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Welcome to GOLD RUSH! The game takes place in 1848, and begins in
Brooklyn Heights, New York. Your name is Jerrod Wilson, you work in a
newspaper office, and you're not very satisfied with life. The object
of the game is to travel from New York to California and strike it
You have exactly 14 minutes from the time the game starts until the
gold rush begins. When this happens, your possessions drop in value
and prices skyrocket. Therefore, you must have completed all your
transactions before then. It is advisable just to walk around and
learn the location of everything, then restart the game.
There are three routes to California. Depending on which route you
take, you must accumulate different items in Brooklyn. Ready for
adventure? Okay, let's go!
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: YOUR HOUSE
You start the game on a bridge facing east. Cross the bridge, and go
down the screen. Your house is on the corner. Unlock the gate and
door, and go inside. Look at the album on the table. Get the family
picture that brings back all those memories. Go over to the desk. It's
a rolltop desk; so, roll the top. Get the bank statement that was
hidden underneath. Read the statement to find your bank account
number. (Note: Each time you restart the game you will have a
different account number.) Leave the house.
Since you have decided to leave for California, you might as well
sell your house. Just type SELL HOUSE. A buyer will come along. You
can either wait for him, or just leave and come back later. Don't
worry if you get a message that he left; he'll return again. He will
offer you $850 for your house. Take the money.
Walk west into the next screen. Go into the gazebo. Do not walk on
the grass, or a cop will come and take a point away from you! Get the
flowers, then enter the gazebo. Look into the crack in the floor. Keep
moving around and looking until you find the gold coin. Get it.
Go west again, that's the post office on the corner. Go in and ring
the bell. Ask for your mail. If he says you have none, leave and try
again in a minute or so. Once you have the letter, look at the letter,
the postmark, and the stamp. Now, look under the stamp. Hey! It's
_gold_! Open the letter and read it. Your brother has found gold and
wants you to come join him. Leave the post office.
Go to the left and into the large white building. This is the
newspaper building where you work. Go to your office. You don't know
where it is? But you work here! Oh well...it's up the stairs, last
office at the bottom on the right. Walk to your desk, and look under
the blotter. Get the clippings, and read them. (Now you know the story
about your brother). Well, if you're planning a trip out West, you'd
better quit your job. Go downstairs to the boss's office (the first
one on the left), and tell him you're quitting.
BANK, WAREHOUSE, CEMETERY
Go into the bank. Make sure you know your account number. Go to a
teller and type GET MONEY. Give him the account number when he asks
for it. Go north into the warehouse, and read the poster inside. The
address to get tickets is next door to your old house. Go back down to
the cemetery and find your parents' graves. (Hint: They are the only
two that look alike and are next to each other.) Read each grave, and
put the flowers down (sniff).
WHAT TO BUY IN BROOKLYN
Up to this point, everything you need to accomplish in Brooklyn is
the same -- no matter which route you plan to take to get to
California. If you are planning to go via sea, you must remember that
the steamship leaves exactly 18 minutes after the game begins. Go to
the house next door to your old one. Answer the questions the man asks
you, and tell him which ticket you want. (Note: The price of the
tickets will skyrocket after the GOLD RUSH! starts. Make sure you buy
them before then.) If you intend to go via Panama, you'll need the
mosquito net from Rand's Hardware store. If you're planning to go via
the Cape Horn route, you will need the fruit.
If you want to go via land, then just go and buy your ticket from the
stagecoach office. After buying the ticket, go to the stable, and SHOW
TICKET to the little guy in white. He'll escort you to the coach.
Enter the coach, and the rest will take care of itself.
THE PANAMA ROUTE
There is nothing to do on the ship. You will not die of mosquito
bites if you bought the net. When you reach the jungle you will have
to follow the rest of the crew. Talk to the man under the tree, and
he'll give you a Bible. (No matter which route you take, there will
always be a man reading a Bible: Take the Bible.)
Walk to where you see the hanging vine. As soon as the killer ants
start to appear, jump onto the vine, and hang there until they leave.
Go onto the next screen. There are four paths through this screen, but
you can't see any of them. Do not use the first two. You will have to
do this screen by trial and error. (Save the game before you try it.)
The third and fourth paths take you through. For extra points, take
the fourth path -- the hardest to finish. When your toe hits
something, look down. Pick up the gold disk.
The next screen is also solved via trial and error. Don't take a
straight path across the swamp, or you'll sink in. Occasionally, a
crocodile will eat you, too, but not every time. If this happens,
you'll have to restore. After that, the game runs by itself until you
THE CAPE HORN ROUTE
Look around the ship. (The man who will give you the Bible is at the
right end of the ship.) There's not much to do until the storm;
anything you collect before the storm will be lost. So, even if you
find items before the storm, do not pick for them up (except the
Bible). Purely at random, you may die of Cholera. If you do, you will
have to restore back to Brooklyn. (Restoring to a point later than
Brooklyn won't help.)
You will not die of scurvy if you have the fruit. Now, you need food,
and there seems to be plenty of fish in the sea; so, let's go fishing.
Do not stand on the deck during the storm, or you'll get swept
overboard. Sometime during (or after) the storm, get the string from
the bunk room, the paper clip from the captain's office, the bait
(ham) from the cooks' table, metal scraps from the boiler room, and a
pole from the bottom floor (where the engine is being stoked). Go to
the back of the ship and type FISH. The game runs by itself after
that, until you reach Sacramento.
Once you join up with the mining company, go over and talk to the
captain. He wants money, so give him what you have. He'll ask you to
obtain animals for the trip. Go down a screen and buy animals. Which
animals do you need? You're going on a long journey, so you are better
off buying the mature mules.
Go back and tell the captain, and he'll give you a second job. He
wants you to tell him when it's time to leave. Go up a screen, and
keep looking at the grass. As soon as you get a message saying that
the ground is getting greener and drying up, tell the captain. You
should have also bumped into our friend with the Bible (he's sitting
under the tree).
When you reach the steep hill, unhitch the team, and let the animals
go to drink and rest. To stop them from pulling you and the wagon over
the cliff, you must lock the wheels. When you get thirsty, drink water
from the barrel in the coach.
Whichever way you arrive, you must immediately go to the stagecoach
office. It's in the building just left of the middle of the screen. Go
in, and look at the schedule. If you have missed the stagecoach to
Sutter's Fort, then you will have to restore; otherwise, get onto the
Walk around the fort. Find the blacksmith, and talk to him. Give him
your name and your brother's name. He'll give you your brother's
branding iron. Go to the graveyard and read the graves until you find
your father's. Read the grave. There is a cannon at the top. Psalms
23? Read it in your Bible. The phrase "Green Pastures" is in capital
letters. Use the envelope. Move it around until you are told it's in
place. Aha! So that's what those strange markings were for. Read the
letters. It says ROOM 12, or is it ROOM 21? Go back into the fort and
buy a gold pan. It's time to try your luck at finding gold.
PANNING FOR GOLD
You have to be at least 10 miles from the fort to find gold. (The
bottom of the screen will tell you how many miles away you are). Walk
in the stream, and keep panning. You will be able to find gold 50
times. Do not pan if there is anyone else in the screen, or you'll be
hung! Once you have all your gold, go back to the fort. Watch out for
the thieves: They'll take everything away from you.
BUYING THE REST OF YOUR SUPPLIES
Go and buy a mule. Take it to the blacksmith, heat up your branding
iron, and brand the mule (with your brother's mark). Take the mule to
the stable, and leave him there while you shop for supplies. Go back
to the store where you got the pan, and buy the shovel and a lantern.
Now, go back to get your mule. Look at all the mules until you find
the one with your brand on it. If it says it's a quiet, tame animal,
you don't want it. Your brother has left his mule there for you; you
want to get his instead. Once you have it, head back toward town
(southeast). Be careful not to lose your mule.
THE GREEN PASTURES HOTEL
Find the hotel. It's called Green Pastures! You recognize that from
the Bible! Tie up your mule to the post outside. Go inside and look at
rooms 12 and 21. Hmm...Room 12 looks suspicious. Go back downstairs
and look around. There is a message box. Ask for your message. You are
told you don't have any messages because you're not staying at the
hotel! But can you do the man a favor by delivering a message to the
man in Room 11. Say YES.
Take the message, knock at the door, and give the man his message.
When he leaves, quickly walk into his room. (If he catches you in
there, you'll have to restore.) To get into Room 12, go to the left
wall, and look at the fireplace. Aha! You recognize that cannon. When
you turn the wheel, the fireplace opens. Go through the fireplace into
Look around the room. Get the string from the floor, and the magnet
and note from the table. Read the note. What is that bird cage doing
there? Open the window, and in flies a bird. Look at the bird, read
the note in the capsule, and put your identification in the capsule.
What identification? The family picture, of course! Off flies the
bird; when it returns, look in the capsule. Get the "pigeongram" and
read it. Follow? Stubborn? Aha! You've heard the expression "as
stubborn as a mule," right? Follow that mule!
Take the mule back out of town, and type FOLLOW MULE. It moves quite
quickly, and seems to know where it's going; be careful not to lose
track of it. (Watch out for robbers.) When you reach Jake's home, go
inside. Get the matches. Go outside to the outpost, then go down the
hole in the middle of the outpost.
Light your lantern and proceed down the cave. Do this as quickly as
you can; save whenever you make progress because you only have a
limited amount of oil in the lantern. You reach a door that's locked,
and you have no key. But there's a hole in the door, and it's the same
shape as the branding iron! Tie the magnet to the string and lower it
through the hole. Move it around until you hear a "clunk." Then, pull
up the key carefully.
Open the door and go down in the cave. Be very careful on the
ladders. Continue down to the bottom left, and get the pick. Keep
digging for gold as you walk through the caves. Once you have found a
couple of pieces of gold, go up the long ladder to the top. Take the
gold nuggets on the right. Move down the ladder a little, and you find
the mine on the left.
Carefully enter the mine (save the game first; it's very easy to fall
off the ladder here). Down in the mine you go; keep using the pick as
you go along. Eventually, you will find yourself in a large room which
Talk to him, and he tells you that he's almost made the ultimate gold
discovery! Use your pick. When you find gold, keep digging in that
same spot. While you're digging, you will discover a cavern. As soon
as the entrance is big enough, walk through.
You've done it! You and your brother now have as much gold as you
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Don’t be lazy
A snake Sloughs off its outer skin once in a while. When this happens, the snake can neither move nor see. Laziness is like the shedding of slough. It makes a man blind and hesitant to do anything. The result is that he simply cannot move ahead.
But if you work hard, you will surely reach your goal. Reward comes to the hard working. The lazy always lag behind. If you are lazy and do not study, how will you gain knowledge? You will remain ignorant. If you are lazy, your exam will come but your studies will not be finished. If you are lazy, your school bus will come, but you will miss it.
The lazy person has many excuses for not doing his work. Lord Buddha once said, ``the lazy man does not work one day because it is too cold. He does not work the next day because it too hot. He does not work because it is already evening. He does work because it is too early in the morning.’’ What this means is that any excuse is good enough reason for the lazy man not to do work.
When you are lazy, you show excuses; I am sorry. I do not have the time. I did not have time to reply to your letter. I did not have time t read the papers. I did not have time top go for a morning walk.
But it is possible to find ten unities out of the 1440 minutes in one day to write a letter. It is possible to read the paper after dinner. It is possible to take a morning walk if you wake up at 6 am instead of 7 am if you wake up at 5 am. You can put in much hard work and study every morning.
But you feel lazy about doing something right away. You feel like doing it later or on the next day. Never leave anything for tomorrow what can be done today, do it right now.
In fact, the Jains believe that laziness is a sin.
Laziness resides in the mind. If your mind is lazy, it commands the body to be lazy. That is why your mind should be strong and alert always.
Otherwise, laziness will breed inside you like an insect and destroy you. It is obvious that you are lazy you cannot succeed in life.
Some people read the news paper and leave it lying wherever they have read it. They do not even bother to fold the paper. This is sheer laziness. If your books or clothes lie all over the room it means that you have been too lazy to put them back in their place. You do not have the enthusiasm to do a thing properly and carefully.
Just imagine what would happen if the farmer was too lazy to sow at the correct times of the season.
Do you ever see birds and animals being lazy? The little birds start their chirping early in the morning. The honey bees are ever so busy collecting nectar.
Only the massive python lazes around collecting dust.
Do you want to be living a python? Or would you rather be bright like a bird? Remember, it is the early bird that catches the worm.
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Divorce And Family Mediation Essay, Research Paper DIVORCE AND FAMILY CONFLICT MEDIATION Till death do us part. Today many people believe marriage is almost like dating. Some men and women meet, and before they get to know one another they make the choice to be wed. That is why divorce rate is higher than it has been in history.
Divorce And Family Mediation Essay, Research Paper
DIVORCE AND FAMILY CONFLICT MEDIATION
Till death do us part. Today many people believe marriage is almost like dating. Some men and women meet, and before they get to know one another they make the choice to be wed. That is why divorce rate is higher than it has been in history. Divorce is now a popular solution to problems that many American couples have. Most of these problems could easily be avoided if both individuals would communicate with each other. It seems that in this these last decade more and more people are getting divorced at an alarming rate. Nearly 1.2 million American marriages were dissolved by the courts in 1994- triple the 1960 figure. Experts predict that nearly half of all new marriages will end in divorce. Its purpose is to promote identification of issues, explore alternatives for resolution and allow the settlement of issues by the parties themselves.
I decided on writing this paper on divorce and family conflict mediation. In my personal life I grew up with my mother divorcing twice and in my professional life I see a lot of difficulties in many people’s lives because they cannot communicate effectively. Unfortunately this leads to violence, emotional scaring, substance and alcohol abuse, and children being caught in the middle of a war. In 1993, social scientist Nicholas Zill reported that children of divorced parents are, regardless of their economic circumstances, twice as likely as others to have poor relationships with their parents, drop out of high school and receive psychological help.
When I respond to a couple that are in disagreement the problem is far from starting and the couple is near the breaking point. The lack of communication is the biggest problem that couples face. They cannot effectively communicate their thoughts, desires, and goals to their spouse. This lack of communication leads to conflict and then will lead to divorce if not treated. Generally some sort of substance abuse will invoke feelings and the couple begins to argue and then physically hurt each other. More than half of all spouse and child abuse is directly tied to alcohol and drug abuse. Alcohol and drug addicted persons are seven times more likely to divorce.
I sense that when you look at the problem of divorce and family conflict it has such an in depth facility of issues that are not generally known. I believe that this is an important type of mediation because generally when people get married they love each other, but over the years they do not grow together and lose touch with what brought them together in the first place. With Divorce mediation families can possibly stay together and avoid the pitfalls that arise out of divorce. Think of the children that suffer and the problems they have with violence, school behavior, and substance abuse. Mediation might be the best answer to solve many of these social tribulations.
The origins of divorce are discovered in biblical proportions. “I hate divorce ” (Malachi 2:16) is God’s response to divorce. But I constantly find it necessary to remind the people who attend our divorce recovery workshops: “God hates divorce, but still loves divorced people!” That message needs to be heard. The price for marital breakup is always high.
Therapists and marriage counselors have come forward to say that most marriages do not simply “fail” because of fate or predestination. Rather, what usually happens is that people give up on their marriages because they’re not as committed to making them work as they could be, and because no one has taught them the skills that people need to deal with the disagreements and disappointments of married life together.
A notable fact in the history of divorce is that those countries which have never been Christianized, and those which remained faithful to the Christian teaching for only
A short time (e.g., the regions that fell under the sway of Mohammedanism) conducted the practice on terms more favorable to the husband than to the wife.
Divorce has been around since the time of marriage itself. Although many countries have different opinions on how divorce can be carried out all of them have different views. In Ireland the constitution banned the issue of divorce. It was put before the voters and the law was reversed by less than a 1 percent margin. Ireland is composed of 90 percent Roman Catholics. King Henry the VIII had many wives and divorced many of them against the will of the Pope and the Catholic Church. This set an enormous wave through the religious sect as he created his own church. The Anglican (Episcopalian) or Church of England was created mainly out of his desire to divorce his wives. To me this shows a significant mark in history because of a single person who wanted the right to divorce.
Divorce was generally only handled by the court system. You could file for divorce on the grounds of adultery, abandonment, and abuse to name a few. The process could be lengthy as it slowly proceeded through the court system. Most divorces in the past favored men and generally left women to suffer economically.
I think before mediation there were not a lot of options on how to dissolve a marriage. In the history of the world a lot of bad marriages just stayed together because of religious beliefs and the oath to God. Immigrants that came to this country from others would leave spouses in their homeland and set up a new life in the United States. Many of which were married and had no other alternative to leave. With the lack of ability to legally know if a person was married, often they would remarry, as they became a citizen here. They would change their name as they applied for citizenship or spell it different.
Before mediation I think family counseling was an option, however it was not used as much as you would think. The macho attitude that most men have would not allow them selves to be brought before a stranger and express their feelings. The practice of counseling is a fairly new type of tool of dealing with problems. It is possible that today more men are dropping down barriers and trying harder to make marriages work.
I see many couples when I am at work that uses the police as a source of mediation. They cannot handle certain aspects of their lives with their spouse and rely on the police to settle arguments. A lot of the couples that I have dealt with do not have the ability or maturity to communicate. They do not have reasoning skills to deal with the situations, as they get so emotional. Most of the disputes are about money and adultery. Many couples do not know how to please their partner sexually, socially, and spiritually. This builds up over time and they explode. Generally I see the younger couples that have been married for a year or so and have a baby or one on the way. They are young and are getting to married at an age when they should be going to college or trying to establish a niche for them selves. This culmination of economic hardship and immaturity are to deadly ingredients in a marriage. Letting this issues boil over time results in the divorce of the family.
Most of the family conflicts I deal with are very similar to this issues I just talked about. The lack of people effectively communicating, the lack of respect for one another, and the sense of pride, especially by men, do not allow for effective dialog to take control of a situation. They rely on the police to answer everything for them. This is not a good idea because generally we will arrest someone in a dispute if need be just to separate the parties until the can resolve it later. Alcohol is the biggest factor in disputes. I arrest more people during arguments for being drunk-in-public than any other violation. Its an easy way to solve the problem temporarily and leaves the other person out of the situation. The police take the blame for why they go to jail and not the other person.
I have lived all overt he world and I see that different regions of the country the people are so different in how they handle situations. The South seems to be more violent and has the need to let everybody in the neighborhood know each other’s business. When I grew up you never heard the neighbors arguing or sees the police called because of a domestic. Down in the South it seems it’s a nightly occurrence and generally it is to the same house.
I do not think that police mediation is an effective way of handling problems when it comes to family issues. The fear and hatred of the police do not allow for a person to reason with the police or respect the advice that is given to them. Some police officers are not equipped to handle some sticky situations that arise. Most of this is due to their lack of involvement in a relationship of their own and cannot relate a personal experience to the situation.
Instead of the formal, and intimidating environment of the court, couples work through their problems in an informal and private place. The mediator guides them through the process, provides them with information, helps them explore their options and understand the consequences of different decisions.
The mediation process enables the parties to emerge from a divorce with their dignity and with their self-respect intact. Where children are involved, mediation protects family relationships and establishes a sound foundation for continued parenting. Mediation is a forward-looking process. It does not focus on the past nor does it seek to assess blame. The goal of mediation is to enable the parties to plan for and deal with their futures. Parties are more likely to comply with the terms of an agreement, which they have fashioned themselves, rather than one imposed upon them by the court. Post divorce litigation is thereby reduced.
The effectiveness of mediation has made great strides in helping couples solve issue s and remain married. Mediation has several benefits. Since mediation can generally be concluded in a limited time frame, there is less delay. Confusion and uncertainty as to the outcome, and the emotional toll on the parties and on family members is greatly reduced. Mediation is informal, non-adversarial and, in order to promote openness, totally confidential. The mediator cannot be called as a witness nor can settlement proposals discussed during the course of mediation cannot be revealed in later court hearings. A mediated agreement will generally cost a fraction of the cost of adversarial litigation in court. A party who becomes dissatisfied with the mediation process can withdraw at any time. Mediation helps improve communication between parties and thereby improves their future relationship. This is an important matter where children are involved.
In my opinion mediation is effective and is increasingly becoming popular by couples. A good percentage of couples want to stay together and through mediation and counseling it can be determined how it will work. I think most beneficial effect of mediation is that all issues are brought out in the open. Everyone gets their opinions in the pot and the mediator will not take sides against that person. I think it leaves people with the feeling that they are going to make it and they just need help with their spousal skills.
Through the ages as a people we have progressed remarkably in almost all areas of social landmarks, except on how to treat each other. The divorce rate is always a concern for social reformers and it is contributed to the declining moral decay of this country. I think the idea of mediation is a fascinating issue that is not well known. Mediation has convinced me that it works if both parties put forth and effort to save their marriage. Not everybody gets along all the time, but if you married a person because you loved them. You would think that feeling would stay in your mind and soul forever. Through effect communication at mediation professionals can help people communicate with each other and solve the little problems before the snowball into a family that has to part. If couples would wait their disagreements out and listen to each other, many marriages would be life-long relationships, not short-lived flings.
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When we think of leaders, we may think of individuals such as Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, or Martin Luther Lord, Jr. In the event that you consider the historical significance and far-reaching impact of these people, leadership might appear like a respectable but lofty goal.
But like all of us, these individuals begun out as students, laborers, and normal citizens who had thoughts around how a few angle of daily life can be made strides on a bigger scale. Through diligence and involvement, they improved upon their ideas by sharing them with others, looking for their feedback and input, and constantly trying to find perfect way to achieve objectives for a group. Hence we all have the potential to be leaders at school, in our communities, and at work, notwithstanding of age or experience.
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Technologies, Procedures and Training to Transport Pharmaceuticals Safely
In the last few years, Eurodifarm has adopted a policy that aims to improve and consolidate the security level of its transport and warehouses by investing heavily in these aspects of its business.
In both cases Eurodifarm has assigned priority to three specific areas:
Implementation and Improvement of Technologies
- The company only uses vehicles equipped with satellite systems that have been fitted with the appropriate security devices:
- Panic Button
- Starter Block
- Trailer detachment Alarm
- Loading Door Alarm
- Installation of modern alarm and video surveillance systems inside and outside our hubs and regional platforms.
- Our specialised staff tests the working order of the satellite systems and checks these before each load
- Full, periodic review of all the security procedures in accordance with TAPA standards.
Training Specifici relativi alla Sicurezza durante il Trasporto e dei Magazzini
- Continuous Training for drivers on the procedures and behavioural codes to be adopted during the journey or in the case of criminal events
- Information about the behavioural standards to be adopted to ensure that goods are transported safely
- Security Awareness training provided to employees and the workers engaged in the warehouses
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This site provides excellent practice and review with different Science topics. Topics include plants, human body, the solar system, weather, matter and more. After choosing a topic,...more
This site provides excellent practice and review with different Science topics. Topics include plants, human body, the solar system, weather, matter and more. After choosing a topic, various additional choices are offered. For example, under Force and Matter options are available to choose inertia, action and reaction, simple machines, acceleration, and gravity and inertia. Key vocabulary is presented along with a short video explanation of the topic. Don't miss the "karaoke" videos about each topic - sure to delight students (and teachers). In addition to the video, there is an option to test your own ability. Each topic can also be printed to use in the classroom and there is a link to related "jams."
In the ClassroomUse this site as an anticipatory set or "activator" to introduce a Science unit or lesson on a projector or interactive whiteboard. Share the videos and/or karaoke with your students. Have students sing along and learn more about science. Especially younger students will enjoy this feature. Create a link to the site on your classroom website or blog for students to use for review and practice at home. Include a link on your classroom newsletter so that parents can use the site at home with their student. Make a shortcut to this site on classroom computers and use it as a center. View the videos on your interactive whiteboard, print out the quizzes for students to take as an assessment.
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Two north-central Iowa men put their heads together and created an opportunity for farmers interested in trying strip-till on their farms. Iowa Learning Farm Cooperator Dave Nelson, owner of Brokaw Supply Company, and Doug Seltz, a Webster County Soil and Water District commissioner, conceived a way for area producers to get their toes wet in the strip-tilling world without taking the full plunge. They’re calling it Operation Strip-Till.
Operation Strip-Till is the coordination of a leased tractor, strip-till machine and two equipment operators. The strip-till machine will match up with either 12- or 16-row planter sizes, will be equipped for fall application of anhydrous and dry fertilizer and will use GPS auto-steer so rows will be straight for spring 2009 planting. For a fee (to cover equipment rental only), farmers can have a portion of their acres strip-tilled.
A seminar was held on March 17 at the Webster County Fairgrounds, Fort Dodge, IA, to introduce farmers to this opportunity. More than 75 attended the event hosted by Brokaw Supply and Webster County NRCS, and sponsored by the Iowa Soybean Association, Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and the Iowa Learning Farm.
John Holmes, ISU Extension field agronomist, talked about the advantages of strip-tilling which include reduced soil erosion and water run-off, fuel and time savings resulting from fewer field passes and maintaining top-end yield potential. Mark Hanna, ISU Extension agricultural engineer, gave pointers on how strip-till equipment works within the soil profile along with proper fertilizer placement.
Kevin Kimberley, an independent consultant and farmer, presented his dos and don’ts for strip-tilling. Kimberley is an industry-recognized expert on the subject and travels around the country helping farmers troubleshoot their in-field problems. Wrapping up the day, a three-farmer panel of area strip-tillers shared their experiences and answered questions about strip-tillage from the group.
“It was so exciting to see the great turnout and interest that we had for this meeting,” says Nelson. “Everyone reads about strip-till and recognizes the many advantages it would bring to their farm. But strip-till isn’t just something you hook on and go to the field with. It brings many new concepts and levels of management that people are scared to try on their own. With Operation Strip-Till we are all going to learn together. By recruiting local experts who have strip-tilled for many years, we can implement their successes and knowledge right from the start.”
Nelson says that they received more than 1,900 committed acres by the end of the meeting. Webster County producers interested in trying out the system can call Nelson at 800-362-1640.
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There is broad agreement that the 2008 crisis was caused by financial speculation, enabled by deregulation, in short by ‘permissive capitalism’. After crisis then, we would expect that the Keynesian party of regulation and government intervention should win. Instead, in the US the political winners have been the GOP and the Tea party, and in the UK, the Tories. How do we explain this perplexing phenomenon?
The usual account is the electoral pendulum swing going against incumbents (which implies its swinging back again next time). Also often mentioned is the role of media promoting free market policies. Besides, the incumbents, Democrats in the US and Labor in the UK, have been a party to deregulation and to bailouts of the financial sector without strings attached.
Rather, the general climate is one in which deficits trump regulation deficit hawks rule on both sides of the Atlantic. Regulations of the banking sector, the Frank-Dodd bill in the US and the Vickers Report in the UK, have been thin and meager. The bank reforms in the US have produced even bigger banks. Not only has this not solved the problem of too big to fail but it has created an even larger problem, too big to save. In effect, regulation has morphed into consolidation.
In both countries regulation has been crowded out by the deficit and budget deliberations, which is odd because the deficit didn’t cause the crisis. In fact, for all the talk about the deficit there is little discussion of how it has come about. Nor have there been prosecutions or indictments of bankers—quite unlike after the American Savings and Loan scandal in the early 1980s. Also strangely missing is a public outpouring of moral outrage—tens of thousands marching in the streets furious about financial crisis and government indulgence, crisis-prone behavior on a scale comparable to the Iraq war and the BP Gulf oil disaster. Remuneration of CEOs and bankers is largely back to where it was before crisis, with some cosmetic changes.
The common shortcut explanation for these trends is ‘neoliberalism’. However, ‘neoliberalism’ doesn’t account for the actual variety of ideas nor does it explain why neoliberalism is accepted. To account for this perplexing situation I offer two main hypotheses: intellectual deficit and power deficit. According to the first hypothesis, the key problem is the lack of alternative ideas. At first sight the notion of an intellectual deficit is patently untrue. In the major US and UK newspapers during recent years there has been a steady stream of articles and comments by noted economists making the case for continued stimulus, rather than austerity, and for stronger regulation—such as Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Robert Reich, Martin Wolf, John Kay, and many others. Yet, the argument can’t be entirely dismissed. Part of the problem is what John Kay calls ‘confirmation bias’: ‘the lesson most people have learnt [from the crash] is that they were right all along.’ So yes there were alternative ideas, but their resonance was not strong enough to sway the prevailing pro-market ideology in mainstream media and public discourse. A mere crash does not undo thirty years of free market socialization since Thatcher and Reagan. On the pages of the Wall Street Journal free market economists have continued their zeal even after the crash. Besides, ideas without organizational momentum carrying them fall short of ideologies.
Thus we turn to the second hypothesis, power deficit. That is, there are alternative ideas but the political and public momentum backing them isn’t strong enough and the ideas fall on deaf ears. First, in the US, the political economy of labor, the coalition of Democrats and trade unions, anchored in the industrial Northeast and Midwest, has been steadily eroded by thirty years of deindustrialization. Gone from the public sphere are the Keynesian principles of full employment and deficit spending, viewing trade unions as partners in growth, and Fordist principles of labor productivity and wage growth moving in tandem—not because the ideas have vanished but because the power bloc backing them, in Congress and on main street, has crumbled.
In its stead has come the political economy of services: in finance, insurance, real estate (FIRE), health care, software (Silicon Valley), the cultural industries (Hollywood), retail, education, and the government social sector. The service sector is disparate, ideologically dispersed, unorganized, and many are beneficiaries of deregulation. Wall Street and Silicon Valley are progressive factions of capital that are part of the power base of the Obama administration, that is, progressive in a technological sense. Their main ideological umbrella, if any, is innovation, a techno fix that eschews difficult political and economic questions.
The power shift from manufacturing to services is a general feature of postindustrial society, but there are degrees of postindustrialism. In northwest Europe and Japan offshoring and outsourcing to low-wage countries have generally been balanced by inward investment in technologies and factories, while in the US and UK deindustrialization has been far more drastic.
In the US what industry remains (besides the defense industries) or new industry develops is mostly in the South. Dixie capitalism has gradually taken over from Frost Belt capitalism. Starting in the seventies when industries moved from the northeast they went south. Dixie capitalism and Dixie politics trump Frost Belt capitalism. The Republican Party and the Tea Party reflect different shades of the ethos of the South—low taxes, low services, low wages, no unions. The new Republican governors in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana represent the politics of extreme capitalism, feeding on resentment: if private sector workers have meager benefits and no collective bargaining, then public sector workers should not have them either. It is a politics of bringing everyone down to the Dixie level. In America this is what decline looks like. Hence the issue is not simply ideology but what Galbraith called countervailing power.
Financialization emerged first as an antidote to deindustrialization, masked its effects and enabled the boom of the ‘roaring nineties,’ but has increasingly become a major destabilizing factor, culminating in the crash of 2008. The problem is not financialization per se but the combination of financialization and deregulation, the problem of the ‘sleeping watchdog’. Moreover, low taxes resonate with the market society ethos of possessive individualism. In the US, under the sign of low taxes, liberty trumps equality. In the UK, the Tories call on the Big Society—which is reminiscent of the elder Bush in the US calling on a ‘thousand points of light’ and Bush junior relying on faith-based organizations—suggesting that voluntarism should take over state welfare functions. The paradox is that it is a call to a society in which, given the retreat of the state, market forces have been unleashed, and the call to service therefore falls on deaf ears. A society governed by consumerism and market values is to respond to a call to social values.
What future trends and options do these conditions portend? Given that major trends are of a structural nature—the growth of postindustrialism, services, financialization—major changes in the next ten to fifteen years are not in the cards. The US and UK will likely undergo gradual decline, mitigated to the degree that they play their cards well. Both rely too much on narrow sectors, especially finance, and anti-government ideology undercuts their capacity for self-correction. Northwest Europe is undergoing milder versions of these trends because industry, regulation and social contracts are stronger and free market ideology has less support. The problem of financialization, its size and lack of regulation, however, is a common factor but on a smaller scale than in US and UK. Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain face different problems, generally GDP growth outstripping productivity growth, weak regulation, and growth borrowed from external financing.
To read the full article, please visit www.jannederveenpieterse.com and look at the “Politics of Crisis” PDF.
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Global currency mismatches threaten us all
When funding conditions turn, relying on cheap dollars to finance local assets can be lethal
The most sobering lesson of the global financial crisis was that developments expected to increase resilience – the “originate and distribute” model of finance – turned out to reduce it.
Does a similar danger now threaten stability? Yes. The next round of global illiquidity might derive from foreign currency bonds of non-financial companies of emerging economies. The centre would be asset managers, not banks.
Last summer’s “taper tantrum” was a foretaste. The indication by the US Federal Reserve that it was considering a reduction in the rate at which it would expand its balance sheet had a dramatic effect on emerging economies. As the International Monetary Fund noted in its October world economic outlook: “Expectations for earlier US monetary policy tightening and slowing growth in emerging market economies prompted major capital outflows from emerging markets during June 2013.” The results included a widening of risk spreads, equity market falls and big declines in exchange rates against the dollar.
Why did turmoil follow the mere possibility of a tightening in Fed monetary policy? At a conference on Asia at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Hyun Song Shin of Princeton University, among the world’s foremost financial economists, suggested an answer: the growth of demand for the private sector bonds of emerging economies.
In booms, finance floods the market, driving excesses; in busts, finance dries up, causing slumps. This phenomenon is known by the loose term “global liquidity”. Before the global financial crisis, banks were the main providers of liquidity. Since 2010, a locus has been the bond finance of non-financial corporate sectors of emerging economies. Asset managers (BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity, Pimco and so forth) drive the flows. This, then, is the “second phase of global liquidity”. It is also why portfolio flows to emerging economies reversed last summer.
External finance of emerging economies has changed in two ways: non-banks have become bigger borrowers, relative to banks; and debt securities have largely replaced loans. Much borrowing is done abroad. An indication is the widening gap between borrowing by place of residence and by nationality: Chinese companies, for example, issue foreign currency bonds in Hong Kong, not the mainland.
The purchasers of these bonds search for yield in a low-yield world by lending longer and riskier. Borrowers take advantage of the lower cost of foreign-currency bonds. But in the process, they assume a currency mismatch: foreign currency debt against domestic currency assets. These borrowers are speculating on their domestic currencies. Students of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 will find this disturbingly familiar. Non-financial companies have taken on a “carry trade”, by financing local assets with apparently cheap dollars.
When funding conditions turn, such trades can become lethal. As the Fed is expected to tighten, the dollar will rise, prices of dollar bonds will fall and dollar funding will reverse. As the bonds they issued lose value, borrowers will be forced to post more domestic currency as collateral. That will squeeze their cash flows and trigger a downturn in corporate spending. A fall in the exchange rate will exacerbate the squeeze upon them. Highly indebted non-financial corporations may even go bankrupt, imperilling domestic creditors, including the banks.
Such a pattern of currency and risk mismatches partly explains the volatility last summer. That stress eased, but the Fed will tighten at some point. Then the doom loop is set to restart: a brutal unwinding, with attendant corporate distress and even sharp recessions.
Thus, even asset managers may be a source of cyclical instability – provided they, too, behave pro-cyclically, just as leveraged lenders do. The two fundamental problems, in this case, are the lack of long-term holders of the debt and the currency mismatches inside borrowers.
Indeed, non-financial corporations are behaving more like banks, with rising financial assets (in domestic currency) and liabilities (in foreign currency).
The case that the development of this new pattern of financing could be a source of vulnerability and volatility seems strong. The story underlines a point that emerged in previous crises in emerging economies: national balance sheets matter. Currency mismatches emerge whenever borrowers find it attractive to borrow in apparently cheaper foreign currencies. They have repeatedly proved devastating to emerging economies, whether they have occurred in the government sector, the banking sector or the non-financial corporate sector.
Yet it is hard to know how big such risks are without better data. The meticulous monitoring of build-ups of mismatches is an essential part of better financial housekeeping. Focusing on the financial sector’s leverage and mismatches is, alas, insufficient. One must track the debt issuance of domestic financial and non-financial corporations – both onshore and offshore – and the build-up of domestic currency deposits of non-financial corporations.
These are, as Prof Shin argues, in part the counterpart of their foreign currency borrowing. The dollar value of the deposits of the non-financial corporations of emerging economies has been volatile, partly because of swings in exchange rates, but has also been rising rapidly.
What, finally, are the policy implications, beyond the well-known fact that the combination of today’s hyper-aggressive central banks with the private sector’s reach for yield is bound to create fragility?
One is that controls on capital inflows count for next to nothing if companies can borrow offshore. Another is that currency adjustments, albeit vital for managing our volatile world, will expose such mismatches. Above all, managing a return to normal monetary conditions without further large-scale instability is going to be quite difficult.
Emerging economies must be aware of such perils. So must the institutions charged with helping them.
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A SPANISH director is hoping to influence thousands of people with the launch of a moving and innovative documentary about Spain’s culture of animal genocide.
Santa Fiesta is a documentary produced by Miguel Angel Rolland which aims to uncover and challenge the barbaric attitudes that religious and political authorities uphold towards animal cruelty across the peninsular.
It is estimated that 60,000 animals die every year at popular religious and traditional festivals throughout Spain and Rolland mentions on his website that bullfighting is ‘just the tip of the iceberg’.
The film promises to offer a genuine insight into the torturing and sacrificing of animals as a way of religious celebration.
Filmed secretly over a year, Santa Fiesta is particularly unique in that it lacks interviews, narration or musical score. By solely focusing upon image and noise, Rolland hopes that the authentic sounds of what he and his production team filmed will horrifically expose how such celebrations are wholly unjustified.
In spite of being produced without financial help from any Spanish broadcaster, online donations from more than 30 countries worldwide have already amassed the €16,000 target that Rolland initially set for the film on his crowd funding website.
These include international US-based charity Animals Guardian, La Tortura No Es Cultura in Spain and various international bull-fighting summits.
Speaking exclusively to the Olive Press, Miguel-Angel described this financial support as ‘extraordinary’ but admitted that there was ‘still a lot of work’ to be done.
He continued: “I always wanted to make a film where I could reveal to the rest of the world how this is not picturesque at all, how this is a huge moral and humanitarian problem which affects all of us.”
Despite having worked in the film industry for over 20 years, Rolland has singled out his latest film as ‘the most important work’ of his career because of the change he hopes it will contribute to society.
It is hoped that the film will be launched for theatrical release later this year.
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In recent months many major countries have put forward pledges to combat climate change. In August, President Obama put forward his Clean Power Plan, which would essentially cut U.S. emissions from 2005 levels 32 percent by 2030. China just pledged $3.1 billion to help developing countries slash their greenhouse gas emissions. And at the U.N. on Sunday, Brazil announced its plan about how much emissions it is willing to cut in coming decades. While in the world of global climate politics this is good progress, it is still not nearly enough.
Scientists at Climate Interactive have analyzed the promises by countries and found that the earth would still heat around 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the century’s end. This is down from the projected 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit the planet would heat if emissions remained on their present course. Even with these cuts, scientists say there would still be catastrophes ranging from food shortages to widespread extinctions of plant and animal life. One of the single biggest factors in many countries preventing a major pledge to combat climate change has been politics.
The debate in the U.S. over how best to combat climate change has been particularly disappointing. For a number of years, many conservative politicians have denied climate change. As public opinion has shifted (a majority of Republican voters now believe climate change exists and is man-made) politicians have altered their talking points and now claim that environmental regulations will kill jobs and that they are an example of governments overreach. But, while the economy must be taken into account while planning these initiatives, at some point it must take a backseat to preventing what would be a global catastrophe.
Enacting environmental regulations and attempting to move towards cleaner and renewable energy sources should not be seen as an attack on people’s jobs or government overreach. This should be viewed as progress that is long overdue in the face of overwhelming evidence that not changing our emission output will cause a global catastrophe. Change always makes people nervous, but we don’t condemn Nikolai Tesla and Thomas Edison for ruining the candle business. And we don’t slander Henry Ford for destroying the horse trade. If we start making the responsible decision to cut emissions it will not be seen as a crime in the future. Unless we enact serious change now, future generations will scorn us for the choices we made.
While some will counter that the U.S. alone will not make a measurable difference, it is evident to many that, as the world’s sole superpower and one of the leaders in carbon dioxide admissions, we need to take a lead in this effort if we truly want to combat this problem. While it is accurate to say that the U.S. alone cannot fix this problem, we need to take the lead to encourage others to take similar steps.
It can be difficult to make these sacrifices when these disasters are 100 years off and the everyday person is more concerned with finding a job than the state of the planet.
Nevertheless, it is imperative that we collectively look at the big picture. We can’t look at this problem and ask, “How does this benefit me?” We have to think of future generations, of our children and our children’s children, and realize that it is our responsibility to take action now while there is still a chance to manage it. Regardless, there is no reason why we shouldn’t want to lower our carbon emissions and seek renewable energy sources.
Issues such as the Keystone XL pipeline and Clean Power Plan continue to divide Congress along primarily partisan lines. Unless the U.S. commits to drastic changes in carbon emissions and other environmental areas, other countries will only make moderate efforts to combat climate change. By presenting a united front, our government could make a meaningful impact on generations to come. The consequences could be catastrophic if the skeptics prevail.
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Last week the internet broke out in joyful glee over a story about a new all-male public school in Chicago that graduated its first class with all the students attending a four-year college. When good news happens to Black boys, are we ecstatic because they broke the stereotypes of others or are we actually ecstatic because, we too, have believed those stereotypes? Have we secretly given up on our Black boys too? Read more: Entire High School Class Going To College'Education Is The Civil Rights Issue of Our Time' Here's what you had to say: Anne commented: "This is not surprising because there is no reason they can't do it. We all need someone to believe in us. Hooray for them." Lameka wrote: "We're happy because we as a people see the challenges that young Black men have to overcome. Add that on top of mass media's one-dimensional portrayal of Black men and so called "statistics" and it's easy to give in to despair. Stories like this shatter all of that and that is where my joy comes from." | <urn:uuid:b7efc236-ff14-44e9-b8f1-783cf4655032> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.essence.com/2010/03/22/commentary-black-students-success | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00181-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971907 | 220 | 1.53125 | 2 |
A university cafeteria line in the student center is a self-serve facility in which students select the food items they want and then form a single line to pay the cashier. Students arrive at a rate of about four per minute according to a Poisson distribution. The single cashier ringing up sales takes about 12 seconds per customer, following an exponential distribution.
a. What is the probability that there are more than two students in the system? AND More than three students? AND More than four?
b. What is the probability that the system is empty?
c. How long will the average student have to wait before reaching the cashier?
d. What is the expected number of students in the queue?
e. What is the average number in the system?
f. If a second cashier is added (who works at the same pace), how will the operating characteristics computed in parts (b), (c), (d), and (e) change? Assume that customers wait in a single line and go to the first available cashier.
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The case for a tactical pause with Iran.
- By Trita ParsiTrita Parsi is president of the National Iranian American Council and author of A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy With Iran.
No one said diplomacy with Iran would be easy. And now, before it even started, the Iranian election crisis has left Tehran politically paralyzed and Washington without a clear diplomatic path ahead. Iranian centrifuges keep spinning, leading some to think that September should be the deadline for Iran to accept the U.S. offer of talks. Although diplomacy must remain the policy, the momentous upheaval in Iran has completely changed the political landscape. Opening talks with Iran’s current government at this decisive moment could backfire severely. Indeed, now is the time for a tactical pause with Iran.
U.S. President Barack Obama has stated that the United States is in a wait-and-see mode until Iran’s post-election crisis comes to a conclusion. Clearly, that has not happened yet. The Iranian opposition is alive and kicking. Two weeks ago, former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani cast doubt on the election results during the Tehran Friday prayers, an important venue for political speeches. A day later, former President Mohammad Khatami upped the ante and called for a referendum on the elections and the government. And presidential hopeful Mir Hossein Mousavi continues to defy Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accusing him of insulting the Iranian nation by claiming that the protesters are acting on behalf of foreigners. Meanwhile, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the official election winner, is entangled in a battle with conservatives over his cabinet picks.
The opposition’s resilience has clearly taken Ahmadinejad and Khamenei by surprise. At a minimum, the opposition has deprived Ahmadinejad of any sense of normalcy, forcing him to devote several hours a day to address the election dispute instead of advancing his own political agenda. Khamenei is increasingly resorting to warnings and threats rather than calls for unity and reconciliation. "The elite should be watchful, since they have been faced with a big test. Failing the test will cause their collapse," Khamenei said last Monday in a speech that many perceived as verging on desperation. Khamenei and Ahmadinejad now seem to be off balance.
The dispute between the Ahmadinejad government and the opposition is about far more than a disputed election. It goes to the core question of whether there is a peaceful path toward changing Iran’s political system from within. For a population that is highly critical of the government, but values stability, the existence of such a path has been important. It enabled Iranians to push for gradual, controllable change without risking another revolution that could end up like the previous one, when one unpopular, repressive political system was replaced with another.
If Ahmadinejad succeeds in silencing his internal critics and opponents, many will conclude that this path has been closed. Iran cannot be changed through the ballot box if people’s votes won’t be honored. The likely result will be a radicalized population whose opposition to the government will be met with increased repression at home and more adventurism abroad.
The Obama administration should avoid repeating the key mistake of the Bush administration, for which Iran was solely viewed through the prism of its nuclear program. Delaying nuclear talks a few months won’t make a dramatic difference to Iran’s nuclear program. It could, however, determine which Iran America and the region will be dealing with for the next few decades — one in which democratic elements strengthen over time, or one where the will of the people grows increasingly irrelevant to Iran’s decision-makers.
Moreover, even nuclear talks would have a negligible impact on the election dispute, Iran currently is not in a position to negotiate. Some in Washington believe that the paralysis in Tehran has weakened Iran and made it more prone to compromise. But rather than delivering more, Iran’s government currently couldn’t deliver anything at all. The infighting has simply incapacitated Iranian decision makers.
Iran’s lack of capacity creates a tremendous danger for the White House. Of all scenarios the Obama administration could end up facing — an Iran that refuses to come to the table, for example, or an Iran that only uses talks to play for time — the worst scenario is another one: where the parties begin talks according to the set timetable, but fail to reach an agreement due to an inability to deliver. If talks fail, U.S. policymakers will be left with increasingly unpalatable options as a result.
Obama should not be married to any artificial deadlines. Pushing for talks now simply because he decided on a timetable before the elections could undermine the chances for diplomacy to succeed. Paradoxically, the best way to enhance prospects for diplomacy might actually be not to pursue diplomacy for now. Better instead to make a tactical pause, see how things develop, and be ready to engage at the right time. | <urn:uuid:e95a3bb5-c4d3-45c3-af1d-a100f218b51a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://foreignpolicy.com/2009/07/30/make-them-wait/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00393-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956985 | 1,029 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Morphing cars that adapt to the driver and driving conditions.
Evolutions in automotive design have started to incorporate more efficient technologies into the mainstream such as electric powered motors. The Tesla cars area real world example of this with phenomenal results, a rapid uptake and increasing demand.
Evolutions in heads up displays and augmented windscreens to improve safety and the driving experience are already started to feature in a handful of cars today, we can however expect significant further developments in this tech, as highlighted in the videos following.
The next evolution of these cutting edge vehicles can expect further developments in significant morphing of the cars bodywork, as highlighted in both the Mercedes-Benz and the BMW, adapt to driving conditions and the driver. We do however see this technology in cars of today, and have for sometime, with the likes of rear wings emerging as speed increases in aid in down force. Guess the hurdle will be due to governmental constraints with road laws before the true morphing vehicles become part of our every day commute.
Both Mercedes-Benz and BMW have both created dynamic intelligent designs to take motoring to the next level.
BMW launched a concept ‘Vision Next 100’ car that embodies the direction it wants to take going into its next 100 years of building cars.
“My personal view is that technology should be as intuitive as possible to operate and experience so that future interactions between human, machine and surroundings become seamless. The BMW Vision Next 100 shows how we intend to shape this future.”
Adrian van Hooydonk, Head of BMW Group Design
A significant element of the BMW Vision Vehicle is another innovation dubbed as Alive Geometry. It consists of a kind of three-dimensional sculpture that works both inside and outside the vehicle.
It consists of almost 800 moving triangles which are set into the instrument panel and into certain areas of the side panels on the car. They work in three dimensions, communicating directly with the driver through their movements, which are more like gestures than two-dimensional depictions on a display.
Even the slightest movement is perceptible to the driver. In combination with the Head-Up display, Alive Geometry uniquely fuses the analogue with the digital, attempting to merge the driver intuitively with the car, predicting an imminent real-time event.
Mercedes-Benz “Concept IAA” (Intelligent Aerodynamic Auto-mobile) uses its body technology to switch from design mode to aerodynamic mode automatically when the vehicle reaches a speed of 80 km/h. Numerous aerodynamic measurement alter the shape of the vehicle or at the touch of a button. A significant focus on the innovations in this vehicle are focused on improvements to the drag coefficient, in turn – real world efficiency!
Core innovations from Mercedes-Benz in their Concept IAA include:-
- A retractable tail-end “boat-tail” extension. This modification has the biggest influence on the improvement to the cd value. Together with the diffuser, the extension, which is extendable by up to 390 millimetres, ensures that the air flow hugs the vehicle more closely and that the after-flow zone behind the vehicle’s tail end is substantially smaller. This results in a considerable reduction in drag. The rear extension consists of eight segments produced in CFRP in a sandwich structure which extend to form a closed ring.
- From the sporty 5-spoke wheel to the aerodynamically exemplary rim – this visual transformation is achieved by the Active Rims. With the help of centrifugal force they reduce their classification from 55 to 0 millimetres.
- In the front bumper, what are known as the front flaps sit on the sides in front of the wheel arches. In the aerodynamic mode they move 25 millimetres to the outside and 20 to the rear up to the rear edge of the wheel crescent. This substantially improves the inflow of air to the wheels and the flow of air over the front wheel arches.
- On the front side of the bumper there is a slat at the bottom. It moves 60 millimetres backwards and improves the flow into the underbody.
In addition to this there are numerous further aerodynamic optimisations such as discs flush with the outer edge of the body, no door openers, lowering, extensive underbody panelling plus an adjustable radiator grille shutter.
So there’s much spin about the wind, but the result is impressive: with its dynamic form (“drop shape”), the elegant overall design plus the numerous technical innovations the four-door coupé saloon is
“A symbiosis of desirable forms which intelligently showcase aerodynamics.”
stated Gorden Wagener – Head of Design.
A significant step towards future car technology integrates the autonomous car in the true sense of the word. The driver-less car. With the likes of Alphabet (Google) putting a lot of energy into this foray, many others are also invested heavily in this evolution.
Guess we may not have to be concerned about how many beers we have had before “driving home” in the future. 😉
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Initiation into art, and the life of a career artist, came to Joanna Tlok through a series of chance events. Her first experience in art-making came when she was seven years old. At the time, it was popular in her native Poland for children to keep diaries, to which their friends would make contributions.
When asked to add to such a diary that one of her friends was keeping, Joanna's mother helped her compose a floral design to go with the note she composed. This activity so engaged Joanna that it launched a life of creative work.
It took several more years, however, for the ambition of being a professional artist to take hold. At the point when Poles finish primary school and have to choose a spec
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Does the master’s program qualify me to become a licensed counselor?
May 28, 2009
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With developments in TV technology, an area that is finally beginning to come into its own is wireless HD. In the past companies like JVC and others have tried to offer wireless displays, but encountered hurdles. Well, it now seems that with advances like 802.11n and other transmission schemes from SiBEAM that wireless HD will finally find its way to consumer homes in 2008 and beyond.
wireless HD. In the past companies like JVC and others have tried to offer wireless displays. Well, it now seems that with advances like 802.11n and other transmission schemes that wireless HD will finally find its way to consumer homes in 2008 and beyond. Late last year, Samsung finally shipped wireless HD plasma models, and LG will now offer similar models for 2008, in which all processing is housed in a stand-alone media center or set-top box (possibly hidden). Pioneer's new Project Kuro thin plasma displays may also employ similar technology.
At CES, Sony announced its Bravia Wireless Link, which serves as a wireless HDMI connector. The Bravia Link allows for the connection of several HD source components, and will send signals from different parts of your home up to 200 feet from the display. The Bravia DVD Link provides an upgrade to DVD, CD and MP3 functionality. And the Bravia Input Link extends a home theater with three additional HDMI inputs.
At the same time, Panasonic revealed at CES their own wireless 1080p full HD transmission system that Panasonic developed with SiBEAM. Panasonic's transmission system is based on the "WirelessHD" standard. lets consumers watch HD on the TV with more a flexible layout and no wire installation.
At CES 2008, SiBEAM announced that its WirelessHD-based transmitter and receiver chipsets, built in affordable CMOS, and its WirelessHD Development Kit will be made available to select customers (including Panasonic) in the first quarter of 2008. SiBEAM's first WirelessHD solution includes the company's proprietary OmniLink60 technology.
The OmniLink60 offers 7 GHz of continuous bandwidth around the 60 GHz spectrum provides the spectral availability to achieve multi-gigabit per second data rates in a very cost effective, compact manner. However, due to the physical characteristics of the 60 GHz frequency, additional technology is required to ensure smooth operation for most applications. SiBEAM developed its Omnilink60 technology which optimizes for non-line of sight, low-cost and small form factor: - Non-line of sight: SiBEAM's Omnilink60 systems find the best direction to focus the energy. If there is no good direct line from the transmitter to the receiver, OmniLink60 will automatically find the best bounce off walls, ceilings, floors, or any other object in the room, to allow non-line-of-sight communication. The Omnilink60 advanced adaptive beam-forming systems that dynamically steer content to the specific receiving station, maintaining stable connectivity regardless of any obstacles that may obstruct its path, without compromising quality. Additionally, Omnilink60's high speed micro array antennas enable efficient use of power for better reception and longer distance at a higher bandwidth.
SiBEAM is also the first to develop working 60 GHz chipsets in CMOS. SiBEAM invented techniques to design 60 GHz circuits in standard CMOS processes conventionally used for other types of chips such as microprocessors and consumer electronics components. This technique allows mass market production of high-performance, low-cost wireless solutions. As well, SiBEAM has developed state-of-the-art methods to integrate many antennas into a very small area using standard cost-effective packaging processes. SiBEAM's integrated multi-element micro array antenna technology resolves challenges with bulky packaging previously required by most 60 GHz systems.
SiBEAM claims that is offering the world's first WirelessHD Chipset Solutions, the SB9120 Network Processor and the SB9110 RF Transceiver chipset act, which act as the transmitter for devices such as DVD players, set-top-boxes and media center PCs. The SB9121 Networks Processor and the SB9111 Transceiver chipset act as the receiver or devices such as digital televisions and front projectors. These chipsets are the first to deliver true, lossless uncompressed A/V at 1080p. The 60 GHz band offers the spectral availability for true uncompressed HD video, audio and data transmission, scalable to future HD A/V formats.
Further, each embedded processor handles the WirelessHD protocol that is capable of joining, leaving and creating an intelligent Wireless Video Area Network (WVAN) which can consist of a variety of WirelessHD-enabled devices, including a high-definition television, high-definition disc player, digital video recorder, digital video camera, digital A/V player and more. With OmniLink60 technology, each SiBEAM-enabled device will not only maintain awareness of other devices in the network, but also that device's capabilities, such as whether it is a digital video camera, game console or set-top box.
With the availability of the SK9110TXRX WirelessHD Development Kit, SiBEAM technology can be easily and affordably integrated by consumer electronics manufacturers to provide consumers with a simple, secure way to connect, play and transmit their high definition (HD) content. The SK9110TXRX WirelessHD Development Kit includes the WirelessHD reference design with transmit and receive capability, as well as full documentation including the user guide, schematics, bill of materials, gerber files, host side reference firmware and application notes to implement the design. These tools, combined with the devices' industry standard interface, allow manufacturers to seamlessly integrate SiBEAM's WirelessHD solutions into their existing HD platforms.
The WirelessHD Consortium was formed in 2006, Intel Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd (Panasonic), NEC Corporation, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD, SiBEAM, Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation, have joined together to create the next generation wireless interface specification for HD media streaming and transmission. WirelessHD will facilitate technical advancement by creating a specification focused on fixed and portable devices. WirelessHD is the first consumer electronics and technology industry-supported, high definition digital wireless interface for simplified media streaming and HD content portability. | <urn:uuid:0f8ce0b1-bf31-460f-ac8a-86bc4a40ba91> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1282154 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00247-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924187 | 1,282 | 1.5 | 2 |
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In Act I Sc. V of Hamlet, the ghost of Hamlet's father speaks to Hamlet.
The ghost tells Hamlet to do three things.
a) The ghost informs him that he was not killed by a snake bite, as most people were led to believe, but rather was killed by his brother Claudius, who now is married to Hamlet's mother and is King. The ghost tells Hamlet to revenge this "most foul, strange, and unnatural" murder.
This task is, of course, the one that Hamlet hesitates to do throughout the play.
b) The Ghost says to Hamlet that he should not let his "soul contrive(90)
Against [his] mother aught." In other words, he should do no harm to his mother, even though she has acted treacherously by marrying her husband's murderer.
c) Before the Ghost leaves, he says to Hamlet, "Remember me." The meaning of this phrase is debatable. Is it a new directive, in which the Ghost commands Hamlet to always revere his memory? Or is the Ghost just telling Hamlet that he should remember to carry out the instructions that he has already given him?
The Ghost tells Hamlet 3 things:
1. revenge his foul and most unatural murder
2. taint not thy mind... nor contrive against thy mother aught
3. remember me (the father's spirit)
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One of the more controversial and hotly debated topics in the gaming industry is the idea of a “metaverse.” A metaverse is best described as a 3D virtual reality environment where people can create and share their own worlds.
There is no doubt that virtual reality (VR) will play a big role in the future of gaming. VR headsets provide an immersive gaming experience that is unlike anything else. With VR, players can be transported to another world and explore it in a completely new way.
VR technology is still in its early stages, but it is already being used in some games. For example, the popular game “Beat Saber” is a VR game that has become very popular. In the future, we can expect to see more and more games being developed for VR.
- Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) is another technology that is likely to have a big impact on gaming in the future. AR allows players to see digital objects in the real world. For example, the popular game “Pokemon Go” uses AR to allow players to catch Pokemon in the real world.
AR technology is still in its early stages, but it is already being used in some games. In the future, we can expect to see more and more games being developed for AR.
- Metaverse-Powered Games
Metaverse-powered games are games that take place in a virtual world that is powered by AR technology. These games will in all likelihood sometimes also involve gambling. This is where sites like online-kaszinó.com are really helpful, as they help with picking the right online casino which is important as the Metaverse will be quite addictive anyway.
- It is predicted that augmented reality will become increasingly popular in the gaming industry. AR games will become more realistic and immersive, and will allow players to interact with their surroundings in ways that were not possible before.
- AR gaming will also become more social, as players will be able to meet up in virtual spaces and play together. This will lead to the development of new types of games that are specifically designed for multiplayer AR experiences.
- The popularity of AR gaming will also result in the release of more dedicated AR hardware, such as headsets and controllers. This hardware will be designed to provide the best possible gaming experience and will be compatible with a wide range of devices.
- It is also predicted that AR gaming will have a major impact on the traditional video game industry. Many existing video game companies will embrace AR technology and release their own AR games. This could lead to a decline in sales of traditional video games, as players flock to the new AR offerings.
Increasing Connectivity and Interactivity
- Increasing Connectivity and Interactivity
As the world becomes increasingly connected, it’s likely that metaverse-powered gaming will become more popular. Games that take place in a shared virtual world will allow players to interact with each other in new and exciting ways. We’ll see more games that encourage players to cooperate and compete with each other in order to achieve common goals. Additionally, the increasing popularity of social media and streaming services will make it easier for players to connect with each other and share their gaming experiences.
- More Immersive and realistic experiences
As technology advances, we’ll see metaverse-powered games become more immersive and realistic. Virtual reality and augmented reality will play a big role in this, as they’ll allow players to explore virtual worlds in new ways. We’ll also see more games that blur the line between reality and fiction, as developers experiment with new ways to tell stories and create memorable experiences.
What does the future of metaverse-powered gaming look like?
There are a few key trends that point to where gaming is headed. First, there is the increasing popularity of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). AR and VR allow players to immerse themselves in game worlds in ways that were not possible before. As these technologies become more advanced, it is likely that more games will be developed that take advantage of them.
Second, there is the trend towards social gaming. Games like Fortnite and Minecraft have shown that there is a huge demand for games that allow players to interact with each other. In the future, we can expect to see more games that focus on social interaction and collaboration.
Third, there is the rise of mobile gaming. More and more people are playing games on their smartphones and tablets. This trend is only going to continue as mobile devices become more powerful.
All of these trends point to a future where metaverse-powered gaming will be very popular. AR and VR will allow players to immerse themselves in game worlds like never before. Social gaming will be a big part of the gaming landscape. And mobile gaming will continue to grow in popularity.
The future of metaverse-powered gaming is looking very bright. With the release of more and more powerful hardware, the ability to create truly immersive and realistic environments is becoming more and more possible. This means that we can expect to see some truly amazing games in the years to come. If you’re a fan of gaming, then be sure to keep an eye out for these exciting new developments! | <urn:uuid:6b27a729-8020-4d8e-ad65-4ef9f7ad8b3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publicmags.com/future-of-metaverse-powered-gaming/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.967858 | 1,082 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Thoughts for Parents from the Director
Glenn Triezenberg, Director of Career Development, brings years of experience in the field to his annual talks to parents of in-coming freshmen. With wit and warmth, he connects with parents on a number of levels. In case you missed that talk, here’s what he had to say:
Four points which parents need to know now:
1) Itís normal for freshmen not to know what their major is and future career will be.
2) Itís normal for students to switch ideas on major and career as they grow and mature. These are developmentally linked and experientially based changes. Whatís a parent to do in the meantime? Be patient while they develop and while God develops his will in their lives.
3) It’s normal for parents, seeing the struggle, to want to provide answers. But sometimes open ended questions prove to be more effective. Questions such as: what are you learning; what are you liking; how are you growing; what are you involved in (encouraging balance in their life style). And finally, are you doing your job? Meaning the job of being a good and faithful student.
4) It’s normal for parents to encourage students to see a career counselor within the first year of college (took a few editorial liberties with this tip to retain consistency…though not necessarily Normal, this idea is Highly Suggested). Why? Because career counselors want to get to know students as persons, find out where they are developmentally, establish a relationship and help them discover Godís will for their lives as well as how they can best spend their time and talents.
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Symptoms of inhaling bleach fumes include gagging, throat pain, coughing, chest pain and low blood pressure, according to the National Institutes of Health. Additional symptoms include vomiting, skin irritation, coma and shock.Continue Reading
Bleach fumes can affect various parts of the body, including the lungs and airways, the mouth and throat, the nose, the chest, the skin and the stomach, according to the NIH. A condition known as chemical pneumonitis also can result from breathing chlorine gas, which is the byproduct of chlorine bleach, according to The New York Times. Symptoms of chemical pneumonitis include trouble with breathing, coughing, unusual sounds in the lungs and burning in the chest. The condition can result from low exposure to chlorine gas over long periods of time. Without treatment, the condition can lead to loss of the ability to breathe and eventual death.
An individual who experiences symptoms after inhaling fumes from bleach should be moved to an area with fresh air and needs immediate medical assistance, the NIH notes. Skin or eyes affected by the chemical should be rinsed with water for 15 minutes or more. Medical treatment for inhaled bleach fumes includes insertion of a breathing tube, provision of oxygen and use of a camera inserted through the throat to view damage to the lungs and airways.Learn more about Pain & Symptoms | <urn:uuid:3cb94ced-5d24-4ea1-90f3-e4375ef4ff34> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/health/symptoms-inhaling-bleach-fumes-88e93215b26a6052 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00221-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93168 | 269 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Oral history interview with Paul Henry Brach, [circa 1971]
Brach, Paul H. (Paul Henry), 1924-2007
Schwartz, Barry N., 1942-
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Transcript: 22 pages
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Patrons must use transcript. Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
An interview of Paul Henry Brach conducted by Barry Schwartz for the Archives of American Art "Art World in Turmoil" oral history project.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Paul Henry Brach, [circa 1971]. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Transcript available on line at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/brach71.htm
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Location of original tape unknown.
Paul Henry Brach (1924-2007) was a painter and critic in New York, New York.
This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
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Fewer International Adoptions; More Open Adoptions
International adoptions are in decline, but there are many domestic options.
When it comes to adoption, there’s no such thing as “normal.” Just ask Christina and Kevin Kindt. When they had a biological child, they were already parents to three other children: a five-year-old and three-year-old adopted as infants from foster care, and a one-year-old whose adoption from foster care was still in progress.
Though not the typical family, the Kindts are far from alone. According to the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, 2 percent of American children are adopted, which likely means adoption touches most families, schools and communities across the country.
Modern adoptive parents and adoptees won’t encounter many of the old stigmas and biases that used to besiege adoptions. Not long ago, “You’re adopted!” was the ultimate childhood insult, birth mothers were shamed into hiding the pregnancy and lying about the birth, and adoptive parents kept the matter a closely guarded family secret.
After being shrouded in silence and secrecy for most of its history, adoption is coming out of the shadows as it enters the mainstream, according to Adam Pertman, author of Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming our Families and America.
But would-be adoptive parents still face challenges. They must choose which type of adoption to pursue and figure out how to pay mounting fees and navigate the exploding world of online adoption information.
Out of the shadows
Today, only 5 percent of adoptions are “closed adoptions” in which the birth parents and adoptive parents have no contact and birth records are sealed. The 95 percent of the agencies that offer open adoptions allow for ongoing contact between the adoptive family and the birth parents.
That’s good news for everyone. Research from the Donaldson Institute shows that open adoptions are associated with greater satisfaction. Birth mothers who have ongoing contact with their children experience less grief and greater peace of mind and adoptees have access to their biological families and medical histories.
In international adoptions, ongoing contact between birth parents and adopted children can be harder to arrange due to logistics, language barriers, and a host of legal and other complications. But those, too, are slowly cracking open.
Those who dream of international adoption, like Lacey Yantis and Scott Blank who traveled to Ethiopia earlier this year to adopt their son Ermias, 1, face a number of hurdles. Among them is the choice of an adoption site from the dwindling list of countries open to U.S. adoptions. Under tighter regulations, the number of international adoptions is in decline. After an historic high of 22,884 in 2004, it fell to 12,753 in 2009.
Russia, one of the top countries for American parents, is now closed to U.S. adoptions, as is Guatemala, Haiti, Rwanda and Vietnam. China and Ethiopia have cut adoptions drastically and lengthened waiting times.
The waiting game adds costs as attorney and agency fees pile up. The Donaldson Institute reports costs of up to $25,000 for visas, documents and fees charged by the home country.
Yantis says her family’s adoption fees were between $25,000 and $30,000.
Domestic adoptions can be relatively quick. Adoptive Families magazine says 34 percent of U.S. parents who adopt a newborn domestically were matched with a child within three months; 19 percent brought their baby home in four to six months.
Domestic adoptions can be private, through an attorney, adoption facilitator or agency, or public, through the foster-care system.
The Donaldson Institute estimates domestic-adoption costs for agency and private adoptions at $4,000 to $30,000. It’s a wide range that includes costs for home studies, post-adoption supervision, and court fees.
Newborn vs. older
Newborn adoptions through the foster system are relatively rare — only 2 percent of children adopted through the public system are newborns, according to the Donaldson Institute.
Thanks in part to federal incentives enacted during the Clinton administration, foster-care adoptions increased 40 percent between 1995–1998. By 2008, 55,000 children were adopted from foster care.
Foster-care adoptions aren’t as prohibitively expensive as other types of adoption — there are no agency fees, legal fees are often minimal and reimbursed by the state, and parents can claim the adoption tax credit (as can parents who adopt internationally or through an agency or attorney).
Build a family
Despite the obstacles, parents can follow their heart to build a family that’s uniquely their own. The Kindts may not be a cookie-cutter clan, but that doesn’t bother their happy children in the least. Instead, Elizabeth is puzzling over her new brother’s birth. “Adoption is so normal to her, that she’s trying to figure out why this baby doesn’t need to be adopted,” says Christina. “One day, she figured it out, though, and told everyone ‘Mommy grew a baby in her tummy. And he’s already adopted!’”
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Monday, May 23, 2011
New Scientist magazine doesn’t say if they are giving away Mars shergottite, chassignite, or nakhlite – though one assumes it’s the first choice, given they are the most common. But who knows? I imagine the only person who will find out will have the Red Planet specimen in their hot little hand!
Note: Object in promotional picture is larger than it appears. One centimeter, that’s like the space of about five type-written dashes. ----- yeah.
Still, it's from freaking MARS.
If you poke around the site as a basic visitor, you can read various news articles and blog posts. Registering at New Scientist gives further access to their feature articles, interviews of scientists and scholars, and opinion pages (these expire after a week or so); I get the weekly newsletter from New Scientist, though I opted out of any spam from their parent company (Reed Business Information Ltd.) and third party affiliates.
Full online access, as given to paying subscribers, includes archive with no time limits and home delivery of their weekly magazine.
Once registered or subscribed, proceed to http://www.newscientist.com/marscompetition? and tell New Scientist in 140 characters or less: What should be the first spoken words on planet Mars?
In other words, you have to think of an EPIC TWEET to win this pebble.
That's right, your job is to come up with the timeless words spoken by the first human to set foot on the red planet. And Mission Control has to be able to use it on Twitter.
There are 10 prizes total... the runner-up 9 being copies of My Life On Mars by Colin Pillinger.
The contest ends at midnight London time (BST) on Tuesday, May 31st, 2011, upon which time the winners will be emailed.
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Substance abuse in office-based practice, An Issue of Primary Care Clinics in Office Practice
Substance use disorders occur in 10% to 20% of patients presenting to the primary care physician, and rates are increasing. Primary care physicians are therefore in an excellent position to screen, provide early intervention, or refer patients to specialty care. This issue covers several types of substance abuse-including alcohol, prescription drugs, and recreational drugs-and gives detailed information on screening for and treating these problems.
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Why is it that so many good ideas come to us as we’re drinking? Thankfully for me it’s because I’ve got great friends with great ideas. They have bad ones too. But anyway, I was talking to one of my friends at a bar and we got to talking about loans and borrowing money to purchase homes. We all know that companies have two methods to pay for their business operations. They can borrow money in the form of a loan or issue ownership in their company to investors.
But if you want to buy a house you only have one option, get a mortgage. Why aren’t there any companies out there that will “invest” in your house the way you might invest in Apple stock? Think of it the way a company raises money when they do an initial public offering. Investors purchase the shares that you (as the company) are offering. If those shares appreciate, they make money on that appreciation. If the company wants to buy back shares they can. If they have to pay a dividend, they will.
Can we port this model to houses? You bet. Pretend I’m buying a home that costs $100,000 (the old people here will remember back when that was a normal thing). And let’s pretend that Citi pioneers this new investment style that I’m going to call JET (joint equity transaction) financing. I go to Citi and we strike up a deal. What does it look like?
- My Investment: 5%
- Citi’s Investment: 95%
So I own 5% of the house and Citi owns 95%. Now let’s assume no other transaction takes place until it comes time to sell the home. The home is now worth $110,000 one year later. At the sale I get 5% back ($5,500) and Citi gets $104,500. We each made 10% on our money. And if houses appreciated 10% a year we’d have JET financing with no questions asked. But it doesn’t, so we don’t. So we have to incent Citi to actually go through this deal. So I’m going to buy the rest of the house from Citi. How? I’ll make regular payments to them just like a mortgage. The terms of those payments don’t matter but just pretend I buy back 3% of the house each year so we can move on.
What does Citi get for their trouble? When I go sell the house (now worth $140k), I’ll get my equity back based on the original price. Say at this point I now own 50% of the home. I’ll get $50k plus 5% of the appreciation (based on my down payment) which is [.05 * $40k = ] $2,000 for a total of $5,200. Citi will get the other 50% of the home plus 95% of the $40k in appreciation which totals $88,000. But I’ve also paid them for 45% of the original value over time so their net gain is [88 + 45 = ] $133,000.
I could pitch that investment to just about anyone because they get repaid and a cut of the proceeds equal to the initial outlay instead of the current state of ownership. What are the advantages of JET financing over a regular mortgage for Citi then? If you repay them completely then they simply get a nice return the follows the housing market. It’s essentially risk-less for them because if the value of the home goes down that comes out of your pocket (just like a regular mortgage).
So what’s in it for you? Flexible options. Perhaps you don’t have to make any payments if you don’t want to. Just if the value of your home goes down you have to put money in escrow to make up for the loss. If you want to build up equity you can. You also won’t have to pay interest. So every payment goes towards equity. The downside is you’re on the hook for drops in property value (just like you are now) and you only get the % of home appreciate equal to the % of your down payment.
Without running through some mathematical scenarios (no time and that’s not what this blog is about) the arrangement sounds kind of fair. Of course if this market became mature you’d see all the banks selling off their stakes just like they did with mortgages to institutional investors. And I know you’ve been thinking about the collapse of home values lately but that’s detrimental whether you’re in a mortgage or a JET.
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A solar eclipse might be visible over the Earth’s northern hemisphere on Thursday with components of Canada and Siberia aware of the most effective view of the celestial event. Thrill-seekers will quickly have the ability to get their adrenaline kicks, and envy-inducing Instagram snaps, from the final frontier, as house tourism lastly lifts off. June 26, 2021 • When SpaceX opened its rocket manufacturing facility and launch pad in South Texas, few locals thought it might morph into such a big operation. July 14, 2021 • At the height of the Perseids this week, as a lot as 100 meteors an hour could be caught taking pictures across the sky at 37 miles per second, leaving long streaks of their wake.
The first all-civilian mission to orbit Earth on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to launch on Sept. 15, and you may observe all the action stay here. Searching for traces of life on Mars, like NASA is doing, is one factor. A research revealed within the prestigious journal Science reveals the invention of a new exoplanet that could probably be instrumental within the hunt. Space X’s Inspiration4 will make historical past launching into space next week. The countdown to their flight is now the major focus of a brand new docuseries on Netflix, together with how Phoenix’s own Dr. Sian Proctor was chosen to be one of many astronauts.
Lanls Check Launch Profitable, Begins 5 Years Of Data Collection
A Chinese satellite got a historic view of the July 2 total photo voltaic eclipse from BEYOND Moon orbit. Astronomers have found that our galaxy’s supermassive black hole is a track and field celebrity. Solar magnetic fields are strengthening, offering a stiffer barrier to cosmic rays making an attempt to enter the photo voltaic system. The decline of cosmic radiation above California is a sign that new Solar Cycle 25 is gaining energy. Discovery was NASA’s reliable workhorse, spending greater than 1 / 4 century carrying crews, satellites and space station components.
Hummingbirds Use Sense Of Smell To Make Foraging Decisions: Research [newline]scientists Sequence Genome Of Indian Wolf
A pair of spacecraft will head to Mars in 2024 as the ESCAPADE mission, to study the Martian space climate surroundings. Research results in astronomy, photo voltaic physics, and planetary science are about to turn out to be more broadly accessible to scientists and the public alike. The American Astronomical Society today introduced the switch of the Society’s prestigious journals to fully open access as of 1 January 2022. In the 30 years or so since planets were first discovered orbiting stars aside from our solar, we’ve discovered that planetary techniques are frequent within the galaxy. Astronomers might have captured the best view but of matter colliding with the surface of a younger star, findings which will make clear what the solar seemed like in its youth. ISRO’s mission to launch Geo Imaging Satellite (Gisat-1) earth statement satellite tv for pc into orbit was declared ‘unsuccessful’.… Read More | <urn:uuid:8dab2663-8897-4786-98b8-ed4d5ea9cc97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.upclosetech.xyz/tag/space | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.93346 | 635 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Creating a brand new business can be one of biggest and most daunting challenges that anyone can ever face in their life. Where do I start? How do I get the word out? What’s the best way to develop a business model?
But it also has the potential for being the most rewarding experiences that can provide a stable income, take away the negative issues that was part of what made the soon-to-be business owner want to give their former boss a two-week notice in the first place. It won’t be easy, but nothing worth pursuing ever is and for those who are truly dedicated to their cause will be rewarded accordingly based on what they invest themselves.
Regardless, there are tips that anyone who wants to start a business must consider so that they can be that much more prepared before opening shop.
Choose an idea that is important to you
The first step is creating the importance around what the business is going to do because that will keep things going through all of the ups and downs that happen in every type of business no matter what. Having a concept that is close to the heart will keep a person motivated through the difficult times that an entrepreneur will face during a 10-year period.
That personal idea is what keeps a business owner motivated while putting in their own blood, sweat and tears. Even if the business fails, the entrepreneur can at least leave with a sense that their failure was not in vain while doing something important to them.
Write down a mission statement
This can best be done through a blog post where an entrepreneur can articulate the business’ mission, what it aims to do and why it is important for investors and clients. Sounding like a simple goal, it is an important step in creating a business model that can be read by the public and has greater benefits than any business outline could ever have.
In today’s world of social media, that blog post can be shared amongst readers and that can spread word about your company like a wildfire spreading through the internet. And if an entrepreneur is still developing an idea, starting to type it up can help iron out details as they articulate and put the words to paper – or computer screen.
Maintain a focus on growth
Several companies fall because they don’t focus enough of their thoughts and efforts on future growth. Just because you did build a business doesn’t automatically mean clients and investors will come in a giant flock, unlike the popular quote from Field of Dreams.
When studying the companies that grew very fast in a very short amount of time, the common trend among the founders was the serious focus on future growth and development and where that comes from. The best way to do that is for the young entrepreneur to look at the other companies similar in size and industry and find what their strategy involving growth was.
Maintain independent vision, but learn from others
Using the lessons of what hasn’t worked in the past may not have been useful for those business owners at that time, but they will be some of the most valuable resources for your business. At the same time, a young business owner doesn’t want the lessons from the past to affect their individual and independent thought process.
It can be pretty easy to worry so much about what others have done that we forget what we wanted to do in the first place when first deciding that it was better to startup a business and not work as a small spoke on the corporate wheel.
A balance needs to be created between the advice one receives and one’s personal and powerful vision. It doesn’t help to create a business approach that is either copied from another entrepreneur or using their mistakes to fuel what may impact what may or may not be an effect to a new company.
Keep it simple
A common mistake made by people who are new to creating a business is not making a decision from the complex ideas and finding a simple solution to what they want to do. Sometimes when an entrepreneur tries to create a business outline where there are too many early features very rarely works out for the best.
The best sense of approach is to create a business proposal with one simple concept that won’t take too much time to sell on potential investors because you don’t want to spend too much time explaining what you do when they can use that time to invest in businesses that will make them large amounts of money.
The focus isn’t trying to create features, but a company. As your business continues to grow and evolve, the young entrepreneur will have plenty of time to add things later on when the time is right to expand and establish new departments to the business model.
Remain determined and tenacious
Nothing in life is every easy and starting up a brand new business requires a certain level of tenacity and a never ending supply of determination to make your creation successful in the world. An important part of becoming familiar with struggle is telling yourself that there is an importance of what you’re doing.
Another challenge is maintaining that optimism regardless of how many people doubt you and question your ability to accomplish your business goals. But you will be sharing a similar start to successful entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Vinod Khosla who went through the same types of challenges that you did.
Being determined means knocking on every door possible and waiting for even the smallest opening to use as an entry point towards finding success. Sometimes that means turning over every stone in every area of the business, even ones where others have been because you never know if you’ll find an untapped source of potential for any type of reason. | <urn:uuid:0891917b-ee4c-40c2-a162-420bdc80c75e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://income.com/4333/secrets-of-creating-a-startup-business/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00280-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968724 | 1,140 | 1.976563 | 2 |
A purebred Chihuahua showing the classic features of the breed
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The Chihuahua i// (Spanish: chihuahueño) is the smallest breed of dog and is named for the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. Chihuahuas come in a wide variety of sizes, head shapes, colors, and coat lengths.
The Chihuahua's history is puzzling and there are many theories surrounding the origin of the breed. Both folklore and archaeological finds show that the breed originated in Mexico. The most common and most likely theory is that Chihuahuas are descended from the Techichi, a companion dog favored by the Toltec civilization in Mexico. No records of the Techichi are available prior to the 9th century, although dog pots from Colima, Mexico, buried as part of the western Mexico shaft tomb tradition which date back to 300 BC are thought to depict Techichis. It is probable that earlier ancestors were present prior to the Mayans as dogs approximating the Chihuahua are found in materials from the Great Pyramid of Cholula, predating 1530 and in the ruins of Chichen Itza on the Yucatán Peninsula.
In fact, wheeled dog toys representing both the "deer head" and "apple head" varieties of Chihuahua have been unearthed across Mesoamerica from Mexico to El Salvador. The earliest of these were found at Tres Zapotes in Veracruz, Mexico, which date to 100 AD, indirect evidence that the breed was in Mexico over 1400 years before the first Europeans arrived.
Dog effigy pots dating to around 1325 AD discovered in Georgia and Tennessee also appear to represent the Chihuahua. In 1850, a pot featuring the "deer head" variety of Chihuahua was unearthed in old ruins at Casas Grandes in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which dates from 1100–1300 AD showing the long history of the breed at this site, although most artifacts relating to its existence are found around Mexico City. It has been argued that these pots arrived with survivors from the Casas Grandes site in Chihuahua, Mexico, after it was attacked and destroyed around 1340 AD.
Hernan Cortés wrote, in a 1520 letter, that the Aztecs raised and sold the little dogs as food. Colonial records refer to small, nearly hairless dogs at the beginning of the 19th century, one of which claims 16th-century Conquistadores found them plentiful in the region later known as Chihuahua.
Chihuahuas are the smallest breed recognized by some kennel clubs.
There are two varieties of Chihuahua – the Smooth Coat (short haired) and the Long Coat. Both the Smooth and the Long Coats have their special attractions, are equally easy to keep clean and well groomed. The UK Kennel Club considers smooth and long coated Chihuahuas two distinct breeds, matings between the two are not eligible for KC registration.
Dogs of either coat type may be identified as either "apple head" or "deer head" Chihuahuas, particularly in the United States. Apple heads have rounded heads, close-set eyes, and relatively short ears and legs. Deer heads have flat-topped heads, more widely set eyes, larger ears, and longer, more slender legs. While deer heads were popular in the mid-twentieth century, current breed standards defined by registries such as the Chihuahua Club of America and American Kennel Club specify the apple head conformation.
Breed standards for this dog do not generally specify a height; only a weight and a description of their overall proportions. Generally, the height ranges between 15 and 23 cm (6 and 9 in); however, some dogs grow as tall as 30 to 38 cm (12 to 15 in). Both British and American breed standards state that a Chihuahua must not weigh more than 2.7 kg (6 lb) for conformation. However, the British standard also states that a weight of 1.8–2.7 kg (4–6 lb) is preferred. A clause stating that 'if two dogs are equally good in type, the more diminutive one is preferred' was removed in 2009. The Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) standard calls for dogs ideally between 1.5 and 3.0 kg (3.3 and 6.6 lbs.), although smaller ones are acceptable in the show ring.
Pet Chihuahuas (that is, those bred or purchased as companions rather than show dogs) often range above these weights, even above ten pounds if they have large bone structures or are allowed to become overweight. This does not mean that they are not purebred Chihuahuas; they do not meet the requirements to enter a conformation show. Oversized Chihuahuas are seen in some of the best, and worst, bloodlines. Chihuahuas do not breed true for size, and puppies from the same litter can mature drastically different sizes from one another. As well, larger breeding females are less likely to experience dystocia. Typically, the breed standard for both the long and short coat chihuahua will be identical except for the description of the coat. Chihuahuas have large, round eyes and large, erect ears, set in a high, dramatically rounded skull.
The Kennel Club in the United Kingdom and the American Kennel Club in the United States recognize only two varieties of Chihuahua: the long-coat, and the smooth-coat, also referred to as short-haired. They are genetically the same breed. The term smooth-coat does not mean that the hair is necessarily smooth, as the hair can range from having a velvet touch to a whiskery feeling. Long-haired Chihuahuas are actually smoother to the touch, having soft, fine guard hairs and a downy undercoat, which gives them their fluffy appearance. Unlike many long-haired breeds, long-haired Chihuahuas require no trimming and minimal grooming. Contrary to popular belief, the long-haired breed also typically sheds less than its short-haired counterparts. It may take up to three or more years before a full long-haired coat develops.
Chihuahuas come in virtually any color combination, from solid to marked or splashed, allowing for colors from solid black to solid white, spotted, sabled, or a variety of other colors and patterns. Colors and patterns can combine and affect each other, resulting in a very high degree of variation. Common colors are fawn, red, cream, chocolate, brown, mixed, white, and black. No color or pattern is considered more valuable than another.
The merle coat pattern, which appears mottled, is not traditionally considered part of the breed standard. In May 2007, The Kennel Club decided not to register puppies with this coloration due to the health risks associated with the responsible gene, and in December of that year formally amended the Breed Standard to disqualify merle dogs. The Fédération Cynologique Internationale, which represents the major kennel clubs of 84 countries, also disqualified merle. Other countries' kennel clubs, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Germany, have also disqualified merle. However, in May 2008, the Chihuahua Club of America voted that merles would not be disqualified in the United States, and would be fully registrable and able to compete in American Kennel Club (AKC) events. Opponents of merle recognition suspect the coloration came about by modern cross-breeding with other dogs, and not via natural genetic drift.
How a Chihuahua turns out depends mightily on the genetic temperament of his parents and grandparents. Chihuahuas can be easily provoked to attack, and are therefore generally unsuitable for homes with small children. The breed tends to be fiercely loyal to one particular person and in some cases may become over protective of the person, especially around other people or animals. They do not always get along with other breeds, and tend to have a "clannish" nature, often preferring the companionship of other Chihuahuas or Chihuahua mixes over other dogs. These traits generally make them unsuitable for households with children who are not patient and calm. If properly managed by older children, 13 and up, they can adapt to this kind of living with a dedicated owner. The temperament of its owner can make a difference in the temperament of the pup.
Chihuahuas love their dens and will often burrow themselves in pillows, clothes hampers, and blankets. They are often found under the covers or at the bottom of the bed, deep in the dark and safety of what they perceive as their den. Chihuahuas also enjoy time in sunlight.
This breed requires expert veterinary attention in areas such as birthing and dental care. Dental care is a must for these smallest dogs, whose jaw size makes for weaker teeth.
Chihuahuas, and other toy breeds, can be affected by hydrocephalus. Chihuahua puppies with hydrocephalus have an abnormally large head, are lethargic and do not grow at the same pace as their siblings. A true case of hydrocephalus can be diagnosed by a veterinarian, though the prognosis is grim.
Apple-headed chihuahuas can have moleras, or a soft spot in their skulls, and they are the only breed of dog to be born with an incomplete skull. This is not a defect; it is a normal adaptation facilitating the passage through the birth canal and growth and development of the domed type of forehead. The molera is predominant in the apple heads and is present in nearly all Chihuahua puppies. The molera fills in with age, but great care needs to be taken during the first six months until the skull is fully formed. Some moleras do not close completely and require extra care to prevent injury.
Chihuahua puppies can be at risk for hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar. Signs of hypoglycemia include lethargy, sleepiness, uncoordinated walking, unfocused eyes and spasms of the neck muscles or head pulling back or to the side, fainting and seizures. Hypoglycemia can be avoided with adequate nutrition and frequent feedings, especially for chihuahuas who are younger, smaller or leaner. Chihuahua owners should have a simple sugar supplement on hand to use in emergencies, such as Nutri-Cal, Karo syrup and honey. These supplements can be rubbed on the gums and roof of the mouth to rapidly raise the blood sugar level.
On the other hand, as with any dog, owners should take care not to overfeed their chihuahua, since obesity can result in increased rates of joint injuries, tracheal collapse, chronic bronchitis, and shortened life span.
As in other breeds with large protruding eyes, Chihuahuas are prone to eye infections or eye injury. The eyes may water in response to dry air, dust or air-borne allergens.
Chihuahuas may tremble or shiver when stressed, excited or cold. Chihuahuas, especially the short-coat variety, are less tolerant of cold than larger breeds, and require a sweater and/or boots in cold weather. They will seek warmth in sunshine, under blankets, or on furniture, or human laps.
The average lifespan for a Chihuahua is between 12 and 20 years.
Chihuahuas are also known for luxating patella, a genetic condition that can occur in all dogs. In some dogs, the ridges forming the patellar groove are not shaped correctly and a shallow groove is created, causing the patella to luxate or slip out of place, sideways. The knee cap sliding across the bony ridges of the femur can cause some pain. The affected chihuahua will hold its leg flexed, and foot off the ground until the quadriceps muscle relaxes and lengthens, after which the animal feels no discomfort and continues with activity.
Chihuahuas are also prone to some heart-related disorders, such as heart murmurs and pulmonic stenosis, a condition in which the blood outflow from the heart's right ventricle is obstructed at the pulmonic valve.
Chihuahuas and chihuahua/Chinese Cresteds mixes have rated highly in the World's Ugliest Dog Contest, including a purebred chihuahua named Princess Abby (winner of the 2010 contest) and a crossbreed named Yoda (the 2011 winner).
In popular culture
- The 2008 film Beverly Hills Chihuahua has Chloe who gets dognapped in Mexico and features Papi.
- The TV show The Ren & Stimpy Show features Ren, who is a Chihuahua.
- The 1988 film Oliver & Company features Tito.
- The 1955 film Lady and the Tramp features a minor character, Pedro.
- Krypto the Superdog features Mammoth Mutt who is a pink Chihuahua.
- The cartoon show Phineas and Ferb also features a Chihuahua who is owned by Isabella.
- The 2001 film Legally Blonde and its 2003 sequel Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde both had Bruiser.
- Taco Bell used a chihuahua as its advertising figure and mascot from 1997 to 2000.
- Chihuahueño Chihuahueño (perro), Wikipedia in Spanish
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- Pedro Baptista Pino y Juan Lopez Cancelada, Exposición sucinta y sencilla de la Provincia del Nuevo México y otros escritos. Ed. Jesus Paniagua Perez. Valladolid: Junta de Castilla / León: Universidad de León, 2007, p. 244: "even in the desert the tiny dogs could be found, hunting rats, mice, and lizards. " The footnote that follows alludes to starving Conquistadores reportedly hunting and stewing the dogs (Universidad Veracruzana, Arquivo Viejo, XXVI.2711).
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- "Hydrocephalus". Genetic Welfare Problems of Companion Animals. ufaw.org.uk: Universities Federation for Animal Welfare. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
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The U.S. economy may have just experienced one of its worst quarters ever.
New analyst estimates of Q1 GDP have now all coalesced around a reading of -2%, meaning the U.S. economy contracted.
Since 1947, there've been just 10 other quarters that have shrunk by at least that amount, according to FRED data. Besides the Great Recession, the last time was in 1982.
In notes today, Barclays and UBS both cited new Census data showing health care consumption was lower than expected, and as a result, have lowered their Q1 GDP forecasts to the aforementioned -2%.
History suggests that the BEA’s revisions have closely followed the [quarterly services survey] and, consequently, we expect the BEA to revise health care spending sharply lower in the third estimate of Q1 GDP. We now estimate that private consumption grew at 2.1% q/q saar in Q1, down from 3.1% in the second estimate, and added 1.4pp to growth. This leaves our Q1 real GDP tracking estimate at -2.0%, down 0.7% relative to our previous estimate following business inventories for April...
Macroeconomic Advisers, meanwhile, cited a negative March core sales revision — suggesting lower consumption — for why it has now revised its Q1 estimate down a further 1/10th to -2.1%. Just two days ago, the firm was estimating a Q1 slide of just -1.4%.
Here's a cross-section of the new run-down:
- Barclays: -2%
- Macroeconomic Advisers: -2.1%
- UBS: -2%
- Deutsche Bank -1.5%
Deutsche Bank's Joe LaVorgna is a bit more upbeat, writing that the magnitude of weakness in Q1 output was not consistent with nonfarm payrolls, production and spending growth in the quarter, and that he expects the U.S. to shake it off.
To be sure, the economic data over the past couple of months have largely confirmed that activity is rapidly recovering from its Q1 weather -induced slump. While May retail sales were weaker than expected, upward revisions to April should mitigate any concerns about current-quarter consumption. Moreover, it is possible the May retail sales data get revised higher if the recent trend is any indication; ex-auto retail sales have been revised higher in each of the last three months.
The firms are still largely bullish on Q2; here again, Deutsche Bank has the high card at 4.2%.
But Q1 shows the U.S. economy is not prepared to handle unusually harsh winters, or must still shrug off underlying weakness, or some combination of the two.
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This work focuses on the research related to enabling individuals with speech impairment to use speech-to-text software to recognize and dictate their speech. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tends to be a challenging problem for researchers because of the wide range of speech variability. Some of the variabilities include different accents, pronunciations, speeds, volumes, etc. It is very difficult to train an end-to-end speech recognition model on data with speech impediment due to the lack of large enough datasets, and the difficulty of generalizing a speech disorder pattern on all users with speech impediments. This work highlights the different techniques used in deep learning to achieve ASR and how it can be modified to recognize and dictate speech from individuals with speech impediments.
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Mounir, R, Alqasemi, R, & Dubey, R. "Speech Assistance for Persons With Speech Impediments Using Artificial Neural Networks." Proceedings of the ASME 2017 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Volume 3: Biomedical and Biotechnology Engineering. Tampa, Florida, USA. November 3–9, 2017. V003T04A056. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2017-71027
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Medical treatment must balance the health of the mother with potential adverse effects to the developing baby
Children born to women taking anti-depressants in early pregnancy have a small but important increased risk of heart defects, researchers say.
The study published in the British Medical Journal says depression affects up to 20% of pregnant women.
Exposure to anti-depressants in the womb caused problems in less than 1% of children.
The authors say the overall risk is very low and women should speak to doctors before stopping their drugs.
Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are medicines commonly used for the treatment of depression .
In 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about the SSRI paroxetine because of an increase in birth defects if it was taken during pregnancy.
Septal heart defects
This study looked at whether there was an association between SSRIs taken in the first trimester of pregnancy and malformations in over 400,000 children born in Denmark between 1996 and 2003.
Maternal age and smoking were taken into account.
The defects found are known as septal heart defects where there is a problem with the wall that divides the left side of the heart from the right side.
The researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark said these defects were 0.4% more prevalent in children of women who redeemed a prescription for an SSRI in the first trimester of pregnancy.
Two SSRIs, sertraline and citalopram, were associated with the problem.
Two others, paroxetine and fluoxetine, were not.
A four-fold increase in septal heart defects was found if women were taking more than one SSRI.
There were no other malformations associated with taking SSRIs.
The researchers say the absolute differences in heart defects were low.
Septal heart defects occurred in 2,315 (0.5%) of unexposed children, 12 (0.9%) of SSRI exposed children and 4 (2.1%) of children exposed to more than one type of SSRI.
They estimate that one child for every 246 children exposed was likely to suffer a heart defect.
Lars Henning Pedersen, who led the research, said: "Treatment of depression during pregnancy balances the risk of the medicine with that of the depression, and we investigated only a part of the information needed to make evidence based decisions.
"Even if SSRI use is causally related to septal heart defects, these heart defects might not necessarily require treatment and some might resolve spontaneously."
Professor Basky Thilaganathan, of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, said it was important to remember that many women who suffered depression could be treated without resorting to drugs.
He said: "All hospitals now have a dedicated doctor or liaison officer for women suffering psychiatric symptoms in pregnancy.
"This study shows a less than one in a 100 chance of getting a baby with a defect in the heart."
Cathy Ross, cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation (BHF), said: "Depression can be a debilitating condition.
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|Title||Loligo surinamensis, a new species of Loliginid Squid (Cephalopoda, Myopsida) from Northeastern South America 1|
|Abstract||While studying a collection of cephalopods from Surinam sent to me by Dr. C. O. van Regteren Altena, a number of loliginid squids were found that at first examination appeared to be Loligo pealei Lesueur, 1821. Further detailed study revealed a series of characters unknown in that species and sufficiently different from those of other known Western Atlantic loliginids to warrant the erection of a new species. An increased interest in the squids of this genus seems to warrant the publication of this new species in advance of the full report on the collections.|
I wish to thank the officials of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, and particularly Dr. van Regteren Altena for the opportunity to study the collections. The illustrations are mine. This work was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation GB2499X3 for which I extend my thanks.
Loligo surinamensis new species (figs. 1-3) Material examined. — Holotype: Male, mantle length 118 mm, R/V "Coquette" Sta. 8-9, 30 miles northeast of the lightship "Suriname Rivier" in no feet (= 37 m), with trawl, 30 June 1966; W. Vervoort and C. Cornet leg.; RNHL alc. 9010. Paratypes: 7 males, mantle lengths 88-114 mm, 6 females, mantle lengths 75-118 mm, R/V "Coquette" Sta. 8-9, type locality; RNHL alc. 9011. — 2 males, mantle lengths 84-85 mm, R/V "Coquette", 5 miles northwest of lighter (mouth of the Surinam River), 106-102 feet, 19 February 1963; C. O. van Regteren Altena leg.; RNHL alc. 9012. — 1 male, mantle 1) Contribution No. 1662 from the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. length 105 mm, R/V "Calamar" Sta. 121, 6°15'N, 54°45'W northeast of the mouth of the Surinam River in 27 m, 11 August 1967; UMML 31 :1110.
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Designed by noted New York City architect Dwight James Baum, Ca’ d’Zan, John and Mable Ringling’s spectacular 36,000-square-foot winter residence, stands as a testament to the American Dream in the Roaring Twenties. Tours of the mansion, which hosted grand concerts and glamorous ballroom soirees during its heyday, offer a glimpse into the rarified lifestyle of a couple dedicated to living with, appreciating, and advancing the arts and design. Completed in 1926, Ca’ d’Zan features many of Mable Ringling’s favorite details and designs from famous Venetian palazzi of the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries that she visited, with flora and fauna chosen as the decorative theme.
Since Ca’ d’Zan opened its doors to the public in 1946, it has become a favorite site for visitors to Florida and residents alike. It is recognized as an architectural treasure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the official list of the nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. As a result of its age and popularity, the wear and tear on this five-story, 56-room mansion is tremendous. Ongoing regular maintenance, repainting, refinishing, and repairing are critical as part of the important stewardship and custodianship of Ca’ d’Zan. But in order for this palatial and significant work of Venetian Gothic-style architecture to be properly preserved, periodic larger conservation and restoration efforts are required. The most recent of these projects took place from 1996 to 2002.
One major component of this magnificent historic home that is now displaying signs of severe deterioration is the exterior terra cotta ornamentation, perhaps Ca’ d’Zan’s most distinctive feature. “What makes Ca’ d’Zan so incredibly beautiful and special are the striking terra cotta tiles and charming decorative design,” said Ron McCarty, Keeper of Ca’ d’Zan. “The workmanship and materials are flawless. However, the early 20th-century mounting of the terra cotta, while state-of-the-art at the time, has not aged well since the building was constructed 90 years ago.”
The glazed terra cotta was fabricated in the 1920s by O. W. Ketcham Terra Cotta Works, a firm near Philadelphia whose work on the project was actively overseen by Mable Ringling. Accounts describe her climbing into kilns, choosing every color, and approving the designs of the terra cotta in order to replicate the visual splendor that she experienced in Venice. The current conservation and restoration project addresses the needs of the terra cotta decoration, in particular the iron elements that support the terra cotta covering every surface of this justly celebrated and studied building. Salt-laden air and rainwater seep in and corrode the iron, leading to internal stresses that cause fracturing of the terra cotta. In order to prevent further damage and loss, new stainless steel supports will be installed.
“The careful preservation of this wonderful historic structure is a huge responsibility. In any kind of conservation or restoration program, we want to retain as much of the fabric of the original as possible, replacing elements only when absolutely necessary.”Barbra Ramsay
On March 31st, The Ringling is hosting the fifth annual Wine Walk—the primary fundraising event for the Ca’ d’Zan Preservation Fund. Guests participate in a self-guided wine tasting along the drive to the mansion, complete with food pairings and live entertainment. Each tasting station will be theatrically decorated in the spirit of this year’s theme, red and white. Construction of Ca’ d’Zan was completed in 1926, but fell into disrepair after John Ringling’s death. In 1996, the mansion underwent a 6-year, $15 million restoration. However, much work remains to be done to not only completely restore the palatial home to its former grandeur but also to maintain the property and ensure major renovations are not needed in the future. | <urn:uuid:985e0d82-aaef-4de0-b989-b3505ada6adc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cfa.fsu.edu/the-ringlings-restoring-of-the-beauty-of-ca-dzan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.954093 | 872 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Nuclear Technology / Volume 148 / Number 1 / October 2004 / Pages 97-101
Technical Note / Fuel Cycle and Management
Recently, it has been suggested to consider 242mAm as a potential nuclear fuel. This artificial nuclide can be produced through 241Am neutron capture carried on in a neutron field typical of a thermal reactor. In order to suppress the thermal neutron flux, which will cause 242mAm depletion mainly through fission, proper neutron filters should be adopted. In a very intense neutron field, the 242mAm enrichment depends mainly on the energy distribution of the neutrons, the sample thickness, and the cutoff energy of the neutron filter.
An investigation on different geometries of the sample to be irradiated using Cd, B, Sm, and Gd as neutron filters has been carried out by means of Monte Carlo simulation. The most favorable results have been obtained irradiating thin 241Am samples (11 g/cm2) covered with a Gd (0.2-mm-thick) or Sm (1-mm-thick) filter. In these cases the theoretical 242mAm enrichment can reach 20%.
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Concealed and foundation are the basic makeup requirements. Many of our skin problems can be solved with concealer. And all of our face gets an even tone with foundation. However, in summer, we like to have lighter makeup. To this many women have raised a most interesting question whether concealers can be used as a foundation? Let’s see what this makeup trick can do.
Can you use concealer as foundation?
Yes, you can use concealer as foundation. Because the concealer is very much close to the foundation. It is as effective as a foundation to cover dark lines, wrinkles, blemishes, and other imperfections by hiding pigments on the skin.
You can apply concealer either on the top of the foundation base or alone on the bare skin.
The purpose of the foundation is to create an even tone. Like foundation, a concealer offers a variety of skin toning options. Along with hiding blemishes, concealer gives your skin a targeted layer of protection for further makeup. Because it is thicker than foundation, it gets blended and works best to achieve the matte finish all day. It’s fine to use concealer and skip foundation completely (if you like to keep it real simple).
Benefits of using concealer without foundation
Concealers are the best to shape the most visible areas like the eyebrows. Even your foundation will not do it so smoothly and perfectly like a concealer. A thin layer of concealer around the eyes can change the look by creating the same effect as you would have by applying the foundation.
Blur Fine Lines
Wrinkles and fine lines are common on the face. The best thing is these can be eliminated. Thanks to the beauty of cosmetics. Concealers can do wonders to blur those lines around the eyes, lips, and forehead with just a coat. All you need is to find the correct color that matches your skin type.
Contouring is the quality of a good concealer. If you want a sharper angle to your jaw or want to soften the chiseled line, mixing two shades of concealer is one of the easiest looks to accomplish with.
Cover Dark Circles
Dark circles under eyes, no worries. Concealer is great on the go. Even if you apply only concealer without foundation, it helps to create a flawless, matte-like finish.
Highlight the cheekbones
Using concealer on your cheekbones illuminate your skin. Choose a shade lighter than what you are using for full coverage, to feature your cheeks and even chin, and blend using a sponge or brush.
Primer for lips
Concealer is one of the best alternatives to the foundation. It has many applications being just a concealer. It is the ideal primer for the lips. A thin amount on the lips makes them smooth and even hides the lines, creating an even tone.
Concealers are thicker and smudge-resistant than foundation. Here you can take its benefit to improve the skin appearance and for masking discolorations.
How to apply concealer as foundation on the face
You can definitely use your concealer at times as a foundation owing to its versatility. Ideally, the foundation should come first. My suggestion is: if you are using a concealer for the full face coverage, follow these steps to apply it correctly on your face.
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Step 1: Prep your skin
Before applying any makeup you must prepare your skin. Start by washing your face with a cleanser. Apply serum and moisturize to hydrate. Yes even if you have oily skin, moisturize it anyway. If your plans are going out, protect yourself with a small amount of sunblock.
Now your next step is the concealer as you don’t want foundation.
Step 2: Conceal under the eyes
This is the first step of makeup. Rather than spreading it all over, draw a triangle beneath your eyes. Using a brush or the tip of your finger, gently dab the concealer and work it into your skin, do not rub it as this will ruin your look.
Make sure you don’t drag the concealer to other parts, otherwise it can lead to caking.
Step 3: Apply on spots and blemishes
For hiding pimples and blemishes, try a full coverage concealer. Treat the individual spot or any mark you want to conceal. Dab the concealer onto the top of each spot, and then blend it softly onto your skin.
Once you are done with spot treating, wear the concealer over the area with redness and acne. For acne don’t use fingers, go with a brush.
Step 4: Focus around the nose
Work the concealer up on the inside of your nose. Most people often ignore the area. It’s important to cover the dark areas around the nose to make you look fresh and natural.
Step 5: Conceal around the mouth for fuller lips
If you had the foundation most of your darker areas would be blurred because it is applied on the whole face. Since you now have concealer, apply it around the lips where it is dark. To get fuller lips, apply a bit of concealer on your lips and protect your lipstick from fading.
Step 5: Conceal around the brows
In order to shape your eyebrows, first, fill your brows using a brow pencil and then apply the concealer around in small dots. Blend it nicely under and on the top of eyebrows.
Step 6: Set the concealer with powder
When you are done with concealing, use powder to lock it well with the skin. Not on I will prevent from creasing it offers a more natural skin tone.
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Concealer vs foundation
The application of concealer and foundation is to get a flawless and natural makeup look. Both of the products work on the surface of the skin to cover the skin pores and any blemishes. But one cannot replace the need of others. Although at times you can wear concealer as foundation, the purpose of foundation cannot be served. There are some differences that will help you know more about the two.
Foundation is made up of emollients, oils, binding agents, fatty alcohol that helps it to adhere to the skin. A concealer on the other hand used for hiding age marks is thicker containing oils, starch, alcohol, talc, and color additives as well.
Foundations offer anything from sheer light coverage to blur out slight imperfections for a natural look, to full coverage of the face. Concealers are usually medium to full coverage and completed work on the spot treatment and under-eye areas. In short, it covers all the dark areas on the face. Concealers can be used alone or with foundation.
When you opt for foundation, you will have to select that is close to your skin tone to get uniformity in your face and neck. Concealer is usually of the light shade to effectively brighten up the dark and dull areas. There are multi-colored concealer palettes to choose from. The one I have been using is Stila Correct & Perfect All-In-One Color Correcting Palette.
If you’re going for a fully done-up look, choose both. Apply foundation first and then conceal. For everyday makeup that looks more natural and light, I suggest you choose concealer for its versatility. Concealers usually offer fuller and thicker coverage than a foundation, and usually, concealer has a few extra makeup hacks too.
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Types of Concealer
There are different types of concealer formulations available. Like any skincare product or cosmetic product, you should always know your skin type, while picking up your concealer take into account the facts and details for each type.
The most common and most versatile among all types of concealers. Liquid concealers are available in satin, radiant shimmer, and matte finish. Matte finish is ideal for normal to oily skin as it helps to lock the oils from trapping through pores. A thin layer of liquid is enough to cover the face imperfections. Satin is perfect to achieve a natural look. It is also the best for dry skin as it has more movement. To add a soft glow under your eyes and other parts, a shimmer radiant finish is the best.
Stick concealers are most popular for their easy application. They have a semi-solid texture and thick consistency. it is great for dry, sensitive, and combination skin. Sticks however don’t go well on acne and blemishes. There are chances the creamy formula can cause breakouts.
This type of concealer works well for dry and combination skin. Cream concealers offer medium to full coverage and can be applied with your fingers to mask any discolorations. Since this has a thicker formula than a liquid concealer, it can be used to cover heavy dark circles, acne, and scars easily.
Powder concealer is a lightweight loose formula. it can be your best when you don’t want a thick consistency. Apply powder concealer with a brush on your areas and you will feel you aren’t wearing any makeup. It is ideal for all skin types and with the powder-based formula, you won’t suffer from breakouts or clogged pores.
Color Correcting Concealer
Colour correction is the method of using skin complementing colors to help you get rid of skin discoloration. Colour corrector concealers are much like creamy concealers. Both have similar textures. The colors that are used for color correcting are completely different from the skin tone so that it vanishes the effect of blemishes and improves the texture. The colors that are generally used are green, lavender, yellow, and a few other coral shades. Each color is used to target a specific area of concern. You have to learn some basic color combination techniques in order to apply them to the face. | <urn:uuid:64a64e2f-025b-4f23-9413-8e3159a91a30> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://herbeautysecret.com/can-you-use-concealer-as-foundation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.935083 | 2,131 | 1.859375 | 2 |
HIV vaccine research being conducted in Owensboro is getting a boost from a federal grant. The National Institutes of Health Monday announced a five-year, $14.7 million dollar grant for a project being led by the Owensboro Cancer Research program.
The goal is to create a gel-based vaccine that involves tobacco plants.
Researchers in Daviess County have been extracting a protein found in red algae, injecting it into tobacco plants, growing the tobacco on a massive scale, and then extracting the protein for use in a gel. Lab tests show the protein blocks HIV cells from entering uninfected cells.
Researchers have developed a gel using the protein that they hope can be used to stop the spread of HIV during sexual intercourse.
Owensboro Cancer Research program director Kenneth Palmer says the irony of using tobacco plants to possibly create a medical breakthrough isn’t lost on him.
“We’re working with the plant that has been responsible for millions and millions of cases of cancer. It is satisfying that we can use that plant for a positive medical use,” Palmer said.
The protein being used by the Owensboro researchers is found in red algae that grows off the coast of New Zealand.
The possibility of creating a HIV-blocking gel from proteins grown in tobacco plants also meets two criteria Palmer described as important in the effort to halt the spread of HIV around the globe.
“It needs to be available in massive quantities at low cost. This is a bulk product that also needs to be cost-effective or otherwise it’s not available to the millions and millions of people who are at risk for HIV transmission.”
Palmer said the next step in the research process is to conduct animal testing with the gel. If successful, that would be followed by a human clinical trial involving 18 volunteers.
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Are you tired of doing your regular 9 to 5 job and want to be your boss? You have landed at the right place. Suppose you are considering starting your own business and exploring business opportunities in India. We’ll introduce you to 10 small businesses that are booming in India.
India is a land of opportunity. Everyone wants to be a successful entrepreneur, but developing a good business idea may seem challenging. In that case, there are several small businesses you can start to suit your needs, financial conditions, interests, and availability.
There are many small businesses in India targeting niche markets. Here is a list of the top 10 small businesses you can start in India right now:
If you plan to start a drop shipping business in India, it is the right time. E-commerce and internet trading are growing in India. And drop shipping is the best way to profit from this e-commerce boom in India. Therefore, let’s begin by understanding what is the meaning of dropshipping?
Dropshipping is an online business different from traditional online stores such as Amazon and Flipkart.
How to begin:
- A dropshipping business is always digital. Hence, you`ll need a good and attractive website to sell your products, or you can open a marketplace on Facebook, Shopify, and other similar platforms.
- You can advertise your products with pictures, descriptions, prices, and terms and conditions.
- Once you get an order and the payment, you`ll pass it to an Indian or foreign supplier.
- You`ll buy the products from an Indian or foreign store to supply your customers at a lower price. And you`ll be selling these items on your dropshipping website at a higher price.
- Before buying products from an Indian or foreign supplier, you`ll have to agree upon the rates and sometimes test the quality of their stuff by ordering a sample.
- The supplier, such as a manufacturer or wholesaler, will ship the goods directly to your customer after paying them.
2. Affiliate Marketing
Another among the top small businesses strategy in India is Affiliate Marketing. You would have heard of Affiliate Marketing as it has become famous in the past few years. But how Affiliate Marketing works?
Affiliate Marketing is excellent for launching products as it helps affiliates promote products and generate sales. The Affiliate Marketers promote their products by providing links to affiliates to track which affiliates are driving traffic on different sites.
Affiliates can promote your small business through a blog, YouTube video upload of the product, reviews, and testimonials. So, let’s say you mention a particular product on one of these platforms; this is when the customer purchases the product or shows interest. In this way, you might be able to make money.
There are several advantages to using affiliate marketing, especially for small businesses:
- Pay only when results are in.
- Can be more profitable
- Affiliates are good at creating content and reaching customers: Why would someone sign up as an affiliate and waste time if they think they won’t be able to bring you the customers?
- You know your cost-per-conversion: This will help determine if you are losing or winning.
- You rarely lose money
3. Daycare owner
Daycare continues to be in high demand. Many parents require daycare for their children. If you like to take care of small kids, then a daycare career would be the best for you! What is the job of a daycare owner?
Daycare owners provide a safe learning environment for a child where they can learn and grow but finding an excellent daycare center can be difficult. Meet the needs of your neighborhood by opening a daycare. Also, comply with city zoning, insurance, and inspection requirements before opening a daycare.
Do you not have enough money to start a business? I believe tutoring is the best opportunity to earn without investing any money. Many business ideas require you to spend money, except for tutoring.
Tutoring is one of the most profitable top small businesses that help educate children. It leads them to successful education, whether you are a talented student, parent, teacher, or retired teacher. Starting a tutoring business could also serve as a salary supplement depending on the number of students you teach.
How to begin:
• A small tutor business is accessible to advertise. Put posters in schools, universities, and public places (post offices, banks, coffee shops).
• You could also open a tutoring company.
• If you want to work at night or on weekends, you can call for a late afternoon session.
In this business, you can meet different types of people, build relationships with parents, make perhaps one or two friends, and increase your chances of being referred. Tutoring is a rewarding profession. It can enrich your life and, at the same time, improve the life of the students you teach.
5. Catering service
Do you love to cook? If yes, you can start catering service from home with the proper kitchen, equipment, and recipe books worth sharing. You don’t need any significant investment to create your own catering business. You can count on some additional steps for support (and good transportation); this is a great way to step into one of the top small businesses in India. Customers are willing to pay a fair amount for catering if they maintain good hygiene, tasty food, and customer service standards.
6. Tour guide
Do you like the local history of your city or state? Consider becoming a tour guide. Tour guides help the tourists by showing them around the places of their interest. You’ll have to research your town’s history to do the job, but it’s half the fun. Differentiate yourself by offering tours that address specific niches in the history of your community.
Some tour guides, such as Boston’s freedom trail tour guide, offer historic walking tours of the city’s most ghostly places; while helping guests get a real sense of the town. You can also create an environment for your tourists to ensure they experience the best.
7. Moving business or company
Trucks, mobile equipment, staff, proper permits, and insurance are the building blocks to starting your moving business. However, before buying your first truck, start with a moving truck and keep costs low. Does the initial investment still sound like it’s too high? Consider only offering packaging services with much lower barriers to entry. You can also take a niche approach to the industry like Astro International by providing international moving services.
8. Virtual assistant service
Almost every business requires a Virtual assistance service nowadays; providing this service is probably not bad! Virtual Assistant Services is one of the top small businesses in India and the most profitable business idea.
With the spread of telecommuting and virtual offices, the demand for specialists such as virtual assistants increases. A virtual assistant is a self-employed, independent contractor that provides
management or technical services to clients while working remotely from the client’s office.
They usually help clients with tasks that take time, such as meetings and appointment schedules. Virtual assistants typically work from home but can access the digital resources they need to do their jobs.
For example, you can enter data into the client’s database or add an appointment to your digital calendar. These services are effective for busy small businesses with insufficient employees (or who cannot afford a full-time salary) to perform specific tasks. These outsourced tasks may include:
- Lead sales talk
- Processing of medical records
- Research products
- Conducting market research
Starting a virtual assistant business is easy. It will help if you have a computer with the right know-how and robust Wi-Fi connectivity.
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9. Courier Services
Who does not want to get their package or delivery on time? Customers wish boxes to deliver quickly, safely, and on time in today’s fast-paced world. Courier services can give your business a competitive edge by offering localized delivery options.
Package delivery is something you can start on your own and eventually grow into a more significant type of business. Of course, you need websites, vehicles, and sophisticated marketing.
10. Logo and graphic design service
Are you a visual type, very creative, and want to show your creativity to the world? Then logo and graphics designing might be the best decision for you. Yet another one of the marketing-related top small businesses in India is a highly profitable business idea. But there is much competition in this field, so it would be best if you initiate creative ideas to stand out from others.
As a logo designer, you should focus on building your portfolio first. All-new clients want to see your previous job. Therefore, a broad and high-quality portfolio can be the best marketing tool.
Choosing a small business idea to work on is a personal choice. Money is essential, but you need more motivation to keep going. Exchange ideas with friends and family until you find the perfect picture or idea that fits your schedule.
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Agra is a city that boasts home to the greatest testament of love – The Taj Mahal, one of the eight wonders of the world. Built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial for his late wife, Mumtaz Mahal, the Taj Mahal’s unrivalled beauty brings scores of tourists from across the world to admire its exquisite beauty; very few leave disappointed. Besides the Taj Mahal, Agra is rich in historical monuments such as the sandstone Red Fort and Fatehpur Sikri, both UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Luxurylaunches along with the Concierge team at the Oberoi Amarvilas brings you a list of things to do when visiting this city of love. Relive the era of Emperors and Princes whilst exploring this great city…. and who knows you might rediscover love as you get immersed in the sights, sounds and smells of this enchanting place.
Top day trip – visit Mehtab Bagh for excellent views of the Taj Mahal
Enthrall yourself with the perfect view of the Taj Mahal at sunrise and sunset from Mehtab Bagh, a centuries old garden located across the river Yamuna. Watch in awe as the Taj Mahal changes from a pinkish hue in the morning to sparkling white at noon and a golden glow at night when lit by the moon.
Must try dish – Petha, a sugary sweet delicacy
Petha, is a popular sweet that slipped out of the royal Mughal kitchens and spilled into the streets of Agra. A soft, translucent, chewy, candy-like sweet, Petha comes in various varieties – from dry to dipped in sugar syrup (chashni). Another specialty of the city is Dalmoth, a traditional savory dry snack made from fried lentils, nuts, spices, and oil.
Best One Stop shop – Kalakriti
Kalakriti Emporium is a handicraft gallery and showroom displaying a unique collection of sculptures, paintings, marble inlay, carpets and wood. The place also hosts cultural events, concerts, traditional dances, plays and exhibitions that give a glimpse into the richness and heritage of the Mughal era.
Best local secret Agra is very famous for – buy marble inlay work!
An Agra shopping speciality is Pietra Dura items, made from marble inlaid with precious or semi-precious stones; a technique used on the Taj Mahal. These items may be jewellery boxes, figurines, pictures, coasters, even furniture. Make sure to bargain for a good price.
Best place for local shopping – Sadar Bazaar
Located very close to Agra Cantt Railway Station as well as the Taj Mahal, Sadar Bazaar is a popular shopping destination. A renowned wholesale market that sells everything from food, clothes, electronics, handicrafts and more. Another place where you can put your bargaining skills to the test.
Best family activity – old Agra bazaar walking tour
Take a stroll inside the little known bazaars of the city where the old ways of life continue uninterrupted. You will come across streets and alleys dotted with shops selling spices, sarees, sweets, and arts & crafts. The exotic order of spices and tea shops doing brisk ‘chai’ business makes for an experience that will linger on.
Best cultural secrets – Ram Barat festival
Agra celebrates many Fairs and Festivals and the most famous of these is the Ram Barat. This is a grand event celebrated with great pomp and splendor in Agra just before Dussehra. A major fair is organized in the locality and thousands of people visit the venue to attend the staged royal wedding of the divine deities of Lord Ram and his brothers. There is a lot of gaiety and religious fervor as devotees go about decorating chariots in preparation for the wedding.
Best restaurant for a celebration – Esphahan at The Oberoi Amarvilas
The Indian speciality restaurant, Esphahan, is demure with soft lighting and intimate seating arrangements. Mughal inspired frescoes ornament the walls and a musician plays soft traditional music from the stage. The menu features perfectly marinated kebabs, traditional Mughal curries and soft Indian flat breads, served on traditional, burnished metal plates. Esphahan is open every evening for dinner. There are two seating’s at 6:30 PM and 9 PM. The restaurant has a smart casual dress code and welcomes children above the age of eight years.
Best cocktail with a view – Mumtaz, signature cocktail
Mumtaz, the signature cocktail served at The Bar of The Oberoi Amarvilas, Agra is a blend of fresh pomegranate seeds, orange pulp, watermelon chunks and fresh basil leaves in Bacardi Superior. Sink into the silk upholstered sofas or take a stool beside the bar or enjoy a game of chess with the mother of pearl inlaid board and marble counters. Sip on an aperitif, single malt, champagne cocktail or signature iced tea and marvel at the view of the Taj Mahal.
Must see museum – The Taj Mahal Museum
Admire the delicate and impeccably designed art work in the Central Museum on the western side of the Taj gardens. The museum houses a large number of original Mughal miniature paintings, including a pair of 17th-century ivory portraits of Emperor Shah Jahan and his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Best activity / Excursion – Taj Mahal at night
History comes to life and time comes to a standstill as you witness the epitome of love bathed in a golden glow. Night viewing at the Taj Mahal is allowed only on five nights in each month; two days before the night of the full moon, the actual night of the full moon, and two days after the night of the full moon from 8:30 P.M. to 12:30 A.M. | <urn:uuid:ff89b95b-757d-470c-897c-cc0753d9194c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://luxurylaunches.com/travel/things-to-do-in-agra-india.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00155-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924238 | 1,250 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Our load tests utilize a couple of FAST ATE active load testers and a variety of other equipment such as an oscilloscope, power conditioner, temperature probe and a power consumption meter. You can read more about our standard testing approach here.
The tests performed are based around six conceivable setups that are out there and progressively load down the PSU up to the power supply's limits or 1000W, whichever comes first. Since our test equipment's limits are equal to that of the Rosewill Tachyon 1000W power supply, we can test it to the maximum.
The above tests represent typical loads that we have measured from various systems and are meant to give a rough idea of where your computer might fall in line with our tests. Please keep in mind that each system is different and actual loads can vary greatly even with similar hardware.
Let's start by taking a look at the voltages to see how well this unit did during testing. Starting with the 12V1 rail, we see 2% regulation from start to finish with a total drop of .20V. The 5V rail managed to stay within 2% of specification as well with a total drop of .09V from start to finish. Moving towards the 3.3V rail, we see that regulation was within 3% of specification with a total voltage drop of .08V.
DC Output quality for the Tachyon 1000W was amazing and well within specification. During Test 1, we saw 10mV of noise on our scope. When we increased the loads in Test 3, the ripple climbed to 16mV at a little under half load. During Test 6 under a load of 1000W, the oscilloscope showed a maximum of 23mv on noise on the 12Vrail.
The Rosewill Tachyon 1000W is rated for 80 PLUS Platinum efficiency. This means that the power supply must perform at 90%/92%/89% efficiency at 20%/50%/100% loads respectively. As you can see, the Tachyon 1000W passed on our bench, and wasn't close to failing at any point.
The Tachyon 1000W power supply represents a huge step up in quality and performance for Rosewill and is great to see. The power supply's build quality is fantastic inside and out, and it should be considering that Super Flower manufacturers the unit. The unit may lack a few of the flashy offerings such as labels on the side or in the center of the fan, but this is one of the areas costs are often shaved to make a unit viable for a house brand.
It is perhaps the test results that surprised us the most with the Tachyon. While the voltage regulation could be a little bit better on the 3.3V rail, all results are still very good. It is the DC Output quality that is most amazing. Most units barely manage to start out where the Tachyon leaves off at under full load. One can't really argue about the efficiency either as it is well beyond specification.
It is hard to fault the Tachyon for much at all, but I do have some concerns about the included modular PCI-E cables and their length. They should be of ample length for direct runs from the PSU to the video card, but perhaps not so much when trying to hide cables in the case.
The choice of a sleeve bearing fan over a ball bearing fan is often a questionable one, but those who enjoy silence will prefer it especially when looking at the five year warranty and low price for a 1000W Platinum rated power supply.
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In this tutorial, i’ll show you how to find find and Remove virus using cmd. By using the Prompt Command cmd, you can find if a virus is sending your information to an external server.
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The gig economy’s growth in the past few years has been indiscriminate. It has sprawled in both developed and developing countries, showing no signs of slowing down. With the internet having higher penetration rates than ever before, digital tools, online marketplaces, and global payment platforms have been accepted widely, thus changing the employment landscape drastically. According to the World Bank, the internet is changing the way people work, interact and seek employment across high, middle and low-income countries.
No longer are people relying on traditional routes to secure employment but are looking to the internet as a source of reliable, even permanent, opportunities. Employers, on the other hand, have begun going beyond geographic barriers in their search for the best-fit employees, so much so, that tech companies in Silicon Valley in the USA for example, outsource a significant chunk of their jobs to software developers in India. In many ways, freelancing platforms work to erase international borders when it comes to access to jobs. They allow employers and employees to work seamlessly irrespective of their physical location.
What this means for freelancers in developing countries is that they are able to receive numerous job offers from multinational corporations that they would otherwise not have had access to. However, freelancing is not only beneficial to people at an individual level. It can contribute greatly to a country’s national income. Still looking at India, Google reports that freelancing contributes a staggering $400 billion to its GDP. Here’s how that works.
1. Freelancing alleviates youth unemployment
Youth unemployment remains an intractable issue for many developing countries in the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. In Egypt for instance, the youth unemployment rate in 2019 was 31.05%, showing the immense need for them to look for non-traditional forms of employment. Freelancing in particular offers an unexpendable opportunity to gain experience while at the same time escape the economic hardships that result from high levels of unemployment inherent in growing economies.
Since remote working requires one to be tech-savvy, it is not surprising that the youth are already the greatest benefactors of online outsourcing. In a survey carried out by Payoneer on 7000 freelancers from 150 countries, 70% of the respondents were under the age of 35. This suggests that online outsourcing, although still an emerging industry in most of these regions, can potentially contribute to addressing the burdensome issue of youth unemployment.
2. Freelancers can potentially earn more money than traditional employees
Although the economic impact of freelancing to an individual worker varies across platforms, type of work and level of skills, it has been found to be financially rewarding. A report by the World Bank details that in developing countries like Kenya, Nigeria and India, full-time online workers made more than their traditionally employed counterparts.
This additional income helped the respondents in meeting their basic needs, supporting their family members as well as furthering their educational and career goals. Payoneer CEO John Steele suggests that gig employers are less concerned with education but are more fixated on experience and delivery. This means that people who may have missed out on formal education but have the necessary skill sets may thrive in the freelance world.
3. Freelancing helps to bridge the gender wage gap
Despite the increasing number of women in the labour market of many industries in developing countries, an unyielding pay gay still exists. In a country like Lebanon, for instance, women experience pay discrimination in fields like education and medicine. However, according to Payoneer, the pay gap is narrower in the gig economy. A woman, working the same freelance gig as a man, earns 84% of what the man earns, which is much higher than the 64% margin in the traditional work setup.
Women in freelancing also earn more than women in the regular workforce. Since most freelance job offers come with set pay rates, it is easier for women to earn as much as men. So long as the freelancer meets the required criteria, they are guaranteed to earn their due regardless of gender or race. Freelance marketplaces’ transparency also offers a way for women to finally achieve pay equality. In addition, countries where social norms make it arduous for women to access job opportunities, freelancing can allow them to work from the comfort of their homes while still caring for their children.
4. Freelancing fosters growth of skills
Freelancing encourages the growth of a highly-skilled, digitally competent labour force. This is because in the pursuit of career excellence, outsourced employees have to put in effort to gain competency in fields such as IT and internet literacy as well as hone their communication skills to help them negotiate their contracts and secure employment.
They also learn how to apportion their finances, plan their time and acquire management skills. Unlike traditional employment, freelance gives gigsters more leeway for career development and overall growth. Full time employees tend to become complacent over time as their pay is guaranteed for a stipulated period. On the other hand, freelancers are known to be more driven to meet their goals and to satisfy their clients due to the aggressive competition in the gig economy.
If a good percentage of a country’s population works in freelance, they are less reliant on employer support. The result is an independent workforce ready to provide their skills at local and international levels.
There’s still a long way to go…
Despite these benefits and the tremendous efforts made by talent marketplaces like Ureed.com to make their platforms global, freelancing is still inaccessible to many people in low-income countries. The biggest impediment of all being inadequate infrastructure. For online outsourcing to run unencumbered, one needs access to a reliable internet connection and a personal computer with basic capabilities (but advanced where the work to be undertaken is extensive or requires special software). This inadequacy is what creates the disparity between the number of freelance employees in developed and developing countries.
Governments in growing economies therefore have to put policies in place to provide access to stable internet as well as electricity, especially in rural areas, to spur the growth of online outsourcing. Additionally, the bottlenecks around freelancing can be removed by governments offering incentives such as exempting freelancers from paying direct taxes from their earnings, removal of bureaucracies around freelance working, providing channels that allow easy payment of gigsters from abroad, raising awareness on online outsourcing and providing training to bridge educational gaps. Generally, the success of freelancing in a country is heavily reliant on policies that encourage it.
Online outsourcing is a reliable form of employment and can be a promising alternative to traditional jobs. In developing countries, it can help reduce the rates of unemployment, especially among youth, by offering opportunities for them to work for companies abroad without leaving their home countries. As digitization continues to take hold, online working platforms have renewed their efforts to avail their services throughout the globe, thereby connecting people from all corners of the world to new job opportunities. That being said, governments still have a core role to play in implementing positive policies and removing legislative and regulatory barriers to encourage the growth of the online outsourcing industry.
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- Johns Hopkins University in the United States says the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world has topped 30 million. It says the total number of deaths is approaching one million.
- The minister in charge of Japan’s coronavirus response has called for organizers and participants of big events to take thorough anti-infection measures, ahead of the planned easing of the cap on the number of spectators.
- Japan’s new Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide has discussed his key policies of regulatory reform and digitalization with related ministers. Suga wants to present his own ideas in such fields, while taking over some policies of the former government.
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From Pat Deveney's database:
Primitive Occult Journal.
Devoted to the Wonderful Possibilities of the Human Family and the Godly Powers Within All.
Partake of the Fruit of Knowledge. In God we live and breathe and have our being
Helena, MT. Publisher: State Publishing Company; New Thought Library Rooms. Editor: Dr. Anna Beckwith Hamel, V.M.D.
1/1, March 1905. 17-21 pp., initially free, then $1.00 a year (though Hamel offered as a premium to every subscriber for three months a life horoscope "prepared by the noted author, palmist and astrologer, The Prince," who was almost certainly Hamel herself, who listed herself in the business directories as a palmist). "Primitive" in the journal’s title meant for Hamel "simple" and was used to indicate that the version of New Thought taught was stripped of complications and reduced to healing, positive attitude, and uplifting affirmations or well-being. Hamel was a dynamo of New Thought energy in Helena. She identified herself in the journal as "Manager New Thought League," "'New Thought' Librarian of the New Thought Library," and "V.M.D." (a doctor of Vitaology). This was a system originated by Professor Thomas F. Adkins, Dean of the New York Institute of Physicians and Surgeons, of which Hamel was a graduate. This method "enables you to cure yourself of any ailment without Medicine," and Hamel both practiced it in her Vitaology Clinic next to the library and (for $5.00) taught by mail order. The content of the journal, besides daily affirmations and small discourses on New Thought, was largely filler: beauty tips, advice on "How to Get a Husband and How to Keep Him," notable cases of longevity from the newspapers, a romantic tale of a young Austrian Count’s overcoming obstacles to marry an "American Jewess," and encomiums for "that great and successful man," John Alexander Dowie in his Zion City. The author of the notice of the journal in To-Morrow, 1905, obviously at a loss for something to say about the journal, says that it "contains an attractive portrait of the editor, who, by the way, is a woman and writes good poetry." Listed in Bulletin of Bibliography, 1905, and in Henry Ormal Severance, A Guide to the Current Periodicals and Serials of the United States and Canada (Ann Arbor: George Wahr, 1907), 212. Montana Historical Society (1/1-7); UNC, Chapel Hill (1/5). | <urn:uuid:5aef808d-5a10-4d7d-a7ef-1abef809c8cd> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.iapsop.com/archive/materials/primitive_occult_journal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721008.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00118-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95529 | 559 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Joint ownership agreement: holiday property
This document is useful to purchase a property together and use it for holiday occupation, with generally one owner occupying the property at any one time.
It provides options for the management of the property: each owner can be responsible on a rolling basis or you could appoint one as a property manager.
As well as the standard provisions you would expect in this type of agreement, the document covers: exit strategies (eventual sale), owners’ obligations, maintenance and repair of furniture and fixtures, and changes in ownership by operation of law (e.g. on death).
It is not suitable for commercial use – where the owners are purchasing properties for a jointly owned business.Read More | <urn:uuid:c51259d8-bd7c-443c-81e4-4e08f29d354c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.netlawman.co.uk/dl/fractional-ownership-property | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00306-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951453 | 145 | 1.65625 | 2 |
For the first time in 50 years, Australian researchers have developed a new form of hybridized sound wave. The waves could open up new possibilities for stem cell treatments as they are gentle enough to manipulate stem cells in non-disruptive ways.
These waves are called “surface-reflected bulk waves” since they combine two existing types of waves: bulk and surface. Bulk waves act as one vibrating entity, while surface waves are more similar to rolling ocean waves that don’t really affect the depths underneath. By making a hybrid of these two types, researchers have developed a powerful wave with high frequency but low amplitude.
All of the mechanics aside, the most exciting result of these hybrid sound waves is that they can be used in biomedical applications.
With the help of a nebulizer device, drugs and vaccines can be delivered directly to the body. The scientists have already carried out some tests, and found that a fine mist can be inhaled into the lungs, thus delivering the treatments.
Before this breakthrough, surface acoustic waves had been used to pump and mix liquids at very small scales, but the process was extremely slow.
“We have used the new sound waves to slash the time required for inhaling vaccines through the nebuliser device, from 30 minutes to as little as 30 seconds,” said co-author Dr. Amgad Rezk of RMIT's Micro/Nano Research Laboratory in a press release.
The combination of the surface and bulk waves enables drugs to be administered at a rate of up to 5 milliliter per minute, which is a “huge difference” from the previous rate of 0.2 milliliter per minute, according to Rezk.
He says that the research opens the possibility of using stem cells more efficiently to treat lung disease since this new inhalable hybrid-wave method sends stem cells straight to a specific site within the lung to repair damaged tissue. “This is a real game changer for stem cell treatment in the lungs,” Rezk says.
Stem cells are extremely fragile, but the gentle waves enable the cells to be manipulated without causing damage.
'It's basically 'yelling' at the liquid so it vibrates, breaking it down into vapour,' said Rezk.
This exciting technology is all possible because of a new device called HYDRA, which converts electricity passing through a chip into vibrating sound waves that break down the liquid drugs into a spray.
HYDRA is an improvement of the advanced Respite nebulizer that’s already in use at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, delivering precise drug doses to asthma patients and needle-free vaccinations for infants.
"The combination of surface and bulk wave means they work in harmony and produce a much more powerful wave," Rezk explains.
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A group of teenagers along with retired and current law enforcement officers had a frank discussion Thursday about what happens when people get stopped by police.
In their matching red t-shirts, the teens came with honest concerns and questions about police officers and images they've seen to the talk in Fort Worth.
"You see videos, you see the news, you see people being attacked by police,” one teen said. “Black people, poor people, you see white people, any type of people being attacked by the police you can’t necessarily disagree with that when you see it around you.”
The advice was how to act during a possible police encounter.
"Don't make any swift moves, don't go in your pockets for anything, don't pull out your phone,” said attorney Bobbie Edmonds.
The gathering at TCC is the 81st bi-annual convention for the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Club.
"The one thing I can tell you will get you in more trouble is lying about your name and birthdate,” said Dr. Wafeeq Sabir, TCC.
Raquell Fields is from Toledo, Ohio. She has a fear of officers with preconceived notions.
"Their duty is to protect and serve us regardless of where we are, what we look like or where we live,” Fields, a recent high school grad said. “So how would you suggest dealing with police officers that come in with those notions?"
Sgt. Billie Price is an administrative sergeant with Fort Worth PD.
"We are working diligently within our department to help us be able to relate to different cultures...that's a real issue,” Price responded.
The hour long discussion was helpful in more ways than one.
"I’m actually looking into going the law enforcement field so I got to learn a little bit more than I already know. I think it was a great experience for me to come here,” said Sharra McRae. | <urn:uuid:23953b5c-017c-42de-b310-91d39669c927> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fox4news.com/news/teens-cops-talk-honestly-about-police-encounters | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.976073 | 424 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Stoptober and Sober October: Benefits of giving up for the month20 October, 2014
On 1st October 2012 the first mass attempt to get the UKs millions of smokers to quit was underway. Stoptober had begun.
For 28 days in October the challenge is to stop smoking, or as one comedian puts it;
“Let’s start now. I mean stop. You know what I mean. Just stop.”
Why 28 days?
Research shows that by stopping smoking for 28 days you are 5 times more likely to stop for good. There are a number of people who try to quit throughout the year, such as after New Years, but this usually has a short term view.
Two years on and nearly 260,000 have signed up for the challenge. Here are some reasons why:
- Save money – the average smoker spends £1,696 on cigarettes each year.
- Improve your wellbeing – including your senses, appearance and general fitness.
- Friends & family –80%+ of second hand smoke is invisible and odourless. Even if you are careful, stopping altogether can reduce the risk of illnesses such as asthma or bronchitis.
“Go Sober for October” has also had a big impact on people’s lives. Lasting for the whole month, the aim is to stop drinking alcohol, as well as aiming to help raise money for Macmillan cancer support. Some of the key benefits of going sober for October are:
- Improve wellbeing – better sleep, energy levels, improving fitness and losing weight.
- Sense of achievement – helping a positive cause
- Save money – your bank balance will also feel healthier!
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UCLA Luskin Professor Fernando Torres-Gil has co-authored a book on the shifting demographics of the U.S. titled “The Politics of a Majority-Minority Nation: Aging, Diversity, and Immigration.” In the next 30 years, the older population of the United States is expected to double and the country will become a majority-minority society. Torres-Gil and co-author Jacqueline Angel of the University of Texas, Austin, provide an in-depth examination of these demographic trends, which will undoubtedly affect the politics of aging, health, retirement security and immigration reform. The authors identify three forces that must be understood: “a politics of aging that includes generational tensions; conflicts over diversity and the need for immigrants; and the class divisions emanating from an economics of aging that may see greater poverty among the elderly.” Torres-Gil and Angel offer guidance for politicians and policymakers seeking to address these changes to ensure prosperity and security for generations to come. Torres-Gil is a professor of social welfare and public policy at UCLA Luskin and director of the Center for Policy Research on Aging. His career spans the academic, professional and policy arenas, and he is a nationally recognized authority on health care, entitlement reform and the politics of aging. | <urn:uuid:0014b04b-eb08-41c4-8549-1835bdb66766> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://luskin.ucla.edu/torres-gil-examines-nexus-of-aging-and-immigration | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.937022 | 258 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Polaris Support Charity With Off-Road Vehicles
Future Terrain is an armed forces vocational transition and rehabilitation charity, supporting those who have served their country to transition to the next phase of their lives and open new possibilities for the future. Initially established in 2016 by Grant White, a 25-year Royal Marine and lower-leg amputee, Future Terrain has become one of the principal in the world to aid the rehabilitation and recovery of injured, wounded, and suffering service workers through motorsport adventures and excursions.
This year, Future Terrain has been using Polaris Off-Road Vehicles to give driving-related engineering training, qualification improvement and pre-event terrain testing to qualify participants for the experience of a lifetime in Morocco – the Fennec Endeavour – from 18-25 September.
In the beginning phases of the project, before the event in Morocco, the Future Terrain company invited its participants to several specific practice events in the UK to build their driving and piloting abilities, as well as gain helpful off-road vehicle accreditation and first aid qualifications through Lantra and the Auto-Cycle Union (ACU). This ensures all participants are fully implemented with the right piloting skills to complete the Fennec Endeavour safely and opens the doors to future possibilities with their new skill set and abilities.
The route in Morocco will take the Polaris quad riders from the starting point in Aït Benhaddou to Ouarzazate, blending technical tracks, colossal sand dunes, off-road vehicle passages, and including an overnight stop out in the dunes, under the stars. In sum, there will be five Polaris RZRs available for the team when they arrive in Morocco – four RZR Trail S 1000 off-road vehicles and one four-seater RZR model – waiting to take on the challenge. | <urn:uuid:ad1d52fb-095c-4cfd-be40-92e0a38d55bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.becksidemachinery.co.uk/post/polaris-uk-support-charity-with-off-road-vehicles | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.936607 | 378 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Heinrich Brüning, (born Nov. 26, 1885, Münster, Ger.—died March 30, 1970, Norwich, Vt., U.S.), conservative German statesman who was chancellor and foreign minister shortly before Adolf Hitler came to power (1930–32). Unable to solve his country’s economic problems, he hastened the drift toward rightist dictatorship by ignoring the Reichstag and governing by presidential decree.
The son of an industrialist, Brüning received his doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1915 and then rose to the command of a machine-gun company in World War I. After the war he served as business manager of the League of German Trade Unions from 1920 to 1930. A Roman Catholic, Brüning was a member of the Catholic Centre Party and from 1924 represented Breslau (now Wrocław, Pol.) in the Reichstag (lower house). In the Reichstag he came to be known as a financial and economic expert, and in 1929 he became the leader of his party in that legislative body.
Upon the fall of the coalition government of the Social Democrat Hermann Müller, Brüning was called on to form a new, more conservative ministry on March 28, 1930, without a Reichstag majority. His policies, formed in response to the onset of the Great Depression, involved increased taxation, reduced government expenditure, high tariffs on foreign agricultural products, cutbacks in salaries and unemployment insurance benefits, and continued payment of the reparations imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles (1919). Brüning’s austerity measures prevented any renewal of inflation, but they also paralyzed the German economy and resulted in skyrocketing unemployment and a drastic fall in German workers’ standard of living.
On July 16, 1930, after the Reichstag rejected a major part of his plans, Brüning began governing by presidential emergency decree, using Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution as a basis for this step. On July 18 he dissolved the Reichstag, which returned after new elections in September 1930 with Communist and, more important, Nazi representation greatly increased. To accommodate this shift to the right, the Chancellor enacted a more nationalistic foreign policy.
In October 1931, Brüning took over the foreign ministry while retaining the chancellorship. He helped President Paul von Hindenburg win reelection in the spring of 1932, but on May 30 of that year Brüning resigned, a victim of intrigues by General Kurt von Schleicher and others around Hindenburg. The immediate cause of his dismissal was his project to partition several bankrupt East Elbian estates. Hindenburg, himself an eastern landowner, considered this plan Bolshevism, and his withdrawal of confidence left Brüning with no choice but to resign.
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Although blockchain has obtained traction in the enterprise visit site world, the role of cryptocurrency running a business is still mainly unclear. For instance , an Ohio corporation tax payment project suggests that businesses are not yet prepared to accept cryptocurrency payments meant for services or perhaps goods. Research by PYMNTS, a global analysis organization, in cooperation with PayPal, evaluated the responses greater than nine thousands of consumers in four countries. The conclusions showed that business leaders are not looking forward to cryptocurrency repayments, and people are less likely to use it than they recently did.
Problem is normally: Is cryptocurrency legal? Ultimately, the response depends on the level of risk tolerance and net worth. For those with a little net worth, the decision of whether to utilize a particular cryptocurrency is risky is definitely difficult. In such instances, it’s better to go with a good company with a reputable prospectus and a leader. In addition , the currency’s innate value is definitely affected by voting.
As the popularity of cryptocurrencies grows, businesses are realizing the value of these technology in business. One use case is the remittance industry, which can be experimenting with the usage of cryptocurrency to build money transfers across borders. Using cryptocurrency for these financial transactions streamlines the process and makes this cheaper. However, cryptocurrencies traded on the consumer market experience a high amount of volatility. The of Bitcoin, for example , has viewed sharp spikes and fails, making many economists and investors concern its long-term worth. | <urn:uuid:04ba9acc-2a29-4727-a0e3-cb96f936e6fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gothenburgstreetphotofestival.com/the-role-of-cryptocurrency-and-business/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.960702 | 296 | 2.390625 | 2 |
The David Suzuki Foundation took aim Tuesday at a "dirty dozen" chemicals that are found in 80 per cent of the most common cosmetic products and urged better labelling laws to help consumers avoid them.
In a report on a chemical survey, the foundation said it got 6,200 volunteers to check the ingredients listed on 12,550 everyday cosmetic products, including shampoo, toothpaste, lipstick and skin cleanser.
The volunteers specifically looked for 12 chemicals the foundation says are linked to cancer, reproductive disorders, severe allergies and asthma.
When the results came in, four out of five products on the list of 12,550 were found to contain at least one of the 12 chemicals, said Lisa Gue, the group’s health policy analyst.
"Our survey results indicate the widespread presence of a ‘dirty dozen’ ingredients in products that we use on our bodies every day," she said. "Clearly, we need more effective regulatory action to keep these potentially harmful chemicals out of consumer products."
The foundation says there are several weaknesses in Canada's cosmetic ingredient labelling. One of the more serious is that Canadian law does not mandate listing all the ingredients that make up the fragrance inside a cosmetic product. The blanket term of "parfum" disguises a cocktail of harmful chemicals, the group says.
"The fragrance loophole clearly fails the sniff test," Gue said. "Cosmetic manufacturers should be required to specify which chemicals they use as fragrance ingredients, and potentially harmful ingredients should be replaced with safer alternatives."
More than half the 12,550 products in the survey contained parfum as an ingredient. Some 57 per cent contained more than one of the 12 ingredients, and for 1,006 products, it was impossible to find a complete ingredient list.
Personal care products that are regulated as "drugs" on the basis of therapeutic claims, such as toothpaste with tartar-fighting powers, face cream with a UV rating, or hand sanitizers with bacteria-killing properties, are not subject to labelling requirements for cosmetic ingredients.
The foundation recommends controls over when phrases such as "fragrance free" can be used on labels and says eight of the 12 chemicals in question should be banned outright from use in cosmetics.
Bisphenol-A was the most recent high-profile chemical added to the federal government's official list of toxic substances. The chemical is found in many plastics and in lining in tin cans, and its toxic designation this month, after years of intense lobbying, will make it difficult to sell anything containing BPA in Canada.
The dirty dozen:
1 – BHA and BHT. Used in moisturizers as preservatives, the suspected endocrine disruptors may cause cancer and are known to be harmful to fish and other wildlife
2 – Coal-tar dyes such as p-phenylenediamine and colours listed as CI followed by five digits. Used in some hair dyes, may be contaminated with heavy metals toxic to the brain.
3 – DEA, cocamide DEA and lauramide DEA. Used in some creamy and foaming moisturizers and shampoos. Can react to form nitrosamines, which may cause cancer. Harmful to fish and other wildlife.
4 – Dibuytl phthalate. Used as a plasticizer in some nail-care products. Suspected endocrine disrupter and reproductive toxicant. Harmful to fish and other wildlife.
5 – Formaldehyde releasing preservatives such as DMDM hydantoin, diazolidinyl urea, imidazolidinyl urea, methenamine, quarternium-15 and sodium hydroxymethylglycinate. Used in a variety of cosmetics. Slowly release small amounts of formaldehyde, which causes cancer.
6 – Paraben, methylparaben, butylparaben and propylparaben. Used in a variety of cosmetics as preservatives. Suspected endocrine disrupters and may interfere with male reproductive functions.
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Official non-recognition is deceptive.
There are close and longstanding ties between Paris and Pyongyang.
Tired of imaginary attack-dogs? Moi aussi. Veiled as North Korea is, there’s plenty real to write without making it up. Dennis Rodman, for instance—but enough of him already. Fancy a change of scene? Let’s head for Paris: never a bad idea. But France doesn’t recognize North Korea, right? Wrong. Or as Facebook lets you say about other intimacies: It’s complicated.
Some articles you mean to write, then someone else does. Seeing the headline, “France’s long and complicated relationship with North Korea” got me excited. At last, I thought, this is it. Not quite, it turns out. Théo Clément’s recent piece for NK News vividly describes a ragbag of French groupuscules and characters, who like North Korea and want France to be nicer to it.
However if the subject is France’s relationship with the DPRK, as the headline proclaims, then this is Hamlet without the prince. The circles which Clement profiles hardly constitute ‘France.’ Nor, for all their self-importance, are they representative of French opinion. Above all, they are not the French state. La France, in that sense, has indeed had a ‘long and complicated relationship with North Korea.’ But Clément covers almost none of this, and the little he does say is misleading in its emphasis on France’s ‘non-recognition’ of the DPRK.
Formally, it’s true that France is now one of just two EU member states (the other is Estonia) not to have full diplomatic relations with the DPRK. Yet the article’s subtitle, “Paris never established official Pyongyang relations,” is incorrect. The idea that France is a holdout or latecomer in this area could not be further from the truth. On the contrary, when it comes to links between core West European nations and North Korea, France was the pioneer.
This I hope to illustrate, and to fill in some elements of France’s official or quasi-official relations with North Korea—which turn out to be very substantial. My own knowledge is admittedly partial, sketchy and anecdotal; hence further information or correction is welcome. The full story needs to be told, so I hope others will chip in.
But first, cast your mind back to—or if young, try to imagine—a milieu utterly different from today. Nowadays, for better or worse, North Korea has become familiar: it has a massive media profile. (Think Rodman. Invent dogs.) In Donald Rumsfeld’s famous terms, the DPRK now is surely the most known of unknowns, even if much remains obscure.
Half a century ago things were very different. There was no Internet, and the Cold War was at its height. In Korea, that war had recently been hot. North Korea was shunned as the enemy. This went beyond non-recognition to virtual non-cognition. In official western eyes, North Korea did not exist. In the 1970s, I naively asked my country’s Foreign Office to help me get there. They gave me the brushoff in a memorable phrase: “We do not recognize North Korea as a state, nor the authorities there as a government.” Furthermore, “we have no information on conditions north of the 38th Parallel.” (Sic, inaccurately; they meant the DMZ.)
In 2014, with the UK already on its sixth ambassador in Pyongyang, it’s hard to conjure up that mindset or fathom why anyone thought non-recognition was sensible. Needless to add, North Korean requests to visit Britain were usually turned down—including when Labour was in power.
In a similar vein, searching Netherlands and Korea on the indispensable NKIDP yields a batch of documents from 1965 onwards where North Korea kept putting out feelers to the Dutch, who just kept cold-shouldering them. In 1967, one such message “suggests that the 12-page note sent to the [Foreign] Ministry by the North Korean Embassy in Prague should be returned as if never read.” You get the picture.
All this was because South Korea was our Korea, ergo the sole Korea (no pun intended). We had shed blood beating back the North’s attempt to reunify Korea by force, and that was that. In Western Europe, only neutral states like Sweden and Switzerland recognized two Koreas.
France Breaks Ranks
In this atmosphere, it was a big deal for a NATO member and Korean War combatant to allow the DPRK an office on its soil. Yet that’s what France did in, of all years, 1968. The same Charles de Gaulle who faced down the radical soixante-huitards let the North Koreans open a trade bureau in Paris. In one guise or another they’ve been there ever since.
Trade is the least of it. A Wikipedia entry that looks of AAFC provenance says that even in 2005, after 37 years of effort, France accounted for just 1 percent of the DPRK’s (itself tiny) trade total. Vice versa was even more minuscule. Hopes were once higher, as we discuss below.
But think of this more as a foot in the door. In 1974, North Korea’s diplomats in Paris added a new string to their commercial bow when the DPRK became a member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Both Koreas joined several such specialized international organizations long before they belatedly entered the UN in 1991.
For the North, this was a handy way of setting up shop in states which refused to recognize it. It opened a mission to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, and to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London, long before either Italy or the UK established diplomatic ties with the DPRK. I was once told that their IMO office tried to get as many as 20 diplomats accredited. They were allowed two, who merrily issued visas and other multi-tasking beyond their seafaring remit. Similarly, joining the UN meant the DPRK could even plant a mission on US soil. North Koreans in the Big Apple? You betcha.
In France, of course, the office was there already and simply widened its role. So far as I know the North Koreans have always had one unitary mission in Paris, covering trade, UNESCO and more (read on). When I visited in the 1980s, this was an elegant mansion on the Avenue Foch near the Champs-Elysées, which must have cost a fortune. At some point, they cut costs by moving out to the suburbs in Neuilly-sur-Seine, where they remain to this day.
Shafted by the South
But back to the 1980s. In December 1984, the then socialist French President, François Mitterrand, allowed the North Korean mission in Paris to become a “general delegation” (délégation générale). My understanding is that the DPRK shared that somewhat vague status with two rather different contested entities: Quebec and Palestine.
Ambiguous or not, this was definitely a promotion. In a useful article published in 2012, Nicolas Levi notes that in opposition Mitterand had visited Pyongyang in 1981—the DPRK even put him on a stamp—and was planning to open full diplomatic relations. That, of course, infuriated South Korea, which then threatened to cut trade and freeze France out of a range of lucrative business contracts. This worked: in 1985, Paris assured Seoul that official ties with Pyongyang would not be upgraded.
Formally, that remains the position. MAEE, the French foreign ministry, says on its website that “La France n’a pas de relations diplomatiques avec la RPDC.” Yet this dissembles, for France has maintained substantive, even unique, ties with North Korea in several distinct fields. All need further research (not least by me), so here I shall just briefly list them.
Business is where it all began, and the original plans were ambitious. In his 2009 NKIDP study Juche And North Korea’s Global Aspirations, Charles Armstrong cites a proposed project in the 1970s for French technicians—200 of them, plus families—to come and build a polyethylene plant in Hamhung. That never happened, maybe because the DPRK rapidly ruined the new trade links it had just opened with the West in the early 1970s by defaulting on nearly all its debts—which remain unrepaid to this day.
Franco-DPRK cooperation was smaller-scale but still significant. The hotel and architecture connection is especially intriguing. Pyongyang’s Yanggakdo Hotel, familiar to tourists, was built by a French firm, Campenon Bernard (now Vinci). A claim exists that the famously (permanently?) unfinished Ryugyong Hotel was to have been a French joint venture.
Language training was another area of cooperation. From the 1980s if not before, groups of North Korean students were sent to Western Europe. Those learning French went to France, bien sûr, where else would you go? Well, their confreres studying English went to Denmark: regarded as friendly since it fully recognized the DPRK in 1973 as did all four Nordic states.
From fading memory these DPRK linguists, perhaps to their chagrin, were taught not in Paris but somewhere more provincial: Bordeaux? Not all was smooth. Their hosts grumbled that some students arrived with too little grasp of French, and money was an issue: as usual, North Korea expected freebies. I’d be most grateful if anyone can flesh out this anecdotal account.
Nothing like this happened in the UK. Clearly North Korea regarded some capitalist states as friendlier than others. Armstrong cites a deputy foreign minister, Shim Dong Hae, in 1973 as distinguishing between “aggressively” pro-US and pro-ROK Western countries, like Britain or Canada, and others seen as being more amenable. France was evidently in the latter camp.
The Ultimate Intimacy: Treating the Leader
The strongest evidence comes in another field. For a secretive dictatorship such as North Korea, the single most crucial and confidential area for regime stability and security is not military secrets or nuclear sites, but the health of the Leader and his family. In this most delicate and intimate area, remarkably, the DPRK places its trust in France above all others.
After years of rumors, the doctors involved spilled the beans to Le Figaro in 2008. Some used pseudonyms, but they gave a wealth of detail. This medical link began in 1991, when a Lyon cardiologist was flown to Pyongyang to treat a patient whose identity was not revealed; on the operating table he was disguised with thick glasses. It turned out to be Kim Il Sung.
Secrecy was endemic. Some years later, a Paris neurosurgeon was summoned urgently to Pyongyang to treat “a great scientist.” He never saw the patient, but only scans of a cerebral hemorrhage; no operation was needed. This was Kim Jong Il, who had fallen off his horse.
Usually French doctors went to North Korea, but for one patient it was the other way round: requiring even greater trust and confidentiality. Figaro confirmed longstanding reports that Kim’s consort Ko Yong Hui, mother of Kim Jong Un, was not only treated in Paris for breast cancer—in the early 1990s and again in 2004—but died there in the latter year.
In 2008, François-Xavier Roux, head of neurosurgery at Paris’s Sainte-Anne Hospital, took a mysterious ten-day trip to Beijing. He later admitted it was Pyongyang, where he treated Kim Jong Il for the stroke which prompted Kim to belatedly start organizing his own succession.
Why France? Figaro quotes the doctors’ answer. World-class health-care, plus North Korea “must appreciate a certain independence in French politics.” That hits the nail on the head.
State-ing the Obvious
The medics also admit the obvious: None of this could happen without state involvement. Le Point adds that when Kim Jong Il’s eldest son Kim Jong Nam—whose own lad, Kim Han Sol, is now enrolled at Science Po’s Le Havre campus—flew to Europe (probably twice) to seek the best specialist to treat his dad, he would have needed a Schengen visa from the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang so he could cross intra-EU borders.
And spooks, of course. Getting Ko Yong Hui in and out of Paris, twice—alive and then dead—in total secrecy and safety must have been a huge operation, requiring approval at the highest level and involving the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST): the internal intelligence agency, since renamed, whose proud boast is that it was never penetrated or compromised.
Figaro twice references the DST. A Paris surgeon revealed that less exalted DPRK officials also regularly ask for and get visas for medical treatment. The Interior Ministry has all such “high value added North Korean patients” followed discreetly by the DST. It’s not clear if the latter know that, but being North Korean they may consider it all part of the service.
The other mention takes us beyond health, but reinforces a sense of intimacy. Nicolas Levi’s article notes that several of the DPRK elite know Paris well. Figures as senior as former nuclear negotiator Kang Sok Ju, who majored in French, and even (he says) titular head of state Kim Yong Nam, have worked at the Paris ‘embassy.’ I can add my own interlocutor Ri Dong Hyok, the most impressive DPRK diplomat I ever met. Now known as Ri Jong Hyok, he later worked on the US and South Korea but retains European interests.
Levi also cites an article of my own with a detail I’d forgotten; senility is setting in. This relates to another rip-roaring tale, still too little known, namely DPRK-Israeli interaction—the main aim, never achieved, to curb North Korean missile exports. After talks in Beijing “Kim Il-sung (no less) suggested that contacts continue in Paris—via his own daughter Kim Kyong-hui and her husband Jang Song-thaek, who was running the missile programme.”
Jang is no more, and Kim unseen since September. She too may have had medical connections with France. In 2004, she was reportedly treated in Paris for alcoholism, while the many unconfirmed rumors as to her current condition and whereabouts include the claim that she is in a coma after having undergone surgery in Paris for a brain tumor.
In an earlier family tragedy, Jang and Kim’s daughter Jang Kum Song (Figaro mangles her name), a student in Paris who apparently didn’t tell her friends where she was from, killed herself in August 2006 after refusing to come home; there may also have been boyfriend issues. Such a death must have involved the legal and medical authorities, but according to Figaro, “French doctors and DST displayed the greatest silence.” Their discretion offers yet more proof of close working relations and mutual understanding.
On Their Toes
All in all, this 45-year relationship is a strange kind of non-recognition. A few years ago I spoke with a young diplomat at the Quai d’Orsay. He confirmed that North Korea currently had architecture students in both France and Germany. The latter gave scholarships, but the French made Pyongyang pay. (Levi says there were 54 North Koreans living in France as of 2005, mostly students of architecture and social science: far more than in the UK today.)
I forget now whether the man from MAEE even bothered with France’s supposed excuse for withholding full recognition, namely human rights (oh really: what’s new?). But I recall the twinkle in his eye when he said non-recognition was a great way to keep North Korea on its toes. If Paris followed the EU herd (I paraphrase) and opened full relations, the DPRK wouldn’t pay it nearly so much attention to it. An honest man, frankly, and surely correct.
More recently, in 2009, France’s former culture minister Jack Lang spent five days in North Korea. Lang is a heavy hitter. Because the UK and other EU states which do recognize the DPRK have yet to send anyone so senior (except Chris Patten in 2001, wearing an EU hat), this sparked speculation that full relations might at last be coming. Not so; but two years later in October 2011, France finally opened a mission in Pyongyang. Not an embassy, mind you, or even a consulate, but a “cooperation office” (bureau de coopération). Its remit is twofold: humanitarian aid and the educational-cultural sphere. Once again France likes to be different.
Vive la Différence
Throughout, this is less a story of non-recognition than of French exceptionalism. It’s very French that Jacques Chirac stood aloof from the sudden U-turn and rush early in this century, when almost all South Korea’s other West European allies dutifully obeyed the new line from Seoul—then ruled by the liberal peacemaker Kim Dae Jung, who preached sunshine—to stop being nasty to North Korea and make nice, pretty much overnight. For the likes of the UK, this really was a major shift, whereas France stood to gain little in real terms.
What of the future? President François Hollande evinces no great interest in North Korea and is preoccupied elsewhere. I don’t rule out that one day France may delight the tireless fellow-travelers of AAFC and finally recognize the DPRK—if and only if it suits French interests and the twists and turns of an ever-evolving raison d’état. Meanwhile, in Paris as in Pyongyang or anywhere else, appearance sometimes masks reality; formal and real may diverge and nothing should ever be taken at face value. Non-recognition? Je crois pas.
For more on some of these types, see http://www.slate.fr/story/48375/coree-nord-france-juche (in French).
The date is given by the Association d’Amitié Franco-Coréenne (AAFC), founded a year later in 1969 and discussed by Théo Clément. If you read French, or risk Google Translate, I recommend AAFC’s website. The apologetics are quite intelligent, and there is much useful information.
I remember hearing this at the time, and AAFC has unearthed a Korea Herald article in a US dossier which seems to confirm it. See, http://www.amitiefrancecoree.org/article-quand-fran-ois-mitterrand-et-laurent-fabius-renon-aient-a-la-reconnaissance-diplomatique-de-la-coree-117983330.html. This links to the US Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)’s daily Korean Affairs Report for April 29, 1985 http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a352822.pdf . Scroll down to pp 25-26 for “French Decision Not To Recognize North Welcomed,” Korea Herald, April 5, 1985.
The DPRK thanked them by using its new embassies to smuggle booze and worse, for which a dozen of its diplomats were kicked out—but that’s another story. The best source on this scandal is Sweden’s first ambassador to the DPRK, who had to deal with it. See: Erik Cornell, North Korea under Communism: Report of an Envoy to Paradise. London: Routledge, 2002, chs 10-11. | <urn:uuid:3c61ff1c-9609-4503-9124-e81a82dbfb81> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.38north.org/2014/01/afostercarter012314/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.960022 | 4,267 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Back in the early 1980s, painter Linda Hartough of Okatie, South Carolina was flailing about in the art world for a place in which she could make her mark. "I was looking for a niche, looking to concentrate on one subject," she said. She painted landscapes -- there must be a billion other artists doing them -- and pictures of horses, portraits of people or their houses. "I did a variety of things and found that doing a variety of things wasn't getting my anywhere." Fate intervened in the form of a golf-pro-slash-merchandise-manager at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, who saw Hartough's landscape paintings at a gallery in Hilton Head, South Carolina in 1984 and commissioned her to create a painting of the 13th hole at the club, which would be turned into an edition of offset prints.
Those people with only a passing knowledge of the world of sports are probably aware that the Augusta National is where the Master's Tournament of Golf (one of the big four events in golf) is played every April, and those with more insider knowledge may identify the 13th hole as the course's most beautiful. It is the "Azalea Hole," known for the flowers that bloom during the week of the tournament. (Almost every golf course has what may be called its "signature hole," which is particularly challenging to golfers or visually stimulating.) Hartough's painting was a personal success -- she has been commissioned subsequently to paint that hole three other times by club members -- and it proved to be a career-maker, making golf courses her entire subject matter by 1987. She has painted golf courses in Scotland (where the sport supposedly began) and at the sites of the U.S. Open and British Open (two of the other big four), as well as at less renowned courses where golfers have commissioned her to paint favorite holes. Jack Nicklaus, the longtime dominant player on the tour, owns seven of her paintings.
There is a certain easy logic in moving from landscapes to paintings of golf courses but, on a practical level, it is not simply a matter or adding a new group of art collectors to the list or even trading one set of art buyers for another. The buyers of golf course paintings -- golfers or their spouses, in large measure -- are not necessarily collectors of artwork, although many of them have as much money as art collectors. "Golf is a wealthy person's sport in the U.S.," Hartough said. "It's for the upscale. I've picked a niche where the buyers have money; it wasn't a conscious decision to target wealthy people, but it just turned out that way."
Horse owners and those who are interested in riding and breeding might also be assumed affluent, but Hartough found that golfers are much better customers of artwork: "There are a lot more buyers of golf art. They show much more appreciation of the art and they have a lot more money."
The going price for her original paintings (24" x 42" is a customary size) is currently $53,000, while her reproductions sell for $225 unframed ($650 framed) for offset lithographs on paper (edition sizes run 850-950) and $650 unframed ($950 framed) for digital "giclee" prints (edition sizes 100-350), with higher prices for Artist Proofs in both categories. The edition sizes are larger for more popular scenes, such as the golf courses at St. Andrews in Scotland and Pebble Beach in Monterrey, California. Hartough works slowly, producing only three or four original paintings per year ("You can't make a living as a gallery artist if that's all you produce," she said) and is "booked a few years out" with commissions. Eating into her studio time is making frequent visits to check proofs at the printer (Lithochrome Co. in Columbus, Georgia), overseeing her gallery (The Linda Hartough Gallery on Hilton Head) that sells her prints and paintings on the retail level, attending the annual trade shows of the Professional Golfers Association and between two and four major golf tournaments per year, where she meets and sells works to individuals (retail) and gift and pro shop buyers (wholesale), and traveling to the golf courses she either chooses or is commissioned to paint.
Private golf clubs also do their own merchandising, negotiating deals with artists, commissioning a painting that will be turned into an edition of prints or using the image for commemorative plates or sweatshirts, to be sold to club members. The clubs pay for the costs of producing the print edition and other merchandise, and the profits from sales are split between the clubs and the artists. Earnings, of course, are likely to be greater at clubs with more members and less where clubs look to give their members a discount.
While at golf courses, Hartough does research, taking photographs -- those who commission her usually indicate which holes they want her to paint -- and talking with local pros, club members and others familiar with the course about what is the most memorable aspect of the particular hole. That may be the elevation of the green, the slope, pitch and roll of the fairway, a series of sand traps or the overall architecture of the particular hole (one of the people she has befriended over the years, and who also has purchased several of her paintings, is Rees Jones, the landscape architect who redesigned the U.S. Open golf course several years back) or a combination of these and other elements. Her aim is to see the golf course as a golfer might and not just as a picturesque setting, but the final image has to work as art, too. "Exactitude isn't paramount," Hartough said. "Some people overdo it in terms of being too literal, having too much detail in their pictures." On occasion, she has "moved a few things, adjusted the view, moved the hole." She likes to think of herself as an artist first, with as much right to redefine the landscape suit her purposes as Monet, and not just a transcriber of visual details. "I want to depict the feeling of being there." However, she noted, there is not too much artistic license permitted in this field, since "the whole idea is to make the course immediately recognizable."
There is a considerable amount of balancing in the entire sports art realm of art and commerce. Noble Powell III, a painter in Camarillo, California who has been painting golf courses for more than 20 years (they started out selling for $3,000 and now go for $25,000), stated that he also wants "the impression of fine art" to be evident in his work, yet his best buyers are the first to point out "'mistakes.' They scrutinize the piece and tell me, 'You know, that bush is four feet to the left,' and they are right," he said. The artistry in his work involves walking the course during the early morning or late afternoons to record the shadows from trees and the rolling fairways, which are less evident during the midday, working those shadows into his paintings, regardless of whether or not the golfers see them. "Golf courses are so horizontal. You need something to break the monotony." Part of his research is actually playing the course, which both helps his golf and sense of what makes a hole unique.
In part to establish paintings of golf courses as fine art, Hartough and several other artists founded the Academy of Golf Art (P.O. Drawer 6989, 71 Lighthouse Road, Hilton Head Islands, SC 29938, 843-363-5699, www.academyofgolfart.org), which conducts an annual juried show and otherwise promotes the field to artists and the general public.
Golf art is certainly a profitable niche, but it isn't a hole in which artists necessarily find themselves stuck. Tom Fort, a painter in McKinney, Texas who specializes in sports-related art, primarily golf course images but also sports hero subjects in various fields, noted that some golf art buyers have asked him to do portraits of their children; others have gone to his website and found more traditional landscapes they have bought. "The people who take the time to buy original art or fine art prints have the interest to buy art generally, and some do," he said. Grant Narelle, a painter in Virginia Beach, Virginia who also paints commissioned images of golf courses, noted that he has two separate websites -- one for golf, the other for his landscapes and marine images -- that link to each other. Through tracking, he has found that visitors to one website often migrate to the other.
To those unfamiliar with golf art, a picture might be assumed to be green below, blue on top, with a flag in the middle, but golf courses themselves are not just manicured greens and fairways, often containing natural areas of trees, grasses and wildflowers. The people who commission these paintings, and others who buy them (or prints made from them), appreciate these details and demand them in the art. Clubhouses sometimes make it into the paintings, as does an occasional golfer, but most golf art -- unless the focus is a sports hero, such as Tiger Woods or Jack Nicklaus -- is devoid of people, the focus being literally the lay of the land. "People change the focus of a painting," Hartough said. "All of a sudden, it becomes a narrative. With an empty course, people like to imagine themselves in it. For them, it's a perfect moment, a spiritual thing, like Nirvana."
Twenty-plus years into this field, she still finds the color green exciting and "challenging. You always have to mix your paint, with oranges and blues, because it doesn't come out of the tube just right, and you have to balance the color with the time of day." Unlike traditional landscape painting, which may be pursued throughout the year, golf courses are portrayed always on sunny, summer days, when the (color) greens are invariably intense and the skies blue. In order that painting the color blue not become a tedious chore, Hartough usually includes a cloud or two, adding that the skies in Scotland "are often very dramatic."
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Morality & Religion: I
- Anna Kalypsa: a lover of wisdom
- Kathy Merinos: her ardent, but not over-bright, admirer
- Mel Etitis: another admirer, careful and studious
- Theo Logos: a devout Christian, always eager for debate
(A sunny town square somewhere in the Peloponnese. Anna Kalypsas
and Mel Etitis are standing, holding open books; Kathy Merinos is watching
and listening to them, also with an open book in front of her. Theo Logos
appears and spots them. He stops to listen.)
- Mel: "Very well, then; what is agreeable to the gods is pious,
and what is disagreeable to them impious."
- Anna: "An excellent answer, Euthyphro, and in just the form I
wanted. Whether it is true I don't know yet; but no doubt you will go on
to make it clear to me that your statement is correct."
- Mel: "Certainly."
- Anna: "Come along then; let's consider what we are saying."
- (She notices Theo standing watching, and lowers her book.)
- Theo! Come and join us!
- (Theo walks over and sits at the table with Kathy; Anna and Mel sit
down too, after Anna has signalled a waiter for an extra cup of
- Theo: Good morning to you all! Are you rehearsing a play?
- Kathy: No -- we're reading Plato's dialogue Euthyphro.
It brings it so much more alive when we read it like a play. Do you know
it, Dr Logos?
- Theo: Why, yes. We read it when I was a student; in fact, there's a
tradition in my family that Plato was an ancestor of ours, so I was
especially interested. I've forgotten most of it, I'm afraid -- we
concentrated on the Republic at College. Have you got far?
- Kathy: No, we've only just begun. Anna was reading Socrates' part,
and Mel was reading Euthyphro's.
- Mel: Euthyphro has just given his opinion that "what is
agreeable to the gods is pious, and what is disagreeable to them
impious." I expect that Socrates is about to tear his opinion apart.
- Anna: In a way; in fact Socrates is about to point out that
Euthyphro's definition is fundamentally ambiguous.
- Theo: But why do you find this interesting? You don't even believe
in one god, Anna, never mind all the ancient gods. And why should
you care about definitions of piety?
- Anna: Well, it's true that we're not interested in piety -- but the
arguments work just as well if we insert "morally good" in place
of "pious", and I certainly am interested in morality, as you
know. And we can replace Plato's gods with just one god, your own
Christian god, if you like. Then we get a rather disturbing dilemma for
someone like you.
- Theo: I know that I should remember all this from my College days,
but my mind is a blank. Remind me Anna, what is the problem? So far we
just seem to have: "what is agreeable to god is morally good, and
what is disagreeable to him is morally bad." What ambiguity do you
and Plato find in that?
- Anna: Well, the question is this: are we saying that what is good is
good because god approves of it, or that god approves of it because it's
- Theo: I suppose that I am getting myself into deep waters here -- you
have that look about you that should warn me off. But all right, I
suppose that I have to take the risk. It seems to me, off the top of my
head anyway, that god's laws - for example, the Ten Commandments - are
good, and that that is why god gave them to us. Now, enlighten us... what
arguments does Plato have against me?
- Anna: Actually Plato agrees with you that that's the better choice.
- Theo: Ah -- but you said that there was a problem, so I suppose that
that cannot be the end of things. It is never that easy.
- Anna: True enough. Mind you, I should say that I'm not claiming that
there's a deep problem in the sense that religious belief in general is
threatened. It's just that both of the choices have worrying implications
for religion. And even then, only for certain kinds of religion (though
that includes yours). Let's start with your choice.
As a Christian, Theo, I take it that you believe that your god is the
supreme being, and specifically that he created everything -- not only
everything in space and time, but even space and time themselves. But if
he gives us his commandments because they're good, then goodness lies
outside him; he hasn't created goodness, but has gone along with it. In
other words, it turns out that the moral law is something independent of
god, and that he obeys it, or is bound by it, just as we are.
- Mel: And that seems to mean that we don't really need god for
morality. He turns out to be at most a teacher or guide, which is what I
thought human beings like saints or priests were supposed to be capable of
- Theo: No Mel, even if Anna were right, you would be jumping too far;
I could argue that human saints are only teachers and guides through the
power of god. Thus if morality exists independently of god, it could
easily be that we still need him... that we are unable to discover moral
truths for ourselves. But I admit that I do not like the idea. Apart
from anything else, given that god created us, we should have to ask why
he created beings lacking the ability to be moral without his help.
But let me think Anna's suggestion through, just to see if the basic
idea is acceptable -- even if I have to reject it in the end.
- Anna: Take your time Theo; feel free to think out loud.
- Theo: Well... I suppose that I can see the point; it does seem that
god's basic relationship with morality turns out to be the same as ours.
Except, of course, that he is always morally good and we are not. But
even if I accept that (and I do not, yet), it certainly does not follow
that god obeys the moral law. We have to obey, because we
are neither perfectly good nor perfectly knowledgeable -- but god's
actions are always in accordance with the moral law because that is his
nature. It is like two perfectly made clocks, set to the same time, and
wound up; they always tell the same time, but neither is obeying the
- Anna: Yes, I see what you mean (and your example is oddly familiar)
-- but things can't be that simple. For a start, we have to ask what we
mean when we say that someone is good; if there's a big difference between
saying that a human being is good and saying that god is good, then I'd
need you to show me that the word "good" means the same in both
cases. If it doesn't, then you might be saying that god is good,
but you're meaning something else. It's as if you're using the
word "good" as our ancestors used the wooden horse against Troy
-- appearing to offer a gift while in fact smuggling their warriors into
If you want the technical term, it's "the
Fallacy of Equivocation"; that's when you use a word
differently in different parts of your argument. For example, you'd
probably agree that bachelors are unmarried men, but my mother is a
Bachelor of Arts, so it seems that I can infer that she's an unmarried
man! By switching the meaning of "bachelor" in the middle, I
made my inference invalid. Now, is that what you're doing with
- Theo: I think not; after all, when I say that this is a good knife,
and that that is a good wine, I mean different things -- but I am not
committing a fallacy, surely? There is a central meaning there, which is
relative to the sort of object with which we are concerned; one thing is
good as a knife, the other is good as a wine. So when we say of a human
being that he is good, we mean good as a human being... but that
restriction does not apply to god; god is not good as some particular
thing, he is just good as a being -- he is good, full stop.
- Mel: There's something odd there, though, Dr Logos. If you're using
"good" to mean "morally good", then why do you want to
make it relative at all? I might say of Anna that she's a good
philosopher, and that means that she's good as a philosopher -- but
if I say that she's good in the moral sense, then at most I mean that
she's good as a moral being. So if god is a moral being,
than there's no room for the sort of distinction you're trying to draw
between him and human beings. I mean, "good" must mean the same
in all cases, mustn't it? Otherwise we're back to Anna's point about
- Kathy: But Mel, don't we sometimes say that someone is good
considering their background, or upbringing? "Good" might not
be relative to us as human beings, but perhaps it's relative to us as
- Mel: Well, perhaps -- but even in that sort of case, we surely mean
that someone's good despite her handicaps, not good as a
handicapped person. I doubt whether Dr Logos wants to say that human
beings are good despite their handicaps; after all, he thinks that god is
responsible for creating us, so he'd be forced to say that we're good
- Theo: Er, no, I should certainly not want to say that. To start
with, god created us, to be sure, but other people created our upbringing
- Mel: I'm afraid that that's not what I meant; on your account, Dr
Logos, we're not only moral despite our individual backgrounds, but
despite our nature as human beings. And that doesn't depend upon other
- Theo: Yes, I see your point. Look, perhaps I do not need to take
this line after all. Anna, do you remember that in one of our
conversations you explained that omnipotence did not mean being able to do
the logically impossible?
- Anna: Of course -- because there's no such thing as the logically
impossible for an omnipotent being not to be able to do.
- Theo: So the difference between god and us, in the moral sense, is
that his goodness is logically necessary. I mean that it is logically
impossible that god perform an evil action.
- Anna: That's ingenious, Theo, but I'm not sure about it. What's the
difference between saying that god is necessarily good and saying that god
is morally constrained?
- Theo: Well, in the former case it is a matter of his nature, his
essential nature. It is not that god would like to be bad but is
not allowed to be -- it is that his nature is to be good.
- Mel: I don't see how that solves your problem though, Dr Logos. You
still have to say that "good" means something different for god
and for us. For us, it's praiseworthy to be good, because we might not
have been good; for god there's no question of praiseworthiness, because
that's just how he is. And god's essence is still being defined in terms
of something outside him -- in terms of some independent concept of
- Theo: I fail to see why god cannot be accounted praiseworthy simply
because his goodness flows from his nature. Surely we should praise him
precisely for having that nature.
- Mel: Yes, I see what you mean. Still, my second point stands: what's
the status of morality if it's independent of god's will?
- Kathy: Um, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I don't understand something.
Why exactly is it that Dr Logos can't accept the first horn of Plato's
dilemma? He seems to be faced with a tremendous problem arguing that god
commands whatever is moral; why can't he say that morality is whatever god
commands? In fact I thought that that was the usual Christian position.
- Theo: I did not say that I could not accept the first
position, only that the second was the one that seemed right to me, off
the top of my head. To be honest, I do not see what is supposed to be
wrong with the idea that god created morality, just as he created
- Anna: OK, bearing in mind that the second horn of the dilemma is more
problematic than it might have seemed - even if you're not convinced that
it's ruled out - let's put it aside for the moment and look at that first
horn. I think, in fact, that it presents even greater problems than the
second. Let's start with a problem that has a well-known philosophical
label. Have you come across the Naturalistic Fallacy?
- (Mel nods, Kathy shakes her head, and Theo makes a gesture that
conveys that he probably has come across the term, but isn't sure.)
- Anna: Well, if you give an argument that has purely factual premises,
but which has values or judgements in its conclusion, then you've
committed the Naturalistic Fallacy. The same thing happens when you
define a value, like good, in purely factual terms. It's sometimes
called the fallacy of deriving an ought from an is.
- Kathy: Why is it a fallacy?
- Anna: Well, you could see it just as a particular version of an
obvious fallacy; that is, you can't have something in the conclusion that
isn't in the premises. After all, you wouldn't allow an argument like
All monkeys are mammals
Koko is a monkey
Therefore: Koko has a long tail
There was nothing in the premises about having a long tail, so how did it
get into the conclusion? The same applies to values, or
"ought"s; if they're in the conclusion of your argument, they
should be somewhere in the premises.
- (They all nod.)
- Anna: Now, the first horn of the Euthyphro dilemma claims that
goodness and badness are derived simply from whatever god commands. But
that's to derive values from facts -- so we have a clear case of the
- Theo: Surely, Anna, god's commands are not natural -- they are
- Anna: True (at least, for the sake of argument -- there's room for
debate), but it's not naturalness in that sense that matters here. The
point is that, for example, "it's wrong to kill" is an
evaluative statement, while "god forbids us to kill" is a
factual statement... it has no evaluative content.
- Theo: But is there not something missing in that argument? That is,
you have a premise: "God forbids us to kill", and you have a
conclusion: "It is wrong to kill", but you surely need another
premise -- something like "Whatever god commands is good, and
whatever he forbids is evil". Then you have the moral terms in one
of the premises, so there is no fallacy.
- Anna: Ah, but remember that we're rejecting the second horn of the
dilemma for the moment, and assuming that "good" just means
"whatever god commands" -- but then: "whatever god commands
is good" turns out to mean: "whatever god commands is whatever
god commands". Or, to put it another way, you've robbed the term
"good" of its evaluative content, and left it as nothing more
than shorthand for a statement about what god commands.
- Theo: But god is good -- is that not where the evaluative
content comes in? It is not like saying: "Theo forbids you to
kill", which would not tell you anything more about morality than
would: "Theo forbids you to sit in his favourite chair".
Because god is essentially good, then whatever he commands is essentially
- Mel: Sorry, Dr Logos, but I don't see how that would work. You're
relying on the idea that "good" means something apart from god's
will -- that's the second horn, not the one we're discussing now. Saying
that god was good would mean something like: "god always does what he
commands, and never does what he forbids", and that just seems to
make him consistent, not good. It certainly leaves "good"
meaning something different for god and for us -- and whatever else you
think of that, it leads to the Fallacy of Equivocation again.
isn't there another route open to you, Dr Logos? Can't you say that what
"good" means is one thing, and what actually is
and isn't good is another?
- Anna: That's an interesting move, Mel. So Theo would have to say
that the fact that, for example, killing is bad depends upon god's will,
but the meaning of "is bad" doesn't. Are you happy with
- Theo: I am not sure, to be honest. How do you intend to distinguish
between the two? Could you say what "bad" meant without saying,
or at least implying, what sorts of action were bad?
- Anna: I see... you're saying that, once the meanings of moral terms
are fixed, then the details of what's good and what's bad follow
necessarily. So if the meanings of "good" and "bad"
are independent of god's will, then he's hardly a moral commander
-- if he's essentially good, as you say that he is, then he doesn't have
any choice as to what he tells us.
- Theo: Well, how about this? Perhaps there are two kinds of moral
principle: one kind is fixed, logically dependent upon the very meanings
of "good" and "bad", and one kind is dependent upon
other, non-moral facts. For example, there is a big difference between
torture and nepotism. Torture is surely always and everywhere evil; that
does not depend upon facts about how the world happens to be. Imagine, on
the other hand, that I give a church contract to my nephew; that would
only be wrong if I had promised my archbishop that I should be completely
impartial in my choice of a contractor, and I knew that my nephew will not
do the best job. God can command the latter kind of moral principle, but
it makes no sense to say that he commands the former -- how could he
command what is logically necessary?
- Kathy: Oh, do you have a nephew, Dr Logos?
- Theo: No, Kathy -- it was just an illustration. But you see what I
- Anna: Actually I'm not at all sure that I do, Theo. You say that
your choice of a particular contractor would be a merely contingent evil,
because it depends upon things like the fact that the contractor is your
nephew, that he wouldn't do the best job, and the fact that you've
promised to be impartial?
- Theo: Precisely.
- Anna: But isn't torture evil in just such a contingent sense? That
is, it's only evil for me to apply electrodes to your tenderer extremities
because you're the sort of being who can feel pain, and electricity causes
pain. Neither of those things need have been true, and neither of them is
a moral fact. So what's the real difference between the two cases?
- Theo: But "torture" just means causing pain -- you
cannot say that it is contingent upon the possibility of pain. That is
what I mean when I say that it is necessary; it would be evil even in a
world where it was physically impossible. After all, we can surely all
think of kinds of action that are not in fact possible, but which would be
evil if they were.
- Anna: Now, be careful Theo. You've just explained to Kathy that you
don't have a nephew, that your example of nepotism is hypothetical
(indeed, physically impossible) -- yet you're still able to say that
nepotism is wrong for you. In other words, nepotism is just like torture,
in that it would be immoral even in a world where it was impossible.
- Mel: Isn't the distinction really between moral principles and
specific occasions on which those principles are applied? And it's the
same for all moral principles, isn't it?
- Anna: Perhaps Theo's point can be salvaged though I doubt that he'll
find the result very helpful. There certainly seems to be a clear
distinction between all the universal moral values and those which are
specific to certain religions. So we might accept that god couldn't have
decreed that torture be morally good - that's a logical impossibility -
but he needn't have made the Sabbath day holy or forbidden graven images
for Jews and Christians.
- Theo: Hmmm... you are right that such a distinction could not do what
I need it to. I shall think further about all this, but I suspect that my
distinction will in the end be of no help to me. Perhaps we should start
from the other end of things.
- Anna: Which end is that, Theo?
- Theo: Well, I suppose that I am returning to the distinction that Mel
drew between what "good" means and what is good. As a
philosopher, Anna, you are primarily interested in the former question,
but the religious believer is primarily interested in the latter. Now,
when Mel drew her distinction I suggested that the two parts were not
really separable, but that is not quite true. I certainly doubt that one
could say what "good" means without describing the types of
action that count as good -- but one can surely say what types of action
count as good without having to answer your philosophical question. And
my answer is that it is good to obey god's commands. Now, what is wrong
- Anna: I can see two problems straight away. Mel, Kathy... what do
- Kathy: I don't think that it's fair to say that philosophers aren't
interested in what is good. Dr Logos is portraying philosophy as just
being about words and meanings, which isn't true at all.
- Anna: Fair enough, Kathy -- though perhaps Theo's only guilty of mild
and rhetorical exaggeration. How about philosophical problems,
- Mel: Well, Dr Logos, it seems to me that both parts of your claim are
debatable. In so far as it's possible to say what "good" means,
I don't see why such an account should do more than imply that a
certain set of actions count as good; it's not necessary actually to
describe or to list all the types of good action. More importantly for
your argument, though, it's surely not possible to say what counts as good
unless you know what you mean by "good". Is that what you had
in mind, Anna?
- Anna: In fact I do accept both your points, Mel, but only the latter
was one of my two worries. Yes, on Theo's view, only god knows
what "good" means -- he tells us, and we have to trust him.
- Theo: Of course we trust him, Anna; he is perfectly good, and would
never deceive us.
- Anna: But how do you judge that he's good? If you're going to make
such a judgement then you need to know what goodness is. If you don't
know what "good" means, and only have god's commands to go on,
then you seem to be back at the sort of circle that you faced earlier.
The other problem I saw, though, was rather different. Theo is
claiming that "it is bad to disobey god's commands" isn't a
definition of "bad" but only a description of those actions that
are to count as bad. Now both of those claims seem more than a little odd
to me, because they both seem to rule out a scale of goodness and badness.
What I mean is this. Let's assume that god has commanded us not to murder
or lie; if I disobey him, then my actions are morally wrong -- but my
wrongdoing doesn't lie in my having murdered and lied, only in my having
disobeyed. So the murder and the lie are just as bad as each other,
because they're both cases of disobeying god. In fact there's only one
kind of wrongdoing, and that's disobeying god.
- Theo: There are in fact Christians who would find nothing strange in
such a position, but I confess that I cannot share their position; it
seems to take us too far from our moral intuitions.
- Mel: But is Dr Logos forced into that position? It seems to depend
upon the assumption that god simply commands us to do one thing and not
another. Couldn't he actually command that one type of action is very bad
and another kind not so bad, one kind very good and another kind not so
good, and so on?
- Anna: Well now, that's a different sort of command, isn't it? We've
been talking about god saying: "Don't murder", but you're
suggesting that he say: "Murder is (very) wrong". The former
involves telling us directly not to do something, the latter doesn't.
- Mel: Yes, I see that, but then can't Dr Logos say that god does the
latter not the former?
- Theo: A good point, Mel; moreover, rather than seeing god as issuing
orders, it surely makes much more sense to see god as simply telling us
what is right and wrong, so leaving us free to choose which path to
- Kathy: But surely god also tells us to be good and not bad, so
doesn't it come to the same thing in the end?
- Anna: We also seem to have lost sight of our starting point: what
does "morally wrong" mean when god says: "murder is
- Theo: Oh Lord! I must admit, Anna, that I am beginning to get a
little lost. Could we meet again tomorrow to continue with this
discussion? I certainly do not want to leave matters here, but I really
have to get back to my duties.
- Anna: Of course, Theo; we'll see you tomorrow afternoon -- say,
about five at Manolis' cafe‚?
- (Theo leaves them, and they in turn go their separate ways.)
Some suggestions for further reading
- Gene Outka & John P. Reeder [edd] - Religion and
Morality (Anchor; 1973)
- Plato - Euthyphro (any edition, really; the
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We experienced our first Irish Easter in the beginning of our stay on the Catholic island, our second one in the end of our year abroad. At that time we didn’t yet know which quaint traditions the Irish pursue around this church holiday. The only thing we noticed was that pubs or shop fronts were cleaned from top to bottom with plenty of water and foam a few days before Easter. It’s quite unusual to see a building simply soaped like a car and scrubbed with a broom. However, we only realized later that there are some other Irish Easter customs…
Just a few decades ago, in the 40 days before Good Friday Irish people were strictly fasting. Not only meat, sausage, milk and cheese (actually the entire Irish diet), but also music, dance and sociability were renounced. On Good Friday itself, public life was completely set aside.
In order to avoid the weeks-long waiver of meat, Irish church officials themselves came up with a canny excuse:
“There are old records that the wild goose was simply not ranked among meat and thus among the prohibited dishes. How can this be explained? It was claimed that the geese grew on trees and did not come from an egg.”
On Holy Saturday the Irish then sprinkled their houses, its inhabitants and their cattle with Easter water that had been blessed by the pastor and that was supposed to have healing powers. A little rest of it was kept in a safe place for emergencies.
The greatest ceremony for devout Catholics was and still is held on the evening of Holy Saturday. For the so-called Easter service, all the lights in the church are turned off until the solemnly lit Easter candle illuminates the darkness again as a reminder of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Even though people there are nowhere near as strictly Catholic and religious as they may have been 40 years ago, some traditions are still lived out every year… The washed houses aren’t the only thing that has to look brand new now – no, also the clothes! Only recently bought clothes are worn by the Irish people who believe (in superstition) on Easter Sunday. Probably to do justice to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
In addition, the Easter bunny is rather unknown in this country, instead everyone knows the Easter lamb (which, even if it sounds bizarre, is also one of the most popular Easter dishes in Ireland). Also, if you’re looking for painted Easter eggs, you’re searching them in vain. The only thing the Irish kids are looking for in egg form, are lots of colorful chocolate eggs, which again likely come in a huge chocolate Easter egg. In terms of chocolate consumption, the Irish are in no way inferior to the Germans on this holiday!
Apart from that Easter Sunday is and remains a family day, when all shops and most of the pubs are closed or only open in the late afternoon.
Since we spent the last two Easter without our families (as well as this one thanks to the corona virus) our usual Sorbian egg painting (or rather egg waxing) and mutual gifting was cancelled. Instead we cooked a delicious, Irish-inspired 3-course Easter menu, that we would like to share with you in the following. In case you want to cook something of it (because one thing we can promise: it tasted really great!), here are the recipes! 😉
Carrot & Orange Soup
- 500g Carrots
2 Cloves Garlic
700ml Vegetable Stock
Juice and zest of 1 Orange
4tbsp Single Cream
Fresh Mint, chopped
- Peel the Carrots, onion and garlic.
- Roughly chop the carrots and the onion, finely chop the garlic.
- In a medium saucepan, melt a little butter.
- Add the vegetables and on a low heat, sweat them in the butter for a few minutes.
- Pour over the stock and bring to the boil.
- Season, and cover the pan, cook for about 20 minutes until the carrots are tender.
- Stir in the orange juice and zest.
- Liquidise the soup in a blender or food processor until smooth.
- When ready to serve the soup stir in the cream and top with the chopped mint.
Shepherd’s Pie (without lamb)
Serves: 6 people
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 60 minutes
- 675g lean mince of your choice (we used turkey mince)
- 15ml sunflower oil
- 1 medium onion, peeled and finely chopped
1 large carrot, peeled and finely chopped
- 100g/4oz green peas
- 30ml/2tbsp plain flour
- 30ml/2tbsp tomato ketchup
- 30ml/2tbsp brown sauce
- 30ml/2tbsp freshly chopped rosemary
- 1 meat stock cube, crumbled (we used chicken stock)
- 300-425ml vegetable stock
- 675g lb floury potatoes, peeled and cut into medium chunks
- 450g swede or other root vegetable, peeled and cut into small chunks
- 100ml milk or single cream
- 50g butter
- 30-45ml freshly chopped parsley or chives
- Heat the oil in a large pan and cook the onion and carrot until soft but not coloured.
- Add the mince, in batches and cook for 5 minutes until brown on a moderate heat, turning frequently and mashing any large lumps with the back of a wooden spoon.
- Remove and discard half the oil.
- Stir in the peas.
- Stir in the flour and cook for 1-2 minutes, then add the ketchup, brown sauce, rosemary, lamb stock cube and lamb stock. Season.
- Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer gently for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile prepare the potato and swede topping. Place the potatoes and swede in a large saucepan with boiling water and bring to the boil.
- Reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 20-25 minutes.
- Drain and mash together with the milk or cream and butter.
- Season if required, and stir in the parsley or chives.
- Preheat the oven to 180-190°C.
- Spoon the meat filling into a 1.7L/3pint ovenproof dish and pipe or spread the surface with the potato mixture.
- Bake uncovered for 30 minutes, or until the top is brown.
Mini Pavlovas with Yoghurt and Berries
Serves: 8 people
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 60 minutes
- 4 x Medium Egg Whites
- 215g Caster Sugar
- 200ml Greek Yoghurt
- 250g Fresh Mixed Berries (Raspberries, Blueberries, Strawberries)
- Preheat the oven to 130°C.
- In a clean glass bowl whisk the eggs whites using an electric beater till the meringue has formed soft peaks.
- A teaspoon at a time add the caster sugar beating well between each spoonful, this takes time – but don’t rush as you want the sugar to be well mixed. The meringue will be thick and glossy when finished.
- Line a couple of baking trays with some non-stick baking parchment.
- Use a tablespoon to spoon the mixture onto the baking sheets and swirl to make a hollow for the yoghurt and berries.
- Bake in the oven for 60 mins.
- Allow to cool in the oven with the door slightly open.
- Once cooled take off the baking paper, spoon yoghurt in the hollows and top with berries.
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8, Attack on a Federal column outside Pulaski; an entry from the diary of John Hill Fergusson, 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Monday 8th we marched 24 miles and passed through Pulaski it is a fair sized town and has a business appearance at the edge of the town we passed a large cotton factory in operation the factory girls stood gazing at the multitudes and cheering the yanks as the[y] passed through and stood about a dozen in each window and the windows were without number after the devision [sic] had all passed by and the rear gard [sic] and (wagon) train was coming up a volley [sic] was fired on the gard [sic] from the factory windows the rebels made there [sic] escape Some buckway [sic] for the soldiers could find nothing of the friends in searching for them it was reported that the[y] burned the factory before the [division?] came away after a wearisom [sic] march of 24 miles we camped for the night close to Linnville we had not got supper over when the peels [sic] of thunder and the driving winds from that [sic] a stormy night was close at hand some fixed up there [sic] blankets to protect them from the coming storm and some rolled themselves in there [sic] blankets and lay down and slept contented regardless of the driving storm
John Hill Fergusson Diary,1862.
8, Riot suppression and punishment of prostitutes in Knoxville; excerpt from a letter in the Daily Morning News (Savannah, GA) from J.T.G, in Knoxville
From Knoxville – "J.T.G."
Knoxville, Sept. 9, 1862
Editor Columbus Enquirer:
Quite a serious row occurred last night [8th] at a brothel in this place. Capt. Hartshell, Chief of Police, went down with his posse to quell the disturbance, to accomplish which he ordered his men to fire upon the rowdies. A volley was fire into them, wounding several. – This placed a quietus upon them instants. – The inmates of the house were carried off to the guard-house this morning; they were severely strapped upon the bare flesh for being participants in the row. It strikes me that our authorities could have found some other mode of punishment that would have served their purpose as well, if not better, than corporal punishment. It is bad enough to have to whip a white man, and infinitely more so a woman, though she be degraded. Knoxville, however, is a great place, famous for tories, free negroes and free dogs – just the place to hatch and rear such worthless curs as Brownlow and Maynard.
Daily Morning News (Savannah GA), September 17, 1862.
8, Continued Federal bombardment of Confederate works, and construction of boats to ferry artillery across Tennessee River, Chattanooga environs
HDQRS. FIRST BRIG., FOURTH DIV., 14TH ARMY CORPS, Camp opposite Friar's Island, September 8, 1863.
Brig.-Gen. HAZEN, Comdg., Poe's Tavern:
GEN.: I have been firing for some time this morning. Find the works occupied by a small force--say 150 or 200.
The river at this point can be forded easily; the current is very swift, however. The boat building on the creek will be finished by daylight to-morrow and will carry one gun and caisson. I am satisfied that this is the point at which a crossing should be made. They have no artillery in their works to-day. The position can be carried with but little loss, I think.
J. T. WILDER, Col., Comdg.
P. S.-The pontoons at Chattanooga are taken to pieces this morning.
J. T. W.
HDQRS. FIRST BRIG., FOURTH DIV., 14TH ARMY CORPS, Friar's Island, September 8, 1863.
Brig.-Gen. HAZEN, Poe's Tavern:
GEN.: I have the Seventeenth Indiana (dismounted) on Friar's Island. They crossed in boats without discovery. It is now too late to cross the river. I propose to make a dash and carry the works at daylight with the Seventeenth Indiana, supported by the Seventy-second Indiana, on horseback, across the ford, they covered by the Forty-first Ohio and battery on this side of the river. I very much desire to have all four of my regiments here, and at any rate reconnoiter the country as far as Tyner's Station, and perhaps go into Chattanooga, if not driven back. To do this I will need my whole command, so as to cover my recrossing, in case I am forced to do so. If you will send me eight companies, leaving two companies for vedette duty, I will try it. I believe there is but one regiment to oppose my crossing; there may be more. It may be necessary to await rising of the log. [sic]
J. T. WILDER, Col., Comdg.
P. S.-Send me all the information you can to-night.
J. T. W.
OR, Ser. I, Vol. 30, pt. III, pp. 464-465.
8, Confederate anti-guerrilla patrol, skirmish with "Tinker" Dave Beatty's band
Excerpt from the Report of Col. John M. Hughs, Twenty-fifth Tennessee Infantry, Army of Tennessee, Dalton, Ga., April 28, 1864, relative to attack on "Tinker" Dave Beatty, September 8, 1863
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On the 8th September, we attacked Beatty's band of robbers, killing 8 and routing the balance.
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OR, Ser. I, Vol. 30, pt. II, p. 647.
Diary of John Hill Fergusson, 1862-1865, for the year 1862. Unprocessed original manuscript, TSL&A. Ferguson belonged to the 10th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. [Hereinafter cited as John Hill Fergusson Diary, year, etc.]
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These pages are meant less as a conclusion to the preceding essays than as a kind of reflection, from a more or less systematic theological perspective, on health and healing as the central themes of this issue of FULLER magazine. Yet our considerations both presume the breadth and diversity of the voices here—their inter- and trans-disciplinarity, their transnational geographic and regional foci, and their interethnic and transcultural situatedness—and insist that the work of the systematician is not finished until practical theological proposals are factored in. What follows, therefore, ought to be understood against and qualified by the foregoing discussions, even as they beg the “so what?” question: How then ought we to live as Jesus-following people, in light of the polyfaceted and variegated understanding of health and healing across Christianity as a global faith.
To frame my response, let me hence sketch three propositions that ought to be noncontroversial for any Christian theology of health and healing. First, Christian salvation in its most encompassing sense involves creaturely wholeness, not only in terms of psychosomatic health but also with regard to social relatedness as well as broader ecological and cosmic environments; in other words, divine salvation not only cures bodies but also heals souls, reconciles creatures, and ultimately renews all of creation in its various levels of togetherness.1 Second, in this time between the times—after the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus but before his coming again—we live and flourish only in and through the Spirit of Jesus; yet such Spirit-empowered life does not lead to any uncritical theology of glory, but instead recognizes that the gifts of the Spirit enable the edification of all precisely through the contributions of those “members of the body that seem to be weaker” or “that we think less honourable” (1 Cor 12:22–23).2 Last but not least, the many tongues of the Spirit of Pentecost continually invite us to rethink health and wholeness from out of the witness of the worldwide body of Christ, which testimonies will echo perspectives from various and different contexts; this means that “now we see in a mirror, dimly” (1 Cor 13:12a), and therefore that with regard to our variegated experiences of health and healing, “we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor 5:7). From here, let me ward off three interrelated distortions that often plague Christian thinking about health and healing.
DISTORTED THEOLOGIES OF HEALTH AND HEALING
Distortion #1: That God heals and desires our health and wholeness is not in question, but this does not mean that divine salvation is intended to provide bodily cures in every circumstance. Coming from the Pentecostal-charismatic tradition as I do (and about which Shane Clifton, Mel Robeck, and Kimberly Alexander speak eloquently in their essays included here), I recognize the power of the healing message to draw people to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Yet it also needs to be said that while God always saves and, in that sense, heals, God does not always cure.3 My younger brother Mark, who has Down syndrome, is whole and healthy but not because he has been cured of trisomy 21 (the chromosomal condition related to Downs). The gospel of a God who saves and heals becomes distorted by the theology of health-and-wealth; more precisely, proclaiming that God always and in every case desires that we enjoy cured bodies is not just a distortion but a heresy: another gospel indeed. Our theology of health and healing must remember not only Trophimus, who was “left ill at Miletus” (2 Tim 4:20b), but also Paul, who prayed thrice asking for deliverance from his affliction but received the Lord’s response: “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor 12:9a). There is scriptural warrant for the assertion that blessing and prosperity—and cures and healing—are given by God, but it is a distortion to claim that these are meant to be embraced literally for each of us in every situation.4
Distortion #2: By extension, it is wrong not only to presume God will supernaturally intervene to heal or cure by the wonder-working power of his Spirit his followers from our every affliction; it is also wrong to think that if we lived according to what we believe the covenant requirements are, we are guaranteed a healthy and long life. Here I am not talking about the charismatic dimension of health and healing addressed in the first distortion. Instead, I am naming the “standing on the promises of God” attitude that insists we can earn health and healing by living out the biblical message. I am not dismissing the role of Scripture in ruling our lives and our faith; rather, I am counteracting the belief that if we do our part—e.g., exercise regularly, eat healthily, maintain a fit lifestyle,5 all according to the Scriptures, it is believed—then God is bound to keep us healthy. This contemporary cult of health and healthiness is at its worst a late modern expression of Pelagianism—the ancient heresy that we can earn our own salvation by our deeds—and an idolatrous distortion of the truth. As Job said, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him” (Job 13:15a). Again, my point is not to undermine the biblical bases for such practices of self-care, to the extent that such might be identified, but to reject any one-to-one correlation between these commitments and our expectations that God is thereby obligated to reward our efforts and cure our bodies.
Distortion #3: Underneath the first two distortions might be an uninterrogated assumption about what it means to be healthy. Here, conventional notions of what Thomas Reynolds calls “the cult of normalcy” prevail that define how those of us who fall within the bell curve of ability—as opposed to being labeled as having a disability—understand ourselves as “normal” human beings.6 Such internalization of the so-called “normal,” however, also exerts ideological potency at the edges of the bell curve so that people who are ill, sick, diseased, or impaired in any way come to consider themselves deviant according to extant social norms and expectations. This takes into account neither the fact that all of us “normals” are only temporarily able-bodied (TAB)—coming into the world dependent and, if blessed to live long enough, going out of the world also increasingly dependent—nor the truth that these TAB prejudices function in discriminatory ways against any who are unable to live up to “normal” expectations. The disability community names such the ableist presumption, thus exposing how society’s constructions are biased against those who are unable to assimilate themselves into the TAB world.7 Yet surely ableism is counter to Yahweh’s concern for the poor, the weak, and the marginalized. Instead, the upside-down world of Jesus as the face of the coming reign of God insists that the final banquet is attended by social outcasts, including “the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame” (Luke 14:21b).
REDEMPTIVE PRACTICES FOR HEALTH AND HEALING
How then ought we to proceed? In this final section, I suggest three sets of what I call redemptive pastoral practices that embrace and await the full healing and wholeness promised by the gospel. These can also be explicated in three interrelated domains: the interpersonal, the social/ecclesial, and the eschatological.
Redemptive practice #1—the interpersonal: Pastorally, we ought to pray with, not just for, one another. By “pastorally,” of course, I am referring to our dispositions toward one another, less to any pastoral office that only a few of us might hold. In other words, we are all called to be sensitive toward—hence pastoral in engaging—each other, and in that respect, we can each one be a source of pastoral strength and encouragement to others. From that perspective, then, one of the most important things all of us can do, ministers and laypersons alike, is pray. Unfortunately, oftentimes we pray out of ignorance, or at least out of a posture that has not interrogated the ableist prejudices that have shaped our TAB experiences. From that perspective, we TAB persons often presume we know how to pray for others—for instance, that they want cures that make them normal just like us—rather than ask them about how best to pray with them. This plays out most problematically when interacting with people with disabilities.8 While some people with disabilities will welcome any prayers for their healing and curing, others are put off by the presumptiveness of TAB people and therefore sometimes cease to frequent church environments, because they might once again be the objects of prayers as well as targets of blame for why they remain impaired, e.g., because of a lack of faith or the consequences of sin. These attitudes, however, are clearly projected by us “healthy” persons of faith toward the sick, ill, or diseased, much less to those impaired or labeled as disabled.
My point is that the most pastorally sensitive forms of prayer are generated out of mutuality between human beings, rather than from any presumed divide that separates “us” who are healthy from “them” who are not. From this relational matrix, we realize more the cohumanity—the dust of the ground—that binds us together across the labels that otherwise separate us, and our praying resounds harmoniously out of our different locations, experiences, and voices. Once we realize that our friends and cobelievers are persons first, even if ill, sick, diseased, or impaired, then we might be more ready to pray with them about what is important to them rather than pray only for them according to our assumptions.
Redemptive practice #2—the socio-ecclesial: This second set of pastoral recommendations builds from and extends the notion of mutual prayer, meaning that the reciprocity of our praying together is based on our doing life with one another. Again, we are addressing hierarchies of alienation, for instance, “we” who are healthy, able-bodied, and ministers, and “they” who are sick, disabled, and recipients of ministry. Instead, we need to reenvision what it means to be the people of God and the body of Christ, meaning, for our purposes, those joined together in solidarity by the Holy Spirit poured out at Pentecost on all flesh: male and female, young and old, haves and have nots, able-bodied and impaired.9 From that perspective, then, each member of the body becomes a site of the Spirit’s ministry of salvation and wholeness to others, going in multiple directions. We can not only pray for one another—including the sick and those living with long-term illnesses praying for the well, and so on—but we can do life together: be present to one another, rejoicing with each other when appropriate, lamenting and grieving with one another when needed.10
Once we have gotten to know one another at this deeper level, then we will know that our friends—and if within the church, our family, together part of the body of Christ and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit—are not just objects of healing prayers, and we will also realize when they have stopped asking for miraculous interventions and desire rather the presence of the Holy Spirit with them amidst their felt afflictions. So if oftentimes our response to the sick and impaired is to come in for a visit and then go back to the comforts of our own “normal” life, the practices suggested here involve patient Christian koinonia across the not-so-healthy spectrum while simultaneously believing that joy, generosity, and solidarity can be nurtured by the Holy Spirit (see Acts 2:45–47).
Redemptive practice #3—the eschatological: Last but not least, what kinds of practices can inform our own hopes for eschatological wholeness and well-being? Remember that the eschatological concerns not just life after death or eternity after history and the end of the cosmos; instead, the eschatological is the reign of God that is coming and has been manifest in Jesus Christ and in his outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the world. From that perspective, the eschatological makes a difference now, amidst the mundaneness that constitutes the challenges we confront in our bodies and lives. Hence, our suffering, patience, and endurance with sickness, illness, and impairment are not segregated from the good news of the coming divine reign. But this may not mean, as we have indicated above, that cures are on our earthly horizon. Instead, it means that we can live with one another, pray together, and expect that the Spirit can redeem our lives in anticipation of the promise of the gospel that involves our future. In other words, our sicknesses and impairments are redeemable by the gospel, even if not cured on this side of heaven.
This is perhaps not good news according to the conventions of ableism or the norms of prosperity or health-and-wealth theology, but it is the gospel of Jesus Christ, who not only came into the world but descended into its historical underside for God’s saving purposes. Thus, Jesus “became like his brothers and sisters in every respect” and was fully “subject to weakness” (Heb 2:17a, 5:2) so that he could turn around whatever was intended for our harm (Gen 50:20). Hence, we can encourage each other that in and through the trials and challenges of living with sickness, illness, and impairment, we can live liberatively and faithfully in the present and bear witness to the power of the Spirit through our “treasures in clay jars” (2 Cor 4:17).11
1. See ch. 8, “Divine Healing: Salvation of the Body and Redemption of the World,” of my book Renewing Christian Theology: Systematics for a Global Christianity, images and commentary by Jonathan A. Anderson (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014).
2. Unless otherwise indicated, all scriptural quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version; further consideration of this reading of 1 Corinthians 12 is found in my essay “Disability and the Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecost and the Renewal of the Church,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 19:1 (Spring 2010): 76–93.
3. I say more about this distinction between healing and curing in my book Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007), 245–47.
4. See Amos Yong, In the Days of Caesar: Pentecostalism and Political Theology—The Cadbury Lectures 2009, Sacra Doctrina: Christian Theology for a Postmodern Age series (Grand Rapids and Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010), ch. 7, on the health and wealth theology.
5. See R. Marie Griffith, Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004); see also Joseph W. Williams, Spirit Cure: A History of Pentecostal Healing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), ch. 5, “Perfect Bodies, Plentiful Profits.”
6. See Thomas E. Reynolds, Vulnerable Communion: A Theology of Disability and Hospitality (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2008), ch. 2.
7. For more on the notion of ableism, see my essay, “Beyond Ableism: Disability and the Renewal of Theological Education,” in Theology and the Experience of Disability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Voices Down Under, ed. Myk Habets and Andrew Picard (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2016); Fiona Kumari Campbell, Contours of Ableism: The Production of Disability and Abledness (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
8. I elaborate on why in my article, “Disability and Suffering? Pastoral and Practical Theological Considerations,” Journal of the Christian Research Institute on Disability 4:1 (2015): 27–42.
9. See my Who Is the Holy Spirit? A Walk with the Apostles (Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2011), parts 2–3.
10. Disability perspectives on lament are here helpful for interfacing with the broader spheres of illness, sickness, and disease; see Yong, The Bible, Disability, and the Church: A New Vision of the People of God (Grand Rapids and Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011), 40–46.
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I've devoted a lot of space this year to "food vs. fuel" concerns about biofuel production, and last month I looked at the possible impact of expanded biofuel mandates on US refinery additions. Now we see OPEC warning that biofuels put their oil expansion plans at risk and coining a lovely new phrase, "security of demand." While it's not hard to see that subsidized ethanol competes directly with the output of expensive new refinery units here, how likely is it that the national oil companies (NOCs) of major producing countries would scale back their oil exploration and production investments out of fear that biofuel will limit their market or profitability?
On the face of it, this notion sounds silly, given the relative scale and economics involved. Total US ethanol production this year is less than the equivalent output of OPEC's smallest crude oil producer, Qatar, even without adjusting for BTU content or energy inputs. And while not all OPEC countries are low-cost producers, there still seems to be a lot of oil remaining in the Middle East that could be developed at costs far lower than any biofuel, including cellulosic ethanol. And even at our targeted 35 billion gallons of biofuel per year, the extra 1.4 million barrels per day of equivalent supply would only cover a fraction of the expected global demand growth over the next couple of decades. There appears to be plenty of room for biofuel and OPEC fuel, unless the global economy slows, or the whole world gets really serious about climate change.
Aside from the obvious PR element of such a comment, there might also be something deeper here that requires a little historical context to interpret. The last time oil prices were this high for this long, things ended badly for OPEC. The combination of price-driven conservation and price-stimulated non-OPEC production started to squeeze OPEC's barrels out of the market and set off a fight for market share that turned a slide into a collapse. Remember "netback pricing?" OPEC's members were suddenly thrown into a world in which access to markets could no longer be taken for granted, and that led to some interesting joint ventures and acquisitions. "Security of demand" evokes that period, and it might be a signal to international companies trying to gain access to OPEC reserves that the price might include guaranteed long-term outlets. That view is reinforced when you see the same OPEC official suggesting the cartel will need to attract foreign capital in order to expand output. The NOCs have many competing calls on their cash flow, besides reinvestment.
If the figures in the Financial Times article are correct, adding another 4 million barrels per day of OPEC production capacity through 2012 at a cost of $130 billion works out to about $2.50/barrel of reserves. At that rate OPEC has much less to fear from competition from biofuel than biofuel investors do from oil price risk. Either OPEC is sending a different message between the lines, or they have tired of being the brunt of all our talk of energy independence. | <urn:uuid:65ead2f7-fa41-498a-8184-7c1a900e18c3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://energyoutlook.blogspot.com/2007/06/opec-vs-biofuel.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00198-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957416 | 611 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Fin’amors Quotes in The Decameron
Whereas men, if they are very wise, will always seek to love ladies of higher station than their own, women, if they are very discerning, will know how to guard against accepting the advances of a man who is of more exalted rank. For which reasons, and also because of the pleasure I feel at our having, through stories, begun to demonstrate the power of good repartee, I have been prompted to show you, fair ladies, in the story I have to tell, how through her good words and actions a gentlewoman avoided this pitfall and guided her suitor clear of its dangers.
Being an intelligent and judicious woman, she sent back a message to say that she was glad to have been singled out for this uniquely great favor, and that the king would be very welcome. She then began to wonder why such a great king should be calling upon her in her husband’s absence. Nor was she wrong in the conclusion that she reached, namely, that he was being drawn thither by the fame of her beauty. Nevertheless, with her habitual nobility of spirit she made ready to entertain him[.]
Sweet friend and master, dearest one of all, since you are wise you will readily acknowledge that men and women are remarkably frail, and that, for a variety of reasons, some are frailer than others. It is therefore right and proper that before an impartial judge, people of different social rank should not be punished equally for committing an identical sin. For nobody would, I think, deny that if a member of the poorer classes, obliged to earn a living through manual toil, were to surrender blindly to the promptings of love, he or she would be far more culpable than a rich and leisured lady who lacked none of the necessary means to gratify her tiniest whim.
The doctor was holding [Jacques] by the wrist, taking his pulse, when Jeannette […] entered the room in which the youth was laying. When he saw her coming in, the flames of passion flared up in the young man’s breast, and although he neither spoke nor moved, his pulse began to beat more strongly. The doctor noted this at once, but concealing his surprise, he remained silent, waiting to see how long his pulse would continue to beat so rapidly.
As soon as Jeannette left the room, the young man’s pulse returned to normal […] [The doctor] waited for a while, and then, still holding the patient by the wrist, he sent for Jeannette […] and no sooner did she enter the room than the youth’s pulse began to race all over again: and when she departed, it subsided.
Come, Love, the cause of all my joy,
Of all my hope and happiness,
Come let us sing together:
Not of love’s sighs and agony
But only of its jocundness
And its clear-burning ardour
In which I revel, joyfully,
As if thou were a god to me.
Love, the first day I felt thy fire
Thou sett’st before mine eyes a youth
Of such accomplishment
Whose able strength and keen desire
And bravery could none, in truth,
Find any complement.
With thee I sing, Lord Love, of this,
So much with him lies all my bliss.
The sight of this garden, and the perfection of its arrangement, with its shrubs, its streamlets, and the fountain from which they originated, gave so much pleasure … that they all began to maintain that if Paradise were constructed on earth, it was inconceivable that it could take any other form, nor could they imagine any way in which the garden’s beauty could possibly be enhanced … [And] the garden was liberally stocked with as many as a hundred different varieties of perfectly charming animals […] Here were some rabbits emerging from a warren, over there hares were running, elsewhere they could observe some deer lying on the ground, whilst in yet another place young fawns were grazing. And apart from these, they saw numerous harmless creatures of many other kinds, roaming about at leisure as though they were quite tame, all of which greatly added to their already considerable delight.
Dearest beloved, since I am yours and you alone have the power to fortify my soul with some vestige of hope as I languish in the fiery flames of love, I beseech you, as your most humble servant, to show me some mercy and mitigate the harshness you have been wont to display towards me in the past. Your compassion will console me, enabling me to claim that it is to your beauty that I owe, not only my love, but also my very life, which will assuredly fail unless your proud spirit yields to my entreaties, and then indeed people will be able to say that you have killed me. Now, leaving aside the fact that my death would not enhance your reputation, I believe, also, that your conscience would occasionally trouble you and you would be sorry for having been the cause of it.
On catching sight of this vision, Cimon stopped dead in his tracks, and […] began to stare at her, rapt in silent admiration, as though he had never before set eyes upon the female form. And deep within his uncouth breast, which despite a thousand promptings had remained closed to every vestige of refined sentiment, he sensed the awakening of a certain feeling which told his crude, uncultured mind that this girl was the loveliest object that any mortal being had ever seen […] Having suddenly been transformed from a country bumpkin into a connoisseur of beauty, he longed to be able to see her eyes, but they were closed in heavy slumber.
Leaving the house full of blood, tumult, tears, and sadness, they made their way unimpeded to the ship, keeping close together and carrying their spoils before them. Having handed the ladies aboard, Cimon and Lysimachus followed with their comrades just as the shore began to fill with men who were coming to the rescue of the two ladies. But they plied their oars with a will, and made good their escape.
When there was no longer any sound to be heard, Ricciardo climbed over a wall with the aid of a ladder, then climbed up to the side of the house by clinging with great difficulty to a series of stones projecting from the wall. At every moment of the ascent, he was in serious danger of falling, but in the end he reached the balcony unscathed, where he was silently received by the girl with very great rejoicing. After exchanging many kisses, they lay down together and for virtually the entire night they had delight and joy of one another, causing the nightingale to sing at frequent intervals.
He gave her a friendly greeting, which she acknowledged, then she began to stare at him, not because she found him the least bit attractive, but because she was fascinated by his odd appearance. Calandrino returned her gaze, and on seeing how beautiful she was, began to think of various excuses for not returning with the water to his companions. However, not knowing who she was, he was afraid to address her, and the girl, perceiving that he was still staring at her, mischievously rolled her eyes at him a couple of times, and fetched a few little sighs, so that Calandrino instantly fell in love with her and stood rooted to the spot till she was called inside by Filippo.
“What I want is this,” replied the lady, “In the month of January that is now approaching, I want a garden, somewhere near the town, that is full of green plants, flowers, and leafy trees, exactly as though it were the month of May. And if he fails to provide it, let him take good care never to send you or anyone else to me again. For if he should provoke me any further, I shall no longer keep this matter a secret as I have until now, but I shall seek to rid myself of his attentions by complaining to my husband and kinsfolk.
Love, ever since I fell in love
With him, you always granted me
More fear than courage; wherefore I
Could never show it openly
To him who takes away my breath,
And death is hard as I lie dying.
Perhaps he would not be displeased
If he were conscious of my sighing
And I could find the power to show
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When justice fades away, Zakia Jafri is a beacon of hopetext_fields
It was a long battle for the 82-year-old Zakia Jafri. She did not bow down, nor has she shown any tiredness in the course of the legal battle for twenty years.
Her only driving force was the justice for the victims and survivors of the Gulberg society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riot, in which 69 people were killed, including her husband, former MP and Congress leader, Ehsan Jafri.
Zakia Jafri was one of the prime witnesses and survivors of the massacre which happened on the dreadful night of February 28, 2002. When the people associated with the right-wing group went berserk in the state, looting, pillaging, killing and molesting women and girls belonging to Muslim community after the Godhra incident, it was evident for the people living the Gulberg society that they were no longer safe in their homes.
They never thought that their neighbours for a long time would turn against them. The insecurity, coupled with reports of the killing spree happening across the state, made the members of the society seek asylum in Jafri's house for the sake of their life. They believed his house was safe for them, since he was an MP and a senior Congress leader, indeed a respected one.
What they barely doubted was that Jafri's words would be turned down when he called up the authorities for help and protection. But this time the case was different. The people who lived adjacent to his house converged in his house when the mob reached them. The fact was that the mob was after them, up to Jafri's house.
Though Jafri was a well-known person, the mob could care little for his stature but only the name, and the incidents that followed later vindicated that no matter what stature you had, if you are belonging to a minority community, you are nothing but dust in the country.
Jafri was said to have rung many people who were in power at the time in vain, when the mob began to build up its strength with a vigour for extermination of the people who sought asylumin his house. Among Jafri's call list was the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi.
Zakia Jafri was with him when he made the frantic calls to the CM for help. The outcome of the call was one of the crucial proofs for a case against the later Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but of which he has now been completely cleared by the Supreme Court.
When the calls Jafri made bore little help at the terrible hours of the night, it ended up with the death of 69 people, including children and many others from suffering the attacks.
Many burned to death, some died of being hacked and others succumbed to lynching and the women and girls were molested, and raped, leaving the survivors to live a life with the horror.
It is true that there was a heinous crime committed, and it is as clear as daylight. It was also true that they had a mob behind it. Now the case has been closed for the brutality and no justice for the people who were butchered.
For Zakia Jafri, her two decades' legal fight was not politically motivated, but was the result of what she had witnessed on the terrific night. She heard the responses to the desperate calls her husband made when death was waiting outside their house. She saw the horror when the calls fell on deaf ears. It was obvious that no sane person could sleep after going through the terror. It is what led her to be steadfast these years, seeking justice, moving from one court to another.
"Deeply disappointing," was the first response of Tanveer Jafri, the son of Zakia Jafri. He was handling the legal procedures on behalf of his 82-year-old mother, who is suffering from hearing impairment and could not stand or walk for extended periods.
A bench presided over by Justice A M Khanwilkar upheld the decision of the Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate to accept the closure report of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), which was appointed by the top court — rejecting the protest petition filed by Zakia.
The SIT formed by the Supreme Court had submitted a closure report in 2012 giving a clean chit to then chief minister Narendra Modi after a preliminary investigation into the complaint filed by Zakia against Modi and 63 others including bureaucrats and policemen. The apex court said there was no prosecutable evidence against them. | <urn:uuid:8694726b-4d53-4ab5-845b-7b8b9115e45b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://english.madhyamam.com/opinion/deep-read/when-justice-fades-away-zakia-jafri-is-a-beacon-of-hope-1035932 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.991136 | 939 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The number of Stratford, P.E.I. residents using pesticides on their lawns has dramatically increased from last year.
The increased use of pesticides was one of a number of findings in the town's annual resident survey. Of the people responding to the survey 38 per cent indicated they had used pesticides, a 22 per cent increase over last year.
"Any use of pesticides concerns me of course," said Mayor David Dunphy.
"We want our residents to live in a healthy community, and some people have sensitivity to pesticides."
Dunphy said the town may have to try to figure out why more people turning to chemicals to keep their lawns green.
"We're not sure why that number is different than last year. Of course next year's survey we'll see what kind of results we get to see if this was an anomaly," he said.
Few in Stratford walking or biking
The survey also showed that only two per cent of residents are walking or biking to work.
Residents said the biggest barriers were feeling unsafe on the Hillsborough bridge, too few sidewalks and bike lanes, and traffic. Nineteen per cent of Stratford residents participated in the survey. It was conducted over a six-week period beginning this January. The survey has a margin of error of 3.9 per cent 19 times out of 20. | <urn:uuid:d6aa006a-28c2-4a96-9c65-4ae2bcd3f37f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/lawn-pesticide-use-up-in-stratford-1.1388838 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00086-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973936 | 274 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Published on July 16th, 2013 | by Jake Richardson0
Wild Cat Mimicks Monkey Vocals
July 16th, 2013 by Jake Richardson
Scientists have documented for the first time that a wild cat deliberately imitated the cries of a monkey in order to draw it closer for an attack. Marguays are medim-sized wild cats and obviously hunt for small animals to eat. Researchers were able to observe a margay making noises similar to that of a baby tamarin monkey in order to trick adult tamarins to come close enough the margay would have a better chance of catching one. It was actually four adult tamarins that came down out of a tree in response to the fake baby tamarin cries.
Behind some foliage was the margay.
‘This observation further proves the reliability of information obtained from Amazonian inhabitants. This means that accounts of jaguars and pumas using the same vocal mimicry to attract prey–but not yet recorded by scientists– also deserve investigation,’ said Dr. Avecita Chicchón, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Latin America Program. (Source: Science Daily)
Previously, the researchers had heard of stories told by Amazon inhabitants about puma and other wild cats that were engaging in vocal imitations to attract prey. While these stories may have been true, anecdotes are not accepted as scientific confirmation. They can help point scientists in the right direction in some cases, but they can also be very misleading. Eye witness accounts can be very unreliable as we have seen in some situations where people report seeing a mountain lion, but later it was determined to be a dog.
Pied tamarins are Endangered, but not by imitative cats. The main cause of their demise is habitat loss from deforestation in the Amazon. Margays are listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN Red List. Thousands of these beautiful animals are killed each year for their fur.
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The International Back to Back Wool Challenge began in 1992 when Richard Snow — a young spinner living in Scotland — developed thyroid cancer. His desire to raise funds for cancer research sparked the challenge's creation — a simple and direct method of shearing a sheep, spinning the wool into yarn and using that yarn to knit a sweater.
More than 20 years later, 10 countries participate in the competition each year. The San Diego Spinners are the only group participating this year in the United States.
"It's a unique and amazing event that we've been proud to be a part of for the past three years," says Beverly Codallos with the Sharp HealthCare Foundation. "So far, this fundraiser has raised nearly $3,000 for the Barnhart Cancer Center and has provided much needed support for cancer treatment options here in the South Bay."
Members of the San Diego Spinners collectively knit a sweater at last year's International Back to Back Wool Competition.
Handcrafted items are available for sale throughout the event; all funds raised are donated to Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center's Barnhart Cancer Center.
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The Lost Son - the Lost Brother
“There was a man who had two sons; and the younger of them said to his father, `Father, give me the share of property that falls to me.´ And he divided his living between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living. And when he spent everything, a great famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want. So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to herd his animals. And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the animals ate, and no one gave him anything. But when he came to himself he said, `How many of my father´s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, `Father I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired servants.´And he arose and came to his father. But while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him; `Father I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But the father said to the servants, `Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.`…”
Luke 15: 11-32
Two descendends of Abraham, a son of Jacob and a son of Ismail, both showing similar hairdress.
At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
Medhab, a young sheikh of Ateyba, photo Carl Raswan
A lost son is at the same time a lost brother. Ismail /Ishmael is regarded by Christian and Jewish tradition as a son of Abraham who has no claim to the inheritance of his father. He and his children seem to be forgotten brothers and sisters. No children´s Bible contains the story of Abraham sending away his son Ismail into the desert, together with his mother and some bread and water. But Ismail, in the eye of the author, proved to be a true son of the father of all believers, Abraham. He proved it through his life, by his desert life. He and his children continued the nomadic life of their father Abraham as herders of their animals. They preserved it nearly unchanged for thousands of years in a society largely based on solidarity lasting until the days of the beginning 20th century, a living mirror of the Biblical world of past days.
The book Genesis tells us, that it took only a short time until the paths of the descendents of the two lines of Abraham, Isaac and Ismail, crossed each other for the first time. Joseph, son of Abraham´s grandson Jacob, was sent out by his father to see after his brothers. But his brothers planned evil for him. First they intended to kill him. But when some Ishmaelites came along, they sold their brother to them. They lied to their father Jacob pretending Joseph had died. But thanks to the Ishmaelites, Joseph survived. He rose from a slave to the second man in Egypt, allowed to ride in the second chariot of the Pharaoh (Genesis 41: 43). His role, how he saved his people and the whole of Egypt in the seven years of famine, is considered as a prototype of the Messiah. Since that incidence, the two lines of Abraham did have a long history of relations, since World War II in the very focus of world politics.
The hope for the coming Messiah is a vital part of our present days. Many believers around the world, from many backgrounds and nations, look forward to his day. This was even expressed at the United Nations by President Ahmadineschad of Iran in September 2005, who spoke of the mahdi, the correspondent Schiitic tradition. The New Testament describes the Messiah as a rider on a white horse. And behold, this rider will come in the tradition of the desert, as a son of Ismail, in a spiritual likeness of Ismail. Sent by the father to all his brothers.
The “return of the lost son” to the house of the father, admittedly in a somewhat different story to the parable of Jesus in Luke 15, will result in the reconciliation of mankind. The house of the father encompasses all who live in the one house under the one black tent of stars. Today no one can imagine how this reconciliation will happen. But it will happen, like the reconciliation of another pair of brothers in the book Genesis: Esau and Jacob. Both became lost sons when Jacob stole the father´s blessing for the firstborn by deceit. Jacob had to flee from the tent of his father because his brother wanted to kill him. But God was with both of them (although many readers only focus on Jacob) and changed their hearts. Jacob became Israel and was ready to face his brother after having crossed the river Jabbok. The approach of both brothers is worth reading. Their reconciliation is described with nearly identical words to the parable of Jesus from Luke 15: 20:
And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids. And he put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all. He himself went on before them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
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|Project by Ben Simms||posted 03-01-2012 08:57 PM||3115 views||1 time favorited||6 comments|
This is my first finished project in my own shop. I got permission to take some scraped shipping crates and pallets from a local business, tore them apart, knocked out the nails and milled them to 3/4”. I used a homemade panel clamp to edge glue the boards, cut to size and ran dados for all of the shelves. The shelves are spaced 10” on center, to accommodate a standard sized hardback book with a little room to spare. I ended up making the top and bottom separately and added 3/4” splines to hold them together. It is 8-1/4” deep for a low profile. No nails, no screws, just joinery and glue.
I think the wood is yellow pine but I’m not sure? Maybe someone can tell based on the last picture?
I love recycling wood!
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If you carefully begin to monitor what enters your oral cavity, you will probably notice that in addition to food, we use some kind of chemical compounds every day. In other words, drugs are not for nothing that our pharmaceutical industry is only gaining momentum. Aimless and uncontrolled swallowing of tablets can only add oil to the fire. You know, as they say in the people - one heals, the other cripples. But we are used to not looking at the number of sentences in the annotation for some kind of medicine. The main side effects of the drugs are obvious!
There are many people who simply cannot endure pain (this applies to the case when these are not acute attacks that are life-threatening). They got so stuck in drugs that the hand stretches mechanically like that. As with vaccination, all chemical compounds have their own side effects, and for some reason few people consider it. And there are a lot of them and you need to know about them:
- allergic reactions, dermatitis and many other skin diseases;
- dysbiosis, intestinal upset, constipation, bloating, etc.
- overweight and obesity;
- headaches, dizziness, and various anxiety conditions.
This is just a small list of the most common side effects. A vicious circle is formed when you begin to treat all your acquired side effects. And only excess weight is not amenable to tablet treatment.
Side effects of drugs and effects on overweight
I would like to dwell in detail on those drugs that can and cause you to be overweight.
- First of all, these are hormonal drugs. Alas and ah, there are a great many of them. The thing is that they can be an integral part of even a medicine for allergies or for a viral one, or for the same skin diseases. You can gain from 8 to 12 a kilogram of excess weight and this weight is distributed very unevenly over the body - that is, either your legs look very swollen, or your arms, or your butt. And if a doctor prescribed a course of such drugs for you, you should ask how long the course will last, and immediately after it begin to bring your weight back to the previous norm. Otherwise, it will become increasingly difficult to get rid of it over time. And always ask about this kind of side effect to be in the know. Other products are also available that do not cause much weight gain, for example pills Hoodix.
- Antidepressants and other similar phenomena. The story with them can be quite confusing. In the first case, excess weight can become the cause of depression, and then obesity will again be a side effect. Everything happens according to the scenario: obesity - depression - obesity. As you can see the vicious circle. In the second case, the reason may be different and all the same, after taking antidepressants, the problem of excess weight arises. The main side effect of such drugs is weight gain due to the fact that they fundamentally knock down hormones. Many psychotherapists know this and therefore you should adjust your dose of such a medicine. Another cause of weight gain can be a noticeable decrease in activity. the fact is that you begin to feel good and lead a sedentary lifestyle - they say, everything is fine with me and so on. Do not fall for this bait.
- And, finally, the most painful are drugs for the treatment of gastric ulcer and other gastrointestinal tract organs, for example tea Gastro. It is believed that it is antispasmodics, which are mainly prescribed in such cases, cause excess weight. However, this is not proven. Many are prescribed enzymes that enhance the digestion of food, hence the extra pounds. I want to eat more and more. Such a theory also has a place to be. At the beginning of your illness, you lose weight, then there is treatment and a return to excess weight. However, amid all medications and amid a general recovery, you just start to overeat. Therefore, it is very important to monitor your diet and, most importantly, its quality.
- In all three of the most important cases considered by us, it is important (in fact, as with weight loss) to observe the principles of proper nutrition and lead a healthy lifestyle. Simple carbohydrates, processed foods, smoked, fried and fatty should be minimized in the diet. Pay due attention to dairy and sour-milk products, vegetables and fruits (but only in the morning). Observing such simple and painfully familiar principles, you can easily eliminate the gained kilograms and thereby minimize the main side effects of drugs. But in general, the healthy lifestyle that you lead will save you from taking many medications.
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In a desert city like Las Vegas, it can be hard to see the forest for the trees. Or even the trees.
But the valley is actually home to a forest. We’ve got more than 113,000 trees from more than 250 different species, according to the Nevada Division of Forestry.
That man-made urban forest helps clean our air, shade our buildings, increase our property values and soak up stormwater — environmental benefits worth about $3.9 million a year. And if you had to replace all those trees with new ones of the same size and kind, it would cost you roughly $276 million.
“The benefits provided by our urban trees are astounding,” said David Howlett, coordinator for the state’s urban forestry program.
The division just released the final results of a detailed tree inventory conducted last year in the Las Vegas Valley, Boulder City and Mesquite.
A team of certified arborists — that’s right, certified — from an Ohio-based consulting firm fanned out across the area to examine trees one by one, mapping them and recording their type, size and general health.
They logged 117,059 in all, and that’s just the publicly owned ones in the three areas. Trees planted in landscapes, neighborhood common areas, parking lots and other privately owned places were not included in the inventory.
What the arborists found is an urban forest populated by mostly young, mostly healthy trees. Three-quarters of them are of the broad-leaf, hardwood variety, but 262 different species were catalogued. That’s about five times the variety seen in the average U.S. city, according to a study cited in the inventory report.
The most popular species here is the Mondale pine (14 percent of the total population), followed by the Fan-Tex ash (9 percent) and the desert willow (5 percent).
Among the other findings:
• The valley’s highest percentage of older trees can be found on the UNLV campus, which also boasts the highest amount of trees in good condition at 83 percent.
• Nearly half of Henderson’s trees are in the youngest age class, with trunks of three inches in diameter or less.
• Half of all the trees in Boulder City are considered large or medium sized, the highest such percentage in Clark County.
• Almost a quarter of the trees in Mesquite are palm trees, well ahead of any other community in the county.
The roughly 117,000 trees inventoried last year provide a canopy covering almost 700 acres, with roots that absorb about 84 million gallons of stormwater runoff each year.
Each of these so-called “public trees” provides an average value to their communities of $33.19. The largest share of that benefit ($25.56 per tree) comes in the form of improved property value, though each tree also reduces electricity and natural gas use to the tune of about $3.66 on average by shading buildings and cooling the air, the inventory report said.
The other financial benefits of the urban forest come from absorbing carbon dioxide and reducing other pollutants.
The inventory report does not contemplate the water required to sustain these trees or the power needed to pump it. It also excludes the costs associated with seasonal allergies made worse by the valley’s sizable population of fruitless mulberry, olive and pine trees.
Instead, the report focuses on the sunny side of the urban forest. It cites a variety of studies that credit healthy urban trees for improving the “overall attractiveness” of a community, boosting the mental health and the quality of life and promoting “retail sales and tourism.”
And trees are a good use of public money in a way new buildings and fire trucks and sidewalks simply can’t match, the report states. With the proper care and maintenance, a tree will actually increase in value over time as it grows, “unlike other public assets.”
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Canadian women looking to become pregnant through sperm donations are too often forced to use imported semen from the United States, where the practice suffers from insufficient regulation, critics charge.
“Of course we are at risk. It’s buyer beware,” Toronto fertility lawyer Sherry Levitan said Tuesday.
She was commenting on a lawsuit filed last week by a Port Hope couple against a U.S. sperm bank and donor they allege misled them about the donor’s background. Angela Collins and Margaret Elizabeth Hanson say they believed the sperm they purchased from Atlanta-based Xytec Corp. came from a highly recommended, healthy, multi-degreed donor with a high IQ.
They say they were shocked to learn that the donor allegedly has schizophrenia, a criminal background and is a college dropout. As well, they claim the photo they were provided of him was doctored and a mole on his face removed.
Xytex denies it failed to comply with testing standards. The donor, Chris Aggeles, said through his lawyer that the lawsuit is without merit and that he will be seeking to have it dismissed. None of the allegations has been proven in court.
Canada passed legislation in 2004 making it illegal for sperm banks to pay donors for semen, but Toronto fertility lawyer Sara Cohen said most men aren’t going to go to the time and effort to donate their sperm for free.
Cohen, an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, said the Port Hope case highlights the need for Canada to address the shortcomings in the sperm-donation system.
“We’ve put ourselves in a really lousy position where we are completely dependent on other countries for our imported gametes,” she said.
“Third-party reproduction is a reality. There are a lot of people who need donor sperm, and we need to worry about that within our country. We need to make sure we are doing what we can to have a healthy supply,” she added.
The 2004 rule also makes Canadians reliant on importing sperm from the United States, where there are no such restrictions, Levitan noted.
When it comes to screening donors, sperm banks too often rely on the honour system and don’t corroborate information provided by donors, she said.
“Why aren’t they getting records from a GP?” Levitan asked, explaining that such records could reveal whether a donor has mental health problems.
She said sperm banks should also do criminal background checks and confirm with universities whether donors have degrees as claimed.
“There is no regulation or oversight. No on is watching,” charged Wendy Kramer, director of the U.S. Donor Sibling Registry, which helps donor offspring and families find each other.
She said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sets out only minimal requirements for sperm, which must be tested for infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted diseases, and a handful of other conditions.
She acknowledged that health privacy legislation makes it difficult for sperm banks to corroborate health information provided by donors.
“The only way to make the industry shift is through a public shaming,” Kramer said.
A 2009 report in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that a sperm donor using a San Francisco sperm bank passed on a potentially deadly genetic heart condition to nine of his 24 children, including one who died at age 2 of heart failure.
The report and an accompanying editorial said the case highlights the importance of thoroughly screening sperm donors.
In another case, an Ohio woman last year launched a lawsuit against a sperm bank after it mixed up donors and gave her sperm from an African-American man instead of the white one she and her partner selected.
When sperm is imported into Canada, there are additional regulations that apply on this side of the border. It must meet a long list of criteria, including that it be quarantined for at least 180 days, that the lab be clean and sterile, and that vials be properly labelled.
“We have one of the most stringest requirements of any country in the world,” said Clifford Librach, director of CReATe Fertility Centre in Toronto, which helps inseminate women who purchased sperm at one of the three distributors in Canada. “They cannot import or distribute sperm in Canada unless it follows the Canadian regulations.”
The 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act was designed to protect the health and well-being of children, but by banning paid sperm donations, it leaves Canadians with few options beyond looking south of the border.
ReproMed, the Toronto Institute for Reproductive Medicine, lists just over 50 Canadian donors on its website.
“It’s very challenging to recruit donors. We try our best,” said business development manager Kyle MacDonald.
“There is still a need for donor semen, and as a result units do have to be brought in. It would be nice if we didn’t have to look outside of Canada to help build Canadian families,” he added.
MacDonald said the company accepts only 5 per cent of donor applicants and weeds out the remainder through its screening process. He was unable to provide details of the screening process and said the individual in charge of the sperm bank is currently on vacation and unavailable for an interview.
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We all want to get stuff done, whether it’s the work we have to do so we can get on with what we want to do, or indeed, the projects we feel are our purpose in life.
To that end, here’s a collection of 50 hacks, tips, tricks, and mnemonic devices I’ve collected that can help you work better.
1. Most Important Tasks (MITs): At the start of each day (or the night before) highlight the three or four most important things you have to do in the coming day. Do them first. If you get nothing else accomplished aside from your MITs, you’ve still had a pretty productive day.
2.Big Rocks: The big projects you’re working on at any given moment. Set aside time every day or week to move your big rocks forward.
3. Inbox Zero: Decide what to do with every email you get, the moment you read it. If there’s something you need to do, either do it or add it to your todo list and delete or file the email. If it’s something you need for reference, file it. Empty your email inbox every day.
4. Wake up earlier: Add a productive hour to your day by getting up an hour earlier — before everyone else starts imposing on your time.
5. One In, One Out: Avoid clutter by adopting a replacement-only standard. Every time you but something new, you throw out or donate something old. For example, you buy a new shirt, you get rid of an old one. (Variation: One in, Two Out — useful when you begin to feel overwhelmed by your possessions.)
6. Brainstorming: The act of generating dozens of ideas without editing or censoring yourself. Lots of people use mindmaps for this: stick the thing you want to think about in the middle (a problem you need to solve, a theme you want to write about, etc.) and start writing whatever you think of. Build off of each of the sub-topics, and each of their sub-topics. Don’t worry about whether the ideas are any good or not — you don’t have to follow through on them, just get them out of your head. After a while, you’ll start surprising yourself with some really creative concepts.
7. Ubiquitous Capture: Always carry something to take notes with — a pen and paper, a PDA, a stack of index cards. Capture every thought that comes into your mind, whether it’s an idea for a project you’d like to do, an appointment you need to make, something you need to pick up next time you’re at the store, whatever. Review it regularly and transfer everything to where it belongs: a todo list, a filing system, a journal, etc.
8. Get more sleep: Sleep is essential to health, learning, and awareness. Research shows the body goes through a complete sleep cycle in about 90 minutes, so napping for less than that doesn’t have the same effect that real sleep does (although it does make you feel better). Get 8 hours a night, at least. Learn to see sleep as a pleasure, not a necessary evil or a luxury.
9. 10+2*5: Work in short spurts of 10 minutes, interrupted by 2 minute breaks. Use a timer. Do this 5 times an hour to stay on target without over-taxing your physical and mental resources. Spend those 2 minutes getting a drink, going to the bathroom, or staring out a window.
10. SMART goals: A rubric for creating and pursuing your goals, helping to avoid setting goals that are simply unattainable. Stands for: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely.
11. SUCCES: From Chip and Dan Heath’s book, Made to Stick, SUCCES is a set of characteristics that make ideas memorable (“sticky”): sticky ideas are Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional Stories.
12. Eat the Frog: Do your most unpleasant task first. Based on the saying that if the first thing you do in the morning is eat a frog, the day can only get better from then on.
13. 80/20 Rule/Pareto Principle: Generally speaking, the 80/20 Principle says that most of our results come from a small portion of our actual work, and conversely, that we spend most of our energy doing things that aren’t ultimately all that important. Figure out which part of your work has the greatest results and focus as much of your energy as you can on that part.
14. What’s the Next Action?: Don’t plan out everything you need to do to finish a project, just focus on the very next thing you need to do to move it forward. Usually doing the next, little thing will lead to another, and another, until we’re either done or we run into a block: we need more information, we need someone else to catch up, etc. Be as concrete and discrete as possible: you can’t “install cable”, all you can do is “call the cable company to request cable installation”.
15. The Secret: There is no secret.
16. Slow Down: Make time for yourself. Eat slowly. Enjoy a lazy weekend day. Take the time to do things right, and keep a balance between the rush-rush world of work and the rest of your life.
17. Time Boxing: Assign a set amount of time per day to work on a task or project. Focus entirely on that one thing during that time. Don’t worry about finishing it, just worry about giving that amount of undivided attention to the project. (Variation: fixed goals. For example, you don’t get up until you’ve written 1,000 words, or processed 10 orders, or whatever.)
18. Batch Process: Do all your similar tasks together. For example, don’t deal with emails sporadically throughout the day; instead, set aside an hour to go through your email inbox and respond to emails. Do the same with voice mail, phone calls, responding to letters, filing, and so on — any routine, repetitive tasks.
19. Covey Quadrants: A system for assigning priorities. Two axes, one for importance, the other for urgency, intersect. Tasks are assigned to one of the four quadrants: not important, not urgent; not important, urgent; important, not urgent; and important and urgent. Purge the tasks that are neither important nor urgent, defer the unimportant but urgent ones, try to avoid letting the important ones become urgent, and as much as possible work on the tasks in the important but not urgent quadrant.
20. Handle Everything Once: Don’t set things aside hoping you’ll have time to deal with them later. Ask yourself “What do I need to do with this” every time you pick up something from your email list, and either do it, schedule it for later, defer it to someone else, or file it.
21. Don’t Break the Chain: Use a calendar to track your daily goals. Every day you do something, like working out or writing 1,000 words, make a big red “X”. Every day the chain will grow longer. Don’t break the chain! That is, don’t let any non-X days interrupt your chain of successful days.
22. Review: Schedule a time with yourself every week to look over what you’ve done that week and what you want to do the next week. Ask yourself if there are any new projects you should be starting, and if what you’re working on is moving you closer to your goals for your life.
23. Roles: Everyone fills several different roles in their life. For instance, I’m a teacher, a student, a writer, a step-father, a partner, a brother, a son, an uncle, an anthropologist, and so on. Understanding your different roles and learning to keep them distinct when necessary can help you keep some sense of balance between them. Make goals around the various roles you fill, and make sure that your goals fit with your goals in other roles.
24. Flow: The flow state happens when you’re so absorbed in whatever you’re doing that you have no awareness of the passing of time and the work just happens automatically. It’s hard to trigger consciously, but you can create the conditions for it by allowing yourself a block of uninterrupted time, minimizing distractions, and calming yourself.
25. Do It Now: Fight procrastination by adopting “do it now!” as your mantra. Limit yourself to 60 seconds when making a decision, decide what you’re going to do with every input in your life as soon as you encounter it, learn to make bold decisions even when you’re not really sure. Keep moving forward.
26. Time Log: Lawyers have to track everything they do in the day and how long they do it so they can bill their clients and remain accountable. You need to be accountable to yourself, so keep track of how much time you really spend on the things that are important to you by tracking your time.
27. Structured Procrastination: A strategy of recognizing and using one’s procrastinating tendencies to get stuff done. Items at the top of top of the list are avoided by doing seemingly less difficult and less important tasks further down the list — making the procrastinator highly productive. The trick is to make sure the items at the top are apparently urgent — with pressing deadlines and apparently large consequences. But, of course, they aren’t really all that urgent. Structured procrastination requires a masterful skill at self-deception, which fortunately bigtime procrastinators excel at.
28. Personal Mission Statement: Write a personal mission statement, and use it as a guide to set goals. Ask if each goal or activity moves you closer to achieving your mission. If it doesn’t, eliminate it. Periodically review and revise your mission statement.
29. Backwards Planning: A planning strategy that works from the goal back to your next action. Start with the end goal in mind. What do you have to have in place to accomplish it? OK, now what do you have to have in place to accomplish what you have to have in place to accomplish your end goal? And what do you have to have in place to accomplish that? And so on, back to something you already have in place and/or can put in place immediately. That’s your next action.
30. Tune Out: Create a personal privacy zone by wearing headphones. People are much more hesitant to interrupt someone wearing headphones. Note: actually listening to music through your headphones is optional — nobody knows but you.
31. Write It Down: Don’t rely on your memory as your system. Write down the things you need to do, your schedule, anything you might need to refer to, and every passing thought so you can relax, knowing you won’t forget. Use your brain for thinking, use paper or your computer for keeping track of stuff.
32. Gap Time: The little blocks of time we have during the day while waiting for the bus, standing in line, waiting for a meeting to start, etc. Have a list of small, 5-minute tasks that you can do in these moments, or carry something to read or work on to make the most of these spare minutes.
33. Monotasking: We like to think of ourselves as great multitaskers, but we aren’t. What we do when we multitask is devote tiny slices of time to several tasks in rapid succession. Since it takes more than a few minutes (research suggests as long as 20) to really get into a task, we end up working worse and more slowly than if we devoted longer blocks of time to each task, worked until it was done, and moved on to the next one.
34. Habits: Habits are as much about the way we see and respond to the world as about the actions we routinely take. Examine your own habits and ask what they say about your relation to the world — and what would have to change to create a worldview in which your goals were attainable.
35. Triggers: Place meaningful reminders around you to help you remember, as well as to help create better habits. For example, put the books you need to take back to the library in front of the door, so you can’t leave the house without seeing them and remembering they need to go back.
36. Unclutter: Clutter is anything that’s out of place and in the way. IT’s not necessarily neatness — someone can have a rigorously neat workspace and not be able to get anything done. It’s being able to access what you need, when you need it, without breaking the flow of your work to find it. Figure out what is “clutter” in your working and living spaces, and fix that.
37. Visualize: Imagine yourself having accomplished your goals. What is your life like? Are you who you want to be? If not, rethink your goals. If so, then visualize yourself taking the steps you need to take to get there. You’ve got yourself a plan; write it down and do it.
38. Tickler File: A set of 43 folders, labeled 1 – 31 and January – December, used to remind us of tasks we need to do on a specific day. For instance, if you have a trip on March 23rd, you’d put your itinerary, tickets, and other material in the “March” folder. At the start of each month, you move the previous month’s folder to the back. On March 1st, you’d transfer your travel information into the “23″ folder. Each day, you move the previous day’s folder to the back. On the 23rd, the “23″ folder will be at the front, and everything you need that day will be there for you.
39. ToDon’t List: A list of things not to do — useful for keeping track of habits that lead you to be unproductive, like playing online flash games.
40. Templates: Create templates for repetitive tasks, like letters, customer reply emails, blog posts, etc.
41. Checklists: When planning any big task, make a checklist so you don’t forget the steps while in the busy middle part of doing it. Keep your checklists so you can use them next time you have to do the same task.
42. No: Learning to say “no” — to new commitments, to interruptions, to anything — is one of the most valuable skills you can develop to keep you focused on your own commitments and give you time to work on them.
43. Unschedule: Schedule all your fun activities and personal life stuff (the stuff you want to do) first. Fill in whatever time’s left over with uninterrupted blocks of work. Write those into your schedule after you’ve completed them. Reward yourself after every block of quality, focused work.
44. Purge: Regularly go through your existing commitments and get rid of anything that is either not helping you advance your own goals or is a regular “sink” of time or energy.
45. One Bucket: Minimize the places you collect new inputs in your life, your “buckets”. Ideally have one “bucket” where everything goes. Lots of people experience an incredible sense of relief when everything they need to think about is collected in one place in front of them, no matter how big the pile.
46. 50-30-20: Spend 50% of your working day on tasks that advance your long-term, life goals, spend 30% on tasks that advance your middle-term (2-years or so) goals, and the remaining 20% on things that affect only the next 90 days or so.
47. Timer: Tell yourself you will work on a project or task, and only that project or task, for a set amount of time. Set a timer (use a kitchen timer, or use a countdown timer on your computer), and plug away at your work. When the timer goes off, you’re done — move on to the next project or task.
48. Do Your Worst: Give yourself permission to suck. Relieve the pressure of needing to achieve perfection in every task on the first run. Promise yourself you’ll go back and fix any problems later, but for now, just run wild.
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A comprehensive new study by Meyers Research Center (MRC) finds that convenience store shoppers are seeking cold beverages, friendly employees and know what they want before they get through the door. The findings are part of Meyers’ Convenience Store Close-Up Wave Six, which takes a look at behavior, attitudes and decision-making patterns of c-store shoppers in the U.S. The study also disclosed that nearly half of all consumers surveyed said they are making sacrifices to pay higher gas prices at the pump.
“C-Store shoppers are telling us that the helpfulness and the friendliness of the employees was rated high when selecting a store to shop in, along with fast checkout and cleanliness,” explains Jeff Friedlaender, vice president of Meyers Research Center.
“Higher gasoline prices are driving consumers to less convenient locations in search of lower prices, which are more important than finding the most convenient c-store,” Friedlaender said.
The report presents the results of the sixth wave of Meyers Research Center’s Convenience Store Close-Up series and was fielded in July, August and September of 2006. This research was conducted via in-store intercept interviews with consumers as they were exiting the convenience store, immediately after they finished paying for their purchases.
A random sample of 1,074 convenience store shoppers were interviewed in 31 locations across 17 geographically dispersed U.S. cities. Additional finding include:
Pain At The Gas Pump Influences Nearly Half of All Surveyed. The cost of gas is of concern to c-store shoppers and the majority would choose access to lower cost gas above their own convenience. Half of the subjects (48%) said they had to give up something in order to pay higher gas prices over the past summer. Most often relinquished were vacations/travel, dining out/take out, and entertainment (movies, theater, ball games). To a lesser extent, people also cut back on shopping, particularly of apparel and DVD movies/games. A minority of 2% said groceries or utility bills were sacrificed.
Employees Outweigh Other Factors in C-Store Selection. Seventy five percent of shoppers surveyed said “Helpful, friendly employees” outweighed factors such as good prices (38%), fast checkout (38%), wide selection (27%) and prepared foods (3%) when deciding which c-store outlet to shop in.
Planned Purchases On the Rise — In-Store Influences Declining. The influence of in-store factors in c-stores has dropped since the study was last conducted in 2004, falling from a 2004 level of 12% to 4% in 2006. Either there is less being used or it is less compelling to consumers.
“Convenience store shoppers are making purchasing decisions based on category planning and the role that the c-store plays in their day-to-day activities,” said Friedlaender.
“Dashboard Dining” Remains Popular. Over 85% of products purchased at the c-store are consumed within 30 minutes of check-out and over half within five minutes, usually by the shopper and nobody else. More than half (56%) of shoppers said that they plan to consume their purchases in the car while traveling.
Typical PurchasesA cold drink purchase is made by about half of the shoppers — the most typical purchase by far. Shopping for snack food and cigarettes is also highly prevalent. Gas is frequently purchased at stores selling gas; among the shoppers buying merchandise in a c-store with attached gas station, currently 25% were purchasing gas, slightly lower than in 2004 (30%).
What Drives People To C-Stores?Purchasing a cold beverage leads the list of destination drivers to c-stores. The purchase of gas and cigarettes also play a very important role in driving much convenience store traffic. However, presently gas is slightly less of a destination driver to c-stores than in 2004, being replaced by snack food and lottery ticket purchasing.
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The national Republican brand is in trouble. According to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, 71 percent of the public disapproves of the party. An in-house post-mortem of the 2102 election found that the party was in danger of becoming irrelevant if it didn’t change its policies.
At the same time, national stars of the party appeal to a narrow section of the American public. Sens. Ted Cruz (Tx.) and Rand Paul (Ky.) are popular with the tea party wing of the party, but their national appeal remains unknown. Sen. Marco Rubio, long considered a politician who can extend an olive branch to immigrants, has been spurned by the far right after pushing bipartisan immigration reform, a process that has stalled in the House.
Meanwhile, Democrats are enjoying a run of success on the national stage. Despite gridlock in Washington, President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden remain popular. Hilary Clinton has been lavished by praise since she left the State Department, and is considered the front-runner in the 2016 presidential race. Her husband Bill has proven to be a valuable asset on the campaign trail.
Given the popularity of Democratic figureheads and the GOP’s refusal to take its own advice, one might think that Democrats would hold a national advantage over Republicans for decades. But that isn’t the case.
The Democratic Party has a surprisingly short-bench, meaning that it has few rising stars to replace figures like Obama and Clinton once they retire from the main political stage. In addition, the GOP holds a broad advantage over Democrats at the state level, giving them not just a leg-up in the House, but a large stable of candidates that might be more appealing to a national audience.
The Democratic Short Bench
As soon as he entered the Senate, it was obvious that Barack Obama would one day be the face of the Democratic Party. His rise to power was faster than expected, but it was not unexpected.
This rise delayed Hilary Clinton’s time in the sun: she had been pegged as a national party leader as soon as her husband left the White House. She’s poised to take her place as the fact of the party in the upcoming presidential campaign.
But look beyond the current party stalwarts. There are few names that the general public would recognize. And there don’t appear to be many rising stars at the state level.
Elizabeth Warren is a popular, rising figure in the party, but it’s not yet clear whether she could appeal to as broad an audience as Clinton or Obama. Newark Mayor Corey Booker is often mentioned as a potential player, but his political legacy at the local level has yet to be cemented. Similarly, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s name is mentioned in talking about the Democrat’s future, but John Kerry proved that New England politicians often have difficulty connecting with a broad audience.
This lack of star power was on display during the 2012 Democratic convention. Heavyweights like Obama and Clinton wowed their party. But does anyone remember Joaquin or Julian Castro said?
The lack of rising stars has not gone unnoticed.
"Democrats were out of power for a long time, so once they finally get in the majority, they don't want to move," Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Mn.) told The Atlantic recently. "Quite frankly, sometimes you have leaders who have been around quite a long time."
GOP Wins the States
Republicans might not be popular nationally, but their policies sell at the state level.
According to the Pew Center for the States, 30 states have Republican governors. Of those, states, the GOP has control of 25 legislatures. And in the 7 of the 14 states where Republicans are legislative minorities, the party has enough votes to overcome vetoes.
This advantage has allowed Republicans to push through right-wing policies. In North Carolina, Republicans have repealed years of progressive policies while imposing abortion restrictions. The same thing is happening in Texas, where a vocal minority is at the mercy of the GOP.
In recent weeks, there’s been increasing talk that successes at the state level prove that the GOP doesn’t not need minority voters to win national elections. In a series of posts published over the last month, Sean Trende, senior elections analyst for RealClearPolitics, laid out a convincing argument that the GOP can remain relevant by doubling down on white voters as opposed to concentrating on winning minorities.
According to the Republican State Leadership Committee, this advantage also helps to prepare state politicians for the national stage.
"State elections can have a big impact on a political party’s performance in future federal elections, not only by building a strong 'bench' and strengthening party infrastructure, but also through the decennial redistricting process,” the group noted in its 2012 election report.
Add emerging state figures like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to emerging stars in Washington like Cruz, Paul, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) and the GOP has a solid field of candidates to offer once Obama and Clinton’s popularity wanes. Democrats, on the other hand, are struggling to prepare a new crop of politicians to take the stage.
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I have a friend who had been unhappy at work. He told me that no matter how hard he tried, his boss was completely unreasonable. Ultimately, he was fired. An acquaintance who knows both my friend and his boss told me he feels that it was my friend’s issues that led to his dismissal. So what’s the truth? My guess is that it’s a mixture of the two viewpoints. But here’s one thing we can know without question: Being unhappy in one’s work can lead to some sad results.
How’s your job going? Do you see it as a sacred vocation, or have you lost all motivation? Solomon, in Proverbs, presents some practical, inspiring wisdom that can help you do your work well and enjoy it better:
• Take wise steps—Moping or simply getting mad will not help your situation. Seek God in prayer and apply the principles of His Word to what you’re experiencing on the job—choosing to do the right thing as His wise child (Proverbs 10:1-2.)
• Trust God for the results—God knows your needs and He promises to provide just what you need (Proverbs 10:3; Matthew 6:31-33). Seek His kingdom as you trust Him with your job and its future.
• Truly do the work—Lazy and irresponsible behavior will not be rewarded. Instead, follow the instruction of the apostle Paul and “work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. Remember that the Lord will give you an inheritance as your reward, and that the Master you are serving is Christ” (Colossians 3:23-24).
Yes, our ultimate “boss,” our highest Master, is Jesus Himself. As we make it our aim to glorify Him in our work, contentment and joy will follow.
NLT 365-day reading plan passage for today: Jude 1:17-25
Read Proverbs 14:23 and note the importance of doing the work and not just talking a good game.
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If you want to seek a measure of America's cultural decline review current fiction written for adolescents and teenagers.
Years ago adolescents read books such as the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Mysteries. The main characters were mature teenagers who endeavored to lead principled lives and who contributed to their communities. Books about wholesome characters such as Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys still exist but some fiction about teenagers in this Age of MTV might be more appropriate for The Playboy Channel.
Consider the The Gossip Girls series, read by many 13-year olds. Like Nancy Drew, the Gossip Girls come from privileged backgrounds. Unlike Ms. Drew, their values are shallow and they embrace unhealthy lifestyles. Not surprisingly, one website promotes the series with this purportedly complimentary tagline: "If Carrie Bradshaw from Sex in the City had a little sister, she would be a Gossip Girl."
School Library Journal describes the first book in the series: "Sex seems easy, no one worries about protection or consequences, the alcohol flows like water, and the language is raw."
The Gossip Girls is among a long and growing line of books written for younger teenagers, NBC News Correspondent Janet Shamlian noted when she interviewed Adolescent Psychiatrist John Sargent. There is the Rainbow Party, which involves oral sex. Claiming Georgia Tate is about incest. Teach Me discusses a teacher-student affair. Dr. Sargent told Shamlian that parents "buy [such books] thinking they're doing something nice for their kid, when, in fact, they have no clue what it is they're exposing their kid to."
Parents have good reason to be worried about purchasing such books for their teenage children. Some parents may rationalize that if they avoided buying the books their sons or daughters would read them anyway because school libraries have the books on their shelves. Other parents may rationalize that books such as The Gossip Girls are acceptable reading for their children, and therefore purchase or borrow them.
Parents should know what books are on the bookshelves in school libraries and should know they can protest the schools' collections of unacceptable books. Parents who decide such books are acceptable have the right to visit a bookstore or online bookseller to purchase them or to borrow them from a library. However, school libraries should not feel compelled to distribute books that reinforce undesirable activities such as underage drinking and teenage sex that the school and community want to curtail.
Parents should know the policies of their school libraries for distribution of inappropriate books. Parents have the right to make their views about distribution policies known to the community. Of course, merely seeking a policy requiring parental consent to let children borrow more provocative books from the school library could draw fervent opposition.
Several years ago The Chosen, a book by Chaim Potek, would have been considered acceptable reading for young teenagers. In The Chosen, a young Hassidic Jew, whose father is a respected rebbe of a strict Hasidic sect, struggled because his goal was to study psychology rather than to succeed his father. The book might have angered a few devout Jews but it was written in a respectful manner, certainly not meant to belittle the rebbe. The Chosen would be too challenging for many younger readers of the MTV Generation but it would be far more enriching.
There also is a challenge for other adults who dislike the salacious fare being foisted upon American teenagers. The author of Teach Me argues that his work moves its readers "to a higher level of maturity." Really? Isn't there a need for more values-oriented fiction to be placed on school bookshelves? Suppose a book were published about a teenager who resisted peer pressure to engage in the lifestyle of the Gossip Girls? The book could be as dramatic as The Gossip Girls but could stress choices that would lead to a stronger, more elevating conclusion.
Many believe in traditional values and that positive behavior and good character are the results of adhering to such values. Fortunately there is a market for popular books that emphasize traditional values and character-building. The theme of these books often is that there are adverse consequences for those who emulate the lives of characters such as the Gossip Girls. Characters that possess traditional values learn more self-control and achieve self-fulfillment by avoiding the lifestyle of the Gossip Girls.
Why not a series called The Values Girls? Instead of lives revolving around the superficial values of the Gossip Girls the characters in The Values Girls would try to live based upon Judeo-Christian values. They would face struggles in school and continually would be besieged by diminished standards and moral relativism. Sometimes they would face problems similar to those of their less values-oriented schoolmates. A comparison could be drawn as to how each group of girls attempted to solve its problems. The Values Girls could come from different religious backgrounds but have a common bond to seek truth. They could subdue temptation and at the conclusion of the book demonstrate greater resolve and character. Characters like the Gossip Girls would find themselves in deeper trouble.
There is no reason why a series like The Values Girls could not be published and find its way to bookstores and library shelves. Grant-making foundations concerned about societal norms could consider it productive to fund talented writers to develop teen literature about contemporary issues which would demonstrate how adherence to traditional values would help people lead better lives. The challenge would be to craft contemporary stories that would strike young readers as relevant and true, and neither avoid tough issues and nor read as lecturing or condescending.
Television programs, music and movies marketed to young teens long have glamorized unhealthy lifestyles and mocked conventional attitudes and values. At one time parents were content that their children read books by Jane Austen or Franklin W. Dixon, whose writing was wholesome and reflected solid values. Good books written for adolescents and teenagers continue to be available. Parents must look hard to find them. More important, parents must examine closely what their children are reading and learn whether those books comport with their family's most important values.
Stephen M. Lilienthal is a policy analyst with the Free Congress Foundation.
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Fuel injector cleaning is a vital part of vehicle maintenance. Regular repair and servicing is how you keep the vehicle running for long. One should clean the injectors periodically to keep the vehicle in good shape. The cleaning service would help to enhance engine functionality. And it surely boosts up the engine efficiency as well. On-time fuel injector cleaning is necessary to prevent critical issues that may bother later.
Automobiles definitely require injectors cleaning to keep things in perfect condition. These injectors pump fuel to the engine with certain pressure. And the dilemmas occur if there is a blockage or some other issue with these injectors.
Cleaning fuel injectors certainly improve vehicle performance. The dust and debris, if any, is clean from the entire injector aperture to increase efficiency. It is necessary to make things better.
Let us discuss some more on it.
Symptoms That Ask For Regular Fuel Injector Cleaning
Cleaning fuel injectors after every 50000 miles would assist greatly. Or you can take the vehicle to the service center and identify if the service is due. The professional will check if the injectors need cleaning or repairing.
Regular cleaning would also help to improve vehicle mileage. Any blockage due to dust and debris inside the engine would make a negative impact on the performance. Some vehicles might not require cleaning for more than 55000 to 60000 miles as well. But periodically examining the issue is not a bad choice.
The modern automobiles have uniquely design fuel injectors. There might not be any requirement to clean or flush the injectors for miles long. But, it would be great to keep an eye on the fuel injectors when servicing vehicle.
Let us discuss some symptoms of injector blockage here.
1. Poor Vehicle Performance
Blockage in the fuel injectors might affect vehicle performance. Periodic fuel injector cleaning might be an ideal choice to boost vehicle performance. It also helps to increase the mileage and keep the vehicle running for long. You need not deal with the terms like lower fuel economy in the future with regular cleaning.
How fuel injector cleaning is good for an automobile? (Photo Source: Pixabay)
2. Odd Sounds While Starting
When dealing with odds sounds while starting the car, fuel injector clogs might be the issue. Hard starting or irritating sounds are the signs your vehicle needs fuel injector cleaning. According to the expert maintenance tips, cleaning the injectors might help you get rid of this issue.
3. Effect On Mileage
Gas mileage matters the most when counting vehicle performance. Your car fuel injectors might need cleaning if there is a problem with the mileage. The automakers make sure there is no effect of injectors on the mileage these days. But the problem is still there with traditional vehicles with old fuel pressure systems.
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The Bottom Line
There you have it! That is all one needs to know about fuel injector cleaning and its symptoms. Make sure to choose the professionals for better cleaning of the system. And never miss out the servicing to improve vehicle performance.
DIY Fuel Injector Cleaning is a process that can be accomplished fairly simple and easy. That’s to say if you base it on YouTube videos and some internet sites. An on-off switch is connected to a battery. The other side of this switch is then connected to the fuel injector to be cleaned with a set of wires. The injector is opened and closed by pressing the switch. While the injector is open carb and choke cleaner is then forced through the injector with a syringe. This is done a couple of times per injector and BAM!…. instant results.
DIY fuel injector cleaning projects are almost always a failure, dangerous and pose a fire hazard. DIY’ers do not have the proper equipment to test, measure, verify and clean the internals of the fuel injectors. With the proper fuel injector cleaning equipment and chemicals it takes the professionals about 45 – 60 minutes of actual cleaning time to clean a single or set of fuel injectors. During this time the injectors are opened and closed 20 000 to 30 000 time whilst they are inside an ultrasonic bath. Do you really believe that a couple of squirts with carb and choke cleaner can achieve the same result?
By the time the DIY’er collected, made and or purchase the necessary equipment to make the injector cleaning attempt successful they would almost always have spent more time and money than what it would have cost to send the injector set for professional fuel injector cleaning.
The most important factors to check when cleaning fuel injectors:
Besides current draw, cracks and other obvious problems,
- Leaking fuel injectors: Does the fuel injector pintle, ball or disc properly seal or seat under operating pressure, thus preventing the fuel injector from leaking.
- Volume: The amount of fuel delivered under operating pressure and under various loads.
- Atomization: How well the fuel being delivered is atomized at various rpm.
- Distribution: The length or depth and the width of the spray pattern.
In most instances the DIY’er does not have the ability to accurately and under operating pressure, measure how much fuel the injector delivers before and after the cleaning process. There are some that recommend that theses test been done using the fuel rail and fuel from the vehicle. This recommendation is irresponsible, dangerous and pose a real fire hazard that could cause severe injuries or even death.
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DIY Fuel Injector Cleaning at Home
Cleaning fuel injectors by soaking them in, or flushing them with carb and or brake cleaner does absolute nothing. It might flush out “some” loose dirt and grime but, that’s about all. If, as suggested in some of the YouTube videos, you start the DIY fuel injector cleaning process at the inlet side of the fuel injector there is a very good chance to lodge loose dirt and grime between the pintle and pintle sleeve.
100% of fuel injectors we have tested after they were cleaned via a DIY fuel injector cleaning project failed the minimum acceptable performance standard for that specific fuel injector.
Fuel injector Atomization and Distribution
Visual inspection of fuel injector spray patterns
The injectors in the image flow exactly the same amount of fuel. It is the spray patterns that is noticeably different.
The engine should perform properly because all the cylinders are getting the same amount of fuel but not so. Fuel atomization and distribution factors were causing this engine to throw misfire codes. Engine performance was noticeably down. These problems can never be picked up during a DIY fuel injector cleaning project.
Leaking Fuel Injectors
Last but equally important is the ability to check if the fuel injector pintle, disc or ball properly seal under operating pressure. Leaking fuel injectors are a fire hazard and can cause many serious and expensive problems.
Time, money and resources invested in the DIY fuel injector cleaning project almost always will cost more than what it would have cost if the fuel injectors were sent to a professional fuel injector cleaning and flow testing facility such as Injector Rx.
How to clean injectors:
Ultrasonic fuel injector cleaning and flow testing is the only process that can guarantee a reliable and complete fuel injector cleaning.
Even with the proper tools, professional fuel injector cleaning equipment and specialized ultrasonic cleaning solutions it still takes us here at Injector RX about 45 – 60 minutes to properly clean a set of injectors.
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So you want to clean your car’s fuel injectors? Maybe you want to maintain your fuel system’s cleanliness from new, or your older car is misfiring, idling roughly, or otherwise running poorly. Maybe you’ve found yourself at the mercy of the dreaded Check Engine Light and your OBD scanner reads P02(xx), car-computer speak for a fuel and air metering issue. Well, you’ve come to the right place. Your injectors may be bunged up, reducing their flow rate or screwing up their fuel-spray pattern. The Drive’s crack How-To department is here to help and get those injectors injecting properly once again.
Your fuel injectors are called upon every day to perform little miracles of precision fuel metering. Makers of fuel-injector treatment products pledge to keep your injectors in peak condition. For this they use detergent agents that mix with the fuel in your tank to break up deposits caused by gasoline impurities. However, if your injectors have become clogged, they will likely need a physical cleaning.
Note: If your injectors are clogged substantially, it may be time to consult a mechanic. Deep cleaning is a process requiring specialized skills and dangerous, controlled solvents. Ultrasonic vibration is often used to break up deposits, followed by high-pressure flushing, media blasting, and the replacement of rubber seals. At this point, it may be worth replacing the injectors altogether.
Like all car parts, fuel injectors gather dirt and can eventually become clogged; they have to be cleaned regularly. You will know they are due for a thorough clean if your car runs less for more gas, or if your engine does not respond as well as it used to. While a mechanic will clean them perfectly, you may have to spend some amount of money. Luckily, with a specifically designed cleaning kit, a compressed air hose and a screwdriver, you can clean them yourself. We have already told you how to clean your fuel filter; today at oneHOWTO we will show you how to clean a fuel injector at home with a simple step by step guide.
While you can take the fuel injectors out altogether to clean them completely, there are cleaning kits available.They should come with a canister of cleaning solvent, a gauge to determine fuel pressure and a hose that is attached to the fuel injuector and fuel rail.These kits clean the injectors with solvents, and they are less of a hassle than the other option if you want to clean them at home.
In this oneHOWTO article, we’ll explain how to clean them with a kit. though most cleaning kits are safe for any vehicle, you will have to ensure it is compatible with your engine. Otherwise, you may need adapters.
First of all, read your vehicle’s engine layout in the manual in order to locate the fuel injectors and fuel pump. Then, take the pump out and disable it. Connect its fuel return line or insert a U-tube in it so that any gas gets redirected to the tank itself. Be careful during this process.
Then, disconnect the pressure regulator.
As always, refer to your car’s manual if you are unsure on how to disconnect the fuel pump or insert a U-tube.
When you have disconnected the pressure regulator, check you have disabled everything correctly. You can do this by trying to turn the ignition on.
Hook up the fuel injector cleaning kit with the fuel port that you can find on the fuel rail. You’ll be able to find this kit in specialized shops or on the Internet. You will also need a compressed air hose; attach it to the kit. The kit will come with instructions about the necessary pressure.
Make sure the injectors have no exposure to fuel as the cleaner is highly flammable.
Before starting to your diy fuel injector cleaning at home, take off the cap of the gas tank. This will ensure that the pressure from the kit is not getting built up within the system.
Keep the ignition turned off to be certain that the engine does not get turned over. Also make sure to turn off the pump as an extra precaution.
Wait for the fuel pressure to reach the number that matches the number of the vehicle and then open the canister’s valve. You will find this number in the instructions manual that came with the cleaning kit, or the service manual of your vehicle.
Turn on the engine so that the solvent runs through the fuel injectors and cleans them thoroughly. Double check that the pump is off before you do this. Stop when the car’s engine automatically turns off or when you have used up all of the solvent. This will take about 5 to 10 minutes, give or take.
Remove the cleaner and place the cap back on.
Attach the pressure regulator vacuum hose.
Turn on the engine and verify that your fuel injector is working properly. Listen to the rapid clicking sound, which is a sign of proper engine working. You should also drive the vehicle a short distance to ensure it is running smoothly. Otherwise, if you identify any abnormal sounds or aren’t sure you did it right, you can always check with a mechanic.
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Fuel shipment systems advanced over the years. There were carburetors, then port fuel shot and also currently straight injection. With the latter, fuel injectors straight spray fuel right into the burning chamber.
An unfavorable result of direct shot technology is carbon buildup. Carbon down payments accumulate when a hydrocarbon like gas fails to burn totally.
What is fuel injector cleaner and why do you require it? It is a particularly developed gasoline additive with special cleaning agents. These chemicals target fuel injector deposits.
When these deposits get out of control, they typically require manual elimination. A vehicle service technician removes the manifold as well as cleans up the shutoffs. Soaking in a special chemical bathroom is one option, while blasting is an additional. In either case, it’s an untidy, time-consuming as well as expensive process.
Naturally, it’s ideal to limit carbon deposits to begin with.
Avoidance is the best treatment.
DO MY FUEL INJECTORS DEMAND CLEANING?
Straight infuse (DI) engines initially showed up on sports cars and high-end performance lorries. Today, DI engines are fairly typical in sedans, SUVs, pick-ups as well as vans. Clean fuel injectors are critical to the proper operation of these engines.
Blocked fuel injectors decrease engine efficiency in lots of ways. They are responsible for a range of engine woes:
- Minimized fuel economy
- Tough starts
- Poor acceleration
- Harsh idling
- Throttle reluctance
- Higher carbon
- monoxide discharges
- Excess hydrocarbon discharges
CLEAN YOUR FUEL INJECTORS THE SIMPLE METHOD
What is fuel injector cleaner and also why do you need it? It is a particularly formulated fuel additive with unique cleaning agents. These chemicals target fuel injector deposits.
Restore engine power and also fuel efficiency with 104+ Fuel Injector Pro, a thorough fuel system cleaner for all engines. This costs fuel injector cleaner brings back shed velocity and also improve throttle response. A special straight shot detergent decreases carbon buildup.
Stay clear of costly trips to your auto mechanic with regular use of a costs fuel injector cleaner like 104+ Fuel Injector Pro.
Follow this detailed overview when you utilize this costs fuel injector cleaner:
Pour container materials right into the gas storage tank
Add a full tank of gas
For ideal results, use a second bottle at the next fill out
Use another bottle every 7,000 miles OR at every oil change
If you like pleasure principle, you’ll such as the outcomes when you clean your vehicle’s fuel injectors. Once they are free to run as created, you’ll see a quick enhancement in the method your engine does.
DOS As Well As DO N’TS OF FUEL INJECTOR MAINTENANCE
Usage fuel injector cleaner just as directed. Overuse can harm the injector coil insulation. Additionally, water and also fuel injectors don’t blend. A complete tank of gasoline assists lessen water in the fuel system, especially in vehicles that sit for extended durations.
Clogged fuel injectors reduce engine performance in numerous ways. They are responsible for a variety of engine troubles.
Some automobile enthusiasts eliminate fuel injectors to clean them. Soaking fuel injectors in a potent cleaner like acetone presents risks. If you do remove your fuel injectors, keep in mind that the o-rings and seals should not dry out.
Sometimes, clogged up fuel injectors need a mechanic’s interest. Some car lovers use fuel injector cleansing sets to remove more difficult deposits. After you invest in such a service, start a regimen of occasionally adding fuel injector cleaner to your gasoline.
Fuel injector cleaners frequently pay for themselves through fuel savings alone. Recover your MPG with clean fuel injectors!
Fuel injector cleaner is a chemical that removes deposits from the engine and helps to keep it functioning at its best. When your car starts, the engine’s intake valve opens and sucks air into the cylinder where gas is mixed with air before being ignited.
The combustion process causes an increase in pressure which forces exhaust gases out of the rear end of the engine. In order for this process to take place properly, you need to have clean fuel injectors that can release enough energy not to slow down or stop a proper burn cycle.
- Dissolve the buildup in the fuel injection system.
- Prevent the built-up of harmful deposits.
- In some cases, it might clean dirty or clear partially clogged fuel injectors.
- Keep your fuel system clean when you use it regular basis.
Do Fuel System Cleaners Work
Yes, they do. They can help you get your car running like new again if used regularly and in good condition of the fuel system. Here is how it happens: when the engine burns gasoline, some deposits are left behind on parts such as valves or injectors, leading to poor performance and a loss of horsepower.
These cleaners help dissolve buildup in the fuel injection system so they can prevent harmful deposits from building up, which could lead to poor performance or even engine failure. If you have dirty, partially clogged injectors, it might clean them out, but if there is damage due to corrosion or wear that is beyond what these products can do, you will need to go and get them replaced.
The best way is to use the fuel injector system cleaner regularly as part of your car maintenance routine so that problems can be identified before they become too big or expensive.
How Long Does Fuel Injector Cleaner Take To Work
Fuel injector cleaner works immediately when you add it to your tank. It will dissolve any deposits in the fuel injection system so that they can prevent harmful buildups from forming, which could lead to poor performance or even failure of the engine. Although you can see the result of feel the result after 100 to 300 miles.
If you have dirty or partially clogged injectors beyond what these products can cleanout, you will need to replace them. Using the fuel injector cleaner regularly as part of your car maintenance routine can help you identify problems before they become too big or expensive.
When To Use Fuel Injector Cleaner
You can use fuel injector cleaner every 1,500 to 3,000 miles or every oil change you are doing. It would be best if you used a fuel injector cleaner when you notice reduced gas mileage or performance. The best time to add the product is before a scheduled maintenance visit, like an oil change. Doing so can prevent potential problems like clogged fuel filters and intake valves that could lead to costly repairs later on down the road.
If your car does not start well, you might have a clogged fuel filter. Fuel injector cleaner can help clean it out so that the engine doesn’t stall when you are driving home from work in rush hour traffic or trying to pass someone on an uphill incline. If your car is idling roughly or hesitating when you step on the gas pedal, then one of the most likely causes could be clogged intake valves which are caused mainly due to misfiring spark plugs.
In this case, you can use fuel cleaner to clean up the deposits on those valves and fix them. However, if there is a lot of carbon buildup from burning gas inefficiently, you need to have them replaced. But first try out the injector cleaner and see what happens before going for more expensive repairs.
There are many benefits to using fuel injector cleaner for the health of your vehicle and it will help you save money on repairs or even buying a new one if there is too much damage over time due to poor performance. It might take some extra work but doing this can keep your engine healthy and your car running for a long time.
The fuel injector is one of the most underrated components in your car. Responsible for delivering fuel from the tank to the motor, the injectors play a critical role in both the performance and longevity of your engine.
To keep your injectors in top shape, it has to be cleaned from time to time.
Many would enlist the help of a mechanic to do this, but this is actually one of those jobs that you can do yourself. You can learn how to clean fuel injectors right in your garage.
Here is the surprisingly simple step-by-step process.
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Process of Cleaning fuel injectors
1.Get a fuel injector cleaner
The first step is to purchase a fuel injector cleaning kit. These kits can be found in auto supply shops and usually cost under a hundred dollars each. For more information about the fuel injector cleaner products reviews, check out the article.
While the contents of this kit may vary, it usually includes a container of injector cleaner, a fuel pressure gauge, and a hose.
While injector cleaners are designed to work with every kind of car, it won’t hurt to check first your instructional manual to determine what kind of cleaner best fits your car.
2.Locate where your fuel injector
Different engines have different layouts. Before proceeding with this job, it is important that you know first where your fuel injector is located.
A quick search in your instructor’s manual can help you find it. If no information can be obtained from the manual, you can always check online for an answer.
Given that the layout for particular motors doesn’t change unless modified, finding the injectors for your engine should be a cinch as soon as you find the right info.
3.Disconnect the fuel pump from the fuel injectors
To clean the injector, you need to remove it from the pump. Once detached, you can either attach the pump to a fuel return line or use a U tube connected to the fuel tank. This will allow fuel contained in the pump to safely return to the tank.
Again, I must remind you that when handling fuel, keep any source of fire or sparks away, as it may cause a fire and a major accident.
After this step, disconnect the pressure regulator vacuum line.
4.Connect the cleaning kit
Connect the fuel injector cleaning kit to the fuel port. Follow the instructions attached to the kit on how you should install it.
Just a note: make sure that there is no trace of fuel in the injectors, as the cleaning fluid may be flammable.
Also, make sure to remove the cap of the fuel tank to prevent excessive pressure from building up inside the tank.
The cleaning kit works by injecting cleaning fluid under pressure to remove grime and debris built up in your pump.
5.Start the engine
Before starting the engine, check first if the fuel pump is turned off. Also, make sure to check using your cleaning kit’s pressure gauge if the fuel pressure matches the recommended pressure for your engine.
Start the engine to allow the cleaning agent to cycle in your injectors.
The process of cleaning your injectors should take about 5 to 10 minutes. Eventually, your motor will shut down on its own once all the cleaner is used up.
6.Reassemble your fuel lines
Remove the cleaning kit after cleaning is done. Basically, the steps here is just the reverse of the first steps.
Detach the cleaning kit, re-install the fuel pump and pressure regulator vacuum hose, and close the fuel tank.
To determine if the injectors are properly installed, start the engine. You will hear abnormal sounds if there’s something wrong with your installation.
Also, drive your car a short distance to check if your engine runs as it should, and if there’s improvement after cleaning.
How to keep your fuel injectors clean
1.Use good-quality fuel
While impurities will clog up your fuel injectors in time, one factor that can accelerate the process is using bad-quality fuel. Some get fuel from stations that offer cheap fuel.
The problem is that some of these stations, in order to offer lower prices, skimp on quality. These fuels may not be sufficiently refined, lack detergents, contain additives, and even be watered down.
You may save some money by refueling in these stations, but it might cause long-term damage to your engine.
2.Replace your fuel filter on schedule
The fuel filter helps in keeping the fuel entering your engine clean. At some point, the fuel filter becomes ineffective in its role, which means impurities would lodge in your fuel lines instead.
To increase the lifespan of your fuel line components, make sure to replace your fuel filter periodically.
The recommended mileage for replacement varies from one car to the next, but just to be safe, replace your fuel filter once a year.
3.Consider using injector cleaning detergent
While the fuel you use contains detergents to keep your fuel lines clean, as mentioned earlier, impurities will still end up dirtying your injector. Using injector cleaning fuel additives can possibly help.
While they cannot 100% prevent clogging, they can at least slow it down by removing impurities in your fuel lines.
You can use these products periodically, but make sure to purchase a product recommended by a certified mechanic.
What to do if there’s no improvement after cleaning
1.Your injectors might be severely clogged
If there is no improvement in your engine’s performance after cleaning, it is possible that your injectors may be severely clogged. Severe clogging means the cleaner won’t be able to cycle properly in your injectors, leaving it still dirty. If that is the case, you might need to have your injectors replaced.
2.There are other problems in your engine
If your engine’s performance doesn’t improve after cleaning, it is possible that other problems might be causing it. In such cases, it might be best to have your car checked by a mechanic. They have the right skills and tools to diagnose and fix whatever problem your engine might be having.
Follow the steps on how to clean fuel injectors as provided in this post. This will help prolong the life of your car.
We all have to admit that taking care of a car is not simple. You can take it to a service center periodically or you can take care of it yourself. Do you know that your fuel injector needs to be maintained as well?
You need to be a skillful mechanic to remove it from a car but there’s still a way you can do it yourself. In this blog, I’ll show you how to clean fuel injectors without removing them.
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Symptoms of a Bad Fuel Injector
If you own a car, it’s likely that you’ve experienced the frustrations of dealing with dirty fuel injectors. Whether your vehicle is:
- Driving slowly
- Struggling to accelerate
- Starting to give off an unpleasant odor
These are all telltale signs that your engine has become contaminated with particulates. This can happen for any number of reasons including poor maintenance habits and even poor quality gasoline. If left unchecked, dirty fuel injectors can cause serious problems for not just your engine but also the emissions system.
How Often Should You Do It?
Regular fuel injector maintenance is crucial to keeping your car in tip-top shape. Dirty injectors cause poor performance and difficult idling situations. When I was younger, I remember the mechanic at the dealership telling me that if I didn’t have my fuel injectors cleaned every 30,000 miles, my engine would turn to slag. It’s obviously a bit exaggerated but it does illustrate the importance of maintaining clean fuel injectors.
How to Clean Fuel Injectors Without Removing Them: Step-by-Step Instructions
- A compatible fuel injector cleaning kit (Gas or diesel engine)
- Cleaning fluid if not included in the kit
Here are the steps to clean fuel injectors without removing them:
- Get the compatible fuel injector cleaning kit with you. Remember to read the instruction thoroughly. Different kits operate differently.
- Open the hood of your vehicle and locate the fuel injectors on each end of your car.
- Remove any rubber plugs that might be blocking access to the fuel injector you want to clean. And, disable the fuel pump so that all fuel goes back to the tank.
- Insert a cleaning nozzle into each fuel injector’s opening and turn them on by pressing the on/off button on the unit’s side. Make sure you get the right fuel pressure for your model.
- Use the cleaning fluid to flush them out.
- Turn on the engine for a while to make sure the cleaning fluid runs through the injectors. Tips: Be careful not to repeatedly clean or clean too many fuel injectors at once.
- Reverse all the steps and you’ve done.
Useful Tips on Cleaning Fuel Injectors
- Don’t use petrol or engine oil when cleaning fuel injectors.
- Keep the engine warm to reduce any build-up of debris.
- Distribute the fuel in the tank with no time gaps between each fill up.
- Do not use harsh chemicals like bleach or anti-freeze.
It’s something that I think regular car owners need to consider before it becomes a problem. Fuel injector cleaning is necessary to keep your car running smoothly.
It’s possible for you to drive hundreds of thousands of miles before the internal combustion engine of your car breaks down.
The moment an internal combustion engine stops working, it’s like a bomb going off and the damage it can cause is out of this world. It’s also an issue because we can’t live without them today.
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In the financial industry, there are two concepts that form the basis of most transactional activities. One is savings and the other is investments. There is a huge overlap between the two concepts though, it terms of execution.
Investment in terms of financial context, means any money that is spent today in the hope of financial benefits that may be reaped in a future time frame. Any investment is the act of buying or creating assets with an expectation that the same would yield interest earnings or dividend or capital appreciation or any other return that is profitable as compared to the money put in initially. Almost all investments are differentiated from other kinds of transactions based on the aim of the money spent. Money spent on making investments is primarily with the aim of obtaining some sort of return in a specific period of time.
A lot of times people confuse savings with investments. Savings and investment are different from each other in their approach of utilizing the money involved. While saving may be understood as a passive way of accumulating wealth, investment can be seen as a more aggressive way of securing returns. Mostly, under savings, customers avail a savings account and stash away cash in that account. This cash can be used as and when required by the account holder.
Investments made in the finance industry can be divided into two distinct types namely, Traditional and Alternative. Let us look into each of these types one by one and see what investment categories fall into which type.
Investing in well-known financial products falls into the category of traditional investments. These include bonds, shares, real estate etc. These are categories which are quite popular among investors as active investment strategies to make your money grow. Following are the investment products that fall under the category of traditional investment.
A Bond can be understood as an IOU which is issued by an issuer (borrower) and to a lender. Generally, bonds are instruments used by public and private sector enterprises to raise huge sums of money which any bank is incapable of lending. These bonds are then issued in the public market by the borrowing entity and are bought by lenders for specific amounts of money. Thousands of lenders then come together to lend the required amount and the borrowing organization is able to raise capital for its operational or growth purposes.
However, since money is being lent to the issuer of bonds, there is also an interest component involved that is paid back to the investor in turn for his/her money. This interest is paid at a predetermined rate and for a specific period of time. Bonds fall under the category of fixed income securities since the interest on these can be exactly calculated for the time for which the bond is held. Bonds fall under the debt category and are therefore, comparatively safer financial instruments to invest in. However, with all financial tools risk is inversely proportional to returns and as such the low-risk attribute of this tool makes it a low return instrument as well.
Stocks or equity are shares that are issued by companies and are bought by the general public. This offers an avenue to companies to raise funds. Stocks entitle a customer ownership of a company. Shares, stocks and equity all imply the same thing. Shares are one of the most popular investment avenues in the world. This is because the returns offered by stocks is generally higher than any other financial instrument. However, to balance out the high return associated with stocks, the risk associated with these products is also quite high.
Any business may issues different types of shares based on the financial urgency and need. In exchange for the money, shareholders are issued Stock certificates.
Stocks are mostly divided into two basic types, common stocks and preferred stocks.
Small savings is another popular savings tool in the Indian financial market. The name itself suggests that these tools are meant for saving money in small amounts. The idea behind this financial tool is to enable the habit of saving in people from almost all economic sections. Some of the most common small savings tools are Sukanya Samriddhi Scheme, EPF (Employees Provident Fund), NPS (National Pension Scheme, Kisan Vikas Patra, Personal Provident Fund (PPF) etc. Almost all small savings schemes are initiated and facilitated by the government so as to enhance the spread and penetration of savings schemes in the country. Let us look into some of the most prominent schemes out of these.Employees Provident Fund
Employees Provident Fund is another small savings scheme that is primarily offered by your employer. This includes salaried individuals of both private and public organizations. Any company with a workforce of more than 20 employees is mandated to register for the EPF scheme. Around 12% each month is deducted from the salary and contributed towards the EPF account of an employee. This EPF account is maintained by the Employees Provident Fund Organization, commonly known as the EPFO. The amount deposited towards EPF is eligible for tax exemption under section 80C of the Income Tax Act.Sukanya Samriddhi Scheme
Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana is a special scheme which has been launched by the central government to facilitate the financial wellbeing of girl child in the country. This scheme can be availed by parents or legal guardian of a girl child and an amount as low as Rs.1000 per annum can be deposited under the scheme. The account matures only after the girl child reaches the age of 21. Premature withdrawal is allowed only after the girl reaches the age of 18 years and has financial need pertaining to wedding or education.National Pension Scheme
National pension Scheme is one of the most popular schemes for ensuring a regular pension amount to individuals working in both the private and the public sector. NPS is offered to individuals either as part of their corporate perks or is availed by individuals on their own. The amount set aside towards NPS is eligible for tax rebate under section 80C of the Income Tax Act. The scheme offers withdrawal of deposited amount only once the account holder reaches the age of 60 years. The corpus withdrawn on maturity is absolutely tax-free.
Mutual funds are financial instruments that are professionally managed and that invest money on behalf of any investor, in different securities. These mutual funds are classified into various types based on the type of securities that they invest in. Some of the most popular mutual fund types are balanced funds, stock funds, open-ended funds etc. These funds are classified based on their percentage allocation in different securities. So, an equity fund invests purely is equity and is a high risk high return product while a debt fund invests purely in debt and money market instruments and is hence a low risk low return financial product.
As the name itself indicates, fixed deposits are financial instruments that are one of the oldest and safest ways to save money. These are not necessarily active investment tools, but are rather a passive way to save and earn returns. A fixed amount of money is kept aside with a financial institution for a fixed number of days or months or years. In turn, interest is earned on this money. The rate of interest differs with the deposit tenure and also with the banking entity.
Similar to fixed deposit is the concept of recurring deposit. However, the only point of difference in the two investment tools is that while a lump-sum amount needs to be fixed in case of fixed deposit, a smaller amount needs to be deposited at regular intervals in case of a recurring deposit. Hence, customers who do not have a large chunk of money to fix in a single go can opt for a recurring deposit wherein money is usually deposited monthly for a specific deposit tenure. The rate of interest earned on recurring deposit is similar and comparable to that earned on fixed deposit.
Property rates are soaring with every passing day which has made real estate a hot investment avenue for investors. Buying, selling and leasing of property offers substantial returns to investors. Appreciation of property makes real estate a good investment tool. With urbanization gaining ground rapidly, real estate prices in certain major cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, are skyrocketing. This has made these places hot hubs for real estate investors. Most investors take loans from banks to purchase real estate and then lease out or sell the same property to enjoy returns offered due to appreciation in price of the property.
Alternative Investments are those that are not regular investments like stocks, bonds etc. These are investments made in order to acquire jewelry, precious metals etc. which are expected to yield returns in future. Hedge funds, some real estate types, venture capital and derivatives also form a part of alternative investment. Alternative investments are so called due to their non-traditional as well as complex nature. Also, another distinguishing feature of alternative investments is relatively low liquidity and well as very high minimum investment limits.
While a common investor may not access alternative investments like hedge funds or derivatives due to their complex nature, others like gold and real estate are available to even the common man. Let us look into some of the most prominent alternative investment tools known to investors.
These can be understood as a professionally managed private investment company or partnership structure. Techniques to manage the fund can be those that are not commonly allowed for SEC regulated companies. Hedge funds invest in both financial derivatives and/or publicly traded securities. These are popular as an alternative investment tool owing to their high leverage and high returns. However, they are characterized by high fees as well as low liquidity. It is seen that managers of hedge funds generally have a personal stake in the fund.
Private equity is trading in shares of an operating company that is not publicly listed and whose shares are not available on the stock market. Institutional investors employ various strategies to indulge in private equity trading. Private equity is popular since it offers diversification of financial portfolio by allowing investment in avenues that are not tightly coupled to normal investments.
Venture Capital is one of the most popular investment strategies currently being deployed by investors in the Indian start-up scene. The idea behind this investment strategy is to invest substantial capital in a budding company in return for stocks of the same. This is done with companies who are either in their initiation phase or in their growth phase. Venture capitalism is generally based on ideas that find substance with the investors or any new technology that the investors feel might take the market by storm in future.
This type alternative investment involves managers using futures also as part of their investment portfolio. Managed futures are a great tool to offer portfolio diversification and therefore are a great alternative to minimize risk and maximize returns. In general, a managed futures account will have sufficient exposure to different markets like energy, agriculture, commodities, currency etc.
Structured products are alternative investment tools that generally combine two or more financial instruments to make a packaged investment strategy in a single product. Most often, derivatives are combined with securities or with other derivatives. Structured products have a fixed maturity date like bonds. These offer a convenient strategy to implement a complex investment strategy across various financial products.
Collecting artifacts that have substantial value and those that have historical and artistic significance is one of the most difficult types of alternative investments. This requires knowledge of the article that you are purchasing. Mostly, collectibles like stamps, jewelry, boats, planes, art works etc. tend to appreciate in value and are considered good and profitable assets to own. The value of artifacts is generally expected to appreciate and keep pace with inflation and hence collectibles make a good form of alternative investment.
There are a few more alternative investment instruments available in the financial world. However, their use is limited since these are more complex products and are hence not considered by the common investor. Seasoned investors and professional investors tend to consider these alternative investment strategies to increase wealth.
Investment is one of the most important aspects of financial planning. The aim is to make sure that the money earned by you does not lie around being unproductive. It is a good and profitable idea to make money from any extra cash that a person might have. Investing in various financial products lends growth to any financial portfolio. One thing that is absolutely clear is that any amount of money is sure to appear less with each passing day. This is because the value of say Rs.1000 will not be the same 5 years down the line as it is today. Same holds true for the value of Rs.100 10 years ago as compared to its value today. Hence, it is important to understand that saving alone is not enough for future financial goals. Any investor or common man needs to ensure that his or her money grows as well. Investment can be defined as any activity that involves using money in a way which offers returns in future. Mentioned below are some of the most important reasons for investing money.
As discussed in the sections above, there are two forms of investments that exist. One is traditional investment while the other is alternative investment. Based on this particular categorization, following are some of the most popular financial tools that fall under each category of investment.
One of the most basic question for people is how to start investing and what financial product to invest in? The answer to both of these questions begins with the analysis of financial assets as the first step. You need to see the amount of money that you have in order to begin investing the same in investment tools. The second basic but important point is to understand the financial goal for which you are investing.
There could be a host of reasons why an individual wants to invest money. It could be for meeting his financial needs post retirement or to meet the education expenses of his/her children. In any case, identifying the aim on investment is one of the most crucial steps since this will give you a fair idea about the investment tool to go for. The aim of the investment will also chalk out other relevant details like the timeline of investment, the quantum of investment and the type of financial product to zero down on. There are low risk as well as high risk financial tools in the market but experts suggest that young people should opt for high-return high-risk products while older people or those nearing their retirement should go for something that is low on risk and offers low to moderate returns.
Once the above listed crucial questions are sorted, the next step is to actually begin investing. This could be done on your own or by taking help from a financial expert. In either case, there is high chance that with the passage of time, you too will start gaining knowledge about investment avenues and related products.
After a series of rate cuts by the RBI, the union budget this time may again slash down rate of interest of small savings schemes. The rates on post office recurring deposits and Kisan Vikas Patra have been reduced by about 25 basis points. These rates will come into play from April 1st onwards. For the time being, interest rates offered on schemes like the popular Sukanya Samriddhi Scheme and the PPF schemes as well as NPS scheme have been left unchanged.
The current government has introduced a quarterly review of existing rates to correct them in line with the current state of the economy.
21st March 2016
The Economic Survey reports that India spends 3.4% point less than the comparable countries on health and education.
There has been no significant change in the expenditure towards heath. Total expenditure on health, nutrition and social services during 2014-15 was 7% which was a 0.5% increase from 2013-14.
The survey states that the lack of affordable health and educational facility leads to economic impoverishment and lowers human capabilities.
The survey recommended that for 2015-16 the government must strengthen the delivery of public health services and infrastructure facilities.
26th February 2016
Most of the Alternative Investment Funds or AIFs consist of Venture capitalists(VC) and Private Equity (PE), they are expecting the Budget of 2016 to make alignments towards the tax rates for both listed and unlisted transactions. With start-ups being empowered, AIFs will help bring in the required capital as well. If held over a year, capital gains tax on investments in listed companies are taxed at 0% and short term or less than a year are taxed at 15%. While an unlisted company or start-up long term investments get taxed at 20% and less than a year or short term get taxed 33%.
25th February 2016
Interest rates on Small Saving Schemes (SSS), recurring deposits of 5 years and Kisan Vikas Patra were cut by 0.25% recently. This cut was implemented by the government and is bound to have an impact on the earnings from small saving schemes for periods of 1 to 3 years. While the interest for SSS was changed, the government left the interest on PPFs, Monthly Income Schemes, Senior Citizens Savings Scheme, NSCs and Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana unchanged. Interest rates on small saving schemes are likely to be revised every quarter henceforth, with current market trends dictating the change in rates.
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Holmes hopes to preserve County Home
By MATT TULLISStaff WriterMILLERSBURG When Holmes County commissioners purchased 320 acres of farmland just south of a very young village named Holmesville for $20,800 in 1859, current Commissioner David Hall believes they had a vision.Voters approved the purchase of the property 138 years ago so the county could house the poor and infirm. Commissioners built an infirmary during a time when funds were scarce, as were young men, thanks in part to the Civil War. When that building, completed in 1867 at a cost of $24,000, burned to the ground 28 years later, commissioners who followed carried on the vision by reconstructing a modern facility. They built a pest house to house unruly residents and mentally ill residents who were being transferred to state hospitals. They built a butcher house so they could have a place to butcher animals and smoke meat. They built a bake house and the cave, a building constructed in the side of a hill that was used for cool-storage.Hall wants to continue this vision well into the next 100 years by making sure the farmland remains farmland and the County Home remains county-owned property. He is researching the process of applying to the Ohio Agricultural Easement Purchase Program, with the Holmes County Home property the centerpiece of that application. If the other commissioners agree, and there is no guarantee they will, Hall wants to give up development rights on the property in exchange for a grant from the state.Commissioner Ray Feikert said it's an idea that should be looked at, although he wasn't ready to throw his support behind the effort just yet."We need to look at the options, of what the limitations are, and what are the advantages and disadvantages," Feikert said. "We don't know that yet."Commissioner Joe Miller said he didn't want to comment.The outbuildings on the property, four of which were constructed in 1896, are still standing, although some need major repairs. Leslee Mast, superintendent of the County Home, put together a short history of the property for the County Home's annual benefit auction. In it, she described the state of each of the buildings.The bake house "has since been used as a tool shed," she says. "The remains of a bake house are minimal, the shelving still stands and there are remains of a bake oven."The butcher house, however, still contains tables and scalding pots, as well as hooks for hanging and smoking meat. The cave is still the cave, and stays at a cool 55 degrees year-round.Hall said the county could get between $150,000 and $200,000 in PDR money from the state, based on comparisons with other farms of similar size."I would like to see every penny, if we get a grant, go to the County Home," he said. "They have so many worthy projects that need to be done on the preservation side, and it would be extra revenue for them."Hall realizes he may be hamstringing future commissioners. But that's the point."I want to make sure future commissioners aren't tempted to sell off the County Home, the building or the land, so we can have true green space in the county," Hall said. "Any developer can come in and offer a ton of money, and they might sell it off. It would be gone really fast."In fact, developers have inquired about the property, Hall said. That's partly what has brought about his desire to preserve the land. Hall realizes the land is prime developable space, what with sewer and waterlines so close."The County Home is right between Holmesville, with their lines, and Millersburg," he said. "There is gonna be a push there. There will be temptations."Assuming those temptations can be thwarted, he said, Holmes County could still have a working farm 100 years from now. It might be preposterous to think that Holmes County wouldn't have a working farm a century from now, but with all the growth the county has seen in the last decade, Hall believes it is possible.According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, Holmes County experienced an 18.6 percent increase in population from 1990-2000. The state's population growth during that time period was only 4.7 percent. Growth statewide has stagnated since, but Holmes County continues to grow, at a 4.5 percent rate from April 1, 2000, to July 1, 2003.These new residents need places to live, and the trend has been to build houses on what was once farmland. Hall said he just wants to make sure there remains farmland in Holmes County several generations from now."What would be a better property to put in farmland preservation than the County Home?" he said. "That way we can preserve it for future generations."It's a clich but it's true, they don't make any more land. 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Water Cycle Models
Lesson 2 of 15
Objective: SWBAT create a model of the water cycle and explain its benefits and limitations of explaining the water cycle.
Teacher Tip: This lesson is designed for students to see the water cycle first hand by making a model. You will need the following materials to accomplish this: a jar or bucket, water, a heat source (I used a radiator), and plastic wrap.
This lesson addresses NGSS SP2 as students are creating an evaluating a model in order to better conceptualize a concept.
To start the lesson, students work on their student notes sheet to independently complete the water cycle labeling. They use words from a word bank, as most of the vocabulary is difficult for students to remember. This strategy helps the students with learning difficulties tremendously. After 3-4 minutes of labeling, I ask students to record a response on the SMARTBoard and we share with the class. It might be helpful for students to review the phase changes of matter prior to this lesson.
Students are asked to consider what could be a way to demonstrate the water cycle by answering the following prompt: EXPLORE: With your group, identify a way you could demonstrate the water cycle to someone else. Students usually say they could act it out or draw a poster. I encourage them to think about using materials. At the end of 5 minutes, I ask 1-2 groups to share their responses with the class.
The students now spend 3-4 minutes reading the procedure on their own (it can be found in the EXPLAIN section in the student notes sheet). After 4 minutes, I ask students to read the procedure aloud, step-by-step, as I demonstrate what that looks like using my materials.
The procedure is as follows:
EXPLAIN: Water Cycle Model Procedure
Materials: large bowl, water, sheet of clear plastic wrap, cup, rubber band, graduated cylinder
Pour 100ml of water into the large bowl.
Place the cup into the center of the bowl. Be careful not to splash any water into it.
Cover the top of the bowl with the plastic wrap.
Put the rubber band around the plastic wrap on the top of the bowl.
Place the bowl under the heat lamp.
- Record your observations.
For the model to work properly, it needs to sit on the heat source for about 5 minutes. Once there are a few drops of condensation on the plastic wrap, have the students begin to make observations by answering the questions in their notes sheet:
ELABORATE: Respond to the analysis questions below.
What starts to form on the plastic wrap?
What causes this?
What happens when the liquid on the plastic gets too heavy?
After 5 minutes, remove the plastic wrap. Describe what’s inside the cup?
- What is this called?
After about 15 minutes, I ask the students to share their responses with the class as I write them on the board. Check out ELABORATE student sample to see actual responses.
Once the students have built, observed and analyzed their models, they now evaluate them and how successful the model was in demonstrating the process of the water cycle. By answering the following questions on their notes sheets, they complete this task:
EVALUATE: Answer the following question using evidence from the model and your background information.
Our model is a good example of the water cycle because it shows…(shows the water cycle and they can name the phases)
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As Midsummer was considered a time where magic was the strongest, young people used it to perform rituals to help see the future. They would pick bouquets of seven different types of flowers and put them under their pillow in hopes of dreaming of their future. So – we took seven varieties of hops, some with a floral aroma and crafted an double IPA, named Seven Flowers, to celebrate the solstice. Made with Citra(R), Simcoe, Hallertauer Hersbrucker, Tomahawk, Cascade, Warrior and East Kent Goldings hops.
- ABV: 8.1%
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Two things to keep in mind if you want a singing assembly: 1) musical repertoire and 2) musical leaders. In choosing music for Mass, we must be sure that is easy enough for the assembly to sing. If you choose a piece that is technically challenging, then the assembly is more likely to listen rather than participate. One great way to get an assembly singing is to do dialogical, or call and response, music. Dialogical singing involves a cantor or choir singing a phrase and then the assembly singing another phrase in response to the cantor/choir. Dialogical music invites the assembly to join in the singing and places some responsibility on the assembly to keep the song going. Hymnody is another great way to get assemblies singing because people always tend to sing familiar hymns (and sometimes they even join in on some harmonies!). Finally, teaching the assembly before Mass (even if it’s a piece the assembly already knows) is a simple way to invite the assembly into song. Now, let’s examine the Musical Leadership at Mass. This is possibly the more difficult factor to control, because often we have choirs and cantors that tend to dominate the music than lead the music. Music Ministers are called to invite the assembly into the song and encourage assembly singing whenever possible. They are not called to be the musical entertainers during worship. One simple tip: I often tell cantors that once they have started a song or psalm response, it is time to back off the microphone. For instance, if we are all singing “Amazing Grace” the cantor only needs to start the song. Then the cantor should take a step back from the microphone let the assembly sing the song themselves. When the Cantor backs away from the microphone, the assembly gets the message that this song truly is their song and it is their time to sing! If you want to explore more about assembly singing I suggest you look into John Bell’s books entitled, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too. Both are available through GIA Publications. | <urn:uuid:07830462-fde7-417e-bbd4-be92774f052e> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-suggestions-might-you-have-to-encourage-people-to-sing-at-mass | 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 | 0.942818 | 424 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The juvenile justice process involves nine major decision points: (1) arrest, (2) referral to court, (3) diversion, (4) secure detention, (5) judicial waiver to adult criminal court, (6) case petitioning, (7) delinquency finding/adjudication, (8) probation, and (9) residential placement, including confinement in a secure correctional facility (see Juvenile Justice Process flow chart).
The majority of cases are first referred to the juvenile justice system through contact with police. Probation officers, school officials, or parents usually refer to the remaining cases. The most common offenses referred to court are property offenses (roughly 92%), followed by person offenses (89.5%), drugs (88.2%), and general delinquency charges (81.6%). Other referrals come from schools, family, or social workers or probation officers.
At the intake stage, probation officers or attorneys determine whether or not the case needs the attention of the juvenile court or if it can be handled informally, such as diversion to probation or a drug treatment program. If the case progresses to court, the authorities need to determine if the youth can be released to a parent/guardian or if the youth needs to be held in a secure detention center. When determining this, the court needs to assess the risk the youth poses to society and if the youth poses a flight risk. In some cases, the parent cannot be located or, if located, refuses to take custody of the youth. In these cases, the juvenile is remanded to custody. The decision to detain or release the juvenile will be made by the judge at a detention hearing.
If the case is handled in court, the county attorney needs to file a petition. When the youth has a formal hearing, it is called an adjudication rather than a trial in adult court. The adjudication of youth as delinquent can result in either dismissal of the charges or confinement at a secure institution. In most juvenile cases, the least restrictive option is usually sought, so the youth is usually put on probation or some sort of community treatment. Formal processing is less common than informal processing involving diversion or community-based programming.
Working With Youth
When I graduated from college with a BA in psychology, I applied for a job working with the Division of Youth Corrections in Denver, CO. I worked in a Residential Treatment Facility (RTC), which used behavior modification techniques, assigned case-workers to each youth and their families, and attempted to help the kids learn problem-solving skills and accountability. Youth were confined for a variety of reasons, from committing gang affiliated drive-by shootings, to youth who were designated dependent youth through social services and had nowhere else to go. We had high-risk kids, low-risk kids, conduct disorder and mental health kids all together on the same unit. Having the mix of all these different kids is not a great formula; the low-risk kids learn negative behavior from the high-risk kids, and the conduct disorder kids victimize the mental health kids. In an ideal institution, these different populations would all be on separate units.
Working with youth is hard. They push boundaries, are angry, try to manipulate those around them, and reject authority. However, working with youth is exceptionally rewarding. They are kids. They come from abusive and neglectful homes and are yearning for approval and love. For example, one boy in our facility was named Josh. He was a super angry and violent sixteen-year-old who was sentenced for committing aggravated assault. Through working with counselors and caseworkers, we discovered his anger was hiding immense sadness. He lashed out at those around him when he was sad because he had no way to show his feeling other than through aggression. Many months of working with him, encouraging him to journal, express his feelings, talk with others, use other tools to help him with his sadness led to amazing results. He left our facility after more than a year, graduated from high school and even went to college! Getting the individualized attention helped Josh change. He became a success story of the juvenile justice system.
Working with youth takes patience, consistency, and compassion. It is one of the most difficult jobs there is, but it is possible to be a very positive influence in the lives of kids who need it the most. If you are interested in working with youth, plan on committing to at least a year. Incarcerated kids are used to having people give up on them and disappoint them, so you do not want to add to their negative experiences. Show up, follow through, and be optimistic about a better future for justice-involved youth.
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Albert Einstein biographical film?
Albert Einstein is getting a biographical film, something I thought was happening years ago. This version will be from director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Ron Bass, the script for Einstein promises a lot.
There's also a lot of ground to cover for the man didn't exactly lead an average life, and they probably won't even look at his search for the theory of relativity.
There have been a few attempts at bringing Albert Einstein to life before, in 2006 we were hearing that Sean Penn might be playing him after reading the script from Ripley's Game writer Liliana Cavani.
In 2007 we heard that the book Einstein: His Life and Universe (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com) was to be adapted to a film, one that would look at Einstein's personal life a lot more than his professional one.
That was closely followed by the news that the news that the novel The Private Lives of Albert Einstein (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com) was also going to be adapted, another film that looked to his private life and this one in a less than flattering way.
It's that story that seems to be the basis for this film as Ron Bass was attached as writer, but there was nothing further heard from the project.
Wayne Wang previously directed films such as The Joy Luck Club, Smoke, Maid in Manhattan and Last Holiday, and so the idea that he's making a film called Einstein seems quite a stretch, especially if it is the same one touted back in 2007 which was going to look at Einstein's personal struggles and relationships.
A production company behind the film, HSI Films, says through The Hollywood Reporter that Einstein will tell...
"...the true inspirational story of the trials, tragedies and vindication of the single-most celebrated scientist of the 20th century. Torn between the burdens of a family and his restless pursuit of unlocking the mysteries of the universe, he not only achieved unparalleled stature as a genius but he also changed the world forever -- at no small cost to himself and those around him."
That does sound like it could be that film from back in 2007 adapted from the Walter Isaacson biography of the same name.
There's nothing else about the project, but it does sound like it's going to get made if they've been working on it this long. Bass was interrupted on his scriptwriting because of the writer's strike, now that is a fair development time.
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You can also keep your HVAC duct wash by changing your MERV air filters to HEPA air filters
I don’t guess how much you guess about indoor air pollen levels plus air purification, however given the global pandemic outbreak, I would wager that you’ve l received a little more than you wanted to about a variety of different topics such as this. If you’ve managed to miss tips plus recommendations to improve indoor air pollen levels, let myself and others give you some perspective on how indoor air pollen levels works. Essentially, the key to indoor air pollen levels lies in the HVAC duct. Because of this, it’s pressing to keep your HVAC ducts cleaned. If you have an Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C repair system with your Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C provider, you can schedule the cleanings of your HVAC duct every 3 years. I highly request reaching out to your Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C provider to see about HVAC duct cleanings plus HVAC duct sealing. Ductwork sealing can improve your air flow; in fact, you can lose about 30% of airflow without HVAC duct sealing. You might not guess this, however the HVAC duct is where most viruses, bacteria, skin flakes, etc. can be found in the house. Without standard cleaning, this can result in some particularly serious health issues for you plus the members of your family. Your air filter is the entry point to your HVAC ducts. With that in mind, make sure to keep your air filter changed officially to keep your HVAC duct cleaned. You can also keep your HVAC duct wash by changing your MERV air filters to HEPA air filters. HEPA air filters are the ones used by hospitals. This is just a particularly quick overview about how HVAC ducts work, so this isn’t everything there is to know. I hope it helps! | <urn:uuid:d0604357-efbf-4a62-822b-d5b45abb8454> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://besthepaairpurifierreviews.com/2020/05/23/ductwork-cleaning-plus-sealing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969903 | 418 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The Australian, one of the national newspapers of yes, you guessed it, Australia, weighs in on the claim by a dictionary to contain billions and billions of words (or at least 2.5 billion, my apologies to Carl Sagan). Among the words the dictionary has that The Australia doesn’t quite deign to recognize is our good old friend “blook.”
Here’s and excerpt:
Collins commissioned a troika of editors to cull a selection of new arrivals into ISmirt, You Stooze, They Krump, an 184-page book released this week. It is subtitled “Can you still speak English?” and for many of us the answer is obviously not. Take blook, brrreeeport, crunk, gemmelsmerch, gling, grup and sket. They resemble onomatopoeic captions from comic strips but they’re English. Allegedly. The provenance and durability of many of the new words seem dubious, but that’s not the point: how long each word survives “is another matter entirely”, the editors point out, but while these words are here, “let’s celebrate them for the miniature snapshots of modern life they are”.
The full article is here.
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It’s not that there’s never any good news, uplifting news; but we can’t escape the every day facts of violence. With each news report we are pummeled with visions of terrorism and hate crimes. As a measure of degree, the University of Maryland Global Terrorism Database reports 180,000 terrorism attacks from 1970 – 2015 inclusive. In other acts of violence, hate crimes hit us with the sharp rapidity of the rapid fire weapons used to inflict them. All over the world people of good conscience gather when and where they can to mourn with victims and families at candlelight vigils. In places of war and conflict where people cannot gather, they are left to hold vigil in the silence of the heart.
A vigil, from the Latin vigilia meaning wakefulness is a period of purposeful sleeplessness, an occasion for devotional watching or an observance.
But what exactly do we mean by vigil? A vigil is a SACRED kind of watchfulness, a call to be attentive and aware with devotion for the emotions that are sure to surge up within us— emotions of anger, even rage; emotions surrounding loss and shock; emotions steeped in frustration and fear. These emotions can convince us, if we are not careful, that rage justifies the kind of outrage that lashes out, repaying violence with violence, seeking a life for a life, an eye for an eye, the kind of rage that would turn the whole world into an unending whirl of violence and vengeance.
Inevitably, we must come to the question: “What WILL we do?” Because, now awakened, now alert, now vigilant…We know we are called to respond, to act, to engage in change that makes a difference.
Call it terrorism. Call it hate crime. It’s all of a piece. We find ourselves asking “what do we need to make sure we do not do?” How do we help those victimized by hate and honor the memory of those who were murdered by hate? How do we stand with those who are in compromised situations? How do we keep from falling into the pattern of hate ourselves? Given the size and complexity of the problems, how do we remain vigilant and not acquiesce back into silence, numbness, complacency?
Compassion and prayers must have feet. In cultures that continue to marginalize and stigmatize, how do we do more than pray? We know that a culture of violence creates an environment of numbness and distance and silent complicity, which can be and has been part of what perpetuates the continuance of the dominant culture. We have now heard enough shots to know that silence is inadequate to the task of countering a culture of violence. We must employ the power of love and peaceful engagement for we know that moments of silence and prayer are no longer enough. That they have never been enough…
The mission statement for The BeZine says:
We acknowledge that there are enormous theological differences and historical resentments that carve wedges among and within the traditions and ethnic or national groups, but we believe that ultimately self-preservation, common sense, and human solidarity will empower connections and collaboration and overcome division and disorder.”
In a world where our histories are marred by division and where social and economic inequity is rampant, where access to the tools of hate and war are easy and where it is easy to blame the “other” for the travesties of life, we must start with our faith organizations. Our faith organizations must stand consciously and firmly together to break down the divisions, to heal the histories, to move out of isolation and to honor the connectedness of all life. Joint grassroots efforts in our communities help to power the global movement toward peace and understanding, they harness the respect necessary to stop oppression. This is a way we most strongly affirm our faith in that Spirit that enlivens us all regardless of religion or creed.
– Rev. Ben Meyers, Minister, Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo in California
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Choosing the best upholstery webbing means selecting the right type of material to support the coil springs on a couch or chair. Upholstery webbing is what gives furniture its strength, tightness and shape. There are five varieties of upholstery webbing: jute, English, nylon, polyester and rubber. Depending on the material, upholstery webbing is sold according to gauge, width, stretch and number of strands. To choose the best upholstery webbing, the most important consideration is the type of furniture that needs to be upholstered, because different types of webbing are better for certain pieces of furniture or for certain purposes.
Jute, which is woven from plant fibers, is the oldest, most traditional and most widely used type of upholstery webbing. The best jute comes on a roll marked with a red stripe. A black stripe on jute webbing is an indication that the material is of a lesser quality.
High-quality, heavyweight jute is used to provide support for that part of the furniture that has to accommodate the most weight: the seat. Lesser-quality jute is an acceptable choice for the back. Jute webbing, instead of contemporary webbing, is the only kind that should be used on a traditional piece of furniture. Strong and durable, its only disadvantage is that the fibers will rot over time. Therefore, jute webbing should never be used to upholster outdoor furniture.
Jute gauges are expressed according to colonial British measures. For example, a roll of 9-pound (4.1-kg) jute weighs 9 pounds per 144 yards (131.7 m). This gauge of jute can be used for the back and arms of a chair, but for a seat that needs to accommodate the weight of two or three people, most upholsterers suggest using a minimum of 11-pound (5-kg) jute webbing.
English webbing, also known as black-and-white webbing, is woven in a herringbone pattern. It is the highest-quality webbing and an excellent substitute for jute when upholstering fine and antique furniture. The best English webbing is woven entirely from flax. Lower-grade levels contain a percentage of cotton, hemp or linen and are not as strong. English webbing generally comes in widths of 2 inches (5.1 cm) and weighs 11 pounds (5 kg) per gross.
Man-made webbing typically is used for low-priced and contemporary couches and chairs. Although nylon webbing is thinner than jute webbing, both provide coil springs with an equal amount of support, even in the seating area. Between the two, nylon is the more appropriate choice for upholstering modern and outdoor furniture. Unlike jute, all nylon upholstery is the same, so it is not sold by weight. Polyester webbing also can be used in place of jute or nylon, but because it is a newer addition to the upholstery market, it has been used less frequently.
Rubber webbing can be used without coil springs. Elasticized webbing is less expensive to use than springs and allows for more flexibility in frame design. In contrast with those pieces manufactured in the United States, most European and Scandinavian furniture comes with rubber webbing suspension systems.
There are many advantages to rubber upholstery webbing. As a suspension system, it eliminates the need for traditional hardware, provides a strong support foundation and reduces the amount of noise associated with coil springs. Rubber webbing is sold according to stretch and number of strands, depending upon the amount of firmness or bounce desired in a couch or a chair.
In traditional furniture, the webbing usually is attached to the ends of the piece. Contemporary furniture that has been constructed with staples and tacks often lacks the strength needed to keep the webbing in place. To remedy the situation, webbing should be attached to the sides rather than the ends of the parts that are being reupholstered.
Traditional webbing materials such as jute or English webbing should not be used on contemporary couches and chairs, just as it is inappropriate to use man-made webbing on fine and antique furnishings. If in doubt, most upholsterers would advise replacing what is already there. Tossing an upholstery tool on top of a web is the ultimate test for upholstery webbing — the best webbing will toss it right back.
Jute webbing will break much faster than webbing made of hemp or linen. It ages faster and shouldn't be used in furniture where one wants it to last 50 years or more.
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China has sealed off parts of its northwestern city of Yumen after a resident died of bubonic plague last week, the state news media reported on Tuesday. A 38-year-old victim was infected by a marmot, a wild rodent, and died on July 16. Several districts of the city of about 100,000 people in Gansu Province were turned into special quarantine zones, the Xinhua news agency said. It said 151 people who had come into direct contact with the victim were also quarantined. None have so far shown signs of infection, Xinhua said. The plague is a bacterial disease spread by the fleas of wild rodents. | <urn:uuid:12657b73-96b9-4393-95a7-ddf2de625526> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/world/asia/china-plague-isolates-parts-of-city.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00542-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990444 | 132 | 1.78125 | 2 |
A seminar on ‘mental health in unequal world’ was held here at the Government College University Lahore on Tuesday where speakers highlighted increase in mental health diseases especially depression.
The speakers said exercise and healthy diet do not only keep people physically fit but is also vital in keeping them mentally healthy.
GCU Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr Asghar Zaidi chaired the seminar which was jointly organized by the University’s Psychology Department and Punjab Food Authority in connection with the Mental Health Day 2021.
“Mental illnesses are as old as human beings; earlier evil spirits had been blamed for them but as science the progress, their medical causes and treatments were found,” said Dr. Aneel Shafi, a noted consultant psychiatrist from Pakistan Institute of Mental Health
He also said the modern concepts which evolved about mental illness in the last 50 years are biopsychosocial model positing that biological (level of biochemicals in body), psychological (such as thoughts, emotions, and behaviors), and social (e.g., socioeconomical, socioenvironmental, and cultural) factors, all play a significant role in mental health and illness.
However, Dr. Shafi said the latest and postmodern research is about the prevention and treatment of mental health through exercise and healthy food intake. He said studies are underway on different food items and exercises which stimulates the release of chemicals in our brains and help elevates mood.
Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Asghar Zaidi said that diet and lifestyle can affect their mental health; people who overeat unhealthy foods and adopt inactivate lifestyle are at a higher risk of depression. “Keeping this in view, GCU has increased focus on participation of its students and faculty in sports and co-curricular activities to provide them an active on-campus life,” he added.
The Vice Chancellor said they had also activated tutorial groups; and tutors are assigned as mentors to all students for their career and mental counseling. “If a student has any issue, he can easily approach his tutor for the immediate redressal,” he added.
Punjab Food Authority Director General Rafaqat Ali briefed students about their crackdown on adulterated food items. He advised students to always study ingredients of any food item before its consumption.
GCU Psychology Department Chairperson Dr. Syeda Salma Hasan said by mental health in an unequal world mean that this world is unequal in terms of age, social diversity, intellectual disabilities and mental health problems, and the purpose of celebrating the Mental Health Day 2021 is to make the mental health services available to all the individuals.
She said the best thing is that mental health illness especially depression and stress are curable and we should not feel shy in seeking professional mental health services to restore our sense of wellbeing as mental health is important at each stage of our developmental journey of life.
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Whiplash is a common injury that occurs when there is a sudden force put upon a person’s head and neck moving it in one direction and then another rapidly. This often occurs when the head is not restrained. Whiplash can be the result of a car accident, sports injury, or some other form of personal injury. Whiplash affects the soft tissues around the neck and shoulders. While whiplash is not life-threatening, it can have long-term effects on the body and may cause disabilities. If you suspect that you have suffered from whiplash and you live in the Kennesaw and Marietta, GA areas, visit Discover Chiropractic and Rehabilitation today.
The Symptoms of Whiplash
You may experience many different symptoms as a result of suffering from whiplash. These symptoms can include pain in the neck and shoulders, headaches, and stiffness in your neck. You may even experience some dizziness, jaw pain, and fatigue. Some additional symptoms of whiplash include weakness and pain in your arms, ringing in your ears, and pain in your back. There are more severe symptoms such as depression, stress, anxiety, and anger.
How Is Whiplash Treated?
When looking for a chiropractor near me for whiplash, it is important to know your treatment options. Our chiropractors offer drug-free and non-invasive treatment options, such as spinal manipulation. This is a typical adjustment administered by a chiropractor where he manipulates the spine to put it back into its proper position. The chiropractor will move your joints gently back into place. If you suffer from herniated or bulging discs, whiplash may worsen your condition. Gentle manipulation can help to relieve the pressure that irritation causes on your soft tissues. Muscle stimulation and gentle stretching can be used to relieve tension on restricted muscles which can also be helpful. Our chiropractor will develop a treatment plan that is designed to meet your health goals and relieve your whiplash pain.
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