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When a bag of kittens was dumped and run over in traffic on a rural Iowa highway, a dog named Reagan rushed to their rescue.
Iowa’s Raccoon Valley Animal Sanctuary is home to two kittens who owe their lives to Reagan. Three months ago her owner called the sanctuary seeking help after pulling two live kittens out of a Meow Mix bag that her dog had found in the road.
“It was gruesome, quite gruesome because the kittens…there was a litter of 4 or 5 of them and you couldn’t tell if there were 2 or 3 (in the bag) they had been run over by a vehicle. It was not a pretty sight,” said Linda Blakely of the Raccoon Valley Animal Sanctuary.
The fact that Skipper and Tipper even survived is difficult to explain, but one thing is certain: had Reagan not found them, they likely would have died on the spot. The yellow lab literally dragged the bag out of the road. Then she dragged it all the way home. And cried until her owner opened it. Reagan’s owner could hear faint cries from the bag, but said she was completely unprepared for what she found.
After recovering from the shock of finding the kittens in that bag, Reagan’s owner called the sanctuary and brought them in. They were weak and required bottle feeding every few hours, but both have recovered fully and are thriving at the sanctuary. They are also available for adoption. Blakely says they probably never would have made it off that road were it not for the love of a dog.
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The project is moving, playful, special: the American fashion and portrait photographer, Sandro Miller has recreated several iconic portraits in the history of photography with the ingenious, chameleon-like John Malkovich. Without him the result would have been questionable, even though the idea is great in itself. BY GYÖNGYI VERES
The photo collection is not new, it was made a few years ago, and it has been shown in several locations. In Budapest we can see the exhibition called Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich – A Homage to Photographic Masters this spring between the 28th of February and the 20th of April, hosted by Műcsarnok. The project is moving, playful, special: the American fashion and portrait photographer, Sandro Miller has recreated several iconic portraits in the history of photography with the ingenious, chameleon-like John Malkovich. As great as the idea is, it would have been difficult to pull off without the world-class actor, his impertinent transformations were essential to the pastiche.
John Malkovich was on board immediately as soon as he learned about the brazen concept – the two artists have known and liked each other for a long time. The Making of short film that can be viewed on site reveals that the actor is a veritable tabula rasa capable of morphing into anyone, his unparalleled ingenuity helps him to „sniff out the truffle”. He accurately feels the nuances and is able to reproduce them. We witness these expressions at the exhibition, and the result is entertaining, serious and accurate at the same time.
The acknowledged reference of the project is the 1999 film, Being John Malkovich. Under the stewardship of Sandro Miller the exact opposite is happening: the actor transforms, dressing and undressing, into many famous people or the characters of emblematic photos. He dons the skin of Mick Jagger, Picasso, Lincoln, Maryl Streep, Bette Davis or Truman Capote. At times the resemblance is striking: in the cases of Dalí, Jack Nicholson and Hemingway the identification is complete. The concept of rethinking cult photos and the implementation are bona fide works of art. The angle of each photograph is identical to that of the original. The lights, the posture, the cloths (or the nudity), the accessories, the hair and the make-up – they spent 150 000 on wigs! – is a real Gesamtkunstwerk: the teamwork of the artist, the muse, the make-up people and the wigmakers.
The Parisian Distortion series of André Kertész (female nudes photographed in distorting mirrors), this interesting entwinement of eroticism and caricature are also adapted: Malkovich gives the impression of a drag queen as he parades in a rococo wig. He is distorted to a monkey headed creature or a Buñuel frame: an infinite series of gaping mouths. Reflecting on the pictures of Diane Arbus, he changes into twin girls, a transvestite with rollers in his hair and a bizarre little boy. The two co-creators are at home in the world of illusions as well: in the kitsch mythology of the artistic duo Pierre et Gilles, the actor becomes Jean Paul Gaultier in a stupor.
How the middle-aged Malkovich turns into the sensually vibrant figure of Simone de Beauvoir (the original is of Art Shay from 1950) is unfathomable, but it still works: probably no-one else would have been able to reconstruct the so to say intellectually sexy buttocks reflecting contemporaneous taste of the one of the leading feminist thinkers in the 50s. He also portrays Marilyn Monroe several times, although he then does evoke the image of a tranny ready to rumble.
In the case of Hitchcock, something else is going on: Malkovich protrudes from the choreography. On the original surreal portrait constructed by Albert Watson the director holds a lifeless, plucked goose in his hand. The actor in his suit padded wide also holding a bald goose lets us know with his suggestive gaze that he is in onto the game: right now he is both a player and a viewer, he gives us a wink.
One of the best choices of Sandro Miller is a cover photo made by Carl Fischer in 1967, on which he portrayed Muhammad Ali – who refused to go to the Vietnam War because of his faith - as Saint Sebastian. A witty double twist: Malkovich becomes both of them at once.
Somewhat surprisingly the exhibition does not offer comparisons. In all likelihood the original photos are missing due to copyright reasons, but the esteemed visitors will no doubt recognize a good many, the others are easy to find on the internet. The grand total: a single room, two films, 35-40 photos. Not a lot, but the intensity of the exhibition makes it clear all the same that you can never get enough Malkovich. Malkovich is eternal.
The exhibition can be visited until the 3th of June.
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Characterization of the effect of the menstrual cycle, estradiol and Fads2 transcript variants on fatty acid composition and enzyme expression
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Estrogen is believed to regulate fatty acid composition based on observations of differences between men and women, and changes associated with altered estrogen levels in women during pregnancy, menopause and hormone treatment. Estrogen is consistently associated with increased levels of 18:0, 16:1n-7 and elongase 6, an enzyme in monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) biosynthesis. In some, but not all studies, estrogen has also been associated with increased 22:6n-3 and FADS2 expression. FADS2 is responsible for delta-6 desaturase activity, the rate-limiting step in polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) biosynthesis and is necessary for the synthesis of 22:6n-3, which is critical for cardiovascular health and neural development. In this thesis, the effects of subtle changes in estrogen levels during the menstrual cycle in humans, and the estrous cycle in rats, on fatty acid metabolism was examined. In addition, the response of FADS2 to estrogen was examined using MCF7 cells. The presence of multiple FADS2 transcript variants in MCF7 cells was determined, and the role of two variants in PUFA biosynthesis was examined by transfecting them into HEK 293 cells. During the menstrual cycle in women and estrous cycle in rats, increased blood levels of 16:1n-7 and 22:6n-3, and decreased levels of 22:5n-3 were observed when blood estrogen levels were high. The increased 22:6n-3 and decreased 22:5n-3 suggests an effect of estrogen on FADS2 expression and/or activity. In the rat hepatic expression of FADS2 mRNA varied over the cycle, but protein levels did not. However, in estrogen sensitive MCF7 cells, FADS2 mRNA was induced by estrogen. Changes in 22:6n-3 and 22:5n-3 were not observed in the MCF7 cells. Further examination identified multiple transcript variants of FADS2 in MCF7 cells, and demonstrated that the expression of an alternatively spliced transcript variant (FADS2_v2) was considerably higher. Notably, this variant lacked the N-terminal cytochrome-binding domain that is critical for activity, suggesting that it may not be functional. In transfected HEK 293 cells, indirect evidence of delta-6 desaturase activity was observed for the full length wild type variant (FADS2_v0/1) but not for FADS2_v2. When the variants were co-transfected, FADS2_v2 interacted with and inhibited FADS2_v0/1. This work helps further understanding of the relationship between estrogen, lipid biosynthetic enzymes and fatty acid status that is important for determination of dietary requirements of 22:6n-3 for women throughout the lifespan.
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Today from July 1, 2022, many major changes have been implemented in the country. These financial changes will have a direct impact on the general public of the country. With one percent TDS levied on cryptocurrency transactions, buying air conditioners has also become costly today.
The month of July has started and today many big economic changes have been implemented from the first day of the month, which is going to have a direct impact on you and some are going to increase the burden on your pocket. Today, the government has implemented TDS on cryptocurrencies and gifts.
Crypto investors have got another setback from today after the government imposed 30 percent tax on one percent TDS on cryptocurrencies. Actually, investors have to pay TDS at the rate of 1 percent on all types of crypto transactions, whether the crypto asset is sold for profit or loss. Actually, the motive behind this decision of the government is that by doing so, it will be able to keep an eye on those transacting in cryptocurrencies.
10 percent TDS on gifts
Talking about the second major change, from July 1, 2022, the tax deducted at source (TDS) rule has been implemented at the rate of 10 percent on gifts received from businessmen. This tax will be applicable to social media influencers and doctors. Social media influencers will have to pay TDS on gifts given by a company for marketing purposes, while this rule applies to free drug samples, foreign flight tickets or other expensive gifts received by doctors. What will happen?
Air conditioner (AC) will be expensive to buy
To keep your home cool from today, you will no longer have to shell out more to buy an air conditioner. Actually, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has changed the energy rating rules for air conditioners, which have come into effect from 1 July 2022. Accordingly, the rating of 5-star ACs will directly become 4-star. With the new energy efficiency guidelines, AC prices in India may see an increase of up to 10 percent in the times to come.
Single-use plastic The use of single-use plastic has been completely banned in India today. The government had already made it clear that no relaxation would be given in this. This decision of the government has dealt a big blow to the companies manufacturing and selling packaged juices, soft drinks, and dairy products. After the implementation of this ban, beverage companies will not be able to sell their products with plastic straws today.
Double penalty on PAN-Aadhaar link
Those who have not linked their PAN with an Aadhar card will have to pay a fine of Rs 1000 for doing this work from today. Till June 30, for linking PAN with Aadhar card, half of it i.e. 500 rupees had to be fined. In this regard, instructions have been given by the government many times, in spite of this, if you have missed doing this work, then the burden on you has increased.
LPG cylinder price change
On the 1st of every month, the prices of gas cylinders have been revised even today. Companies have increased the price of commercial cylinders by Rs 198 today. However, there has been no change in the prices of subsidized cylinders. After this decision, the price of a 19 kg commercial cylinder in the capital Delhi has gone up to Rs 2021. Earlier their price was Rs 2219.
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For businesses in northern climates, winter can be brutal – especially when it comes time to pay heating bills. And bills this year could be far higher than last year, especially for businesses that rely on heating oil, as the Utica Observer-Dispatch points out. There are several good reasons you should try to rein in heating costs. First, of course, it boosts the bottom line. Businesses can shave 20 percent or more off their heating costs by taking some fairly simple, low-cost measures. Moreover, it’s good for the environment.
There are some low-cost ways to keep heating costs in check. Here are five energy-saving strategies to consider before winter arrives:
1) Stop the drafts. Warm air leaking out of your store or office can be responsible for about 20 percent of heating costs, according to the Department of Energy. The irony is that this problem could easily be fixed after a quick shopping trip to the local hardware store; weather stripping for doors can cost less than $15 and is easy to install. Don’t forget the windows, which are another big source of air drafts. There are a variety of solutions –from hot-air sealed window plastic to window films and window shades – that could fit your needs. Be careful, though, because lots of sunlight through southern-facing windows can actually provide some heating benefits.
2) Make sure your furnace or boiler is functioning properly. A professional tune-up can reduce energy usage by more than 2 percent by getting debris out of the furnace system. Changing the air filter once a month helps, too; it also bolsters efficiency and keeps the air clean. Also don’t forget the water heater. Putting insulation around the water heater tank and hot water pipes can sometimes halve the heat loss.
3) Install a smart thermostat. Getting a programmable thermostat that lets you set the temperatures for various times of day – so you can lower it when the business is closed and raise it again an hour or two before open – can save hundreds of dollars over the course of a winter. Most programmables nowadays cost less than $100, so they pay for themselves in less than a year of use. Once you have the thermostat, this U.S. EPA article will help you learn how to use it properly.
4) Use ceiling fans. Many people use ceiling fans in the summer to stay cool. But fans can actually benefit your business even more in the winter. Warm air rises and can get trapped by the ceiling. So a ceiling fan moving in reverse (clockwise) pushes the air down and effectively warms you up.
5) Take advantage of rebates. Replacing an old furnace or boiler isn’t cheap, but if the equipment is really old and really inefficient, you might see a quick payback by replacing it with a new Energy Star-qualified, high-efficiency model. Many utility companies now offer rebates and other incentives for putting in high-efficiency heating equipment. It’s not exactly the low-hanging fruit. But it can make a huge difference when it comes to your heating bills and your winter comfort. You can find out if your local government or utility offers rebates on the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency.
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4Check that the FFmpeg library is installed by going to Edit > Preferences.
5Clicking on the library tab. Click the download button next to the FFmpeg library.
6Click on File > Open.
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8You will see your MPEG video file has been loaded. You shouldn't be presented with the video, but with the audio from the video.
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President Obama picked Labor Day to announce an executive order requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave benefits to their employees, including 300,000 workers who currently have no paid leave.
Starting in 2017, employees working on federal contracts will be eligible to earn up to seven days of paid sick leave each year. Leave will accrue at a rate of one hour of paid leave for every 30 hours worked.
Employees will be able to use paid sick leave to care for themselves, a family member—such as a child, parent, spouse, domestic partner or another loved one—as well as for absences resulting from domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.
An estimated 44 million private-sector workers—about 40% of the total private-sector workforce—do not have access to paid sick leave.
The White House declined to say how many contractors would be required to begin offering paid sick leave for the first time, citing state and local laws that make that calculation difficult.
Most large companies that do business with Uncle Sam, such as aerospace and defense contractors, already offer paid sick leave to most of their employees.
The order is designed to bridge a leave gap that thedoes not cover.
A White House fact sheet noted, “While roughly 60% of workers are eligible under theAct to take unpaid, job-protected leave for family and medical reasons for more extended absences, many workers are without coverage for shorter-term health care needs and others may not be able to afford to stay home sick if it means the loss of pay.”
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Here’s how the ultra-wealthy prepare for the worst
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- Affluent homeowners have higher-value property and assets to protect during national disasters.
- Insurance experts told Business Insider that high net worth individuals typically opt for "private client insurance" from high-end carriers, which offers certain protections and services that average homeowners' policies do not.
- According to architects who specialize in hurricane-proofing, there are many (generally pricey) ways to custom-build more resilient homes or modify existing builds to stand up to the impact of a storm.
- And it doesn't stop at homes: Yachts, cars, and wine collections need to be insured, too.
- Here's how the ultra-wealthy prepare for hurricanes.
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Hurricane Dorian — which has left many people dead in the Bahamas, was once again upgraded to a Category 3 storm, Business Insider previously reported. People living along the east coast of the US face dangerous storm surges, rain, winds, and even tornadoes.
While preventing loss of life is the priority for public officials and relief workers, many homeowners worry about the possibility of damage to their property — or, worse, total destruction. Homeowners' insurance generally covers basic weather-related issues, but for those who own higher-value property (and other assets, like yachts or fine art), financial losses can be massive.
There are marked differences between how affluent homeowners and the "average" homeowner handle oncoming storms when they live in hurricane-prone areas.
According to experts, the differences are two-fold:
- Luxury homeowners opt for a higher level of insurance coverage — complete with added options to protect their watercraft and pricey personal collections — to better deal with potential damage.
- High net worth individuals take precautions by adding "hurricane-proofing" features (or custom-building homes with that in mind) to head off potential damage.
Given that many of the most in-demand areas for luxury homes are coastal — and often in hurricane-prone areas, including Florida cities like Key West and Miami — the likelihood of a storm touching down near an affluent homeowner's property is pretty high. Here's how the ultra-wealthy prepare for hurricanes.
The ultra-wealthy buy (and build) "resilient" homes.
In October 2018, when Hurricane Michael touched down in Mexico Beach, Florida, only one of the oceanfront homes was left intact: Sand Palace, a two-story property that had been built only the year before. Most of the surrounding properties, which were older constructions built before more stringent building codes were enacted in 2007, were decimated in the wake of the Category 4 storm.
This was no stroke of luck — the homeowners, attorney Russell King and his nephew, Dr. Lebron Lackey — specifically built their "dream home" to withstand "the big one," they told the New York Times shortly after the storm hit.
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King and Dr. Lackey declined to tell The New York Times how much they'd spent to hurricane-proof their home, but their architect, Charles A. Gaskin, did tell the Times that "building a house the way they did roughly doubles the cost per square foot, compared with ordinary building practices."
Geoff Chick, an architect building hurricane-resistant homes in the Gulf of Mexico, told Business Insider in 2018 that building a hurricane-resistant property comes down to a select few foundational features and accessories. Impact windows, for example, are designed to withstand the impact of a 2x4 stud heading toward them at 150 miles per hour — but they're about double the cost of a normal window package ($40,000 compared to the standard $18,000).
Speaking again more recently with Business Insider, Chick said that, if a home is custom-built with hurricane-resistant features in mind, there's not much the homeowners need to do before the storm hits — other than maybe bringing unsecured patio furniture inside.
"Most of my [clients] leave town and enjoy a vacation until the power is back on and the coast is clear," he said, adding that one Albany, Georgia, family he designed a beach house for actually moved to that coastal home for two weeks when their inland Albany property's power was knocked out by Hurricane Michael last year.
For many wealthy homeowners, the extra costs are a small price to pay for the peace of mind knowing their investment is better protected.
"While the Florida building code has done a great job of increasing the design and construction standards in Florida to protect residents from hurricanes and other natural disasters, the luxury buyer has a unique perspective on what is important to them, and [they] are willing (and able) to pay for it," Ryan Homan, the Director of Finance of privately-owned real estate investment and management firm Blue Jay Capital, told Business Insider.
Blue Jay Capital built 121 Marina, a development at elite Ocean Reef, a private club community in Key Largo, Florida. In addition to the "standard" luxury amenities, the 27-unit condominium building was designed with a number of hurricane-proofing features, including:
- A 2,400-gallon back-up generator that can keep the building fully functional for 10 days ("Very important, as it allows the AC to run and protect the significant interior investment in finishes, furniture, and art from being damaged by humidity if the power is knocked out for several days after the storm," Homan explained);
- Four pumps at garage level capable of pumping 20,000 gallons of water per hour, in the event of flooding;
- A seawall raised to 5.2 feet elevation (a foot higher than the Ocean Reef Marina seawall);
- Sliding glass doors that can resist 174 mph winds (above the building code's mandated resistance of 150 mph);
- And flood panels to protect against flooding and water damage that can be installed as quickly as one day in advance of a hurricane warning.
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There isn't a "standard" cost of hurricane-proofing a luxury home, according to Homan: "It really depends on the specific project, location, amenities, and number of units. I would say we spend several hundred thousand dollars per unit — [121 Marina has a] total of 27 units — to add additional hurricane-resistant features."
Buying into a newly built hurricane-proof luxury building is relatively more affordable than building a resilient single-family home.
"We can spread costs of these features across 27 homeowners that have all bought $5 million+ units," Homan added.
Residents at 121 Marina also received a "Hurricane Dorian Preparedness Report" ahead of the current storm, detailing what precautionary measures were taken to secure the property. "So owners can have peace of mind wherever they are in the world," Homan explained.
Wealthy homeowners opt for private client insurance.
When you own a multimillion-dollar property on the coast, your home's insurance policy won't look much like, say, the policy for an inland home of average value.
Jon Kelly, the CEO of high net worth insurance broker Kelly Klee, told Business Insider that there are two main differences between private client insurers and ordinary home insurance companies: actual policy terms and how the insurers treat clients once a claim is filed.
The policy terms, in short, are more generous with a higher (and therefore pricier premium) level of coverage.
Unlike standard insurers, who often try to find ways to deny a claim based on the existing policy, private client insurers tend to "really look at the policy to find a way to say yes" and to ensure high customer satisfaction, Kelly told Business Insider. While mass-market insurers generally limit what they'll pay out towards rebuilding a property after a total loss, high-end carriers are more accommodating of the client's wants and needs.
And if the homeowner chooses not to rebuild in the same spot, the carriers will work with them to help make that happen as well.
"Private client policies often allow for the policyholder to opt out of rebuilding and take a cash settlement to rebuild elsewhere — also a big benefit in devastated areas that might be the site of painful memories," Kelly added.
But it's not just homes the ultra-wealthy have to worry about insuring — it's also their cars, yachts, and art and wine collections.
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Megan Gorman, a managing partner at Florida-based, boutique high net worth tax and financial planning firm Chequers Financial Management, told Business Insider that high end carriers — including Chubb, PURE, and AIG — offer the appropriate level of coverage for affluent homeowners. Their coverage often includes a number of services that go above and beyond the "usual" homeowners' insurance benefits.
"Some [high net worth individuals] work with services that help remove these assets in a disaster," Gorman added.
Similarly, Los Angeles Magazine's Bob Morris reported in April that AIG Private Client Group hires an America's Cup sailor (among the best of the best in the sport of sailing yachts) to find safe storage for luxury watercraft before a storm hits. The costs the company incurs to do so is well worth it: Repairing or replacing damaged luxury items and assets would cost an astronomical amount more.
"As a business model, protecting everything from pianos and antiques to wine collections before a disaster arrives is cheaper for insurers than the billions they would have to spend rebuilding and replacing properties," Morris wrote.
Kelly told Business Insider that private client insurance carriers offer far broader coverage for high-value assets within and around the home.
"For luxury vehicles, they offer 'agreed value' coverage that pays out based on a specific value rather than a lower depreciated amount," he explained. "Thus, if one's $298,000 Ferrari is totaled due to flood, the owner knows she doesn't have to wonder how much she'll receive to replace the car, as it is written into the contract."
Fine art and other collections often have similarly client-friendly terms of coverage.
"With wine, for instance, our carriers offer coverage for 'sets' where one wine bottle in a set is destroyed and the value of the remaining bottles is lowered," Kelly told Business Insider. "And when a storm is on the way, many times our carriers will help facilitate the packing, evacuation, and storage of high value collections (art, wine and spirits, collector cars, etc.) if needed to prevent losses."
Private client insurance can also cover the costs of temporary housing for the displaced.
According to Los Angeles Magazine's report, homeowners in the Hamptons fled to "luxe hotels" when Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012 — and billed their insurance carriers for the "lengthy stays."
Similarly, Kelly told Business Insider that, should local authorities order an evacuation, the private client carriers his company works with typically "provide coverage for 'reasonable expenses' required for homeowners to maintain their normal standard of living for 30 days if there is no damage to the home" — and even longer if there is damage.
"If there is damage to the home, they generally don't put a time limit on this coverage while a damaged home is being repaired, and instead, offer coverage for the reasonable amount of time required to repair the loss and/or make the home properly inhabitable," Kelly added.
With private client insurance, it comes down to one basic, oft-repeated tenet: You really do get what you pay for. And if you're paying millions for a luxury home (and the luxury goods inside it), you're not likely to scoff at the lofty premiums to protect that investment.
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Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike.
"Turns Holy Writ into fresh, understandable, contemporary language. A landmark of Jewish religious scholarship." - Time Magazine
The JPS TANAKH is an entirely original translation of the Holy Scriptures into contemporary English, based on the Masoretic (the traditional Hebrew) text. It is the culmination of three decades of collaboration by academic scholars and rabbis, representing the three largest branches of organized Judaism in the United States.
Considered the gold standard in Jewish Bible publishing, the translators of this monumental work made use of the entire range of biblical interpretation, ancient and modern, Jewish and non-Jewish. They drew upon the latest findings in linguistics and archaeology, as well as the work of early rabbinic and medieval commentators, grammarians, and philologians. The resulting text is a triumph of literary style and biblical scholarship, unsurpassed in accuracy and clarity. | <urn:uuid:1f5a3607-a311-45de-9d12-b06473d62ce5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.appspy.com/app/421630/jps-tanakh-the-jewish-bible | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00449-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913396 | 284 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Recognizing the value that pharmacists add in managing drug therapies, especially in academic medical centers like Upstate Medical University, has led to changes in pharmacy education and highlighted the need for advanced patient care training.
Upstate University Hospital serves as a training site for students from more than 10 pharmacy schools. Residency programs, which provide intensive postgraduate training in hospital pharmacy and various subspecialties, have experienced an uptick in recent years. Upstate has six pharmacy residents in their first postgraduate year, the largest class since the program began in 1998.
“The development of clinical specialty programs for pharmacists helps us to meet highly specified needs in patient care and nurture expertise in drug therapy management skills required of a specialized pharmacist,” explains Luke Probst, Pharm.D pharmacy residency coordinator.
Residents at Upstate not only contribute to patient care, but are also active in quality improvement efforts, medication-related research projects, multidisciplinary team rounds and the education of peers through presentations and patient-specific interventions. Management and administrative skills are also honed, creating opportunities for residents to take their careers in multiple directions.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), an aid agency with a reputation for working in war zones where other agencies refuse to go, is to join the exodus of international workers from Baghdad despite a plea for it to stay from the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), whose headquarters was bombed on Monday, is also considering scaling back its operations in the city.
Mr Powell expressed hope that non-governmental bodies, contractors and the UN would stay despite the dangers. "They are needed, their work is needed, and if they are driven out, then the terrorists win."
The bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad in August, and Monday's attacks have forced many organisations left to weigh the risks to their staff against their humanitarian duty.
"This is a horrible decision for us to have to make," said Marc Joolens, Iraq operations co-ordinator for MSF.
"We are committed to our work in Iraq, but now that the heart of neutral humanitarian assistance [the ICRC] has been attacked, we have to think again."
A spokeswoman at the headquarters of MSF Belgium, which is running the Iraq operation, said it had set up three clinics to provide primary health care and tackle malnutrition in Sadr City, the poorest part of Baghdad. She said its 10 international staff were being withdrawn to Jordan, and the 10 local staff will keep the clinics running as best they can.
The withdrawal of MSF is a huge symbolic blow to US attempts to restore a semblance of normality to Baghdad and the rest of central Iraq. If the aid agencies judge central Iraq too dangerous to operate in, it will be even harder for Washington and London to persuade private companies to take up reconstruction contracts in the country.
The remaining aid organisations have adopted a low profile in Baghdad.
Brendan Paddy, a spokesman for the Save the Children Fund, said the MSF decision was "extraordinary because, like the ICRC, they are usually first in and last out". He said he understood why so many agencies were withdrawing. "If you are spending all day hiding in a bunker, is there any point in being there?"
The Save the Children Fund pulled out of Baghdad after the UN bombing but said it had been contemplating such a move because of daily attacks.
It continues to operate in the north and south of Iraq. Mr Paddy said the agency kept assessing the situation to see whether it could go back into central Iraq, but "all the signs are that things are getting worse".
Iraq joins only a handful of countries where aid agencies are thin on the ground because of the risk: Chechnya, Congo, Colombia and Afghanistan.
The ICRC insisted that no decision had been taken on whether to evacuate non-Iraqi staff. It promised it would not leave Iraq after 23 years of continuous work through three wars. But, like MSF, it is considering whether to pull out its 30-plus foreign workers, leaving 800 Iraqi workers to continue relief efforts.
"ICRC works in dangerous environments. This is its mission," said a spokeswoman, Amanda Williamson.
"What is especially worrying is when it is deliberately targeted, as appears to be the case in this instance."
The biggest aid organisation in the country, CARE, plans to stay.
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The rail cars would be mainly grain hoppers and empty tankers used to haul fuel, oil and natural gas liquids
EDMONTON—A company wants to build a facility to store and service up to 850 rail cars near Lamont, Alta., a few kilometres north of Elk Island National Park.
Alberta Midland Railway Terminal Ltd. says the facility would help rail shippers that service an area called the Industrial Heartland—the province’s largest hydrocarbon processing region.
A report filed by the company to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency says the $34 million project could begin operating by the second-quarter of 2017.
The proposal says the rail cars would be mainly empty tankers used to haul dangerous goods such as fuel, oil and natural gas liquids as well as empty grain hopper cars.
Once completed, the facility and its 21 operating and storage tracks would be run by Canadian Northern Plains Rail Services.
The federal agency says it is seeking written comments from the public by March 7 on whether to conduct an environmental assessment of the project.
Shawn Smith, president of Canadian Northern, said the facility is needed because the Industrial Heartland is growing and the rail cars are now stored in areas across Alberta.
“This is being driven by growth plans that customers have,” Smith said Thursday.
Construction could begin this spring if Lamont County approves the project and it doesn’t require a full federal environmental assessment, he said.
Earlier this month the Alberta government announced a program to provide $500 million in royalty credits to the petrochemical sector to encourage more value-added products.
Much of the industry is located in the region near Lamont.
Smith said people involved in the storage facility proposal believe that bolstering rail service will be key.
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The high potassium content in coconut water, which is one of its most valued health benefits, can cause harm to the health at the same time.
A study under the title “Death by Coconut,” published in Circulation, contains the work of Justin Hakimian, MD, and his team at the Department of Cardiology, New York Hospital Queens.Namely, they depict the case of a man in his 42nd year of life, who experienced abnormal heart rhythms and frequent fainting after consuming lots of coconut water, due to the extremely high levels of potassium.
This man spent his day playing tennis in temperatures in excess of 90° F, and consumed 8 11-ounce bottles of coconut water. Suddenly, he felt lightheaded, and shortly lost consciousness.
Due to his weak state, an ambulance brought him to the emergency department, and was found to have a low heart rate and low blood pressure, and was completely disoriented.
Dangers of too much potassium
This unfortunate man was experiencing the classic signs of too much potassium in the blood. The body needs a delicate balance of potassium to help the heart and other muscles work properly.
Most Americans consume too little potassium, which is mostly found in fruits and vegetables. Nevertheless, consuming a large amount in a relatively short period of time can lead to dangerous, and possibly deadly, changes in heart rhythm.
Namely, elevated potassium levels lead to life-threatening heart rhythm changes, as well as ventricular fibrillation, which is an emergency state in which the heart’s lower parts instead of pumping blood, flutter with an increased speed.
In the case this condition is not treated on time, it may cause a stop of the heart beating, leading to death.
Thus, the Institute of Medicine has set an adequate potassium daily intake at 4,700 mg for adults, but the upper limit has not been set, so it is still unclear how much potassium can be safely consumed.
Yet, it has been found that in high amounts, it can be deadly. The amounts of potassium may be increased due to decreased excretion, excessive intake, or a combination of these two.
However, the excessive high potassium levels are especially dangerous in the case of certain medical conditions, or in the case of some specific drug therapy, which additionally raise the levels of potassium.
Moreover, the levels of potassium may be elevated due to:
breakdown of muscle tissue (rhabdomyolysis)
breakdown of red blood cells (hemolysis)
Addison’s disease (adrenal failure)
medications like beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, and some antibiotics such as penicillin
burns and trauma
The man whose case has been explained in the study was discovered to have muscle tissue breakdown (rhabdomyolysis). This condition is a result of muscle exertion, as a result of endurance exercise, strenuous exercise, and exercise in hot, humid conditions.
This condition leads to kidney damage. According to the doctors, the patient has consumed 5,500 mg of potassium through the 8 servings of coconut water, so the potassium in them, added to the one released from the muscle fibers after the prolonged tennis matches, led to his hospitalization.
Luckily, this man recovered with a temporary pacemaker, and three days in the hospital. The work of his heart was normalized, the levels of potassium were regulated, and the kidneys and muscles started to function properly again.
Yet, the danger high potassium levels pose to people as a result of lots of coconut water has been discussed in many other studies as well.
Therefore, people with kidney diseases or heart issues should avoid excessive consumption of this water, especially after a severe dehydration. This includes cases in which the body loses electrolytes, due to prolonged, hard workout, sport in the heat, or severe diarrhea.
The reason for this is that the concentration and electrolytes in the coconut water are not in the perfect balance in order to rehydrate the body properly in such situations.On the other hand, coconut water is extremely beneficial for most people. This natural drink hydrates the body, quenches the thirst, and provides high amounts of minerals, vitamins, and phytonutrients. Coconut water also effectively treats high blood pressure.
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A new addition to our reading room: Essential Oils for the Home Care Kit. This article explores 10 commonly used essential oils that are indicated for many common ailments and complaints in the home. Basic information is given for each essential oil, along with some common conditions the oil is used for. Part II of the article is to follow, which will give more specific applications of each essential oil.
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Taxidermy case of adult male, adult female and three young Eurasian Curlew. According to Edward Hart, writing on 24 January 1927, 'Left (no 1): adult male, winter plumage. Shot by Edward Hart on Mudflats, Christchurch Harbour, January 3rd 1871; middle (no 2): young. Obtained Plain Heath, New Forest: May 1885; right (no 3): adult female, summer plumage. Shot by Edward Hart at Grimbry Point, Christchurch Harbour, August 24th 1885. Sexes alike; summer and winter plumage differ. Mounted by Edward Hart'. | <urn:uuid:4efa79ba-044c-4bd4-922a-eb375f5f255c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/NH.83.3/206/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.917865 | 153 | 2.28125 | 2 |
The Mongols took over china in 1206. Led by Genghis Khan, the Mongols increased Trade, and expanded China immensely.
The map above shows the spread of the Mongol rule, led by Genghis Khan.
The Yuan Dynasty
In 1260, Kublai Khan, one of the grandsons of Genghis Khan, took over what was left of China. He moved the capital of China to what is now Beijing. Though Kublai Khan expanded trade, conquered much land, and overcame many challenges, he was eventually overthrown by Chinese rebels. | <urn:uuid:e7420cda-8bad-4e81-af92-0e8bbee2f692> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://tackk.com/fwhrg0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00342-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964307 | 120 | 3.84375 | 4 |
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Nikhil Desai writes: “a new cult – No Carbo(n) promised that if only these people gave up their carbon emitting ways, they will prove their devotion to the new cult. Climate change will be averted and they will not have to migrate to the white people’s lands.”
Nikhil Desai is the Energy Security contributor for the NAPSNet Weekly report.
The views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Nautilus Institute. Readers should note that Nautilus seeks a diversity of views and opinions on significant topics in order to identify common ground.
II. POLICY FORUM BY Nikhil Desai
I should’ve called it the No-Carbo Cult, because I am speaking of the cult of anti-CO2 (Carb-o) activists. They remind me of the one of the Cargo Cults in some Pacific Islands I had an opportunity to live in for some time. That group believed in the return of a “John Frum,” in Prince Phillip’s divinity, and that someday the natives will get material wealth coming via ships.
While there, I also met some anti-CO2 activists, believers in the coming end of the world otherwise known as climate change, promising to bring good things to the islanders. Of course, all of it was to come via cargo – ships or air. Renewable energy, and experts on renewable energy, in particular.
The logic was simple. Climate change will raise sea levels and threaten these islands, at least their low-lying areas. Everybody in the world now had a new god, a new cult – No Carbo(n). It promised that if only these people gave up their carbon emitting ways, they will prove their devotion to the new cult. Climate change will be averted and they will not have to migrate to the white people’s lands.
There was an ample economic case a priori – in countries that imported oil products at upwards of $0.7-1.0/liter at the main port, and then being sold at close to $3 per liter in remote islands. But the renewable energy equipment and experts also had to be imported, and it wasn’t clear that ships and aircraft across these islands would run on renewable energy, or that people could cook their food on renewable energy.
Of course, there was local biomass, which they could use amply, but that wasn’t the object of the No-Carbo Cult. Besides, biomass cooking practices produced smoke and other toxic emissions, which too didn’t concern the No-Carbo Cult, because, its proponents argued, biomass was “renewable”. Just how the CO2 molecules absorbed by a growing tree anywhere can be separated by their origin – this little piggy came from coal, this little piggy from gas, this little from making charcoal and this one from burning charcoal – was not clear to me or anybody.
It seemed to me that the No-Carbo Cult was effectively telling these islanders – “Look, a tsunami is coming. We are going to build a bridge. We will pick you up from here and take you to, look there in the distance, the island with high mountain.”
Usual promises of a religion. Salvation. Looking up to the Shining City upon the hill. Selling it to the poor brings fame and money readily given by the rich followers. The priests issue the sermons, and the missionaries go out and spread the word. Even if they were selling bridges to nowhere.
How did it come to this? In a way, I think selling the Brooklyn Bridge had become so tiresome. Snake oil also had reached market saturation. And of course, the traditional religions had mostly lost its market share.
The modern, popular Western environmentalist movement had its origins in the elitist nature conservation movement. It rightly took the long-term and all-encompassing view of the earth that ancient religions had prescribed. Then after the Second World War, it took on the challenge of cleaning the rivers, air basins, coastal areas, and expanded the conservation activities as well. This program ran from the 1950s and on to 1990s, culminating in major regulatory reforms to improve environmental performance of the energy and other industries. Some of it also correlated with occupational health and environmental health thrusts.
In the US, the field was clear for starting up new political business line. The old problems – conservation, air/water pollution, overuse of water and other limited resources – were not gone, of course. Some had been outsourced to other countries (like intelligence gathering from terror suspects, dirty work is better done abroad). And raising money or claiming fame for the old problems was getting difficult. After all, as nuclear plant construction slowed to a trickle or a stop, the environmental movement didn’t have much to appeal to the pockets of the well-to-do, already enjoying cleaner air and water.
The new movement had to be secular – for mass appeal – but at the same time invoke religion – since some of the deep pockets and thick Rolodexes belonged to deeply religious people.
Hence the No-Carbo Cult. What it promises is so long-term, it has to stress that the calamity is already here, because we are all sinners today and are suffering because of the sins. It treats every molecule of CO2 as a weapon of mass destruction, but only selectively – a very small fraction of the CO2 that goes up in the atmosphere.
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PHE’s IHR Strengthening Project
Global health is an important part of PHE’s core business. We act internationally to strengthen global health security, protect the health of the UK’s population and improve health inequalities. PHE coordinates a number of projects in countries across the world as part of its global health remit, including the International Health Regulations (IHR) Strengthening Project.
The IHR Strengthening Project, funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care Official Development Assistance (ODA), is contributing to efforts to enhance global health security by working in partnership with national public health institutions in six focal countries (Myanmar, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Zambia) to strengthen their compliance with IHR. Our project also involves working with regional public health bodies, including WHO regions (Regional Office for Africa, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, South-East Asia Regional Office) and the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
Our work in Myanmar
We have been collaborating with the Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports (MoHS) since 2017. Our partnership has been driven by priorities outlined in the country’s Joint External Evaluation findings (May 2017), National Action Plan for Health Security (launched September 2017). Our work in Myanmar so far has focussed on providing technical assistance on:
For more information on the IHR Strengthening Project please visit our page on the UK Government Development Tracker https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/projects/GB-GOV-10-IHR-PHE, or contact email@example.com
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a global membership organisation with members and fellows based in more than 80 different countries. There is a long history within Myanmar of trainee physicians completing the MRCP(UK) examinations as part of their postgraduate training and also of senior physicians being elected to Fellowship of the RCP. The RCP is represented within Myanmar by our International Advisor, currently Professor Zaw Lynn Aung who acts as an important point of contact between the College and member and fellows within Myanmar.
Since 2015 the RCP in collaboration with our fellow Royal Colleges from Edinburgh and Glasgow have been committed to more intensive support for trainee physicians in Myanmar and have been delivering bespoke Communication Skills training courses with a particular focus on those skills important both for success in the MRCP PACES exam but also of value throughout a career in hospital medicine. The courses have been delivered with a combined UK and Myanmar faculty in both Yangon and Mandalay and have received very positive feedback. In addition the team have taken the opportunity to deliver CPD sessions for the wider Myanmar medical community.
The RCP has established good working relationships with other medical organisations within Myanmar and has regularly contributed to the Myanmar Medical Association conference. More recently in early 2020 the RCP supported the launch of a joint UK-Myanmar venture, the Burma Skincare Initiation which aims to strengthen the provision of dermatology services within Myanmar.
The Medical Training Initiative (MTI) is a scheme set up to allow doctors from elsewhere in the world to take up a fixed term training opportunity using spare training capacity within the NHS. The RCP scheme is the largest of all UK college programmes with approximately 300 international medical graduates currently receiving training within the UK. Doctors from Myanmar have been well represented historically and interviews for the MTI scheme are always built into the program for RCP visits to Myanmar with the most recent appointments made in February 2020 after interviews at UM-1 in Yangon.
Quality Improvement (QI) is an important RCP activity supported by a dedicated RCP team, RCPQI. In collaboration with the Brighter Future Foundation and Health Education England (HEE) the RCP has supported and supervised QI projects within Myanmar and in 2019 the Clinical Director for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Dr John Dean delivered a QI workshop at UM-1.
Finally, it would not be possible to ignore the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic across the globe and the RCP Global team has been working hard to stay in touch with our friends and colleagues in Myanmar despite the ongoing travel restrictions. In the summer we hosted a global webinair exploring the early impact of the pandemic in Myanmar and we continue to offer a broad portfolio of online learning through our streaming service RCP Player. A current series of webinairs produced in collaboration with partners in Malaysia is specifically targeted at the ASEAN region with Myanmar having the third highest number of registrations for these events.
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Cambridge Global Health Partnerships facilitates a longstanding health partnership between Cambridge and Yangon. The partnership began in 2013, and the partnership has grown and strengthened since. In 2016 the UK Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection found that the partnership was an area of “outstanding practice”.
The partnership works between Yangon General Hospital, University of Medicine I, the Ministry of Health and Sports, and Cambridge University Hospitals and Cambridge University, and with Myanmar diaspora groups. The goal of the partnership is to improve trauma care for patients working across the trauma pathway, coining the name the Cambridge Yangon
Trauma Intervention Partnership (CYTIP). The partnership works with both clinical services and research across various specialities including orthopaedics, emergency medicine, anaesthesia/ICU, clinical skills, pathology, nursing and physiotherapy/rehabilitation.
Each arm has developed an independent programme of engagement, with a degree of integration between these. Approaches and partnership activity include:
To ensure the sustainability of our work, we have delivered ‘train the trainer’ courses. This has a cascade effect, with knowledge reaching more than 1,000 clinicians across multiple professions. The partnership has also worked with the Ministry of Health and Sports to undertake an audit of national ICU services in Myanmar and to develop a national plan.
For more information please visit the Cambridge Global Health Partnerships website, and contact us on email@example.com.
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Mapping the Current Medical Curriculum for Developing Evidence-based Public Health Education and Training Content
The Better Health Programme in Myanmar (BHP Myanmar) is assessing and co-developing NCD-related education programmes to contribute to improving health workforce competencies, aligned with National Health Plan goals to achieve Universal Health Coverage.
In order to build a strong, equity-focused health workforce with excellent knowledge of NCD prevention methods and capable of providing high-quality care that responds to the needs of Myanmar’s diverse communities, six medical, public health, nursing, and community health universities have agreed to engage with the Better Health Programme to review existing curricula, identify gaps in NCD teaching, and co-develop and implement evidence-based, gender-responsive and inclusive NCD curricula.
Support in NCD data strategy and national monitoring framework development
BHP Myanmar provides assistance on digital governance in direct response to the National Health Plan 2017-2021 Programme area 10. Strengthening Health System – 3. Health Information Management System, and 5. Township Health System Development7. This, in turn, will assist the MoHS to access and use data to respond to the health needs of different population groups, including of women, ethnic minorities, older people, lower income populations, and people living with a disability. The assistance from BHP Myanmar includes the review that will be used to inform the planned NCD Data Strategy.
The Data Strategy will provide guidance on producing a stronger data and monitoring system on NCDs. It will also include considerations for capacity building, data collection, data categorisation, data management, analysis, dissemination, and policy. Events and training for health staff and senior officials will also include training for decision-makers about how data and evidence can be used to inform policy and interventions – as well how to improve the quality and safety of preventive and care management services.
RGHR is a Jersey based charity established to forward a programme of work according to the directions of the cross-party Parlimentary Committee for the reinvigoration of the Yangon General Hospital. RGHR’s core activities include the implementation of YGH Masterplan to help making YGH a safe and the state of the art hospital and the support to the undergraduate medical curriculum reform. For information, please click here www.rghr.org.
The Burma Skincare Initiative (BSI), a UK registered charity (Registration no. 1187197) (Figure 1), was founded in 2018 by Dr Su Mar Lwin (dermatology registrar, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, King’s College London, UK) and Professor Chris Griffiths (Foundation Professor of Dermatology, University of Manchester, UK). Its mission is to remove barriers to skincare access in Myanmar in a sustainable manner. With the belief that education and research are fundamental in improving clinical care, the BSI has mapped out a 10-year strategic plan with short-, medium- and long-term goals, to address the unmet needs of the dermatology community in the country.
Since its inception, the BSI has been working in close partnership with the three dermatology centres in Myanmar: Yangon General Hospital/University of Medicine (UM) 1; North Okkalapa General Hospital/UM2 and; Mandalay General Hospital/UM Mandalay. This has achieved the following successes over the past two years:
1. Organised he first international dermatology meeting to be held in Myanmar, Yangon on 21-24 February 2020 (Figure 2); the first day of the meeting was dedicated to Myanmar nurses with an interest in dermatology. Immediately after the meeting, a Roundtable event consisting of invited, key stakeholders, was convened to discuss the sustainability of the BSI and its strategic goals. This was attended by, amongst others, representatives of the International Foundation for Dermatology, the Royal College of Physicians, THET (Dr Thinn Thinn Hlaing), the British Association of Dermatologists, the British Dermatology Nursing Group (BDNG), nurses, dermatologists and Township doctors.
2. Four International Travel Fellowships awarded to two dermatology trainees at UM1, and one dermatology trainee and one consultant dermatologist at UM2. These facilitate attendance at four dermatology meetings overseas.
3. One Clinical Exchange Fellowship awarded to a consultant dermatologist at UM2 to visit the 3 Centres of Excellence in paediatric dermatology in the UK.
4. Focused annual workshops on psoriasis and atopic eczema are currently being planned for February 2022 with a virtual lecture series on these topics in place for 2021.Research
1. Funding secured and UK ethics approval obtained for the Mycetoma and Chromoblastomycosis – a Dermatology Access in Myanmar Initiative (MACADAMIA): a study of the epidemiology and current clinical management of deep mycoses which are WHO recognised neglected tropical diseases, in Myanmar.
2. Partial funding obtained for the Skin Disease Survey – an epidemiological study of skin disease in Myanmar as an extension of the Global Psoriasis Atlas, which is being planned for 2021-2024.Clinical care
1. Establishment of immunodiagnostics to help improve serological diagnosis of pemphigus patients in Myanmar is currently underway.
2. Obtained support and practical help from international patient support groups to help set up patient support groups in Myanmar, including for psoriasis and genetic skin diseases.
With tremendous support from both international and Myanmar dermatology communities and key governmental bodies, including the Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports, the BSI is gaining momentum in achieving its sustainable goals aligned with the purpose and objectives of the 2020 Myanmar scoping assessment. The ultimate goal of the BSI is to establish a Regional Dermatology Training and Research Centre (RDTRC) in Myanmar. With this in mind, Dr Lwin and Professor Griffiths met with Professor Terence Ryan (Emeritus Professor of Dermatology, University of Oxford) – one of the founders of the Regional Dermatology Training Centre (RDTC) in Moshi, Tanzania (Figure 3). Professor Ryan gave his whole-hearted support of the idea of an RDTRC in Myanmar and provided invaluable advice and connections in helping realise our goal. The BSI is actively seeking sponsors and collaborators to establish the RDTRC in Myanmar. Dr Su Mar Lwin (firstname.lastname@example.org) and Professor Chris Griffiths (email@example.com)
In February 2020, WaterAid Myanmar, in partnership with Jhpiego and the Ministry of Health & Sports (MoHS) Regional Department of Public Health in Ayeyarwady Region, delivered a 3 day Training of Trainers (ToT) course to enable Nurse Trainers from 5 Township Hospitals in the Region to undertake participatory training for Cleaning staff in WASH, IPC and Environmental Cleaning. This training is part of a comprehensive WASH in Health Care Facilities (HCFs) project called ‘Supporting Safer Births in Myanmar’. The Project is funded by Australian Aid through its Water for Women programme.
The Cleaners Training package is known as TEACH-CLEAN and was developed by the SoapBox Collaborative (a UK organisation based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & Aberdeen University), to provide interactive practical training for participants who may not have full literacy skills. TEACH-CLEAN is currently being implemented in a number of countries as part of the SDGs for WASH in HCFs. The Myanmar ToT course, which has 8 Modules, includes a Trainers Manual (translated into Myanmar language) and practical materials presented in 8 Clean Boxes, one for each Module. The course is delivered in Myanmar Language and includes integrated GESI (Gender Equality & Social Inclusion) components.
The ToT course was positively endorsed by the Ayeyarwady Regional Director and MoHS and was extremely well received by participants who included, in addition to the Nurse Trainers, representatives from the Regional Public Health Dept, and HCF based Jhpiego Technical Officers. The interactive course included group work, practical sessions (e.g. PPE, Environmental Cleaning, Instrument Processing), supportive training and supervision and the opportunity to design accessible toilet facilities.
Over the following weeks, ‘Multiplier Trainings’ took place for the Cleaning Staff at the HCFs. The Nurse Trainers from the ToT led on these training sessions with practical support from the WaterAid Myanmar and Jhpiego Teams. These training sessions aim to directly improve IPC & Environmental Cleaning at the HCFs and to result in a much safer environment for all patients, particularly mothers and babies in maternity units, and the staff who care for them.
In January of this year, the research team of HOPe-YGN completed our first week of data collection for the qualitative component of this mixed methods study. Generously hosted by Professor Than Win Nyunt and his team at Yangon General Hospital, we ran two workshops and held several interviews to explore the needs of older people from a wide range of perspectives, approaching healthcare professionals working at different institutions across Yangon. We share our thanks to the hospitality we received in Yangon and the support from Improving Global Health fellows (Health Education England) and volunteers from Cambridge Global Health Partnerships whose collaborative efforts made this trip both highly productive and most enjoyable. We look forward to returning in 2021, this time to explore the perspectives of older people and their families.
Drs Emma Mitchell and Nazaneen Nikpour Hernandez
GHRGN was funded through the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Global Health programme in 2017. This multinational research group brings together researchers from across the world who have an interest in improving the care of patients suffering from injuries to the brain and spine. The group run a wide range of research projects, from the global epidemiological description of incidence and outcomes from traumatic brain injury (TBI), to qualitative exploration of the existing barriers to research among neurosurgeons in low income regions. The lead UK investigator is Prof Peter Hutchinson, Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Cambridge.
In Myanmar, the GHRGN is partnered with Cambridge Yangon Trauma Intervention Partnership (CYTIP) which has linked Yangon and Cambridge healthcare institutions since 2013. The lead investigator in Myanmar is Prof Myat Thu, Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Medicine 1, Yangon. Given the existing relationship between Cambridge and Yangon, the University of Medicine 1 is host to several research projects of the GHRGN. The neurosurgical team have contributed to the existing epidemiological projects, while two local researchers have conducted qualitative interviews and gathered prospective quantitative data to allow detailed systems modelling of the current patient pathway for those suffering TBI in Yangon General Hospital (YGH). This is leading to a redesign of the care pathway, and will be supported by future research projects linking the GHRGN with the humanitarian architects Article 25 who are engaged on the reconfiguration of the physical design of YGH. In addition, a research project is underway to explore the role patients’ family members in YGH can play in assessing the clinical status of their relatives, and communicating this to healthcare staff.
Published papers include:
1. A systems approach to trauma care in Myanmar: from health partnership to academic collaboration. Bashford et al. J. Future Healthc J. 2018 Oct;5(3):171-175. doi:10.7861/futurehosp.5-3-171.
2. Management and outcomes following emergency surgery for traumatic brain injury – A multi-centre, international, prospective cohort study (the Global Neurotrauma Outcomes Study). Clark et al. Int J Surg Protoc. 2020 Feb 28;20:1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.isjp.2020.02.001. eCollection 2020.
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BSSH and the British Foundation for International Reconstructive Surgical Training (BFIRST) charities have together sponsored a team of Plastic and Orthopaedic surgeons to travel to Myanmar to provide teaching and training in Hand surgery and reconstructive plastic surgery to doctors and trainees at Yangon General Hospital. The first two visits were in collaboration with the Cambridge Global Health Partnerships orthopaedic trauma team from Addenbrookes, Cambridge.
The following topics have been covered:
– basic hand trauma surgery principles and procedures
– surgery on hand infections.
– practical session learning to suture pigs trotter tendons.
– lecture course on soft tissue coverage of the hand
– practical course on hand flaps (simulated defects drawn on gloves)
– soft tissue coverage of lower leg wounds
– lower limb fasciotomy practical
– Orthoplastic ward round, identifying lower limb orthopaedic trauma cases requiring soft tissue flap coverage and discussing treatment options
– 2 day microsurgical skills practical course
– Operating day performing 4x free flaps on lower limb trauma patients
– 2 day hand fracture course
Another trip had been planned for late in 2020, but coronavirus intervened. We hope that we can reinstate this course in mid to late 2021. This would be a course on congenital hand surgery for consultant hand surgeons, combined with clinical operative cases in theatre (BSSH team). BFIRST would also send out a team to run a course in emergency burn management.
Brighter Future Foundation
Brighter Future Foundation is a registered UK charity. It supports the healthcare related emergency relief work and long-term medical training activities. Fore more information, please click here.
Mind to Mind Myanmar
Mind to Mind Myanmar is a registered UK charity with a vision for better mental health care in Myanmar/Burma. For more information, please click here.
Burmese Doctors and Dentists Association UK (BDDAUK)
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States Look to Change Teacher Pension Systems
Ed Week has released its annual Quality Counts report, and one of the issues we look at this year is efforts to control personnel costs in states and school districts, including pension and other retirement benefits.
As I've reported in other stories, concerns about the unfunded liabilities in state pension systems have received a lot more attention in recent years from governors and state lawmakers. And even if states don't face pension shortfalls—because they've been paying their full bills on time—a lot of elected officials want to reduce states' annual pension bills by asking teachers and other public employees to chip in more of their salaries to cover costs, or by reducing their benefits.
In the run-up to last November's elections, a lot of candidates vowed to move public employees (typically new enrollees) from "defined benefit" to "defined contribution" pension plans—meaning pensions set up like a 401(k), in which benefits are tied to the market's performance. Some teachers and unions have been skeptical of switching to 401(k) systems, viewing it as less secure (a point of view many investors might share, given Wall Street's volatility over the past few years).
But as our story points out, switching to a 401(k) isn't the only option on the table for states. They can also seek to reduce the benefits in existing defined benefit plans to bring down costs. That option was used in Vermont, where the state's treasurer worked out a deal with the state's teachers' union that saved money. Michael Podgursky, a University of Missouri professor who's studied pensions, argues in favor of "cash balance" plans. The cash balance option is something of a hybrid between the defined benefits and defined contribution systems, in which saving accrue gradually, based on workers' and employers' contribution, and savings are available as either a lump sum or annuity upon retirement. Podgursky argues that those plans would prevent "spikes" in teacher pension plans that encourage educators to stay in the profession too long, or leave before they're ready.
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Women's rights activists and advocates worked hard during the pre-Charter constitutional negotiations to gain broad equality rights provisions in the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. When those provisions came into effect on April 17, 1985, the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund opened its doors to ensure that they would be given real meaning by the courts.
In its initial cases, LEAF addressed such relics as laws that prevented women from retaining their birth names after marriage. LEAF then quickly moved to tackle the pervasive problem of sexual violence. In the 1988 Canadian Newspapers Co. v. Canada (Attorney General) case, LEAF intervened to ensure that sexual assault victims would have a right to prevent publication of their names. Since then, LEAF has appeared before the courts many times to advocate for women who have been sexually assaulted. LEAF helped to convince the Supreme Court that silence does not mean consent (M(ML), 1992) that rape myths have no place in Canadian courts and that consent must be affirmatively communicated (Ewanchuk, 1999), that survivors of residential school sexual assault should be compensated (Blackwater v. Plint, 2005), that women sexual assault complainants with intellectual disabilities deserve equal access to justice (R. v. D.A.I., 2010), that unconscious women cannot consent (R. v J.A., 2011) and that women should not be deterred from reporting their assaults because they wear a niqab (R. v. N.S., 2012).
LEAF also went to court to ensure that women’s past sexual history (Seaboyer, 1991) and medical records (O'Connor, 1995) were not fair game in sexual assault trials for defence counsel seeking evidence of sexual history or mental health problems to impugn their credibility. I was co-counsel in both these cases. In O'Connor, LEAF intervened in coalition with the Aboriginal Women's Council, the Disabled Women’s Network of Canada (DAWN) and the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres. We argued that the counselling records of women alleging sexual assault should not be accessed by lawyers defending Bishop O'Connor, a priest and former residential school principal subsequently convicted of rape. In our view, the records sought had no relevance either to the facts of the case, or to the credibility of the witnesses. Although we were unsuccessful in court in both these cases, our courtroom advocacy formed the basis for our law reform work which resulted in legislative protections in the Criminal Code to prevent courtroom violations of women's privacy from compounding the violations of their bodies from sexual assault.
But law reform on issues involving sexual violence is still very incomplete, as we have recently been reminded by the horrendous death of Edmonton woman Cindy Gladue and by the treatment her death received at the hands of the law. The Crown’s extraordinary and unprecedented introduction of the most intimate of a woman’s body parts into evidence in that trial, along with arguments from defence counsel that Ms. Gladue died because she consented to the "rough sex" that resulted in a mortal wound to her vagina, show us how far the criminal justice system still has to go before women are respected and protected by its processes. The jury verdict in that case, acquitting the man who inflicted that wound, reinforces a harsh reality of which we are already well aware in a country where over 1100 Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been murdered since the Charter became part of our constitution -- he reality that women cannot count on the law to protect them from sexual violence either inside and outside the courtroom.
I became involved with LEAF in its heady early days when the Charter was new and the winds of change seemed to carry the promise that women’s equality was just over the horizon. Some gains have indeed been made over the three decades since the Charter’s equality rights provisions came into effect, but not for all women in Canada and certainly not for Cindy Gladue. There are very few national feminist organizations in Canada, and fewer still that fight in the courts to ensure women's equality rights are considered when legal decisions are made. I believe that LEAF’s work is more necessary than ever. Until women like Cindy Gladue and their families are treated by the law with respect, compassion and equality, we must continue that work.
Elizabeth Shilton is a Senior Fellow with the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace at Queen's University and an Adjunct Professor at Queen's Law. Prior to returning to school to complete her doctorate in law, she was the long-time managing partner of the Toronto law firm of Cavalluzzo Hayes Shilton McIntrye & Cornish, where she practiced labour/employment and equality law. While in practice, she represented LEAF and other equality-seeking organizations before the Supreme Court of Canada in a number of cases. In the late 1980s and early 1990s she served as a board member of both LEAF and the LEAF Foundation, and twice co-chaired LEAF’s National Legal Committee. In 2010, she was among the "lawyers who have made a difference" honoured by LEAF as part of its 25th Anniversary celebrations. | <urn:uuid:ef6cb28a-17fc-4d6e-8f1d-68c1a94d9243> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2015/04/thirty-years-charters-equality-provisions-and-leafs-founding- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722951.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00209-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976006 | 1,058 | 2.671875 | 3 |
WASHINGTON – An impromptu rope-skipping demonstration and exercise session led by fitness expert Donna Richardson Joyner energized athletes and health specialists as they developed new strategy to promote healthier lifestyles.
The Bouncing Bulldogs International Rope Skipping Demonstration Team,of Chapel Hill,N.C.,was asked to perform a series of synchronized routines during a meeting of the President’s Council on Fitness,Sports and Nutrition.
The team performed that morning at an event for National Physical Fitness and Sports Month and was touring the Senate office building where the council was meeting. A press aide spotted them and invited them in for quick performance.
Coach Ray Fredrick said that,while the team was not prepared to perform,he was glad they had the opportunity because he supports the council.
The council,chaired by New Orleans Saints quarterback and 2009 Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees and three-time Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes,is concentrating its efforts on developing new programs in conjunction with Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move Campaign.”
Monday afternoon at a White House event,the first lady announced a new focus for the council. The campaign’s primary goal is eliminating childhood obesity,and the council will now target the entire family.
“We want to encourage and inspire kids and adults throughout the U.S.,” Michelle Kwan,an Olympic figure skater and council member,said.
Charlene Burgeson,executive director of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education,said it is important to develop an informed network of parents,the community and school officials for the new initiatives to be successful.
“Physical activity needs physical education,” Burgeson said.
The “Let’s Move in School” campaign seeks to bring educators,parents and policymakers together to develop physical education programs with more physical activity.
One key initiative the council emphasized is the President’s Active Lifestyle Award Challenge. Participants,mostly children,create individual fitness plans and monitor their progress online. Council members and outside organizations have committed themselves to promoting the challenge in schools and communities.
New Orleans Hornets basketball player Chris Paul,a council member,said he is mandating that every child enrolled in his basketball camp sign up for the challenge. The council and the Department of Health and Human Services want a million people join the movement by September.
Council members recently began to focus on the role of good nutrition in overall wellness.
Council member Dan Barber,chef at New York’s Blue Hill restaurants,said the country is undergoing a revolution that largely revolves around food.
“We tend to disconnect good food or the role of the chef from good nutrition – they’re one in the same,” Barber said. “Good food and nutrition don’t have to be separate entities.”
Pictured in the photo above are:
Back row,from left: Dr. Ian Smith,who has consulted on TV health and cooking shows; Curtis Pride,baseball coach at Gallaudet University and a former play for the Detroit Tigers; Chris Paul,who plays for the New Orleans Hornets; Billie Jean King,a former professional tennis player; Drew Brees,quarterback for the New Orleans Saints; Grant Hill,who plays for the Phoenix Suns; Dominique Dawes,former Olympic gymnast,and Michelle Kwan,a former Olympic figure skater.
Front,left to right,members of the Bouncing Bulldogs International Rope Skipping Demonstration Team: Luke Riley,Erica Zenn,Pasangi Perera,Bella Davis,Whitney Watkins,Rae Krucoff,Daylan Felton,Lily Merrigan,Anna Reed,Kenzie Ruston and Krishinda Lee.
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Now’s a great time to revamp your employee handbook for 2022. That way, you can add safety policies to protect your workers against current and emerging dangers.
Here are four safety policies to integrate into your employee handbook.
1. Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Your business has changed its operations due to COVID-19. Today, COVID-19 vaccines are available. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing. Therefore, your company must account for COVID-19 safety protocols for the foreseeable future.
Develop a COVID-19 safety policy to define vaccination requirements. Let workers know if they are required to receive a vaccination before returning to your workplace. In addition, tell employees if they must wear a face mask on-premises. Your policy should also let employees know if other safety measures are required to guard against contracting or spreading COVID-19.
Furthermore, make a plan to notify your workforce if an employee or close contact is diagnosed with COVID-19. In this instance, you must ensure affected staff members are appropriately informed. Next, you can keep your entire staff safe against a COVID-19 outbreak.
2. Drug and Alcohol
Create one if you don’t already have a drug and alcohol policy. This policy should outline what illicit substances are now allowed on-premises. Also, define the ramifications associated with drug or alcohol use at work.
Keep in mind that cannabis is legal in Canada, too. Thus, account for marijuana in your drug and alcohol policy. As a result, your personnel will understand if your business prohibits marijuana use.
Consider using electronic nicotine and cannabis delivery systems and vapor products at work. Some employees may use these systems and products day after day. But, you need a policy that lets employees know if and when they are permitted to utilize these systems and products at work.
Many employers designate an outdoor smoking area for employees. This area should be a minimum of 25 feet away from all buildings.
Moreover, you can create signage to let workers know that they cannot smoke on-premises. You should also notify employees about the consequences if they are found smoking at work.
4. Workplace Safety Training
All employees should be required to complete a workplace safety training program. Meanwhile, your business can update its safety training program. This ensures your employees can stay informed about on-the-job dangers.
Create a policy that defines the types of workplace safety training required across your workforce. From here, you can use this policy to provide your employees with appropriate safety training in 2022 and beyond.
Add Safety Policies to Your Employee Handbook Today
Do not wait to add safety policies to your employee handbook. Get started today, and your business can protect its workers against myriad hazards going forward.
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1897: Dr. John Kellogg, believing that a strict diet (along with vigorous exercise, fresh air and plenty of rest) benefits the patients at his sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, serves up the world’s first cornflakes.
Kellogg was a Seventh-Day Adventist and a passionate adherent of the “healthy living” tenets of the church, which embraced a holistic approach to health in the days when there were no antibiotics and few effective drugs of any kind. He carried his beliefs with him into his professional life as a doctor and surgeon.
The cornflakes he served at his Battle Creek Sanitarium (the word “sanitarium” having been coined by Kellogg) were sugarless, that is to say nearly tasteless, and meant not to fill you up but to round out a healthy diet.
His brother, Will, was the one who recognized and exploited the commercial value of cornflakes. He added sugar to the flakes and sold the stuff as breakfast food, deeply offending the sensibilities of John, and causing a fallout between the brothers that became a legal battle when John sued to stop Will from marketing the cereal.
Needless to say, John lost. And Will marketed as few had ever done. His signature became the company logo, and he devoted millions to advertising. In 1911, he put up the world’s largest electric sign in Times Square in New York City: 80 feet by 160 feet, with the letter K in Kellogg standing more than 60 feet high.
John Kellogg, meanwhile, was a prolific author of medical books and used the royalties to subsidize his sanitarium, which became a working laboratory for putting his strict theories on healthy living into practice. The sanitarium, which he billed as a “place where people learn to stay well,” became famous — for the services, not the cornflakes — and attracted a mainly wealthy clientele, who tended to check in for several weeks at a time.
Kellogg was no slouch as a surgeon, either, introducing new techniques (primarily to abdominal surgery) and performing more than 22,000 operations in a career spanning nearly seven decades.
The sanitarium operated at its original site until 1942, a year before Kellogg’s death at 91. The government acquired the main building and used it as a medical facility for veterans of World War II and the Korean War.
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The failure of United Russia to break the 50 percent level in Sunday’s Duma election is a major shock, given its huge structural advantages and the relentless efforts of the Russian government to undermine, marginalize, discredit, starve, and crush any potential opposition.
Putin spit out a statement that this result was “optimal.” Tell me another one! Some of his pilot fish have elaborated on his statement, claiming that (a) a win is a win, and (b) the narrow margin gives the lie to allegations about vote fraud, intimidation, etc. That’s even more hilarious, (b) especially. The supposed Putin juggernaut can’t even muster 50 percent despite the structural advantages AND its shameless vote rigging, especially in all the usual places (e.g., Chechnya).
So what does this bode for the future? Many are asking what Putin does now. Several measures are likely:
- Even more populism, with lavish promises regarding pensions, state investments, limitations on increases in utility tariffs.
- Nationalist appeals, complete with dark tales about foreign conspiracies to destroy Russia.
- Relatedly, even more truculence in foreign policy, e.g., Syria, BMD, the Near Abroad.
- A pretty brutal purge of cadres in United Russia. I think Medvedev might carry the can on this one.
But the important thing about this election is that the question is no longer merely what will Putin do?, but what will Putin be forced to react to?
Authoritarian systems like Russia’s under Putin depend very, very heavily on the Wizard of Oz effect. The perception that the leader is a great and powerful wizard, unchallenged and unchallengeable. Putin has quite clearly cultivated such an image.
But a Russian electorate, mulish and apathetic as it is, has pulled back the curtain. It has shown that the giant projected image of a strong, popular leader is just a product of political technology.
This completely changes the dynamics going forward. Any challenge to an authoritarian leader is daunted by coordination problems. In the political science literature, there is the concept of “falsification of preferences”, whereby people in authoritarian regimes disguise their true feelings about it, and feign support out of fear of retribution. Given this aura of popularity, any individual is reluctant to step out, in the belief that others will support the regime. Thus, given this belief, it is difficult to coordinate opposition to an authoritarian leader, permitting him to thrive despite the fact that he is actually unpopular.
Once this belief is punctured, however, the equilibrium can shift rapidly from broad (though feigned) support, to widespread opposition.
The election results create this very real risk for Putin at the popular level. He must also face challenges within the elite, and within the siloviki in particular. As I have noted many times, he plays the role as balancer among competing factions within the elite. His ability to do so depends crucially on the perception that he is in fact powerful and indispensable. That perception has been dented by the election, making him far more vulnerable to challenge from within the elite. Individual bureaucrats will have to figure out how the political winds will blow, and will trim accordingly. Deals made in exchange to support challengers that would have been unimaginable Friday are now conceivable. Potential challengers will be emboldened. The factions will attempt to exploit the weakening of the balancer by attempting to achieve dominance over their rivals in the belief that Putin’s power to intervene is limited. (Think of a mafia war when the capo di tutti capi is weakened.)
Which all means that Putin will be on the defensive. Given this, he is likely to try to preempt the opposition, popular and inter-elite, by cracking down. The crackdown on any opponents within the elite, real or imagined, is likely to be swift and unrelenting. (This is why the Kirov scenario is not outside the realm of possibility.)
The crackdown on dissent expressed by ordinary Russians will be more challenging. Going all Muscovite on the opposition poses considerable risk of galvanizing and unifying the opposition, and destroying any pretense that Putin is a popular embodiment of Russia and Russians. But being soft will make it easier for the palpable discontent to coalesce into a real political force. Given that the result was likely unexpected, any response is likely to be ad hoc and extemporized, increasing the potential for mistakes.
During the financial crisis, I noted that regimes like Putin’s are extremely brittle. Due to the coordination game aspect of authoritarian rule, when authoritarian regimes fall, they collapse quickly. The crucial element opponents face is overcoming the problems of coordinating their opposition. Both within the elite, and the populace more broadly, the Duma elections have undermined the belief that the wizard is all powerful. Maintenance of this belief is key to preventing coordinated opposition.
This election results challenge this belief. This has the potential to change dramatically the dynamics of the Russian political system in the next 3 months leading up to the presidential vote. Putin will do everything possible to try to restore the belief. But it is easier to maintain it when it is unquestioned, that to reestablish it when it is in doubt. | <urn:uuid:e9dcf1b7-4fff-454b-96d4-921e1f41d3b2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://streetwiseprofessor.com/?p=5820 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00088-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948802 | 1,086 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Oral History and Art: Photography contains extended, in-depth interviews with some of the leading figures in twentieth-century photography - Lewis Baltz, Harry Callahan, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Aaron Siskind - drawn from oral history transcripts in the collection of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Interview with Lewis Baltz
15-17 November 2009, Paris
Interview with Harry Callahan
13 February 1975, Providence, RI
Interview with Walker Evans
13 October and 23 December 1971, Providence, RI
Interview with Dorothea Lange
22 May 1964, New York City
Interview with Aaron Siskind
28 September and 2 October 1982, New York City
I was interested in the tyranny of the new, the future that was being shoved down our throats.
I feel like I’m adventuring in some way. Looking for something. Sometimes it comes out real good and that starts you on a whole new way of thinking and seeing.
I quarreled with the headmaster all the time. I was his natural enemy; he was mine. They knew I was a misfit, a problem child.
Often it’s just sticking around and being there; letting the children look at your camera with their dirty, grimy little hands, and putting their fingers on the lens.
Working as an artist you are trying to vary the form in some significant way. Each picture is its own truth.
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The Attitude of Mexican Elites toward Future Economic Relationships with the United States: A Study of Intercultural Perceptions.
Johnson, J. David; Tims, Albert R.
A model was developed positing four factors as having a determinant influence on the desire of Mexicans for future economic relationships between their country and the United States. The factors, previously identified as occupying a central position in intercultural communication, are perceptions of shared interests, threats, homophily, and accuracy. The model was tested using data collected in a survey of 800 Mexicans identified as holding "elite" positions in three metropolitan areas. The subjects, business executives (for both Mexican-owned and American-owned companies), government officials, professors, secondary school teachers, mass media executives, university students, and labor leaders, were chosen because they could be expected to be influential in decisions affecting future relationships between their country and the United States. After having been gathered through personal interviews with the subjects, the data were submitted to LISTREL analysis, a path analysis technique involving multiple indicators of latent variables. The results were supportive of the model with an acceptable goodness of fit and with a high level of variance accounted for in the sole dependent variable. However, the results did indicate that the initial posited relationships among latent variables were more complex than first hypothesized. (Appendixes contain definitions for the elite occupations and operationalizations for the multiple indicators.) (FL)
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[:en]The story of the Queen of Kalahari, mined in Botswana is a journey on itself. Dame Shirley Bassey surprised the audience by appearing in the stage of the theatre to perform her famous hit Diamonds are Forever. Caroline Scheufele, co-president of Chopard, joined her on stage in front of a speechless audience to thank her for her presence and performance. Christopher Waltz, Kirsten Dunst, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, Livia Firth, Carla Bruni, Melanie Thierry along with long-time friend of the House Eva Herzigova and many more joined the Sheufele family for this exceptional evening.
The Queen of Kalahari, an ultra rare 342-carat diamond provides the stones for the most precious jewellery set ever produced by Chopard. It was discovered in Botswana’s Karowe Mine two years ago. Of all the colossal roughs discovered at Karowe, Caroline Scheufele believes hers is the purest. “I immediately sensed that this was an incredibly rare gem of exceptional beauty and purity”, says Caroline Scheufele when recalling her first encounter with the diamond she named The Queen of Kalahari. The Queen of Kalahari combines D colour – the most beautiful – with grade F (Flawless) clarity. “The energy and emotional charge emanating from this gem are truly incomparable”, enthuses Caroline Scheufele, who immediately travelled to the open-air Karowe mine to admire this diamond. It was love at first sight. Since then, she has personally supervised each stage in its development, like a lucky star guiding it towards its luminous interpretations and thereby giving rise to the most prestigious jewellery ever to emerge from the Chopard High Jewellery workshops.
The discovery of The Queen of Kalahari, has given rise to a set of 23 diamonds – The Garden of Kalahari – of which five weigh over 20 carats. Drawing upon the virtuosity cultivated in the field of artistic craft that has forged Chopard’s reputation, six fabulous pieces of jewellery have emerged from the High Jewellery workshops of the Maison.
As a pioneer of sustainable development in jewellery, Caroline Scheufele actively encouraged the Karowe mine to join the growing number of Chopard’s suppliers – covering gold, coloured gemstones and diamonds – to engage with Eco-Age’s independent Green Carpet Challenge validation criteria, which mirrors best international practices in environmental and social justice. Caroline and the owners of the Karowe mine agreed to the visit of the Eco-Age team to independently assess all elements of its mining activities. The Karowe mine is continuing in its own journey to sustainability by moving towards the fulfilment of the standards necessary to achieve the RJC certification.
And because art and cinema are inseparably bound up with Chopard’s history and identity, each stage in this extraordinary adventure was filmed by Alexis Veller, so as to present it in a 55-minute docu-fiction film which was shown for the first time during the launch at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris. | <urn:uuid:c85a904c-038e-4eee-a0c6-1a0c3de6ff74> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jfwmagazine.com/chopards-queen-kalahari-launched-theatre-du-chatelet-paris/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.937134 | 656 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Do crabs feel pain when boiled alive?
A favored method of preparing fresh crabs is to simply boil them alive. A longstanding related question: Do they feel pain? Yes, researchers now say. Not only do crabs suffer pain, a new study found, but they retain a memory of it (assuming they aren’t already dead on your dinner plate).
How long does it take for crabs to die when boiled?
Crabs take four to five minutes to die in boiling water, while lobsters take three minutes. Some believe the noise made by lobsters in the pan is evidence of them experiencing pain, although others insist it is caused by the release of gases under the shell.
Does boiling crabs kill instantly?
Killing the crab prior to cooking is humane and instantaneous, but it also avoids the crab from shedding limbs through shock, which often happens when boiling alive. This shedding of limbs will allow water to flood into the crab and effectively boil out the flavour.
Is boiling crabs alive cruel?
In fact, there is clear and convincing evidence that cooking crabs (or lobsters) alive is indeed cruel and unconscionable. For one, lobsters will often try to avoid being dropped into a pot of boiling water by fanning out their tail and claws.
Do crabs scream when cooked alive?
Crabs, Lobsters May Feel Pain. Crabs, lobsters and shellfish are likely to feel pain when being cooked, according to a new study. Some say the hiss that sounds when crustaceans hit the boiling water is a scream (it’s not, they don’t have vocal cords). …
Do crabs regrow claws?
Each time a crab molts it has the ability to regenerate the lost appendage. … The regenerated claws start out smaller than the original and will continue to grow through subsequent molts. After three molts (three years in adult crabs) a claw can regain 95 percent of its original size.
Why do you have to boil crabs alive?
In short, we cook lobsters alive to minimize getting sick from them. According to Science Focus, the flesh of lobsters, crabs, and other shellfish is full of bacteria that can be harmful to humans if ingested. … Cooking shellfish alive reduces the chances of vibriosis-causing bacteria ending up on your plate.
Can you cook dead crabs?
It is much easier to clean crabs after cooking when the meat has loosened from the shell. The most important thing about cooking blue crab to note is that you cannot cook crabs that are dead; as soon as they die they start to rot and become toxic. If you are cooking fresh crabs, they must be alive.
Do you put crabs in boiling water?
Put the crabs in a steamer basket or insert or simply pile them into the pot and let the bottom crabs boil slightly and act as a platform for the other crabs to steam. Cover and cook 10 to 20 minutes, depending on the size of the crabs. Remove the steamer or pull the crabs out of the pot with tongs.
What is the most humane way to kill a crab?
Spiking is using a sharp pointed object (e.g. a thick, pointed pithing instrument, an awl or a sharp-pointed knife) to rapidly destroy the ganglia or central nervous system of a crab. This works well specifically for crabs because they have 2 large nerve centers (Fig. 1) that are easily accessible to spike.
Does ice water kill crabs?
Will Crabs Die On Ice? Live crabs can die on ice if you are not careful. They would for one of two reasons: they aren’t getting enough oxygen or they are exposed to standing water. A good fix to not getting enough oxygen is cracking the cooler lid as mentioned before.
Are dead crabs poisonous?
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Delhi air pollution: "We are serious about industrial and vehicular pollution. You cannot fire bullets from our shoulders, you have to take steps. Why are schools open?" the court asked
Making clear its displeasure over the steps being taken to tackle air pollution in the national capital, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre and Delhi government to come up with a concrete action plan in a day, failing which the court would be forced to intervene.
“We will take (the matter) up tomorrow morning… Please respond by then. Otherwise don’t force us… We expect serious action. If you can’t, we will do it. If you want an order, we will give you an order. We will appoint someone to administer your government,” Chief Justice of India N V Ramana said while hearing a petition seeking steps to control the pollution.
The bench, also comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant, said the Aam Aadmi Party government had made various assurances, such as work from home, lockdown, and closure of schools and colleges in the previous hearings. However, despite these assurances, children were going to school while elders were working from home.
Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for the Delhi government, said schools were reopened after experts said there was a learning loss for students due to offline classes. He said they had been reopened only for those who wanted to go.
Not enthused by the argument, the bench said, ‘Don’t use our shoulders to fire… If you say only those who want to come should come, then all will. Who will want to sit at home now…”
Schools in the national capital reopened from Monday (November 29) for students of all classes. The government had shut schools in the city earlier in November due to a spike in air pollution levels.
The court also came down heavily on the government over its ‘Red Light On, Gaadi Off’ campaign to curb vehicular pollution, saying it was nothing but a popular slogan. “Poor young boys standing in the middle of the road with banners… who is taking care of their health? Again, we’ve to say, other than a popular slogan, what else is it?” it asked.
When Singhvi referred to the government’s affidavit on the various measures taken, the bench remarked, “This is another cause of pollution, so many affidavits daily.”
“We are not Opposition leaders. We are concerned about the implementation of our orders,” said the CJI as Singhvi attempted to explain the NCT government’s response to the situation.
“As a layman, I’s asking this… if all these steps are being implemented, then why are pollution levels going up? Stubble burning, which was the major reason according to Delhi government, and many others have come down… Then where is this (pollution) coming from?” the CJI asked.
The bench then questioned the Centre on what the ‘Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas’, with as many as 28 members, was doing.
Justice Chandrachud pointed out that the commission does not have any powers to enforce its orders except for a clause enabling imposing a fine. He pointed out that as stated by the court in the previous hearing, a fine alone was not a solution.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, said it was for the state government to implement the directions of the commission. The SG added that he would check with the minister on what could be done about this, and appraise the court.
At this point, the CJI said, “In the chamber itself, we thought we should do something extraordinary. We cannot induce creativity in your bureaucracy. It’s up to them…”
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Adhering to reports of genocide in Myanmar, Fb banned the country’s leading standard and other military services leaders who were being employing the system to foment loathe. The enterprise also bans Hezbollah from its system for the reason that of its status as a US-selected foreign terror firm, despite the fact that the party holds seats in Lebanon’s parliament. And it bans leaders in international locations under US sanctions.
At the similar time, each Fb and Twitter have caught to the tenet that content material posted by elected officials warrants far more security than product from normal men and women, hence offering politicians’ speech a lot more ability than that of the men and women. This position is at odds with a lot of evidence that hateful speech from general public figures has a better impression than very similar speech from normal buyers.
Obviously, however, these insurance policies aren’t utilized evenly all around the entire world. Following all, Trump is far from the only environment chief applying these platforms to foment unrest. One particular need to have only search to the BJP, the bash of India’s Key Minister Narendra Modi, for more examples.
However there are surely brief-phrase benefits—and a lot of satisfaction—to be experienced from banning Trump, the conclusion (and individuals that came just before it) elevate much more foundational issues about speech. Who should really have the right to make your mind up what we can and just cannot say? What does it mean when a company can censor a government formal?
Facebook’s policy personnel, and Mark Zuckerberg in specific, have for many years revealed them selves to be lousy judges of what is or is not proper expression. From the platform’s ban on breasts to its inclination to suspend buyers for talking again versus despise speech, or its whole failure to get rid of calls for violence in Myanmar, India, and in other places, there is simply just no explanation to have confidence in Zuckerberg and other tech leaders to get these huge decisions correct.
Repealing 230 isn’t the answer
To remedy these concerns, some are calling for far more regulation. In latest months, demands have abounded from each sides of the aisle to repeal or amend Area 230—the legislation that safeguards companies from liability for the choices they make about the content they host—despite some major misrepresentations from politicians who must know much better about how the law truly will work.
The factor is, repealing Area 230 would probably not have compelled Facebook or Twitter to get rid of Trump’s tweets, nor would it avert organizations from removing content material they uncover unpleasant, regardless of whether that content material is pornography or the unhinged rantings of Trump. It is companies’ Initial Modification rights that help them to curate their platforms as they see fit.
Instead, repealing Segment 230 would hinder opponents to Fb and the other tech giants, and put a greater danger of liability on platforms for what they select to host. For instance, without Portion 230, Facebook’s attorneys could decide that web hosting anti-fascist material is way too dangerous in gentle of the Trump administration’s attacks on antifa.
This is not a considerably-fetched state of affairs: Platforms currently restrict most information that could be even loosely related to international terrorist organizations, for fear that material-support statutes could make them liable. Evidence of war crimes in Syria and essential counter-speech versus terrorist organizations abroad have been removed as a outcome. In the same way, platforms have arrive under hearth for blocking any content material seemingly connected to international locations underneath US sanctions. In one particularly absurd instance, Etsy banned a handmade doll, created in America, mainly because the listing contained the term “Persian.”
It’s not tough to see how ratcheting up system legal responsibility could cause even additional vital speech to be eliminated by corporations whose sole desire is not in “connecting the world” but in profiting from it.
Platforms needn’t be neutral, but they should engage in truthful
Regardless of what Senator Ted Cruz keeps repeating, there is almost nothing demanding these platforms to be neutral, nor should there be. If Fb would like to boot Trump—or pics of breastfeeding mothers—that’s the company’s prerogative. The dilemma is not that Facebook has the correct to do so, but that—owing to its acquisitions and unhindered growth—its end users have just about nowhere else to go and are stuck working with increasingly problematic principles and automated content material moderation.
The remedy is not repealing Area 230 (which yet again, would hinder opposition) but in creating the conditions for more level of competition. This is wherever the Biden administration really should focus its focus in the coming months. And all those initiatives need to include things like achieving out to content material moderation authorities from advocacy and academia to fully grasp the vary of problems faced by end users all over the world, somewhat than simply focusing on the debate inside the US. | <urn:uuid:3255b764-3ef7-4f5e-8ade-a35639ee9359> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://asianfinest.org/the-finest-way-to-guard-no-cost-speech-on-social-media-is-to-advertise-competition.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95101 | 1,027 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Our millwright – Traditional Millwrights from Lincolnshire – came on 12th August 2015 for a routine maintenance visit to paint and check mechanisms etc. While working on the wooden fan staging spar (which supports the fan) they found some severe wet rot, partially hidden by the paint covering.
As a result of this they looked at the exposed timbers at the front end and found severe rot in the weather beam (rode baulk), the centre mullion and parts of the exposed main sheers.
These parts had not been replaced during the 2000 restoration but had been adjudged to be suitable for continued operation.
(Note for info only – the two main sheers were replaced by Derbyshire County Council in October 1997 and a lightning conductor was fitted at same time).
The paint on the centre mullion indicated this may go back to the 1894 restoration. (A series of photos at the end of this report show the damage as viewed in August 2015).
For reference purposes a drawing of the cap area is shown in Fig 1.
The cumulative effect was that the millwright fitted temporary bracing on the fan spars (supports) but also recommended that we did not continue to operate the mill until repairs had been carried out. Their preliminary estimate put the cost, including repair and painting of the sails, at around £90,000- £100,000.
This note is intended to record what actually happened, or what materials were used, for future reference.
An emergency meeting was called at the Mill on August 17th attended by all available Trustees and Friends, with over 30 being present. Three options were considered:-
- Do nothing, close the Mill and hand back to owners, Derbyshire County Council ((DCC).
- Keep the mill open for visitors but not turning the sails and no flour making until sufficient funds are raised.
- Raise funds for repair as quickly as possible and get on with it as quickly as possible.
There was huge support for option (iii) and the Heage Windmill Society (HWS) Trustees decided – with full support of the Friends of the Mill – that based on advice from the millwrights, they would continue to open the mill to the public but would not be turning the sails, or mill wheat, until repairs had been completed, if at all possible during the winter closed season.
The work was initially estimated as costing in excess of £90,000, a sum far above the reserves held by the Trust. Grants and support would therefore need to be sought to enable the work to go ahead and various fund raising activities needed to be organised.
To manage the repairs two teams were formed.
Operations – this dealt with the actual repairs.
Fund Raising – to raise funds! The target given to both teams was to get the mill operational for the start of the 2016 season, if at all possible.
Preliminary ‘Operations’ Activities
A meeting of this group quickly decided that in view of the cost of the work a further professional opinion should be sought and the now late Vincent Pargetter, an eminent nationally recognised millwright, was employed to carry out a survey and express his opinion (Cost £450). He generally agreed with Traditional Millwrights’ concerns but also found an area of the cap circle (the frame that supports the cap structure) needed replacing. He made a number of other suggestions which were investigated and adopted where possible.
The use of Greenheart timber for the main supports (as suggested by Pargetter) was considered but eventually rejected due to listing concerns (and potential delays) from Historic England, as was the use of copper sheeting to protect the exposed sheers, instead of lead which had been used in the past. The group also considered the use of a fabricated weather beam (which would have been quite feasible) but again deferred due to Historic England listing concerns. It was, however, agreed to use stainless or galvanised fittings wherever possible. Based on the two millwrights’ reports a specification for the work required to be carried out professionally was prepared by John Boucher (Appendix 1) and submitted to five millwrighting firms. Three were too busy and another pulled out later.
The group considered extending the work over a longer period (i.e. multiple phases) and also assessed the total work content involved. They decided that the sails could be repaired and painted by mill volunteers since this represented a significant part of the MW estimate. It was therefore agreed that an external, nearby workshop area should be found where the sails could be worked on. In due course arrangements were made with the owner of Ambergate wire works that we could have the use of one of its empty bays, at no cost to the Mill.
In the meanwhile only one firm bid for the work: our current millwrights, Traditional Millwrights. After some negotiations involving selection of materials and work to be done by our own volunteers, an order for work was placed, with a target to be completed by Easter 2016.
The Funding Group were targeted to raise at least £50,000 and immediately launched a donations scheme called TAMA (Trouble at the Mill Appeal) and organised ‘bucket’ collections at local pubs etc. and at the mill, which itself remained open until the end of October to help earn some income. Establishing a web donation mechanism proved rather tedious and took some time to get established but in due course this, together with Social Media produced a steady flow of income.
To many people the obvious place to seek funds appeared to be the large grant making organisations, such as The Heritage Lottery fund etc. but we soon hit a brick wall!
have a strict protocol to be followed in making grants and generally had long lead-in times; coupled with the fact that applicants cannot start work on a project until a decision to award a grant is made.
They did not have a ‘fast track route’ to deal with an emergency such as Heage Windmill faced.
The awarding of grants was also problematic because at the time of our enquires we did not hold a long term lease on the Mill with the owner, DCC and could not demonstrate security of tenure. (This has since been determined in February 2016).
A Trust decision was therefore made to proceed with the repairs, as a single stage operation, without seeking any major grants, in the hope and expectation that the necessary fund raising target could, and would, be achieved.
All current supporters, and many past visitors to the mill, were invited to make contributions to help match the shortfall in funds, seeking to raise at least £60,000.
There was even a bucket collection at a beer festival and a raffle for a donated local holiday property!
Two choirs gave free concerts in the local church, which raised funds.
The proceeds from a very successful Santa Day were also added to the fund.
A steady stream of money was forthcoming, with much goodwill in the neighbourhood of the mill resulting from a house-to-house leaflet drop. Donations were received from all over the country from mill bodies, mills and even internationally. The total raised was finally boosted by two large donations of £10,000 each from the owners of the mill – Derbyshire County Council – and from local business Bowmer and Kirkland. In all £57,337 was raised in less than nine months. (Sept 2016)
Operations Group Activities
Local contractors Nicholls Hydro Engineering Ltd., were employed to remove the spider gear etc. and the sails. This was accomplished over several days and the actual sail removal – by a crane employed by the contractor – was assisted by a team of about 10 volunteers.
The leader boards were removed from each sail to facilitate handling and they were stacked on their backs in the car park, as a block, pending removal to the local work shop. This cost a total of £1914.
Arrangements were then made with local contractor J C Balls for the use, free of charge, of a driver and a Hiab (crane) equipped lorry. The six sails just fitted in the width of the lorry and were lifted and loaded, together with the leader boards, by volunteers and taken to Ambergate old Wire Works.
It had previously been recognised that the doorway into the Ambergate workshop was too low to allow the loaded lorry to enter and a small wheeled trolley had been made on which the sails could be loaded and then man-handled into the work area. After a few abortive efforts a system was developed and the sails were unloaded in about six hours by the volunteer team, numbering about 12, and pushed into the work place.
The sails, which weigh approximately one ton each, are identified as A through F and shutters are numbered 1- 126.
The known details of the current sails are as follows:-
|A||Laminated (Siberian Larch)||31- 3-2006 Marked N2006M|
|B||Not Known – Solid wood- pine?||Not Known but probably 1996/7|
|C||Laminated (Siberian Larch)||Made NM 2007|
|D||Laminated (Siberian Larch)||31-3-06 Marked N2006M|
|E||Not Known –Solid wood- pine?||Not known but probably 1996/7|
|F||Laminated (Siberian Larch)||? Marked N2006M|
Essentially the four laminated sails (A,C,D,F) were generally found to be sound although some open shakes needed to be cleaned out and heavily primed before painting.
A large insertion of Douglas Fir (taken from sound old whip) was needed near the heel of sail B to replace some rather deeper rot and a piece of this wood, some 4 inches square x 48 inches long, was sealed in place.
A much smaller triangular insert was also made on a corner of sail E. These should be monitored on a biannual basis.
Some repairs, replacements and scarfing in of new timber were needed on parts of the framework of both the older sails but this was essentially considered sound on the others. Again, monitoring of all the sail frame work must be considered an ongoing action.
The 126 numbered shutters were all made in 2001/2 and consist of a wooden back bar, with a stainless frame inserted, over which heavy duty painted canvas was hand sown. These are generally in good condition although there was quite a lot of green algae in the bottom edges, where moisture had lodged. This was removed by spraying with domestic Flash cleaner and then brushing to clean before painting. In view of this potential source of future trouble, consideration should be given to an annual inspection of shutters, in situ if at all possible.
The work, including painting the sails, leader boards and renumbering the shutters, was done in the period November to March and involved over 600 man hours. The paint used was as specified by the Millwright (Kreidezeit Stand Oil) and an initial estimate was made for the sails only ( Appendix 2) .Our ‘master painter’ on completion of the work commented:-
‘The average paint coverage is about right .The two older sails had more paint applied to them, because of the shakes and repairs pointed out by John B. Primers and undercoats and as many coats of finish required were used to fill in the shakes, therefore we used a higher figure than originally estimated. I always apply more paint per square metre than usual (as quoted on datasheets) in order to achieve a higher quality and better finish.’
All the nuts bolts and fixings used in the sail restoration were donated by a local company, TT Fixings from Meadow Lane Industrial Estate, Alfreton.
When the work was completed J C Balls again provided the Hiab lorry and driver, and work was facilitated since another contractor on site provided us, free of charge, with a forklift truck and driver. This was very manoeuvrable in the limited space available and greatly speeded up the loading operation. The sails were taken back to the mill site and again stacked and made secure, ready for fitting by the millwright.
(Millwright estimate for sails work, including removal and transfer to his workshop was £27,100 plus Vat)
b/ The Cap
It had been the Trust’s intention that the cap be painted during 2016, to be carried out by the millwrights. However the volunteer team decided that since they had a master painter and two persons trained as ‘cherry picker’ drivers in their midst, they would carry out the work themselves if at all possible. They established that a local business had such a device which could be made available, free of charge to the mill, at weekends only. Since the sails were not yet in place this meant that there was almost complete free access to the full circumference of the cap.
The weather was favourable in April and, over two weekends, the work was completed from the picker with one coat of Kreidezeit Stand Oil under coat and one of top coat paint, using either a small roller or a long handled angled paint brush, as appropriate. The cap was soon noted on the web as ‘gleaming in spring sunlight’. The millwrights also carried out work to seal some leaks at some joints in the circular gutter.
Note – Millwright estimate for one coat of paint (Kreidezeit Stand Oil) on the cap was £1945 plus Vat
c/ The Paint
The sails and other wood work had been previously painted with a water-based Acrylic paint, believed to be Excel 40 shade. This had clearly not been entirely successful. The paint chosen for all current work was Kreidezeit Stand Oil paint made from linseed oil, stand oil, Portuguese balsam turpentine oil, zinc oxide and other mineral pigments. Details of the paint used is included as Appendices 3 & 4.
Overall, rather more paint was needed than the initial estimate and further orders were placed such that we would have enough to paint the cap.
Note 1 – it was recommended that painting is done at 8 degrees C minimum. Fortunately we had a mild winter period and were generally able to comply with this. Even at lower temperatures, but when still above freezing, the paint was applied and dried quite well inside the workshop.
Note 2- The total cost of paint, and other materials used by volunteers was £2,228 – split between sails and cap – possibly 25% of the paint ordered was used for cap but no direct record was kept.
Work by Millwrights
The division of work between the work to be done by the millwrights (MW) and the volunteers was clearly defined, although both groups helped each other, as best suited the situation.
The MWs first removed the disconnected fan drive from the cap internals and then removed the fan. They next de-mounted the entire fan support structure, which was to be replaced in its entity, and lowered it to the ground. In fact two arms of the fan itself broke off due to rot whilst being removed- a near thing perhaps! It was then loaded onto a lorry and taken, with the fan, to the MW’s workshop and these were used as patterns for the new ones, made in oak. The condition of the exposed sheers was then assessed and they were found to be in reasonable condition, requiring very little work to keep them going.
At the front end, with the sails already gone, access to the weather beam etc was open. The wind shaft was jacked up internally and supported on a profiled piece of timber, to enable the beam and the centre support mullion to be removed and lowered to the ground. The condition of the sheers was not quite as bad as anticipated but a section of rot was carefully cut out and replaced with oak inserts, set in epoxy resin. As a precaution this should be monitored on at least an annual basis. Unfortunately when the front 10 inch diameter Bronze bearing itself was examined it was found to be broken in five pieces and needed to be replaced (with metal to BS1400 PB2, cost £560). This caused a delay of several weeks. There was some evidence that the bearing, at some time, had been turned 180 degrees in the cradle.
A new fan stage and fan were made at the MW works and large oak timbers were prepared and shaped to replace the defective front end ones. One large piece intended for the weather beam was rejected due to presence of large knot in a key area. The obtaining of the replacement caused a small delay in the programme.
These components were brought to site and placed in position using a large crane. The rotted section of cap circle was replaced but some problems were experienced in getting free rotation of the cap. The sails were replaced and set up without any major problems being encountered.
Summary of Proposed Actions
All Sails – generally monitor all the sails and frame work on annual basis, as a minimum, for breakup of paintwork
Sails A & E – inserts to be specifically monitored for condition on a bi-annual basis.
Shutters – Annual inspection of shutters to check for any build up of algae, or other damage
Sheers – inserts made on front and rear of sheers to be inspected on annual basis.
Fan and staging – Annual inspection of condition of paintwork
The date, and findings, of these inspections to be recorded in a ‘Mill Inspection Log Book’ – to be created.
Summary of Costs and Income
Millwrights fee was £62,373.60, including VAT (of which £561.60 was the replacement bearing at cost.)
Paint, materials etc was £4,706.70 (of which £1,914.00 was for Nicholls Hydro Engineering Ltd. who removed the sails)
Total cost of repair was £67,140 (excluding any credit and VAT for 100’s hours volunteer work if done by professionals and of the time spent by fund raisers.)
Fund Raising – In all £57,337 was raised in less than nine months.
Shortfall covered by HWS £ 9,900
Timescale of Events
The following listing of key dates is included to give an indication of the speed of the overall programme.
Date of last milling in 2015 18 July 2015
Millwrights visit 12 Aug 2015
Trustees/ Friends Emergency Meeting 17 Aug 2015
Date of Contract Award 24 Nov 2015
Sails removed 26 Nov 2015
Sails transported to Ambergate 3 Dec 2015
Sails transported from Ambergate 24 March 2016
Fan Tail Replaced 31 Mar 2016
Cap Painted Two weekends early April
Sails reinstalled 6 June 2016
Sails turned 22 June 2016
First milling session of 2016 27 Jun 2016.
Although the original target of Easter 2016 for completion had been established, a number of setbacks were encountered which resulted in delay to June 2016. These included
- Millwright being hospitalised for 2 weeks on the week the contract was set, followed by him being unable to drive for 6 months.
- A new large structural timber contained a large knot when delivered and had to be replaced.
- When exposed, the neck bearing was found to be in pieces and a new one, in phosphor bronze, had to be cast.
Despite these setbacks the project was completed to specification and under budget (by the use of volunteer labour).
The Trustees decided on the successful completion of the repair that this had to be marked by a Celebration Event.
Such an event was organised on August 7th 2016, which turned out to be a beautiful warm and sunny day.
There was a gentle breeze and the sails, which were bedecked with garlands, turned slowly throughout the day.
All those present – some 120 attended – had contributed to the repairs by way of effort or financial backing, including of course our millwright Neil Medcalf.
The Trust Chairman Piers Bostock welcomed and thanked everyone for their support.
He was backed up by speakers from the Mill, DCC, the local MP and the largest individual donor, local firm Bowmer and Kirkland, who all praised the efforts of everyone involved.
Angela Ward, Chair of Friends of Heage Windmill, who had done so much work, responded, referring to the volunteers as a ‘Dream Team’ and said they had all (mostly) enjoyed the involvement but that above all it had brought everyone even closer together than before the happening.
And then everyone fed…………………………….
Comments and Recommendations
The entire recovery programme has been a tremendous exercise in team work from everyone associated with the mill, ably supported by local people and businesses. Support was also received from throughout the UK and even internationally. When faced with the problems back in August 2015 it would have been so easy to give up but ‘Team Heage’ prevailed and got the Mill back into full operation.
A spin off is that the millers have noted that the Mill appears to turn more smoothly since the repairs, possibly due to the bearing replacement. Work was finally completed on 22 June 2016 and milling took place again on 27 June 2016, less than 1 year after the initial wet rot discovery.
It is clear that we must be more proactive in looking after the Mill and a programme of regular, documented, programme of inspections and maintenance of key areas, such as the sails, shutters and exposed wooden structures, should be developed. The continued success of the new paint used in the programme needs to be verified before any potential serious deterioration occurs upstream.
Compiled by A F Gifford
(With input from Meg Tarlton, Alan Eccleston, Alan Clark, Danny Ashley and John Boucher.) September 2016
The ‘TAMA’ teams
The Fund-raising team consisted of:
Angela Ward, Ashley Franklin, Danny Ashley, Jack Evans, Lynn Allen, Nigel Vardy, Piers Bostock and Tony Cooper and Meg Tarlton
The Operations team was:
Alan Clark , Alan Eccleston, Alan Gifford, Brian Naylor, Danny Ashley, John Boucher, Piers Bostock and Stuart George with secretarial duties by Meg Tarlton
(With Piers Bostock on hand (most of the time) helping both teams .)
BUT these were just the nominated teams to get the project away. There were many, many more who helped get the windmill repaired .
Thanks are extended to each and everyone involved and the ‘Old Lady’ is really grateful to all who made the miracle happen!
Heage Windmill- Specifications for cap repair works 2015
Timber for all applications shall be carefully selected of high quality suitable for its function. The weather beam, sheer planks, mullion, pillow and packing blocks exposed to the elements at the front of the mill shall be in very durable tropical hardwood, greenheart or equal approved. The fantail structure at the rear of the mill shall be in dry good quality straight grained oak or other equally durable timber as approved.
After cutting all the joints and boring any holes, the cut faces of the timber shall be thoroughly treated with an organic solvent wood preserver before painting, and assembled with paint in the joints.
Refurbishment of sheers – front end.
After removal of the old weather beam the top surfaces of the two front sheers are to be cut down until firm solid timber is reached. The extent of the cut out to be determined on site. The cut out is to be faced up adequately to accept adhesive. A block of good quality oak or equal approved durable timber is then to be inserted and bedded on epoxy resin adhesive. The whole is then to be trimmed to the original timber section.
The ends of the sheers are then to be overlain with sheer planks in tropical hardwood 2.0 m long x 120 mm thick x 300 wide, bedded to the top of the shears in bitumen mastic and bolted to the sheers inside the cap. Following the installation of the sheer planks, the top and sides of the projecting timbers are to be sheathed with 1.5mm copper sheet bedded in mastic. The copper sheathing to extend to the inside of the cap. The cap roof is to be cut out only as far as necessary to accommodate the sheer planks and sheathing, and is to be made good and weathertight on completion.
Refurbishment of cap circle
A 1.5 m section of the cap circle beneath the central mullion is to be cut out and replaced in oak, with scarfed joints to maintain the continuity. Following this an oak spreader beam (with similar radius to the cap circle) is to be fixed to support the new mullion, in its raised position. The cap circle and spreader beam are to be fitted with care as they form the main load support to the centre of the weather beam and the windshaft main bearing.
Replacement of mullion.
The central mullion is to be renewed in greenheart of the same section as the existing timber. The top surface should be raised to be level with the new sheer planks. At its inner end it shall be jointed into the headstock using a bare faced tenon with the mullion lapped over the top and secured with a bolt. At the cap circle, the mullion will sit on the new spreader beam fixed above the renewed section of oak cap circle.
Replacement of weather beam and pillow block
The new weather beam shall be of tropical hardwood of 300 x 300 mm section and extending 50 mm past the outer faces of the shears. Each end shall be banded with a square hoop in galvanised steel section 40 x 8 mm, tightly fitted to prevent shakes developing. The weatherbeam shall fit above the sheerplanks and copper sheathing. Fixings to the sheers and central mullion shall each be by a single stainless steel through bolt 30mm dia, fitted with large square washer plates each end carefully gasketted with rot proof compressible material to ensure a waterproof seal to the hole through the timber.
The pillow block in tropical hardwood should be sized and bevelled to provide the correct level and slope for the main windshaft bearing.
Refurbishment of sheers – rear end.
After removal of the fantail structure the rear sheers are to be examined. Soft and decayed timber on the top surface is to be cut out down to firm solid wood and replaced with hardwood bedded on epoxy resin glue. The end joints of the timber are to be scarfed in at an angle 1in5. The whole is then to be trimmed to the original timber section and the top and sides sheathed in copper bedded in mastic
Reconstruction of fantail frame
The fantail structure is to be completely renewed using the original structure as a pattern. The timber used shall be dry good quality straight grained oak. Any deviations suggested by the tenderer to improve the life of the structure, for instance the detailing of joints to avoid water retention, shall be first discussed and approved by the employer.
The fantail platform and supporting joists between the sheers shall also be renewed in oak.
A set of eight new fanblades are required to replicate the existing 3.5 metre diameter fan using 100 x 100mm oak arms and 25mm western red cedar boarding. The fanboards to be carried in slots in the arms, assembled with wet paint in the joints, and secured with bolts. The existing forged spacer bars at the tips of the fanboards to be cleaned, repainted in black and re-used with new fixing bolts. Fixed with new bolts in hub on existing shaft. The fanshaft and hub, drive shaft and gearing shall be cleaned and repainted in black.
All screws, bolts and other fastenings passing through timber shall be stainless steel (BSS grade316). External fittings, such as timber bands and shackles shall be either stainless steel or heavy hot dipped galvanised mild steel.
Fixings for copper sheathing shall be in copper or as recommended by the Copper Development Association.
All paint shall be exterior grade stand oil paint as manufactured by either Kreidezeit as supplied by Mike Wye & Associates or Beeck as supplied by Ty – Mawr Lime Ltd. Finished shade of off white to be agreed with employer.
All paint shall be applied in accordance with the manufacturers recommendations for the particular type of timber used, and will include attention to surface preparation, priming, undercoating and finishing coats.
Wherever practical new hardwood and/or resinous timbers will be finished and then allowed to weather for a time and then thoroughly dried before final surface preparation by sanding and painting. Preliminary tests may be required to confirm details of application of paint system.
Prepared by JB, approved Operations Group
NOTE When the order was placed with Traditional Millwrights oak was substituted instead of Greenhart and lead used where copper is mentioned. Kreidezeit was used throughout. AFG
Initial Estimate of Paint Requirements for sails (prepared by John Boucher)
|item||no off||length||perimeter||l.p||total area||15/litre||15/litre||15/litre|
|Sail bars + braces||96||2.4||0.26||0.6||59.9||3.99||3.99||3.99|
|uplongs, Thimbles and rules||30||7||0.2||1.4||42||2.80||2.80||2.80|
|4 cans||4 cans||8cans|
|Kreidezeit list price per 2.5l||£58.40||£234||£234||£468|
Total cost (sails only) estimated £948 plus Vat
Actual purchase of paint, including used for cap, taken from HWS Accounts
|Date||Type of Paint||Vol (L)||Price||VAT||Sub Tot|
|02/12/2015||Kreidezeit Base Oil||10||101.52||20.304||121.824|
|02/12/2015||Kreidezeit Stand Oil H/Rich||5||105.12||21.024||126.144|
|02/12/2015||Kreidezeit Stand Oil Full Rich||5||105.12||21.024||126.144|
|04/01/2016||Kreidezeit Base Oil||2.5||25.38||5.076||30.456|
|04/01/2016||Kreidezeit Stand Oil H/Rich||15||315.36||63.072||378.432|
|04/01/2016||Kreidezeit Stand Oil Full Rich||10||210.24||42.048||252.288|
|21/01/2016||Kreidezeit Stand Oil H/Rich||5||116.8||23.36||140.16|
|21/01/2016||Kreidezeit Stand Oil Full Rich||7.5||175.2||35.04||210.24|
|09/02/2016||Kreidezeit Stand Oil H/Rich||10||233.6||46.72||280.32|
|09/02/2016||Kreidezeit Stand Oil Full Rich||5||116.8||23.36||140.16|
|Total incl Vat||75 Litre||£1929.00|
Appendix 4 – Paint data.
The following data is abstracted from current trade literature
Kreidezeit Stand Oil paint is a resin-free paint for interior and exterior wood and metal i.e. windows, doors, panelling, decorative features. It does not blister crack or flake, but stays elastic and wears down little by little. That is why it can be renewed even years after application with a minimum of effort by simply cleaning and applying another coat.
Stand Oil is a form of linseed oil created by heating it to 570 degrees Fahrenheit in an oxygen-free atmosphere. This causes partial polymerisation increasing its viscosity, which is about the same as honey.
The technique of application used on the sails was to obtain a layer structure of application and is essentially a three coat system, ‘lean’ to ‘rich’ –
- Base Oil – penetrates deeply into the wood
- Half-rich intermediate coat – extremely highOpacity
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- Use where 2 in. thickness or more is needed
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Frawley Ranch being sold after 140 years in the family
The Frawley family has owned a ranch for 140 years but with the passing of Henry "Hank" Frawley, his family has decided to sell the land.
This ranch at one point was the largest and most successful cattle ranches in Western South Dakota, eventually becoming a National Historic landmark in 1977.
Saturday July 29, 2016, there was an auction at the Frawley Ranch to sell some of the items they had stored away throughout the years.
Frawley's wife, Molly, is selling the 110 acre plot in order to be closer to her son and his family in North Carolina.
Henry “Hank” Frawley’s wife, Molly Frawley, says "I'm excited about the change and I find that if I stay here I'm not as emotional as I am when I'm out in public when they catch me; we’re going to miss you and I think oh I'm going to miss you too."
But Frawley's wife said if her husband was still around, today would be a tough one.
"He was a great believer in the beauty of this valley and saving it at all expense. This would be a very sad day for him, to see it go,” states Molly.
Molly's last day in her longtime home will be Wednesday but she plans to come back and visit the black hills at least once year.
"We hope whatever we work out with the sale of the house it will be, that we'll be able to come back at least annually and visit for a week," explains Molly.
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Bunions: 5 Things You Need To Know
Here at Foot Solutions, we often see customers who have painful bunions and cannot find shoes to fit them. Bunions are caused when the bones of the feet are crushed together, usually by poorly fitting shoes, and they are characterised by a painful, bony growth that forms at the base of the big toe.
Bunions, or any type of foot pain, can be very frustrating to live with since they make walking much more difficult. It can be very hard to find shoes for feet that are affected by bunions, especially if they continue to worsen, and swelling, redness or soreness around the joints is common.
What Do You Know About Bunions?
Knowing more about bunions can help to prevent them from worsening, or even prevent them from developing at all. Did you know…?
- Bunions can be hereditary. A tendency to develop bunions may run in families, and the bony growths are especially common in women. 70% of the people who develop bunions are female, which may be linked to genetic factors, but is more likely to be related to footwear choices.
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For one species of flatworm that lives in the gills of freshwater fish, monogamy is the rule. But for humans and every other living creature, biologists believe nature prefers that man and beast have multiple sexual partners.
With that in mind, some biologists say we shouldn’t be too surprised when public figures like former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and others get caught cheating on their mates.
We may just be wired that way.
“Nature wants one thing, and what it wants are babies,” Jeffrey Kluger, TIME magazine’s science editor, told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira on Wednesday. “It also wants lots of them and it wants variety, because the greater the genetic variety, the greater the likelihood that the babies are going to survive to adulthood and do well. So even when we’ve had children, we have some very primal software that keeps telling us, ‘Look around.’ ”
Once upon a time, biologists thought that there were a number of animals — eagles, geese and beavers among them — that remained monogamous throughout their lives. But DNA testing has shown that even the animals that look like the models of fidelity are getting out at night for a little extra on the side. And, according to a report filed by TODAY’s Natalie Morales, the list of officially monogamous creatures is down to one — that freshwater flatworm that physically attaches itself to a mate for life.
“Men will look for women who look like they’re young and fecund,” Kluger added. “And women look for men who look like they’re good providers, which is why rich and powerful men do well.”
Even in human societies, Americans are relatively unique in their expectation of lifelong fidelity, said University of Texas psychologist and author David Buss.
“Historically, most cultures are polygynous, meaning men are legally entitled to take multiple wives, and so mating with many women is very common across cultures and perfectly acceptable in many cultures,” he said from Austin, Texas. “Our culture is somewhat unique in that we have presumptive monogamy or legal monogamy — men are only supposed to have one woman.”
Vieira wondered whether we haven’t evolved beyond our biological impulses, and both men agreed that humans do have the ability to override their genetic and biological programming. And, studies show, most people do, with 65 percent of men and 75 percent of women claiming that they have never cheated on their spouses.
“If you look at marriages, in fact, more than half of them — in America anyway — do remain monogamous,” Buss said. “I think it’s important to keep in mind that although we do have these biological impulses to stray, we also have inhibitions against straying, for example, reputational damage. When people get caught straying, they incur reputational damage, and we are very concerned about our social reputations.”
The conflict between desire and morality was famously defined by former President Jimmy Carter, who told Playboy that he felt “lust” in his heart, and was roundly criticized for admitting even that.
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But, Buss said, Carter was making an important point. “It’s a reflection of reality,” he said. “I think it’s also important to keep in mind that both men and women experience lust in their hearts. They feel attractions to others.”
Both scientists agreed that while women do cheat, men are more likely to.
“There are two reasons for that,” Kluger said. “First of all, men simply can breed more. Men biologically can conceive a child every day if they wanted to. So we’re trip-wired for that kind of thing.”
Above the rules?
The way society is structured also adds to a male’s incentive to cheat. “We still live in a patriarchal society, which means men are more commonly in positions of power,” Kluger went on. “Positions of power tend to validate the belief that you’re above the rules. You and I don’t get a motorcade when we go places. We don’t get a flying wedge on the sidewalk. So if you’re entitled to the sidewalk and you’re entitled to the street, why aren’t you entitled to that beautiful woman on your communications staff?”
Buss said that although the urge to cheat is universal, people with certain personality traits are more likely to stray than others.
“Our studies find two in particular,” said Buss in addressing those traits. “One is impulsivity or lack of conscientiousness. But the most important personality characteristic is narcissism. Men who are high on the narcissism personality characteristic are more likely to cheat than men who are lower. They put their own needs and their own urges before those of their families.”
Both agreed that “biology made me do it” isn’t an excuse for infidelity.
“We have to be realistic about our human nature. We have these impulses to stray,” said Buss. “But we also have inhibitions against straying and the ability to choose whether or not we do.”
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Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has proposed importing the "Pacific Solution" to resolve the migrant crisis. The programme is a hardline policy created by Australia.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has said he intends to import the Australian model against illegal migration, the "Pacific Solution", to handle Italy's migrant crisis. In that model, no exceptions are made and no extensions are granted, not even for children or those who are ill.
Australia has a video titled "No Way" that explains the programme. In it, General Campbell, the commander of the country's Operation Sovereign Borders, explains that the policy is that of "intercepting any ship that is trying to illegally enter Australia and safely remove it to beyond our waters".
Tough rules and no exceptions
"The message is simple: if you come to Australia illegally by boat, you will never have a way to become an Australian citizen," General Campbell said in the video. Dressed in a camouflage uniform and with a fixed gaze, he said, "The rules apply to everyone: families, children - there are no exceptions". Australia's hardline stance is carried out in a military operation that doesn't provide for the assistance or rescue of migrants trying to arrive in Australia, the majority of whom come from Senegal, Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq.
Detention centres on islands in Pacific
In practice, migrants who attempt to enter the country by boat either have their boats escorted back to the ports where they came from, or, more often, the migrants are transferred to detention centres on the islands of Nauru and Manus, in Papua New Guinea.
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Let's keep on open mind on closing streets: They might bring new life to dull city blocks
I (heart) Taste of Chicago because it’s a street fest as well as an eat fest. To a lover of vibrant urban spaces, there’s nothing quite so sweet as the shut-down of a heavily-trafficked drag strip like Columbus Drive and its temporary transformation into a giant pedestrian mall. The rainbow of people (left) strolling in a car-free zone beckons every bit as much as the turkey legs and Polish sausages.
So with this year’s Taste coming to an end Sunday, I find myself asking: Why can’t Chicago close streets and turn them into lively pedestrian plazas more often?
Others, it turns out, have been wondering the same thing, particularly in light of New York City’s bold decision to make permanent the popular pedestrian plazas in Times and Herald Squares that required the closing of several blocks of Broadway (left).
When I asked readers of this blog last fall for suggestions on where the car-free New York experience could be reproduced here, the comment board lit up with ideas: Monroe Street between Michigan and Columbus, Rush Street, Taylor Street between Racine and Ashland, East 53rd Street east of Blackstone.
Clearly, there’s a hunger out there for better public spaces, especially in the city’s neighborhoods. With his ubiquitous median planters Mayor Richard Daley has given us beautiful streets, but the commenters also want livable streets—places where they can gather, socialize, and catch a break from the relentless two-dimensionality of computer screens and mobile phones.
While closing chunks of big downtown streets, like Monroe, sounds great, such proposals won’t easily get past traffic engineers who will understandably argue that major downtown arteries are crucial to the flow of people and commerce.
Smaller streets, far from the Loop’s crush, may prove easier targets for car-free zones. Lincoln Square's Kempf Plaza, which is also called Giddings Plaza (for adjoining east-west Giddings Street), is the poster child for this sort of transformation (left).
On Friday morning, mothers with strollers ringed the edge of the plaza, as did outdoor diners at the adjoining Café Selmarie. The scene looked inevitable, like it had always been there.
In fact, it resulted from an enlightened, late 1970s infrastructure project that turned a single-block of diagonal Lincoln Avenue into a one-way street. At the street’s mid-point, where Giddings had intersected Lincoln, Giddings was transformed into a cul-de-sac, clearing space for an outdoor plaza.
At first, people complained that their two-way traffic was being taken away, but almost no one complains now, especially after later changes endowed the plaza with handsome paving, a performance platform, and a multi-tiered fountain whose geometric decoration was inspired by the exquisite ornament of architect Louis Sullivan’s former Krause Music Store just down Lincoln.
Kempf Plaza’s cozy atmosphere reminds us that Chicago can’t depend on its marquee public spaces alone. The lakefront is Daniel Burnham’s dream mostly come true, but it’s on Chicago’s edge and a vast grid of streets stretches endlessly--and dehumanizingly--westward from it.
Sure, the late 1970s State Street bus mall failed, but its downfall was caused by its vast scale, shoddy design and lack of connection to the Loop street grid. We still need nore intimate Kempf Plazas--a shortcoming that Lee Crandell, who writes the thoughtful blog, carfreechicago.com, would like to rectify.
Last year, Crandell wrote: “I’ve lived in Lakeview for six years, and while I love it, I’ve always felt that it’s missing a quality public gathering space….Most of the sidewalks are too narrow and there aren’t places to sit. I grew up near Annapolis, Md., which has a harbor with a plaza where people would hang out to talk, eat ice cream, drink coffee, etc. And Lakeview alone is almost three times the size of Annapolis, so we should be able to support a place like that.”
His idea, inspired by Kempf Plaza, is to turn Wilton Avenue, a small north-south street just east of the freshly-renovated Belmont CTA station, into a cul-de-sac with a public plaza at the cul-de-sac’s south end, facing Belmont. He even did a crude rendering (left) on his blog, imagining the plaza with a fountain and greenery—and new, street-shaping buildings on what is now a vacant lot next to the Belmont station.
But some Wilton residents are concerned that the proposed plaza would encourage loitering. One, 39-year-old Todd Shockley, told me he’s seen “transvestite prostitutes” on the street. He also worried that the change would cut down on the supply of curbside parking.
Crandell’s response: There’s still enough parking near Kempf Plaza and a vital public space on Wilton would drive misfits elsewhere. “I see [the plaza] as encouraging lingering and positive loitering,” he said.
It would be wrong to minimize such tensions, but it would be equally wrong not to explore new ways to humanize the city’s neighborhoods with smart street closures. If you doubt that, just head to Kempf Plaza for a taste of what the future might bring.
JULY 6th POSTSCRIPT: Last Friday, with a holiday weekend approaching, I was unable to find out the identity of the design team for Kempf Plaza revamp and therefore could not mention the names of the architects in the print version of this story. But since the project merited praise, I figured that someone would come forward to claim credit. Sure enough, an email came through this morning from the Lakota Group of Chicago. That firm was the urban designer and landscape architect for the project, which was dedicated in 1999. Lakota says it worked on the job with two other firms, Guardaro Associates and McClier. | <urn:uuid:a016e6ed-d427-47b1-839e-c8e1909ef79e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2010/07/lets-keep-on-open-mind-on-closing-streets-they-might-bring-new-life-to-your-dull-block-.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00272-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950585 | 1,329 | 1.617188 | 2 |
It is one of the great curiosities of conservatism that its adherents enthusiastically destroy regulations which — besides a conscience — act as a bulwark against greed and corruption, thereby making greed and corruption inevitable. Because when (a) there’s no wrong way to make a buck, and (b) no accountability or consequences for malfeasance, there’s no disincentive either. (Other than being able to sleep at night, which isn’t a problem if you don’t have a conscience in the first place.) And when the inevitable happens, the resulting disaster spreads (because it is never really contained), they bemoan the very same rampant greed and corruption their deregulation made inevitable.
Naomi Klein found hints of it, in the musings of Alan Greenspan.
The tall graduate student, visiting the US from Sweden, would not be satisfied with a quip. He wanted answers. “They cannot only be driven by greed and power. They must be driven by something higher. What?” Don’t knock power and greed, I tried to suggest – they have built empires. But he wanted more. “What about a belief that they are building a better world?”
Since I began touring with my book The Shock Doctrine, I have had a number of exchanges like this, revolving around the same basic question: when hard-right political leaders and their advisers apply brutal economic shock therapy, do they honestly believe the trickle-down effects will build equitable societies – or are they just deliberately creating the conditions for yet another corporate feeding frenzy? Put bluntly: has the world been transformed over the past three decades by lofty ideology or by lowly greed?
A definitive answer would require reading the minds of men such as Dick Cheney and Paul Bremer, so I tend to dodge. The ideology in question holds that self-interest is the engine that drives society to its greatest heights. Isn’t pursuing their own self-interest (and that of their campaign donors) compatible with that philosophy? That’s the beauty: they don’t have to choose. Unfortunately, this rarely satisfies graduate students looking for deeper meaning. Thankfully, I now have a new escape hatch: quoting Alan Greenspan.
…Rand’s ideas about the “utopia of greed” allowed Greenspan to keep doing what he was doing but infused his corporate service with a powerful new sense of mission: making money wasn’t just good for him, it was good for society as a whole. Of course, the flip side of this is the cruel disregard for those left behind. “Undeviating purpose and rationality achieve joy and fulfillment,” Greenspan wrote as a zealous new convert. “Parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should.” Was it this mindset that served him well as he supported shock therapy in Russia (72 million impoverished) and east Asia after the 1997 economic crisis (24 million pushed into unemployment)?
(Greenspan, by the way, recently said this is the worst economy he’s seen in his career. In fact, he saw it coming and declined to do anything about it.)
But, for me, it was the chapter about “disaster capitalism” in Russia — and the corruption and “self-dealing” that ensued, joined by the free market fundamentalists who had led the charge — from Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism that distilled it.
This points to nagging and important question about the free-market ideologues: Are they “true believers,” driven by ideology and faith that free markets will cure underdevelopment, as is often asserted, or do the ideas and theories frequently serve as an elaborate rationale to allow people to act on unfettered greed while still invoking an altruistic motive? All ideologies are corruptible, of course (as Russia’s apparatchiks made abundantly clear when , during the Communist era, they collected their abundant privileges), and there are certainly honest neoliberals. But Chicago School economics does seem particularly conducive to corruption. Once you accept that profit is and greed practiced on a mass scale create the greatest possible benefits for any society, pretty much any personal enrichment can be justified as a contribution to the great creative cauldron of capitalism, generating wealth and spurring economic growth — even if it’s only for yourself and your colleagues.
…When it was no longer possible to hide the failures of Russia’s shock therapy program the spin turned towards Russia’s “culture of corruption,” as well as the speculation that Russians “aren’t ready” for genuine democracy because of their long history of authoritarianism. …The economist Anders Aslund had claimed that the “temptations of capitalism” alone would transform Russia. Asked a few years later what went wrong, he replied “Corruption, corruption and corruption,” as if the corruption was something other than the unrestrained expression of the “temptations of capitalism” that he had so enthusiastically praised.
…The point of shock therapy is to open up a window for enormous profits to be made very quickly — not despite the lawlessness, but precisely because of it.
The movement that Milton Friedman launched in the 1950s is best understood as an attempt by multinational capital to recapture the higly profitable, lawless frontier that Adam Smith, the intellectual forefather of today’s neoliberals, so admired — but with a twist. Rather than journeying through Smiths “savage and barbarous nations” where there was no Western law (no longer a practical option) this movement set out to systematically dismantle existing laws and regulations to re-crate that earlier lawlessness.
I had the same reaction as that graduate student when, during my freshman year in college, I had to read Atlas Shrugged after losing a bet with an objectivist acquaintance of mine. It was my first and last time, because I understood it as tearing up the social contract that seems so important to McCain now; the one that implies giving up some rights in order to maintain social order, as opposed to a “state of nature” in which I have the natural right to do whatever I’m strong enough to do to you and vice-versa.
But that is the essence of conservative philosophy.
A Republican vision of social welfare would have to pass three tests. To satisfy the party’s economic conservatives, it must slash government costs. To satisfy the party’s social conservatives, it must eliminate incentives to personal misconduct and family breakup. And to satisfy the party’s pragmatists, the vision must be attractive and defensible.
One principle that passes all three of those tests goes something like this. Government should protect people only from risks they cannot easily protect themselves against: unemployment, natural disasters, catastrophic illnesses. Government should not protect nonindegent people against the predictable results of their own actions or the inevitable cycles of life — against the cost of retirement and college, against the fluctuations of farm and factory prices, against the miseries caused by idleness and addiction.
From there it has developed a bit further.
For over two decades, he’s subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy — give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is, you’re on your own. Out of work? Tough luck. No health care? The market will fix it. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, even if you don’t have boots. You’re on your own.
It is one America saying to the other, “Your on your own.” The 1.2 million hit by foreclosure, “You’re on your own.” To women facing their highest joblessness rate in 33 years, with worse yet to come, “You’re on your own.” To those in states running out of jobless aid funds, “You’re on your own.” If you’re among the 1.2 million hit by foreclosure, “You’re on your own.” (Also, you may lose your vote.) If you’re one of 72 million who had trouble paying for medical care, and have even gone into debt to do so, “You’re on your own.”
But if you’re an “indigent” corporation or wall street firm? You’re not on your own. And to prove it, we’ll spend $800 billion (that we don’t really have) to bail you out, and put ourselves deeper in hock to do it. Eight hundred billion dollars, to be supplied by taxpayers — those everyday men and women McCain claims to stand with. But getting just a small percentage of that amount to aid communities reeling from foreclosures and the blight metastasizing in their neighborhoods, was more than conservatives, McCain included, could stomach.
And that is the economy that conservative philosophy has given us, where the rule is not so much “survival of the fittest” as survival of the unfit.
Obviously, this is no laughing matter.. What is happening right now is a meltdown that is scary, mainly because we have no idea how much worse it’s going to get. It’s also
infuriating. For good reason.
There were plenty of warnings. For years, actually for decades, it has been clear that the money system had grown so deregulated it resembled the Wild West. Like any lawless frontier, it attracted and elevated slick, but incompetent hustlers whose only real skill was enriching themselves.
We’ve ended up with a Darwinian “Survival of the “Fittest” system, except in this case the only winners are those UNfit to have so much influence over how we all do survive.
They also recognize how to use their ill-gotten gains to control the lawmakers and opinion makers. As a result no one is willing to impose constraints, no matter how reasonable, or minimal.
And it’s that lack of constraint, kicked-off and cheered on by McCain’s economic advisors, that got us where we are now. But you wouldn’t know it to listen to him.
“But these are very, very difficult times. And I promise you we will never put America in this position again. We will clean up Wall Street. We will reform government. And this is a failure.”
You wouldn’t know to listen to him that the people who have his ear on economic issues are the some of the very same people who shaped the current economy. The policies of deregulation that got us here, by allowing Wall Street to run like a casino where those who lay the best never have to pony up, were their idea of reform. If you want to know what conservative “reform” looks like, well, we’re living it right now.
In a sense, it is failure. Conservatism failed people who believed it’s promises that free market run amok was good for all. In another sense it was a success; a “catastrophic success” in the same category as Iraq or Katrina, and with the same implications.
When Bush described Iraq as a “catastrophic success,” William Saletan defined the term; “If it gets worse, we must be winning.” When you apply the same notion to domestic disasters like Katrina, the definition might be more like, “If things get worse, the policies are working.” The worse it gets, the bigger a success it is for conservative philosophy. It’s just that the rest of us don’t, and can’t, see it that way.
…And so, the ongoing mishandling of the Katrina aftermath is only a mishandling if you believe that government should be in the business of helping improve the lives of citizens and can do so effectively. If you believe that it can’t and shouldn’t, then you have a vested interest in making sure that it doesn’t.
When it comes to the Katrina, the mission has been accomplished. For conservative ideology, it’s a success. A catastrophic one for some, sure, but a success nonetheless.
And the mishandling of the economy is not a mishandling of the economy at all, any more than the corruption that seems to follow in the wake of deregulation is merely the fault of a few naughty individuals. Like any fundamentalist ideology — like communism, for example — it relies on purity of belief and action from all players. That work if everyone bought into the social contract and everyone abided by it, but conservatism tears up that contract, declaring (as fundamentalists are wont to do) that the market has all the answers and will reward and punish accordingly. That leaves out the factor of simple human nature, and the likelihood that some people will do anything to get ahead or enrich themselves, even doing so brings harm to others.
One thing [Klein] spelled out is something that I’ve always thought regarding conservative or “neo-liberal” or “neo-conservative” economic policy. Namely that privatization and deregulation are a kind of “perfect storm” recipe for corruption, because the combination creates an atmosphere in which there’s no wrong way to make a buck.
If I can make more money, even though others will be harmed in the process, and I know there’s nothing prohibiting it and there will be no penalty for the harm done, the only thing stopping me is m conscience. And in that setting I’m better off if I don’t have one, because it can be a disadvantage. When the the rulebook is thrown own, and no holds are barred, at least some of my competitors in whatever business I’m in will certainly dive in and make money hand over fist. If I want to be competitive, then I’d better join the feeding frenzy, or I can be next on the menu. Right? After all, isn’t that what my shareholders expect? Maximum profits?
That’s essentially the economy that John McCain joined the rest of the conservative movement in creating. The same one he says he wants to reform. But how?
You can hear echoes in his campaign declaration from earlier this year that the best thing government can do to for business is “stay out its’ way,” and in his declaration (since given the spin treatment, to reveal what he “really” meant) that “the fundamentals are sound.”
The day before Hoover insisted that the fundamentals were strong was the day that came to be known as Black Thursday, when in heavy trading the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost about 9 percent of its value. And while, in endless stock-footage documentaries showing images of dumbfounded traders over a soundtrack of mournful jazz clarinets, the crash is supposed to begin the Great Depression, it wasn’t quite so. The real cause was the collapse of the banking system, which followed the crash in part because Hoover believed strong fundamentals would protect the economy from disaster.
For the likes of Hoover and McCain, asserting the strength of fundamentals is shorthand for saying that business leaders, with maybe a little cheerleading, can sort out the crisis and that Congress should not try to regulate their behavior. It’s too soon to know if McCain will be proved right (I doubt it), but Hoover certainly turned out to be wrong.
At the time, Sen. Robert Wagner, a New York Democrat, characterized Hoover’s response to the crisis as “the time-worn Republican policy: to do nothing and when the pressure becomes irresistible to do as little as possible.” In fairness, Hoover didn’t quite “do nothing,” but he followed a script that may sound familiar to students of the modern Republican Party.
Well. “Do nothing,” isn’t an entirely accurate description of the “change” McCain would bring. He supported Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security, and was still touting it earlier this year — a plan that would channel at least some Social Security funds into the hands of firms like the ones making headline with every report of mismanagement, and every collapse.
McCain may call himself a “maverick” — the McCain/Palin TV spot that repeats the word over and over again is running over and over again in our television market — but there’s little in his record to recommend him as such on the economy, except what we’ve heard in the past week. If that’s the criteria for measuring McCain’s cred as a “maverick,” it isn’t much. And in that regard, neither is he. | <urn:uuid:52f3447a-80ce-40b2-b8a8-443fb5c5741b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.republicoft.com/2008/09/19/the-measure-of-a-maverick-pt-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00329-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960733 | 3,570 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Plant Protein or Whey Protein - Which is better for you?
This is a raging debate across the circuits of the fitness community across the world for the past few years. This discussion about Plant Proteins as a possible alternative to Whey Protein Powder is a very recent phenomenon. For 4-5 decades earlier there was no such discussion at all. Whey was the undisputed King of Protein Supplements and you wanted to build muscle you had only one choice: Whey Protein. Of course you had choice between Whey Protein Concentrate, Whey Protein Isolate, Whey Protein Hydrolysate and Whey-based BCAAs (Branched Chain Amino Acids) etc. But when it came to protein supplements it was pretty much Whey all the way.
Now that Plant proteins are getting wider acceptance in the fitness industry, it brings us to the question: are plant-based protein powders better than whey? Let's take a look at what both supplements offer and whey (you see what we did there?) the pros and cons.
What's the Difference?
Before we put these two protein powders head-to-head, let's briefly discuss exactly what they are.
Plant-Based Protein Powder
This type of protein powder is just what it sounds like -- protein derived from plants. Just like other protein powders, not all plant-based versions are the same. But most have similar ingredients like seeds, rice, hemp, and peas.
Whey Protein Powder
The whey found in protein powder actually comes from milk. If you've ever heard of cheese curds, you know that the liquid in milk separates to make curds. The watery portion that's left is used to make whey protein powder.
Pros and Cons
Now that you understand the difference between plant-based and whey protein powders, let's examine the pros and cons of both. While it ultimately comes down to personal preference, here are a few factors to consider.
This is the biggest difference between plant-based and whey protein powders. Especially for those with digestive issues.
Because whey protein is derived from milk, it can cause complications for people with a dairy sensitivity or intolerance. A shocking number of people are lactose-intolerant. And most don't even know it.
If you experience bloating, gas, or discomfort after consuming whey protein powder, lactose may be to blame. But if lactose is your friend, whey protein powder is the way to go.
It's quickly digested and put to work repairing and building muscles. If your stomach can handle dairy, whey protein powder means speedy muscle recovery.
If you're looking for something easy to digest, plant-based protein powder may be the answer. Not only is plant-based powder free of allergens but it's also gluten-free and absorbed quickly by the body.
Most people can easily digest the ingredients found in plant-based powders including hemp, pea, rice, seeds, and quinoa. You may recognize these as some of the main sources of protein for vegans and vegetarians.
When deciding between whey vs. plant protein powder, look passed the grams of protein and go straight to the ingredient list.
One of the main reasons people turn to protein powders is to gain vital nutrients. These are the building blocks of any good workout program.
If you're looking for a protein powder void of artificial sweeteners and additives, look no further than a plant-based product. It's no surprise that this type of protein powder is the more natural choice.
Many of the ingredients used to make plant-based powders contain essential vitamins, nutrients, omega3 fatty acids, and antioxidants. These ingredients also have a naturally pleasant taste, eliminating the need for flavor additives.
Plant-based products require less processing, as well. One thing to be aware of is that plant-based ingredients are sometimes high in carbohydrate content. If you're looking to shed pounds, additional carbs could hinder your results.
Let's not disregard whey protein completely in terms of nutritional value. Whey protein is nutrient dense. It contains high levels of protein and few calories.
If you're looking for straight protein, whey delivers. Just remember that whey protein products contain more sugar and have high levels of saturated fat than their plant-based counterpart.
This is an important fact for those counting their macronutrients.
Muscle Building and Recovery
Most people turn to protein powder to support their current workout regime. This may include both weight loss and muscle gain. But how do whey and plant-based protein powders stack up in terms of muscle support and recovery?
Whey protein powder prides itself in offering all nine amino acids needed for muscle growth. Products that contain these nine acids are considered "complete proteins". Plant-based products don't offer this same benefit.
Another important component of whey protein are BCAAs - branched chain amino acids. These are leucine, isoleucine, and valine and known for promoting muscle growth. They're also vital in muscle protein synthesis.
The downside? These ingredients don't taste the greatest. Manufacturers add unknown ingredients to improve flavor and increase shelf life.
And the presence of all nine amino acids in whey protein combined with the fact that it's a dairy product creates acidity in the body.
Where does plant-based protein stack up in terms of muscle recovery? Pea (the main ingredient in most plant-based proteins) is credited with increasing muscle thickness. And doing so as effectively as whey.
Combined with other ingredients like quinoa and hemp, plant-based protein offers beneficial amino acid profiles as well.
Whether or not you're a "go green" supporter, you should know what affects your protein of choice has on the environment. And what exactly you're ingesting.
Plant-based protein (when made from organic plants) helps protect the environment through organic farming. Studies show that this method helps counteract global warming.
It's also said to help add minerals into depleted soil and promote both sustainable water and food supplies. Plant-based protein lets you nourish your body and the earth at the same time.
Whey protein, on the other hand, is a way for manufacturers to capitalize on unwanted waste. When factories produce yogurt and cheese, they discard the whey. Instead of wasting it, they turn it into protein powder and other products.
Animal farming is a controversial topic. Depending on your stance, you may be shocked by how much milk it takes to create whey protein powder.
And don't forget that some cows are fed hormones and other antibiotics to increase milk production. When it comes to purity and protein powder, plant-based sources are the better option.
How to Choose the Right Protein Powder
Understanding the differences between whey and plant-based protein powder helps you make a more informed decision. But what other factors should you consider before purchasing?
Check the Label
This goes without saying. When you're buying protein powder (whether it's whey or plant-based), check the ingredients.
Make sure to choose one that's low in sugar and carbohydrates. This is especially important if you're on a weight loss journey.
What your protein powder doesn't have is almost as important as what it does. Avoid any products that contain probiotics.
Whenever possible, find a powder endorsed by the NSF International (National Sanitation Foundation). These products are approved for sports use and are guaranteed to contain only what the label lists.
Consider Your Goals
Not all protein powders are created equal. And your goals are specific to your journey and your body type.
Certain protein powders promote weight loss and building lean muscle. Others are designed for weight gain and bulking. These are favored by bodybuilders.
If you're looking to lose weight, opt for powders low in carbs and sugars. Bulking protein powders contain BCAAs and other amino acids like those found in whey powders.
Do you suffer from diabetes or high-sugar? Are you lactose intolerant?
Your current state of health plays a big role in choosing the right protein powder for your body. If you already have high sugar levels, find a powder that has low sugar and low carbs.
You already know that whey is made from milk, which is a dairy product. Steer clear if you have pre-existing digestive issues.
Powders with lower levels of protein are best for anyone with kidney issues. The kidneys help break down protein in the body. Too much may cause complications. Powders containing less than 15 grams per serving is recommended.
Plant-based protein powder is the best choice for vegetarians and vegans who avoid dairy products for personal reasons.
Is Plant-Based Protein Powder Better For You?
The question remains: is plant-based protein powder better for you? It all depends on your goals, current health, and personal choice.
Plant-based protein offers essential vitamins and nutrients and is easier to digest. It's also kind to the environment. But some fitness enthusiasts swear by whey protein and can't be swayed.
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Abuja, Nigeria's capital city is located in the middle of the country. Though travel to other areas of Nigeria, including the Niger Delta, is discouraged by the U.S. State Department (travel.state.gov) as of 2011, there are no restrictions on trips to Abuja. When planning a trip to Abuja, it is important to remain aware of security guidelines and ensure that you have all proper travel documents.
All Americans traveling to Abuja must hold a U.S. passport, available through the U.S. State Department, and a Nigerian visa before entering the country. Visa are issued through the Nigerian Embassy to the United States (nigeriaembassyusa.org). In addition to processing fees, all visa applications must be accompanied by your current passport, two passport photographs and proof of a hotel reservation or an invitational letter from a Nigerian resident. The U.S. State Department notes that Nigeria has entry restrictions in place for travelers with HIV or AIDS and other medical conditions.
Abuja Safety Concerns
Travelers must use caution while in Abuja. The U.S. State Department notes that several kidnappings have taken place in the city, and crimes against tourists such as armed robbery, burglary and rape are also prevalent throughout Nigeria, including Abuja. Taking pictures of Abuja's governmental sites such as foreign embassies and locations in the city's Three Arms Zone, such as the presidential palace is forbidden without express permission from Nigeria's State Security Service, and visitors should avoid capturing images at any government site. Malaria is present in Abuja and steps should be taken to prevent contracting the disease.
Travel in Abuja
Transportation around Abuja is best done through car services secured at the airport's customer service desk or at your hotel, notes the U.S. State Department. While in the vehicle, keep your seat belt on, doors locked and windows rolled up to reduce the risk of robbery or attack. Buses, taxis and other forms of public transportation should be avoided because of safety concerns. Driving should also be avoided as international driver's licenses are not recognized anywhere in Nigeria and obtaining a Nigerian license may take several months.
There are few attractions designed specifically for tourists in Abuja, notes the Brant Travel Guide to Nigeria. Visitors interested in architecture and government sites should visit the city's Three Arms Zone to view the presidential villa, Supreme Court and the Federal House of Assembly. The zone is also home to Nigeria's national Mosque and Ecumenical Church. The city's Women's Development Center, located on Better Life Street, displays art highlighting important Nigerian women and a location to purchase crafts and books from local women.
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Albania’s Evolving Role in World Affairs
Minister Mustafaj, who previously served as Albania’s Ambassador to France, delivered these remarks on February 15, 2006, before the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC. Ambassador Theodore R. Britton, Jr., Director and Member of the Council of American Ambassadors, and Mr. Genci Mucaj, Adviser to the Minister, assisted in the preparation of this article. Ambassador Britton recently was named Honorary Consul General of Albania for the Atlanta, Georgia region.
This is the first visit to Washington, DC since my party assumed leadership of the Albanian government. The purpose of the mission was to attend meetings of the A-3 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Group with my colleagues, the Foreign Ministers of Croatia and Macedonia. The conferences, which took place at the State Department, were gratifying and productive.
I express my gratitude to our American friends, both for their hospitality, and for the attention they continue to show the Balkan region. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her staff, National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley, and others combined to make this a most fruitful visit. Albania is especially grateful to Ambassador John Danilovich, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and through him, to President Bush, for allocating $14 million to us. This grant will be used to fund those programs which fight corruption and organized crime in my country.
While here in the United States (US), we have worked closely with Croatia and Macedonia, who are fellow members of the Adriatic Charter. This regional arrangement has fully demonstrated its usefulness as a vehicle for increasing and harmonizing cooperation in the area. We are fortunate that we do not have national enemies anymore in our region—only friendly, democratically elected governments. However, like many countries, we do have the twin enemies of “corruption” and “organized crime,” and all of us are waging a joint fight to eliminate them.
We have embraced the Western vision of action and reform, making us ever more part and parcel of the fundamental values underlying the Euro-Atlantic partnership. As the 20th century ended, the Balkan region was the only corner of Europe where the concept of “neighborliness” was still to be attained. The dynamics of our relationship under the Partnership Charter (US, Albania, Croatia and Macedonia) have substantially improved the perception of neighborliness. We now exchange national experiences in many different domains including security, protection and security of classified information, and cross-border cooperation. This has produced positive reactions to the challenges of terrorism and organized crime, especially in the trafficking of illegal drugs and persons.
The recent exchange of Documents of the Annual National Program of NATO Membership is a meaningful example of such mutual transparency and trust. In keeping with the Charter and in compliance with the principles of the Alliance, we have overcome traditional hesitancies among us. For example, we now support the aspirations of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Union of Serbia and Montenegro to join the Partnership for Peace program, once the necessary standards have been met. These accomplishments would have been quite unimaginable just ten years ago. In this regard, the support and encouragement of the US have been invaluable to us.
Along with Skopje (Macedonia), and Zagreb (Croatia), Tirana (Albania’s capital), has followed with close attention the debate over preparations for the two upcoming NATO Summits. Under these circumstances, it is crucial to us that the NATO Alliance and its member countries define as soon as possible, a clear enlargement calendar. We are hopeful that such discussions will result in an invitation to our countries to attend the 2008 Summit. It would further accelerate the democratic reforms so necessary to make Albania worthy of membership in the Alliance. To that end, my government is increasing its contacts with the governments of the decision-making countries of the Atlantic Alliance. Needless to say, our efforts will be insufficient without a firm commitment of support by the US government.
We praise NATO’s Membership Action Plan process, as the major mechanism for assessing our candidacies. Nevertheless, performance remains an individual concern for each aspiring country. The Albanian government is working very hard to improve the political climate at home by intensifying the economic, institutional and legal reforms necessary to transform the entire society. We regard strengthening the rule of law as the only road to win the tough fight against corruption and thereby cut the links between politics and organized crime. The strong international solidarity that we have found among our American and European friends during these past months has been an irreplaceable encouragement to us in this battle. Its fate will determine Albania’s future.
A high priority for us has been the reform of our armed forces. One of our objectives in Albania is to establish a deployable battalion during 2006 and a deployable brigade by 2008. Special attention is being given to the intensification and development of “niche” capabilities, designed to adapt to NATO’s need for specialized forces. Albania is already a participant in the Joint Medical Team and the Southeast European Military Brigade (SEEBRIG), a clear example of cooperation and cross-border cooperation.
From an individual standpoint, Albania is an active participant in the “Free Iraq” operation, with a contingent of 120 commando troops. In the NATO-led International Stabilization Armed Forces (ISAF) operating in Afghanistan, Albania has 24 troops. Lastly, Albania provides a contribution of 70 persons to the European Union-led “Operation ALTHEA,” set up to ensure compliance with the Dayton Peace Agreement. In addition, Albania is drafting legislation to freeze the assets of persons suspected of having ties with terrorist organizations, and to expel such persons from the country.
The elimination of older MIG jets and their replacement with helicopters is part of the strategy of our armed forces. At the same time, we have destroyed over 144,000 small arms and light weapons, 1.6 million anti-personnel mines, approximately 43,000 tons of ammunition and 511 tanks and armored vehicles.
In the framework of the fight against older chemical weapons, under “Operation VETOXA” (Destruction of Toxic Chemicals in Albania), 20 tons of chemical products and chemical weapons have been destroyed. This was not an easy task. Our Swiss colleagues and the Albanian Army worked closely to achieve their destruction. I must cite just part of the logistical problems involved. Combustion chambers and diesel motors, having been constructed, were shipped in 15 containers by train to Koper, Slovenia, transferred by ship to Durres, Albania, and by road to Tirana. What began as a project costing two million Swiss francs, eventually increased to nearly 5.3 million. We should all praise this example of international cooperation. I must also mention that an additional 16 tons of toxic chemical agents will be destroyed by April 2007 under the Nunn-Lugar project.
You have no doubt noted my repeated reference to the Albanian-American relationship. Albanians are considered to be the most pro-American of all European countries. This is easily explained. It dates back to the early 20th century when, in 1919, then US President Woodrow Wilson denounced the plans of Albania’s neighbors to partition the country. This was followed years later when anti-Communist emigrants found shelter in the US. Lastly, the Albanian people remain forever grateful to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush for their outstanding contributions to the demise of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The present Bush Administration has continued America’s friendship with Albania and its neighbors, particularly in seeking to resolve the status of Kosovo.
Thus, Albania considers relations with the US to be of strategic importance. The US is the irreplaceable ally of the new Albanian democracy. In the framework of a fruitful cooperation, the US has supported Albania in its path of reforms. We greatly appreciate American assistance in helping to fulfill Albania’s aspirations for NATO membership and Albanian integration into the European Union.
Nevertheless, one can hardly fail to notice the discrepancy between our very good political relations and the still low level of economic and trade relations. We are determined to narrow this difference. For this reason, we greatly appreciate the presence in Albania of large American companies, such as Lockheed Martin, and believe that in the field of bilateral relations, all conditions are being provided to attract more investment in banking, energy, agro-business and tourism. The attainment of this goal will occupy a primary place in our relations with the US. The Albanian government, for its part, is launching a series of measures designed to guarantee free competition in a friendly climate for investors. During this visit, I have made it a point to visit with Governor Jeb Bush and his economic development staff to discuss economic cooperation, since his state, Florida, is similar to Albania in many respects.
In terms of the priorities and programs of the Albanian government, the continuing fight against corruption, conflict of interest, organized crime, human trafficking and terrorism, the enhancement of border security and the rule of law are among the most important. In addition, we continue to promote the free market, a functioning democracy, respect for human rights and the rights of minorities as major parts of the government agenda.
In external matters, one of the top priorities of the Albanian government is the integration of the country into European and Euro-Atlantic structures. We are conscious that the attainment of NATO and EU standards is a major condition for reaching this goal. In the daily activity of the government, this is translated as “moving ahead with our reforms and presenting our achievements in this respect to the member countries of these organizations.” This is so because as our partners mention, the problem often is that the perception of us is different from that which actually exists in Albania. It needs to be emphasized, and publicized for that matter, that in its first 100 days, the current Albanian government banned the employment of persons in its customs and tax offices who have family connections to higher-level state and government officials. It has amended the law on conflict of interest, and is committed to restructuring the State Police in order to create a professional police force independent from politics. Lastly, it has launched attacks against a number of crime groups and organizations, especially those engaged in drug abuse, visas and arms and other illegal trafficking activities. We feel that the fight against corruption and organized crime is crucial to our long-term success as a nation.
Thanks to progress made in Albania’s Reform Implementation, the EU Commission’s President and its Enlargement Commissioner were in Tirana recently to initial a Stabilization and Association Agreement. This Agreement is quite likely to be signed this spring and its implementation will lead to Albania’s membership in the larger European family. As I mentioned to President Bush’s National Security Adviser, though, “We care much more about implementation of the necessary reforms than the calendars of this integration (into NATO and the EU).”
Albania is determined to keep on its path of comprehensive reforms, which will hopefully lead to NATO membership. Although the forthcoming Riga Summit is considered as the Summit of Transformation, we believe that it will confirm the Alliance’s “Open Door” policy. We hope that, through its Final Declaration, NATO will send an encouraging message to my country, and invite us to attend the 2008 Summit, a prelude to membership.
In closing, I wish to offer a word on Albania’s behalf concerning the unresolved status of our northern neighbor, Kosovo. Much can be said, but we must continue to respond to the dynamics of new developments in Pristina. We welcome the statement of the Kosovo Contact Group, which calls for a realistic, lasting and multi-ethnic solution to its status. We praise the concrete US support and commitment to speeding up the process both to determine Kosovo’s final status and to reach a compromise among the parties concerned. Finally, we support a Kosovo independence which respects the will of its people. We believe that such independence will require support and monitoring by the international community. This can only lead to peace and stability in Kosovo and the entire region.
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Maintaining a balance between your work and outside life is a popular topic these days. HR professionals, bloggers, health care professionals, counselors, and others constantly discuss the importance of and how to achieve a balance. Much of the discussion has to do with the accumulated stress and subsequent fallout without balance. Balance, however, is a tricky word in this context. The dictionary definition for the balance tool provides a clear image that can help us visualize the problem: “an instrument for weighing: as a beam that is supported freely in the center and has two pans of equal weight suspended from its ends.” Theoretically, then, if we pile all the stress on one side of the beam, we should be able to pile a whole bunch of other stuff on the other side of that beam to create balance. This implies that we can achieve equilibrium if we find the right counterbalancing stuff.
Nowadays many tools are available to help us create a unique program to balance stress: aerobic exercise, strength training, good nutrition, regular sleep (about 8 hours), meditation, mindfulness training, consistent quality time with those emotionally closest to us, massage, various electronic organizing tools, resiliency training (positive thinking), counseling … let’s see, have I left anything out? No doubt all of these tools can be and are helpful. They are also time consuming activities and some cost money, which can add to the stress. But, if we step back and look at what is causing all this stress, we can find a range of culprits.
Expectations we have about our lives surely play a role in building stress. We know so much more about childrearing and couples relationships—what it takes to make them successful. They both require time, energy, and learning new skills as we strive for fulfillment. We have expectations about our friends and extended families, the importance of these relationships as well and wanting to spend quality time with them too. We also hope (expect) to have fulfilling work lives.
If we visualize these components in our lives and align all of our goals properly, we should be able to find our destiny; all components will nestle together to give us a harmonious balanced life … or so we are told by those who have apparently achieved this. Living an ordinary life is okay, but surely we want more than that. More expectations.
A Gallup poll that came out earlier this summer told us that almost 70 percent of adults in this country who hold full-time jobs either hate their jobs or are mentally checked-out during work hours. The emotional toll (stress) this takes and the financial impact on employers is staggering. We also know that the primary reason people give for leaving a job is the relationship with their immediate supervisor. Talk about stress!
If you question the magnitude of these statistics, do your own research by talking with people you know and see what you learn. When I did this, I found it depressing. I won’t get into the details because they’ve been covered countless times by so many others, but the upshot is that people are overworked, over-connected to electronic devices, and stressed to the point of exhaustion much of the time.
So what’s to be done? No simple answer here. Those in leadership are working harder than anyone. I admire hard work, but what’s happening in the workplace is destructive and masquerades as necessary to maintaining a competitive advantage. It’s not true, but it feels that way—so, it’s difficult to consider doing anything differently, especially if you’ve been successful and risen through the ranks with this belief.
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House Prices Now More Affordable in Areas of the UK Than in 2007
Property prices are in constant fluctuation, and the property market has been in particular uncertainty since the build up to and aftermath of Brexit, but the latest research from Yorkshire Building Society has revealed a shift towards more affordable housing in areas of the UK.
Scotland and the North of England are regions that have seen particular changes in prices, with the gap closing between average salary and average house prices. Figures now suggest that some areas are actually more affordable for home buyers than they were ten years ago in 2007.
Unsurprisingly, house prices in London remain out of reach for many first-time buyers. The average property price is now considered to be more than 20 times the average wage in the capital. With this in mind, property experts have predicted a bigger shift of the graduate market choosing secondary cities such as Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester to settle in and find employment.
Andrew McPhillips, the chief economist at Yorkshire Building Society, provided further details on the change:
“Across London and large swaths of southern England, which were already some of the most unaffordable parts of the country, it has become increasingly difficult for first-time buyers and those wanting to move up the housing ladder to be able to buy their first or next home.
The north of England, Wales and Scotland present a different picture entirely, with many places, such as Edinburgh, Peterborough and Birmingham, becoming more affordable than they were before the credit crunch.
While some northern cities, such as Manchester, are less affordable than they were in 2007, in much of the north of England, Scotland and Wales, the gap between earnings and house prices is about one-third of the average for London.”
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Hospital software is any kind of computer program that nurses, physicians, and other healthcare professionals use for functions such as storing and accessing patient history, creating staff schedules, and tracking financial data, such as payments from patients and insurance companies. To choose the best hospital software, your first step should be to determine from which software functions you most can benefit. These decisions normally are made by hospital administration and information technology (IT) managers who are responsible for controlling how information is stored and shared among hospital staff and with professionals at other health facilities.
For many healthcare professionals, the best hospital software is that which provides several different functions at once. For instance, doctors and nurses benefit from medical intelligence systems that are able to search multiple databases for information that helps them to make diagnoses and prescribe treatments. These systems often are more effective, however, when they are connected to databases where patient information is stored. In other words, a health professional might benefit from hospital software that enables him or her to access digitally stored data regarding patient symptoms and medical history and match this information with intelligence regarding medical diagnoses.
Patient management is another primary factor of hospital software. For instance, nurses need to be able to keep track of when patients are to go into surgery, when they are to receive treatments, and for how along they are to stay patients in a facility. As with other kinds of hospital software, these programs might be most effective when they are matched with other feature. Programs might also include features that let users see which health professionals have worked with certain patients and at which times. Patient care programs might be connected to scheduling programs.
Usability is a key factor for many people choosing hospital software. This is especially true when it comes to programs that nurses and other professionals use to schedule hours and sign in and out of shifts. If these interfaces are difficult to access or hard to navigate, this can lead to personnel issues that result in problems such unattended shifts and flawed payroll data. It is also important that all personnel data allows easy workflow from front office usage to back office usage in payroll and accounting departments.
Some health professionals prefer hospital software as a service for personnel needs. While many professionals believe that these services are not secure enough to store patient records and other classified data, they can be quite useful for employee communication. Software as a service programs often can be accessed from any computer that has an Internet connection.
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A look at the 80s’ hip-hop fashion
As we wrote down in our mindmap, hip-hop fashion is super important for hip-hop culture.
They LOVED loosed jeans and bling-bling jewellery!
Hip-hop in the eighties, like jazz, was a manifestation of the development of black culture who’s lineage goes back to Africa. It was, and still is, a medium by which disadvantaged urban black artists could express their creativity.
It encompassed many forms such as dance, m.c.-ing, rap, performance poetry, graffiti and can be considered a genre, rather than just a trend. Hip-hop fashion was inspired originally by the artists themselves, rather than designers. For this reason, there is not a single ‘uniform’, more a collection of elements that can be adhered to to a greater or lesser extent by individuals. There are no rules to the hip-hop look.
Early on in the 80s, the main form hip-hop took was dance, especially breakdance, so people wore clothes that were comfortable to dance in. Loose trousers, with braces, trainers, loose colourful t-shirts. A subversion of the military look was also strongly evident.
As hip-hop developed these principles became more stylised and individually important figures such as Run DMC brought in new elements, such as black leather and hefty gold jewelry. This is a continuing process because the whole point about hip-hop is that it is not a dogma, but a means of individual expression.
All the way through the 80s hip-hop fashion had a strong Afro-centred flavour, including African print, rasta colours and dreadlocks. The other major element was branded sportswear which became enormously popular both within and outside of the hip-hop phenomena.
So out of this rather confusing set of elements, how would you go about putting together an authentic 80s hip-hop look? Well, first of all it would help to be black and to have a strong awareness of black history and culture in America. Second, a rule of thumb is ‘big, baggy and branded’
You can go for the sporty look, colourful branded tracksuits with open matching trainers. Individual baggy t-shirts, and jeans with huge legs always work. Alternatively you can go for the Run DMC style of baggy black leather, black t’s, leather shoes, dark glasses (big and branded of course).
If you have African hair you have an advantage because you can go for jerry curls or dreadlocks. In any case a sculpted crew-cut with embellishments such as patterns shaved into it is possible with any hair. Baseball caps and Kangol hats are also worth trying.
To really finish off your look you need to have plenty of heavy gold, or gold effect, jewelry. Big ropes of chains, fat rings. The point is to show how successful hip-hop culture has become.
Most importantly, listen to the music, the poetry, hear what hip-hop was trying to express in the 80s, let it seep into you, let it become part of you. Express yourself.
written by Briar Shaw
Hip Hop culture was a mixture of rap, break dancing, graffiti and DJing.
When you think of Hip Hop fashions you may think of the over sized brand name clothing that was worn on MTV or rap videos, but the eighties was full of differentstyle and some of the
Hip Hop fashions of the eighties included, Adidas jump suits, thick laced puma sneakers, stylish sweatshirts, tight fitting jeans, multi fingered rings, thick gold chains, kangol, jheri curls, glitter, lots of make-up, being creative was the important thing and the hip hop music. Fashion and culture was called a fad though out the eighties and part of the nineties.
The fashions of this Hip hop era have also had a great influence on cultures around the world.
When the eighties fashions introduced hip hop culture, the punk fashions and the yuppie movement also emerged.
Multicolored Mohawks, bleached hair, short spiky hair, Punk was all about rebelling against any and all social structures. The less the real reason to rebel the more punk they were.
The yuppie ladies wore the spike bangs, heavy make-up, both men and women liked to wear the padded shoulder business jackets, also popular were sweater vest that they could be tied loosely around the neck over button down shirts.
The yuppie men were clean shaved, orderly and polite, which made people think of them as conceited snobs that was drunk on dreams.
Even today hip hop and rap are still a favorite among our young people, along with their fashions and music
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Centrally and locally mediated vasomotor activities in Raynaud's phenomenon
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health
Vol. 13, No. 4, Stockholm Workshop 86: Symptomatology and diagnostic methods in the hand-arm vibration syndrome: Hässelby Castle, Stockholm, 21—23 May 1986 (August 1987), pp. 309-312
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A selective review on the attack of Raynaud's phenomenon in primary Raynaud's phenomenon and vibration-induced white finger is presented with special reference to the location of the primary vasospasm, the nature of the dominant pathophysiological mechanism, and the anatomic location of the abnormal link in this mechanism. It is suggested that the primary vasospasm is a total closure of the main digital arteries, that the arterial spasm is mainly mediated through an exaggerated central sympathetic reflex mechanism, and that the abnormal link in this reflex arch could be the smooth muscle cells of the digital arteries. Other anatomic locations of the abnormal link can however not be excluded as yet.
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(Sri Madan Mohan, New Gokula Dhama)
vipadah santu tah sasvat
tatra tatra jagad-guro
bhavato darsanam yat syad
"I wish that all those calamities would happen again and again so that we could see You again and again, for seeing You means that we will no longer see repeated births and deaths."
Prabhupada: So that is very interesting verse that vipada, calamities, danger, that is very good if such danger and calamities remind me of Krishna. That is very good. Tat te 'nukampam su-samiksamano bhunjana evatma-krtam vipakam. A devotee, how he receives dangerous position? Danger must be there. Danger... Because this place, this material world is full of dangers. These foolish persons, they do not know that. They are trying to avoid the dangers. That is struggle for existence. Everyone is trying to become happy and avoid danger. This is the material business. Atyantika-sukham. Atyantika-sukham. Ultimate happiness. A man is working and thinking: "Let me work now very hard, and let me have some bank balance so when I shall get old, I shall enjoy life without any working." That is the inner intention of everyone. Nobody wants to work. As soon as he gets some money he wants to retire from work, and to become happy. But that is not possible. You cannot be happy in that way.
Here it is said: apunar bhava-darsanam. The real danger is... She is speaking of apunah. Apunah means... A means not, and punar bhava means repetition of birth and death. The real danger is repetition of birth and death. That has to be stopped. And not this so-called danger. This is all... The material world is full of dangers. Padam padam yad vipadam. Just like if you are on the ocean. If you are on the ocean, you might have very strong ship, very safe ship, but that is not safety. Because you are on the sea, at any time there can be dangers. Perhaps you remember from your country, there was, what is that, Titanic?
Prabhupada: Everything was safe, but on the first voyage it was drowned, and all important men of your country, they lost their life. So danger there must be because you are in a dangerous position. This material world itself is dangerous position. So our business is... That danger must be there. Now our business should be how to cross over the sea as soon as possible. So long you are on the sea, you are on the dangerous position, however strong your ship may be. That's a fact. So you should not be disturbed by the sea waves. Just try to cross over the sea. Go to the other side. That is your business. Similarly, so long we are in this material world, there must be dangerous calamities because this is the place of calamity. So our business is, even within these calamities, dangers, how we develop our Krishna consciousness and, after giving up this body, we go back to home, back go Krishna. That should be our business. We should not be disturbed by the so-called calamities. They are not so-called; they are factual.
So this question was there by Arjuna to Krishna that: "Whatever You are speaking, it is all right. That I am not this body, I am soul. Everyone is not this body. He's soul. So on the annihilation of this body...on the annihilation of the body the soul will exist. But when I see my son is dying, or my grandfather is dying, I am killing, how can I solace me that my grandfather is not dying, my son is not dying, the... simply it is changing. Because I am accustomed to think like that. So there must be grief. So Krishna replied: "Yes, that's a fact. So that you must have to tolerate, that's all. There is no other remedy." Tams titiksasva bharata.
Krishna never said that these are not facts, what Arjuna explained that: "I know that when my son is dying, my son is changing the body, or my grandfather is dying, changing the body, I know this, but still, because I am affectionate on the skin, so I must suffer." The Krishna replied: "Yes, the suffering is there. Because you are also on the bodily concept of life. So suffering must be there. So there is no other remedy than to tolerate. There is no other remedy." Matra-sparsas tu kaunteya sitosna-sukha-duhkha-dah.
Just like in your country it is very chilly in the morning to take bath, a little difficult task. But does it mean that those who are devotees, they will stop taking bath? No. Even it is chilly, cold, one must take bath. The duty must be done. The duty must be done. Even it is little suffering. That is called tapasya. Tapasya means we must prolong or proceed with, with our Krishna consciousness business in spite of all dangerous and calamitous condition of this world. This is called tapasya. Tapasya means voluntarily accepting the difficulties of life. Sometimes tapasya, in the system of tapasya, in hot season, summer, in scorching heat of the sun, still they ignite some fire all around and sit down in the midst and meditate. There are some processes of tapasya like that. In chilly cold one goes into the water up to the neck and meditates. These things are prescribed in tapasya.
But Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu does not give you such prescription. He gives you very nice program: chant, dance and take prasadam. Still we are unwilling. We cannot accept this tapasya. You see. We are so fallen. Su-sukham kartum avyayam. This is a kind of tapasya which is very easy to do and it is very pleasant. Still, we are not agreeable. We shall rot in the street, lie down anywhere and everywhere and still, I shall drink and have sex and lie down. So what can be done? We are giving good facilities. Come here, chant, dance and live very peacefully and take krsna-prasadam. Be happy. But people will not accept. That is called misfortune.
Caitanya Mahaprabhu therefore said: etadrsi tava krpa bhagavan mamapi durdaivam idrsam ihajani nanuragah. Caitanya Mahaprabhu says: namnam akari bahudha nija-sarva-saktih. In the transcendental holy name of God, Krishna, there is all potencies. As Krishna has got unlimited potencies, similarly in the name, holy name of Krishna, there is unlimited potency. So namnam akari bahudha. And there are many names of Krishna. Krishna has got thousands and thousands of names. Krishna name is the chief name. Namnam akari bahudha nija-sarva-saktis tatrarpita niyamitah smarane na kalah. And there is no hard and fast rule, that you have to chant in this time or that time. No. Any time. Any time you can take. And the name is identical with Krishna. On this logic, the name, the holy name of Krishna, is Krishna. He's no other than Krishna. Don't think that Krishna is living in Goloka Vrndavana and the name is different. Just like in material world we have got this conception. The name is different from the fact. But in the Absolute world there is no such difference. That is called absolute. Name is as potential as Krishna is potential.
So you have got this tongue. You can chant Krishna, Hare Krishna. Immediately you become directly in touch with Krishna. Immediately. Because the name Krishna and Krishna -- person is not different. Identical. So even if you think that Krishna is far, far away... Krishna is not far, far away. Krishna is not far, far away. Krishna is within you. He's not far away. He's far away, at the same time nearest. So even if you think that Krishna is far, far, His name is there. You chant Hare Krishna, Krishna becomes immediately available. Aniyamitah. And for making Krishna available in this shortcut way, there is no hard and fast rule. You can chant any time. Immediately you get Krishna. Just see the mercy of Krishna.
Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that: etadrsi tava krpa. "My dear Lord, You have given Me so nice facilities to contact You, but durdaiva, but My, I am so unfortunate, I have no attachment for these things. I have no attachment. I have got so many attachments for other things. But I have got no attachment for chanting Hare Krishna. This is My misfortune." Krishna has given so much facilities, that He is present before you by transcendental vibration in His name, and the name has got all the potencies of Krishna. So if you remain in contact with the name, you get all the benefit of Krishna's benediction, but still, I am not inclined to chant Hare Krishna mantra. This is misfortune.
So a devotee never takes dangerous position as very reverse position or very calamitous position. He welcomes. Because a surrendered soul, he knows either danger or festival, they are all different demonstration of Krishna. Krishna is absolute. In the sastra it is said that just like there are two kinds, two sides, religiosity and irreligiosity, just the opposite. But in the sastra it is said the religiosity is just the front portion of God, and irreligiosity is the back portion of God. So God's front portion or back portion, is there any difference? God is absolute. Therefore a devotee, either in opulence or in danger, he is not disturbed. He knows both these things are Krishna. Either in dangerous position... "Now Krishna has appeared before me as danger."
Just like Hiranyakasipu and Prahlada Maharaja and Nrsimhadeva. Nrsimhadeva is dangerous to Hiranyakasipu, and He is the Supreme Friend to Prahlada Maharaja, the same Personality. Similarly God is never dangerous to the devotee. Devotee is never afraid of dangers. He's confident that the danger, that is another feature of God. "So why shall I be afraid? I am surrendered to Him." So Kuntidevi says that: vipadah santu. Vipadah santu tah sasvat. Because he, she knows how to remember Krishna at times of danger. So he is, she is welcoming danger. "My dear Lord, I welcome such dangers when I can remember You." Just like Prahlada Maharaja, he was always thinking of Krishna when his father was putting him in dangerous position. So if you are put into the dangerous position and if that dangerous position gives an impetus to remember Krishna, that is welcome. That is welcome. "Oh, I am getting this opportunity of remembering Krishna." So how it is welcome? It is welcome because seeing Krishna means I am advancing in my spiritual life so that I'll not have to suffer any more of these dangerous positions.
Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti kaunteya [Bg. 4.9]. If you become advanced in Krishna consciousness, then the result will be, after giving up this body, Krishna says, tyaktva deham, after giving up this body, punar janma naiti, you don't take birth again in this material world. That is wanted. Suppose I am very comfortable at the present moment. My body is kept in a very comfortable position, but there is death, and there is another birth. So after giving up this body, if I get the body of a cat and dog, then what is the meaning of this comfortable position? Because death is sure, and janmantam tatah dehantaram. Dehantaram means you have to accept another body. If you do not know what kind of body you are going to get... You can know it. That is stated in the sastra, that if you have got such and such mentality, you get such and such body. So in a comfortable position, if I keep myself in the dog's mentality, then I am going to get my next life as dog. Then what is the value of this comfortable position? I may be in comfortable position for twenty years, thirty years, fifty years, or utmost, one hundred years. And after that comfortable position, when I give up this body, if, due to my mentality, I become a cat and dog and mouse, then what is the benefit of this comfortable position?
These, they, people do not know that. They think, especially in this age that: "I am now in comfortable position. I have got enough money. I have got enough estate. I have got enough comforts, enough food. So as soon as the body's finished so I am not going to take birth again. So I am living, let me enjoy life." This is the modern philosophy, hedonism. But that is not the fact. Kunti is therefore anxious: apunar bhava-darsanam. Apunar bhava, not to repeat. If you see always Krishna, that is Krishna consciousness. Krishna consciousness means always thinking of Krishna. Your consciousness should be absorbed in Krishna thought.
Therefore we give different varieties of engagement, Krishna consciousness. We should not divert our energy. Now when we are selling book, that is Krishna consciousness. We are selling book. But if we think that the selling book may be diverted into selling jewelry, that is not very good idea. That is not very good idea. Then we become again jeweler. Punar musika bhava. Again become mouse. We should be very much careful. Our Krishna consciousness cannot be diverted. Then you are gone to hell. Even there is danger, even there is suffering in Krishna consciousness, we should tolerate. That is the instruction of... We should welcome such danger. And pray to Krishna. What is that prayer? Tat te 'nukampam su-samiksamanah. "My dear Lord, it is Your great mercy that I am put into this dangerous position." That is the viewpoint of devotee. He doesn't take danger as danger. He takes: "It is Krishnas mercy." What kind of mercy? Now bhunjana evatma-krtam vipakam. "Due to my past activities, I was to suffer so much. But You are mitigating that suffering, giving me little suffering."
Just like a token punishment. Sometimes in the courts a big man is culprit. So say, if the judge wants 100,000 dollars, he can pay immediately. But he asks from Him: "You just give one cent." Because that is also punishment. But minimizing. Similarly we have to suffer on account of our past deeds. That's a fact. You cannot avoid. Karmani nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhajam [Bs. 5.54]. But those who are in devotional service, those who are in Krishna consciousness, their sufferings are minimized, a token. Just like one was to be killed. So instead of being killed with his knife, he gets some little cut on the finger. In this way, karmani nirdahati kintu ca...
Those who are in devotional service, they are: aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami. Krishna assures that: "I give you protection from the reaction of sinful life." So when there is very, very grievous criminal activities behind his, sometimes it is like that. Instead of hanging him, there may be little cut by the knife on the finger. This is the position. So why should we be afraid of danger? We should simply depend on Krishna consciousness, because if we live Krishna conscious, in any circumstances, then my benefit is that I am not coming again in this material world. Apunar bhava-darsanam. The repeatedly, as you think of Krishna, as you see Krishna, as you read of Krishna, as you work for Krishna, some way or other, if you remain in Krishna consciousness, that is your benefit. And that benefit will save you from taking birth again in the material world. That is real benefit. And if I am become little comfortable by so-called other engagement, and if I forget Krishna, and I have to take birth again, then what is my benefit? We should be very much careful about this.
Krishna consciousness cannot be disturbed at any circumstances. Even there is heavy suffering, that is the instruction of Kuntidevi. Kuntidevi's welcome, welcoming: vipadah santu tah sasvat tatra tatra. Let there... Because, before winning the battle of Kuruksetra, all these Pandavas were put into so many dangerous positions. That is already described in the previous verses. Sometimes they were offered poison, sometimes they were put into the house, lac, and it was set fire. Sometimes big, big demons, man-eaters, and big, big fighters. Every time... They lost their kingdom, lost their wife, lost their prestige. They were put into the forest. Full of dangers. But within all those dangers, Krishna was there, with all those dangers. When the Draupadi was being naked, Krishna was there supplying cloth. Krishna is always there.
Therefore Bhismadeva, while he was dying... He was grandfather of the Pandavas. So when the Pandavas came to see him on his deathbed, so he cried that: "These boys, my grandsons, they're all very pious. Maharaja Yudhisthira, the topmost pious person. His name is Dharmaraja, the king of religiosity. He is the eldest brother. And Bhima and Arjuna, they are devotees and so great hero. They can kill thousands of men. They're so powerful. So Yudhisthira, Yudhisthira is there, and Bhima is there. Arjuna is there, and Draupadi is directly the Goddess of Fortune. There was this injunction that wherever Draupadi will be there, there will be no scarcity of food. In this way, the combination was so nice and over and above them, Krishna is always with them, and still they are suffering." So he began to cry that: "I do not know what is the arrangement of Krishna that such pious men, such devotees, they are also suffering."
So don't think that: "Because I have become a devotee, there will be no danger, no suffering." Prahlada Maharaja suffered so much. The Pandavas suffered so much. Haridasa Thakura suffered so much. But we should not be disturbed by those sufferings. We must have firm faith, firm conviction that: "Krishna is there. He'll give me protection." Kaunteya pratijanihi na me bhaktah pranasyati. Don't try to take benefit of other shelter than Krishna. Always take to Krishna.
Krishna says: kaunteya pratijanihi na me bhaktah pranasyati. "My dear Arjuna, you can declare it to the public that My devotees are never vanquished." Why declaration was advised to be made by Arjuna? Why He did not declare Himself? There is some point. Because this declaration, if Krishna makes, there may be violation because sometimes He violates His promise. But if His devotee promises, it will be never violated. That is Krishna's business. "Oh, My devotee has declared this. I must see that it must be executed." That is Krishna's position. He's so much attached to His devotee. Therefore He said that: "You declare. If I declare, people may not believe it. But if you declare, they'll believe it. Because you are devotee. Your declaration will never be..."
Yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah... Krishna wants to see that: "My devotee's promise is fulfilled. My promise may not be fulfilled, may be broken." So this is Krishna consciousness. We must take to Krishna consciousness in, at all circumstances, even it's the most dangerous position. We must keep our faith in Krishna's lotus feet, and there will be no danger.
Thank you very much.
(Srila Prabhupada lecture, Los Angeles, April 17, 1973)
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Letter: Twit or Tweet?
We have a president who bypasses traditional media through tweets on Twitter. Grammatically, this should actually be a twit sending twits, rather than a tweeter sending tweets. By definition, a twit is a silly, annoying person or a fool.
Feel free to extrapolate from there for a president who prefers to communicate in 140 characters or less. While the House Intelligence Committee questioned FBI Director Comey about the president’s tweet accusing former President Obama of wiretapping Trump tower, Trump actually tweeted to the committee about Comey. This was written into the testimony and reported by media outlets.
Are these double-twits or double-tweets? Or just plain double-speak? It’s time to read, listen, analyze and speak truth to power. Not a time for a twit to be twittering.
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The Ekol R&D team is preparing its infrastructure for Industry 4.0, taking concrete steps to update associated processes and applications. Ekol has never ceased investing in R&D and innovation, and places Logistics 4.0 at the heart of its approach.
Industry 4.0 is a vision that involves manufacturing technologies, and the transformation it is due to bring will result in significant changes to production centers and processes. The production transformation will focus on facilitating instant interaction in all steps along the supply chain, allowing the communication-driven management of suppliers, warehouses, market shelves, vehicles on the road, and processes at smart facilities. Intelligent devices will constantly feed information on stock levels, supply chain disruptions, damaged goods, and order and supply level changes. As a consequence, processes will be reshaped to ensure efficiency and productivity.
Ekol is preparing for the Industry 4.0 revolution by thinking in terms of “Ekol 4.0”
Industry 4.0 incorporates improvements for each line of business within the logistics industry. These enhancements include cost-effective smart warehouses with flexible design and software systems, enabling real-time tracking and intervention. Their infrastructures will be adapted for new technologies, facilitating effective supply chain management. Structures able to eliminate security vulnerabilities will also be offered, with the potential to monitor and control environmental factors while enabling data-based decisions to be taken within each service network.
In view of the above, Ekol will shift its skills and resources into Logistics 4.0.
Ekol R&D and Logistics 4.0
In light of Industry 4.0 developments, Ekol is turning data into meaningful information by making objects detectable, carrying out research on self-determining technologies, and conducting pilot projects.
In line with the strategy of applying the principles of Industry 4.0, Ekol’s R&D focus has put Logistics 4.0 at its center through digitalization and visualization, process integration via the internet and mobile applications, the creation of networks between objects, cloud computing and communications technologies, and simulation and robotic systems.
The Industry’s First R&D Center
The mission of the Ekol R&D Center is to accomplish projects which are systematic, creative, original, scientific, experimental, and technical. Thanks to sound and robust technological infrastructure and experienced employees, the first R&D center of the logistics industry was launched in June 2012 with the approval of the Ministry of Science, Industry, and Technology.
Ekol leads European R&D investment in terms of percentage of turnover
Ekol is a leading R&D investor in Europe when considered as a percentage of turnover. It strives to enhance its strength and competitive qualities globally, increasing quality with each day through its R&D projects.
The mission of the Ekol R&D team is to create innovative services in cooperation with all its stakeholders and integrate technology in all value chains, enabling the company to play a leading role in the transformation of the industry.
The work of the unit encompasses fields such as vehicle routing, delivery network design, pricing, ergonomics, process analysis, quality management, capacity planning, facility design, and investment planning. The Ekol R&D team follows interdisciplinary methodology, utilizing capacities from a number of fields in harmony including process development, optimization, simulation, software development, quality systems management, and project management.
R&D Solutions Specifically for the Logistics Industry
Ekol carries out R&D activities in conjunction with universities and other institutions in a range of fields, such as fleet optimization and route planning, load and network improvements with 3D loading models, business model development for warehouse management, delivery and delivery, automation systems design, flexible order preparation and packaging processes, order management software, demand management system design, and transportation alternatives. | <urn:uuid:da52c7a5-bd93-45c2-a70b-0fc6b8fb7c0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ekol.com/en/logistics/research-development/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.917879 | 799 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Published: Lottie Elton and artwork by Ryan Ward.
The demand that individuals everywhere ‘do their bit’ to help mitigate the climate crisis is, in many ways, a positive and inspiring one. As Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg declares, “no one is too small to make a difference.” However, the oft-asserted demand that everyone ‘do their bit’ can have insidious implications, suggesting that the predominant agent of change is the individual. By inference, this absolves the governments and corporations who are most responsible for climate change and most capable of lessening its impact. It also obscures the variable responsibility that different countries have for the climate catastrophe. Due to their position of historical subjugation, countries in the ‘Global South’ are left vulnerable against a change they themselves did not significantly contribute to. Conversely, the ‘Global North’ will be for a time insulated against the crisis that it has precipitated, as its citizens continue to consume on a level unimaginable elsewhere. The concept of climate justice demands that governments and corporations accept culpability, and so challenges the narrative that places blame on all individuals equally. To suggest that climate justice is focused mainly on ‘individuals everywhere’ is to depoliticise and decontextualize it, and to make it amenable to status quo powers.
The representation of climate justice as demanding a universal reduction in individual emissions is simultaneously too broad and too narrow. Suggesting that ‘individuals everywhere’ decrease their carbon footprint assumes a unified category of individuals, homogenous in their culpability for the climate crisis. Climate justice actively opposes such a perception, challenging the notion that an all-encompassing ‘humankind’ has “generated a single human footprint.” In their book The Shock of the Anthropocene, Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz criticise this dominant climate-crisis narrative for “presenting an abstract humanity uniformly involved – implying uniformity of blame.” The focus on the ‘individual’ is also too narrow, as climate justice transcends the individual, and places the onus of redistributive fairness on international actors. In This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein articulates such a perspective: “this is a far more expansive vision than the familiar eco-critique that stresses smallness and shrinking humanity’s impact or “footprint.” That is not an option today; we must use our institutions to act.” Narratives that emphasise individual efforts can contribute to the depoliticization of global warming when they are presented as the only option for fighting climate change.
In suggesting that everyone, everywhere, reduce their carbon footprint, one would have to presume a fairly uniform current level of consumption and emission. However, the variability in per capita consumption around the world is vast, an assertion tellingly borne out by statistics. The average American consumes around 32 times as many resources as the average Kenyan and produces approximately 54.6 times as many metric tonnes of carbon dioxide. Such evidence undermines any descriptions that detail human emissions solely in the aggregate and that imply everyone should reduce their carbon footprint. Bonneuil and Fressoz argue that the term ‘Anthropocene’ might be better replaced by ‘Oligathropocene.’
The variability in individual responsibility is paralleled by variability in international responsibility. Climate change must be historicised. By 1825, the UK was responsible for 80% of the world’s emissions, with the first evidence of a global increase in temperature emerging around the 1830s. The industrial revolution also provided the impetus for the extension of European imperialism in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Between 1850 and 1900, European per capita income increased by 222%, whilst the per capita income in Africa and Asia rose by just 8% and 1% respectively. Famine all but disappeared from Western Europe during this time, but Asia and Africa experienced food shortages of unprecedented scope. By 1914, colonial powers controlled 85% of the world’s surface, and had firmly established a structurally unequal international hierarchy in which the dominance of the imperialist powers was contingent upon the disempowerment of the Global South. The central premise of climate justice hinges upon this iniquitous history and its manifestations in the present day. Global North countries are largely responsible for the climate crisis, yet their poorer counterparts will feel its impact most harshly. Climate justice does not require all individuals everywhere to reduce emissions; it instead obliges powerful western nations to bear the financial burden of protecting their former colonies.
The central focus of climate justice – the call for climate reparations – has undeniable ethical purchase. However, the climate agreements negotiated thus far explicitly preclude any such compensation. In 2009, for example, the non-binding Copenhagen agreement established a target of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius above 19th century levels. Lumumba Di-Aping, the head of the G77 group of 130 nations, castigated the agreement for its lack of legal gravitas and its amenability with the status quo; he decried it as “a suicide pact, an incineration pact in order to maintain the economic dominance of a few countries.” In this vein, the Guardian newspaper described the conference as sounding the ‘death rattle of climate justice.’ Moreover, despite the significance of the 2015 Paris accords, the agreement implicitly repudiates the prospect of potential reparations. It still proved too radical for President Trump, who withdrew the US from the agreement on the grounds that it “handicapped the United States economy in order to win praise from the very foreign capitals and global activists that have long sought to gain wealth at our country’s expense.” According to Klein, climate justice demands a ‘Marshall plan for the world’ where poorer countries could demand financial and technological assistance from their richer counterparts.” The international community seems to emphatically reject this position, and focuses instead on more palatable initiatives such as individual reduction of emissions.
Climate justice requires both an alteration in the actions of western individuals, and a change in how the international system operates. These individual and systemic transformations have failed to eventuate because they run counter to the central tenets of free-market capitalism. Active remedial measures would require the redistribution of wealth, a concept antithetical to neoliberal principles. Market elites make climate action political heresy by espousing the capitalist axiom ‘grow or die.’ The vision sold by globalisation – one in which capitalism enables consumerist, western-style patterns of life to be enjoyed by all – is a fiction. The planet cannot support the profligate consumerism of the West. Mahatma Gandhi observed this, saying – “God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West … it would strip of the world bare like locusts.” But admitting that western patterns of life cannot be enjoyed by all undermines the very legitimacy of the international order by revealing that it is based on inequity. After such a recognition, Global North countries would necessarily be forced to redistribute wealth to their poorer counterparts. However, this recognition does not seem likely. Richer countries have the luxury to deny the urgency of climate change, possessing, for now, the resources necessary to combat it. The stakes are lower for the Global North, augmenting even further the disparity of power in climate negotiations.
Ultimately, climate change will affect everyone. However, describing global warming as a ‘great equaliser’ is misguided; it implies a uniform threat, experienced by all people on the same terms. This is not the case, and different nations have varying capacities of adaptability with regard to coping with the threats posed by climate change, as well as differing levels of culpability. The demand that individuals recycle, eat less meat, walk to work, and vacation at home focuses solely on the individual, and so obscures this disparity and the urgency of systemic change. To be sure, recycling more, adopting a plant-based diet, and flying less are important and helpful initiatives. However, they cannot be the only response to climate change, or else they serve as redirections of blame, symptomatic of the reluctance of powerful nations to admit responsibility.
Bonneuil, C. and Fressoz, J. (2016). The shock of the Anthropocene. Verso, p.65.
Klein, N. (2015). This changes everything. Penguin, p.385.
Bonneuil and Fressoz. The Shock of the Anthropocene, p.70
Abram, N., McGregor, H., Tierney, J., Evans, M., McKay, N. and Kaufman, D. (2017). Corrigendum: Early onset of industrial-era warming across the oceans and continents. Nature, 545(7653), pp.252-252.
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Klein, N. (2015). This changes everything. Penguin, p.4
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QuantaDose has developed a new anti-counterfeit technology for commercial business and residential consumer-grade UV light sanitization equipment with a credit card size reusable UVC test that instantly indicates if a UV device produces optimal UVC germicidal wavelengths to help consumers discern fraudulently marketed UVC light sterilization products from the most effective UVC germicidal wavelengths.
Nationwide, counterfeited goods have received significant attention, ranging from senators writing letters to Amazon to remove illegal, deadly, and deceptive products sold on the platform to President Trump addressing the counterfeit goods problem from countries like China as foreign sellers dominate many retail platforms in the USA.
Counterfeit goods are a big problem because foreign sellers evade legal repercussions when not respecting US intellectual property laws designed to protect American consumers and businesses alike.
“Oversight action didn’t happen soon enough,” said QuantaDose CTO, John Coates.
The lead engineer behind the consumer-friendly, cost-effective, credit card-sized counterfeit detector designed for scrutinizing consumer-grade UVC sterilization lights that have flooded online marketplaces since the pandemic began.
In November 2019, the first COVID-19 cases appeared in China. The start of a global pandemic was already underway when the Senate Finance Committee released a bipartisan report, titled The Fight Against Fakes: How Statutory and Regulatory Barriers Prevent The Sharing of Information on Counterfeits, which underscored many of the significant health and safety risks of counterfeits sold on mainstream stores online.
QuantaDose CEO, Katie Webb, comments on the Committee’s report saying, “The counterfeit health risks outlined in the Senate Finance Committee’s report pails in comparison to the risk of counterfeits online during the pandemic sold to aid in virus prevention – immediate revisions and government action must be taken to protect the people of our nation.”
Since the report was published a year ago, the world has been saturated with fake PPE. Most notably, fake N95 masks given to protect front-line heroes posted the most media attention; however, fake germicidal UVC light products ready for purchase online by end consumers from the most popular online marketplaces have garnered no media attention even though hundreds of youtube videos online show fake UVC germicidal products are victimizing consumers.
According to Webb, “These victimized consumers aren’t just putting UVC lights in the hallway of their homes, they are business owners of high traffic restaurants, retail spaces, and gyms that already have to work incredibly hard to keep themselves and customers safe. Just one counterfeit UVC light in one of these businesses can put an entire community at risk.”
Webb is right too. Google search “Testing UV-C Lights” to see how the lucky members at WeBeFit gym can thank their blessing that the owners of their workout spot went above and beyond by testing every disinfection product and technology before using them to protect their clients and workout areas.
“WeBeFit gym is a stellar business that sets a gold standard for virus prevention that all gyms should follow. I’m very grateful the QuantaDose test card can help these struggling businesses figure out what’s real UVC and what’s fake UVC to keep them from becoming victims of something far worse than an online scam”, said Webb.
The Gym’s owners posted a video showing how the QuantaDose UVC test card instantly detected a fake UVC germicidal light before it was ever used to protect the gym’s clients and community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcMy0yFrI4I
“We are pleased to be recognized by WeBeFit; we believe this recognition is validation for the importance of businesses testing UVC lighting and value that QuantaDose solutions can offer to Supply Chain leaders in the fight against UVC counterfeits. To begin with, our biggest goal should be to stop fake UVC disinfection products from ever making it to gym owners in the first place,” commented Coates.
The QuantaDose UVC test card can instantly detect real UVC light wavelengths to alert consumers if they are under a false sense of virus protection from falling victim to fake UVC germicidal lighting.
No matter what UV disinfection technology is being used, the QuantaDose UVC test card is designed for detecting state-of-the-art 222nm wavelengths produced by Far UV-C micro-plasma lamps and Far-UV excimer bulbs; optimized for the most common 253.7nm mercury-line wavelength and extending all the way up to a wavelength of 280nm for Deep UV LED technology. All of which are UV wavelengths produced by legitimate UV-C disinfection products.
Coates advises: “QuantaDose UVC counterfeiting countermeasures should be implemented throughout the UVC lighting supply chain in the USA. In our opinion, this recommendation is in line with a focus on the importance of public health and brand protection for all resellers of UVC lighting products purchased overseas for resale in the USA market.
By using QuantaDose, businesses can confirm their brand’s in-store UVC virus precautions aren’t fake and take QuantaDose quality control measures before approving the resale of UVC devices to help protect consumers in the USA from the dangers of counterfeits. Best of all, QuantaDose is affordable to all at under $10 and very consumer-friendly for end-users to confirm their real UVC products.
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Over the last few months, Catholics have had an on-and-off debate over who should and should not be admitted to Holy Communion. This debate was provoked mainly by the synod on the family and the surrounding discussion, in which some–even some Churchmen–have contended that the Church should find a way to admit divorced and remarried Catholics to Communion.
One problem with this debate, it seems to me, is that it focuses narrowly on this one question, and thus loses sight of why the Church would exclude anybody at all from Communion, or by what principles it would make this determination. This was brought once again to my mind by reading Ronald Knox’s A Spiritual Aeneid, his memoir about his conversion to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism.
Knox’s conversion was a bit of a story at the time, because he was a well known figure–son of a bishop of the Church of England and in his own right a recognized author of books of religious controversy. One of those books was called Reunion All Round. In it Knox tried to recall to reason those Anglicans who thought no Christian should be excluded from communion at a Church of England ceremony. Knox summarized the book as follows:
The argument of the book was a simple reductio ad absurdum. If (as the British public seemed to think) it was the duty of all Christian bodies to unite for worship, sinking their differences on each side, why should the the movement be confined to Christians? What about the Jews, from whom we were only separated by the Council of Jerusalem. And if the Jews, why not the Mohammedans?
And so on. He even took it to the extent of suggesting that atheists should be admitted, since the Anglicans could “join with them in a common definition of the Divine Nature, which should assert it to be such as to involve Existence and Non-existence simultaneously.”
In making fun of a lax approach to this question by carrying to its logical conclusion, Knox tried to remind people of an important truth about Communion: It is an act of Christian worship. It would accordingly make no sense to admit non-Christians to it, since they don’t believe in it anyway. By the same reason it makes no sense to admit people who understand themselves to be Christians but who don’t believe in the act of worship that is being performed. And in fact this is the same reason that, then and today, the Catholic Church does not admit even Protestant Christians to Holy Communion.
People have a strange and misguided sense that this exclusion is a kind of meanness of lack of hospitality. They are forgetting this point to which Knox recalls us. It makes perfect sense if we remember that it is an act of worship that goes all the way back to the earliest Christians. They worshipped together, as was natural. It would make no sense to bring people in who did not hold the same beliefs. Such a policy would, in fact, destroy the act of worshipping together, since some of those present would not in fact be worshipping.
In thinking about these questions, the early Church would of course have been guided by the instructions of Jesus. In one of his recorded remarks, he spoke of those who will not be corrected and who disobey even the Church. If they will not listen to the Church, he said, treat them as one of the gentiles. I take it that this means something like excommunication. In view of this remark, it would have been natural for the Church to decide that not only non-Christians, but also Christians who persist in living in ways contrary to Jesus’ teaching, should not be admitted to communion.
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A bird's eye view of the economical status of domestic chemical industry
Noriyuki Yonezawa | added on Aug 13, 2011 | Japan
Lecture at The 5th Meeing of Kanto Branch of Chemical Society of Japan (2011) on bird eyes view of the domestic chemical industries by Hiroshi Seta, the former senior writer of the Chemical Daily Co.Ltd., who publishes specified chemical news paper.
TSN Annual Meeting keynote address 'From Waste to Wealth using Green Chemistry'
Philip Smith | added on Aug 09, 2011 | United Kingdom
The TSN Annual Meeting brings together network members - teachers and scientists - for an entertaining and informative science talk and update on TSN activities. This free event, will celebrate the role of chemistry in creating a more sustainable future and provide teachers with a timely subject knowledge update.
Celebration of International Year of Chemistry and 70 years of the Department of Chemistry St. Anthony's College
Farlando Diengdoh | added on Aug 07, 2011 | India
University Grants Commission (UGC) has identified our Department of Chemistry as one of the Departments to observe “International Year of Chemistry – 2011” in a befitting manner. Aim to generate awareness about the importance of chemistry, and its application over a range of emerging issues related to chemistry, which are of i
The 5th Symposium on Biorelevant Chemistry CSJ
Tatsuya Nabeshima | added on Aug 05, 2011 | Japan
This domestic symposium is aimed to develop and activate the field of biorelevant chemistry including biofunctional chemistry, biotechnology, etc. Invited lectures, oral presentations and poster presentations will be given by professors, researchers and students.
Dancing Chemists at the 2011 ChemLuminary Awards
Jennifer Maclachlan | added on Aug 04, 2011 | United States
ChemLuminary Awards #acsdenver
When:Tuesday August 30, 2011 8pm-POSTERS 9PM-AWARDS, 10PM Dancing Chemists-Chemists Can Dance (and Rap) see ChemDance Anaheim Link below
Where:Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
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The Bible’s answer
There is no direct reference to dinosaurs in the Bible. However, the Bible credits God with having “created all things,” so it is evident that they were among the things he made.* (Revelation 4:11) Without mentioning dinosaurs specifically, the Bible does refer to groups of creatures that may include them:
“Great sea creatures,” or “monsters.”—Genesis 1:21; New American Bible.
“All the creeping animals of the ground.”—Genesis 1:25.
“The wild animals of the earth.”—Genesis 1:25.
Did dinosaurs evolve from other animals?
Rather than appearing gradually as if by evolution, dinosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record. This harmonizes with Bible statements showing that God created all the animals. For example, Psalm 146:6 describes God as “the Maker of heaven and earth, of the sea, and of all that is in them.”
When did the dinosaurs live?
The Bible describes sea and land animals as being created during the fifth and sixth days, or epochs, of creation.* (Genesis 1:20-25, 31) Thus, the Bible allows for the appearance and existence of dinosaurs over a lengthy period of time.
Were Behemoth and Leviathan dinosaurs?
No. Although these animals mentioned in the book of Job cannot be identified with certainty, Behemoth is generally identified as the hippopotamus and Leviathan as the crocodile. These identifications match the descriptions of them given in the Scriptures. (Job 40:15-23; 41:1, 14-17, 31) In any case, the terms “Behemoth” and “Leviathan” cannot refer to dinosaurs. God told Job to observe these animals personally, and Job lived long after the dinosaurs had passed off the scene.—Job 40:16; 41:8.
What happened to the dinosaurs?
The Bible does not comment on the disappearance of the dinosaurs. However, it does state that all things were created “because of [God’s] will,” so God clearly had a purpose for making dinosaurs. (Revelation 4:11) When that purpose was fulfilled, God allowed the dinosaurs to become extinct.
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Some make no qualms about it. Others (and this may be worse) market their food under the guise of health while continuing to sell the same old garbage. Sure. They may provide healthier options than the junk they typically shill. But beware. Just like the food manufacturers that made it onto our Top 10 Junk Foods in Disguise list last week these fast food joints understand that it is the pretense of health that sells – not health itself. And it’s not just individual food items marketed as the “healthy option” that we take issue with. Now we have entire restaurants that the innocent public just assumes are healthy, either because they bill themselves as such or because, hello, smoothies are health food, right…anyone…Bueller?
The following is a list of the top 10 worst offenders:
Subway – Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki
Subway…eat fresh. Subway…the way a sandwich should be. Long before Jared walked on to the scene with his slimmed down physique and big pants, Subway was promoting itself as a healthy, nutritious alternative to fast food. And yes, we’ll hand it to them: A sandwich with lean deli meats and a few veggies does beat a supersized McDonald’s meal, but once you’ve added all the extras and condiments (hello sugar-laden salad dressing!), the difference is far less staggering. Let’s examine the Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki, for example. It makes the list because it makes their silly list of “6 grams of fat or less.” Because fat makes you fat, right? Well, no. Weighing in at 370 calories, this six inch sub doesn’t, at least at first blush, appear to be all that terrible, until you look at the 59 grams of carbohydrates and the 19 grams of sugar. Double those figures for the foot-long. Our verdict? You’d be better off making a quick chicken salad at home!
Jamba Juice – Smoothies
It’s a drink. I’ll have one in place of a meal, it’s filled with “healthy” fruit and vegetable juices. They let me add supplements. it’s…hardly better than ice cream. Touted as a breakfast drink, the Sunrise Strawberry Smoothie includes an alluring blend of strawberries, banana, soy milk and non-fat yogurt as well as a whopping 49 grams of carbohydrates, 43 grams of which come directly from sugar! We don’t know about you, but that’s certainly not something we’d like to wake up to (or deal with at 10 am once the sugar high wears off!)
Baja Fresh – Taco Salad
We pick on Baja Fresh here only because of all the large Tex-Mex fast food chains, Baja Fresh is the one that the unassuming public is most likely to consider healthy (and taking pot-shots at Taco Bell was just too darn easy!) Either way, taco salads at most of these joints, are defined as a salad only in the loosest form possible. The no-meat tostada salad, for example, contains 1,010 calories, 98 grams of carbohydrates and 1930 mg of sodium. On the plus side, it does contain 32 grams of protein, but at this point, any attempt to call this dish nutritious is pretty much futile.
McDonald’s – Fruit and Yogurt Parfait with Granola
McDonald’s? I’m loving it, especially when I can load up on 31 grams of sugar in one, convenient 5.3 oz serving of the Fruit and Yogurt Parfait with Granola. In fact, this particular breakfast treat is so loaded with sugar, that it’s included as the second item on the ingredients list, behind only milk. Also, think you’ll be fine if you just pick the fruit out? According to the site’s nutrition information page (keep digging on the Web site and you’ll find it eventually!) the strawberries have been combined with konjac flour. For what purpose? We can only assume so that we’re “lovin’ it” even more.
Wendy’s — Baked Potato
Touted on the Wendy’s website as a “tasty way to get your veggies,” the broccoli and cheese potato consists of a “piping-hot baked potato straight from the oven topped with tender pieces of broccoli and a creamy cheese sauce.” But what does one 10 oz baked potato really give you? A whopping 320 calories and 69 grams of carbohydrate, and that’s before you “personalize it” with bacon pieces, reduced fat acidified sour cream (sounds tasty!), “Buttery Best Spread” (notice that they didn’t actually say butter) or chives (presumably where you’re getting your veggies). Sensible alternative to fries? Uhh… no. In fact, at this point, you’d probably be better off opting for the fries. After all, as they say in the campaigns, “it’s way better than fast food…it’s Wendy’s.”
Kentucky Fried Chicken – Now Trans Fat Free
Here at Mark’s Daily Apple we’re all for reducing trans fats. Really we are. In fact we think it’s actually kind of admirable that KFC has taken a stab at improving the nutrition content of some of its foods. However, when eliminating trans fats is your biggest health marketing tool, you’ve got a problem. Also, if you cast your mind back a few years ago (2003 perhaps) KFC did try to capitalize on the whole Atkins craze by positioning itself as carb-concious food…at roughly 10 grams of carbohydrates per piece.
Quiznos – Sammies
Marketed as a 200 calorie snack, these mini-sandwiches are consistently advertised – and presumably, only tasty – when laden with cheese and dressing. However, adding these extras will hike your sandwich from a manageable 200 calories to a whopping 320 calories (depending on how heavy-handed your sandwich maker is!) per morsel. Further confusing the American Public (and, we’ll admit, us too!), the advertised sammie meal includes 2 sammies and a side, boosting your calorie and carbohydrate content to well over 800 calories and approximately 100 grams of carbohydrates. Also, have you seen how small these stupid things are? It’s a snack at best…and we’re being kind here.
Noodles & Company – Noodles
They claim to be one of healthiest fast food joints in the U.S. (even going as far as to say it’s a “hamlet of health,”), but can a place that bases their dishes around noodles really be that healthy? Well, to be honest, the website is so darn confusing, we’ll probably never find out! Looking for low carb choices? They’ll guide you to a page that suggests that you “eat up, eat right, eat well and just eat already” and then suggests that you load up on protein (chicken breast, sautéed beef, organic tofu, etc) with nary a mention of what exactly you are supposed to eat these things with. Still not convinced? Let’s look at the mushroom stroganoff, which boasts savory sherry cream sauce, fresh mushrooms and parmesan with egg noodles. Be prepared folks, because you’re about to ingest a whopping 1,000 calories, 116 grams of carbohydrates and 25 grams of saturated fat. Very healthy indeed!
Starbucks – Skinnies
You gotta give Starbucks credit for pumping out (literally) sugar-free syrups, but don’t be fooled by the green aprons, ambient music and skinny label: There are still 20 grams of sugar and 230 calories in a Venti Skinny Cinnamon Dolce Latte. Granted, it’s leaps and bounds better than the traditional Cinnamon Dolce Latte, which packs a whopping 50 grams of sugar and 410 calories, but still, don’t let the skinny name fool you!
TCBY – 96% Fat Free Yogurt
We like to think that most people aren’t fooled anymore by the notion that frozen yogurt is better for you than ice cream. But TCBY would like you to think so. With all the calcium and probiotics it has to offer (not to mention being nearly fat free!) TCBY is clearly a sensible alternative to sugar laden Baskin-Robbins fare. Turns out a measly 1/2 cup of said yogurt packs in 20 grams of sugar. 1/2 cup! And how are they still using “fat free” as a selling point?!
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Local school districts have started to grade teachers based on student test scores, but the early results suggest the effort deserves an incomplete.
The new type of teacher evaluations make use of the standardized tests that have become an annual rite for American public-school students. The tests mainly have been used to measure the progress of students and schools, but with some statistical finesse they can be transformed into a lens for identifying which teachers are producing the best test results.
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Big Data could be a big deal for Big Pharma's commercial operations. It could help top drugmakers slash another $35 billion-plus in costs over the next several years, to keep margins up. But it's small drugmakers that could benefit most strategically, a new report finds.
According to a study from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, pharmaceutical companies now have a short list of reasons why they need to get their acts together, data-wise. Payers want more evidence that their products not only work as promised but also deliver better (and cheaper) outcomes for patients. That means more digging into patient records to analyze what's working and forging technological ties to patients to make sure therapy goes as planned--not to mention generating the data payers want for proof.
Meanwhile, a switch to specialty drugs requires highly targeted marketing, to make sure the right patients are treated. And thanks to a proliferation of health information, patients as well as payers want more input into doctors' choice of prescription, so drugmakers need to find those patients--and find ways to communicate with them, whether through mobile apps or social media or reimbursement counselors.
For companies as a whole, Big Data's promise is a tighter, better informed commercial organization better equipped to negotiate with increasingly tight-fisted payers. It could help marketers reach the right doctors and patients, with the right materials and assistance. And it could help them save the $36 billion they need to maintain operating margins in the neighborhood of 25%.
For marketers themselves, the changes could be painful. How has Big Pharma preserved its margins so far? Cost cuts. How will drugmakers keep them up over the next few years? More cost cuts. And those future cuts are likely to take a big toll on sales and marketing organizations. In a survey of leading drugmakers, IMS Health found that 40% of respondents expect cuts to commercial operations of more than 10% over the next three years, with more than a fifth looking for cuts of at least 15%.
But if those cuts must claim jobs, then putting data to work can at least help marketing managers reduce costs in a more strategic way, IMS Health says. Rather than "crude" across-the-board headcount reductions and brand-budget cuts, companies can spend their money on the things that are most important, strategically, and those that contribute most to actual sales--and chip away at the rest.
For instance, marketers can use data to gauge the effectiveness of launch techniques and marketing campaigns, and scrap those that don't work. They can figure out which doctors like to learn about which drugs in which way--face-to-face meetings, email, e-detailing, and so on--and focus their resources accordingly.
Sadly for Big Pharma, switching to a data-driven approach to sales and marketing could be costly. Drugmakers have sunk large sums of money into in-house data systems that do give them a competitive advantage, marketing-wise, IMS Health says. But those systems may not be able to play with cloud-based data analysis. So, smaller drugmakers may be better able to take advantage of cloud technologies.
And as they do, Big Pharma's data-driven competitive advantage could be lost. That means smaller companies may be able to use cloud applications to market their first drugs on their own--without signing on with a major marketing partner, the IMS report says.
"As these technologies become more widespread, accessible through the cloud, and proven, they will also provide small and mid-sized companies a greater opportunity to compete on a level playing field with the traditionally better-funded commercial operations of large companies," the report states. And that could change drug marketing for good.
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An investigation was carried out with the primary objective of ascertaining whether it is possible to develop a model for determining the feasibility of retrofitting hydropower to existing dams in South Africa. The need for such a model is primarily due to the growing importance of small-scale hydropower projects resulting from the global shift towards renewable energy and the South African energy crisis, the increased price of energy and the introduction of feed-in tariffs for renewables. The model is intended for engineers, typically working on behalf of a client who would like a simple first order assessment of feasibility. It therefore takes all technical, environmental, social and financial considerations into account in order to provide a recommendation on whether or not a project would be feasible. Achieving the primary objective required an in-depth study of the theory and literature related to the current electricity situation in South Africa as well as all the different components and considerations of hydropower projects. This theoretical knowledge could then be utilised to develop a computer model which combines the most important considerations into a cohesive whole in order to make a recommendation on feasibility. The accuracy and applicability of the model could then be ascertained through testing, using actual case studies in South Africa. Three test cases were utilised which yielded positive results. A number of difficulties were encountered. These related mainly to the development of an accurate means for pricing the different components primarily due to a lack of response from suppliers. Such issues were solved through the use of theoretical formulas and studies which provided good results. Ultimately, a model was developed which includes financial, environmental and social considerations and provides values that are accurate enough as an initial tool in determining whether or not to continue with a retrofitted hydropower project.
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For students with a passion for programming computers, Vidya Academy of Science and Technology (VAST- www.vidyaacademy.ac.in), Thrissur and Zyxware Technologies(www.zyxware.com) in association with SMC (swathanthra malayalam computing - wiki.smc.org.in) and Free Software User's group Thrissur, are organising a developer camp, at VAST campus on 29th-November-2010.
Session 1 : 9.30AM -12.30PM Session 2 : 1.30 PM- 4.30 PM
Praveen Arimbrathodiyil will be lead the camp.Praveen Arimbrathodiyil is one of key contributors to the SMC Project.His contributions include Malayalam localization of various free software projects like GNOME, KDE, Debian installer, and various gnu.org articles. He has actively influenced the present state of Malayalam language on Free Software Desktops through relentless testing, feedback and programming when and where required. He is also a debian maintainer and has worked as a mentor for Google Summer of Code projects.
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California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director and State Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith today announced that CDPH has received the first report of an influenza-associated fatality in a person under the age of 65 for the 2016-2017 flu season. The death occurred in Los Angeles County.
“As this unfortunate case illustrates, the flu can be deadly and causes thousands of fatalities each year in the United States,” Dr. Smith said. “Fortunately, people can get vaccinated to help keep them from getting sick and spreading the flu to others.”
While this is the first influenza-associated death in a patient under the age of 65 reported this season in California, CDPH has received reports of 11 confirmed influenza-associated cases that required treatment in an intensive care unit, and five influenza outbreaks in the state this year. Deaths due to influenza in persons under 65 years of age are reportable in CA to monitor the seasonal severity of influenza.
Each year, flu causes millions of illnesses, hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands or sometimes tens of thousands of deaths in the United States. To reduce this threat, CDPH recommends the annual flu vaccine for everyone six months of age and older, including pregnant women.
While seasonal flu outbreaks can happen as early as October, flu activity is usually highest between December and February, and can last through the Spring. As family and friends gather during the holidays, now is an important time to get protection against the flu. It’s not too late to get vaccinated.
Common symptoms of the flu include fever or feeling feverish, a cough and/or sore throat, a runny or stuffy nose, chills, fatigue and body aches. Children may also have nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.
To stop the spread of flu and other respiratory illnesses, Californians should also:
- Stay home when sick
- Cover a cough or sneeze with a tissue and properly dispose of the used tissue
- Wash hands thoroughly with soap and warm water or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth
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The past year has seen the most sweeping transformation of U.S. spacepower in decades.
In the words of Stephen L. Kitay, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, the United States is seeing “the most significant transformation in the history of the National Security Space Program,” involving “an enterprise-wide transformation from approaching space as a support function, to approaching space as a warfighting domain in which we are postured to compete, deter, and win.”
In August 2019, the United States established the U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) as the eleventh combatant command, which combines capabilities from each of the five military services and applies them to execute missions in the space domain. Its goal is “bring[ing] focused attention to defending U.S. interests in space” and “accelerating the integration of space capabilities into other warfighting forces.”
Prioritizing space as a warfighting domain, the USSPACECOM focus areas are:
- deterring or defeating aggression in, from, and to space;
- defending the complete span of U.S. and allied space interests and assets;
- delivering lethal spacepower and ready joint warfighters to other COCOMS; and
- serving as the DOD manager for human spaceflight.
The USSPACECOM’s two subordinate commands are the Combined Force Space Component Command (CFSCC) and Joint Task Force Space Defense (JTF-SD).
In December, the Defense Department stood up the U.S. Space Force (USSF) as a military service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, the first one in more than 70 years, though its personnel size is smaller than any other military service branch. Analogous to the position of the U.S. Marine Corps within the Department of the Navy, the USSF is formally a coequal branch with the United States Air Force within the Department of the Air Force, both overseen by the Secretary of the Air Force.
The USSF’s main functions are to organize, train, and equip space forces and provide these capabilities to the Joint Force via appropriate components in the combatant commands, which will apply spacepower in all five domains – air, land, sea, cyberspace, as well as outer space.
The USSF will have a flatter command structure than the previous Air Force Space Command, with three rather than five echelons aiming for “a lean, agile and mission-focused organization.”
The three levels of the command structure are:
- Field Commands (led by an O-9 or O-8);
- Operational support or specialized Mission Deltas (equivalent to Army Combat Teams or Air Force Expeditionary Wings, led by an O-6) along with Garrison Commands for installation support; and
- Squadrons at the lowest level, led by an O-5.
Formerly the 14th Air Force, the restructured Space Operations Command (SpOC, headed by a three-star general officer) is the primary provider of space personnel and capabilities for warfighting operations conducted by combatant commanders, other elements of the Joint Force, and international partners.
The Space Systems Command (SSC, headed by a three-star), is responsible for developing, acquiring, fielding, and sustaining military space systems through developmental testing, on-orbit checkout, and maintenance. The SSC also oversees the USSF science and technology activities such as the Space and Missile Systems Center, the Commercial Satellite Communications Office, and other former USAF program offices being transferred to the new USSF, plus any new ones.
The Commercial Satellite Communications Office (CSCO, headed by civilian employee Clare Grason) has launched an Infrastructure Asset Pre-Assessment Program to help the USSF, which has sole authority for procuring military communications satellites, acquire more cyber secure COMSATS from commercial and other partners.
A new Space Force Acquisition Council (SFAC) is intended to “oversee, direct, and manage acquisition and integration of the Air Force for space systems and programs in order to ensure integration across the national security space enterprise.” The Council directs the activities of the Space Development Agency (SDA), Space and Missile Systems Center, and Space Rapid Capabilities Office. The SDA, formed in March 2019, will become part of the USSF in late 2022. These bodies aim to leverage the vast U.S. commercial space sector for cost-effective and innovative solutions.
Finally, the Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM) headed by a two-star after it stands up in 2021), was stood up at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado to train, educate, inspire, empower, and transform new spaceprofessionals, with appropriate ethos and skills, into combat-ready space troops. This task is critical for building enduring space power in coming years.
Though some two dozen units have been transferred from the USAF to the USSF, the Space Force still has the smallest number of active duty military personnel of any service branch. The U.S. Air Force will provide most of the defense support functions for the new Space Force, including security forces, civil engineers, human resource managers, financial managers, public affairs, and medical and legal personnel. Civilian contractors will maintain and operate many assets, but only uniformed personnel will be able to engage in actual warfighting.
On June 17, 2020, the Pentagon published a new Defense Space Strategy to provide strategic direction for transforming the U.S. military space policies, capabilities, operations, doctrine, and partnerships. It established three general objectives for the Pentagon’s space activities: maintain space superiority; provide space support to national, joint, and combined operations; and ensure space stability. The Strategy identified four lines of effort to attain these goals:
- Build a comprehensive military advantage in space by developing the Space Force in general and the doctrine, expertise, culture, and capabilities needed to manage current and future threats
- Integrate military space power into national, joint, and combined national security operations
- Shape the strategic environment by working internationally to develop responsible standards of space behavior
- Cooperate with foreign allies and partners as well as domestic industries and other U.S. government departments and agencies.
The inaugural Space Capstone document published this month, entitled “Spacepower,” provides high-level doctrine to guide the USSF in executing multidomain operations. Its five sections address various aspects of developing and employing U.S. spacepower: the distinct nature of the space domain, national spacepower, military spacepower, employment of space forces, and military space forces. These sections describe:
- why “spacepower” is a distinct form of military power but on par with the other five domains of landpower, seapower, airpower, and cyberpower
- how spacepower is employed; the unique aspects of the space domain
- the relationship between national and military spacepower; and an assessment of the expertise needed to succeed in this realm
The publication covers such issues as common terminology, operational and tactical doctrine, training and education, mission analysis, decision making, and the development of space strategy in support of U.S. national security. The Capstone will serve as the basis for developing the Force’s operational and tactical doctrine.
Despite its historical association with the U.S. Air Force, spacepower has been a critical enabling capability to modern Army and Navy operations. For this reason, the new doctrine appropriately stresses the inherent ties between national security space missions and the Joint Force. Nobody wants the other services to think that, with the creation of USSF, they can again neglect space security issues within their branch-specific operations.
The U.S. national security space community has made great progress over the past year in reorganizing its main structures, aligning forces to missions, supporting civil and commercial space partnerships, and so far, providing adequate budgetary support for new capabilities and missions.
The next U.S. administration should undertake a comprehensive roles and missions review to assess the implications and effects of the recent reorganizations as well as novel space capabilities.
The latter may make it preferable to have some terrestrial platforms, such as long-flying UAVs, more extensively support space missions; possibly extend some existing air and ground mission areas into the space domain; synchronize better the ground, cyber, and space-based military space assets; consolidate the civilian decision making authority for national security space issues that are presently disaggregated within the Defense Department; and encourage better requirements development coordination between the COCOMs and the intelligence community.
U.S. space decision makers should also continue to build international space partnerships.
The Spacepower capstone document identifies several lines of effort toward this end.
One line calls on the Pentagon to integrate allies and partners better into its plans, exercises, operations, engagements, and intelligence activities, such as the Combined Space Operations initiative among Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
According to one expert, Sarah Mineiro, “the United States still has a way to go in fully integrating these partners into its space operations centers and in standardizing their access to both intelligence and operational data derived from space.”
Mineiro also sees unrealized opportunities for cooperation with emerging space powers such as Brazil, South Korea, or the United Arab Emirates.
Another line of effort identified in the Spacepower capstone document is to encourage key U.S. allies and partners to develop their own military space capabilities further while cooperating to ensure they enjoy high interoperability with the U.S. national security space enterprise.
One way to do so is through expanding international cooperative research, development, and acquisition efforts for civil, commercial, and military space capabilities.
The Spacepower document also proposes a State Department-led campaign to mobilize international coalitions to shape the strategic space environment by publicizing threats and coordinating messages.
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We blame ourselves for everything. Even if we’re outwardly blaming someone else, it stems from a place of guilt. We try to divert attention in case someone might realize our part in the situation.
The truth is, however, that what happens to and around you has very little to do with you. Okay, so your very presence alters the Universe and your hinny in more special that anyone else’s, but that’s pretty much where it ends.
What does have to do with you is your response to life.
How arrogant we are to think that the way someone else chooses to behave has anything to do with us; they are only reacting from their own ego, who also thinks that what you are doing has everything to do with them. To burst another “I’m special” bubble; they are experiencing the same guilt we are.
“She’s mistreating me because I hurt her 12 years ago.”
“He’s with her because I wasn’t a good enough wife.”
“My boss doesn’t like me because I was late those three times.”
“My father abused me because I was always in the way.”
And on, and on.
Bullshit; people behave the way they behave because they have chosen to behave that way. No one is holding magic strings, making us puppets.
Someone you love hurts you, how do you respond? Do you attack or do you love?
It’s your choice. And, how you choose to respond has nothing to do with them…it’s entirely up to you. Which also means that how they respond to you is entirely up to them. You haven’t made them do anything.
Who do you think you are that you’re controlling others around you? Even when they try to tell you that it’s your fault, you don’t have that type of power. Love (the only true source of power) doesn’t control. And, control is an illusion.
Get over yourself and focus on building your own house.
We’ve established that we cannot control others, so the only thing to do is to focus on our own behavior. This is where personal responsibility comes in. While it’s often not fun to figure out your responsibility in situations you find yourself, it is the most freeing thing you can do. It’s a form of self-love because you are allowing yourself to be human and accepting your contribution to life.
Then, you have the power to change it.
I’ve been blessed with a group of people in my life over the past year who absolutely will not let you get away with blame shifting. If you’re unhappy, go fix it. If someone won’t ‘let’ you fix it (another illusion), figure it out. You most definitely have some contribution to the situation. Once you find what that contribution is, you’ve found your source of power.
The distinction here is that your contribution is still not what has caused the other person to behave the way they did.
Your contribution always centers around your behavior and/or thoughts about what has happened. Example: I watched a woman walk out of my ex-husband’s home one morning while we were still married, but separated. (We live next door to each other.) My daughter said ‘I know her, that’s the bartender from Chili’s.
I flipped shit; I went absolutely crazy…in front of my kid.
My ego said it was his fault; it was his fault that I was hurting and his fault that I freaked out. But no: I chose to freak out. And my contribution to my own pain was choosing a man who would do such a thing. He showed me when we first met that he is okay with having and deceiving several women at once. He did it to me for our first four months together.
But, I chose to marry him anyway. (And, I’ve chosen to stay in my home immediately next door to his, which allows his behaviors to be directly in my face.)
However, his choice to have the bartender over had nothing to do with me. It wasn’t because I left him a year prior and had dated other people. It’s because he chose, in that moment, to behave that way. He loves to blame me for his actions. He does it constantly, sometimes making a good case. But, that doesn’t remove the personal responsibility he has for how he lives his life and how he treats others.
So, ultimately, it’s all bullshit.
We choose our lives. While we can’t choose what happens around us and how others treat us; we can choose our response. And, only in a response do we make time to consciously choose. When we react our ego is running the show, which always makes matters worse, and causes more pain.
As far as your guilt goes, drop it; you aren’t making them behave the way they do.
Your screw-ups as a human didn’t cause another to choose to hurt you. They are just as powerful as you are, and are just as free to choose. And believing the lie that you have anything to do with their behavior often keeps you trapped in the cycle of trying to get it right so they will behave differently.
Let it—and them—go.
Choose your life and who you are going to be in it. Let go of the illusion that it has anything to do with anyone else.
In this space, you have unlimited power.
Mikela Rae‘s vision is to live in a way that promotes spiritual and consciousness expansion. Her passion lies in helping others develop mental and physical habits that allow them to find their true Self. In this way, one more soul is reconnected to the whole. She is an Ashtanga yogi, writer, consciousness coach, mother, ex-wife, trail runner, speaker, ranch hand, aircraft mechanic, cook, mystic, listener, healer and a bad ass. Find her on tumblr, twitter and facebook.
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Multifunctional and convenient, concentrated seafood stock is simply seafood stock that has been reduced, increasing its potency. One of the most common concentrated seafood stock products is Glace de Fruits de Mer Gold, which comes as red paste in a jar. Its ingredients include white wine, lobster stock, fish stock, shrimp stock, salt, dried shrimp stock, carrot stock, mirepoix stock (made of carrot, celery, and onion stocks), dried fish stock, fish gelatin, tomato paste, and dried crab stock. Another common concentrated seafood stock is Perfect Addition’s fish stock, which comes frozen in 8- and 16-ounce containers. Its ingredients include halibut, wine, onions, mushrooms, celery, carrots, lemon juice, and parsley.
To reconstitute concentrated seafood stock, follow the instructions on the package or in the specific recipe; some recipes may call for keeping the stock more concentrated than others, for more seafood flavor. You can always substitute bottled clam juice for concentrated seafood stock; use an equal amount of clam juice for the amount of reconstituted seafood stock that is needed.
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Theory of reasoned action
The theory of reasoned action (TRA), is one of the three classic persuasion models of psychology, and is also used in communication discourse as a theory of understanding persuasive messages. The theory of reasoned action was developed by Martin Fishbein and Icek Ajzen in 1967 and was derived from previous research that began as the theory of attitude. The theory aims to explain the relationship between attitudes and behaviors within human action. TRA is used to predict how individuals will behave based on their pre-existing attitudes and behavioral intentions. An individual's decision to engage in a particular behavior is based on the outcomes the individual expects will come as a result of performing the behavior.
The theory of reasoned action serves to understand an individual's voluntary behavior. The ideas found within the theory of reasoned action have to do with an individual's basic motivation to perform an action. According to the theory, intention to perform a certain behavior precedes the actual behavior. This intention is known as behavioral intention, and comes as a result of a belief that performing the behavior will lead to a specific outcome. Behavioral intention is important to the theory because these intentions "are determined by attitudes to behaviors and subjective norms". The theory of reasoned action suggests that stronger intentions lead to increased effort to perform the behavior, which also increases the likelihood for the behavior to be performed.
Ajzen and Fishbein suggest two factors that determine intention: attitudes and subjective norms. An attitude is a person's opinion about whether a behavior is positive or negative, while "a subjective norm is a perceived social pressure arising from one's perception". A subjective norm describes the social pressure an individual feels to perform or not perform the behavior at hand. Together, attitudes and subjective norms are thought to determine behavioral intention. Behavioral intention then leads to performing the behavior.
The TRA theorists note that there are three conditions that can affect the relationship between behavioral intention and behavior. The first condition is that "the measure of intention must correspond with respect to their levels of specificity". This means that to predict a specific behavior, the behavioral intention must be equally specific. The second condition is that there must be "stability of intentions between time of measurement and performance of behavior". The intention must remain the same between the time that it is given and the time that the behavior is performed. The third condition is "the degree to which carrying out the intention is under the volitional control of the individual". The individual always has the control of whether or not to perform the behavior. These conditions have to do with the transition from verbal responses to actual behavior.
The theory of reasoned action has been used in many studies as a framework for examining specific kinds of behavior. Many researchers use the theory to study behaviors that are associated with high risks and danger, as well as deviant behavior. In contrast, some research has applied the theory to more normative and rational types of action. Some of the applications of the TRA include college fraternity and sorority hazing, coupon usage, and adolescent sexual behavior. Researchers Davies, Foxall, and Pallister suggest that the theory of reasoned can be tested if "behavior is measured objectively without drawing a connection to prior intention". Most studies, however, look at intention because its central role in the theory.
College fraternity and sorority hazing
The theory of reasoned action has been applied to the study of whistle-blowing intentions and hazing in college organizations, specifically fraternities and sororities. Hazing is understood to be "any activity expected of someone that joins a group, which humiliates, degrades, abuses or endangers its victims". In the United States, there have been a variety of hazing incidents that have resulted in death and harm of students on several college campuses. Whistle-blowing "involves an individual with some level of unique or inside knowledge using public communication to bring attention to some perceived wrongdoing or problem. Whistle-blowing is significant to this issue because individuals who are aware of hazing incidents can come forward to university officials and make the occurrence of hazing known. In their study, Richardson et al. set out to study whistle-blowing by using the theory of reasoned action as a framework to predict whether or not individuals will come forward about report hazing incidents. Their study served to examine whether the relationships suggested by the TRA model remain true in predicting whistle blowing intentions, as well as, to see if these relationships would change depending on the severity of the hazing incident.
Richardson et al. surveyed a sample of 259 students from Greek organizations at university in the Southwestern United States. The survey questions measured the different aspects of the TRA model: behavioral beliefs, outcome evaluations, attitude toward the behavior, normative beliefs, motivation to comply, subjective norms, and the consequence endogenous variable. The questions asked respondents to rate their responses on various 7 point scales. "Participants in the study responded to one of three scenarios, varying in level of severity, describing a hazing situation occurring in their fraternity or sorority". In line with the theory, the researchers wanted to identify if attitudes held about hazing, dangerous activity, and group affiliation, along with subjective norms about whistle-blowing (reactions by others, consequences of reporting the action, isolation from the group) would influence whether or not an individual would go through with reporting a hazing incident. The results of the study found that individuals were more likely to report, or whistle-blow, on hazing incidents that were more severe or harmful to individuals. Simultaneously, individuals were also concerned about the perceptions of others' attitudes towards them and the consequences they may face if they reported hazing incidents.
Coupon usage has also been studied through the theory of reasoned action framework by researchers interested in consumer and marketer behavior. In 1984, Terence Shimp and Alican Kavas applied this theory to coupon usage behavior, with the research premise that "coupon usage is rational, systematic, and thoughtful behavior" in contrast with other applications of the theory to more dangerous types of behavior.
The theory of reasoned action serves as a useful model because it can help examine whether "consumers' intentions to use coupons are determined by their attitudes and perceptions of whether important others think one should or should not expend the effort to clip, save, and use coupons". The consumer's behavior intentions are influenced by their personal beliefs about coupon usage, meaning whether or not they think saving money is important and are willing to spend the time clipping coupons. These potential beliefs also influenced the coupon user's thoughts about what others think about their usage of coupons. Together, the coupon user will use their own beliefs and the opinions of others to form an overall attitude towards coupon usage. To approach this study, Shimp and Alican surveyed 770 households and measured the aspects of the TRA model in terms of the participant's responses. The received responses indicated that consumers' norms are "partially determined by their personal beliefs toward coupon usage, and to an even greater extend, that attitudes are influenced by internalizations of others' beliefs". Positive attitudes towards this behavior are influenced by an individual's perceptions that their partners will be satisfied by their time spent and efforts made to save money.
Many studies have been conducted about the theory of reasoned action and its applications to sexual behavior, especially in adolescents. This focus may be because "sexual intercourse among adolescents frequently has been characterized as unplanned and impulsive". W.M. Doswell, Braxter, Cha, and Kim examined sexual behavior in African American teenage girls and applied the theory as a framework for understanding this behavior. Previous research and reviews of pregnancy prevention programs indicate that teenager's beliefs about sex, values, attitudes, and intentions were the most important factors related to sexual behavior. The theory of reasoned action can explain these behaviors in that teens' behavioral intentions to engage in early sexual behavior are influenced by their pre-existing attitudes and subjective norms of their peers. Attitudes in this context are favorable or unfavorable dispositions towards teenage sexual behavior. Subjective norms are the perceived social pressure teenagers feel from their friends, classmates, and other peer groups to engage in sexual behavior. As a framework, the TRA suggests that adolescents will participate in early behavior because of their own attitudes towards the behavior and the subjective norms of their peers. In this case, intention is the willful plan to perform early sexual behavior.
Doswell et al. conducted their study with the purpose of testing the TRA and its ability to predict early sexual behavior in African American teenage girls. Participants in the study were included if they were African American, between ages 11 and 14, healthy, and had no history of pregnancy. The girls were measured on six instrumental scales: socio-demographic placement, pubertal development, and four TRA survey questionnaires. Findings from the student showed that the TRA was supportive in predicting early sexual behavior among African American teenage girls. Attitudes towards sex and subjective norms both correlated with intentions to participate in early sexual behavior in the study's sample.
The theory of reasoned action has been summarized into a formula and a flow chart for visual representations of how the theory works.
In its simplest form, the TRA can be expressed as the following equation:
- BI = behavioral intention
- (AB) = one's attitude toward performing the behavior
- W = empirically derived weights
- SN = one's subjective norm related to performing the behavior
As a behavioral process, an expanded TRA flow model can be expressed as follows:
- Reasoned action approach (the last revision of the theory)
- Theory of planned behavior
- Technology acceptance model
- Behavioural change theories (overview article)
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- Doswell, Willa; Braxter, Betty; Cha, EunSeok; Kim, Kevin (2011). "Testing the Theory of Reasoned Action in Explaining Sexual Behavior Among African American Young Teen Girls". Journal of Pediatric Nursing.
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- Yousafzai, Shumaila (2010). "Explaining Internet Banking Behavior: Theory of reasoned action, theory of planned behavior, or technology acceptance model?". Journal of Applied Psychology.
- Richardson, Brian; Wang, Zuoming; Hall, Camille (April–June 2012). "Blowing the Whistle Against Greek Hazing: The Theory of Reasoned Action as a Framework for Reporting Intentions". Communication Studies.
- Shimp, Terence; Kavas, Alican (December 1984). "The Theory of Reasoned Action Applied to Coupon Usage". Journal of Consumer Research (Volume 11).
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In Celebration of Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
it’s that time of year again. This week we turn our attention to celebrating
medical laboratorians. It is the one
week out of the year when we highlight the very important role played by those
of us who practice in the laboratory.
Although the information we provide is so vital to healthcare, we are largely
invisible. Arguably we provide the majority of the concrete data used in the
diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of diseases. By the nature of our work and the technology used, we increasingly
also help to rule out illnesses and advance wellness.
year I have written an article, a blog or two, and participated locally in the
celebration of “our week.” Although some of my professional career has been spent
outside of the laboratory, I always return to my roots and try to join in the
celebration whenever I can.
of you work long hours, tirelessly, outside the attention and consciousness of
the patient, day in and day out. With such little public recognition, I am all
in favor of a week of celebration. In recent years, however, I have argued
against turning inwards as the only means of celebrating. Mutual pats on the
shoulder, wearing t-shirts, hosting baby-picture contests and attending lunches
thrown by vendors are great. However, I also advocate aggressively promoting
the profession so that others-doctors, nurses, other health professionals,
administrators and patients-see who we are, how we think and what we do.
others starts with knowing our own history. For example, how about having a
contest in your lab to see how many of your colleagues know the following facts:
are approximately 300,000 medical laboratory professionals in the USA
laboratory science emerged as a discrete profession around the 1920’s
1975 a week of celebration, originally called National Medical Laboratory Week
(NMLW), was initiated by the ASCLS, which back then was named ASMT. Over the years, other
laboratory organizations have joined in cosponsoring the week
2005 the organizers of the week changed the name to National Medical Laboratory
Professionals Week; adding the “P” to emphasize the role of the professional,
the individual. We are more than a room in the basement; after all, we are a profession.
year, a different slogan was chosen to highlight the week. However, in 2010 a
permanent theme was chosen: Laboratory Professionals Get Results. This is very
catchy and creates a brand that we can all remember, relate to, and use all year long.
week is often called “Lab Week” for brevity and because the official name has changed
so much. However that casual term probably perpetuates ignorance of the real name
and helps to minimize the role of the professional.
2012 the organizers removed the “N” (National) from the name which had been
pretty unwieldy, you have to admit. So the current, correct name is Medical
Laboratory Professionals Week (MLPW)
week, celebrate, enjoy yourselves. But whenever possible, use the opportunity
to introduce yourself and your profession to those who benefit from your dedication
and talent, but know little about you and your skills.
Have Fun. Thank you for all you do, and Happy Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
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When it comes to HIV prevention and treatment, there is a growing population that is being overlooked — older adults — and implicit ageism is partially responsible for this neglect, according to a presentation at the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
“The lack of perceived HIV risk in late adulthood among older people themselves, as well as providers and society in general, inhibits investment in education, testing and programmatic responses to address HIV in an aging population,” said presenter Mark Brennan-Ing, PhD, director for research and evaluation at ACRIA, a non-profit HIV/AIDS research organization in New York City. “Ageism perpetuates the invisibility of older adults, which renders current medical and social service systems unprepared to respond to the needs of people aging with HIV infection.”
There is an enduring misconception that HIV is a disease of the young, and in particular young gay and bisexual men, according to Brennan-Ing, but it is estimated that in developed countries with well-developed health care systems, almost half of all people living with HIV are 50 or older. In some countries, that number is expected to increase to 70 percent by 2020. People 50 and older account for 17 percent of new HIV infections, and are more likely than younger adults to be diagnosed with AIDS at the same time as they discover their HIV status.
Previous research has suggested as many as two-thirds of all older Americans with HIV have experienced stigma due not only to the disease, but to their age. This phenomenon may be even more pronounced among gay and bisexual men, because of an increased obsession with age and internalized ageism within the gay community.
Despite a median age of 58, older Americans with HIV are more likely to exhibit characteristics of people in their 60s, 70s or even 80s, said Brennan-Ing. The combination of stigma due to age, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, gender identity and expression, and HIV can lead to a number of negative outcomes specific to this population.
“Stigma results in social isolation, either through rejection by social network members or self-protective withdrawal, leading to loneliness and, ultimately, depression,” he said. “Stigma also makes people reluctant to disclose their HIV status, which could affect their health care treatment or prevent them taking precautions to reduce transmission.”
Older individuals who believe in the negative stereotypes associated with aging can also have poor health outcomes. Negative expectations about aging have been associated with poor cognitive test performance in older individuals and can increase stress, resulting in physical health issues, such as heart disease. More important, if an individual believes that aging leads to inevitable health problems and decline, that person may stop engaging in healthy behaviors, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
“These mechanisms may be responsible for empirical findings that internalized ageism is related to both chronic disease and longevity,” he said.
While it may not be possible to reduce ageism at the societal level, there are opportunities at the community level for providers of health and human services to buffer or reduce the impact of ageism for those who are infected or at risk for HIV, he said.
Specifically, Brennan-Ing recommended:
• Training health providers in HIV screening, early diagnosis and initiation of antiretroviral therapy in older populations and integration of key services.
• Prevention, education and outreach targeting older adults.
• Treatment guidelines for older individuals with HIV.
• Funding in line with the aging of the epidemic.
• Engagement of communities, community-based organizations and social service providers in outreach, mental health and social support.
• Addressing the needs of special populations.
“With the demographic shift toward older adults in the HIV population globally, and the elusiveness of a cure, addressing the care needs of this aging population are paramount,” said Brennan-Ing. “The aging of the HIV epidemic will be very challenging, but provides the opportunity to mount a global response that will address the needs of this population across regions and settings.” | <urn:uuid:1060316f-ba32-4535-895e-b4188ff8c067> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://swhelper.org/2017/08/05/older-adults-hiv-overlooked-population/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.960725 | 833 | 2.859375 | 3 |
The Senior Distinguished Faculty Award is given each spring to a full professor. As we all know, professors can often get lost. Sometimes they get lost in thought, stuck somewhere in their own musings and contemplation. Sometimes they get lost in the library, or even lost in the past, trying to sort through ancient artifacts or languages for insights about culture and human character. If they are like me, sometimes they get lost in cyberspace, trying to navigate the maze of a new software program or simply to stay afloat as some new wave of technology sweeps over us, changing how we study, communicate and teach.
To be honest, if I was lost in some new cyberworld matrix, I would want the winner of this year’s Senior Distinguished Faculty Award to be my guide. Since arriving at Gordon five years ago, he has been the foremost interpreter on the faculty of the potential and the limits of technology. Students, faculty and administrators alike have greatly appreciated his counsel about the ways that technological innovation can enhance motivation and learning, even as he offers discerning advice about the forms of technology that can be debilitating or superfluous. A biblical scholar, he has explored the realm where ancient Greek and Hebrew and the C++ of modern computer language meet. He has been a champion of using technological resources to provide wider access to information and the free flow of ideas, and in the last several years has undertaken numerous intellectual projects, developing web-based archives of important primary materials and his own interpretations of biblical texts. Academic presses have published his interactive CD programs, including a recent work on Mastering New Testament Greek and a virtual journey though the culture and landscape of biblical Palestine, one that allows us all to get Lost in Jerusalem.
And he is, in the best sense, a professor who can get lost in thought. Gentle spirited, collegial and generous with his time, he enters easily into conversations with a desire to learn from others, to entertain new ideas, to contemplate how his own understanding of Scripture can be enriched by interdisciplinary theory and inquiry. Students and faculty appreciate both his winsome modesty and his ability to challenge them with new ideas. It is the same breadth of care and engagement that led to his election to the Faculty Senate. It also led him, during a previous post at a Midwestern seminary, not only to prepare would-be pastors for the ministry but to drive many miles to teach inmates at a local prison. For such reasons, this year’s committee was pleased to select Dr. Ted Hildebrandt as the recipient of the Senior Distinguished Faculty Award. | <urn:uuid:99ecc5fa-f6fa-470f-89b9-96e30b3cddba> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.gordon.edu/page.cfm?iPageID=3285&iCategoryID=33&Academics&Ted_Hildebrandt_(2004) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00054-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96892 | 523 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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Facebook Adds Email Sign-Up Forms To Instant Articles
Email sign-ups in Instant Articles offer a chance for publishers to own some of the audience they’re borrowing from Facebook.
Facebook has started letting publishers include email sign-up forms in their Instant Articles. Digiday first reported the news earlier on Wednesday. Marketing Land came across an example of these forms when checking out an Instant Article on The New York Times’ Facebook page on Wednesday.
The email sign-ups appear to be a way for publishers to own some of the audience they’re borrowing from Facebook by hosting articles on the social network. They are also in keeping with the idea that Instant Articles — and social distribution in general — can be a form of marketing for publishers.
“Platforms are great tools to helping growing your audience,” said Jessica Lessin, CEO of subscriber-only tech news site The Information, during a panel discussion at Re/code’s Code/Media conference last month.
During that session, The Financial Times’ CEO John Ridding said that, while the newspaper puts most of its articles behind a paywall, it has also distributed some for free in order to get extra attention. For example, when the FT reported last month that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering entering the 2016 presidential race, it opened it up so that people on social networks like Facebook could read it without being blocked by the paper’s paywall. The traffic that article received outside of the FT’s site was 10 times bigger than what it received on the site, Mr. Ridding said.
That outside traffic is even more valuable if it can be brought inside in order to to turn those social readers into recurring ones that publishers can gather information about. That information and ability to identify an individual reader is a big boon for publishers looking to hang onto their audiences and increase their ad rates. And that seems to be the point of the email sign-up forms in Instant Articles.
While Facebook lets publishers collect some information about the number of people checking out their Instant Articles, publishers like The New York Times have no idea if someone who read an Instant Article is also a subscriber to its newspaper or what other articles that person has read. But if a publisher can get that person to sign up for an email newsletter, it has a better chance of getting that person to check out its articles even if they don’t appear prominently in their Facebook feeds or even to buy a subscription to the paper. And if that person does check out those emailed articles by going to the publisher’s site, the publisher can recognize that person, build a profile of the articles they read and maybe match it against other information — like a retailer’s loyalty member list — in order to tailor the ads it shows them and charge more for those better aimed ads. | <urn:uuid:d6db72ce-cd3b-4d74-86dd-f349575a6269> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://marketingland.com/facebook-adds-email-sign-ups-to-instant-articles-167005 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00491-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948965 | 596 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Here are a few of the top tips from the entrepreneurs:
Mary Donnell, Donnell and Associates and Green City Growers on business planning:
– Business planning is key to establishing a successful farm or food enterprise.
– “Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint hearted.”
– Start with what you can figure out yourself and there are wonderful online tools for the rest.
– “A business plan gives you a roadmap to success.”
– Be careful about assumptions. Do thorough market research.
– “Start with the seed of your business idea, use the business plan process to germinate that idea and then see the fruits of your labors.”
Dave Ranallo, founder of Azoti:
– It is very difficult to raise money in the Midwest, compared to the coasts.
– “Start you business as if you will never see money until you show price points to customers.”
– “Be good at sales or find someone who is.”
– “Sales and profit are not dirty words.”
– Create a demand first and then create the solution for that demand.
– “If there is no market, it’s just a hobby.”
Chrissie Laymon owner of The Farm on Kenyon Road:
– You have to be a people person
– People are interested in knowing you, what you do and why you do it.
– Take advantage of social media.
– Build a community of support and also with your customers and other businesses.
– “Make the experience people are used to at the grocery store on the farm.”
– “Start small with one idea or product and do it very well, and then add something else and do it well. Slowly.”
Kate Djupe founder of The Commissary:
– “Give yourself more time than you think you will need to do business planning.”
– Funding food businesses or ideas that are relatively new is tough to do through banks.
– Pursue alternative funding opportunities such as crowd source tools such as Kickstarter.
– Know when to ask for help.
– Get people who regulate you to buy in to your business.
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I was a guest contributor recently to WBUR’s Commonhealth Blog . You can read my entry here.
“Sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness” – Galway Kinnell
After years and tears spent treating girls with eating disorders, I found myself pregnant — in my 40s — with a daughter.
She is now 10, and suddenly, everything I’d preached and chiseled and chipped and interpreted in my office is getting put to the test. How was I going to try to prevent my own child from having an eating disorder? How would I prevail against a culture of young girls in short shorts, strappy tops and frankly lewd fashion, where my 4th grader must choose between “boyfriend jeans” and “skinny jeans”? As I had told my patients: “Many girls entertain diets — not everyone gets an eating disorder.”
Still, I reviewed the early dangers for developing such a disorder — flipping through my own brain for knowledge.
We had some family history of mood disorders but nothing that seemed so severe it couldn’t be tempered by attentive parenting.
2. Home obsession with foods
I made absolutely sure that nothing in my house was low-fat, low-calorie and insisted that dessert was part of the meal if you ate your ‘growing foods” a useful phrase I learned from her pre-school teacher.
3. Range of affect (or, enough feelings)
Yup, no problem there. My house was never one where feelings were suppressed. In fact, I might have spent too much time inquiring what my child thought or felt. I was politely interrupted. “Mom,” she said, “I’m watching the cars outside” or “Making a friendship bracelet” or “Telling myself a story.”
4. Too much affect
Yes, I wanted to tone this down. She neded to learn resilience — that horrible feelings, the dementors of loneliness, sadness and intense anger can be survived. She needed to endure them and learn to soothe herself. I reminded myself of this as I clenched my nails into my hand while she hurled about in her crib.
5. Too much talk about appearance
I failed on this. I could not even try to stop my outpouring of sheer joy at her natural beauty. I was, as C.S. Lewis said, “surprised by joy” in this department. I craved her attention like a jilted suitor. But it amuses both of us — and possibly helped her — that I would joke about my “separation issues.” I believe I gave her the freedom to express those same feelings and a good many more.
6. A sense of purpose
We are currently working on this. The most effective cure for the most recalcitrant eating disorders is — surprisingly — community service. Like people in a nursing home who thrive when they care for a plant, children do better when they feel their effect on the world is real. I ramped up on chores, folding laundry, carrying grocery bags. A child who danced for hours could use her legs to help me.
When my daughter was three, I saw a child in her nursery school crumple up a drawing, burst into tears and throw it away. I vowed I would do my best to melt perfectionist thinking. We practiced making mess-ups into other shapes. We practiced turning pages over and writing on the backs of things. I told her often, purposefully, about my own mess-ups, what caused them and how I still was growing. I learned to ask her if she felt proud of something — not to tell her that I was instead.
This huge piece of influence is almost indescribable. Culture is written across the bottom of shorts, the straps of shirts, the piercings and tattoos called body art. Wherever you stand on particular trends, it’s hard to deny that a new, frankly lewd look is popular. Somehow feminism has been replaced by exhibitionism. Reality TV and instagram make looks all that matters. Sexting seems a natural outcome from this atmosphere.
All I could do on this front is to hold my ship fast at home. I batten down the hatches. I encourage critical commentary about dolls that are too thin, pictures of girls who were too thin. Movies which demean fatties. I censure TV and books about mean girls.
What I cannot plan for is my daughter; her own self. She dances (at a studio she feels is like a second home). All I did was steer her toward the one that has the most diverse group of girls’ strong bodies I’ve seen.
But she is at a liminal age and it terrifies me. She is a perfectionist at times and it drives me nuts. I never want her to look at herself with loathing, to pinch a part of her skin with disgust and wish it gone. I detest the bonding that begins — very soon — when girls turn to each other and say: “I’m fat.” And the response — rather than saying “Don’t be ridiculous” or “How boring,” the only scripted response is: “Are you kidding, I’m fat. You’re thin.”
A few days ago we went to buy jeans — she’d grown again. I was sick to see that our choices were reduced to two categories: “Skinny jeans” or “Boyfriend jeans.’ Those are her choices.
Is she skinny or does she have a boyfriend whose clothes she borrows? She’s 10. Why can’t the pants simply be called straight or baggy?
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David Ignatius of the Washington Post on Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, then, questions for Attorney General nominee Republican Senator Jeff Sessions.
Guest Host: Susan Page
As violence intensified in the Middle East last week, it also sparked a fiery debate on the presidential campaign trail over foreign policy. The issue has taken a back seat to jobs and the economy in 2012, but the turmoil across the Arab world forced the issue front and center for the first time in the race. For President Barack Obama, the violence is a test of his handling of the Arab Spring uprisings and his promises of democracy there. And for Republican challenger Mitt Romney, questions remain over what principles would guide his decisions on the world stage. Guest host Susan Page of USA Today discusses presidential politics and foreign policy with her guests.
- Michael Rubin resident scholar at American Enterprise Institute, senior lecturer at Naval Postgraduate School and author of the forthcoming book, "Dancing with the Devil" (Encounter, 2013).
- Michael O'Hanlon senior fellow and director of research of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and co-author of "Bending History: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy."
- David Sanger chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times and author of the new book, "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power."
MS. SUSAN PAGEThanks for joining us. I'm Susan Page of USA Today, sitting in for Diane Rehm. Diane is on vacation. There was unrest to the Arab world last week. And in the presidential election here at home, the issue is also volatile. As the candidates defend their reactions to the violence, questions remain about their approaches to the Middle East and what distinguishes their foreign policy agendas.
MS. SUSAN PAGEJoining me in the studio: Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute, Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution and David Sanger of The New York Times. Welcome to "The Diane Rehm Show."
MR. DAVID SANGERGreat to be with you, Susan.
PAGEWe're going to invite our listeners to join our conversation later in this hour. You can call our toll-free number, 1-800-433-8850, send us an email at firstname.lastname@example.org, or find us on Facebook or Twitter. Well, David Sanger, let's start with the latest news on the uprisings. What does the situation seem to be this morning?
SANGERWell, there was some relief over the weekend that the big protest that people had expected after Friday prayers, that this would build after people went to mosques on Friday, didn't materialize, but there now have been some protests in Pakistan and Afghanistan on Sunday, two places that had been sort of immune from the first wave. And we were sort of looking around, wondering why that was the case.
SANGERYou've seen the United States now evacuate nonessential embassy personnel from several embassies, including in Tunisia, which, of course, is where the Arab Spring began.
SANGERAnd I think in the White House, there was a sense that we're sort of in this for the long haul, that this very sloppy done video, which, if you've seen any part of it, looks more like, you know, shaky scenes from "The Blair Witch Project" than anything else, was a spark, but that what's going on actually has really very little to do with the video and more to do with the concerns that people have around the region that the United States is somehow in control of their future destinies, you know, something you've seen many times before.
SANGERAnd we're also caught up to some degree just in the war between the Salafist more extreme groups, the Islamic groups and the Muslim Brotherhood or groups that are a little bit more in the middle with the Salafist trying to demonstrate that they can take control.
PAGESo, Michael O'Hanlon, from now to Election Day or from now to the end of the year, should we just be prepared for a period of -- a sustained period of instability in the region?
MR. MICHAEL O'HANLONYou know, it's so hard to predict, and I would not even pin it to our Election Day. I think there's a halfway decent chance that this will not erupt again between now and Election Day, at least not in any major new ways. David says it's still ongoing at some level but that we could have a big incident in March regardless of who wins in November. I certainly don't think our elections have much to do with the way people in the Middle East are thinking about this problem.
MR. MICHAEL O'HANLONAnd I think what we're seeing is, whether it's George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, there's a certain amount of anti-Americanism that's latent. There's a certain amount of tension in these cultures that's latent. And, yes, events sometimes trigger things, but I don't see that we can link those too much to the specifics of what we do here, especially not in our election season per se.
PAGEYou know, we had this very provocative statement, though, by Rich Williamson, top adviser to Mitt Romney, that was in a story by Phil Rucker that ran last week in The Washington Post. And he said, "There's a pretty compelling story that if you had a President Romney, you'd be in a different situation. For the first time since Jimmy Carter, we've had an American ambassador assassinated." Michael Rubin, do you think that's true? Would this be a different situation if Mitt Romney were president instead of Barack Obama?
MR. MICHAEL RUBINI don't think it's actually true. I think, fundamentally, we need to recognize, and I agree with David on this, that it's all about us. We do have a political competition for which we are a foil in the region. And in effect, what we are doing is seeing the Bolsheviks take on the Mensheviks, trying to come out on top. If at first the Arab Spring was about economic accountability, the Muslim Brotherhood filled the vacuum and now we're seeing the more -- most radical factions make their push.
PAGEAnd we've -- of course, the thing that really grabbed our attention was the death of Amb. Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi last week. David Sanger, do we have a clear understanding now of whether that was a spontaneous uprising or something more calculated?
SANGERWell, what we've heard -- now, the latest we've heard from the U.S. government is they think it was a little bit of both. And I think it's going to take a while to really sort out what happened.
SANGERThe version that Susan Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, gave on some of the Sunday morning talk shows yesterday was pretty consistent with what we've been hearing over the weekend from intelligence and White House sources, and that is that the Libyan protestors in Benghazi arrived in a sort of spontaneous protest but that the group that actually attacked the consulate then took advantage of this chaos and showed up with their heavy weaponry.
SANGERNow, the reason to be skeptical about this is, as Sen. McCain said yesterday, people don't usually bring RPGs to ordinary protests, rocket-propelled grenades. But in Libya, sometimes people bring their rocket-propelled grenades to protests. I mean, it's just a fact of life. People will showoff their grenade launchers. They just usually don't bring them loaded. So it's very possible that this began as a protest that then was exploited and obviously turned into an incredible tragedy.
SANGERBut it's going to take a while for that investigation to happen. And I thought it was interesting that the president of the general assembly in Libya basically told the FBI on TV yesterday, don't show up yet, it's not safe for you, while they're out there to go do forensic investigation and they'll be filling up at best a week late.
PAGEDoes it matter, Michael O'Hanlon?
O'HANLONWell, it matters for one thing in terms of how we protect embassies and consulates and what we assume to be at play in some of these societies. And I think we have to assume two things which do reinforce the need to tighten security, and one of them is these societies are still in chaos, and their institutions are often weak because they've been disrupted in a big way by the Arab awakenings.
O'HANLONAnd then secondly, there are these extremist elements, that David and Michael have been talking about, who will seek to profit and who may scheme a bit to wait for the next opportunity and be ready for it. We better assume that there will be additional attacks. Libya was a place where several hundred al-Qaida extremists were believed to have originated from to move into Iraq during the Iraq War.
O'HANLONThere had been extremist elements in Libya for a long time. I see no reason to assume that whichever number are picked up in these next couple of days by the Libyan government over the Benghazi attack last week is the extent of it. There probably are more. We better be ready for more.
PAGEMichael Rubin, Mitt Romney came out very quickly, as unrest was just beginning to unfold in Cairo and in Libya, with the statement that then got him a fair amount of criticism. Do you think he did the right thing in the criticism that he made and also, I guess, the timing and tone in which he took?
RUBINWell, I do think that there's no better time than during a presidential campaign to highlight differences between yourself and the incumbent. So in that regard, I do think that some of the criticism surrounding Mitt Romney's statement was a tempest in a teapot, but then many people in Mitt Romney's team started backtracking. There was a surprising lack of consistency there. So if they do believe they're doing the right thing, they need to stand up and stick by their guns.
RUBINBut what Mitt Romney's campaign exuded was to some degree a great deal of confusion. Now, there's many other issues out there which I think Mitt Romney could talk about with regard to this. There's the role of foreign aid, for example. While President Obama did the right thing by sending in the Marines to reinforce embassy security, I do -- I spend a lot of time on aircraft carriers.
RUBINAnd in talking to people involved in evacuations after the 2006 Hezbollah-Israel war, U.S. Navy was charged with evacuating more than 30,000 people. If we're talking about uprisings in 20 countries, the interplay between sequestration in these catastrophic defense cuts and our ability to do evacuations on a much more massive scale is something we could discuss. And, of course, I do think the moral equivalency was fair game.
SANGERYou know, the -- I think Michael has a really interesting point which is that the foreign aid elements of this not only in military aid but, just as importantly, civilian aid is a really interesting question that probably should be debated in the campaign and which, I bet, will rarely, if ever, come up because let's face it. If there was a critique of the way the Obama administration has handled the Arab Spring, it's that they went in supporting these uprisings and saying the United States would begin to help.
SANGERThe president gave a very big speech on this at the State Department in -- what was it, Michael -- May or June of 2011 about America's support for democracy. There has been very, very little money flowing. So critique number one that the Republicans can offer -- and you've heard a little bit of this from the Romney campaign -- is that the president didn't do enough to support these revolutions.
SANGERCritique number two was that we should make much of the aid, including the billion dollars in debt forgiveness to Egypt conditional on defending our embassies, acting in a civil way, moving toward democracy. Well, those are somewhat two different messages out there, and foreign aid is not a particularly popular thing in either Republican or in some Democratic circles as well.
PAGEWell, Michael O'Hanlon, do you think that there's a risk for the White House and the Obama campaign if we have a kind of focus on the debate of how the policy has worked in this region for the administration?
O'HANLONWell, there's some risk because clearly what President Obama would like to do is keep his 15-point lead in foreign policy and consider the case to be sort of made and closed on where the United States stands as of 2012. And, of course, he had the bin Laden raid in 2011 to point to. We had the rebalancing towards Asia, which I think was handled reasonably well.
O'HANLONAnd he was just hoping to be able to freeze the Iran problem that David's written about so eloquently -- and we tried to cover in our book, too -- and then hoping that Syria wouldn't get too far out of control, but basically freeze things with bin Laden, with China, with rebalancing towards Asia and say, see, I've been a good foreign policy president. And, by the way, even though the economy is bad, it's not my fault, and I've got a better plan to fix it.
O'HANLONThat was where he wanted to be. Now, he's in a debate that's much more driven by news, by events. It's unpredictable. And it makes our position in the Middle East and therefore his as incumbent look a little less strong.
PAGEMichael O'Hanlon, he's a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of "Bending History: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy." We're also joined this hour by David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for New York Times. He's the author of "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power." And Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, he was a Pentagon adviser on Iran and Iraq for President George W. Bush. We're taking a short break. When we come back, we'll discuss the Romney doctrine. Stay with us.
PAGEWelcome back. I'm Susan Page of USA Today, sitting in for Diane Rehm. In this hour, we're discussing foreign policy on the presidential campaign trail with Michael Rubin, David Sanger and Michael O'Hanlon. We're going to go to the phones and take your calls and questions in just a few minutes. You can reach us, 1-800-433-8850. Well, David Sanger, I have here a story you wrote in May in The New York Times, the headline, "Is There a Romney Doctrine?" How would you answer that question today?
SANGERNot yet. There isn't one at this moment. I think that what I noted in the story in May and I think it's probably still true today is that when Gov. Romney was assembling his campaign team, knowingly or unknowingly, he sort of put together a big tent approach to foreign policy, where he invited in neoconservatives. He invited in moderates from the establishment. He had, you know, this broad group of advisers to show that every branch with the Republican Party was gathering behind him. That was the good news.
SANGERThe bad news of that is that all of these people left the Bush administration in January of 2009 with all kinds of unresolved disputes between them about how assertive American foreign policy should be, the degree to which you make use of various new weapons of war, the degree to which you negotiate with adversaries or not. And for three or four years, they went off. They led their lives. They made a little money. They went to think tanks, and they left these disputes completely unresolved.
SANGERSo they now have all re-gathered around their new candidate, and all the old battles of the Bush administration are playing themselves out in the Romney campaign. And in the primary season, what you saw -- the way you saw Gov. Romney handled this was that he basically took the sort of more extreme neoconservative positions. He said, you know, we don't negotiate with the Taliban. We go out to kill all the Taliban. He was talking about red lines for Iran that you might argue Iran's already passed, so forth.
SANGERAs he gets into the general election, he's been more tentative. He was asked about red lines on Iran by George Stephanopoulos on ABC last week. And he perfectly described President Obama's position on this issue and didn't lay out the distinction between his position, which would be a much earlier red line, that his own advisers have described quite eloquently.
O'HANLONI think that's very well said by David. But I would argue that Romney has tried to, nonetheless, come up with three overall themes. And one certainly is more defense spending and the second is better friends with allies, little tougher on adversaries. And the third theme is resoluteness in the operations we're conducting. Unfortunately, for Gov. Romney, there is, at least in terms of these political times, a challenge -- a big challenge with each one of these three. On the defense budget, we've got a huge deficit.
O'HANLONAnd for Gov. Romney and much of the Republican right, but much of the country in general, cutting taxes is a higher priority for day-to-day Americans than increasing defense spending. So it's not quite like Ronald Reagan 30-some years ago who came into office and we had a bad economy then, but the deficit wasn't the key issue so much. It was more inflation. As you recall, stagflation and lack of growth. And so Reagan could more plausibly promise increased defense spending. For Romney, it's a challenge.
O'HANLONOn the allies and adversaries thing, you know, this is a certain kind of classic realist, real politique approach to the world. But it's a world that's changing a little more rapidly. And do we really want to pick an unnecessary fight with Russia or China? There may be an argument on some of the specifics for what Romney's advocating. But the tone and the atmospherics of calling Russia our greatest geostrategic threat doesn't quite compute to most people. So I think he's got a bit of a challenge there.
O'HANLONAnd then, third, on military operations, we're tired. We, the American people, are tired of military operations. So I tend to think Romney's leaning in a reasonable direction, for example, on Syria, wanting to help the rebels a little more, a little more perhaps than President Obama. But people don't want to hear it. And all the talk about unrest in the broader Middle East, you know, as David Sanger was saying earlier, we want to help the Libyans more to get their nation more on its feet or the Egyptians, that may make sense.
O'HANLONThere may be an intellectual logic to that, but it's not quite what a lot of the American people want to hear right now. So I think Romney's beginning to try to develop a theme or a doctrine around these three concepts. But I think it's tough, especially in these political times.
PAGEWell, Michael Rubin, would argue that there is a more coherent kind of Romney approach to the world? Of course, this is not the area on which he has staked his campaign. He's really talked about his experience as a businessman and as a governor, not as someone with a background in foreign policy. Do you think he has articulated a clear approach to the world?
RUBINNo, I don't. I mean, generally speaking, I agree with both of my colleagues. You can look at Gov. Romney's foreign policy team and see in it what you will because he has different people from different camps almost using foreign policy personnel as props because foreign policy is just something, I think, really he'd like to go away. But more broadly, I do agree that he has enunciated a firm position on the defense budget.
RUBINAt the same time, he has tried to differentiate himself with President Obama in terms of philosophy, in terms of better supporting allies, not adversaries. I do think this is going to come into play again later this month on the heels of the United Nations General Assembly when we can juxtapose whom President Obama seeks to meet with and who he doesn't.
RUBINBut, to be perfectly blunt, both under President Romney, under President Bush before him and going back for several administrations, I think the United States has been lacking a coherent foreign policy strategy. Too often, we tend to be more reactive to events than proactive. It's waiting for the 3 a.m. phone call rather than being the guy who dials the number.
SANGERTwo quick points just on the defense budget. The first is that, I think, in addition to the problems that two Michaels have laid out, the additional one here is with the sequestration that's coming up, the automatic cuts, if they had been on the defense budget. There was additional challenge here that Gov. Romney's vice presidential candidate, Congressman Ryan, voted for that approach.
SANGERAnd it wasn't because he wanted to cut the defense budget. It's because they were trying to create a crisis that would force everybody to deal with the budget in general, and these automatic cuts seemed to be so draconian that nobody would really let that happen. Well, here we are about, you know, getting close to the moment where it could happen. The second problem, I think, with the bigger defense budget is that while most Americans obviously don't follow the ins and outs of, you know, every increase or decrease in Defense Department programs, they understand in broad terms two things.
SANGEROne is the defense budget has roughly doubled since 9/11. And number two is we are still paying for giant, expensive Cold War systems that clearly don't match the kind of challenges we're meeting today.
SANGERSo the idea that you would cut everything across the board by 7 percent instead of wiping out the systems that you wouldn't want to use anymore and putting more money into cyber or drones or special forces or whatever it is you would use today, I think everybody sort of gets that. And so the logic of doing, you know, just broad increases in the budget, I think, is going to be a tough sell.
PAGELet's go to the phones and let our listeners join our conversation. We'll go first to Brandy. She's calling us from Dallas. Hi, Brandy.
BRANDYHi. How are you?
BRANDYGood. Well, I just had a comment and didn't know if you had any thoughts about the issue. I read this weekend in an article that on June 4, the White House confirmed that the U.S. had killed Abu Yahya al-Libi or al-Libi, Osama bin Laden's lieutenant, who moved into al-Qaida's number two spot after the Zawahiri -- after the Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden.
BRANDYAnd I heard that on Tuesday, 9/11, a tape was released of Zawahiri announcing that Libi had been killed earlier this year in a U.S. drone attack and that the Zawahiri tape was made during Ramadan, which ended in the middle of last month. Zawahiri called for the terrorist underlining to avenge Libi's death and especially exhorted Libyans to take revenge. So I was wondering if perhaps the attack in Libya was planned and executed and wasn't about a spontaneous protest against some ridiculous Internet movie of Muhammad. So what are your thoughts on that?
PAGEBrandy, thanks so much for your call. Any response, Michael O'Hanlon?
O'HANLONOh, I think it's a very well-framed question, and you, I think, very usefully and accurately recited a lot of recent history that's important for people to know. And it is one of the reasons why we have to suspect that one of the groups involved in Benghazi may have been motivated to try to look for a near-term opportunity. But I also think that clearly the outrage we're hearing throughout much of the broader Middle East is largely about the video and the video from the United States, not from Zawahiri.
O'HANLONAnd I think that on top of that, we have to recognize we are in a violent, chaotic struggle that's ongoing. Al-Qaida never declared a truce before, and I think we have to assume that any place we've got vulnerabilities where al-Qaida is present or groups that are sympathetic to it and where state institutions are weak that we're still vulnerable, whether there's a new video or not regardless of who made it.
RUBINWell, I think the facts are going to come out over subsequent weeks about what -- how this was preplanned or not. But there's two possibilities out there which should be disturbing: either we didn't have intelligence that we were going to have the sort of protest, however matriculated, or we did have intelligence at some level, but it really didn't percolate up to where it needed to be in order for us to have a reaction to it.
RUBINNow if you go back 11 years and when you look at the pre-9/11 error, one of the major findings of the 9/11 committee was not that we didn't have intelligence, although sometimes we didn't, but that it also wasn't making its way through the bureaucracy in the way it should. So the broader lesson, I would say, from the events in Libya is that 11 years after the 9/11 tragedy, we're still having similar problems with both gathering intelligence and the flow of intelligence within the interagency process.
PAGEDoes that seem fair to you, David?
SANGERI think we are having troubles with the gathering and the flow, but I think that those are less because of the institutional blockades that we had prior to 9/11, some of which made their way through, and more because there are just so many more players out there to go deal with. I mean, think about this. Think of Egypt or Libya, OK? In the past, when you were dealing with either one of these countries, you had a dictatorial leader who, in the case of Egypt, we sort of got along with, and in the case of Libya, we sort of didn't, but was in on a reform.
SANGERBut they managed to keep down all of these other forces, just as Saddam Hussein did in Iraq. So you take off the top and you open up the box, everything else jumps out, and you have all these different groups. And you're not as well sourced in each of these groups because some of them really didn't exist in any live way while they were under dictatorial rule. So the intelligence challenge today is far more complicated than it was even two years ago.
PAGEI'm Susan Page, and you're listening to "The Diane Rehm Show." We're taking your calls, 1-800-433-8850. Let's go to Tom. He's calling us from New Bedford, Mass. Tom, you're on "The Diane Rehm Show."
TOMGood morning. The Romney campaign is claiming the American Embassy in Cairo apologized for the YouTube video, which is hardly the case. The embassy condemned religious intolerance. In so doing, they stood up for the core American values of religious tolerance and pluralism. I have to wonder, if things would be worse now under a Romney administration, if they chose to belittle or dismiss the concerns of some admittedly overly-sensitive Muslims, wouldn't they have increased tensions and further inflamed the situation?
PAGETom, thanks very much for that question. Michael Rubin.
RUBINWell, I think what the Romney campaign was getting to was a juxtaposition, we actually saw, between President Obama's statement -- not just the embassy tweets, but President Obama's statement, where it seemed to be a little bit too much more equivalency there -- and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who initially said, look, there's absolutely no excuse for this, no matter what.
RUBINNow one of the interesting things, this problem is going to continue to percolate. Just today, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has said that he is going to push forward a motion at the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to outlaw Islamophobia, criticism of different aspects of Islam and so forth. And if that comes into play, we really are going to have a conflict between American diplomatic prerogatives and free speech on one hand and the nature of the perception in much of the Muslim world.
PAGEWell, what about this idea that Tom's presenting, that you don't want to apologize for free speech? On the other hand, you want to express American values. Is that a tough balance to strike, Michael O'Hanlon?
O'HANLONWell, I think we had a tough time as a nation last week. I don't think it was our proudest moment. I thought that Hillary Clinton got it right about day two when she expressed outrage about the video, but also made it clear that she expected governments in the region to protect American embassies and not to be aiding and abetting violence as a reaction to the California video. But I didn't hear that kind of clarity in the presidential campaign, and I would have liked to hear some faith leaders and some former secretaries of state and others joining in in condemnation of the video a little bit more.
O'HANLONI think, frankly, there was a little too much worry about free speech because free speech, as enshrined in the Constitution, is not going to be threatened by condemning this kind of atrocious, despicable video. The free speech amendments or amendment of the Constitution or provision is designed to protect political speech, and no one's talking about changing that anyway. So we can keep our Constitution and still be very clear that we have no tolerance for this particular video.
O'HANLONAnd I think that came through, but it took a while. And I think things took off a little bit in the 24 to 48 hours where we could have been more emphatic. But let me just say about Gov. Romney. I think, as president, he would not be guilty of what Tom's worried about. I mean, I'm a little concerned about his campaign. I don't love the tone. But from what I know of Gov. Romney and what I've seen of him in action, he's a thoughtful, religious man himself, and I think he's a tolerant man.
O'HANLONSo I'm a little bit hoping to get out of this election season, you know, and get on with real life because I think that's part of the problem right now, is the dynamic of the political race.
PAGEDavid, you've covered a series of campaigns and administrations. To what degree does what a candidate say -- says during a campaign reverberate to his detriment once he's in office, create complications? Do the candidates say things during campaigns that they live to regret once they win the office?
SANGERAlmost without fail they do. Now I think you could argue that President Obama actually did less of that in his 2008 campaign than we've seen before. I mean, you'll remember that Bill Clinton got elected talking about linking human rights to trade in -- when he first ran in 1992. And within a year, he not only completely de-linked human rights and trade, but ushered China into the World Trade Organization with no particular link to human rights.
SANGERFor President Obama, it's been a little bit more complex because he talked about the need for engagement with America's adversaries, and he was ridiculed for being naive in that not only from Republicans, but from adversaries in the campaign like Hillary Clinton, who then went on to have to execute the engagement strategy. But behind that, the surprise of the Obama presidency -- and this is really what "Confront and Conceal" is all about -- was that while he was doing the engagement, he was also ramping up sanctions, for example, on Iran while he was trying to engage the leaders.
SANGERAnd, of course, he was putting together and building on the Bush administration's construction of the biggest use of cyber weapons the United States has ever had in a secret program called Olympic Games. So the contrast that he's had to face is talking about engagement while acting, in some ways, more toughly than he suggested during the campaign.
PAGEDavid Sanger of The New York Times and, also with me in the studio, Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute. We're going to take a short break. And when we come back, we're going to explore what differences there are between Gov. Romney and President Obama when it comes to Syria, to China and to Russia. And we'll take your calls, 1-800-433-8850. Stay with us.
PAGEWelcome back. We're talking about turmoil in the Middle East, and the role of foreign policy in the presidential campaign. We've got an email from Peggy, and she writes, "Doesn't this prove some danger in providing rebels with weapons when we're not even sure who they are? Maybe the Benghazi attack proves why we're not doing much to help the rebels in Syria. We help them, they turn their backs on us, wash, rinse, repeat." What do you think, David?
SANGERWell, certainly, one of the arguments that the Obama administration has made, whether we believe it or not about not directly providing lethal weapons to the rebels in Syria, is the -- these are -- this is not one single group of rebels. Some showed up on a YouTube video last month with an al-Qaida flag behind them. That's not the kind of people you want to be giving any aircraft equipment to.
SANGERSo that's been a big concern. And, of course, we're all haunted by the mistake made during the Afghan war where we provided the Mujahideen with all kinds of weaponry that when they turned into the Taliban ended up getting shot back at us.
SANGERWhat I find interesting about the Romney campaign is that, while they are critical that the president has not been more involved in Syria -- and I think you could make a case that there are many things he could have done to be more involved -- they stopped short of saying that the U.S. should directly provide lethal aid. They are in support of others in the region, including Saudi Arabia, providing that lethal aid.
PAGESo, Michael Rubin, it does seemed that Syria's one of those areas where you can see a difference between what Mitt Romney says we should do and what Barack Obama is doing.
RUBINWell, again, I'll actually put this into the context of the campaign. It seems that when it comes to Syria, while there has been some discussion of arming the rebels or safe haven and so forth, and ultimately we still are in a reactive mode there. Now, one of the issues, as we look ahead, that I think Gov. Romney could criticize President Obama on is just the tremendous gap between the rhetoric of his policy, especially early on talking about how Bashar al-Assad must go and so forth, and the reality of that policy.
RUBINAnd whenever we have that gap developed -- and it certainly developed during the Bush administration to another issues -- then we hemorrhage credibility in the region. But just to add one little bit to what David said. It's not just an issue of the arms in the region. We have a real issue, by the way, of securing arms that we didn't provide. But putting that aside, when we choose to "lead from behind" to work through other allies in the region, too often, we forget that those other allies also have agendas of their own.
RUBINIn Libya and Egypt, the Obama administration very much work through states like Qatar, Turkey, perhaps even Saudi Arabia. And exclusively, those states supported much more hard-line Islamist factions than perhaps we would be comfortable with.
PAGENow, Michael O'Hanlon, another area of the world where there has seem to be a difference between Romney and Obama is attitudes toward China where Romney has said he would take a much tougher stance on the economics of our relationship with China. Today, we see President Obama announcing new trade action against China on the sale of auto parts in this country. Do you think the White House is responding to the points that Romney has been making on the campaign trail when it comes to dealing with China?
O'HANLONI do think that's part of it, but I also think that if you read my colleague, Jeff Bader's book -- and Jeff work for Obama, and he admired him greatly on China policy for a couple of years -- Jeff pointed out that the president at some point concluded, you know, it's time we start throwing a few elbows towards China in the economic realm because they certainly throw some elbows towards us.
O'HANLONAnd even those who admire China and its rise, and what it's done for its people, and its general willingness to play by the rules in the international system on most things, have to be very troubled by currency issues, by intellectual property theft, by all the cyber attacks we get from China that are uncontrolled -- the government makes very little effort there to control. And Obama has decided he's going to push back a bit on the economic front. Romney also wants to push back a little bit more in the military front.
O'HANLONNow, Obama did a pretty good job of that in 2010, 2011 and 2012 with the so-called rebalancing, but Gov. Romney's defense plan focuses largely on building a larger Navy. And a big part of the motivation there, I believe, at least from some camps of his advisers, is that China is a growing concern, and we're going to have to be ready for it. So I think in the military sphere, you're actually starting to see a difference open up between the two candidates as to how much to confront China.
RUBINYou know, I think China is one of those areas where, as Michael suggests here, Obama has probably gone through one of his biggest transitions. Afghanistan would probably be the other. But in the China case, he came in in 2009 pretty well-convinced that the Chinese would then about to become the world's second largest economy, would be a great partner with the United States at least in the economic realm.
RUBINAnd you'll remember that during those first meetings between President Obama and President Hu Jintao of China in London during the midst of the financial crisis, there was discussion of the G2, the two governments who were going to work to pull this out together, the Europeans were sort of standing off to the side. Well, how did the Chinese react to this? Did they say, gee, isn't it great that we are now considered equal to the United States at least in the economic sphere?
RUBINNo. In -- within the debate in China, there was a group led by the military who said, this proves the Americans are weak. This is the moment to sort of take them on in the region. And I think as you learn from Jeff Bader's book, you learn from interviews with others in the administration, by about 2010 when the Chinese were beginning to make some claims in the South China Sea, which problem that continues to this day, the administration's view changed.
RUBINAnd they decided, as Michael said, that they needed to put a few points on the board. And the president at one point in one Sit Room meeting said, I need some leverage. Well, the actions like the one he's taking today are designed to give him some leverage.
PAGEIn which, of course, he's announcing in Ohio, one of the most critical swing states in the election.
RUBINAnd a big auto producing -- I'm sure it's coincidental, but, you know.
PAGEOne more area in which there seems to be a difference between a Romney administration and an Obama administration would be in attitudes toward Russia. Gov. Romney has called Russia our number one geo-political foe. This has prompted, Michael Rubin, some ridicule from the White House, which says this is a kind of Cold War mindset. What's you view?
RUBINWell, certainly, among travelers to Russia, it seems that if -- even if we don't want to have a Cold War mindset, Vladimir Putin and many Russians do. We've seen this with regard to Syria. Most recently, we've seen this rift with regard to Georgia, which was a crisis that was flaring up during the last election season and so forth. Ultimately, it's one thing to express a great deal of desire to have better relations.
RUBINWe had this reset under Obama. But I do think it's fair for Mitt Romney and his advisers to hold up after almost four years this idea of a reset and to see whether it's been successful. And on the measure of things, I think Romney would have a pretty strong case to say, no, it hasn't.
PAGEMichael O'Hanlon, do you agree?
O'HANLONNot fully. I think that there is a tough question of where do we go here -- from here with Russia. And certainly, a reelected Vladimir Putin would not have been our first choice. Certainly, the Russia reset policy has plateaued a bit, but I would say it's had two important accomplishments. One is, if you recall, for six months, the Pakistanis wouldn't let us use supply routes into Afghanistan, and we could sustain the war effort.
O'HANLONIn fact, we had higher stocks at the end of that six months than the beginning because Russia has cooperated with us and allowed the use of the northern distribution network. So we have a whole, new way of resupplying forces. Now, for a war that most Americans are tired of, this may not be accomplishment, number one, that you go out and brag about, but the war would not have been possible.
O'HANLONThe continuation of the effort, the resupply of forces already in contact with the enemy would not have been possible had we not developed that kind of distribution network and then, secondly, on Iran sanctions. Again, it's a provisional accomplishment because, obviously, Iran is still trying to develop nuclear capability, but Obama has done a great job, I think, of tightening sanctions.
O'HANLONIn all due respect, the Bush administration had started this. And people like Stuart Levey at treasury had done a lot even during the Bush years, with all due respect as well. And to acknowledge that Obama had some issues and some problems, his first six months, he was trying too hard to be conciliatory towards this Iranian regime. But on balance, he has tightened sanctions, and Russia was essential in doing that. So these are two signature accomplishments of the so-called reset.
RUBINUnfortunately, we're now in a bit of a plateau because we're having such fundamental disagreements on Syria among other things. So I don't want to oversell it, and I do agree with Michael, there's a legitimate debate about where to go from here. Well, I think to some degree that there's been some good cop, bad cop play with the Russians. Oftentimes, they will pretend to cooperate, and the other hand, Belarus will do their dirty work with regard to supply of weaponry to Iran.
RUBINBut one issue, which I think should be coming up in the campaign and does illustrate the difference between the two candidates, is President Obama's hot mic incident with then president, I guess, Medvedev of Russia with regard of, if you can just give me a little more time until after the election, then we can have even more cuts in our nuclear stockpile because, presumably, then Obama won't have to face any other elections.
RUBINThat should raise questions of the philosophy of our own nuclear strategy and our own defense policy which, it is a shame, hasn't become more of an issue in the election.
PAGEWell, David is that how you heard that comment?
SANGERYeah. I guess, when I heard that comment, I thought to myself, this is what presidents say to their fellow leaders when they're going through an election season. You know, it sort of translates as put earplugs in your ears. Don't listen to anything you hear on the campaign trail. And after the election, I'll be able to go deal with you the way I would have dealt with you two years ago. And President Obama made the mistake of, you know, being caught saying that reality. It's been a reality for every American president since George Washington.
PAGELet's go to Andrew. He's calling us from Rockford, Ill. Andrew, thanks for holding on.
ANDREWAll right. Thank you. My question is that Romney continuously mentions the U.S. needs to show more leadership in multiple trouble areas around the world. My question is, what sort of leadership decides, the first thing that comes to mind, military leadership could or would Romney offer?
PAGEAll right. Thanks very much for your call. Who'd like to respond? Michael O'Hanlon.
O'HANLONWell, it's a good question. I tend to think of Gov. Romney as a solid centrist. I think I'm fairly unusual on this. I'm not sure Romney wants to sell himself that way. I tend to think he'd be pragmatic. He would stand by American ideals. He would push more trade agreements as far as he could. He would ultimately not be intransigent towards neutral countries even though he's trying to sell of a bit more of a realist message now.
O'HANLONSo I actually don't think the themes would be that radically different from what President Obama's trying to do. That's -- and nothing about to what we're suppose to be hearing from both sides in this particular season. But I don't see any big new ideas from Romney on how to demonstrate American leadership or sell American values or otherwise give some, you know, new moral force to our foreign policy. But I also don't see any big problems or any big discontinuities from what President Obama's been trying.
SANGERMichael could well be right. But fact of the matter is we simply don't know. And, you know, I'm reminded of George W. Bush's campaign in 2000. At the time, he kept talking about a more humble American foreign policy, in other words, not intervening in the rest of the world. Well, you can say what you want about George Bush' foreign policy. You may like it. You may not like it. You may think it wasn't executed that well. Humble is probably not the first word that would come to one's mind to describe it.
SANGERAnd that is because I think he came in without much thought in foreign view. And then when a crisis hit, the question came, which of his advisers around him sort of captured the argument that he thought best fit the moment? And the group that caught it in the first term, which was a group around Vice President Cheney and so forth, was very different from the group that caught it in the second term after they had been into Iraq and discovered that the world was a little more complicated than it first appeared.
PAGEI'm Susan Page, and you're listening to "The Diane Rehm Show". Well, Michael Rubin, you advised the Bush administration during that first term. Do you agree with David's analysis of what happened there?
RUBINWell, I do largely agree. Look, President Bush had a whole wide range of Republican advisers, ranging the philosophical gambit, and he mainly did that in order so that he could demonstrate that he was listening to all sides. The problem with doing that -- and perhaps we see this again as we talked about in the beginning with Gov. Romney's team -- is if you don't have a consensus of views and where you want to go to, you risk an (word?) civil war. And certainly, that was the defining characteristic of the second term of the Bush administration straight through.
PAGELet's go to John calling us from Williamsburg, Va. Hi, John.
JOHNHi. How are you, Susan?
JOHNYeah. So, hi, Michael, Michael and David. I just wanted to make -- it's more observational than anything, but every time Arabs, you know, see these videos and cartoons and things like that, they talk about insulting Muhammad. Well, we never see it the other way around. When people burn our flag, I feel it's insulting to us, but yet we don't storm their embassies and a bunch of people die and stuff like that. So it's strictly observational.
JOHNI realize that, you know, we live in a free country. And you can burn our flag anytime you want, and we tolerate that. But the tolerance issues, I guess, is the thing that I'm a bit concerned about. Thank you.
PAGEAll right. John, thanks so much for your call. Michael Rubin?
RUBINWell, I'm a historian, so I get paid to predict the past, and usually I get that right about 50 percent at a time. But when we look at how the past shapes the present, Michael Young, who is the opinion page editor of the Daily Star newspaper in Beirut, had a very interesting column today in which he looked at the enlightenment in the West and basically said, look, the enlightenment which enabled modern political progress was about freeing the West from the yoke of the religious establishment.
RUBINBut in the Middle East when we look at the evolution of modernity, we had writers like Muhammad Abduh, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and so forth who used religion as the tool to bring modernity. And right now what we actually have is this linkage between politics and religion which arguably is what the fight is about within the Middle East. It's a different political evolution, and we need to face that.
PAGEWe've had a week in which Americans have talked about the news media's cover the issue of foreign policy in this presidential campaign. Are we going to see more of that, David, do you think in the 50 days? To follow, are we going to revert to a campaign that's very much focused on the economy and domestic affairs?
SANGERI think that depends in large part on what happens in the rest of the world. The issues we've been discussing here today, the uprisings in the Arab world, the Iranian nuclear crisis, they're not going away in the next 50 days. They're also not going away in the next five years is my guess. And so you're going to have a lot more of it in the next few years. The question is, how intense is it in a campaign? And in the end, do voters actually vote on this issue.
SANGERI don't think that they vote on foreign affairs issues that we've been discussing. But certainly, they want to sort of check the box to make sure that they're comfortable that an American president or a challenger to the American presidency can deal fluently with all of these issues. That's the problem that John McCain ran into not with his own candidacy but, of course, with Sarah Palin's.
SANGERAnd it's a challenge for Gov. Romney right now because both he and his running mate have virtually no foreign policy experience. President Obama didn't either, but you now have a 3 1/2, nearly four-year record to judge him on.
PAGEDavid Sanger, he's chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times and author of "Confront and Conceal." And we've also been joined this hour by Michael O'Hanlon from the Brookings Institution. His new book is called "Bending History: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy." And Michael Rubin, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Thank you all for joining us this hour in "The Diane Rehm Show."
PAGEI'm Susan Page of USA Today, sitting in for Diane Rehm. Thanks for listening.
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THE NAZI NECROMANCER?
The Magical World of Heinrich Himmler
by Liam Rogers
(Published at Lughnasa 2000)
Martin Bormann's fourteen-year-old son was a passionate young Nazi going into that day in 1944. He was staying up at the Nazi leaders' compound on Obersalzberg, whilst on holiday from his boarding school in Bavaria, when he saw something that brought the horrors of the National Socialist regime shockingly home to him. He, with his mother and younger sister, were invited by Himmler's mistress, Hedwig Potthast, to see the Reichsführer's special collection in the attic of his new house there. Martin Bormann Jr told this horrific story to a therapy group of the children of former high-ranking Nazis in 1990:
"When she opened the door and we flocked in, we didn't understand what the objects in the room were - until she explained ... It was tables and chairs made out of parts of human bodies. There was a chair ... the seat was a human pelvis, the legs human legs - on human feet. Then she picked up a copy of Mein Kampf ... she showed us the cover - made of human skin, she said - and explained that the Dachau prisoners who made it used the ... skin of the back to make it." [Sereny]
This, then, was the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler's collection of mementoes from the concentration camps and extermination centres that killed and tortured millions of innocent people - crimes for which he was directly responsible.
Himmler: the man behind the Holocaust
His gruesome collection sits rather oddly with the picture of the man we see from those who knew him. Many have described Himmler as coming across as a kindly, eccentric schoolmaster. Field Marshall von Blomberg's aide, Karl Boehm-Tettelbach, liked Himmler more than the other Nazis he met:
"He was a very nice and agreeable guest because he always involved younger people like me and would enquire about the air force, how I was getting along, how long I would be with Blomberg, if I liked it, what I had seen the last trip to Hungary and things like that." [Rees]
And whilst he ran the administrative side of the "final solution" with meticulous efficiency, he had literally no stomach for the reality of mass murder. His persistent stomach pains are thought to have been psychosomatic, caused by the suppressed guilt of the former Catholic about what his SS was doing in the name of the German people. Unfortunately fewer may have died if his doubts hadn't caused this stomach ailment, as in August 1941 he had an experience that may have speeded up the extermination programme. On that day, SS officer Erich von dem Bach Zewelski stood beside Himmler as he watched an Einsatzgruppe (SS extermination squad) shoot a hundred people, including women, in Minsk. He reports:
"When the first shots were heard and the victims collapsed, Himmler began to feel ill. He reeled, almost fell to the ground, then pulled himself together. Then he hurled abuse at the firing squad because of their poor marksmanship. Some of the women were still alive, for the bullets had simply wounded them." [Graber]
A residue of humanity, then, that made him ill, led Himmler to order soon afterwards that women and children should be killed in gas vans - a decision that led to the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of which could hold up to three thousand victims at a time, and where Eichmann reckoned that two and a half million Jews alone were systematically murdered. [Hoess]
Why would such a mild-mannered bureaucrat as Himmler so ruthlessly attempt to destroy an entire race and subject Germany and the occupied territories to a reign of terror? Partly, I think, because of his own neo-pagan beliefs, and partly due to an unswerving loyalty to Adolf Hitler - whose rabid anti-Semitism Himmler sought to justify by researching proof for Aryan superiority in the Germans' pagan past.
The SS and neo-paganism
The Nazi Party was more a mass movement than a political party, it was also a pseudo-religious movement - even perhaps a cult. Aleister Crowley realised this, and spoke of Hitler thus:
"His magical technique was indescribably admirable; he adopted the swastika, the Hammer of Thor, the distinctive dress, the slogan, the gestures, the greeting; he even imposed a Sacred Book upon the people." [Crowley]
The Party also adopted a set of seasonal festivals. The cycle started with the Day of the Seizure of Power (30th of January), continuing with February the 24th's commemoration of the Party's foundation, the National Day of Mourning in March, Hitler's birthday on April the 20th, May Day (called the National Day of Labour), Mothering Sunday, the Summer Solstice, the Nuremberg Party Assembly, Harvest Thanksgiving Day, the anniversary of the attempted Munich Putsch on November the 9th, ending with the Winter Solstice. [Grunberger]
Much could be written on the subject of the pagan aura of the Nazi Party and its regime, but here I want to focus on the "high priest" of its "knightly Order" - Heinrich Himmler and his SS. The Nazi slogan "Blood and Soil", indicating its tying together of the destiny of the German people with the very earth of the Fatherland and its glorification of agriculture and those who worked on the land, would have appealed greatly to the young Himmler who joined the Party in 1923 in time to take part in the Munich putsch - Hitler's first attempt to snatch the reins of power.
Himmler had already been moving nationalist circles and was associated with the Germanenorden (a secret society which established lodges based on those of freemasonry) and its offshoot the Thule Society, which had also inspired the birth of the German Workers Party (which was to be hijacked by Hitler and become the National Socialist Workers Party). The Thule Society was named after the Ultima Thule, the alleged birthplace of the Germanic race - members had to prove racial purity for at least three generations.[Padfield]
Peter Padfield notes that from late 1923 to early 1924, Himmler's reading included books on spiritualism, second sight, astrology, telepathy and the like. Himmler was interested also in herbalism, rural life and agriculture [Graber] - he was rather a "back-to-nature", "New Age" sort of man. His activities and growing beliefs led him to renounce his once strong faith in the Catholic Church by the summer of 1924.[Padfield]
Eventually, in 1929, he became the head of the then small and rather unimportant Schutzstaffel - the nightmare SS of the impending Third Reich.
The SS was modeled on the Teutonic Knights, an offshoot of the Knights Templar who were thought to have custody of the Holy Grail (as well as the ancient Indian warrior caste of the Kshatriya). Therefore SS teams were sent in search of the Grail, as well as the Ark of the Covenant. At first it would seem a little strange that a man who had renounced Christianity and oversaw the systematic murder of millions of Jews should be interested in such relics but the theory was that Jesus was Aryan and his father a Roman. The Grail that held his blood could therefore add to SS research into Aryan bloodlines. Himmler also wanted the spear that wounded Christ on the cross - the Spear of Longinus - which Hitler nabbed from a Vienna museum following the annexation of Austria in 1938. Hitler, a fan of Wagner's Parsifal in which the Spear appears, insisted on keeping it for himself - the story that Hitler's copy of the opera had notes in it showing Hitler to be a skilled magician planning an evil ritual with the spear is not one I give any credence to! The spear in question is medieval anyway. [Dyson, Carroll, Rainey]
A speech Himmler made to senior SS men in 1942 reveals his attitude towards Christianity:
"This Christendom, this greatest pestilence which could have befallen us in history, which has weakened us for every conflict, we must finish with."[Padfield]
SS families received a "Yule-tide candleholder" copied from "an old specimen handed down from the early past of our Volk" instead of Christian Christmas gifts. In 1937 Himmler's personal staff began to plan a cultural framework designed to replace Christianity, a project that led to the opening of the Deutschrechtliche Institute at the University of Bonn the following year which researched into Germanic pre-history. Himmler also set himself to constantly improve the solstice celebrations that he felt had the deepest significance, and designed special SS wedding ceremonies. [Padfield]
It has been claimed (most speculatively) that Albrecht Haushofer (son of Karl, the geopolitician) who Hess knew from university had been a student of Gurdijeff and had set up the Vril Society (a lodge claiming contact with Shambhala, the Tibetan otherworld) and that Hitler and Himmler were members.
Himmler did know Haushofer (who knowingly or not seems to have been one of Himmler's spies in the resistance[Padfield]) but I seriously doubt that the Vril Society really existed. That said, Himmler did send SS research teams to Tibet, and Russian troops entering Berlin in 1945 found Tibetans who had committed ritual suicide wearing SS uniforms. [Dyson, Carroll] What it all adds up to is anyone's guess.
Many amongst the Nazi leadership found Himmler rather a figure of fun and would often take the mickey out of him and his mystification of the SS (only behind this very dangerous man's back, though!). Architect, construction supremo, and armaments minister Albert Speer reports Hitler as saying of Himmler:
"What nonsense! Here we have a last reached an age that has left all mysticism behind it, and now he wants to start all over again. We might just as well have stayed with the church ... To think that I may some day be turned into an SS saint! I would turn over in my grave..."[Speer]
Himmler's intense interest in Germanic paganism is illustrated well by a letter that he wrote to the head of the Ahnernebe (a historical and cultural research unit that Himmler had incorporated into the SS). He believed the ancient Germans enacted legal ordinances and marriages upon ancient stones at burial places of the clan (Sippe), and had come across the following custom that he claimed had survived up to 1930:
"If there was a girl in a village who had reached marriageable age and not found a man, the father went out on a moon-dark night, that is at new moon, with the girl and the villagers. The girl was placed on the dolmen or ancestral burial, the villagers stood in a wide circle around this stone, face outward. The father had spoken beforehand with a villager, thus with one of the blood-community. This man took himself from the ring to the ancestral burial and coupled with the girl. The love and sexual act took place on the ancestral burial ... What was done was no casual act, but took place in the sight of the ancestors and on the grave of the ancestors."[Padfield]
He goes on to suggest lines of research for after the war. That he still took time for such matters in August 1944 - with the Eastern Front collapsing, SS squads abusing and killing "partisans" and Germans who dared retreat, with the killing factories working overtime, and himself rooting out disloyal or troublesome factors in Germany (this was just after the bomb attack on Hitler) - says a lot about the man and his beliefs.
His own views about immortality owe something to Hinduism as well as Germanic beliefs in rebirth in the Sippe via the transmission of the bloodline
- not at all incongruous since both beliefs are linked via the spread of Indo-European, or "Aryan", culture (the word comes from the Sanskrit Aryas
- meaning "noble" or "freeman" - and Swastika is Sanskrit also). [Berresford Ellis] Speaking, in 1937, of the idea of rebirth in the Sippe, Himmler said:
"A Volk that has this belief in rebirth and that honours its ancestors, and in so doing honours itself, always has children, and this Volk has eternal life." [Padfield]
He even ordered 20,000 copies of Karl Eckhart's Earthly Immortality: German belief in reincarnation in the Sippe for the SS.
This belief, as well as that of the SS being the noble warrior caste of the Third Reich, is reflected in his instructions for a great triptych for the entrance hall of Wewelsberg Castle - the symbolic seat of SS power. Of the first painting he wanted a depiction of "the attack of an SS troop in war, in which I envisage the representation of a dead or mortally wounded SS man, who is married, to show that from death itself and despite it new life springs". The next panel would show SS men tilling the newly won land, and the final panel would show a new village full of families with many children. [Padfield]
This idea is also reflected in the rather macabre "death's head" insignia adopted by SS killing squads - death and killing were necessary and noble as they kept the folk community pure and vibrant. Himmler could use this same idea to purge whole families such as the von Stauffenbergs (the family of the July 20th 1944 bomber). Witness a speech Himmler made to district leaders:
"You only need to look up the Germanic Sagas. If they proscribed a family and outlawed them, or if there was a blood feud in the family, then they were drastically thorough ... they said, 'This man is a traitor, the blood is bad, there is bad blood in them, that will be eradicated'. And in the case of a blood feud it was eradicated down to the last member of the whole Sippe. The family of Graf Stauffenberg will be extinguished to the last member..." [Padfield]
He then mercilessly hunted down the family, even to distant relatives and had them executed or shipped to concentration camps. Similarly, the disabled or mentally ill were killed or sterilised so as not to pass on their "bad blood", and Germans who had intercourse with slave workers, Jews or other "inferiors" were harshly punished. On the other hand, the "elite" SS were rewarded for having children, and had special brothels - the children of which were supported by the state.
The SS and Earth Mysteries
Archaeology in the SS was mainly carried out by the Ahnernebe, whose "cultural research" also included devilish experiments on the inmates of the concentration camps. The idea of landscape alignments linking supposed sacred sites of the ancient Germanic people - that were being dubbed "leys" in Britain - appealed to Himmler, and many of the pioneers in this area were soon working for the Ahnernebe. "They looked for evidence of ancient landscape surveys in order to substantiate Germany's claims as the home of civilisation, and where proof of the primaeval skills of the race was lacking, it could be fabricated." [Harte]
Indeed, so sparse and unimpressive were the finds from some of the pivotal sites in these grand landscape schemes that the evidence had to be manipulated or just plain invented. Hitler was rather embarrassed by Himmler's obsession with the past:
"Why do we call the whole world's attention to the fact that we have no past? It isn't enough that the Romans were erecting great buildings when our forefathers were still living in mud huts; now Himmler is starting to dig up these villages of mud huts and enthusing over every potsherd and stone axe he finds. All we prove by that is that we were still throwing stone hatchets and crouching around open fires when Greece and Rome had already reached the highest stage of culture. We really should do our best to keep quiet about this past. Instead Himmler makes a great fuss about it all. The present-day Romans must be having a laugh at these relegations." [Speer]
The Ahnernebe, following the theories of Wilhelm Teudt, found ancient Germanic "star temples" where sightlines supposedly radiated out towards important positions of sun, moon, and stars. These calendrical centres tended to turn up near SS colleges, and were often just natural rock formations, medieval remains, and in one case an old farm refuse tip![Magin]
The most famous Nazi sacred centre was the Externsteine near Detmold, north-east of Dortmund. Here stand four spectacular columns of rock, one of which has a small chapel cut into it. The window of the chapel admits the rising sun at midsummer.
According to Teudt this was where the sacred pillar of the Saxons, Irminsul, stood until toppled by Charlemagne (it almost certainly didn't), and a carving of a "weeping Irminsul" is supposed to be on one of the pillars of rock. [Schmidt] The Externsteine was at the centre of alignments (never statistically tested by the Nazis) and was supposed to have been a sacred centre before Stonehenge. [Magin] Excavations in the 1930's found only pottery from the seventh century CE, and the majority from the eleventh to fourteenth centuries.[Schmidt] The chapel is actually Christian, not pagan, and probably medieval.[Devereux]
Still, none of this mattered too much in a totalitarian state with "Spin Doctors" better than Tony Blair's, and the Externsteine became a major Nazi cult centre. Even today thousands of pagans come to this Christian site for the summer solstice, and neo-Nazis still gather here on November the first. The two groups are not entirely separate.[Schmidt]
The Castle of Wewelsberg
Fascinated by tales of King Arthur and his knights, Himmler's "Camelot" for his own knightly Order was the castle of Wewelsberg near Paderborn in Westphalia. Having acquired it in 1934, Himmler had massive reconstruction work done (paid for by his company "The Society for the Protection and Maintenance of German Cultural Monuments") - the labour came, of course, from the concentration camps.
The focal point of the castle was a huge round oak table with seating for his twelve of his senior Gruppenführers:
"They sat in high-backed chairs made out of pigskin, on each of which was a silver disk on which the selected 'knight' had his name engraved. Here the chiefs of the SS were compelled to sit in the company of their Grand Master [Himmler] for hours of contemplation and meditation ... Each 'knight' had his own quarters in the castle..."[Graber]
Beneath this room was a crypt containing pedestals where should one of the "knights" die an urn containing his ashes [Graber] or his coat of arms [Padfield] would be burnt. Vents in the ceiling would allow those in the main hall to see the smoke rise or "the spirit ascend into a type of Valhalla". [Graber]
Himmler's own private rooms in the castle were dedicated to the tenth-century Saxon King Heinrich the first (also known as Henry the Fowler) decked out in period fashion. According to Himmler's masseur, Himmler believed he was the reincarnation of the king, although Padfield notes that this sits uneasily with Himmler's ideas of life after death (by physical transmission of blood in the clan). Himmler shared his Christian name with the king, and may have felt he was an honorary member of a royal clan. His father had been tutor to Prince Heinrich of Bavaria, and the young Himmler was not only named for him but was the Prince's godson.[Padfield] Whatever the case, at midnight each July 2nd (the anniversary of the Saxon king's death) he would apparently commune in silence with King Heinrich. [Graber]
Necromancy or imagination? I wouldn't like to say for sure, when would the chronically overworked Reichsführer find time to learn the art? Still, it is a tempting conclusion to jump to. Any necromancers out there fancy asking him?
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The increasingly interactive and interconnected network of “smart” devices, commonly referred to as the “Internet of Things” (IoT), is reshaping how we all experience our daily lives. Avery Dennison, which has been pioneering change for decades, has developed a portfolio of Intelligent Label Solutions – meaning label applications that can store or capture information and transmit data wirelessly.
“RFID is a game changer,” said Georg Müller-Hof, vice president marketing for Avery Dennison Europe. “The technology is at the core of the IoT, and it’s revolutionizing labelling and product packaging. By taking advantage of our Intelligent Label Solutions,” he added, “label converters and brand owners have a golden opportunity to be on the cutting edge of a phenomenon that’s changing our world.”
The company takes advantage of its significant presence at Labelexpo 2017 in Brussels to showcase its recently introduced Intelligent Label Solutions.
Building on its show theme of “Pioneering Change,” Avery Dennison will introduce a set of innovative products that have RFID technology at their core. The products are engineered to help label converters and brand owners grow their business in a world increasingly shaped by the IoT, by enabling interaction between their products and such devices as smartphones, with other networked objects containing RFID. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) estimates that by 2020, more than 50 billion objects will be networked. Many of those objects will use RFID. It follows that the IoT is heavily influencing the course of product packaging.
With Avery Dennison Intelligent Label Solutions, converters and brand owners can grow their business by embracing this revolution. Intelligent Label Solutions currently include:
• RFID Product Portfolio – An extensive portfolio of RFID inlays. These are designed and manufactured by Avery Dennison for use in retail, medical, transport, logistics, manufacturing, and other industries. Wafer-thin, tough, and economical, RFID inlays can be used in a wide variety of objects, including virtually any pressure-sensitive label construction.
• TT Sensor Plus™ 2 – A small (⅓ of a credit card), wireless, single-use, self-adhesive label can be adhered to, or placed inside of, a shipping package to log and store temperature data. The data is stored in a near-field communication (NFC) microchip and can be uploaded to the cloud via a smartphone or a computer at any point in the package’s journey. TT Sensor Plus 2 is intended for pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, and other industries where careful monitoring of a temperature-controlled supply chain ensures compliance and quality.
A leader in the development and manufacture of RFID inlays, Avery Dennison continues to pioneer change by being at the forefront of the IoT and intelligent label revolution. The company is committed to helping label converters take advantage of opportunities to grow with this trend.
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February 24, 2009
Dr. Steven Maier, assistant professor of physics at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, completed and defended his dissertation to receive his doctorate in educational studies in December.
Maier began his college career at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., where he earned his bachelor’s degree in physics and education. The Newark, N.Y., native and his wife Amber then moved to Oklahoma to be closer to her family.
He began the master’s program at Oklahoma State University and obtained his master’s in physics in 1998. After completing this mission, he sent out several applications to schools, mainly high schools, in hopes of receiving a job. Maier said he heard about a career opportunity at Northwestern by word of mouth, applied for and eventually landed a job in the natural sciences department the same year.
“I knew I wanted to get my master’s, afterward I decided to take a break to figure out what I wanted to do,” Maier said. “It wasn’t until I started teaching that I knew I wanted to get my doctorate.”
In 2000, Maier began his course work for his doctorate at the University of Oklahoma. Maier’s dissertation, “Learning Physics Concepts as a Function of Colloquial Language Uses,” focused on how students or people in general misuse words on a daily basis.
“I’ve always been interested in plays on words,” Maier said. “Some may misuse words daily, and it’s not until they actually know the scientific, conceptual meaning of the word that they begin to understand the true meaning.”
One of his favorite things about Northwestern is working with his colleagues.
“I see a lot of potential for the natural science program and for the students,” Maier said. “It’s great to work with students who are interested in the field.”
Maier enjoys seeing the number of service learning and outreach opportunities that are associated with Northwestern such as BEST, science fair judging and the observatory.
“Involving area schools and the public in a way to get science out there in the rural communities shows how much Northwestern values education and the sciences,” Maier said.
By obtaining his doctorate, Maier feels like he’s been able to listen differently to students and others.
“Through collecting data and analyzing research for my doctorate, it changed how I communicate and listen to students and realize that sometimes what is said is not necessarily what was meant,” Maier said.
Now that Maier has completed his PhD, 100 percent of the science faculty is teaching with a doctorate.
“We are pleased to have our entire science faculty gain their doctorates in their respective fields,” Dr. Cynthia Pfeifer-Hill, professor of biology and Natural Science department chair, said.
“With their educational expertise, they can incorporate the latest concepts, philosophy and techniques into the science curriculum and student research. Also, our faculty’s high energy, enthusiasm and genuine interest in helping students reach their potential in scientific, academic and professional pursuits is commendable,” Pfeifer-Hill said.
“This, along with the fantastic upgrades and renovations in the Science Building will continue to ensure that our Northwestern students receive the best quality education in science.”
On Friday, April 24, at 11:30 a.m., the School of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern-Alva will host an open house and dedication of the Science Building and the Health and Sports Science Education Building.
Maier and his wife reside in Alva with their daughters Leah, 8, and Jenna, 5, and newborn, Kayla.
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The average size of a farm in the U.S. is about 450 acres — plenty of space to grow bountiful amounts of crops that can support the business. However, farms have been struggling for ages with low prices and rising costs.
Luckily, a new way of doing business may just be the solution they’re looking for. Over the past couple years, the farm-to-fork — or locavore — movement sweeping the nation is giving farms the boost they need.
“You’re just seeing that farms are having difficulty covering their costs of production,” Sarah Lloyd of the Wisconsin Farmers’ Union told NPR. “The prices that are being paid to them in the market is not enough to cover their costs. One bright spot is you see people venturing into direct markets, and that’s a way where they can have more control over their pricing.”
The Farm-to-Fork movement is already having a profound economic impact. In King County, Washington, farmer’s markets gross $30 million annually, and that’s not counting ancillary revenue, such as parking lots. Since at least 2011, small farms have been popping up all throughout the area, bringing in annual sales of between $10,000 to over $1 million.
Even Chipotle — a fast-casual chain with over 1,100 locations in 35 states — buys from the locals. According to a company spokesperson, some ingredients are 85% to 90% from local purveyors.
The movement has also inspired farms to try other new revenue streams, such as starting restaurants right there on the premises, where it literally cannot get much more farm-to-fork.
Take Stoney Acres in Athens, Wisconsin, for example. Every Friday night between May and October, the farmyard is turned into a pizzeria, where diners can nosh on organic pizza that’s virtually 100% made with ingredients right from the farm, with the exception of the cheese. Even the pepperoni and sausage is made with hogs raised at Stoney Acres.
“We’re developing some areas that are growing, but our [Community Supported Agriculture program], which has been our backbone, which used to be about 85 percent of our income, is now a little bit less than 50 percent of our income,” Kat Becker, co-owner of Stoney Acres, told NPR.
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Avette Ray Maness, a six-year-old child prodigy from Ohio, began playing the piano at the age of one. However, according to CBS News, the boy was born nearly blind. “When he was able to get to the piano on his own, he played ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,'” Avette’s mother, Sarah Moore, says.
He was only 11 months old at the time. Since then, the boy has started taking piano lessons, where he is learning new techniques and classical melodies with the help of his teacher. “The music is in him,” Moore says. – He is a coach.
Your overall performance. He has incredible talent. People are pleading with him to speak up.” This is impressive even for a six-year-old child with vision, but for a visually impaired child, it’s insane.
I’m sure Queen is overjoyed with this child. He is a six-year-old blind and visually impaired boy who plays the piano better than most pianists. It’s quite impressive! Continue! He can even tell when he’s hitting the wrong notes. So great! God bless you and your abilities! And you, too, are a blessing! Just take a look at how he plays. | <urn:uuid:50090abb-47d3-4f19-a0a9-16e71711b809> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsspace.ru/archives/24644 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.987243 | 278 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Published on August 29th, 2012 | by Steven Hodson0
Researchers Discover Earthquake Trigger Points – Call Them “Melt Welts”
Earthquakes cause untold human and financial disaster when they strike so it is no wonder that scientists have been trying to find some way to predict when and where earthquakes will occur, and scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego believe they may have found those trigger points.
In a paper published in the august 30 issue of Nature Scripps scientists Kevin Brown and Yuri Fialko outline new information that they have managed to glean from laboratory experiments that mimic earthquakes. One of the things that they found is how fault zones weaken in select locations shortly after a fault reaches an earthquake tipping point.
That point is, as they have coined the term, called “melt welts” and the analogy used is that the mechanism may be similar to “hot spots” as found in automobile break-clutch components.
“Melt welts appear to be working as part of a complicated feedback mechanism where complex dynamic weakening processes become further concentrated into initially highly stressed regions of a fault,” said Brown, first author of the study and a professor in the Geosciences Research Division at Scripps. “The process allows highly stressed areas to rapidly break down, acting like the weakest links in the chain. Even initially stable regions of a fault can experience runaway slip by this process if they are pushed at velocities above a key tipping point.”
“This adds to the fundamental understanding of the earthquake process because it really addresses the question of how these ruptures become energetic and dynamic and run away for long distances,” said Fialko, a paper coauthor and a professor in the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps.
via eScience News
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The widespread use of information technology has undoubtedly turned our lives upside down. The internet and smartphones created a world that is utterly different from the one we experienced before. It has revolutionized the way we connect with each other and we have access to instant and unlimited information so much that we can’t even imagine our lives without it. The technological revolution is about to disrupt industrial production globally, a process that is referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0.
The First Industrial Revolution was the improvement of industrial production with the mechanization through water and the steam engine. The Second one was through electric power and mass production. The Third one used electronics and information technology to automate production and now the Fourth Industrial Revolution is building on the Third, the digital revolution that has been occurring since the middle of the last century.
The difference between the first three structural changes and this one is that this time no new disruptive technology is the direct cause of this transformation but rather the way those technologies are applied together to achieve a step up in production processes. For example, analysing large amounts of data to improve production – nowadays called big data analytics – has been in use for decades, for instance in huge projects like a nuclear power plant to optimise electricity production. However, in Industry 4.0 the breakthrough is that data has become so abundant and technologies so much cheaper, that the same techniques are ready to be applied by all companies including small enterprises. They can be applied to optimise production processes on a very wide scale as well, not just on a single machine but on all of the productive capacity that a factory has. Then, through Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, these machines can even communicate with each other directly, without the involvement of a human, and coordinate production between themselves in a very efficient manner.
These efficiencies can both lead to reduced costs and improved top lines for companies. Additionally, a few tangible examples of what benefits Industry 4.0 can bring are custom-made running shoes for everyone that perfectly fit one’s feet or predictive maintenance of machines - data-driven maintenance that predicts when a given part will need to be replaced before the machine breaks down and thus preventing unscheduled downtime or costly failures.
Most industrial companies are aware of this structural change and that they need to be on board not to fall behind with competitors. However, the implementation is still in its infancy across the world. Most of the companies run only ‘pilot projects’ and just a select group of manufacturers have been able to deploy advanced manufacturing techniques at scale. The World Economic Forum created a category for these companies, the so-called Global Lighthouse Network. These companies show leadership in using Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to transform factories, value chains, and business models. As of October 2021, only 90 such factories have been identified in the world to implement technologies on a scale that is a clear step up compared to prior standards. The main reason for this lag is not reported to be due to the high capital requirements but rather because of the lack of employees with the necessary know-how to build out and operate these advanced systems.
From an investment perspective, in the following years, it would be interesting to monitor companies that are expected to gain a head start in the implementation of Industry 4.0 processes. They will inevitably generate a competitive edge against other players and could be good stock picks for a long-term buy-and-hold strategy. In addition, due to the current bottlenecks in know-how, companies focused on implementing such systems for industrial players can become very sought after as they continue to commit themselves to take a step up to Industry 4.0 and consequently their share prices may follow suit.
Disclaimer: This article was issued by Tamas Jozsa, research analyst at Calamatta Cuschieri. For more information visit www.cc.com.mt. The information, view, and opinions provided in this article are being provided solely for educational and informational purposes and should not be construed as investment advice, advice concerning particular investments or investment decisions, or tax or legal advice.
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Seeking Companies That Generate Free Cash Flow
Cash generation is “king” for many investors selecting stocks. Earnings, dividends and asset values may be important factors, but it is ultimately a company’s ability to generate cash that fuels the growth in these factors. Strong cash flow allows a company to increase dividends, develop new products, enter new markets, pay off liabilities, buy back shares and even become an acquisition target.
Earnings and earnings multiples dominate standard measures of firm performance and stock price valuation. However, slight accounting differences make it difficult to track earnings over time or between firms. Actual cash flow is free from many of these problems of comparability across firms and consistency over time.
Traditional Cash Flow Measures
Cash flow has traditionally been calculated by adding noncash expenses back to earnings after taxes and subtracting dividend payments. Noncash expenses such as depreciation, amortization and depletion are taxable expenses that appear on the income statement but require no cash outlays. They represent the accountant’s attempt to measure the reduction of the book value of assets as the assets are depleted. While dividends are a discretionary item, they are a real cash outlay that is not tax deductible and is not reflected in earnings. Subtracting dividends and adding back noncash expenses to earnings provides an estimate of cash flow.
This widely used cash flow estimate has many weaknesses that arise out of the use of accrual accounting for the calculation of the income statement. Accrual accounting attempts to match expenses to revenues when the revenues can be expected to be recognized. For example, cash used to build up inventory will not be reflected as an expense on the income statement until the inventory is sold. But even then, the recognition of this inventory cost may vary from firm to firm if one company uses a last in, first out (LIFO) method to measure the cost of inventory sold while another firm uses a first in, first out (FIFO) method. Higher sales may not translate into higher cash flow if accounts receivable are allowed to grow faster than sales. Prepaid expenses such as income taxes and software development costs may not flow through the income statement when the costs are incurred. On the other hand, much like a personal checkbook, cash accounting tracks cash inflows and outflows directly when they actually occur.
Accrual accounting introduces many interpretations and estimates by management into the financial statements. Decisions regarding the capitalization of expenses, the recognition of revenue, the creation of reserves against losses and write-off of assets are examples of just a few of the factors that may vary from firm to firm. Many of these issues are factors that relate to the “quality” of a firm’s earnings. Since the traditional cash flow estimate is tied directly to earnings with few adjustments, it represents a weak estimate of the firm’s actual cash flow.
Statement of Cash Flow
Companies have been required to provide a statement of cash flow since 1987. The purpose of the statement is to disclose information about the events that affected cash during an accounting period. The statement looks at the changes in the levels of cash directly, eliminating many of the weaknesses with the traditional estimate of cash flow.
The statement divides company uses and sources of cash into three primary segments—operating, investing and financing cash flows.
The operating cash flow segment is designed to measure a company’s ability to generate cash from day-to-day operations as it provides goods and services to its customers. It considers factors such as cash from the collection of accounts receivable, the cash incurred to produce any goods or services, payments made to suppliers, labor costs, taxes and interest payments. A positive cash flow from operations implies that a firm was able to generate enough cash from continuing operations without the need for additional funds. A negative cash flow from operations indicates that additional cash inflows were required for day-to-day operations of the firm.
The investing segment of the cash flow statement attempts to capture the company’s investment in the long-term capital of the firm. Factors recorded in this segment can include purchases of property, plant and equipment; investment or sale of marketable securities; and investments or divestitures in unconsolidated subsidiaries. Negative cash flow from investing activities indicates that the company made additional long-term investments in the company’s long-term assets or outside investments. A positive cash flow from investing activities indicates a divestiture or sale of the long-term assets of the firm.
The financing segment of the cash flow statement examines how the company finances its endeavors and how it rewards its shareholders through dividend payments. Factors such as cash received from the issuance of new shares of stock or debt, payment of dividends to stockholders and the cash used to repurchase stocks to retire debt are summarized in this segment. Note that interest payments are considered part of normal operational expenses and are factored into the operating segment, not the financing segment, of the cash flow statement. The financial segment also often examines the impact of foreign currency translation.
Free Cash Flow
Ideally, a company should not only cover the costs of producing its goods and services but also produce excess cash flow for its shareholders. Cash flow from operations represents a good starting point for this type of analysis. However, beyond current production, a growing company must reinvest its cash to maintain its operations and expand. While management may neglect capital expenditures in the short term, there are fundamental negative long-term growth implications to such neglect. Optimally, one would use the capital expenditures required to sustain the health of the company, but that is a highly subjective figure that will not appear as a line item on the financial statement. Actual capital expenditures serve as a proxy measure of this sustained investment into the company’s present and future operation.
Free cash flow refines the measure of cash flow from operations by considering capital expenditures and dividend payments to shareholders. While you can argue that dividend payments are not required, they are expected by shareholders and they are paid in cash, so they must be subtracted from cash flow to calculate a free cash flow figure. Free cash flow is calculated by subtracting capital expenditures and dividend payments from cash flow from operations.
This free cash flow figure is considered to be excess cash flow that the company can use as it deems most beneficial. With strong free cash flow, debt can be retired, new products developed, stock can be repurchased and dividend payments can be increased.
The Screening Criteria
A screen for positive and consistent free cash flow is a good starting point for the investor scanning for firms on a cash flow basis. The first screen requires a market capitalization greater than or equal to $50 million. This restriction excludes small stocks with poor trading liquidity.
The next screening factor excludes financial firms. The cash flow calculation in AAII’s Stock Investor Pro calculates free cash flow by subtracting capital expenditures and dividends from operating cash flow on the cash flow statement. Financials do not typically have large expenditures in brick-and-mortar property, plant and equipment. However, they make significant investments in marketable securities, which are not considered in the standard free cash flow calculation. When looking at the cash flow of a financial firm, it would be best to examine total cash flow figures from the statement of cash flows.
The screen then requires positive free cash flow for each of the last five fiscal years and the most recent 12 months. Ideally, a company would always have positive and increasing free cash flow. However, cyclical firms and companies with long development and construction cycles may have periods of slow sales, inventory build-up and strong capital expenditures that occur over the normal course of business. A firm such as Boeing
Screening for Reasonable Value
Higher free cash flows should translate into higher stock prices. The ratio of stock price to free cash flow per share is a method by which to judge value. Comparing a company’s price-to-free-cash-flow ratio to those of other companies, industry norms and historical averages provides some feel for relative value much like the traditional price-earnings ratio. Firms with low price-to-free-cash-flow ratios may represent neglected firms at attractive prices. Our screen looks for companies with a price-to-free-cash-flow ratio below the median for their industry and below the company’s own five-year average.
The analysis of a company’s cash flow is a very revealing study of a firm. The free cash flow measure highlights the effective management of overall company operations including factors such as sales, inventory control, production and employee costs, accounts receivable management, interest payment levels, product development and capital expenditures. Screening for firms with attractive levels of price to free cash flow provides a useful technique to highlight more mature value stocks worthy of further study. However, as with all preliminary screens, a study of the annual report and an understanding of the company, its products and its industry are required.
Stocks Passing the Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Screen (Ranked by Lowest Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio)
The 30 companies with the lowest price-to-free-cash-flow ratio are shown in the passing companies table below. Our Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow screening model has shown impressive long-term performance, with an average annual gain since 1998 of 17.2%, versus 5.9% for the S&P 500 index over the same period.
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About 14 years ago I had lunch with a guy who owns a pretty popular triathlon training company here in Chicago. We chatted about fitness, health, diet – all the usual suspects for two people working in the same industry. He asked what I thought about nutrition supplements, if I thought we should add them to our diet.
Back then I was a strong believer that we could get most of the nutrition we needed from a whole foods-based diet. I answered him pretty adamantly, “No, if we’re eating healthy, we don’t need to supplement. We should get all the nutrients we need from the food we eat.”
In retrospect, that was a pretty naïve thing to say, and was purely based on an absolutely perfect 100% organic diet.
It didn’t take too long for me to reverse my stance on how I felt about nutrition supplements, and the role they play in our ability to maintain a healthy body.
Nutrition Supplements: Why You Need Them
To say we all need nutrition supplements is a very broad statement. Walk into any grocery or health food store, and you’re paraded with wall-to-wall bottles of capsules, drinks and powders all promising to manage or improve something that’s lacking or in need of maintenance.
Distilling all of these choices down to exactly what you need for your body can be overwhelming and confusing.
You definitely don't need to take every supplement you see, but there are a few you should take. Let me explain why.
Each of these supplements adds back something that helps our body - but is often depleted - either by age, lifestyle or our existing diet.
When nutrients are depleted, our body doesn't operate the way it should, resulting in illness, weight gain, mood changes, bone loss, increased body fat and of course, disease.
Naturally, a healthy plant-based diet, balanced with a good amount of protein and fat is the optimal way to get nutrients, but these supplements are the extra layer of armor that protect your body from the inside out.
Here are my specific recommendations. I've taken these supplements for over 10 years and have tried so many. Of all that I've tried, these are the only supplements that pass the test for me...and my family.
Nutrition Supplements #1: Probiotics
Probiotics are bacteria. Our gut consists of a certain amount of good bacteria and bad bacteria. Good and bad bacteria will always co-exist in every body, but our job is to make sure there is a healthy balance of the beneficial stuff!
In my house, I tell my kids that good bacteria and probiotics are soldiers. Good bacteria helps to fight for our immune system to keep it strong, and it helps to digest food. Without good bacteria, our defenses are down.
When we don't have enough good bacteria in our gut, we develop unpleasant symptoms, including:
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Anxiety and Depression
- Insulin Resistance and Diabetes
What Causes Bad Bacteria to Grow?
Bad bacteria grows and can take over our gut if we:
- eat too much sugar
- don't eat prebiotic foods
- take antibiotics (even in the past few years)
- experience high levels of stress
- don' t eat fermented foods or take a daily probiotic
- don't get enough activity
- don't eat a variety of fresh foods
The bottom line is it's important for your health to take a probiotic. And if you're a parent, your kids should take one as well.
I take probiotics in the morning and in the evening as this is what works best for me.
What Sort of Probiotics Should You Take?
I've listed a couple of the probiotics that I've taken, and those that I've given my kids.
There are so many different strains of good bacteria, but the most important thing is buying a brand that is well researched. I can't emphasize this enough.
An indication of how well-researched a brand is can be found when looking a the strains of bacteria. You'll see a lot of different names, like lactobacillus, for example.
"Lactobacillus" - this is vague and doesn't tell you anything about the strain
"Lactobacillus plantarum" or "Lactobacillus La-14" - this tells you more about the specific strain and indicates more research
This is sort of my litmus test for probiotics before I even consider buying them.
The brands I trust include:
Nutrition Supplements #2: Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Omega-3 fatty acids are a group of essential fatty acid, meaning our body can’t produce them, so we have to get them from the foods we eat or nutrition supplements we take.
Omega-3s are one of the most important nutrition supplements you can take for a number of reasons that I’ll get to in a moment, but it’s important to know that it’s highly unlikely you’re not getting enough in your diet, and even if you’re getting some, it’s probably not enough.
Benefits of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
When we don't get enough omega-3 fatty acids, our body gets "rusty" from the inside out. It starts to show signs of wear and tear faster, and generally breaks down more often.
Supplementing with omega-3 fatty acids has been shown to:
- Decrease risk of heart disease
- Reduce the risk of certain types of cancer
- Improve memory
- Reduce inflammation
- Decrease the likelihood of depression
Omega-3 fatty acids are a group of polyunsaturated fats or PUFAs. There is no substitute for this type of PUFA in our diets. You can't get the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids from any other type of fat.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids vs Omega 6 Fatty Acids
(Skip over this part if you're not interested in super geeky details)
All fatty acids should sit in a sort of homeostasis to be optimal. In addition to omega-3 fatty acids, two other fatty acids include omega-6 and omega-9.
The relationship between omega-3 and omega-6 is where things get interesting.
Ideally, our bodies should have a ratio of 4:1 - meaning four (4) omega-6 to one (1) omega-3.
Most people, at least in the United States, have a ratio that’s closer to 20:1.
To put it bluntly, this wreaks havoc on our body – just about every part – from our brain to our bones.
Part of the reason this ratio is off so much is because omega-6 fatty acids are in foods that are common staples. Omega-3 fatty acids are available, but not in the way omega-6 fatty acids are.
A few foods that contain a lot of omega-6 fatty acids include:
- Corn Chips
- Potato Chips
- Whole Wheat
- Corn Oil, Soybean Oil (and every processed food made with these oils)
- Peanut Butter
- Fast Food
- Deli Meats
Eat less of these foods.
On the flip side, a few foods that contain omega-3 fatty acids include:
- Salmon and Most Fatty Fish
- Flaxseed Oil
- Fresh Veggies and Fruits
- Chia Seeds
Eat more of these foods.
What Omega-3 Fatty Acids Should You Take?
These are the only brands I've taken for the past 12 years.
If you are vegetarian, vegan or have an allergy to fish, you can also get a decent amount of omega-3 fatty acids in flax seed oil.
You may be wondering how much to take. Different agencies recommend different amounts, which vary greatly. I take one tablespoon a daily before bed.
My kids also take one teaspoon a day in the morning.
There really is no right or wrong time to take this supplement, but it is important to take it daily.
What about the taste?
I started my kids when they were babies and they really don't know any different. It's a spoonful every morning. That's it!
If you have a young child, you may be able to just start them on the liquid oil. There are also capsule alternatives, as well as a variety of flavors.
Nutrition Supplements #3: Vitamin K2 + D
Did you know that calcium is preferential to soft tissue? Most people don't know this.
So how does calcium make its way to our teeth or bones if it prefers to make a home in our arteries and other soft tissue areas?
Through vitamin K2 in combination with D.
Maintaining Vitamin K2 helps to regulate soft tissue calcification. In other words, K2 helps keep calcium out of your arteries and in your bones and teeth.
Keeping Vitamin D at optimal level helps to "unlock" the bones and teeth to receive calcium through the vehicle of vitamin K2.
Vitamins K2 and D help to make sure calcium gets deposited where it needs to go!
Without adequate amounts of K2 or D, calcium isn't as regulated as it should be and moves directly to our soft tissue, including our arteries.
Another word for this is arteriosclerosis.
Of course, the first thing I thought when I learned this was WOW! How many glasses of skim milk was I told to drink during the "low fat 80s and 90s" because it made my bones strong? And how much calcium was I told to supplement with when I was in my teen years?
K2 and D in Our Diet
It's unlikely that your diet has been void of K2 and D! Both of these fat soluble vitamins can be found in foods, but probably not in the amounts we need.
Vitamin K2 can be found in:
- Egg Yolks
- Chicken (especially the liver)
- Fermented Foods
Vitamin D can be found in:
- Fatty fish (like salmon)
- Egg Yolks
- Cod Liver Oil
- The Sun!
How can you supplement with K2 + D?
Fortunately, there are supplement available that come in the right combination of these two important vitamins.
This is what I use:
I use a liquid K2 + D3. I add a drop of this supplement to my cod liver oil and take them together. I add a drop to my kids' teaspoon of cod liver oil in the morning as well.
More Doesn't Mean Better
Keep in mind that taking more of these supplements doesn't always mean better. With the exception of probiotics, the rest of the supplements are fat soluble. Our body needs them, but don't go overboard.
Think of vitamins like sun exposure. A little bit is good, but too much can burn you.
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So you think your gift list is long.
Meet Caye Gray of Greenbrae, who has just finished filling 89 gift bags to be given to homeless Marin women this Christmas.
Gray has been making gifts for the homeless since 1972. Twelve years ago, she began assembling gift bags - one for each year of her life.
This year, she says - gazing at the array of red-and-green-trimmed bags in her Tamalpais retirement home apartment - will be her last.
"Eighty-nine," she says in wonderment. "That seems like enough."
Gray is a former teacher, interior designer and hostess at the San Francisco Design Center. She is also the wife - for 64 years - of Richard Gray, president-founder of the once-thriving World College West and now founder of the Presidio School of Management in San Francisco.
Dick Gray, 83, is a graduate of the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, and for eight years presided over a student chaplaincy at Portland State University.
But Caye Gray says it is not religion that has driven her to help homeless women.
"I just felt they needed it. It's a matter of heart, I guess."
Mary Kay Sweeney, executive director of Homeward Bound, an agency serving Marin's homeless, says, "It is quite remarkable, what (Caye) has done, year after year. We're excited and very grateful that she's done it once again." The gift bags will be distributed to Homeward Bound clients.
Gray grew up in Modesto during the Great Depression, an experience that made her cringe at the good food she saw thrown away in Dumpsters at Marin grocery stores. In 1972, she began what she calls "Dumpster-diving," looking for food she could salvage. "Sometimes I'd find 25 to 40 loaves of bread, just tossed out."
She took the food to homeless shelters in Marin.
Then, she says, grocery stores closed their Dumpsters and started compacting the leftover food. She could not get the needs of homeless people out of her mind, "so I started doing gift bags. I've been doing them for more than 12 years."
The bags contain a long list of items she thinks would be helpful to homeless women - among them, toothpaste, hairbrushes, shampoo, Band-Aids, hand lotion, safety pins, cosmetics, pens and pencils, Kleenex packs, note pads, mirrors, soap, razors, socks, sewing kits, shower caps, candy, a $1 bill.
She collects the items all year, many of them contributed by friends or neighbors at The Tamalpais. "I keep finding things left at my door."
She encourages friends to save soaps and lotions and other freebies they find in hotels on their travels. She goes to cosmetic counters at local stores, asking for extra samples of makeup and perfume. She looks for seasonal bargains she can buy. "Hairbrushes are on sale once a year."
Donations are stored year-round. This year she had 27 "banana boxes" full of items, which she and her husband placed in the paper gift bags over a three-week period.
The gift bags are transported to Homeward Bound offices in San Rafael, where they are later distributed to homeless shelters. Gray never sees who receives them.
Each bag - lined with green tissue and tied with a bow of gold-trimmed red ribbon - has a holiday message handwritten by Caye.
The card says:
"For you at Christmas time
"Some helpful items -
"With all best wishes
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Since the mid-1990s, the domination of the bloom-forming Peridinium spp was replaced by Cyanobacteria in Lake Kinneret (Israel). It is suggested that the efficiency of Nitrogen utilization by Peridinium is dependent on ammonium availability. Furthermore, the external supply of ammonium into Lake Kinneret is dependent on the anthropogenic management of the Hula Valley.
Anthropogenic management of the Hula Valley
The Kinneret drainage basin area is 2730 km2, located mostly to the north of the lake of which the Hula Valley is about 200 km2. Three major headwater rivers flow from the Hermon mountain region and join into one river Jordan. Jordan River contributes about 63% of the Kinneret water budget. Before 1957 when the Hula Valley was drainage, this land was covered by old Lake Hula and 3500 ha of swampy wetland. Not much information was documented about the chemical composition of the Kinneret headwater, the Hula Valley wetlands and old Lake Hula before the drainage. The Hula swampy wetlands and the old Lake Hula were drained between 1951 and 1957. From 1851 to 1957, about 40 scientific expeditions explored the fauna and the flora of the wetland and temperature, pH, Chloride concentration, and Hardness in old Lake Hula and river waters in the Hula Valley. Nevertheless, information about nutrients in the swamps and the old Lake Hula is not available (Dimentman et al. 1992). A single documented analysis (Jones 1940 a,b) reported free and albuminoid Ammonia concentrations in the swamps and old Lake Hula whereas Nitrate and Nitrite were absent or unmeasurable. The higher concentration of Free and Albuminoid Ammonia in the swampy waters and lower in old Lake Hula were reported. Consequently, the reductive environment of the swamps is confirmed (Dimentman et al. 1992).
Historical Land-Use Milestones
The indication of the Hula Valley as a wilderness was defined by the Mongolian (1240 ac) and Malaria was introduced during the Crusader period (1099-1291 ac). Enhancement of Water surface inundations of the swamps and old Lake Hula resulted in the construction of the Benot Yaakov bridge by Bivers in 1260. The principal impact on human activity was due to the distribution of the Malaria disease. Settling of the Ghawarna nomad tribes in the Hula Valley was carried out from 1840 and 1948 while the nomad population increased from 520 to 31,470 residents. No permanent settlements were constructed and the management policy principle was “the more dry was the winter more grass for cattle grazing and land for agriculture were available in spring-summer season”. The Jewish settlements in the Hula Valley were initiated at the end of the 19th century and enhanced in the 1940s. The drainage of Old Lake Hula and adjacent swampy wetlands was carried out from 1950 to 1957. The old lake and wetlands area was converted into agriculture and 6900 ha of natural wetland were converted to agricultural cultivation. Consequently, natural fauna and flora of exceptional diversity were demolished. For 40 years, agricultural products (Cotton, Corn, Alfa – Alfa, vegetables Barley and others) were economically produced. As a result of inappropriate management, soil structure deteriorated, dust storms became frequent, soil surface subsided by 7-10 cm/year, and underground fires occurred frequently. A reclamation project was implemented (1994-2005).
The reclamation project included creating a new shallow Lake Agmon-Hula, (presently 0.2 m mean depth, and 82 ha surface area) functioning as a collector of flushed nutrients from the peat soil to be removed through the Agmon-Hula system out of the Kinneret watershed. Independently human domestic sewage and dairy-farming effluents removal projects were achieved. Collected sewage is transferred into treatment plants and stored in reservoirs for irrigation reuse. From 1970 to 1985, the fish-pods area in the Hula Valley was restricted from 1700 to 300 ha. Sewage removal and fish-pond restriction eliminated significant loads of nutrients, mostly organic Nitrogen, and ammonium, from the external inputs into Lake Kinneret. As a result of the drainage (1957) dominated Nitrogen form contributed by the Hula Valley shifted from ammonium and Organic to Nitrate which represented continuously stable and high concentration. Not like high and stable concentrations of Nitrate, Organic Nitrogen and ammonium forms significantly declined. The Nitrate flush dynamic resulted from dryness and oxidation of the Peat soil after the drainage. The decline of Organic Nitrogen and ammonium is attributed to sewage removal and diminished aquaculture.
As of 2007, 18 reservoirs with a total available volume of 4.1 106 m3 were constructed in the Kinneret watershed. Earlier, 12 x106 m3 of raw sewage entered annually into Lake Kinneret. Between 1996 and 2007, a total capacity of 83 tons/year of TN (concentration 11-27 ppm) (data on Ammonium is not available) was removed into reservoirs whilst the annual capacity of TN was removed through the Agmon-Hula system (concentration 4.6-8.7 ppm) varied between 11-48 ton/year. Removal of ammonium load (mean concentration 1.4 ppm) through the Agmon-Hula system during 2000-2005 varied between 5.5 and 3.3 ton/y. Prior to the implementation of the sewage removal project in 1986, an annual load of Ammonium in the Jordan discharge was 70.2 tons whilst from 1999 to 2018 the mean capacity of ammonium in the Jordan was 21 tons, and the mean loads of Nitrate was 718 tons. Consequently, ammonium removal from the Kinneret mass balance through sewage treatment, as measured in the Jordan discharge is more efficient than through the Agmon-Hula system. Nevertheless, heavy loads of Nitrates originated in the Peat-soil, enriched lake Kinneret TN standing stock. Before the drainage, about 293 ton/y of free ammonia were delivered from the swamps into old Lake Hula and 117 ton/y of Albuminoid ammonia were forwarded from the old Lake Hula into the Jordan (annual discharge 650 mcm,=106 m3) (Dimentman et al. 1992; Jones 1940 a, b).
According to reported information (Kinneret Authority 2004; Upper Galilee Organization – Monitoring Effluent Reservoirs 1996-2007) total sewage volume that was practically removed was 7.2 mcm out of the optional available17.1 mcm (42%) of which 1.6 mcm were spilled over and 5.6 mcm (33%) were reused and eliminated from Nitrogen consumers in Lake Kinneret. An average of 19 ppm as the concentration of TN in the sewage removed into reservoirs indicates the elimination of 106 tons of TN of which mostly is Organic and ammonium Nitrogenic material. Prior to the Hula Drainage Nitrates were almost absent (Dimentman et al. 1992; Jones 1940 a, b) or negligible within the Jordan loads. Before drainage Jordan River conveyed 2.3 times more ammonium than from 1985 to 1967 and 5.6 times more than 1999 to 2018. After the drainage, Peat soil oxidation was enhanced and nitrates became the major Nitrogen form within the Jordan supply to Lake Kinneret. Before sewage removal accomplishment, the flux of Organic Nitrogen and ammonium continues for the benefit of nitrogen consumers (mostly Peridinium) in Lake Kinneret. After the achievement of sewage removal and aquaculture restriction loads of Organic Nitrogen and ammonium declined and the Peridinium bloom diminished.
Peridinium and Nitrogen Relationships in Lake Kinneret
The Nitrogen demand by Peridinium for optimal growth rate was widely
documented earlier (Gophen 2015; Gophen et al. 1999; Pollingher et al. 1978; Nishri 2011; Nishri and Hamilton 2011; Serruya and Pollingher 1971; Serruya et al. 1980). Maximal concentrations of ammonium in the Kinneret Epilimnion during the Peridinium Bloom season vary between 1.1-1.7 µM which promptly decline later. Ammonium decline is due to algal uptake and microbial nitrification. Considering 3% of dry weight as Nitrogen content in Peridinium cells and 40% as DW of Wet Weight and the commonly documented peak of 150 g(ww)/m2 ( Pollingher et al. 1978; Serruya et al. 1980) the total Nitrogen requirement to compensate the standing stock is about 30000 tons for the entire lake (168 km2 and 2000 mcm, Epilimnion volume). Considering ammonium preferential uptake on Nitrate (Dortch 1990), the standing stock is insufficient. Therefore, the Peridinium preferential ammonium is a limiting factor although partly replaced by plenty of available Nitrates. The high concentration of Nitrate in early winter is due to the flux of Nitrate and substantial bacterial nitrifiers originating from the Hula Peat soil. The Nitrogen sources supplied for the Peridinium bloom formation are mostly external although the significant stock of Nitrogen is trapped in the bottom sediments (Serruya et al. 1980). The prominent decline of the external supply of Organic Nitrogen via headwater discharges (River Dan, River Jordan) since the early 1980s was documented (Nishri 2011; Nishri and Hamilton 2010). Sewage removal and Fishponds restriction probably enhanced this trend. A similar decline was also documented in the Golan Heights Meshushim headwater discharge (Nishri 2011). During the late 1970s and early 1980s there was a prominent decline in Nitrate at the expense of the Nitrification bacterial process. It was considered (Nishri and Hamilton 2010) as enhanced Phytoplankton Nitrate uptake of which biomass was prominently increased. Nevertheless, a simultaneous high concentration of ammonium was indicated as well. The optional uptake competition by Peridnium between ammonium and Nitrate was not considered. A worldwide well-known tenet indicates that ammonium inhibits nitrate uptake (Kanda et al. 1990) and a low rate of nitrate uptake occurs when ammonium concentration is above 1µM and ammonium is preferred as a nitrogen source although growth rates on nitrate continue (Dortch 1990; Smith et al. 2014; Kanda et al. 1990). Ammonium supply to the Kinneret Epilimnion in early winter originates mostly from the Hypolimnion into the Epilimnion during de-Stratification which promptly declines while being oxidized to Nitrate. The ammonium decline is attributed to algal uptake and microbial nitrification. During the Peridinium bloom, the Epilimnetic (app volume 2000 mcm; 106m3) ammonium mean concentration varies between 0.020 and 0.030 ppm (1.1-1.7 µM) which is a total Epilimnetic stock of 40-60 tons. The standing stock of intracell Nitrogen content within the Peridinium biomass is 30000 tons resulting in ammonium insufficiency and Nitrate is utilized instead. If ammonium concentration is higher than 1µM, it is preferred but if lower – Nitrate is incorporated. Prior to the sewage removal and aquaculture restriction, ammonium supply probably compensated nitrogen demands by Peridinium. Later on, when Nitrogen supply originates mostly from nitrate the Peridinium decline became realistic. Prior to 1957 ammonium was efficiently supplied from the reductive swampy environment for the beneficial Peridinium bloom formation. Later on, sewage and aquaculture became major ammonium suppliers, and further, when the major nitrogen source was Nitrate the Peridinium declined. Nishri and Hamilton (2010) considered direct relation between phytoplankton biomass and Nitrates whilst competition and ammonium preference are not involved.
Conclusive Remarks and Future perspectives
1: Hula Drainage initiated a shift from organic and ammonium nitrogen to Nitrate supply which induced the replacement of Peridinum by Cyanobacteria domination.
2: Long-term process of Nitrogen decline in the lake Kinneret Epilimnion induced the diminishment of Peridinium as confirmed by its seasonal renewal during heavy rainfall events and its local blooming along the shoreline where decomposed vegetation enriched the nearby waters with organic and ammonium nitrogen.
3: The design for long-term Peridinium bloom renewal supportive ammonium and organic Nitrogen supply by enhancement of anoxic level in Lake Agmon-Hula is recommended.
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[Tutor] Nearly there
john.corry at ntlword.com
Sat Jan 7 11:57:26 CET 2006
Your suggestion works. It also works consistently if you fully define the
path of 'filename'.
filename = "c:/test/testprint.txt"
You are right, shell execute seems to need the full path name with windows
98SE. It is strange that it does not need the full path for win xp + win
Onto my next problem.
My text file is printing out in portrait. Is there any instruction that I
can use so that notepad prints it in landscape?
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Behalf Of Terry Carroll
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To: tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Nearly there
This is itching at me, too.
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, John Corry wrote:
> Can anyone understand or tell me why this works but the following code
> import win32api
> filename = "testprint.txt"
> fileobj=open (filename, "w")
> fileobj.write ("This is a test")
> win32api.ShellExecute (
I'm wondering if ShellExecute needs a full path to find it under W98.
Try this; add to the top of your code:
and change your ShellExecute to this:
I have no idea if this will work; and the error message you're getting,
> The code above gives me the error: (31, 'ShellExecute', 'A device attached
> to the system is not functioning.')
doesn't seem to indicate it, but it's one less thing.
I'd love to know the answer when you get it.
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Department of Health-funded pilot schemes providing preventive services for older people have already shown evidence of the economic benefits of earlier intervention, the care services minister has said.
Ivan Lewis said the £60m Partnerships for Older People Projects, 19 of which started in May, had shown that investment in low-level social care could delay or prevent future need.
He said this would help influence next year’s comprehensive spending review, which the DH was currently preparing its bid for. Lewis said: “One of the things we’ve lacked in social care is hardedged evidence that if you invest in preventive services it makes economic sense. These pilots are already showing evidence of that.”
His comments come at a time when councils are increasingly restricting services to those in acute need in response to financial pressures.
But Lewis said this reflected “short-term decision-making”. Lewis also announced this week the areas to be given a share of £18.5m for the second phase of the programme, which starts next year.
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NASA’s InSight on Mars has revealed its three most powerful earthquakes to date, giving scientists an even clearer view of the Red Planet’s interior.
InSight noticed 4.2 and 4.1 magnitude tremors on August 25, then caught another approximately 4.2 magnitude earthquake on September 18 that lasted for nearly 90 minutes.
Despite their differences, the two August earthquakes have something in common but great: Both occurred during the day, the windiest time – and, for a seismometer, the loudest – on Mars. The InSight seismometer usually detects earthquakes at night, when the planet is cold and the winds are low. But the signals from these earthquakes were so great that they rose above any noise caused by the wind.
InSight landed near the Martian equator in November 2018, charged with investigating the planet’s interior like never before. InSight has detected more than 700 earthquakes in total, and they have discovered a lot about the interior of the planet already. Scientists have learned that the crust of Mars is thinner than they thought and that it is more like the crust of the moon than the Earth and has been disintegrated by asteroid strikes.
Because the Martian crust is very dry and rugged, its earthquakes last much longer than earthquakes. They echo between cracks in the crust, and there is not enough moisture to absorb them. So the earthquakes that InSight has felt have usually lasted 10 to 40 minutes.
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How not to beekeep: in the rain
Officially finished our first year of grad school!
UNCG Graduate Research and Creativity Expo
The Raymann lab attending the 2019 Southern Appalachian Honey bee Research Consortium Me, Heather, Drew, Gretel, Kasie and Megan
Beautiful "circling" of brood, pollen and honey
Full crop left over after abdomen dissection by Megan Damico
Great example of hive genetic diversity
Learning artificial insemination thanks to the Dr. Olav Rueppell's lab
Raymann lab hive inspections: Megan, Heather, Drew, Gretel, Myself and Kasie
Honey bee sperm, look how long they are! About 5 times longer than human sperm
We had been breeding wax moths in our building - oops
Megan and me making the best use of time and sharing our only magnetic plate for bead cleaning
Fall colors represented in pollen
Barcoding samples to be sent off for sequencing
"Queen including cages" I made for my drone experiments - it will force the queen to lay on drone comb
I love being a part of the Raymann lab!
Drone dissections working with Dr. David Tarpy's lab at NC State
Megan and myself tending to the hives
Busy bees at the hive entrance
Bees packing honey into cells, look at those cute butts!
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Substrate is the material that you place at the bottom of your Bearded Dragon terrarium. It makes the surface easier and more comfortable for your pet to walk on. It also gives them something interesting to interact with and can help to control humidity levels. Some substrates can even help to control odors which can be an important consideration. Choosing the right substrate is just as important as choosing the right food.
There are several different options that you can choose from. You have the option of a loose substrate or a carpet liner that you can cut to size. Each type of substrate has advantages and disadvantages so it is important that you choose one that suits your pet and the way in which you like to maintain the terrarium. To help you make the right choice, check out our guide to the best substrate for Bearded Dragons.
This great product is a terrarium liner made from a non-abrasive material that is also absorbent. It won’t irritate delicate reptile feet and helps to prevent unpleasant odors thanks to the biodegradable enzyme that has been used to treat it.
It is very easy to fit, all you have to do is roll it out and cut it to size. It is a very low maintenance bedding that makes your life easier. Once it is fitted, it looks like an attractive carpet surface in a green or brown color. When it needs cleaning, you just rinse it under cool tap water and put it back in. There is no risk of it being accidentally ingested as your reptile strikes for food because there is no loose bedding. This makes it highly suitable for juvenile reptiles. It has been certified by the United States Association of Reptile Keepers.
Fixed liner – no loose material
Trimmed to size and easy to fit
Non-abrasive and will not damage feet
Treated with biodegradable enzyme to control odors
If you like the thought of a totally natural substrate for your Bearded Dragon, this is the product for you. It is made from the bark of fir trees and is hygroscopic. This is the scientific term for describing how it can absorb moisture but can also release it so it creates humidity within the terrarium. Because the chips are small, they have a large surface area and are therefore highly absorbent. Therefore, it is the perfect choice for reptiles that like a humid environment.
This substrate conducts and distributes heat evenly and provides a stimulating addition to your reptile’s environment. They can dig and burrow in it, just as they would in the wild. Because it is highly absorbent it sucks in waste and keeps it away from your pet. Plus, it looks great and gives a rainforest vibe to the terrarium. There is no waste because you can re-use it. Every two or three months, remove it and soak it in hot water to refresh it. You will only need to replace it once a year. The small pieces interlock and prevent live food in the terrarium from setting up home in the substrate!
This natural floor bedding is soft and comfortable and highly absorbent. It is made from cypress mulch substrate. Your terrarium will have a natural “forest floor” look. This substrate is excellent at retaining moisture and will therefore create a lot of humidity within the enclosure.
It suits many different species of reptiles and amphibians. It will not stain your pet’s skin and does not encourage mold growth.
Here we have a sand mat that provides a terrarium substrate and gives the enclosure the feel of a desert environment. It is a safe and hygienic substrate that is suitable for many types of reptiles as it limits the amount of bacterial growth.
The full mat measures 47.5 inches by 17.5 inches but can be cut to the right size. It is very easy to put in and take out of the terrarium – it takes just a few seconds. When it gets dirty, you just rinse it in water and put it back in. There are no loose particles so there is no danger of it getting accidentally ingested. Your reptile will feel secure and safe as they travel across it because they can grip easily to the surface.
This is the ultimate in environmentally friendly products for your terrarium. It is a substrate carpet that fits in the bottom of the terrarium and is made entirely from recycled plastic bottles.
Because there are no loose particles in this Bearded Dragon carpet, there can be no accidental ingestion that could harm your pet. It is absorbent and completely safe to walk on. You can cut this sand mat for Bearded Dragon terrariums to fit your required size.
Environmentally friendly – made from recycled bottles
This loose clay substrate is great for animals that like burrowing because it maintains its shape. You add water to it before you put it in the terrarium. Then it will allow you to form hills and terraces. You can also use water bottles or balloons to create tunnels to make the habitat just like nature.
Some reptiles love to dig in it themselves but others just like to use the burrows that you have created. You have to periodically mist it with water to maintain the shapes. You can spot clean it as necessary by removing the soiled areas. It is a completely natural product and has no dyes or chemicals in it.
A fantastic, eco-friendly substrate that will appeal to the natural instincts of your bearded dragon. This substate stimulates the natural digging and burrowing behavior of your pets, while being made from completely natural resources. Namely, English walnut shells, which offer users a sustainable alternative to other substrates for bearded dragons.
Even better, this substrate won’t scratch the glass of your tank, while still offering ample heat conduction. As such, it replicates the natural environments of your bearded dragon, and ensure their health, happiness and wellbeing.
A completely natural substrate that consists of calcium carbonate that has been fortified with vitamins. There are no artificial color sealers or colors for you to worry about. It is perfect for your Bearded Dragon but will also suit Uromastyx Lizards and Monitors.
You can use this Bearded Dragon sand to increase calcium delivery and to top up your pet’s intake of vitamins and beta carotene. This promotes their overall health. There are no fat-soluble vitamins in this product as they have been known to be toxic to Bearded Dragons when ingested in large doses. It has an ultra-fine texture which stops over consumption.
This is a long-lasting substrate which is perfect for owners who do not want to replace it very often. It has a natural color and has no added artificial colors or dyes. Thanks to its texture, it stimulates digging and burrowing.
This natural mineral substrate is perfect for Bearded Dragons as well as Leopard Geckos. All you have to do is pour it in to the bottom of your terrarium to a thickness of about two inches. You can remove the soiled sections using a scooper. However, you only have to replace the entire substrate every 12 months.
Long-lasting substrate – needs replacing once a year
Things to Consider When Buying a Bearded Dragon Bedding
There are plenty of substrates that you could choose for your Bearded Dragon terrarium. Here is a quick summary of what you should look for when you are buying some.
Loose or carpet. Your first decision is whether to get loose substrate or a carpet. Loose substrate is closer to your pet’s natural habitat and they can make burrows in it. However, it does present a danger of compaction. Loose substrates may not be suitable for younger Bearded Dragons. Carpets can be cut to size but claws can get caught in them. You also have the option of using both!
Safety. This is your primary concern. Make sure that you choose a substrate that is natural and does not contain any harmful dyes or colors.
Cleaning. Again, this is a matter of personal preference. Carpets are easy to clean because you just wash them under running water and put them back in. You will need to remove solid waste from loose substrate with a spoon or scoop.
Replacement. The more often you have to replace the substrate, the more expensive it will get. Think about how often you want to replace the whole substrate.
Humidity. Humidity levels are important for Bearded Dragons. Choose a substrate that will help to control humidity levels. Some also help to dissipate heat.
Odor control. Some substrates are treated with enzymes which helps with odor control. You may decide that this is an important feature for you.
Why Do Bearded Dragons Need Substrate?
Terrarium substrate is the substance that is placed on the floor of your Bearded Dragon’s terrarium. It makes the enclosure look great and like your pet’s natural habitat but it also serves some other important purposes.
Without a substrate, your Bearded Dragon would have to walk on the glass bottom of the terrarium which they do not find very pleasant and is damaging for their delicate feet! They much prefer the feel of a substrate that mimics their natural environment and which helps to file their nails down.
It also helps with heat regulation. It can act a little like a heat sink and will trap excess heat when it is too hot and release it when the temperature drops. This helps to maintain a constant and healthy temperature for your Bearded Dragon. It does the same thing for humidity. You can soak the substrate and it will gradually give off water vapor and maintain a humid environment.
Substrate also provides something interesting for your pet to explore and helps to relieve boredom. Some substrates are treated with special enzymes so that can even help to control unpleasant odors in the terrarium.
Types of Bearded Dragon Substrate
There is no single perfect substrate for a Bearded Dragon terrarium. Reptile owners have very different opinions on what should be chosen and the online debates can get quite heated. It will eventually come down to personal preference, based on how much time you want to spend on cleaning and maintenance. The age of your Bearded Dragon is also an important consideration.
Here is a list of the potential substrates that you could choose for your Bearded Dragon terrarium.
Sand and sand-like substrate
In their natural environment, Bearded Dragons spend their time walking across sand or small pebbles. Therefore, this may seem like the obvious choice for a Bearded Dragon terrarium substrate.
However, it is not without risks. Some owners are worried that sand substrate can present a risk of gut impaction for Bearded Dragons. Gut impaction is a medical condition where a blockage of the intestinal tract is caused by an object or by a number of objects that have been ingested. This is a very serious condition and can lead to death if immediate veterinary treatment is not sought.
The general consensus of opinion is that pebbles and gravel are not a suitable substrate for Bearded Dragons. If they are swallowed, they can certainly lead to impaction especially if the pebbles are small. They can also damage teeth. Bearded Dragons often accidentally ingest pebbles when they are aiming to eat an insect.
The advice regarding sand as a Bearded Dragon substrate is less clear. Many experts think that non-silica sands are safe to use and only present a small risk of impaction. However, they are not always suitable for young Bearded Dragons who are more likely to ingest it accidentally.
One way to overcome this problem is to use a calcium sand. The theory is that this calcium-based sand is metabolized by the body when it has been swallowed and is passed out of the body. However, some experts claim that even this can cause impaction.
Terrarium carpets are also sometimes called cage liners. They are supplied as a roll and can be cut to size. Most are made out of a synthetic material and look like grass or the desert floor. They are very easy to fit because all you have to do is lay it on the floor so that it covers all of the glass. Because there is no loose material, the issues of accidental ingestion and gut compaction are avoided.
However, it is possible for the loops of the liner to get caught up in the claws of the Bearded Dragon. Often, the reptile will react by sharply pulling up their caught foot and this can cause the claw to be ripped off. This is painful and the wound can get infected. You can try to avoid this issue by choosing a liner with a tight weave.
Newspaper lining/Paper Towels
This is the cheapest option for a Bearded Dragon bedding because you can use old newspapers and you don’t have to buy anything. There is no problem with impaction and there is nothing that claws can get stuck in. The downside is that they don’t look great and tend to make the terrarium look cheap and untidy.
You can get around this by choosing paper towels. This is a washed and shredded type of substrate that has been made from recycled newspaper. Bearded Dragons love to dig in it and this gives them something to do. This type of substrate will also retain moisture so there may be some issues with humidity.
Bark and mulch lining
Bark and mulch can be successfully used for many pets but Bearded Dragons may not one of them! That is because they retain a lot of moisture.
You will probably find that the humidity levels rise too high to suit a Bearded Dragon but you may like to try this out for yourself.
Ceramic tiles lining
Ceramic tiles are a fairly new product for terrariums but they are getting increasingly popular. You can use tiles that have been designed for bathrooms or kitchens.
They are very easy to clean and they look great at the bottom of the terrarium. There is no risk of impaction and they do not cause excessive humidity.
Tips for Using Bearded Dragon Bedding
It is worth taking the time to choose a substrate that suits both you and your pet. The aim is to get a substrate that will be safe, will be stimulating and that is easy to keep clean.
Feeding on the substrate
In the wild, Bearded Dragons like to dig and burrow so a top tip is to choose a substrate that allows them to do that. It will provide plenty of engagement and fun for your reptile. However, there is the danger of your Bearded Dragon eating it and there are things that you can do to avoid that. Firstly, do not use a loose substrate for young Bearded Dragons as they are more likely to ingest it and their gut gets compacted more easily because it is smaller. Even with an adult reptile, you must be vigilant. Place the food in an area where there is no substrate or use a bowl so that your Bearded Dragon is not eating off the substrate.
Cleaning the substrate
Some owners are willing to spend hours cleaning out the terrarium and others are not. If you are pressed for time, you need a substrate that is very easy to clean and change. You may find that a liner is best for you or you can use sand and remove the soiled parts with a scoop.
If you are willing to spend more time cleaning out the substrate, you could use a clay option. It will also give your pet something to build tunnels in and something to explore.
Tips for loose substrate
Sand is a common loose substrate for Bearded Dragons but you will have to be vigilant. Do not use it for young reptiles because intestinal compaction is a real hazard if it is accidentally eaten. In fact, no type of loose substrate should be used for young Bearded Dragons.
If you do decide to use a sand substrate, choose one that will be soft on your pet’s feet. Playground sand and sand designed especially for terrariums are less dusty. It is possible to purchase sands that are designed to be ingested. They can be broken down by your pet’s body and passed out so they do not cause any problems. It is also possible to buy sand mixed with clean soil but you must make sure that the soil has not been treated with pesticides or fertilizers as these are harmful for Bearded Dragons.
Our Top Pick
Our top pick of the best substrate for bearded dragons is a terrarium liner that is non-abrasive and very absorbent. There is a biodegradable enzyme which cuts down on odors.
To fit this Bearded Dragon substrate, all you have to do is roll it out and cut it to size. It has an attractive carpet appearance in green or brown. To clean it, you just rinse it under cool tap water. It cannot be accidentally ingested by your Bearded Dragon and is therefore perfectly safe. You can safely use it for juvenile reptiles and it is approved by the United States Association of Reptile Keepers.
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Perfumes are made up of hundreds of different ingredients. Many types are made from essential oils, which are the aromatic compounds that give off the desired smell. Perfumes used in cosmetics are considered fine fragrances. They are used in almost every type of cosmetics product, including soaps and bath gels. The different fragrances and scents are also used in other products. In terms of the types of perfumes, they are classified by concentration. The concentrations of different scents determine the names of the perfumes, and the intensity of the smell they produce.
Perfumes have a variety of benefits. Studies have shown that they are beneficial to both the health and reproductive fitness of a person. Studies have shown that women can be attracted to a man’s fragrance because it can mask the scent of poor health or hygiene. However, women are not so certain that perfume is beneficial for men. Research has shown that men who use perfume have lower rates of sperm counts than those who do not.
The basic ingredients used in perfume are called fragrance essences. These are mixtures of essential oils, absolutes, and animal extracts. They can be made of almost anything, but the concentration is too high. Water and alcohol are added to dilute the scent. A perfume cannot smell the same on two people because everyone’s body chemistry is different. A fragrance can last for months or years on one person while smelling completely different on another. If you are not sure about a particular perfume’s fragrance, you can try some examples below.
The first recorded use of perfumery was by the ancient Egyptians. The Persians, Romans, and Greeks all practiced the practice. Perfumery was used to cover body odors in these times. This practice soon spread throughout Europe, with the Grasse region in France becoming the hub of the perfume industry. The Indus civilization also developed perfumery and Al-Kindi wrote a book called Book of Chemistry of Perfume and Distillation. The book contains more than 100 recipes for the creation of different kinds of fragrant oil.
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Aftonbladet writes about Roger Lundgren's book "Drottning Silvia - en jubileumsbok"
The queen lives in a life in the public eye and where the queen goes she meets the cameras.
- You never get used to when being photographed, it is a very special situation, especially nowadays, when people have camera in their phone. When the king and I were on the county visits, we were greeted daily by a sea of mobile phones that were against us. It looks very odd, the Queen says in the book.
For Roger Lundgren the Queen has also talked about her private life.
- We also wanted to try to illustrate how her day looks, the royal family does not have much free time, most of their evenings are fully booked with dinners and gatherings. And for them it is important to take time off when they are off duty, says Roger Lundgren.
The Queen tells that she relaxes in Drottningholm, she likes to exercise, she swims, walks and cycles in Drottningholm Park. But even reading, gardening and - Princess Estelle - are things she likes to spend her spare time.
- I really like being with my family, my siblings and my friends. But even the Christian faith has always meant a lot to me. From that I find the strength and support, says Queen Silvia in the book.
A hobby which the Queen shares with her husband the King is to visit flea markets during the summer. There, the royal couple found items into boxes at flea markets in Öland and elsewhere in Sweden.
- It is really fun, and we have done many fun finds over the years. Among other things, we bought a clock that goes backwards, that we have at Kaffeetorpet in Solliden. That makes the visitor very confused.
Silvia Jag kopplar av med loppis Nyheter Aftonbladet
From the book, people telling about the Queen
King Carl XVI Gustaf:
- I am very proud of the Queen. She has done, and does, great efforts for Sweden, but she is also an important voice in the world on the issues she is passionate about. She has an incredible motivation , broad knowledge and a deep commitment, that impresses many people.
Queen Rania of Jordan:
- The Queen is a role model to many by showing how one can channel passion into action, and with respect, intelligence and judgment, her work on the global stage has created safety and dignity for so many of the world's most vulnerable people.
Princess Benedikte of Denmark:
- She is not only photogenic pretty, she has a very big heart, sees her fellow person straight in the eye and is good at reading people and situations. Even for King Carl Gustaf the queen is hugely important. She is his great support in life, and I know that he was very happy and grateful at the way the Swedish people embraced his young brid .
Alice Trolle Wachtmeister, Countess and Mistress of the Robes:
- The Queen is extremely strong. When we've been on a visit and met people who suffer in different ways, I have repeatedly been forced to leave the room because it has become too hard for me. But the Queen will always remain. She has a very nice gift in being able to support their fellow human beings, yes, to see other people.
Elisabeth Tarras-Wahlberg, former director of the press department at court:
- She is intelligent and has a strong charisma and charm and knows how to "coax" with possibly reluctant people. Her commitment for charities isgenuine, not superficial, and she really wants to use her position to do good.
Carl-Henric Svanberg, chairman of British petroleum and Volvo:
- After more than forty years of traveling around the world, in a professional capacity as well as privately, I can only conclude that few, if any, represents her country as well as our queen. Sweden has a strong brand in the world, and the Queen has a big part in this.
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"Corrugated" Skin For Lower Drag
Texas A&M University researcher Dimitris Lagoudas and his colleagues claim that by creating an undulating skin they have been able to demonstrate reductions in skin friction drag of up to 50 percent. To maximize efficiency, the skin must be able to adapt to very subtle changes (micrometers in height) at different speeds, adopting active wrinkle patters in a skin that "shifts to the shape of an ideal surface wave," according to NewScientist.com. The complexity of controlling an actively morphing skin controlled by electric fields that match the wavelengths necessary to reduce drag currently poses significant challenges, and would be especially difficult to adapt to aircraft. But the researchers claim that even a fixed corrugated skin design would reduce drag and could be tailored to be most effective during specific phases of flight -- cruise, for example. With some tweaking, the same fixed skin could also be designed to increase drag while the aircraft is in landing configuration.
The research team says the idea is not entirely original -- dolphins have been wrinkling their skin to reduce drag for perhaps as long as there have been dolphins. One scientific approach designed to mimic the behavior involves using an electrical field to manipulate "piezoceramic legs" under the skin, bending the skin upwards by as much as 30 micrometers where applied. Corrugations generated by that technique have resulted in increased surface flow velocities, and it is those that researchers have translated into skin friction drag reductions of as much as 50 percent. | <urn:uuid:ad869d64-8150-48be-a4e1-dc14e93048c2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/skin_friction_corrugated_drag_Texas_197690-1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00341-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96867 | 311 | 3.578125 | 4 |
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