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(WB) The Chilean Senate on Tuesday approved the repeal of Article 365 of the country’s penal code that differentiated the age of consent between same-sex and heterosexual couples.
Article 365 was the last homophobic law in force in the country that has seen an expansion of rights to LGBT and intersex Chileans in recent years. A law that allows same-sex couples to marry and adopt children took effect on March 10.
Although the Article 365 repeal bill will go before the Chilean House of Deputies, Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual (Movilh), the country’s main LGBTQ and intersex rights group, said its passage is assured because the chamber has already approved it.
Movilh, which has been working to repeal Article 365 since 1999, described Tuesday’s vote as “historic” because “it is the elimination from our legal system of the last explicitly homophobic law in force in Chile.” The Chilean LGBT and intersex rights organization said the bill “approved today in the Senate will end the stigma that weighs on young gay men, whose sexual orientation and practices are considered a crime despite the absence of abuse or abuse against third parties and despite the absence of any other crime already sanctioned by our legislation.”
Movilh Director Rolando Jiménez said that “with the elimination of this anachronistic norm, the struggle for LGBTIQA+ equality closes a cycle, where no one will ever again be punished for loving or desiring someone of the same sex.”
“Today we took a forceful and decisive step towards full legal equality, a right already guaranteed in the constitution, but which has historically been so elusive for LGBTIQA+ people,” stressed Jiménez.
The Chilean State in the 2016 agreement it signed with Movilh before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights committed to repealing Article 365.
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A spike in motorcycle crashes in South East Queensland this month has prompted a seven-point safety guide from the RACQ.
Since December 1, the RACQ CareFlight helicopter has airlifted five people involved in motorcycle crashes and attended another that claimed the life of a young motorbike rider.
CareFlight Group CEO Ashley van de Velde says the rate of crashes is an alarming start to the Christmas season.
“I know our helicopter crews feel like they fly to the aid of a rider every other day, but alarmingly that has been the case this month and for that trend to continue over the summer holidays is a huge concern,” Mr Van de Velde said.
Motorcyclists can reduce their crash risk by taking time to prepare themselves and their motorbike for the journey, says RACQ executive manager technical and safety policy Steve Spalding who rides an immaculately maintained 1996 Suzuki Bandit.
“It’s important motorcyclists remind themselves about how vulnerable they are in a crash and the need to ride defensively,” he says.
“Taking the time to protect yourself and prepare for the ride can make the difference between life and death.”
He recommends motorcyclists take the following steps before heading off on a journey:
Ensure all motorcycle maintenance and servicing is up to date;
Carry out a pre-ride safety check that includes checking lights, engine oil and brake fluid levels, clutch, tyre condition and pressure when the tyres are cold;
Carry a temporary tyre repair kit;
Ensure the chain is correctly adjusted and lubricated with an appropriate chain grease;
Plan the trip with adequate rest breaks and fuel stops remembering some motorcycles may only have a fuel capacity to take them around 25km;
Secure luggage, being sure not to overload the motorcycle thereby making it unstable; and
Wear protective riding gear, even in hot weather.
“It’s absolutely essential that they wear good protective gear, not just the minimum of a helmet, but boots, gloves, jacket and trousers that are well protected,” he says.
Queensland summers create harsh conditions for riders with hot and humid weather and sudden storms.
“It’s important to ride to the conditions and reduce speed if the road is wet,” Steve says.
“Motorcyclists should also watch out for signs of fatigue while riding as wind buffeting or prolonged sitting in an uncomfortable position can be tiring.”
In the wake of a beach motorcycle crash on Fraser Island on Sunday, Steve says off-road riders should take additional precautions including:
Riding with a friend, if possible;
Letting family or friends know where they’re going and when they expect to return; and
Riding at a pace both within their own and their bike’s capabilities.
In the latest incident, the CareFlight chopper flew from their Bundaberg base about 4.30pm on Sunday to the scene of a motorbike crash near Hook Point at the island’s southern end.
A 23-year-old man had suffered a serious leg injury after he lost control of the bike and hit a sand dune.
The helicopter’s intensive care flight paramedic treated the man who was airlifted to Hervey Bay Hospital in a stable condition.
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Watch any sporting champion perform at the highest level and it’s easy to think they are free from nerves and unburdened by fear. Whereas us mere mortals might fluff our Open winning putt on the 18th hole, blaze a European Championship winning penalty over the crossbar or double fault when serving to save match point at Wimbledon, the sporting elite perform with a sense of control and calm.
This state of calm control is usually what many people lack when it comes to public speaking. Instead they feel a sense of dread and apprehension about having to stand in a room full of people and deliver a keynote talk, business presentation or, worse still, a best man’s speech at a wedding. But, as with sport’s elite, we too can enter into a state whereby we are in control, channelling our emotions in a positive manner to deliver the perfect performance.
Here are seven simple steps to master public speaking:
Not only do you need to know your subject and what you want to say, but you also need to know your audience. I travel all over the world and encounter all manner of audiences, each with their own cultural nuances. It’s important to understand who you’re talking to to ensure that you don’t say anything that may cause offence, as well as having some local knowledge to show them that you have made an effort.
As the old saying goes ‘practice makes perfect’, and public speaking is no different. There’s nothing worse than someone who hasn’t practised their talk and simply stands reading it word-for-word from cue cards. Take the time to go through it at home, practise on a family member and get comfortable with your talk; the more you do this, the more natural and at ease you will be when the big moment comes.
Not only have I given my fair share of talks, but as a student of my trade I’ve also seen a lot and one of my biggest criticisms is when people use slides that are word heavy. Slides are not always necessary but if you do need them make sure they illustrate what you’re saying, rather than simply saying what you’re already saying. People have come to hear you talk, not to read your talk on a series of uninspiring slides.
In the days and hours leading up to your talk take time to sit quietly and visualise it in your head. Close your eyes, relax and picture the entire talk in your mind, from walking on stage, starting your talk, people laughing at your jokes (if you have any, and don’t feel they are essential) all the way through to a standing ovation at the end. The focus of this is priming your mind for success by showing it how you want events to unfold.
When we are nervous it’s easy to avoid making eye contact with the audience, yet this is exactly what you need to do, you need to connect with as many people as possible. By doing this you are engaging with people directly, instead of standing on a stage and preaching to them, which is a surefire way to lose your audience. It’s about making the audience feel like they’re having a conversation with you, so talk to them, not at them, make eye contact and smile.
Even now I still get a sense of nervousness before I step onto the stage, but I’ve learnt to use it to create positive energy that comes through in my words and presence. Our brains release chemicals into our bodies when they sense danger, either physical or psychological, which serve to sharpen our senses. This is exactly what happens just before we give a public talk, as most of us fear making mistakes or being judged by others. Instead of seeing it as nerves, see it as energy and excitement and channel it to benefit you.
Perhaps the most important aspect of public speaking for me is the ability to add value to people’s lives, be it through inspiring them with your own story, motivating them or giving them what I call ‘take homes’ – little tips and tools that they can implement in their own lives to affect a change. So take a moment to ask yourself ‘what am I giving to people?’.
The more I have spoken in public the more I have learnt to focus my energy and emotion on the ‘best case’ scenarios, rather than worrying about what will happen if things go wrong.
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It seems every year that my blueberries are shrinking in fruit size more and more every year. Productivity remains the same but the fruit size is noticeably shrinking, and I grow all the large fruiting varieties. Bush growth and productivity are healthy, no disease issues that I’m aware of. I fertilize every spring with about 1/4 cup of ammonium sulfate per bush.
Any advice on cause and how to fix this for next year?
Try a broad spectrum fertilizer? Plants need more than just nitrogen.
At this point a soil test would tell you what’s what, I would start with that. I have been meaning to order one for ages but because everything seems to be working on my yard I have been neglecting that…
i have a few spots in the yard that for some reason wont grow squat. i need to do this as well but it isnt cheap.
I think blues need more ammonium nitrate than that, but smaller fruit size makes me think it’s a moisture issue. Less watering, less mulch, more competition from other plants?
How old are your plants? How much pruning have you done?
Zero pruning, the plants are about 3-4 years since being in the ground. They’re still only about 2-3 feet tall and wide so haven’t considered pruning yet. I probably should. Soil test is a good idea. Thanks for the reminder I was meaning to do it during spring and forgot.
I’m still learning how to prune. I’m trying to follow the recommendations in this link Pruning Highbush Blueberries
It’s the lack of pruning. Prune next winter/spring and you will get bigger berries.
When my blueberry bushes get over six canes I start removing some of the older canes. I think this procedure along with fertilizing helps berry size.
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The idea underlying ‘the Middle Ages’ is by now well-known: it was the backwards middle period between the glories of Antiquity and the advances of Enlightenment. As this perception took hold, such periodisation became entrenched and the fields that studied each era so fossilized that hardly any communication took place between them. This state of things, however, is increasingly being challenged, and the boundaries are becoming more and more porous. This has been accelerated by the inadequacy of the Eurocentric ‘Middle Ages’ of describing cultures outside of Europe in the same timeframe. How do we move beyond the boundaries of time and space imposed upon us by the terms ‘medieval’ and ‘the Middle Ages’? This topic invites participants to explore these boundaries, and encourages the deconstruction, or indeed wholesale destruction of boundaries to ‘the Middle Ages’. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
- The boundaries of ‘the Middle Ages’ in time and space
- The degree to which our identity as scholars hangs on concepts like ‘medievalists’ or ‘the Middle Ages’
- How to work productively across traditional periodizations (e.g. classical and medieval)
- Perspectives on Medieval Studies from outside the traditional (or stereotypical) boundaries of the field
- How to best break the boundaries of space without re-inscribing Eurocentric positions.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be emailed to email@example.com no later than 20 September.
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There is every reason why the strange and unsettling fate of Joseph K, the central character of Franz Kafka’s novel, should provide fertile material for Philip Glass. His unmistakable musical style is well suited to the episodic nature of the story and to underscoring the tension and unease that permeates the tale of the downfall of Joseph K. And to persuade Christopher Hampton to provide the libretto ought to have sealed the deal. But, despite all these strengths, the opera never quite works.
Kafka, who was born in Prague, began the novel in 1914. Like all great works, it has been claimed by a number of cultural and political causes but it has always eluded easy categorisation.
Glass has said that he thinks the story is highly comic but, even if that is the key to his reading of the tale, it is only partly true – it is perverse to ignore the underlying tide of paranoia that leads to the downfall of Joseph K.
Music Theatre Wales has had a long association with Philip Glass and this production is clearly put together with a real love of the man’s music. It is a chamber opera with a small orchestra and small cast all of whom, except Johnny Herford, sing more than one role. The conductor Michael Rafferty finds a rhythm for the piece that frees it from memories of the more extreme forms of minimalism of Glass’ early operas and the rhythmic and harmonic repetition that divided audiences. The twelve strong orchestra respond well to Rafferty’s guiding hand as do the singers. With very little opportunity to develop strong melodic personalities, they respond with relish to the dramatic opportunities given to them by director Michael McCarthy.
Johnny Herford as Joseph K has a fine voice but, with little chance to display his vocal talents, his portrayal of the hapless hero is driven by a painful sense that he has no control over any of the things that happen to him. In his personal relationships, as well as in his dealings with “the court”, he seems an innocent in a wicked world. The people who appear to help him or to exploit him are well drawn – special praise for Paul Curievici as the enigmatic artist Titorelli and to Amanda Forbes as Leni. The set is spare but very effective and the constant sense that everyone is watching everyone else helps to underscore the sense of paranoia.
But all this brings us back to the central problem of Glass’ music. The lack of dramatic force is just too evident – the sense that there is a series of irrational events leading remorselessly to a tragic climax is not there in the score and no amount of fine singing and dramatic visual images can save the opera from seeming flat and uninvolving.
- By Philip Glass
- Libretto: Christopher Hampton (after Franz Kafka)
- Director: Michael McCarthy
- Conductor: Michael Rafferty
- Producer: Music Theatre Wales
- Cast includes: Johnny Herford, Michael Bennett, Rowan Hellier, Gwion Thomas
- Royal Opera House, London
- Until 18 October 2014, then touring nationally
- Time:19.45 (Running time: 2 hrs 20 mins)
- Review by Owen Davies
- 13 October 2014
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I could have explained what FKR design means in the title, but I wanted you to click through. And now if you dare leave before you’ve read the whole post, the Ancient Dread Curse of the Drained Device Battery will plague you and the children of your children. Sorry not sorry.
FKR stands for Free Kriegspiel
Renaissance Revolution, a school of game design experimenting with the very roots of our hobby. Here is a couple links with attempts at definitions, in case this sounds like something you’d be interested in. If not, just assume that by FKR design, I mean super simple rules, tweaked and developed at the table.
I knew precious little myself about Free Kriegspiel games until I realised than my latest attempt at designing for short online sessions had fallen squarely in the FKR wheelhouse (thankfully no one in there was harmed). So I dived into blog posts and forum threads and Discord servers to hoover all the wisdom I could. I even proposed a segment about FKR design to Radio Rôliste (which we recorded a week ago) to have an excuse to do some more research.
Long intro short, I’ve been running two weekly games for about a month, and having an absolute blast. I really needed that freedom and creative mindset after running almost excusively 5E D&D for over a year.
Obliviax Oracle, the d20 to rule them all
It is very simple. Let me quote the game text:
The referee describes situations; the players say how their characters react, asking for details as needed. When the referee is unsure of the consequences of a course of action, the table agrees on a question and a player rolls the d20 to get an answer from the table below. The referee interprets the result and describes the consequences. Traits, knowledge, items, favourable circumstances, etc. can add a bonus to the roll.
That’s the whole of the game: a d20 table with a suggestion of what could happen for each entry. An oracle.
The other page gives you rules you could have made up yourself — and I encourage you to do so! — for character creation (and death), as well as some random ideas to expand the ruleset as needed.
Because you certainly will need more rules, for chases, for magical duels, for divine intervention.
Make up the rules as you need them
Of course this all depends on the kind of game you’re running. One of mine is set in Andrew Kolb’s beautiful hexcrawl Neverland, so the exploration and encounters procedures are baked in (except maybe carousing but Jeff’s Gameblog has me covered).
All I had to do was to drop the characters in hex 01. Character creation was simplified to lower the barrier to entry for non gamers, but so far I haven’t had to come up with anything else yet.
The other game is World Warriors, a nostalgic look back at the Street Fighter Storytelling Game (ah, the 90s! do you reckon there is a place on Earth where White Wolf is still making weird license games?). For this one, I thought about character creation and combat, of course. And now, after about seven hours of play over three sessions, I have thoughts about written and unwritten rules, but that will probably be the subject of another post.
In the meantime, if you want to read what I’ve done with this game, I put everything I’m happy with in the Obliviax Oracle folder.
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February 16, 2016: STF leaders from Harvard-Westlake, New Roads, Palisades Charter and Santa Monica High Schools met with Congressman Ted Lieu (33rd District) to thank him for being an outspoken advocate of refugee rights and to ask him how STF can help support his future work for refugees.
While discussing whether or not the US is doing its fair share in the global refugee crisis, Congressman Lieu encouraged STF to contact elected officials, use social media and write letters to the editor to raise awareness of the issue…
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January 26, 2016: Rodi Youssef, a 16-year-old Syrian refugee, spoke to more than 50 STF leaders, teachers and special guests at the STF Winter Workshop about how and why he came to live in the U.S. in October.
After serenading the group with his oud (a Middle Eastern stringed instrument), Rodi answered questions about his life in Syria, fleeing to Turkey and working 15 hours a day, 7 days a week, and ultimately winning the UNHCR lottery to come to the U.S. with his widowed mother, and older brother and sister…
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As the world’s worst refugee crisis since World War II is unfolding and repercussions of the Syrian conflict are felt throughout the world, Human Rights Watch is excited to invite you to a screening and discussion of Salam Neighbor, a movie following some of the tens of thousands of Syrian refugees living in Jordan. Salam Neighbor follows Zach and Chris, two Americans who head to the edge of war, just seven miles from the Syrian border, to live among 85,000 uprooted refugees in Jordan’s Za’atari camp…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.hrwstf.org/wordpress/be-a-global-neighbor-january-31-2016/
November 20 – December 11, 2015: On the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Nov. 20) and Human Rights Day (Dec. 10), STF chapters hosted events to raise awareness of the global refugee crisis.
Events included screening “Salam Neighbor,” presenting a refugee tent exhibit and hosting educational tables. STFers also collected petition signatures urging the United States ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and encouraged classmates to contact their US Senators to ask them to defeat efforts to bar Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entering the US…
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November 17, 2015: Representatives from the HRW Student Task Force set up a refugee tent exhibition to educate guests of the annual Human Rights Watch Voices for Justice Dinner about the global refugee crisis. STF leaders described human rights violations faced by refugees fleeing around the world and asked participants to share what they would bring in their “backpack” if they had to leave home forever…
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More than 40 student leaders, teachers and administrators discussed the first draft of the Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities at Palisades Charter High School, in Pacific Palisades, CA. Using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, participants are taking a human rights-based approach to identifying their rights and responsibilities. Students are soliciting feedback from the entire school community, meeting weekly to continue the development of the Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities, and hope to have the school vote for ratification by the end of the academic year…
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October 20, 2015: More than 150 students at Carson High School learned about the Darfuri refugees living in Chad from Gabriel Stauring and Katie-Jay Scott of i-Act. The audience heard the story of a refugee family from Darfur, and the struggles they faced both on their journey to Chad and during their time in the refugee camp. Participants were engaged in learning about the issues in the camps, including the lack of sufficient food and restricted access to education. They asked questions about Katie-Jay and Gabe’s journeys to the camps, the emotions they feel on these trips, and the different programs they set up for the refugees. STF members lead breakout groups to develop questions for refugee children in Chad. Some questions will be used in a human rights survey and others will be used in a video chat with refugees.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.hrwstf.org/wordpress/carson-meets-i-act/
October 14, 2015: Faculty and students from Palisades Charter High School, in Pacific Palisades, gathered to discuss the development of human rights education on their campus since the Human Rights Education Summer Institute they attended in July. Faculty members shared how they have and will continue to incorporate human rights issues and vocabulary into their respective subjects, ranging from history to art. STF student leaders presented updates on the “Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities,” an ongoing campus-wide project aimed at protecting the rights of students. STF leaders emphasized that this effort will not only empower students to know their own rights, but will also teach them to protect the rights of those whose voices are not heard.
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When a young Egyptian woman travels from her village to Cairo to add her voice to the tens of thousands of Egyptians demanding an end to 60 years of military rule, she is arrested, beaten, and tortured by security forces and later punished and imprisoned by her family for daring to speak out. Unbreakable, she sets out in a search for freedom and social justice in a country in the grips of a power struggle, where there is little tolerance for the likes of her. Buoyed by the other activists she meets along the way, Hend Nefea’s story mirrors the trajectory of the Arab Spring – from the ecstasy of newfound courage to the agony of shattered dreams. In the end, despite crushing setbacks, it is resilience that sustains the hope for reform even in the darkest hours of repression.
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We are in the midst of the worst refugee crisis the world has seen since World War II. Worldwide displacement has reached a staggering all-time high as war and persecution relentlessly rage on in too many places around the world. Over 60 million people have been forced from their homes, fleeing for their lives. Thousands find themselves making the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean Sea.
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August 29, 2015: Over 70 students, teachers and special guests attended the STF Fall Leadership Workshop at Wildwood School to learn about the most serious world-wide refugee crisis since World War II. Participants heard from long-time friends at i-Act, who work in Darfuri refugee camps in Chad, and from an STF leader who fled for her life from Afghanistan and recently secured political asylum…
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As you head back to school, we invite you to one of our most important events of the year: STF Fall Leadership Workshop!
Who: You, STF leaders, Teacher Advisors, guests and speakers
When: Saturday, August 29, 9:30am – 2:00pm
Where: Wildwood School
More details coming soon!
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July 27-28, 2015: Educators, administrators and students gathered for a two day workshop at Palisades Charter High School to gain knowledge about the historical and contemporary significance of human rights and the mechanisms that protect them and to reinforce the skills and values to uphold human rights. Human rights education (HRE) expert, Nancy Flowers, joined participants…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.hrwstf.org/wordpress/hre-summer-institute-july-27-28-2015/
May 5, 2015: Fifty-five students, teachers and guests listened in awe of Dr. Henry Oster, Holocaust survivor, as he shared his story at the STF Year-End Leadership Workshop. Graduating STF intern Alexa Mencia said, “An experience like meeting Dr. Oster would have significantly shaped my course of study and action as a high school student.”
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April 23, 2015: At an after school event, more than 100 students gathered to listen to listen to a presentation about the Rwanda Genocide from expert and STF alumna, Amy Marczewski Carnes, Associate Director of Education – Evaluation and Scholarship. Amy talked about her travels to Rwanda, meeting the women drummers of Ingoma Nshya and tasting ice cream at “Sweet Dreams.” During the Q&A session, Amy asked the audience what can be done to prevent future genocides. One student responded, “By holding events like this. Having open forums for discussion can help prevent atrocities.”
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April 22, 2015: 250 students and teachers gathered at Carson High School to listen to STF alumna, Jasmina Repak, speak about her experiences as a teenager during the Bosnian Civil War. As a teenager, Jasmina learned about the genocide in Srebrenica and discussed the event with the Carson students. After her presentation, the audience watched “Sweet Dreams” and participated in a Q&A with Jasmina.
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April 20, 2015: STF friend, Alepho Deng, spoke to 150 students at Valencia High School about his experiences as a Lost Boy of Sudan. He then joined STF leaders in Santa Clarita Valley for dinner, before speaking at the Valencia City Library. More than 95 members of the community came to hear Alepho. Audience members expressed their gratitude to STF for hosting the event and raising awareness of human rights issues.
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April 16, 2015: Reaching more than 400 students and teachers, the Palisades Charter High School STF chapter hosted an all day event to educate their campus about Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month. They explained the history of the Rwandan genocide and screened “Sweet Dreams.” They also had a gallery walk of information about other major genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Saturday, May 2, 2015
5:00 pm | Doors open – Meet & Greet with HRW LGBT Program Director Graeme Reid
6:00 pm | Film Screening, followed by panel discussion
8:00 pm | Reception with tacos and drinks
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April 9, 2015: Sierra Canyon’s FREE Club educated their classmates about Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month. They hosted an evening event, sharing information about the Armenian, Cambodian, Bosnian, Rwandan and Darfur genocides before screening “Sweet Dreams.”
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April 8, 2015: With the help of 60 students, the New Roads STF Chapter hosted a “die-in” to honor the victims and survivors of genocide. Students “died” in the main lunch area for 10 minutes as the entire high school walked past. Armed with signs and audience attention, speakers read facts from the Armenian, Holocaust, Cambodian, Bosnian, Rwandan and Darfur genocides. Prior to the “die-in,” STFers presented Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month at an all school meeting.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.hrwstf.org/wordpress/new-roads-dies-for-genocide/
February 17, 2015: Student leaders and teacher advisors gathered at the STF Winter Leadership workshop to review the successful Children’s Rights Camps and launch the Genocide Awareness and Prevention efforts for April.
Students walked a 20th and 21st Century gallery of genocide and shared their knowledge and questions about: Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.hrwstf.org/wordpress/learning-from-survivors/
February 11, 2015: Oakwood STF hosted their Children’s Rights Camp event as part of their school’s Diversity Week dedicated to human rights.
Educating more than 300 4th-12th grade students, teachers and administrators, the three-tent camp raised awareness about the Convention on the Rights of the Child, military use of schools and child migrants.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.hrwstf.org/wordpress/oakwoods-camp-supports-human-rights-week/
February 5, 2015: The Sierra Canyon STF chapter, the FREE Club, invited more than 200 students and teachers to learn about the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child Migrants, EMUS and Juvenile Justice issues at their Children’s Rights Camp.
In a meaningful show of support, students wrote 150 letters to California Governor Brown in support of Edel Gonzalez, the first person originally sentenced to Juvenile Life Without Parole to be given a parole-eligible sentence under SB260…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.hrwstf.org/wordpress/sierra-canyon-educates-for-justice/
February 3, 2015: New Roads School invited human rights education (HRE) expert, Nancy Flowers, to discuss incorporating more human rights into their curriculum at a half-day workshop. STF leaders Matthew An and Jessica Martinez spoke to the assembled faculty at the STF co-sponsored event, explaining why HRE is so important from the student perspective…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.hrwstf.org/wordpress/stfers-request-more-hre/
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Today abstracts are used in a wide number of situations. Every phase of an academic career, from graduate school to Nobel Prize, requires an abstract. In other words, the English abstract is essential for becoming an international scholar.
In recent years the abstract has become more than a summary of the contents of a thesis or an article; the significance of the research, the scholarly discoveries and the research methodology have become the focus, while there has been a trend for the abstract itself to become shorter (100-250 words in length).
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Fan debates that spiral out of control used to be called wank, ostensibly because it was seen as self-aggrandizing with no particular goal except for an anonymous emotional release on the internet, and it was labelled and described as such in communities such as fandom_wank and fail_fandomanon on LiveJournal and Dreamwidth. Nowadays, these similar arguments on Tumblr and Twitter are called discourse, a term co-opted from academia which lends gravitas and credence to the arguments being expounded in the post. Similarly, squick in old fandom simply implied a visceral dislike of a given topic, but the new fandom term trigger makes someone’s aversive feelings towards that topic more intensely personal and potentially traumatic. As fandom became more and more political and critical of its consumption of media, its preferred terms to describe its engagement with the media have also shifted towards a more academic, professional lexicon.
In the end, perhaps that is what the old fandom denizens currently on Tumblr are bemoaning when they note the shift from wank to discourse or squick to trigger. This cultural shift to becoming more serious about one’s hobby has thrown people who have been in fandom before Strikethrough slightly off-kilter. (…) In its current iteration on Tumblr, fandom’s shift from wank to discourse and squick to trigger indicates its growing acceptance of critical analysis of media, especially in regards to increasing representation for marginalized populations.
Winterwood, Lily. “Discourse Is the New Wank: A Reflection on Linguistic Change in Fandom.” In “Tumblr and Fandom,” edited by Lori Morimoto and Louisa Ellen Stein, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 27.
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The Sport Of Birding: Lists & Big Years!
Most birders keep “lists” of bird species they have seen. The variety of lists seems almost endless:
- “Life” lists – bird species seen over the course of one’s life
- North American lists
- Yearly lists
- State lists
- County lists
- Yard lists
- & yes, sometimes even lists of dead bird species seen!
Some birders compete in “big years” where they try to see the most species in a year – in the world, in North America, in their country, state, or county.
There are also “big days” where birders will compete to see the most species in a 24-hour period. One of the largest competitions is the World Series of Birding held in May each year at Cape May, New Jersey. This event has raised millions of dollars for conservation over the past 30 years. It has also brought birding to the attention of the media and attracted untold numbers of people to become birders.
In New York, the Montezuma Muckrace is held every September and the newest big day competition is the Seatuck Birding Challenge on Long Island, also held in September.
In 2012, I spent time with an eastern Long Island birder doing a Big Year in New York. It was like watching a billiard ball as he ricocheted back and forth across the state as rarities would show up! That winter, a Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch appeared at someone’s feeder in the southern Adirondacks – a bird normally found in the western U.S. I called him and within a few hours he was watching the bird! He found 361 species that year and put over 40,000 miles on his car (in addition to 10 boat trips)! He broke the record by a long shot and will likely hold the New York Big Year record for a long time to come.
Married couples even compete with each other! Since they are not with each other 24-7, their lists are not always identical, and so starts a friendly-family competition!
The Thrill Of The Chase
So what happens when a mega rare bird shows up in Tupper Lake? This Adirondack region recently found out!
On January 25, 2017, carpenters working on Jack Delehanty’s Tupper Lake home on Lake Simond Road were about to make birding history. Shawn Hitchins had been ice-fishing and left Walleye eggs on the ice. Another carpenter, Mike Thibodeau, noticed a gull eating the Walleye eggs and mentioned it to Jack. As fate would have it, Jack is the son of Charlcie Delehanty, one of the most famous birders in the Adirondacks, and she raised a birding family. Jack took some photos and video of the unusual gull. After family discussion, his sister Alex sent the photos to Larry Master who immediately knew this was likely a mega rare Ross’s Gull.
Larry, who was away at a meeting in Washington D.C., called me first thing Thursday morning so I could go to Jack’s home to see if the gull was still around and to get photos. He told me to keep it quiet – which I did — but rumors immediately began from people who received the photos from Larry. Stacy Robinson, from Port Henry, showed up just after I arrived and we attempted to get photos from Jack’s second floor window (with lots of loud sounds with the house under construction!). I was standing on a chair so I could position my scope pointing down and I had my iPhone attached to it. We finally moved outside on his second floor balcony and saw the gull fly in observing its distinctive wedge-shaped, black-tipped tail – a first winter Ross’s Gull! I jumped up and down!
My cell phone had been ringing and beeping non-stop with calls and texts, but I had to ignore them as I used the phone to get photos and video of the Ross’s Gull. Everyone wanted directions, so I was consumed with responding to the inquiries.
By the afternoon, people began arriving - from Rochester, Cornell, Vermont, Connecticut – birders who heard rumors, abandoned work, and jumped in their cars for a long journey with no knowledge of even where to go! For many birders, a Ross’s Gull is their most sought-after North American species to see (or “tick” — a term used by some birders for a new species on their life lists).
Jack drove to his mother Charlcie’s home and brought her back to see the gull. She is in her mid-90s and still actively birding. She sat in Jack’s living room looking through the picture window at the Ross’ Gull with a lovely smile on her face! It was a terrific moment.
Since a mega-rare bird, far from its expected region, can show up and possibly disappear by the next day, time is of the essence for birders. Birders flock to see a rare bird in what is often termed a “chase.”
I was leading a field trip for the Long Lake Parks and Recreation Department on Saturday, January 28, and of course I had to change the itinerary to make Tupper Lake the first stop. We arrived at Jack’s home by 9 a.m. to hordes of birders that parked way up the road from Jack’s driveway. They had been waiting for 2 hours, but no sign of the Ross’s Gull. So we traded phone numbers with a NYC birder I knew in the waiting group and we spent time birding in other Tupper Lake locations while waiting for the gull to arrive.
We saw the lovely Northern Shrike that is wintering in the field across the road from the old OWD factory. Northern Shrikes are predatory songbirds that use their sharp bills to impale mice and other small mammals in the back of the neck. They hunt from the very tops of trees, making them easy to spot. When not hunting, they remain hidden in thickets.
After a couple hours of birding and no messages that the gull had returned, we decided to head to Sabattis Bog to see boreal bird species. But just after heading past Lake Simond Road on Route 30, we slowed down when we saw a group of American Crows and Bald Eagles behaving oddly on the ice of Tupper Lake. There was another car stopped along the road and the woman sitting next to me, Jodi Brodsky, said, “Hey, she is pointing at something – a gull!” It was the Ross’s Gull flying across Tupper Lake from a huge ice-fishing shanty on the far side of the lake. It landed at the edge of the open-water channel.
I immediately called my NYC contact and a mass exodus, like a group of paparazzi, fled Jack’s home and drove over to Route 30. About 50 to 60 cars came zooming in and parked along the highway, which immediately attracted two State Police vehicles! Since I had already spent a full day observing the gull, I yelled for everyone to watch the gull and I would talk with the police. The officer I talked to wanted everyone to move for safety reasons. I spoke as quickly as I could trying to explain the importance of the bird they were looking at. I mentioned the license plates from Georgia, Maryland, Indiana, etc. He was terrific and finally told everyone they could stay as long as their cars were over the white line.
I felt such happiness for the people who had traveled so far, with some having driven through the night, to see this mega rare bird from the Arctic. The camaraderie among birders who meet up at these mega rare bird locations is quite special to experience.
I have received lots of messages of how people felt when they saw the bird. Carena Pooth, from Poughquag, NY, wrote, “The Ross’s Gull was one of those really exhilarating birding experiences that stays alive in one’s memory forever. What a beautiful little bird! Lots of fun seeing folks, too.”
Bruce Di Labio, from Ontario, wrote about being at Massachusetts in 1975 when the first Ross’s Gull ever viewed in the lower 48 states was observed. He wrote, “At the time it was regarded as the “bird of the century” and was in Time Magazine. A group of us drove overnight in March 1975 to see this mythical bird and we saw it along with a huge crowd of birders from the east coast. An amazing time in birding. During my travels I've seen Ross's Gulls in June numerous times at Churchill, Manitoba. Even though exciting it doesn't match the Tupper Lake experience.”
An Out-Of-Place Arctic Bird
The big, unanswered question: why is the Ross’s Gull in Tupper Lake?
The Ross’s Gull (Rhodostethia rosea) is a small, dove-like gull with rosy, or pink, underparts. Its genus name Rhodostethia comes from Ancient Greek for rose breast, and its species name rosea is Latin for rose-colored.
The Tupper Lake bird is a first winter Ross’s Gull so it lacks the pink color of an adult bird.
The Ross’s Gull was named after the 19th century British Arctic explorer James Clark Ross. It breeds in the high Arctic of northeast Siberia and northernmost North America, and winters at the edge of pack ice in the Arctic Ocean. It is rarely found farther south. I was thinking that Tupper Lake, so far south of the gull’s winter grounds, must feel a bit like Florida to this Arctic bird!
Just before the Tupper Lake Ross’s Gull showed up, one was discovered in California. As hundreds of birders watched it one day, a Peregrine Falcon flew in and killed it. An out of place bird, by itself and not with flock-mates, can face unexpected dangers.
Although we can’t answer why this young bird found its way to Tupper Lake, we do know that it is remarkable that it landed in front of a birder’s home! If not, it may have gone undetected. Jack Delehanty warmly welcomed the gull and crowds of birders to his home. Ian Davies, of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, wrote to me about Jack, “Super nice guy; definitely the nicest rare bird host I’ve ever encountered. Made my first visit to the ‘dacks an excellent one!”
Adirondack hospitality is the best! Lodging was tough to come by during the height of the Ross’s Gull chase, but things have calmed down now. Birding in the Adirondacks is exciting at any time of year and you never know what might show up!
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is urging President Biden and his administration to renew and extend the eviction moratorium after the House failed to secure enough votes to pass legislation to prevent its lapse.
Why it matters: Millions of tenants across the country face the threat of eviction after the moratorium expired this weekend.
- Last week, President Biden called on Congress to extend the CDC's national eviction moratorium, saying the administration couldn't extend it past July 31 without specific legislation.
What they're saying: Democratic House leadership issued a statement on Sunday, calling on the administration to "immediately extend the moratorium" through Oct. 18.
- "Doing so is a moral imperative to keep people from being put out on the street which also contributes to the public health emergency," Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) said.
- “The virus is still a threat. The moratorium must be extended, and the funds Congress allocated to assist renters and landlords must be spent. An extension of the moratorium is based on public health and the delta variant. It will also give more time to allow the money that Congress allocated to finally flow."
- Pelosi added in a letter to her Democratic colleagues on Monday that it "is unfathomable that we would not act to prevent people from being evicted."
- "As we urge the White House to act, please note that Congress will work to address any vulnerability to the CDC identified by the courts," she added.
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If you need a primer on how solar energy and solar panels work, read on.
Weather forecasting has become a way for the average U.S. television viewer to learn about climate change.
Many countries have made initial plans to transition to renewable energy resources. Aruba has set specific goals to make those plans a reality.
What’s the difference between socially responsible investments and investments that advance social, environmental, and governance practices?
What do you need to consider as you choose a sustainable MBA program? Here’s a list of helpful ideas.
Advertisements have a way of persuading us about larger social issues. What can a Budweiser commercial tell us about sustainability and society?
A research study has found that 8 million human deaths and $1 trillion in healthcare costs each year could be saved if more people adopted a vegan diet. Oxford University researchers examined … [Read full article]
Diesel Pollution Is NOT Good.
By now, many of us have heard that the President spent a little time this morning at a Wal-Mart store in in Mountain View, California, near San Jose. Solar deployment … [Read full article]
BREAKING: Late this evening (8 pm EST, or tomorrow, March 31, at 9 am in Tokyo), something large and unpleasant will hit the fan about climate change. At a press … [Read full article]
Though we try to keep a very positive focus here, PlanetSave isn’t just a blog about the wonders of the natural world and the glory of Mankind’s inventions. It also … [Read full article]
When the hydraulic fracturing measure passed the Los Angeles City Council today, several tweeters posted photos of this meeting (source of the above: Walker Foley on twitter). The City Council … [Read full article]
On his blog “I see a change,” Nigerian Youth Development Expert Olumide Idowu presents the elements of sustainable development (source: olumideidowu.blog.com). Not all online courses provide all they promise you, … [Read full article]
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Sometimes less is more important than more
I shared here recently that Dearly Beloved and I have started watching our caloric intake and keeping a daily log of how many calories we consume.
We’ve been somewhat shocked at just how easy it is to lose weight once we decided to take the plunge and stick with it. Once that momentous decision is made, the most difficult part is already accomplished. But sticking to the plan is the only way it will work.
We still eat out; I still get my regular “fix” of spaghetti and meatballs, and still we’re both losing weight. My stomach is full every day, and neither one of us feel deprived. We still have ice cream occasionally and all those other belly-busters, too. But we keep track of all those calories.
Too many at one meal means you have to make it up somewhere else. Soon you learn to keep all your meals at a reasonable level. Portion control is important. We measure or weigh everything we eat at home.
Now I’m using the last hole in my belt. Soon I’ll have to buy another one, but it’ll be a smaller one. A simple little task like putting on socks had gotten to be almost an ordeal.
Now those socks go on easily with no struggle at all. That’s a great feeling!
If you go to www.calorieking.com and scroll down, you’ll find a handy little calorie-intake calculator. Choose your height, current weight, age, sex and your normal level of activity, then the calculator will tell you how many calories you need to eat each day to gain weight, or how many you need to maintain your current weight or, most importantly, how many calories each day will put you on the path to losing a modest one to two pounds per week — the rate many medical authorities recommend.
DB and I have purchased four books that provide caloric contents for various foods, but really, the Internet seems to be the best source for such information. Calorieking.com is not the only Internet source, but we’ve found it’s the best we’ve uncovered so far.
Once you start familiarizing yourself with various foods and their calorie counts, you may be in for a few little surprises, perhaps even a shock or two as we have been.
For instance, if you go to Bob Evans and have a choice of a biscuit or a slice of banana nut bread, which one has the fewest calories?
Common sense (which I apparently rely on far too much it would seem) might tell you the biscuit is the better choice between the two. But no, the biscuit tops out at 238 calories while the slice of banana nut bread is a more modest 161 calories!
Ordering a salad always seems a safe bet, but those delicious sauces and dressings can shoot the calorie count up like a Fourth of July sky rocket. Salads in some restaurants EASILY top the 1,000-calorie mark.
You’ll do best not relying on “common sense,” but sticking to bonafide calorie counts from a reliable source.
We’ve been second-guessing some other foods, too, and found ourselves being led down the garden path by our so-called “common sense,” so checking the data is really important if you’re wanting to slim down.
So far, DB and I have lost 60 pounds between the two of us since May 17, the day I stepped on the scale and was horrified to see it stop just half-a-hair’s breadth short of the dreaded 250-pound mark.
We’re both feeling better, not nearly as tired all the time now, and some of the medications we take have been reduced in response to our weight loss. I’m looking forward to the day when I will no longer have to take a handful of pills each day to help keep me going.
If your mid-regions are spreading out a bit too much, tag along on our little adventure if you like. It can’t hurt, y’know, and it just might do you a world of good.
You do like feeling better, right?
Please send your comments to firstname.lastname@example.org and include your FULL name and town. This column appears each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and online at ocala.com.
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Imagine new horizons....
To provide UX Design support to the SOLIDWORKS and Dassault Systemes R&D teams. The UX Designer supports ongoing development of DS 3D Solutions and Computer Aided Design products. They help design robust user interfaces across devices from desktops with mouse and keyboard inputs to mobile devices with touch support
What will your role be?
- The User Experience Designer provides design and research support for our SOLIDWORKS Computer Aided Design (CAD) products. You will research and understand key user workflows and design user interfaces that support user’s goals and needs across the SOLIDWORKS product line.
- In addition to designing new enhancements and functionality for SOLIDWORKS, you will also engage in updating and improving our design system and component libraries for design re-use
- You will help us create even more intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use interactions that will enable both a first-time user but also a sophisticated expert to have the best experience possible when using the software.
The challenges ahead
- You will be researching, designing, creating, and prototyping interactions and interfaces for that enhance the industry leading 3D application for engineers, as well as contributing to our next generation of 3D applications.
- You will collaborate with UX designers, product definition specialists, visual designers, and users to create, develop, test, and validate interfaces for SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE products
- You will take projects through the design process including discovery, concept, and detailed design phases to support new products and enhancements to our existing 3D Design products.
- You will participate in and conduct user research activities to help inform design work and answer key design questions.
- You will participate in a strong critique culture, sharing and improving your own designs, and helping others improve theirs.
Your key success factors
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Human Factors, Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field (Industrial Design and Mechanical engineering are also considered)
- 2-5 years of professional work experience in UX
- Strong communication skills both with customers and internally with designers/developers
- Familiarity with design techniques such as storyboarding, user research, and wireframes
- Knowledge of or experience using UX tools for prototyping like Adobe XD, Sketch, Azure, or Figma, etc.
- Competent at quickly generating design ideas and iterating those designs based on feedback
- You will be asked to present past designs as part of the interview, a portfolio is a plus.
Skills that are a plus
- Technical background or engineering skills is a plus.
- Knowledge of CAD programs like SOLIDWORKS or others is a plus.
- Experience with designing for touch and mobile devices is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
Dassault Systèmes offers an excellent salary with potential for bonus, commensurate with experience. Benefits include a choice of plans providing comprehensive coverage for medical, dental, vision care for employee & dependents as well as employee life, short & long term disability, tuition reimbursement, immediate 401K enrollment, 401K match (50 cents on the dollar, up to the first 8% of your eligible compensation that you contribute based on match eligibility criteria), flexible time off policy, and 9 paid holidays.
In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at 3DS are based on merit, qualifications and abilities. 3DS is committed to a policy of non-discrimination and equal opportunity for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical or common conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, national origin, ancestry, age (40 and above), disability, veteran status, military service, application for military service, genetic information, receipt of free medical care, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. 3DS will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.
Our Company requires all U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to provide documentation of full vaccination, unless qualified for a medical, religious or state-required accommodation or otherwise exempt consistent with applicable law. Although accommodation requests will be considered (and granted where appropriate/possible), it may be determined that a candidate is unable to adequately perform the essential functions of the position without imposing an undue hardship due to customer requirements, staffing needs, or other business reasons. Definition of full-vaccination: Employees are considered to be fully vaccinated two weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine.
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Treated Residual Aromatic Extract (TRAE) Definition
TRAE aromatic rubber oil (treated residual aromatic extract, abbreviated as TRAE) is environmental friendly fully aromatic extract oil from solvent extracting process of the residual vacuum distillation which contains polycyclic components (pac).
Rubber Process Oils (RPO) are used to improve the process ability of rubber compounds or to increase the bulk of rubber in order to lower cost. They can be broadly classified into three basic groups namely, paraffinic, naphthenic and aromatics. They are used in a large variety of finished products in the chemical and manufacturing industries.
We supply a wide range of high quality RPO as we recognize the crucial role that RPO plays in your products and operations.
This environment friendly process oil has wide applications in tier, tape & rubber industries. It is used as carrier oils, plasticiser, diluents & filling agent that remain in the final product contributing to both ease of processing and improved product performance in rubber industry.
• Good abrasion resistance
• Good low temperature flexibility
• Low amounts of waste tires in the process
• Good resistance to reversion
• According to with international standards (EU 2005/69/EC)
• Save fuel and energy consumption
Treated Residual Aromatic Extract (TRAE) Applications
- Tires & tubes
- Belting & houses
- Battery containers
- Carrier oils
- Extruded products, & others
TRAE rubber process oil is packed in new or used 180 kg drums, iso tank, flexi tanks and bulk shipments. Each 20-foot container takes 80 drum.
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Fredericton UPS workers surprised the Fredericton Community Kitchen on October 17 by donating a truckload of food to the kitchen’s School Hunger Program. According to Lynn Chaplin, a member of the kitchen’s board of directors, there was enough food to provide lunch 185 students for two weeks.
The UPS food drive was led entirely by their employees. Chaplin visited UPS to talk about their School Hunger Program in September, and UPS stepped up to the challenge. To add some competition, the employees broke into teams to see who could raise the most food. Within two weeks they had surpassed their goal of having enough food for 1,470 lunches. They delivered the food to the Community Kitchen much to the surprise of Chaplin.
Now UPS is challenging other businesses to beat their record.
The School Hunger Program provides healthy lunches for 185 students in need throughout six local schools.
Items collected for the Fredericton Community Kitchen included granola bars, juice boxes, and pudding cups. The Fredericton Community Kitchen always welcomes donations of food or money for the Student Hunger Program as well as their day to day operation. The kitchen serves 10,000 meals every month and does not rely on grants to remain open; it runs entirely off of donations and its 250 volunteers.
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08 Jun 2003 - 07 Aug 2007
The Wonderful Language of Nature CD
What does a firefly, as it lights up in the dark, have in common with a pleasantly scented flower in a field or a colourful fish in a coral reef? How does a male peacock that is spreading its tail in front of a female resemble a frog that is puffing up its throat and croaking in a bog? These plants and animals are all getting across a message! In The Wonderful Language of Nature
, you will discover amazing ways in which plants and animals communicate.
The Wonderful Language of Nature's knowledge base contains photographs, animated sequences, full-screen video, narrated text, and hypermedia that provide information on nearly 100 different plant and animal species, including humans. Combined with project-oriented investigations, facilities for customizing the information in the program, access to productivity tools, and direct links to related Internet sites, The Wonderful Language of Nature offers a focused, interactive environment for exploring natural phenomena.
The Wonderful Language of Nature is developed to enable Middle and High School students and other interested individuals learn about the different aspects of communication in nature. The knowledge base of this program is organized around seven topics: Courtship and Attraction, In Search of Food, Parents and Offspring, Social Standing, Territorial Dominance, Defence, and Group Identity.
The objectives of this program are:
- Understanding the various aspects of communications in nature: visual, vocal, and chemical.
- Recognizing and analysing the various forms of communication in nature.
- Understanding communication as a means of survival in nature.
- A multimedia knowledge base about the diverse kinds of communication in nature.
- Narrations, photographs, audio visual elements, animated sequences, and slide shows to make learning fun.
- Research and problem-solving activities that focus on the information presented in the program.
- An electronic glossary to provide definitions of relevant terms and concepts.
- Direct access to external productivity tools -- a word processor, a drawing program, presentation software, and a spreadsheet.
- Facilities for customizing the program's information.
- Direct links to related Internet sites.
Actual Price: 399/- (INR) inclusive of all taxes.
Your Price: 319/- (INR) inclusive of all taxes.
For further details e-mail us at email@example.com
or call us at +91 - 11 - 51828194-97
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Users, from celebrities to entrepreneurs, have difficulty finding their voice on social media. Brands might be eager for likes, views, and shares, but people are more interested in finding pages and influencers that share similar interests. But even then, not everyone with popular interests makes it to the top of the ‘For You’ or ‘Suggested’ pages. A few common factors influence the impact of any user’s social media presence, so let’s take a quick look at some of them to figure out how you, too, can improve your social media presence.
1. Monitor the General Public
If you want to interact with people or try to hit posts, you need to keep up with the internet. That may sound straightforward, but the internet changes at breakneck speed and trend cycles are often gone within just a few days. Besides that, many of the memes that gain popularity would not make sense to a particular group but are reposted by hundreds of millions of people on the internet. So if you want to keep up with the crowd, then make a monitoring account for each social media platform under any random name, keep them linked using sites such as https://1password.com/username-generator/, and dedicate the entire account to keeping up with what’s hot on the internet to get as many interactions as you can.
2. Create a Persona
Consumers want to be entertained. They want to feel like they’re hearing from the real you and care about what you have to say. Therefore, you’ll need to craft a persona representing your brand and driving engagement. You can do this by being yourself (no matter how “unique” that may be) and engaging with others on sites where you have a following, or by simply brewing up the personification of your values and interacting with the masses from that perspective. Some of the best examples of such interactions lie on Twitter, where Wendy’s official account regularly garners hundreds of thousands of likes thanks to the snappy personality it showcases. However, do keep in mind that your internet persona should cater to and resonate with your target audience, as something beloved by young adults won’t find the same enthusiasm in older generations.
3. Find a Direction
You likely have dozens, if not hundreds, of ideas swimming in your head at any given time. However, it would be best if you didn’t confuse inspiration with direction. The former is what gets the juices flowing and spurs creativity (which may have started as a simple idea); the latter is going out there and making something happen. To figure out what you’re doing with your social media presence, you should ask yourself a few questions: Who are your competitors? What do they do right? What do they not do? And where are you most comfortable interacting with people or sharing your knowledge or skills? These will help you decide where to take yourself and focus on what needs to be done to accomplish your goals.
4. Make Your Posts Attractive
Humans are hard-wired to pay more attention to brightly colored and attractive things. This is why infographics have been proven to be viral. However, you don’t need to stay limited to text posts and follow the same pattern. Instead, switch it up and throw in animations or artworks that promote your brand value and attract consumers. You don’t need a professional graphic designer to come up with something eye-catching; you only need to know what will grab your followers’ attention and how to make it happen. Amateurs can use graphic designing apps such as Canva to create the most beautiful visual elements. Once you’ve found something that works, focus on it and make sure everything on your profile matches your brand’s or persona’s personality in some way or another.
5. Identify the Needs of the Platform
No social media platform is the same. Each has its own culture, and some have far more advanced features than others. For example, you can’t use Facebook to sell goods or services like you can on Twitter or Instagram. With that in mind, you must establish a presence on all social media platforms because each caters to a different audience. For example, Twitter audiences are known to be cutthroat and controversy driven, Tumblr audiences are fandom driven, Pinterest supports mood boards and fan art for casual scrolling rather than opinionated consumption, Instagram focuses on memes, and discussions and Facebook is home to either conservative demographics or older audiences. Each platform has a different consumer demographic, and each of them is priceless. Your primary job will be to either create generalized yet viral material that gets reposted across all platforms or take the more sensible route and handle all platforms individually.
The Bottom Line
In conclusion, figuring out how to make your social media presence work for you can be a bit of a challenge, but it’ll all be worth it once you find the formula for success. Whether you want to stay on brand and build your reputation with new offerings or want to spice things up a bit, the approach is simple: decide what direction you’re going in, focus on eye-catching visuals that reflect those interests, and identify the needs of each platform and keep up with trends that influence consumers to improve your social media presence.
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Created in 2012, The Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership (The Partnership) is an umbrella organization operating the public workforce system in the City of Chicago and Cook County. The Partnership combines federal and philanthropic resources to broaden the reach and impact of workforce development services for both employers and job seekers. As the largest non-profit workforce development system in the nation, The Partnership has helped place more than 70,000 individuals in employment, collaborated with more than 2,000 employers, and administers more than $300 million in federal and philanthropic funds. The Partnership’s network of more than 50 community-based organizations, 10 American Job Centers, and sector-driven workforce centers serve 132 municipalities.
Number of People Served
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In Demand Occupations
TDL, Health Care, Hospitality, Information Technology, Manufacturing
51.3% Basic Skill Deficient 64% High School Diploma 22% Some College or Bachelor’s Degree 14% Less Than High School
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So what does it take to reliably build Web Applications? The answer really depends on two factors, the size of your company and more importantly the size of your development and testing teams. Over or under building your development environment can end up being every bit as expensive to your company’s bottom. If you under build it, you can impact testing teams or end up running too few tests and miss critical bugs. Over build the environment, and you will end up with a lot of servers wasting electricity, cooling, licensing and hardware resources as well as additional payroll costs to administer the servers.
Even if you are a boutique shop that has less than a dozen developers you should have at least two development environments. One for developers and one for testers. The developers will use the development environment to merge their code and unit test it as a complete unit with all of the other developers. The testing environment will be used to do functional and performance testing. So why do we define what the environments should be used for? The answer is simple, more often than not, most companies admit testers to start spending more time in the developers environment than they do in the testing environment. Why is that bad? This keeps the developers from checking code as they should because their space for doing that testing is now tied up with people doing “functional” testing. The development environment is also the place that your system administrators should be making the first attempts at updates of critical infrastructure. So having rules around the use of these environments and enforcing them is as critical as having them.
As your company’s Web Development team grows you will need to assess and adapt to the growth. As you start dedicating resources to performance testing you will need an environment for those resources to use. As you grow still further you will likely add a pre-production environment that mimics your production environment that we generally refer to as staging. A staging environment is really for the operations teams to test their final deployment procedures. A staging environment should not be sized the same as production. For instance, if you have four(4) Web Servers, six(6) application Servers, and three(3) LDAP servers in your production environment your staging environment might have just two(2) web servers, two(2) Application Servers and a pair of LDAP servers. The point of this environment is just to make sure that you will have a close proximity to your production environment that will let you test for single server failures, verify that your processes work across multiple servers, and give you an environment to test production problems in until the next deployment is prepared. This builds confidence and assures themselves and others that they have all of the steps needed in the complex environments that represent today’s application environments.
How large is too large a development environment? The best way to determine this is by looking at the usage of each of the environments. Simple monitoring can be done with log analyzing tools like webalizer. This type of tool will show you how much the systems are getting used but will consume small amounts of resources. I have recently used this type of data to convince several development teams that we could and should reduce our development server count by almost twenty(20) percent. Remember that not every development effort needs to be on its own environment or servers. Use things like Web Server Virtual hosts and Virtualization technology like VMWare and VirtualBox to condense the relatively low utilization servers. By doing this, a small team of developers can share a larger piece of hardware that will be more fully utilized. The easiest way to figure out if your environments are being underused is through monitoring. If you have any environments that are getting zero, or nearly zero usage at some point in the development cycle, you probably want to look at why. The situation of too many environments generally happens when development pulls back. The recent economic downturn and recession has placed many companies in this situation. In some instances I have seen companies, especially those using virtualization, end up with a one server per project team for either or both development and test. This leads to massive overbuilding. No web technology exists today that needs a one to one relationship. If you do find one, start looking for something else.
So what about Technology like IBM’s Virtual Enterprise, VMWare’s Lab Manager Product, or something similar? If you aren’t familiar with this class of application they are the ones around automatic provisioning of systems. These are sold with the promise of better utilization and control over your environment. For instance if you have a critical application that suddenly got hit with a Slashdot or Digg style event, something that draws an unusual amount of traffic to your site, the systems could build and bring up additional instances to help with the load. When the crisis passes, then the servers could be destroyed and the resources that had been allocated returned to the pool of available resources. This sounds like exactly what you need for your development environment right? Only as long as you have strong rules around how it can be used which will assure that systems at some point in time will get destroyed and the resources returned, then it is beneficial. Be careful with this idea though, and make sure you have someone who is ready to be the enforcer, or get ready to pay big bucks buying the resources needed to support an environment gone wild.
When building a development environment, web or otherwise, keeping it under control is the key. Uncontrolled growth with or without a good tool, will eventually crush the support teams. At the other extreme, too small and rigorous an environment will cost developers time and leave testers and admins impacted while they wait for changes to get to them. Automation of tools to build and remove environments sounds like a great time saving solution, but they have other hidden costs in the area of setup and maintenance that may well whip out any savings. So keep that all in mind. Let me know what your latest Web App is in the comments.
Questions of the week:
How many environments do you have at your company for how many developers?
What are your biggest challenges in your development environment?
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Coronavirus solution: Appleton-based Boldt, with Tweet/Garot and Faith Technologies, builds mobile critical care units
APPLETON - A northeast Wisconsin contractor and its partners have designed, built and started selling mobile critical-care units to help hospitals overwhelmed with coronavirus patients.
And they did it all in less than a month.
The units are called Strategic, Temporary, Acuity-Adaptable Treatment Modules, or STAAT-Mods, and The Boldt Co. of Appleton and Minnesota-based design firm HGA have already sold 32 of them to the state of Maryland, said Ben Bruns, Boldt executive vice president.
The first one should be delivered to Maryland next week.
The two-bed units serve as a critical care solution for areas where hospitals have a shortage of beds due to the coronavirus. They can be shipped on the back of a semi-truck and configured for use as isolation units in open buildings like convention centers, or as connectable modules that can attach to each other or to an existing medical center.
“It’s a safe place for patients to heal and caregivers to do their work,” Bruns said. “We think we can have a pretty big impact on the people of our country by producing a true ICU-like environment in a couple of weeks instead of a couple of years.”
The proprietary product comes pre-fabricated with all the air-filtration, information technology wiring and plumbing a critical care unit would need, including specific requirements for treating coronavirus patients.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends Airborne Infection Isolation Rooms for patients with COVID-19, and Boldt and HGA said the STAAT-Mod meets those guidelines for providing immediate critical care to coronavirus patients.
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What’s wild is that this product did not exist before March 13.
Boldt and HGA were able to design, engineer, test and manufacture the STAAT-Mod in a few weeks, all via virtual meetings, thanks to the company’s experience in prefabrication, its connections with Wisconsin health care providers and its construction industry partners, Boldt Chief Operating Officer Dave Kievet said.
“The team we brought together — HGA, Tweet/Garot Mechanical and Faith Technologies — we have a long history with them and the experience of working on innovative ways to deliver construction services differently,” Kievet said. “Everyone was isolated, but we were able to collaborate online and pulled this all together. The time it took them to go from concept to delivery is just truly amazing.”
A design with no use, until a pandemic hit
The idea took root on Friday, March 13, as businesses and public facilities began to shut down as the coronavirus pandemic spread across Wisconsin. Uncertainty abounded about how far-reaching the economic shutdown would be while health care providers were concerned about having enough beds to care for patients who contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Boldt has an extensive history of building health care facilities and has used prefabrication efforts to cut costs and delivery times for more than a decade. Kievet called Bruns to ask whether they could come up with a way to help health care customers safely deliver care to coronavirus patients in an isolated setting.
“In our organization, we have a problem-solving mentality,” Kievet said. “We truly wanted to help.”
It just so happened Bruns was literally looking at a possible solution.
Late last year, a Chicago-area customer asked Boldt to prototype a prefabricated health care clinic that could be deployed to areas in need of more beds for whatever reason. The project had not gone any further since the design stages, but there it was staring Bruns in the face.
Bruns called HGA, whose staff of designers worked with a Minnesota infectious disease expert to reconfigure and upgrade the unit so it could house two fully functioning, isolated critical care units.
“By March 16, we had a working group together figuring out what it would take to build these and what they would cost,” Bruns said. “By the end of that week, we had a concept designed for some of our potential customers to try out.”
For testing, Boldt and HGA asked staff at ThedaCare, Advocate Aurora Health and Froedert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health care to try out the unit virtually and provide feedback on improvements.
“It was a problem that needed to be solved for health care as to how they’d actually do this,” Kievet said. “We were exploring how we could deliver health care products now and in the future.”
Bruns also enlisted Menasha-based Faith Technologies and De Pere-based Tweet/Garot to help identify readily-available components to use in fabricating the STAAT-Mods so the effort would not run into supply chain issues.
The two companies have also fabricated and delivered some components of the modules to further speed production time.
“We had no idea whether we’d be able to buy any (custom components), so we asked what we could get our hands on in short order,” Bruns said. “A lot of credit goes to Tweet/Garot and Faith Technologies. They figured out the pieces that would be ideal for our application.”
Don’t laugh, but there was one more thing the team had to do: Give the STAAT-Mod a road test. The mobile clinic prototype had never been loaded on a semi-truck and they needed to make sure the module would fit safely on semi-trucks and survive transport, which it did.
'Proud of what we're doing'
Boldt and HGA now have applied for a patent for the product and said it could not only be deployed for use in pandemics, but also for providing care in rural communities far from major medical centers.
“It’s easily adaptable in terms of features, geometry and module size,” Bruns said. “We’re having conversations with other customers.”
Kievet said Boldt, HGA and their partners did all of this in a span of three weeks, even getting a head start on building the modules before Boldt and HGA had even secured an order. He said the pace of the development and its potential still have him in awe.
“Our product enables you to establish a facility strictly designated as coronavirus care, freeing up operating suites and rooms to care for other patients as well,” Kievet said. “It’s an exciting opportunity and we feel tremendous because we’re helping people in the process.”
The work is being done while adhering to social distancing requirements both by workers in Boldt’s fabrication warehouse and the designers and engineers who improved the STAAT-Mod’s functionality.
Bruns said the company had to remind them to do things a little differently to avoid coming into close contact with each other. Boldt also installed hand wipe stations in the facility and encourages frequent hand-washing. It can still be a challenge, though, to remember the new methods for doing things.
“Our crafters are really excited to be a part of this,” Bruns said. “There’s a lot of positive energy, but we have to remember to keep our distance. At the end of the day, the clinicians going into these facilities will help save lives. Across our entire company, we’re proud of why we’re doing it and what we’re doing.”
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After September 11, 2001, one of the first musicians to take on an activist role was Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. Moore, with the help of Chris Habib, Sonic Youth’s Webmaster and technology whiz, has started his own free music label, Protest Records. Using more practical means of distribution, Protest Records is giving its music away as MP3’s on the Internet at protest-records.com. Moore tells the New York Times one of his longtime fantasies was to have a label that gave away music free. “I thought it would be great to be in a band that made millions of dollars that could do something like that, but it never panned out. I liked the idea because it would drive retail stores crazy. Originally the ideas were more far-fetched, like hiding the records around the city so that people had to find them.” Read more.
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How To Restart Peace Talks
Major negotiating blunders at Camp David last summer by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat led to the current, disastrous Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Now Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's “negotiating'' posture further diminishes prospects of resuming negotiations.
So, the question is: What can be done about it?
At Camp David, Barak violated a cardinal negotiating rule. He conceded Israel's maximum before ascertaining Palestinians would accept. He placed on the table most of what the Palestinians have been seeking for the past decade: nearly 95 percent of the West Bank, Gaza, resettlement assistance for Palestinian refugees, shared administration of Jerusalem and the relocation of many Jewish settlements. His eagerness and speed led Arafat to believe still more could be exacted.
Violent defiance of Israel was Arafat's ready-made option for capitalizing on wide-spread Palestinian frustration with a peace process yielding few dividends. Arafat's blunder was not to recognize that Barak had laid out Israel's bottom line.
For years, the Palestinian propaganda machine has been suggesting that Palestinians are willing to accept 23 percent, the West Bank and Gaza, and live side-by-side with Israelis. What the Palestinians have not said is that this is only one part of what they want. The second part is repatriation of all Palestinian refugees.
That would demographically overwhelm Israel. Within a few years, Palestinians would become the majority and Israeli Jews the minority, which even ardent supporters of peace among Israelis won't support.
Sharon's demand that the Palestinians cease violent hostilities as a precondition is justifiable. Stating in advance, however, that Israel will allow no more than 45-50 percent of the West Bank and Gaza to be incorporated into a Palestinian state and vowing not to dismantle a single settlement are nonstarters.
Barak's concessions established high expectations, and Palestinians are hard pressed to accept less.
SERVING NO ONE
The situation may get considerably worse before both sides realize that their present course will do nothing to improve either side's negotiating posture.
Security talks between both sides should be resumed in earnest.
Arafat must make every effort to reduce violence. In addition, the Palestinian Authority must begin the process of disabusing the Palestinian community of the notion that there is any chance of Palestinian repatriation. With these two steps, Arafat could regain the support of a majority of Israelis who would accept a peace agreement within President Clinton's guidelines.
Simultaneously, Sharon must reciprocate by easing Israel's military grip in the territories and by forwarding millions in taxes collected from Palestinians working in Israel. Once violence subsides, Sharon must reopen talks with the Palestinians with no prior conditions. Should negotiations then fail, leave it to the Israelis to pressure their government to make the necessary concessions or to elect a new government, which they have done three times in five years.
Finally, the United States cannot afford to sit idly by while the conflict rages out of control. President Bush must use his leverage to pressure both sides. America's huge strategic and economic interests in the region are at stake. The Bush administration must get actively involved to prevent a dangerous situation from escalating into a disaster of unparalleled proportions.
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ST’s IIS2DLPC 3-axis MEMS accelerometer can change operating mode on the fly, from ultra-low power to high resolution, enabling high-accuracy measurements within a limited energy budget.
The sensor can provide continuous contextual awareness to wake the host system when action is required and take measurements before returning to ultra-low power operation.
With this extra flexibility, users can build longer-lasting battery-powered industrial sensor nodes or medical devices, tamper-proof smart meters, and smart power-saving or motion-activated functions.
In addition, the opportunity for low power consumption enables smart accessories for industrial machinery or robotics to be created as convenient battery-powered add-on modules that require minimal integration effort.
A choice of four reduced-power modes lets users optimize power consumption in wide-ranging application scenarios.
Very low noise, down to 90μg/√Hz in high-resolution mode, permits outstanding measurement accuracy.
Additional features of the IIS2DLPC give users extra control over power consumption, including easy-to-use one-shot data conversion and a 32-level FIFO for storing batched data to reduce CPU intervention.
An integrated temperature sensor and built-in self-test capability are also provided.
Especially suited to industrial applications, the IIS2DLPC is specified over an extended temperature range from -40°C to +85°C and covered by ST’s 10-year product-longevity scheme ensuring long-term availability.
The IIS2DLPC is in production now, packaged as a 2mm x 2mm x 0.7mm plastic land grid array (LGA) device, priced from $1.10 for orders of 1000 pieces.
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Judge, Place 8
There is so much opportunity to improve access to justice with technology. One example is e-filing. With e-filing, courts are much more accessible to the indigent. Online forms and instructions can be developed to allow individuals to create their own court filings and legal documents if they want to represent themselves. In addition, through the use of video chatting apps (i.e. FaceTime), those without transportation can still appear and participate in court without fear of sanctions.
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DANE RUDHYAR says that the “Eastern Angle (on the left-hand side of the chart): The ascendant is the point in the sky where the sun rises each day at daybreak; it is the zodiac degree in the East where a baby breathes his first breath. Its polar opposite is the Descendant, often known as the sunset point. According to Theosophist Alan Leo, birth was only one of many happenings in the cyclic growth of a spiritual Self (or “individuality”), which time after time incarnate in the course of history. The ascendant was considered to relate simply to the “suit of garments” that the spiritual Self wore while through one of its incarnations.”
As a result of all of these interpretations, the angle is elevated to the point where it is considered to be an extremely significant degree on the horoscope. So much so that it is regarded as being on par with the Sun and the Moon. Astrologers refer to the Sun, Moon, and Ascendant as the Big Three, and they are said to govern our overall fortunes in life. The Ascendant is said to be the key to unlocking a higher destiny in our horoscope, as indicated by the Sun. Dane Rudhyar’s outstanding piece The Three Faces of Your Horoscope delves more into the trinity of the birth chart, highlighting how there always appears to be a magical trio throughout life.
Despite its importance, when astrology students desire to study the ascendant, they will frequently find that, while there is lots of astrological information on the Sun and Moon, the ascendant will most likely just get a few phrases at best. Howard Sasportas, an astrologer, once said that it took him 15 years to understand the significance of the ascendant. He claims that we must learn to use the characteristics of our rising sign (Asc) in order to display our solar attributes.
In the past, the Ascendant has been viewed superficially, leading some to believe that it only symbolises our outward appearance. The angle is commonly referred to as the representation of the body, or, maybe more properly, as the physical appearance, in astrology. Health, energy, and physicality of an individual were all determined by the placement of this area of the horoscope, which was especially prevalent in older astrological textbooks. Psychologically, the ascendant is considered to be an unformed aspect of the personality; on the other hand, it is an extremely important feature of the horoscope, since one would seem naked in public if they did not have an ascendant.
Integrating the traits represented by the ASC throughout the course of a lifespan would serve as a link that connects the many components together. As we pay more attention to the ascendant, we gradually embrace its archetypal qualities, and they become more established in our own personality. Modern astrologers have completely flipped the script and are now placing a bigger focus on the spiritual significance of the meaning of the ascendant. As a result, it serves as a reminder of the cause for one’s incarnation as well as the point at which the soul enters physical reality. It is also given the suggestiveness of having a “new personality,” and this new consciousness of one’s own existence has within it the energy of sunrises, births, and the coming into being of new things.
To him also the Ascendant, as the symbol of dawn and sunrise, will have a special meaning; he may think of it as the way in which spiritual-solar illumination reaches a particular earth-born human being…The Ascendant may symbolize for them the first moment of human existence; and, as astrology always primarily deals with “the beginning of things” and the starting point of cycles, they may feel that this astrological factor contains the key to the whole of life development of the individual — somewhat as the germinating seed contains in potentiality the entire form of the mature plant.
The ascendant takes us into some intriguing territory, ranging from the most commonplace interpretation of the physical body and energetic energy to the possibility that there is a truly numinous cause for the soul’s ascent onto our earth plane.
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Christians under renewed pressure in the Big Country
As Christian missionaries were expelled from the Big Country in the middle of last century, many feared that the Church would wither and die.
How we rejoiced when an easing of pressure and opening of the country from the 1980s revealed an unprecedented explosion of growth, with a flourishing underground church movement. Now there are around 100 million Christians in this East Asian country.
In the absence of trained Bible teachers and resources to support the pastors of churches during that time, God provided for His people with an extraordinary outpouring of wisdom and insight on those leading the growing flock.
Ordinary Christians with no resources other than the Bible and the Spirit were empowered to lead, preach and train others in the Church. Those leaders are now elderly, and handing leadership over to the next generation. Many of them still do not have access to training or adequate resources to preach the Word faithfully and in a way that is relevant to the culture.
There was an unexpected consequence of the miraculous intervention last century. Many of the emerging leaders did not see the value in pursuing training and qualifications, even when it became possible to do so. Since the opening of the Big Country, many churches have suffered from false teaching.
God remains faithful, and his Church continues to flourish, however there is a desperate need for more workers and more training — a need becoming increasingly urgent, as new legislation means renewed crackdowns and penalties for Christian activity not associated with the State Church.
A desperate need
Langham Partnership has been active in the Big Country through facilitating movements of biblical preaching and through providing some PhD scholarships.
There is a desperate need for sound Biblical training in this country, where conditions for Christians are extremely difficult. Please pray for wisdom as Langham Partnership tries to creatively train preachers and support Scholars. Pray also for Langham as it tries to relate to the Church in a legal way.
This article is adapted from Langham Australia’s Newsletter March 2018.Tags: Asia, Langham Preaching, Langham Scholars
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3-D Printed Giant Albino Rabbit.
The Headbalancer rabbit from the History of Circus Legends series of statutettes. has become a giant: 20 cm tall! Available in a limited edition of 10 signed and numbered pieces. The Giant Albino Rabbit is painted by hand.
The rabbit was created by Mimi Berlin in 2013 as part of The History of Circus Legends. His name is Dinky and he is a Head Balancer.
This statuette has always been everyone’s favorite. Most of the Circus Legend statuettes have been sold but The original Dinky always will be part of Mimi Berlin’s private collection.
Giant Albino Rabbit #1 is part of Mimi Berlin’s Cabinet of Short Stories.
Currently also available at Magasin Horas in The Hague.
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The Right Plastic Dog Collar
the Right Plastic Dog Collar
A plastic dog collar is a great choice for your pet. They come in a variety of colors, styles and materials to suit your needs. But with a lot of plastic dog collars on the market these days, how do you choose the right one for your pet?
In this blog post, we will walk you through the process of choosing and sizing a plastic dog collar, as well as discuss some of the benefits of waterproof dog collars. We will also provide solutions for common issues such as allergies to leashes and harnesses and neck damage caused by traditional dog collars. Finally, we will offer some advice on when to buy plastic dog collars online and how to use them safely and comfortably.
How to Choose the Right Plastic Dog Collar?
When it comes to plastic dog collars, there are a few things you need to take into consideration.
- The first is the size of your pet. Plastic dog collars come in a variety of sizes, so it’s important to measure your pet’s neck before making a purchase. You should also consider the width of the collar. A wider collar will provide more support and stability for your pet, while a narrower collar will be more comfortable for smaller dogs.
- The next thing to consider is the material of the plastic dog collar. There are two main types of plastic used in dog collars: PVC and ABS plastic. PVC plastic is more durable and weather-resistant, making it ideal for active dogs who spend a lot of time outdoors. ABS plastic is lighter and more flexible, making it a good choice for smaller dogs or those with sensitive skin.
- Once you’ve decided on the size and material of the plastic dog collar, you can begin to narrow down your choices by color and style. There are a wide variety of colors and patterns available, so you’re sure to find one that matches your pet’s personality. You can also check this plastic dog collar that has various buckle styles, such as traditional buckle collars, martingale collars, and slip-on collars.
How to Size a Dog Collar?
When sizing a plastic dog collar, it’s important to take into account both the width of the collar and the circumference of your pet’s neck. The width of the collar should be proportional to the size of your pet. For example, a small dog would need a narrower collar than a large dog. To determine the circumference of your pet’s neck, use a soft tape measure and wrap it around their neck, making sure to leave enough room for two fingers. Once you have both measurements, refer to the size chart below to find the right plastic dog collar for your pet.
Size Width Circumference
- XS ½ inch (12 mm) Up to 12 inches (30 cm)
- S ¾ inch (18 mm) 11-16 inches (28-41 cm)
- M ⅞ inch (22 mm) 15-20 inches (38-51 cm)
- L ⅞ inch (22 mm) 19-24 inches (48-61 cm)
- XL ⅞ inch (22 mm) 23-28 inches (58-71 cm)
Are Waterproof Dog Collars Better?
Waterproof dog collars are a great choice for active dogs who spend a lot of time outdoors. They are made with a durable, weather-resistant material that will stand up to the elements. Waterproof dog collars are also easier to clean than traditional collars, as they can be simply rinsed off with water. If you’re looking for a plastic dog collar that will last long and withstand heavy use, a waterproof collar is a way to go.
How to Design Personalized Dog Collars
One of the great things about plastic dog collars is that they can be easily personalized to match your pet’s personality. You can find plastic dog collars with a variety of different buckle styles, such as traditional buckle collars, martingale collars, and slip-on collars.
Personalize dog collars by having them engraved with your pet’s name or a special message to make them unique. You can also find plastic dog collars with a wide variety of colors and patterns, or you can have a custom collar made to order. Finally, you can choose from a variety of different buckle styles, such as traditional buckle collars, martingale collars, and slip-on collars.
Solutions for Puppy Leash and Harness Allergies
If your puppy is allergic to leashes and harnesses, there are a few solutions that can help. The first is to find a hypoallergenic puppy leash and harness material, such as PVC plastic. You can also try coating your puppy’s leash and harness with a layer of clear nail polish. This will create a barrier between the allergen and your pet’s skin. Finally, you can consult with your veterinarian about allergy shots or oral medication that can help to reduce your puppy’s allergic reaction.
The Right Time to Buy Dog Collars Online
When it comes to buying dog collars online, timing is everything. The best time to buy dog collars online is during the off-season, when retailers are looking to clearance out old inventory. You can usually find the best deals on plastic dog collars during the months of January and February. If you’re looking for a custom-made collar, it’s best to order early, as production times can vary depending on the manufacturer.
What is the Two Finger Rule for Dog Collar?
The two finger rule is a good general guideline to use when sizing a plastic dog collar. To determine the circumference of your pet’s neck, use a soft tape measure and wrap it around their neck, making sure to leave enough room for two fingers. This will ensure that your pet’s collar is not too tight or too loose.
How to Prevent Neck Damage When Using Dog Collar
There are a few things you can do to prevent neck damage when using a plastic dog collar. First, make sure that the collar is not too tight. You should be able to fit two fingers between your pet’s neck and the collar. Second, avoid using a leash that is attached to the collar with a metal ring. Metal rings can rub against your pet’s skin and cause irritation. Finally, don’t use a plastic dog collar for walking or running if your pet is prone to pulling on the leash. This can put unnecessary strain on their neck and lead to injury.
What is the Most Comfortable Material for Dog Collar?
The most comfortable material for a plastic dog collar is PVC plastic. PVC plastic is soft and flexible, making it gentle on your pet’s skin. It is also hypoallergenic, so it won’t cause any irritation for pets with sensitive skin. PVC plastic is also a very durable material, so you can rest assured that your pet’s collar will last for years to come.
You can try a plastic dog collar cone. It is a plastic dog collar that is soft and flexible, making it gentle on your pet’s skin. A plastic collar cone is also hypoallergenic and a great option for pets with sensitive skin.
How Tight Should a Dog Collar Be?
A dog collar should be tight enough that it cannot be easily slipped off, but loose enough that you can fit two fingers between the collar and your pet’s neck. If you are unsure about the fit of your pet’s collar, take them to a professional for help.
Should You Leave a Dog Collar On All the Time?
Yes, you should leave a plastic dog collar on your pet at all times. This will help to ensure that they are always able to be identified if they get lost. It is also important to make sure that your pet’s collar is always up-to-date with their current information, such as their name, address, and phone number.
Can a Collar Damage a Dog’s Throat?
A plastic dog collar can damage a dog’s throat if it is too tight. If you can fit two fingers between the collar and your pet’s neck, then it is likely the right size. However, if the collar is too tight, it can rub against your pet’s skin and cause irritation. If you are unsure about the fit of your pet’s collar, take them to a professional for help.
Should You Drag a Dog by the Collar?
No, you should never drag a dog by its collar. This can put unnecessary strain on their neck and lead to injury. If you need to control your pet while walking or running, consider using a harness instead of a collar.
Dragging a dog by the collar is never a good idea and can cause your pet neck injuries.
When to Use Harness or Collar?
When you have a dog, one of the decisions you have to make is whether to use a collar or harness. There are advantages and disadvantages to both.
If your dog pulls on the leash, a harness can give you better control and prevent neck injuries. Harnesses also distribute the pulling force evenly across the chest, so they are ideal for dogs with narrow chests or respiratory problems. However, harnesses can be more expensive than collars and some dogs may find them uncomfortable.
Collarless walking vests are another option that can provide good control without putting pressure on the neck or chest. They work by attaching the leash to a ring on the back of the vest instead of to a collar. This type of vest is often used for dogs who pull on the leash or have respiratory problems.
The best way to decide which type of collar or harness to use is to talk to your veterinarian. They will be able to recommend the best option for your dog based on their health and behavior.
No matter which type of collar or harness you choose, always make sure that it fits properly. A too-tight collar can damage your dog’s throat, and a too-loose harness can allow them to slip out and run away. Always follow the manufacturer’s instructions when putting on a collar or harness, and consult a professional if you are unsure about the fit.
You can also visit our website for additional pointers on choosing the right collar for your dog.
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8 things you need to know for your student’s upcoming flight
Planning ahead can help ensure a smooth air travel experience. Below are some helpful tips and tricks for you and your exchange student.
1. Check in online
Students should check-in for their flight on the airline’s website 24 hours before their flight. For this, you will use the student’s name and confirmation code. That code will have a two letter indicator of the airline (“BA” for British Airways for example) followed by the six-character code. The confirmation code can be found on the PDF in the flight email sent to parents and in the Hub for students and host families.
2. Confirm the name on your ticket
It is common practice for airlines to combine the passenger's first and middle name(s) on their ticket. It is completely okay for a passenger’s name to appear on their ticket as LAST/FIRSTMIDDLE.
3. Don’t worry about special characters
Accents or other special characters are usually not included in the spelling of the passenger’s name. Additionally, some accents will be replaced with an “e”. For example, Müller would appear as Mueller.
4. Confirm luggage requirements
All students’ international tickets include one checked bag (as well as their hand luggage and personal item). If your student will check more than one bag or any special luggage, reference the airline’s baggage policy on their website so they know what to expect.
5. Know the final destination for your luggage
Students’ checked luggage will be sent to their destination and will not need to be picked up on any layovers at connecting airports. This will be different if a student has “separate tickets” in their itinerary which is uncommon and will be communicated.
6. Arrive early to the airport
It is best to arrive to the airport 3 hours before the flight for international itineraries. Better safe than sorry!
7. Familiarize yourself with airline partnerships
Many airlines operate with “partner” airlines and are part of an airline “alliance.” If you are unfamiliar with your student’s airline, do a quick Google search for their partner airlines to avoid any potential confusion. For example, KLM and Delta are partners, as are British Airways and American Airlines.
8. Know who to contact for help
If students have flight issues, the quickest and best way to resolve the issue is for them to request help at the airline’s help desk. Of course, they (and you) can also feel free to call the EF team.
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“Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have.”
There is a great song called “Bittersweet Symphony.” It’s one of those songs that every musician wishes he wrote. And there’s this line that drives the chorus: “‘Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony, this life. Try to make ends meet. You’re a slave to money, then you die.”
People feel that way. However, as believers, we don’t have to feel that way; we don’t have to be stuck in the money trap.
Are you ready for this? There are over twenty-two hundred references in the Bible that discuss money and possessions. That’s three times as many references to money than to love. That’s seven times as many references to money than to prayer. That’s eight times as many references to money than to belief. Money comprises fifteen percent of the Bible. One fifth of Jesus’ teachings were on money and possessions. Seventeen of thirty-eight parables deal with money and possessions. Jesus talked more about money than any other single topic besides the kingdom of God.
Prayer: Dear Lord, thank you for all your instruction on how to have a healthy and productive relationship with money. Amen.
Reflection: How do you view money? With thankfulness? Generosity? Fear?
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Google BigQuery is an industry-leading, fully-managed cloud data warehouse that lets you efficiently store and analyze petabytes of data.
RudderStack lets you configure BigQuery as a destination to which you can send your event data seamlessly.
Before you set up BigQuery as a destination in RudderStack, follow these steps to set up your BigQuery project:
- Create a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project if you don't have one already. For more details, refer to this BigQuery documentation.
- Enable the BigQuery API for your existing project if it's not done already. For more information, refer to this BigQuery documentation.
- Log into your BigQuery console. Copy the project ID as shown in the following image:
- Create a new Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket or provide an existing one to store files before loading the data into your BigQuery instance.
For RudderStack to successfully send events to your BigQuery instance, you also need to set up a service account with the necessary permissions.
Follow the steps below to set up a service account:
- Create a new service account by going to IAM & Admin > Service Accounts.
- Add the service account permissions as specified below:
- Add the
Storage Object Creatorand
Storage Object Viewerroles to the account.
- Add the
BigQuery Job Userand
BigQuery Data Ownerroles to the account.
- Create a key for the service account with JSON as the type and store it.
- Create and download the private JSON key required for configuring BigQuery as a destination in RudderStack, as shown:
You will need to allowlist the following RudderStack IPs to enable network access:
To send event data to SQL Server, you first need to add it as a destination in RudderStack and connect it to your data source. Once the destination is enabled, events will automatically start flowing to SQL Server via RudderStack.
To configure SQL Server as a destination in RudderStack, follow these steps:
- In your RudderStack dashboard, set up the data source. Then, select BigQuery from the list of destinations.
- Assign a name to your destination and then click on Next.
Enter the following credentials in the Connection Credentials page:
- Project: The GCP project ID where the BigQuery database is located.
- Location: The GCP region for your dataset.
- Staging GCS Storage Bucket Name: The name of the storage bucket as specified in the Setting up the BigQuery project section.
- Prefix: If specified, RudderStack creates a folder in the bucket with this prefix and pushes all the data within that folder.
- Namespace: Enter the schema name where RudderStack will create all the tables. If you don't specify any namespace, RudderStack will set this to the source name, by default.
- Credentials: Your GCP service account credentials JSON as created in the Setting up the service account for RudderStack section.
- Sync Frequency: Specify how often RudderStack should sync the data to your BigQuery dataset.
- Sync Starting At: This optional setting lets you specify the particular time of the day (in UTC) when you want RudderStack to sync the data to BigQuery.
- Exclude Window: This optional setting lets you set a time window when RudderStack will not sync the data to your database.
- JSON Columns: Use this optional setting to specify the required JSON column paths in dot notation, separated by commas. This option applies to all the incoming
trackevents for this destination.
RudderStack uses the source name (written in snake case, for example,
source_name) to create a dataset in BigQuery.
RudderStack supports two modes by which data is ingested into BigQuery:
- Partitioned tables (default method)
If you are using RudderStack Open Source or hosting the RudderStack data plane, you can manage these modes via the environment variable
RSERVER_WAREHOUSE_BIGQUERY_IS_DEDUP_ENABLED, as shown in the following table:
RudderStack creates ingestion-time partition tables based on the load date, so you can take advantage of it to query a subset of data.
In addition to tables, RudderStack creates a view (
<table_name>_view) for every table for de-duplication purposes.
It is highly recommended that you use the corresponding view (containing the events from the last 60 days) to avoid duplicate events in your query results. Since BigQuery views are merely logical views and are not cached, you can create a native table from it to save money - by avoiding running the query that defines the view every time.
In this method, RudderStack automatically discards any duplicate events while loading them into the BigQuery tables. To enable this method, set the environment variable
RSERVER_WAREHOUSE_BIGQUERY_IS_DEDUP_ENABLED in your RudderStack data plane setup to
trackstable every 30 minutes to upload any new events.
You can easily switch from using the deduplication method to ingest your data in BigQuery to the partitioned tables by setting the environment variable
RSERVER_WAREHOUSE_BIGQUERY_IS_DEDUP_ENABLED in your RudderStack setup to
RudderStack then does the following:
users_viewwhile loading the
userstable, if not already present.
- Creates the views for the new
- All the other skipped views are not regenerated. You can either manually create those views or contact us to get them created.
There are some limitations when it comes to using reserved words in a schema, table, or column names. If such words are used in event names, traits or properties, they will be prefixed with a
_when RudderStack creates tables or columns for them in your schema.
Besides, integers are not allowed at the start of the schema or table name. Hence, such schema, column or table names will be prefixed with a
'25dollarpurchase' will be changed to
By default, RudderStack sends the data to the table/dataset based on the source it is connected to. For example, if the source is Google Tag Manager, RudderStack sets the schema name as
gtm_*. However, you can override this behavior by setting the Namespace field in the BigQuery destination settings, as shown:
I'm looking to send data to BigQuery through RudderStack and I'm trying to understand what data is populated in each column. How do I go about this?
Refer to the Warehouse Schema documentation for details on how RudderStack generates the schema in the warehouse and populates the data in each column.
I am trying to load data into my BigQuery destination and I get the error "Cannot read and write in different locations". What should I do?
Make sure that both your BigQuery dataset and the bucket have the same region.
When piping data to a BigQuery destination, I can set the bucket but not a folder within the bucket. Is there a way to put Rudderstack data in a specific bucket folder?
Yes, you can set the desired folder name in the Prefix field while setting up your BigQuery destination in RudderStack.
The near-realtime BigQuery syncing feature is currently under development and is planned to be released in the coming months. Unfortunately, Event Replay is not a part of open-source RudderStack currently.
If you're using open source RudderStack, the minimum sync frequency is 30 minutes. If you're self-hosting the data plane or using RudderStack Cloud Pro / Enterprise, you can tweak the config to set
0 and determine the best possible value for near real-time sync. For more information, refer to this FAQ.
Do I need to stop the running pipeline to change my sync frequency? Or will the new change be effective even without stopping the pipeline?
To change the sync frequency, you need not stop the pipeline.
BigQuery uses the credentials JSON from the dashboard configuration when setting up the destination. For more information, refer to the Setting up the service account for RudderStack section.
When configuring the BigQuery destination, should the user permissions be set for the specific dataset or the whole project?
You need to set the user permissions for the whole project. Otherwise, you may encounter issues.
RudderStack retries the failed syncs for up to 3 hours before aborting them. For more information, refer to this FAQ.
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If you’re looking for a relaxing break, come to Bournemouth and get back to nature.
Our beautiful Pleasure Gardens have a “three continents” theme with three separate sections. The first has a European theme, the second an Asian Theme and finally the third theme is based on plant species from North America.
The Upper Gardens was originally laid out as a private garden for the Durrant family in the 1860s. However the lease was assigned over to Bournemouth Council shortly before the Lower gardens were laid out.
Many of the trees in our gardens were planted in the 19th century and are over 100 years old. As you walk into the first section you are greeted by a rather elegant Gothic style Victorian water tower, fashioned after a castle turret. In bygone days this used to provide water for a fountain and was fed, in turn by a pump.
There are wooden walkways, water features and beautiful plant species which makes this the perfect place for an afternoon picnic!
Upper, Central and Lower Gardens have all been Green Flag winners since 1999 and run from Bournemouth pier to the boundary with Poole.
The gardens are 3 kilometres long. They are all part of the Bourne Valley Greenway and are Listed Grade II in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens.
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We’ve already explored some of the fascinating alternate histories (as fiction writers call them) or “counterfactuals” (as historians call them) in this list and this one. Here are some of the more peculiar questions that people have pondered over the decades. Perhaps not all of them should be taken seriously…
1. What if Shakespeare was a renowned historian?
Effect: Due to advanced technology, the Industrial Revolution happens 200 years early.
Explanation: Shakespeare has impressed scholars not only with his literary brilliance, but also with the historical detail of his plays. He did get a few things wrong, however—such as having a clock strike in Julius Caesar, 1500 years before such clocks were invented. The acclaimed 1974 novel A Midsummer Tempest, by popular science fiction and fantasy author Poul Andersen, was set in a world where Shakespeare’s plays are utterly accurate, and the Bard is renowned not as a creative genius, but as a great chronicler of history. Hence, fairies and other magical beings exist on this world, and the clockwork technology of Ancient Rome advanced to the stage where, in the age of Cromwell, steam trains are already running through England.
2. What if Woodrow Wilson had never been US president?
Effect: World War II would have been avoided.
Explanation: In Gore Vidal’s 1995 novel, The Smithsonian Institution, the great political scribe made one of his rare entries into science fiction. In the book, a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution in 1939, where he glimpses the upcoming World War II. Determined to prevent it, he goes back in history to seek its origins. At one stage, he concludes that the fault lay in President Woodrow Wilson’s vision for the League of Nations. Well-meaning as the organization was, Vidal blames it for causing Germany’s struggles in the 1920s, paving the way for the rise of Hitler.
3. What if Frank Sinatra was never born?
Effect: Nuclear devastation.
Explanation: In "Road to the Multiverse," a 2009 episode of Family Guy, Stewie and Brian find themselves hopping between universes. They find themselves in a Disney universe, where everything is sweet and wholesome (as long as you’re not Jewish); a universe inhabited only by a guy in the distance who gives out compliments; a universe where Christianity never existed, meaning that the Dark Ages didn’t happen; and a universe in which the positions of dogs and people are reversed. One of the most intriguing was a universe where Sinatra was never born, and is therefore unable to use his influence to get President Kennedy elected in 1960. Instead, Nixon was elected, and “totally botched the Cuban Missile Crisis, causing World War III.” This caused devastation all around them. Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t shoot Kennedy, but shot Mayor McCheese instead. (That bit was never explained.)
4. What if Franklin Roosevelt was assassinated in 1933?
Effect: Colonization of the moon, Venus, and Mars by 1962.
Explanation: Any reality envisioned by Philip K. Dick was bound to be fascinating. His 1962 novel The Man in the High Castle, which established him as a top science fiction writer, is set in a world where the Axis powers win World War II in 1947 and divide most of the world between them. This happens because, in this world, Giuseppe Zangara’s attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt is successful. Under the government of John Nance Garner (who would have been Roosevelt’s VP), and later the Republican candidate John W. Bricker, the U.S. doesn’t prevail against the Great Depression, and maintains an isolationist policy in World War II, leading to a weak and ineffectual military. In the America of 1962, slavery is legal once again, and the few surviving Jews hide out under assumed names. However, the Nazis have the hydrogen bomb, which also gives them the technology to fuel super-fast air travel and colonize space. This book, with its historical commentary, made many critics take sci-fi far more seriously, showing that it was more than just alien invasions and spaceships. Unlike many of Dick's later works, it has yet to be turned in to a movie, though a SyFy TV series is currently in planning stages, produced by Sir Ridley Scott.
5. What if Germany had invaded Britain by sea?
Effect: World War II might have ended earlier—but Hitler would still have lost.
Explanation: After capturing France, Nazi Germany planned to invade Britain with Operation Sea Lion, in an air and naval attack across the English Channel. The plan was shelved in 1940, but some 30 years later, the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst started a war-games module, set in a world where Sea Lion had happened. (Military academies, in their war-games, often speculate about how different strategies might have changed history.) According to the module, the Germans would not have been able to withstand the might of the British Home Guard and the RAF—and as the Royal Navy had superiority in the English Channel, they would not have been able to escape. It would have severely weakened the German army, and hastened the end of the war.
6. What if Martin Scorsese had directed Pretty Woman?
Effect: One of America’s favorite rom-coms of the 1990s would have been a gritty tragedy.
Explanation: The British movie magazine Empire joined in the counterfactuals game in 2003 by suggesting some possible stories from recent Hollywood history. Somehow, we’re not convinced that they took the job seriously, as they pondered worlds where The Godfather had flopped (forcing Francis Ford Coppola’s return to directing porn movies and Al Pacino’s return to his job as a furniture removalist), Sean Connery was gay (so that, rather than James Bond, he wins stardom in camp British comedies), and, most cruelly, Keanu Reeves was born ugly (“He would have starved to death at a very young age”), among other twisted scenarios. Perhaps the most intriguing was the reality in which Martin Scorsese, rather than Garry Marshall, directed Pretty Woman (1990), the rom-com that turned Julia Roberts into a star. As imagined by Empire scribe Richard Luck, Scorsese would retitle the film The Happy Hooker, and it would become a hard-hitting study of life on the streets. It would end not with the prostitute (Roberts) and her wealthy client (Richard Gere) living happily ever after, but with her dying of a heroin overdose while he drives into the sunset, cackling maniacally.
7. What if Al Gore became U.S. president?
Effect: The President is an idiot.
Explanation: In the 2004 anthology What Might Have Been, historians pondered scanarios from the Spanish Armada invading England to Margaret Thatcher being assassinated in 1984. The final chapter, “The Chads fall off in Florida,” was written by David Frum, conservative historian, and author of such books as The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush and An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror. Frum imagined Al Gore becoming president in 2000, as a comic dialogue, in which Gore calls on his joint chiefs of staff following the September 11 terrorist attacks. In Frum’s scenario, Gore wanted to capture Osama bin Laden alive and give him a fair trial; make war with Afghanistan “the first environmentally sensitive war in history” (partly by raising petrol prices); look for domestic al Qaeda operatives without using ethnic or religious profiling; and let terrorism take a back seat as he focused on his plan for universal health insurance. (“Arms are for hugging,” he says.) As it was written in 2004, Frum didn’t suggest how Gore would handle the economy, whether he would find bin Laden, or whether his soft-touch war would be a success. Nor did he explain how this formerly intelligent Vice-President would become such a dope. Still, it’s a funny story.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected economies and lifestyles globally and altered the work culture and overall expectations of many employees. The sudden shift to all-digital ruined the success of many businesses that were not prepared sufficiently, which resulted in only those adapting to the technological needs surviving the crisis. Foreign Policy Analysis of the global post-covid studies suggests that “more than a quarter of Fortune 500 CEOs predict that their workforces will not regain their pre-pandemic sizes”.
The McKinsey & Company report on the long-term impacts of COVID-19. Focusing on eight countries (China, Japan, France, Spain, UK, US, India, and Germany) and their labor markets show that some of the pandemic related trends might continue to exist and accelerate, such as preference for hybrid remote work, continuous growth of e-commerce share and delivery systems, and implementations of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) in various business models.
According to Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence (2020), although the pandemic hit most businesses and shaped many business activities, 47% of AI investments remained constant during the pandemic and 30% of the businesses planned to increase their AI investments. An interesting finding here is the central and critical role of C-levels. Almost 30% of the AI projects are managed by CEOs which introduces new challenges and requires certain technical skills and knowledge.
Leadership During Uncertainty and Transformation: What Can Executives Do Better?
Besides the fact that it was a self-reflection moment for many, the pandemic has also taught some important lessons about expectations from a workplace. Suddenly, workplaces in-trend offering “happy hours”, “ping pong tournaments” or “office with a view” began to lose their charm. The pandemic revealed a vital factor that has been highly ignored by both employees and employers: mental health and support in the workplace.
Employee mental health issues being increased with COVID-19 as a result of stress, loss, and adaptation to change, the upcoming decades will also shape business leaders and their strategies in terms of dealing with such problems in the workplace. It is expected that it is going to take much more effort for employers to keep their best talent or hire new talent with unique, up-to-date skills. The need for equal opportunities, training, psychological support, important perks, and benefits such as health care, life insurance, or paid time-off in the workplace is now more visible than ever.
Although the damage of the pandemic for some business leaders was heavy, the future is full of opportunities for those who can tackle technology related challenges, value and support their employees, provide mentorship and training to help them develop new skills to cope with current trends, analyze and predict for the future using well-established methodologies, and not only build innovative products and services but also diverse and strong teams. Indeed, team building or preserving a company culture under remote conditions is not an easy task for managers. Some companies built their strategies following digital trends (i.e. remote work) since their existence and their managers might be more familiar with the possible challenges. However, both employees and employers learned in a hard way that “workplace” means a lot more than just meetings and paychecks.
Having a strong company culture and management requires effort, support, and caring. With the improvements and implementations of technologies such as artificial intelligence, a shift in employment choices and expertise levels are also expected in the next decade. According to the McKinsey report, by 2030 more than 100 million workers might have to change their occupations. The most affected groups are expected to be employees who don’t hold a university degree, women, ethnic minorities, and young people. Increasing unemployment rates in low-wage jobs, while the high-wage STEM and health care jobs are expanding, will affect economies, living standards, and societal wellbeing. Therefore, the role of managers in preparing their employees for the transition is massive, in terms of providing them with the necessary educational support and training to ensure that they are well-rounded with technical skills the future workplace will require.
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I have always appreciated the art of Mary Blair: the mural in the Grand Canyon Concourse of the Contemporary, the artwork for Disney animation of the 1940’s and early 1950’s, the former mural in Tomorrowland at Disneyland and the iconic It’s a Small World.While her art has never followed traditional Disney style, I have always wondered at the stories of Walt Disney’s infatuation with her artwork. Was it the colors, the styles, or the children that were a focus? Did she share Walt’s unbridled optimism?
Blair showed him color and forms that constantly surprised and delighted him. They shared many sensibilities, including a childlike fondness for playfulness in imagery, alongside a seriousness of purpose even with playful things. Both were unafraid of hard work, and Disney appreciated Blair’s diligence in turning out many variations on a subject in order to give him choices. She was a prolific but inspired painting machine. —The Art and Flair of Mary Blair, p. X
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The world of cryptocurrency is seeing rapid growth and the most adventurous investors are going headlong into this burgeoning market. The crypto market has advanced to being equal to the entire Italian economy, which is the 8th largest in the world. More than 91 billion dollars in cryptocurrency is traded every single day across 154 countries and 8,000 cryptocurrencies.
The crypto market can be a bit overwhelming and some investors are still concerned about the risks involved. It’s true that theft and loss are real issues in the crypto market. In fact, 1,500 Bitcoins are lost every day simply due to things like missing private keys, market drops, and crashes or corrupted files.
Naturally, cryptocurrency theft is also a serious concern among hesitant investors. Crypto theft has grown by about $6 billion from 2020 to 2021, especially after all the new open doors brought on by the COVID pandemic. Ponzi schemes alone are responsible for more than 2 billion dollars of crypto theft.
Hesitant investors can rest assured that there is a way to invest in crypto without having to face all the risks unprotected.
The crypto insurance industry is now worth $3 billion and growing. Investors can select their insurance carriers and the kind of coverage they want, just like traditional insurances. They can invest in crypto safely and take advantage of the still early stages of this rapidly growing market.
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This educational ISA webinar was presented by Greg McMillan in conjunction with the ISA Mentor Program. Greg is an industry consultant, author of numerous process control books, 2010 ISA Life Achievement Award recipient and retired Senior Fellow from Solutia Inc. (now Eastman Chemical).
Danaca Jordan, the first protégée of the ISA Mentor Program, provides her experience moving from giant, complex manufacturing to a small plant – and key plant problems she has solved. The problems and solutions provide tips and lessons on the use of anti-reset windup limits, override control, isolation valves, smart alarms, mass flowmeters, and the enforcement of low-flow limits.
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About the Presenter
Gregory K. McMillan, CAP, is a retired Senior Fellow from Solutia/Monsanto where he worked in engineering technology on process control improvement. Greg was also an affiliate professor for Washington University in Saint Louis. Greg is an ISA Fellow and received the ISA Kermit Fischer Environmental Award for pH control in 1991, the Control magazine Engineer of the Year award for the process industry in 1994, was inducted into the Control magazine Process Automation Hall of Fame in 2001, was honored by InTech magazine in 2003 as one of the most influential innovators in automation, and received the ISA Life Achievement Award in 2010. Greg is the author of numerous books on process control, including Advances in Reactor Measurement and Control and Essentials of Modern Measurements and Final Elements in the Process Industry. Greg has been the monthly "Control Talk" columnist for Control magazine since 2002. Presently, Greg is a part time modeling and control consultant in Technology for Process Simulation for Emerson Automation Solutions specializing in the use of the virtual plant for exploring new opportunities. He spends most of his time writing, teaching and leading the ISA Mentor Program he founded in 2011.
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Recovery Lab: Lessons from the Pandemic and Implications for the Future
Posted by National Center for Community Schools on May 11, 2021
We are thrilled to announce the publication of a report that documents the important work of Recovery Lab, an initiative we facilitated to meet the needs of young people across New York City during the ever-changing and unpredictable context of the summer and fall of 2020.
While the impetus of Recovery Lab was to respond immediately to what we hoped would be a temporary set of circumstances, what we learned along the way is a set of ideas about policy and practice that we believe has implications for the long term and beyond New York City.
We are grateful to have had the opportunity to learn with and from the many individuals and organizations that contributed to this collective (and ongoing) effort, and we thank them for sharing their successes and challenges along the way. In the report, you will see their dedication to young people and their unwavering commitment to develop solutions shine through.
It is our sincere hope that this report will serve as a resource to schools and communities across the country as they wrap up the spring term of the school year and plan for the summer and fall.
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We as individuals living in a world where the population is growing and the natural resources are limited, need to learn to live together sustainably. We need to learn to act responsibly towards the environment which we are part of, because what we do today will have a negative or positive impact on the future generations and on the planet. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) enables people to change their behavior and the way they think towards a sustainable future.1 “Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is commonly understood as education that encourages changes in knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to enable a more sustainable and just society for all. ESD aims to empower and equip current and future generations to meet their needs using a balanced and integrated approach to the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.” “ESD’s target is to enable children, young people, students and adults to be active in the development of an environmentally acceptable, socially equitable, economically efficient environment.” The main goal is to provide young people with the required education and knowledge to take sustainable decisions for global development. Through ESD, children will be aware of how to face and deal with global challenges to make the world a better place. . Furthermore, ESD encompasses the teaching of skills such as future-oriented thinking, interdisciplinary knowledge and interconnected thinking, autonomous acting and participation in decision-making processes within society. Therefore, UNESCO aims to transform society by reforming education which will help individuals develop knowledge, skills and behaviors needed for sustainable development. Also, their aim is to improve access to quality education on sustainable development in all social contexts. In order to achieve that, sustainable development issues such as climate change and biodiversity should be included in the subjects taught at schools. Consequently, individuals are encouraged to be responsible actors who resolve challenges, respect cultural diversity and contribute to creating a more sustainable world.
Objectives This scientific paper will focus on two main objectives:
1- Communicate the importance of promoting Education for Sustainable Development in schools through a review of literature.
2- Illustrates ways in which Education for Sustainable Development can be integrated into and across areas of the curriculum.
Problem Definition The global issues facing the world today related to environment, poverty, human rights, peace, and development are becoming increasingly complex. If we continue to provide our children with the conventional style of education focused on knowledge and understanding, the children born into this complex world will not be fully equipped and prepared to face such global-scale challenges, which are rapidly increasing each year. Through ESD’s activities, individuals learn how to approach these issues of modern society by “thinking globally and acting locally”, thus creating new behaviors and values that contribute to solving these problems leading to a sustainable society. Therefore, ESD is education that adopts the leadership needed to build a sustainable society.
This section will discuss and summarize a review of the preceding literature related to Education for Sustainable Development and the importance of promoting ESD in schools based on a guideline developed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT). Furthermore, this part will also describe how education is related to the other sustainable development goals to obtain an overview of ESD’s value.
Reasons for Promoting ESD in Schools a) ESD aims to solve global issues The issues facing the world today are becoming increasingly complex and their solutions rely not only on local cooperation but on cross-national collaboration. That is the reason why we have to change the way we are educating our children because if we keep on delivering the same traditional style of learning, they will not be ready and aware of these issues. Hence, a major part of ESD is educational reform which involves thinking about, and sharing through practice, the skills and qualities children need and the kind of learning environment that would facilitate their development. In order to achieve that, it is required to integrate an environmental approach with social and economic approaches in the subjects taught at schools and cooperate at an international level. b) ESD: Education that fosters the leadership to a sustainable society ESD requires an integrated approach which takes in to consideration how the environment, society, economy, and culture are connected, because if we just focus on the environmental aspect, our environmental local issues will not be solved. Through ESD, children will learn how important it is to build a sustainable society through activities and exercises done in the schools’ classrooms.
For example, at elementary level, children may connect changes seen in their local environment to global issues, while junior high school onwards, students could consider how they relate things they have seen on the news to issues in their communities. This teaching/learning approach involves strategies such as getting pupils to carry out group and other cooperative activities, or using experience-based activities. 5 c) ESD in the global spotlight In September 2015 UN summit in New York, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Sustainable Development Goals) were adopted. Providing quality education is Goal 4 which ESD is part of. ESD contributes to improving quality of education and is concept that offer a direction for education going forward. The promotion of ESD is a promise for the future the countries of the world made. As ESD is promoted in Japanese schools, this will make Japan a global leader in education. d) ESD in the national curriculum standards Due to the fact that ESD is the perspective to create a sustainable society, ESD is currently integrated in the national curriculum for elementary, junior high, and high schools. Consequently, through different subjects like moral education and special activities, ESD is delivered at primary and secondary level across the nation. Putting this into practice effectively, the school as whole is required to take a planned approach towards that. Meanwhile the concept of ESD is integrated in the curriculum, a transformation in the children’s awareness and mindset can be achieved to build a sustainable society.
How Education is related to other SDG targets “The role of education for the success of the SDGs led to the creation of a single goal, SDG4, dedicated to education and the integration of education into other development goals to support their implementation.” In order to achieve all other development goals, including gender equality, health, nutrition and environmental sustainability, quality education is required. Therefore, all sustainable development goals come down to education. 2To date, ESD has been integrated into many global frameworks and conventions on key sustainable development topics.
Methodology This section clarifies and explains ways of integrating Education for Sustainable Development across different subjects and areas of the curriculum. This section also reveals how ESD is related to all educational objectives and how it can integrated into the celebrations in the school calendar.
Model of Curriculum “If the curriculum is defined as the sum of all formal and informal teaching and learning experiences provided by a school”, then Education for Sustainable Development is a subject to be affirmed in every aspect of the school life, rather than adding it to the curriculum as a new subject. The figure below (fig.01) is the model of the school’s curriculum. All the elements included in this curriculum affect the academic experiences of young people in schools.
Interdisciplinary teaching and learning “Meaningful learning requires students to integrate ideas from many different perspectives rather than compartmentalize what they learn into discrete ‘boxes’ of knowledge”. In order to do that effectively, teachers have to be skilled and trained to integrate knowledge from various sources and disciplines. Finding solutions for the issues our society is facing rely mainly on the input gathered from many specializations. Consequently, to solve problems in the world it is required to have a variety of specialists working together. The same concept can be reflected inside classrooms where disciplines should be more combined rather than separated. Through the topics and examples teachers choose, they can emphasize interdisciplinary teaching and learning in their classes. However, coordination and cooperation between teachers is really important for the students to be given a chance to integrate knowledge across different subjects throughout their educational stages. The case study below provides an example how this can be done. Case study: Class investigation of local traffic problems. “Traffic had been very bad outside a school for a long time. So, a teacher and her class of 12-year old students carried out an investigation into the need for a pedestrian crossing to make it safer for people to cross the road. The students first decided to carry out a survey to count the numbers of vehicles travelling in both directions. They calculated the average speed of the vehicles, the percentage of those exceeding the speed limit and the percentage of drivers that would have been unable to stop within a reasonable distance. The students also counted the number of pedestrians crossing and identified peak times. The results of the traffic survey were displayed in the form of bar charts and graphs. The findings were compared with the local authority’s guidelines for the provision of pedestrian crossings. The students then wrote a report on the degree of risk involved in crossing the road to reach the school and the best location for the pedestrian crossing. They included data, figures, photographs and plans in their reports. The response of the local authority to date has not been encouraging. So, the students are now working with the local neighborhood association to press their case for action.”
Integration through educational objectives Many teachers are concerned about an over-loaded curriculum, because they always feel that the amount of material being put into this curriculum needs more time than given to be covered. As a result, many teachers prioritize covering the contents of key major subjects, such as language, mathematics, and sciences over cross-curriculum themes as Education for Sustainable Development. Despite that, many educational objectives like attitudes and skills are already common across most subjects in the curriculum. Students’ problem solving, critical thinking, communication, leadership and analysis skills will be improved when taught about sustainability. Therefore, teachers should look at this problem in a different way, as they are achieving educational objectives without overloading the curriculum. Examples of across-the-curriculum objectives that can be served by Education for Sustainable Development include:
a) Attitudes and Values
Infusion into learning experiences in all subjects “Ideally, Education for Sustainable Development should permeate the entire school curriculum, with every subject area, at every year level, dealing with aspects of sustainability in some way.” As all subjects have an important role to play, some subjects have greater chances in such infusion than the others. The examples below illustrates ways on how the objectives and themes of ESD, the perspective which promotes learning for a sustainable future, can be infused into a various range of school subjects.
Celebrations in the school calendar One of the powerful ways to promote interest in a sustainable future is a regular program of celebrations in the school calendar, the reason why governments around the world agreed to specify certain days and weeks as times of remembrance and celebration for particular issues in which their crucial purpose is Education. Consequently, those celebrated days provide opportunities to educate for a sustainable future. For example:
We as individuals living in a world where the population is growing and the natural resources are limited need to learn to live sustainably. The global issues the world is facing today related to the environment, poverty, human rights, peace, and development are becoming increasingly complex. Therefore, Education for Sustainable Development is one of the essential strategies to be implemented in schools in order to guide our children to resolve these global issues towards a better sustainable society. Even though many nations have adopted the importance for education to attain sustainability, only limited progress had been made on any level. There are many sources in which corporates with the lack of progress. It might either be due to lack of awareness, or due to lack of policy or funding. Therefore, governments need to address all the challenges and barriers to ESD in the planning stage in order to reduce or prevent the delay of implementing it in schools.
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By Ammon Monroe Aurand, Jr.
Publication Date: 1938
Illustrations: Yes, 14 black and white photos.
About The Book: A pamphlet on the Amish, delving into their mysterious and somewhat quaint ways. Subjects include their dress, their marriage and funeral traditions, where a woman's place is (in the home or fields, apparently), their religious ceremonies and some other stuff. The last chapter includes 14 photographs with the author's 'amusing' captions placed underneath.
Little Known Facts About The Amish 2014-09-22
And the Mennonites
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A sandblasted windshield is what happens when tiny particles of dust or sand hit your car’s windshield repeatedly. Even though the dust and tiny debris are not big enough to cause any serious damage to the windshield, they leave tiny holes over a period of time which become noticeable on your windshield. At first you may not notice them, but after a while, the chips will become more pronounced and eventually will leave you with a cracked windshield in your car.
The main reason behind rapid sandblasting is tailgating. When you follow close behind other vehicles, small pieces of rocks, sand and dirt are kicked up by their tyres which get flung onto your windshield. The closer you are to the person ahead of you, the more damage the sand and dust will do to your windshield. So, in order to prevent sandblasting, you are advised to keep at least a two to three seconds’ distance between your car and the one in front of you. This way, fewer particles are likely to come in contact with the windshield of your car.
Another possible reason why your windshield is sandblasted is because of where you drive or the type company vehicle you have. For instance, if you work on a farm or a construction site, then there are much higher chances of large amount of dust and debris hitting your windshield at moderate to high speeds. Since more dirt and sand make their way into the air, the particles are likely to be slightly bigger. So, the impact on the windshield is much greater.
One can prevent or at most, slow down the sandblasting process by parking their car in a garage or using a car cover. Strong winds can hit the glass surface with dust and sand with speed which could be hard enough to create small pits in the windshield. Parking inside or using a car cover will prevent this from happening as the winds would pummel a wall or the cover rather than the windshield directly.
Sandblasted windshields should be fixed well in time before they cause more damage. They are unsafe for drivers plying on the road as they provide limited visibility while driving, which can be dangerous. Moreover, when the sun glares during the day, the pits in the windshield grow wider and obscure the vision of the driver. Small pits will gradually turn into small cracks and the condition of the windshield deteriorates.
You may find it useful to know that it is possible to reduce the damage to your windshield caused by sandblasting. Regardless of the current condition of your windshield, professional car experts can remove the pits and other sandblast-related damages on your car window glass and windshield. It is possible to fully restore a sandblasted windshield back to working condition. Even in case it is inevitable, there are ways to slow down the process of sandblasting and lengthening the lifespan of your windshield. Otherwise, you may have to replace the glass.
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Expression of Plasmodium falciparum genes involved in erythrocyte invasion varies among isolates cultured directly from patients.
Nery S., Deans A-M., Mosobo M., Marsh K., Rowe JA., Conway DJ.
Plasmodium falciparum merozoites invade erythrocytes using a range of alternative ligands that includes erythrocyte binding antigenic proteins (EBAs) and reticulocyte binding protein homologues (Rh). Variation in the expression of some of these genes among culture-adapted parasite lines correlates with the use of different erythrocyte receptors. Here, expression profiles of four Rh genes and eba175 are analysed in a sample of 42 isolates cultured from malaria patients in Kenya. The profiles cluster into distinct groups, largely because of very strong negative correlations between the levels of expression of particular gene pairs (Rh1 versus Rh2b, eba175 versus Rh2b, and eba175 versus Rh4), previously associated with alternative invasion pathways in culture-adapted parasite lines. High levels of eba175 are seen in isolates in expression profile group I, and may be associated with sialic acid-dependent invasion. Groups II and III are, respectively, characterized by high levels of Rh2b and Rh4, and are more likely to be associated with sialic acid-independent invasion.
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Part one of a two-part series.
The last year has been unprecedented in Albanian history. Asides from the ongoing political infighting and a constant stream of scandals, Albania has been rocked by two natural disasters that have killed more than 180 and left thousands in economic insecurity.
On 26 November 2019, Albania was hit by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake that claimed the lives of 51 people, injured hundreds, and left thousands homeless. Just four months later, a global pandemic was declared as COVID-19 took hold and the country went into lockdown. To date there have been 4570 cases and 128 deaths.
Asides from the medics, rescue teams, and aid workers, journalists have been on the front line too. Diligently reporting on the situation as it unfolds. Often with limited access to official information, under threat of attacks against their profession, and at risk to their own safety and wellbeing, Albanian journalists have provided the public with up-to-date information on both crises.
Research shows that journalists often suffer from ‘transference’, whereby they experience the pain of victims they interview or scenes the witness. This can lead to indirect secondary trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Following Hurricane Harvey in the United States, 90% of journalists interviewed two months later displayed some symptoms of PTSD and 20% met the threshold for a diagnosis. 40% could be diagnosed as having depression and almost all displayed some symptoms of the condition. Reporters noted they suffered from flashbacks, insomnia, bad dreams, and disruption in their daily lives.
Key stressors of their conditions were not just the nature of the stories they were covering, but long hours, unpredictable schedules, and pressure over their role in reporting on the disaster.
Another US study interviewed journalists working for a daily newspaper. Findings revealed that the higher the coverage of traumatic content, the more likely they were to suffer from PTSD. Journalists spoke of the emotional drain, exhaustion, flashbacks, anxiety, depression, and alcohol abuse.
Little has been acknowledged or written about the impact of two traumatic events on journalists in Albania, just four months apart. Exit spoke to five local reporters including two television presenters, one photographer, and two text journalists to find out more about their experiences and the aftermath.
Isa Myzyraj was asleep at his home in Durres when the earthquake struck. He was the first journalist to report on the disaster, opening his live stream about four minutes after it occurred. His house collapsed in the quake and he was lucky that he and his family managed to escape.
“I opened the live video and recorded for 19 minutes transmitting the horror of those moments. It was the scariest event I have ever reported as before my eyes there was only rubble and people below it. I couldn’t do anything except ask for help on the live broadcast,” he said.
Experiencing the epicentre, the collapse of his home, and the horror of that night as it happened has had a lasting effect on Isa. For weeks after he said he couldn’t enter a closed room and slept in the car, suffering from nightmares every night.
“There were moments when I just burst into tears, I don’t know why…it came naturally. I cannot forget the screams of relatives crying for their loved ones who were left under the rubble. I cannot forget a single moment.”
In terms of COVID-19, Isa said it was the unfamiliarity of not knowing what we were dealing with that made it scary.
“I didn’t know how to behave…It was a situation that made me think every day that the world was changing once and for all. It was scary…I would finish work every day at midnight and look at the city empty, without people, without cars, without even police…it was really scary,” he added.
Still suffering from anxiety and stress from the earthquake, when the pandemic started, Isa said it heightened his psychological and mental state. He moved to live alone out of fear of infecting his parents and was overcome with fear for the future of himself, the country, and humanity.
A female journalist working in a mainstream newsroom also gave her account to Exit, but under the condition of anonymity as she didn’t want her employers to consider her as “weak”.
She described the difficulty in both being professional and reporting on the situations as they unfold, while also caring for yourself and your family.
“Covering the earthquake was very traumatic. Not only did I have to leave my home but I was on duty 24/7, trying to report factually and quickly to keep people updated. It was awful, watching the death toll get higher and higher as they brought bodies out of the rubble.”
Even harder was trying to continue reporting while the ground was still shaking and she was in fear for her safety. This fear is something that remains with her today.
“I was running on adrenaline for days and I slept around 2 hours a night for the first couple of weeks. Even now I sometimes feel the ground shake even when it doesn’t and every time I think about the earthquake, I get anxious and my hands’ sweat. I have had nightmares and flashbacks and perhaps once a week I wake up panicking, thinking there has been another earthquake.”
Like Isa, she said that the start of the pandemic and the feelings that accompanied it just exacerbated an already fragile mental state.
“I think you end up internalising a lot of the pressure and stress- because there is a huge amount of pressure to report properly. Also the fear of the unknown and what could happen, worries about losing your job, your family, people you know. It is a huge burden to carry, combined with the stress of lockdown as well,” she said.
The journalist told Exit that she believes she had two small mental breakdowns over the last seven months resulting in her being unable to work for a few days at a time. She believes it is due to the events she has reported on and the pressure involved in her work.
News anchor Klodiana Lala said that covering the aftermath of the earthquake was one of the only moments she has ever felt fear in her work.
“This was among the only moments I have felt fear. This was also for the fact that I am a mother and some of the victims trapped under the rubble of apartments or flats were children, at the same age as my daughters.”
Klodiana took the initiative to seek some professional help in managing the emotional fallout from her work. She consulted with doctors and psychologists to help her ensure she could continue her work reporting and serving the public.
While reporting on COVID-19 did not scare her, it did stop her from being close to her family due to fear of infecting them. She adds that journalists in Albania were and are completely unprepared to deal with such events
Most of the journalists’ Exit spoke to noted that their colleagues had all been impacted as well. Some reported cases of PTSD, anxiety, and depression, even positive COVID-19 tests. Others noted that the pressure to keep the public informed while the situation changed minute by minute, had a profound impact on their physical health.
“As soon as I stopped work for the day I would collapse. When you switch off autopilot and the adrenaline stops running, that’s what happens- you break down,” the anonymous journalist said.
In terms of the support received, responses were generally positive.
Maksi Rama, a reporter said “COVID was tough as it happened a few months after the earthquake. Our employer supported us with a financial bonus after the earthquake, and during COVID we were tested three times.” He also reported that they were given reasonable amounts of time off which allowed him to relax and decompress.
Another female journalist told Exit that her employers provided personal and emotional support for them, allowing them to have time off when things got too much.
“There were no questions asked. They understood and supported us as much as possible- they always put our safety and wellbeing first,” she said.
But Isa doesn’t know the best way to help journalists pursuing these sorts of stories.
“We definitely need help. I am of the opinion that a plan should be drawn up by professionals. A plan to be implemented whenever there are events such as this. Events where the journalist must be there, every hour and every second, for hours whole, seeing the horror with their eyes but is not allowed to react with emotions.”
Maksi added that working hours for journalists should be five to six hours instead of eight hours plus.
“Many times friends and colleagues told me they didn’t even have time to buy a bottle of water or eat because they had to report live,” he said.
“Journalists should have the opportunity to meet with a psychologist when covering stressful stories, it’s important.” he added.
All of the journalists Exit spoke to noted some impact on their family lives. Some went without seeing family members for months at a time, others became agitated and stressed at home thus negatively impacting their personal relationships.
“I have been cold and emotionless but also anxious as I’ve tried to process the feelings I have from the last few months. You have to internalise them else you cannot continue to do your job,” the female journalist told Exit.
But she added with a smile;
“I will say that we knew this was a tough job when we started doing it. Journalism isn’t easy, stress and trauma is a part of the territory.”
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The NHS in England has no chance of training enough GPs and nurses to solve the shortages it faces, experts say. A report by three leading think tanks predicts that in the next five years nurse shortages will double and GP gaps nearly treble, without radical action. The Nuffield Trust, Health Foundation and King’s Fund says a combination of international recruitment, student grants and innovation is needed. Current figures suggest there’s more than 30,000 extra nurses needed and almost 3,000 GPs. The think tanks say on current trends this will rise to nearly 70,000 nurses and more than 7,000 GPs within five years.
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Toy Industries of Europe, April 2012
This report aims to outline the value of play, and acknowledge policies already in place that provide opportunities for play. The report also offers recommendations for additional policies that would be ‘supported by the research evidence and the expert views of the play researchers and organisations consulted’. The full report is available online.
Early childhood education
Royal Society, June 2014
'The Vision aims to raise the general level of mathematical and scientific knowledge and provide confidence in the population and the skills employers need. There is currently excellent practice in primary and secondary schools and colleges across the UK’s four nations. The Vision for science and mathematics education from 5–18 years of age offers a way to build on these foundations and to ensure that the UK's education systems meet the needs of all in the 21st century.' From publisher's description, linked to the full report online.
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Australian National Audit Office, June 2014
This audit was carried out to assess the effectiveness of the welfare reform measure put in place to improve school enrolment and attendance. The full audit is available online.
School enrolment levels
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The book is 'an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the privatization movement that is draining students and funding from our public schools. In a chapter-by-chapter breakdown,' the author 'puts forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve our public schools. She makes clear what is right about U.S. education, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and how we can fix it.' From publisher's description. Originally published 2013, this edition available August 2014. See also review in the Education Review 12 April 2013.
Subject HeadingsUnited States of America (USA)
'Poor white British boys and girls are educationally underperforming – but great schools have transformative effect. Good schools and teachers can make a huge difference to the academic achievement of children eligible for free school meals, MPs argue in their latest report... Eligibility for free school meals is commonly used as a measure of disadvantage, but there are many children just outside this group whose performance is also low. The Committee calls on the Government to look at how data from a range of Departments could be combined to develop a more rounded indicator of child socio-economic status for use when targeting intervention.' From publisher's description, linked to the full report online.
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Teaching and learning
The People of Australia draws upon publicly available data from the 2011 Census of Population and Housing, and provides detailed information on the characteristics of the Australian population. These characteristics include birthplace, language, education, religion, English proficiency and ancestry, amongst others. From publisher's description, linked to the full report online.
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There are times when the people around you transition. They evolve and change from where they were to where they will later be. When the people around you are children, sometimes those evolutions are more noticeable than they are with adults. Adults make subtle and often imperceptible changes because we don’t always notice those things. If you have a friend that you don’t see often, then you notice the changes. But with a child, the changes are dual. Personalities grow, bodies grow, and everything except their eyes changes. The eyes stay the same; that is the one constant. But the child evolves, becoming different right before your eyes.
As I look today at the smiles, they are not the smiles we see today. The openness of a small child is that life hasn’t impacted them as much. Although with the twins that aren’t true. They were born early. Seven weeks early. Getting to week 32 of pregnancy is critical. At week 32, the lungs are viable—the chances of survival increase with every day past the 32nd week. My wife spends weeks 32 and then to 33 in the hospital. She was on enforced bed rest. I rushed around Cincinnati, Ohio, picking up children and then heading to the hospital each day. My life a hectic running from point to point. There was little time to stop and breathe, and no time to be scared.
I had to be strong for my wife for my daughter. It was a tough time. But the smiles are worth it. Even if, looking now at the smiles in the pictures, they are not the smiles I see now. The smiles then have become drying and quieter. They do not now come as often as they did then. Life brings sadness, time brings change, and the kids, like my wife and I, have experienced change and time. The memories of where they were, though, those I hold tight. Each picture of them as they were a gentle reminder of the change. A gentle reminder of the price paid than for the value now. Clutch those memories tight, for they are what was. What was will never be again. So clutch them tight and never let them go!
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Interventions to control and reduce the incidence of Campylobacter jejuni colonization in poultry is important in order to reduce the burden of foodborne illness in humans.
Attempts to control this pathogen using antimicrobials have become less effective due to the widespread emergence of resistant strains, and there is a pressing need to develop unconventional intervention strategies. Thus, alternative methods to control C. jejuni has led to a variety of strategies for vaccine development.
Specific objectives for this research study included, 1) to predict the protein-coding regions of isolated Campylobacter strains by analyzing the complete genome sequences, 2) to identify vaccine candidates against C. jejuni via computer simulation, and 3) to evaluate the feasibility of the antigens as vaccine candidate using in vitroscreening approach.
This project employed a reverse vaccinology strategy using genomic information to discover unique antigens that traditional vaccinology methods had previously missed. Researchers initiated vaccine development from bioinformatics analysis. Multiple genome sequences of C. jejuni strains isolated from different poultry sources (e.g., retail meat, cloacal swab, and litter samples) were compared. A total of six antigens were predicted based on the whole genome sequences of C. jejuni. Out of the six predicted antigens, three novel antigens (e.g., CdtB, PldA, and BtuB) were identified. They are characteristic outer membrane proteins expressed by C. jejuni, highly conserved and harbor immunogenic properties. In addition, their genes are highly expressed during the host-pathogen interaction. These three antigens have not been tested as vaccine candidates and have the potential to be developed into broad spectrum and effective vaccines against C. jejuni.
In summary, researchers used an innovative strategy to combine a reverse vaccinology and in vitroinfection model screening approach to successfully identify three novel vaccine candidates. The data obtained from this study may guide the industry to develop effective vaccines to reduce C. jejuni colonization in poultry and enhance the safety of poultry products. The outcomes could also help reduce the concern for human health and economic burden incurred by C. jejuni infection.
Source: U.S. Poultry & Egg Association
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Introduce your children to counting with Melissa & Doug's Write-a-Mat Numbers 1-10 learning placemat. Reusable, children can write in their answers with a No. 2 pencil or (not-included) Learning Mat Crayons. Perfect for lunch-time drills, extra practice---and entertainment---at restaurants, and fun supplemental seatwork practice! One side of the numbers mat features a full-color illustration of objects concretely representing the number, with the number spelled out at the bottom and room to trace the number at the top. The back of the sheet provides the same scene, but children will be able to color in the illustrations and write in the Arabic numerals themselves after tracing.
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Original title: Corações Sujos
- 1h 30m
In 1945 the war was not over in Brazil: A death squad assassinated all the Japanese immigrants who accepted defeat.In 1945 the war was not over in Brazil: A death squad assassinated all the Japanese immigrants who accepted defeat.In 1945 the war was not over in Brazil: A death squad assassinated all the Japanese immigrants who accepted defeat.
A Great Storytelling
I will not compare with the book. The film is really a historical work and subtly spells out the factors of the largest Japanese immigration from Brazil. But not only does this open up a discussion for just how cruel information asymmetry is and how it can put agents involved in social or economic relations in combatant situations. One can also identify something that was and perhaps even today is very common among immigrants, the relationship between the veteran immigrant and the newcomer, the pioneer immigrants opened orders of "invitation letter" that was required by the Brazilian government in order to acquire cheap labor and take advantage of their own countrymen.
- The narrative is brief, without many details, but it has many historical contexts that obliges the viewer to seek historical context for greater understanding.
- Story told in parallel with the events of the war in which Japan was involved.
- A small part of the history of one of the colonies that came to Brazil to seek a better life at that time.
- The division of acts is well developed.
- Although the movie is Brazilian, only the actors who actually represented the Brazilians - have their nationality, the rest are all Japanese, giving an air of realism and little artificiality.
- The ending is little explored.
- Death scenes were not explicit.
- Sep 5, 2019
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Employment after university is an important and burning topic, exciting for almost all students. Especially strongly think about those who went to study abroad, made significant efforts and spent a lot of money: will it be worth it? Will my salary pay for my studies? How quickly can I start earning decently?
Our colleagues at Kaplan told how they help their students with employment and gave five tips that are helpful to each graduate, so here are 5 Kaplantipsto help improve your career prospects.
Join professional networks
Professional organizations, business networks, communities and groups are an important element in developing you as a specialist. You will be able to progress in your competence, see how knowledge from the university is applied in practice, get access to useful (and previously closed) resources, events, lectures, webinars. Established communication is a direct way to profitable employment and a good place, and the point here is not in the blat, but in the fact that good specialists are asked for familiar specialists in the first place.
Kaplan introduces its students to professional networks starting with the preparatory course. You can join:
- Project Management Associations
- Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
- Royal Statistical Society
- Institute of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurs (if your course involves the module "Entrepreneurship" and you successfully complete it, you can even get official recognition of the Institute)
- Law Society of Scotland and others.
Create and constantly replenish your personal portfolio
Portfolio is needed not only by representatives of the creative world! This is a kind of extended resume, where you enter all your achievements, successes, experience, acquired skills and even areas that you are working on / want to work on. Having started to make a portfolio while studying, you will be ready to interest potential employers in graduation.
In the Kaplan Preparatory Course, students compile an online KapPACK portfolio, which consists of 5 sections:
- "About me": available education + extracurricular achievements, events, awards, certificates, diplomas, medals
- "Personal development": an example of how you met and overcame difficulties, how you learned self-organization and time management
- "Academic Research": How You Developed Research Skills, Critical and Analytical Thinking, Which You Have Already Learned at University
- "Communication skills": methods of improving conversational skills that you use - intercultural communication, active participation in classes, experience of debates and public speaking, presentations, round tables.
- "Knowledge, Skills, Experience": What did you learn in the KaplanPreparatoryCourse? How did you apply/prepare to apply this in your studies and in your life?
Get at least minimal work experience
Work experience even before receiving a diploma is a significant plus for the future employer: so you will show that you have already seen and understood how the learned theory behaves in practice.
Kaplan is registered with the Office of Student Affairs: If you are a student of KaplanCollege, you will be helped to find a part-time job for the duration of the preparatory course. And it is not so important whether the vacancy will be closely related to the future specialty or not: in any case, practical skills, observation, and smartness will be useful to you.
Students can become a student representative or ambassador - they help to invent, organize and conduct events, convey the opinion of classmates to the management team. Very useful experience, especially if your specialty is related to working with people, with personnel management.
Many Kaplan universities and colleges offer a year of internship as part of the curriculum, and the Graduate Route work visa, recently introduced for foreign graduates of British universities, will allow you to calmly look for work after graduation, armed with existing experience.
Pay attention to applied learning week and various job fairs, open days
Applied Learning Week is a special Kaplaneventthat is held twice a semester. Instead of regular classes, students are divided into groups and work on a common project, and at the end they gather all groups and share with each other the experiences, knowledge gained and the results of research /experiments.
This is a great opportunity to develop the ability to work in a team, conduct research, organize the work of the group, rank tasks, find information, use new technologies - and, in the end, get out of your comfort zone and increase your ability to work!
Learn all the skills, data, information you get
Throughout your career, you can change your place of work, position, even sphere and specialty several times, because it is so important to be able to transfer your knowledge and skills from one context to another.
The Pathways Preview Virtual Learning Environment Department is designed by Kaplan for those who are just about to join the preparatory course, which will help you get used to and get acquainted with the program before you start your studies, help you organize your time, join the network of students and get to know everyone.
For those who have successfully completed the preparatory course, Pathways Extra is provided - a constant access to their educational materials, developments, reports, online help on the level of the English language (so as not to lower its level, improve further). Access to the KapPACK e-portfolio will also remain (as will the ability to edit it), as will membership in professional organizations and communities.
The main advice is not to waste time in vain! Do not expect that a hundred books read and lectures attended will immediately provide you with a cool warm place: learn more, get maximum experience, go beyond comfort and familiar knowledge, and then you can become a truly sought-after specialist.
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The text “Why the Insurrection, Medea?” authored by Susanne Altmann, has originally appeared in “The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain” published on the occasion of the exhibition by the same title, held at Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (8 December 2018 – 31 March 2019), and at The Wende Museum, The Armory, Culver City, California (9 November 2019 – 5 April 2020). The team at BLOK would like to cordially thank the curator of the show and the author of the text, Ms Susanne Altmann, for permitting us to use her article and her generous help.
Prologue on the Train
Within her, a revolt. An insurrection. She, Gabriele, could also be called Penthesilea or Cassandra or, yes, Medea. That would have in no way been an unusual motif in the East German art of the year 1983. The adoption of classical figures to represent radicality and protest was at its height. Christa Wolf’s book Cassandra had just come out, the young painter Angela Hampel was beginning to explore antiheroines such as Penthesilea and Medea, Annemirl Bauer would soon por tray herself as a dark prophetess, and Lutz Dammbeck and Heiner Müller were following Heracles on his erring paths.This was mythology as an arena for social and political conflict – in literature, in theatre as well as in painting. Here, it is striking that the use of male and female models is divided along gender lines. While the failure of figures such as Icarus, Laocoön and Sisyphus remained a subject dealt with by male painters such as Hans Hendrik Grimmling, Wolfgang Mattheuer and Bernhard Heisig, women painters like Angela Hampel, Christine Schlegel and Karla Woisnitza availed themselves of mythological heroines for the representation of active, nonconformist femininity. Inspired not so much by the feminist theory that was being developed in the West as by an instinctive self empowerment within the prevailing authoritative and patriarchal system, these women artists identified with the dangerous insurrection staged by their figures. Gabriele Stötzer (previously Kachold), at that time, considered herself primarily as a writer. But she, as early as 1981, ignored with her artist friend Cornelia Schleime a state verdict and carried through with a rebellious body action in Hüpstedt, Thuringia, despite an official ban. It was after this at the latest that she, camera in hand, embarked on a markedly female pictorial language.
In any case, on this day in early March, 1983, Gabriele is sitting on the train, travelling from Magdeburg back to Erfurt, and she is enraged. She has just heard the writer Heiner Müller, who, on invitation by his colleague Sascha Anderson, has read from his latest work at the clandestine Galerie Bahß. Most likely, at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, West Germany, they were just running the rehearsals of his textual triptych Waterfront Wasteland Medea Material Landscape with Argonauts (Verkommenes Ufer Medea material Landschaft mit Argonauten), which was going to premiere there on 22 April. From the Magdeburg perspective, this might as well have been on a different continent. In the West, the unruly “East Zone” author and member of an elite permitted to travel to Western countries would later be celebrated for his apocalyptic images, with which he hurled the ancient material into the present moment. The audience perhaps felt pleasurable shivers watching this endtime scenario full of violence, betrayal, murder and the like, possibly understanding it as social criticism of a faraway dictatorship. In Magdeburg, the play has been received a little differently: Gabriele is not able to protect herself with intellectual and geopolitical distance; she takes the text personally and the central Medea Material in particular has her in a turmoil. Müller, a dramatist through and through, purports to be at home in his characters. Dressed as Medea and thus as a “knower of the poisons” he has thrown a monologue that is utterly dripping with blood in the face of a shocked Jason:
“…I want to cut you from my heart // The flesh of my heart, my memory, my dear ones// Give me my blood back from your veins // Back to my body, entrails to you // Today is payday // Today Jason // Medea collects what is due to her // Can you laugh now Death is a gift // From my hands you shall receive it // I have behind me broken off completely // What home // meant is now behind us my foreign lands // So that it will not become home to you a thing of scorn for me // With these my // Human hands oh // If only I had remained the animal I was // Before a man // Made me his wife // Medea the barbarian now spurned // With these my hands of the barbarian herself // Hands scoured, pierced, chafed over and over // I want to break mankind in two // And live in the empty middle …”
Behind Müller’s reading of Medea as a selfdeclared animal, as a barbarian, as a natural catastrophe, as the Platonic form of a fury, there is nothing left of a human being, and even Euripides had granted her that. Müller’s projection makes it clear that unleashed femininity is crueller than men’s methodical, structural violence ever could be. And it is against this that Gabriele in her train compartment revolts, with no lack of decisiveness, wanting to know how such assignments of meaning are arrived at. She writes:
“… medea is too close to male power manpower // man creates a woman in his own image – and then he leaves her the man only ever creates a man then he is disappointed with the counterimage that he only recognizes as a non-man as an imperfect dickless hybrid-male he does not have and just not that // medea is a nonperson medea is a character of a tragedy invented by men to continue the tragedy and this is not outright against women yet one has nothing got to spare for the woman”.
Gabriele Stötzer, nearing thirty in this spring of 1983, has learned her lesson and, like the others, she has not learned it from the feminist writings of the 1970s and also not (yet) from Christa Wolf’s Cassandra, but rather in prison, where she – the “political one” from the Biermann Affair – spent a year in 1976 with women of all ages, educational levels, sexual orientations and degrees of social energy. After this she was no longer in need of any kind of theory to enable her to grasp the “depth, passion and resilience” of female power and self-determination. From then on at the latest her focus would again and again be on the definition and yes, the celebration of these qualities, both in revolting against “Father State” (aka: the GDR) as well as against the machismo that even in East German counter-culture was part of the order of the day. Her works, the literary ones especially, will relate from now on to womanhood in all its possible shades of nonconformity and radicality.
Why Look to the East?
The past thirty years in the history of post-transformation art reception have clearly shown how great the temptation is to read works that were created in certain political conditions purely as symptoms of the contemporary history, especially works of the “second public sphere”. This is true especially of German research about Germany and the view of the Eastern Bloc as seen from the West. With the best intentions, numerous academics have tried to consider the quality of art through the lens of its dissident potential. Others have put the focus on making comparisons with Western tendencies, and then had difficulties to explain the respective originality. Both are heuristic culdesacs because with both the first and the second approach, arthistorical uniqueness in terms of mediality and aesthetics cannot be fully accounted for. Without a doubt, the artists of the Eastern Bloc did not operate in a global vacuum. Yet at the same time, The Medea Insurrection. Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain wishes to call for a synoptic, and for the time being exclusive presentation of the East, one that has been a long time coming. Here the pioneering work of the distinguished Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski (1952–2015) forms an excellent fundament because he was one of the few experts who unquestioningly integrated progressive art that was created in East Germany, thus pointing the way and delivering it from the often deprecating and frustrating comparison with specifically West German art. production. Piotrowski’s achievements when it comes to a productive East-East-contextualization became undisputed at the latest with his work In the Shadow of Yalta. Art and the Avantgarde in Eastern Europe 1945–1989. As early as 2001, before the publication of the book, Piotrowski wrote in his criticism of the exhibition Europa, Europa. The Century of the Avant–Garde in Central and Eastern Europe (Europa, Europa. Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel und Osteuropa): “Excluded was also the art of the German Democratic Republic, a fragment of the German territory incorporated after 1945 into the political sphere of the East […] The case of the German Democratic Republic may perhaps be unique […] Still, we must not surrender to illusions. In terms of the cultural policy tactics and the practice of surveillance, there were some differences among particular countries of the region, however, in terms of the power system and structures the differences were minor”. For establishing a foundation of his idea of an art geography, Piotrowski too makes use of the geopolitical (and hence contemporary historical) framework. This is, of course, hardly imaginable any other way. At the same time he calls on every researcher to turn their first attention very well to the political specifics of the communist subterritories, then, however, to engage with no furtherado with the respective artistic factors and even more with the autonomy of the individual art works so as to then, in a third step, address the question of the “universalist ambitions of the local cultures at tempting to find compensation for the traumatic reality experience.” While this may sound complicated at first, it does provide a viable road map for what has to happen before a global perspective on distinct art worlds can be approached. In 2019, The Medea Insurrection is jumping aboard this moving train which has already passed the first stop, that of the political aspects, or rather we are taking them along in the luggage van, available for further consideration. In the second of the three steps recommended by Piotrowski, we now face all sorts of barriers, the greatest of which is likely the invisibility of large parts of Eastern European artistic creation, both in intellection and in physical respects. And this brings us straight to the issue of women in art.
Women in Art
Because after all, when we look for the contributions of women artists from a particular era, things seem even bleaker in what is a periphery already. Coming on top of the “normal” invisibility that one finds in politically repressive contexts is the traditional, far-reaching absence of women within art history at large. The twentyfirst century began with the responsibility – which has still not been fully acknowledged – to eradicate the discriminating nature of art history per se against women, its structural negation of women artists. One route to take might be the complete rejection of methods and concepts of traditional art history, as suggested in the 1980s by Linda Nochlin, Roszika Parker and Griselda Pollock. Parker and Pollock even demanded that, when evaluating and categorizing art created by women, one must stop shining a light solely on “their continual struggle against exclusion and discrimination” or on “exaggerated biographical interest.” This, in their view, would distort the necessary analysis of the work. This very reasonable demand may be applied today in a slightly modified fashion to the treatment of women artists behind the Iron Curtain. Because it serves neither their artistic creation nor a reputable, if partly outdated, art historiography to weave a narrative exclusively along personal, geopolitical or genderspecific lines. Doing away with marginalization cannot mean creating new peripheral biotopes. Not even when the intention is good, as with Piotrowski. Tragically, in the last chapter of his book he subsumes the majority of the women artists he accepts under the heading Politics of Identity. Male and Female Body Art. There, artists such as Alina Szapocznikow, Natalia LL, Geta Brătescu, Sanja Iveković, Marina Abramović and Else Gabriel find themselves in a strange forced community, thus suggesting that women artists in their practice essentially engaged with the body. In his other chapters, Piotrowski treats all manner of postwar tendencies such as Informel, geomet ric art, realist painting, neo-avantgarde and conceptual art. Here he introduces Harald Metzkes, a.r. penck, Hermann Glöckner and Carlfriedrich Claus. It seems there were no notable East German women who made this art in his view: Cornelia Schleime? Angela Hampel? Ruth WolfRehfeldt? Tina Bara? Doris Ziegler? This deficit cannot be explained in terms of an insufficient state of research alone; after all, In the Shadow of Yalta was published fifteen years after the fall of the wall. Rather, it illustrates a systemic blind spot. Because why would the author leave out his compatriots Magdalena Abakanowicz and Ewa Partum, mention Dóra Maurer or Zofia Kulik only in footnotes, withhold Běla Kolařová and Adriena Šimotová? Although it can be shown that each of these artistic positions is highly autonomous and contemporary. That Abakanowicz released textile art from the domain of rugmaking and handcraft, rendering it an expressive form in its own right, that Maurer and Kolařová freed the minimalist grid of the postwar avant-garde from its rationality, that Šimotová transformed paper into a medium of bodily expression, that Kulik interpreted serial photography as subtle gender criticism or that East German female painters like Ziegler and Hampel expanded the unique characteristic of East German critical figuration and did so not only with respect to motif and style but also, like Schleime and Schlegel, in terms of media – all of that is part of a (not yet written) post-1945 Eastern European art history. It will only be after a responsible survey along these lines is carried out that we will be able to read a global narrative – even after the “end of art history” (Hans Belting) – in which all previously marginalized areas appear on equal terms, including of course the post-colonial territories of Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Soviet Union.
Art History – Contemporary History
Bringing together the art of a certain time and place – here the so-called Eastern Bloc between 1961 and 1989 – The Medea Insurrection aims to show that artistic responses and experiments in media took place as they only could have there and then. We owe it to these positions to give them a thoroughgoing stylistic analysis in precisely this context, before simply going ahead and comparing them in the Western paradigm and pigeonholing them. Often the stylistic means adopted by the women artists presented here stood in a dangerous contradiction to what was being taught at the art academies; not necessarily because the doctrine of real socialism was being demanded vociferously in each of the respective countries, but rather because there was a pervasive, conservative stagnation in terms of techniques and subjects, coming from latebourgeois academicisms. For this reason, truly creative confrontations – depending on the degree of state repression – mainly occurred in the networks of the second public sphere, first measurable and visible to today’s viewers in the early 1960s. For much too long, these informal or semi-official scenes were considered downright exotic symptoms of Cold War history. Here, women artists in particular are still underrepresented, despite the revisions that have taken place in the past ten years. This phenomenon seems like the delayed effect of the exclusion that took place before 1989, where even in the counterculture women had to suffer a lack of acceptance from male fellow artists or else gain visibility only through the greatest efforts.
Thus, when looking at other countries under scrutiny here too, the question arises, why names like Jíři Kolář, Jíři John, Ion Grigorescu, Miklós Erdély, Endre Tót, Jan Ságl were more well known on the international stage until just recently (or even still are today) than the names of their female partners in life and/or in art: Běla Kolářová, Adriena Šimotová, Geta Brătescu, Zsusza Szenes, Ewa Partum and Zorka Ságlová? Question marks also surround the fact that dancer, choreographer and dance educator Hanne Wandtke’s contributions to the performances of the Dresden Autoperforationsartisten as well as her own performance activities beginning in 1987 have never been appreciated by academics and curators. Pointing fingers has no place here, but it is nevertheless indispensable in the context of a stylistic criticism of the work of that group to at least note the stage and body experience Wandtke contributed in her close collaboration.
Else Gabriel once referred to such mechanisms in relation to her own work with the Autoperforationsartisten group in Dresden as a double-exclusion, which reflected the double burden of working women in a supposedly equitable system. She spoke of a “double camouflage” – that of a non-conformist woman artist and that of a woman in a men’s environment. This held even if, in looking back, Gabriel found that it would have been simply embarrassing to programmatically make womanhood a subject of the performances. Nevertheless, she herself often incorporated such role models, grotesquely exaggerated, in her repertoire: “She gave ironic presentations of the activities of the homemaker by drying a dead chicken with a hairdryer in Top of the Meat Mountain (Spitze des Fleischbergs, 1986) and, elsewhere, by excessively kneading dough. While for Ode Terrazzo (1987), she let herself be carried to the place of performance on flan cases and stuffed raw beef lung into the décolleté of her sequin gown, at other occasions she liked to make full performative use of her long hair, as a classical feminine attribute.”
It would of course be presumptuous to attribute a feminist mood to each and every artistic paraphrase of gender roles as they appeared, with some temporal variance, across Eastern Europe. After all, was not the radical act of taking possession of one’s own physicality a critical meta commentary on the comprehensive regimentation of the personal? While this was often politically intended, it does not mean that it could be subsumed in trends of Western discourse. Such a reading was decidedly rejected by some women artists, especially in the 1990s. On the one hand, this was because they feared a new marginalization and on the other because they did not yet comprehend all facets of the intuitive uneasiness they had felt before 1989. Accordingly, alongside Gabriel, a basic feminist disposition was also rejected by Gundula Schulze Eldowy, Zofia Kulik, Dóra Maurer and Cornelia Schleime. This is every bit their right, and yet, it must not prevent today’s viewers from designating these women artists’ poetic, analytical and emblematic approaches to womanhood precisely along these lines.
Undisputably, a specific language unique to women artists arose from the artistic interpretation of female self-ascribed and non-self-ascribed body images, a language that due to the evoked vulnerability and exhibitionist courage constitutes something singular in this period – something that also stands apart from the majority of male artistic production. While in Hungary and Poland, the spoken word and sound artist Katalin Ladik as well as radical performers such as Ewa Partum, Natalia LL, Orshi Drozdik and Judit Kele deliberately took up the subject of gender roles as early as the 1970s, this tendency arose later in East Germany with Gabriele Stötzer’s activities and with those of the Erfurt group of women artists, with the collaboration of Christine Schlegel and the dance performer Fine Kwiatkowski – later, but not less strikingly. Often these time lags have to do with the culturalpolitical spectrum ranging from more liberal to more restricting and varying from decade to decade. The liberalization in Poland during the 1970s, for example, led to a blossoming of conceptual work, as was the case in the “short” decade of the 1960s in Czechoslovakia, although here, the suppression of the Prague Spring also led to increased critical artistic responses to the socalled normalization phase beginning in 1968. It was in the nature of things that the latter tended to unfold in (semi) private spaces, as with artists such as Magdalena Jetelová and Zorka Ságlová. In Romania, the early years of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s rule up to the mid 1970s were marked by a certain tolerance in which art forms that in other places were defamed as formalistic were able to flourish for a while. Unlike in Romania, the communist leadership of the People’s Republic of Hungary participated actively in putting down the Prague Spring, something that shakes the stereotype of Hungary as the “most cheerful” and thereby most liberal “barracks” of the socialist camp, as was said colloquially. To begin with, Hungary shared with Czechoslovakia and East Germany – as Éva Forgács notes – the “ice age” of the 1950s, whose hardship (unlike in Poland) continued largely unchanged after Stalin’s death in 1953.
An independent Hungarian performance scene increasingly developed in rural areas in the 1970s, away from the supervision of the capital city, while an autonomous textile art scene developed in the protected realm of folk art and the applied arts, which received little attention – both phenomena that bespeak restrictive conditions like in Czechoslovakia. At no time in East Germany, on the other hand, can a true liberalization be said to have taken place, simply because, for one thing, it was possible that unwelcome intellectuals would be expatriated to West Germany, like Wolf Biermann in 1976, and it was clear that everyone else would be treated as restrictively as always. Accordingly, the 1980s in East Germany were marked by the phenomenon of mass departure and by, if one wants, an increasingly defiant atti tude on the part of the remaining creatives who had nothing to lose either way. Another specifically East German phenomenon is the Stasi’s mass surveillance and Zer setzung of artist circles. Unlike in the socialist “brother nations”, this led to spectacular revelations after 1989 and continues to be addressed today. Women artists in particular responded to the issue in their works, for example Cornelia Schleime, Verena Kyselka (Erfurt Women Artists’ Group), Gabriele Stötzer and Christine Schlegel.
Naturally, the symptoms of the hardship resemble each other, as do the artistic responses to them – they do not permit an ad hoc comparison with those of the West, especially not with the aid of a levelling concept of artistic freedom as a yardstick for arthistorical relevance: often the radicality of personal and collective transgressions in art is defined by the risks involved. Along these lines, the Czech writer, dissident and later president Václav Havel asserted that when it came to the reception of unofficial pictorial art in the normalization phase, that the ruling powers were not interested in persecuting “that which was declared as a threat towards them, but has no special artistic strength, but rather that which may not look particularly political, but goes very deep artistically.” And Natalia LL answered the question about possible ressentment concerning the absence of Polish artists in global art history as follows: “Every period of time has its good and bad aspects. A lot of brilliant art was made during that period [before 1989, author’s note]. If the borders had been opened we could probably have had done more. But it was not a wasted chance. In difficult times you have to be more efficient in order to defeat all the obstacles; so you become stronger.”
The Exhibition as Systemic Criticism and a Cognitive Act
Another way to arrive at aesthetically and historically interwoven reflections such as these is of course via the timeconsuming study of artworks, sources, collections and testimonials. But ultimately in image studies the focus is on the visual works and their physical presence. This too, in a completely old-fashioned sense, has to be a prerequisite for analyses of style and material. In the course of the preparations for The Medea Insurrection and its first manifestation in a museum context, the exhibition gave rise to an epistemological space on its own. This was because during the curatorial devel opment of the show, which specifically created connections between different visual aspects and media, areas of focus emerged which had not always been planned and conceptualized beforehand. To conclude, some of these areas will be presented here briefly. In identifying them, arthistorical terminology is deliberately fuzzy. And not only that: by introducing nonestablished fields of inquiry such as Small Format, Fashion, Textiles, and Open Space next to traditional ones such as Painting, Art Photography, Body Work, (leaving out, for example, Sculpture, Prints, Performance and Land Art) conceptual arrangements are suggested – and allowed to enter the discussion – that only respond to the traditional canon of genres to a limited degree. Perhaps the question is not where does one find that which is specifically Eastern European or else female in the works of these artists but rather the other way around: How can concepts that appear apodictic be adapted to a changed situation? Because how else can we suss out the artistic transgressions if they evade existing definitions or are stymied in their effect by an existing definition? Does not the discipline of art history have an obligation to pay its debt to art and not the other way around?
In this vein, categories such as “neoavantgarde” “trans avantgarde” and “neoconceptualism” tend to be, from an orthodox perspective, disqualifying criteria for vast areas of art production in Eastern Europe prior to 1989. That, or they contribute to certain women artists’ oeuvres becoming distorted because they are interpreted very selectively, causing their development to become invisible. As Emese Kürti establishes in her article on Katalin Ladik, “As with other Eastern European women artists, the absolutely personal aesthetics of Ladik’s body and sound poetry become graspable not so much in their affinity to mainstream discourse but in their deviation from it.” In the East, the Western theories referred to here as “mainstream discourse”, were hardly, or perhaps not at all, invested with the kind of authority that for example the clique of US critics includ ing Michael Fried, Rosalind Krauss and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh held over artists in their ambit. In retrospect, it almost seems plausible to regard this state of not being observed by the Western interpretive powers in those days as a form of artistic freedom. “Deviations”, however, point once again to an apodictic benchmark. This objection cannot be dispensed with here, but it points to a further conceptual minefield that likely cannot be avoided by any current paper or exhibition on the subject (Medea included): bohemianism, subculture, underground. The empirical intersections of these rubrics with one another and with the art production that is the subject of the present investigation are certainly a given. And there is no reason why social and cultural studies should not be carried out for the respective scenes in the socialist people’s republics of Eastern Europe. For the East German situation, Paul Kaiser produced an exhibition catalogue titled Boheme und Diktatur in der DDR. Gruppen Konflikte Quartiere 1970–1989 in 1997, and followed it up in 2016 with the even more com prehensive Boheme in der DDR. Kunst und Gegenkultur im Staatssozialimus. Especially the latter publication is a historical reference that abounds with sources. In addition, it maps out – without meaning to – the dilemma of East German art classification, whether close to the political system or distant: there are no academic and/or curatorial compendia that analyse the time, either as a whole or in part, between 1960 and 1989 for East Germany, while they have existed since 1990 for Hungary (Hans Knoll, Emese Kürti), Poland (Anda Rottenberg, Agata Jakubowska, Łukasz Ronduda), Romania (Magda Radu, Mihai Pop, Adrian Bojenoiu) and Czechoslovakia (Jana and Jíři Ševčikovi, Tomáš Pospiszyl). Were such works not written only because there was no (in the best sense) national justification for them? Or to put it the other way around, because there was no West Poland, West Hungary, etc? There would only have been a methodological challenge insofar as tense demar cation disputes, which aimed at drawing the line between the accepted statesupporting art in East Germany and the nonconformist art, appeared to stand in the way of such a task. In addition, the collective East German ambivalence between claims to identity and the desire to belong after German reunification may have had a dampening effect. In this climate of insecurity categories like bohemianism, subculture and counterculture appear to have offered the only acceptable means of assessing East German art, perhaps even of an alleged necessary legitimation thereof. This categorization continues to have an effect today and in part accounts for the sense of being slighted that some artists have; they feel forgotten, overlooked or assigned to the wrong category. In retrospect, not only East German artists regret the needless urge to explain and rectify their previous achievements to the West after 1989. Now, more than twenty years on, it is difficult to determine if an early calibration with the situation in the East would have been an effective medication for these symptoms.
It is a fact, however, that in the Eastern countries that neighbour the “new” states of the Federal Republic of Germany, artists who were active prior to 1989 developed a different feeling of self-esteem. The research mentioned above only partly explains this; what is also at work is the fact that the younger generation there gained firm orientation from their older role models and derived creative genealogies from them. For Poland, one could cite the references made to such artists as Tadeusz Kantor, Oskar Hansen and Edward Krasiński and name the example of Zbigniew Libera’s project Mistrzowie (Masters, 2004). In former Czechoslovakia, it was artists such as Boris Ondreička and Barbora Klimová who made positions like those of Stano Filko and Jíři Kovanda widely known again. For Romania, the collaboration of Stefan Sava and Geta Brătescu as well as Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová’s collaboration with Ion Grigorescu were incisive. And this is naming only a few examples of inter-generational referencing. Apart from a few, late exceptions such as Olaf Holzapfel / Karlheinz Adler, Tilo Schulz / Wilhelm Müller and Olaf Nicolai / Hermann Glöckner, comparable practical systems of reference do not exist in the domain of East German art.
And now, provisionally in any case, comes one final empirical insight that came out of The Medea Insurrection. The gathered works by Hungarian, Romanian, Czech, Slovakian and Polish women are almost without exception on loan from the large national art museums of their countries. But works from East Germany, for example by Christa Jeitner and Gabriele Stötzer, from the Erfurt Women Artists’ Group, by Tina Bara, Annemirl Bauer and Erika Stürmer Alex, as well as the majority of the objects by Christine Schlegel and Cornelia Schleime were borrowed from the artists’ private collections or from their estates. This fact hardly requires any comment; the instructions are clear. It is 2019, and we still have quite a few things to learn from the East.
The following might be considered the predecessors of this tendency: Franz Fühmann, Das hölzerne Pferd: Die Sage vom Untergang Trojas und von den Irrfahrten des Odysseus. Nach Homer und anderen Quellen neu erzählt, Berlin 1968, as well as Stephan Hermlin, Die Argonauten. Eine Erzählung, Berlin 1974.
On the interaction between the work of women artists from Dresden and Wolfgang Engel’s production of Heinrich von Kleist’s “Penthesilea” at the Staatsschau spiel Dresden 1986, cf. essay by Katarina Lozo in this (THE MEDEA INSURRECTION. Radical Women Artists behind the Iron Curtain, catalogue, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, eds. Susanne Altmann, Katarina Lozo, Hilke Wagner) publcation, p. 81–83.
Cf. Karl-Siegbert Rehberg, Melancholische Antike, in Karl-Siegbert Rehberg, Wolfgang Holler, Paul Kaiser (ed.), Abschied von Ikarus. Bildwelten in der DDR – neu gesehen, Cologne 2012, p. 349–349. Except for a short treatment of Christa Wolf’s Cassandra and its use as a pictorial motif (Angela Hampel, Nuria Quevedo, Heidrun Hegewald) there is no iconographic discussion here of further female mythological figures.
Cf. p. 222–225 in this publication.
Cf. Yvonne Fiedler, Kunst im Korridor. Private Galerien in der DDR zwischen Autonomie und Illegalität, Berlin 2013, p. 333.
For the complete text see http://polc.ttk.pte.hu/tamop4.1.2. b.213/120130014/98/04_ mueller_verkommenes_ufer.1.pdf (accessed on 23 Jan. 2019).
Cf. https://www.deutschland funkkultur.de/heinermuel lersgrossererfolg.932.de.htm l?dram:article_id=244220 (accessed on 20 Jan. 2019).
Heiner Müller, Verkommenes Ufer Medeamaterial Landschaft mit Argonauten, trans. Logan Kennedy, Berlin 2006, p. 9.
Typescript in the possession of Gabriele Stötzer, p. 5; p. 88 in this publication.
Cf. Susanne Altmann and Ulrike Lorenz, (ed.), Entdeckt! Rebellische Künstlerinnen in der DDR, exh. cat. Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim 2011,
On the basic patriarchal structure of the GDR and the extensively unresolved women’s issues in society and culture, despite official proclamations, see Annett Gröschner, Berolinas zornige Töchter. 50 Jahre Berliner Frauenbewegung, Berlin 2018, p. 206–230.
Addressing the phenomenon of mirrored societal norms in the counterculture, Beáta Hock describes the observations of the Hungarian woman artist Orshi Drozdik: “Orsolya Drozdik, who consciously and consequently turned to feminist topics in the late 1970s, intimates that the patriarchal perceptions of the allegedly ‘progressive’ art world did not differ much from the patriarchal perceptions defining the general public or ‘official culture’”, in Katalin CsehVarga, Adam Czirak (ed.), Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere. Eventbased Art in Late Socialist Europe, London/New York 2018, p. 213.
On the definition of the “second public sphere” as a “by product” of the socialist order cf. Katalin CsehVarga, Adam Czirak, Introduction, ibid., p. 4–8.
In her exhibition publication Entdeckt! Rebellische Künstlerin nen in der DDR (Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2011) the author put “GDR women rebels” in relation to the feminist art of the “second wave” in the USA and thus, in her present view, put the second step before the first.
That the climate of reception is currently changing, and has to change, has also been proven by the exhibition “Underground+ Improvisation. Alternative Kunst und Musik nach 1968” (Berlin, 2018, curated by David Crowley and Daniel Muzyczuk, Akademie der Künste Berlin) as well as “Left Performance Histories” (conceptualized by Judit Bodor, Adam Czirak, Astrid Hackel, Beáta Hock, Andrej Mircev, Angelika Richter; neue gesellschaft für bildende kunst Berlin). An exception of a different kind was found starting in 2000 in the strategy of the “2000+ ArtEast Collection” of Moderna galerija Ljubljana, exhibited in Innsbruck in 2001 and in Ljubljana in 2003–2004. This exhibition – albeit greatly influenced by cocurator Peter Weibel (with Zdenka Badovinać) who put the focus on a socalled retro avantgarde – in the most unques tioning manner included East German artists (no mention of women!) such as Carlfriedrich Claus and Via Lewandowsky.
I take as an example the debate around the exhibition “60 Years 60 Images. Art from the Federal Republic 1949 to 2009” (60 Jahre 60 Bilder. Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik 1949 bis 2009), MartinGropiusBau Berlin, Berlin 1 May – 14 Jun. 2009, whose tremendous problem in terms of making distinctions was obvious from its chosen subject. In the show, art from the old federal republic, which ceased to exist 19 years ago, was celebrated almost exclusively: “We are showing art that was possible under article 5, para. 3 of the constitution, namely free art. In East Germany art was not free; so it had no business in the exhibition …” (editor Walter Smerling in the catalogue of the same name, Cologne 2009, p. 19). This was a slap in the face for all the East German artists who on a daily basis had resisted the lack of freedom and had created their own conception of freedom; now they felt doubly invisible.
Piotr Piotrowski, In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avantgarde in Eastern Europe, 1945–1989, London 2009.
Curated by Ryszard Stanislawski and Christoph Brockhaus, Kunst und Ausstel lungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn 1994, catalogue published by Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NordrheinWestfalen, Bonn 1994.
Piotr Piotrowski, ‘Framing’ of the Central Europe, in Zdenka Badovinac, Peter Weibel (ed.), The Art of Eastern Europe. A Selection of Works for the International and National Collection of Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, exh. cat. Orangerie Congress – Innsbruck 2001, Vienna/Bozen 2001, p. 16–17 and p. 21.
Piotrowski, ibid, p. 22.
Cf. Marlite Halbertsma, Feministische Kunstgeschichte, in Marlite Halbertsma, Kitty Zijlmans (ed.), Gesichtspunkte. Kunst geschichte heute, Berlin 1995, p. 173–195.
Halbertsma, ibid., p. 178f.
Ibid., p. 179.
Cf. Agata Pyzik, Mädchen Karabiner. Frauen im polnischen [Post] Punk, sowie Polnischer Punk, Warschauer Futuristen, Rasta und Mystizismus. Piotr Rypson […] im Gespräch mit Aneta Panek, in Alexander Pehlemann (ed.), Warschauer Punk Pakt. Punk im Ostblock 1977–1989, Mainz 2018, p. 62–79. For the punk scene in the Polish People’s Republic, too, which was tightly interwoven with the alternative art world, the authors show that there was a strong male dominance, which made it difficult or impossible for the women artists to have a place on centre stage.
In her essay “Communities of Practice: Performing Women in the Second Public Sphere” Beáta Hock pursues the reasons for this “art historical oblivion” in the People’s Republic of Hungary: “The first reason is, of course, the painful lack of documentation and the ephemeral nature of many of these activities, that not even their authors considered, at the time, to be a meaningful part of their artistic oeuvre. Second, the counterculture was indeed strongly maledominated, if not sexist, and women might have found it challenging to assume authorship in a very directly present and live art form like performance within a boys’ club. It seems to have been easier to realize in womenonly environ ments, or with the term I used earlier: in womenonly communi ties of practice. Performing on the margins, however, evidently led to a lower degree of visibility and recognition.”, in CsehVarga, Czirak 2018, p. 213.
In the only summarizing publication about the group, “Micha Brendel – Else Gabriel – Rainer Görss – Via Lewandowsky. Ordnung durch Störung: AutoPer forationsArtistik”, published by Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, ed. Constanze von Marlin, Nuremberg 2006), Hanne Wandtke, at the time the longterm partner of Michael Brendel, is mentioned only twice: in the appendix as a coactress in Rainer Görß’s diploma work (1989) and in the carnival performance of the HfBK art college known as “Top of the Meat Mountain” (Spitze des Fleischbergs,1986). In the authors’ texts on Görß (Paul Kaiser) and on Brendel (Klaus Michael) she does not appear.
Cf. Susanne Altmann, Weibliche Subversionen in der späten DDR – ein Sonderweg auf Augenhöhe, in Susanne Altmann, Ulrike Lorenz (ed.) 2011, p. 4 and 12.
Ibid, p. 12.
“The Medea Insurrection” conceptually connects to the exhibition “Entdeckt! Rebellische Künstlerinnen in der DDR” (curated by Susanne Altmann, Kunsthalle Mannheim 2011) as well as “Gender Check” (curated by Bojana Pejić et al., Vienna/Warsaw 2009–2010). Entdeckt! corre sponded to the need to confront the dominance of male positions, noticeable even in the research on the subcultural avantgarde of East Germany, with a female coun terpresence. The exhibition showed that a specifically female pictorial language developed in this field, a language that, although comparable in a general way with Western developments, offered unique artistic responses to the climate of totalitarian oppression. This means that the use, for example, of body metaphors is not in general to be measured with the yardstick of a rolecritiquing feminism. “Gender Check”, for its part, took up this attempt and thus in my view was not fully able to shine a light on the nature of aesthetic rebellion across Eastern Europe prior to 1989, as became clear, for one thing, in the under standably problematic discussion of the terms “latent feminist”, “prefeminist”, “feminist”.
From numerous conversations with the author, between 2009 and 2018.
This also took place before the backdrop of a temporarily more open political climate in these countries or else a more restrictive religious climate.
Cf. Oldřich Tůma, Jaroslav Pánek (ed.), A History of the Czech Lands, Prague 2009, p. 578 as well as Josef Alan, Normales Leben unter unnormalen Verhältnissen. Die tschechische Gesellschaft in den siebziger und achtziger Jahren, in Matthias Flügge (ed.), in collabo ration with Jiri Svestka, Der Riss im Raum. Positionen der Kunst seit 1945 in Deutschland, Polen, der Slowakei und Tschechien, exh. cat. MartinGropiusBau Berlin, Berlin 1994, p. 94–101, here p. 101.
Cf. Éva Forgács, Kultur im Niemandsland. Die Stellung der ungarischen Avantgarde in der ungarischen Kultur, in Hans Knoll (ed.), Die zweite Öffentlichkeit. Kunst in Ungarn im 20. Jahrhun dert, Dresden 1999, p. 4–57, here p. 43. Here, she also describes the effects of the uprising of 1956 as traumatic: “The relation of art and state, or else of art and economy was regulated by nobody and nothing whatsoever, meaning that the communist seizure of power swept a completely defenceless artistic life from the stage of culture from one day to the next.”
Cf. Beáta Hock, Communities of Practice: Performing Women in the Second Public Sphere, in Cseh Varga, Czirak 2018, p. 202–216, here p. 203ff. as well as p. 210ff.
As quoted in Karel Srp, Die “Neue Sensibilität“ und ihre Folgen. Zu einigen Paradigmen der tschechischen Kunst, in Flügge 1994, p. 104. Cf. also my discussion of risk as a stylistic means: “The Czech event held in the countryside in 1983 involved something much different from the works of, for example, Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, or Walter de Maria, who rightfully claimed the territory in the spirit of the preceding American pioneers and discoverers. Despite their critical stance towards civilisation, this artistic attitude was a paraphrase of the North American myth and thus an affirmation of the official political and cultural identity. Whilst the classical representatives of Land Art could build upon the resources of democracy of democracy, similar expressive actions behind the Iron Curtain functioned differently. Not only did they have a higher level of inherent risk, but with their refined subtlety they also drew awareness to the fact that they took place on forbidden ground.” cf. Susanne Altmann, Fire, Water, Earth, Air & Risk, in Milena Kalinovska (ed.), Magdalena Jetelová. Dotek doby – Touch of Time, exh. cat. National Gallery in Prague 2017, Prague 2017, p. 57–64,
here p. 57ff. as well as p. 61.
Cf. Natalia LL in an interview with Karol Radziszewski: We were born naked, in Natalia LL. Doing Gender, exh. cat. Fundacja Lokal Sztuki / lokal_30, Warsaw 2013, p. 119–121, here p.121.
Here it is going too far to go into details about an imperative de or reconstruction of art history as concerns female art production. In any case, what becomes apparent in the impulse to change or to expand terminology are the essential questions of any intellectualhistory research concerning social, ethnic or postcolonial marginalization. On the issue of women’s studies as an “exotic special category” cf. Halbertsma, Feministische Kunstgeschichte, in Halbertsma, Zijlmans 1995, p. 191f.: “[…] how can women’s studies be connected with common practice on the practical levels of research and teaching? To what degree does a tolerance of alternative and marginal positions within an established discipline contribute to≈their solidification? […] This would cause women’s studies to become its own field of study and not an alternative to traditional art history.”
Cf. essay by Emese Kürti in this publication, p. 50.
Paul Kaiser, Claudia Petzold (ed.), Boheme und Diktatur in der DDR. Gruppen Konflikte Quartiere 1970–1989 (Bohemianism and Dictatorship in the GDR. Groups Conflicts Hoods 1970–1989), exh. cat. Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, Berlin 1997.
Paul Kaiser, Boheme in der DDR. Kunst und Gegenkultur im Staatssozialismus (Bohemianism in the GDR. Art and Counterculture in State Socialism), Dresden 2016.
Cf. Die Archäologie der Meister. Zbigniew Libera im Gespräch mit Susanne Altmann, in Susanne Altmann, Volkmar Billig (ed.), Mechanismen des Vergessens. Marginalisierung und Kanonbildung in der Gegenwartskunst. Materialien zu einer deutsch polnischen Konferenz 2006, Frankfurt am Main 2006, p. 99–119. The author owes to Zbigniew Libera’s approach to art research the fact that she began to engage systematically with posttransformation conditions of the reception of pre1989 art in the Eastern Bloc.
In addition, at least since the 2000s in the countries in question, there has been a host of publications about the work of this generation of artists, both as monographs and for groups.
What is at issue here is the general tendency: the basic difference between the holdings of all German museums and those of Eastern European countries, treated here as a comparison group. The works by Angelika Kroker (Allerleirauh), presented in “The Medea Insurrection”, were transferred to the Deutsches Historisches Museum by the artist herself. The Staatliche Kunst sammlungen Dresden/Albertinum purchased an omnibus volume of Christine Schlegel’s paintings in 2018 and they hold works by Angela Hampel, which in part were acquired before 1989. This is also true of works by Doris Ziegler held by the LindenauMuseum Altenburg. Laudable here as well is the Evelyn Richter Archiv, which was acquired in 2009 through a cooperation between the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung and the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig.
|Artist||Tina Bara, Annemirl Bauer, Sibylle Bergemann, Else Gabriel, Angela Hampel, Christa Jeitner, Allerleirauh, Angelika Kroker, Monika Andresund, Verena Kyselka, Evelyn Richter, Christine Schlegel, Gundula Schulze Eldowy, Cornelia Schleime, Gabriele Stötzer, Erika Stürmer-Alex, Karla Woisnitza, Hanne Wandtke, Doris Ziegler Magdalena Abakanowicz, Geta Brătescu, Orshi Drozdik, Judit Kele, Magdalena Jetelová, Katalin Ladik, Běla Kolářová, Alena Kučerová, Zofia Kulik, Natalia LL, Ana Lupas, Dora Maurer, Ewa Partum, Zofia Rydet, Adriena Šimotová, Zorka Ságlová, Alina Szapocznikow|
|Exhibition||The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain|
|Place / venue||Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden | The Wende Museum, The Armory, Culver City, California|
|Dates||8 December 2018 – 31 March 2019 | 9 November 2019 – 5 April 2020|
|Curated by||Susanne Altmann|
|Photos||Christine Starke, Klemens Renner|
|Index||Adriena Šimotová Alena Kučerová Alina Szapocznikow Allerleirauh Ana Lupas Angela Hampel Angelika Kroker Annemirl Bauer Běla Kolářová Christa Jeitner Christine Schlegel Cornelia Schleime Dóra Maurer Doris Ziegler Else Gabriel Erika Stürmer-Alex Evelyn Richter Ewa Partum Gabriele Stötzer Geta Brătescu Gundula Schulze Eldowy Hanne Wandtke Judit Kele Karla Woisnitza Katalin Ladik Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau Magdalena Abakanowicz Magdalena Jetelová Monika Andresund Natalia LL Orshi Drozdik Sibylle Bergemann Susanne Altmann The Wende Museum Tina Bara Verena Kyselka Zofia Kulik Zofia Rydet Zorka Ságlová|
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Yalis (Alert Bay)
The 'Namgis people originally lived at the mouth of the Namgis River (also known as the Nimpkish) on Vancouver Island. Being a coastal First Nation, the 'Namgis lived on the abundance of salmon, herring, and cod that the region provided while using the western red cedar for housing materials, canoes, clothing and blankets.
Like other Coastal First Nations, the 'Namgis suffered dramatic population declines due to introduced European diseases. It is estimated that the 'Namgis population decreased from 19,000 to 3,000 between the years 1700 and 1880 (HelloBC - Alert Bay).
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In 1870 a pair of entrepreneurs leased Cormorant Island from the government and established a saltery. In order to exploit the economic opportunities associated with the new industry, the 'Namgis moved their village to the island and established a permanent village at Yalis. The Kwakwaka’wakw name for the village, means,“sitting on the beach with legs spread apart in reference to the way in which the shoreline at the village is shaped ” (Chief Tommy Hunt, Kwagu'l tribe). The English name, Alert Bay, was given in 1860 after the British Naval Ship, the H.M.S. Alert, which had surveyed the coast in the mid eighteen hundreds.
The original houses at Yalis consisted of frames of stout posts clad in hand split planks up to 5 feet in width. With the arrival of a sawmill in Alert Bay in 1872, sawn lumber was used on false house fronts that were added to the old house structures (seen below).
Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century there were a dozen large communal houses at Yalis. All were replaced with new structures during that period and many added one or more totem poles to the front of their houses. Many of the houses at Yalis added large figures including eagles, thunderbirds, Huxwhukw (or Hok hok) birds, and ravens, along with human welcome figures to signal ceremonies being held inside. The trend to elaborate the houses of chiefs with paintings and carved elements culminated in the house of Chief Wakas, whose house represented a raven whose beak opened and closed as guests arrived for a potlatch.
"It was carved by Yukwayu for Wakas about 1899, who was quite old when he carved it. This was the first large totem pole at Alert Bay. Wakas paid 350 white blankets to Yukwayu for his work. This was a large price for those days, the value of a pair of blankets being $3 and when given away these blankets formed a big pile." (Chief Daniel Cranmer, 'Namgis tribe, in Barbeau 1950:673).
Laws prohibiting the potlatch passed originally in 1885 where fully implement in 1921 at an event sponsored by Chief Dan Cranmer at Village Island (ʼMimkwa̱mlis). The regalia of all participants was seized and sent to museums in America and Europe. The return of these treasures began in 1973 and resulted in the construction of the U’mista Cultural Centre which included a traditional style building as a museum. Please visit the U'mista Society's website to read more about this historic event and their ongoing efforts to repatriate the collection.
Today Alert Bay is the cultural and artistic centre of the Kwakwaka'wakw. It has a lively annual calendar of ceremonies that ensure the production of elaborate regalia continues, and also supplies outstanding works of art to private galleries in Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle.
Box of Treasures: Gifts from the Supernatural at the Bill Reid Gallery is an exhibition of masterworks created for Kwakwaka’wakw potlatches by artist and traditional Chief, Beau Dick, Gigame Walis Gyiyam (Gray whale) and other Kwakwaka’wakw master carvers. Featured objects include ceremonial masks depicting the magnificent beings from the forest, the sea, and from the supernatural realm.
Barbeau, Marius. 1950. Totem Poles, Volumes II. Bulletin 119, Anthropological Series No. 30. National Museum of Canada, Ottawa
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The COVID-19 pandemic has left a of Zimbabweans living in poverty. More people are now living below the poverty datum line compared to 2017. The Zimbabwean government, despite numerous promises, has simply failed to bail those people out. The European Union has now promised to come to their rescue.
EU to pay US$12 pocket money to poverty-stricken Zimbabweans
THE European Union says it will pay US$12 monthly pocket money to every urban Zimbabwean struggling to access basic foodstuffs due to the Covid-19 pandemic. US$3.6m will be wired through Western Union or an e-voucher.
The aid will be chanelled via the UN’s World Food Programme. The EU ambassador to Zimbabwe, Timo Olkkonen, says while this assistance will provide much-needed relief, real transformation in the quality of life can only come from genuine economic and political reforms.Newshawks on Twitter
It’s not clear how people be onboarded to the program or how people will be selected. However, no doubt a lot of families will appreciate this aid.
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When looking for alternatives to Russian gas, Canada is a popular choice. Environment Secretary Guilbeault said the East Coast has natural gas reserves for just one LNG plant that could supply liquefied natural gas to Europe. Expanding them accordingly for export is a project "over the years".
In the struggle for alternatives to Russian natural gas, Canadian Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has specified the options for exports of liquid gas to Germany, among other places. Canada's east coast has so much gas that it can currently only supply one LNG export facility, Guilbeault said.
Most of Canada's gas production is located in the western provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. Building new gas pipelines is not very realistic, explained the minister. The fastest way to export gas to Europe would be through a facility owned by the Spanish company Repsol in the eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick. Canada does not yet have an LNG plant suitable for export purposes, the only one under construction is on the west coast.
The Repsol plant for gas import could be expanded in the short term so that exports are also possible, Guilbeault said. This could strengthen the supply in the medium term. "So this is a project that could be implemented fairly quickly, but we're still talking about years." When asked, Repsol stated that the company would examine all possibilities to expand the business with the plant. This included supplements for gas liquefaction.
Guilbeault emphasized that the expansion would have to take into account Canadian laws on reducing greenhouse gases. Canada has pledged support to Europe. At the same time, the government also wants to achieve its net-zero emissions target by 2050. Approving new plants for the processing of fossil fuels would run counter to this.
In addition to Repsol, the Canadian company Pieridae Energy is also under discussion for LNG export. The group wants to build an LNG plant in Nova Scotia. The Canadian government says it has recently spoken to European allies, including Spain and Germany, about boosting exports from Canada's east coast. Guilbeault explained that representatives of Germany had emphasized in the relevant talks that the new LNG plant should be converted into a hydrogen plant well before 2050.
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In some parts of Southern California, the Santa Ana winds blow steadily at 100 km/h during 10% of the year. During the rest of the time, there is negligible wind. You want to adapt the GE 2.5-xl to these conditions. You keep the same generator but change the gear box and the rotor (still three blades). Assuming all efficiencies are still the same, what is the length of the rotor blade?
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Informations and abstract
Keywords: Religious Education; Curriculum; Teachers; Minorities; Malta.
The Roman Catholic Religion is entrenched in the Constitution of Malta as being the religion 'of the Maltese people', a fact that has been taken for granted and rarely challenged. The Constitution also provides for the freedom of religious belief and while the teaching of the Catholic Religion is confessional, a good number of non-Catholic students are present in schools. There has never been a provision for non-Catholics to have lessons in their faith. The National Curriculum Framework (2012), provided for the teaching of Ethics for those students who opt out of Catholic Religious Education. However, Catholicism is imbued in the curriculum and ethos of state schools, and is not limited to the religion lessons. Thus, while Ethics is being offered in a number of schools, the curriculum and school ethos have not changed to reflect the pluralistic and multicultural presence in them. This paper seeks to do two things: firstly, to locate the ways in which the Catholic Religion influences the everyday school experience and how this impacts those students who do not identify with this religion. Secondly, it seeks to explore how the entrenching of the Catholic Religion in the ethos and practices of the school influence teachers' attitudes towards students who are not Catholic.
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Hands Across the Sands Coming to a Beach Near You Saturday
The massive Gulf oil spill may be receding into our collective memory. But a group of people want to keep the specter of offshore oil drilling fresh in people's minds. So they plan to gather at Florida's beaches at noon Saturday.
This will be the third straight year "Hands Across the Sands" is taking place. People will gather hands on dozens of beaches to not only protest offshore drilling, but promote the use of clean energy.
Events are being held up and down the state's Gulf and Atlantic Coasts, from Jacksonville to Pensacola. Locally, people will gather together at Lido Beach, Englewood Beach and Bayshore Beach House in Sarasota; Longboat Key and Anna Maria Island in Manatee; Tampa Water works park and the Gandy Bridge in Tampa, and a string of places along the Pinellas beaches: Indian Rocks Beach, Upham Beach, Pass-a-Grill and the Guy Harvey Outpost in St.Pete Beach. The last spot - the former Sandpiper Resort - will be where local organizers plan to gather beginning at 10:30 a.m. And to save energy, organizers are asking people to ride the Central Avenue trolley to St. Pete Beach. Click HERE to see a map of the exact locations.
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Homeopathic Medicine. Cough and sore throat. Made according to the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States since 1903.
- Laryngitis, chest colds, hemorrhaging and nerve inflammations.
- Works without contraindications or side effects
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- Can be used in conjunction with other medications.
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The religious correspondent on the Sky News morning programme yesterday referred to him as Bishop senˈtɑːmuː. But, as those who consult LPD or the Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation will know, his own preferred pronunciation is ˈsentəmuː. (Those who consult Wikipedia, on the other hand, will find there the implausible ˈsɛntɑːmuː. Perhaps one of you will now correct it.)
The Archbishop has given us an easy way to remember the correct pronunciation of his name. He asks us to imagine three cows standing in a row. Each cow moos. On the left we have a left moo, on the right we have a right moo, and in the centre we have a centre moo. And he’s like the centre moo, ˈsentəmuː.
(Sorry this doesn’t work for AmE or even for the Scots.)
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Development and sensory analysis of shampoo for curly hair
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Objective: This study aimed to compare the sensory performance of a shampoo formulation with Polyurethane-14, AMP-acrylates copolymer (PAAC) in relation to control formulation in curly and natural hair tresses. Methods: Curly and natural hair tresses (n = 8) of equal size and weight were pre-treated by washing with a standard shampoo. After the hair tresses were treated with a formulation containing polymer (formulation A) and compared to hair tresses treated with control formulation (Formulation B). Each panelist (n=2) is asked to indicate which tress performs better for each of seven sensory attributes evaluated (quantity and creamy foam, combing, wet touch, frizz formation, curl definition and volume). It was collected images of hair tresses at 0, 1, 2, 4 and 24 hours of washing, comparing the attributes: volume, frizz formation and curl definition. The results were analyzed using table to test of paired assessment, being: SUPERIOR results - 8 and 7 positive evaluations; SIMILAR results - 2 to 6 positive evaluations; INFERIOR results - 1 and 0 positive evaluations. Results: The addition of the PAAC on the shampoo formulation provided definition and modeling of curls, reducing volume and frizz in 24 hours. There was also lower foam formation in the formulation with polymer PAAC. However, it is important to note that this attribute has inversely proportional effect to the creamy foam, since more creamy foam, smaller quantity. Conclusions: It was concluded that the shampoo developed was effective in defining and modeling curl in natural and curly hair.
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If tagging a friend was too much work in Facebook previously, well – life just got easier. Facebook has rolled out a new feature where users don’t have to use “@” to tag a friend anymore. Just start typing the first few letters of a friend’s name with the first name capitalized and if Facebook recognizes it, a drop down menu will appear. Users will need to type five or more characters of a friend’s name for the menu to appear.
In addition to making it easier to tag people, users can now shorten the names of tagged people – for example if a friend has a long surname, you can remove his/her surname from the post without untagging him/her. While it does make posts shorter, we’re not sure what the point of it is, since it’s not like Twitter where you have a 140 character limit. Log on to Facebook to try out the new changes today, and let us know what you think. At the same time, why not head over to our Ubergizmo Facebook page and Like us?
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When people think of Detroit MI, negativity is often what comes to mind. Over the years, the city has gained somewhat of a bad reputation, and many people see Detroit MI as a place they should avoid. However, the city has a very rich history that includes advances in automobile technology and music. Although Detroit MI has hit some rough patches over the years, many residents and natives are still proud of their city, and they know that Detroit has a lot to offer. There’s nothing wrong with having pride in your home town, especially when you know it better than anyone else. Keep reading for 5 things only people from Detroit MI will understand.
8 Mile Road
Since the release of the 2002 film, 8 Mile, lots of people outside of Detroit MI may think they know what 8 Mile is all about. However, most people outside of Detroit have no idea what 8 Mile is, and they probably think it has something to do with music. In reality, 8 Mile is a road that runs across Detroit. Although out of towners usually believe that 8 Mile Road is a very dangerous area, Detroiters know that it’s not as bad as people may think.
If you’ve ever lived in a city that has its own sports teams, you know that locals go crazy for their teams. Well, Detroit MI is no exception, and the city has several professional teams including the Pistons (NBA) and the Lions (NFL). These teams are a part of the area’s rich history and tradition, and even though they might not be the best in their respective leagues, the fans never turn their backs.
The Eastern Market
Detroit MI may be a big city, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t get some home-grown items. The Easter Market originally opened as a farmers market in the 1840s and has been a part of Detroit’s culture ever since. With 43 acres of space, this market is the “largest historic public market district in the United States”. Visitors can purchase all sorts of fresh food items as art and other items.
The People Mover
Lots of cities have quick and easy ways for people to get around, and in Detroit MI its the People Mover. Although it’s meant to be a practical way to get around downtown, some will argue that it’s not very practical at all. However, if an out of towner has something negative to say about the People Mover, a Detroit native will probably come to its defense. Plus, no matter how you feel about its practicality, it’s hard to ignore that it’s pretty cool to look at.
Vernors Ginger Ale
Canada Dry might be most people’s preference when it comes to ginger ale, but when in Detroit MI its all about Vernors. This Detroit-based soda is the oldest ginger ale brand in the country, and it’s definitely something that locals are proud of. Although some may see it as just a soda, it’s actually much more than Detroit where people often use it as ‘medicine’ to cure upset stomachs.
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Hamilton Quotes (2 quotes)
The discoveries of Newton have done more for England and for the race, than has been done by whole dynasties of British monarchs; and we doubt not that in the great mathematical birth of 1853, the Quaternions of Hamilton, there is as much real promise of benefit to mankind as in any event of Victoria’s reign.
[The famous attack of Sir William Hamilton on the tendency of mathematical studies] affords the most express evidence of those fatal lacunae in the circle of his knowledge, which unfitted him for taking a comprehensive or even an accurate view of the processes of the human mind in the establishment of truth. If there is any pre-requisite which all must see to be indispensable in one who attempts to give laws to the human intellect, it is a thorough acquaintance with the modes by which human intellect has proceeded, in the case where, by universal acknowledgment, grounded on subsequent direct verification, it has succeeded in ascertaining the greatest number of important and recondite truths. This requisite Sir W. Hamilton had not, in any tolerable degree, fulfilled. Even of pure mathematics he apparently knew little but the rudiments. Of mathematics as applied to investigating the laws of physical nature; of the mode in which the properties of number, extension, and figure, are made instrumental to the ascertainment of truths other than arithmetical or geometrical—it is too much to say that he had even a superficial knowledge: there is not a line in his works which shows him to have had any knowledge at all.
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LIGHTS ON OROT
Price: $35.00 $31.00
LIGHTS ON OROT
The Teachings of HaRav Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook
Commentary by Rabbi David Samson and Tzvi Fishman
Hardcover, 235 pages
KTAV Publishing House, Shorashim Publications, Torat Eretz Yisrael Publications 1996
Only by learning the secrets of Torah, can a person experience the highest levels of holiness, and the transcendental Segula of Eretz Yisrael.
Rooted in Kabbalistic literature is the understanding that Hebrew letters are the atoms and building blocks of the soul. When a Jew makes Aliyah to Israel, his small, individual letters expand to become the gigantic letters of Clal Yisrael.
Our Sages teach that the redemption of Israel is a gradually developing process whihc unfolds over time, like the awakening of dawn over the mountains. Because the soul of a Jew is connected to all of the souls in the Clal, the yearning of even one individual for the Land of Israel has a profound, multiple effect on all of the nation. The mercy of G-d is aroused, and the nation returns to its homeland.
The longing for the true Israeli life and religious expression burns even in the souls of Jews who are distant from Torah and precepts. All of their longing for freedom, for enlightenment, and for redemption, in whatever form it takes, stems from the nation's holy longing for G-d.
OROT is one of the most oustanding classics of Jewish philosophy in our times. The book OROT explores the deepest, most esoteric understandings of the nation of Israel, and Israel's role in world redemption. Lights on OROT is intended to be a series of commentaries on Rabbi Kook's most profound and visionary treatise.
Rabbi Kook teaches that a proper understanding of the nation of Israel can only be obtained after one first recognizes the significance of Eretz Yisrael to the Jewish people. To understand who we are as a nation, and to actualize our role as a light to all of the world, we first have to understand the special relationship between the Divinely-chosen people and the Divinely-chosen Land.
Owing to the book's startling insights, its difficult Hebrew, and often esoteric style, OROT has remained the cherished possession of Rabbi kook's students and generation of Torah scholars in Israel who were privileged to learn from his son, HaRav Tzvi Yehuda. The Lights on OROT series is designed to make Rabbi Kook's writings accessible to a far wider readership.
The authors of the commentary, Rabbi David Samson and Tzvi Fishman are the writers of the popular book, Torat Eretz Yisrael, The Teachings of HaRav Tzvi Yehuda HaCohen Kook.
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A wave of protests has erupted in townships across South Africa over shoddy housing and public services, adding to pressure on President Jacob Zuma to deliver on promises to fight poverty.
Police fired rubber bullets on Tuesday to break up about 200 protesters in Thokoza township outside Johannesburg, where they stoned police cars in anger at their dire housing conditions.
That followed a riot one week earlier in Diepsloot, also near Johannesburg, where two police cars were destroyed, buildings were burned and passing cars stoned in protest at moves to demolish shacks in order to build sewerage lines.
More worryingly, a protest in eastern Mpumalanga on Sunday took on anti-immigrant colours as shops owned by foreigners were looted and burned.
That sparked anxious memories of the xenophobic attacks that swept the country one year ago, when about 60 people died and tens of thousands of foreigners fled townships for refugee camps.
Protests over poor public service have soared this year, according to Municipal IQ, which monitors municipal services. Poor South Africans have staged 24 major protests so far this year, compared with 27 in all of last year, the group said in a statement.
”We’ve got high levels of unemployment, the whole world is suffering from an economic downturn and that’s not making it any easier,” said Adrian Hadland, a director at the Human Sciences Research Council, a think-tank that advises on public policy.
”Part of the frustration is local government is very uneven, and that is often the level of government where things are most keenly felt and expressed.”
The African National Congress (ANC) last weekend called for an audit into municipal services, with the aim of aiding — or sometimes pressuring — cities to improve their performance.
”The ANC put service delivery of local government at the centre stage,” said ANC spokesperson Ishmael Mnisi. ”Now we realise that our councillors in the municipalities might be needing intervention.”
”We need to directly fix the issues at hand, not the symptoms of the problem,” Mnisi added.
Fight against poverty
Since the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa has made strides in improving housing while expanding access to clean water and electricity, building 2,8-million houses in 15 years.
But more than one million families still live in shacks without power, often sharing a single tap among dozens of households. The problem has heightened as South Africa is at the height of winter, with freezing temperatures in Johannesburg and other parts of the country.
”In the absence of electricity, a roof over your head, and running water, it is keenly felt,” said Hadland.
Zuma took office two months ago, after campaigning on promises to step up the fight against poverty in a country where unemployment is officially at 23,5% but is believed much higher.
But the country has slipped into its first recession since apartheid, and thousands of jobs have been lost this year, complicating plans to boost government spending to fight poverty.
”There is quite a serious problem in the sense that there isn’t just a straightforward way of resolving it, because the state structures are poorly managed,” said David Bruce, of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.
Any meaningful solution will take years to implement, but in the meantime the government will have to tread carefully to avoid inflaming public discontent, Municipal IQ said.
”What is called for now is level heads, and the opening of communication channels,” the group said. — AFP
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Configuring your IP address
An IP address is a number assigned to a particular device so other computers or devices can locate it. Similar to your home address, which enables your friends, family, and the mailman to find you in the real world, your external IP address enables your devices to find—and be found by—other devices on the Internet.
Most of the time external IP addresses are automatically assigned by Internet service providers (ISPs), so customers setting up their eero devices don’t have to worry about them. Some ISPs, however, require unique static IP settings to set up a network. If you’re unsure whether or not your network requires static IP Internet configuration, please check with your Internet service provider for details.
Other ISP configuration settings:
- VLAN tagging
Setting up eero gateway with static IP:
- Begin eero gateway setup in the eero app
- Allow the eero app to first try and connect to the Internet
- If necessary, make any changes to your ISP Settings
Switching to or editing a static IP on an existing network:
- Open the eero app
- Select the Settings tab > Network Settings
- Tap ISP settings > WAN type
- Choose Static IP
- Make any changes, then tap Save.
Still having trouble? Contact us and we’ll help you get to the bottom of it.
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FREEDOM AND SAFETY
For the first time in America’s history, an entire generation of her citizens are poorer, more indebted, and less employed than the preceding generations.
That generation is the millennials – our generation.
The culprit, say some social commenters, are millennials themselves. In this telling, we are a lazy cohort of entitled and narcissistic brats — the proverbial Generation Me. But this is a classic case of blaming the victim.
The true cause of this unfortunate situation is clear: It’s the economy. The Great Recession stymied economic growth, halted job creation, kept older Americans in the workforce longer, and encouraged younger Americans to continue debt-financed schooling.
Moreover, the Great Recession was not merely a one-off calamity — it was a symptom of economic ills long perpetuated and ignored. And the criticism and labels that have been heaped upon millennials bear much more resemblance to the type of intergenerational stereotyping that has always existed (“darn kids these days”) than to any measurable reality.
The truth: The economic tragedy of the Millennial generation was written before many of us had even learned to read — Baby Boomer parents and grandparents who, at once, genuinely love and care for us, but have also created or perpetuated institutions, policies, and economic realities that have now hobbled us.
Our generation has been called “entitled.” We beg to differ. If any generation is entitled, it’s our parents’ and grandparents’ generation: the baby boomers.
True entitlement is tripling the national debt since the 1980s and using the proceeds to spend lavishly on tax cuts and government programs that primarily provided short-term economic boosts, while refusing to raise the Social Security age of retirement or to reduce benefits, even as the gluttonous program careens toward unsustainability.
A protester at recent Australia climate-change rallies in the lead up to the UN climate summit in New York
True entitlement is allowing the reasonable minimum wage that Baby Boomers enjoyed when they were our age to deteriorate while opting to cut taxes on the gains from stocks and bonds that they accrued during periods of debt-driven economic and stock-market surges — creating an economy where wage earners at all income levels, as of 2012, receive a smaller portion of economic output at any time since 1929.
True entitlement is, for decades, enjoying the benefits of the lowest energy costs in the world while refusing to price-in the external costs of carbon emissions, exacerbating the real changes to our planet that pose profound risks to the environment and economy for which millennials will soon be the primary stewards.
These grave consequences were entirely foreseeable — but they happened. Young Americans have been fleeced in order to fund the transient excesses of the old — and yet millennials are labeled “entitled” because we were given “participation trophies” and “personal tutors” before we were old enough to vote ... ?
Give us a break. Millennials are not entitled. But we are frustrated.
We’re frustrated, because the same baby-boomer bloc that created or tacitly perpetuated the policies that have hamstrung millennials now makes up almost a third of the American voting-aged population and holds nearly two-thirds of the seats of the US House of Representatives and Senate. This, during a decade-long span when incumbent House and Senate members are richly rewarded for being the most unproductive legislators in US history, respectively winning reelection 94% and 87% of the time.
Granted, many members of our generation need to learn how to vote every two years, not just every four. And we need to begin to fulfill the civic-minded label — “The Next Great Generation” — which social scientists have bestowed upon us. When we do begin to regularly share our opinions in the voting booth, not just on Twitter, you can be assured that we’ll act to keep this country great. We’ll make the “hard” choices the baby boomers have refused to make.
Already, we’ve learned how to be fiscally responsible — with the most student debt of any generation in history, we’ve had to. More than any other generation, we eschew expensive possessions like cars and large houses, opting instead for bikes and shared living spaces. Sure, we would like to own all that fancy stuff someday, but we realize that we can’t have everything we want.
We know that our government would be better off spending more of our tax dollars on jobs and education, and not just on Social Security and defense. We overwhelmingly recognize that the war on drugs has been an embarrassing waste of money and lives, and that anyone should be able to marry whomever they love.
Perhaps we millennials are entitled: We seemed to think that baby-boomer politicians would enact much-needed changes while we fiddled with our smartphones. We were definitely wrong on that one.
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The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for ACLS Digital Extension Grants, which are made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grants are designed to advance humanistic scholarship by enhancing established digital projects, extending their reach to new communities of users, and supporting teams of scholars at all career stages as they participate in digital research.
This program aims to promote inclusion and sustainability by extending the opportunity to participate in the digital transformation of humanistic inquiry to a greater number of humanities scholars. ACLS Digital Extension Grants support projects that have advanced beyond the start-up phase of development.
PivotTM is a comprehensive database of funding opportunities and collaborators across all disciplines. All faculty, staff, and students at the University of Kentucky have free access to this resource.
For information on how to access and search PivotTM consult the FAQs page from UK's Proposal Development Office.
Grants.gov is designed to enable federal grant-making agencies to create funding opportunities and applicants to find and apply for these federal grants. Today, the Grants.gov system houses information on over 1,000 grant programs and vets grant applications for federal grant-making agencies.
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Suhas D. Kakde, Shashank S. Mane
firstname.lastname@example.org , email@example.com
Mr. Suhas D. Kakde1, Mr. Shashank S. Mane2
1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Tele Communication Engineering, PJLCE, Nanadanwan,
Nagpur, India 440009.
2Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SBITM, Betul, India 460001.
Volume - 7,
Issue - 4,
Year - 2015
This paper describes the detailed study and analysis of Golumb codes used for the test vector compression in VLSI testing. The Golumb Codes are widely used for lossless Data compression due to its simpler encoding and Decoding methods. Furthermore, a comparative study of various compression techniques is also presented in this paper. This paper also give out an idea about the design of Golumb Encoder and Decoder using VHDL for the test vectors thus achieving a good height of compression ratio. The developed algorithm can be verified using the Modelsim 6.3f , Xilinx 9.2i and ALTERA Quartus II software.
Cite this article:
Suhas D. Kakde, Shashank S. Mane. Lossless Data Compression Using Golumb Codes. Research J. Science and Tech. 7(4):Oct. – Dec. 2015; Page 197-200. doi: 10.5958/2349-2988.2015.00027.3
Suhas D. Kakde, Shashank S. Mane. Lossless Data Compression Using Golumb Codes. Research J. Science and Tech. 7(4):Oct. – Dec. 2015; Page 197-200. doi: 10.5958/2349-2988.2015.00027.3 Available on: https://rjstonline.com/AbstractView.aspx?PID=2015-7-4-2
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Between 2011 and 2016, there were at least 138 collisions on West Bakerview Road. This summer, the city will introduce improvements they hope will make the street safer, Bellingham transportation planner Chris Comeau said.
According to the city of Bellingham press release, the root of the problems come from the multiple-lane crossings drivers have to go through to get to businesses, such as Fred Meyer. The improvements would restrict certain westbound turns and make others right-in, right-out only, stopping drivers from making turns across multiple lanes.
The improvements were included in the 2020-25 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). It was presented at the June 3, 2019, Committee of the Whole Agenda meeting. The TIP is adopted annually, councilmember Daniel Hammill said. This document is the financial plan for improvements in Bellingham’s transportation system.
This program went through multiple drafts and public comment periods before being approved by the City Council.
One of the projects is expected to improve safety for pedestrians and bikers through reconstruction of sidewalks, curb ramps, crosswalks and bike lanes, according to a Public Works Department news release. All pedestrian facilities will also be updated to ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The other project will install a raised median. In 2017, a similar median was installed between I-5 and Arctic Avenue; this median will be a continuation and will run straight through Bakerview. The press release referenced the Federal Highway Administration, which found that raised medians reduce vehicle collisions.
According to the Planning Department press release, a median installed between I-5 and Kellogg Road in 2013 reduced collisions there.
“This was a very successful project that met our objectives with a relatively low level of funding,” Todd Carlson, planning and engineering services manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation said.
The Bakerview project is still in its beginning stages.
“We will not know this for certain until this project is advertised for construction bids in the spring,” Comeau said. “The intersection improvements will be constructed by an outside contractor and then followed up by city crews installing the raised median in the center of West Bakerview afterward.”
The timeline is also still in the works. While construction bids will happen in spring, the project is expected to begin in June or July.
Comeau said the construction should not cause too much congestion or backup. It will inevitably cause disruption, but will be subject to many safety controls which are designed to protect pedestrians and workers involved.
Overall, the project is predicted to improve the safety of anyone that uses Bakerview.
“When this project is completed, both the intersection and the corridor will be safer for people walking, biking, crossing to transit stops and driving vehicles,” Comeau said.
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The concept of dummy pronoun is very natural to English speakers (or many other European-language speakers). However in many other languages there is no dummy pronoun. In this post we are going to discuss the necessity of dummy pronouns and how they work.
What is a dummy pronoun?
A dummy pronoun is a pronoun that is only present to fulfill the syntactic or grammatical requirements of a sentence. Other pronouns, in contrast, always have a meaning or grammatical contribution to the sentence.
Dummy pronouns are usually used as a subject or object to a sentence. Take a look at the following examples:
It is raining.
You can make it.
In the first example ‘it’ as a dummy pronoun is playing the role of subject in the sentence. (as this sentence does not need a real subject in English). In the second sentence the dummy pronoun acts as the object of the sentence (because the verb ‘make’ is transitive and needs an object)
What do other languages do?
My mother tongue ,Persian, does not have the concept of dummy pronouns. I will show you how we say the same sentences in Farsi in a few examples:
It is cold.
There are two ways to express the same notion in Persian:
1- The air is cold. (هوا سرد است)
2- is cold (سرده)
The first one sounds very simple and natural (to be honest I wonder why they don’t do it the same way in English). The second one on the other hand is a feature that is not possible in English syntax. In Persian when using a ‘predicate adjective’ we do not need a subject. We can simply use the adjective with the conjugated form of the verb ‘be’.
There are two apples on the table.
Here the pronoun ‘there’ is a dummy pronoun used to show the presence of an object. Persian does not have the same structure. In order to express the same sense we use the object of this sentence as the subject like this:
Two apples are on the table.
This works fine in the example above but in some cases the sense of the sentence is somehow impaired through translation:
There have been a lot of accidents on this road.
The best way to express the same sense in Persian would be:
A lot of accidents happened on this road.
Which is to some extent different from the original sentence.
For many other cases we add a meaningless word to act as the subject or object. I do not write examples of those cases because they are not properly translatable.
Where exactly are dummy pronouns used?
English has lost a lot of its original features like conjugation and although it may seem to have made this language simpler, it made it easier for sentences to become ambiguous. In order to make the sentences understandable in all cases more grammatical rules have to be added which resulted in some of the strange features in English language. Although dummy pronouns are present in many of the European languages their use in English is far more sophisticated.
The most important reason is it is impossible to distinguish a simple imperative sentence from a subject-less indicative sentence, so using a dummy pronoun is vital to the integrity of the sentence.
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including hands-on report and interview with Sabrina Flaus, project manager of the subproject "IQ Refresher training for nurses with qualifications acquired abroad."
The delivery of taught clinical practice is the key bottleneck in adaptation periods for general nurses. For capacity reasons, it is often difficult or even impossible for the practice locations to provide practice mentors internally for participants. Training obligations and day-to-day necessities generally take priority.
Implementation of "project-integrated practice mentoring"
The IQ "Refresher training for nurses with qualifications acquired abroad" subproject from the provider SHG Bildung gGmbH in the IQ Network Saarland has initiated project-integrated practice mentoring (PiP) which undertakes the mentoring in all organisations. This enables participants to receive the necessary time to compensate for missing periods of training. It eases the burden on the organisations and at the same time ensures quality across various practice locations. Key to the successful deployment of the PiP is establishing a position of trust in the practice organisation.
Only by establishing trust can it be guaranteed that the PiP will fulfil all of the institution's professional requirements, participate without intervening unasked in on-site procedures and guarantee confidentiality. In addition, the project-integrated practice mentor acts as a key contact person in working with language barriers and culturally sensitive communication.The completion of relevant training facilitates the delivery of content in a manner appropriate to the target group. The PiP coordinates the practice mentoring according to the requirements of participants.
The needs are determined in discussion with participants, by means of practical exercises in the theory phase and by consulting with nursing managers, in-house practice mentors or the ward managers of the cooperating organisations with whom the placement dates are agreed. A PiP adopts a neutral role and is not employed in the operational practice of the placement organisation. This avoids any conflict of interest between day to day-work and training. One aspect is the high degree of dependability when keeping to the times for scheduled practical instruction. This is because the PiP is not part of the cooperating organisation and therefore cannot be used to support the day-to-day work on the ward if somebody suddenly falls sick in the nursing team.
A project-integrated practice mentor acts as the interface between the cooperating organisations and project management – a role which has proven successful in practice. The very positive feedback from all participants also confirms this. Participants feel they receive better supervision, acquire competencies more quickly and improve their status because, as a result of the PiP’s mentoring, they are no longer perceived as "interns". In-house trainers value the reduced workload and the opportunity to exchange views and ideas with a colleague, and the organisation management teams are thankful for the external support.
Addressees for transfer:
Training providers and companies
Project-integrated practice mentoring
Refresher training in the nursing sector is often required to compensate for insufficient time spent training in practice. In order to ease the burden on staff in placement locations, a centralised, project-integrated practice mentor (PiP) is provided through the project. They serve as key contact person in working with language barriers and culturally-sensitive communication, and are a constant point of reference for participants completing the adaptation period. The PiP coordinates the practice mentoring according to participants’ requirements, e.g. with the use of practical exercises in the theory phase completed by participants.
IQ Refresher training for nurses with qualifications acquired abroad.
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Sabrina Flaus, Konrad-Zuse-Straße 3a, 66115 Saarbrücken, s.flaus(at)bildung.shg-kliniken.de
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One of the most common questions I’m asked by customers is “How long does it take you to make a broom?” This is often a difficult question to answer. It is easy enough to determine how long it takes me to take a prepared broom handle and to tie on the broomcorn to make a finished broom, but the most time-consuming and difficult part of the process is finding suitable handle material and preparing it in a way that will allow it to lend a functional and aesthetic charm to the each broom.
The first necessary part of obtaining a broom handle is finding a source of sustainably harvested saplings or tree branches. Saplings are ideal because they grow straighter, however some tree branches, such as apple wood water shoots, can also grow straight and long enough to be used as a broom handle. The majority of our broom handles come from aspen saplings sustainably harvested with a commercial permit on a local National Forest. These are often the most time-intensive broom handles, since we must drive high in the mountains to large aspen stands and hunt around for the perfectly sized and shaped saplings. The rest of our broom handles are a conglomerate of harvesting invasive Russian olive saplings, pruning fruit trees, or “rescuing” the wood from neighbors’ burn piles.
The next step is allowing the wood to dry slowly so the broom handles don’t exhibit excessive checking (cracking), so after harvesting, we paint the ends with wax and store them for a few months to allow them to dry. After obtaining and drying the wood for the handles, we have to decide whether each handle would look better with the bark still on or whether we should remove it. The majority of fruit tree woods have interesting color and texture in their bark, so we generally leave that on, while aspen provides interesting coloration and texture both with and without the bark, so we peel some to provide a mixture of options for our brooms. The handles are then coated with a clear-coat, both to preserve the bark on the broom handle and to keep the broom handle clean. Each broom handle requires hours of attention and adds unique charm to the finished product!
Though it's Thanksgiving Day and we, like most others, are excited for turkey and stuffing and pies later in the day, there is no rest for the weary here as we are preparing for three craft fairs over the next three weekends. The kitchen table is covered with wood shavings, finished pieces, and string tags in preparation, and late nights in the shop are becoming common. Fortunately, this work is ever-exciting, and leaves us in eager anticipation at the end of a long day.
Almost daily, a new piece is created around here, a chunk of raw wood becomes a serving spoon, or a soup bowl, or a pile of sticks and broomcorn becomes a handy and elegant Appalachian sweeper. Today we are giving thanks for this craft which is our life, and the opportunity to pursue it.
Look for us at the Veterans Craft Bazaar in Cortez this Saturday. We'll see you there!
There are few things in life that put crafting for Traditional Necessities, or life in general, on hold. One of the most predictable is the arrival of canning season. As the summer days grow shorter and mornings grow cooler, the counter fills with a bountiful harvest from the gardens and orchards that must be put up before winter. Canning season usually starts for me in mid-July when the apricots, our first fruit of the season here, ripen. Unfortunately the late spring freeze nipped the blossoms of the apricots, plums and peaches this year, so canning season started a little late. But my kitchen is now overflowing with green beans, zucchini, kale, peaches (from a nearby orchard that escaped the late freeze), pears, apples, pumpkins, and tomatoes, with so much more fresh produce yet to come. So daily I wake up to search for new recipes for canning—this year peach salsa and spiced peaches are being added to the list—and I start washing, chopping, packing jars and processing food to line the root cellar shelves for winter. It is such a wonderful feeling to go down to the cool, dark root cellar during the coldest days of winter and pick out onions, garlic, potatoes, green beans, tomatoes, and winter squash to add to a fulfilling stew that bubbles on the stove and lends a savory scent to the air when I walk into the house with an armload of firewood.
I recently had the remarkable experience of attending the Telluride Mushroom Festival. I’ve always been fascinated by the world of plants. Fungi, although it has been something that I have wanted to learn about for many years, has been a world in which I have not yet been immersed. Sure, I’ve gone out foraging with friends and I’ll eat what they, and the identification books, tell me is safe, but beyond that I really know nothing. You might be wondering where this is going, being that Traditional Necessities is a business focused on craft. Although the festival had amazing presentations about bioremediation and medicinal uses of mushrooms, mushroom cook-offs, mushroom beer, and foraging field trips, I also had the opportunity to participate in a wonderful workshop about dying wool using mushrooms. I learned that this is a centuries old tradition that is particularly well practiced in Scandinavia—another opportunity in my life for me to explore my heritage. I signed up for the class not really knowing what it would be about. The website was sorely lacking in information, but I figured that brown is one of my favorite colors, so why not go learn how to dye my own wool for knitting projects? Little did I know that out of the nineteen different dye pots with which we would experiment, only ONE would actually turn out brown. I walked out of the class with a swatch sheet filled with yarns of bright coral, goldenrod yellow, sage green, ocean blue, lilac purple and every shade in between! Throughout the workshop we learned about the preparation of wool and mushrooms, which mushroom families tend to produce interesting pigments, and the methods for extracting those pigments. We experimented with mushrooms ranging from the commonly eaten boletes and lobster mushrooms to the deadly poisonous tender nesting polypore. Now I’m prepared to head out into the mountains, armed with baskets and identification books, to forage for a whole new world of color to add to my faire-isle knitting!
The community of Finland, Minnesota that I call home was settled by Finnish homesteaders near the turn of the twentieth century. These settlers brought with them their craft traditions, notable amongst them log and timber construction, and green woodworking techniques such as coopering and spoon carving. In many cases, Finnish families intermarried or otherwise culturally mixed with the native Ojibwe people, whose woodworking traditions are also both ancient and remarkably refined.
Each August the Finland Heritage Site hosts a Finnish Festival called the Tori, which features music, food, art, and crafts. I was flattered to be asked to demonstrate spoon carving at this year's Tori. For inspiration, I strolled through the museum and looked at some historical examples.
I spent the rest of the day carving spoons. One of the highlights of the day included talking with several older women from the community, fondly remembering their fathers or grandfathers who had been woodcarvers working in a centuries old tradition. I also enjoyed talking with several local people who took an interest in our native woods, the birch and pin cherry that I mostly use for carving in this area. I received a great complement from one woman, who, looking at one of my spoons, said "I saw one just like this in the museum!". Though I hadn't deliberately copied any existing design, it was enriching to feel that I, too, am working in an old tradition. There are wooden spoons in use in the Scandinavian communities of northeastern Minnesota that were made eighty or one hundred years ago, and it excites me to think that my spoons may be in use here when another century has passed. Many thanks to the organizers of the Finland Tori for hosting me!
Welcome to the blog at Traditional Necessities! We look forward to sharing with you our experiences of working on our crafts, exploring the natural world, and our adventures that lead to growth as individuals, craftspeople, and communities. We started this business after recognizing the demand for high quality, hand crafted items that are both beautiful and useful around the house. We’re not kidding when we tell you that you may very well be passing down that wooden serving ladle to your grandchildren. Please take a few minutes to browse around the website, to learn a little more about our business ethics and goals, to see who we are, and peruse our gallery and store. We will be updating our blog often, so please remember to check back to see what is new!
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The folks at DeKorte Park's Meadowlands Environment Center have a nifty array of late winter and spring programs on tap — everything from astronomy talks to bee demonstrations and up-close looks at hedgehogs and other live animals.
The brochure also lists the free upcoming walks through June that are sponsored by the Bergen County Audubon Society and the Meadowlands Commission.
You can download your free brochure here:
(It may be just a tad slow.)
Remember the Bald Eagle that Mary Kostus and a few others saw on Disposal Road earlier this month?
Louis Balboa managed to get a great shot of the bird perched on a pole, and as far as we can tell, the black-on-black leg bands read 9 on top and V on the bottom. We submitted the info to the USGS Bird Banding Lab, and they have reported back.
The bird was banded as an eaglet on May 13, 2008, in Burlington, Conn., by the Connecticut DEP's Wildlife Division.
Jenny Dickson, Supervising Wildlife Biologist for the Connecticut DEP, writes:
"We always like to hear how our birds are doing once they grow up. 9/V was actually banded by my colleague Julie Victoria, a wildlife biologist who retired in 2011.
"It was banded on May 13, 2008, in Old Lyme, so it clearly likes a coastal view. He was one of two chicks that year (both males). This nest is one of our oldest and most successful nests and is still active (hopefully that continues in 2013!)" (Thanks, Jenny!)
USGS Bird Banding website is here.
Certificate from the USGS follows. (And a tip of the hat to Julia Fuhr, who commented on the blog that the black bands signified a Connecticut bird.)
Yesterday's Teaser asked:
A minute after we photographed the Bald Eagle on Disposal Road earlier this month, we photographed an American Kestrel 50 yards away. Anything unusual about this?
The answer is that the Bald Eagle is the largest diurnal raptor in the eastern part of the United States, and the American Kestrel the smallest.
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Ross was a very talented craftsman with many hobbies and interests, wood working, carving, leather work, building large scale models (many matchstick), just to name a few and he was involved with different organizations over the years. He loved spending as much time as possible with his grandson Jordan, taking him places and teaching him many valuable lessons about life and Jordan is forever grateful for all the things he learned and the great memories he has of spending so much time with his grandpa over the years of his youth and he often said he was more like a dad to him. Ross was fortunate enough, later in life to have 2 great grandsons, Darien and Anthony. Once again, he loved to spend as much time as possible with them, teaching and sharing the same wisdom he shared with Jordan and they have many great memories of these times.
Ross was both a wonderful husband and father, he had a natural protective instinct always making sure we were well looked after and safe. He was resilient, tenacious and held true to his convictions of fairness and equality. It was these qualities that enabled him to be innovative and revise his lifestyle and hobbies, when he was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis a few years after he retired and he learned to adapt like the true survivor he was.
Shortly before his retirement, Gina inherited a box of old photos of unknown family members and this sparked Ross' curiosity to find out who they were and that's when he became interested in ancestry and genealogy. Ross researched both his and Gina's lineage, but it was Gina's side of the family that he found most intriguing and so began his ardent research that spanned over a decade and took them across Canada and the US piecing together the Brown family tree and giving identities to the unknown ancestors and their descendants. He found many unmarked graves through dowsing and was instrumental in having a memorial erected in Port Ryerse to recognize the Brown family settlement to the area in the 1850s their contributions. Through his tireless research he united and reunited many family members and gave us all a sense of pride and identity that was previously elusive due to the slave trade in North America and the all too often omission of Canadian Black History from the records and we are eternally grateful. He was well respected and recognized for his great achievements and huge contributions to Black history and ancestry in Canada and the lives of those involved and will be greatly missed and strongly remembered.
Unfortunately, Ross was diagnosed with Stage 4 Neuroendocrine cancer in early August and fought a short, but courageous battle and even though he was terminally ill he showed grace no matter how sick he became. He was a man of true integrity and honour and will live on in so many people's hearts and memories.
Donations in his memory can be made to Innisfree House and the Arthritis Society. Messages and condolences can be made via tricitycremations.com
Please visit Ross' obituary notice on Facebook.
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1 mega watt equals how many volts? - Answers
May 18, 2010 · See answer (1) Best Answer. Copy. Watts, Volts and Amps are interdependent, but unique units of electricity. The formula is: Watts = Volts * Amps. A megawatt is just 1,000,000 watts. At 1 volt that...
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A grease trap is a trap in a drain or waste pipe that prevents grease from passing into a sewer system. Grease trap maintenance, especially for larger establishments, is important. If you’re searching Google for grease trap cleaning service, Drane Ranger is your number one choice in grease trap maintenance in the Houston area.
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Kenyan innovator invents smart hand gloves which turn sign language into audio speech
A 25-year-old Kenyan innovator has earned global recognition with his invention of a smart hand gloves which are capable of converting sign language movements into audio speech.
Roy Allela, a technology evangelist, says the need to communicate with his 6-year-old niece, who was born deaf, inspired him to build the technology.
Allela is among 16 young Africans who have been shortlisted by The Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Prize for inventors from six countries to receive funding, training and mentoring for projects intended to revolutionize sectors from agriculture and science to women’s health.
The winner will be awarded Sh3.2 million (£25,000) while each of the three runners up will receive Sh1.2 million (£10,000).
According to Allela, his niece encountered difficulties while communicating with members of her family since none of them is conversant with sign language.
The smart gloves – dubbed Sign-IO – have flex sensors that are placed on each finger and have the capacity to quantify the bend of a finger and process the letter being signed.
Using Bluetooth, the gloves are connected to a mobile application, that Allela also developed, which then converts the sign into audio speech.
“My niece wears the gloves, pairs them to her phone or mine, then starts signing and I’m able to understand what she’s saying,” says Allela.
Allela said the speed at which the signs are vocalized is one of the most important aspects of the smart gloves.
“People speak at different speeds and it’s the same with people who sign – some are really fast, others are slow, so we integrated that into the mobile application so that it’s comfortable for anyone to use it,” he said.
Through the app, users are able to set the language, gender, and pitch of the audio voice, with accuracy results averaging 93 percent.
“It fights the stigma associated with being deaf and having a speech impediment. If the gloves look cool, every kid will want to know why you have them on,” says Allela.
Allela’s innovation recently won the Hardware Trailblazer award from the prestigious American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) during its 2017 ASME Innovation Showcase (ISHOW) competition.
Allela says he is using the prize money from the award to make more accurate vocal predictions.
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Which sin is not forgiven by Allah?
Shirk is an unforgivable sin if one dies without repenting from it: Indeed, Allah does not forgive associating others with Him in worship, but forgives anything else of whoever He wills.
What are the 7 major sins in Islam?
There are 7 major sins in Islam that will surely land you in hellfire.
Controlling one’s nafs is the real challenge for a Muslim in this temporary world.
- Shirk. …
- Magic. …
- Consuming riba. …
- Snatching the property of an orphan. …
- Accusing pious, believing & chaste women of adultery.
What sins in Islam are unforgivable?
Setting up partners with Allah — or shirking — is the one unforgivable sin in Islam: “Verily, Allah forgives not that partners should be set up with him in worship, but He forgives except that (anything else) to whom He pleases” (Quran 4:48).
What are the 3 major sins in Islam?
Sin is an important concept in Islamic ethics.
Major sins: Al-Kabirah
- Shirk (associating partners with Allah);
- Committing murder (taking away someone’s life);
- Practicing witchcraft or sorcery;
- Leaving off the five daily prayers (Salah)
- Not paying the minimum amount of Zakat when the person is required to do so;
How do you know if Allah has forgiven your sins?
Originally Answered: How do I know if Allah forgave me? tl;dr: If you seek forgiveness after regret and stick to the course, Allah will forgive you. If you make up your mind to that, you have forgiveness instantly, but woe to he who breaks his word and returns to the sin. Everything is based on your intention.
What are the biggest sins?
According to the standard list, they are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth, which are contrary to the seven heavenly virtues. This classification originated with the Desert Fathers, especially Evagrius Ponticus, who identified seven or eight evil thoughts or spirits to be overcome.
What are haram things in Islam?
The religious term haram, based on the Quran, is applied to: Actions, such as cursing, fornication, murder, and disrespecting your parents. Policies, such as riba (usury, interest). Certain food and drink, such as pork and alcohol.
Is dating allowed in Islam?
“Dating” as it is currently practiced in much of the world does not exist among Muslims. Young Islamic men and women (or boys and girls) do not enter into one-on-one intimate relationships, spending time alone together and “getting to know one another” in a very deep way as a precursor to selecting a marital partner.
What are major and minor sins in Islam?
Major sins are those which appear by name in the Qur’an or hadith as the subject of an explicit threat of punishment, prescribed legal penalty, or curse. Minor sins may be forgiven from prayer to prayer, from one Friday prayer to another, and so forth, as there many acts and deeds through which minor sins are forgiven.
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Design should be timeless but not stagnant. So for an architect to grow, it is important to not much delve on past glories but to evolve with time. And Akshat Bhatt, founder and principal architect of Architecture Discipline, has got this formula just right.
During his teens, he made the transition from strumming his guitar to deftly working on a drawing board. This erstwhile guitarist’s musical background has contributed to his uniquely independent expression in architecture.
Founded in 2007, Architecture Discipline engages in multi-disciplinary design practices and endorses an architectural language that is contextually charged and contemporary. Akshat’s inquiring mind works beyond basic assimilation and believes more in rationalising knowledge in its contextual make-up. Their projects always manage to rewrite norms and inspire radical solutions. To cite an example, in Hotel Mana Ranakpur the firm chose a metaphorical representation as opposed to the conventional emblematic connotation of ornate opulence that Rajasthan typically evokes.
The practice has successfully created a progressive contemporary pedagogy for sustainable design through investigation and critical design. In a very short span of time the studio has earned several accolades and awards – the most recent one being a felicitation by the Minister of Trade & Commerce and the Department for Industrial Policy & Promotion for their noteworthy Make in India Pavilion at the Hannover Messe 2015.
In this interview, Akshat talks about inspirations, design ideologies and sustainable progressive practices.
Was there a defining phase in your career which formed the core of your design sensibilities?
I don’t believe there has been any one phase; it’s been incremental or evolutionary.
I was studying music before I started studying architecture, so I’d say my teenage years pushed me towards individual expression within compositional frameworks. Then at architecture school I was exposed to the Modernists & British Hi-Tech, philosophy & design theory.
When I started professional practice I started looking at designers in greater detail and into construction techniques (this is different from construction technology, technology is available to all, and technique determined by the individual).
When you’re intensely involved with one thing and as long as you’re not oblivious to everything else, chances are you’ll find a subject that’ll reveal a new dimension. Every time that happens it adds to your reference base and influences. You have to find ways to rationalize it in the right context.
Typically, an architect’s inspirations and inclinations define his/her signature style. Is there a particular school of thought that you endorse or believe in?
I believe design has to be strong, I don’t mean bold because that’s misinterpreted, I mean strong, clear, refined, progressive and rationalized. A cliché but it has to be larger than the sum of its parts. Yet, become a large enough part of something else.
Your firm adheres to sustainable sensibilities while designing any project. What according to you should be the approach of a designer to achieve an all-inclusive sustainable project?
The notion of sustainable development is dynamic. However, the principles remain the same. Reduce, replenish, recycle, save. That’s true for everything, not just buildings and every serious architectural and engineering intervention has considered it. ‘Green buildings’ has become a buzz word as has ‘smart cities’. You don’t have to resort to such terminology if the principles form part of your design approach and they’re really the basics.
We’re interested in the conventional idea of sustainability but we’re especially interested in what makes a building a part of a progressive cultural expression.
Competitions are a good platform to tap into new talent. How does participating in competitions help a practice?
We haven’t had the time to participate in competitions. So I haven’t lived my piped dreams moments yet. The only real competition we entered was for the India Pavilion.
You firmly endorse progressive design, provided the cultural expression finds its due importance. How easy or difficult is it to blend the two?
It’s not always easy, especially given modern building programs, but if you’ve trained yourself hard enough you learn to find clues and opportunities. It’s not necessary to find clients with the same agenda, but through dialogue and demonstration one can make a convincing case.
One crucial stage/technique of the design process that architects tend to skip but should not…
A structure designed by another architect which continues to have an impact on you every time you visit…
Coop Himmelblau’s rooftop extension, The Centre Pompidou, Kansai Airport, HSBC headquarters, Tjibaou Cultural Centre, The India International Centre, Villa Savoye, The Parc De La Villette, Red Fort… this list is endless, there’s treasure everywhere!
You have often spoken about your admiration of Sir Peter Cook’s work and have recently even curated an exhibition of his thought-provoking drawings. Tell us about how his work has impacted you professionally and personally.
The exhibition was curated by Mrs. Renu Modi, we supported the endeavour.
I studied the works of Archigram, Cedric Price, Ron Herron, studied under Peter Salter who took over East London from Ron Herron and found constant references to Peter Cook’s ongoing academic and professional legacy. He’s a living legend.
I’m not sure I can cite individual points of influence or departure without getting into design theory. I believe I am a fan of good architecture, then a fan of good design but an even greater admirer of honest, professional accomplishment.
In the present architectural milieu, it doesn’t get much bigger than Peter Cook or Renzo Piano or Richard Rogers. I see them as benchmarks for achievement at one hand and on the other we’re dissecting their work, critically, to learn from their experience and mistakes.
There is this preconceived notion that all things traditional are sustainable while the contemporary design tends to ignore environmental footprint. Your firm’s projects (Mana Ranakpur, Discovery Centre) have helped question the myth. How important do you think is it for architects today to innovate and improvise to shape a better future?
Architectural discourse cannot be separated from innovation – its part of the material culture of design. The parameters for sustainable development are ever changing what is an abundant resource base today may not be available tomorrow given the rate of consumption over time. So, one has to switch to higher performance materials, materials with a longer life cycle, materials that are easy to recycle. Not to forget we’re not luddites, if we’ve found a way to be comfortable flying 32,000 feet in the air I’d think it’s foolhardy for designers to believe all built environment must evoke older times.
Does that craft still exist? Must a craft exist forever? Can something evolve beyond its past state? Why is it that most people who drive fancy cars want to park them in a turn of the last century bungalow? Is there meaning in superficial ornamentation? How do you make a constructed statement that lasts beyond the current trend of whatchamacallit? Isn’t it irresponsible to construct obviously short lived imagery because it will be brought down by the next owners and eventually contribute to more environmental waste? Or to put in other words, are we any less Indian today than our ancestors?
What are you currently working on? What can we expect from Architecture Discipline in near future?
We’re making a school in Bihar. I’m excited about that since historically that was the intellectual centre of India. We’re also working on refurbishing one of the oldest hotels in the country, and on developing a whole new paradigm for large housing projects.There are also a few marque
five star hotel projects and our first few residences.
On a lighter note…
If Akshat Bhatt had an alter-ego, what would he currently be doing?
I do have an alter-ego and he’s a prog-rock guitar player. If I could find time I’d step into Nigel Tuffnel’s shoes (from the movie This is Spinal Tap)
Interview by Shweta Salvi
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Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Depression
By Athena Ives 2012
Millions of people around the world suffer from depression. There are many forms of treatment to include: All forms of psychotherapies, medication, and numerous others. There are nine symptoms for major depression: loss of weight when no dieting or change in appetite; feeling fatigued or lack of energy; insomnia or hypersomnia; behavior that is agitated or slowed down; reduced ability to think, concentrate, or make decisions; thoughts of worthlessness or extreme guilt almost daily; and frequent thoughts of death or suicide (American Psychiatric Association, 2002). The ICD-10 also adds a 10th symptom which is low self-esteem (World Health Organization, 2002).
The Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM) rates the seriousness of depression. Individuals displaying up to four symptoms are considered mild and can maintain their social and working activities. Those with moderate depression show signs of six symptoms or less and have great difficulty maintain levels of social and working activities. Last of all, individuals displaying seven or more symptoms have severe depression and their personal, social, and working functions are seriously restricted (American Psychiatric Association, 2002).
During the 1980’s lack of physical exercise was listed as being directly responsible for seven of the ten main causes of death. Due to this belief, extensive research was conducted on the link between physical exercise, physical disease, and psychological disorders (Cerda, 2011). Exercise, specifically aerobic activity, began to be considered as one therapeutic treatment to prevent and improve depression (Morilla, 2011). Aerobic exercise is defined as an exercise that is designed to increase oxygen consumption and improve functioning of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. It has been shown to reduce anxiety and mild to moderate depression in men and women of all ages (Cerda, 2011). Weinberg and Gould (1996) considered that physical exercise influenced psychological well-being by its engaging effect. They also believed that it was the perception of improvement through means of physical exercise distracting the individual from stressful events more than to the activity itself (Weinberg, 1996).
During Exercise the brain releases hormones related to pleasure, euphoria, happiness, and pain relief. This journal article formed the following hypothesis: There would be a significant difference in depression scores between a group of patients with moderate depression scores participating in an aerobic program as a complement to Fluoxetine (20mg) therapy and those only receiving Fluoxetine (20mg) therapy (Cerda, 2011).
To support this hypothesis, research was conducted on 82 participants. The participants were all women averaging 32.4 years of age, from the Jean y Marie Thierry Health Centre of Valparaiso, and were diagnosed with moderate depression. The independent variable would be the type of treatment and the levels would be Aerobic combined with Fluoxetine and Fluoxetine only. The dependent variable is the response rate of the women or how the women reacted to the aerobic exercise combined with Fluoxetine compared to the women only taking Fluoxetine. This is measured by difference in depression rating.
To make this diagnosis, the Beck Depression Inventory and the International Classification of Diseases-Depression (ICD-10) were used (Cerda, 2011). Total sum ranges from 0-63. The higher the total score, the higher the depressive symptoms. The Center for Cognitive Therapy set the BDI Scores as the following:0-9 minimal depression, 10-19 moderate, 20-29 moderate, 30-63 is severe. The Ministry of Health of Chile used the Diagnosis and Treatment Program of Depression based off of the ICD-10. This model takes into account the amount, type, and severity of the symptoms. The ICD-10 and the BDI, were both used to rate depression in this research.
They used a nonprobability sampling technique. The women were selected according to the following criteria: between ages 20-64, physically and mentally able to exercise, compatibility with physical exercise, receiving the (20mg) of Fluoxetine and no additional medication, and no previous history of substance abuse (Cerda, 2011). .
Those participants in the exercise group performed an aerobic training program to include cardiovascular exercise to increase heart and lung function. For 8 consecutive participants exercised on Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays for 45 minutes and progressed to 60 minutes. During each session the participant went through 3 stages. First, an initial warm up to ensure no injuries occurred. Second, they performed a central exercise of major difficulty and oriented to cardiovascular work. Last of all they would cool down. The central exercises performed during the second stage varied from low-impact aerobics, dancing, and walking (Cerda, 2011).
Each participant received pharmacotherapy taking (20mg) of Fluoxetine which is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. To compare these two groups, a mixed-model analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used (Cerda, 2011).
The exercise/Pharmacotherapy group had moderate depression levels prior to the test and the Pharmacotherapy group had a higher mean score. There were no signs of significant difference between the exercise/Pharmacotherapy group and the Pharmacotherapy group which ensures the homogeneity of the two groups (Beck, 1998).
Table 2 shows that those participating in the Pharmacotherapy/Exercise group decreased their moderate depression score to 58.5% on their BDI and 6.5% on their ICD-10. These patients went from being moderately depressed to minimally or no depression. However, Pharmacotherapy group members only decreased their BDI to 53.5% and their ICD-10 to 41.5%. These patients went from moderate to mild depression (Cerda, 2011).
To summarize the variance the main effect of group (F=18.58, p=.001; n=0.19) and time (F=461.91, p=.001, n=0.85; Table 2). The interaction of the two factors were significant (F=26.74, p<.001; n=0.25). The Tukey HSD post hoc test found in Table 3, indicated that the Pharmacotherapy/Exercise group scored significantly higher at posttest than at pretest (p<.001). Results found in Tables 1, 2, and 3 (Cerda, 2011).
Major Findings and Implications
This research was conducted to discover if an aerobic training program combined with pharmacotherapy had better results than a program solely on Fluoxetine. The results of this research demonstrated more improvement in lowering depression scores from the aerobic group. During the pretest all the participants in both groups scored in the moderate depression area.
Several factors may have led to these results. For some of the participants the exercise may
have been a leisure activity and a social event creating a positive affect amongst participants. Some participants felt better about themselves after working out which also contributed. Along with the social/environmental aspects, the release of hormones during exercise also may be a reason why the exercise group had lower levels of depression after the trial.
Problems with the Research
The demographic was very small and left out many factors. They did not cover male genders, different age groups, or social economic status. All of the women were from middle income families. The ability to socialize and get out of their homes may have attributed to the results. Would this research have shown the same results for women in a higher or lower economic status? This research may have been improved by selecting both male and female genders, a wider economic status selection, and different types of aerobic exercise.
Does this research support the hypothesis? There would be a significant difference in depression scores between a group of patients with moderate depression scores participating in an aerobic program as a complement to Fluoxetine (20mg) therapy and those only receiving Fluoxetine (20mg) therapy. The research has supported that this group of women showed greater improvement combining aerobic exercise and Fluoxetine than those that only took Fluoxetine. However, they should have specified the target group in the hypothesis. The research supported the statement, but it was a very weak support.
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Cerda, P. C. (2011). Effect of an Aerobic Training Program as Complementary Therapy in Patients with Moderate Depression. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 761-770.
Morilla, M. (2001, Noviembre 23). Beneficios psicologicos de la actividad fisica y el deporte. Educacion Fisica y Deportes. Revista Digital, pp. 7,43.
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According to a national survey that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducts every five years, the number of people who participate in hunting has been declining since the 1980s, even as the human population continues to rise. The same data show that of the approximately 11.5 million licensed hunters in the U.S., 90% are male and 97% are Caucasian.
There is a growing movement within the outdoor industry to diversify hunting so its participants more closely represent American demographics today.
Motivated by these disproportions, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), New York Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, Hunters of Color, DEC, and the National Deer Association came together to host a “Field to Fork” mentored hunting event for aspiring hunters from the Black, Indigenous and People of Color community in November 2021. The event was hosted on TNC’s Hannacroix Preserve, roughly 30 minutes outside Albany. Participants ranged in age from 34-62 and were given the opportunity to take a New York Hunter Education class, learn about deer biology and behavior, gain experience shooting, go on multiple hunts with an experienced mentor by their side, and enjoy the fellowship and camaraderie found in many New York deer camps each fall under a safe and welcoming environment.
“Without this event, I estimate that it would have taken me at least two years before I would be hunting on my own” said Avery Toledo, one of the participants. “When you are studying and reading, you have all these questions, but you don’t have someone to ask. I was able to ask those questions, get immediate feedback and not only that, after I leave here, we’re going to stay connected.”
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You can copy a peak list by going to Spectrum / Copy Peak List..., by dragging a peak list from the sidebar onto a spectrum in a SpectrumDisplay or by using the shortcut CL. In all cases a pop-up will open in which you can confirm the Source Peak List and the Target Spectrum. Note that the target spectrum can be the same spectrum to which the peak list already belongs. If you have dragged a peak list into a Spectrum Display containing several spectra, the first one will be selected as the target spectrum by default (you can't copy a peak list to multiple spectra in one go, unless you create a macro to do so).
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In their glistening icy habitat, the polar bear reflects an unearthly beauty. Their home rings the Arctic Circle and includes parts of Canada, Russia, the United States (in Alaska), Greenland, and Norway. As ice retreats, polar bears, or Ursus maritimus, have become synonymous with focusing our collective attention on climate change, but their ability to generate interest in ecotourism may be just as critical.
The Ongoing Loss of Sea-Ice Habitat
Sea-ice loss due to climate change remains the primary threat to the species. Every fall, bears gather and wait for the waters to freeze so they can venture out onto the ice to hunt for seals. If the extent and thickness of the sea-ice continues to decline at recently documented rates, the size of the polar bears’ hunting platform will be greatly reduced. As a consequence, killer whales could move into polar bear habitat, consuming the seals and replacing the bears as the new dominant marine mammal.
Regardless, the loss of solid sea-ice has led to uncomfortable incursions into human-inhabited areas as the bears seek alternative food sources, and this has created a credible threat to public safety. Conditions like this have convinced countries around the world that polar bears are in trouble. In fact, they’re considered threatened in the United States, of special concern in Canada, and vulnerable internationally.
Estimating Polar Bear Populations is Challenging
Generate an accurate count of how many animals are still in the wild is difficult. According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)—the global authority on the conservation status of wild animals and plants—current polar bear populations range from 22,000–31,000, with 60-80% of the bears residing in Canada. While many continue to lump all polar bears into a single-species group, in reality, the success or failure of a single subpopulation indicates little about the health of another one. Of the nineteen subpopulations that make up that worldwide estimate, the IUNC stresses that data on the number of bears, their health, or both, are lacking for at least ten of those populations.
Compounding the estimate issue is the fact that polar bear populations range across international boundaries and over hundreds of kilometers of forbidding ice and frigid open water. Polar bears can also dig into dens or camouflage themselves on snowfields, making it difficult to achieve accurate data collection.
In addition, mark-recapture studies in which bears are tranquilized are controversial. Drugging bears is dangerous for everyone involved, and indigenous people such as the Inuit object to such contact since drugging and physically handling bears stresses the animals and runs counter to their traditional beliefs.
The Bears are Successfully Connecting People to Nature
People are rightfully worried about the polar bear’s future. This can be seen in the current surge in tourism centered around the desire to witness these creatures in their native habitat and not as green, algae-covered novelties in a zoo. While human intrusion into any animal’s habitat is controversial, conscientious, respectful ecotourism can enlighten and inspire visitors.
But the ability for ecotourism to succeed doesn’t rest solely with the locals. The emphasis must be placed upon ourselves, the ecotraveler. It is incumbent on us when we plan our adventure to ensure that the tour or guides we select are dedicated to the values of conservation and responsible travel. This commitment means minimal impact on the delicate environments we have the privilege of visiting, while contributing to their protection.
No travel will have zero-impact on an environment, but ecotourism can have a positive effect. It helps local communities earn vital income and encourages residents to recognize the long-term advantages of polar bear conservation. But perhaps most important, seeing is believing. And once people see it, they return home understanding the necessity of safeguarding polar bears and their Arctic wilderness.
Churchill: The Polar Bear Tourism Capital of the World
Adaptive management in places like Churchill, Manitoba work to ensure that recreational activities don’t have a negative impact on polar bears and other Arctic wildlife.
While Churchill is known for two festivals—Le Festival du Voyageur (a large winter festival) and Folklorama (a food and cultural festival), it is now known as the Polar Bear Tourism Capital of the World. What helped Churchill earn this title, is its geography. The town’s western Hudson Bay location supports a rich marine ecosystem that promotes a healthy population of seals, the polar bears’ primary food.
The bears’ main feeding period ends in July, when the ice breaks up and the bears return to land areas to fast until the ice re-freezes in late fall. Churchill’s location, and its relatively shallow water, provides an ideal environment and one of the first places to experience a rapid freeze-over by late-November. If you are a polar bear, this is the place to be to wait for frozen water and your first meal in months!
These types of critical habitat areas provide the ultimate locations for human-wildlife interactions. And despite an average winter temperature of about five-degrees Fahrenheit during the three- to four-month tourist season, more than 12,000 converge on this town of fewer than 1,000 residents to see birds, beluga whales, and polar bears. Guests come for the polar bears, but they end up learning about the community, the indigenous culture, and the environmental issues affecting the region.
Be warned however: Churchill isn’t a budget-friendly destination. It’s not easy to get to, but if you want to check-off polar bear sightings from your bucket list, this is the place to do it. If you are thinking about planning your trek, you had better do it soon. Many of tours, especially those sponsored by international conservations agencies have an 18-month waiting list!
If you do go, here are some tour companies you may want to consider:
Natural Habitat Adventures
Because of their commitment to environmentally friendly travel, Natural Habitat Adventures has been the World Wildlife Fund’s exclusive conservation travel partner since 2003. They guarantee their small-group adventures will safely and comfortably get you closer to more polar bears than any other tour group.
Churchill Wild boasts four luxury eco-lodges, three of which are located deep in the heart of polar bear country on the Hudson Bay coast. They specialize in ground-level walking tours through the polar bear inhabited regions of Arctic Canada—you can walk with polar bears and have dinner with them, too!
Frontiers North Adventures
Frontiers North Adventures is a family business that has been operating in Canada’s North for three decades. All of their tours are responsibly designed to protect the fragile natural habitats and to benefit local communities while preserving and celebrating the customs and traditions of the places they visit.
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Mass migrations, or more specifically mass culture replacement, is one of the more troubling aspects of peak energy. Doubtlessly the perspective of witnessing one’s civilization slowly declining is nothing to be relished. It is not without its charms, however. Even though it has been largely dethroned by the instant apocalypse meme, the theme of decline was at the core of romanticism, the first modern revolt against the industrial world and its disenchanted conception of reality. It infuses, for instance, the work of Tolkien. Indeed, The Lord of the Rings can be read as a long elegy upon the passing of the old glories. It has always been a minority taste and I suspect the rise of apocalyptic thinking has made it more so, but it has always been present and it is likely that a significant part of those, who care about Peak Oil share it. I surely do.
Envisioning the complete erasure of one’s culture is another thing altogether. As social primates with a regrettable tendency to die before our hundredth birthday, we often take some kind of collective as a projection of our self toward eternity. The two most likely candidates for this role are of course culture / nation and family. We are aware that both can be changed beyond recognition by the advent of peak energy, but as long as they survive, even if nobody remembers us, the trace of our contribution to the history of humanity lingers on.
We know that culture replacement happens, and this knowledge has fed apocalyptic fears of the Camps des Saints variety, especially but not only in the far right. Most of the time, they are the consequence of a rise in societal complexity, whether it manifest through naked imperialism or through the growth of trade networks. Periods of decreasing societal complexity, however, often result in cultural fragmentation, with previously well integrated areas developing their own autonomous culture and identity, and the replacement of Roman political authority by Germanic warlords during the fifth century did not result in local versions of Latin dying out.
In fact, it was the invaders’ languages and cultures, which disappeared, sometimes very early. Gothic, Burgondian and Old Frankish are all dead languages, while the inhabitants of what used to be their kingdoms speak some form of (admittedly evolved) Latin. It is easy to see why. The invaders did not move into a vacuum. Even though the Empire was collapsing, at the provincial and local level, Roman institutions, and notably the Church, retained a lot of strength. Even those barbarians which were not Catholic (the Goths, Vandals and Sueves, who followed a different brand of Christianity) were forced to fit within post-Roman society to control it (and harvesting its not inconsiderable wealth). This doomed their cultures and languages to extinction. Even the Franks, whose empire included Germanic speaking populations, ultimately merged with their Romance speaking subjects in what was to become France, probably during the ninth century.
The main exception, of course, was Britain. There, the invaders (who were not really invaders as they had been hired) found not a still functional post-Roman society but a collection of tribal states ruled by warlords. Roman institutions, including the Church, were weak and the tribal conflicts frozen by the Roman occupation had flared up again, leading to endemic warfare.
Of those wars we know little but the hill-forts and the defensive dykes, which dot the West country and testify of their violence. This was the perfect environment for upwardly mobile warlords and for foreign mercenaries, who, from the point of view of said warlords, had the not so negligible advantage of not caring about local politics – well, at least in theory.
A few mercenaries became warlords themselves, setting up petty kingdoms – Hengist, for instance. Others remained loyal to whatever polity they served – it seems this was the case of Aella, who according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle never assumed the title of king. Ethnicity appears to have been pretty irrelevant to the politics of the time, however. It was mostly a matter of tribal post-Roman polities fighting each other over old grudges and of powerful individual using the chaos to become “kings by their own hands”.
Not all of them were immigrants, by the way, and the early history of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms is replete with Welsh Kings. This was the case of Wessex, the Kingdom which would later unify England (Cerdic, Cynric, Ceawlin, Ceadwalla) and of Mercia (Pybba, Penda, Peada). On the other hands, Irish and Germanic warlords ruled what would later become Celtic kingdoms. Stuart Laycock once suggested that the legendary Arthur was in fact a Germanic mercenary called Earðhere, son of another Germanic mercenary named Uthere. Se non è vero è bene trovato, as they say in Italian.
More interesting is the case of Tewdrig ap Teithfallt. Tewdrig, whose story is related in the Book of Llandaff, was king of Glywysing, a petty kingdom in South Wales during the sixth century. He had abdicated in favour of his son Meurig and retired to live a hermitical life, but came back to fight Saxon invaders. He was victorious but died a short while after from his wound.
Curiously for a Welsh saint, he had a fully Germanic name: Theodoric. So did his father, Theodebald. Some people suggested he was a Goth, the leader of a Visigoth fleet stranded in Britain after the fall of the Kingdom of Tolouse in 507. Nothing proves it, or disproves it for that matter. The only thing we can say for sure is that he was some kind of Germanic warlord, who had set himself up as the petty king of the Cardiff region.
Yet the area was not germanized – no more than the neighboring Dyfed and Brycheinog were gaelicized despite having been founded by Irish warlords. The kingdom of Glywysing endured until the Norman conquest.
The reason for that was probably that Wales had only superficially romanized and was still a closely knit tribal society in which any warlord had to fit if he wanted to last. In the more romanized East, however, the eroded tribal solidarity and the localized nature of the warlord’s power meant that a culture shift could happen in a mere couple of generations. There simply was no strong institution the native culture could anchor itself on. Besides, the Saxons were mercenaries, often of mixed tribal origins, which means they were quite welcoming to any native boy able and willing to wield a sword., provided he accepted the values of the band. That is probably what Cerdic and his likely numerous imitators did.
Immigrants, even armed, powerful immigrants, are not conquering armies. They are rather destructured groups of families and individual trying to better their lot. In a healthy society, that means fitting in socially and culturally. Of course, some amount of culture loyalty has to be expected in the first or even the second generation, but on the long run, assimilation is the norm. Tewdrig ap Teithfallt is, of course, a case in point.
In a collapsing society, however, the best way to rise in ranks is to use one’s community of family relationship as a leverage. This is what the barbarian leaders of the fifth century, Ricimer for instance, did. They tried to use their position in tribal societies to get changes within the imperial power structure. Of course, in such a situation, playing down one’s ethnic or tribal ties is counterproductive.
What that means for us, fifteen centuries after the fall of the Western Empire, is that culture shift is less dependent upon the number of immigrants than upon the health of our society. Mass migrations are pretty much unavoidable during the long descent which will follow peak energy. As the USA and its vassals lose the power to prop them up, the African and Middle-Eastern governments dependent on them will collapse, or at the very least lose the control of a great part of their territory. At the same time European countries will be less and less able to stop the flow of refugees from the south.
The goal of those immigrants will not be to create some kind of Islamic Republic, but to better their lot. Of course, this will become more and more difficult as the economy contracts and the way to power and wealth becomes narrower and narrower for those not born in them. It will result in immigrants choosing unpopular careers (which, in France, includes the military) and in sharpened competition between natives and immigrants (and their children) for low-paying jobs.
Naturally, this will feed extremism on both sides, weakening the very fabric of the society. In fact it already does: we have had riots near Paris after the police checked a veiled woman, probably in not so gentle a way. Needless to say, our elites’ behavior, combining contempt for the lower class’ concerns, self-righteous promotion of mostly irrelevant societal issues, and ambivalent attitudes toward the immigrants’ religiosity, doesn’t help.
We may have Islamic (if not downright Islamist) warlords somewhere down the road. We may also have anti-muslim pogroms or quasi-apartheid policy. We may even have both, depending from the time or the area, and both would be equally disastrous from the point of view of cultural continuity.
Opening wide the gates of immigration in this age of decline is pretty stupid – it makes the upper-middle classes feel good and lowers wages, which explains why the idea is so popular among societal leftists and laissez-faire right-wingers are so fond of this idea. Now, if you want to preserve some kind of cultural continuity – and it certainly is a worthy goal – you should make it easier for immigrants and their descendants to fit within your community. Their chances of being ultimately absorbed will be greatly improved and the skills they’ll bring will certainly help. Tewdrig’s certainly did.
So next time you see an immigrant of North-African descent in a European street, remember King Tewdrig… sorry, King Þeodoreiks Þeobaldsunus, in the hills of Glamorgan, defending, sword in hand, his Welsh fellow countrymen against the Saxon hordes.
And while you are at it remember that the leader of those Saxon hordes may very well have been a native.
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A: It really depends on whether you鈥檙e trying to encourage a new plant to grow, or whether you鈥檙e trying to coax flowers out of an already-established plant. If it鈥檚 to spur growth, a balanced to slightly-higher nitrogen fertilizer will give the plant everything it needs to promote lush green growth.
How to grow Jasmin in compost?
1 Homemade Compost Well-decomposed compost can impart all the nutrients to the Jasmin plant soil. Hence, topdressing the soil with this mulch churns out the better results. … 2 Homemade Compost Tea For brewing the compost tea, take a 4-5 liter bucket, and add one shovelful of the compost in it. … 3 Coffee Ground
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According to Posiva's president and chief executive Janne Mokka, the event is an “important step” in the long preparatory phase for the final disposal facility.
“This demonstrates that we are proceeding in accordance with the plan defined already in the 1980s”, Mr Mokka said.
“The laying of the foundation stone is perhaps a small step in terms of worksite progress, but a giant leap for final disposal, nuclear power and climate”, he said.
The cost of building the encapsulation plant onsite and the excavation and equipment of two final disposal tunnels is estimated at about €500m.
The encapsulation plant is where spent nuclear fuel is received, dried and packed into final disposal canisters
In November 2015 Posiva was granted a licence by the government for the construction of the facilities at Olkiluoto. Actual construction work began in June 2019.
Posiva is responsible for the final disposal of used nuclear fuel generated by Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) at its nuclear station in Olkiluoto and Fortum at its nuclear station in Loviisa. TVO owns 60% of Posiva and Fortum owns 40%.
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Understand how prompt payment laws protect you -- and how to get the most out of the laws.
When several states began creating prompt pay legislation in the late 1990s to curb systemic payment problems and questionable practices of payers, physicians breathed a collective sigh of relief. At last, they thought, someone is paying attention.
Placing the issue on legislators' radar screens and crafting bills to stem payer abuses have had a beneficial impact, but the resulting statutes are so riddled with loopholes that the net effect has hardly been a total fix. And many physicians either aren't aware of their rights under the laws or are uncertain how to access the statute to get overdue money in the door. Furthermore, in some states, payer contracts supersede the prompt pay laws, so physicians may not benefit from some of their provisions.
Still, there is good news in some quarters and hope on the horizon. Forty-seven states now have some form of prompt pay law and more than a dozen have proceeded to "version two" to close loopholes and give the laws -- and the agencies charged with enforcing them -- more teeth.
The trends are promising, but the loopholes -- notably the widely varying or altogether absent definitions of what constitutes a "clean claim" -- are thwarting the statutes' intended purpose of dealing with the problem. Twelve states have attempted to resolve the definition dilemma, but it remains a serious roadblock to enforcement.
"That's one of the areas we're still concerned about," says Timothy Flaherty, MD, chairman of the AMA board of trustees.
"In many states with laws on the books, [the statutes] have been unenforceable because of problems with that definition." In addition, most prompt pay laws exempt self-insured ERISA plans, and Medicare+Choice and Medicaid managed-care plans are governed by federal laws regulating payer practices, so prompt pay laws don't necessarily apply.
Still, Flaherty is optimistic that the tide is beginning to turn. The laws, and the AMA's work at the state and national level, have exposed the problem of delayed or withheld payments and given physicians an avenue for redress. "This has put the spotlight on the situation, and now that insurance commissioners are imposing significant fines, things are changing. Rather than ... playing banker with us, insurers are [incurring] fines," Flaherty says. Most of the current laws require payment within 30 to 60 days, depending on the situation and claim status. Interest rates on late balances run from 10 percent to 18 percent annually.
Monitor your payments
To benefit from the "full force" of law, it's important to first understand what it does -- and doesn't do. "The first thing physicians should do is get a copy of the [regulations] and make sure they understand them," says Kathy Cartwright, a consultant with HCDS Consultants in Houston, who works with physician practices on practice management and contracting issues.
Knowing whether a payer is in violation of the law also means having a good handle on the practice's finances and contracts, Cartwright says. Too often, physicians don't have systems in place that monitor payments from and incorporate the contracted rates.
"With many practices, this is a hit-or-miss situation, and if you don't know what you're supposed to get paid -- whether it's 120 percent of Medicare or X-percent of billed charges -- a prompt pay law isn't going to help much," she says. But practices with good systems are reaping the benefits. In Texas, where payers incur a $1,000 fine and pay full-billed charges if they don't pay claims within 45 days, hospitals and practices using effective monitoring systems are seeing their bottom lines boosted.
"Some providers and hospitals have systems that auto-generate a letter on the 46th day -- to both the payer and the state," Cartwright says. "That's a powerful way to use the law."
The Ohio State Medical Association (OSMA) plans to offer its members a way to take the automatic monitoring of claims to a higher level. "When we surveyed our members, their number one challenge was claims management," says Mark Jarvis, managing director of OSMA Advantage, the medical association's business arm. So next year, OSMA will introduce a custom-developed application service provider that not only tracks late claims but also generates letters to payers and the state, and calculates the interest due on late claims.
Payers taking notice
But physicians can't simply expect that because the law exists their payment problems will go away. The best way physicians can take advantage of the law is to get their own houses in order first, says Reece Hirsch, a healthcare attorney with Davis Wright Tremaine in San Francisco.
"Inevitably, these laws will move HMOs and other payers away from the practices [that result in payment delays]. But as a practical matter, that will happen only if the laws are enforced and if physicians take responsibility for pushing that forward," Hirsch says. That means working with professional organizations on collective efforts, ensuring that claims have been properly filed, and filing complaints formally.
States that have implemented a formal complaint process -- using either the AMA's template or their own version -- have seen compelling results. In New York, for example, the Department of Insurance received 63,500 complaints in the first two years after the state's prompt pay law was enacted, and levied fines accordingly.
In Oregon, a joint AMA-Oregon Medical Association (OMA) initiative has produced results as well. Jim Kronenberg, OMA's associate executive director, says that since the organization began vetting and then funneling complaints to the insurance department, payers have taken notice. "We're receiving a lot of calls from insurance companies asking, 'Have you received any complaints against us?' It's at least having a salutary effect," Kronenberg says.
States as enforcers
Oregon's prompt pay law is one of several that don't specify a structure for fines. For that reason, the OMA's 6,500 members devised a way to get regulators' attention. After conducting a survey of physicians regarding payers' practices, the OMA backed up its findings by conducting a follow-up project in which several hundred physicians tracked every single claim from the time it was filed until it was paid -- or not paid. "That's a big task, when you're talking about big clinics that generate 3,000 to 4,000 claims a day," Kronenberg says. But the substantial documentation of process has spurred the insurance department into action. "The 'opposition' couldn't complain that [the findings were] self-reported," he adds.
In Texas, a revision to the 1999 prompt pay law was vetoed last summer by Gov. Rick Perry. The setback prompted the Texas Medical Association (TMA) to use other means to address the problem of the clean claim definition. In addition to providing the state with evidence of the scope of the problem -- a recent survey found that 15,000 Texas practices had accounts receivable beyond 45 days totaling more than $60,000, for a total estimated $90 million in overdue payments -- the TMA pushed the insurance commissioner to institute a clean claims work group. But the most effective initiative has been the TMA's Hassle Factor dispute resolution program. TMA representatives compile complaints and meet with payers on a regular basis to discuss member physicians' grievances and push for resolution. "This has probably been the most effective thing we've done," says Rick Johnson, TMA's director of medical economics.
In New Mexico and Georgia, medical associations have worked with insurance departments to institute claims tracking systems and have warned HMOs that the prompt pay laws will be aggressively enforced. The highly public approach is working. Georgia has aggressively fined violators, and New Mexico's claims-tracking effort has been so effective that physicians are now receiving payments for claims they'd long since given up on, says AMA's Flaherty. "The New Mexico Medical Association's use of this [tracking] system has produced enough publicity," he says, that payers began making good on old claims just to avoid being in the spotlight. "No one wants to be the worst one on the list."
Bonnie Darves can be reached at email@example.com.
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2002 issue of Physicians Practice.
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Calling all Moms, Nurses, Health Advocates & Students Interested in Public Health & Environmental Justice
For nearly 3 decades—up until 2016—Newburgh was exposed to toxic PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in their drinking water. "These "forever" chemicals—found in the firefighting foams used by Stewart Air National Guard and Stewart Airport that poisoned our watershed and community—are linked to cancers, thyroid disease, immune deficiencies, as well pregnancy and child development issues. You can read more about the health experiences of Newburgh residents in Tow Journalism Fellow, Shantal Riley's article in Vice Magazine, "The New York Water Crisis That Nobody's Talking About". While we currently get clean drinking water from NYC's Catskill Aqueduct, this source is temporary and not guaranteed. Meanwhile, the city is working to replace old lead services pipes in historic (pre-1940s) buildings where families may have been exposed.
For our September Water Session, we want to hear from you - your concerns, questions and health stories. We're bringing together Dr. Erin Bell of SUNY Albany School of Public Health, (co-lead on the Newburgh & Hoosick Falls PFAS Health Study), health advocates, nurses, mothers, and students to learn more about how PFAS can affect us—particularly our children, how to prevent further exposure, and to share local health resources while we fight for comprehensive care and cleanup.
We'll discuss the formation of a Community Advisory Panel to advise the PFAS health study, mentoring and job opportunities for high school and community college students interested in public health, and how we can work together for universal health coverage for all New Yorkers. And, back by popular demand, Reverend Lewis of Calvary Presbyterian Church will open the evening with song. Don't miss this great opportunity to build our collective power and demand clean water and health care for all.
Rev. Lewis is Pastor & Teaching Elder. He holds a Master of Divinity Degree and is a Certified Supervisor and Diplomate in the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy (CPSP) He teaches clergy and others in the art and skill of pastoral care and counseling. Rev. Lewis is also cofounder of the Forgiveness & Reconciliation Project and Mustard Seed Woodworks LLC. He and his community continually open up the Calvary Church to many organizations and guests - whether they are parishioners or not. Learn More
Erin is a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences. Her research interests include examining the association of environmental exposures and adverse birth and child health outcomes, including neurodevelopment. She is particularly interested in the relationship between social factors and environmental exposures and their combined impact on child development. Dr. Bell is co-lead of the ATSDR-funded PFAS Health Study in Newburgh & Hoosick Falls, along with Dr. Elizabeth Lewis-Michl, Director of NYS Dept. of Health's Division of Environmental Health Assessment.
If you are interested in being part of the PFAS Health Study's Community Advisory Panel or have any questions about the study, please contact Erin Bell at: email@example.com. If you are a high school or community college student who is interested in helping with the PFAS Health Study, please contact: Maria Galluzzo to discuss mentoring and job opportunities at: firstname.lastname@example.org. Learn More
Darcel is the former Health Chair of the Newburgh -Highland Falls NAACP, a Reiki practitioner, intuitive life coach and doula. She has transformed her own health through her holistic practice and vegan diet. An author, dancer and spoken word artist, Darcel's work has been featured at the Fourth National Black Writer's Conference and in publications including Essence, Mosaic and Rolling Out Magazines. She has danced on internationally renowned stages such as Harlem's Apollo Theater, and can be heard on "For Women", on the hip hop artist, Talib Kweli's Reflection Eternal CD. Darcel has also performed at numerous colleges, high schools, The Long Island National Urban League and at popular events such as "Liquid Language" at Barnes and Nobles and "Ladies on the Mic" at The Bowery Poetry Club. Darcel has been a featured author at The Harlem Book Fair, Word Canvas (Lit Noire Publishing Events) and Verses at The Nuyorican Poets' Café and has made a number of radio and television appearances. Learn More
Newburgh residents & dedicated community activists, Cynthia Gilkeson and Micha Miranda, co-founded Newburgh Matters this summer in the wake of brutal police killings of black and brown people across the nation. They are committed to addressing local issues of policing, poverty and affordable housing. Together with Caryn Sobel, founder of No Hate Here Newburgh, they host monthly Community Circles to listen, share resources, discuss City policies, and organize to advance equitable legislation. Cynthia is also a frontline health care aid, working with Seniors and Micha is a business owner, talented tattoo artist and the co-organizer of Newburgh’s peaceful protests in honor of Black Lives. Learn More
Wayne has been working for the City of Newburgh Water Department for 20 years. He is currently the Water Superintendent overseeing 19 employees, a 8.8 MGD purification plant, a distribution system for 30,000 residents and a 5 million dollar budget. Among other initiatives, he is currently working to secure sufficient funding to replace all the remaining lead services pipes in the City and conducting free lead and copper testing programs for residents who live in historic buildings (built prior to 1940) who may be at risk.
If you are interested in having your water tested or applying for the lead line replacement program, call the Water Department: (845) 565-3356. If you live outside the City and would like your well water tested, please contact the NYS Department of Health at (518) 402-7882 or email@example.com Learn More
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The United Nations has operated in Zimbabwe since 1980 at the invitation of the Government of Zimbabwe. The UN in Zimbabwe works to support the Government of Zimbabwe in strengthening national capacities and resiliency to achieve inclusive economic growth and sustainable development.
Led by the UN Resident Coordinator, United Nations Country Team (UNCT) is the highest-level inter-agency coordination and decision-making body in Zimbabwe.The UN in Zimbabwe comprises 25 entities which are signatory to the 2016-2021 Zimbabwe United Nations Development Assistance Framework (ZUNDAF).
The ZUNDAF is the cornerstone of the UN system’s strategic programme framework to support the national development priorities and facilitate the achievement of the SDGs including promoting partnerships, human rights, and transforming lives.
Food and nutrition security key priority areas for the Government of Zimbabwe to achieve zero hunger (SDG2).The United Nations in Zimbabwe support targets households in rural and urban areas to have improved food and nutrition security and supports communities to cope with climate change and build resilience.
Gender Equality Zimbabwe’s 2013 Constitution provides a strong legal framework for the promotion and attainment of gender equality and women’s empowerment. The UN support aims to address gender inequalities through ending violence against women and girls, women’s participation in decision making, and women’s economic empowerment, and mainstreaming gender in all other priority areas
Fast-tracking efforts to end the AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe is possible by working together. The UN works to foster innovation, secure sustainable financing, strengthen health systems and communities, as well as ensure commodity security, promote human rights and gender equality, and ensure access to HIV prevention and treatment services.
Towards ending poverty and support value addition, the UN provides support to key institutions to formulate and implement socio-economic policies, strategies and programmes for improved livelihoods. In addition, the UN supports for an increased access to income and decent work opportunities in key value chains and economic sectors, particularly for young people and women.
In pursuit of a new trajectory of accelerated and inclusive economic recovery, growth and wealth creation, the UN in Zimbabwe supports key public sector institutions mobilize, manage and account for resources effectively for quality service delivery. Increased citizen participation in democratic processes in line with the provisions of the Constitution and relevant international norms and standards. The UN also supports Government and its partners generate and utilize data for development.
The UN supports Zimbabwe’s priority to ensure increased access to and utilisation of quality basic social services, supporting key institutions provide quality and equitable basic social services, and provision of improved access to and utilisation of social protection services to households living below the food poverty line.
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Russian Railways (RZD) and state-owned gas monopolist Gazprom could take on building what has been dubbed “the most ambitious railway project ever,” a train line that cuts through the icy northern territories to Arctic port of Sabetta, Vedomosti daily reported on October 29 citing unnamed federal officials.
As the share of the Arctic in Russian GDP reaches 10%, the government is considering re-launching Russia's most northern railway project that will cost almost $2bn, with the help of Gazprom and RZD. Negotiations are also being held with second-largest gas producer Novatek.
Currently the Sabetta railway project is not included in the federal infrastructure investment plan and the issue of receiving federal funding is key, sources in the Ministry of Transportation told the daily.
The railways would help deliveries to extraction projects in the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas, which will see RUB7 trillion of investment by 2035, as well as to facilitate loading the Northern Sea Route. The cost of the railway is estimate at about RUB115bn ($1.75bn) at 8mn-10mn tonnes annual throughput capacity.
Gazprom previously participated in the construction of Obskaya-Bovanenkovo-Karskaya railway in the Arctic, but its plans to sell the RUB130bn project to RZD failed, Vedomosti reminds. Analysts surveyed by the daily estimate that Gazprom loses RUB5.8bn annually on amortisation and operational costs of the railway alone.
Under the new plan, previously constructed Arctic railway would be bought out from Gazprom by the private-state partnership to build its continuation to Sabetta. Gazprom could thus benefit both from disposing of a loss making asset, and from gaining access to Northern Sea Route.
At the same time Novatek should be less interested in the deal. The company already operates from Sabetta and ships liquefied gas from its Yamal LNG plant in sea tankers, and has no need in additional railway transportation channel. "The company would have to finance a RUB100bn railway to be used by Gazprom to deliver construction materials to Yamal and its LNG to Sabetta," sources said.
However, Novatek's rapid LNG expansion "would not be possible from state support," Fitch Ratings analyst Dmitri Marinchenko reminded Vedomosti, noting that it could be difficult for the company to avoid participating in a strategic federal project.
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The Galata Tower expresses itself differently with its new lighting. The tower which has been built in the 5th century by the Byzantines served as a defence tower to the Galata walls in the 13th century during which its name got changed to the Tower of Christ by the Genoese. The Ottomans continiously restored the tower which turned it into one of the main city symbols nowadays.
This tower which has been the main icon on many municipal, corporate and cultural event logos, has always been one of the main attractions for visitors that stands as a symbol for the culture and life of the city with both its ruling location and its 360 degrees of view of the city from its terrace.
Nergiz Arifoğlu Lightstyle Architectural Lighting Design office has created the new lighting design of this valuable building which is under the control of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and the Istanbul Energy Co. The new design has been rapidly implemented after a long process of planning, testing and approval.
During the study of the lighting for the Galata Tower many different aspects have been considered; such as how this historical building has to be lightened from different points of view of the city, mounting principles without harming the artefact, from where the energy should be obtained, feasabilities, aesthetics, economy and the criteria for new technological investments. Along all these criteria it was also set as a target that this building should serve as a role model for a future Lighting Master Plan of Istanbul.
The main objective of the lighting design plan for the tower was that it would present an impressive and pleasant image that would emphasise the architectural texture, form and features which carries traces from the past, which would be symbolic and substantially permanent and inline with the urban identity of the city. Briefly befitting the city with all its aspects.
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“How To Be A World Explorer?”
This is a course I am currently taking in NTU. Kind of fun, and I enjoyed it a lot. It educates on something called your Cultural Intelligence Quotient, otherwise known as CQ. It’s like another quotient we need to build on, other than just IQ and EQ. From Wikipedia, Cultural Intelligence is defined as
“a theory within management and organisational psychology, positing that understanding the impact of an individual’s cultural background on their behaviour is essential for effective business, and measuring an individual’s ability to engage successfully in any environment or social setting.”
In simple terms, it means someone with high CQ knows how to interact with people from different culture and cultural values, able to read cultural cues given in verbal or non-verbal form. A person with high CQ will also know how to avoid unnecessary conflict due to cultural differences.
So for my course, I learn about the different cultural values one has, like Uncertainty Avoidance, Masculinity, Long Term Orientation and Power Distance, and also about difference in Motivation, Team Building, Negotiation styles across cultures. Taking this course also allows me to learn more about my own cultural values, and reveal the truth why I always clash with certain kind of people, and why I always click so well with certain people too!
This course is also my favorite course in NTU so far. So much more exciting than any other thing in school. My cultural class is also composed of students from 6 different nationalities – Singapore, Scotland, Finnish, Japanese, Myanmar and Taiwan, this then allows us to work with people from diverse culture!
Putting my CQ to Test!
Part of the course assignment is to shoot a film to depict the difference in culture and negotiation styles between India and Canada. We have a Finnish in our group. An awesome exchange student from Finland. He is my first ever Finnish friend, and its fun working with him. Check out our film below.
Putting my CQ to Real Test!
I thought that we did quite well for the film above, and hopefully we can score quite well. That would test how much we have increased in our CQ before and after the course. However, that’s not all about putting my CQ to test. Now, I’m going to put my CQ to REAL TEST!
Just a month ago, I received a call from National Youth Council and was elated to learn that I was selected as a representative for 2011 China-ASEAN Youth Camp, in China from 3 Nov to 10 Nov. The background of the camp is as follows:
In order to celebrate the China-ASEAN Friendly Exchange Year at the 20th anniversary of the China-ASEAN dialogue relations, and to further implement Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s proposal at the 11th China-ASEAN Leaders Meeting concerning China will continue to invite ASEAN youth to visit China to participate in exchange and dialogue programs including China-ASEAN Youth Camp, Summer Camp, Young Entrepreneurs Forum, etc., the All-China Youth Federation would like to invite 100 ASEAN youth to visit China and participate in exchange programs in November, 2011.
So I will be traveling to China this Thursday, 3 Nov, and will be visiting Beijing, Nanjing and Tianjing in this 7-day trip, along with meeting China and other ASEAN youth representatives too. While this event allows me to make friends with people from different ASEAN countries, it also allows me to put my cultural knowledge to real test!
Real, as in applying what I have learned in my “How To Be A World Explorer” NTU course!
I will learn if any stereotype of Chinese or other cultures I know about are true.
I will be tested on how to communicate verbally and non-verbally with people from other cultures.
I have to check my gestures, if they are offensive to any culture.
Most importantly, I have to know how to resolve any conflict/difference if any happens.
I’m sure this would be a true experience for me to test if my CQ did increase, other than just the academic test which I will take once I return from the trip. I will definitely blog about interesting stories or any cultural ‘bloopers’ that I encounter and share it with everybody here. Probably I can share them with my cultural class too!
I’m so looking forward to this test this coming Thursday.
I’ll be back again here with all my stories! Ciao!
*btw, no Facebook in China, so you might not see me online for 1 week.
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Until recently, Gmail didn’t have the option to set the basic HTML version as the default interface and you had to bookmark its URL or click on the link from Gmail’s footer. Now there’s an option to always go to the HTML version, every time you load Gmail.
Please keep in mind that the simplified version lacks many useful features:
* integration with Google Docs and Google Calendar
* keyboard shortcuts
* integrated chat
* composing options: spell checker, rich formatting, address auto-complete, custom From address
* ads (useful feature?), related pages, tracking packages and addresses
* contact management
* web clips.
Google recommends to use the basic HTML view for slow Internet connections, although you may find it useful when you use exotic browsers or when the standard version doesn’t work. If you change your mind and you want to go back to the AJAX version, click on “Standard View”. Apparently, the standard view loads much faster thanks to some aggressive optimization.
Main Article: Set Basic HTML as Default Gmail View
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Career Outlook for Agricultural and Food Science Technicians
The overall job outlook for Agricultural or Food Science Technician careers has been positive since 2012. Vacancies for this career have increased by 140.28 percent nationwide in that time, with an average growth of 17.54 percent per year. Demand for Agricultural and Food Science Technicians is expected to go down, with an expected -18,800 jobs shed by 2029. This represents an annual decrease of 4.76 percent over the next few years. Join our career community today!
There are currently more Agricultural and Food Science Technicians in the following states
The states below have the least number of filled positions for Agricultural and Food Science Technicians
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