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By Philip O'Brien
“That was f***ing great,” John Lennon said, his Scouse lilt dragging out the remark.
The object of his regard was the creative lighting that Australian singer Johnny Chester had used while performing the Peggy Lee song Fever. “I just wanted to make it memorable,” Chester recalls. “The house lights were turned off and I had ultra-violet lighting to pick out the white gloves of the bass player and drummer with a red spotlight shining on my face.”
Chester was one of the local acts who supported the Beatles on their Australian tour in June, 1964. It’s 50 years ago but he has never forgotten that backstage remark from one of pop music’s greats.
This week marks the half century since the Beatles made their only tour to Australasia. For three weeks, the Beatles turned Australia and New Zealand upside-down as they performed 32 concerts in eight cities. Crowds lined city streets to see them. Young women risked their lives to meet them. Their appeal crossed the generations. And they prompted an unprecedented marketing frenzy.
All the while, a group of young Australian support performers - including Chester - had the experience of a lifetime: a ringside seat at one of the great events in 20th century Australian popular culture.
So, what was the experience of the tour like for them? Did it help their respective careers? And what influence did the tour have on the directions that Australian popular music took in the years after?
Hundreds of fans huddled in the rain as the Beatles’ flight touched down at Sydney’s Mascot airport just before 7:45am on Thursday June 11, 1964. Australian television, then just eight years old, broadcast the event live. Hundreds of thousands of viewers watched as the Beatles were ferried to the terminal on the back of a truck, wrestling with umbrellas being turned inside out by the wind and rain. Inside, they faced the first of many press conferences, replying to often inane questions with good-natured humour.
Australian entrepreneur Kenn Brodziak had booked the group 12 months earlier, just before the eruption of Beatlemania, for an unbelievable £2500 ($5000) per week. The support acts for the tour were booked by venues manager Dick Lean. Melbourne singer Johnny Chester had already supported several international acts and compered the television program Teen Time. Johnny Devlin, a major star in New Zealand and Australian since the late 1950s, was selected because of his trans-Tasman appeal. And Melbourne-based instrumental group The Phantoms, styled on Britain’s The Shadows, were chosen as backing band for Chester and Devlin.
At first, Chester was disappointed that he couldn’t use his regular band, the Chessmen, but eventually signed a contract for £125 ($250) a week. “It was such a thrill to be asked that I would have probably paid for the opportunity,” he laughs. Devlin signed but was less impressed with the money, at the time earning between £200 ($400) and £300 ($600) per week for his regular gigs.
For Noel Tresider, keyboard player with The Phantoms, the experience of being thrust into the madness of Beatlemania was even more striking than for the other Australian support acts.
“I was brought in especially for the tour,” he recalls. “I was 23 years old and studying chemistry at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. My musical career was just part-time and the £50 a week contract was much more than the three guineas a week I was earning as an accompanist on radio 3DB in Melbourne.”
After a day’s rest in Sydney, the Beatles headed for the opening concerts in Adelaide in a chartered Fokker Friendship aircraft. As throughout the tour, the support acts travelled with the Beatles. Ringo Starr, recovering from tonsillitis, was yet to arrive in Australia and his place was filled in Adelaide by British drummer Jimmy Nicol.
Tresider remembers the crowds, estimated at more than 250,000 people, that lined the route from Adelaide airport to the city. The Beatles traveled in a convertible, the rest of the party in sedans. “The fans were all screaming as we went past. They had no idea who was in the cars.”
Audiences paid up to 37/- ($3.70) a seat for the concerts. There were two sessions a night, one at 6pm and the second at 8:30pm.
By today’s standards it was an unusual format. The first half would begin with British compere Alan Field performing several Frank Sinatra songs. He would then introduce Devlin, dressed in a black leather suit, who sang four numbers including the hit C’mon Everybody. Chester would follow with four numbers ranging from Elvis Presley’s (You’re So Square) Baby, I Don’t Care to Little Richard’s Miss Ann. The 45-minute first half would conclude with the British instrumental group Sounds Incorporated, who were part of Beatles manager Brian Epstein’s stable.
After the interval the Beatles would perform the second half of the show, a 30-minute set of just 11 songs from their then first two albums, as well as Can’t Buy Me Love from their soon-to-be released A Hard Day’s Night.
The Australian support acts, after finishing their performances each night, would always remain to watch the proceedings. And '‘watch'’ was the operative word. “You couldn’t hear the music,” Devlin recalls. “It was a mad screaming frenzy. Chester agrees: “None of us were used to anything on this scale. Although the adulation wasn’t directed at us, it was hard not to get caught up in all the excitement.”
In the 1950s, singers such as Johnny Ray and Frank Sinatra had attracted screaming audiences. However, this was the first time that a group, outside a Royal Tour, had enjoyed such hysteria and blanket media coverage.
Bob Rogers, then a disc jockey for Sydney radio station 2SM, was with the group throughout the tour. "To be on tour with the Beatles meant living every minute upside-down and inside-out," he recalls. "It was mentally and physically exhausting. And everything the Beatles said or did was of momentous importance, even if they'd said or done it many times before. That was part of Beatlemania."
Off-stage, the Beatles were unassuming. “Between shows, we would eat together and talk in the dressing rooms,” Chester says. “I remember having a long talk with George Harrison backstage at Festival Hall in Melbourne. We shared a similar interest in cars – with one difference. He had just bought an E-type Jag while I was still driving my FE Holden.”
Tresider remembers swapping jokes with Lennon and chatting with McCartney as he played his guitar backstage. He also remembers the crush to attend the after-show parties on tour. “These were mostly people who were well-connected or in society. And there were lots of girls who were very keen to party with anybody from the tour.”
Devlin enjoyed a friendly relationship with John Lennon, one heightened by helping to solve major sound problems at the concerts in Wellington when Lennon threatened to cancel the remainder of the tour.
The final concert was held in Brisbane’s Festival Hall on Tuesday, June 30. Afterwards, the entire tour party gathered together for a group photograph. The Beatles said goodbye and left for their hotel. The following day they flew out of Australia.
The current Powerhouse Museum exhibition ‘'The Beatles in Australia’', on show in Melbourne, suggests that the Beatles’ tour was “a catalyst for immense social, political and cultural change that took place [in Australia] throughout the remainder of the decade.”
But for the Australian support acts on that tour, the association with the Beatles was more varied. The performances by Devlin had impressed Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein, who suggested he might do well in Britain and invited him to stay in touch with the group’s press manager Derek Taylor.
“I did go to England in 1965 but, by then, Taylor had broken up with the Beatles so it all went a bit haywire,” Devlin recalls. “But I managed to get some work over there as well as a recording contract with Columbia Records.” He returned to Australia in 1967.
For Chester’s career, the raised profile from being associated with the Beatles presented a different opportunity. “Several months after the tour, ABC television offered me the opportunity to host a national television show with my group, The Chessmen. That was Teen Scene, which was broadcast in 1964 and ’65. Going to work in England was an option I never considered. By that stage, I’d made my mind up that I wanted to get into country music. I don’t think that I could really have made any more of the Beatles tour than I did.”
Meanwhile, for Tresider, it was back to chemistry studies as well as his part-time musical career with radio 3DB and rock and roll band The Premiers. He went on to have a successful career in chemical engineering. “A year after the tour, my association with the Beatles was forgotten. Now, when I’m introduced, it’s mentioned all the time.”
The Phantoms, the group with which Tresider played with on the tour, eventually split up with bass player Pete Watson going on to form the band MPD Ltd. And that points to one important effect the Beatles had on the direction of Australian music at the time.
“The Beatles tour changed Australian pop music completely,” Tresider observes. “Previously, the popular style had been been a lead singer with his backing band or instrumental bands in the style of The Shadows. Now, the fashion was for bands, like MPD, where everyone sang.”
But the Beatles’ influence on Australian bands was even more significant because of the large population of young, British migrants in Australia at the time, argues Melbourne-based academic, writer and broadcaster Lawrie Zion. “Many of these British-born immigrants, especially in Adelaide, identified closely with the Beatles,” he says, adding that most of the successful Australian groups that emerged in the wake of the Beatles’ tour – including the Twilights and the Easybeats – had at least one British-born member.
There were also more tangible influences in hairstyles and fashion. Chester recalls that, after the Beatles’ tour, the accepted brushed-back (‘Rocker’) hairstyle for men was now challenged by the brushed-forward (‘Jazzer’) style favoured by the Beatles.
And Tresider remembers how the tour made unfashionable the gaudy band uniforms of the earlier 1960s: “For the Melbourne concerts, the Phantoms wore bright blue lamé suits with patent leather, pointed-toe boots. When the Beatles saw us in this attire they fell about laughing. Those suits were never worn again.”
The Beatles in Australia at the Arts Centre, Melbourne until July 1.
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If we had more entertainers like Poncie Ponce, I might be a little more well-known.
That’s because every time the popular Poncie is on stage performing and sees me in the audience, he points me out to the audience.
Why? Well, when I first wrote about the talented Filipino performer from Maui, I misspelled his first name. Since I only heard his name and never saw it in print, I called him “Ponce Ponce.”
When I did finally meet him in person, the first thing he said was, “Hey, my name is Poncie Ponce, not Ponce Ponce as you wrote.”
Since that time, whenever I attend one of his performances, he tells the audience about my error in pronouncing his name.
So that was the case this past Saturday when a group of his fans put on a “Poncie Ponce Day” at Bob’s Hawaiian Restaurant in Gardena.
I was invited to attend and when he saw me in the audience, he laughed and said, “Hey, if you write anything about today, spell my name right.”
Of course, most of those in the audience don’t know that I am a writer until Poncie points out the error in my reporting.
Naturally, the first question most people ask me is, “Whom do you write for?”
Since my father came to the U.S. as a laborer to work on the railroad in places like Idaho and Montana before settling down as a farmer in California, a story sent to me by a reader was of interest.
I thought I would use a few paragraphs from an article published by Densho because I am sure a lot of Nisei had parents who went through the same experience as I did watching my Issei father operating a farm. The article read, in part:
“Farming was the main occupation for early immigrant Japanese. Many did farm labor that paid by the piece, where they could earn more by working faster, harder, longer. They accepted lower wages than those paid to white workers because low pay in the United States was still higher than the wages many earned in Japan.
“By 1920, the Japanese farmed more than 458,000 acres in California, either as owners, leasees or contractors. These farms produced $67 million worth of crops or more than 10 percent of the California total value. In 1940, Japanese Americans in Oregon raised $2.7 million worth of produce, while those in Washington raised more than $4 million.
“Japanese farmers were pioneers in West Coast agriculture, clearing land unwanted by whites and introducing labor-intensive techniques that yielded abundant harvests from small plots of land.”
Having lived under these conditions on farms developed by my Issei father, I can appreciate what he had to do to survive in the U.S.
He spoke no English, and in addition to battling racial prejudice, he raised a family that included, besides me, another son and four daughters.
And we moved constantly because as a Japanese citizen, he couldn’t own the land he farmed on. So when he developed the farmland, the owners would not renew the lease and he had to move on to find another property on which he developed another farm.
In those days I guess I really didn’t appreciate what my Issei father had to go through, but reading Densho article made me realize what hardship he faced as a “Jap” because of “blatant racism.”
Opening today’s column, I chatted about Poncie Ponce, who in addition to his musical talent, is also a comedian.
When I listen to him entertain both as a musician and comedian, I am reminded that those folks from the Island State have a great sense of humor, delivered in pidgin English.
Keoki opened the morning newspaper and was dumbfounded to read in the obituary column that he had died.
He quickly phoned his best friend, Keoni. “Did you see da peppa?” asked Keoki. “Dey say I wen die!”
“Yeah, I wen see um,” replied Keoni. “Whea you calling from?”
Not laughing? Try this one:
Walking into the bar, Keoki said to Keoni, the bartender, “Pour me one stiff one, bruddah, just had annuda fight with the wahine.”
“Oh yeah?” Keoni said. “And how did this one end?”
“When it was ovah,” Keoki replied, “she wen come to me on her hands and knees.”
“Really?” said Keoni. “Now dat’s a switch. What she wen say then?”
She said, “Come out from undah the bed, you little chicken.”
My computer began to malfunction when I began this segment of my column.
It made me realize how little I know about operating a computer. For the most part, I know only how to set my column. Sort of use my computer like an old typewriter.
Fortunately for me, one of my sons dropped in about the time I was cussing and swearing at my lack of knowledge on how to operate the computer.
I am constantly amazed how easily those who know all about computers can push a couple of buttons and everything is back to normal.
Okay, so now I can continue … hopefully.
I was saddened to read in the Saturday Rafu about the passing of Yutaka Shimizu, whom everyone called “Tabo.”
It was during the days when I was involved in NAU basketball that I got to know Tabo.
He went on to gain fame as a coach at the prep and college level.
Another sad note this week was the news of the passing of Jon Nakanishi, who passed away after a tragic boating accident in Northern California.
Jon was the son of Alan Nakanishi, former California state assemblyman and mayor of the City of Lodi.
I met Alan when he was an assemblyman. When he became mayor of Lodi, I felt a little closer to him since I once ran a pro baseball team from the Northern California city.
My deepest condolences to Alan.
Since I use my cell phone much more than I do my home phone, I decided to get one of those earphones since it makes answering my calls so much easier, especially when I’m driving my car.
I know it’s against the law to use cell phones while driving, but having the earphone makes it so much easier.
One thing I can’t get used to is that when I use my earphone to converse with the calling party, people give me a strange look because I appear to be talking to myself.
Before I got my earphone and I used to see people “talking to themselves” because they were using earphones. I can understand why people now look at me the same way.
So, unless the calls are important, I answer just long enough to tell the calling party that I will call them back in a short time.
Ah, modern electrical devices in this day and age.
Speaking of electrical devices, one of the most helpful ones, as far as I am concerned, is the remote control device for my television set.
I watch a lot of TV and one thing I can’t stand are the commercials, so the remote control is my savior.
Whatever TV program I am watching, especially Dodgers baseball, I can hit the remote and cut off the commercials.
During the break in the Dodgers games on TV, the commercials last about two minutes. So I time the break on my wristwatch and when the two minutes are up, I hit the remote and see only the game action. What a relief not having to suffer through the commercials.
Oh well, I guess TV is all about money, so what else can we expect?
Before Obama was elected president, he went to visit Bill and Hillary for some campaign advice at their spacious home. After drinking several glasses of ice tea, he asked Mr. Clinton if he could use his bathroom.
When he entered Clinton’s private toilet, he was astonished to see that Clinton had a solid gold urinal.
That afternoon, Obama told Michelle about the urinal. “Just think,” he said, “when I’m president, I, too, could have a gold urinal. But I wouldn’t have something so self-indulgent.”
Later, when Michelle had lunch with Hillary, she told her how impressed Obama had been at his discovery of the fact that, in his private bathroom, Bill had a gold urinal.
That evening when Bill and Hillary were getting ready for bed, Hillary smiled and said to Bill, “I found out who peed in your saxophone.”
1st Degree: A married couple were asleep when the phone rang at 2 in the morning. The very blonde wife picked up the phone, listened for a moment, said, “How should I know? That’s 200 miles from here,” and hung up.
The husband said, “Who was that?”
The wife answered, “I don’t know, some woman wanting to know if the coast is clear.”
2nd Degree: Two blondes are walking down the street. One notices a compact on the sidewalk and leans down to pick it up. She opens it, looks in the mirror and says, “Hmmm … this person looks familiar.
The second blonde says, “Here, let me see.”
So the first blonde hands her the compact.
The second blonde looks in the mirror and says, “You dummy. It’s me.”
3rd Degree: A blonde suspects her boyfriend is cheating on her, so she goes out and buys a gun. She goes to his apartment unexpectedly and when she opens the door she finds him in the arms of a redhead.
Well, the blonde is really angry. She opens her purse and takes out the gun and as she does so, she is overcome with grief. She takes the gun and puts it to her head. The boyfriend yells, “No, Honey, don’t do it!”
The blonde replies, “Shut up, you’re next.”
4th Degree: A friend says, “Okay, what’s the capital of Wisconsin?”
The blonde replies, “Oh, that’s easy. It’s W.”
5th Degree: What did the blonde ask her doctor when he told her she was pregnant?
“Is it mine?”
6th Degree: Bambi, a blonde in her fourth year as a UCLA freshman, sat in her U.S. government class. The professor asked Bambi if she knew what Roe vs. Wade was about.
Bambi pondered the question, then finally said, “That was the decision George Washington had to make before he crossed the Delaware.”
7th Degree: Returning home from work, a blonde was shocked to find her home ransacked and burglarized. She phoned the police at once and reported the crime. The police dispatcher broadcast the call on the radio and a K-9 unit patrolling nearby was the first to respond.
As the K-9 officer approached the house with his dog on a leash, the blonde ran out on the porch, shuddered at the sight of the cop and his dog, then sat down on the steps.
Putting her face in her hands, she moaned, “I come home, find all my possessions stolen. I call the police for help and what do they do? They send me a blind policeman with a seeing-eye dog.”
George Yoshinaga writes from Gardena and may be reached via e-mail at email@example.com. Opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily those of The Rafu Shimpo.
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While there are many important decisions to make when planning a market research effort, one of the most crucial is whether to conduct qualitative or quantitative market research.
In brief, quantitative market research refers to the process of collecting large amounts of data through surveys, questionnaires, and polling methods. Conversely, qualitative market research involves determining customer motivation through close observation –– typically in a small group or face-to-face encounter.
What makes deciding between the two even trickier is that many of the people conducting market research –– either for their employers or as consultants –– do not have in-depth expertise in both methodologies. As such, they stick with the one that they are familiar with, regardless of whether it is the best option. Even if their practice integrates both quantitative and qualitative methods into their approach, there still may be a bias toward certain strategies and tactics -- which ultimately renders the outcomes anywhere from less-than-optimal, to outright misleading.
The only way to avoid heading down the wrong road –– and undermining the market research effort and investment –– is to objectively determine whether a quantitative approach, qualitative approach, or integrated approach (and if so, in what proportion and for what purpose) is required.
Below are some high-level guidelines to direct this critically important decision.
The purpose of quantitative research is to glean reliable, standardized facts and statistics to guide key business questions, such as “Is there a strong market for our product?” or “How many of our target customers care about this benefit?”
Often, primary research quantitative data is captured through surveys and questionnaires. Quantitative data collection methods typically rely on close-ended questions to generate insights. The pool of research respondents must be sufficiently large, with attention paid to ensure the necessary audience representation.
For example, exclusively using mobile surveys to capture quantitative data is likely to disproportionately filter out people not on mobile panels, while conducting surveys by calling landline phones is likely to disproportionately filter out the nearly two-thirds of households that entirely or mostly use cell phones.
But capturing data is just one piece of the quantitative research puzzle. To leverage it as actionable and reliable business intelligence, it must be organized, analyzed, and communicated to decision-makers (e.g., executives, board members, marketing directors, R&D leaders, business owners, etc.). Most organizations –– and virtually all small businesses –– do not have the resources, technology, or expertise to do this in-house.
The purpose of qualitative research is to go deeper into understanding insights into customer motivation and emotion. In this sense, if quantitative research is mainly about the “what” of customer behavior, qualitative research is about the “why." This approach can be useful for revealing aspects such as why customers like or dislike a brand, why they like particular marketing messages and dislike others, and what motivates actual consumer behavior.
There are many ways to conduct qualitative market research, such as focus groups, online bulletin boards, and in-depth interviews. There are advantages and drawbacks to various strategies and tactics, but experienced moderators know how to handle each methodology for optimal outcomes. Because the pool of respondents is smaller, it is essential to make adjustments to avoid bias or end up with plenty of raw information but precious little actionable insight.
3 Questions to Help Make the Right Decision
In addition to the information shared above, it is helpful to ask these three questions as part of an informed decision-making process:
- Is the purpose of this market research to test a hypothesis or to explore perceptions?
To test a hypothesis, quantitative research gives you the sample size necessary to uncover agreement or disapproval. Qualitative research can allow for detailed and open-ended learnings about perceptions without leading participants to a black or white decision.
- Should the study results simply measure opinions or is an in-depth understanding of why customers have certain opinions the goal?
To measure opinions, quantitative research is the right choice. If an in-depth understanding of perceptions revealing conscious, or even unconscious ways individuals reason through and come to their conclusions on a matter, then qualitative research is the best bet.
- Will the key insights from this study be used to extrapolate an understanding about a larger audience or is some kind of map of an individual participant's experience more helpful?
If the goal is to reach a critical inference about a larger audience, then you need quantitative research. If the goal is to map out the nuanced experience of an individual, then qualitative research is required.
Integrated Market Research
Typically, a robust and complete market research effort involves quantitative and qualitative methods, since they both offer valuable perspectives and can be combined to generate actionable insights. The right mix is based on the unique needs for business decision making, desired impact, timeframe, scope, and budget. There is no one-size-fits-all answer or template and the approach should never be based on what a market researcher or consultant is familiar with (or simply knows how to implement). The determination must only be based on what the business requires and what the integrity of the market research project demands.
To learn more, contact the Communications For Research (CFR) team today. We will help you better understand the differences and distinctions between quantitative and qualitative research. Our goal is to guide you to the optimal approach for your business objectives and research needs.
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Muskogee Public Schools Innovations Academy
Students must complete the New Student or Returning Student Enrollment and select the E-Learning Option to be considered to enroll in Roughers Innovations Academy.
Muskogee Public Schools Innovations Academy is a blended learning environment offering students the best of two worlds: self-paced internet-based instruction and face-to-face support, socialization, and extracurricular activities.
Students will engage in virtual instruction provided through Edgenuity. Edgenuity is a leading provider of K-12 online learning solutions. Through a partnership with Muskogee Public Schools, they will provide students with the tools and support needed to maximize learning and improve academic success.
In addition to this standards-based platform, students will engage in virtual Google Meets classes and face-to-face instruction with Muskogee Public Schools’ highly qualified teachers.
Enrollment is limited to 500 students. Admission and continued participation in the Innovations Academy will be determined by the following.
- be a Muskogee Public Schools 3rd-12th grade student.
- have recommendations from the previous year’s principal/teacher.
- participate with parent/guardian in required orientation.
- attend on-site supports on one assigned day weekly.
- maintain a “C” or higher grade point average.
- complete required course content.
- communicate with teachers/staff weekly.
- maintain state-mandated attendance rate (90%).
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Scientists have known for decades that a flu virus in a human body can be a lot different than viruses grown in a lab. As opposed to the uniform, spherical, textbook-style viruses in a petri dish, in humans they vary in shape and composition — particularly the abundance of certain proteins — even if they are genetically very similar.
It has been difficult however, to study the exact number and location of these proteins on any individual virus. The go-to method in cell biology involves attaching a fluorescent protein to the area of interest; the light makes the area easier to image and study.
But trying to attach fluorescent proteins to the molecules that make up a flu virus is like trying to get a third person on a tandem bike: There just isn’t room. The fluorescent proteins are about the same size as the flu proteins; introducing such a relatively large element throws the virus out of whack.
A paper by Michael Vahey, assistant professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, and Daniel A. Fletcher, the Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Engineering Biological Systems and chair of bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, demonstrates that flu proteins can be tagged using a different method.
The process has already yielded information that hints to one advantage at minimum for having so many flu phenotypes, that is, various shapes and configurations found in genetically identical flu particles.
The paper was published Nov. 29 in the journal Cell.
“Under what circumstances is it adaptive, and how so?” Vahey asked. “This is a first step toward understanding that. But it’s not a complete picture.”
In order to move past the labeling difficulties, Vahey adapted a method that is typically used to label a specific area on a protein called, appropriately, “site-specific labeling.” Instead of using a fluorescent protein, he inserted sequences five- to 10-amino-acids-long into the proteins that make up influenza A virus. This is the most common flu virus, and also the most dangerous to humans.
After inserting these short sequences, he introduced enzymes and small amounts of fluorescent dyes. These enzymes take different dye molecules and connect them to the engineered viral proteins, giving researchers the ability to see individual proteins without disrupting how they — or the virus they make up — functions.
Of particular interest to researchers are the proteins hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA). HA is responsible for allowing a flu virus to attach to a cell and NA is responsible for decoupling the virus from the cell so that it can go on to infect others. (This is where designations such as H1N1 or H3N2 come from; the surface of the virus has different types of HA and NA that are referred to by specific numbers, or subtypes).
“Once we have the ability to label individual viruses, we can image them and quantify how much of each protein they have per particle, and what the size of that particle is,” Vahey said.
Utilizing site-specific labeling overcomes a longstanding challenge in the study of flu viruses. Now that they could take a more detailed look, Vahey and Fletcher decided to do just that, setting up an experiment that might help them understand whether or not the variation seen in individual flu viruses might be adaptive, helping the virus to spread infection.
The researchers studied individual flu viruses released from cells, some of which were treated with a substance that blocks NA from doing its job, releasing the virus from a cell. (This is how the antiviral drug Tamiflu works. If the virus cannot release itself from the cell, it cannot spread and reproduce).
Then they compared the virus particles that were able to detach from the untreated cells to those that were able to detach from the cells treated with the NA inhibitor.
“What we found is that viruses that are smaller, or have more NA, are more resistant to the NA inhibitor,” Vahey said. “They were more likely to be able to detach from a cell that has been challenged with Tamiflu.” They could then go on to infect more cells.
The results suggest that these two variations — being smaller than average, or having more NA — could be beneficial for a virus that found itself in a person who had been treated with Tamiflu. It’s one example of how having lots of diversity among individual viruses might be advantageous.
On the other hand, viruses with more HA, or that are larger, can bind more strongly to cells. “Under any particular circumstance, it might be beneficial to be anywhere within that range,” Vahey said. “In the case of Tamiflu treatment, you’re inhibiting NA such that the viruses that happen to have more NA and also happen to be smaller now have a little bit of a leg up.”
More broadly, Vahey said, “If you have an environment that is changing rapidly over time, if you were reliant on genetic adaptations, you might be in some trouble, because it takes a certain amount of time for mutations to accumulate.” But phenotypic diversity generates changes relatively quickly. Each time a virus replicates, the next generation displays a host of variation, some of which might be suited to the environment where it finds itself.
Down the line, the importance of phenotype may have implications for the development of new flu vaccines. “Typically in the development of a flu vaccine, you’re concerned about how genetic changes in the virus may reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine,” Vahey said. “This could be an additional consideration, how variation in viral phenotype may contribute.”
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PepsiCo will launch paper bottles in 2021
As per reports, PepsiCo is planning to test own branded paper bottles in 2021 with a goal of cutting down virgin plastic content across beverage business by 35% by 2025. Pepsico is working to make 100% of their packaging recyclable, compostable, or biodegradable by 2025 and the company is about to complete 90% of it.
With rising environmental awareness, plastic packaging is considered for increasing non-biodegradable wastage. As a result, more and more beverage biggies are finding out alternatives to plastic. However, developing a paper bottle that can hold liquids and still be 100% PET-free has not been easy.
Diageo and Pilot Lite, a venture management company has launched Pulpex Limited, a sustainable packaging technology company. The companies created what they call "the world's first ever 100% plastic free paper-based spirits bottle, made entirely from sustainably sourced wood. This new bottle from Pulpex is made with sustainably sourced pulp for food-safe standards and is also intended to be fully recyclable in standard waste streams.
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to the editor: I read with interest the article on hyperparathyroidism in the January 15, 2004, issue of American Family Physician.1 However, I noticed that hypovitaminosis D (vitamin D insufficiency) was not mentioned in much detail. Although the concept is not new, I would like to point out that this is an under-recognized but increasingly important cause of secondary hyperparathyroidism, which is a condition that may be of significant relevance to family physicians and their patients.
Hypovitaminosis D increases the risk for fractures, bone pain, and the development of either osteomalacia or rickets. Risk factors include lack of sun exposure, inadequate dietary intake, and advanced age (caused by the skin’s decreasing ability to synthesize vitamin D). Studies have shown a prevalence of 30 to 50 percent in elderly persons in community settings.2 Even in the nonelderly, 57 percent of hospitalized patients in Boston had evidence of vitamin D deficiency.3 In a recent study conducted in Minnesota,4 an alarming 93 percent of children and adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain were vitamin D deficient. Surprisingly, the most severely deficient persons were patients aged 10 to 29 years.
Diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency is based on a low 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 level. Traditionally, levels less than 12 ng per mL (31 nmol per L) have been considered the lower limits of normal. However, levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 less than 20 ng per mL (52 nmol per L) triggers a compensatory increase in parathyroid hormone (PTH) and, hence, accelerates bone resorption. This suggests that vitamin D deficiency occurs before the lower limits of traditional population-based values for PTH.5 Unlike primary hyperparathyroidism, PTH levels are usually less than 100 pg per mL (850 pmol per L) in secondary hyperparathyroidism caused by hypovitaminosis D. Overall, optimal bone health may occur with 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels greater than 30 to 50 ng per mL (78 to 130 nmol per L).
Treatment for hypovitaminosis D is supplementation with vitamin D and calcium. Two methods are suggested here. Replacement with 50,000 IU vitamin D once a week for eight weeks given with supplemental calcium will restore tissue stores quickly and may be more useful for patients with levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 less than 20 ng per mL. Daily supplementation with 800 IU of vitamin D and calcium for those patients with levels between 20 and 30 ng per mL also is safe and effective.6 Repeating levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 and PTH after two to three months ensures adequate treatment and compliance.
Family physicians should consider screening for hypovitaminosis D in all patients who may be at risk, regardless of age. Elderly persons, and even children with dietary lack and limited sun exposure, are vulnerable to vitamin D deficiency. The American Academy of Pediatrics recently recognized the continuing reports of rickets and recommends 200 to 400 IU of daily vitamin D supplementation to all children. Older adults also may warrant vitamin D and calcium supplementation without screening. Understanding the risk factors, and recognizing subnormal 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and mild hyperparathyroidism will allow the family physician to detect hypovitaminosis D. Early diagnosis and treatment is critical to prevent the more serious complications of rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults.
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Read the Room with Althea Taylor Jones, PhD Certified Gerontologist
Colorful Memories: Aging with Style
August 11 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Local author Althea Taylor Jones, PhD Certified Gerontologist will give a presentation about her book Colorful
Memories: Aging with Style. A collection of experiences shared by African American elders regarding their support,
survival, and success while aging with style. How do we come to appreciate the beauty of maturing beyond our youthful years? What type of mindset do we need to mature and age gracefully? Each level of the aging process has its own
beauty and uniqueness that God blesses and anoints. According to John 10:10, Jesus came that we might live more
Aging can be as beautiful as the fall season with the changing of the leaves. Fall has its purpose and so does aging. The wisdom that we accumulate as we mature is vital in guiding and directing younger generations. Even in our advanced and mature years, life can be purposeful and meaningful. Colorful Memories: Aging with Style is vital reading for seniors and others who seek to understand what happens to us as we age and how aging provides new challenges as well as
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The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has announced a two-month extension to the deadline for applying for the use of foreign workers for next year.
Cambodian labour law requires firms employing foreign workers to apply for permits by the end of each November for the following calendar year.
In a press release dated December 9, labour minister Ith Sam Heng declared that such businesses would now have until the end of January to register their foreign workforce, noting that some employers are late to file this year.
“[The ministry] would like to remind all owners or directors of enterprises and establishments who need to use foreign workers for 2021 to hurry to apply for permission for the use of their foreign workforce by January 31, 2021,” it said.
The ministry stressed that employers who fail to register by the end of the extended grace period will face fines in accordance with the law.
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia deputy secretary-general Kaing Monika told The Post on December 10 that it was a good idea for the government to favour and facilitate business operations in the country while dealing with the Covid-19 crisis.
According to Monika, the delayed filings from some factories are due to companies having faced suspensions in labour and production. He said uncertainties stemming from this year’s extraordinary events, which have left production orders reduced or pending, are among myriad financial reasons that have led companies to having insufficient time to make decisions regarding their foreign workforce and subsequently file for permits for the next year.
“The government has postponed [the deadline] for two months, which is a convenience for investors in order to have sufficient time to apply for [permits for] their foreign workforce. The provision of this extension will be enough for some companies and factories to return and resume their production operations,” he said.
Monika estimates that Cambodia’s textile and garment sector employs upwards of 40,000 foreign labourers. Cambodian law allows local enterprises to use skilled foreign labour for 10 per cent of their total workforce.
According to a report released by the interior and labour ministries in 2018, there were more than 100,000 unregistered foreign workers in Cambodia employed without a work permit, representing an annual loss of $20 million in tax receipts.
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Which produces more possible outcomes, a coin, or dice? The answer is dice.
Generally speaking, a coin has only two sides (the head and tail), but a dice has six (1 to 6). For a fair dice, each side has an equal possibility (one out of six) to show up.
However, for a biased dice, the probability of each side is not equal. For example, throwing a biased dice may always turn out to be one or two; the sides of three to six never appear. So a dice is not necessarily harder to guess than a coin if it is biased (e.g., only the “one” side always appears).
The key point of cryptography is the cryptographic key. If a key generator produces keys with few variations, it is more vulnerable. It is like a Ferrari racing car equipped with a 1200 CC engine. That is, a 256-bit key generator may only have the capability of generating 64 bits of combinations.
Entropy is the measure of the generator’s capability of randomness.
- The entropy of a fair coin is 1, based on the probability of 0.5 (head) and 0.5 (tail)
- The entropy of a fair dice is 2.58496, based on the probability of 1/6 for each side (1 to 6)
Which produces more possible outcomes, a coin, or dice? The answer is dice if both of them are fair.
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New research has suggested that those in the baby-boomer generation should be ready to pay higher wealth taxes in order to pay for healthcare expenses likely to rise sharply in the near future. According to think tank the Resolution Foundation, this could indicate the end of the tax cuts in Britain, a development which may have less impact on those of you at or approaching retirement, but considerable impact on your children’s generation.
According to the research, by 2030, social security, health and education spending are forecast to increase by £20 billion a year in today’s pounds, mounting to £60 billion a year by 2040! Thanks to spending cuts for a number of departments, the UK government’s budget deficit has reduced bit by bit from the time it stood at 10% of economic output in 2010.
However, as the number of easy cuts able to be made runs out, the government is coming under growing pressure to raise funds through increased taxation. Whilst the chancellor, Philip Hammond, has managed to reduce the country’s financial deficit quicker than had been predicted over the past financial year, the Resolution Foundation’s report suggests that increased public spending in the coming years will give the government no other option but to raise taxes.
“The time has come when we boomers are going to have to reach into our own pockets,” said the chair of the Resolution Foundation and former Conservative government minister, David Willetts, in response to the report. “The alternative could be an extra 15 pence on the basic rate of tax, paid largely by our kids.”
Aside from the snowballing cost of healthcare, the think tank also underlined another key reason why baby-boomers will need to take on more of the tax burden in the future: later generations will simply not be able to afford to do so. Millennials, born between 1981 and 2000, are spending more of their income on housing costs than any other generation of the twentieth century.
In spite of this, the level of home ownership has reduced notably in the UK over the past two decades as young adults have felt the effects of rising pension contributions and modest earnings growth following the financial crisis. This has further skewed wealth towards the older generations.
Willetts feels that there may now be no other choice than to increase wealth taxation. “Unless we act, at some point we will face a choice between changing our approach to taxation, or cutting access to the NHS and letting social care get into an even deeper crisis,” he warns. “We can’t delay that debate any longer.”
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“Raising preteens can be a difficult task that involves different skills and approaches than you might have used with your children before. See more parenting pictures.Nick Daly/Getty Images
It’s no secret parenting can be difficult at times, especially during the preteen and teen years. As your child begins going through changes and adapting to the world around her, it’s important to maintain a level of authority while still garnering trust and understanding. It’s a difficult balance — one easily thrown off by your child’s hormones, your lengthy lectures or simple misunderstandings.
Preteens are children ages 9-12, and although the age range is small, the amount of changes taking place during the time period is not. These kids will probably become more involved with school and social pressures will be a more important factor in their lives. Confusion may arise as parents can be pushed away by their children as often as they’re called upon for help. Entertainment media will begin to have a stronger importance in their lives, and their interest in hobbies will begin to flourish. All of these things combined can make parenting a complicated and constantly changing task.
All that said, it can be a difficult time for parents and children alike, but it doesn’t have to be. In this article, you’ll learn about several different techniques for keeping your relationship with your child strong while still helping her to grow and develop properly.
- Moderate Media Exposure
- Prepare Them for Peer Pressure
- Develop Trust
- Leave Them Home Alone When They're Ready
- Punish Them Effectively
- Ease the Transition into Middle School
- Teach Good Learning Skills
- Encourage Hobbies and Extracurricular Activities
- Talk About and Monitor Their Nutrition
- Help with Health and Hygiene
10: Moderate Media Exposure
Depending on your age, this is likely something your parents didn’t have to deal with as much as parents of today. There’s no going back to the days when the only worry was what was on the radio. Preteens have access to a number of entertainment media: television, video games, the Internet, music and movies.
A common suggestion among professionals is to monitor and moderate media exposure for your preteen. This means understanding the ratings systems — such as the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) for video games and the MPAA for movies — in addition to keeping an eye on their media consumption. Many parents use a rewards system to keep track of how much their child uses such media. For instance, they may decide their child can play two hours of video games for every three hours he does homework.
It’s important to find a system and stick with it across the board — no exceptions for the finale of their favorite show or if they get to the top level of a video game at the end of their time limit. Standing by these rules establishes your boundaries and also teaches good time management skills to preteens.
9: Prepare Them for Peer Pressure
“Peer pressure becomes even more prevalent at the preteen age, so having regular, open talks with your child can help him maintain his self-esteem.©iStockphoto.com/Kristian Sekulic
There is no way around it: When your child gets to the preteen age, he’s going to be dealing with a number of social pressures. These come from both the inside and out, as children struggle to define themselves and control how they are viewed by others.
Have a conversation with your child early on in his life regarding peer pressure. To an adult, it might sound a bit clichéd to have a talk about thinking for yourself or not letting others get to you, but preteens will often seek approval from peers, even ones they’re not particularly fond of. This can lead to dangerous situations regarding sex, violence, drugs or alcohol, so it’s important to talk to your child often and early.
Ensuring your child’s self-esteem stays and that his identity is solid can help him deal with peer pressures, but don’t lay it on too thick. After all, parent’s compliments can only go so far with a preteen.
8: Develop Trust
For better or worse, the preteen era marks the time when parents and children begin to disconnect a bit. This can lead to trust issues for both parties.
It might sound silly considering you’ve lived with your child her entire life, but once she hits the preteen age, you’ll possibly need to reestablish your trust with her. This can come by a variety of methods, but allowing a bit of leeway — in something like hanging out with friends, for example — can enable your relationship with your preteen to grow and strengthen.
It’s important to keep an open line of communication and to remain actively involved in your child’s life. There are many ways you can do this, but be sure to keep yourself available during meals, games and other family activities. Maintain these family moments throughout the preteen years and make sure your child understands she can always come to you with any type of question or quarrel.
This will also be a time when you may feel it necessary to do some research about your child on your own. Although it’s important to keep tabs on where you child is and what she’s doing, many parenting experts believe that you should respect your child’s privacy until she gives you a good reason to suspect she is using poor judgment in an important area of her life [source: Peters]. Although snooping on your child might seem like a good idea, it’s generally best to begin allowing him to have his first taste of independence.
7: Leave Them Home Alone When They're Ready
“You can give your teen trial runs to see whether she is ready to stay home alone for an evening.David Young-Wolff/Getty Images
One of the greatest signs of trust between a parent and a child comes from the first time you leave him home alone. Although different children will react in different ways, there are ways to tell whether your child may be ready to take on the head of the house role — temporarily, at least.
Start by leaving him for short durations. Run to the store to grab groceries, for example, and see how you and he handle it. If he remains calm and collected, he’ll probably soon be ready to stay alone for longer periods.
If you decide it’s OK to give him the evening to himself, be sure to call and check in often and provide him with a phone number to reach you. You’ll also want to ensure your child has access to neighbors or close relatives in case you can’t be reached — or in case you want someone to drop by to check on him. The first time you leave him home alone, you’ll want to run through a few safety measures, such as who to call in case of an emergency, what to do in case of a fire, and which appliances are off-limits.
Make sure he understands that you’re still ruling the house by proxy. This means all the same considerations of TV watching, computer usage, video game playing and eating are all set in stone. If these rules and boundaries are breached, make him understand there will be consequences.
6: Punish Them Effectively
A growing trend among punishments for preteens these days is to get creative. Instead of simply grounding your child or taking away a privilege, some parents incorporate the reason for the punishment inside the punishment itself. For example, you could remove the hinges of your child’s door (or the door itself) if she is constantly slamming it. This can be a great way to teach lessons.
However, it’s still important to follow a few simple guidelines. With preteens, be very clear with your rules, expectations and limitations. Cognitively, a preteen is beginning to understand the structure of sentences and ways to manipulate them to find loopholes, so speaking plainly with a clear message is important.
Many believe positive reinforcement of rules works the best. This means that when your child does something wrong, you talk about what she should instead be doing, as opposed to simply telling her "don’t." Children can understand cause and effect, so pointing out what behavior they should be using and why can sometimes be more effective than simply telling them to stop.
As with children of any age range, being patient and consistent with punishments for preteens is key. Stick with the rules you set, and be ready and able to handle your child in a calm and collected tone if she breaks those rules.
5: Ease the Transition into Middle School
“Your child’s middle school course work will likely be more difficult than what she is used to, so she may need your help at first.LWA/Getty Images
You might not remember your own experience very well, but the transition into middle school can be a terrifying experience for a child. In many schools, this will mean a more open class structure or having to use lockers and get to classes on time.
Before the term starts, you should attend a tour of the school with your child. You’ll be able to learn about scheduled break times, find classrooms and start organizing a routine. If he is taking a new bus to school, it might be helpful to walk the route with him and help him memorize the bus number.
It’s not all logistics, though. Your child will be getting used to new and different peers in addition to dealing with a wide range of new courses and material. Also, he’ll likely find himself with more social demands and having to balance complex homework assignments. As a parent, you should be involved: Make sure you’ve met the teachers and that you have access to a course guide so you know what to expect throughout the year. Doing so will help you help your child as he finds his way among new friends, group homework projects and new obligations.
4: Teach Good Learning Skills
It’s easier said than done when it comes to teaching good learning skills. However, by the time your child has reached the preteen age, it should be more apparent which type of learner your child is. As school systems become more populated and teacher-to-student ratios drop, it helps for parents to figure out the type of learner their child is and help her develop her skills.
Different people learn different ways, so try various methods of studying a lesson to determine how your child learns best. She may intake new knowledge best by listening to a lecture, reading the material or practicing the theories. Once you know which method works best, encourage her to use those approaches when studying and completing assignments. In addition, be sure to point out how the concepts and ideas she’s studying correlate to the world, and try to make connections to everyday events when possible.
As with everything else, remain positive and attentive to her needs. There is nothing wrong with being one particular type of learner, and recognizing your child’s strengths early on will help her throughout her academic career.
3: Encourage Hobbies and Extracurricular Activities
“Encouraging your preteen to explore different hobbies will help him to develop his interests and boost his self-esteem.Alistair Berg/Getty Images
Without proper guidance, parents will hear their child utter the words "I’m bored" far too often. As your child begins to come into his own, he’ll begin looking for new ways to spend time and energy outside of his schoolwork. While many parents are likely to push for a child’s hobby to be reading, keep his own desires in mind while still teaching him life skills.
Whether it’s music, video games, movies, art, sports or something else entirely, the cost of hobbies and extracurricular activities can be stressful. You’ll worry whether it’s worthwhile to purchase a brand new violin if your child doesn’t end up playing it, and that’s OK. Instead of buying it, you can simply rent one as a reliable and less expensive way to develop your child’s interests.
If your preteen is struggling to find a hobby you consider useful, you might try offering a few suggestions. For instance, if he’s interested in movies, pick up a cheap digital camcorder so he can try out his filmmaking skills. If he’s interested in video games, introduce him to child-friendly programming software.
Keep your intentions and your child’s interests in mind while helping him select extracurricular activities and hobbies. In theory, you can find ways to combine the two into something your preteen will benefit from and enjoy.
2: Talk About and Monitor Their Nutrition
Preteens are at an age when they start to strike out on their own, and it may be difficult to keep track of what they’re eating. But you still maintain the decisions of what food to keep in your home, so keep your cupboards stocked with healthy foods.
As they begin to decide on their own what they want to eat, you can teach them techniques for healthy eating, such as the following:
- Calcium is key for growing children, and it’s easy to get from sources such as dairy products, leafy vegetables, salmon, broccoli and tofu.
- Watch caloric intake. Preteens are going to have drastically different calorie needs as they get older: Boys need about 1600-2400 calories and girls need about 1400-2200, depending on how active they are.
- Whole grains and brown rice are more nutritious than their white counterparts.
- Iron-rich foods are important, especially as males begin developing muscle mass and females begin menstruating.
- Drink plenty of water. Preteens need just as much water as adults.
- Ditch the junk food. You’ve heard this one over and over yourself, so there’s no reason to have your child eating it either.
[sources: Department of Agriculture, Lancaster General]
The preteen years are also riddled with growth spurts and weight changes, so be wary but non-confrontational if your child begins gaining or losing weight. However, if the weight changes become an issue, speak with him immediately regarding eating disorders or exercise.
1: Help with Health and Hygiene
“Braces are common at the preteen age, so good dental hygiene is especially important during this time.Keith Brofsky/Getty Images
Health and hygiene are two pieces of the preteen puzzle that will become even more important as your child grows. With the onset of puberty, things will start to change, and you’ll want to be aware of the following:
- Exercise: Teach simple methods of exercise, such as walking up stairs or parking farther away from the entrance in parking lots. Children ages 6 to 17 need at least an hour of moderate exercise a day [source: Mayo Clinic].
- Bathing: Bathing, hair washing and facial cleansing are all important. Many preteens are going to experience pimples and breakouts, so educate here as well.
- Mouth care: Brushing teeth, flossing and using mouthwash are key to preserving all the time and money you’ve invested at the dentist.
- Antiperspirant/deodorant: This will become even more important as their hormones become more active and sweating increases.
- Shaving: Although boys may not be ready to tackle this one yet, girls may be ready to start shaving. Be ready to teach them how to do so safely.
- Menstruation: This will come with a slew of different health and hygiene considerations, so be prepared to offer answers to a variety of questions.
- Sex: Preteens might be more in the know than they seem, so talk about sex as soon as you feel they can understand it.
If you establish rules early, your preteens may take on many of these tasks naturally. As with all these tips, remain positive and supportive when your preteen does things right. Learn even more about parenting by visiting the links on the next page.
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May v. [imp. Might ] An auxiliary verb qualifying the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can.
How may a man, said he, with idle speech,
Be won to spoil the castle of his health! --Spenser.
For what he [the king] may do is of two kinds; what he may do as just, and what he may do as possible. --Bacon.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: “It might have been.” --Whittier.
(b) Liberty; permission; allowance.
Thou mayst be no longer steward. --Luke xvi. 2.
(c) Contingency or liability; possibility or probability.
Though what he learns he speaks, and may advance
Some general maxims, or be right by chance. --Pope.
(d) Modesty, courtesy, or concession, or a desire to soften a question or remark.
How old may Phillis be, you ask. --Prior.
(e) Desire or wish, as in prayer, imprecation, benediction, and the like. “May you live happily.”
May be, ∧ It may be, are used as equivalent to possibly, perhaps, maybe, by chance, peradventure. See 1st Maybe.
May, n. A maiden. [Obs.]
1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
2. The early part or springtime of life.
His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak.
3. Bot. The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.
The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash.
Plumes that mocked the may. --Tennyson.
4. The merrymaking of May Day.
Italian may Bot., a shrubby species of Spiraea (Spiraea hypericifolia) with many clusters of small white flowers along the slender branches.
May apple Bot., the fruit of an American plant (Podophyllum peltatum). Also, the plant itself (popularly called mandrake), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic.
May beetle, May bug Zool., any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged state in May. They belong to Melolontha, and allied genera. Called also June beetle.
May Day, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a garland, and by dancing about a May pole.
May dew, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which magical properties were attributed.
May flower Bot., a plant that flowers in May; also, its blossom. See Mayflower, in the vocabulary.
May fly Zool., any species of Ephemera, and allied genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many species appear in May. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
May game, any May-day sport.
May lady, the queen or lady of May, in old May games.
May lily Bot., the lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis).
May pole. See Maypole in the Vocabulary.
May queen, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day.
May thorn, the hawthorn.
n 1: the month following April and preceding June
2: thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of
white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries;
established as an escape in eastern North America [syn: whitethorn,
English hawthorn, Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus
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A pattern of squares of alternating colours.
(chess) The square board used in the game of chess, subdivided into eight rows of eight squares each, the squares in each row and column being of alternating colours.
A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and draughts/checkers.
(topology) A mathematical construction based on this pattern of squares
(transitive) To checker; to mark with an alternating pattern of light and dark.
The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.
A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers, chess, or draughts.
a checkerboard used to play chess
a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors
A chessboard is the type of gameboard used for the game of chess, on which the chess pawns and pieces are placed. A chessboard is usually square in shape, with an alternating pattern of squares in two colours.
A checkerboard (American English) or chequerboard (British English; see spelling differences) is a board of chequered pattern on which draughts (checkers) is played. Most commonly, it consists of 64 squares (8×8) of alternating dark and light color, typically green and buff (official tournaments), black and red (consumer commercial), or black and white (printed diagrams).
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- 1 How do you write an investment case?
- 2 What is investment give an example?
- 3 How does Smallcase make money?
- 4 What do you mean by investment?
- 5 What is the five case model?
- 6 How do we calculate return on investment?
- 7 What are the 4 types of investments?
- 8 What is investment and how it works?
- 9 What are the investment process?
- 10 How do I sell my Smallcase?
- 11 Is Smallcase good for long term investment?
- 12 Can I buy 1 share of stock?
- 13 What is investment and types?
- 14 Why is investing so important?
- 15 What is investment in simple words?
How do you write an investment case?
A business case document should explain the following:
- The investment decision;
- Key objectives for the project;
- The business need;
- Provide necessary background and supporting information to put the investment into context;
- Describe how the investment aligns with the organization strategic business plan;
What is investment give an example?
An investment can refer to any mechanism used for generating future income. This includes the purchase of bonds, stocks, or real estate property, among other examples. Additionally, purchasing a property that can be used to produce goods can be considered an investment.
How does Smallcase make money?
A smallcase is a basket of stocks that may reflect a particular investment theme, idea or a sector. So, a dividend-yield smallcase may be made up of high dividend paying stocks and an IT smallcase, of leading software firms.
What do you mean by investment?
Investment definition is an asset acquired or invested in to build wealth and save money from the hard earned income or appreciation. Investment meaning is primarily to obtain an additional source of income or gain profit from the investment over a specific period of time.
What is the five case model?
The Five Case Model is the approach for developing business cases recommended by HM Treasury, the Welsh Government and the UK Office of Government Commerce. It has been widely used across central government departments and public sector organisations over the last 10 years.
How do we calculate return on investment?
ROI is calculated by subtracting the initial value of the investment from the final value of the investment (which equals the net return), then dividing this new number (the net return) by the cost of the investment, then finally, multiplying it by 100.
What are the 4 types of investments?
There are four main investment types, or asset classes, that you can choose from, each with distinct characteristics, risks and benefits.
- Growth investments.
- Defensive investments.
- Fixed interest.
What is investment and how it works?
Investing is a way to potentially increase the amount of money you have. The goal is to buy financial products, also called investments, and hopefully sell them at a higher price than what you initially paid. When you invest, you’re purchasing products and keeping your money in a specified investment account.
What are the investment process?
An investment process is a set of guidelines that govern the behaviour of investors in a way which allows them to remain faithful to the tenets of their investment strategy, which is the key principles which they hope to facilitate out performance.
How do I sell my Smallcase?
How to sell Zerodha smallcase?
- Login to the Smallcase Zerodha platform.
- Click on the “Exit Smallcase” option to sell it.
- You can sell smallcase either partially or wholly, click on the respective option and confirm the order.
- Now, a new window will be open showing all stocks in your smallcase with the selling price.
Is Smallcase good for long term investment?
SHOULD YOU INVEST? You need to have a long-term view towards investing if you want to put your money in smallcases. “Most smallcases are designed as longterm investment products and may not perform as expected in the short run. If investors don’t have a longterm horizon, they should consider alternatives,” said Kamath.
There is a way to purchase less than one share of stock. As this amount “drips” back into the purchase of more shares, it is not limited to whole shares. Thus, you are not restricted to buying a minimum of one share, and the corporation or brokerage keeps accurate records of ownership percentages.
What is investment and types?
There are various types of investments: stocks, bonds, mutual funds, index funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and options. Investments are generally bucketed into three major categories: stocks, bonds and cash equivalents. There are many different types of investments within each bucket.
Why is investing so important?
Investing Promotes Discipline Setting aside money every month for investing will keep you from spending that money on unnecessary expenditures. Investing your money demonstrates a concern for the future and a discipline that could make a difference during your retirement years.
What is investment in simple words?
Investment or investing means that an asset is bought, or that money is put into a bank to get a future interest from it. Investment is total amount of money spent by a shareholder in buying shares of a company. In economic management sciences, investments means longer-term savings.
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MPCA ‘Plus’ assistance to people on the move: the case of Venezuelans in Peru
Watch the video here
This video documents the MPCA ‘Plus’ program implemented by Save the Children Peru in response to the Venezuelan crisis, and more specifically highlights the provision of assistance to families on the move, or ‘transiting’ through Peru. Beneficiaries were identified throughout the ‘migration’ route crossing through Peru, from the city of Piura down to Arequipa. Those indicating their willingness to settle in Peru were provided with a “settlement” MPCA assistance, while those indicating their willingness to continue travelling to reach other destinations (either inside or outside of Peru) were provided with a ‘transit’ MPCA assistance. The latter was designed to cover the costs of transportation, purchase of basic hygiene and food as well as the costs of spending a few night in hostels.
Minutes 0 – 3.54 tells the stories of some Venezuelans’s travels upon arrival in Peru, and depicts their needs and vulnerabilities.
Minutes 3.55 – end describes the assistance provided by Save the Children Peru to this specific population group.
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How is global warming notch by notch?
A government activist’s comment related to a Rhode Island–specific report on climate change brought something to mind:
The planet “is warming, it has been warming. The last two decades have been the warmest in the history of climate records,” Kenneth Kunkel said.
This assertion made me wonder what the update was on the 15-year pause in global warming that Monique wrote about ten years ago. It doesn’t take much searching to find that the charts saw a significant jump shortly after that post, followed by what appears to be another pause, overall.
The ratcheting nature of these changes is odd, and while there may be explanations, they aren’t all in the service of the narrative of doom. Maybe the planet can absorb some of the effect for a while, before some system is overwhelmed. Or perhaps new sensors came onboard, finding more warming. I recall a grassroots investigation, when the blogosphere was ascendant, of the sensors finding that at least some of the recorded increase had to do with changes to the immediate environment of the sensors themselves (nearby pavement, for example).
In any event, causing immediate harm to the people of Rhode Island isn’t going to turn the curve around.
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Despite the proliferation of seemingly racially neutral police strategies, Latinos continue to report unfavorable views toward police. Limited attention has been given to how urban strategies, such as order maintenance policing, are experienced by young Latino males. The present study uses data from in-depth interviews conducted with male Latino youth in two Chicago neighborhoods: one majority-Latino, predominantly Mexican; and one mixed-race, gentrifying Puerto Rican. Results show that youth in both neighborhoods report enhanced surveillance and aggressive stop-and-frisks. Additionally, neighborhood context shapes the dynamics between police and young Latinos. In the Puerto Rican neighborhood, policing is enmeshed in culture clashes. In the Mexican neighborhood, policing is structured by a battle against drugs and gangs. The implications for order maintenance policing are discussed.
Despite the national proliferation of police strategies widely touted as race neutral, young Latino males residing in urban neighborhoods continue to report unfavorable perceptions of the police (see Solis, Portillos, & Brunson, 2009). Limited attention has been given, however, to how inner-city policing strategies are experienced by young Latino males. Order maintenance strategies, particularly those grounded in stop-and-frisk procedures, are examples of police strategies that display apparent racial neutrality and are defended under the auspices of public safety, but, in practice, subject inner-city minority residents to disproportionate quantities of unwelcome police contacts (Fagan & Davies, 2000) and can foster mistrust of the police (Gau & Brunson, 2010).
Wilson and Kelling (1982) introduced order maintenance policing, a police strategy aimed at dissolving serious neighborhood crime by targeting minor disorder. According to Wilson and Kelling, encouraging police officers to do such things as remove rowdy youth from the corner, force panhandlers to move along, or dissuade men from drinking in public involved harmless strategies aimed at establishing an orderly environment. Aggressive enforcement against low-level crimes and nuisance offenses was theorized to ultimately prevent serious crimes by creating an environment wherein it was clear that misbehavior would not be tolerated. While they acknowledged the need for police officers to understand the local customs and values within a community, Wilson and Kelling delineated an approach that, in practice, could criminalize longstanding cultural behaviors and be perceived as harassment by residents of minority neighborhoods (see Gau & Brunson, 2010). Order maintenance policing quickly became a staple of police departments’ strategies nationwide (e.g., Harcourt & Ludwig, 2006). Its influence on police practice—particularly in urban communities—has been profound (Duneier, 1999; Harcourt, 2001; Kelling & Coles, 1996).
At the same time, an amassed body of research shows racial discrepancies in how order maintenance policing plays out on inner-city streets (e.g., Fagan & Davies, 2000; Fagan, Geller, Davies, & West, 2009). The signature tactic of the order maintenance strategy is the pedestrian stop. An officer with reasonable suspicion that an individual is engaged in criminal activity is permitted to briefly detain that person and, if there is a reasonable belief that the person is armed, to frisk the suspect’s outer layer of clothing (Terry v. Ohio, 1968). Due to a series of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court (e.g., Illinois v. Wardlow, 2000), police officers are permitted to consider neighborhood-level crime rates as a factor in determining whether there is reasonable suspicion for a stop. This has resulted in harsh criticism of police stop-and-frisk strategies in distressed inner-city neighborhoods (e.g., Harris, 1994), which are disproportionately home to impoverished minorities (Massey & Denton, 1993; Wilson, 1987). Studies have shown that Blacks and Latinos are more likely to be subject to pedestrian stops than are Whites, even controlling for area crime rates (Fagan & Davies, 2000), and that the stop-to-arrest ratio is higher for minorities than for Whites, which suggests that stops of minorities rest on shakier legal grounds (Fagan & Davies, 2000; see also Harris, 1994).
Qualitative studies have provided a picture of how minorities, particularly youth, experience order maintenance policing in their urban neighborhoods of residence. These studies have yielded important information about how aggressive law enforcement can undermine police legitimacy (Gau & Brunson, 2010), deter people from calling the police to report crimes (Carr, Napolitano, & Keating, 2007), and even lead to beliefs that the police are racist (Brunson, 2007). These studies, however, have focused primarily on Black youths and young adults; less research has been devoted to young Latinos’ experiences with urban policing tactics (Martinez, 2007). This is a significant gap in the knowledge base, as it has been shown that Latinos’ attitudes toward police tend to be more positive than Blacks’ are, but more negative than Whites’ are, a finding especially pronounced in police-initiated contacts such as pedestrian stops (Skogan, 2005; see also Weitzer & Tuch, 2006). Latinos tend to fall in between Blacks and Whites on measures of trust in police (Tyler, 2005). Thus, Latinos cannot be presumed to have the same experiences with police, or the same attitudes toward them, as either Whites or Blacks have. Latinos are a separate group and require individualized research attention (Weitzer, 2014; Weitzer & Tuch, 2006). As yet, there is a paucity of attention in general and, in particular, a lack of understanding about how a staple of urban policing—order maintenance—affects them and shapes their attitudes toward the police. There is, moreover, limited information on the ways in which urban policing is differentially experienced by subgroups within the overarching Latino umbrella category.
The current study addresses these gaps in the literature by presenting the results of a qualitative study conducted in two predominately Latino neighborhoods in Chicago, one occupied by a racial plurality where the slight Puerto Rican majority faces gentrification efforts by incoming Whites, and the other where Mexican immigrants constitute the majority. Both neighborhoods are characterized by socioeconomic distress and high crime rates, although each also confronts unique cultural challenges and problems with police. Due to male youth being the group most likely to experience contacts with police—particularly involuntary contacts initiated by officers (Skogan, 2005)—the current study focuses on young males within these neighborhoods. Analyses of data gleaned from in-depth interviews will add to the existing body of literature tapping into the lived experiences of minority youths as they navigate socioeconomically depressed urban environments and the policing tactics deployed therein. Moreover, the themes drawn from the data will highlight the differences between the two Latino subgroups— Mexicans and Puerto Ricans—in the types of interactions had with officers, thus demonstrating the heterogeneity of experiences within the overarching Latino categorization.
The advent of order maintenance policing marked a fundamental shift in policing strategies, one eagerly embraced by politicians and police organizations. Some academics, too, sought to defend, support, and find empirical proof for the effectiveness of order maintenance policing. Skogan (1990), for example, applauded order maintenance policing and concluded that, “[b]roken windows do need to be repaired quickly” (p. 53). Kahan (1997) concluded that order maintenance policing has been implemented with remarkable results in places such as New York City (see also Kelling & Bratton, 1998; Kelling & Sousa, 2001).
Other scholars are skeptical of the order maintenance approach. Harcourt (1998) argued that order maintenance policing imposes tremendous costs. In New York alone, arrests for misdemeanors increased by 50% after the introduction of the strategy in the 1990s. Those arrests impose considerable burdens upon those caught in the crossfire of order maintenance policing; being arrested, handcuffed, transported, booked, strip-searched, and jailed, he suggests, are costly and undesirable experiences. Furthermore, complaints of excessive force increased after the introduction of order maintenance policing (see also Greene, 1999). Harcourt contended that there is a counterfeit logic proposed by order maintenance advocates, whereby “[d]isorder becomes a degree of crime: breaking a window, littering, jumping a turnstile become grades along a spectrum that leads to homicide” (p. 74).
In addition to the potential conceptual problems arising from order-maintenance strategies, targeting low-level offenses may also lead to racial discrepancies in enforcement activities. According to Parascandola, Fermino, and Gregorian (2013), 85% of individuals stopped by the NYPD are minorities (see also Fagan & Davies, 2000). A popular defense raised to explain these disparities is that officers are simply searching for guns and drugs in high crime neighborhoods, which coincidentally are inhabited by minorities; however, in 98.5% of the stop and frisk cases, no guns or drugs are found, which seems to undermine this claim (Alexander, 2012; Pascandola et al., 2013; Romero, 2006). Moreover, most of those stopped are not ultimately arrested for criminal wrongdoing (Weisburd, Telep, & Lawton, 2013), and arrest rates among stopped minorities are even lower than among stopped Whites (Fagan & Davies, 2000), further weakening the argument that enhanced surveillance of minorities is legitimate due to disproportionate criminal involvement. Despite warnings against aggressive order maintenance policing (e.g., Drakulich, 2013; Harcourt & Ludwig, 2006), order maintenance has become a cornerstone in many urban police departments (Kubrin, Messner, Deane, McGeever, & Stucky, 2010). According to zimring (2012), the police are not really interested in turnstile jumping offenses by youth or removing youth from corners; instead, their ultimate goal is serious crimes such as eliminating guns off the street (see also Kelling & Coles, 1996). Attention to minor offenses is the pretext that provides the legal basis for police to intervene in an individual’s freedom of movement.
Bonilla-Silva (1997) introduced a structural framework of race, the premise of which is that police strategies need not be explicitly racially coded to produce harmful outcomes for Latino communities. Bonilla-Silva (2002) contended that American society is operating within a “post race” paradigm, where racist or racially coded strategies become invisible to the general public. As he wrote, “[T]he language of color blindness is slippery … and often subtle” (p. 42). In a “post race” society, the bulk of organizational strategies and practices are colorblind or racially neutral; “[T]he Jim Crow overt style of maintaining white supremacy was replaced with ‘now you see it, now you don’t’ practices that were subtle, apparently non-racial, and institutionalized” (p. 43). These supposedly colorblind strategies give the American public the impression of a fair, neutral, non-biased system of policing. If officers are stopping Latinos or African Americans disproportionately, it is reasoned that this occurs not because the police are racist or that police strategies fuel the number of arrests, but instead that people in those neighborhoods are responsible for the crime in the neighborhood. When highly controversial cases emerge (such as unarmed men of color being killed by police), they are often understood as aberrations or “rare incidents” limited to specific geographic locations, or as a byproduct of criminal activities in an area, instead of patterns of aggressive policing prompted by organizational strategies disproportionately applied to neighborhoods of color.
Bonilla-Silva (1997) assumed that despite their colorblind appearance, racially neutral police strategies can shape the aggressive policing that Latino neighborhoods experience. Giroux (2013) underscored how inner-city Latinos are exposed to strategies and policies in their neighborhoods that facilitate their criminalization. The seemingly innocuous zero tolerance policies, militarization of schools, and controversial police strategies (e.g., wolf packs, contact cards, special units), prompt early contact with police and the acquisition of an arrest or adjudication record that can have serious consequences in future interactions with officers (see also Durán, 2009a, 2009b). Applying Bonilla-Silva’s ideas, officers’ personal racist beliefs, or lack thereof, are irrelevant in comparison to the organizational strategies that are manufactured and adopted within inner-city police departments. Bonilla-Silva (2002) concluded, “Analysts unaware of these developments [colorblind policies] (or unwilling to accept them) will continue producing research suggesting that racial matters in the United States have improved dramatically and, like color blinders, urge for race-neutral social policies” (p. 63). Despite their facial neutrality, racially neutral police strategies such as order maintenance policing can, in practice, be the starting point of a broader process of aggressive policing that disproportionately criminalizes the actions of Blacks and Latinos residing in urban environments.
The colorblind policies that Bonilla-Silva warned about, in this case order maintenance policing, also promote the criminalization of cultural behaviors (e.g., young people playing ball in the street, loud music playing during community functions, parking cars in the front yard) in Latino neighborhoods. While police attempts to remove or prevent physical disorder (e.g., graffiti, litter) are perhaps uncontroversial, their efforts to regulate social disorder raise complex dilemmas surrounding the definition of what is, and is not, acceptable public behavior (Duneier, 1999). The police may define the standard practices that exist within Latino neighborhoods as disorderly. According to Perez (2010), what changes from one day to the next is not Latinos’ cultural behaviors, but rather the criminalization of such actions. In his study of a Latino Chicago neighborhood embroiled in the process of being gentrified, Perez found that normative cultural practices became the precursor to routine police stops under a wide range of circumstances.
The impact of policing and order maintenance strategies within Latino neighborhoods has been largely overlooked in the academic literature, with few exceptions (see Menjivar & Bejarano, 2004; Solis et al., 2009). Little information is currently available regarding how young Latino males experience seemingly racially neutral order maintenance strategies, or the extent to which Latino neighborhoods are policed in the same ways and for the same reasons as their White counterparts (see Varsanyi, 2010). Scarce data has been offered to answer these questions, despite the fact that the Latino population is growing rapidly in the United States (Brown, 2014). In some communities and even in some states, the White majority has given way to racial plurality where Whites and Latinos constitute roughly equal proportions of the population (Lopez, 2014). Whites and Latinos are increasingly living in close proximity to one another, which can heighten intergroup tensions and conflict. In Latino neighborhoods, there are longstanding cultural behaviors that could be incorrectly defined as disorderly by the police and the public alike (see Perez, 2010). There are several often-overlooked factors and processes that contextualize the Latino neighborhoods under which order maintenance strategies are often employed.
For example, entrepreneurship in Latino neighborhoods can easily be misinterpreted as disorder. There are numerous entrepreneurial enterprises in Latino neighborhoods that are outside the boundaries of typical business ventures, yet are inaccurately characterized as falling under the umbrella of an “underground economy” or unlawful activities. For example, it is not uncommon to find a Latino neighborhood where vendors are selling aguas frescas (flavored waters), elotes (shredded corn with cheese), churros (Mexican pastries), gelatinas (flavored gelatin), tamales (corn pastries), and other foods in the street (Vera Sanchez & Adams, 2011). Other entrepreneurial efforts can range from selling legal items (e.g., hand-sewn blankets) to peddling prohibited items (e.g., fake social security cards, passports). Individuals who sell goods on streets and corners without a permit appear visibly disorderly to the outside observer, yet are a standard part of the neighborhood order within many Latino residential areas. While some of these activities are illegal (e.g., selling stolen items or forged documents), much of it is benign commerce that reflects cultural norms. The emergent problem is that police might not see or acknowledge these differences and instead simply treat all activities as uniformly disorderly.
Other commonplace activities within Latino neighborhoods, such as youths’ leisure activities, can be defined by outsiders as disorderly rather than being recognized as traditional recreational pastimes. One study centered on Latinos and policing found that cultural behaviors of minor legal significance, such as youth playing baseball in the street, became aggressively policed to appease the wishes of the incoming middle-class Whites in a Puerto Rican neighborhood (Perez, 2010). Forcing youth to play baseball at a local park instead of in the street may appear innocuous at face value, but playing baseball in the street actually promotes family bonding and community engagement as onlookers cheer players on and watch to see who wins. It is also a method of informal social control whereby parents can keep an eye on their children (see Horowitz, 1983).
The present study focuses on order maintenance policing in distressed urban areas, as experienced by young Latino males who live in these places and bear the brunt of officers’ scrutiny. In-depth interviews with male Latino youth in socioeconomically depressed Chicago neighborhoods were used to examine the ways that this group experiences urban policing, particularly policing that operates under an order-maintenance framework. This study contributes to the literature in two ways. First, it adds to the emerging body of research showing that although order maintenance policing is racially neutral on its face, it can be highly problematic in practice. The problem arises largely from the lack of a shared definition of social disorder, and the attempts by more powerful groups to impose their definitions of order onto groups whose social and political marginalization make it difficult for them to effectively resist these enforcement efforts. Second, this investigation addresses a noticeable gap in existing research by focusing solely on Latinos residing in predominately Latino neighborhoods. A fair amount of research has illuminated the ways in which urban policing strategies can exacerbate tensions between police and Black residents, but Latinos continue to be underrepresented in research studies (Weitzer, 2014) despite their increasing presence in the population nationwide and the unique sets of experiences they have with police (Martinez, 2007). Prior work suggests that there are important aspects of the encounters between police and Latinos that differentiate Latinos from other minority groups (see, e.g., Duran, 2009a, 2009b; Weitzer, 2014; Weitzer & Tuch, 2006). The present study sheds light on how young Latino males residing in distressed inner-city neighborhoods experience, interpret, and navigate urban policing.
The data for the present study were drawn from the final stages of ethnographic research conducted in Chicago during the year 2007. Most studies documenting minority experiences with the police involve close-ended survey research with adult samples. Qualitative studies that center on the views, experiences, and attitudes of young minority males are less common (see Brunson & Weitzer, 2009; Carr et al., 2007). The present research project capitalizes upon the detailed understanding that can be gleaned from the use of face-to-face, in-depth interviews.
All interviews followed IRB guidelines as stipulated by the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition, all interviewees received compensation of 10 dollars each for their participation. The interviewees were told, uniformly, that this study was about young people’s experiences with the police. Given the sensitive nature of the information, coupled with the fact that these youth represent vulnerable populations, the interviews were not tape-recorded. The researcher took detailed notes of youths’ accounts and then imputed the information into a word document no later than three hours after an interview was completed. The youth were sampled by contacting community organizations. In both neighborhoods, several community organizations that worked with young adults were contacted (e.g., after-school programs) and the directors assisted with setting up the interviews. Thereafter, through snowball sampling, young persons were recruited and asked to participate in the study. No one who was approached refused to participate.1
Latinos are not a pan-ethnic group, and as a result, the first author, who is Mexican, had to negotiate an insider and outsider status depending on the Latino group he interviewed (i.e., Mexican or Puerto Rican). In the Mexican neighborhood, cooperation was seamless; his insider status was advantageous (similar to Durán, 2013). In the Puerto Rican neighborhood, however, given some of the previous conflicts between Mexican and Puerto Rican individuals documented in Chicago (Ramos-Zayas, 2003), it was initially challenging to find a group willing to be interviewed. Ultimately, several Puerto Rican residents did decide to participate.
Although we recognized that a sample cannot cover the full range of experiences with police, these interviews were a subset of years of published ethnographic research in the same communities (see Vera Sanchez & Adams, 2011; Vera Sanchez & Rosenbaum, 2011). The primary author has spent considerable time and effort conducting interviews with youth, adults, and police officers in the same neighborhoods for a total span of five years.
All interviews were semi-structured and followed a flexible interview schedule. Some questions were asked verbatim from all respondents, such as “Can you please describe your neighborhood in as much detail as possible?” In addition, questions like “Have you ever been stopped by the police, and can you tell me about those experiences?” were asked. Probes such as “Can you tell me more about that incident?” encouraged interviewees to elaborate on their experiences. Importantly, the interviewer did not ask about harassment and excessive force. These were themes that surfaced consistently throughout their narratives and originated directly from the interviewees.
Although this study focuses on young Latino males, some of the themes that emerged were confirmed while conducting ride-alongs with police officers and interviews with adults in the same neighborhoods. These sources were used to triangulate the data to ensure reliability. Only the interviews with the young-adult respondents are used for the current analyses.
The sample of young Latino males (n=20) was gathered through snowball sampling techniques, initially through community organizers who assisted in locating interviewees during the process of data collection. A “young Latino male” was defined as any male from 18 to 26 years of age. The interviews lasted between 30 and 60 minutes. The interviews were conducted by the first author.
Two Latino neighborhoods were selected through a process of writing neighborhood profiles and analyzing census data, followed by a narrowing procedure conducted by a research team; this yielded a Mexican and a Puerto Rican community. The neighborhoods were also defined by mapping corresponding data with census-block data. The Puerto Rican community was chosen because it had the largest Puerto Rican presence in the city, although the Puerto Rican presence has been waning due to gentrification efforts by city planners and incoming Whites. The Mexican neighborhood was also chosen because of its high proportion of Mexicans living in the area. Finally, both neighborhoods were selected because they registered higher homicide and socioeconomic disadvantage in comparison to the city of Chicago as a whole.
The table presents 2010 census data for the two neighborhoods and for the city. The sampled neighborhoods had higher rates of poverty, low education, and homicide; lower median incomes; and lower rates of home-ownership. These two neighborhoods thus typified distressed urban neighborhoods nationwide. The Mexican neighborhood was clearly predominated by Latino residents, while the Puerto Rican neighborhood showed more of a plurality, with Latinos constituting a slight majority, African Americans trailing close behind at 41%, and Whites constituting 4%. Thus, the Puerto Rican community was not entirely Puerto Rican. Community members and scholars were convinced that due to gentrification, Puerto Ricans were or would soon become the minority in this neighborhood (Betancur, 2002). Nevertheless, there was a significant Puerto Rican presence in demographic size, cultural heritage and practices, as well as political activism.
Table 1. Community and city demographics
% Adults with no HS diploma
Homicide per 100,000
Note: All above information reflects Census 2010 information. The only exception is homicide data, which reflects 2007 information.
The coded themes were generated systematically. Silverman (2005) suggested that one method to maximize data analysis is to begin the process once the first interviews are conducted. The data analysis took approximately six months. In order to become acquainted with the data, a careful reading of the text was conducted (Lofland & Lofland, 1984; Ryan & Russell, 2000). For a theme to be considered valid, at least 30% of the sample has to demonstrate some evidence of the finding. Most themes, however, exceeded this modest benchmark. For example, 100% of the Mexican participants reported experiencing excessive force. Throughout the data-collection phase, analytic memos were maintained to record observations and insights and to explore theoretical directions. Analytic memos operate as a journal of the research process. They support themes coded from the interviews and offer opportunities to explore key moments.
Comparisons and contrasts were made between the respondents in the two neighborhoods. For example, after a theme was discovered in one group, such as police harassment, comparison with the other group was made (Puerto Rican versus Mexican male youth) when applicable. A repeated comparing and contrasting of the themes and concepts was conducted until thematic saturation had occurred.
Summarized findings were provided in hard copy to select interviewees in the organizations interested in the results. These individuals provided feedback through discussions. This type of triangulation (O’Connell Davidson & Layder, 1994) was an invaluable source of insight and was implemented to do justice to the voices of the interviewees. The results were not altered, however, based on respondents’ comments. Instead, their comments were employed to further refine themes. Finally, past research was used to confirm, challenge, or develop the generated themes.
In the following analysis of the interview data, it is acknowledged that respondents’ accounts of contacts with police were subjective. All efforts were made to validate the respondents’ descriptions of their experiences through extensive ethnographic research in both communities, but, nonetheless, the perspectives of police or of others in the community were not represented in these accounts. This is consistent with the intent of the research, for it is the narratives that young men construct around their experiences that matter in a cultural sense. The discourse is of greater theoretical importance to this study than is the objective accuracy of the events themselves (see Brunson & Weitzer, 2011).
The Puerto Rican interviewees (n=11; average age=19.5 years) spent their time improving their communities. Every time that the researcher visited the Puerto Rican community, some type of pro-social activity occupied the time of the young Puerto Rican men. In one instance, an organizational meeting of young people was in progress, with coordinators as young as 15 years of age. On separate occasions, groups of youth planted flowers in the community, set up a skate night, received homework tutoring, and watched a film about gentrification. Unlike the pathological Puerto Rican barrio that Bourgois (1995) described in New York City, this community registered strong elements of social organization.
The majority of the Puerto Rican young adult men interviewed had graduated from high school or were attending an academy in the community committed to social change. A number of participants were taking college preparatory courses or were currently enrolled in college. The mean level of education was 12.9 years or some college. The interviewed men were arguably some of the most politically active and promising in the community a persona seemingly incompatible with police-initiated contacts; however, this proved to be a faulty assumption that was quickly disconfirmed.
The young Puerto Rican males reported harassment and excessive force by the police. On average, the Puerto Rican participants experienced 2.13 acts of harassment by the police, and 5 cases of excessive force involving being punched, kicked, or hit with an object (e.g., baton). The youngest age of an experienced negative encounter was 13. The most recent encounter with the police ranged from 1 day before the interview to 5 months previously. There was not a single interviewee who had never been stopped by the police. Lastly, many of the Puerto Rican youth admitted minor forms of delinquency (e.g., painting graffiti).
The sample in the Mexican community (n=9) differed from the one in the Puerto Rican neighborhood. These interviewees were involved in prosocial activities, such as obtaining their high-school equivalency degrees, yet the selected community organization that helped identify potential respondents for the study was not oriented toward social justice. Hence, the Mexican respondents were attempting to improve the likelihood of securing a job or attending college through basic skills proficiency. Most of the Mexican interviewees had not completed high school. The highest grade completed was 9th, and they were older, averaging 21.2 years.
The young men in the Mexican community resembled each other in characteristics such as gang affiliation and victimization. Some of the men admitted prior gang affiliation and involvement in serious criminal activities. In addition, in the sample of nine, three had been shot with a firearm in the head, groin, or stomach. All men reported experiencing victimization by either the gangs or the police. They reported an average of 2.2 incidents of police harassment. Every participant reported physical abuse by the police (mean=1.4 incidents). These incidents included, but were not limited to, being punched, kicked, or hit with an object (e.g., baton). The youngest age at which a negative police encounter occurred was 14. All interviewees had experienced pedestrian or motor vehicle stops by police.
Gentrification was an overarching theme in the Puerto Rican community. Gentrification is a recurring process in many distressed neighborhoods in Chicago. Hagedorn (2005) underscored how during the 1960s, white flight occurred in Chicago and other major cities. However, with the advent of deindustrialization and globalization, downtown areas became highly valorized. The result is a reversal of white flight by young, middle class, mostly White professionals. Generally, the first newcomers are artists who want to move into a community that has cheap rents. Thereafter, community developers and other actors initiate a process of community “beautification.” Once the community reveals some elements of improvement, the property taxes begin to increase. Once the taxes increase, the rent and mortgage gets more expensive. Families unable to pay either sell their properties or move elsewhere. Many of the current residents in this Puerto Rican neighborhood were well aware of this process and saw it as an unfair usurpation by middle class Whites. The lofts and newly constructed housing on the east of the community, constant antagonism with incoming Whites, and police efforts convinced several long-term, minority residents that they were losing their community.2
Puerto Rican males described being aggressively policed as a function of this gentrification process. The interviewees pointed out that longstanding cultural behaviors suddenly became criminalized. According to Rafael, “There are classes of Bomba [music] and the White people call the police because the music is too loud.” Sound ordinances, which were rarely enforced previously, became the impetus for officers’ actions even during or before annual Puerto Rican’s Day celebrations in Chicago. Alberto illustrated, “We used to have a celebration before the big event until 12 pm [midnight], now we have sound ordinances.”
Those sound ordinances, however, did not appear to be imposed on the incoming White residents. As Ramon suggested, “The yuppies have loud music until 3 or 4 in the morning. They [Puerto Rican residents] call the police, the police do not do anything.” According to interviewees, the differential treatment that Puerto Ricans experienced was so obvious that it is difficult to ignore. As Ramon recounted, “The yuppies had a bathtub with an umbrella in the street. They were in shorts and bikinis. You could not pass by [blocking traffic], and they had a dog that was barking at people. The police came, waved, and left.” Hence, the seeming criminalization of Puerto Rican cultural activities was coupled by police disinterest in enforcing order maintenance codes against Whites engaged in similar behaviors. This finding is consistent with Perez’s (2010) observations; in his study of Puerto Rican youth in a gentrifying neighborhood, respondents reported that while they were subject to increased scrutiny by police, White youth who used drugs and behaved in a disorderly fashion were generally ignored by police or handled informally. The present findings affirm the link between enhanced White presence and perceptions of police unfairness by long-time Latino residents.
According to the respondents, officers also began to criminalize several informal recreational activities which they previously ignored, such as youth playing baseball in front yards, gambling in the park, and so on. While these activities were perhaps disorderly or were minor law violations, young men in the sample were disturbed by the marked change in enforcement patterns that accompanied the influx of White residents. Interviewees lamented that incoming Whites wished to remove cultural symbols such as the two large metallic Puerto Rican flags in the neighborhood. Rafael explained, “This is the cultural heart of Puerto Rico in Chicago. Due to gentrification they [Whites] want to take the flags down. Those who come back will have nothing … there is a threat to the cultural symbols, a loss of identity, culture.” Hence, the chasm between incoming Whites and Puerto Ricans, prompted by gentrification efforts, revealed the heated neighborhood context under which Puerto Ricans are being policed. As Roberto described,
There is a lot of hostility due to the gentrification. There is a loss of identity and even affects more social ills … now you have gentrification so you have more blue lights [placed by the police], cameras on every block, which is ridiculous … now you increase patrols, but you also increase gang shootings, arrests, and fights—because they [gangs] are sometimes also fighting for their neighborhood.
This quotation illustrates that gentrification was salient to interviewees, as well as its perceived impact on the Puerto Rican neighborhood. Technological monitoring (e.g., cameras), saturation of police, and increased violence were some of the trends that Puerto Rican youth identified. Moreover, as the community began to change (e.g. Whites moving in, removal of cultural artifacts, suppression of cultural activities), these youth described the loss of the community in terms of cultural identity, coupled with the advent of newfound unfavorable trends (e.g., gang fights, problems with police, etc.). Gentrification was then not simply about individuals moving in to the neighborhood; instead, it represented a significant destruction of cultural identity, a shift in community dynamics, and an unwelcome style of policing.
Young Mexican males reported that the neighborhood context under which police operated centered on a traditional battle against drugs and gangs. Participants reported being victimized by gangs who occupied several territories in the community. Luis illustrated his apprehension about gang violence: “You don’t want to walk at night time. The [gang name] come through and start bucking [shooting].” Three of the nine interviewees had survived shootings by gangs. Additionally, the neighborhood context paved the way for gang affiliation. Marcos explained, “We didn’t grow up around doctors. We grew up around drug dealers, killers, rapists, those are our heroes here … I grew up around gang members, so I became a gang member.” Many interviewees described violence in the Mexican community, an element of the neighborhood context that structures aggressive policing tactics. Javier offered insight into this phenomenon:
Lots of fights over gang territory … One half is [gang A] and [gang B]. Students who are not in the gang stop going to the school. That is why a while ago there was a hunger strike to get a new school because people were getting harassed trying to get their education. Once they got past [street name], it got rough.
In the Mexican neighborhood, order maintenance practices, according to the respondents, targeted cultural practices of a different kind. For example, youths’ baggy clothing, hairstyles, colors, or any other insignia, part of the culturally standard and valued attire of inner-city youth, were equated with criminality (Anderson, 1999; Fine et al., 2003). According to interviewees, wearing baggy clothing or sporting shaven haircuts inspired street encounters with the police. One interviewee suggested, “Being a Latino with a bald head [hairstyle of many gang members], cops are all over you [stop you].” These experiences cultivated a deep dissatisfaction with the police, as explained by Victor:
I get stopped every day by the police. Their job is to discriminate. Not in the rule-book, but no matter what, we are animals, can’t see past the skin, we still get harassed. Every nine out of ten youth are harassed by the police. You asked me what is the most memorable time I got stopped, every time is memorable. They are not here to protect and serve. They are evil, a gang, the strongest gang in Chicago.
In the Mexican neighborhood, a traditional war against drugs and gangs (a strategy stemming from the Nixon administration that employs racially neutral language but has been recognized as having consequences for racial groups; Alexander, 2012; Durán, 2009b), was a recurring theme among the interviewees. Street oriented styles of dress, hair, mannerisms, and speech, often valued by inner city youth, and have been found in various neighborhoods across the nation (Anderson, 1999), were believed to heighten police suspicion and aggression. In fact, some of the interviewees unapologetically referred to the police as a “gang” and described routine harassment, brutal treatment, and the gang-like behavior (e.g., dropping of gang members in their rival’s territory, beatings, etc.) they experienced.
The independent accounts by Mexican and Puerto Rican young adult males suggest that order maintenance strategies were perceived as the starting point of a broader process of aggressive policing. Chief among officers’ order maintenance tactics were pedestrian stops of the sort derived from the Terry case. The majority of stops involved street encounters, while the youth was alone or in the presence of others, prompted by some seemingly innocuous activity by the youth (e.g., playing loud music, hanging out late at night in front of someone’s house) and followed by questioning about drugs sales or gang affiliation. The sample reported an average of 2.18 incidents of harassment, with Puerto Ricans reporting fewer accounts (mean=2.13) than Mexicans (mean=2.22). The most frequently described scenario involved walking down the street, often with companions, and being stopped for what appeared to be an insignificant offense. According to respondents, stops involved intimidation by officers who cut pedestrians off with moving police cars on the sidewalk, sprinted from vehicles to make contact, spoke in a confrontational manner, or had guns drawn. Individuals were typically ordered to place their hands in a visible position (e.g., hood of the car) or behind their heads, along with kneeling on the ground. These street encounters bore strong resemblance to those reported by youth in past research (e.g., Fine et al., 2003; Gau & Brunson, 2010). Searches were invasive—officers’ handled young people’s genitals, unzipped their pants, or had them disrobe in public.
Roberto described a resurfacing narrative of police-youth street encounters initiated during the process of hanging out in the Puerto Rican neighborhood:
We were sitting with chairs outside my friend’s house with other people … enjoying the street at 11 pm, not drinking, not smoking … the cop [gets out of the car and] says, ‘You selling weed?’ They [other people] made a smart remark and said that if they sold weed, they would be living in a better place. They [police] put their gloves on and searched them between their testicles—how embarrassing. In the middle of the street and obviously they did not have anything.
Longstanding cultural behaviors were associated with police—youth encounters, as well as questioning that centered on gang affiliation, drug sales, or illegal contraband (e.g., carrying guns). Some interviewees admitted occasional marijuana use or delinquency in the past, yet the majority of stops occurred in the absence of criminal activity. Police questioning was assumptive (“You selling weed?”, “What gang are you in?”) and threatening (“You wanna get locked up?”). Many of these assumptions were unwarranted, since neither contraband nor arrest materialized. These young men resented officers’ presumptions about their criminal involvement. Thus, these young men reported experiencing a combination of personal and vicarious harassment (see Brunson, 2007) at the hands of officers ostensibly engaged in order maintenance policing.
Both Puerto Rican and Mexican young adult males experienced what they saw as excessive force after being stopped for supposed orderly conduct violations. Excessive force included physical contact such as punching, kicking, and even hitting respondents with objects in situations where the totality of circumstances did not appear to require force. Participants reported an average of 1 incident of excessive force, with Mexican interviewees voicing more incidents than Puerto Ricans (1.4 and 0.6, respectively). Excessive force episodes sometimes involved minor criminal activity by participants (e.g., carrying marijuana). Interviewees primarily experienced excessive force either personally or while with their associates, yet police reportedly also occasionally exercised force toward participants’ families. One respondent reported, “[Officer’s name] … takes me to the house … when the door opened, my friend’s mom was there. He kicked my friend’s mom, she fell to the floor, put a gun to her face.” Excessive force was not limited to street encounters, but also carried over to custodial situations. Mario indicated, “Every time one of us looked up [when held at the police station], they had this compressed ball of paper that they would hit us with over the head. They called … one person at a time to rough us up before we went to the cell.” Excessive force was attributed to “teaching you a lesson [street justice]” for participating in criminal wrongdoing (e.g., when arrested at the police station), for showing a lack of deference to police authority, or sometimes for no apparent reason at all (e.g., victimizing family members).
Similar to instances of harassment, excessive force incidents for Mexican youth involved some behavior assumed to be a proxy for gang affiliation. In some street encounters, wearing colors associated with gangs, especially if those gangs had allegedly been involved in criminal activity, inspired stops and accompanied a type of street justice that officers applied to Mexican youth. Cristobal and Jose reported, respectively:
Someone killed a cop in the crossfire. I was walking with some friends with a t-shirt of the color [gang colors]—I had some lemonheads [hard candy] in my mouth. I remember the cop got out of the car, walked up to me and punched me. The candy just popped inside my mouth, I was all cut up and shit. It was one White and one Latino. Told me to get my hands on the car, took my shirt off. The neighbors came out. They [police] kept the shirt. I was shirtless, they gave me no explanation.
They [police] have kicked me from behind in the groin. They know I was shot in the testicles, that I had surgery. They hit me there. I have scars. They make fun of it. They ask, ‘Does your dick still work?’ Some people have been shot in the knees, they tell the officer, ‘Officer, I can’t get on my knees, I’ve been shot in the knees.’ They still make them get on their knees. They [police] start laughing.
Puerto Rican interviewees also recounted events wherein even pro-social activities such as playing football were the starting point of police encounters that culminated with excessive force. These incidents, according to these respondents, did not involve interviewees resisting arrest or aggression against an officer or committing serious criminal activity, but nevertheless climaxed with excessive force. Carlos and Marcos each recalled personal victimization by police:
We were playing football. They frisked us, found someone who had drugs, shoved us all to the floor. One cop told the other, ‘Hey, I got something.’ The got all of us, kicked me in the shins—I fell to the floor, slapped the cuffs on me. Other four cops showed up, ran up [approached quickly], shoved us to the floor. No warning or nothing. One cop pulled out his nightstick, said ‘Get to the floor.’ They just slapped the handcuffs on.
I have been pushed against the brick floor before and they called my friend a nigger and my other friend a spic. They look at our record and find nothing. Then leaders [Puerto Rican leaders recognized by the community such as lawyers and professors who came to the aid of youth] have to come out or they [police] will arrest you for no reason.
These accounts demonstrate that routine activities, such as playing football or going to the store, did not shield interviewees from what they describe as excessive force. Kicking interviewees in the shins or shoving them to the floor or against the wall, as well as using derogatory language, was unjustified to the interviewees based on minor incidents such as carrying a small amount of marijuana or doing nothing at all (e.g., hanging out in the street). Puerto Rican interviewees sometimes were able to invoke adult professionals who helped young people out of these predicaments and would assist in avoiding criminal processing or criminal records.
Race has been heavily intertwined with order maintenance policing nationwide, given the enormous discretion that this strategy vests in individual police officers. Critics point to the data showing that Blacks and Latinos make up the majority of persons stopped in urban areas (Fagan & Davies, 2000; Pascandola et al., 2013), which raise questions about whether order maintenance policing is a proxy for racial profiling. In the interviews reported here, both Puerto Rican and Mexican respondents spoke to the issue of race. It became clear that neighborhood characteristics were salient in determining how and when police were perceived to use race as a basis for stopping a person.
Puerto Rican youth were convinced that race was an ingredient of aggressive policing. In these young men’s experiences, racial differences and racial bias operated in two distinct ways—intergroup differences, wherein Latinos were juxtaposed against Whites, and intragroup differences, where the skin-color variation within the group resulted in lighter-skinned Puerto Ricans being treated better than their darker-complexioned neighbors. Differential policing on an intergroup basis is illustrated by Puerto Rican men’s accounts of circumstances where Whites and Puerto Ricans occupied the same setting and Whites went unnoticed by the police. As Rafael indicated, “they [police] see a yuppie smoking weed, they don’t stop them. I hang out with my friend and there is a White guy smoking weed and drinking, walking around with it, then they see us and grab us.” Intragroup differences surfaced as well, and not all Puerto Ricans were equally policed or seen as vulnerable to police maltreatment.
Puerto Rican men suggested that some Puerto Ricans possessed “White privilege” which enhanced their immunity against aggressive policing. Individuals described as “White Puerto Ricans” were assumed to possess more privilege than “Black Puerto Ricans.” Whiteness operated as a type of capital that enhanced upward mobility. As Rafael illustrated, “When you come to the U.S. some [Puerto Ricans] are White and pass as White, get a better job, better pay.” The capital of Whiteness was so invaluable that many of the interviewees’ parents and grandparents had rejected their African roots. According to Jose, “When my grandmother came to the U.S., they called her a nigger on the bus; she did not know what that was. She has internalized that racism saying, ‘I am not like those people.’” Furthermore, Black Puerto Ricans encountered intragroup racism similar to that experienced by African Americans. Rafael reported, “There is always hatred against Blacks, racism, ignorance. They sometimes push Black Puerto Ricans to assimilate to Black. If you are a Black Puerto Rican, you have to prove it.” For some Puerto Ricans, “proving it” signified demonstrating to others one’s place within the Puerto Rican in-group after being categorized as “Black.”
Several interviewees were convinced that “White Puerto Ricans” possessed privilege that extended to police encounters. These categorizations were far from being fixed; as Roberto suggested, “I identify with just being Puerto Rican but we joke around that you are Puerto Rican until you get stopped [by the police]; then you’re Black.” Within-group racial variations have consequences for economic gain (Hunter, 1998, 2002) and for criminal sanctioning (e.g., Eberhardt, Davies, Purdie-Vaughns, & Johnson, 2006). Racial categorizations remained fluid and were offset by other characteristics (e.g., Spanish names). Ramon stated, “A time I was arrested, two Latinos [officers] and they thought that I was Black. When I said my name was Ramon, they calmed down. They had assumed that I was Black.” Based on youths’ accounts, being thought of as Black made them susceptible to aggressive policing, while being viewed as Latino offered temporary immunity from negative police encounters. Angel reported, “Police look for Black or those who look like Black … the police move toward Black Puerto Ricans, then dress, then behavior—that has to be the order.” Juan further explicated this phenomenon among Puerto Rican young people:
Those that that are lighter skin get better treatment. Straight hair, light skin, that is the standard of what is considered beautiful, the privilege of being White than having dark skin, nappy hair. They [police] look at you different if light or dark skin. A dark skin nappy hair Puerto Rican.
What Puerto Rican respondents described is a racial caste system that makes some Puerto Ricans vulnerable to aggressive policing, depending on which part of the phenotypic spectrum they occupy. This racial caste was not only contingent on skin color, but also on language, Spanish surnames names, and other signifiers that made some interviewees easily occupy the category of being Black. These racial categorizations were not limited to police encounters. For example, Juan indicated, “I have gone to Puerto Rican restaurants and they start speaking to me in English [thinking he is African American] and explaining what is on the menu. I tell them ‘Yo se que es’ [I know what the dishes are]. Then they start speaking to me in Spanish.” These racial categorizations are complex, fluid, and imperfect, and underscore how race is socially constructed. Miguel suggested, “In the U.S, I am a Puerto Rican, in Puerto Rico I am a mulatto. I am also a Latino in the U.S. racially. I have always been considered Black, less so now for some reason. Now people think that I am mixed Black and White [because of his speech and mannerisms] … I am Puerto Rican.” Therefore, what the Puerto Rican respondents describe in terms of police encounters, as well as White Privilege, appears to be part of a much larger racialized process described among Puerto Rican populations and their categorizations in the U.S., with broader implications beyond the field of policing (see Thomas, 1997).
In contrast to Puerto Rican respondents, young Mexican males indicated that officers were rarely inclined to stop young people based on race. In the Mexican community, most of the community were ethnically Mexican (83%); the participants pointed out that racial homogeneity made racial differentiations by the police unlikely. The racial demography was more diverse in the Puerto Rican community, thus allowing for intra-neighborhood differences in the treatment of individuals. A different racial self-awareness (see Lee, Steinberg, & Piquero, 2010) and neighborhood racial homogeneity were possible reasons why Mexican participants did not often believe race structured the aggressive policing style they described.
The Mexican interviewees also had a straightforward way of articulating their racial identities as Latino, Hispanic, or to a lesser extent, Mexican. They often responded with one or two words and repeated their prior answer when probed. When Joel was asked how he would describe himself in terms or race or ethnicity, he answered “Latino” without further elaboration. The interviewees sometimes even self-identified with terms considered to be politically incorrect in academic circles such as “Hispanic.” The term Hispanic has been criticized for being federally imposed, recognizing Spanish but not indigenous lineage. Mexican interviewees did not at all feel that the term Hispanic was offensive, nor did they identify a racial caste system in the neighborhood. Past research, however, has found that individuals of Latino descent can possess highly indigenous (Indios) to European (Gueros) features, and that those categorizations are associated to social, economic, and political outcomes (Gonzales, 2000). Whether or not these characteristics impact vulnerability to stops with the police, however, was not reported among the participants.
Instead of race, markers of gang affiliation such as wearing hoodies (sweat shirts with hoods), over-sized jeans, particular colors (e.g., gold and black for certain gangs), or baseball caps positioned in a specific direction were believed to heighten police suspicion. Some young people alluded to the importance of race, but did not make differentiations between lighter skinned Mexicans or those appearing to be indigenous. Approximately half of the participants appeared to acknowledge the fact of race but to place greater emphasis on what might be called behavioral, as opposed to racial, profiling. Alejandro’s account illustrated this attitude: “It’s not only about skin color, the way you talk, walk, the way you look. How you walk, they will think you’re in a gang.”
The other half of the Mexican sample stressed the importance of race. These individuals were mixed in their beliefs about whether African Americans were more vulnerable than Latinos to mistreatment, or whether both groups faced similar hazards. Interviewees such as Mario indicated what being Latino represents within a larger social context, “If you are labeled Latino, from a White perspective, you are a Black or Brown piece of shit, don’t deserve to live, you live off welfare, you’re lazy and do not work.” However, when probed deeper about the police, he further elaborated, “They [police] all equal [treat people the same] but not with Black people. White cop with Black guy pulled over, you know why. Equal for Latinos.” Similar to the Puerto Rican respondents, these young Mexican interviewees believed that those defined as Black suffered the worst treatment. Jose stated, “I would not say better, but African Americans get treated worse than Latinos. In the U.S. they are the bad people, especially gang bangers.”
The objective of this study was to examine how young Latino males experience urban policing within the context of order maintenance. Data derived from in-depth interviews with Puerto Rican and Mexican youths showed, overall, that the gentrification of the Puerto Rican neighborhood was viewed as placing these youths at risk for aggressive order maintenance. Traditional recreational and cultural behaviors, such as hanging out in the front yard, playing baseball in the street, or being out late at night, become aggressively pursued under loitering and sound ordinances. In the Mexican neighborhood, by contrast, a more traditional crusade against drugs and gangs appeared to structure order maintenance strategies. Respondents reported high rates of Terry-type stops, many of which occurred without apparent legal justification, according to these youths. Despite occasional wrongdoing on the part of respondents, the majority of stops involved questioning and assumptions about their involvement in criminal activities irrespective of whether they were engaged in illegal acts at the time of the stop.
The primary conclusion from the study results is that, in practice, seemingly racially neutral order maintenance strategies shaped by gentrification or traditional campaigns against drugs and gangs criminalize Puerto Rican and Mexican youth. As the youths’ reports made clear, young Latino males’ encounters with police evinced wide variation; it would be erroneous to believe that all Latino males experience urban policing in the same way.
Two frameworks can be used to understand the experiences of youths in these two neighborhoods and to contextualize the similarities and differences of their experiences. First, Puerto Rican youths’ exposure to order maintenance policing might be best understood within the parameters of the defended neighborhood thesis. Young minority males report widespread problems with police in areas with substantial White populations (Stewart, Baumer, & Brunson, 2009; see also Meehan & Ponder, 2010), and the current study suggests that this phenomenon may carry over into neighborhoods undergoing gentrification processes. Although defended neighborhoods are generally considered to be those traditionally occupied by Whites but that have recently experienced an influx of minorities, the present study speaks to the opposite set of events, where Whites seek to establish residential territory in a neighborhood traditionally occupied by non-Whites. Gentrification may spark a process whereby incoming middle-class Whites, eager to take advantage of low-cost property, see the activities of existing Latino residents not as culturally derived but, rather, as symbols of disorganization. As Green, Strolovitch, and Wong (1998) wrote, “Conflict over neighborhood territory [can be traced to] the onset of racial integration” (p. 376). White newcomers, having invested in the area and formed an attachment to it, may engage in cognitive mapping where they use environmental cues to draw inferences about the general state of social (dis)organization in the area (see Unger & Wandersman, 1985). When alarmed by what they see as disorderly or threatening behaviors by Latino youth, White residents may enlist police assistance in imposing a version of organization that is more conducive to Whites’ perceptions of a good neighborhood.
The second framework that can be used to contextualize respondents’ experiences is that of the war on drugs and gangs. This framework applies to the male Mexican youth, who, like the Puerto Rican respondents, reported a high rate of involuntary police contacts that they felt were unjustified. However, unlike the Puerto Rican youth, Mexican youth experienced these contacts under the backdrop of an urban war on crime and felt that the poor treatment visited upon them by officers was less a result of their race, per se, than the product of police assumptions about these youths’ involvement in crime. Interviewees’ comments revealed that assumptions about gang affiliation and gang violence consumed officers’ attention. The Mexican community has a noticeably higher rate of homicide than the rest of the city. When the zeal for crime control becomes an obsession, however, one must carefully evaluate the consequences for those being policed. The war on drugs, in particular, has been linked to high rates of unlawful stops and frisks (Gould & Mastrofski, 2004), and institutional practices such as an emphasis over the quantity of arrests rather than the quality of them can function to pipeline young Latino males into jail and prison (Rios, 2011). In the present study, Mexican respondents reported feeling that police frequently stopped them for no reason, merely to manufacture an opportunity to question them about their potential involvement in drug or gang activity. Police researchers have critiqued the war model as creating problematic divisions where one side is designated as the enemy that must be conquered or suppressed (Bittner, 1970). Mexican respondents’ accounts seemed to confirm the validity of this concern.
The clear differences that emerged between Puerto Rican and Mexican youths have implications for future research. This variation suggests that it would be erroneous to assume that all Latinos experience urban policing in a similar way, even Latinos who live in the same city, as the present respondents did. The discrepancies between the two groups was likely a function of the racial variation between the two neighborhoods; Puerto Rican youth lived in a racially mixed neighborhood and thus were easy to categorize on the basis of their race, while the Mexican youths’ neighborhood was predominantly Latino. The relative homogeneity of the Mexican respondents’ area of residence did not remove race from the equation, but it changed the dynamic insofar as it muddied respondents’ perceptions of officers’ ability to discriminate between different people inside the neighborhood boundaries.
Overall, the present study’s results speak to the inherent racialization of an order maintenance style police strategy that, while race-neutral on its face, plays out in practice as notably discriminatory (see Bonilla-Silva, 1997). Zimring (2012) described the same situation in his commentary on the New York City Police Department’s massive order maintenance campaign:
The problem with using a predicate offense-alcohol, loud radio noise in a car, marijuana—as justification for selective enforcement of non-serious crimes—is that it really does become the more equivalent of racial profiling. A much larger percentage of the African American and Hispanic kids picked up for truancy and curfew will be on parole, probation, or “criminal record” group (p. 119)
Thus, seemingly racially neutral order maintenance strategies which police organizations justify under the guise of public safety may, in practice, have a powerful impact on the nationwide over-representation of Latinos in the criminal-justice system.
The results of this study lend themselves to policy recommendations for urban police departments engaged in order maintenance or similar policing strategies. These departments should place a premium on understanding the cultural milieus in which they operate. Police administrators should acknowledge that certain activities currently constituting an unquestioned, integral element of police training and socialization (e.g., looking out for people who “don’t belong” in a certain area) can be interpreted by minorities as race-based and highly discriminatory (see Engel & Johnson, 2006). Awareness of existing racial or cultural tensions within the neighborhoods they police is necessary for officers to deal effectively with the resultant clashes and to approach conflict situations willing to see both parties’ sides. Police officers assigned to multi-racial areas should adopt heightened awareness of the delicacy of their position, since they will often be called upon to serve as mediators rather than law enforcers. In this way, order maintenance policing can be used in a manner that avoids criminalization of minorities’ cultural activities and traditional modes of recreation, as well as the appearance of race-based profiling or discrimination. Also, equal enforcement of laws against disorder and nuisance offenses is crucial; the present study highlights the resentment that Latinos feel when officers turn a blind eye toward Whites engaged in the very same activities that likely would have invited scrutiny had the participants been Latino. The appearance of fairness and neutrality must be maintained if urban police are to earn trust and enjoy legitimacy (e.g., Tyler, 2006).
This study has limitations that warrant some caution in the interpretation of the results and that provide avenues for future research on Latinos and policing. The study was qualitative and thus prioritized depth over breadth; although respondents were able to give detailed accounts of their experiences, the sample size was small and of unknown generalizability to Latino males, as a group, in Chicago or elsewhere. Future research could gather larger samples containing a mix of races and ethnicities to compare different groups’ experiences with urban police strategies that are supposed to be colorblind. Despite these limitations, the present study offers insight into an area of research that is currently sparse and in need of greater attention. Researchers should continue efforts to uncover the unique way that Latinos, and the various sub-groups within that larger designation, experience policing within the urban context and under the rubric of order maintenance and the war on drugs, gangs, and crime in general. Better understanding will help inform police policy and facilitate informing the public and policymakers that although policies may appear to be race-neutral on their face, this may not be the case.
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Claudio G. Vera Sanchez is an Assistant Professor in the Evelyn T. Stone College of Professional Studies at Roosevelt University. His research interests include young minorities’ (e.g., Latino and African American) experiences with the police, measuring the effects of neighborhood context on police behavior, and documenting the attitudes and perceptions of officers who work in low income and high crime inner-city neighborhoods. Professor Vera Sanchez is currently the Principal Investigator for a project designed to enhance Latino youth self-empowerment for individuals who have been previously involved in the legal system.
Jacinta M. Gau is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida. Her research interests revolve around policing, with an emphasis on police-minority relations, procedural justice and police legitimacy, and race issues. She has published multiple articles and two books, and advises police departments on methods to measure and increase community trust.
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Drummans is in the Electoral Division of Balscadden ED 1901, in Civil Parish of Balscaddan, in the Barony of Balrothery East, in the County of Dublin
The Irish name for Drummans is An Dromainn
Drummans is on Logainm.ie: Drummans.
It is located at 53° 37' 35" N, 6° 14' 51" W.
Drummans has an area of:
- 406,558 m² / 40.66 hectares / 0.4066 km²
- 0.16 square miles
- 100.46 acres / 100 acres, 1 rood, 34 perches
Nationwide, it is the 50493rd largest townland that we know about
Within Co. Dublin, it is the 710th largest townland
Drummans borders the following other townlands:
We don't know about any subtownlands in Drummans.
Genealogy / Ancestry / Records Search
Curious to see who lived in Drummans in the past? Maybe even seeing scans of their handwritten census returns?
Drummans was added to OpenStreetMap on 16 Nov 2014 by brianh.
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The Latvian Foreign Ministry announced the suspension of the intergovernmental agreement on economic cooperation between Latvia and Russia and the agreement on the mutual facilitation of travel for residents of the border areas of the two countries.
In the list of suspended international treaties published in the Government Gazette Latvian Vestnesisalso appear agreements:
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- “On the avoidance of double taxation and tax evasion in relation to taxes on profits and capital”;
- “On the social protection of military pensioners of the Russian Federation and members of their families living in the territory of Latvia”.
It is specified that the validity of all agreements, with the exception of documents on military pensioners and double taxation (their validity has been suspended since May 16), was suspended on August 1.
In May, Latvia announced the termination of the agreement on cooperation with Russia in the field of culture. Then, in the Ministry of Culture of the Republic, this was explained by the unwillingness to cooperate with the “Putin regime” until the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine.
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• The power outage happened at a time when Deputy President William Ruto was facing the presidential debate moderators.
• ODM leader Raila Odinga who was to debate the DP boycotted the session.
During the presidential debate featuring Deputy President William Ruto, several parts of the Rift Valley suffered power blackouts.
According to Kenya Power, Soilo, Makutano, and the entire Western area were affected by the transmission trip on Makutani, Soilo 132kv.
"Restored were Chemosit, Makutano, Bomet, and Soilo. Ravine 1, 2 are still not working, Njoro, Bomet 33kv feeders," explained KPLC.
Additionally, it stated that a technical issue had caused the Muhorini gas turbine to be off for the previous three days.
"As a result, the western Region's generation has decreased. Therefore, the Naivasha geothermal fields and beyond supplied a large portion of the demand to the west," they claimed.
The substantial voltage drop during long-distance power transmission results in undervoltage and underfrequency.
According to sources, there is no power throughout the majority of the Rift Valley, Western, and some areas of Nyanza.
The fact that the areas were left off of Kenya Power's list of power outages for Tuesday is telling.
On July 27, 2022, rather than on Tuesday, certain North Rift regions were supposed to undergo a power outage, according to Kenya Power outage Daily Programme.
The affected regions were supposed to be in Nandi County.
Due to a technical issue, the Muhorini gas turbine has been down for the past three days, according to Kenya Power, which has curtailed generation in the Western Region.
Therefore, the Naivasha geothermal fields and other places supplied a large portion of the demand to the west.
"Due to a significant voltage drop, long-distance power transmission results in undervoltage and underfrequency. In order to safeguard the connected equipment, the line is set up to trip at a frequency lower than 49.5 Hz. According to a notice, the line at Soilo (132kv) tripped out of under frequency, affecting the whole Western and Nyanza districts as well as portions of Njoro and Molo."
Marakwet Eleyo President Uhuru Kenyatta was charged with turning off the electricity in the entire Rift Valley, according to Senator Kipchumab Murkomen.
"Apparently power was switched off not just in Rift Valley but in 70% of the country. For those who have been taking Uhuru seriously, you now know he can be very petty and it’s getting worse as he realizes he won’t be President again forever especially since BBI died," he said.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control, 53% of individuals with diabetes in the District of Columbia are obese and 82.5% are either overweight or obese. In addition, hypertension and diabetes are comorbid in 62% of adults in the District of Columbia, indicating that patients with the highest rates of weight issues are also at the highest risk for chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.
Wards 4 through Ward 8, the poorest in Washington, have the highest concentration of African Americans and the highest rates of obesity among those with diabetes. In response, Howard University Hospital’s Diabetes Treatment Center recently announced a program to deploy a mobile PHR from NoMoreClipboard to help overweight, prediabetic young adults make lifestyle changes aimed at preventing diabetes.
African-American patients between the ages of 18 and 24 diagnosed with prediabetes will be provided a free NoMoreClipboard PHR they can access on their smartphones, as well as a FitBit Zip wireless activity tracker that monitors steps, distance, and calories burned.
Tracked data will synchronize wirelessly with the PHR, and this data will be available to clinical personnel at the Howard Diabetes Treatment Center, who will provide coaching to participants. Data captured in the EHR used by the Diabetes Treatment Center will populate the PHR, and patients can share their information with any other healthcare provider they visit.
Text message alerts will be sent to remind patients to interact with the PHR, and 75 health and behavioral tips will be sent via text at periodic intervals to participants over the course of a year.
“Several studies have demonstrated that obesity related morbidity and mortality can be significantly reduced through lifestyle modification and education,” says Dr. Gail Nunlee-Bland, director of the Diabetes Treatment Center. “Plus, cell phones are portable and widely accepted by young adults and can serve as an effective communication vehicle in providing consistent health care information from provider to patient, which is often lacking in our health care system.”
This program will study changes in Patient Activation Measure (PAM) scores at three months and one year. The PAM is a validated 13-item measure to assess patients’ ability to self-manage their chronic disease. Secondary measures will include changes in BMI and hemoglobin A1c levels at the same intervals. The study will also include a lifestyle group cohort that will not participate in technology intervention, but will attend group meetings.
“This initiative builds on previous success at Howard University Hospital where a mobile PHR was used to help patients with diabetes successfully manage their condition and reduce hemoglobin A1c levels,” says Jeff Donnell, president of NoMoreClipboard. “We are eager to see how this advanced mobile technology will help at-risk young adults adopt healthier lifestyles and avoid diabetes.”
Nunlee-Bland says her physicians and staff feel very strongly that the wireless communication approach will help young adults at high-risk for diabetes reduce obesity and become more engaged in managing their health.
“While the main goal is to prevent chronic—and often serious—healthcare conditions, it will also help overcome disparities in care and reduce unnecessary healthcare costs down the road,” she says.
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Price levels in London
London is, without any question of doubt, one of the most popular and most highly visited cities in the entire world, seeing tourists flock there in their droves, from countries all over the globe. Great fame often drives the prices upwards, so in the case of London. The good news about London is that there is something for everyone and for wallets of various thicknesses.
There are upmarket locations, middle-class locations, popular tourist attractions, ethnic areas, fantastic locations for food and drink, great night life options, and much more. If you’ve never visited London before, one of the first things that you will notice, is just how expensive everything seems to be, especially compared with other parts of the UK. With some research and moving around, you can find economic choices as well. If you’re thinking of visiting London for the first time, or relocating there for some reason, here’s a brief breakdown of some of the relevant price levels in London, and what you can expect to pay.
Property – First and foremost, we’ll begin by looking at perhaps the most shocking price difference associated with London when compared with the rest of the UK, and that is property prices. Remember, people don’t just visit London for a day out, or a city break, sometimes people relocate to London for personal, or work-related reasons. Just to give you an idea of how different prices are regarding property in London, the average house price in London, bearing in mind that this is just your standard, run of the mill property, stands at £500,000, that’s half a million pounds. The average house price for the rest of the UK, stands at £286,000, so as you can see, that is a huge difference. Even rents are at “shocking” levels, and most people choose their lodgings far away from the city centre.
Food and drink – As far as food and drink goes, the prices really depend on where you shop, which in turn will influence heavily on just how much you spend. For example, the average loaf of bread and litre of milk comes in at a very respectable £1.88, which is pretty much the standard for the rest of the country. If you plan on dining out, an inexpensive, generally standard quality meal will cost around £15 per person. If you plan on a more formal dining experience, a three-course meal for two people will come in at roughly £50, although that doesn’t include drinks. A pint of beer is around £4, which is around 82p more expensive than a pint in the rest of the country.
Transportation – As London is so vast, you are going to need to arrange for transportation in order to take in the sights. The average taxi prices come in at £2.30 per KM, whereas a local transport one way ticket costs around £2.50. Therefore, the London public transport system is extremely popular both with Londoners and foreigners alike.
Accommodation – Hotel prices in London recently increased as well and the average standard hotel price per night today comes in at £127, which is more than 50% higher than hotel prices in the rest of the country. But you can find attractively priced rooms through various online hotel reservation platforms even in the middle of the city.
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Which immigrant group was the largest during the period from 1820 to 1920?
From the 1820s to the 1840s, Germans and Irish were the two largest groups of immigrants to the United States. The Germans and Irish were frequently subjected to anti-foreign prejudice and discrimination.
Where did most European immigrants settled in the 1800s?
New York City
What two countries provided the largest number of immigrants to the United States between 1820 and 1860?
Between 1820 and 1860 most immigrants came from northern and western Europe. The potato famine in Ireland (1845-1847) brought large numbers to the United States. The unsuccessful 1848 Revolution in Germany also created considerable emigration. Others came from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England, Scotland and Wales.
Which part of the world did most immigrants from the late 1800s originate?
What country did most immigrants come from?
What part of the world did most immigrants come from?
Over half of all immigrants in the United States were from the Americas, predominantly from Mexico. Also among the top ten largest source countries were El Salvador, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Guatemala. Over one-fourth of all immigrants in the United States were from Asia.
Which country has the least immigrants?
According to the United Nations, in 2019, the United States, Germany, and Saudi Arabia had the largest number of immigrants of any country, while Tuvalu, Saint Helena, and Tokelau had the lowest.
Which European country has most immigrants?
What is the best country to seek asylum?
Here are the top 10 countries hosting the greatest numbers of refugees.
- Lebanon (tie)
- Uganda (tie)
Which country has the toughest immigration laws?
Do any countries have open immigration?
The reasons behind open borders vary depending upon the country in question, but the concept of open borders stays the same. It is a lack of a successful border control system, point-blank. There are no countries in the world that operate on a fully open border system.
Which is the best country for refugees?
What countries help refugees the most?
These 10 countries receive the most refugees
- Turkey – 5.1 per cent.
- Liberia – 4.6 per cent.
- Uganda – 3.8 per cent.
- Nauru – 3.2 per cent*
- Malta – 2.7 per cent.
- Djibouti – 2.7 per cent.
- Sweden – 2.7 per cent.
- Sudan – 2.5 per cent. With over one million refugees since 2010, Sudan is the sixth largest recipient country in absolute numbers.
Which European country is the easiest to immigrate to?
Spain and Portugal are expat favorites and offer easy paths to residency. The Netherlands and Germany are relatively good options for freelancers and those who are self-employed. Tips For More Difficult Countries: Some of the most difficult countries to move to are Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland.
What is the easiest European country to get permanent residency?
Plan your own Brexit: The 10 easiest countries for securing EU residency
- Monaco. As well as benefiting from visa-free travel across the Schengen Area, residents of Monaco are not obliged to pay income tax, capital gains tax or wealth tax.
Which country gives permanent residency easily?
Panama is one of the easiest countries to get Permanent residency and has many routes to acquiring this. Purchasing property worth EUR 250,000 makes an individual eligible for Greek Permanent residency.
Is it hard to move to Europe?
Immigrating to Europe is tough. If you’re determined to immigrate to Europe, your success will depend on your age, wealth, education level, and occupation. See the following list for legal ways to move to Europe as a US citizen. Apply for European citizenship by descent.
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SEO and PPC (pay per click) are both marketing vehicles that one can choose to boost its website traffic and increase conversion rate. Thailand online marketing and risen tremendously over years and marketing in Thailand is increasingly digital now. A digital agency or a social media agency can provide you the services of SEO or PPC. But which one is better? Let’s find out the answer to this question by analyzing both SEO and PPC and discussing their comparative advantages and disadvantages.
As we all know, it is a series of processes that help a website rank higher in the search engine’s results. It is an effective tool for this purpose and has a proven record of success in achieving its goals. Let’s take a look at its advantages and disadvantages.
It is cost-effective: SEO is cheap as compared to PPC. It is sometimes also referred to as organic SEO; there is a price to pay to acquire this service, but it is by and large a cheap method of getting more web traffic.
Authenticity: People still prefer organic search results over paid or sponsored results. It makes SEO more reliable in the eyes of the general public.
Sustainable: SEO’s results are available for a long time. A company can reap its benefits as long as the search engine changes its algorithms drastically.
Time-consuming: SEO takes time to materialize and produce results. It may take somewhere between 6 months to become effective. Also, the process itself is long and tedious.
Ongoing process: If the search engine changes its algorithm, the entire process of SEO might have to be revisited. Plus, it requires routine checkups to monitor its efficacy.
Pay per click is when you pay to the search engines for ranking your site higher or for the number of visitors or buyers that come to your site through such ads. Let’s look at its advantages and disadvantages.
Instant results: Unlike SEO, PPC provides you with quick results. As soon as you place the ad, the traffic starts flowing in.
Measurable metric: PPC is scalable and easy to measurable. You can estimate how many visitors are likely to visit your site and the outcome of the PPC campaign.
Flexible budgeting: PPC gives you the power to design and customize your PPC campaign the way you want. You decide the budget, the timing, and everything else about the campaign.
Expensive: PPC is costly; the ads don’t come cheap.
Short-term: The results are visible only as long as the campaign is running. Once it is finished, there are no results.
Click-baits: People are generally skeptical about clicking on a paid or sponsored link. Data shows they trust organic search results more than paid ones.
Which one is right for you?
There is no clear answer to this question. Each campaign or tool has its distinct benefits and drawbacks, and a company can choose either depending on its goals. For example, if a company has a big budget and wants quick results, it can go for PPC and vice versa.
An influencer marketing agency Thailand and an e-commerce agency Thailand can give you further guidance on this.
ibexmediagroup is a digital marketing agency service of Thailand. For its valuable services, it is ranked as the top digital agency in its domain. You can hire it for SEO, PPC, or any such related services.
Barry Lachey is a Professional Editor at Zobuz. Previously He has also worked for Moxly Sports and Network Resources “Joe Joe.” he is a graduate of the Kings College at the University of Thames Valley London. You can reach Barry via email or by phone.
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Six months after the NT Labor Government legislated its bottle shop size limits, which effectively blocked liquor giant Dan Murphy's from setting up in Darwin, it has repealed the legislation.
- Law restricting floor space to 400sq metres repealed
- Change pending Liquor Commission to be set up in 2018
- Concern over delay for business confidence
- Questions over political donations have dogged issue
The Government first introduced the restrictions through a regulation in December last year and argued the policy was based on evidence that floor size was a factor in alcohol-related harm.
When Dan Murphy's launched a legal challenge against the restriction in the courts, the Government moved to legislate the 400 square metre restrictions.
But independent MLAs accused the Government of introducing the size limits as part of a deal with the hotels industry to block liquor giant Dan Murphy's setting up a warehouse-style store in Darwin.
Following the release of the Riley review into alcohol policies in the NT, Chief Minister Michael Gunner conceded that he made an error in pushing for the rule.
The report said there was no clear relationship between the size of premises and any increased harm, dismissing the claim earlier argued by the Government that floor space was a contributing factor to alcohol related harm.
The review's panel, led by former chief justice Trevor Riley, said a floor price was a more effective measure than limiting the floor space of a takeaway outlet, and rather the availability of cheap alcohol was part of the problem.
Dispute over 'certainty for business'
In Parliament yesterday, NT Attorney General Natasha Fyles said implementing all the accepted recommendations of the Riley Alcohol review would give certainty to businesses in the face of criticism over how much time it was taking.
The changes will only come into effect after a Liquor Commission is established in February next year.
"It was important for us to provide that certainty for business that we are implementing the recommendations of the Riley Review," Ms Fyles said.
"Business can know the Government will be... going forward and putting in place the Liquor Commission framework for them to have alcohol applications assessed under."
NT Opposition Leader Gary Higgins argued the Government should bring the changes in effective immediately, instead of delaying the move until next year.
"The Government should be trying to attract investment, bringing jobs to the Territory not scare them away," Mr Higgins told Parliament.
"Or, in the case of Dan Murphy's, prohibit a massive job creating investment because of an arbitrary floor space restriction.
"Let's remind all Australians that the Territory is open for business."
Independent MLA Gerry Wood said large retailers applying for liquor licenses were being treated unfairly by the NT Government.
"We are now making an exemption for any businesses that wants a liquor outlet of more than 400 square metres they will have to wait until we have a new commission.
"So I see an inconsistency there and I don't think that's a good thing when it comes to Government policy."
Issue dogged by questions over political donations
Over the past year the issue was met with questions about whether political donations from the hotels industry had influenced the Labor policy.
The ABC revealed in September that the Government's floor size legislation was almost identical to a policy proposal sent by the NT branch of the Australian Hotels Association (AHA NT) in April last year to Mr Gunner, who was then the Opposition leader.
Mr Gunner said Labor had come up with the policy itself and it was a coincidence the AHA NT proposal closely mirrored the NT Government legislation.
The NT Government has consistently denied any link between donations and its floor size policy.
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The Year 2022: Himalayan Chef Grocery shopping in Pakistan announced the company’s ambitious emission reduction target plan. Aims at achieving it at any cost. The work behind all this remains detailed, dynamic, and intense. The brand is positioned to examine the manufacturing procedures, the products to make them better for the planet. Himalayan Chef is on the ground to collaborate with the suppliers. They want to help improve the entire manufacturing and production procedures. It's always that if we work together, we can make a significant positive difference.
Himalayan Chef Grocery Shopping in Pakistan takes a whole "Direct Farm to Fork Approach" for ensuring the best quality products. Best for the consumers and determining the Carbon Footprint of the products. The plan involves the action plan to improve the climate consequences of the brand. Working through innovation and technology to decrease the overall impact.
"Climate is changing, it's time we start taking this matter in our hands. The company is operating a large-scale green Initiative. Working with farmers, suppliers, and communities. To initiate ways that protect ecosystems, reduce overall emissions, and enhance livelihoods. We want to use and transform our resources for the betterment of our people and the planet."-CEO Himalayan Chef
Race to Zero-Emission: The entire upstream system works by sourcing high-quality ingredients. From suppliers and direct from farmers. Ingredients sourced from the best origins. The latest methodologies and techniques used for the processing. Supreme quality ingredients that are clean handled and processed in superior and hi-tech machinery. Along with HACCP-certified hygienic packaging that keeps the Nutritional value and the Quality Intact.
"Bringing about a veritable revolution in food handling and product quality. Benefiting the farmers at one end. Enabling customers to get the best quality pure food products totally fresh and at a great value. Working for the broader motive of reducing the Carbon Footprint. Helping people make healthy food choices. Making it convenient for them to choose fresh. Wholesome meals & groceries under one roof"
-Quality Control Head Himalayan Chef
Need of the Hour: The climate crisis has for too long been misunderstood. It is without question a huge crisis that is significantly impacting lives. Climate change impacts production and the availability of water resources. Also, life-threatening extreme weather events are very common. Work for purpose of making our planet a sustainable living place.
It's about time Food industries and food brands start acting. In the best interest of the planet, start working for the Real Solution. Most of the carbon footprint lies in the supply chain from raw materials. Also involves the emission while transporting ingredients to the factory. Then products to the End-consumer.
"The world is becoming ever-more conscious. Should be aware of the environmental issues, our food system is causing. Yet, many companies still have no intentions to adopt. The farmers and the producers were hit hardest by this devastating climate crisis. Changing temperatures, unreliable rainfall, and land degradation. These are reinforcing poverty and devastating the natural landscape. For the sake of people, food and our planet, companies must denial now."
-Viktoria de Bourbon de Parme, Lead Food and Agriculture Transformation at WBA
Himalayan Chef Grocery Store in Pakistan is working with the prime goal to reduce its carbon footprint before products reach the end consumer. From working with climate-conscious suppliers with the "Farm Direct" approach. Introducing premium-grade Reusable Craft Packaging. Majorly fulfilling every possible opportunity in reducing the climate impact.
The brand believes in the Cycle of Change. Making a green revolution at every step of product formation. From sourcing raw materials, manufacturing or production and then distribution. Here's how a brand's eco-cycle operates,
Brand collaborates with farmers, suppliers, and communities. To source the Best Quality raw ingredients with the least Carbon Emission. By cutting down the middle hassle.
All the products are packed in reusable, Zip Lock Craft, Food-grade packaging. To keep the food safe and cut down the wastage.
For the sake of environmental sustainability. The brand aims at switching to low emission fuels. Non-renewable electricity in the future.Using and transforming ingredients, processes that are good for both consumer and planet.
"Pure food sourced from premium quality ingredients that are diversified and nutritionally rich. Safeguarding the ecosystems where these grow plays a fundamental part. It affects the availability of pure food products. We all hold responsibility in working for the betterment of our planet. Responsibility for giving something back. The current situation is devastating and there's no waiting for the change to happen. Climate change is progressive and also should we!".
-Environmental Engineer, and Managing Head WBM Foundation.
WBM Foundation is a Non-Profit organization. Working on the essential cause of Environmental Sustainability. WBM Foundation is set up under Section 42 of the companies Act, 2017 (Repealed Ordinance 1984). Working for creating a better, innovative, resilient, harmonious, healthy, and sustainable future. To develop a pollution-free and healthy environment. For future generations and bring revolutionary change. By educating the masses about Environment Change.
The world should not stand doing anything for the next years to begin investing in nature as if it’s once gone, it’slost forever. Himalayan Chef wants to take steps to cut their footprint and improve the health of the planet. The company's Zero Emission Formula is altogether a success. A huge initiative for environmental protection. Leading its way as the First Food Brand in Pakistan working for the bigger cause, the planet cause.
Himalayan Chef is a Grocery & Food Brand that offers a diverse range of food products from Himalayan Pink Salt, Organic Seasonings, Basmati Rice, Pulses, Cooking Oils, Dried Fruits, and Cooking Plates to all kinds of Kitchen Staples. Himalayan Chef is dedicated to providing Pure, Fresh, Tasty yet nutritionally enriched food with no compromise on the quality. The brand works for a greater cause, eradicating Malnutrition that serves as the primary barrier to healthy eating and the driver of diet-related diseases. Himalayan Chef provides a selection of freshly produced Grocery Staples and made from scratch prepared Pure Foods.
Himalayan Chef has been at the forefront of all major Marketplaces worldwide and with most food retail chains. The brand works with Cargill and Morton Salt as the largest supplier of Salt Products and has been doing business in all the major countries of the world, including USA, Pakistan, Europe, South America, South Asia, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, Germany, Netherlands, Canada, Brazil, South Korea, Dubai, Bulgaria, Turkey, Philippine, Australia, and Thailand.
Please visit us at Himalayan Chef Pakistan- WBM International Online- Retail solution online shopping in Pakistan.
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Sydney — Over 30,000 residents in and around Sydney prepare to evacuate or abandon their homes on Monday as Australia’s largest city faces a fourth, perhaps worst flood, within a year and a half. I was told. Heavy rainy days flooded dams, waterways broke embankments, and created new flood emergencies in parts of the city of 5 million people.
“The latest information we have is that floods are very likely to be worse than any of the other three floods in these areas in the last 18 months,” said Murray Watt Emergency. The Minister of Situation Management said.
Watt added that the current floods could affect areas that were spared from the previous floods in March last year, March and April this year.
Prime Minister Dominique Perotet of New South Wales said 32,000 people were affected by evacuation orders and warnings.
“Maybe that number is expected to increase over the course of a week,” Perotet said.
Paramedics provided numerous flood rescues on Sundays and early Mondays, seeking help from hundreds more.
One year of rain in one day
Bureau of Meteorology manager Jane Golding said it has rained more than 39 inches in the last 24 hours in some areas between Newcastle, north of Sydney, and Wollongong, south of Sydney. Some received 59 inches or more. These sums are close to the average annual rainfall in the coastal areas of New South Wales.
“The system that produces this weather is showing signs of ease tomorrow, but we expect more rain to fall throughout the day,” Golding said.
She said it was predicted to rain all week across the coast of New South Wales, including Sydney. The Meteorological Bureau said Monday that up to 4.7 inches could fall to Sydney.
The risk of flooding was highest along the Hawkesbury River in northwestern Sydney and the Nepean River in western Sydney.
On Monday afternoon, the agency reported a massive flood in the Nepian communities of Menangle and Warasia on the southwestern tip of Sydney.
Floods also occurred in Hawkesbury, North Richmond, on the northwestern tip of Sydney. The Hawkesbury community in Windsor and Lower Portland was expected to be flooded on Monday afternoon, and Wisemans Ferry was expected to be flooded on Tuesday, according to a statement from the agency.
State Emergency Services Commissioner Carlene York said strong winds knocked down trees, damaged ditches and blocked roads. She advised not to make unnecessary trips.
A freighter with a disability is waiting for rescue
Off the coast of New South Wales, a cargo ship carrying 21 crew members went out of power after leaving the port of Wollongong on Monday morning. It was moored near the coast and the tugboat was preparing to pull it into the safer open ocean.
The ship has engineers who can repair the engine, port official Jon Finch told reporters. “Unfortunately, we happen to be in some terrible condition right now,” he said, explaining the 26-foot swell and wind blowing at 34 mph.
The previous plan to safely airlift the crew of a Portland Bay cargo ship was abandoned due to bad weather.
Repeated floods struck members of the riverside community in southwestern Sydney, said Teresa Federi, mayor of Camden, where homes and businesses flooded the Nepean River on Sunday night.
“It’s just catastrophic. They just keep saying’catastrophic, never again’,” Fedeli said.
“I just keep saying …” We have to be strong, we get over this. “But you deeply know that it’s really hitting a lot of people. I know, “she added.
Perotet said governments and communities need to adapt to the floods that are becoming more common across Australia’s most populous states.
“There is no doubt that these events are becoming more common to see what we see throughout Sydney, and the government will respond to the changing environment in which we find ourselves. Needs to be adjusted and confirmed, “said Perotet.
Thousands of people evacuated when Sydney faces its fourth flood in a year and a half
Source link Thousands of people evacuated when Sydney faces its fourth flood in a year and a half
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Bangladesh has come a long way in disaster preparedness since 1970, when about 500,000 people were killed in the Bhola cyclone. The country has built more than 2,500 cyclone shelters on elevated platforms, which serve the dual role of schools or community centers during normal weather. Early warning systems have been developed, and many volunteers have been trained to help evacuate people to the shelters.
However, preparedness is a constant battle, given the country has been battered by tropical disasters every few years. Tropical Cyclone Roanu was the latest test for Bangladesh.
On 14 May, a low pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal and consolidated into a tropical depression as it entered Sri Lanka over the east coast. Since then, nearly half a million people have been displaced and 82 people have died in Sri Lanka due to excessive rain and landslides caused by the depression, which became Tropical Cyclone Roanu on 19 May. The Maldives named the cyclone; “roanu” means “coir rope” in Maldivian (Dhivehi).
Roanu also brought torrential rainfall to the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. It drifted on northeastward to finally make landfall in the southeast of Bangladesh.
— DhakaTribune (@DhakaTribune) May 20, 2016
Bangladesh was better prepared this time. About 2 million people were evacuated before Roanu brought strong winds and rain to Bangladesh's populous coastal communities, killing at least 24 people and displacing about half a million people.
The death toll has been low, if you compare it to Cyclone Sidr in 2007 which claimed 3,447 lives and caused millions of dollars of damage. This time, the disaster management ministry, fire brigade and meteorological department worked together to keep the impact of Roanu to a minimum. However, many houses and roads may be damaged, leaving families without shelter for the oncoming monsoon season.
— Sajeeb Wazed (@sajeebwazed) May 24, 2016
— Dr. Imran H Sarker (@ImranHSarker) May 21, 2016
— UNDP Bangladesh (@UNDP_BD) May 22, 2016
Some people shared mobile phone videos of the storm on social media, such as this footage from YouTube:
Expat Bangladeshi Naser Imran Hossain described on Facebook how things have changed in his native country:
The greatest wealth that a nation has is it's people, be it ignorant, bigoted, religiously and socially intolerant people- they are the rulers of the land, they are the torchbearers, they are the ones that are best suited to thrive and survive. Even 10 years ago, a cyclone such as Roanu would kill hundreds, devastate thousands of lives- look how situation has change, how the death toll has dwindled, how information technology with improved clarity and awareness has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, giving them a second opportunity to start, anew from the ashes.
However, not everyone had the same thought. Educator Kaberi Gayen warned against downplaying the loss of life from Roanu:
রোয়ানু নেই নেই করেও ২৬ জনের জীবন নিয়ে নিয়েছে।
এটি ঘোষিত হতে পারতো জাতীয় দুর্যোগ। কিন্তু মৃত্যু আমাদের গা-সওয়া হয়ে গেছে।
Although it seems like an achievement, 26 lives have been lost due to Roanu. This could be declared a national disaster. But it seems we are accustomed to a large number of deaths.
The process of improving disaster preparedness in Bangladesh isn't over, but it's headed in the right direction, argued Khurshid Alam on the United Nations Development Programme's blog:
Bangladesh’s exposure to cyclones will not lessen – in fact, with climate change we may see the coast battered more often, harder, and in unpredictable ways. In the past decade, Bangladesh has transitioned from disaster management to disaster risk reduction by – among other things – changing the public mindset and government policy, expanding early warning systems and volunteerism, and engaging communities in identifying and addressing local risk.
We must all ask ourselves: how can we help in ways that don’t just alleviate suffering, but support communities to become more resilient for the future? Our work in disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh offers some of the best examples of how our efforts can prevent or reduce crises, not just manage them.
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Graphic by Sheena Lai; image Seascape by Mossy Muldoon.
Ever since the publication of Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic almost thirty years ago in 1993, C.L.R. James has been seen as a paradigmatic black Atlantic intellectual, and his work – including his classic history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins (1938) - has often been interpreted through that frame.1 Susan Gillman’s fascinating new study American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race asks us (among other matters) to speculate about whether another sea, the Mediterranean, might also offer a productive framework for further thinking about The Black Jacobins. James described how Toussaint Louverture, before becoming the leader of the Haitian Revolution, read and was inspired by the Abbé Raynal’s Histoire philosophique des Deux Indes (1770), which denounced the barbarity of slavery in the New World and predicted an “avenger” could one day arise, a new Spartacus. Gillman’s work, while exploring representations of the Caribbean region as an “American Mediterranean”, therefore specifically evokes “the Jamesian figure of ‘black Spartacus’ – an epithet for Toussaint L’Ouverture – who, crossing the Atlantic back to France and reshaping, temporarily, French revolutionary politics, brings classical slave revolt into the American Mediterranean to produce a revolutionary countergeography”2.
Ideas of a “black Spartacus” then first emerged during the age of Atlantic revolutions. The same year as the Histoire philosophique des Deux Indes was published, in 1770, Voltaire in his entry on “Slavery” in the Encyclopédie, had also noted that “the War of Spartacus and the Slaves was the most just war in History; perhaps the only just war in History”. The evocations by Voltaire and the Abbé Raynal of Spartacus were part of a new-found interest in Europe in the mid-eighteenth century in the almost forgotten Thracian gladiator who led a heroic rebellion against the Roman Empire in 73 B.C. Few of their European readers at the time made the direct link between admiration for a slave revolt in the ancient world and the obscene barbarism of contemporary New World colonial slavery. Yet the enslaved themselves in the Atlantic world were already taking matters into their own hands in their fight for freedom, and indeed just a few months after Bernard Saurin’s popular play Spartacus was staged to acclaim in Paris in February 1760, “Tacky’s War” rocked colonial Jamaica.3
In 1791, the Haitian Revolution erupted, and in 1796, the republican governor of French colonial Saint-Domingue, Étienne Laveaux, explicitly honoured Toussaint Louverture, his new black deputy, not just as “the saviour of legitimate authority” in the colony but “the black Spartacus, the leader announced by the philosopher Raynal to avenge the crimes perpetuated against his race”. As Sudhir Hazareesingh notes in his impressive recent study Black Spartacus, likely to be the definitive biography of “the epic life of Toussaint Louverture” for the foreseeable future, “this was the first time Toussaint was publicly likened to Spartacus. Nothing moves as swiftly as revolutionary time, but even he probably could not have imagined, when he embraced the slave revolt in 1791, that five years later the governor of Saint-Domingue would be comparing him to such an illustrious Thracian predecessor”. Toussaint himself seems to have appreciated the comparison, having a bust of Raynal in his offices.4
Despite the title of his work, Hazareesingh does not dwell on the evocation of Toussaint as the “Black Spartacus”, though he notes Fidel Castro, who while in prison in 1954, declared how “the insurrection of black slaves in Haiti” inspired him, and that “at a time when Napoleon was imitating Caesar, and France resembled Rome, the soul of Spartacus was born in Toussaint Louverture”5. Unlike the revolt of Spartacus and his legions, that was soon defeated and crushed by those in power after two years of fighting, the Haitian Revolution represented an inspiring twelve-year epic and victorious liberation struggle, “the only successful slave revolt in history,” as James noted in The Black Jacobins. While Toussaint’s own fate was destined to be as tragic as that of Spartacus, ultimately his cause, the abolition of slavery and black self-governance, triumphed.
Gillman rightly notes James – like Hazareesingh - therefore maintains “strategic silences” whenever evoking Toussaint as a black Spartacus, “omitting elements from the history of the classical Spartacus” given that Spartacus was “historically defeated”6. Yet Gillman also notes how James’s figuring of a “black Spartacus”, however briefly done in The Black Jacobins, brought the classical Mediterranean back into New World revolutionary thinking during the 1930s and 1940s. Indeed, in a review of Richard Wright’s Native Son in 1940, just two years after The Black Jacobins was published, James once again evoked “the slave revolts of Spartacus” and “the legions of Spartacus” alongside other great moments in revolutionary history, not simply “the black revolt in San Domingo” but also “Cromwell’s Ironsides, the Paris enragés, the Russian workers defending Petrograd against Yudenich, the Spanish workers defending Madrid” and “the march of the Chinese Communists across China in 1936”7.
Gillman points to more general contemporary literary and cultural references to Spartacus during the mid-twentieth century that were contemporaneous with James, including Arthur Koestler’s 1939 novel The Gladiators and Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 film, based on Howard Fast’s 1954 novel.8 One other interesting example that precedes the publication of The Black Jacobins, is the 1933 novel Spartacus by the Scottish novelist James Leslie Mitchell, better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Born the same year as James, Mitchell had also become a revolutionary socialist with sympathies for Trotsky by the early 1930s, and so while James was researching the life of Toussaint, Mitchell was researching that of Spartacus, and James was aware of his work. James and Mitchell were never political comrades, though another activist James did know well in the 1930s, F.A. Ridley, was an enthusiast of Spartacus, publishing a pamphlet in 1944 and then a longer book in 1962. Ridley’s work was dedicated to “the immortal memory of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and the German Spartacists of 1919”, who also, as Gillman notes, would have been clear inspirations for James. Indeed, James had detailed the activism of the revolutionary socialist Spartacist group during the German Revolution the year before he published The Black Jacobins in his 1937 history of the Communist International, World Revolution, 1917-1936.9
There are other potential ways that the Mediterranean might be linked to The Black Jacobins aside from the historical figure of Spartacus. For example, while James pioneered a Marxist analysis of the sugar plantation in The Black Jacobins, describing them as “huge sugar factories” and so those who worked on them “closer to a modern proletariat than any group of workers in existence at the time”, since 1938 the development of scholarship on slavery means we now know more about the Mediterranean origins of the sugar plantation, and the important precursor to New World slavery that took place in fifteenth century Madeira.10 As an aside, when thinking about slave revolts more widely in terms of world history, we might also remember the 500,000 strong Zanj rebellion of East African slaves during 868-883 in mediaeval Iraq against the Abbasid Caliphate. As Victor Kiernan noted in The Lords of Human Kind (1969), the Haitian Revolution was “one of the two greatest Black rebellions in history, the other being that of the slaves brought into southern Iraq to drain marshes for the Arabs a thousand years before; and these two along with the Spartacus rising in Roman Italy may be counted the three most tremendous slave revolts in all history”11.
Finally, with respect to the Mediterranean region and revolutionary theory, it is perhaps also worth recalling James’s fascination with the forms of popular democratic politics and culture in ancient Greece. James would often compare the potentialities of (limited) forms of direct democracy in ancient Athens to what might be possible in the small islands of the Caribbean once they had broken free of colonialism. This admiration for ancient Greece dated back to James’s early life in colonial Trinidad in the early twentieth century, beginning with his classical education at the elite secondary school to which he had won a scholarship, Queen’s Royal College. As he later put it, “I believed that if when I left school I had gone into the society of Ancient Greece I would have been more at home than ever I had been since. It was a fantasy, but for me it had meaning.”12 Such fantasies were reinforced by his wider autodidactic reading, including of Matthew Arnold. Arnold’s “Hellenism”, his admiration of the civilization of Ancient Greece, found an echo in James’s 1956 homage to Athens and the Greek city states, Every Cook Can Govern: A Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece, as well as his 1963 cultural study of cricket, Beyond a Boundary (which includes in passing a short Marxist history of the Olympic Games).13 James had visited Athens in 1954, and as John L Williams notes in his fine recent biography of James, “being in the country itself had taken his longstanding interest in Greek history and philosophy to a new level”14.
As James put it in Beyond a Boundary, “Greco-Roman we are, and, as the years of crisis deepen, the heritage of imperial Rome becomes more than ever a millstone around our necks and ball and chain on our feet. On the other hand, as we intensify our countless billions of candle-power so that they threaten to consume us, the luminous glow of the Greek city-state seems to penetrate more searchingly into every corner of our civilization.”15 James’s passionate denunciation of how “the heritage of imperial Rome becomes more than ever a millstone around our necks and ball and chain on our feet” shows that his was a rich historical imagination where the inspiring revolt of the enslaved of the Roman Empire under the leadership of Spartacus was not to be forgotten, nor those who repressed it ever to be forgiven. James’s comment that “Greco-Roman we are” is remarkable enough when one considers that he was here referring to all those shaped by the British Empire, whether in the imperial metropole itself or colonial subjects like himself, growing up in the “British West Indies”. Yet “Greco-Roman” perhaps suggests a possible further form of identification for James with not simply the ancient Greek city-states but also with Rome, less the empire itself but with those like Spartacus who rebelled against it. Susan Gillman’s work on American Mediterraneans is a welcome reminder of not just the unfinished revolutions of the Caribbean region, conceived by some during the mid-twentieth century as a New World Mediterranean, but also of how while C.L.R. James may well have been a paradigmatic figure of the twentieth century “black Atlantic”, his interests and enthusiasms stretched beyond all boundaries.
[Cover Image of Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg's Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions (Pluto Press, 2017).]
- 1. Paul Gilroy himself described James as one of the “best-known black Atlantic figures”. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Double Consciousness and Modernity (London: Verso, 1993), xi. For more discussion on James and the black Atlantic as it relates to his life and work in the 1930s, see Christian Høgsbjerg, “Beyond the Boundary of the Black Atlantic? C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain”, Correspondence: Hitotsubashi Journal of Arts and Literature, 1 (2016), 113-140.
- 2. Susan Gillman, American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022), 99.
- 3. For more on representations of Spartacus in the eighteenth century, see Brent D. Shaw, “Spartacus before Marx,” Princeton, Stanford Working Papers in Classics, 2005, https://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/shaw/110516.pdf.
- 4. Sudhir Hazareesingh, Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (New York, Farrar, Straus and Girouz, 2020), 99-100.
- 5. Hazareesingh, Black Spartacus, 327.
- 6. Gillman, American Mediterraneans, 135-36.
- 7. C.L.R. James, “Native Son and Revolution” in Scott McLemee and Paul Le Blanc (eds.), C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism (New York: Humanity Books, 2000), 89, 91.
- 8. Gillman, American Mediterraneans, 132.
- 9. F.A. Ridley, Spartacus: The Leader of the Roman Slaves (Ashford: Frank Maitland, 1962), 1.
- 10. C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (London: Penguin, 2001), 69; Philip D. Curtin, The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995); Jason W. Moore, “Madeira, Sugar, and the Conquest of Nature in the ‘First’ Sixteenth Century: Part I: From ‘Island of Timber’ to Sugar Revolution, 1420–1506”, Review (Fernand Braudel Center), 32, 4 (2009), 345-390.
- 11. Victor Kiernan, The Lords of Human Kind (London: The Cresset Library, 1988), 198.
- 12. C.L.R. James, Beyond a Boundary (London: Hutchinson, 1969), 152.
- 13. For more on Arnold’s influence on James, see Christian Høgsbjerg, C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014).
- 14. John L. Williams, C.L.R. James: A Life Beyond Boundaries (London: Constable, 2022), 258.
- 15. James, Beyond a Boundary, 152.
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As the number of states allowing medical marijuana grows—the total has reached 25 plus the District of Columbia—some are working to address physicians’ knowledge gap with training programs, according to a report from Kaiser Health News (KHN). States are beginning to require doctors to take continuing medical education courses that detail how marijuana interacts with the nervous system and other medications, as well as its adverse effects.
Although laws vary, they have common themes, KHN notes. They usually set up a process by which states establish marijuana dispensaries, where patients with qualifying medical conditions can obtain the drug. The conditions are specified on a state-approved list, and the role of doctors is often to certify that patients have one of those ailments. But many say that, without knowing cannabis’ health effects, even writing a certification makes them uncomfortable.
This medical uncertainty is complicated by confusion over how to navigate often- contradictory laws. While states generally involve physicians in the process by which patients obtain marijuana, national drug policies have traditionally had a chilling effect on these conversations.
The Federation of State Medical Boards has tried to add clarity. In an August 9 JAMA editorial, leaders noted that federal law technically prohibits prescribing marijuana, and tasks states that allow it for medical use to “implement strong and effective … enforcement systems to address any threat those laws could pose to public safety, public health, and other interests.” If state regulation is deemed insufficient, the federal government can step in.
That’s why many doctors say they feel caught in the middle, not completely sure of where the line is drawn between legal medical practice and what could get them in trouble, according to the KHN article.
In New York, which legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes in 2014, the state health department rolled out a certification program last October. (The state’s medical marijuana program was launched in January 2016.) The course, which lasts approximately four hours and costs $249, is part of a larger physician registration process. So far, the state estimates that 656 physicians have completed the required steps. Other states have contacted New York’s Department of Health to learn how the training works.
Pennsylvania and Ohio are developing similar programs. Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, doctors who wish to participate in the state medical marijuana program are required to take courses approved by the American Medical Association. Maryland doesn’t require training but encourages it through its Medical Cannabis Commission website––a policy also followed in some other states.
Physicians appear to welcome such direction, KHN says. A 2013 study in Colorado, for instance, found that more than 80% of family doctors thought physicians needed medical training before recommending marijuana.
Education is essential, given the complexity of how marijuana interacts with the body and how little physicians know, said Dr. Stephen Corn, an associate professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at Harvard Medical School.
“You need a multihour course to learn where the medical cannabis works within the body,” Corn said. “As a patient, would you want a doctor blindly recommending something without knowing how it’s going to interact with your other medications? What to expect from it? What not to expect?”
But many say the current science is too weak to answer those questions, according to the KHN article. One reason: the federal Drug Enforcement Agency classifies marijuana as a schedule I drug, the same level as heroin. This classification makes it difficult for researchers to gain access to the drug and to obtain approval for human subjects to participate in studies. The White House rejected a petition last week to reclassify marijuana in a less-strict category, although federal authorities say they will start letting more facilities grow the plants for the purpose of research. (Currently, only the University of Mississippi can produce it, which advocates say limits study efforts.)
Source: Kaiser Health News; August 15, 2016.
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Public Art is the manifestation of a community’s self-identity and a reflection of the value citizens place on their environment. A diverse collection of art in a city tells our stories, provides interest in neighborhoods, creates identity, establishes community presence, and reflects the many talents of artists. Public art should be incorporated into the fabric of our infrastructure, its presence clear in public spaces and neighborhoods. It can transform eyesores into amenities, enliven design, provide way finding, become a landmark, and create spaces and places where people want to visit and stay. Public art creates community dialogues and we should celebrate its role in providing that discourse.
Public Art is a city’s legacy that needs to be nurtured and cared for. Proper stewardship for the collection reflects that caring and commitment to quality.
In March of 2000, the City of Tacoma reinstated the Municipal Art Program that dedicates 1% of construction costs from public capital projects to the creation of public art.
The City of Tacoma’s public art collection is diverse and pieces can be found in virtually every neighborhood in Tacoma.
We encourage you to take a tour of some of the public art pieces you can find throughout Pierce County. Some of these pieces are part of the City of Tacoma’s public art collection. Launch Tacoma Online Public Art Tour
Is there public art in Pierce County that you would like to see added to the Public Art Tour? All you need to do is fill out and submit the Public Art Tour Submission Form (word document).
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[col32]Studies show that kids who eat breakfast do better in school, score higher on tests, and are less likely to be absent. But getting kids to buy in is another matter. That’s the challenge we took on for the Child Nutrition Program Administration of the NYS Education Department back in 2002. We created the Think Breakfast! initiative from scratch–and it has gone on to become a multi-media, award-winning statewide campaign. Materials for the program include: posters, brochures, classroom educational activities, fun student hand-outs, and a rap video.
Our k-5 classroom-based program continues to get high marks from educators across the state. Year after year, in our surveys, teachers tell us the kids really respond to our materials, and that the Think Breakfast! message is hitting home. Response has been tremendous; more than 35% of New York State schools participate in the initiative. [/col32]
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As we delegate more and more of our daily tasks to smart devices, so apps are increasing in importance.
We’re at the point now where for some businesses their app is actually their main asset.
Take mobile banks, for example. They don’t have a physical bank for customers to visit. There’s no legacy of conversations with bank managers to build trust. The only way these mobile banks can secure and keep the trust of their customers is through the app itself.
That’s why app security is so vital for business success these days. After all, a data breach can lead to this trust evaporating in an instant.
So, choosing how to protect your app has become a pretty big decision. Different apps need different layers of security.
We had a conversation recently with a potential customer who was making some initial decisions about how to protect their app. And as part of that process they asked us about cloud-based app security. They had heard about it and wanted to know our opinion on it.
We had to be honest. We told them that we don’t recommend cloud-based app security.
In this article we’ll explain why. We’ll touch on why we think local protection is more robust. But we’ll also suggest one way companies might protect their apps online that provides a little bit more security.
Self isolation for apps
We’re approaching the end of 2020. And as such we’re all pretty well-versed in the concept of self isolation. If we want to limit the spread of covid-19, then we need to keep a safe distance from one another and, where possible, stay home.
As it turns out, self isolation isn’t a bad idea for apps, either.
You see, there’s a principle in cybersecurity that says that the fewer access areas you have, the better. This makes sense when you think about it, because what you want to do is limit the opportunities bad actors have to attack.
The more doors you add to your home, the more likely it is you’ll forget to lock one of them.
This is one of the main problems with cloud-based app security in our opinion. Because the first step in the process is typically for you to upload an application container (APK or AAB for Android, and IPA for iOS) to the cloud. But as this application container makes its way from your computer to the cloud, it’s highly vulnerable. You can’t be sure that it won’t be altered or tampered with in some way before it arrives.
On its journey to the cloud, the application container might be intercepted. It could fall victim to a man-in-the-middle attack. Hackers might even manipulate it in order to carry out a phishing attack.
Imagine you register on a cloud-based security portal and successfully upload your application container. But later that day you receive an email or SMS telling you that you need to re-upload it because some vulnerabilities have been detected with the application.
“Just click on the link below to upload it again..”
Except that link is a malicious link. And the message isn’t from the cloud-based security company at all.
So, the initial act of transferring the application container is the first problem with cloud-based app security. But it isn’t the only one.
Compromising your keys
Another issue arises if your app contains security assets like API keys, security key materials, or login credentials.
You should never share this information with a third party. But by design that’s exactly what you’re doing with a cloud-based app security solution.
You’re technically compromising your keys.
One way to tamper proof your app - which we’ve written about before on this site - is to digitally sign under your app to certify it. In an ideal world, this would be enough on its own. But more often than not that isn’t the case, because a bad actor can still re-sign an app and even upload it to stores to mislead people.
That’s not to say that signing isn’t an important part of the process. The signature under an app can be used as an input to calculate cryptographic functions that can then be used for wider protection measures.
However, carrying out this process on the cloud isn’t safe. Unless of course it’s done at the app store itself - whether that’s Google or Amazon.
We’ll come back to that later.
Integration can also be problematic on a cloud-based platform. The build server where you create the app before publishing it should really be offline (or at least in a private, secured segment of the network) so that hackers can’t change something in the server or modify the app. Again, being connected to the cloud means you’re adding more doors for bad actors to open.
This is even more of an issue when you consider that some large organizations have a dozen or more apps designed for different regions that follow specific regulations. What’s more, if your app has cryptographic algorithms that are subject to expert controls in one country, it might not be legally possible to transfer the app across territories.
Alternatives to cloud-based app security
So, if we don’t think cloud-based app security is the best way to keep your app safe, what do we suggest?
Well, there are two main alternatives. The first of these is to protect your app locally, which is what we would recommend as the best option.
Local app protection is isolated. It takes place somewhere bad actors - both external and internal - can’t interfere with the process.
At Licel we often refer to the cryptographic puzzle when we talk about robust local protection.
What we’re talking about here is ideal-world security that works with the final containers and keys deep inside your app.
From such a depth, a local protection solution can carry out cryptographic pre-calculations. That means if something has been modified in the protected app, then the cryptographic puzzle won’t be solved correctly. And because of that, the app will become inoperable.
This prevents any kind of tampering, re-signing, and injection of malicious logic.
With a cloud-based security platform, it simply isn’t possible to manage and protect this cryptographic puzzle with anywhere near as much integrity.
That's because the app isn’t isolated - as such it’s exposed to lots of risks. It means you're not in control.
How to make cloud-based app security safer
But there is a second alternative to cloud-based app security aside from local app protection. In this second scenario, both the signing of the app and the robust protection we’ve mentioned above are carried out by Google or Amazon at their secure servers.
Most app stores use cloud signing to secure apps. The benefit of this approach is that the keys that are used are a lot more robust. The downside is that these companies have their own methodologies for signing and there isn’t anything you can do to influence that. And as the process still involves people, there’s room for mistakes to happen such as cloned apps being approved for uploading.
That said, this option - as yet a slightly hypothetical one - offers a lot of potential to make cloud-based app protection much safer (and more effective) than it is at the moment.
So, what was our final recommendation to our potential client? Put simply, to use local app protection where possible.
In a future scenario where Google or Amazon offer this same level of protection in a cloud-based environment, we might be able to recommend that too. But at the moment, the only robust approach is a local one.
The client in question was developing a highly-critical app. And so we also suggested that they use a Hardware Secure Module (HSM) to store their signing keys. That’s because files stored outside of such a module are open to theft. Just one more reason why an online, cloud-based solution might have been problematic for them.
It's important to remember that we’re all pioneers in this application journey. Apps are now so entrenched in our everyday lives that it's easy to forget they've only been around for a decade or so. But there’s often a disconnect between the importance of an app to business success and the level of security it’s given.
Let’s protect apps in a way that’s worthy of their growing influence on the world.
That way we can make sure that it’s the end users who benefit from them rather than bad actors.
If you’re at the early stages of thinking about how to secure your app, we’re always open to talking through options with you. You can also find out more about our local app protection product, DexProtector, which works deep within your app to secure it against tampering and dynamic analysis.
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Recently my son and I went on a 3-day pilgrimage to Selma and Montgomery. We were part of a small, diverse group of clergy leaders from Jacksonville. This gracious group welcomed my son, who joined us everywhere, including in the sacred circle of listening and sharing we formed upon arrival and which we returned to throughout our journey.
This was a time of challenge, discomfort, grief, and angst. It was also a time of great hope as we committed to one another to continue meeting, sharing, and growing. As one participant stated: “For me this is not a ‘one and done’.”
Pictured here is my son in a park at the edge of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which memorializes victims of lynching. Ida B. Wells has described lynching as our national crime. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she reported courageously on crimes of lynching, providing essential documentation for executions that might not otherwise be traceable.
My hometown of Jacksonville, FL continues to do the work of identifying, researching and memorializing victims locally that also are remembered at this site in Montgomery. I will continue processing and leaning into this work. I know in many ways I am just at the beginning. Discomfort is a given. Discomfort is a small price to pay as we acknowledge and begin healing from these collective crimes and the residual continuing impact of racism on all of us regardless of the color of our skin or our “social location.”
Imagine the discomfort of one who was lynched for the supposed crime of vagrancy. Or of those pursued by angry mobs who participated in — and witnessed by the thousands — their vicious torture and executions.
If this topic makes you uncomfortable, I say Hallelujah! Join us in this messy, awkward journey of collective healing. Join us as we uncover and discover the deep roots and legacy of racism and oppression in our midst. We must persist.
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released 4 August 1967 by EMI Columbia. The only album made under founding member Syd Barrett's leadership, it takes its title from chapter seven of Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows, which refers to the nature God Pan, and was recorded at EMI Studios in London from February to May 1967 with producer Norman Smith. The band at the time consisted of Syd Barrett, Nick Mason (drums), Roger Waters, and Richard Wright. Barrett also served as the band's primary songwriter, though two tracks on the album are credited to the band collectively and one track was written by Waters. The album was produced by Norman Smith, who would go on to produce two more albums for Pink Floyd.
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A self driving car may appear attractive and whether we like them or not, they are on the way to our UK roads. Imagine though, the thrill of one day being able to take the back seat and put your feet up while your car drives you to your destination. Is it possible that a journey to work that is wrought with traffic maybe taking up to 3 hours could suddenly be traffic free and only take an hour?
The technicalities of self driving cars
Not having to get behind the wheel to work any more sounds appealing to many of us, especially during stressful times. For some, it would mean being able to catch up on some work. For others, they can catch up on their sleep after night out on the town with their friends. Whatever your reason self-driving cars will be prone to error and crashes are one of them.
We still have to be aware that nipping around on the road still poses legal obligations, even in self-driving cars. Just who is to blame if one accidentally crashes? Will it be you, the car, the programmer or anyone else? We all know that technology does have a habit of failing us sometimes so imagine you're reading your newspaper and are fully dependent on on your car to function well. Suddenly, your car begins drifting out of its lane, and its computer systems fail, so who is to blame?
Although self-driving cars appear to be awesome with the thought kicking off our shoes and put our feet up, in reality, this would be impossible! At least in the initial stages, we will need to still keep our eyes peeled on the roads at all times. Should your new driverless car lose control for whatever reason, you will still need to be in a position to immediately takeover.
The legalities of self driving cars
Self driving cars will be equipped with alerting systems to warn drivers. As technology grows in the future, so will the car's alert systems. We can expect car manufacturing companies to eventually become giant software companies, that will enable programming upgrades and updates.
This obviously means that we will need to be alert even though the car is self driving. It is possible that self driving cars will be programmed to alert passengers if they are not paying attention to their surrounding environment as well. This will mean our attention will still need to be inside and outside of the car.
We all know that computers can fail at times, so there will be more than likely an alert that a passenger may need to take over. It is also possible that self driving cars will not be able to cope on certain terrains, or they may consider it as too dangerous, thus again an alert system may well be implemented.
A driverless car may be able to collect data just like a black box on an aeroplane. This system will be in place to provide information to the manufacturer and insurance companies should there be any fatal accidents.
The legal bits are an incredibly grey area which could be enough to put off anybody wanting to drive self driving cars. The truth is, however, there are thousands of daily accidents with today's cars, but if self driving cars reduces this number significantly, then it will all be worth while for worth humans and autonomous agents working together.
For years, the military has been using robots to disarm bombs etc. so this subject of 'who's to blame' has been highly debated. During experiments, they found that the more human-like robots there were, the more humans put their trust into autonomous agents. However, this doesn't solve the issue, there is in fact a lot at stake with the law, the human operator, the manufacturer, software, technicians/mechanics, the installer of the program and more. In the event of an accident, each one would have to prove that their operations were not defective.
So, who do you think should be to blame if a self driving car goes wrong?
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Start with trust to set the foundations of a relationships when a new person joins your team. The first impression you make on them sets the foundation for the rest of your journey together. Before you impress upon them your intentions and objectives as a leader, you should first establish with yourself what you believe to be the foundation of such as relationship.
See also New Hires for thoughts on the three most impactful people in determining the joy, success and fulfillment an employee finds in their job.
As a leader, begin with deciding if you buy into the notion that solving for the team member’s best interest is also in your own and your organization’s best interest. In other words, do you believe that the most effective people are those that love what they do and the more they have passion for what they do, the greater their value to the organization is likely to be. If you don’t believe with conviction that helping your team members (be they subordinates or peers) find and achieve their goals, you will be hampered in your own success and that of your team. They will know the difference subconsciously or consciously.
Lou Holtz also starts with trust
Legendary football coach Lou Holtz, now retired and in the College Football Hall of Fame, had an uncanny ability to turn losing teams into winners. During his college coaching career, he compiled a record of 249 wins, 132 losses, and 7 ties. Holtz’s 1988 Notre Dame team was undefeated and determined to be the consensus national champion.
Holtz too believes you should start with trust. He said that players had three implicit questions about a new coach:
- “Can I trust you?”
- “Are you committed?”
- “Do you care about me?”
This brings to mind two quotes about thinking well of others and the impact it may have on them…Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.
– Nelson Mandela
Start with Trust for Effective Communication
Effective communication is often addressed in the form of tools you can use such as active listening, empathic listening, powerful questions, making eye contact, not interrupting, paying attention, withholding judgement, echoing back, radical candor, … At the core of effectively using any of these techniques is our genuine interest to hear what the other person is saying and to have genuine concern for their well-being. If we’re not genuinely interested, they will know, even if only subconsciously.
Clever Hans (in German: der Kluge Hans) was an Orlov Trotterhorse that was claimed to have performed arithmetic and other intellectual tasks. After a formal investigation in 1907, psychologistOskar Pfungst demonstrated that the horse was not actually performing these mental tasks, but was watching the reactions of his trainer.
Start with Trust Within Yourself
If you don’t believe with conviction, it might help to dig deeper into some of the the well researched books about teams and working with others before continuing here. Note, there have been successful teams built around amazing players such as those described in Tim Grover’s Relentless – From Good to Great to Unstoppable and there is much to be learned there as well, but for that type of team, please refer to Grover’s book.
Hans’ ability to stop stomping out the “right” answer was cued by the audience changing demeanor once he arrived at it. Horses and humans take non-verbal cues as to our intent. All those techniques that serve as cues will come more naturally, be more convincing and effective if our interest in those we lead, live and work with can sense it’s genuine.
Horse Whisperers Start with Trust
In her article 4 Leadership Lessons from Horse Whispering, Praseeda Nair points out…
Studies into human communication reveals that only 7 per cent of any communication is conveyed though actual words; 93 per cent are conveyed non-verbally, through facial expressions, posture and tone.
Horse whispering is all about communicating using non-verbal cues and body language. Natural Horsemen also start with trust. They believe horses are as unique as individuals, so it’s easy to extrapolate this form of communication for interpersonal conversations.
Trainers say that leading a horse only requires three main things: establishing trust, demonstrating respect, and communicating directions clearly. Here are the main leadership lessons to learn from communicating with horses.
Once you have the conviction that you’re solving for the other, you can start to get them on board by telling and showing them that their best interest is in your best interest.
Once you are both clear on your intent, the journey can begin either at the first interview with a powerful question. It can certainly also begin later with a first “real” powerful conversation in your first 1-on-1 (if you weren’t part of the interview process). Towards the end of the first interaction, I like to arrive at asking an employee or candidate to relate a time or experience that fundamentally changed who they are. You often get the most amazing stories, you also learn who they are and what they value, and you feel you should share something in return yourself. Now, you have a foundation of genuine interest in the person upon which a relationship of trust can be built. A question that reveals who they are and what they want in life also provides the context in which more immediate goals can be framed. Now, when you might need to have a difficult conversation, it won’t be a conflict of one opinion against the other in a battle of offense and defensiveness, but rather a mutual objective of getting past the challenge. If the question/conversation is truly powerful, it can lead to a self realization for that person about what matters to them, what gives them energy and clarity on why their near term objectives are important to them. Simon Sinek also believes you should start with trust. He says building relationships is hard work on How to Establish Trust When Building Relationships. As Brené Brown puts it in The power of vulnerability, in order to connect, we have to be seen.
Start with Trust in the Very First Interaction
Towards the end of the first interaction, I like to arrive at asking an employee or candidate to relate a time or experience that fundamentally changed who they are. You often get the most amazing stories, you also learn who they are and what they value, and you feel you should share something in return yourself. Now, you have a foundation of genuine interest in the person upon which a relationship of trust can be built. A question that reveals who they are and what they want in life also provides the context in which more immediate goals can be framed. Now, when you might need to have a difficult conversation, it won’t be a conflict of one opinion against the other in a battle of offense and defensiveness, but rather a mutual objective of getting past the challenge. If the question/conversation is truly powerful, it can lead to a self realization for that person about what matters to them, what gives them energy and clarity on why their near term objectives are important to them. Simon Sinek says building relationships is hard work on How to Establish Trust When Building Relationships. As Brené Brown puts it in The power of vulnerability, in order to connect, we have to be seen.
Where should that conversation end?
Ideally, the person you’re hoping to lead or already leading walks away with a feeling of genuine trust that you are going to solve for their best interest together with them. It’s ok if they understand their success will benefit the business and you, but that should be the outcome and not the objective. When they believe your benefit and the business are the primary objective and their success is an outcome and not the objective, you will discover they are not nearly as motivated. Your intent may be good, but it is the impact that matters. In closing, it can be good to ask them if they genuinely believe you are interested in and will solve for what’s best for them. If they don’t, and you might tell by how they say it more than the words they use, you know have something to work on. Until that foundation of trust is there, all other conversations will be much less impactful.
Caveat – What if it doesn’t turn out?
When you hire someone or engage with them as a client, you should be convinced it will work out such that they are successful and you should solve to that end. However, you should also let them know you don’t have a crystal ball, and no matter how how you try to set them up for success, there is no guarantee it will work. Ultimately, if they are succeeding, you have a responsibility to them, others on the team and yourself to recognize that could leave you in a place where you believe that engagement isn’t successful. You should both accept that’s a possible outcome from day one.
At SAS – 37 consecutive years of record earnings–$2.8 billion in 2012.
As CEO Jim Goodnight points out in How SAS Became The World’s Best Place To Work “the diagnosis from Gallup is just as dire: Fewer than 3 in 10 workers admit to having their hearts in their jobs. This lack of employee engagement will cost business upwards of $300 billion this year alone.” He also suggests Value People Above All Else and Trust Above All Things – The foundation of employee happiness at SAS, Goodnight believes, is its culture of trust.
In a team setting
Start with trust in team settings. You might have everyone go around the room – possibly over lunch – relating something about themselves no one else in the room knows. This can help the team feel more connected. A fun alternative is to have everyone write their experience on a piece of paper that each person will then pull one to read and the team guesses who it might be. It may help to open by giving an example or two from your own life to provide context for the types of things people might say or write down.
At some of the companies I’ve worked, we’ve also had new hires get up in the company to tell a story that no one knows with bonus points if it’s embarrassing – this too can help provide a foundation for a more human connection.
Trust In the Classroom
When teaching, especially 8th graders, if you want to have any hope of reaching your students, start with trust. It’s hard to make progress in the classroom if there isn’t a connection established. I remember a school event where parents where dumbfounded that their 8th graders were asking me to be in selfies with them. If you can have that kind of connection with 8th graders, you can also help them appreciate that your objective is to prepare them for life and help them learn how to learn.
In another classroom – Growing Roses from Concrete.
My first assignment as a student teacher was to work with a teacher that had a special class of students with “learning issues.” On the day I showed up, the principal informed me that the teacher had quit the previous day and asked if I’d be willing to still lead the class. I was also told that these were 8th graders that other teachers had given up on being able to manage in their classrooms in a school where most student came from very tough backgrounds. They all later confided in me that everyone of them was in a gang and they figured they’d be lucky to live to the age of 18, and hence, education wasn’t a big priority for them – and education beyond high school was beyond their wildest dreams. So, if I want to develop their talent, how to I establish that necessary foundation of connection and trust?
I remembered a book one of my professors had suggested that she used when she taught at juvenile hall. It was Tupac Shakur‘s book of poetry The Rose That Grew From Concrete.
I bought enough used copies of the book so each student could have once to keep as their own. The students were surprised that I even knew who Tupac was and that I knew lots of his material, but they were really surprised that I had bought them this book for them to keep. They didn’t know that Pac wrote poetry, they had really not expected me to be showing them something from Pac they hadn’t know about. When I next saw them, most of these 8th graders told me it was the first book they ever read. They were proud to carry it around with them, and they had selected their favorite poem. Some had also been inspired to write their first poem after reading it. I could not read any of their poems without tears coming to my eyes – pretty amazing stuff.
Some pointed out that this was cool, and the only other reading of poetry some previous teachers had tried to foist on them was some junk by Shakespeare. I pointed out that Shakespeare just grew up in a different time, in another country and on another type of “concrete”. That tweaked their curiosity, and now a door was open to expand their horizons and awareness.
Know your audience and find a connection is a valid context to find a place to start any dialog. Embrace the challenge, enjoy the fruits of your investments.
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The payasam is the main attraction of a sadya. There are many varieties and versions of payasam, but the one I love most is the simple basic paal payasam (Rice Kheer).
At my place, it’s always been a practice to make only one payasam, but many people make 3 or even 4 payasams for a sadya, esp. when preparing for Onam. My mother and brother make excellent paal payasam. They tend to the payasam with same love and care one does for a small child and its no wonder that it turns out perfect every single time!
Milk based payasam have more or less the same basic method. Cook the rice, ada, semiya or whatever grain in milk. Then add the sugar and let it boil till it reaches the correct consistency.
There are many other milk based payasams. This one has rice, another famous one is palada pradhaman. I was planning to make it this year, but changed my mind due to lack of time.
- pineapple payasam (can be milk/coconut milk based),
- Semiya payasam,
- Sago payasam,
- Aval (rice flakes) payasam
- and of course, Palada Pradhaman – and many more, which are all milk based.
Another popular kind of payasam is jaggery based. For this payasam, you need to melt the jaggery in a little bit of water and strain it to remove impurities. You then add the already cooked grain (at times the rice/ada may not cook properly if you add jaggery to it) and thin coconut milk (if the recipe demands it) and let it boil for sometime. When the grain is cooked completely, you add the thick coconut milk and you are done.
- Ada Pradhaman,
- Gothambu (wheat payasam) pradhaman,
- Sharkara payasam/nei payasam,
- Chakka (jackfruit) pradhaman,
- Parippu Pradhaman,
- Pazham pradhaman and many more which are jaggery based.
You need to check out my last year’s Sadya post for the paal payasam recipe.
P is also for Pappadam and pickle. Another two important items in a sadya. Pickle can be again 3 (or even 4) types. In my place, again, its just one. Inji curry/ Inji Puli/ Puli Inji is a must for Onasadya.
P is also for Pookkalam, the floral carpet/ flower rangoli. This is put in the front of the house, so as to welcome Mahabali when he comes to visit us for Onam. After about 20 plus years, I did a pookkalam this year.
The inspiration is from my friend, who put the pookkalam for all the ten days (I missed two days :( ) from Atham to Thiruvonam. The below (except the last one) are her creations. I missed two important ones – the one she put for Ganesh Chathurthi ( face of ganesha as pookkalam) and Uthradam (It was Oda Kuzhal – flute of Krishna).
Everyday, I would take my new dSLR(Canon 600D) and go to her place and click from all possible angles. Its almost like doing yoga in that corridor ;-)
Her corridor has absolutely no light and so I was never able to capture the full beauty of it…not to mention that I still haven’t figured out how to use the camera effectively :D.
Taken in poor light conditions by a struggling photographer, these pictures don’t do full justice to the beauty of the pookkalams. Hopefully I will be better next year, or may I can ask her to do it inside the house, where there is good light ;-).
Admire these pookkalams from Atham to Thiruvonam, (missed two days in between :D).
The last pookkalam was put by the residents as part of the Onam celebrations in our association complex.
- A – Avial, Ada Pradhaman, Achinga Payar – Chena Mezhukkupiratti
- B – Beetroot Kichadi, Beet root thoran, Beans Thoran
- C – Carrot Thoran, Cabbage Thoran
- D – Daal – Parippu Curry
- E – Erisseri – Chena & Mathan Vanpayaru
- F – Fruit Pachadi
- G – God’s Own Country – Kerala
- H – How to Serve a Sadya
- I – Inji Puli
- J – Jackfruit Payasam – Chakka Payasam
- K – Kalan & Koottu Curry
- L – Lemon Rasam
- M – Mambazha Pulisseri & Mathan Pachadi
- N – Neer Moru/ButterMilk
- O – Olan
- P – Paal Payasam and Pookkalam
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An exceptional History Curriculum
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Our curriculum is designed to develop three fundamental areas: knowledge (Head), empathy (Heart) and skills (Hands). We want students to leave with all of the knowledge and skills to not only enter the world of work or academia, but also to be equipped to deal with a rapidly changing world. We want them to be ready and able to face the challenges of the world and contribute to making their communities a better place to live.
An introduction to the History Curriculum- shared with Pupils and Parents:
Not only will we provide a knowledge rich curriculum, but the delivery of the content will enable pupils to revisit prior knowledge and link this to newly acquired themes and ideas. This will be through a variety of strategies based on research so that pupils leave our school knowing more and remembering more. We aim for children to make connections between the past and the present in order to understand how they could change the future.
If you would like to know more about the Curriculum, Manor Leas Junior Academy have hosted open days, please see an example below:
Please contact Manor Leas Junior Academy to find out more or to see the curriculum in action:
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Pierpaolo Lazzarini wants to build an unidentified floating object.
The U.2.O. has been under development for about three years, and now the Italian designer is finally ready to make his floating houseboat a reality.
Spanning 12.5 meters in diameter, the UFO has two living spaces: a main entrance and communal area above the water, and an underwater bathroom and bedroom.
According to designboom, the plan is for the vessel to be self-sustainable. The main deck includes solar panels that charge batteries stored inside the deck, and it can also be outfitted with an optional vegetable garden.
Water tanks and weights are also stored in the deck. The weights make sure the bottom half — about 7.5 feet of the UFO — stays submerged.
The vessel includes a small electric motor that can move the houseboat up to 3.5 knots.
Right now, Lazzarini is crowdfunding the houseboat, working on a business model similar to a timeshare, except with a place that you actually want to go. He thinks that he can have the first unidentified floating object ready for the water by 2021.
What's crazy is that this isn't the designer's only exotic floating houseboat. Last year, Lazzarini Design Studio launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise nearly $400,000 to build a floating pyramid he calls a Waya. It's the first step towards a proposed self-sustaining floating community called Wayaland.
Say what you want, but the man has vision.
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Use the links to navigate the hierarchy of invertebrate classification.
Family Anthuridae -- North America.
The Superfamily Anthuroidea has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from North America.
(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)
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The in vitro effect of ethanol on membrane structure and transport properties was studied in isolated renal brush border membrane vesicles.31P-NMR studies showed a dose-dependent increase in the quantity of an isotropic, possibly inverted-micellar component of the renal brush-border membrane as a result of treatment with ethanol. Such structures have been shown to be instrumental in the translocation of material across membrane bilayers. A23Na-NMR study of Na+ exchange in artificial phosphatidylcholine liposomes indicated that ethanol (0.1%) was capable of rending the otherwise inert vesicles permeable to sodium, supporting the idea that ethanol may exert its action via a direct effect on the structure of the phospholipid bilayer. In the isolated renal brush-border membrane vesicles, like in the artificial liposomes, amiloride-insensitive pathways of Na+ transport were shown to be markedly activated by ethanol. These results were consistent with the inhibitory effect ethanol had on Na+ gradient-dependent transport systems such as the Na+ gradient-dependent d-glucose transport and Na+/H+ exchange. In conclusion, our results indicate that ethanol exerts its effect on the renal brush-border membrane by causing a structural change in the phospholipid bilayer which activates sodium intake. The inhibitory effect of ethanol on glucose uptake and Na+/H+ exchange is secondary, as a result of the dissipation of the energy-producing Na+ gradient. © 1985 Springer-Verlag.
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- Provides support to IT systems including day-to-day operations, monitoring, and problem resolution for all the client/server/storage/network devices, mobile devices, etc.
- Managing Office 365, ADDS, DNS, DHCP, Windows file sharing
-Knowhow of ticketing systems like Autotask, Zendesk etc.
- Windows Server Admin
- Network printer troubleshooting
-Basic knowledge of backups and cloud storages like Azure, AWS etc.
- Basic knowledge of Server and Client OS patching
- Provides support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of IT systems
- Manages the daily activities of configuration and operation of IT systems
- Provides Tier 1 (Help Desk) problem identification, diagnosis, and resolution of problems
- Preferred: MCSA Certification
- At least 1-year system administration experience.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional system administration experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
-A+, N+, MCSE, MCSA, MCP, MCITP, CCNA, would be an added advantage
Skills / Domain Knowledge:
-Excellent written and verbal English communication skills and customer interaction experience.
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Lake Huron is separated from Lake Michigan, which lies at the same level, by a narrow channel; Lake Superior is slightly higher and drains into Lake Huron at Sault Ste. Marie. The water then flows south to the St. Clair River, at Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
The surface of Lake Huron is 579 feet above sea level, and the lake's maximum depth is 750 feet. It covers an area of about 23000 square miles. It contains 3,538 cubic km of water. Like the other Great Lakes, it is the remnant of the larger Glacial Lake Agassiz, formed by melting ice as the continental glaciers retreated.
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The Autarch can ALWAYS bring one Ally into reserve from the Dominion of a controlled Site, even if its Prime exceeds the limit. (This assumes the character is in hand.) If an Ally is brought to the table in this way, the Autarch can establish no other alliances for this turn.
Some characters have Primes of greater than 7. These characters are most commonly brought into play using the above method.
The Autarch cannot introduce duplicates of unique characters in play.
Example of Establishing Allies: Autarch Craig is establishing alliances. In his hand, Craig hold the characters Judith (Prime 7), Geoffrey Light (Prime 3), and Gideon (Prime 4). He could play Geoffrey and Gideon (total Prime 7) or Judith alone.
Once Allies have been established, every active Ally may perform one action. Active Allies are characters in the active area of the Autarch’s Realm. Allies in Reserve, called reserves, may never perform actions.
The order by which the Allies act is entirely up to the controlling Autarch.
When the action is resolved, the Allies pivot. The Autarch can continue to make as many actions as desired, pivoting all acting Allies, until all active Allies are pivoted or accounted for my being idled.
The Autarch then cedes the turn to the next Autarch.
Actions: The actions the Autarch’s Allies can perform are:
- Challenge Rival’s Ally: Attempt to kill one targeted character of a rival Autarch.
- Seize a Site: Attempt to control a Site in the Circle
- Ally Action: Play any Ally Action card.
- Retreat: The Ally moves from the active area to the reserve.
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There’s a few words that get terrible treatment from modern English speakers. Their meanings are mangled, their usages are damaged. One particularly annoying example is the word “literally.” Here’s what “literally” means. It means that a word or phrase is describing reality as it actually is, without any figures of speech such as a metaphor or simile. It’s usually linked to a phrase that would often be used figuratively, but in this particularly circumstance isn’t. For example, if you say “Bill was literary scared to death,” it means Bill was so frightened he actually died of a heart attack. If you say “I’m literally jumping for joy,” it means you’re so happy that you are actually jumping up and down right now.
That is what “literally” means, but it often isn’t how “literally” is used. People like to use it to mean “very” or “really.” As in, “I have literally a mountain of work today.” They don’t mean they’re actually staring at a mountain formed of their work, they mean they have a lot of work to do. They say “I’m literally starving,” and they mean they’re really, really hungry, not that they’re actually dying from lack of food.
This is really annoying because it ruins “literally” as a word. It makes it mean absolutely nothing. After all, “a mountain of work” already means a lot of work. Adding “literally” doesn’t give any extra information unless there’s an actual mountain of paper for you to climb. And then it destroys the opportunity to use it when you mean “no, no, though this is usually figurative, right now it’s actually happening. I am actually hopping mad. I’m such a – figurative – ball of rage that I’m literally jumping up and down. It provides clarity, and isn’t that the main purpose of language? To provide clarity through communication?
So if you’re talking to someone who uses “literally” when they mean “figuratively,” slap them in the face. Not hard. Just enough to get their attention. It’s for their own good and for the good of the language.
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Everytime Congressional candidate and poster child for democratic socialism, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, opens her mouth to speak, she reminds us why socialism doesn’t work. Proudly assuming the role as spokesperson for the “rising” American democratic socialist movement after grabbing the Democratic Party’s nomination earlier this year, she has wasted no time commenting on current events. The only problem is, every time she attempts to stand up for working-class Americans, she either proves her economic illiteracy or makes a strong case for capitalism.
Minimum Wage Hikes Destroy Jobs
Recently, Ocasio-Cortez crafted a sentimental tweet, lamenting the closing of a local establishment where she used to work. Her tweet read:
“The restaurant I used to work at is closing its doors. I swung by today to say hi one last time, and kid around with friends like old times.”
After drawing attention to the closing of the restaurant, which is a popular coffee shop in Union Square in New York City, reporters made an interesting discovery. When the co-owner of “The Coffee Shop,” Charles Milite, was asked why his establishment was closing he explained that it was a result of the increased minimum wage.
Milite told the New York Post, “the minimum wage is going up and we have a huge number of employees.” Ocasio-Cortez is, of course, an outspoken advocate for raising the minimum wage. When she was interviewed by the Daily Show’s Trevor Noah, she commented:
“Raising the minimum wage to a living wage will expand the economy. It will create wealth in our economy. And it will increase economic activity in this country.”
Unfortunately, this just isn’t the case. A few years ago, a new minimum wage law was passed, incrementally increasing the wage rate to $15 per hour over the course of a few years. While the full implementation is still two years away, the current minimum wage rate has reached $13 per hour. And as a result, many Manhattan businesses have been struggling to stay financially afloat now that they are forced to pay their employees so much more. The Coffee Shop has over 150 workers who will soon be out of a job because the owners cannot afford to pay the 36 percent increase in costs to their employees.
This situation may have slid under the radar, but Ocasio-Cortez ’s tweet helped shed light on the situation and prove that raising the minimum wage, a policy she supports, simply doesn’t work. In fact, The American Action Forum estimates that 261,000 jobs will be lost this year as a result of minimum wage hikes. But this is not the only time Ocasio-Cortez has been caught with her foot in her mouth.
Uber vs. Cabs
In March, when a former Uber driver had fallen on hard times financially and chose to end his own life, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted:
“NYC’s fourth driver suicide. Yellow cab drivers are in financial ruin due to the unregulated expansion of Uber. What was a living wage job now pays under minimum.”
Of course, the tragic situation is in no way Uber’s fault, Ocasio-Cortez wasted no time casting blame. Neither did the cab industry, who used this tragedy to launch a campaign that would inevitably result in a city-wide cap on Uber vehicles.
Capitalizing on the situation as a means of furthering her agenda, Ocasio-Cortez backed the taxi unions and commented:
– to call Uber drivers what they are: EMPLOYEES, not contractors
– Fed jobs guarantee
– Prep for automation”
Not only are her views on a “living wage” wrong, as we saw previously, but Ocasio-Cortez’s actions seem to tell a much different story than her passionate tweet.
During the course of her campaign, Ocasio-Cortez spent over $4,000 on 160 Uber rides from April-June 2006. And those number only account for her Uber use in California alone. It should be noted that she is not running in California, but she has a huge donor base there, which, considering the political climate of the Golden State, should be of no surprise.
It was also discovered that an additional $2,500 was spent on another ridesharing company, Juno. But Ocasio-Cortez is hardly alone in this hypocrisy. Mr. American Democratic Socialist himself, Bernie Sanders, met the same public criticism after it was discovered that he preferred Uber to taxicabs. This, of course, came after he had publicly condemned the company for being “unregulated.”
It would seem that socialism continues to be better in theory than it is in practice, which is evidenced by the ideologies own followers. While Ocasio-Cortez might be a better spokesperson than Sanders, that is not saying much. Democratic socialism will never fully catch on in America because the free market is too convenient. It is what has given employees competitive wages and bestowed the sharing economy upon consumers.
Ocasio-Cortez can complain about capitalism all she wants, but until she is willing to give up her Uber rides, it is unlikely that she will be taken seriously.
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The family of Edward Johnson, a longtime Atlanta resident who became the first black licensed master electrician in the city, had three properties to sell and plenty of would-be buyers approaching them. All three — a 1,300-square-foot bungalow in Mozley Park, a 1,500-square-foot home in Washington Park, and an undeveloped property adjacent to the Washington Park house — are close to Atlanta’s BeltLine.
In the end, the Johnson family realized they were in position to do something about the alarming situation around housing affordability along the BeltLine’s 22-mile circular route around Atlanta. Instead of selling them to a developer for the highest possible price, they sold them to the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, one of the country’s largest statewide non-profit preservation organizations.
In the wake of a 2017 investigation that found the Atlanta BeltLine hasn’t kept its affordable housing promises, the Georgia Trust is stepping in where the Atlanta BeltLine and its partners have failed so far. It’s a notable departure for the trust.
“We do work with affordable housing all the time, but houses in the rural part of Georgia have been mostly our focus,” says Mark C. McDonald, President and CEO of the trust. Across the state, Georgia Trust sells historic properties at affordable prices to residents as-is, or with minor improvements, then assists them in a preservation plan for the home. Sales are contingent on homeowners maintaining the historic nature of their property.
That dual focus — on affordability and preservation — brought them to the BeltLine. Georgia Trust Board Chair Bill Peard urged the organization to look to Atlanta. Alongside the city’s growing need for affordable housing, there have been a high number of teardowns of historic properties as neighborhoods gentrified.
“We were sitting back watching this happen. The changes to the historic districts of Atlanta and land speculation going on by wealthy Atlanta developers, and thinking it was a nightmare scenario of displacement and changing the character of neighborhoods,” McDonald says.
According to McDonald, when the trust sought organizations to partner with and provide financial support to bring their model to Atlanta, they came up empty handed. “There are a lot of organizations working to create the BeltLine, but very few working to provide affordable housing,” he says.
That issue was highlighted in last year’s investigation of Beltline leadership, which found that the organization was far from achieving its affordable housing goals and suggested the blame was at least partially internal. (The Beltline has just undergone a leadership change.)
McDonald says Georgia Trust met with the Atlanta BeltLine Inc., to discuss their plan and seek funding. The BeltLine was unable to provide funding to the project because it was outside their focus area.
According to a spokesperson with the BeltLine, legislation states that the organization can not direct its funding — which so far amounts to $12.5 million — outside a set tax increment financing district, where they have a legislatively-mandated goal of creating 5,600 affordable units. The Johnson Family’s properties, while close to the BeltLine, fall outside the district boundaries.
“While Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. is limited in the areas where we can expend funds for affordable housing, we are enthusiastic about Georgia Trust’s new program for homes near the Atlanta BeltLine,” Brian McGowan, the new President and CEO of Atlanta BeltLine, Inc., said via email.
A recent story by the Reporters Newspaper notes that while another tax district is in the works to speed up BeltLine construction, the legislation will not mandate affordable housing. “Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. and a BeltLine developer say enough affordable housing units will be built regardless and the tax district would not cause an increase in rent,” according to the report.
With no other funding sources coming through for the Georgia Trust, the group depended on their connection with the Johnsons for their purchase. A year prior to purchasing the family’s properties, one of the trust’s staff members had identified the family’s Washington Park property as a potential candidate for its affordable housing preservation program. In forging a relationship with the family, the trust explained how selling the properties to them would be different than selling to developers.
“[The Johnson Family] had similar goals to us and shared our vision,” McDonald says. “They had been approached by a lot of speculators and didn’t want to sell to them.”
In a city with rapidly rising housing costs, McDonald says that finding homeowners willing to sell at a lower rate is key. “You need to find sellers that share that value system [of preservation and affordability], because they could have sold these properties for much more,” he says. The Georgia Trust paid $100,000 for all three lots.
The trust will work with the Georgia Tech School of Architecture on rehabilitation plans that prioritize energy conservation for the two homes, and is in talks with Habitat for Humanity about potentially partnering to build a home on the empty lot. After construction wraps, each property will be made available as affordable housing through the trust’s Revolving Fund program, marketing to buyers who agree to preserve and maintain the structures, with protective covenants attached to the deeds. The trust’s goal is to offer each property for less than $200,000, while providing buyers down payment assistance through an organization such as Invest Atlanta.
Though the city is pushing affordability measures along the BeltLine like inclusionary zoning, providing opportunity for affordable homeownership remains a struggle.
“More resources are needed,” says George Burgan, Senior Director of Communications for Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc., a nonprofit that rehabs homes across the city for affordable homeownership. “Down payment resources are needed. Buying homes affordably to rehab is a challenge, then rehabbing can be very expensive,” he says.
Affordable housing advocates are hopeful, however, in Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ campaign promise of investing $1 billion of public and private money in affordable housing and anti-displacement measures. So far, the mayor announced a $9 million initiative to offer forgivable loans to homeowners to make critical upgrades to their houses.
As for the Georgia Trust, they see promise in repeating their model across the BeltLine — and encouraging other nonprofits to do the same. “We plan to use these properties for weekend tours and seminars to show … that this is economically feasible, and a good preservation practice,” McDonald says. With these first projects, the trust hopes to financially break even, not including staff time.
“We want to use these houses as a living laboratory, and invite the public in, which we hope will result in others using the same business model,” McDonald adds.
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Scotland is a one of the most attractive and visited countries in the world. It is a part of the United Kingdom and it lies in the northern part of Great Britain, occupying almost one-third of the island. The southern border is shared with England. Its northern, western and eastern parts are washed by the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.
Scotland is known for its exquisite liquor and breathtaking landscapes. The highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis, is situated there. It is located in Scottish Highlands. A famous British poet and lyricist Robert Burns wrote many poems and songs about these highlands.
However, Scotland is associated not only with mountainous areas, but with bagpipes, kilts, haggis, Loch Ness monster, historic architecture and cobblestone streets of its capital city Edinburgh. Perhaps, the best time to visit this country is the last day of the year, during Scottish New Year, called Hogmanay. It’s a public holiday with major all-night celebrations, which are among the largest in the world.
The largest and most visited cities in the country are Edinburgh and Glasgow. While Edinburgh is the historical, cultural and educational heart of Scotland, Glasgow is its financial and industrial center. Other major and attractive cities are Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Livingstone, Perth.
Scottish flag is known as St. Andrew’s Cross. It’s a white cross on a blue background. According to the legend St. Andrew was the patron saint of Scotland, who was crucified on the similar cross.
Having so many rivers, lakes, highlands and green areas, this country is believed to have one of most beautiful sceneries in the world.
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Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day is set for November 17 in Menlo Park
The City of Menlo Park celebrates the 2021 Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day on November 17. The day was first celebrated in Menlo Park during the 2019-2020 school year, and recognizes Ruby Bridges, who at the age of six, became the first African-American student to integrate into an elementary school in the South on November 14, 1960. Her simple but courageous act of showing up for school each day played an important part in the civil rights movement.
Families can take a walk together and discuss how Ruby’s action back in 1960 is still relevant and how the work for justice and equity continues today.
Walk with your community on Wednesday, November 17, and be sure to share your pictures and tag @CityofMenloPark on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Pictures of our 2021 Ruby Bridges Day walks submitted by community members will be presented during a City Council meeting in December.
You can also email your photos and selfies to the Safe Routes to School team.
InMenlo file photo from 2019 Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day
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Teen making Waves
By: Brigid Lynch – The Northern Advocate – 17.06.2006
At the tender age of 19, Ashley Worthy has his own caravan, cat, flat and radio station. Not bad for a legless lad from Waipu.
Ashley is used to explaining his fused fingers, skin that looks like it’s been roasted, and skinny, bandaged limbs: “The glue that holds my skin on is missing”.
He has the severest form of epidermolysis bullosa, known as EB, which means he lacks the fibres that connect his skin to the rest of his body. His lower legs, blistered and scarred, were amputated so he could learn to drive.
There are five young people with a similar severity of EB in New Zealand.
They get wrapped from head to toe with protective sterile bandages, changed daily after a soak bath. Helped by a caregiver, it’s a routine that takes Ashley up to three hours every day.
But he’s no whinger.
“I’ve lived with it all my life. It hasn’t really limited anything,” he said.
“I’ve had stink days, but it’s no different to anyone else.”
It helps to live in a small, accepting community such as Waipu, and it helps to have an interesting job.
Ashley’s low-power FM station Radio Waves broadcasts from a squat, Kermit-green caravan on his parents’ property at Waipu.
“This is where we fiddle and swear when things don’t work, and throw on a CD,” he says.
It’s cosy, in a No.8-wire kind of way. Shelves knocked up by Ashley’s builder dad ache with the weight of hundreds of records, a fraction of the six trailer-loads he inherited from the last Waipu radio fanatics.
Radio Waves has been up and running on 99.1 FM for around six weeks. He’s doing it on the cheap and for the fun of it. At first, the air was thick with the sound of Vera Lynn et al, but Ashley has settled into a melting pot of tunes from the 1950s to 1990s. He doesn’t have any favourites.
“I enjoy the music I play on here. I have to, coz otherwise I’d go insane.”
He plods away, cataloguing and uploading songs onto computer. So far the tally is 14 days of continuous music, or 7000-odd tracks, but he’s always on the prowl for more music: “There’s no `obsolete’ around here – we’ll take everything we can get.”
There are still a few technical bugs to be ironed out and, at the moment, he’s just trying to get on air and stay on air.
He says it’s getting better each day, and he is pumping through more community notices and events. It’s that local focus that makes small stations work, says Paul Burton, who started Radio Waves’ predecessor.
“It’s important, because anybody can come and say there’s a meeting at the town hall or a do on at the primary school, so it really is about community.”
Paul and wife Robin set up Waipu’s Juke Box Radio in 2002 because there weren’t any stations playing their kind of tunes. Their record collection swelled as listeners sent in old LPs and 78s, some tacky with strawberry jam.
“It started on the kitchen table with a transmitter and a CD player. Then it just snowballed,” said Paul.
They helped Ashley take over the frequency when they left Waipu 18 months ago. Now they live in Taipa, broadcasting Empire Radio on 88.4 and 106.7 FM, and are planning a move to a 1000-watt station in Wellsford.
Waipu wasn’t a money-spinner, but it was good fun and a chance to help others. When a local lass needed radio experience to apply for broadcasting school, she came to Juke Box. Now she works for one of Auckland’s biggest commercial stations.
“We had two rules: no rap and no swearing,” said Paul.
Ashley and a few mates came from school to help out on Wednesday afternoons, and Paul says Ashley took to it “like a duck to water”. When the Burtons left, they sold Ashley some of their surplus equipment, gave him a stack of records and helped him with radio-spectrum red tape.
Now there are even a couple of guest DJs on Radio Waves, including Andy Saunders (the Saturday night guy) who has his own small station in a shed in Maungaturoto. They swap things and thoughts.
Andy, a 48-year-old truck driver who’s off work after a back operation, has been running `The Shed FM’ at 107.7 FM for a few months.
“Hopefully there’s people out there listening to what I play,” he said.
Setting up has been challenging – “Well, where do you start? Getting a computer that’ll play 24 hours a day and not pack up!”
Now he has a souped-up machine holding five days of continuous music. Most of it is from his own CDs, the rest is “bludged”. He’s hoping to get sports clubs and other not-for-profit groups on board to advertise, to help pay engineering and licensing costs. The Australasian Performing Rights Association charges around $200 a year to low-power stations to allow them to broadcast copyright music.
There are hundreds such stations around the country, set up on the cheap, from a love of music, or just by accident.
“I had no idea what I was doing when I left school and now I’m running a radio station. I take each day as it comes,” said Ashley.
He has a tight band of mates, most of whom work in the food world so they’re never short of a decent feed. They hang out, watch videos, and head to Ashley’s for a cook-up.
Ashley’s plucky. He’s been skiing with his EB nurse, also a ski medic. He got his licence the day of his birthday, and learning to drive motivated him to get his lower legs amputated.
Living in a new, self-contained flat next to his parents, he is learning what it’s like to have to buy his own cat food and be a bit broke most of the time.
“It’s called life,” says his mum. Ashley just chuckles.
A RAW DEAL
Epidermolysis bullosa, known as EB, is the name of a group of genetic, non-contagious disorders causing blistering and shearing of the skin from even gentle friction.
A handful of young Kiwis have severe dystrophic EB such as Ashley. For those with severe simplex EB, heat makes the blistering worse, so thick padded bandages are not an option for protecting them from the knocks and bumps that cause big blisters.
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Safe2Tell report shows slight increase in tips in March
April 12, 2022 (DENVER)—Safe2Tell report volume slightly increased last month when compared to February, according to the monthly report released today. Historically, reports decrease during months when schools are on break, and spring break occurs most often in March.
In March, the program received 1,838 reports, a 1% increase in monthly report volume compared to February 2022. To date for the 2021-22 school year, Safe2Tell has received 14,809 reports.
Suicide threats (263), bullying (171), and welfare checks (146) were the top categories of reports in March. Welfare checks are usually reports that express concern about a peer.
“While last month’s increase was slight, it indicates that communities value and use Safe2Tell even when schools are not in session. And as one of our report examples demonstrates this month, submitting an anonymous report to Safe2Tell can help keep students safe, especially if your intention is to make sure they receive the help they need,” said Attorney General Phil Weiser. “Speaking up, either to a trusted adult or through an anonymous report to Safe2Tell, can make a positive difference in someone’s life.”
In this school year, false reports are 1.9% of all reports submitted to Safe2Tell. False reports are those that contain untrue information and are submitted with the intent to harm, injure, or bully another person.
In March, anonymous reports from students and other individuals successfully helped protect students’ safety. For example:
- A person reported seeing a student show another student what appeared to be a gun. Local law enforcement investigated and found the student had a splat ball gun and not a real gun. The school resource officer spoke with the parent and student, and school disciplinary action was taken.
- A student reported that another student was talking about self-harm and using drugs. Local teams spoke with the Crisis Response Team, the student, and family and the student was transferred to a hospital.
The following is an example of unintentional misuse of the program:
- A person reported their concerns regarding a school district employee’s qualifications. This person was encouraged to contact the school district in the future.
Safe2Tell is a successful violence intervention and prevention program for students to anonymously report threats to their own, and others’, safety. Safe2Tell is not an emergency response unit nor mental health counseling service provider; it is a conduit of information for distributing anonymous reports to local law enforcement and school officials pursuant to state law.
To make a report, individuals can call 1-877-542-7233 from anywhere, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Reports also can be made at Safe2Tell.org or through the Safe2Tell mobile app which is available on the Apple App Store or Google Play.
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Lining your hens’ nests with something clean and soft protects eggs from getting cracked in the nest and also simplifies nest clean-out. Every chicken keeper has a favorite nest liner. Here are some poplar options:
Turf Nest Liner
Plastic turf nest pads have grass-like tufts on the upper side and a smooth surface on the underside. Numerous holes through the pads help prevent debris from sticking and make the pads easy to clean. In most cases all you need to do is remove the pad from the nest and hit it against something solid, such as a post or corner of the coop. Broken egg or other debris that sticks to the pad may be hosed off. These pads work best when they fit snugly into the nest, so the hens can’t scratch up the edges. Turf pads may be used with or without additional nesting material, such as wood shavings or chopped straw.
Made of straw-like aspen fiber, excelsior pads are designed to be used without additional nesting material. Their advantage is that the eggs don’t get buried in nesting material, which can stick to the eggs and transfer into your egg collection basket. The disadvantage to excelsior is that it is not designed to be cleaned and reused, but must be replaced when it becomes soiled.
A variety of durable materials may be cut to size and used as nest pads. They include asphalt shingles, yoga mats, outdoor carpet, boat or marine carpet, and corrugated cardboard. Cardboard pads have the advantage of being cheap to use and replace. They make nest clean-out easy: just fold the cardboard over the shavings or chopped straw, lift out the soiled nesting material with the cardboard, and toss it in the compost pile. The main disadvantage to cardboard is that, unless you replace it often, the hens will wear or peck a hole through the middle.
A lot of chicken keepers don’t use any liners at all, but simply pad the nests with soft nesting material. Suitable materials, besides wood shavings or chopped straw, include shredded paper and well-dried chemical-free lawn clippings. Including a potpourri herbal infusion helps repel insect pests and gives the coop a pleasantly floral aroma.
Nesting material used alone, however, means broken eggs and chicken poop will stick to the nest bottom, making the nest difficult to clean. Even with a pad, poop or broken egg can migrate underneath and glue the pad to the nest bottom. Clean-up is much easier in a nest that’s sprinkled with washed river sand before the pad or nesting material is added.
And that’s today’s news from the Cackle Coop.
Gail Damerow, author, Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens
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Last November, after COVID-19 vaccinations were authorized for kids ages 5–11, many parents expected that kids under 5 would get their chance soon after. The process has taken more time than hoped—but it appears now that authorization of shots for the youngest kids may be on the horizon.
In this Q&A, adapted from the June 1 episode of Public Health On Call, Josh Sharfstein talks with vaccine expert Ruth Karron, MD, a professor in International Health and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Immunization Research, about why it's taken so long to authorize vaccines for young children, why vaccinating this age group is important, and what's likely to happen in the next few weeks.
Why has it taken so long to make vaccines available for young children?
There are a couple of reasons. The first is that when we started to make COVID-19 vaccines in 2020, I don't think we appreciated the full burden of COVID on young children. Certainly we appreciated the indirect effects, on schooling and other social activities. But it took us a while to fully appreciate the direct medical effects.
The second piece is that we're using a new vaccine platform for COVID-19 vaccines: mRNA. It's highly effective, but it is also inflammatory. Anyone who's gotten these vaccines knows that you can have low-grade fever, chills, and aches of various kinds. And one of the things we know about children is that their inflammatory reactions are heightened. Children get fevers, for example, much more frequently than adults do.
The companies and the bodies that regulate these vaccines wanted to make sure that they were being evaluated as carefully as possible, to ensure that a vaccine would be safe to administer to children.
How did learning that children could develop multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) after COVID affect your thinking about the importance of the vaccine?
This inflammatory response in children, MIS-C, is severe and quite frightening. We don't fully understand it, even now. It happens not during the acute infection but shortly thereafter. And it certainly made many people think that it might be important to develop a vaccine early on. Because this was understood to be an abnormal immune response to the virus, people wanted reassurance that vaccination wouldn't make it worse.
One of the important things we've learned as we've used vaccines in adolescents and children over age 5 is that it decreases the rate of MIS-C. It doesn't exacerbate it.
That's reassuring, but for me personally, the case for vaccinating children against COVID became clear in the late summer and early fall of 2021 with delta. By the time we got to omicron and child hospitalizations were surging, the case became very clear.
We often hear, ‘Children are just so much less likely to get sick, so why bother vaccinating them?’ Less than half of eligible younger kids have been vaccinated, so some parents are clearly wondering what the point is. Why do you think kids should be vaccinated against Covid?
This virus is smarter than we ever imagined. I remember saying in 2020 that this virus has got it made because it transmits really well. That was true of the early isolates of SARS-CoV-2. Omicron and its subvariants are more transmissible than measles—one of the most infectious diseases we know of.
What that means is that virtually everybody is going to get infected with this virus sooner or later. So, even if complications in children are rare, if everybody is getting infected, the absolute number of children who will have serious disease or who will die is not a small number. Right now, the CDC estimates that 1,200 children have died of COVID. We're talking for the most part about generally healthy children or children with minor medical issues. This is a tragedy. Whatever we can do to avoid this tragedy is something we should do.
For any one child, the risks may be low, but if you look across many children, you see some pretty severe outcomes.
Exactly. While I completely agree that the nonpharmaceutical interventions like masking are important, people do need to continue to lead their lives. Children need to be in school. Children need to be playing sports and congregating. This is part of childhood. Our children have lost years to this pandemic, in a much more profound way than adults have.
A lot of parents are interested in vaccinating their young kids, but vaccines haven’t been available for them.
Moderna and Pfizer have each applied to the FDA for an emergency use authorization, and the FDA is reviewing these applications and will hold public meetings with its advisory committee in June. We don't know the exact dates yet, but we’re hopeful that we will have one or both of these vaccines available for use in children sometime [in June].
That's an optimistic view. There have been some challenges with these trials to date.
There have been. Many people probably know about the Pfizer trial, which was originally for most normal, healthy adults and older children. Two doses of vaccine is what we consider a primary series of vaccination, and Pfizer was understandably very cautious in its dosing of vaccines for the youngest children. The dose for children under 6 months to 4 years of age was one-tenth of the dose given to adults—3 micrograms instead of 30 micrograms.
Early this year, Pfizer discovered that while it was safe, it did not produce the same immunity that they had seen in older children and adults. They've given a third dose of vaccine to this youngest age group, and that's what they've applied for FDA authorization for. The Moderna vaccine is given as a two-dose series.
Is the FDA going to wait to review both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines at once, or each as it’s ready?
I think the agency has heard loud and clear from groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics and from parents that the time is now to consider these applications so that these youngest children can be protected. They are in the process of reviewing all of the data. There are challenges, of course, with vaccines for very young children. You absolutely want these vaccines to be as safe as possible.
The other complicated thing is that you're looking at efficacy data against a virus that's perpetually changing, so interpreting that data and the immune response is more challenging.
To me, it is understandable why it's taken so long. How little FDA has said to the public about it is less understandable.
I think it would have been helpful if the FDA had articulated what they were probably thinking: We want to have a plan to protect people from 6 months old through the rest of their lives. We've started with adults and some high-risk groups, and we are working our way down. We are committed to this. We are going slowly and carefully for the reasons we've articulated before. This is a brand-new kind of vaccine, and we need to be as careful as possible, but we understand the need and we are working with the manufacturers.
During this pandemic, the FDA has been very proactive in issuing guidance for EUAs and for licensure. I think they just were not communicating what was probably their intent all along.
Joshua Sharfstein, MD, is the vice dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement and a professor in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also the director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative and a host of the Public Health On Call podcast.
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The Underground Sistine Chapel
Update 23 of May 2021: The NFTs of The Underground Sistine Chapel has been released.
A modern version of the Sistine Chapel painted by the artist Pascal Boyart aka "Pboy", was created in a former gold foundry (now managed by Studio La Fonderie) on the outskirts of Paris.
After his mediatized mural of the "Liberty leading the yellow vests", Pboy goes to an atypical place to create a monumental work of 100m2 with more than 400 characters painted. It is the result of 5 months of work during this special 2020 quarantine.
With this work, Pboy stays true to his passion and vision: working on masterpieces from the history of art and adapting with a touch of modernity to anchor it in our time.
Thought and created during the 2020 pandemic, this masterful project combines both artistic and technological innovations, that pave the way for new independent creations models through virtual reality and decentralized sponsorship.
A technical and artistic challenge
For 5 months, the artist painted the entire work on his own, mixing different techniques (acrylic and inks). The industrial architecture of the place, its lines, its environment, its transparent roof and its long corridor of 80m where once passed the armored vans of the precious metals company (CMP), inspired him to recreate this monument.
Pboy's Underground Sistine Chapel is divided in three frescoes:
• "The Last Judgment", (8x8m), central piece, which features more than 400 characters who can be found here under a transparent roof that allows day light to pass through.
• "The Creation of Adam" (3x5m), is to its left. In Michelangelo's version it is initially located on the vault of the chapel among the episodes of the genesis.
• “The Temptation” (3x5m), on the right, illustrates Adam and Eve driven from paradise.
Pboy brought his influence by transforming and adding technological, environmental and sartorial elements of our time (smartphone, computer, nuclear power plant, underwear, electronic bracelet ...).
Most of characters anatomy has been reworked, especially the bodies of women in a more contemporary style.
Also, about twenty characters were stripped in reference to the original version of MichelAngelo before it was censored by Pope Paul IV reform.
Technologies at the service of creation
Investing in the use of new technologies in the service of his art, Pboy is recognized worldwide as one of the most innovative crypto-artists of his time. He is the first artist to have added custom Bitcoin QR code to his frescoes and has also organized the first Street Art treasure hunt in Bitcoin in Paris, in January 2019.
• Decentralized sponsorship with NFTs
Dear to the artist's values centered on freedom and independence in his creations, he launched a patronage campaign in cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin and Ethereum) to finance this daring project (equipment, painting, logistics ...) .
Particularity: Patronage gives the right to NFTs (non-fungible tokens) representing certain parts of the work in the digital version. In other words, each of the 12 international donors / patrons * who supported the project become the purchaser of the work in digital version; unlike the physical work which is not for sale. See the NFT collection here.
* Patrons: WhaleShark, Alistair Milne, Le Cercle du Coin, Ben.Oxmo, Lev, Miguel, Thomas France, Lwiskisky, Charles K, Nind, Ariarosey & Lionschark, Conlan Rios.
• A 3D virtual tour
The public will be able to immerse themselves in the space, zoom in on details or even walk alongside the characters to discover the work in immersion!
You can also visit it in Cryptovoxels, a virtual world based on blockchain:
The project in figures
- 1 artist alone.
- 1 fresco of 100m2 composed of 3 scenes.
- More than 400 characters.
- 5 months of work, ~ 700 hours (production from July to December 2020).
- 20K euros collected in cryptocurrencies, financed by 12 patrons from around the world.
- 1 documentary film on the genesis of the project and its realization, to come.
Thanks to Studio La Fonderie to provide the space for the project.
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Are your conversations hurting or healing your teens?
by Dr. Sandy Gluckman | Contributor
I am sure that the tragedies in Paris, San Bernardino, and other parts of the world have been weighing heavily on all of our hearts and minds. Closer to home there are the tragic shootings that fill our TV screens. It is sad how real-life horror stories get the public’s attention far quicker than good news.
As adults, we have the ability not to let these negative events induce fear in us or overtake our thoughts. We can find a way to put this into some perspective and get on with our lives.
But can our teens do the same? Or are these violent images and events of the day playing havoc with their thoughts and emotions? I believe that the media can affect the vulnerable brains of teens in negative ways, causing them to see the world with less passion and positivity than we, as parents, would want for them.
Moms and Dads, it is important to realize that because of the volatile world we live in, you need to focus, more than ever before, on having conversations with your teens about inspirational, good news.
The conversations you have with your children actually have the power to heal or hurt them. Negative thoughts cause bad chemistry to be spurting through your child’s body, which can have a negative effect on his behavior and communication. The opposite is also true. Positive thoughts stimulate good chemistry, giving your teen’s brain the ability to think and behave in constructive ways. In the future, the way in which your child’s brain is wired will influence the decisions he makes about life and the values he practices.
Here are two very powerful tools to use when starting conversations with your teens:
1 Share Healing Stories
A great story has the power to cause us to shed tears of joy, to feel invigorated, or to motivate us to reach for the stars.
I would highly recommend that you deliberately begin to look for an inspiring story every day. Make it a way of life to listen for happy, heroic stories your family, friends, or colleagues may tell you. Scour the newspaper, Google, or YouTube looking for events that inspire you.
Share these stories with your teens—at the dinner table or in the car travelling home from school. And remember—telling the story will boost your own chemistry too!
2 Ask Healing Questions
Asking questions about your teen’s point of view opens up a dialogue and indicates that you are interested in what he has to say. It’s important when using this technique that you have an open mind and express how much you value your teen’s viewpoint. He will know if you are faking it!
Be sure to ask these questions in a casual way so that they are not perceived to be an interrogation. It is also a great idea for you to openly share your own answers to these questions.
Here are just a few ideas to spark your imagination:
When you look back on the last month, what are you most proud of?
What is your favorite trait in other people?
What do you think others like best about you?
What are the two biggest lessons you learned this week/month/year?
Do you have a dream for yourself that you think about a lot?
The saying goes, “We are what we eat.” I agree. I also know that we are what we think. It is up to us, as parents, to play a significant role in what thoughts are running through our children’s heads and being wired into their brains.
Dr. Sandy Gluckman is a behavior and health specialist working with parents whose children have learning and behavior challenges.
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The Environment Department is conducting initial investigations in Co Donegal to see if people living close to wind farms in the county are suffering from ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome’, Donegal Daily can reveal.
Experts at the department are canvassing the public to let them know what it is like to experience the continual noise from turbines and whether current guidelines, which were written when turbines were much smaller, should be revised.
Margaret Ward, from the Gweebarra Conservation Group, wants anyone with symptoms to take part in the investigation.
“Wind Turbine Syndrome is a set of symptoms experienced by people living up to 10km from industrial wind turbines such as those in Donegal,” she told Donegal Daily.
“Symptoms include irratability, disturbed sleep, depression, headaches, blurred vision. The noise from turbines can be heard far from the turbines, especially in complicated landscapes with valleys, hills and rivers and lakes as the sound can bounce around.
“We have had complaints from people all along the Gweebarra river who can hear the modulating hum of the ten turbines at the Loughderryduff wind farm at Maas, especially at night.
“The noise is actually noisier inside peoples’ homes than it is outside because of the way the noise and infrasound penetrates the walls of houses. Infrasound causes cardio vascular problems as it affects the natural rhythms of the body.”
The group claims wind companies are not carrying out proper noise assessments because it suits them not to and the Council is not insisting that they do.
“The current guidelines are ten years old when turbines were much smaller. Donegal County Council just granted planning permission for 16 turbines, each 152m high, in a busy suburb of Letterkenny at Newmills. This development by GDNG Renewables Ltd has been appealed to An Bord Pleanala,” said Margaret.
“Donegal County Council reduced the legal limit of how far a turbine can be built near a home from 500 metres to zero metres,” she added.
Anyone who wants to take part in the Department survey must email firstname.lastname@example.org with your views on wind turbine noise before tomorrow Friday, Feb. 15th, 2013.
See http://www.wind-watch.org for more info on Wind Turbine Syndrome.
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Agriculture is present process an evolution – technology is turning into an indispensable part of every commercial farm. New precision agriculture corporations are growing applied sciences that enable farmers to maximize yields by controlling each variable of crop farming similar to moisture levels, pest stress, soil situations, and micro-climates.
Paul Daugherty is Accenture’s chief technology & innovation officer and leads the company’s Technology Innovation & Ecosystem group. In addition to overseeing Accenture’s technology strategy, Paul has accountability for driving innovation via R&D activities in Accenture Labs and leveraging rising applied sciences to deliver the newest improvements to shoppers globally. Exploring and investing in the myriad opportunities available right now in these three areas is the first step. While main companies should have efforts across all three spaces, what will really set corporations aside is the way in which they merge and combine the technologies with the core competencies of their enterprise.
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Experimentation might be key as the technology is launched to metropolis streets, college campuses, development sites, and other uncontrolled environments. It will also require a commitment to continued information collection and refinement after the devices have been deployed. To unlock the full value of this opportunity, companies have to confront the “beta burden,” and the unintended consequences that occur when sensible tech – smart products, and the experiences they contain – are continuously in flux. Companies can now change the performance of good merchandise or reconfigure their ecosystem over time.
- Students want a practical use for technology, whether to control knowledge or to discover the inside recesses of the human physique without slicing up cadavers.
- Add in new dangers like Internet of Things tasks, 5G units and deepfakes and the challenges mount until corporations take the broadest possible view of security.
- If multicloud does turn into reality, there might be an enormous position for firms that can operate as Switzerland within enterprises.
- With so many upcoming technological advancements being developed, it’s clear that this is among the logistics technology trends to keep an eye on in 2020.
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In this text we’ll check out a number of the latest features prepared for your next phone. Many of these thrilling applied sciences make it even simpler to communicate, do business and learn in your cellular system. Modern farms and agricultural operations work far in another way than those a number of decades in the past, primarily due to advancements in technology, including sensors, devices, machines, and knowledge technology. Today’s agriculture routinely makes use of refined technologies similar to robots, temperature and moisture sensors, aerial photographs, and GPS technology.
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But they need to make sure that the shopper experience stays constant and supported all through all these changes. None of the steps on the journey are incremental modifications, nor are they as simple as discovering the following technological software to do what you’re already doing today.
Remote sensors, satellites, and UAVs can collect info 24 hours per day over a whole field. These can monitor plant health, soil condition, temperature, humidity, and so forth. The amount of knowledge these sensors can generate is overwhelming, and the importance of the numbers is hidden in the avalanche of that data.
Neural networks is a man-made intelligence technique modeled after connections within the human mind, able to learning and bettering over time. Apple adapted Siri’s voice recognition technology to make use of neural networks in 2014, and Google introduced the technology to enhance Chinese-English translations on Google Translate. Artificial Intelligence (AI), or machine intelligence, is the sphere creating computer systems and robots capable of parsing data contextually to offer requested info, provide evaluation, or set off events primarily based on findings. Through strategies like machine learning and neural networks, companies globally are investing in instructing machines to ‘think’ more like humans. The rise of digital agriculture and its associated technologies has opened a wealth of latest information opportunities.
APEX Technologies was also ranked as the highest artificial intelligence company in China last yr. Deep learning or “unsupervised studying” is the subsequent technology of artificial intelligence that lets computer systems educate themselves. Deep learning techniques program machines to carry out excessive-degree thought and abstractions, similar to picture recognition. The technology has superior marketing by enabling extra personalization, viewers clustering, predictive advertising, and complicated brand sentiment analysis.
Plans embrace infusing new capabilities by way of investments by NASA’s Space Technology Program, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and contributions from international companions. Join a community of trailblazers, thought leaders and business consultants in 9 worldwide locations to explore the technology, insights and trends shaping the way forward for IT and business. The Gartner high 10 strategic technology trends for 2020 highlights altering or not but widely recognized trends that can impact and remodel industries by way of 2025. Gartner insights, recommendation and tools help IT leaders navigate the future, delivering more and more intuitive digital providers everywhere via sensible units.
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Raleigh, N.C. – North Carolina’s electric cooperatives are awaiting Hurricane Irene, which is expected to bring heavy rain, flooding and high winds to the eastern part of the state as early as tomorrow morning. Extensive and prolonged power outages are expected in the hardest hit areas. Cooperative crews are ready to restore power as soon as possible should outages occur.
In storms such as this one, with sustained high winds and stronger gusts, power outages are most often caused by fallen trees and branches, making outages widespread and somewhat erratic. Because strong winds may not relent, you may experience another power outage even if you had power restored earlier.
The cooperatives encourage the public to be aware of the following:
- As the storm approaches, the electric cooperatives will continue to provide restoration service until conditions require then to stop for safety reasons.
- Customers can expect to experience flickering lights as wind speed increases with the hurricane’s arrival. Sustained outages may begin early during the storm areas. Restoration efforts will begin when it is safe for crews to return to the field.
- Stay away from fallen power lines. Assume that any line is energized and potentially deadly. Report all downed power lines to your cooperative or 911.
- The electric co-ops will begin damage assessment immediately following the storm, including, if necessary, seeking help from other cooperatives.
- Electric cooperative members experiencing power outages should contact their electric cooperative directly. The outage reporting phone numbers for the state’s 26 electric cooperatives and comprehensive storm and electric safety information can be found at www.ncelectriccooperatives.com.
North Carolina’s electric cooperatives serve more than 2.5 million people in 93 of the state’s 100 counties, primarily in rural parts of the state.
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Intermittent fasting is a great way to lose weight while avoiding feeling awful and the negative effects that occur with normal daily caloric-restriction. Still, the media doesn’t generally promote it that much.
We still live in a society where it’s advised that we should remove calories every day, even if science has proved that eating less every day produce hormonal imbalance that leads to obesity.
We discussed in the article intermittent fasting vs. eating less why intermittent fasting is the clear winner of reducing total calorie intake while eating like a king. The only thing is that you have to eat in a certain period, like for example only 8 hours per day.
But before leaping intermittent fasting, we have to mentally prepare ourselves for what we are about to embark on.
Do Your Research First
No matter what you are about to try in life, especially something that will have an impact on your health, the best advice is to always do your research first.
Doing your research will do more than just indicating that what you are about to do is good for you.
Research makes you practice intermittent fasting efficiently, and will also make you feel confident that this step is good for your health and how you look.
Don’t take someone’s claim for granted, find people that can point you to studies that prove their claims. There are plenty of fitness advocates that have no idea what they are talking about.
That’s why I love the Eat Stop Eat book. The author has so many studies cited in there, that it takes 20 pages at the end of the book to reference them all.
Nothing Bad Will Happen if You Don’t Eat for 24 hours
Here’s something that I had to deal with too. People generally fear the idea of having to go through 24 hours without eating something.
Most people think that by doing it, they are going to harm themselves in some way.
It feels strange to talk about not eating for 16 or 24 hours now, but it was nothing strange for 99% of our history.
The present time, when you can eat anything you want just by going to the shop or dialing a phone number, is something very new. We survived a lot more time by going long periods without food because we had to gather or hunt some more.
Our bodies are adapted to having periods of times when we eat alternated with periods when we fast. In fact, we all fast, even if we know it or not. We do it while we sleep!
So the whole fear of doing something harmful by not eating for more than 8 hours is something new, and it hasn’t been supported by science.
Some people went fasting longer than a week without having any bad health effect. Of course, we are talking about obese people, that still used vitamins and minerals to keep their body healthy and had medical assistance during the fast, so doing prolonged fasts is not something I’d recommend.
But to think that something bad will happen for you if you don’t eat for 24 hours is an illusion.
As long as you are not skinny (at which point there’s no need to practice fasting), there’s enough energy stored in body fat to keep you going for days.
Fasting for 24 hours is a breeze for our body. The positive effects that fasting has on our body makes it a very enjoyable experience.
Sometimes is Better to Keep Things to Yourself
One of the mental barrier we might find when we try intermittent fasting is the response we get from other people. Few people might understand the benefits of fasting, and they are generally the ones that tried it for themselves.
Don’t rush to tell everyone around you what you are doing. First, because is no one’s business what you do with your body, and second, you don’t want any negativity around you while doing it.
I saw some cases on the internet when people reported that their coworkers laughed at their attempt to fasting and tried to stop their efforts by eating in front of them.
The world is how it is, and some judgmental people will react negatively when you do something they don’t.
The best thing is to avoid all of these people by keeping your fasting to yourself.
We live in a world where eating healthy might raise some eyebrows while eating sugar-filled donuts every day is regarded as something normal, at least in general.
If you want support or someone to talk with about it, join social media groups with other people that practice intermittent fasting.
Start Small And See How it Feels
Intermittent fasting doesn’t have to be a huge effort for it to be effective. And you don’t have to start with the hardest way of doing it.
You should start small and see how it feels first. You can start by practicing the 16:8 diet, which involves eating for 8 hours and fasting for 16 hours.
This is very simple to do and it will help you see how fasting feels for your body. As you will feel better and better, you will be more confident to try fasting for 24 hours.
Starting small is also way more relaxing for your mind. You don’t have to deal with the fear of not eating for 24 hours anymore.
You start by trying to fast for a couple of hours every day, to the point where you can reach 16 hours (including the 7-8 hours that you sleep).
After you start to feel the good effects that fasting has on your body, it will be much easier to try longer fasting periods or to stick to the intermittent fasting you chose.
Make The Process Enjoyable
One thing about diets that you can keep your entire life is the fact that they are enjoyable. Intermittent fasting has a clear advantage over eating less because you don’t feel tired and hungry all the time, quite the contrary.
But even with all the health benefits that you get from IF, it’s still a good idea to make the process very enjoyable.
First, you want to include foods you love back into your daily diet. One of the advantages of intermittent fasting is the fact that you can include foods you love, and you don’t have to worry about counting calories.
20% of your diet can be foods you love but are not healthy, and you will still lose weight and feel good.
Also, make sure that during your eating periods, you supply your body with the nutrients and calories it needs. That means you will usually eat much more food than you did before eating 3 or more meals throughout the day.
These feasts that you are going to have during the eating period will be a strong motivation to keep it going. You will feel amazing for not having to fear calories ever again.
You would also want to schedule the fasting periods in such a way that it doesn’t interfere with your life. For example, if you always had dinner once a week with your friends, you can schedule the intermittent fasting in such a way that you will be in the eating period at that point.
Intermittent fasting is supposed to make losing weight easier and more enjoyable, therefore take advantage of it.
These are the steps that I consider necessary to remove the mental barriers that you might have regarding fasting and to make this process as enjoyable as possible.
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- Is HTML a CSS?
- What are the benefits of CSS?
- What is the difference between internal and external CSS?
- What is the function of the cascade in CSS quizlet?
- Which is better HTML or CSS?
- What can CSS do that HTML Cannot?
- How can I be good at CSS?
- What is CSS example?
- Is CSS a programming language?
- How quickly can I learn CSS?
- What is CSS and its features?
- How many levels of heading tags are allowed in HTML?
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Is HTML a CSS?
What is CSS.
CSS is the language for describing the presentation of Web pages, including colors, layout, and fonts.
CSS is independent of HTML and can be used with any XML-based markup language..
What are the benefits of CSS?
Some of the advantages of using CSS are:Easier to maintain and update.Greater consistency in design.More formatting options.Lightweight code.Faster download times.Search engine optimization benefits.Ease of presenting different styles to different viewers.Greater accessibility.
What is the difference between internal and external CSS?
An external stylesheet is a standalone . css file that is linked from a web page. … An internal stylesheet holds CSS rules for the page in the head section of the HTML file. The rules only apply to that page, but you can configure CSS classes and IDs that can be used to style multiple elements in the page code.
What is the function of the cascade in CSS quizlet?
The Cascade determines which CSS rules will be applied when multiple rules for an item are contradictory.
Which is better HTML or CSS?
HTML is basically a standard markup language for describing the structure of web pages whereas CSS is the style sheet language for describing the presentation and design of web pages. HTML is easy to learn and has clear syntax whereas CSS can sometimes get messy and can create complications in codes.
What can CSS do that HTML Cannot?
with CSS you can change one file and have that change reflected on every page of your site; whereas with HTML, you have to find and make that change in every place on every page that you used that element.
How can I be good at CSS?
So in no particular order, here are some things you can do to get better at CSS.Learn CSS.Ditch the libraries.Learn to debug your code.Read other people’s code.Name your classes properly.Practice.
What is CSS example?
For example, CSS can be used to define the cell padding of table cells, the style, thickness, and color of a table’s border, and the padding around images or other objects. CSS gives Web developers more exact control over how Web pages will look than HTML does.
Is CSS a programming language?
How quickly can I learn CSS?
It may take you 1-2 weeks to complete the course, and about a month of practice to get comfortable with HTML and CSS. The key is to apply your learning and build projects. The easiest project you can create is your own personal website.
What is CSS and its features?
Using CSS, you can control the color of the text, the style of fonts, the spacing between paragraphs, how columns are sized and laid out, what background images or colors are used, layout designs,variations in display for different devices and screen sizes as well as a variety of other effects.
How many levels of heading tags are allowed in HTML?
six levelsHTML defines six levels of headings. A heading element implies all the font changes, paragraph breaks before and after, and any white space necessary to render the heading. The heading elements are H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, and H6 with H1 being the highest (or most important) level and H6 the least.
Is CSS easier than HTML?
Yes. CSS has a very easy syntax based on english words. … Even HTML has a more complicated syntax than CSS since there are some elements which need a closing tag, some don’t, some have attributes, some don’t, some can’t be inside others and so on. CSS is always the same.
What are the 3 types of CSS?
There are three ways you can use to implement CSS: internal, external, and inline styles.
What is HTML CSS bootstrap?
Why is CSS so hard?
CSS is hard because its properties interact, often in unexpected ways. Because when you set one of them, you’re never just setting that one thing. That one thing combines and bounces off of and contradicts with a dozen other things, including default things that you never actually set yourself.
What is the difference between HTML and CSS quizlet?
What is the difference between HTML and CSS? HTML (hypertext markup language) is used to create the actual content of the page such as written text. CSS(Cascade styling sheets) is responsible for the design or style of the website including the layout, visual effect and background color.
What is HTML used for?
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the code that is used to structure a web page and its content. For example, content could be structured within a set of paragraphs, a list of bulleted points, or using images and data tables.
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Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making Skills Seminar
Format: 5 Days Creative Thinking Seminar
Date & Venue: 8 - 12 July 2019 (London, United Kingdom)
Convergent vs. Divergent Thinking
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When faced with a problem, we have to make a decision and find a solution. There is a step-by-step method for Creative Thinking to come to a decision or the solution. This course uses the Brainstorming, Mind Mapping and Multivoting tools for Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making.
At the end of the programme, participants will have a more profound understanding and knowledge of the following areas: -
Define creative problem solving.
Be familiar with common mental blocks to creative thinking process.
Explore ways to be more creative.
Know the steps to the creative problem solving process.
Be familiar with: Brainstorming, Mind mapping and Multivoting
Apply tools to solve a problem.
This practical workshop will have a combination of slide presentations, video analysis and case studies to make it learning that candidates shall be able to take it back to their workplace for implementation.
Who Should Attend:
Participants cover the full spectrum of business professionals and leaders from the private or public sectors.
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A little more than $1.6 million will be awarded to the U.S. Forest Service-Sawtooth National Forest to help recovery efforts following the large Badger Fire that torched pristine areas of the South Hills.
The Badger Fire destroyed almost 100 thousand acres in the South Hills. Although progress has been made both naturally and with the help of people, there is still a lot of work to do to get it back to a flourishing camping area. You can help.
The Badger Fire last year took out a lot of beauty and campgrounds in the South Hills. Thankfully, Piney Cabin was able to survive the devastating fire. I decided to go check it out this weekend and it remains in great shape.
The Badger Fire is officially out and it scorched over 90 thousand acres in the South Hills. The area still has some closures but I was fortunate enough to be able to go in and look at some of the damage, and clean up efforts
After nearly a month of burning in the South Hills the Badger Fire is now 100 percent contained. According to fire officials, the fire had minimal activity during the weekend and cooler wet weather moved in to the area.
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Hobby tour, moderate, 66 km long
Those attractions that can be visited freely without expert guidance are accessible on two wheels from Keszthely or Hévíz. On the way we pass peaceful villages and nature reserves before arriving to the dam by the river Zala where an unforgettable experience awaits us. There are several bird watch places to observe the numerous bird species. Once there, do not forget about the largest buffalo mass of Hungary. Among the natural values we can have a look at the historical and ethnographical traditions of the region as well.
Highlights on the way:
1. Bird ringing station, Keszthely-Fenékpuszta
2. ’Talpas’ (country) House, Fire house, Vörs
3. Buffalo reservation, Kápolnapuszta
4. Trail of the Kányavár Island
5. Bird watch and lookout tower
6. Small Balaton House, Zalavár
7. Ruins of Récéskút basilica, Zalavár – The remains of an early Slavic church was found under the ruins of the 9th century basilica. It is situated close to the Small Balaton House and can be reached from the road which connects Zalavár and Zalaszabar.
8. Festetics Bath, Hévíz
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The volume of gas sold is 875 million cubic meters, also remaining flat year-on-year, the company said.
The company is working with the local government in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on plans to resume work and ensure the safety of its employees.
The Fuling shale gas field had produced a total of more than 28 billion cubic meters. It is estimated that 300 million cubic meters of shale gas are equivalent to a year's gas consumption for a city with a population of 4.8 million.
China has made breakthroughs in shale gas exploration both in capacity and drilling techniques, making it one of the top shale gas suppliers in the world.
The accumulated proven geological reserves of shale gas in China have exceeded 1 trillion cubic meters as of the end of April 2018, according to the China Mineral Resource Report 2018.
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Garibaldi combated for Italian unified and virtually single-handedly unified northern and also southern Italy. That led a volunteer army of guerrilla soldiers to capture Lombardy because that Piedmont and later overcame Sicily and also Naples, offering southern Italy to King Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, who created the Kingdom of Italy.
Garibaldi combated for Uruguay against Juan Manuel de Rosas, dictator of Argentina, and his heroic win in the battle of Sant’Antonio in 1846 spread his fame come Europe. Later, his dogged, if at some point doomed, defense of Rome against France, complied with by his retreat through central Italy, acquired him acclaim as “hero of 2 worlds.”
Giuseppe Garibaldi, (born July 4, 1807, Nice, French realm
Garibaldi’s household was one of anglers and seaside traders, and also for much more than 10 years he himself was a sailor. In 1832 he gained a master’s certificate together a vendor captain. Through 1833–34, when he offered in the navy of the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, he had come under the influence of Giuseppe Mazzini, the great prophet the Italian nationalism, and the French socialist thinker the comte de Saint-Simon. Garibaldi, in 1834, took part in a mutiny intended to provoke a republican revolution in Piedmont, yet the plot failed; he escaped come France and in his lack was condemned to death by a Genoese court.
Exile in southern America
From 1836 to 1848, Garibaldi resided in South America as an exile, and also these years of turmoil and revolution in that continent strongly affected his career. The volunteered together a marine captain because that the Rio Grande carry out Sul republic throughout that little state’s unsuccessful attempt come break complimentary from the Brazilian Empire. Actually, that did little more than food on Brazilian shipping. In the food of frequently harrowing adventures ~ above land and sea, he regulated to elope with Anna Maria Ribeiro da Silva (Anita), a married woman, who continued to be his companion in arms until her death. ~ a sequence of win by the Brazilians in 1839–40, Garibaldi finally determined to leave the service of Rio Grande. Driving a herd of cattle, he made the lengthy trek come Montevideo v Anita and their son. Over there he do the efforts his hand together commercial traveler and teacher yet could no accustom self to civilian life. In 1842 that was put in charge of the Uruguayan marine in an additional war the liberation—this time versus Juan Manuel de Rosas, the dictator the Argentina. The following year, again in the business of Uruguay, Garibaldi took command that a newly formed Italian Legion in ~ Montevideo, the an initial of the Redshirts, with whom his name became so closely associated. After ~ he winner a little but heroic engagement at the battle of Sant’Antonio in 1846, his fame reached even to Europe, and in Italy a knife of honour, paid because that by subscriptions, to be donated to him.
He remained in charge the the defense of Montevideo because that a brief time in 1847, once he an initial came to the fist of Alexandre Dumas père, who later did lot to foster his reputation. Garibaldi additionally greatly impressed other foreign observers as an honest and able man. His south American experiences gave him invaluable cultivate in the methods of guerrilla warfare that he later on used with good effect versus French and also Austrian armies, which had not to be taught how to counter them. These an initial exploits in the reason of freedom cast him in the mold of a experienced rebel, one indomitable individualist who all his life ongoing to undertake the gaucho costume that the pampas and to act together if life to be a perpetual battle for liberty.
War that liberation
In April 1848 Garibaldi led 60 members that his Italian Legion ago to Italy to fight for the Risorgimento, or resurrection, the Italy in the war of independence versus the Austrians. He first offered come fight because that Pope Pius IX, then—when his market was refused—for Charles Albert, the king of Piedmont-Sardinia. The king, too, rebuffed him, because that Garibaldi’s conviction as a rebel in 1834 was still remembered; moreover, the regular army despised the self-taught guerrilla leader. Therefore, Garibaldi checked out the help of the city of Milan, where Mazzini had already arrived and had provided the battle of liberation a more republican and also radical turn. Charles Albert, ~ his loss at the hands of the Austrians at Custoza, agreed come an armistice, yet Garibaldi continued in the surname of Milan what had come to be his private war and emerged creditably from two engagements v the Austrians in ~ Luino and also Morazzone. Yet at the end of August, greatly outnumbered, he had actually to retreat throughout the frontier to Switzerland.
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For a time Garibaldi worked out down in Nice with Anita (whom he had actually married in 1842) and their 3 children, however his deal with to help complimentary Italy native foreign dominance was stronger than ever. The was evidenced in his purpose by his belief—which he and only a handful of others common with Mazzini—that the numerous Italian states, despite often engaged in internecine warfare, can nonetheless it is in unified right into a solitary state. Once Pius IX, intimidated by liberal forces within the Papal States, fled indigenous Rome towards the finish of 1848, Garibaldi led a team of volunteers to that city. There, in February 1849, the was elected a deputy in the roman inn Assembly, and it was he who proposed that Rome should end up being an independent republic. In April a French military arrived to regain papal government, and Garibaldi to be the chief catalyst of a spirited defense that repulsed a French attack on the Janiculum Hill. In might he beat a Neapolitan army outside Rome at Velletri, and also in June he was the leading number in the defense the Rome against a French siege. There was no opportunity at all of holding the city, but the gallantry that the resistance came to be one the the most motivating stories that the Risorgimento. Refusing to accept defeat, Garibaldi led a few thousand guys out that Rome and also through main Italy in July 1849, maneuvering to stop French and also Austrian armies, till he got to the neutral republic of san Marino.
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Factors That Determine a Truck Driver Salary
When you’re researching “how much do truck drivers make?” you’re bound to encounter many factors that determine salary.
A truck driver salary can vary greatly by region and other factors. Here are a few of the things that can affect how much you make as a truck driver.
Since most drivers are paid by the mile, you can earn more money by taking assignments that are further away from home. While shorter assignments might be more convenient, they generally pay less.
Managing your time on the clock concerning distance is of the utmost importance when you’re on the job, and it can be challenging to learn how to maximize your earnings without proper instruction.
Good time management is a skill that you can master here at TDI.
Education and Specific Endorsements
If you have endorsements for a specialized job in addition to a CDL, you may be able to earn a higher salary as a truck driver.
Some jobs, such as hazardous waste transportation or another specialized field, pay more because fewer CDL holders have the proper training and endorsements to do them.
Truck driving is a promising career because there are countless different niches you can fill. So, if you’re wondering how much truck drivers make, you should consider what kind of job you want to do.
Location and Employer
Like other jobs, salaries for truck drivers vary based on what part of the country you live in and who your employer is.
There are some pretty significant differences in terms of pay and other criteria that matter to truck drivers. Which is the best state to be a truck driver?
When you’ve been in the industry long enough, employers will trust you to do a top-notch job, and you’ll be able to earn an even higher salary as a truck driver.
One of the best aspects of truck driving is that there is plenty of room to grow your salary. Because the starting salary is so high compared to other industries, having multiple years under your belt means you can earn quite a bit more than when you started.
At that, when you have the experience and confidence to leap, becoming an owner-operator is a significant financial move. Owner-operators can potentially make upwards of six figures.
For a higher salary, some truck drivers decide to team drive, partnering up to cover more miles per day and earn more money. Plus, team truck drivers have someone to keep them company on the road, which can make a long drive a lot easier.
One of the significant concerns that new truck drivers or those considering becoming a truck driver is the loneliness. Options like team driving work to solve that issue, and it’s an option that many companies offer.
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Intrinsically Safe Ultrasonic Level Gauge Ultrasonic Level Sensor
Applied in brewing, beverage, milk production, storage tanks, oil pipelines, sewage tank, Wells,, rivers, reservoirs, liquid level measurement, etc.
Security: When measuring liquid with poison, explosion, corrosion, stress, easily volatile, easily leak, it does not use valves, pipe, joint. It is without leak source, and not contact tank of liquid and gas. It is very safe. Even in the state of instrument damage or maintenance, there is no possibility of leakage, poisoning or explosion.
Hygiene: Don’t contact with liquid (wine making, beverage, milk production, storage tanks, pipes) in the detection and monitoring projects, and no pollution.
Installation and maintenance convenient: installation is no fire, no clear tank, and no impact on production.
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Ultrasonic level gauge quotation
2. Environmental conditions for the use of ultrasonic level gauges
1. Medium pressure: Acoustic waves cannot propagate in vacuum, but can propagate in micro-vacuum. However, we recommend not to use it in any vacuum environment, that is, under a slight vacuum, because it may cause abnormal operation or large errors of the ultrasonic
2. Medium humidity: In dry or saturated humidity air, the speed of sound will change by 2%. The air in the water vapor contains a variety of gases, which affect the speed of ultrasonic emission
3. Space: there are obstacles or pipes under the sound wave, which affect the ultrasonic emission and cause signal loss
4. Foam: A large number of bubbles produced by the measured medium can easily absorb sound waves or interfere with sound emission.
5. Air flow: negligible when the wind speed is less than 50km/h. When the wind speed is greater than 50km/h, it will affect the measurement results
1. What is the ultrasonic level gauge?
Ultrasonic level gauge is a monitoring instrument for measuring liquid height, tank height and material position. The instrument itself can adopt two-wire, three-wire or four-wire technology. The two-wire system is: the power supply and signal output are shared; the three-wire system: the power supply circuit and the signal output circuit are independent. When using DC 24v power supply, a 3-core cable can be used, and the negative power supply terminal and the negative signal output terminal share one core; four-wire system: when using AC 220v power supply, or when using DC 24v power supply, the power supply circuit and the signal output circuit are required to be completely isolated , A 4-core cable should be used. DC or AC power supply, 4 ~ 20mADC, high and low switching output.
Household ultrasonic level gauge
2. What are the performance characteristics of the ultrasonic level gauge?
Strong anti-interference performance. The upper and lower nodes can be set at will, online output can be adjusted, and displayed on site. Analog quantity, switch quantity, RS485 output are optional, convenient to interface with related facilities.
Use polypropylene waterproof shell. The shell is small and sturdy, with excellent chemical resistance. For inorganic compounds, no matter acid, alkali or salt solution, there is almost no destructive effect except strong oxidizing substances. Almost all solvents are insoluble at room temperature and can be used for alkanes, hydrocarbons, alcohols, phenols, and aldehydes. , Ketones and other media.
Non-toxic. It can be used for the installation of equipment in the pharmaceutical and food industries, and the maintenance is very convenient.
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World War II: The Definitive Visual History from Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb (Hardcover)
Inside this complete visual guide is chronological coverage of the lead up to war, major military battles around the globe, and the aftermath that still influences and impacts our world today. You’ll meet the key players in thought-provoking profiles and discover their experiences firsthand, from national leaders sounding the orders to combatants on the frontline and civilians left behind. Standout moments, including Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and the D-Day landings, are revealed in rarely seen color photographs and unforgettable eyewitness accounts.
Explosive photography, international maps, accessible text, and supporting timelines combine to show the most destructive event ever known in unprecedented depth and detail. Although the complexities of World War II can be hard to fathom, this standout reference is organized in a logical order and the supporting captions are concise and clear throughout to aid understanding.
World War II: The Definitive Visual Guide provides an unparalleled account of this devastating conflict so we never forget and continue to learn from the past.
"[A] striking coffee-table book…The first-rate illustrations, maps, and time lines make for a good introduction for all general readers embarking on study of this war." — Library Journal
"[A] worthy book for the shelves of the serious student of war, or for the coffee table of any reader who seeks a comprehensive history of the world's greatest conflict." — BookPage
"This ultimate World War II guide describes each momentous episode of the conflict, while simultaneously giving an overarching view of the war intended to end all wars." — History Channel Magazine
"This is a good quick-reference source for information on not just what happened in this great conflict but also on the causes and consequences of it as well" — Booklist
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Alan Turing is famed for his leading role in deciphering Nazi messages during the Second World War — saving the lives of millions.
Now Turing joins the line up of incredible British scientists to appear on a UK 50p, with this new coin featuring THREE SECRET CODES of its own…
Previous science 50ps have caused a collecting rush and the new 50p is set for the same, especially as there are just 2,500 Alan Turing 50p Display Cards are available WORLDWIDE — that’s HALF the number of SELL OUT Rosalind Franklin 50p Display Cards!
Superior Collector Quality
The 2022 Alan Turing 50p has been struck to a superior Brilliant Uncirculated quality and encapsulated in Official Change Checker packaging, housed in the Limited Edition Alan Turing Display Card, featuring themed artwork and a special link to our Alan Turing Challenge!
Inside the Display Card you will find the Certificate of Authenticity and — importantly — the strict worldwide Edition Limit of the Display Card.
Don’t miss the chance to become one of JUST 2,500 collectors to own the coin in this way for just £6.99 (+p&p).
2022 UK Alan Turing 50p Display Card
(+ £2.99 p&p)
(+ £2.99 p&p)
- Country of Issue: United Kingdom
- Year of Issue: 2022
- Denomination: 50p
- Metal: Cupro-Nickel
- Weight: 8.00g
- Diameter: 27.30mm
- Reverse Designer: Matthew Dent and Christian Davies
- Obverse Designer: Jody Clark
- Finish: Brilliant Uncirculated
- Edition Limit: 2,500
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Batch 02 tickets sold out - Batch 03 tickets on sale now
11-13 Oct — Bristol
It’s pretty obvious that companies and organisations have huge power and responsibility to improve the state of our world. This panel discusses the myriad issues and complexity around organisations trying to do the right thing for people and planet, the pitfalls and how to avoid greenwashing and signing up to worthless vs worthwhile schemes.
Is the green movement just another money making marketing exercise? How do we sift fact from fiction with more and more providers springing up in this space? Is the fear of getting it wrong paralysing companies from acting? Is it a black and white or more nuanced picture?
Exactly how do you go about navigating the minefield and avoiding the pitfalls. Clarifying carbon calculators and carbon off-setting and understanding how meaningful this is. Are trees really the best option, what are the repercussions of rewilding in certain communities such as the Highlands of Scotland (ref The Cull)? What other options are there for companies to have an impact and how do they measure this.
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Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are cheering the recent revision of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) Recommendation 8 (R8), removing the term “particularly vulnerable” to describe NPOs and has long hampered their legitimate and essential work around the world.
At its Plenary in South Korea June 22-24, FATF changed R8, relating to laws on nonprofits, to acknowledge that not all NPOs are at risk of terrorist abuse and directs countries to undertake a risk-based approach when considering counter-terrorism financing measures. In addition, changes to the accompanying Interpretive Note, along with the June 2015 Best Practices Paper, will assist countries in taking a more proportional approach towards the sector. More than 180 jurisdictions worldwide are committed to the implementation of R8.
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Helen Garner’s The Spare Room was one of the books I found at work. I started it immediately and finished it almost in one sitting. Garner has chosen a difficult topic and written about it beautifully. Despite the sad topic, it’s an uplifting book.
Helen’s friend Nicola is very ill. She has stage four metastatic cancer. This means it’s terminal. Chances that she will recover are less than minimal. Looking for a miracle cure she asks her friend if she can stay with her in Melbourne for three weeks. Helen doesn’t know any details. She doesn’t know that Nicola is in denial. She just wants to help her friend and accepts.
Nicola always used to believe in alternative medicine. But what works for all sorts of ailments, does not work for terminal cancer. Many late stage cancer patients cannot accept the fact that they are dying which makes them an easy prey for frauds and con men. The clinic Nicola will visit during her stay is not much different. The cure has no value but terrible side effects. And it costs a fortune. What Nicola would really need is palliative care but she thinks getting palliative care will speed up her death.
Caring for her friend is beyond Helen’s strengths. Like Nicola, she is over 60 and washing sweaty bed sheets every night, seeing her friend in horrible pain and denial sucks all her energy from her.
“It’s just that in my work,” said Carmel, “I’ve learnt that there are people who never, ever face the fact that death’s coming to them. They go on fighting right up to their last breath.” She paused. “And it is one way of doing it.”
This must sound like a bleak story but it’s not. It’s honest and even funny, stripped of everything but the bare reality. The worst part is that the two women have to live a fake relationship as Nicola doesn’t want to accept she will not be cured. She smiles constantly, pretending everything is alright. She doesn’t want to feel her emotions and in doing so triggers them in others. All those who care for her feel desperate, sad and angry while she keeps on grinning.
When Helen is at the end of her strength, she confronts her demonstrating that sometimes you really have to be cruel to be kind. When they finally speak openly about the fake cure and the probability that Nicola will die, things get better and they are able to live moments of true friendship again.
Oh, I loved her for the way she made me laugh. She was the least self-important person I knew, the kindest, the least bitchy. I couldn’t imagine the world without her.
I devoured this book. Its spare prose is beautiful. Its honesty was soothing.
I’ve seen this happen quite a few times around me. People get very ill, terminally ill but until the last moment they deny it. No real conversations are possible and what little time is left is spent chasing a miracle cure.
But Garner goes one step further. She also writes about the caregiver and how incredibly strong you must be to perform the tasks which are needed. How much you may come to hate the person who depends on you because it’s so tiring and stressful.
The Spare Room is astonishing because it’s so well written and manages to be ultimately uplifting through its gentle humour, honesty and in showing what true friendship can achieve.
This review is my first contribution to the Aussie Author Challenge 2013
We all know that search engines work in mysterious ways that’s why I add this caveat:
For anyone reading this who is afflicted by cancer or has friends or family who are ill, please be aware, that the case in this book is not just a simple case. It’s a stage four metastatic cancer. I’m saying this because I don’t want to rob anyone of their hope. Many cancer patients, especially when their illness has been discovered early on, can be cured, notably when the tumour is operable. There are but a few types like the very aggressive malignant glioblastoma multiforme which leave you with hardly any chance.
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Neighbors see fire engulf, consume buildings
Jason Gilliard was still awake Saturday when he heard people yelling “something’s on fire” at 1:30 a.m., and looked out his open window.
From his house on Elizabeth Street, he saw a two-story fire ball on the roof of the 120-unit Peachtree Apartment complex.
He threw his clothes on, ran downstairs and walked down the street to see what was happening. And in those 10 minutes, the entire building became engulfed, he said.
The complex at 2 Westledge Drive had a false roof running the length of the structure, so that once fire broke through the flat top into space beneath the peaked roof, there was no stopping it. The open roof design contributed to the speed of the fire, according to firefighters.
James Murray Jr., 38, watched from his parents house on Scott Street.
“It was coming up right over the house,” he said. “It looked like a rain shower of fire.”
Peachtree was constructed as two separate buildings, each in a U-shape built around a courtyard. Apartments were clustered in groups of six. Each door led to a hallway with an apartment door on either side, stacked three stories high.
The Peachtree Limited Partnership, which has an office in Old Saybrook, owns the apartment complex, according to Norwich land records. Neither Jerry Brophy nor Richard Ermler, both listed as general partners in Peachtree on a Connecticut Secretary of the State Web site, could be reached for comment Saturday.
Dominic Kingsley, a firefighter with the Pawcatuck Fire Department, said the fire began in the upper corner of one of the buildings, broke through the roof, then spread north to south across the building.
Wind blew the flames and embers to the other side of the complex.
Kingsley said he believes radiant heat from the blaze ignited the other side of the complex.
By 3:30 a.m., the front building was gutted and ready to fall, but the second, while ablaze, was still standing.
Murray, whose parents live on Scott Street overlooking the complex, said his father, James Murray, Sr., worked on building the apartments in the 1970s, laying bricks and putting up walls.
At one time, the complex had a flat roof, James Murray Jr. said. But the roof began leaking, so a peak roof was constructed over the top, he said.
Gregory Arpin, one of four assistant building officials in Norwich, said he does not know why the peaked roof on the complex was added or when it was built. But Arpin, who worked as a residential building contractor for 30 years, said new roofs are often installed because of a leak.
Companies installing new roofs today must install firewalls at intervals depending on the type of construction, he said. For instance, more than two apartments cannot share the same attic space, Arpin said.
The rule has existed for at least 10 years, he said. Arpin said he does not know how many apartment complexes in Norwich have open attics, but he suspects most buildings constructed more than 30 years ago are built this way.
The code is not retroactive, despite the hazard that a fire may run the building’s length.
“If you get a fire in one apartment (and) it goes through into the attic, the attic becomes like a big chimney,” he said. “The air from the fire will just suck through from one end to the other.”
Murray said that is how Peachtree looked.
“It just shot through it like a big old wooden tube,” he said.
Reach Deborah Straszheim at 425-4221 or firstname.lastname@example.org
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The novel follows two childhood
friends, Bnaya and Yoav, who grew up in a religious West Bank settlement.
Bnaya, a young Rabbi and family man,
finds himself in the middle of arguments between the extremist "Hilltop
Youth" and his more moderate neighbors in the settlement, between the
demands of religion and everyday life, and between ignoring the Palestinians
and acknowledging them, all while under threat of eviction from his home - something
that motivates him to take action to stop the situation escalating out of
Yoav, a film student living in Tel
Aviv, is making his first steps in the secular world. As a result of using
narcotics, he re-experiences a traumatic event from his army service - an
arrest that went wrong during which his friend the commander and a Palestinian
terrorist were killed. He sets out on a quest to come to terms with his past.
He visits the parents of the dead officer and, despite the danger, attempts to
reach the Palestinian village where the arrest took place. There the two
childhood friends, Bnaya and Yoav, will meet again after years of separation.
The novel deals with the trauma of
war and bereavement, and also offers a glimpse into the lifestyles of religious
Jewish families in West Bank settlements and those of party-loving youngsters
in Tel Aviv who don't want to settle down.
An ambitious first novel drawing on
the author's intimate knowledge of two contrasting worlds.
TRANSLATION AVAILABLE (for publishers only).
The book presents a moving, mature prose that shows expressive skill, the result of a combination of descriptions of places, voices, and miniature subplots that illuminate the main narrative. In this book Shmueli has shaped a profound and multi-dimensional presence of a very sensitive young man, highly sensual and very spiritual, living a drab life of poverty and debasement. Out of this rises a howling question as to the circumstances and reasons that form a person’s life and the fate of the contemporary individual.
The Pardes Scholarship Committee, 2016
This will be a bestseller
… An imposing structure … Why will it be a bestseller? Because of the cognitive
abyss between the secular and the religious, because of the small details and
because of the voyeuristic urges secular readers have when it comes to the "other" world … Another reason for the predictable popularity of this book is
its relevance. There has been too little prose written here on the occupation
from the point of view of the occupier.
Ariana Melamed, Haaretz
Five More Minutes
is an important document that all of us should read … It should not be seen as
yet another book on "the other" … The story is an all-Israeli story … It
sheds extensive light on the whole of
Israeli society … It is focused, sharp, clear, and it does not feel for a
single moment like a first novel, but rather like an important novel, probing
and thought- provoking by a mature and ripened writer.
Amichai Shalev, Ynet
Five More Minutes
is more than anything else a rich book that is full of quirks, breakdowns and
yearnings. The two heroes are actually alternate sections in the mind and the biography of Yonatan Berg
himself … But it contains and embraces many more heroes as well,
understandingly, attentively and restoratively … Berg’s book is like a vivid
impressionist painting; his words are steeped in color and in the five
Tsur Ehrlich, Makor Rishon
Every scene, every
revelation about the characters, is more or less self-evident. They do not seek
to surprise. They do not try to undermine the story’s framework of credibility.
This loyalty to literature that represents the "slice of life" is the source of
the novel’s strength … Berg emerges here as a gifted writer of prose. He is at
his best when describing live observation of his heroes … Berg succeeds in
saying something that is not trivial about the youthful elderly in Israel.
Yoni Livneh, Yedioth Ahronoth
A delicate indictment,
not of the political aspects of the settlements but, more profoundly, of this
way of life and what it does to the soul.
Motty Fogel, Time Out
The two characters that
Berg has woven are credible and it is evident that they have been from real
life – their power lies in their humanity and in the fact that each one of them
rebels in their own way against convention … Berg weaves in many authentic
moments … Five More Minutes is very well and courageously written. He
leads the reader into the byways of his heroes’ anguished souls, all of which
twist and turn as they do in real life.
Nadav Shragai, Israel Hayom
Yonatan Berg’s writing is
free and flowing. He certainly knows how to work with words, and the results
Tsuriel Horowitz, Kipa
A vital novel … The melancholy tone evokes the reader’s
Arik Glasner, Yedioth Ahronoth
Yonatan Berg grew up in a settlement … but the world
that Berg describes is not a narrow sectoral world. In a certain sense, the
feeling of confusion that Berg’s youngsters have is typical of many young Israelis.
Yiftach Ashkenazy, Mako
A lovely, readable book … This book was a true reading experience, if only for the fine, poetic writing … I am very curious as to the next books by this young and talented writer.
Meirav Golan, E-Mago
Yonatan Berg’s book dares
to penetrate with an intimacy that is unbiased but not devoid of compassion,
into an unexplored territory in Israeli literature – the settlements and the
settlers … His prose presents a work that is of great cultural-social
The Ministry of Culture Prize Committee
This book profoundly and forcefully recounts the story of two young men growing up in a settlement and reacting to the complex political and emotional world of Israeli colonization in the West Bank. Their setting out on their ways into the world reveals how fraught the emotional and moral life of the settlements is, and the stresses and undercurrents that prevail there. This novel is a highly important path-breaker in Israeli writing, in that it takes a sober, deep yet involved look at the deepest of the divides in Israeli society – that which lies between the two sides of the border between Israel proper and the occupied territories.
The Pardes Scholarship Committee, 2016
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GIBSON CITY, Ill. (WCIA) — Many people have fond memories of the town they grew up in, and 24-year-old Emily Young is no exception.
“I go back there now and didn’t know how great I had it, I think,” says Young of Gibson City.
But Young was thrown a curveball most don’t experience. She got a life-changing diagnosis at 12-years-old.
“Friedreich’s Ataxia is a rare, neuromuscular disease that affects everything from your fingers to your toes. It mainly affects balance and coordination. And everyone with the disease at some point does transition into a wheelchair for issues with walking,” says Young.
Young and her family knew very little about the disease when she was diagnosed. They immersed themselves in the research and a community of people also battling FA. That helped .. and so did family and friends in Gibson City.
“It’s definitely the type of small town community .. just being able to come together and lean on them for support .. it was truly amazing,” says Young.
Young’s family got involved in the Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance, or FARA. They started fundraising and advocating for people in the FA community. Young’s sister even started working for the organization. Every summer, Young participates in a RideAtaxia event in Chicago. Dozens of people from Gibson City go to support.
“Raising awareness is everything. It’s, you know, the key to a treatment, and one day a cure. We have to get the word and get people to learn as much as they can,” she says.
While Young spreads the word, she’s also been busy building her future. She just graduated with her master’s degree in social work from the U of I. Her future is in giving back — like so many others gave back to her when she needed it most.
“Just to be able to see the people coming together like that definitely gives me inspiration to help people the best I can,” says Young.
For more information on FARA, click here.
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Meet Alec Garrard who is 80 years old and has spent the last 30 years working on a 1:100 scale model of Herod’s Biblical Temple. Alec is a retired farmer from Norfolk, England.
He enjoyed making models all his life, however, he decided to make a single project that would see him through to the end of the life and that’s when he opted for Herod’s Temple. He also has interest in architecture and religion and thus this project combines all of his passions. He had seen a model or two of the structure in Biblical exhibitions, however, didn’t find them accurate enough and decided to make it himself.
He began working on the model when was in his 40’s and spend the first three years in only researching the temple and following his research, bean the construction of the model by hand. He cut plywood frames of the temple walls and baked all of the clay bricks in over before sticking them together. He has even sculpted and painted 4,000 half inch figurines and put costumes on them. It looks amazing but Alec says, “I have been working on it for decades, but it will never be finished as I’m always finding something new to add”.
As per historical experts, the model that has been created by Garrard is the most accurate representation of how Herod’s Temple would have looked like before falling a victim to Romans 2,000 years ago. The scale model measures in at 20×12 feet and is currently stored in a huge building located in his backyard. Visitors are offered binoculars to allow them to check out the intricately detailed creation of Alec.
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PUEBLO, Colo. — Three years into the nation’s hemp experiment, a 20-acre farm in southern Colorado exemplifies the crop’s hazy potential.
Hemp could be enormously profitable, but right now there are just as many questions as answers for Will and Ally Cabaniss, two Florida natives who moved to southern Colorado to embark on the hemp business.
“Every day brings something new and different,” said Will Cabaniss, holding up a red plastic cup containing a hemp seedling awaiting planting. “Right now we’re just building data for the industry, seeing what works and what doesn’t.”
Authorized for research and experimental growth in the 2014 Farm Bill, hemp is being grown this year on only about 6,900 acres nationwide, according to industry tallies based on state reports.
The crop is still too new to be tracked by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has no recent estimate of market prices or commercial uses for marijuana’s nonintoxicating cousin.
The Cabaniss farm is typical of many nascent hemp farms, where optimism overcomes the many challenges growing a crop that was illegal for decades.
Growing hemp was illegal from 1937 until 2014 because the plant can be manipulated to enhance a psychoactive chemical in the plant’s flowers, called THC, to produce the drug marijuana. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said recently that it still considers the plant an illicit drug with no medical use, limiting its production to state-authorized research and experimental uses.
So even though hemp production is legal, it’s still challenging.
First, farmers have to live in one of the 29 states that have authorized hemp research. The hemp they grow can be sold for profit, but only if authorized by their state’s agriculture authorities.
Next they have to find seed, a daunting prospect. Farmers can now legally import hemp seeds, but the seeds are pricey, running to $5 to $10 per seed. That’s a steep investment, especially considering that seeds developed to thrive in Canada or another country may struggle in the U.S.
Then farmers have to make sure their seeds grow into hemp plants with a very low content of THC.
“It’s been a challenge,” said Duane Sinning of the Colorado Department of Agriculture, which regulates hemp growers. The agency is at least a year away from certifying hemp seed — meaning the seed is guaranteed to produce hemp under the legal THC threshold.
The crop is so experimental that only three states currently have more than 100 acres in it — Colorado, Kentucky and Tennessee.
“It’s an uphill battle when it hasn’t been grown in your area in a long time,” said Andrew Graves, a hemp farmer in Lexington, Ky., who is growing about 150 acres of hemp. Graves also runs a company that has about 1,200 acres of hemp under contract, making him likely the nation’s largest single hemp producer.
Graves echoed other hemp entrepreneurs in saying that the market for hemp oil is currently much larger than its more traditional fiber uses. Like corn, hemp can also be used for fuel, though low gas prices have steered growers to other uses for their hemp crops.
There’s no commodity pricing to say how much processed hemp is selling for — right now all the hemp grows already have buyers in place, sold under private contracts.
“We’re having great success with the (oil), but the grain is still coming along. We have some growers having phenomenal yields; we have some growers having no yields at all,” said Graves, whose company Atalo Holdings Inc. includes a hemp-oil company.
Back in Colorado, agriculture officials say the crop is very much still an experiment for growers. Farmers don’t yet know how much water the plant needs — anecdotal reports have it using a third as much water as corn or wheat, though published research is flimsy. And the agency is still testing to see how Colorado’s high altitude affects the plant’s THC content.
Still, Sinning says hemp shows potential for growers looking for a new crop to supplement their existing rotation.
“It’s so early as an emerging industry to tell where we’re going to end up,” Sinning said.
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Is zirconia stronger than metal?
Zirconia is as strong as metal, though. Compared to any metal-containing materials, it is the best material and the most aesthetic among the strongest raw materials. For maximum aesthetics without compromising the strength of the framework, layered zirconia is the best choice.
How strong is zirconia?
Being made of crystal, zirconium is nearly indestructible, easily withstanding the most vigorous chewing and biting activities. In fact, zirconium is five times as strong as porcelain! Zirconium crowns are milled in a way that they are nearly indestructible.
Are zirconia crowns more expensive than gold?
The cost of Gold crowns can range between $600-$2,500. All-porcelain crowns can range between $800-$3,000. Porcelain-fused-to-metal crowns can cost $500-$1,500. Zirconia Crowns and E-max crowns cost approximately the same as all- porcelain crowns.
What is the strongest dental crown?
These crowns are greatly esthetic and bond to tooth structure when cemented. Zirconia is currently the strongest porcelain used in dentistry and has been made to look more esthetic than before. Although extremely strong, the bond tends to be less than that of e.
Can zirconia crowns stain?
In addition to being incredibly strong and durable, zirconia crowns are also stain-resistant! They’re actually more resistant to staining than your natural teeth, so they’ll stay bright and beautiful long-term.
What is the strongest crown material?
These crowns incorporate porcelain and metal amalgam, and they take the best of both worlds. They’re the strongest type, with decent flexibility, and they look more natural than metal crowns.
What is the strongest dental bridge material?
Gold alloy has been used in dentistry for a very long time and is one of the strongest materials available. It’s resistant to wear, making it a great choice for patients who grind their teeth. Gold also does well when placed next to natural teeth and is less reactive and easy on the gum tissues.
How long do zirconia teeth last?
Like gold crowns, zirconia crowns can last up to and over 20 years. They rank among the strongest and most durable tooth crowns.
Can zirconia crowns fall out?
When a crown is bonded and prepared correctly, it won’t fall off. The issue is not with the material that your dentist used to make the same-day crown. Whether a crown is ceramic, gold, porcelain, or zirconia, a skilled dentist can make it to stay in place solidly.
What are the disadvantages of zirconia crowns?
One potential disadvantage of a zirconia crown is its opaque appearance, which can make it look less than natural. This is especially true for monolithic zirconia crowns, which are made just from zirconia, although it may be less of an issue for teeth in the back of your mouth.
Can zirconia crowns be whitened?
You cannot whiten crowns because the materials used to make them do not whiten like natural teeth. However, the crown itself can be made into any shade that you’d like when the lab makes it.
Which crown is best for back teeth?
Because gold (metal) crowns are the strongest dental crown, they’re often regarded as the best crown for back molars. Gold crowns also wear down more slowly than other crowns, so they can better handle the occlusal forces back teeth experience.
Which is better zirconia or porcelain crown?
Zirconia offers superior strength and durability for dental crowns. It is at least three times stronger than porcelain or PFM restorations. Unlike porcelain, zirconia can withstand wear and tear without chipping, which is why zirconia restorations tolerate extreme chewing and bruxism.
Is Gold the best crown?
Gold crowns last the longest and wear the best. Porcelain-Fused-to-Metal Crowns: While this crown has metal below the porcelain, notice that a beautiful result can be obtained. All Porcelain Crowns: All porcelain crowns are very natural and beautiful in appearance and are gaining popularity as technology improves.
What is dental zirconia?
What is a zirconia dental crown? Zirconia dental crowns are made from zirconium dioxide, a white powdered ceramic material. Its ceramic properties and the fact that is milled from a single block make it a strong dental prosthetic. In fact, its strength allows for far thinner dental crowns than those made with metals.
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Hillary Clinton turned her outrage meter to 11 last night in a tweet to Donald Trump.
Trump took a question at a town hall in New Hampshire where the questioner implied that President Obama is a Muslim. Trump answered the question but did not rebuke the questioner for his inaccurate assertion.
Donald Trump not denouncing false statements about POTUS & hateful rhetoric about Muslims is disturbing, & just plain wrong. Cut it out. -H
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 18, 2015
This is not the first time Hillary has used the phrase “just plain wrong.” She is apparently asserting herself as America’s moral compass.
But hold up. Let’s be honest for a second. Hillary Clinton has no right to express moral outrage or pretend to be some sort of moral authority when she willfully turns a blind eye to the atrocities taking place at Planned Parenthood.
Hillary continues to support an organization that has been caught — on video — exploiting women and selling aborted baby body parts for profit.
Every time a liberal who supports Planned Parenthood criticizes a Republican on any issue by invoking “right and wrong,” conservatives should respond by questioning the functionality of their moral compass when they tolerate and actively promote Planned Parenthood.
Liberals don’t get to speak to what’s right and what’s wrong when they openly defend a genocide in our midst.
Jon Schweppe is Deputy Director of Communications for American Principles in Action.
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Electronic solder ISO-Tin® Sn100Ni+ Refill
Through dealloying, copper from the assembly contacts and plated printed circuit boards is continiously washed into the solder bath. Thus the copper content quickly increases above 1% and influences therefore the melting temperature of the solder. This in turn leads to a reduced wetting and might have a negative effect on the performance for the selective solder machines in particular. In order to compensate the copper cumulation and gemanium consumption at the same time within the wave and selective machines filled with ISO-Tin® "Sn100Ni+", we recommend FELDER refill solder ISO-Tin® "Sn100Ni+" -REFILL.A regular analysis of the solder bath is therefore unavoidable.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday proposed a invoice to control cryptocurrencies, the most recent try and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday proposed a invoice to control cryptocurrencies, the most recent try by Congress to give you concepts on how one can oversee a multibillion-dollar trade that has been hit by collapsing costs and shutdowns. of operations by lenders.
The rules supplied by Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow and prime Republican member John Boozman would authorize the Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee to be the default regulator for cryptocurrencies. That may distinction with payments proposed by different members of Congress and client advocates, who’ve urged giving the authority to the Securities and Change Fee.
This yr, crypto buyers have seen costs plummet and firms collapse with fortunes and jobs disappearing in a single day, with federal regulators accusing some corporations of working an unlawful inventory alternate. Bitcoin, the biggest digital asset, is buying and selling at a fraction of its all-time excessive, from over $68,000 in November 2021 to round $23,000 on Wednesday. Trade leaders have referred to this era as a “crypto winter” and lawmakers have been determined to implement strict oversight.
The invoice by Stabenow, a Democrat from Michigan, and Boozman, from Arkansas, would require all cryptocurrency platforms, together with retailers, sellers, brokers and websites that maintain crypto for patrons, to register with the CFTC.
The CFTC is traditionally a a lot smaller and underfunded regulator than the SEC, which has armies of investigators to scrutinize potential wrongdoing. The invoice makes an attempt to alleviate these issues by imposing consumer charges on the crypto trade, which in flip would fund stronger oversight of the trade by the CFTC.
“Our invoice will empower the CFTC with unique jurisdiction over the digital items spot market, resulting in extra client safeguards, market integrity, and innovation within the digital items area,” Boozman stated in an announcement.
Sens. Cory Booker, DN.J., and John Thune, R.D., are co-sponsors of the invoice.
“It’s essential that the (CFTC) have the suitable instruments to control this rising market,” Thune stated.
The laws will be added to the listing of proposals which have come out of Congress this yr.
Senator Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania, launched laws in April, referred to as the Stablecoin TRUST Act, that might create a framework to control stablecoins, which have seen large losses this yr. Stablecoins are a kind of cryptocurrency pegged to a particular worth, normally the US greenback, one other forex, or gold.
Additionally, in June, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, DN.Y., and Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyoming, launched a far-reaching invoice referred to as the Accountable Finance Innovation Act. That invoice proposed authorized definitions of digital property and digital currencies; would require the IRS to undertake steering on enterprise acceptance of digital property and charitable contributions; and would make a distinction between digital property which might be commodities and people which might be securities, which has not been achieved.
Together with the Toomey laws and the Lummis-Gillibrand laws, a proposal is being labored out within the Home Monetary Companies Committee, although these negotiations have stalled.
Committee Chair Maxine Waters, D-Calif., stated final month that whereas she, Republican prime member Patrick McHenry of North Carolina and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen had made appreciable progress towards an settlement on laws, “sadly we aren’t at that time but and due to this fact we are going to proceed our negotiations on the August recess.”
President Joe Biden’s process pressure on monetary markets issued a report final November calling on Congress to go laws that might regulate stablecoins, and Biden earlier this yr issued an government order calling on quite a lot of businesses searching for methods to control digital property.
Comply with AP’s protection of the cryptocurrency trade at https://apnews.com/hub/cryptocurrency.
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The Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) Datascape
How to probe the complexity of works done in collaboration between artists and engineers?
A digital archive displaying the process of collaboration in the Experiments in Art and Technology association through maps of works and projects depicted as networks of people, organizations, places and technologies.
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) is a renowned example of interdisciplinarity at the intersection of Art, Science and Technology, conceived by Rauschenberg, a co-founder of E.A.T., as a "map of engineers, money and equipment", facilitating collaborations between artist, engineer and industry. Despite the amount of information available, E.A.T.’s production and legacy remains unclear. The project, in collaboration with E.A.T. (represented by Julie Martin), is based on the organization’s numerous activities, developed in art and non-art contexts, including realized and unrealized works and projects from the 1960s to the present day. through a 'datascape'. In the first place, the aim is to describe as extensively as possible the stories of works of art or projects, from their design and development stages to their different exhibitions and receptions. One of the main challenges is to produce a digital archive displaying the process of collaboration, not merely catalogue E.A.T.’s productions. Secondly, the archive will map these works and projects as networks of people, organizations, places and technologies, so as to better understand E.A.T.’s identity using the theories of Science and Technology Studies. The aim is to develop an online archive built as a research tool for humanities scholars in art and social art history. Their work, mapping the material in the archive, will provide the project’s added value; historical documents combined into information networks, revealed by various visualizations, will make of the archive a veritable exploratory tool.Christophe Leclercq, art historian, project lead (research)
Paul Girard, engineer, project lead (technology and methodology)
Patrick Browne, intern engineer, development of the information system
Daniele Guido, designer, design and development of the visualization interfacesSeptember 2011-August 2012
Prototype exhibited in the show 'Multiversité Créatives' curated by Valérie Guillaume at the Centre Pompidou - 3 May - 6 August, 2012.
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NURSE NAVIGATOR – ADVOCATE FOR PATIENTS
by Vickie Jenkins – Writer/Photographer
The Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma is the only freestanding pediatric hospital solely dedicated to the treatment of children.
On the fourth floor of The Children’s Hospital, you will find Labor and Delivery; full of exceptional doctors and nurses, eager to welcome new little bundles of joy into the world.
Working in Labor and Delivery is a very special nurse, Anna Carpenter, RNC. Anna’s main responsibility is to provide patient care to mama and her baby. “I love my job as a nurse. I can’t imagine doing anything else,” she said. “My grandmother was a nurse and I feel like I was predisposed to probably be a nurse. Every day here, is different along with the fact that I meet some of the most interesting people. Plus, I love to come to work so I can hang out with my work family; they are the best,” Anna commented.
Growing up in Norman, OK, Anna attended OU. “When I was in nursing school, I did a rotation in Labor and Delivery and I was fascinated by it so I started working here and I never left. It has been twenty-two years now and I still love everything about it,” Anna said.
“Here, in Labor and Delivery, we welcome about three hundred babies per month, that’s quite a few babies,” Anna said. “To me, this is the perfect job and I love every minute of it,” she added.
When asking Anna what her strengths are, she said that she loves to talk, which she considers a real blessing. “I think a nurse needs to be able to communicate with others and that is a lot of what we do so we can feel comfortable with other people and their cultures; to be able to keep calm in the storm. Sometimes, we take care of some women that have had a heart attack, hypertension or diabetes and that is when we have to be a labor nurse, an OR nurse and an ER nurse all wrapped up into one and when that happens, we keep on moving forward. Even though it looks like one pregnancy, it’s actually a two-piece situation because we are taking care of that baby on the inside too. Sometimes, the baby will misbehave and we take care of that baby. And then, it could be the mama misbehaving which can impact the baby so now there are two patients to deal with. Either way, I know this is the place I was meant to be. Sometimes, a mama can be having the best day of her life or it could be the worse day of her life. We just have to comfort her the best way we can, along with staying positive. Sometimes, a mama just needs a little hug or a smile. Sometimes, they need a box of tissue so they can have a good cry or a shoulder to lean on. Whatever the situation, we are there for them, caring for them in any situation,” Anna explained.
“When I was a little girl, I remember my mom telling me to go to school and be a nurse. I am glad that I listened to her,” Anna commented. “I guess you could say that my mom influenced me to be a nurse,” she added.
What advice would you give to someone wanting to go into nursing, particularly labor and delivery? “I would tell them to sit still for a second and really think about it. Some nurses are overwhelmed at first. Personally, I feel like it takes at least two years to feel confident working through the patient’s anxiety. I think that applies to almost any area of the hospital,” Anna said.
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Anna and her husband, Byron have two children, a son who is seventeen and a daughter who is thirteen. “Two teenagers now,” Anna said. “They are both really good kids but right now, our son gets a little annoyed when we breathe his air,” Anna said with a laugh. “My daughter is already thinking that she wants to be a nurse when she grows up and that makes me happy.”
In Anna’s spare time, her hobbies include spending time working out, running, selling things on eBay and reading books. Now that I am out of nursing school, it is nice to choose any book to read just for the fun of it,” she said with a laugh.
When asking Anna to describe her life in one word, she said, “exciting.”
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Did you know that mental health problems and debt finance are strongly linked? Not only do people in debt have a higher incidence of psychiatric problems, but there is a higher rate of psychiatric symptoms among the people working in the finance sector, as well. On this episode, host Robin Boyce is joined by Author Linda M. Wash, to discuss her popular book about the psychodynamics of finances.
The Missouri Historical Society's president Dr. Jody Sowell joins host Steve Potter to share his journey and talk about the Missouri History Museum's two new exhibits, and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs6aWuUPZ2Q&t=252s
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Why did my tinnitus go away after 2 years?
I knew someone who had tinnitus for 2 years and every doctor blamed it on him playing in a live band and said he had hearing loss. He went to get his ears cleaned to find he had a huge buildup of wax. Once cleaned his hearing came back and his tinnitus went away completely.
What should you do if you have tinnitus in your ear?
I think one of the first things people should have checked when they develop tinnitus is ear wax. Now I know there are many reports ear of people developing tinnitus from ear cleaning procedures buts it often the root cause.
What foods do you miss when you have tinnitus?
Almost all of the things you mentioned that aggravate your T are in line with my experience. I miss tomato sauce, tea, caffeine and sugary desserts, though I still have some decaf in the morning and bittersweet chocolate later on.
Can a person have tinnitus in both ears?
It can occur in one or both ears, and often people will describe the sound as “coming from their head.” There are a variety of descriptions that people use for their tinnitus such as whooshing, ringing, pulsing, and/or buzzing, and the quality of the sound varies by individual. Symptoms of tinnitus can cause great distress
When should I be concerned about ringing in my ears?
When should I be concerned about ringing in my ears? What is tinnitus? Tinnitus is a generic term used to describe a ringing or noise in the ears that occurs in the absence of external sound. This is a very common condition that is thought to occur in up to 15% of people.
Why do I need a hearing test for tinnitus?
The hearing test will often provide additional information to the physician about whether further tests are necessary. If it is determined that tinnitus is caused by any of the conditions previously noted, treatment aimed at those conditions may offer relief.
Which is the best treatment for benign tinnitus?
The most effective treatment for non-pulsatile, benign tinnitus is cognitive behavioral therapy. Specific behavioral therapy, called tinnitus retraining therapy, has consistently been shown to reduce tinnitus compared to other treatment modalities. This can also aid in addressing any underlying stress or anxiety about the condition.
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The Bipolarity of the Relational Mind: The “Masculine” and “Feminine” in Cognitive Processes
The author presents the first part of a work in which he proposes, on the basis of his group-analytic model and within the horizon of complexity, a structurally and dually relational configuration of the mind:
1. The inter-subjective relationship between intentionality and protomental devices.
2. The intra-subjective relationship between masculine elements (rationality, codes, the Self) and feminine elements (irrationality, silence, the non-Self).
In this first part the author describes the experiences that, in recent years, have gradually shaped his theoretic proposal. The second part will examine the inter- and intra-subjective processes for which the relational nature of the mind conforms with its bipolarity. Part three will propose groupings of behavior within a nosographic framework that’s based on the criterion of the relative number of excess elements related to the Self versus the non-Self, and vice versa.
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Story Hour (ages 3-5) [VIRTUAL – RSVP REQUIRED]
10 June 2020 @ 10 h 30 min - 11 h 30 min
For ages 3-5
3-5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for our weekly Wednesday Story Hour! The program lasts 45 minutes and features songs, stories and hand rhymes in English. While we usually don’t recommend screen use for young children (see articles here, here and here), video conferencing can be appropriate when mediated by an adult. This event will be hosted by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste, Children’s and Teens’ Services Librarian Kirsty, and volunteer Mary Wessels, who will read books and lead you in stories during this virtual session. Plan to join in, sing along, and move around, as you would do in one of our in-person events. If you join in this virtual session, it will be as important as ever to model movement and song for your little one.
Can’t make it to this live event? Check out our curated list of online resources for children here. We thank you for your continued support and for being a part of the Library community! We are thrilled to be able to bring the Library to you virtually. The Library is now offering curbside lending, and our staff is available to help you. If you would like to support the Library and our services, you can donate here to help sustain this vital institution in its 100th year of service.
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Tips for Healthy Living Featuring: Back to School, Back to Lunch
Back to School, Back to Lunch
Mid-August, it’s still summer, and already we’re closing in on back-to-school plans. Among those plans is the need to come up with healthy lunches for the kids – which can feel like a never-ending challenge.
We have a few ideas for you.
Let’s start with the ‘Big Three’ – protein and grains, fruit and veggies, and of course, snacks and treats.
Grains and protein are ideal for sustained energy. Think PB&J with whole grain bread, fruit-only jam and healthy nut butter. Or whole grain crackers and cheese (try Babybel minis or string cheese from our dairy case), a bag of low-sugar cereal with nuts, or tortilla and meat roll-ups.
Fruits and veggies offer a wealth of nutrients, healthy fiber and a touch of sweetness. Here’s a rule of thumb for younger kids: food that’s easy to handle is more likely to be eaten. Bite-sized pieces, such as cucumber slices, sweet carrots, a sectioned orange, dried fruit, snap peas or cut-up fruit, can be a home run. Or get creative and use cookie cutters to cut shapes from melon or zucchini. That adds an element of fun – great for kids who like to play with their food!
Snacks and treats: Children need consistent fuel for body and mind. Good snack options include trail mix (offered in our bulk section), fruit, cheese, popcorn or baked chips. Offer your kids at least two choices. That way they can have one at snack time and another at lunch. Make them easy to eat by putting then in grab-and-go reusable containers.
Additional tips for packing healthy lunches:
- Involve your children in the packing process. Ask them what types of fruits and vegetables they’d like. Cut them into easy-to-eat pieces, such as apple slices with a little lemon to retain the color, grapes, pineapple chunks or baby carrots.
- Provide, don’t deprive. When we completely restrict high-fat, high-sugar foods for the sake of providing good nutrition, it can backfire. When the joy goes out of eating, nutrition suffers. Give your child a treat, but keep the portion small. There are some nice options in our bulk bins.
- If you pick your children up from school, it’s practically guaranteed they will be ravenous. It’s a perfect opportunity to satiate their hunger and provide good nutrition! Before heading out to the car, pack some cut-up fruit, cheese chunks or nuts and water for them to enjoy on the ride home.
- Not all protein bars are created equal. Many are just glorified candy bars. Read the nutrition facts label. Look for at least five grams of protein, three grams of fiber and five or fewer grams of sugar. And try to choose a bar that’s mostly real food, such as fruit, nuts or whole grains like oatmeal.
- Set a good example at dinnertime. If children come home to fast food and pizza most evenings, they’re getting mixed signals. Taking the time to plan and prepare healthier meals will not only be good for you but for the entire household. No time? No problem. Pick up a tasty heat-and-serve dinner from us. Add a green salad on the side and serve up some fresh fruit for dessert.
Sometimes the most important thing about assembling school lunches is packing what your kids will eat, rather than what you WANT them to eat. By letting them choose from an array of healthy options, you will be less likely to see candy wrappers in their lunch box at the end of the day.
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John Keats (1795-1821) is the reason why I fell in love with poetry as a very, very young child.
He is hands down – my ALL-TIME favorite Romance Era Poet, and likely my my ALL-TIME favorite poet; I have included a taste of his genius to help anyone who isn’t familiar with his work become enlightened a little by its beauty and perfection. ENJOY!
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination.”
“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”
“Life is but a day:
A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit”
“I want a brighter word than bright”
“Here lies one whose name was writ on water.”
“I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.”
“Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget…”
“If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.”
“And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed,
Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.”
“Let us away, my love, with happy speed;
There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see,
– Drown’d all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead.
Awake! arise! my love and fearless be,
For o’er the southern moors I have a home for thee.”
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So welcome to phase one of post hip replacement exercises. This is typically starting immediately after the surgery in the hospital and continuing for the first couple weeks with the primary goal or objectives to have bed mobility, toileting, a little bit of getting in the shower that second week after the surgery and basically walking. So walking starts immediately with a walker and then eventually with a cane. I'll tell you a lot of funny story with me and we have a couple of video clips of me walking that we can share with you. But walking was very easy for me with a walker, and then I tried to transfer to a cane and the cane just didn't work out so well with me.
I went back to the walker for a day and then the next clip of me walking was with no walker. And there just literally about a couple of days in between these two walking scenarios. So I want you to know that gait can change very quickly day-to-day moment to moment. And that sometimes we got to go back to a more assisted device than not in a day that we feel weak, or if the cane for me was too asymmetrical because I was also dealing with a knee problem on the other leg. So it was putting too much pressure on my left leg using the cane for my right hip.
So just a little side note that one of our primary objectives in these two weeks is to get people walking without assistive devices preferably. Sometimes people need another third or fourth week, but typically the new total hips people are walking without assisted devices by the second and third week. So the exercises we wanna go over are the exercises most patients get when they come out of surgery. And we're gonna start with that with me laying down as if I was in bed or in the hospital bed doing some basic heel slides and some bridging with a primary goal of bed mobility. So just in a supine position, one of the first things that we want to do is to be able to start getting some mobility in the legs and rather than lifting the leg up, that's contra-indicated using the hamstrings in the back to slide the heel towards the buttocks is the proper way to bring the knees up.
Even at this stage of the game things like dead bugs are really contra-indicated. There's no reason to be strengthening this area even up into the first month or two months. We really can focus more on the back and not so much on the hip flexors and again I'm talking about an anterior approach surgery. So from here just simple heel slides, they sort of push their heel into the bed, slide it up multiple times. And if they have difficulty with it, they can also put a towel around their leg.
But the purpose is to get them to use their hamstrings in sliding the heel up into this position. Once we've gotten into what we call the hook line position, now we're prepared to start doing some pelvic tilts and some bridging, and that also is helping with bed mobility of them just understanding again that they can start their first articulation around the hip joint with some simple anterior and posterior tilting of the pelvis. And I like to make it more of an oscillation not really a strength exercise. And this is something again you could teach in the pre-phase that would make it a little bit easier for them starting their first round of exercises in bed. So a little bit of pelvic tilt.
You can try going side to side, and even if you wanted to play with some diagonals, a lot of times with the dancers all create a more complicated variations of these simple exercises just so that we can entertain their mind when they're going stir crazy, not moving in the dance floor or their normal activities. From here we can go into our bridging and again, in this stage of the game I don't mind if they do a tabletop bridge or just a non articulating bridge, or if they go into an articulating bridge. For our concern the goal is to get them to start using their hip extensors right, to be able to lift up. So those work in both scenarios of articulating bridge and also a non articulating bridge. So we can do five, six of those, and as we progress, we can also add little things like little tiny shifts to start loading the abductors to the side and also getting good mobility in our spine.
Remember we said that getting good mobility in the spine is essential for bed mobility. In this position also, we could start to just let the legs do a little bit of what I call the wiggle and very safe range but just getting them used to knowing that they have abductors and abductors as the legs wiggle in and out, this is not a bent knee opening yet. So this still is precaution. I would just little tiny wiggles of the knee. And those are the basic bed mobility exercises besides rolling onto your side and then practicing learning how to roll up and get off of the bed.
Once you're at the side of the bed one of the things that we work on with them is a sit to stand. Now, the bed typically is higher so it's gonna be a little bit easier, and the key is to bring the feet underneath them. That often is scary though they have their walker in front of them or the bed. And if you happen to be somebody that is either going through this and you didn't get these exercises in the hospital, or you have a family member maybe not your client, but you're helping them, it's very important that we don't use the assistive walking device as the device to help us stand up if we need assistance. So one of the things I like to do is to teach them how to use the bed itself, something more sturdy or the table in this situation, bring the feet underneath, the walker can be in front of them, and the pitch comes from the hips.
So they pitch the body weight forward. And that puts that body weight right over the center of gravity. So if I was turned sideways it put my center of weight right between my feet so it's very easy for me to straighten my legs, right? And so we start off with that very simple range of motion feet underneath, tilt forward at the hips till you're in the center of gravity and then it should be very easy to come up. Some of the common compensations with sit to stand is that you get stuck back and your feet are too far forward and they can't get up off of the bed, right?
So primary thing of sit to stand, feet back underneath, pitch the hips forward on the edge of the seat and it's scary. That's why it's good to have the walker or a friend or a colleague in front of them just in case they need it. But the idea is to get the weight so there's very little work to get up into a standing position. Now, once in standing position, one of the most important exercises I think this first week or two is a heel kick. And it's just like what we would do in the mat exercises laying prone, right?
And the key is that as we do the heel kick we're again strengthening hamstrings, but more importantly we're causing a reciprocal inhibition of the quadriceps in the hip flexors. So we're continuing to give good love and good message to the hip flexors to relax during this healing time. Make a special note that we really don't want to activate hip flexors for like the first couple months volitionally like they'll work when you're walking but don't try to do dead bugs or straight leg raises those kind of things in the first couple of weeks. So here I love this exercise, they could hold on to a chair or the table. And again, trying to keep the knee below the body and pulsing the heel up towards the buttocks, right?
So these heel kicks, they feel funny at first. And I remember one of the things I felt with my scar is I could feel the tug of the quadricep on the scar. And I think that actually encouraged me because I was thinking like, oh I'm so glad I'm doing this exercise. I'm gonna have the myofascial release and the scar tissue release by doing this exercise immediately. So its a very good exercise.
And then I do it on the other side as well. So even though this is my new hip doing on the other side, just as many times being able to keep those hip flexors open and the hamstrings equally engaged is just as important. The next exercise that they gave us was sort of like that sit to stand exercise, but it's a half squat. So they could hold on to the back of a chair or onto the wall or onto a countertop, and they're just being asked with hip with the part legs is to just do a little half squat and come back up, right? So again, they've already done the bent knees right, the heel slides and they've already done a little bit the bridging so they should be able to do little tiny half squats.
And if you remember, we were practicing this all on the pre surgery episode, to have that strength there. So the strength should be there. It's just getting used to having the new proprioception or the lack of proprioception that we all feel after surgery. I remember thinking, is that my hip, what's in there? I don't know what's in there.
And one of the funniest things is while I was doing the half squats, one day I noticed I got a really deep pain right in my butt. And I was talking to the therapist that I went to up here in North Carolina and I was like, "Brian, man, my butt is really hurting." And he goes, "Well, think about it, you've had the scar tissue in the front of your hip now for 20 years since the arthroscopic surgery and the shrinkage and you had the restriction in the front of the hip is what stopped your hip from flexing not your posterior muscles." So for the first time now I'm starting to use my posterior muscles. And it was actually my butt waking up after being asleep for almost 20 years. So those are typical things I would tell people because we know the hip was an anterior there was no surgical intervention in the posterior capsule or to the gluteal muscles or to the rotator muscles of the butt and the hip. And therefore it was probably just using muscles that I haven't used in an awfully long time once the hip had range of motion.
And sure enough within a couple of days I felt those muscles kicking back in, I was able to do 20, 30 half squats at a time without any limitations. So that concludes the home exercise program that they have in those two weeks. They don't really need to do more than that other than walking and getting their walking back in. I'm even gonna put the stair climbing into the three to six weeks category in phase two post-op. Even though I remember having to go up and down some stairs I'm just gonna give you the rule of stairs when you come out of surgery is one that learned a long time ago is up with a good and down with a bad.
So what that means is if I'm gonna go up on a stair I'm gonna go with an unaffected leg. We don't really like to use good and bad leg but you remember thinking like going to heaven or going to hell kind of thing I guess but you're gonna go up with a good leg and then match it, and go up with a good leg and then match it. And when you're going downstairs you're gonna switch that and you're gonna let yourself down with the unaffected leg until the effected leg gets to the stair and then bring the other leg down. So always thinking of that in that first two weeks, we don't want them really climbing stairs with their new hip yet, right? Very basic and by the second, third week we're already starting on stairs, okay?
So that concludes this first part. I do wanna give you some precautions again. Remember how I've said it a couple times and I can't emphasize it enough, there is plenty of time in the future to strengthen your hip flexors and your abdominals. Right now is not the time to worry about those. So we don't want any long lever exercises or hip flection exercises that are going to in any way, shape or form irritate the muscles where the surgery took place.
It's just a simple thing. And sometimes people that are used to being movers like us that are going through this, feel like we got to get our abdominals and do some reverse abdominal exercises and strengthen up those hip flexors and do the hip circles and make circles, no, just don't. And just be patient because you'll have plenty of time to get that strength back. Right now, we have so many other things to work on and we'll see you in phase two.
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Dee always wanted to be happy. She thought it would just drop down from the sky, bringing her joy, love and laughter.
Dee seemed to think happiness was just going to come along some day soon, “I want to be smiling all the time, with happiness filling my entire being.”
Dee went through life surrounded by people who loved and cared for her. They knew that she had some internal sadness. You could see through those smiles to a place of darkness. “If only Dee would figure it out, that happiness comes from within,” said Gloria with a smile.
If you want to be happy, you need to begin with you.
Happiness fills your soul and this internal flow of positive energy must be constantly nurtured so that you stay happy. If too much sadness gets into your mind, body and soul, you need to keep on filling it up with some good thoughts, feelings and physical movement that brings on a good emotional bliss. Sing, dance, ride a bike, walk, treasure the time you have here in this moment.
Be mindful that you can change your thoughts to more positive ones.
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1901 Brooklyn Superbas season
MLB's history of shortened seasons
WS1953 Gm6: Yanks win Series on Martin's single
BY ANY OTHER NAME: A Revue of the Original Baseball Team Names
1965 WS Gm7: Koufax's gem wins Series for Dodgers
1959WS Gm6: Dodgers win first Series in Los Angeles
The 1901 Brooklyn Superbas lost several players to the newly official major league, the American League, and fell to third place.
Explore contextually related video stories in a new eye-catching way. Try Combster now!
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Could Wagyu beef protect against heart disease?
14 January 2019
As barbeque season gets into full swing, New Zealand researchers are investigating whether certain kinds of red meat could actually protect against heart disease.
Researchers have recruited men aged 35-55 willing to eat free meat three times a week for eight weeks in the name of science. Participants are supplied with either grass-fed Wagyu beef, grain-finished beef or soy-based meat alternative (they can’t choose which).
The study is looking at how the complex lipids (fats) in high quality, unprocessed red meat affect heart health, using the vegetarian protein group as a control. It follows earlier evidence that eating Wagyu beef in moderation may help protect against heart disease. The beef, from specially bred and fed cows, is rich in a fat called conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA, and several other so-called ‘good fats’.
Study lead Professor David Cameron-Smith, from the University of Auckland-based Liggins Institute, says red meat is an excellent source of protein and rich in vitamins and minerals, such as iron, but has been linked to an increased risk for heart disease and colon cancer.
Almost all of the evidence for those links comes from large epidemiological studies, which involve identifying associations between people’s self-reported diet and their health status years later.
Grass-fed cows naturally have more omega-3 and other ‘good fats’ like DPA and CLA, which have anti-inflammatory properties.
“The trouble is, it’s hard to tell whether these associations are linked to meat, or other diet and lifestyle factors,” says Professor Cameron-Smith.
“Another issue is that many studies do not separate out the effects of fresh and preserved, or processed, red meat. The link to colon cancer is clear for processed meat. But very few scientific studies – this is the first in New Zealand – have extended this research to actually piece together whether a modest intake of good quality, fresh red meat has any positive or negative impacts on health.”
The other two researchers running the study, called the CLIMB Study, are Liggins Institute Research Fellow Dr Amber Milan and AgResearch Senior Research Scientist Dr Emma Bermingham.
Dr Milan says the difference in fat profiles between the Wagyu and standard (grain-finished Angus-mixed breed) beef is to do with both the breed of the cow and feeding practices.
“Grass-fed cows naturally have more omega-3 and other ‘good fats’ like DPA and CLA, which have anti-inflammatory properties. CLA is unique to ruminants because it is produced by the bacteria in their guts.”
Previous studies by Professor Mark Vickers and Dr Clare Reynolds at the Liggins Institute found that pregnant rats on a high-fat diet that were given CLA supplements gained weight but had a reduction in several negative health effects that usually go hand in hand with weight gain, such as inflammation and glucose intolerance. Not only that, the offspring of these supplemented mothers showed some enduring health benefits into adulthood, including improved metabolic and reproductive health.
Dr Milan: “Our study will hopefully show whether these beneficial fats in meat have similar positive health effects in humans, and could potentially help prevent heart disease later in life.”
The researchers recruited participants who are on heavy side with slightly high cholesterol, aged 35-55 years and consuming red meat in their regular diet. They receive three servings of red meat (or alternative) per week for eight weeks. Before and after going on the diet, they visit the Institute to give blood, urine and stool samples.
Researchers will analyse these samples to look for changes in health indicators such as blood lipids, including cholesterol, and changes in body fat composition, and check for gut microbiome changes, where they expect to see clear differences between the red meat and vegetarian groups.
Results are expected mid-2019. The study is funded by national science challenge High-Value Nutrition in partnership with beef producer First Light.
To find out more about Liggins Institute research, visit the clinical studies page.
- Researchers from the Liggins Institute and AgResearch are investigating whether the ‘good fats’ in fresh red meat, especially in Wagyu beef, could help protect against heart disease
- Animal evidence suggests conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA, and other ‘good fats’ which occur in higher levels in grass-fed red meat and dairy, could have beneficial health effects
- Participants are men aged 35-55 years with slightly high cholesterol, and receive either Wagyu, grain-finished beef or vegetarian protein for eight weeks
- Results are due mid-2019
Nicola Shepheard | Senior media adviser
DDI 09 923 1515
Mob 027 537 1319
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EcoGothic studies has, so far, primarily focused on uncanny environments imagined by Western writers. In response, this article compares polluted, haunting environments in two contemporary Anglophone novels from the Global South: Tash Aw’s We, the Survivors(2019) and HelonHabila’s Oil on Water(2011). Through vivid representations of the forbidding jungles of Malaysian palm oil plantations and the toxic waters of the oil-rich Niger Delta, both novels render extractive economies palpable and monstrous. This essay analyses how dystopian atmospheres, fragmented first-person narration, and circular crime fictions contribute to the EcoGothic aesthetic in both novels. Re-focusing scholarly attention from the dark woods of Europe and North America to the decaying mangroves across Asia and Africa foregrounds the ruinous aftermath of Western imperialism and neoliberal capitalism. By examining uncanny environments in Aw and Habila’s novels, this essay sheds new light on the neglected EcoGothic effects of Global South petrofiction.
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