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Department of Health secretary Glenys Beauchamp has returned from leave just days into her retirement.
Health Minister Greg Hunt said his outgoing secretary had offered to postpone her retirement while her successor — chief medical officer Brendan Murphy — handles Australia’s response to the coronavirus.
The World Health Organisation today declared the virus a global emergency.
Last weekend, Beauchamp said she “should be back on deck” and offered to return to her role, despite only going on leave on January 24, according to Hunt.
“The secretary Glenys Beauchamp pre-empted us before anyone else got to the question of it on Australia Day, when we spoke,” he said.
“She’s been tremendous.”
Murphy said he would be focused “entirely” on the coronavirus for now, and would not be moving immediately into his new role.
“We will assess the situation on a regular basis and I’ll consult with the minister about what the appropriate time is,” he said.
Beauchamp’s official retirement was scheduled for February 28.
The CSIRO today announced it would start researching the virus using a sample from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity — the first organisation outside of China to re-create the virus in a lab. The sample will be taken to the CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, where scientists will work to understand the virus.
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First, the bird (and an apology for the poor picture quality — it was shot through glass).
I was working in the kitchen when I heard the “Whomp!” of a bird hitting the window. Unfortunately, this happens now and then, even where we put fake hawk stickers. I didn’t think too much about it until I glanced out a few minutes later to see this Tufted Titmouse still sitting on our deck looking bemused.
But, as I watched her/him, another Titmouse came up beside and started gently pecking and hovering above the first one as if encouraging it to get up and fly.
The first Titmouse merely sat back up, and blinked.
The second one flew away, and I thought that was the end of it.
However, a few minutes later, several Titmice — yes, that’s the correct plural — appeared. Two hung back and watched as one performed the same ritual: gentle peck, flutter above, push.
The crashed Titmouse’s response was modest, at best.
Once more, the “helper birds” flew away.
But one returned again, clearly determined to get her/his flockmate moving.
S/he shoved the first bird over, pecking, pushing, and fluttering around until finally, finally, they both flew off together.
It was amazing.
It was also quite smart because we have hawks who hunt on our property, occasionally even perching on our deck, probably for a better view of our bird feeders.
And now, some more good news.
Yes, this is a dandelion, and yes, I saw it Saturday when The Engineer and I went for a hike/walk.
I realize this may not be good news if you are the type of person to nurture an immaculate lawn. Still, that type of lawn requires herbicides, which aren’t good for bees, and if you’re someone who thinks a green lawn is more important than pollination, you’re probably reading the wrong blog anyway.
Suffice to say, dandelions are a major source of food for bees in the spring, so it’s good news for them.
In other bee news, the weekend was warm enough for us to treat the hives with oxalic acid vapor to kill any mites that might be on the bees.
We also scraped the dead bees from the bottom of the hives.
Below, you see two photos made into one, the top of FreeBees with the bees out exploring, and their dead sisters (along with a few brothers) in the picture beneath.
It looks like lot of dead bees, but that’s to be expected. In warmer weather, the dead are less noticeable because they don’t all die inside. If they do, the other bees push them out the front (and occasionally pick them up and fly off to dump the carcasses elsewhere).
The Engineer pored through all the dead bodies and didn’t find any queens. In March 2018, this is how we learned we’d lost the queen of our only hive, so we’re always relieved when she’s not among the dead.
All three hives were active, with bees zooming in and out on cleansing flights. If you aren’t sure what “cleansing flight” means, feel free to check out my post on bee poop. The picture below is a pretty clear illustration of what it looks like.
And although beekeepers lose more hives in March than the winter, it’s still a relief to see them out flying in February.
In the early spring, bees sometimes run out of the food they stored for winter. We’re paranoid about this and feed them sugar patties. These are made from a four pound bag of sugar, about 6 oz of water, and some Honey-B-Healthy. The mixture is shaped into patties on parchment paper and left to dry.
The essential oils in Honey-B-Healthy are said to stimulate feeding. As a bonus, when I make a batch of bee food, the house smells wonderful for days!
The next time it hits 50 F, we’ll place the patties directly on top of the frames and pray it stays warm enough for the bees to reach the food.
In fact, I think it helped last spring when Buzzers’ Roost’s bees had a touch (spurt?) of diarrhea. This is a scary symptom because it could indicate Nosema (which is truly awful). But, we’re learning. Before panicking, we cleaned out the fouled sugar pats and fed them probiotics. By the next hive check, the problem was gone.
As the weather warms, you’ll probably hear from me more often, but for now, I’d like to encourage you to consider voting for Queen Right Colonies in the FedEx Small Business Grant contest. Queen Right could win a $50,000 grant, and you can help by voting for them. Click on the link, and type “Queen Right” into the search box. You don’t even have to register. Just provide a name and email.
The folks at Queen Right been an invaluable help in our beekeeping adventures, and it would be great to see them get some love (or at least some cash).
Thanks for visiting!
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Carondelet is more than high school. It’s her school. Our philosophy and approach empowers each girl to find her voice and to speak out and advocate for herself and others. At the heart of our sisterhood is our Catholic tradition, rooted in the mission of our founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph. We create an inclusive environment that embraces all students, welcomes diversity, ensures equity, and values social justice, empathy, service, gratitude, and spirituality. At Carondelet, leaders are formed, character is built, and lifelong relationships are cultivated. We work to make connections throughout academic disciplines, and help our students see the relevance of their classwork in their own lives. Collaboration and real-world problem solving are key elements that lead to independence, confidence, and a love for learning that lets our students explore their own passions.
STUDENTS PER GRADE
STUDENTS COME FROM
WHO WE ARE
• Asian/Pacific Islander 10% • Black 4% • Latina 13% • Middle Eastern 1% • Multiracial 20% • White 51% • Other 1%
DIFFERENT ZIP CODES
Single-gender classes in freshman and sophomore year instill self-confidence and a strong sense of community. Co-ed classes are available to junior and senior students through combined course offerings with De La Salle, an adjacent Catholic boys’ school.
WE WELCOME STUDENTS OF ALL SPIRITUAL BELIEFS AND BACKGROUNDS
72% CATHOLIC l 28% OTHER FAITHS
WHERE COME FROM • 54% Catholic schools • 28% Public schools • 18% Private schools
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE
STUDENT TO FACULTY RATIO
OF ‘21 GRADUATES ARE GOING TO COLLEGE
My teachers truly care about my success, happiness, and identity. They put effort into getting to know me as more than just a student
Nicole Abudayeh ‘22 and always try to relate to me as a person. I love how we talk about real, human issues in our day-to-day
classes and that we are always collaborating to solve problems. Sarah Bryn Owens ‘22
COLLEGE COUNSELING ON DAY 1
4-year course selection and exploration begins with an individual family planning meeting before each student’s first day on campus.
THAT PAYS OFF 84% of students received college scholarships. A total of $21.8 million in scholarships and grants was awarded to the 2021 graduating class.
ACHIEVEMENTS Students actively participate in research leading to publication with top university professors
Last year, 106 students saved money on future college expenses through our Early College Credit Program. Carondelet students can enroll in college courses at no added cost and credits are transferrable directly to college. In the past four years our students have saved an estimated $900,000 in college tuition.
23 AP Courses 13 Honors Courses 287 students took 504 AP exams with more than 62% receiving scores of 3, 4, or 5, far greater than the national average
AN INNOVATIVE & CHALLENGING PREPARATORY CURRICULUM
Our curriculum develops student self-advocacy, creative problem solving, collaborative learning, varied forms of self-expression, and the ability to communicate effectively. We stay at the forefront of best practices for girls’ education, continuously reassessing the tools and skills young women need to become entrepreneurial, resilient, confident, career-ready leaders in our dynamic world. Our newest academic building, the Jean Hofmann Center for Innovation, is a modern state-of-the-art learning center designed to spark creativity, collaboration, innovation, and a fearless spirit for all our students—giving them the skills to succeed in college and beyond.
WINNING TEAMS 140 League Championships 58 NCS Team Championships 12 National Cheer and Dance Championships 5 Northern California Team Championships 3 State Team Championships 3 Individual State Champions 2 National Team Championships 1 Individual National Champion
450+ ATHLETES EACH YEAR
AN ATHLETICS COMPLEX
FOR OUR STUDENTS
CLASS OF ‘21 ATHLETES NOW PLAYING AT THE COLLEGIATE LEVEL
OUR ATHLETICS COMPLEX IS STATE-OF-THE-ART
6 TENNIS COURTS AND HIGH PERFORMANCE SYNTHETIC TURF FIELDS FOR SOCCER, LACROSSE, RUGBY, AND SOFTBALL FULLY-EQUIPPED AQUATICS COMPLEX WITH A 10-LANE COMPETITION POOL AND DIVING WELL 6,000 SQ. FT. STUDENT CENTER FOR TRAINING, PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT, AND REHABILITATION
THE CARONDELET EXPERIENCE
The community around me has challenged me to try new things, overcome boundaries, and speak with true confidence.
Maggie Bowes ‘22
Carondelet addresses us as women of the future, rather than as just students.
Michael Carroll ‘22
MORE THAN 50 co-curricular offerings and clubs in the areas of academics, honor societies, fine arts, theatre, culture, and more allow students to express themselves and explore their passions
COMMUNITY Welcome to an inclusive community that is rooted in Catholic values, where students are empowered to be better people, not just successful people.
STUDENTS CREATE noteworthy social service projects and initiatives that frequently gain national recognition
• We know that some of the most valuable learning takes place beyond the classroom • Tech-focused and handson, our curriculum applies directly to real life— preparing for college, career, and future success • Our immersion experiences, spiritual retreats, and social justice service opportunities allow life to be the teacher
THE CARONDELET SISTERHOOD
develops a sense of belonging and lifelong relationships with 800 students and 10,000 alumnae.
• Our faculty are 100% personally invested in each and every student • College counseling and academic planning is tailored to each student’s individual strengths and aspirations • Our Wellness Counselors and Student Life team focus on social and emotional learning to support each student’s needs
OPPORTUNITIES FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
OF STUDENTS RECEIVED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
MILLION AWARDED IN NEED-BASED GRANTS
IN 5 TYPES OF MERIT-BASED SCHOLARSHIPS guaranteed for four years
Carondelet also partners with outside organizations, such as FACE and Bay Scholars, to provide financial aid. Visit: CarondeletHS.org/TuitionandAid to apply for tuition assistance
LEARN MORE TODAY! • Learn about our application process step-by-step during the “Admissions 101” webinar in October. • Experience our community with students and teachers at Open House in November. • Visit classes for a half-day, on-campus experience during Student Previews. • HSPT entrance exam Prep Course for 8th grade girls and boys, in December. • Go to CarondeletHS.org/Apply to start your application process today. Apps due early December.
THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO GET TO KNOW
CarondeletHS.org 1133 Winton Dr, Concord, CA 94518 firstname.lastname@example.org
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Thank you all for this opportunity and the very warm welcome.
It is a gift giving season. Handmade gifts are the best, and what better way to share love and self than writing. Let us write and wrap a poem as a gift.
Choose a person as a focus for the poem. It can be family, friends, lover, someone of major influence in your life, an unforgettable stranger, or anyone that sparks creativity in your writing.
- Focus on and describe one physical trait of the person–eyes, hair, lips, hands, smile, anything.
- Describe something he or she is does with that trait.
- Where would this person like to travel (or where would you like to take them)? Wrap the present in a scene from there by describing the scene in vivid sensory imagery.
- What gift/souvenir would you give them? How would it pair with the trait? Describe the gift with those…
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WASHINGTON-A decision to allow law enforcement access to location information as part of the digital wiretap upgrade may have an impact on which technologies are deployed under the enhanced 911 mandate even though all players in the two dramas maintain the issues are separate.
“Both of the dockets raise privacy issues. Both highlight the fact [that] wireless phones generate location information [and] that information will become more precise because of market demands and 911 requirements … We are utterly convinced that location information is not covered by [the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994] CALEA,” said James X. Dempsey, senior staff counsel of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).
The intersection between CALEA and the E911 mandate comes to light as the wireless industry is racing to deploy wireless emergency location technologies by October 2001. Concurrently, the industry is in a public argument with law enforcement over what should be included in a standard to implement CALEA. The latter could influence the former.
Additionally, the industry this week urged the FCC to allow it to recover costs for E911 liability insurance from states, and the trade association representing wireline telephone carriers last week filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Justice, claiming rules to implement CALEA are “arbitrary and capricious.”
CALEA and E911 converge
Location tracking will become possible as wireless carriers implement E911 across the nation. This implementation requires wireless carriers to give public safety answering points the location of a wireless caller in 2001. This information is available today to PSAPs in the wireline environment. Government officials believe wireless carriers should give them access to this information regardless of whether a target has dialed 911. “Location technology is being dictated by the FCC. When it becomes part of the network, we are going to get it one way or another,” said a government source.
As part of this belief, the FBI in July proposed an amendment to CALEA that would have allowed it access to this type of information. Where the FBI apparently got in trouble was in the details of the amendment, specifically the language dealing with location tracking.
The law enforcement’s belief that location technology is available to carriers may be misguided, however, because “there are a couple of flavors of location technology,” as Michael F. Altschul, vice president and general counsel of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, said.
One technology is network-based and conceptually would allow the carrier to know the whereabouts of a subscriber at all times. This technology could be a valuable marketing tool because subscribers could sign up for features that would allow them to dial specific digits and receive information about the closest gas station. This feature would be agreed to when a subscriber signed up for wireless service. The information could also be given to law enforcement with proper authorization to track criminal suspects.
The other technology is handset-based and uses Global Positioning System information to locate a caller. One version would require the caller to dial 911 to trigger the GPS location. Other versions, however, could be used like the network-based technology for subscriber services. Hybrid solutions also are being considered.
Those companies that want carriers to implement the GPS 911 trigger technology often argue it is the only way to protect subscriber privacy. The Justice Department told the FCC in 1996 it is not a privacy violation for a carrier to give a PSAP location information of a caller when that caller dials 911. “By dialing 911, the caller [implies consent] to the disclosure of information regarding his location at the time of the call. The whole purpose of a 911 call is to seek the aid of appropriate government officials in responding to an emergency at a particular place,” DOJ said.
911 liability insurance
In the best of all worlds, the wireless industry would like the FCC or Congress to declare it has limited liability from lawsuits resulting from cases where a call made on a wireless network does not go through. Wireline carriers are afforded this protection.
In lieu of such a ruling, the wireless industry recently told the FCC it believes liability insurance is an important component of 911 deployment and it should be able to recover the costs of the insurance in the same manner as it recovers the costs of the technology. In most cases, this means requiring the states to pay for it. The state of California has objected. California is one of 17 states that has not implemented limited liability.
The 911 program manager for the State of California, Leah A. Senitte, said the issue of “immunity from liability is now the only substantive obstacle preventing trials and commercial deployment of wireless E911 service.”
Opposition to the wireless industry’s position came from the Ad Hoc Alliance for Public Access to 911.
“There has been a concerted effort on the part of [commercial mobile radio service] providers to convince local and state authorities that local exchange carrier immunity should be extended to wireless carriers because they provide the same 911 service. This ignores the fact that LECs are rate regulated and limitation of liability tariff provisions are part and parcel of rate regulation … CMRS providers have successfully argued that the marketplace should displace regulation. It is not appropriate to confer the benefits, but not the costs and responsibilities of deregulation on CMRS providers,” said Ad Hoc Alliance Chairman Jim Conran.
The Ad Hoc Alliance has been a consistent thorn in the side of the wireless industry, fighting it on access to 911, strongest signal and now limited liability.
The United States Telephone Association last week filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit claiming DOJ and the FBI want telecommunications carriers to pay for most of the equipment upgrade costs necessary for CALEA implementation. CALEA authorized $500 million to retrofit equipment in place by to Jan. 1, 1995. In regulations for reimbursement, the FBI uses a narrow definition of significant upgrade to exclude most equipment from reimbursement eligibility. To bring this equipment up to code, the telecom industry would have to pay for it.
Additionally, USTA argues the cost recovery rules impose burdensome procedural requirements. “These rules transform the simple claims process envisioned by Congress into a highly burdensome, inefficient, time-consuming procedure that erects unlawful hurdles for carriers to face,” said USTA President Roy Neel.
CTIA and the Personal Communications Industry Association filed lawsuits in April over the Jan. 1, 1995, date for similar reasons.
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November 11, 2013
Today is Remembrance Day. The day we wear a red poppy and remember all who sacrificed their lives so we can live in a country free of war. I think of the families and the sadness they have had to endure, the loss of their loved ones… fathers, sons, grandfathers, daughters, etc. and the choice they made to serve our country so we can enjoy freedom. Freedom that sometimes I think we take for granted and shouldn’t.
I think about the Remembrance Day assemblies at school and how touching and beautiful they were and continue to be. I remember when you were here and how the school assembly would sometimes bring me to tears as I watched you and your friends, and your brothers when they were still at Banded Peak, pay tribute to our Canadian soldiers. I remember explicitly how you could go from being a rambunctious, fun-loving boy who needed to be “gently” reminded at every assembly to settle down, to be quiet, to listen… to needing no reminders at the Remembrance Day assembly. How you’d sit on the gymnasium floor with your eyes and ears wide open taking in the words, the music, the message. I remember how proud I felt of you and of everyone in our school for being attentive and respectful when it was so important. This assembly is still one of my favourites, Will, as it renews my sense of faith in people, young and old, and gives me a chance to really appreciate the country we are so fortunate to call home.
You must know, Will, that at every school assembly my eyes always find their way to your school jersey (your favourite number, 8) that is framed so beautifully above the volleyball banner that the school team you were a part of won the year you were taken from us. It hangs there with the words “WillPower” above it as a tribute to you. Each time I look at it I am reminded of the good in people, of the love that is abundant in our community but also of the fragility of life. At the Remembrance Day assembly I shed a tear for all who had lost their lives fighting for freedom and I shed a tear for you knowing that you lost your life having the time of your life. Now, if that’s not an oxymoron…
I miss you, Will; all day everyday, and all the soldiers in heaven have loved ones who are missing them too. Can you do me a favour? When you see a soldier up there, please take their hand and say “thank you”. I can just imagine you up there sporting a big, red poppy today. Just like me down here. And that makes me smile.
Hugs and busses,
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Are you wondering how Vietnamese cuisine was formed? Then you should know that she was influenced by Indian, French, Chinese and other culinary traditions..
National cuisine of Vietnam
Dishes from rice, seafood (cuttlefish, snail, octopus), chicken, beef are widespread in Vietnamese cuisine, and delicious dishes are those made from the meat of rats, turtles, snakes (in the north of the country, soy, and in the south - fish sauce).
In the south of Vietnam they cook tom-yam soup, fried goat meat, shark fin soup; in the north - seasoned rice dishes, Pho soup, snail dishes; in the central part of Vietnam - dishes from fish, seafood, deer and turtle meat. It is worth noting the peculiarity of the preparation of Vietnamese dishes - they are not subjected to prolonged heat treatment..
Popular Vietnamese dishes:
- soup “Pho” (main ingredients - chicken, rice noodles, aromatic herbs, herbs, wheat germ);
- “Spring rolls” (this is a dish made from glass noodles and fried vegetables, which is wrapped in a rice flour pancake, but seafood or minced meat can be used as a filling);
- “Banhcom” (dessert in the form of a sweet pie based on peas, rice and coconut flakes, which is wrapped in a banana leaf);
- “Chao” (it is a thick rice porridge, in addition to which is most often finely chopped pieces of beef or chicken).
- “Pomfred” (fried fish with sauces “nyok noam” and “tamarind” - vegetables and rice are usually served with it).
Where to taste the national cuisine?
In Hanoi it is worth stopping by a restaurant “Kiti restaurant” (lovers of Vietnamese cuisine will appreciate a wide range of authentic cuisine); in Ho Chi Minh City - in “Xu Restaurant Lounge” (ordering authentic dishes in this restaurant, you will be served exotic sauces that will give them a special piquancy); in Dalat - in “Long hoa” (order here shrimp or grilled pork, salad “Lotus flower”) or “An Lac 2” (a Vietnamese dish is served here - tofu soup); in Vung Tau - in “Phu Vinh” (it is recommended to try the fish in a clay pot - Ca Kho To).
Cooking classes in Vietnam
In Nha Trang, you will be offered a five-hour culinary course in a restaurant “Lantern”, where you will be taught how to cook spring rolls, Fish hot pot (a kind of fish roast) and a dessert of mango or banana in orange sauce with ice cream and rum. In Phan Thiet, you can sign up for a cooking lesson at “Mui ne cooking school”, during which you will cook Pho Bo soup, corn pancakes, salad with green mango, shrimp and pineapple.
If you are not indifferent to Vietnamese gastronomy, come here in the fall for the Culinary Festival, in January for the Coconut one (you will taste dishes based on coconuts and take part in various competitions), and in March for the Coffee Festival..
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If you are interested in a career in marketing within Louisiana choose
from the resources below.
|What is the Industry like in Louisiana?|
|What are the Major Firms?|
|What are Salaries like in Louisiana?|
|What School Programs are Available?|
Louisiana Marketing Job Industry
The marketing industry in Louisiana is smaller than most other states’, however this industry is projected to grow significantly in coming years. The number of marketing managers employed by Louisiana companies was 300 in 2010, but is expected to grow to 360, a 20% increase, by 2020. This far outpaces the national projected rate of growth for this profession of 12%.
Growth in public relations managerial jobs will follow a similar path, though slightly weaker. The 120 PR managers employed in 2010 should add 20 more positions by 2020, an 8.3% increase.
|Louisiana Job Statistics|
Marketing careers in non-executive positions are expected to grow at an even faster pace. Market research analysts and marketing specialists employed by Louisiana businesses numbered 510 in 2010, and are projected to reach 750 by 2020. The 240 added jobs mark a 47.1% increase in the workforce. Public relations specialists totaled 510 in 2010, and that number is expected to grow to 640 by 2020. The 130 added jobs is a 25.5% increase in the number of positions for this career.
Following Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana revitalized its economy as federal and private funds contributed to strong growth and business attraction that continues to power marketing endeavors in the state. In 2011, Louisiana produced goods and services worth $213.6 billion. The Louisiana economy is expected to grow 3.3% in 2012, 3.8% in 2013 and 4.4% in 2014, according to Chase Financial Analysts. According to Business Facilities magazine, Louisiana was ranked first in economic growth potential and second in job growth.
The rising strength of Louisiana’s economy is dependent on the energy industry, which relies heavily on marketing. According to the Christian Science Monitor, Louisiana is the fourth largest state for production of petroleum. One third of the oil production in the United States occurs offshore and 80% of offshore drilling is found in waters off of Louisiana’s coast. The oil industry employs almost 17% of Louisiana residents.
New Orleans has been the center of national attention for many years following Hurricane Katrina and the BP gulf oil spill. A rapidly expanding economy, which produced a gross metropolitan product $70.7 billion in 2010, has made New Orleans a flourishing center for high tech industry. In 2011, Forbes magazine named New Orleans the no. 1 “brain magnet” in the country, no.1 in information technology job growth and no. 2 in overall job growth for a large city.
Marketing Firms in Louisiana
Louisiana is home to some of the nation’s leading marketing firms.
- Keating Magee Marketing Communications of New Orleans earned $10.4 million in 2010, a 45% increase from 2007
- Search Influence of New Orleans earned $2.1 million in 2010, a 825% increase from 2007
- The Marketing Center of New Orleans earned $2.4 million in 2010, a 40% increase from 2007
- American Advertising Federation, New Orleans
- American Marketing Association, New Orleans
- Society for Marketing Professional Services, Southeast Louisiana
Marketing Salaries in Louisiana
Marketing professionals benefit from salaries that are significantly higher than that of most other Louisiana workers. Marketing managers averaged $88,361 in annual income for 2010, which was $49,900 more than the median Louisiana annual income. Market research analysts and marketing specialists earned, on average, $45,912 in 2010, or almost $7,400 more than the median Louisiana annual income.
Advertising and Promotions Manager Salary
As of 2011, there were 190 advertising and promotions managers employed in Louisiana. They had an average statewide salary of $75,560, which was about $36.33 an hour. Managers in the top ten percent earned nearly 46% more with an overall average of $139,330.
Market Research Analyst Salary
As of 2011, there were 1,170 market research analysts and marketing specialists employed in Louisiana, most of which worked in the New Orleans, Metairie, and Kenner areas. They had an average statewide salary of $47,970, which was about $23.06 per hour. Those in the top ten percent earned $30,990 more at an average of $78,960.
Marketing Managers Salary
As of 2011, there were 880 marketing managers employed in Louisiana, most of which worked in Metairie, New Orleans, and Kenner. They had an average statewide salary of $86,010, which was about $41.35 per hour. Those in the top ten percent earned $61,510 more at an average of $147,520.
These tables provide salary and employment information compiled by the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics in May 2011. The data contained herein does not include self-employed marketing professionals.
* These figures represent earnings that are at or above $90.00 per hour or $187,199 per year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish earnings beyond $90.00 hourly or $187,199 yearly.
Marketing Degrees in Louisiana
Louisiana houses 148 post secondary educational institutions. Fifty-six schools offer only Associate’s degrees, while six colleges only offer Bachelor’s degrees. Eleven universities possess degree programs up to the Master’s degree level, and fifteen offer doctoral level programs.
Marketing jobs in managerial positions usually require a Bachelor’s degree or higher and one to five years of related work experience. Non-executive marketing careers commonly require at least a Bachelor’s degree in a marketing related field.
Among the great public and private colleges in Louisiana are many online and campus-based schools offering marketing programs. Here is a list of a few that might meet your educational criteria in Louisiana:
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The number of U.S. apartment dwellers paying full or partial rent increased from April to May to one of the best figures during the pandemic, a signal of increasing recovery from the economic hardship since the onset of the health crisis.
Roughly 80% of renters paid full or partial rent payments by May 6, according to the latest rent payment data from the National Multifamily Housing Council. The Washington-based apartment advocacy and research group surveyed 11.7 million rented units throughout the United States.
This month’s figure is an increase from the 79.8% of renters who had made full or partial rent payments by April 6.
May is the second-highest rent collection month of this year after March, when 80.4% of renters made full or partial payments before March 6. It is the fifth-highest rate of collection for the 14 months of rent payments during the pandemic, according to NMHC.
“With more and more vaccines being administered, job creation on the rise and tens of billions in rental assistance being distributed to residents and housing providers in need, the outlook for the industry is a positive one,” Doug Bibby, president of the National Multifamily Housing Council, said in a statement.
About Real Estate Intelligent Marketing (REIM):
REI Marketing is an innovative Real Estate Marketing Company that offers distinctive real estate services to developers and multifamily investors. We are a vibrant, dedicated team of industry professionals with international experience in marketing and multifamily investment.
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The smell of freshly baked bread – who doesn’t love that?? It makes you want to cut off a slice of the still warm bread, smear it with butter and take a bite. Delicious!
However, baking bread usually requires experience, patience and skill. However, with small children in the house, we would prefer to just press a button and the rest happens by itself… Is this possible?
Yes! Using a bread maker: Put ingredients in the baking pan, close the lid, turn it on, and after 3-5 hours the bread is done. In addition, you can decide for yourself what exactly go into the bread. You want a bread without salt for the complementary food start? You tolerate spelt better than wheat? Or should it be gluten-free? No problem!
How does a breadmaker work?
Basically, a bread maker (often abbreviated as “BBA”) works as follows:
- The lid is opened and the baking pan is taken out.
- The ingredients are filled into the form in the given order.
- The mold is placed back in the BBA (must usually lock in place), the lid is closed and the appropriate program is selected.
- Press start and the machine does the rest itself: knead the dough, let it rest so it can rise and bake it.
Before using the machine for the first time, it is advisable to read and follow the operating instructions for the machine in question.
Advantages and disadvantages of a breadmaker
- Very easy to use
- Very little work, because the breadmaker does most of the work automatically
- Can be used without prior knowledge
- Can be used for different types of bread
- Can usually also be used to make other types of yeast dough (z. B. Pizza dough), cakes or jam can be used
- Cheaper than baking the bread in the oven, as less electricity is used
- Timer function makes it possible to queue up in the evening and have fresh, warm bread for breakfast
- Ingredients can be chosen and combined individually
- No manual kneading and fingers stuck with dough
- No risk of burning the bread, the bread maker automatically beends the baking process
- Quick and easy cleaning
- There is more time for other activities
- The quantity or. Size of the bread is limited to the size of the machine
- There are sometimes great differences in the quality and features of bread makers
- Depending on the machine, the crust may not be as crispy
- With most bread makers, the dough hooks must be removed manually, otherwise they create holes in the bread
No more tedious kneading of the dough
How to bake bread in the breadmaker?
To make the bread really good, here are a few simple tips:
- Sequence of ingredientsFirst put the liquid ingredients in the machine and then add the dry ingredients. Finally, make a small hollow in the flour with your finger and put the yeast in it. The yeast must not come into contact with the wet ingredients, otherwise it will be activated too early. This is especially important when using the timer function of the breadmaker.
- Temperature of the ingredients: All Ingredients should have the same temperature if possible (room temperature). Therefore, weigh and let stand chilled and liquid ingredients already 1 hour before baking, so that they get room temperature.
- Keep the lid closed: The lid of the bread maker must remain closed during the rising and baking time. Even a short opening can lead to the fact that the bread does not become so good or even collapses. It is only possible to open the lid during the kneading phases in order to z. B. sprinkle in grains or nuts, and after the last baking, if necessary. Remove the dough hooks. Otherwise, the lid must remain closed until the bread is ready.
- Bread without a holeThe dough hooks usually remain in the bread maker until the bread is baked. However, removing then causes holes in the bread. To minimize this and for easier release from the mold, the dough hooks must be pulled out of the dough “manually” after the last kneading (unless your machine has a function to sink the hooks). When exactly you can remove the dough hooks depends on the selected program. This can either be found in the instruction manual, or you can watch the machine for a baking process and note the time on the display when the last kneading is finished. For the next times you then simply set an alarm clock. It is easier to remove the dough hook with floured hands. Then spread the dough evenly in the pan again.
- Release from the moldTo remove the dough hook, carefully turn the bread pan upside down and, using an oven mitt or cloth, grasp the drive shaft (where the dough hooks are located) and turn it back and forth a little, if necessary. Shake the pan gently. Never use a knife to cut the bread, as this can easily scratch the non-stick coating.
- Removing the dough hooksIf the dough hooks are still in the bread, they must now be removed. Do not use knives or other sharp objects for this purpose, but a dough hook remover*. Turn the bread over, insert the dough hook remover (the side with the hook) into the hole of the dough hook and tilt it at the edge. Now the hook can be carefully pulled out of the bread.
- Cooling on rack: After baking, take the bread out of the machine as soon as possible and let it cool on a cooling rack*. This way the crust stays crispy, because the bread still “sweats” a bit after baking. If the bread remains in the pan, z. B. during the keep warm function, the crust may lose its crispness due to the condensed water.
- Bread without holeThe dough hooks usually remain in the bread maker until the bread is baked. However, pulling it out then causes holes in the bread. To minimize this and for easier release from the mold, the dough hooks must be pulled out of the dough “manually” after the last kneading (unless your machine has a function to lower the hooks). When exactly you can remove the dough hooks depends on the program you have chosen. This can either be found in the instruction manual, or you can watch the machine for one baking cycle and note the time on the display when the last kneading is done. For the next times you just set an alarm clock. With floured hands, the dough hook is easier to remove. Then spread the dough evenly in the pan again.
More tips for baking bread in the breadmaker
- QuantityMake sure that the recipe quantity is suitable for your machine. If the volume is too large, the bread quickly collapses in the middle.
- FillingTake the baking pan out of the machine before adding the ingredients, because it is easy to miss something. This keeps the inside of the machine clean.
- Baking surfaceMake sure that the machine is placed on a stable and smooth surface, as it may vibrate during the kneading process.
- Quick programMany bread makers have a quick program, with which the bread is ready in less time. However, this means that the rising and resting time for the dough is shorter, which has a negative effect on the “fluffiness” of the bread, so it is better to choose an uncut program.
- NutsMore sensitive ingredients such as nuts, dried fruit or seeds are often added at the end of the kneading phase. Many machines sound a signal for this purpose.
- Dough: Especially for new recipes, it is recommended to check the dough 10-15 minutes before the end of the kneading phase. There could be z. B. Ingredients stick to the baking pan. You can loosen the dough with a silicone spatula* and drop it into the pan to mix it with the rest of the dough.
- CuttingThe best way to cut the bread is when it has cooled down, using a good bread knife.
How to clean a breadmaker?
The baking pan and the dough hooks must be cleaned after each baking process. A damp cloth or a soft sponge and some washing-up liquid is usually sufficient for this purpose. Don’t use scratchy sponges or aggressive cleaners, as these will damage the non-stick coating. Baking pan and dough hook must not be put in the dishwasher. You will also find cleaning instructions in the user manual.
Check the inside of the machine regularly for dirt (crumbs, etc.).). If there are tight spots in the machine that you can not get clean, cotton swabs or old toothbrushes can help.
Before using a new breadmaker for the first time, clean the baking pan and dough hook with a soft sponge and detergent. Also, run the machine once through a (fast) program without any ingredients so that possible odors and contaminants are eliminated during the first heating and do not get into the bread.
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From tacos to HR, chatbots make it personal
- 29 April, 2016 23:56
Automated software assistants, or chatbots, are moving into the mainstream, helping you more efficiently order tacos, manage human resources tasks and generate sales leads from a messaging interface. As the latest plot point on artificial intelligence’s long timeline, chatbots simulate natural language to make it seem as if you are engaging in a discussion with a human concierge who is acting on your behalf.
Chatbots picked up steam
thanks to messaging platforms such as WeChat and Slack, while Facebook, Microsoft and Google are building similar capabilities to bolster their platforms. Now businesses outside of the technology sector have begun building their own bots to strengthen connections among chat-happy millennials. Yet all of the bot-builders must clear a key hurdle: offering enough personalization to help their bots evolve from a nifty chat tool to an essential digital assistant.
TacoBot will serve you now
Taco Bell’s aptly named TacoBot allows you to order tacos by instant messaging with a human-like assistant within Slack messaging software. You type something like, 'Hey Tacobot, I'm hungry. I want one crunchy taco.' TacoBot will make recommendations, such as offering to add guacamole or other toppings to the taco, before offering to complete the order at a local Taco Bell of your choosing.
"We looked at conversational commerce and felt like there was something there," says Andy McCraw, Taco Bell's manager of digital innovation. McCraw says TacoBot is a prime example of how Taco Bell is extending its digital strategy to reach consumers through emerging ecommerce channels.
TacoBot is currently available to only a handful of Taco Bell partners, but more than a 1,000 companies have requested to be invited into the next wave of availability. As the service ramps up, Taco Bell plans to add options to have food delivered and group ordering, McCraw says. For example, TacoBot would message user Paul that Andy is going on a taco run. Would Paul like to order anything? “If I can have an interaction with you in a very relevant moment, that’s extremely valuable to me as well as to you," McCraw says.
It can be easy to become smitten by bots, particularly the notion that a digital assistant such as Jarvis from the "Iron Man" films is available at your beck and call. Power users in Silicon Valley, tired of downloading and managing dozens of apps on their smartphones, love the idea that bots can collapse functionality performed by multiple apps into a single messaging UI. But the most valuable bots will provide consumers with more than more efficient use of screen real estate. They will be highly personalized to each individual’s preferences, including patterns of online behaviors and activities.
That is no trivial task, requiring companies to continually refine their machine-learning and natural language processing algorithms – the key ingredients that let bots assimilate human conversation – to ensure that they become more valuable to the user, says Avinash Rao, global business head of consultancy Wipro Digital. “The biggest challenge in building an effective bot is to solve the issue of personalization,” Rao says. “The bot has to know and understand you (who you are and what you want) in order to process and retrieve things.”
Bots push HR info, sales leads to workers
ADP is building bots that automate HR tasks such as sending a job to a prospective hire to alerting employees to use their accrued vacation time, says Roberto Masiero, vice president of ADP Innovation Labs. He says bots will alter the workflow of enterprise software from the dreaded "pull mode," where you scour your HR apps for information, to a "push mode," delivering relevant information at the right time.
One example is the onboarding process, where an HR generalist typically points new employees to an HR portal and helps them find required forms to fill out and submit them online. A chatbot might send a message to a new employee that includes links to the required forms. Masiero says that ADP's anthropologists are working on the "personality" of the bot, while the product managers are figuring out where the software will be hosted and secured.
However the tools manifest in ADP's HR software, Masiero is certain that they will be a fixture in corporate software in the near future. "It's just natural that enterprise systems present themselves on that channel because that is the channel of choice," Masiero says. He says ADP is eight months from putting out an early version of its bots, while a fully functional, self-service version is 18 months out.
Tony Velleca, CIO of IT service provider UST Global, is building a system that integrates bot-based messaging with the enterprise sales process. He expects chatbots will remind employees to enter data about leads and to follow up with clients after meetings and sales calls. Eventually, he'd like to integrate employees' travel schedules and expenses to automate the entire sales system. "It changes the whole paradigm and has a huge impact on how you manage the sales process," Velleca says.
Velleca has been testing Kore, a bot-based messaging platform designed for businesses, among a marketing team comprised of recent college graduates. He says the bot-oriented software appeals to millennial generation and younger employees accustomed to using SnapChat, WhatsApp and other messaging tools. UST Global connected Kore to Salesforce.com, enabling the marketing team to generate leads.
"The opportunity with bots is to make them work like assistants so people will want to use them," Velleca says.
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Trenton lodge dedicates new gravestone for founding member
POLLOCKSVILLE | The name Roscoe Barrus might not mean as much to the people of Jones County as it once did, but for one group — Zion Lodge 81 — he is one of the most important figures in the history of Jones County.
“He was a very prominent figure in Pollocksville,” Johnny Surles, member of the Zion Lodge and self-professed history fan, said.
Surles said he became interested in Barrus after reading notes of various Lodge meetings in the early 1800’s.
“A lot of times the lodge would just open and close, but if we did anything interesting, I’d make note of it,” he said. “Just about every minute from 1824 til 1870, Roscoe was either master or secretary of the lodge.”
In addition to being an active member of the lodge for the majority of his life, Barrus also allowed the lodge to use his business as a meeting place.
“To be 24 and have your own business says a lot about what kind of person he was,” Surles said. “Our first meeting was held upstairs in his store, Feb. 24 1824.”
Born in 1800, Barrus opened a pharmaceutical business in his mid-twenties and eventually expanded it to include locations in New York City and Baltimore.
After studying the history of his lodge, Surles decided to find Barrus’s grave.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t as simple as driving to the church Barrus was supposed to be buried at — Lee’s Chapel United Methodist.
“The oldest grave there was about the early 1900’s,” Surles said.
Surles eventually learned Lee’s Chapel had been moved, burnt down and rebuilt again.
Months later, Surles finally found the grave he had been looking for.
Located down an unmarked path behind someone’s home and hidden from the road, the only identifying features of the gravesite are a few dozen headstones.
“It took me a while to actually locate him,” Surles said. “Both his and his son’s headstones had been knocked over and broken.”
In an effort to honor Barrus, Surles said his lodge collected both headstones and paid to have them cleaned and reinstalled.
The lodge also paid for a new grave marker, one with masonic markings, to be placed on Barrus’s grave.
To commemorate the repaired graves, the lodge hosted a Masonic funeral for Barrus.
“I thought it was a real special service for this gentleman had been part of getting the Masonics started in Trenton and Pollocksville,” Martha Meetre, a member of Lee’s Chapel United Methodist, said. “It was a really pretty service.”
While most people might not know who Barrus is today, Surles said it was important to have a service for someone so important to his lodge and his community.
“I’m not going to say if it hadn’t for him we wouldn’t have the lodge, but I will say I don’t believe we would have the history we have without him,” he said.
Dustin George can be reached at 252-559-1077 and firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow him on Twitter @DustinGeorgeKFP.
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Have you had issues in the past with credit approvals?
Many people in Canada are in the tough situation of having high-risk credit or have no credit at all. In fact, about one-quarter of all Ontarians are living with a credit situation that does not make them eligible for traditional loans offered by the major banks.
For many of us, not having a car is not an option and it's not like we can wait around until the GTA figures out how to put a real public transit system in place.
At WEINS Auto Group, we try to help you with what other dealerships can't. Most dealerships are not properly staffed to assist customers that may have a more complicated credit situation. We staff Financial Service Managers whose sole responsibility is to work with those with complicated credit. We will do our best to find a car loan that works for you.
To speak to one of our Financial Services Managers about credit assistance, please fill out the form below.
Financing With Bad/No Credit
Unfortunately, financing a Car with bad or no credit typically means that your interest rate will be higher. If you can, there are a few things you can do to try and keep that interest rate as low as possible.
- Save for a down payment
The bigger the down payment you can put towards your car loan, the better chance you have of getting approved. It also means that by taking money off the principal amount, you will also end up paying less interest.
- Improve your credit score
If you don't need a car today, try and improve your Credit Score before you come in for a loan. A credit advisor can help you concentrate on any low hanging fruit that might bump up your score a few points.
- Don't finance expensive cars
With 13 dealerships as part of the WEINS Auto Group, we have a fleet of new and used vehicles available. That means we have a good chance of finding a vehicle that will work for you and not cost you a fortune.
We want to make the credit application process as easy as possible. Fill out our application form with some basic information, and our Credit Specialist will contact you about what we can do to help you get a great car.
If I have bad credit, what will the interest rate be on my car loan?
Interest rates depend on the strength of your personal credit. We have longstanding relationships with many Banks and Lenders to not only get you approved, but at the best interest rate possible.
Car Loans for Students with no credit
Building credit is possible for students and car loans are the best way to do just that. We will work with your Bank if possible to obtain a loan on your behalf. We have many lenders who specialize in new credit.
Can I get a car loan with no credit, cosigner or down payment?
Yes, it is possible! While it might seem difficult, as long as you are open to vehicle suggestions, we can make it happen for you. Building credit takes some time and a proven history of positive repayment. We will work with Banks and Lenders to get you the car you want.
Can I get a car loan after bankruptcy?
Absolutely! Many Banks and Lenders recognize anyone can have a bump in the road. They have programs designed with attractive rates to get you on the road in one of our cars!
Getting your First Car Loan in Canada
Welcome! We have Special Credit Finance Managers to get you on the road in Canada. Simply fill out our quick application and we will contact you shortly.
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Microblading only came to the UK in 2015 but is already becoming a popular way for people to achieve the perfect eyebrows. Because microblading involves the use of a hand tool, mobile microblading is an option.
If you want to start a mobile microblading business, you’ll need microblading insurance to protect you against unexpected losses. So what insurance do you need, and what does it cover?
Public liability insurance
Public liability insurance is the most important type of insurance if you are planning to run a mobile microblading business. It covers you if a compensation claim is made against you by someone who alleges that something you have done or failed to do caused them to be injured or caused their property to be damaged. Your public liability insurer will also handle any claims on your behalf so you wouldn’t have to worry about dealing with solicitors.
This type of insurance is vital because compensation claims can be expensive to settle. A compensation award for a serious injury can easily reach £250,000 and by the time the legal fees and another other associated costs and expenses have been factored in, the eventual settlement amount can be much higher.
Products liability insurance
Public liability insurance usually comes with products liability insurance. This is similar, but rather than covering compensation claims arising out of something that you’ve done or failed to do, it covers compensation claims arising out of products that you’ve sold or supplied.
Financial loss cover
Public and products liability insurance only covers compensation claims that involve an injury or property damage. Compensation claims for purely economic losses are not covered, so it is important to make sure that your public and products liability insurance contains a financial loss cover extension.
Treatment risk cover
A standard public liability insurance policy will not cover compensation claims that arise as a result of professional activities. This means that many of the claims made against a microblading business would not be covered. You should make sure that your public liability insurance has a treatment risk extension so that you aren’t uninsured in the event of a claim.
Employer’s liability insurance
This is similar to public liability insurance, but it covers compensation claims made by your employees rather than by members of the public. Employers liability insurance is required by law if you employ anyone, even if you’re only employing them on a part-time or casual basis.
This covers your business property against accidental damage or losses due to theft. You might not think that you need this type of insurance because you don’t have much business property, but it can be surprising to find out just how much your property is worth, particularly when you include the value of the computer equipment you use to run your business.
If you’re operating on a mobile basis, you should check what cover applies when you take items away from your usual business premises. It may not be covered when it is in an unattended vehicle, for instance.
Other types of insurance
Liability insurance and property insurance are the main types of insurance that you’ll need, but there are a couple of other types of insurance to consider.
Personal accident and sickness insurance is important for self-employed people. It protects your income if you’re unable to work because you’re ill or have been injured. A weekly benefit is paid if you’re off work temporarily and a lump sum is paid if you won’t be able to return to work.
Legal expenses insurance can also be vital. This type of insurance protects you if you become involved in legal action. It pays your legal costs if you find yourself in this situation, and your legal expenses insurer will help you deal with the legal action meaning you’re more likely to get the right outcome.
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Gone are the days when users would compliment each other with Likes and Comments. With this launch, Twitter users can now laud other Twitter users, and content developers using the Basic Attention Token (BAT).
The innovative service, made public on Aug 1, will allow Twitter users to acquire tips for their work by specifying the amount they wish.
Twitter tipping with BAT is here! @brave desktop browser users can enable Brave Rewards and click the “tip” button on each tweet to send @AttentionToken directly to the author of the tweet for an amount of their choosing. #TipWithBravehttps://t.co/rs0I4nSqyY
— Basic Attention Token (BAT) (@AttentionToken) August 1, 2019
How to get started on the token tipping service?
To make use of this already gone live service, users must first log in to their Twitter accounts using the Brave browser. The browser then displays a “tip” icon at the bottom of the tweet, prompting users to click on it and contribute the specified BAT amount to the Tweet creator, as a token of appreciation. Moreover, it also enables buying and storing of BAT tokens in Brave reward wallet.
In an attempt to incentivize the up-and-coming talent and boost user response to the service, Brave has decided to grant one hundred thousand BATs, each corresponding to roughly one US dollar ($1), to the content developers certified by the Brave’s Creator Program. They can collect rewards by simply clicking on “accept.”
About BAT and it’s unique token tipping service
The unique BAT project was initiated with a distinct emphasis on improving the quality of advertisements online. Today, web content faces rampant issues involving targeted advertising and security concerns for advertisers.
Using the Ethereum platform based on smart contracts, BAT is bridging the gap between the advertisers and the consumers. By undermining the highly monopolized browser market, which eats up vast sums of consumer money, BAT is taking a strategic effort towards bringing together the creators and admirers.
With this rare initiative, BAT hopes to create an unlimited shared space where publishers can collect their earnings directly from the users. In return, the advertisement viewers are recompensed for their time.
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Whenever a member of the African-American community objects to an injustice, or points out that a public figure has made a racially-insensitive (or worse) remark, Right-wingers immediately respond by accusing the person voicing the protest of “playing the race card.”
Evidently, it’s just not polite to call out racism.
Similarly, those of us who have called attention to the numerous studies concluding that “racial resentment” was the characteristic most predictive of a 2016 vote for Donald Trump have been dismissed as “partisan” and worse.
Well, they need to polish their invective once more, because there’s additional research confirming the proposition.
Following the attacks on New Zealand mosques, the Washington Post reported on the effects of Trump’s rallies–and those effects are neither ambiguous nor pretty. Counties that hosted such rallies in 2016 saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes.
During an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation” this past Sunday, Sen. Tim Kaine(D-Va.) lambasted President Trump for emboldening white nationalism after a young man killed at least 50 people at two New Zealand mosques. Kaine was referring to Trump’s answer after a reporter asked whether he sees “today that white nationalism is a rising threat around the world?” Trump responded, “I don’t really.”
This is not the first time Trump has been accused of catering to white nationalists after a terrorist attack. At an August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, a young white man rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer. Afterward, Trump insisted that “there’s blame on both sides” for the violence.
Then in October 2018, a gunman killed 11 congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. When Trump announced plans to visit the synagogue, many people in Squirrel Hill, the city’s predominantly Jewish neighborhood, took to the streets demanding first that Trump renounce white nationalism before paying his respects to the victims.
Trump, of course, has pooh-poohed any suggestion that his rhetoric might be encouraging these horrific events. Those denials prompted a study to determine whether Trump’s behavior and language has emboldened white nationalists. (It is worth noting that white nationalist leaders– including Richard Spencer and David Duke– have publicly supported Trump’s candidacy and presidency, and the New Zealand shooter even referred to Trump as a “renewed symbol of white identity.”)
To test the effect of Trump’s rallies, the study aggregated hate-crime incident data and Trump rally data to the county level and then used statistical tools to estimate a rally’s impact, including controls for factors such as the county’s crime rates, its number of active hate groups, its minority populations, its percentage with college educations, its location in the country and the month when the rallies occurred.
We found that counties that had hosted a 2016 Trump campaign rally saw a 226 percent increase in reported hate crimes over comparable counties that did not host such a rally…
Additionally, it is hard to discount a “Trump effect” when a considerable number of these reported hate crimes reference Trump. According to the ADL’s 2016 data, these incidents included vandalism, intimidation and assault.
What’s more, according to the FBI’s Universal Crime report in 2017, reported hate crimes increased 17 percent over 2016. Recent research also shows that reading or hearing Trump’s statements of bias against particular groups makes people more likely to write offensive things about the groups he targets.
It’s pretty obvious–and obviously dangerous–that Trump and his base are actually the ones playing the race card.
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Anyone who has ever been walking in the hills will have had the experience of a sudden shaft of light illumining a previously unnoticed aspect of the landscape. The picture here shows that, with the added benefit of a rainbow taken by landscape photographer Mike Alexander in the Brecon Beacons; I have more fully acknowledged the source at the end of this post. It is a chance illumination and whether you pay attention to it can also be a matter of chance unless you are attuned to what I have called the small noticings so critical to sense-making. The history of innovation is generally one of not only noticing an anomaly, but also paying attention and realising the significance. Think of the discovery of Penicillin if your want a well know examples but you can add micro-wave ovens and a host of other discoveries to the list. Small things lead to major impacts but when and where the light falls is a matter of chance for which we need to prepare ourselves.
Within my twelve days of welsh words and poetry series today’s world is brogarwch and today’s poet is R S Thomas and more specifically his poem The Bright Field. The meaning of Brogarwch is complex but at its heart is the idea of a love of a place (physical or metaphorical in nature) so it links Cynefin, a sense of place with Hiraeth, a need to return to the place. I’ve used it here to emphasise the small places that have significance for us. In my earlier post by sense of place linked to Cardiff and the Ogwen Valley, two places I constantly visited but in which I did not (or have not yet) lived. I wouldn’t say that I even chose those places, but in a sense the choice co-evolved over multiple encounters. The memories are may small, but treasured ones; no grand schemes but small acts of becoming.
That leads me to R S Thomas is to my mind one of the greatest of the Anglo-Welsh poets, if not the greatest, but he is in the main dark in word, texture and meaning. Many of his poems are difficult to read and carry hard lessons. He taught himself Welsh and moved to Aberdaron, but never felt able to write with the same power in Welsh as in his native English, but he was distinctly and clearly welsh. Passionate about this communities, fierce when they were threatened. During the period where second homes were being burnt in Wales he refused to condemn the acts as did many, Money meant that second homes destroyed whole communities; go to Anglesea out of season and you will see few lights and the local schools are closing as are the shops. He famously said, and refused to retract: ‘I deplore killing, but what is the life of one English person compared to the destruction of a Nation?’ That despite being a long time supporter of CND and a declared pacifist. He was a man of passion in all that he said and wrote. I spent a long evening searching through his collective works for this series and The Bright Field is one of the few that does not on first reading express a bleak view of life for which the phrase “brutal realism” was made. Go deeper and you find great insight, wit and belief but that takes some work and he stands as conscience to the soul of Wales. Tomorrow I want to link some of his poems on Wales and the Welsh with a modern A level text Diwrnod y Gem Genedlaethol which uses the Cynghanedd form of Welsh poetry, but that is for tomorrow.
So to the poem which I quote in full
I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the
pearl of great price, the one field that had
treasure in it. I realise now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying
on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
My mother insisted I read the Bible when young, despite the fact she was an agnostic (not an atheist) in part because she said I would never understand modern literature if I hadn’t, Shakespeare got added in later. Personally I think Homer and Virgil are also critical as the references to the imagery of their writing is so common;I had to bite my tongue the other day when someone thought The wine dark sea was an original invention of Patrick O’Brian. In this short poem we have a reference to both Old and New Testaments, both to linked ideas of discovery. In Matthew 12:45-46 we have Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it and then in Exodus 3:3 Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn. There are multiple layers of meaning in both, and also references to other blacker poems by Thomas; his 1953 poem The Minister for one. But this is a poem about discovering joy in the present, not harking back or imagining forward. A key complexity message here, we are informed by the past but we act in the present. Future imaginings provide false promise they are a distraction from current opportunities. By talking about the future it is too easy to avoid action in the present, to excuse taking responsibility on the basis of a higher goal or purpose. That is a part of a wider criticism I have made of idealistic approaches such as Senge and Scharmer which are worthy of themselves but suffer from the workshop/event based focus thatI criticised earlier this month.
So we need to understand the small things of life, we need to see the things we can do now that trigger change. The global initiatives on Global Warming are critical, and the retro-virus of Trumpitis has probably come at the worst ever four years for the planet. But there is something more fundamental here. We didn’t take the actions we needed to change more basic attitudes to conversation and custody of our planet. At one level we required too much (the militant evangelical wing of the conservation movement) and at another we delegated responsibility to international initiatives. No top down initiative ever works without first paying attention to the underlying dispositional state of the system. To achieve major change, other that induced by catastrophe where many things are possible, then we need to endeavour to change people’s day to day practices so that those initiatives do not fall on stony ground; another biblical reference there.
Tomorrow Public Heath England will laugh a campaign to change the behaviour of the 83% of 40-60 year olds in England who are overweight of obese. Being overweight is the new normal and it is something I am acutely aware of given my own pathway back to health and a current need to loose around 3-5 kilos. The point is the habituated patterns of a world in which transport is easy, entertainment is virtual and sport the domain of elites the dispositional state creates a new norm which legitimises a form of behaviour which is detrimental to the individual as well as to the wider ecosystem of which we are a part. More investment goes into palliative treatment for Diabetes and ways to deal with the consequences of behaviour more easily corrected at an early stage. We use money to ration access to public spaces, their due care and maintenance while investing money in what are at best palliative treatments that create their own issues.
As a society we have lost our roots, our ability to sense something in communities and places that give meaning. The internet has provend a false promise amidst great hope, a Golden Calf made in the absence of true prophecy, corrupted by bots, a echo chamber of base instincts. Like our relationship to our land, our sense of place, we need to reinvent the nature of our multiple interactions, especially the virtual ones which limit our senses, and thereby our sensibility.
The picture used here is from Mike Alexander whose web site I highly commend. Like me he has a connection with Bangor University and I love this personal statement “I believe that our ultimate goal should be to find a way of inhabiting our world without disrupting the harmony of its life.” To that add this critical statement “I do not believe that nature conservation should be based on some sophisticated version of cherry picking. We should not direct our attention to whatever we happen to perceive as being valuable in any place at any particular time. We should understand that values will change with time; something that has no recognisable value today may be extremely important tomorrow.” I found the site while hunting for a quote from Aldo Leopold ‘There were once men capable of inhabiting a river without disrupting the harmony of its life.’ That was important for me as our new programme on The Making of Meaning via the Cynefin Centre at Bangor University is about understanding the interactions between the spiritual and the physical and the ideas of stewardship that are the heart of Leopold’s writing. Just before Christmas I was involved in an extended call with the National Parks authority in South Africa with whom I have worked in the past, where many of the issues raised in Mike Aleander’s personal statement came up. They are dealing with multiple tensions between human needs, and needs of extreme poverty, needs of a problematic government, scientific needs, tourist needs and all of that before we look at the flora and fauna of a fragile eco system. One major element of the new research programme on meaning will be about conservation and it’s social context. So discovering a source of some of the most beautiful imagery was a blessing. This is an artist whose works reeks of an profound understanding of Cynefin.
Cognitive Edge Ltd. & Cognitive Edge Pte. trading as The Cynefin Company and The Cynefin Centre.
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There were three dramatic announcements on the evening of Friday 26th October 2018 from the Presidential Secretariat, which occurred in the following order: (a) the announcement of the withdrawal of the UPFA from the government; (b) the swearing-in of Mahinda Rajapaksa before President Maithripala Sirisena as the Prime Minister; and (c) the announcement that the President has informed Ranil Wickremesinghe in writing that he has been removed from the office of Prime Minister under Article 42(4).
Even if the legality of the procedure and the clarity and meaning of the relevant constitutional provisions can be debated, the fact that the event was planned in complete secrecy, with no consultation of Parliament or giving the serving Prime Minister and Cabinet the courtesy of even a short prior intimation before the course of action was made public, that it was suddenly carried out on a Friday evening, and that it has taken the country by total surprise, point to some extremely questionable motives.
Indeed, the whole set of circumstances suggest not the way a change of government ought to occur in a democracy, but the sharp practices associated with a constitutional coup, which is likely to lead to a constitutional crisis. It is a constitutional coup because the serving Prime Minister has not legally ceased to function in office before a new Prime Minister has been appointed. And it will lead to an unprecedented constitutional crisis because there are now two competing Prime Ministers and their parties jostling for power, authority, and legitimacy at the very heart of the state. Until one of these persons – Mahinda Rajapaksa or Ranil Wickremesinghe – can demonstrate that he has the confidence of Parliament through the support of a majority of MPs, and force the President to accept the will of Parliament, the crisis will not be resolved. Only time will tell what long-term damage this does to Sri Lanka’s constitutional fabric.
After the Nineteenth Amendment was enacted in 2015, the Prime Minister can only cease to hold office by death, resignation, by ceasing to be a Member of Parliament, or if the government as a whole has lost the confidence of Parliament by a defeat on the throne speech, the budget, or a vote of no-confidence (Articles 46(2) and 48). Since the Constitution after the Nineteenth Amendment specifies these ways in which the Prime Minister ceases to hold office, and has impliedly removed the previous power of the President to remove the Prime Minister at will, it follows that there are no other ways in which this can happen. In particular, the President can only appoint another Prime Minister where the serving Prime Minister has lost office in any one of these ways.
It is clear that the serving Prime Minister has not ceased to hold office in any one of these ways. Rather, the President has purportedly removed the Prime Minister from office by acting under the provisions of Article 42(4), which states that the President shall appoint as Prime Minister the Member of Parliament, who, in the President’s opinion, is most likely to command the confidence of Parliament. The President seems to have taken these words rather too literally than is constitutionally permissible. When this provision speaks of the President’s opinion, it contemplates not the subjective and personal opinion of the President as to which MP is best suited to be Prime Minister, but an objective and constitutional view formed by reference to who can command the confidence of Parliament. This is usually, although not always, the leader of the largest party represented in Parliament.
Prime Minister Wickremesinghe survived a vote of no-confidence by a substantial majority earlier in the year. No other canvassing of Parliament’s confidence has occurred since then, or before the purported appointment of Rajapaksa tonight, and therefore the President can neither constitutionally remove a Prime Minister who has not lost the confidence of Parliament nor appoint another in his place.
It must also be stated that Article 42(2) speaks only of the appointment of the Prime Minister by the President and says nothing about the removal of the Prime Minister by the President. While the power of dismissal could be assumed as inherent to the power of appointment in the constitution prior to 2015, the Nineteenth Amendment has changed this by now providing expressly for the specific ways in which the Prime Minister can be removed (under the previously noted Articles 46(2) and 48). That these procedures have not been followed render the purported presidential acts tonight illegal and unconstitutional.
If the parliamentary numbers have changed since Wickremesinghe’s confidence vote in April in favour of a majority now supportive of Rajapaksa by, among other things, the withdrawal of the UPFA from the national government – presumably the basis for tonight’s presidential acts – then it is also not clear why Sirisena and Rajapaksa did not choose to take the constitutional path to removing Wickremesinghe by defeating him in Parliament first. The crisis will be prolonged if Rajapaksa cannot swiftly demonstrate his command of Parliament, but the strategy he and Sirisena have followed tonight shows that they have chosen to seize the political initiative and momentum by the element of surprise, with the probable intention of consolidating their hold on the state machinery and in particular the police and armed forces over the weekend, before conforming to constitutional and parliamentary niceties. They would also quite correctly have concluded that technical illegalities would not effectively be justiciable, because it is unlikely in the extreme that the Sri Lankan courts would risk a venture into such a high-stakes political game.
This kind of behaviour of course is entirely normal in Rajapaksa, and to his credit, he has never pretended to be anything other than a banana republic presidential populist. But Sirisena was elected in 2015 exactly to instantiate changes to curtail this dubious and destructive strain in Sri Lankan politics. His descent from the heroic standard-bearer of high idealism to a despised villain of the lowest form of low politics has been truly Miltonian.
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Metformin Alone or Combined with Insulin Does Not Improve or Preserve Beta-Cell Function in Youth with Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes
Restoring Insulin Secretion (RISE) Pediatric Medication Study shows that youth have markedly reduced insulin sensitivity and respond differently to medicationsÂ
Orlando, Florida – June 25, 2018 — According to recent research, the insulin resistance and pancreatic beta-cell (β-cell) dysfunction associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) was unresponsive to treatment with metformin alone or metformin combined with insulin glargine in youth with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), which is an element of prediabetes, or early T2D. Additionally, youth with IGT and T2D, compared to adults, are more insulin resistant, and thus their insulin is less effective in lowering blood glucose levels in their bodies. These findings from the Restoring Insulin Secretion (RISE) program’s Pediatric Medication Study were presented today at the American Diabetes Association’s® (ADA’s) 78th Scientific Sessions® at the Orange County Convention Center.
T2D is increasing in prevalence in youth and adults in the U.S., and increases the risk of early morbidity and mortality, as well as long-term complications. T2D and its precursor, prediabetes, are characterized by insulin resistance and beta-cell dysfunction in youth and adults, and prediabetes includes IGT. However, research has suggested that T2D in youth might represent a more severe and rapidly progressive condition than in adults.
Given the increased recognition of the critical role of pancreatic β-cell function (β-cells store and release insulin in the body) in the pathogenesis of T2D, research efforts have begun to focus on prevention of the loss of insulin secretion among individuals at high risk for T2D or in early stages of the disease. The RISE program consists of three randomized, multi-center studies across the U.S. The trials focus on youth and adults to assess the impact of different interventions at the stage of IGT or shortly after the diagnosis of T2D to determine if the β-cell decline observed in IGT and early T2D could be halted or reversed.
Baseline data comparing youth and adults as well as results of one of the RISE studies, the RISE Pediatric Medication Study, will be featured in three articles published online simultaneously with today’s Symposium and in the August 2018 issue of Diabetes Care.
Baseline data for the trial was obtained from two adult arms of the study and was compared to youth. Both age groups had IGT and recently diagnosed T2D. The assessments used two different evaluation methods: the hyperglycemic clamp and the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). These two tests were both performed in 66 youth, ages 10-19 (80.3 percent with IGT) and 355 adults (70.7 percent with IGT). The results from both tests showed that youth have markedly lower insulin sensitivity compared to adults. In response, the insulin release by the pancreas in youth was much higher than in adults. However, the increased β-cell responsiveness in youth was still not enough to maintain normal glucose levels, indicating impaired β-cell function.
In the “Metabolic Contrasts Between Youth and Adults With Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes: I. Observations Using the Hyperglycemic Clamp,†article, the RISE researchers compared insulin sensitivity and β-cell responses in youth versus adults with IGT or recently diagnosed T2D using a hyperglycemic clamp. During a hyperglycemic clamp, researchers raise a subject’s glucose concentration above optimal level by administering an intravenous infusion of glucose. The desired high blood glucose concentration is maintained by adjusting the glucose infusion amount. This test enables researchers to then assess how well the pancreas can secrete insulin in response to glucose and how well the body responds to the insulin it secretes. Following a 10-hour overnight fast, a two-step hyperglycemic clamp was performed on each patient.
The youth had lower insulin sensitivity, hyper-responsive β-cells and reduced insulin clearance compared with adults. Insulin sensitivity in youth was 46 percent lower than in the comparably overweight, dysglycemic adults. The RISE researchers note that it remains to be determined if age-related differences contribute to declining β-cell function and/or impact responses to glucose-lowering interventions.
In the article, “Metabolic Contrasts Between Youth and Adults with Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes: II. Observations Using the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test,†the RISE Consortium performed a 3-hour OGTT. During the OGTT, participants had a baseline, fasting blood draw and then consumed a beverage containing glucose. Blood draws were then conducted at multiple time points over three hours to measure blood glucose and insulin concentrations. The results from the OGTT showed that the balance between insulin sensitivity and β-cell responses differs between youth and adults with IGT or recently diagnosed T2D. The findings are compatible with those observed with the hyperglycemic clamp and suggest that youth with every meal are having to release larger amounts of insulin to try and regulate their glucose metabolism.
Because metformin and insulin each have been shown to improve β-cell function in adults with IGT or recent-onset T2D, RISE researchers conducted the RISE Pediatric Medication Study in youth with IGT or recently diagnosed T2D. The study tested the effect of three months of insulin glargine titrated to lower glucose to well within the normal range (target fasting 4.4 – 5.0 mmol/L or 80 – 90 mg/dL), followed by metformin for nine months, versus 12 months of metformin alone. Between 2013 and 2016, a total of 91 youth between the ages of 10 and 19 years of age, and with a BMI of ≥85th percentile for their age and sex, participated in the study. Of the group, 60 percent of the youth had IGT and 40 percent had been diagnosed with T2D for a duration of less than six months.
The study results, detailed in the article, “Impact of Insulin and Metformin Versus Metformin Alone on β-Cell Function in Youth With Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes,â€Â revealed the insulin resistance and β-cell dysfunction seen in these youth with IGT or early T2D was unresponsive to both treatment regimens. No significant differences were observed between the treatment groups at baseline, 12 months, or 15 months in β-cell function, BMI percentile, HbA1c, fasting glucose, or oral glucose tolerance test 2-h glucose results. Additionally, three months after withdrawal of the intervention, the youths’ β-cells were even less responsive than when they started the study, indicating disease progression. Thus, the intervention did not appear to have any lasting benefit.
“These findings contrast with prior reports in adults, showing an improvement in β-cell function after 12 months of treatment with metformin or after insulin treatment, either for diabetes prevention or treatment,†said Kristen Nadeau, MD, MS, Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “Early treatment of youth with IGT or type 2 diabetes may require other glucose-lowering medications alone or in combination to combat insulin resistance and arrest the progressive loss of β-cell function in youth. Additionally, the results of our study call for further studies to better understand the physiology of youth-onset type 2 diabetes and to identify new, safe and effective treatment options for youth with IGT or type 2 diabetes.â€
“Early β-cell failure creates permanent dependence on insulin, and thus, youth may be at higher risk of future diabetes complications,†said senior author Steven E. Kahn, MB, ChB, professor and Leonard L. Wright and Marjorie C. Wright Chair in the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, and Director of the Diabetes Research Center at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. “It is imperative that we create future research opportunities to allow us to better understand and prevent the underlying causes of rapid β-cell failure in youth, and to identify new treatment approaches for youth with IGT or type 2 diabetes.â€
To speak with Dr. Kahn or Dr. Nadeau, please contact the ADA Press Office on-site at the Orange County Convention Center on June 22 – 26, by phone at 407-685-4010 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.org.
The American Diabetes Association’s 78th Scientific Sessions, to be held June 22-26, 2018, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, is the world’s largest scientific meeting focused on diabetes research, prevention and care. During the five-day meeting, more than 16,000 health care professionals from around the world will have exclusive access to more than 3,000 original diabetes research presentations, participate in provocative and engaging exchanges with leading diabetes experts, and can earn Continuing Medical Education (CME) or Continuing Education (CE) credits for educational sessions. The program is grouped into eight theme areas: Acute and Chronic Complications; Behavioral Medicine, Clinical Nutrition, Education and Exercise; Clinical Diabetes/Therapeutics; Epidemiology/Genetics; Immunology/Transplantation; Insulin Action/Molecular Metabolism; Integrated Physiology/Obesity; and Islet Biology/Insulin Secretion. Felicia Hill-Briggs, PhD, ABPP, President of Health Care and Education, will deliver her address, “The American Diabetes Association in the Era of Health Care Transformation,†on Saturday, June 23, and Jane E.B. Reusch, MD, President of Medicine and Science, will present her address, “24/7/365 – Lifetime with Diabetes,†on Sunday, June 24. In total, the 2018 Scientific Sessions includes 375 oral presentations; 2,117 poster presentations, including 47 moderated poster discussions; and 297 published-only abstracts. Join the Scientific Sessions conversation on social media using #2018ADA.
About the American Diabetes Association
Nearly half of American adults have diabetes or prediabetes; more than 30 million adults and children have diabetes; and every 21 seconds, another individual is diagnosed with diabetes in the U.S. Founded in 1940, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) is the nation’s leading voluntary health organization whose mission is to prevent and cure diabetes, and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. The ADA drives discovery by funding research to treat, manage and prevent all types of diabetes, as well as to search for cures; raises voice to the urgency of the diabetes epidemic; and works to safeguard policies and programs that protect people with diabetes. In addition, the ADA supports people living with diabetes, those at risk of developing diabetes, and the health care professionals who serve them through information and programs that can improve health outcomes and quality of life. For more information, please call the ADA at 1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342-2383) or visit diabetes.org. Information from both of these sources is available in English and Spanish. Find us on Facebook (American Diabetes Association), Twitter (@AmDiabetesAssn) and Instagram (@AmDiabetesAssn)
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Most people relate concussions to sports injuries, which makes sense. The majority are caused by sports-related incidents. However, it’s estimated that 3.8 million of these injuries occur each year in the U.S. with 50% of total concussions going unreported.
Accident-related concussions span more than just sports injuries. Car accidents, falls, and even bicycle accidents can all lead to this condition. If you’ve recently suffered a concussion, here’s everything you need to know about complications, treatment, returning to work, and a few prevention tips for the future.
Concussions impact your brain and cognitive functions. This leads to a wide range of symptoms and complications depending on what area of the brain is injured. Common complications include:
- Vision impairment
- Memory loss, especially short-term
- Changes in your normal social behaviors
- Severe headaches
- Nausea and vomiting
- Aggressive and agitated states
- Hand-eye coordination impairment
- Difficulty distinguishing your left from your right
Since these complications impact your ability to perform daily tasks, it’s likely that you’ll need time off work to recover. That’s why it’s vital that you seek compensation for an accident, especially when it was the cause of someone else’s negligence. Make sure to find legal representation familiar with your type of accident, like a bicycle accident attorney if your concussion was caused by a wreck.
Compensation can also help you pay for the various treatments you may need. Rest is the most important part of the recovery process, but bills begin to pile up when you need physical and psychological therapy.
You shouldn’t drink during this time, either, as it will slow down your recover. Take it easy, not participating in physically strenuous activities, and make sure to check in with your physician often. As your concussion goes away, you’ll be able to drive and exercise again.
Returning to Work
It’s ultimately up to you to decide when it’s time to return to work. However, you should ask you physician about it as well. Together, the two of you can ensure you’re truly ready to start working again. This could take days, weeks, or months depending on the severity of your concussion. While you might want to rush this part of the process, it’s vital that you let the healing process take its time.
There are plenty of ways to keep yourself safe and concussion-free in the future. While you can’t avoid every accident, you can protect your head. Wearing proper head gear in the workplace is one of the most highly recommended preventative measures.
You should also make sure any shelving or storage areas are free of clutter to eliminate falling objects. Make sure you use all of the safety equipment your company offers, even if you’re only climbing a small ladder or step stool.
Deadlines and projects cause workers to rush, but resist the temptation. Make sure to put your safety before the job at hand. Finally, you can practice precautionary measures at home to make them a habit. This will ensure you practice them at work, too.
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A public interest endeavour dedicated to the ongoing improvement of The Social Contract.
Please note the introduction of the following amendments to The Social Contract. These matters pertain specifically to Appendix H: Workplace Kitchen Etiquette.
Please note that the most important update to this area of jurisprudence is the section relating to Dishes Dissing, which explicitly precludes the “preparation, design or dissemination of any note, poster or artwork containing instructions or suggestions regarding the washing of dishes” under the following circumstances:
(a) Where the note begins with the words “Okay people, here’s the thing”.
(b) Where the note is IN ALL CAPS and is longer than three lines long.
(c) Where the note aggressively references “dish fairies” and features Microsoft clip art of a stick figure holding a wand or a grumpy cat in a tutu.
It is also notable here that if you are lucky enough to know the “correct way” of stacking a dishwasher, that is a fact that you should keep to yourself (section 1.2.3 references a schedule of fines pertaining to “unhelpful office suggestions and aggressive unhelping”).
Please note the following qualifier, namely that “none of the foregoing in any way excuses deplorable workplace kitchen habits or the writing of short, declarative instructions to remind people how to be humans”. People are, according to section 2.1.1, “the absolute worst” and should be reminded, where possible, of the following in a workplace kitchen:
220.127.116.11: The legal definition of : “washing a cup” explicitly excludes “passing the cup through cold water” (18.104.22.168), “drowning the cup in soapy water and then placing the soap cloud (and hidden cup) on the drying rack” (22.214.171.124), and “bringing a collection of cups to the sink, performing dismay at the dishwasher being on, and leaving while pretending to answer a phone call” (126.96.36.199).
According to 3.1.1, “Persons who label their own food in the office fridge” shall attract a warning for the use of exclamations, a fine for written messages, and jail time for the use of printed labels.
By way of conclusion, it should be remembered that matters relating to office kitchen behaviour need to be understood, as is always the case in industrial law in this area, within the context of the overarching legal maxim: “If you can’t figure out who the office dick is, you are the office dick”.
Remember: ignorance of the law is no excuse. We look forward to the next important update.
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SA-HELP is a loan scheme that assists eligible higher education students to pay for all or part of their student services and amenities fee. Students should check whether their provider charges this fee.
HECS-HELP is a scheme that assists eligible Commonwealth supported students to pay their student contribution amount with a loan. HECS‑HELP loans are available at all public universities and at a handful of private higher education providers. Important note: you must be studying in a Commonwealth supported place at an approved HECS‑HELP provider in order to access a HECS-HELP loan.
FEE-HELP is a loan scheme that assists eligible full fee paying students pay their tuition fees at university and other higher education providers. Important note:you must be studying at an approved FEE-HELP provider in order to access a FEE-HELP loan. For a list of providers who are approved to offer FEE-HELP loans, please visit the Providers that offer Commonwealth assistance page.
Bridging study is a specific type of study that is required in order to meet the professional recognition requirements to practise your professional occupation in Australia. This is the only instance in which permanent residents may access a FEE-HELP loan for their tuition fees if their study meets the specific eligibility criteria.
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It’s a common myth that choosing hospice means giving up, but did you know that people who choose hospice actually live longer than people who continue to pursue other medical treatments? Medicare requires that people receiving hospice not receive curative treatments at the same time. It’s normal for people to hear that and then assume that hospice is for people who have given up. That myth could not be farther from the truth.
Hospice does not specifically work to shorten or lengthen life. Instead, hospice works to bolster comfort and quality of life during a very important time of life. People who enroll in hospice are choosing hope for a better life now. That being said, it’s worthwhile to know that choosing hospice does not shorten life. People qualify for hospice only when a doctor believes a disease would normally prove terminal in six months, regardless of any treatment available. It turns out that when other medical approaches are not likely to cure a disease, comfort care strengthens patients more and gives them more life. Furthermore, nearly 20% of patients discharge from hospice alive.
Several scientific studies now demonstrate the life-lengthening effects of comfort care for terminally ill patients. Some of these studies are listed below. These studies will typically start tracking large numbers of patients at some common starting point such as when certain disease conditions exist. The conditions and starting points tend to be situations where the common disease course would be one that would limit survival to six months or less. Then, researchers compare survival times between patients who received hospice and those who pursued other medical care. On average, patients who receive care that focuses on comfort, emotional support, and symptom control at home live longer than patients who choose other care. Families who receive hospice for longer than two weeks also report higher quality of life.
Studies finding that hospice lengthens life:
- Hamano J, Yamaguchi T, Maeda I, et al. Multicenter cohort study on the survival time of cancer patients dying at home or in a hospital: Does place matter? Cancer. 2016 May; 122 (9): 1453-60.
- Saito A, Landrum M, Neville B, et al. Hospice care and survival among elderly patients with lung cancer. J Palliat Med. 2011; 14 (8): 929-939.
- Keyser E, Reed B, Lowery W, et al. Hospice enrollment for terminally ill patients with gynecologic malignancies: impact on outcomes and interventions. Gynecol Oncol. 2010: 118 (3): 274-7.
- Connor S, Pyenson B, Fitch K, et al. Comparing hospice and nonhospice patient survival among patients who die within a three-year window. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2007 Mar; 33(3): 238-46.
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Mexico town known for fireworks disasters mourns 24 deaths
TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Grieving emergency personnel in the Mexico City suburb of Tultepec carried the caskets of four comrades through the town’s streets Friday as authorities investigated whether an attempt to douse burning fireworks with water may have triggered further blasts that killed a total of 24 people.
The four were among seven firefighters, police officers and civil defense workers killed when they rushed to the scene of a first blast, only to be felled by three subsequent explosions. Fifty-four people were injured, 41 of whom remain hospitalized.
The town of Tultepec, just north of the capital in Mexico State, is a place notorious for deadly fireworks accidents, with at least 70 people killed there in less than two years.
“That is the life of a fireworks producer,” said Angel Guerrero, a resident who has relatives who work in the dangerous trade. “That’s how they make their living. Explosion after explosion, they’ll keep on doing the same thing.”
State of Mexico Gov. Alfredo del Mazo said authorities would mount a special campaign to punish clandestine workshops, train workers and improve their workspaces. But such promises have been heard before.
And a state official told local media that investigators are looking at whether first responders may have contributed to the second wave of blasts by trying to extinguish the initial blaze with water, which reacts with some chemicals used in fireworks.
“Federal and state prosecutors are carrying out investigations to determine whether the water poured to extinguish the first fire ... could have reacted with some element like magnesium to propagate the fire, rather than extinguish it,” said Alejandro Ozuna, the State of Mexico interior secretary.
A fireman’s blast-damaged water truck was found at the scene of the blast.
Whatever happened, it was clear the first responders tried their best and made an enormous sacrifice.
“They wanted to save lives without knowing that the same thing was going to happen to them,” said Teresa Gonzalez, who heard the nearby blasts that began at 9:40 a.m.
Tultepec, a municipality of about 130,000 people, is famed for small workshops that produce many of the fireworks used on holidays throughout the region.
Guadalupe Romero, another town resident, stopped short of saying the town’s fireworks industry should be shut down, because he knows so many of the area’s families depend on it.
But he said that between a nearby propane gas plant and the fireworks production, “We are sitting on a time bomb.”
“Yes, we’re scared,” said the 64-year-old merchant.
Luis Felipe Puente, head of Mexico’s civil defense agency, said the first workshop that exploded was “clandestine.” But the four workshops destroyed in the blast were located within an area specifically marked out for the production of pyrotechnics. State and federal officials had promised, after earlier disasters, to impose safety restrictions in such areas.
Along the road were brightly painted buildings labelled with “danger” warnings. There was even a guard shack inside a shabby chain link fence.
The first shop that blew up apparently didn’t have the required permits issued by the Mexican army to store explosive materials, but that’s the case for many of the family-based businesses.
Video images showed a massive plume of smoke rising after the explosion. Journalists arriving later found wrecked buildings and scorched ground amid a rural patch of modest homes and small farm plots.
Helicopters took the wounded to several local hospitals, and more than 300 police were dispatched to the scene.
Fiercely protective of their artisanal industry, locals resist regulation, and on Thursday some assaulted journalists recording images of the site, destroying their video memory cards.
Safety measures at such workshops and markets have been a matter of constant debate in Mexico, where festivals big and small feature rockets and bombs often at close range of spectators, and individuals set off firecrackers in the streets.
“We cannot continue to allow this kind of situation,” Puente told the Milenio news network.
At least 35 people were killed in a Dec. 20, 2016, explosion that leveled a fireworks market crowded with holiday shoppers, and government officials then promised to rebuild it better than ever.
Since then there have been several other explosions at fireworks shops around Tultepec. An accident In March 2017 killed four people. Another last month killed seven and injured eight.
Deadly fireworks explosions have occurred repeatedly elsewhere in Mexico. A 1988, a fireworks blast in Mexico City’s enormous La Merced market killed at least 68, prompting a generally ignored prohibition on the sale of fireworks in the city.
In 1999, 63 people died when an explosion of illegally stored fireworks destroyed part of the city of Celaya in Guanajuato state.
A blast at a market in the Gulf coast city of Veracruz killed 29 people in 2002. In 2013, a rocket struck a truck loaded with fireworks for a religious procession in Tlaxcala state, killing 17.
Fourteen people died — including 11 children — when a firecracker landed on pyrotechnics being stored for a religious ceremony in the Puebla state town of San Isidro in May 2017.
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Getting a new roof installation or a roof replacement can at times put you in a tricky situation as far as the selection of roof type is concerned. There are several factors that need to be kept into consideration why zeroing down your roof type. If you are perplexed about choosing between shingle roofing and tile roofing, you must consider the following factors to finalize your choice –
- COST FACTOR – If you are stuck to choose between shingle roofs and tile roofs, you must bring in your budget to help you come out of this confusion. Tile roofs are relatively expensive than shingle roofs. Tile roofs can cost you almost double the price of shingle roofs. Nonetheless, tile roofs also last much longer than shingle roofs as they prove to be more durable. Tile roofs can withstand extreme weather conditions like winds and heavy rains unlike shingle roofs that can get easily get damaged. So if cost efficiency is what you are looking for, you must opt for shingle roofs. But if you prefer a roof type that can withstand the test of time, you must go for tile roofs for your home.
- CLIMATIC CONDITIONS – Climate is another crucial factor that can help you choose between shingle and tile roofs for your house. Shingle roofs perform well in moderate climates. But if you live in areas with heavy snow-fall, then you must opt for tile shingles.
- ROOF CAPACITY – Before getting a tile roofing you will need to get your roof inspected to check if it can carry the weight of heavy tiles. Therefore, the capacity of your roof to carry weight is another factor that can help you determine your roofing material choice. So keep these factors in mind while choosing between shingle and tile roofs.
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Cool ceramic tile adhesive 09
COOL 09 is a ceramic tile adhesive based on hydraulic binders, special additives and specially selected mineral fillers. It is designed for bonding ceramic tiles to wall and floor surfaces, suitable for the installation of natural absorbent stone and terracotta tiles, as well as siporexor aerated concrete blocks. Wall and floor surfaces must be solid, made of cement, lime and concrete based mortar.
The substrate to which ceramic tilesare laid must be firm, dry, clean, not frozen, bearing, free of grease and salt. Uneven substrates must be repaired. Absorbent substrates, porous substrates or concrete must be coated with the COOL IMPREGNATION prior to application of adhesive(as recommended by the manufacturer). Preparation: Mix the contents of the 25 kg bag with approximately 6.5 to 7 liters of water manually or by an electric mixer until the compound becomes homogeneous, lump-free. Add the powder slowly and with constant mixing. Allow to rest for about 10 minutes and then stir again.If necessary, add water to the appropriate consistency of the adhesive. Use the prepared adhesive compound within 2 – 3 hours depending on the working conditions. Application method: apply the COOL 09 ceramic tile adhesive with a notched trowel. The procedure is to apply the adhesive first with the flat side of the trowel and then spread it out with a notched side of the trowel with the tooth depth of 4 to 6 mm forbonding tiles of normal sizes from 10 to 20 cm. Use larger depths of teeth for bonding tiles of larger dimensions. When laying, the surface covered with the adhesive must be at least 65%. After placing, rinse tiles and tools with water immediately. Fill the joints between the tiles with the COOL joint compound after 24 hours. The joint with can range between 2 mm and 15 mm depending on the tile size and working conditions. The workability of the applied adhesive under normal conditions of 23°C and relative humidity of 60% is 30 minutes. Before application, soak the absorbent ceramic tiles and standard tiles in water. The optimum operating temperature during installation of the tiles should range from+5°Cto + 30°C. Increased humidity and low temperatures prolong the adhesive drying time. Fill the expansion joints with a permanently elastic putty. The drying time from light to full load is from 24 hours to 8 days.
Shelf life and storage:
At least 12 months from the date of manufacture in the factory sealed packaging, in dry and ventilated premises at a temperature between +5°C and + 30°C.
Adhesion: 3.0 – 3.5 kg/m² depending on the quality of the substrate, tiles, technique and thickness of the coating.
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A number of studies have pointed out the potential importance of the household in the transmission of schistosomiasis. The clustering of domestic activities associated with water collection, storage, and usage can result in the sharing of transmission sites and infective water contact behaviours. In this study, we employed a variance component method to estimate effects due to individual risk factors and shared residence on the variance in faecal egg counts during Schistosoma mansoni infection. A suite of covariates, which included demographic, socioeconomic, water supply, and water contact behaviour terms, contributed 15% to the variance in faecal egg counts. Shared residence alone accounted for 28% of the variance in faecal egg excretion. When both the suite of covariates and shared residence were considered in the same model, shared residence still contributed 22% to the variance in infection intensity. These results point to the importance of shared residence as a means of capturing the complex interrelationship between shared demographic, socioeconomic, physical environmental, and behavioural factors that influence transmission of schistosomiasis at the household level.
- Schistosoma mansoni
- Variance component methods
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Infectious Diseases
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A riveting account of the dictator’s final years, when he got the war he wanted but led his nation, the world, and himself to catastrophe—from the author of Hitler: Ascent “Skillfully conceived and utterly engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review In the summer of 1939, Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Having consolidated political control in Germany, he was at the helm of a newly restored major world power, and now perfectly positioned to realize his lifelong ambition: to help the German people flourish and to exterminate those who stood in the way. Beginning a war allowed Hitler to take his ideological obsessions to unthinkable extremes, including the mass genocide of millions, which was conducted not only with the aid of the SS, but with the full knowledge of German leadership. Yet despite a series of stunning initial triumphs, Hitler’s fateful decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941 turned the tide of the war in favor of the Allies. Now, Volker Ullrich, author of Hitler: Ascent 1889–1939, offers fascinating new insight into Hitler’s character and personality. He vividly portrays the insecurity, obsession with minutiae, and narcissistic penchant for gambling that led Hitler to overrule his subordinates and then blame them for his failures. When he ultimately realized the war was not winnable, Hitler embarked on the annihilation of Germany itself in order to punish the people who he believed had failed to hand him victory. A masterful and riveting account of a spectacular downfall, Ullrich’s rendering of Hitler’s final years is an essential addition to our understanding of the dictator and the course of the Second World War.
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How can you create a yard that incorporates drought-tolerant plants, your veggie garden and a space for you and your guests, too? I think you can have your cake and eat it too. Creating eco-friendly landscape and interior designs has taught me that you can have a beautiful, functional space that both looks great, gets use, and fits your eco-friendly standards. In this case, you can create a yard that you want to sit outside in, grow a garden in, and looks great too.
Let’s Start with Plants. Go Native.
Do away with the water-thirsty, non-native lawn and introduce natives in place of it. Incorporating drought-tolerant or native species boasts a ton of benefits. Natives bring birds, butterflies and ever-important bees that help pollinate your plants and make it feel like a sanctuary.
Creating a zone of beautiful natives in front of or surrounding your edible garden will tie your plant beds or garden area into the yard, as a whole and bring a new level of beauty to your space. If your edible garden is planted straight into the ground, creating a border zone or adjacent area of non-edibles will also help reduce wind and water erosion to the important topsoil, and provide extra nutrients to the area as leaves and matter fall into the soil and decompose.
Add Eco-friendly Seating to Enjoy Your New Space:
When your incorporating a space for seating and hosting, the eco-trend is easy to continue if you know what to look for. Consider getting outdoor furniture made from reclaimed wood.
Alternatively, there are many options online for sourcing pre-loved furniture in your style. Buying pre-loved reduces energy, water and raw materials it takes to make new furniture and ship it to you.
Lastly, look for products marketed as made from eco-friendly materials. Those throw pillows could have recycled filling inserts, or your outdoor table centerpiece could be made from recycled glass.
Start with an Eco Multi-Use Yard Game Plan:
When you’re ready to create your eco-friendly yard of your dreams, check out our example eco-friendly, multi-use yard and put this plan into action:
- First, look at the space as a whole; Think about which spots get the most light, rain, and have the best views. Jot those down, with directional indicators for north, south east and west. Make a rough sketch and include basic measurements.
- From there decide what your priorities are – do you want 10, 20, or 50 percent to be edible plants from your garden? How often do you wish you could entertain outside and does your space offer that to you now? How important is it to you to attract native wildlife and pollinators like birds, bees and butterflies to your new native plantlife? Indicate the zones you want to have: garden, plant life and landscape materials, and your functional space or seating area. Jot these down on your sketch with a basic idea of where to put them or introduce them to your existing space.
Don’t Forget the Seating…
- Incorporate your seating area by start with the ground. If you don’t have an obvious spot for outdoor furniture, ditch your water-wasting grass and create a gravel or river rock base layer in your designated space to set your chairs and table in, with plants or edging to keep the stones in place at the border.
- If you already have a concrete pad, dress it with an outdoor rug. My favorites are area rugs made from recycled water bottles. They are easy to clean and eco-friendly. Having a rug or gravel area for your seating will created a grounded and inviting look that sets the tone for the area and space.
- Address the seating. Get matching seat cushions that easily come off to throw in the wash. Nothing looks less inviting than a hodge-podge of mismatched dirty seats.
Consider the Elements…
- Consider the elements. You might need a table umbrella or shade sail to enjoy the outdoor area before getting crispy.
- Consider using paver or stepping stones or another distinct walkway to connect your seating area to your edible garden. This will tie the two spaces together and add texture and style to the space.
Oh and the plants. Consider going vertical too.
- Once these steps are planned out you can see what space is left for incorporating beautiful native plant life and landscape features like large stones or tree stumps. Start with a few species native to your area and ask your nursery staff for help considering the conditions of your yard. Start with just a few species, and ones that are more mature and easy to get established. For a more wild and natural look, plant in groupings, with odd numbers instead of rows.
- Go vertical and use your wall and fence space. Even if you have a small yard, or a concrete ground, you can incorporate style and beautiful native plants to the space by using your vertical space up walls and fencing. Don’t neglect those exterior walls! Pressure wash them so they look clean and fresh and then add stylish wall-mounted planters. Depending on the light availability, try getting plants with leaves or tendrils that hang over the edge for a lush feeling.
Use this spring as a jumping off point to get rid of any unused items that made their way outside as “storage” Don’t forget to donate and recycle what you can.
And Don’t Forget…
Enjoy. The more time you spend in your multi-use yard space the more creative you will become.
I am the owner and lead designer at E. Leigh Designs, a LA-based business. My passion is combining my expertise for interior design and environmental sustainability into a unique business of eco-friendly interior and exterior design.
I have been running my registered business from my homebase for 4 years, however, I work remotely with folks from all over the county. I offer 3 online, remote packages for clients with all different size needs. As a designer specializing in eco-friendly materials, and a business owner serving the 99%, my process starts with my client’s design and budget; then I look for opportunities to incorporate eco-friendly products and materials into the space, without compromising on style or quality.
My goal is to show that conscious consumerism is a beautiful thing. When I am not designing, I am lecturing environmental science or hanging with my husband Reed, and dog Hank.
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“William appeared at half-past twelve. He was a very active lad, fair-haired, freckled, with a touch of the Dane or Norwegian about him.
“Can I have my dinner, mother?” he cried, rushing in with his cap on. “‘Cause it begins at half-past one, the man says so.”
“You can have your dinner as soon as it’s done,” replied the mother.
“Isn’t it done?” he cried, his blue eyes staring at her in indignation. “Then I’m goin’ be-out it.”
“You’ll do nothing of the sort. It will be done in five minutes. It is only half-past twelve.”
“They’ll be beginnin’,” the boy half cried, half shouted.
“You won’t die if they do,” said the mother. “Besides, it’s only half-past twelve, so you’ve a full hour.”
The lad began hastily to lay the table, and directly the three sat down. They were eating batter-pudding and jam, when the boy jumped off his chair and stood perfectly stiff. Some distance away could be heard the first small braying of a merry-go-round, and the tooting of a horn. His face quivered as he looked at his mother.
“I told you!” he said, running to the dresser for his cap.
“Take your pudding in your hand—and it’s only five past one, so you were wrong—you haven’t got your twopence,” cried the mother in a breath.”
If there’s one ting that DH Lawrence knew, it was sons.
This could be my Felix. His packed lunch used to come home unfinished every day because he would leave it, half eaten, to join the boys playing football outside. I practically had to superglue his bottom to the chair yesterday to eat a pasty, whilst his friends waited next door to play with him in the kind English summer sun.
And sons are not backward in coming forward, so to speak. They speak their mind. They have spent so long modelling the father you chose all those years ago for his confidence and incisive wit; so long analysing your mothering tactics to find the Achilles’ heel; that every exchange is a duel, a joust, a sword fight in words.
In my house, these exchanges end “I’m not debating the issue. That’s how it is.”
And he accepts my word, or has so far. Mothers’ authority seems to hold good, it seems. He and I are very alike: hot-headed, big-mouthed, forthright, fair, fallible.Perhaps therein lies the secret.
But they see you and know you, warts and all.
This is one reason why I would commission portraits from many, but certainly not from my son. I want someone who can see the girl I used to be, not the old woman I shall become.
It mystifies me, then, why one mother consented to stand for a sculpture done by her son. But one day in 1578, Cassandra Sirigatti, husband of the dashing Niccolo, acquiesced, and the result presides with weary resignation over one of the Mediaeval Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Her son was Ridolfo Sirigatti, the famous and talented Florentine sculptor, and it must be owned he sculpted his father too.
Cassandra wears a rich brocade dress. When she was younger she was probably a beauty, and when life moved those petrified muscles and she laughed and talked, animation probably made her beautiful still. But take away that life-breath, and whilst it is a brilliant life study, it is just so brutally honest, like a photograph on my camera I would rather erase. We must all grow old, we must all be care worn, but we rely on the breath of life to make us animated.
Sons. They say it how it is.
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Recently published data confirming dramatic survival benefits for infants started on ART as early as possible after the diagnosis of HIV, prompted a review of the World Health Organization (WHO) pediatric treatment guidelines. In June 2008, new guidance was issued, which recommends prompt initiation of ART in infants diagnosed with HIV infection. In order to identify those infants who will need immediate ART, early confirmation of HIV infection is required. In November 2008, a meeting was convened to review recommendations by WHO for the diagnostic testing of HIV infection in infants and children. The meeting brought together the guideline review group that had developed the initial recommendations in 2005 The guideline review group followed the grading of recommendations assessment, development and evaluation (GRADE) approach in reviewing the recommendations for early detection of HIV infection according to the current WHO Guidelines for Guidelines. This document contains the new recommendations.
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•Coming out: This means when someone identifies themselves as a member of the LGBTQIA.
•Tran sexual: This term means a person who changed their gender to the ‘opposite’ of the one assigned to birth.
LGBTQIA is an acronym that stands for different meaning in the queer culture.
For most people who do not understand what LGBTQIA stands for; this means Lesbian,Gay,Bi-sexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex and Asexual.
There are many different groups of the community that is not listed on the acronym that many people have no idea.
There are some like pan sexual and and non binary that did not fit.
Not to worry we’ll be identifying each group with their definition and what it means for the people involved.
It is important to know this meaning in the world we live in today as this will show our appreciation of their sexuality; having knowledge on this different sexuality will show that we love them and accept them in our community if not lives.
Here are some of the different terms for defining a specific sexuality and what they mean;
Asexual : This is a person who does not feel any sexual attraction.
Ally : An ally is a person who is not a trans or they are straight and they support the LGBTQIA community.
Bi-sexual : This is an umbrella term that means a person has sexual or emotional feelings towards more than one gender.
Bi-phobia : This is the fear of a person who identifies themselves as Bi- sexual.
Cis-gender(Non-Trans) : This is a person who identifies themselves as the same sex they were at birth.
Coming out: This means when someone identifies themselves as a member of the LGBTQIA.
Dead naming : This means when a trans person has changed their name and someone refers them to their birth name.
Gay : This means when a man is attracted to another man.
Gender Dysphoria : This means when someone feels unease due to a mismatch of their gender identity and their biological gender.
Heterosexual : This means to be straight or non- trans, or someone that has emotional or sexual orientation towards the opposite sex.
Homosexual: This is just the same as being Gay.
Homophobia: This is the fear or dislike of persons who identify to have emotional orientation of the same sex gender.(Gay, Lesbian)
Intersex: This describes a person who has both biological attributes of sex. They identify themselves as female, male or non-binary.
Transgender: This is an umbrella that describe a person whose gender is not the same as the one assigned at birth.
Tran sexual: This term means a person who changed their gender to the ‘opposite’ of the one assigned to birth.
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Employee motivation is a critical element of performance and behaviour. It is influential across three dimensions – the amount of effort and attention, the directions of that effort and attention, and the way effort and attention are enacted. The combination of these things might recognised as “attitude”, which is subjectively perceived and hard to measure and manage but resulting in behaviours and performance which can be objectively measured and managed.
Motivation as a basic human concept arises from three neural processes – reward or loss anticipation, valuation, and self-regulation (1). For motivation in the workplace to be understood, channeled and enhanced, it must be in the context of these 3 systems, and the response systems they trigger to privilege preferred performances and behaviours.
Employee motivation can be:
- Extrinsic motivation (arising due to externally-imposed gains or losses as consequences of actions and behaviours, such as bonuses or disciplinary actions), or
- Intrinsic motivation (arising due to internal drives for rewards and avoidance of losses through the performance or consequences of actions and behaviours), or
- A combination of both (2, 3).
This paper explores the influences of intrinsic motivators identified as basic employee motivational needs in the Integrated Model of Employee Engagement as predictors of attitude, effort, performance, behaviour, fulfilment and well-being. For findings, it draws on research comparing intrinsic motivation of the four categories of need across four categories of employees finding consistent patterns between groups and variances between individuals.
The research also explores motivational schemas of approach and avoidance as responses to basic need fulfilment in the workplace, again finding consistent trends within and between vocation categories.
Basic Workplace Needs – Intrinsic Employee Motivation at Work
The Consistency-Theoretical Model of Mental Functioning (4, 5) is based on a combination of neuroscience, biology and the earlier observational research and hypotheses of others including Bowlby (6, 7), Epstein (8, 9), LeDoux (10) and Kandel (11-14). Based closely on Epstein’s model, it describes four basic needs that drive human motivation at an intrinsic and mostly non-conscious level and the response types employed in pursuing them.
It also describes the fear response as the primary survival function that takes inevitable precedence over other motivations at a neurobiological level. Where fear exists, the brain and body are “hijacked” in preparation for physical action, including disabling of higher-order brain function such as reasoning and emotional control. In effect this makes avoiding or escaping danger the strongest motivational need of all.
The Integrated Model of Employee Engagement describes these intersecting and overlapping basic needs, as adapted to the workplace, as:
- Connection (based on attachment): The need to experience safe, secure and trusting relationships and interactions at varying levels of intimacy and frequency
- Empowerment (based on orientation and control, commonalities with Self-Determination Theory): The need for confidence in understanding & influencing actions, events and outcomes, including feelings of competence and autonomy.
- Task Reward (based on the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain): The need for enjoyment and mental stimulation through interesting, varied, challenging and novel daily work experiences.
- Identity (based on self-esteem protection and enhancement): The need to feel a sense of self and place, largely derived from autobiographical memory, greater purpose and external feedback
The Integrated Model of Employee Engagement proposes that the pursuit of fulfilment of these needs, underpinned by safety, is the basis for intrinsic motivation in the workplace. It also acknowledges the influence of neural consistency (complimentary simultaneous synaptic activation) in processing, felt as moral guidance or conscience that allows different memory systems (implicit and explicit) to interact and moderate competing motivational influences. This can be felt, for example, as an ethical dilemma causing procrastination or regret on one hand, or as confidence or certainty on the other. Together, the satisfaction of basic needs in ways that support neural consistency is described by the Integrated Model of Employee Engagement as coherence, being the ultimate source of work fulfilment and (subject to other health and lifestyle issues) physical and psychological well-being.
Response Types – Habits & Causes
Grawe’s model identifies response-type categories of approach schema (gain-orientation), and avoidance schema (loss-aversion) as fundamental response types that leverage different emotions, capabilities and response options according to habit and possibility (the fear response being an extreme of the avoidance schema). An avoidance schema can be expressed in two different ways – “fight”, where the danger is resisted (directly or indirectly), or “flight”, where escape (physically or attentionally) occurs. The likely prevalence of approach versus avoidance schemas, and the ways they are enacted, as capacity and habit is subject to genetics and experiences in brain development (15, 16), being:
- Neurogenesis: The development of brain cells as programmed by DNA
- Epigenesis: The expression of DNA according to luck, experiences, well-being and environments
- Synaptogenesis: The formation of connections between brain cells and regions, including long-term memory (knowledge – either implicitly (intuition) or explicitly (available for recall)
- Myelinogenesis: The protection and increase in speed and capacity of regularly used synapses (3,000 x)
The prevalence of those response types varies for each individual subject to the environment they find themselves within, their capacity at that moment and the pressures they find themselves under. In this way, while an individual might have a greater tendency toward a given response type, it is directed related to its stimulus.
For example, compare the responses of a generally positive, optimistic (gain-oriented) person to someone who is more pessimistic (loss-aversive) in the same situation. Where there is no environmental stimulation linked to potential distress or risk perception and the opportunity to find fulfilment through an action choice, both can be expected to adopt an approach schema which sees them happily focusing on performing in good spirit with optimal cognitive capacity for reasoning and behavioural moderation. Where there is environmental stimulation perceived to be linked to inevitable distress and no possibility of averting significant loss or harm, both people can be expected to adopt an avoidance schema with reduced cognitive capacity for reasoning or behavioural control. It is only where a situation can be viewed and acted upon by the actors involved as either an opportunity for gain or loss (glass half-full vs half-empty) that the tendency for one to be more positive than the other can influence a different response according to differences in schema prevalence.
Similarly, the prevalence of passive or active avoidance schema responses, while influenced by the brain development processes noted, are situational responses. While an individual might be heavily passive-avoidant dominant, there will be stimuli and environments that see them adopt an active-avoidant response. For example, the person who normally avoids conflict and accommodates the needs of others to keep the peace, but now and then “blows up” when it all becomes too much. Or, the person who normally blows up readily (active-avoidance) but backs down when scolded by a parent-figure.
In this way, while there are differences and patterns in the comparative prevalence of response schemas within and between individuals and groups, it is the intersection of these schemas and workplace environments, stimulation and safety that triggers individual responses.
There are times that responses, either in the “choice” of response schema adopted or the way that schema is enacted, are helpful and effective, and times where they are less so. Where an action is effective in achieving fulfilment while also being supportive of other personal and social needs, it is a helpful response – a successful “adaptation” arising from myelinated neural pathways. For example, learning to keep calm under pressure, or learning to become curious about opinions that conflict with one’s own rather than simply arguing against them.
Where an action is ineffective, or perhaps counter-productive, in achieving fulfilment and being supportive of other personal and social needs, it is a “maladaptation” (4) arising from the same processes of creating and strengthening pathways through practice where they seemed to work. For example, a child who misbehaved to get attention, or bullied to feel superior, grows into an adult with similar habits. From neediness through to responsibility-avoidance or aggression, many of the behaviours which are undesirable or unacceptable in the workplace are maladaptive responses arising from childhood and/or previous workplace experiences.
Congruence and Incongruence – Employee Motivation for Continuity or Change
Where a basic need is met, a state of “congruence” is said to exist, serving as motivation for continuing similar behaviours and actions at similar energy and frequency levels (4). Where a basic need is not met (either over or under) an incongruence exists, motivating the individual to do something different to better match fulfilment level to need level.
Where an individual feels they can act to resolve an incongruence (a controllable incongruence), they feel motivated and compelled to do so, and may adopt either an approach or avoidance schema in the process, according to the perceived prospect and extent of loss or gain. Where an incongruence is felt to be incapable of resolution (an uncontrollable incongruence), the individual will not have the option of taking an approach response, so can only adopt an avoidance schema.
This need to be able to influence need fulfilment is identified in the Integrated Model of Workplace Engagement as efficacy. It is also an extension of the basic need for orientation and control, or empowerment, being the ability to understand and influence or control the things that affect an individual, physically or emotionally. The same principles apply to consistency and inconsistency, and then, together to coherence and incoherence, with the ideal of individuals being able to satisfy basic needs through actions that are originate by complimentary neural activation.
From a socio-evolutionary view, we are intrinsically motivated to do things that feel good and enhance our own survival and that of our gene pool. It is another matter whether those intrinsic motivations and the behavioural habits employed in pursuing them are well-matched to any given workplace environment, culture and role. Where they do, high employee engagement is possible.
The enabled pursuit of coherence as the foundation of employee engagement is illustrated through the Integrated Model of Employee Engagement, as below:
Chart 1. The Integrated Model of Employee Engagement
Survey – Method, Mix and Limitations
251 participants responded to an online survey that asked 32 questions relating to ideal and currently experienced need fulfilment. They were classified as 96 white-collar (leadership, management or supervisory roles), 14 grey-collar (desk-based supervised roles), 134 blue-collar (manual labour-based supervised roles) and 7 graduates (non-experienced entry-level desk-based supervised roles).
235 were also asked questions relating to habits relating to approach, passive avoidance and active avoidance response schemas. They were the same group as above with the exception of 16 white collar employees who completed their surveys prior to the addition of this section.
Participants mostly lived in Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania. The sample group was dominated by male job seekers, many currently employed and others not. Most participants were interviewed separately to completing the survey, and some comments sentiments are shared here where relevant to research findings.
Questions were formulated to quantify and compare preferred level and current fulfilment for 4 core attributes of the four basic workplace needs. Wordings were designed to minimise the effect of mood, but it is inevitable that attitudes and expectations of current or recent workplace environments, stresses and experiences will have influenced perceptions around both need level and fulfilment. It is also likely that some respondents tried to give answers designed to please the reviewer, but there is little direct evidence or patterns that suggest this was a significant problem. Of more influence is likely to have been subjectivity in responses – for example “generally agree” for one person might equate to “completely agree” for another, producing similar patterns but to different extents. Scores are meaningful only in their relativity to each other for comparative purposes between individuals and groups.
Prior to completion, in conversation and on the survey form, participants were advised that there were no right or wrong answers, or consequence from answer choice. However, in another survey completed at the same time and designed at a more conscious and therefore manipulatable level for the purpose of detecting reliability, there was some evidence of attempts at deception by some respondents. There was however no evidence of intentional deception in the survey used here, but it must be assumed that, intentionally or unintentionally, and despite innocuous and simple wordings at a non-conscious level appropriate for the subject, there must inevitably be some inaccuracies inherent in individual responses. The good sample size, and the consistency with which results established and stabilized over the collection period, suggests that result patterns are reliable.
Intrinsic Workplace Motivators – Levels and Current Fulfilment
The most reliable data sets are for participants identified as white collar (96) and blue collar (134), but grey collar and graduate groups have also been identified separately due to similar standard deviations and averages. All group averages weighted all participants equally. Charts are generally graphed for the score range of 50 to 100 for ease of comparison.
By Category of Workplace Motivational Need
The following charts compare need level (intrinsic motivation) and current fulfilment across the four groups.
Chart 2 shows a pattern of consistent connection motivation across all groups and a preference for slightly more than currently experienced for 3 out of the 4 groups, being largest for the blue-collar group. The standard deviation indicates that there are a broad range of views on what a preferred or current level is, and that an individual cannot be assumed to have a given level of need according to the vocation category they fit within. Of the four needs, connection has the most consistent level of need and is the most consistently satisfied.
Chart 2. Connection: Current fulfilment versus felt need as intrinsic motivation
Chart 3 shows a larger fulfilment gap (incongruence) for the need for identity across all groups, with the blue-collar group again having a larger incongruence than the white-collar group. The graduate group also has a large incongruence, but the sample group size is not large enough for that result to be uniquely conclusive. Similar standard deviations again indicate high variability, so an employee cannot be stereotyped based on vocation alone. The all-group incongruence between need and fulfilment for identity is larger than for connection but smaller than for the other two basic workplace needs.
Chart 3. Identity: Current fulfilment versus felt need as intrinsic motivation
Empowerment, shown in chart 4 below, reinforces the overall pattern of preference for greater fulfilment, this time indicating that the white-collar group requires higher levels and are more fulfilled than blue-collar group, who are comparatively disempowered, likely due to having less influence over their environments and action choices. This is consistent with the Self-Determination Theory (3), which predicts that higher extrinsic motivation (e.g., control and consequences imposed by others) will result in lower intrinsic motivation, effort, engagement and fulfilment. Empowerment is the third-best satisfied of the four needs.
Chart 4. Empowerment: Current fulfilment versus felt need as intrinsic motivation
Task Reward, as shown in chart 5, is the least satisfied of the four basic workplace needs. It shows substantial incongruences across all groups, indicating boredom and disengagement with work tasks themselves is likely to be a large contributor to overall disengagement. The graduate group again has the largest incongruence, which could easily be attributed to the likely repetition of entry-level jobs in combination with unrealistic expectations, but the sample group is too small to be seen as reliably representative.
The lower preference and fulfilment for task reward (variety, challenge, learning and enjoyment) for the blue-collar group in comparison to the white-collar group is notable. It is not known whether those employees are attracted to those roles because they entered the workforce with different motivation levels for task reward, or that expectations and consequent motivation have been adjusted over time (through reward anticipation error (17)), due to repeated workplace experiences. It is readily apparent that task reward, likely through the specialization of roles in modern workplaces and the lack of novelty, challenge and stimulation created by their design and need for compliance and routine, is the area with the largest incongruence, and therefore the greatest potential for increasing employee effort and fulfilment.
If the need level for graduates is representative of graduates generally, it is possible that employment experiences involving low autonomy and manual task repetition involving little cognitive stimulus (e.g., many blue-collar roles) may diminish reward expectation, and therefore intrinsic work motivation, over time.
Chart 5. Task Reward: Current fulfilment versus felt need as intrinsic motivation
The combined chart shown below indicates that of the major groups, white-collar employees are on average more motivated and more fulfilled than blue-collar employees. However, the standard deviations indicate that this cannot be relied upon as a type-prediction for any individual employee within or between groups. Overall, the patterns are consistent across all four categories of need and fulfilment, seen as reliable as a general guideline across groups but not between individuals.
It is also apparent that the pattern of greater variability in current fulfilment than motivation carries across all four basic needs and for all groups.
Chart 6. Overall: Current fulfilment versus felt need as intrinsic motivation
By Category of Vocation group
The following charts show these results for the two most-sampled employee groups, highlighting the congruence gaps between need level as intrinsic motivation and current fulfilment. The following feedback was typical in interviews for both groups:
- Poor connection fulfilment was not often a motivator for job change, but good connection fulfilment was often fondly recalled as the reason for past or current engagement, effort, flexibility and retention.
- All employees interviewed said they responded well to sincere positive feedback. However, identity was not often adversely affected by negative feedback if it was balanced by positive feedback when appropriate and provided in a manner perceived to be respectful, timely, open, supportive and solution-oriented. Almost every employee felt their work was worthwhile and contributed to society generally, but there was much less consistency across all groups around perceptions of working toward a shared vision.
- Micro-management was not generally nominated as big a disabler of empowerment as was expected. Rather, simply not having the trust or autonomy to make decisions and self-direct actions was more common for all employee groups, but particularly for highly supervised roles, serving to reduce care, motivation, effort and intrinsic reward.
- Repetitive, unchallenging and unstimulating work tasks were a consistent theme for deficits in task reward, with many wanting more learning opportunities and interest in their daily tasks, often to the extent that they enjoyed pushing themselves to their limits. Many fondly recalled their biggest, most difficult and most satisfying efforts and achievements as work highlights, with many also identifying favourite jobs or managers as those who gave them the opportunity and support to learn and build new skills.
Chart 7. White-Collar Group: Current fulfilment versus felt need as intrinsic motivation for continuity or change
Chart 7 (above) shows a similar pattern of under fulfilment for white-collar employees as chart 8 (below) does for blue collar employees, but in all cases white-collar employees, despite having higher intrinsic motivation and consequent expectation of reward, were more fulfilled in every category of basic workplace need.
Chart 8. Blue-Collar Group: Current fulfilment versus felt need as intrinsic motivation for continuity or change
All-group totals illustrate, on average, the incongruences as deficits across all areas of need, with connection and identity (the more socially-related needs) being largely fulfilled. Empowerment and task reward (the more task-related needs) are somewhat and largely unfulfilled respectively. This indicates there is likely to be more employee effort and productivity to be gained through design and management of roles, tasks and how they are performed (e.g., enabling greater competency, autonomy, interest and challenge) than through workplace social and team-building events.
Chart 9. All-Groups: Current fulfilment versus felt need as intrinsic motivation for continuity or change
Response Schemas – Capacity & Actions
As with motivation and fulfilment, the most reliable data sets are for participants identified as white collar (80) and blue collar (134), but grey collar and graduate groups have also been identified separately due to similar standard deviations and averages. All group averages weighted all participants equally.
Chart 10. All-Groups: Response schema prevalence
Chart 10 compares the prevalence of approach, active avoidance (fight) and passive avoidance (flight) responses across the four employee groups. The difference between white- and blue-collar groups (as the most reliably-sized sample groups) is evident, with white-collar employees on average being more positive in how they respond to problems, challenges and risk.
Chart 11 compares this information a little more graphically for white- and blue-collar employee groups. Considering the number of participants, the pattern is seen as reliable, but the standard deviation indicates that individual responses are unlikely to be as reliably predictable for a member of either group. It is however notable that the standard deviation for white-collar employees (ranging from 58.5% to 83.5%) is much higher than for blue-collar employees (ranging from 56.3% to 71.7%), indicating more stability in blue-collar employee responses.
These surveys also asked about positivity trends, which are reflected in the comments in chart 11. As can be seen in that chart, on average both groups generally felt they were shifting slightly toward approach responses, and toward passive rather than active avoidance responses. No significance is attributed to this data due to small shifts and comparatively large standard deviations.
Chart 11. Response schema prevalence: White-Collar vs Blue-Collar
A comparisons of avoidance response schema-types shows that white-collar employees are more likely, on average, to be active in their responses, and less likely to let upsets go. This may reflect their generally higher power-positioning within the workforce, speculation supported by comments made by white-collar participants concerning their experiences and expectations of frequent and broad-ranging responsibility, autonomy and accountability.
Chart 12. Avoidance response type prevalence: All groups
Intrinsic Employee Motivation Research Limitations
Observations not detailed in this report were that there were no distinctions from region to region, between age groups, or between males and females. The only significant pattern not detailed here is the high level of congruence experienced in their most recent roles by job applicants who were made redundant after medium or longer (3+ years) periods of service. This was supported through open-ended questioning in personal interviews as an indicator that they were fulfilled in that position and at the time of completing the survey were looking to replicate that experience (as a known enabler of congruence).
It should be noted that, as most participants were job applicants, there is likely to have been a tendency to present a preferred view of themselves. However, there was no evidence of this as a reliable pattern. With data interpreted as a comparison between individuals and groups rather than as stand-alone objective measurements, the trend was more important than specific answers of individuals. For data integrity, no participants were excluded as “outliers”, irrespective of responses.
Each of the four workplace needs has been weighted equally in these findings. This means that measures of need level and incongruences are not directly comparable – for example, there is no quantification of the impact of connection versus task reward. There are also likely to be differences between individuals due to variations and fluctuations in need fulfilment or incongruences outside of work. For that reason, although comparisons are made, there is no assertion that a large (uncontrollable) incongruence in one area of need is therefore the largest source of distress or motivator of change. Rather, larger incongruences have suggested “lower-hanging-fruit” and room for management innovation for rapid improvement to productively-directed effort and engagement.
Conversations with participants showed a general trend of a more transactional approach to work (an exchange of labour or hours for payment) for those who had lower levels of intrinsic motivation and engagement at work and a more unstable work history. This is consistent with the predictions and research of self-determination theory, where it was found that a dominance of extrinsic motivation does not support discretionary effort, engagement, fulfilment or well-being (3).
Neural consistency, relating to the compatibility of beliefs, values, ethics, feelings, intuition and implicit memory systems in general, as shown in the Integrated Model of Workplace Engagement, is an important influence on engagement and well-being that is not explored by this research. Consequently, the extent of controllable incongruences as intrinsic motivation for action and prevalence of approach and avoidance responses alone cannot be a stand-alone measure of employee engagement.
Extrinsic motivation was not explored in this research specifically, as the intention was to explore work motivation in the context of employee engagement rather than basic compliance. Research has found that extrinsic motivation doesn’t enhance problem-solving, creativity or flexibility (18, 19). Specifically, financial rewards were found to decrease capacity for problem-solving, complex tasks and difficult goals (20, 21). It can be speculated that this reduced cognitive capacity arises from the motivation system’s habit of reward anticipation bringing forward the financial reward, changing the motivational schema from approach (acting to gain the reward) to avoidance (acting to prevent its loss).
Discussion and Implications
That a gap between basic need level (intrinsic motivation) and its fulfilment exists for more than a short period indicates that it is likely to be an uncontrollable incongruence, serving as a motivator for distress, disengagement and change through avoidance responses (fight or flight) rather than for ideally-directed productive effort. Employers may wish to create incongruences to change attention, effort and behaviour, but to avoid disengagement must empower employees (efficacy) to act to resolve them, as they are intrinsically motivated to do. Both high extrinsic motivation and uncontrollable incongruences are linked to reduced employee well-being and dominantly avoidance responses (3, 4).
Connection is the most-fulfilled workplace motivational need and with small variances across all groups, unlikely to be a major cause of sustained employee engagement or disengagement. This may be because the need for connection is so strong that people are unable to tolerate workplace environments where incongruences are uncontrollable, acting urgently to avoid either isolation & exclusion or feeling socially vulnerable & overwhelmed. There is some support for this through comments expressed in interviews as past or present motivation to remain at a workplace (or in a team at a workplace) where congruence was enhanced, or to leave despite having bills to pay and no better option arranged where incongruences were felt to be uncontrollable.
It is also possible that connection is the most fulfilled need because most employees can regulate their workplace choices and interactions to best fit their need level and type. For example, a person with a high connection need is more likely to be attracted to a customer-facing or team-based vocation or role in a workplace that is known to be highly sociable than someone who prefers to work alone and would feel uncomfortable in those situations. Similarly, an employee may wish to spend time gossiping and forming social bonds, perhaps even organising activities outside of work, where others in the same workplace and role may prefer privacy and to socialise with their family.
This result suggests that “bonding” and other team-building activities may be less effective than hoped in increasing employee engagement, but that they may still be useful for improving understanding, trust and coordination through gossip (as the human version of social grooming (22) necessary for relationship-building) on the basis that employees are not forced to socialise more than they wish, or made to feel socially unsafe or overwhelmed.
Linked to self-esteem, social place and the search for meaning and purpose, identity is the next-best fulfilled workplace need. This suggests that most employees would prefer more recognition, appreciation and positive feedback but, although nominated as a cause for reduced effort in participant interviews, was not often cited as a core motivator for job change. The openness often expressed in conversations to supportive, solution-oriented and honest negative feedback also suggests that although positive feedback is naturally preferred, the honesty and respect that comes with open, prompt and solution-oriented negative feedback is generally welcome too.
The fulfilment level in identity can also be internally supported to some extent, with employees reflecting positively on achievements and social standing without regular external reinforcement through the words of superiors. However, the neuroscience of motivation ensures that sincere, positive personal feedback relating to specific efforts and behaviours will increase or reinforce motivation for repetition of similar action choices, irrespective of whether there is an existing significant fulfilment deficit.
The general lack of inspiration through sharing of an inspiring vision by leaders identified as the most desirable leadership behaviour by Kouzes and Posner (23), and identified in interviews as uncommon, suggests that there may also be further identity fulfilment or reinforcement possible by doing so. However, for many the vision of a productive day’s work or pleasing peers, managers or customers may serve a similar “purpose” function in preserving or enhancing identity, albeit on a more modest or task-specific scale.
On a task-by-task basis, empowerment can be most directly linked to work performance. Having the information, resources, skills and ability to get on with the job is critical in that regard, and things that get in the way, such as being kept in the dark, feeling incapable or being micro-managed are highly distressing. This is exacerbated by the inability of many employees to act to resolve those incongruences. It is then unsurprising that, on average, blue-collar employees feel significantly less empowered than white collar employees simply through being less able to influence task requirements, action choices, resource availability, decisions and information flow.
There are challenges for managers wishing to improve employee empowerment. An increasingly apparent one of those is in the need for transparency, process, auditability and accountability that forces organisations to adopt and discipline employees to rigid rules, policies and procedures. The second is the often erroneous feeling that giving more autonomy and control to subordinates in turn reduces the control leveraged by managers.
The ideal approach to enabling empowerment congruence is to communicate (at macro and micro levels), train, support and set boundaries – and then to allow employees to self-regulate to the extent possible within those restrictions and guidelines considering their capacity to do so. This satisfies the need for orientation (I understand how things work and why) and control (competence and autonomy), in turn enabling employees to act and behave in ways that meet role requirements and their own drive for self-determination. Or, put another way, it creates an extrinsic framework for intrinsic motivation and fulfilment.
Task reward has the highest need level and the lowest congruence, suggesting it is likely to be the most fertile opportunity for increasing employee motivation, fulfilment and engagement. There are however some challenges. For example, if someone is highly experienced, expert and efficient at performing a task, it is unlikely that an employer will be keen to shift that employee to another task simply because they are, as they perceive it, a bit bored. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t opportunities to add variety or interest.
There are limitations to the enjoyment a role or task can offer – but that doesn’t mean improvements aren’t possible without compromising quality, productivity or safety. There are also limitations on available learning opportunities – but often through neglect where continual learning and skill advancement (also linked to empowerment) is not seen as a worthwhile investment by a now-focused employer.
Perhaps the biggest stumbling block for managers is the reticence to offer challenges that motivate extra attention, effort and reward. The motivation valuation system places a high value on high-effort, high-reward activities, so it is entirely natural that employees look forward to and enjoy these highly stimulating and productive tasks or projects. There is a proviso here – if the risk attached to a challenge is perceived as too high, and/or success is perceived as not entirely or mostly controllable, an avoidance response is likely as the same motivational valuation system values the prospect of loss twice as highly as the possibility of gain. If a challenge or task is long or complex, there is also a weighting away from delayed gratification, so that motivation is greater when larger tasks and projects are broken down into more immediately-achievable chunks or milestones.
For employers who wish to improve employee engagement through the potential of increasing task reward and motivation, there are some practical restrictions on task variety and enjoyment that can be hard to overcome simply because of the nature of the work to be done – not everything can be interesting, comfortable, pleasant or exciting. However, there is little to stop employers from upskilling employees in areas that relate to current work, or more generally in areas of interest and/or future potential. There are two risks here – one is of paying for employees to outgrow their jobs, and the other is in not having an internal funnel of continually-improving employees who have proven themselves and fit within the workplace standards and culture ready for new responsibilities and challenges.
The neuroscience of motivation ensures that task reward, as a trigger of the powerful dopamine system, is not only an in-process motivator, but part of shaping reward anticipation, which in turn serves as motivation for future behaviours. Immediacy is also an emotional bias, where a reward now is valued over a reward later (a bird in the hand being preferable to two in the bush). This means that where an employer builds rewards in to a task or set of tasks (achievement of milestones, positive recognition, enjoyable interactions), the act of performing the task, becomes more rewarding, and therefore more appealing in future. Similarly, reflection on efforts and achievements enhances and extends the dopamine hit that comes from completion, again increasing reward in the present and motivation for repeats in the future. This can mean, for example, that an experience of successfully overcome challenge in a supportive and rewarding environment is likely to be highly motivational when a similar opportunity arises in the future, supporting discretionary effort and an approach response schema for enhanced cooperativeness and problem-solving.
Within a range of tolerance for individual differences, white-collar employees on average nominated higher levels of motivation across all categories of basic workplace need than blue-collar employees. They also nominated a higher likelihood of approach responses. This may be the source of their appetite for extra responsibility, risk and reward, or may be a result of having rewarding experiences doing those things in the past. DNA encoding, motivational neuroscience and neuroplasticity strongly suggest that a combination of those reinforcing each other is most likely.
Incongruence, presumed to be uncontrollable due to not being resolved as individuals are motivated to do, is common across all groups and areas of need. Accordingly, enabling the maintenance of congruences and the resolution of incongruences in ways that are supportive of organisational needs and culture is likely to improve employee performance and behaviour. Further, where those pathways to achieving or enhancing congruence are non-threatening and biased toward enhancing fulfilment, an approach-schema is likely, facilitating cooperativeness, problem-solving, emotional management and well-being. Where the pathway to achieving or maintaining congruence is through avoiding loss, a quick avoidance response can be expected aimed at physical, but not cognitive or cooperative, activity and may or might not be the one imagined or hoped for by the manager.
For these reasons, where employers recognise their capacity to enable employees (existing and prospective) to supportively pursue congruence in ways that are desirable for the organisation and its culture, they are more likely to enable superior employee engagement, performance, cooperativeness, fulfilment and well-being.
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December 20, 2021
Deputy Minister, Patrick Case
Education Equity Secretariat
Dear Deputy Minister Case,
On behalf of the Toronto District School Board, I am writing to ask for guidance, resources, and funding to support professional learning for our staff to identify, address and eliminate incidents of hate and racism to maintain a school system that is free from discrimination and harassment.
Currently, the Board has dedicated resources and strategies to support 2SLGBTQ+ students and staff along with addressing anti-Black and anti-Asian racism. However, we recognize that this is not enough. The recent Integrity Commissioner’s report suggests that the TDSB has significant learning to do to build an understanding of antisemitism and Islamophobia.
Our Director of Education, Colleen Russell-Rawlins, has put in motion a three-point plan, including the creation of an internal staff team that includes external secondments, to deepen learning in these two areas. To ensure effective development and implementation, we are seeking funding and resources from you to help bring this to fruition.
The TDSB’s Human Rights Office has been working tirelessly to support and inspire the creation and preservation of a proactive, inclusive, and transformational culture of human rights. The mission to achieve equitable outcomes in TDSB learning and working environments that are free from discrimination and harassment is a continuous effort put forth by staff, students, and families. However, incidents of racism and discrimination are still prevalent in our school system. Every incident of hate is now tracked and monitored through the Racism, Bias, and Hate Portal (RBH), an online system, managed by our Human Rights Office, which enables incident reporting on racism and hate incidents involving or impacting students in schools.
The Board is committed to supporting educators in responding to historical and present-day acts of oppression and injustice as they arise. We continue to engage in the provision of initiatives and opportunities to equip our students with the tools they need to be inclusive and respectful members of society. As a Board, we are committed to ensuring the same for Trustees.
For the reasons mentioned above, we are asking that you provide funding support.
As always, I am happy to continue this conversation at your earliest convenience.
Chair, Toronto District School Board
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You can find Headquarters Coworking on the corner of Stewart Avenue and Church Street in Historic Downtown Kissimmee.
The original building was built and designed by W.B. Harris and was the previous home to the Kissimmee Valley Gazette, our town newspaper that still exists today. We renamed the building Headquarters Coworking in 2018 because of the sheer number of great companies that have been headquartered in this building, including Kissimmee Police and Fire in the 1940s, and the many more that will be in the future. The Headquarters Coworking building was completely renovated in 2006 with modern upgrades while maintaining its historic charm by its previous owners, Bill & Kathy Groover, and Joe Jordan who built Jordan Norris Printing and operated it for nearly 40 years.
Headquarters Coworking is just steps away from local coffee shops and lunch spots, as well as Kissimmee City Hall, the Osceola County Courthouse and the Kissimmee Police Department.
As of July 2020, Headquarters Coworking is powered by solar via KUA’s Community Solar Program.
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Sony’s Norio Ohga is a classically trained musician and conductor. In contrast, Steve Jobs is clearly not a classical music lover (and indeed is reportedly partially deaf). If he were a classical aficionado, the iPod would not be as poorly designed for classical music.
I have started backing up my extensive CD collection (99% classical) using the new Apple Lossless Encoder, and switched from my original 5GB iPod (which does not support ALE) to a new 15GB model, with half the upgrade paid for with my universal upgrade plan. I had actually started with straight uncompressed PCM audio, but while the old iPod nominally supported it, its hard drive or buffering algorithm would have a hard time keeping up the 1.5 Mbps flow of data required and often skip. I only used my old iPod on flights, where the ambient noise would drown out the low quality of MP3s, but the new one is a better device, specially when coupled with high-quality earphones from Etymotic Research, and I may use it more regularly.
The simplistic Artist/Album/Song schema is completely inadequate for classical music, where you need Composer/Performer/Album/Opus/Movement. This can be kludged by dropping Album and using it for the Opus instead, and fortunately in recent versions of iTunes and the iPod software, there is a field for Composer (which wasn’t there when the iPod was first released). The Gracenote online database CDDB is not normalized in any way, and rekeying the metadata is actually the most time-consuming part of the whole process (we have Sony and Philips to thank for this monumental oversight in the CD format).
Even then there still are flaws. If you have two different interpretations of the same piece by different performers, the iPod will interleave the tracks from both of them, so you have to add numbers to the Album field (used for Opus) to distinguish between them. If you use the “keep organized” option, folders are named after the artist rather than the composer, which is rather inconvenient and illogical. It could be worse: earlier versions of the iPod would actualy force pauses between tracks, which basically sabotaged dramatic transitions, like the one in J. S. Bach’s Magnificat between the aria “Quia respexit” and the thundering chorus of “Omnes Generationes”.
In passing, I have to tip my hat to Apple for pulling off one of the greatest scams in consumer history since the Bell Telephone company made people accept time-based billing for telephone use. Compare the 99 cents you pay for an individual track on the iTunes Music Store with the $18.99 list price for a Compact Disc (in most classical albums, you want the whole album, not just some stray bits of goodness in a sea of force-bundled filler material).
Instead of a high-quality 16-bit 44.1kHz PCM audio stream (or even better if you use one of the competing multichannel high-resolution formats SACD or DVD-Audio, although the difference is very subtle), you are paying for low-quality AAC files (I am the first one to admit that for most pop music, adding noise or distortion actually improves the signal to noise ratio). You also receive the dubious benefits of Digital Rights Management (i.e. they infringe on your fair use rights to protect the record industry cartel’s and get their acquiescence). No booklet, no durable storage medium, no possibility of resale.
The iPod interface also seems to be poorly internationalized, unlike iTunes. It mangles the names of Antonín Dvořák or Bohuslav Martinů, but oddly enough not those of Camille Saint-Saëns or Béla Bartók.
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The concept behind TV pioneer Tom Weinberg’s Media Burn Archive was simply to preserve independently produced videos. “What we’ve been doing for the past 40 years matters,” he explains. “If we don’t save videos as a view into the cultural past, no one will ever see it.”
Over the past 10 years, the nonprofit organization has collected, restored and digitized more than 7,000 such videos from a variety of non-digital sources.
Its online collection of more than 3,000 titles at mediaburn.org has generated more than 13 million global views and appeared in documentaries of all sizes and budgets.
One of the most popular videos they captured was during a 1975 San Francisco cultural gathering called “Media Burn.” Organized by Ant Farm art collective, it climaxed with a 1959 Cadillac driving through a wall of burning televisions in the Cow Palace parking lot.
“A freeze frame of the collision “went all over the world,” Weinberg remembers. “It was on the front page of hundreds and hundreds of newspapers.”
That’s just one scene from the viral videos that Weinberg and his friends began making with handheld and remote devices long before GoPros, camera phones, selfies and the Internet were a thing.
“We did things nobody had done,” he says. “That really begat the Internet. It begat YouTube. It begat all the video where people can see themselves.” Archive began with Weinberg’s Image Union collection.
Media Burn Archive was founded with Weinberg’s own vast personal collection. It includes 300 episodes of his iconic Image Union that showcases the work of Chicago independent filmmakers and is still on the air, since 1978. Weinberg produced the first 11 seasons of those seasons.
Thereafter, he explains, “We began adding individual, independent producer’s work that’s in sync with ours. All are independently made documentaries, not commercially oriented.”
The labor required to convert the material from analog to digital is nothing compared to the benefit of preserving the fruits of guerrilla television, a channel of communications that covers what the mainstream media generally ignores, he says.
Changing the way content was captured
Weinberg and his associates recognized the importance of the guerilla genre in 1967, when Sony introduced the first Portapak — a battery-powered, self-contained an analog video rig called the DV-2400. Although the cameras were designed to film things like corporate training, they used them capture the era’s artistic, political and social happenings.
“We made them for personal use,” he explains. “The first portable personal video that TV ever aired was our video of the 1972 Democratic and Republican national conventions.”
Since the footage could be reviewed as soon as they shot it, Mr. Weinberg got a first-hand look at the way people transform when they’re in front of a camera. “We’d show it to people on a TV monitor right there,” he says.
Three decades later, the phenomenon would become part of Weinberg’s expanded definition of “media burn” as well as an essential component of American politics.
“I use the term ‘media burn’ as a concept for what happens when people are on TV,” he explains. “Donald Trump is one of the great examples. There’d be no ‘Donald Trump for President’ if he hadn’t had a TV show.”
Supported by grants and a video digitizing service
The non-profit is run by executive director Sara Chapman, whom Weinberg recruited after she graduated from the University of Chicago in 2004 and whom he highly praises for her talent and management skills.
Dan Erdman is the archivist supported by three to five volunteers and interns. Their 1,000-sq. ft. office, “with a fantastic view,” Weinberg says, in a loft building in River North at 935 W. Chestnut.
Media Burn Archive is largely supported by grants from such organizations the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation and individual contributions that are used for specific archival projects.
Other important funders include the National Endpwment for the Arts, National Historical Publications, the Richard H. Dreihause Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council and the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
One way Media Burn meets its monthly obligations is by providing a paid service that digitizes producer’s videos as a way of preserving them for the future.
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We believe it is essential that all students receive a solid grounding in current scientific understandings, values and skills for them to function in our modern world that is increasingly shaped by the application of Science to nearly every aspect of daily life.
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CBD may be the acronym for cannabidiol. grossiste cbd suisse has been used by people for a long period and helps to get rid of the outward indications of many common ailments. Recently it had been found that a number of common problems such as lack of cognitive abilities, mental disorders, stress and anxiety, and both internal and exterior pain can be relieved through CBD oil in any variety. CBD is usually extracted from the marijuana plant nonetheless it is not psychoactive in nature because of the absence of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Many consumers prefer the use of CBD oil over normal medicines because of its quick impact and fast healing from the troubling symptoms.
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CBD essential oil has been found to help the heart grow stronger. It helps the circulatory system of the individual and in addition helps in preventing high blood pressure.
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CBD oil can also relieve certain cancer-related symptoms, according to the latest study. CBD helps in alleviating pain and vomiting caused by chemotherapy.
Continuous usage of CBD on both animals and humans has also shown results on reducing depression and panic. It has certain properties because of which it acts much like a normal anti-depressant.
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Students' mural honors 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry
Royal Valley students would like to see memorial in Statehouse
MAYETTA — Three years ago, students at Royal Valley Middle School in Mayetta researched the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry and created a 4-by-8-foot mural to honor the service of the soldiers during the Civil War.
Today, the mural is on display at Watkins Museum of History in Lawrence. Some of the students, now sophomores at Royal Valley High School, will be among the presenters during this year’s Civil War on the Western Frontier, a series of events in Douglas County that take place Monday through Aug. 22. The events commemorate the role the area played in the Civil War and remember the people killed in the raid on Lawrence by Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill on Aug. 21, 1863.
The Royal Valley students will talk about their mural at 2 p.m. Saturday at Watkins Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St.
“We never know everything from history, and there are always stories to tell. This is one of those stories,” said Nathan McAlister, a history teacher at Royal Valley Middle School who coordinated the mural project. “The goal is to get recognition for these men in the (state) Capitol.”
McAlister said the idea for the mural came about when the students were studying the Civil War and the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry, the first African-Americans recruited by the North for service in the war.
McAlister said he learned the Legislature had passed a bill years earlier that authorized the Department of Administration and the Kansas Historical Society to develop plans for a mural to commemorate the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry that would be placed in the Capitol’s new visitor center. He also learned little had been done to establish the mural.
The students decided to embark on a project to research the infantry — its origin, battles and legacy — and use the information to design and create a mural.
“Every seventh-grader was involved at some time,” McAlister said, adding at least 70 students took part in some way.
Cory Triplett, art teacher at Royal Valley Middle School, guided the students in fall 2012 as they designed a 20-by-40-inch mock mural, which they hoped to take to the Statehouse if they were able to get an audience with legislators. A $750 grant from the History Channel paid for the materials to make the mock mural, which the students worked on for three months.
In early 2013, McAlister said, the project received an interpretative grant of about $1,500 from Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area to buy materials to complete the larger mural.
“We started in January or February 2013 on the big mural and finished it in mid-June (2013),” Triplett said. “The students did most of the painting.”
Student Kyle Stithem said the mural begins with an enslaved African-American family breaking free of their chains and progresses to the black regiment in battle and then to the fight for equal rights for all Americans.
Once the work was done, McAlister said, they started getting contacted by historical groups who wanted to display the mural and have the students make a presentation.
In early November 2013, the mural and students traveled to the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The mural was on display January through May at the Lane County Historical Society Museum in Dighton and will be on display throughout August at the Watkins Museum. The artwork will be shown January through May at the Jackson County Historical Museum in Holton.
While the recognition of the students’ work is rewarding, McAlister said the goal of the project remains the same: to get a mural in the Statehouse to recognize the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry.
“I look forward to seeing that mural in the Capitol and knowing we were a part of it,” student Kyle Meyer said.
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Christie’s auction house took another step last week to secure its position at the forefront of the intersection between art and technology. They launched an in-house investment fund, ‘Christie’s Ventures’, which aims to offer financial support and guidance to startups in the developing field of technology and fintech.
Over the past few years, Christie’s has firmly established itself as one of the most prominent art institutions in the area of art and technology. In 2018, the auction house’s inaugural conference Art+Tech Summit was held, and each year since the summit has explored new themes in the art and technology world. In its first year, the conference theme was Exploring Blockchain, and since then they have addressed topics such as the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Revolution, Mixed Reality, and NFTs and Beyond. They were also the first auction house to accept cryptocurrency and to sell an individual NFT when they sold Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5,000 Days in March 2021 for $69.3m with fees.
According to Devang Thakkar, Global Head of Christie’s Ventures, who spoke at the company’s Art+Tech Summit last week, the new venture capital fund will focus on three emerging areas in the art-technology world: “We have three pillars we’re looking at, one of which is Web3, one of the other pillars is investing in better ways of viewing art, that is, technology that improves how you consume art. The third pillar is around the financial innovation in the art market, technology that makes it easier to actually acquire art objects.”
Christie’s Ventures has already invested in Canadian company LayerZero Labs, a company which “enables the realization of cross-chain applications” – essentially allowing for people to move digital assets across different blockchains. Bryan Pellegrino, co-founder of LayerZero Labs, said in a statement: “we look forward to working with the [Christie’s] team to find new and innovative ways to create the most accessible, frictionless experience with assets indexed over multiple blockchains”.
On the auction house’s motivation for embarking on this new project, Thakkar explained, “we’ve been at the forefront of technology for a long time, for example we’ve had live auctions where you can bid from your phone. Then our thinking shifted over the pandemic. We decided, we can’t just take what someone builds and plug it in, if we want something that is very customized, we should actually take an investment position and guide the founders to make something that is the right thing for the art market.”
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Lesson 2 – What is Forex?
Those of you who are completely new to Forex trading, or trading in general and are trying to find grip, I understand the pain. It can be a very overwhelming world, but it doesn’t have to be.
To put it in as simply as possible, forex, also known as foreign exchange (FX), is the practice of trading one currency for another.
Heres a quick example to illustrate:
Have you ever been on a trip abroad and had to exchange your United States Dollars (USD) for Euro (EUR) or perhaps the Japanese Yen (JPY).
If you’e answered yes, then you technically already have experience as a forex trader.
However, I’m entirely certain you didn’t make any money on that trade.
The Forex market, which you are here to learn about and how to trade it is made up of the worlds biggest decentralized trading network that allows you to trade currencies from the entire world.
And when I say biggest, I mean it.
The Forex market has a daily trading volume of over 5.1 Trillion United States Dollars.
There you go, a big number.
This is quite astounding, especially if you compare it with the stock exchange markets in the world which add up to a daily trading volume of about 260 Billion United States Dollars.
Therefore, forex is by far the biggest and most liquid trading market on the planet, so the opportunity to find an advantage and make profit is definitely abundant.
Furthermore, one of the key reasons its so popular for traders is that is open for a trade 24 hours a day on weekdays.
However, don’t worry, what we teach in this course will not require you to sit in front of your screen all day. Plus, the weekends are yours as the markets are closed so you can lay back and reflect on your past weeks trades.
Who trades Forex?
Government central banks are a very big heavyweight in the pace as they have the responsibility of regulating and maintaining stability of the price movement in their own currency.
A central banks decisions, such as how they choose to set the interest rates, can bring about strong movements in the price of their currency in relation to others. And we as traders know their main aim is to stabiliize inflation of their currency, while also stimulating their own economy via the forex market valuing their currency as they want.
Central banks tend to aim for a stable inflation rate of 2% per year, as this is a happy medium between growing an economy and devaluing a currency too much that people start to protest.
Commercial and Investment Banks are also large players on the foreign exchange markets. They have their own trading floors where they either need a foriegn currency for a transaction, when they try to capitalize in currency price movements and finally to hedge (mitigate risk) their portfolios with an ‘opposite’ currency.
Big Businesses are also involved in the forex markets, depending of course on how much international business they are involved in. When they do business on an international scale, companies will engage in import and/or export for their goods and/or services. And they will need different currencies other than what they use at home.
This means that when they pay for things overseas, they need to buy the foreign currency and sell their own currency first.
And they use the forex markets to do so.
Finally, there are the retail traders. That’s you and me!
There are many strategies (more on a few further in the course) that individual traders and investors use when trading forex, stocks, commodities etc. But the core goal is to gain a profit by accurately predicting future market movements and price swings.
Now bear in mind, there is a significant difference between people who trade forex and people who successfully trade forex. This is fairly obvious, but especially true for retail traders due to lack of training and experience.
With the help of this course and website, we will hopefully turn you into a successful and knowledgeable forex market participant.
Why Trade Forex?
As mentioned, forex is the largest and most liquid market in the world by far, by a long shot. Therefore, due to the large amount of liquidity, traders have nearly limitless opportunities to make trades and find advantages for profit.
Liquidity also gives security. You will always be able to buy or sell your currencies with ease. As opposed to stocks, commodities etc which may not have a buyer or seller for the asset you would like to buy or sell.
Or real estate, where the liquidity is low. Perhaps you’d like to sell your investment property and are stuck for months before you connect with a suitable buyer.
Well, forex has none of these disadvantages.
Liquidity also enables brokers to manipulate market prices and therefore the transaction fees are notoriously low. This is profit straight into your account vs dealing with the high fees of the stock world or the extortionate fees of penny stocks.
Furthermore, the forex market is open 24 hours a day, monday to friday and its the worlds most readily accessible and available market.
This allows traders like you and I to fit their trading schedule around full or part time work, unlike other markets which are open only around the workday, closing at 5pm.
All these factors result in an opportunity where people can make money, safely, from wherever they are in the world, at whatever time they like (during the week). It can help you find your financial freedom, giving you further opportunities that you would not normally have access to.
As long as you have the drive, determination and dedication to study and learning. You can become successful in the forex markets, and with the help of this course. We can get you there.
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For the Gibb brothers, Barry, Maurice, Robin, and Andy, musical talent ran in the family. All four of them accomplished great things in the music industry, the first three as a group, and the youngest of them all, Andy, as a solo artist.
The famous siblings were exposed to music from the moment they were born. Their mother, Barbara, was an established singer, and their father Hugh, was a bandleader, drummer, and performer where he lived, in the Isle of Man. So it didn’t really come as a surprise that their children were gifted and interested in music from very early age.
The Ultimate Biography of The Bee Gees: Tales of The Brothers Gibb reveals a fun story related to how Barbara realized her boys were talented. Namely, one day when she got home she saw her father-in-law watching TV as loud singing could be heard coming from the other room. She supposed it was the radio, so she offered to lower the volume down, not realizing it was her sons who produced the beautiful sound. At the time, Barry was 9, and the twins, Maurice and Robin, were only 6.
That was an incident that made her and her husband understand that their children were meant for great things, and they were right as their group, Bee Gees, would become one of the most famous and most renowned ones there are, with selling more than 200 million records worldwide.
In 1957, Barry formed his first group together with his brothers and two other friends. It was named The Rattlesnakes, but it didn’t last long because the Gibb family moved to Australia and left Manchester behind. Once in their new home, Barry decided to change the group’s name and that’s how Bee Gees was born.
“Though it is widely believed that the Bee Gees first got their name from being the Brothers Gibb, this meaning did not come until a few years after their founding. When the brothers moved to Australia in 1958, they began playing on the radio with friends Bill Goode and Bill Gates,” the group’s website explains the story behind the name.
The group’s name was originally The BG’s – contrived from the common initials between Barry Gibb, Bill Goode, and Bill Gates. The name then evolved from The BG’s to the Bee Gees, which eventually came to mean the Brothers Gibb!”
In 1975, Bee Gees had their first No.1 with Jive Talkin. One year later, they again topped the charts with You Should Be Dancing.
Responsible for embodying the disco era of the late 1970s, the group’s remarkable music made them known and loved worldwide. Not only they wrote each of their songs, but they did music for other authors as well. Their 1977 Saturday Night Fever soundtrack represents the turning point of their career, with both the film and soundtrack having a cultural impact throughout the world, enhancing the disco scene’s mainstream appeal.
Hits like Staying Alive, Night Fever, and How Deep Is Your Love topped the charts.
They won a Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Group in 1977, and two for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo in 1978.
The Bee Gees were awarded the Grammy Legends Award in 2003. In 2015, they received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
As these three brothers conquered the world of music, their youngest sibling, Andy Gibb, was pursuing a career on his own, and he was very successful at what he did.
When he performed in Australia, he was usually introduced like the youngest brother of the Bee Gees. That wasn’t something that bothered him, but at the same time, he felt like he wasn’t acknowledged enough as a musician on his own.
“I was a Gibb, but out in the bush or the sticks of Australia, you know, you could be anybody,” Andy said in 1985.
“So the ‘Bee Gees’ was a selling power, but let’s be honest, in the long run, it has been nothing but a great advantage. Because I wouldn’t, who knows what would have happened, I might be here without their help, but I mean the fact is they did help me, and it was a tremendous start, it was a tremendous success.
“Looking back, almost a little too much too soon, too young, because I peaked and then I died for a while and I am just now starting to try and get my feet back on the ground, but other great advantages are just having wonderful musically gifted brothers who always help me and always advise me on anything.”
Andy couldn’t cope with the fame and turned to drugs and alcohol, addictions that would lead to him losing his life just five days after turning 30.
In March, 1988, Andy complained of severe chest and abdominal pain and was rushed to the hospital. Unfortunately, he passed away three days later of inflammation of the heart, officially resulting from a viral infection.
His passing affected many. His many fans were devastated to hear the news, and his brothers were left utterly heartbroken.
It looked like Andy’s ex-wife Kim Reeder, with whom he had daughter Peta Gibb, was the only one who wasn’t surprised.
“I always knew that one day I’d get a call with news like this,” she told People. “It was only a matter of time.”
Barry Gibb was crushed. He had a hard time coping with Andy’s loss, just like the rest of the brothers.
Unfortunately, Maurice and Robin died too. Maurice died after collapsing in his home in Miami in 2003. Robin died in 2012. Barry is the only living brother of the Gibb family.
Losing the siblings with whom he reached the starts was a huge shock for Barry. Even today, he feels deep sorrow and immense grief, especially because at the time of their passing, he wasn’t in good terms with any of them.
“My greatest regret is that every brother I’ve lost was in a moment when we weren’t getting on, so I have to live with that, and I’ll spend the rest of my life reflecting on that,” Barry revealed in an interview with Australian show Sunday Night.
“I’m the last man standing. I’ll never be able to understand that as I’m the eldest.”
With tears in his eyes, Barry explained how close the brothers were throughout the years.
“Nobody ever really knows what the three of us felt about each other,” he said. “Only the three of us knew.
“It was such a unifying thing. The three of us became one person. We all had the same dream. That’s what I miss more than anything else.”
Bee Gees were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame “as an iconic group that produced a decades-spanning catalog of timeless music.”
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This looks like a great community and an excellent place to share experiences.
A quick question for the more experienced educators out there:
What is the best way to form groups for face to face classes? Should we let the students form their groups on their own? Allocate them randomly? or Hand pick them according to field, interest so on...?
Do not let them decide their groups on their own in an elementary school curriculum. Because then they will have this tendency to stick on to the ones they are close with, leaving some neglected! Allocate them randomly. Children of different tastes and interests should come together in one group so that their ideas would blend in and produce better results!
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Wild Geese Sorrow renders full the story of Chinese immigrants detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910-1940. Based upon new translations of the mostly anonymous poems carved into the men's barracks walls, these words express the deep anger, sorrow, and loneliness felt by the detainees, and are a powerful testament to human resiliency and perseverance everywhere.
About the Author
Jeffrey Thomas Leong is a poet and writer born in Southern California and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds an MFA degree from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a BA and JD from the University of California at Berkeley, where he helped found the Asian American Studies program in the 1970s. For over twenty years he worked as a public health administrator and attorney for the City of San Francisco.
His writing has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Cimarron Review, Bamboo Ridge, Hyphen, Cha: A Literary Journal, Spillway, Eleven Eleven Literary Journal, Poetry Flash, and elsewhere. He lives with his wife and daughter in the East Bay.
“Jeffrey Thomas Leong is a fine poet, and his translations of 70 of the poems are nuanced,
affecting, and informed by a haunting but astringent music. They do commendable justice
to the Angel Island poets, writers who were not welcomed to these shores—but who
nevertheless made a crucial and indelible contribution to our national literary culture.”
— David Wojahn, author of Interrogation Palace
“Jeffrey Leong’s Wild Geese Sorrow is a marvelous translation of the wall poems written by Chinese held at Angel Island, California, from 1910-1940, during their immigration review. His keenly nuanced translations follow the lineation of the original poems and juxtapose images that show their classical poetic lineage. Most importantly, he humanizes each speaker by articulating the emotional pressure behind each poem. In a time of antiimmigrant sentiment, this book is important reading for all Americans.”
—Arthur Sze, author of The Red-Shifting Web
“This beautiful book is haunted by the sad and angry presence of nameless men who
carved their feelings into Angel Island walls. Leong’s translations and sequencing,
footnotes, and historical contextualization gift us with a glimpse into a world we might
otherwise never know. Why did these men leave home? What were their thoughts about
families and villages they left behind? How did they view their detention, jailers, and
interrogators? Leong unveils the diversity of their personalities and social backgrounds.
These poems are at the foundation of Asian American literature and are an essential
contribution to American literary history.”
— Elaine H. Kim, Professor of Asian American and Asian
Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley
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TCS Digital Reasoning Ability Questions & Answers - TCS
TCS Digital Reasoning Ability MCQs : This section focuses on "Reasoning Ability" of TCS Digital Exam. These Reasoning Ability MCQs are asked in previous TCS Digital Exams and will help you to prepare for upcoming TCS exam.
1. QAR, RAS, SAT, TAU, _____
Explanation: In this series, the third letter is repeated as the first letter of the next segment. The middle letter, A, remains static. The third letters are in alphabetical order, beginning with R.
2. CMM, EOO, GQQ, _____, KUU
Explanation: The first letters are in alphabetical order with a letter skipped in between each segment: C, E, G, I, K. The second and third letters are repeated; they are also in order with a skipped letter: M, O, Q, S, U.
All the pencils are pens.
All the pens are inks.
All the pencils are inks.
Some inks are pencils.
Explanation: Both 1 and 2 follows
Some dogs are bats.
Some bats are cats.
Some dogs are cats.
Some cats are dogs.
Explanation: Neither 1 and 2 follows
5. If Ananya walks less fast than Poorvi and Aditi walk as fast but not faster than Shyam; then, as compared to Ananya, Aditi walks:
Explanation: From the given information, we get the following.
Aditi = Poorvi > Ananya
Aditi walks faster than Ananya.
6. S1: If a candidate is known to be corrupt, then he will not be elected.
S2: If a candidate is kind, he will be elected.
Which one of the following statements is correct?
Explanation: From S1 elected -> not corrupt
and S2 is kind -> elected
Therefore, kind -> not corrupt =726 m3
7. Pointing to a photograph of a boy Suresh said, "He is the son of the only son of my mother." How is Suresh related to that boy?
Explanation: The boy in the photograph is the only son of the son of Suresh's mother i.e., the son of Suresh. Hence, Suresh is the father of boy.
8. In a code, CORNER is written as GSVRIV. How can CENTRAL be written in that code?
Explanation: In this, we will first find out the numerical value of the alphabet and then add 4 to it to find the new word.
9. SCD, TEF, UGH, ____, WKL
Explanation: There are two alphabetical series here. The first series is with the first letters only: STUVW. The second series involves the remaining letters: CD, EF, GH, IJ, KL.
10. Statement: Should India encourage exports, when most things are insufficient for internal use itself?
I. Yes. We have to earn foreign exchange to pay for our imports.
II. No. Even selective encouragement would lead to shortages.
Explanation: Clearly, India can export only the surplus and that which can be saved after fulfilling its own needs, to pay for its imports. Encouragement to export cannot lead to shortages as it shall provide the resources for imports. So, only argument I holds.
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Adderall is a stimulant drug prescribed for ADHD, however many will take the drug not as prescribed in order to enhance performance.
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Adderall is in a class of drugs called stimulants. They are so named because they stimulate your central nervous system. Medications similar to Adderall include:
- Methylphenidate (Ritalin, Concerta)
- Dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine)
- Sibutramine hydrochloride monohydrate (Meridia)
- Lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse)
Adderall is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. It comes in 5-30 mg tablets, as well as in extended-release (XR) capsules. For the non-extended release tablets, peak concentration in your bloodstream comes about 3 hours after taking it.
Adderall XR is released in intervals and has a more even and sustained release than the regular tablets.1,2 Adderall is usually taken 2-3 times a day, while Adderall XR is usually taken only once in the morning.3
A Brief History of Adderall
Adderall initially came out as an ADHD medication in 1994. ADHD was then known as attention deficit disorder (ADD). Adderall’s name was meant to imply “ADD for all.” Before that, it was a weight-loss drug called Obetrol.
Obetrol was taken off the market in 1974 when more laws were coming into place to control the use and misuse of stimulants.4 Adderall is today the most commonly prescribed type of stimulant.5
Use of Adderall
ADHD, as the name implies, consists of excessive inattention or hyperactivity. It is considered a disorder related to brain development, and thus it frequently begins during childhood. Inattention includes lack of focus, persistence, and organization, while hyperactivity is excessive movement and fidgeting, particularly when stillness is appropriate. The symptoms of ADHD must interfere with normal social, education, or professional goals to warrant a diagnosis.6
Adderall can also be used to treat narcolepsy, a sleep disorder of the central nervous system that involves a sudden onset of sleep, especially after intense emotions such as anger or laughter. Similar to ADHD, if you have narcolepsy, you will experience disruptions to your daily life related to the disorder.6
Off-Label Use of Adderall and Other Stimulants
Adderall is often prescribed off-label or is used to self-medicate. Off-label use means that it can be prescribed at a provider’s discretion for uses other than that approved by the FDA and the manufacturer. Self-medicating is if you take medications not prescribed to you to treat a self-diagnosed condition or enhance your performance somehow. Off-label use of Adderall includes:5
- Cognitive enhancement
It is not uncommon for Adderall to be prescribed off-label. Only 63% of adolescents and 34% of adults with stimulant prescriptions had ADHD between 2006 and 2009.5 Similarly, Adderall is considered a drug with a high potential for recreational use and misuse. For this reason, it has drawn quite a bit of controversy.7
Adderall Side Effects
Side effects of Adderall use include:1,7
- Loss of appetite
- Weight loss
- Increased heart rate
- Increased blood pressure
- Blurring vision
- Restricted blood flow to extremities
- Hallucinations or delusions
Because of the risks of more severe side effects, it is important to consider your health history before taking Adderall or similar medications. Providers should take precaution, and avoid if possible, prescribing Adderall for people with:1
- History of delusions or hallucinations
- Bipolar illness
- Known issues with aggression
- Heart problems
- Tics or Tourette’s Syndrome
- Ongoing issues with high blood pressure
- Allergy to Adderall-like medications
- History of drug misuse
Adderall can cause stroke, heart attack, or sudden death if you have any heart abnormalities.2 You should not take Adderall if you have been experiencing ongoing agitation or have taken any monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), a type of antidepressant recently.1
Prescribers are advised to prescribe the minimal effective dose of Adderall to avoid long and short-term negative effects of Adderall.
According to the manufacturer, the outcomes of long-term use of Adderall have not been studied. Even if you have ADHD or narcolepsy, it’s recommended that you are reassessed frequently to determine the usefulness and necessity of the medication.1
Adderall Addiction and Misuse
Adderall is a controlled substance, meaning the government oversees its distribution to limit overproduction and overuse. It is ranked as a Schedule II drug by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, which means that it is controlled due to its potential for psychological and physical dependence.8
One reason that Adderall has drawn concern and negative attention is this propensity for misuse. Adderall and other stimulants can cause an overload of neurological chemicals in your brain if you do not medically need it.10 The chemical changes of Adderall and other stimulant highs can involve:6
- Becoming more talkative and outgoing
- Feeling restless
- Interest in, and awareness of, others
- Repetitive behavior
- Impaired judgment
After repeated use, chronic Adderall intoxication can lead to:6
- Heart problems
- Social withdrawal
- Nausea and vomiting
- Dilated pupils
- Ringing in your ears
If you or someone you know is addicted to Adderall, treatment programs are available. Adderall addiction treatment can help address the underlying reasons for your stimulant abuse and provide you with the coping skills you need to avoid relapse.
Stimulant Use Disorder
Misuse of Adderall, cocaine, crystal meth, speed, and other stimulants fall under the umbrella of “stimulant use disorder” by the American Psychiatric Association.6 It can develop in as little as a week after repeatedly using stimulants like Adderall, although it doesn’t always happen that quickly.
A diagnosis of stimulant use disorder is warranted if you have at least some of the following experiences related to stimulants within a one-year period:6
- Taking larger amounts than intended, or over a longer period
- Persistent, unsuccessful efforts to cut down on use
- A lot of time spent getting, using, or recovering from it
- Failure to meet personal or work responsibilities as a result of use
- Continuing use even after problems related to use
- Dangerous situations
- Relationship problems
- Needing more to achieve the same high
- Taking it to avoid withdrawal
- Experiencing withdrawal
Ritalin vs. Adderall
Ritalin is a well-known medication similar to Adderall. It has a different chemical makeup than Adderall, but it is used to treat the same conditions and has a lot of the same properties. Together they are two of the most prescribed medications for ADHD.
One significant difference is that because of their makeup, Ritalin has a less abrupt onset of action, a longer duration of action. It is less likely to cause the “crash” that many Adderall users experience. Some research shows that Adderall has a higher potential for addiction.
Because they are so similar, they should be used with caution, as they can both lead to negative outcomes.3 If you do need to be on a medication like Ritalin or Adderall, prescribers can help you choose the best medication for you.
Adderall Use and Mental Illness
It is important to speak to your doctor about your Adderall use, even if it is not prescribed. Without knowing about your stimulant use, your provider may not be able to diagnose your symptoms.
Adderall intoxication and withdrawal can both mimic mental illnesses including:6
- Generalized anxiety disorder
- Panic disorder
- Mania of bipolar disorder
- Psychosis or schizophrenia
Popularity of Adderall Use in Young People
Considering that ADHD is a childhood brain disorder, it is not surprising that many children and adolescents are prescribed Adderall. Today, more than 10% of children are diagnosed with ADHD. Of that 10%, most of them, or 60-70%, take an ADHD medication, like Adderall.9
Because Adderall is often prescribed to children with ADHD, it is important to consider its effects on normal growth. Adderall is known to suppress appetite, so it is not uncommon for Adderall users to lose weight. If this happens in growing healthy children, it could suppress normal growth. Providers are advised to stop treatment with Adderall if this happens, as it can be irreversible.1
ADHD and Substance Use Disorder
Considering the propensity for misuse and recreational use of Adderall, many providers practice caution before diagnosing ADHD and prescribing Adderall. Some have shown concern that patients mimic ADHD to get a prescription for stimulants.
Adderall is not recommended if you have a history of substance misuse.1 It can be challenging at times to parse out the differences between ADHD and substance use disorder, as many of their symptoms overlap. Some of the overlapping symptoms include:11
- Unstable moods
- Emotional imbalance
- Inability to delay gratification
In many cases, people have both substance use disorder and ADHD. If you have both, it may be harder to abstain from addictive substances, and you may have higher risks of adverse events than others.
It’s important to find a provider that can be sensitive to your needs and treat your conditions with your safety and wellbeing as the utmost goal. Call 800-407-7195(Who Answers?) to speak with a treatment specialist.
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- Teva Pharmaceuticals. (2017). Adderall® CII (Dextroamphetamine Saccharate, Amphetamine Aspartate, Dextroamphetamine Sulfate and Amphetamine Sulfate Tablets). Horsham, PA.
- Sherzada, A. (2012). An analysis of ADHD drugs: Ritalin and Adderall. JCCC Honors Journal, 3(1), 2.
- Schwarz, Alan (14 December 2013). “The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder.” The New York Times.
- Brief, E. Emerging Trends in Prescription Stimulants Indicated for Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Mississippi, 2011 and 2014.
- American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.).
- Heal, D. J., Smith, S. L., Gosden, J., & Nutt, D. J. (2013). Amphetamine, past and present–a pharmacological and clinical perspective. Journal of psychopharmacology, 27(6), 479-496.
- List of Controlled Substances. (n.d.). US Drug Enforcement Agency & Department of Justice.
- Colaneri, N., Keim, S., & Adesman, A. (2017). Physician practices to prevent ADHD stimulant diversion and misuse. Journal of substance abuse treatment, 74, 26-34.
- Rasmussen, N. (2015). Amphetamine-type stimulants: the early history of their medical and non-medical uses. International review of neurobiology, 120, 9-25.
- Varga, M. D. (2012). Adderall abuse on college campuses: a comprehensive literature review. Journal of evidence-based social work, 9(3), 293-313.
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To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love
All pray in their distress
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.
These poems were written from the perspective of Christianity, but these lessons can be applied to people of any religion even to those who are atheist. In other words, these lessons can be applied to every person in the world.
Mercy, pity, peace and love are essential virtues for everyone. Whenever in distress, everyone prays to these virtues. People praise these virtues, and by doing so return their gratitude to these virtues.
For Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love
Is God our father dear,
And Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love
Is Man, his child and care.
Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love are God and the same virtues are found in men, women and children. When a person inculcates these virtues he brings himself nearer to the God.
For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity a human face
And Love, the human form divine
And Peace, the human dress.
Mercy comes from the human heart. Pity is on human face. Love is within the soul of human being. Peace is within the human body. We bestow mercy on someone from our heart. We show pity through our face. We shower love from our soul, and we are at peace within our body.
Then every man, of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine,
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.
Every person, in every part of the world prays whenever in distress. And whenever a man prays, he prays to the human form of divine.
We can compare it to the preaching of the Bhakti movement which says that you can chose to pray to the God in any form you wish, and through any method you wish. Sikhism, which is the most recent religion from India, too teaches that to serve the humankind is like serving the God.
And all must love the human form,
In heathen, turk, or jew,
Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell,
There God is dwelling too.
No matter you belong to which religion, you should always love the human being because wherever you will find mercy, love and pity, you will find the God too. One can never become spiritual with cruelty, hatred and violence in mind.
Pity would be no more
If we did not make somebody Poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
This poem is about the negative connotations of all the four virtues discussed in the previous poem. The poet says that pity cannot be there if none of us is poor. We need a poor person so that we can have pity on him. Mercy cannot be present if everyone is equally happy. We need a sad person so that we can show mercy at him.
And mutual fear brings peace,
Till the selfish loves increase,
Then cruelty knits a snare,
And spreads his baits with care.
Peace is a product of mutual fear. When the selfish love increases among people then cruelty casts its evil designs. Here, the poet has used negative senses like knitting a snare and spreading the bait to convey cruelty.
He sits down with holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears,
Then Humility takes its root
Underneath his foot.
Once cruelty has spread its bait, it settles down, but it does so with some holy fears. Cruelty also waters the ground with tears. It is only when the cruelty succeeds in casting its effects that humility is born under the feet of cruelty.
Soon spreads the dismal shade
Of Mystery over his head,
And the Caterpillar and Fly
Feed on the Mystery.
Once the cruelty is ensconced comfortably, mystery spreads its shade. Here, mystery has been used to portray the negative feelings and emotions which may come as a result of cruelty. The poet has used caterpillar and fly in the negative sense. We should keep in mind that these creatures are scavengers and feed on dead remains. Here, these creatures are feeding on mystery, or suffering.
And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the Raven his nest has made
In its thickest shade.
Suffering bears the fruit of deceit which is blood red in colour and sweet in taste. In other words, the fruit is tempting and many of us may fall to the temptation of eating the proverbial forbidden fruit. Raven is another name for crow, and it is used to portray negative things in most of the cultures. We can say that even the raven makes its home, only to worsen the situation.
The Gods of the earth and sea
Sought thro’ Nature to find this Tree,
But their search was all in vain,
There grows one in the Human Brain.
The Gods try to search the tree of doubt, which is the tree where the raven has made its nest and where caterpillar and fly get enough to eat. But the Gods fail to find the tree because that tree is not present anywhere in nature rather within the human head.
In other words, the trees of negative thoughts and emotions take root inside our brain. They are of our own making.
Question 1: How are these two matched poems related to each other in content? How is the human being depicted in the Song of Innocence and how is he/she depicted in the Song of Experience? Do we find both aspects working in an average human being?
Answer: Both the poems are about virtues which are necessary for a human being to meet the divine. In the Song of Innocence, it is all about nice virtues and positive aspects. In the Song of Experience, it is all about the negative aspects of virtues. While the first poem is about how ideal the world should be, the second poem is more about harsh realities of life.
Many of us try to instill some or all of the virtues within us. But in order to survive in life we often tend to deviate from the path. That is the situation when negative traits and feelings take roots in us.
Question 2: How would you explain the lines
For Mercy has a human heart
Pity a human face
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.
Answer: Mercy comes from the human heart. Pity is on human face. Love is within the soul of human being. Peace is within the human body.
Question 3: How do Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love get distorted in the human brain?
Answer: We know that everything has two aspects, i.e. positive and negative. So, is true for these four virtues, viz. Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love. According to the poet, pity comes because of povery, mercy comes because of unhappiness, peace comes because of mutual fear, and love comes because of cruelty. Poverty, unhappiness, fear and cruelty are the negative counterparts of the four virtues.
Question 4: Blake’s poetry expresses one aspect of his multi-dimensional view of human experience – of mankind once whole and happy, now fallen into discord and tyranny, from which it must be rescued. Explain with refernce to these two poems.
Answer: The first poem explains mankind which was once whole and happy. The poet has talked about all the virtues, which are Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love. According to the poet, these virtues are in every man and as a corollay, in the God too.
The second poem talks about the mankind falling into discord and tyranny from which it must be rescued. In the second poem, cruelty takes roots in the brain of a person and it provides enough ammunition for other negative traits to take hold.
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Hi Parents and Students
It’s often challenging to keep busy over school holidays. Here is an activity that will occupy a few hours, and help you progress your Taekwon-Do journey:
Learn about your pattern history
All 24 ITF Taekwon-Do patterns are named after a famous person or event in Korean history. Students learn a short paragraph about the pattern history as part of their syllabus. But there is so much more to each story.
Why not learn more about your own pattern history. Create a poster, write a summary, draw a cartoon, make a video, or create a diorama about the person or event for which the pattern is named.
Email Master Banicevich a scan or photographs of your work. It would be great to see what you learn!
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More than ten infants die in a government hospital in Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh.
The infants died due to poor treatment and lack of medical infrastructure at of the S V R Ruia Government General Hospital.
A relative of one of the victims, Subbamma, said that many parents had lost their children as they were not provided with medical treatment on time.
Meanwhile, hospital superintendent Veeraswamy disagreed with the allegations levelled by the family members.
"Proper and right treatment was provided on time with proper supply of oxygen to all. Most of the babies were born due to premature delivery. They were underweight and there was no possibility of their survival. The condition of few of the babies was critical and they were on the deathbed," said Dr. Veeraswamy.
India's infant mortality rates show that 48 babies per 1,000 die within the first year of birth, compared to 17 in similar emerging economies like Brazil, or 16 in China, according to the World Health Organisation.
Many rural health centers are poorly maintained and run-down, with only the most basic equipment. There are not enough health workers, and there is a high level of absenteeism due to a lack of incentives and low salaries.
Despite India's rapid economic growth, its healthcare system has remained in the doldrums and is struggling with high rates of child and maternal deaths India accounts for a fifth of all newborn deaths from such preventable diseases as diarrhoea and pneumonia.
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FACT-FINDING ON THE UPDATING OF THE NRC IN ASSAM
“Sab keh rahe hain Bangladeshi ko hatana chahiye. Koi ye nahi bole ki ‘koi bhi genuine Indian ka naam nahi hatna chahiye’’
Between the 5th and 10th of November 2019, a nine person team of members of Women against Sexual Violence and State repression visited the state of Assam in order to understand the implications of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC), particularly for the most marginalised people of Assam. The team travelled to the Barak Valley region, home to several Bengali Hindus and Bengali Muslims, to the Char and Chapori villages (the river islands and villages on the banks of the Brahmaputra), home to some of the most vulnerable groups of people – largely the landless Miyah Muslim peasants. The team also visited villages in the districts of Jorhat, Sivasagar and Hojai, home to those who fled erstwhile East Pakistan in 1964 and tea plantations on which migrant workers from Jharkhand and the Chhota Nagpur plateau toil. The team met with workers, peasants, activists, academics and members of civil society in all of these regions.
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Ralph Spencer Steenblik has lectured, published, exhibited, and curated globally. Recently, his work was exhibited at Art Basel, and other exhibitions in London, Berlin, Barcelona, and Wenzhou, China. He spoke at CAADRIA 2019, CAAD Futures 2019, has spoken at the MIT ACADIA conference; and as a keynote at a multi-session symposium at Yonsei University in Seoul Korea (2018). His work was published in "Project Anticipation" 2016, a UNESCO sponsored symposium on Anticipation held in Trento, Italy, and he spoke at AIANY Design Conference. He has showcased his work at Galeria Zero, Design Santa Fe at Site Santa Fe’s Design Lab, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut, and many others. A professor at Kean University's School of Public Architecture, he has taught at
This article outlines a scientific or iterative research process, designing a proto-architectural molecularly inspired micro-bamboo system, followed by some case-study examples of actualized instantiations of the system at scale. Turning to one of the most effective and strongest molecular structures, carbon, as inspiration for its particularly ver...
As an academic architecture studio focused on design and urbanism, we are happy to present as comprehensive a plan as possible for the bright future of remote XinWu Village outside of LiShui, Zhejiang, China. The studio began with an exploratory site visit and receiving a specific directive from the local government, the class collectively took on...
The Rapidly Deployable and Assembled Tensegrity (RDAT) project enables the efficient automated design and deployment of differential-geometry tensegrity structures through computation-driven design-to-installation workflow. RDAT employs the integration of parametric and solid-modeling methods with production by streamlining computer numerically con...
This paper examines the process and the importance of designing and implementing intelligent, informed and bespoke information modeling solutions within the architectural design discipline. Along with the need for such tools comes the need for fluency in architectural principles, digital tool facility, and computational development skill sets (the...
Using drone photogrammetry along with traditional mapping methods for village revitalization.
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Our Klamath Basin Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
Dear Representative Pombo,
from Lee Riddle, Brookings, Oregon, 7/17/04
I entered written testimony at the Klamath Falls Congressional hearing on Saturday.
It was a 400 mile round trip to get there, but worthwhile, thanks for the opportunity.
I want to add two additional comments that were not in my previous testimony.
The original DEIS made no mention in any of the 7 proposed alternatives of Wilderness Additions as a proposed action.
Thus this issue was not on the table during either the "scopeing" process or the "public comment" process.
Yet when the final statement came out, we found Wilderness additions surrounding all four sides of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness area both in the text and with maps of the additions in the appendix. The News Media reported that this was a "last minute idea that Oregon Governor Kulongoski had discussed over lunch with the US Forest Supervisor, and that he really wanted more acres added to the wilderness than the Forest Service added".
WHAT? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?
Where is the public process? Now the Governor supercedes public involvement?
The USFS obviously is not even following the semblance of the law in this case.
Also reported in the news is that 25% of Oregon's Public beaches will be closed to Public uses in the near future, with more beach closures to come over the next few years. This is to "protect" the "endangered" Snowy Plover, a bird that lays its eggs on the ground, in the sand of the dunes areas. The public is being told that they can no longer walk in the dry sand (only on the wet sand where the waves break),
Oh, and no dogs, no kite flying (scares the plovers), no campfires, ect.
The closures will only be part of the season, just the part of the season when people usually go to the beach !.
The public will be allowed to go to the beach during the winter rainy season.
Now this is a bird that has a host range all up and down the Pacific Coast, and clear back to Texas.
If anybody is truly "bothering" the Plover, you might just look at the wildlife agents that routinely put tracking bands on their legs, snoop in their nests, and generally disturb this bird more than the public would ever dream of.
Wildlife agents admit that they have observed the Plover nests, and that humans have almost NO influence on the nesting survival. Their own observations point out that the major causes of breeding failure are due to sand blowing over the eggs, and other wildlife species preying on their unprotected nests.
The only major human contacts between Plovers and Humans were the wildlife agents themselves.
Seems like a simple solution to me, tell the agents to leave the birds alone.
Thanks Again for Listening,
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National Park(ing) Day 2008, an annual event, is coming up on September 19th. It celebrates parks in cities by creating temporary parks in public parking spaces. National Park(ing) Day is an all-volunteer event, and any participation is welcome. One can, build his or her own park, help others build parks, or simply visit Park(ing) Day parks throughout the day. Get the details here, a how-to manual, photos and videos, or to connect with participants near you.
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The school year was about to be over, but at the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap — a big warehouse space brimming with binders, felt-tipped pens, stacks of copy paper and much more — the action was hot and heavy.
This is the busiest time of year for the three-year-old organization, with teachers grabbing things they know they will need next year. Meanwhile, many have supplies to unload that would otherwise be stashed in a school basement or end up in the trash.
The wish list for Asia Maxton, a teacher at Violetville Elementary-Middle School, included something simple: pencils.
“Just little stuff like sharpened pencils are really hard to come by,” said Maxton, who was prowling the aisles of the building, at 1224 Wicomico Street last week.
In the past, Maxton would have to ration her pencils and only leave a few out for students.
But lately, as a result of getting an ample supply from the Swap, she has been able to maintain a steady amount through the school year.
She’s been participating for a couple of years in the Supply Swap, which allows teachers who pay a small annual fee of $10 to fill up to five baskets of supplies, as well as drop off any superfluous books or goods.
It has given away more than $90,000 in school supplies since its opening in summer 2014.
For Maxton, a drama teacher at the southwest school, the service provides not just supplies, but a bit of relief from the stress that comes with teaching 19 classes a week.
“We make millions of decisions as teachers, so to make one less decision knowing, ‘I’m not going to spend 10 minutes shopping because we already have sharpened pencils’ is really significant,” she said.
Spending Their Own Money
The program, co-founded by Melissa Badeker and Kathleen Williams, is available to educators, home school parents and preschool operators. It began in a small church, but eventually moved into its current 1,800-square-foot warehouse.
They are sustained by memberships, individual contributions, and selling highly valued donated items.
Badeker and Williams, who met while rooming together as volunteers at the House of Ruth, open the Swap on Thursday and Saturday afternoons all year long.
A former teacher who worked in city schools for five years, Badecker said what inspired her to start the organization was knowing how much money teachers spend on their own classroom supplies.
“A lot of people don’t know that teachers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every year out of their own pockets,” she said, noting that she often spent more than $1,000 in a given year.
“I bought consumable supplies such as composition notebooks, pencils and pen that the students went through very quickly,” she said.
The idea that teachers could be so under-resourced struck her as fundamentally wrong.
“It’s amazing to me because we’re putting our children’s futures into their hands and not even giving them the tools to do anything about it,” she said.
At the same time, she pointed out, “schools, individuals, businesses and teachers often have stuff they don’t know what to do with.”
A Systemic Problem?
Since starting the Swap, Badeker has spent substantial time looking at Baltimore’s education system to figure out why there are so many unused supplies and, at the same time, so many under-equipped teachers.
“What we find is that principals aren’t spending the money appropriately for a variety of reasons,” she said.
“Because of that, there are stockpiles in the basement that never get used,” she explained. “It’s just an issue that they’re not taught on how to manage properly.”
Although Williams doesn’t think their service will force schools to totally rethink their methods for supplying teachers, it is steadily picking up steam as the go-to place for any miscellaneous classroom needs.
“We don’t think we can fix things but we’ve hoped all along we could make a difference,” she said.
Puppets and Pencils
Two teachers from the Mt. Zion Christian Preschool in Howard County shared the concern about scarce resources.
Kristin Robertson, on her fourth visit to the Swap, was there with first-timer Ann Thompson.
“You can find a lot of unique stuff here,” Robertson said. “I love it because as teachers we don’t make a whole lot of money. Let’s just say my son busing tables makes more than I do.”
Maxton, meanwhile, was filling most of her shopping cart with colorful costumes, board games and even puppets to equip her classroom for the upcoming school year.
She also had a bag full of letters to drop off from students thanking the “Swap” for all the goods it let their teacher bring back.
Maxton said she and her students appreciate all that the Supply Swap does for resource-poor city classrooms.
“At one of my previous schools,” she said, “the principal would whisper to me, ‘If I gave paper to every teacher who asked for it. . .’ So I mean things like paper were like gold there.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Badecker said Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap is always in need of pencils, pens, reusable bags, and copy paper.
Check their website for examples of donations they accept (posters, charts, arts and craft supplies and much more) and items they do not take (furniture, worksheets, outdated materials and more.)
The website also has information on hours of operation and how to volunteer.
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Geology is the sort of subject that that you have always wanted to know more about, but have never had the time to do anything about it. Now is your opportunity, and you can cover online most of the basics before planning your field trips to some of the most scenic parts of the UK - and overseas.
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/magazine/geology/home.html website of the British Geological Survey
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/Geology-Britain.htm introduction to the geology of UK
http://www.scottishgeology.com Scottish geology
http://www.geologyrocks.co.uk/ a source of information for the beginner and the professional
http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01S260 Open University course
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LOGOS -Bible TrANSLATION
Nearly 2,000 language communities throughout the world have no access to the Bible in their own language. Many of these languages don’t even have a written form. Entire generations have never experienced the gospel in a way they clearly understand. Bibles in the national language sit untouched, gathering dust rather than disciples. OneBook is changing that.
OneBook projects equip and empower local men and women to translate Scripture into the heart language of their people. Ongoing education initiatives help local Bible translators continually hone their expertise in linguistics, exegesis, and translation tools. Partnership with local pastors from various denominations ensures that projects remain aligned with biblical principles and connected to churches at the village, regional, and national levels. Translation is conducted using a proven process that incorporates the latest translation methodologies, multi-step revision, and ongoing community involvement to produce the very best mother-tongue Scripture. Print, audio, and video formats work together to communicate the truth of Christ to people where they are at, regardless of literacy or education levels. Many people have come to faith in Christ after experiencing His story in their own language.
Ongoing Scripture engagement activities and materials help families strengthen their faith and apply biblical teachings to their daily lives. As God’s Word becomes clear and takes root in the hearts of men, women, and children, it forms the foundation for lasting social and spiritual transformation.
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ACCESSING HEALTHCARE SERVICES & GETTING A COVID-19 VACCINATION THIS MAY DAY WEEKEND
29 April 2022
The May Day Bank Holiday is nearly here, and we want to make people aware of the healthcare services available this weekend and bank holiday, including getting a Covid-19 vaccination.
While some pharmacies in Coventry and Warwickshire close on bank holidays, some stay open during specific hours. Pharmacists can provide advice and treatment for common illnesses and conditions such as diarrhoea, fever, headache, sore throat, cough, upset stomach, and more, with no need for an appointment.
The bank holiday pharmacy opening hours across Coventry and Warwickshire can be found on the NHS England and NHS Improvement website at this link https://www.england.nhs.uk/midlands/nhs-england-and-nhs-improvement-midlands-work/bank-holiday-pharmacy-opening-times/#coventry-and-warwickshire
If you need more urgent medical care but it’s not an emergency, use the 111 online service for anyone over the age of five. www.111.nhs.uk assess you in the same way as the telephone service and, if you should need it, book you at time slot at an accident and emergency department. When you need help for a child under the age of five, you should use the 111 telephone service.
Some vaccination clinics will also be open and vaccinating to protect against Covid-19. If you need a vaccination, a Spring Booster, or your child aged 5-11 needs theirs, now is the perfect time to head to a clinic and protect yourself, friends, and family as we move into the warmer months.
For a list of vaccination walk-in clinics, please click here. For a list of vaccination sites with bookable appointments, please click here. You can also book vaccination appointments using the NHS website or calling 119.
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In 1963, Afra and Tobia Scarpa started their collaboration with the Italian manufacturer Figli di Amedeo Cassina, designing an iconic series in which we can find the model 121 chair.
It was a homogenous series with an extremely simple line. It featured an armchair, a lounge chair, a dining chair, tables, and a sofa.
In these pieces, we can find the modular solutions that Afra and Tobia Scarpa already used in other furnishings like the Bastiano sofa for Gavina and the Coronado sofa for C&B Italia.
In 1969, their collaboration with Cassina reached its peak with Soriana lounge chair.
Model 917 Armchair
Afra and Tobia Scarpa designed the 917 armchair in 1963. It was the first piece of this series that Cassina produced. Its standout feature is its very thin padding and the “anatomical” shape of its backrest.
The elements of the armchair were all independently produced and then assembled with screws. The frames are made of solid wood, the seat and the backrest in bent plywood. Moreover, they feature thin polyurethane foam padding and synthetic wool upholstery.
Model 920 Sofa
Afra and Tobia Scarpa designed the modular sofa 920 in 1964. It is a sofa composed of independent elements screwed together. It features polyurethane foam and dacron padding. Moreover, it was available without armrests, with one armrest or with two. Furthermore, it features three different seat sizes (22 in, 27.5 in, or 33 in). So, it is possible to assemble it in different ways, suitable for different living rooms. Moreover, they were available with a walnut, rosewood, or elmwood structure. The upholstery was available in fabric or leather.
Model 771 Coffee Table
Afra and Tobia Scarpa designed the 771 coffee table in 1964. Its basis is made of four solid wood trestles screwed together. So, they support the top (simply placed). Cassina produced them in three different sizes (squared high and low and rectangular low). They complete the 920 modular sofa in the corner arrangements too. The two different heights match the two different versions of the armrest of the couch.
Model 778 Dining Table
Afra and Tobia Scarpa designed the 778 extensible table in 1965. Its structure is made of four wooden frames (with two different heights) screwed together. The foldable double top is inserted at the same height of the two higher frames. Making it sliding through the rails inside the lower frames, the top lifts and opens like a book. Then, it is placed over the higher frames. It features great expandability since the squared one (51.2 in x 51.2 in) raises from eight to twelve sitting places and the rectangular one (51.2 in x 29.5 in) from six to ten.
Model 121 Dining Chair
Afra and Tobia Scarpa designed the 121 chair in 1965.
A sketch from 1943 made by Carlo Scarpa (Tobia’s father) inspired its shape. Two thin plywood “petals” compose the seat and the backrest. They are available with leather upholstery or aniline-dyed.
The back has cut in the lower part, required due to a reinforcement that reacts to torsion stress, which is strongest at this point. Furthermore, the basis is a solid wood double trestle. Eight screws link it to the seat and the backrest. It was available in ash wood or walnut. Model 121 was studied as a dining chair matching the 778 extensible table.
Moreover, the model 121 chair is part of the permanent collection at the Triennale Museum in Milan.
Afra and Tobia Scarpa designed the 777 extractable coffee tables in 1965. They are three coffee tables of different sizes. Furthermore, they fit one inside the other. Two solid wood trestles that keep embedded the top compose these tables. Thanks to their structure, they can slide one inside the other in two different ways.
Model 925 Lounge Chair
Afra and Tobia Scarpa designed the 925 lounge chair in 1966. As it is possible to see in the 121 chair, the contrast between the heavy solid wood trestle and the light plywood seat and backrest is clear.
Furthermore, the chairs, having no lateral relief fit well together, side by side, almost creating light long benches.
The 925 lounge chair is part of the permanent collection at the museum of modern art in New York.
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The adventurousness of Dalrymple’s life is no doubt one of the major attractions to his work for many of his readers. In Taki’s Magazine, he now gives a more detailed description of his youthful trip through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan that he referenced in his classic essay “When Islam Breaks Down”:
When, a little more than 45 years ago, we arrived in the city of Peshawar from Afghanistan, it seemed a peaceful and romantic place. True enough, the Khyber Pass had not been safe to travel after dark, but the danger was from brigandage of an almost folkloric rather than of a political or religious kind. Brigandage was to Afghanistan what beer was to Belgium. It was still the age of the bandolier and Lee-Enfield rifle rather than of the Kalashnikov and the suicide bomb (I bought a Lee-Enfield as a souvenir in Kabul market)…
That first night in Peshawar we slept under the stars on charpoys (wooden-framed beds with rough jute matting suspended between the sides) in the garden of a college. We thought we had arrived in the middle of a Mughal miniature painting.
In the aftermath of the disgusting attack on a Pakistani school by Islamists, he re-examines the assumptions of his youth and sees in Pakistan something that many of us have noticed in the West: reactionary progressives.
So the rise of Islamism, whether Sunni or Shia—the belief that there is an Islamic answer to all of life’s little problems, and that those who do not accept Islam are the cause of those problems—is the consequence not only of religious doctrine that contains within itself the necessary justifications or rationalizations for violence, but also of an encounter with the Western idea that material change for the better is the natural order of things and the only ideal worth pursuing. This idea has been deeply, if not consciously, absorbed. Where such material progress has not been rapid, which is to say, not as rapid as hoped or expected, wickedness and sin must be the explanation, so that the removal of the wicked and sinful is the logical solution.
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Probably the most necessary actions in latest occasions is the rising concern for the environment. All this gadget expertise is sort of an expensive a part of client purchasing and having some type of insurance coverage on these gadgets will be very useful. Whether or not you are a geek who loves searching for all the latest electrical inventions and devices. Stretchy electronic gadgets could make it doable for patients to watch their health at dwelling.
The underside line may very well be a potentially new class of high thermal conductivity supplies useful for heat dissipation from energy electronics, LEDs and different purposes with excessive warmth fluxes. Although there are different cooling methods capable of focusing on hot spots, they require additional power inputs, which leads to inefficiencies.
The best cool electronics of 2017 make nice electronic presents for males, girls and kids of any age. Just like the case of active cooling in the bathtub instance, the present spurred the electrons to carry away the warmth way more effectively than by way of passive cooling.
Each power consumption and thermal administration are challenges in present miniaturized devices. Right here, Rogers and two other researchers who work on stretchy electronics describe these pores and skin-like devices — in addition to what their future may hold.
If you’re a retailer or drop shipper of digital gadgets, chances are you’ll want to consider deciding on good titles and outline key phrases to draw customers. Such supplies could be used to not only effectively cool digital digital elements, but in addition in power applications – for instance, to prevent photo voltaic cells from overheating – and in subsequent-generation excessive-energy-density communication units.
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The overall impact of Covid-19 on food security and agricultural food systems was not known in the initial phases of Covid-19. However, during the last five months of unfolding of the diseases in Pakistan, Covid-19’s effect on lives and livelihoods, more so for the poor, is gradually making economic access to food for masses difficult. As per World Bank Group, South Asian countries may face food security challenges both in terms of supply and demand if not properly managed especially for marginalized sections in the society and Pakistan is no exception to it. Already it is understood that food insecurity as per National Nutrition Survey 2018 is 36% – almost matching the poverty numbers (39%). These numbers are now set to deteriorate given current circumstances. Although currently, the virus spread in Pakistan seems to be in check, the novelty of this disease has brought uncertainty. Any surge in cases and resultant restriction on mobility may cause strain on the food system in countless ways in the coming weeks and months. All of this may have, and is already having, significant negative effects on food supply chain, which is a complex web of interactions and of actors: inputs, producers, processors, marketers, transporters, storage, consumers, etc. On the supply side, transportation restrictions, shortage of labour, and farmers’ limited access to the market will be the major challenges.
The food supply chain mainly consists of two groups: cereal group (wheat, rice, soybeans, corn, etc.) and fresh produce group (vegetables and fruits). Supplies of some food items such as pulses and oil could also be compromised because of export restrictions imposed by the producing countries. On the demand side, the impact of Covid-19 on food security is even worse. The factors, which are mainly contributing to worsening the situation are individuals’ behavior and loss of purchasing power due to unemployment. The daily labourers are at more risk now because a large percentage of the poor and marginalized in Pakistan works as daily wagers; and statistics about them are not available. In some cases, panic buying may also set in, which could cause food shortages and inflation. The low levels of liquidity in the hands of farmers are also leading to slowdown of overall buying cycle in the agricultural inputs market. This will have implications for the next season crops. It is also observed that in absence of other livelihood options, many farmers in the Punjab treated wheat (their staple food) as cash crop and sold most of their yield for ready cash. Resultantly, now they are forced to buy expensive wheat flour. The strict lockdown and/or reduced purchasing power to buy inputs in time, in coming days due to spread of disease, may jeopardize sowing of rice and cotton, which is a major source of livelihood of majority of small farmers. Reduced production of these crops will decrease the foreign exchange earnings and employment in local textile industry. Another factor would be the pandemic impact on food prices. Already literature on Ebola in Africa shows that prices soar too quickly and if not properly managed could result in social unrest. Also, urban food systems are highly vulnerable due to Covid-19 pandemic. It is particularly more evident for millions of people living in dense urban and peri-urban clusters with poor health and sanitation facilities, and unhealthy food and inadequate infrastructure in mega cities of Pakistan.
Covid-19 has implications on the informal food sector (transitional food supply chains), who have limited capacity to sustain due to lack of capital, safety nets and access to the financial sector for support under lockdown situation. Urban poor mostly depend upon such informal markets for their food purchases, disruption of this informal food sector multiplies the already grave situation and potentially cause social unrest if lockdown persists longer.
[box type=”note” align=”” class=”” width=””]The writer is a Karachi based freelance columnist and is a banker by profession. He could be reached on Twitter @ReluctantAhsan[/box]
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In an interview with CBS’ Face the Nation programme, Trump highlighted the importance of a key military base in Iraq that he said was crucial to the surveillance of the Islamic Republic’s activities.
“We spent a fortune on building this incredible base, we might as well keep it,” he said in an apparent reference to Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq, which he visited during a trip to the country in December.
“And one of the reasons I want to keep it is because I want to be looking a little bit at Iran because Iran is a real problem,” Trump said in the interview broadcast on Sunday.
“We were in many, many locations in the Middle East in huge difficulty. Every single one of them was caused by the number one terrorist nation in the world, which is Iran.”
When asked whether he planned to use US forces in Iraq to “strike” Iran, Trump responded: “No … all I want to do is be able to watch.”
Trump also indicated the US military installation would be useful for monitoring developments in the wider Middle East.
“It’s perfectly situated for looking at all over different parts of the troubled Middle East, rather than pulling up … We’re going to keep watching and if there’s trouble, if somebody is looking to do nuclear weapons or other things, we’re going to know it before they do.”
The New York Times reported the US has been quietly negotiating with Iraq for weeks to allow US special forces and support troops now operating in Syria to shift to bases in Iraq and attack the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group from there.
That would allow military leaders to maintain pressure on the armed group even as officials follow Trump’s orders to withdraw some 2,000 troops from Syria.
Citing two US officials, the Times said on Sunday that senior US military officers recently visited several Iraqi bases, including Erbil and Al Asad Airbase, to determine if existing US operations there could be expanded with troops shifting in from Syria.
Trump’s comments to CBS could undermine those negotiations by inflaming fears among Iraqis that US military activity in Iraq was aimed at checking Iran, and not defeating ISIL, the Times said.
Trump, in the interview, also denounced intelligence failures on former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s alleged “weapons of mass destruction” that led to the administration of former President George W Bush invading the country in March 2003.
“Being in Iraq was a mistake … one of the greatest mistakes going into the Middle East that our country has ever made,” he said.
After the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, the US government launched a “global war on terrorism” beginning in Afghanistan, after the Taliban refused to hand over al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Trump also criticised the war in Afghanistan in the CBS interview, noting the US was spending “more money than anybody’s ever spent in history” on a war, adding it’s “got to stop at some point”.
US and Taliban officials have said progress was made in peace talks in recent weeks, but it remains to be seen if the US’ longest war would soon come to an end.
“We’ve been there close to 19 years, and it’s time,” said Trump. “And we’ll see what happens with the Taliban. They want peace, they’re tired. Everybody’s tired.”
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Watch "Lean on me video" Compare Joe Clark performance against the following 3 questions. 1. If any, what were the political opportunities the Change Agent missed? 2. Which methodologies e Agent use?to reduce resistance to change did the Change? 3. Which strategies did the Change Agent ignore?
Most people are, in the hectic world that we currently live in, subject to some form of change affecting their lives. Whether it be a new job, a different scenario at work, a marriage or divorce, a newborn baby, or even a new pet dog, they are all forms of change that mankind has to deal with. Some persons deal very well with change and thus adapt quickly to any new situation. Other persons do not find this easy at all, and therefore resist any changing situation that might occur. The object of this paper is to help identify the reasons for change, the challenges change presents, the reasons for resistance to change, how to overcome this resistance, and how to better cope in a changing environment. Once one understands more about change, the easier it is to adapt.
Organizations face similar scenarios, but in this instance it is not only changes for the individual, but also changes applicable to groups. Change can thus be defined as an alteration to the status quo.
Reasons for Change
There are a number of factors that constitute the reasons for change in an organization, which will affect either the individual or the group. These forces are:
- Alteration of strategies and plans: A company decides to improve productivity. This has the effect on workers to change and be more productive. Can have an effect on the individual or the group.
- Ethical difficulties arising from employee behavior: An employee might have an ethical problem with a given situation that arises. Group pressure will force the individual to change to the norm of the group of leave the group if the change is unacceptable.
- Decisions that entail change: This can affect both groups and individuals. For example, a company in the process of retrenchment will affect change to the individual, i.e., having to find a new job or the group, having to cope with less personnel.
- Organizational cultural shifts: Typically happens when two companies merge. The culture of the organization changes, forcing employees from both sides to adapt to the new situation.
- Reorganizations: Changes in the methods of doing things result in groups and individuals to adapt.
- Leadership changes: Working under a new manager, who has a different management style to the previous manager will result in the group and individual reporting to the new manager to adapt.
- Technological advances: Changes occurring from updated, faster machinery, for example, have the effect of requiring the group or individual operating the machines to adapt by learning how to operate them.
- Political: Changes in government or its policies have the effect that the organization has to adapt to, i.e., a Communistic way of doing things rather than a Socialistic way.
- Legal: Changes in legislation force companies to change, for example, the new LRA.
- Customer requirements: Customers may want a cheaper product and the manufacturer will have to find a means to change the product to be acceptable.
- Technological changes: New machinery must be acquired for a company to stay competitive, resulting in, for example, changes in the production planning, process and delivery times.
- International: Tourism is a source of requirement to change. The tourism trade in RSA is down 50% from 05/96 to 08/96. The result is that change has to happen in order to combat crime, to improve the tourism trade.
- Competitors: Competitor activity also contributes the change as a company will have to change strategy to stay competitive.
- Suppliers: Changing from one supplier to another, for example, to get a higher quality sub-assembly.
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The Kigali Summit on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases took place on the 23 June 2022 alongside the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The Summit brought together world leaders to reaffirm commitments to end malaria and neglected tropical diseases.
DNDi Executive Director Dr Bernard Pécoul spoke at the panel discussion 'The Innovation Agenda'.
Dr Bernard Pécoul, Executive Director, DNDi
'It’s a great honour to be speaking here today and I would like to thank the Government of Rwanda for this excellent summit.
I was in London for the Declaration we made together in 2012 to control, eliminate or eradicate ten diseases by 2020. Ten years later, it is great to see the energy and renewed commitment of all actors to meeting the ambitions of the new WHO Roadmap on NTDs.
One of the most critical aspects for our success in meeting the goals of the WHO Roadmap to 2030 will be medical innovation.
Together, in the last twenty years, product development partnerships including my own organization, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, DNDi, have successfully delivered more than 65 health tools. These vaccines, medicines, and tests bring urgently needed solutions against diseases including malaria and NTDs.
Together, we have reached more than 2.4 billion people, including the most vulnerable women and children.
This is an alternative non-profit research and development model that works.
DNDi itself has delivered twelve treatments in its first twenty years. Our ambition is to bring 25 new treatments by 2028, which is DNDi’s commitment to the Kigali Declaration.
When DNDi began, the only available treatment for sleeping sickness was based on arsenic. It was so toxic that it killed one in every twenty of the patients we treated. Patients were afraid to come for treatment, and as a doctor, I was afraid to give this medicine to people.
There is no greater anguish for a doctor than to have no safe options to treat their patients.
Today, twenty years later, thanks to medical innovation, we have a treatment, that removes the need for hospitalization. Instead of infusions of arsenic, we have a simple pill for 10 days.
The result is truly a revolution, because we now have a safe and effective treatment, and one that is possible at the primary healthcare level.
It raises the hope for a disease-free generation, unlocking the potential for elimination of the disease once and for all.
This was possible thanks to our partnerships with researchers, Ministries of Health, and hospitals in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and with WHO, Sanofi, and our partners in Angola, Congo, the Central African Republic, Chad, Guinea, Sudan, South Sudan, and Uganda.
We need to replicate this success. We still lack tools for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment that are simple, safe, and effective – and that can be easily integrated into already overburdened health systems. For most NTDs, inadequate investment in medical research threatens progress towards sustainable disease elimination.
If one thing is clear from my time at DNDi: it’s that the key ingredient of our success is partnerships. Our success is our partners’ success also – many of you have joined us in bringing the best science for the most neglected.
I’d like to recognize here the commitment of many of you who are here today, in the room and online.
Like other product development partnerships, we are able to innovate because they are collaborative. We provide a bridge and bring together the unique experience and role of academic research, the pharmaceutical industry, and the public sectors.
As we discuss what is needed to reach the targets of the WHO Roadmap, my call to our partners would be:
- To the public sector: we need political leadership to support local and regional innovation networks, and to ensure access to new treatments, and that they are integrated as part of countries essential package of care as part of commitments to universal health care.
- To our partners in industry: we call on you to join forces with product development partnerships and make innovation possible. However valuable these efforts have been, the contributions of the pharmaceutical industry cannot be limited to giving donations of already existing treatments. We need you to engage in innovation and sustainable procurement.
With sustainable funding, and closer relationships with private and public sector actors, we can replicate these successes.
So that a child with leishmaniasis here in East Africa; a farmer with filariasis in India; or a teacher with Chagas disease in Brazil: all have easy access to testing and safe, easy to take treatment.
Only when this becomes a reality, will we know that we have delivered on the promises we have all made today to the most neglected patients around the world.
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After World War II, many Germans were forced to resettle in other countries. The French reacted strongly to this and interned German soldiers, some of whom later attempted rehabilitation.
Despite the efforts of the French, life after prison was not easy for former prisoners of war.
What happened to the captured German soldiers in ww2?
After World War II, the vast majority of German prisoners were taken back to Europe as part of a reparations agreement. They were forced into harsh labor camps and many never made it home in 18 to 24 months.
Russian camps were among the most brutal, and some of their German POWs didn’t return home until 1953. Many died in captivity or from illness or malnutrition.
What did the US do with captured German soldiers?
After Germany surrendered in 1945, the US took custody of tens of thousands of enemy prisoners. The POWs were eventually put to work in canneries, mills, farms and other places.
About 12,000 stayed in Nebraska camps.
Was Germany allowed an army after ww2?
After World War II, Germany was without a military. The Federal Republic of Germany was founded in 1949 and plans for a German military were forbidden by Allied regulations.
The Wehrmacht was dissolved following World War II.
What did German soldiers call American soldiers?
During World War II, German soldiers called American soldiers ami. The word may have originated from the USA pronunciation of “military,” and it was most likely used by Germans as a derogatory term.
Today, ami is still occasionally heard in Germany, but it has less negative connotations than it once did.
What happened to German soldiers after ww2 in Russia?
After the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, many German soldiers died in Russia. Many were weakened by disease and starvation, few lived to be repatriated after the war, and suffered from wounds, disease (particularly typhus spread by body lice), malnutrition and maltreatment.
How did German soldiers feel about ww2?
Many Germans viewed World War II as a liberation from the Nazi regime. Victory was seen as a defeat by 9 percent of Germans in 2005, but views on the Allied victory have changed dramatically over time.
Who were the most feared soldiers of ww2?
These were some of the most feared soldiers during World War II. Otto Skorzeny, Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Reinhard Heydrich and General Dwight D Eisenhower are all famous for their atrocities during the war.
What country killed the most German soldiers in World war 2?
After World War 2, it was found that the Russians killed more German soldiers than any other country. The Soviet forces were more active in killing Germans and they had better training and equipment for fighting in cold weather conditions.
Additionally, Russian forces inflicted a higher number of casualties on the German army.
Is Germany still paying reparations for ww2?
Germany has been making annual payments to Holocaust survivors since the 1950s. The total amount paid in 2019 was $564 million. This represents a fraction of what Germany owes, but it is an important gesture nonetheless.
Approximately 400,000 Jews who survived the Nazis are alive today and they receive reparations from Germany annually.
Is Germany still banned from having an army?
Germany is not currently banned from having an army, however there are restrictions on how much training and equipment the army can have. Soldiers, Navy, Air Force and Army all exist in Germany but only for defense purposes.
There are no biological, chemical or nuclear weapons allowed in Germany which helps to keep it safe.
Why cant Japan have an army but Germany can?
There are a few reasons why Japan cannot have an army like Germany. First of all, Japan doesn’t have the land area necessary to support one. Second, their economy is much weaker than Germany’s and would not be able to afford the enormous cost of military operation.
Third, they don’t have a history of militarism which might lead to conflicts with other countries. Finally, Japan has never fought in a major war and does not possess any powerful weapons or fighters.
What Germans think of British soldiers?
German people have a negative view of British soldiers due to their perceived sloppiness. Germans are expecting brutality from the British occupation, and they don’t feel sorry for Germans.
The manual instructs not to show sentimentality toward the German people as this will only be used against them. Do not be fooled by softness or sentimentality; these traits may disguise potential aggression.
What do the Germans think of the American soldiers ww1?
The German people had mixed feelings about the American soldiers who fought in World War I. While some viewed them as honorable, others felt that they were the only ones to attack Germany seriously in this year’s battles.
However, many Germans now consider the Americans their friends after spending time with them during and after World War I.
What happened to German POWs in England?
Following the German surrender, British authorities allowed some Nazi prisoners to stay on farms in order to keep them under close supervision. The prisoners received a small wage and were not able to be discharged until May 8th 1945, just days before Germany surrendered unconditionally.
Some of the POWs formed friendships with their employers and lived relatively normal lives until 1945. On May 8th 1945, most of the surviving prisoners were evacuated from England by sea.
After World War II, many German soldiers were held in prison camps. Some of these men may have been released early because they were considered minor war criminals, but most were not.
After the war, many of these former prisoners fled to countries like Austria and Germany where they had no right to live or work. Many drifted aimlessly until their deaths from poverty or illness.
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State laws vary, so be sure to check with an estate planning attorney if you are leaving assets to family members who are not children or parents.
Inheritance taxes in different states treat different family members differently, so you’ll want to plan this in advance to avoid saddling beloved nieces and nephews with burdensome estate taxes. A recent article from nj.com, “Dividing and conquering the inheritance tax,” provides some insight into strategies to consider.
New Jersey repealed its estate tax as of January 1, 2018, but it still has an inheritance tax. The inheritance tax is imposed on transfers of assets to certain classes of beneficiaries who are beyond the immediate family. This includes nieces and nephews.
The inheritance tax rate on transfers to nieces and nephews is 15% in New Jersey. There is an exception if the bequest is less than $500. In that case, there’s no tax. Therefore, if an aunt or uncle leaves a niece or nephew $500 or more, there will be a tax on the entire amount.
It's important to know that the tax is imposed on every transfer, regardless whether it’s probate or non-probate. A probate transfer is an asset that passes under a will, like a family home or an auto the decedent owns in his or her name alone. A non-probate transfer is something that passes outside of your will, like a joint checking account or a retirement account.
As a result, if an aunt or uncle wants to designate a niece or nephew as a beneficiary of an IRA or 401(k), there’ll a 15% tax due on the amount they get. This is also true even when they withdraw money from the IRA. In most cases, they’ll also have to pay income tax on the withdrawal.
Like any rule, there are exceptions. There are some transfers that are exempt from the tax. One is life insurance paid to a named beneficiary. In the scenario with the generous aunt or uncle, if they name their nieces as beneficiaries of their life insurance, they won't have to pay any inheritance tax on the proceeds of that insurance policy.
Typically, the person receiving the asset is liable for the tax. This can be a troublesome issue for them when the asset they’re receiving isn’t liquid—like real estate. In that case, the beneficiary might have to sell (or liquidate) the property to raise the money to pay the tax. As an example, if an aunt or uncle leaves a house worth $300,000 to a niece or nephew, they’d be on the hook for inheritance tax of $45,000. That tax is due just eight months after the date of death.
Making a provision in the aunt or uncle’s will that all taxes, including inheritance taxes, are to be paid from the residue of the estate is one way to cover the cost for a niece or nephew. This means that the value of the estate will be reduced as a result, but all beneficiaries, daughters and nieces, will have their inheritance taxes taken care of. Make sure the estate has enough assets to do this. An experienced estate planning attorney will be able to help you evaluate your situation.
For more information on Estate Planning Lawyer, Wills, Asset Protection, Inheritance, Tax Planning, Inheritance Tax; please click to my website
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With South Africa engulfed by the destruction of private and public property in parts of KZN and Gauteng due to socio-economic unrest, many shops have closed while others are still trying to secure stock. With the country also in the third wave of Covid-19 infections, long queues and busy shops can be quite daunting for many. Laager Rooibos called on its partners – specialist dietitian, Mbali Mapholi and chefs, Lebo and Tebo Ndala – to help with tips on making food last.
“During these unprecedented times, we must go back to basics,” said Mapholi. “My biggest advice is to not panic buy so that everyone is still able to get basic food items. A lot of people fear using canned food items, legumes, frozen and bottled food items, but these are key sources of nutrition particularly when fresh food is scarce! Below are some practical tips and recipes that will make these items go further.”
1. Meat dishes
You can add canned legumes to meat dishes to bulk them up, while also adding wholegrains and dietary fibre to your diet. Most people are eating more meat than we need anyway, so this is an opportunity to get used to smaller or fewer meat portions. Not only does expanding these dishes this way help with food saving, but it also helps us eat more wholegrains and add more dietary fibre in our diet.
Some examples from Mbali include:
- Adding lentils or canned beans to ground beef or mincemeat (bolognaise sauce) – one can of lentils for every 500g ground beef.
- Adding canned beans or chickpeas to chicken curry. If everyone in the household usually ate two pieces of chicken then decrease to one piece of chicken mixed with chickpeas and beans.
- Expand canned pilchards with canned baked beans. For a family of six, cook one can of pilchards and add one can of baked beans.
*Meat tips from Lebo and Tebo
- Portion the meat before you freeze it so you only use the portion you want.
- Avoid de-frosting and freezing again.
- Be careful of portion control, avoid cooking more than you need.
2. Frozen vegetables
- Frozen vegetables can be more nutritious than fresh vegetables because they are frozen straight from harvest, which saves a lot of nutrients normally lost in the food supply chain of fresh vegetables.
- Add frozen vegetables to expand all the food meat dishes mentioned above.
- Frozen vegetables can be added to casseroles and stews to stretch these while adding nutrients.
- According to nutritional guidelines, it is recommended that ½ our plate at main meals is vegetables. You can use frozen vegetables as a side dish.
- It is important to steam, sauté or cook them in little water to preserve the nutrients.
Potatoes, sweet potatoes and taro (amadumbe) are some popular nutritious tubers in South Africa, and these can expand meat or vegetable casseroles or stews, or be eaten as a staple in main mails. Butternut is also a starchy vegetable that can be mixed in with potatoes or sweet potatoes to expand mashed potatoes for example.
Recipe: Minestrone soup
This is a hearty, easy minestrone soup recipe which you can make ahead of time and freeze. It can freeze well for three months if stored in an airtight container. This makes six bowls of soup.
4 tbsp cooking oil
1 medium onion, chopped
2 medium carrots, peeled and chopped
¼ cup tomato paste or 1 cup tomato, cut-up
2 cups chopped vegetables fresh or frozen (potatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, butternut squash, green beans, or peas all work)
1 tbsp dried Italian or mixed herbs (optional)
1 large can (28 ounces) diced tomatoes, with their liquid (or 2 small 15-ounce cans)
3 cups stock (dissolve 2 stock cubes in boiling water to make stock, TIP: add 3 Laager Rooibos teabags to enhance the flavour. Allow to brew and then remove teabags)
2 cups water
1 cup pasta or rice, uncooked
1 can red kidney beans or cannellini beans rinsed and drained, or 1 ½ cups cooked dry beans.
2 cups spinach or any green leafy vegetables that might be wilting
- Warm 3 tablespoons of the cooking oil in a pot over medium heat. Once the oil is simmering, add the chopped onion, carrot, tomato paste and a pinch of salt. Cook, stirring often, until the vegetables have softened, and the onions are turning translucent, about 7 to 10 minutes.
- Add the seasonal vegetables, dried herbs. Cook until fragrant while stirring frequently, about 2 minutes.
- Pour in the diced tomatoes and their juices, stock, and water. Add your seasoning of choice.
- Raise heat to medium-high and bring the mixture to a boil, then partially cover the pot with the lid, leaving about a 1-inch gap for steam to escape. Reduce heat as necessary to maintain a gentle simmer.
- Cook for 15 minutes, then remove the lid and add the pasta, beans, and greens. Continue simmering, uncovered, for 20 minutes, or until the pasta is cooked al dente and the greens are tender.
- Remove the pot from the heat, then taste and season with more salt if needed.
Most households normally have a box of tea in the cupboard. Tea is usually served hot but those who dislike hot beverages can make delicious homemade ice-teas. To make homemade iced teas you can use any tea you have in the home, whether it is Laager Rooibos tea or Tetley Green Tea or Tetley Black Tea, and add any fresh or frozen fruit that you have available. One example is to simply brew Laager Rooibos tea, cool and add ice cubes and any fruit that might spoil such as apple and strawberries. Then add sugar or honey to taste. This is a refreshing and healthy beverage.
Bread is a daily staple in most households, served at breakfast or lunch with non-perishable healthy protein sources such as peanut butter, canned fish with mayonnaise or jam. If you have some bread bought in bulk you can freeze it so it lasts longer. You can also use stale bread to make French toast – simply dredge slices of bread in eggs mixed with a bit of milk and fry in a bit of oil.
Recipe: With Love from Twins bread dough recipe
You can make as much bread dough as you please and leave it in the fridge. With bread dough you can make bread, steamed dumpling, fatcakes (amagwinya), or roll it out thinly to make a pizza base.
4-6 cups flour
1 packet yeast
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup lukewarm water
2 cups lukewarm milk
2 tbsp olive oil
*add more liquid if needed
- In a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients together.
- In a jug, mix all the wet ingredients together.
- Slowly mix in the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. It must form a soft dough.
- Add more or less liquid if needed.
- Knead the dough for 10 minutes.
- Place the dough in a slightly oiled glass bowl. Cover with cling wrap. Leave to rise for about an hour.
- Once risen, knock it down and shape into a desired bread shape.
- Leave to ride again for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Bake for 30 minutes at 180°C.
Culinary tips and hacks
- To make fried rice, you need a ¼ cup oil, 1 onion, spices and mixed vegetables. Heat oil in a saucepan, fry the spices, the onion and slowly add the cold rice. Once everything is coated, add the mixed vegetables. Cover for five minutes and you’re ready to serve.
- If you and your neighbours have vegetable gardens, this is a good time to share vegetables.
- Freeze any fresh vegetables that may be spoiled quickly. Most vegetables can be frozen, even tomatoes.
- Most vegetables benefit from blanching for 2-3 minutes before freezing:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/03/22/how-to-freeze-fresh-vegetables-while-preserving-their-best-qualities
- Swap cereals that demand milk or yoghurt for maize-meal porridge or sorghum meal porridge. Add peanut butter, powdered full cream milks or margarine for extra nutrients.
Baby formula (babies below six months):
- If you cannot find the formula brand the baby normally uses, get any brand as long as the baby does not have a medical condition that demands special formula.
- All baby formula will meet the nutritional needs, whether it is soy milk, lactose free milk, acidified or other.
- Do not over dilute baby formula as this can cause diarrhoea or even dehydration.
- There are homemade formula recipes provided by the world health organisation (WHO) with guidelines online, but they should only be used when all resources have been exhausted since they would not meet all the baby’s nutritional needs.
- Sharing baby formula with friends, community and family is permissible.
- However, sharing breastmilk is not advisable unless that breastmilk can be pasteurized correctly before feeding the receiver baby. Guidelines on breastmilk pasteurization are available on the WHO website.
“This has been an incredibly difficult, stressful and emotional time for so many South Africans,” said Candice Sessions, Laager Marketing Manager. “The sudden challenge of food insecurity is not one most anticipated, but is now a reality. Laager extends its deepest sympathies to all those who’ve been impacted by these tragic events, and hope that these food tips and advice go some way in assisting those who are struggling with inaccessibility to food.”
For more recipe ideas, follow @withlovefromthetwins, and for dietary information, follow @Urbandietitian. Joekels shares innovative and healthy recipe ideas on Facebook and Instagram @LaagerRooibosTea, or visit www.joekels.co.za.
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A pothos plant is an evergreen and comes with green, heart-shaped foliage. It is impossible to look at and not get amazed by its beautiful leaves and unique look.
Pothos is native to the tropical environment, however, it is one of the most perfect houseplants. Pothos plant care is very easy and this low-maintenance plant does not require much.
Watering is an essential part of the health of every plant, including pothos. Pothos watering schedule is dependent on many factors, including the plant size, container type, soil, humidity level, and temperature.
Generally, watering a pothos is done once a week, however, it is individual to each plant.
It is important to have a proper pothos watering schedule because this is one of the main factors that determine the well-being of the plant.
However, as already mentioned above, there are a lot of factors to consider. In this article, we will discuss the pothos watering schedule, tips, and how to make your plant happy.
How to Know When to Water a Pothos
A pothos plant can tell you when it needs to be watered. For example, one of the first signs that can tell you the pothos’s watering needs is dried topsoil.
When the topsoil of your pothos dries out, you know it’s time to water it. If the soil is dry at this level of two inches from the top, it is typically an indication that your plant requires more water.
You may also put a moisture indicator in the soil to alert you to when to water your pothos. The easiest approach to keep your pothos from getting dry is to have a regular watering routine for each season.
Additionally, you can also check the drainage holes to check if your pothos needs watering. If the dirt appears dry, crumbly, or is falling out of the hole, it indicates that your plant requires water.
Drooping leaves are the first indicator that your pothos watering has been delayed. Generally, leaves begin to droop near the plant’s base first. The leaves will droop across the plant as it dries out further.
The yellow leaves of a Pothos indicate that it requires water. When the leaves droop, they might begin to dry out and become yellow. The chlorophyll in the leaves will evaporate, leaving them with a faded yellowish color.
Just like yellow leaves, the brown leaves also indicate that your pothos requires extra water. The leaves will become brown after they have drooped and gone yellow.
This indicates that the plant is extremely dry and requires thorough watering. The leaves normally turn brown first towards the base of the plant, although they might turn brown anywhere throughout the plant.
How to Water my Pothos from the Top
Pothos plants can be pretty sensitive to toxins. Therefore, it is always recommended to use water that is free of chloride and other chemicals.
Such water is tap water in most cases. It is best to use non-chlorinated or filtered water. Also, make sure not to give your plants too cold or too hot water. This tropical plant prefers room temperature water as well.
Pour water through the soil gently until it runs out the container’s bottom drainage hole onto your pot’s water collecting tray.
If your pothos container does not include a drainage hole, determining the optimum moisture level will be considerably more difficult.
Growing pothos in hanging baskets or clay pots with one or more drainage holes in the bottom is always a good idea.
Stop watering after the water flows out of the drainage hole and allow the liquid to thoroughly penetrate the soil. It should never overflow or pool on the soil’s surface, as this indicates inadequate drainage.
If the soil looks to be completely saturated, you may stop watering. After a few hours, you will notice changes in your plant and most likely, it will perk up.
If the soil still remains somewhat dry, add some more water until it flows out the drainage hole, then cease watering.
How to Bottom Water my Pothos
Water your pothos from the bottom up to prevent getting too much moisture on the leaves themselves. This will aid in the prevention of illness and fungal concerns.
When you choose the bottom watering as the pothos watering technique, you place your potted plant in a big yet shallow container.
It’s fantastic since it uniformly moistens the soil. Capillary action, which is caused by adhesive and cohesive forces, allows water to ascend through the soil.
What you need to do for bottom watering is to fill the container halfway and see how much water has been absorbed after 30 minutes.
Check the dampness of the soil with your finger. Remove the pot from the container after it reaches the soil reaches the required level of moisture. This may be repeated on the same schedule as when you water the plant from above.
How Often Should you Water a Pothos in Winter?
In moderate indoor conditions, pothos plants tend to go into a dormant phase in late fall and early winter. They do not die and still continue growth since they are evergreen, but they do slow down and cuddle up.
During the winter, make sure to put the pothos plant away from the chilly window or door drafts, which can quickly dry them out and potentially inflict severe damage.
This is the most convenient for pothos care because they don’t require much maintenance.
Because of the reduced quantity of sunshine and heat, the pothos watering frequency may be reduced to once every two weeks.
This is the time to use room temperature water to avoid a cold shock to the plants. Additionally, there is a higher risk of overwatering in winter. This happens because the soil dries out much slower.
A rule of thumb is to allow the soil to dry up completely between waterings. When you poke your finger into the earth, it should feel dry.
When using a moisture meter to assess the moisture content of the soil, a result of 2-3 indicates that your pothos is ready for a drink.
Pothos plants also droop slightly when thirsty, which is a nice reminder if you forget to water them.
It is always recommended you listen to your plants instead of sticking to a watering schedule because many various circumstances might impact it.
How Often Should you Water a Pothos in Summer?
When your pothos plant “wakes up” in spring, it will crave more regular waterings.
Early spring growth is modest, but the pothos plant may get thirstier as it devotes more energy to new leaf growth. Keep an eye out for any wilting or sluggish leaf unfurling to ensure it is getting adequate water.
During this period, watering once a week is usually sufficient, although this generally depends on the environment within your home.
Avoid overwatering or misting pothos during the spring, when humidity can be very high and plants can be pretty active.
In the summer months, the temperature rises and the household gets warmer and brighter.
Especially in temperate areas, spring and summer periods are when pothos plants grow the most. Therefore, obviously, they will require more water than they do during other times of the year.
Less humidity brought on by a hotter temperature might increase the pothos plant’s evaporation.
In hotter months, you can use the “finger method” to check your pothos soil’s moisture level a few times per week, and water as necessary. As soon as you notice that the soil is dry, give some more hydration to your beloved plants.
Misting will result in preserving a specific area of humidity around the leaves to hasten new development and preserve the plant’s brilliant green appearance.
During the pothos watering in summer, you must account for the amount of water lost due to evaporation. During the summer months, it is recommended to water your pothos 2 to 3 times a week.
Unless you reside in really hot, low-humidity conditions, your plant should be alright. In such a scenario, you’ll need to increase your watering game.
Summer is the ideal season for the growth of new leaves. Pothos demands temperatures of 80° F and humidity levels of 70% or more.
If you’re having difficulties boosting the humidity in your home, a humidifier can provide great help in that case.
What are the Signs your Pothos is Overwatered?
Overwatering is the worst enemy of pothos because it causes root rot. A number of fungal diseases, bacteria, and pests flourish in high-moisture, low-drainage environments and can produce root rot.
The most prevalent signs of pothos overwatering are:
- Yellowing leaves
- Falling or drooping leaves
- Black or mushy roots
- The bad odor emanating from the plant’s base
If you see any of these problems, immediately stop watering and examine the situation. Root rot can destroy a pothos plant if it progresses too far.
However, you should be able to save your plant in the early stages by uprooting it, trimming off the rotting sections, and transferring it to a new container in well-drained soil.
Mild Overwatering may be easily cured by allowing the soil to dry out.
However, the underlying core cause of the problem can be the soil that does not drain well, Pothos, like other tropical plants, dislikes having “wet feet.”
Soggy soil will eventually suffocate the plant by preventing the roots from breathing and getting essential oxygen.
It is always recommended to plant pothos in a well-drained soil mix which mainly includes perlite, peat moss, coco coir, and vermiculite.
What are the Signs your Pothos is Underwatered?
Underwatering is at the other extreme of the spectrum. Many people believe that pothos would “thrive on neglect,” but this is not the case.
The plant is tough but not even that much. Signs of underwatered pothos include
- Dry, brittle leaves,
- Parts of the leaves yellowing
- Crispy areas on the foliage
- Excessive wilting and limp leaves
- Powdery-dry soil
A deep, substantial amount of water is the cure for underwatering. Pothos plants respond fast to moisture and will bloom within an hour after being watered.
You may now cut off any brown or dead leaves and use the “finger check” approach to check the soil level on a regular basis.
Remember that pothos like just the top 2-3″ of soil to dry out between waterings. This does not imply that your plant should be completely neglected and parched all of the time.
A thirsty pothos will wilt visibly. Prolonged drought might cause the plant to grow slowly or even die.
Extra Watering Tips for your Pothos
- If your pothos has covered a large area in the pot, it will probably drain water quickly. Therefore, it is recommended to reschedule watering every 6 days or so. Additionally, it is also a sign that your plant needs a larger container.
- A container that is overly big might also be problematic. A 10″ pot, for example, is too large for newly grown pothos. In contrast to a small container problem, you will most likely need to water it less frequently but with more water. This will keep the soil wet for longer and allow the plant to absorb water gradually. However, if the container is too large for the plant, it raises the risk of root rot.
- Pothos does not appreciate damp roots, so make sure your soil combination can effectively drain water. Add more vermiculite to hold water for a longer amount of time. Vermiculite mineral is like a sponge, absorbs water. It allows the proper evaporation of water and keeps the soil wet at the root level.
- Because regular garden soil is too heavy, avoid using it. Because the water will remain on the soil’s surface layer. It can also suffocate the roots and create fungal problems.
- Pothos watering during the day, especially on warmer days, causes the water to evaporate faster and tit can not give the plants any benefits. Pothos watering should be done either in the very early morning or in the evening.
- Watering leaves, contrary to common perception, does not cause them to grow quicker. Indoor houseplants should not be watered on the leaves because it can clog stomata of the foliage and can cause the disruption of osmosis and plant respiration.
Pothos watering brings a positive and nice feeling and the process can make both you and the plant happy. Pothos is an incredibly resilient plant vine that can thrive in a variety of conditions.
However, if you want your plant to genuinely thrive and produce lush, green, glossy leaves, you must monitor its hydration levels.
Fortunately, it is very easy to discern whether pothos plants need to be watered or dried out. Pothos watering is relatively easy when you watch the plant and pay attention to what it requires.
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It doesn’t take a genius determine out that most of us are residing an amount of financial distress. Not only that, we the everyday working Americans are completely out of control goods happens on Wall Street, or what effects set you back . of oil. Unfortunately in times that offer genuine our cars still break down, requiring expensive parts and company. Therefore, we need to coach ourselves on ways to prevent these costly car parts or, if need be, ways to fix them our do it yourself. Let’s take a quick look at some suggestions that aid keep our car running for a good time without costing a lot of money.
Check your phone book and call a few places. You can discover a lot about an motor shop by meeting them on the telephone. Are they ethical? Do they sound helpful? It’s also wise to ask them how much they charge to repair certain parts on a truck such being a tune up or brake replacement. Could involve give an idea about pricing at these shops. Also, ask them what type of warranty they’ve got on materials.
Your user guide will anyone with some basic information about when certain maintenance tasks should be completed. Most tasks will be listed in step with the mileage on brakes.
If the crack is smaller then an 1/2″ Which i grab the super glue and do a super glue improvement. I do this by spreading the glue as crack then sanding it smooth with a 240 grit sandpaper, texture with your water based spray grain, then coloring.
Ask notice the vehicle’s maintenance record. If there work just like copies however owner, phone the engine parts center or dealership where the auto was monitored. They’re more than willing to share their documentation.
Garages put down your bill for repairs by stating the associated with the parts, and the expense of of the labour to suit them. As we all know, garages make most of a money is not labour, more importantly car parts costing just several pounds can end up costing you several hundred pounds possess have added on the labour rates.
This practice has become standard among many on the big box national chains and quite recently has been adopted by a lot of of a couple of local designs. If you feel like you’re being spark plug into buying something you feel you probably need, please, get an extra opinion.
Overall, most people may not professionally educated to work and repair cars and more than likely do not have the proper equipment to fix specific difficulties. When you are driving, view a hear any sounds out the ordinary hailing from any parts of your vehicle, it is maybe a good idea to have your automobile inspected along with a car repair professional right away.
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Limiting God in the Faith Walk
As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. — ROMANS 4:17
Let me give you some examples of God calling those things that be not as though they were. Revelation 13:8 says, “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” The Bible speaks of Jesus as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. And yet, Jesus did not hang on the Cross until thousands of years later.
Ephesians 1:4 says, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” We were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. We weren’t even born yet. Well, was God lying when He said that? No, He wasn’t.
Sin is disobeying God. And holiness is simply obeying and pleasing God in all things at all times. One way to obey and to please God is to walk by faith. Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
God is pleased when you call those things that be not as though they were. This attitude honors God, because you are believing His Word without any outward evidence. It also puts you in an attitude of faith to receive great things from God.
Confession: God is pleased when I walk by faith. God is pleased when I call those things that be not as though they were, because I am believing His Word without any outward evidence.
Source: Health Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin. Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications. Copyright © 2002, 2007 Rhema Bible Church aka Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Technological advances have had a major effect on the management of type 1 diabetes. In addition to blood glucose meters, devices used by people with type 1 diabetes include insulin pumps, continuous glucose monitors, and, most recently, systems that combine both a pump and a monitor for algorithm-driven automation of insulin delivery. In the next 5 years, as many advances are expected in technology for the management of diabetes as there have been in the past 5 years, with improvements in continuous glucose monitoring and more available choices of systems that automate insulin delivery. Expansion of the use of technology will be needed beyond endocrinology practices to primary-care settings and broader populations of patients. Tools to support decision making will also need to be developed to help patients and health-care providers to use the output of these devices to optimise diabetes management.
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How exactly do payday loans work?
Are they the beginning of a vicious cycle of high-interest payments and expensive fees?
When you are in financial trouble and your credit score is not good, or you have bad credit it can be tempting to search for quick solutions. Although online payday loans may seem straightforward, they can often have additional costs that could make your budget more difficult than you expected.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) reports that nearly 25% of payday loan applicants default on payday loans, and more than 80% need to borrow again within 14 days.
What is a Payday Loan?
According to the FDIC, approximately 24 million adults are considered underbanked, 11% of the total population. They are dependent on the services such as payday lenders.
You may have noticed storefronts advertising payday loans or quick cash in your locality for payday lending.
Payday loans are short-term loans that last for up to two weeks. You can either write a check or provide a debit number to receive the cash the same day and the credit union
The lender will cash the check when the due date has passed to complete the loan in a storefront payday lender. If you have the cash, you can arrange to pay the loan back at the loan office.
Payday loans may end up costing more than you think. These payday loans are designed for immediate cash needs and cannot wait to be paid back.
Lenders charge higher interest rates and fees in most lenders than traditional bank loans.
What happens if I cannot pay my payday loan on time?
According to the CFPB, the average payday loan is $1,000- a two-week payday loan in this cycle of debt. With a shocking interest rate of 260%, it can quickly add up.
You can request to renew your loan even through a credit card if you cannot pay the payday loan on the due date as a credit check for the loan. This will be treated by the lender as a payday loan, and you will be charged additional fees including student loans.
Depending on the terms, you may be turned over to a collection agency or debt collector, and these agencies might report you to credit reporting companies.
Before you apply for a payday loan and see how payday loans and personal loans work, consider this:
- Let’s suppose you have $200 to pay for a car, medical bill, or any other expense that can’t wait. A $30 fee is charged by a payday lender for each $200 borrowed as for credit report in you bank account
- Repay payday loans in storefront payday lenders.
- Payday lenders will send you a post-dated cheque and take the money.
- You can’t repay the $200 loan if you don't have enough money by the due date. Although the lender will allow you to extend the loan, the lender will charge you a $30 renewal fee and a $30 late fee for the $200 loan.
- What if your next payday is not as large as you expected? For $30 more plus a $30 late fee, you may have to extend the loan once again in your borrower’s bank account. You’ve now paid $150 alone for fees when you needed $200.
Are there better options than a payday advance?
You should shop around for the best rates and terms if you need money to pay a bill or purchase. Payday lenders can charge you high interest and fees, as you have seen.
Banks offer affordable work payday loans that let you borrow the money you need as payday borrowers at much lower interest rates. A loan may be available to you if you are eligible Line of Credit.
It is possible to be tempted by the temptation to max out your checking account to pay for a purchase.
You should be aware that the non-sufficient fund’s fees (NSF), can quickly add up if you have multiple transactions, can quickly add up. To cover accidental overdrafts, you can link your savings account with your checking.
It will be easier to manage tight budget days if you have good financial habits. You can start by paying yourself first. Even $10 per week can add up to a financial cushion and help you save money.
Set up an automatic transfer to help you build your savings and avoid forgetting to add money to your emergency fund. A portion of your direct deposit, loans work payday, can be automatically transferred to an account with the aid of credit bureaus.
PaydayChampion makes it easy to automate your savings with our Round up to Save Program. Be aware of
We automatically transfer any difference to your account when you make purchases with your debit card including a cash advance until you pay back the initial loan with the initial loan amount to avoid the payday loan trap and inadequacy for a short-term loan. We match up to $250 of your savings at the end in financial services.
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How this single mom raised her credit score despite losing her job
When Nicole Johnson lost her job as a teaching assistant last May at the height of the pandemic, she decided to stay home with her then 6-year-old daughter who was remote learning.
Johnson, who lives in a low-income public housing building in White Plains, New York, used some of her downtime to attend a series of webinars to educate herself in first-time homebuying.
“My daughter is only 7. And from the time she started talking, this is one thing she's always said, ‘I want to live in a house,’” says Johnson, who is divorced. “That’s just something I want to give her. We want to have a backyard and I want to eventually be able to leave it for her.”
As she went through the webinar series, one thing became clear: the importance of being in good financial standing and having a good credit score. That would determine her appeal to a lender when she went mortgage shopping, and whether she would get favorable terms.
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A credit score is a number between 300 and 850 that shows a consumer’s creditworthiness based on their bill payment history, current debt and other financial information. A high score could mean lower interest rates on a loan as lenders feel more confident that a person will repay their future debts.
A score of 800 or above is considered excellent, and most consumers have credit scores that fall between 600 and 750, according to Experian, a credit reporting agency.
Johnson said her credit score had taken a beating when she got divorced six years ago and it took her six years to get her credit score from poor to good.
“I looked at my credit score and saw what was outstanding. And I personally wrote to each company, and they offered me a lower payment schedule,” she says. “I was very shocked that they were willing to work with me.”
Johnson's first order of business was getting an organizer where she would write down each payment that was coming due and making sure the payment was made on time. If she couldn't make the payment, she'd negotiate an extension without penalty.
"The mortgage lenders will want to know that you have at least two years of paying all your bills on time," says Johnson. "I am so proud of myself. I am in the 650 to 700 range right now."
On AnnualCreditReport.com you are entitled to a free annual credit report from each of the three credit reporting agencies. These agencies include Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the agencies are offering free credit reports every week through April 2022 so people can stay in control of their finances.
Tips to improve your credit score
Check your credit report
Getting an annual credit report will help you spot errors and fraudulent accounts. If you see mistakes, write to the credit reporting agency and information provider, such as your bank or credit card company, detailing the errors. They are required to investigate.
Pay down your debt
If you're behind on your bills, bringing them current could help. While a late payment can remain on your credit report for up to seven years, having all your accounts current can be good for your scores. It also stops further late payments from being added to your credit history as well as additional late fees, according to Experian.
Pay your bills on time
Make sure you don't miss loan or credit card payments by more than 29 days. Payments that are at least 30 days late can be reported to the credit bureaus and hurt your credit scores.
“If you consistently can make payments on time, it just shows that you're a reliable borrower, and it shows that you're a less risky individual,” says Andy Taylor, general manager at Credit Karma.
Avoid balloon payments
When you get the bill from your credit card, pay what you can. Don’t wait until you have the full amount.
“Make smaller payments as you can over the course of the month, rather than the 15th or the first of the month,” says Taylor. “At the end, if you can keep that credit card utilization down, that will actually increase your credit score.”
Don’t open up too many credit cards
If you apply for too many cards over a short period of time, you might look like a greater risk.
“It looks like you're looking for cash, and maybe you've got a big purchase coming up,” says Taylor.
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy is the Housing and Economy reporter for USA TODAY. Follow her at @SwapnaVenugopal on Twitter.
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Breaking Cycles – Building Futures
Educating Communities for Parenting offers a variety of programs and services to nearly 500 clients annually at over 25 sites including traditional, alternative, charter, and disciplinary schools; foster care residences, homeless shelters, recovery facilities, and childcare centers.
ECP works with a diverse range of populations including teen and adult parents; adjudicated delinquent youth; young adults aging out of the foster care system; preschoolers, and children at grave risk of becoming victims or perpetrators of violence. Workshops and programs are customized to meet the specific needs of the populations we serve.
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- Increase personal responsibility and healthy behaviors
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- Recognize and communicate that violence is a public health issue
- Increase use of creative intelligence in problem-solving, decision making and goal setting
- Increase a sense of empowerment and well-being
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- Passive and Active ETFs
- Bond ETFs
- Stock ETFs
- Industry/Sector ETFs
- Commodity ETFs
- Currency ETFs
- Inverse ETFs
- Leveraged ETFs
Various styles of ETFs are out there to investors that may be used for the financial gain generation, speculation, and value will increase, and to hedge or part offset risk in an investor’s portfolio. Here could be a transient description of a number of the ETFs out there on the market nowadays.
Passive and Active ETFs
ETFs are typically characterized as either passive or actively managed. Passive ETFs aim to copy the performance of a broader index—either a heterogeneous index like the S&P five hundred or a lot of specific targeted sectors or trends. An example of the latter class is gold mining stocks: as of February eighteen, 2022, there are just about eight ETFs that specialize in firms engaged in gold mining, excluding inverse, leveraged, and funds with low assets underneath management (AUM).
Actively managed ETFs usually don’t target AN index of securities, however rather portfolio managers create choices regarding that securities to incorporate within the portfolio. These funds have advantages over passive ETFs however tend to be dearer to investors. We tend to explore actively managed ETFs below.
Bond ETFs are accustomed give regular financial gains to investors. Their financial gain distribution depends on the performance of underlying bonds. They could embody government bonds, company bonds, and state and native bonds—called municipal bonds. In contrast to their underlying instruments, bond ETFs don’t have a due date. They often trade at a premium or discount from the particular bond value.
Stock (equity) ETFs comprise a basket of stocks to trace one business or sector. As an example, a stock ETF would possibly track automotive or foreign stocks. The aim is to produce heterogeneous exposure to one business, one that features high performers and new entrants with growth potential. In contrast to stock mutual funds, stock ETFs have lower fees and don’t involve actual possession of securities.
Industry or sector ETFs are funds that specialize in a selected sector or business. As an example, an energy sector ETF can embody firms’ operative therein sector. The thought behind business ETFs is to achieve exposure to the face of that business by following the performance of firms operative therein sector. One example is the technology sector, which has witnessed a flow of funds in recent years. At constant times, the drawback of volatile stock performance is additionally curtailed in an ETF as a result they do not involve direct possession of securities. Business ETFs also are accustomed rotate in and out of sectors throughout economic cycles.
As their name indicates, commodity ETFs invest in commodities, as well as fossil oil or gold. Commodity ETFs give many advantages. First, they diversify a portfolio, creating it easier to hedge downturns. As an example, commodity ETFs will give a cushion throughout a slump within the securities market. Second, holding shares in a very commodity ETF is cheaper than physical possession of the commodity. This is often a result of the previous doesn’t involve insurance and storage prices.
Currency ETFs are pooled investment vehicles that track the performance of currency pairs, consisting of domestic and foreign currencies. Currency ETFs serve multiple functions. They’ll be accustomed speculate on the costs of currencies supported by political and economic developments for a rustic. They’re conjointly accustomed diversify a portfolio or as a hedge against volatility in forex markets by importers and exporters. A number of them also are the accustomed hedge against the threat of inflation. There’s even an ETF choice for bitcoin.
Inverse ETFs commit to earning gains from stock declines by shorting stocks. Shorting is the commerce of stock, expecting a decline in worth, and repurchasing it at a cheaper price. An inverse ETF uses derivatives to short a stock. Primarily, they’re bets that the market can decline. Once the market declines, an inverse ETF will increase by a proportionate quantity. Investors ought to bear in mind that a lot of inverse ETFs are exchange-traded notes (ETNs) and are not true ETFs. An ETN could be a bond however trades as a sort of a stock and is backed by an establishment like a bank. Make certain to ascertain together with your broker to work out if An ETN could be sensibly acceptable to your portfolio.
A leveraged ETF seeks to come to some multiples (e.g., 2× or 3×) on the come of the underlying investments. For example, if the S&P five hundred rises 1 Chronicle, a 2× leveraged S&P five hundred ETF can come two (and if the index falls by, the ETF would lose 2%). These merchandise use derivatives like choices or futures contracts to leverage their returns. There also are leveraged inverse ETFs that get an inverse increased come.
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Ronald E. Pearce
Reviewed by: Stewart E. Lauer
A New Song? What the Bible Teaches concerning Psalms and Hymns in Public Worship, by Ronald E. Pearce. Published by the author (and available from him at 122 Deerfield Dr., Hackettstown, NJ 07840), 2003. Booklet, 22 pages, $5.00 postpaid. Reviewed by Professor Stewart E. Lauer.
A New Song? should help churches singing both hymns and Psalms. The proponents of exclusive psalmody (EP) are prolific, leaving an average OP church member wondering how faithful his church really is. A New Song? provides a succinct and readable overview of the issues. It competently defends the singing of scripturally faithful hymns in public worship.
There are two brief appendices. The first, setting forth a "biblical standard for appropriate hymns," is excellent. Less persuasive is the second, which asks whether advocates of EP really sing "psalms" according to their own view.
A New Song? first lays out biblical, historical, and confessional arguments (pp. 3-5) for "sing[ing] only the Psalms in public worship." Then, while firmly endorsing the Psalter, it counters the EP position from the standpoints of biblical permission, biblical history, and church history (pp. 5-13).
Pearce concludes by exhorting EP advocates to "be careful of a judgmental spirit," and to "realize that we do sincerely hold to the regulative principle." Don't call a meeting a "chapel service" and forbid hymns, he says, and then, "on the same day with the same preacher," call another meeting "a 'convocation '. . . allow[ing] almost any kind of music." Pearce urges hymn singers to ensure that "all the music . . . conforms to Scripture," and that we "include psalms frequently . . . without patronizing."
A weakness of this work is that, by merely contrasting the "psalms only" and "both hymns and psalms" positions, it ignores mediating views.
Another weakness is that A New Song? lacks citations. Direct quotations from key proponents' works would preclude even the impression that Pearce refutes straw men.
Also, A New Song? could be stronger at several points:
(1) Pearce's suggestion that Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16 may not be about public worship, thus implying that Paul's directive may not be determinative for such worship, is unpersuasive. The New Testarnent portrays the assembly at the center of church life, and this twice-repeated command looks like a standard instruction. Paul's instructions at least include singing in assemblies.
(2) Pearce points out that Paul mentions only "speaking" the psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, not "singing" them (as would be done in worship). However, the verb "speak" can mean "utter words" or "express oneself," and so includes singing. Pearce also argues that Paul's exhortation to speak psalms, etc., "applies to all believers" and so cannot refer to worship services, as it would then contradict the rule that women are not to "speak" in church (1 Cor. 14:34) (p. 7). However, when Paul forbids women from individually expressing themselves, he is not proscribing participation in group singing.
(3) A New Song? needs to define what the key terms in the key verses denote. It is correct that they "cannot be proven to refer to the Old Testament Psalter," and that "the [verses' key] three terms overlap," but we can't insist that they "are interchangeable" because "we can't precisely identify each one" (p. 6). Paul certainly intended his readers to apprehend what sorts of songs he was directing them to "speak to one another." To be persuasive, one must determine what Paul meant.
Despite these weaknesses, I recommend A New Song? as a brief, easy-to-read defense of the mainstream OPC position.
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Artificial turf is not the best choice for athletic playing fields
dr Michael Ellenbecker of Concord is professor emeritus of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and director emeritus of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute.
Recent Monitor articles have described how some residents of Bow and Concord are advocating for the installation of artificial turf athletic playing fields in their communities. Proponents of bringing a turf field to Concord claimed various benefits for artificial fields when compared to natural turf, without offering specifics beyond citing the drainage problems at Memorial Field.
I will discuss specific disadvantages of artificial turf fields, and advocate for a safer, healthier, more cost-effective alternative: organic natural grass.
Until recently, I was the director of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI), whose mission is to assist industries and communities to reduce their use of toxic chemicals. TURI has studied the health and safety issues concerning artificial turf in detail and has several reports available online. I will summarize that information here, and references for all of the data mentioned below can be found at the TURI web site, turi.org.
We all benefit from working and playing in safe and healthy environments, but we must have special concerns for children who are more sensitive to toxic chemicals than adults. It is thus extremely important that we make careful choices about possible exposures of children to toxic chemicals.
Artificial turf has been studied extensively and has been found to contain toxic chemicals. The primary concern is with the infill materials that are used to hold the artificial grass fibers upright and provide cushioning. The most common, and cheapest, infill is crumb rubber, made from grinding up recycled tires. These black particles contaminate everyone’s clothing, hair and skin after playing on an artificial turf field.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has identified more than 350 chemicals reported in the literature as being detected in tire crumb. These include metals such as lead, cadmium and arsenic and a variety of organic compounds including benzene, styrene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), phthalate esters, and biocides. PAHs are endocrine disruptors while arsenic, cadmium, benzene, and styrene are known or suspected human carcinogens.
Other infills are on the market but they are all more expensive and many of them have been less studied than tire crumb and so their toxicity is uncertain. There are also concerns for the artificial grass fibers. Recent testing has found some to contain PFAS compounds. PFAS compounds are toxic and are known as the “forever chemicals” because they persist in nature for hundreds of years. PFAS contamination is of great concern in New Hampshire.
Artificial turf fields have other disadvantages beyond their toxicity. They can become much hotter than natural grass in sunny, warm weather, raising the distinct possibility of heat stress and skin burns. Temperatures on artificial turf fields can be 30-60 degrees hotter than on natural grass. Many towns with artificial turf fields have had to train their coaches on how to recognize and treat heat stress in their child athletes. This problem will only get worse with global warming. Studies have also found an increase in foot and ankle injuries on artificial turf as compared with natural grass.
The alternative to artificial turf is, of course, natural grass, and the best option for towns, in my opinion, is natural grass grown using organic turf management, which eliminates the use of toxic insecticides, herbicides and fungicides and results in the safest, healthiest playing field. Natural grass also captures carbon dioxide, reducing a town’s carbon footprint.
Professional athletes almost universally prefer natural to artificial turf. For example, professional soccer players always play on natural grass. If the US women’s soccer team refuses to play on artificial turf, so should Concord High School’s!
Town managers may say “that all may be true, but artificial turf fields are less expensive than organic grass fields.” Detailed cost analyzes have demonstrated that the opposite is true. Installation costs for artificial turf fields are extremely high, typically 5-10 times higher than natural grass (which frequently only requires an upgrade of an existing field), while the annual maintenance costs of organic grass fields are only modestly higher than for artificial turf.
Studies have shown that organic fields are cheaper to maintain than chemically-treated grass fields. In addition, artificial turf must be disposed of at the end of its life, at great financial and environmental cost. A study of life-cycle costs found that the annualized cost of a natural grass field was one-half of the annualized cost of a “basic” synthetic field and one-third the cost of a “premium” synthetic field. I am quite certain, for example, that the drainage problems at Memorial Field can be solved much less expensively with an upgraded organic field than with artificial turf.
In summary, organic natural grass fields are cheaper, healthier, safer, and more enjoyable to play on compared to artificial turf fields. The choice is clear, go green and healthy with organic, natural grass!
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Collections are often an issue in the construction industry. Do you know whether the following statements are fact or fiction?
In most states it is legal to charge 18% per annum (or 1.5% per month) interest to individual customers on past due balances in collections.
FICTION. When contracting with an individual person (as opposed to a business entity), most states impose a maximum amount of interest that may be charged on past-due accounts that is much lower than 1.5% per month. Further, to charge the maximum amount many states require a signed agreement with the individual containing that rate. Absent an agreement in writing, the rate that may be charged is often even lower. The maximum rates vary among each state, and handful of states (such as Arizona and Massachusetts) do allow charging individuals 18% on past due balances if that rate is stated in a signed contract.
If I receive a check for less than the full amount due and that says “Payment in Full” in the memo section, I cannot pursue the balance later.
FACT. A check is a “negotiable instrument” and can form a contract. If it contains 1) a dollar amount, 2) a notation indicating payment in full, and 3) is signed by the issuer and the recipient (by endorsing it), then a contract is formed and the recipient has agreed to that amount as payment in full.
As a subcontractor or supplier to a general contractor, if you do not preserve lien rights you may still sue the property owner if you are not paid.
FICTION. Unless your contract was directly with the property owner, in virtually all cases your only recourse against the property or the property owner is a mechanic’s or construction lien. If you do not preserve those lien rights, un- less there are special circumstances, you may only pursue the party that hired you or that purchased the materials from you.
Contract clauses providing that the general contractor is not required to pay subcontractors or suppliers, unless the owner pays the general contractor, are enforceable.
FACT. A contingent payment clause (or “pay if paid” clause) shifts the risk of nonpayment by the owner from the general contractor (GC) to the subcontractors and suppliers (subs). However, the clause must clearly and unequivocally state that the owner’s payment is an absolute condition to the GC’s obligation to pay the subs. For example, a clause that simply states that the GC shall pay the subs within seven days after the owner pays does not eliminate the GC’s duty to pay the subs. Instead, it only states the timing for payments. Only if the clause unequivocally states that the GC’s duty to pay the subs is conditioned upon the owner’s payment will the clause be enforceable.
Blake Nelson is an attorney with Hellmuth & Johnson in Minneapolis and concentrates his practice on advising and representing clients in the construction industry. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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I AM painfully aware that, to the diligent render of the last two parts of this historical study, it may seem as if the boys described were a sort of Robinson Crusoe and man Friday who lived alone on their happy island. I feel as it I had spoken as though there were an occasional invasion of savages or Spaniards, but that practically we had little to do with the outside world. This is by no means true, and I will now try to give some idea of the social conditions which surrounded boyhood in Boston in the years between 1826 and 1837. For we were “ in the swim,” as the current expression puts it, and no countenance would have been given to us, either in any shyness or for arrogance which kept us out of it.
I have already said that, while on the most cordial terms with our school companions, it seemed as if we left them in another world as soon as school was over. As I have said. I think the reason was that most of the fathers of the other boys were in mercantile pursuits, and the boys’ business, therefore, called them quite regularly to the wharves to inspect the large foreign trade of Boston. As it happened, our father was in other affairs, and, as naturally, these attracted us.
In an old New England family, churchgoing, of course, was an element which had a great deal to do with social life. I was carried to “meeting" on the fourth Sunday after I was born, and was christened at the same time with two or three other children. I afterward knew their names. They were in families with whom we were well acquainted, and to this hour that mystic tie seems to form a relationship between me and them and their children. I have to this moment a little bit of yellow paper which is, I fancy, the first document but one among the memoirs which form my biography. It is the bill of the “stable man” who sent his carriage on this occasion. “ For carrying three to meeting, sixty cents.”My poor nine or ten pounds of avoirdupois went as nothing to the hack-driver, and no estimate is made of the cost to him or to the community of the carrying to “meeting” of the person who was, as I must still say, the most important individual in the transaction.
In those days children were taken to church for regular attendance very early. I do not see any children in my own church who are as young as those who went or were taken then. On our annual visits to Westhampton, we were always interested because the young mothers carried their babies to “ meeting " at all ages. They did not like, I suppose, to stay at home when all the men " went to meeting,”and accordingly they went with the children. If a baby cried, the mother got up, carried it out, and sat on the steps of the meeting-house until the ebullition of feeling was over, when she returned, But this was rather edifying as an interesting curiosity to us Boston children. No babies were carried to Brattle Street Church except for baptism; but as soon as the children could walk, and he relied upon not to cry, I should think the custom began. Such reliance was sometimes misplaced. I am so unfortunate that I do not remember ever hearing Dr. Channing preach ; but it is among the disgraceful records of my life that once, when my mother thought she would hear him, and, because Brattle Street Church was being painted, went to Federal Street, she took me with her. She sat with friends, far forward in the broad aisle, and I, dissatisfied with the interior arrangements of the church, I suppose, — probably dissatisfied because I was not where I was used to be on Sunday, — wept with such loud acclaim that in the middle of the service she was obliged to rise and take me out of the church. I think it was the last experiment of the sort that she tried. In fact, we were very loyal to our church. I think everybody was loyal to the churches they went to. And to such unfortunate loyalty I owe it that, while I knew Dr. Channing personally, and he was very kind to me as a boy, I never had the pleasure of hearing him preach, although I was twenty years old when he died.
We “ went to meeting ” morning and afternoon always, and so, I am apt to think, did all respectable people; certainly in the earlier part of those years. I know that I never observed any distinction between the size of the congregation in the afternoon and that of the morning. I know that any person who had been seen driving out of town on Sunday, either in the morning or in the afternoon, would have lost credit in the community. Frequently, Mr. Palfrey, the minister, would say, at the end of the morning sermon, “ I shall continue this subject in the afternoon.” He did so with the perfect understanding that he would have the same hearers. I wonder, in passing, whether that phrase “my hearers” is as familiar to young people now as it was then. It was a bit of pulpit slang, such as one never hears in a lecture-room or in a political meeting. The people, instead of being addressed as “ you,” or as “ friends,” or as “ members of the church of Christ,” were spoken to as “ hearers.” I doubt if I ever hear that word now without giving it a certain ecclesiastical connection.
It was a wonder to me then, and has been ever since, why the hour and a quarter spent in “meeting” of a Sunday morning seemed as long as the four hours spent in school every other morning. I was early aware of the curiously interesting fact, which nobody ever explained to me, that the afternoon service was ten minutes shorter than the morning service ; but why that hour and five minutes should seem as long as the three hours spent in school of an afternoon I have never known, and do not know now. Besides these two services we had the Sunday-school. It seems to me it was always after the afternoon service ; I know it was, in the earlier days. A Sunday-school then was a very different thing from what it is now. Then you were expected to learn something, and you did. For my own part, I have often said, and I think it is true, that fully one half of the important information which I now have with regard to the Scriptural history of mankind — with regard to the history of the Jews, for instance, or the travels of Paul right and left, or anything else which can be called the intellectual side of the Bible — was acquired in Brattle Street Sunday-school before I was thirteen years old. We had little books which contained facts on these subjects. We had to study these books as we did any other schoolbooks, and we recited from them as we recited any other lesson. I do not think there was much said or thought about making Sunday - school agreeable to the children. We were told to go, and we went; we were told to learn a lesson, and we learned it. As I observe Sunday-schools now, this has been driven out; and driven out, I believe, by the pressure of the week-day school system, — a pressure which I am fighting against in every quarter without success. For myself, I liked to go where my brother and sisters went. They went to the Sunday-school, so I expressed a wish to go. Pupils were received on the first of January, and on the first Sunday of the year 1827 I presented myself with the rest. But it proved that the rule of the school was that no one should be admitted before he was six. I suppose they did not want children who could not read. I could read as well as I can now, and was disgusted, therefore, when I was rejected on examination. I rather think I was the only child in New England who was ever told that he must not go to Sunday-school. But I was sent away on the ground that I was not six years old. I went home with the others, saying, “ It is a pretty way to hear a fellow say his catechism by asking him, ‘ How old are you ? ’ ' How old are you ? ’ ‘ How old are you ? ’ ” And I was not permitted to go for the next year. I had already taken the first steps in the catechism. I had learned in words what I probably knew already, — all, indeed, that is very important to learn in the business of theology.
Such was going to meeting on Sunday. I suppose the sons of Episcopalian families spoke of “going to church,” but we did not in my earlier childhood. I make the note here, however, for the benefit of Notes and Queries, that, in Boston, the meeting-houses were always called churches from the very beginning. I think they were not in other parts of Massachusetts. In Hales’s map of this neighborhood, of the date of 1826, you will see “ Rev. Mr. Gray’s M. H.,” “Rev. Mr. Gile’s M. H.,” meaning “meetinghouse” in each instance.
Of week-day exercises connected with churches Boston knew almost nothing, not even in Evangelical circles. The fact was known that there was a chandelier in the Old South Church, but I do not think that chandelier was often lighted. When Park Street Church was built, as a sort of banner of a new dispensation for latitudinarian Boston, it had arrangements for lighting the church for an evening service. But this was all a heresy to the old Boston Puritan, whether he were Evangelical or Unitarian.
For the original theory of the Puritans is that the family is the church, and that each family is a church. The father of each family is a priest, and is competent to carry on worship. Accordingly, he does carry on worship in the morning and in the evening; and any proposal for an evening service anywhere else was regarded by the old Puritans as being, to a certain extent, an innovation, because it broke up that family worship which was so essential in their plan. I think that in every family of which I had any acquaintance the forms of family worship were maintained in this earlier period ; every morning certainly, and probably every evening. When, therefore, the religion of Connecticut was introduced into Boston by the building of Park Street Church, and by the arrival of my children’s great-grandfather, Lyman Beecher, and the custom of an occasional evening service on Sunday or on a week day came with it, it was considered as an entire innovation by old-fashioned Boston. It was quite as much an innovation as calling an Episcopal minister a “rector” is now to oldfashioned Episcopalians, or as having lighted candles in the daytime would be at Trinity. To the last moment of its conscious existence the West Church was never arranged for evening service ; and at this moment you will find, in old Boston families, the habit of going to visit one another on Sunday evening, but not of going to church. Where people go to church steadily on Sunday evening, you may generally guess that they are not of old Boston blood.
In the interior of the State, as at my grandfather’s, for example, the observance of “ the Sabbath ” stopped at sunset. For instance, we watched at his house for the sun to go down on Sunday afternoon, and then brought out our little cannons and fired a feu de joie in honor of its departure. We then played blind-man’s-buff all Sunday evening, and this in the parsonage of a stiff Calvinistic minister. No such excesses as this would have been permitted in Boston. But gradually Sunday-evening concerts came in, if only they were religious concerts; and the Handel and Haydn, I think, would hardly have been in existence now but for the midway opportunity which Sunday evening gave for their performances. The theatres, on the other hand, were compelled to be closed on Saturday evening and on Sunday, until a period later than that I am describing, when some of the more enterprising managers defied the State and the city, and our statutes were changed so that performances on Saturday evening were possible. After they had gained the point as a matter of right, I think they generally found it more convenient to have the performances of Saturday in the afternoon. Our present statute, which defines the Lord’s Day as from midnight to midnight, is as late as 1844. Before that time there were certain restrictions on Saturday evening, such as the theatrical licenses indicated.
Social existence in all forms of civilization requires a certain knowledge of dancing; and in conventional civilization this dancing is not left to the spontaneous joy of children, but, willingly or unwillingly, they have to be taught to dance. This fell upon ns as upon other children, and to the very end of his life Mr. Lorenzo Papanti, cordial, graceful, and dignified old man, remembered kindly that I was one of the first four pupils whom he had in Boston. He has become so far an historical character to many of the best in Boston that the editor will excuse me if I give a few words to his dancing-school. It was in Montgomery Place, now Bosworth Street; I think in the very house which was removed to open the passage through to what we called Cooke’s Court, and what the present generation calls Province Street. It was in the third story of that house, where a partition had been cut away to make a hall large enough for a dancing-school. The papering at one end still differed from the papering at the other. To this hall of Terpsichore I repaired with three others, and we were the only pupils on the first Thursday afternoon of our attendance. On the next Saturday there arrived more, one of them one of my brothers in baptism, of whom I have already spoken; and from that time the school increased, and, as one is glad to say, maintains at this moment, under the direction of another generation, the high and well-deserved regard and esteem of everybody in Boston who knows anything about it. This hall was near our house, so that we could always go on foot. But there was a rather tragic story in the family of the school of Monsieur Labassé, to which my older brother and sister went, which was so far away that they had to be sent in a carriage. Unfortunately, in the jolting of the carriage they were shaken off the seats, and they were so small that they could not climb up on them again before they arrived at their destination. Thus early was the art of graceful movement impressed upon them.
For me, dancing-school shared in the dislike with which I regarded all other schools. Dear Mrs. Papanti — I remember her with gratitude to this moment —did her best for me, but never was a pupil less likely to add to the reputation of an institution. The school was afterwards removed to Bulfinch Place, where the Papantis had an elegant house. I was at that time bribed to attend by being told I might take a book with me to read. One afternoon, when the boys were carrying on awfully, dear Mrs. Papanti bore down upon us, and said, " Why is it that Master Hale is so quiet, while Master Champernoon behaves so badly ? " and looked over my shoulder to see that I was reading Guy Mannering. “ Ah ! ” she cried, “ I will give Master Champernoon a set of the Waverley novels, if he will behave as well as Master Hale does ! ” But, alas, Master Champernoon was one of the boys who enjoyed dancing and wanted to dance, and had unwarranted arrangements with the girls with regard to partners, and so on, while Master Hale detested the whole thing. Good soul, she did her best in dragging me about, as a favorite pupil, in the waltz; but my poor head swam, and I think my partners, from that day to this, have generally preferred to “ stand through a waltz,” when they have found the alternative was sharing it with me.
All this led, of course, to little evening parties of the boys and girls, just as it does now. The boys would stand at the foot of the stairs and in the entries, just as they do now, and maiden aunts would make incursions upon them to tell them that they must take partners, just as they do now. They took these partners, and then retired from the field to similar clusters, to be broken up again, just as they do now.
I have tried to describe, in my story East and West, the way in which refreshments were generally served at evening parties, unless these were on the grandest scale. There would frequently be such a party without a proper suppertable. I believe this was largely due to the fact that in very few houses in Boston then was there a special diningroom. People dined in their back parlors, and when the house was given up to dancing the hack parlor was not available as a supper-room. At the simpler parties to which boys and girls went, in place of the supper, a little procession of servants brought in large trays with cake of different kinds, even with ice-cream, perhaps with jelly or blanc mange, with wine or lemonade; and these processions recurred half a dozen times in the course of the evening.
Another function which brought young people together, and brought them together with older people, was the arrangement for evening lectures. These were much more familiar and homelike than the lectures of to-day, to which we go hardly with any idea of social enjoyment. But, as I have intimated, the “march of intellect ” had begun. One feature of the march of intellect was the introduction of lectures for people who wanted to learn something. They were exactly what is called the university extension system to-day, which I observe, however, is spoken of everywhere as if it were an entirely new invention. Now a lecture course is undertaken by a director, or entrepreneur, who means to provide entertainment for the people. He does not pretend to teach the people; he proposes to entertain them. Therefore, if his course consists of eight lectures, he provides eight different entertaining speakers ; and this makes almost a class of men, each of whom has a few entertaining addresses prepared with this definite purpose. But in the earlier days of what we called the lecture system, or the lyceum, a body of public-spirited men, who really wanted to improve the education of the community, banded themselves together into a society for that purpose. This society, among other instrumentalities, established courses of lectures, generally in the winter, for the instruction of the people.
In Boston, such lectures had been heralded by courses arranged by individuals. Dr. Jacob Bigelow had courses on botany ; Henry Ware gave a course of very popular lectures on Palestine ; Edward Everett delivered lectures on Greek antiquities ; and there were other similar courses, just as there might be now, if anybody would attend them. The success of these courses showed that a systematic arrangement might be made for courses of popular lectures in the evenings, and such were, in fact, carried on by different societies for a period of years. They culminated in the great success which Mr. John Lowell achieved in the establishment of the Lowell Institute ; and I suppose it was this foundation which broke down at once all weaker foundations with the same purpose. It does its work so well that nobody in Boston need have any tears for them. I remember the Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge, the Mercantile Library Association, the Mechanics’ Apprentices’ Association, the Natural History Society, and the Historical Society as maintaining such courses of lectures as I describe. There would be from ten to fifteen lectures in a course. The tickets for the cheapest were fifty cents a course; for others they were a dollar, or even two dollars. At our house this made no difference, because tickets to everything — concerts, lectures, and the rest—were sent to the newspaper office, and practically we children went to any such entertainments as we liked.
One of these societies would arrange a course of lectures. The whole course might be on chemistry. I remember such a course from Professor Webster. It was conducted with all his brilliant power of experiment, and listened to with enthusiasm by four or five hundred people. I remember another course by John Farrar, on the steam-engine. I heard, in the Useful Knowledge course, several of Mr. Waldo Emerson’s biographical lectures. The Useful Knowledge course would be perhaps on Tuesday evening, the Mercantile Library on Wednesday, the Mechanics’ on Thursday. Eventually, halls were built specially for such lectures. There was one favorite hall in the Masonic Temple, which is now occupied, as rebuilt, by Messrs. Stearns. I suppose this hall would hold five hundred people. The seats rose rapidly, as in the lecture-room of a medical college, so that people could see all the experiments or pictures on the platform.
To such an entertainment you went, and if you were old enough you took a friend of the other sex. You arrived there half an hour before the lecture began, and walked from seat to seat, talking with the people whom you found there. After the lecture had gone on half an hour or more there was a recess, and again you walked about from seat to seat; perhaps chose another seat, if the first had not been satisfactory. At the end of a lecture of may be an hour and a half in length, you went home with anybody who chose to invite you. At the house you went to, there was the invariable dish of oysters, or crackers and cheese, or whatever was the evening meal of that particular evening. And thus the lyceum lecture of that time played a quite important part in the social arrangements of growing boys and girls.
Of its advantage as a system of instruction I can say hardly too much. Of course the instruction given was superficial. I have lived seventy years in the world, and I have never found any instruction that was not superficial. But it was instruction ; it was instruction given by first-rate men, who knew how to teach : and it was systematic instruction. The lecturer of to-day takes an epigrammatic phrase for his subject, as he calls it; it is the Philosophy of Mathematics, or it is the Mathematics of Philosophy. He speaks well, he brings in interesting stories, he gives a little information, and the public which sees him and hears him is amused. Some one asked James Russell Lowell once whether he supposed that the average audience of an interior town in New York cared much for Beaumont and Fletcher. He said very frankly: “ I do not suppose they care for Beaumont and Fletcher at all. But I suppose they have heard of me and want to see me, and a good way to see me is to pay for my lecture, sit in front of me, and see and hear me for the hour in which I am reading something which interests me.” This is very genuine ; it is all right; it is a good bit of public entertainment for people who have been tired to death by the work of the day. But it is not instruction. Dear Starr King used to say : “A lyceum lecture consists of five parts of sense and five of nonsense. There are not more than five people in New England who know how to mix them. But I am ono of the five.” All lecturers do not keep to his recipe.
On the other hand, I believe that if we could wipe out the whole nonsense of the evening lessons from the school curriculum ; if we could make teachers teach, where now they simply hear the lesson which somebody else has taught; if then we would reserve our evenings for instructing intelligent boys and girls in the fundamental principles of a good many things which are best taught by lectures, I believe that we should improve the system of public instruction to-day. It would require a good deal of work on the part of a great many intelligent people. Possibly some time there will be a school committee which will think such an enterprise worthy of attention.
A few years ago, I looked in, late in the evening, upon a pretty little party of one of the largest classes in my own Sunday-school. I met there perhaps thirty of the sweetest and most charming of the youngest women in Boston. They had assembled at the invitation of their teacher, who had recently traveled in the East, and they had been spending the evening in conversation with one another and with her, and in examining the curiosities, and especially the photographs, which she had brought from Egypt, Syria, and Greece. In this large and brilliant company I was the only gentleman. At half past ten, after a little supper, we all gathered to go home. Comparing the detail of Boston life with what it would have been fifty years before, I was interested to see that these young ladies all went home without escort from the other sex. Some of them had ordered their carriages; many took street-cars, which passed the house in one direction or the other, and which would leave them within a block of their own residences. It is certainly highly creditable to Boston that a body of women, young or old, can use the evening in such a way, and can disperse to their homes at such an hour, with no companionship but what they give to one another, and with no hazard of insult.
But I thought then, and I have often said since, that such a social order was wholly unlike the social order in which I grew up. When I was a hoy of eight or nine or ten, no sister of mine would have gone to take tea with a friend hut one of her brothers would have been detailed to go for her and bring her home at eight or nine o’clock. I am quite clear that in those days the life of young people involved a great deal more of the visiting of both sexes together than it dues now. I do not mean to speak of the life of boys of fifteen years old and over. I speak of the life of boys of all ages, from five or six years upward.
The function of tea-parties was quite different from that of dinner-parties. You would invite two or three boys and girls, who were friends of your children, to come and take tea, where now you would hardly invite children of the same age to come and dine. Now, if this function happened to be exercised in the house of old-fashioned people, it had some rather queer attendants, — or what would seem queer to the boy of the present day. For instance, one of the relics of Revolutionary times was the general impression that no boy could ever serve his country unless he were trained as a public speaker. I think this is true now, and it was known to be true then. Consequently, when you were at such a party as I have described, the evening’s entertainment of playing old maid, teetotum games, jackstraws, or whatever might occupy the young people, would be interrupted from time to time by an appeal to the boys of the party to “speak a piece,” for the benefit of the elders. There was a certain compliment implied in being asked to “ speak a piece; ” but it was not a great compliment, for every boy was asked, not to say compelled, to do so. It would have been bad form to decline to speak, quite as much as it would be to sit at a dinner-table and decline to eat anything before you, as if it were of a quality poorer than that to which you were accustomed.
Accordingly, you had one or two “ pieces ” in mind, which you were prepared to “ speak.” When you were called upon, — when the old ladies, at their side of the room, had made up their minds that it was time for this exercise to go forward, — you were told, “ Master Edward ” (or Master Oliver, or Master Alexander), ‘‘ the company would like to have you speak a piece.” You demurred as little as you could, you went into the corner, you made a bow, and you spoke a piece. You then went back to your cards or other entertainment. I do not remember that the girls sang songs, as it seems to me they should have done, under the circumstances.
At such a little party, again, invariably the tray was brought in as the evening went by, and you ate the nuts and raisins or figs, which were generally something you did not have at home. Perhaps this is always one of the charms of social life. I may say, in passing, that in a world where there were few refrigerators, and where there were no steamboats, dried fruit was much more an article of daily consumption, and appeared at dessert more often than it does now.
There may be, by the way, no other opportunity in these papers to quote the amusing passage from Dr. Palfrey on salt codfish. It is in his admirable chapter on New England life, in which he followed the example of Macaulay’s celebrated chapter describing the family institutions of England. “ Forty years ago, I was so situated as to know uncommonly well the habits of different classes of people in different parts of the country. Till a later period than this, the most ceremonious Boston feast was never set out on Saturday (then the common dinner-party day) without the dunfish at one end of the table; abundance, variety, pomp of other things, but that unfailingly. It was a sort of New England point of honor; and luxurious livers pleased themselves, over their nuts and wine, with the thought that, while suiting their palates, they had been doing their part in a wide combination to maintain the fisheries and create a naval strength.”
There was one function of those days which has been admirably improved in the customs of later days. Franklin left a small fund to the city, to be expended in medals for the most deserving scholars. The Franklin medal was first awarded in 1792, is awarded to the present time, and is a good badge of honor to the genuine Boston boy. The school committee and the government of the city dined together, on the day of the school anniversary, in Faneuil Hall, and the boys who received the Franklin medals were then first initiated into the forms of a public dinner. There must have been some sort of a procession, — I do not know, for I never had a Franklin medal, —and the boys sat in Faneuil Hall and heard the speaking. But as years went on, after the time of which I speak, and particularly after the girls began to receive city medals, it was seen that a much pleasanter entertainment could be devised for the children than a feast at which the officers of the city government took the principal part. And in these later days the mayor holds a great reception in the large Mechanics’ Hall ; he gives to every graduating girl a bouquet, and the boys and girls dance together to music which the city provides. I mention the contrast, because I am quite sure that in the years between 1826 and 1837 there would have been a religious prejudice in some quarters against dancing, which would have prevented any such public celebration.
The boys were in touch with the larger public in their unauthorized and unrecognized connection with the fine department. Boston was still a wooden town, and the danger of fire was, as it is in all American cities, constantly present. There hung in our front entry two leather buckets ; in each of them was certain apparatus which a person might need if he were in a burning house. Strange to say, there was a bedkey, that he might take down a bedstead if it were necessary. These were relics of a time when my father had been a member of one of the private fire companies. In those associations, each man was bound to attend at any fire where the property of other members of the association was in danger; and there were traditions of father’s having been present at the great Court Street fire, for instance. But these fire clubs either died out or became social institutions, as the Fire Club in Worcester exists to this day, and nothing was left but the bucket as a sort of memorial of a former existence.
Before our day the volunteer fire department system of Boston had been created, and there were similar systems in all large cities. Of course we boys supposed that ours was the best in the world; each boy in Boston supposed that the engine nearest his house was the best engine in the world, and that, on occasion, it could throw water higher than any other engine. It could likewise, on occasion, pump dry any engine that was in line with it. I need not say that these notions of the boys were simply superstitions, wholly unfounded in fact. Our engine was the New York. The engine-house was one of a curious mass of public buildings that occupied the place where Franklin’s statue now stands, in front of what was the courthouse of that day. There was no electric fire alarm, in those early days. The moment a fire broke out, everybody who had any lungs ran up the street or down the street, or both ways, crying “ Fire ! ” and as soon as the churches could be opened all the bells in Boston began to ring. Then the company which was to drag the New York to the fire began to assemble at its house, and naturally there was great pride in seeing that your engine was first in place. You learned where the fire was, not by any signal, but by the rumor of the street. It was at the North End, or at the South End, or on the wharves, or on “ Nigger Hill.” As soon as boys and men, of whatever connection, arrived, sufficient to drag the engine, it started, under the direction of such officer of the company as might be present. The members of the company had no uniforms, so far as I remember ; they joined the lines as quickly as they could, but there were always enough people to pull. As I have intimated, it was everybody’s business to attend at the fire.
When you arrived at the spot, there would be a general caucus as to the method of attack, yet I think there were people in command. Afterward, a gentleman named Amory, highly respected by all of us, was chief engineer. Whatever the caucus directed was done, with as much efficiency as was possible under such democratic institutions. But, in the first place, the probability was that there was no water near. The Jamaica Pond aqueduct carried water in log pipes to the lower levels of the city ; but for fully half the city there was no such supply, and wells had to be relied upon. Every engine, therefore, which was good for anything was a “ suction engine,” as it was called; that is, it was able to pump from a well, as well as able to throw water to an indefinite height. The engine that arrived first repaired to the well best known in that neighborhood, or, if the occasion were fortunate, to the sea, and began to pump. The engine that arrived next took station next to this, and pumped from it through a long line of hose ; and so successive engines carried the water to the place where some foreman directed it upon the flames. It was thus that different engines attained their celebrity, as one pumped the tub of another dry, while the unfortunate members were “ working the brakes ” to their best to keep it full.
The buckets of which I have spoken were the remains of a yet earlier period, when people formed themselves in line to the well or to the sea, and passed buckets backward and forward, — full if they were going towards the fire, empty if they were going away; and the water was thus thrown upon such flames as chose to wait for it.
When one writes this, one wonders that Boston was not burned down four times a year ; indeed, there were very bad fires in those days. The system called out some of the most energetic and public-spirited young fellows of the town, and after a while they were exempt from service in the militia. Well they might be, for their service as firemen was far more valuable to the community, and far more oppressive in time and health, than any service in the militia of those days. They felt their power, and asserted it once too often. In the mayoralty of Mr. Samuel A. Eliot, a company did something it should not have done, or refused to do something it was told to do, and, with a firm hand, he turned them all out, and created the system of the fire department of to-day, in which every man is paid for his services, and may be regularly called upon, whether he will or no, as a servant of the city. The introduction of steam fireengines and a sufficient supply of water would in themselves have been enough to revolutionize the whole of the primitive method of extinguishing fire, had no such revolt of the fire companies compelled a revolution.
I need hardly say that the old method interested to the full every boy in town. If his father and mother would let him, he attended the fire, where he could at least scream “ Fire ! ” if he could not do anything else. If a boy were big enough, he was permitted almost to kill himself by working at the brakes. This was the most exhausting method for the application of human power that has been contrived ; but there was power enough to be wasted, and, until the introduction of steam, it was everywhere used. It is still used on board ships which have no steam power. Every enterprising boy regarded it as the one wish of his life that he might be eighteen years old, so that he could join the company in his particular neighborhood ; and oven if he had not attained that age, he attached himself to the company as a sort of volunteer aid, and, as I say, was permitted, as a favor, to assist in running through the streets, dragging at the long rope which drew the engine.
Edward Everett Hale.
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Remember To Use Your Gift Cards
Again, you can always use a gift card app or a digital wallet to store your gift cards electronically with the hope that doing so will help you remember to use your gift cards, but this simple trick works best for me.
I store gift cards in my wallet vertically next to the payment cards I use most often. For example, I put a Regal gift card next to my Regal Club Card because I never fail to pull that out when Im going to a movie. I store Target gift cards next to my Target Red Card so I remember to use the gift cards before paying the remaining balance. I store other gift cards next to my debit card so Im always reminded that I have gift cards to use.
If you dont use a clutch or checkbook style wallet like I have, then put your gift cards next to the debit and credit cards that you use most often so you are reminded of the gift cards you have every time you reach into your billfold to pay for something.
Hacking Retail Gift Cards Remains Scarily Easy
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In November of 2015, Will Caput worked for a security firm assigned to a penetration test of a major Mexican restaurant chain, scouring its websites for hackable vulnerabilities. So when 40-year-old Caput took a lunch break, he had beans and guacamole on his mind. He decided to drive to the local branch of the restaurant in Chico, California. While there, still in the mindset of testing the restaurants security, he noticed a tray of unactivated gift cards sitting on the counter. So he grabbed them allthe cashier didnt mind, since customers can load them with a credit card from home via the weband sat down at a table, examining the stack as he ate his vegetarian burrito.
As he flipped through the gift cards, he noticed a pattern. While the final four digits of the cards seemed to vary randomly, the rest remained constant except one digit that appeared to increase by one with every card he examined, neatly ticking up like a poker straight. By the time he finished his burrito, he had a plan to defraud the system.
‘I can go in, order food, and walk out. The persons card says it has $50 on it, and then its gone.’ Security Researcher Will Caput
Cash Out A Store Gift Card With A Small Balance
Although studies show that consumers typically overspend the value of their gift cards, there are times when you are left with a teeny, tiny, small balance on a gift card that you dont want to carry around in your wallet. Ive got a solution for you.
Check your state gift card laws to find out if you can get the pesky balance of the gift card returned in cash. Thats my first choice. What you have to know, however, is that you will have to ASK the cashier for the money. Even states that allow consumers to get cash back from tiny gift card balances dont require the stores to offer the moneythey are simply required to make good on the request.
If you dont live in a state that offers cash back for gift cards, then ask the cashier anyway. While ranking egift cards from top stores and restaurants, I discovered a few merchants had store policies allowing cashiers to give cash back if the gift card balance falls below a defined limit. If you cant get cash back for a minuscule gift card amount, then buy something immediately. Dont walk out of the store without using the balance or youre likely to forget that you have it or you might forget the balance has been reduced and think you still have a full value gift card in your wallet.
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Generating And Securing Gift Card Codes
I’m working for a company that is generating gift card codes which can be used to pay for goods on online stores.
I’m wondering what the most secure way of generating these gift card codes are. The length needs to be 16 characters and can be alphanumeric .
From what I can see, the most secure way to do this is generate a gift card code of a specific length with the following Java code:
static final String AB = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" static SecureRandom rnd = new SecureRandom String randomString
This is taken from the Stack Overflow answer here. I removed the lowercase letters from the string to make it more user friendly. So this produces 36 ^ 16 combinations. Numeric alone would be 10 ^ 16 combinations. I believe numeric alone would be enough but it’s often stressed that, given the increasing prevalence of gift card fraud, the string should be alphanumeric. So that’s question one: numeric or alphanumeric?
When users use the gift cards on an online store to pay for goods, a call is made to our API which returns the balance and currency for that gift card. Given that the gift card codes are entered on 3rd party servers, these gift cards are now available to people with access to those servers. This is obviously a problem in the case where there is still a balance left after a user has partially redeemed one.
Given that the gift card codes are entered on 3rd party servers, these gift cards are now available to people with access to those servers.
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Definition Of Visa Gift Card Codes
Every card has a code. It is a must and it is for sure. Free Visa gift card codes is a code generated on the give card as an identity of the users. It is the primary number which consists of 16 digit numbers printed on the front side of the card. Unlike Personal Identification Number and Card Value Verification , Free visa gift card codes 2021 comes without actual card.
Upcycle Old Gift Cards
While scouring the Internet for cool crafts you can make with gift cards, I came across this list of ways to re-use gift cards. The blog owner did such a good job of curating the list, that I decided two things. First, I should just link to her list rather than create one. Second, I had intended to make crafts of my own to test each set of instructions until I saw the choices. Some of the crafts are more like works of art that would require special tools and materials while others simply wouldnt be worth my time to make. I dont really need a cell phone holder made of a gift card or a set of guitar picks made out of a Macys gift card. But if youre into using, reusing and recycling plastic gift cards, then go for it.
Did I miss any of your favorite gift card hacks? Let me know in the comments below or lets talk gift cards on Twitter . If you make a comment, I promise youll hear from me, so dont be shy.
Happy Gift Carding!
~Shelley Hunter, Gift Card Girlfriend
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What Are The Advantages Of Gift Card Activation Software Hack As A Gift
1. The Limit card limit helps not to spend more and stay within the budget.
2. If for some reason it is difficult to choose a gift. There is a way out to give a gift card activation software hack! A person will choose what he needs taking into account the color, size, shape or even smell.
A gift card is a perfect gift!
Take Advantage Of Microsoft Rewards
Microsoft Rewards is the easiest way to get a free Xbox gift card. You dont have to do this on your phone, or laptops. All you need to do is find Microsoft Rewards on your Xbox.
1. Open your Xbox
3. Locate Microsoft Rewards and click it to open.
4. Youll be presented with various tasks that offer you Microsoft points.
At Microsoft Rewards, achieve more, and earn more. The weekly challenge allows you to earn 100 points once youve completed all three activities in a week. To earn more, you can absolutely check more tasks.
If you want to purchase Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, you can get it for $1 at Microsoft Store.
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Trick : Take Advanatge Of Netflix Coupons
The best way for US citizens WAS to sign up for a 30-day unlimited free Netflix trial, all you need is an email address that hasnt been registered yet and a new payment method. However, Netflix doesnt offer free trials from 2021.
If you want to get a Netflix gift code for free but fail to find one that works , you can use Netflix coupons to make the purchase much cheaper. To save your time searching for coupons manually, heres a free extension Coupert to apply an available discount on the product for the site youre visiting.
Coupert is a Chrome extension that tells you when there are coupons available for the site youre on. Once youve signed up and installed the extension, you just shop as you normally do. When you visit a site with available coupons, the extension will pop up an alert. You just click Apply Coupons, and it will try them all to find the one that gives you the best discount, then apply it for you automatically. So you get the best available discount without even lifting a finger!
Whats more exciting is that you earn points when you buy from one 7,000+ participating stores, and you can redeem those points for cash.
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How To Get Free 50 Dollar Visa Gift Card
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Buy Gift Cards For Less Than Face Value
Remember those unwanted gift cards in the gift card hack above? Well, those gift cards have to go somewhere. Gift card resellers buy gift cards at a discount, then mark the cards up to a price that is slightly higher than the acquisition amount, but still less than face value. That margin creates an opportunity for people like you and me to buy gift cards for less, which means we can save money on personal shopping simply by using a discount gift card to make a purchase.
Heres Gift Card Girlfriends Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Discount Gift Cards.
Trick : Get Netflix For Free With Some Mobile Phone Contracts
From time to time, some mobile phone networks offer Free Netflix subscriptions with mobile phone contracts, where you pay the monthly bill and Netflix is thrown in for six or 12 months, crop up now and again. So keep an eye out if youre looking to switch mobile contracts and subscribe to Netflix at the same time.
If youre going for the particular contract that includes the Netflix subscription, youd better check if its worth it. T-Mobile offers a free Netflix subscription with its Magenta and Magenta Plus plans, as long as you have at least 2 lines on your account.
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Trick : Use A Vpn Service To Make Netflix Cheaper
This streaming giant is increasing prices for its subscribers in the US, with the basic at $8.99, standard at $13.99, and Premium at $17.99. But thats not the case in other countries, such as Turkey.
The top 5 cheapest places for Netflix plans
There are various free VPN services that allow you to change servers, but note that some VPNs dont unblock Netflix. Besides, when something is free, theyre making money out of you in another way.
Therefore, for greater security and streaming experience, we recommend a paid subscription since its much safer, and always comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Here we recommendNord VPN , with which you can unblock some Netflix titles that are not available in your country.
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In the modernity point of view, free visa gift card numbers provide great ease for all the users. Modern people tends to do simple life, reachable access, and fast way of payment. In the modern life, people also tend to use modern way in every part of their life. It is so since most of them think that using modern way means modern life.
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Steam code gen works on an algorithm in which steam is working for generating codes of the gift card of some amount. You can trust our free steam codes generator tool.
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How Do I Check My Gift Card Balance
1. Make sure you have a unique gift card number. As a rule, it is indicated on the front side.
2. Go to the store website and enter it in the field.
3. You can check your gift card balance directly at the store. You can check the address of the nearest store on the companys website.
4. You can also call the contact phone number and find out the balance of the card.
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With global ‘Safer Internet Day’ on Tuesday 11th, February is officially eSafety month at R.E.A.L.
At R.E.A.L., the aim is that learners lead a safe digital life – harnessing the great opportunities that technology can bring, whilst feeling empowered to make good choices to stay safe.
R.E.A.L. Education has an eSafety group that meets regularly throughout the year. The group – which is a cross section of staff and key leaders from across R.E.A.L. Education – owns, monitors and coordinates the delivery of improvements in eSafety.
As part of eSafety group’s work, focussed activities, resources and projects will take place in February to highlight the importance of responsible use of ICT.
A new ‘eSafety and digital defence’ online course has been designed for all staff to complete. There is also a dedicated online eSafety engineroom so staff can find resources, ideas, inspiration and research.
Another new resource has been developed specifically for learners – the Digital Defence Award. The Digital Defence Award can be achieved by learners completing a specially compiled workbook that will help them to take their eSafety skills to the next level. Completing the workbook will mean learners pick up new ideas to stay safe, and will also demonstrate to their teachers that they are a responsible and safe user of technology.
Keeping learners safe is of the highest priority at R.E.A.L. Education. R.E.A.L.’s eSafety policy can be downloaded here.
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In a report detailing new clinical guidelines for treating non-low back musculoskeletal injuries, the American College of Physicians (ACP) and American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) now recommends NSAIDs as a first-line treatment for pain. The report also encourages doctors to avoid opioids whenever possible.
It is not clear whether or not the new guidelines are specifically intended to target opioid use. Even if not, fewer opioid prescriptions should be observed.
d as doctors adhere to the guidance. The end result should be fewer opioid addictions resulting from legitimate prescription use.
Musculoskeletal Injuries Are Common
A Medical Xpress article detailing the new guidelines explains that musculoskeletal injuries are fairly common. The article, originally produced by the ACP, sites 2010 data showing that more than 65 million healthcare visits during that year were attributed to such injuries. Furthermore, some 80% of all injuries treated in GP offices were musculoskeletal in nature.
Opioid prescriptions would seem a bit extreme for even moderate musculoskeletal injuries. Even so, the new guidelines make it clear that oral and topical NSAIDs are a better choice. ACP president Jacqueline W. Fincher, MD says that “there are a number of recommended interventions that are not opioids to choose from, and topical NSAIDs should be the first line of treatment.”
Topical NSAIDs First
The guidelines go on to say that topical NSAIDs are the best first-line treatment for pain related to non-low back musculoskeletal injuries. Evans extensively shows that topical NSAIDs are among the most effective options for symptom relief, pain reduction, restoration of physical function, and patient satisfaction.
Unlike opioids, NSAIDs do not pose any risk of addiction. That automatically makes them better if they can be used to treat pain as successfully as opioids. When topical NSAIDs do not work as well as doctors hope, there are other options that can be looked at before opioids.
Some musculoskeletal injuries can be successfully treated with steroid injections. Lone Star Pain Medicine, a Texas clinic that specializes in pain management, will often suggest corticosteroid injections to patients for whom NSAIDs have proven unhelpful.
Corticosteroids can reduce inflammation and aid the healing process simultaneously. Reducing inflammation reduces pain as well. Best of all, the effects of a corticosteroid injection can last two or three months under normal circumstances. The effects can last longer when injections are combined with physical therapy and other treatments.
Regenerative Medicine Options
Though the APA and AAFP guidance makes no mention of it, regenerative medicine also offers options. Regenerative medicine procedures include things like platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections, stem cell injections, and prolotherapy.
The jury is still out on whether or not regenerative medicine is appropriate for musculoskeletal injuries. Proponents cite anecdotal data while critics claim clinical data is insufficient. And yet, patients all across the country seem more willing to give regenerative medicine a try.
It should be noted that the FDA already allows for PRP and stem cell injections as long as the injected material is autologous and minimally manipulated. Autologous material is material taken from the patient being treated, guaranteeing there is no risk of rejection.
In the end, anything that helps reduce opioid prescriptions is a good thing. Opioids are highly addictive and potentially dangerous. As such, reducing the total number of opioid prescriptions written by doctors is a goal worth pursuing. Perhaps this new guidance on NSAIDs as a first-line treatment for musculoskeletal injuries will lead to bigger and better things.
As a patient, expect your doctor to recommend NSAIDs as a first-line treatment moving forward. Hopefully, opioids will be relegated to a last resort option.
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Over the past years the use of anonymization services has gained significant relevance as more users are interested in protecting their data and privacy on the internet. One of the most popular ways to achieve this result is Tor. The anonymity and untraceability that Tor provides, however, can also be used by ill-intentioned users who try to take advantage of bypassing security control and policies. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) mentions two methods of recognizing Tor traffic in the enterprise: indicator- or behavior-based analysis. The first one uses log analysis and lists of Tor exit nodes to identify the suspicious activity while the latter inspects patterns in TCP and UDP ports, DNS queries and inspecting the payload of the packets. In this paper, we propose a different approach using white-box machine learning models such as decision trees and Random Forest. On the one hand, our classifier achieves accuracy levels above 95%. On the other hand, our approach is the first one to allow understanding the importance of each traffic feature in the classification. Our results demonstrate that the TCP window size, the frame size and time related traffic features can be used to identify Tor traffic. In this paper we will describe a Machine Learning methodology used to identify Tor network traffic utilizing decision trees C5.0 and Random Forest. We followed a white-box approach and accomplished accuracy of over 95% in the prediction in both models. We also present an analysis of the importance of the top predictor variables.
Tipo de publicación: Conference Paper
Publicado en: 2020 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM)Autores
- Calvo, Paulo
- Guevara-Coto, Jose
- Lara, Adrian
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Does It Use a Test Kit to Detect The Monkeypox Virus?
You all know, or at least heard, about the latest news explaining monkeypox outbreaks all over the globe. Unfortunately, we as humankind could face another pandemic right after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: the Monkeypox Virus pandemic. As always, in the course of a pandemic, the early and correct detection of who has the infection is crucial for the control of spread and curbing the pandemic. In this paper, you can find answers to “Is there any way to detect monkeypox virus infection?” and “Does it use a test kit to detect the monkeypox virus?”.
What is the monkeypox virus and what are the signs of infection?
Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is an enveloped double-stranded DNA virus from the Poxviridae family’s Ortho-poxvirus (OPXV) genus. It is a less dangerous and infectious cousin of the smallpox virus. Monkeypox is a zoonotic disease caused by monkeypox virus infection, with symptoms and signs like smallpox.
Monkeypox is spread mostly through contact with the blood, body fluids, and lesion material of infected animals and humans, as well as contaminated items. Even though rodents are assumed to be its major hosts, the monkeypox virus was named following its discovery in 1958 in monkey research colonies. The first human case of monkeypox was detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1970, amid the height of smallpox eradication efforts.
Until 2003, the propagation of the monkeypox virus was restricted to the tropical rainforest regions of Central and West Africa. While the virus was periodically introduced to other locations via international trade or travel after 2003, its spread was quickly stopped. Monkeypox symptoms are comparable to smallpox symptoms. The first symptoms are fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain, swollen lymph nodes, chills, and tiredness. A rash appears one to five days after the initial symptoms and spreads over the body. The rash evolved from little blisters to scabs before falling off. Between initial exposure and the start of symptoms, the incubation period is 5 to 21 days, and symptoms normally last 2 to 4 weeks. The rash can play a role in the detection of the monkeypox virus, but it is not an early diagnosis and does not differentiate the disease from the Poxviridae family illnesses like smallpox.
What is a monkeypox virus PCR test kit?
PCR test kits are one of the nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs). As the name of these tests suggests, the methodology behind the detection is based on nucleic acid amplification. In this method of testing, a specific part of the virus is selected as the target region. In the fluorescence PCR technological approach, scientists create primers and Taqman probes for specific regions of the Monkeypox virus and detect them using a fluorescent PCR device to detect Monkeypox virus nucleic acids. By using the PCR test method, the sensitivity is increased because the target region is 2 times copied in each cycle (amplification). That is why the PCR method is considered the “golden standard”.
What is a monkeypox virus rapid antigen test kit?
Rapid antigen tests detect pathogen-specific proteins in human samples and provide results in real time. This technology has been used to detect a variety of infections, and quick antigen tests for monkeypox are remarkably like those used to detect strep, influenza, malaria, and HIV.
Monkeypox virus rapid antigen tests are rapid chromatographic immunoassays that identify the presence of monkeypox-specific proteins, or antigens, in human samples. These tests typically use a sandwich immunodetection approach in lateral flow test format and target the surface tubule protein of monkeypox, which is one of the virus’s most abundantly produced structural proteins.
Unlike molecular tests such as PCR, which identify viral genetic material, rapid antigen testing for monkeypox virus does not necessitate the collection and processing of samples in a laboratory. Furthermore, whereas PCR tests might take several days to get results, quick antigen tests produce results in 15 to 30 minutes.
What is a monkeypox virus rapid antibody test kit?
A rapid antibody test identifies immunoglobulin M (IgM) and immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies produced by the metabolism of individuals in response to monkeypox virus specific antigens. IgM antibodies are the first antibodies to be detected in monkeypox infections, so they are detectable at the start of the disease. IgG antibodies come later in the blood and remain in your blood long after the monkeypox infection has cleared. Thus, the results of these immunoglobulin detection tests show whether the person was previously infected, is presently infected, or has recovered.
What is a monkeypox virus ELISA test kit?
An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, often known as ELISA or EIA, is a blood test that identifies and quantifies antibodies. This test can identify whether you have antibodies to certain infectious illnesses.
ELISA is frequently used as a screening tool before ordering more in-depth tests. If you have indications or symptoms of any of the illnesses listed above, your doctor may recommend this test. If your doctor wants to rule out any of these illnesses, he or she may prescribe this test.
The ELISA test is easy and simple. You’ll most likely be asked to sign a consent form, and your doctor should explain why the test is being performed.
A blood sample is required for the ELISA test. First, a healthcare worker will use an antiseptic to clean your arm. A tourniquet, or band, will then be wrapped around your arm to apply pressure and induce your veins to bulge with blood. Following that, a needle will be inserted into one of your veins to extract a small sample of blood. After collecting enough blood, the needle will be removed, and a little bandage will be placed on your arm where the needle was. To limit blood flow, you will be instructed to apply pressure to the area where the needle was entered for a few minutes. This procedure should be painless, but your arm may throb a little afterward.
The blood sample will be analyzed at a laboratory. A technician will put the sample into a petri dish with the exact antigen associated with the ailment for which you are being tested at the lab. If your blood has antigen-specific antibodies, the two will bind together. The technician will determine this by adding an enzyme to the petri dish and seeing how your blood and the antigen respond.
If the contents of the dish change color, you may have the disorder. The amount of change caused by the enzyme allows the technician to identify the presence and amount of antibody.
What are the current diagnostic strategies for monkeypox virus?
Currently, many manufacturers are doing their research to develop the diagnostic kits for the monkeypox virus. Our RapidFor™ Monkeypox Virus Rapid Antigen Test Kit, RapidFor™ Monkeypox Virus Rapid Antibody Test Kit, and RapidFor™ Monkeypox Virus Detection Kit (PCR-Fluorescent Probe) will be available soon. Stay tuned.
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Is a cure for post-traumatic stress disorder on the horizon?
Nearly 20 percent of Iraqi war veterans experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but the disorder does not only affect military personnel. In fact, 3.5 percent of all U.S. citizens currently suffer from PTSD. But a new study is giving hope that a cure for the disorder may be on the horizon.
Past research has led to discoveries of methods to help cope with PTSD and treat it after it occurs, but the authors of this study believe their research could pave the way for a new preventative treatment.
“Current therapeutic approaches are used only after PTSD is already present and debilitating symptoms have appeared, but prevention of PTSD development is an important unmet medical need,” wrote the authors in the study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, PTSD is an intense physical and emotional response that occurs weeks, months or even years after a traumatic event. Symptoms include re-living the event, avoidance of related activities and increased arousal such as lack of concentration, irritability, outbursts of anger and difficulty sleeping. The disorder can have an impact on the families and children of those with the PTSD as well.
In this new study, researchers looked to mice for answers–testing thousands of genes to find differences in mice with PTSD versus a control group without the disorder.
One gene, OPRL1, in particular showed noticeable differences. Researchers say the OPRL1 gene helps the body produce a chemical known as nociceptin, which they found to significantly impede attempts to trigger the PTSD after the mice were injected with it.
The researchers believe this could be the key to finding a cure to PTSD in humans. In fact, the scientists examined the OPRL1 gene in almost 2,000 people who had PTSD as a result of a trauma experienced as a child. Trauma victims who had a particular version of the gene had worse symptoms.
“A new and more cost-effective therapeutic approach, although not yet a reality, would comprise early treatments that could prevent PTSD development by impairing fear memory consolidation,” wrote the authors in the study. “This early intervention would be especially appropriate for individuals at higher risk for PTSD after trauma, such as those with a history of previous trauma or those carrying genetic polymorphisms that have been associated with PTSD risk.”
In a commentary published alongside the study, experts Dr. Karen Seal and Dr. Murray Stein note that this research “could prevent the suffering of individuals exposed to severe trauma who develop PTSD and decrease the public health burden of trauma worldwide.”
Yet, despite the advances this research may bring, they say there is still reason for skepticism.
“Caution should be exercised when prescribing opioids to patients with chronic pain and PTSD to avoid this potential downward spiral of addiction, physical dependence, and worsening of PTSD symptoms,” the pair notes. “Using opioids in the treatment of patients with mental health disorders may exacerbate mental health symptoms over time.”
With this caution, some experts say more research will have to be done in the search for a cure, but this important research is another significant step in finding one.
About the Author
health enews staff is a group of experienced writers from our Advocate Aurora Health sites, which also includes freelance or intern writers.
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Adaptable and innovative communities with the resilience to meet the challenges of the day by building on local resources, innovation and regenerative economic redevelopment. Resiliency is the level beyond sustainability. Resiliency is both adapting to challenges and improving the capacity to do so.
1. Transition Centre promotes an integral model for an effective grassroots program for developing, or rebuilding, local community economic sustainability and a growing level of security.
2. An integral ecosystem architecture of the self-reliant community and local economy.
3. A comprehensive learning institute program to prepare youth and adults for the challenges of a society in a state of increasing disequilibrium.
4. Innovative leadership capable of guiding the transformation of communities, from villages to urban neighborhoods, to achieve resiliency.
5. Provide materials and resources to assist communities to achieve sustainability.
The genesis of Transition Centre was the spike in oil prices following Hurricane Katrina and then the 2008 Great Recession. The problem we found was the potential for resource shortage in the global market. The recession also highlighted the decline of many American communities as a result of that global economy. Our response was to develop local community resiliency. Our approach is primarily economic.
Transition Centre was formally founded in 2009. Transition Centre organized presentations and workshops and developed a network of interested parties to lay the foundation for a Community Sustainability Master Plan. Developing this plan spanned two years and involved over 200 people. We sought to develop a template for sustainable communities. That document was subsequently updated as the Transition Centre Resilient Communities Blueprint in 2020. The model continues to evolve.
Transition Centre Founder and Director Bill Sharp has a long history in sustainability and a career in project planning and management in government, higher education and business. See more on LinkedIn.
We all want communities that are safe, secure and stable. TC Resilient Communities is not an insurance policy but rather a model for making communities sounder, more robust and innovative.
The Transition Centre approach to resilient communities is not just about keeping things in balance. It goes to a level beyond that. It is about building transformative capacity for change. It is about recreating the economy upon which a community is founded. It is about the type of spirit that created your community to start with.
Why depend upon the trends of the national or global economies? These are about vast, complex and essentially unmanageable systems. With business as usual, as that economy goes, so goes your community. Our approach is self-determining local communities.
We have two future scenarios: A Star Trek future of peace and abundance. Or not.
Sustainability is about managing things, trying to achieve a balance. Sustainability is predicated on the ideal of living within our means. The goal was to live in such a way as to leave enough for future generations. That promise can no longer be kept.
Achieving an adequate level of sustainability is difficult. TC Resilient Communities seeks to go beyond sustainability to a more effective model for achieving community well-being.
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Now more than ever, people are choosing remote work over in-person, and many businesses are offering either option or a hybrid of both. If you’ve never had to work from home, you may find it surprising how many people prefer it to the office. But wouldn’t it get distracting? Or even isolating? If you aren’t sure what benefits there are to be had, consider the following list of reasons many people now love to work remotely.
One of the single most beneficial aspects of working from home is the extra time you get. Even if the office is just fifteen minutes away, the time it takes to get ready, assemble all you’ll need for the day, get in the car, and drive there—not to mention arrive a little early—will at least double the actual minutes of driving it takes to commute to work. And then you have to drive back as well, more than once if you go home for lunch! The extra time you gain from cutting out commute can be used in so many helpful ways. Getting a bit more sleep, for example, or eating a healthier breakfast. You can also go on a morning walk or exercise, and devote the extra evening time to an enriching hobby.
Without the rigid structure of working around superiors, doing your work from home often lends flexibility to your day. Employers are not peering over your shoulder and are more likely to set general deadlines that are up to you to meet. While this does mean you’ll need to develop good time management skills, it also means that you can work around other events and situations happening in your life as long as deadlines are met and the full amount of hours are put in. You can use your most productive times of day, regardless of when they are, and in effect deliver better results.
Access to Your Kitchen
Though not often thought about, being near your kitchen is a huge advantage when it comes to work. The time it takes to make a packaged lunch beforehand can be stressful and expensive, and even make you late at times. And otherwise, the cost of buying your lunch a couple times a week or more will negatively impact your wallet! Either way, being home and able to use your lunch break to make a meal instead is the better option. It can even be healthier if you plan your lunches well and use fresh ingredients. The only thing to look out for is the amount of snacking at your fingertips!
A common side effect of working 9 to 5 jobs is a lack of vitamin D. The benefits of sunlight and fresh air have been proven over the ages, so if you have a deficiency of outdoor time working from home may be the perfect solution. Because remote work can happen wherever you are, working outside near an internet connection gives you vitamin D and healthy stimuli while still getting all that work done! A deck is the perfect place to relax and enjoy fresh air as you work, and in good weather can replace an office the entire day if you so desire. When you do get up for lunch, a bathroom break, or other needed things, you’ll also get in more steps from the outdoors to the inside.
No Dress Code
What else can remote work offer you? Another aspect of its freedom is the ability to wear whatever you want. Some days people don’t feel like getting out of their pajamas—and that’s entirely an option if you’ll just be on a couch all day anyway. Even if you do dress for the day, working from home involves little of the same restrictions an office does concerning shirts, pants, shoes, and patterns. Really the only time you may still need to watch what you wear will be during video conferences. Even then, only your top half can be seen!
With all the flus and diseases out there, not to mention the pandemic, people have gone remote often to avoid getting sick themselves. Statistically, one of the locations you are most likely to contract a sickness is from your place of work, which often has few sanitation guidelines and many communal items that collect germs. Yikes! Erasing this location from your everyday visits significantly lowers your chances of contracting something yourself.
When you’re working at an office, there’s a limited amount of control you have over the noise you hear. Some employers have specific regulations regarding when and if earbuds can be used, and there are many times that employees in the vicinity can get loud and distracting. If you can work from home, there’s so much more freedom in what you hear. Music can be played at any time, over headphones or good speakers you can play as loudly as you’d like. The sounds of nature can surround you if you go outside. Absolute silence is even an option, if no one else is at your home. Considering noise is a big distraction for most people, you’ll have a lot more of a chance to focus!
Improved Work Life Balance
Last of all, remote work gives people the chance to better balance their work life and home life. With added flexibility and less commute, you can focus on other priorities that improve your overall life, not just pay the bills. For people with family, there’s much less stress to pick up the kids from school. The same goes for attending an event, or making it to an evening class promptly. You can do work in the car or between obligations while out and about, and not have to worry about needed medical appointments you need to take work off for otherwise. Really, your life feels more your own when working from home.
Not convinced yet? Working from home is also a great idea for those who struggle with mental illness, physical illness, or are just very introverted. So, while remote work is not for everyone, it is a good idea for many people. Is one of those people you?
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The UN Secretary-General just tweeted out an announcement that 250,000 protective face masks were just located. Just located? That’s after months of the coronavirus spreading all over the world and medical personnel desperately in need of masks?
Did the United Nations cough up these masks because Attorney General Bill Barr threatened hoarders of masks and other medical needs with prosecution?
“I’m pleased to announce, with US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft, the donation to the USA of 250,000 protective face masks, just located in storage at the UN. These masks will be given to medical professionals in NYC working courageously & tirelessly in response to #COVID19″
Just located? What were they lost for the past few weeks? https://t.co/3zczEXLaVd
— JJ Truth (@1Romans58) March 28, 2020
What else does the United Nations have that they could help with?
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Welcome to the Dark Skies Office!
WHAT WE DO
The Geneva Lake Dark Sky Initiative at GLAS Education was launched in June 2021 to coordinate efforts to reduce light pollution in the Geneva Lake area. Using the data from GLAS Education’s LENSS project, we are working towards creating a measurable impact on sky quality. By understanding where we are, we can pave a road forward. Thanks to our sensor hosts, we will be able to craft a narrative about how bright Geneva Lake once was, and how our community came together to minimize artificial light pollution.
Working with policy-makers, local organizations, interns, students, and many volunteers, the Dark Skies Office is on its way towards reforming light ordinances and raising public awareness of the benefits of our shared resource: a truly dark sky.
GLAS plans Star Parties throughout the year to showcase different projects and astronomy knowledge!
Additionally, the Dark Skies Office is pursuing formal International Dark-Sky Association recognition as an Urban Night Sky Place for Williams Bay’s Kishwauketoe Nature Conservatory. An Urban Night Sky Place designation is awarded to places surrounded by large urban areas whose planning actively promotes the night sky despite the artificial light pollution nearby.
What is Light Pollution?
Light pollution occurs when light exists where it is not intended, and is an issue of growing concern in many parts of the world. Unlike other types of pollution, light pollution is easily and quickly reversible and can have near immediate benefits when remediated. There are four major types of light pollution: skyglow, glare, light trespass, and clutter.
Lights from Chicago shining through clouds, which could cause many problems.
Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geography Image Collection
Skyglow occurs when lights are directed upwards to the sky. This type of light pollution is often seen around cities, where the sky is noticeably brighter along a city horizon and celestial objects become invisible or obscured amongst a brightened sky.
Glare occurs when light is emitted horizontally, which can be blinding to passersby. The most common example of glare is car headlights coming toward the viewer on the opposite side of the road. This type of light pollution is dangerous because it can cause temporary blindness, which becomes more difficult to recover from as eyes age.
Light trespass occurs when light from a fixture crosses property boundaries onto neighboring properties. One example of this is when street lights enter windows of residential homes, lighting up rooms in a home or keeping a resident awake, in addition to or rather than lighting the road.
Clutter is an excessive use of lights to illuminate the same feature. This could be the numerous highway lights or streetlights that occur in rapid succession, so much so that the light from each fixture overlaps with the light from the previous fixture.
Effects of Light Pollution
Energy & Money
As much as 50% of outdoor lighting in the US is wasted by sending light into the night sky, which is about $2.2 billion every year.
Exposure to artificial light can result in a drop of melatonin production and can disrupt circadian rhythms, both of which can hinder sleep leading to increased anxiety, stress, and exhaustion.
Light pollution accounts for 21,000,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually, contributing to our climate crisis. Outdoor lighting itself contributes to 70% of light pollution. Lights also disorient wildlife that rely on it for communication and navigation ncluding fireflies, birds, bats, and frogs. Also, light pollution prevents communities from observing the night sky.
Reducing light pollution
Astrotourism highlights the local natural resource of stargazing. It creates opportunities for residents from light-polluted areas to observe the Milky Way. This natural phenomena is a highly sought after experience that allows us to recognize that we share a linked human existence. Funding is available for the creation of dark sky places and it is a great opportunity to spread awareness of light pollution. Currently, there are about 200 certified International Dark Sky Places including the existing Newport State Park Dark Sky Place and upcoming Kickapoo Valley Dark Sky, and tthe Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy Urban Night Sky Place.
This is a photo of the Whirlpool galaxy that was taken on a telescope from our star observing nights
See our summer interns at work!
Daniel Feng (Bottom Left), Ashley Wimer (Top Left), Emily Sisco (Top Right), Zach Meredith (Bottom Right)
Interested in Dark Skies?
If you are interested in supporting this mission, please call your mayor or town council and ask them to write a letter of support!
To learn more about how you can reduce light pollution and support our skies, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org and/or visit https://www.darksky.org
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The Travel Bug Infected Empress Elisabeth
Have you heard of Sisi before? In the German speaking area the Empress Elisabeth is famous mostly because of the „Sissi“ films with actress Romy Schneider. Her life was shown as romantic but the reality seemed to be different.
„Freedom was my mother, Who, disguised as a cuckoo, Laid me in a stranger´s nest; That´s how this misfortune came to pass.“ – Sisi, August 1887 in Kreuth
In Vienna, capital of Austria her presence is everywhere and it´s interesting to follow her footsteps cultural and culinary wise. You can spend a whole day or more following and experiencing her life. I am not a museum fan but the Sisi Museum at the Hofburg is definitely a place to go.
Her majestic dresses and her life in the Hofburg is shown. Even if you are not interested in Sisi you will enjoy walking through the residence of many emperors and empresses of Vienna.
Sisi started her day at 5 o´clock in the morning. She worked out, took a bath afterwards and every three weeks she had her hip long hair washed. It took many hours because her hair was displayed on a washing line to dry in the cool rooms of the Hofburg. No wonder Sisi´s bed was right in front of a fireplace.
During summer she stayed with her husband emperor Franz Joseph at Schloss Schönbrunn, a large castle with a huge garden area in the west of Vienna.
Nibbling like an Empress
Sisi was concerned a lot about her shape. She was 1,72 m tall (about 5,6 feet), her waistline was only (1,64 feet) and she had never more than 52 kg (114,6 pounds). Every day she stepped on the scale to check her weight. She liked eating but when her weight was going up a few gram she put herself on a strict diet. Her favorite food was sorbet with crystallized violets. The K&K Zuckerbäcker Demel close to the Hofburg supplied her with her favorites.
The Demel is still a famous place to go today. It´s in the Kohlmarkt in walking distance to the Hofburg. In the old cellar of the Demel you can see the antique trays where the ice was being held for Sisi.
If you are at the Demel you should take your time for having a coffee and trying a cake while watching the confectioners working on special projects. The prices aren´t cheap but the whole atmosphere and the taste is worth it. Everything is handmade at the Demel. But a warning: The cakes feel like having at least 2000 calories a piece. 🙂
After coffee and a cake, like the Cleopatra cake I tried, the shop at the Demel will bring you back to Sisi. Pictures of her and her husband wrapped around a chocolate bar or her favorite crystallized violets.
Modern day Sisi style
If you want to feel like a modern Sisi you can dress up like her. At the Annagasse I found a Sisi boutique. It´s a Pret-a`-Porter shop with designer clothes made in Austria.
Spending the night like a royal
Sisi didn´t have a luxurious bed. Hers was narrow and it reminded me of a bed at a boarding house or at an old hospital. It was portable to take it with her while traveling. I prefer it the modern and comfortable way. I´m sure Sisi would have enjoyed my room at the Hotel Lindner Am Belvedere as much as I did.
The chair in the room is in Sisi style and the view from overlooking Vienna and the Schloss Belvedere is stunning. Sisi would have enjoyed the view from the fitness room at the 7th floor with a view to the Belvedere while working out.
Sisi didn´t like being in Vienna. She had the travel bug (like a lot of us). She even had a tattoo with an anchor showing her love for the sea and today maybe she would be a journalist or a travel blogger because she liked to write (secretly). 😀
„I am a seagull, of no land, I call no shore my home, I am bound to no place, I fly from wave to wave.“ – Sisi, Novotser Lieder, 1885
Thanks to Lindner Hotels&Resorts for the invitation. The opinions are ours.
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The railway line from Dublin to Waterford City passes through the townland of Dunkitt. Dunkitt is located just over 6km north of Waterford City. In 1856 Dunkitt was the scene of a rail accident in which five people lost their lives.
The railway line from Dublin reached Kilkenny City in 1848. The line was extended southwards and reached Dunkitt in May 1853. Dunkitt was the terminus for Waterford City from 1853 to 1854. Waterford railway station was opened on August 26th 1864.
On the day of the accident at Dunkitt a track worker failed to operate the points correctly. This caused a passenger train to be misrouted into a sidings where it crashed into a ballast train causing the deaths of five people. The ensuing investigation determined the primary cause of the accident was Pointsman error. The secondary cause was given as inadequate training.
The rail accident at Dunkitt led to the deaths of five people in the year 1856 On This Day.
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Sulcabrush handle is recommended for patients who have difficulty flossing. It is a unituft brush specifically designed to be used by individuals as part of their overall oral hygiene program. It was proven better than dental floss in some parts and equal to dental floss in other parts of the teeth and gums for the removal of plaque and the reduction of gingivitis (gum infection). It is specifically designed to access interproximally and along the gingival margin to remove plaque and help stop the gums from bleeding. Any bleeding or tenderness which may occur initially may soon fade as the gum tissues become firm and healthy. It can even be used while watching TV reading or traveling. It is angled differently on each end for better access to all parts of the mouth. It contributes significantly to improving patients home care techniques. It is excellent for cleaning around crowns bridges tooth implants and orthodontic bands. It is accepted as an effective cleansing device which reduces gingivitis as part of a program for good oral hygiene to supplement the regular professional care required for oral health.
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It also suggested far more work with other sectors to boost the ability of care homes to cope.
“The following should be considered: Extending spillover capacity by putting contracts in place with large hotel chains, reopening closed facilities or purchasing extra capacity in some of the care homes which form part of the top 50 providers,” it said.
Martin Green, the chief executive of Care England, which represents the largest independent care home providers, said the concerns raised by the exercise were not raised by Government agencies with his members.
“It beggars belief,” Mr Green told The Guardian. “This is a report that made some really clear recommendations that haven’t been implemented.
“If they had put in place, a response to every one, we would have been in a much better place at the start of this pandemic.”
Liz Kendall, the shadow social care minister, said: “The report on Exercise Cygnus provided clear warnings that we were not properly prepared for a pandemic.
“In particular it highlights that local plans for social care were inadequate and that social care services wouldn’t be able to cope with the number of people discharged from hospitals to ensure the NHS had enough beds to meet demand.
“These warnings have now proved all too sadly true, as the unfolding tragedy in our care homes shows. Care providers confirm they were not involved in subsequent discussions on how to put these problems right.
“Ministers must be clear about why they failed to act on the report’s recommendations and what they will now do to fully protect and resource these vital services in future.”
Caroline Abrahams, the charity director at Age UK, said: “All the families who have lost loved ones in care homes during the pandemic will be wondering what might have been had the very clear warnings in these papers been heeded. I simply cannot imagine how they are feeling today.
“What’s the point of the Government carrying out scenario planning exercises if the results are then simply shelved?
“The people who decided it was OK to ignore these warnings will have to live with the terrible consequences of their actions for the rest of their lives, knowing others have lost theirs. They should be deeply ashamed.”
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