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Your play can begin with an idea, one special moment in life, or a written story
Over the course of our sessions you will acquire tools for developing your own work, which you will be able to use later on in other works. We will look into your ideas, analyze them, elaborate on them, design the appropriate stage language to express them, and perfect all of the above to achieve a complete theatrical work, ready for stage and audience.
Building a personally-costumed program, choosing the best theme for the work
Artistic mentoring / directing:
• Structuring the story in a dramatic-comic way.
• Texts adaptation for stage.
• Developing a specific stage language for the storyteller and the event.
• Exploring the dialogue between the storyteller, the story and the audience.
• Stage presence.
• Artistic devices in an empty space.
• Integrating props and music.
• Production planning stage-by-stage.
• Budget planning and management.
• Raising Funds.
• Marketing and distributing your show.
About Physical Theater Storytelling
The art of storytelling views the storyteller, the actor, or any other performer as an “omnipotent” protagonist. The storyteller plays all of the characters in the story. S/he creates the story’s setting, the atmosphere, the voices, sounds and the situation. S/he builds up a series of fast-changing imagery, as one picture becomes the next one.
The storyteller leads the story as s/he deems right, according to their own view, while running an authentic dialogue with the audience. S/he has the freedom to explore and manifest feelings, emotions, sensations or thoughts which come up during the story in any theatrical way s/he chooses, be it physical or verbal or both.
A physical theater piece is created as a work in process. Physical theater is a unique combination of body, motion, space and text. In this sort of theater the actor, dancer, storyteller or any other stage artist creates a total theatrical illusion through his or her virtuoso work.
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Pitt Meadows begins process to pave over farmland
The City of Pitt Meadows will submit an application to remove a large tract of farmland from the agricultural reserve, paving the way for commercial development along a green stretch on the north side of Lougheed Highway.
On Tuesday, council voted 4-3 in favour of asking staff to prepare an exclusion application, based on concept pitched in a recent land use study that would see all 50.9 hectares (125 acres) of land developed.
Of the land being considered for development, only 17.5 hectares (43 acres) is zoned highway commercial.
The remaining 32.5 hectares (80 acres) would have to be removed from the provincial agricultural land reserve.
“We want to create jobs close to home,” said Pitt Meadows Mayor Deb Walters, who cast the deciding vote.
“We heard ... that our residents want to have a balanced tax base. This helps us achieve that.”
Council’s decision went against the wishes of Pitt Meadows residents who commented on the land use study. They overwhelmingly supported the first option, or Concept A, which set aside 16 hectares (39.5 acres) for farming or other agricultural uses, like a land trust or food processing facility.
Of the three options sketched out by consultants in the study, the ones that set aside land for agricultural uses wouldn’t generate enough money to cover the costs of building the North Lougheed Connector, a road that’s needed to access the commercial strip.
Even the third option, which proposes a mix of uses, including big stores, a hotel or conference centre, showrooms or a business park on the entire 50.9 hectares site, will struggle to meet the costs.
Councillors who voted in favour of paving the entire site, however, were confident the developer would build the North Lougheed Connector, before the site is completely built out. The report, by consultants AECOMM, estimated build-out would take at least a decade.
The city still maintains the connector is being proposed as a way to take traffic off Old Dewdney Trunk Road and point to farmers as the impetus behind the 3.6 kilometre road, which would stretch from Harris Road to Golden Ears Way.
“I think this is a win-win for our community,” Coun. Gwen O’Connell said before voting in support of the exclusion application.
“This is the way we are going to get that road built without costing our taxpayers any money. We have farmers down on Dewdney Trunk hiring flag people at 11 o’clock at night to move the hay off their fields. How irresponsible is this council that we would allow that to occur in our community?”
O’Connell said council would be able to dictate when the road would be built.
“The developer can be told by our council that he has to build the road tomorrow. He doesn’t get to decide when the road goes in.”
Couns. Tracy Miyashita and Doug Bing see potential development of the site as a way to expand the city’s tax base.
“I am very excited about the opportunity to support more employment. We are trying to diversify our economy and take some of the [tax] burden of residents,” said Bing.
Couns. Bruce Bell, Janis Elkerton and Dave Murray voted against exclusion and suggested the city hold off on developing the land.
“It’s far too soon. Any road that goes through there needs to hook up to an interchange at Harris Rd. and Lougheed,” Bell said.
Elkerton proposed the city put stop signs along Dewdney Trunk Road to push traffic off it. She stressed there were no guarantees that the developer would keep a promise to build the road, even if council stipulates it.
“Look at South Bonson,” said Elkerton, pointing to the waterfront development where a chapel and pub were promised but have yet to materialize.
“You may plan to do something, but whether something actually happens is often up to the developer. I don’t think it’s reasonable to think that they would put up this money just to get this site rezoned and out of the agricultural land reserve.”
Murray, meanwhile, worried that the city was slowly pushing its urban boundary into farmland, a fear echoed by environmentalists who opposed construction of the road and development on the site.
“Once you take land out of the agricultural land reserve, you can’t get it back. Once you pave it over, it’s finished. That’s what we have to be aware of,” Murray said.
The road through farmland
Pitt Meadows’s plan to punch a road through farmland was approved by the Agricultural Land Commission in 2010 – with a long string attached.
The commission’s decision requires the city to get covenants assigned to the land titles for each of the properties that will be adjacent to the new road. Those covenants would require each property to remain farmland.
Building the road would occupy seven hectares of farmland and cut in half six parcels, four of which are currently farmed. Another condition required the road to be built within three years to help reduce speculation on farmland in the area.
The city will most likely apply for an extension for the road approval.
City director of operations Kim Grout said the city has asked that the commission reconsider their conditions on the connector.
The commission has indicated they would reconsider the covenants when making a decision on land use in that area.
SmartCentres, parent company to Pitt Meadows Shopping Centres Ltd., owns a large chunk of land stretching from Harris Road to the Meadows Gardens Golf Course along the highway and intends to build a mall on the site.
SmartCentres did not respond when asked if they were willing to fork out $9.5 million to build the road before their property is completely developed.
NDP MLA Michael Sather, who has been a vocal critic of the city’s plans for development, hopes the Agricultural Land Commission does it job by tossing out the city’s exclusion application.
Sather wants the city to come clean to the Agricultural Lands Commission about what he suspect is the real intention for building the road – a connector to serve a yet-to-be built mall.
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Gardens of the Hudson Valley with David Chinery
TROY – Senior Resource Educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rensselaer County, David Chinery will be presenting a workshop entitled Gardens of the Hudson Valley on Tuesday, August 18th at 6PM, for the Troy Public Library.
Starting on the island of Manhattan and moving northward, Mr. Chinery will virtually stop at some of the most historic, scenic and beautiful of the gardens found along our world-famous river. While we won’t have time to visit every last one, these gardens are some of New York’s horticultural highlights. Come take a look at all of the beauty in our own backyard!
This program will be presented using Zoom. Joining the presentation will require the installation of the Zoom client on your computer (microphone and speakers required for audio, camera for video) or the Zoom app on your mobile device.
This program is free and open to the public. Please register online at www.thetroylibrary.org, or by calling 518-274-7071. The Troy Public Library is located at 100 2nd Street, Troy, New York.
East Greenbush Community Library
EAST GREENBUSH – Library building CLOSED Sundays & Mondays (virtual programs & resources remain available). Call or visit eglibrary.org for service hours (Drive-Thru Window, Returns & Limited Browsing). The book drop remains closed. Return items to the bin in the main entrance during library hours. At this time, all holds must be picked up at the drive-thru window.
Learn more about the following events and register at: https://eastgreenbushlibrary.librarymarket.com/
8/10: Monday Night Book Chat, 7pm on library’s Facebook channel.
8/12: Virtual Storytime, 10:30am, register; Outdoor Farmers’ Market, 4-7pm (rain or shine) Virtual Trivia for adults (age 18+), 7pm, register – teams are welcome!
8/14: Summer Reading Challenge ends! Challenge cards and online entries are due by close of business.
8/19: What’s Cooking? Good Booking! It’s all about Cheese, 7pm on library’s Facebook channel.
We’re collecting items for our Community Archival Project. For details or to submit materials go to https://eglibrary.org/covid-19-archive/. Be sure to get the kids involved too!
Readers Advisory Services for adults: https://eglibrary.org/adults/recommendations/ and Kids Book Bundles https://eglibrary.org/children/book-bundles/. Fill out the online form with your preferences, we’ll select books to match and put them on hold for you! You can also call 518-477-7476 for help.
Subscribe to e-Newsletters at http://bit.ly/EGLibraryNews. Past issues: https://eglibrary.org/newsletter/
North Greenbush Public Library Update
NORTH GREENBUSH – Remember your ‘Missions’! Log on to ReadSquared, complete a Mission, and don’t miss the last raffle in Summer Reading with North Greenbush Public Library, on August 18! The time to register is now at http://northgreenbushny11.readsquared.com. We’ve added new take-home craft kits in Summer Reading for children ages 3-7, highlighting easy occupation based crafts, including farming and astronauts, and a suggested reading list for parents. The new craft kit for children 8 years and up is an original origami unicorn corner bookmark, with an online instructional video on North Greenbush Public Library’s YouTube channel. Also, we still have a limited number of the original kits available. To reserve any of the kits, call the library, then use our Grab ’N’ Go option for pick up.
You don’t need an appointment to pick up your reserved books, CDs or DVDs. Use the library’s Grab ’N’ Go pick-up option. To make copies, print, fax, or browse for items, appointments are required. They are available M/W/F between 10 AM and 2 PM; Tu/Th between 3 and 7 PM. Appointments are limited to 20 minutes allowing only three patrons an hour in the library to accommodate social distancing, cleaning, and disinfecting. All patrons entering the library must wear a mask that covers their nose and mouth. Call the library at 518-283-0303 for Grab ’N’ Go or to make an appointment.
Nassau Free Library News
NASSAU – The Nassau Free Library is open by appointment and for parking lot pickup service, Monday-Friday 3-6 pm. Please call the library at (518)766-2715 if you would like to schedule an appointment or put something on hold for pick up. Visit our website at www.nassaufreelibrary.org for details. The Nassau Free Library is located at 18 Church St. Nassau, NY.
Sand Lake Town Library Update
SAND LAKE – It’s not too late to sign up for summer reading – kids and adults alike can sign up for Imagine Your Story summer reading club at sltlny11.readsquared.com. Spending too much time online? You can request a paper summer reading record or print a copy from our website, sandlaketownlibrary.org. We also have weekly youth (or just young at heart) take ‘n’ make craft kits. Call 518-674-5050 to reserve one.
Teen RIF (Read It Forward) books are available. This year’s RIF books are “Nimona,” a graphic novel by Noelle Stevenson and “Croak” by Gina Damico. Pick up a book, read it, add your thoughts and comments, then pass it on to someone else to continue the reading and sharing. No due dates – no need to return the book – just enjoy and share. Call the library to reserve your copy.
Years from now people will be interested in how individuals – adults & kids – coped during these unprecedented times. The NY State Library has started a Personal History Initiative to help document the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on our lives. Participate in the project with us – send us your photographs, recipes, artwork, drawings, journals or reflections to be compiled into a local archival project and shared with the NY State Library. Visit summerreadingnys.org/nysl-covid-19-personal-history-initiative for more information and ideas.
The library is open limited hours by appointment. Appointments will be for 20 minutes Monday & Wednesday 11 – 3; Tuesday & Thursday 2 – 6; Saturday 10 – 2. Please call 518-674-5050 before visiting. Everyone must wear a mask that covers their nose and mouth when entering the building; if you are unable to wear a mask, we have curbside service available.
Adult Summer Reading Program at Troy Public Library
TROY – Sign up now for our fully online Adult Summer Reading Program! This program runs from August 1st to September 12th and is for all readers 18 and up. Once registered you will be able to earn points by tracking your reading and attending online programs. Once you earn enough points you will be able to enter our raffle to earn gift cards to local businesses and restaurants including DeFazio’s, Market Block Books, River Rocks Bead Shop, Culinary Square, Snowman, and the River Street Beat Shop. Register today at https://www.thetroylibrary.org/?p=10404
This year’s Adult Summer reading is sponsored by The Friends of the Troy Public Library http://www.friendsofthetroylibrary.org/
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Burkhard Bilger writes for the New Yorker about extreme cavers and their effort to explore what may be the deepest cave in the world.
When the call to base camp was over, Gala hiked to the edge of the pool with his partner, the British cave diver Phil Short, and they put on their scuba rebreathers, masks, and fins. They’d spent the past two days on a platform suspended above another sump, rebuilding their gear. Many of the parts had been cracked or contaminated on the way down, so the two men took their time, cleaning each piece and cannibalizing components from an extra kit, knowing that they’d soon have no time to spare. The water here was between fifty and sixty degrees — cold enough to chill you within minutes — and Gala had no idea where the pool would lead. It might offer swift passage to the next shaft or lead into an endless, mud-dimmed labyrinth.
The rebreathers were good for four hours underwater, longer in a pinch. They removed carbon dioxide from a diver’s breath by passing it through cannisters of soda lime, then recirculating it back to the mouthpiece with a fresh puff of oxygen. Gala and Short were expert at managing dive time, but in the background another clock was always ticking. The team had arrived in February, three months before the rainy season. It was only mid-March now, but the weather wasn’t always predictable. In 2009, a flash flood had trapped two of Gala’s teammates in these tunnels for five days, unsure if the water would ever recede.
Gala had seen traces of its passage on the way down: old ropes shredded to fibre, phone lines stripped of insulation. When the heavy rain began to fall, it would flood this cave completely, trickling down from all over the mountain, gathering in ever-widening branches, dislodging boulders and carving new tunnels till it poured from the mountain into the Santo Domingo River. “You don’t want to be there when that happens,” Stone said. “There is no rescue, period.” To climb straight back to the surface, without stopping to rig ropes and phone wire, would take them four days. It took three days to get back from the moon.
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Potential usages for the items listed below are not wellness cases made by the manufacturers. Athlete’s Log urges you to make any type of treatment decisions with your healthcare specialist.
Cannabidiol (CBD), a cannabinoid removed from the cannabis plant, is made use of for a variety of health and wellness and wellness reasons, consisting of to ease symptoms of anxiousness, chronic discomfort, as well as other problems, or to cause a soothing effect.
Currently, CBD is one of the fastest-growing industries, with new products on the market every week. Figuring out a CBD label and figuring out whether a item is high quality can be a little bit complicated at. However selecting a reputable brand name will certainly give you the most advantages for your dollar.
Below, we check out CBDistillery, the front runner brand of Balanced Health Botanicals. CBDistillery has actually offered more than 2 million consumers because it was founded in Colorado in 2016. And through its #CBDMOVEMENT efforts on social media sites as well as its podcast, the brand aims to stomp out any kind of continuing to be preconception concerning cannabis as well as ” show that CBD isn’t simply a buzzword.”
We’ll delve into the advantages and disadvantages of the brand name as well as take a look at a few of CBDistillery’s leading items.
CBD terms to recognize
- Terpenes are plant compounds with possibly healing advantages.
- Flavonoids are plant substances that have antioxidant benefits.
- Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the cannabinoid related to the “high” from cannabis usage. Compared with THC, CBD is noneuphoric and nonimpairing , meaning it won’t create a “high.”.
- Full-spectrum CBD has all of the normally readily available compounds of the marijuana plant. In hemp-derived full-spectrum CBD, the THC will certainly be no more than 0.3 percent.
- Broad-spectrum CBD has all of the plant’s naturally happening compounds yet no THC (or only trace amounts).
- CBD isolate is the purest form, separated from all various other plant substances.
CBDistillery brand review.
Part of CBDistillery’s growing reputation can likely be credited to its objective for openness as well as skipping gimmicks. In 2020, CBDistillery recently went through a rebranding of its site and also packaging to concentrate on enlightening customers about CBD as well as to give clear labeling.
On its web site, CBDistillery features countless desirable client testimonials of specific products. And in other places on the internet, the brand goes head-to-head with other top CBD stores in evaluations as well as reviews .
Quality and also transparency.
Memberships and also qualifications .
CBDistillery is accredited by the U.S. Hemp Authority (USHA), a seal of approval that indicates the brand has actually undertaken the USHA’s independent third-party audit and met rigorous criteria relating to components, labeling, as well as Food as well as Drug Administration (FDA) conformity.
In 2019, CBDistillery’s moms and dad company attained self-affirmed generally identified as risk-free (GRAS) condition with an independent testimonial by toxicologists. The brand likewise has membership with the National Hemp Association and the U.S Hemp Roundtable, the hemp market’s major grassroots company.
Advertising and marketing methods.
Especially, CBDistillery has actually not received any FDA caution lettersTrusted Source. Other brand names have gotten such letters for going against the Federal Food, Drug, as well as Cosmetic Act with prohibited advertising and marketing techniques.
However, CBDistillery does label its items as supplements, which some other business have received alerting letters over.
Sourcing and producing .
An additional professional concerning CBDistillery is its degree of transparency in product producing and also sourcing . The brand claims its products are created with non-GMO commercial hemp grown with organic farming methods on open-air ranches in Colorado, Kentucky, as well as Oregon.
Its manufacturing facility is approved by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The center is certified by NSF International to follow present great production methods (CGMP). It’s additionally ISO-9001 accredited for quality.
For its full-spectrum as well as broad-spectrum products, CBDistillery uses a co2 (CO2) supercritical removal process, lauded for its security for both the setting and end user.
For its isolate products, the brand name utilizes ethanol extraction. Ethanol removal can sometimes leave recurring solvents in the end products. Nevertheless, CBDistillery examinations each of its products for residual solvents to make sure that nothing is left behind.
Certification of evaluation.
Each CBDistillery product likewise features a certification of analysis (COA) from ACS Laboratory or Botanacor, both third-party ISO 17025-accredited laboratories.
- cannabinoid profile.
- terpenes content.
- whether it has passed tests for:.
- water level of acidity.
- heavy metals.
- mycotoxins ( hazardous substances produced by mold and mildews).
- recurring solvents.
- microbiology petrifilm (presence of bacteria).
You can access a COA by checking the QR code on a CBDistillery item’s label. You can discover the COA review in the product’s image slideshow as well as accessibility the QR code for much more if you’re surfing the brand’s web site.
Variety of products and prices.
CBDistillery uses a variety of CBD items, including:.
- beverage blends.
Product offerings likewise consist of cbd, full-spectrum, as well as broad-spectrum isolate formulas at a range of potencies.
Many other CBD items leave you to do the mathematics to determine the amount of CBD per serving, however CBDistillery products are plainly noted with this information. Oils, for instance, range from 250 to 5,000 milligrams (mg) per 1-ounce (oz.) container.
The labels additionally recommend a serving dimension, how much CBD remains in that serving, and the number of of those servings are in the bottle.
Customer reviews for numerous items often discuss CBDistillery’s cost, and also reasonable rates gives pride for the brand.
CBDistillery also uses animal items. It’s vital to note there’s not much study on exactly how CBD impacts pet dogs, felines, and other residential pets. Talk with your vet prior to giving CBD to your animal. Maintain in mind that THC is toxic to pets. You’ll wish to keep any full-spectrum products out of reach of your pet dogs.
Parent company Balanced Health Botanicals has an A+ score with the Better Business Bureau, it does have some negative consumer reviews as well as grievances, mostly regarding shipping snafus. Numerous problems appear to have actually a resolution attached to the grievance.
Other individuals on the CBDistillery web site rave concerning the brand name’s customer care.
Athlete’s Log’s choices for the best CBDistillery products.
Among our editors, Ruby Thompson, checked a range of CBDistillery items. She used each product for a minimum of 5 days, contrasting the taste, strength, and effectiveness of each one.
Here’s our tackle just how CBDistillery’s items stack up in real-life applications.
- $ = under $70.
- $$ = $75–$ 100.
- $$$ = over $100.
Broad-Spectrum Anytime Gummies.
- Rate: $.
- CBD type: broad-spectrum.
- CBD strength: 30 mg per gummy.
- Matter: 30 gummies per container.
- COA: offered on product page in picture slide show.
These tropical fruit-flavored gummies have a sugary covering on the outside, which Thompson says gives them “the perfect quantity of sweet taste.” Although there’s a little an aftertaste (which prevails with CBD edibles), it’s not considerable.
After taking these gummies daily to assist with osteoarthritis discomfort in her tailbone, Thompson states she really felt ” severe discomfort alleviation.”.
” I do not see these completely replacing my need for physical treatment or everyday stretching/movement, however they’re absolutely an fantastic addition to my pain monitoring regimen,” she states.
THC-Free Pure CBD Oil Tincture.
- Price: $.
- CBD type: isolate.
- CBD effectiveness: 1,000 mg per 30-mL bottle (33 mg per 1-mL offering).
- COA: readily available on item page in picture slide show.
If you typically dislike the natural or verdant flavor of hemp yet you’re not particularly enthused regarding flavored products either, this CBD oil is for you.
” The oil is flavorless– really flavorless,” Thompson says. “It’s super smooth and doesn’t have any aftertaste in any way.”.
Though it didn’t do much for her in regards to discomfort alleviation, she states she discovered a basic feeling of calm and also reduced tension after using the oil each evening.
Thanks to the consisted of dropper, the oil is easy to dosage. With 33 mg of CBD per 1-mL serving, it falls in the midrange as far as potency goes. That makes it a excellent option for individuals that recognize with CBD however don’t want a incredibly potent item.
Full-Spectrum CBD Oil Tincture, 5,000 mg.
- Rate: $$$.
- CBD kind: full-spectrum.
- CBD potency: 5,000 mg per 30-mL bottle (107 mg per 1-mL offering).
- COA: offered on product page in image slideshow.
This oil is CBDistillery’s most prominent and potent product. It has all the advantageous substances of the naturally farmed hemp plant, including terpenes, flavonoids, and also other cannabinoids, like cannabigerol (CBG) and cannabinol (CBN).
” I was a little nervous regarding trying this product due to the fact that it’s so high effectiveness,” Thompson says. “I fidgeted about the preference and also the potential for side effects– and also honestly, I was nervous that I would certainly love it since it’s so expensive.”.
At $240 per container, it’s certainly an investment. The cost per serving exercise to be about $8.
Despite being full-spectrum, Thompson calls the oil ” genuinely tasteless” with “only a mild aftertaste.”.
” After utilizing it, I noticed genuine discomfort relief in my reduced back,” she says. “I woke up less tight, which does not take place often!
” I noticed the results truly rapidly, so this is a great option for people that have actually used CBD before who are utilizing it specifically for quick discomfort relief. I don’t assume I will certainly purchase myself another bottle as a result of the rate, however I will likely adhere to CBDistillery’s reduced potency oil option.”.
Broad-Spectrum CBD Softgels.
- Rate: $$.
- CBD kind: broad-spectrum.
- CBD potency: 30 mg per softgel.
- Count: 30 softgels per container.
- COA: available on item web page in image slideshow.
Some CBD softgels can be difficult to swallow, but Thompson says these gels are extremely little and easy to ingest.
They’re flavorless, don’t have an aftertaste, as well as they’re simple to dose. Thompson claims they didn’t do much for her in terms of discomfort alleviation.
” It’s possible I required a higher dosage or that full-spectrum CBD functions much better for me, because CBDistillery’s greater potency full-spectrum products functioned wonderful for me. Still, I would recommend this product to individuals that are newer to CBD that desire a completely unsavory method to take it.”.
Remember that even though these are a broad-spectrum item, they may have trace degrees of THC. They might not be the right item for you if you wish to avoid THC completely.
How to choose a product.
Deciding on the CBDistillery product that’s right for you will certainly depend on your particular needs, suches as and disapproval, as well as also lifestyle.
CBDistillery’s oils as well as capsules use MCT oil, and also onset generally takes 1 to 2 hrs. Nonetheless, if hemp preference often tends to bother you, flavorful gummies could be a better fit.
Topicals are great for a local application of CBD, like on hurting joints.
How to use CBD.
Similar to any kind of item you’re trying for the first time, begin with the smallest serving feasible to see how you react. From there, you can enhance your dosage if wanted.
For oils, CBDistillery advises holding the item under your tongue for 15 to 20 secs prior to swallowing.
Softgels can be taken as you would any other pill. Gummies, too.
Topicals can be applied as required, yet it’s constantly a excellent idea to patch test a small area first to make sure you do not have a response to any ingredients.
Safety and negative effects.
CBD is usually reported as risk-free, although some usual adverse effects may occur, such as:.
- looseness of the bowels.
- adjustments in cravings.
- modifications in weight.
Before attempting CBD, talk with a physician or a educated cannabis clinician. CBD may interact with specific prescription drugs, over the counter medicines, as well as nutritional supplements. This includes medications that carry a grapefruit caution.
A 2019 study reveals that CBD might also create liver poisoning or injury. This research was carried out on computer mice, and researchers claim you would certainly have to be taking very high doses for this to be a problem.
An added factor to consider is to use care when consuming CBD in addition to high fat meals. Fats can enhance CBD blood concentrations, upping the risks for side effects, according to a 2020 study.
Stay clear of CBD if you’re expectant or nursing.
Frequently asked questions about CBDistillery.
Where is CBDistillery situated?
CBDistillery is located in Colorado.
Is CBDistillery a trusted CBD brand name?
CBDistillery has a favorable credibility as well as a great choice of items. All of the brand’s products are tested by independent laboratories for safety and also high quality.
What kind of CBD products does CBDistillery sell?
CBDistillery markets CBD oil, gummies, capsules, topicals, pet delicious chocolates, products, and also powders .
CBDistillery checks all packages as a reliable CBD brand that uses hemp industry finest techniques. Customers can be confident in knowing everything from the parent business’s sourcing as well as manufacturing processes to its market accreditations.
Yet the openness does not stop there. Item tags consist of access to comprehensive COAs. And also, identifying plainly states what consumers are getting in regards to total CBD content as well as offering size, removing a lot of math or uncertainty.
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In April 2013, Harvard Business Review ran a cover story on “The 3 Rules for Success.” Rarely have I come across an article that is so deeply rooted in data, yet its findings, so simply stated. In addition, it’s amazing the number of business people I have spoken with who have recited the three rules back to me – ah, the power of clarity and simplicity! I can’t help but relate it back to the art of B2B brand strategy – taking the complex and making it simple.
For some background – two senior executives from Deloitte studied 25,453 public companies over a 44 year span to find the common core strategies for sustainable success. The answers are quite elementary at first, but in reality, often difficult to follow in the long run.
Rule #1 Better before cheaper (better to compete on differentiation rather than price)
Rule #2 Revenue before cost (prioritize increasing revenue over reducing costs)
Rule #3 There are no other rules (change anything you must to follow the first two)
The research concluded that the best companies behaved as though these principles guided their important decisions, from acquisitions to diversifications to resource allocation to pricing. For me, the challenge seems to be the consistency that is required during economic cycles, changing leadership and ongoing competitive pressures.
As I reflect on these rules, let me begin with #1 – Better before cheaper. As RiechesBaird develops brand strategies for corporate clients, we seek to uncover, define and build a sustainable competitive advantage – and then clearly proclaim this new brand promise. The article concurs that competitive positions built on greater differentiation through brand, style or reliability are more likely to drive exceptional performance than positions built on lower prices.
I can’t remember an example over the last twenty years where we have suggested positioning a company on price. Don’t get me wrong – companies have to be competitive, but the reality is that it’s just an ante into the game – differentiation that is relevant to the core customer is what creates sustainable success.
With rule #2 – Revenue before cost, it seems quite easy on the surface. Yet as businesses slowly come back from the depths of the Great Recession, the focus for most companies over the last five years has been to reduce cost. Just now are we starting to see cautious optimism towards growth. The harsh reality is that for companies who did not invest in their future, they are now left behind, outmaneuvered by the competition and scrambling to catch up – often costing more in the long run. It’s a proven fact that the most cost efficient time for companies to invest in their brand is during an economic downturn. It’s just very difficult to do so. The best companies stay focused on revenue, invest in their future, and manage expenses by driving out inefficiencies.
In summary, I don’t think much needs to be said about rule #3. I recommend you read the full article as a number of case studies are cited. There are many paths to finding long term success, but I believe competitive differentiation that is relevant to your target audience will be a lasting foundation for growth. | <urn:uuid:11163a5e-ff56-4386-a5ec-6a5ae3c15189> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.brandingbusiness.com/blogs/three-rules-for-business-success | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00438-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964612 | 654 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Motion-capture technology arrives at the Aesthetic Technologies Lab, inspiring cross-disciplinary research and a chance for the School of Dance to go digital.
Feb. 22, 2006
By Anita Martin
Dance diva Martha Graham once stated that, "the only record of a dancer's instrument is his body, bounded by birth and death." As a former Ohio University dance student, I quite agreed.
That is, until I plugged my rusty "dancer's instrument" into the university's newly acquired motion-capture suit to see a digitized image mimic my every move across a live screen.
Ohio University's Aesthetic Technologies lab (@Lab for short), records dance and other movement using motion capture, a technology famously applied in such animated films as "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Polar Express." The suit, a product of Measurand, Incorporated called "ShapeWrap II ?", is the lab's newest resource for cross-disciplinary collaboration and fine arts innovation.
"We've been getting calls from everyone from the College of Osteopathic Medicine to athletics to engineering to sports medicine," @Lab Director Katherine Milton says. "The suit has generated enormous interest among different disciplines."
In addition to its research potential, ShapeWrap II works with 3-D imaging software such as Maya, which the @Lab also offers, to create digital animation. Meanwhile, faculty and students in the School of Dance consider the performance possibilities of live and recorded motion capture.
Motion capture on the go
Measurand Inc. Vice President Scott Thomson bills ShapeWrap as the most portable and affordable of available motion capture-systems. In fact, the @Lab now boasts the only field-certified portable motion capture system in Ohio.
"For the real top-of-the-line equipment, you would need a closed-in system, which means these lights would have to go," Thomson says. He points to the ceiling of the @Lab's experimental dance studio, on the second floor of Putnam Hall, "And the building would have to be reinforced to prevent shaking from the dance classes.... Whereas [ShapeWrap] can be used anywhere you can take a laptop computer, under many conditions."
That "top-of-the-line" equipment Thomson described employs optical technology, used in "The Lord of the Rings" for Gollum's character. The optical system costs about ten times more than ShapeWrap, not counting the major renovations that would have been required to build a "closed-in system" in Putnam Hall.
"This is our way to begin building a vocabulary for this technology," Milton says. "Motion-capture animators and motion-capture technicians will be in demand."
Connecting the dots
The morning after ShapeWrap II arrives on campus, Thomson and his assistant trainer, John Saad, lower a black elastic breastplate over my torso, fastening the flexible armor with Velcro. Soon, long strips of fiber-optic ShapeTape snake from my shoulders to my hands and feet, fastened at points around biceps, thighs and calves and crisscrossing my waist like an artillery belt. The ShapeHand glove links my wrists to each fingertip and weight sensors strap to the bottom of my feet. I feel like a minimalist Power Ranger, ready to morph.
"This is what I call a full-meal deal," Saad says, as he secures my battery pack to the Velcro on my upper chest. "You've got full-body motion capture all the way to your fingers."
Next, Thomson sits at his laptop to process the live data from my wireless suit through his ShapeRecorder program. Upon a large screen, he projects a humanoid arrangement of geometric shapes standing on a grid plane. As I nod, the inverted cone-head bobs atop a quadratic torso. The arms and legs are long, jointed tubes, all supported by a rod-like spine.
This image lends visual substance to the point data taken from my orientation sensors. The digital artist can transfer the point data to animation software such as Motion Builder and Maya and connect the points to a digital model, say an animated ninja or a traditional African dancer, causing the character to move as I do.
"We call that 'rigging' the model," says Nathaniel Berger, @Lab project manager. "Once I've rigged a computer model, the model will always move with those points."
From space shuttle to dance floor
Measurand, based in New Brunswick, Canada, incorporated in 1993 when founder-President Lee Danisch patented an innovative fiber-optic sensor. Measurand commercialized 3-D flexible arrays of sensors, which measure shape according to positions along a curve or across a volume. By the late nineties, they were working with the Canadian Space Agency to develop ShapeTape.
One of Measurand's first customers was NASA, who used the technology to analyze body movement within a spacesuit. These days, the ShapeWrap II is a popular educational device, teaching art students the skills of motion-capture animation.
"This is the first time we've trained dancers to use the equipment," Thomson says. "It will be interesting to see how they use it."
As soon as I'm suited up and calibrated, I know how dancers will use it. Beginning with my arms and legs, I begin snaking and swaying, rocking and roll?
"Don't do that," Saad says, but it's too late. I've rolled to the floor and lifted my legs into the air. Saad pulls me to my feet and requests that I keep at least one foot planted on the ground, to keep my digital double "gravity-oriented" in space, and to avoid suit shifting.
Marina Walchli, associate professor of dance, doesn't seem too worried about these limitations. "What happens when you lift both legs is that the screen image falls through the grid, which looks kind of neat," Walchli says. "We can work with that."
At the School of Dance, ShapeWrap II has also caught the attention of Zelma Badu-Younge, assistant professor of dance, who hopes to incorporate the suit into future concert choreography.
"More time is needed for everyone to figure out the ShapeWrap system properly," Badu-Younge says. "I do plan on using it in the near future. I find it very exciting."
Across the university, motion-capture research initiatives remain in the brainstorming stage, but ideas keep trickling in, including testing in zero-gravity environments and kinesthetics studies. Meanwhile, the @Lab team takes the time to get better acquainted with its new technology.
"We're going to experiment with the system in the lab?see what happens when we reverse the arms, or wrap the tape a different way," Milton says, "I expect we'll be pushing the limitations of the technology."
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Here's a reality. Of the individual insurance plans being offered under the Affordable Care Act, the price you pay for the same coverage may vary tremendously depending on where you live. In fact, you may well be paying three times as much for the same insurance as somebody else in a different part of the country.
We know this thanks to Jordan Rau. He's a senior correspondent for Kaiser Health News and he ran the numbers. He's in our studios. Welcome to the program.
JORDAN RAU: Thanks.
INSKEEP: Three times as much as in different parts of the country, what are some examples of what you're talking about?
RAU: Well, your best deal is in Minneapolis and St. Paul where if you are 40 years old, you're going to be paying about $154 a month for insurance. And if you're in Vail or Aspen, you're going to be paying about $480 a month for the same type of insurance, the same silver plan.
INSKEEP: OK. Let's talk this through here. Why would some areas be more expensive than others?
RAU: That's a great question and it hasn't been fully determined, but a lot of the expensive areas tend to be rural, isolated places where there's just one big hospital system in the area.
INSKEEP: Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Because I would've guessed if you said some parts of the country are more expensive than others, I would say well, naturally - it's true with everything, it's true with housing, it's true with groceries, it's more expensive than New York, it's more expensive in San Francisco; but that's not what you're saying is happening here with health insurance.
RAU: No. In fact, in Manhattan and in San Francisco and in some of the really big pricey places where the real estate will set you way back, your health insurance is not going to set you way back. Whereas, if you're in southwest Georgia, everything else in the area is cheap, but your insurance is among the highest in the country. And the reason for that is because there's just one big hospital system there named Phoebe Putney. It controls almost the whole market and they can pretty much charge what they want to.
INSKEEP: So you just mentioned that there's a limited number of health care providers that raises costs. Then there's the matter of the insurance companies. Are there fewer insurance companies that want to play in some of these areas? Is that part of the reason that they're more expensive?
RAU: That is definitely, although, it's hard to determine cause-and-effect. In those areas you have far fewer than in a place like Atlanta or any of the big cities, where you have a lot of insurers competing against each other, and in the big cities, you also have a lot of hospital systems competing against each other.
INSKEEP: Are some areas statistically speaking just less healthy than other areas and that affects the premiums that people have to pay in that area?
RAU: It does, but I was surprised when we looked at the top and the bottom 10 areas how little it matters. Now and for instance, eastern Tennessee has got a lot of problems, heavy tobacco use, obesity. One hospital CEO I talked to referred to it as the belt buckle in the stroke belt. But their premiums among the lowest in the nation. Well, why is that? There's - in Chattanooga - there's different systems, the Catholic system, a for-profit system and a public system. And the insurers basically had everyone bided out and pick the lowest system. So they've got a low-cost deal there.
INSKEEP: OK. We've been talking about health care costs. Let's talk about health care quality. Is there any connection between the incredible variety of prices people are paying and the quality of care that they get? The people who are paying more, are they getting more for their money?
RAU: Well, you're not going to get some of the really high profile prestigious places. If you're in Minnesota and you want the Mayo Clinic in your network, you're going to be paying a lot more. But the systems that are in there are very good hospitals and a lot of good doctors.
INSKEEP: Some places where the prices are low for the silver plan - which is not everything, but a pretty good plan, they still manage to get pretty good coverage for very low prices.
RAU: Yeah. There's a lot of university hospitals that are in these networks. There's a lot of major doctors clinics. I mean you're doing fine if that's what you want.
INSKEEP: Is it possible that some of the places where premiums are very high, that people are not getting very good coverage?
RAU: Yes. It's certainly possible because if there is just one hospital system there well, if it's good or if it's not good it doesn't matter. And in fact, that hospital system is going to have less opportunity to compete against other ones so they have less outside pressure to improve.
INSKEEP: I'm wondering what Obama administration officials are lawmakers are thinking about what you're reporting here. Is this just a reality that you can't do anything about?
RAU: Well, it's the limits to how much was written into the law to control costs. And that's been well acknowledged, that this law does not have a lot of strong cost control elements. And in order for them to have done more, they would've had to do things that would've alienated doctors and the hospitals and the other medical practitioners. And they didn't do that, in large part, because they couldn't afford to alienate those political entities from supporting the law.
INSKEEP: Jordan Rau of Kaiser Health News, thanks very much.
RAU: Thanks for having me.
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Elie Wiesel: Evening of Stories and Story Telling
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Readers Theatre presentation of excerpts from King Solomon and His Magic Ring and
The Golem by Elie Wiesel with a reading by Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize
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Realize that your mind is a narrative-generating machine. That is why narratives exist in the first place: because they mirror the processes of the mind. But the mind is also a repository of topical information – subject matter – and it engages in the process of synthesizing two or more old ideas into a new one. The new ideas may or may not fit into the narrative the mind is constructing. And yet the heart is drawn more to the new ideas, just as the mind is drawn more to a balanced and complete structure.
And so, in waking and in sleeping our conscious and subconscious selves - one driven by reason and the other by passion - each rule for part of our lives, with the other side being the opposition party for a few hours. And in the term of office for each, they push through their agendas: more subject matter, ever-expanding or more accurate structure, ever in conflict yet working toward the same goal - a sound and meaningful narrative for life.
The act of creation is a political war between our conscious and sub-conscious selves – our hearts and our minds – between our love of a subject and our need to put that subject in a contextual framework.
Only when negotiations commence and compromises are made can a balance between topic and framework achieved. And then, though neither our heart nor mind will ever be fully satisfied with the treaty between them, they will let the narrative go out into the world. For in the end, it is better to put the imperfect to work in the world than to keep the perfect only within one’s heart and mind. | <urn:uuid:ddb13110-191e-47a1-80e2-f4b58816bee3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.storymind.com/content/page616.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.952109 | 322 | 2.265625 | 2 |
"This is huge, really huge," said the reference librarian and genealogoy/local history specialist at the Augusta Headquarters Library, where the print collection of funeral programs of blacks is kept.
"It's a big deal for us because it is believed to be the first funeral program collection in the nation to be digitized. It's also a big deal because now anyone can access this resource from anywhere in the world to do research."
The collection began about four years ago when Gloria Ramsey Lucas, the niece of Eula Johnson, donated funeral programs to the library.
The collection, also referred to as the African-American Funeral Program Collection, has grown from 300 programs to more than 1,500. Slightly more than 1,000 can now be viewed online.
About 70 percent of the programs are of blacks who lived in or had ties to the Augusta area, Ms. Demarest said.
The oldest program in the collection is from Lucy Craft Laney's funeral in 1933. Funeral programs for prominent blacks such as James Brown, Edward McIntyre Sr. and R.A. Dent are also included.
The library has received several calls in the short time the collection has been online, said Gary Swint, library director.
"I'm impressed with how much interest this has generated. We have gotten calls from people who want to donate funeral programs they have collected or are just interested in the collection in general," he said. "It's been exciting to have such a strong response from people already."
Funeral programs contain information that is sometimes hard to find elsewhere, Ms. Demarest said.
"They include information about where they were born, names of their parents, sometimes even their grandparents; their children and extended family members; where they worked; where they attended church; and the organizations they were a part of," she said.
"It's this sort of information that makes funeral programs very valuable, and (it is) the reason so many have held on to them for years."
The print collection can still be viewed at the Augusta Headquarters Library, 902 Greene St.
The library hopes to update the online collection, Ms. Demarest said.
For more information about the collection or to donate funeral programs, call (706) 821-2600.
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A racehorse owned by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II that won the prestigious Gold Cup at Royal Ascot last year has tested positive for the banned painkiller, morphine. The British Horseracing Authority announced last week that tests on five horses under the care of various trainers showed the presence of morphine in their `A' samples.
On Tuesday, the queen's bloodstock and racing adviser, John Warren, said that the monarch's five-year-old filly Estimate was one of the five. Buckingham Palace said that early indications suggest that Estimate consumed the substance as a result of contaminated feed.Warren said in a statement that Estimate's trainer Michael Stoute "is working closely with the feed company involved to discover how the product may have become contaminated prior to delivery to his stables."
Estimate finished second in this year's Gold Cup behind Leading Light. Warren added: "Her Majesty has been informed of the situation."
Previously, Britain's most publicized case of a horse testing positive for morphine was Be My Royal after he had won the 2002 Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury. The horse was subsequently disqualified.
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If you’ve ever visited one of our many impressive hospitals here in Boston, you may have noticed several have an area of the building, which facilitates an aura beyond what we traditionally recognize as “medicine”. Healing gardens have become a popular asset to health care facilities around the country promoting the idea that green spaces can positively affect the outcome of a patient’s condition. Typically located on rooftops of buildings, these areas often nourish lush plant life and flowers, offering visitors a chance to heal the body to relieve physical ailments. These needs can be fostered through the spiritual, social, behavioral and psychological facets of an individual and have been known to be quite successful in boosting the overall positive energy in visitors.
Mass General Hospital Healing Garden - photo via C7A
Interestingly enough, health agents have gone beyond simply setting up pretty gardens to gaze upon and instead have come up with an entirely new division of alternative therapy, which surrounds itself around the importance of growing. As defined by the American Horticulture Therapy Association, “Horticulture Therapy is the engagement of a person in gardening and plant-based activities, facilitated by a trained therapist, to achieve specific therapeutic goals.” This practice may be experienced in a “sensory garden”, an alternative type of plant system that is designed to specifically affect the senses of taste, touch, sound, sight and smell. Often, water features such as small waterfalls or running riverbeds are added amongst plants specifically chosen for their texture and aroma.
Luckily, Boston is loaded with healing gardens that have been of great assistance to hospital patients for some time now. Facilities such as the Dana Farber, Mass General Hospital and the Virginia Thurston Healing Garden in Harvard, Massachusetts are some of the most stunning examples we cherish in our city. | <urn:uuid:ff1faa14-fc12-40c5-bd13-d2be32bb0cd8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.exoticflowers.com/blog-0/what-are-healing-gardens | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.954465 | 369 | 2.46875 | 2 |
At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place.
Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth.
He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.
After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding.
He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;
For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.
He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work.
Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.
Out of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses.
By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.
The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;
And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,
For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.
Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place; and take note of the wonders worked by God.
Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?
Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?
You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,
Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?
Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.
How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?
And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.
A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.
There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.
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Publication Date: 2015
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Extra-Linguistic Influences on Sentence Comprehension in Italian-Speaking Children with and without Specific Language Impairment
Pettenati, P.; Benassi, E.; Deevy, P.; Leonard, L. B.; Caselli, M. C.
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, v50 n3 p312-321 May-Jun 2015
Background: Many children with specific language impairment (SLI) in sentence comprehension. These deficits are usually attributed to limitations in the children's understanding of syntax or the lexical items contained in the sentences. This study examines the role that extra-linguistic factors can play in these children's sentence comprehension. Aims: Extra-linguistic demands on sentence comprehension are manipulated directly by varying the nature of the materials used. Methods & Procedures Forty-five Italian-speaking children participated: 15 with SLI (mean age = 4;5), 15 typically developing children matched for age (TD-A, mean age = 4;5), and 15 younger typically developing children matched according to language comprehension test scores (TD-Y, mean age = 3;9). The children responded to sentence comprehension items that varied in their length and/or the number and type of foils that competed with the target picture. Outcomes & Results: The TD-A children were more accurate than the TD-Y children and the children with SLI, but, for all groups, accuracy declined when task demands increased. In particular, sentences containing superfluous adjectives (e.g., "Il topo bello copre l'uccello allegro"," "The nice mouse covers the happy bird" where all depicted mice were nice and all birds were happy) yielded higher scores than similar sentences in which each adjective had to be associated with the proper character (e.g., "Il cane giallo lava il maiale bianco", "The yellow dog washes the white pig", where foils included a yellow dog washing a pink pig, and a brown dog washing a white pig). Many errors reflected recency effects, probably influenced by the fact that adjectives modifying the object appear at the end of the sentence in Italian. Conclusions & Implications: Differences between conditions were observed even when lexical content, syntactic structure and sentence length were controlled. This finding suggests the need for great care when assessing children's comprehension of sentences. The same syntactic structure and lexical content can vary in difficulty depending on the number and types of foils used in combination with the target picture.
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Impairments, Task Analysis, Accuracy, Syntax, Language Processing, Role, Italian, Native Language, Matched Groups, Language Tests, Scores, Form Classes (Languages), Error Analysis (Language), Pictorial Stimuli, Difficulty Level
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‘Continue in the fear of the Lord all day long. Let reverence for the Lord be the concern of your life’. To those who put Him first in their lives, God gives His great promise of blessing, ‘There is surely a future hope for you. You have a bright future. Surely you have a wonderful future ahead of you’ (17-18). What a glorious future lies ahead of those who love the Lord: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him’ (1 Corinthians 2:9)! We must not become ‘short-sighted’. We must look ahead to ‘the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’. God has given us ‘His very great and precious promises’. Let us press on in ‘faith’, becoming more and more ‘active and effective in our knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ’ (2 Peter 1:3-11).
‘Keep your heart on the right path’ (19). How are we to do this? We must seek ‘truth, wisdom, instruction and understanding’ (23). We must give our hearts to Christ. He is ‘the Truth’ (John 14:6). We must open our hearts to Christ. He is ‘our Wisdom’ (1 Corinthians 1:30). Opening our hearts will mean opening our Bibles. Giving our hearts to Christ will mean giving time to reading God’s Word. As we read ‘the Scriptures’, we will receive ‘instruction’. We will learn about ‘salvation through faith in Christ Jesus’. We will receive ‘instruction for right living’ (2 Timothy 3:14-17). As we read God’s Word, we must pray that the Holy Spirit will give us ‘understanding’ (1 Corinthians 2:9-13). ‘Be filled with the Spirit’. ‘Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly’ (Ephesians 5:18; Colossians 3:16). | <urn:uuid:2ecf99b0-2284-4f79-8a3c-b46cea74e702> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://soundfaith.com/sermons/120786-one-month-in-proverbs-day-23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00055-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896386 | 453 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Tom Davidow is founder and principal of Thomas D Davidow & Associates, based in Brookline, MA.
It is inevitable that brothers and sisters will clash and argue. While this is bad enough at home, it can do serious damage to a family business. Tom Davidow explains why brothers suffer more than sisters and how these clashes can be avoided
Competition between brothers is as ancient as the biblical conflict between Cain and Abel. It is natural for siblings of the same generation to vie with each other for their parents' love and attention. When that competition transfers to the family business, however, it must be dealt with through effective communication, or it will endanger both the family and the business. Although both brothers and sisters must be aware of and deal with rivalry issues as they arise, the problem is much more dramatic for brothers because of the way men are socialised.
According to Relational Theory and Women in Sports, a research study on the difference between men's and women's performance in sports, women are as competitive as men, with one major difference: for men, achieving a goal is more important than maintaining a relationship. Men could have an argument before a game and put it aside during the game. In contrast, women, for whom a relationship is more important than the goal, would not pass the ball to a teammate with whom they were upset. Women, whose self esteem tends to be rooted in their ability to maintain relationships, are generally more driven to resolving sibling issues than men, whose self esteem tends to be rooted in their ability to achieve autonomy and independence.
I have found that sisters are driven to maintaining their relationships and are relentless in working through issues. I worked with two sisters who spoke to each other 10 to 20 times a day. They were very bright, capable and savvy about business. They spent 10% of their conversation solving business issues, and 90% of it arguing. The idea of breaking the relationship never entered either of their minds. After they learned to communicate more effectively, their business improved and, most importantly, each of them was better able to experience a sense of personal success.
Sisters will also keep the dialogue open with their brothers. Their willingness to address issues that might stand in the way of effective communication will prevent the dynamics of the sibling rivalry from spinning out of control.
Brothers are the most vulnerable sibling pairing. A relationship between brothers who are not inclined to discuss their differences can and will deteriorate. They will ignore small miscommunications until they swell into an overwhelming mass of misunderstandings that seem impossible to sort out. It is essential for them to work through their disagreements for the sake of their relationship and the business.
A parable for our times
I worked with two intelligent, successful brothers whose father had died when they were in their early twenties. The older brother dominated or "took care of" the younger one, which upset the latter. He believed that he could take care of himself and run the business as well as his sibling, but he decided that the relationship was more important than what he perceived would be a control struggle. Because he didn't want the relationship or the business to suffer, and because he appreciated his older brother's wisdom and business acumen, he took the path of least resistance.
The two families were very close, lived in the same neighborhood and shared backyards. However, the younger brother's resentment built up over the years, and eventually threatened the business and the relationship. The older brother sensed his brother's bitterness and was very upset. He believed his actions had made his younger brother a wealthy man and saw him as ungrateful. Each brother had mourned the father's death separately. They had never shared their feelings about their mutual loss. Since a meaningful discussion about their relationship would stimulate the sadness and pain associated with the loss of their father, they both unconsciously resisted discussing their differences.
The older brother's considerable intellect acted as a powerful defense against listening to anything that did not match his view of the world. After wrestling for some time with how to penetrate his resistance to hearing the truth about the emotional consequences of his dominance over his younger brother, I wrote the following parable and included it in a report which I presented to him and his family:
Once there was a father who owned a magical flute. Anyone who learned to play it was rewarded with a feeling of great confidence and the ability to exercise enormous power. One learned to play the flute only through trial and error. However, merely by holding it in one's hand, the owner felt so much confidence in his abilities that he never tired of practising. Herein lay the magic of the flute.
It was never clear which of the father's two sons would inherit the flute. The father had worked hard to build a close-knit family. He knew the value of family loyalty, which, for him, was the source of his family's success. His family's commitment and dedication had a mythical quality of its own, equal in power to the mythical quality of the flute.
The father decided that the true test of the success of his life's work, which had been raising his sons with the values of the family, would be how well they could share the flute. He decided to test both sons. He hid the flute in one of two identical suitcases. When he got older he decided to pass the suitcases to his sons, not knowing himself which contained the flute. The sons went home and each opened his suitcase. One son discovered the flute. The other discovered ashes. Neither the father nor the sons were talkative men, so they never discussed the discoveries in the suitcases.
The son who discovered the flute became very attached to the feelings of power it gave him. He assumed the flute was meant for him. He understood the preciousness of the gift and believed it was his responsibility to keep the flute safe. His reward for protecting the flute would be his right to play it. Because he believed his father had intended the flute solely for him, he never shared it with his brother, and never fully fulfilled his father's wish. The other brother has never had the chance to experience the flute's special qualities.
My next step was to discuss the report at a family meeting, to which I invited three generations of family members. The older brother arrived last. Concerned with how he had interpreted the parable, and for the sake of his dignity, we waited in silence for the first five minutes. Then he slammed the report down on the table, turned to his younger brother and apologised to him for his insensitivity.
The moral of this story: the brothers did care deeply about one another, but their inability to discuss their differences threatened everything that was important to them.
Society teaches men that strength is defined by their ability to endure. Men translate that message as a dictum to suffer the discomfort of difficult relationships rather than attempt to reduce the pain by addressing the issues that stand between them and others. Their conditioning distracts them from things that are more important than ambitions and achievement, and distorts their definition of success.
The legacy of previous generations
My own anecdotal evidence, gathered from hundreds of cases in which I have worked with brothers, points to one distinguishing characteristic of brothers who worked successfully together versus those who did not: the modelling they received from the previous generation. In every situation where there was a potential schism between brothers, I discovered that there had been a similar schism in the prior generation. This phenomenon presents an opportunity and a responsibility for each generation to resolve the differences from the previous generation. When brothers take the risk of talking and listening to one another, the benefits extend beyond themselves and the business. By not addressing difficult issues in a constructive way, they pass on to their children the burden of dealing with those problems.
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Emotions bring color and meaning to our lives, but they can also put us on an exhausting roller-coaster ride that takes us to blissful peak states, the depths of delusion and despair, and everything in between. It is only by learning to relate to our emotions skillfully that we benefit from their richness and glean wisdom rather than letting them control us.
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In 2018, the World Health Organisation plans to add “gaming disorder” – characterised by a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour – to its list of mental health conditions.
According to the beta draft site, the WHO’s 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD) defines a number of diseases, disorders, injuries and other related health conditions, which are listed in a comprehensive, hierarchical fashion. It enables the sharing of health information between countries and facilitates the analysis of “health information for evidence-based decision-making.” The previous version of the ICD was approved in 1990 by the 43rd World Health Assembly. The current draft that lists “gaming disorder,” is not final, nor does it list prevention or treatment options. The beta draft site, updated daily, is also not approved by the WHO.
The WHO’s impending beta draft for the next ICD classifies gaming disorder as a pattern of behaviour with “impaired control over gaming,” in terms of its frequency, intensity, duration, and the capacity to quit. The disorder falls under the parent category of “Disorders due to addictive behaviours,” and is characterised by giving increased priority to gaming over other daily activities.
Applying to both online and offline video gaming, the condition is also defined by the “continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences.” In order to be diagnosed, these behaviours must be evident over a period of at least 12 months, according to the draft.
A Matter of Contention
“The WHO designation is now generally in line with the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, Fifth Edition (DSM-5)’s description of internet gaming disorder (IGD),” Nancy Petry, a professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center, told Futurism. The main difference though, Petry said, is that the DSM-5 didn’t consider the data sufficient to classify IGD as a unique mental health condition. Rather, it’s categorised under “conditions for further study.”
The WHO’s decision highlights a schism among psychologists: some think the new designation is a welcome one, but others don’t see enough evidence to justify it.
Alexander Blaszczynski, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Sydney, Australia told Futurism he is concerned about “the absence of clear diagnostic criteria determining what constitutes a gaming disorder, and the validity of applying existing addiction criteria to a behaviour.” He noted that there is a range of behaviours now being identified as addictions — everything from salsa dancing, to smartphones, to in vitro fertilisation. “At what point does an activity transform from an entertainment to a disorder?” he said.
The controversy ultimately reflects some deeper philosophical debates that have dogged most areas of medicine for many years, Ronald Pies, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, told Futurism. “What should or should not count as “disease” or “disorder”? Do we require physiological, biochemical, or neurological “markers” of a putative disease entity in order to validate it, or is it sufficient to document substantial impairment and dysfunction in activities of daily living, responsibilities, etc., as the WHO criteria emphasise?”
Chris Ferguson, a professor of psychology at Stetson University in Florida told Futurism that he does not support the WHO’s designation. “Basically I don’t think the research is there yet to support this as a diagnosis and there is considerable risk of harm due to a “junk diagnosis.”
He said research suggests what we’re calling “gaming disorder” isn’t really a solitary diagnosis. Ferguson said some people certainly overdo gaming, as others may “overdo” or develop addictions to myriad other activities like shopping, exercise, and sex. “But the data we have suggests that usually individuals have a preexisting mental health condition like depression or anxiety first, then use these activities as coping mechanisms.”
Pies said he shared many of Ferguson’s concerns, saying he was “more skeptical than not” of the designation. “While some recent neurophysiological studies suggest that IGD may be a discrete disorder, there is still no scientific consensus on this point. It is unclear whether IGD is truly a “stand alone” condition; whether it is mostly explained by other underlying conditions, such as anxious or depressive disorders; or whether it is merely a subtype of so-called “behavioural addictions”, which are themselves sources of scientific controversy,” Pies said.
Others, like Douglas Gentile, a psychology professor at Iowa State University, see this as a big step in the right direction. Gentile compared where we are with gaming “addiction” as “similar to where we were with alcoholism in the 1960s.” At that time, alcoholism was considered a moral failing — people thought ‘it’s your own damn fault,’” he told Futurism. “It took another 30 years for people to agree that a medical model for alcoholism makes sense and now people can get the help they need.”
Gentile doesn’t think our culture is ready to accept the medical model of video gaming, and still sees it as a moral failing — mostly by the children’s parents. “We have lots of people who could be helped, but aren’t being helped. If you walk into a doctor or psychiatrist’s office, they either won’t treat it or you have to pay out of pocket.”
Ferguson isn’t sure “why the WHO is so obsessed with gaming when a wide range of behaviours can be overdone.” Given that other potential addictions, like food or sex, have as much research as gaming, it seems likely that the WHO’s kneejerk reaction comes from a broader moral panic over video games and technology, he said.
But Gentile counters that the WHO’s acknowledgement that video gaming could be a problem “puts truth back on the table,” Gentile said. “We need to treat games with more respect. We play them because we want to be affected, but then say they have no effects.”
Access Is a Predictor Of Addiction
As our video game experience expands with virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), the argument gets even murkier. “One thing that we do know about addictions, generally, is that the number one predictor [for] if you’re going to become an addict is access,” said Gentile. “If you can’t get drugs, you can’t become addicted to them. Now that we’ve made gaming this ubiquitous — on phones, with gaming tech and VR tech in-house — we’ve made access open to everyone.”
Gentile isn’t certain that VR games are more addicting than their traditional counterparts. “We don’t know if greater immersion makes the games more addictive. To say that VR will be more addictive is making the argument that seeing things in three dimensions is more addictive than seeing them in two.” But he added that we we don’t have the scientific evidence to support that.
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Majority of universities require undergraduate or graduate students to write a personal statement. It is a compulsory requirement that one cannot overlook during the admission. It is an application that allows the candidate to expound on his/her academic skills, experiences and achievements. Some applications may ask you to respond to particular questions while there are some that may require you to talk about general matters. Regardless, you need to make sure that your statement stands out from the rest and compels the admission committee to consider you as a potential applicant.
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Interview is a very important phase for acquiring the job you dreamt of. Therefore, it is highly important that one should understand some key points before going to the interview. In this article we will present you some common yet significant tips that hold weight but still they are often ignored by majority of us. These key points include be on time, work on your appearance and be a little enthusiastic.
Get to the Interview On-Time
This is the most common tip that doesn’t even need to be told again and again, but still people don’t pay much attention to this important point. Such ... Read more
Coursework writing is a compulsory assignment in some academic fields. Mostly these assignments are given to students near the end of the college semesters. Students are haunted by these assignments as they are quite difficult, time-consuming and the worst part is that they are usually assigned along with other assignments. This makes it rather difficult for learners to put their utmost concentration on one assignment. Regardless, students have to complete and submit their assignments within the deadline they have provided with by their professors.
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Lab report writing is a very common assignment in many schools and colleges. Teachers ask students to complete this assignment in order to give them an opportunity to polish their analytical skills. In addition to that these reports also have a great influence on the academic grades of the students.
Producing a well-written lab report is not a simple task at all. Many at times students feel a lot of stress when they don’t know how to write these reports. They also have to think about their grades since they don’t want others to get ahead of them. Before starting a report keep in mind ... Read more
Curriculum Vitae commonly referred to as CV is the most important component of your job hunt. It can make or break your chances to get an interview call from a prospective employer. Although its importance counts a lot while looking for a job, but most job seekers don’t give a lot of consideration while writing this significant document. This is the first piece-of-paper that a prospective hiring manager looks at to decide whether it is worth meeting the candidate or not. Therefore, to meet the expectations of the recruiter and make them want to meet you, your CV must be written with ... Read more
The introduction of a dissertation sets the tone for the audience. Its purpose is to grab their attention and get across the significance of the research in an effective manner. Here is a list of some important guidelines of writing an ideal introduction that tells your readers that the research you have presented is worth their time.
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It is normal to feel a little anxious when going to a job interview. However, too much anxiety may make you end up messing up this great opportunity of landing on the right employment. During the job interview, it is your etiquettes that count a lot. Good manners reflect the true nature or attitude of the potential candidate and help the employer to decide whether he/she will fit with the company or not. During an interview, it is quite easy to make blunders that might make the employer feel a little offended and as a result it may cost you a good job. Therefore, learn the essential ... Read more
It is inarguably true that written English is way different and difficult than verbal English. If an individual is good at verbal English then it is not necessary that he/she would be fluent in written English as well. This difference is normally noticeable in foreign students who are non-native to English language. Apart from them, even many native English speakers often find themselves confused while tackling advance English courses. Regardless of whether your English is good or bad, you can’t let it deteriorate the quality of your dissertation. It is the most important part of your ... Read more
Cover letter is the persona of the applicant applying for a particular job. It creates your first-impression in front of the employers when they evaluate your application for the job. Remember that a general cover letter written in a careless manner will most probably cost you not only an interview but also an ideal job. You need to be focused to your objectives and mention only those skills or qualities that are relevant to the post. To secure the interview and to get the job efficiently, it is important that you should do a little homework before writing a cover letter.
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Finding the right job is quite a stressful task that job-applicants have to deal with. After finding a prospective job opportunity, you try your best to avoid every possible mistake that may cost a good job. Interview is the last important phase that you have to go through before securing an ideal employment. You have to tame your stress that hinders your performance during the interview or else you will probably end up making a bad impression on the prospective employer. If you are too focused on thinking what will happen in the interview or whether or not you will be able to coordinate ... Read more | <urn:uuid:79442300-f80a-488b-ba78-ad8facfdacaf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.essaymojo.co.uk/blog/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00171-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964616 | 1,181 | 2.015625 | 2 |
How many of you can tell me the difference between a jelly, jam & a preserve?
Yea, that’s a tough one. I’ll admit, I had to google it to find the answer. It’s true, I’ve existed 28 years on this earth without knowing the fundamental differences between these spreads. A little appalling, but brutally honest.
Here it is in a nutshell (so to speak)…
1. Jelly: made using the juice of the fruit
2. Jam: made using the pureed flesh of the fruit
3. Preserves: made using either whole pieces or large chunks of the fruit.
There you have it! Pretty easy once you know. Don’t beat yourself up if you didn’t, however.
What we have here today is a JAM made using red grapes. I’ve gone ahead & thrown some red apples in there too since apples are just chock full of pectin which will eliminate the need for so much sugar.
The whole reason I find myself making jam at all is because I seem to have a wicked craving for a PB&J. I know traditionally these are fixed with jellies & not jams… but I’m not all that traditional.
Try this recipe out. I threw in a little dark rum & lemon zest to give it a nice little edge. Let me know what you think xxx
– 1kg red grapes (remove all the seeds)
– 500g red apples, (peeled & cubed)
– 150ml dark rum
– zest of one lemon
– 250g sugar
1. combine the grapes, apples, lemon zest & rum in a blender & puree until smooth (you don’t have to, I just recommend it).
2. transfer the contents into a large pot & turn the heat up to medium-high. Cook for about 10 minutes before adding in the sugar.
3. Once the sugar is added, the mixture needs to be cooked until it reaches 104C (a candy thermometer is best for this job). Make sure to stir the mixture every five to ten minutes to ensure it doesn’t burn on the bottom. Once the correct temperature is reached, transfer it into hot, sterilised jam jars. Three should be plenty, but have a couple more ready just in case. Place the lid on the jars immediately, & then allow the filled jars to cool to room temperature before storing.
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Note: This is the sixth blog post article in a series of 14 articles on Assessment/Diagnosis of musculoskeletal conditions of the neck (cervical spine). See below for the other articles in this series.
Perhaps no assessment procedure is more important to the manual therapist and integral to musculoskeletal (myofascioskeletal) assessment than palpation.
Palpation involves the physical assessment of the client’s bony and soft tissues through touch, usually with the pads of the fingers.
Palpation of bony landmarks can be important for determining the underlying skeletal structure that could otherwise be seen only on radiographic imaging. In the neck, it is important to feel for the spinous processes in order to assess the degree of the client’s cervical lordotic curve. Through chronic postures and physical traumas, the normal lordotic curve is often decreased, lost, or even at times reversed. The spinous processes of C2 and C7 are easily palpated with the client in the supine position. However, when the normal cervical curve is present, it is often difficult to feel the spinous processes of C3 through C6 (Fig. 4A). If the spinous processes of C3 through C6 can be easily felt, this indicates a decreased cervical curve (Fig. 4B).
Figure 4. Supine palpation of the spinous processes of the neck. (A) The spinous processes of C3 through C6 are challenging to palpate because of the normal lordotic curve of the neck. (B) All cervical spinous processes are easily palpable because the client’s neck curve is decreased (hypolordotic). Courtesy Joseph E. Muscolino.
(Note: Additional figures in this blog post article are courtesy of Joseph E. Muscolino.The Muscle and Bone Palpation Manual, with Trigger Points, Referral Patterns, and Stretching, 2ed. Elsevier. 2016.)
After assessing the curve of the cervical spine, soft tissue palpation can be performed.
FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF MUSCLE PALPATION GUIDELINES:
(Courtesy Joseph E. Muscolino, excerpted from The Muscle and Bone Palpation Manual, with Trigger Points, Referral Patterns, and Stretching, 2ed. Elsevier. 2016).
It should be emphasized that there is a science and an art to muscle (myofascial) palpation. We should not memorize a muscle palpation protocol for each of the muscles of the body, rather we should critically think and understand “how” to palpate and apply that understanding to the palpation assessment being done at that moment.
These guidelines provide a sense of the principles involved in successful muscle palpation.
- Know the attachments of the target muscle so that you know where to place your hands.
- Know the actions of the target muscle. The client will most likely be asked to perform one of them to contract the target muscle so that it can be discerned from the adjacent musculature. (Make sure that the client is not asked to hold the contraction too long or the target muscle may fatigue and the client may become uncomfortable.)
- Think critically to choose exactly which joint action of the target muscle best isolates its contraction.
- If necessary, add resistance to the client’s contraction of the target muscle. (When resistance is added, do not cross any joints that do not need to be crossed; in other words, be sure to resist only the action of the target muscle that is desired.)
- Look before placing your palpating hand on the client. (This is especially important with superficial muscles.)
- First find and palpate the target muscle in the easiest place possible.
- Strum perpendicularly across the belly or tendon of the target muscle.
- Once located, follow the course of the target muscle in small successive baby steps.
- At each baby step of palpation, have the client alternately contract and relax the target muscle, and feel for this tissue texture change as the muscle goes from relaxed and soft, to contracted and hard, to relaxed and soft again.
- Use knowledge of coupled actions to palpate target muscles that are scapular rotators.
- To aid palpation of the target muscle, use reciprocal inhibition of another muscle when needed. (When reciprocal inhibition is used, do not have the client contract the target muscle too forcefully, or the other muscle that is being reciprocally inhibited may be recruited anyway.)
- Use appropriate pressure. Appropriate pressure is neither too heavy nor too light.
- When using deep palpation pressure, sink slowly into the client’s tissues as the client breathes slowly and evenly.
- Once the palpation of one muscle is known, it can be used as a landmark to locate other muscles.
- Relax and passively slacken the target muscle when palpating it at its bony attachment.
- Close your eyes when you palpate to focus your attention on your palpating fingers.
- Construct a mental picture of the client’s anatomy under the skin as you palpate.
- If the client is ticklish, use firm pressure and have the client place a hand over your palpating hand.
- Fingernails need to be very short and smooth.
- Place the client in a position that is optimal for the muscle palpation.
Once a soft tissue has been located, the quality of the tissue is assessed. If the tissue being assessed is a muscle, the qualities to look for are whether it is hard or soft. Tight (overly contracted, locked short – locked long) muscles feel hard; loose, relaxed muscles are soft. If the muscle is hard, is the entire muscle hard? Or are there perhaps small knots of tightness or taut bands within the muscle? Small knots may be myofascial trigger points (TrPs), whereas taut bands are usually a result of bundles of muscle fibers that are either overly contracted and bunched up, or overly stretched and pulled taut. Taut bands are usually strummable, similar to twanging a guitar string.
Whether muscle tissue, other soft tissues, or bone is being assessed, palpation can provide a great deal of useful information. Palpating for swelling and increased temperature may reveal tissue inflammation; palpating for thickness and increased density within a soft tissue may reveal the buildup of fibrous adhesions within the tissues. It is also important to palpate the end-feel of a joint’s ROM. The end-feel of the neck’s joint motion occurs at the end of passive ROM and should have a small, healthy bounce to it (see Motion Palpation blog post for more on this assessment skill).
- The health history and range of motion (ROM) physical examination, which are usually done before palpation, often give the therapist some advance guidance about where to focus attention when palpating.
- Palpation often serves to confirm or eliminate the clinical impression that the therapist began to form during the earlier phases of the assessment procedures.
This blog post article is the sixth in a series of 14 blog post articles on Assessment/Diagnosis of musculoskeletal (neuro-myo-fascio-skeletal) conditions of the neck (cervical spine).
The articles in this series are:
- Introduction to Assessment/Diagnosis of the Neck
- Verbal and Written Health History
- Overview of Physical Examination Assessment
- Postural Assessment
- Neck General Orthopedic Assessment: Range of Motion and Manual Resistance
- Palpation Assessment
- Motion Palpation (Joint Play) Assessment
- Special Orthopedic Assessment Tests for the Neck – Space Occupying Conditions
- Special Orthopedic Assessment Tests – Space Occupying Conditions – Slump Test
- Orthopedic Assessment of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome – Adson’s, Eden’s, Wright’s
- Orthopedic Assessment of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome – Brachial Plexus Tension Test
- Special Orthopedic Assessment Tests – Vertebral Artery Competency Test
- Treatment Strategy and Treatment Techniques
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Very much like a survey course for college freshmen, “For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism” briskly covers a great deal of ground, and often engages with illuminating insights, but isn’t designed to offer anything more than a cursory overview. Pic actually could wind up being a valuable teaching tool for educators in film studies programs, and might also attract receptive auds in cable and pubcast venues. Trouble is, Gerald Peary’s once-over-lightly approach may disappoint the very people who’d be most inclined to view a doc on this subject in the first place.
Peary, a vet film critic and historian, spent several years conducting interviews with dozens of reviewers (and a few of the people they’ve reviewed), which he supplements with archival material and, only occasionally, readings from the work of key subjects.
Pic overall is structured as an era-by-era chronicle, beginning in the early 1900s and ending in the early 21st century, but often interrupts its march of time for comments from critics about their work habits, early influences and hopes (or fears) regarding the future.
Peary does a fine job of balancing gray eminences and young Turks in his lineup of interviewees. Stanley Kaufmann is authoritatively eloquent while describing the earliest reviewers (circa 1909-29) as writers who “were discovering film as they were writing about it.” But Elvis Mitchell is all youthful exuberance while recalling his first gig as a critic: “The idea of going to the movies for free? That was like the express train to heaven.”
Docu pays due tribute to such early masters as Frank E. Woods (who went on to co-script “The Birth of a Nation”) and Otis Ferguson (whose brilliant career was cut short by his death in WWII), and allows some contemporary writers to speak appreciatively and sometimes amusingly about their peers and predecessors.
Stuart Klawans praises the idiosyncratic Manny Farber for writing “nothing that could be considered standard English.” And John Powers can barely contain his laughter while recalling his first visit to a critics’ gathering where those who had chosen sides in the long-running feuds between Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris were, quite literally, seated at opposite ends of the room.
In his own interview, Sarris is just classy enough to muffle any remaining animosity he might harbor toward the late Kael. But he and others make little effort to hide their disapproval of another deceased scribe, Bosley Crowther, the longtime New York Times critic whose “moralistic view” of movies drove him to repeatedly pan “Bonnie and Clyde” (a vendetta, as legend has it, that ultimately cost him his job).
For all its attempts to offers an expansive and exhaustive historical account, the docu is riddled with glaring gaps and facile transitions. Some notables are extremely conspicuous by their absence. Inexplicably, there’s absolutely no mention of Judith Crist, even though her prominent outlets — “The Today Show,” New York magazine and TV Guide — made her, arguably, the most widely known U.S. critic in the 1960s and early ‘70s.
On the other hand, Peary dutifully hits most of the right notes while recycling much of the conventional wisdom, predictably if accurately singling out 1968-80 as the era “when criticism mattered.” But while he tries to be balanced, there’s no mistaking the disapproval in the docu’s tone as it details how, in the Internet age, eager young upstarts are either democratizing or dumbing down film criticism.
Right from the start, “For the Love of Movies” cautions that film criticism currently is “a profession under siege,” as newspapers and magazines pinkslip experienced scribes to slash expenses and/or skew younger. Ironically, the docu is even more affecting than it might otherwise have been because, since its completion, far more vets have been dropped from papers and periodicals. For anyone who has kept track of this critical condition, comments by the more wistful interviewees will sound almost painfully melancholy.
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Humans are good at surviving. Really good actually. There are just over seven billion (!!!) of us in fact, with more arriving everyday. And how have we done so well over the years I hear you cry? Well, have you ever considered chickpeas? Not really peas, and certainly not chicks, but fantastic nevertheless. These bad boy legumes are high in both fiber and protein, essential for good health and a strong digestive system.
Health Benefits – Chickpea Spinach Salad
Humans have been cultivating them for around 11,000 years now (the humble chickpea) – and still do of course. They help protect against two of today’s biggest foes – heart disease and diabetes, and a whole host of other other malicious dangers (the enemies).
This brilliant meal also contains spinach, which in itself is high in dietary fiber, protein, niacin, vitamins A, C and E amongst others (lovely spinach). It REALLY is the king of salads. And it’s another delicious one.
We don’t waste our time with crappy, bland foods – we want taste and we want health. Half the people we tell don’t really believe us that salads can truly be tasty – until they try this.
What are you waiting for? Surprise yourself and anyone who’ll listen, and do your body a favour at the same time.
- One can chickpeas (rinsed)
- Large handful of spinach (about 100g should do it)
- 100g soft cheese (like feta)
- ½ lemon or 1 tbsp white or malt vinegar
- 1 tbsp honey
- 4 tbsps olive oil
- Pinch of cumin
- Pinch of salt
- Couple of chili flakes (or dried cayenne pepper will do the trick nicely)
- Small handful of raisins (or malt loaf, chopped, if you have it)
- Chop the cheese and add with the spinach and chickpeas to a large bowl
- Mix the honey, oil, lemon juice and raisins in a small bowl
- Add the cumin, salt and pepper to the dressing bowl and mix well
- Drizzle devilishly delicious dressing over the salad
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'Extinct' Galapagos Tortoise Still Alive DNA shows that species thought wiped out in 1840s is on different island By Dustin Lushing, Newser Staff Posted Jan 14, 2012 6:02 AM CST 5 comments Comments File photo of a giant tortoise in Galapago National Park. It's not one of the newly re-discovered Floreana species. (AP Photo/Galapagos National Park, File) (Newser) – Scientists have located survivors of a giant Galapagos tortoise species thought to have gone extinct back in the 1840s. Researchers testing the DNA of 1,600 tortoises on Isabela Island in the Galapagos discovered that at least 84 were offspring of a species that originally lived on nearby Floreana Island, reports USA Today. Poachers were thought to have wiped them out. "To have a species that was thought to be extinct in the middle of the 1800s come back is amazing," said a researcher. Whalers decimated the Floreana population of tortoises in the years after Darwin made his famous voyage in 1835. Researchers speculate that some escaped from the ships and made their way to Isabela, where their descendants now survive. Researchers eventually hope to resettle them back on their native island, notes the Los Angeles Times. | <urn:uuid:3119b98a-0079-42a3-98ad-9bb836abb158> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.newser.com/story/137143/extinct-galapagos-tortoise-still-alive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00405-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964926 | 263 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Make sure you’re armed for all scenarios with our tips for keeping you and your car safe this winter.
The colder months do bring some joy with them: cosy nights in and the sound of autumn leaves crunching beneath your feet. The weather isn’t quite so much fun especially if you’re a motorist. Take a look below at our 10 top tips to keep you safe.
1. Keep your fuel, anti-freeze and screen-wash levels topped up
Make sure you’ve topped up your fuel before you start your journey. It sounds silly but it’s always best to have more than less at least half a tank is recommended.
Make sure you're topping up the screen wash regularly so as not to run out mid journey and it's probably best to also keep some spare anti-freeze in your car too, just in case.
The RAC is the provider of SAGA Breakdown Assistance and they have some short videos to help you carry out some of the winter checks, click here to view.
2. Check your oil and coolant levels
Your oil level should be kept topped up to the maximum mark on the dipstick. It’s also worth keeping a litre of the manufacturer’s recommended oil in your boot in case you ever get a bit low (you should be able to find out the oil information for your car in your vehicle’s manual). When it comes to radiator coolant, the colour of it should be blue or pink and oil free. Make sure you top it up with a pre-mixed anti-freeze solution until it reaches the top mark.
3. Carry a winter car breakdown kit
Some must-have equipment for your winter breakdown kit: a torch and spare batteries, an ice scraper, a first-aid kit, an empty fuel can, jump-start cables and a spare jumper to keep you warm. No one wants to be left stranded in the cold.
4. Check your battery
Battery failure is one of the most common cause of winter breakdowns as the extra demand on it from lights, heaters and wipers takes its toll. Click here to see how to check your battery before setting off on your trip.
5. Keep your car squeaky clean
This may seem strange, but it’s surprising how the wintery months really can take their toll on a car’s bodywork. A good car wash and a layer of a reputable car wax will give some protection against the mud, snow and road salt you’ll encounter with each frosty journey. Plus, this will also make it easier to scrape the snow and ice off when it gets chilly.
6. Get ready for driving in winter conditions
Winter conditions present several challenges for drivers, such as reduced visibility and skidding on ice-covered road surfaces. Try not to travel in the snow, but if you have no alternative, there are a few key rules. Accelerate gently, change to higher gears smoothly and as soon as possible, and maintain as much as ten times your usual stopping distance. To stop your windscreen from misting up on the inside, keep the air conditioning on throughout your trip. Put your fog lights on if you can’t see 100 metres ahead and don’t forget to switch them off when visibility improves again. Check out more driving tips here.
7. Check your lights
Lights aren’t just so you can see, but so you can be seen too! Make sure your lights are working before setting off. It’s also important that your lights are clean and there’s nothing on them, like mud, that could reduce their shine. It’s a good idea to carry spare bulb too.
8. Adjust your tyre pressure
The legal minimum tyre tread is 1.6mm which is roughly the depth of the edge of a 20 pence coin if you want to use it to check your tyres. For winter driving it’s best to make sure you have 3mm of tread and to inflate your tyres to the recommended PSI level (you’ll find this in your vehicle handbook or in the sill of the driver’s door). Remember to check your tyre pressure every couple of weeks and don’t be tempted to reduce the pressure for better grip.
9. Check your locks and doors
Make sure you don’t get locked out of your car on freezing cold mornings. A smear of polish or Vaseline on rubber door seals will stop them from freezing shut and a squirt of WD40 should work on the locks.
10. Check your breakdown and insurance cover
It’s important all year round to have confidence in your car insurance and breakdown cover, but it’s even more important during the winter. Winter weather can result in more accidents and breakdowns so make sure you’re covered for all eventualities. If you’d like to see what Saga could offer you, click here and get a quote today! Alternatively, if you already have a policy with us, you can check your car insurance details and much more at MySaga. Claims information can be found here. | <urn:uuid:5e374dd9-f55f-409a-a468-e42374aefd4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.saga.co.uk/insurance/existing-customer-hub/winter-motor | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.938194 | 1,077 | 1.71875 | 2 |
This is your resource to memory care in West Hills, CA. Memory care communities offer housing and care for older adults with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. Memory care empowers seniors with memory impairment to stay as active and engaged as they possibly can, while living in a dignified, safe and secure setting. Our local Senior Living Advisors have local expertise in memory care in West Hills, CA and surrounding areas. After an initial assessment, your advisor will send you a list of memory care communities that fit your loved one's individual needs for care and living preferences, as well as your family's finances.Memory Care Costs in West Hills, CA
Price varies widely depending on location, care required, size of the resident's living space and the level of luxury at the community. The price of memory care in West Hills ranges from $2,300 to $4,380 a month.
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West Hills is an affluent residential and commercial neighborhood in the western San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. The percentage of residents aged 35 and older is among the highest in Los Angeles County.The neighborhood was formerly the home of many Native American tribes, and during the early Spanish and Mexican era was part of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España. In the American era, West Hills was part of Owensmouth, which was renamed Canoga Park in 1930. West Hills was established in western Canoga Park and retained its present name in 1987.Historic landmarks and many city parks are to be found within the community, as are commercial districts, a business district and religious establishments. Two private high schools are among the thirteen schools within West Hills. | <urn:uuid:1819b1bc-43e7-411b-b84e-fd4333aed7c6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.alzheimers.net/resources/california/west-hills/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00014-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967827 | 371 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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We have a professional staff of physicians, physician's assistants, psychologists, nurses, administrative personnel. a medical laboratory technologist, two secretaries and a health educator. Services include diagnosis and treatment of common medical illnesses, care of students with more chronic medical conditions and a wide range of other medical and health educational services.
Students are required to carry health insurance. The College's mandatory student health fee supports direct health and psychological care services, as well as health education and outreach on our campus. It is NOT health insurance and does NOT cover the cost of x-rays, some laboratory procedures, referral to outside clinicians or medications not provided by the Center. Unfortunately, many of our students are discovering their health insurance plans will not provide coverage for routine laboratory tests or medications outside their home areas.
Parents and students are encouraged to contact their insurance/health care plans prior to arrival on campus to be sure students understand what type of coverage they have while at Plattsburgh State. For those students who are not covered by a parental plan or who desire supplemental insurance, a health insurance plan is available through the College. A booklet describing this plan is available at the Center.
All students are required to be immunized against measles/mumps/rubella. All students are encouraged to receive a yearly influenza vaccination, unless it is medically contra-indicated. Although influenza is generally a self-limiting illness, medical complications can occur. Also, influenza is often severe enough to keep students out of class. This can be disruptive during finals or when papers/projects are due.
Please encourage your son/daughter to take advantage of the influenza immunizations in the fall. Although meningococcal meningitis is extremely rare, there is evidence that students living in dormitories are at increased risk for this disease. The meningococcal vaccine can reduce this risk. Currently, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the American College Health Association recommend college students consider vaccination against potentially fatal meningococcal disease. The New York State Department of Health requires all students enrolled in college sign a form in response to the availability of the meningococcal vaccination. This can be downloaded off the forms section of the website.
Students who do not want to have the shot MUST complete and sign the form and return it to the Center upon arrival to campus. Other more routine immunizations are also available at the Center.
We take the confidentiality of medical & psychological records very seriously. As you may know, confidentiality is mandated by law. We cannot release any student medical information to parents of non-minor children unless the student requests us to do so. We assure you however, that in case of a medical emergency where there is an issue of life or death, we will contact you immediately.
We hope that when your son or daughter needs our services, they will find them accessible and of high quality; but if there are problems, we want you to give us a call and let us know what we can do to improve. Also if you are in town and would like to take a tour, stop in and we will be happy to show you our facility. If your son or daughter has a special medical condition, we would like to meet them before problems arise; so please have them make an appointment to see one of our providers and let us get to know them.
Do not hesitate to give us a call if you ever need to communicate with us for any reason.
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It can often be difficult to explain the importance of SEO in your company. But if you don’t, you might be out of a job! This article gives some tips on how to go about explaining the importance of SEO and helping your boss see it from your perspective.
What is SEO?
SEO is short form for “Search Engine Optimization”.
SEO is the process of improving the ranking of your website or blog on search engines. This will make your website more visible to potential customers and help you achieve higher traffic volumes.
SEO takes time and effort, but it’s a very effective way to improve your website visibility and earn more revenue from your business.
If you want to keep up with the latest in SEO, you need to be able to explain it to your boss. Not only does this help them understand why it’s important for you to stay on top of your game, but it also opens up the door for them to provide support and guidance as you work to improve your website ranking. Here are a few tips for explaining SEO to your boss:
-Start by describing how SEO affects your business in terms they can understand. For example, if you sell clothes online, talk about how increased online traffic could lead to increased sales.
-Be clear about what needs to be done in order for your website or blog to rank well in search engines. For example, if you want your website or blog to rank better for certain
Why do companies use SEO?
SEO is the process of optimizing a website for search engine results pages (SERPs). By optimizing your website for search engines, you can improve your company’s online visibility and potentially attract new customers.
There are three main reasons companies use SEO: increased traffic, increased revenue, and better brand awareness.
Increased traffic from search engines translates into increased revenue through two main sources: ad click-through rates (CTRs) and organic search traffic. Better brand awareness also leads to more customers who may be interested in your products or services.
In order to optimize your website for SEO, you’ll need to understand the basics of search engine optimization (SEO). Here are five tips to help you get started:
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- Create content that is relevant to your target audience. Content that is engaging and informative will rank higher in search engine results pages
How can you explain the importance of Search Engine Optimization to your boss?
If you’re not familiar with how search engines work, or how they affect your website’s visibility and traffic, it can be hard to make the case for optimizing your website. But, if you explain how SEO can help your business grow, and show your boss how it’s helping your competitors, you’ll be well on your way to convincing him or her that it’s worth investing in.
One of the best ways to explain the importance of SEO is to use an example. Let’s say you own a small retail business and you’re not ranking as high as you’d like on Google for certain keywords. A potential customer might search for “shoe store near me” and see that your business isn’t among the top results. However, if you improve your website’s rankings for this keyword, and others related to shoes, you’ll start seeing more people searching for “shoe store” on Google. In turn, this will lead to more visitors through organic (unpaid) traffic and conversions from those visitors into customers.
SEO is an important part of any marketing strategy – whether it’s for a small business or a larger corporation – so it’s worth explaining its
What are the best practices for explaining the importance of Search Engine Optimization to your boss?
When it comes to explaining the importance of SEO to your boss, there are a few things to keep in mind. First, it’s important to remember that your boss is likely not familiar with the topic. That means that you’ll need to be able to walk them through why SEO is so important and what its potential benefits could be. Additionally, make sure you’re using positive language when discussing SEO. Saying things like “our site could use some improvement with regards to SEO” can sound negative, while phrases like “SEO is an important part of our marketing strategy” will sound more convincing. Finally, always be willing to answer any questions your boss has about SEO – no matter how basic they may seem. By doing this, you’ll show that you’re truly interested in understanding the topic and are prepared to help put it into action.
Outline of a blog post explaining the importance of Search Engine Optimization to your boss
SEO is one of the most important factors to consider when building a website. It helps ensure your website is found by potential customers, and can lead to increased traffic and revenue. Furthermore, it can help you improve your reputation and credibility within your industry. While SEO may seem like an unnecessary task, explaining its importance to your boss could sway them in favor of undertaking the necessary steps.
- What Is SEO?
SEO is the process of improving the visibility of a website or web page in search engine results pages.
SEO is important for any business. It can help to improve the visibility of your website in search engine results pages (SERPs). This can lead to increased traffic and revenue.
There are several things you can do to improve your SEO. You can create better content, add keywords to your titles and tags, and make your website design well-rounded.
All of these things are important for any business, but they are especially important for businesses that want to improve their visibility on Google. Google is the most popular search engine on the internet, and it dominates the market for online advertising. If your business wants to compete for customers online, it needs good SEO.
- Why Do Companies Use It?
SEO is an important part of any marketing plan. It can help your company rank higher on search engines, which can lead to more customers.
There are several reasons why companies use SEO. Some want to increase traffic to their website. Others want to improve their brand visibility. Still others want to increase the number of leads they generate.
Whatever the reason, SEO is a key part of any marketing plan. If you want your company to succeed, you need to include SEO in your strategy.
- How Can You Explain The Importance Of
SEO is a very important aspect of online marketing. If you want your website to be successful, you need to understand how SEO works and why it’s important.
There are a few things that make a website successful with SEO. First, a website must be search engine friendly. This means that the pages on the website should be easy to find using search engines.
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any coniferous tree belonging to the genus Abies, of the pine family, characterized by its pyramidal style of growth, flat needles, and erect cones.
the wood of such a tree.
any pyramidal coniferous tree of the N temperate genus Abies, having single needle-like leaves and erect cones: family Pinaceae See also red fir, silver fir, balsam fir
any of various other trees of the family Pinaceae, such as the Douglas fir
the wood of any of these trees
14c.; Old English had furhwudu “pine wood,” but the modern word is more likely from Old Norse fyri- “fir” or Old Danish fyr, all from Proto-Germanic *furkhon (cf. Old High German foraha, German Föhre “fir”), from PIE root *perkos, originally “oak” (cf. Sanskrit paraktah “the holy fig tree,” Hindi pargai “the evergreen oak,” Latin quercus “oak,” Lombardic fereha “a kind of oak”).
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the uniform rendering in the Authorized Version (marg. R.V., “cypress”) of _berosh_ (2 Sam. 6:5; 1 Kings 5:8, 10; 6:15, 34; 9:11, etc.), a lofty tree (Isa. 55:13) growing on Lebanon (37:24). Its wood was used in making musical instruments and doors of houses, and for ceilings (2 Chr. 3:5), the decks of ships (Ezek. 27:5), floorings and spear-shafts (Nah. 2:3, R.V.). The true fir (abies) is not found in Palestine, but the pine tree, of which there are four species, is common. The precise kind of tree meant by the “green fir tree” (Hos. 14:8) is uncertain. Some regard it as the sherbin tree, a cypress resembling the cedar; others, the Aleppo or maritime pine (Pinus halepensis), which resembles the Scotch fir; while others think that the “stone-pine” (Pinus pinea) is probably meant. (See PINE.)
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noun, Mathematics. 1. See under . noun, Mathematics. 1. the property satisfied by a topological space in which the neighborhood system of each point has a base consisting of a countable number of neighborhoods (first axiom of countability) or the property satisfied by a topological space that has a base for its topology consisting of […] | <urn:uuid:f6bd0685-0ce7-4122-93e1-2836c693b884> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://definithing.com/define-dictionary/firs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00412-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903838 | 818 | 3.1875 | 3 |
- noun data transmission that uses handshaking signals rather than clock signals to synchronize data pulses
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No one would say what the rumour was. Not the British newspapers, which were writing long, innuendo-laced articles about it. Not the television commentators, who were discussing it with acrobatic opacity. Especially not Prince Charles, who seemed to be hoping it would just go away.
But it did not go away, and on Thursday night, in one of the weirder episodes in the recent history of the royal family, Prince Charles publicly denied a widely circulated story about his sex life without saying what it was.
"I agree it is rather unusual to make a statement about an unspecified allegation," Prince Charles's top aide, Michael Peat, said. "However, the allegation is becoming common currency, it is the subject of much speculation and innuendo, and I just want to make it entirely clear - even though I can't refer to the specifics... - that it is totally untrue and without a shred of evidence."
The allegation (which no one in Britain has aired publicly because of the country's tough libel laws) first became an issue last year during the trial of Paul Burrell, former butler to the late Princess of Wales, who was charged with stealing possessions from the Princess's estate after her death in 1997.
One item he was accused of stealing was a cassette tape that she had recorded several years earlier. On the tape, according to news reports, George Smith, a former royal servant who was said to be alcoholic and have post-traumatic stress syndrome after fighting in the Falklands War, said he had been raped by another male royal aide. More explosively, he also claimed to have witnessed a compromising homosexual encounter involving a senior member of the royal family.
At the time, Mr Smith's account threw the tabloid press into an almost unbearably frustrating quandary, once they figured out who was said to be involved. Yearning to print the rumours but restrained by the law, the newspapers went the suggestion route, continually printing the same odd photograph of Prince Charles standing with another man in a field, without explaining why the photograph had any significance.
Last month, Mr Burrell began publicising his tell-all book, A Royal Duty, mentioning the now notorious tape and saying that revealing its contents would have disastrous consequences for the country. Newspapers seized on the issue again, and the allegations began appearing on various websites.
Last week, The Mail on Sunday prepared a 3000-word article in which, according to someone who saw the story, Mr Smith described what he said he saw. But The Mail was ordered by a judge not to publish the article.
The next day, The Guardian tried to describe The Mail's court battle. It was forbidden by a court even to identify the person who obtained the injunction against The Mail.
The Guardian went to court too, and on Thursday night, it won the right to name Michael Fawcett, who resigned as Prince Charles's personal assistant in March, as the person who brought the action.
Like most British newspapers, The Guardian printed an entire front-page story about the Prince's denial and about Mr Fawcett's failed court case on Friday - without saying what the Prince was denying, or what Mr Fawcett was hoping to keep secret.
Meanwhile, lawyers at The Mail on Sunday were considering how far they could take the story this weekend. "The situation is fluid," said the newspaper's spokesman.
"This newspaper is not publishing the actual allegations," The Guardian said in its article. "We have no reason to believe that the allegations are true."
A former private secretary to Prince Charles came to the defence of the Prince. Sir Stephen Lamport accused the media of pursuing an agenda that undervalued the Prince as a "force for good" who had touched the lives of many. Sir Stephen said that during his 10 years working with the Prince scarcely a week went by without a rumour or story surfacing. Such unsubstantiated gossip, he said "distracted attention from the contribution which the Prince makes to the lives of so many people in Britain and elsewhere".
But others criticised the Clarence House strategy. Dickie Arbiter, a former press secretary to the Prince, said: "Given the same scenario, I would have maintained a dignified silence. This should have nothing to do with them. The injunction was brought by a former employee. They should have distanced themselves from it."
Meanwhile, the Prince was visiting a 17th-century Arabian fort in Oman, where almost every picture opportunity could be interpreted as a metaphor for the latest crisis. As he walked in temperatures of 32 degrees through the restored Nakal Fort, spectacularly perched on a rocky promontory, he joked: "There is a lot of reflected heat around here."
His spokesman in Oman was adamant: "The Prince just wants to get on with his tour. He is in a very positive frame of mind.
"He is not going to be distracted from that by things happening back in the UK."
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What famous Englishman’s experiments with freezing meat in 1626 caused his death from exposure?
In 1964, a capsized freighter was refloated in Kuwait by filling its hull with polystyrene balls. Where did they get this idea?
What trade was Greek philosopher Socrates trained in?
What did Hyman Lipman invent in 1858 that made life easier for students?
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Man-made oilstones are made from silicon carbide and aluminium oxide. The abrasive grit is pressed and heated like a ceramic to a high temperature until it is effectively a stone. These materials cut faster than the natural stones but require a lighter touch to achieve the same results.
You can use an oilstone or whetstone to shape or bevel the sides of the knife blade which forms the edge. This process is called honing the blade.
A larger two layer oilstone is the easiest to use. One side should be a medium coarse abrasive and the other medium fine.
Honing oil, (white oil is a good choice) as well as water and detergent, are used on the oilstone to stop the stone from clogging up with small pieces of metal from the knife. Do not use lubricating oils for honing as they form a sludge which makes it difficult to cut the metal of the blade. They also tend to clog the porous feature of stones.
A stone clogged with sludge or fat will appear glossy and be of little use to you.
Hot water and a strong detergent will get it out. Do not use the caustic in the hook shed to clean stones as it is extremely dangerous and against company safety rules. Caustic reacts with moisture and fat to create heat. If it comes into contact with you it’ll burn a hole in your skin.
- Place the stone on a clean surface or stainless steel frame (stone holder) to eliminate cross-contamination. Use a clean piece of towelling to prevent the stone slipping.
- A fixed stone holder is the safest and best way to secure the stone.
- Clean the knife before sharpening.
- Clean the stone after each use to remove fat build-up. (If hot water will not remove fat build up contact maintenance to dip in acid wash with the rollers) This will add ‘bite’ to your stone.
- Store the stone in a clean area.
When honing, the blade should be drawn across the oilstone from the heel to the point, as shown in the following diagram. You must keep the knife at the same angle that it was ground on the grinding stone. Do one side and then the other, in that order, or an uneven blade will occur.
Knife sharpened on oilstone
Notice the lifting motion without changing the bevel angle to obtain a sharp edge on a curved blade
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The eldest son of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. was born on July 25, 1915 in Hull, Massachusetts.
In a family where expectations ran high, Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy had especially high hopes for their first child. Shortly after Joe Jr.'s birth, his grandfather John Fitzgerald, the former mayor of Boston, remarked to local newspapers that his grandson would grow up to be the first Catholic president of the United States.
While Joe Jr. would not live to fulfill his family’s dreams, his short life was distinguished by ambition, bravery, and a strong commitment to family.
ChildhoodJoe Jr. lived in Brookline, Massachusetts for the first twelve years of his life. His first five were spent at 83 Beals Street, where his younger siblings John, Rosemary, and Kathleen were born. The family then moved to a larger home nearby.
In the seven years that followed, Joe gained three additional siblings: Eunice, Patricia, and Robert. Eventually, Joe would be the eldest of nine children. As an adult, John F. Kennedy reflected on this significant role that Joe held in their family. “Very early in life he acquired a sense of responsibility towards his brothers and sisters, and I do not think he ever forgot it.”
Joe’s sense of responsibility shaped his childhood in many ways. He worked hard to excel in both academics and athletics while attending the public Edward Devotion School (now known as Florida Ruffin Ridley) and the private Dexter School. He also served as an altar boy at St. Aidan’s Church and was quick to defend his family when they were criticized for their Irish heritage or their Catholic faith. Yet Joe’s childhood also had its lighter side. He and his younger brother John were often mischievous. In her memoir, Mrs. Kennedy remembered that once the boys saw a sign in a local restaurant that said, “No dogs allowed.” They changed it to read “No hot dogs allowed” instead. They also started a secret club, initiating new members by sticking them with pins.
Young AdulthoodTo prepare their eldest son for a career in politics, his parents sent him to The Choate School (now known as Choate Rosemary Hall), a prestigious preparatory school in Wallingford, Connecticut. At Choate, his mother recalled, “His grades were excellent. He entered enthusiastically into school activities and demonstrated qualities of leadership that brought high praise from his masters and, of course, made Joe and me very proud of him.”
Joe Jr.’s success at Choate gained him admission to Harvard University, his father’s alma mater. Before he enrolled, however, he spent a year studying at the London School of Economics with Professor Harold Laski. Under his tutelage, Joe learned economic theory and traveled throughout Europe to see how different economic systems functioned in practice.
After his year abroad, Joe enrolled at Harvard in 1934. Although he did not distinguish himself academically, he took advantage of the many extracurricular opportunities available to him by serving on the student council and becoming a member of the St. Paul Catholic Club, the Hasty Pudding Club, and Pi Eta. He also lived up to his father’s sense of competitiveness by playing both football and rugby. When Joe graduated in 1938, he joined his family in London, where his father was serving as United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James in Great Britain. There he began his own political career.
In 1940, he distinguished himself by serving as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, hopeful that he would run for office himself in a few years. On September 3, 1939, Joe walked to British Parliament with his brother Jack and his sister Kathleen to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declare war on Germany. World War II put Joe Jr.'s political aspirations on hold.
Military ServiceAlthough Joseph Kennedy Sr. wanted to keep his sons out of the war, Joe Jr. recognized the opportunities that military service could provide. Accordingly, he left Harvard University before his final year of law school to begin officer training in the U.S. Navy. He became a naval aviator in 1942. Soon after earning his wings, Joe Jr. was sent to Britain in September 1943. He piloted land-based, PB4Y Liberator patrol bombers on anti-submarine details.
During his two tours of duty in the winter of 1943–1944, Joe Jr. was regarded as an experienced Patrol Plane Commander, a well-respected fellow officer, and an expert in radio control. He refused his earned leave and instead volunteered for the most dangerous special assignments. One of his squadron mates said that Joe “had everybody’s unlimited admiration and respect for his courage, zeal and willingness to undertake the most dangerous mission.”
Operation AphroditeIn the summer of 1944, Joe Jr. volunteered for a secret bombing campaign with the code name “Operation Aphrodite.” His mission was to fly over Normandy, France in a radio-controlled B-17 bomber to a German V-2 rocket launching site, arm the explosives stowed on board, and then parachute to safety before the plane exploded over the German target.
On the evening of August 12, Joe and his co-pilot Lieutenant Wilford John Willy departed from Royal Air Force Fersfield Station in Norwich, England. As the plane headed to the North Sea coast, Kennedy prepared the plane for detonation and radioed the agreed code “spade flush,” his last words. Two minutes later, before both men were able to eject from the plane, the explosives ignited prematurely, killing Willy and Kennedy. The wreckage landed near the village of Blythburgh in Suffolk, England. The cause of the explosion was never concluded.
John F. Kennedy was recuperating from his own war injuries in the Chelsea Naval Hospital when he heard the news of Joe Jr.’s death. He told a close friend that “now the burden falls on me.” To honor Joe, John created a memorial book for his family, titled We Remember Joe. John wrote, “His worldly success was so assured and inevitable that his death seems to have cut into the natural order of things.”
CommemorationJoseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. was posthumously awarded the Air Medal and Navy Cross for his heroism. In December 1946, the Navy named a destroyer in his honor. Throughout her 27 years in service, the U.S.S. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. DD850 participated in the Korean War and in the U.S. naval quarantine of Cuba during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as various U.S. space missions, recovering Gemini 6 and Gemini 7, until her decommission in 1973. Today she rests in Fall River, Massachusetts as part of the Battleship Cove Maritime Museum.
Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy honored their fallen son by creating the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation in 1946. The foundation provides leadership in the field of intellectual disabilities and creates practical programs to benefit those with intellectual disabilities, their families, and their communities. Joe Jr.’s youngest brother, U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and his sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver led the Kennedy Foundation until 2009. Today, it continues to support and provide opportunities for individuals with intellectual disabilities. | <urn:uuid:a0bb4840-82c8-4ec1-a532-125062269f92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/joseph-patrick-kennedy-jr-a-dream-unfulfilled.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.985944 | 1,528 | 2.421875 | 2 |
The C# language works seamlessly with the .NET Framework, so it should come as no surprise that the built-in data types available to you as a C# developer are also part of the .NET platform. For example, C# has a built-in string type that’s identical to the System.String class included in the .NET Framework. The string type supports various string manipulation operations such as concatenation. Table 2-1 describes the built-in data types that are part of the C# language, along with their equivalent .NET Framework types.
Although the C# types and the types found in the .NET Framework are equivalent, you should stick with using the C# names for these types. Your code will look cleaner and be easier to read. However, if you’re required to work with component developers who use other languages, you should keep Table 2-1 in mind, as it will aid in mapping types between languages.
The common type system is a specification that defines type usage in the .NET Framework common language runtime and is a key part of the .NET Framework. When you use a string in C#, you’re using the same string that a Visual Basic .NET developer uses. When you use a bool in C#, that’s the same BOOLEAN type used by Eiffel programmers. A big win for all .NET developers is the simplicity with which we can now share data and types, without the need for the specialized conversion layers required prior to .NET.
Another big advantage of the common type system is that the runtime can guarantee type safety for many of the .NET languages, including C#. This means that the runtime can guarantee that programs will execute safely, without accidentally overwriting memory addresses, corrupting the stack, or accidentally writing into random areas of memory.
Rules about how languages for the .NET platform such as C# should interact with each other are specified in the Common Language Specification (CLS). The CLS contains rules about how data types should be exposed and organized so that developers employing multiple languages can reuse data types. The CLS isn’t concerned with how your code is organized internally; it specifies only the behavior that’s publicly exposed. If you build a component that follows all of the CLS rules, your component is said to be CLS-compliant. If your code breaks any of the CLS rules, the component isn’t compliant and you might find that your component is unusable by programs written in languages other than the language used for your component.
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George Borts, a prominent Brown University economics professor and researcher, has died.
Borts was a teacher and mentor for generations of Brown economics students. He joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1950 after studying under Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago. Borts retired last year after teaching and researching economic issues for 63 years.
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As you have learned in the text, social loafing occurs when some members of a team do less work and do not live up to their team responsibilities. When this occurs, typically other team members pick up the extra work to meet the timeline, and often times end up frustrated with the whole team process. One way to prevent social loafing from occurring is to create a team charter. A team charter allows members to break down responsibilities, set goals and timelines for work to be accomplished before it begins. For example, the charter may include the following:
For this Discussion you will be asked to pretend you were placed on a team of four for a school project due in 5 weeks. The project is to write a research paper on group process and respond to the following questions:
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Materno Fetal Medicine Unit, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.
3D images of the pericallosal artery. The pericallosal artery is a continuation of the anterior cerebral artery. It arches superiorly and posteriorly it runs over the superior surface of the corpus callosum. This artery supplies corpus callosum and the medial surface of the cerebral hemispheres.
Absence of the pericallosal artery is a sign of agenesis of the corpus callosum.
Images 1,2,3: Image 1 shows an axial view, images 2 and 3 a sagittal view of the fetal brain. 3D rendering of the pericallosal artery and other branches of the anterior cerebral artery (ACA).
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- 1 not clean dirty hands/clothes a dirty mark Try not to get too dirty! I always get given the dirty jobs (= jobs that make you become dirty). Synonymsdirtydusty filthy muddy soiled grubby stainedThese words all describe somebody/something that is not clean.dirty not clean; covered with dust, soil, mud, oil, etc:If your hands are dirty, go and wash them.dusty full of dust; covered with dust:There were shelves full of dusty books.filthy very dirty and unpleasant:It’s absolutely filthy in here.muddy full of or covered in mud:Don’t you come in here with those muddy boots on!soiled (rather formal) dirty, especially with waste from the body:soiled nappies/diapersgrubby (rather informal) rather dirty, usually because it has not been washed:He hoped she wouldn’t notice his grubby shirt cuffs.stained (often in compounds) covered with stains; marked with a stain (= a dirty mark that is difficult to remove):a pair of paint-stained jeansPatterns dirty/dusty/filthy/muddy/soiled/grubby/stained clothes dirty/dusty/filthy/grubby hands a dirty/dusty/filthy room to get dirty/dusty/filthy/muddy/stained offensive
- 2 [usually before noun] connected with sex in an offensive way a dirty joke/book He's got a dirty mind (= he often thinks about sex). unpleasant/dishonest
- 3[usually before noun] (informal) unpleasant or dishonest a dirty lie She's a dirty player. He's a great man for doing the dirty jobs (= jobs which are unpleasant because they involve being dishonest or mean to people). colours
- 4[only before noun] dull a dirty brown carpet drugs
- 5(North American English, slang) using illegal drugs Extra examples Everything in the room was incredibly dirty. Go and play football if you like, but don’t get dirty! He’s not frightened of getting his hands dirty. The soot had made everything dirty. He always gets someone else to do the dirty work for him. I always get given the dirty jobs. If your hands are dirty, go and wash them. My thumb had left a dirty mark on the paper. She always gets other people to do her dirty work for her. She’s a dirty player. The dirty clothes go in the washing machine. You dirty liar!Idioms to be a subject or an idea that people think is bad or immoral Profit is not a dirty word around here. (to do) the unpleasant or dishonest jobs that somebody else does not want to do Next time you can get somebody else to do your dirty work for you! (British English, informal) to cheat somebody who trusts you; to treat somebody badly or unfairly I'd never do the dirty on my friends.
- 1behaving in an unfair or aggressive way, especially because you want to win The candidate again got down and dirty with his rival. The online campaign was getting down and dirty.
- 2rude and shocking The singer got down and dirty at the club last night and made headlines again. The singers are a down-and-dirty duo from Ohio. More Like This Alliteration in idioms belt and braces, black and blue, born and bred, chalk and cheese, chop and change, done and dusted, down and dirty, in dribs and drabs, eat somebody out of house and home, facts and figures, fast and furious, first and foremost, forgive and forget, hale and hearty, hem and haw, kith and kin, mix and match, part and parcel, puff and pant, to rack and ruin, rant and rave, risk life and limb, short and sweet, signed and sealed, spic and span, through thick and thin, this and that, top and tail, tried and tested, wax and waneSee worksheet. | <urn:uuid:adfa83ae-f599-4746-b953-d554e0582602> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/dirty_1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00157-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943048 | 831 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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RETENTION NOT GROWTH
The biggest mistake that you could make is to focus on hair growth rate before your length retention regimen is solid. Its kind of like focusing on running before you can walk which more often than not will lead to failure. In this section you will learn the best proven hair retention methods.
A LITTLE SCIENCE ON BLACK HAIR
Basic knowledge of hair structure is important since it dispels myths and clears up any preconceived notions upon which much of your practices might have been based. In this section you will learn the basics of black hair and how external actions affect our length retention abilities.
RELAXING, TEXTURIZING AND TEXLAXING
Maybe you have grown accustomed to the routine of having relaxed hair and in your assessment you are sure that it is most suited to your lifestyle, so if you are at your wits end trying to figure out how to stop your relaxed hair from breaking, perhaps you should consider one of its relatives; texlaxing and texturizing.
THE ART OF GROWING BLACK HAIR LONG
Though science plays its role, there is a certain art form associated with the care of black hair that when combined with the science, maximizes the potential for it to thrive and grow to lengths that you might have thought unimaginable. Here you will learn how to achieve it.
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I don’t often get a lot of King James propaganda pointed in my direction. My church is a combination of traditional and contemporary that sees the benefit of multiple translations. In short, nobody really cares what version the other person uses.
But every now and then one comes along…
Yes, you know what I’m talking about…the King James ONLY person.
I’m a guy that runs like a flowchart. Because of this I am also an intensely boring individual. So much so that you would probably rather shave your tongue than spend five minutes talking to me about anything emotional. I swear I can be worse than Spock sometimes.
The King James only folk are the antithesis of all that. Logic be damned…THIS is the AUTHORIZED Word of God!!
Yet I must ask…“Authorized by who? Moses? Paul? JESUS?” You wish.
Nope, it’s none other than King James. So what makes this guy so freaking special? How is that different from a “Queen Elizabeth” or “Prince Charles Bible”? Or better yet…Zondervan, Tyndale Publishers, etc?
And what about the first Japanese version? Or Dutch? Do they need royal accent from a dictatorial monarch in order to be Authorized? You see how the logic is falling apart here pretty quick.
I find it highly improbable that the translators finished the KJV only to suddenly proclaim “Hear unto us…this is the Bible in English, and lo unto thee, there shall never be another made…EVER!”. Even the Scottish would have laughed at them. If that were true, then why is it that almost NOBODY uses the 1611 version? Like it or not, the KJV commonly used is a revision of the original.
The amazing irony is that the intended mission was to translate the Bible into the language of the ENGLISH SPEAKING people. For a time the KJV performed this task with unparalleled mastery. What is a sad outcome is that many are forcing those who cannot understand it to spend time learning a dead dialect…effectively doing what the nasty Catholics did by hoarding the Bible in a Latin translation.
If I want to communicate the Bible, I generally use translations that flow well with modern english. Right now I’m enjoying the ESV, but have gained much while using the NIV, NASB, Good News, New Living, etc, etc. Funny thing about English…it’s not a one size fits all language!
Now, I’m not dumping on the KJV. I’m dumping on the King James ONLY people. The KJV has served a mighty purpose in history. I use it from time to time myself, and am a big fan of the NKJV. It has a wonderful prose to it that is nice to read from time to time. But it is also obvious that the English language ( and scholarship ) has come a long…long way since the 1600’s. I would ask the KJO-types to try and think in terms of postmodern evangelism, and less in terms of the stereotypical Baptist “suit and tie” outreach.
Bottom line, if you want to read the truly inspired Word of God, learn Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. But to argue that you must learn late 1600’s ENGLISH because it alone is inspired is the very definition of preposterous.
(1) * Hebrew translation: “I don’t speak english”
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MONUMEN PENARI LAMPUNG 'SIGEH PENGUTEN'
LOCATION : LAMPUNG, SUMATERA ISLAND - INDONESIA
HEIGHT OF SCULPTURE 5 M'
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Sigeh Penguten adalah nama tarian yang dikenal dengan nama Tari Sembah atau Tari Sambut yang merupakan tari selamat datang atau sekapur sirih yang menggambarkan rasa kegembiraan.
Tari ini biasanya digelar pada saat menyambut tamu atau bisa juga pada saat resepsi dan upacara selamatan maras taon, yang diiringi dengan musik dan nyayian yang mengekpresikan kehangatandan kegembiraan dalam penyambutan.
Dalam tarian ini diperagakan atraksi petaburan beras kunyit yang melambangkan doa permohonan keselamatan dan kegembiraan tamu.
Proses pembuatan patung dengan bahan perunggu memerlukan tahapan dan proses yang panjang. Secara keseluruhan, 70% pekerjaan pembuatan patung harus selalu melibatkan seniman patung, karena pembentukannya membutuhkan skill seniman patung, barulah selebihnya dibantu oleh tukang dan ahli cor.
Lama pekerjaan patung dengan ukuran tinggi 5 meter sekitar 5 bulan, bisa kurang dari itu bila jam kerja ditambah menjadi 13 jam / hari maka patung bisa diselesaikan dalam 3 bulan.
MONUMEN I GUSTI NGURAH RAI
LOCATION : INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NGURAH RAI - BALI
HEIGHT OF SCULPTURE 8 M'
MADE FROM BRONZE
PATRIOT MONUMENT I GUSTI NGURAH RAI
Lieutenant Colonel I Gusti Ngurah Rai was born in 1917 and die as Nation Patriot in 1946. His position as Leader of Indonesia Republic Army Sunda Kecil. He was also as Leader of General Base Indonesia People Struggle Board Sunda Kecil. With his position, then he had authorized for region of Bali and Sunda Kecil (Nusa Tenggara).
I Gusti Ngurah Rai also well-known as a brave patriot. His bravery and greatness was not a metaphor but in its truth, mean he really had a brilliant attitude. The attitude stated in daily life. Set of this bravery attitude was his persistence in building life correctly, struggling idealism in glorious, spreading love to others sincerely. Then Mr. Rai become respected leader. For instance, if all troops do not yet get drink, then he will not drink also. He also left wife and children for alone to struggle obtaining bigger, for people, nation and state.
As commander, he also so distinct, the following is his words quoted from Ketut Widjana's experience when in war together : If you all do not want get unity and unite army, then kill me. This words really awaken awareness all leaders and members of army, all silent, stands, whilst Mr. Rai so strong like Agung Mountain.
Anything on I Gusti Ngurah Rai really reasonable to be model, it is not quite that thing. Then achievement as Nation Patriot represents admiration for his services for sacrificing his body and soul for this nation.
Pre-design is initial stage from work making an architectural construction including inside making monument. Input from any parties mainly from competent resources person is an essence thing in expressing history fact will be realized through shape on monument element, that is, relief. Thus all, from pre-design until design ready to be realized in tangible shape still requires more stages.
MONUMENT LEGION VETERAN NORTH SUMATERA
This monument takes main idea of traditional construction and modern generally in Indonesia. Basically construction in Indonesia is divided into three parts. This is described from old construction shape reflected on temple construction, that are, temple feet, temple body and temple head. And also to today construction divided into foundation/floor, wall and roof. Bilangan Tiga also can symbolize relation between human with human, human with nature, and human with his Lord.
Bilangan Tiga also reflects basic behavior of Indonesian as enclosed on Tri Dharma :
1. Rumangsa melu handarbeni (come to have)
2. Melu hangrungkebi (come to defend)
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Presentation on theme: "Discount, Sales Tax, Tipping, Commission Discount is an amount subtracted from the original price. Sales Tax is an amount added to the original price."— Presentation transcript:
Discount, Sales Tax, Tipping, Commission Discount is an amount subtracted from the original price. Sales Tax is an amount added to the original price. Tip is an amount added to the original price. Commission is an amount earned based on the original price.
1) Change the percent to a decimal 2) Multiply by the original amount 3) Add or subtract, depending on what is asked
Discount / Sales Tax Problems 1)A CD player that regularly sells for $79.00 is on sale at a 15% discount. a) What is the sale price? b) If the sales tax is 8%, what is the cost after tax? 2)A bike that regularly sells for $179 is on sale at a 25% discount. a) What is the sale price? b) If the sales tax is 6.5%, what is the cost after tax?
3) A computer normally sells for $1,299.00, but is discounted 10%. a) What is the discount amount? b) What is the sale price? c) If the sales tax is 7%, what is the price after tax? 4) Mary buys a dress and a pair of shoes. Before adding the tax, she pays $48 for the dress which normally sells for $62, and she pays $34 for the shoes which normally sell for $46. a) Before tax, how much does Mary save by buying at the sale price? b) What percent discount did Mary get on each item? c) Including a 6.5% sales tax, how much did Mary pay?
5) Nate buys 3 pencils for $1.50, an eraser for $1.25, a ruler for $0.75, and a notebook for $3.00. Each item is on sale for 50% off. Nate must pay 8% sales tax. How much does Nate pay for the school supplies? 6) Molly buys a skirt that originally costs $ The skirt is on sale for 30% off. When she pays for it, the cashier tells her she can have an additional 25% discount. a) How much will Molly pay for the skirt? b) Is there a difference between: 1) taking off each discount separately or 2) adding the two discounts together before taking them off
7) Sammy buys his clothes at Super Discounts. On Saturday he bought shoes regularly priced at $40 for 25% off, and a jacket regularly priced at $100 for 30% off. a) Before the sales tax, what was the total price? b) What percent discount did Sammy get on his total purchase? 8) John earns a 5% commission for each car he sells. On Monday, he sells a car for $25,000. How much will John earn on this sale? 9) Martha sells real estate. She earns a 12% commission on each house she sells. In January, Martha sold a house for $275,000. How much will Martha earn on this sale? | <urn:uuid:be4c4227-d566-4068-a691-8cf887d24cc8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://slideplayer.com/slide/1445579/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00056-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961241 | 657 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Laughlin-Bullhead City Bridge
Today, a single bridge over the Colorado River provides the only major link between Laughlin, Nev.and Bullhead City, Ariz. The two communities complement one another in residential and employment opportunities with Bullhead City providing a large portion of Laughlin’s workforce. The existing bridge connects the two cities at State Highway 163 where the river is less than 2,000 feet wide. Vehicle crashes interfere with traffic flow across the bridge and often result in closures and lengthy delays. Emergency medical, fire and other services are compromised and public safety is affected when the existing bridge is blocked due to accidents, stalled vehicles or substantial traffic jams.
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to assess the social, economic, and environmental impacts of a proposed action for projects that may utilize federal funding. The Federal Highway Administration in cooperation with the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT), Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT); U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE); U.S. Coast Guard (USCG); and Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) conducted an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed new bridge over the Colorado River between Laughlin, Nevada and Bullhead City, Arizona. This newly proposed bi-state bridge project would be in addition to the existing four-lane Laughlin Bridge that crosses the Colorado River at approximately 1.9 miles south (downstream) of Davis Dam and approximately 12.4 miles north (upstream) of the proposed bridge.
An Environmental Assessment (EA) is one of the approaches used in the NEPA process to accomplish the above-mentioned goals. The assessment is a concise federal document available to the public that provides sufficient evidence and analysis to allow the lead agency to determine whether there will be significant adverse social, economic, and environmental impacts. For the Laughlin-Bullhead City Bridge Project, the FHWA’s Nevada Division is the lead agency.
In October 2010, the Environmental Assessment was completed and the proposed Parkway Build Alternative was recommended. The full Environmental Assessment document is available via the following link: Laughlin-Bullhead City Project Environmental Assessment (October 2010)
ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION (July 2011)
After the Environmental Assessment was reviewed by all the cooperating agencies, the Federal Highway Administration issued a decision of Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed Parkway Build Alternative. A copy of the decision is available via the following link: Federal Highway Administration Finding of No Signigicant Impact
FEDERAL REGISTER PUBLICATION (August 2011)
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The DTR or Dating Based On-line Language Book defines the relationship as, “A casual internet dating relationship characterized by equal emphasis in friendliness, protection, and commonality of hobbies. ” This type of online language exchange happens to be growing in popularity during the last several years. Today you’ll find various on line chat rooms, dating sites where you can satisfy someone for friendship or perhaps romance without even meeting in person. It is very popular with Net savvy available singles.
The DTR term is short for direct discussion, which means essentially you have a one-on-one dialogue with that special someone. When using this sort of terminology, it is vital to be direct and to stay within the realm of what can be considered a “close” ring. The Downtown Dictionary meaning is to establish the relationship, or the time when two individuals discuss their particular understanding of a critical dating romantic relationship (commonly categorised as a dating relationship). It is the type of chat that is used for identifying a casual a friendly relationship, a first hookup, a fling or possibly a dating relationship. When identifying the relationship you will need to use some of southern italian women the more common terms linked to flings, relationships, dating relationships and casual sex.
When ever defining the partnership, you should make sure that you’re being as detailed as possible. Need not afraid to use real life instances. You under no circumstances know what you might run into should you meet the future partner in an adult play ground or standard. If you used someone you are interested in in passing in a restaurant, you should nonetheless make sure you happen to be defining the partnership in terms of a dating circumstance. You by no means know what could happen in the casual encounter.
Another hint for defining the partnership is to help to make certain you will be being because descriptive as is feasible. Don’t be frightened to describe one another. This could involve how you attire, how handsome/ugly you will be or simply how much money/what kind of funds you have. It is not necessarily necessarily required to talk about the partner’s birthday… just as long as do it in a manner that does not creep up on the other person.
One last point for identifying the relationship should be to make sure that you are staying away from the very casual discussion that we quite often engage in when we are dating. I’m certain you have discovered this before: “Do you like the way the man you’re dating talks? inch Don’t solution with something similar to “I do not think he could ever talk just like that” or “He will so well that we don’t need to. inch Instead solution with something such as “Do you feel that I i am a valuable person to you? inch
When you are determining the relationship opt for the difference among a casual and cons talking. A casual conversing is simply chatting with someone you happen to be hanging out with and having a good time. Whether it ends after one or two sentences or is just about catching up on the everyday happenings in the lives of this two of you then it is not just a deep discussion. A convo is when two or more folks are sitting by a clubhouse and talking about things above a beer. This can be a greater conversation and frequently engages much more than two people. | <urn:uuid:aae35a5f-1217-43cb-8e60-0365de4ea387> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.daqings.net/index.php/2021/07/21/major-the-relationship-what-is-your-meaning-of-a-good-romance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.958878 | 694 | 1.5 | 2 |
Whether it is your first venture into the world of raising school aged kids or you are an old hand now, we can all use some tips and tricks to make the upcoming school year run smoothly.
Art is the number one activity in my house and, since my oldest found her passion and talent at age four, I have tried many things to curate, enjoy, process and save both my daughters’ creations. The volume of items created has exploded over the years now that we have art being made at home and school, along with 3D projects.
Some things will be saved for many years to come (each of us will have our own ways of determining the “keepers”) but much of the art will have to live elsewhere unless you are lucky enough to have a massive home with endless storage space.
Art in the holding pattern
After the art comes in the door or is created at home you might like to have a holding place for those pieces that the kids cannot part with yet, but are not being displayed or put to use. Have a set intake spot and container and when it is full it is time to sort through the items. My kids each have a large document box that fits perfectly in their bookshelf. They can browse their current stash, enjoy them and then in a month or two when full they can decide what to do next.
Letting go of arts and crafts
Do not feel you have to keep every single item – letting go of artworks and projects does not mean you don’t love your child or what they have created. We are teaching our children a lesson in making choices, decluttering, finding ways to keep memories without the materials. As things come in or their boxes get full involve them in choosing what will be recycled or put in the trash (or see ideas below for ways to use rather than save items).
Keep a selection indefinitely
Some creations are wonderful, some show a developmental leap (like going from stick figures to real people), some win awards and yet others have won our hearts. Keep them and treasure them, just set limits.
Go digital: you can keep a higher volume of work if you choose to save it digitally. You can scan items in or photograph them (especially good for 3D works). You are limited only by your digital storage space and your love for technology.
Save the actual items: If you like to see and touch the originals or hate dealing with your computer more than you have to, go ahead and create a keepsake box / storage space for their works. Again, just set limits. What space do you have? What type of boxes will work best? Make sure you pause when one box is full and go through and cull some items. A year or two after the events you can often look back and see you ended up saving 6 pictures they drew of chickens when they were in that phase. Now one might suffice.
Use it or give it away
Some simple ideas are using kids art as wrapping paper for gift giving, cutting them up to turn into cards / postcards for others, create calendars, or laminate to make placemats.
Display the favourites and enjoy them
Buy a digital frame and load their artworks in there (great for those of you doing digital storage anyway) – it becomes it’s own rotating art gallery.
Set up a display area for current favourites by stringing wire or rope in a space and hanging art by clothespins or clips.
Hang art on your walls - consider:
- picture frames (we use everything from fancy frames to cheap coloured ones)
- clipboards (super fast change outs)
- wooden pants or skirt hangers
- bulletin / cork boards (great in kids rooms so they can do it their way easily)
- magnetic painted walls (a great investment if you have a prolific creator)
Create a photo book
This is my plan for this year as I finally sort out my digital clutter and work on my latest family photo books. I plan to also create books of my kids best art that is in our current storage bins (now 5+ years worth for my oldest) and giving them as gifts to my children for Christmas (with extra copies to grandparents). This will allow them to browse them safely, keep them sharp and clear for years. You can even write into the book with a sharpie and let them make notes about their works!
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Application nursing care and practice for patients with irritable bowel syndrome Name: Institution: Course: Tutor name: Date: October 1, 2013 Application nursing care and practice for patients with irritable bowel syndrome Abstract The scope of nursing that include provision of care, administration of involved processes, teaching, and counseling requires background information on healthcare issues and applicable strategies to resolving the issues.
The scope of nursing further identifies functions such as provision of care, educative roles, counseling, administration, and clinical specialist services. Proper background of health issues is fundamental to a practicing nurse and such knowledge bases as causes of a health problem, its symptoms, and preventive and control measures are therefore necessary for a practicing nurse. This paper demonstrate this competence through exploration of irritable bowel syndrome, its signs, symptoms, and causes, medical and alternative interventions, nursing care assessment and considerations in acute care settings, and plans for community follow up and support systems for management of irritable bowel syndrome. Signs, symptoms, and causes of IBS Irritable bowel syndrome is symptomatic, offering a basis for prediction among the public and diagnosis by care personnel. The primary symptom of the syndrome is pain in the victim’s abdomen. ...
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I recently bought a case of unsalted 1# butter packages. It was $89.99 and it came out to $2.50/lb. Not bad....
Well I have been using it as a whole # in one recipe and also having to divide it for other recipes.
Each time I was needing only half of the butter for one cake and the other half for another recipe, I kept coming up a little short on the weight for the 2nd recipe. I'd get 8oz for one recipe and then there was only 7.6oz of butter left for the 2nd recipe. I was going out of my mind...
So today I decided to weigh the wrapper and, of course, it is .4oz...just the difference between the butter left for the 2nd recipe (7.6oz) and what SHOULD have been there (8oz).
Now the packaging reads NET WT 1 LB.
Wouldn't that be the gross weight??????
I don't know how much of a difference that little .4 oz makes in my baking, if any, but I'm annoyed!
Can someone weigh a stick of butter for me and let me know if it's just over the 4 oz mark, or does the weight include the packaging?
Sorry if I am making a stupid deal out of this...does it really matter?
I just unwrapped 4 cubes of butter. It is Crystal brand, sold at my grocery store. It was cold, so unwrapped cleanly. Each cube is supposed to be 4 oz, 1 pound total. The butter weighed 16 1/4 ounces without the wrappers so actually a little over. I also weighed a cube of Kerrygold (irish) butter i had on hand. It is labelled 8 ounces. Unwrapped, it was 8 1/8 ounces. The Crystal butter said net weight 1 pound on the label. The Kerrygold just said 8 ounces.
I think you have been cheated, and the brand should be called out for false advertising. It is still a good deal if the butter is good, but annoying to be taken advantage of.
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AA Vulnerable road user project handover 2014
The AA hands over safety kits to bicycle users
In South Africa, many poor or previously disadvantaged people have no option but to use bicycles to commute to and from their place of work. Although in contravention of the South African National Traffic Act, these cyclists do not necessarily have the means to equip themselves with the required cycling safety equipment or reflective clothing.
The Automobile Association (AA) of South Africa identified this need and launched their Vulnerable Road User Project last year April, which aims to better equip cyclists with the necessary safety kit. To date 2 800 protective and reflective kits have been handed out to cyclists in seven communities, with 700 cyclists in the Zandspruit area recently being the recipients of these safety kits.
“It is frightening to think that in South Africa, at least 40% of all road fatalities and injuries come from the vulnerable road user group, which includes cyclists, pedestrians and motorcyclists. In 2010, 252 cyclists were killed and another 800 injured – further evidence that there is a need for safety equipment,” says the AA.
Through the AA Vulnerable Road User Project, busy cyclist routes in the Gauteng area have been identified and protective and reflective gear handed out to cyclists in need of safety equipment. The gear includes a high visibility reflective, reusable bag containing a safety helmet, high visibility reflective clothing and an information pamphlet, which educates cyclists on safe road use. Furthermore, bicycles are made more visible by equipping each one with reflective tape and a red LED rear light.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines the flu and the common cold are both respiratory illness that are caused by different viruses. They have similar symptoms but the flu is worse than the common cold.
Flu is a serious contagious disease that can lead to hospitalization and even death.
Flu and the common cold have similar symptoms. It can be difficult to tell the difference between them.
|Fever||Rare||Usual High (100F-102F)|
|General Aches, Pain||Slight||Usual, often severe|
|Fatigue, Weakness||Sometimes||Usual, up to 2-3 weeks|
|Extreme Exhaustion||Never||Usual at beginning|
|Chest Discomfort||Mild to Moderate||Common, can be severe|
1. Get a flu vaccine. Take time to get a yearly flu vaccine. It is the first and the most important step in fighting against flu viruses.
2. Everyday preventative actions:
- Cover your cough. Use tissue or cough into upper arm sleeve to cover your nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing. Discard the used tissue in the trash immediately and wash your hands.
- Wash your hands frequently with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol based hand rub.
- Frequently clean your living quarters and high touch surfaces with cleaning products that have alcohol-based cleaners, Lysol or Bleach based cleaners.
- Try to avoid close contact with sick people at least 3-6 feet distance.
FIVE Steps to take if you Get the Flu
- Stay at home and Rest.
- Avoid close contact with well people.
- Drink plenty of water and other clear liquids to prevent fluid loss (dehydration).
- Treat Fever and cough with medicines you can buy over the counter medication.
- If you get very sick or are pregnant or have a medical condition that puts you at higher risk of flu complications (like asthma…) call your doctor. You might need antiviral medicine to treat flu. www.flu.gov
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, EAST BAY will keep the campus community informed on any issues related to seasonal flu or any contagious break out.
Fight the Flu – Protect yourself, protect others by getting the flu vaccine every year.
Student Health and Counseling Services operation hours: Mon. – Tues. and Wed. – Fri. 8:30-5:00 PM, and Thurs. 10:00 - 5:00PM
Walk In or Call for appointment 510 885-3735
Two important things that can either keep you healthy or make you very sick. They are your hands! There is good news and bad news.
The good news is, that proper thorough hand washing can help you remain healthy and good hand washing is easy to do.
The bad news is that people don’t wash their hands or don’t do it well enough to make a difference.
Three components: SOAP + WARM RUNNING WATER + FRICTION If soap and water are not available using hand sanitizers is an excellent method for hand hygiene and can be an alternative to soap and water. Alcohol based sanitizers kill 99.9 percent of the most common germs, they work in seconds and without water.
- It is better to be safe—not sorry
- Be safe: wash your hands for 20 seconds or use alcohol wipes
- Or Be Sorry: you might get very sick
Questions regarding the H7N9 Virus (Avian Influenza A Virus)
Go to www.cdc.gov/flu
- www.Hand Hygiene MDH 2005
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Camera / View:
Shift + Middle Mouse Button (MMB) to strafe.
Ctrl + MMB, or mouse Scroll to zoom out in.
MMB to rotate perspective camera.
Numpad keys for switching between various perspectives such as front, right and so on.
Numpad 5 to switch between ortho and perspective.
Edit mode: TAB.
Edit mode switch between face, vertex and edge: CTRL + TAB.
Create subsurf (in object mode) CTRL + 2/4.
Add loop cut to subsurf: CTRL+R.
Add edge by selecting two vertices and hitting F.
Add/Draw edge tool: K.
Select edge loop: Alt + RMB.
Merge two vertices: Alt + M.
Merge two meshes: Crl + J.
Add vertex to line: W -> Subdivide.
Set cursor to selected: Shift + S -> Cursor to selected.
Deselect all: A.
Select by rectangular region: B.
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Shift + C to move 3D cursor to center and frame all objects.
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Community asked to take futuristic look at public transport
10 March 2006
What could make Christchurch’s Metro public transport system even better?
That’s the question Christchurch City Council and Environment Canterbury are asking the community as they work to update the Christchurch Public Passenger Transport Strategy.
Members of the public are asked to think about what our Metro service should be like in 2016, what goals we should be striving for and how we can get there.
“Things for people to consider include our increasing population, ballooning traffic congestion, the increasing average age of Christchurch residents and how to get more people out of cars and using public transport,” Council transport planner Robert Woods said.
“The existing Public Passenger Transport Strategy, introduced in 1998, has been highly successful prompting the introduction of initiatives such as the Orbiter, the Metrostar, more than 150 new low floor buses, a 50 per cent increase in services and real time information for bus passengers,” he said. “But it’s now time to develop a new strategy that will assist the Council and Ecan to take Metro public transport onward and upward to 2016.”
Submissions can be made by filling in the online form at www.metrostrategy.org.nz or by picking up a submission form from a Council Service Centre; Christchurch City Library; Civic Offices, Tuam St; or Environment Canterbury’s Kilmore St offices. All submissions must be received by Friday 31 March.
When the current round of public consultation ends, all comments will be considered and a draft strategy will be prepared that will go out for public comment later this year. After this consultation closes, a final strategy will be prepared for the Councils to approve and implement.
For more information or copies of the current Metro Public Transport Strategy visit the metrostrategy website, phone Metroinfo on 366-8855 or visit metroinfo at the Bus Exchange.
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Scientists Think They've Solved the Century-Old Mystery of Why a Navy Warship Suddenly Sank Off New YorkBreaking News
tags: archaeology, WWI, Shipwreck, USS San Diego
A hundred years ago, a mysterious explosion hit the only major U.S. warship to sink during World War I. Now the Navy believes it has the answer to what doomed the USS San Diego: An underwater mine set by a German submarine cruising in waters just miles from New York City.
That’s the conclusion of an investigation by scientists, archaeologists and historians convened by the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. Last summer, the researchers sent an unmanned underwater vessel to inspect the site off New York’s Long Island. Their analysis ruled out a torpedo and sabotage, two other possible scenarios.
The San Diego was sailing to New York on July 19, 1918, when an external explosion near the engine room shook the armored cruiser. Water rushed into the hull. Within minutes, the 500-foot warship began to capsize. Weighed down with 2,900 tons of coal for a planned voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, the vessel sank in less than a half hour. Six crew members died.
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At some point, we all need a creative boost. We slide into a routine, thinking the work we produce is good enough, and then BAM! The creative brain waves halt. Know the feeling? C'mon, raise your hands, because it's happened to you, too.
The good news is simple: rekindling the creativity spark can be as simple as taking a common object with you wherever you go or working with other creative types.
While these are geared to high school students, the ideas perfectly fit writers of all ages. Let's see how they apply to a writer's life.
- Become a risk taker. Remember that routine I talked about earlier? Don't fall into that trap. Take a chance instead. Want to publish in a NYT? You won't ever see it in print UNLESS you submit. Have an idea for a breakout book series? Until you put the words on the page, it won't happen. So, take a risk. What are you waiting for?
- . Break rules. Sure, it's a bit of a conundrum - the whole "rules are meant to be broken/follow the rules" debate. When I started freelancing, I broke one publication's "don't call the editor" rule. Guess what. I landed five additional assignments.
- Do more of what makes you happy. For me, that's cooking and writing. I do a lot of both.
- Don't force it. So true! I worked on a chapter of a YA novel for a month, trying to get it to flow. I took a two -week break from it and when I returned to it, clarity. It's amazing how that happens.
- Read a page of the dictionary. I find this happens quite a bit...although not on purpose. I'll be checking out a word in Flip Dictionary and I'll realize I've been perusing page upon page. The best part, I'll find a word, key in on it, and begin word association. It's amazing how one word can spark an entire page of writing!
- Build a framework. Can you work without one?
- Stop trying to be someone else's perfect. Enough said.
- Write down ideas. You never know when - or where - inspiration will hit, but I've had brilliant ideas surface, only to forget all facets of the idea later.Take it from someone who learned the hard way: Write it down. Now.
- Clean your workspace. Agreed. If I would clean my office more often, I do think I'd be more productive. While the organized chaos theory works for me most of the time, sometimes, it becomes an obstruction to accomplishing a goal.
- Have fun. Laugh. Live. Enjoy yourself. Then, return to your writing. You'll sense a new attitude.
- Finish something. Nothing spurs creativity than finishing one project so you can begin brainstorming for another.
How do you rekindle your creativity?
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The Mayor and MP of Co Donegal have called for calm after health bosses revealed they were testing the body of a man for Ebola.
The 43-year-old, named locally as Dessie Quinn, was found dead this morning having recently returned from Sierra Leone, which is in the grip of an epidemic of the virus.
It is unconfirmed that it is Ebola at this stage and even if it was confirmed the chances of it being passed on to anyone else are very small so people shouldn't panic.
It's a big shock in the area. I know the family well and our thoughts are with them.
And Donegal Teachta Dála - the Irish equivalent of an MP - Thomas Pringle urged people to wait until the test results have returned.
This is a sudden tragic death and because this man worked in Africa the Health Service Executive (HSE) have to take precautions. I think we should Given the media attention about Ebola over the last while it is important that people do not panic or worry about it until we hear from the HSE.
As it reaches seven months since the Ebola outbreak started we take a look at the timeline of events leading up to the spread of the virus.
More than 100 British personnel are arriving in Sierra Leone to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Here's what else the UK is doing.
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Allergic Reactions in Hospitalized Patients With a Self-Reported Penicillin Allergy Who Receive a Cephalosporin or Meropenem.
J Pharm Pract. 2017 Feb;30(1):42-48
Authors: Crotty DJ, Chen XJ, Scipione MR, Dubrovskaya Y, Louie E, Ladapo JA, Papadopoulos J
BACKGROUND: Cefepime and meropenem are used frequently in hospitalized patients for broad-spectrum empiric coverage, however, practitioners are often reluctant to prescribe these antibiotics for patients with a self-reported nonsevere, nontype I allergic reaction to penicillin.
METHODS: Retrospective review of electronic medical records of adults with a self-reported allergy to penicillin who received at least 1 dose of cefepime, ceftriaxone, cefoxitin, cephalexin, or meropenem to assess incidence and type of allergic reactions.
RESULTS: Of 175 patients included, 10 (6%) patients experienced an allergic reaction. The incidence for individual study drugs were cefepime 6% (6 of 96), meropenem 5% (3 of 56), cefoxitin 8% (1 of 13), ceftriaxone 0% (0 of 69), and cephalexin 0% (0 of 8). The majority of patients experienced a rash with or without pruritus and fever. Patients with a concomitant "sulfa" allergy (odds ratio [OR] 5.4, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.4-21, P = .02) or ≥3 other drug allergies (OR 6.4, 95% CI 1.3-32, P = .025) were more likely to have an allergic reaction.
CONCLUSIONS: In one of the largest retrospective reviews of hospitalized patients who received full dose therapy with cefepime, ceftriaxone, and meropenem, the incidence of allergic reactions was low and reactions were mild. Cefepime, ceftriaxone, and meropenem can be considered for use in patients with a self-reported nontype I penicillin allergy.
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A great science fiction film can take us into a fantastical world of danger and romance while giving us offbeat characters and an engaging story. They often come in sets of multiple movies such as trilogies and sometimes they are based on a comic book or created from a popular series of novels. Fantasy films can encompass lots of varying stories and appeal to a wide audience. Some of these films can be epic and combine action with periods of storytelling, while others are jam-packed with plot twists from beginning to end. Some movies follow their original plots exactly while others veer away from the story told in written form. Therefore, a viewer who has seen the movie may not like the book and vice versa. How many sci fi and fantasy films have you seen? Check out some new releases and old classics below.
Movies Based on Comics
The movies below were all made to mimic their comic counterparts and bring the printed pictures and words to life on screen. See a couple of popular adaptations below.
Otherworldly Science Fiction
It's no secret that aliens play a sizable role in many movies of the science fiction genre. Even if you don't prefer these types of films, chances are you've seen at least one alien or outer space related sci fi flick, and if you haven't, check out some of the movies below! Some of the more serious films act as metaphors for well-known social situations that were occurring in the world at the time, while other movies are epic but have funny moments to balance them out.
These fantasy and sci fi movies all have very different themes but are based on the sensational and the unbelievable. Some take place in completely different worlds while others take place in our world and include some extraordinary elements. No matter what the premise, they are all widely known movies that viewers love to watch and analyze over and over again.
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When you live with the next natural disaster always at the back of your mind, it only makes sense that you'd come up with something like the EcoLa AT-01 Smart Lamp: a lantern that needs no batteries or any other external power source! Yes, you read that right: just using a few spoonfuls of salt and some water (or some seawater or sports drink – anything that contains salt, basically), you get up to 120 hours of light packed in a handy 110 x 110 x 246 mm (4.3 x 4.3 x 9.6") lamp.
The EcoLa AT-01 Smart Lamp's secret weapon is its PB-16095 magnesium alloy bar: this reacts chemically with the water, salt, and oxygen in the air to produce light. The EcoLa AT-01 Smart Lamp comes with one such bar so you can use it right out of the box but when that is over, after 120 hours, you can easily replace it. Together with the lantern, you also get a pack of salt and a measuring spoon, so the only other thing you need is some water. A perfect companion for any outdoors activity or an emergency!
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I'm not in the mood to defend George W. Bush, but I suspect that historians will eventually figure out that his big domestic / economic policy mistakes (e.g., allowing so much illegal immigration and promoting zero down payment mortgages to increase minority home ownership) stemmed from him assuming that the rest of the country was like Texas.
Bush had been a decent governor of Texas for six years. And Texas has continued to do relatively well in the eight years since he left Austin (e.g., there was hardly any Housing Bubble in Texas).
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In 1962, astronaut Walter “Wally” Schirra made history for OMEGA when he wore his own personal Speedmaster during the “Sigma 7” mission of the Mercury program. Blasting into a clear blue sky on October 3rd, it marked the start of a long history of space exploration for OMEGA’s now-legendary Speedmaster Chronograph. In fact, almost two and half years later, the watch would become officially certified for all manned missions.
On show at Baselworld 2015, but launched just two weeks ago, the Speedmaster “First OMEGA in Space” reprises the classic panda dialed look inspired by Schirra’s pioneering moment. The updated 18K Sedna™ gold case is based on the original “pre-professional” Speedmaster, with symmetric lugs and a 1962 Seahorse medallion on the caseback.
The applied indexes are also made in Sedna Gold as are the alpha hands covered with Super-Luminova . The watch is powered by the OMEGA manual caliber 1861 with 45 hours Power Reserve. Although the watch is numbered it is not a limited edition.
On its face, the timepiece features a unique brown polished ceramic bezel ring and a matt chromium nitride tachymeter scale. This rich brown colour is also included on the PVD subdials and minutes track, which encircles a central opaline silvery dial. Along with the applied indexes, the hands are all made of 18K Sedna™ gold and contain a mix of “Alpha” and “Baton” designs.
To complete this watch, there is a brown leather strap with beige stitching, and a central core driven by the OMEGA calibre 1861, the same movement used in the famous “Moonwatch”.
At a time when humans were first going beyond our Earth, OMEGA was part of the journey. For that reason, this particular Speedmaster has been designed as a reminder of the brand’s momentous milestone, and how the handsome Speedmaster design has long stood the test of time. The OMEGA Speedmaster Moonwatch First Omega in Space Sedna Gold will retail for €14,400. | <urn:uuid:9f3df161-ad76-4ef4-92e8-b5d0b265705a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.luxurywatchesbrand.com/reviewing-omega-moonwatch-first-omega-in-space-sedna-gold-numbered-edition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.939708 | 467 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Our friend John Baichtal is headlining a new column over at MAKE called “The Monday Jolt”, devoted to the topic of electronics and microcontrollers every monday. The first post in this series covers the Bricktronics shield, which was developed by Matt and Adam of Wayne and Layne. John writes:
Lego Mindstorms NXT is a fantastic educational robotics set that teaches kids and adults skills ranging from engineering to programming. Nevertheless, wouldn’t it be cool to enhance those Lego robots with Arduino boards and shields? With that thought in mind, Adam Wolf, Matthew Beckler, and I wrote Make: Lego and Arduino Projects and developed the Bricktronics shield to interface the two.
Adam and Matthew, who run the electronic kit business Wayne and Layne, tackled the challenge of making the shield. They reverse engineered Mindstorms’ protocols, had custom parts molded overseas, prototyped circuits, and developed an Arduino library for controlling the shield. The book explains how to build some fun Lego models as well, including a chocolate milk drinkbot and a keytar synth.
I’m looking forward to seeing more cool stuff in this column every week — this is a great start!
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The documentary Julia tells us about Julia from her early life, through her marriage and, above all, her tremendous success as the first celebrity TV chef. Very well known in the US, she is not a name that comes quickly to mind when we think of famous TV cooking experts. But, after watching this film, you will certainly know a good deal more.
She was not beautiful and over 6 foot tall, and not young – her first book came out when she was 49 and she was 51 when she had her first TV show. But she was full of enthusiasm for cooking right up to the end of her life at 91. Her enthusiasm and love of eating shines through this movie. The photography, especially of the sizzling dishes, makes this critic not only hungry but desperate for food!
We get lots of information about her early years with her family and learn about her passionate marriage to Paul. They never had children but adored each other and worked as team with him actually helping her in her TV shows in later life. Unusual facts emerge such as her homophobic early years which were completely changed when a friend died of Aids. She became an activist in the cause. There are interviews with friends and colleagues.
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Kent, United Kingdom (PressExposure) March 19, 2013 -- KSA of Performing Arts ( http://www.ksapa.co.uk ) is amongst the famous London performing arts school. This exciting and vibrant academy is believed to deliver high standard training in the different aspects of musical theatre. The courses offered by them include both full-time and vocational training for adults. The courses even lead to the 4th level qualification which is accredited by Trinity Guildhall. In fact, they were the first to have such a course. The academy follows the motto "Strive to Succeed". With a supportive as well as nurturing environment, the school enables its students to explore the full potential whilst learning the different skills. KSA even offers fantastic opportunities to perform on stage throughout the time when one pursues any of the courses there.
Next month, this academy has planned to present a musical show named "Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens". This is a Musical by Bill Russell and Janet Hood. In this show, a patchwork of monologues as well as a few musical numbers which include melancholy and are joyous, flamboyant and dramatic have been cleverly put together. The beautiful musical is expected to make one laugh and get entertained; however people will surely feel emotional and some might even cry in between. All in all, the musical is a poignant and touching one. Elegies, a musical that is an ultimately uplifting one, actually celebrates the lives of people who have passed away from illness caused by AIDS. In fact, the naming of the musical was inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
The Epsom Playhouse, which is based in the Ashley Avenue of Surrey, has been chosen as the venue for the show; and the show has been scheduled for 4th April, 2013 and will be staged at 7:30 pm on that day. Since not even a month is left for the musical show, this London performing arts school is quite busy with all the arrangements related to the staging of the show. However, along with that, they are looking after the other tasks as well; for example, auditioning for next year's students. Within the first half of this year, this school scheduled auditions on three Fridays of three different months. The first one was scheduled to be held on 22nd February 2013; whereas the next two are scheduled on 22nd March 2013 and 3rd May 2013.
To know more about the musical show or the auditions or the normal courses offered by the KSA of Performing Arts, one can either visit their website or call them on 020 8090 5801.
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by Tennant Redbank Illustrated by Sonja Lamut
Reviewed by JS (age 6)
JS is a student in Ms. Johnston's 1st Grade Class
I chose this book because I like butterflies. In the beginning some butterflies are flying. There are all kinds of butterflies. They are different colors and they remind me of rainbows. Then, there is a hungry bird that is looking for some food. Sometimes, birds eat butterflies. The butterflies were hidden in the grass. Butterflies like to land on flowers and sip the nectar. In the middle of the story there is a storm. During the rain, the butterflies hide in a tree. After the rain, there is a rainbow. In the end, it's nighttime. The butterflies rest in the tall grass and flowers. In the morning, they fly to look for more flowers.
This book is special because it has glittery butterfly tattoos. My favorite part was when the rain stopped and the butterflies were watching the rainbow. I have seen butterflies before at recess. I like to watch them. I wish I could fly like them.
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Summertime is the perfect time to kick back and expand your mind – or your corporate library -with some good reads. So, I asked some raceAhead experts to help.
The question was simple: What book would you recommend to someone seeking to better understand the diverse world around them? For this column, I asked corporate librarians, academic experts and D&I practitioners for their best advice. They did not disappoint.
Suggestions are still trickling in, so I’ll update the column later today. If you like, I’ll also make this a semi-regular feature, and tap other folks, like artists, journalists and entrepreneurs for their personal favorites.
But for now, free your mind, and the rest will follow.
Race and Immigration
- Patrice Rankine, University of Richmond School of Arts and Sciences Dean recommends Jeff Chang’s We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Re-Segregation. “This book addresses the problem with diversity and issues of campus climate. It also focuses on how those two things fit in with Black Lives Matter and addresses some framework for hope for how we move forward.”
- Rankine also recommends The Faithful Scribe by colleague and journalism professor Shahan Mufti. Mufti draws on his personal experiences to capture the story of Pakistan, the world’s first Islamic democracy, and its relationship with America. “The issues of Muslims in America and immigration are themes in the book that were not as prevalent a few years ago when the book was published, but they have become much more important to talk about and discuss now,” says Rankine.
- Francisco Gago-Jover, Spanish professor and dean of the class of 2021 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., recommends Make Your Home Among Strangers, by Jennine Capo Crucet. “I found the story of Lizet (a first generation Cuban-American college student), the main character, very compelling, as she struggles to balance her new life in college, with the expectations her parents have, and her own expectations,” he says.
- Bernard Coleman, the Global Head of D&I for Diversity at Uber echoed the choice of Whistling Vivaldi (link appears blow), and added two more. Of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum, he says, “this book opened my eyes on racism and racial identity. It’s a good primer for folks who are starting their D&I journey.”
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson,“talks to our nation’s racial divide and illustrates how deep those vestiges run. I read this book right before the 2016 presidential election and tied together one of the many reasons why our candidate lost,” he says.
- Tara de Souza, from Goucher College, offered a selection from their summer reading list. “Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, is an incisive and thorough look at the prison industrial complex and the way it targets the most vulnerable members of society,” she says. Goucher is currently only one of a few colleges in the US that offers Bachelor’s degrees to currently incarcerated students. Learn more here.
How Bias Works
- Dania Matos, Deputy Chief Diversity Officer at William & Mary, recommends Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, by Mahzarin R. Banaji. “Just in the name, this book helps us uncover that we don’t know what we don’t know and the blind spots that influence our interactions,” she says.
- Similarly, Matos says Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) by Claude Steele is “a must read, especially given the national climate for understanding why race is still such an important factor.”
- Mary Beth Wynn, head of HR at Jellyvision, an employee benefits technology company, recommends The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida. “Not only does it provide incredible insight into how a person with autism experiences the world, it was a great reminder for me that everyone has their own unique set of emotional needs that may present very differently in behavior from how I might behave, and empathy for that difference is important,” she says.
- Sarah Rose, an Associate Professor of History and the director of University of Texas at Austin’s Minor in Disability Studies, recommends Cece Bell’s, El Deafo, “a fantastic graphic novel that explores the author’s experience of what it was like to suddenly become deaf and how she turned her awkward body hearing aid into a superpower that helped her integrate into the school community.”
- She also recommends Corbett Joan OToole’s Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History, calling it a jargon-free book of lyrical essays exploring life as a queer disabled person and parent. “Corbett OToole has played a key role over the disability rights movement over the past 40 years,” she says.
- Kellie Raffaelli, director of Michigan Technological University’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion, has three fiction recommendations – The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick, Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan and Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler. Her one one non-fiction selection is Waking Up White, by Debbie Irving. All of these books give the reader an opportunity to view the world from a different perspective. Once we see the world from someone else’s viewpoint, we begin to include them in the decisions we make, especially decisions that affect everyone,” she says.
Want to start a raceAhead reading club thing? Hit me back.
|The life of Philando Castile, in inventory|
|By now you must have seen the newly released dash-cam video of the shooting death of Castile, and raceAhead has already shared the shocking analysis of the driving-while-black harassment Castile experienced during his short life. But this simple story, an inventory of the items Castile and his partner had in his car when they were pulled over, hits home in a way that’s hard to describe. A life interrupted laid out in crime scene evidence photos and inventory. Among the items: Groceries for the evening’s dinner, three spare uniforms for his job, a child’s worksheet called “Write and Find the Number 12,” loose change, a receipt for an Icee, and the capper, at least for me, red lens repair tape for fixing a broken tail light. Rest in power.|
|What happened to Black Lives Matter?|
|Buzzfeed’s Darren Sands attempts to answer a question which at first glance, seems unanswerable. After a meteoric rise to fame – and despite one of the most divisive presidents in modern history – the movement seems to have stalled. After a meeting in late November failed to yield a unified consensus on next steps, Sands says, the core mission continues in an array of groups, some formally allied, and some not, operating locally and mostly online. Some say the passion, talent and urgent need are keeping things moving. “But we can’t pretend that we’re not plagued by some of the issues and concerns that have taken down the movements in the past. We’re not immune to it,” says one BLM organizer based in Florida. But there is this: “In interviews with 36 people inside and allied with the movement — both the optimists and the disillusioned — activists largely agreed that the identity of the movement, its existential purpose and aim, remains unresolved,” says Sands.|
|Kenya considers a ban on donated clothing|
|While the loving impulse to donate often yields jarring contradictions – there’s nothing like seeing a community elder at a meeting wearing a previously loved Justin Bieber t-shirt – there are other reasons why emerging economies are not so keen on donated clothes. Here’s one: the secondary market for buying and selling the 100,000 tons of donated clothes that Kenya takes in every year is undermining their once booming garment industry. Yet a change to the system would put millions of Kenyans at risk. Besides being a source of meaningful income, these often colorful cast-offs are the only clothes many can typically afford. “Here in Kenya, we can’t afford to wear clothes and leave them as secondhand like [Americans] do,” says one woman who also sells used baby clothes from a stall.|
|What’s next for Uber?|
|Few journalists have taken on the toxic culture at the ride sharing company, fewer still have paid the price. Sarah Lacy offers a quick review of her own troubles with the company – targeted for her early critiques - and then quickly moves to what’s next for the future CEO. She offers several pieces of advice - she starts by suggesting that they acknowledge the company is not worth anywhere near $70 billion, and then gets real. Real boring. The next CEO shouldn’t be a maverick, a bro or a “Marissa” [Mayer], they should be dull. A boring operations wizard. “Uber does not need a product visionary… It needs an operational, logistical genius.”|
The Woke Leader
|Understanding the LGBTQ community|
|Tip of the hat to raceAhead sister Katrina Jones for pointing out Catalyst’s helpful guide to the LGBTQ population around the world, filled with helpful stats describing the lives and remaining barriers to full inclusion for LGBTQ employees around the world. While stigma and data collection issues make it difficult to confirm an accurate population count, there are some solid numbers. Though 72 countries prohibit discrimination in the workplace, most don’t, and there are no federal laws protecting the rights of LGBTQ workers in the U.S. But business is leading the way: As of 2016, 92% of Fortune 500 companies have non-discrimination policies that include sexual orientation. 82% have non-discrimination policies that include gender identity. Nice work. Click through for more.|
|“Don’t sneak. It means you’re doing something wrong”|
|This charming, short animation from StoryCorps is also part of the “It Gets Better” Series sponsored by The Trevor Project, and it will make your day. To be a gay kid in the 1950s was a fraught exercise in confusion and longing. But to be a gay kid in rural Washington state was another matter entirely. Patrick Haggerty thought he was hiding things pretty well until one day his brother, alarmed by Haggerty’s interest in glittered makeup for a school play, outed him to their father. Their dad showed up at the school, straight from the farm, overalls on, cow crap on his boots. I won’t spoil the lovely life lesson that follows, but suffice it to say that Haggerty, who tells this story in voiceover to his adult daughter, was surprised that his plain-spoken father managed to affirm both their costumes.|
|Cool dad turns his kid’s drawings into real life and they are wonderful|
|The stick-figured creatures created by kids are always an escape and delight. But what if the drawings become real? Six-year-old Dom inspired his artist father, through the magic of I don’t even know, to turn the characters his son drew into the weirdest creatures you’ve seen in awhile. Come for the elephant, stay for the clownfish.| | <urn:uuid:55698575-ded7-48ac-b6af-6c21a8043ada> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fortune.com/2017/06/22/free-your-mind-summer-reading-list/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.956441 | 2,524 | 1.78125 | 2 |
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DIAPSIDA |==Younginiformes `-+--+?--Thalattosauria | `--o Ichthyopterygia / ICHTHYOSAURIA | |--Utatsusaurus | `--+--Ichthyosauria | `--+--Cymbospondylus | `--+--Mixosaurus | `--+--Merriamosauria | `--+--Euichthyosauria | `--+--Parvipelvia | `--Thunnosauria `--+--LEPIDOSAUROMORPHA `--ARCHOSAUROMORPHA
The most primitive forms, Utatsusaurus and other basal ichthyopterygians, are discussed on the previous page. Ichthyosauria, strictly speaking, are Cymbospondylus + Ichthyosaurus. Cymbospondylus is traditionally included in the Shastasauria. However, in the phylogenetic arrangement of Ryosuke Motani (adopted here) this genus is shown to be much more primitive, even more primitive than the Mixosaurs. Probably Cymbospondylus belongs in its own family ("Cymbospondylidae").
Cymbospondylus had a very elongate body, and the head, although large taken in isolation, was unusually small relative to the overall body. As befits its primitive status, Cymbospondylus lacked the familiar dorsal fin on its back and had only a very slight tail kink. It did however have the typical ichthyosaur pointed teeth in the long, beak-like jaws. MAK990620.
Mixosaurus includes several species of small creatures about a meter in length. They are among the earliest and most primitive of the Ichthyosaurs and were the sister group of the more derived merriamosaurs. Mixosaurus remained more reptilian than fishlike in appearance, though with flippers and a small fin on the tail. It also had a small dorsal fin on the back. Mixosaurus was morphologically intermediate between Cymbospondylus and more advanced Triassic Ichthyosaurs, such as the shastasaurs. The two lineages, the mixosaurs and Cymbospondylus, actually coexisted for some ten million or so years, along with other, even more basal early ichthyosaurs such as Hupehsuchus and Parvenator. MAK990620.
Range: Early Triassic to Late Cretaceous
Phylogeny: Ichthyopterygia:: Grippidia + *. Cymbospondylus + (Mixosaurus + Merriamosauria)
Characters: Spindle-shaped body, 0.7-15.0 m; lacrimal participates in nares in most forms, but perhaps not primitive for group [C97]; largest orbit of any animal (up to 26 cm); often substantial sclerotic rings [C97]; postorbital does not participate in upper temporal fenestra [C97]; reduced cheek; strong upper temporal fenestra, but lower fenestra lost except in most basal species; supratemporal probably present primitively, but lost in many derived forms [C97a]; quadratojugal present primitively [C97]; teeth in long groove without separate alveoli in later forms; vertebral centra very short & deeply amphicoelous; neural arches separated from centra and without transverse processes(?); caudal fin in J-K species; manus 1 absent, but 2 neomorphic digits in some advanced forms; polydactyly in some, polyphalangy common and very well-developed; length of phalanges reduced; forelimbs used for steering, not propulsion; pelvic girdle not attached to spine (except Shonisaurus of the Middle Triassic); limbs reduced to steering fins; viviparous; diet varies, but squids probably common.
Links: Ichthyosaur Page Home (English & Japanese); Ichthyopterygia -- The Dinosauricon; Introduction to the Ichthyosauria; ucmp berkeley museum ab24; Ichthyosaur- Enchanted Learning Software; order61.htm; Ichthyosaur fossil discovery at Charmouth Dorset UK. (after Ryosuke Motani's page, perhaps the most useful site); Kleiner Museumsrundgang (German); Faktasider om marine øgler (Norwegian); Senckenberg Fossile Wirbeltiere der Meere (German); Marine Reptiles (NOT Dinosaurs); ICHTHYOSAURIA; Rolex Awards for Enterprise - Laureates; Water Reptiles of the Past and Present; The Fernleaf: Karen Carr; The Fernleaf: Karen Carr; Wikipedia.
Note: Phylogenetic position still controversial. There has been a good deal of activity recently, both generally at the base of the diapsids and, specifically, in Ichthyosaur phylogeny. In particular the "Ichthyopterygia" name has been dusted off and retooled to cover Hupehsuchus, Grippia, and a few others.
References: Callaway (1997) [C97]; Callaway (1997a) [C97a] . ATW020515
Range: Middle Triassic to Late Triassic of North & South America, China & Europe.
Phylogeny: Ichthyosauria: (Mixosaurus + Merriamosauria) + *.
Characters: ~10 m; small head; elongate, longirostrine jaws; relatively small orbits [C97]; tooth implantation thecodont, but with ankylosis at bottom of socket [M97]; replacement teeth lingual of functional teeth [M97]; tooth roots not expanded [M97]; rib articulations as in shastasaurs [S97]; diapophysis makes contact with the anterior margin of centrum in dorsal vertebrae [S97]; caudal "fins" absent; paddles short.
Comments: Originally included under the Shastosauridae. Cladistic analysis by Motani 1999b shows Cymbospondylus to be more basal not only relatrive to shastasaurs but even to mixosaurs, whereas in Sander's (2000) analysis Cymbospondylus is a shastasaur, and the sister-taxon to Besanosaurus. However, study of the braincase of the closely related Phantomosaurus shows it to be the most plesiomorphic (primitive, non-specialised) ichthyosaur braincase currently known (Maisch & Matzke 2006), which supports the primitive status of these animals.; sim9ilarities with shastasaurs being the result of convergence (large, elongate, marine animals) and shared primitive characteristics.
Links: Cymbospondylus; Dinosaurios; Kleiner Museumsrundgang; Dinolist; Buena Vista Museum; BBC - Sea Monsters - Cymbospondylus; Wikipedia.
References: Callaway (1997) [C97], Motani (1997) [M97]; Sander (1997) [S97]. ATW020515
Mixosaurus: Mixosaurus (= Phalarodon, Sangiorgiosaurus, Contectopalatus all per [C97])
Range: Middle Triassic of Europe & China (Tethys Sea), North America, New Zealand. [C97].
Phylogeny: Ichthyosauria:: Merriamosauria + *.
Characters: ~1 m; maxilla large (primitive) [C97]; elongated preorbital skull [C97]; lacrimal excluded from nares [C97]; frontals & nasal roughly equal size (primitive) [C97]; upper temporal fenestra very small [C97]; orbit large [C97]; postorbital cheek region very short [C97]; supratemporal present [C97a]; quadratojugal retained (primitive) [C97]; pterygoid transverse process absent in some specimens [C97]; dentition ankylosed thecodont [C97], but subthecodont anteriorly [M97]; tooth roots not expanded [M97]; rib articulations uncertain [S97]; gastralia present & well-developed, forming tightly-knit plastron [C97]; dorsal fin present; caudal "fin" little developed; scapula & coracoid very similar, coracoid less symmetrical and having sickle-shaped extension [C97]; short forefin; 4+ (5?) digits on all extremities [S97]; primitive broad, plate-like pubis & ischium [C97]; ilium short & distally broad [C97]; found in deeper waters than, e.g. nothosaurs.
Links: Treasures of the Earth Ltd. Mixosaurus Page.; Buena Vista Museum Of Natural History - Ichthyosaurs In Kern County; Fossilien aus dem Muschelkalk des Kraichgaus (German. Nice life paining & photos of vertebrae); Paleontology and Geology Glossary: Mi; Dinosaurios: Mixosaurus (Spanish); Marine Reptiles: Ichthyosaur: Mixosaurus; Kleiner Museumsrundgang (German, with photo of fossil); DinoNet - Senhores dos Mares - ICTIOSSAUROS (Portuguese); ??2 - Fishes2 (detailed pictures of poorly prepared specimens); Saurier aus der Mitteltrias des Monte San Giorgio (German, with very good picture of beautifully prepared specimen); forelasning7.pdf (Swedish -- I think); Ichthyosaur wars and marvellous mixosaurs (Darren Naish); Wikipedia
References: Callaway (1997) [C97]; Callaway (1997a) [C97a]; Motani (1997) [M97]; Sander (1997) [S97]. ATW020516.
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Your heart powers your whole body. BYJU’S kicked off World Heart Day by conducting a full-body health check-up across offices. Clad in red at the workplace to mark the day, BYJUites vowed to adopt an active lifestyle and turned up in huge numbers to get themselves checked.
An energetic Zumba session and a fun cycling workshop were also planned at the HQ to highlight the importance of adding a little workout to our daily schedule. The energy was filled with fitness vibes with these workshops planned in the midst of a hectic week.
Catch a fact: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including heart attack and stroke, have increased by over 50% from 1990 to 2016 in India owing to the sedentary lifestyle that we are leading today. How about giving the chips a break and grabbing a bite out of an apple instead? Or meditating to cope with stress? One can always start with little steps to give their heart a chance to be healthier.
Here are some small changes you can bring to your daily routine to add a dose of ‘healthy’ to your lifestyle:
It’s never too early or too late to start making health a priority. Here’s to making more #healthyheart choices!
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The trick-or-treating season is coming up and planning some spooktacular fun is a must for Halloween. Fun Halloween scavenger hunt ideas should be part of the creepy planning for this fall holiday. Check out a few of these ideas while you plan and you can be sure your guests will be howling at your party.
A scavenger hunt is always a big hit for a Halloween party and you can choose to divide into teams or groups and make the hunt easier or harder depending upon the age of guests.
One fun Halloween scavenger hunt idea for any age (but perhaps better for older kids so younger kids don't get scared) is to do a body part hunt. This can be done a number of ways. Hide plastic body parts around the party area then turn hunters loose to find enough parts to create a body. You can also disassemble a plastic skeleton and send hunters out to find all the bones. Once all bones are found, have a race to see which team can get the skeleton put back together the fastest.
Another body part hunt could be a "living" body part scavenger hunt. Make lists of body parts such as "painted fingernails," "green eyes," "streaked hair" "pierced ears" and the like then each person should go around the room getting signatures from the person who has the specific body part. The first person to collect an entire body or a specific goal is the winner.
How about a different type of body part scavenger hunt? Use the plastic skeleton's body parts to help participants find hidden clues. Tape a clue to the next item on the hunt on each body part then hide the parts around.
If you have guests who can drive (adults and teens), enlist the help of neighbors and friends who live nearby to help with this scavenger hunt. Plant items at these homes then create clues to lead teams to the homes. At the homes, teams will need to collect the item and find the clue for the next location. The first team to return to the party location wins.
A hunt in the dark with a fluorescent plastic skeleton will take the hunt to the next level. Give each group of participants a flashlight and things get a whole lot more fun and interesting for everyone.
Get creative with scavenger hunt prizes. The prizes should be age appropriate and also appropriate for the amount of work required to complete the scavenger hunt. A complicated hunt that requires driving or a lot of creative thinking should offer a more substantial prize. Consider gift cards, coupons for free ice cream or snacks at local eateries or similar goodies. For younger kids, small goodies could be prizes or perhaps a delicious snack such as pizza or ice cream could be waiting at the end of the hunt. If you divide into teams, the end of the hunt could feature a pumpkin carving contest as a fun reward for the hard work.
Be sure to include plenty of take home goodies for scavenger hunters to enjoy.
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There is nothing quite like having another Apple Campus to train a new generation of workers for Apple, building up a camaraderie which is unrivaled and being the envy of other companies along the way. Well, its does look as though the Apple Campus 2’s construction is moving along more than just fine, as it depicts a rather rapid progress which will include changes made on the main circular building’s foundation, thanks to new photos that have surfaced.
Some of these will include the rebar work which targets below grade retaining walls as well as the inclusion of interior “tunnels.” The Apple Campus 2 is said to sport the infrastructure of a spaceship, and it does look as though preparations have already been made to pour the concrete foundation, which in due time, will function as the base for the three-story building. It must be noted that the rebar work which is being associated with the retaining walls will in all probability, be paired alongside a comprehensive drainage system so that water ingress and lower level flooding can be avoided.
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Canada’s EU trade talks could fall apart
Canadian and European Union negotiators have made stunning progress toward a comprehensive Canada–EU trade agreement in the past year and a half. But the entire agreement could fall apart if narrow interests prevail, costing Canada access to a wider range of trade opportunities than most of us can imagine.
The EU wants to go big in this deal—and it is ready to go home without an agreement if only a narrow deal is on offer. But Canadian public discussion on the issue — when it exists at all — is dominated by a narrow approach. Some voices, for example, want to keep EU products, such as cheese, out of Canada; or they do not want to allow EU companies to provide services to Canadians. Media coverage tends to be narrowly focused on Canada’s exports of products to the EU. And many businesses seem unaware that we are even negotiating a deal, let alone a wide-ranging one.
In reality, the stakes in this negotiation are enormous. If there is no deal, Canadians will lose out on freer access to a deep and wide range of trade opportunities that dwarf the widely reported $35-billion in annual Canadian product exports to the EU. The Conference Board of Canada’s analysis of the full Canada–EU trade picture goes beyond the conventional measures of trade to cover a broader range of activities—including traded services and sales by Canadian affiliates in the EU. These measures reveal that Canada sells at least $150-billion worth of goods and services to the EU every year—more than four times the amount of product exports tallied in traditional export statistics.
Research In Motion’s BlackBerry further illustrates the need to think more broadly. As much as Waterloo can proudly claim the BlackBerry as local, it truly is a global product. Developed in Canada, the hundreds of components in the BlackBerry come from suppliers all over the world. RIM manufactures its new models in Canada, but once it is satisfied that it has worked out any production problems, it outsources manufacturing to lower-cost countries, such as Hungary, for sale worldwide. Moreover, the BlackBerry’s value goes beyond its components and manufacturing—the accompanying data and voice services that customers buy in the EU and worldwide represent a substantial proportion of the company’s revenues. Focusing on what we do best in Canada and what others do best elsewhere helps make RIM globally competitive—and has helped make the BlackBerry one of Canada’s few global brands. In turn, this approach allows the company to deepen its Canadian activities, and make important contributions to our economy. As the BlackBerry shows, a trade policy approach that does not recognize this wider range of interactions is out of sync with global business realities.
Canadians have much to gain from access to inputs, technologies, expertise, and products sold by EU companies. The Conference Board estimates that EU sales of goods and services to Canada are substantial—$440-billion in 2008 by our broader trade measure—and growing rapidly.
The Conference Board’s analysis also shows that Canada–EU supply chains make important contributions to each other, maintaining competitiveness through the exchange of raw materials, parts, and services. While Canada-U.S. supply chains are more integrated, their presence in each others’ chains has also plateaued. In contrast, there is growth potential in the Canada-EU relationship. A narrow trade policy stance would penalize the growth of these mutually beneficial activities.
Instead of putting Canadian negotiators into the tough position of playing defence, Ottawa and the provinces (who are also at the EU negotiating table) should give them the mandate to gain freer access to the best EU products, inputs, partnerships, collaboration, technologies, expertise, and investment. Of course, Ottawa should accompany this mandate with transitional help for people disadvantaged in the short term and safeguards to protect Canadians’ health and safety. And instead of limiting our negotiators to gaining access only for our products, we should direct them to prioritize our services trade with the EU. Barriers to Canada–EU services trade are often related to difficulties in moving people or establishing a local presence. The deal should therefore cover such issues as facilitating movements of temporary workers and opening up opportunities to invest and set up foreign affiliates.
Playing defence might protect jobs in certain sectors over the short term. But it could jeopardize the whole deal, and the associated broad range of long-term benefits that are now on a limited-time offer. To protect these benefits, forward-looking Canadian policymakers must go big — or go home empty-handed.
Danielle Goldfarb and Louis Thériault are the authors of Canada’s “Missing” Trade with the European Union, published by the Conference Board
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There are many aspects of summer to love, like the gorgeous warm weather, long evenings, and several bank holidays! When you have a garden room you can use it for many purposes in the summer months, including hosting friends and family, having your own personal gym, or creating a social space to enjoy. However, many people worry about how to control the temperature of their garden room, especially in the summer months when many houses or garden rooms get too hot to stay in. At Hawksbeck there are several ways they design their bespoke garden rooms to keep them cool in the summer.
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For, in my sense, ‘t is happiness to die.
There was death in her face; I saw it the moment we reached the refuge of our room. But I was scarcely prepared for the words which she said to me.
“Mr. Barrows and I will be buried in one grave. The waters which drowned him have gone over my head also. But before the moment comes which proves my words true, there is one thing I wish to impress upon you, and that is: That no matter what people may say, or what conjectures they may indulge in, Mr. Barrows never came to his end by any premeditation of his own. And that you may believe me, and uphold his cause in the face of whatever may arise, I will tell you something of his life and mine. Will you listen?”
Would I listen? I could not speak, but I drew up the lounge, and sitting down by her side, pressed my cheek close to hers. She smiled faintly, all unhappiness gone from her look, and in sweet, soft tones, began:
“We are both orphans. As far as I know, neither of us have any nearer relatives than distant cousins; a similarity of condition that has acted as a bond between us since we first knew and loved each other. When I came to S—— he was just settled here, a young man full of zeal and courage. Whatever the experience of his college days had been — and he has often told me that at that time ambition was the mainspring of his existence — the respect and appreciation which he found here, and the field which daily opened before him for work, had wakened a spirit of earnest trust that erelong developed that latent sweetness in his disposition which more than his mental qualities, perhaps, won him universal confidence and love.
“You have heard him preach, and you know he was not lacking in genius; but you have not heard him speak, eye to eye and hand to hand. It was there his power came in, and there, too, perhaps, his greatest temptation. For he was one for women to love, and it is not always easy to modify a naturally magnetic look and tone because the hand that touches yours is shy and white, and the glance which steals up to meet your own has within it the hint of unconscious worship. Yet what he could do he did; for, unknown, perhaps, to any one here, he was engaged to be married, as so many young ministers are, to a girl he had met while at college.
“I do not mean to go into too many particulars, Constance. He did not love this girl, but he meant to be true to her. He was even contented with the prospect of marrying her, till —— Oh, Constance, I almost forget that he is gone, and that my own life is at an end, when I think of that day, six months ago — the day when we first met, and, without knowing it, first loved. And then the weeks which followed when each look was an event, and a passing word the making or the marring of a day. I did not know what it all meant; but he realized only too soon the precipice upon which we stood, and I began to see him less, and find him more reserved when, by any chance, we were thrown together. His cheek grew paler, too, and his health wavered. A struggle was going on in his breast — a struggle of whose depth and force I had little conception then, for I dared not believe he loved me, though I knew by this time he was bound to another who would never be a suitable companion for him.
“At last he became so ill, he was obliged to quit his work, and for a month I did not see him, though only a short square separated us. He was slowly yielding to an insidious disease, some said; and I had to bear the pain of this uncertainty, as well as the secret agony of my own crushed and broken heart.
“But one morning — shall I ever forget it? — the door opened, and he, he came in where I was, and without saying a word, knelt down by my side, and drew my head forward and laid it on his breast. I thought at first it was a farewell, and trembled with a secret anguish that was yet strangely blissful, for did not the passionate constraint of his arms mean love? But when, after a moment that seemed a lifetime, I drew back and looked into his face, I saw it was not a farewell, but a greeting, he had brought me, and that we had not only got our pastor back to life, but that this pastor was a lover as well, who would marry the woman he loved.
“And I was right. In ten minutes I knew, that a sudden freak on the part of the girl he was engaged to had released him, without fault of his own, and that with this release new life had entered his veins, for the conflict was over and love and duty were now in harmony.
“Constance, I would not have you think he was an absolutely perfect man. He was too sensitively organized for that. A touch, a look that was not in harmony with his thoughts, would make him turn pale at times, and I have seen him put to such suffering by petty physical causes, that I have sometimes wondered where his great soul got its strength to carry him through the exigencies of his somewhat trying calling. But whatever his weaknesses — and they were very few — he was conscientious in the extreme, and suffered agony where other men would be affected but slightly. You can imagine his joy, then, over this unexpected end to his long pain; and remembering that it is only a month previous to the day set apart by us for our marriage, ask yourself whether he would be likely to seek any means of death, let alone such a horrible and lonesome one as that which has robbed us of him to-day?”
“No!” I burst out, for she waited for my reply. “A thousand times, no, no, no!”
“He has not been so well lately, and I have not seen as much of him as usual; but that is because he had some literary work he wished to finish before the wedding-day. Ah, it will never be finished now! and our wedding-day is to-day! and the bride is almost ready. But!” she suddenly exclaimed, “I must not go yet — not till you have said again that he was no suicide. Tell me,” she vehemently continued — “tell me from your soul that you believe he is not answerable for his death!”
“I do!” I rejoined, alarmed and touched at once by the fire in her cheek and eye.
“And that,” she went, “you will hold to this opinion in the face of all opposition! That, whatever attack men may make upon his memory, you will uphold his honor and declare his innocence! Say you will be my deputy in this, and I will love you even in my cold grave, and bless you as perhaps only those who see the face of the Father can bless!”
“Ada!” I murmured, “Ada!”
“You will do this, will you not?” she persisted. “I can die knowing I can trust you as I would myself.”
I took her cold hand in mine and promised, though I felt how feeble would be any power of mine to stop the tide of public opinion if once it set in any definite direction.
“He had no enemies,” she whispered; “but I would sooner believe he had, than that he sought this fearful spot of his own accord.”
And seemingly satisfied to have dropped this seed in my breast, she tremblingly arose, and going for her writing-desk, brought it back and laid it on the lounge by her side. “Go for Mrs. Gannon,” she said.
Mrs. Gannon was our neighbor in the next room, a widow who earned her livelihood by nursing the sick; and I was only too glad to have her with me at this time, for my poor Ada’s face was growing more and more deathly, and I began to fear she had but prophesied the truth when she said this was her wedding-day.
I was detained only a few minutes, but when I came back with Mrs. Gannon, I found my room-mate writing.
“Come!” said she, in a voice so calm, my companion started and hastily looked at her face for confirmation of the fears I had expressed; “I want you both to witness my signature.”
With one last effort of strength she wrote her name, and then handed the pen to Mrs. Gannon, who took it without a word.
“It is my will,” she faintly smiled, watching me as I added my name at the bottom. “We have had to do without lawyers, but I don’t think there will be any one to dispute my last wishes.” And taking the paper in her hand, she glanced hastily at it, then folded it, and handed it back to me with a look that made my heart leap with uncontrollable emotion. “I can trust you,” she said, and fell softly back upon the pillow.
“You had better go for Dr. Farnham,” whispered Mrs. Gannon in my ear, with an ominous shake of her head.
And though I felt it to be futile, I hastened to comply.
But Dr. Farnham was out, attending to a very urgent case, I was told; and so, to my growing astonishment and dismay, were Dr. Spaulding and Dr. Perry. I was therefore obliged to come back alone, which I did with what speed I could; for I begrudged every moment spent away from the side of one I had so lately learned to love, and must so soon lose.
Mrs. Gannon met me at the door, and with a strange look, drew me in and pointed towards the bed. There lay Ada, white as the driven snow, with closed eyes, whose faintly trembling lids alone betokened that she was not yet fled to the land of quiet shadows. At her side was a picture of the man she loved, and on her breast lay a bunch of withered roses I could easily believe had been his last gift. It was a vision of perfect peace, and I could not but contrast it with what my imagination told me must have been the frenzied anguish of that other death.
My approach, though light, disturbed her. Opening her eyes, she gave me one long, long look. Then, as if satisfied, she softly closed them again, breathed a little sigh, and in another moment was no more.
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Via is shifting its x86 CPU technologies and related personnel to its newly formed IC design joint venture with a China government-owned investment firm.
The company just surprised clients with a note in the mail saying that they will be pausing the sale of the x86 processors temporarily. Now it seems that the reason was that they have the removal men in.
Digitimes said that Via declined to comment about the news and pointed out that its x86 CPU business is still going so what is everyone worried about.
The venture with the Chinese was announced in early 2014 with Via owning a 20 per cent stake in the company. If Via is moving to China then the Chinese government can get its paws on x86 technologies to develop related products.
Via has been pushing its CPU products in China for many years, mainly targeting the white-box market. A move might indicate that Via may no longer release processors under its name and will instead use the name of the joint venture in the future.
The company’s x86 CPU business is licensed by Intel and moving related resources to a new joint venture might raise an eyebrow at Chipzilla’s HQ. However, the chip giant may not be able to do much because Intel reached an agreement with the US’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) in 2010 to not interfere with competition in the CPU and chipset markets, and extend its licensing of PCI Express to Via by at least another six years.
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The Post Office has revealed that it is now the UK's largest retailer open on a Sunday, with 3,800 branches trading seven days a week.
A recent transformation of the business has resulted in thousands of sites offering longer opening hours with the number open on Sundays up by 1,000 since 2013.
Research by the postal retailer found that nearly a third of people are more likely to use their local branch if it was open on a Sunday.
"I'm delighted that millions of people across the UK can now access Post Office services seven days a week. We are building a secure financial footing to maintain our services at the heart of communities for the future" said Kevin Gilliland, Post Office Network and Sales Director.
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While Microsoft PowerPoint is considered as the only presentation application in the MS Office suite, we can also use other Office apps for this purpose. This might not only be a convenient method of presenting your ideas but may also be desirable. While you can add videos via embed code and from a local drive to PowerPoint, some documents may contain lengthy text which may be more suitable for presentation purposes using Microsoft Word. You can accompany such a presentation with a video or video presentation to present your ideas more efficiently.
In this post we will show you how to insert YouTube Videos in Microsoft Word to use it as a presentation tool. This method may also be useful when you don’t have MS PowerPoint installed on your computer or might require sending wordy documents with a video presentation to someone. In such a case sending a MS Word document may seem more reasonable than multiple PowerPoint slides.
To insert videos from YouTube and other video streaming websites go to Insert-> Online Video.
This will display options to search videos via YouTube, Bing Video Search or to add an embed code to add a video. In case you don’t see the YouTube option, go to File->Account-> Images & Videos and select YouTube.
Enter a search term to search your desired video, select it and click insert. You can use the same method to add videos to MS Word from other sources as well, such as by using the Bing Video Search feature to find online videos from websites like DailyMotion and Vimeo.
To present your ideas and presentations you can create a document with the help of videos, text and images in Microsoft Word. You can even upload your own tutorials, screencasts, product demos and later insert them to MS Word.
When a video is played from MS Word, the rest of the screen will be blurred out which can be effective in presenting (video) presentations like a PowerPoint slideshow.
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1Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others do, epistles of commendation concerning us written to you, or that you should write commending us? 2You are our letter, written in our hearts, well known and read by all men. 3For you are known to be the letter of Mashi’akh ministered by us, written not with ink, but with HaRu’akh of the living Elohim; not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of the heart of flesh. 4Such is HaEmunah that we have through Mashi’akh toward Elohim. 5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our strength comes from Elohim, 6who has made us worthy to be ministers of a Brit Khadashah; not of the writing, but of HaRu’akh; for the writing punishes with Mavet, but HaRu’akh gives Khayim. 7Now if the ministration of Mavet contained in writing on stones was so glorious that B’nei Yisra’el could not look at the face of Moshe because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was not lasting, 8why then shall not the ministration of HaRu’akh be more glorious? 9For if there is glory in the ministration of condemnation, much more will the ministration of tzedaka exceed in glory. 10Just as that which was not glorious became glorified; in comparison with that, this excels in glory. 11For if that which was not lasting was glorious, much more glorious will that be which endures.
12Seeing, therefore, that we have such hope, we conduct ourselves bravely; 13and not as Moshe, who put a veil over his face so that B’nei Yisra’el might not look upon the fullness of the glory which was not lasting. 14But their minds were blinded; for to this day, when the ancient Brit is read, the same veil rests over them, and it is not known to them that the veil has been removed through Mashi’akh. 15But even to this day, whenever the books of Moshe are read, the veil is upon their hearts. 16Nevertheless, whenever a man turns to יהוה , the veil is taken away. 17Now יהוה is that very Ru’akh; and where HaRu’akh יהוה is, there is liberty. 18But we all, with open faces, see as in a mirror the Kavod יהוה , and we shall be transformed into the same likeness, from one glory to another, just as HaRu’akh comes from יהוה .
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Tensions escalated in Kosovo on Monday, when Kosovar Pristina government sent in commandos to seize two northern border crossings with Serbia. Serbia does not recognize Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008, and bans exports from Kosovo. Kosovo had decided to retaliate by blocking Serbian goods from entering Kosovo.
The problem was that these border crossings are in the area dominated by the Serb minority population. Responding to international pressure, Kosovo announced that its commandos had withdrawn from the crossings..
Serbian President Boris Tadic, who has just obtained good will by extraditing suspected Serbian war criminals, vowed to refrain from force and put pressure on the EU to intervene.
However, he warned that he was bucking domestic opinion that wanted Serbia to react differently. "In Serbia there are political parties and individuals who believe that there is now a need to enter the conflict, to start new wars and new violence."
Tadic complained to the EU that the border crossing action by the Kosovar police was counterproductive to dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.
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A report from the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) study has shown that training to improve the cognitive abilities of older people has lasting effects. The ACTIVE study is one of many ongoing research projects supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR).
The findings of this randomized clinical trial showed that training involving the ability to think and learn lasted as long as 10 years after the training program was completed.
The 2,832 people who volunteered for the ACTIVE study were divided into three training groups and a control group. The training groups were for memory, reasoning and speed-of-processing. The groups that were in training participated in ten sessions lasting approximately an hour for five to six weeks. Researchers measured the effects for each specific cognitive exercise immediately following the training sessions and again at one, two, three, five and 10 years following the training.
Referring to the study, NINR Director Patricia Grady, Ph.D. said, “ACTIVE is an important example of intervention research aimed at enabling older people to maintain their cognitive abilities as they age. The average age of the individuals who have been followed over the last 10 years is now 82. Given our nation’s aging population, this type of research is an increasingly high priority.”
All groups showed some decline from their baseline tests in memory, reasoning and speed of processing over the past decade. However, according to NINR, the participants who had training in reasoning and speed of processing experienced less decline than those in the memory and control groups.
The volunteers in training groups also had less difficulty performing everyday tasks than the subjects in the control group. These results suggest that dementia experts should consider cognitive training as an intervention that might help maintain the mental abilities of older people so that they can remain independent and in the community for a longer period of time.
The report from the ACTIVE study appears in the January 2014 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Reading a Novel Improves the Brain
It’s not just our imagination. Reading novels can improve our brains.
Neuroscientists at Emory University in Atlanta found in their research that reading a novel makes changes in the way the brain connects different circuits and these changes last for at least five days. While five days doesn’t suggest any permanent change, it does suggest that the rewards of reading aren’t purely that of entertainment and the benefits last long after the reader has discovered what happens at the end of the book.
According to a report on ABC News, Emory's University’s Gregory Berns and his colleagues put 21 students through an fMRI for about 30 minutes a day for 19 days to collect their data. During the experiment the participants read the 2003 novel, "Pompeii," by Robert Harris, based on the destruction of that city by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The student’s brains were scanned for each of five days before reading the book and for five days after they had finished. During the intermittent nine days they read one chapter each evening before being scanned the following morning.
The result? The brain scans revealed a sharp spike in two neural networks after the first chapter of the book and the benefit continued throughout the rest of the experiment including the five days after the reading ended.
Both of these studies seem to point to the accuracy of the conventional wisdom that keeping one’s brain active for life may help some people avoid, or at least put off, the symptoms of dementia.
National Institutes of Health (2013, January 13) Cognitive training shows staying power. Retrieved from http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jan2014/nia-13.htm
Dye, L. (2014, January 12) How Reading a Novel Can Improve the Brain. Retrieved from http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/reading-improve-brain/story?id=21501657
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Through Štanjel through time
Štanjel is one of the oldest settlements in the Karst. Due to its strategic location, the Turn hill, on which the terraced settlement is spread today, has been inhabited since prehistoric times.
Invisible traces from the Bronze and Iron Ages, when Štanjel was a prehistoric hillfort, protected by stone walls, will be revealed to you by the virtual boy Aviko. The boy from prehistory will guide you through the points, marked with a special QR code, and walk you Through Štanjel through time.
- Self-guided tour of Štanjel with the help of an application downloaded at the Tourist Information Centre Štanjel.
- Walk through eight points, guided by an avatar.
- Discovery of prehistoric Štanjel from the Bronze and Iron Ages when there was a hillfort.
- Visit to the village square with the Karst House and the well.
- Getting to know about life in a prehistoric hillfort.
- Visit to the prehistoric Štanjel acropolis with the Gledanica tower, which offers views of landscapes ranging from the mountains to the sea.
- Visit of the remains of the northern tower.
A guided tour in the company of a local tourist guide:
- Adults: EUR 3.00/person
- School groups (primary, secondary school and university), pensioners*: EUR 2.50/person
- Extra fee for a guide for groups of fewer than 50 people: EUR 60.
* proof of status must be presented
Possible surcharges in case of self-guided tour:
- Rental of a tablet for a self-guided tour with Aviko, the boy from prehistory, for 2 hours for up to 6 people: € 20.
- Rental of a tablet for a self-guided tour with Aviko, the boy from prehistory, for 2 hours for up to 6 people, and one prehistoric souvenir: € 34.
- Deposit: € 100 or reservation of funds (note: The deposit is non-refundable in case of damage or theft of the tablet)
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Bloom where you are planted.
A high school friend of mine once gave me a gift bearing this advice. I’ve long since lost the flowery picture the words were printed on, but this small seed of wisdom imbedded in my heart long ago firmly took root down through the years.
I haven’t always followed this counsel, mind you. I’ve had dry seasons when I wasn’t much good to anybody. During those times I did not grow or offer the people God placed in my life any beauty or joy. I allowed myself to be fooled into thinking it was easier to droop, to withdraw from the warm light of human connection than to do the risky, hard work of living and loving – looking up, reaching out, giving and receiving.
By God’s design, after such a drought my thirst brought me back to the spring of all fresh, living water. And the Bible reminded me why I was planted here in the first place:
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself…do this and you will live.” Luke 10:27-28.
Love God and love people – the two laws that Jesus said trump all the others. This, Jesus was saying, is what it means to bloom where you are planted.
The way to love God is to love other people, people who are just like you – imperfect, fragile, pig-headed, selfish, abrasive, disappointing, rude, wrong, weird, proud, and occasionally, hopefully ever-increasingly, loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, good, gentle, faithful, and self-controlled. And how do we love? By treating others how we wish they would treat us. Luke 6:31.
The happiest people I know bloom where they are planted. Regardless of their circumstances, they bring life, beauty and joy to their work places, families and friendships. It matters not whether they are rich or poor in the eyes of the world, diseased or healthy, young or old. Bloomers feed and water the soil of their own hearts so that they can in turn nurture the souls of others and, in so doing, are blessed.
Today, whether our sky is blue or dreary, let’s turn our faces toward the Son and bloom!
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Monday, August 18, 2014
The shooting incident in a St. Louis suburb is still under investigation, and just over half of Americans are not sure yet whether the police officer involved is guilty of murdering a black teenager. But most blacks have already made up their minds that the policeman should be found guilty. Blacks are also more convinced that the violent protests since the shooting occurred are mostly legitimate outrage rather than criminal activity.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 23% of all American Adults believe the police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri should be found guilty of murder. Twenty-six percent (26%) think he was acting in self-defense. Fifty-one percent (51%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Fifty-seven percent (57%) of black adults, however, think police officer Darren Wilson should be found guilty of murder, compared to just 17% of whites and 24% of other minority Americans. Most whites (56%) and a plurality (49%) of other minorities are undecided.
A similar racial divide could be seen throughout the trial of George Zimmerman who shot and killed a black teenager in Florida in 2012 and was subsequently found not guilty in a jury trial.
When it comes to the mob violence that has occurred in Ferguson since the shooting, 25% of Americans think it has been primarily legitimate outrage over what happened. But 52% think it has been mostly criminals taking advantage of the situation. Another 23% are not sure. The Missouri State Police and the state National Guard have been called in to deal with the ongoing violence in Ferguson.
While most whites (54%) and other minority Americans (53%) believe the violence has been chiefly criminals taking advantage of the situation, just 35% of blacks agree. Slightly more (41%) think the mob violence has been primarily legitimate outrage, a view shared by 24% of whites and 21% of other minorities. Roughly a quarter of all three groups are undecided.
The national telephone survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted by Rasmussen Reports on August 15-16, 2014. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Fieldwork for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
But Americans across the board give mixed reviews to the police response to the mob violence in Ferguson and also question the militarization of the local police on display in the days since the shooting. Twenty-seven percent (27%) think the police response was good or excellent, while just as many (28%) rate it as poor.
Men and those 40 and over give the police response higher positive marks than women and younger voters do. Blacks are more than twice as likely as whites and other minority adults to rate the police response as poor.
Thirty-one percent (31%) of all Americans favor the use of military-grade weapons and equipment by their local police, but a plurality (46%) is opposed. A sizable 23% are not sure. Adults of all races have similar reservations about the show of police force on display in Ferguson this past week.
Fifty-four percent (54%) of Democrats and 50% of those not affiliated with either major party oppose the use of military-grade weapons and equipment by the police. A plurality (45%) of Republicans thinks it's a good idea.
Just 19% of all voters think it would be good for America if only government officials like police officers and the military were allowed to have guns. More than ever (72%) think that would be bad for the nation.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Americans have been following recent news reports about the police shooting in the St. Louis suburb, but only 30% say they’ve been following Very Closely. Blacks are following much more closely than whites and other minority adults.
Only 34% of Americans now rate race relations in the United States as good or excellent. Just 31% think those relations are getting better. Only 16% of voters think life for young black Americans has gotten better since President Obama’s election in November 2008, while 22% believe it’s gotten worse.
Forty-six percent (46%) think the U.S. justice system is fair to black and Hispanic Americans, but 36% disagree. However, 80% of black voters think the system is unfair to minorities.
In some areas of the country, police officers wear body-worn cameras (BWCs) mainly to monitor their practices and interactions with the public. Just over half of all voters nationwide like the idea of police officers wearing cameras, but a plurality thinks it wouldn’t have much impact on crime.
Eighteen percent (18%) of Americans think the tactics used by police officers where they live are too harsh, but nearly as many (15%) think those tactics aren’t harsh enough. Most (57%) say the tactics used by local law enforcement are about right. Fifty-one percent (51%) think America needs more cops.
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What is bradycardia arrhythmia
Bradycardia arrhythmia, also known as bradycardia, is an abnormally slow heart rate of less than 60 beats per minute. Slow heart rates can be considered normal in highly athletic, healthy people.
If symptomatic bradycardia is left untreated, it can lead to fainting, seizures or even death.
Causes of bradycardia arrhythmia
Bradycardia can be caused by a variety of conditions including:
- Coronary artery disease
- Heart attack
- Endocarditis or myocarditis
- Electrolyte imbalance
Bradycardia can also be caused by medications that are used to treat heart disease.
Risk factors for bradycardia arrhythmia
Bradycardia occurs more frequently in older adults who have damaged heart tissue. Conditions that put you at an increased risk for heart disease also increase your risk of developing bradycardia.
Illicit drug use and smoking can also put you at high risk of developing bradycardia.
Symptoms of bradycardia arrhythmia
Some people do not feel any symptoms of bradycardia.
If you do experience symptoms, they may include:
- Shortness of breath
- Feeling tired
- Trouble concentrating
- Chest pain
Diagnosis of bradycardia arrhythmia
Bradycardia can be diagnosed by your primary care doctor in a physical exam. Your doctor will take your pulse and ask questions about your medical history or activity level.
In some cases, your doctor may order more advanced cardiac tests including:
- Electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) – measures electrical impulses of the heart
- Holter monitor (cardiac event monitor) – records your electrical rhythm during your daily routine
- Blood tests – can show other underlying conditions
- Exercise stress test – diagnostic test that evaluates the heart under stress (while exercising), typically while running on a treadmill
Treatment for bradycardia arrhythmia
If you are not experiencing symptoms of bradycardia, you are not typically treated. If you are experiencing symptoms, treatment will vary based upon what is causing the condition. Your doctor will typically start by diagnosing what might be causing the slow heart rate, such as hypothyroidism.
If the medication you are taking for an underlying condition is causing your slow heart rate, your doctor may discuss alternative medication choices.
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Hello Everyone... I'm kind of a computer networking newbie. Currently, I have a couple of PC's wired up to a Linksys Cable/DSL Router, and the Router is wired to a DSL modem. Recently, I discovered that a notebook PC with some kind of a built-in wireless Internet connection picks up a signal at this location. I can surf the web and check my e-mail on their notebook PC with no wires attached! My question is this: what kind of a box can I plug into the Router (instead of connecting the DSL modem) that will make my little home network pick up that same mysterious signal? I recently purchased a Linksys Wireless G Ethernet Bridge to try to accomplish this, but I think I bought the wrong thing. Any ideas? | <urn:uuid:e5db900c-68de-48e1-afe9-5a076a9d438d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/wireless-internet-question.20233/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00267-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953775 | 157 | 1.570313 | 2 |
I’ve always intuitively known that one of the better, free stress reduction tools at our disposal is just a good ol’ fashioned dose of being out in Mother Nature. But for the first time, researchers from the University of Michigan have identified and are recommending a “nature prescription”–a specific dose of time for sitting or walking in nature (called a “nature pill” by the researchers).
I’ll let the lead researcher, Dr. MaryCarol Hunter, share the specific recommendation:
We know that spending time in nature reduces stress, but until now it was unclear how much is enough, how often to do it, or even what kind of nature experience will benefit us. Our study shows that for the greatest payoff, in terms of efficiently lowering levels of the stress hormone cortisol, you should spend 20 to 30 minutes sitting or walking in a place that provides you with a sense of nature.
More specifically, just 20 minutes is enough to significantly drop cortisol levels (cortisol being your body’s main stress hormone), but 20-30 minutes drops these levels at the greatest rate. The researchers noted that the benefit comes from sitting or walking in nature, not running/aerobically exercising (which influences stress) and that it should exclude any conversations, reading, or social media.
Just imagine: 25 minutes strolling on your favorite nature trail, without another soul in site, and no sounds but the lightly swirling wind through the trees and the occasional rustling of leaves or chirping of a bird. And did I mention no co-workers?
I get it. This is one chill pill I can swallow.
Of course, I also get that there’s the matter of when you can get around to it. All I can say is that it’s critical to make time for it (and for your health in general).
Perhaps the single best benefit from my decision to leave the corporate world to become an entrepreneur is the flexibility that comes with it. I now build exercise into my day, one day doing weights and cardio indoors, one day doing weights and a walk in nature. I think of it as a total mind and body exercise program.
I can tell you first-hand that the stress reduction from regularly being out in nature for even just 20-30 minutes is very real. So, I thank the University of Michigan for confirming it and institutionalizing it with an actual recommended dose.
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Opuwo - Namibia
The Ohakane Lodge is named after the Ovahimba word for the African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus). This wild animal has recently been added to the list of endangered species in Namibia, after having been hunted virtually to extinction. The Wild Dog has incredible stamina. It is known for its tenacity and excellent group hunting skills and is sometimes called the clown of the carnivores, on account of its colourful, patched fur.
The thatched main building houses the restaurant, bar and lounge, with a small swimming pool set invitingly only a few feet away. Breakfast and dinner are served buffet-style and a mid-day meal can be ordered from their set lunch menu. A laundry service is also available.
There are 13 en-suite, air-conditioned rooms. Mosquito repellent is available on request.
Visit a Himba settlement and learn about the lifestyle of these nomadic people. Half, full day and night Himba village excursions can be taken. Ohakane Lodge's experienced guides will lead you off the beaten track, showing you the harsh beauty of Kaokoland and its fragile environment.
There is a transportation and tour-guide service for fly-in visitors.
Through the sale of T-shirts in the curio shop, Ohakane Lodge supports a WWF research programme on the African Wild Dog, which aims at ensuring the species' survival.
- Cultural excursion
- Visit a Himba settlement and learn about the lifestyle of Namibia's last nomadic tribe.
- Guided excursion
- Guided 4 x 4 camping trips into Kaokoland can be organized.
A tented camp on the banks of the Kunene River close to Epupa Falls and Himba settlements
A rustic option but closest situated to Epupa Falls, this site previously only provided campsites, but recently added rooms on stilts overlooking the river and falls
On the border between Kaokoland and Damaraland this fort was built at the same time as the fort of Namutoni in Etosha
On a hill above the Kunene river, the lodge has tremendous views of the surrounding area and looks towards the Epupa Falls
An excellent base from which to explore the Kaokoland area
n great lodge in a remote location on the banks of the Kunene River, for those interesting in birding, relaxing or river rafting this lodge is an absolute must. Undoubtedly one of our favourite out of the way lodges
A campsite near the village of Opuwo
One of the oldest lodges in the Kaokoland area, from here guest can visit Himba villages and other areas of interest in Kaokoland
Near the tiny settlement of Puros, this luxury lodge offers you the ability to search for the desert adapted elephants
On a hillside overlooking the Kunene River this small intimate camp offers accommodation for a maximum of 14 people.
A comfortable tented camp, on the banks of the Kunene River, close to the Epupa falls
On the outskirts of Opuwo with has beautiful views over Kaokoland -a real desert oasis
Up-market luxury safari camp in a spectacuar setting overlooking the Kunene River. A range of activities are included and a highlight is a visit to the local Himba community
To make the booking process as user friendly as possible we offer 2 ways to make a booking from this website:
- The book or enquire button allows you to add multiple properties to an enquiry & in conjunction with the interactive online Namibia map it can be used to plan and book your entire Namibian trip. Once added to the shopping cart / itinerary planner properties which have online availability can be paid for and booked immediately while those without online functionality will be sent to us for processing.
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Enterprises Still Failing to Cut Data Center Power, Cooling Costs
NEWS ANALYSIS: Many enterprises are failing to get serious about reducing data center power and cooling costs, which means they aren't doing their part to reduce carbon emissions.When it comes to energy conservation, sustainability and saving the planet, a lot of people are getting on the bandwagon, even Pope Francis. But when it comes to enterprise data centers, not so much. A recent survey by IDC of data center power and cooling trends in the enterprise shows that, unlike their big brothers in the Web-scale world, most traditional enterprises are not running at the most efficient levels and that is costing them countless dollars while continuing to put strains on the power grid and the environment. The survey of 404 enterprise data center managers (data centers with a minimum of 1,000 square feet and 100 servers) showed power and cooling costs, along with IT infrastructure itself, make up the largest share of data center budgets, both at 24 percent. With a mean budget of $1.2 million, that puts power and cooling costs at about $300,000 annually on average. More significantly, the survey showed that most of those data centers are not running at peak efficiency. The typical measure of this is PUE, or power usage effectiveness, which is a ratio of power coming into the data center to how it's being distributed across the IT workload, according to IDC Research Manager Kelly Quinn, who presented the data in a recent webcast.
A PUE of 1.0 is considered very efficient, while anything between 2.0 and 3.0 is considered very inefficient. "When you get to PUE ratios at 2 and above, you are looking at a massive amount of power going not just to the IT side of the house but also to the facilities side," she said. | <urn:uuid:1d9a511f-d04b-43c1-81bd-74afeee3f62c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.eweek.com/it-management/enterprises-still-failing-to-cut-data-center-power-cooling-costs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719547.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00395-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957557 | 373 | 2.046875 | 2 |
House cleaning is one of most essential, yet the toughest task for any women. Generally, it takes more time in sweeping than mopping the floor. So as to effectively clean your house, with minimal efforts, it is important that you choose the best broom or mop. These days, many types of floor brooms are available in the market. These are made of different types of materials and come in different shapes.
The different types of brooms based on materials are as follows:
Corn broom: These are historic classic models, which are best to clean the large amount of dirt particles. These are used in cleaning indoors, outdoor walkways and in many other places. These are made with corn fibers, which include several pieces of grass. That is the reason; these are called as natural, environment friendly tool. These corn brooms are available in different sizes depending on your needs. These are designed with dense fibers for cleaning heavy wastage areas like bigger halls, factories and many other places. While for cleaning house, smaller options are available. These can work better on rough surfaces and remove all dirt particles.
Synthetic Bristol broom: These are densely packed and offer flexible options while cleaning the floor. These are made with synthetic bristles and can easily catch the tiny dirt particles on the floor. These are ideal brooms to clean the surfaces of kitchens, halls, living rooms and bathrooms.
Apart from these materials, brooms are made with wood, aluminum and plastic handles. Wooden handles are bit heavy; however they provide stability when cleaning the floors and walls. Where aluminum and plastic handles are lighter when compare to wooden handle and easier to break. There are many other types based on styles.
Flat: These are evenly trimmed to have flat bottoms. These are generally made with wooden handles. These flats styles are good for cleaning open floor areas.
Push: These are good choice for cleaning large outdoor areas like garages, work rooms and many other places. These are thicker and wider than other types of brooms.
Wisk: After cleaning the floor form the large ones, it is difficult to through the dust in dustbin. These wisk styles brooms are helpful in sweeping the dust in dustbin. These are smaller in size.
Angled: These are good to clean the corners of the house. They have the bristles which have cut on an angle.
All these floor brooms are good for both indoor and outdoor cleaning. You may also require them in large areas to clean all the wastage.
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•Cereal production reached an exceptionally high level of 2.8 million tonnes in 2012, due to favourable weather conditions and government incentives, which represented an increase of 14% compared to 2011.
•Food prices increased by 1.4% between September and December 2012. The price of bread and potato increased but remained below last year’s levels.
•The prevalence of poverty continued to decrease in 2012 (6.0%) and reached a minimum in the decade.
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Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/20/2002
Publication Date: 6/4/2002
Citation: RICHARDS, G.P. THE EVOLUTION OF MOLLUSCAN SHELLFISH SAFETY. MEETING ABSTRACT. 2002. p.78 Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: Molluscan shellfish represent one of the few animals frequently eaten raw or only lightly cooked. Since they are filter feeders, able to concentrate contaminants from the water within their edible tissues, they have been widely associated with outbreaks of illness. Heavy metals, petroleum hydrocarbons, pesticides, marine toxins, and microbial contaminants have compromised shellfish safety throughout the world. Microbial contaminants are the focus of this presentation. Regulations involving the harvesting and processing of shellfish have become important factors in reducing the threat of human illness. Implementation of coliform standards has significantly reduced the incidence of shellfish- borne typhoid fever and other illnesses worldwide, while shellfish depuration has shown benefits as a processing strategy to reduce microbial loads in shellfish. Microbial concerns surrounding shellfish safety in most developed countries today center around the presence of human enteric viruses and Vibrio species. Substantial progress has been made in developing methods to detect viruses like hepatitis A and the Norwalk-like viruses from shellfish while new and improved methods for the detection of pathogenic Vibrio species are available. Processing methods continue to evolve, demonstrating limitations in classical techniques, such as depuration, and advantages to new methods, like high hydrostatic pressure inactivation of microorganisms. The rapid pace of advances in the development of processing techniques and analytical methods for detecting microbial pathogens provide optimism that the safety of raw shellfish, at least from a microbiological standpoint, may be more certain in the foreseeable future. | <urn:uuid:51bc0756-3e52-4def-8c6d-316f9beba3ff> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?seqNo115=130247 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00292-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91947 | 380 | 2.65625 | 3 |
From the publisher:
A kid-sized explorer's guide to faith and life
The Radical Book for Kids is a fun-filled explorer's guide to the Bible, church history, and life for boys and girls age 8 and up. Along with examining some of the most exciting realities in the universe, the handbook is vibrantly illustrated and chock-full of fun facts and ideas. Deep truths are communicated to elementary and middle-school aged kids while stimulating their curiosity and sense of adventure within a gospel-centered framework.
This power-packed book is "radical" in more ways than you might think! It is "radical" in the sense of the original meaning of the word, "going to the root or origin." The Radical Book for Kids will take children on a fascinating journey into the ancient roots of the Christian faith. But it's also "radical" in the more modern sense of being revolutionary. Kids read about men and women who learned to trust Jesus and stand for him---displaying radical faith---even when everything seemed against them.
But The Radical Book for Kids is also "radical"---meaning fun or cool---in the eyes of a child. Kids read about ancient weapons (and how to make one), learn about jewels, create pottery, discover ancient languages, use secret codes, locate stars, tell time using the sun, play a board game that's 3,000 years old---and more.
Check out the table of contents, skip around, or read straight through. However a child chooses to explore it, The Radical Book for Kids will open new vistas for their imagination and help to make straight paths for their feet.
Our thoughts:We are really enjoying this book! We sit down and go through one chapter in a sitting. I have all my at-home kids involved. Two (ages 10 and 12) are in the intended age range for the product, which is recommended for ages 8-14. My 16- and 17-year-olds are sitting in on it too.
The book covers a lot of different topics, most of which are familiar to us. We've covered a lot of apologetics and the like over the years, though. One thing we really love about this particular book, though, is that the information is presented in a way that makes sense for younger kids, and we are free to pull out some of our other resources to dig in a bit deeper. The 67 chapters in this book give us a good outline to cover many important topics.
One topic coming up has to do with time in the Bible. They talk about a couple of scripture references such as, "about the third hour" from Matthew 20:3, or "in the second watch" from Luke 12:38. What do those actually mean? I knew that the hours started counting at sunrise, so "about the third hour" would be about three hours after the sun came up. But the details of all of that? I certainly did not grasp that an hour did not necessarily mean 60 minutes in the same way our time does. And I never quite grasped the whole "watch" thing. Like -- did you know that the Jewish people divided the night hours into three watches, while the Romans had four? So what time the second watch is would depend on whether it was a Jewish watch or a Roman one.
If you have not done much in terms of the roots of our faith, you really should look into this book. And if these are topics you have covered, I think you'll still find information in here that is new. Or you can use it like we are, as a roughly four month outline of study. We're averaging four chapters a week, so that gives us about seventeen weeks of material.
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Add column/dataitem to analysis
Columns (or dataitems) are organized per tab. See add tab.
To add a column, go to the “analysis” page. Click “data extraction”, open one of the tabs by clicking. Now click the white box with the “+” icon. Check the column(s) you want to add and click “Add selection”.
If the desired column is not available, click “Create new dataitem”. Fill out the name and type (columntypes) for the new column and click “Add new dataitem”.
To configure a column, go to the “analysis” page. Click “data extraction”, open one of the tabs by clicking. Find the column and click on the “gear” icon.
For each column you can set whether you want the column to be extracted double blind and if you want a SD to SE and reverse calculator to show up. For RoB columns you can set a decision tree as image and add bias questions. For continuous outcomes you can configure the measures of central tendency and the measures of variability that are allowed to be extracted.
Each column has a type. The type helps you extract data in a handy format. The following types are currently present:
- zero-decimal (integer)
- small text
- dichtomous outcome
- continuous outcome
- big text
- dichtomous outcome (percentage)
Add tab to analysis
Each analysis can have multiple tabs. The “search strategy” and “screening” tab are always present. Other tabs can be added and removed at your own discretion.
To create a tab, go to the “analyses” page. Click “data extraction”, click on the grey box with the “+” icon. Check the tab(s) you want to add and click “Add selection”. If the desired tab is not available, click “Create new tab”. Give the tab a name and type (tabtypes) and click “Add new tab”.
Each tab has a type, the type determines the structure of the tab. E.g., the “trial” tab has 1 row per study, but the “arms” tab can have as many rows per study as needed. The following tab types are available at the moment:
- per study
- per publication
- per arm per study
- per subgroup per study
- bias per outcome per study
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While you would still want 10% of something rather than 100% of nothing, you can see how this could deplete your capital rather quickly.
My partner and I met such a young man at a conference. He had a sarcastic personality when we described what we were doing. As we realized that we were each in a different space, it was loosened. His exhausted behavior indicated what we were already feeling. He was beaten. He said, "Try to avoid money if you can because eventually your business will not become the business you envisioned when you had this great idea. It was a tale of warning as tense as the March ideas.
And that's why we believe, if you can find one, a strategic partnership may be the best way forward. Here is a very good introduction: 4 tips to go further, faster with strategic partnerships
In a perfect world, your strategic partner should bring his expertise to an area you do not currently have.
What do you get?
By forming a strategic partnership with a brand larger than you, you get a "street credit". The idea that a large company has approved you and your system, and they think it would be an interesting venture for them.
You also have their expertise. Presumably, they have done what they have done for a long time, or at least longer than you have. They will also have a lot more resources to make the expertise you need, the economies of scale to do it at a lower cost, and the power of purchase should require you to buy things, like the advertising space.
What do they get?
They have an investment. They took the time, did their market research, and see a reason to take a calculated risk on you. If you are successful, they benefit from the investment made in you. If you succeed, they will also get you an account (in all the services they provide) for the future. it is a continuous income stream thanks to the services rendered.
So while all strategic partnerships are different, when they are properly structured, they constitute a win-win scenario for both companies involved.
This article originally appeared on The Whole Magilla and was written by Chris Meyer, co-founder of MagillaLoans.com
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Perspectives in Regional Geological Synthesis
Prepared at the outset of the Decade of North American Geology (DNAG) project, this volume contains the preview statements and/or annotated outlines describing the organization of geological information for the volumes of regional geology in the Geology of North America, which was published as part of the DNAG project.
The Eastern Pacific and Hawaii
Published:January 01, 1982
This volume will synthesize and describe the geology of the eastern northern Pacific Ocean Basin, a particularly large, variable, and dynamic region that is far less studied than most continental areas. Interpretation of the geology and geophysics of oceanic regions has been remarkably useful for elucidating the geometry and history of large-scale tectonics, especially lithospheric plate tectonics. Because it is accomplished by remote sensing techniques that generalize sea-floor structures and features, the structural complexities that are observed onshore at road-cut scales are smoothed out in marine studies. Thus, in many ways the success of marine studies is that they... | <urn:uuid:22471b63-4e3c-4c4c-a4bd-1e4985bb1f6c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/845/chapter-abstract/4855608/The-Eastern-Pacific-and-Hawaii?redirectedFrom=fulltext | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.922901 | 224 | 2.125 | 2 |
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