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Top 5 Benefits Of Effective Communication In The Workplace
In order for a company to be successful, the employees within it must be effective communicators. Communication is vital when it comes to working together towards a common goal, and when it is done effectively, everyone involved benefits. So let’s discuss five benefits of effective communication in the workplace. We will also look at some of the factors that can hinder communication within a company. Understanding your employees is crucial if you want your business to succeed.
Improved Workplace Relationships
Good communication leads to constructive conversations, which can help resolve differences and build better relationships between employees. When co-workers communicate effectively, they are able to understand each other’s perspectives and find common ground. This understanding can lead to more collaborative work relationships and a more positive work environment overall.
Good communication also allows employees to feel more comfortable expressing their own needs and ideas. When employees feel like they can be open and honest with each other, it fosters a greater sense of trust and respect. Maintaining relationships in the workplace can be difficult, but effective communication is crucial in building and maintaining strong workplace relationships.
Understanding Your Employees
It’s impossible to be a good leader without understanding your employees. You need to know their goals, their fears, and what motivates them. Only then can you truly help them reach their potential. Good communication is the key to understanding your team. Without clear and effective communication, it’s easy for misunderstandings to occur. Misunderstandings can lead to conflict, and conflict can be destructive to morale and productivity.
By communicating effectively, you can avoid these problems and create a harmonious work environment. Good communication is also essential for building trust. Your employees must trust you to feel comfortable coming to you with their concerns. If they don’t trust you, they’ll either keep their concerns to themselves or take them to someone else. Either way, this can lead to problems down the road. You can build trust and avoid these issues by establishing a good line of communication from the start.
Clear and effective communication is essential to ensure everyone is on the same page. Employees can work more efficiently towards common goals when they understand their roles and responsibilities. Good communication can also help to avoid disruptions caused by misunderstandings. Miscommunications often lead to wasted time and resources, so it’s important to nip them in the bud.
Good communication can also help to boost morale in the workplace. When employees feel like they are valued and their contributions are appreciated, they are more likely to be engaged in their work. This can lead to increased productivity and improved results for your business.
One way to ensure that good communication and productivity is maintained in the workplace is to invest in cloud solutions. These solutions allow for real-time communication and collaboration between employees, regardless of location. This can help to improve workflow and keep everyone on the same page.
Improved Employee Retention
Another key benefit of effective communication in the workplace is improved employee retention. When employees feel valued and supported, they are more likely to stay with your company for the long haul.
Good communication is essential for building a positive work environment that employees want to be a part of. Additionally, good communication can help to prevent misunderstandings and conflict that can lead to turnover.
While employee retention is important for any company, it is especially vital for small businesses. Small businesses often have a more difficult time recruiting and training new employees, so retaining the employees they have is essential. Good communication is one of the best ways to keep your employees happy and reduce turnover.
Enhanced Customer Service
Another significant benefit of effective communication in the workplace is enhanced customer service.
Effective communication between employees and customers is essential for providing the best possible service.
When customers feel valued and listened to, they are more likely to be satisfied with your product or service.
Good communication can also help to build trust between your business and its customers. Happy customers are more likely to return in the future and recommend your business to others.
Customer satisfaction is one of the most important indicators of a company’s success.
Therefore, effective communication in the workplace can lead to increased sales and profits for your business. Additionally, good communication with customers can help to resolve complaints and problems more effectively.
By taking the time to listen to your customers’ concerns, you can find solutions that satisfy both parties. In contrast, poor communication can exacerbate customer complaints and damage your business’s reputation.
Factors That Can Hinder Communication Within A Workplace
There are many factors that can hinder effective communication in the workplace. Understanding these hindrances will help you to manage your employees and ensure that everyone understands the importance of effective communication.
1. Lack Of Face-To-Face Interaction
In today’s digital age, more and more businesses are communicating electronically. While this has advantages, it can also lead to a lack of human interaction. This can make it difficult for employees to build relationships with their colleagues and can ultimately lead to a feeling of isolation.
2. Language Barriers
If employees come from different countries or speak different languages, this can create communication difficulties. Even if everyone speaks the same language, there can still be misunderstandings if people use jargon or slang that others don’t understand.
3. Personal Differences
People have different personalities, communication styles, and ways of perceiving the world. This can make it hard for them to understand each other, especially if they’re not used to working together.
4. Poor Listening Skills
We’ve all had the experience of trying to communicate with someone who wasn’t really listening. This can be frustrating and lead to miscommunication.
5. Unwillingness To Communicate
Some people simply don’t like to share. They may be shy, introverted, or just not interested in talking to others. This can make it difficult to get information from them or to resolve conflicts.
If you want to create a workplace where communication is effective, you need to be aware of these potential obstacles and take steps to overcome them. Good communication is essential for a well-functioning workplace. By understanding and practicing effective communication, you can create a more positive and productive work environment for everyone. | <urn:uuid:3d2dfbb2-0e76-4bcf-aa11-0028044c970f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newtohr.com/top-5-benefits-of-effective-communication-in-the-workplace/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.949525 | 1,293 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Tunisian crochet is another one of those techniques that I put off learning for far too long. And it turns out it was easier than I could have imagined! So take a deep breath, watch this video, read this post, and try it – you can do this!
Tunisian crochet is usually done with a long, straight hook with a stopper on the end – sort of a cross between a hook and a knitting needle. But I’ve designed this tutorial for you to be able to give it a try without buying anything new! Just grab some worsted/ medium weight yarn and a US-J, 6.00mm hook, and watch!
How to Get Started with Tunisian Crochet:
So in the above video, I showed you several things: Tunisian foundation rows, the simple stitch, and the slip stitch bind off. Let’s take a closer look in the photos and instructions below.
Tunisian Foundation Rows:
Row 1: Chain to desired length – any number you like. Then working into the second loop from the hook, insert the hook and pull up a loop from each chain to the end. At the end, you should have as many loops on the hook as you had chains.
Row 2: Yarn over and pull through the first loop – this is like a chain 1. *Yarn over and pull through 2 loops, rep from * to end.
Tunisian Simple Stitch:
After making the Foundation Rows, proceed as follows:
Row 3 (Forward Pass): The loop already on the hook counts as the first loop or stitch of this row. So insert your hook, right to left, under the second vertical loop from the previous row. Yarn over and pull up a loop. Repeat in each remaining vertical loop to the end. For the last vertical loop you can go under just the one front as before, or under both loops – try both and see which you like better.
Row 4 (Return Pass): Repeat Row 2 of the foundation rows.
To continue, repeat Rows 3 and 4 until you have reached the length desired, then bind off.
Slip Stitch Bind Off:
Insert the hook under the second vertical loop of the previous row just as in Row 3. Yarn over and pull up a loop, then pull that same loop through the other loop on the hook – just like a slip stitch! Continue in this manner to the end, then break yarn and weave in ends.
Looks do-able, right? And that’s all you need to get started! Keep going until your ready to bind off, make a bookmark or bracelet, and practice your tension and technique… you’re doing Tunisian crochet! It’s normal and expected for your work to curl as you crochet – you’re actually working each row in front of the previous row somewhat, rather than straight on top. Using a bigger hook than you normally would (like a 6mm with worsted) and blocking usually takes care of it!
I hope you’ve enjoyed learning the basics of Tunisian crochet! Now you can take those skills and make the Top of the Tunisian Scarf, Strawberry Basket Dishcloth, Tunisian Pebbles Dishcloth, or any of these 10 free Tunisian patterns!
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If At First You Don't Succeed...
Whatever you do, don't give up! The quizzes are starting to get more difficult, so don't beat yourself up when you don't know the answers; simply strive to LEARN the answers and get them embedded in your rote memory. Remember, "Jeopardy" has high school students on the show from time to time and you never know when you'll be called upon to represent your school.
If you DO, however, know all of the answers then you are smarter than I am because sometimes I have to read material several times just to figure out what the heck the author is talking about!
I am continuing to enjoy creating these little tidbits of wonder and there are many more to come.
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The European Union has ruled that telecoms operators cannot make data-intensive services such as Google and Netflix pay more for using their network.
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A study on the reproductive development in gilts
1. Some aspects of the sexual maturation in the female pig have been reviewed. 2. The significance of age at puberty in pig production and the factors affecting reproductive development as assessed by puberty attainment have been discussed. 3. The validity of a new method for assessing the relative reproductive maturity of prepubertal gilts by administration of 20 microg/kg LBW of oestradiol benzoate has been evaluated. This appeared to give similar results relative to boar stimulation. 4. No significant effect on reproductive development in gilts of plane of feeding (60, 80 and 100 percent of appetite) during the late prepubertal stage (140 to 190 days of age) and the body tfeight differences induced by such treatments was evident. 5. Reproductive maturity of crossbred gilts evaluated between 148 and 184 days of age appeared to be least around the age of 160 days and increased thereafter, but chronological age, body weight and fatness appeared to be poor indicators of the relative reproductive maturity within the age range studied. 6. Crossbred gilts attained puberty in a shorter interval follow boar stimulation (around 90 kg live body weight) than Large White (21 days longer them crossbreds) or Landrace (6 days longer than crossbreds) gilts and the above interval appeared to be more live body weight than age dependent, 7. The dam had a significant effect on establishing the reproductive potential of the gilt piglet, On a 13 day weaning system the effect of litter size at birth on reproductive development of the gilt appeared to be stronger compared to litter size at weaning. The strong dam effect observed is likely to be the result of genetic and environmental effects prevailing in the perinatal period and/or on the interaction between these two sets of factors. 8. The pituitary response to administered GriKH assessed two ages (55 and 140 days of age) appeared to be a good indicator of the developmental potential in gilts. | <urn:uuid:85f27f23-1a3f-4dbe-b96a-eb7837d4ce4a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.354712 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00129-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933164 | 411 | 2.578125 | 3 |
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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Chili Peppers (Capsicum spp.)
AbstractCapsicum species produce fruits that synthesize and accumulate carotenoid pigments, which are responsible for the fruits’ yellow, orange and red colors. Chili peppers have been used as an experimental model for studying the biochemical and molecular aspects of carotenoid biosynthesis. Most reports refer to the characterization of carotenoids and content determination in chili pepper fruits from different species, cultivars, varieties or genotypes. The types and levels of carotenoids differ between different chili pepper fruits, and they are also influenced by environmental conditions. Yellow-orange colors of chili pepper fruits are mainly due to the accumulation of α- and β-carotene, zeaxanthin, lutein and β-cryptoxanthin. Carotenoids such as capsanthin, capsorubin and capsanthin-5,6-epoxide confer the red colors. Chromoplasts are the sites of carotenoid pigment synthesis and storage. According to the most accepted theory, the synthesis of carotenoids in chili peppers is controlled by three loci: c1, c2 and y. Several enzymes participating in carotenoid biosynthesis in chili pepper fruits have been isolated and characterized, and the corresponding gene sequences have been reported. However, there is currently limited information on the molecular mechanisms that regulate this biosynthetic pathway. Approaches to gain more knowledge of the regulation of carotenoid biosynthesis are discussed.
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Gómez-García, M.R.; Ochoa-Alejo, N. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Chili Peppers (Capsicum spp.). Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2013, 14, 19025-19053.
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Folks in Florida come from other places. No news there. But they often arrive with ideas that don't fit in the Sunshine State, including how to train on a bicycle.
As with many cyclists, I like data. What's my heart rate? How many miles did I do this week? What was my average speed? And we like regimen. Did the sun rise today? That means we've got to ride.
Years ago, I read books about how cyclists should train. The usual advice was that as much as 85 percent of your miles should be at an "endurance" pace, once known as LSD miles, or long, slow distances. Mix in two or three hard days where your heart rate is elevated and maybe take one day off a week.
Some coaches recommended at least three higher heart rate zones — one often called tempo, the next at anaerobic or lactic acid threshold (which are different but close to one another) and finally, anaerobic, which can be sustained for only a couple of minutes. And today many coaches say the only way to train is with a power meter. But in the winter, the old saw was to never get out of the small chain ring because all you want are the "base miles." Your body isn't ready for the hard stuff in the winter.
But that may not be the way to do it here, even if you occasionally race and especially as you age.
Pablo Santa Cruz has been racing for 10 years. He said that unlike in colder climates where bicycles may stay in the garage in the winter, we can ride all year long here. And that impacts how we should train, he said. If you don't take more than a couple of weeks off, you should never lose your fitness, making those LSD miles somewhat superfluous. Besides, Santa Cruz, 52, said, "As you get older, the races get shorter, so you don't need long workouts."
If you want to get stronger, either to compete in a race, stay with the fast guys or build muscular strength, then you need to ride fast, not long, said Simon Kessler, a Tampa-based cycling coach. Kessler is a former pro racer from South Africa, where he won 15 national championships and then went on to train Daryl Impey, a current pro rider who held the Tour de France yellow jersey for two stages in 2013.
Impey no doubt logs miles most of us can't imagine doing, but, Kessler said, "More miles won't make you faster." And in fact, "Older riders would be better off increasing intensity and lowering their miles."
Santa Cruz said he sometimes trains as few as eight hours a week, in part because he's keeping busy with other cycling activities. He's currently organizing the Sunshine Grand Prix, a series of local races and cycling events set for March. In fact, Santa Cruz said the self-control many riders need is the discipline to take days off to let their body recover. "That's sometimes difficult here," he said, "because we have such great weather."
(Readers of this column may remember my New Year's resolution to ride fewer miles this year. And to date, I can say I'm noticeably stronger when I do ride. You can find the column at tbtim.es/wf1.)
Kessler said we need to "manage our fatigue," meaning better our recovery for optimal improvement. He recommends two days a week at your anaerobic threshold and as many as two or three days off. It also means every third or fourth week should be even lower miles and more easy rides, Kessler said.
And you may want more solo rides. "Just doing group rides is not going to get you stronger," Kessler said. "Either they're too fast or too slow."
Which brings us to this question: Why do you ride a bike?
Because we can ride all year long here, we have training options that will make us heart healthy or the fastest guy in the group. Long, easy rides will achieve the former, and a structured training program helps you become the latter.
But if you just love being on the bike and the camaraderie over coffee at the end of a ride, then maybe the more miles, the merrier.
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According to the press release, the plan is to have both Windows and Linux running on the machines, to let users decide what’s best. Microsoft worked with a variety of partners to develop customized drivers that enable Windows to run on the XO laptop. Windows now supports the laptop’s e-book reading mode, standard Wi-Fi networking, camera, writing pad and custom keys, as well as the power-saving and other features of the XO hardware.
“The people who buy the machines are not the children who use them, but government officials in most cases,” said Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the nonprofit group. “And those people are much more comfortable with Windows.”
“It’s been a controversial decision, but it looks like the OLPC XO has completed its transition from revolutionary education project to just another tiny Windows laptop with a useless keyboard — albeit one with a pleasantly whimsical design.”
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Meanwhile, Sugar Labs announced it will take the laptop’s innovative interface, known as Sugar, to the “next level of usability and utility”, according to the BBC.
Sugar is available under the open-source GNU General Public License (GPL) to anyone who wants to extend it. “Sugar Labs”, a (soon to be established) non-profit foundation will serve as a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and software developers who want to extend the platform and create Sugar-compatible applications.
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What Is A VA Loan? Here Is What America’s Veterans Should Know
If you’re an active service member, a veteran, or the spouse of a veteran, and you want to purchase a home or refinance your current home loan you should consider a VA Loan.
What is a VA loan?
We’re glad you asked. Simply put, a VA loan is a type of mortgage backed or guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs which provides certain benefits to those who served in the United States Armed Services. These mortgages come with many benefits, which can make this type of loan the preferred option for many veterans. We’ll dive into all the important details below.
How Do VA Loans Work?
It’s important to note, the Department of Veteran Affairs isn’t a bank or lender, and they will not be the one issuing a VA loan. However, the Department of Veteran Affairs determines who qualifies for this type of loan. If and when the individual qualifies for a VA loan, the Department of Veterans Affairs will guarantee the loan, and a private mortgage lender will finance the deal.
Unlike a conventional loan, a VA loan is often easier to satisfy financing requirements. Veterans can sometimes secure a loan with no money down, no mortgage insurance, and only requires the borrower to be considered a satisfactory credit risk by a lender.
VA Loan Eligibility Requirements
There are various requirements that one must meet to receive the Certificate of Eligibility, or COE. Each veteran would have to meet one of the following requirements in order to secure the COE.
To start, you must have been a member of the United States Armed Forces. You could be active duty, reserves, or a veteran. If you’re no longer in the military, you’d need to have had an honorable discharge to maintain your eligibility for this loan.
There are specific time requirements one must meet as well. If you are, or were, an active duty veteran, you’d need to have served at least 90 days of active duty service during a time of war. In the event your service was not during a time of war, you would have had to serve 181 consecutive days in active duty during a time of peace.
Members of the National Guard are also eligible for these loans. The service time requirement for the National Guard is 6 years.
Spouses of a veteran who has died in the line of duty, or one who is missing in action or being held as a prisoner of war, may qualify for VA loans. The VA has a website dedicated to answering these commonly asked questions.
What Other VA Qualifications Are There?
Now with an understanding of who qualifies for the certificate of eligibility, let’s review some of the other important details.
America’s Veterans do not need to worry about putting a down payment on a VA loan. This is arguably one of the best benefits of a VA loan. That said, if you did decide to make a down payment, you can potentially reduce your monthly payment. However, if you want to keep more money in the bank and make no down payment, you are welcome to do so. You can keep that money for home repairs, furniture, or just in savings!
A funding fee is a one-time payment that the mortgage obtainer must pay. The purpose of this fee is to lower the financial pressure this can place on the US tax system supporting this program. The current fee (for year 2021) is 2.30% of the loan’s value and is paid at closing.
There is no income requirement on the lower or upper end. Instead, VA loans look at your debt to income ratio, or DTI. This is a financial ratio that measures how much debt you have each month against your monthly income. The VA loan generally requires your debt to income ratio to be no more than 41%. If your debt exceeds that balance, you’d need to pay to reduce your monthly debt carrying costs to below 41% of your income before you can qualify for a loan.
Each lender will have their own requirement for a credit score. You have the ability to shop with various lenders before committing. In general, most lenders will accept a VA loan for veterans with a credit score between 580 and 620. This is on the lower end of credit scores, and much more lenient than a traditional conventional mortgage.
Type Of Property
There are many different types of homes one could finance with a VA home. The single-family residence is most common, but other homes will certainly get approved. The list of approved properties include; condominiums, manufactured homes (certain requirements must be met) , modular homes, and new construction.
Currently, veterans are not allowed to use a VA loan to purchase a vacant lot, or co-ops. If they wanted to do so, they’d have to go through a more traditional financing route.
As of January of 2020, qualified veterans no longer have a restriction on the loan amount they can obtain. Previously, the federal government established an upper limit, which was roughly $500,000 in most counties throughout the country. However, this has been removed. As long as a veteran qualifies for the loan, it doesn’t matter how expensive the home is.
Benefits Of VA Loans
In addition to some of the selling points discussed above, VA loans have a lot of other benefits that make these loans even more attractive for those that qualify.
Less Stringent Borrowing Criteria
There is more leniency when it comes to securing a VA loan. Individuals can still get a loan even if their credit score isn’t great. Additionally, the 41% DTI ratio is more flexible than other private mortgages available to the general public.
Lower Interest Rates
Since the loans are backed by the government, the lenders look at them as less risky. Therefore, the interest rates associated with the loans tend to be favorable. The interest rate is an important factor when determining your monthly payment, and over the course of a loan, you'll pay your fair share of interest payments. The lower the rate, the better!
No Down Payment!
One of the most challenging aspects of buying a home is saving up enough money to make a large down payment. VA loans do not require a down payment. Therefore, veterans can close on their home and choose to spend their money however they want, or just keep it in a savings account!
No Private Mortgage Insurance
Private mortgage insurance is a requirement on any FHA or conventional loan where the individual puts down less than a 20% down payment. This can literally be thousands of dollars each year, and the insurance doesn’t even cover the homeowner! VA loans do not come with any form of PMI, even if you don’t put down 20%.
Now You Know How A VA Loan Can Benefit You
A VA loan is meant to offer support to the veterans of the United States. These loans are backed by the federal government and come with a long list of benefits. Many veterans choose to purchase a home using a VA loan because; there is no down payment requirement unless required by the lender or if the property price is above the established property value, interest rates tend to be lower, closing costs are limited, there is no prepayment penalty for paying off the loan early, and there is no private mortgage insurance. If you’re active duty, retired, or served 6 years in the National Guard, you may be able to qualify for this tremendous loan program.
This page last updated: March 21, 2022
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What is frozen shoulder?
Frozen shoulder (also called “adhesive capsulitis”) is a common condition that results in the progressive stiffening of the shoulder joint. It is more commonly experienced by women and most frequently seen in the 40 to 60 year age group. It is characterised by a decreased range of movement of the shoulder in all directions and by diffuse tenderness around the joint margins. The key to successfully managing frozen shoulder boils down to ensuring an accurate diagnosis and a precise ‘staging’ (discussed below). This is not always easy. Many other conditions can mimic the initial symptoms of frozen shoulder and may in fact co-exist. Your physiotherapist will assess your shoulder for damage to the rotator cuff muscles, bursitis (of which there are several), arthritis and problems with the cervical spine which may be referring pain to the shoulder. Additionally, your physiotherapist will also asses the sternoclavicular (SC) joint and the acromioclavicular (AC) joint for problems that can present in a similar fashion.
Additional differential diagnoses for frozen shoulder include joint infection, joint degeneration (shoulder, AC and SC joint) as well as Pancoast’s tumour. Your therapist will exclude these diagnoses in order to confirm frozen shoulder.
Frozen shoulder is a frustrating problem for both patient and therapist. Left untreated, most cases of frozen shoulder will fully recover within 18-24 months. In fact, even with treatment (medical or physiotherapy) the duration of the affliction is unlikely to change significantly. The aim of physiotherapy therefore is to accurately diagnose the condition and its pathological staging (discussed below). Physiotherapy will also reduce the loss of joint movement so that some functional capabilities will remain. This may sound a bit like ‘damage control’ but it can make considerable difference to the patient’s lifestyle and vocational capabilities during the recovery period.
What causes frozen shoulder?
The cause of frozen shoulder is not fully understood. It can develop spontaneously (without any obvious cause) or can develop following shoulder trauma, prolonged immobility of the arm (following a fracture or surgery) or concomitantly with other shoulder pathologies. Thickening and contracture (tightening) of the shoulder capsule is the end result and it is this that brings about a reduced range of movement in the joint. Frozen shoulder is more commonly seen in people with diabetes, thyroid disorders as well as Parkinson’s disease and cardiovascular disease. It may also occur in people without systemic illness or autoimmune diseases.
How is frozen shoulder diagnosed?
The diagnosis of frozen shoulder can usually be made on clinical presentation alone – taking a good medical history and performing a thorough physical examination. Imaging such as x-ray, MRI’s or bone scans may be suggested to rule out other diagnoses or to confirm the presence of co-existing pathologies for which alternate treatments may be available.
Staging frozen shoulder
Having established the diagnosis it is then necessary to ‘stage’ the condition. Frozen shoulder progresses through 3 “stages” each one usually lasting between 6 to 9 months.
The first stage (often called a “freezing shoulder”) is when movement of the joint gradually lessens and pain develops. The aim during this stage is to maintain as much range of movement as possible and hence limit the degree of joint stiffness. Overly aggressive manual therapy or exercise can worsen the situation and so your physiotherapist will rely heavily on the feedback you provide following the intervention or exercises you receive. If improvements in range and/or pain are not readily forthcoming during this period, cease physiotherapy and concentrate solely on the home exercise programme that you will be given.
The second stage (often called the true “frozen shoulder”) is effectively a levelling out of symptoms. It does not necessarily mean that the shoulder will be left completely immobilised but rather that the deterioration (reduction in range or worsening of pain) will have ceased. Again, physiotherapy techniques to loosen the shoulder joint, AC and SC joints as well as the cervical spine and muscles around the shoulder may be able to improve symptoms during this period. Again, if improvement is not obvious and immediately forthcoming (within 1 or 2 consultations) it is best (safest and cheapest) to stick with a home mobility and strengthening programme. This second stage is often the shortest of the three stages.
The third stage (a “thawing shoulder”) begins at the time when improvements in range and reductions in pain begin to occur. This is the time in which manual physiotherapy interventions are most effective. Manual joint and muscle release techniques, although uncomfortable, can considerably improve symptoms. In most cases, one or two consultations every 1 to 2 months is all that is required. Remember, if improvement is not significant with these treatments, discuss it with your physiotherapist. This allows for your treatments to be adapted, intensified or ceased completely if necessary. Your therapist will continue to rely heavily on the feedback you give them following each treatment.
Many patients fall into the cycle of continuing with regular (and costly) physiotherapy treatments which do little more than babysit the injury whist it recovers on its own. If you do not feel you are getting substantial benefit from treatment, cease. Remember, frozen shoulder is a problem that will resolve by itself in due time. Physiotherapy simply aims to punctuate bursts of improvement during the natural course of the pathology, reduce the likelihood of secondary shoulder and neck problems and facilitate daily function of the arm.
Medical management options for treating frozen shoulder
The severity of frozen shoulder can vary greatly from patient to patient. Some people require little more than oral analgesics or anti-inflammatories to assist them through their recovery period. Others may require corticosteroid injections or manipulation of the shoulder joint under general anaesthetic. Hyperdilation (also called hydrodilation) involves injecting the shoulder joint with saline to expand and stretch the joint capsule. The outcome of this technique is not always predictable and tends to work better for improving range than it does for decreasing pain. A corticosteroid injection into the joint may be of benefit to assist with pain reduction. It is important to remember that neither injection will shorten the total duration of the recovery.
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...so you end up with words that give...posture relative to uke, nature of attack and the technique to be deployed. ... seems fairly common in the Aikikai plus derivatives world.
Hi Daren. Thanks. That way does make things easy to work out.
My immediate challenge (as a lowly 6th kyu) was to work out how they are used at our dojo. Now I've finally got that idea down, plus (thanks to everyone here, and Sensei) a broader view on several terms used elsewhere. So now at least I won't be confused when someone says "katate-dori" and does what I know as "gyakute dori."
Interesting stuff... Language in general is fascinating. A couple of my favorite classes in college were Latin & Greek Word Derivations, and American Dialectology. The variety of words and pronunciations for a single activity or doodad / geegaw / whatsit is mind-boggling.
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Research should be Global - Results Available to every one and shared by every one.
Knowledge is Universal and have no borders.
Production should be as much local as possible
Why Research should be Global
- Global knowledge should be available to everyone, not just to the small group of people
- Many research topics are cross disciplines and beyond international borders. Can avoid duplication.
- Many research and development projects, require huge resources (material, manpower etc..), too much for any one country.
- International collaborations help to think more broadly. Can gather skills and knowledge from people working in similar areas world-wide
- Can build internationally competitive teams and research groups, and also gain a greater audience and market for their research.
- Network of contacts is potentially the best source of international opportunities. Adopting a global outlook is also highly beneficial for research careers. Make connections and seize opportunities
- One need to be willing and able to travel and live in a foreign culture for extended periods. One should cope with diversity
- International codes of conduct are important.
Traditionally, Production was local, importing only goods and raw materials not available locally. Preferance is for local production.
- Small-scale local production helps to eliminate the waste of unneeded products made to adhere to overseas minimums, reduce emissions and energy usage. Controlling the development of the product first-hand enables greater quality control and helps to reduce waste and overproduction, ensuring the item remains sellable.
- Sourcing your products and materials locally has benefits in all three areas.
- Planet: Buying from local vendors and manufacturers cuts down on fuel emissions because it takes less fuel to transport goods than it would to transport them across the country or across continents.
- Eating local means more money stays within your community. Every dollar spent generates twice as much income for the local economy.
- Local produce is fresher and tastes better because it is usually sold within 24 hours of being picked. Some local producers also use organic or higher quality materials. This is one of the main reasons locally grown food and goods are generally viewed as being of better quality.
- Supports the Local Economy. Money is kept local and makes the community wealthier.
- Better Community Health and Safer Food
- Reduces Use of Fossil Fuels in transporting over large distances
- Better Economic Use of Land, instead of building huge structure and parking
Why Production became global
- Farmers and businesses who produce in smaller quantities typically incur higher costs associated with growing, producing and distributing their goods.
- Typically find a smaller selection of goods. For example, local foods can only be grown during certain times of the year. Local food also tends to spoil faster because it isn’t typically treated with preservatives. A lot of local farmers report it is more difficult for them to sell their produce based on looks.
- As a consumer, there can be a lot less choice. You may also find there is a waiting period to get the item you want, or it may not be available at all locally.
Globalisation is a process by which countries of the world benefit in several ways. Three main benefits or advantages derived from globalisation are in countries being able to procure the best and most efficient technologies for their production processes, being able to develop markets for their products and services across the globe and outsourcing jobs to countries where costs are low and the manpower cheaper than in their own country. Leveraging on expertise and economic advantages, countries that have globalised are today economically ahead of those that have not opened up their economy.
A well planned production function will lead to good quality products, higher rate of production and lower cost
According to data published by the United Nations Statistics Division, China accounted for 28 percent of global manufacturing output in 2018.
One of the main advantages of opening a production facility in another country is the reduction in manufacturing costs. Labor is often one of the biggest manufacturing costs for rich countries. Rich countries can invest in less developed countries. If volume is large, it will justify developing and using advanced technologies and automation.
Issues in Global Production
Outsourcing is a controversial issue.
- Stability Issues such as governmental policies, political instability, revolution or terrorism/organized crime. Many developing countries have fairly unstable or volatile political landscapes that can change quickly.
- When a new government takes over, it might make it harder to do business in that country.
Outsourcing your production can lead to increased management expenses
- Despite dramatic advances in information and transportation technology, a factory located thousands of miles away still poses huge logistical challenges.
- When you bring in something form abroad to sell in the local market, you are exposed to currency rate fluctuations.
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A Jewish Love Story
Pat McGrath Avery
For readers who have wondered about the relationship of Jesus’ earthly parents this is their story. From the days of young courtship through the Angel Gabriel’s visit a Jewish wedding the birth of Jesus and the years of his ministry the author humanizes the historical events through the eyes of a wife and mother. Mary recounts her story to her cousin Elisabeth the mother of John the Baptist.
The author gives the reader a primer in Jewish history and religion. She includes a glossary of terms a listing of the Hebrew calendar and feast days and explains Jewish customs and beliefs. Through the events in the story readers learn the significance of these customs.
Mary and Joseph’s love story is universal and their courtship and marriage are true to their culture. With a plot that people already know it takes a passion for the subject to draw readers into a new presentation. Reagan develops Mary and Joseph’s personalities within the context of their generation and their role in history. It is easy for readers to like them both.
The author includes a “Reflections” section at the end of each chapter. Through these sections she leads individual readers or study groups to draw lessons from the story as it unfolds.
The book will hold special appeal for Jewish and Christian readers or those who want an understandable view of the ordinary humanness and extraordinary Godliness of the birth of Jesus. We all know how the story ends. What we do not know is how Jesus’ family loved him and coped with his life and death. The author offers a plausible viewpoint.
“Many times I thought I’d simply die from a broken heart. When Joseph died I didn’t think I could go on” Mary tells her cousin. “He was the love of my life…Yahshua [Jesus] was only fifteen at the time…It was a true privilege to be in the same house with Nashua as he was growing up Elisabeth. His mind worked on a different level.”
The Manger is a fundamental story of love and family told with historical and religious significance. Although the writing is sometimes wordy and filled with clichés the story rings true.
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Saudi princess: What I'd change about my country
April 20, 2012 by BBC News Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Princess Basma Bint Saud Bin Abdulaziz tells the BBC there are many changes she would like to see in Saudi Arabia - but that now is not the time for women to be allowed to drive.
I speak as the daughter of King Saud, the former ruler of Saudi Arabia. My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister. But I am saddened to say that my beloved country today has not fulfilled that early promise.
Our ancient culture, of which I am very proud, is renowned for its nobility and generosity, but we lack, and urgently need, fundamental civil laws with which to govern our society.
As a daughter, sister, (former) wife, mother, businesswoman and a working journalist, these are the things that I would like to see changed in Saudi Arabia.
I would like to see a proper constitution that treats all men and women on an equal footing before the law but that also serves as a guide to our civil laws and political culture.
For example, today in Saudi courts, all decisions are made according to the individual judge's interpretation of the holy Koran. This is entirely dependent on his own personal beliefs and upbringing rather than universally agreed principles or a written constitution as a guide.
I am not calling for a western system but an adaptation of that system to suit our needs and culture. Thus our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to the whims of individual judges as is the case now.
In particular, the constitution should protect every citizen's basic human rights regardless of their sex, status or sect. Everyone should be equal before the law.
2. Divorce laws
I strongly believe that current divorce laws are abusive.
Today in Saudi, a woman can ask for a divorce only if she files for what is called "Khali and Dhali". This means either she pays a big sum of money running into tens of thousands of dollars or she has to get someone to witness the reason why she is filing for a divorce - an impossible condition to fulfil given that such reasons usually are the kind that remain within the four walls of a marriage.
Another way to keep a woman in the marital home against her will is the automatic granting of custody of any children over the age of six to the father in any divorce settlements.
This state of affairs is in complete contradiction to the Koran, upon which our laws are supposed to be based. In it a woman is given full rights to divorce simply in the case of "irreconcilable differences".
3. Overhaul of the education system
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
The content of the syllabus is extremely dangerous. For one, our young are taught that a woman's position in society is inferior. Her role is strictly limited to serving her family and raising children. They are actually taught that if a woman has to worship anyone other than God it should be her husband; "that the angels will curse her if she is not submissive to her husband's needs". Girls are also strictly forbidden from taking part in any physical education. This is a result of a complete misinterpretation of the Koran. I consider these ideologies to be inherently abusive.
Aside from that, the focus in most of our educational system is on religious subjects such as hadith (sayings attributed to the prophet), Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), tafssir (interpretation of the Koran) and of course the Koran. The attitude is that "learning itself, anything other than religion won't get you into heaven so don't waste your time". I would like to see religious teaching limited to the Koran and the Sunna (the way the prophet lived), where the true ethics of Islam lie. The rest is blind rote learning of the most dangerous kind. It has left our youth vulnerable to fundamentalist ideologies that have led to terrorism and abuse of the true meaning of the Koran.
Instead of wasting our youths' intellect on memorising quotations whose origins is uncertain (such as those found in hadith, Fiqh and tafssir) we need to encourage them to think freely, innovate and use their initiative for the betterment of our society. Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.
4. A complete reform of social services
The ministry of social affairs is tolerating cruelty towards women rather than protecting them. The only refuge homes that abused women can turn to are state ones. In these, women are continuously told that by seeking refuge they have brought shame on their families.
If they come from powerful families then they will be sent straight back to their homes in fear of the wrath of a powerful patriarch. As a result we have seen many cases of suicide by educated women, doctors and scientists who were sent back to their abusers.
We need independent women's refuges where the rights of women are upheld and backed up by powerful laws that can override family traditions and protect women.
The ministry of social affairs not only abuses women's rights but is also one of the reasons poverty is rife in the kingdom. A corrupt system that lacks transparency has meant that more than 50% of our population is poor and needy even though we are one of the wealthiest countries on earth.
5. The role of the Mahram (chaperone)
Women in Saudi cannot get around or travel without a mahram (a kind of chaperone - usually a male relative).
At the time of the prophet, women used to have a man to accompany them but in those days Arabia was a desert literally full of pirates.
Today the only purpose of such a law is to curtail women's freedom of movement. This not only infantilises women but turns them unnecessarily into a burden on their men and on society.
Today women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive.
This one seems to concern western observers the most but there are more essential rights we need to obtain first.
I am definitely for women driving but I don't think this is the right time for a reversal of this law. In the current climate if a woman drives, she could be stopped, harassed beaten or worse to teach her a lesson.
This is why I am against women driving until we are educated enough and until we have the necessary laws to protect us from such madness. Otherwise we might as well hand out a licence to the extremists to abuse us further. If as drivers we get harassed, they will say to the Islamic world "see what happens when women drive, they get harassed they get beaten" and they will call for even more stringent laws to control women. This is something we can't afford. Fundamental changes in the law and its attitude to women are needed before we take this step.
On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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A hat may lose its shape over time, requiring a stiffening procedure to bring it back to life. Attempting to wear a droopy hat not only looks awkward, but may stretch the out-of-shape headpiece even more. The longer a hat remains in a limp position, the harder it becomes to revert it back to its original shape. A simple yet effective procedure can stiffen your hat back to its former glory.
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Fill a medium pot with water. Set the pot on the stove and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat on the stove, but keep the water hot enough it continues to emit a flow of steam.
Place your hands in oven mitts to avoid steam burns. Hold the hat over the steam, moving it slowly so the steam touches every area of the hat. Remove the hat from the steam flow after 30 seconds and turn off the burner on the stove.
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Dr. Damon Smith talks about sudden death syndrome (SDS) of soybean. SDS can be a significant problem in years where the spring is wet and cool resulting in infection by the fungus Fusarium virguliforme soon after emergence. However, SDS is often not noticed until the reproductive growth stages when foliar symptoms typically develop. The discussion here includes tips on spotting SDS, determining the difference between SDS and brown stem rot and how to manage the disease.
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Normalizing LGBT Ideology
A depressingly true image has been making the rounds on social media. I can’t seem to find the original right now. But if I recall correctly, the text on the image goes something like this: “2009: How will legalizing gay marriage personally affect you? 2019: Celebrate this 11-year-old drag queen, or you’re a bigot!”
That just about sums up the current insanity in our culture.
A decade ago, homosexualist activists were arguing that legalizing same-sex “marriage” was all about “acceptance” and “love,” and that it would have absolutely no impact on the daily life of most ordinary citizens. Opponents of same-sex “marriage” were routinely mocked with statements like: “How is it any of your business what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedrooms?”, or, “If you don’t support gay marriage, don’t get one.” In other words: why get yourself worked up about something that has nothing to do with you?
However, just as pro-family advocates warned at the time, things haven’t turned out that way.
Ever Greater Extremism
There are just too many examples of how same-sex “marriage”, and LGBT ideology in general, have impacted the daily lives of every citizen to cite in a single column. We saw this in a dramatic way throughout June – so-called “pride month.” One could scarcely open a website, or walk down the street, without being confronted by rainbow flags or other overt celebrations of licentious sexual practices. Many schools, libraries, and city and state legislatures flew the flag and held “pride” celebrations, while any effort to question the wisdom of using public buildings in this way was immediately shouted down as “homophobia” and bigotry.
However, this total saturation of the public space with pro-LGBT propaganda is merely one of the milder ways that LGBT extremism has inserted itself into everybody’s lives. Far more troubling is the way that the LGBT movement is propagandizing and recruiting children, often right under the noses of their parents. As a result, many well-meaning parents who decided not to speak out against same-sex “marriage” out of a desire to be more tolerant, are finding that they are losing their very children to belief-systems that they do not, in fact, support.
Entertainment companies like Disney are quietly, but more and more insistently, inserting homosexual characters or themes into their shows and movies. Many schools are quietly inserting LGBT teaching into their curriculum, including indoctrinating students in the anti-scientific and profoundly dangerous “transgender” ideology. Predictably, the result has been a dismaying and stratospheric increase in gender dysphoria among school-age children. And then there’s the truly, truly bizarre obsession of the LGBT movement and their “allies” in the media with drag queens – most disturbingly of all, pre-teen drag queens. It’s not just the so-called “drag queen story hours” being held at libraries across the country – an event that, unsurprisingly, convicted sex abusers have been quick to take advantage of. It’s the conscientious recruitment and grooming of children as drag queen performers, and the celebration of these abused children on some of the most-watched television shows in the country.
Meanwhile, drag queen performances – a phenomenon that was once confined to seedy gay bars – is now being mainstreamed as just another form of entertainment for the general masses. Like the explosion of talk shows about transgenderism, this obsession with drag queens seemed to come out of nowhere. Nobody that I know of was clamoring for more drag queens in their lives, or for more “all ages” drag queen shows to which they might take their children. So, who was it who decided that drag queens would be the next big thing, and for what purpose? I don’t know the answer to the first part of that question, but I can hazard a guess as to the second part: it seems to me that exposure to drag queens serves the LGBT ideology as a handy way to further desensitize the public to the sexually bizarre and perverse, including the highly problematic notion of “gender fluidity.”
In many ways, 2019 has also been the year in which the naked intolerance of the LGBT movement has been exposed. In many cases, however, it has been the LGBT organizations themselves who have exposed their extremism, for the simple reason that they no longer see any reason to hide it. In the past decade they have achieved more than they ever dreamed possible, and they are determined to ride this momentum as far as they possibly can.
Tech giants, well-heeled LGBT organizations, politicians, “philanthropists” and entertainers have openly committed themselves to curtailing, expunging, and vilifying even the mildest expressions of dissent from the LGBT ideology. Among countless recent examples: Facebook just banned a Facebook group for moms opposed to Drag Queen Story Hour. (Amazingly, something that would have been literally unthinkable to most people even just a couple years ago, is now something you cannot speak out against without risking being made a social pariah!). Amazon – where (as one article recently pointed out) you can easily buy Hitler’s Mein Kampf and books celebrating pedophilia – has just removed a number of books designed to help people leave the homosexual lifestyle.
We saw the intolerant spirit of the modern LGBT movement on display after the victory of the U.S. women’s team won the World Cup. The captain of the team, and some other players, are personally homosexual, as well as committed LGBT activists. However, instead of using their victory to unite Americans, we were treated to videos and interviews filled with politically divisive, profanity-laced tirades.
Ironically, some of the soccer players displayed a breathtaking intolerance towards anyone who disagreed with them, while insistently proclaiming the need for a more “tolerant” country. In the midst of the celebrations, for example, an old interview with a former member of the U.S. women’s team – a Christian – was unearthed. In the interview, Jaelene Hinkle explained her decision to refuse to don a rainbow-themed jersey a couple of years back. “I just felt so convicted in my spirit that it wasn’t my job to wear this jersey,” she said. Even though Hinkle is no longer on the team, current team member Ashlyn Harris immediately shot back with this tweet:
“Hinkle, our team is about inclusion. Your religion was never the problem. The problem is your intolerance and you are homophobic. You don’t belong in a sport that aims to unite and bring people together. You would never fit into our pack or what this team stands for.”
Harris, apparently, was blissfully ignorant of how ironic her tweet was, “i.e. we’re so tolerant and inclusive that you don’t belong here.” The majority of the team want us to believe they are in full support of inclusivity; however, they reject and publicly shame and vilify a teammate who gently disagrees with their position. They define the terms, the language, and application of what is or is not inclusive. If you don’t fit their definition you are banned, ostracized, persecuted, and ridiculed for your views.
Sadly, even within the Church we are seeing signs that LGBT ideologues have grown in brazenness in recent months and years. During “Pride Month” last month, we saw photos of priests openly celebrating so-called “pride masses,” replete with rainbow flags, and homilies full of nudges and winks to the sexual libertinism that the Pride movement so openly celebrates. One priest even celebrated such a Mass on an altar covered with a rainbow altar cloth in the Stonewall Inn, a former gay bar where riots took place in 1969 – an event that many people view as the beginning of the modern day “gay rights” movement. These sacrilegious events typically happen without any repercussions from the Church hierarchy, while bishops and priests who dare to issue even mildly worded warnings about the spiritual dangers of Pride are publicly shamed or even corrected by their superiors.
The Threat of the Equality Act
Of course, this hardly comes as a surprise to the many pro-family advocates who had paid close attention to the LGBT movement. While I don’t doubt that there are some homosexual individuals who simply want to live their lives in peace, the kinds of professional activists who work for LGBT organizations have always had far, far grander, and more pernicious aims. Their basic goal can be summarized like this: to push for total (and, if necessary, enforced) affirmation of the LGBT sexual identity, and a radical, society-wide sexual revolution.
As Franklin Graham recently warned, the next and greatest threat from LGBT extremists is embedded in the deceptively named “Equality Act.” As an article on LifeSite summarizes, the bill, “would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include ‘sex,’ “sexual orientation,” and “gender identity” among expressly recognized “non-discrimination” categories in “public accommodations” (the definition of which would be dramatically expanded); and force employers of 15 or more people to recognize their claimed “gender identity,” forbid them from “discriminating” based on “sexual orientation” or “gender identity,” and mandate transgender “access” to sex-specific facilities.”
This is a radical piece of legislation. As Graham warned, under this law, Christians “would lose all protections to hire people who adhere to their biblical statements of faith. Christians will be persecuted for their sincerely held beliefs as never before. The clear teachings of the Bible on the sins of homosexuality and abortion will no doubt be considered ‘hate speech.’ It will be a nightmare from which this nation may never recover.”
During the battle over same-sex “marriage,” many Christians stayed silent out of a fear of being branded a “hater,” and out of the hope that what LGBT activists promised was true – that same-sex “marriage” wouldn’t affect their lives or those of their children, family, and friends. We no longer have the luxury of believing this to be true. It is time for Christians to wake up and realize the magnitude of the threats against our culture, freedoms, marriage and the family. It is time to see through the cleverly designed rhetoric of the LGBT movement, and to see that beneath the kindly words of “love” and “tolerance” is a ferocious intolerance that will be satisfied with nothing less than enthusiastic endorsement of their worldview. We were fooled once. Let’s not allow ourselves to be fooled twice. | <urn:uuid:95a4fa5b-83b0-4177-bb64-af38d24a97ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hli.org/2019/07/the-lgbt-doctrine-of-intolerance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.967259 | 2,333 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Location: West of Cloncurry to Mount Isa; south to Duchess and Selwyn Range; at head of Cloncurry River; north to Glenroy. They practiced both circumcision and subincision as rites of initiation. Mackie, writing from Brighton Downs on the Diamantina placed members of this tribe too far south, in Jalanga territory.
Co-ordinates: 140°0'E x 20°55'S
Area: 6,000 sq. m. (15,600 sq. km.)
References: Palmer, 1884; Urquhart, 1885; MacGillivray in Curr, 1886; Urquhart in Curr, 1886; Parry-Okeden, 1897; Roth, 1897 (two papers), 1910; Mathews, 1898 (Gr. 6417, 6464), 1899 (Gr. 6397); Mackie, 1901; Giglioli, 1911; Tindale, 1940; J. G. Breen, 1969 MS; Blake, 1969 MS.
Alternative Names: Kalkatungu, Kalkatunga, Kalkutung, Kalkatongo, Kalkadun, Kulkodone, Kalkadoon, Kulkadoon, Kalkadonna, Galgadungu, Galgadung, Calcadoon, Kalkaladoona, Mantaba (Maithakari term for southern Kalkadungu), Rungkari (Maithakari, term for northern Kalkadungu), Roongkari. | <urn:uuid:47ad832b-85d6-4abf-97db-197df8be8970> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/collection/archives/language_groups/kalkadunga | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.69009 | 329 | 2.671875 | 3 |
We took the hard decision not to hold a wassail (a traditional ceremony to honour the apple trees) this year. I know other orchards held large and enthusiastic wassails, but our space is small and we have to think about the potential risks.
But never fear, our Maintenance Session volunteers saw to it that the trees received their usual blessing of a libation of apple juice poured at their roots, and pieces of toast hung in the branches. When we started this orchard over a decade ago, our first wassail was three of the founders (including me) singing some kind of song and banging a saucepan, and a few neighbours came out to see what the racket was. Since then the wassail grew into a really sizeable and popular event, and we have had everything from lantern processions to a wheelbarrow orchestra to folk dressed as Green Men and Women, and as penguins. In the last few years wassailing has been re-discovered, re-invented and revived across the country (I think we were way ahead of the trend.) Wassailing is certainly a tradition of this orchard, and it will carry on, in some way or another, every year.
Our Open Cambridge event on Saturday 11 September was a great success. Susanna, who is one of our founder members, said, ‘Saturday went really well with sunshine and lots of happy families joining us at the orchard for the bug hunt and plant potting. Tristan did a stoic job leading the bug hunt and showing people how to use a key to help identify the ” beasties”. There were magnificent spiders , grass hoppers and a couple of fat crickets and every one had a fantastic time. Rosa was in charge of greeting our guests and selling apple juice as well as collecting donations. I led the potting up session with a selection of strawberries, sage and rosemary that I’d set up a few weeks ago from runners or cuttings from my allotment. Everyone took at least one plant home with instructions of how to care for them. One enterprising child found a rosemary beetle and then potted up some rosemary to take home so that she could keep the beetle as a pet ( with parental consent of course!) Chris has been busy again making a shelter at the entrance to the orchard (prompted by us getting soaked on Friday evening when we went down to set up the notice board). He has also painted the sign on the gate and re-varnished the wood so our kissing gate looks beautiful. Dave has not had a chance to put bees into the observation hive this year but a colony has moved in anyway.’
On Saturday 11th September 2021 from 2 – 4pm in the orchard, we will be searching for as many bugs and minibeasts as we can find. All creatures, once examined and recorded, will be carefully returned to where we found them.
Come along and see what you can find. No experience necessary, and no knowledge of bugs required.
Last time we did this, we found a lot of bugs!
This event is part of Open Cambridge It is a free event, but donations to keep our orchard going are much appreciated.
Trumpington Community Orchard cannot keep going without volunteer help and support, and we are so pleased that the Tzu Chi Cambridge Collegiate Society enjoyed their volunteering sessions with us, and are looking forward to more. The group have sent us these lovely photos, and one of the Society’s members, Yin, shared her thoughts:
“Contributing to environmental awareness is one of our objectives in forming the Tzu Chi Cambridge Collegiate Society. We are thrilled to start with volunteering in local community gardens. This week, we received a warm welcome from the Trumpington Community Orchard. It was blessed to have a sunny Sunday to put our hands in the soil. We happily meet new friends Susanna and Chris, our lovely local eco-warriors and knowledgeable green lovers. More than volunteering, we learned so much in the Orchard. It was our first time to know such varieties of Cambridgeshire heritage apples. The efforts that the Orchard team put in biodiversity and planting were much appreciated. Susanna also showed us how to recognize commonly seen plants in Cambridge, such as the cute yellow Buttercup, salad burnet, little white Yarrow, and Wood Anemone. It is interesting to see the small bird shed built for the swifts though now it is rented to the sparrows. By the place near Hobson Brook, we also learn about the Brook and Cambridge history. It is amusing to see so many fun things and activities happening in the Trumpington Community Orchard. We were surprised how vivid and lively the Orchard garden is after our volunteering session. We had a lovely time with Susanna getting ourselves close to nature and becoming more aware of our surroundings. We experienced a growth of a healthy mind to respect our environment and shared it with local nature lovers. We hope more friends will join us in the future. Step by step, we will adopt and share an environmentally friendly lifestyle as a community.”
‘The Tzu Chi Cambridge Collegiate Society is an active student society of Cambridge University. The Society is associated with the Tzu Chi Foundation, an international NGO and accredited observer of the United Nations Environment Programme. We share enthusiasm in nature awareness and in learning by doing through local community engagement. We believe that actions, however small, can make a difference and would like to create opportunities for like-minded fellows.’ | <urn:uuid:f126ad4b-7aba-4b41-8b7d-91159f5f76f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://trumpingtonorchard.org/category/events/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.972165 | 1,144 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State
This text provides a survey of the peoples who speak Finno-Ugric languages and have titular republics or autonomous regions within the post-Soviet Russian federation. Their languages have set them apart from their Turkic and Russian neighbours and helped to preserve their distinct identity, including their animist religious practices. Previous works on this subject were written before the demise of the USSR so that information on the subject was screened by Soviet censors.
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In hospitals and other health care settings
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- A child-size, single-use face mask to help prevent the spread of germs in hospitals and other health care settings has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The mask is designed to prevent transmission of bacteria, viruses and other germs by children aged 5 years to 12 years. The product is specially designed for children, who do not breathe as forcefully as adults, the FDA noted in a news release.
The mask comes with important instructions for proper fitting by an adult, the agency said. The product shouldn't be used on children with symptoms of shortness of breath, chest pain, chest pressure, dizziness or confusion.
The mask is produced by Kimberly-Clark, based in Dallas.
The FDA has more about this approval.
-- Scott Roberts
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Seaweed waste biomass from the carrageenan industry (SWBC) is a potential biomass feedstock for producing sustainable biofuel because it increases the product value and reduces the pollutant risk. Peracetic acid (PAA) followed by ionic liquid (IL) pretreatment has been used to increase the enzymatic saccharification of pretreated SWBC. The SWBC cellulose content was comparable with that of terrestrial biomasses. PAA+1-hexylpyridinium chloride ([Hpy][Cl]), and PAA+1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium diethylphosphate ([Emim][DEP]) pretreatments produced saccharide and unknown oligosaccharide fractions in regenerated water (~4-6% SWBC cellulose content). For 48h of saccharification, the untreated SWBC and the SWBC pretreated using PAA followed by [Hpy][Cl], [Emim][DEP] or 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazole acetate ([Emim][OAc]) produced cellulose conversions of 77, 91, 84 and 62%, respectively. The untreated SWBC had a high cellulose conversion, which may be caused by the low lignin and hemicellulose contents of the SWBC. PAA+IL pretreatment could yield pretreated SWBCs with more amorphous cellulose structures, which lead to an almost-complete cellulose conversion.
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The Chinese technology company Snoppa has released Rover, a cinema dolly with an electronic stabilization system. Rover is essentially a shooting robot that removes obstacles that the ground creates. It can carry heavy and bulky professional cameras, move stably on a variety of bumpy surfaces, and has programmable automation function. For film crews, it can significantly reduce labor costs and improve work efficiency by introducing a new type mobile shooting equipment to the filming environment.
The Snoppa Rover is equipped with a unique electronic active damping system that can eliminate vibrations caused by road bumps and obstacles during movement. Rover can also eliminate speed mutation caused by road obstacles and keep forward motion at a constant speed. The company says this gives Rover a wider range of terrain adaptability.
Rover has a load capacity of up to 15 kilograms (33 pounds) and can carry cameras ranging from mirrorless and DSLRs to cinema cameras. With the built-in Wi-Fi module, wireless image transmission module, and camera control module, the operator can use a tablet to remotely control both Rover's movement and camera shooting.
Users can program a preset path through the dedicated app to let Rover automatically move according to the preset path and shooting angles. The company says this can greatly improve the efficiency of film work and reduce the burden of videographers. Preset or recently used paths can be saved as templates, which can be reused repeatedly so that the videographer can easily take repeated shots with precise accuracy.
Other features include hyper-lapse, auto tracking, high-speed follow shooting, and others are all very practical functions the lend assistance in the cinema and film environment.
Rover is being pre-sold on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform which is currently offering an early bird price of $2399 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atom2/snoppa-rover-electric-stabilization-cinema-dolly?ref=5groz3. It is expected to be shipped around July this year. | <urn:uuid:51862643-9bd1-44b6-9577-09d867d9dba1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.digitalcinemareport.com/news/snoppa-introduces-rover-dolly-electronic-stabilization | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.939634 | 405 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Mobile phone data gives detailed picture of travel at hourly intervals through the day
Apr 22, 2015 -- Over the course of a day, populations move in and out of cities, towns and suburbs, either on a regular commute or to visit retail, sports and leisure facilities; but what do these mass movements look like on a map? What routes do people take?
An exciting new offering from MAPMECHANICS, the leading specialist in digital mapping, business and demographic data, answers these questions, drawing on mobile phone usage. Given that more than 90 per cent people in Britain now have a mobile phone*, this data provides a comprehensive picture of population movements throughout Great Britain.
The data offers an invaluable opportunity to analyse the Âpull factor of town centres and other places where people gather, helping users to plan transport and other amenities, or to develop retail or entertainment facilities.
The data monitors peopleÂs location at hourly intervals throughout the day, broken down into relatively small grid squares available in both urban and rural areas.
Alongside analysis of town centre facilities, another classic application would be to review the historic flow of people to and from major sporting events or concerts, and to use that information to plan services and resources at similar future events.
Another ideal application would be to track the journeys people tend to take on their way home from work, and plan home shopping Âclick and collect locations at points of high throughput.
If users correlate this data with additional demographic data such as the social class and lifestyle characteristics of those travelling to and from specific areas, the result will be an even richer and more informative picture of where different populations and social groups work and spend their leisure time.
On Mapmechanics allmapdata web site, visitors can view an example of the mobile phone data in use. A video with 4D (time-based) functionality, prepared with the Geoconcept geographic information system, shows the population movement in London over the course of a day. See www.allmapdata.com/population-analytics.
MAPMECHANICS has been providing innovative solutions in sales and marketing, digital mapping, geographic analysis and logistics planning for over twenty five years.
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Gov. Thomas Johnson Middle School is a public school located in Frederick, Maryland. The school is coed with 596 students and includes grades 6th Grade - 8th Grade.
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County: Frederick County
CSA Name: Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia DC-MD-VA-WV
School Type: 1-Regular school
Agency: Frederick County Public Schools
Agency Type District: 1-Local school district
Urban/Rural Designation: City - Small
NCES ID: 240033001549
State School ID: 100225
State Agency ID: 10
Congressional Code: 2406
Charter School: No
Magnet School: No
Shared Time School: No
Title I Eligible: No
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Chicken Net 12/48/3
A prefabricated fence that has 12 horizontal twines (11 conductive); is 48" tall installed, and has string verticals every 3". Keeps in chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry while keeping their ground based predators out.
White PVC posts are built into the mesh every 13.6 ft. The result, when energized properly, is a nearly impenetrable mesh to sheep, goats, coyotes and dogs.
How does it compare to PoultryNet?
- Has 10 times more electrical resistance (380 Ω/1000 ft) so it's less suited for fences more than 1000 ft long.
- Not as easy to handle during removal and installation (longer length between posts means more material to fold/roll).
- Yellow color not as visible in light/dark situations as white/black.
- To contain and control the movement of chickens, ducks and other poultry.
- To prevent raccoons, coyotes, foxes, bears, dogs and other nonflying predators from killing poultry.
- To rotate poultry to fresh grass and to reduce disease risks.
|Chicken Net 12/48/3|
|Horizontal Strands||12 (11 conductive)|
|Vertical Strands||Plastic strings spaced every 3"|
|Roll Length||82' or 164'|
|Electrical Resistance||380 Ω/per 1000'|
|Line Post Options||Single Spike (SS)|
|Line Post Material||White PVC, 0.51" diameter|
|Distance Between Posts||13.6'|
|Horizontal Spacings||2", 2", 2", 2.5", 2.5", 4.5", 4.5", 6", 6", 6.5", 9"
(from bottom to top)
Each roll comes with 1 Warning Sign and 1 Repair Kit.
- #208440 - $1.01 per ft (164' roll with single spike posts)
- #208444 - $1.41 per ft (82' roll with single spike posts)
See PDFs and videos above for additional installation instructions.
This is a pain barrier, not a physical barrier. If animals are scared or starved it will not keep them in.
It is best to have animals trained to electric fencing before you turn them out in the net only. The first time you put the animals in the net, you should be available to watch them for a while. That way if one were to get into the fence and get caught, you can turn the power off and get them loose.
It has 380 ohms of resistance instead of 38 like PoultryNet. It’s not advised for fences longer than 2 to 3 nets.
We’re aware that the lower price of this net will encourage folks to choose this version. Think carefully before you do. Customers who are unhappy with netting are often those who’ve chosen its farmstore/catalog equivalents. So why do we offer it? Because it is similar to nets from other sources—and comparisons make decisions easier. If unsure, give us a call at 800-282-6631 and ask to speak to consultant. They will help you make the optimal netting choice for your fencing needs.
Use only with a low or wide impedance intermittent pulse energizer.
Warning! Do NOT use continuous output energizers with electric netting due to risk of fire. (Fi-Shock™ brand energizers which are sold as low impedance, continuous current output should NOT be used with electric netting.) All energizers sold on Premier's website use an intermittent pulse and are suitable for use with electric netting.
Dry conditions and wintertime usage may reduce the effectiveness of electric fencing.
Dry or frozen ground many cause the NetPost spikes to bend or break if inserted with force. Pilot holes may be needed.
Energizer KitsItem #113300 -
Solar powered 0.60 joule energizer used with electric fences to contain sheep, goats, poultry, swine, cattle and horses. Effective against predators.$285.00
GatesItem #340605 -
Provides easy access in/out of netting enclosures without the need to turn off the fence energizer. Same electrified mesh as 48" tall PoultryNet®.$60.00
Posts and AccessoriesItem #202202 -
Replacement line posts for Premier’s netting. Designs for each type of net, double or single spike.$3.50
Fence Connectors and AccessoriesItem #200700 -
Replaces lost or broken plastic caps (for posts 0.51" in diameter) on netting posts. Holds top strand of net in place so there is less sagging.$0.16
Fence Connectors and AccessoriesItem #200800 -
Clips fits to the spikes on standard electrified netting posts. Keeps bottom black strand in place and tensioned.$0.15
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Kimberly M from Kansas
This yellow chicken electric net is keeping the predators away and the chickens in! I wish I would have ordered the 48” tall extra plastic posts with it! I have the smaller extra posts for sheep electronet and thought I’d just use those. They are not tall enough to work properly! This chicken net is electrified on the second to bottom strand so it has to be very upright and the taller extra posts would definitely be helpful to keep it straight off the ground and the corners upright. Premier does a good job describing it on the website. It is the cheaper option of their chicken nets and does require some extra attention to keep it from sagging too much.
Amanda G from Michigan
This is my 3rd section of chicken fence from Premier 1. I needed a temporary fence for my young grow outs and this is perfect. Easy to setup by myself, move, and keeps the baby dinosaurs contained.
Sandra C from Florida
The only thing I’m disappointed in it sags way too much going to have to use PVC to hold it up.
Wanda B from Kentucky
This is my eighth role, I continue to buy this because it’s outstanding! I have goats, I buy the poultry netting because it keeps the kids in. Love it love it love it!
Krista H from New York
Bought 2 164ft sections of netting to keep our 120 pasture layers contained and safe from ground predators. So far it has worked great! We are not using any extra posts and it seems to work just fine. No one is flying over at this time yet either. Thanks for the quality product and fast shipping! Will be buying more netting as we expand our pasture flock over the coming months and years. | <urn:uuid:dfa47bfb-5554-4457-ad46-52e0cdc188e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.premier1supplies.com/p/chicken-net-12-48-3-electric-netting?slug=chicken-net-12-48-3-electric-netting&cat_id=53&offset=30&limit=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.90816 | 1,513 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Brudenell, an unincorporated area, is located in Kings County in the eastern portion of Prince Edward Island, N. of Montague. Its precise location is N 46°11', W 62°39'.
This page is a comprehensive index of all of the information on our website related to Brudenell. You can also search for information on other communities.
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Brudenell falls inside the Statistics Canada
census subdivision of Lot 52. They have detailed statistical information available
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Education,Ethnicity,Family,Income,Labour Force,Population, and Shelter.
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|History of the Name|
The official history of the geographic name Brudenell (which can be somewhat technical, we admit):
Brudenell (Ry. Sta.) was adopted in Place Names of PEI, 1925.Status changed to Sett. 25 April 1946 on 11L/2.Status changed to Station in 1960 Gazetteer; coordinates at 46 11 - 62 38.Status changed to D.R. Comm. in 1973 Gazetteer with coordinates at 46 11 - 62 39.Status changed to Locality when it became part of the Community of Brudenell in 1973. See Cardigan origin.
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Babelfish doesn't give what i'm thinking is an accurate translation, because it does not "reverse translate" cleanly... i.e. it doesn't give us the same thing back that we put in in english... so i'm just looking for the -exact- and proper verbage
That actually translated back in Babelfish properly... however, it did with both:
le bloc des bouchers
les bloc des bouchers
Now.... that looks pluralised to me, so if you were trying to describe "the block of the Butcher", or rather, a restaurant called "The Butchers Block", non-pluralised, would that be the same? and whats the difference between the two phrases there? Is one masculine versus femenine, or..... well, i dunno, i'm just speculating :lol:
Atfirst when I read what he said I was asking myself the same question, but I figured he knew what he was talking about. Again he said that the previous translation was a direct word for word~ translation, and he knew right away that it was run through a translator. He also said that it doesnt translate 100%, but thats the closest he can think of. I know french in Quebec slightly different then french in Europe, maybe that has something to do with it?
I'm hoping that someone here speaks literal french, and can enlighten on this... even if i have to add another word or somethign to make it make sense.. lol.
I need something by tomorrow though... if i don't hear anything different, i think we'll go with "Les bloc des bucher". Although, the "table" version may work as well. I'll probably submit both to them. | <urn:uuid:a795f64d-d958-4853-b1d5-d593cadc3758> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.crxcommunity.com/threads/french-speaking-person-needed.3504/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.970102 | 358 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Surrounded by buildings on three sides, this five storey apartment building is located on a quiet street in the Hellenic quarter of Brăila, Romania. Within the immediate vicinity and on the same street lies Manea Kella’s award winning project, Casa Popeea Boutique Hotel. The building will serve as an extension to the hotel and is located just a few metres away from Casa Popeea, offering eight serviced apartments including a top floor penthouse with two large terraces.
The site opens to the city only on its East elevation. The vacant property currently present on site is in an advanced state of disrepair that warrants demolition – our aim is to preserve fragments of the façade in whichever way possible, whilst recognising the structural implications of this task to be complex. Thus, the design aims to retain and consolidate parts of the existing front and side façades and only rebuild where necessary. Existing materials salvaged from the demolition such as Ottoman bricks and Dobrogean limestone will be reused.
Striving to build on the local vernacular, the architecture retains the approximate footprint of the existing building and uses a vocabulary of commonly found elements in Brăila such as the plinth, the primary façade, the secondary façade, the courtyard, as well as some other Romanian vernacular elements such as the carved openings that provide the building with a sculptural quality. The design required an efficient and coherent strategy to solve issues around the complexities of an infill site, poor daylighting, seismicity, as well as planning restrictions such as building height, land occupancy coefficients and tight volumetric regulations, typical of the Brăila Historic City Centre Conservation Area SIR 1.
A reduced palette of materials relies mostly on stone to complement the stone plinth of the existing building, to soften the hardness of the retained brick façade and to allude to the region’s vernacular stone constructions.
The environmental strategy is paramount to this project with windcatchers from the Islamic world forming part of an in depth study. These traditional architectural elements provide natural ventilation and passive cooling using the Venturi effect. Lightwells and hanging gardens have been designed to ventilate from the basement upwards. Cross ventilation within the dwellings is also possible due to voids to both front and rear of the building.
We believe that infill buildings such as this could form part of a densification strategy of Brăila’s city centre, since the built heritage is rich albeit in a pronounced state of disrepair and neglect. Economic recovery of the surrounding area, including Piața Traian and the grand Strada Mihai Eminescu could in part be possible with the improvement of the housing stock, thereby making the area more attractive to young families.
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A perfect place for people concerned about their Health and Fitness. You will get tips about making yourself Healthier, Weight Loss, Physical Fitness, Exercising and Aerobics. You will come to know about Nutricious Food and Fitness programs to keep you in perfect shape.
Measuring the calories of every food you are going to eat is quite good. And, knowing the right amount of calories that you need per day or meal is better. If you want to eat more and festive on food, then you should eat a low calorie food.
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How to Ease Feelings of Guilt over Putting Your Child in Daycare
All parents would love to stay home with their children until the first day of kindergarten. However, that simply is not realistic and most families have both parents working full time so the only option is daycare or some other form of childcare. The problem is that many parents have a lot of guilt over putting their children in daycare and feel as if they are doing something bad for their children. But, parents who must put their children in childcare should relax because daycare is actually beneficial in many ways for your kids! The following benefits will show you a few of the reasons why you shouldnt feel guilty about putting your child in daycare and why he might be better off in some areas than kids who stay home with their parents.
Learning to Socialize
When kids go to daycare they immediately make friends and start learning how to socialize. This is vitally important for a successful life and kids at daycare become real pros early on!
You will notice that your child learns to share, coexist, and even resolve problems on his own. This is something very few children who stay home alone with a parent learn at such an early age. Your child will also learn how to stand up for himself. Of course, you will probably hear about some squabbles that took place or even name calling, but these situations are perfect examples to teach your child about good behavior and manners. Its amazing, but daycare children are really social creatures and their first day at kindergarten is a lot easier than kids who have never been away from their parents.
Your child will learn all kinds of things at daycare. These include new ideas as well as the alphabet, numbers, and more. Teachers will sit down and do crafts with your child, help them play on the computer, and take them outside to play. These are things you may not have time to do at home at least not the entire day. So, when your child attends daycare he receives full day instruction in living life, having fun, and learning.
So, go ahead and get over yourself and your guilt. You have to go back to work and your only option is to send your child to daycare. You still might not like the idea, but it does help to know that your child will benefit from the experience, right? | <urn:uuid:a73d9e88-4a22-49c5-88c5-21df312a0bb0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thelaboroflove.com/articles/how-to-ease-feelings-of-guilt-over-putting-your-child-in-daycare-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00508-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980552 | 482 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Source: Noah Rothman / Mediaite
Amy Holmes, former speechwriter for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and anchor of Real News on The Blaze TV, ripped New York City’s controversial “stop-question-and-frisk” policy in an appearance with MSNBC’s Chris Jansing. Holmes said that she believes the policy is racially discriminatory because, in her wealthier and whiter Manhattan neighborhood, criminal behavior is practiced in the open without fear of police reprisal.
Asked by Jansing about “the mistrust that develops between police and the citizens of any given city” which results from policing strategies like “stop-and-frisk,” Holmes said that she thinks this is a “huge problem.”
“We understand that from ‘stop-and-frisk’ the majority of arrest — I think over 90 percent — have to do with marijuana possession,” Holmes said. “I live in the West Village in New York City, and there’s no ‘stop-and-frisk’ policy there and I could point to you 10 people who were smoking pot openly, and they didn’t get arrested.”
“So, I’m very concerned that ‘stop-and-frisk’ is targeting certain communities, people of color, in a disproportionate way,” Holmes asserted, “and I can tell you, as someone who lives in Manhattan, they could come and find crime in my neighborhood, but they don’t because it’s frankly where a lot of wealthy white people live.”
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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrestaurantres‧tau‧rant /ˈrestərɒnt $ -rənt, -rɑːnt/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] DFa place where you can buy and eat a mealChinese/French/Mexican etc restaurant We went to a little Italian restaurant near Leicester Square. He took her out for a five-course dinner in a fancy restaurant. The company runs a chain of restaurants. A new restaurant has just opened across the road.COLLOCATIONSverbsgo to a restaurantWe went to a restaurant in the King’s Road.take somebody to a restaurantHe’s taking me to a Japanese restaurant in town.eat at/in a restaurant (also dine at/in a restaurant formal)Have you eaten in this restaurant before?a restaurant serves somethingThe restaurant serves lunch from midday until two thirty.a restaurant specializes in somethingRestaurants near the waterfront tend to specialize in seafood. ADJECTIVES/NOUN + restauranta Chinese/Italian etc restaurantWe booked a table at our local Italian restaurant.a fast-food restaurant (=where food that can be prepared quickly is served or available to take away)The High Street is full of fast-food restaurants.a fish/seafood restaurantI went to a seafood restaurant by the pier for lunch.an expensive/cheap restaurantHe took her out to an expensive restaurant.a trendy/fashionable restaurant (=one that is influenced by the most fashionable styles and ideas)The hotel is surrounded by elegant boutiques and trendy restaurants.a fancy restaurant informal (=expensive and fashionable)In some fancy restaurants, the chefs decorate the salads with flowers.a posh restaurant British English informal (=where richer people go)They all earn huge salaries and eat at posh restaurants.an upscale restaurant American English (=where richer people go)It's interesting that rabbit has become so popular at upscale restaurants.restaurant + NOUNa restaurant chain (=one that is owned or managed by the same company or person)Café Rouge is part of a large restaurant chain.a restaurant owner/managerHe worked as a restaurant manager at Mario's Pizzas for 10 years.restaurant mealsThere is a choice of bar snacks or restaurant meals.THESAURUScafe/coffee shop a place where you can get coffee and other non-alcoholic drinks, cakes, and small mealsfast food restaurant one where you can get meals such as hamburgers, french fries etcself-service restaurant one where you collect the food yourselfdiner American English a restaurant where you can eat cheap and simple foodbistro a small restaurant or bar, especially one serving French-style foodcafeteria (also canteen British English) a place at work or school where you can collect and eat meals
Examples from the Corpusrestaurant• Patrons parking there also would be near the shops and restaurants on Grand Avenue.• a Chinese restaurant• A licensed restaurant serves good food all day.• The scene inside the lobby restaurant of the studio did nothing to make me less self-conscious.• There are also new lounges for motorists, service restaurants, a play area, casino and cinemas.• The dish was popular with taste testers, but it was some time before it caught on in the restaurants.• There was no need for the accused to reach the restaurant door.• They kept going to this restaurant, and the proprietor took a liking to them.• Henderson's Salad Table Licensed wholefood restaurant with a remarkable selection of dishes. | <urn:uuid:bd1fc231-4a43-4e2c-bf16-618a65f313cd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ldoceonline.com/Food-topic/restaurant | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00448-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938445 | 741 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Those who are interested in Taoist alchemical language and its deeper meanings must look into the symbolic words and figure out the hidden meanings behind the cryptic and difficult to fathom symbols and phrases. Hearing ideas like "heaven" and "earth","fire" and "water", "lead", "mercury", "tiger" and "dragon", "jade furnace", "medicine", the "mysterious pass", "golden elixir", the "immortal embryo", and the "gate of no gate" one must not think such words refer to the preparation of chemical potions to ingest or parts of the body, but remember that these words and phrases are symbols. They use a language which speaks of one thing to allude to another.
Fire and Water
The concepts of "fire" and "water" do not refer to actual fire and water. They are symbolic of deeper sides of our nature. The fervor and impetuosity of people is passionate and volatile and so it is referred to as fire. The other side of people's character, the calm, centered, more contained and wise side is steady and careful. It has a more settled quality, a "softness", a "flexibility" which contrasts with the fiery and volatile side, and so it is referred to as water. Using the more contained and settled "water" side is using thoughtfulness, logic, and control to nurture and guide our more impulsive and wild side. Using the other side of our disposition, the excitable and temperamental "fire" nature, to complete and balance the often too staid and overly controlling "water" nature is allowing that side of our character expression. By finding a balance between these two sides of our makeup we become more complete and whole.
Lead and Mercury
The ideas of lead and mercury use the ideas of "lead", which is heavy and dense, and lasts a long time without disintegrating, and "mercury" which is lively, active, and doesn't last a long time, to refer to states of mind. What is called "lead" in the alchemical texts is not ordinary material lead but the deep rich sense of true knowledge. This true knowledge is solid, deep, long-lasting and unbending like the sense one gets from "lead". What is called "mercury" in the alchemical texts refers not to actual material "mercury", but to the yin aspects of reality's nature; the side which is pliant, effervescent, spontaneous, unfathomable, and metaphysical. Because it is difficult to pin down and is formless and elusive this aspect of reality and consciousness is likened to mercury.
The Tiger and the Dragon
Alchemical language, when speaking of the "tiger" and the "dragon", in most cases refers to either of two basic considerations. It means either the "tiger" as the physical aspects of life and the "dragon" as the spiritual aspects -- these are sometimes called the ordinary tiger and ordinary dragon. However, the terms are also used to refer to the non-ordinary aspects, or the aspects such as those of the conditioned consciousness and the emotionally obsessed or illusioned consciousness in relation to the evolved consciousness which has learned to transcend the "ordinary" states of being conditioned or being emotionally obsessed. When, through the self-cultivation work, one refines away the conditioned temperament and the obsessing emotional habits and feelings, then the "ordinary" tiger and dragon are overcome, and the "true tiger" and "true dragon" of primordial essence arise. When this happens a clarity is awakened which is so clear and fundamentally beautiful that it seems like a bright light or a shining "mystic" pearl. When this clarity is firmly in place it pervades the universe without hindrance.
The Jade Furnace
The "jade furnace" is symbolic language for the "container" or "field" within which the work of self-cultivation and empowerment takes place. It is called "jade" because the mellow and beautiful tones of jade are like the calm serenity and steady going quality of the work.
The term "furnace" is used because it evokes the idea of slow cooking or slow evolution, just as one slowly evolves and changes when one applies oneself diligently and perseveringly in self-cultivation practice. The jade furnace does not refer to some specific place in the body. It would be a mistake for people to conceive of it in such a manner. One must go deeper than such surface approaches.
The "medicines" of alchemical language don't refer to physical medicines one should take into one's physical body, but to the medicines of real inner knowledge and conscious and conscientious practice. Ideas of yin, yang, subtlety, sensitivity, quietude, tranquility, perseverance, balance, evenness, honesty, sincerity, patience, simplicity, objectivity, etc. are the real "medicines". To think that the terms alchemical "medicines" or spiritual medicines refer to mundane physical substances is to fall way short of proper and deep understanding.
The Mysterious Pass
The mysterious pass is profoundly subtle. It is not an ordinary aperture or place of the body which has shape and form and can be pointed to. The mysterious pass is immaterial and formless, and is without physical location. It is where essence and life abide. It is the intangible which connects with the primordial source. It is called the opening of the mysterious female, the door of birth and death, the commencement of non-being, and the great valley, yet all these terms refer to a basic immaterial quality of consciousness which has to do with reaching open and vital spiritual essence. Proceeding rightly it could be called objectivity. Proceeding wrongly it could be called obsession. Proceeding rightly it could be called clarity. Proceeding wrongly it could be called aloofness. Proceeding rightly it could be called balance. Proceeding wrongly it could be called illusion.
The mysterious pass is the access way which leads to the stabilization and preservation of essence and life.
The Golden Elixir
When one's self-cultivation conforms to what is appropriate for the times and circumstance, the real can solidify, the false can disperse, and the "golden elixir" can crystallize. To undo the false and establish the real is to open up the conditions for the golden elixir. It is possible to evoke the realness of the golden elixir, and not actually recognize it, however, due to delusions, personal and cultural agendas, and bias. When the golden elixir is established and recognized, true blissful tranquility settles in place and the calmness of autonomous and non-personal knowing is attained. The golden elixir is called golden because it is even, shining, and mellow like the quality of real truth. It is called the elixir because it is the fountainhead and source of all that is real, genuine, and actual.
The Immortal Embryo
After birth the fundamental and original essence is without knowledge, yet it is full. As life progresses, as knowledge is gained, that fundamental primordial essence generally becomes seduced and distorted by external influences. The cycle of life rises and one moves away from original sense and imbalance and delusion replaces true original autonomous wholeness. Yet if one follows the course of self-cultivation assiduously, on can turn around the situation and regain the vitality, wholeness, and bliss of original fundamental essence. Too often people cannot recognize true unblemished sense; they mistakenly take physical locations in the human, earthly, or heavenly body as places which will help them regain the fundamental source and harmony. They indulge in bogus practices in efforts to once again establish their original "face". They look to the abdomen, the torso, or the head as places where the immortal embryo should reside. They go through complicated fantasies and mental gyrations, fooling and deluding themselves. It is no wonder such people struggle all their lives , only to grow into old age without attainment.
The immortal embryo is not a physical entity. It is a state of consciousness. It is called an embryo because if one attains it one regains the simplicity and clarity of an infant. It is called immortal because the state of mind to which it refers is the universal and undying essence which hasn't changed since the beginning of time and will never change. It is called the embryo because it is a "second beginning" which parallels one's physical birth -- yet now takes place on the spiritual and psychological plane -- it is the beginning of one's true, undiluted life. It is called immortal because when one contacts it, one contacts that which all enlightened beings since time immemorial have realized. To live in contact with it is to live in contact with that which is significant at all times and all places. To regain it one must come face to face with that which is nameless and void. One must know reality without the filters and buffers of fantasy and bias. One must not be too much or too little, one side or the other, too up or too down, too full or too empty. One must be absolutely precise and without tendency -- a million times sharper than a razor's edge. Then, following the course of nature, the immature can mature and what has been lost can be regained again.
In the end, the path of Alchemy is simply a spiritual path. Being a spiritual path, it must be a path of "realness". To follow such a path is to follow practices which help one to remain authentic and true to oneself and to the original source of all things. To follow such a path is to eschew delusion and acculturation. It is to know the path of the universal, the path of yin and yang, the whole path of the heart and rationality as one, and the path of nature. To cleave to the course of usual conditioning is to be ensconced in the mundane which doesn't know its own beauty. To cleave to the course of usual conditioning is to miss being an "enlightened and empowered immortal being". | <urn:uuid:a49ea6ac-e9b5-4ec5-99b8-1219356f042c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://deeptrancenow.com/exc_taoist_language.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00335-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951151 | 2,079 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Medieval Arabic Thought
- Module Code:
- Unit value:
- Year of study:
- Year 4
- Taught in:
- Full Year
Third-year Arabic or an equivalent level of proficiency in the Arabic language.
Objectives and learning outcomes of the module
By the end of this course, students:
- should be familiar with the history of medieval Arabic philosophy and Kalam
- should have an understanding of key philosophical and theological concepts, problems and debates, and of their broader historical and intellectual contexts
- should be able to read and to understand some types of medieval Arabic philosophical and theological texts both in their original Arabic and in translation
- should have competence in examining, contextualising and interpreting historical materials, and
- should have competence in analysing medieval intellectual notions and modes of reasoning.
This course is taught over 11 weeks with a total of 4 hours classroom contact per week.
Scope and syllabus
Taking a historical, analytical and textual approach, this course will examine two major traditions of medieval Arabic thought, namely philosophy and rational theology (kalam). It will start by providing an overview both of the broader history of these traditions, introducing the main systems of thought, schools, figures and debates, and of the contemporary study thereof. The course will then focus on a selection of representative topics, which are likely to vary from session to session. Most will consist of problems and debates in which both philosophers and kalam exponents engaged, which will provide opportunities to shed light on both their doctrines and their contrasting intellectual systems and methods of enquiry. These may include problems relating to ethics, metaphysics, psychology and human nature, and the philosophy of religion. The student will also become acquainted with the style and language of the classical works of philosophy and kalam by reading representative primary texts in both their original Arabic and English translations.
Method of assessment
One three-hour written examination taken in May/June (50%); one essay of 2,500 - 3,000 words to be submitted on day 1, week 8, term 2 (25%); one essay of 2,500 - 3,000 words to be submitted on day 1, week 1, term 3 (25%).
- Adamson, Peter, and Richard Taylor (eds). The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge, 2005.
- Daiber, Hans. Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy, 2 vols, Leiden, 1999 (plus Supplement).
- Druart, T.-A. ‘Philosophy in Islam’, in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge, 2003, 97-200.
- Fakhry, Majid. Ethical Theories in Islam, Leiden, 1991.
- Hourani, George. Reason and Tradition in Islam, Cambridge, 1985.
- Leaman, Oliver. An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy, Cambridge, 2002.
- Leaman, Oliver (ed). Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy, 2 vols, Bristol, 2006.
- Nasr, Seyyed Hossein and Oliver Leaman (eds). History of Islamic Philosophy, 2 vols, London, 1996.
- Winter, Tim. The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology, Cambridge, 2008.
- Wolfson, H. A. The Philosophy of the Kalam, Cambridge, MA, 1976. | <urn:uuid:847839db-7d9c-458d-be35-9e27402a84ce> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.soas.ac.uk/courseunits/155901377.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00064-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.867347 | 683 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Most warehousing and assembling areas utilize electric or IC-fueled hand pallet trucks in paksitan for a more significant part of their material dealing needs. Be that as it may, there’s one spot where the hand bed truck succeeds: short-level transportation. Beds are all over, and you want a moderately economical answer for how to move them effectively over a brief distance. Whether pivoting stock in a cooler or organizing beds close to a shipping bay, numerous distribution centres and assembling plants administrators face comparable difficulties in regions where hand bed trucks (HPTs) are being used, hand pallet trucks in paksitan.
Sturdiness and unwavering quality mean a lot to these kinds of tasks. You want a truck that will take care of business and hold up in extreme conditions. Unpleasant, crooked, or garbage ridden floors can cause severe harm load wheels if you don’t pick the right gear.
Anyway, what’s the answer to your warehousing and assembling needs? Wheel choice frequently boils down to material: nylon or steel. There are other wheel material choices, yet these two have the strength required for these tasks.
Utilizing an HPT with Nylon Wheels
Nylon wheels are ideal for cold capacity or wet conditions due to having high protection from synthetic substances and colder climates. They’re likewise non-stamping and give a slow-moving obstruction, overburdening your administrators.
Utilizing an HPT with Steel Wheels
Expanded strength makes steel wheels ideal for heavier burdens in modern settings. They additionally offer the most reduced moving opposition. However, they will generally create more commotion than different kinds of wheels. Assuming you need to move such material taking care of burdens, your Toyota forklift vendor can assist you with investigating the steel wheel choice further, hand pallet trucks in paksitan.
Both steel and nylon wheel types are perfect for warehousing and assembling conditions since flotsam and jetsam can’t enter them, implying longer uptime for yourself and your activity.
Keeping your Hand Pallet Truck Up and Running
Hand bed trucks utilized in assembling and warehousing activities will generally go through broad lift/lower cycles after some time. Having an HPT with a pressure-driven siphon that can endure weighty requests is basic. Some producers encase their siphon in steel packaging while others, for example, Toyota, utilize a watertight, cast iron plan. Project iron is a heavier-obligation material that decreases the chance of harm to the gathering while killing exorbitant water-powered spills.
Your lift chamber, valves, and valve pole parts are similarly bare regarding going the distance. While you might have the option to set aside cash by picking a less expensive piece of gear, doing so can eventually set you back additional over the long haul regarding personal time, support cost, and the life expectancy of the hardware.
While there are numerous all-inclusive difficulties looked at by warehousing and assembling plants utilizing hand bed trucks, each office – and, surprisingly, all aspects of every office – has explicit requests. Guaranteeing that you involve the suitable device for the gig can significantly affect you, equipment.
With regards to hand bed trucks, numerous clients don’t know. About every one of the various models and choices that are out there in the present market. Toyota offers low-profile bed jacks that have a brought fork level down to help you get in and out of beds with more limited fork pockets. Toyota’s controlled and mechanized trucks assist with decreasing administrator strain, particularly with heavier burdens that are difficult to get going. Stirred renditions are likewise accessible for more tremendous and destructive sort applications.
Regardless, your particular needs are essential to gauge. Your choices and pick the hardware that will support your activity’s efficiency, effectiveness, and uptime oil filtration solution in pakistan. | <urn:uuid:4016adb3-9d7a-44d5-8dcc-367c231921c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vaca20.com/hand-pallet-trucks-in-paksitan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.922445 | 802 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Prunus yedoensis ‘Akebono’ (daybreak cherry) is a medium sized tree with a stiff, upright-spreading crown, eventually becoming umbrella shaped, flowering in March or April, immediately following the purple-leaf plums in the Vancouver area. Flowers are produced abundantly, shell pink fading to nearly white. This cultivar is a seedling of Prunus yedoensis (Somei-yoshino cherry) that was selected by a California nursery in 1925. ‘Akebono’ is noted for its essentially rainproof flowers (often with an extra petal, as pictured here), tough constitution and freedom from disease. Autumn leaf colour is yellow to pumpkin orange.
This spring has been good for cherry blossoms. Cool and humid conditions tend to promote flower longevity and we’ve had plenty of that. The first cherries to flower in Vancouver are always downtown and in the West End, where pavement and buildings create a significant heat island effect. ‘Akebono’ was in full bloom at the Burrard Street Skytrain Station on the Spring Equinox, nearly two weeks earlier than here at UBC. You could hear the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival organizers heaving a huge sigh of relief at their big opening ceremony, the Cherry Jam, there on the 22nd. (Note from Daniel – we’ve started a Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival discussion forum to discuss the trees and identifications plus share photographs and stories.)
Speaking of good timing, Ohanami, the annual cherry viewing festival held at Nitobe Memorial Garden is happening this Saturday, 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Most of the cherries on display at Nitobe are Somei-yoshino–the cherry made famous through Japanese cherry blossom viewing festivals, as well as the celebration held by the American National Parks Service in Washington, DC. [I think I overheard Dr. Peter Raven, who was visiting Nitobe Garden earlier this week, remark that our ‘Somei-yoshino’ were more impressive than any he’d seen in Washington.] Nitobe and the surrounding area boasts an interesting selection of flowering cherries, including those already mentioned and (also in bloom) ‘Ojochin’ (the rare “lantern” cherry, so named for its plump buds), and ‘Shirotae’, the beautiful Mount Fuji cherry. Later in the season, ‘Pink Perfection’, ‘Kanzan’, ‘Shogetsu’, ‘Shirofugen’ and the wonderfully fragrant ‘Jo-nioi’ will captivate visitors. | <urn:uuid:7596e47c-6eb8-43b2-ba3f-eb032820128f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://botanyphoto.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/2007/04/prunus-yedoensis-akebono/?replytocom=4186 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.948873 | 558 | 2.328125 | 2 |
“When we’re young, we think we’re invincible,” says Georges Benjamin, MD, executive director of the American Public Health Association. “But we’re not.” And increasingly, diseases we commonly associate with people in their 60s and 70s are hitting two, three, or even four decades earlier. Why? Better screening and early detection are part of the picture, but lifestyle factors such as poor diet and the fact that we’re living more sedentary lives are to blame as well.
Here, 7 diseases you can do something about today—to make sure you feel better, longer. | <urn:uuid:f3b93a71-a706-4223-b490-e8b4b6717404> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.prevention.com/health/healthy-living/prevent-disease-simple-steps-stay-healthy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00427-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952409 | 134 | 2.59375 | 3 |
A winding singletrack connecting the western and eastern sections of Franklin Mountains State Park.”
— Brendan Ross
The trails around the Franklin Mountains are often rocky and technical, so users unfamiliar with rough terrain should use caution. Trail shoes with rock plates are strongly recommended.
The trails in the North Franklin Mountains are more remote and isolated than others in the area. Their solitude, combined with the desert sun and a complete lack of shade, make dehydration a potential danger. Make sure to bring plenty of water. A few water caches have been placed by park rangers, but they should never be relied upon.
El Paso is in the desert, so plan around the climate. Summers are regularly in the 90's or above; winters will drop to the 30's and 40's. Lightning storms are frequent in the late afternoons during the warmer months. Winds are frequent and gusts over 50 mph are not unusual. Dust storms in the late spring can be hazardous and reduce visibility to less than a quarter mile. Check the weather before you go, and let someone know where you will be.
Recently constructed by trail enthusiasts, volunteers, and rangers, Northern Pass completed a link to trails on either side of the Franklins and allows for a large loop to be made via Mundy's Gap
The trail begins on the northern segment of the Bike Loops
, where the latter transitions from creekbed to singletrack near a water cache. The initial three-quarters of a mile is on a former dirt road, steadily climbing the northern end of the mountains. A number of softball sized rocks add some technicality to the path.
Just before the road turns north and ends, Northern Pass splits off to the left as singletrack and begins a series of seventeen switchbacks up the mountain. Sierra Vista West
turns off near another water cache on the way up. The climb isn't particularly hard, and it leads to a nice view of the western valley and New Mexico.
At the top, the trail generally heads east, winding along the southern side of Hitt Canyon. There are a number of short uphill and downhill segments. A connection to Sierra Vista Trail
, just before the two and a half mile point, is easy to miss; use the GPS track and look for where the route turns from north to east above a dry creek bed. The trail continues much the same for its remainder, ending at Hitt Canyon Loop
Flora & Fauna
Desert plants tend to bloom in waves in spring and summer after the short periods of rain that El Paso experiences. Ocotillo
tend to turn green and blossom first, followed by barrel and claret cup cacti, and finally flowers and prickly pears.
Animals are mostly limited to jackrabbits, lizards, and small birds. Roadrunners will dart across the trail at times, and hawks circle overhead, looking for prey. Coyotes are hard to spot and tend to only come out after dusk, although they typically leave runners alone.
Keep an eye out for snakes. They avoid the hot desert sun and are more common during the winter months. Most are harmless, but rattlers are a part of the local wildlife. Give them a wide berth, and if they're blocking the trail, tossing a few rocks in their direction tends to be enough incentive for them to leave. | <urn:uuid:d0eec506-439d-4e18-bc24-a377695d8f4a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.trailrunproject.com/trail/7009416/northern-pass | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00298-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946269 | 688 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Main Article Content
Cyber security is one of the most attention seeking issues with the increasing advancement of technology specifically when the network availability is threaten by attacks such as Denial of Service attacks (DoS), Distributed DoS attacks (DDoS), and Economic Denial of Sustainability (EDoS). The loss of the availability and accessibility of cloud services have greater impacts than those in the traditional enterprises networks. This paper introduces a new technique to mitigate the impacts of attacks which is called Enhanced DDoS-Mitigation System (Enhanced DDoS-MS) that helps in overcoming the determined security gap. The proposed technique is evaluated experimentally and the result shows that the proposed method adds lower delays as a result of the enhanced security. The paper also suggests some future directions to improve the proposed framework.
How to Cite
Alosaimi, W., Zak, M., Al-Begain, K., Alroobaea, R., & Masud, M. (2022). Economic Denial of Sustainability Attacks Mitigation in the Cloud. International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security (IJCNIS), 9(3). https://doi.org/10.17762/ijcnis.v9i3.2798 (Original work published December 11, 2017) | <urn:uuid:d0602f45-9c74-4071-ade8-8159b9caa541> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ijcnis.org/index.php/ijcnis/article/view/2798 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.891388 | 274 | 2.5625 | 3 |
- Life in general may not be as sensational as soap opera makes it
- Because we face attacks every day , everywhere
- In our offices, home, churches, schools etc.
- The devil attacks men , women, old and young
My prayer for you and your family
Scriptural guides for the year.
Bible Passage: 1 Chr. 4:9-10
1Ch 4:9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
1Ch 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
One of the greatest things about God is that He continues to work with men despite their limitations and failings.
The question today ? Why do some accomplish so much with their lives & others are not? What is it that makes the difference? Is it. . . .
o Family Background – Having a good family growing up is something to be grateful for, but it’s not the reliable indicator of accomplishment. High percentages of great men have come from broken homes.
o Wealth – Some of the greatest men of accomplishment have come from households of average to below-average means. Wealth is not an accurate indicator of high achievement, and poverty is no guarantee of low achievement.
THIS SEASON YOUR MIRACLES SHALL SILENCE YOUR MOCKERS.
Bible Passage: 2 Kings 7:1-3
1. God promised to end the famine in 24hours
2. The officer questioned the possibility, practicability and feasibility of God's promise
3. God said something that defied logic and that the officer reasoned its impossible
4. "Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be"?
5. The officer literally ridiculed God's promise and subtly suggested that God's promise was a lie!
6. In a subtle way , he suggested that God's promise was impossible! | <urn:uuid:5ca74348-042d-42d4-ac04-0e1d87f9a154> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://christroyalchurch.com/crc-sermons | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.965642 | 460 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The Allentown Diocese on Thursday announced plans to open a recovery high school for students with drug and alcohol addictions.
The school, to be called Kolbe Academy, named after St. Maximilian Kolbe, the patron saint of those with addictions, is scheduled to open in September 2019. The diocese says it will be the first faith-based recovery high school in the United States, where there are 60 secular recovery schools. Eighty-five percent of students who attend recovery schools after treatment maintain their sobriety, the diocese said in a news release.
In 2011, The Bridge Way School for high school students with drug and alcohol addictions opened in Roxborough, moving this year to Northeast Philadelphia.
The Kolbe Academy will be led by a board of directors and principal and supported by the Diocese of Allentown, said Brooke Tesche, the deputy superintendent of education for the diocese during a news conference Friday about the new school.
Some things to know about the new school:
Who is the school for?
High school students inside and outside the diocese who have completed at least 30 days of treatment are eligible to apply for enrollment. Students of all faiths, including no faith, can attend. Tesche said students can be referred by parents, schools or other agencies. She said students and their families will be interviewed and both will need to be committed to recovery.
What about transportation?
Public school districts will have to provide transportation for students in the area, but families who live farther away will have to provide their own transportation. Diocese officials said at least 15 school districts locally will be required to provide bus transportation.
Where is the school located?
The school will be on the diocese’s Hanover Township campus at Mullen Hall, which has a capacity for 90 students.
How many students are expected to attend?
Tesche hopes to have anywhere from 30 to 90 students in the first year.
What’s the need for this type of school?
Tesche said that students with drug and alcohol addiction are often referred to behavioral or emotional support programs that don’t dig into their substance issues, and that many addiction programs in the Lehigh Valley are geared more toward adults.
Tesche said many addicts attribute their success to their faith.
“A key element in recovery is surrender. It’s inviting a higher power into that process,” she said. “We can talk about that in a Catholic recovery high school.”
What will the staff look like?
The school will have a certified principal and state certified teachers. Tesche said there will be elective teachers for music and art therapy, physical education, vocational and technical training, administrative support and counselors who are drug and alcohol certified. The school will also work with the Caron Foundation for family counseling, and with other groups in the Lehigh Valley for individual, group and peer-to-peer support. There will also be a full-time nurse and other administrative support.
How much will Kolbe cost?
Annual tuition will cost between $15,000 and $16,000 per student. That’s slightly higher than other diocesan Catholic high schools, according to the diocese. It’s not uncommon for families to pay that amount for a monthlong treatment course, Tesche said. They’re looking for donations and grants to provide scholarships and aid.
How long will students be enrolled in the program?
Tesche envisions students staying for the entirety of their high school careers. “We believe they need to develop a community, and this is a new way of life,” she said. The school year runs from September to June, with summer programming also offered.
What’s the curriculum like?
Students will need credits in theology, English, math, science, social studies, art or humanities, health and physical education and electives to graduate. They’ll also have access to extracurricular activities, support services and the campus ministry.
What if students relapse?
Students will be drug tested randomly and regularly. They can earn access to privileges such as extended lunch time, homework passes and permission to drive to school, according to a handout from the diocese. Tesche said there will be a code of conduct, but that being a recovery school, she understands relapse may be a possibility. She said the school will work with students and families to ensure that they get the services they need. | <urn:uuid:5a4487e9-291d-4fab-b6dd-717571c7674b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mcall.com/news/education/mc-nws-recovery-high-school-facts-20180907-story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.970225 | 933 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Garden ToolsPosted in Category Garden Tools and Equipment | by Jo | Comments (0)
We all know the saying 'a bad workman always blames his tools', but I guess it's easy to forget the other side of the coin – just how helpful the right tool, for the right job, can be.
It's easy to slip off a shoe to knock in a picture hook rather than rummage around in a tool kit to find the hammer that is lurking somewhere in the bottom.
But fortunately this lackadaisical behaviour doesn't extend to gardening tools.
At least not any more...
The most important thing to look for in a garden tool is suitability for use.
It doesn't matter how shiny and attractive something is, if it doesn't do the job it's designed to do it isn't much use.
As well as being the right tool for the job it's equally important that it is comfortable to use.
This is essential for professional gardeners, for whom a spade, fork or trowel is like a second skin and in constant use, but it is no less important for the domestic gardener, where an uncomfortable tool, used infrequently, can lead to strains and sprains.
And as important as both of these is longevity Apply this thinking to most of the purchases made in life and by and large you end up with good quality kit that lasts a long time, so that even if it costs a little more to begin with you soon get your moneys worth.
A good introduction to the Sneeboer range would be a garden spade and garden fork. The heads of these tools are forged from stainless steel, making them supremely strong but also almost completely impervious to rust, and the ash handles are beautifully tactile, light yet robust – and after a few years of gardening use they develop a lovely smooth patina.
Sneeboer make their tools with long handles, not solely for the benefit of six-foot-two blokes. These longer handles alleviate pressure on the spine and create a lot more digging power in the garden by creating a longer lever to work with. The garden and digging forks are cleverly designed with flattened tines, rather than rounded or square, which help to turn over the soil more effectively.
The Heart-Shaped Trowel is a fabulous bit of kit, with a keen edge that is great for weeding and planting. And being heart shaped it makes a lovely gift for the gardener in your life.
The Hand Rake is great for clearing up in and around plants, and is especially good for raking out diseased leaves from underneath roses, and the Long Handled Half Moon Hoe means you can weed borders with ease without stepping on the soil.
Sneeboer have realised that there are numerous old tool designs that existed for perfectly good reasons; they did the job for which they were designed and did it better than anything else.
The Long Handled Bulb Planter and the Dandelion Spade – are great tools, especially if, you'd rather not use chemicals to keep the dandelions from your lawn.
The Long Handled Fork and Mattock is a firm favourite, combining two hard working tools that are the perfect combination for clearing rough ground and breaking up hard and compacted soil.
Sneeboer tools you have today will last a lifetime of gardening, and that they may well become family heirlooms too – but in the meantime enjoy using them. Providing you can stop your gardening friends borrowing them! | <urn:uuid:66226b2e-b12b-447a-8d31-c868811302b3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.harrodhorticultural.com/garden-tools-pgid333.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00171-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960722 | 732 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Bay berry is an aromatic tree growing unto 10 metres high. The leaves of the tree are 7.5 cms long, pale to rust coloured and alternate. The tree has hairy stalks with minute flowers growing solitary or on a common drooping stalk. It has wrinkled seeds. The herb contains tannins, triterpencee (including myricadiol),flavonoid glycosides, resin and gum. '
The bark of the tree is aromatic, stimulant, tonic and resolvent. It is useful in arresting secretion or bleeding and in expelling wind from the stomach. It is also an antiseptic, Myricitrin in bay berry is bactericidal and encourages the flow of bile. Another constituent of the herb, myricadiol is reported to cause retention of salt and excretion of potassium.
Bay berry is a valuable remedy in fevers and colds. Aha decoction of the herb can be taken in the treatment of feaver, catarrh of the mucous membranes, affections of the chest and typhoid. The powdered bark can be used as a snuff for congested nasal passages, which are relieved by sneezing. The decoction also makes a good gargle for throat infections.
Bay berry is also used to treat inflammation and infectious of the gastro-intestinal tract.
The herb taken internally can be used to treat post-partum haemorrhage. It can also be used as a douche for excessive menstrual bleeding and leucorrhoea, or white discharge.
Bay berry is highly beneficial in treating respiratory disorders like asthma and chronic bronchitis. Its bark may taken either in a decoction or powdered form, as in the case of fevers .and colds.
A paste of the bark made with vinegar can be used for strengthening gums and relieving toothache.
A compress of the herb can be used for dressing wounds and ulcers. The powder of its bark can be dusted over putrid sores.
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The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI), an industry leader and authority in the pressed concrete industry, has held a Silica Vendor Workshop for road and yard dust control solutions. Midwest joins the ranks of 153 suppliers that attended the PCI event centered around servicing and improving all aspects of the construction process.
Founded in 1954, PCI is the nation’s preeminent technical institute for the precast concrete structures industry. Over the years, the institute has compiled a robust set of resources and best practices regarding the design, fabrication, and construction of concrete structures, making it available to all sectors of the precast concrete industry. Through years of developing this body of knowledge, PCI has set many of today’s prevailing industry standards.
Maintaining OSHA Crystalline Silica Rule Compliance
Precast concrete describes the end product when concrete is cast into a mold, transported, and then put in place. While precast concrete is known to be a durable, cost-effective, and versatile construction material, complications usually arise during the construction process -- specifically, workplace silica exposure.
Near construction sites, dust is never just dust: the material offset in construction often contains microscopic yet potentially harmful substances such as crystalline silica. When workers drill, cut, or grind objects that contain said substance, they release respirable-sized particles into the atmosphere in the form of silica construction dust. Surprisingly, road and yard dust is a significant contributor to silica exposure as well.
These silica particles are classified as a human lung carcinogen, meaning they can have a potentially negative impact on worker health. This, in combination with the fact that OSHA recently reduced its limits on respirable silica in the workplace, means that dust control is only getting more important for companies hoping to avoid stiff regulatory fines. Additionally, dust on construction sites can lead to air and water pollution.
The PCI’s Silica Vendor Workshop and Midwest attending for silica road and yard dust means that two longstanding authorities in the construction industry have teamed up to provide the resources, techniques, and expertise needed to ensure worker protection from silica as well as safe and efficient construction sites around the world.
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The crude oil traders produce an excellent commodity that can profit in the market with the appropriate condition. The unique features of oil trading are estimated as the outstanding involved economy and another system. The energy sector has short-term volatility, and the strong trend provides consistency in short-term swing and timing strategies. The developers can excellently achieve participation with full advantages in the fluctuating market. The determination of unique characteristics and the Hidden pitfalls make excellent earnings. The largest crude oil economy focuses on the financial instruments that constitute security and produce results. Bitcoin is working on the level where demanding digital money can unite the oil companies with the traders. Go https://oil-profits.com/ for more information regarding Oil trading.
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Interaction Of Bitcoin With Crude Oil
Digital currency is a rising element for society that has made the significant commodities of the market entry into the United States business. Bitcoin has eventually had indirect impacts on the other investments. The physical commodities exchanged on the online platforms are available due to cryptocurrency that virtually enables them.
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The objective of digital money is to serve any commodity with the respected elements that make it revolutionary.
The Serving Advantages Of Bitcoin For The Oil Industry
Bitcoin diversity is a very common phenomenon in the medium of exchange. The registered investor gets the idea about the decentralized system, and it becomes easier for him to eliminate the control of the centralized economy. More observation of cryptocurrency in promising results and conduction of exchange have relatively improved the outputs. Bitcoin’s designation as a savior for oil trading is due to the payment system that initiates the principles and advantages.
Numerous investors want to digitize funds for oil trading, but due to a lack of control over centralized money, they cannot use it virtually. The central money can quickly bridge the gap between the trading and efficiently eliminate the users from the platform. It is hard for a growing sector to witness the loss of investors due to discouraging policies of physical money. But through Bitcoin, the advantage of remote control with privacy is perpetually served. Oil trading automatically becomes influential and powerful to serve the services in the economy. Around two-thirds of global Finance in natural resources is taken over by oil. The petroleum sector is making billions that initiate the accommodation of privacy and unknown characteristics.
The behavior of protection will enable more people to buy the oil and proceed with the payment. Moreover, it will digitalize the system and give backbreaking work to the blockchain.
The online transaction requests information about the identity of the respected user conducting the online payment. The digital website cannot initiate the money without the person’s identification proof and verified balance. Similarly, if a person purchases the oil through the trading system, they require investing their financial status and personal identity in providing the physical money. Some investors do not want to involve the government in their transaction and firmly want to take charge of the service available in oil trading. The circumstances are economically challenging to handle the centralized money.
The only way to overcome the difficulties is by selecting Bitcoin with Pseudonymous transaction facilities. It happily connects the people without making them run away from oil trading. The currency impressively provides multiple addresses and gives a single account without additional information. Moreover, Bitcoin does not require proof of internet protocols for the address to conduct the oil trading payment. | <urn:uuid:f51c9341-697b-46e3-946b-a9bbd19fc7b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.inventiva.co.in/finance-3/the-construction-of-bitcoin-bridge-for-oil-traders/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.940998 | 821 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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Shortly after a Minnesota jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd on April 20, former President Barack Obama shared a powerful statement. “Today, a jury did the right thing. But true justice requires much more,” Obama tweeted. “Michelle and I send our prayers to the Floyd family, and we stand with all those who are committed to guaranteeing every American the full measure of justice that George and so many others have been denied.”
In a longer statement, Obama reflected on how the murder of Floyd has “reverberated around the world” this past year, “but a more basic question has always remained: would justice be done?” He then went on to reiterate a powerful point many others have been making following the verdict: Chauvin’s conviction is a step forward but not justice.
“In this case, at least, we have our answer,” Obama wrote. “But if we’re being honest with ourselves, we know that true justice is about much more than a single verdict in a single trial.”
“True justice requires that we come to terms with the fact that Black Americans are treated differently, every day. It requires us to recognize that millions of our friends, family, and fellow citizens live in fear that their next encounter with law enforcement could be their last.”
He then urged for more reform in the criminal justice system, writing: “We will need to follow through with the concrete reforms that will reduce and ultimately eliminate racial bias in our criminal justice system. We will need to redouble efforts to expand economic opportunity for those communities that have been too long marginalized.”
Obama ended his message by thanking the “millions of people — especially young people — who have marched and protested and spoken up over the last year, shining a light on inequity and calling for change.” He added, “Justice is closer today not simply because of this verdict, but because of their work.” Read his powerful statement in full below.
Today, a jury did the right thing. But true justice requires much more. Michelle and I send our prayers to the Floyd family, and we stand with all those who are committed to guaranteeing every American the full measure of justice that George and so many others have been denied. pic.twitter.com/mihZQHqACV
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 20, 2021
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Flight expected to reduce emissions 40 per cent thanks to recycled cooking oil blend
Montreal—In a bid to showcase its commitment to the environment, Air Canada announced the operation of its first ever biofuel-powered flight.
Using a jet fuel derived from recycled cooking oil, flight AC991 from Toronto to Mexico City is expected to generate more than 40 per cent fewer emissions, according to the airline.
The flight will be a normal revenue flight operated with an Airbus A319 aircraft using a 50/50 blend of regular and biofuel.
Produced by SkyNRG, the blend has been recertified to normal jet fuel standards and can be used without modifying the aircraft’s systems, according to Air Canada.
In association with aircraft manufacturer Airbus, the flight is part of an environmental demonstration by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) planned to coincide with the Rio +20 United Nations conference on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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John Ball (1585 - 1640)
John Ball (October 1585 - 1640) was an English puritan divine, born in Cassington, Oxfordshire. After taking his BA degree from St Mary's Hall, Oxford, in 1608, he went into Cheshire to act as tutor to the children of Lady Cholmondeley. He adopted Puritan views, and after being ordained without subscription, was appointed to the small curacy of Whitmore in Staffordshire. He was soon deprived by John Bridgeman, the high church bishop of Chester, who put him to much suffering. He became a schoolmaster and earned a wide and high reputation for his scholarship and piety. He died on the 20th of October 1640. The most popular of his numerous works was A Short Catechisme, containing all the Principal Grounds of Religion (14 editions before 1632). His Treatise of Faith (1632), and Friendly Trial of the Grounds tending to Separation (1640), the latter of which defines his position with regard to the church, are also valuable. Ball, John Ball, John -- material from the Wikipedia article "john-ball-puritan".
"A man may see without light or color, or hear without ear or sound, as possibly as believe without the Word of God." -
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If you notice creamy or chalky white spots on your teeth, you might feel unhappy about their impact on the way your smile appears. But these stains could point to a health concern as well as an aesthetic disruption.
Do not hesitate to let your dentist know about this issue. You could protect your dental structure as well as your smile’s appearance with prompt treatment from your dentist. Read on to learn more about these strange white spots on your teeth and how they impact your oral health.
What Causes White Tooth Discoloration?
White spots on your teeth can be a sign of calcium loss in the tooth enamel, the outer layer of the tooth. Dentists refer to this issue as hypocalcification. Since calcium is a major component of enamel, its deterioration signifies a weakening of the tooth.
The discoloration indicates a thin portion of the enamel. This means that the spot is vulnerable, and plaque and bacteria can more easily penetrate and harm the tooth. You could suffer a greater risk of cavities and oral infections.
You cannot resolve this issue on your own, nor can you get rid of the white spots with your usual oral hygiene routine. Talk to your dentist if you notice this symptom so that you can receive treatment before further harm can come to your smile.
How Can My Dentist Treat Hypocalcification?
If you have hypocalcification, your dentist will want to restrengthen your teeth to address the issue. Once lost, enamel cannot grow back. But your dentist can fortify the remaining enamel through fluoride treatment.
Fluoride is a natural substance that absorbs into the enamel and makes it stronger. Your dentist can apply a treatment in their office. They may also suggest using mouthwash or toothpaste that contains fluoride as well for extra protection.
This may restore strength in the enamel, but you may need cosmetic dental work to get rid of the discoloration on your teeth. Your dentist can use dental bonding, a composite resin applied to the teeth, to even out your tooth color.
Can I Prevent Calcium Loss in Tooth Enamel?
In some instances, calcium depletion in the tooth enamel occurs due to an underlying medical condition. Your dentist can come up with a unique preventative treatment plan in this case.
However, calcium loss in the teeth can also happen when you consume acidic or sugary foods and drinks. These food items can eat away at the tooth enamel and cause this type of dental damage. You can limit these items in your diet to preserve the structure of your enamel.
Practicing good oral hygiene will also get rid of plaque and lingering food particles that could erode your smile as well. Make sure you brush your teeth at least twice a day and floss daily to remove plaque in a timely manner and keep your smile healthy and clean. Visiting your dentist for routine teeth cleanings is another important part of oral hygiene and preventative dentistry. | <urn:uuid:295ddea3-1926-4f80-9e91-3dac49aa9e64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cosmeticdentistphiladelphia.com/2022/07/26/got-white-spots-on-your-smile/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.939473 | 606 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Expert Reveals Top Secret Venetian Glassblowing Techniques from the Renaissance
Throughout history, some artists, craftsmen and chefs have carefully protected and concealed knowledge about their processes or recipes. One such art was glass-blowing in Venice, where the process was a closely protected state secret for years.
Glassblower and researcher William Gudenrath, of the Corning Museum of Glass in New York State, has researched and investigated Venetian glassmaking for many years and has an extensive website where he reveals, for no charge, the techniques and history of the craft through many articles, videos, and photos.
“The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking [website] is an investigation of the probable working practices of some of the most skilled artisans of all time: the glassblowers of Renaissance Venice. To my knowledge, this topic has never before been explored in a thorough and systematic way,” Mr. Gudenrath wrote at the site.
He said he wants to disseminate knowledge of and appreciation for glass objects made on the island of Murano in Venice from around 1500 to 1700, what he calls the golden age of Venetian glass. “Venetian glasshouses enjoyed a pan-European monopoly in supplying luxury glass to royalty, aristocracy, and other wealthy and powerful individuals,” he wrote.
William Gudenrath blows a small cup with two handles in this video.
Some of the videos at the site show early glassblowing techniques he reconstructed, from around 50 BC through the Middle Ages.
While today glassblowers use proper lighting, methane furnaces, electric kilns and good ventilation, years ago they used wood-fired furnaces, metal blow-pipes and tongs to fashion their wares. Metal blow-pipes and tongs are still in use, as you can see in the many videos of Mr. Gudenrath demonstrating various techniques at his Web pages at the Corning Museum of Glass website.
Mr. Gudenrath narrates more than 40 demonstration videos on the website. He shows how to make 25 key objects’ in The Corning Museum of Glass collection and adds 10 additional techniques.
“With no detailed contemporaneous descriptions of the maestros’ working methods, the objects alone must tell the story of how they were made,” he says in a press release at the museum’s website.
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Mr. Gudenrath is, of course, a glassblower and a scholar, lecturer, teacher, and resident advisor at the museum’s studio. “He has devoted decades to the careful study of historical glassworking methods, with a strong emphasis on Venetian glass objects of the 16th-18th centuries, spending countless hours at his own glassblowing furnace attempting to recreate telling features noted in original objects,” the press release states.
Dragon-Stem Goblet, Venice, Italy, 1630-1670. (Photo courtesy of the Corning Museum of Glass )
Venetian glassblowing techniques are among the most difficult to master. Some glass artists study Venetian glassblowing to refine their skills “even if their work bears no relation to Venetian glass of any period,” the press release states. “Not well known, however, is how Venetian objects of the Renaissance were made, as the Venetian government carefully kept secret the processes behind the technically-confounding glass coming out of Murano.”
Mr. Gudenrath’s series sheds light on the secret processes.
Ancient Origins explored the ancient history of glassmaking in this article . It stated that the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder attributed the discovery of glass to the Phoenicians, but archaeologists have suggested that glass was first produced either by the ancient Mesopotamians or the ancient Egyptians. The oldest man-made glass objects, for instance, were mainly non-transparent glass beads, found both in Egypt and Mesopotamia.
These objects are dated back to around the middle of the 4th millennium BC. During the 3rd millennium BC, glass was used in Mesopotamia to produce glazes on pots and vases. Like the Phoenicians in Pliny’s account, this discovery is believed to have been made by chance. It has been suggested that calciferous sand managed to find its way into an overheated kiln, combined with soda, and formed a colored glaze on the ceramic vessels.
Egyptian vases with the name of Ramesses II. ( Public Domain )
The earliest known glass factory, however, was not discovered in Mesopotamia, but in Egypt. This factory, which has been dated to the middle of the 13th century BC, was discovered at Qantir, in the Eastern Nile Delta. During the 13th century BC, this was the city of Piramesses, the capital of Ramesses II. It was at this site that glass-making equipment and material were identified.
While these civilizations’ glassmaking techniques are very ancient, Mr. Gudenrath explores inflating very hot glass, a process that does not go back as far in history, to 50 to 40 BC in Palestine. The earliest known inflated glass objects were discovered in 1971 in glass refuse from a workshop in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem.
“These finds still stand as the earliest reasonably closely datable evidence of glassblowing,” the website states .
Featured image: This piece of glass, a footed bowl, was blown about 1500 in Venice and enameled in the late 19th century in France. Source: Corning Museum of Glass
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By Abigail Loop
World Hunger Relief Inc. is bringing a day filled with music, local vendors and farm-fresh food to the Waco community.
The free event, called Farm Day, will last from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the World Hunger Relief farm, located at 356 Spring Lake Road in Waco.
World Hunger Relief Inc. is an organization whose main purpose is to alleviate hunger around the world. It does this by training individuals in the art of agriculture to better improve the lives of others and also work with communities in El Salvador, Haiti and Liberia.
Waco junior Vanessa Baum, who works at World Hunger Relief Inc., said the purpose of the Farm Day is to inform the community about what World Hunger Relief is about.
“I think the best thing about this day is just raising awareness for our mission and our farm,” Baum said. “A lot of people don’t know about us. I urge Baylor students to come and see what we’re about and have a great experience.”
There will be many local and state vendors at Farm Day selling plants, food, ceramics, jewelry, and other crafts. Live music will be performed by local and student artists.
“There will be a lot of things to do for the family,” Baum said. “We will also have a petting zoo, a story time that will tell the history of World Hunger Relief Inc. and farm tours will also be available as well.”
Rebecca Mann, office manager at World Hunger Relief Inc., said that attendees will also be treated to a farm-fresh lunch.
“The lunch is going to come from our farm and we’re also getting some food from Baylor Campus Kitchens, who will be donating some food and vegetables,” Mann said. “Lunch is the only thing that is not free. It will be eight dollars for adults and four dollars for children.”
World Hunger Relief Inc. was started in 1976 and has had many Farm Days. Farm Day takes place twice a year, once in the fall and once in the spring. Matt Heff, executive director of World Hunger Relief, said the organization is expecting a large crowd this year.
“This is just a fun time to hang out and see what we do and learn about our food system,” said Heff. “We usually get around 1,000 people and so it’s looking great again; we have even more vendors.”
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Labor refers to the workers involved in production. Land pertains to all natural physical resources, including all raw materials used in the manufacture of goods and services. Capital increases the productivity of human input. Entrepreneurship oversees the entire operation.
In economics, the four resource inputs are essential to the production of goods and services to sustain the unlimited wants and needs of humans. As demand increases, these finite resources become dangerously depleted. To avert future drastic repercussions, the process of decoupling or increasing the efficiency of these resources is now being considered.Learn more about Economics | <urn:uuid:998b0cbe-0eb8-4343-ac82-9b443df3e439> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/world-view/four-types-economic-resources-5580d686e9bf8eaf | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00548-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915986 | 113 | 3.328125 | 3 |
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GIT – This section of the Ubuntu Server Guide introduces a powerful collection of tools for the remote control of networked computers and transfer of data between networked computers, called OpenSSH.
You will also learn about some of the configuration settings possible with the OpenSSH server application and how to change them on your Ubuntu system.
OpenSSH is a freely available version of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol family of tools for remotely controlling a computer or transferring files between computers. Traditional tools used to accomplish these functions, such as telnet or rcp, are insecure and transmit the user’s password in cleartext when used. OpenSSH provides a server daemon and client tools to facilitate secure, encrypted remote control and file transfer operations, effectively replacing the legacy tools.
The OpenSSH server component, sshd, listens continuously for client connections from any of the client tools. When a connection request occurs, sshd sets up the correct connection depending on the type of client tool connecting. For example, if the remote computer is connecting with the ssh client application, the OpenSSH server sets up a remote control session after authentication. If a remote user connects to an OpenSSH server with scp, the OpenSSH server daemon initiates a secure copy of files between the server and client after authentication. OpenSSH can use many authentication methods, including plain password, public key, and Kerberos tickets.
sudo apt-get install openssh-client
To install the OpenSSH server application, and related support files, use this command at a terminal prompt:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
The openssh-server package can also be selected to install during the Server Edition installation process.
You may configure the default behavior of the OpenSSH server application, sshd, by editing the file
/etc/ssh/sshd_config. For information about the configuration directives used in this file, you may view the appropriate manual page with the following command, issued at a terminal prompt:
There are many directives in the sshd configuration file controlling such things as communication settings and authentication modes. The following are examples of configuration directives that can be changed by editing the
|Prior to editing the configuration file, you should make a copy of the original file and protect it from writing so you will have the original settings as a reference and to reuse as necessary.Copy the
sudo cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config.original sudo chmod a-w /etc/ssh/sshd_config.original
The following are examples of configuration directives you may change:
- To set your OpenSSH to listen on TCP port 2222 instead of the default TCP port 22, change the Port directive as such:Port 2222
- To have sshd allow public key-based login credentials, simply add or modify the line:PubkeyAuthentication yesIn the
/etc/ssh/sshd_configfile, or if already present, ensure the line is not commented out.
- To make your OpenSSH server display the contents of the
/etc/issue.netfile as a pre-login banner, simply add or modify the line:Banner /etc/issue.netIn the
After making changes to the
/etc/ssh/sshd_config file, save the file, and restart the sshd server application to effect the changes using the following command at a terminal prompt:
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
|Many other configuration directives for sshd are available for changing the server application’s behavior to fit your needs. Be advised, however, if your only method of access to a server is ssh, and you make a mistake in configuring sshd via the
SSH keys allow authentication between two hosts without the need of a password. SSH key authentication uses two keys aprivate key and a public key.
To generate the keys, from a terminal prompt enter:
ssh-keygen -t dsa
This will generate the keys using a DSA authentication identity of the user. During the process you will be prompted for a password. Simply hit Enter when prompted to create the key.
By default the public key is saved in the file
~/.ssh/id_dsa is the private key. Now copy the
id_dsa.pub file to the remote host and append it to
~/.ssh/authorized_keys by entering:
Finally, double check the permissions on the
authorized_keys file, only the authenticated user should have read and write permissions. If the permissions are not correct change them by:
chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
You should now be able to SSH to the host without being prompted for a password.
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What Is Required for RFID-based Race-Timing?
How can I use RFID to track the number of laps completed in a race involving multiple bicycles, and have the data shown live on a digital scoreboard?
First, you will need to purchase passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) transponders. You could use a tag designed to work on metal, but I would recommend choosing one that hangs from the top tube, such as Metalcraft's RFID Hang Tag. These can have numbers printed on them and be reused, but you will need to associate each tag ID with a specific rider.
You will then need to set up a passive UHF reader with antennas on either side of the track. You'll need to perform some testing to ensure that the tags can be read consistently. The readers will capture each tag's ID number, along with the time at which the tag was read. This data can be sent to a database or software application in XML format. Next, you will need to develop an application, if one doesn't already exist, to transmit the information to the digital scoreboard. This should be fairly straightforward. You could also display the information on a website, so that friends and family members could log in and see how a rider is doing. This is what the Boston Marathon does with runners.
—Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Millions are expected to start travelling home Monday after the Christmas holiday during what is expected to be a record-breaking year-end travel period.
AAA expects more than 103 million Americans will travel for the year-end holidays in 2016, setting a new record.
In Virginia, more than 3 million people are expected to travel, marking a 2.3% increase over the same period of time last year. Most Virginians are expected to travel by car this year, partly due to low gas prices.
The year-end travel period this year started on Friday, December 23 and lasts until Monday, January 2, 2017.
Monday, December 26th is expected to be a busy travel day, since Christmas fell on a Sunday, many companies recognize Monday as the holiday, giving workers time to travel home.
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Studying in a regional area is a fantastic opportunity for international students to experience Australia beyond busy major cities. But with coronavirus lockdowns restricting movement and impacting work and study options, you may be left feeling isolated and insecure.
We’ve put together a guide to the various resources available to anyone studying in a regional area and in need of support through this challenging time. For more information on national initiatives and state relief funds, click here. Students in capital cities can also click here to find out about emergency food relief initiatives.
If you’re in a regional area, check out some of the resources and initiatives available to you.
New South Wales
For international students studying throughout New South Wales, the NSW Government will be accepting applications for financial assistance in the coming weeks. The assistance will focus on students stranded in Australia due to COVID-19 and will include accommodation support, a 24/7 hotline for free advice on legal, medical, and mental health issues, and free subscriptions to multilingual student app, “My Legal Mate”.
The University of Newcastle has opened the COVID-19 Student Hardship Fund, which offers two types of financial relief to students. Find out more here.
The University of Newcastle and health insurer nib also recently partnered to supply 700 Health and Hygiene Packages, consisting of essential health items. These included hand sanitiser, hand wash, toothbrushes and toothpaste, multivitamins, feminine hygiene products and razors for men. The initiative also provides access to mental health resources, an essential aspect of supporting international students through this challenging time.
The University of Wollongong is offering a living expense grant of up to $1,500 for international students experiencing hardship.
The Little Pantry runs a food bank program every Thursday. There are a range of food packages available at very affordable prices, and fruit, vegetables and bread are included for free as an addition to your order. Click here for more information.
At TAFE NSW Bathurst, you can access a range of support services. Click here to find out more.
Not-for-profit organisation, Adra Community Food Pantry, is a great place to visit if you need food relief. Visit the Facebook page for details.
Wodonga Local Food Network has a comprehensive list of food relief options in the Albury-Wodonga region.
Wodonga TAFE provides free counselling to all of its students. Find out how to make an appointment here.
Southern Cross University has put together a guide to where you can seek support on a range of issues, including food relief, accommodation, crisis support and more. Click here for more information.
The Queensland Government is providing one-off grants of $500 to eligible international students who are studying at educational institutions that are not universities or TAFE Queensland. Find out more here.
The Gold Coast Student Hub is providing weekly food relief of grocery packs and frozen meals to international students through to July. Students are encouraged to book an appointment with the organisation’s counselling service for further information on local initiatives and tailored support through personal circumstances.
Study Gold Coast is another valuable resource for international students. The organisation offers one-on-one counselling sessions for those looking for personalised advice and mental health services, and can direct students to available support networks. These networks include tenancy support and food banks operating in the Gold Coast area.
Griffith University’s COVID-19 Student Support Bursary is available to students who have experienced significant financial hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic. The University is also running a program where students can loan computers for free.
Study Cairns is supporting international students by providing nutritious meals (available daily at the Cairns Student Hub and via drop-off for students at James Cook University and the Northern Beaches area) and setting up an initiative that connects international students with locals so they can practise their English.
James Cook University has put together a Student Success Support Package, which incorporates relief options across a range of areas including financial aid, academic support, and health and wellbeing. Find out more here.
International students studying at CQUniversity should contact firstname.lastname@example.org for information on food relief, learning resources and other types of support.
Applications for the University of Southern Queensland’s COVID-19 Student Financial Assistance Scheme are open until 7 July. Through the Scheme, you may be able to access payments to cover living expenses and provision of learning resources and technology.
USC is also offering a number of other support programs, including free online counselling, free online career counselling and academic assistance.
For international students studying throughout Victoria, applications are currently open for the International Student Emergency Relief Fund. The Victorian Government’s $45 million initiative aims to support international students who have suffered job and income loss due to COVID-19, and will be delivered in two streams based on your education provider. Information on eligibility for the fund can be found at studymelbourne.vic.gov.au.
Students studying at La Trobe University’s Bendigo campus or at Bendigo TAFE can access a number of food relief initiatives. Click here to find an extensive list.
La Trobe University is also providing a number of wellbeing and learning support services. You can find out more on the La Trobe University website.
If you need mental health support, Bendigo TAFE provides free counselling to all of its students. Find out the contact details here.
The City of Ballarat is offering emergency food and personal care packages. You can find out more here.
Federation University also has a number of support options, which you can read about on their website.
For more information on support in the Ballarat community, including “Boredom Busters” and help for job seekers, click here.
If you’re looking for food relief in Geelong, Feed Geelong has put together an extensive list of places offering emergency food. View the list here.
Deakin University has launched a financial support scheme, which is available to its international students. Click here for more information and to apply.
Students studying at The Gordon TAFE can access free counselling, currently being conducted via email, phone and video. The counselling covers advice on managing financial hardship, too. Find more information here. The Gordon TAFE is also offering free career counselling to help with job applications, resumes, interview skills and more.
The South Australian Government is committed to supporting international students, including those studying in regional areas such as Mount Gambier. The $13.8 million International Student Support Package offered by the state government is intended for students enrolled in the state’s three public universities, University of Adelaide, Flinders University and the University of South Australia, plus a $500 emergency cash grant and $200 one-off payment for other international students who have been impacted by COVID-19.
The University of South Australia is supporting regional students through a Student Hardship Fund, specialised support contacts in regional study areas and technology loans for students studying remotely.
For students studying in other parts of South Australia, Flinders University and the University of Adelaide are offering respective support packages for all students, including cash payments, food relief through Foodbank, and IT support.
StudyPerth has set up StudyPerth Crisis Relief to cover four key aspects of COVID-19 support: food, shelter, rights and support, and health and wellbeing. The organisation encourages students to reach out for advice and further information, and to refer to their institutions’ support options before applying for StudyPerth Crisis Relief.
Visit the StudyPerth website for more information on support systems for students studying in WA, including food assistance, shelter assistance and a list of current job openings.
Curtin University, with campuses across Perth and Kalgoorlie, is offering international students access to a Financial and Housing Support Bursary (applications are open until 5 June) and emergency food relief.
Students studying at TAFE WA South Regional can access a range of services, including mental health and study skills support. Find out more here.
Edith Cowan University is supporting students through technology assistance, career support and access to ECU Support Grants. You can also learn more about the University’s support services by visiting the ECU website.
Last month, the Tasmanian Government unveiled a $3 million package to support around 26,000 temporary visa holders, including student visa holders. Pandemic Isolation Assistance Grants are available to students who can demonstrate financial hardship. More details can be found here.
City Mission has a range of support services on offer, including basic food packages and emergency relief, for students in Burnie and Launceston. Click here to learn more.
Students studying at any of TasTAFE’s regional locations may be able to provide online counselling, as well as other kinds of support. Find out more here.
The Find Help Tas website is also a fantastic resource detailing all of the support services on offer in the state.
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WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden says there’s no time to lose in bringing about a peaceful resolution to a standoff between Ukraine’s government and protesters.
Biden called Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Monday. It’s the second time Biden has spoken to Yanukovych in less than a week.
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The White House said Biden offered U.S. support for negotiations to end the standoff. The call comes as Yanukovych is agreeing to scrap harsh anti-protest laws that set off clashes.
Biden warned Yanukovych against harsh security measures like declaring a state of emergency that he said would further inflame the situation. He called for Ukraine to pull back riot police and to respond to the Ukrainian people’s grievances.
The White House has previously threatened sanctions on Ukraine if the use of violence continues.
Earlier Monday, Ukraine’s beleaguered president agreed to scrap harsh anti-protest laws that set off a wave of clashes between protesters and police over the past week, a potentially substantial concession to the opposition that stopped short of meeting all of its demands.
In a possibly major sticking point, a proposed amnesty for arrested protesters would not be offered unless demonstrators stopped occupying buildings and ended their round-the-clock protests and tent camp on Kiev’s central Independence Square, according to a statement by Justice Minister Elena Lukash on the presidential website.
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Recently we encountered a website that worked as usual, yet when composing and running scraping script/agent it has put up blocking measures.
In this post we’ll take a look at how the scraping process went and the measures we performed to overcome that.
A scraping agent
At first we composed the scraping agent with JAVA using JSoup library. At the test phase the agent worked fine to reach both category and product pages.
The firewall blockage
Then when we added all other necessary selectors for parsing information to the agent and ran it, a firewall stopped the scraping process, namely the agent got no more than 17 product pages. We couldn’t access the site at all. The return page was as follows:
I took a look at the GoDaddy Firewall service. The advanced firewall plan included the following (I’ve bolded the aspects pertaining to the web scraping):
- Firewall prevents hackers.
- DDoS protection, and Content Deliver Network (CDN) speed boost.
- SSL certificate included in firewall.
- Protects one website.
- Malware scanning.
- Unlimited site cleanups
No details are given of what particularly the firewall performs. As we’ve searched for CDN hints in the website code, we’ve found none of those.
VPN & Browser Automation
We turned to the VPN usage when the site access was restored. The free VPN account has provided only a limited access to the target site. 🙁
Additionally we have switched from mere HTTP GET requests (by JSoup) to the browser automation.
We reached a full site access with the scrape agent by using a paid VPN plan (shuffling servers several times) and having a delay of 1.5 seconds.
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For the amount of time I spend on my phone when I’m on the toilet, I definitely don’t clean my phone often enough.
A recent study found that our phones have 10 times more bacteria than a toilet seat.
About once a month, I take my phone’s protective case off, wipe it all down with anti-bacterial wipes, let it dry and put it all back together again.
Another new study found I’m in the majority when it comes to cleaning my phone.
Only 8% of people never clean their phones, and 14% say they do it less than once a month.
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You can stay healthier by preventing disease before it starts. With the right preventive care, health problems can often be found sooner, managed better and treated before they develop into more complicated, chronic illness.
Make preventive care a priority: schedule an annual exam and preventive health screenings for you and your family.
You can go over these recommendations with your doctor to help plan your preventive care for this year.
The guidelines provide information about:
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- Immunizations that adults and children should have and at what ages
- Special health guidelines for women and men
- Other tips to help you lay the groundwork for a healthy year
By following your doctor’s advice and making good choices, you can get your health off to a good start this year.
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You may even wish to have young ones or begin a company. It may be annoying if you see relatives and buddies are flying ahead while you’re feeling left and stuck behind.
To go forward, you’ve probably tried taking out fully a mortgage, unsecured loan or requested a unique charge card, however you simply keep getting knocked right right straight back.
If you are wondering why life appears to be pulling away, it can be a credit rating that is bad.
Why you’ve got a credit rating that is bad
If you’ve got a negative credit history, it is most likely which you’ve got way too many overdue debts. These overdue debts are recorded as ‘payment defaults’ on your own credit file.
Before creditors provide you cash or offer you a credit that is new, they double-check your credit report first. That is to ensure that you will pay straight right right back your debts.
If you have over and over over repeatedly missed:
Charge card re re payments
Unsecured loan payments
Then defaults is likely to be recorded in your credit file, as well as your credit score shall be bad.
Re Payment defaults show up on your credit file when debts went overdue by 60 times. You’ll likewise have gotten numerous written reminders to too pay these debts.
Creditors interpret a whole lot of defaults and a credit that is bad as indicators you’re poor at handling cash and unreliable.
This prevents creditors from lending you money.
There is no need certainly to feel embarrassed about bad credit
You can find a complete lot of typical explanations why you are struggling to pay your financial situation. These reasons might not fundamentally be payday loans TN money that is poor, overspending or overborrowing.
Often life that is intense happen unexpectedly, and also you can’t get a handle on them.
There’s no need certainly to feel ashamed or embarrassed.
You may have:
Fallen ill or been injured
Lost your task without warning
Gone through a relationship breakdown
Most of you can be put by these situations in an area where it is impractical to pay bills on time. Because of this, your credit history could possibly be covered in ugly defaults, that are now creditors that are stopping lending you money. We comprehend it’s maybe maybe maybe not fair, and we’re here to simply help.
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The reality about bad credit and credit fix
If you’re on the go to just just take a loan out, right here’s the reality about repairing a negative credit history: there are not any shortcuts to restoring bad credit.
The way that is only fix your credit file is to find finances in order and that means you don’t autumn behind in your instalments again.
Any default remains in your credit file for 5 years. Paying down your financial situation suggest the status associated with the financial obligation is updated to ‘paid’. However the defaults still loaf around in the credit rating.
We could assist you to fix a bad credit rating
We should assist you to create a credit that is good through on-time payments, so you can fix your bad credit history.
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In Kindergarten, we begin the exciting adventure of learning Bible verses! Memorizing Scripture plays a very important role in our faith journey, as we are able to recall these verses at different times in our life.
Every month, we will be memorizing a new Bible memory verse at school. It would be helpful if you are able to practice the verse at home, as each child will have the opportunity at the end of the month to recite it to me by themselves.
May Bible Memory:
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Text to Read: Jonah 2:1-7
Let’s just start from the obvious statement. Obeying God isn’t easy.
Trying to follow every commandment, every parable. It’s difficult to try to implement into your everyday life, with your everyday hangups, without making any mistakes.
And that difficulty is what we’re going to try and figure out in this article.
The Need for Self Fulfillment Halts Our Obedience
Self-fulfillment is seeking out and doing the things that satisfy a want or need within us and purposely avoiding or not doing the things that won’t.
Have you noticed how most times we base obeying God on how we feel? For example, in Jonah’s case, he was struggling with two major feelings that many of us struggle with now.
Resentment Keeps Us Disobedient
You see Jonah wasn’t all too happy to hear what God wanted because the people God wanted him to help made life hell on earth for him and everyone he knew and loved.
Here God was, telling him to go and love the people that had done him wrong.
Many times we ourselves find it hard to love the person that has wronged us.
The person that got an attitude with you at work, or the people who wouldn’t let you sit with them at lunch at school.
Jonah also had resentment towards someone else- God. The big man upstairs made Jonah very unhappy.
You see, Jonah wanted God to be wrathful towards the Ninevites because of his hate with them. But God wasn’t doing what he wanted so he was angry with him.
Can’t you remember a time you were angry at God?
Often times, we blame and resent God for our own troubles, forgetting that many of our troubles are of our own creation or just an effect of life.
You can’t let your own hurts and feelings keep you from God because, in the end, you’re hurting yourself.
Pride Can Stop You From Obeying God
The second emotion that stood in Jonah’s way was his pridefulness. He wanted to fulfill his personal need to keep his pride intact. He didn’t want to submit to God, or humble himself before his tormentors and show them God’s love.
In today’s case, many Christians show this same trait, but it reveals itself differently.
You see as Christians, sometimes we can become prideful in our faith.
We can become so consumed in feeling more enlightened than everyone else, holier than everyone else that we forget to humble ourselves before God and each other.
We get so caught up in being the longest prayer in the congregation, the loudest shouter, the fashion police, the most gifted, we forget to do what God finds most important- like loving each other and bringing others to him.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 says,
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful- so on and so forth.”
Don’t let your pride or resentment get in the way of your focus. Trying to put your needs over God’s is only going to cause you to stumble and fall off his path.
Outside Gratification Keeps Us From Obeying God
Outside gratification is (a word I made up for one) searching for instant gratification from others by giving into societal standards and pressures.
I can only imagine what Jonah must have been thinking when he was called to go to Ninevah.
What was he going to say to his family and friends that hated Nenevah for the same reasons he did?
I’m sure Jonah sat up with friends talking about all of the stuff they would do if they could to the Ninevites.
And now here he was about to go and try to help these people when any one of his friends would’ve torn some stuff up if they were in his shoes.
Jonah was wearing something I like to call the world’s brand.
The world’s brand includes the attitudes everyone likes to see us in. For example, turning away people in need, having bad attitudes with people we don’t like, being negative when in distress, etc.
Now, what about Sunday’s? Well, we’re always wearing God’s Brand on Sundays.
Well, we’re always wearing God’s Brand on Sundays.
We put on our Sundays’ best, throw on the permanent smile, and throw in some hugs to everybody.
We’re helpful, cheerful, and offer the highest praise.
Point: we are the NICEST PEOPLE on Sundays!
But when we wake up Monday morning and it’s back to school or work, we forget all about being the people God wants us to be for acceptance from everyone else BUT God.
So yes, it’s hard to be a Christian when everything else around you tells you it’s weird, or too different, or lame.
But you have to remember being a Christian means you’re supposed to be different.
You’re following a different and better path than everyone else, and that makes all the difference.
Comment Below: What’s your biggest problem when it comes to obeying God?
Is it self-fulfillment? Are you choosing not to listen to God because he wants you to do something that goes against how you feel?
Or Outside Gratification? Are you choosing to disobey him because you want the approvement of others?
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The Homeowners Protection Act of 1998 (HPA), also known as the "PMI Cancellation Act," addresses homeowners' difficulties in canceling private mortgage insurance (PMI) coverage.1 HPA became effective on July 29, 1999 and applies primarily to mortgage loan transactions consummated on or after that date to finance the acquisition, initial construction, or refinancing of a single-family dwelling that serves as a borrower's principal residence.
PMI facilitates lending at affordable rates to borrowers who cannot, or choose not to, provide adequate down payment by protecting lenders from the risk of default and foreclosure. It is generally used when the loan to value (LTV) ratio of a residential mortgage transaction would exceed 80 percent at settlement. As loan principal payments are made, the LTV ratio of a loan that was above 80 percent at settlement will generally decline, creating the opportunity for the cancellation or termination of the insurance. HPA protects homeowners by prohibiting life-of-loan PMI coverage when the borrower pays the PMI premium and establishes uniform procedures for cancellation and termination of PMI policies.
Borrower Paid vs. Lender Paid PMI
There are two types of PMIBorrower Paid PMI (BPMI) and Lender Paid PMI (LPMI). With BPMI, as the name suggests, the borrower pays the PMI premium and the interest rate on the loan is generally the market level rate for similar quality loans. With LPMI, the payments are made by a person or organization other than the borrower and the interest rate on the loan is generally higher than that on a similar quality loan with BPMI.
BPMI can be terminated at the borrower's request or under other conditions, as discussed below. However, LPMI is terminated only when the mortgage is refinanced, paid off, or otherwise terminated.
Cancellation and Termination Non High-Risk Mortgages
Borrower paid PMI on non high-risk mortgages can be cancelled or terminated in three ways: borrower request, automatic termination, or final termination.2 A borrower can initiate PMI cancellation by submitting a written request to the servicer. Upon receiving the request, the servicer must take action to cancel PMI when the principal balance of the loan reaches or is first scheduled to reach 80 percent of the original value, provided that the borrower also has a good payment history, is current on payments, and satisfies any requirement of the mortgage holder for (i) evidence that the value of the property has not declined below the original value and/or (ii) certification that the borrower's equity in the property is not subject to a subordinate lien.
A servicer is required to automatically terminate PMI, even without a request from the borrower, on the date that the principal balance of the mortgage is first scheduled to reach 78 percent of the original value of the property, provided that the borrower is current on payments. If the borrower is not current on that date, then PMI must be terminated on the first day of the first month following the date that the borrower becomes current.
If PMI was not canceled at the borrower's request or by the automatic termination provision, the final termination provisions apply. Under these provisions, the servicer must terminate PMI coverage by the first day of the month immediately following the date that is the midpoint of the loan's amortization period if, on that date, the borrower is current on payments. If the borrower is not current on that date, PMI should be terminated when the borrower does become current.
The Act requires the lender to provide disclosures at consummation that describe the borrower's rights for PMI cancellation and termination. Initial disclosures vary, based upon whether the transaction is at a fixed or adjustable rate, involves borrower paid or lender paid PMI, or is a high-risk loan. The borrower must also be provided with certain annual and other notices concerning PMI cancellation and termination.
For additional information on each of the ABCs of PMI, and for information beyond the ABCs, please refer to the text of the legislation. If you have specific questions on the requirements of HPA or their application to your institution, please contact your primary regulator. If you are supervised by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, please contact Supervising Examiner Robert Snarr or Supervising Examiner John Fields through the Regulations Assistance Line at (215) 574-6568.
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Jaipur Literature Festival 2013: Fest flags off with pitch for equitable world
Jaipur: The DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2013, possibly the most high profile gathering of litterateurs in Asia, kicked off Thursday with rights campaigner and Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi saying that "the right to dream should be made a fundamental right".
Stressing on "humanness" to accept "each others rights to live with dignity", Mahasweta Devi said: "There has been a jailbreak of dreams in the country."
Addressing a gathering at the sun dappled lawns of the Diggi Palace that has been hosting the festival since 2005, she said: "People have been evicted from forests... Where will they go? There are Naxalites whose crime is they dare to dream. Why should they not be allowed to dream? The right to dream should be made the fundamental right."
Rajasthan Governor Margaret Alva and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot were amongst those present. The inaugural session "O To Live Again", played to an overflowing house on the front lawns of the heritage resort.
The space sponsored by Tata Steel is a manicured green lung that will serve as the main venue of the five-day festival.
The venues have been sponsored by corporate entities like the Tata Steel, Google, Counselage as well as the forums many of which have found presenters from organisations like the British Council, Edinburgh`s World Writers` Conference, Hindustan Times, DNA, Rajasthan Patrika, Vodafone and banks.
On Thursday morning, the resort wore a festive look. Around 9.30 am, a group of Drepung Loseling Buddhist monks broke into sonorous chants imbuing the venue with a spiritual fervour.
The culture and music stage has been shifted to a hotel this year to make room for more literary events and people.
"We can accommodate another 5,000 more people this year," a senior functionary of the festival told IANS. The organisers said they were expecting more than 200,000 visitors over five days this year - up from 120,000 last year.
A row over RSS demanding a ban on the posse from Pakistan and hardline Muslims groups rallying for the ban of four writers who had read out from Salman Rushdie`s controversial "Satanic Verses" last year failed to make an impact.
There are 283 authors participating in the Jaipur literature festival amid heavy police presence following threats from extremist groups.
"We are not here to be bullied," said event producer Sanjoy Roy.
Co-director of the festival William Dalrymple said the festival had grown enormously in strength since 2005 when barely 14 people turned up, some of them inadvertently for want of anything to do better.
The keynote address gave away to a slew of literary discussions featuring the likes of Dalai Lama, noted writer Zoe Heller, emerging Pakistani novelist Jamil Ahmad, Neelesh Mishra, Pico Iyer, Shashi Tharoor, Binayak Sen, Javed Akhtar and Nadeem Aslam on day one.
The coming five days will see literary sessions addressing subjects as diverse as cinema, sensuality, Buddhism in literature, Afghanistan, extremism, art, yoga, poetry, Shakespeare, philosophy, James Bond, women`s issues, politics and the Arab world.
At least 40 women writers from all over the world will discuss aspects gender justice and empowerment.
The flavour of India will dominate the festival with an extravagant spread of vernacular literature in 17 languages, including Bengali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Magadhi, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Santhali and Urdu.
The hype around literature and the presence big names in writing generate brisk business in sale of books every year. A book stall set up by Full Circle drew dozens of first-time buyers Thursday who went on virtual shopping spree to get books autographed by their authors.
Food and `masala chai` flowed plenty for writers and delegates since early morning with the ladies of Diggi household supervising over the meals and snacks to lay out a traditional table.
"The spirit of Jaipur has changed from the royal pink city of the Rajputs and the Mughals to a democratic literary destination," said a visitor of Indian origin reconnecting to Jaipur after 10 years in UK.
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There is one point in your childhood when you become addicted to gaming. Sometimes your studies even suffer from it and your parents get worried about your future. They will insist that computer games will get you nowhere and lead you astray. I did a fair share of cutting classes and received plenty of spankings. But those days are over. Computer gaming, particularly eSports gaming, has become lucrative and is now considered a career.
With an estimated revenue of USD $492 million in 2016, eSports is experiencing an unprecedented change of perception. You now have an acceptable motivation to pursue your gaming and a convincing reason for your parents to hear. The industry is expected to increase its revenue by 32%, estimated to generate $1.48 billion in 2020. Although it is deemed rewarding, the eSports landscape is highly competitive. If you are very well determined to join the ranks of Dendi, Jaroslaw, and Amer “Miracle,” then here are the steps to begin competitive eSports gaming.
Play a Multitude of Games and
Expose yourself to different games. Different games mean different play styles. You need to find the most suitable game for you. Find where you are gifted. It could be a first-person shooter, real-time strategies, multiplayer online battles arenas, card games, or fighting games. By exposing yourself to these kinds of games, you will determine which one you find most comfortable and confident.
Choose Your Gaming Platform
After deciding your chosen genre, it is time to determine your most-suitable gaming platform. Most of the games can be played in several platforms. Gaming platforms are the system made to play your video games. Some of the most popular platforms are PC, Xbox, PlayStation and Wii U. Decide on which one of these are best for you.
Focus on One Game
Since you have exposed yourself to different game play and experiences using a diverse set of platforms, it is time for you to decide which genre of game, or the game itself, you would like to master. Some games just feel like you are naturally inclined without putting to much effort. That is probably the game you are likely to excel in. You need to understand the underlying factors like the macros and micro gameplay of each game.
Think If You Are Serious About It.
Competitive eSports gaming requires a lot of time and pure dedication. It would not be called sport otherwise. Contemplate whether this is really what you want. You need pure dedication for this craft. Giving your all can mean not going to a regular college or not finishing your studies at all. This is the best time to talk to your parents or guardian and discuss your future endeavors
Practice a Lot of Techniques and Skills
Once you’ve made an informed decision then it is time to get serious and hone your gaming skills, hard. Practice a lot, watch tutorials, and set a desired skill level for yourself to reach. This will take a lot of time. It is also effective for you to practice with other players whose rank and skill level are higher than yours.
Attend a Summer Camp
With the support of your parents, you might consider attending esport summer camps. If you are fortunate to have supportive parents then this is easy to realize. These summer camps are capable of giving you immersive programs designed to improve your skills and start a foundation for your career.
Join a Team and League
Associate yourself with likeminded people and start a team. It is important to establish a comradery because a lot of games require teamwork. You need to be comfortable with each other’s gaming styles to sync and succeed. Around this time, you should also explore and join a league. You can join a school league or a local league organized by your local gaming community.
Join International Tournament
The next big step is to join an international tournament and establish your name. If you cannot join a tournament, being a spectator is not a bad thing. This will give you a taste of the competitive atmosphere and get the sense of the career path you are going forward.
Get Sponsorship and Live Your Dreams
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English 299. Thomas Hardy, Novelist and Poet
winter term 2007
Direct comments and questions to Professor Suzanne Keen.
A reading of selected poetry by Thomas Hardy and close study of his fiction. High Victorian realistic novelist and skeptical modern poet, Hardy bridges literary periods and generic categories. Hardy classified his own novels in the categories of Novels of Character and Environment, Romances and Fantasies, and Novels of Ingenuity; we will read examples of each kind, as well as lyric and narrative poetry from throughout his career. The course emphasizes the process of writing a research paper in stages; a sequence of writing assignments will culminate in a 3500-4000 word seminar paper. Receiving a grade of 59 or lower on the objective final examination results in an E grade, or conditional failure. See the course catalog for details on removal of an E grade.
Thomas Hardy, Selected Poetry , ed. Samuel Hynes. Oxford World's Classics. ISBN: 0-19-283273-5
Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies. Oxford. 0-19-284070-3
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbidge
Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower. Oxford. 0-19-283641-2
Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. Oxford. 0-19-280149-X
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native. Oxford. 9-19-284072-X
Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders. Oxford. 0-19-283504-1
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Oxford. 0-19-284069-X
Thomas Hardy, Wessex Tales Oxford 0-19-283558-0
John Sutherland, So you think you know Thomas Hardy ? A Literary Quiz Book . Oxford. ISBN: 0-19-280443-X
Concordance of Hardy's work: Nagoya
Dictionary of National Biography: Test. Go to Annie from a W&L networked computer and search for the title under Keywords. Find the electronic resource on the list. Connect. Click yes or continue on the certificate. Click in upper right corner on box that says "subscribers enter here." Use for Hardy's work and his contemporaries, searching by name. The DNB is a subscription service purchased by Leyburn and it is not hanging out for free on the internet.
Literature Compass. link to Annie page : a comprehensive journal in literary studies. This is where the Ralph Pite article appears.
What was phrenology? (Victorian pseudo-science)
What was mesmerism?
Emma poems in Slate
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From Gene Logsdon
Garden Farm Skills (1985)
We try to wait until towards the end of November here in Ohio to start up the stove that keeps us warm through the cold weather already howling on our northern ramparts. The “first fire” has become a ritual along with bringing in the last rose of summer, literally, from the garden. The last rose is one of Carol’s miniatures which endures even after the first freezing frosts, and the sight of that brave little thing forlornly alone in a vase can almost bring tears to my eyes. I keep reminding myself that in only about two months, as February approaches, a thaw can bring the winter aconites out of the ground. I have only two months to endure without growing plants.
I stare at the flame of the first fire in that kind of mood. This too is part of the garden farming life: the fire is a harvest feast from our grove of trees. There is sadness in it, but contentment too. I have ranked wood around the walls of the attached garage, at least enough to last until the winter aconites bloom, and filled the woodbox with dry branch twigs to use for kindling. I am ready.
Heating effectively with wood requires that one become what I call a woodburning gourmet. To make a really good fire, the wood should be cut and split and allowed to dry for two years in the rick. Dry wood throws at least a third more heat than green wood, and if it burns with a good draft, it does not violate pollution codes and does not block the chimney with creosote. The species of wood makes a tremendous difference too. A cord of hickory, oak, or ash makes twice as much heat as a cord of light wood like poplar or white pine and one and half times more than most common hardwoods like American elm or wild cherry. It pays to study the lists commonly available that rate woods by their output of BTUs especially if you have to buy your wood. Until you have experience, it would be wise to buy only from a seller you trust or have an oldtimer with long experience on hand when a load is delivered. In general the heavier the wood when it is dry, the more heat per cord it will produce.
Woodburning gourmets like to mix woods in the stove or especially in a fireplace: perhaps a stick of apple or hackberry with its fruity smell alongside a stick of hickory for that delectable odor of hickory smoke; or a couple of thinner sticks of very dry wood with a couple of thicker and perhaps not so dry wood— the former burning quick and hot until the latter are dry enough to burn well into the night without smoldering. The more knowing wood gourmet will prefer ash to white oak or hickory even though it delivers a little less in BTUs because he will only have to take out the ashes once a week instead of twice. How the ash got its name mystifies me. It should be called less-ash. And remember the old refrain: “Ash wood wet or ash wood dry, a king shall warm his slippers by.”
Starting fires in a woodstove can be a real pain unless you want to spend money on various kindling sticks sold for that purpose. Your method will vary, I suppose, with your stove, but in my old Defiant from Vermont Castings which loads from the left end, I lay in two split sticks no more than two inches apart, side by side, some sixteen inches long of roughly five inch thickness, put a handful of kindling twigs between them, and then a third stick athwart and atop the first two, and perhaps a fourth stick tilted down on top of the third, slanted the other way. This allows plenty of space for air movement up through the wood, with the starting flames from the twigs licking against the sides of the two lower sticks and rising upwards into the third and fourth sticks. But not too much space. Two pieces of wood several inches apart will not burn as well as two pieces only an inch apart. And sticks love company: a lone piece of wood will not burn as well as two pieces close together. With a wad of newspaper positioned right inside the stove door and snug against the twigs, one match will get the fire started. With the door slightly ajar, the strong draft pulls the flame into the twigs and then up through the wood. As the wood burns, experience teaches you how much to open or close the draft to keep the temperature steady.
Too much draft and the fire will burn too hot. It is wise to have a thermometer on top of the stove and not let it get much beyond 600 degrees F. About 500 is best for us. Below 300 and either your wood is not dry, or not enough draft. Of course if you are cooking on the stove top, you will want a temperature around 300 for most situations.
Draft depends a lot on weather: with a high pressure front moving in, it will be stronger; low pressure, low draft. The chimney design is also important. When the stove chimney rises straight up from the stove about five feet, then angles about three or four feet into the wall to the outside chimney, the draft will be stronger than an inside chimney that exits the stove horizontally into a fireplace and then angles up into the outside chimney. But both will be satisfactory in most cases.
Two important design features of a good chimney are seldom mentioned in “the literature.” If you notice on old houses, the chimney will often have a bend in it, perhaps ten or fifteen feet up before proceeding on to the top. That is not because the builder miscalculated. That bend helps to minimize downdraft. Secondly, on a house with more than one fireplace or stove, which is often the case, the two (or more) chimneys will be side by side going up the outer wall. Insist, no matter what your builder says, that one of the chimneys sticks up higher than the other by at least a foot, and better two feet. If you don’t do that, one chimney will suck smoke from the other down into the house unless both are in operation. I know because we had to add on to one of our chimneys and that ended the problem.
Another thing: put a rain cover over your chimneys, again no matter what your builder says. You don’t want water dripping down. The cover should also have screening to keep out wild animals or birds. If not, I can almost guarantee that some day you will hear faint rattlings and rufflings in your chimney. Raccoons or birds might do a good job of cleaning fly ash and creosote off your chimney walls before they die or get into the house but….You get the picture.
To bring wood into the house you can buy (or make) large wood carriers that hold about eight to ten sticks of cut, split wood in a completely closed bag that looks sort of like a suitcase. No more dribbling bark and pieces of dirt on the rug.
It pays to have a stove that will operate without electricity. The main reason to have a woodburning stove, it seems to me, is to keep the house warm and to cook food even when the power goes out. The security makes all the work worthwhile.
See also Gene’s Wood Is More Precious Than Gold
Gene and Carol Logsdon have a small-scale experimental farm in Wyandot County, Ohio.
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Military Unveils Monument to Dogs in Combat
This is just a short snippet from NBC, but I thought it was appropriate for Veterans Day. I’m planning a trip to San Antonio this winter, and I’m putting this on my list as a must-see, so I’ll get some up close and personal pictures for you while I’m there. The monument features a dog handler and four dogs, one from each of the breeds most commonly used in combat: Doberman Pinscher, German Shepherd, Labrador Retriever, and Belgian Malinois. The monument is in San Antonio because Lackland Air Force Base has trained dogs for all branches of the military since 1958.
John Burnam, a dog handler in Vietnam, was incensed that handlers were not allowed to bring their dogs home when they left Vietnam. I’m not sure why he was surprised – we left men there, why wouldn’t we leave dogs? (Oops! Did I say that out loud? I’ll get off my soapbox now.) Anyways, Burnam began lobbying Congress in 2007 for a national monument for all military working dogs of all wars since WWII with the sponsorship of US Congressman Walter B. Jones of North Carolina.
According to the John Burnam Monument Foundation, here’s how the monument came to be:
-January 28, 2008 – President George W. Bush signed bill into Public Law 110-181, Section 2877.
-October 28, 2009 – President Barack Obama amended public law to authorize the John Burnam Monument Foundation, Inc. to manage, fund, and build the National Monument.
Per Director John Burnam, Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc. & Petco became our official corporate sponsors after I met Mr. Joey Herrick in Washington DC in May 2011. I had invited Mr. Herrick to come to Washington DC on a second trip to meet with me and U.S. Congressman Walter B. Jones to discuss the details of what his company and Petco could do to help raise funds for the national monument project. I couldn’t have asked for a better company to help us.
Mr. David and Cheryl Duffield founded Maddie’s Fund. Mr. Duffield had read an article I had written about my service as a scout dog handler during the Vietnam War and my work to establish a national monument for the war dogs. He invited me to meet with his Board of Directors. After my presentation, Maddie’s Fund agreed to be a Corporate Sponsor to help us raise funds for the national monument. Maddie’s Fund has been a perfect fit ever since.
Paula Slater, Bronze Sculptor, was selected from several artists to sculpt the bronze statues of the four dogs and the dog handler. It took Paula almost three years – start to finish. She started with our conceptual graphics design and developed miniature clay models of each statue. When they were approved, she sculpted the full-sized clay sculptures of the four dog breeds and the dog handler in masterful detail. After the full-sized clay models were approved, Paula hauled them from her studio to the foundry to be cast in bronze and then added the patina with expert precision. Paula is currently sculpting the bronze Dog Water Fountain as the final component to the national monument design. Paula has been a huge blessing to this project.
Keith Monument Company, a Rock of Ages company, is providing and installing all the granite components covering approximately 3,000 square feet of the national monument’s plaza area (e.g., granite pedestals, large wall, benches, and pavers). The granite is quarried in the state of Vermont where granite is the official state rock. The granite will be cut to specifications, polished, inscribed, packed and shipped to Lackland Air Force Base for installation. Keith Monument Company has established a reputation for selecting the highest quality granite and providing superior craftsmanship that lasts forever.
Laser Imaging & Design, Inc. is a premiere laser stone etching company. Jim Smith, Owner/CEO is the graphics laser artist working with JBMF to lay out the artwork of authentic photographs of military working dog teams of each war since WWII. Jim will create a unique and artful collage of photo images we have selected and laser-etch them onto a large slab of black granite. The black granite slab will be bonded to the back of the large granite History Wall. Jim is a sought after expert for his unique style of laser artwork on black granite that will last virtually forever.
Ahern Construction Corporation and John Burnam. Tim and Shane Laas dug and reinforced an 8 feet deep foundation to hold up the tons of granite. They will also plant the grass, bushes and trees, and install the plumbing for the dog water fountain.
Congratulations, Mr. Burnam, and a great big wag of the doggies.com tail for achieving your dream, and thank you for honoring our four-legged veterans in such a meaningful way. Thank you for your service. Welcome home!
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Billionaire George Soros, who personally plans to invest $1 billion in clean technology, says the IMF should provide $100 billion to assist those countries most affected by climate change.
Speaking at a press conference during the climate talks in Copenhagen, Soros said the $10 billion promised by the developed world to assist less-developed nations was “not sufficient” and the gap between what was wanted and what was offered “could actually wreck the conference.”
Soros suggested the IMF divert funds now being used for financial systems hit by the economic downturn.
The question of assistance to developing nations was a major issue during last week’s discussions in the Danish capital. Developing nations already feeling the effects of climate change – like Tuvalu, Micronesia and the Maldives – have been calling on developed nations to cut their greenhouse emissions and provide financial assistance to help the most vulnerable nations cope.
The U.N. has suggested a fund with an initial contribution of $10 billion.
Soros has made a couple of investments in the cleantech sector, including a clean coal company Powerspan and the cellulosic ethanol company Qteros. Last October, in announcing his plans to invest in cleantech, Soros said he would “look for profitable opportunities,” but would also “insist that the investments make a real contribution to solving the problem of climate change.” | <urn:uuid:72d1a4e8-138a-4a1d-900c-799ae3b61304> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.finalternatives.com/node/10957 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00402-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966723 | 340 | 2.078125 | 2 |
I need some advice here. We are in the midst of our vaccination campaign and I am being forced to make a decision on whether or not to vaccinate my children. I just don't know what to do.
On one hand, I want to protect my children from that flu, but on the other hand, I feel I need to protect them from the vaccination as well because I know so little about it and that scares me.
Any good advice out there? anyone already vaccinated and experiencing any problems?
Thanks in advance,
You can request mercury free vaccine if that's what concerns you.
Im not exactly sure what it is that concerns me, that is what the problem is. i dont know enough about it to make a good decision, or an informed one anyway.
No one could tell you "yes" or "no" with a clear conscience. The best thing to do is read as much as you can on the subject so you can make an informed decision.
There are a number of hubs on Swine Flu right here. Just look for hubs under the category: health, personal health, cold and flu.
H1N1 is really communicable, miserable, and potentially dangerous (just like "the regular flu"). However, the risks from the vaccine are virtually nil. Definitely lower than the risks of complications arising from the flu.
Thimerosal is NOT an ingredient in either the single-dose unit or the nasal spray (but it is an ingredient in the multi-dose unit). If the (very tiny) amount of thimerosal concerns you, then request either the nasal spray or the single-dose unit.
A friend of mine has 3 kids. His entire family came down with swine flu 2 weeks ago. His youngest, 3 years old, had to be hospitalized for complications stemming from the infection. He developed pneumonia, and had to spend 3 days in the ICU.
Why risk getting the flu? It kills 36,000 people a year in the US.
Considering risks of undertested medication and questionable dangers of the illness itself, we will not. Your decision is yours.
I am with Misha on this one, I deff won't be getting it !
Yea there's a sign at my work to get it but then everyone was talking that it isn't approved by the FDA so I think I am opting out on this one besides, i'm in my thirties. I work in a nursing home and it seems that all the nurses are always trying to get everyone vaccinated with everything. I run the other way.
I've talked to a couple doctors about this, and they all told me that they themselves aren't comfortable with it, and aren't encouraging their patients to get it.
I never get the flu shot anyway, but I won't be getting this one either.
Do all of you have children? i'm only asking so that I know where you are coming from. For myself, I probably won't get the shot, but when it comes to the kids...I just don't know. A 12 year old boy died yesterday in Toronto and apparently it was from swine flu and now I'm screwed up all over again. What to do...
I have three boys. I was talking to their doctor last week about it. She told me that they won't even have the vac until next month, and she told me that she wouldn't bother with it.
According to her, the most important things to do if your kid gets it is to treat the fever and keep them hydrated. She said that it is like other viruses, and just have to run it's course and is running between 4 to 10 days.
3 and 5 years old. Actually, 26 too - but he is capable of his own discretion already
Wow that's a tough call. Swine Flu is hitting young people the hardest for some reason. I always made sure my son was vaccinated when he was little but...something as new as this vaccine...I don't know if I would permit that. I myself won't be getting the shot but as far as my child if it were me I would probably not. Good luck.
I had my son at his Pediatrician yesterday (unrelated wellness check) and we discussed the flu vaccine, he offered it for my son but when I declined he didn’t even question why. In a short discussion he said the only vaccine available (to him anyway) was the Live virus type he also said most entities (CDC & WHO) are pushing vaccination for younger children, but get this, not so much to protect the kids, but protect their parents.
He said this strain while not completely understood, appears to be attacking the strongest in our society (18 –30) by forcing strong immune systems into overdrive fighting the virus, but in so, its their own immune systems creating more problems than the flu.
My advice (for what it is worth) if your family is not normally susceptible to the Flu (any type) as ours is, (I can’t remember a time when any of us had the Flu) do not take it. If your family history is susceptible then you have some thinking to do. My son’s Doctor agreed.
He also said his best advice for preventiion was hand and face washing, often. Each time you come into contact with something outside your household environment.
If you choose not to get vaccinated, there are several things you can do to help prevent infection. Readytoescape is exactly right about 18-30 yr old's immune systems going into overdrive.
There are hubs about protecting yourself. Several have written about this, as well as myself.
Viruses can cause a series of events in the body that can lead to strange things like autism, diabetes and other maladies. Statistically it can be verified, but is in reality, a low percentage of people who contract such other conditions from a virus. However, it's still wise to be aware of the facts.
I've had a couple of flu shots, both of which made me sick for a couple of days. After investigating because I was told over and over the you don't get sick from vaccines, I discovered it was my immune system going into overdrive that triggered the fever and other flu-like symptoms. So yes,I got sick. It wasn't the virus making me sick, it was my own immune system's defenses. The information given to me wasn't complete, and was a half truth. So you can begin to see how vaccines can act so completely adversely in our bodies.
Therefore, it's pretty important for us to become educated with facts.
My personal opinion is that education and prevention can be as powerful as the vaccines.
Here are two pieces of info on the h1n1 vaccine directly from the CDC. They are in PDF so it takes a minute to load. Please Read! The first one is on the Nasal vaccine, the second is The shot.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/do … v-h1n1.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/do … t-h1n1.pdf
thanks everyone for responding, i appreciate it! i talked to my doctor today, because my daughter is on antibiotics for streptococcus and she is reacting to them. while we were talking about it, we talked also about the vaccination. i asked if she was going tohave it done and she answered 'absolutely, as are my two sons'.
that kind of surprised me because i was under the impression that most doctors are not getting the shot, but pushing it on their patients. so then i had to think a bit. I actually did get my son vaccinated for the chicken pox because i already went through a horrible experience with that with my daughters...and both of them at the same time at the ages of 9 months (over 500 pox) and 2 years (30 or so pox). because of that experience, I didn't hesitate to vaccinate my son against it even though its relatively new and not actually necessary. so why not the swine flu vaccine? what is holding me back?
I have no qualms about getting the H1N1 shot at all.
so i just got the news that my niece has swine flu. we live too far apart for me to worry about getting it, but she is sick something awful. my sister is watching her like a hawk and making sure she doesnt show any signs of respiratory distress, but she is pretty scared of what can happen. i think i will go get the vaccine now. what do you think?
The chances of anything major happening to your kids from swine flu is small compared to the risk with the regular flu.
If you get them shots for the regular flu, then do the swine flu.
If not, don't worry about it.
This would make for a great question:
I won't be getting the shot and neither are my children. My daughter was sent home from daycare because she was running a fever and I took her to the doctor today and he said she will be just fine and don't listen to all that media hype about swine flu.
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Just in case there weren’t already enough signs pointing towards the launch of a larger iPhone or two later this year, a new Adaptive Display framework in iOS 8 is a telltale clue that wider and taller screens could be on the horizon. As reported by The Guardian, the developer protocol is called UIAdaptivePresentationControllerDelegate, and works with a presentation controller to determine how to respond to size changes in apps.
If that sounds like a bunch of garble, allow me to explain in slightly more simplified terms. Apple has improved two frameworks called UIKit and AppKit, making it easier for developers to support multiple screen sizes and orientations. Apple does have multiple screen sizes, ranging from 3.5-inch and 4-inch iPhones to 7.9-inch and 9.7-inch iPads, and the consensus is that 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhones will soon crack the list.
This screenshot on Apple’s WWDC sessions page could be a subtle hint…
Apple briefly touched on adaptive display during a slide at its WWDC keynote earlier this week, but it does not mention the framework in its public-facing list of new features for iOS 8 developers. Instead, UIAdaptivePresentationControllerDelegate is listed under UIKit Framework Reference in the iOS Developer Library of Apple’s Developer Center.
Charles Arthur elaborated on adaptive display in his report:
Developers at WWDC told me that adaptive display is new this year, and that it does just what Android does: scales up vector assets so that they will fit a screen of undetermined size. That should mean that when Apple introduces one or more phones with larger screens, there won’t be a long pause while developers resize icons and so on to take advantage of it, as happened with the introduction of the iPhone 5 in 2012.
There are many reasons why Apple has not released a larger iPhone yet, despite the surging popularity of 4.7-inch and larger devices from competitors like Samsung. The company is said to be picky about the “white point” of displays, which is how realistic the colors look on a screen compared to real life. It has also always emphasized one-handed touch, and being able to access the entire screen with one swipe of your thumb.
The last we heard is that Apple was enlisting the help of Chinese authorities to cut down on iPhone 6 leaks. It won’t make much of a difference, however, as many potential details of the smartphone have already leaked out. We’ve seen what is allegedly the back cover for the iPhone 6, and know that it could have 1706 × 960 pixels resolution, NFC capabilities, a slimmer design with an all-aluminum curved shell and more.
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Whitney Venegoni is one of our Nurse Practitioners who serves as a Primary Care Provider as well. She sees patients before and after surgery, and does medication management for many of our patients after surgery. We have 2 Nurse Practitioners: Whitney works full time and Lori Reckrey, APRN, works part time in the office on the 3rd floor (Suite 305 in Building A).
Whitney talked about medications following surgery. She shared with us questions that most commonly come up about different types of medications.
• Extended Release or Slow Release: Whitney will often switch medications that end in XR or SR, as they are designed to be released slowly throughout the day. After surgery, they may not remain in the gut long enough to work that way, so she will often switch the medication to an immediate release medication given more frequently. If the drug is a heart medication, she will defer to a patient’s cardiologist and follow their recommendations.
• Diabetes medication is complicated. Because there are so many different types of medications for diabetes and they all work a little differently, she has to look at each patient and medication very individually.
- Usually she will stop Metformin, Invokana, and Farzxiga after surgery.
- She avoids using glipizide and glimepiride as they can lead to low blood sugars more often.
- Some patients won’t be able to stop their medications immediately, but everyone goes home on a lower dose than before surgery.
- If a patient is on insulin, she will usually stop all the short acting insulin and leave patients on a much lower dose of long acting insulin.
- She tries to switch patients from insulin to an oral agent as soon as possible. It can take a few weeks of adjustments to make sure patients are either completely off medication or managed well on a lower dose.
• Some medications have the side effect of causing weight gain, and she stops those. She can switch patients to a medication with similar action that does not result in weight gain.
• Blood pressure medication is usually stopped if the patient is only taking 1 or 2 medications. If someone is currently on 4 or 5 medications for BP, she will usually eliminate 2 or 3, and then work on reducing the dosages as weight loss occurs. Some BP medications are called beta-blockers, and are used for heart rhythm problems. These may need to be continued.
• Diuretics (water pills) are usually stopped completely the first week, as they could cause dehydration. If swelling occurs in the legs and feet, she may add a lower dose back to help decrease the swelling, especially if it is related to heart failure.
• Cholesterol medications are almost always stopped right after surgery, and the body is given time to adjust to the surgery. Frequently they will no longer be needed after surgery.
• Medications that adjust moods are not usually changed as long as they are working well and don’t cause weight gain. Some antidepressants can cause weight gain, so she will work with patients to switch them to another drug with similar action that doesn’t cause weight gain. This may take some time to adjust.
• Medications for overactive bladder may cause dryness, and it is important for patients to make sure they are drinking enough fluids.
• What antibiotics can I take or not? Erythromycin is very hard on your stomach, so you should not take it. Cefalexin and Macrobid (Nitrofurantoin) should not be used as they don’t absorb well after surgery. Augmentin is fine and all antibiotics should be taken after eating and NOT on an empty stomach.
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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. Global time and date of event 22/03/20 / 2020-03-22 13:31:52 / March 22, 2020 @ 1:31 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:31:52 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 125.1856 East, latitude 5.118 North, depth = 44.13 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70008e20. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008e20. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.13 km (27 miles).
Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Malapatan, Sapu Padidu, Maasin. Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Sapu Padidu (c. 9 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Maasin (c. 5 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Baliton (c. 5 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Because a horse’s stomach is very small and cannot hold a large amount of feed at one time, it should be fed at least twice a day on a regular schedule. Some horses benefit from three or more feedings per day. But don’t overfeed your horse; too much feed at one time can cause founder.
Overfeeding a horse can cause colic, bowl obstructions and can even lead to death if not corrected in time. A horse can eat as much forage or hay on a free-feeding basis, but his feed amount needs to correspond to his weight for that particular feed, as each horse food has a different weight.
Horses eat large quantities of hay and grass as their main source of food. In fact, horses should eat about 15-20 pounds or 1-2% of their body weight in hay every day, so make sure that your horse always has plenty of hay to chew on. Make sure that the hay you feed your horse is free of mold and dust.
Conventional knowledge says that horses should be fed grain once or twice a day. … But feeding at the same time each day doesn’t help your horse. In fact, you’re likely doing him more harm than good by sticking to this strict schedule.
Do a Little Math
At most you can store this feed for about another nine weeks (or 63 days). At 14 pounds per day this equals 882 pounds, or 17.6 50-pound bags.
For some horses with health issues, prone to colic, or older horses, it is better to pre-wet the feed, so that the horse is not at risk of colic from having a large mass of feed blow up inside the stomach. Choke is when food becomes lodged in the horse’s oesophagus. … The wet food is also easier to chew and swallow.
twice a day
During the summer, and for horses in light work, a fibre-based diet of grass and hay is usually a good option. Hay can be fed loose on the ground or in safely tied hay nets. Remember, however, to provide more piles or nets than horses in the field, to prevent them fighting.15 мая 2019 г.
Almost any fruits, and many vegetables, are safe treats for healthy horses. Apples and carrots are traditional favorites. You can safely offer your horse raisins, grapes, bananas, strawberries, cantaloupe or other melons, celery, pumpkin, and snow peas.
19 Things You Should NOT Feed Your Horse
Because horses don’t have to graze and chew the material for themselves, they may bolt the food and fill up on it much faster. This can lead to choke and colic. The sugars in freshly cut or slightly wilted clippings can cause an imbalance in the horse’s gut, leading to laminitis.
Horses appear to be hungry nearly all the time. Horses that have the luxury of being in a pasture spend most of their day taking a few steps, grazing, taking a few more steps and grazing again. In fact, in their natural habitat, horses spent the day and much of the night moving from place to place, eating as they went.
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I was born in January, in a one-room schoolhouse on a sheep ranch in Montana. Four months later we moved to Alaska, where my parents built a cabin in the woods with a swing and trapeze for me; for years, the only commute I knew was by dogsled. We ate salmon, duck or moose for dinner, with potatoes or cabbage from our root cellar, and blueberries for dessert—all things we’d hunted or foraged or grown. This is how I grew up: eating food from the Alaskan bush. Even though we left, my mom continues to grow a big garden and my dad still hunts and fishes.
In my 20s I became a Patagonia climbing ambassador. For 10 years, I lived on the road, in a truck, van or an old Airstream, migrating with the climbing seasons and cooking on a tiny stove, with friends or alone. In 2012, my climbing partner and I slept on the summit of Cerro Fitz Roy after establishing a new route on the south face. In Argentina, such accomplishments are celebrated with local grilled lamb and everyone bringing their own knife to the asado, hunting and foraging South American style.
A few years ago, on a rest day in the Tetons, I went fishing with Yvon Chouinard. He packed us a lunch—sourdough bread, an apple, hard cheese and three tins of mussels, whose recipes he needed to approve for a new Patagonia Provisions project. “These little bivalves are the best source of protein in the world,” he claimed. We started talking about food.
“You know,” he said, “Regenerative Organic (RO) agriculture is the number one thing humans can do to combat global warming.”
“What?” I was amazed and confused. “I thought I was supposed to be saving public lands!”
“Yes, that too,” he said. “But we all have to eat three times a day. Healthy soil and Regenerative Organic farming can sequester carbon from the atmosphere and reverse climate change.”
He told me to read The Soil Will Save Us. Eventually I did, learning that “the billions of microorganisms in a tablespoon of soil take the carbon dioxide that plants pull from the atmosphere and turn it into life-giving soil carbon.”
Yvon’s new mission was intuitive. I already knew that nature likes balance. Foxes keep the rabbit population in check so that rabbits don’t eat all the carrots. Mycorrhizal fungi deliver nutrients to plant roots in exchange for sugars. They also help aerate the soil, which increases water retention, and decompose leaf litter, rock and clay into phosphorus, iron and other usable micronutrients. If we alter this balance with pesticides and fertilizers, the soil becomes lifeless. For me, it’s indisputable that fish from clean water and vegetables from clean soil taste better. But over years of climbing, I also learned how much better it made me feel to eat organic eggs for breakfast and a kale salad once a day—or have bread, cheese, apples and carrots or almonds and leftover salmon on the wall. I wanted wild essential fuel: wild like I’d grown up knowing, wild like we all evolved with. But finding organic farm stands and lovingly raised meat after a huge day of climbing was often impossible in places like the backwoods of Kentucky or rural Utah.
I did plant my own garden to fill the spaces in between. Then I promptly left for expeditions to Iran and Spain, to Kenya and Chile. Climbing is an unconventional way to see the world, but it’s also one that forces a unique intimacy with the community around you. What I wanted when I wasn’t at home was a way to find not only healthy food but also an opportunity to forge deeper relationships with the places I traveled to climb.
In Spain, I met the family who raises the Patagonia Provisions® mussels. The Pérez Lafuente family welcomed me to their home, situated near a mythical mountain range with a golden big wall of limestone called Picu Urriellu in the Picos de Europa. I learned over many beautiful meals with the family that mussels evolved to live at the tide’s edge, a world of constant change. And that they’re incredibly resilient. They feed on tiny phytoplankton and filter the water, making it cleaner for all other beings. In the 13th century, humans slowly began to farm native mussels in the cold Atlantic waters of Galicia, Spain. As the World Wars began, so did the high demand for canned foods, and a huge industry sprang up around cultivating, canning and shipping seafood. The Pérez Lafuente family has been in the seafood business for four generations and were the first in Europe to specialize in organic production. Over the generations, they have watched weather patterns change and warm. They expressed their gratitude for the resilient little bivalves that love cold water and support this community that depends on them.
As a way to bring these experiences home and inspire climbers to connect with local and organic food growers, I joined forces with Linda Tyler and Julie Faber to found Farm To Crag. We created a map of local food, farmers markets and farm stands near destination climbing areas and started offering community gatherings where climbers could cook and eat together while learning about their food. The mission is to make it easy to find local, organic, seasonal foods wherever you travel to climb and to connect more deeply with the communities nearby. The more farmers I meet, the more I want to highlight farming as an art form.
In October of 2019, we held our first Farm To Crag gathering at the Raw Roots Farm in Catheys Valley, a short drive from Yosemite Valley. We cooked, ate and climbed together. We learned about soil science and the carbon cycle from Professor Rebecca Ryals. Cofounder and functional nutritionist Linda Tyler spoke about the nutrient density of healthy plants leading to wellness and taught us to make sauerkraut in a space as small as the back of a van. We also weeded, built, harvested and prepped beds with a fresh layer of compost, and we left with a promise to do something about what we’d learned—a promise we wrote on postcards painted with a heart-shaped carrot at the base of Half Dome.
It has been an interesting path from dogsleds and my mom’s garden to a biology degree doing experiments with leafy greens and elk populations to the nomadic life of a professional climber and planting a garden of my own. I now have a much deeper respect for organic farmers, for Regenerative Organic agriculture, for soil health and for nature’s balance (and sometimes lack thereof—my kale has aphids). Obviously, I love to climb, and I love to eat. But I’ve learned that love alone is not enough. We must put our money where our mouths are and support Regenerative Organic agriculture, the natural process that will simultaneously feed our mind, body and soul as it reverses climate change. If we change the way we eat, food can be a form of activism.
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“What I cannot bear, as a reader or as a person, is to be bored.” – Reginald Shepherd
Given what I wrote last time, this week’s column topic should not surprise anyone. I like difficult literature. I like books that surprise me, that subvert convention, that try to find not just a distinctive angle on a story, but actively meddle with that story. I like rich language that is not always to the point, that creates sensation rather than basic semiotic messages. I like to discover and spar with disquietude, unreliability, and perplexity in written art; I like works that create conundrums, that force you to defend and exercise your imagination and ideas, and that show us just how contingent and edifying the act of writing can be.
I became much more passionate about discussing this after reading Aidan Moher’s blog post that asked “Are Fantasy Readers ‘Dumber’ Than Science Fiction Readers?” The title comes from a commenter’s response to an earlier post, and resulted in an array of comments about the linkage (or lack thereof) between genre and intelligence, and between genre and complexity. Aidan encouraged the discussion by extending the (rather loaded) question and asking if Fantasy fiction was less “taxing” or if readers and writers felt that “smart fantasy” was not being published, but most commenters did not address these queries.
The debate focused on the presence of complex ideas and specialized knowledge in genre fiction; many commenters brought up the idea that publishers and the promotional structure generally (and this is a BIG generalization) like to focus on novels that they believe will appeal to a wider audience, which to them means books that are accessible reading or fit into discernable categories. I don’t think that this tendency is overwhelming, but I think it is true that many popular books are not difficult reading, and that some publishers, particularly larger ones, market the books that they feel will have the broadest appeal, which often means less support for the difficult and the poetic (which I see as fellow-travelers). But as the fiction market changes, there may be more opportunities to ask why we permit the system to favor the unelaborate, the mechanically precise, the predictable, or the self-evident in literature? Why can’t difficult literature acquire more visibility, more readers, and a stronger position as the literary terrain shifts?
The answer lies partly in assumptions about difficult literature and the reasons that people read fiction. The idea of difficult literature I am proposing here is a relative of Reginald Shepherd‘s notion of difficult poetry, which includes several discursive elements: lexical, allusive, syntactical, semantic, modal, and formal difficulty. He also offers an alternate typology of difficulties of explication, interpretation, and recognition. What unites these elements into an “anatomy” of difficulty is that they “are violations of readerly expectations.” A difficult work is not one that has only complicated ideas (scientific, social, or otherwise) or a dense, elaborate structure, but that offers the reader challenges to their preconceptions about fiction and language.
Difficult literature is designed to be so. As Shepherd also notes: “[d]ifficulty is not a virtue in and of itself, but obscurity is always a defect.” The goal of the work is to disrupt the reader’s presumptions, but not in an impenetrable or unthoughtful way. Difficult literature is a puzzle fashioned to challenge readers, to have them linger over the text and return to it, to ponder what’s happening and consider carefully what is being communicated. Poetic literature focuses more specifically on lexical and syntactical aspects to create a linguistic exercise to intoxicate the reader with sensual and manifold meanings. Both want to make the reader think, to do extra work in discerning what the text is telling them.
I am not making a utilitarian argument for difficulty here; that has been done before and we don’t read literature for its raw utility. I am arguing that difficult works have aesthetic and entertainment capacity. The utilitarian argument sets up a noisome corollary: if difficult texts make us smarter or more perceptive, more accessible texts make us dumber and blinder. That is a poor juxtaposition that I doubt reflects the intentions of the authors nor the desires and experiences of readers. We as readers want a variety of works to choose from, a range of pleasures and fascinations, and that range should be more inclusive of difficult works. The value of difficult literature is in the different sort of enjoyments it can provide, and moving away from either elitist or instrumental conceptions of difficult literature is necessary to open such art up to more readers. What makes a text difficult is not a lack of sophistication or knowledge on the part of the reader, nor is it that it contains submerged elements not found in straightforward works.
A difficult text does not have more “inside” it or “beneath” the text; as Samuel Delany noted, “They are all surface-that-endures-through-history.” A poetic text does not have unplumbed depths. Both have, instead, less obvious traits, a plasticity of meaning, a capacious margin of interpretation, words set in different relationship to each other, residing in unanticipated patterns and structures. Like the critic that Delany is referring to, readers create their own reading in dialogue with the text presented, influenced by their intellectual and emotional distance from the work and the perspective they bring to their reading. To champion the difficult and the poetic in fantastika is to reinforce the idea that readers do not need some great specialization to enjoy them, just time and the willingness to engage the text with greater discernment and suspicion.
I feel that what some publishers, and to some extent the umbrella culture of reading, have done is given readers cause to mistrust themselves, to think that struggling with a text is neither enjoyable nor something any good reader can do. I believe that fantastika, from the “hardest” SF novel to the most surreal and interstitial fantasia (or vice versa), can benefit from championing difficulty in the literature. The difficult and the poetic and the fantastic resonate with each other, indulging in that which is not-real, not immediately obvious and apprehensible, work which does not just impel towards a limited range of meaning but reminds us that our perceptions can be broader, that our imaginations are deep, and that some puzzles do not have just one resolution. Championing difficult and poetic fantastika means that we treat people like avid, adventurous readers and not just word-consumers, that we take our literature seriously, and that we nurture and show off all that it can do.
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mine safety, products, msha
The IMA-NA Safety and Health Committee develops safety and health products for the benefit of our member companies and their employees. Our approach is designed from the "ground-up." We have forgone expansive glossy manuals, detailed programs on everything safety, and broad sweeping initiatives. Instead, we work with the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to determine how employees at our mine sites are being injured, and we tailor our efforts to aggressively attack the root causes of injury in our industry.
For instance, the most injured body parts in the industrial mineras industry are fingers and hands. Some of the products we have developed are designed to address these types of injuries.
When developing products, the following process flow is used as a guide:
Below are examples of the products developed. Many of these safety products are available for purchase in the IMA-NA Store.
Dust Control Handbook for Industrial Minerals Mining and Processing
Throughout the mining and processing of minerals, the mined ore undergoes a number of crushing, grinding, cleaning, drying, and product sizing operations as it is processed into a marketable commodity. These operations are highly mechanized, and both individually and collectively these processes can generate large amounts of dust. If control technologies are inadequate, hazardous levels of respirable dust may be liberated into the work environment, potentially exposing workers. Accordingly, federal regulations are in place to limit the respirable dust exposure of mine workers. Engineering controls are implemented in mining operations in an effort to reduce dust generation and limit worker exposure.
Authors: Cecala-AB, O'Brien-AD, Schall-J, Colinet-JF, Fox-WR, Franta-RJ, Joy-GJ, Reed-WR, Reeser-PW, Rounds-JR, Schultz-MJ
Reference: Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2012-112, Report of Investigations, January 2012; :1-314
MSHA Alliance Products
9/25/2017 » 9/29/2017
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Check out the official remote.it video tutorial on this subject, found here!
Before you begin, you will need to:
Create a remote.it account at the remote.it website, found here.
Install the remote.it Desktop App on both computers (Mac & Windows), found here.
Install a RDP client on the Mac computer. We recommend using Microsoft Remote Desktop, which can be found in the App Store.
Both devices must be on, awake, and connected to their respective networks .
The following actions are to be performed on the Windows PC you intend to connect to.
Now you are ready to connect remotely.
Connect Remotely from a Mac
Now, from a Mac computer, open the remote.it Desktop App and log in.
After a few minutes, the Device you registered earlier will appear in the Devices view. Click on the device. You will see a button representing the RDP service you registered earlier.
Click on "Add to Network".
Click on the clipboard icon to copy the address. Now open the Microsoft Remote Desktop application.
Click on the “Add PC” icon:
A window will appear. Paste the localhost address, then click “Add.”
Double click on the newly created entry to launch the connection.
You may see a warning from the Microsoft RDP software. This warning is to be expected unless certificates have been configured. remote.it just acts to carry the Microsoft connection.
Enter your Windows account credentials here:
If you are planning to frequently remotely connect to your Windows computer, and would like to get rid of this pop-up, please see the information provided below:
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Lucifer (3.5e Deity)
From D&D Wiki
|Symbol:||A white flame (before his defeat); A yellow flame (after his defeat)|
|Home Plane:||Chamada, Gehenna|
|Portfolio:||Light (before his defeat), Darkness (after his defeat), Creation, Destruction (before his defeat), Decay (after his defeat), Death, Power, Magic, Knowledge|
|Clergy Alignments:||usually CE, NE, LE; less often CN, TN|
|Domains:||Creation, Death, Repose, Magic, Knowledge|
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Lucifer was the first-born and most powerful of the high archangels spawned by Yulia. Many mortals have conflated Lucifer with Satan. Lucifer was originally a great servant of righteousness. Because Lucifer was so righteous, Yulia allowed him to suckle her breasts more and more, which made Lucifer more and more powerful. He gained such power that he became an overdeity.
Lucifer was a handsome being, with wavy shoulder-length light brown hair and tanned skin. His irises were of a green-tinged light brown color, and glistened like crystal. As is common in archangels, he had 2 large wings attached to his back. His wings had white feathers. Lucifer wore only a very loosely wrapped white cloth sheet.
Eventually, Lucifer came to revel in his great power, and became corrupted by it. As far as evil characters go, Lucifer is unusual in that his evil comes not from an evil nature, but from the way that his great power warped his mind. Lucifer turned rogue, and used the material plane as fodder for exercising his great power. He viewed the lives of all mortals as worthless ants, and killed millions of them during his reign.
Lucifer usually did not fight with weapons, but he hardly needed to. Lucifer typically dealt with enemies with his white light attack, which consists of an enormous number of photons, like those released from a nuclear bomb. Lucifer could customize the power of his white light attack, ranging it's power from infinitesimal to extremely powerful. The white light attack was sufficiently powerful to quickly melt or vaporize most enemies. Lucifer could emanate powerful white light from any part on his body, but his most powerful white light attacks only emanated from the palm of his hand. In cases where an enemy actually managed to anger Lucifer however, he would not simply burn them away with the white light attack, but would subject them to horrific torment and disfigurement.
Lucifer's reign of terror was brought to an end when the archangel Athena requested that Yulia enchant her curved and serrated dagger with great power. The dagger was enchanted with the power to damage the spirit along with the flesh. When Lucifer was raping Athena, she pulled out the concealed dagger and severed Lucifer's penis at it's base. Not only was Lucifer's penis severed in both flesh and spirit, but the decapitation destroyed Lucifer's spiritual integrity, which caused major rifts of scarring and burning damage throughout his body, and destroyed much of his angelic power. As Lucifer writhed in pain, Athena cast him out of the angelic realm. Lucifer was naked when he was cast out, having been in the process of rape.
The rifts of damage throughout Lucifer's body had created meandering lines of visible dark red-and-black scarring throughout his flesh. His irises became red as a consequence of internal bleeding. His hair follicles were damaged, causing his current hair to fall out, and causing his new hair to be rougher and duller in hue. Having lost his connections to the angelic, Lucifer's white feathers which were symbolic of good now fell out, and the new feathers which grew in were black.
After having been cast out of the realm of angels, Lucifer established his lair in an underground cavern in Gehenna.
Although Lucifer was defeated and lost much of his power, he was still the most powerful of the high archangels (though by a comparatively small margin), and he came to attract followers among the beings in the material plane. Lucifer, having lost the white cloth sheet which he had used as clothing, made a new cloth sheet, this one black, which he likewise wrapped around himself loosely, though not as loosely as he had wrapped his previous cloth. Unlike his previous cloth, he used this one to cover most of his body, including having part of it hang above his face as a hood, to shadow his scarred face.
Since Lucifer's white light attack had lost most of it's power, Lucifer sought to develop new powerful attacks. He developed his ability to cause decay in other beings and objects, and this became his most powerful attack, particularly when emanated from the palm of his hand (akin to his white light attack).
"Power and personal greatness and the pleasure thereof are the only things worth living for. Everything else in life is meaningless and worthless. Beings other than oneself exist only to be subjected to whatever oneself wills."
Clergy and Temples
The clerics of Lucifer gain power from Lucifer himself, and this power has a corrupting effect on the mind. The more power the clerics get from Lucifer, the more warped and evil their minds become. Since this power turns beings evil, it is most often sought by beings who are already evil, although some neutral-aligned beings seek the power of Lucifer as well, for the sheer sake of power. Some of such neutral-aligned being have consequently been corrupted by the power of Lucifer and turned evil.
The clergy of Lucifer are widely hated. Even many evil-aligned beings hate the clerics of Lucifer, believing them to have too much power. Therefore many clerics of Lucifer are closet members. In imitation of Lucifer, the clerics of Lucifer wear loose black robes. In imitation of Lucifer, the clerics of Lucifer are always seeking greater power. At one time, some of Lucifer's most zealous male followers cut off their own penises so as to more closely resemble Lucifer, but that behavior stopped when Lucifer told his followers not to do so. | <urn:uuid:466a6269-20e8-482f-9fa5-aa26e99f0134> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Lucifer_(3.5e_Deity) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00007-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98646 | 1,290 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Concept and Invention of Vacuum Flask
Vacuum flask(www.vacuum-flask.net), it’s usually also called vacuum bottle and thermos bottle. It is a necessary daily necessity. Its cover is usually made of metal, plastic or aluminum, and there is an inner flask. And the inner flask is made from two lays of glass. The two sides of the glass is usually silver-plated, the middle is vacuum, there is a plug in the bottle mouth. The water in the bottle can be kept a certain temperature inside the bottle in a long time. And generally, those are used to store hot water are called thermos flask, and those for cold food are generally called ice flask. The inventor of vacuum flask is Jameson Dewar in the year of 1892. Dewar is an English chemist and physicist. So the vacuum flask is also called Dewar flask. However, the man who realize the multifunction of vacuum flask is a Germany glass manufacturing worker Reinhold • Berg. In 1903, he won the vacuum flask patents and at the same year he established plan to put it into the market. Berg even had a match to give a good name for his vacuum flask. The name he chose is Semo Si, namely vacuum bottle in Greek word. The vacuum bottle of Berg got a very good success. And he began to manufacture them and sell them to all over the world.
Classification and Use of Vacuum Flask
Vacuum flask can be divided into three types: 1. Small mouth type. Usually it is also called vacuum bottle. The mouth diameter of it is small, has very good insulation performance, and it is mainly used for the storage of hot water, hot drinks and the frying of traditional Chinese medicine, hot and cold juice. 2. Big mouth type. It is usually also called vacuum ice bottle. Its mouth diameter is big, easy and convenient to store and take out items. It is mainly used to store ice, cold drink with containers, iced medicament, the liquid gas and fermentation-proof material, etc. Of course, it can be also used for the storage of hot food, hot beverages with containers. 3. Cup type. Usually it is also called vacuum cup. Its mouth diameter is big, but is has small capacity. It is a kind of cup mainly used for a short time storage, which can reduce the environmental temperature to the influence of internal things.
Insulation Quality of Vacuum Flask
Check and make sure the month of the vacuum flask is fine. If there is breakage, it will affect the thermal insulation effect of the bottle or even lose the insulation ability completely. Carefully check the inner flask whether there is a breakage or not. Thirdly, take a look at the month of the vacuum flask, if the month is not round, then the bottle cork is not able to seal the month, and this will also affect the insulation performance. Last, have a look at the asbestos pad which is three black spots in the middle of the inner flask. They are a support between the inner flask and the outer flask. You have to check whether they shift or slip off or not. If they shift the place or slip off, the flask will crack due to the too much pressure.
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Voters can check eligibility for upcoming municipal and school board polls
With controversy swirling around voting reforms at the federal level, a new website is making it easier to cast ballots in Ontario’s municipal elections.
Voters can use www.voterlookup.ca to check to see if they’re registered to vote in municipal and school board elections Oct. 27.
An Ipsos Reid survey found about a third of Ontario voters were unsure of whom to contact to confirm they’re on the voters’ list, but 75% would use an online voter registry to confirm their eligibility to vote in municipal elections.
Voterlookup.ca is run by the Municipal Property Assessment Corp. (MPAC), a non-profit provincial agency.
The corporation’s main job is updating property assessments for tax purposes but it also turns out a preliminary voters’ list from the information it gathers.
Voters using the site have to enter their full name, date of birth, street address or the roll number on their municipal tax bill.
Voterlookup.ca also allows voters to update or correct their information or add additional names to the voting list.
About 44 Ontario municipalities have taken the next step and tried some form of online or telephone voting, but this year the town of Leamington will become the first to go to a fully online voting system.
Voterlookup.ca can’t be used in federal and provincial elections.
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Productivity and quality modeling for multistage battery manufacturing
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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER – VOLUME 47, NUMBER 11
Battery assembly manufacturing requires multiple inspections, such as dimension and joint inspections (after stacking and welding operations) and electric and leaking tests. Defective batteries are repaired before returning to the main line for downstream operations.
In such systems, even minor defects may cause severe problems as the errors accumulate. Since all defects need to be repaired, such quality propagation and degradation may lead to productivity variation. Moreover, the repairing process affects downstream quality behaviors.
As productivity and quality are critical issues in manufacturing, studying the integrated productivity and quality system is significant. An analytical model of such integrated systems in battery manufacturing was introduce in “Modeling, Analysis and Improvement of Integrated Productivity and Quality System in Battery Manufacturing” .
Analytical methods based on an overlapping decomposition approach have been developed to estimate the line production rate of conforming batteries. Quality propagation is characterized through a model that analyzes the interactions between quality behaviors in each inspection and their potential impact on the quality of finished products. The convergence of the method is proven analytically and the accuracy of the estimation is justified numerically.
In addition, bottleneck analysis methods based on the probabilities of blockage, starvation and quality statistics are introduced to identify the machine or stage impeding productivity and quality in the strongest manner. Indicators are proposed to identify the downtime and quality bottlenecks.
These methods provide a quantitative tool for modeling, analysis and improvement of productivity and quality in battery manufacturing systems, and they can be applied in other manufacturing systems with integrated productivity and quality models. | <urn:uuid:7a90f067-be5a-4942-ba84-7badd36d57c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ie.binus.ac.id/2015/11/26/productivity-and-quality-modeling-for-multistage-battery-manufacturing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.931109 | 348 | 1.789063 | 2 |
If you haven’t made your will yet, get it done now. Why is that so important and how should you go about it?
To answer that let’s debunk a few of the more pervasive myths and misconceptions around those questions –
- “I’m too young to need a will”
Of course the older you get, the greater your chance of dying from illness or disease. But conversely, the younger you are the higher your risk of sudden violent death. For example our road fatality stats (amongst the highest in the world) show that 80 percent of deaths are in the 19 to 34 year old age group. No matter your age and no matter your health status, you could die today. Or tomorrow. No one (least of all you) knows for sure.And so to this related myth …
- “I’m too busy right now, it can wait”
The more frantically busy we are (and that’s most of us in today’s world) the more tempting it is to postpone this one. It’s a hassle, you have other priorities, and besides who wants to contemplate their own mortality? But of course “Death knocks at all doors”, often without warning. And the hassle you save yourself today is just more hassle for your grieving loved ones to have to deal with tomorrow.
- “It’s OK to die without a will”
No it’s not. A will is the only way to ensure that your loved ones are looked after properly after you are gone. It’s the only way to control how your estate is divided and who divides it for you.Without a will you die “intestate” and the law – not you – determines who gets what. You could be inadvertently condemning your spouse to a life of trying to survive on only a “child’s share” of your estate. You have no say in who will be appointed executor of your estate, or guardian of your children, or trustee of their trust if they are under age or unable to manage their own affairs. Your childrens’ inheritances will sit in the Guardians Fund until they turn 18. If you aren’t formally married but have a life partner, he or she may end up in a bitter dispute with your family over rights of inheritance. There are no advantages to dying intestate, only disadvantages – big ones.
- “I’m single and have no assets, so a will is pointless”
Firstly, you will have some assets – a bank account perhaps, or a car, or monies in your employer’s pension fund, or perhaps your estate will have a claim on the Road Accident Fund. Even if you have no spouse/life partner/children to worry about, you will still leave loved ones behind – parents perhaps, or siblings. Whatever the case, someone close to you will have to be involved in winding up your estate and you should leave a will to make the process less stressful for them.
- “My spouse already holds my Power of Attorney, that’s all he/she needs”
Powers of attorney lapse on your death and from then on only your executor, after being formally appointed by the Master of the High Court, can deal with your estate. Any powers you may have given your heirs – for example to draw money to live on from your bank account, or to run your business, or to rent out your house – fall away when you die.
- “It’s easy to draw a will, I can do it myself” There is no legal requirement for a professional to draw your will, but before you buy a template will or copy someone else’s, consider these common pitfalls –
- Your will must comply with legal formalities to be valid. If it doesn’t pass muster for any reason, your heirs will have to make an expensive application to the High Court to have it validated.
- Unless the terms of your will are crystal clear, you could ignite a bitter family feud over what your wishes really were, and that’s the last thing your grieving loved ones need to be dealing with in their time of distress. Our law reports are filled with cases caused by imprecision, ambiguity and vagueness, and sometimes there is just no substitute for the legal terminology and the “Latin bits” – unless you fully understand them, don’t go there alone.
- Your marital status, marital regime and ante-nuptial contract (if you have one) need to be taken into account when drawing your will, and there are grey areas here which are best left to a professional.
- If you have foreign assets, you may need a foreign will as well as a local one, but there’s “no one-size fits all” answer – specialised advice is essential.
- The structure of your will, and upfront estate/tax planning, will reduce unnecessary cost and delay – another issue beyond the average layperson.
- A last point – not strictly part of the process of drawing the will but still vitally important – is to leave your heirs with ready access to funds whilst the estate is wound up. All your bank accounts and the like are automatically frozen on death so ensure your heirs have their own bank accounts, nominate them as beneficiaries of life policies etc.
- “I made a will years ago, that’ll do the job”
Bad idea. Life events (marriage, divorce, birth, death etc) and a whole host of other factors (like new laws and changes in your financial and business structures) all require review. So diarise to revisit your will regularly, at least once a year.
In closing, don’t confuse this sort of “will”, which only applies after you die, with a “Living Will” (or its close cousin an “Advance Directive”), both of which only apply before you die.
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Free «Science Fiction» Essay Sample
Most writers use the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in their science fiction books to describe artificially made robotic creatures, which are programmed for a specific purpose, and are capable of processing large amounts of information and analyzing the situation independently. In my opinion in order to define the meaning of artificial intelligence, one has to address to an artificial and technically advanced entity, which is enabled with human traits, such as individual thought creation and processing, ethical and moral analysis, and even emotional features, such as pity, shame or guilt.
When many researchers suppose that creation of artificial intelligence is beneficial for humanity in many ways, others contradict, implicating the posing scientific progress of the crossroad ethical and destructive dilemma. “We are responsible for those we have tamed” (proverb), so the production of artificial intelligence not only puts the reputation of the creator and all humankind at risk, but also the newborn artificial life. Just like a child, it is sensitive to unexpected circumstances and can easily result in failure to fulfill its initial purpose or fall into wrong hands and become a weapon of mass destruction. It is known from history that many inventions, which had started as an innocent experiment, ended by the situation going out of control, killing millions of people, destroying vast inhabitation, and resulting in drastic post-effects on the environment.
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The literary works indicate many cases of benefit for humanity. In Dick’s “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”, the induction of artificial intelligence helps Douglas Quail to find out his real memories. In “Second Variety” (Dick) people are exempt from the duty to fight, due to the availability of robot soldiers. The telepathic abilities of RB-34 from “Liar” (Asimov) keep humans from hurting by lying. In reality many other instances of artificial intelligence advantages occur. Today technological service is trivial. However, when time comes, we should always be aware not to cross the border line in order to keep safe both artificial intelligence and humankind. | <urn:uuid:24a21930-4c03-4861-b8f3-9035937501bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://essays.prime-writing.com/literature/science-fiction.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.946368 | 456 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Looking up the Slims River Valley, from the south end of Kluane Lake. The river used to flow down the valley from the Kaskawulsh glacier. (Sue Thomas)
“What folks have noticed this spring is that it’s essentially dried up,” said Jeff Bond of the Yukon Geological Survey.
“That’s the first time that’s happened, as far as we know, in the last 350 years.”
What’s happened is some basic glacier hydrology, Bond says — essentially, the Kaskawulsh Glacier has retreated to the point where its melt water is now going in a completely different direction, away from the Slims Valley.
Melt water from the Kaskawulsh glacier now flows down the Kaskawulsh River toward the Pacific, instead of northward to the Bering Sea via Kluane Lake. (CBC)
Instead of flowing north 19 kilometres from the glacier’s toe into Kluane Lake (and ultimately, the Bering Sea), that melt water is now draining eastward via the Kaskawulsh River towards the Pacific Ocean off the Alaska panhandle.
It’s a reminder that glacier-caused change is not always glacial-paced. Last year, the Slims River was still a potentially dangerous waterway, now the area is more prone to dust storms.
“It’s certainly not unusual to see rapid drainage changes in and around these glaciers. It’s a common situation,” Bond said.
“Until vegetation really starts to stabilize that floodplain, it’s going to be a dusty place, I’d imagine … It will be a really interesting study to see how that floodplain evolves in the next ten years or so.”
Kluane Lake water level expected to drop
It’s possible the Slims River was only ever just a temporary variance in the landscape — a 300-odd year hydrological whim.
Scientists say it only began flowing around the year 1700, when the so-called “Little Ice Age” caused the Kaskawulsh glacier to advance, and then divert most of its melt water from the Kaskawulsh River to the Slims Valley.
As a result, Kluane Lake grew.
Now, with the Slims River gone, hydrologists are expecting the lake level to drop.
“How much that lowers kind of depends on the outlet, the depth of the water at the outlet right now. I’m predicting it could be at least a meter,” Bond said.
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|Republic of Fiji
Matanitu ko Viti
|Motto: Rerevaka na Kalou ka Doka na Tui
Fear God and honour the Queen
God Bless Fiji
and largest city
|Government||Military Appointed Government and Parliamentary Republic|
|-||Prime Minister||Frank Bainimarama|
|-||from the United Kingdom||10 October 1970|
|-||Republic||28 September 1987|
|-||Total||18,274 km2 (155th)
7,056 sq mi
|-||2009 estimate||849,000 (156th)|
|-||2007 census||837,271 people|
|GDP (PPP)||2010 estimate|
|GDP (nominal)||2010 estimate|
|HDI (2010)|| 0.669
medium · 86th
|Currency||Fijian dollar (FJD)|
|Time zone||+11 (UTC+12)|
|Drives on the||left|
|1.||Recognised by the Great Council of Chiefs.|
Fiji is a small country in the Pacific Ocean. It has 322 islands. The most important islands are Vanua Levu and Viti Levu. The capital city of Fiji is Suva, and the city with the most people is Nadi. There are about 844,330 people in Fiji. The official languages of Fiji are Fijian, English and Hindustani (a mix of Hindi and Urdu). Fiji is part of the Pacific Rim. About 313000 speak Fiji Hindi.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Dutch and the British explored Fiji. Fiji was a British colony up until 1970; British occupation lasted almost a century. They have many forest, mineral, and fish resources.
Divisions and provinces[change | change source]
Fiji is divided into Four Major Divisions:
These divisions are divided into 14 provinces:
Cities[change | change source]
Incorporated towns[change | change source]
Fijian law defines "towns" as urbanized areas incorporated as municipal bodies, governed by Town Councils.
Unincorporated towns[change | change source]
The following localities are urbanized, but have not been municipally organized.
Tourism[change | change source]
Fiji has a lot of tourism and many people go to the Nadi and Denarau islands. Most visitors are from Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Fiji has many soft coral reefs. Scuba diving is a common tourist activity. More budget resorts are being opened in remote areas, which provides more tourism opportunities.
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- Apple's electric car project, Project Titan, could be closer to becoming reality than earlier thought.
- Apple has managed to successfully crack the China market, which is s good thing for the company since demand for premium vehicles in China is projected to skyrocket by 2020.
- Project Titan has huge revenue potential, and could turn out to be Apple's second most successful product after the iPhone.
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) self-driving car initiative, codenamed Project Titan, has for a long time remained shrouded in mystery. Although Apple is known to be very secretive about ongoing projects and only lets the investing world catch a glimpse of behind-the-scene happenings when it’s ready to launch, the company is expected to give the project a mention during its upcoming September 9 event, meaning Project Titan is much closer to becoming a reality than earlier thought. This should be interesting for Apple investors because the potential of the project to drive Apple stock is huge, perhaps more so than Apple Watch.
Project Titan: A Looming reality
There are quite a number of indications that Project Titan could be much closer to becoming reality than earlier thought. Senior Apple executives recently toured BMW’s Leipzig factory to learn how the world’s largest premium car maker manufactures its i3 electric car. BMW has in the past been cautious about sharing its electric car manufacturing know-how with Apple, but has lately opened up to licensing parts of its portfolio.
Apple has repeatedly poached senior engineering talent from disparate automakers including Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) as it seeks to build out its own car team. Apple appears to be taking advantage of the move made by Tesla last year when it made its electric car patents open-source.
But the biggest indication that Project Titan could soon become reality is a report by The Guardian that Apple executives recently met with GoMomentum engineers as it seeks to use the 2,100-acre secure testing facility commonly used by automakers to test their self-driving cars.
Sizable opportunity for Apple cars
Apple appears to be following in Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) footsteps by investing in deep-tech R&D to drive future growth for the company. Google is one of the pioneers of self-driving and autonomous vehicles. Apple though has a much better track record when it comes to R&D that translates into real money whereas Google’s record is spotty at best.
The market for premium cars, including self-driving and electric cars, is expected to become the fastest-growing auto segment. Industry experts had earlier estimated that self-driving cars will not become a reality on our roads until 7-8 years down the road. But current indications are that those estimates could be too conservative. Audi expects to unveil a fully autonomous car, Audi 8, in 2017, making it one of the first companies to the market with a self-driving vehicle.
Apple is targeting the electric car market, which though still tiny compared to the traditional auto market, is growing in leaps and bounds. Bloomberg reported that Apple expects to roll-out its first electric car in 2020. But that again might be a bit conservative, given that Project Titan is perhaps a few years ahead of where many analysts placed it. Apple’s Project Titan has no doubt benefited immensely from the lessons learned from Tesla and its electric cars. Tesla has shown the world that the traditional barriers of entry into the auto market are not as high as earlier imagined.
And, Apple appears to be making good progress regarding one on the key components of electric cars--the battery. The company has poached senior engineers from A123 Systems, a leading electric car battery manufacturer. There are further reports that Apple has its eyes on other battery engineers from companies such as Samsung, Toshiba, LG Chem, Panasonic, and Johnson Controls. It really won’t come as a surprise if an Apple-branded electric vehicle is ready in 2-3 years flat.
So just how big is the opportunity or Apple? It turns out quite huge. KPMG recently released a comprehensive report of the global automobile market. According to the organization, annual light vehicle sales are expected to reach 118 million by 2020, of which the premium segment is expected to account for 15% of sales volumes.
Apple usually targets the high-end of the market for its products, and it’s unlikely to change its approach with its electric vehicle. Electric cars range in price from as little as $23,845 for the Mitsubishi i-MiEV to $137,450 for the BMW i8. Apple’s electric car is likely to be in the ballpark of Tesla’s Model S which is priced at $75,000-$105,000. Assuming Apple car is able to grab 5% of the premium car segment by 2020 that would translate to sales of 885,000 vehicles. An ASP of $80,000 would translate to revenue of $70.8 billion, or about 15% of Apple’s revenue by 2020 assuming the company’s top line growth averages 20% over the next five years.
Though the automobile business in general sports lower gross margins than Apple, premium car makers such as BMW and Porsche sport gross margins that are actually comparable to Apple’s. So growth by this segment is not likely to have a large impact on the company’s gross margins.
The China factor
The KPMG report pointed out that China will become the most important market for premium vehicles by 2020. This is a good thing for Apple since the company has already cracked the China dilemma. Part of the reason why Apple has lately been successful in China while Tesla continues to struggle lies in the fact that the company recognized early enough of the need to manufacture products directly in China. Apple has iPhone factories in China while Tesla’s plants are concentrated in North America. The Chinese Government tends to favor foreign companies that manufacture their products in China thus creating local jobs. Apple understands the intricacies of the Chinese market and will no doubt use its wealth of knowledge to attack this market.
And all that talk about the Chinese market slowing down is overblown. The current slowdown in manufacturing activity in China is just part of a normal cyclical downturn that is not any worse than what the country has undergone in the recent past.
The Apple car project could turn out to be one of the company’s most lucrative projects, with a revenue timeline closer than earlier estimates. Apple has a pretty good track record when it comes to monetizing new products, and Project Titan is likely to become another Apple hit. The project could become a significant future value driver of Apple stock. | <urn:uuid:bb3311b6-1195-4604-979e-d3dc1e4a3126> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://amigobulls.com/articles/can-project-titan-drive-apple-stock | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721278.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00149-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966004 | 1,375 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The Most Expensive Tanks in the World in 2017, Most Expensive Military Tanks in the World.
The battle tanks are the crucial component of the army for a nation. Often organized into units, armored vehicles the tanks are provided with that of the direct fire unleashed to the enemies. They usually stand in front of the infantry units’ burnt into the shells of the enemies. Thus, an active protection system is currently set with the probability to destroy the incoming enemy missiles.
The list of the expensive battle tanks in the world 2017
If you are techie person with an interest to know about the battle tanks in the market then you are at the right place to get the information.
Below is the list of the top exclusive and the expensive tanks of the world’s army where they can easily combat with the foreign attacks. The list is as follows:
1. AMX-56 Leclerc (France): The best and the supreme antitank greatly depended on the modular conservative to ensure the survivability. The cost of the tank is about $23 million and even more. The crew is highly trained so that they can run he tank in the time of the real emergency to protect against the foreign attack.
2. Type 10 (Japan): Japan is the house of the latest technology and thus the discovery of latest technology yet expensive missiles is not at all a factor. This is so because the cost of this tank is about $9.4 million. This newest tank is entering the services domestically made with that of the ammunition or NATO compatible rounds.
3. K2 Black Panther (South Korea): This is cost around $8.8 million. The best part of this tank is that when compared with Leopard and Merkava, the K2 is the best and more capable of operating an active protection system to destroy incoming attacks from the other foreign missiles. The crew consists of the under development similar to the Russian loading the gun done by the autoloader.
4. Challenger 2(Britain): This is one of the exclusive and the expensive tank in the country of Britain. His is the best indeed and thus is used for the protection to a higher level. The service is since 1998. The service in Bosnia, Iraqi, tank faced all this latest techniques. The additional panels of the explosive are well complicated on all sides. The 69 tons of the tank costs around $8.6 million.
5. M1A2 SEP (USA): The tank is one among the top most exclusive and is standing in the position of 5th. The tank is further upgraded with that of the Tank Urban Survival Kit (TUSK) that adds to the reactive armor to the sides, slat armor to the rear and remote control machine gun on the turret roof. The cost of this tank is about $ 8.4 million.
6. Leopard 2A6 (Germany): The leopard in Germany is one of the exclusive and the most expensive designs in the world of tanks. It is well classified with the latest specifications that propel up to A27+ model and now is currently being tested with the estimated amount of $12 million per unit.
7. Arjun MK II (India): This is one of the exclusive and among the best expensive tank established in India. The newest tank in India was introduced with the Russian and the western designs. The tank uses about 120 mm rifled guns that can fire around conventionally with the latest ammunition and is guided well by the missiles.
8. Merkava IV (Israel): In the current version, the composite 120mm main gun. The armour of the tank is about steel and the ceramic modular in design along with the extra benefit of the protection just with the motive to destroy the enemy.
9. T-90AM (Russia): the cost of this tank is about $4.25 million. During the cold war, the Soviet Union was in the policy of building of about building about two types of tanks. The cheap mass was produced in the version of suitable for export. The higher ends are nearly twice as expensive currently serving with the Russian army. The tank is an evolution of about T-90 Am currently.
10. ZTZ-99 (China): This was introduced in the year 2001. The Chinese tanks borrowed the designs of the Soviet T-72’s appearance with the use of 125mm main gun. The angular welded turret with the 1500 hp diesel engine showing the latest western influence which cares to start the incorporated laser defence system. The cost of this tank is about $2.6 million.
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Predicting Survival after Prostate Surgery
(6/3/14)- The results of a new study that was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago concluded that men given chemotherapy early in their treatment for advanced prostate cancer lived a median of nearly 14 months longer than those who did not get early chemotherapy.
The study’s findings apply to a narrow group of patients, namely, men whose cancer had already spread beyond the prostate gland at the time of diagnosis, or whose cancer had come back after surgery or radiation treatment and still remain susceptible to hormone treatment.
The study was sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, and involved 790 men who received either only hormone therapy or hormone therapy in addition to at most 6 infusions of docetaxel spaced 3 weeks apart.
Those who received the chemotherapy lived a median of 57.6 months, compared with 44 months in the control group. Docetaxel is sold under the brand name Taxotere by Sanofi, the French drug company. It was approved for metastic prostate cancer in 2004. Zytiga from Johnson & Johnson and Xtandi from Medivation and Astellas Pharma have also received FDA approval for treatment of advanced prostate cancer.
(5/14/13)- One of the questions facing men diagnosed with prostate cancer involves the type of treatment the patient should undergo in battling the disease. One of the new tests that may help determine which way to go is called the Oncotype DX Prostate Cancer Test. It is one of about a dozen that have come or are about to come to market that use advanced genetic methods to help determine how aggressive the tumor is.
This test, developed by Genomic Health is but another tool that will help the physician and the patient determine what path should be followed in fighting the disease.
There are approximately 240,000 new prostate cancer diagnoses in the United States each year, but many of them are low risk situations where benign neglect might be the best path to follow. This is especially true in the case of older prostate patients where the tumor grows slowly.
The test is expensive since it costs $3,280. The most direct competitor to the Oncotype test is the Prolaris test, introduced last year by Myriad Genetics.
The test examines the activity level of 17 genes in the biopsy sample and computes a score from 1 to 100 showing how aggressive the cancer may be.
The clinical trial for the test involved examining the biopsy samples from 412 patients who had what was considered low or intermediate risk cancer but then underwent surgery.
The researchers found that the Oncotype test predicted unfavorable pathology more accurately than existing methods, which depend mainly on the Gleason score, which is based on how the biopsy sample looks under the microscope.
(9/13/11)- The European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved Johnson & Johnson's new late-stage prostate cancer treatment drug Zytiga, also known as abiraterone acetate after a fast-track review. EMA advisers had endorsed the treatment in July, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved it in April.
Patients with advanced prostate cancer who were given the drug lived on average 15.8 months compared with 11.2 months for those men given the placebo.
In addition to Zytiga, other drugs now available for late-stage prostate cancer include Dendreon Corp.'s Provenge and Jevtana from Sanofi SA.
(4/25/09)- Dendreon Corp. said that it would officially announce the results of its prostate cancer drug Provenge on April 28th at a meeting of the American Urological Association. At the same time the company's chief executive, Mitchell H. Gold, told analysts in a conference call that the outcome was "unambiguous" and met the goals the company and the FDA had agreed upon.
Please keep in mind the fact that the FDA has still not voted to approve the drug as safe for sale to the general public.
Dr. Gold went on to say that the drug would have had to reduce the risk of death by 22% compared with a placebo to meet the FDA's requirement for statistical significance.
We discussed this matter in our item dated 4/10/07 below, and also in an item dated 5/26/07 in our items in the article Basic Information on Prostate Cancer .
We also discussed this matter in our items on The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). We have extracted from that article the following item:
(12/20/07)- Representatives Dan Burton, Michael H. Michaud and Tim Ryan
called for hearings to investigate the FDA's rejection of the application of Dendreon Corp.'s experimental prostate cancer drug Provenge. The agency rejected approval of the drug in May
even though the advisory panel had recommended acceptance of the drug by a
13-to-4 vote in March.
The agency said that it would require the company to produce results from another study in order to win the approval. The Congressmen cited the fact that the inquiry would be centered on the fact that two members of the advisory panel who had argued against approval of the drug had potential conflict -of- interest issues in the matter.
The two members who had the potential conflict-of-interest were Dr. Howard I. Scher of Memorial Sloan-Kettring Center in New York, and Dr. Maha Hussain of the University of Michigan. Dr. Scher is the lead investigator for a trial for a competing experimental drug made by Novacea and advises a venture capital firm that invests in that company.
If the FDA does approve the drug, it would be the first so-called therapeutic cancer "vaccine" to win approval in the U.S. The trial in question involved 512 patients whose cancer had spread beyond the prostate gland, and were no longer benefiting from normal therapy treatment.
In the early results of the trial those men who were on Provenge lived a median of 25.9 months compared with 21.4 months for those who received a placebo. At the end of three years, 34% of the men taking Provenge were alive, compared with only 11% for those who received the placebo.
Please keep in mind that the drug had failed its primary objective of whether it had delayed the worsening of the cancer, even though it did prolong the life of the patients taking the drug.
(4/15/09)- Although there are many ways to treat prostate cancer, statistics show that if the cancer is confined to the prostate, there is a 90% "cure" rate- which means patients re free of cancer for at least five years- no matter which treatment is chosen.
The US has the highest survival rate for prostate cancer, of all 31 countries included in the CONCORD study of 101 cancer registries on 5 continents. A Gleason score, which is based on the pattern of abnormal cells seen in the biopsy, of Gleason 6 means the cancer is at, or below low-grade, whereas a Gleason score of 7 or above is more worrisome.
Traditional biopsy samples can miss cancers in about 20% of the cases, and may miss the most advanced spots.
(4/19/08): At the American Society for Clinical Oncology symposium on genitourinary cancers, Dr. Grace Lu-Yao presented a paper which suggested that, "For elderly men, the survival benefit of treatment (of prostate cancer) is most likely modest. The majority of patients died of other complications or were still alive."
Subjects were 9,018 men diagnosed with stage I or II prostate cancer between 1992 and 2002, the era of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening. It is estimated that PSA testing can detect prostate cancer 6-13 years before the slow-growing disease is diagnosed clinically.
Anyone who had local therapy or hormonal therapy in the 6 months after initial diagnosis was excluded from the study. More than 5000 men were older than 75, with the study median age being 77. Although 2,675 men received treatment subsequently, long periods without treatment were common. The median interval between diagnosis and start of cancer treatment was 127 months.
About two-thirds of the population was categorized as either dying from other causes or not experiencing a cancer progression for which they were treated with surgery or radiation.
(Material for this article was taken verbatim from Family Practice News, March 15, 2008 from the article written by Jane Salodof MacNeil)
(7/28/07)- A study conducted by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York concluded that prostate cancer is less likely to relapse if the patient had been treated by a more experienced surgeon. Surgeons who have conducted more than 250 cancerous prostate operations had a better record of having successful procedures than those surgeons who had done a lesser amount of this type of procedure.
The results of the study were published in a recent edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. More than 7,700 men with prostate cancer who were treated, by 72 American surgeons from 1987 to 2003 were included in the study.
Five years after a prostatectomy, about 18% of men under the care of an inexperienced surgeon, those with no more than 10 prior operations, were more likely to see signs that cancer had returned.
The Prostate Cancer Foundation estimates that there are 218,000 American men who are found to be suffering with prostate cancer each year.
(6/16/07)- The results of a recent large study that included 28,243 men, 55 to 74 years of age, concluded that lycopene is not a protective against prostate cancer. Lycopene is a chemical that is found in tomatoes and other red fruits.
The researchers measured blood concentrations of lycopene, beta corotene, lutein and other carotenoid in 692 randomly selected men in the sample who later develop prostate cancer, and 844 men who did not. The scientists found no link between prostate cancer and blood concentrations of lycopene or other carotenoids, except that men with the highest levels of beta-carotene were somewhat more likely to suffer from an aggressive form of the disease.
Richard B. Hayes, a senior investigator for the National Cancer Institute co-authored the paper, with the results appearing in the May issue of Cancer Epidemioloy Biomarkers & Prevention..
(4/10/07)- An advisory panel to the FDA voted 13 to 4 to approve Provenge, a therapy developed by Dendreon, a Seattle biotechnology company for the treatment of advance prostate cancer. The vote increases the likelihood that the agency will approve the therapy by its May 2007 deadline.
The panel also voted 17 to 0 that the therapy was safe. The negative side effects included fever and chills, though there were some signs that it could increase the risk of stroke. Please keep in mind that there were only 127 patients in the study group. A second trial, done on even a smaller group, showed a survival advantage of 3.3 months versus the 4.5-month survival rate in this study.
Provenge is a personalized therapy in which some of a patient's white blood cells are removed, processed by Dendreon, then infused back into thee body three or four days later. The process hopes to harness the immune system to fight the disease after it develops.
The men in the study had prostate cancer that had spread to other parts of the body. About 50,000 men in the U.S. are in this category, and they generally survive only a year or two.
In its main trial, Provenge extended median survival by 4.5 months- 25.9 months for the treated patients versus 21.4 months for those receiving only the placebo. After three years, 34% of patients who got Provenge were alive compared to 11% of those who got the placebo.
The therapy did not stop the advance of the disease.
(6/09/05)- According to researchers at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School a protein test called alpha-methylacyl-CoAracemase seems to be able to predict which men will have their prostate cancer come back after surgery of even which men will die of the disease. The test has been used to help diagnose prostate cancer in hard-to-read tumor biopsies. Dr. Mark Rubin was the lead researcher and spokesman for the study.
The results of the study appear in the June issue of Cancer, Epidemiolgy, Biomarkers & Prevention. The test will show therefore which prostate cancer patients require more aggressive treatment.
(5/13/05)- A small research study involving 767 Connecticut men between the ages of 55 to 74, that was led by Dr. Peter C. Albertson of the University of Connecticut concluded that aggressive treatment for low-grade localized prostate cancer was unnecessary. The results of the study were published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
The patients involved in the study had been diagnosed between 1971 and 1984 with prostate cancer that had not spread beyond the prostate. Each subject was followed for 10 to 20 years. Some received hormone therapy to halt the body's production of testosterone, which fuels prostate cancer, while other underwent a "watchful waiting" treatment.
Prostate cancer ended up killing 228 of the men, mostly within 15 years of the diagnosis. Most of those who died of the disease had high-grade tumors. The vast majority of the men either died of other causes or survived.
(2/5/05)-For the first time, cancer has replaced heart disease as the number one killer of Americans younger than 85 years of age according to a statistical report that was issued from the American Cancer Society. In 2002, the most recent year for which this data is available, 476,009 Americans in that age category died from cancer, compared with 450,637 who died from heart disease.
According to Dr. Eric Feuer, chief of statistical research for the National Cancer Institute, people younger than 85 account for 98.4 percent of the population. Dr. Feuer was the head statistician for the project. The report found that one of the biggest reasons for the drop in deaths from both causes was that fewer people were smokers.
Between 1965 and 2000, the number of Americans who were smokers dropped from 42% to 22%. The report went on to state that one third of all cancers were related to smoking. Another one third of cancers are related to obesity, poor diet and lack of exercise. Incidentally these same factors contribute to heart disease also.
There is some good news in connection with the battle against cancer. Cancer deaths have declined about 1 percent each year since 1996. With that said, there will be estimated 1,372,910 new cancer cases discovered this year. Of that number, it is estimated that there will be 570,260 cancer deaths. The five-year survival rate has risen to 74 percent from the 50 percent mark of the 1970's.
Lung cancer is the number one killer among cancer victims, with it claiming about 163,500 victims this year. Prostate cancer will be diagnosed in about 232,000 men this year, and it will kill about 30,350 of them. Breast cancer will be diagnosed in about 211,200 women, and it will kill about 40,410 in 2005.
(3/19/03)-GlaxoSmithKline PLC announced that the early results of a study of its new drug Avodart for the treatiment of enlarged prostates that it has conducted on about 4,000 men for a 27 month period of time is quite encouraging. Glaxo launched the drug in the U.S., England and Switzerland earlier this year for the treatment of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). Merck & Co.'s Proscar, which was approved in the U.S. in 1993, is currently the biggest selling drug for this problem.
Glaxo said that patients who took the drug over a 27-month period of time had a 50% decrease in reporting rates of prostate cancer compared with patients who were given a placebo. Guy Yeoman, Glaxo's European medical director of urology said that initial data on the drug's ability to fight prostate cancer would be available in about 3 years. PBH is a progressive disease in which the prostate gland surrounding the urethra enlarges which in turn causes urinary difficulty.
The National Cancer Institute, in Bethesda, Md. is conducting a seven-year trial involving 18,000 patients to see whether Proscar reduces the incidence of prostate cancer in men over 55 years of age. Both Avodart and Proscar work by reducing the production of dihydrotestosterone, or DHT, a hormone that causes the prostate to grow. Proscar works by inhibiting one enzyme involved in the production of DHT, Avodart inhibits two.
Predicting survival after prostate surgery has been a long sought after discovery amongst cancer researchers. An article in the May 5th, 1999 Journal of the American Medical Association reports that it may now be possible to predict it. A study group headed by Dr. Patrick Walsh, chief of urology at Johns Hopkins University announced their findings in the article.
The researchers found that there are three characteristics that are the keys in predicting who will have the best chance to survive after prostate surgery. Thus the medical community will have a better understanding as to the type of post- prostate surgery treatment needed on an individualized basis.
Once the prostate has been removed through surgery, the PSA level should be at zero. If the PSA re-appears post surgery it means that the cancer has recurred somewhere in the body. The re-appearance of PSA in the blood post-surgery occurs in about 1/3rd of the cases. Last year about 100,000 men had prostate surgery.
The three characteristics that the researchers found were the keys in predicting which men were the most likely to have the cancer re-appear are as follows:
The men with the highest risk were those with a high Gleason score, a rise of PSA within 2 years after surgery and a doubling of the antigen in less than 10 months. Of the study group of 304 men who had prostate surgery from 1982 to 1997 only 34 % developed the metastic disease. In about half of the cases, the metastases took 8 or more years to occur. In those cases where the spreading did occur the patients were still alive 5 years later.
FOR AN INFORMATIVE AND PERSONAL ARTICLE ON PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS WHEN SELECTING A NURSING HOME SEE OUR ARTICLE "Selecting a Nursing Home"
By Allan Rubin
updated June 3, 2014
See our other articles on Prostate Cancer-Part I
Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) - Part III
Prostate Specific Antigen- Part IIIa
Prostatitis -Part IV
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Colon Cancer- Part V
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What is “Power Writing” and how can it help my students?
“Power Writing” is a pedagogical method that elementary school teachers developed for teaching a fairly complicated idea—the paragraph—to very young kids. It uses graphic organizers to break the paragraph up into parts. I have tweaked the basic concept of power writing to use in my own high school and college-level classrooms, and it has worked wonders for my students, especially science students (because it helps them to understanding that writing is a logical activity and not about feelings).
I like to teach this writing activity in conjunction with a lesson on sonnets, because sonnets work a bit like essays. There is a desired form in both: the creative component comes in how the author plays within the set of rules that the form requires as opposed to breaking the rules of the form. Also, sonnets make arguments and then they nuance, complicate, or push those arguments to their logical conclusions.
My favorite sonnet to use for this activity is John Donne's Holy Sonnet 14 (Batter my heart, three-person'd God). Here is the poem in its entirety:
Holy Sonnet 14
Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town to another due,
Labor t'admit you, but oh, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov'd fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy;
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except y'enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
Sentences that make arguments (we color-code these as red sentences). There are two types of red sentences:
- Topic sentences, which state the main argument of the paragraph, go at the beginning of the paragraph.
- Concluding sentences, which state the paragraph’s relevance to the essay’s thesis, go at the end of the paragraph
Sentences that provide evidence (we color code these as blue sentences). Objectively true observations from the text, like quotes. There must be at least one “blue” sentence in each body paragraph of an essay. If there is no evidence, then the paragraph has turned into plot summary or personal narrative, and needs to get back on track. A writer cannot analyze a text without talking about the text. The evidence sentences comes after the topic sentence but before your explanation sentences (below). The analysis flows from the evidence instead of evidence being tacked on to support a reading.
Sentences that explain how the evidence supports the argument (we color code these as green sentences). Students should know that while it might be clear to them how the evidence supports the topic sentence of the paragraph, it will not be clear to everyone. This is the space where they should explain or analyze the evidence to show how it supports the argument. After each “blue” sentence, there should be one or two “green” sentences explaining the evidence and how it proves the red argument of the paragraph. These are the kinds of sentences that fill out a paper and help a writer to develop her ideas. If a paper is short, a writer can fill it out by developing his green sentences, not by adding more quotes.
The next step in the classroom is to use this writing instruction to segue into an analysis of Donne's poem and then to model how a paragraph might be constructed using the power writing technique. It is time consuming--count on a full hour devoted to this activity--but it helps to explain to students who don't understand the genre of expository writing what you expect them to do.
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