the hearing transcripts to ascertain whether bureaucrats gave deliberately misleading evidence.
The committee found there were catastrophic failures at almost every level in the regulatory system, including among health professionals and mining companies, as well as government regulators.
Twenty-one former coal miners have now been diagnosed with black lung disease since its "re-emergence" after a 30-year absence.
The disease, which is caused by the inhalation of coal dust, is both preventable and incurable.
The committee found black lung had never disappeared, and authorities had, in effect, given up looking for it.
It said it was "dismayed" the Mines Department was not informed of a workers' compensation claim for black lung disease in 2006.
Overall, Dr Lynham said he welcomed the findings.
"The Department of Natural Resources and Mines and I will consider the committee's 400-plus page report and its recommendations carefully before responding within the 90 day time frame," he said.
The chair of the committee, Labor MP Jo-Ann Miller, said Dr Lynham was just one of many ministers who had been in charge of overseeing mine regulation in Queensland.
"He has tried as much as he can to get on top of this, particularly with regard to the medical side of things," Ms Miller said.
"But this is a cultural issue, it's an issue in regards to a department trying to whitewash the black lung issue away.
"Well the whitewashing is over."
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The spine is naturally curved at the neck, chest, and lower back, but if one of these curves becomes under- or over-pronounced, it can disrupt the biomechanics of the entire spine. Kyphosis and scoliosis are both spinal conditions that involve unhealthy and unnatural spinal curvatures, but scoliosis is characterized by an abnormal sideways curvature, while kyphosis involves an abnormal front-to-back curve.
The spine has three main healthy curves. With kyphosis, the upper back’s natural front-to-back curvature becomes excessive, often giving the appearance of rounded shoulders and slouching posture. Treatment options include proactively working towards a reduction of the spine’s kyphotic curve.
There are different types of kyphosis a person can develop, but before we move on to the different forms and treatment options, let’s consider why the spine is curved in the first place.
Before discussing the specifics of any spinal condition, it’s always helpful to touch on some basic spinal anatomy; that way, it’s clearer what is happening to the spine as it develops an abnormal curvature and how that abnormal curvature can affect the spine’s overall health and function.
The spine has three main spinal sections, each with its own characteristic curvature: cervical (neck), thoracic (middle and upper back), and lumbar (lower back).
When viewed from the side, a healthy spine will have a soft ‘S’ shape; when viewed from the front, it will appear straight.
The spine’s natural curvatures make it stronger, more flexible, and helps to evenly distribute mechanical stress that’s incurred during movement.
The spine is made up of rectangular-shaped bones called vertebrae. These bones are stacked on top of one another and separated by intervertebral discs. The discs perform many important functions, and their health is important for maintaining the spine’s natural and healthy curves.
The natural curvatures of the spine either bend forward or backward, known as lordosis and kyphosis.
‘Lordosis’ and ‘kyphosis’ refer to curvature types. Curvatures that bend forward, towards the body’s center in a ‘C’ shape, are lordotic curves, while curvatures that bend backward, away from the body’s center, in a reverse ‘C’ shape, are known as kyphotic curves.
The terms also refer to conditions characterized by an exaggeration of these natural spinal curves. It’s important to understand that while there is a normal range of curvature degree in healthy spines, when curvatures move beyond these healthy ranges, problems occur.
A healthy kyphotic range of the thoracic spine would fall between 20 and 50 degrees, and when the section’s curvature exceeds 50 degrees, this is commonly diagnosed as ‘hyperkyphosis’, or simply ‘kyphosis’.
With an over-pronounced forward curvature, the upper back can become excessively rounded, with the shoulders and upper back appearing slouched forward.
While kyphosis can develop at any age, it commonly affects adolescents, due to the stage of puberty characterized by growth spurts and rapid bone growth. It can also develop in older adults as their spines face degenerative changes associated with aging.
Kyphosis can range in severity, and while every case is different, generally, the larger the kyphotic curve, the more severe the condition is, and the more noticeable its symptoms are likely to be.
Symptoms can range between mild or no back pain with little or no postural changes, to noticeable pain and postural changes. In more severe cases, the upper back can develop a visible arch.
Kyphosis, and spinal conditions in general, are not commonly painful in young patients who have not yet reached skeletal maturity; this is because a growing spine is always being lengthened, and this counteracts the compressive force of an abnormal spinal curvature.
In adults, as their spines are no longer growing, they are vulnerable to the curvature’s compression of the spine and its surrounding vessels, muscles, and nerves.
In addition to different severity levels, there are also multiple types of kyphosis a person can develop, and causation will vary based on condition form.
The three most common forms of kyphosis are those that affect children and adolescents: postural, congenital, and Sheuermann’s. Let’s talk about what makes these forms different, including causation and treatment.
Postural kyphosis is the most common type and is also the simplest to treat; this is because, as the name indicates, the condition is caused by chronic bad posture, and not a structural abnormality within the spine itself.
This form commonly presents as slouching and overall poor posture with kyphotic curves often having a smooth and rounded appearance. When a condition is postural, if a person was to make an active effort to stand up straighter, the curvature could be corrected, as is the case with postural kyphosis.
As this type of kyphosis is most commonly found in adolescent girls, it is rarely painful because growth is still occurring. This form isn’t associated with progression and/or causing problems later in life, as long as the bad habits causing it are addressed.
Effective treatment includes addressing the cause, which is postural, so exercises and stretches that encourage healthy posture can be effective at restoring the spine’s natural and healthy kyphosis.
Congenital kyphosis affects infants, as the condition develops in utero and they are born with it. This form is caused by a malformation in the spinal column that can involve the spinal vertebrae not forming properly, or multiple vertebrae fusing together, rather than developing into separate vertebrae as they should.
This form is structural, meaning it’s more challenging to treat than postural kyphosis as the condition has to be impacted on a structural level in the form of a curvature reduction.
While every case is unique, congenital kyphosis tends to progress with growth and maturity, which is why it’s important to treat it proactively.
While there are unique challenges involved with treating infants and young children, here at the CLEAR Scoliosis Institute, our treatment approach is fully customized and integrative; we can design a treatment plan that accounts for the specifics of working with young children, including monitoring for progression and working towards a curvature reduction.
Named after the Danish radiologist who first described the condition, Scheuermann’s kyphosis is also structural in nature, making it more likely to cause problems later in life, if left untreated.
Much like postural kyphosis, Scheuermann’s kyphosis is commonly diagnosed during adolescence, and is generally more noticeable in patients who are thin.
As Scheuermann’s kyphosis is structural, this means the vertebrae of the spine are misshapen, impairing the spine’s ability to maintain its natural and healthy curvatures.
As mentioned earlier, healthy vertebrae are rectangular in shape, allowing them to be stacked neatly in a proper alignment, on top of one another, separated only by the intervertebral discs. In patients with Scheuermann’s kyphosis, an X-ray taken from the side will show multiple consecutive vertebrae that are, instead, triangular in shape.
The misshapen vertebrae impair the spine’s ability to maintain its alignment, developing an abnormal curvature as a result. Their irregular shape makes them wedge together towards the front of the spine, decreasing disc space and resulting in an excessive forward curvature of the spinal area affected, most commonly the upper portion of the thoracic spine.
Due to the misshapen vertebrae, curves of Scheuermann’s kyphosis are often sharp, stiff, angular, and can progress with growth, especially if left untreated.
Scheuermann’s kyphosis can be painful in adults, but it’s more commonly diagnosed in children and adolescents, for whom pain is not a common symptom. In adults, pain is most likely to be felt at the apex of the kyphotic curve (the most-tilted vertebrae). In addition, as the spine tends to respond to the development of unhealthy curves by putting in counteractive curves, pain can also be felt in the lower back.
Patients with kyphosis-related pain often find it worsens during long periods of sitting, standing, and/or during movement.
When it comes to treatment, here at the Institute, we offer patients a chiropractic-centered approach that proactively works towards impacting the condition on a structural level, in the form of a curvature reduction.
Our customized treatment plans also include corrective bracing, when needed, and a variety of exercises and therapies for increasing core strength to provide the spine with better support and stabilization via its surrounding musculature.
As mentioned, the spine can develop a number of conditions that involve a loss of one or more of its healthy curves, including scoliosis.
The spine is an important part of the body. It holds up the head, allows us to stand upright, maintain good posture, provides the body with structure, and enables us to bend and twist.
The spine’s optimal function, however, depends on its ability to maintain its healthy alignment and natural curvatures.
As mentioned, there are a number of different unhealthy curves a spine can develop: some that involve an excessive inward curvature, others an excessive outwards rounding of the spine, and some that curve to the side.
As a highly-prevalent spinal condition affecting approximately 7 million people in the United States alone, scoliosis involves an abnormal sideways curvature of the spine that also rotates.
While kyphosis and scoliosis share some obvious similarities, as both conditions involve developing an unnatural spinal curvature, have different forms and causes, are commonly diagnosed in adolescence, and have progression as a variable, there is an important difference; scoliosis is an abnormal sideways spinal curvature, while kyphosis is a forward-rounding of the back, most commonly the upper back, that gives patients a slouching posture.
Treatment for both scoliosis and kyphosis will depend on a number of important patient and condition characteristics such as age, curvature location, condition severity and type.
It is possible to have both scoliosis and kyphosis, and when this is the case, it means the person has at least one abnormal curve in both the sagittal plane (side view) and the coronal plane (viewed from the front or back). When this happens, it’s commonly referred to as ‘kyphoscoliosis’ or ‘scoliosis with a kyphosis’.
In structural conditions like kyphosis and scoliosis, any effective treatment plan has to impact the condition on a structural level, first and foremost, and be fully customized to address the specifics of each patient and their condition.
Through a series of targeted chiropractic adjustments, we can work towards returning the tilted vertebrae of the curvature back into a proper alignment with the rest of the spine, and when combined with a variety of condition-specific exercises and therapies, the muscles closely surrounding the spine can be strengthened to provide it with optimal support and stabilization.
Kyphosis is an excessive forward-rounding of the spine, most commonly in the upper section of the thoracic spine. This presents clinically as slouching and overly-rounded shoulders. In severe cases, the upper back can develop a visible arch.
While there is a range in the degree of healthy kyphotic curves, if a curve develops outside of that healthy range, it becomes exaggerated and excessively rounds the spine in the affected area.
While the condition is not commonly painful in children and adolescents who are still growing, adults can experience varying levels of back pain. Pain levels and related postural changes can range from mild to severe, based largely on important patient/condition characteristics such as age, condition type and severity.
Common forms of kyphosis include postural, congenital, and Scheuermann’s, and with the exception of postural kyphosis, kyphotic curves develop due to a structural abnormality such as misshapen vertebrae.
When it comes to the similarities between kyphosis and scoliosis, they are both structural spinal conditions that can be progressive, have different forms, different severity levels, can produce postural changes, and patient age plays a large role in determining whether or not the condition is painful. The main difference between the two is in curvature type; scoliotic curves bend to the side and rotate, while kyphotic curves bend forward.
Here at the CLEAR Scoliosis Institute, we assess each individual patient and their specific condition for a fully-customized treatment approach. Reach out to us here if you are concerned that you or someone you care about is developing an abnormal spinal curvature as there are multiple treatment benefits related to early detection.
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A simple definition of body image. Suggestions to improve Yours
I received an email today from a reader and she asked just what is body image¡K.
What is body image?
– How you perceive your physical appearance
– How you feel about your appearance
– How you feel about your body
– How you think others see you
Even though it is easier said than done, it is very important for a woman to have a positive and healthy mental attitude for a woman’s happiness and well being.
The way you feel about your body right now was probably shaped from many factors your parents, role models, and friends the way they expressed how they felt about their own bodies has an influence on us.
Your body image was formed from the positive and negative things you experienced while observing their own behaviors and what they say/said.
You may now be wondering how you can change your perception of your own body. A poor body image can lead to emotional distress, low self-esteem, dieting, anxiety, depression, and eating disorders.
Of course, the way we feel about ourselves changes constantly. But when you feel those negatives thoughts coming into your mind, you can train your mind to chase them away. I wrote an article before mentioning positive affirmations and there is a post in the blog.
Eating healthier and getting just a little more exercise can make you feel better about yourself.
Imagine how proud of yourself you will feel if you pass up that piece of cake for a piece of fruit or a handful of veggies? Even small changes in your diet and exercise will make you feel better about yourself no matter what size you are.
Make a change in yourself. Get a new haircut, splurge on that outfit you have been eyeing at the mall, or even finding others who are struggling with the same issues that you are can be a big boost.
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- English Standard Version
- King James Version
1Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth. 2And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before. 3Then the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you. 4So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was 5and said to them, I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me. 6You know that I have served your father with all my strength, 7yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me. 8If he said, The spotted shall be your wages, then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, The striped shall be your wages, then all the flock bore striped. 9Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me. 10In the breeding season of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the goats that mated with the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled. 11Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, Jacob, and I said, Here I am! 12And he said, Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you. 13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred. 14Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there any portion or inheritance left to us in our father's house? 15Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money. 16All the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do. 17So Jacob arose and set his sons and his wives on camels. 18He drove away all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac. 19Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods. 20And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee. 21He fled with all that he had and arose and crossed the Euphrates, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead. 22When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled, 23he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead. 24But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad. 25And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen pitched tents in the hill country of Gilead. 26And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done, that you have tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword? 27Why did you flee secretly and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre? 28And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly. 29It is in my power to do you harm. But the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad. 30And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods? 31Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force. 32Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it. Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. 33So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent and entered Rachel's. 34Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them. 35And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me. So he searched but did not find the household gods. 36Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me? 37For you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two. 38These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks. 39What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. From my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. 42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night. 43Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne? 44Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I. And let it be a witness between you and me. 45So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. 46And Jacob said to his kinsmen, Gather stones. And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap. 47Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. 48Laban said, This heap is a witness between you and me today. Therefore he named it Galeed, 49and Mizpah, for he said, The Lord watch between you and me, when we are out of one another's sight. 50If you oppress my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, God is witness between you and me. 51Then Laban said to Jacob, See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me. 52This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, to do harm. 53The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac, 54and Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country. 55Early in the morning Laban arose and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned home.
1And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory. 2And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. 3And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 4And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me. 6And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. 7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. 8If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ring-streaked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ring-streaked. 9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. 10And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled. 11And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I. 12And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. 13I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. 14And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? 15Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money. 16For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. 17Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; 18And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. 19And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's. 20And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. 21So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead. 22And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. 23And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead. 24And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 25Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. 26And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword? 27Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp? 28And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. 29It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 30And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? 31And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me. 32With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. 33And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. 34Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not. 35And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched but found not the images. 36And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? 37Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. 38This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 39That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. 40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. 41Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. 42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight. 43And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? 44Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. 45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap. 47And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. 48And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; 49And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. 50If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee. 51And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee: 52This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. 53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. 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A full 60% of Americans don't know their credit scores, according to LendingTree research. This seemingly innocuous three-digit number can mean the difference between beating financial goals or falling short, as low mortgage rates and some of the more lucrative cash-back credit card rewards are typically reserved for people with good credit.
To that end, Motley Fool credit card specialist Nathan Hamilton and Fool.com deputy managing editor Michael Douglass discuss in the video below two crucial credit score tips and why they matter for your financial health.
Michael Douglass: Nathan, let's talk about credit scores for a bit. Now as you've referred to it previously, it's the most important three-digit number that no one pays attention to. So I guess first off, before we get into tips as to how to best manage that credit score, why is a credit score important?
Nathan Hamilton: I guess I shouldn't say no one pays attention...
Douglass: Relatively few people.
Hamilton: Yes. It should be more important, and more people should be paying attention to it. Why is it important? Everything in your life essentially comes down to your financial life. A lot of people borrow money -- their mortgage, credit card debt, auto loans. Nobody really pays cash up front for those sorts of expenses. And your FICO score is that underlying number that the banks use to determine [if] you are a risky person to lend to or a high-quality person to lend to. That determines what you pay in interest charges and over your life as a borrower.
If you compare, say, a high FICO score to somebody with a low FICO score, the difference is hundreds of thousands of dollars. Really, you're going to be helping your future retirement. It could be the difference between, essentially, surpassing a million dollars (becoming a millionaire) versus having hundreds of thousands of dollars less, all because of a three-digit number.
Douglass: And I can speak to this. I actually didn't have a credit history when I applied for my first car loan, and that meant that I paid a much higher interest rate than I would have otherwise.
Hamilton: And you're a [financially] savvy guy.
Hamilton: And even you weren't paying attention to it.
Douglass: I wasn't, maybe, at the time. To be fair, I was still in college. But, yeah, it was very eye opening for me and something I've really worked to establish...a more consistent credit history.
Douglass: Let's talk about paying on time. And this is one of those things where I'm sure you're sort of, "Well, yeah, duh. You should pay on time." But it turns out that's a really big part of your FICO score and it's something that trips a lot of people up.
Hamilton: Yeah, absolutely. It is a no-brainer when it comes down to it. Pay your credit card bills, your mortgages, anything that you borrow money on, on time. And the reason being is your FICO score. Thirty-five percent of it is weighted to your payment history, and it is the biggest single factor determining your FICO score. So if you want to make large changes (either to the upside or to the downside), it's a matter of paying those bills on time.
Douglass: Simple as that.
Hamilton: Simple as that.
Douglass: The second one is a little bit more nuanced, and it's keeping utilization under 10%. That's essentially across your loans -- making sure that you aren't taking out more than 10% of your credit limit...
Douglass: ...in a given month.
Hamilton: Yes. So if you have $100,000 in available credit (student loans, credit cards, so forth), keeping it below $10,000 is ideal.
Hamilton: Generally credit-scoring models want to see it below 30% and altogether it also accounts for 30% of your FICO score. It's the second-biggest factor -- behind paying bills on time -- [for getting] a good or bad FICO score. And if you look at why, it makes sense. FICO, the credit scoring model company, [just wants to] ensure that you're managing your budget well. You're a good borrower. You're not essentially over-borrowing. You're not reckless.
Douglass: You're not spending up to the limits.
Hamilton: It's just something important to focus on -- essentially keeping to a budget.
Douglass: Absolutely. That makes sense. Well, cool. Do check us out. We've got a lot of good credit card and credit score information at fool.com/credit-cards. We've got some free guides on your credit score. We've also got Nathan's top picks for credit cards...
Hamilton: The Motley Fool's top picks...
Douglass: The Motley Fool's top picks and a lot of good information there, so be sure to come by.
Hamilton: Yeah, absolutely. Look forward to seeing people there.
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For 2019, jewellery and accessories company Bunney has worked with artist Simon Fujiwara on recreating historic jewellery from the French Revolution Period.
Simon Fujiwara: The Antoinette Effect
An exhibition that takes Marie Antoinette as a starting point to explore the blending of economy, ingenuity, violence and fantasy in society. The exhibition focuses on specific elements of Marie Antoinette, focused mainly around her death and afterlife, how her image and story have been used to create objects and industries. This is a diverse approach to the usual focus on the ʻlavish lifeʼ she lived. The works explore how humans invent ways to convert and exploit narratives even as gruesome as the execution of Marie Antoinetteʼs and turn them into industries. It also explores technology and new media in relation to Marie Antoinetteʼs life and death signalled a revolution and coincided with a period of early enlightenment and the emergence of new technologies such as emerging mass print press, the invention of the guillotine as a ʻdemocratic form of execution ‒ done by a machine, a nobodyʼ. Due to the increasing power of the masses and the lowering costs of printing press, Marie Antoinette became a mass celebrity, an early example of a ʻfemme fataleʼ that continues to be a powerful economy today.
ARTICULATED GUILLOTINE DROP EARRINGS
18ct Yellow Gold depicting Phrygian cap, Guillotine with articulated blade, and crowned, decapitated heads of the King and Queen beneath.
– Phrygian cap stone-set with Sapphires, Diamonds and Rubies
– Crowned, decapitated head of Louis XVI stone-set with Sapphire, Citrine, Rubies, Aquamarine, Emeralds and Diamonds
– Crowned, decapitated head of Marie Antoinette stone-set with Diamonds
– Hallmarked Birmingham, 2019
– Made by BUNNEY for Simon Fujiwara
– 10 x 3 x 2cm (earring), 47 x 37 x 17.5cm(box)
– Ed.3 +AP
This special edition will show at Taro Nasu Gallery as part of ‘The Antoinette Effect’ exhibition. Made from 18ct Yellow Gold with and set Precious Stones, the earrings are the
result of close work with the artist. Each set of Earrings are handcrafted in the workshops, with details added by a hand engraver, stone set, then finished to a high polish before being hallmarked at the Assay Office.
Born in the UK in 1982. Now based in Berlin. Won the Cartier Prize at the Frieze Art Fair in 2010. His selected exhibitions include “Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim”(Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY) and “History is Now: 7 artists take on Britain” (Hayward Gallery, London) in 2015, “Un Nouveau Festival” (Pompidou Center, Paris) in 2014, “Grand Tour” (Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Germany) and “The Problem of the Rock” (Dazaifu Tenmangu, Fukuoka) in 2013, and “Simon Fujiwara: Since 1982” (Tate St Ives, UK) in 2012. Fujiwara has also participated in numerous international exhibitions, such as the 2nd Sharja Biennale in 2013, the 9th Shanghai Biennale in 2012, and the 53rd Vienna Biennale in 2009.
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A recent Wall Street Journal article titled “Seeking Survivors For Lifetime Jobs” provides an interesting segue into the longevity of life controversy, even though it is focused on a very select group of people. This essay will consider the issues of longevity for all Americans and how more receptive laws relating to euthanasia and assisted suicide could improve the lives of Americans and reduce the suffering of seniors.
Recently, I experienced a death in my family. The woman who passed led a wonderful life until about two years ago, when Alzheimer's had begun to steal her mind. Slowly, she became a vegetable, a mindless body waiting for death as her loved ones reminisced about the days when she was vibrant and so intelligent. It was extended torture for all those involved.
Are all of the efforts to extend our lives truly beneficial to society and its individual members? When a person reaches an advanced age, it seems as though he begins to revert back to earlier days, then to childhood, and then infancy, a time when he could not care for himself. Nursing homes across the country are a testament to this bizarre evolution.
Life expectancy has been climbing. From 1970 to 2010, male life expectancy has increased from 61 to 73. This measurement, however, is not a commentary about whether our lives are rewarding in later years. Thousands, and perhaps millions, of seniors suffer from any number of maladies that make their lives difficult and painful.
The impact of extended life is noteworthy in several regards. In America, increased life-years are already putting great stress on our economic system and may bankrupt it if reform is not implemented. Social Security and Medicare costs are increasing at a torrid pace and could soon equal the total revenues paid to the federal government each year.
Americans are not going to put their grandparents and parents out to die. But, are there sensible alternatives available to ameliorate the burden of the older generation? Should we continue to develop geriatric drugs that extend lives of terminally ill patients, even if the result is a living hell for the afflicted and their families? The money spent on the longevity of life could be redeployed to research on diseases that take the lives of young Americans. And, really, do we really want to live to 90 or 100 when our lives will be so fragile and tenuous?
Why can’t we cut through all the rhetoric and evaluate whether a controlled death and transition to another life (or oblivion, if you will) is a better choice than suffering, excessive costs, and unbelievable hardship? Dr. Jack Kevorkian was a hero and pioneer in this area. At first, he was scorned by many and even went to jail for helping ailing seniors end their suffering. He deserves much credit for elevating this controversy.
From a non-religious perspective, the only conceivable group who would vigorously lobby against legalizing euthanasia in America is nursing home operators who care for dementia patients and provide hospice services for the terminally ill. The longer these people live, the more money nursing homes earn. Economically, euthanasia is a win-win for the government and the families involved, which in the long run will include every American.
The major problem for many relates to the decision-making process. If a person who is ill can make a cogent decision, he should have the deciding vote about living or dying. If he is not of sound mind, the process becomes much trickier. Should a family member have the power to “pull the plug” on a loved one? How much influence (legal or otherwise) should doctors have over the decision? Should doctors be allowed to veto a decision to end a person’s life?
Many of the issues affiliated with euthanasia could be anticipated and dealt with in a living will that lays out the wishes of person when he is able to consider the ramifications of his decisions. Currently, many Americans already have living wills that preclude extraordinary measures to keep them alive. These could be expanded, if national and local laws are changed to include euthanasia in cases of great pain and/or dementia.
This is a horrifying subject that we all, young and old, will eventually encounter. Unfortunately, some of the tools to deal with it are unavailable and/or illegal. I am unsure about my personal feelings about euthanasia, but respect a person’s decision to transition with it if they are under duress.
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Security systems can be a tricky and confusing topic. There are so many different options, all with their own individual pros and cons. So which security system option is best? That is a tough question that depends on your personal preferences and budget. In this blog post, we will cover 4 of the most popular types of security systems: monitored home security systems, self-monitored home security systems, alarm systems for businesses (also known as CCTV), and motion detector lights for use at night.
Monitoring Home Security Systems:
The advantage to a monitored home security system is that it comes with 24/7 monitoring from an expert team who can help you in case of emergencies. You don’t have to worry about remembering your phone password or if you’ve activated your alarm! The downside is that these professional monitoring teams are not free. If you want a full service plan, which includes fire protection and medical dispatch services as well as burglary detection and response services, then expect to pay over $50 a month.
Self-Monitored Home Security Systems:
A self-monitored home security system is great for people who want protection but don’t want to pay the hefty price that comes with monitored systems. An example of a self-monitored system is setting up your own alarm. You might need to call the police or fire department when there’s a burglary, but you will not get any assistance from professionals at all times of day and night like in monitored systems.
Alarm Systems for Businesses:
If you work in an office building, then you will not be able to contact an expert team in case of emergencies, and you have to remember your phone password if you’ve activated your alarm.
Alarm Systems for Businesses (CCTV):
Security systems specifically designed to protect businesses are called CCTV, or closed-circuit television security systems. These types of security systems can be a great way to ward off intruders and burglars because they often come with cameras that broadcast live footage from the property. CCTV systems are also popular because they can easily be monitored and recorded remotely, so no need to worry about a security guard being on site 24/hours a day! The downside is that there must be someone at the office monitoring the cameras at all times. To do this it requires either an in-office security team or remote guards who work from home.
Motion Detector Lights for Use at Night:
One of the most popular types of security systems is a motion detector light because it can provide added protection to an area without costing too much money or taking up any space. These lights are typically battery powered and they automatically turn on when movement is detected, providing a cost-effective way to ward off criminals.
The security system you choose will depend on your needs and budget. You may need to do some research before making a decision. With any of these options, it is important that you educate yourself about how they work and what the best practices for using each one are – this can help keep both your home or business safe! If you want more information on which type might be right for you, contact us at our website today. We’re ready to answer all of your questions so that we can provide the most effective security package possible for you.
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Authenticated Encryption: An Explainer
Dozens of encryption terms and acronyms exist, which may be unknown even to those who have worked with encryption for a while. When individuals first start working with encryption, they often focus only on the simple task of encrypting and decrypting data. However, they may overlook other important concepts, such as Authenticated Encryption. Understanding the basics of encryption is a vital first step, but only grasping the basics is not enough. Encryption is not like other software development; a running program does not mean that the work is done. Although a developer may have encrypted the data to protect it from prying eyes, the systems or data may still be vulnerable to an attack.
In its simplest form, encryption is the process of securing some information and producing cipher text (see Figure 1.), which is ideally indistinguishable from random data. Encryption is a reversible process where the correct key is used to decrypt the cipher text and return the original information.
Figure 1 – Basic Encryption | Decryption
Encryption secures the data from prying eyes. However, many encryption algorithms will simply attempt to decrypt whatever cipher text it is provided. In other words, nothing verifies the integrity or authenticity of the cipher text to ensure it has not been altered. This lack of verification can lead to a number of problems.
For example (see Figure 2.), consider encrypting a bank’s wire transfer instructions containing data to transfer $100.00 from account A to account B. Many may believe that this is enough because an attacker would not be able to tell the amount of money or accounts involved in the transaction if the data is encrypted; however, if the bank chose an unauthenticated encryption algorithm, it could be in for a rude surprise. Because the cipher text and key are not verified, it may be possible for an attacker to change the cipher text in such a way that the decryption process does not realize the data has been altered and when the modified cipher text is decrypted, the wiring instructions would contain instructions to transfer $999.00 from account A to account C.
Again, with an unauthenticated encryption algorithm, an attacker could do this without being detected and without knowing the encryption key. While it seems like this should not be possible, certain encryption algorithms and modes are susceptible to certain attacks such as this.
Figure 2 – Potential weakness of unauthenticated encryption
Similarly, some unauthenticated encryption algorithms will simply attempt to decrypt whatever data is presented with whatever key is provided. Such algorithms may be more susceptible to brute force attacks which can yield the encryption key or allow partial decryption of the cipher text.
This is where Authenticated Encryption comes in (see Figure 3). Several variations and approaches exist, but they are all different modes for ensuring the confidentiality and authenticity of the encrypted data. In general, the process creates a message authentication code (MAC), which is also commonly referred to as an Authentication Tag, that is used to verify the data’s authenticity.
There are three basic approaches to Authenticated Encryption using a MAC: Encrypt-then-MAC, Encrypt-and-MAC, MAC-then-Encrypt. As the names imply, the difference is when the MAC is created and what inputs are used to create the MAC. Figure 3 shows the basic flow for Encrypt-then-MAC which is regarded as more secure because the cipher text and MAC can be tested without decrypting any data. This means it can abort if it detects the key, cipher text, or authentication tag have been tampered or do not match. In the case of the wire transfer instructions above, the process working with the encrypted data would immediately recognize that an attacker had altered the data and reject the wire transfer instructions.
Figure 3 – Authenticated Encryption and Decryption
For reference, some common Authenticated Encryption modes are EAX, CCM, GCM, and Poly1305. Ubiq uses GCM by default because it is widely adopted, is faster than other modes, and uses the Encrypt-then-MAC approach.
Although this article focuses on the importance of Authenticated Encryption, dozens of other terms and concepts are also important. The Ubiq Platform’s APIs can simplify and improve an application’s data security and integrity by using a combination of Authenticated Encryption and other key concepts that we will examine in future posts. Ubiq also constantly monitors the latest research related to encryption algorithms, modes, and vulnerabilities, and it incorporates the newest information into the platform, ensuring the data remains as secure as possible.
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Reciting Surat Al-Fatihah in Prayer
If I am a muqtadi (person following the imam in prayer) behind an imam in the silent prayers (Zhuhr and `Asr) and I forget to recite Surat Al-Fatihah (the Opening Surah), what is the ruling of such prayer?
`Ubadah ibn As-Samit narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “Whoever does not recite Al-Fatihah in his prayer, his prayer is invalid.” (Al-Bukhari)
Based on this hadith, it is clear that reciting Al-Fatihah is one of the essential parts of the prayer, and is to be recited in each rak`ah both by the imam and the followers.
The scholars have two opinions regarding such ruling:
1- Most scholars are of the view that the imam or the followers must recite Surat Al-Fatihah on their own particularly during the rak`ahs in which the imam recites silently or during the whole silent prayers such as Zhuhr (Noon Prayer) and `Asr (Afternoon Prayer).
2- Imam Abu Hanifah sees that the follower does not have to recite Surat Al-Fatihah during the congregational prayers because the imam recites on his behalf.
To get more information about the rulings of reciting Surat Al-Fatihah in prayer, you can watch this short video with Dr. Muhammad Salah.
Source: Huda Youtube Channel.
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I have been asked numerous times about the movement called Liberation Theology. What is it and where did it originate? Is it helpful or harmful? Or maybe somewhere in between? This movement actually sprung up in the 1960’s as some Latin American scholars attempted to address poverty and oppression perpetuated by dictatorial governments in various parts of the world especially in Roman Catholic countries in South America.. It certainly sounded like a good cause. Could social change be facilitated and people liberated out of poverty through social justice and personal empowerment helped along by Bible verses? These ideas were introduced in the United States through the writings of Gustavo Gutierrez, ( Dictionary of Christianity in America, pages 648-650). The sad fact is that Liberation Theology has left the Gospel behind. Not only that but it has elevated class warfare to a kind of mandatory sacred doctrine. It has a veneer of the sacred but is secular to the core. Originally it was a hybrid that merged Catholicism with Communism and various other forms of socialism. The message was miles away from the personal and individual spiritual liberation Jesus came to provide.
The view that Liberationists hold is simply an amalgamation of Marxist Communism layered over with biblical themes and words from the Bible while radically redefining those words. One such biblical theme used as justification is the liberation of the Jews in the Exodus under Moses. The Liberationist do not present this as a story of redemption focused on the covenant God, the great I Am, but rather as a schematic for the poorer masses to rise up against the Pharaoh’s of this world. It advocates taking from the rich to give to the poor. It lacks a Passover Lamb and does not offer spiritual redemption. In this Liberation scenario the poor are automatically on God’s side and loved by Him just for being poor. The rich are all villains and enemies of God because they have wealth. This is certainly a misuse of the Bible in the worst way. The very obvious meaning of the Exodus story is that God called Moses to deliver the covenant nation and call them to love, worship and serve Him. Ultimately they would preserve God’s Word and bring forth the Messiah through their lineage.
Of course in the true biblical scenario God extends His love to all both rich and poor alike and invites them to salvation in Christ our Passover. The Liberation Theology movement encourages violence and conflict by the lower classes (as subjectively defined by the leaders) and is constantly crying the theme of social injustice. This is not to say that there is no social injustice in the world but ushering in social justice alone is not the same as bringing salvation in Christ. This movement called Liberation is primarily a horizontal movement whereas true Christianity is both horizontal and vertical seeking to reconcile man with God, (2Corinthians 5:18-21). In the Liberation Theology view there is no original sin and sin itself is redefined as having possessions and wealth while others do not. Share the wealth is a constant theme except for the rulers who get the wealth and dictate to others how to use theirs. A cadre of wealthy rulers managing the masses is only a necessary but temporary event the rulers say until everything evolves into the promised Utopia for all where all will be equal in status. No one would think to question the ruler’s greed. Unfortunately in many instances when someone opposes Liberation Theology they are accused of hatred for the little guy and bigotry as well as racism. They are shouted down as not caring for the underprivileged.
Dave Breese has given us a great explanation and a clear answer to the question, what is Liberation Theology?:
“It is the view that holds that Christ came into the world to be our economic liberator. It asserts that His first purpose was to free the poor and the oppressed from the shackles of economic constriction. In actuality, liberation theology redefines sin. In liberation theology sin is to possess wealth in the face of the world’s poverty. Righteousness is therefore to redistribute the wealth, giving it to the poor. Evangelism is also redefined. It is seen as the announcement of economic liberation of Christ and the invitation to the oppressed people of the world to join in the revolution He now ordains. Liberation theology advances another fascinating rationale. In that possessing money is the essence of sin, it follows that the most sinful system in the world is capitalism. The liberationists then ask, From whence does capitalism come? The answer is of course the United States….although it has lost ground in some places, liberation theology continues to be a serious spiritual subversion within Christianity and a serious threat to the stability of the world. It has been called ‘the greatest threat that the Church has faced in all of its history.’ The emergence of liberation theology makes clear that Marxism moves across the world in many a strange disguise.” ( 7 Men Who Rule The World From The Grave , pages 85-86).
Where Liberation theology takes another very evil and wicked turn is when it feeds vicious hatred of Jews and anti-Semitism. In that poisoned stream all Jews are seen as less than human and poised to take over the world. Then there are forms of Liberation theology that stress that one race is better than another – superior in some way.
Another egregious off shoot of Liberation Theology (with proponents hiding behind the theme of The Third Quest ) is the school of thought that blatantly casts Jesus as coming to organize social revolution and being only a prophet of radical social change. These views are promoted by Gerd Theissen, R. David Kaylor and Richard Horsley. This makes Jesus more a politician than a Savior. Certainly Jesus cared about society and downtrodden suffering people. Social change may occur when a person is born again or a community is impacted by the Gospel but this is only a by product and not the core issue, (See, The Jesus Quest , Ben Witherington, chapter 6 for a full analysis of this flawed approach).
Given the history of so many failed Utopias’s our logic tells us (as well as the Bible) that we are going to have to wait for the coming of Jesus before there is a perfect society and a perfect kingdom on earth. Liberation Theology is not the blessing it is advertised to be but rather is the distorted delusion of fallen men.
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Care Coordination helps students manage life stressors that can impact academics and personal well-being. Care Coordination enhances student success by identifying needs, removing barriers and reducing distress. After receiving a referral for services, the office helps students through a variety of interventions, university services, community referrals and case management.
Care Coordination is able to :
- Reach out to students via email and phone to offer an appointment with the Care Coordinator, Julie Bezek
- Evaluate threat and assess risk to self and/or the community
- Arrange for appropriate medical or mental health care
- Maintain contact and meet with students to address needs
- Foster self-advocacy in students to manage their academic, personal and fiscal responsibilities
- Advocate for students individually and systemically
The Care Coordinator provides intervention and follow-up services for students referred for personal, emotional, mental health, and academic concerns. The Care Coordinator assists with services across campus resources such as the Counseling Center, Disability Support Services, Student Health Services, Academic Advising, etc. and within the greater community.
If a student is struggling and you are unsure how to get them help, Care Coordination can provide assistance. The Care Coordinator, Julie Bezek, can be contacted at the Counseling Center (Lograsso Hall), 716-673-3424 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.org.
For more information on assisting a student of concern or filing a student of concern report please visit: Students of Concern (SOC)
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Read more about our two decades of history, beginning December 1999 when Center for Evidence-Based Practices began as the Ohio Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Coordinating Center of Excellence.
The Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) began as the Ohio Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Coordinating Center of Excellence (SAMI CCOE) with a grant from the Ohio Department of Mental Health (ODMH), which received funding from the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant Program of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The SAMI CCOE was founded by Lenore Kola, PhD, and David Biegel, PhD. Patrick Boyle, PhD, LISW, was hired as consulting director.
ODMH was awarded additional funding from SAMHSA's Community Mental Health Services Block Grant Program to implement Supported Employment (SE) (link to: SE) in four community-based organizations in Ohio. ODMH awarded funding to the SAMI CCOE to provide technical assistance to these organizations.
The SAMI CCOE reorganized and created an additional CCOE—the Ohio Supported Employment (SE) Coordinating Center of Excellence—to provide technical assistance for the implementation of the evidence-based SE model. It renamed the Center for Evidence-Based Practices, an umbrella organization to oversee the activities of both the SAMI and SE CCOEs. Lenore A. Kola, PhD, of the Mandel School, and Robert J. Ronis, MD, MPH, of the Department of Psychiatry, were the founding directors.
ODMH and the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (now Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services or OhioMHAS) awarded funding to the CEBP to design, implement, and evaluate a tobacco-cessation model through its Ohio SAMI CCOE initiative.
The center began providing technical assistance for Benefits Planning (BP) (link to: BP), a core component of the evidence-based SE model.
The CEBP expanded its technical-assistance strategies to help organizations plan and implement services for people diagnosed with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders, though its SAMI CCOE. The center began to utilize two organizational assessment and planning tools:
The center celebrated ten years of evidence-based practices (EBP) implementation in the State of Ohio at its conference, "Sustaining Evidence-Based Practices: The Next 10 Years," which was held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio. Over 330 people from Ohio and 17 other states attended.
The OhioMHAS awarded the center a grant to establish a Coordinating Center of Excellence (CCOE) to disseminate Assertive Community Treatment (ACT). The center's new Ohio ACT CCOE has its roots in a technical-assistance center that was supported by The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati for many years.
Kola and Boyle retire from CEBP and the Mandel School. Kruszynski became director; Deborah Myers became managing director. The CEBP found its new administrative home at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, directed by Daniel J. Flannery, PhD, as its second consultation and training center, alongside the Center for Innovative Practices.
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Big Island Anthuriums
Anthuriums have heart-shaped flowers and are said to be the signature flower of the islands. English missionaries first introduced anthuriums to the islands in 1889. It is native to Latin America's rainforests. Here in Hawaii, anthuriums are known to grow successfully on the Big Island of Hawaii. Anthuriums are part of a family of plants that include taro, philodendron, monstera, and calla lily. They all share the similar heart-shaped flower and knobby tail (spadix). My favorite of the anthuriums is the Obake, which means ghost in Japanese. The large two-tone colored flowers of green and red or green and white display individual variations and artistic impressions.
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FracFocus is the national hydraulic fracturing chemical registry. It is managed by the Ground Water Protection Council and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission – two organizations whose members are state government officials. Both organizations’ missions are focused on conservation and environmental protection.
This site was created to provide the general public with access to information about chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing. To help provide a comprehensive picture of this information and how it corresponds to related factors, the site also provides objective information on hydraulic fracturing, the purposes these chemicals serve, and the steps individual companies and regulatory agencies are taking to protect groundwater.
The primary purpose of this site is to provide factual information about hydraulic fracturing chemical use. We do not argue for or against the use of hydraulic fracturing as a technology, nor do we provide a scientific analysis of risks associated with it. Although FracFocus is not intended to replace or supplant any state government information systems, it is being used by a number of states as a means of official chemical disclosure.
Hydraulic Fracturing Educational Resources:
- What is Hydraulic Fracturing?
- Hydraulic Fracturing: The Process
- Site Set Up
- Hydraulic Fracturing Water Usage
- Hydraulic Fracturing & Groundwater Protection
- Groundwater Quality & Testing
- Well Construction & Groundwater Protection
- Fluid Flow in the Subsurface (Darcy's Law)
- How Casing Protects Groundwater
- Hydraulic Fracturing & Induced Seismicity
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It’s a good question. When do you know that your compressed air system is complete? And, really, when do you know, with confidence, that it is ready for use?
A compressor or compressed air source, is just as it sounds. It is the device which supplies air (or another gas) at an increased pressure. This increase in pressure is accomplished through a reduction in volume, and this conversion is achieved through compressing the air. So, the compressor, well, compresses (the air).
A control receiver (wet receiver) is the storage vessel or tank placed immediately after the compressor. This tank is referred to as a “wet” receiver because the air has not yet been dried, thus it is “wet”. This tank helps to cool the compressed air by having a large surface area, and reduces pulsations in the compressed air flow which occur naturally.
The dryer, like the compressor, is just as the name implies. This device dries the compressed air, removing liquid from the compressed air system. Prior to this device the air is full of moisture which can damage downstream components and devices. After drying, the air is almost ready for use.
To be truly ready for use, the compressed air must also be clean. Dirt and particulates must be removed from the compressed air so that they do not cause damage to the system and the devices which connect to the system. This task is accomplished through the filter, after which the system is almost ready for use.
To really be ready for use, the system must have a continuous system pressure and flow. End-use devices are specified to perform with a required compressed air supply, and when this supply is compromised, performance is as well. This is where the dry receiver comes into play. The dry receiver is provides pneumatic capacitance for the system, alleviating pressure changes with varying demand loads. The dry receiver helps to maintain constant pressure and flow.
In addition to this, the diagram above shows an optional device – a pressure/flow control valve. A flow control valve will regulate the volume (flow) of compressed air in a system in response to changes in flow (or pressure). These devices further stabilize the compressed air system, providing increased reliability in the supply of compressed air for end user devices.
Now, at long last, the system is ready for use. But, what will it do? What are the points of use?
Points of use in a compressed air system are referred to by their end use. These are the components around which the entire system is built. This can be a pneumatic drill, an impact wrench, a blow off nozzle, a pneumatic pump, or any other device which requires compressed air to operate.
If your end use devices are for coating, cleaning, cooling, conveying or static elimination, EXAIR Application Engineers can help with engineered solutions to maximize the efficiency and use of your compressed air. After placing so much effort into creating a proper system, having engineered solutions is a must.
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The project aims to verify the occurrence of aflatoxin M1 in milk samples and 'Minas frescal' cheese from dairies (monitored by Brazilian agriculture ministry), which yield this dairy product with and without the addition of lactic acid bacteria. Additionally, the specific aim of the proposed study will be to evaluate the efficiency of lactic acid bacteria and Saccharomyces cerevisiae for use as food additive to reduce the bioavailability of aflatoxin M1 in Minas frescal cheese. Fresh Minas cheeses will be experimentally produced with aflatoxin M1 contaminated milk, and lactic acid bacteria and Saccharomyces cerevisiae will be added during the cheese production process for testing the bioavailability reduction. The efficiency of these microorganisms in reducing the bioavailability of aflatoxin M1 in Minas frescal cheese will be evaluated through the high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and the possible effects on the shelf life will be evaluated through physical-chemical and microbiological analyses. The identification of the binding mechanism between lactic acid bacteria, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and aflatoxin M1 will be performed by usage of the scanning electron microscopy. Statistical analyzes will be performed in accordance with the procedures established in the SAS General Linear Model to observe significant differences. It is expected with the present study to determine the effect of the addition of these microorganisms on the shelf life of Minas frescal cheese, and to identify the binding mechanism associated with lactic acid bacteria, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and aflatoxin M1.
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